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Yea I have a feeling he'll make the team and they'll be heavy at WR/RB at least at first. These things are always fluid too though early on.

More like MIN amirite

Tom your confused, I don't support an apartheid forum. It was just an observation of those who want to banish you to MiLB forum.

Apartheid forum

In a semi-ironic "the boys got it done" way I may occasionally hear it, but it's certainly not like mainstream normal convo.

People very rarely use boys even in those circumsrances. And it's also almost never used in a infantalizing type of way. Putting down women athletes with girls terminology is definitely a common thing. People can either try and avoid that association by avoiding it or be willfully or unintentionally ignorant to it. But it's really not comparable even if it seems like it would be in a text book comparison. Language evolves too and it shouldn't bother people to change with it, even when it feels illogical or inconsistent.

Jumping into the girls/women debate. Yes there are informal uses of girls. When my wife has dinner with her childhood friend group, it's usually referred to as a girls night. It's very informal and perhaps "ladies' night" would be a little less infantalizing and "friends night" would be not infantalizing and also not gendered. But most people probably will go along with that social norm of girls night. It is extremely informal for one, bit also used in a context of a close knit social group collectively by them. The OP question was awkward though in the way it was used, down the fact that it went from "women's volleyball" to "our girls" language. If the sport can be termed in the frame of women's x it definitely ends up coming off extremely misogynistic and infantalizing to switch to "our girls" in the possesive when then talking about the athletes in said womans sport. They're all accomplished adult women athletes. It's not really a question of formality or anything, it was just written in a off-putting way IMO. Personally I do find the girl/guy/boy language awkward at best. If someone says "a girl I work with" a lot of people find that language acceptable (though I defer to woman in these examples). Most though would probably find it extremely awkward to say "a boy I work with" because we have a informal gendered term "guy" for adult men that doesn't play double duty of referring to children too. I guess lady could/should fill that role, but people use that with a lot less frequency for whatever reason. Of course you can always just go with non gendered "my co-worker" in this example, but the most common language of girl/guy is clearly a unique standard. Anyways the polling on these gendered terms doesn't show huge difference in mens/women's attitudes with women finding both girls/boys as slightly less accepting. So anyone here is entitled to their opinion without needing to fill a gender role to legitimize their opinion, but there's pretty clearly a different standard used for these gendered terms whether it used plural collective or to refer to individuals.

Fire up the Ozzie rumors.

Scriptwriters made sure he got the Hollywood glow up

Haters looking for the lamest version of American exceptionalism attitude to complain about (when there are so many other good examples!)

US media usually does total medal count descending and rest of the world does gold medal count descending. And every year* like clockwork one track and field catches up to like badminton and table tennis, it's moot, they're on top lol. *except 2008 where China got the typical home town boost and edged US in golds.

So seems like we're finally past the point of foreigners complaining about how US media sorts the medal count. USA USA 🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸

Edit - nevermind

Granted I knew it was BS because I first saw it from Ted Cruzs twitter, but I've also been totally primed to totally assume any type of sex/gender outrage being manufactured. Maybe 10% of the time it isn't completely falsely manufactured and the rest of the time they're literally just tearing down any woman with visible muscles.

More from Angela Carini https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5676796/2024/08/02/olympics-women-boxing-angela-carini-apologizes-imane-khelif/?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes

All rw outrage leads back to Russia part 672

I'm trying to go easy on her because it seems like it wasn't her intent to attack Imane and it's just the right wing storm taking it. But she seems like she's a pretty weak boxer. I mean I know she's an Olympian and all so she'd probably beat my ass, but I guess this wasn't the first time she's quit a match. And Imane has a strong, but far from unbeatable record. And this woman is infantalized for being injured in BOXING. Sorry theres risk in a match of punching. There's really not much apparent evidence Imane poses more risk to her opponents that other top female boxers based on what I can see from the boxers records. And yea, to tack on to the "the right can't even decide what a woman is" the fact that she competed for years under IBA just underscores that. They apparently struggle to define the criteria for an eligible woman is for their competitions. I spent way to much time reading about sex disorders and testosterone production in male puberty being the supposed core distinction for why a (possibly) intersex person can't compete as a woman, but I'd dare one of those people to then support an actual trans woman who had no male puberty from taking hormone blockers to be welcomed into international female competetion. (hint, they won't)

Official ones right away. Replicas soon.

Well they're two businesses now. Motorola Mobility is basically the consumer side. It's now owned by Lenovo and they still make smartphones and maybe some other consumer electronics. Motorola Solutions is still a pretty large communications/software player. But yea, not really consumer facing. My friend works there. Not sure which side is paying for a patch.

Also teams who get those discounts with early extension also often times wipe out that benefit by... Extending the player early again. Lane Johnson in Philly comes to mind. He was early extended at least twice now and for like 9 months in 2022/23 he was the biggest upcoming bargain in the world until Roseman extended him again before the last extension even started to hit.

Many of those teams also tend to manage the cap aggressively (I.e. Philly). Other teams like KC only would do a deal that early for a Mahomes and otherwise manage the cap much more conservatively, like Poles has. If Poles is about to enter his Howie Roseman era, then sign me up. But based on how he has shown his cap mgmt style to date it's definitely a questionable risk level to extend DJ two years early.

There's also this weird factor where DJ Moore looks underpaid partially because Carolina ate a huge signing bonus and dead caps. If Moore had signed that deal with Bears and they were carrying his dead cap hits a lot less people would probably look at him as underpaid, even though the cash is the same.

27.5 isn't bad per se... That's like #7 WR now and in two year when that money kicks in it's prob borderline top 10. The bad news is that its his age 29-32 seasons. Thats old. I'd have rather just straight up renogotiated his 2 years remaining or tack on one extra year at a slightly higher pay then evaluate again in 20276 or 27. Even if you charitable say that part of the extension is to "right size" his current contract, I don't get going 4 new years.

Yea, good ride share design should also be critical to any new stadium development. You're not gonna replace 100% of car traffic with public transit, but if you can replace parking that just takes up space for 5 hours and isnt productive any other time you really help maximize the daily and year round use.

I assume there will be a lot of garage parking to replace the loss of surface parking. But if they also invest in transit, it could be even better.