I mean, you could still have them take reps against the practice squad with no contact, and possibly in blowouts and meaningless games. Obviously not so much that the risk of injury is too high.

I don’t think that they’ll be better at picking, I think that they’ll be better at developing them.

Another hot take: if the NFL wants to put the best quarterbacking product on the field, they need to skip this whole sending players to college thing. Sign those players at 18, pay them to study NFL (not college) football for 3-4 years and you have their athletic prime and mental peak lined up, hopefully.I haven’t…

5th paragraph, you wrote Wes Matthews when I’m guessing you meant Wesley Johnson.

The less you know about the threats you face, the less prepared you will be for them.

When you talk about “ immeasurable harm to the U.S.”, and then link to a intelligence officer talking about security, it leads me to believe that you are in fact talking about security as well. I apologize if these are not the terms that you were arguing based on.

Because Clapper is making statements about United States Security, as well as intelligence. I believe him when he says that the Snowden stuff has changed our intelligence capabilities. But when he starts to talk about security he, and you, lose me. For the reasons outlined above.

You’d think that they’d be able to provide an example of damage. But I guess that too is to high of a barrier to ask of someone’s argument.

So, if the harm he did to the American people can’t be measured, how can you say that said harm even exists, exactly?

One day, I hope to have enough money that I feel I can waste it on buying a website as fundamentally bad and dumb as xoJane.

Fun fact: apparently Cleveland has a weirdly large number of serial killers. No idea why.

hahahahaha +1

Couldn’t this brutality end up damaging real life relationships though? I occasionally hear people complain that someone has unfriended them on facebook, and they never really seem happy about it.

Yeah, to be honest my issues with Stanford are really just the same as my issues with other hugely wealthy private schools, but I won’t deny that they have good science and tech programs (including an apparently great statistics department, my chosen field).

ehhhh, the hoover institution pretty much torpedoes what little credibility that stanford had with me in the first place, although that obviously doesn’t mean a whole lot.

This seems like a good idea. I am saying this untrollingly, because apparently that’s something that you need to declare.

Wait, please explain to me:

Yes.

The argument that anti-choicers are using is a perfectly solid one. We’ve backed ourselves into a very weak rhetorical corner here, and we should get the fuck out of it, because engaging in this sort of disingenuous talk doesn’t seem like a good idea to me.