This is a stupid take because under normal circumstances during a game you can still win with deficiencies as long as your strengths outweigh the weaknesses. You can have a bad defense as long as you have a great offense to overcome and vice versa. When you do the sudden death bullshit you are punishing one team for…

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Holy shit, I must know more.

I want to tattoo this on my forehead

Who thought Dalton was good?

Well I’m from small town Minnesota and there weren’t enough Italian immigrants to host a celebration to stop getting beat up. 

Hell, the Italians can’t even claim Columbus anymore, since everyone knows what a piece of shit he was now.

That’s part of my point. Anyone athletically gifted enough to play literally any other position successfully on a football team is incentivized to do so.

I am expressing an opinion that because the place-kicker position is undervalued in all levels of football (pee-wee, high school and college) it causes the talent ceiling for NFL kickers to be lower than it would if it were considered a prestigious and important position, which I argue would make sense given the high…

the league as a whole seems to undervalue a position that is responsible for about 30% of all points scored. The undervaluation also extends to poor scouting and a lack of development in high school and college football because the position is largely seen as “unimportant”.

contract value != player performance

Counterpoint: teams should realize that kickers score about 30% of all points in football and should invest in them properly. 

Yeah it’s really expensive now because we lacked the forethought to plan for modern passenger rail. I am not advocating building HSR everywhere right now, I’m saying it was a mistake to throw passenger rail service into the toilet because now we basically are unable to build it for the reasons you said.

I think its because Britains and Americans suffer from similar world views. We achieve an incredible infrastructure achievement and refuse to support the proper maintenance and modernization required to keep it functioning in the best interest of its users. We instead choose to keep patting ourselves on the back…

Trains can effectively be run on electricity and we are a long way off from passenger air travel being electrified. The main point was how train technology is improving and maybe the US should have embraced a more robust transportation system including passenger rail rather than relying on passenger cars and air…

Yeah, the point about the train from New York to Los Angeles wasn’t saying that it should be built now, rather that the ROW could have been set aside and incremental improvements and grade separation etc could have developed over time like it has in Western Europe and Japan. Also that the recent improvements in rail…

Sure, it’s not very feasible to build a 3000 mile rail system tomorrow because the US lacked the foresight to set aside the necessary right of way needed to construct the railway. Also, the initial privatization and subsequent deregulation of the rail industry in the US has been messy and has always prioritized…

Elon Musk is a fucking clown. The thing that grinds my gears the most is that, as Albert pointed out, “The Loop” is far worse than existing technologies that have existed for over 100 years.

It certainly still applies. You are doing a great job and all those monsters who wrote in saying such horrible things to you can SUCK SHIT.