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@Alex_Kozora @Steelersdepot @Alex_Kozora out of curiosity how do teams normally adjust to combat this? Is it really the Steelers being stubborn and sticking to their game plan regardless of how bad they are getting beat? Or do they not have the players to prevent it?

@Alex_Kozora The real losers here are the fans having to watch this game.

@DavidAFrench I just finished the latest episode of Advisory Opinions and was curious what book you read on the French and Indian war. I've been reading through Philbrick's revolution series and thought this might be a good addition.

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The New York Times’ Campaign to Prop Up Hamas. The NYT caused a stir by anonymously quoting “two senior Israeli military officials” who claim that the IDF has no proof of Hamas systematically stealing aid from the UN. But as is often the case with the Times’ reports on the war in Gaza, this one should be taken with far more than a grain of salt. Below is my take on the report. ———— 
I once called an Israeli politician to inform him he’d been caught red-handed voting twice in parliament. The legislator immediately denied it: “That’s not true!” he protested. But there’s camera footage, I said. “Who are you going to believe,” he snapped, “me or the camera?” I was reminded of this story yesterday while reading an astonishing report in the New York Times, citing “two senior Israeli military officials” who claim Hamas doesn’t systematically steal humanitarian aid provided by the United Nations. Who do you believe, the Times indignantly implies: hundreds of documented cases of theft, or two anonymous sources who wouldn’t even reveal their names? First, the idea of a clear separation between UN workers and Hamas is absurd. Hundreds of UNRWA employees have been exposed as Hamas operatives, with dozens participating directly in the October 7 massacre. Just as Israel hosts American military bases and depends on their weapon stockpiles, Hamas relies heavily on UN supplies. Hamas operatives openly guard convoys to their warehouses, systematically skimming off 15-20 percent of the aid (according to verified sources). Just last month, aid delivered by the UN to northern Gaza was openly redistributed by Hamas members in full view of cameras. Did the Times’ two anonymous sources miss this footage? Every resident of Gaza knows exactly where Hamas stores the flour it steals from the UN. Last spring, mobs repeatedly stormed Hamas’ warehousesin central and northern Gaza, emptying them of tons of flour. How did Hamas accumulate hundreds of tons of flour, eighteen months into a war, when Gaza itself produces no wheat? Most aid to Gaza ends up directly under Hamas’ control, where it’s not distributed freely but sold to the public for profit. For instance, a Gazan from the al-Rimal neighborhood recently complained to the head of the Emergency Committee that Hamas confiscated “seventeen sacks of flour and fifteen aid kits,” even though his brother had purchased them from the Rafah municipality for 50 shekels ($15 USD) each. The New York Times piece is part of a campaign designed not to feed the people of Gaza, but rather to sustain collaboration between Hamas and the UN. If concern for the humanitarian situation in the strip was genuine, they would commend the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s distribution of 85 million meals alongside the UN’s aid efforts. Instead, Hamas fires upon civilians approaching these distribution points, and the UN attempts to obstruct the GHF’s efforts. Now, even the New York Times is aligning itself with two anonymous sources whose existence can’t be verified. Incidentally, the only named source cited in the article is Hamas itself (officially referred to as the “Gaza Health Ministry”), which claims—without any proof—that nearly 1,100 civilians were killed en route to the American-Israeli aid centers. This is classic New York Times: never question what anonymous Israeli sources say, and always take Hamas at its word.

@Alex_Kozora @Alex_Kozora I'd be interested to see this in context of how other teams are performing in the draft. The whole league is probably too much but maybe just a comparison to the AFC North.

@mikeleake If your prompt is something like "Help me write a 30 minute sermon on John 3:16" the AI will rely on data it's ingested from other pastors' sermons to generate that response.

@mikeleake You know I was thinking about this a little bit more and realized really, 3 and 4 are the same. The AI models have all been trained on what is publicly available on the web.

There is so much unserious and downright stupid commentary floating around. As Kevin Williamson says, it takes 400 words to refute one stupid sentence. I don’t have time to respond to most of this but I will say a few things. Ukraine’s constitution says that while under martial law, elections are suspended. Zelenskyy isn’t a dictator by any definition. His country is being constantly bombarded and invaded. There is reason to think an election while half the country is fighting and your enemy is at the gates is a bad idea. Even his chief political rival rejects the idea of elections before the end of the war. Russia has pushed the idea that Zelenskyy is a dictator to create moral equivalence. But the claim has no basis. Neither has the claim that half of our aid has simply gone missing. There is rigorous oversight of what we spend on aid to Ukraine and a significant portion (I believe a majority but I don’t have time to source it) has gone either directly to US Weapons manufacturers or to buy out our soon-to-expire backlog of arsenal. In other words, it’s not like Jill Biden has been flying to Kyiv with bags of money for shopping sprees with Mrs. Zelenskyy. All of this is quite “googlable,” but propagandists count on you not taking the time. Last thing I’ll say. Making an alliance is not a provocation. At no point in the history of modern Ukraine has there been an aspiration to seize Russian territory. Their aspiration for NATO membership has always been about their prescient awareness that the Russians were coming. But Russian desire for Ukraine dates back centuries, as has their lust for Poland and Finland. Stalin killed millions of Ukrainians before World War 2. Efforts to ethnically cleanse it on behalf of Russia are nothing new. And likewise, Ukrainian resistance has outlived tyrant after tyrant. Stalin is dead. Hitler is dead. All of the Soviet premiers are dead. Ukraine lives. Americans made them a promise when we took their nuclear arsenal away in the 90’s. We sadly broke that promise in 2014 under Obama. Biden was slow and feckless in his support during this war. Ukrainian valor and courage has outlasted those poor decisions, and they’ll outlast this one. But as an American who thinks tyrants are bad and keeping promises is good, I am hoping and praying that we don’t abandon them now.

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Hostage surrounded by monsters terrorizing and taunting her to the last second after kidnapping her and holding her hostage for 471 days. Hamas are pure evil.

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