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Someone put these numbers into an NFL trade value calculator

FWIW, my FIL is in central Iowa and also has no issues with Marquee.

Agree. Treat them like professional athletes. These are just minor league professional teams sponsored by schools. Split off professional football and basketball programs and make them 100% self-fund.

Oh, and re: actions against specific schools (and law firms, some of those big law EOs were, in a word, wild) I'm very interested to see how that all plays out in court. Columbia's non-support of Jewish students? Hell, near tacet support of their harassment? Probably a space that justifies some...

Oh no, no argument there. Trump very obviously favored loyalism, especially as compared to his first term. I think some of that shift was justified, but some of his picks were absolutely an overcorrection. I'd point to his complete dullard of a SecDef as the posterchild of this. Robert F...

1. Ignoring court rulings I think the gag orders were patently unconstitutional. Otherwise I’m only familiar with the Boasberg stuff, and I think Boasberg is generally way out of line. Anything I’m missing? 2. Pardoning felons after the Jan 6 insurrection Agree, blanket pardons were dumb. 3...

Definitely agree with the former. As for the latter, I think it's easy for both sides to say the other has become more radical. The loudest factions are at the fringes of both parties. I've tried to find some research on political movement from center, didn't turn up anything great. In many...

It was only a matter of time. ICE just showing up and throwing folks into the back of cars is a really troubling trend. 5-10 years or so back, I met this guy who was detained by ice for a number of weeks. Case of mistaken identity, coupled with language barrier. I'm not really sure how that...

I'd be interested in reading your dissertation. I assure you; I am capable of absorbing whatever it is you wrote.

You have some shockingly poor reading comprehension skills for a retired high school English teacher and Ph.D. It's questionable that you think your experience as a local high school educator is informative of the situation in higher education, and rather disturbing that you've never heard of...

Crazy how well-oiled the programs that had experience paying players before it was legal are!

Weird that you only have a handle on the red ones. Well, good luck with all that knowledge.

I guess you’d also know how that’s causing tuition to rise in blue states as well.

You think the main cause of tuition at universities rising... Is republicans pulling funding?

1. Lawyer up. 2. Get the hell away from civilization. 3. Keep to myself, get most of my social interaction from semi-anonymous online message boards. So, not a ton would change, except I'd own a lot more land a lot further from a population center.

Here's the best read I can give you on the subject (Well, at least most of what I said). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Closing_of_the_American_Mind Couple the content of that book with unlimited student loans from the federal government, and you get sky-rocketing tuition with a lower...

It’s going to be a while. We’re never going to achieve AGI with LLMs, and we are already extremely close to the ceiling of what we can achieve with current electrical and training data volume constraints. This current generation of AI was more marketing smoke than actual fire. There’s some value...

Meh. Academic freedom has been dead for decades. Tenure is flimsy as hell, hiring favors the politically connected, and perverse incentives discourage meaningful research in many fields. Universities as a whole need a major shake up that favors the wellbeing of their paying customers (the...

Go to a McDonald’s in a HCOL area. You order your own food and pay at a kiosk, there’s nobody at the front counter, some even have robots flipping patties in the back. Just a couple folks to man the drive thru window and put out any fires.

Now THIS is the intel I come to HN for.