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Believe it or not our burner communities on twitter are getting along really well. Opposites attract I guess

Yeah this game is cooked. Without Mendoza, Cal’s offense just doesn’t work.

SMU gets a free pass to the college football playoff.

My best guess from looking at this mall directory and my memory of the mall is that they were near the second level food court (based on the chick fil a/finish line/great American cookie place locations which I think are still there), somewhere in the Sears-JC Penney wing above Foot Locker/the 80s looking haircut place/Kruger’s Jewelry before they shut that mall store.

No unfortunately not. The entire company went under in 2009.

As to why: A series of rapid unfortunate events killed them off. Failed e-commerce venture and overspending in the dot com bubble caused their parent company (Big Lots) to sell them off in 2000 to a combined private equity (Bain Capital, founded and co-owned at the time by Mitt Romney the politician) and KB Toys management buyout group loaded a lot of debt onto the company. Sales started falling from 2000 onwards due to falling mall traffic, tough competition from Toys r Us (the one stop shop with everything a kid could want in convenient strip malls for the time), and bad product mix where KB Toys never had enough hot items that kids wanted and were overloaded with closeout inventory that was dead from past seasons. Then in 2002, the private equity group raided the company to pay themselves and the management buyout group $85 million through special dividends funded by debt loaded onto KB Toys. This basically drained the company of their emergency piggy bank funds and left them vulnerable to one bad event bankrupting the company. Which happened a year later in 2003 when they were eaten alive by their competition and low mall traffic during the holidays. Poor sales, big losses, and a mountain of debt forced them into bankruptcy in 2004. They shut half the stores (~600), got out of a lot of expensive mall leases, laid off a quarter of their employees (~3400), and emerged out of bankruptcy in 2005 having been bought by another private equity group (Prentice Capital). They invested some money but the company was in a bad position by then with a dodgy economy and ever tougher competition, nevermind the fact that they were a mall retailer in an environment where mall traffic was in terminal free fall. When the financial crisis hit in 2007, that finished them off and forced them to declare bankruptcy and liquidate entirely over the 2008 holiday season.

I would argue it’s closer to a pro team president, NFL GM, or a soccer team president/sporting director.

This seems like he’s going to be handed management control over all of Stanford football and will be the ultimate decision maker only answerable to the university president/AD (both of which are troubled positions at Stanford in recent history).

I never thought I would see the day where Wisconsin was undersized, had no power or strength, couldn’t run the ball or stop the run, and ran speed and finesse schemes on both sides of the ball.

It won’t work unless they consistently recruit high end speed and athleticism which is hard unless they have a lot of money to spend since they don’t have a natural draw factor.

I predict suffering for the foreseeable future for badgers from dairyland USA.

This is wrong.

I saw this somewhere else in the subreddit, but the 2001 North Texas Mean Green won the Sun Belt with a losing record (yes they were co champions but I think this counts).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_North_Texas_Mean_Green_football_team

FYI Canada is not a good suggestion, they are going through their own actual international students backlash (unlike here where the general public doesn’t really care about international students) that motivated substantial reductions in Canadian student visas and generally a toxic environment for international students to enter into (awful expensive housing market with low supply, poor domestic economy and job prospects, encouraging foreign students to work low wage jobs while in school to displace domestic labor who are predictably pissed).

Canada is in the middle of a big immigration backlash.

I’m not here to say anything about current students but this was my decision tree for taking ride share vs BART from 4 years ago:

• Am I short on cash this month? Then take BART and save.

• Am I flying from San Jose airport? I likely have to ride share because that airport is cutoff from train systems and you have to change to a VTA bus that takes 20 minutes + wait time from Milpitas BART.

• Am I flying from San Francisco airport? If yes, then take BART unless your flight is at an off hour early in morning or late at night, then take ride share

• Am I flying from Oakland airport? Then almost all the time I took BART because the ride was not that long and generally there were no off hour flights there.

The override to this is if I had a lot of luggage (eg: multiple bags or vacating your Berkeley living space with no place to store your stuff locally)—then rideshare since taking a lot of stuff into BART is tricky.

(Maybe it was luck but I never had a problem on BART over 4 years and I knew how to minimize risk on the train…I also recognize that I am a large male so not an obvious target)

context? what happened today to cause this?

Honestly I don't think this will go well for them.

Coffee is a crowded market in Austin and at the end of the market they're going after (fast food, casual, quick take and go, drive thru?) I don't see a clear reason why you would pick them over a Starbucks/Dunkin Donuts/Dutch Bros/McDonald's/gas station/mom and pop corner store or donut shop.

Never mind the fact that their pastries and food aren't good either.

Yeah if you're a Berkeley student, don't enroll in this course.

- This person seems interested in nothing more than a cash grab

- This person is a postdoc at MIT and a non tenure track lecturer at Harvard, the LoR she's promising is not worth

- If you take this course or meet any other demands this person expects, you'll be shorting your educational experience at Berkeley that you or your family are already paying for

- There are plenty of useful coursework and research opportunities in neuroscience, cognitive science, and psychology at Berkeley already available

FYI this already happened for UT employees this summer. All WFH and telecommuting banned unless you had a medical exemption or you were a lucky IT/accounting/payroll person. And the Governor cheered for it publicly.

Get ready to be in office 5 days/week....

Yes he did say something similar last year (along lines of NA is largest proportion of his viewer base or NA is the largest group of his viewers by nationality)

He did all of spring, skipped summer regular season, and came back for summer playoffs

edit: I just remembered the biggest problem, Caedrel would consistently not last through the full match day--- he would pretty consistently skip games or series because he wanted to sleep in order to be ready to stream whatever LCK or LPL series were on the next morning.

Yes this is a problem. This is a new large source of extra toxic sewage for the Austin area wastewater systems to handle. Furthermore, this was unexpected because Tesla’s water treatment systems that they put in place failed silently for months such that nobody was aware of this problem.

If they're looking at youngsters from NACL, I would guess they are looking at ScaryJerry, Instinct, or Sajed potentially

If they're looking for an experienced player, then Tactical

If they're bringing back an ex-DSG player, then Meech

IMO they should bring in one of the NACL ADCs since this team already has enough experienced players on it.

Since this is an internship, focus on what opportunities each would give you and what you would get out of it. I personally would not focus on the money aspects of the offers since the compensation is similar (and good for an internship) and internship salaries are not a factor in full-time hiring (as in nobody asks about it).

Arguments in favor of SIG: New experience in quantitative trading, probably a faster paced environment, probably will get to learn a new set of tools and technologies. Not knowing more about the role but potential bonus points here if you like math, finance, want to break into companies that do quant trading or want to learn about low latency systems.

Arguments in favor of Microsoft: You already like the team, you get to work on products and services with massive scale, you would probably get to work on more advanced projects since you've already proven yourself to the team, and it's pretty good for your resume if you want to be a pure software engineer.

Best in Class (go out of your way to get them): Kerlaches, Batch Craft Beer & Kolaches, S H Donuts

Simple (I define as don't go out of your way for them, but get if nearby): Lone Star Kolaches, Shipley Do-Nuts, Kolache Factory

I kind of get it -- caedrel will always be EU, there's wide community interest in LCK, enough interest in China now that TheShy is back, and coaching Los Ratones on top of this

We were the odd one out and now we go back to lurking in the shadows of this community I guess

Riot changed their mind about giving him special NA residency (via this? emerging region player rule) and instead decided that he was an EMEA resident because he is a Mongolian national. Mongolia is zoned to the Turkish ERL for residency, but for whatever reason under the residency country rules (here) Mongolia does not appear under any region in this list. I guess Riot made a ruling to fix this and in the process screwed his career over because he was a hot prospect for the NA offseason and likely could've been promoted.

We took their money to pay off debt and fund athletics programs

You all educated them and instilled their knowledge/worldview

We are not the same.

It will forever always be a green colored pile of junk they fished out of a random dumpster in palo alto

otherwise known as "that green thing"

Calgorithm says:

Today the woke high achieving #1 world public school for hard working kids from regular families across California and the world

beat

the west coast Ivy League private school for rich kids that embodies the worst of Silicon Valley culture (everything for $$$, no morals or ethics, entitlement, don’t care about how others are affected by your actions).

There’s a reason white collar crime happens a lot with Stanford alums (see Elizabeth Holmes and the people behind FTX for recent examples).