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Other countries like Venezuela, and Australia removed guns from the plebes... and mysteriously the mass shootings stopped. Gee whiz.

Strange, it looks like the number of homicides rose steadily after the gun ban in Venezuela.

Oh look, Maduro is giving guns to his supporters

Here's an example of responsible government gun usage

And another

It's a good thing that they have a ban in Venezuela, it keeps candidates in elections from getting shot

The Gun ban is working so well with petty crime too.

Hmm, an El Nino event + human pollution combined? It's like that time that Michael Jordon and Stacey King combined for 70 points.

I was 400 pounds as teenager. I lost 70 pounds the summer I got a new bike at 16. My riding weight was 325 pounds when I rode 100+ miles per week for three years.

Again, this doesn't add up. You lost 70 pounds in a summer, but then just "sat" at 325 for 3 years? The body, and physics, and reality, don't work this way.

The only way this happens is if you continued to eat like a glutton, and lost weight until your food intake matched your BMR + activity expenditures. For a 5'10, 16 year old male weighing 325, your BMR would be nearly 2900 calories per day. That means you burn that many calories even if you lay in bed and sleep all day - that's the caloric cost of upkeep, as it were.

A rough estimate of a 325 pound person cycling 10-12 mph for 2 hours a day is that they'll burn nearly 1800 calories. That takes your net calorie burn for the day at nearly 4700 calories. To not lose weight, you'd need to then consume about that amount of calories per day. 4700 calories per day is a fucking MASSIVE amount. Here's an example 4800 calorie per day diet that a quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks tried: https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/... It's hard to eat that much food in a day. But somehow, you managed it, apparently?

If you ate LESS than 4700 calories per day, you would have still continued to lose weight, not stalled out at 325. If you ate MORE than 4700 calories per day, you'd have gained weight back. So somehow, you hit a sweet spot for three years, and never even tried to reduce your calories to, say, 4200 calories per day, which would have allowed you to drop a pound a week until you hit somewhere around 255, when your BMR + calorie burn would have matched your ~4200 calorie per day expenditure.

That would be true if it weren't for the fact that football programs are self sustaining, and actually through the extended avenues of revenue they have (example, keeping Alumni interested and donating), football programs often contribute TO the schools and help pay teachers, and help support other athletic programs in the school which are not revenue generators.

Uhh...sometimes.

http://www.ncaa.org/about/reso...

http://www.cbssports.com/colle...

16 of the top 20 college football programs are revenue positive. Everyone else (300+ schools) is pretty much losing money because of football, mainly because they believe in your incorrect narrative.

Don't bring facts to an ideological fight.

That would be true if it weren't for the fact that football programs are self sustaining, and actually through the extended avenues of revenue they have (example, keeping Alumni interested and donating), football programs often contribute TO the schools and help pay teachers, and help support other athletic programs in the school which are not revenue generators.

Uhh...sometimes.

http://www.ncaa.org/about/reso...

http://www.cbssports.com/colle...

16 of the top 20 college football programs are revenue positive. Everyone else (300+ schools) is pretty much losing money because of football, mainly because they believe in your incorrect narrative.

I like the "to take control" euphemism for steal.

Putin is stealing private property, that's the actual headline here. There can be no real economic development if private property rights are not protected, specifically not protected from government theft. This wouldn't be the first time Putin stole something, by the way, even before Crimea I mean. Of-course he basically stole democratic elections in Russia, I guess nothing can beat that.

Just ask Kyle Love.

Unlike baseball, basketball and football aren't statistics games. Baseball has statistics for everything and can be number crunched. That's why we live in what's considered the 'Moneyball Era'. Specifically, what can be crunched in baseball that isn't or can't be crunched in other sports is defense and that typically because baseball is on of the very few sports in which the defense has control of the ball.

In football, how do you rate a DB (a defensive back)? There are some defensive statistics, like tackles and interceptions, but there are intangibles that aren't tracked in a statistics line. Marcus Trufant, a DB for the Seattle Seahawks, doesn't have gaudy defensive numbers because he's so good that the offense doesn't even tend to throw the ball to his side of the field. How do you put that into a statistic that can be digested by a computer? It's not that easy.

Basketball is the same way, other than blocks and steals it is very difficult to get a defensive picture of a player. Since it's not just a one-on-one game, you can't quantify points scored against a player. Without some metric to be able to get a defensive picture of a team, which isn't uniform throughout a game, it's very difficult for a computer to figure out what to do.

We can't even get a simulation even close enough to determine who the best teams in college football are at any given moment. Why? Not enough statistics in a game that doesn't lend itself to statistics. Basketball has this same issue but is solved by having a big tournament for both the collegiate and professional ranks at the end of the season.

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