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wernox posted:Watching my kids struggle with some of the same rear end-hattery is hard too, plus now the older one can go to bars with me and its very tough on my tab. I worry about this a lot too, knowing how much good advice I ignored in my 20s.
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I think that’s kinda just how it goes. You can only suggest and support but you can’t really make anyone do anything. I tell that to my students all the time. The kids who do what I suggest in terms of showing work and writing things out even though they could do it in their head so significantly better than those that don’t. That’s just one particular example but it serves the “man I know the better way, why won’t you just listen” aspect of the conversation.
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Mike_V posted:As a prof at a commuter university part of the UW system, I can confirm that simply showing up to class and turning in work will guarantee you at least a B-. Facts! I'm literally just trying to get my kids to learn this asap. I was great at it in high school and not so great for awhile in college (didn't help that my first degree choices were not good or interesting to me). edit: I was wondering too what someone could have said to me when I was younger, probably nothing. I really wanted to learn lessons on my own, the hard way. downout fucked around with this message at 22:08 on May 8, 2023 |
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May 8, 2023 22:05
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wernox posted:
Oh man. My kid is only a toddler, but both me and my wife were kinda college gently caress ups. Both graduated, and now have at least one master a piece, but man I kinda fear what the kiddo may do if she's like he parents were in college turned up just one or two notches. I did eventually kinda pull my head out of my rear end in undergrad after nearly failing out. The funniest bit was learning in adulthood that my mom failed out of nursing school and spent a year or so after living with her older sister just partying before going back and ending up with multiple masters. So it's a family tradition at this point.
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May 8, 2023 22:43
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https://twitter.com/ChrisMWilliams/status/1655684476691726337 wuh-oh, some of the college baseball gambling shenanigans seems to be pulling up a lot more poo poo
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May 8, 2023 22:48
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I assume a ton of college athletes are gambling (not necessarily on their own stuff, but just in general)
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May 8, 2023 23:05
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Spaced God posted:https://twitter.com/ChrisMWilliams/status/1655684476691726337 Oh great. I’m sure this poo poo is beat into their heads, but I guess constantly seeing ads for gambling is a tough thing to beat.
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May 8, 2023 23:34
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https://twitter.com/RossDellenger/status/1655707512568438784 yeah this seems like it is gonna be A Thing
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May 8, 2023 23:55
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Everybody's in it and thus nobody's in it so I don't see much meaningful punishment coming from it
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May 9, 2023 00:00
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Maybe the NCAA will cut back on gambling advert… lol.
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May 9, 2023 00:34
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Please check Iowa betting the unders tyvm
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I partied my way through five years of wasting my parents' money. Ended up having to go to work in shipyards and chemical plants, then an Army stint, then back to the industrial poo poo. When I got a second chance at school, I did not gently caress around. Just to screw with my father, I had a bumper sticker custom made and slapped it on his truck without his knowledge. 
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GD_American posted:I partied my way through five years of wasting my parents' money. Ended up having to go to work in shipyards and chemical plants, then an Army stint, then back to the industrial poo poo. this makes me so loving happy. good job gd_a
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May 9, 2023 00:50
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The gambling conversation interesting with the "college kids are stupid" conversation seems serendipitous. Set aside the issue of athlete compensation or the schools taking the bookmakers' money, of course this was going to happen! Kids love doing stupid poo poo 24/7! I failed to graduate from Auburn! It's really hard to fall at that! Lmao I wish I had seen this in the wild one day
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May 9, 2023 01:06
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GD_American posted:I partied my way through five years of wasting my parents' money. Ended up having to go to work in shipyards and chemical plants, then an Army stint, then back to the industrial poo poo. Fuckin lol
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May 9, 2023 01:36
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Bird in a Blender posted:Maybe the NCAA will cut back on gambling advert… lol. That comes back to a favorite saw of the SZD guys, which is, nobody’s in charge. Not the same way as with the pro leagues, certainly. Because who do you mean will “cut back” - the NCAA (they have no responsibilities), the conferences, the schools, the athletic departments, the TV networks?
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May 9, 2023 04:02
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GD_American posted:Just to screw with my father, I had a bumper sticker custom made and slapped it on his truck without his knowledge. gently caress I love this. May have to make something similar for my folks. harperdc posted:That comes back to a favorite saw of the SZD guys, which is, nobody’s in charge. Not the same way as with the pro leagues, certainly. Because who do you mean will “cut back” - the NCAA (they have no responsibilities), the conferences, the schools, the athletic departments, the TV networks? They’re a cartel whose exported product is TV timeouts.
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May 9, 2023 04:28
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Dango Bango posted:I think you could make an argument for Crabtree with how dominant he was in college. That's what makes me angry. We've got some phenomenal players in our past and you could bring in "that one guy" depending on what the strengths of the team are. But you will never be able to add more than Pat Mahomes. Crabtree + whatever QB we have? Not as good as Mahomes + whatever receivers we have. Wes Welker? He could not be stopped. But Pat Mahomes is still the better add. Jace Amaro was a cheat code in college, but imagine what Amaro could have been had he stuck around for his Jr & Sr seasons for some overlap with Mahomes. Now realize that that is because it's Mahomes. No point in adding a RB. Donny Anderson was ahead of his time. Bam Morris won the Doak Walker in '93. It's not even worth it. Can't even consider going defense. Zach Tomas? An NFL hall of famer in his own right. Gabe Rivera, aka senior sack, had the potential to be a HoF player himself until he paralyzed himself driving drunk. Dwayne Slay would be a liability if you put him out there with today's targeting rules, but he was as dominant a strong safety as they come in his era. Tyree Wilson was a top 10 pick this year and was fantastically disruptive before he was hurt, but the team won all of the games after his injury. None are worth passing up Mahomes for because none change the aspect of the game quite like he does.
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harperdc posted:That comes back to a favorite saw of the SZD guys, which is, nobody’s in charge. Not the same way as with the pro leagues, certainly. Because who do you mean will “cut back” - the NCAA (they have no responsibilities), the conferences, the schools, the athletic departments, the TV networks? I remember a few years ago some coach said there needed to be a College Football Czar, and I was like "motherfucker, we have the NCAA already." Nobody ACTUALLY wants to be responsible for the ins and outs of college athletics - why do you think every pro league commissioner is booed?
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Edward Mass posted:I remember a few years ago some coach said there needed to be a College Football Czar, and I was like "motherfucker, we have the NCAA already." Nobody ACTUALLY wants to be responsible for the ins and outs of college athletics - why do you think every pro league commissioner is booed? Say what you will about him but Mark Emmert was the perfectly hateable face to lead the NCAA. You could not engineer someone more dislikeable in a lab. And that's before he even opens his mouth to speak.
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harperdc posted:That comes back to a favorite saw of the SZD guys, which is, nobody’s in charge. Not the same way as with the pro leagues, certainly. Because who do you mean will “cut back” - the NCAA (they have no responsibilities), the conferences, the schools, the athletic departments, the TV networks? I would imagine the NCAA could make a rule that no gambling ads can be shown during games and then the conferences and schools would make it work. No one wants to do that because money though. I’d imagine an act of Congress will come before the ncaa voluntarily does anything though.
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May 9, 2023 11:32
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Bird in a Blender posted:No one wants to do that because money though. Yeah, this is the problem. Conferences and schools aren’t turning down free money, and of course the broadcasters already have that coming for other sports.
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drunk leprechaun posted:Oh man. My kid is only a toddler, but both me and my wife were kinda college gently caress ups. Both graduated, and now have at least one master a piece, but man I kinda fear what the kiddo may do if she's like he parents were in college turned up just one or two notches. My middle kid, who was in 10th grade when the lost half a school year to Covid and never really recovered is struggling the hardest. She understands the material fine, but her habits are completely broken by having the last two plus years as school light. It doesn't do any good to yell at her, and I'm living proof that there are second chances, but I do remind her that this is her only chance at doing it the way she claims to love so much. She fucks this up and she'll be a the local satellite campus and working at Taco Bell.
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I'm starting to think I'm the outlier in this group because I got my degree in 4 years and immediately went to work using that degree. I kind of wish I took more time off after college, I did take about a month, but I wish I had waited like two, and taken a second trip someplace. I have some friends that did Peace Corps, and sometimes I think I should've done that, but I don't know if I could've handled all that. I was definitely anxious about waiting too long to start work after college, I always figured I needed to get to work right away, otherwise I might not have any opportunities if I took too much time off. Oh well, can't change it now.
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May 9, 2023 13:39
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Bird in a Blender posted:Oh great. I’m sure this poo poo is beat into their heads, but I guess constantly seeing ads for gambling is a tough thing to beat. I love gambling but boy do I hate the constant and total bombardment of gambling advertising.
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Sash! posted:I love gambling but boy do I hate the constant and total bombardment of gambling advertising. This. I'm fine with gambling, if you want to gamble and you don't have a problem go for it. You will be able to find ways to do it, I guarantee. I don't need to see ads for it if I want to do it, and if I don't want to do it I really don't need to see every other ad in the world being about it.
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Sash! posted:I love gambling but boy do I hate the constant and total bombardment of gambling advertising. Exact same. I love gambling, I have a good relationship with it (in that I only do it once or twice a year), but it’s something I could never in good conscience recommend to someone which is basically what advertising is. There’s a reason every single gambling ad sourced from Nevada is mandated to include easily-visible information about getting help for a gambling problem. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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If you want gambling ads to stop, then you need to stop gambling.
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A much more effective way for gambling ads to stop would be legislation, not some guy who flies out to Vegas once a year to give that up.
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Cigarette advertising was banned over 30 years ago, and while obviously many people continued to smoke, it has virtually been eliminated from most demographics under the age of 40. The constant barrage of sports betting ads is really annoying, although I'm not sure banning the ads is the right choice. We'd probably be better off as a society if we banned ads for supermassive SUVs and pickup trucks.
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Bird in a Blender posted:I'm starting to think I'm the outlier in this group because I got my degree in 4 years and immediately went to work using that degree. I made it through as well. But it wasn't always pretty, and I fully believe the college-at-40 anecdotes. I'm much more responsible now. https://twitter.com/ByPatForde/status/1655642492346195971?s=20 Neighborhood lawncare dominance sounds like Harbaugh's thing.
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Bird in a Blender posted:I'm starting to think I'm the outlier in this group because I got my degree in 4 years and immediately went to work using that degree. I kind of wish I took more time off after college, I did take about a month, but I wish I had waited like two, and taken a second trip someplace. I have some friends that did Peace Corps, and sometimes I think I should've done that, but I don't know if I could've handled all that. I was definitely anxious about waiting too long to start work after college, I always figured I needed to get to work right away, otherwise I might not have any opportunities if I took too much time off. Oh well, can't change it now. I got a double bachelor’s in just under four years, took the better part of half a year to find a job, then flushed out of it another half a year later  pretty sure anyone in the class of 2008 is going to have that trauma.
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Bird in a Blender posted:Maybe the NCAA will cut back on gambling advert… lol. It would be nice. But probably the only way to stop the athletes and staff from doing it is to find evidence of betting on games they're involved in and bring the hammer down. Even then, I dunno. The NCAA doesn't have a lot of leverage over a lot of athletes. Most of them aren't making 6 figures on NIL deals.
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LLCoolJD posted:I made it through as well. But it wasn't always pretty, and I fully believe the college-at-40 anecdotes. I'm much more responsible now. Did my part weeks ago when I ordered Lawn Mowing Simulator on Steam
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"In my humble opinion, God is not quite filling his quota on athletic 330-pound guys that can play defensive tackle." - Harbaugh love this
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I did fine at undergrad but I would have done better had I done it somewhat later in life, I think. It also put me off school forever. gently caress going back. I like learning poo poo but I didn't like school.
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PostNouveau posted:It would be nice. Alabama’s baseball coach just got caught doing this so we should see a reaction pretty soon. He was fired but the NCAA and SEC are still investigating.
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Judgy Fucker posted:A much more effective way for gambling ads to stop would be legislation, not some guy who flies out to Vegas once a year to give that up. Considering we are in the position because SCOTUS over turned the gambling ban, good luck with that. Komet posted:Cigarette advertising was banned over 30 years ago, and while obviously many people continued to smoke, it has virtually been eliminated from most demographics under the age of 40. The constant barrage of sports betting ads is really annoying, although I'm not sure banning the ads is the right choice. We'd probably be better off as a society if we banned ads for supermassive SUVs and pickup trucks. If tobacco companies tried to overturn the advert ban in court in 2023, even money they would win
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drunk leprechaun posted:
The VTGOONS did you no favors but maybe the frat had more to do with that than we did. Proud of ya buddy.
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I had no idea there were so many other academic wanderers around here. Probably the best summation of my experience with young adult ennui was captured by Jon Bois in his article making fun of Urban Meyer’s sad golf cart pizza. Worth a read if you haven’t checked it out (along with some reader contribution), but the first few paragraphs sparked a flame of recognition. Jon Bois posted:In the fall of 2001, I was 18 years old with a brand-new adulthood that I had no idea what to do with. I was pretty sure I was supposed to be in college, but I dropped myself a few hints that I had no business being there at all. This Sad Vehicle Meal story was perhaps the strongest hint of all.
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