CharlieTiger

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Agreed on both counts. Though I do like that Georgia almost always makes good adjustments at halftime and plays better defense in the second half even now with him as full time DC. I do lean to NIL and TP playing a huge role, they had a stupid amount of NFL talent stacked on defense when Lanning was co-DC

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They still have talent along the DL, but they were elite along the line when Lanning was there. That’s not as much the case now, but if we’re going to take a chance on someone young, why not a guy who has worked under Saban and Smart for the last 17 years. He was Smart’s first hire when he got the job at uga. He’s been part of 6 NC teams so he’s seen what it takes.

Someone’s going to go after him and if we don’t, I think we’ll regret it.

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Our top3 WR room in the country couldn't get open against South Alabama. I don't think this weekend at Oklahoma is going to be fun. Hopefully we have been holding back, but history doesn't convince me of that.

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This is where I am too and I hope I’m proven completely wrong. While we didn’t need to throw deep against S Alabama, our pass game was pedestrian at best. Maybe that was by design, but it’s concerning when we should really be able to pass at will against teams like that and we didn’t. 13/24 for 142 yards is kind of striking if you ask me.

These are the games that you go up big and bring in your second string QB to play the last 20 minutes. Based on his Ball St performance, Knight needs all the live action he can get.

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Matthew Sweet - Sick of Myself

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This is always one of the first songs that comes to mind. Girlfriend is up there too.

Saw where he had a bad stroke last October and is still recovering.

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I don't either. how do people confirm it's clean?

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I still use a little TP to dry myself and check for the “all clear”. We go through a roll maybe every 2 weeks though. We use so much less than we used to.

Purchased a Toto a few years ago and haven’t looked back. Psyllium fiber and a bidet are a life changer for the ol’ bhole.

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My question is if the hard dollar amount is passed on, or if companies will add tariff amount to the price they pay for goods and then markup from there

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That’s very much an “it depends” answer. If a company is in a very competitive market with lots of substitute options for consumers, they’ll have to figure out a way to be as price competitive as possible. If it’s highly specialized, they can probably get away with passing most or all of the cost on, whether that’s a direct pass through or adding a markup on top of that cost. It all depends on their market and price/revenue strategies.

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Down Under is terrible. The rest might take some time. He's almost too sarcastic on this one. It's so much that none of it rings true or insightful. I LIKE a lot of it, but it's just disjointed.

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Down Under is his worst song ever, imo. It just seems like filler.

And I agree about it feeling disjointed. I actually like most of the songs. Some have grown on me but there really doesn’t seem to be any flow to the album.

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Just melt and re-use the pennies.

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Today’s Pennie’s are something like 98% zinc.

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I have one through an employer but there are no investment options so we opened another one through Fidelity and do a transfer of assets every so often.

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Interesting. Your HSA will allow you to move it anywhere you want?

My company uses Optum as the HSA and they have Betterment as the investment vehicle. Betterment is somewhat limited, imo.

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Why would you not keep the Gold and also get a Plat?

Likely missed out on a welcome bonus and the Plat is a horrible daily driver. If you're spending enough to hit the waiver there's likely a lit you can also put on a gold.

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We thought about it, but the Gold perks are not great, imo. They have some things like restaurant credits, but they're very limited where you can use them. The annual fee also went up to $325 last year. They compensated by an $84 annual Dunkin' credit, but I could not tell you the last time I've been to a Dunkin. We also already had a gold so would not have gotten any welcome bonus. We did get a big one for platinum. 100k points plus additional points for the first 6 months spend. I think we ended up with about 150k points. Bought two of our four tickets to Italy with that.

The biggest points for gold come from groceries and restaurants. Our main grocery store is a huge "farmers market" about a mile away from us that doesn't take credit cards(only debit). We buy probably 85% of our food there. We also subscribe to a CSA with weekly deliveries from end of April through about Thanksgiving every year. We don't eat out all that much and often cook at home. We also have younger kids so going out to eat can be tedious and now just about twice the cost with them. So, the two biggest reasons to have the card from a points perspective minimally come into play for us. We could definitely get more points from the gold, but I just don't know that they'd outweigh the additional fees of both of us having a gold card.

I also really don't like having more than 2 CC's. We have the Amex and a Visa in case we can't use the Amex. We use that for things like paying for kids afterschool, the kids rec baseball fees, etc. Visa is used more internationally if we're traveling too.

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My (limited) understanding is that CTE is the physical result of repeated head shots, but CTE can manifest itself through a number of psychological issues. Am I off on that?

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Yes, it's caused by repeated head/brain injuries and while I can't speak to the second part, it does seem to manifest itself in a number of ways. Look at some of the former NFL players that were diagnosed after death. Quite a few different manifestations. Seems like the brain essentially just goes haywire.

Mayo clinic on CTE: LINK