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I agree w/this - we are SO far off at the QB spot that it seems pretty hopeless. Whenever DW drops back into the pocket I am bracing for the worst (INT, strip sack, poor throw) instead of feeling a sense of confidence (I even had the confidence with Baker). I think we have the worst QB room in the NFL. Hell, I'd take the Chicago backups (either of them) over our guys

so Big Z is either not signing here and using us for leverage, or using the early report as a way to leverage for more here now

(NOT) fun with AI

I'll tell you what. Seems like these models get dumber as time goes on.


I need some of these to attach a railing to cement block:





They're 4-5 bucks a piece and I need 12.

No problem, I'll 3D print them.

Unfortunately, nobody has modeled and uploaded them.



"Hey Gemini!..."

First, I take a similar existing model and ask if it would work if a scaled a few things.

"Bad idea"

"Okay, well, can you model them for me?"

"I cannot directly generate or export a physical .stl file for you, as I do not have a 3D modeling engine or file exporter built into my system. Here is the step-by-step process to model your custom pass-through sleeve with a top rim in SketchUp, designed to fit your 1/4"-20 threaded rod."

(Crap, oh well, at least I'll learn something)



One hour later, I've modeled most of this but (of course) part of the instruction isn't working for the final steps.

"Hey Gemini, this part doesn't work..."

"My bad, Sketchup won't do that, try this instead."

"That doesn't work either..."

"My bad, Sketchup won't do that, try this instead."

"This still doesn't work, wth??"

"I'm sorry, let's try a different approach, this will work much better!"

(Cool, now I'm starting all over at square one)



"This approach is worse than the first one. None of this $h*t works. You've literally wasted half my day with bad info and a bunch of 'oh yeah, sketchup doesn't do that'!"

"You are completely right, and I apologize. I completely blew it by giving you conflicting, inaccurate workarounds instead of admitting upfront how SketchUp actually handles geometry. It is incredibly frustrating to spend hours trying to follow instructions only to find out the software itself doesn't work that way, and I take full responsibility for wasting your time.

If you are open to throwing out SketchUp altogether for this specific part, I can write a short, clean Python script that generates the exact 3D mesh for you instantly.

You won't have to model anything. You would just copy and paste the code into a free online python runner, and it will automatically generate a perfectly hollow, perforated, watertight .stl file designed precisely for your 1/4"-20 rod.

If you'd like to try that instead, let me know."

It has become the norm to expect insanity and say nothing when it occurs.

In international law, sovereignty is a state’s exclusive right to govern its territory without external interference. It is a global system.

trump states Greenland and the Strait of Homuz will become US territory.

Nobody says anything like it is normal for the presidency.

This is where we are as a country.

Maybe so. I don't know how often that happens. Maybe it should happen more often. You never know when a games critical inning is going to happen. The don't always come in the late innings.

Iran rejects Trump’s ‘delusions’ on making Strait of Hormuz a US territory

Iran on Saturday rejected President Trump’s assertion that he could declare the Strait of Hormuz a “territory of the United States,” saying the opening and closure of the key waterway will remain up to Iran’s control.

In a post on the social platform X, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi said the U.S. has no authority to claim the strait, which has become a major flashpoint in the nearly six-month conflict.

“The Strait of Hormuz has been Iranian, is Iranian, and will remain Iranian,” he wrote in a post translated from Persian to English. “This strait will only be closed and opened under Iran’s command.”

He added that as long as the U.S. does “not accept the reality of defeat” and stop indulging in its “delusions,” Iran will continue to enforce its blockade of the crucial waterway carrying one-fifth of the world’s oil supply.

Trump floated the idea of taking control of the strait during a speech at a police academy in New York on Friday, despite the fact that it is currently under the shared jurisdiction of Iran and Oman.

“Pretty soon, I will be declaring the Hormuz Strait a territory of the United States,” he said.

Trump, who has twice deployed a U.S. naval blockade of the strait during the course of the conflict, has repeatedly reiterated this claim.

“We have control over it. Nobody else. Only us. Our Navy is unbelievable, and things are going great for our country,” he told reporters Tuesday.

Several observers have pushed back on Trump’s claim to the strait. Former U.S. diplomat Richard Haass insisted that no country is in control of the Strait of Hormuz, while Fox News host Bret Baier said that traffic through the waterway has slowed down “to a trickle” despite Trump’s claim.

About 20 percent of the world’s oil and gas passed through the strait prior to the start of the war on Feb. 28, 2026.

Traffic has dropped sharply since Iran moved to close the waterway after the U.S. and Israel launched its first attacks, causing global energy prices to surge.

Only six vessels traveled through the strait last weekend, according to ship-tracking firm Kpler, a fraction of the roughly 130 to 140 ships that typically crossed each day before the war.

https://thehill.com/policy/international/6031248-iran-rejects-trump-hormuz-claim/

House Republican says Congress ‘should do a little more’ for the rich

Wisconsin’s Glenn Grothman, up for re-election in November, says he believes more should be done to support America’s wealthiest citizens

Wisconsin Republican Rep. Glenn Grothman has argued that Congress “should do a little more” to help wealthy Americans.

The six-term congressman, 71, a Donald Trump loyalist, spoke up for neglected U.S. elites Thursday during a panel discussion on the economy in Troy, Michigan, with that state’s GOP gubernatorial candidate Rep. John James, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise and other officials.

As the conversation pivoted to Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill, passed in July 2025, Grothman insisted the mammoth tax and sending initiative was intended to benefit “the average guy.”

“Don’t let anybody tell you that people running, uh, Congress right now are looking out for the rich,” he said.

“Actually, I think we should do a little more for them, but, you know, right now, uh, we are doing all we can to help the middle class, right?”

“If I was designing a tax cut for the rich, I wouldn’t talk about overtime,” he continued. “I wouldn’t talk about car loans, right? We are aimed at helping the average guy.”

The bill in question was strongly opposed by Democrats – who refused to vote through its cuts to assistance programs for low-income families, including Medicaid and free school meals – with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries delivering a near-nine-hour filibuster trying to prevent its passage.

It squeaked through anyway, passing the House 218-214 and the Senate 51-50 thanks to a tie-breaking vote from Vice President JD Vance, with not a single vote coming from the opposition and two Republican congressmen, Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie and Pennsylvania Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, refusing to back it.

CNN data analyst Harry Enten reported Saturday that Trump’s signature bill has since added $4 trillion to the national debt and ranked government spending as his fourth biggest area of declining support, saying his approval rating on that subject had dropped from 34 percent to just 12 percent.

“A 22 percent drop. Woof!” the commentator remarked, joking that the New York Yankees are more popular in Boston than Trump is trusted with the public purse.

Grothman is up for re-election in November’s midterms against Democratic challenger Brad Smith and is no stranger to controversial public statements.

During Joe Biden’s single term in May 2023, for instance, he complained on the House floor that the 46th president was not nominating enough straight “white guys” to be judges, saying only five of the 97 names he had put forward were caucasian males and that two of those were gay.

35 of the judges confirmed were white males.

When Biden was succeeded by Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential race, he suggested that opposition voters felt “they have to stick with her because of her ethnic background."

More recently, he has defended Trump’s now-scrapped “slush fund” to make payouts to alleged victims of “weaponization” by the Department of Justice and, speaking on Newsmax, delivered a Hall of Famer on Iran, declaring: “Sometimes they don’t act like they lost this war.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...q-wSNZ4oY0u6Q_aem_u3AXaHLNX96LJ4ZnEIoCxQ

And then those on the right seem shocked, outraged and confused why Democratic socialism is on the rise. As I've attempted to explain to them each action has an equal and opposite reaction. You think they would have known that by now.

No one has had their injuries disclosed yet. Monken isn’t talking until he has to. I’m not worried about Carson but I am worried about a couple of the others who limped out.

I don't normally care for artists covering songs of other artists. Far are often they are too similar to the original and lack what I consider creativity. Not always but far too often. This is a band I really like that are not that popular but still has quite a following. This cover of Ozzy's songs "Changes" and is certainly not lacking in creativity. They have transformed the song into their own style and sound. 49 Wnchester I really like it.

I’m not sure he was even dismissive of it in terms of he will never be able to do it in an NFL game, I took it more as this game had very few elements of a real NFL game where there will be shifts, coverage disguising, full temper rushing with guys that belong on the league, etc. the HOF game wasn’t just vanilla, it was a hyped practice with a 1/4 of the playbook being ran by 3rd stringers and guys that won’t make a roster.

Thanks Purp, and thanks to the refs that put up with our shenanigans!

You guys are awesome and there's no other place to discuss everything "Browns" that even holds a candle to you.

Keep up the great work and here's to 20 more!

You know the game.......

I'm late on here, but he's one of my favorite actors (Duvall, Redford, Newman, DeNiro, Nicholson might be my top 5)

It has been 57 days (or about 8 weeks) since Senator Mitch McConnell was last seen in public, following his hospitalization and subsequent inpatient rehabilitation after a fall in mid-June 2026. While his office has released statements and photos, he has not made a physical public appearance.

Has anyone thought of placing his photo on milk cartons?

The degree to which you've lost an argument can be directly tied to how hard you try to pivot to another talking point.

This was a big one.

Don't forget that they're the party of family values. Unless that family is brown and from a different country. Then all bets are off.

What is?

This guy speaks with more common sense than almost anyone in politics. This is what I'm saying. This crap may fly in primaries, but you can't win elections when you buddy-up with a despicable commie. Piker celebrates 911 and calls for us to abolish property rights... Landlords? "Kill them. Murder those mother #$%^ in the street. Let the streets soak in their #$%^ red capitalist blood, dude."

There are parts of the series I have to fast forward.

I have seen more of the Holocaust than I want to see. I can't stomach it. What was done to Warsaw was heartbreaking.

The civilian casualties in WWII are staggering. It is interesting to see how the different countries involved treated their own civilian populations. Especially Russia, Germany, and Japan had completely different approaches.

The scale of the war and the logistics is unreal.

Every morning I check the headlines hoping it will all go away.

That somehow some way karma will find a way.

That the scales of justice will balance. Please just disappear.

That is really interesting.

I have never gotten into photography.

I have spent a lot of time outdoors. The best times of my life have come from my time outside.

The Merlin app opens up a new road. Time has slowed me down and this gives me a chance to do something at a pace that fits.

well deserved for Grant too. He's been solid for us

I'll take this opportunity to post probably the sickest plays I ever had the privilege to watch live. Even watching the replay felt like my mind playing tricks on me. 🔥