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I had a copy of EA's Madden Football back in the early 2000s on PC. At the time, Patrick Surtain was the #1 DB in the game and had ridiculous stats. The game had a draft function that had a deep pool of names to create new fictional players, but would recycle/recombine existing names. It also would occasionally create a Junior or a II for famous players, including one for Patrick Surtain II - who was a stud I drafted in Madden. So the real Patrick Surtain II was drafted in the first round yesterday and I find great joy in watching truth follow art two decades afterwards.

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"Jiro Dreams of Sushi" is now showing for free on Youtube (with ads). I think this is a wonderful documentary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr09oEJqnfI

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DBD Cooking Club

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ICYMI: this requires a special combination of ragged determination and stupidity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hhk7m1SSmRs

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Here are the softball results between Texas and Oklahoma

https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/29/weather/hail-damage-severe-weather-texas/index.html

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49ers trade 3 first rounders, a 3rd rounder, and the family cow in an exchange for... Trey Lance?

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NFL Draft

Man the Raiders love reaching...this wasn't the most egregious reach ever with Leatherwood but I mean come on we could have gotten him in Round 2.

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How much chill do you have? For instance, I am a person who has 0/19 chill.

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Only positive I can think of from Covid: Orange blob joins the one-term club.

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I'm still thinking (about the question).

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https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/04/pfizer-gang-and-sadness-vaccine-culture/618755/

The Hot-Person Vaccine

The internet has decided that Pfizer is significantly cooler than Moderna—but why?

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A major positive will be an increase of remote work and distance learning, even if we wind up losing some of it. Less time wasted, less wear and tear on roads and bridges, and vehicles, less expense. Did more to help the environment than any number of things done specifically for environmentally friendly agendas. And it prompted some information infrastructure improvement. Adversity usually necessitates creativity to compensate, and there's no reason to abandon improvements that were accelerated by necessity.

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Post-Covid Societal Changes

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Our Crumbling Democracy

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Today in Covid 19

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Other college

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Cal

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