krashmo

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[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago

To be fair, parenting is a pretty shitty gig. Expectations are high and support is low. People judge everything you do, especially those who have never done it themselves. Even with good kids its a thankless slog most of the time. God help you if you get a hard one.

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

How else are we going to know who is at the door? I mean, I guess we could open it but that's boring

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

I think that any solution in the form of a formal government regulation will be subject to that kind of corruption, and real solutions need to be found elsewhere.

I think that's a fair statement as it relates to the current US government but I don't think that's a valid general philosophy. I agree that our current priority should certainly be to implement a government that can be trusted to regulate things effectively. If that isn't taken care of first then the rest doesn't matter. As evidenced by, well, everything happening right now haha. Still, the ultimate goal should be government action on this topic because we cannot solve the problem at an individual level. Some people can have better outcomes than others but there's no level playing field without government intervention.

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (5 children)

Its perfectly relevant to my point, which is that the government is already involved in the sort of behavior we're discussing. If we accept that preventing societal damage, or promoting social well being, or whatever else you want to call it, is a part of what the government exists to do, then why would something like preventing mega corporations from hijacking the development of children fall outside its purview?

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago (7 children)

I notice you left education off that list

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago (10 children)

How is this argument different from "it's not the governments job to provide healthcare / education / social services"

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

To be fair, at that point we already knew he was a rapist. The new information was the gay stuff. Of course that's going to be the most interesting part to everyone

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

I'm certainly not shocked that Trump posted some racist shit

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You could say the same about ballet. Participants in both are athletic but they aren't playing a sport

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Or we could collectively decide that we want a government that can be trusted to manage something as fundamental as drinking water infrastructure without poisoning people and vote accordingly. If you can't trust your government to provide basic public services then what is the point of having a government at all?

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago

Knowing who they are is irrelevant until someone does something about it. Up to this point no one has.

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah, much better to say nothing and let them keep doing that to all the brown people because they're not as important as the whites

 

For the first time in two decades, Oklahoma State is in search of a new football coach.

Oklahoma State fired Mike Gundy, effective immediately, according to Robert Allen.

In his 21st season, Gundy accumulated a 170-90 record with the Cowboys. That’s the most wins in program history, and it isn’t particularly close. Pat Jones, Gundy’s coach, is second on Oklahoma State’s all-time wins list at 62-60.

Eleven of Gundy’s teams spent at least one week in the top 10 of the AP poll, climbing as high as No. 2 in the rankings in 2011. Gundy-led teams have had a pair of top 10 finishes in the AP Poll, finishing third in 2011 and seventh in 2021.

Six of Gundy’s teams finished in the top 10 nationally for scoring offense. The aforementioned 2011 team finished the season averaging 48.7 points a game, which ranked second in the nation. OSU’s 2017 squad finished second nationally in total offense, averaging 568.9 yards a game. Led by quarterback Mason Rudolph, that 2017 team finished first nationally in passing offense, averaging 389.2 pass yards a game.

OSU’s best defense under Gundy came in 2021 when coordinator Jim Knowles’ group allowed just 18.1 points and 297.9 yards a game, which ranked ninth and fifth in the country, respectively.

Gundy teams loved a big win. He had 11 wins against AP top-10 opponents, with the most recent being the Cowboys’ 27-24 win against No. 10 Oklahoma in 2023. Gundy has beaten the No. 3 team in the AP Poll twice, besting Missouri 28-23 in 2008 and Baylor 49-17 in 2013.

From 2006 to 2023, OSU teams finished with a winning record. Eight of those squads had at least 10 wins. There have only been three other teams in OSU’s history finish with double-digit wins, and Gundy was the quarterback for two of those squads.

Speaking of his playing days, Gundy still ranks fourth on OSU’s all-time passing list with 8,473 yards, and the three players ahead of Gundy (Mason Rudolph, Spencer Sanders and Brandon Weeden) were all coached by Gundy. Gundy ranks fifth on OSU’s passing touchdowns list with 57.

 

Can we add the option to exclude communities and/or posts that are in a different language than our chosen default? I'm guessing filtering communities would be easier than individual posts but I'm not sure how language would be flagged. I understand some people may want to see some of these posts but even multilingual people must be bombarded with posts in languages they don't speak. I'm getting pretty annoyed that half of my feed is stuff I can't read.

I've looked through the settings multiple times but I suppose it's still possible this already exists and I just missed it.

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