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The Random Thought Thread

JO_75 said:
Everyone freaking out over the Tik Tok ban...... not me. Like oh no, people won't be able to do those stupid dance videos no more, what will they do with their lives. I have a YouTube channel, I have Twitter/X and Blue Sky for the purpose of promoting my YouTube channel and Facebook to keep in touch with friends and family. Never once used Tik Tok, should have been banned a long time ago.
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Weird to be so against something you've never used. IMO Tiktok is the most unique social media platform out there. Feed is your own customized feed, mine is only football, DIY projects at home, and a good avenue for finding new bands/music. Twitter, META, and everything else is so full of junk, has many ads, and you have to rummage through piles of shit to find the good stuff. To each their own.
 
JO_75 said:
Everyone freaking out over the Tik Tok ban...... not me. Like oh no, people won't be able to do those stupid dance videos no more, what will they do with their lives. I have a YouTube channel, I have Twitter/X and Blue Sky for the purpose of promoting my YouTube channel and Facebook to keep in touch with friends and family. Never once used Tik Tok, should have been banned a long time ago.
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I can confidently say I have zero people in my life who think Tik Tok is an important aspect of their life, and have very few who actually use it.
 
allblackraven said:
Why exactly it should have been / should be banned?

Don't fucking use it if you don't like it.
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Security risks, mostly. Tik Tok's company, ByteDance, is operated out of Beijing. They've had major issues in the past with data storage and how they collect user data from the app. As such, if they're collecting data from US users (which they certainly are), those could be shared with the Chinese Government, which obviously the US doesn't control.

Additionally, there are current U.S. laws on the books that, from Wikipedia, "The law bans or requires divestment of social media apps meeting specified criteria that are owned by foreign corporations from, or by corporations owned by foreign nationals from, countries designated as U.S. foreign adversaries and that have been determined by the President to present a significant national security threat, and explicitly defines TikTok and any application operated by a ByteDance subsidiary as a "foreign adversary controlled application" under the law.[171]"

So basically, unless Tik Tok is divested from a Chinese-operated firm, it's operating illegally in the U.S. The divesting deadline is Sunday.
 
allblackraven said:
Why exactly it should have been / should be banned?

Don't fucking use it if you don't like it.
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I saw a headline that said something about how people are going to handle "life after Tik Tok" as if it's some big important thing needed to function which led to my post. It's just funny that people think it's some big thing they are losing when it's just an app lol. We lost MySpace, we lost AOL, we lost other forms of social media before. It's so weird to think people won't be able to function without it lol.
 
Now that we have henry. Do you guys still think rbs like henry can be found in later rounds and still produce just as much as him?
 
Deebo813 said:
Now that we have henry. Do you guys still think rbs like henry can be found in later rounds and still produce just as much as him?
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Guys like Henry hardly comes in the 1st round more than once in 5-10 years.

But the difference between the avg 1st round RB and your avg 4th round RB is less than the same for most other positions
 
Deebo813 said:
Tbh, thats really not a bad question at all. Retire from coaching but still be in the building. Gives us a chance to get a HC with an offensive or defensive mind so that we can stop losing coordinators every two years which results in us being set back a year or two
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Exactly my thought.
 
Deebo813 said:
Now that we have henry. Do you guys still think rbs like henry can be found in later rounds and still produce just as much as him?
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Sure. RB's have increasingly become a late 1st to 2nd round investment, whereas they used to be drafted in the top 10 regularly. I think more and more talented RB's will appear in the 2nd or later rounds as time goes on. Unless it's an obvious talent like Saquon Barkley, others will go incognito and get picked up later.

Though "just as much as him" is a little hard to say yes, since he is cemented as one of the all time greatest. But close to what he's done, for at least one season, sure.
 
Once Henry retires, do you think we’d consider spending a first round pick on a RB if he’s considered somewhat generational? We’ve seen what an absolute stud at RB can do for Lamar
 
JAAM said:
Once Henry retires, do you think we’d consider spending a first round pick on a RB if he’s considered somewhat generational? We’ve seen what an absolute stud at RB can do for Lamar
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I don't think teams avoid RBs high in the draft because they see running backs as easily replaceable nearly as much as they don't like taking running backs high because of the length of the career. Running backs sometimes burn out after 4-5 years, whereas you can use the pick elsewhere like wide receiver, safety, pretty much any other position that can play well into their 30s.

Obviously Henry is one of the few exceptions, it's very rare to find a 6'12 505 lb running back.
 
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