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Conceptually Thinking Basketball Conceptually Thinking an Impactful Career Through Shooting and Leadership Taylor McCabe Iowa Women's Basketball Taylor McCabe (Iowa | Big Ten | 5’9” Guard | No. 2) This is a salute. Taylor McCabe’s season may be cut short, but her imprint on Iowa women’s basketball is already...

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Derrick Beechum

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I genuinely cannot understand how someone can watch this story and still stand there, looking at two women, and somehow decide that the wrong one is the victim. On one side, you have a girl (Yıldız) who has been mistreated her entire life. Since the moment she was born, she was treated like a sacrifice for a conflict she was never even part of and later we find out that this conflict never even existed. Her right to study was taken from her. She was pushed into a marriage at a very young age just imagine being six, seven, eight years old, living in fear of being tied to someone you don’t even know. She was treated like a servant in her own home, by the very people she thought were her family. And just when she gets close to the happiness she dreamed of, the man she was engaged to shows up with another wife. She gets mistreated by that wife, by his family, and even (unintentionally) by him, because he was trying to run away from his own feelings, and that only caused her more heartbreak. The whole world was literally against her. She fought through all of that, only to find out in the end that everything she suffered for was based on something that wasn’t even real. Her entire life was built on a lie. That she isn’t even part of that family that she has literally no one in this world. Now on the other side… You have a girl (Melek) who, yes, was taken from her biological mother but she was raised by loving parents. She had everything anyone could wish for: education, freedom, a happy childhood, a healthy environment. She lived her life, fell in love, went out, made choices and no one questioned her, no one controlled her. And then what did she do? She found out that her man was engaged to another woman before marrying her (and even saw him marry her) and instead of holding on to her dignity, she chose to stay, to fight for a man who lied to her, to hold onto a marriage he tried to end multiple times. She used her unborn child to keep him tied to her. She lied constantly, and her excuse was that she was “protecting her marriage” a marriage that was already broken from the moment Serhat removed that ring at the airport in episode one. She tried to hand Yıldız (a woman who had already suffered enough) over to dangerous people. Then she found out the truth about her own birth (that her father ra*ped her mother.)And still no empathy. No moment of humanity toward her own mother. All she cared about was herself. And even though none of this had anything to do with Yıldız, she still found a way to blame it on her. Instead of holding her father accountable, she went and made a deal with him to get rid of Yıldız. She literally made a deal with the devil just to hurt Yıldız one more time. And after all of that… you want me to feel sorry for her? You want me to call her a victim? I honestly cannot believe we are living on the same planet with people who see this and still say, “she’s the victim.” Not morally. Not logically. Not emotionally. There is no world where this makes sense. It’s like watching someone clearly cause harm, and still calling them the victim and actually BELIEVING it. #HalefKöklerinÇağrısı

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Noah B. Price

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Freen is… Fuang thinks she’s very detailed by nature. I have to say she’s very very detailed. She’s sensitive and sensitive to her surroundings. That’s a personal trait that impacts one’s acting (she talked about this in the start.) she cares tremendously about people around her. For example, I’m talking to Becky in a corner and Freen is doing makeup in another. But she knows what we’re talking about, takes in the details, and turns to congratulate me. She’s very in the present. She’s in the moment with everything all the time. Therefore her ‘detailed’ reactions/acting that we see, it’s because she absorbes everything around her. And our eyes are the window to our hearts. So this is the case of a personal trait affecting one’s acting. That’s one thing. More importantly, along the way, Freen found a way to enhance / add to that. Did Fuang helped bring her there? Maybe or maybe I don’t dare to claim that. For example, in some scenes she can do them well already, but I helped add in more details. I told her your character didn’t just hear that.. listen carefully, there are this and that details. And when she saw/realized that there were more than what she was initially aware of-like from 70% to 90%-just that, her acting will be even more detailed. Your eyes will show what you see or become aware of. If you ask, that’s all Fuang added on. The rest, she was able to do it on her own. This I was I meant by saying that the job of an acting coach is to pull out each actor’s skill. Because she could already it. It’s just that at that very moment, there wasn’t anyone to help her pull out more of her talent/maximize it. Something like that.

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Most guys do not realize how dirty, naughty, and sexual women are. The average woman is way dirtier than the average man. I don’t think I’ve ever met a woman who wasn’t turned on by public sex, for example. Very few men are as into it as women are. As a guy, when you’re about to get it on with a girl in public, she’s there moaning, telling you to “put it in”; meanwhile you are looking around to check if anyone else is nearby while positioning her in this uncomfortable public position in the dirt, in the cold, and telling her “all right, hold on, I’m working on it, let me just get it up here, give me a second, sheesh!” If you read a woman’s romance novel, there is so much ink spilled on teasing, build up, this sex act, that sex act, the other sex act, that it’s basically unreadable if you are a guy. As a guy, you just wanna get your hot dog in her hot dog bun. But women want to do all KINDS of stuff. There’s a million things sexually these girls want to do. So why aren’t girls jumping at the chance to go to bed with every guy they meet? ✅ She needs to TRUST a guy first. Trust that she is safe with him. Trust that he will not judge her. Trust that it won’t affect her reputation. Many men aren’t good at building trust. Trust is KEY. ✅ She needs some degree of attraction to the guy. Not NEARLY as much as most guys think. She does NOT need to be wild with desire for you to sleep with you. It is even possible to sleep with women who really are not attracted to you at all, but who are just bored (and horny) and you did the moves right. (Or, bonus round, you just offered her an experience she has always fantasized about, so even if you are not her dream guy, she nevertheless says fine, let’s do it.) ✅ She needs to be aroused. You know the whole “women’s arousal is like a dimmer” thing… it’s accurate. You need to ramp her arousal up with touch, teasing, flirtation, innuendo, sex talk, etc. ✅ She needs to be ALONE with you. If she trusts you enough, you can get her alone with you. Once she’s alone with you, if there is trust there, and there’s arousal, and maybe a bit of attraction, you will get her clothes off. Yes… even if she is a ‘good’ girl. ‘Good’ girls did not manage to pass down their genes by hating sex (they are just a bit more selective about the men they have it with, is all. They need more TRUST!). Also: don’t be UNNERVED by female sexuality. Every girl has a tigress inside her waiting for the right guy to unleash it… a guy who makes her trust him, arouses her, gets her alone with him, and maybe creates some attraction with her. Women’s romance novels are ALL about this. Women’s romances in real life are as well. In fact, in real life, women often settle for far less ideal situations: men they don’t completely trust, aren’t that attracted to, are only partway aroused by, who get them alone somewhere. The better a job you can do approaching her sexual “Platonic ideal”, the more reliably you can bring out that sexual tigress lurking inside of EVERY woman (even the ‘good’ girls).

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Tonight I met former hostage Moran Stella Yanai. Moran wants this story to be told and shared... She was taken by 13 TERRORlSTS from the Nova Festival. She endured 54 days of torture and captivity. "How did you get through every second, every minute, every day?" I asked. "Faith and purpose," she said. "I spent my time getting through moments." Moran gave herself purpose. She made it her mission to look out for the two women in captivity with her. Most of the "fire" in the room was directed at her. She'd have a gun held to her head one moment. Play cards with the captor the next. She made it her mission to gather information from Hamas. Everything she did in captivity was strategic. Moran made it her mission to keep her mind, her spirit, her imagination. From time to time, she'd hear a blip on Israeli radio. She found signs and symbols in those seconds. She lost 50% of her hearing. Came back covered in lice, sores, and filled with infections. Broken bones. "The physical problems are nothing. It's all mental." She says she lives with a feeling that it's possible to be taken hostage again. Because it happened before. But the thing Moran said most is, "I won." She did. And she continues to win every day. "I'm a better person now." And that question I asked Moran at the start? That's the same question I ask every Holocaust survivor. I didn't tell her that. But within the first sentence of answering, she used the word Holocaust in referring to her experience. I've hugged many Holocaust survivors. It always gives me such an indescribable feeling of comfort and resilience. And when I hugged Moran goodbye, I got that same feeling again.🎗️

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#Kwibuka32 Mimi TESTIMONY ———————————————— Her name is Mimi. She survived the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda because of the courage and humanity of a man named Ndahigwa. During those dark days, Mimi was found as an infant, still breastfeeding from her mother—who had been brutally killed and lay among piles of bodies at Saint Famille, on the primary school football field. It was a heartbreaking and unimaginable scene, one that no child should ever be part of. Yet, from that tragedy, a life was saved. Ndahigwa, who was not himself targeted during the genocide and worked with the Red Cross, chose compassion over fear. In a time when many turned away, he stepped forward. He rescued Mimi and raised her as his own, caring for her from infancy through adulthood. He gave her not only a chance to live, but a chance to grow, to be loved, and to belong. He stood by her side through the years, supporting her until she eventually got married. However, her marriage did not last, as her husband constantly pressured and mistreated her, questioning her about a family she never had the chance to know. Today, Mimi is alive, but she lives with a deep and painful absence—she does not know her biological family, nor does she have any known relatives. She carries unanswered questions about her identity and her roots. With hope in her heart, she is reaching out to anyone who might recognize her story or have any information about her family, asking for help in reconnecting with her origins. At the same time, Mimi is a mother, doing her best to raise her children under difficult circumstances. She is struggling financially and humbly asks for support from anyone who is able to help, no matter how small the contribution. Her story is one of survival, loss, love, and resilience. And today, she is not only searching for her past—but also fighting to build a better future for her children.

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Carrie Fisher said something in an interview that perfectly captures how creative instinct works. She was asked whether reinventing herself as a writer was a conscious decision. Her answer: "I don't think I've made many conscious decisions. I make most of my decisions in my sleep." She didn't sit down one day and declare herself a writer. It was a slow evolution, pulled forward by what she actually loved consuming. "I wrote fiction, which is what I read. And now I write screenplays, which is what I watch." That's a principle worth sitting with. She was simply doing the thing she already did for pleasure. The writing path itself began almost accidentally. After an interview in Esquire, she was approached to write a non-fiction book. That fell apart. She couldn't even remember the format she was supposed to write in. "Essays or something," she said. "See, you can't even think of the name for it. That's why I couldn't do it." So she did what made sense to her and wrote fiction instead. The screenwriting came the same way. But what most people don't know is that Fisher was doing script work decades before it became widely known. She learned punchup by necessity, not by design. On the set of Star Wars, she and Harrison Ford were handed dialogue that simply could not be spoken aloud. She described telling George Lucas: "You can type this, but you cannot say it. It'll take a couple of minutes for the nava computer to calculate the coordinates." She said it took 20 takes. Out of self-defence, she started reworking lines. Ford did the same. That habit eventually turned into a career doing punchup for major Hollywood films, helping writers fix dialogue that looked good on the page but died in the room. And then there was the work she wrote for her mother, Debbie Reynolds. Two television pilots, neither of which ever aired. Her reason for wanting to work with her mother is one of the more honest things ever said about family dynamics in Hollywood. "The main thing I want to do is work with my mom so that we don't have to have those Christmas dinners anymore. Just have a job with her and you can order her around." It didn't go the way she planned. Her grandmother showed up and bossed both of them around and, as Fisher put it, "got all the money."

History Nerd

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Caller: "Okay. So, I've been with my wife for, we've been together since we were 14, for 14 years. I'm 32, I met her when I was 19, we had a child at 20. And, um, I've always just kind of been a butthead to her, to be honest. Every now and then I would demean her or make little comments, and I would say it started to really get bad about six weeks ago. Um, we were doing some work in the yard, and I really just blew up on her over the stupidest little thing. And then about a week later, we're just constantly arguing and dividing from each other. And then about a week or two later, she told me that she thought she was falling out of love with me. And it just really crushed me. I never would have thought that those words could come out of her mouth, and she told me that the way I treat her is, I'm not treating her the right way. And I completely owned it. I mean, I said everything you said is absolutely correct. You know, and I said, 'I don't want my son, our son growing up thinking that this is how you're supposed to treat women.' And, I mean, since that day, I have treated her like an angel. I mean, I've done everything and just constantly telling her I love her, giving her hugs, kisses. Um, but that was a Saturday night, and then Monday night she ended up telling me that she was, um, in communication with a guy she met on TikTok. And she told me she broke it off with him, and I asked her, What was the subjects about?' And she said it was just somebody to talk to about what I'm going through, my mental, you know, health. And she said it was never anything flirtatious or anything like that. She said it was just a stranger that I could talk to, but she said, 'I broke it off with him, and I'm gonna focus on us. And I said, 'I'm all in with you, let's rebuild this.' And we went about two weeks and it was just absolute honeymoon phase. I mean, we were just, never it was great. And then I went through her phone two weeks after that and found that she was on Snapchat with the guy. And I confronted her about it, and she said, 'Okay, well, I didn't think you were really gonna change, and I wanted to keep this friendship with the guy.' And she said, 'I'll break it off with him.' And I'm like, 'Okay, I guess I'll give you a second chance. I'm kind of heartbroken again that you would keep this from me. And then about a week and a half later, which was just yesterday, I went through the call logs on which, I feel bad because I'm constantly digging at all this, but every time I dig, I find something. And I confronted her yesterday that she's been talking to this guy for 30, 40, 50 minutes a day, um, the last week and a half, after she told me a third time that she was breaking it off with him. And I'm just super confused. I don't really know how to handle this. Now she's saying that she's all done talking to him, and I'm like, 'Well, how do I trust you now? You've been lying to me for the past three weeks about this.' So, that's really all I got." John Delony: "So for 14 years... you belittled your wife. She got the clear message she was beneath you. You're the smart one, you're the fast one, you're the quick one. You are the provider, you're the all this stuff." Caller: "Mhm. I always thought she was beneath me." John Delony: "Yeah, you did. And she's got that message for, for a decade and a half.

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It surprises me that BAP takes such a categorical position here, one based on the fallacy that a WOMAN could somehow also not be a CALCULATING WHORE. I thought he was Nietzschean. To me this looks like a Schopenhauerian error, the same one Michel Houellebecq often makes in his novels. It is the mistake of many incels and trads as well. It underlies the repulsive Christian TRAD discourse that BAP himself so often attacks. A WOMAN IS AT ALL TIMES A WHORE and at all times playing a role. She does not do this out of free will, but from archetypes that culture teaches her. It is the learned cultural role she performs that enables her to spread her legs, that makes her WANT and NEED to do so. And attached to those roles are different types of men, each neatly performing his own role as well. The Friends With Benefits man, or the man you marry and have children with. Some men are capable of playing several roles, either simultaneously or over time. This is the man's problem, not the woman's. The man in Jini's example feels insulted and castrated because he would rather be the conqueror than the man you marry, yet he never took responsibility for playing the male role that women want for a one night stand. He has it in his head that one role is more honorable than the other. The woman believed she was confiding something BEAUTIFUL to him. After all, it is her ACHIEVEMENT that she plays the role of married woman so well with her husband, fucking him, sucking him off, while occasionally still thinking back to experiences from earlier roles. Out of nostalgia, she shares those memories with her hubbie, her husband, her best friend, for whom she also spreads her legs. Does a man have any idea what psycho-biological-cultural gymnastics a libtard female brain has to perform to make that work in the free West, where rape is taboo and consent and desire occupy the highest place of honor? Jini-Jeanne Hamwi is right here. This woman does not know what she is talking about, and neither does the man. They should therefore not take each other too seriously. They are speaking to each other as symptoms. My own wife and whore explains all of this better than I do in this clip, in which she compares the Liberal Woman to the Victorian Woman and explains how we should TRAIN OUR WOMEN through Nietzschean Artist Metaphysics. I'm urging anyone who takes this fertility cult discourse seriously to study this clip, because it contains important clues about how such a fertility cult would actually have to be built. In the end, it has to be designed with the female mind in mind as well.

KIRAC

138,650 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten

The WNBA has completely mismanaged its biggest star in Caitlin Clark and it’s sad to see. Caitlin Clark didn’t do it alone and there are a number of current and former players who helped pave and maintain the way, but Caitlin Clark has been the primary catalyst for the WNBA’s new media rights deal, new CBA, having to move games to bigger arenas, getting private chartered flights and so much more. Yet when she is targeted in ways on the court that aren’t about basketball, it’s brushed aside as “physicality” or “just the way we play in the W”. No. What Alyssa Thomas did to Caitlin Clark was not about basketball. What Alyssa Thomas did to Angel Reese was not about basketball. It was a cheap shot. It was dirty. It was done on purpose. And it’s hurting the WNBA as a whole. What’s also sad is that because of the mismanagement of Caitlin Clark by the WNBA as a whole, the fact that HISTORICALLY INCREDIBLE BASKETBALL IS BEING PLAYED in the WNBA and it’s not being talked about enough. Marina Mabrey tied the WNBA record for most points in a game with 53 points, 6 Rebs, 2 assists and tied the WNBA record by hitting NINE 3’s for the Toronto Tempo 🤯 Rookie Olivia Miles broke Caitlin Clark and Paige Bueckers’ WNBA record for fastest to score 300 points and have 100 assists. Clark and Bueckers did it in 19 games, so Miles did it in 18. Olivia Miles has also lead the Minnesota Lynx, without star player Napheessa Collier, to the best record in the league and #1 in every major offensive statistic. Angel Reese just became the fastest player to get 1k rebounds. There is so much greatness happening in the WNBA, and it’s being ignored because people don’t want to celebrate it when the league won’t even protect its own players from unnecessary targeted behavior. Some people don’t want to celebrate the WNBA when the league won’t protect its most marketable player that is the driving force behind its increased awareness. But I will say the quiet part out loud. The facts today still show that far too many people are making things in the WNBA about race or sexuality and not the results. Drawing a line in the sand and defending any player’s dirty play just because of the color of their skin is wrong. We shouldn’t be denying the truth of what we see and situating or views of the truth along color lines. Caitlin Clark and every WNBA player wants to compete at the highest level. They are tough and the best female basketball players in the World. They don’t want to be involved in identity politics or race wars. They just want to play basketball. Right & wrong has no color. Alyssa Thomas was wrong for what she did. Caitlin Clark is a phenom, the WNBA has been wrong at so many turns with how they have handled her and the WNBA needs to improve its officiating. Olivia Miles was the right pick for Minnesota and is the runaway Rookie of the Year right now. Marina Mabrey was the right move for the Toronto Tempo. Angel Reese was the right move for the Atlanta Dream. Don’t pick sides based on the color of a player’s skin or their sexuality. Let’s just talk basketball. What Alyssa Thomas did wasn’t about basketball, she is rightfully getting crushed for it and got suspended. But everything doesn’t have to be a race war. It shouldn’t be. Via Outta Pocket with RGIII

Robert Griffin III

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A girl who openly calls herself kind of stupid made $20,000 last month, and her face never appeared on screen once. She wasn't selling talent. She was running a loop with Claude that anyone reading this could start tonight. Here is the entire method. There is nothing else to it. She opened YouTube and searched baby shows. She found one with millions of views. A dancing fruit sensory video, a counting whales cartoon, the kind of thing that plays on a loop in the background of every toddler's life. She opened it, went to the transcript, and copied the whole thing. She pasted that transcript into Claude and asked it to turn the format into a prompt for a similar video. Claude wrote the prompt. She pasted the prompt into an AI video generator. A few minutes later she had a finished cartoon. Bright colors, dancing animals, big letters, cheerful music. Indistinguishable from the one she copied. She posted it. Then she did the exact same thing the next day. And the day after. And every single day for 30 days. She never wrote a script, animated a frame or recorded a single sound. She found something that already worked, fed it to Claude, let an AI rebuild it, and uploaded the result before she went to bed. Nobody knew who she was. No name, no face, no personality, no story. Just a channel quietly posting toddler cartoons every day. And YouTube paid her anyway, because YouTube does not pay you for being interesting. It pays you for watch time, and toddlers watch the same video until the battery dies. By the end of the month the payments were real. $20,000 to a girl who will tell you to your face that she is not smart. That is the part nobody wants to sit with. The barrier was never intelligence. It was never talent. The only thing standing between her and the money was whether she would run a boring 5 minute loop every day for 30 days without quitting. She did. Most people won't. The system didn't filter for smart. It filtered for showing up.

Marlow

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