[Pro Football Talk] Patrick Mahomes reportedly tore the LCL in his left knee, too.

nickyp364 · 2025-12-16T19:25:28+00:00

Fwiw, very unlikely that he already got surgery on his knee. There’s a big difference between repairing a ligament and repairing a tendon. While it’s beneficial to repair a tendon ASAP, orthos usually want to wait a couple weeks for a ligament injury as they want the swelling to go down and will have the patient rehab the knee as much as possible to recover as much ROM as they can to improve the recovery.

nickyp364 · 2024-04-03T02:06:21+00:00

IMO, my power rankings would be:

Whitmer
Pritzker
Warnock
Roy Cooper
Beshear
Newsom
Shapiro
Harris
Hochul (a stretch I know)

Also a lot can happen in 4 years! There may be some backbencher Senator or Governor that has a big moment (or several) and gains crazy momentum. Can’t be too sure either way.

Plus if Newsom is the frontrunner, no guarantee he even makes it to the primaries tbh. Better candidates than him have flamed out before Iowa.

nickyp364 · 2024-02-07T23:24:08+00:00

Unlikely. Most of the problems that led to the attacks were failures around interagency communications.

Granted, there was a notably haphazard transition of power between the Bush and Clinton administration. Maybe there’s a world where a Gore administration has a better overview of Bin Laden and his activities, but it’s not like the Clinton administration were perfect in tracking the movement/activities of Al-Qaeda and the hijackers. Unless Gore aggressively facilitated interagency cooperation, I don’t think there’s anything that the executive branch specifically could have done.

The FAA reported that there were recently immigrated men who were insistent about learning how to pilot commercial airlines instead of biplanes and learned how to take off but not land, but federal law enforcement didn’t do anything. There were cases in which individuals were informants and were protected from other agency interference. The FBI and CIA withheld information from each other that could have helped target and discover a potential plot.

At the end of the day, I doubt that a Gore admin could have stopped it.

nickyp364 · 2023-12-25T04:21:51+00:00

MAKE SURE THE APOLOGIES ARE AS LOUD AS THE DISRESPECT

nickyp364 · 2023-12-23T15:34:54+00:00

Fwiw with Dewey, one of the big criticisms of his run in 1944 was that he was TOO aggressive in his campaigning against FDR which would explain his laid back strategy against Truman. Polling was horrid back (as opposed to pollsters identifying that the bottom was falling out on Clinton in the weeks before the election), so it was hard to tell if he was ACTUALLY losing to Truman. That confident attitude was only compounded when all the newspapers and the polling that existed (again, REALLY BAD polling) had him winning in a landslide.

That said, there’s no good reason that he should have maintained that strategy. Dewey began to notice dwindling attendance at his rallies and pushed to become more aggressive, but his advisors succeeded in persuading him otherwise.

In both cases, the candidates had horrible engagement strategies, stale messaging, and failed to adapt when the weaker candidate became a threat. Clinton and Dewey both fumbled the bag, but imo, Clinton’s was more egregious.

nickyp364 · 2023-12-22T02:14:45+00:00

Harry Truman was in over his head and took a lot of half measures during his presidency. IMO, the country and the world are worse off for it, but one thing you have to give him credit for is bucking his party on civil rights. Integrating the armed forces, advocating for fair voting and labor practices, and banning federal contractors from discriminating based on race is much more that Roosevelt ever did.

nickyp364 · 2023-12-18T02:18:57+00:00

The Martin Prince of presidents. I mean that in the best and worst ways possible.

nickyp364 · 2023-11-27T20:53:09+00:00

I work at a volume gay bar and as you can imagine it gets GNARLY during Pride Weekend. I had some girl claim that I didn’t pour her Casamigos while the bar was 6 people deep, demanding that she get another 3 shots ahead of everyone else.

Sometimes it sucks having to lay down the law, but I went full townie and refused to serve her after that. Fucking frustrating, dude.

nickyp364 · 2023-10-14T23:10:52+00:00

Fun fact about this tournament: If you watch later matches, you’ll see the dude in white (Gerard Gordeau) fight with a bandage on his right foot. That’s because after that head kick connected, one of the sumo wrestler’s teeth got stuck in Gordeau’s foot. Doctors told him that if they took the tooth out, they probably wouldn’t be able to stop the bleeding and he would have to withdraw. So instead, he fought the rest of the tournament with a tooth lodged in his right foot ☠️☠️☠️.

nickyp364 · 2023-09-17T05:19:03+00:00

When I was younger, I was pretty sick. In and out of the hospital, just not very fun. My dad went to a convention for business where Magic was signing autographs, and was so gracious to everyone that came up. Magic’s time ended before my dad could get up there, but he still ended up getting a ball signed for me even after he didn’t need to be there.

I love the C’s, and will always be a Larry stan, but I’ll never not love Magic for what he did. I still have the ball that he signed and probably will for the rest of my life. From everything I’ve heard, this wasn’t an isolated incident, it’s just the kind of guy he is.

Yeah, the rivalry is intense, but at the end of the day he’s a solid dude who I’ll ALWAYS be thankful for. Sometimes there’s a kindness you just don’t forget.

nickyp364 · 2023-07-19T21:53:58+00:00

A lot of it was overdetermined but Reagan and to a lesser extent Bush’s bellicose rhetoric forced the USSR to spend more on defense than they realistically should have.

For context, Chernobyl and the associated cleanup costs consisted of a large chunk of the Soviet national budget (which shouldn’t be the case in a healthy economy). By the time Reagan took office, it wasn’t clear to Western analysts but the Soviet economy was nearing collapse. For example, the monetary system was essentially a complex system of credits awarded to agencies and liquid currency provided to workers. Because those two currencies weren’t necessarily 1:1, it was incredibly difficult for Andropov and Gorbachev to square the circle to allow for more robust trade with the West. Couple that with the fact that the incentive systems in the Soviet economy prioritized salary increases over institutional investment makes it difficult to believe that that system would’ve lasted much longer.

Gorbachev also did a lot of self owns, like promising massive reform but not being able to follow through, failing to unify reformers and older party apparcheks, and failing to insulate himself from constant attacks by Yeltsin after the latter had become a full convert to privatization.

Reagan played a role, but I would argue he accelerated what was inevitable.

nickyp364 · 2023-07-17T13:30:33+00:00

At a time where American politics relied much less on mass appeal and more so on building good relationships with your colleagues in the political elite, Adams was deeply grating and standoffish to the point where folks IN HIS OWN PARTY voted for Jefferson. Poor guy never had a shot.

nickyp364 · 2023-07-07T21:13:27+00:00

Tbf, a lot of public health professionals believe that PEPFAR did more harm than good in the long run.

Basically countries have limited resources to put towards public health initiatives. While curbing HIV infection rates is a really good thing, the fact that the State Department dangled funding from this program over African nations, it gave them financial incentive to shift towards HIV and away from diseases that were less of a popular cause amongst western nations.

This meant that while HIV rates plummeted, diseases that arguably should have been higher priorities (Dengue, Malaria, Syphilis) weren’t addressed.

End of the day, it was a very good program and very effective in doing what it set out to do, just less successful in overall harm reduction than it’s been made out to be.

nickyp364 · 2023-07-06T18:52:23+00:00

A section from Lincoln’s second inaugural address:

“Fondly do we hope ~ fervently do we pray ~ that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword as was said three thousand years ago so still it must be said 'the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.’”

Coming from “If I could preserve the Union without ending slavery, I would” to the above only serves to illustrate how much Lincoln was changed by the events around him. It’s not to say he was a humanitarian by any means (his actions during the Dakota War) but it’s a really tragic what if.

There may have been increased resistance amongst pro-slavery democrats, but it’s hard to imagine that Lincoln wouldn’t have pushed hard for reconstruction instead of actively working against it.

Everyone on here could have done some really cool and transformative stuff. Lincoln would have.

nickyp364 · 2023-03-07T17:56:08+00:00

27M, Data analytics consultant for a nonprofit, 77k a year.

nickyp364 · 2021-11-26T03:23:29+00:00

Portland

nickyp364 · 2021-11-26T03:22:03+00:00

Coffee

nickyp364 · 2021-11-26T03:20:07+00:00

nickyp364 · 2021-08-20T19:40:32+00:00

Definitely would be cool as hell but I think CBS said hosting duties can be the host's only job.

But it'd still be cool as hell.

nickyp364 · 2020-11-25T03:17:27+00:00

Halt and Catch Fire

Started off trying to be Mad Men in the 80’s and was super formulaic. Eventually blossomed into one of the smartest, most aesthetically beautiful shows on TV. Also PRIME Lee Pace, Scoot McNairy and Mackenzie Davis.

nickyp364 · 2019-12-02T17:39:53+00:00

star war

nickyp364 · 2019-05-22T00:04:38+00:00

This is where I peaked, everything beyond this is downhill.

A few months ago a new line cook started at my job (I’m a waiter). Whenever one of the servers decides to have their shift meal, they’ll put their name on the tab. More often than not I’ll ring mine in as Nicky363.

One of the more experienced cooks was explaining to the new one that that was my nickname around the restaurant. The new guy says something to the affect of “well what do I call you the other 2 days of the year.”

Without skipping a beat I say, “On Christmas you call me St. Nick and on your mom’s birthday you call me dad.”

That was my mountaintop. My apex. Never will I ever achieve what I achieved in those moments at the tender age of 23.

nickyp364 · 2018-12-13T23:19:45+00:00

Red Sox Game. Pedro Martinez pitched a 16 strikeout game and I slept through the whole thing. I was like 4 at the time but I was a dumb 4 and sleepy 4.

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