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    again - how does or can the LLM training system create a sense of context? Of course to even use the word 'sense' is already an anthropomorphic error. But that's what this doc is talking about - the understanding that a particular fact has varying significance in different contexts.
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    although there seems to be some ambiguity as to whether he was threatening to kill her or himself - well - as the cute little girl used to say, maybe it was both.
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    Bingo.
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    only one of those guys projects to be average or above with the glove at SS and he is the furthest away, so I wouldn't call the situation ideal - unless McGonigle can get a lot better or already is better than he is being given credit for.
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    Of course Trump would get someone else to spend the money to have a gold one made for him, then he'd get cheap copy electroplated, sell the real one and pocket the change.
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    something tells me this is going to keep getting worse for a while. And here is another curiosity: Harbaugh is supposedly this straight arrow Mom, God and Country straight arrow and he's the one setting up this dawg as the next best young guy since sliced bread? How does that work?
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    2 GA in 4 min. 🫤
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    Every UM staffer knows their salary is public, but it's one of those things that probably recedes into the wood work and I guess people 'forget' about it.
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    You know, I've been hearing there might be a guy coming on the market who could help fix that....
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    Navy has cancelled another shipbuilding project after spending $3.5Billion and producing no ships. Currently, defense procurement in the US is a fairly massive fail, but the Navy has really set itself apart. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/11/opinion/editorials/us-military-industry-waste.html
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    🎉📣🎇
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    yes - I'm sure there is/was. The question is how was it subverted? Moore could simply have lied to HR/financial staff about what he was doing, or he found other staff to enable what he was doing, or worst case, Warde was apprised about what he was doing and had the authority and poor judgement to sign off on it. 🙄
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    yeah - I'm not sure the salaries of Moore's staff are something Warde would be reviewing - but it certainly would have been someone's job to bring something like that to Warde's attention when *they* saw it. And that person might not even report in Warde's chain of command. Again, from where we sit, we don't know where the point of failure was. But Warde is the most likely candidate to take the fall either way.
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    That isn't what HR does at UM that I ever saw. Staff salaries are paid out of departmental budgets. There are usually financial side administrators that the departmental people have to work through for anything that involves money. I would say there had to be a unit financial staffer who had to have put this through - the only question is was there a story to go with it that made it passible or were they just caving to the influence of the Head Coach? The systems at UM in my experience were pretty decent. But you still need people to pay attention to them. My guess is there were controls in place and either Moore fabricated his way past them or he had enablers that weren't doing their jobs.
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    the whole thing is getting more malignant by the day. I don't know where it all ends - it's already gone way past where I ever thought it would before Congress stepped in to ordain a new set of rules. This isn't the thread for national political discussion but it's fair enough to say that the situation in college athletics is just one of many symptoms of a multi-decade long deterioration in useful national government.
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    You can say anything you want about 'someone should have known' but short of surveiling people illegally you probably aren't going to know who's canoodling whom - at least until some party aggrieved by it shows up. But someone should have caught that- raises in xs of the annual pool % have to be justified. Now maybe they came up with a good story about added responsibilities or additional direct reports or something. But if not someone in the unit business office that passed this along without raising a flag should also take some heat.
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    That's the external take, that may or may not be the internal take. Just to take the Devil's advocacy, what if it was S Ono who pushed for Moore the be given the shot and Warde's position had been he wanted someone more experienced? That's a pure hypothetical but it's the kind of thing that no-one on the outside has any way of knowing. So if Warde isn't broomed, you can assume things on the inside do not necessarily appear as they do on the outside. Or he may be gone tomorrow, and the more conventional take was true. But we won't know until it happens. One of the weaknesses in the program as a whole right now is because of the constant churn in athletics since Lloyd Carr, plus the a lot of turnover the overall top admin jobs, there just aren't any admin or athletic dept 'elder statesman's around. Manuel is about the only person there with any deep intituational memory and if the question is him, that doesn't leave much expertise for the decision.
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    If DeBour is who they want and Warde gets him then it's hard to see how that would not increase the probability that Warde keeps his gig.
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    yup - waste of time to go through that dog and pony show again when you don't even control the House, and TBH, it would likely decrease the chances of more House members falling away from Trump on their own. Trump is doing enough to alienate his own troops like MTG. Don't make it an us vs them thing that motivates them to stick together.
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    HaHa - true.
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    well, he didn't attack Warde so security wasn't needed, and frankly I'm not sure what an HR rep could have done that would have made any difference once he left the building.
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    maybe an injury to Edvinsson is the stars aligning to force Yzerman to go all out for Hughes.
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    Saban won't want back in because with the money now above board he can no longer get the kind of advantage he had at Alabama and he knows it better than anyone else.
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    this we agree on, even if for some different reasons. With respect to Warde, don't forget he doesn't act in a vacuum. He not a free agent and the institution is responsible for some the imperatives he faces. That said I won't argue he's hasn't been to slow to stop the bleeding. But of course if he had been a lot quicker with the hammer, one of those might well have fallen on Harbaugh at a point well before he brought them the NC, so there's that to consider!
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    Wings in 1st place in the Atlantic with a -6 goal differential
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