Don’t want to send up a flare unnecessarily, but I used to see that patterning on machines with dead logic boards.

My last 17” MBP did that shortly before the board died completely & left me s.o.l. If you’re still under warranty or AC, maybe worth getting it checked?

I am not certain if this would be an issue with M-Series machines. If anyone knows for sure, I’d appreciate any info.

Neither am I. Those are grown adults getting paid adult wages & who are given adult options to measure their risk vs reward.

The second link doesn’t prove anything as long as football is still a billion dollar industry in this world. Study as many deceased brains as you like, doesn’t change the fact the living ones still like making millions of dollars smashing into one another.

I’m just not willing to call for the dissolution of the NFL or NCAA Football programs because of the possibility.

Football isn’t the enemy here. We put those folks on their pedestals & now everyone wants to blame them for being there.

> Yet again, I sincerely hope you get the help you need.

OH SUQIDZY WHERE HAVE YOU GONE!!!’

You are the only one who can help me, please don’t go. Please don’t leave my all alone with my multitudes of football fans.

I promise I’ll read your bible & subscribe to your newsletter. I’ll even badger all my friends on Facebook to purchase your magic elixir.

Just please don’t leave me, I’m so drunk and alone without you.

“Talkin’ tough’s easy when it’s other people’s evil & you’re judging what they do & don’t believe”

I really hope you start seeing other opinions as valid & that you can stop assuming everyone’s a drunken liar.

No, I’m onto my peyote now.

I really hope you get a sliver of pine wood to eye, from a Douglas fir lance, after a horse rolls up on your shattered pelvis, as you lie there wishing you had half the medical resources available to a football player.

Then maybe. Just maybe. You’ll acknowledge you aren’t the end all of be all of this conversation.

Once again, this is not society’s responsibility, it’s on the parents.

Don’t want your child to become a roided up rage monster with CTE? Don’t raise them up to believe that sports is their only way forward.

Sports are a path for SOME individuals & those individuals have the CHOICE to decide what is right for them & what isn’t.

Yes family pressure exists, but so does individual choice & the two conflict every day. Hell, I’ve got boobs & a vag despite my parents protestations & I’m better off for it.

For many of those individuals they only see sports as their path forward. Want them to find a better path? Show it to them…

But don’t judge them when they strike out down a path you don’t approve of, if you aren’t willing to provide a better solution.

Sitting here saying football shouldn’t exist because people get hurt is just lazy hand wringing & judgemental nonsense.

Don’t let your kids play it? That is your responsibility, not society’s.

Memory problems… you called me a liar for claiming jousting led to decapitations. I just proved myself correctly.

Seems like you’re the one sundowing here Goldie. Should we settle you down in front of Wheel of Fortune so you can vibe with your favorite bigot, Pat Sayjack?

Or maybe you prefer the feud & the hypocrite Steve Harvey.

You are the liar. Liar Liar Pants on Fire….

Look at you! Passing judgement on a stranger again!!

I don’t have a substance abuse problem. You have a stick up your patoot & crave the approval of this comments section.

Just acknowledge your opinion isn’t gospel. Just acknowledge you don’t have all the info on jousting you think you have. Just acknowledge you don’t like football & don’t think other should either.

It’s going to be a lonely mountain to stand on top of if you keep calling everyone who disagrees with you a drunken liar.

”Jousting was dangerous and could result in serious injuries, including broken bones, internal injuries, and even death. Injuries could include bruising, skewering, and decapitation”

[“Despite all these safeguards it could still be lethal, as Henry found out. “Twice, in 1524 and 1536, his love of jousting brought him within inches of death -  even for kings it was a dangerous sport”, remarks Thom Richardson in his book”

Henri II of France died in 1559 when a splinter of lance pierced his eye-slit and Charles IX was seriously injured in 1561, which largely contributed to the decline in jousting in France, according to Zeev Gourarier in his article “From the game of ‘catching the brass ring’ to the roundabout” (Livrustkammaren, Journal of the Royal Armoury, 1991-2).](https://www.livescience.com/jousting)

Never got angry about any of this, you sure do like reading other people’s intentions incorrectly.

And yes, you joined a thread talking about the efficacy of additional protection of football players & suggested that rather than embracing that protection as a step in the right direction, the sport just should just cease to exist.

Ergo… You’re calling for dissolution of multi billion dollar industry because you don’t like it.

And and… I’m not wrong about jousting. Jousting was blood sport plain & simple. No one ever tried to make jousting a safer sport. Not for the humans & not for the horses.

Now, let’s just get this next part over with quickly…

Please go ahead and call me a liar again so you can embrace smug sense of superiority & go on about your day.

Not embarrassed in the least. I’m not the one calling for dissolution of an industry I disapprove of.

Have you gotten off your high horse & stopped passing judgement on strangers who disagree with you?

Tequila & toothpaste time!!! Happy Monday.

Oh, I LOVE facts. This is the 3rd paragraph of your first fact:

“The NFL player data should not be interpreted to suggest that 91.7 percent of all current and former NFL players have CTE, as brain bank samples are subject to selection biases. The prevalence of CTE among NFL players is unknown as CTE can only be definitively diagnosed after death. Repetitive head impacts appear to be the chief risk factor for CTE, which is characterized by misfolded tau protein that is unlike changes observed from aging,”

Never said CTE wasn’t a thing, just pointed out that these padded covers are helping protect against it.

The majority of football players do not have CTE. Could they get it? Yes, that’s why this padding has been invented.

These are grown adults taking measured risks & being paid for it, so others can enjoy it.

Don’t like it? Fine. Don’t watch it. But don’t start winging your judgement around thinking everyone who does like it is lesser than you.

People enjoy competition. People enjoy violence. People enjoy booze. People enjoy drugs. People enjoy fuckin’. Get over it.

What’s with you calling everyone liars? I’m not lying, maybe misinformed on jousting, but you calling me a liar is lying.

I fact, didn’t you report me a whole bunch of times for calling you Richard?

Maybe you should check you civility & stop with the name calling, Richard.

You don’t like football. Am I lying?

You think football is bad dangerous. Am I lying?

You argued football was more dangerous than jousting. Am I lying?

You judge people you disagree with, bait them into arguments in the comment threads, & report them when they react negatively.

AM I STILL LYING?

Nope. I am 100% not lying about any of those statements.

But you’ll refute them nonetheless, because you’re a liar.

You throw that word “Lie” around with an unfounded authority. Me telling everyone here you’re actually Herschel Walker trying explain why you’re running for office again is a lie.

Me saying that jousting led to beheadings is not a lie. Maybe an overstatement, but not a lie. And furthermore, if you’re such a big fan of jousting, go dig up Henry VIII & lets run some comparisons of his mental state to that of a retired football player.

Once again, I’ll point out that my comment was intended to combat your stance that football was more violent than jousting.

If you’d like to uphold that stance, feel free.

Ok, ok, ok, fine. I’ll admit it. You’ve win this argument. No more football, baseball, basketball, or soccer. Sharpen the hockey sticks, get out the mace, & gas up the fuckin horses.

It’s all medieval sport from here on out America!

I compared the violence & bloodiness of jousting to the violence of football. You claim a they are comparable, I claim they are not.

Maybe I watch too many movies when it comes to jousting, but you’ve done nothing but talk down to football fans because you don’t like the sport.

So which sports do you approve of? Or are all them too demeaning & childish for your tastes?

Jousting, Gladiatorial sport, wrestling, martial arts… see the connection?

People like violence. Just because you don’t doesn’t make them wrong.

And here’s the 2024 NFL Rule book. Not a single mention of injuring, hurting, dismembering, beheading, concussions, bruises, broken bones, scabs, cuts, or scrapes. Whatdyaknow?

It’s almost like the rules were written to make the sport safer, much like I’m sure there were for jousting.

Maybe should get shitfaced. Could help you climb down off that high horse.