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  2. Lots of ink has been spilled about this particular part of Musk's controversies, but I happen to think he "earned" the money, in the sense that is described as below. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/business/dealbook/musk-tesla-compensation-billion.html
  3. This is a tacit admission that Tesla is really a meme stock that depends on Elon’s manic presence not to crater. He basically blackmailed the board and leaned on friends by threatening to go away.
  4. Good post. Regarding the body lean thing, in college it was such a huge asset inside the 10. Go watch his Texas highlights, it’s insane how many touchdowns he had where he absorbed or slips past some kind of contact at around the 5 or 6 yard line and runs through it with just enough momentum to get to the goal line. Guy was always playing downhill. He was the player that got me into recruiting. First HS player to get the cover of Dave Campbell’s I believe. I was a HS freshman at Tyler Lee when he was a senior and we had Derick Farmer in the same class. Of course all the Tyler people (and Aggies) were convinced that Farmer was better. I was already a Texas homer and had endless arguments with people that Ced was on a different level. Came out pretty comfortably on the correct side of that one.
  5. And they won't get taxed on it, to boot!
  6. or our financial markets will look like Argentina's at some point.
  7. Gotta pair too. They are not the most comfortable shoes I’ve ever worn.
  8. So I’m guessing the sequel is “can’t have low jobs reports if you don’t report on it”
  9. 23 years ago we had a pickup game.
  10. That is what Schumacher would have done and with nearly a 300 point lead in the Constructors there is some wiggle room for Oscar.
  11. Look at the pig brain on Brad!
  12. What's in the picture on the right side of that image?
  13. Probably. But you never know with AI. Because It's dumb.
  14. I don't wear a lot of hats and I don't buy a lot of stuff. I have a sweatshirt, a few t shirts, a rain jacket and a burnt orange hat with just the Longhorn on it. I wear the t shirts quite often. Oh, and the bowling shirt my buddy gave me.
  15. Sounds like you don't have an alibi
  16. Hendrix. Yeah, Dylan wrote it, but there’s only one meaningful version of that song. Poseurs like Dave Matthews Band and U2 can get fucked. I’m someone who rolls the dice every now and then.
  17. Swift is the only blonde on my top 5 celebrity crush list. Not usually my type but there’s no denying that level of hot. She can play my huge guitar any time she wants.
  18. That was tough to watch. I looked over at my wife after that and she was very upset. We have 2 daughters and one works at a yogurt shop now, so it hit a bit close to home. I was 11 when it happened and remember the city feeling different afterwards for quite a while.
  19. I think that was the joke
  20. Not a shot, but how can you have 20K posts on Surly and have 1 and only 1 horns hat?
  21. Gillie da Kid has always been unhinged. He's one of those rappers who never made it, but could have possibly made it? I don't know. I think his claim to fame was being a ghostwriter for all the big name rappers of the 00's.
  22. Don't we have a few hundred page topic on the bias of some conservative leaning news sites? I agree there are biases in almost all news organizations. As far as I know, none of them are a topic of what I am posting about and none of them receive federal funding. Surely you are not suggesting that having NPR is necessary to offset conservative leaning news sites? It is not always about simply editorializing or analyzing. You have to look at the guest list for interviews and the topics discussed. Plus, as all humans do, we often fail to see a bias if the coverage supports our own worldview. Quick example, I queried Immigration and NPR. There is actually a link on NPR's website that collates NPR's coverage of immigration. Of the first 15-20 links, all of them were negative towards the current policy and its actions. Fine. Its newsworthy discussion and the negative impacts need to be made public. But not one single article about the positives. Not one. Just throw in one article out of 20 that details the deportation of hardened criminals, rapists, human smugglers etc. When ICE raids a plant and say ten people are rounded up, there likely will be 1 us citizen wrongly swept up, there likely will be 2 cases of immigrants that really should be here that are law abiding and productive and the rest will likely be really horrible people that never should have been here and need to be deported post haste. We absolutely need reporting and transparency on the first two groups. But we equally need transparency and reporting on the bad guys. How were they able to get here? How have they not already been deported or arrested? When you are publicly funded, you need to try to be even handed. Sure they have been bitching since Nixon. You are unwittingly making my argument. The reason nothing could be done previously is that in Nixon's day there were about as many conservative hosts/panels as there were liberal. There was actual political diversity in the editorial positions at NPR. The right could bitch but there were legitimate facts the left could argue. I think it is a bit telling that you ignored the fact that there seem to be almost zero republican editors currently at NPR. That is a staggering fact. It is almost impossible to explain away. On your last point we agree mostly. I completely favor continued funding. I do think there should be some changes but it is foolish to just abolish. I will also argue that it is unlikely the next great breakthrough in children's educational programming will come from a source like PBS. Today, PBS just doesn't have the reach or funding of other sources and the competition is brutal versus the 1960's when there wasn't any competition.
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