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  2. I can't be upset that we were buyers, because we really didn't lose anything of consequence, with the very real chance we didn't add anything of consequence either.
  3. With a healthy DJL they absolutely should be. Their schedule is brutal however.
  4. Feel for you, @troph. Every parent's story is sorta different, sorta the same. What burns me is my daughter's distance, unwillingness to talk, and a substantial amount of disrespectful expression. Still, she's gone through a breakup that puts everything out of whack. We're trying to get her to move on from that -- a great young man, but from where I sit probably not right for her long-term and the breakup probably came at a fortuitous time (hell, no, haven't said that to her). She needs to think about growing up and finding her own place in the world that's not shaped too much by him. It tell myself that she acts toward me as she does because she's comfortable enough to, so I'll put up with that behavior to a certain extent. At the same time, we need her to focus on opportunities she could let slip away if she doesn't take advantage of them in the next 3-4 crucial months. That's why all these different experiences people share on Surly become so valuable. Lots of good advice worth considering. Even in his book, Seligson briefly touches on admissions officers' dealings with how young adults present their failures and mentions the value of parents giving kids safe places to fail. Sometimes that's all we can do, I think. I think this may be hardest for me to get through. As a professional communicator, I've joked with my daughter about how her test scores hurt me ... lower on writing and reading, high on math and science. She's headstrong, and the one time she asked for help on a school paper, I was absolutely none because I first tried to show that the writing style she used was unnecessarily difficult to understand and not straightforward. She answered, truthfully, that it was what her teacher wanted. Even knowing that, I couldn't get her to consider simple ways to mitigate that and she shut down. In the end it's probably fine -- she did great in the class, and for college apps, her grades/test scores and some possibilities as an athlete will probably be the main drivers. At least I hope. I'm not sure I've got the energy to help with her essays, as the determination she shows as an athlete works just as strongly with avoidance of dad talk.
  5. Daly and Buscemi, holy crap.
  6. That is definitely it, evidence by Maalik finishing 71st in QBR, 13 turnovers in 12 games, and the high demand for him in the portal
  7. His proportions are not just incorrect. They reveal the foundational flaw and evil in modern conservative thought: their "feelings" about an issue absolutely trump and void any and all facts. Sheeeit posits that out of 10 people arrested: 10% will be wrongly arrested (that number is perhaps high, but genuinely unknown -- the percentage of genuinely legal residents arrested (green cards, actual citizens) remains tough to sort out at present) 20% will be ordinary, otherwise law-abiding and productive people just living their lives and working (this percentage is the OPPOSITE of the actual ratio)...and 70% will be "really horrible people" (again, a percentage that is even MORE the OPPOSITE of what has been seen thus far -- around 8% of people arrested have some sort of serious criminal activity on their record) THEN, he uses HIS bias of the facts as HE believes them to assail NPR for being counter-factual in its bias. No, I'm sorry, I know facts hurt conservatives' feelings, but they're still facts. The reason that all objective journalism on this planet is painting a shittastic picture of the actions of this admin is because....those actions are genuinely shittastic. Even outfits that are seen as generally center-right (like the Economist) tell the identical tale. Why? Because....the facts are the facts. I listen to NPR in the morning. They REGULARLY invite conservative officials and commentators on to discuss the issues....and those people REGULARLY state outlandish, counter-factual bullshit. I mean, obvious and insane counter-factual bullshit. And when the host politely prods "but how to you respond to the analysis that shows that only 8% of the people arrested have a serious criminal record," they just lie some fucking more. And NPR gets painted as "liberal biased" because it says "ummm....what you're saying does not match up to the known data, do you have different data you can share?" There is no honest discussion with people whose entire worldview is based on the lie that their feelings are superior to all objective facts. Those people are called "authoritarians," and they are the enemy of any functioning nation state.
  8. Cross posting so the liberal Zionists that still post in this forum can stick their fingers in their ears and ignore it: Netanyahu Ministers Vote to Dismiss Israeli Attorney General, Pending Top Court Ruling - Israel News - Haaretz.com
  9. Proof NASA time travel exists.
  10. This is just straight up nakedly autocratic conduct. This man should be rotting in prison for the rest of his life (or worse), not the PM of our chief Middle East ally. Netanyahu Ministers Vote to Dismiss Israeli Attorney General, Pending Top Court Ruling - Israel News - Haaretz.com Any Bibi defenders have an answer for this? @statsman? @Hitch? What you got?
  11. Agree with a lot of this but you are over simplifying and ignoring context. No serious person ever bitches about reporting of increased temps in the Gulf of Maine. Some may question the methodology of the temp data or question if the data is raw or smoothed, but most every serious person will agree with the findings to some degree. It is the opinion of what caused the increase or what that means for the future that is debatable. I remember the very old thread by MOP (I think) talking about the prediction of an ice free arctic. There was wide spread coverage of the issue. The implications were catastrophic. Now, a few decades later, Arctic ice extent is within a few percentage points of its mean and I haven't seen a show or read an article about arctic sea ice in years. My guess is that if someone did simply report that "for 2024 the arctic sea ice extent was within 5% of the historical average of testing" (which is true) that it would be met with conservative, climate denying slant/bias. Your last point is just too stupid. There is so much more information available today than in any point in the world's history. To suggest an "authoritarian" government can gut these entities is just ridiculous. The numbers are provided to everyone. The government has no control of the numbers or their dissemination. All of the data collected gets shared with the entire freaking world. The govt may get a first look but all the info gets out. If Trump decided tomorrow to completely eliminate the BLS, all of the information that the BLS publishes will still be available. Hell, AI could analyze payroll data of virtually every company in the world in almost real time and give us a much better picture of what is going on.
  12. Must be why those dems sent themselves home to prevent a vote on the release.
  13. I hope so. Her voice as governor would be amplified. The whole state would get to see her lunacy up close and every day. Let's just burn this whole country to the ground and televise it all.
  14. thanks, fellas. yeah jimmy, the fmaj to amaj was a "unusual" but i loved the way it sounded back and forth and how unsettling it was. was just playing it back and forth on the piano on a rainy day and i was doing descending arps trying to find something and the a major over the f sounded rather pretty but obvious...and i wasn't going for that. i then did the e-c#-right to c over the inverted f of the main melodic motif and was immediately struck with the unsettling feel (i knew i was on to something when my wife yelled from the other room "ugh, don't play that again"). i felt like it would work well as a thematic tune for a psych thriller type show...something like a "severance." the other thing about the constant back and forth between the fmaj and amaj was what it did to the g and dmin chords. it made them feel so incredibly resolving in a cinematic way. i thought of this as a scoring "suite" off which different themes could be potentially developed for a movie/show for different characters/settings/etc... it is part of why the chords are screaming for a Bb min as part of the resolution but i don't give in...saving that for the prestige on some twist if you will. anyway, just a bit of fun. as a side note, i am doing a masterclass with alan meyerson on mixing in dolby atmos/immersive in november and i am thinking this would be a fun track to do as my project. i struggled with mixing it and am still not satisfied with how cluttered it feels in the heavy parts in the middle. feels like a good candidate for exploring the spatial audio elements to get the soundstage clarified on it.
  15. You would think they would after all of the times people have been gagging and coughing their asses off from smoke and fumes over the years on the show.
  16. That’s good because if she was quite a bit younger than Taylor that would present a problem.
  17. Not one band camp joke? This site is getting soft
  18. Ole Miss, Tenneessee, aggy, and Florida have no business being ranked. It is clearly the SEC effect.
  19. Visionary genius here posting AI boobs.
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