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  2. Yet my electric bill this summer has run about 20% higher than last year. Thanks Biden.
  3. No you just take things way too literally sometimes.
  4. So much this. Let me share with you the takeaway from the Charlie Kirk-sponsored view of minorities and DEI: as a minority, no matter what you do, no matter how much you overcome or achieve, it will never, ever, ever be enough. The black pilot of Charlie Kirk's plane could be the most decorated combat pilot in modern history, aced every exam and test for his airline, and demonstrated exceptional judgment at every possible turn. But in Charlie Kirk world, they will ALWAYS come up with some reason to think that he's inferior and doesn't deserve it. All while his dream administration, that Charlie Kirk personally helped gain power in the last election, practices the most naked nepotism, loyalty-test, hire-strictly-from-a-pool-of-your-existing-friends approach that we've seen in modern political history, and that's just fine. Cranky white guy "old boy" network shit, putting merit second, putting "who you know" first? That's cool, that's good. I mean, that's how bidness works, knowwhati'msayin'? Even THINK of suggesting "hey, why don't we send a recruiter to an HBCU, to see if any of those folks, who have never networked with us before because for the past 50 years, we've been an old white guy outfit, might be a good hire?" Well, that's woke DEI and you'll just end up with inferior hires taking a qualified white man's job, because....well, you can just tell. And Enchubben thinks that worldview is NOT racist. White man = likely more qualified. Black man = likely less qualified. Without knowing a single other fact about them, their experience, education, etc., the Enchubbens of the world have ALREADY made that judgment. Charlie Kirk said exactly that, in pretty plain language, several different ways. And Enchubben thinks that not only is that okay, but it's one of the things that makes Charlie SO worthy of admiration and adoration.
  5. Sorry did I mess something up? Sometimes I do that. Maybe have a touch of the 'tism. I've heard it before.
  6. David Harbour too. They have great on-screen chemistry as father/daughter. And he's hilarious.
  7. Asians and Southasians (Indians) are generally not considered to be beneficieries (but rather hurt) by DEI policies and practices. I say generally becaue DEI policies obviously differ on case by case basis, but overwhelmingly do not include them (and likely due to the pervasive and harmful "model minority" myth).
  8. well.
  9. Scipio Tex on UTEP game Wide Receivers/Tight Ends The tight ends got a lot of run. No pun intended. I don’t think any of them added much to the running game and they accounted for two drops. For the season, Texas #1 WR Ryan Wingo has 23 targets with 9 catches for 97 yards. That’s remarkably bad. I can’t name a less efficient SEC #1 target. There are some very bad routes there, yes, but Arch has flat missed an open Wingo about 8-10 times. Not much to write when the WR position totaled 5 catches for 55 yards on 10 targets.
  10. You mean the Marvel actor?
  11. The fact that nepotism, complacency, incompetence, and the seeming indifference to actually doing a great job has infected farming to this degree is...well not too terribly surprising. I think what I found disheartening is the notion that if you do actually really want to do farming utilizing all the latest tech and science you really can't, the barriers to entry are just too high. I don't know how true that is, maybe some farmers here can say something. So these morons who inherited everything are who we have to rely on along with monopolies who haven't updated their infrastructure in 50 years because, well, they don't have to.
  12. He's not autistic but he has a trains roommate
  13. Great video. She didn't say it but I took away that farmers will never vote Democrat so don't waste time courting them. Yes they don't like tariffs but they love fewer EPA regulations and farm workers (particularly migrant) rights. Neither of which Democrats should or will support.
  14. Sydney with a new AR!
  15. Bobby Burton: Adversity
  16. That has nothing at all to do with whether he was a DEI hire or not.
  17. Skill issue. I eliminated every aggy and sooner from my draft board, had the last pick in the 12 team draft, and have the 2nd highest scoring average through 2 weeks despite Xavier Worthy giving me nothing.
  18. Southasians / Indians don't qualify as DEI from what I recall. They are typically very conservative and don't like DEI/affirmative action for this reason.
  19. LTtxfan

    Texas RB Talk

    With Baxter's injury last year, I agree with Scipio Tex that Sark really whiffed in not adding more experience at RB for 2025... Scipio Tex on UTEP game Running Back CJ Baxter went out after his first run of the game. Clark, Gibson and Simon held it down, with each getting their respective time to ply their trade. Clark ran it into the hole more. He didn’t add much at contact. We tried to employ him in the passing game, to mixed results. Gibson runs hard where he’s supposed to and there were no fumbles, but he didn’t push many piles. Simon maximized most of his runs, many of them zone runs, and he was the only Texas running back who consistently broke tackles. All other Texas runners averaged around 1.6 yards after contact. Simon averaged 4.2. When you consider that Simon averaged less than 4 yards per carry, I’ll let you figure out where he experienced average first contact. This room is about what I expected. One of the highest paid rooms in college football, but not remotely elite or even that good. It should have been re-hauled back in January, but now the goal is to see if Simon can help us. We could see a switch back to more zone running. I think we’re flailing around a bit.
  20. Damn shitty news today. Sneakers is one of my faves. So damn good, among so much of his work. RIP to one of the greats
  21. Patton Oswalt's deceased wife turned all female true crime junkies into believing they are making a difference.
  22. Anectodal experience that sort of cuts a line in the middle between what you and enchub are saying: I worked for a Mag 7 in 2018 through the heart of Covid. I was part of hiring a lot during the #MeToo and DEI peak (as it relates to corporate popularity, lots of money was budgeted for DEI programs post-George Floyd youll recall) and there absolutely was a focus on metrics. Specifically, KPI's that make your departments and overall corporate footprint have a better ratio of demographics that skew away from white and indian men. So we were told to score more graciously (and we were operationally incentivized because the standard hiring workflow from req to onboarding was cut in half) and to favor the hiring of what we termed URG's (underrepresented gender) and URM's (underrepresented minorities) over a more "typical" profile. At the time, it actually didn't seem that wild of a practice because the general mood and sentiment of corporate America (and politics) was on board. Cut to today, there is zero chance that any sort of direction like that would be given as DEI seems to be made borderline illegal (if not illegal) by Trump. And it feels almost quaint thinking back to those halycon times.
  23. Well, looks like Butch and Sundance are gonna get a watch tonight. RIP to one of the best to ever do it.
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