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Thing$ $till not going well for Joe Rogan, I $ee.
4th&Five replied to Parliament's topic in Cloak Room
he doesn't know the difference between an elevator and an escelator either. -
2025 Self Gratifying Fantasy Football thread
ChickenSandwich replied to Baboontyme's topic in Gambling
lost by .2 in dynasty (was down 5 non ppr) Up 6 in league 2 against Moore, lost by 1 point. Moore was able to thread the needle to clinch two losses for me but the last play of the week was a dick punch -
I just did a month in Bali in July. high season. I can offer recs if needed. I loved it there, but its certainly also challenging. Parts are very touristy and getting around is not easy. I mean long distance getting around. Short distance I would take a grab scooter. Do you know which part of Bali? What type of travel i.e. resort, airbnb or guesthouse, and beach or party or culture?
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Well Written Content OU Football 2025 - League Average & Loving It
Scholz replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Slacks replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
and then use .01% of it to buy his farm out of BK. -
Austin is too dangerous.
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Being the biggest asshole on a site by and for assholes is an accomplishment.
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Since you brought up Dwight, one could easily add I Sang Dixie and Buenas Noches From a Lonely Room.
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This is a wicked act of an evil empire bent on conquest by annihilation. I will never support another penny going to Israel for any reason. I would use the threat of US military intervention to immediately stop this. And I would follow through. We've got a lot of shame and culpability to balance out for supporting the campaign so far. Fuck Israel. Not Jewish people. Israel. Fuck the nation of Israel. There are Jewish dissenters within that wannabe empire. I've always thought that Mossad did a lot of dirty shit for us to give us (and the UK, evidently) deniability. Blackmail is the only leverage that I can imagine Israel having.
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OU Football 2025 - League Average & Loving It
Frank Drebin replied to closetojumping's topic in Football
I am glad we are a month away. I think Texas will be a lot better in a month. I don't think, and maybe it is wishcasting, that OU will be. They lack depth. And their meathead coach is going to get players hurt the way he runs practices. -
Oregon barely beat Idaho last year.
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They sure were hyping this game Sun night on NBC. I'm sure it will go fine for aggy, facing a top 10 team on the road who's hungry and licking their wounds from a tough 3-point loss.
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What new UT gear are you looking to buy this year?
SydneyCarton replied to GhostOfTomJoad's topic in Football
Based on the color of those blue jeans maybe 1984. -
So, to clarify, your stance is that transgender people don't exist?
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Well, duh!! Take it to where it belongs.
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We used to be a proper nation.
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Sbbruin started following NFL Fans going goon not going away
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Read the syllabus. The class is not to teach people about a particular piece of kiddie lit. It's about teaching the concept and application of kiddie lit/YA lit, INCLUDING its themes, authors, audiences, etc. And it EXPRESSLY said it would explore "conceptions of . . . gender." Saying that the prof was fired because discussing conceptions of gender was not in the syllabus is a flat-out lie. The prof was punished for daring to teach the perspective of more than two genders. Period. That was it, that was the reason.
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another big mistake. went all in on a race car drive line and transmission/transaxle company for the hobby enthusiast crowd just before the financial crisis. transmissions, transaxles, gears, axles, differentials, CV joints, suspension related parts, etc. lots of super freaking cool shit actually. race cars like this (formula atlantic and below that sprites and then all sorts of cars inbetween, some late model formula ford, all SCCA classes, etc... Relates to my choice not to transfer to Dubai with a AMLAW top 15 firm at the time. jesus fucking christ we went all in, then went all in again on a manufacturing company, moved it from SF to Austin, ballsy move and lost EVERYTHING when the financial crisis hit. only reason we didn't declare bankruptcy was because the lawyers were too busy to take us I couldn't get any traction. ended up with a few equity deals right after that that allowed us to dig out of our mess but holy mother of god 2008 - 2014 was unbelievably difficult. but success and failure is not a straight line, it's not linear, and our bounce back was quick from 2015 once I had the guaranty settlement amount paid off and started cashing in on what I had learned. Never go all in, not in vegas, not with a bank, not with your fortunes, maybe with a girl (phrasing I get it) but even then, consequences and risks abound.
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Why is the younger generation so intolerant?
Brian Fantana replied to hornian's topic in Daily Texan
In all seriousness, I think people often incorrectly assume they're being "cancelled" (which again, is not a real thing) when someone yells at them for saying/doing something stupid or shitty. If you're expressing a viewpoint that a lot of people find abhorrent, getting yelled at and being called a fucking idiot, etc, is not getting cancelled. If you can't handle your half-baked thoughts being challenged...I don't know maybe either shut the fuck up or learn to support your arguments like an adult. Or maybe engage in a little introspection and/or critical thought before you open your mouth in a public space. -
The Oline just pisses me off. Several years in the system guys and they can't fucking bully Dlinemen 40 lbs lighter. Would tOSU/Oregon struggle against SJSU dline?
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Thing$ $till not going well for Joe Rogan, I $ee.
Mittens replied to Parliament's topic in Cloak Room
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Would have been worth a lot of internet points. You regret not doing it, don't you?
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The class is Children’s Literature. Aka, Kiddie Lit. The class is not biology, political current events, or social studies, or some other course that is meant to debate men/women or social topics. It’s kids books. No where in that article does is say, “fired for not forcing a professor to toe the line and teach that LGBT people exist.” No one anywhere has said lesbians don’t exist.
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Bingo as to the narcissism. My wife and I called it "I am the only person in the world" energy, our kids corrected us and said it's "I am the main character" energy. In any case, it's toxic individualism that is not just at the expense of community/any common good, it's directly opposed to it. That is, if something is good for us collectively, it MUST be bad, and MUST be opposed, because that certainly means it's not the best thing for ME, individually. And I am - literally - the only person who matters. The death of the commonwealth, people (leaders, like Elon) declaring that "empathy" is poison, etc. It's fucking killing us. A society of 340 million people, each of whom is vastly more important than everyone else, at the expense of everyone else, is a recipe for collapse. We need a healthy dose of "dude....just don't be a dick." Instead, we celebrate maximum dickishness as the only true measure of whether you're doing good/right. Oh, and the aggy President's statement on why the dean and prof were dismissed is a flat-out lie. He said that it was because the prof was going to stick with teaching something that "wasn't in the syllabus." Yet the syllabus expressly referenced examining concepts of "justice, power, gender": In other words, the pretext -- prof addressed a concept that was not disclosed in the syllabus, and thus "broke his contract with the students" is a lie. The action taken was not because the syllabus was inaccurate. It was because the US DOJ and other very political entities did not like the subject matter. That's chilling as fuck. But, it's the new normal.
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@closetojumping Bobby The issues facing college sports are so vast and so varied, it’s hard for anyone to truly grasp each aspect and the interplay between all of them. Yet no person is trying to alter its future (or at least guide it) more than Cody Campbell, the chairman of the Texas Tech board of regents. For those unaware, Campbell is a native Texan who played football for Mike Leach at Tech and then entered the professional world as an oil and gas man, eventually becoming a billionaire several times over. I spoke to Campbell, who has been running national TV advertisements for two weeks opposing the Score Act during college football games, yesterday evening. At the crux of Campbell’s argument are several vital suppositions: 1. College sports is a public trust. The people (you and I, and every other fan out there) own the assets since most of the universities are taxpayer funded or state-owned. Sure, there are private schools like Harvard, SMU or Rice sprinkled in. But Texans effectively own UT, A&M, Tech, etc. In fact, most of college football nation-wide is comprised of large state universities. For example, 15 of the 16 schools in the SEC are public entities. So as owners of these universities, the public’s interest should come first. That’s important because it deals with us - every single one of us - being stewards of the opportunities for future generations of students, whether that’s football, rowing, basketball, softball, baseball, volleyball, etc. 2. Campbell believes the current system is financially unsustainable for way too many colleges. Most schools rely on football and basketball to prop up revenue for the rest of their athletic department. But if some schools can no longer compete at the highest level in those two sports, their revenue will dwindle. The concern is that Olympic sports will be cut either at the outset or eventually in a futile attempt to fund the revenue-makers. The hardships, according to Campbell, are creating what amounts to a financial death spiral for college sports as we know it. 3. Players deserve a real seat at the table. The current involvement of student athletes in NCAA committees is both minimal and largely performative. If there are two players and 10 beauracrats on a committee, who is anyone really listening to? ** So what is Campbell actually proposing? First, he’s trying to tackle the financial issue. Campbell believes that TV and media rights holders are getting a steal. College football is by all accounts the second most popular sport in America behind only the NFL. Yet college sports media rights (all sports, not just football) are sold for less than half of what the fourth most popular sport (the NBA) receives. According to Campbell, college sports receives approximately $5bn per year in media rights agreements from its various partners. The NBA, a less popular sport, by contrast is in the $10bn range. How does that occur? Market segmentation. College football rights are sold in piecemeal fashion. The SEC does its own deal with ESPN. The Big 10, the Big 12, etc., all do the same. Campbell believes, and he says consultants back these claims, if college football pooled its rights together, instead of working separately, that there would effectively be an additional $7bn in financial value created annually (or $70bn over a 10-year time frame). College sports would go from making $5bn a year to $12bn, thus being justly paid for being the second most popular sport. And that extra cash could be used to not only keep giving opportunities to all sports at all levels, it could also pay athletes their fair share of NIL. On the surface, that sounds like a financial windfall, and a healthy plan for all. But some, like the SEC and Big 10, likely think they would be carrying too much of the weight of other conferences. Why should Texas or Ohio State prop up Fresno State? Well, Campbell is not naive. He doesn’t think all parties should be treated the same in every single aspect. He said obviously some schools or conferences might share disproportionately in the additional money that media pooling would provide. And that’s where the negotiating would and should begin in Campbell’s mind. Surely, the Big 12 will ask for more money than the SEC thinks the Big 12 deserves. And vice versa. Just like the conferences have jockeyed for guaranteed slots in an expanded college football playoff. Campbell seems to welcome the negotiation on those topics. But he can’t do that unless (or until) the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961 is repealed or amended. ** Outside of the financial value brought about by the pooling of media rights, Campbell also believes there are other benefits to be gained by a repealing of the broadcast act. He thinks college football could then exert more control over the future of the game rather than ceding too much of that to the TV networks. The NFL is seen as a forward-thinking league who controls its media partners whereas college football is largely seen as a reactive one where the networks define the sport. In college football, the tail wags the dog way too often. Things such as times of games, match-ups, etc., could be easily altered. For example, should Texas really be playing a 2:30 game at home in late August just because TV execs say so? ** Campbell believes financial change is just one part of the long-term solution to college sports. He believes there should be a parallel push for a new governing body other than the NCAA. The NCAA is “painfully beauracratic”, he says. For example, he says they recently reduced the number of subcommittees to rule on an issue from roughly 90 to down to 30. Thirty subcommittees? Good luck getting everyone on board in a timely manner. No wonder it took the NCAA 3+ years and millions of dollars to deal with something as clear cut as the Michigan sign-stealing scandal. As part of a new governance, there should be true athlete representation and negotiation. That representation would cover everything from salary cap, to bargaining rights, scholarship minimums for all sports, and everything in between. ** Campbell’s argument is sound and well thought out. But it is concerning to the two major players in college football - the SEC and Big 10. Both of those leagues would likely have to cede some of their control over league members and their ability to negotiate their own TV deals to a pooled-party. Despite the potential financial windfall, the loss of control (or the threat of it) may be a bridge too far for the SEC or Big 10. So that is why college sports is stuck. College football is a great sport but it’s unable to effectively define its own future because too many folks want to protect their piece of the pie. ** Solutions must be negotiated. Here’s a potential financial solution: If the pooling of money could create an additional $7bn in revenue, why not apportion the additional revenue on the same pro rata basis as current TV networks do? Would that work? Is that enough to keep not just the football team afloat but also the volleyball team at Fresno State fully funded? Is that enough to make NIL legitimate at Texas, Ohio State and Texas Tech in football and basketball? I don’t know. But at least it’s a starting point for a discussion. Whatever rout this takes, we know that rules need to be changed. And convention needs to be challenged. Some smart folks need to get in a room and figure it out, not just keep kicking the can down the road. ** To be clear, I’m not taking sides with Campbell, the SEC or the Big 10 here. I simply want what’s best for college sports for the long term. And what is that in my mind? Not reducing opportunities for students across the country, increasing athlete representation, and exerting control over networks in the interest of what is best for the game and the universities. The goals sound so simple. How do we get there is the issue. ** Thanks to Cody Campbell for his willingness to discuss this topic.
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