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  2. Yes, yes it is. Land of the free, home of the petty shithead that's scared of it's own shadow.
  3. Perfect! I love you guys. https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/the-many-plurals-of-octopus-octopi-octopuses-octopodes
  4. Yeah, I mean this is really good news!
  5. Guys, where the fuck have I ever given the impression that I don't think Dems should talk at all about material issues? I have been incredibly consistent on this very simple point for a long time now: Dems need to stop running and engage in the culture war. Bozo's way works, but that's not the only way. There are a thousand different ways to do it depending on the issue, context, and candidates involved. Yet every time I push back on "Dems need to run away harder from the culture war!" with this point, people who agree with me go "NO THAT'S COMPLETELY WRONG!" Our fundamental perception of what the party even is and does and has been doing is so completely broken.
  6. Watching below film, Mosley is running some routes that Gunnar Helm ran. Great seeing him line up in the backfield... 🤘
  7. Trump's trade policies might push Iceland into joining the EU. Could Iceland Join The EU? Reykjavik Eyes Accession Talks As Security, Trade Tensions Mount When predicting which country would be the next to join the European Union, the smart money seems to be on Montenegro given that it has been negotiating for years and has advanced the furthest of all candidates. Others point to Albania, which is currently making great strides toward Brussels as the next member. There are also some who think that Moldova -- a reform-oriented and ambitious country in the bloc’s eastern neighborhood -- stands a decent chance of becoming EU member state number 28 in the coming year. But the right answer may actually be Iceland. The Trump administration's overtures to annex the Danish territory of Greenland and the prospect of a trade war between its security provider, the United States, and its biggest trading partner, the European Union, have created unease on the North Atlantic island. The current Icelandic government, which came to power last year, has announced that a referendum will be held before 2027 on resuming accession talks with Brussels. Polls suggest a majority would support restarting talks. The country has been here before. It was badly hit by the 2008 global financial crisis, when three of its major banks collapsed. EU membership -- and especially joining the eurozone -- was seen as a way out of the crisis, and negotiations with the bloc began in 2010. Talks were suspended three years later by a newly elected right-wing government. By then, the eurozone was itself engulfed in the same financial crisis, so joining the club and adopting its ailing common currency was no longer seen as a panacea. In those three years of accession talks, Reykjavik opened most of the 33 accession chapters and closed 11. By comparison, the current EU accession frontrunner, Montenegro, has managed to close a mere seven chapters in more than a decade of talks. 'A Sovereign Decision' It’s not for nothing that EU officials believe that Iceland could wrap up the entire process in a couple of years if it was to resume its application -- which according to the European Commission still remains valid. It helps, of course, that the country is part of the European Economic Area (EEA), which means that it -- together with other EEA members Norway and Liechtenstein -- is already applying the EU’s internal market rules. When European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen visited the island last week, she was quick to point out that the issue of future EU membership is “a sovereign decision that the people take here. So, it’s not a topic for me to comment on.” But, she added, “Iceland is familiar and integrated into the single market, we share values, we know each other very well, we are like-minded -- all this is an asset.” Speaking under the condition of anonymity, a European diplomat familiar with the topic was even more forthright. “It would be good if a Western European country would join the EU, especially after Brexit,” they said. “It would show that the club truly is attractive.” Integration would prove seamless, given that Iceland is richer than the EU average and -- with a population of 300,000 -- would be the smallest member state if it joined. While Brussels officially is trying to stay out of the Icelandic debate on membership, it is quietly doing everything to edge it closer. During her visit, von der Leyen promised a trade review to potentially upgrade the EEA agreement. She also struck a deal to protect critical infrastructure that is essential for Iceland, such as subsea cables, and started negotiations on a new security and defense partnership agreement, which would allow closer cooperation on cyber and hybrid threats. The partnership, expected to be ready by year’s end, is especially important for Iceland, which is acutely aware of the need for security cooperation, particularly as both Russia and China are becoming more active in the Arctic region.
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  9. My kids have been through with baseball for years now and maybe I'm misunderstanding, but are you saying the best 12u (and younger for that matter) talent is playing Little League with no leads etc rather than Perfect Game or whatever the most prominent travel ball governing body is?
  10. I've given up trying to suss out the ins and outs of NIL going forward. Any links to articles/posts that might lay out the current implications of the House settlement, the POTUS exec order, 3rd parties, etc. would be appreciated.
  11. And it still wasn't enough to sate Putin's appetite to erase Ukraine. https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/trump-reportedly-offered-to-hand-crimea-and-1753644166.html Austria's Foreign Minister Beate Meinl-Reisinger said in an interview with Die Welt that Trump was ready to "hand over" Crimea and parts of eastern Ukraine to Russian President Vladimir Putin. But Putin chose to keep fighting. The Minister said the situation is clear: Ukraine wants peace, while Russia does not. Putin would have already started negotiations to end the war if he were truly interested in peace. She said Trump had effectively offered Putin Crimea and several eastern regions of Ukraine, and even ruled out Ukraine's NATO membership. Yet, Putin chose to continue his war of destruction against Ukraine. Meinl-Reisinger also rejected claims that Russia holds an advantage on the battlefield. She reminded that the Kremlin is suffering massive losses in Ukraine, and Putin won't be able to ignore this forever. The Minister said that coffins will continue to pile up in Russia, and combined with the country's worsening economic crisis, it is becoming harder for the Kremlin to sustain the war. According to her, Putin realizes he is running out of time, which is why he is escalating the war with such brutal intensity.
  12. We got a nice little shower in Driftwood in the late afternoon yesterday. 10 min of really hard rain followed by about 10min of light rain. It immediately cooled everything off.
  13. I'll tell you what legitimately works - start talking about how rural Texas is dying because of one-party rule. This is completely wrong. Democrats shouldn't stop working on or talking about social issues. But talking to the majority about things that have nothing to do with their daily struggles is bet best confusing, but mostly comes off as arrogant and elitist, which it usually is. It conveys that the people addressing them are immune or not impacted with those struggles, which in this case they often are. Here's how to talk about social issues in a way that works: Talk to the majority about how and why they are getting fucked over. And then when the brain washed Republicans start talking about drag queens, you get to say "what is your problem? Drag queens didn't close the hospital and drag queens didn't say no to giving you cheaper health insurance. You don't know a single drag queen, but I bet you could use lower property taxes. And unless you change the way you vote, you won't ever get them."
  14. The Republican Party = Pedophile Party The Republican Party = The party who is okay with, and celebrates, giving a child sex trafficker a pardon Dems have their messaging, will they use it?
  15. Discussion of these idiots and douchebags leaving town, should actually be on the "great things about Austin" thread that you started.
  16. I sent an email this morning just to see what they would say about it, here is their response:
  17. He didn’t link it, so maybe Miriam is a friend of his.
  18. The stretch ahead from 7/28 to 8/13 is historically the hottest period of the year in Texas, based on daily average high temperature. Gonna be hot and muggy out there for quite while, but still not seeing any triple digits in the forecast. Interestingly, even though it seems like it's been a rather mild Summer this year, the guys on SCW were talking the other day about how 2025 will end up as the 7th hottest summer of the last ~150 years in Houston based on daily average temperature. This is because although daytime highs have not been extreme, we're not really cooling off much at nights. Can definitely confirm this was the case last night, when I went outside to grab a drink out of the patio fridge around 10 pm and I'm sure the heat index had to still be above 90.
  19. I finally read the article and, man, I hope that whole crew all talks to each other and collectively agrees to F off to somewhere else. I mean, the list of names tells me I am very supportive of them leaving including some D-bag who calls himself Lucky Blue Smith. Oh... and how I know Tim Dillon does not know a thing about Austin, "'It's not the live music capital of America. It's three heroin addicts busking with guitars. There's zero talent here in any capacity,' he raged." What a total moron.
  20. Are you saying you will refuse to vote if Dems say actually we need to pass a new voting rights act?
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