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Immense talent and lifelong respect for the franchise? Yes, please.
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You think that’s more impressive than sending invisible bombers over a country with severely degraded air defenses?
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To be clear, I agree with your point. I’m not sure why that was in question.
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Never forget:
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Sharpie data is not, however
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don't give up your unprotected pick next year when you are going to suck shit through a straw
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Satellite data is woke.
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Alright Hunter there was your 1
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Spurs 2025 Off Season Thread - Popping Off
Texas Flood replied to Mitch Cumsteen's topic in Basketball
This. Get a big like Lopez or Kornet and this team can make the playoffs -
He also "defends" his firings as being what it takes to become a legit head coach. I'm not sure I agree, but I like the subtle snark.
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Covid/Influenza/Black Death. 2024 and beyond
HenryJames replied to Parliament's topic in Daily Texan
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Judd Stone, former TX Solicitor General, is Freak Nasty
HRSchenker replied to crash_davis's topic in Daily Texan
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Last dude wants to be mayor to get a free trip to Israel apparently
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You're not understanding what the Japanese mindset was. Through a non-Japanese lens if you see you've lost you cut your losses and surrender. Through the Japanese lens if you've lost the fight you don't surrender, you keep fighting until you die. What's more they don't even define winning and losing the same way everyone else does - they might lose the fight but if they die honorably it's a victory. It's the bushido way. They were never going to let the Emperor, a living god, be toppled. The Emperor was never going to surrender because he saw they had lost the fight. He, and the Japanese people, needed something extraordinary to change their minds about 1.) what losing IS and 2.) what reaction they should have to it.
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Here's the same author published on his local news channel's site https://www.local10.com/weather/hurricane/2025/06/26/critical-hurricane-forecast-tool-abruptly-terminated/ The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program and its constellation of three weather satellites provide roughly half of all microwave satellite scans to forecasters. Those go dark beginning next Monday. “Their loss is a big deal,” says retired National Hurricane Center branch chief James Franklin, who oversaw all NHC hurricane forecasters until his retirement in 2017. “Without this imagery, there will be increased risk of a ‘sunrise surprise,’ the realization from first-light images that a system had become much better organized overnight, but it wasn’t recognized because structural details are so hard to discern from [infrared satellite].” Microwave data are also used to help “fix” or position the center of storms, a task not always easily or accurately accomplished using visible or enhanced satellite pictures. As the butterfly effect demonstrates, small errors in the initial positioning of a storm can lead to outsized forecast errors in four or five days. “For weaker systems, [it’s] increased initial position error (in the tens of miles) that will cascade into poorer track forecasts,” warns Franklin. Microwave data such as those from the DoD Special Sensor Microwave Imager Sounder are essential to hurricane forecasts, not a nice-to-have. They’re used in a variety of critical applications, including estimating hurricane intensity through AI-driven neural networks like the Deep Multispectral INtensity of TCs estimator or DMINT. In the absence of hurricane hunters, DMINT has been shown to be one of the most crucial tools in a hurricane forecaster’s arsenal for estimating storm intensity, largely because of the microwave data it utilizes. Though other microwave data will still be available to forecasters, the DoD weather satellites comprise half of all microwave instruments, which means data availability will be sliced in half, greatly increasing the odds of missing rapid intensification episodes, underestimating intensity, or misplacing the storm and degrading forecast accuracy. While the Department of Defense did successfully launched another weather satellite known as the Weather System Follow-on Microwave (WSF-M) in April 2024, that data isn’t currently available to forecasters and it’s not clear if or when data access will be permitted. It's gonna be a real fuckin scary hurricane season flying blind. Thank goodness the president has a sterling history with disaster recovery and response.
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Denis is the fuckin man.
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One thing I liked is him being grounded and not acting like he is something special. There was no need to mention the USC's 4th and 2 call but he owned that mistake and didn't spin it as anything else. Nobody asked him about him being jobless but he has mentioned it multiple times, and those of us who have gone through layoffs know how uncomfortable/embarrassing it is. He could act as a big shot UT head coach but he repeats that he is not ever going to take this job for granted. All these reveal more about character than the platitudes from "personality growth" guru TED talks. This doesn't mean that he is perfect but he is climbing the right mountain, occasional slips notwithstanding.
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