All Activity
- Past hour
-
I'm ready to complain about it on the internet. That's about it.
-
Interesting.
-
I don’t disagree at all. I think that across lots of areas but especially education we have succumbed to a kind of cargo cult mentality towards credentials that mistakes the symbol of a thing for the thing itself. We noticed that high school graduates had better outcomes than non-graduates and so we dramatically dropped standards and made it close to impossible not to graduate. A large percentage of high school graduates cannot read at near a “sixth grade level.” Close to half of graduates leave with an “A” average. We noticed that students who got As did better and so we gave out more As. Crept into college, too, and we have oodles of innumerate and barely literate bachelor holders. While high schools grades have risen, standardized test scores have fallen and so schools choose to deemphasize them. Cargo cult. The credentials were merely symbols of possessing a certain amount of ability, knowledge, and discipline. Divorced from that theu hold less and less predictive power for outcomes. Like building an airstrip in the jungle in the belief it will attract airplanes full of valuable goods.
-
2025 Self Gratifying Fantasy Football thread
shadow_operative2.0 replied to Baboontyme's topic in Gambling
Made the final in our old Rangers league. @Anton Chigurh still has to sweat 4 players. -
Re-watched the highlights today. I don’t know why but it’s almost infinitely more satisfying to watch A&M lose than OU.
-
San Antonio Spurs 2025-26 - Release the Kraken
Halohal replied to Mitch Cumsteen's topic in Basketball
All these moves, Ginobli HAS to be behind this... This is fun. -
You could not be more wrong. NIL and the portal are going to create more balance and better teams overall. No school will be able to afford ten five stars anymore in a class.
-
Especially a black man on their campus....Can't be fun lol
-
You and I both clearly feel the same on this, and I also think it's why @Bozo_Casanova is getting accused of being condescending. He is, in my opinion, condescending of a general "if THEY feel that way it's their own fucking problem" response that makes up a good number of the posts in the thread.
-
That's too close to call imo. You could make an argument that he got pushed
-
WTF? Anyone who’s met me IRL (Immamac, Bolverk holla) can truthfully testify under oath that one Gatorubet is not a handsome man. And yet, even my pathetic self convinced 30 or so females to be willing sexual partners when I was a yute. What the hell is going on? After our company Christmas party, I wound up in the French Quarter that, as always, is filled to brim with holiday partiers. There were lots of really attractive younger women roaming around. But I noticed they were all in groups of five or six, and there was never any man with them. It was weird, just a huge number of really attractive women and no men to be seen. They were decked out in their cocktail dresses and wearing their Christmas finery. If I was 30-40 years younger, it would’ve been an amazing target rich environment. Again, what the hell is going on? Edit: having said that, literally hundreds of evidently smart women told me to go fuck myself… Do we have a generation of snowflakes that are so sensitive that after being shut down by some women, they just refused to swing the bat again? Swing. The. Fucking. Bat!!!
-
San Antonio Spurs 2025-26 - Release the Kraken
Halohal replied to Mitch Cumsteen's topic in Basketball
What does the Fox say... -
Whoops, Drake.
-
“Engaging with them and empathizing with their problems.” So, like I said…tell them comforting lies. I can engage with them. But I can’t empathize. I just can’t. But I can lie and act like I do. I’ll engage with them. And I’ll tell them “gosh, that sucks. I’m really sad for you.” And I won’t mean a fucking word of it. Because all I’ll really be doing is boosting and enabling their grievance and contempt for every “other,” who they RRALLY think is beneath them. You fail to grasp that their grievance is NOT that women and minorities are getting more jobs and opportunities. It’s that they’re getting those things…when we all KNOW that really, they are inferior, and white men are the people who REALLY have “merit.” The best way to figure out if someone practices “merit-based” hiring is if all they hire is white males. Anything else? Well, they’re obviously practicing woke DEI and hiring people who don’t deserve to. Stop cutting these whiny fuckers slack. They’re shitty people who are shit who won’t do shit to actually better themselves and yearn to be as shitty as their parents and grandparents instead of bettering themselves or society. Fuck. Them.
-
It’s weird is it not to see an ascending Panthers and Jags at same time? I’m here for it. Lots of new blood fighting for the playoffs or clinching spots and that’s fun for me as a viewer instead of the same old teams.
-
🎶 Do you hear the people sing Singing the songs of angry fans This is the music of the people Who won’t watch that shit again 🎶
-
That one was obvious too, the WR didn't even try to go past the DB, look for a pass or pretend to run a route. You can't run right at a guy and drill into him like that. Ignore the text, here's the replay:
-
2025 Self Gratifying Fantasy Football thread
ChickenSandwich replied to Baboontyme's topic in Gambling
Stafford/Dak poor decision cost ten. Judkins broke a leg and Nico shit the bed. Gonna be close. Need to hit the over tonight. -
Also Jacksonville is fucking good. They've been cooking since the Jakobi trade
-
I’m ready to storm the team facilities to get rid of Caley. When you have a legit shot to make the Super Bowl, it’s criminal to have such an inept fool in charge of the offense. Have to keep the pressure up like the fans do in Philly. They just won a championship and their fans nonstop are calling for the head of their OC on WIP. I don’t hear the same mindset on the radio in Htown unfortunately.
Football ... Basketball ... Baseball ... Other Sports ... Futbol ... 🤫995🤫 ... Gambling ... Movies & TV ... Music ... Hobbies ... Lulz ... Food & Travel ... Daily Texan ... Business and Markets ... Cloak Room ... Help ... For Sale ... Board Discussion ... Subscribe!... Donate!... COOKIE MONSTER!