Jump to content

All Activity

This stream auto-updates

  1. Past hour
  2. Oh, Good Lord, the record book can't get rid of that era quick enough. So glad Rai's DQ was overturned. That was some grade A bullshit.
  3. We need to take a page from Turkey's book. They live in a rough neighborhood. They pushed back on Russia, and Russia didn't do shit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Russian_Sukhoi_Su-24_shootdown
  4. A reminder to Estonia, which HATES Russia: every MIG you shoot down is one that can't be used in combat in Ukraine.
  5. Escalate to deescalate. Russia not happy with new sanctions. Won’t work. Poor Russia.
  6. ⚾️ Immaculate Grid 901 9/9: Rarity: 92 IMMACULATE! 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 ➡️ See my grid: https://immaculategrid.com/share/JyX0xQc
  7. Or maybe it's STFU and let us craft the narrative and we'll drop the death penalty charge, or cut you some even better deal. I would not put anything past this ridiculous administration.
  8. Cuban's rebuttal trying to run cover for Ballmer. Amazing to me that he thinks they can run with the "only Joel Sandberg knows why he did this deal, you have to ask him!" as the argument against it being blatant cap circumvention.
  9. Well, I stand corrected.
  10. That's the most positive Brisket post I have read in about 10 years.
  11. Wonder if we may get Littleton at CB and Guilbeau back to star. The few long passes completed against the defense this year have been on Guilbeau and I'm afraid come conference play that's where offenses are going to attack in the passing game.
  12. You can't afford them if I gave them to you.
  13. aziz’s voice is somehow higher than it was when he was on parks.
  14. So, an interesting new trend: https://www.kvue.com/article/news/nation-world/new-poll-republicans-sour-on-path-for-us/507-8b3ce73e-357a-4ae5-9854-9147855b20d9?tbref=hp I'll highlight the point that I find a bit interesting. I find the shift really interesting, and the potential reason for it REALLY interesting. We have a thread on here referring to the GOP as a "Trumpist death cult." And there's something to that. There is a strong thread of nihilism running through the movement; it's a "blow it all up," "inflict maximum pain on the other" kind of movement. They're posing for smiling pictures at the "Alligator Alcatraz" sign, we all know that "the cruelty is the point," that sort of thing. And, it's easy to fall into that worldview when you see yourself as The Main Character. These are things you/your side DOES, they are NOT things that are done to you. But the problem with "blowing it all up" (economy, education, all institutions, etc.), is that you live in the thing that you are blowing up. So when that bomb of chaos that you've been cheering on blows up, you end up looking like this: And a parallel problem is with the cruelty, and the casually inflammatory attacks on "the other" (invaders, vermin, democrats are terrorists who must be eliminated), etc. is that it lights a fuse of violence. Those of us NOT in MAGA land have seen it and sounded the alarm about it for years, particularly after signature events done in furtherance of the cause: El Paso, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Colorado Springs, the Hortmans, and on and on. But not only does MAGA not care, they actually liked it. Because functionally, all of the political violence was taking out "the other" or their enemies. Why should they mind, the people they hate are getting what they deserve! But again....the "political violence" bomb is NOT a carefully controlled explosion. It is grenades repeatedly tossed into society as a whole. And, eventually, the shrapnel from those grenades blows back on the people cheering them on. Create an atmosphere that incites increasing political violence? Well, they're fine with it.....so long as only "the other/the enemy" is the victim. But....when the storm of violence comes to them, and one of their own....well, that changes things. I am not taking the position that Charlie Kirk's murder was a good thing. Not at all. I have never, ever wanted our country to descend into political violence -- FFS, I've spent a decade being a cassandra about "fucking stop it, people, because this is the INEVITABLE outcome of where we're headed!" I didn't want El Paso to happen, I didn't want Charlie Kirk's murder to happen. None of it. Instead, what I'm observing is that my observation and warning that "this ends in bloodshed" includes a footnote of "and you can't perfectly control where and how it goes, and it WILL get messy." And perhaps what the polling above is showing that once the fantasy world that some MAGAs have constructed -- where they can spew rage, hate, and anger, inciting and inflicting pain and violence willy-nilly -- turns into reality, which is messy, ugly, and involves bloodshed and death....some of them may lose their stomach for it. It's all fun and games when we get to hate brown people and laugh about them being shackled, and not care (or only care in the most cursory of fashions) when they get slaughtered in a Wal-Mart because hey, they're invaders. It's quite different when you realize that the beast of "stochastic terrorist violence" ultimately turns on you and yours, and can't be controlled, and that beast causes some awful, messy shit, in a society that you really, really want to be clean and pretty and well-functioning. The ultimate lesson being that if you think society is too messy and chaotic, the solution isn't to inject hyper-chaos into the system; it's to do the long, slow, and hard work of cleaning up the mess and chaos. MAYBE some of these people are seeing that, across the board, "make everything more chaotic" is both counterproductive as a whole, and causes harm and pain to the very people who have cheered it on. I dunno. Hoping that a group of people realize that "cause pain and blow everything up" is a terrible idea because we all live here together is an act of pure hopefulness, which y'all know ain't my bag. But, I'm observing that COULD be part of what's reflected in this polling. Or fuck, I dunno, the guy at the end asks the right question: Is Kirk the straw that breaks the camel's back or sets off a powder keg? Thus far, the evidence we're seeing is that it set off a powder keg (one that MAGA has long-had primed, and they were eagerly waiting for the opportunity to light its fuse). But that's the near-term, and certainly the action that the admin is taking. But long-term....what are we going to see? Which direction are the American people - or at least this important subset of them - going to go? Stay tuned to find out. But not to ABC or a Tegna station.
  15. Not for nuthin: Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit after Kimmel suspension Disney faces a wave of cancellations after pulling Jimmy Kimmel Live!, with subscribers reporting that the Disney+ cancellation page keeps crashing. https://creators.yahoo.com/lifestyle/story/disney-cancellation-page-crashes-as-customers-rush-to-quit-after-kimmel-suspension-033512277.html
  16. This summer they were talking about how many seats they would have to remove to get to 80/85/90 percent full. And how they wanted to do this once. I suspect, given AISD's history, that the admin will target 85% full and the community will talk them down to 80%. IMHO, they should be going for 90% full and wait and see what happens with demographics. They are projected to lose another 10% over the next ten years. If they end up at 80% full and lose 10%, they'll be back at 72% full in 10 years. Going for 90% now would leave them around 81% full in 10 years, when they will likely have to do this over again. Getting to 90% would save a lot of money over 10 years vs 80% or lower. If the district surprises and adds population, they could rebuild some campuses to add capacity. They're never getting the land back once they sell.
  17. I expect as much but I think we all need perspective. Im sure I can find a place to have a few Angkor beers post S21. The American war museum in Ho Chi Min with the pictures of kids and napalm wasn't exactly uplifting
  18. You sure about that?
  19. Ok self righteous tough guy. Fans boo all the time in all sports. We are no better nor worse than any other fanbase, but I look forward to reading your doctorate thesis on the economics of College Football and the psychology of fandom. One can appreciate the job Sark has done, and still be highly dissatisfied with the product on the field this year. One can appreciate the high quality of the defense and be highly dissatisfied with the progress of the offense. The next time CDC tries to scrape a few more dollars for NIL from the boosters, or a capital project, he may get a slightly different response and that's why he noticed....
  20. ⚾️ Immaculate Grid 901 9/9: Rarity: 43 IMMACULATE! 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 Play at: https://immaculategrid.com/play
  21. Say, just out of curiosity, I wonder what Jaime Ffrench is costing us this year.
  22. So pick 3 of the best possible candidates and then imagine them getting Brent Brennen instead.
  23. This Iranian Musician/Professor came in with a haymaker: CHIEF
  1. Load more activity


×
×
  • Create New...