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  1. for those without instagram, this is the Harold Perkins story on twitter:
    17 points
  2. 15 points
  3. It's true. The art world needs to take notice of these heartrending works of staggering emotional depth.
    12 points
  4. I’m confident he can’t pedal shit.
    12 points
  5. I will shit a gold @closetojumping and set both @SydneyCarton and @Sydney Cartoon on fire if Perkins signs with Texas.
    10 points
  6. Um. Patents. Courts to enforce them, Contracts and same. Highways on which to transport things. Electricity and internet to sell them with. Trade agreements to make it possible to do business with China while only partially losing your ass. Capital markets that, while they spend excessive amounts of time evading laws, could not exist without them and a robust court system. A government that simultaneously enables their existence and is a massive consumer of their services. All of these high-falutin, "independent" money-making things are excessively dependent on the systems of government and it's "products" to make them go. A poor person may need welfare benefits occasionally, and is dependent on social security for retirement, but big business is the principal consumer of of the most fundamental government services. "Relative poors," which include the less than say 5-10% may appear to be the largest consumers of government services, but that's only because they constitute 90-95% of the population.
    9 points
  7. About all that the once mighty music scene in Austin, TX has left to cling to are the handful of holdout venues and their brave and enterprising owners that in spite of all the adversity, the sacrifice they must suffer, and the odds they must overcome, they do it anyway, because they believe in the music and the community that springs from it. And whatever that calls for and no matter how bleak things may appear, they persevere. That embodies the heart that ABGB owner Mark Jensen exemplified during his too-short stint raging against the dying of the light, and doing his part to make sure the spirit of Austin music wasn’t doused on his watch. In a previous life he was a copywriter for an advertising agency in New York City. But he found an escape through the music and brews he’d imbibe in during his time off, and soon hatched a plan to move to Austin to start a brew pub and music venue. Many cook up such schemes in the boring moments slaving away at their mundane jobs. Mark Jensen hauled off and did it. Having attended South by Southwest and ACL Fest for years, Mark finally moved to Austin in 2013 and opened the ABGB (short for Austin Beer Garden and Brewing) with brewery maestros Brian “Swifty” Peters and Amos Lowe right at the dogleg of Oltorf Street in South Austin, about a block from where it dumps into South Lamar. The timing was good, because that area would blow up in the coming years, partly due to the anchor of The ABGB. They put pizza on the menu and started booking local bands of all genres, and soon it was a staple of the community born from the good vibes the place put out, and Mark Jensen’s insistence to always put people first, often collaborating with local non profits on all sorts of endeavors. “We are so saddened to learn of the passing of Mark Jensen,” says the Health Alliance for Austin Musicians after learning of Mark’s passing on Wednesday, June 9th. “Mark has been a longtime champion of HAAM, Austin musicians and local area nonprofits. He brought that passion to The ABGB where he helped create a culture of giving back to local causes and supporting the Austin music community. Our hearts are with his family, friends, the ABGB crew, musicians who had the privilege to play the ABGB, and the countless number of people whose lives Mark touched, without them even realizing it.” That’s the thing: Mark wasn’t one of these dudes running around town doing good deeds only for the accolades. He was just a good dude, doing right by musicians especially, who after the news began to spread of his passing, stepped up in droves to offer their thoughts and condolences, including Teri Joyce, Doug Strahan, Beth Chrisman, Tomar and the FC’s, and many more.“Mark’s recipe was simple: instead of treating musicians as a resource to be exploited, he approached them as he did his other passionate causes (Barton Springs, Austin shelter animals, his beloved Zilker neighborhood, and so many more) as unique Austin resources to be nurtured,” said record label Nine Mile at the news of his passing. “His immense generosity toward every single musician who played that stage was well known around town, and a gig at ABGB meant, not only generous hospitality and a fair payday, but something much more precious: respect.” Along with being a kickass music venue, ABGB is an award-winning brew pub, winning the Great American Beer Festival Brewpub Of The Year in 2016, 2017, and 2018. Tomar and the FC’s show Saturday night (6-12) at ABGB will be a big remembrance for Mark Jensen. No word at the moment of other events or services planned. No word just yet either how Jensen passed. Mark Jensen is survived by his wife Maria Mack Jensen and twin young boys Waylon Mack Jensen and Wyatt William Jensen. More information when it becomes available. https://www.savingcountrymusic.com/beloved-abgb-owner-mark-jensen-has-died/
    8 points
  8. Does it make a shit to anyone? No. Do we deserve to be exterminated and Earth taken over by aliens for our own stupidity? Absolutely.
    8 points
  9. You know--I still have that costume in my garage. I was thinking of throwing it out, but damned if I might not have to keep it around until 2024.
    8 points
  10. I've been hearing a lot of people on social media say that Joe Biden was overserved at a local establishment last night and on the way home spent the entire ride yelling at his Uber driver that the Horns are going undefeated this year and that Nick Saban is the devil. Again, it's just what I've heard people say about Joe Biden.
    8 points
  11. Ah, the old "everyone does it" excuse. You should hang out with sooners and aggy, you'd fit right in.
    7 points
  12. https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/10/us/arkansas-state-trooper-lawsuit/index.html https://abcnews.go.com/US/video-shows-womans-car-flip-officers-pit-maneuver/story?id=78195373 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/state-trooper-pregnant-woman-suv-traffic-stop-arkansas/ https://www.foxnews.com/us/pregnant-arkansas-woman-suing-police-pit-maneuver-flips-car https://www.yahoo.com/news/arkansas-state-trooper-flipped-pregnant-195414004.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/06/10/arkansas-trooper-janice-harper/ https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/arkansas-woman-suing-police-after-brief-chase-ends-her-car-n1270217 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/06/10/arkansas-police-rammed-pregnant-womans-suv-traffic-stop-lawsuit/7645474002/ Just a sampling of the over 61,000+ news stories that have been published about the incident if you just run a simple search instead of whining like a moron on the internet.
    7 points
  13. Motherfucker. Some of the most boring shit that gets mentioned on this thread and threads like it are the comments about the decorations for photos and the poses in the photos. Fucking whining about edits is also boring, insipid shit. There is a ton of other shit to discuss or analyze and yet you fucking screwballs continue to come back to the same, weak shit to go back and forth on. Fuck. Fucking fatkid with the cheese derails and then the collective with weak and shitty dad jokes are superior to this shit.
    7 points
  14. They’ll lose. Texas employers can fire you for anything. Anti-vax/stupid fucking regard isn’t a protected class FAAFO
    7 points
  15. He seems to have learned a valuable lesson the last time he tried to go against Texas.
    7 points
  16. The lawyer asking me if I ever said the site was worth something and then using my tree fiddy answer as his claim that I did and then requesting his question to not be answered helped them how exactly? The other questions about it were during the deposition and never came up in the trial. And as far as Ohio State and Michigan being the same, Ohio State fans publicly supported and defended Zack Smith, wife beater. I've yet to talk to a Michigan fan supporting Bo. Every Michigan fan I know is appalled and not defending him in any way. That's the difference between your two institutions.
    6 points
  17. More entertaining than soccer:
    6 points
  18. i was raised this way, but i don't feel this way any longer. if employers are keeping salary pay bands secret, then someone is getting fucked over.
    6 points
  19. 6 points
  20. And especially if the accuser making the false statements is a cop. It’s bad enough that this shithead neighbor fabricated this bullshit story out of vindictiveness, but Officer Goines took that statement and instead of actually you know, investigating, he doubled down with his own false tales of confidential informant buys of black tar heroin, weapons, etc. I’m glad the judge sent this neighbor to prison, but the punishment for Goines and the rest of his gang needs to be way stiffer than what she got.
    6 points
  21. "All of y'all are stupid bandwagon fans only following the Astros because they're good!" "Hey, I picked the Yankees because they were good, that's my right!"
    6 points
  22. Because he doesn't like OU. Dude has actually killed it at camps this year and has dropped bad weight and kept it off. Fucking Ferrell.
    6 points
  23. And I grew up in Houston watching Nolan Ryan, Jose Cruz, Billy Hatcher, Bill Doran, and Glenn Davis in the Dome. So don't give me that bandwagon bullshit when you're a kid from the Valley who roots for the fucking Yankees.
    6 points
  24. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/11/us/politics/mike-nearman-oregon-ejected.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&fbclid=IwAR0La1cihpmdmA0easd7GUicHiJbUVmhYCAC2kfOwIgYuQChctTERbhbFGo Oregon House voted 59-1 to eject Mike Nearman. He voted no. It was unanimous by his colleagues.
    6 points
  25. Also, just want to give an atta boy to Joe Biden for the 500M doses of Pfizer he is sending to the rest of the world. So nice having a President who is ready to make sure the US is still the leader of the free world.
    6 points
  26. Some of us were saying this ever since your boy Dubya and his merry band of assholes stepped into the White House.
    6 points
  27. A little bit of consequences
    6 points
  28. I hear there are a whole lot of other jobs available. Find some other profession in which to be an entitled cretin.
    6 points
  29. Have been in the PCBa business for 30 years, including owning my own contract manufacture shop with 4 SMT lines, 40 employees etc for the last 15. This is the worst it has ever been. At least weekly we are being given lead times to common items of sometime in 2023. I'll give some facts and some educated speculation. Facts: Covid shut down or reduced factory output, way more demand sooner than anyone thought, takes 4-6 months to get wafer fabs back up and going at full speed, 1/2 the number of boats (remember a typical IC could have the wafer made in Taiwan, assembled in vietnam, tested back in Taiwan, and final assembly in Philippines ) so 1/2 the number of boat hurts that back and forth of product , 2x the number of people working from home needing network equipment. Thats all pretty obvious and we would come out of that situation fairly quickly. But places like Malaysia being shut down for 2 weeks in june for covid and a civil war in Myanmar (where Panasonic makes all their sensors - ask me how i know) doesn't help. Speculation: The big guys chip makers, NXP, TI, On Semi, ST MIcro, etc etc all collectively decided we are getting our profit back, so they look at their line card and decide which items are profitable and which items aren't, they use covid as an excuse to make the profitable stuff put it on allocation which allows them to pick where to ship product to, and the rest of the little stuff gets blown off (thus some of the 2023 lead time). Now, you know who isn't getting allocated product first, the ass hole giant OEMs that haven't' allowed anyone (CMs, distributors or manufacturers) to make any money and push all obligation down to the little guy. Talking to a VP of a worlds top 3 electronics distributor that has Detroit as his area, ford and GM both cancelled orders and returned product to everyone at the beginning of covid making the little guys eat it. Shoe is on the other foot now, and everyone is taking their revenge. They are giving (lets use ford) Ford just enough of their product that they don't force them to redesign, which ford doesn't' want to do, but they are making them pay higher prices and making them wait. I buy 125,000 pieces of a micro controller a month for my largest customer and place them on boards. When covid hit, we didn't cancel anything, we worked with the manufacturer, the distributor and we slowed it down and slowly slid into the curb. It is appreciated, and my customer hasn't missed one shipment of the controller now that its ramped back up. Anyone else in the world is being told 60 week lead time, the manufacturer is picking us to ship to. Will the big OEMS learn? They will pay lip service to it (have seen some articles saying "maybe we shouldn't be such dicks" , but nah, they wont. When will it end - It will get slowly better (i have already seen some signs) for the next few months, then all at once everyone will realize they over compensated for the shortages and will start cancelling orders, then within a month most of it will be fixed. My guess is Feb 2022. TL:DR - Next summer cars will be back to normal.
    6 points
  30. it would have been presumptuous to call me a student at almost any point as an undergrad
    5 points
  31. I remember the Dome's scoreboard and $1 general admission outfield seats (and actually feeling cold because they cranked the shit out of that AC); when Dickie Thon was an emerging star before a beanball broke his face and derailed his career; Mike Scott and Glenn Davis (whom Milo dubbed "the Big Bopper") and - yes - Jose Cruz (and Nolan and Knepper and Doran and Bass and Hatcher and Puhl and Walling and Garner and Reynolds and Ashby and Kerfeld) and the '86 division winner in the club's 25th year; Scott's no-hitter to clinch (afternoon game and I caught the last few innings after the conclusion of my 4th-grade school day); Hatcher's foul pole HR and Bass striking out to end that NLCS; Here come the Astros/Burning with desire/Here come the Astros/Breathing orange fire; watching Scott take a no-no through 8 2/3 against the Braves at the Dome before Ken Oberkfell broke it up with a little soft flare; the promise (which never quite materialized) of Eric Anthony; Biggio and Caminiti giving some hope for the future; the acquisition of Bagwell and his ROY award the next year; trading Kenny Lofton for Ed fucking Taubensee and knowing (at age 15) that that didn't seem like a good idea; Drayton taking over and signing Drabek and Swindell and it felt like the tide was turning; the first of 2 unfortunate rebrand/uniform changes; Bagwell's MVP year and the second one he should have won 5 years later; drafting Berkman in the first round out of Rice; acquiring Randy Johnson at the last minute and his 2 months of absolute brilliance; losing that year to the Padres in the NLDS and knowing it was the best team in franchise history to that point; moving to a new stadium; the Beltran acquisition and Edmonds breaking our hearts again with that catch on the Ausmus fly ball in the NLCS; the bittersweet WS appearance the next season in which Bagwell couldn't really play anymore (and getting swept); Drayton letting the franchise talent level completely deteriorate by letting the farm rot and stupidly overpaying aging veterans to keep the club almost mediocre; the move to the AL and the ownership change; being 100% on board with the Lunhow plan to strip it down to the studs because that was always the most direct and expedient path to contending; going to games whenever you felt like it and getting the best seats in the house because the club was awful, the stadium was 80% empty and people were giving tickets away; the emergence of Altuve and the callup of Springer; drafting Correa and Bregman and tracking all of their minor league stats; building up to a champion and perennial contender. Did they cheat and get caught and deserve to be punished? Sure. Was it sensationalized and overblown? Of course, scandals and outrage stir the pot and gets clicks (formerly sold newspapers), especially when MLB's 3 largest fan bases get to conclude "we didn't really lose!". Did the sign stealing seem to impact their performance at all? Not really, because they hit as well (actually better) on the road, in subsequent seasons, in 2021, etc. Can all of these things be true? Yes. Did I type a lot of words responding to Helobious? Sigh, yes.
    5 points
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