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  1. I’m getting pumped just imagining Addison and Worthy running wide open in OU’s secondary as Christian Jones is helping Ewers off the turf.
    38 points
  2. I was at work Monday morning and two guys and a girl that looked like she was maybe 14 came in. They ordered quite a bit of food and the girl just had a blank look on her face. At the end of their meal I asked where they were from. They were from Ukraine. The two guys live down in different parts in Brooklyn. The reason the teenage girl was so quiet is that she had arrived from Mariupol less than 24 hours earlier. Loud noises scare her easily because of the PTSD from the repeated bombing of Mariupol. I could feel her sadness. I honestly wanted to cry because I cannot fathom what all she has seen the last three months and the years of work it will take in therapy to help her. I gave her some rugelach and gave her a fist bump to show that she is now among people who care for her well-being. She finally smiled when I did that. I wanted her to also know she is safe here. The guys said how thankful they are that America and other countries are helping their homeland. I told them how brave their fellow Ukrainians are for standing up to Russia. One of them plainly said “We have no choice if we want to survive as a country.” I told them that I am willing to help in any way I can even if it is just giving new arrivals someone to talk to as they settle into their new home. We have been given so much as a country and people. I feel that volunteering in some way is the least we can all do if it is possible to do so. If you ever question why we should be committed to helping Ukraine I would point towards that young girl as a reason why. Her and hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have seen horrors we will never have to witness. Do what you can wherever you are to help these folks out.
    33 points
  3. See @closetojumping, and you said sark would never deliver a championship to Texas.
    19 points
  4. You clearly haven’t watched Tucker Carlson lately. yeah, yeah, no CR I’ll fuck right off.
    18 points
  5. What strikes me from that chart is how utterly absurd it is that a party that has won the popular vote 2x in the last 30 years has 2x the justices. Really is remarkable (some might say corrupt) the extent to which a minority party has managed to entrench itself in power with jerrymandering, the nonsense of the electoral college, Wyoming getting the same number of senators as California and Texas, and lots of SCOTUS chicanery. Oh, and the notion that literally anyone on this planet is less partisan to Clarence Thomas is ridiculous.
    15 points
  6. I don't care what side of the political spectrum you're on.....what a fucking douchebag.
    14 points
  7. Perception and reality are starting to crash into each other on this NIL stuff. The numbers being thrown around for guys like Addison are way overblown. It’s very difficult to get money together in a timely fashion for these one off situations that pop up. Riley had some business backed NIL deals lined up for Addison. What he didn’t understand is that Austin absolutely plays in the same space as LA on that front. (Lambo being a prime example). However, he overestimated his ability to get $$$ on top of that from his donors. Im told our situation has more to offer. If he chooses USC, it will be football related, not other stuff
    13 points
  8. And I say this as someone who HAS worked hard -- incredibly hard -- to be where I am (which is plenty successful). My hard work is absolutely an important ingredient in my success. But if all I had was my hard work? I'd most likely have been fucked. 1 -- natural gifts matter. I was born with a pretty damned effective brain. It's not much different than any number of athletes being born with great legs, a strong right arm, what have you. I could work all my life, 10X harder than VY did, and I would never be the QB he was, because he was born with a whole lotta gifts that I wasn't in that respect. 2 -- help from others matters a lot. My parents were really dedicated. My mother read to me relentlessly from birth. They sacrificed to send me to good schools. They made sure that I was healthy, that I had food on the table, that I was safe from danger, etc. Other family members helped and were important. I had some very influential teachers and coaches who helped me see opportunities, and encouraged me. 3 -- the state apparatus matters. The State of Texas paid for my entire undergrad and law education. That investment put me in a position to get a first-rate education without crippling my family or me financially. A stable society with the rule of law meant that no greedy baron took my parents' shit, kicking us out on the street. Functioning infrastructure meant that my parents could get to their jobs that paid well enough. It meant that food made it to our grocery store's shelves. Functioning emergency services meant that we weren't on our own if one of us had a medical emergency, or the house caught on fire. 4 -- luck matters. My dad never died in a car wreck, leaving my mother and me destitute. None of us had a life-threatening illness. No natural disaster destroyed everything we owned. We were able to live in an area where we weren't as likely to be victims of violent crime, and we got lucky that major crime never found us. In the layer cake of "success," "hard work" is one of at least 5 layers -- there are probably others that I left out. It's an important layer. Shit, you can have all of the things I listed, but if you squander them, you fail. That's actually the point. Lose any ONE of those things, and you can easily fail. It's "easier" for someone disadvantaged in the US to reach success than it is for someone disadvantaged in Haiti to do so. True. And nifty. And so what? WITHIN this society, someone who has all four of the things I listed above is WAY ahead of someone who just has "I'll work hard." Not a little bit ahead -- light fucking years ahead. Looking at someone who doesn't have one or more of the four things I listed and just saying "work harder" is asinine. Sure, some folks succeed even without 1, 2, or even all 4 of those things. But the odds are progressively worse. And, plenty of people worked as hard as humanly possible, and STILL failed because of one or more of those factors going against them. No matter how hard I try or train, I was never going to be a QB who led Texas to beat USC for the title. There was too much to overcome (seriously, watch me run my fastest....it's.....not good). Yelling at me to "work harder!" wouldn't have helped.
    13 points
  9. This is great. To be sold at Crazy Vaclav's Place of Automobiles
    11 points
  10. How about when you woke up the next day and the sheets were stuck to the scab
    11 points
  11. Were these tippy canoes near Tyler?
    10 points
  12. Wife was going 70 on Bush and had to swerve to miss a ladder on the highway. Spun out of control and slammed into the wall. Walked away with a couple of broken bows and a cucussion Fortunately. All because some fuckstick couldn't be bothered to make sure his shit was tied down properly Wife had also just dropped off the baby maybe five minutes earlier. That last pic is how I pulled up.... Sent from my SM-A515U using Tapatalk
    9 points
  13. Jade Helm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    9 points
  14. It’s 2 a.m. and the bar is closing. Under the circumstances I’m willing to overlook some physical deficiencies.
    9 points
  15. That is not true. The most important ingredient is who your parents are.
    9 points
  16. Dipshit got whacked… May be too intense for some viewers
    9 points
  17. The fundamental tension at the heart of BTC is that if it ever ends up becoming what IV says it will (money), then the people who are HODLing will take a bath. Money is useful only if it its value remains relatively stable (either up or down). Money is useful when it is being spent and circulated. Simply— I don’t mind spending two bucks on a bunch of bananas. I feel pretty confident that when things are functioning normally, I can come back six months later and get about the same bananas for my two bucks. You want to have savings but in general it makes little sense to treat your dollars like an investment. If you’re a BTC bro, then every time you exchange even a bit of BTC for a good or service, then you’re doing a very foolish thing. In several months, I am assured, my BTC will be worth three or even five times as many bananas as it’s worth today. So I’m better off hanging onto as much BTC as I can and using the much maligned “fiat currency” as, you know, “actual money” to buy bananas or haircuts. The argument eats its own tail. BTC is a great investment because it’s allegedly the future of money but the moment it becomes a good substitute for money, it stops being a good investment. And perversely, the people hoarding this shit have every incentive to make sure it never actually becomes money.
    9 points
  18. How it started in February, vs How it's going in May. https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikeosullivan/2022/02/12/will-russia-invade-ukraine/?sh=4a44023b768d https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelpeck/2022/05/16/will-ukraines-army-invade-russia/?sh=5383fed46fe0
    8 points
  19. 8 points
  20. 1 - they are indeed young. 2 - Russian nutrition doesn’t make for a strong growing boy. Enjoy dinner. Is potato.
    8 points
  21. It will be great if Oz ekes a small lead tonight but McCormick takes it back with the uncounted mail in tomorrow. Trump fans and trump will go ballistic.
    8 points
  22. The unabashed racism in every Johnny Sack posts never disappoints. "So what if you were born in housing projects next to industrial factories with the worst funded schools in the country. Just be thankful that you don't live in Haiti, and bootstrap that shit. You're already on 3rd base! Be more like Asians. We only let them own decent property for a few decades before we let some of you move into our neighborhoods, so stop your bitching!"
    8 points
  23. 8 points
  24. After Bucha, anyone implying that it would've been better for Ukraine to surrender than to fight should be thrown to the lions.
    7 points
  25. Changed my mind. I’m now in favor of banning books.
    7 points
  26. NOT at all. And that is why is is so difficult to engage Republicans today. Because it is now near reflex to make affirmations that are untruthful, to create straw men to battle. you say, "I said" something I did not say and respond to said strawman. What I said was, And I have been saying this a very, very long time. Is "While all Republicans are not racist, nearly all racists are Republican." And rather than addressing this seemingly simple affirmation, a new "what about" category of "dark skinned racism" was your defense. Pause and think about that for a second. I would LOVE to hear how personally non-white racism impacted your life. As It would be as rare as me killing a polar bear in my backyard in NW Austin. 😉 The sad truth about the Republican party today is that even with all the non-white racist vote it's still a minority party that cannot win the majority of the vote nationally for a first term President. Again I state that not all my Republican friends are racist, but they do vote with the party preferred by Nazis, Proud Boys, The Klu Klux Klan, and White Nationalists. And Trump was the first Presidential candidate since Buchanan to give them such a warm embrace. Very good people on both sides!
    7 points
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