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  1. I'm not sure why we're still doing the "Trump wants to lose" bit. He wants to win. He rarely works and plays golf all weekend. He loves the power he holds. He's just a sociopath. You can't use reason or accountability to try and make sense of what he's doing.
    23 points
  2. Libertarians are those who have no clue what the answers are, so they espouse a policy of no answers/no regulation/no government. They even developed their own party to support this idea. That way they have someone to vote for, safely knowing their candidate has no chance. But they can say they did their duty. They voted. When whoever wins and tries to solve things with answers/regulations/government and it fails partially or completely, then they can sit back and say "We told you so. Tell us how smart we are now." The plan is not to ever actually accomplish anything, but to boost egos of those too afraid to actually try to make anything better. They bring nothing of substance to the maintenance of our country.
    17 points
  3. 13 points
  4. Biden just needs to put on a green polo shirt and get filmed laughing his ass off at clips of this interview.
    11 points
  5. It is a good one, and the authors essentially draw the same conclusions as others who have tried to find some evidence that the "greatest scandal in the history of sports" actually made much (if any) difference in actual performance outcomes. Most of what has come out has not supported the idea that the players actually performed much differently at all while banging on trash cans. I believe there was some evidence that a few players' pitch selection improved a bit; that isn't nothing, but the overall outcomes of the aggregate of team PAs doesn't appear much different compared to "control" settings. Nobody, of course, is going to hear this (and by "hear this," I mean accept the actual, verifiable data). Any attempt to argue will be drowned out by a chorus of "of course it helps to know what pitch is coming!" and "if it didn't help why did they keep doing it?!?!" and, probably more frequently, "cheaters!!!" (Note: the first point assumes that they were 100% accurate with the signalling of the pitch that was coming, which they obviously weren't; the second is strange because the report states that they did stop doing it, but then you'll hear about completely made-up "buzzer" talk and the like; the third, although infantile and somewhat meaningless, probably has the most merit of the three.) There is a legit argument that the intent to benefit by breaking the rules is the issue, regardless of the outcomes. I can buy that. But let's also remember that the Astros haven't been admonished so much for actually cheating as they have for the degree of cheating (i.e., they cheated more than the Red Sox or Yankees did); so is it really about the intent? If it is about intent, about bad sportsmanship, etc - I agree, the actions are disappointing. If it is about delegitimizing the team's accomplishments - then the critic should actually care about studies like these. But they will not, because they don't fit their preconceived narrative. And that's why this entire notion of "greatest scandal ever" is and always has been absurd and tremendously exaggerated.
    11 points
  6. 10 points
  7. Maybe your method of massage differs from mine, but, you know, touchin' his wife's feet, and grabbin' her by the pussy, ain't the same fuckin' ballpark, it ain't the same league, it ain't even the same fuckin' sport.
    9 points
  8. OK, no more Mr. Nice Guy. After Trump's stupid statement that he will eventually be right about the covid, he can eat shit and die, the sooner the better. There is no more calming me down, accepting criticism for what I have known for years, or anything else. Fuck that piece of shit, the sooner he dies, the better off our country will be.
    9 points
  9. If you won't vote against the guy who's using federal agents in unmarked gear to arrest people who are protesting murder by police... If you won't vote against the guy who's using federal agents to detain women and children coming here to seek a better life, and detaining them in chain link cages... If you won't vote against the guy who knew of a bounty on American soldiers and did nothing... If you won't vote against the guy destroying our alliances and forming new ones with despotic leaders... It's not enough to not for FOR this guy. You vote AGAINST this guy, or you are a terrible American. Full Stop. And you can shove your fake patriotism up your ass.
    9 points
  10. True, but we stumble fuck our way through a soft Big 12 schedule to a smooth 7-5.
    9 points
  11. It is with a heavy heart I bump this thread. Some of you may remember from the old site that TOR once saw a dog tossed from a still moving vehicle at his apt complex in Houston 8 or 9 years ago. I adopted that dog for all of Shaggy and gave her a home and a name; Mia. Today, she moved on from that home to a better place. She was tough as nails and never complained, which is why we had no idea that anything was wrong until it was too late and Stage 4 Cancer had spread to multiple organs, including her lymph nodes, liver, jaw and spleen. She was the best, most loyal dog anyone could ask for, period. She used to follow me from room to room just to make sure she could see me because she was grateful for the rescue. She was a big reason my now wife agreed to go on a date with me the night we met at a bar in Houston. I love her and I miss her and Ive been crying all day. Honestly I’ve been crying all week. I put her last set of tags on my keychain. She will be forever missed, but she went out with a full belly of good food had a good walk this AM. Sorry to bring everyone the bad news and the downer of a post, but I’m sure some of you remember her and I wanted folks to know. Goodbye, Mia.
    9 points
  12. You all are so cute trying to find the nuance, or hidden meaning, of something he said. Bottom line is that he is a narcissistic idiot who has no idea how anything works and believes because he's President he can do whatever the hell he wants. He lives in an alternate universe where everything revolves around him.
    8 points
  13. 8 points
  14. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Benavidez Holy fuck this guy was a badass
    8 points
  15. Neoliberalism (our economic system since the 1970's) promotes efficiency. Efficiency leads to increased profits. There is no chapter for where the system starts eating the economic structure. We saw it with Thatcher taking on workers in Britain. Reagan broke a union of air traffic controllers. And there is always Chile. At some point, the structure fails - to be consumed by an even more efficient structure. Sometimes it works like magic. But there should be an economic term for the moment when an efficiency begins devouring the seed corn. We are way past that moment and towards a point of no return. 50 years of austerity for people and 50 years of profit extracted. This virus exposed all the social fabric torn in this nation . . . and the potential for a deep fall from our place of prominence in the world economic order - where the dollar is king. Americans need to take this more seriously and come together. That social fabric was a safety net, not a floor.
    8 points
  16. 7 points
  17. Deleting all of twitter forever would be the best thing ever.
    7 points
  18. covid was invented by hallmark to sell greeting cards.
    7 points
  19. Sigh. America is overrun with spoiled toddler-men unable to process reality without lashing out in a violent tantrum. Their broken brains are deeply invested in a fantasy in which an objectively corrupt, immoral, unathletic, unintelligent charlatan has been cast as some kind of Superman / messiah figure. But the delusion is fragile. And deep down, they know it is all a lie. They know, should even a single trickle of truth be permitted to breach the dam, the whole thing will collapse and their cherished little internal land of make believe will be flooded under a torrent of inconvenient facts. They would have to face the truth, and admit to themselves that their internal model of the universe was a fundamentally fucked up lie and that they are capable of choosing to comprehensively misunderstand the world they live in. That’s a very difficult thing for a brain to accept. So facts must be destroyed and their messengers silenced. The lie must live on.
    7 points
  20. Those wet markets in Wuhan are about the be the very wet markets...like your mom.
    7 points
  21. Oh. I see you’re up early masturbating for a Sunday morning
    7 points
  22. Hopefully loss of life is avoided. Past that, China sucks. Recentish Chinese construction absolutely sucks. There are 20 year old buildings in Shenzhen that are already falling apart. That whole country is going to fall apart in another 20 years.
    7 points
  23. If you look up a list of the deadliest natural disasters in human history, Chinese floods make up like 3 or 4 of the top ten. 2020 doesn't wanna feel left out of that list.
    7 points
  24. This is harsh but I’m kind of tired of it. The real problem with this disease is it is not fast enough. If 200 of those people were in a hospital today and 50 died by Tuesday, mask compliance would shoot up. The problem is that people are like dogs - they have no ability to correlate events that don’t happen in rapid succession.
    7 points
  25. This guy is awesome also libertarians are the “intellectual” version of the wal-mart fatasses decked out in paramilitary gear
    7 points
  26. Deboned a 6 pound chicken, stuffed with jalapeño cornbread, trussed up, and smoked.
    7 points
  27. Maybe I won’t start following this more closely.
    7 points
  28. I will piss on trumps grave before I die. I promise you that.
    6 points
  29. 6 points
  30. [Puts down ancient scroll, takes thoughtful puff of pipe] In the book World War Z, the one with the real zombies (the slow ones,) the first person to be bitten had been searching for artifacts in a flooded tomb beneath the waters backed up by this dam. If the dam fails, not only will there be massive flooding, but that tomb will be exposed to the air.
    6 points
  31. Seriously, though, if the 3G Dam goes, that would cripple Wuhan, yet again. A major flood back in the 50s left standing water in Wuhan for over 3 months. Imagine the damage this thing would have today. And as a reminder for those of us who were surprised at the population when COVID hit it, the city itself has 8 million people in it and a total of 19 million people in what we would consider the metropolitan statistical area.
    6 points
  32. It’s from the internet. I’m damn serious.
    6 points
  33. Mind you this was his 2nd tour of duty in Vietnam. His first tour of duty ended with a land mine leaving him fully paralyzed, unable to walk ever again.:: After the battle, he was evacuated to the base camp, examined, and thought to be dead. As he was placed in a body bag among the other dead in body bags, he was suddenly recognized by a friend who called for help. A doctor came and examined him but believed Benavidez was dead. The doctor was about to zip up the body bag when Benavidez managed to spit in his face, alerting the doctor that he was alive. Benavidez had a total of 37 separate bullet, bayonet, and shrapnel wounds from the six-hour fight with the enemy battalion.
    6 points
  34. This is similar to those who criticize Dr. Fauci for walking a fine line in order to stay on post and do the most good he can. Chris Wallace wants that interview to go the length. He knows that he has to be careful in terms of how far he pushes back on any one particular lie, because if he goes too far, Trump will simply get up and walk out. It's not an easy job to finesse Trump. I thought he did admirable work.
    6 points
  35. Made cheese enchiladas last night. Which made for breakfast this morning.
    6 points
  36. Just a little patty melt action
    6 points
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