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Showing content with the highest reputation on 02/08/21 in Posts

  1. Hugo, we know you have a hate-boner for all things Trump. But Joe Biden is dealing with the crisis of a pandemic that has killed 400k+, millions of people out of work and on unemployment and a government that hasn't function properly for 4 years. And he said that was his #1 focus when he was sworn in. He's doing what he personally can do first as POTUS. He is letting the trial go on without being involved himself - because he should not be. He is not a member of the Senate. You'd be crucifying Trump if, as POTUS, he was personally involving himself in the prosecution of Obama. The executive branch is letting the legislative branch do their job, for once, without public interference and Twitter threats.
    14 points
  2. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
    11 points
  3. I will be getting my first shot this morning. Mrs. Brat got hers this past Tuesday. My oldest brother (a Luddite type) & his wife are waiting to see if we keel over.
    11 points
  4. I get my second does on Thursday. I’m a little nervous because I’ve been hearing from coworkers that a lot of people are feeling shitty for 2-3 post dose. But hopefully that means it’s doing it’s job, so that’s good news! Hopefully my reaction won’t be too bad - I’ve got plans to do some painting and other improvements to my new single lady house I just bought this weekend! I don’t want to be feeling too poorly to get started. This isn’t the board for it but I want to start a thread to show y’all my progress. Maybe in the 1% forum? I just finished sanding and refinishing the wood floors all by myself and I’m super proud of how they turned out. I’m not ready to share on my personal social media because I don’t want to deal with the gossip around town yet. The perils of small town living.
    11 points
  5. This is really well-written, so it pains me to say that I really disagree with the conclusions. People in rural America are a huge beneficiary of federal spending. They haven't been betrayed by leadership; they've hugely benefited off it. We know about the direct subsidies to farmers, mentioned in a post above. But it goes well beyond that. Look, for instance, at the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act, which authorizes the USDA to make loans and loan guarantees for rural utilities--i.e., water, sewer, and broadband. The only reason huge parts of this country have water and sewer and broadband service is because of that statute. But nobody in rural America knows about it. Why? Because the USDA can't do much to publicize it. The Republicans have ensured that the USDA has to run its loans and loan guarantees through the local bank. To some degree, that makes a lot of sense, because it helps the local bank. But the problem is that it's the local banker who is out there at the ribbon cutting. So nobody knows that it's Uncle Sam who just paid for your new water treatment plant. They all think their community is self-sustaining. But it's not. Without that statute, rural America would look like rural China. People would be on well water and taking a shit in outhouses. They want no taxes and proclaim that the government should do nothing other than maintain the military. They deplore people who are on welfare. But the reality is that they're the biggest welfare queens in the country. The fact is that life in rural America is hugely subsidized by the people who live in urban and suburban America. That's not entirely surprising, given the institutional preference for rural America created by the Constitution. When rural voter's vote is worth vastly more than an urban voter's vote, why would we expect any different outcome? The reason rural America is pissed off isn't primarily economic. It's cultural. The predominant culture in this country is driven by its urban centers. And that culture has made some enormous changes just over the past decade. When Obama was elected in 2008, neither he nor Biden would say a word in favor of gay marriage. Biden caused a minor rupture when he came out in favor of gay marriage in 2012 without fully vetting it with the White House. Now, the predominant culture assumes not only that gays can get married, but that people should go to the bathroom based on the sex with which they identify. I could do the same exercise about racial issues or about immigration. And one might argue that some of that was in response to Trump's retrograde views in those areas, so the cause/effect is inverted when it comes to why rural America is pissed off. But it really doesn't matter.
    10 points
  6. I’m thinking we need to step on the brakes with this goat talk
    9 points
  7. I've been looking so long at these pictures of MTG that I almost believe they are real.
    8 points
  8. AMYZF +.13 at 1.02. Hello, dollarland. Just getting started.
    8 points
  9. Drama queen nonsense. Post exactly what he said if it was so horrific. Or shut the fuck up and take the loss, pussy.
    8 points
  10. if story as presented is true, I'm really sorry for the man who had to kill the prankster for legitimately fearing for his life. He has to live with that for the rest of his life, knowing that what he did was the right thing at the time, but just a stupid kid being an idiot after the fact.
    8 points
  11. Cloak Room is kinda boring lately. And that's a good thing.
    8 points
  12. I hadn't seen anyone actually walk this out on the intertrons, so I took 20 while I was eating lunch to mess with it. Based on known delivery promises, below is what we should expect to see over the next few months. By end of May we'll have 80% of the eligible population vaccinated, or at least the supply to do so. We know the polls show that about a quarter of people won't ever get it. Which means that by end of May, we're going to have more doses than willing hosts. This is subject to the companies actually hitting their targets. Basically, pending supply chain issues, almost everyone who wants the vaccine will have it by Memorial Day. And we're going to be awfully close to herd immunity by the end of March with 38% vaccinated and another ~20-30% with immunity from having had the virus. Summer 2021 is going to look a lot more like Summer 2019 than 2020. I would list my assumptions but nobody gives a shit, you'll just have to take my word for it. It accounts for waste, ramp times, and delivered-to-administered ratios and all that.
    7 points
  13. Been following right behind AMYZF with limit orders over the last week trying to catch a dip, like a dipshit. There's a shameful trail of canceled limit orders starting at 0.89 and slowly increasing to 1.10, when I finally decided to hop on board.
    7 points
  14. I think they are suppose to inoculate you in the arm? You should ask.
    7 points
  15. Following up on my post from Jan 24 about volunteering at vaccine distribution hubs. I've been accepted into the UT Medical Reserve Corps and will start volunteer shifts this week at Gregory gym. Hook'em
    7 points
  16. That's the one thing I hate about Kentucky - all the god damned dimetrodons.
    7 points
  17. As long as we can keep RCRanger and Harrison Stafford alive, happy, and engaged, we don't need to know shit.
    6 points
  18. My son's 2019 buck finally finished and hung last Friday....
    6 points
  19. Lots of confusion/concern out there about the AZ vaccine effectiveness against South African variant. So I’ll try to help explain... The AZ trial in question looked at healthy adults age 18-65 in South Africa. AZ vaccine is super cheap ($3/dose) so it’s the one a lot of poor countries are betting on. They designed the trial to show 60% effectiveness against getting symptomatic COVID. They only enrolled 1789 participants and only had 42 cases of COVID in the trial (19 in vaccine and 23 in placebo). So it was quite under powered to show what they wanted it to. Of those 42 cases, all were mild. Nobody needed the hospital or oxygen. But that’s what you might expect in a younger healthier study population. So this was a small study but protection against SEVERE disease with AZ is unknown but probable. J&J vaccine shows excellent protection (89%) against severe disease due to the SA variant. Thanks for reading. I will bill the surly fund for $1,000.
    6 points
  20. Biden dominating the POTUS dog game with rescued shepherds. We had a tough run with the Obama's metrosexual fluffy dog and Lindsey Graham as the last two presidential dogs.
    6 points
  21. Seriously - NO ONE IS BUYING YOUR GOOD FAITH SAD SACK PLAY ACTING. Sell your mealy mouthed horseshit where there aren’t a board full of people with above room temperature IQ. You’d get more respect for owning your shitty opinions then whatever it is your trying to do here. Shove your cigar up your donkey ass, Chrispy.
    6 points
  22. Was just walking my dog on campus to figure out parking for covid hub. This view never gets old. Also albino squirrel quickly spotted by law school
    6 points
  23. ITs even worse than this. They open the walmart in the small towns with the intention of destroying the local businesses, knowing they will close that wal mart down in 10 or so years and forcing everybody to drive to the bigger walmart in the bigger town over. this is their business model. And its very hard to feel any sympathy for those small towns when they abandon the moms and pops for the new wal mart (or even worse the new dollar general), and vote to give the walmart a tax abatement. This is only one example of how they are fucking themselves. Another example would be spending millions on a new football stadium, but refusing to spend a fucking penny on decent science labs in the high school. I live in a small town, actually 10 miles down the highway and two miles down a gravel road from a small town. You drive through town, and the roads are so filled with potholes (if they are even paved) that you literally destroy your car driving on them. But by gawd, you better not try to raise my taxes. The increase in local taxes it would take to fix the fucking roads would probably be less than what one would save in car repairs. The only decent road in town is the state highway that serves as the main road in town (another way you city dwellers subsidize rural living, btw). The playground in the city park looks like something out of a third world country. A local doctor had to start up a non-profit to get new-ish play ground equipment. Which I and her husband had to put up ourselves because the city wouldn't use city workers because of "fiscal limitations" or some shit. They cry about socialism and welfare queens, when their ranches would be insolvent if they didn't get federally subsidized insurance and agriculture tax breaks. They drill wells and when the local groundwater districts suggests that maybe they need to dial back the pumping of groundwater they scream about regulations and big government but when their wells go dry they DEMAND the county DO SOMETHING!! They bitch about restrictions on business due to covid then absolutely by gawd refuse to wear a mask. Their bullshit and hypocrisy goes on and on. Fuck them all. I like where I live because its quiet and dark at night and I have space for a garden and fruit trees and outdoor fires and I can leave my keys in my ignition and my daugther can leave her bike in the front yard and the dogs can run through neighboring pastures and chase rabbits and I can hit golf balls with from my porch. But I also get absolutely sick of the hypocritical bullshit coming from my neighbors. I feel absolutely no sympathy for these people. They are making their beds, knowingly and with forethought, and somehow its the democrats' fault their lives suck. When without the democrats, their lives would suck even more. Sorry, rant over.
    6 points
  24. so a little update on my corner store shithole that was slowly turning into a honeyhole. the short version - this glorified 7-11 had a stagg, jr sitting on the counter for $60 in like november. he said he doesn't get much good stuff, but was happy to hold it back for me. a couple weeks later he got an eht straight rye for $89. he went through this whole song and dance about how he knows other stores gouge people on allocated bottles, but he doesn't like to do that. so he said his deliveries come on fridays, and to call him every friday. i have been. around christmas, he got 3 weller 12's and an old rip van winkle 10. he was telling me this over the phone as i was putting my shoes on to literally run down there (it's down the hill on the corner), but then he told me the w12 were $199 and the rip was $600. "but he could cut me a deal". i said we were so far off, it wasn't worth negotiating. i've been calling every friday since, and this past friday i called, and nothing. but then a couple hours go by, and he called me back around 4pm, and said he got a couple of bottles of stagg, jr. i said sweet, and started mentally thinking about whether i would buy both, probably i would. then he said, "the stagg, jr is $199". i was like, "ok, what? the same stagg, jr you sold me for $60 like 2 months ago?" he said yeah, last time we got a case, but this time we only got two bottles. that shit is not true, he told me when i bought the stagg that it popped up by itself, and that they don't get many bottles. he's also told me since then that because of our conversations, he's been pushing his distributor, and getting a lot more bottles. so this turncoat mother fucker is now operating exactly like the secondary stores that he was shitting on like 10 weeks ago. and he's only getting better bottles because i pushed him to ask for them. so i'm making him more money, getting fewer bottles from him, and have eliminated this store from potential honeyhole status. he killed my spirit. my spirit blood is on his hands.
    5 points
  25. Babylon Bee's next headline should be Expert At Spotting Fake News Has Opinions On Things
    5 points
  26. The 3 mile Mopac to Lamar pedestrian bridge loop is homeless tent free. I hadn't done the loop to Congress bridge in awhile and when I made that loop a month ago I also was shocked at the tent city around 1st St bridge. During the walk, there was a homeless dude yelling non-sense shit at people walking on the trails. He was really yelling at a tourist looking woman and her 2 grade school kids. I thought I was going to have to intervene. It's a disgrace what the camping free for all has done to the city. Just another fucking day in Austin. Fuck Adler and the city council.
    5 points
  27. 5 points
  28. You take one down, pass it around 33 positives in the old epicenter of North Dakota today
    5 points
  29. Greg Schiano has coaching superpowers that only activate in the state of New Jersey. He and Rutgers need each other.
    5 points
  30. Mathieu is such a pussy, I swear. I mean, he'd kick my ass, but he's still a pussy in football. I can't really hate him, tho. He loves dogs, and I love dogs, so it's even.
    5 points
  31. well the whole fishing a rising tide every day thing was a complete fucking lie but i finally had a chance to get out for a couple of days. the conditions were brutal but we found some fish. most of my shots were on foot and trying to cast to them in 4 feet of water while running and i just completely choked. we were in the final 30 minutes of fishing and i was completely demoralized knowing how long i was going to think about those blown shots. then we found another school, got out and chased them and i was able to get my shit together and got an eat. i really hate these fish.
    5 points
  32. I know exactly what he said.
    5 points
  33. Let me know when Project Ludicrous Speed starts.
    5 points
  34. In Basic Training there was this side-track training unit called Bravo Company, aka The Fat Boy Club, where, skinny or fat, you might get routed for a few weeks before starting real Basic to exercise, constantly, until you toned up enough to theoretically pass a PT test. You got paid while you were there, constantly exercising. Eat that, Crossfit. Anyway, there was a Creationist chaplain who would come around once in a while and teach us about dinosaur footprints being found at the same fossilized mud level as some human's footprints. I always imagined the human as looking like Jim Morrison, fleeing dinosaurs. I don't remember any of our group being particularly rabid pro-or-anti-Creationist, but as long as the Chaplain talked, we got paid without having to exercise. So sometimes we'd ask lots of questions. This happened in Kentucky.
    5 points
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