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  1. Holy Fucking Shit. Malcom Nance, 61 years old, MSNBC military analyst and retired Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer who was in cryptology, decided to join up and fight.
    21 points
  2. I've alluded to this before on, I believe, the 2023 recruiting thread, but expect Georgia to get damned near every target they earnestly pursue in this cycle with an "NIL war chest". They moved earmarked money for the 2023 class over to retain this guy from the looks of it. They have spoken plainly with people who cover the sport that they will not see a repeat of 2022's class again. Bama people have told me and others the same. A lot of programs are flat out pissed off at the way ATM handled things in the last cycle. Bama, Georgia, Ohio State, LSU - there is an order to the way things are handled in the dark market. When a noob shows up and just starts shitting cash and blowing out the range of capital, the only recourse in real time is to have major money sitting there waiting to backstop you. None of those schools have a Phil Knight just willing to race an auction to the top. So ATM got a fastball by the other fuckers. Then, ATM poured salt on the wounds by attempting to couch their behavior in fake NIL deals and Fisher and the administration then acted indignant about anything said to the contrary without providing any underlying support for these claimed "NIL" deals. Supposedly, they're scrambling now to put a veneer of propriety to what occurred because the FOIA requests have flowed in. Historically, ATM simply says "fuck you" when they don't want to comply with FOIA requests and they've generally gotten away with it. They're the college sports version of Arjen Rudd at this point. The landscape, as predicted here for the past 16+months, is transforming rapidly due to NIL. Some groups, like the aforementioned schools, are suddenly seeing that it's a cleaner form of what they were previously doing. Other schools, such as Texas and Michigan, see it as a reckoning. I should alumni bases rather than schools. At least for Texas. Del Conte, specifically, still doesn't have a fucking clue what he's doing with NIL and whether it is a friend or foe. He's thus far played entirely stupid on the entire issue, which isn't helpful or sustainable. The dark market for college football recruiting is going to be fully niched out by the 2024 recruiting cycle, consistent with how some of us expected it to go. It will always be there. There are still illegal gambling and bootlegging operations in this country too. But it's significance is being torched in real time. Everyone is on tilt reacting to what Texas' alumni base and Oregon's machine came out of the gates with in the early days. We can all bitch about this considering how it is changing the college athletics landscape dramatically, but the reality is that Texas will be a winner in all of this and these players making money isn't some sort of ethical dilemma.
    20 points
  3. https://twitter.com/OlenaHalushka/status/1516030282767470597?s=20&t=AZNXOwOVjkXAC1lyJdu7bw
    19 points
  4. Meanwhile I can't go a mile outside of my 'home' area without my debit card getting turned off to prevent fraud.
    12 points
  5. “If you want to beat Sam Houston State, meet me here every night at 7 p.m. for seven-on-seven." - Hays King
    12 points
  6. We've been griping about increasing housing prices/values in Austin for some time now, and how they've been pricing out middle-income and almost all lower-income housing. Well, this last round to appraisals (and the fact that they aren't insanely out-of-whack; rather, they seem to accurately track what the market is doing in this town) make that a point beyond dispute. The median house price in Austin is $624,000. Even going with a high ratio of 3X income, it takes around $200k a year income to afford a median house in Austin. 94% of Americans earn LESS than $200k. Our houses are "affordable," at the median, for the top 5%. Consider the houses below the median, and maybe buying ANY house in Austin, outside of a shithole house in the worse pockets of town, is within reach of perhaps 10% of people. This leads to a cascade of problems. Many employers have employees who earn less than that (not just restaurants and bars, not just public employees like firefighters, cops, and teachers, even professional shops have assistants, staff, etc., who earn well under $200k a year). Where are they going to find those people? How can they pay them a "living wage?" And, as even surrounding communities in Wilco and Hays county are seeing THEIR housing prices shoot up.....where will those employees live? These are just a couple of the problems that come to mind. There are hundreds of others. Problem-spotting is its own task, solution-brainstorming is another. So, putting this thread here not because I want it to go CR-political, but because that I'm sure SOME of the discussion will end up that direction. Blaming the COA and its policy decisions is surely part of the mix, but these issues are not unique to Austin. Numerous counties in the US have recently entered the ranks of the "unaffordable." It's become a systemic issue. So, putting this here for discussion, both broad and local.
    11 points
  7. Large versions of these. Damn wings broke all the time
    10 points
  8. Man I wish I had the memory of a goldfish and could forget the fiscal policy from 2017-2021. It sure would make shitposting fallacious talking points easier. Tarrifs, massive domestic stimulus, and literal trillions of free money during the trump admin have more to do with our current situation than anything grandpa joe has done so far
    10 points
  9. Needed a table for our foyer. Built this from soft maple.
    9 points
  10. i dont really want any of the brockermeyers back at texas after the shit they talked during their recruitment.
    9 points
  11. Let him have millions of dollars of his assets back. Publicly toast him and thank him for providing valuable intel on Putin, and for putting Western intelligence in touch with other oligarchs/Russian executives who are looking to bail on Russia/Putin and who are providing valuable intel on Putin and operations in Ukraine..
    8 points
  12. 1. Supply and Demand. Millenials have come to market and the Z's are on their way. We've vastly under built housing since 2008. 2. Any place worth a shit has the same problem Austin does. 3. No city worth a shit has managed this well. Every option has been tried. It can't be a great but cheap city. 4. The demand side of the equation needs to shift to what type of housing we want. Believe it or not, a family of four can live in a 3 bedroom attached dwelling. We all don't need detached housing with yards, especially with kids playing video games all day. 5. I can write a Phd level thesis tying land use policies to every social ill we have. 6. The big corporate money are the ones buying up the entry level houses. It's not buyers. This will result in a generation of renters that will little to no net worth in their 50's.
    8 points
  13. I can't say I'm in favor of it, in fact I'm not sure it matters so much once you are on the airplane. However, I fly almost every week for work and I've noticed some giant benefits. From most to least important, here are my reasons: 1. People talk less with the masks, which makes me very happy whenever I have to be on an airplane. Please do not talk to me unless you are asking what I want to eat/drink, thank you. Yes, I'm ok with sitting in the exit row. 2. Fart smells don't seem to be as intense with masks on. Ma'am please go to the restroom before you exercise your colon again, good lord. 3. There is no such thing as social distancing at the airport. People press together, standing dick to asshole in the security line and then again at the gate. I actually liked not having my personal space invaded. I liked it a whole fucking lot. 4. I love to travel, my husband is less enamored. My husband is also a germaphobe. My expectation is that vacations without a mask mandate are going to be harder to cajole than they have been with everyone masked up. 5. Seeing the people that weren't willing to wear their masks made it really easy to pick out the unpatriotic assholes. Their country asked them to do the least little thing for their countrymen and they couldn't be fucking bothered. I like knowing who those people are so I don't accidentally get myself mixed up in their anti-American shenanigans.
    8 points
  14. I would say that overall I disapprove of Biden right now. I will also say that I will fucking crawl through vomit covered broken glass to vote for him again over any R.
    8 points
  15. You think a declined crederrick card is a mood killer? Do what a cheapskate buddy of mine did when he finally took out a very pretty female friend of mine. Use a BOGO coupon on the first date. Needless to say, he didn't score that night or ever with her. When I ran into her she went on an epic and hilarious rant. Yes. My friend with the BOGO coupon is aggy. What a ridiculous dude.
    8 points
  16. LOL - russian version of Operation Fortitude....;)
    8 points
  17. I thought it was so we could be mean to each other and enjoy it.
    8 points
  18. We have quite a few "Americans" on this board who also blame America. They're called Republicans.
    8 points
  19. I resisted doing this while COVID was raging, but now Europe is pretty much open and I want to start a thread on what is for my money the best part of Europe to explore. For this purpose, any nation that was in whole or part of the Dual Monarchy— Austria, Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, former Yugoslavia, Western Ukraine (do not recommend travel there now). I’ve lived in Poland, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic. I’ve traveled a lot in Austria and Ukraine and enough in the former Yugoslavia and Hungary. A few starting suggestions: 1. Consider picking one country and then exploring its capital and a few regions as opposed to doing the capital to capital option. All the capitals are great in their own right but they can start to blend together and you miss out on getting a feel for the places and culture. Every country has so much to see and do in the regions and you’ll find it cheaper and rewarding to get out there. 2. Think about car rental. Roads are mostly good (mileage may vary in the former Yugoslavia) and rates outside of Austria are surprisingly affordable. Trains are not quite as efficient and point to point as in Western Europe. You don’t want a car while you’re in the capital but they can free you to see things at your own speed in the countryside. You can pull over if you want to see a castle that piques your interest. 3. Don’t ignore buses. FlixBus and RegioJet are brands you can’t go wrong with and are often second most convenient to a car rental. They’re affordable and clean and you’ll find yourself with nice, well-behaved young people and middle class, ordinary locals. It’s not a Greyhound experience. 4. Bring some sturdy shoes and pick at least one day to get outside (depending on the weather). Central Europeans love nature and the outdoors and the parks and hiking areas are perfect for day visits. You don’t want to just see the hills and cliffs from a train or bus window. Happy to expand the discussion. Below is Spis Castle in eastern Slovakia, one of the places that you’ll never see unless you get off the river cruise routes (but we can talk about those, too).
    7 points
  20. Go ahead and change the hookem to the middle finger on my post. I was saying of course it was no big deal for you because you didn't follow the rules or wear your mask the way one is supposed to on a plane. It's easy when you use your status to be above the rules that everyone else abides to and don't wear a mask "most of the time." Meanwhile everyone else gets 1.5 seconds per sip, as federal law requires you to briefly remove and put back on between sips and bites. This is like Gavin Newsom telling everyone else to sacrifice while he dines maskless at The French Laundry. Do I give a fuck that you did that, or that he did that? Absolutely not. But maybe hold off on calling everyone else babies when you are bragging about not following the rules yourself.
    7 points
  21. You may be the dumbest motherfucker on this board. And there are some absolute morons here
    7 points
  22. Nah. "Gaggles of Fucktards" stands well, alone.
    7 points
  23. I just read the last 3 pages and, I don't know how this is possible, but they're actually completely shittier pages than the pages where I go on rants about Seven Loss Steve having done nothing to merit the benefit of the doubt from us here. We have to be the most worthless gaggle of fucktards on the Internet outside of the various groups of mouthbreathing, room-temperature-IQ blowhards spewing volumes of ignorant takes on the SEC boards. Fuck.
    7 points
  24. During the defense of the city of Voznesensk and nearby settlements, an artillery unit of 80 separate airborne assault brigades defeated a column of equipment of Russian invaders. Destroyed BTR-82A racists 🔥
    7 points
  25. Why is this a surprise? He was a fucking 5 star.
    7 points
  26. 7 points
  27. And so it was, early GOP man invented the ‘wide stance’ foot touch that became inexorably bound to the party and their future rituals.
    7 points
  28. Quite the list of shit going on. CDC sure knows how to distract people from crappy football.
    7 points
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