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I can say with absolute certainty that the NIL portion of this post is wrong in both directions. UT put a legit package together and USC may not have as much to offer as Riley was claiming. Wherever he goes, NIL is only part of it.18 points
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Old Polish joke. A polish peasant farmer is digging in his field one day when he hits something with his shovel. Picking it up and dusting it off, he recognizes it as an old lamp. A genie pops out and offers him three wishes. The Pole thinks about his wishes for the entire day and finaly decides. "Genie", he says, "I want the Mongol hordes to sweep through Poland." The Genie snaps his fingers and a low rumbling sound of hoofbeats is heard. Over the horizon come the Mongol hordes which ride down and kill everything in their path. They wheel around and ride back out. The farmer picks himself up and asks for the same thing for his second wish. Again the Mongols ride in and destroy everything in their path. Whatever they didn't kill last time, they kill this time. Whatever they killed last time, they set on fire. They wheel around and ride back out. The Pole picks himself up and asks for the same thing for his third wish. This time the Mongols don't even bother to stop since there isn't anything left to destroy. The genie just can't stand it any more. "You could have had anything. ANYTHING!", the genie says. "Why did you waste your wishes on this?" The farmer replies, "In order for the Mongols to ride over Poland three times, they would have had to go through Russia six times."17 points
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I have guns. Several. You could have them all tomorrow if we could rid ourselves of this blight. How much more of this shit are we going to put up with?14 points
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I have spent plenty of time overseas, thank you. I lived in Germany and Turkey for five years while I was growing up, and we traveled extensively those years because the Air Force paid my dad to do it. I've been to my share of desperately poor villages, and I was there at a very formative age. I know what poor is in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, and I know what poor is in America. The majority of my patients are caught in an endless cycle of being forced to choose between spending their money on food, rent, school, or their medication. You ever fucked a stranger so you can afford your HIV medication? That happens multiple times in Austin every day of the year. Why should that have to happen in America? Do you have any idea of what that kind of trauma does to a person? How it impacts their ability to function as a ~normal person? Are you capable of imagining such a thing? It happens every day. Even with that awful fact; even with Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton calling me a child abuser; even with the imminent loss of Roe, the right to privacy, and the right to marry whomever I love, I'm really glad I live in America compared to Guatemala or China or any other non-"Western" or "developed" nation. I'm not stupid, even though for some reason you have that opinion about almost every woman on this board from what I've read of your posting history. Austin's EMS workers can't afford to live on the wages they're given. The benefits are a joke, and it's impossible to work a second job and keep your sanity when working intense healthcare like that. I can speak from personal experience. How does that happen in the greatest country in the world? That the people who respond to horrifying accidents; who resuscitate people from the brink of death; who assist in putting the pieces of shattered lives back together aren't able to live in the same community that they work in? That's obscene. Surely you agree? Like, what possible rationale is there for an Austin EMS worker not being able to afford to live in Austin? Equally obscene is the person who reheats your burger patty not being able to save up for a home of their own, or to afford to go to school to find a higher paying career. Everyone deserves to make enough money to pay for food, shelter, and other necessities of life while also being able to have a little fun and save up some cash to invest in the future—be it a house or fund or whatever—while working no more than forty hours a week. Shouldn't America, the so-called greatest country in the world, actually strive to come as close to achieving that for as many people as possible? Instead, we have the horrorshow that we actually live in, not the one in China. It's so short-sighted and foolish to believe that just because there is much worse poverty in other parts of the world, that we shouldn't try to correct the still awful amount and type of poverty here.14 points
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After leaving the Mother, Grandfather, and Me, the gentleman Aggie made it to Paris with the Texas A&M Corps supplemented by a few units of the US Army. All the Parisians were awed by the courtesy and gentlemanliness of these proud Aggies whose rings shined like golden stars fallen to Earth. The Aggie rings and uniforms were spotless as they had avoided any fighting from Nomandy to Paris. They wanted to remain undefeated. A Parisian woman wrote a letter to Le Parisien. We had heard terrible things about Texas Aggies from jealous Texas Longhorns. Imagine my surprise to find myself among the friendliest people I've ever met. We were charmed when they said Howdy and then whooped like manly men. I couldn't find Eiffel's Tower. The Aggies took my hand and guided me there. Our daughter has a scholarship to the Sorbonne, but now we kind of wish she would go to Texas A&M! Aggies all say it's the most heavenly place on Earth!14 points
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Would be a shame to email that thread to A&M’s Black athletes and recruits, considering this mass shooting was in a Black neighborhood.12 points
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So, I presume that half of the crew space is just a giant smoking lounge?12 points
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You know that did irreparable damage to our government institutions? A violent insurrection that meant that we didn’t have a peaceful transfer of power for the first time since the Civil War. And his demonic cunt of a wife was one of the chief proponents and instigators of it. So he can fuck all the way off, then fuck off again, then triple that fucking off.12 points
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Saw this on reddit - maybe it'll make it into the UFO hearings that Congress is having11 points
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Bryce Foster and Chinook Seedery exist sir!11 points
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We won’t and haven’t lost recruitments due to NIL11 points
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Geezus you guys are.... Everyone here understands how billionaires reinvest their money back into the company to prevent from being taxed on it and then take loans against their shares when they need cash themselves. So get off it already. It's just a tactic to avoid the tax man, and they employ plenty more of them too. Hiding money is what they do. There are trillions of dollars floating out there just to avoid taxation. That said, no one is advocating "giving away free money" like covid. What we are saying is the money is there at these companies to pay workers a more livable wage. The key phrase here is "workers". As in people who are clocking in and out and getting paid. You can do it without inflating the market too, but companies are too greedy to do it. Uber can operate giving their drivers a 20/80 split, just as they did upon inception, but their desire to please their stockholders over their drivers has them collecting close to 50/50 now. Instead, any increase they give to their drivers is passed on to us the consumer when it doesn't have to be. Thus causing the consumers and the drivers to be unhappy, the two groups you need to function. The current system is borked, and every publicly traded company is on some form of death spiral, slow or fast, depending on how their run. Take restaurants for example. Some guy comes up with a great concept. Creates a booming business. Decides they should open up multiple locations which end up doing well because they are all built upon the vision statement of the first location. THEN THEY GO PUBLIC. Shareholders want to see profits and growth. They start cannibalizing themselves through oversaturation. Then the company turns their eye inward in search of profits. Commissary kitchens are created. Food comes in pre-made to save costs. Guests are put off by the loss in quality. Workers are unhappy by the loss of income. Company starts the downward turn. Rinse and repeat. The same CEOs(or COOs), like NFL coaches, move around from company to company doing the same shitty job they did at their last stop. Shareholders jump on board, squeeze every drop from the company, then jump in the life boats when the company capsizes. On to the next. The only people hurt were the workers in the middle. The current system is creating billionaires at an unprecedented rate. However, its also eating the middle class at the same rate. Greed is driving this country into the same black hole that has ruined all great civilizations. As a country we are basically following the same slow death spiral that I outlined above. Just replace a couple phrases like commissary kitchens with outsourcing and the parallels are alarming.11 points
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Russians really are ending ISS partnerships. Thankfully they have a backup plan to get her into space10 points
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Don’t cry to the rest of us about norms and decorum - you live with a crazy shithouse rat who participated in a coup, you evil sack of crap.10 points
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I would vote that elites across the political and business spectrum have mostly successfully defused the potential of real class tension. And to be clear, I don’t think this way in terms of a grand conspiracy of a shadowy cabal, I think instead that they are following their own political instincts and that they even believe they are working against each other. - The left/technocratic/international corporate class has chosen to respond to genuine discontent by focusing on topics of diversity/equity/inclusion but only in a limited way. They encourage focus on injustice directed against racial, ethnic, and sexual minorities to the exclusion of growing income inequity— thereby encouraging lower class non-minorities to view this as “not our fight.” They work to increase diversity within the managerial and technocratic class— but notably they do NOT seek to expand that class or improve overall standards for the class below. Admissions at elite colleges is a good analogy— Harvard and Yale will improve the diversity of entering freshmen classes but they won’t dip into their endowment to simply make those entering classes notably bigger or support real efforts to make other colleges affordable to all. - The right and less international corporate class seeks to encourage nasty right-wing populism and racial resentment among those who are not the beneficiaries of racial/sexual justice reforms but who nevertheless see their real living standards slipping. They much more explicitly frame the fight as “us against them” and prevent non-minorities from asking the question “why don’t we expand these programs to help me too,” and instead just to demand their axe. Please don’t get me wrong, I’m not opposed to racial justice and improved diversity, it’s critical. What I am pointing out here is that the loudest elite voices in business and government are suspiciously focused on those aspects they are notably low-cost to elites as a class or individually. TL;DR for most of the lower class issues of justice and equality have been successfully reframed as a fight between subgroups and that will block any real effort to expand the middle class or improve the lives of the lower class.10 points
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Rand Paul sucks. It’s things like this that make people lose faith in institutions. The fact is that he was offered a vote on an amendment to the bill for a special inspector (his demand) and he refused that. He wants to send the bill back to add the inspector to the bill itself which is simply procedural foot dragging and it reveals he just wants to drag this out as long as he can. The bill has overwhelming support. His entire purpose here has nothing to do with spending and oversight, he’s just delaying something that has broad bipartisan support. At a dear cost to the people in Ukraine who are trying to defend their homes and families, and who matter not at all to Rand Paul. @Anastasis and Paul’s beliefs about America’s (non)-involvement in Ukraine’s fight against an autocratic invader are deeply unpopular. So unpopular that they are reluctant to state them clearly and debate them. So we’re reduced to obstructionism and bad faith arguments which is the definition of spineless politics.10 points
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Makes sense. Like the popular pedoatric medications pedolyte and pedosure.9 points
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Russia! Russia! Russia! Is there any proof that Russia colluded to occupy Ukraine? I mean sure there are videos but anyone can doctor those. And flying of Soviet Flags, well are we sure that wasn't the Ukrainian False Flag? I mean, Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union. It could be Latvia occupying Ukraine for all we know or Ukraine itself. This seems like it is just a money grab by Ukraine to fleece the dumbocrats. We should get back to letting the fiscal conse(choking laugh) conserv (haha) conservatives (haha oh fuck man) of the GOP to lead us through this conflict. Both sides are really at fault here since Ukraine shut off the water to Crimea, if there really are both sides that is. Try being reasonable like me. (Can anyone guess who I am pretending to be?)9 points
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I have a lot of respect for you Slorch. You sound look a good ole boy who strapped your boots on and got er done. However, you have to understand that not everyone has someone to jump on the sword for them like our moms did. Some people are born into this world fighting against the very people who gave birth to them. Drug addicts. Deadbeats. Moms who would rather go to the club than take care of you. Parents with debilitating physical disabilities. My wife was born to a woman who had a heroin addiction but gave her up for adoption at birth. Luckily, she hit the adoption lottery by getting a well to do couple who couldn't have children. Month long vacations in Europe. 6000sq ft house in Tahoe, house on the Big Island, my wife has never even bought her own car. After her dad finished buying them I picked up the tab. She had been to 22 countries when we met. But what if she didn't get adopted or the heroin addicted woman decided to keep her? Would she be a different person, not deserving the respect we give her now when she pulls up in her new 6 series Audi? What if she was sitting at the bus stop, or working the counter at some fast food restaurant? We Americans judge people based on their success as if its only them that dictating it.8 points
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I have commented on this before— the Kremlin has a different understanding of war than we do and deliberately uses this ambiguity to their advantage. They absolutely believe they are at war with the U.S. and West. Their choice of weapons and tactics is simply a choice that they’ve made because of the constraints we have put in place against their use of kinetic aggression. I don’t like the term “hybrid warfare” because of the implicit understanding that it’s somehow something lesser than just “warfare.” If I was creative enough to think of a catchy alternative I wold be writing for security journals and getting 90 second spots on CNN instead of writing for you assholes.8 points
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It's personal because you, Sack, and a number of other MALE posters, who will never, ever be put in a similar position, want to take away MY ability, and every other woman's ability, to make decisions about our bodies and our reproduction. So yeah, it's personal. It also doesn't help that Sack lays into the misogyny pretty hard when it's me, Trauma, or Bama that stand up to him.8 points
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What gets me is they think the leak (the actual act) destroyed trust in the court. NOooooooooo. It was the hijacking of nominations in order to politicize the court that destroyed the trust. The leak was just sunlight on the wound.8 points
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I agree: “So asking Texans to wear a mask to the grocery store during a global pandemic of an airborne virus in order to protect human lives was a bridge too far...but it's okay to ask us to live like the Amish for a weekend during a heat wave to avoid making Republicans fix the grid?”8 points
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If a kid currently plays football and lives in college station none of the money he has received was NIL. Full stop7 points
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79 is ok outside, but way too fucking hot for indoors. I ain't putting up with that shit in my house.7 points
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I’ve been completely radicalized on this issue. It’s unrealistic and irrational and I fully acknowledge that and do not give a fuck. Ban ‘em all.7 points
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What does the 2021 Longhorn football team have to do with Russia and the Ukraine??7 points
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Just got back from the domain (dammit) and half the stores have their front doors open while blasting the AC. Residents shouldn’t be the ones tasked with conserving power when these fucksticks are gobbling it up.7 points
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Republicans have [mis]managed this state for the last 30 years. It’s time we have a wholesale change in leadership.7 points
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I'm in a weird position I didn't think would happen years ago, but here we are. My wife and I decided to try for kids back in 2016/17, and spent at least a year trying for kids naturally, but we never got lucky with it. We ended up having to do IVF, in which we got 3 viable embryos and 1 unstable one that couldn't be tested. We did 2 frozen embryo transfers, and both worked perfectly (3 year old boy and 1 year old girl now). Couldn't ask for anything more, we got our two kids and are very happy with them. Well, we didn't intend to have more than 2 kids, but you can't exactly choose how many embryos will actually fertilize, grow for a week and not have significant genetic defects, nor can you choose whether or not the transfer is successful (the more you have, the better odds, some people get a dozen). So we still have the other 2 in the freezer at the fertility clinic, and didn't want to make a decision on what to do with them for some time. $50 a month is a cheap storage fee, and worth it just in case we change our minds. Well, here comes the government overreach, going way beyond abortions and gunning for IVF, embryos, etc etc. You know it's going to happen, just a matter of time. I told my wife when I heard the Alito opinion leaked, that we need to make a decision on these 2 embryos ASAP before we get into a liability situation or end up paying to store them for eternity. Neither one of us could see donating them, because we don't want someone else to raise our kid. So it's either take the risk of keeping them and hope they don't apply Murder charges for donating them to science down the road, destroy them now to avoid the issue, or be forced to donate them to someone else if the State decides. So we are likely going to make the decision to donate them to science and avoid the issue down the line, but man that feels super shitty to do. Fuck these dumbass Republicans and their bullshit agenda. This is not a situation that the state should be involved in.7 points
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“If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.” LBJ knew.7 points
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I once saw where an asshole had parked his jacked up pickup like that at a grocery store, taking up three spots near the door of the store. People parked in front of and behind him so that he couldn't move, then went about their shopping. Dude was sitting in his truck yelling and honking his horn when I left the store. I don't know how long he was there, but I hope it was a while.7 points
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enjoy your holiday for this post. it's the sum of your attacks on her, not necessarily this individual one, but it's so over the top misogynistic i had no choice. jesus man get ahold of yourself.7 points
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