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  1. https://theathletic.com/3343013/2022/05/31/diamonte-tucker-dorsey-texas-transfer-portal/?redirected=1
    17 points
  2. So, as the war moves into June this is what one random message board asshole thinks the Russians are up to and what we should do. - I really do think that Putin believed Kyiv would fall and he’d install a puppet government that would hand over Donbas and more without real fighting. - I think now Russia is going to try push their territorial gains to the maximum of their capability. At minimum, all of Donbas, hold onto Kherson and the southeast. - Russia will then offer Ukraine a truce. Abandon claims to Donbas and Crimea with the status of Kherson to be negotiated. In exchange, peace and the food starts leaving Ukrainian ports. Russia will wait till later in the summer, the Kremlin will want migrants to at least begin showing up on European shores. - Russia will play some gas brinksmanship and the migrant card to prod Germany, France, Italy, and of course Hungary and Turkey to prod Ukraine to accept the deal. They will be the ones offering a “reasonable peace” and it’s important to remember that especially France and Germany didn’t see Ukraine as a real country before the war. They’ve been pushed into solitary because they had no place to hide— but this deal will sound sensible to them. Even more sensible than Ukraine’s position. - If it works, great for Russia. Zelenskyy’s government will soon fall, Ukraine will become even more of a basket case and ripe for exploration. If the gambit fails, Russia digs in to defensive positions, preps for a long hybrid war (kinetic in Ukraine, info/gas/cyber/migrants/food against the West) and keeps beating the “ready to talk on our terms” drum. At the very least, counting on distraction and fatigue and the propaganda war to divide NATO and leave Ukraine in a perilous state. All of the above is a very real scenario. And this is a tough nut to crack because as the war goes on we see that Russia’s very real weaknesses and cracks can only be exploited so far. What we and Ukraine need to do: - Remind everyone constantly that this is not a war of territory. It’s a war for survival. Russian occupation will mean ethnic cleansing and brutal repression. Ukraine needs some show trials of its own (not in the sense of pre-determined— but showing the world what Russia does). Ukraine has to make it completely unpalatable to suggest any sort of peace on Russian terms with Ukrainians behind their lines. - We need to make clear to Russia that we will not consult with them about what what types of weapons Ukraine gets. Weapons deliveries to Ukraine will be driven by our joint assessments of their needs, our own security needs, and our own availability. Any conventional weapons are on the table regardless of capability. We can play the game ourselves, NATO is a nuclear alliance. We need to publicly state this and treat it as patently absurd that Russia would attack a nuclear Alliance over weapons deliveries or introduce nuclear weapons on a battlefield because it’s losing a war. It’s time for us to set the rules of rationality.
    17 points
  3. 16 points
  4. There should be a rule where if a poster comments more than 3 times in a thread they can never claim to “give 0 fucks about” the topic of that thread.
    14 points
  5. Yeah this happened at my pregnant wife’s hospital where she’s an ICU nurse. (Thankfully she wasn’t working today.) Real nice trash fucking county we have here. Good to know we’re the only place in the world other than cartel states, sub-Saharan Africa or active war zones where this bullshit happens every other fucking day. Big fuck you to the NRA and its army of trash fucking redneck assholes that have turned this country into a gun-worshiping hellacape where you have to worry about your kids getting shot at school or your wife getting shot while she goes about her business helping people at a fucking hospital.
    13 points
  6. Duuuuuude, you are desperately needed on the football board. You know what to do.
    13 points
  7. We won! Texas Men’s Golf National Champions. Light The Tower!
    13 points
  8. 13 points
  9. 1. Send your wife out of town and let her know you’ll take care of everything. 2. Throw everything in the back of your truck and take to Goodwill. 3. Get $126 in small bills and lay it on the table.
    12 points
  10. You can't negotiate with the person who keeps lighting your house on fire when they finally run out of gas. They're going to do it again as soon as they can get their hands on some more. Russia's word cannot be trusted.
    11 points
  11. Bronze? So WTF do you have to do to get the gold or silver cross, find the cure for Covid-19? She deserves the fucking Medal Of Freedom.
    11 points
  12. HOLY SHIT HAVE YOU CONTACTED HER LAWYERS WITH THIS NEWS?!?!?!?!?!
    10 points
  13. Is that a fried bat? Did 2020 teach you nothing?
    10 points
  14. 10 points
  15. Beto should blame Abbott for high gas prices. "We're Texas. We have more oil than anybody in the world. Why is our gas so expensive?"
    10 points
  16. The key is always balance. You have to strike the right balance of thoughts and prayers. Too much thinking and you're going to realize arming the teachers and hardening schools is at best, a deflection, and at worst, dangerous. Too many prayers and God may actually inspire you. You may realize all these guns aren't really part of his plan. Best just to say "thoughts and prayers" and not really mean it.
    9 points
  17. She left a mountain of evidence in the bed
    9 points
  18. If anyone was wondering if we'd ever find our BBQ Derka, well, we have.
    9 points
  19. Oh, no--it's far crazier than that. They swore him in during a secret meeting of the City Council on Monday. And if you're like "but wait, GOLL--there can't be a 'secret' City Council meeting under Texas law," you'd be dead right. The Open Meetings Act requires meetings to be posted 72 hours in advance and open to the public. And, by the way, there are criminal penalties for violating the OMA.
    9 points
  20. If vick wins this, im buying a safari hat
    8 points
  21. Brisket, sausage, mac & chee, hot sauce, Franklin’s original sauce. Ice cold beer.
    8 points
  22. Congrats to the Ukrainians on a big victory on the pitch today vs Scotland. Just an incredibly inspiring performance. Now they face Wales on Sunday with the World Cup on the line.
    8 points
  23. God dammit, now I need to go neg sbbruin on general principle.
    8 points
  24. If you haven't had 12 men, you aren't a true aggy.
    8 points
  25. They shouldn't be. 1) Cops have qualified immunity. That would apply even more so in a case where they didn't actually take any harmful action (rather, the issue is their inaction). 2) On top of that, it is well-established law (SCOTUS) that cops have no duty to protect others. The cops could have stood outside LAUGHING at the screams of the children and would have zero liability. That is because -- and this is important, follow me here -- law enforcement in this country is complete and total, 100%, from top to bottom, HOT GARBAGE. Their only obligation is to themselves, and that's exactly how they act. Remember that any time you see anyone flying one of those stupid-ass blue line flags. Not only are they bootlickers, they are licking a boot that exists solely to crush other people and protect the wearer. The only reason they like that boot is that it mostly crushes people the flag-waver doesn't like (cough, cough....minorities). That's it.
    8 points
  26. Not seeing it in our industry, and maybe tech is different than law, backing, and other white collar, but almost all my professional friends are seeing about half their workforce headed remote permanently. I know there is a big philosophical divide on this that will last for a while but I don’t think the genie is going back in the bottle. I am biased as I’m going full time remote next week but I gave my employer the choice of me retiring or going remote and they jumped at remote.
    8 points
  27. Dem 1: We need to do something big to regain relevance. How about we convince all the members of our party in the Senate to overturn the filibuster so we can pass popular legislation like voting rights, background checks for gun purchases, and protect abortion rights? Dem 2: That is way to difficult and complicated. Instead we should recruit the top scientific minds in the world to bioengineer an incredibly virulent man-made virus that will cause a world-wide pandemic and cause a global shutdown for multiple years, and kill millions cause that will help us beat Trump in 2020. This project will require 100's of billions of dollars in funding, and we need to do this in complete secrecy and need to prevent any of those those thousands of scientists and their assistants that we recruited for this project from ever talking to anyone, including their family members. If even one person talks to the press or law enforcement, we may get blamed for this, but i think we can manage that risk. Dem 1: It's fool proof!
    8 points
  28. When I see someone using natty and/or croots, it's a relief because I know I don't have to bother getting to know them or wondering if we would get along. Kind of like people that use furbabies.
    8 points
  29. Same here. I think a lot of us fit that description. It’s possible to own guns and enjoy shooting without being a fucking weirdo and injecting firearms into every aspect of your life. It’s possible to own guns without being such a pussy that you think everyday life is too dangerous without a sidearm. It’s possible to own guns while acknowledging that maybe there should be some limits as to what kinds of weapons civilians should have access to. And it’s possible to own guns while believing that maybe the world would be we better off without guns at all.
    8 points
  30. Thanks so much for the updates boys. This is one of my favorite events of the sports year. I watch it every year, especially when we’re in it. I was locked in yesterday but couldn’t watch much today because I’m in Aruba with limited YoutubeTv capabilities. But y’all kept me updated. And we fucking won the whole damn thing!!! So proud of them. Need to find highlights.
    7 points
  31. One of the dead is one of my partners’ former partners. Left a wife and 3 kids. People need to wake tf up
    7 points
  32. Great. Now some teacher is going to get in trouble for not stopping and properly questioning one of these random "intruders". One more reason for them to bitch about teachers while not actually solving anything. You want to know why teachers are leaving? Here it is... the people that are supposed to make teaching easier (not easy... easier) seem dead-set on making it impossible. Whether by withholding the proper funding, fomenting anger toward teachers (by labeling teachers as groomers), or these performative mandates, Texas had made it clear they do not value teachers. Fuck this state.
    7 points
  33. Guess whose wife works at the TxSSC and has literally never heard a single gotdam thing from Abbott until this tweet came out? Yep, mine.
    7 points
  34. Lol, peon. You can slave in the office while I sit on my deck and work. Sorry your skill set doesn’t allow you to get out of the office.
    7 points
  35. Yes. Stuff like this. It's not like people really understand why gas prices are rising. Just blame Abbott and don't bother explaining. Make the Republicans have to do the "well, that's not how this works" while nobody pays attention.
    7 points
  36. Yep, that's what I said
    7 points
  37. How would you like to sit behind these dudes at the movies?
    7 points
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