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  1. Can't believe no one posted this masterpiece yet
    22 points
  2. Things continue to plod along overall. In reality, the NIL for much of the Texas efforts is being successfully funded via 4 routes: 1) corporate, 2) CFC and their 2 main benefactors plus a 3rd for hoops, 3) HornsWithHeart and the grass roots mid-level booster raising it's successfully doing, and 4) Surly for TEs and several other groups for other smaller dollars per player in non-football. What that means is that everyone putting in here into such things is appreciated and continued support is needed. What that also means is that the big money outside of CFC, so far, is on the sidelines and doesn't want to participate because they haven't gotten a legitimate firm nudge from the AD. CDC is talking a good game, but if he really wanted NIL funded, endowed, and supported, the big money wouldn't be completely reluctant to even talk. People get frustrated, but I've raised a lot of money over the years. More than $100million through this kind of effort since the mid-2000's. It's quite simply a hell of a thing. Then it either falls apart or the dam breaks and you can't even slow down the influx of capital. It depends upon the business' outlook and market conditions. I have a high amount of confidence that everything will keep falling in place. Basketball has a big supporter through the BMDs and CFC already, which is terrific. Everyone is aiming to have stacks high and ready to support the program before the Dec 2022 portal period and coincidentally around SD1. Some of my cadre tend to speak very angrily and passionately about the reticence from the top levels to this point and I understand it. Y'all on here will too. But for me, this is how it goes. Change either happens like water over a rock or a lightning bolt through a tree. We've had plenty of both, but endowing shit was always going to be the slow kind of change until a levee breaks somewhere. FWIW, I've put in and committed annually for the future a decent chunk relative to normal person earnings, and if something I'm dealing with finishes a successful exit in early 2023, I'll substantially add to it. But that is money I won't be sending to things like Children's Advocates, or one of the smaller cancer support firms in Texas, and myriad other places. It's tough in some ways, because I can rationalize decisions in any direction. I'm happy to support a charity that helps other charities though, and that's where I land. I get where the bigger money has some level of struggle though, because it's not just about where it's going for UT, by any stretch.
    21 points
  3. Also, holy shit, this exact fucking play is covered in the Casebook at page 73-74: Seriously, by the fucking book, this was not targeting!
    19 points
  4. Fong saying he's hearing FSU for Hykeem Williams
    18 points
  5. Takeaway: If you're going to single out and manipulate scared, vulnerable people without means, maybe don't put them in the laps of fierce, savvy, highly educated, resourced people who hate you.
    17 points
  6. The referenda are a clear indication of two things. First, it is a tacit admission that the “special military operation” has failed in its primary aims. Taking Kyiv, toppling Zelenskyy, installing a puppet regime are off the table. Putin is shifting to consolidating his gains, such as they are. Second, this is a clear escalation to try and stem the tide of losing. This stunt opens several doors. First, Putin likely believes that “annexation” will make nuclear blackmail more credible and will cause the West to pause and think about more advanced capabilities. Second, as outlined, it opens the door for further mobilization at home and commitment of more resources to the Ukraine fight. Make no mistake, this is a dangerous development. The snap nature of the “referenda” means that realistically, we are limited in what we can provide to Ukraine to help them change the facts on the ground in advance. If I could make policy prescriptions, it would be “don’t blink” and also to speed up or even shift course: make announcements that Ukraine gets ATACMS and other capabilities and that they may be used anywhere within the internationally recognized borders of Ukraine or for purposes to defend said territory.
    17 points
  7. I'm an old man now who grew up on Htown pro sports. I fell in love with the Luv Ya Blue Oilers as a very young kid. Earl was my first hero and I will always love him for making me a Houston sports fan and that fandom coincided with those Astros and Rockets playoff teams in 1980/81. I remember watching Cheo, Terry Puhl, Cedeno, Art Howe, Denny Walling, Craig Reynolds, Joe Sambito, Danny Heep, Dave Smith, Nolan (duh), Joe Niekro, etc and then watching the Calvin Murphy/Moses Malone/Robert Reid Rockets teams later followed by the Twin Towers and then those Clutch City Rockets teams that delivered the Greatest Moment in Houston Sports Ever when they beat the Knicks in gm 7. This man pictured above has surpassed Hakeem as the most iconic face on Houston Sports Mt Rushmore. We are truly blessed as fans with what the Astros have given us the last seven years and this Astros dynasty (and it is a dynasty goddamnit) does not exist without Jose Altuve. Do I literally love him? You're goddamn right I do.
    17 points
  8. This sounds like a great way to work yourself into a depression for no good reason.
    16 points
  9. I hate everything about Baylor.
    13 points
  10. Crap - were we supposed to be actually reading his posts all this time?? My approach to Incredulity posts was always:
    13 points
  11. You know we've read your posts that you've made here over the past few years, right?
    13 points
  12. Yeah, it's dangerous. But facing down a nuclear-armed power and frustrating its expansionist goals has always been dangerous. It was dangerous on February 24. It was dangerous in 1980 in Afghanistan. It was dangerous in 1961 in West Berlin. It was dangerous in 1951 in Korea. And in each of those instances, American resolve has been key to seeing off Russian aggression. But here's the happy thing: this was always a necessary step on the road to Ukrainian victory. Russia expected to be able to march into Kyiv with its "special military operation" and just 100,000 troops. That has failed. And more than 50,000 of those troops are now dead (with many more maimed or held prisoner). This move is a recognition by Russia that its special military operation has failed. But Russia was never going to just hang up the skates and call it a day. That's not how aggressors work. Russia is fully committed, even if Russia didn't intend to fully commit itself on February 24. The only way this was ever going to end with a Ukrainian victory is for Russia to declare a mass mobilization and for its mobilized army to be defeated. That is what is going to cause the civil unrest and political pressure in Moscow that is going to force Russia to end its aggression. Otherwise, you would just have people in Moscow continue going to McDowell's while rando dipshits from the provinces get killed--a state of affairs that could continue for indefinitely. Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
    12 points
  13. Russia already "annexed" Crimea and claims it as Russian territory, and the Ukrainians haven't hesitated to attack assets there. Ukraine, backed by the US and UK, have said the the liberation of Crimea and all currently occupied Ukrainian territory is the end goal of their operation. Russia "annexing" the other occupied territories of Ukraine won't matter one damn bit. Ukraine will keep attacking.
    12 points
  14. no idea who Dr Mike is... but those 3 tweets read like a surly-ite who had 2 European History courses posting on here like they know shit *looking at myself*.... who me?? fuck that I had 8 European history courses bitch I am a MFing expert.
    12 points
  15. Holy fuck @Shaggyhorn just go to some other threads and lurk a while. This isn't going anywhere.
    11 points
  16. I find it deeply disturbing to discover that there is a healthy contingent of posters I view on the spectrum from "being tolerable" to "legitimately liking" who are band dorks. Christ.
    11 points
  17. I think it's even worse than that. Revolutions are often led by the disaffected conscripted army that is losing and sees their job as little more than being slaughtered. Without effective command and leadership, a conscript army is just a breeding ground for mutiny. And I don't think we've seen anything from the Russian army thus far that it would indicate that it's even capable of effective command and leadership. One of the worst instances of civil unrest in American history was the 1863 draft riots in New York. You could easily see that happening in Moscow. That's exactly right. Russia keeps fighting this thing like it's the Great Patriotic War (except this time, it's Ukraine that is getting the benefit of Lend-Lease). But it's fucking not, and sending a bunch of untrained and only partially armed troops onto a modern battlefield isn't going to do anything to stop the Ukrainian advance. I think that might be right. But this gets to a critical point that Putin hasn't yet realized. If this gets into an escalatory cycle, Russia is fucked. Russia really has no leverage over us. The annex the Donbas--we'll sell Ukraine ATACMS and let them attack inside Russia. They want to target more infrastructure--we'll designate them a state sponsor of terrorism and implement secondary sanctions. They want to pop off a tactical nuke--we'll send Ukraine all the good stuff (F-16s, M1A2s, Bradleys, Global Hawks, and all the fucking cyberwarfare and intelligence they want). And guess what? We still haven't put a single American into combat. And that's the problem for Russia. Using no American troops and little more than a rounding error on our defense budget, we have managed to destroy at least five Russian divisions. Imagine what happens if we get serious.
    11 points
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  19. The conference has their top men reviewing it. They’re working in shifts
    11 points
  20. 11 points
  21. Look to his coming at kickoff of the fourth game. At dawn, look to the east
    10 points
  22. I'm sure he's got a racehorse he can give him. Maybe the Judge will give him a discount and settle for Eric.
    10 points
  23. 10 points
  24. Might as well put out what I think will happen, as message board asshole cred is not high stakes. Putin will declare his support for the referendums and lay the groundwork for a partial mobilization after they are are conducted and the territories formally annexed. This will enable him to, later, deploy conscripts and conscript reserves to the territories. I think they will be mostly kept off the front lines and used as a deterrent and to provide logistics, support, and occupational authority security. I think any major offensives by Russia are going to be on pause for the foreseeable future because they just can’t do them. These annexations will have to be Putin’s win for the time being and he can’t hold even them without regenerating forces from somewhere. Penal battalions and Chechen volunteers won’t cut it. He will try to keep kontraktniki in the actual line of fire, Moving industry to a war footing is more interesting to me. I see the main benefit of this as a propaganda move as he sees hard economic times coming under sanctions. This defangs that a bit— Russians will learn they are heroically sacrificing consumer goods to build tanks for the front, rather than facing empty shelves because you’re being sanctioned into oblivion. Undoubtedly, we will see other government services cut to funnel more of the budget to defense. And the authoritarian’s golden rule— never let a crisis go to waste when you can exploit it for more domestic repression. We will also see more nuclear blackmail but that was coming no matter what.
    10 points
  25. Wordle 458 2/6 🟨⬜🟨⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Daily Quordle 239 6️⃣7️⃣ 4️⃣3️⃣ quordle.com ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 ⬜🟨⬜🟩🟨 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ #Worldle #242 1/6 (100%) 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉 https://worldle.teuteuf.fr
    10 points
  26. Wordle 458 X/6 [emoji834][emoji834][emoji834][emoji834][emoji834] 🟨🟨🟨[emoji834][emoji834] [emoji834]🟨[emoji834]🟨🟩 [emoji834]🟩🟨[emoji834]🟩 🟩🟩🟩[emoji834]🟩 🟩🟩🟩[emoji834]🟩
    10 points
  27. The answer is awaiting you in your friendly neighborhood HEB. “HEB: Come get your tortillas, you stupid fucking cunt” *this particular ad campaign did not work out*
    9 points
  28. ^That'll be funny if the Chechens are the first to protest mobilization given their puppet leader is one of their biggest supporters
    9 points
  29. there's more but those get the gist of it and why Russia is fucked.
    9 points
  30. Tucker Carlson and his merry band of sycophants should be signing some paperwork toot sweet, right?
    9 points
  31. Wordle 458 3/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩 ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 After a bunch of pars and a brick, I'm on a streak of an eagle and three birdies. Deal with it, Wordle.
    9 points
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  33. As an immigrant… seeing my first Astros game on TV was what made this foreign country seem more familiar (immigrated from Taiwan where baseball is the most popular pro sport). It truly was love at first sight. And boy did we live through some mediocre and bad teams. And all the heartache agains the Braves. All this is to say that I never imagined that we as Astros fans would witness a WS and the sustained success this team is on and because of the foundation Luhnow put in… probable continued success. God I love the Astros. Will never take this for granted. It’s still a crystal clear memory during the rebuilding years… I’ll never forget sitting in the Giant’s stadium as they got perfect gamed against… and on the BART ride ride back home, hearing a drunk Giants fan downplay the perfect game because the Astros was a AA team in quality.
    9 points
  34. 9 points
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