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Goredho

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  1. 🤷‍♂️ We'll see.
  2. Exactly. This is fundamentally different than Uvalde. Kids from the wealthiest & most powerful families in Texas were in grave danger and some died. It shouldn't matter, but it does.
  3. Well, obviously not everyone at Mystic has Hunt money, but there is a dead Hunt kid at Mystic and if that family wants real answers, they will get them. Knowing some of them personally, I think they will.
  4. Maybe, but my experience with such families is that they generally don't have a price when it comes to their own. The Hunt's have 25 billion dollars. Money means very little to them.
  5. A 9 year old from the Hunt family died in this. It isn't going to just be swept under the rug.
  6. Those camps are definitely like the greek system tailored to kids. They do a great job of providing coming-of-age experiences and connectivity for the next generation of Texas bankers, businessmen, socialites, politicians, etc... And the families of means looking to move into those circles. You can view that as cynically as you want, but the last names of campers there read like a list of surnames of those with power and influence inside the state of Texas. Cost insures its exclusivity. This is one reason I don't think this will all be hand waved away like Uvalde. When people with last names like Hunt or Kroenke or Kerr have questions, they will get answers. I come from some privilege and went to La Junta for 4 summers in the late 70s/early 80s, and it was an absolute blast. For me personally, it was a great growth opportunity and I got a shit ton of confidence out of the experiences. I never parleyed it into any sort of adult status, I spent most of my 20s ripping the silver spoon from my mouth, but for those lucky/connected enough to go, they are better for the experiences they had at these camps.
  7. This is a sub $500 guitar (used), nothing to envy, but it’s a solid mahogany/spruce dread that sounds and plays really good. It’s gonna replace my cheap, old black Takamine that was my only guitar for a long time while kids were little. The one I put them to bed with. My daughter asked if she could have it and I’m giving it to her.
  8. I think that’s a significant point. You see it all over Colorado, too. The rural, non-resort areas have very low taxes, very few services and three out of every four people that live there likes it that way. The right (wrong?) wildfire event would play out in much the same way in these areas. These local government officials are mostly guilty of providing the local government that locals want to pay for. So who is negligent and responsible here? That’s a debate for a different part of this site, but maybe people who disagree that emergency services are a cuttable cost should look to different areas for a sleepaway camp for their kids.
  9. I’m in Denver this weekend for family reasons and fucked up and stopped at guitar store. A used Guild D-140 that spoke to me is coming home. Seriously good guitar for what I paid for it.
  10. This is a horrific tragedy, and I feel for everyone affected. I am compelled to post, but what is there to say? Word's haven't been invented to capture or convey the horror of an unknown number of dead kids. I went to La Junta until 13, and the memories I have from there are among the best of my childhood. My brothers did, too, and my sister went to Camp Mystic. Had timing been different, it could have been one of us who was swept away in a flood, leaving behind grieving parents and the lingering, unanswerable question of why. I guess the one thing that might give some solace is that in the worst of tragedies we often see the best of men. It won't be from a politician. It will be from people there, doing what they can, at sacrifice or peril to themselves. You are already hearing allusions to it. How some of the counselors managed to guide their campers to safety. How posters here will be on their way to help in the recovery. Keep those stories coming, because they are the light in a time of darkness.
  11. Yeah, that’s sharp. Kind of with the hardware was gold.
  12. Unless you start seeding your social media with dramatic readings of "Mein Kampf" in blackface, you will not be qualified.
  13. It’s more that I live in rural America and the people around me that I’m talking about, none of them are involved in a work context like you describe. They are rural, blue collar types, and they are as happy as a maggot in a warm pile of bullshit.
  14. Exactly. I see no epiphanies happening among Trump voters like these memes present. Medicaid cuts haven't happened yet, so no one is feeling the pain. The Trump voters I know are happy with how he's running things, are fully convinced we're in the start of his promised Golden age and remain relieved that Kamala didn't win. So I question whether anything in this thread that is presented as regret is real or indicative of any real movement in the minds of his voters.
  15. Do you all think these LEF memes and shit are real people? I mean, I know a decent number of Trump voters of varying income/education/intelligence levels, and none of them are regretting their vote.
  16. Yeah, we're using cursor, and it's definitely a productivity boon for people with a reasonable amount of experience. Our organizational answer to the problem you describe is to just not hire juniors any more.
  17. Ok, your dues are paid. Nice Strat!
  18. This does not suffice.
  19. I think it’s more probably that the slew of government agencies looking into his businesses would have found some egregious crimes, so to avoid prison he had to be in a position to gut those agencies or otherwise have their attention refocused. Fuck Elon, he can go cry into his my pillow.
  20. Garbage in/garbage out is not new, but the pressures from above to become AI fueled organizations is such that your scenario is a danger of being a self-fulfilling prophecy. Do something disruptive and differentiating with AI -- or else. Ok, here’s your agenetic product and I’ll present it to you with the same level of confidence with which AI presented it to me. Because being able to tell who you answer to that you are doing something amazeballs with AI is all anyone gives a shit about anymore. I mean, that RFK video is the average executive/board person right now. The zeal superseded only by a lack of understanding, the pressure to adopt/get to market and void of consideration of consequence is very prevalent. What will be interesting is the first AI black swan catastrophe. I’m talking about something on the order of Chernobyl because someone rushed to rely on AI for something risky. I guess some sobriety might be introduced then.
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