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Goredho

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  1. Not just them, but you (the proverbial you), too. No one of any ideological leaning is exempt, unless you make the conscious decision to ignore the shit you can't verify or do anything about and focus on your proximal life and the things you can directly affect. If people of any ideologically zealous position show up on my property looking for trouble, they'll find it. Until then, hell, let's have a look at Tay-tay's bridal registry.
  2. An angry, afraid and stupid populace is a manipulable populace.
  3. Why the fuck are we not talking about a President from one political party deploying federal troops to cities in states controlled by the opposition party to intimidate its populace and usurp the lawful authority of duly elected local governance and law enforcement? Fuck all this Epstein pedo shit. Maybe it's true, maybe it's not, but there is no way we'll ever know definitively one way or the other. But what we do know, definitively, is that the President from one political party is deploying federal troops to cities in states controlled by the opposition party to intimidate its populace and and usurp the lawful authority of the duly elected local governance and law enforcement. The only people more manipulatable than Trump are all the people who abhor who he is and everything he stands for.
  4. Best prediction, imo. I don't see SJSU scoring a touchdown. We are a work in progress on offense, and not super explosive, so I think we will somewhat methodically kick the shit out of them. However, I am a shitty prognosticator, so... This is probably more correct. Arch pulled for a walk-on at halftime.
  5. Don't accept a drink from you under any circumstances?
  6. *pulls pin and counts to 3* So what are Arch’s chances to still win the Heisman? *runs for cover*
  7. Through 3 quarters that was an offensive game plan you use against Rice the week before the OU game. It couldn't have been more vanilla. The only thing daring (stupid?) was going for it every 4th down. After we went down two touchdowns, Sark started opening it up, we moved the ball and Arch looked better if not exactly good. I am not excusing Arch, he was objectively shitty, but we might win that game if Sark had made those changes at halftime, or actually went into the game trying to be aggressive on offense. I mean, for as ugly as it looked on offense, we lost by 1 score. I still think this outcome might be the best case scenario for this team. They were picked to win it all, Arch was going to win the Heisman and be drafted #1. There was no where to go but down with those expectations. Hell, there weren't those expectations for Texas the year VY won it all. USC had those expectations on them with all the senior talent and multi-year starters at key positions like QB -- and they didn't live up to them, either. There was no way this Texas team was going to run the table with Arch playing at a Heisman level every game as basically a sophomore with 2 starts against mediocre teams. Now no one is going to put microphones in the player's faces asking them how they feel about being #1, or the Heisman favorite, yada yada. All that shit detracts from the development this young team needs to go through to be something close to its potential. I think we've seen Arch's worst game, and I think we'll wind up being very, very good by the end of the year.
  8. I think we will be ok. This team and especially Arch were the subject of ridiculous expectations. There is no way they could have been met without a first year starter doing what only 3 people have done in the history of college football: finish #1 with a national championship, win the heisman and be drafted #1. Well, that pressure is off Arch and this team now, and they can hopefully develop ā€œnormallyā€ without the ridiculous hype. We were 1-5 on 4th downs, +4 in penalties (2 providing first downs on their first scoring drive), and +1 on turnovers with really poor play from our QB and we lost by a touchdown on the road to #3. I think that bodes well for being able to tighten things up over the rest of our non-conference schedule and finish strong. I will be pretty surprised if this does not prove to be Arch’s worst game of the year.
  9. Arch sucked today. The guy people predicted would lead Texas to a national championship, take home a heisman and be drafted first overall before he had any meaningful experience had a shitty start to the season. He had nowhere to go but down and he went down hard, like it was his first day in prison. Today’s Arch would have lost to last year’s GA and Ohio State’s teams. He’d have an 0-3 record against them just like Ewers did. As it is, he’s 0 and 1 against elite competition in his young career. It will be interesting to see where he’s at in November against GA after he has had some time to develop without the ridiculous expectations.
  10. Most realtors I know are people who want to be entrepreneurs but don't have much to bring to the entrepreneurial table other than a desire to be entrepreneurs.
  11. This deserved to be repeated. The leadership we have at the national level has had to pass the test of public scrutiny and acceptance at multiple levels over more than a decade. This is what the U.S. has said it wants. Repeatedly. Over and over, prevailing attitudes in myself and on these forums notwithstanding. Its a really interesting time to be alive. The context of the times gives rise to all sorts of philosophical quandaries, such as: if a majority of people in a democracy want to end democracy, is it tyranny to force them to live under continued democracy?
  12. I don’t want my personal observations/experiences to imply that I don’t believe anyone who is experiencing GD is not doing so for their own personal and legitimate reasons. Or that no one should be trans or have their life’s happiness at the end of a transition. There are absolutely people who are and should. Their right to self determination should not be infringed. I only mean that in my personal experience, there are a lot more people experiencing GD than previous generations, and that for those that I personally know, being trans seems to have more to do with fitting in with an online crowd than a personal journey of self discovery and determination.
  13. Isn't it also ridiculous that Haitians are eating pets en masse in Ohio? That Jade Helm was an attempt by the federal government to subjugate red states? That the Clintons murdered everyone they did business with? That public schools are installing litter boxes to accommodate furries? That Los Angeles and DC are undergoing unprecedented crime so as to warrant occupation by federal forces? There are malevolent forces instilling ideas in the populace to engineer social discord literally all. the. time. Where would they stop? What line is a line uncrossable? The only thing that would prevent them from not just exploiting gender dysphoria but engineering it is the means to engineer it. Knowing what is possible with AI at scale, I am not sure those means don't exist. We are living in a multi-tentacled psyop to upend the United States that has been engineered by malevolent forces from both inside and outside the country. Feel free to make your arguments that this isn't the case, I will certainly consider them.
  14. I have posted in another thread about how I've known several kids who have come out as trans to their parents. While it's their journey to determine if their gender dysphoria is legitimate or not, I personally think they will come to discover they are not, knowing them as I do. I also posted about where I see these kids getting the idea that they are trans. All of them started spending an inordinate amount of time online during covid lockdowns, on video game servers, on discord, etc... and never returned to "real life" from before the lock downs. They became convinced they were trans after interfacing with online communities where their "friends" (online only, never met in real life) are trans, and they are kind of following an online herd. It has made me wonder if all these online spaces where this is prevalent are either A) refuges where the anonymity of the internet provides people with a safe space to question themselves with others who are also questioning themselves or B) essentially traps set to ensnare troubled teens into a sense of gender dysphoria so as to generate more societal discord. Like, how do we know that these online "friends" aren't a Russian AI chatbot? Or just some person getting funded by a group who benefits from our societal discord to essentially "recruit" troubled teens into the front lines of the culture wars? We don't. All we can really say is that there are a whole lot of people/groups inside and outside of this country that would have no moral or ethical qualms about funding/facilitating such an operation. That this trans person was obsessed with guns, mass shooters, far-right politicians, anti-semitism and was stenciling Russian messages on their weaponry makes me wonder even more. But, the most likely scenario is that these kids are troubled, either from a childhood interrupted by covid or other reasons, and these underlying issues make them want to "escape" the real world for a virtual one. They then wander into an online environment where being trans is trendy. These communities provide them with connection and acceptance, and they start to mimic their peers as teens are wont to do. These peers just happen to be online and trans. Voila, you now have a teen with gender dysphoria on your hands. Their parents are typically blindsided when the teen finally comes out. If they are the type tuned into the conservative infosphere, predigested answers as to how and why their kid is trans are readily available. It's the liberals, the groomers at the public school, the democrats, Hollywood, and so on. It's a goddam shame our kids are a fucking political football. Just leave them alone to figure out who the fuck they are.
  15. This country sure went to shit after the native Americans were usurped.
  16. I am only surprised that in 2025 America, they didn't appropriate the Cleveland Indians Chief Wahoo logo.
  17. I hope you all realize that if Raja doesn’t get prosecuted I am going to channel my inner Derka from the Quinn Ewers thread in this bitch 😜
  18. Mark Henry weighs in and seemingly lays most of the blame on the wrestler's lack of experience.
  19. My only regret is that it does not have a PRS headstock.
  20. You've got break a few eggs if you want to make an omelette for the world's first trillionaire.
  21. Well, I think there is an event horizon with AGI after which we can only speculate as to what will happen downstream from that moment. The only thing I think we can be certain of is that A) it will be a threshold event, there will be the human experience before and after AGI and B) there will be a tremendous amount of disruptive change with a lot of butterfly effect. So I don't think it's too valuable to speculate about the ramifications of human's sharing their existence with an intelligence greater than their own. Even the AI experts disagree wildly. The lack of consensus tells me we really don't have any idea of what the future holds post AGI. Beliefs about that future beyond the singularity share more commonality with a spiritual faith than logical analysis. Also, I am not convinced AGI is imminent.
  22. I didn’t say the AI artist was worth a damn😜. My point is what can AI do in an artistic realm without a human to guide it, provide it a perspective and feedback loop? Nothing. You can’t quantify art, you can’t reduce it to some mathematical, deterministic ā€œbetterā€ outcome. Like you could have an AI optimize a drug so that statistical models show increased survivability against cancer. The funniest thing about the AI artists work in the coffee shop? It had a $250 price tag on it, right next to a bunch of ā€œrealā€ art priced similarly. It was nothing that couldn’t have been produced with Midjourney by anyone in 15 minutes. But… I’m not sure it was objectively worse than all the ā€œrealā€ art around it. It’s all just local bohemians who, if they had real talent, wouldn’t be relegated to the walls of the 3rd best coffee shop in Salida, CO population 3000.
  23. Pickguard screw count check please…
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