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Kids today get everything just handed to them. They already get to skip class to run school shooter drills. Now they get to skip even more class to practice the hide under your desk and kiss your ass goodbye drill. Plus, one lucky kid gets to skip even more class. It's straight to the principal's office for the first kid who points out hiding under your desk isn't going to shit if you are nuked and you'd probably wish you were dead if you somehow did manage to survive it. I wouldn't know what that's like though. It's not like I did that in 4th grade and then again in 6th grade.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Pods replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
I had some kids suddenly dart in front of me in a parking lot today. Weirdly, I didn't hit them. Didn't even need to run a flashing stop sign on the side of a bus to not hit them. Probably because when there are children around, I know there is a decent chance one of them will obliviously dart in front of me. I anticipate this and up my own vigilance, because I don't want to run over someone's little paste eater. -
Plutonium bombs like Fat Man and the Gadget require extremely intricate calculations and everything has to go perfectly to detonate. Gun type designs like Little Boy are very simple and don't require advance testing to determine whether they will work. It's not super efficient, but if they already have the enriched uranium, they can easily make a bomb. Dirty bombs are even easier. The world's lackluster response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine made it clear, the only way to protect yourself against a nuclear power is to posses nukes yourself. If Iran doesn't currently have nukes, they've been massively incentivized to build them as soon as possible. Virtually anything is better than Dr. Pepper's high school dropout brother.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Pods replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
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Really appreciate the perspective here and had a quick question. Is the IAF's inability to pull this off with their own planes a matter of payload, range and/or defeating Iranian air defense? Combo of all three? Did you say Mo' Nuke Friday? Because if so, I've got some good news for you... Gonna have to scooch those hands a bit more clockwise.
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Sips of truth are quickly drowned out when they drink from a firehose of lies.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Pods replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
Not to mention the earthquake risk. It would take a special kind of mouth breather to get in a Musk built underground tunnel in an area as seismically active as LA. Wanting to fuck 14 year olds? Who does he think he is, Joseph Smith? -
It's cool, so long as you also skip arm day.
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Everything is Shit: Tracking the Great Enshittening
Pods replied to 956 Worldwide's topic in Daily Texan
His Lawyers closing argument: Is my client guilty of stomping on turtles? Yes. Is he guilty of sucking up ghosts with a vacuum cleaner? Also yes. Does he drive like a manic and have an issue with road rage? Sure, but who doesn't get a little steamed in traffic? None of that makes him a murderer. Maybe the turtles, but as we showed you, he was stomping those turtles in self-defense. Most importantly, I want to remind you that the prosecution introduced video evidence of a silent shooter. Silent. But we've shown you clear evidence that my client is simply unable to enter a scene without announcing himself. Whoever the shooter is, he is completely silent. You never hear the shooter say "ima Luigi", because it wasn'ta Luigi. Defense rests. -
Tracking Trump Administration and Cabinet picks
Pods replied to PenelopeWitherspoon's topic in Cloak Room
Call me crazy, but it seems like the best way to support our "war fighters" would be to use the soft power we used to have to limit the amount of "war fighting" they have to do. -
For anyone that didn't watch It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, this page has gotten weird.
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Sure Kevlar is great and all, but it's a lot cheaper to use scale mail.
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But fish in the bowl is lucky They in for a worser fate One day when the boss get hungry Guess who's gon' be on the plate
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It's hard to get an accurate read on Dart. He's only played 1 year with a coach that isn't Lane Kiffin and it's the year Clay Helton finally got fired. Dart is boom, or bust, but has the potential to be a good quarterback now that his coach doesn't have the emotional maturity of an angry toddler refusing to take a nap. Banks at #9 is an absolute steal. Saints fans are going to be really happy with that pick.
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I'll take the over. The shining city on the hill is burning all around us and too many Americans are mistaking the fire for the light. When there is nothing left to burn, we will find ourselves well into the new Dark Ages.
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Damn, that's at least 9 eggs. We really are the Joneses.
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Did anyone else hear that explosion just now in North Austin?
Pods replied to hornbri's topic in Daily Texan
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He likes Asian girls?
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Last one and I'll quit hijacking the thread with La Brea chat, but this helps show how absurd the preservation is. This a 3D model of a 14,000 year old leaf cutter bee made from very high resolution CT scans. Each slice is 3 microns thick. Left is the eye, right is the abdomen. The flat spot in the middle is one of the wings. There are individual pollen grains and full internal organ system preserved. There is so much preserved detail, scanning and processing them crashed a supercomputer. Red arrow is the eye. Blue is the wing. Orange is the abdomen.
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For anyone that hasn't been, it's a small museum, but definitely worth the admission price. All the outside stuff is free and you can often see a crew digging in one of the pits. La Brea is what's called a predator trap. Something gets stuck and predators show up to eat it. They get stuck and other things show up to eat them and also get stuck. As a result, there are lot of dire wolves (over 4,000) and other predators. Each bone in this picture is the same Golden Eagle foot bone from a different fossil specimen. Bones like this are so fragile, they almost never preserve. It really is incredible. You'll never see another museum like it.
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Here's a cladogram from the Nature paper, you can think of it as a family tree. From left to right is time. The branches show how closely related they are to each other. Each place the branches diverge represents the common ancestor for that group and the number represents how many millions of years ago the split occurred. For example, Andean foxes split from everyone else 6.8 million years ago. Dire wolves split from everyone else 5.7 million years ago. The grey wolf is WAY up the family tree from dire wolves. They are not very close at all.
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Every press release this company has had is techbro bullshit. They are hyping up the same thing with elephants and saying they will make mammoths. When you see the next one from the same company, it's going to be bullshit too. What this company is doing is not science, it's pumping up their share price. They used a program called CRISPR to make 20 edits to 14 genes (out of at least 20,000 functional genes) of a modern gray wolf. It's not 99.9% gray wolf, it's a gray wolf. @LTbear might have more insight, but it doesn't look at all like a dire wolf to me. My favorite museum display in the world is at the La Brea Tar Pits. ~400 dire wolf skulls all mounted on the same backlit wall. I couldn't calculate the number of hours I've spent looking at the variation between those skulls. The snout of these gray wolves is way too small and gracile. Plus, recent DNA work (2021) suggests that modern wolves are not the closest living relatives of dire wolves. Dire wolves are evolutionarily closer to jackals and African wild dogs than modern wolves. We share more DNA with chimpanzees than wolves share with dire wolves. Here's a pdf of the Nature paper. https://tinylink.net/gHM90 Science magazine's take. https://www.science.org/content/article/legendary-dire-wolf-may-not-have-been-wolf-all That pdf is freely available online and got enough publicity that Colossal is definitely aware of it. If they wanted to be accurate, they should have modified jackal DNA to reconstruct this, but that wouldn't generate an absurd share price for the company.
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Texas Becoming an AI-Powered Surveillance State
Pods replied to Horn Under a Bad Sign's topic in Cloak Room
Michael, Jermaine AND Randy Jackson (not that Randy Jackson). Rockwell's dad was CEO of Motown Records, though they were supposedly estranged at the time. I'm assuming that opened a few doors for him. -
Split a cooked hot dog down the middle making two halves. Top with mashed potatoes. Top with cheese and bake until cheese is melted.
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