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Brian Fantana

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  1. LFG If by some miracle Darrion Williams comes back....whew
  2. I'd like to start and own a bad post factory, I have extensive experience
  3. I'm not sure I'd argue he's top 10 right now even though he just won. You don't need to be top 10 to win a natty. You need the right head coach, a good stable of assistants, a well constructed roster, and a great support system behind it all. Your facilities, your basketball operations program, the general manager, all that shit is just as important if not more important than the head coach individually.
  4. Before you type posts like this you should consider: What top 10 coaches were available to hire? Which one(s) would have left their current position for Texas? How much do you think the AD would be willing to pay for one of them?
  5. I don't even think disentangling from China is a good idea. In my opinion, it's in the best interest of the global economy for the US/Chinese economies to remain as entangled as they are. To me, it's ridiculous to care even a little bit about how much US debt they hold. Who gives a shit?
  6. No, it doesn't fully explain it at all but it's a big part of it.
  7. It's all inside baseball but I know a fair number of people in the industry (at Blue Origin, SpaceX, and JPL) and every single one of them speaks extremely highly of her engineering and organizational leadership acumen. The people I know at Blue still (I was actually talking to one of them about this a few days ago) lament that Bezos was unable to poach her from SpaceX, and he tried very hard. A direct, verbatim quote from one of my friends at SpaceX (chief engineer level, though technically SpaceX doesn't have that title) that I've referenced here multiple times is "She's the only person alive that can tell Elon no to his face and that he can't fire." She's probably his biggest hiring win, ever, SpaceX likely wouldn't be what it is today without her, and that's the last time you'll ever hear me sing the praises of a C-suiter. That said, there are some recent rumblings that the relationship has become strained due to Elon's increased insanity and certain corners they are being forced to cut in the design and testing stages (I don't have any details for that, sorry).
  8. Yeah probably, it just depends on what the store's policy is for dealing with customers like this. If they have carte blanche to just boot customers the fuck out for doing shit like this, then sure, but I suspect they don't want to do that for [probably dumb] reasons.
  9. Don't go down this path, it's pretty much on equal footing with denying the genocide in Gaza. It's not just the US media in this case, the repression of the Uyghurs and various other ethnic/religious minorities in the region has gotten plenty of traction abroad and among various world human rights organizations over the past several years. @immamac is 100% correct here, the forced labor taking place there is a major driver of the cheap goods that China brings to the global market. The main issue is that, due to the heavy handedness of Chinese internet censorship, it is very difficult for information to filter out beyond China's borders regarding what exactly is going on there.
  10. Why not Norman Dale, Pete Bell, or idk Batman while you're at it
  11. Sorry your mom is such a coward /s Nah I agree, they shouldn't do it. I'm just saying if I was a store manager I'd probably let it go and ask him not to do it again.
  12. Went from JWB to this smh
  13. In all seriousness, @MrBig, I was kidding but I wouldn't personally care at all if someone brought a snake around their shoulders like that as long as they weren't letting it crawl around on food or whatever. As far as worrying about if it's venomous, I'm not sure if you're serious about that but I also recognize that I'm a huge animal nerd and not everyone else is. There are maybe a [very small] handful of venomous snakes you would be able to handle like that without getting bitten, the overwhelming majority of venomous species are simply far too aggressive to drape over your shoulder and walk around with. Certainly none that you could readily find in the US with the exception of a hognose snake, but they're generally too small to carry like that anyway. At any rate, that's just a [likely red tail] boa. They're completely harmless though they tend to get rather large. As far as should it be in a grocery store? I mean, probably not, but I would assume if the store had an issue with it they'd ask him to leave or at least not to bring it back next time. Either way, it's a pretty harmless act.
  14. China holds a big chunk of treasury securities It's not like a bank holding your debt and threatening to foreclose on your house e: I guess "securities" instead of bonds is a better word idk
  15. I like how you completely ignored bolverk's excellent, thoughtful post trying to kindly explain to you what's going on and decided to just keep crashing out instead. I look forward to you crying like a bitch in the DT or somewhere else in the future about how CR posters are too mean. The endless cycle continues.
  16. She's the best in the business at what she does, probably the only person alive Elon can't fire. There are many factors going into why Starship is a failure.
  17. This is what conservatives don't understand about comedy in general.
  18. He's just repeating whatever Grok is telling him
  19. Yup. That is what republicans are now. He's not just a republican, he's the perfect republican.
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