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Wtf is wrong with some of yall? Signed, Oklahoma State fan
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Between being a big pop star and the unending Taylor Swift rumors, I figured Sabrina was going to be a madhouse so I stayed with my group instead of bouncing to Strokes. The red message on screen and dude on the PA telling everyone to step back was a new one to me, probably trying to be proactive after Chappell last year. This was my 20th, missing only 2013 as we were in maternity with our newborn sonā¦and this is the first time that serious discussions have kicked off about breaking the ābuy early bird 3 day, buy Chuyās parking pass, get in early to setup home base in the shade, and be all inā default plan. Friday night as we were shuffling through the EotS/Hozier crush, staring at a bright Range Rover sponsor booth, lamenting the loss of draft beer, breathing dust, carrying a $17 Coorsā¦I wondered what VIP is like. Then I look at the VIP stands and the $30k bungalows, and theyāre all jockeying for position at the railsā¦and fighting Theyāve made a ton of improvements over the years and my core memories there are fully intertwined with my life in Austinā¦but as prices just get to stupid levels and I get older/less tolerant to heat/dust, can see a point where we just wing it with a 1-day after lineup is released.
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Yeah that sounds about right. They canāt control an artistās popularity between booking and showtime, see Lizzo / Chappel Roan / Lumineers / etcā¦but EotS really surprised me as theyāve been around for well over a decade. Based off Reddit chatter already, wondering if Passion Pit is going to be a massive spill out of the tent. Not likely to cause an actual crush, but it can jack up traffic there with food/bathroom access. Have loved that guy since the Manners day, so blows my mind that these youngins may be lining up for himā¦possibly without a tour band? Who knows, Iām a grumpy bastard with all the corporate / bungalow / profit squeezing shit theyāve been doing.
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Man that crush between rock island and the ātent formerly known as beer tentā was Lizzo-levels for that EotS/Hozier handoff. Recall years ago when there used to be a stage there, it was often a choke pointā¦but we got caught up in that mess tonight, and it was borderline dangerous. Moral of the story is when youāre making a big move across the park to close out the evening, donāt let your friend Chris navigate. Fuckin Chris.
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Yeah gotta love the āthere was no autism in my dayā crowd that pivots immediately to their strange Uncle Steveā¦who never got married, ate at the same table at the same diner and ordered the same dish for 25 years, and whose house was converted to a model railroad shrineā¦didnāt need no commie socialist liberal mental health care.
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Charlie Kirk assassinated at an event in Utah (by a 22 YO groyper)
Homercles replied to msbesq's topic in Cloak Room
Pardon longcat: Iāve seen too much of this world to project my personal experiences on othersā¦especially youth/young adults. That said, Iād argue: - Housing is either runaway rent in desirable locations, or affordable starter homes are owned by corporations/more affluent older folks - As expected the āsupply chainā price increases during COVID never went away - Large businesses are hell bent on using GenAI to eliminate entry level positions, making the hiring process a robot-driven maze of shit, and squeezing the last ounce of life from those who make it (RTO, social media monitoring, stagnant wages, etc) - College education cost:benefit has spiraled as prices rise uncontrollably - Their primary schools are regularly shot up, or closed due to budget, or quality teachers leave red states - One health problem can bankrupt you Theres plenty more, but I feel fortunate to have had an entry level tech support job after finishing college in 2002 which afforded healthcare, a starter home 3 years later, $12k in college debt and no PTSD from lockdown drills. Thereās a huge portion of young adults that are being denied the American Dream and looking at a future of slave wages where they donāt ever end up owning anythingā¦setting the stage for being susceptible to misinformation, happily fed to them by both traditional and social media that are now concentrated in the hands of a few people/corporations (Zuck, Musk, Sinclair, Nextstar). Feeling hopeless and angry, with endless ways to connect with others in the same boat and a government not only encouraging but actively spreading misinformationā¦youāre gonna pizza when you should have French fried.- 6534 replies
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Charlie Kirk assassinated at an event in Utah (by a 22 YO groyper)
Homercles replied to msbesq's topic in Cloak Room
If it werenāt so sincere and sinister of a motive to hate on LGBTQ folks, Iād crack up at their pearl clutchingā¦guess all that gay, lesbian, ātrapā or trans or whatever that seems to be about 1/3rd of every porn site is only viewed by dirty liberals huh? -
Charlie Kirk assassinated at an event in Utah (by a 22 YO groyper)
Homercles replied to msbesq's topic in Cloak Room
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Charlie Kirk assassinated at an event in Utah (by a 22 YO groyper)
Homercles replied to msbesq's topic in Cloak Room
Shit, I feel MORE confident when I see a black person in a position of responsibility/authorityā¦because you know their ass had to not only meet the requirements, but also overcome bullshit at every crucial point in their career while being careful to not piss off the bigots.- 6534 replies
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Charlie Kirk assassinated at an event in Utah (by a 22 YO groyper)
Homercles replied to msbesq's topic in Cloak Room
I too keep a lectern made from recycled Popov handles in my IKEA showroom office. -
Charlie Kirk assassinated at an event in Utah (by a 22 YO groyper)
Homercles replied to msbesq's topic in Cloak Room
Whatās she gonna do? Like Kirk even let her learn how to drive. -
Charlie Kirk assassinated at an event in Utah (by a 22 YO groyper)
Homercles replied to msbesq's topic in Cloak Room
Party of personal responsibilityā¦āKirk was an angel spreading his heavenly message on all of us, you haters ignore Jesusā Party of Free Speechā¦āwe are going to impeach, fire or otherwise harass anyone who even quotes himā Party of law and orderā¦āwe gutted the FBI and put it under the watchful lazy eye of some meme personality such that monkeys that were fucking a football decided to stop and laughā -
Charlie Kirk assassinated at an event in Utah (by a 22 YO groyper)
Homercles replied to msbesq's topic in Cloak Room
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Charlie Kirk assassinated at an event in Utah (by a 22 YO groyper)
Homercles replied to msbesq's topic in Cloak Room
Yeah I have so many āfavoritesā to chose from⦠āBlack women do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously. You had to go steal a white personās slot to go be taken somewhat seriously.ā Or maybe āGun control, like vaccines and masks, is focused on making people feel āsafeā by taking freedoms away from others.ā Or how he doesnāt believe in retirement, or his hypothetical 10yo daughter would carry the rapists baby, or he doesnāt trust black pilots, or comparing trans folks to wearing blackface, maybe how democrats women want to die alone. Edit: Actually after that I think Iāll stop wrestling with the pig and settle for only getting my shoes dirty -
Charlie Kirk assassinated at an event in Utah (by a 22 YO groyper)
Homercles replied to msbesq's topic in Cloak Room
Incredulity is the embodiment of Skinner saying āam I so out of touch? No itās the children who are wrongā. Iām stealing the idea of asking people what their favorite Kirk quote isā¦Incredulity can go first -
Charlie Kirk assassinated at an event in Utah (by a 22 YO groyper)
Homercles replied to msbesq's topic in Cloak Room
ā¦as thereās a drive to deep left field by Castellanos -
Charlie Kirk assassinated at an event in Utah (by a 22 YO groyper)
Homercles replied to msbesq's topic in Cloak Room
Any Project 2025 scholars here? Wouldnāt surprise me if somewhere in those 700 pages is a āoperative assassinate right wing political commentator as excuse to do xyz awful thingā plan -
Iām not so much worried about tanks, perversely given I live in a red stateā¦Iām more concerned about redneck vigilantes throwing Trump flags, guns, and a gallon of Military Special going door to door for purity tests. Austin is surrounded by rural communities filled with right wingers who certainly have plenty of guns, time and motivation on their side. My neighborhood up here in Cedar Park is heavily Indian and N Asian folksā¦my kids love doing stuff like Holi and Diwali + we are good friends with a bunch of themā¦and I could see potential for trouble. See that MAGA? Itās called caring for othersā¦empathy may be too big of a word for youā¦beside yourself or your carbon copies on Truth Social.
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Charlie Kirk assassinated at an event in Utah (by a 22 YO groyper)
Homercles replied to msbesq's topic in Cloak Room
Fucking flags spend more time at half mast than full lately, it feels like. Country definitely headed in the ārightā direction⦠-
Two more feet and I can fit it in the fridge
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Yeah thatāll show China! Surely their lost revenue from Texas will keep them from funding the armada assigned to taking Taiwanā¦
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Anyone remember the If Google Were A Guy skit, one of the earliest ones where the Guy had two piles of paperworkā¦āIāve got one that says it does and four hundred thousand that says it doesnātā and the woman says āThank youā grabbing the single result. Just like TikTok itās all a symptom of tiny attention spans seeking the easy answer that puts the blame on someone elseā¦right up the alley of stupid people who want a catchers mitt with eyes telling them vaccines, dyes, pasteurized milk and clean water are the cause of their woes. So now our kids get to grow up surrounded by walking bags of Covid, flu, mumps, measles, rubella, etcā¦fucking kills me
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Everything is Shit: Tracking the Great Enshittening
Homercles replied to 956 Worldwide's topic in Daily Texan
Just wait until copilot is embedded into the OS and canāt be turned offā¦keep waiting for Apple to do the same on iOS. Itās not enough that they install 100+ cookies and max out my phoneās cpu with ads just to read an article, the entire OS needs to be a data vacuum that captures every interaction I have with it while constantly pushing their paid services as notifications. When that bubble does pop Iāll be interested to see what happens with all these monster data centersā¦anyone remember all that excess dark fiber from the .com bust? Except here the heavy money is invested in rapidly outdated racks of GPUs, though Iām sure the rest of the compute fabric depreciates more slowly. Opportunity for some enterprising person, like Switch did in Vegas. Of course none of the trechbro dickheads or obstinate c-suite types will likely ever admit it, but seems obvious to me that Transformer wonāt scale itself to sentience. Plenty of folks find it useful (or fall in love with it), but theyāre not going to be operating at massive losses forever so the usual flow of hooking people before raising prices may not work for trillion dollar chat bots. My guess is we see it go the way of Grok, highly valuable as a means to steal your data while spreading disinformation sold to the highest bidderā¦sorta like Plaintir. Gotta justify those capital outlays somehow -
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