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Homercles

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  1. Until I read the article I thought this was going to be about TXTag
  2. “Intelligence officials”. Granted I didn’t read the whole YGIFy novel, but seems the key whistleblower is a retired guy and corroboration is via unnamed sources. Not sure how I’d feel about legit signs of intelligent life…I’m a firm subscriber to the ‘no news is good news’ camp, given all the nasty possibilities under the Fermi Paradox. Seems very unlikely we are the first, so maybe everything within earshot and our timeline of radio-astrology are just simple organisms…or maybe intelligent life is the great filter (behind us), and everything that’s made it to the other side is far enough that any signals we can detect won’t be here for millions of years. That’s about the only good way I see it unfolding. Everything else just sucks…intelligent civilizations existed but were wiped out by the great filter (ahead of us), or know to stfu to avoid being exterminated by the assholes out there, or we are too stupid to detect them, or The Architect is waiting to reboot the Matrix, etc.
  3. And there’s an absolutely monster backlash brewing among the users about it
  4. Throwaway culture in product design and manufacturing sucks ass. I’ve had so many products where you can’t find parts, or some tiny plastic piece breaks rendering the whole thing useless. My ‘favorite’ is this tire pump I have…typical Chineseum: housing is metal, hoses are all high quality, thing has a duty cycle of like 30 minutes, overall just a tank. The one shitty plastic piece is the 12v power plug for the car, which split apart after a few uses. Same thing with a vacuum cleaner…tiny clip that holds the handle to the body busted. Emailed the manuf, they had to replace the entire thing and I threw out the old one. Sucks.
  5. Hypoxia is no joke, and at altitude wouldn’t take very long at all before everyone is incapacitated. The Kalitta 66 ATC recording shows how impaired a lack of oxygen at altitude makes you…the pilot here sounds drunk until he descends, and you can hear the cabin pressure alarms wailing in the background but he seems completely unaware: They think MH 370 was depressurized to incapacitate the passengers until their masks ran out, then the pilot ditched it in the middle of nowhere. And of course the Payne crash, where the windows were frosted over. Scary.
  6. Sounds about right. Possible that saying they were AD saved them from a more serious confrontation, because as stupid as it seems to most people…those guys take that stuff very seriously. My buddies and I wanted to end just being a Riding Group, which is apparently down a level in seriousness…you have your circular patch but no rockers. Eventually we just said screw all this hot mess. However the one dude was so enamored he ended up starting an actual MC, diving headlong into that world with his club having all of like six members. They were on their way to Waco when the shootout happened. He desperately wanted to be on the fringes of the 1%’ers, his friends eventually reflected that and we parted ways…rest of us wanted to stay away from that shit. He went full into QAnon, no shocker there.
  7. Reading HST’s Hells Angels is a lot of fun, and somewhat insightful into their world…though things seemed to have changed from the Sonny Barger days as the Bandidos apparently run a lot of drugs now and seem more open to straight murder. The Banesh killing is interesting view on how those works collide. Two national-level patched members and one wannabe were eventually convicted. The original Chronicle story: https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2006-05-19/366344/ Convictions: https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Former-high-ranking-Bandido-gets-15-years-without-13278099.php I find this stuff interesting as a friend back in ~2006 wanted to start a full fledged MC and all the stupid shit ‘rules’ that come with it: can’t have a Texas rocker on your colors, have to join the council of clubs that’s basically a way for Bandidos to control/observe, essentially slimming the dues as tithing, can’t use their ketchup/mustard (Marines) colors, etc. Believe the council meeting in waco is where that shootout went down. Even if their patch doesn’t say Bandidos, if it’s the USMC colors and a name like Companeros or whatever…it’s an approved support club and same shit applies.
  8. It’s over, 9-1? Just wish we’d have closed the deal with TCU to have earned some hardware. Oh well I’ll be rooting y’all on, except fuck Troubador
  9. Fuck you too buddy
  10. Yeah I’m pretty sure any magic left was used up in the conf tournament.
  11. Not unpopular with us Pokes…but I feel like this season is destined to be like football wherein it just collapsed
  12. Finally watched it Thursday and am caught up on the thread…was thinking it’d be horrible as my google news feed kept throwing Rolling Stone, AV Club, etc articles at me about how this season was a disaster. I thought there were some slow episodes but overall I really enjoyed it. Not everything has to be Godfather 2 or ended like Breaking Bad. If a show gets me invested in the characters as believable people, that’s better than 70% of the shows out there. Glad they’re going out reasonably on top, with a definitive arc…as huge of a fan of The Wire that I am, it didn’t really tie off much at the ending (which was part of the message…the players may change but the game goes on). It’s nice to have a premise, acts and ending. Compared to Yellowstone, which started off so strong but expanded its premise to a diluted mess of unlikable characters, Lasso is one of my favorite newer shows.
  13. I can’t imagine what the ER was like. Seemed like a handful passed away every year, and based of all the super drunk helmet-less fools I saw blasting off onto Decker Lane each night…no shock.
  14. Based on the demographics I’ve encountered with the Harley-types, they’re 90% the bald/goatee/Oakley’s disposition that love to espouse ‘fuck your feelings’ without irony yet want to square up when you tell them their 800lb, 70 horsepower, shitty braked, antiquated Harley that breaks down more than a 70’s era Fiat wasn’t worth half the $20k they paid for it. You can tell a lot about someone’s ridership by how they handle a group ride…and 90% of the time I’ve been more worried about them hitting me than ‘cagers’: no lane discipline, no anticipation, late braking, not pointing out road hazards, etc. Will say that Bandidos I’ve seen are second only to biker cops in pure ability, which makes sense given it’s often their only vehicle.
  15. It was ‘held’ at some speed shop down south, if I recall. What a rapid fall from grace that whole event has become. Canceled (like many things) in 2020, held at the track in 2021, then some field far away from the city in 2022, and now a glorified workshop. They’ve had event license issues in the past and have read they owe money to multiple vendors. I started going in 2007 when I got my motorcycle, and kept going after I sold it in 2016 before our second was born. Group of buddies and I would buy an RV space on the drag, so even without two wheels it was still an excuse to hang with my friends and shoot the shit for a few days. But I’d started getting bored with the whole thing…the bands were scraping the bottom of the barrel, ticket prices went through the roof, events were getting cut, and as stuff to do dwindled it became the exact same shit year after year: sitting in a law chair or riding around in the cart seeing the exact same weekend warriors getting drunk, fighting or hurt. Once the vendors started pulling out you knew it was about to bleed dry. I don’t really miss it.
  16. Every single woman I’ve ever met who is still heavy into horses, as an adult, has been batshit crazy.
  17. When they paired us with ORU, I knew it made sense on a regional basis but had a sinking feeling we were screwed…especially with sore arms from last weekend.
  18. Well thanks to those dumbasses, the rally each Memorial Day has been canceled by the mayor: https://www.krqe.com/news/new-mexico/red-river-mayor-annual-memorial-day-motorcycle-rally-will-not-return/amp/ Doesn’t really surprise me. Back when the ROT rally was a legit thing, they’d have their own campsite carved out for them and the support clubs. They’d mostly keep to themselves, wisely, as any kind of slight towards one drew the ire of all of them…dumbass blowhards or not. For a few years we had a spot across the drag from them, and I always crack up when a dumbass violated an unwritten rule, parking his pickup in front of them. An hour later when he came back, the bed was full of trash and beer cans.
  19. I def agree with that and have said it before. Can be the hardest to explain to folks that are unfamiliar, however.
  20. Saw this on Reddit…it was a pirate ship themed booze cruise kinda thing, which is why it’s so slow underway. A real cruise ship would have left him in the dust quickly. You’d think that would buy time for someone to alert the crew, and the dumbass could hang on the donut until he could be ‘rescued’. Naturally everyone is yelling expletives and filming. FAFO indeed.
  21. Like someone changing seats at the blackjack table, I’m willing to try it.
  22. Yes, please take the ORU guy. Signed - OSU fan
  23. Yeah that’s…not ideal for the Stillwater regional. I know they were weekday games and our pitching depth dictated the b-team, but didn’t exactly fare well against DBU (who was in host consideration most of the season) and ORU during the season. Also sure there are a lot of sore arms after six games in five days. Oh well, play the hand you’re dealt.
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