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  1. It’ll rain next weekend because I’m going camping then, but you don’t need to thank me.
  2. Todays Republican Party. Every accusation is a confession.
  3. atomheartbevo

    LBGTQ

    https://www.kxan.com/news/texas-politics/abbott-calls-for-ban-on-gender-non-conforming-teachers-lgbtq-educators-respond/
  4. They didn’t ask you to stop filming the patrons and to leave before the police are called?
  5. Did she and your grandmother die on the same day? Was her name Lennay?
  6. Chaturbate is paying Texas $675,000. If you don’t use a VPN and want to visit thei site, enjoy visiting a third party and submitting a scan of your drivers license/state ID. https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/images/press/Multi Media LLC Agreement.pdf
  7. Sounds like they are starting to talk about sanctioning some Chinese banks.
  8. Teen or 20-something me would have been been in heaven to have access to the apps/sites that could make that happen. Cheryl Tiegs’ swimsuit collection in the Sears catalogs could only do so much. To be fair,if you gave teen me access to today’s porn… This makes me sad. A locker room is one of the few places where you can publicly strut your stuff and not be arrested.
  9. I think the internet had a part in this long before the #metoo movement. The world of Warcraft South Park episode was in 2006 and that gamer stereotype had already been around for a while. 40 Year-Old Virgin was in 2005. Yeah, these trace back to the comic book nerd stuff of the 90s, but those stereotypes were dead-on and have only been heavily reinforced since then. Not helped that the top streamers embrace that culture and all mostly look good/handsome/pretty, so it makes them feel bad. Kids that were losers back in the day also had everybody telling them to get their shit together. And you could have beaten the hell out of a lot of us back in our school days and we’d never admit to still being a virgin in sixth or seventh grade. We’d have rather died than admit it. Now we have idiots like Andrew Tate telling them that not only is it okay to be a loser and that they should declare it loudly and in public, but it’s not their fault they are losers. Tate and others are out there telling the losers that women or society are to blame, so they have no impetus to improve themselves or take more than one shower a week.
  10. Substitute the word “loser” for virgin. It’s very fashionable for some folks to proclaim themselves as victims because of circumstances they claim are out of their control when the reality is they won’t man up and go talk to women. Dating and social media sites in the late 90s and early 2000s made it easier to hook up than ever. Much, much easier. And now it’s even easier with a ton of such sites literally available on your phone.
  11. It’s worse if you end up on national TV and you beg her to send bail money.
  12. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/04/toyota-will-spend-1-4-billion-to-build-electric-3-row-suv-in-indiana/
  13. The Russians were building replacement turbines for their tanks by hand, they are struggling to find the appropriate vehicles to move their troops around (golf carts do not provide a lot of protection from anything) and moving ammo around in Scooby Doo vans, they are fielding T-55 tanks, etc. They may not run out of actual fuel, but their war machine is not doing so hot. The T-55 stuff, the hodgepodge of troop transports, etc. combined with the fact that their international weapons sales are down is a good indicator that they have production problems. They are also having to keep their aircraft further back, and with the Really Long Range ATACMS, their helicopter fleet will be almost useless as they will be so far back behind the front lines that most of their fuel will be expended just getting to the front lines and back. The Ka-52 attack helicopters are good for about 480km under combat conditions - the ATACMS could take them out of the game entirely since their bases will be within range. It's going to be slow, but Russia doesn't have somebody trying to backfill all kinds of stuff for them. Iran and North Korea can only do so much.
  14. I'm willing to compromise - all of the broadband companies bitching about this can return all of the government subsidies and grants they've collected over the years, and they can compensate land owners when their infrastructure is directly on private property (I'm fine with overhead cables, but not the boxes/trunks located on/in the ground), and in return they don't need to be held to these standards.
  15. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/04/fcc-restores-net-neutrality-rules-that-ban-blocking-and-throttling-in-3-2-vote/ She pulled it off I guess Jonathan missed the part where Time Warner tried to push through data caps of 5GB-40GB, or all of the broadband CEOs that bitched that they should get a share of revenue of the fees that we were sending to Netflix, etc. (they already get paid for our use of Netflix). It sucks that the Republicans are vowing to dump this if a Republican gets back in the White House.
  16. And the bigger concern is that if it happened without any serious blowback, it takes us down a very dark road (and what that dark road is, is more suited for CR). The main thing is that UT-Austin appears to have been treated differently and that should concern all who attended here (or another school in the system) or parents of UT students.
  17. I wish it were that easy, but it's not - one of my best friends from high school is an Israeli-American, and if you asked him to pick a side, it would be anti-Hamas/anti-Iran. It doesn't mean he hates Palestinians, nor does it mean he supports Netanyahu or the Israeli government (he doesn't support either). He's got a bias that he could be excused - his son was called up to active duty after last October, and he had friends/family who were caught up in the shit that went down , but his anger is reserved for the people who did what they did. He's my goto 'weather rock' for what's happening there, since his dad's company, and now his company, has dealings out of Houston and Israeli and had employed Palestinians for decades. He has a much more restrained outlook on things that many Americans that I know, because he has to live with what actually happens. It's similar to family from Oklahoma or Arkansas trying to tell me about border issues. They've never visited the border or have friends/family down there, so when they try to paint everything as black and white, I have to push back and say it's a lot more gray than they'd like it be. I honestly didn't give a shit about any protests this week, given how many hundreds/thousands of protests that have happened since I first set foot in Austin back in the 90s (the anti-abortion ones were the worst IMO), and I felt like it was just another such protest that will never been seen or heard outside of Austin. The woman who caught the 30-pound koi out of Town Lake this week was far more interesting to me. But seeing how it was handled and what went down, I do give a bit of a shit. These people could have been protesting for the right to kill baby owls and I'd be down there hanging with them tomorrow if I was able to. I'm used to Texas looking like it does as far as the rest of the nation goes, but I can at least pretend UT was staying above the fray as much as possible, at least until yesterday's shit gets blasted across the nation. Now I've had multiple relatives chiming in on Facebook asking if I'm worried about terrorists, and what's happening in Austin, etc., and yet they aren't interested in seeing videos that contradict what they believe.
  18. It's interesting watching one of the worlds richest men thoroughly embrace the incel fitness and outdoor routine.
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