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atomheartbevo

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  1. Down 6% in trading this morning. And the Dow is not pleased. Your typical American has no idea how many foreign components make up everything we buy, but the analysts sure as shit can probably break down just what countries are involved with which products.
  2. Tesla dropped over 6% in after hours. Bitcoin is dropping as well.
  3. When applied as a suppository.
  4. It’s not the “endwokeness” handle that’s dumb, although that is dumb, it’s that the person he follows didn’t bother to check Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, ABD, NBC, CBS, USA Today, and People Fucking Magazine nor did he bother to check Twitter, BlueSky, YouTube, Instagram, etc. and he’s an idiot for following somebody who is stupid enough not to check the national media or social media.
  5. In the other times, you send it your thoughts and prayers.
  6. Two infants die of whooping cough in Louisiana as national case numbers climb | CNN
  7. "Zero national outrage" The story is all over the socials and are these not national news outlets? Police say a 17-year-old was fatally stabbed by another student at a Texas track meet | CNN Texas student killed in stabbing at track meet NBC News Police say a 17-year-old was fatally stabbed by another student at a Texas track meet MSN Teen dead after stabbing at Texas track meet, another teen charged USA Today Track athlete, 16, fatally stabbed at championship meet | Fox News Teen charged with murder in fatal stabbing of student at track meet: Police - ABC News Grief, outrage in community after Frisco track meet stabbing leaves student-athlete dead - CBS Texas High School Student Fatally Stabbed by Another During Track Meet, Police Say People Fucking Magazine It was all over the news. I half expected my non-Texas relatives to start asking me if I was safe because we stayed with friends in Frisco a few years ago. Unfortunately for this story, there was something about some tariffs that seems to be sucking up the oxygen in the room. Need to look into that, maybe start a thread, because it seems like it's important.
  8. My son and I went through my original run of G.I. Joe (I collected most originally, but was able to fill in the gaps in the 90s) and we've been following the new Joe comics (including Hamas) stuff. It's been great. He's not really interested in anything else outside of Spidey.
  9. Mario Kart World - Digital, $80 Mario Kart World - Physical, $90
  10. Open world like Forza. Doesn’t sound like it will be backported as it’s bigger and requires more horsepower to handle everything, it sounds awesome.
  11. Wouldn’t dream of doing that, since they’ll sell them for $250. When we get one down the road we will keep the original so both kids have something on trips.
  12. And aggy. Pretty sure their average there is in the 1250 range.
  13. You don't think about shingles until you hit middle age and realize just how bad it can fuck you up.
  14. If you all are interested in one-takes, grab a copy of Russian Ark. Here’s the making of
  15. Bluey movie is a year or two off. It’s going to be massive.
  16. So what’s going around in the elementary schools currently, and who knows of a good at-home COVID and/or flu test, because it seems to be COVID, flu, or cold right now.
  17. UT is moving to 5% next year I believe. Still, for in-state students, they accept about 40% of those who apply. That’s not bad for a flagship institution, where about 10,000 new students enroll every year in a state with 31 million people, of which around 2.8 million are 18-24 year olds, and 775,000 are in college of some sort (two year or four or grad). I’m sure the argument will or can be made that students who don’t think they have a chance won’t even bother applying. And if we want to go down the road on the demographics of the state and representation, whites are not even the largest group anymore. UT Austin will look far different 10 years from now, as will aggy and other schools. We are in an unfortunate situation where we need a major boost for the other branches in the UT (and aggy) and we needed it years ago, and we have lagged behind in doing that while the state grew extremely fast, although there are efforts being made. At the same time we have a bit of a war on education, learning in general, science, etc. being conducted by people who can influence those university systems.
  18. And for Ana, the national average SAT score is 1022. A 1460 and a decent high school track record will get your snowflake into a helluva lot of places. Now if that's an 800 English and 660 math, it may mean your kid is not going to get into the engineering school they want (but there's still schools that will accept them). You aren't even addressing who is behind it, or how they are trying to piggyback off of the name of a school their side all claim to hate. I don't know why we are even arguing this though - we are in a state with tens of millions of people, it would only make sense that one of the flagship schools is harder to get into than it was when the population was half that. We don't need to pull an aggy and try and add tens of thousands of students to UT Austin. Ana and others, if they are upset about UT Austin and feel like their snowflakes should be able to get into a good school, should be focused on pressuring the legislature on improving the rest of the UT branches (and aggy) (insert Lobo-esque manifesto here).
  19. Which this "institution" is not. Are you seriously going to argue that engineers from aggy, Tech, etc. are not getting hired?
  20. Fuck, am I going to have to get my syrup from fucking Vermont instead of Canada like Costco wants me to do?
  21. And most of us have worked alongside grads from those other schools without issue for the most part. Once you get a degree and get an actual job and build up an actual resume, what school you went to starts to matter less and less and it's more about what you've done and who you currently know. And not everybody is meant to go through the higher education pipeline.
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