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  1. Just now, 956 Worldwide said:

    Our elders had some things rights. Back in the 956 we didn’t even have doors on the shitters in the locker room. And at a visiting locker room that will go unnamed (it was Weslaco), you didn’t even have stall dividers. Just a row of latrines and you sat side by side. 

    You cannot be a leader of men if you’re too afraid to crap next to them. 

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  2. 4 minutes ago, DixonHur said:

    Luckily back in grade school everyone knew I was getting action from my girlfriend in the Niagra Falls area, so I was cool.

    Did she and your grandmother die on the same day?  Was her name Lennay?

  3. On 3/20/2024 at 6:52 PM, atomheartbevo said:

    The Office of the Attorney General filed two civil lawsuits Tuesday afternoon in Travis County against the respective companies that own the websites xHamster and Chaturbate. Paxton said they’re not doing enough to stop those younger than 18 from looking at the adult content.

    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

  4. 1 hour ago, Zepol87 said:

    Way easier to find a mid 40s-mid 50s divorced milf with some plastic surgery who is ready. 

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    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…

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    1 hour ago, chainsaw said:

    5. more insecurity (millennials don't get naked in locker room)

    This makes me sad. A locker room is one of the few places where you can publicly strut your stuff and not be arrested.  

  5. 21 minutes ago, DixonHur said:

    Random thought...does anyone think the #metoo movement has a part in this?

    I know correlation and causation are different, but #metoo started in 2006 and blew up globally in 2017.

    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.

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  6. 26 minutes ago, BurntEyes said:

    At a high level just as slut shaming was and remains a very real thing, back in 89-2000 I can't think of a single male I knew that would admit to being a virgin. These days, the stigma of being a virgin isn't what it used to be and that could account for a large increase of men admitting they are virgins. 

    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.  

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  7. 27 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

    Serious question—-is it incredibly pathetic to wish your wife a happy birthday from a 1500 miles away on national TV or is a really romantic gesture to use the opportunity to wish her a happy birthday? 

    It’s worse if you end up on national TV and you beg her to send bail money.

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  8. 10 hours ago, Disco Strangler said:

    I hope that he trips and falls while walking past a stable of Clydesdale horses, rips the rear seat of his britches, and is fucked to death in the ass by every stallion in the barn. The only acceptable end to America's mare. 

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  9. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/04/toyota-will-spend-1-4-billion-to-build-electric-3-row-suv-in-indiana/

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    US electric vehicle manufacturing got a bit of a boost today. Toyota has revealed that it is spending $1.4 billion to upgrade its factory in Princeton, Indiana, in order to assemble a new three-row electric SUV. That will add an extra 340 jobs to the factory, which currently employs more than 7,500 workers who assemble the Toyota Sienna minivan and the Toyota Highlander, Grand Highlander, and Lexus TX SUVs.

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    Curiously, Toyota says this will be an entirely different new three-row electric SUV from the one that it will build at its factory in Georgetown, Kentucky. That plant upgrade, which was made public last summer, will cost Toyota $1.3 billion.

    Part of the improvements to the Princeton plant include a battery pack assembly line, which will use cells produced at a $13.9 billion battery plant in North Carolina, which is due to open next year.

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  10. 12 minutes ago, B00M said:

    what aid package is Ukraine going to get that’s going to turn the war? The only way this war turns is if russias economy craters and/or their war machine runs out of fuel. All the aid packages do is buy time. Ukraine has no choice but to be short sighted WRT US support, particularly given that our support is demonstrably unreliable. 

    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.

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  11. 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.  

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  12. Champions League Hello GIF by FOX Sports: Watch. Enjoy. Repeat.

    https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/04/fcc-restores-net-neutrality-rules-that-ban-blocking-and-throttling-in-3-2-vote/

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    The Federal Communications Commission voted 3–2 to impose net neutrality rules today, restoring the common-carrier regulatory framework enforced during the Obama era and then abandoned while Trump was president.

    The rules prohibit Internet service providers from blocking and throttling lawful content and ban paid prioritization. Cable and telecom companies plan to fight the rules in court, but they lost a similar battleduring the Obama era when judges upheld the FCC's ability to regulate ISPs as common carriers under Title II of the Communications Act.

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    "Consumers have made clear to us they do not want their broadband provider cutting sweetheart deals, with fast lanes for some services and slow lanes for others," FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel said at today's meeting. "They do not want their providers engaging in blocking, throttling, and paid prioritization. And if they have problems, they expect the nation's expert authority on communications to be able to respond. Because we put national net neutrality rules back on the books, we fix that today."

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    "This is a nonissue for broadband consumers, who have enjoyed an open Internet for decades," USTelecom CEO Jonathan Spalter said. "Rather than pushing this harmful regulatory land grab, policymakers should keep their eyes on the real-world prize of building opportunity for everyone in a hyperconnected world."

    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.

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  13. 31 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    As far as any evidence I’ve seen in this thread goes, they acted to break up a peaceful gathering of people in a public space at a time that people are expected to be in that space. 

    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.

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  14. 21 minutes ago, Nicole44 said:

    You have to pick a side in this war.

    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.

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  15. I didn’t t realize that Sorrell Brooke, the guy who played Boss Hogg in The Dukes of Hazzard, was fluent in French, Latin, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, German, Greek and Italian, and knew a decent bit of  Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, Dutch, Persian, Polish, and Swedish. 

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  16. 32 minutes ago, royiv said:

    For the fiscal conservatives and tough on crime crowd, how do you feel about the waste of money and resources on a performative demonstration by law enforcement? Do you think the money and resources could have been to better use in policing the greater Austin community?

    The money and resources could have been used to help teach DPS how to respond to an active school shooter situation, or reinforce previous lessons.

    25 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

    You can't say, no harm, no foul after you've disrupted someone's right to free speech. That moment is lost forever. And, despite your minimizing of the difficulties the protesters suffered, the threat of future action is most certainly designed to have a chilling effect on their desire to participate in free speech later on. If there is any chance that actions like this will make anyone less likely to exercise their rights, then it absolutely is a big deal and must be dealt with and prevented from happening again. 

    The fact that the law enforcement left en masse at a certain point yesterday and people came back to the same areas and there was no problem showed that this was not the big bogeyman that they claimed.  If it was what the Powers That Be claimed it was, law enforcement should not have left, as clearly the protestors would have taken over the entire campus.  Yet, that didn’t happen and was never going to happen based on videos before shit went down yesterday.

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  17. 55 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    When both state law and UT policy set "time place and manner" restrictions that functionally make all public areas of the university open for protest, then there really weren't any such restrictions in play here.  Greg Abbott cheered like hell when he signed a law in 2019 having that EXACT effect.  But now, he is telling us he didn't mean it.  Because....

    ....these actions were not content neutral.  How do we know that?  The governor who issued the orders to the DPS said, in a published statement, that it was based on the CONTENT of the protesters' positions.

    This was a shitshow clusterfuck fascism jerkoff session, from start to finish.

    And as may have been mentioned, Abbott was on the Texas Supreme Court, was Texas Attorney General, and is now Governor.  Abbott’s background shows he knows full well what word games he is playing.  He’s not some average schmuck that somehow stumbled his way into the Governor’s mansion.

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