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  1. 1 minute ago, immamac said:

    Do they have any fucking running backs? Did they all opt out for the transfer portal holy shit. 

    Their two leading rushers are RB Mike Washington with 915 yards on the season at 6.6 YPC and QB Taylen Green with 717 yards a year at 5.7 a clip.  

     

  2. 42 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Also, this bears quoting.  Because....for real.  I would suspect that most of my peers would give an answer along the lines of "I guess the technical answer is she's gotta be at least 18, but man....I'd feel creepy AF to be with a gal who wasn't at least out of college/in her mid 20s/is in her 30s even."  For most of us, there's kind of a hard barrier that's tied into the age of our daughter, if we have one.  My daughter is in her mid-20s.  Make me single tomorrow, and I STILL couldn't imagine myself being with one of her friends.  Dude.  No.

    But Trump?  Jesus.  That his mind even went there.  "I wouldn't go as low as 12" are words that should never come out of any non-sick fuck's mouth.  The concepts of "sex" and "12 year olds" shouldn't ever exist in your brain at the same time.

    The general rule, once you get to being an adult who can rent a car, is half your age + 7, and that's as low as you go.  Obviously, one can still be in a pretty low zone with that rule, but it generally keeps one out of the completely fucking weird and creepy zone.

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  3. 6 minutes ago, kevwun said:

    I hope he does pardon her.  It's going to cause the more outrage than anything he has ever done while in office.  It will ratchet the pressure up on Republicans an astronomical amount.  The Epstein scandal is finally the thing he can't shrug off because it's both horrifying and easy to understand.

    Kind of like Watergate.  People understand a burglary and attempts to cover up a burglary.

  4. 22 minutes ago, UpperWestside said:

    There is a threshold he can’t cross. This is the one. Not anyone of the 1000 other ones he crossed, destroyed or set fire to. This singular one is the one where the cult leader winds up getting the Mussolini treatment if there was verifiable evidence on video of him doing what anyone with half a brain knows he did. Something about seeing the cult leader doing this is the eject button for the clowns. Whatever does it is fine by me, but I don’t see anything happening here that would lead to a moment like that.

    Counterpoint...at least when it comes to the deep/hardened cult members and not the dumbasses who voted for eggs and lulz

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  5. 14 hours ago, South Austin said:

    So on the subject of potential scrubbing/destruction of Epstein files to remove Trump’s name:

    Presumably a Democratic administration DOJ has access to these same files at some point during the Biden presidency. If Trump’s name is in the files, but his name shows up nowhere in the released files, wouldn’t some Biden-era DOJ lawyer or investigator blab to the press that Trump in fact is in the files? 

    I mean Elon already did that.

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  6. 2 minutes ago, StassneyHorn said:

    Gif surrender noted to a legitimate question.

    It’s literally the highest average amount recorded, but slay, eviscerate and go off queen.

    I'm just not sure what other material numbers could POSSIBLY matter when it comes to pushing averages around.

    Oh, say maybe new participant entry....which admittedly they don't share here, would tend to have a downward effect on savings rate averages of the overall pool of savers. Newer/lower-income individuals, as they enter these types of plans, tend to save at a reduced rate compared to their older generation/higher-income earning counterparts.  If fewer younger people are entering these kinds of plans (Gen Z in particular), then no shit, the average savings rate of the remaining pool of Boomers/Xers will go up. 

    I'm not saying that is happening, but there are tons of things outside of my admittedly snarky first comment that could be pushing these numbers, and so it doesn't need to be swallowed as some sign of "all is well"

  7. 32 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

    So non-native born Americans do not get hired? What about all the H-1 Visas Trump wants/has secured for his projects? They all fired? Silicon Valley want to chime in? 

     

    Isn't this a rerun of a tweet from a few months back?  We're already in syndication?

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  8. 2 hours ago, StassneyHorn said:

    Why is the average amount of all accounts your takeaway? Or even the median— I’d bet there’s way more accounts at breadcrumb amounts due to people leaving within 0-6 months at a company that affect the number than whale accounts. 

    I think the most telling number is that people are saving at a combined 14.2% rate which is pretty close to the recommended 15% savings. If people are as hard up for money as some may think- we’d expect this number to be lower. Instead it’s a nice, responsible number.

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  9. The talk about venue selection used to be even crazier in playoff baseball.  Until last few years at 5A or 6A, baseball playoffs could be 1 game winner take all or 3 game series.  The UIL has since changed the rules,  so all playoffs at those levels are best of 3 (except the final, which is still kind of odd when you think about it).

    Used to be a lot of horse trading over agreeing to 1 game, which an overmatched squad that had one good/great pitcher would of course prefer, vs the 3 game series that the better overall team wanted.  All of that then threaded through the whole "where we playing these game(s)" conversation.  

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  10. 3 hours ago, Hank Kingsley said:

    If you picked up the Founding Fathers in a time machine and brought them to present day, it would take about 5 minutes of deliberation for them to tar & feather and string up Trump. 

     

     

    Eh they may tar and feather and string him up simply for what a douchebag he is but, and you don't have to agree with this guy, he does bring up some interesting points with respect to what he calls the "trap" of invoking the founders/framers in today's present set of circumstances (never mind the fact that well before they got to the later comment about a black man being president the technology of the present day would likely give them a coronary from the shock of it all if they were just dropped into it)

     

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