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  1. Leo seems pretty cool, but he's still Catholic, and I doubt he wants to step into American political shit. It would confirm why many people didn't want an American pope.
  2. Goddamnit, this is such a waste of my time, but to the point of a company having demographic statistics, yeah most if not all will, because if a large organizations demographics are way off of the local population (let's say Black people make up 25% of the local population but only 5% of your personnel) it means the hiring process is flawed. There is no objective reason for the numbers to be that far off. Also, someone made the point earlier, having different perspectives is valuable in most board rooms, it's good for business. I already made the point, specific racial quotas were outlawed decades ago, that's not why companies keep statistics. Ugh, back to work.
  3. How COme yOuNG pEOPle are ABaNDoNInG cHUrcH
  4. To follow up on my last point, the "slot" language is what is telling. Take Justice Brown Jackson. At any given time there are dozens of people qualified to sit on SCOTUS. There isn't one person who is most qualfied such that if a different person gets the appointment, that person is inferior. Now lets apply that to Kirk's distrust of Black pilots. The racism is so fucking blatant and for so many reasons it shouldn't have to be explained. But here's one of the many reasons it is overtly racist. There are thousands, maybe hudreds of thousands of commercial pilots currently employed. Flying a plane is hard but doesn't require any particular form of elevated intelligence, just a lot of training. To think for even a second that a commercial airline is going to hire an unqualified Black person for DEI purposes is completely asinine and assumes that Black people are somehow incapable of comprehending the training needed to fly a plane. Or more specifically, even if there was a quota, that there simply aren't enough Black people smart enough to absorb the training and to meet the qualifications to fill that quota. Racist. As. Fuck.
  5. I've seen this before. A Black person (or other minority) got promoted over chubby or otherwise exceeded him in an area of his interests and he blames DEI instead of his own chronic mediocrity. Tale as old as time.
  6. Well yeah, or course. But, first, I don't think he or his kind actually believe the full maga shit, they are just going along with it because the voters are buying it and that's all they care about (which in some ways is worse). Second, it's my belief that one of the only ways out of this is for the oligarchs to finally say "that's enough" and tell these shitheels to fucking knock it off already. It's eventually gotta get bad enough for business that they'll pull that trigger. Maybe the cancellations are doing that work but maybe also some Hollywood big wigs are telling them they're going to stop working with Disney and that would be really bad for the bottom line.
  7. Dude pulled a gun and people still standing around? I'd GTFO, lol.
  8. Are the media oligarchs finally fed up and tired of being part of the virtue signaling culture wars? There is zero chance Rafi says this unless he was told to by certain people.
  9. Cancelling the services won't do shit. Its going to take a writers/actors/producer's boycott to get Disney to step up and I'm doubtful that will work either.
  10. Thanks! Are there other kids things to do around Texas Live? Is the stadium food worth it or should we find a place to eat before the game at Texas Live? Trying to fitgure out how early to get there.
  11. Dykes sort of has a point. I assume the decision was made before SMU joined the ACC and certainly before last year’s success. I wonder if they’d feel the same if SMU had moved up and been successful earlier. I assume it would sell out regularly in the current landscape. Still a really bad and sad decision.
  12. Strict quotas in AA/DEI were struck down decades ago and haven't been used since. I'm sure you've been told that and don't care, so whatever. Holy shit, you're human garbage. If you think this is justified against ordinary unarmed non-cartel people for simply trying to cross a border for work, my goodness, you are fucking lost.
  13. Give these a try while you're there.
  14. Local strip club sign. Saw it posted on FB, but here looks shopped. Funny either way (to me at least).
  15. Yes, is pretty obvious there are common places they get their bullshit, because when they get riled up, it's always a few hours after the fact, and all of the talking points are identical.
  16. Gonna take my dad and kids to a game this Saturday. Looking at Section 224 "Baseline Pavilion" and they look pretty good. Any insight if those are decent seats? Anyone got a set of 4 to sell? What's the best way to get there, park, park and ride? Will be my first time to the new stadium.
  17. I think it’s that the roommate took a photo of the note and Kash Money thinks a photograph is “forensic” evidence because he’s an unqualified idiot lackey.
  18. I thought he originally said there was a "manifesto" that could be recreated. The letter is not a manifesto just a confession of what he was going to do. I'm not going to watch the congressional circus with Kash Money, but if he really referred to a photograph of a letter as "forensic" evidence, it's just more evidence of what a dumb fucking unqualified lackey he is for that position.
  19. Wait, wtf? If the roommate said that the note existed and he saw it and threw it away that's evidence but not "forensic" evidence. This whole thing is fucky.
  20. SMU phasing out “Pony Up!” as a slogan, but keeping the Shetland Pony live mascot. This article says that phrase came to be used in 2007. I was enrolled at SMU in 2007 and had no idea, lol. I never attended a game, they were dogshit, and my undergrad OKST was my sports focus. Why would a new phrase come into existence at a time when attendance was in the dozens? Seems odd that alumni would be so attached to such a recent thing but there’s some pushback to keep the slogan. If anyone has a subscription to DMN I wonder if that article has more details (link below). The following is from Chron.com which I suspect might be more sarcastic than DMN would be. https://www.dallasnews.com/sports/smu-mustangs/2025/09/16/smu-is-phasing-out-its-pony-up-catchphrase-and-leadership-is-surprised-by-the-reaction/ https://www.chron.com/sports/college/article/smu-kick-em-stangs-21051677.php SMU doesn't want to 'Pony Up,' anymore, it wants to 'Kick 'em' Southern Methodist University wants you to know it's all grown up now. By Leah Vann, Sports Culture ReporterSep 17, 2025 SMU wants to get off the 'Pony Up,' rally cry. Instead, Board of Trustees Chair David Miller wants to ride with something like "Kick 'Em Stangs," because it's got to be compatible with other Texas Power 4 clique members: Hook 'Em, Gig 'Em, Wreck 'Em and Sic 'Em. "We're SMU Mustangs," Miller told the Dallas Morning News. "We're not SMU Ponies." The 'Pony Up,' rally cry, according to the school's website, is often accompanied by the "pony ears" gesture, a modified peace sign where you relax your finger to look like pony ears. The phrase has been part of the SMU culture since 2007. But where Miller's statement gets hazy is the fact that SMU is... of both Pony and Mustang lineage. Peruna, the SMU mascot since 1932, is a black Shetland pony known for its feisty stallion personality. According to SMU's The Daily Campus newspaper, Peruna I was donated by a local racetrack owner who felt the powerhouse pony embodied SMU. From there, the school's students decided that the school would take on the "Mustangs," as its official mascot, since the wild horse had the physical embodiment of a "petite pony." Shetland ponies are a special Scottish breed of pony that has short legs and is very strong. They were especially helpful for riding, driving and packing purposes back in the old days But now, they're more frequently cute miniature horses ridden by small children or appearing as a 'Lil Sebastian' at the petting zoo. (If you haven't seen Parks and Rec, look it up.) Peruna is small, strong, wild and, honestly, adorable. But that's not exactly what football players (or athletes) want to be known for. According to Miller, both head football coach Rhett Lashlee and head basketball coach Andy Enfield agreed that the image they want to portray to recruits is "not that of a pony, but of wild charging mustangs." It's really just a technicality, but SMU, since joining the Atlantic Coast Conference, is the only Power 4 conference team with the Mustang mascot. The change also comes as an hour-long documentary about SMU football's program rebuild from the NCAA's "death penalty" called, "Thunder On: Resurgence of the SMU Mustangs," premieres at 2 p.m. Sunday on ESPN. SMU Athletic Director Damon Evans even used #ThunderOn, as a way to market yet another new phrase. Meanwhile, the football team wore 'Kick 'Em, Stangs,' shirts to Saturday's game at Missouri State. Nevertheless, it seems SMU is having an identity crisis. But Lashlee maybe underestimated the amount of backlash the program would get for trying to phase out, 'Pony Up.' "We love our fans, and we love passionate fans, and if you say, 'Pony Up' to me, I’m going to freaking say, 'Pony Up' back. And if you say, 'Go Mustangs,' I’m gonna say, 'Go Mustangs.' And if you say, 'Kick 'Em, Stangs,' I’m going to kick something.'"
  21. I’m not ready to go full conspiracy theory but goddamn that does read fake as fuck. If they plea him out to avoid the death penalty and no trial occurs to test the evidence they’re putting out there, and if the narrative is all from the FBI and Utah officials, it’s going to be suspicious af.
  22. Seriously, it’s not going to happen when the president and his party are all in on this stuff and half the country voted for it three fucking times. It can’t be that the other “side” lowers the temperature and lets this run them over. So what’s the solution? The answer is there is none.
  23. Way classier than that aggy sec shit.
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