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  1. Dude in purple couldn't be bothered to put down his cigar and kept approaching the line of fire. I'm glad they stopped this guy, truly, but nuance matters. Maybe your cigar should be prioritized behind the ability to use your other hand when approaching at guy with a knife. It's one thing to bring a knife to a gun fight, its another to get in the middle of one... with a cigar.
  2. I'm sure somewhere in her social media bio she will note the University for which she works. Her sociological history work is top notch and I'm sure she's well published too. I'm quite curious about her work justifying NAMBLA against Greek Society's normative behavior. We all know, if it happened in the past, norms at the current time were different and made the behavior completely acceptable even in modern normative morals. I don't recall anyone taking issue with pedophilia in the 1990s. Right?
  3. Just checking. It is Surly and well...
  4. Agree with almost all of this. Late night like Johnny, Letterman etc were build on a foundation of 3 items. 1) Endorsement of upcoming movies via interviews 2) Various Skits by the host. 3) Guest appearances which were 95% comprised of comics and musicians. Yes, there were rare occasions where the Animal person or others would come on but mostly it was bands or comics being promoted. Today #1 is so grossly over covered by social media, main stream media and other that it has become completely superfluous. People would watch to "get to know" the actors and then see a trailer of the upcoming film. People all have a "direct relationship" with their favorite stars these days via social media and have almost always already seen a trailer long before they appear on a late night talk show. Nothing new is occurring unless it is olds (over 60) who don't really use social media. On Skits and stand up comedians/bands or #2 and #3 there are truly endless skit type and music promotion options on YouTube, social media, streaming services and main stream. I find far more new comedic and music acts through my carefully curated and extremely limited social media. I pretty much only like and follow artist, musicians and comedians. If they go to extensive political post I unfollow them. Not that I object to them having a political stance at all, I'm just not interested in theirs. I'm only interested in their art. On top of all that, someone noted it upstream that if you want the highlights of Colbert you can get them on social media/YouTube without having to sit through all the filler, so why tune in? The point of all that is at this point there is zero need or value of late night talk shows in today's digital media environment for 95% of the population. More unique shows like Comedians in Cars, John Mulaney Presents and My Next Guest fills a niche of getting to know celebrities in a seamingly more genuine less promotional method. They have a bit of skit but not a ton. Net is there are SO many different sources to get the 3 components of late night that it's time has passed. It's over. Go home.
  5. Is this sarcasm? Cause, the exact opposite is the reality.
  6. Real technology oligarchs have fuck all to do with Cypto aside from maybe quietly profiting off snipes or rug pulls. Maybe Johnny come lately wanna be tech bros. No clue what tie you're trying to create between them and Putin. Russia specializes in Ransomwear, not that they don't dabble in Crypto too, but North Korea and China are kings with US not far behind. I think Ukraine actually surpasses Russia in Crypto fraud or they did at one point.
  7. I dunno man, a Punk band ala The Dead Milkmen named Bullshit Barrage with a first album titled Shit Sammich and a track called Shadeur Magic has some real legs.
  8. Someone should send Steve-O the Surly - Quinn thread. That'll keep him busy for a while.
  9. For obscenely illogical and stupidly ridiculous reasons I have a negative feeling about Kruel.
  10. Yeah all of those items, yours and mine, enhance one another. A consistent long ball QB who can run really does alter the dynamics of an offense dramatically. Of course, high completetion rates and low turnover ratios are critical too. I hate when I go to make an omelet and find I neglected to buy ham. I personally prefer a ham, green pepper, mushroom and swiss omelet to a ham sammich. Not that I hate ham sammichs, I just have no bread.
  11. Add in robotics and robot computer science and I'm not talking MIT engineering degrees, I'm talking about blue collar jobs keeping them up and running with simple repairs, computer diagnostic tool and ongoing maintenance. The US is the worst country in "western" world for applied vocational training and it starts pre-college. We should join the 21st century and actually have vocational tracks in our middle and high schools like every single European country. Hell, add in drone piloting schools too. Those will be the delivery drivers and police traffic patrol in 10 years.
  12. On your first point, the main part reason the the Military and Oligarchs would take over was because of the war with Ukraine. NOT because they support it and want to alter strategy, rather because they are against the massive drain on both the standing Russian Military and Russian Economy. Further, a coup/assassination in Russia followed by increased attacks in Ukraine increases the global thermo Nuclear option. Both of those are terrible for the Russian Oligarchs and Military leadership. So, no, I think a coup/assassination greatly reduces option 1 and 4 in my post above. As for US Tech Bro Oligarchs, it's less the actual tech itself that concerns me more the consolidation of power by having control and ownership of that tech in ADDITION to the tech control they already possess. I'm not in the camp of concern over Terminator power, while acknowledging the risk. Instead, I'm far more concerned about Terminator LIKE technology and power controlled by a small group of human Oligarchs, US or otherwise. I'm far more concerned about the situation prior to robots taking control. Hell, I might be pulling for the robots at that point.
  13. I can appreciate anything that helps Ukraine or any country for that matter fend off tyrants. However, I, like many others I'm sure, don't care for US Tech Oligarchs further embedding themselves in war and using it to further their own combat technology. We already have our own fair share of those massive corporations.
  14. No sir, we share a love of evening lakeside "work outs" that are 100% platonic. Just ask @Nicole44 Hell, there are witnesses of one foray at an OUsux Surly happy hour.
  15. Fully agree that both sides in the article from @KYHorn come off sounding really dumb. Everyone knows China is supporting Russia and anyone with any intelligence and an ounce of honesty knows Russia/Putin isn't backing down. At this point, Putin's career and frankly life rest on the Ukraine outcome. Putin pushed all his chips in a while back. I know I keep repeating myself but this end only one of 3 ways. Putin is allowed to take full control of Ukraine and likely slaughter a substantial portion of the country (I think this is near zero chance of occurring if not full zero), Putin is overthrown by a Russian Military and Oligarchs coup, Putin is assassinated by the same Russian Military/Oligarchs group. These second 2 are, imo, very much the highest chance and I'd put it at 99% chance or better. One could argue that global thermal nuclear war is a 4th option but I think internal forces within Russia go with one of the options above long before it gets to that point. Like option 1 above, it's not zero, but I think it is extremely close to zero.
  16. Trump's distraction methods fall flat against Epstein uproar - Reuters Link
  17. I'll wager our WR YAC improves dramatically too. Give both of those passing improvements it's not brilliant to predict substantial improvements in YPC for our RBs as well.
  18. Possible != likely But.. maybe we found similar interests and became platonic friends instead. Ever think of that buddy?
  19. Lol... yep, I responded to this thread with very basic information on algorithms and how they work. Now I'm angry and upset. But, I did "promote" the thread so shame on me.
  20. Well, it's possible Nicole and I went on a date too. We didn't, but it's possible.
  21. Nothing. These things already exist on Facebook groups and elsewhere. I've got a goodly amount of female friends active in the dating world. Amusingly, I went on dates with quiet a few. We enjoyed each other's company but zero chemistry romantically. We still grab food or go out dutch.
  22. You know damn good and well there will be a shit ton of bitching with zero fact checking or moderation. None. The more vitriolic and hostile the more engagement it will get on the app. True, fact checking and reality will not be factored in, at all. There will also be fakes and catfish galore. Men posing as women to shit on a guy dating someone he's interested in. Women who enjoy watching the world burn and shit on guys who they never even had an actual date with just connected online. To think for even a second that men are in any way grosser, disgusting or shitty in the dating world than men is simply naive or uniformed. I'm speaking specifically of dating behavior, NOT criminal behavior. Perhaps someone who doesn't even date women. 😉
  23. I even took a second to scan back up thread to make sure I had not missed anything. UTSA, UMemphos and NIL were not mentioned at any point. So.... its a truly odd thread to zombie pull and post that info in.
  24. You keep saying renting and selling. I keep telling you that at the bottom line the people in this "community" aren't renting or buying. They've got some sort of cult shenanigans going on. Hell, in the video one of the idiots was going to do labor to reduce his "rent". Rent = donations to the "community" sans legal documents, I'll wager big money.
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