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wild_turkey last won the day on January 27 2020
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I’m not even going to get my hopes up about Trump dying. Despite his age and the mitochondrial despair on his face, I think we are cursed and he will live another 10 years. That said, if he did die, I think it could only be considered a good thing. It’s akin to Saban leaving Bama, where the worst case scenario is that DeBoer continues to be an effective coach, but the best case scenario is that Bama loses momentum and becomes much less formidable. Maybe Vance would continue to carry the party, but there’s also that chance that he won’t fire up the MAGA crazy to the same degree, and he won’t be as vindictive and threatening towards members of his own party, so they will be less afraid of him and less unified.
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So she set aside her moral compass, as a sexual assault victim herself and advocate against sexual assault, long enough to confirm the rapist Whiskey Pete as Secdef, then ends her political career anyways. Great job, Joni. Quite a legacy of capitulation you left behind.
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He doesn’t have a point. He knows this is all complete bullshit but he won’t ever admit any wrongdoing by Trump or RFK Jr, so the best he can do is make a general statement about risks of SSRIs as if to suggest the rest of us were completely naive about that, despite this info being common knowledge forever, and then he concludes with “more research is needed.” If we found out he had a brainworm, at least we could be a tiny bit sympathetic about his bullshit posts. Imagine if RFK Jr pointed out that one of the risks of a person having a heart attack and undergoing a heart cath is death, then RFK Jr tried to limit access to heart caths and declared war on the AHA, then Ana would chime in and inform us that you can actually die during a heart cath and more research is needed. He’s a quack.
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Yeah, I know a few people who are still very bitter that the government required everyone to get an “untested” vaccine. First of all, it wasn’t untested. Second of all, no one was going around forcing people to have the vaccine. It was always optional. Friend A was unfortunately lost to MAGA sometime around 2020, so he’s as good as dead at this point and his vaccine objections are par for the course with the rest of his delusional worldview. RIP. Friend B is still a good friend, pretty smart guy and not MAGA per se, but I think he listens to too much Joe Rogan or similar bullshit podcasts and it’s poisoned parts of his brain. We spent a weekend at the lake when he was constantly touting the benefits of ChatGPT and showing how the premium version could help solve any of life’s problems. Okay, fine. But then we got into it on vaccines and he was strongly opposed to the Covid vaccine which he considers a massive failure. So I challenged him to ask ChatGPT for the best available data on the risks vs benefits, efficacy, estimated lives saved, etc. He was very reluctant to do it because even though he trusted ChatGPT for practically everything else, he suspected it would have a bias on this one topic. He did it anyways and of course the info was that it was overwhelmingly effective and safe, although obviously some adverse events occur, but he was just bizarrely skeptical of that info. The data is plainly available and he is a guy that thrives on data analysis, but he has some kind of mental block on this topic. It’s infuriating.
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Your carbon footprint is enormous. Why does anyone have 9 kids?
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The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation.
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Wife and I watched the movie Belfast tonight. We saw it when it first came out but we didn’t have a child then and Trump wasn’t actively destroying America then. It hit a lot differently this time around because it shows this family struggling to cope as their world deteriorates into civil unrest (The Troubles), wondering how to handle that and plan for the future of their family. They wrestle with moving and the idea of leaving behind family, friends, and the only life they’ve ever known. You can tell they are deeply committed to each other and the wellbeing of their children, but the world has forced them to make very difficult decisions. We struggle with that and discuss it on an almost weekly basis since the election. We’ve discussed moving to CA or CO to gtfo of Texas, but I don’t know if those are truly safe havens, given that Trump is moving the national guard into blue cities. We’ve considered other countries but it’s really hard to know where. This isn’t like planning a vacation where you just want a cool destination for a week.
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Why does anyone under the age of 65 care what Cracker Barrel is doing? How can a rebrand of a geriatric chain restaurant be woke? I don’t understand why this is major news.
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The destruction of America's public education system
wild_turkey replied to Captainant's topic in Cloak Room
How do places like Aledo and Collin County burbs have declining enrollment? Is the enrollment data publicly available somewhere? Are they losing kids to homeschooling and private schools? Surely it’s not people just moving away. -
The destruction of America's public education system
wild_turkey replied to Captainant's topic in Cloak Room
I’m hearing more and more people say their kid’s public school district has switched to a 4 day a week model. These are mostly districts in smaller towns around DFW, but it seems to be happening statewide. Here’s a recent Texas Tribune article that discusses the trend: https://www.texastribune.org/2025/08/14/texas-districts-four-day-school-weeks/ It seems the main driver is budget constraints and teacher shortages. Pay less for staff and overhead by only doing it 4 days instead of 5. Maybe attract or retain teachers. The article says that test scores have been worse in schools with a 4 day week. Obviously that should be a major concern, depending on how strongly the data supports that. Another major concern or question is how do families with 2 parents working full-time account for the off day? If they don’t have grandparents or other family nearby to help with childcare, what are they doing? My personal reaction to this, like many other things, is fuck you Greg Abbott and anyone who supports him. To the extent that budget constraints prompted this change, he is the biggest reason for that. A pretty sad state of affairs when public schools in a wealthy state can’t afford to keep their doors open 5 days of the week. We can give tax breaks to crypto farms but can’t keep our schools open. If my blame is misplaced, someone please better inform me. For any of you who have direct experience with this, particularly educators or families with kids in these districts, curious your thoughts. -
I’m sure Greg Abbott will promptly order the cute little Texas wall to be painted. He can roll in front of it for a photo op and maybe Trump will notice he exists.
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I assume Putin has hard evidence related to Epstein or some equally reprehensible Trump activities. If Putin wants Trump to roll out a red carpet and do a flyover, Trump has no choice but to give it to him.
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Texags thinks this meeting was most likely a success. Trump won’t reveal his cards (lol) so everyone just needs to give him time. Art of the deal means keeping the successful negotiation a secret for a bit longer. If Trump were president instead of Biden, the invasion would’ve likely never happened and this meeting would not be necessary. My personal favorite: Like any venture into that cesspool of a website, it’s a sad reminder that we share this state and this country with ignorant and gullible people who will shift their own beliefs and forfeit any inkling of critical thinking for the sake of staying forever loyal to their team politics. They are unfortunately not outliers, which explains why America is where it is today.
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You’re assuming that people are primarily searing things at high heat on the stove top. If you are searing meat, then I would agree that avocado oil or ghee are much better options than EVOO due to the higher smoke point. Most of my stove top cooking is at lower temps for sautéing garlic and onion, vegetables, or cooking other meats at lower temps. I don’t want to scorch meats like chicken or shrimp. EVOO is my default for all of those things.
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But what about Coke with sugar and freedom fries cooked in beef tallow? We don’t need vegetables to MAHA.
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