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The destruction of America's public education system
wild_turkey replied to Captainant's topic in Cloak Room
I feel like I read that in Project 2025, you know, the radical right wing agenda that Trump denounced and his supporters said would never happen. -
If this passes, wouldn’t it effectively end IVF in this state?
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I registered for the Cowtown full marathon (Feb 23) and my training has been going really well, had a great 20 miler last week and planned for a 21-22 miler today, and then I sprained my ankle during my run this morning. There was a car sticking out a little bit at an intersection and I ran slightly out of my path to go around it and my foot planted awkwardly where the asphalt met the curb. It was maybe a 1” lip but somehow my foot/ankle fully rolled over and now I can’t put any weight on it. It’s fairly painful and swollen so I’m doing the whole RICE thing. The Cowtown seems out of the question and I’m moderately concerned that my ski trip next weekend will be screwed. Nothing much I can do about it except let it heal and hopefully find another race later in the year. It sucks to feel marathon ready and not get to run the race.
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I would like to see The Brutalist but holy hell 3 hr 34 min is a long time to sit in a theater. That will have to wait for streaming for me, which probably means after the Oscars.
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I have similar feelings about music biopics but this on was very well done. I think for anyone who likes Dylan’s music or even feels neutral towards him, it should be an enjoyable film.
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I very reluctantly started watching and made it through 3 episodes before calling it quits. For starters, it’s just another version of every other Taylor Sheridan show that features overly macho guys swinging their dicks at each other and a cast of women that is largely portrayed as being stupid and fairly annoying eye candy. If this show was a restaurant, it would be Hooters. It’s very clear that Sheridan struggles to write good female characters which makes me wonder if this is just how he views women. The part that made me quit was the scene with the wind turbines. The lawyer saying “What are those?” was a major eye roll, but then it was followed by a BBT rant against wind and renewable energy that was absurdly false and makes this show appear to be a thinly veiled propaganda piece for the O&G industry. His claims that the wind turbine will not offset its carbon footprint in its 20-year lifespan are not even remotely true. There are plenty of reputable resources that do life-cycle assessments for wind turbines and most indicate that it takes less than a year to offset the initial environmental impact. This is not even a gray area and it’s insulting to the intelligence of the viewer. Perhaps you could say that BBT is speaking from the perspective of his landman character (which is really more of a Midland, Texas ripoff of Michael Clayton if we’re being honest), and that may be true that his character would speak from this obviously biased and misinformed point of view, but he delivers his lines in such an authoritative way and there is no pushback against this to present an alternative viewpoint, so it really feels like Taylor Sheridan is using this character to force his own misinformation onto the viewer. Scenes like this are apparently getting reposted by fans on social media as sort of “gotcha” message, so clearly there is a demographic that gobbles this shit up and it feeds into their misinformation echo chamber. I think there is another one with Jon Hamm in a boardroom and I don’t know beyond that. I don’t expect the show to improve in any of these areas because I think this is just who Sheridan is and he has an audience that clearly likes it. There are much better things to watch so I’ll see myself out and move on.
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This movie deserves its own thread. Looking at the Oscars thread, a lot of people aren’t familiar with it, and there isn’t a dedicated place for discussing. It has 8 Oscar nominations. Timothée Chalamet plays young Bob Dylan as he rises to fame in the early 1960s. Incredible performance from him including singing Dylan’s songs. Monica Barbaro was stunning as Joan Baez and the rest of the cast was also really good. And the music is obviously great, unless you don’t like Dylan, in which case disregard this thread. If you like movies and get frustrated by a lack of quality movies, I think this one is worth your time.
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For all the talk about how bad the Boomers are, every generation of adults today shares blame for the future of this planet. I don’t think history will look kindly on us. Maybe there won’t be any people to have a history so it won’t matter.
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I like movies enough that I check an app every few weeks for what’s coming soon to theaters and streaming. I also glance at RT and Metacritic and, if a movie I don’t know about gets in the 80+ range, I’ll at least watch the trailer and read a few reviews. I probably would not know about Anora and The Substance if not for that, but I liked both of them.
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I’ve seen Dune 2, A Complete Unknown, Anora, and The Substance. Liked all of them for different reasons. Apparently need to watch The Brutalist and Emilia Pérez. I’m surprised how many of you seem to not at least be aware of A Complete Unknown. Timothee Chalamet was the celebrity guest on College Gameday for the SEC CCG and they ran ads for that movie in practically every commercial break for both Gameday and the actual game. Were y’all too focused on the Ro Sparks commercials?
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Finally finished rewatching S1 and now the first 2 episodes of S2. This show is so good. I suppose the accident that killed Gemma was never really an accident, but all part of Lumon’s sinister plan. I don’t think Gemma could be in a coma because they would need her body to be functional when Ms. Casey wakes up. A comatose person can’t suddenly walk around like everything is normal. Her outie must be in captivity, or else maybe the cloning theory is somehow at play. I’m most curious about Cold Harbor and why Mark is clearly more important than Dylan and Irv. They were expendable and he was not. Burt was teary eyed while watching Irv’s outie, which suggests that Burt was never severed. Does that mean Burt was part of the sinister plan or is there a different significance to that?
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Severence Shogun Slow Horses Mr and Mrs Smith The Bear Silo The Gentleman Fallout
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Can anyone recommend a good CPA in central Fort Worth?
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For the U.S. based companies involved in DAC, I wonder how the Trump presidency will affect funding for those projects. Will Oxy and similar oil companies continue to put new money into it, or will they wrap up existing projects and then leave it at that? I understand their biggest DAC plant is a major project and not something they are likely to shut down due to a 4-year presidential term, but I am curious to see if those companies make additional DAC investments during Trump’s term. To the extent that these things could be labeled greenwashing, it seems like that is less necessary for the immediate future.
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I like a lot of your theory except that it doesn’t explain why the outside air is so toxic that people die within minutes. Or at least when the silo 17 occupants died, which was 25-30 years ago, they died quickly. And silo 18 people die when they go clean, except Juliette. There must be some chemical toxicity and not just leftover nuclear fallout. I think people get poisoned with gas as they are exiting up the stairs, except for Juliette who had the better tape to seal her suit. And if that is true, then who or what is poisoning them and why? A sadistic human overseeing everything? An AI that controls the silos and wants to keep what’s left of humanity in captivity?
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I read both in middle school but just decided to listen to the audiobook of Huck Finn in preparation for reading James. I found it incredibly dull and boring, not to mention the frequent use of the N-word, which of course it was a different time but it was still a beating to listen to. So glad that one is finally behind me. Thanks for nothing, Mark Twain.
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Not using spoilers because anyone reading should’ve watched the finale by now. The flashback scene was presumably in Atlanta because they referenced a dirty bomb in D.C., so it would be uninhabitable. I suppose setting the stage for nuclear war with Iran, and the silos being created as a nuclear fallout plan. It doesn’t make sense that the outside air is still contaminated from nuclear fallout. It’s been hundreds of years, and even if there is ongoing nuclear war, radiation poisoning wouldn’t kill people in minutes. The level of radiation needed for that would easily penetrate Juliette’s suit. It’s still entirely possible the outside air is now safe. The inhabitants of silo 17 died when they had their uprising and went outside, but that happened when Solo/Jimmy was 12 years old, so the situation could have improved since then. I think another possibility is that the air is naturally safe but the person or entity (AI voice that spoke to Lukas and Sims) is working to contain the inhabitants and has the ability to use poison gas on people as they exit the silo. There could have been a mass gassing of silo 17 when they fled. The people in silo 18 likewise get poisoned as they go clean, but Juliette’s tape protected her and she doesn’t yet realize that she could survive outside without the suit. Just escape the immediate area and find clean air. All of this seems to be an elaborate scheme to control a population of people in enclosed spaces and attempts to create a structured society with rigid rules that deter their escape. I would be shocked if the silo is somehow necessary for human survival. Maybe an AI has taken over the planet and sequestered humans for unclear reasons.
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I’m more confused about a lot of stuff now.
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The Severence pop up is fantastic.
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Well in the case of vaccines, it’s not good at all. We are not in short supply of vaccines, so it does not free up more for the rest of us. As vaccination rates in the population decline, depending on the disease, we start to lose herd immunity. Then, even the responsible vaccinated people are at higher risk of contracting the disease from the unvaccinated people around them. Joe Rogan is a problem for spreading misinformation, but I’m more worried about RFK. He could roll back public health decades.
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I’d like to do another marathon this year. I’ve done 3 in the past, most recent being Dallas BMW in Dec 2022. My time was 3:54:49 which was my PR. I have my eye on the Cowtown on Feb 23. I live in FW so it would be convenient, plus there are no other big marathons in this region later in the spring. I could maybe wait for OKC but I don’t like Oklahoma. Not sure if I’m where I want to be from a training standpoint. Holidays and weather have been a hindrance. My longest runs thus far have been 13.1, 14.5, 16.5, and 13.1. I’d like to get to 20+ over the next 3 weeks to actually feel good about it.
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I really enjoyed that episode and feel like we are finally going somewhere. The people forcing Juliette to open the vault were an irrational bunch. She narrowed it down to 6 codes that could all be attempted within 2 days, but they wanted to kill her or Silo right then because they were hungry and needed food right that instant? They’ve been scavenging in that Silo for decades.
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Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet
wild_turkey replied to Coach pop a bitch's topic in Football
As a general rule, I don’t have ill will towards any Longhorns as long as they represent The University well. Be it Chris Simms or Blake Gideon or Garrett Gilbert or Bert Auburn. Quinn Ewers falls in that group. I appreciate the things he did well but he was also extremely frustrating to watch as a player. The recruiting rankings and hype were extremely high, even had Heisman talk going into this year, and in the end we saw QB play more similar to Simms or Ehlinger than we did Colt. When we had Colt and the game was on the line, I always felt he had it in him to make the critical pass and keep the game alive. Watching Quinn, I never felt that way. There were obviously many highlights like 4th and 13 against ASU where he made a clutch play to help win a tight game. There were also many missed opportunities like an overthrow to a wide open Golden on 3rd and 5 when we were trying to take the lead in the 4th quarter. Sark botched the playcalling at 1st and goal, but prior to that, there were plenty of other plays in the game that simply weren’t made, and I think an elite QB needs to be able to do that. I also think our offensive playbook was somewhat limited this year because of Quinn’s highly inconsistent deep ball and his inability to scramble away from a collapsing pocket. I usually don’t concern myself with off the field issues, but I do follow several Longhorns on IG and I was not a fan of our starting QB making political posts in the middle of the football season. When that was going at the same time we were watching on-field struggles post injury, Quinn alienated me a little bit as a fan. He was a drastic improvement from wandering in the desert with Case, Thompson, Buechele, Swoopes, etc, but those guys also had a much less talented team around them and far worse coaching from Strong and Herman. So I’m happy that Quinn played a role in returning Texas to prominence, and he was good enough to allow this upward trajectory to occur, but I think Texas needs better in order to win an actual championship. Hopefully Arch is the guy. Good luck to Quinn in whatever he does next. -
I have horrible allergies in Texas, so escaping allergies would be a minor goal if we leave Texas. I never seem to have allergies when visiting Colorado but the dry air usually gives me chapped lips and pretty dry skin. Denver is an option on our list but that’s a small concern for me.
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