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  1. 32 minutes ago, The Royal We said:

    Taking my first stab at a Masters pool and Tier 5 and 6 feel like such a crap shoot. I don't like any of these guys to make the cut. Especially if the weather is shit on Thursday and Tiger and Phil have to play 36 on Friday.

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    Maybe Zach Johnson in 6. I feel like he's got a decent chance to make the cut.

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    First pass.

    It's hard not to take Scottie in the A group, but surely there's no way he can continue the torrid pace he's been on. Right?

    This article gave me ideas for the 4, 5, 6 guys. https://golf.com/lifestyle/2024-masters-sleeper-picks-break-out-augusta-national/

  2. Taking my first stab at a Masters pool and Tier 5 and 6 feel like such a crap shoot. I don't like any of these guys to make the cut. Especially if the weather is shit on Thursday and Tiger and Phil have to play 36 on Friday.

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    Maybe Zach Johnson in 6. I feel like he's got a decent chance to make the cut.

  3. 4 minutes ago, Wally Fairway said:

    Just to reiterate - I first saw this xkcd after the 2017 eclipse, and reading other peoples posts about being in the totality convinced me that I wanted to go to view this in the totality. 

    So glad I did, my 2 youngest who went to a dark park in Arky are already talking about not waiting until 2040's to see on in the US.

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    This can't be said enough. I mentioned it already, but we almost didn't leave the house because of the weather and the fact that our house was going to get 98% totality. This thread and comments like this one were the nudge I needed to insist to my wife that we were going even if it was a 50/50 shot that we could even see it.

    After experiencing totality, I'd drive a long way and put a lot of energy into a 10% chance to experience it again.

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  4. 12 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

    Yep, I listened to a guy on NPR a month or so ago talking about how you should do whatever you can to get in the path of totality, and as deep into it as you can get. He emphasized how precious it is and how you should try to get as much time in totality as possible. He was right.

    I could’ve stayed home, gone to the northernmost part of Dublin and seen 1:23 of totality. I could’ve stopped in Delaware and seen 2:35 of totality. Instead I drove on to Marion and got 3:34 of totality. Every extra second of jaw-dropping wonder was worth it. I’m so lucky that I could leave a little after noon and be back around 5:00. 

    1000%

    We listened to The Daily on the way out there and "Mr Eclipse" was talking about how impactful his first total eclipse was on the rest of his life. I honestly thought it was a little much and maybe he was just a wackadoodle. Nope. I get it now. All three of my kids really enjoyed it too. My middle son is skeptical of pretty much everything and I could tell leading up to today that he was happy to get out of school and was humoring me with his interest, but that shit went out the window the moment totality hit.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/08/podcasts/the-daily/mr-eclipse.html

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  5. 11 minutes ago, TexasGrunt said:

    I recently bought an old house in Kerens, not too far from there.  I would tell you to drop by, it's off 31 but I have 8 pecan trees and some other trees in my yard.  I may be at the house but not sure, I am driving up from Houston to drop off some things for the house so I will be in the area but may go somewhere else to watch.

    Man, that's a random ass place to buy a house. I'm thinking somewhere around Cayuga is where we'll end up.

    I'm definitely overthinking this, but having 3 kids and my wife stuck in the car with me for 4 hours because the traffic was insane sounds....not fun.

  6. 12 hours ago, BehoId, The Underminer! said:

    I care about her so pointing out she’s regarded isn’t an option. I feel like they leverage that fact all the time.  It’s impolite to point out they are dumb so dumbness just keeps spreading.

    I've had a family member do this to me too. "Every time we talk about politics you say things that make me feel like I'm stupid."

    Well then stop bringing up the latest BS thing you heard at the hair studio and I'll quit giving you my opinion. I don't think you're stupid, I just think you are getting terrible information and you're not thinking critically about it.

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  7. 1 hour ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    If weather permits, I’m looking to go to Waco. Sounds like the small towns are freaking out and will most likely make the traffic problems worse.

    of course I’m quickly losing faith that the weather will work out for most. I’m sure that some spots in Texas will get lucky with last second clear views which will be impossible to predict.

    I'm thinking the opposite on the bigger cities vs. some random rural road. It seems like people coming from further east will be going to bigger towns. I'm in Nacogdoches and have been planning on going almost due west to find a spot along 287 on the other side of Palestine. The path of totality looks to cross this area 10-15 miles west of Palestine on 287.

    What's the consensus, a bigger city like Tyler where they have better infrastructure or a more rural place where there should be fewer people? My plan has been to find somewhere in the red circle that has a larger shoulder where we can turn around and be pointed back to home and safely watch from the side of the road. Will areas like this be all jammed up too?

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  8. 20 minutes ago, Red Five said:


    “I hate politics and I hate all politicians and I always vote Republican 100% of the time.”

    Know a few of these.

    It's such a fucking bailout too. These fucks know they are supporting some bullshit but still do it because tax cuts or woke or whatever the fuck scare porn has been playing on FNC recently.

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  9. 10 minutes ago, Rimbo said:

    You're still doing it. The key is to get him to question his information, not for you to look things up for him. You don't even have to point out that his information is literally just some crap he made up. You just ask him where he got that information, how you might verify it yourself. You're letting him engage in lazy thinking.

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    It's not a bad thought, but I'm not sure he would have seen the error of his ways and sought new sources of information if I'd only have asked him where he got his information all 37 times he spouted some obviously made up bullshit.

    Where did you get this information that approaching conversations like you suggest has been successful in cutting through people's echo chamber of bullshit? I'm willing to try anything because I've certainly not made any headway with what I'm doing.

     

  10. 12 minutes ago, Rimbo said:

    Ask him for proof. You've shown yours, now he has to show his.

    You're allowing him to get away with a level of evidence you wouldn't accept from yourself.

    I get what you're saying but we were sitting at a breakfast table having a conversation. I wasn't going to whip out my phone and pull out a news source that he would hand-wave away anyway. (I don't think I'm going to find a link on foxnews.com that shows an accurate depiction of murder rates)

    So I rolled my eyes and laughed in his face - ahhhhhhh, of course, the statistics are made up!!!!

    13 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

    Specifically, since 2016, you've got a bunch of old AF boomers, who have always been conservatives listening to fox news, now retired with nothing but time on their hand, still with fox news on in the background, just listening and absorbing that hate and propoganda. And doing it while their cognition is delcining. They're now getting it from Facebook. All of their friends are saying the same thing.

    I think this is as big of a part of it as anything else. My mom got off Facebook (I think when they started taking down obvious Covid disinfo) and is very active (not sitting in front of the TV on Fox all day), but the people she spends time with are absorbing this BS in all their waking hours. So even though my mom isn't getting on FB everyday, she's still inundated with the same horseshit. She gets it at the hair salon, at the Mahjong game, at trivia night at the only good pub in town, etc. It's an echo chamber of bullshit and it's very rare that these people come across someone like me who will push back/call them out/shame them/laugh in their face. They are shocked to encounter someone that completely disagrees with them about most things while still looking and sounding like them.

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  11. 5 minutes ago, StassneyHorn said:

    Pretty sure my dad is going to be a Trump to RFK voter, so mission accomplished

    I think there's a decent chance both of my parents are going are going to be in the same bucket. They're in Texas so it won't make a shit, but hopefully there's a decent amount of these people in swing states.

    eta - my mom brought him up last summer and asked if I thought he had a chance to "make things interesting in the election." I was engulfed in the ranch waters and told her I didn't think he had a snowball's chance in hell. Looking back I should have talked RFK up more...

  12. 18 minutes ago, locodos said:

    Nope there has been coverage of the crime statistics.   The stories are out there, but people have their own facts now.

     

    News story from 2/12 of this year.  Also talks about why people don't think it's true

    https://www.npr.org/2024/02/12/1229891045/police-crime-baltimore-san-francisco-minneapolis-murder-statistics

    I actually had a conversation with my old boss about this a few weeks ago. He was convinced all of the big cities were in the middle of a huge spike in violent crime. When I told him the actual statistics did not support his argument he told me "Oh yea, I have heard that, but it's just that the FBI has been under reporting the crimes."

    How in the fuck do we deal with this? I know it's something that comes up on here daily, but how can you reach people like this if we can't even agree on a shared reality? This is a smart and very successful person - he just won't accept any data that doesn't support is priors. I just shook my head and laughed in his face.

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  13. 11 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

    I think what Bo French was talking about was he thinks (or pretends to think) that Dems engineered the covid pandemic.  Tens of millions of Republicans think covid was some manufactured Dem plot to take Trump out. They can't decide if they think covid itself was real and dangerous and manufactured by Dems and China together or whether the whole thing was faked all over the globe by an impossibly powerful global cabal (obviously helmed by (((Jews)))) to defraud the American public, or whatever other insane ideas some of the DT posters are probably entertaining now that they're too ashamed to admit they take seriously.

    Pffft. Do you even gain of function bro!?

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