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  1. It's hard to believe how much it's changed in a generation. I was admitted to UT in '89 and it seemed like you could be a total mushroom and still get in with nothing more than a pretty good SAT (1250+). I don't think there was an essay, or any real need for extracurriculars. UT even threw money at me even though my family had no financial need., Tuition was like $400-500 a semester those first couple of years. I was practically making a profit.

     

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  2. Lost in a Guatemalan jungle? With the Urban Sweatsuit from J Peterman, you'll be as dry and comfortable as if you were still in your air conditioned West Side brownstone.  Inspired by the practice of Central American natives who learned that lining their underclothing with shredded palm fronds would wick away sweat and odor.  A patent-pending blend of natural fibers and advanced biopolymers to control moisture while still providing excellent breathability.

  3. Could some of y'all experts speculate which games besides Wyoming are most likely to end up on LHN? I'm thinking about singing up for Sling Orange w/ LHN, but it's not really worth it to me unless I get at least two games within a payment period. It seems to me like the Kansas game might be something LHN picks up, but that's just a wild guess.

     

  4. 9 minutes ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

    Probably should go in the trivial things that annoy you thread but I don’t get why people leave their outside lights on 24/7.  I drive around my neighborhood and probably 1/3 or more of the houses have all their porch/garage floodlights on during the day.  Turn that shit off or get smart devices.  Every little bit helps.  

    Even at night, there's gross overuse of outdoor lighting. Almost every house in my hood keeps lights blasting (front and back yards) all night long, like it will keep the boogeyman away. One down side to energy efficient lighting is that since it doesn't impact the electric bill much anymore, there's no incentive to use restraint.

    We need laws to prevent light trespass--light your own property if you want, but if your neighbors can see direct glare from your unshielded fixtures you are doing it wrong.

     

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  5. 1 hour ago, Biff Tannen said:

    For real, I have my AC at 74, a box fan running, one light on in the whole house, the TV, the fridge, and a few vampire power appliances going.  Meanwhile, every business in town isn't doing shit and every HEB is blasting their coolers and freezers.  I don't think I'm the problem.

    74?! You can do better than that!  I'm at 79 and have zero lights on. It doesn't feel good.

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  6. I admittedly haven't followed this story closely  but isn't a charge of manslaughter kind of harsh when the accused had basically every reason in the world to believe that the fucking gun that someone handed to him ON A FUCKING MOVIE SET FOR PURPOSES OF SHOOTING A FUCKING MOVIE SCENE would not be loaded with real ammo? If I'm on that jury I'd have a hard time finding that degree of guilt regardless if he pulled the trigger or not.

     

     

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  7. This gripe especially applies to online news, but print journalism as well. It's maddening how many news articles leave out critical details or information. You see reports about proposed or adopted legislation that don't identify the bill number or author. You see accident reports that have no real description of the persons, vehicles, or locations involved, or who is at fault. Crime coverage is the worst: the articles are so generic you can't even tell what really happened. A good news report should include enough detail so the reader can form a complete picture of the events in their mind.

    If you read a modern news article about a murder, it will go something like: "Police apprehended a person of interest after a body was found Tuesday night on the sidewalk in the 7000 block of Shipley Road.  The cause of death is under investigation. A police spokesperson said the death is believed to be an isolated incident and is not a continuing threat to the public."

    If you read a newspaper article in 1955 about the same incident, it would read something like this:

    "Police arrested a male suspect, Jonathan Frakes, 29, a white man, in connection with the murder of Jennifer Jones Jackson, 22, of Pflugerville, an unmarried woman. Jackson's body was found at 10:18 PM Tuesday, on the sidewalk just outside Franklin Sporting Goods store at 7216 Shipley Road. The body had deep stab wounds to the torso and the victims' upper clothing had been removed.  Police said that Frakes did not previously know the victim, but went into a murderous rage when the victim made a gesture which implied he had a small penis. This reporter interviewed a neighbor living in an apartment adjacent to Mr. Frakes' , Mr. Jake Moss, who stated that it was well known within the building that Frakes had a tendency to react violently to any sign of disrespect. Frakes was taken to Travis County Jail for holding, his arraignment is scheduled for Monday."

    It's like news today is intentionally sanitized to be free of details like motives, timelines, relationships, everything that would make it interesting. 

     

     

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  8. If, 50 or 100 years from now, there are fragmented remnants of humanity still eking out an existence in the After Times, I hope they build shittoriums where they defecate on monuments/effigies/pictures of all the people in power who let it happen--no, more like actively worked to ensure that it happened.

     

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