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  1. 18 hours ago, ChiTownDoc said:

    Saw the last few dozen doom and gloom posts but no mention of the young folks.  They’re scaring the shit out of MAGA and it’s a massive reason the nazis are going to extreme lengths even in R strongholds.  It’s gonna be ugly.  I don’t see anything showing those younger voters are inclined to switch over to R assholes like we saw with past generations.  I think the R party, as we see it today, is turbofucked.  They’ll likely split in 2 and that won’t help one bit.  Democrats need to start being the cutthroat assholes Republicans are, but overall I see plenty of reason for hope.  

    The Republican strategy for that is to make sure that, by the time that generation is voting in large numbers, they will have implemented some combination of gerrymandering, voter suppression, court packing, state control over local election districts, etc. to make sure that they still get the outcome they want, whether legitimately or not. Republicans are hostile to the principles of "one person one vote." They have some balls to complain about election security when they are the ones actively working to fuck up the system.

     

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  2. This is a tangent, but did anyone watch the Titans-Texans game on KEYE-TVs over the air channel? I just wondering if I should dig out my old OTA antenna, because the feed on Youtube TV was horrifically compressed, and I wonder if KEYE is any better directly OTA. Any shot with motion was very blocky, and at medium distance the grass was swimming with details kind of popping in and out. It looks like KEYE multiplexes two 1080i channels and two 480p channels, which can't be good for video quality.

  3. On 12/5/2023 at 6:20 PM, Tylerocks said:

    We started Obliterated last night.

    It's fucking awful.  A few chuckles here and there, but the acting and writing is pretty bad.

    The lead is hot and gets naked.

    It's fucking dire. I only made it 20 minutes. Is this supposed to be a comedy? If so, it's not funny. And if it's supposed to be action-drama, it sucks at that too.

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  4. When I was 13-14 years old, I got a trifold black nylon wallet with velcro closure, "Flying Scotsman" brand. Almost 40 years later I still use it as my primary wallet, despite getting leather wallets as gifts probably 15 times in the intervening years, which I usually regift.

    Doesn't smell too good though. Can you wash a wallet?

     

     

     

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  5. I didn't watch, but out of morbid curiosity I'll ask:  did any candidate discuss policy approaches for any of the following issues:  housing affordability, homelessness, higher education costs, public education, protecting personal privacy rights,  healthcare cost/availability, protecting social security & medicare, transportation infrastructure/mass transit, or climate change?

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  6. 18 hours ago, heso said:

     

    All of this serves to galvanize the sisters in defense of their mother, and lead to GMIL and MIL somewhat resolving their differences so that now everyone is excited to see each other and have a god damn holly jolly Christmas visit. (Un)fortunately, the uncle lives 700 miles away so he won’t be able to physically enter the ring, so to speak

     

    Surly posters, can we throw enough money together for a plane ticket for uncle? 

     

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  7. Look on the bright side. This action by the very-concerned-about-consumers AG's office surely means we will soon see similar actions against the shitton of misrepresentations and fraud committed by other industries in Texas. Like, say, car dealerships; oil, gas & chemical; energy conglomerates, and so on, I mean it's the AG's office, that's a respected state institution. It's not like they're just going to selectively target prosecutions to score cheap political points. That would be something that happens in a banana republic.

     

     

     

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  8. 4 hours ago, YGIFS said:

     

    It can happen. I remember flying out of ABIA early one morning just before Christmas (about 20 years ago) and there were tornado warnings and torrential rain. We went into the bathrooms to get away from the terminal windows.

     

  9. I'm sure** the actual contract language is more specific, but from that summary, from the structure of those bonuses it's not explicitly clear that he only gets the highest applicable bonus. (For example, I'm assuming A&M intended that if he wins the CFP, he gets the 3.5 M bonus, but not all the preceding lesser bonuses too.) 

    ** well, it is aggy so I'm not actually sure

     

     

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  10. https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/texas-gov-greg-abbott-delivers-meals-to-homebound-austinites-thanksgiving-morning/

    Conservative politicos love to be seen serving meals in a soup kitchen for a few hours a year, or doing other charity photo-ops, while simultaneously advancing policies that don't support (or actively harm) the vast majority of people in poverty or people at economic risk. I guess they either see no hypocrisy in that, or they don't care about the hypocrisy. Or they have some twisted justification that it's somehow bad or wrong when assistance comes from the government but it's OK if the assistance is coming from the religious establishment.

    If I was ever in a role of authority in a nonprofit or church institution and one of these tools wanted to do a self-aggrandizing photo op I'd tell them to go pound sand.

     

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  11. 30 minutes ago, satyanash said:

     

    128 possible outcomes?!  If only we had available to us some type of calculating machine, capable of rapid computations and the application of rigorous logic, that could solve for these outcomes and lay forth a definitive and complete analysis of this seemingly impenetrable mystery.

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  12. 54 minutes ago, blacklab said:

    Not family but neighbors so kinda fits thread.

    About midnight last night I hear a screaching of tires followed by a crash. Go outside and there is a car in the ditch between my driveway and neighbors driveway. It's pretty dark and a teenage girl is screaming at the driver. "you always do this. Your such a fucking alcoholic. How many fucking cars are you going to wreck." Doesn't look like anyone is hurt so I go inside since:

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    I assumed it was my neighbors daughter screaming at my neighbor. I text the husband and tell him I'm not sure exactly what is going on outside but if he needs help getting the car out of the ditch or anything please let me know.

    This morning he tells me his wife had a book club meeting and one of the ladies got super drunk so his wife drove her home. Turns out the lady forgot her phone and convinced her daughter to drive her to go get it. Daughter drives up steep driveway, knocks on door, gets phone, turns around and drunk mom decided to back car down driveway and into ditch. Neighbor manages to get car out of ditch, car parts everywhere.

    Teen girl does not want to ride home with mom, so neighbor drives her home in wrecked car, stopping to pick up parts as they fall off, his wife drives drunky home in other car. Wrecked car won't start without blowing into breathalyzer. Neighbor doesn't have the lung capacity to get device to pass, teenage girl does it with out issue. About 1am drunky realizes she left phone at accident site when getting out. Neighbor and drunky's daughter meet at gas station at 1:30 am to hand off phone.

    Person that was supposed to pick up drunky after book club is her "side piece". Turns out side piece is friends with neighbor and currently in divorce proceedings with a woman he was using to cheat with on previous wife.

    Told him they just needed some snow and a former high school crush and they'd have themselves a hallmark christmas movie.

     

    Neighborhood book clubs have a lot more drama than I thought

     

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  13. Y'all are pretty hard on Dusty. Baseball isn't all statistics and logic and beep boop decisions arrived at through methodical reasoning. Baseball is magical.  It's instinctive. It ebbs and flows with the intangible, unquantifiable currents of the universe. Sometimes you just have to close your eyes, turn off the targeting computer, and trust in the force.

     

     

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  14. 1 hour ago, Gut Wagon said:

    I was driving all afternoon (thankfully) and haven't seen a replay or even any highlights. To save a lot of time and bandwidth, someone tell me what, if anything, we did well today. 

    On defense? Well, we didn't allow** their QB (or anyone else) to run on us. (But giving up so much in passing kind of diminishes that.) We also recovered a fumble and got one interception.

    On offense: our running game was pretty solid, when Sark would actually put in running plays other than "run into the pile in the middle." We didn't give up any fumbles or interceptions.

     

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