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  1. 4 minutes ago, Make em eat Taco Bell said:

    lolz, it's all about land and fighting the invading Zionists.  Simple really.  Yes, they hate Jews because of what they did to them , which btw is a lot worse than the relatively minor Pearl Harbor attack which cause massive hatred of the Japs.  

    Jew hatred arises out of political events.  Jews are the enemy but they are not the enemy simply because they are Jews (your incorrect mindset). 

    Jews are doing business in many Muslim lands and like I said even live in Iran.   You are a rookie but you have lots of company.  

    "jews hate arises out of political events." Well, I didn't have "political event" as a description of October 7th on my bingo card, but here we are...I'll ignore all the videos all over the internet of Palestinian children putting on plays heroicly depicting the muder of jews, and children saying they grow up with no other goal than to murder jews, becuase hey, I have an incorrect mindset and those must not be real.  

    Oh, you live in Iran you say? Outside of my shock that you have regular access to a functioning internet that isn't massively controlled by the state, well, I guess your viewpoints make a lot more sense. 

     

     

  2. 1 minute ago, Make em eat Taco Bell said:

    1. It's the biggest misundestanding BY FAR and you keep making the rookie mistake, but you are not alone, so find comfort in that. Oh my dear, it is ALL about geographic encroachment, not anti-semitism at all.

    2. see#1 the continued encroachment is still the cause and in fact the 2 state solution is dead because the Jews don't want to fall back to "their" lands. 

    Many of you have to discard this idea of "Jew hatred" , "antisemitism". It's absolutely ZERO. 

    Let me dumb it down for you:  America did not fight Japan because of racial hatred of Asian people.  Make sense?  

     

    You're bordering on disingenuous to the point of trolling. Hamas literally said it's their responsibility to kill jews everywhere in the world. It's in their fucking CHARTER. But yes, it's all geopolitical. Those videos of all the 8 year old palestinians claiming their only want in life is to grow up and slaughter jews...those vieos just cut off right after "Because of their geographical encroachment!" 

    The Two State solution is dead because despite agreeing in 2007 among all the parties, no final agreement was reached, and then Hamas took control of Palestine and oh, put it in their charter to kill jews everywhere, and shit has progressively gotten worse. 

    To say that Palestinians and many, many muslims, don't hate and flat out want to kill the Jewish people is fucking miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiind blowing. It's in their charter, repeatedly:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_Hamas_charter


     

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  3. 11 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

     

    Emil Bove, the Trump lawyer cross-examining Pecker, is the newest addition to Trump’s trial team. He previously served as a federal prosecutor in New York.

     

    One notable point about the end of prosecutors’ questioning of Pecker was that they hammered home the idea that he isn’t out to get Trump. That is how the defense plans to frame Michael Cohen's actions — as vindictive.

     

    That was quite a way to end the direct questioning. Pecker had only just begun to describe the hush-money payment made to Stormy Daniels. That means that other witnesses, likely including Michael Cohen, will be left to give most of the testimony about it. The lack of testimony from Pecker about Daniels also makes me wonder if Daniels herself might testify: We still don’t know.

     

    The prosecution is done questioning David Pecker. He will be cross-examined by Trump's defense team next.

    The lawyer Emil Bove will handle the cross-examination for Trump’s defense.

     

    He says that he hasn't spoken to Trump since 2019. “Even though we haven't spoken, I still consider him a friend,” Pecker adds, as he testifies against Trump at his criminal trial.

     

    Trump is showing the most emotion he has during the trial so far as David Pecker discusses a non-prosecution agreement with the Manhattan district attorney's office. He has shaken his head multiple times, whispered to his lawyer and tightly folded his arms over his chest.

     

    Joshua Steinglass, the prosecutor, asks David Pecker if he has any bad feelings or ill will toward Trump. “On the contrary,” Pecker responds, adding: “I felt that Donald Trump was my mentor. He helped me throughout my career.” Pecker then tells a story in which an editor on his staff inhaled anthrax after the Sept. 11 attacks and died. Pecker says he was in a very difficult place from a business and personal standpoint, and that Trump was the first to call him when he needed help.

     

     

     

    5 minutes ago, Red Five said:

    It wasn't out of the kindness of his heart, I can assure you. 

    Exactly. Trump saw the opportunity to get a national tabloid mag under his thumb at the right time, and it clearly paid off by 2016

  4. 38 minutes ago, Make em eat Taco Bell said:

    not exactly true and true anti Zionism isn't Holocaust 2.  This mistake , which you also have made, is BY FAR the most common misunderstanding on this topic.  At the core of this entire thing is Arab sovereignty vs. Jewish encroachment onto the native Arab population. This has evolved into a few other directions but anything else is a misunderstanding which Israel is happy to exploit. 

    Listen dude, I peace'd out of the israel thread months ago for this reason. I'll address a couple points and I'll peace out of this one too, becuase I know where it ends. But before I start, I will say that Netanyahu is a war criminal and can fuck off and die, and Israel does plenty of shady shit. That being said:

    1.) not exactly true and true anti Zionism isn't Holocaust 2 - It's pretty condescending to tell people they're misunderstanding a topic when you have no clue of their knowledge, AND your saying they're misunderstanding something and you're offering your own subjective opinion. "Not exactly true" is sort of the flip side of "not exactly wrong." And Anti Zionism isn't the Holocaust 2 mostly becuase Israel/America/Others haven't allowed it to become Holocaust 2...yet. There are massive amounts of people living in the immediate vicinity who don't believe Jews have a right to be alive, and one of them is Hamas. And it seems like every 10-15 years they all try to invade or do something horrible to Israel. But yes, I'm sure the peopel of Israel and Jews worldwide don't feel threatened, but if they do, yes, lets just assure them this is really a geographical encroachment situaiton, nothing more!

    2) At the core of this entire thing is Arab sovereignty vs. Jewish encroachment onto the native Arab population - Such an amazing oversimplificaiton. Was the Jewish state created by displacing Arabs. Yes, absolutely. Was any CONTINUED "encroachment" on the Arab state becuase people wanted to fucking kill jews? Yes, Israel's advancement came at the cost of more Arab land...usually after those countries decaled war on Israel, invaded and then Israel whipped their ass and ended up with more land than they started. You could call that Arab bestowment of Arab lands as much as encroachment.

     

    Edit: As an addendum to part 1, I'll add that Iran is a country that absolutely wants to eradicate Jews, and they have since the October attack ADMITTED that they pushed Hamas, who is their proxy, to attack becuase they feared that the Saudi's and soon others signing up to normalize relations with Israel would lower the temperature and hatred of Jews in the region. Another country literally meddling to prevent the hatred of jews subsidizing, becuase they fear it'll be harder to kill them in the future, but yes, Israel and Jews shouldn't feel threatened becuase it's just basic geopolitical maneuvering. right? 

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  5. 3 minutes ago, Make em eat Taco Bell said:

    why do Jewish students feel hating Israel is a direct attack on them? /rhetorical question.

    Probably becuase the people, historically, who most often hate on israel don't think Jews have a right to exist. .

  6. 1 minute ago, Willfully Horn said:

    Maybe I missed it in the NYT synopsis, but the rebuttal to the notion that a motivated prosecutor could indict even a presidential ham sandwich with Dijon, is that presidents are afforded abundant legal counsel, and the precedent is that if an empowered government official declares an action legal, then an individual cannot be charged, much less convicted, for that action.

     

    Who knew so many high court justices were DT posters? Holy shit, with their skin crawling they sharply rebuke any mention of the particulars of Trump’s indictments. The claim that what’s important is the abstract, the general effect of their eventual ruling. Hey fuckwads, if the meta doesn’t address this micro, then it is bullshit.

    Uh, all of us. And for a long time now. Watchu talking 'bout, Willis?

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  7. 19 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

    This is an important life lesson and one that I shared with my sons.  Never do business with self-professed Christians (who market as such anyway) because you will get screwed.  It is a given.  

    100% this, as others have said. I had a guy redo my driveway during Covid, on the recommendation of a guy who works on our yard. "Oh, he seems like a good guy, he warehouses next to mine." Dude was all Christ this, Christ that, very polite. And he did the worst job ever. A year into it cracks everywhere, and if you powerwash it the concrete literally comes up. It was basically "Do I spend more time and money suing this guy or let it go?" Pretty sure that's his business model. Lesson learned. 

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  8. 1 hour ago, Bevo said:

    That plus part is debatable - Blackshire was isolated on the running back and a safety trying to tackle Blue in the open field running at full speed is not a good position to be in. It was a well designed play against the wrong defense. But Taaffe did fuck up by failing miserably hoping for an overthrow instead of probably getting torched in the open field by Blue. The main thing that the safety could have done better is to be closer to Blue when he caught it so he could make the tackle or light him up.

    It was a joke. But yes, a defender being in position to make the play is certainly preferable than being out of position. One night even call that Not Fucking Up A Play. 

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  9. 1 hour ago, tbone_ said:

    At 55 and the parent of one kid, what I didn’t realize earlier that I do now is that the more kids you have the better chance you have of one of them showing back up when it’s time to change your diaper.

    So there is that. But no one thinks about that at a younger age when you are worried about living your best life.

    So how are you feeling about your odds now that you've placed it all on one bet. Think you'll get your diaper changed?

  10. Just now, HateYouAndMyself said:

    100% agree. 

    Who has Joseph actually helped us secure from Louisiana? We keep hearing that fucking narrative and it is usually in the context of "Joseph is helping with player X due to his ties to the state!" followed by that player never actually landing at Texas. 

    Derek Williams was 100% a financial decision. I don't care how certain people try to spin it. That was an NIL war and we won. Be proud. No shame in it. Thank those who opened their wallets. We could have ritually sacrificed both Gideon and Joseph at midfield to Bevo three hours before his announcement and it wouldn't have changed a thing with Williams. 

    Only other notable player I can think of from Louisiana is Ward and Joseph's great contribution was finishing well behind both LSU and Florida. He ended up not being a take at LSU and it took Florida both completely imploding AND firing Ward's primary recruiters (both of them) including his position coach with no replacement plan in place. I'm glad to have the kid but it isn't like Joseph did anything impressive in that recruitment. Am I forgetting someone? We haven't even brought in any notable non DBs from Louisiana except Manning and if anyone tries to give Joseph an ounce of credit there they should be laughed off this site. 

    I'm by no means saying Joseph is not overall a very solid recruiter. I know he is. The specific "he helps in Louisiana!" bullshit however hasn't seemed to actually matter at all. Sure as hell no reason to factor it into his ongoing employment. 

    You're forgetting Tapp, Melvin Hills, and Wardell Mack. 

    I won't bother trying to troll you with Arch Manning and Will Randall. 

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  11. 5 minutes ago, Mitch Cumsteen said:

    You guys are looking at this whole DB room situation the wrong way. Sure, it stings to lose experienced players to the portal and the ones that are here look poorly coached, but it's been awhile since we've been able to really lean into a position coach becoming a constant surlyhorns punching bag. It's been dire around here ever since Stan Drayton broke up with @golfclap and Andre Coleman got shitcanned. But now? In the words of Sam Ehlinger, "Weeeeeee're Baaaaaaack!"

    I believe @golfclap named his eldest son Drayton. 

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  12. 8 minutes ago, texifornia said:

    Dude is the most aggy ag that ever lived. Must have been shown the door.

    He was a low level 4 star with good height and weight, at a position of great need. If they showed him the door, it's because they caught him moonlighting as a youth pastor and all that entails. Or he hated it there and quit. 

     

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  13. 42 minutes ago, Tex Pete said:

    Non-Aggies really have a hard time understanding how intertwined TexAgs (and other aggie recruiting reporters), aggie alums, and the University really are because we do not look at the world through the same lens they do.

    We see ourselves as people who went to the University of Texas and who root for the University of Texas. Because of that, we can look at things our school does or things our athletic teams do and criticize the things we disagree with because we separate one from the other; the school is external to us.

    Aggies are bred to believe that they ARE Texas A&M. The school is their identity. Whether you shovel horse shit, drive a chicken truck, sell insurance, breed horses, fuck horses, run the university, build tract homes, dig latrines in the military, write fiction for rubes to purchase, or fail to supervise drunk kids building dangerous structures, you are Texas A&M. The school did that. With that mindset. the school becomes far too important.These idiots will squeeze their nutsacks, even if they don't have nutsacks, to show support for their school. Doing all things legal and illegal to bring recruits to the school is an easy leap with that mindset. Corrupting the line between an external journalistic entity and the University is an easy leap with that mindset. They don't even recognize it in themselves.

    Billy Liucci has made a ton of money being a complete goober because of the hive mind. Of course he can illegally insert himself into recruiting players, because it's for dear old TAMC. And after all, everyone else does it. The ends justify the means. WHOOP!

    You cannot separate the rube from his identity, and you'll almost never find an aggy who has a problem with how they do things.

    Good post. 

    9 minutes ago, BornAndRaised said:

    things not going well in Sheep humper land

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  14. 1 hour ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

    MAGA snowflake example #4612

     

    https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/24/devin-nunes-trump-media-stock-congress-00154054

     

     

     

     

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    Wall Street professionals, meanwhile, have raised concern about the prospects of the company’s money-losing business while traders have rushed to bet against the stock, a practice known as short selling.

    Nunes asked the lawmakers to investigate the trading in Trump Media’s stock and “whether any laws including RICO statutes and tax evasion laws were violated, so that the perpetrators of any illegal activity can be held to account.” He said “a thorough and expeditious investigation” should include collecting trading data from the SEC’s massive trading database known as the Consolidated Audit Trail, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority and the clearinghouse for U.S. stock trades.

    Spokespeople for Jordan, McHenry, Smith and Comer did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

    Nunes is particularly worried about a specific and illegal type of short-selling activity known as “naked short selling.”

    Typical shorting involves traders borrowing shares that they then sell into the market before buying them back later — hopefully at a lower price to collect the difference. But naked short selling entails never borrowing the stock to start, a far riskier practice.

    Last week, Nunes alleged in a letter to Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman that there was “potential market manipulation” in the company’s stock from naked short selling. A Trump Media spokesperson did not immediately respond to a question on whether the company has reached out to the Securities and Exchange Commission on the issue.

    Fears of naked short selling ballooned among individual investors throughout the pandemic, as day trading became a favorite pastime for many. But there is “no way to ascertain” using public data whether naked short selling is occurring in a stock, S3 Managing Director Ihor Dusaniwsky told POLITICO last week.

    Trump Media’s complaints have not been well-received by the financial community. In both letters over the last week, Nunes has named four trading firms as being particularly active in the stock — including GOP megadonor Ken Griffin’s Citadel Securities. Each of the firms usually handles a substantial amount of individual investors’ trades on a given day.

    A spokesperson for Citadel Securities fired back at the Nasdaq letter last week saying, “Devin Nunes is the proverbial loser who tries to blame ‘naked short selling’ for his falling price.”

    Trump Media spokesperson Shannon Devine responded with a statement saying Citadel Securities is “a corporate behemoth that has been fined and censured for an incredibly wide range of offenses including issues related to naked short selling, and is world famous for screwing over everyday retail investors at the behest of other corporations.”

    Citadel Securities did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the latest letter.

     

    And here's the link to the letter (PDF)

    Snowflake or not, the stock is holding steady in the mid-30's now. Another few days and trump gets another huge chunk of shares, which he can sell off. He'll probably make a nice 1-2 billion on this when he cashes out ASAP. 

  15. 6 minutes ago, Goredho said:

    Guys, he's going to revolutionize cloud computing with his intardnet of shitty things.  What could possibly go wrong with the world's first completely decentralized and fully mobile data center?

    https://www.theverge.com/24139142/elon-musk-tesla-aws-distributed-compute-network-ai

    Elon Musk wants to turn Tesla’s fleet into AWS for AI — would it work?

    Musk, who loves to riff on earnings calls, compared the unused compute power of millions of idle Tesla vehicles to Amazon’s cloud service business. If they’re just sitting there, he mused, why not put them to good use to run AI models? (Also, have you ever really looked at your hands? No, I mean really looked?)

    “There’s a potential... when the car is not moving to actually run distributed inference,” Musk said. “If you imagine the future perhaps where there’s a fleet of 100 million Teslas and on average, they’ve got like maybe a kilowatt of inference compute. That’s 100 gigawatts of inference compute, distributed all around the world.”

    So, to summarize, you buy a Tesla. It’s your property. But Musk wants to freely use the unused compute power in your vehicle for... something? Possibly AI-related? Hopefully not the blockchain. (Tesla is an AI company now, by the way. Musk said so himself during the call.)

    I honestly can't believe this guy is on an earnings call citing plot points from fucking Silicon Valley. 

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  16. 2 hours ago, Getafix said:

     

    - Gerry says he has Dakorien Moore @ 51% to Texas, and then adds - quite seriously - he could "go to 52% or 53%"

    - Bobby's reaction, when he hears that, is ... all of us 😂  😂  😂 

     

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    - Also, Bobby said that as of now, none of Guilbeau, Barron or Jordan is expected to enter the portal

     

     

    Good. Id have taken Austin Jordan over what Ive seen from Brooks regardless. 

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