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    part of the point of a protest is to make everyone uncomfortable.

    This is true, but one thing that seems to be lacking in a lot of young people who get involved in these efforts today is an understanding of how to tailor a message to (1) be heard/absorbed and (2) change hearts and minds.   Screaming at people, scrapping with police and other extreme tactics may be seen by the actors as justified/righteous - but they don't seem to be having a positive effect in terms of the general public (e.g. people who don't already have a strong opinion one way or the other).  It ends up turning the very people they're trying to convince against them.  

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  2. 8 minutes ago, Surly Bevo said:

    Down on campus with HS Jr son for tour and just saw DPS marching that way up 21st street 

    Same.  They just marched by the admissions center with face shields, etc.  My son said, “so I guess we won’t be getting the full tour today…”

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  3. Listened to the Downbeat on the way into work today.  Switched over during a Musers commercial break and they were doing a mailbag segment where Danny and Sirois pulled back the curtain quite a bit on both their Ticket days as well as the changes during their time at 97.1 (especially moving to mornings).  It was really interesting and revealing - but the guys were also fairly candid about the station's current ratings difficulties and air of uncertainty about their future. 

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  4. Spent a day in Bentonville last week.  The new Castle Hub downhill park on the north end of Slaughter Pen network (up against I-49) was really cool.  Also did the in-town greens and blues, as well as a couple loops at Blowing Springs and trails at Devil's Den State Park (an hour south of Bville, but highly worth a visit, especially for camping/cabining.  

    (first photo by creek is Devil's Den; the rest are in Bentonville.)

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  5. On 2/5/2024 at 9:26 AM, Al_4_ISU said:

    This wacky winter has me confident I'll be riding my local dirt by Friday afternoon.

    Got an NWA trip planned for March.  Going to stay in Eureka Springs and spend a day riding Great Passion Play trails, and another day where I do the whole Back 40 (the original 22 mile loop).  Really excited about that.  Had a trip lined up last year, but my wife got a major promotion and was unable to take time off in that window.  I went to Eureka in the spring of 2021 and loved it.  Can't wait to get back.

    Similar plans here later this spring - I have to go to a family-related thing which NWA is on the way to, and my wife can't go, so I took a couple extra days off and plan to camp in Bella Vista and ride for a full day on front and back end of trip.  Can't wait.  

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  6. 9 minutes ago, C-Man said:

    What, did they expect him to just jeer Trump and cheer Biden for 20 minutes?  This is an issue that's engendering a LOT of discussion, and is a separate conversation from the embrace of demagoguery and overall enshittening that a second Trump term would represent, which is the primary reason to vote for Biden.   I hope America makes the correct (D) choice for democracy, but I do worry about where Biden will be in 2-3 years (and even moreso about Trump).  None of this is ideal - and just expecting people to pretend like it's not an issue (and get mad when they do) is weird.

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  7. 23 minutes ago, StassneyHorn said:

    And this predicted pattern is why I think we'll see the attempts to disenfranchise and gerrymander these emerging voters will continue to ramp up in coming years.  It's going to get worse before it gets better.

  8. 1 hour ago, crash_davis said:

    Since we don't have a bitch about whoring ourselves to Bitcoin miners thread, this is the closest one. 

    https://time.com/6590155/bitcoin-mining-noise-texas/

    Every night, the nurse anesthetist Cheryl Shadden lies awake in her home in Granbury, Texas, listening to a nonstop roar. “It’s like sitting on the runway of an airport where jets are taking off, one after another,” she says. “You can't even walk out on your back patio and speak to somebody five feet away and have them hear you at all.” 

    The noise comes from a nearby bitcoin mining operation, which set up shop at a power plant in Granbury last year. Since then, residents in the surrounding area have complained to public officials about an incessant din that they say keeps them awake, gives them migraines, and seemingly has caused wildlife to flee the region. “My citizens are suffering,” says Hood County Constable John Shirley. 

    Looked this up on the map - I guess they just bought the pastureland adjacent to the power plant and put in rows and rows of these CPU stacks and industrial cooling fans.  I would not be surprised to see more municipalities enact laws against this as it becomes more common.  https://www.google.com/maps/@32.3438316,-97.7317921,3a,19.6y,162.31h,91.4t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sZz60ipGL8cw8ZJyPg38cfw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu

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    5 minutes ago, hookemATL said:

    I say go for it. What’s the worse that could happen?

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    that's NWA windchills on Saturday.  I've camped in mid to upper 20s and have gear for that, but single digits?  F that.

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  10. 45, generally good health (slightly overweight but ride my bike ~100mi/mo and other exercise) and heart-related tests have all been fine up to this point. And I rarely get sick. 

    However, I picked up some flu-like viral thing from my wife and kids (negative to COVID so far) that has manifested itself in the past couple of days and it’s kicking my ass. Exhausted, full body aches, bad headaches, little appetite, etc. I used to get these occasionally but they were never this bad. I blame it on age.

  11. 1 hour ago, MonkeyDoughnut said:

    If anyone needs an awesome, productive well respected and liked Superintendent, Fort Bend ISD trustees had decided to force ours into early retirement - "voluntary retirement" against her wishes. She was given glowing employee review this summer and contract extension with 2% raise for her work. No details as to what actually happened have been given, but came completely out of left field and is not going over well with teachers, admin and most of the public I've spoken with.  We've put up with a string of really crappy Supers that left the direct is financial and internal turmoil.  In a short two years Dr Whitbeck came in and help guide us to a stable financial footing and morale in the schools is noticeably higher.  I'd really love to know what happened and may at some point as I can't imagine this ends without lawyers getting involved.

    A couple clues:
    https://www.texaspolicy.com/conservatives-who-promise-to-stop-leftist-racism-win-texas-school-board-seats/

    https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/politics/2022/04/13/422756/a-fort-bend-isd-school-board-candidate-has-been-sending-out-racially-charged-tweets/

     

  12. And as one would expect, over on TexAgs there are multiple posters advocating to solve this problem by no longer allowing women to serve.  My natural inclination is to assume they're doing a bit, but experience reading posts over there tells me I should know better and that they're perfectly serious.  

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  13. 21 hours ago, Bullneck said:

    This is a stupid post.  

    I fully realize this is largely the GOP’s doing, and the term “both sides” is too loaded to use at this point, so I retract that - but seriously, the podcast episode  covers a lot of the background behind deficit spending and the politics around it. As a history buff it was really interesting and didn’t push into false-equivalency territory - apologies if I made it sound that way. 

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