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  1. 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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  2. 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.

  3. 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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  5. 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.

  6. 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/

     

  7. 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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  8. 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. 

  9. The NYT Daily podcast this morning covered the massive current deficit, potential ways to fix it (like Rubinomics approach that led to an actual balanced budget during the Clinton era) - and why the current Congress will never agree to something like that because both sides are dug in and refuse to compromise or give an inch.  It was depressing - just like everything about the current legislative shitshow.

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  10. 4 hours ago, mdmost said:

    All those Danny and Sirois fans that left when the lineup changed....

    They went to mornings (and then some), given the +.5 increase for 6-10a.  If they hit 2.0 in the next book then the lineup shuffle was a win. Overall numbers still aren’t great but you can bill better with consistent 2+ versus what they had before. 

  11. I am so tired of this crap already (SIAP - didn't see it earlier in thread). 

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    Oregon handed Colorado and head coach Deion Sanders their first loss of the season with a 42-6 blowout win in Eugene on Saturday. The Ducks left no doubt who was the better team, out-gaining the Buffaloes by 323 yards and sacking star quarterback Shedeur Sanders seven times. However, USC legend Keyshawn Johnson says coaches from other schools helped Oregon game plan to beat Colorado out of spite.

    "I spoke to somebody in the coaching fraternity right after the game," Johnson said Monday on FS1's Undisputed. "They know some people that coach at Oregon. They told me that information was being given to that staff about game planning against Colorado so that Oregon could beat them. They were stacking against them. I ain't making this up."

    I don't know, maybe it's called scouting your opponent and watching game film?

    https://247sports.com/Article/coaches-gave-oregon-intel-on-how-to-beat-colorado-keyshawn-johnson-claims-as-buffaloes-prep-for-usc-216916134/

     

  12. First-time visit yesterday to Barber Hills trails up north of Paris (about 5min from the OK state line). Really impressed - lots of variety between easy (like RCP or Harry Moss) and intermediate (Northshore, Big Cedar, Boulder etc). In 2 hours of moving time I covered 15 miles and 1,299’ of elevation gain, but it’s mostly pretty subtle climbs so it didn’t wear me out. And you get the benefit of some fun downhills, piney tree cover, loamy soil and pretty views of Pat Mayse Lake. Topped it off with solid BBQ from Scholl Bros. in downtown Paris. A good day overall. 
     

     

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