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NotActuallyALonghorn

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  1. They don't need to recycle or compost it or anything. The entire planet is one giant city. I'm pretty sure they have to export their waste and import their food. Somebody has the job of flying big ol' shit ships around the galaxy to sell to the highest bidder.
  2. Yep. Sorry, but allowing refugees to claim asylum from a country we are actively in a proxy war against is too dangerous. If Russia has any competency left, they are likely trying to send foreign agents as refugees into our and our allies' countries.
  3. I cuff my jeans that are made for wearing boots if I find myself wearing said jeans with other shoes, mainly so they don't drag the ground in the back. But not while actually wearing boots.
  4. I think his clientele at his shop is far too exclusive for him to have previously been someone too prominent. Of course, this is Star Wars, so change out your hair and nobody recognizes you.
  5. Why not just put a regular door in and then have a safe door behind the regular door?
  6. Mexico is putting that KSA goal keeper to work.
  7. SFA spent a lot of money on campus improvements starting around 2004, so they'll be paying for them for quite some time, and a fear of enrollment drop offs could definitely be a factor.
  8. 29 dog years is like three human years. That ain't no toddler. Edit: four years. I was told there would be no math.
  9. What I make is compatibilizers. I'm not sure what you make is quite the same.
  10. You wouldn't happen to be in the business of reactive extrusion of specialty polymers would you? Because I wouldn't mind relocating to Queretaro.
  11. I mean, thought what I said was ridiculous enough that most folks would immediately recognize it for what it was. Apparently I miscalculated.
  12. What's dumber is the number of people who actually took it seriously.
  13. It has probably the best Southern Forestry school.
  14. That's a horrible lamp. And the "artwork" directly behind it?
  15. It's worth sticking with it. It starts to make much more sense later on.
  16. Is playing soccer really any different than kicking a 50+ yard field goal? Seems like we have plenty of professional ball kickers.
  17. You're right, soccer as a sport does not currently have the popularity it needs to put the money it needs into developing the kind of athletes we need need in the US to compete on an international level at the WC. We have plenty of young talent being developed, but until there is real money involved we won't see that talent develop beyond the high school or college level. As the younger generations grow up, however, the popularity of the sport should increase and eventually has the potential to get there. With our population size soccer doesn't need to be as popular as football in order to get there.
  18. I have personally made many such proposals here. I'm know many others have as well because I pay attention to those sorts of things. So not a lie. As to the second, if i was a betting man I would bet I could find a post of yours about how Reagan passed gun control because he was scared of the Black Panthers when he was governor of California and how the modern Republicans would freak out if they saw armed black people (more power to them!) during the recent protests we've had. When you find yourself advocating for policies that will adversely affect the ability of minority populations to exercise their civil rights in order to effect your progressive view of how society should be, you are no longer someone who has a liberal view of how society should be. You simply think that rights can be turned on or off in order to mold society into how you think it should be. Not unlike the very people you oppose.
  19. It worked pretty well to suppress black people during the Civil Rights movement, so you've got that going for you.
  20. There have been numerous proposals in the many threads we have on this site posted by people active in the "gun culture" about the issue. Almost all of them have been been shouted down as not restrictive enough by the other side. All the while saying that the gun lobby refuses to compromise while stupidly ignoring the fact that most of the stuff they are asking for were in fact compromises that were made in order to get the laws they want passed in the first place.
  21. My primary hunting rifle is an AR-15 type rifle chambered in 300 BLK that I built back when it was still a new round and a lot of folks were saying it wouldn't take off, but there is definitely something amiss with American gun culture these days. I don't think it is necessarily related to the guns themselves, but more to how we were in a state of war for twenty years up until just recently and the associated idolisation of military culture. Combine that with the expiration of the AWB of 1994 and here we are. To me, my rifle is a more practical tool for hunting than the rifles my grandparents and great grandparents used. It has uses for defending my family, yes, but I recognize that that likelihood is an outlier and don't ever expect to use it for anything other than hunting. To others, however, the same rifle is something fetishisized and it's like they almost hope to have a chance to use it to kill someone.
  22. My six year old daughter does soccer at the academy level. I'm a classic mostly scotch-irish with a smattering of pretty much every western European white guy, but my wife is Hispanic. Every other girl on her team is Hispanic with the exception of one kid whose dad is British and who played soccer in college over here and now does sports training professionally. The level of talent between our teams and the local public sports teams is a huge and vast chasm. We are developing great soccer players right now, and, at least from a Texas perspective, the vast majority of them are Hispanic. We have a huge nation with tons of people, and we are just now entering the phase where enough of them who were soccer fans growing up are wealthy enough to put their kids in advanced programs at a young age. When this younger generation grows up, we will have the talent pool we need. The real question is whether or not the sport will be popular enough to give it the money it needs to truly develop a professional team at the level that is required to compete on the WC stage.
  23. The requirements to get into a school are obviously a big component of how they are traditionally ranked, but they really don't tell you much about how well a school does at preparing a student for life. Do the rankings take into account any sort of differential of how strict their admissions policies are versus how well their students turn out? I mean, I would like to know about any schools as a parent that can take an idiot kid and transform them into a genius professional just from a cost benefit analysis perspective. Not that any of my kids are known to be idiots yet.
  24. To anyone one ordering fries at DQ: you are doing it wrong. Order a side of jalitos with your burger, or preferably dude sandwich. Thank me later
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