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19 minutes ago, Bama Llama said:
If Texas is ahead by 4 or more late, watch out for the hook and lateral. Sixty years ago they stole a game from us with that play. The receiver’s knee was on the ground but it was not called (no replay review in 1965). I saw it in person. Hook em for ole Bama Llama, boys!
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20 hours ago, Jameslaw121 said:
I drink my coffee with two sweet n lows.
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40 minutes ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:
THEY chose to have the lies shoved down their throats, by canceling their newspaper subscriptions and relying on the news as filtered through their Facebook groups.Hear, hear! Morans.
I, however, chose to cancel my newspaper subscriptions and rely on the news as filtered through Surly, like any intelligent, discerning citizen should.
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3 hours ago, Guadaloopy said:
“Miserable dickhead” is the easiest position to hold in a sports discussion.
If you are wrong and the team wins, you can say that you are “happy to be wrong.” If they lose, you get to double down on misery and dickheadedness.
This position requires no conviction, no risk, and no heart. It sucks the joy and love out of sports fandom.
But I get it.
Some people are just emotionally damaged and can’t allow themselves to invest a little hope into an outcome they don’t control.
Some people are just contrarians and derive some sense of self worth from standing apart from the main fanbase.
And some are just plain cowards.
Fuck all that… sports are one of the few places in life where you get to experience solidarity with a group of like-minded individuals about something that ultimately does not matter.
Save your fear, negativity, and cowardice for the things that DO matter and reclaim a little childlike joy by going all in for a sports team you love.
This is one of the few areas in life that doesn’t have to be miserable unless you choose to make it miserable. So choose differently.
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10 minutes ago, heso said:
They are more than happy to sell out
the rest of the conference(REPLACE WITH ANY ENTITY) long term if it looks good for them in the short term.applies to almost anything these days
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21 hours ago, Drew said:
Kind of like the classic Cotton Bowl at Fair Park...I do wonder what those stadiums do when there's no football. I know they have some other functions and games...but can't imagine it's enough really to keep them going.
Rose Bowl does quite a few concerts and soccer games, but they have a limit on how many events they can host in a year due to the stadium being literally right in the middle of a neighborhood.
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I think its possible that of the 800m dead, not all succumbed to violent trauma (car crashes, falls, etc.), but rather that certain humans were unable to process that change and just died. We're talking several minutes of grand-mal seizures and god-knows-what-else going on internally. Perhaps a certain percentage of humanity just couldn't take it.
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The most recent publication of "The Baffler" dedicated the entire issue to "the end of words." Some excerpts below from "we used to read things in this country." Feel free to ignore the class struggle stuff.
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/we-used-to-read-things-in-this-country-mccormack
QuoteI’m part of a dying breed in that orientation, and the shift in interest from the newspaper to the blog to the podcast has left me somewhat informationally marooned among my peers. Weisenthal would understand this: a special interest of his is Walter Ong, the Jesuit scholar who, two generations ago, discussed the transition from oral culture to print culture and the transition in the television age into what he called “secondary orality.”
The story Ong tells goes like this: for most of human history, culture was exclusively oral. Knowledge was transmitted by speech, and what could be transmitted was what could be remembered. Oral culture was “aggregative rather than analytic”—full of redundancy, traditionalist in disposition, and embedded in the “human lifeworld,” rather than allowing abstract thought. Therefore, it was conservative and traditional, against innovation and any departure from the long-established norms of agricultural life. Repetition, cliché, and formulas are essential, as in Homer with his repeated phrases such as “swift ships” and “wine-dark sea.” With writing comes precision, analytical rigor, deliberate word choices, analytic remove from life, and abstract thought.
Ong writes that oral culture dominated the Middle Ages, despite the invention of writing five thousand years ago or so, and in some ways the twentieth century. With the arrival of the printing press in Europe in the 1440s, print fixed the written word in place and began to supplant orality. This gave rise to, among other developments, the novel and other modern forms of writing. Then, with the emergence of electronic media, Ong sees society regressing/advancing into a “secondary orality,” which brings back many qualities of the first orality (note the supposedly permanent basis of writing.)
QuoteStatistics have gotten only grimmer. Last year, the average American spent 0.28 hours per day reading, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. This is down slightly from 2016, along with socializing and TV watching. A 2023 survey says 54 percent of Americans read one or more books a year. Most are genre books, romantasy being the only source of growth in reading. “Video now accounts for 58.8% of average time spent per day with social networks, up from 48.0% in 2021,” writes Audrey Schomer in Variety. TikTok users spend the most time with their app, with an average of 2.48 hours day in 2024; Instagram users manage 2.46. For The Atlantic, Rose Horowitch notes, “In 1976, about 40 percent of high-school seniors said they had read at least six books for fun in the previous year, compared with 11.5 percent who hadn’t read any. By 2022, those percentages had flipped.” Ong was wrong that secondary orality would remain yoked to literacy. While literacy remains a mass phenomenon, the number of readers and the quality of what they read are declining. At the same time, while memory is traditionally the organizing principle of orality, those immersed in its second coming have seen their faculties of recall replaced by data centers, leaving them bereft of meaningful culture of either the print or oral variety.
QuoteFor it is AI that has given the American ruling class the final impetus to more or less abolish education. As primary and secondary schools prepare to push AI on students, higher-education funding is basically being eliminated. For the first time in centuries, the elite no longer feel they need educated workers and soldiers to uphold and reproduce the system. National-security strategies, from Biden to Trump, are increasingly based on the idea that we can achieve the (unachievable) goal of “artificial general intelligence” in a short number of years and thus dominate China going forward. To tech-credulous military elites (and the Silicon Valley companies profiting off them), it will not matter if the junior-officer class can’t understand Clausewitz; battlefield AI will tell them which commands to give a platoon. As for the economy, in the words of fat cat Elijah Clark, “As a CEO myself, I can tell you, I’m extremely excited about it. I’ve laid off employees myself because of AI. AI doesn’t go on strike. It doesn’t ask for a pay raise.” As billboards recently spotted in San Francisco and New York City say: stop hiring humans.
American society is dominated by wealthy mountebanks and literally demented politicians who are happy to take on all the risks of AI because it promises to create workers who cannot even conceptualize quitting, much less striking. The elites are ecstatic about imagining a vast, uneducated, and unproductive population forced to pay companies like OpenAI to access the written word and to approximate thought; with the unemployed illiterate and addicted to screens, they are unlikely to be politicized and join a socialist campaign. Theodor Adorno noted in the 1940s that when bourgeois liberalism is replaced by fascism, so, too, is literate culture. Some of the American elite are embracing idiocy themselves. Students at Columbia say they don’t know anyone who doesn’t use AI to cheat. A college student in Utah told Intelligencer, “I spend so much time on TikTok, hours and hours, until my eyes start hurting, which makes it hard to plan and do my schoolwork. With ChatGPT, I can write an essay in two hours that normally takes twelve.” Why go to college when you don’t benefit from any of your courses? To find the two helpmeets you need as a modern man: “It’s the best place to meet your co-founder and your wife.” We used to make shit in this country.
QuoteAmericans are back in Eco’s “symbolic forest peopled with mysterious presences,” where we struggle to distinguish reality from fiction in the images put in front of us. (Per the subhead of a New York Times article from this year about ChatGPT driving people into madness: “Generative A.I. chatbots are going down conspiratorial rabbit holes and endorsing wild, mystical belief systems.”) Oral culture is, again, aggregative instead of analytical, dispositionally traditionalist, and homeostatic, with no objective distance. Repetition, cliché, and formulas are essential. “Let’s Go Brandon” is a modern, stupider, and less verbally intelligent form of Cockney rhyming slang. The audio of a black American father crying “My Shayla” about his daughter during a custody dispute becomes the background to fan edits of Barron Trump as a hot, fuckable heir to his father. The NPR headline “Please don’t cook chicken in NyQuil, the FDA asks TikTok users” speaks eloquently to the new mysterious presences in our social life. We are not only a long way from the rationality of print but pretty damn far from the Homeric epithet. This is the world Sam Altman and Mark Zuckerberg want you to live in, so that their power cannot be resisted.
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Just now, huge said:
I want all the trash on the table. All of it.
I don't believe you
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love it or leave it
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27 minutes ago, Vato Macho said:Bullshit? Hear for yourself.
"But then there are also other issues that we firmly believe in, whether it's BDS, or whether it is the end goal of seizing the means of production, where we do not have the same level of support at this very moment." He rambles a bit starting at 9:20, but he says it.
Also, here
Stalin loved that phrase.
Not sure what yall are disputing.
you wanna talk current US political leaders regurgitating slogans from mid 20th century genocidal maniacs?
I'll PM you a link to a board we have here that would be just the right spot for that
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39 minutes ago, Wilcox Cummingtonite said:
I doubt they’ll have issues running. We couldn’t even stop UTEP.
pls threaten to kill more people on this board so you can take another vacation
jesus fucking christ
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1 hour ago, irishtexan said:
Good?
Excellent, so far
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10 hours ago, Radical Larry said:
It crashed AppleTV. Still need to finish episode 2, but this has been solid.
Same. I went into it knowing absolutely nothing about the show, other than it was Gilligan and Seehorn teaming up again.
Was not expecting anything like this.
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Just now, mchookem said:
for real tho...how the hell did that guy get a trial so fast? 😆
Likely just demanded his speedy trial. Not a bad strategy when the prosecution has a shitty case. I've had to do several within that timeframe and it can be incredibly stressful getting all your ducks in a row, depending on the defense. But then again, it's usually moreso for the party that bears the burden.
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8 minutes ago, South Austin said:
He wasn't going to wait around for another Kennedy to be taken down.
i assumed he was going for the carving knives to harvest his organs to eat/play with
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Me, on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving
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2 minutes ago, LCHorn said:
Let me add, I’m not mad at someone like Tim Dunn that wants to impose his weird, fringe beliefs on his fellows.
I’m mad that the Chamber of Commerce types on the right who disagree with him have zero balls.
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Hope? I'm here for the pain. I have no hope.
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4 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:
I'm not sure what you think you've proven but kudos, I guess?
Nothing. I was mocking your certainty that this is all fake, and Valmy's assertion that this is some form of "cope."
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On 11/3/2025 at 8:56 AM, Foosters said:
Christine doubles down:
h/t to @jimmyjazz and @Valmy77 for figuring out this is all fake
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