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  1. 22 hours ago, BlackCat said:

    My wife and kids were out of town last weekend, Im still recovering from Saturday night. After the game I stared into the abyss of my raging fire pit and I think my contacts melted a little bit into my eyes because I slept in them and when I took them out the next morning one of them was extremely irritated. Optometrist told me I had a slight corneal ulcer and now Im having to wear my goofy backup glasses in client meetings and taking prescription eye drops. Fucking Sark. 

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  2. 14 minutes ago, ChickenSandwich said:

    Take it up with propaganda outlet Rueters

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    The overall decline put the price of the meal at $55.18, 5% down from 2024, the lowest since 2021, driven lower by a 16.3% decline that shoppers found in what retailers were charging for a 16-pound turkey, the American Farm Bureau Federation reported in its annual survey of holiday meal prices
     

    Ultimately it doesn't help much after 2020-24 inflation (worst in 50 years, food stamp recipients went form 17 million to 40 million) that permanently lowered the standard of living for all Americans except the investor class.  Sides are still up in price though  

    https://www.reuters.com/business/us-thanksgiving-dinner-cost-drops-third-year-farm-bureau-says-2025-11-19/

    from your link:

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    But the overall price was still about 13% higher than what the bureau's "classic meal" - featuring turkey, stuffing, sweet potatoes, sweet peas, dinner rolls, pumpkin pie and other items - cost in 2019, during President Donald Trump's first term and before the COVID-19 pandemic and the relief efforts arising from it stoked a surge in inflation.

    The details of the report and the Farm Bureau's analysis, moreover, showed price pressures still working through the food supply and demonstrated the tensions emerging in retail between increasingly price-sensitive consumers and companies fighting to keep market share amid rising costs.

    Walmart (WMT.N), opens new tab, for example, touted its 2025 Thanksgiving meal basket for 10 at less than $4 per person, versus about $7 last year, but the company subbed out fresh stuffing ingredients for a mix and also featured nine of its in-house brand items, which helped lower costs. Walmart did sub in the well-known Butterball turkey, which is more expensive than the brand it used last year.

    It was an example of what U.S. Federal Reserve officials and retail analysts say has become widespread behavior among cost-stretched households who are switching to store brands or moving to discounters like Walmart for the first time.

    Federation president Zippy Duvall said food prices remain "a real concern for many families," and noted the loss of an estimated 15,000 family farms over the past year "because of factors including historically low crop prices, high supply costs and trade uncertainty, which continue to squeeze farmers and ranchers."

    The Trump administration's immigration enforcement has fallen heaviest on Hispanic communities, a traditional source of farm labor, while its trade disputes with other countries led China to scale back its purchases of U.S. soybeans and slapped tariffs on many imported goods.

    Food costs have become a major political issue in the U.S. as the Thanksgiving holiday approaches after a record-long government shutdown that disrupted air travel for weeks.

    Trump campaigned on a pledge to lower prices. But it is unusual in the U.S. for overall prices to fall and inflation has proved sticky during his first months in office.

    The Consumer Price Index in September, the latest data available owing to the shutdown, was running at 3.0% annually, the highest since January. The data shows a number of household food staples were up by the most in three years that month and more than half the items in the index were rising in price by more than 3%.

    Feeling heat from households pinched by inflation, Trump last week rolled back the steep tariffs he had imposed on hundreds of different imported food items, including beef, bananas and coffee, after his Republican Party suffered losses in the first elections held since his return to the White House in January.

    you posted this article in defense of Trump's handling of inflation and the price of consumer goods?

    Yikes

  3. On 11/17/2025 at 9:40 AM, chainsaw said:

    If the dems were smart they would have DSA kids posted up outside every grocery store asking people to share their receipts and how they feel about what they paid. Stop relying on limpdick talking heads for spreading narratives. That's not where the people are.

    Yeah man, one thing Americans universally love is being stopped outside grocery stores by poorly-groomed young adults asking if they have a minute

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  4. 7 minutes ago, Earl Haffler said:

    Of course, libs consider pedophilia to be at best a legitimate expression of human sexuality, and at worst, a mental disorder that the afflicted should not be held responsible for.

     

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    yeah man, its the libs who are running around explaining away that sleeping with teenagers doesn't count as pedophilia...

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  5. 11 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    The peaceful sleep of people who (1) know that other people are being hurt by the things they support, and (2) who fucking love that outcome.

    The shattered lives and suffering are what tell you their dreams are coming true.

    3) like having sex with children

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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. 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

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    I’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.)

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    Statistics 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.

     

     

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    For 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.

     

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    Americans 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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  12. 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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