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January 6th Committee Hearings Thread of Dominance
Ojo Rojo replied to Longhorn_Fan68's topic in Cloak Room
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January 6th Committee Hearings Thread of Dominance
Ojo Rojo replied to Longhorn_Fan68's topic in Cloak Room
Selective killing is about the only thing that would be effective. And that is generally frowned upon here. -
Similar to female relationship accounting. On the credits/debits system, if I do one hundred good things and one bad thing I have a negative balance. The good things were never deposited. It's fucked.
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Yeah, I think a big part of the problem is that we ended up getting a dog that I liked and not one that she liked. She has a thing where she thinks I always get my way, which is not true. To her, this was just another instance. I think she wanted a smaller dog. I made it known that I wanted a medium sized dog like a lab or a golden. She looked at a bunch of breeds and decided that the ideal dog for us was a goldador. We got the dog at a shelter so we didn't have a lot of choice of breed, but we ended up getting a dog that is almost 100% yellow lab. Her resenting me is part of my punishment for getting what I wanted I guess.
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My kids begged for a dog for a couple of years. We resisted. We just didn't want to take on another thing. Earlier this year we felt like the kids were older and more manageable and we started thinking that our oldest is already 11 and if we were going to have a family dog it was now or never. So we agreed. But we also wanted to use it to our advantage and also teach our kids a valuable lesson. So my wife made up this system where each of our kids could earn a "puppy sticker" each day and when they got to 30 we could get a dog. When they got close I started researching types of dogs and where to get them. I looked at a lot of dogs online and would send photos and information to my wife, who always provided feedback. When it came time to actually go see dogs my wife came with and participated fully. When we finally found the right dog for us, my wife claimed that she is the one who saw the dog first. My wife was 100% fully on board with getting this dog and participated in every step of the process. We're fighting right now and I got a text from her earlier today that said, "I told you, please no dog. I am worried about another huge thing and the timing is not good. We get a dog anyway." Basically blaming me because we got a dog when she supposedly told me she didn't want to. Narrator: She never told me that. Also narrator: She participated in the entire process of getting the dog.
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I'm fascinated by this, even though it's sad. I guess I just hate change because now I'm an old. I prefer the regional conferences. If I were the Czar of college football, I'd have 8 regional conferences and a 16 team playoff. There is no Czar. The NCAA has no authority over the individual schools or conferences and where they go or what they do. There is no centralized authority. Certainly there is nobody out there trying to do what's best for the fans like us. Each school is attempting to act in their own best interest. I don't know the calculus here, but it seems like the only thing that really matters is how much money a school can contribute to the conference for larger payouts to the members. And that number is driven almost entirely by media rights. It should be a known variable for each school: School X is worth Y dollars per year and so on. That would dictate whether the school was a net contributor or not. You would think any conference would want any net contributor. Maybe that number is harder to know than I think. Maybe it's subjective because it is essentially determined by market forces, i.e. what someone is willing to pay for it. To me, it would seem to make sense for the remainder of the Pac 12 and Big 12 to merge. Then there would be 4 top conferences. 4 champions; 4 playoff spots. More or less divided by region. But again, this is just my opinion from an organizational standpoint, without factoring in the most important factor - the money. It must be that more is not better. You water down the payout for each school by bringing in schools with media rights worth less than the payout figure.
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Breggy hates that. Make them pay! Edit: Wonk, wonk.
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Yeah, but there are only so many roster spots. You can't carry both diminished older players like Diaz, Yuli, Brantley and Castro and also their low-ceiling replacements - JJ, Jones, Chaz, Siri and Lee. What I'm suggesting is that while we have this winning window with the current roster, let's unload that tier of players who are pretty good, but not good enough to make our team, in exchange for more and younger guys who are 3-4 years away instead of 0-2 years away.
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This statement is indicative of one of the key differences between R's and D's. R's believe that the rights of individuals are more important than the needs of the group. I can understand why people would think that way. The reason I don't think that way is that I believe the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. Sometimes, preserving rights for individuals is bad for the collective. There are many, many examples of this. Pumping mercury into our bay systems instead of disposing of it responsibly and at greater cost is good for Alcoa, but bad for anyone who likes to fish or eat seafood from that bay. Having lower security at airports is good for people who want to put bombs in their shoes or underwear, but bad for the people in the planes they blow up. Driving 100 mph is good for people who like to drive fast, but bad for all the people killed in high speed crashes. Having easy access to high powered guns is good for people who like owning guns (for whatever reason), but bad for all of the people who are killed because high powered guns are so easy to get and so effective at killing lots of people in a short amount of time. This is a public policy and public health issue. We (you) have to understand, really understand, that what we do as individuals affects other people and has broader effects on the group. The cause and effect is sometimes attenuated; it's not a single relationship connection (like, "The mass shooter didn't use MY gun, so I should still be allowed to own MY gun." I have to take off my shoes and go through a whole body scanner at the airport, I can only drive 75 mph max, I'm not allowed to pour mercury in the bay, all for very good reasons that affect the public at large. Yet we have a major public health crisis - deaths causes by firearms - and I can still go to a gun store right now and buy a high powered, high capacity firearm. We sacrifice certain rights for the greater good all the time. Most we don't even notice. Guns needs to fall into this category sooner rather than later. If there was some huge individual benefit that could offset the public good argument I might be persuaded, but there isn't.
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Instead of moves at the MLB level, seems like we have a bunch of older fringy MLB guys on the AAA roster. No idea how feasible it would be, but might be nice to flip some of those guys for some younger, higher ceiling guys if our AAAA players are never going to make our roster.
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Does this team need to make any moves at all? Very few holes. When LMJ comes back we're going to have 7 legit starters (counting Odo). Bullpen is nails and we've got guys down (Bielak, Paredes) that provide depth if someone goes down. Would like to see better numbers from Yuli, but would the team honestly go out and get a 1B and replace him at this point? He might have a better second half and playoffs, or he might be done. Who knows?
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A story about a pathetic man's downfall [34 Felony Convictions]
Ojo Rojo replied to Francisco 2.0's topic in Cloak Room
The best thing that could happen to the country is for Trump to start a third party. That would divide the conservative vote and Biden would win another term. Alas, Trump is politically savvy enough to know this would happen. Even though it's a battle between his lust for power (served by controlling his own party) and his lust for money (served by winning the presidency), I think the lust for money wins out and he stays under the Republican tent. -
I don't know about naive. It could be that he just thought, like many of us did, that Hilary was going to run away with it. It was the only rational conclusion at the time. *I remember when rational conclusions actually came true. They were fun. Those were the days.
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Well, that, and McConnell stealing the appointment from Obama for Scalia's successor.
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I don't disagree, but that is a Ginsburg miscalculation, not the Dems. That's part of the problem is that you have these justices who don't think they are political tools, when that is all they are. They can't resign timely for political reasons because that would be admitting what they are.
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I don't blame the current state of SCOTUS on the Democrats. How were they supposed to anticipate when Ginsburg and Scalia were going to die? What are they supposed to do when the Republican senate just refuses to take up your nomination? If they had any tools available they would have used them. Clearly the country is better when we have 4 conservatives, 4 liberals and one swing vote on the court. It's just dumb luck we had that for so many years. I don't know what we had before that; perhaps there was a time when the government wasn't completely fucked and there was actual, you know, judicial integrity and the justices weren't just political tools.
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I think it's because he got married. Regular pussy can tame the savage beast.
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January 6th Committee Hearings Thread of Dominance
Ojo Rojo replied to Longhorn_Fan68's topic in Cloak Room
I just can't come to grips with the fact that one group of people can view the facts and so clearly understand the truth and another group is so capable of completely deluding themselves. It's so hard to believe that at times I've questioned my own sanity. Am I the one who is fucked up here? Am I the crazy one who can't see the truth? -
January 6th Committee Hearings Thread of Dominance
Ojo Rojo replied to Longhorn_Fan68's topic in Cloak Room
This is all so shocking, yet not. It is unbelievably horrifying, but at the same time I'm having a hard time caring too much about it because I do not expect anything to be done about it. And I'm also still confused as to how anyone can be exposed to the evidence presented at these hearings and think anything other than Trump should be jailed and never allowed to run for office again. It's like my mind is leading me to a set of conclusions that I know will never occur so I just move on and don't think about it. -
The United States of America is a shithole nation: a gallery
Ojo Rojo replied to Longhorn_Fan68's topic in Cloak Room
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January 6th Committee Hearings Thread of Dominance
Ojo Rojo replied to Longhorn_Fan68's topic in Cloak Room
Tomi Lahren over there looking downright spinnerish, though. -
January 6th Committee Hearings Thread of Dominance
Ojo Rojo replied to Longhorn_Fan68's topic in Cloak Room
I haven't researched this or heard definitively from anyone - are there going to be any meaningful consequences from any of this? Is anyone important going to actually go to jail? John Eastman, to me, seems to be the single most culpable person out there. Also, I've been interested to hear Republicans' takes on the Jan. 6th Committee's work. A few actually admit that the testimony has been damning. Far more of them say that the committee has an agenda, it is completely politically motivated, it's a hit job on the former president, etc. My question is, "How else are they supposed to present the facts of what happened?" All they are doing is laying out the facts of what happened, mostly by Republicans in the Trump administration. -
No no, bay-beee!!!
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Is it not okay to talk about something?
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The correct answer to the abortion debate is and always has been "legal, safe and rare." This is the correct policy that should be implemented nationwide by our Congress to serve as many interests as possible and is good for our society. It should be done yesterday. "Legal" so that it recognizes the significant interest a woman has in the area of reproduction. Yes, there should be time restrictions like no third trimester abortions. "Safe," as in no need for back-alley medical procedures putting the health and lives of women in jeopardy for no good reason. "Rare" so that we can address the genuine concern over the lives and rights of the unborn and because the best way to reduce the number of abortions is not to outlaw abortion procedures (thus trampling the rights of women), but preventing pregnancies that lead to abortions in the first place. It is proactive with less trauma for everyone. It's better public health policy. Unfortunately, nothing close to this will ever happen because our country is too populated with zealots who don't understand that democracy requires recognizing the rights of other people and making compromises and because we are under minority rule.
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