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Snake Diggity

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  1. Nah. These motherfuckers will just hire most of them back at a 10% paycut once rates come down.
  2. My thoughts: Sark’s on-field results do not warrant firing him or wanting him gone. Texas is 6-2 with a new QB and a rebuilding OL, coming off b2b playoff appearances. He’s more than meeting the standard. No way Sark is angling for a raise. He just got one and isn’t having the kind of season that justifies another bump so soon. No way Sark is being heavily courted by the NFL right now. His rep/results aren’t that good. So either…he’s just unhappy for whatever reason (it could be that one of his players fucked his wife, it could be the pressure of the job, he’s feeling heat for some reason, whatever), and he’s looking to get out, or…it’s all bullshit. It doesn’t seem like bullshit. Texas having to find a new HC amidst a disappointing season because Matthew Golden fucked L’Oréal Sarkisian while Texas is a non-contender and fucking Aggy goes undefeated and wins the national title would be something. Fuck my life.
  3. My 2 are very different too. Oldest is a superstar achiever. 99th percentile on any standardized test, straight A’s, and every teacher she has ever had gushes about what a kind, bright, lovable kid she is. Her Achilles heel is meltdowns when she gets overly tired, and I have not been able to get her interested in sports, but otherwise she’s pretty much the perfect kid. As a parent I feel a lot of pressure not to fuck her up or do anything that might prevent her from reaching her potential, but mostly I’m just always proud. #2 is a low achiever. For my part I feel like she’s very intelligent, but just a little quirky. She’s very articulate for her age, and she often picks up on things that only a kid with a high intellect would notice or understand. But she has zero motivation to perform, and she has a LOT of trouble staying on task. Carrot, stick, doesn’t matter, she doesn’t give a fuck. She recently scored in the 33rd percentile on reading and her teacher said she is regressing (teacher is a sweet kid but a dumbass so I take her opinion with a grain of salt). But then the next day we get an email that she performed well on the gifted and talented assessment. It feels like I fucked something up somewhere. I don’t have a career or any significant hobbies. I have poured everything I have into these kids and to see one not doing well is making feel like a failure or feel nihilistic. I anchor back to the fact that despite her quirks/struggles, she is an extremely thoughtful, kind, empathetic child, and is as adorable and lovable as Shirley temple, so it could be a LOT worse. But from time to time I’m tempted to just kind of give up and let her do what she’s going to do. Parenting is hard.
  4. That sucks. Here in Austin elementary starts at 7:40 an middle school and HS are staggered later. I know it’s controversial but if/when my kids get run down I will give them a day where they can sleep in and just be tardy. As long as they’re tired from being productive (and not from screen time or throwing fits at bed time) I feel like it’s justified. And I’ve had their teachers agree with me.
  5. So now he’s expanding it to early voting, not just mail-in. That’s new.
  6. Sports as entertainment is a distraction; to your point, much like drugs. Video games, TV, social media, hobbies, etc. etc. etc., the main purpose of all that is to distract us from the horror of how meaningless our existence is. And as more and more people realize that organized religion is mostly a bullshit scam, they turn to those other distractions. It can be healthy. But it can also turn into a net negative. Navigating the nuance is the key to keeping it positive. People who can get a thrill when their team wins without getting down when their team loses are doing it right. For maybe the first time ever, last night I did it right. When Texas was sucking (most of the game), I wasn’t upset, I was just watching the game, but then I got a big thrill when “we” came back and won. Overall, I care very little about sports now. NIL has dramatically reduced how much I enjoy college football; it’s just minor league NFL, and I hate watching dudes prostituting themselves to bash each other’s brains in. Society has really lost its way with people taking their distractions too seriously. It’s evidenced in how “us vs them” and “my team” the narratives in politics have gotten. It’s fucked up and I don’t know how it gets fixed. Anyway, I encourage anybody who is seeing their distractions become a negative to take a break from them. It’s not worth it for something so meaningless to be a bad thing in your life.
  7. I think the populace has been this stupid for a long time (possibly since the beginning), but technology (social media) made it incredibly easy for ill-intended authoritarian super-wealthy shitbags to take advantage.
  8. When I read this post it’s actually amazing me. He’s literally taking money directly from the Treasury and putting it into his bank account and nobody is making any meaningful effort to stop him. Im off the ledge. Its over. We are all just living in the epilogue.
  9. This is the type of thing that should spark something. Ideally it would superjuice democratic voter turnout everywhere. The motherfuckers are trying to intimidate people into not voting. That HAS to be met with an overwhelming response of people asserting their rights. If not it’s over. It’s probably over. For awhile I have thought the final test would be Trump trying to remain President beyond 2028. But now I think that’s too late and it’ll be the mid-terms. If there’s not at least some kind of evidence that people are uniting against authoritarianism in some meaningful way, our democracy is finished.
  10. If the Astros traded Jeremy Pena, Jake Meyers, and Mauricio Dubon and came away from the offseason adding Luis Arraez, Drew Rasmussen, Merrill Kelly, Victor Caratini, and 2 really good (Cam Smith level) prospects, how would we feel? CF Smith 3B Paredes DH Alvarez SS Correa LF Altuve 2B Arraez 1B Walker C Diaz RF Sanchez bench: Urias, Caratini, Melton, Matthews SP: Brown, Rasmussen, Kelly, Javier, Arrighetti, Pearson RP: Hader, Abreu, Sousa, King, Okert, De Los Santos, McCullers
  11. I was lucky that back in 2007 I read The Art of the Deal when I was in a period where I was reading a shitload of biographies. At the time I remembered Trump from being on a segment of “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous”, and I figured “there’s got to be more to this guy”. Reading that book cured me of that notion, and so going into 2016 I knew Trump was nothing but a smarmy trust fund baby douchebag. So I’m proud that I never voted for him even though in 2016 I was still pretty conservative on quite a few issues. That said, I never in a million years would have guessed that Trump would do as much damage to our country as he has done and is trying to do. My experience with talking to MAGA or MAGA-adjacent friends has been wildly different from yours. I have found it to be a completely hopeless, depressing endeavor regardless of who I’m talking to and how delicately it is handled. For the most part, I’ve ended up just learning more and more shit about my friends that makes me question whether I can sustain our relationship at all. Even the friends of mine who I assumed were pretty level headed and intelligent and just voted for Trump because they were going along with the folks in their bubble turned about to be total shitbirds. Honestly one of the most depressing moments of my life over the last decade was when one of my best friends, a great guy who was a groomsman in my wedding, who has a masters degree and is not someone I would at all have considered a complete dumbfuck, suggested on our group text thread in all seriousness that Donald Trump Jr. might make a good GOP nominee in 2028. Fuck me running I still cringe when I think about that. Anyway, I’m glad you’re making headway with people in your circle but I’m not holding my breath for any kind of mass conversion short of an economic depression forcing everyone’s hand, which I don’t think is certain but is possible. Otherwise the best realistic case is that he dies and things slowly go back to “normal”, so all the MAGA/Trumper fucks just stop talking about it and we can hopefully forget that so many people close to us are morally bankrupt morons.
  12. I purchased 3 regular sized candy bars (Butterfinger, Reese’s Stix, Peanut Butter Snickers) at the Cstore last week. $11. wtf?!?!
  13. Demographic shifts and flight to suburbs. Lots of childless people moving into Austin and lots of families moving out to Dripping Springs, Lake Travis, Cedar Park, Leander, Round Rock, etc.
  14. As I transition into an old, futurism is something I have become very interested in. I’d love for this thread to revive and have regular dialogue. Anybody have any links/books for recommended reading on futurism? I have read The Next 100 Years by George Friedman; I think his prediction of Turkey as an increased regional power will come true. And depending on how the next 10-15 years go, I think his prediction of the US as a continued superpower will be correct. I’ve also read Homo Deus by Yuval Harari. It was very interesting but I dont know how much of it will actually happen. One thing I was looking at today via AI is what % of current workers/workhours we would need to sustain the standard of living of various points in the past given current technology. This is what it/we came up with: 1750: <1% 1950: 10-20% 1980: 15-30% 2000: 40-50%
  15. Winner Just got back from Disney World and they have a ride called Living With The Land, which takes you through their onsite farm. They had vertical farming there on a small scale that they use to supply some of the restaurants in the parks.
  16. I was wondering exactly what your theory was here, and it looks like “GOP CIA recruits Nazi to run as Democrat for Maine Senate”. That is fucking stupid. This guy got a stupid tattoo while drunk, didn’t know it was Nazi shit, found out, and is having it removed. Now, getting that tattoo in the first place was not good. And not finding out what it meant before now and having it removed was also not good. Both of those things are really stupid and enough reason for a lot of people not to vote for him. Nobody is “stanning” for him. We just aren’t flinging ourselves into conspiracy theory idiocy.
  17. I know the party didn’t have to approve him entering the race. But he didn’t come completely out of nowhere. Even if he did (he didn’t), the party should have immediately sniffed this out and called it out. “Whoa whoa whoa this dude is not one of us, he has a Nazi tattoo, errbody take a step back from this mf” is not that hard to do. It’s especially important because now the guy’s campaign has momentum and dollars that could have gone elsewhere. If the tattoo is affiliated with nazism and he didn’t get it removed immediately after finding that out, he is an epic dumbshit and should be out of the race, for being too stupid to be a Senator. But there is no reality where he is a secret Nazi.
  18. Nobody gives a fuck about info from Jewish Insider. The tattoo story got legs right before the podcast interview so the guy had to ask about it. They might’ve discussed it before the interview but it’s extremely unlikely that the Jewish Insider piece was why he went on the podcast. If the tattoo really does have nazi affiliation, and the dude was made aware of it anytime before 2 weeks ago, and didn’t get it removed, then he’s an epic dumbass, and that would be what would disqualify him as a candidate. And it’s damning of the Democratic Party leadership that this wasn’t sniffed out before he even announced his candidacy. But it’s really not plausible that the guy is some secret nazi or ever actually held nazi beliefs.
  19. Oh fuck off. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1601632024549399&surface_type=vod&referral_source=vod_deeplink_unit
  20. “The GOP controls the Senate, the House, the Presidency, and the Supreme Court. Anything wrong with the function of the federal government is THEIR FAULT, and it’s not debatable. If folks want the way the government is operating to change, they should vote accordingly in November 2026.” - the fucking ONLY thing any democrat should be saying when asked about any current political issue Dems need to quit making any attempt to keep these dumb motherfuckers in charge from flying the fucking plane into the fucking mountain. An economic depression might be the only way to cure this shit.
  21. Astros prospects showing really well in the fall league. Janek has been one of the best overall players in the whole league so far. Sullivan is playing really well. Hicks and Brito have been extremely good thru 2 appearances each. I expect that Wohlgemuth and Leach will be like Danny Meszaros but overall Houston’s farm is looking good based on what we’ve seen in Arizona so far.
  22. I am probably just being cynical. But I looked around, and even though there were tens of thousands of people down there, I just saw a bunch of people who voted for Harris and Biden and Clinton. I didn’t see anyone acting nearly angry enough; people were acting happy and enthusiastic. And even though it’s millions of people across the country I don’t think any one in power on either side is going to really take any kind of positive action because of it. We’ll get a temperature check in 12.5 months with midterm results, but things just feel too far gone.
  23. I just got back from the one in Austin. It was my first political rally/protest of any kind. The crowd was very large, but to me it felt…ineffectual. Im glad I went but I think the time for that stuff was 2-10 years ago. I was surprised there weren’t more Trumpers out there. I still predict we don’t get out of this mess without a lot of violence and an economic depression.
  24. I don’t understand what he’s gunning for. He has zero chance of getting on the 2028 POTUS ticket. Is he aiming to be in the next cabinet? He really sold out quickly.
  25. You can’t be serious. Have you done ANY reading whatsoever on this topic? What evidence can you cite that shows vouchers improve outcomes for students in the lowest 50% of household incomes?
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