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Snake Diggity

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  1. I mostly agree with your first 2 points, but to your 3rd point, I think it’s very debatable that the current version of meritocracy leads to the best outcomes at the top. The idea that re-allocating resources to ensure more equitable opportunities for all would result in poorer outcomes at the top end of performances sounds wrong to me. For one thing, I don’t think the resources people are advocating re-allocating in society are currently being used to achieve the best outcomes, even at the top end. The idea is to produce more elite performers and increase competition at the highest level, not water down the entire system.
  2. ?’s for the experts on the board: How much of Putin’s strategy is waiting for the results of the 2024 elections? Reading thru everything, it seems like Russia is proper fucked if Ukraine continues to receive western support. Is Putin holding out hope that Russian-friendly candidates gain control in 2024 and shut off the flow of money and weapons to Ukraine, meaning if Ukraine-friendly candidates gain/win control that Putin will begin to admit defeat and come to the table? My guess from all the numbers posted in this thread is that if Ukraine is going to “win” this war, that they are about 1/3 of the way there. Is that accurate?
  3. If I could make one change in our society, it would be to provide free, quality childcare/education for all starting at age 2 through age 16. That means free quality daycare and dramatically lower student:teacher ratios in public elementary and middle schools. If we did that, it’d take 10-15 years but you’d start to see a whole lot of our societal problems start to recede. Our obesity epidemic, opioid epidemic, crisis of democracy, and even most of our disagreement on how to address climate change can all be traced to a lack of educated citizenry. If I were a politician, I would trade an awful lot to achieve legislation toward that objective. Its not an issue that politicians even really talk about with any substance, but if it were, I would pretty much be a single issue voter.
  4. Not sure why this is a CR topic or even how the thesis is arguable. Of course there’s shades of grey in how much inequality is preventing true merit from shining through and that’s often where CR creeps in. But it is undeniable that we live in a society in which the outcomes of people’s lives are almost entirely determined by how wealthy their parents are.
  5. I got a Management degree from McCombs. Aside from what comes with any degree from McCombs, it has been largely worthless. My intent in choosing that major (at 19) was, in fact, to be “a boss”. At that time they had several sub disciplines to choose from, one was entrepreneurship, one was organizational management, can’t remember the others. I chose entrepreneurship and got very very little out of those courses (although I was a very poor student). To the OP, there’s a big difference between being the owner vs being an exec. If your son wants to be an owner, then he should get technical credentials in whatever field is most closely related to the kind of business he wants to own. That would likely be all he needs, but if he wants general business management expertise then he could add an MBA on top of it. If he wants to be an exec, then Finance is probably the best undergrad degree to get, and he’d be best served adding a JD, MBA, or CPA on top of that; if he wants to be an exec of a company in a certain industry, then again a technical degree related to that field for undergrad would possibly be better than Finance.
  6. “The drama is playing out as Moody’s Investors Service, the only remaining major credit grader to give the US a top rating, warned in late September its confidence in the US is wavering because of concerns about “governance.””
  7. Replacement should be: black woman not running in the primary between age 50 and 75 not a current member of Congress Newsome painted himself a narrow lane for his pick, he better already have the person lined up.
  8. 5 years but yeah. Also, Jamie Dimon is a know-nothing douchebag.
  9. Thanks for the recommendation, we did end up fishing that spot halfway down the GISP pier when we went last year. No keepers but good activity on small black drum and sheepshead. We will probably try it again this weekend. I had my wife with me last year and she didn’t really feel like getting very far into the water so we didn’t try wading the shoreline, I might get a chance to do it this time. Thanks for this recommendation. We didn’t get to try that spot last year but plan on trying it when we are down there this weekend.
  10. Rangers would much rather face the Mariners than Astros in the playoffs. They will tank that series. Houston must win tonight and then have to take 2 of 3 in Arizona. Fangraphs says they have 58% chance but it’s probably more like 18%.
  11. If Houston hires a POBO it will be Crane doing the hiring and that person would be Brown’s boss.
  12. She is a freshman so she hasn’t been there thru a winter yet, so maybe she will turn sour on it then. But she grew up in the SeaTac area so I doubt it’ll affect her all that much. I’m sure for somebody from Texas the short days and frequent dreary weather may be a drag (but can’t possibly be more of a drag than the blastfurnace in Texas).
  13. My niece no pics goes there and from all reports it’s amazing. Her dorm room window overlooks the water. Looks pretty fuckin awesome from the pics I’ve seen.
  14. If mine get into Stanford or Rice, I’d happily write the check to pay for liberal arts degrees if that’s what they want to study. My opinion is that if they work hard enough to gain admittance to one of those schools, they’ve earned my money even if it doesn’t represent a good market value. But I totally understand the sentiment.
  15. I am 10+ years away from this scene, my kids are 8 and 5. But my older one appears extremely bright so far; 99th percentile in every test she has taken. But even with that I will be utterly shocked if she gets into Texas in 10 years. She doesn’t project to have the dedication to get the class rank or supplemental resume to get into top tier schools. She is looking like she will be more like me: school will be easy and she’ll have great test scores and good but not great grades and mediocre extra curriculars. My younger one is too little to know, she’s still catching up from being a July baby. Regardless, for now i plan to tell my kids that if I'm going to pay for their schooling, the hierarchy is pretty clear: Ivy League Stanford Rice Texas Texas State ACC They're going to have to present me with an extraordinarily compelling case to pay for other private or out of state schools. My guess is they’ll both end up at Texas State where they will coast thru like I did at Texas. And if they want to go to Aggy or OU I will still love them but they’re out of the will.
  16. Given the lower costs, I’m assuming if they got to 30k subscribers they’d probably be making enough to survive. Not looking good.
  17. https://www.businessinsider.com/russias-25th-army-bakhmut-destroyed-ukraine-spy-chief-2023-9?amp I’ve seen links on several other popular sites, this was just the first link when I googled just now. It looks like the term “pinned down” just means they’re not able to advance or maneuver, not necessarily surrounded or cut off from supplies. I’m not sure how accurate that is or how big of a deal losing 15k dudes at once would be. Even for Russia who is throwing meat into the grinder, losing an entire division seems like it would be meaningful.
  18. Nothing on this thread of the report of 15,000 Russians pinned down near Bakhmut?
  19. Deeply offended by his description of Michael Taffe “steadying presence that can impact the game with his football IQ”
  20. I’m Going to this game, it’ll be my first ever experience watching Texas on the road. Any recs on where to pre-game?
  21. Did you ever think that the church you’re defending is just an “idealized version of yourself”? Of course people who hate gays and browns and poors are gonna defend the hateful churches and tell people who stand up to them that they’re “disagreeing with god”.
  22. High of 84 tomorrow, nothing over 93 in the 10 day. I’m ready to call it. Congrats all.
  23. “Tenuous at best” lol GMAFB on multiple points here. First, you don’t change the ticket, especially when you are heading into a rematch. Second, it’s pretty telling that you consider the best characterization of the economy as “tenuous”. Biden is old as fuck but he’s kicked ass all over. Harris lacks “likability” but she’s done nothing to warrant a change. Unless Biden dies in the next 15 months, he’s very likely to be re-elected, with Harris as his VP.
  24. Lineup is going to be amazing. Position player bench will be deep. Both on par with Omaha teams of the past. Starting pitching has a lot of risk. They are gonna be very dependent on Witt and LBJ. I don’t see another surefire weekend starter on that roster. They’ll be fine during the week and they should be able to lean on the bullpen quite a bit. But if Witt or LBJ don’t live up to their ceiling I have a hard time seeing this team winning it all.
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