Everything posted by TwiceHorn
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Twelve killed in shooting targeting Jewish community at Australia's Bondi Beach
The booted, often-hatted, Wrangler-wearing, Copenhagen-dipping South Texas Jewboy was one of the more interesting phenomena I encountered at UT. I lived next door to some during undergrad. They had a mounted deer head (treif) wearing a prayer shawl over their fireplace. I think most of them came from Germany through Galveston along with other German immigrants and generally as merchant-class, were a bit higher in the pecking order than the non-Jewish farmers.
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Epstein and Maxwell
I pick option 2. But not that he was fed bad information, just that there would be a lot of association and innuendo and he has a guilty conscience and gave that more credibility than perhaps it deserves.
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Trump’s America
And probably prosecuted, at least until the grand jury no-billed you.
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Do I get to start the James Talarico thread?
You forgot trans volleyball players and swimmers.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
Skinner is evidently a pretty good coach. Although they tend not to be as perennially good as us, do recall that they put us down in the National Championship with Madi and her sister (and others) in 2021 before Elliott had his DS and serving epiphany.
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Rob Reiner found stabbed
Definitely. Green Mile also. Darabont seemed to pick up the gauntlet laid down by Reiner. And Reiner apparently had a hand in Shawshank, as well.
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I for one welcome our new AI overlords
This raises something interesting. I abandoned a career in engineering because I didn't believe that I was sufficiently creative to make a living or a career out of creating solutions to problems. My lack of genuine creativity is probably a pretty accurate self-analysis. What I perhaps failed to take into account there is that a good bit of "innovation" or at least engineering problem-solving is recycling and re-applying known ideas and solutions to different problems. Which is about all that AI is capable of doing. I think real creativity, most obviously seen in the arts (music, visual art), is different from that sort of "problem-solving." Maybe I am wrong on this. There is certainly a continuum or spectrum.
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I for one welcome our new AI overlords
Yep. The oligarchs have convinced themselves, perhaps understandably, that their wealth means they are intellectually and morally superior to everyone else in every field of endeavor. What's nuts is how many peons actually believe this too.
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Trump’s America
Yeah it really should refer to Trump's derangement, not to those who note it and call it out.
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Epstein and Maxwell
He can't take credit for it because he had nothing to do with it. The closest he came to having anything to do with it was Operation Warp Speed, which was a bit of a mixed bag, and, again, not anything he really had anything to do with.
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Epstein and Maxwell
That is a complete load of shit. Roll that tape, I double dog dare you. We scoffed at him taking credit for it, but that's it.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
Yeah, felt like our only hope there was the "lightning doesn't strike three times" theory. But it feels like Wiscy put a bigger beating on us than UK or eaTme that one time.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
Yeah, as we learned back than, that's generally how it goes when you lose/get your ass kicked. It was bad deja vu, though. My sense of it, though, is that it was mostly getting abused on serve receive (and not returning the favor) Also, did Emma not quite have enough help?
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Political Cartoons - The Politics Thread.
The elephant doesn't get implements. It should be attached, human-centipede style.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Yeah, you stupid sonofabitch, you voted for someone's ox to get gored, just not yours. How can someone so allegedly dedicated to wildlife conservation get behind the assholes that are going to undo all of our environmental conservation laws? “You cannot fire our firefighters. You cannot fire our trail crews. You have to have selective logging, and water restoration, and healthy forests,” Zink said. “People in Washington D.C., on the West Coast, East Coast — they don’t understand what that means to us out here.” You. Stupid, Fucking. Cunt. Iverson explained that most ranches in Montana have a base ranch with significant acreage, and then rely on nearby federal land or state land for summer pasture in what are called grazing allotments. His allotment is on BLM land in the mountains near the old mining town of Garnet, land he treats like his own, taking care not to overgraze it. A ranch this size, 700 private acres, could still operate without a public land allotment by leasing other private land, but that’s much more expensive — prohibitively so, for most ranchers. Down in the Southwest, he said, many ranches are a whopping 90 percent federal land allotments; it’s often much less than that in western Montana. No sOcIaLiSm!
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Rob Reiner found stabbed
To the extent I could be accused of parsing between Reiner and King on Stand By Me, like I said, all credit is due to Rob Reiner for treating King's writing as having value unto itself, apart from just "the story." Hell, even Stephen King didn't do that in prior projects in which he was involved (see Maximum Overdrive). That led to a bunch of serious movies from King's work, and that in and of itself is a huge contribution.
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The GQP: Trumpist Death Cult
That's Tits McGee, Pentagon reporter.
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Rob Reiner found stabbed
With all due respect to Rob Reiner, those words are Stephen King's or pretty damn close, as are the final ones. "I never had any friends like I did when I was 12. Jesus, does anyone?" But all credit to Reiner for using the novella as the screenplay.
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Trump’s America
He's actually kind of right on the Islamist part. But Islam /= Islamist. We need a comparable word for Christians that pervert the religion to political ends.
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Trump/MAGA has ruined sports
And he was a fucktard before that.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
Well, maybe some more reps and emphasis with the newbs. And the connection between the newbs and Swindle will improve, including hopefully some middles, or just Harvey.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
Least we didn't get swept.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
Our middle production has been shit for a couple of years now.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
Well, Elite 8 isn't really shitty. This team exceeded expectations, most likely.
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2025 Texas Volleyball - Locked and Reloaded
Welp.