Posts posted by TwiceHorn
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4 minutes ago, aggie08 said:
There's literally only two possibilities here:
1: The files are really damning, and he's doing everything in his power to keep them concealed (which will probably work).
2: The files aren't that damning, but he was fed bad information and knows what could be on them (ya know, because he knows his own involvement) and has thus followed the "how to make yourself look incredibly guilty" handbook to a tee. There's no rational explanation for Maxwell's transfer and favorable treatment.
Both possibilities range from 99.9999% to 100% likely that Donald Trump has engaged in inappropriate acts with underage girls. But I understand why some are really grasping at that 0.0001%, pathetic as it may be.
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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8 minutes ago, Brandywine said:
Cornyn will just use the same old ads of Dems like open borders, woke, antifa, pro abolition and they’ll tax you until you’re poor. Plus, I’m endorsed by Trump. Then he’s in. Same o, same o. Works everytime. Only way a Dem is going to win is strong turnout. I really don’t think we’re any closer. It’s hard to get your hopes up.
You forgot trans volleyball players and swimmers.
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8 minutes ago, Rockethorn1978 said:I’m no volleyball expert by any means, but where did I miss that Kentucky got this good at volleyball? Maybe they have been and I wasn’t paying attention. Portal and NIL? The usual big dogs were down this year I see.
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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2 hours ago, dcbc said:
The Body and Shawshank are probably the two closest adaptations of any of Stephen King's works. So much was lifted from the source material. That's not to say RR didn't have a huge hand in making Stand by Me an absolute classic.
/Chopper, sick balls
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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5 minutes ago, HenryJames said:
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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4 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:
I pretty much agree. I think the American teaching that your life goal is to gain as much money as possible in whatever ways necessary has also made people lose sight of any other part of existence. People are sinking into an abyss of selfishness and ignorance and they don't even know why.
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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7 hours ago, Jhawkmvp said:
Well he kind of helped "cure" COVID and almost everyone here probably got that vaccination when it became available. It was one of the only good things he did and he can't even take credit for it because his base turns on him when he does.
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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11 hours ago, perfectchaos007 said:
We would have lost to Kentucky for the third time this year in the next round, but still this sucks
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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31 minutes ago, Js1 said:
The “how” bugged me too because every bad habit from like the 2013-2021 era came back last night - ugly passing and slow footed defense
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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16 minutes ago, NorthLoop said:Yes you did.
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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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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5 minutes ago, NIUHuskies said:
"Chris did get out. He enrolled in the college courses with me and, although, it was hard, he gutted it out like he always did. He went on to college and, eventually, became a lawyer. Last week, he entered a fast food restaurant. Just ahead of him, two men got into an argument. One of them pulled a knife. Chris, who had always made the best peace, tried to break it up. He was stabbed in the throat. He died almost instantly.
The Writer: [the Writer typing on his computer] Although I hadn't seen him in more than ten years, I know I'll miss him forever."
Damn terrible tragedy.
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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1 minute ago, SL Xpress said:
I'd say met expectations for me preseason. But it's a bummer earning the #1 seed and losing the regional finals on your home gym.
Wisconsin was simply the better team. No question about it. The thing is, I'm not quite sure how much better Texas is going to be next year. They need to be better at middle blocker and the serving line. Where is that coming from? Maybe we get better at server if they bring in someone from the portal, but they did that last year with Carlson, and that was a disaster IMO.
Last time we'll have Halter play for us. That probably makes me the most sad of all. I would have loved to have her play in Kansas City.
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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Twelve killed in shooting targeting Jewish community at Australia's Bondi Beach
in Daily Texan
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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.