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  1. 2 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Oh, I definitely think your path is more common than  mine, especially with the proliferation of STEM curricula in high school.

    I didn't have a specific interest in any one thing, but had always been taking things apart, was pretty interested in cars and engines and trains and ships and all kinds of machines.

    By the end of undergrad, my curiosity had mostly been satisfied and advanced topics like acoustics were starting to elude my intuition and become purely creatures of math, so I couldn't generate much interest in a graduate degree.  And I was also beginning to question how I would use this accumulated knowledge to synthesize designs rather than understand how and why things worked.  That anxiety was probably overwrought, but it did mesh nicely with doing patents.

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  2. 57 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

    IMO, the Bari Weiss experiment at CBS News is going to fail miserably. Viewers have no appetite for this fake gravitas bullshit she is trying to peddle, particularly with an angle that is basically a soft porn version of Fox News. Trumpers want to see penetration. 

    Erica Kirk is an absolute joke. She's already getting lots of pushback from the right. They aren't buying what she's selling. 

    In the end, the blatant and pervasive misogyny within MAGA will reject Erica Kirk and Bari Weiss. I'll take it at this point. 

    Says a person whose fame is entirely due to the internet, and refusing to acknowledge that regardless of parenting or upbringing, racist, divisive and violent messaging from the ostensible leader of the free world is a bit more serious than "just one person."

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  3. 10 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

    Yeah, I'm not really worried about Erica Kirk. She will fade way soon enough. 

    What Bari Weiss is trying to pull off is much more dangerous if successful. Zionist and anti-woke propaganda packaged in a calm and palatable way. I don't think it will work, but hopefully it fails very quickly. 

     

    Yeah, calm and palatable isn't what MAGA wants. And I think the rationals recognize it for what it is.

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  4. 14 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

    I'm not even clear what she did. If she were renting the property out, I'd kind of understand. By all accounts, it is a second home that she is letting a family member use. I think there are a lot of second home owners that have done the same. 

    The alleged lie is that she stated it would be a "secondary home."  https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/read-full-letitia-james-indictment-charges/

    But, that doesn't have some plain meaning, rather it has what seem to be FNMA conditions attached to it.  And those conditions changed right before she signed.  https://selling-guide.fanniemae.com/sel/b2-1.1-01/occupancy-types

    One of the key factors seems to be whether it becomes or is a rental property, but that's ok too under certain circumstances.

    In any event, the definition is not so clear that it can be said that she intended to deceive at the time she signed it.

  5. 2 minutes ago, TreatyOak said:

    Which brings me to the firing. It has been reported that the AD fired Moore all by himself. No one else was present.

    Doesn't that seem a little...strange? You have an incendiary-level situation here and you don't have a university lawyer, HR rep, or a president in the room?

    Moore was fired for cause and the university trashed the fuck out of him in their press release, just as UT did with Beard. Yet, they don't have a highly-trained person from the law firm that is handling the investigation or the head of HR in the room just to cover themselves?

    It honestly reminds me a little of Frederich Fromm, the poor German general who was loosely tied up in the plot to kill Hitler. Once he caught the conspirators, he had them all quickly shot, so they couldn't tell anyone about his involvement. (it ultimately didn't save him, as the Nazis figured out he was covering his tracks and shot him, too) 

    Why did the AD need to have his conversation with Moore as private as possible? 

    Thoughts? 

    Well, in one sense, having it "man to man" is less humiliating than giving them "the box" and having them escorted off the premises.

    On the other, it seems pretty unorthodox.

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  6. 9 minutes ago, ROFL BOX said:

    Exactly.
    "¿Why can't we get some people to move here from places like Sweden, Norway or Swizerlsnd?"
    Because they aren't stupid & recognize they already have a higher standard of living where they are currently.

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    Not to mention they all bring their SoCIAliSm with them.

    They're ruining our Kultur.

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  7. 1 minute ago, TreatyOak said:

    Thanks, that is good info.

    Yes, I understand the university needs concrete evidence or they open themselves up to litigation, and that their access was limited. 

    Regardless, it sure does seem like they were running a clown-show of an athletic department over there. 

    Yeah, I'm not saying UM wasn't looking the other way, seems like they probably were.  But even if they weren't, I haven't seen anything that would make it easy to terminate him until she fessed up.

    The fact that no witnesses came forward maybe says something about the Department in and of itself.  I find it hard to believe there weren't witnesses that could corroborate and flesh out the suspicions.

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  8. 18 hours ago, RDCanecutter said:

    First time I've heard that word used outside a seafaring novel.

     

    Yeah, as noted up thread, I discovered that oakum is still  pretty commonly available for use for sealing wooden joints of various types and there is a variant known as "white oakum" for sealing plumbing joints that would seem to be a predecessor to caulk.

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  9. 1 minute ago, JFKFC said:

    Why does she have to resist anything? She is not responsible for his marriage.

    You sound rather naive. The volume of affairs occurring is staggering. Most are never discovered. The person at fault is the one bringing butter knives and break-ins into the equation. 

    Well, he does raise sort of an interesting point.

    The law rightly presumes or assumes that consent is lacking in employer/employee sexual relationships (and in other situations where the power dynamics disfavor one party).  This is because consent often is lacking, or at least compromised, but further that we want to penalize and deter such relationships.

    But that is a bit of a legal fiction that is indulged so we don't get lost in the details of every such relationship and whether there was or wasn't consent.

    In the absolute sense, though, both parties retain some agency, depending on the particular relationship and parties involved.

     

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  10. 8 minutes ago, TreatyOak said:

    What is interesting is that the 'investigation' seems to have consisted of simply asking each of them if they were having an affair, to which they answered no. 

    Last week, she purportedly provided 'ironclad evidence' to the law firm to prove she did have an affair. I wonder what it was and why they couldn't identify it earlier? 

    Michiganders on YouTube saying it was openly talked about this fall and even national sports commentators are now coming forward. Michigan Man Rich Eisen is now saying he was informed about it but didn't speak about it. 

    Also, the school reported that they investigated him two other times. I'm no lawyer and I'm not privy to the details, but it sure seems like they didn't try very hard.

    Michigan vloggers are questioning the significance of everything happening AFTER National Signing Day, lol.

     

    Well, the kind of evidence I am referring to is documentary evidence (texts, photos, email) and witness testimony (I saw em).

    As long as they kept their comms off school systems (email, etc.) the University and their lawyers would have no way of legally obtaining for example cell phone records.  I think there have been statements that Moore did not "cooperate" with the investigation, which would seem to mean didn't cough up his cell phone or personal PC.

    It would seem likely that UM also provided cell phones and service to at least Moore if not her and other staffers and it seems they would retain rights to do deep dives on those, but personal or "burner" phones and accounts would have to be voluntarily provided.

    There's no burden of proof for something like this until somebody sues.  But the above wouldn't satisfy a criminal burden if there was any it's about 50/50 on a civil case, depending on what kind of credible excuses Moore could offer for the more objective evidence.

    But taking seriously adverse employment action based on evidence like the above would be somewhat dangerous for the institution and invite a civil case.

     

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  11. 6 hours ago, Gatorubet said:

    I think most grand jurors know that Trump did the exact same thing on several Mara Lago area home purchases, so they aren’t going to indict her if they can’t indict Trump too

    Here's a question I don't know the answer to.  Petit jurors are instructed to avoid media relating to their cases and are often sequestered to avoid that and other external influences.

    Grand jurors sit for longer periods than most petit jurors, and are charged with evaluating numerous cases, not just one.  Therefore, it would be difficult and impractical to make any attempt to isolate them from media.  So, I don't think they are, at all.  But I don't know for sure.

    As we have discussed In other context, details of criminal investigations before indictment are usually kept pretty quiet and a grand jury drops out of most cases post-indictment.  So, in a general case, media exposure isn't that big a deal.

    But it would surely seem that the media coverage of the first indictments and attendant shenanigans would make it very difficult to secure an indictment in any of these cases unless you were able somehow to assemble a purely pro-Trump grand jury.

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  12. 8 hours ago, TreatyOak said:

    Well, those boys at Jenner and Block sure are a first-rate, cracker-jack outfit! They couldn't find any evidence of an affair despite the following: 

    • Rumors of the affair were rampant at the school and the internet
    • Paige got a suspiciously huge pay-raise
    • Coach was apparently DMing OnlyFans gals. Did he do it from a university-issued phone? 
    • Her attempt to transfer to another department was blocked by the coach
    • Coach calls a pizza place to get a pie named after her. You know, normal stuff.
    • Coach has been previously involved in two other alleged affairs
    • Affair lasted over two years

    Maybe since Jenner and Block couldn't find any trace of an internal affair earlier this fall, they aren't possibly the best choice to handle the ongoing investigation. 

    If true, this is all circumstantial evidence that seems ironclad in hindsight.  Even setting aside UM's motives, if there's no more concrete evidence than the above, it's hard to justify firing based on this.

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  13. 6 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

    It's only one data point, but I was set to take a national merit scholarship to study finance at a B1G school.  Fall semester my senior year of HS, my dad (an engineering prof) said to me "you know, you're really good at math and you love music and hifi -- have you considered studying acoustics?"

    It had never occurred to me.  I ended up studying mech eng undergrad and then acoustics at UT for grad school (via the mech eng department).  I am so fucking glad I didn't study finance.

    I think at one point you challenged me on that notion and it's just like  . . . my opinion, man.  But yeah, I thought your interest in audio reproduction and acoustics was that thing for you.

  14. 6 hours ago, Kyrie Eleison said:

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    I think he's had some serious adverse health news.  He's never posted anything like this.  

    I think all this stupid decorating, the ballroom thing, and now the golf courses (and of course the fifa noble prize) is him beoming obsessed with his legacy.

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  15. 1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:


    The law. And what it requires.
    You’re adorable.

    Regardless, Bovino out there making definitive statements when he is a complete meathead (and adjudicated liar).

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  16. 3 minutes ago, ButtFumble said:

    Boise.....never have liked Washington and even less so after 2023.....plus never forget what Boise did to ou 😁

    what did they ever work out for baseball?

    Nothing against UW, really, but always kinda liked BSU as a scrappy underdog and that win over OU cemented that.

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