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Samson's Wig

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  1. Cult people are fucking weird. Whether it's this odd Kirk fetishist cult or people kneeling at the feet of some perverted swami somewhere in India (or the PNW), these are some broke-brained sadsacks.
  2. Do you even Nigeria, bro?
  3. In Kobie's defense, he got "Blind Sided" by one of the dumbest mother fuckers in Lubbock county, and that dude is a big part of why he ended up playing for the Sooners. What you're hearing in his voice in that clip is regret. I'm not sure he would have seen the field for Tech this year, though, other than perhaps in the second half of games, as their starters only played in the second half in a couple of games. A similarly sad tale can be found for most of the hapless fools who end up at OU, except for Baker Mayfield. That piece of shit landed right where he belonged. Kobie may well end up back in Lubbock to play for Tech next year, as he's gone from OU. It will be interesting to watch. I would make sense, especially as they appear to have landed a solid QB and could make another run next season.
  4. He also referred to Tech as "JV Texas" in that press conference. That guy has been a douche his entire life.
  5. I am staunchly nonreligious, but I've advised many a single friend over the years who was stuck in a rut, and a couple who fall into the sadsack variety we're discussing in this thread, to just go to church. Any church. Nobody so desperately wants to help other people hook up as religious people. I think it's the subconscious drive to perpetuate the organization, or perhaps a desire to live vicariously through someone else having fun, but whatever it is, you'll have several matchmakers going to work within a couple of weeks. For someone with no comfort around women and who needs to date just anyone to get the monkey off their back, there is no easier way. Plus, church girls are easy. Once some basic skills are developed, they can then step up to trying to find more appealing women elsewhere. Also, you don't have to pay $9,000 to touch a single boob. A hearty after-service meal, a walk in the park, maybe a couple of comments that demonstrate a soul searching for meaning, and they'll be doing a whole lot more than that.
  6. Agreed. Those inclined towards doomsday scenarios (like those indoctrinated by the doomsday cult that currently dominates our country) will see everything they don't like or understand as the sign of a failing society, because it's what they're conditioned to see. This behavior is what makes cable news so successful. In reality, this is not a large percentage of people, and the only reason incels are worth noting at all is that they have contributed a certain amount of violence to our society. The folks who are driving that anger for their own benefit are more worthy of concern. As for the bigger picture, the birth rate isn't falling because young people aren't fucking. That's nonsense, even if they're doing so at a slightly lower rate than past generations. People don't want to raise kids anymore. It's too expensive and a giant pain in the ass. I get why young people are avoiding it. They're still fucking, though. Lower teen pregnancy is the primary driver of the lower birth rate in recent years, so perhaps teens aren't fucking as much, I guess. It could just as easily be the case that they're just smarter and more of them use protection. The story in the OP is more about grifters making an easy buck off of sad losers than it is about any deep-seated societal ill, unless we want to discuss how open range capitalism allows for such grifters to operate with impunity.
  7. This sounds like a great way to fleece virgins of their money while providing some women an opportunity to be fawned over by harmless men with zero stakes.
  8. The problem in Austin, as compared to cities like San Francisco and Seattle, since you mentioned them (and both of which have slightly smaller but similar populations than Austin), is that we do not have many people taking public transit in Austin now. It's not the same equation. I agree with your thinking here, in general, but I'm not sure that it applies to cities like Austin, where public transit has been available for a long time, but hardly anyone uses it, relatively speaking. You could put every bus rider in Austin in a car, and the difference in traffic would be negligible. It would absolutely destroy a city like Seattle, and definitely San Francisco, were you to do the same thing. Based on a quick and dirty comparison, just looking at bus rides since Austin doesn't really have anything else worth comparing, and it's obvious we're not talking about the same problems or the same solutions. This is something that has frustrated the fuck out of me for years when city leadership, and the loudest voices lobbying them, try so desperately to solve Austin transportation issues based on solutions that work in cities that look nothing like Austin. We keep getting folks who either move from cities with public transpo and have fixed notions of how it should work, or locals who have no fucking clue what to do so they look to cities the established systems for answers. That makes sense on the surface, but I've yet to hear anyone in leadership, or even a crazy on a microphone a meeting, discuss Austin transportation solutions framed within what actually makes sense for this specific city. I don't know if Waymos everywhere is the answer, but just because it's not the answer in Seattle or San Francisco doesn't mean it's not the answer here. Austin Population: ~1,000,000 Monthly bus rides: 2 million Seattle Population: ~800,000 Monthly bus rides: 63 million San Francisco Population: ~820,000 Monthly bus rides: 14-15 million Ridership is still down in Seattle and San Francisco, like the rest of the country, since the pandemic. They were both about 25% higher pre-pandemic. Again, we're not talking about the same situation, and the same solutions are not likely to work. If we could magic a functional light rail system into exitence, and magic ourselves into a future where a populace unaccustomed to public transit starts to actually use it, then sure. But even in the candy land scenario where Austin has light rail running to all major areas of town coupled with an integrated bus system that can handle the last mile, you're talking decades before Austinites are actually using it en masse. Due to our addiction to cars, and our complete lack of infrastructure for other forms of public transportation, perhaps Waymos and the like are indeed a solid solution for Austin, at least in the short term.
  9. But those people are not bothering to engage in bothsidesism. As already pointed out, bothsidesism is really just taking a side. And it's always the same side. There are plenty of folks who are genuinely independent, don't claim a party, and think they all suck, but they also don't tend to bring up the behavior of the "other side" when presented with a negative comment about one particular party. If they're truly independent, they're more likely to shrug and say "of course!" than to bring up the bad behavior of the other side defensively. It's incredible that anyone who does so actually thinks they're fooling anyone (other than perhaps themselves).
  10. Have fun, but don't marry them, or may God have mercy on your soul.
  11. I've been working from home since around 2009, running a mid-sized operation with quite a few employees who are scattered throughout the US and overseas, all of whom are also working from home. Everyone I've ever interviewed truly believes they are more productive working from home, and that turns out to be true around 25% of the time. The majority spend their days fucking off until they get fired. It's not because they're not capable of doing the work; they're just not capable of doing it unsupervised. The work is deadline-based with no set hours, and we don't track time spent working, so it's a very black-and-white way to determine who is capable of unsupervised productivity and who is not. You either get your shit done or you don't. For perspective, these are highly educated professionals, not slack-jawed salespeople making cold calls or something. Once we find the right folks who are truly cut out for working from home, though, it works out really well. It definitely makes hiring and training more expensive and time-consuming. As for me, after working remotely for so long, I can't get much weirder. If I were offered a salaried job for half of what I earn running my business, I would consider it just to shake things up.
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