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  1. 1 hour ago, The Tres Leches said:

    I guess this is why COTA was buying back GA tickets for $350.  They're now $390.

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    Yeah that was basically just a PR stunt. It would make no sense to sell your ticket back to them for $50 more than you paid if its value is about to 'skyrocket'. And I love Eminem, but this is the 'huuuuuge' lineup Epstein was talking about? I remember seeing Sting at his best with the Police, 41 years ago at Southpark Meadows when I was a freshman at UT. Good times, but 41 years is a long time.

  2. Bottas vs Perez vs Hulk seems like mediocre vs mediocre vs mediocre to me. Not much between 'em imho. Good drivers all, imho. Nothing great. Not bad either.

  3. 3 hours ago, NoName said:

    BOT has smoked the hell out of Zhou, something like 33-16 in quali as teammates and has 5-0'd him this year

    This reminds me of something funny. Apparently Stoffel Vandoorne said recently that he could match Fernando Alonso in one-lap pace. I guess he's forgetting that time when he was Fernando's F1 teammate and got epically destroyed by a historic margin in Qualifying. 37-3, iirc. 

    I guess he's technically correct, in that he could match Alonso once in every twelve thirteen attempts.

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  4. nsiap ... Imagine paying a huge premium for a go-anywhere SUV supposedly capable of driving on Mars ... that can't survive a trip through a car wash. Imagine the electrical components of a car built by pretty much any other company in the last 50 years not being able to handle a trip through a car wash. Tesla simply is not a real car company. 

    Tesla Cybertruck turns into world's most expensive brick after car wash  https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/20/cybertruck_car_wash_mode/

    Tesla Cybertruck Owners Complain Of Vehicle Not Working After Car Wash: The vehicle was called a "tin can," a "lemon," and a "paperweight" by internet users, who also made fun of the fact that although it seems bulletproof, it is not waterproof.  https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/tesla-cybertruck-owners-complain-of-vehicle-not-working-after-car-wash-5505843

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  5. 9 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    That "Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression?"  It ain't some hippie dippie commune.  It's a right-wing group.  How 'bout that?  Some folks - with whom I disagree on many things - get free speech right.  And I will damned well defend their right to gather and speak in ALL COMMON OUTDOOR AREAS OF MY UNIVERSITY.

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     If Trump wanted to give a speech and hold a rally in common areas of the university, so long as he did not use artificial amplification so as to disturb classes, IT WOULD BE 100% LEGAL AND ALLOWED.  And if my university or governor sent in jackboots to crack the skulls of peaceful Trump rally attendees, listening to Trump yell his inanities and lies, I would be just as angry and outraged as I am today.  Because the law and the Constitution apply to all of us, regardless of whether we agree with the content of the speech or not. 

    Welp ... this right here. What I'm sayin'.

    It's simply mind-blowing how hard it seems to be for some to grasp this mind-numbingly simple concept.

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  6. nsiap ... Looks like Abbott is taking some heat from both sides of the aisle. Good to see.

    Texas Gov. Abbott faces backlash after mass arrest at UT Austin pro-Palestine protest  https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4620838-texas-governor-abbott-backlash-mass-arrest-ut-austin-pro-palestine-protest/

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    After Texas state troopers arrested more than 50 people at a University of Texas at Austin protest this week, Gov. Greg Abbott (R) is facing accusations that the state went too far.

    Police in riot gear broke up an unsanctioned but nonviolent demonstration at the state’s flagship university Wednesday.

    Among those arrested was a journalist with the local Fox 7 news affiliate, who has been charged with criminal trespassing, according to the news organization.

    Demonstrators have scheduled a second day of protest for Thursday.

    The students had called on UT to divest from arms manufacturers and U.S. and Israeli companies profiting off Israel’s war in Gaza. The university endowment has an estimated $52.5 million invested with arms manufacturers.

    Students and off-campus supporters began to gather before noon in a protest the university forbade them to hold. They chanted slogans such as, “Free, free Palestine. Killing children is a crime,” according to Texas Public Radio.

    Jews on campus were divided over whether this constituted an offensive act.

    Texas Hillel, the Jewish student union, called the protests “hateful,” noting they took place on the second day of Passover, the Jewish festival of freedom.

    Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, joined by fellow governors during a news conference. (Eric Gay / The Associated Press)

    Others disagreed. “They’re not shouting anything antisemitic, they’re not harassing anyone, they’re standing on the green lawn, expressing themselves,” Jeremi Suri, a Jewish UT-Austin history professor, told The Texas Tribune.

    “The appropriate response would be to ask them to be contained in an area, let them stay on the grass and let them shout until they have no voices left,” Suri added.


    Instead, Abbott called in the state troopers.

    In a post Wednesday on the social platform X, Abbott declared the protests antisemitic and called for the university to expel students who participated. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R), meanwhile, has made suppressing alleged campus antisemitism a key priority for next year’s legislative session.

    “Today, Greg Abbott’s [Department of Public Safety] has more courage to arrest peaceful student protesters than when an active shooter entered an elementary school in Uvalde,” state Democrats wrote in a statement Wednesday evening.


    The party called the crackdown an Abbott “campaign ad.”

    A Democratic state representative from Austin called the response “out of hand.” 

    “In normal times when I was a student I was in a ‘sit in’ [with the Rev. Jesse Jackson] INSIDE the actual UT law school and administration just ignored us,” state Rep. Gina Hinojosa, (D-Austin), wrote on X.


    A group of UT professors issued a statement condemning university president Jay Hartzell’s decision to call in the police.

    The administrators noted the event “was to have included teach-ins, study sessions, pizza, and an art workshop. There was no threat of violence, no plan to disrupt classes, no intimidation of the campus community.”

    In response, they wrote, “we have witnessed police punching a female student, knocking over a legal observer, dragging a student over a chain link fence, and violently arresting students simply for standing at the front of the crowd.”


    Local journalists decried the arrest of the Fox photographer.

    “If he’s guilty of criminal trespass, then I am too, as are a dozen other credentialed, on-the-clock journalists who were peacefully recording on a public lawn,” Ryan Chandler of KXAN wrote on X.

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    Similar criticism came from libertarian and right-wing groups that previously supported Abbott’s campaign against diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs — which the state government had called anti-free speech.


    “Sending in a phalanx of law enforcement threatens protected speech where it should be at its most free: a public university like UT Austin,” Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) legal director Will Creeley wrote after the arrests.

    FIRE, a longtime critic of DEI, said Abbott’s use of police to break up the demonstration “makes his disregard for the First Amendment’s protection of political speech clear.”

    The crackdown followed Abbott’s controversial March executive order that critics characterized as a reversal of sweeping free-speech protections he signed into law in 2019. 

    In March, the governor signed an executive order directing universities to change their free speech policies to properly punish antisemitic speech — a category state Republican leadership applies to criticism of the war in Gaza.

    “I am committed to the fight against antisemitism on campus, but I am concerned about the highlighted provisions in Governor Abbott’s executive order,” right-wing activist Chris Rufo of the Manhattan Institute, who has been a longtime critic of DEI, safe spaces and pro-Palestine campus protests, wrote at the time.

    “How is such a policy different from DEI programs promising to prohibit ‘anti-black speech’? And why not include ‘anti-white speech,’ which, as I have shown in my reporting, is institutionalized at University of Texas?” Rufo asked.

    Writers at the far-right magazine The Federalist called Abbott’s March executive order an endorsement of “the DEI cult” with its “demands for Jewish safe spaces.”

    Muslim students told the press the university hasn’t protected them from abuse and assault on campus.

    Earlier this month, three men assaulted a Muslim student wearing traditional dress while mocking him in “fake Arabic,” according to a complaint filed by the Council of American-Islamic Relations.

    Texas Republican leadership has long combined dogged support for Israel’s right-wing government with a more complicated relationship with antisemitic groups on the state’s far right.

    Last year, a leading state PAC aligned with state Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) changed its name and fired its director after video surfaced of him meeting with white nationalist Nick Fuentes, a vocal fan of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and a proponent of a “holy war” against Jews.

    After the video came to light, Republican recipients of the PAC’s donations in the state Legislature countered criticisms and calls to donate the funds by espousing their support for Israel, as The Hill reported.

    Patrick, for example, received $3 million from the PAC in the lead-up to the 2023 impeachment of Paxton, one of his allies.

    In the face of criticism over the donation, Patrick announced he would use it to buy Israeli bonds.

    In December, the state Republican committee voted 39-32 to continue permitting members to meet with groups “known to espouse or tolerate antisemitism, pro-Nazi sympathies or Holocaust denial,” stripping a clause that would have banned such meetings from a statement of support for Israel, according to The Texas Tribune.

    Half the board also voted not to keep any record of that vote. 

    In voting down a measure that would have restricted such meetings, members raised concerns about free speech. A ban on such meetings was reminiscent of “Marxist” tactics, members said. 

    Banning them “could put you on a slippery slope,” committee member Dan Tully told the Tribune.

    In the aftermath of Wednesday’s arrests, a local journalist with the left-wing Texas Observer called out the apparent contradiction between the state’s broader response to antisemitic speech and its crackdown on the college demonstrations.

    “I’ve seen no credible reporting of actual antisemitic incidents at the UT Austin protest,” Steven Monacelli wrote on X.

    “What I can tell you is that I’ve reported on numerous neo-Nazi events and Greg Abbott never once tried to put any of them in jail.”

     

     

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  7. 23 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    Does UT still allow the anti-abortion group to set up shop at the corner in front of Gregory with their giant pictures of aborted fetuses like they did in the late 90s?

    I also recall in 1994 I believe the KKK marched down Dallas Ave in grapevine, fully permitted, after some racial incidents at GHS got their attention. 
     

    was told 1st amendment allowed for it. 

    Yep. I was at UT in the mid-late 80s when the KKK marched down the drag chanting their racist shit. We were told it was their right, and of course, it was. So we just watched for a couple of minutes while we waited to cross, then ignored their shit and went on about our binness. 

    I've always told my kids that so much of the freedom so many take for granted is incredibly fragile, and here is a great example. It doesn't matter if the protesters or anyone else there is 'right' or 'wrong'. They were protesting peacefully. About as peaceful a protest as I've ever seen with that many people. So sad. I can't believe how far we've fallen in so short a time. /csb

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  8. 7 hours ago, Captainant said:

    It's almost like abbott is choosing to escalate this as a culture war issue, or something. 

    He's also framing this action as being "against antisemitism" which is bad because that means he thinks he's justified in arresting those protesters. 

    Abbott? Needlessly escalating shit for personal gain? 

    Shocking.

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  9. 2 hours ago, Hate said:

    It’s Mexico. Finding weed if you really need it is not a problem. Seriously.

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    Heading back in July. Been a while. Can't wait. Got some good news re: the beach. Back in January 2023 I posted the photo below.

    On 1/15/2023 at 5:49 PM, wood said:

    Damn. I just checked the live webcam for the first time in a long time and I has a serious sad...

    I've posted about the beach erosion on Playa Norte before, but got damn, it's really fucking shit up now. Look to the right, right next to Chimbo's. The beach has receded probably another 15-20 just since we weree there in March. Fucking hell.

    Isla Mujeres live, Isla Mujeres - Webcams of Mexico - Google Chrome 1_15_2023 5_31_02 PM.png

    Then the webcam was down for like a year. Webcam's back now, and so is the beach. Made my day. So we got that goin' for us ... which is nice.

    Playa Norte live cam stream, Isla Mujeres - Google Chrome 4_24_2024 2_58_28 PM.png

    On 2/1/2024 at 1:32 PM, Zepol87 said:

    Gf getting her hair braided here so I’m chilling

     

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    Looks like you were at Oscar's. Good people there.

    On 3/28/2024 at 12:28 PM, rage-a-holic said:

    Holbox is like a smaller, shittier version of Tulum you need to take a ferry to. And the water is Gulf of Mexico, not Caribbean. 

    Go to El Cuyo instead. Unless you enjoy crowds of douchey influencer types, then definitely stick with Holbox.

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  10. On 8/2/2023 at 8:49 AM, midtown said:

    Anyone want to or have knowledge of the ability to bring gummies through CUN? 

    Nurse likes to take a gummie, send her teen son to bed, put on music and spend a few hours being tied up.

    You could hide 'em in the kid's camera bag to get through customs, the way my dipshit dumbass ex-BIL hid pot on my wife's sister's kid (no pics) a few years ago without telling anyone. Told everyone after we got to Cozumel. He thought it was cool and no big deal. I though the kid's dad was gonna break other BIL's neck right fucking there. I know I woulda if it had been my kid.

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