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  1. On 9/20/2023 at 11:18 PM, longhornmatt said:

    The difference is NFTs at least tried to use cool pictures you could pretend were art or trading cards instead of just saying, “Hey, here’s a pic of fake money.  Oh look, 275 thou - might want to hang on to that one.”

    They have value in that someone might pay for them, similar to baseball cards having value solely based on someone else willing to pay.  a small portion of NFTs had/have buyers that kept the prices up.  thousands of copycats and outright scams trying to replicate the successful ones make up 99% of failed NFTs. 

    if they ever reach mainstream or develop any sort of utility there exists a possibility greater than zero that some of these current NFTs could achieve rare baseball card status.  I played around in NFTs and made a few shekels but out of the hundreds of projects i bought and sold, i am only keeping 2-3 to see if anything ever happens down the road as yes, the conventional wisdom was that 99% of all projects will eventually approach zero value.

  2. as a tall human, i absolutely need to pick my seat, so SW in normally out.  never flown discount other than Ryan Air over in Europe maybe 20 years ago.  Normally fly AA (live in Dallas).  They actually came through after they scrapped our plane to Birmingham for the Bama game (said the brakes did not work, which was sort of an auspicious malady for a plane full of Texas fans) but we had to return back to the gate and then deplane.  We got a new plane with in an hour and were on our way.  They did piss off a lot of people in boarding group 1 by just making it essentially a free for all boarding the 2nd plane and eschewed drink service rather that wait the (they said) 45 extra minutes to load all that stuff up.  But i dngaf as i just wanted to get there at a reasonable time in my bulkhead seat.  

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  3. For RBs where does Mostert fit in with D. Montgomery/Bijan/Gibbs?  My bench tore it up this week Mostert and Kyren Williams going off.  If Ekeler is out again, Kyren is starting over someone, but Mostert looked strong last night. 

  4. limo still picks me up in the same place.  must be a poors problem.

    but yeah, i think they do this at SLC airport from what i remember from last year.  They had a designated Uber zone that you had to walk to.  I just said eff it and took a cab last time in Vegas cause you could just walk right up and get one instantly.  Aria hotel in Vegas has a different ride share zone as well. 

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  5. 2 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

    I didn't want to start a new thread -- this will have to do.

    What EXACTLY is going on with the freakout over drag shows, etc.?  I admit, I don't really understand why there might be a movement to host drag readings for children, but if the parents are cool with that, I am too.  But drag shows?  They've literally been going on for centuries.  Isn't the average drag show pretty self-contained in a club that no straight hillbilly nazi would want to patronize, anyway?

    I understand the underlying push is to limit all freedoms, but it seems such a small demographic to focus on.  Maybe the thought is to target larger and larger demographics with success against the smaller ones; i.e., drag -> gay -> racial minorities -> women?

    i think it stems from all the 'bathroom bill' legislation freakout that trans persons would just be hanging out in the 'wrong' bathroom and start assaulting anyone that entered.  Then bud light had the audacity to market to someone other than bro sportsball man.  Couple that with school libraries having a handful of books that cater to LGBTQ kids and suddenly it's a full on conspiracy to 'groom' god-fearing normal kids and turn them in something non-cis.  At its heart is to drive hyper local hate engagement and create stickiness for more people to glom onto the maga/gop party all in the name of saving the children.  Bonus points for masked AR carrying dickheads that get to experience an erection by holding a gun in public feeling 'tough'. 

    tldr drag shows = caravans.  gotta keep generating fear and hate.

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  6. On 9/6/2023 at 10:52 AM, Captain Ron said:

    The scale at which AI can copy things is far beyond anything a human can do. A person can do a one off here and there, people use AI tools to generated original art, print, jokes, etc "in the style of X" in massive troves. It is vastly different things.

    Why would an industry agree not to use technology? Because that's what you collectively bargain.

    Part of adapting is regulating properly, there are very good reasons to do it - especially in creative industries. This is funny, but makes a point:

    https://www.instagram.com/reel/CwoIG_ys-Sa/ 

     

    A week ago Barry Diller chatted with Kara Swisher and went into a lot of this as well, his AI stuff is a bit weird, but hits some of the right notes. I think he also has some really great points about how Netflix played damn good long game in blowing up the industry and got everyone else to jump in only to lose money. Solid interview.

     

    so i was thinking about this the other day after watching that Ted Lasso episode where they 'steal' / hat tip whatever a bunch of famous lines from various TV/movies and even the AI (heh) Practice!? We talking about practice?! press conference.  For that specific Lasso episode, would any of the other works receive anything?  most of the references were exact lines from the original from what i remember.

  7. 15 hours ago, TxEx84 said:

    As we were leaving the game after Ohio State, the police warned us to be careful and head away from campus area and go back to our hotel. Tuscaloosa was a church social compared to Columbus.

    yeah, we had a few frat bros tell of us to eat shit as we were walking past all the greek houses back to the car, but nothing beyond that.  Summed up, Everyone was pretty nice and smug about about the beatdown they believed UT was about to receive.  If the Frat bros parents were in town, they were nice.  if not we were told variation of Horn Down and eat shit.  Coeds were mostly about horns down.  The one non-drunk bama fan that was sitting next to me was a good dude that we both acknowledged good plays by either team. 

    I did not realize that there was a burgeoning business in game-day buttons with catchy slogans like Big Nick Energy.  Olds, greek bros and gals, pretty much everyone had on one or more of these pieces of flair.  Even the several Longhorn moms with Bama spawn had UT versions of these (no Big Sark Energy that I saw, alas).  

  8. don't most have mobile check in now?  Stayed at Aria 2 weeks ago and you could use the app to check in  and get your mobile key to unlock the door.  There was a pretty big line when i rolled in, but was able to just go straight to my room.  Went back later when there was no line to get physical keys 'cause it was annoying to keep pulling out my phone for the lackluster 'room-key-check-dude' to get to the elevators.  Also, all the MGM property elevators would not go up with out scanning a room key.  The phone app worked, but physical key was way easier. 

  9. more of a CSB but on the flight to Birmingham Friday, we are all seated about to leave the gate and then 2 LEO with something like "drug overdose unit" on their shirts  come storming down the aisle, but then returned empty handed a few minutes later.  missed my chance at getting on a tiktok video i guess.

  10. 4 hours ago, iodeac said:

    How are these hacks happening? Is someone clicking on a link by accident or what? I feel like I have lots of people on my friends list who have their accounts hacked

    How are these hacks happening? Is someone clicking on a link by accident or what? I feel like I have lots of people on my friends list who have their accounts hacked

    How are these hacks happening? Is someone clicking on a link by accident or what? I feel like I have lots of people on my friends list who have their accounts hacked

    were you hacked?  reply 3 times if yes

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  11. Just now, texifornia said:

    Elko does have a massive buyout, they reworked his contract before this season. Duke is private, but the rumor is $50mm.

    just imagine, say aggy bites the bullet.  > $100MM to change coaches.  then plus whatever # they need to moneywhip the next guy.  elko walking in "1 Jimbo special please, but I want 50% within 60 days".  It's like trading in your underwater thrice-rolled over car loan to finance a used boat.

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  12. 7 hours ago, Skipper said:

    Listened to a segment on the app for the first time in weeks to hear Klatt.  That will probably continue to be the only thing I listen to on the Sportsday App.  They only spent 2-3 minutes on Texas Bama which is par for the course with fucking Corby driving parts of the conversation. I'm sure he skips it all together if Bob didn't bring it up at the end (of course, in a question that also included A&M going on the road).  At one point before even mentioning the big game this weekend Corby attempted to steer convo to OU.  Good example of why I find myself listening to Sirius XM84 drive time and barely any Ticket at all these days.  They should be spending a ton of time this week on Texas Bama (and sure, spend time on Aggy-Miami as well as that's a big game for A&M fans in the market) but tuning in live I haven't heard anything when I've been in car so I've moved on.

    to be fair that last one with Klatt was all about CU and their win.  Joel gives the horns a fair shake and definitely takes aggy to the woodshed just about every chance he gets. 

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