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  1. 1 hour ago, statsman said:

    More than ever, we need to teach and develop critical reasoning, understanding what makes an argument strong, other than “my side believes this” or “most people believe that”.

    Most of the worlds problems could be solved with that. 

  2. There’s got to be some sort of software help on things like that right?  Like maybe overlaying a grid and editing the photo down to just a fuzzy blur and recreating the dark and light spots in each grid square or something?  Or are people just talented enough to make shit like that freehand?

  3. 1 hour ago, Celery Man said:

    I’d probably reexamine how funny I think the cart narc is if I could come up with the person who is able to push the cart all around the store but not back to where it goes (multiple kid parents excluded).

    Multiple kid exclusion denied. 

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  4. I have a Barazta Encore.   It works good, never had a problem, been using it for 5 years or so.  I do pour over at home so i never really change the grind size.  I can’t remember why I chose it but I tend to research things a lot before I buy.   Before this I’ve only had a Porlex hand grinder so I can’t really compare the Encore to anything else.  Still use the Porlex for camping trips. 

  5. 22 hours ago, fattyflattie said:

    If it’s worth it for a custodial engineer to move to Cali because of tax rates, good for them to earlier that and follow their dream of cleaning shit there.

    Man I get it that this is Surly and we all say edgy shit we probably wouldn’t repeat to every audience, but this sounds like a serious statement you meant from the heart.  You are a garbage human being.  Let me guess, you claim to be Christian as well?   

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  6. 1 hour ago, MonkeyDoughnut said:

    Work at Cinnabon. Buy a car wash.  Buy a commercial laundry service. Buy a chicken restaurant franchise. Something mundane.

     

    50 minutes ago, Hefeweizen said:

    Those sounds like terrible ideas to me.  All involve risk and hard work.  At that point you’re just changing one career for a new one.  And fuck all franchises in general.

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  7. 3 minutes ago, Goredho said:

    You have to own a gun to do everything you talked about.  You do.  Many here do not, though, and hold a position that all guns should be illegal and would normally never consider owning one.  My point is they need to revisit that position, because our civil crisis is going to come to a head long before any meaningful gun reform is enacted that would keep guns out of play in this civil crisis.

    Not one person on this board believes all guns should be illegal.   

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  8. 2 hours ago, HouTex said:

    But do people really think that Timothy McVeigh should not have been executed?

    Life without parole is a much harsher sentence.  I’d much rather be executed than spend the rest of my life in jail, I bet most people would.  Seeing as how I want the most miserable sentence for people like McVeigh, the short answer to your question is yes.  He got off easy.  

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  9. On 1/19/2024 at 8:36 PM, Hornmatic said:

    What area does Ewers need to improve on the most: pre snap recognition or post snap progression?
     

    The most common talking point has been his need to improve going through his progressions but I can’t help but think that shortcoming is partly due to not always reading defenses correctly pre-snap and having a good idea of where to go if first read isn’t there.
     

    But I would like for better football minds to chime in. 

    Sark has said before that a lot of his plays are designed to get one guy open and not necessarily to have multiple options.   Like some plays were schemed to go to Worthy no matter what.  If he’s not open on time then buy yourself 2 or 3 seconds until he gets open rather than looking for other options. 

  10. 6 hours ago, Liquor and Poker said:

    Question for those who know a lot about American.  
     

    My wife has had two trips on American in the last 5 months. Picked American mostly for the schedule.  Both trips were Houston to Dallas then change planes at DFW.  
     

    Both times (Asheville and NYC) she got to DFW fine, but both trips the second plane did a thing where it would taxi away, sit on the tarmac for hours, come back to the gate, sit in the departure area for hours, then cancel and AA gave her a voucher to a shit hotel and said try again tomorrow.  Various inconsistent explanations for why the plane didn’t go depending on who you asked.   No known weather issues on either end, though.  
     

    I fly a lot on everything from Spirit to Emirates, but not much on AA since we moved to Houston.   When we lived in Dallas AA was my go-to, partly because hub and partly because I had a company AA visa so expensing was easy.  For a lot of people I know and work with in Dallas that’s still pretty true.  

    But anyway I have never had anything like that happen to me unless there was some raging storm or clearly explained mechanical difficulties.  And never have I sat on the tarmac for hours and not eventually taken off  

    So I have asked a bunch of Dallas friends an colleagues and quite a few of them say AA pulls this kind of shit all the time.  Since they fly AA nearly exclusively, they just assumed all airlines did it. 

    Have I just been unreasonably lucky and people like to bitch, or is this actually some AA DFW thing? Asking because wife right now refuses to ever set foot on an AA plane again. 

    I suspect your wife wasn’t paying attention when the explanation for the delay was given.  These days there would be a riot if you sat there for hours with no explanation. Maybe she had her earbuds in.  Even when the captain isn’t being very forthcoming, eventually enough people start bugging the stews that the stews start bugging the captain to say something.  

    At a massive airport like DFW the delays can easily extend hours or even all day after the weather moves through.  If there’s storms or fog in the morning they will shut down the airport until they pass.  They probably land 2 or 3 planes a minute on average at DFW so a 2 or 3 hour weather event can effect hundreds of planes from all over the country along with some mid-way over the oceans.  When they reopen the airport they can’t let all those planes arrive at once so they space them out and start assigning takeoff times to everyone, often hours beyond departure time.  The airport can still only handle the same arrival rate as normal and now they’re trying to mix in all those delayed flights sitting on the ground everywhere with the normal scheduled ones too.   I have no idea if that was the case that day but that’s how it often goes. 

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