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  1. 17 minutes ago, Homesickhorn said:

    The two girls found in a tree phone call I received was from a friend who I’d been working with since about 7am. When he and I split up, he stayed there and waited for his brother (first responder). I relayed what he told me, via his brother. I asked him for confirmation, and he told me to hang tight. That’s when I posted.

    The linked in the post that I copied went hand in hand with what I’d heard, yet not yet confirmed. I made the mistake of thinking that link was the confirmation needed.

    Now, it’s untrue. I don’t know how a game of telephone can get that fucked up with as close as I was from the source, but it did. And I can’t apologize enough.

    I’ll continue to post what I see first hand from here on out. Take it for what it’s worth. I guess I got too overwhelmed with some good news for the first time in three days.

    Hope is a dangerous thing. 

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  2. 1 minute ago, SydneyCarton said:

    I realize the massive amount of rain to took fill that much of the lake, but man, it feels like it didn’t make much of a dent. 

    It’s not hard to find threads. It’s also easy to ignore threads that hurt your feelings because politics. But it’s impossible to change minds or even mildly persuade people of anything when you can’t confront people where they WILL post under the guise of “news” and “politics” as if those things aren’t the fucking same 80% of the time these days. 

    If you go look what I left you will see the difference pretty easily. 

    I was also talking about if someone wanted to make a new thread for this event in DT they can easily do it.

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  3. 21 minutes ago, Dnaguy said:

    @immamacand @blacklab

    Considering we have a CR subject and the likely rescue and fallout that this matter will cause, I think we should have a July 4th Hill Country subject in the DT.

    But that’s totally IMO and this is y’all’s rodeo.

     

    No one is stopping anyone from making threads. I didn't delete anything yesterday and the conversation wasn't stifled of even impacted based on the move of about 3 pages of posts that were clearly easily a standalone topic. 

    Its not hard to find threads. 

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  4. 1 hour ago, wildcat09 said:

    I do feel like we've avoided the absolute worst case scenario, which would've been all the ICE shit being popular enough for long enough that they were able to go full nazi without really facing much organized resistance. I know it doesn't seem like it, but there has been at least some degree of effective organized resistance (though mostly not from Democratic officials, which would be fucking nice to have) and we've had some small wins here and there. And ICE's kidnappings are incredibly unpopular.  But now, what is probably realistically our best chance basically looks like this:

    1. Super-ICE keeps doing the shit ICE has been doing and turning more and more people against them. Thousands die in their concentration camps while Trump hires millions out as slave labor.

    2. Dems take the House (and Senate, maybe) in 2026 and stop the bleeding, but probably won't be able to actually substantially reduce ICE's funding or restrain their criminality in any substantive way.

    3. Trump runs again (and gets the GOP's nomination) and SCOTUS doesn't object.

    4. This pisses off enough people that a Dem wins like 55/45 in 2028 and we have to hope the military's leadership acknowledges the Dem as the new President.

    At the end of all of this, we've still got to deal with whatever the fuck ICE has become by 2028, which will likely be an insurrectionary military force that we'll need the army to put down. Then we're going to have to actually prosecute tens of thousands of fascists to the fullest fucking extent of the law, not some piddly one year or time served bullshit, to ensure that they're too scared to come out of their mom's basements for another 100 years.

    Trump runs again and Obama wins 540-0

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  5. 20 minutes ago, utfan87 said:

    Where are these schools getting the money to pay players because according the USA Today revenue only something like 30 schools made money and that was not anywhere near an extra 20.5 million. 

    How did the other 95 schools field football teams posting losses? Where did the losses get made up from?

    Revenue sharing != Profit Sharing. 

    Revenue is money in through the AD. Not money through and paid for everything then what's left. 

  6. 1 minute ago, closetojumping said:

    There is a market for fucking celebrities? How is the first that I'm hearing of it? What are going rates? I assume someone like Melissa McCarthy is probably pretty inexpensive, but your basic Sabrina Carpenter is a bit pricey. Is there an arbitrage opportunity related to maybe age (like, say, Jane Seymour or Halle Berry) or psychosis (Britney Spears)?

    Its a lot cheaper than you think. 

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  7. 1 minute ago, Texas Wahoo said:

    The reason why there is a huge market for “fake NIL” is because the schools have artificially limited the amount the players are able to be paid to the House settlement amount. It’s certainly not their corporate NIL value, but it is their market value in college football. Schools/collectives are trying to find ways to pay the players their market value in other ways, because the rules prevent them from doing it directly. 

    God damnit. Stop conflating NIL with pay for play, everyone. Stop it. 

    They get paid to do commercials, tweet stuff, bring people to events and do meet and greets etc. They do not get paid to play football. 

    There is absolutely a well established market for fucking celebrities and influencers who charge money to do those things. 

    Could you pay anyone to come do a meet and greet 750,000? Sure you could, you would also charge probably 30k a chair for that dinner. 

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  8. 3 minutes ago, tokamak said:

    I know this is a website for Texas fans, and specifically we're on a thread dedicated to Texas football recruiting, and we're supposed to be rooting for only what's best for Texas football and yadda, yadda, yadda. But one thing that really fucking pisses me off is that it seems like everyone, from the ADs, to the conferences, to the NCAA, to apparently even the federal government is absolutely bound and determined to prevent college football players from receiving what the free market determines that they're worth.

    So the problem here isn't the players etc. 

    Its that none of the people paying money actually give a shit about the players NIL, they are doing it because they like the team, not because the skill or market demands it. 

    These kids are making more than Tom Brady for some things. Than Patrick Mahomes for state farm. Stop acting like this is some fair market value discussion and pull your head out of your ass. 

    Theres a reason corporate NIL, you know the real stuff with an ROI happens at places and with players that it happens with. Those deals continue post college and are often long term partnerships with brands. 

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