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  1. On 3/22/2025 at 10:42 AM, SimonBolivar said:

    I see about 50 people with suspicious VACP deposits for every 1 with SSI.  I'm sure some of those VA ones are legit ones that aren't physically viewable, but there are plenty Trump lovers like my uncle that has been on 100% for years for "bad knees" that he somehow got in Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War. He spends his time now golfing, fishing, and driving around complaining to local businesses about how their flags aren't being flown properly. 

    turn him in to DOGE.  Their first case of real fraud.

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  2. On 3/19/2025 at 8:38 PM, RomaVicta said:

    The process for earning a masters or PhD has become, seemingly to me (an idiot), an assembly line of templates and specific directions for writing. Passive voice. Over-describing a single item. Adoption or creation of words that are not needed.

    Recently, I read a description of a process where I work. If done correctly one might hope to attain "connectedness" with another person. There's already a word for what the writer wanted to convey, but the person's mind and writing were full of academic sounding words and forms that are tedious and sometimes obscure.

    It's my guess that back when graduate degrees were rarer, the candidates were actually gifted intellectuals who did not worry about articulating their thoughts and discoveries. They arrived to grad school having already established a voice and ability to array information in a natural way.

    I cringe when I hear someone talk about what the data says. Where I work, we must seek "data-driven" solutions. 

    This shit will all pass when some other arcane or needless phrase appears from some doctoral candidate striving for a new expression to distinguish their largely useless investigations from the other useless investigations conducted on nearly the very same subject.

    Don't get me wrong. I'm sure the elite intellectuals who defined graduate degrees in the past are still present in that system and doing brilliant, useful work. I also think peddling grad degrees as a resume enhancer is a racket kind of like student loans. $$$$

    I write for a living. I'm sensitive to overuse of the arcane. I'm not an elite writer, but I know what I'm doing and don't copy a template. Those who need one are not elite intellectuals in my humble opinion.

     

    On 3/19/2025 at 8:45 PM, TwiceHorn said:

    Well, in this day of specialization and poor basic education, even the very learned in their field are often very poor writers.  And that's been true for a very long time.  Theses and dissertations outside the humanities, and a lot in the humanities, I'd wager, will make your eyes bleed.

     

    On 3/19/2025 at 8:55 PM, 956 Worldwide said:

    At nearly every mentorship or informational interview I have, I tell grad students and interns to learn how to write clear declarative sentences and to practice turning five pages of work into one. Without AI.

     

    I work with a lot of technology architects and work with them on written and live presentation comms.  It's always a battle to elevate the message out of the SME level they like to live in to something the rest of the world can understand that they are taking into account important constraints and objectives.  They will talk about the what and how all day but completely forget why we're doing it in the first place.

     

    23 hours ago, GenXer said:

    I have legit crazy and personality disorders in my family. I sure as hell wasn’t going to invite more in. I needed respite from that shit. Great sex be damned. Hard pass. 

    Yeah, I had one woman coming on to me hard when I was still single and she said her theme song was "Strong enough to be my man" by Sheryl Crow so I listened to the lyrics and said "nope"

     

    @troph  With your experience with your dad I'd bet you would love the old British Sitcom "Keeping up appearances"

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  3. On 3/18/2025 at 4:01 PM, Brisketexan said:


    Spoiler: it ends at an Esso station.
    It always does. The only question is the toll/cost we all incur before that ending.

    I saw a Canadian video that talked about our relationship as closest allies and trading partners.  There was an Esso station in it.  

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  4. 3 hours ago, chainsaw said:

    the deportees

     

    1 hour ago, Gatorubet said:

    Sounds vaguely Spanish, so, no suit for you!

    I learned from ESPN that it means "Sports" in English

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  5. On 3/17/2025 at 9:38 AM, tx 3 putt said:

    she was probably adopted 

     

    On 3/17/2025 at 10:00 AM, TexArcher said:

    Or the mom drank and smoked meth during the pregnancy with him.

    Or maybe she banged a genetically stupid mailman?

     

    On 3/17/2025 at 12:09 PM, tchookem said:
    On 3/17/2025 at 9:38 AM, tx 3 putt said:
    she was probably adopted 

    Didn't his mom call in and read him the riot act? He may be the black sheep.

    Yeah, I think Jesse is the outlier in that family sample

  6. 6 hours ago, Clintonaldo said:

    How do you like something while at the same time not like the way it’s being done?

    Well I like receiving fellatio without teeth 

    The problem is they think they have a noble end in mind and that the means don't justify the end when they fail to recognize is that, unlike receiving fellatio, the policies they support are shitty to begin with because they believe the lies they are told inside the cult.

    Lies like the guy mowing your grass or picking strawberries is lazy and taking your job.

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  7. On 2/6/2023 at 7:29 PM, HiggyBaby said:

    Smells like catfish at first glance but not sure if that is the right term for this.  She should be on a watch list.

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