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Posts posted by TexasEd
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On 3/19/2025 at 11:03 AM, chainsaw said:
Bill Burr is reaching GOAT tier
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On 3/19/2025 at 11:17 AM, jimmyjazz said:He has the combination of wit, intelligence, and don't give a fuck that all the greats have.
Even in a star wars spinoff
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3 hours ago, bolverk said:
Age of Enshittenment
Enshitenment, it rhymes with Enlightenment but incorporates the German word shite
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1 minute ago, troph said:
I’m gonna check it outÂ
Teaser: Woman's last name is Hyacinth Bucket but pronounces it Bouquet.
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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.Â
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.Â
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"
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@troph With your experience with your dad I'd bet you would love the old British Sitcom "Keeping up appearances"
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Maybe we'll have a surge in Russian tourists to make up for it.
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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. Â
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So Russia can keep it's planned attacks on Schools, Hospitals and nursing homes? Â
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3 hours ago, chainsaw said:
the deportees
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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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On 3/17/2025 at 9:38 AM, tx 3 putt said:
she was probably adoptedÂ
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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?
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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 adoptedÂDidn'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
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1 hour ago, Rip76 said:
Chad?
Donald?
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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 teethÂ
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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On 2/6/2023 at 7:29 PM, HiggyBaby said:
No mention of his new admirer? She seems stable.
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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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25 minutes ago, Shaddie said:
As I read what a German fellow had to say.Â
“Der wankenfuhers inselflare went kaput”FIFY
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2 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:
Well, even so, the appeals process would have prevented that from being final, both of the conviction itself and the disqualification. And, in the meantime, it would have made no difference.
In the type of government Trump wants someone accused of those crimes would be in jail and disqualified pre-emptively.
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2 hours ago, TexArcher said:
Transportation, transformers, transistors, and translations will all be illegal by next Tuesday.
Don't forget Transmissions. Â
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This is a great breakdown of Trump and Project 2025
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32 minutes ago, StassneyHorn said:
lol institutional found some more bullets with 30 minutes left today
Yes, and I sold into it.
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2 minutes ago, Bateshorn said:
PRetty sure Derek Chauvin was convicted in Minnesota court, not federal. Tim Walz out front shoulda told ya.Â
Thanks, so there is an extra step. Pardon is off the table the announcement was that the justice dept was going to look into the conviction and that means they are going to find another way to get the conviction overturned.
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The whole point of pardoning George Floyd's killer is to spark violent protests like we had in 2020. Those protests will be used to keep his sheeple scared so they don't abandon him when he promises to make all the dogs pay for the violence. He needs more boogiemen because he's responsible for the border now so can't use the immigrant line without putting himself on the hotseat.
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Just now, Fudge Nuggets said:
That won't do a damn bit of good. In order for disruptions to work, your target has to be able to feel shame. The dotard will just lash out and have the Capitol Police shoot them.
I turned on a segment of Fox and they are salivating at the idea of Dems being boorish. They're pre-emptively making fun of it as impotent and out of touch. Their talking points are, Americans overwhelmingly love the policies of cutting government, securing the border, and bringing jobs back by margins of up to 80:20 and the Democrats are just trying to keep trans athletes in women's sports.
Dems need to focus on the economy, wealth transfers to the billionaire class and America safety impacted by cuts to FAA, FBI, HHS, etc.
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Trump’s America
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turn him in to DOGE. Their first case of real fraud.