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Serak The Preparer

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  1. Yes - and he certainly has a proven track record of listening to such sage advice and not putting himself in further precarious situations.
  2. Saying you dislike someone is now "openly denigrating them" and deserving of a pink slip. Boy @clapclapclap and @52-80 sure are snowflakes.
  3. Always interesting to see when people use the drool reaction. NTTAWT @TwiceHorn!
  4. What a crock of shit. We selectively berate people all the time. Sometimes it's warranted and sometimes it's not. A theatre berating someone for bringing a box of junior mints is an asshole. The same theatre berating someone for bringing in a full meal is not an asshole. Someone wearing a mask when it is not required has absolutely zero impact on anyone else. Someone not wearing a mask when it is required does have an impact on other people.
  5. Is the suggestion that Twitter code had remained unchanged for a year, and is now changing because Musk bought into it? It seems laughable to me to suggest that the Twitter code base hasn't changed. I have no idea if they push daily updates, weekly, monthly, etc., but there is no way that it was a static monolith. That comparison makes no sense at all.
  6. That was way more enjoyable than it had any right to be. I chortled at Harden's gut.
  7. At the risk of being wooshed, I believe that is just your user name backwards. Also good memory on the 9-11 truther bullshit. I just think of hagbard as the asshole who likes to talk about "nips", always good to remember that people are rarely just assholes in a single way (myself certainly not excluded).
  8. Hah, I just looked this up after reading his post. At least in NYC, it is illegal to grow poison ivy on any property. I don't know how common that legislation is, but it is at least a thing.
  9. How many people have accused you of being racist? You are imagining attacks that aren't there. That said, you have also failed to respond to the implication that the end goal of your desired education plan is that POC do not learn history / liberal arts and are also denied entry to universities in favor of trade schools. I suspect that you didn't start thinking about this end state as your goal, but it also seems that you aren't particularly concerned that is the natural consequence of your desired educational system.
  10. Same - although I don't know how you can beat "This is one of a kind as biglots sold out of them several years ago.". - One of a kind, you know, except for all of the other ones sold in the same big box store.
  11. Is one of them more valuable than the others, and if so will you tell me which one?
  12. Take it to the shart thread, this is for basketball talk.
  13. After a great final four, results are in. Regardless of winner between Kansas and North Carolina, @MotownHorn will finish with the most point and @hobbs will finish second. Congrats to both! Also regardless of the winner, there will be 22 people with 23 entries (counting @Knoxtnhorn's cat) that beat @Wulaw Horn (excluding 1st and 2nd place winners). The leaderboard tab is updated with round 5 results - thanks again to @Wulaw Horn for setting this up! >>Link to spreadsheet<<
  14. This really is a hell of a game, and makes me glad I don't really give much of a shit about either UNC or Duke other than just casually enjoying the rivalry.
  15. Fair enough. I do agree with the general sentiment that name on diploma is overvalued but also think it is a little facile to just handwave away where the majority of professional jobs are. Agree to disagree on that point.
  16. Ok, not trying to be a jerk, but if you take west coast, north east, and big population centers in-between, what are the big hubs for tech, finance, etc.? I'm not saying there aren't any but certainly less than half of the total jobs right? Probably less than 1/3? Edit: I'll be a bit more specific - give me Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, and Houston - just those 4 MSAs. You think that, plus the aforementioned west coast + NE isn't the bulk of big law, finance, or tech?
  17. Oh, so only where 2/3 of the jobs are.
  18. Tell me you're replying to @Incredulity without telling me you're replying to @Incredulity.
  19. Without getting into a dick-measuring contest of who's doing more good for POC, do you agree that your proposed system inherently results in what Pancho described? That is, if it works as designed, the result is not teaching POC about history while also denying them places in universities?
  20. I know I shouldn't express shock at the lack of actual content in your post, but what is the broken brain part? Are you saying Farid has the broken brain? The Ivermectin study? The fluvoxamine study? I <think> that Farid is expressing irritation irritation about the quality of journal that the respective studies were published in and not either of the actual studies. That said, I don't know (and I suspect that the vast majority of people reading this don't know) much about the relative impact that NEJM vs Lancet has. I know enough to know that, say, getting a paper published in Science or Nature is a big deal but once you go down a tier, you've lost me. Do you think she has a point?
  21. We'll always have @markstanco.
  22. Look you know your shit about geopolitics, but settle down on the relative importance of the butthole. /@NowThis
  23. The first thing that pops to my mind is Mike Trout for his first couple of MVP seasons with the Angels. Like Jokic he played for teams that were never really in playoff contention, and for whatever reason has not been big on any endorsements. Sportswriters certainly wrote about him but I don't think he was viewed as Mr. Excitement in the media.
  24. Maybe, but for all of the criticisms about Westbrook (and good lord, there are many!), him pretending to be something he's not is not one of them. He's a clear detriment to his team but I think he's usually pretty damn upfront about what he's feeling. I think he did get irritated but calmed down pretty quickly and things never really got heated. I agree weird but not what that tweet headline said.
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