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  1. "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." Everything we're seeing in this country right now only reinforces the truth in this quote. We're such a scared, hateful, and small people that we don't mind we're getting grifted in all new ways on the daily by the powers that be. Although he might grumble under his breath a bit if the public beach he lives on is sold to the highest bidder in a similar fashion as the 'forrests' because in that case he'd be directly affected.
  2. I haven't seen them co-located, sharing maybe the same leased acreage, but there some solar farms very close to wind ones out here in West Texas with more solar in the planning pipeline, unless tariffs, the regulatory environment, and/or a change in the incentives have changed all that. I have seen/heard discussions about oil companies planning to integrate solar into their operations out in the patch and, of course, new energy hog data mining and server farms coming along in tandem with solar/wind projects, along with all the existing O&G.
  3. I was talking about Rex.
  4. Finally got around to "Under Paris" on Netflix last night. Going in, I knew it was a satire on the horror/disaster film genre, and it did not disappoint. They managed to fit in just about every Hollywood trope. Really enjoyed it and got some good laughs.
  5. Two hours later, and no response from @RollLeft to your efforts at engagement. Let's take a look at his most recent posts, all of which are in the CR. None are substantive about Trump or his policies, but all are provocations against the community. Time to put TrollLeft on ignore.
  6. He’s the embodiment of ignorant arrogance, an obnoxious know-nothing, a bloviating blowhard, a loud, windy, and wet fart. Are they still making Kirby vacuum cleaners back in your hometown? I always wondered how the hell some site selector made that decision way back in the day.
  7. That’s similar to the iterative strategy I developed for myself in undergrad, where I recopied and progressively condensed my notes until all information/concepts fit on an index card or two. The process could also include speaking the notes aloud or drawing small symbols/pictures/flow charts, whatever was needed to get what I needed to stick in my brain. It’s a good coping strategy for those of us who suffer from simple minds and addled brains.
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  9. Word to the wise: don’t try to solve these things high. Wordle 1,433 4/6 β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©β¬› β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #711 🟦πŸŸͺ🟦🟦 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩πŸŸͺ 🟩🟩🟩🟩 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟨🟨🟨🟨 πŸ™‚ Daily Quordle 1214 4️⃣8️⃣ 7️⃣πŸŸ₯ m-w.com/games/quordle/ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ 🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜
  10. Oaky, well, I've been sick twice since the pandemic first hit: once in August 2021, after a work trip, and the other in December 2024, after a road trip to New York. In both cases, I performed the Covid home test kit, and in both cases, the results were negative. So, yeah, I could've been exposed at some point, but let's just say I never got sick from Covid. Now, again, my point to Slorch was that he's not unique in not having fallen ill with Covid, either from a) winning some kind of genetic luck or b) following the advice of experts by taking the shot/masking up in enclosed public spaces during the worst of the outbreak. Is there something you disagree with in my saying that? Is there a flaw in my logic, doctor?
  11. Dump it in the North Atlantic to keep the AMOC from slowing too much, which would keep Europe from falling into a new Ice Age.
  12. Sound like masking in enclosed public spaces and getting the jab during the worst of it worked for you, @Iceman. Congrats! That's great news. I too took all the prescribed precautions and came out of it physically unscathed (i.e., I never caught it either). I suppose, though, we could also have won the genetic lottery and have some characteristic that protected us from that specific virus as @troph postulates. After all, I do recall something about how certain blood types seemed to be less susceptible to the virus attaching to cells. Whichever the case, I'm grateful but have moved on.
  13. Sounds an awful lot like that lawfare stuff @Frank Drebin pretended to be so concerned about.
  14. You sound like an NFL fan who posts on SECRant or TexAgs Latte shoe don't need no book lernin' cuz collage is for nerds.
  15. I’m old enough to remember when β€œconservatives” were spreading conspiracy theories that Obama was planning to get rid of habeas corpus and Jade Helm Americans in abandoned Walmarts in Midland or some other stupid shit about Bastropo.
  16. I wonder if it’s worthwhile to frame the discussion about how the Democratic Party should communicate with the public around something like Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. At first glance, that might seem a bit esoteric, but its fundamental building blocks really are rather intuitive when it comes to policy priorities. One way of looking at policies could be that the government does its best to shore up the bottom two through direct assistance or regulation, while, the top three could be supported through providing public education and non-discrimination laws. I guess it doesn't really affect what we, who actually believe in good governance, expect the various layers of government to do, per se, but I can see how it could help shape public discussion around specific policies and their priorities.
  17. It's been a couple of weeks since I last posted an update. It seems like the number of new cases is diminishing (hopefully peaked), but at the same time, the geographic spread keeps increasing. Since my last post, the official list includes the following new counties: Carson (up by Amarillo), Collin, Hardeman, Rockwall, and Atascosa. Of course, there's also the Hays County one on the previous page. I guess they determined the ones in Denton and Scurry (posted a month or so ago) weren't linked to the Gaines County outbreak.
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  19. cachet (pronounced cash-ay): prestige cache (pronounced cash): hidden stuff
  20. I can't find any quote from her that would match but did a Google Lens search, and that screenshot appears to be from when she made an announcement about the State of Maine and Title IX stuff from a few weeks ago. It also seems you copy/pasted that image from Facebook. Given all that, it appears to be fake news. If it's a satirical account, okay. If not, stop following it or block it from your feed. Or, if you subscribe to the view that we should lie, that's also your prerogative, I suppose.
  21. Investigators are looking at why the boat was going in reverse and why it sped up toward the bridge. https://archive.is/4bmHY
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  23. What's the penalty for illegally seizing a building? Like, what would happen to me if I took over my neighbor's house and said it was mine?
  24. My gawd, this is all so fucking stupid. Energized by Kennedy, Texas β€˜Mad Moms’ Are Chipping Away at Vaccine Mandates A measles outbreak in the state has not stopped β€œmedical freedom” activists from pushing forward with their goal. They now have an influential ally in Washington: Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Rebecca Hardy and Michelle Evans helped found Texans for Vaccine Choice with a group of like-minded women in 2015, as measles was spreading in California. They defeated legislation tightening Texas school vaccine requirements, and helped oust the lawmaker who wrote it, earning a catchy nickname: β€œmad moms in minivans.” Now, as a measles outbreak that began in West Texas spreads to other parts of the country, the β€œmad moms” have a slew of new allies. The 2024 elections ushered in a wave of freshman Republicans who back their goal of making all vaccinations voluntary. But no ally may be as influential as the one they gained in Washington: Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s most prominent vaccine skeptic. More than five dozen vaccine-related bills have been introduced in the Texas Legislature this year. Last week, the Texas House passed three of them. Those bills would make it easier for parents to exempt their children from school requirements; effectively bar vaccine makers from advertising in Texas; and prevent doctors from denying an organ transplant to people who are unvaccinated. The Association of Immunization Managers, a national organization of state and local immunization officials, is tracking 545 vaccine-related bills in state legislatures around the country, 180 more than last year β€” evidence, the group’s leaders say, that Mr. Kennedy is changing the national conversation. After peaking at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, the number of vaccine-related bills had come down in recent years. But the big fear of public health leaders that began during the pandemic, and accelerated with Mr. Kennedy’s political rise β€” that states will undo school vaccine mandates β€” has so far not come to pass. β€œFor the 10 years that Texans for Vaccine Choice has existed, we have had a federal government that has been wholly irrelevant or working against us,” said Ms. Hardy, the group’s president. β€œWe’re excited about having individuals in the federal government who will actually cooperate with us. But what exactly that means, we don’t know.”
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