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  1. I don't think so. The closest to what you're describing might be Rice, but they're not exactly a competitive rival, especially one that Texas plays annually.
  2. It could be for recruiting/exposure reasons up in the northeast. Dunno. It could be that one of his parents worked at Reese AFB and got relocated to Tinker.
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  4. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/climate/epa-emissions-data-collection-halt.html The Environmental Protection Agency moved on Friday to stop requiring thousands of polluting facilities to report the amount of heat-trapping greenhouse gases that they release into the air. The E.P.A. proposal would end requirements for thousands of coal-burning power plants, oil refineries, steel mills and other industrial facilities across the country. The government has been collecting this data since 2010 and it is a key tool to track carbon dioxide, methane and other gases that are driving climate change. The Friday announcement comes as the Trump administration has systematically erased mentions of climate change from government websites while slashing federal funding for research on global warming. β€œAlongside President Trump, E.P.A. continues to live up to the promise of unleashing energy dominance that powers the American dream,” Lee Zeldin, the E.P.A. administrator, said in a statement. β€œThe Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program is nothing more than bureaucratic red tape.” Mr. Zeldin said that ending the program would save American businesses up to $2.4 billion in compliance costs. The New York Times could not independently verify that claim; representatives for E.P.A. did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Critics said the proposal could hobble federal efforts to fight climate change, since the government cannot reduce emissions if it cannot measure how much is generated and where it is produced. β€œWith this move, they’re taking away the practical and material capacity of the federal government to do the basic elements of climate policymaking,” said Joseph Goffman, who led the E.P.A.’s air office during the Biden administration. For the past 15 years, the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program has collected data from about 8,000 of the country’s largest industrial facilities. That data has helped guide numerous decisions on federal policy and has been shared with the United Nations, which has required developed countries to submit tallies of their emissions. In addition, private companies often rely on the program’s data to demonstrate to investors that their efforts to cut emissions are working. And communities often use it to determine whether local facilities are releasing air pollution that threatens public health. The E.P.A. proposal would not directly eliminate emissions reporting requirements for certain oil and gas facilities such as pipelines that transport natural gas. That’s because those reports were required by Congress as part of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act. Instead, the E.P.A. wants to allow those specific oil and gas facilities to postpone emissions reporting until 2034. Congressional Republicans already delayed a related requirement for the facilities to pay a fee on their methane emissions until 2034. Representatives for oil and gas industry trade and lobbying groups, including the American Petroleum Institute, did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The proposal follows a rapid-fire series of steps by the Trump administration to weaken or dismantle environmental protections. In July, the E.P.A. moved to repeal the scientific finding that underpins the government’s legal authority to combat climate change. And in recent weeks, the White House has directed a half-dozen agencies to thwart the country’s offshore wind industry, a key source of emissions-free electricity. Under the 2015 Paris Agreement, the United Nations has required all developed countries to provide data on their domestic emissions each year. But the United States missed an April deadline to submit its data, and Mr. Trump began the yearlong process of withdrawing from the Paris pact on his first day back in office.
  5. "Adios. This is my last post. You people are sick." -- Frank Drebin (fka Johnny Sack)
  6. "There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs...we sat in the Korova Milkbar trying to make up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening. The Korova milkbar sold milk-plus...which is what we were drinking. This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultra-violence".
  7. Man, Squid Billy ain't gonna do shit but sit in that cell and watch each and every one of those fuckers get kilt off. His big ol' eye is feastin' on some serious eye candy. This is some kind of cinematic spectacle for that creepy motherfucker.
  8. I'd never heard that particular slur before.
  9. I see it as a turning point, too, in making American politics that much dumber and uglier. FOX News didn't yet seem to have a whole lot of sway at the time or even leading up to it, but that channel really took off in the aftermath with all its plastic patriotism and sloganeering. It was a real catalyst for mainstreaming Christian nationalism and revved up the hate engine.
  10. Wordle 1,545 4/6 β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ©β¬›β¬› πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #823 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ πŸ™‚ Daily Quordle 1326 5️⃣4️⃣ 7️⃣6️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟨 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 ⬜🟨🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
  11. Explain how citing Leviticus 20:13 and calling it "God's perfect law" is peaceful.
  12. Gotta admit that the end of the episode left me chuckling at all the stupid decisions, and then closing with that wonky-eyed sheep staring into the audience’s souls while fading to black. Felt like dark, dark comedy.
  13. Oh, I’m mournful, alright, but not for that asshole. I’m mourning for what his life, and now his death, mean for our country.
  14. Β« L'enfer, c'est les autres. Β» ~Jean-Paul Sartre "Hell is other people."
  15. Those frosty margs at 45th & Lamar sure are nice and tasty.
  16. I said it in one of the threads: We've got boiling pots calling steaming kettles black. Meanwhile, our feudal techlords and billionaires are laughing as they divide us citizens into subjects and serfs. That's the plan.
  17. So fucking what? Do you believe in black magic and evil curses? Or are you just trying to stir the pot? If you'd actually read your article, you'd have come across what's in the screenshot below. Did you post content that you haven't actually reviewed, solely based on a headline you came across, or are you intentionally trying to deceive us?
  18. We've got a boiling pot calling the steaming kettle black. Meanwhile, our feudal techlords and billionaires laugh. Divide and conquer citizens to make the rest of us subjects and serfs.
  19. I haven't seen anything other than Speed's post above. While the video is from a distance, the zoomed-in still frame makes it look like the bullet passed through his neck.
  20. So, we can all see the next logical steps in the hellish timeline, right? Maybe not in this exact order, but I can see folks getting fed up and starting to protest moreβ€”maybe a little more lively this time. Maybe ICE/LASD/LAPD dudes instigate shit. Maybe it gets more violent, and a crackdown comes. Maybe some dudes know a guy who knows a guy, and eventually get a hold of some military grade shit from the cartels or their domestic suppliers from the US. Maybe they decide to use some of that shit for domestic terrorism purposes. Maybe none of that happens, but the feds false-flag some shit like the Empire on Ghorman as a pretext for a *real crackdown* on Hispanics. Maybe everyone starts to (well, even more than Montgomery County types) associate Latino brown skin like they do Middle Eastern brown skin with terrorists. Maybe the story this time is they’re aligned with those evil cartels down in Mexico. Maybe that’s always been the story about the cartels; they’ve been trying to destabilize America all along with sleeper cell street gangs in their quest for the Reconquistaβ€”fireworks across northern Mexico, the American Southwest, and beyond. Congrats, we’ve destabilized ourselves, intentionally, with a paranoid conspiracy theory. Who will be our savior? Who’s the only one who can fix it? What do Fox, OAN, and Newsmax say? What do Rogan and all the other podcast bros on the payroll of our feudal tech lords say? What do our white nationalist evangelical leaders say from the pulpit? Who can stop this chaos? Will SCOTUS or Congress stand in the Chosen One’s way?
  21. Items one might find on a Chinese McDonald's menu. https://www.thetravel.com/mcdonalds-food-china-only/ Spam And Oreo Burger German Sausage Double Beef Burger Sichuan Double Chicken Burger Coca-Cola Chicken Black And White Burgers Japanese Beef Bowl Congee
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