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Everything posted by bolverk
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Texas -- a failed state
I agree 100% with all that, but here's the thing. Many of the Mediocre Mikes of America are absolutely confused about what it is. They think DEI is the same thing as affirmative action. Just a couple of weeks ago, I had to explain to...wait for it...my buddy Mike that DEI is essentially an outreach thing, not a quota thing or even a hiring-preference thing. It just means casting a wider net to capture potential candidates from groups that aren’t traditionally considered for interviews in job applications. He's just fed a constant stream of bullshit from Fox and all the weirdo podcasts he listens to while driving his truck around the oil patch. His response was "Well, I guess that's alright." He's not a bad dude, just poorly informed. The same goes for the whole CRT thing. They don’t realize it basically means to recognize "institutionalized racism" exists, a term that olds like us have always known. I'm not sure what he thought it meant, because he couldn't define it. And, again, I said as much to him, and he was all like, "Oh." I'm pretty sure that's why all the conservative commentators use these vague, jargony academic initialisms rather than what the shit actually means. And I understand, because I fucking hate it when people start using alphabet-soup speak as if I would know what the hell shit like EMBM means. Sure, it's a great shortcut if you know what it means, but most people don't, so it's an automatic turnoff to the uninitiated.
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So this is interestin'... Births are lower than they've been since the late 1970s
I can't even imagine why he'd bring it up in the first place if "it ain’t the reason you’re seeing that many less fewer [births] though."
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Русский корабль - иди нахуй
Walloon or Flemish?
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Wordle [spoilers inevitable but discouraged]
@Craftywidget @Rudy Rutabaga Impressive deducing! Wordle 1,644 4/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #922 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🙂 Daily Quordle 1425 4️⃣8️⃣ 7️⃣5️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/
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NFL Week 16
Buddy of mine just posted this to a group text. Watch the ref. VID_20251218_225639.mp4
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
It was a different time, place, and political environment, but I'm reminded of the mid-1990s when the GOP governor of California (Wilson?) went all-in on the immigrant hate stuff with help from the state assembly, of course, which really pissed off the state's Latino community. Someone can certainly correct me, but if I recall correctly, California Hispanics at the time had been much more willing to give Republicans a shot at the ballot box before all of that. I want to say that I read some voting analysis a while back that once California Latinos turned their back on the GOP after all that anti-immigrant stuff and never looked back, that was the moment California began its shift to the solidly blue state we think of today.
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So this is interestin'... Births are lower than they've been since the late 1970s
I feel the same about Hungary. She looks disgusted, but also a bit bemused. I bet she's into some really kinky shit.
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So this is interestin'... Births are lower than they've been since the late 1970s
I think the appeal lies in their being composites that create facial symmetry and smooth out (erase?) any signs of deformity, illness, idiosyncratic shit, other particulars, etc. Plus, the "models" are all supposedly the same young age (youth has its own inherent beauty), and I have no idea how they were selected or how many faces were used in each composite. Also, there aren't any fatties because there aren't any Americans. Are we still giving out grants to academics? Because I'd happily volunteer to update this study to replicate its findings, for the science, of course.
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BOOM MOTHER FUCKER - Will Muschamp's Triumphant Return
- So this is interestin'... Births are lower than they've been since the late 1970s
This was done about 12 years ago. It includes many of the countries y'all are arguing about and figured it'd be good for some Surly science. FaceResearch.org has published the results of a recent experiment where experimental psychologists at the University of Glasgow in Scotland have combined the faces of women around to world to approximate the "average face" of each country. Using a modern version of the technique that Sir Francis Galton pioneered in the 1800's, multiple images of faces are aligned and composited together to form the final result. https://fstoppers.com/portraits/average-faces-women-around-world-2944?page=2- This Guy Got Knocked The Fuckkkkk Out
Indeed💯- Wordle [spoilers inevitable but discouraged]
Wordle 1,643 4/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩⬛🟨⬛⬛ 🟩🟩⬛⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #921 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🙂 Daily Quordle 1424 4️⃣5️⃣ 6️⃣7️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/- Wordle [spoilers inevitable but discouraged]
Wordle 1,642 3/6 🟨⬛🟩⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #920 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🙂 Daily Quordle 1423 9️⃣8️⃣ 6️⃣5️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/- Tell me about Texas Tech
If aggy had any say at all, Texas Tech wouldn't even exist as a university. Texas fans can get all haughty about shit, but they've never been "genocidal" when it comes to West Texans getting edumacated.- Wordle [spoilers inevitable but discouraged]
Kinda looks like a Hook'em. Wordle 1,641 4/6 🟩⬛⬛⬛🟩 🟩⬛⬛⬛🟩 🟩🟨🟨⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #919 🟪🟦🟦🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🙂 Daily Quordle 1422 6️⃣8️⃣ 4️⃣5️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/- Charlie Kirk got ded, Erika Kirk grifts in place
Hahaha! Please, tell me this was intentional, I miss the days when conspiracies were fun, like the mysterious spate of unexplained spontaneous combustions plaguing the nation back in the 1980s. It always seemed to happen to people living in trailer parks for some inexplicable reason. 🤔- Diego Pavia - The Chihuahua that thinks he's a Mastiff
Growing up in West Texas, I basically saw Clovis, Hobbs, Portales, and Lovington as extensions of West Texas with yellow license plates. All of them are still on the Llano Estacado. New Mexico, at least to me, doesn't really take hold until you cross the Pecos into Carlsbad or Roswell. And that meanness you describe seems characteristic of small towns across that region. Where'd you go to high school?- Wordle [spoilers inevitable but discouraged]
Wordle 1,640 3/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟩⬛⬛🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #918 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🙂 Daily Quordle 1421 5️⃣7️⃣ 4️⃣6️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/- Wordle [spoilers inevitable but discouraged]
Wordle 1,639 4/6 🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩⬛⬛⬛🟨 🟩🟨⬛🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #917 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🙂 Daily Quordle 1420 4️⃣8️⃣ 6️⃣5️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/- All things SNL
I actually enjoyed that Wickline thing. Thought it was pretty clever and maybe the best thing she's ever done on the show. Now, I'm not saying it was great, but this is all relative to low expectations.- 2025 LA Bowl - Washington vs. Boise State
- 2025 LA Bowl - Washington vs. Boise State
- Sherrone Moore's Michigan Meltdown - Staffers, Breakups, Extortion, Cover-Ups, Firings, Knives, Assaults, Breakdowns, Arrests
I'm not really in an argumentative mood, but you could easily take out in color descriptors, and all of this could still be true. That said, I don't think you're necessarily wrong. However, to your point about specific racial preferences, there's more data on him. For her, we only have one data point. So that shifts the argument slightly back toward the overall power dynamic. I absolutely agree that it's one consideration to include within the overall decision matrix.- 2025 LA Bowl - Washington vs. Boise State
- 2025 LA Bowl - Washington vs. Boise State
- So this is interestin'... Births are lower than they've been since the late 1970s
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