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  1. Just now, Biff Tannen said:

    The young frat kids in my neighborhood still have their Dipshit Moron sign in their yard.  Along with their F150 Raptor with the 1776 license plate.  It's just performative bro bullshit.  They have no idea how anything works.  Maybe they will get wiser as they get older, but I don't have a ton of hope.

    I just saw a poll regarding tariffs, and young working class white males had a favorable view of them. I suspect the neighbor dudes, if collegiate (in which white college educated males polled tariffs as unfavorable by a larger margin) may get wiser but it will depend upon how effective the GOP kool-aid is at dulling their brain cells.

    *The poll was conducted by Marquette and is available here:

    https://law.marquette.edu/poll/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/MLSPSC25PressReleaseNationalIssues.pdf

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  2. 6 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:


    Gen X equivalent - “Do you believe everything you see on TV?”

    We have failed to teach critical thinking for decades.

    Not wrong on that point at all.

    Encouraging young people to question and be a member of the resistance (to challenge, to learn, to try and figure things out) is tricky as it can play with our own insecurities, but it can change the world.

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  3. 10 hours ago, Goredho said:

    Bad Influence was worth the watch, even if somewhat predictably infuriating.  
     

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    No good guys, just greedy corporations, greedy parents and damaged kids.

     

    Agree.

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    The mother, Tiffany? She was, what's the word? Pathological? 70 cats, are you kidding me? If those parents wanted to get their kids out of there, hell just call the local animal control officers cause that was nuts. Swear there must be something in the water/clay in Georgia (no CR) cause that was one crazy manipulative woman.

    @Goredho--your comment about infuriating was so spot on. I can see parents getting sucked into this at first, but even for Corinne, the young dancer, that exited fairly early on, the experience was traumatic and it showed. I don't believe the doc filmers were encouraging the one-on-one interviews to be exaggerated and it was painful to watch these teens struggle with their memories and experiences. The children (when first starting out) do/did not seem (to me) to be motivated by money, just personality--it's like a video version of kids putting on a play in the living room in dress up clothes. Saturday afternoon rainy day play, you know? (sorry if that sounds old fashioned, but we did things like that with our kids because sometimes old fashioned isn't all bad). While the money wasn't the only thing that tainted it as the timeline progressed, it was obvious that it afforded "things" that were bright and shiny and new to many of the young people and their parents and the hook (we will totally wreck your world through social media if you turn away from this) was just devastating and despicable. Ugh.

    The least surprising thing was Tiffany having a pageant background with Piper that eventually ended in this influencer/video business. The pageant circuit was where she cut her teeth on how to manipulate and deceive others and sexualize young people.

    Besides Piper being stuck with her mom, one of the other outcomes was that the young man from Austin, Jentzen, is still estranged from his mom. Don't know if there is more back story to that in its own right. His parents ended up divorced, as the mother stated.

    Admired the young lady who was working at the industry from a legal perspective.

     

     

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  4. 9 hours ago, Firemans4Horn said:

    Apparently “anti-semitism” is the new catch all cudgel they will ban hammer people with.   

     

     

     

    Pick me, pick me, pick me!

    Elon Musk Pressured Reddit CEO During Moderator Revolt Over Nazi-Style ...

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    *Can't claim credit for Elon's appearance, some other internet denizen pointed it out....

  5. 5 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

    I really really think we are in a simulation. I mean come on. 

    I checked around, and one of the articles compared it to a Mao pin, but what hasn't been verified as accurate is whether HE is articulating it or the sycophants are doing this of their own accord. Either is just stunningly awful though.

  6. 6 hours ago, Ghost of NMAS said:

    10O% it will be vaccines

    An alternative outcome would be the reversion to the old belief that it is caused by the mother with the additional caveat that it is mothers in the workforce. That belief had some sticking around power for a long time until the vaccine stuff started.

  7. 18 minutes ago, gsoda3 said:

    Interesting insight on both points.  I've never heard west campus called wampus and I lived there for two years.  Do people call it wampus?

    I'd never heard of that term for it; although I was familiar with two of the hs wampus cat mascots: the Itasca mentioned above, and one in Atoka, OK because I used to drive past it when traveling. I got the nickname for west austin from an unsourced internet comment that was also unsourced on wiki (because I'm weird like that.) So no clue about when people were using that but perhaps it's more recent for the neighborhood?

  8. On 4/6/2025 at 10:20 PM, Firemans4Horn said:

     

    This is really hard to read. I mean I've heard of leading with the bad news first, so sure, listing that a toddler spent 3 weeks hospitalized (and was likely home sick prior to that) and then following it with the two deceased girls makes sense when the Secretary continues by adding the upside: 300 children who came down with a preventable disease survived because...well thanks to the quacks I guess? it reads like a typical late night ad for copper underwear so one's penis stays energized or something. But can you imagine if one sent out a similar text after Uvalde about the 17 injured and the 21 fatalities for something that also was, for the most part, preventable? Oh, well we had 600 students survive thanks to the extraordinary efforts of....geez, sorry I'm getting disheartened by it all. Since when did progress become a pejorative?

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  9. 2 minutes ago, gsoda3 said:

    ... Basically a mixture of mouse trap glue and fentanyl....There's been someone advertising a company called wampuszaza or wampusgreens in the bathroom stalls -  apparently a semi-legal source for drugs. 

    While I get the reference to west austin (wampus), this name (bolded) has an interesting crossover if the ingredient listed above is accurate 'cause a wampus cat trapping a "mouse" is next level genius.

  10. 1 hour ago, wildcat09 said:

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    What is that orange symbol supposed to be? A cross?

     

    Wooden Cross Marking a Grave Stock Photo - Image of grave, grass: 32241578

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    Chilling when one considers transporting people to one way destinations unknown for crimes, that are in some cases, rather nebulous.

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  11. 7 hours ago, texas08 said:

    Because we are living under a dictatorship…that’s why.

    When talking with others I've been referring to it as the regime.  It is not an administration, as that would require management and as far as I can tell, there is none, only chaos and dictates, so a dictatorship and/or regime (regimes can be democratic, but let's be clear that this is not the case based on the last 3 months).

     

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  12. 10 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

    TIL the libs of TikTok person is a chick. Somehow that makes it even more evil. 

     

    9 hours ago, bolverk said:

    Wait until you hear how the head of education for the State of Oklahoma has placed her on some blue ribbon committee for school curriculum or some other shit.

    TIL (after reading an article about her and the account) that she was a real estate agent. The simulation decided to stick with the plan on that one, lol.

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  13. Thank you, @bolverk for the update; Friday had 481 cases but easy to miss as I haven't been including the graphics.

    It's annoying that DHHS doesn't archive their updates and I suspect that is not likely to change given reasons I won't bother with at this time.

    ABC news had an article discussing the outbreak specific to the region (southwest/midwest) here:

    https://abcnews.go.com/Health/rfk-jr-claims-curve-flattening-texas-measles-outbreak/story?id=120554374

    and it goes into the likelihood of cases being undercounted, something with which most of us are familiar. Southwestern Kansas has seen cases increase, and again, given that region's lower population base, one hopes that will limit spread, but it's not a given. A Lubbock daycare had 7 children (many were too young to have been fully vaccinated) infected. That's alarming.

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  14. 9 hours ago, Firemans4Horn said:

     

    The female justices dissented. Guess Barrett suddenly realized she's not got the 'Y' gene necessary to count in this administration's future interpretations of the Constitution and its rights if she doesn't speak up.

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  15. 6 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

    A lawyer's spring break trip to the Dominican Republic with his family ended on a troubling note at Detroit Metro Airport on Sunday: He was detained by federal agents, questioned about his clients, and asked to give up his cellphone, he says.

    But Dearborn attorney Amir Makled, who is representing a pro-Palestinian demonstrator who was arrested at the University of Michigan last year, stood his ground. He didn't give up his phone...

    I was reading a little of this in the 'Papers please...' thread in DT. While Makled was successful in keeping his phone, I noticed the feds obtained his contact list. When agents questioned him about one or two names, IIRC, Makled stated only that they were his clients and did not divulge further. However, now that the feds have a list of names and numbers from his phone, isn't it probable that those in his contacts, regardless of status, can now be surveilled and harassed if they were not already? Seems like the government could easily make things quite uncomfortable for a legal reps circle of not only clients but friends and family. When word travels, as it does, then finding representation for future deportees becomes difficult.

     

    Intimidation tactics are not in the least fashy are they? /sarcasm

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  16. 15 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Triple jump and some of the field events should be outlawed.

    Disagree, but like much in youth athletics there are issues with lack of trained volunteers/coaches/officials and/or people that care sufficiently about ALL the participants and not just the stars. I will say that watching someone get hit with a discus is rather alarming.

    I used to time meets with 3 watches (one around neck, one in each hand) so that everyone (not just placers) had a recorded time so that could log their progress. Some students didn't have or forgot to bring a watch and while some coaches would pull other students over to time the slower runners, a lot didn't bother. When timing chips came on the scene that helped some, but their use isn't universal/widespread at all levels.

    7 hours ago, BJ Johnson said:

    I can’t believe we’re 6 pages in with numerous track parents and no one has mentioned how weird it is to hang under some other team’s tent at one of these meets.

    Eh, I clipped the rest of your quote because I can't speak to that w/o more knowledge but the part above isn't all that strange as it depends on the circumstances. Set up at some meets is not well organized, some stadiums are small and with inclement weather, not everyone can crowd under the bleachers. Cross country meets are worse for that as they are often held at parks, etc and if it's raining hard, it's quicker to stand in a tent than trek back to the bus or crowd into a teeny shelter. The McNeil Invite had a storm hit at their park during a meet and I thought I was going to need a tow and a new set of clothes before the drive back.

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  17. Anyone else watching Weak Hero Class 1 ? (Korean w/English subtitles for us). The bully(ies) picking on the weak trope, but for a quasi 'teen' show, not a bad watch thus far for some of the fight scenes, although:

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    The scene where the introvert victim finally loses it and beats the lead bully in the face with a textbook resulted in a broken nose for the bully, but make-up artist did not spray the young man's face with enough bruising. No way you're getting hit that much in the thin skin of the face and not be purple for the next week. I think it was cause he was a bit of a 'pretty' face and they didn't want to spoil it. Brat sure had it coming though.

     

     

  18. 1 hour ago, Willfully Horn said:

    Naming a naval vessel after Musk is really really bad luck. I'm only a little 'stitious, but the symbolism of a word that attracts predators due to its scent seems particularly ill-advised. Sailors need all the luck they can get...

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