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  1. 14 minutes ago, pacman said:

    "Hotly contested" - Biden smoked Trump by 74 electoral votes. Hundreds of losing and tossed out court cases don't make anything hotly contested. It just shows a very poor loser.

    "Bitter" - why would the winning candidate be bitter?

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    It's projection, because he would feel vindictive in that position. 

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  2. 5 hours ago, Rimbo said:
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    ACKshually, the plan was for Jessica's daughter to be the mother of the Kwisatz Haderach, a boy who would be the first man with Mother Superior's ability to see all the past AND the future.

     

    Mother Superior jumped the gun

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  3. 26 minutes ago, UT_OB1 said:

    I think he was very unhappy with what he perceived as being done in JFKs name 

    That seems like a bit of projection to me, Herbert's interviews about the book make it seem like he was in more of a literary conversation than a contemporary political one

  4. 16 minutes ago, troph said:

    I think it’s pretty simple really, social media and video games are fun and easy. Next thing you know the girls not only aren’t interested they don’t even know you exist. Then the self reinforcing doom loop begins

    Social media and video games are junk food. Feel good, easy, fun, but you are gonna have a rough time if you're living on it

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  5. 4 minutes ago, royiv said:

    Christ on a cracker, don’t bring guns into this discussion. Talk about a derail if there ever was one.

    Maybe he's making the point that if a single person had an AR-15, TXDPS would have been too terrified to do anything and camped out for a few hours instead of teakettling the students?

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  6. 5 minutes ago, NorthLoop said:

    I like how the guy who bragged about only banging drunk chicks was chastising the other guy for banging 16 year olds. This thread delivers.

    Hey hey hey let's try and be accurate here! The dude banging 16yo's when he was 20 also bangs drunk chicks 

  7. 13 minutes ago, tomahawk dunk said:

    When Musk entered the EV Thunderdome, Tesla was the only game in town, interest rates were at 0%, and most of the country was convinced he was Iron Man. Since then, China has become an EV power player, legacy automakers have been trying to get a cut of the action, debt has become more expensive, and half the country has started to think Musk is Lex Luthor. Things have changed, and Tesla's leadership needs to change along with them or get left behind.

    Musk isn't Stark or Lex Luthor. 

    He's Justin Hammer

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  8. Also news update: Hartzell backpedaling is in full swing 

    https://www.kut.org/education/2024-04-26/ut-austin-protest-arrests-campus-ban

    Students arrested at UT Austin this week will be allowed back on campus for any purpose, a university spokesperson said, reversing earlier statements.

    The spokesperson, Brian Davis, had said students charged with trespassing during protests would not be allowed on campus. Two hours later, he said those affiliated with the university could come to campus for "academic reasons," including to take final exams and study.

    Later Friday evening, UT Austin sent a statement saying students would have complete access to campus. People arrested at the protest with no connection to the university are still banned.

    Davis told KUT students arrested during the pro-Palestinian protest could later face discipline, including restrictions to campus access. The university said it typically doesn't send these kind of notices during finals so students aren't distracted.

  9. Just now, 'stache said:

    For the record I’m generally against precluding those speakers based solely on the content of their hate speech, same here, the hypocrisy is fucking maddening. It’s a fucking constant from that side, one set of rules for them, and another for “others.” So for that alone, Abbott wheel lickers are scum of the earth.

    It's almost like they want to be protected by the law, but not bound by it. Ya know, totally normal things for a Liberal Democracy 

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  10. 5 minutes ago, ztejas said:

    Thanks - I'll quit digging before I get part 3 spoiled. I had seen the 1984 Dune awhile ago but didn't really remember any of the details in how everything plays out. I didn't know the Baron was his grandfather or whether he wins the knife fight or not or that he doesn't marry Chani. Obviously I haven't read the books.

    Herbert wrote Dune as a direct criticism of the fantasy trope of "the main character is the one true good guy who can right the wrongs", and is ultimately a cautionary tale against messiah figures. So I don't think Dune: Messiah is going to be a happy story as Paul and the rest of humanity learns the cost of walking the golden path

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  11. 23 minutes ago, Celery Man said:

    And those communities have gone from being the sideshow to your real life to the reverse for many people - they begrudgingly go out and do what is required to keep their meat vessel operating before they dip back into the metaverse. It is normal for these dudes to talk about not getting laid and accept not having a “normal” full social life because they are constantly surrounded by others like them in the place where they primarily exist.

    Nevermind the wholesale destruction of the "third place", there's just not that much opportunity for in person interactions anymore. Younger folks (<35yo) are pretty terrible at RSVP'ing and following through, and I really wonder how much of it is carryover from just not having much personal time anymore. 

    It seems like most jobs that are available to younger folks either have an incredibly inconsistent schedule if you're hourly, or demand ALL of your time ALL of the time if you're salary. That mindset leads to fuckin exhaustion and burnout, and burnt out people tend to not give a shit

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  12. 18 minutes ago, BehoId, The Underminer! said:

    I’m concerned about an acquittal.  He’ll get huge “I just win baby” momentum out of it.  The base will be fired up. 

    Yeah thankfully the criminal trial is going pretty poorly for trumpco. The judge sustained multiple objections against the defense during their opening arguments, and just yesterday were spanked by the judge for being intentionally misleading to the jury. 

    That doesn't do great things in a jury trial

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  13. 7 hours ago, ztejas said:

    I guess it's an interesting thought experiment. Like did the bene geserit just happen upon what would actually come to pass and create a narrative for it or did they sort of will it into fruition?

    Narratively the entire reason for the Bene Geserit is to put humanity on the "golden path" by creating the ultimate leader, the Kwizatch Haderach (definitely spelled that wrong). And it turns out that it overlaps pretty heavily with the Fremen religion that the BG seeded and the Liasn al Gaib 

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  14. What a crazy coda to the Chernobyl story

    https://www.kyivpost.com/post/31734

    We knew it was probably the case when it was happening, but the Kyiv post put out a story on how the ivans occupying Ukraine simply were never told about Chernobyl. So they happily dug in trenches into the toxic ground, and cooked over campfires burning radioactive wood. And they marauded through all the houses and buildings and looted a ton of incredibly radioactive souvenirs

    “They stole some decorative deer antlers from an (abandoned) Police Department building. They had been hanging on the wall there since 1986 and they were so irradiated it was just a disaster. Probably it was a gift to some general. So someone (member of the Russian occupation force) hung it over his bed….the Geiger Counter goes off the scale,” Galushehnko said, in comments reported by the LB.UA news platform.

    All because the truth was again kept from their people

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