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BehoId, The Underminer!

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  1. swift is amazing because she's been famous for so long and everyone said she's great since whenever. but it was like any other top act. clint black or foo fighters or whatever. but then in the last 2 or 3 years, it somehow morphed into just mass hysteria. my theory as to a big part of the puzzle: the parents are ok with it now, which typically is the curse for uncool for people, but here it has fueled 15 year olds doing huge outings with the blessing (and purse strings) of mom and dad. her last couple albums have been good and palatable for 40 somethings. now mom and dad get to feel like they've got something in common with kiddo that everyone can celebrate together, and the parents are excited about that and want to encourage it.
  2. From a certain perspective he is. “You are what your record says you are” — Bill Parcells Trump has sold an amorphous vision and gotten tens of millions of people to write checks to pay for it, knowing nothing will ever show up in the mail, knowing all it will get you is a giant antes of a future email asking for more money. While I have no desire to do that, I know that if I did, I know I’m not talented enough to do that.
  3. Just finished the (long) read. What was interesting to me was how NOT surprising it was. The whole thing was me just going “oh yeah, I remember that” over and over. All these crimes were out in the open the whole time.
  4. there are two very different types of country out there and they are very easily sorted into these camps, imo. one has kristofferson or bingham or jason isbell. one has nashville. very obviously distinguishable.
  5. people take the one big man and overlook the overall team. it's the los angeles angels flaw. one superstar does not a team make. i think they got it wrong with 20 pits losing to a bison, 20 wild dogs losing to a polar bear. maybe even 67 golden eagles losing to 8 jags.
  6. whether this is true or not: Article 6 “For the purpose of Article 5, an armed attack on one or more of the Parties is deemed to include an armed attack: on the territory of any of the Parties in Europe or North America, on the Algerian Departments of France, on the territory of Turkey or on the Islands under the jurisdiction of any of the Parties in the North Atlantic area north of the Tropic of Cancer; on the forces, vessels, or aircraft of any of the Parties, when in or over these territories or any other area in Europe in which occupation forces of any of the Parties were stationed on the date when the Treaty entered into force or the Mediterranean Sea or the North Atlantic area north of the Tropic of Cancer.”
  7. Ominous thing to think about from NYT. Russias economy is doing just fine.
  8. Our perceptions of who the good guys are if we invaded — and presumably nuked, otherwise we probably don’t win — someone that was an ally just days before might be different.
  9. Just saw this mentioned on Twitter so looked it up and it is true. The first four years that Randy Johnson was a D-Back where he was just an absolute fucking terror and won four straight Cy Young's -- that was on a four year contract. That has to be the best free agent signing in history.
  10. So many people — well off, educated, influential — feel comfortable now sending emails saying something not much more subtle than “are we sure we‘re wanting to hire a black person?”
  11. Big time Jerry lundegaard action at the Volvo dealership just now. Lovely purchasing process over the last month. Then come purchase time they take us to the back room and give us the extended warranty shot in micro-machine-guy speed talk throwing different plans coverage price etc. no tru-coat protection but she did say something about adding tensile strength to paint swear to god. It was so off putting. I just said “look this is designed for us to have as little time to think about this altogether after a month of looking at this deal. We’re not going to do anything here.”
  12. My favorite from texags was they were pissed about Angela Merkel letting in immigrants from some middle eastern country or something. They were of course irate. Someone made a post “Merkel really is the worst chancellor Germany has ever had.” Hundreds of stars from fellow imbeciles. <norm> Now, I’m not sure how many of you are history buffs but … </norm>
  13. I’ve said before that Texags is just a troll farm and not representative of the school and student body, but it still shocks me every time and legitimately affects my opinion of the school. I have three kids and I’ll do whatever I can to keep them from going there, and I’m sure it’s largely from the impression Texags has made on me. And that’s a top public school! It’s like, maybe it’s logical, maybe it’s not. But do I want to risk that my kids will end up thinking like them?
  14. i send them $5 a month. it's some of the only real journalism we have left in the state. https://support.texastribune.org/donate?installmentPeriod=yearly&amount=50&campaignId=7016f000002GvJmAAK
  15. i love the movie. it shows me what i feel like is the truth about war and about wwii specifically that i'd have no other window in to. but your screen shot isn't that wrong either. i think you lose something when you go from the first scene -- everyone is anonymous, you don't know any characters, it is just absolute confused chaos hell, there is no greater meaning or subtext to anything any soldier says or does -- which communicates something about the war being 'real.' it ends up being lost once you get character arcs. they end up in a big action scene together. you have heroics that feel a bit hollywood like. you have story elements like steamboat willie being the guy that shoots tom hanks. the coward guy ends up being redeemed by shooting folks at the end. all of that seemed a bit too 'story' to me. but, it is an unbelievable look into wwii in any event. any you can't have a movie without movie elements, so it feels weird even mentioning it, let alone dinging the movie for it, i know.
  16. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. If you’ve got the lower levels met you are really only concerned with the higher.
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