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Dbeasy

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  1. iOS 26 goes me so much anxiety in safari. The tiny little search bar is a pain in the ass.
  2. I still don’t understand the extreme negativity regarding Texas right now. In retrospect, they played too conservatively against OSU and some things didn’t go their way. Arch hasn’t looked great but is looking better. This team is building momentum like an F5 tornado in Norman. In a few weeks we will be destroying good teams.
  3. Guy Ritchie is the best Director in the world. Fight me.
  4. 8 guys on a text chain. Not only was there not one text about the game, ALL 8 didn’t watch the game. We all had other stuff to do. Suck it, Jerry.
  5. The Aggies best football is always a bye week.
  6. I just booked this cruise for next year. Excited about going.
  7. Out of grad school I was hired by a company with an accelerated management program. It was a large company and there were only 12 slots each year. They hired at more than 12 different schools. They finally had to drop Harvard because the graduates were either too ineffective or too entitled to succeed.
  8. Terrific post. I’ve found that reviewing history not only helps identify ways to resist, it helps reduce some of the anxiety about what’s happening today. When I watched a show about Teddy Roosevelt successfully took on Rockefeller, Carnegie and other mega rich people to get America back on track it gave me hope a figure could emerge to lead the reforms against the current billionaire class and grifting crooked politicians, ie President.
  9. I can’t watch the game tonight, and it puts me in a bad mood when that happens. So to avoid that, can someone please type out in real time what is happening on every single play on the game thread?
  10. Baron von Steuben. He also introduced the bayonet to the Americans. It’s how they countered the fact that British could load ammo faster.
  11. This happening at A&M isn’t good for anyone in the state of Texas. It’s yet another demonstration that right wing nut jobs are in control of the state. And that means the State is no longer a welcoming place for LBGTQ, foreigners, minorities, and others who helped make Texas a great place. The talent is leaving. The talent is deciding to not come here. Brain talent, trade talent, and eventually it will include sports talent. The success of the United States was built on the backs of people of all types. When you shut them out you shut out success. Did any of you right wing nut jobs realize that a gay ex-Prussian officer was responsible for training the American revolutionary army to beat the British. He was one of the most important figures in the history of the United States in terms of making the American military competent.
  12. Those of you saying that booing doesn’t help weren’t at the sporting event where we as fans made a huge difference. The first part of the game they were playing terrible, so we booed them mercilessly. And you know what, in the second part of the game they really came around and played much better. In fact even my 3 year old was able to hit it off the tee.
  13. What about the bribes UAE paid in crypto to Trump for access to AI chips? I assume there is nothing that can be done legally about it, and I guess the public doesn’t care?
  14. Ignore the Texas hammer. He’s one of the dumbest people on the planet and you can’t educate the stupid. You have to get other people on the right side of this issue and then the morons like hammer will follow because they can’t think for themselves. They’ve been brainwashed by disinformation. Forget him. He’s worthless.
  15. I’m inspired by Clara Luper who almost single handedly improved Oklahoma City civil rights, while doing it peacefully. If you can get a bunch of dumb ass racist Okies to change, then it ought to work elsewhere.
  16. The Arab Spring a long time ago was Facebook driven as well. It’s the disinformation that’s ruined social media.
  17. As someone who was you a few years ago, you are wrong. Go look very very closely at what you are doing and you’ll will find you can access it. I can’t remember the exact thing I was doing wrong. It was confusing for sure.
  18. Most of my friends are at best deeply concerned, and at most despondent, about the current state of the country. Most are not Democrats or Republicans, just people that want an America that lives up to its values, or at least tries. To date, many have tried to block out the noise of politics while doing the little things they can here and there to try and help get the Country back on track: voting, attending rallies, etc. But it just isn’t working and the morale of people is getting really bad. It seems like we are reaching the point where something significant has to be done by the silent public, to not only effect real change and accountability, but also to help pull people out of their deep mental hole. What is the right action path forward? Anything that is based on just getting behind Democrats will fail in my opinion. They’ve proven to be so ineffective, they kill any momentum. They also have certain viewpoints that will never be supported by enough people to get control of the government. The actions need to be party independent, well thought out, permanent, continuous, and impactful. I’ve thought of a lot of different ideas, such as the creation of organizations that combat all of the disinformation, but frankly the situation is so serious and so big, all of us feel helpless. Is there something that can be done? We don’t want to live like this for the next 20 years, nor do our families. Right now the solution for several of my friends is to live in Europe. They are headed out. For many reasons I hate that. I’m not the type of person to run away from a fight.
  19. Subscribing to YTTV still puts money in ABC’s pocket, but I guess it’s better than subscribing to the Disney, Hulu package. I’m rolling off Uverse this week and was planning to get the Hulu Live ESPN package. I will switch to YTTV as at least a tiny protest.
  20. I continue to realize I over-estimated the intelligence of about 70% of the people in this country. His x post is incredibly stupid. It’s obvious the corporations are trying to steer clear of government abuse.
  21. Just upgraded iOS and see the same reaction borks mentioned above.
  22. Pass through costs are just starting. Here is just one example: coffee. https://dailycoffeenews.com/2025/09/15/u-s-coffee-prices-soar-at-the-supermarket/ why has it taken awhile? Mainly, Trump has been starting and stopping tariffs for months. Then, companies tried to do a temporary coverage of the tariffs hoping they would stop. Finally, it takes awhile to burn thru inventory. Declaring victory over tariff inflation is very premature. However, declining demand from a worsening economy can also mute inflation. Not the right way, but a way
  23. I can’t watch the game this weekend, so it would be good if someone else could watch for something. I stated in the SJST game thread, and repeated here afterwards, that in pre-game warmups he was winding up and releasing his throws faster than I’ve ever seen a QB do that, to the point where it seemed like a drill. It was Uncle Rico like. It would be great if some early arrivers to the game could watch him in warmups to see if he does that again.
  24. That’s ridiculous. Sark is taking over as coach of the cowboys in two years and wants to make sure Arch is available at pick number 4, so he’s purposely destroying his mechanics for this year and next year.
  25. This is an under-rated post that deserves more accolades.
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