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Dbeasy

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  1. Spent the last several days in Nebraska with my relatives from there, including a former coordinator at Wyoming. They are downright giddy about Rhule, and sense major change in the program.
  2. Non cash write down of an intangible asset value, most likely associated with an acquisition that is no longer worth what it used to be.
  3. This is really shocking and deeply concerning.
  4. I think you might be just a little too bitter about the world. It’s bad, but not that bad everywhere. There are still some people with integrity out there. But I do have to admit I’ve been complaining that it’s hard to find them these days.
  5. To some extent, yes, but I’m talking about a focused effort to seek out and find these nut jobs as their main business strategy. At least Jobs was a psychopath who actually did care about building cool products.
  6. I’ve been reading a book about the history of WeWork, and had a major revelation. Despite having worked most of my career in startups and with or for VC firms, I never realized that the top VC, Wall Street, and PE firms purposely hitch their wagons to massive narcissistic, serial lying, grifting, psychopaths. Why you ask? Because they know that the business leader will spout such outrageous garbage publicly that it will spin up just like a Ponzi scheme. That way the investors can all dump their shares on unsuspecting buyers/investors and get out before it all come crashing down. You watch, at the end of all this, he and his money buddies will have made a fortune, and someone will be left holding a big bag of doo doo.
  7. This is an incredibly interesting post. And it tells me that fate is inevitable. Basically Texas would have hired one of these failures and been back in the market again for Sark.
  8. Any skepticism about the existence of aliens in the universe that is built upon the foundation of earth’s knowledge of science, physics and technology is laughable. For all we know, we are looked upon by other civilizations as barbaric cavemen with the intellect of a walnut. We may not know shit about time and space, materials, energy, electrical phenomena and other key topics that are used as evidence that alien life doesn’t exist and hasn’t visited us.
  9. Whoever told Biden to wear sunglasses a lot was a genius.
  10. My dad while he was alive would video tape Cubs games every day. For years. He never watched them. He wasn’t a Cubs fan.
  11. Just want to call back to 70 days to kick off. I’m in a tiny diner in the middle of nowhere Nebraska and this was on the wall.
  12. Now that I’ve seen a picture, I’m no longer interested in this story.
  13. It just rolls off the tongue doesn’t it? Welcome.
  14. Why is that? I figured less cooling area it would be easier.
  15. I’ve never advocated the use of retard so yet again you’re wrong. There is no both sides argument here. It’s all wrong. To knowingly be a hypocrite on this topic tells everyone exactly who you are as a person.
  16. I really want to like Donny because he’s probably been one of the hardest working guys in Ticket history, but I find his shows pretty boring. They need to find the right pairing for him. If they can make Simple George work, Donny should be easier.
  17. I see the offenders just continue to dig a deeper and deeper hole, rather than just admit, for once in their life, that they are wrong and pledge to do better. Greg Abbott is a terrible person, but when you use that slur, you disparage all of those in wheel chairs, just like fatty, n word, slant eyed, etc. It is the continued use of the term that reinforces the use of it.
  18. It’s amazing to see people try to defend their “hot wheels” slur and unconscionable behavior by trying to couch it in terms like “context”. Racists everywhere would be proud of the pretzel bending logic. I think I understand the rules now, and have developed a handy useful guide for those of you blissfully unaware of the proper conditions for disparaging those with a disability, or really anyone with an affliction of some sort. The Politically Opinionated Person’s Guide to Disparagement and Slurs 1. Does the person have something about them physically or ethnically or race related you can make fun of? Fat? Minority? Disability? Yes! Check. Go to next step 2. Is there a strong historical significance to the slur or disparagement? No. Great, check. Go to next step. 3. Is it a person you disagree with or believe is a bad person? Yes! Check. Go to next step. 4. Is the slur witty? Yes! Check. You may use “hot wheels” and other compliant slurs, AND continue to fight for justice for all the other people with afflictions other than what you chose to disparage. I’m so glad we were able to clear that up.
  19. I have no idea what point you are trying to make. The point I was making is that people are making fun of disabled people by calling them hot wheels, while at the same time being outraged at others who make fun of or disparage others. It’s incredibly hypocritical. To put it in terms people like this can better understand, it’s like saying its acceptable to call a black person the n word as long as you believe they are a terrible person. Can you really not see how that is wrong and hypocritical?
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