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  1. 49 minutes ago, Pancho said:

    We’ve glossed over many things these last few years, but we can start this thread with this:

     

    Would like to read more detail, background and context about this. If it’s as straightforward and cut-and-dried as the tweet portrays, that’s horrendous.

    But you have a sensationalist history of posting clickbait that is dishonest, so forgive me for casting a skeptical eye that this is what happened at face value.

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  2. Just now, henrygandorf said:

    i don't know anything about patreon.  i don't know anything about onlyfans except the name.

    it came up in an episode of siesta key.

    But I bet our boy BrickHorn knows about all these things, and more.

    Joking aside, I mostly agree with you on this season, would say;

    Season 1: A+

    Season 2: C+ 

    Season 3: Seems like potential with pieces set up to be B or higher?

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  3. 21 minutes ago, mr. sunshine said:

    Eastern Promises. I’ve seen it more than once and kind of dig it although the knife assault on naked Viggo makes my junk feel sympathetically vulnerable.

    Hey no gay jokes here 

    I saw this movie once many years ago and remember really thinking it was dark and awesome and from time to time I think to myself "I should watch that again" but never end up doing it. 

  4. Just now, Pig Bellmont said:

    Agreed, but I honestly don’t understand Nate’s entitlement. He didn’t “earn” anything. He had no experience coaching. He was a towel boy. He has any career managing only because of Ted. They made him a villain, but the justification for hating Ted was weak. 
     

     

    Yea i assumed that there was off screen justification being there, like he was a GA and came up through the ranks and bled and sweat and cried for the team or whatever, but mostly because he is the X's and O's mastermind and lives the game where as Ted is a dumb yank football coach, I guess?

  5. Good season finale. Loved the Ghana rant, that was hilarious.

    I think the guy who acts as Nate has killed it this season. His character sucks and his turn has been mostly hard to watch, but he's played the role and part pretty awesome and emotionally I believed his little whiny incel mentally ill tear-stained F-you Ted Lasso you are a joke and I have earned this! bit at the end.

    Also he looks like a little north korean dictator at the end which was fitting and if he really owns the baddie role and can graduate from his mewling cowardice, I think we have a nice season 3 set up with Rupert/Nate vs Ted/et al.

    Roy continues to be lame to me so I don't care that he got all sad and thought they were breaking up, which they will next season, but I think that was supposed to be poignant. I'll let people who have bought into Roy as an interesting character weigh in on if that landed for them or not.

    But most of all, I miss @BrickHorn. He was the best part of this thread and the real MVP of the mostly inferior Ted Lasso Season 2 which saw it decline in originality and interestingness but had a few episodes where some of the magic shined through like diamonds that glittered amongst mostly broken glass.

    BrickHorn rules; I'd probably pay a subscription to read his reviews every week for season 3 if he has to be paid to be pulled back into this thread.

  6. 11 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Yeah, I don't like hearing that.

    It's no surprise because Musk comes from software world, Google in particular, which has done more damage to the US patent system than any entity in our history.

    There are some peculiarities about software and that whole environment that make software geeks disrespectful of patents and other traditional business norms.  I could go on about this for pages, but I won't.  Suffice it to say that it's not because software is the bellwether of some new economy with new rules, but more that it's an immature industry that hasn't been confined by more traditional business norms.  Soon enough, it will play by the rules most others do, and the industry will regret its anti-IP stance.

    I also disagree that the Big 3 lacked any technology.  They just lacked the will to lose the money associated with evehicles when they can sell the shit out of trucks and trucklets.

    Read it for yourself. This is a pretty dang visionary statement to make in 2014. Heck, it would still make you look smart and forward-thinking in 2021:

    All Our Patent Are Belong To You

    Elon Musk, CEO June 12, 2014

    Yesterday, there was a wall of Tesla patents in the lobby of our Palo Alto headquarters. That is no longer the case. They have been removed, in the spirit of the open source movement, for the advancement of electric vehicle technology.

    Tesla Motors was created to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport. If we clear a path to the creation of compelling electric vehicles, but then lay intellectual property landmines behind us to inhibit others, we are acting in a manner contrary to that goal. Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology.

    When I started out with my first company, Zip2, I thought patents were a good thing and worked hard to obtain them. And maybe they were good long ago, but too often these days they serve merely to stifle progress, entrench the positions of giant corporations and enrich those in the legal profession, rather than the actual inventors. After Zip2, when I realized that receiving a patent really just meant that you bought a lottery ticket to a lawsuit, I avoided them whenever possible.

    At Tesla, however, we felt compelled to create patents out of concern that the big car companies would copy our technology and then use their massive manufacturing, sales and marketing power to overwhelm Tesla. We couldn’t have been more wrong. The unfortunate reality is the opposite: electric car programs (or programs for any vehicle that doesn’t burn hydrocarbons) at the major manufacturers are small to non-existent, constituting an average of far less than 1% of their total vehicle sales.

    At best, the large automakers are producing electric cars with limited range in limited volume. Some produce no zero emission cars at all.

    Given that annual new vehicle production is approaching 100 million per year and the global fleet is approximately 2 billion cars, it is impossible for Tesla to build electric cars fast enough to address the carbon crisis. By the same token, it means the market is enormous. Our true competition is not the small trickle of non-Tesla electric cars being produced, but rather the enormous flood of gasoline cars pouring out of the world’s factories every day.

    We believe that Tesla, other companies making electric cars, and the world would all benefit from a common, rapidly-evolving technology platform. 

    Technology leadership is not defined by patents, which history has repeatedly shown to be small protection indeed against a determined competitor, but rather by the ability of a company to attract and motivate the world’s most talented engineers. We believe that applying the open source philosophy to our patents will strengthen rather than diminish Tesla’s position in this regard.

  7. 4 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

    I see donkey is embracing postmodernism again, huh?

    I've said no less than 4 times that I am empathizing and seeing the situation through the eyes and shoes of others, these deplorable people who decry and protest what they think is CRT (despite it not being so, by technical definition).

    I've also stated that, like our friend hpslugga, I reject postmodernism and agree with his assertion that the best thing about truth is that it's immalleable.

    Since you brought it up, here is a humorous thought:

    We know for a fact that these same people (people like them) decried and hated Postmodernism first, in the 70's, when progressives and academics and colleges were teaching it. Yet now it is the lens through which they see the world!

    The greatest irony of all is that the most likely outcome for CRT will be the same: in 30-40 years when the aggrieved white person deplorable who hates CRT today is the minority in the future, CRT will be something they advocate for as a tool to try and retain a voice and be seen as they fruitlessly try to stop from being drowned out and quieted as the demographic wave engulfs them.

    It's actually quite poetic and beautiful, in a way.

     

     

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  8. 5 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    I think musk's biggest advancement in his businesses is simply returning to "first principles" engineering, rather than using decades-old processes for determining requirements and evaluating decisions. I honestly don't follow Tesla that closely, but his work with SpaceX has been revolutionary "building the machine that builds the machines". It occasionally bites them, but by and large, has been the secret to their meteoric rise.

    They can easily make significant design and process changes without significantly impacting production velocity. SpaceX 3D prints their fucking rocket engine bells and fuel tanks! They are on the cutting edge of industrial design and processes, and they have a good track record of making the right long-term decision

    I watched a video today that said one of the biggest impacts Elon has had is that he came around to the idea that patents are landmines which actually stifle growth and innovation and creativity for moon/loonshots. People like @TwiceHorn probably hate to hear that, but that's the idea.

    In 2014 he decided electric vehicles are a great way to help the environment and nobody had the abilities or technologies, and that he can help by essentially making it open source and so he opened up his patents to be used by all knowing that the huge announcements and gains (and valuation and market caps!) we've seen of Ford, Stellantis and GM of 2021 would not have been the same because they didn't have the resources (people, technologists, etc. in 2014) for their programs and would not have made the heavy investments.

    Back in 2014 when he did this less than 1% of the market was electric vehicles compared to today. That's pretty visionary IMO.

  9. Didn't see this posted (SIAP):

    This is the first year Trump was not included in the Forbes richest people in 25 years:

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2021/10/05/trump-misses-forbes-list-first-time-25-years/6009431001/

    Former President Donald Trump was not included on the annual Forbes 400 ranking of the wealthiest Americans – the first time he hasn’t made the cut in 25 years.  

    Forbes reported the former president is worth an estimated $2.5 billion, which is $400 million short of the cutoff to make this year’s list.  

    Trump’s wealth is down $600 million since the start of the pandemic, according to the outlet. The drop is largely a result of big-city properties, which make up much of Trump's fortune, taking a hit during the pandemic.  

    Trump ranked 339 on the list in 2020, down from 275 in 2019. 

    Trump had made the list every year from 1996 to 2020. He also made the list every year from 1982 to 1989.  

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  10. 9 minutes ago, Lobo said:

    Facetiousness aside, there's no way she doesn't try to latch onto this announcement in some form or fashion.  I'm very curious as to what her play will be on this.  

     

     

    Over/under to when Fitlump is the new Grimes.

    A lot of you will burn when fitlumpkhaleesi is a half-a-billionaire and remembers how some of you people treated her!

    Continue to underestimate her at your peril: 

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  11. 4 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Coming back to this.  I got the appraisals.  Well, the full appraisal of our property and a summary of the appraised tract values from my uncle-in-law's estate that cousin was using to question the current appraisal.

    So, to check the "accuracy" of the current appraisal, I did a couple of things.  First, our forester has property listings on his website.  Every timber property in the relevant county is selling for more than the current appraisal's per acre price.  Not all of that property is comparable, some is.

    Second, and possibly more importantly, uncle-in-law owned a tract very close (one section diagonally away, so about 1.5 miles), that appraised substantially higher than the current appraisal.  All of the rest of his property is at least one township away.

    So, I am very comfortable relying on the current survey.  Using that, I can round down just a little bit and get a number that I am totally comfortable with.  A nice round number.

    Now, the question becomes, should I "offer" something higher in anticipation of a lower counter-offer?  Or try to say it just doesn't make financial sense at a lower number?

    I would think it's poor form to treat family like a commercial deal with strangers and haggle and bake-in points you can give to get. Just say, I've thought about it and while not completely in love with the idea of selling, $XYZ is my number, best and final, and that is with some familial consideration because I love you/the family. Then add-in a pressure valve statement of like, "no pressure or obligation to you if that doesn't work for you, we can continue as is and no hard feelings-- I totally get it if you think that's a bridge too far."

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  12. 55 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

     

    I didn't mean homeschooling per se.  But if you're a hardcore creationist (white supremacist), feel free to teach your kids that we don't subscribe to the theory of evolution (civil rights) and do your best to explain why your family is like that.  You're parents, for fucks sake, they're your kids, teach em how you want em taught.

    Leave the rest of us alone to get educated.

    And, I think I disagree that education is wholly failed.  I grant that it fails a lot of students, from racial minorities, to economically disadvantaged, to flat morons.  But, due to home circumstances and innate lack of talent, that is always going to be an issue.  It may be made worse by underfunding and moronic social agendas, but the problems with those groups are intrinsic and difficult even with proper funding and without moronic social agendas.

    In other words, while Trumpkins are dumb and gullible, an improved education system would not eliminate them.

    Goes back to brisket's and my big question:  What are we going to do with the morons?

    Are you implying that a creationist is a white supremacist? or are you just giving two extreme examples? I'm confused as to what you mean there.

    Otherwise to your question, I'll spoil my response because it is probably off-topic and a derail and I want to keep others on track with replying to you and the direction of the discussion as you are taking it

    Spoiler

    this is why I'm a huge Yang Gang guy, three words: Universal Basic Income. We pay the morons and otherwise well-meaning but lazy or low-skill people to stay home and paint or craft or raise kids or watch tv or whatever and get out of the way of those who want to roll up their sleeves and create and build and do. UBI, baby.

     

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  13. 2 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    It depends on the company, but a company's HQ moving may have little impact on any locations' economy. Some HQs move and it's a relatively small crew that is in the new city. Add the fact that most progressive companies are embracing WFH, and they could care less where you live. 

    However the opposite happens and every employee is forced to move or accept losing their job.

    If an announcement is "Gone to Texas", that means nada without more detail. 

    I don't think it means nada. At the very least it means that Texas is getting the tax base versus California, in this case, for the corporate taxes (if any are actually paid after creative accounting).

    It also means that the "culture wars" clickbait of the OP was not sufficient enough of a deterrent to make the move, which is something and not nada, in today's world where optics are very important and market moving.

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  14. 21 hours ago, Beantown Express 2.0 said:

    NBC literally just did a story about how Wall Street hedge funds and private equity are buying up the housing market throughout the country with cash offers well over asking and then renting the houses out.  They showed some neighborhood outside of Nashville where like 35% of the houses were Wall Street landlords.  I am guessing Zillow might be doing the same thing.  The whole story was how regular people can’t afford to buy houses with all of this PE money being used to snap up all the houses on the market.  They showed one firm that now owns 81000 homes nationwide and rents them out which means the home equity wealth people try to accumulate now goes to the rich guys on Wall Street I guess.  

    And not only that but PE firms are buying up whole tracts of homes from Pulte or KB or Toll Brothers, etc. (production, mass builders) and adding them to their portfolios, getting these houses at the source now versus buying gently used or later model homes from the original homeowners.

  15. 25 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:

    Not being burdened by excess information, I feel qualified to shoot my mouth off.

    Seems like taking an established business, and moving it, is a pretty big damn deal that you wouldn't do unless two things match up:

    New place has to be better, and old place has to suck.

    So if the story's about Texas, that's only half the story. Could it not be that some places that sucked for business, are starting to suck less? I'll hang up and listen to the screams.

    Regarding your post; it is both things. California sucking at something AND Texas offering something:

    "It’s tough for people to afford houses, and people have to come in from far away....There’s a limit to how big you can scale in the Bay Area,” Musk said at the company’s shareholder meeting yesterday.

    A new report projected that the median price for a home in California will reach $834,000 in 2022, after growing 20% this year.

    And Silicon Valley is even more expensive: A house in the metro area has a median price of $1.7 million.

    Advantage Austin (until it becomes too expensive and another upstart city starts disrupting Austin, in however many years that takes).

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    Tesla’s relationship with California hit the rocks last year. Musk railed against the state’s Covid restrictions in spring 2020, when he was forced to halt production at Tesla’s plant in Fremont. He even called Alameda County’s Covid restrictions “fascist” on an earnings call.

    Musk personally moved to the Austin area from Los Angeles to be closer to his other two companies, SpaceX and the Boring Company, both of which have operations in Texas. Also a consideration for that move: Musk has an eye-watering compensation package tied to Tesla's performance, and if he chooses to sell his options he would have a much lower tax bill in Texas than in California.

     

    Elon Musk (and other famous, celebrity CEO's/founders/billionaire's) have ample reason to fight for one side of the "culture war" as the OP called it, which is to say, for the maximization of wealth through lower taxes.

    Everyone underneath an SVP for those people and companies, however, might feel differently. But it does makes sense why Tesla, Oracle, Hewlett Packard, just to name a few since COVID-19, have moved HQ's to Texas...

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  17. 11 for me.

    Last one I went to was 2008 and seared in my memory still is the feeling and the noise and being able to actually see a collective psyche and emotion manifest into a physical state as Jordan Shipley crossed the 50 yard line on that kick-off, crescendoing until he crossed the goal line.

    It's one of the memories we all have that are permanently tattooed; the synapsis cemented and not to be replaced or eroded. 

    Excuse me while I go watch the youtube video and reminisce some more...

  18. On Wednesday morning, before the proceedings, Judge Davila called a juror into the courtroom to discuss Buddhism. The juror, an older Asian woman, said she had become increasingly distressed about the trial. Her Buddhist practice is centered on love and forgiveness, she said, and it would be difficult for her to vote to convict Ms. Holmes. The juror said she could not follow the judge’s instructions to avoid thinking about punishment.

    “What if she had to be in there for a long, long time,” she said, her voice breaking. The juror said she would blame herself.

    Lawyers from both sides agreed to dismiss her.

    The replacement juror, a young woman, had her own concerns. English was not her first language, she said. “It’s her future,” she said of Ms. Holmes. “I could make a mistake.”

    The juror said she had understood all of the proceedings thus far. Judge Davila did not allow her to leave.

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