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But remember, we are told that kowtowing to Russia and bending over to do whatever Putin wants will make the world safer, and will help avoid war. Fucking up is down, light is dark, all the stupid shit.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Brisketexan replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
This is how you kill a company. Which is how you kill the financing vehicles and business ventures that depend on that company. Which is how you kill Elon as a billionaire. Sorry, Tesla owners. But it's literally a matter of national security. Get out while you can, because they are headed towards insurability, which is going to be helpful if we're going to have any chance of salvaging what's left of the Republic. -
Covid/Influenza/Black Death. 2024 and beyond
Brisketexan replied to Parliament's topic in Daily Texan
I mean.....the bolded demonstrates that RFK does not even grasp the most basic concepts of virology and the risks that viruses present. "Give a deadly virus near infinite chances to mutate into something worse" is.....not a practice recommended by anyone with an ounce of sanity. Because the virus WILL MUTATE. THEY ALWAYS DO. IT'S WHAT THEY DO. Some strains may be less harmful/easily transmitted to humans, others may be more harmful/easily transmitted to humans. You don't get to choose which, by the way. Virus gonna virus. Jesus fucking Christ this stupid fucking timeline. -
...they are doing the things that we're going to adopt to make the US more competitive with China. China....where they pay slave wages and don't have environmental laws. We're not fighting AGAINST China. We're fighting to BECOME China.
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I mean, not true. Plenty of us here bitching about WB's decline and how anarcho/amoral/immoral capitalism is killing it. What we have turned capitalism into is poison. I'm not anti-capitalist, so maybe I will "defend it," but I'll sure as shit say that capitalism unbound by the rule of law, ethics, or humanity is pure shit.
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No disagreement. In fact, GOLL and I were just discussing that issue -- our real-world observation of a plunge in ethics, civility, and decency among members of the Bar and the bench. Judges are increasingly treating the lawyers practicing before them with minimal courtesy. Conversations with opposing counsel that should be cordial, short, and agreeable, end up combative for no good reason at all. Etc. etc. ad nausuem. The point being, the poison here is not in PE, or the legal profession, or fast food restaurant employee policies -- it is an across-the-board social poison. Our dominant values are 1) extract all possible value for yourself, regardless of the cost, 2) fuck everyone but me, I got mine, 3) fuck you, I don't owe you anything, not even basic courtesy, 4) enshittification good, quality and ethical performance bad, etc. We have made gods of our worst nature, and deemed basic humanity and decency the devil incarnate. Once you do that....things are not going to go well.
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I hear you, and I surely have both a "visibility bias" (we see/notice the failures/crashes, we don't notice when things hum along at a functional level), as well as some personal experience with some cases (financial wheeler-dealer types putting together deals that were structured ENTIRELY to earn massive fees.....leaving the actual entity so burdened with debt that the amount of debt it was taking on had to include enough money to pay.....the payments on the debt, because otherwise, there's no way it could make the payments, and similar bullshit schemes that would have fucked over everyone, including the business.....while the dealmaker types and preferred investor types made out like bandits). I've just seen too much shit to ignore.
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Don't worry. We'll be "re-shoring" all of that mining, with the same level of environmental enforcement you see in China and Africa. That's how they want it, it's a key to making such activities "economically competitive" -- you just "remove all unnecessary regulation" (which is defined as....any regulation that costs money to comply with). I've never pretended otherwise when it comes to the costs of battery production for EVs -- it's why incentives have applied to account for harder-to-price externalities like reducing carbon emissions. Nobody reasonable is arguing that it isn't more expensive to produce an EV than an ICE car. We're just going to take care of that.....by reducing costs wherever we can, and you and I well know that complying with regulations -- including the most common-sense regulations you can imagine, like "don't dump your mining waste in the drinking water supply" -- cost money to comply with. Well, enough of that bullshit.
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But, I mean....y'all know what's NOT domestic terrorism? This: Y'all are already in a violent civil war. It's long past time you grasped that fact.
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Yep. We have shifted to becoming an extraction economy. That USED to mean we extract oil, gas, and minerals from the ground for profit. Today, we are extracting dollars from people, adding no value in return -- just like when we suck oil out of the ground, the ground doesn't get any benefit. Human beings exist to serve as sources of revenue at every turn. Extract the maximum amount of dollars from them when providing them with basic needs such as 1) food, 2) shelter/housing, 3) healthcare, etc. How much blood can you siphon out of their body? Note that the question is NOT "how much blood can you siphon out of their body while leaving them still healthy."
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"Longer term than one or two quarters" does not mean that it's not short-term thinking. Buy, extract all value in a relatively short time (a few years), leave behind an empty husk/sell off the body parts to recover your investment -- those are just some versions of the play. The play is NOT "buy and hold, and build it into a well-run, profitable enterprise that can be in business for decades."
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Remember, these are the very people who have spent the past DECADE repeatedly yelling about "child trafficking!" and "Pizzagate!" and all that shit.....but when it comes to verifiable, systemic kidnapping of children......they want to shut down an active effort to locate those children. It was NEVER about caring about children or human trafficking. Ever. Not even .0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001%.
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Yeah.....GOLL and I were actually discussing this just a couple of days ago (before this event, so creepy), when I told him that I felt it was just matter of time before I or someone near me kills a stupid lane-splitter. It's not legal here, but we have enough Cali imports I guess where it is super-common. And I almost hit one the other day on Mopac -- traffic is doing about 40 mph, gap in the lane to my right (and I will need to exit soon), so I start changing lanes, only I have to yank back to my lane because I first HEAR the revving motorcycle engine....barely get back into my lane as he flies by, lane-splitting, a good 30 mph faster than the flow of traffic. I easily could have clocked him, quite possibly killing him, and it would have been entirely his fault....which would have been cold comfort. The recklessness really pisses me off, and it's only getting worse.
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Well, see, here's the problem. Rural hospitals provide a much needed service that serves the public good. Not only are those bolded terms not valued any more, they are evil. They are an enemy that must be eliminated, because they are enemies of the only "good" we have as a culture: PROFIT. Think of all the conversations we have where people yell "the government oughta be run like a business!" That's fucking madness, because they serve two entirely different ends. Social Security does not and should not exist to make a profit. Neither should the FAA, or TXDOT, or the CDC, or....almost all other government entities/functions. They exist to fulfill a MISSION AND PURPOSE. In the case of your rural hospital, to provide accessible healthcare to our fellow citizens/human beings. Even when it comes to businesses, there should be some broad value in actually providing the goods/services that make up your business ethically, fairly, well, etc. See, e.g., the Costco model. The challenge for the bean-counter brain is that those approaches don't have a way to directly correlate them to "profitability." Things like "having good customer service," "delivering consistent value," and "standing behind your product" don't make for easy-to-read charts and graphs showing profitability (particularly from quarter to quarter, which is the only timeframe that matters). Yet, they are the very things that help build a long-term profitable business with loyal customers and the like. Across society, we are being crippled by 1) short-term, and 2) me, me, and only me mentalities. They are incredibly destructive, yet we have made them our gods, meaning that anything different, we have turned into the devil. We are killing ourselves and everything we love, everyone sees it happening, and nobody seems to be able to do anything to slow it down, much less stop it.
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Shitting on people for points in violation of the constitution is shitting on people for points in violation of the constitution. If the constitution doesn't protect one disfavored minority, it doesn't protect any. I would stand pretty fucking firm for the right of the student MAGA club to hold a demonstration demanding the deportation of everyone who wasn't at least 3rd generation American-born. Not just even though I find their position abhorrent, but BECAUSE I find their position abhorrent. "Public opinion" on a particular expression has zero to do with whether it is subject to constitutional protection. But don't worry, I'm a grown-ass man, and I fully realize that we live in a post-Constitutional Republic, and folks like you are just fine with it (your acquiescence is the driving reason WHY we live in a post-Constitutional Republic). I just think it's shitty, and I think that you're shitty.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Brisketexan replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
Yep. Even my wife has discovered him, and thinks he’s great. -
"You may have opinions and voice them, if the State approves of them." "Nevermind that the State is openly regulating and banning peaceful speech and opinions." "It's not bootlicking if they ban opinions I disagree with. That's just good government."
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America's Foreign Policy & Other Shit Going On Around the World thread
Brisketexan replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
Tell me where I got your take wrong here: roadblocks, "just asking questions," constant reminders of the burden of proof on any issue that would tilt things in favor of Ukraine's cause, vs. stanning, championing, and acceptance of almost every fact/take consistent with Russia's cause. You do not apply your skepticism/burden of proof takes evenly.....not even close. Laughably not even close. On the bright side, you've mostly shed your "both sides" cloak that you covered yourself in for years. So, my hat's off to you for that. -
America's Foreign Policy & Other Shit Going On Around the World thread
Brisketexan replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
Actually, I don't even understand why this is a subject of argument. Send the Statue of Liberty back to France, we clearly don't want it anymore. And we can just get things over with and replace it with what we clearly DO want: Y'all think I'm kidding. Again....I am not. The chances of us having a colossal golden statue of Trump in NY or DC within the next 4 years are better than 50%. -
I just love that the party that has controlled every aspect of Texas state government for over 30 years is launching an investigation into "fraud, waste, and abuse" of the very systems that they have had complete control over and ownership of for decades.
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Dude. You can learn to jerk off with the other hand.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Brisketexan replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
Counterpoint: the conversation is over. There is no longer any rational evidence-based debate involving Musk. He and the tools he wields are an existential threat, immune to argument/debate or even the rule of law itself. As many of us have warned over and over, when you opt out of the rule of law, you are necessarily opting into rule of the gun. It's a dumb decision to make, we really wish that these assholes would stop it, but instead, they push down on the accelerator even harder. Responses like the above are a natural and expected outcome of their choice. TLDR: don't opt in to rule of the gun and then bitch when the rule is applied to you. -
America's Foreign Policy & Other Shit Going On Around the World thread
Brisketexan replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
Didn't say you called it fake. What you did is place a typical impossible-to-meet burden of proof on any counter-view, and couch as gospel truth your views (that Ukraine and the West were asking for it, and poor Russia couldn't help it, really, Russia did the right and natural thing, and it has nothing to do with greed, imperialist ambitions, or seeing surrounding human populations as either expendable or a resource to be owned). Just own what you are. It'll be so much more honest. -
Oh, I have no doubt that Texas's most abundant natural resources is idiots and assholes, and we are fully transitioning to being a resource-only economy. But those particular Chicago assholes are indeed Chicago assholes who fucked up a place many of us loved. This is America in 2025 dude....."abundant assholes" is our brand.
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Yep. My wife and I recently drove by the flagship Whataburger on the bay in Corpus Christi (she'd never seen it before). At first, she commented wow, that's an amazing location. Then she got quiet, and muttered "fucking Chicago assholes." People who don't usually pay attention to this shit know that PE ruins everything it touches. Yet, we keep giving them MORE room to run, not less. There's a better than 100% chance that some sort of PE firm ends up functionally owning at least one -- probably more than one -- of our national parks within the next couple of years....as just one example of the giant shit sandwich we're all going to keep eating.
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