LCHorn
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Viewing Topic: Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Helobious Is Getting Those Wrists Ready For Heavy Work
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30 Coins
I’ve had this on my list to watch forever because it seemed like a Spanish “When Evil Lurks”, I’m a sucker for religious horror and I’ve been a little underwhelmed with my most recent forays into serialized frights (Evil, Castle Rock, From). It sounds like this is a little campy, maybe like Evil (for those that have seen it), is that right?
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The France Thread
It’s a pretty crazy story, I was just there pretty much all afternoon on Thursday and was up and close with the jewels. The whole place is incredible, as is just the logistics of moving thousands of visitors through the complex daily. Best part, in my opinion, are the exhibits featuring items from the Levant, Sumeria, and Iran, including enormous stone decorations and statues from the palace of Darius. Also a huge collection of Egyptian antiquities that included more sarcophagi than I’ve seen in one place. Also very cool is the old moat underground from the original fortress that preceded the palace. Most disappointing absence is anything related to French medievalism (besides the moat)-no tapestries, no armor or weapons (there’s some ceremonial armor in the French wing but it’s the only set), nothing about the Franks or Charles Martel or Charlemagne. I’m sure there’s another museum for that among the hundreds here.
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The France Thread
Wrapped up 3 days in Paris, in Aix now and for three days then back to Paris for 2. Had dinner at Septime yesterday evening (I took pics so might do a recap later) but TL:DR it was a little underwhelming for a top 30 in the world restaurant (short version is the wine pairing was the highlight). For @PenelopeWitherspoon, I don’t know if you ever made it to Le Servan but it was just okay (my wife enjoyed both of these meals more than me, fwiw). Best meal so far was P1 Bouche in Montmartre for lunch. Everyone here is slender, handsome, and smokes a lot. Also, zero athleisure.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Point of order-I don’t know a whole lot about French colonialism, but I’m pretty up to speed on the East India Company and fathering children was super common in Hong Kong and in India. It wasn’t until the dissolution of the company and the transfer of power to British colonial administrators that the British starting bringing over their families and not finding local companions.
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One Battle After Another, the next Paul Thomas Anderson film
Phantom Thread is #2, for me, as well. It’s so focused, kind of the anti-Magnolia and the ending is sublime. It also plays well as a metaphor for the film makers process and antisocial behaviors.
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Rewatch of Deadwood
I loved Deadwood, but everything with Brian Cox and the theater troupe is a beating.
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Trump’s America
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Trump’s America
There’s a Politico interview from a couple of days ago (found it) that left the impression all of the major tech leaders are gigantic assholes if given the space and freedom to remove themselves from such parochial concerns as concern for fellow humans.
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Arch Manning: Scores every way possible
I don’t think this is ridiculous at all, in fact it’s probably the most vital debate of our time. Also, I’m on team Joy Division=punk.
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Task (HBO)
Don’t wait, it’s pretty intense in a way that rewards the weekly roll-out.
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Task (HBO)
I feel like something is off with the math on this show-if you have the ability to move $1m worth of widgets that presumably command a big margin in the market, it would seem like the members of the motorcycle gang would have professionalized more than they have. At least in The Wire we see they have financial and legal professionals backing them up. Over here we got Perry and Jayson on their own trying to find $1m worth of fentanyl? I’d have every member of the crew, their wives, kids and cousins scouring that river in scuba gear.
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Texas O-line talk
I appreciate seeing the improvement, but it’s important to remember that’s what we SHOULD be seeing in game 6 in an area in which unit play is built on experience and continuity. I still think there’s a need to upgrade talent, coaching, and possibly offensive system. Aggie just managed to grind out 34 points, 4.4 yards a carry, zero sacks, zero TFL against the same front that destroyed our line to the tune of 6 sacks and 7 TFL’s.
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One Battle After Another, the next Paul Thomas Anderson film
He’s pretty ripped for 65 (probably a combo of testerone and HGH but whatever)
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Florida Gators
Huh, that’s what a drive like looks when you have 8 consecutive plays of positive yardage….
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WTF is with hotel prices?
I think you're noticing that the parts of the economy with the most price elasticity are those serving consumers most vulnerable to inflation. Hotels are increasingly chasing after the same smaller number of higher income travelers and the math of fewer travelers at higher rents pencils out for them.
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2025 - 2026 Astros Offseason Thread
Not really the best place to find them-there’s a lot more Colton Gordons than Bryan Woos sent to Arizona and most teams are protecting their top prospects arms after a long season.
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Will UT Bend the Knee?
I'm not convinced that there's any real merit for UT to enthusiastically reject it. If it were up to me (particularly since Abbot isn't going to stand up to Trump), probably the right play is to make public a somewhat tepid statement of support and then proceed with business as usual. Protecting Higher Ed intellectual diversity or independence is like #75 on my list of priorities in the face of an increasingly authoritarian executive. Also, reading Marc Rowan's op-ed in the NY Times today was a good reminder that the problem truly is as simple as "billionaires are bad".
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City of Austin Prop Q (city tax increase)
For the record, this feeling is valid and I’m in support of continuing scrutiny here. That said, the actual amount spent on homeless support (and excluding bond money devoted to affordable housing that might also help provide housing for the homeless) is such a SMALL part of the budget. We’re talking 1500 beds, and that’s 1500 people NOT sleeping on sidewalks or living in tent encampments and making garbage mountains along shoal creek. It’s food for people that would be panhandling more aggressively otherwise, and pretty much every dollar being spent in this regard is supplemented by 3 or 4 dollars in private money to expand the support. I think there’s been this really bad sales job done on the left that makes tax payers feel they are getting a raw deal. Unless the state is going to involuntarily commit them (and cover the expense), homeless people are a byproduct of a society with very few social safety nets, and in which mental health treatment is mostly left to the individual, and along with a level of access to drugs that appears to be almost impossible to curb. It’s a negative externality of the economic system we’ve chosen and they won’t magically disappear if we decide to vote against prop Q. TL:DR What we spend on the homeless is some of the best dollar for dollar value we get as tax payers AND comprises such a small part of the budget that canceling it entirely won’t result in the savings needed to forgo a tax increase.
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City of Austin Prop Q (city tax increase)
I'm a little torn and leaning to voting against. On the one hand, I have to hold my nose a little less supporting city expenditures* as they support the services our family utilizes the most, they are mostly well-managed, and there's a lot less fat on the bone than critics in the city of Austin Daily Texan thread would presume. *this is in comparison to AISD and Travis County expenditures That said, I think when only Marc Duchen is voting against the tax increase it's strongly indicative of a path of least resistance undertaken by the rest of the city council/mayor, and I think it's time for Austinites to push back on tax increases overall. It would perhaps push the city into thinking more thoughtfully about development as a mechanism for increasing tax revenue and not default into "let's just put up a tax increase".
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Katie Porter is a very bright woman
I understand you're being a little somewhat tongue in cheek, but I think the "he's an asshole but he's our asshole" voter is an exaggerated faction. Even amongst MAGA voters, I think it was the "he gets us" that resonated more than the wrestling like heel promo language Trump employs. Just don't ask me how Greg Abbott or Dan Patrick earns support; those two confound me. It reminded me of the Christian Bale Terminator Salvation rant, which was quite a bit longer and more fun: Christian Bale loses his shit
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Katie Porter is a very bright woman
Too old. That’s not as bad as the push for a 77 year old Janet Mills to run against Collins in Maine but there needs to be an implied, “we’re not running someone older than 60 unless they’re an incumbent” rule.
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Katie Porter is a very bright woman
Sorry, I’ve quoted you twice now on the subject, but it’s partially because your comment was so asinine. We generally understand that Trump’s bloviating is because he’s a moron with a persecution complex and has to walk around threatening people or he’ll be revealed as the insecure, small and petty person he truly is. I don’t think it’s unfair to apply that same scrutiny to Team D, in fact the presumed clear-eyed values of the party demand it.
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Texas O-line talk
Just for the record, I feel like the histrionics that surround losing (“fire everyone!!!!!!”) aren’t particularly productive or rational (not that they need to be, we’re fans). That said, I think it should be pretty standard to look to upgrade over your worst performing unit every year with new management. In this regard, Flood looks a whole lot more like McWhorter than someone we need to making excuses for. Also, if Banks can’t coach better discipline from the punt team and the punt returner (and it’s not like TE play is exemplary) then it’s time to upgrade there, too.
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Overrated Food Places
Would you say you’ve never seen a sole soul there?