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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Ghost of LL replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
The whole article is worth a read: The shocking thing about this article isn't necessarily the ignorance. It's the malevolence: "I'm not going to put my child at risk to save yours." Leaving aside the fact that there is functionally zero fucking risk, the out-and-out unwillingness to help the community in any way is remarkable. But then it's coupled with the inevitable persecution syndrome. "We're being unfairly blamed for bringing disease." I mean, yeah--because you did bring disease. There's nothing "unfair" about it. Between the ignorance, the malevolence, and the persecution syndrome, these people are a menace to society. If there's one thing I can agree with this Administration on, is that they be cut off from the federal teat, which is the only way they survive. Let them catch measles. And whopping cough and diphtheria, while they're at it. Cut off their Medicaid. Their hospitals will close. But that's ok--they'll have plenty of snake oil to keep them kicking. And along the way, we can cut off their SNAP and their farm credits and everything else. A century ago, their ancestors in that part of the state died of disease and starvation. We made a mistake in eradicating those two particular horsemen from riding roughshod.- 9931 replies
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Ghost of LL replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
"Demon." I mean, obviously. -
I don't think there's a company out there that is going to suffer from the extinction of the Boomers quite like Harley Davidson.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Ghost of LL replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
Here you go--the election results from Oklahoma County, Oklahoma (where Tinker AFB is sited): Oklahoma County is about as blue as Oklahoma gets. Now you want to really hurt some MAGAts--go after Vance AFB in Garfield County. -
Well, I mean--yeah. But at the same time, the Europeans have the F-35. The South Koreans have the F-35. And it doesn't take just a whole lot to reverse engineer it (and that's assuming Lockheed Martin wouldn't just license it out). But beyond air power, I think the Ukraine War has shown that we're facing an entirely different battlefield than the one for which a lot of our best shit was built. I'm not at all certain that we have the best drones. And I'm definitely not sure we have the best cyber-security. And to the extent we presently have the best of either, the state of the art is advancing so quickly that we could easily be surpassed by a new challenger.
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And apart from the foreign-policy wisdom of that statement (which I think is non-controversial), there's also an economic justification for it. Let's just be real honest right now--the German economy aint looking so great at the moment. It has been stagnating for roughly a decade. And a rejection of free trade by the United States and others is going to disproportionately impact Germany, which has an economy that is heavily reliant on manufacturing. But therein lies the rub and something the United States figured out a long time ago: a manufacturing-based economy can be boosted by defense spending. Actually, Germany figured that out a long time ago, too. We just made them forget it. But between Thyssenkrupp and Airbus and Rheinmetall, Germany has the industrial base that it can really boost its economy with a significant rearmament program. And while the SPD would have some real reluctance to do that for historical, ideological, and corruption-al reasons (looking at you, Gerhard Schroeder), the CDU doesn't share that handicap.
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The insatiable demand for "more football" is why I think CFB is going to become a spring sport as well as a fall sport. It already kind of is, with the last two rounds of the playoffs crossing into the spring semester. And it's not like we don't already have other sports that cross from the fall semester into the spring (e.g., basketball). Have the regular season go 12 games. Great. But build in two bye weeks. That still puts championship weekend around the second weekend in December. Bowl games for the teams that didn't make an expanded playoffs. And then a four-round playoff starting January 1. A bye week between each round. And during those bye weeks, have a series of inter-conference "challenges" for teams that aren't in the playoffs. That takes you all the way to the beginning of March Madness. There's just too much money involved and too much demand for spring football for someone not to provide the supply. College football would be stupid not to do it. And I don't believe for a minute that the likes of Greg Sankey are stupid.
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The Dallas Stars 2024-2025 Season Thread: Win Now, Talk Later
Ghost of LL replied to Longhorn_Fan68's topic in Other Sports
I still can’t figure out how those penalties all worked out. -
Odds have now dropped to 0.3% after the latest observations. Maybe next time, folks.
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I gotta tell you--I have four close friends or family members who have lost their jobs over the past three weeks. Even in the depths of the Great Recession, I don't remember anything like that.
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And that's just at the goddamned 7-11!
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Ghost of LL replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
I'm sorry--you expected subtlety of a guy who dressed up as Pedobear to troll Penn State fans at their bowl game? Look, brother--I bring a lot of things to the table. Charm. Wit. An encyclopedic knowledge of late medieval English history. A 9-inch schlong. That's why your mom loves me. But subtlety? Yeah, man--that's not my bag.- 9931 replies
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Ghost of LL replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
I happened to be at a function recently with Mrs.LL, and I ran into @South Austin. I asked, "so how's your mom?" Both Mrs.LL and Mrs.SouthAustin were very confused.- 9931 replies
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That's the tip of the iceberg. The South Koreans definitely have to be jonesing for the bomb. And don't think for a minute that the Japanese are going to sit by and not have a nuclear bomb if the Koreans have it. The concept of non-proliferation is dead. Fucking Armenia will probably have a nuclear weapon by 2030. I mean, they'd be fools not to.
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I'm not arguing with you. At the same time, it looks like the FAs and a couple of other pax who were already outside the plane had everything under control and were providing all the assistance anyone needed. And at that point, aren't passengers coming out of the plane just best served to get the fuck out of the way? And in the course of getting the fuck out of the way, they ought to keep their heads on a swivel so they don't get run over by emergency vehicles as happened with the KE 777 that crashed at SFO some years ago. I don't know that that necessarily means you ought to put your fucking phone away, . . . but yeah--probably a good idea. In any event, and going to the issue at hand--wind at 270 isn't much of a crosswind when you're landing on Runway 23. It's a bit of a crosswind, but it shouldn't account for that roll to the right.
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The Stars' Finns sure made it interesting there at the end.
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Yep--that's exactly how Ukraine should deal with this. Sign on to whatever deal is needed to meet its immediate needs with absolutely no intention of ever fulfilling its side of the bargain. Because that's exactly how Trump deals with the world. So you might as well deal with him on equal terms.
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Apart from everything else, the French and British are showing that they sense an end to American hegemony, and it opens an avenue for a Franco-British alliance to take over as the primary players running the Western Alliance. Their play is to put troops on the ground and expect that will turn the weight of the fighting in short order and force Russia to seek an armistice. And in so doing, they basically remove the United States as the driver of Western security going forward. It’s honestly a good play. Ukraine has softened them up. Now the Brits and Frogs get to come in and get the credit and benefits of the big win just like we did in 1918.
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There is the First Nations shop in Montreal where they sell all the furs that they’re permitted to take by treaty. It’s just incredible. Even if you’re not into furs, it’s worth checking out just to see the wild selection.
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Longboard Horn's Thread for Restaurant Employee Hilarity
Ghost of LL replied to DoobieWah's topic in Food and Travel
Mrs.LL and I have had long discussions on this. She has vastly more restaurant experience than I do, but we're both pretty familiar with the practice. And while there are no "rules"--everything is just an ad-hoc determination--there are some patterns that you can discern. Soups, pastas, and other dishes in which the customer is going to have to dip a fork or spoon that s/he is continually eating off of back into the food--that shit is right out. Pizza, sandwiches that the kitchen cuts in half before it hits the table--if there's a whole slice of pizza or a whole half a sandwich that is left behind, that's absolutely free game. French fries, chips, and other things that get handled one-at-a-time--yeah, those are generally free game. But cold french fries are gross. And the reality is that the customer's hands are rummaging through that pile of fries/chips/fried whatever, and that's kind of gross. But at the same time, if you're a college student, eating a fried shrimp that someone's hand brushed past is far from the grossest thing you're going to do today, soooo . . . . Things like half a steak or a chicken breast that the customer would've used a knife to cut slices away with the fork only touching the piece that is being cut away and going straight into the mouth (leaving the remaining portion of the steak untouched by any mouth-touching utensil)--this is a real gray area. If there's the filet half of a prime porterhouse that's left sitting on a plate untouched, I'm eating it. No question. The gold mine is the to-go box that the customer leaves behind. -
I am so bored by this game.
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Do people eat platypus eggs? Because I bet they’re yummy.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Ghost of LL replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
And apparently now Musk's people are at FEMA and looking to shut it down. Which is going to be great when the next hurricane hits the Gulf coast.- 9931 replies
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CEO of UHG Shot and Killed in NYC - WTF is wrong with you New York
Ghost of LL replied to Bevo's topic in Daily Texan
The TCPA doesn't place a higher burden on the plaintiff to prove malice. It just creates a procedural mechanism for a defendant to get a quick dismissal and recover fees. And theoretically, it shouldn't be that hard for a plaintiff to get past a TCPA motion. All the plaintiff has to do is show a prima-facie case of every element of its claim. But in the defamation context--the malice element that you identify is going to be the tough one to show prima-facie evidence of. I mean, you do get some expedited discovery, but . . . yikes. I don't know if that answered your question. I'll also say that I didn't see whether this was filed in federal or state court. I assume it's in state court. But I think the Fifth Circuit has decided that the federal courts won't apply the TCPA because it is a purely procedural mechanism (though I could be waaaay wrong on that--beware the old lawyer who says "I think I remember a case that says . . . ."). -
CEO of UHG Shot and Killed in NYC - WTF is wrong with you New York
Ghost of LL replied to Bevo's topic in Daily Texan
This looks ripe for a Texas Citizens Participation Act motion to dismiss. The TCPA is the anti-SLAAP statute in Texas, and it lets a defendant file a motion to dismiss a suit that arises out of the defendant's exercise of the right to free speech, the right to petition the government, or the right to association. It's a pretty draconian statute, because if the case is dismissed, then the plaintiff has to pay fees. And the fees on that kind of thing are always high. There is a commercial-speech exception, but I'm not at all certain that this would fall under that exception. Damn--I wish I was on this case. It'd be fun.
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