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Eskimohorn

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  1. I’m actually pretty shocked we haven’t had any wailing about the patriarchy with the casual slaughter of the H’s female attendants. It fits the story, of course, but was still a bit shocking that they put it on film several times.

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  2. I think the Irishman is pretty great. Killers is a great piece of film making but it certainly drags some.

    Had the exact opposite opinion. Irishman was overly long and was one of my least favorite Scorsese if not the worst IMO. The de-aging was absurd. It was run of the mill mob movie.
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  3. The lack of accountability after the fact is the worst aspect of this whole thing.

    That hundreds of trained LEOs stood by and ignored their training is difficult to comprehend.

    That the general public already knows massive fuckups occurred because it is self-evident that you dont let kids bleed out and you go after an active shooter.

    We know it. They know it. We know they know. They know we know they know they fucked up. That this report comes out is infuriating.

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  4. Well, he’s wasted millions of our tax dollars on razor wire, bus and plane tickets for migrants.

    hundreds of millions. With him as governor, we’re in a perpetual state of emergency
  5. This is about as shocking a time as I've ever seen at the combine.  Going into the combine I would've been pleasantly surprised with a time in the 4.5s. This makes me wonder whether he had some sort of ailment during the season. He got fetched from behind every time he got into the open field.  

    I was thinking same thing. Looked anemic after the catch. Good catch radius and hands, big body. Good for him.
  6. It still blows my mind that 240,000 people in Austin voted for a substantial tax increase to have the city and Cap Metro manage a gigantic infrastructure project. Anyone who knows an iota about the City of Austin knows that infrastructure isn’t exactly in the city’s wheelhouse.

    At 2am, not a lot of options available. Sure be nice to get introduce to a Surly 10 at 10pm, but like many things in Austin, starved of federal and state infrastructure funding for decades, NIMBYism, poor regional and local planning and lack of congressional representation, we’re stuck with what we have.
  7. Bottom line: Rogan is just the latest illustration of a massive intellectual collapse or devolution in 50-60% (or more) of the US population.
    How/Why?
    Not sure when it "began," but it accelerated after the Apollo moon landings, secularism's great technological triumph for all to see.
    1) TV has long been accelerating the collapse -- especially with endless shows celebrating every kind of idiocy, supernaturalism, UFOs, Ancient Aliens, conspiracy theories, and presenting anti-intellectualism/anti-science as a virtue, etc. 
    --  Why did I say 50-60%? Because I have met far too many people on the "Left" (or libs or dems) who believe in array of conspiracy theories and general anti-science beliefs. All in the name of being "anti-capitalist" or "anti-corporate" and embracing cultural relativism. Meaning that all beliefs are "relative" and there are no universal standards for empirical truths -- except, of course, for the belief in anti-capitalism.
    -- The first anti-vaxxers I ever met (or even heard about) were leftist/liberals at UT-Austin around 1990.
    2) Followed by social media platforms, which are empowering idiocy far beyond TV and are literally overrunning our secular education systems. 
    3) Underneath much of this is religion, of course, especially the unchecked proliferation of evangelicalism-fundamentalism-creationism since the 1970s. 
    4) The failure of art, science, and secular philosophy to develop a meaningful narrative for a shared destiny in the wake of Apollo moon landings, Hubble telescope, and the cosmology of the big bang. For example, Hollywood cranks out endless space monsters and Star Wars rebel-tribal battles, nowhere enough 2001 or Star Trek quest for knowledge and understanding.
    -- The failure to develop a widely embraced narrative to unity humanity as a single species, sharing a tiny planet with all other life forms, hurtling around a spiral galaxy in a universe of two trillion galaxies stretching across 100 billion light years. 
    5) The first 4 are anchored in humanity's narcissism (collectively and individually), which might be impossible to overcome, as we all want the universe to revolve around us and our little existence, to make us feel super-special with an important or eternal destiny. Thus, consumerism, social media, and religion fit the bill.
    Bottom line, I think America is devolutionary toast, long-term, and will drag down the rest of the world. 
    Final stop: Planet of the Apes (1968 version).
    And the evolution starts all over again.

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