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Gatorubet

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  1. Engineering and business majors? I generally agree. Although I could never set up a little political science shop on the corner and make a living, the older I get the more I value the traditional liberal arts education I received at UF. Being required to take sociology and history and psychology and humanities credits with my poli-sci courses - I feel that gave me a better chance to learn critical thinking and to more easily understand when you are being bullshitted in a political situation. Granted, job opportunities were more law school or rental car counter or barista due to that. I remember talking to an engineer neighbor a long time ago about some Charlie Daniels political screed that the neighbor loved. I laughed and asked him if he knew anything about rhetoric or if he knew anything about logical fallacies. I told him he should study rhetoric so he could instantly recognize things in the Charlie Daniels manifesto (that contained several “no true Scotsman”statements, and referenced “wine drinking liberals”, etc.) I told him once you recognize how rhetoric and fallacies were put out there to deceive and manipulate you, you will instantly have a better idea who to trust and what information to discard or what to pursue in a validity search. To be clear, I’m not saying that is the only way to be a critical thinker, or that only people with a liberal arts education are critical thinkers. But it has been my experience that having the skill to solve engineering problems with physics and mathematics (courses I could never pass in 1000 years) does not translate as well to understand when you are being manipulated and grifted by people like Trump. Through no fault of their own - or their education - they are more susceptible to being victims of the type of rhetoric they often fall for. Because they are simply unaware that rhetoric is a system and a skill employed to convince and manipulate people - using specific techniques that have been identified for thousands of years and are still very effective. Even at the high school level there should be mandatory courses on rhetoric to hopefully reduce the number of gullible people falling for what is obvious bullshit - at least obvious bullshit that is readily apparent to a lot of other people.
  2. I think the United States still has that apartment in Veracruz
  3. UEC (my uranium play) has been slowly creeping up as well about a 1/3 increase so far this year. if America is gonna turn its back on solar, nuclear power may be the other future option.
  4. “something of Babylon” - Calvin, Knox or Hus, probably
  5. “Page does not attend Country Day” and “awkward explanation of why Comus doesn’t roll” kill me.
  6. …and an ignorant person‘s idea of a smart person. Trump’s sixth grade level communication style is a perfect fit for most of his fans. There is a reason why he has overwhelming support of voters with just a high school education - and why the more educated a person is the less likely they are to vote for him.
  7. I wonder whether he just shot everybody near him - or whether he directed his wrath at the people who made fun of him. If people are intentionally cruel to other people and karma pays them back in a way exponentially stronger than their shitty treatment of others, I have far less sympathy for them getting shot.
  8. This is true. All the Texas oil people hated one aspect of New Orleans - no matter how much money they had - it would not magically allow them to join Comus or Momus or Proteus or Rex. Nor a 100% guarantee to join the Boston Club. The top end of New Orleans high society was not inclusive at all. Now, none of that is a good thing, and it evokes bullshit nostalgia for a level of nativism and racism that is not healthy. It apes more of a British class system thing. I did get a chuckle out of the old Volvo thing. They were a fixture at many Garden District mansions. Gaudy display of wealth is seen as uncouth by the wealthy, although it is the epitome of what poor people think of as rich.
  9. Probably not a good idea to send these scammers dick pics - but there’s nothing illegal about sending them a Geoduck image.
  10. some for sure. I don’t know the 2020 versus 2024 demographic data.
  11. That like a combination of sassy and prissy…. when your brain tells you it wants to skip….but your subconscious knows there are people with cameras.
  12. no. But I’m getting lots of texts from people who have reviewed my resume from various sources - and they all think I would be ideal to work for them. It apparently entails an hour of work a day for which they’ll pay me $9000 a month. Seems legit… despite me not having a resume and all.
  13. What’s the average age of Hobby lobby shoppers in the colored poster board section? if it is church leader, I’m assuming he’s taking pedo pics
  14. I heard it was, "CAN YOU DO THAT RECTALLY… AND WOULD YOU LIKE A SEMEN SAMPLE?”. But, yeah.
  15. that GIF was an edit to my initial response, the previous response being more CR than DT - and me being cognizant of black lab’s shit-posting hammer
  16. The slave name Bertha gave him that he hated - or the secret one I gave him that he liked and answered to? You, me, and your wife can discuss that in Europe - on me - once I get my royalty check.
  17. That was me. Plastic surgery and a name change. Just vouch for me and I’ll make it worth your while.
  18. autonomous Robotaxi w/safety monitors?
  19. I like your optimism brisket. The only way Trump cares about what Cletus does is if he needs his vote. This would indicate there might be future elections. Because if Trump does not need Cletus to stay in power, Trump will treat him like he treats everybody else he no longer needs, and will recommend he pulls himself up by his boot straps, picking vegetables in the black belt. That said, you might be onto something. I think Thomas will write the SCOTUS opinion saying that the Founders wanted us to have a 100,000 man ICE army controlled solely by the executive branch.
  20. Man, the thoughts and prayers meter must be pegged!
  21. To be fair, Cletus might not have any other choice.
  22. iPhone voice recognition software sucks. Maybe he was water boarded by the Lake Travis football booster club?
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