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  1. 38 minutes ago, Cacti said:

    I believe Paul was haunted by his conscience, by the guilt he felt for violently persecuting Christians. His conversion ended the persecution but, like all of us, he forever had to endure the memory of past wrongdoings.

    I believe that is what tormented Paul.

    My pastor believes this as well. Thanks for the response.

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  2. 16 minutes ago, 'stache said:

    They really are the dumbest people.

     

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    The only quibble is that I don’t see “Sub 75k” as middle class. Middle class 75k-1m, is getting a cut.

    I will caveat that with that the tweet is from 2017 when 60-70k might have been or felt middle class in a way that’s impossible to imagine today.

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  3. 1 minute ago, AUS-97HORN said:

    I mean there is theory, and then there is whatever they fuck these guys will do.

     

    The last major culling which by my count was roughly 5% of all managers and outside sales force, caught up 2 of the most experienced and honestly best managers I have ever worked with, both of whom were on the short list for the next-level promotion, and both had a POSITIVE L4Q and L8Q quota attainment.

    And yet both of them were part of a protected class, the 2nd was a triple protected class (race, gender, sexual preference).  didnt save her, or them.

    Well good luck man and let us know. In a “Check in safe from layoffs on Facebook” sort of way when you survive.

  4. 23 minutes ago, AUS-97HORN said:

    I earned a pretty good promotion into a specialized role halfway through the year. Which was a nice TTC bump.  But I may have ended up promoting myself out of a gig

    I anticipate we are gonna see a cut in about 3 weeks -probably most heavily impacting the outside team, but not sure how bad, could be a light pruning, or they could be going for the jugular like those 5 above did.

    which sucks because despite my performance being in the top 1/3rd of my department, and that I blended above 125% for this current fiscal year, I will finish the current quarter around 97% to plan... which might be all they give a shit about and gives them an opportunity to come after me.

    Most of the bigger firms, at least the ones we are talking about here (MSFT, GOOG, CRM, AMZN, META, etc.) cull from a stack ranking, based on a rolling 6-8 quarters, from what I understand. That means that if you are 80%+ to plan you are likely safe based on performance, right?

  5. 1 hour ago, Biff Tannen said:

    If you want an actual explanation of what's going on and why it is stupid, listen to the first five minutes of this.  

    https://crooked.com/podcast/kook-ing-with-gas/

    But I have a feeling you are not serious.

    As always, I'm 100% serious so thanks for the link.

    The key takeaways in the first 10 mins, which was educational for me and maybe others here:

    Congress has already authorized budget and spending and money is spent. By lifting the debt ceiling we aren't authorizing more money being spent, but just allowing us to service that debt that has already incurred, and by doing so it maintains the US Bond power and prestige which may or may not cause a global financial meltdown if the US were to ever default on that debt.

    Got that much so far and it's interesting that the government is set up this way to need this permission (the podcast mentions it's a founding fathers old implementation), and it is very clearly then an example of politics at work.

    This is 100% political maneuvering and playing the game and being political animals to find or take leverage and then use it in negotiation or as a cudgel to wrest what it is you want, at the optimal gain.

    My opinion at least. I'll shut up and listen to the next 30 minutes now but thanks for the link.

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  6. 5 minutes ago, Crapinon said:

    The sticking point is whether the school district would do anything. My wife taught 3rd grade for years. One year, she had a student that would get up in the middle of class and start throwing everyone's papers off their desk on the floor. He would walk across tables, slam lockers and get in other students faces yelling at them. She was not allowed to stop him because the principle was terrified that the parent was going to file a complaint with the district and cause mass headaches. All she could do was sit at her desk and say please stop. If he didn't, she had to call the office while the kid continued to act this way, until a counselor appeared to take him away. Then they would go to the office, give him candy and try to tell him why he was acting improperly. It went on for almost 5 months of the school year before they finally removed him from her class. I went to elementary school in the 60's. Sister Mary Gotti would have slapped him into next year and then thrown him out of school. I'm sure there's a happy medium but I know that a lot of schools will never completely discipline a problem student. 

    I don't disagree with you. The quality of behaviors in children in public schools and encounters with "neuordivergent" children, let's call them, is one of the reasons we bailed on public schools in general.

    That said, my expectation for an adult dealing with clearly failed-at-home children (whether it be through neglect, abuse or ignorance begat by ignorance, etc.) is to be a mature and healthy adult and not start fist fighting with a high-pitched voice, 115 lb, 15 year old boy. The teacher was thin-skinned and emotionally weak and that's a liability for any teacher, but especially when dealing with this caliber of human being.

  7. 10 minutes ago, Post Oak said:

    China currently in the finding out stage and not enjoying it.

    https://www.politico.eu/article/china-diplomacy-liu-he-europe-beijing-davos-world-economic-forum-xi-jinping/

    China turns on the charm

    President Xi Jinping seeks break from foreign friction as he wrestles with COVID and a faltering economy

     

    Beijing wants to be friends again.

    Chinese diplomats are fanning out with a new softer message for international partners and adversaries alike. Gone is the aggressive “wolf warrior” rhetoric. In its place, a warmer tone and a promise of economic cooperation.

     

    China is like Wal-Mart. A bully when they are in the cat-bird seat to all it's "partners" and vendors and suppliers treating people like a mob boss-- we maybe will pay you and pay you what we think instead of what is agreed to. But then when e-commerce blew up, they had to find a little bit of religion on how to be "charming" as this article implies and rebuild relationships...

    up until they were again dominant and could wield immense leverage, like they do again today.

    The analogy I'm trying to draw here is that China can't be trusted and will be evil again as soon as they can get away with it.

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  8. 1 hour ago, ztejas said:

    You don't forget things like that. A$AP Rocky stole a lighter from me one time. He thought he was slick. 

    Why do I picture you like this scene "I ain't gonna say nothin' though"

     

    2 hours ago, bad_teammate said:

    "flashy theatrical stuff"

    I love Coach Prime and wish him success.

  9. Which thread is the conversation about the debt ceiling and the extraordinary measures to prevent the government from defaulting on debts taking place? I haven't seen it anywhere and thought maybe here as a catchall. Would like to learn by listening you smart government people on what is going on.

  10. 17 hours ago, Js1 said:

    I usually just take the L. 99.9% chance whatever I get in that bag I can/will eat if it’s a fast food restaurant. There’s only so many things on the menu. It’s chicken or beef, basically. (Maybe a fish sandwich at some places)

    Just by going to a fast food restaurant you are already assuming the L. Anything positive that happens in the experience is just house money.

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  11. 1 hour ago, RPM said:

    Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children has been my designated charity since I found out about Smile. This sucks. How about you quit with the penis rocket shit and give that money away instead?

    Same. Just logged in to check. This is not a ton of money for an organization like TSRH, but it's not completely insignificant either.

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    Your current charity
    Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children
    has received

    $36,207.22
    as of November 2022

     

     

  12. @RDCanecutter, et al. I don't know what the universe and God is trying to tell me as an artist, but I've been drawn to the investigation and introspection of the pretentious question "What is Art?" and "How do I serve the artist within me?" and I somehow ended up with some weird reading-- the aforementioned Kandinsky "Concerning the Spiritual in Art" and now Rick Rubin's book The Creative Act.

    I'm halfway through the book, which I mentioned on another thread is equal parts, half imbecilic and half genius, but a few excerpts that stuck out that reminded me of our conversation the last page or so:

    This quote I think embodies the reason I even started asking you about your process and your intentions and your why:

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    "The act of creation is an attempt to enter a mysterious realm. A longing to transcend. What we create allows us to share glimpses of an inner landscape, one that is beyond our understanding. Art is our portal to the unseen world. Without the spiritual component, the artist works with a crucial disadvantage."

    I liked these as well. It's rooted in something I've always known and anchored my art in, which is, create for your own soul first and an audience last. Create what you want to consume. And in a lot of ways, the reason we set out to create is because what we are longing for and what to consume doesn't yet exist (or we know of).

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    "All art is a work in progress. It's helpful to see the piece we're working on as an experiment. One in which we can't predict the outcome. Oscar Wilde said that some things are too important to be taken seriously. Art is one of those things."

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    "It is impossible for anyone to experience your work as you do, or as anyone else does. The purpose of the work of art is to awaken something in you first, and then allow something to be awakened in others. And it's fine if they're not the same thing. We can only hope that the magnitude of the charge we experience reverberates as powerfully for others as it does for us. What is considered art is simply an agreement and none of it is true. What is true is that you are never alone when you're making art. You are in a constant dialogue with what is and what was, and the closer you can tune in to that discussion, the better you can serve the work before you."

    These speak to the transcendental nature of art and being a human. We are woefully lacking in spirituality as a feature of our existence:

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    "Our work embodies a higher purpose. Whether we know it or not, we're a conduit for the universe. Material is allowed through us. If we are a clear channel, our intention reflects the intention of the cosmos (or God)."

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    "Impatience is an argument with reality. The desire for something to be different from what we are experiencing in the here and now. A wish for time to speed up, tomorrow to come sooner, to relive yesterday, or to close your eyes then open them and find yourself in another place. Time is something we have no control over, so patience begins with the acceptance of natural rhythms. The implied benefit of impatience is to save time by speeding up and skipping ahead of those rhythms. Paradoxically, this ends up taking more time and using more energy. It's wasted effort. When it comes to the creative process, patience is accepting that the majority of the work we do is out of our control."

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    "The goal of art is not to attain perfection. The goal is to share who we are. And how we see the world. Artists allow us to see what we are unable to see, but somehow already know. It may be a view of the world singularly different from our own. Or one so close, it seems miraculous, as if the artist is looking through our own eyes."

     

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  13. 19 hours ago, ztejas said:

    Yeah... what happened to the alliterative trend? Those were funny. 

    The alliterative thread was very unfunny to me, so I don't agree with you there, but I do agree a new, funny theme to replace "what is wrong with..." is needed.

  14. I get it, the kid is clearly a garbage human being with garbage human being community and family that informed who he is...but you are still the adult and the teacher with responsibility to NOT beat the crap out of an assumed minor. I don't think it's a good thing the teacher fought the kid and he should have been mentally stronger and let the administration handle the squeaky child.

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  15. David Crosby, the iconoclastic singer-songwriter who died Thursday at 81, once said his infamous arrest in Dallas “pretty much saved my life.”

    Rolling Stone and other media outlets reported Crosby’s death in the late afternoon without disclosing the cause. Crosby suffered from decades of addiction, which in 1982 compelled Dallas police to raid his dressing room at Cardi’s, a now-defunct nightclub at Medallion Center.

    Cardi’s, which Texas Monthly once pegged as “a down and dirty rock ‘n’ roller’s paradise,” drew a swarm of Dallas police, who described Crosby “free-basing in plain view,” holding in one hand a propane fuel tank and heating a brown bottle in the other.

    In 2014, Dallas Morning News writer Michael Granberry caught up with Crosby when he was 73 and described himself as a radically different man. He was headed to the Verizon Theatre at Grand Prairie, where he and longtime band mates Stephen Stills and Graham Nash had come to play a Crosby, Stills and Nash reunion show. And what a show it was.

    So, was it weird to return to a place where his life took such a sudden, dramatic turn?

    “No,” Crosby said by phone, during a tour stop in Memphis. “No, no, no, no, no. You have to look at it from my point of view.”

    He paused. “Dallas pretty much saved my life.”

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  16. 42 minutes ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

    Interesting with all the tech layoffs. I wonder how much is overhiring during the pandemic and how much is "holy shit Twitter bled their staff and they are still running. Maybe we have too much bloat as well."

    Seeing Google is cutting 12,000 workers. Assume they average $100,000 in comp and that's $1.2 billion a year off the headcount. 
     

    It was almost assuredly the overhiring that happened during the pandemic. Some tech companies literally doubled. I read Salesforce went from 50k employees to 80k (and they are shedding 8k jobs).

    It seems like a right-sizing when money isn't free and growth isn't guaranteed to be exponential way more than a "hey look at Elon burning down Twitter and it still is up and running at least", especially when you see that ad spend is down 40-50% YoY in revenue oof.

  17. Christmas in July was what made season 2 the personification of an audible groan.

    That said, I'm hoping that S3 is a bounce back to the greatness that was S1, though I think there was a strategic misstep to not hurry up production and release 4-6 weeks ago when FIFA mania was at a peak. 

  18. 8 minutes ago, GoPokes83 said:


    I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone looking that lost.

    I like to think he's just an awe and never seen the Holy Spirit flood an atmosphere like that.

    In my experience, there is nobody as spiritual as the American black woman.

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