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  1. 15 minutes ago, Jerry Callo said:

    White Noise - Star Wars bad guy playing the lead opposite some chick that looks like a bunch of chicks but isn't.  Weird and slow.  Didn't like.

    Where was this streaming? I saw an ad for it a while ago that it was coming soon and want to check it out. The source material (White Noise, by DD) is one of my favorite novels so I figure I oughta at least check out how they screwed it up.

  2. I agree with the emotion of the OP, but also this came up with SBF and FTX, there is a fundamental misunderstanding of the purpose of bail. It's not supposed to be punitive but a response to what prosecutors think is the risk of flight (and staying flown).

    This horrible creature will get plenty of time behind bars in due time after due process.

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  3. 10 hours ago, CooterBrown said:


    Wait. You were coached by the guy that played Chekhov in the Star Trek reboot?

    https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/anton-yelchins-tragic-accident-crushed-22205966.amp

    The actor died aged 27 when he was crushed to death by his own car outside his home in Los Angeles on June 20, 2016. His car killed him when it rolled backwards down a steep drive. Star Trek's Anton died when he became trapped against a brick postbox pillar and a security fence.

    I immediately thought of this as well. 

  4. 1 minute ago, Js1 said:

    LMAO, why are you even around on your 70th version of your username?

    NO ONE CARES. You're a troll.  And a pretty shitty one at that. 

    Sounds like someone really likes the new West Campus aesthetic, yuck.

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  5. Re: DNA matching. Read this and thought it interesting and hope it’s not a thread derail:

    Idaho police recently arrested Bryan Kohberger on suspicion of murdering four college students in November.

    The tech used to apprehend him is a controversial one that involves public DNA databases, perBusiness Insider.

    How it works

    Online tools, like GEDmatch, compare DNA test results from companies like 23andMe and Ancestry. Users download their DNA data file, upload it to GEDmatch, and potentially find relatives around the world.

    But cops use GEDmatch, too:

    In 2018, police used GEDmatch to arrest Joseph James DeAngelo, AKA the Golden State Killer, after matching crime scene DNA to his distant relative.

    In 2019, GEDmatch was acquired by Verogen, a forensic firm that works with law enforcement. Now, users who opt to share DNA do so with investigators.

    It’s a complicated issue

    Some advocates tout the tech’s ability to solve cold cases and exonerate the innocent.

    Others argue it’s a violation of privacy that must be regulated (e.g., restricted to only certain violent crimes). Just because you opt to share your DNA doesn’t mean your relatives do. Also:

    DNA testing isn’t infallible, and has led towrongful convictions due to human error, contamination, secondary transfer, and other factors.

    Podcast: NHPR’s Bear Brook explores the first cold case solved using genetic genealogy.

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  6. Whatever Austin was like when you were in undergrad I think is the prime, peak example of what you think is perfect Austin.

    I just spent a week at the Hotel Van Zandt, which I think is located on top of where I used to park my car on Friday to crash in cheap apartments my friends lived in near what is now a condo high-rise, and leave all weekend and come get on Sunday afternoon.

    I drove through West Campus and was floored. What a pathetic turn of events from what used to be an amazing, derelict area of debauchery.

    With Cain & Abel's closing what's even the point of going to UT anymore? I'll be advising my children elsewhere. Let's see how TCU does in the Natty.

  7. 12 hours ago, HOOKEM4 said:

    I will go on record that this will end badly for @ROFL BOX. 

    There is zero accountability in his posts. Just deflection and excuses. 

    This will be fucking fun. 

    I don't know; Roblbox came back and seemed to a) refute some of the more inflammatory accusations while also b) admitting he had some culpability in communication and could be at fault in some areas. 

    I would think that mature adults could work out these differences with this communication re-open.

    @ROFL BOX / @Born to Run - Do you need the Surly collective to act as your asynchronous, binding mediation? 

  8. Tesla production numbers were bad which is hurting the stock it seems.

    In other Elon wealth news-- how much of SpaceX does he own? Saw this chryon today-- probably will help his net worth with all the Tesla loss:

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    SpaceX has reportedly clinched $750 million in new funding at a $137 billion valuation, led by the venture firm Andreessen Horowitz. (CNBC)

     

  9. 53 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    Are pre-bought funeral services worth it? I’ve always assumed it’s a peace-of-mind scam that nets the funeral industry big profits. That it would be better to invest the money yourself in an index fund and your family comes out ahead. 

    but I recognize some downsides to my idea.

    • it’s always easy to say that you will invest but people put it off, or liquidate the investments for emergencies.
    • A fair chunk of our population has zero idea how to invest.

     

    Also, while you potentially have more money if invested, the family still has the burden of making a bunch of decisions and dealing with the funeral administration and the business of it all, while going through a tragic time (if it's like OP insinuated, a non-old-age death). Having it all buttoned up and paid for seems like it would be a great convenience and benefit to the survivors potentially.

  10. $800 seems light for something that needs to be a real comfort (e.g. 50 years old and you hurt and want to relax a lot in it) versus just some dumb furniture piece you don't care too much about and might sit in every now and again in your media room or something.

    Nebraska Furniture Mart is the last place I bought a recliner and prices were good. That's all I got.

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  11. 8 hours ago, wild_turkey said:


    Not only did COVID originate in a Chinese lab, but the PRC refused to cooperate with the WHO and other global health organizations in acknowledging that an epidemic/pandemic was beginning, investigating its origins and characteristics, or working towards prevention and treatment measures. The virus being released was bad enough, but even if we assume it was accidental, the response by the PRC at every step along the way for the past 3 years is unforgivable. Their attempts to sweep it under the rug have amplified the damage and their own population continues to suffer because of their government’s poor decisions.

    In an ideal world China should absolutely be held accountable for all of that. Unfortunately, we are tied at the hip to them economically, and no one, the U.S. included, is willing to confront China and play hardball on this.

    The unsettling thing is that nothing will change from this and China could easily be responsible for another pandemic in 15-20 years because the rest of the world has collectively agreed to just give them the space they need to do whatever they feel they want to do. And if it’s not another pandemic, then it will be something like climate change, where the rest of us are fighting carbon emissions while China casually continues pumping CO2 into the atmosphere.

    Everything you just said is so spot on true and the text book definition of “moral hazard”. And we are going to sit back and let it happen like a bunch of gimps. It’s sickening, really.

  12. 58 minutes ago, Hefeweizen said:

    I let my term life expire once I had enough saved and invested for the family if I kick the bucket.  Other than that throw my body in the dumpster or the ocean.  
     

    My real fear is dementia or something similar. Just going to buy a boat and start sailing west if that happens.

    Humblebragging having saved a couple million bucks liquid, eh? I like it, I like it: Sustained.

    That said to OP: For $100 I did a quick and dirty online Will, printed it out, had friends witness as I signed it from Quicken: https://smartasset.com/estate-planning/quicken-willmaker-trust-review

  13. 21 minutes ago, Homercles said:

    5) It’s certainly important to identify and learn from the origins of Covid, but that’s not what’s happening here

    …with nothing new to talk about it devolves into conspiracy central, shit flinging and people talking like they have a clue about labs thousands of miles away.  No posts have been deleted, mods haven’t locked this, people are allowed to bitch about it being a taint-magnet thread just like you’re free to talk like you’re being repressed.  

    Let's start at a place of agreement-- your point 5. Where in your mind is a productive and forward-moving way to investigate this? What makes sense to intelligently try and get an exhaustive and definitive root cause analysis report? Just the objective facts and timelines and parties involved, dispensing with any punitive retaliation or accountability...yet.

    Because what I think I'm hearing you say is that it's impossible in your mind so we might not even try and shouldn't even bring it up because it just gives oxygen to the loonies who want to conspiracy theory this to death, so the benefit of letting the sleeping doe lie outweighs the risk (or your annoyance) of kicking up dust for these answers.

  14. Is there a thread or a discussion specifically around the taxes being public now? I'd like to read about that and figured this would be the place but not seeing any discussion around it. Saw this breaking headline but it's paywalled:

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    Thousands of pages of Donald Trump’s tax returns have been made public after years of legal battles. The documents contain details that have not previously been revealed.

    Here’s a running list of the key takeaways from six years of Donald Trump’s tax returns

     

     

  15. 4 minutes ago, axiom of foundation said:

    A related topic and hopefully a lesson learned is tolerance for open communication in such events.  The attempt to shut down and categorically eliminate possibilities without sufficient information, in some cases with absolutely no information, was ridiculous.  Unlike the millions of non medical professionals in 2020 who had this knowledge revealed to them, I had no clue how this virus originated, what spike proteins are or why mRNA is important, what gain of function research entails, or how to interpret the graphs of genetic material sequencing.  Sometimes one really can just ask honest questions without having some end conclusion in mind.   

    And yet you see it still again on this thread-- people want to silence the questioning, or worse yet, roll their eyes and say "not this again" because it is uncomfortable. I allowed that there are annoying consequences (people who are prone to take a mile when given an inch), but attention must be paid, is my belief.

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  16. 23 minutes ago, BearSchlong said:

    Commission accelerators at the redline, on the last morning of the FY. I’m serving prime at tonight’s dinner party.

    Sleep well, you in-house counselors, with dreams of different redlines dancing in your heads. Well done.

    Way to go; it seems you chose IBM at the right time. It's all about the 3 T's in this wild world of sales: Territory, Talent and Timing. You nailed the last one.

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