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nbmishoid

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  1. 14 hours ago, troph said:

    I used to argue this shit alone. I had a few allies. Now y’all rake the haters - caitlyn Jenner included - and I don’t even know it’s happening.

    TDV is what it is and it’s not new. This isn’t an attack on Easter, heck many trans people - I don’t know why - are Christians. 

    in the end, all me and my people want is a chance to live the same “normal” lives you guys live. We tell you what we need, it’s basic stuff, health care, basic human rights, and some acceptance. When we get that, life is good. That’s really it. Seeing that and calling out the haters for their nonsense matters.

    So thanks, sincerely. 

    I have come avoid the word “normal” in almost any setting.  Possibly offfensive.

  2. 4 hours ago, Brisketexan said:


    1 - very rarely, a video posted here makes me laugh so hard I have tears. This one did it. Watched it with my white woman wife, and she was cracking up with me, saying “yeah, check that box.”

    2 - I’m actually glad Chupacabra showed up to post all of the tropes the crowd that desperately does NOT want society to admit and confront racism likes to trot out. I mean, he hit most every one. And he did so in spite of the pages and pages of posts in ahead of his that already answered all of those questions (e.g., my recent post about how black lawyers have been playing catch-up for generations, and how for a long-ass time, their only good starting point was a government job…these are lawyers practicing TODAY, and leading their community TODAY).

    Chupacabra is far from alone. He’s not stupid - if he spent a millisecond actually considering the issue, he’d know that he’s off base. But the point is, the Chupacabras don’t WANT to see that. They are purposefully averting their mental gaze from something unpleasant and uncomfortable. It’s human nature, so it’s something that we’re going to have to continue to deal with. It’s not that they can’t see and understand what systemic racism is (i.e., not a malicious conspiracy, but a natural outcome of centuries of consistent human behavior), it’s that they don’t want to see it or understand it, so they won’t.

    No amount of showing things to someone who has their eyes intentionally squeezed shut will change their mind. Ever. A shitload of our fellow Americans are like that, and as a society, we have to deal with it. How do we move the automobile of society forward with a purposefully flat tire? We do it the best we can. Just keep thump-thump-thumping down the road, frustrated that we’re being slowed down by a stupid, pointless flat tire, but going down the road nonetheless.

    Doesn’t want to see.  Or want to think.  Or know.  Just believe.  

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  3. On 2/28/2024 at 12:25 PM, YGIFS said:

    So tomorrow, Abbott's choices are to either go to a place in Texas that actually needs his help but is full of trees falling over.  Or go to a place in Texas that he's not really needed except to be at the perfect height to suck on orange scrotal sacks.  And yes, Lobo cliche---new band name.

    Kinda goes with Red Solo Cup

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  4. 16 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Good post.  And yes, there's a separate discussion there as to the difference between "Ivy leaguer with a fancy resume" and "local kid who thinks on his/her feet and busts ass."  Malcolm Gladwell would agree with you.  I know some mediocre Yale lawyers, and some damned fine Texas Tech lawyers.  I sure don't judge a lawyer I'll be facing based on where they went to school.

    But all of that said, we don't hire from the Ivy league, and even then we have to be diligent and make an effort to seek out quality minority candidates who might be overlooked.  Yeah, a black lawyer in the top 10 at UT can write their ticket anywhere, in part BECAUSE they are a black lawyer in the top 10 at UT.  But the pool of minorities even going to law school is still below the population ratio, if for no other reason than minorities have a lower number of mentors in their community and family who went to law school.  We have been working with a program aimed at helping with that -- geared towards helping first-gen college students and such, mostly but not entirely minorities, get introduced to law school and the legal world.  But we won't be able to do so much longer, because that program got the axe because of Texas's new anti-DEI law.  Again.....all that program did was reach students who wouldn't otherwise have much exposure to the legal world, but we had to kill it.  Because we are stupid and mean.

    The same with engineering, computer science, medicine etc.  Because of high bars these professionals are well paid but underrepresented via minorities, (broadly speaking).  The pipeline, as you refer, takes years and decades to develop.   Now it’s illegal.  What a world.

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  5. 11 minutes ago, BeardIP said:

    It's the same in any publicly traded tech company that I've worked in, near, or around-- FAANG/Magnificent 7-- if you are an underrepresented minority and underrepresented gender (URM/URG in talent/recruitment speak), you have many a leg up on the average, state school honkey. 

    Yes, even 10 years ago, before I retired, this was the case at my big oil co. One thing I was proud of.  The whole climate disaster, not so much.

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  6. 19 minutes ago, Satchel said:

    Since the first black student was admitted to UT in 1956, black enrollment has exploded to 4.3% 68 years later. It’s as bad at other P5 publics in Texas,, which btw is home to the largest number of black people in the country.

    Well, face it.  UT has the rep as a white place, very white.   Black folks preferences nowadays seem to be much much less about assimilation and much more about a more relevant experience.   Thus HCBU’s, northern schools, etc.  

  7. 1 minute ago, Incredulity said:

    Hey guess what, if we take from 60% of the population to fund healthcare for 40% of the population national healthcare for the 40% works fanfuckingtastic.

    That part can be fixed by tax legislation.   

  8. 3 hours ago, Dnaguy said:

    All his incentives are to keep the war goi g on.

    His government will collapse when the war time coalition disbands.

    he’ll likely lose the resulting election 

    if he’s not prime minister he must stand trial and it’s likely he’ll be convicted 

    Trump is the most pliable American leader and will let him do whatever he wants

    And in the event of him being convicted, Trump is likelier to grant him asylum if that ever takes place 

    So if he can hang on long enough, maybe he weathers the storm. Maybe he hangs on long enough for another admin that is friendlier to him politically and personally.

    Theres really nothing short of the UN , which is toothless, that would incentivize Bibi to stop his current tract 

    Add to this he fucking hates Biden. 

  9. 1 minute ago, Brisketexan said:

     

    Truly, countdown to "HEB!  GO WOKE, GO BROKE!" campaign starts now....and won't take long to get going.

    ....but it won't be.  Most Texas voters would happily take a steaming shit in their own drinking water if they thought there was a 1% chance it would "own tha libz!"  They'll turn on HEB without even pausing to take a breath.

    Yea, Brisket, I was just wishcasting 

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  10. 1 minute ago, Dahobbs said:

    No, no it isnt. Do you think gravity existed before we thought of the concept? Do you the relationship between a circle's circumference and diameter existed before we termed it pie? Or do you think reality isn't a thing except to extent perceived by a sentient being?

     

    1 minute ago, Dahobbs said:

    No, no it isnt. Do you think gravity existed before we thought of the concept? Do you the relationship between a circle's circumference and diameter existed before we termed it pie? Or do you think reality isn't a thing except to extent perceived by a sentient being?

    Sure, gravity and the celestial bodies existed.  But names, rotation models, and the like ideas, and these ideas didn’t exist absent man.  Talking about ideas, man. 

  11. 22 hours ago, Dahobbs said:

    This seems close:

    Math isn't an idea we created. It is a set of relationships that we discovered. Those relationships against irrespective of whether anyone has any idea about them. 

    This is a Platonist take.  The other view is we created it all.  The evidence supports the latter.  There is no place for these ideas to reside except for brains.  

  12. 21 hours ago, Dahobbs said:

    Isn't mathematics a decent enough analogy? It is self evident that 2+2 = 4. Whether or not any particular person or authority would accept that answer, it remains true. Natural rights, at least for their proponents, are similar. The right is inherent in sentience. A legal right is a different concept and depends upon a referenced legal structure. A natural does not require any separate structure other than existence. Your practical concerns may have some merit, but I don't find the rest of your argument terribly compelling. 

    In math, you are taking the Platonist view, that abstract mathematical objects and theorem solutions exist “out there” in some ideal space.  While a serious position the problems are obvious.   Ideas did not exist absent people.  That does not prevent us from favoring an idea as “obviously favorable, or “true”.

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