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  1. 4 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

    I know Mitchell has holes in his game, but it feels like he'd still be vital if Toppin goes pro or transfers elsewhere.  Is his potential transfer really a vote of no confidence for RT?  Is this an NIL issue?  Other?

    He really doesn’t have a choice given the lack of development in his offensive game. He’s got to try something else. 

  2. 2 hours ago, Deej said:

    Where have these Gibson Custombuckers been all my life? Exactly the tone I want from a Les Paul. 


    Do you have any experience with the SD Seth Lovers?  I’m curious how they compare. Haven’t had an opportunity to play around with the Custombuckers yet. 

  3. 6 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Huh?  We beat #2 Gonzaga 93-74 at home in November 2022.  Am I misunderstanding your point?

    Wasn’t Creighton highly ranked too that year?  Last years non conference schedule was a waste of my money for season tickets. 

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  4. On 5/7/2024 at 2:17 PM, YGIFS said:

    Other than a handful of known musical quantities and underbutt, best part of ACL is discovering somebody new.  Best part of this thread each year is reading one another's posts about how we happened upon a  new band (new to us, anyways) and finding out something about music with whom we fell in love with all over again.  

    But all that to say, seeing Bob Schneider that far down and how he's pushing 60 and I'm pushing 50 and partying with his groove line horns 15 years ago.  Holy fucking shit, where did the time go?  

    Wait until you no longer care about anyone playing at ACL and wonder where the time went. 

  5. 5 hours ago, sidis said:

    i do every year.  why wouldn't i? wtf do the idiots whose lives are so shitty they have to work for a property tax protest company know that i don't know?

    This year, they raised my house by 6% despite no changes to the house.  I pulled 27 properties within 700 feet of mine and literally every one of them went down except mine...by a mean of 33% and a median of 39%.  not some of them, all of them.  all in improvements because everyone's land stayed the exact same as the previous year.  i provided this evidence as inequity to neighbors in my informal hearing yesterday with some absolute dipshit reading off a script to describe to me why the three properties that they picked as comps for inequitable treatment to neighbors that averaged over three times larger a lot size and were an average of 2.5 miles away from me were more relevant than the 27 contiguous properties bordering my house.

    that was amusing.  next up, explaining this to three octogenarians that tcad provides lubys for who will just sleep through my explanation of this to do absolutely nothing of value and then i get to go to court. hooray.

    I used to do all that shit. Probably for @ 10 years. I pulled all kinds of lawyer tricks to frustrate the district rep at the board hearings. Think I got the Bd to go with my number four or five times. Took two to court which settled on favorable terms for me. A few times I worked it out at the informal. 
    Bottom line is that I was really good at it but my time is better spent doing something actually enjoyable. I hire it out and don’t give an ass that I could easily do it myself. I’d rather be playing tennis or fishing than dealing with that crap. 

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  6. 2 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

     

    I think people are figuring out what some have known for a while that there are some very rich and powerful people who want to fundamentally change UT Austin.  The issue of how they handled the protests is just in keeping with the tenor and tone they desire to achieve. 
    I’ve actually heard someone on that list say that conservatism is the only thing they admire about A&M. 

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  7. 13 minutes ago, High Plains Drifter said:

     

    I haven't read the thread, but based on just this last page, I don't think I missed much. But if Biden wants to win the youth vote, he needs to push hard for decriminalizing the Mary Jane at the federal level. 

     

     

    Yes, so the Orange Jesus will take the obvious Christian Nationalist position that he will criminalize it again. 

  8. 9 hours ago, Longhornlove said:

    Not that there is any real need but I will indulge you since you seem to be so ignorant......... I know you aren't ignorant, you are an intelligent individual whom is just trying (I assume) to get a rise out of me and get your fellow CR junkies riled up here in your pristine little echo chamber.

    This is a fairly long video that may not be able maintain the groups attention span. I chose this because he equally bashes Trump for the same thing you appear to believe Joe Biden doesn't do.

    Just a few others off the top of my head.

    • Vaccines are safe and effective
    • Covid started in a wet market
    • Masks prevent the spread of covid
    • 6ft apart prevents the spread of covid
    • If you get the vaccine, you can't get or spread covid
    • Uncle Bosie was a pilot that got shot down and eaten by cannibals (Recent Biden)
    • Rode across the Francis Scott Key bridge via train many, many times. (Recent Biden)
    • He saved 6 people from drowning while a lifeguard(Biden)
    • Joe Biden was a civil rights icon, raised in the black, Puerto Rican, Jewish, Greek, Italian, Catholic and polish communities. Which is is, It can't be all of them?
    • Joe Biden was once a generational athlete
    • Jo Biden was a Truck Driver(someone once gave him a ride in one)
    • Bloodbathgate 
    • The Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation
    • Alpha Bank collusion
    • Trump Campaign wasn't spied on
    • Steele dossier being factual

     

    I could go on but why bother?

    You get your news from Facebook don’t you?

  9. 7 hours ago, immamac said:

    No dude. They aren’t comparable that’s the point.
     

    The point isn’t that they both suck and one just sucks less. It’s that one is an actual bad person, who does bad things, with ill intent and nothing but personal gain in mind. The other is just a lifelong politician. They are categorically not the same. 

    Trump is a through and through bad person. The only praise he offers is inflammatory and in support of oppression, pain and suffering. Seriously the guy cannot even muster the ability to wish everyone everywhere a happy holiday. 

    This is bullshit false equivalency that I hear a lot.   They both don’t suck. One is normal, a decent person, old, but someone who some might disagree with politically. The other is a terrible human being, a liar, and cares about nothing other than himself. 
    You are dead on here. 
     

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  10. I agree with the need for a big man. My hope was that we would have lucked into one who had some nastiness/strength to him. Someone who is not afraid to go in there and push people around. I’m not sure who that would have been though. 

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  11. 3 hours ago, closetojumping said:

    Correct. The thing that got people the most worked up was that he called the coaching “embarrassing”. Folks here won’t like hearing the following but the defense against the poor coaching was the closeness of the final score, including Terry rebutting with folks to that point. “We barely lost!”. Okay then. 

    Yeah, I don’t like hearing that. Fucking RT. 

  12. 1 hour ago, Longhornlove said:

    Congrats, I don't see myself ever pulling the lever for the big D either. I honestly hate both parties, just hate the Democrat party way worse. FYI, IMHO Biden is the biggest pandering political liar of my lifetime.

    You don’t think a POS like Trump pandering to evangelicals is a bigger political lie?  
    I have just come to the point of accepting that a large percentage of this country is just fucking stupid and no amount of education can overcome them being guided by their worst base instincts. 
    This statement reminds me of the Trump supporter who said something to the effect of he had never met a democrat who had not attended college and by his logic if you didn’t like Trump it was because you were indoctrinated in college. 
    I still maintain that racism and bigotry is a big factor with a large percentage of people who say they “hate” the Democrats. 

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  13. 18 minutes ago, BeardIP said:

    Seems like a reasonable memo. Let's be reasonable people and allow for the reasonable protestations while letting those who want to ignore the commotion and simply go to school, do that.

    I feel like Hartzell might be writing his own walking papers if he encourages or quietly allows another police showing like yesterday. 

    Hot Wheels has his back. Willing to bet he was exerting pressure to to do what happened yesterday. 

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  14. 1 hour ago, DaggerHorns said:

    Garza is the definition of government over reach. There should be accountability and responsibility of his job, office, staff, etc. he is 150% stepping outside of his governmental assignment and allowing laws to not be enforced. 

    I’m cool with him not enforcing weed laws. 

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  15. 16 minutes ago, thunderlounge said:

     

    Where is it located?

    I have an older Vizio bar/sub setup in my bedroom and it does fine for that. The Q60 I have in my living room (that I'm upgrading) would also be fine. That is probably where I move my TV/soundbar from the LR, and move the BR setup to the spare room.

     

    For a budget type pick, I'd look at any of these:

    - Samsung HW-B650
    - Samsung Q60C
    - Vizio 2.1
    - Vizio 5.1

    Not going to break the bank, and dialog will be fine (not an 11, but respectable at least). You won't rumble the house, but that's not what you seem to be after.

    It’s my home office. Thanks for the suggestions!

  16. 1 hour ago, DougO said:

    My friend's soundbar is total shit, can't hear dialogue. Wish I could replace it with something. Soundbars in general are shit for a big tv. There's not much room there for receiver with external speakers, so might just look for a bigger decent soundbar that won't be a waste of money. Not many people really understand how those things work.

    I had an older heavy 50 inch dumb TV with big speakers in the front, like God intended, stashed away for the game room. But it got donated to the poors behind my back. Great picture, sounded damn good with no attachments and didn't have to fudge with streaming shit. Pissed me off bigtime.

    I’m trying to settle on a sound bar for a secondary tv that I just want to sound better than the tv speakers.  Not wanting to spend a lot because I have a nice set up on the main tv. 
    I know they are crap especially in the price range I’m looking at but can’t arrive on a general consensus as to what is a decent basic unit. 

  17. I really enjoyed it although at times it was hard to look at which I guess it should be. 
    I disagree with some of the comments above about not really knowing much about the sides. 
    We know that the President was in his third term, he turned the military on its citizens, and his rhetoric in the beginning where he builds up to something being the “greatest military victory of all time” sounded familiar as well and conveyed a President who was lying to his people.  If you contrast his dialogue with what unfolds, it is a fair assumption he is not telling the truth.  The brutality at the end is certainly analogous to the fates of brutal dictators mentioned earlier in the film. 
    The other side is more ambiguous. Clearly, all guys in uniform were not created equal and some of the other war scenes involved people in civilian clothes.  
    It did leave some things for the viewer to fill in the blanks but not in an unfulfilling way like say a series that has an ambiguous ending. 
    Movie was really well done and the scary part is that it looked at the idea of a civil war in a way that was absolutely believable. 
    Definitely a thought provoking way to spend a couple of hours. 

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  18. 7 hours ago, ABSR said:

    Thanks for the Dunning Kruger Effect reference, I was unaware of the term and concept.   It was an interesting item to read up on.   Thanks!

    Note:  Not weighing in on whether the reference was applied correctly, just that I appreciate being prompted to learn about it.

    I say it to people all the time. They go home and google it and realize I was insulting them. 

  19. 3 hours ago, DixonHur said:

    Yeah, I probably built it up too much in my head.

    I got close to going once to see White Zombie for the La Sexorcisto Tour, but I chickened out.  That whole area freaked me out at night.  We heard gunshots seemingly nightly.

    Ironically, back then dirty 6th was relatively safe, so I was either seeing shows there at Emo's/Jelly Club/Backstreet, etc., or further west at Liberty Lunch, and Electric Lounge...or if I was really feeling frisky I'd brave going off S. Congress to the Austin Opera House.

    I saw some great shows at the Austin Opera House. 

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