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  1. What are you talking about 50 is a weekend starter. They should be near the end now assuming they don’t have a full weekend of A+ pitchers but they were not out of pitching tonight.
  2. If Texas wins tomorrow morning Texas will beat these suckers two in a row.
  3. Let’s go boys, 2 runs is nothing let’s make it happen.
  4. Damn Texas. Jesus.
  5. troph

    LBGTQ

    LGBTQ clubs are now banned in Texas schools. Parental control ensured. Kids not endangered. All according to republicans.
  6. Oregon out what other upsets going on I haven’t checked
  7. Fucked his shit up.
  8. I tried to run over a road runner on bee creek rd today. Just kidding I don’t target birds. I’m almost 50 I now have a keen interest in the well being of our avian friends and am considering joining the bird thread here and adding a bird feeder to our property. Such is the progression of life. I now love birds. Fuck dem road runners tonight tho.
  9. OU SEC SEC SEC Suuuuuuucks!
  10. Polyvictorious
  11. When they shut down parks for a minute I was pretty irritated. No they didn’t know for sure but it was a step too far. But it wasn’t Dems, that was straight up Trump and Abbott around here.
  12. This is why simply beating Trump next time around probably isn’t enough. Systemic rot.
  13. We traveled Colorado one summer in an RV and I had an active law practice but not without high stress from the pandemic, kids at home, and some volunteer orgs too, and so while we weren’t the family with driveway happy hours we weren’t lacking completely and covid lock downs did nearly break me. I honestly don’t feel like I snapped out of it until this year when I recovered from long covid. I don’t know what the right answer is, I would probably isolate voluntarily until we knew more on the next pandemic but I do know this public health policy even when implemented perfectly stands in direct opposition of individual freedom (though in the end saving the public has a long term positive impact on individual life and therefore individual freedom). So it is destined to fail in the US.
  14. Of course you do
  15. remember when technology was first adopted for good? I mean I'm half tempted to sign up for the AI service that takes a pic of me and then turns it into risque sexy photos (insert nobody got time for that (IRL) gif) and such for my wife for her birthday. that seems like a good use of resources.
  16. But without the raging male narcissism and sexism.
  17. No, a user / top 10 public company in the AI space.
  18. I don't know how you check AI without doing long division.
  19. and I think that's a hackberry tree so a shit tree too, protected by the city.
  20. medicine is another one - complex answer but a clear right and wrong one too. we are actively looking at / attempting to use AI in legal but it's not anywhere close yet. too much judgment, nuance, leverage, fact and even perception dependent answers. it will eventually help but I really can't see it dominating law like the doomsday sayers assume. but learning early on will be tremendously difficult because that initial learning curve is pretty mundane, clear outcomes. example, my first tasks were often proof reading a prospectus before it went to print. after a year of that, I graduated to revising for a partner, then eventually doing them as the primary. going to have to find a way to learn differently. it's going to be a serious adjustment.
  21. yeah AI is going to eviscerate jobs where the answer is complex but either right or wrong (and CS is often exactly that). though I had chatgpt 4.0 paid version run some easy date calculations so I could figure out a notice deadline and it fucked up a simple calculation of 120 months from a month certain. I posted the screen shot on the AI thread in DT. fucking nuts. we gonna need AI to check AI.
  22. troph

    LBGTQ

    that's why the right has gone apeshit over trans rights. they realized they lost the gay marriage issue (but haven't yet lost the gay discrimination issue - married today, fired tomorrow is still a thing). but on trans rights it's an apocalyptic approach to ensure we can never get there.
  23. first thing you do is make yourself mobile. at their age, their values will come from you and how you live your life and your values will dictate so much of who they become relative to their relationship with the US as a country. how do you make yourself mobile? well, for me it's first mexican residency, which in turn gets my kids automatic residency. You'd likely want to visit often, but there are no actual residency requirements outside of the financial means requirements which are low for temporary and a bit higher for permanent. Costa Rica is another popular one but I find Costa Rica to be too remote, too under developed, great for a vacation, hard to make a permanent life there though. from there it's a second passport. Mexico is one but it's like the US, tests, language proficiency, etc. there are several pathways to the EU, from Malta just paying cash for citizenship to the golden visas of Portugal and others. Malta is instant (once approved) citizenship for cash, the others are a 10 year process started with investment and residency first. Rules change periodically but I suspect US expats will always have a route in some form or fashion. the Caribbean island nations also have passports for sale (instant once approved). Be aware the instant passports are not cheap, they are usually well over $100,000 like $150,000 or something. But if you absolutely need one, it's a small price to pay to have global freedom. with Mexican residency, a US passport and a second passport in the EU or in the Caribbean then you can travel pretty much anywhere and if the passport is the EU (or if you have EU nation-state residency from a golden visa program) then you can reside anywhere in the EU. That should be a 3-5 year plan but by the 5th year you should have options that allow you to go when you want - i.e. have at least one residency visa outside the US. from there, it's travel, even if modest it doesn't matter, open their eyes to the world. from there, it's looking at colleges in other countries like the EU. I can't get my kids to think about anything but UT but they are also near adulthood so we can reason with them regarding when to leave, especially if i can convince my ex to allow mexican residency "just because we can" right now. foreign languages, focusing on emerging and dominant fields are all great, but it starts with you building YOUR framework for mobility and then your values for that mobility will nearly automatically pass on to your kids. as for the criticisms for posting - fuck that noise - this shit is horrible. the amount of grief, fear, angst, anger, frustration, sadness, depression, fatigue, lethargy that the decline and the HATE causes is sometimes too much to bear. I'm sitting on our own applications for Mexican residency and haven't sent them to our facilitator for all of those emotional reasons and I have a clear and present danger in front of me that should have me sprinting to the goal. so post away and fuck the rest. but again, focus on YOUR mobility and your kids will have it ingrained in them by the time it matters (plus it's a lot cheaper to drag them along as minors than it is for them to have to qualify on their own as adults later).
  24. Is there a way to record on espn+ ? I have the espn app and YouTube tv… can’t watch until 4pm. Grrr. alternatively anyone know if the Texas game will be on demand after?
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