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  1. 2 minutes ago, gmr548 said:

    The protesters are a bunch of 18-22 year olds and many of them were not even eligible to vote when Abbott was on the ballott for his third term in 2022. None of them wer eligible to vote for Trump in 2016 or 2020 or Abbott in 2014 or 2018. Putting this on their voting record is a very weak argument.

    not commenting on their past (I was commenting on "our" past and "their" present). for 18-22 year olds assembling - if you are of voting age and assembling with respect to a political issue, it's a complete waste of your time if you don't donate, volunteer and vote.

  2. 42 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

    He called in riot police that endangered students. It is bullshit. I'm not giving him a pass for this because it was a "difficult position". You don't get to claim to champion free speech and then stamp it down before anything is said or done. Fucking bullshit. 

    I hear you, I think you are reasonable, I think your position is reasonable. I just don't know enough. free speech (and more accurately the right to assemble) in and of itself is complex area of the law, so it's not ever really black or white. AND, fuck DPS and the goons that used bullshit tactics to get the assemblers in trouble.

  3. Calling for help is part of the difficult position. Of course campus police can’t handle it. DPS is under Abbott’s control though, that’s the impossible position. 
     

    Hartzell may be a POS fuck if I know, I’m not willing to go with a black and white / right and wrong / the buck stops with him / he’s a political hack position just yet.

    am I worried about UT and current politics … fuck yeah I am. 

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  4. On 4/20/2024 at 4:32 PM, Chewbacca said:
    On 4/20/2024 at 2:39 PM, Js1 said:
    That was the first thing people told me when I moved there. Smells like shit, it’s gonna snow 

    Maybe it's a north Denver thing. I'm out south. We can't smell Greeley here.

    Tell me you don’t hang with the cool kids without telling me you don’t hang with the cool kids. 

  5. Hartzell was in an impossible spot. Without Abbott a difficult spot.
     

    The difficult spot - I think his letter was in hindsight hot garbage, but with large crowds, national frenzy, the hot button issue of Israel / Gaza, the current landscape of mass shootings and more the campus was not exactly safe even if the demonstrators were 100% within their rights which I believe they were until overwhelming evidence suggests they were not. 
     

    The impossible spot -  I think Abbott is a piece of pig shit, I think he’s a thug and a duplicitous power addicted MAGA slurping cumstain. And Abbott was keenly interested in a political stunt. Assuming Hartzell is not an Abbott yes man by choice, I really don’t see how he could stand up to Abbott without risking a whole lot more.

    Who is at fault - well besides the obvious blame on Abbott himself, we the people are to blame. We have what we elected, we deserve what we get. 

    if everyone of those protestors voted in elections, donated time and money (even if very little) to elections, we would be well on our way to being a better Texas.  Basically, protesting is a distraction unless you donate, volunteer and vote. 
     

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  6. 25 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. I shoot but I don’t hunt, because I don’t enjoy taking life. Nevertheless, I’m getting to a point in life where ethically I think I would feel more comfortable doing that than I am with industrial scale meat.

    It would at least bring the emotional cost of eating meat - taking a life - to the forefront.  I don’t particularly enjoy venison but I’ve only had it a few times. I guess raising a cow is possible too but only with land.

    I don’t particularly have an issue with killing cattle or pigs they are fully domesticated and only have life due to their food potential for humans. I think the methods of raising and slaughtering are some of the worst evidence regarding the cruelty of humans and for profit motivation though.

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  7. You shove an empty pringles can up in there? Mother of god I had no idea.  
     

    btw did someone call their wife “it” up above? 

    this world is coming to an end, kale and empty pringles cans up vajayjays. WTF is next?

    don’t answer that. 

  8. Probably one of my favorite US Pinots, Dragonette Black Label. It’s so fucking good. 2020 only 335 cases. just got our 2021 shipment. I have 8 bottles. 

     

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  9. 3 hours ago, mooseoutfront said:

    Have any of y'all considered becoming hunters to supplement your red meat needs?

    Hunting and fishing provides us with 95% of our protein.  The only meat we buy regularly is bacon.  The occasional ribeye about once a month.  We live on moose, caribou, grouse, salmon, halibut, ling cod, and rock fish.

    I realize that where I live provides us with way more hunting and fishing opportunities than most of you have, but providing for yourself and family is one of the more spiritual aspects of my lifestyle that most people overlook.  The bonding that my wife and I experience during the whole process is immeasurable.  

    Fishing is complicated, there’s not a fresh water catch at least in the continental 48 that I would consider eating at this point. Even Rocky Mountain trout is laced with high concentrations of PFAS. It’s really demoralizing. 
     

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  10. 6 minutes ago, YChang said:

    Ha, how do you feel about one of the leading climate chanage scientists in the world teaches at Texas Tech? 

    Tech has a long history of weather / climate research. no prob. and I don't disagree with the premises that it's going to be hotter than satan's balls in the future.

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  11. 8 minutes ago, CooterBrown said:

    My legislation would require a non-compete to include a severance package that covers the time until it expires since the employer is blocking your right to work.  Either let me work elsewhere or pay me not to work. Your choice.

    top level execs that's exactly what they get. everyone else, not so much. I can support your approach for everyone as well.

  12. Just now, BeardIP said:

    I'd rather just intermittent fast and skip a meal than eat chicken sasuage or turkey burgers and save up my consumption to make it worthwhile. In fact, that's what I mostly do with red meat-- I won't eat a steak for example unless it's a bone-in ribeye. Miss me with any other cuts, including filets, regular ribeyes, etc.

    real chicken, real turkey, no prob though I generally just avoid sausage - and a P Terribles chicken burger is not half bad.  better off dead kitchen experiments though, yeah no thanks.

  13. lab grown is gonna take a while for me. but I keep asking my fam to have at least 2 vegetarian days a week (first for health reasons second environment). we don't eat a lot of red meat maybe once a month, but burgers yikes kids love em. chicken and pork are our go to's.

  14. On 4/22/2024 at 3:34 PM, BeardIP said:

    That's fantastic, and like I said that's great for the environment, etc. and we need people like you, but I just can't with the turkey/chicken inferior substitutes and especially with the plant based stuff. Maybe lab-grown meats will hit the mark?

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  15. 4 minutes ago, The Original Greaser Bob said:

    Well, from a defense employment lawyers perspective, we should limit non-competes, if at all, to the top tier executives and the guys who are given the recipe for coca-cola. 

    But more importantly, it will cause companies to tighten the those non-solicits and confidentiality clauses.  Which will give some more clarity to employees but may ironically give employers more opportunity to harass lower level ones.  Right now it feels like the only non-competes we are willing to enforce are just slam dunk unfair competition/espionage.

    As you probably know better than I do, often the strategy to intentionally breach a non-compete is to isolate the breach to just that and be really noisy and create a pristine record of complying with the confidentially, return of property, and non-solicitation clauses. There are plenty of judges who will see that rigorous compliance and simply not rule in favor of the employer seeking to enforce. It’s a way to mitigate the risk of a lawsuit. 
     

    the juicy ones almost always have trade secret claims which is why this litigation won’t really go away. 

    1 minute ago, Incredulity said:

     Yeah, probably a dumb question to a board filled with lawyers.  LOL.

     

    Well as others have said, it’s a small fraction of the total non competes out there. 

  16. Non-compete lawyers aren’t a fiction, it happens. many of those cases will continue under breach of confidentiality and misappropriation of trade secret clauses. 

    Just now, Incredulity said:

    I was going to ask if anyone had seen a non-compete vigorously enforced.  I have seen/heard bluster and sternly worded notes but not seen full blown litigation.  Although I am sure it happens, it doesn't seem really common.  Broadly, I think NC for Fortune 500 companies are a joke.  As with most rules and regulations its small to mid-cap companies that will be hurt the most.

     

    Yes many, many times. 

  17. On 4/10/2024 at 10:25 AM, Orale said:

    Fucking hell. I'm sorry to hear that. We'd probably just end up selling if it came to that. I can't imagine our tenants accepting that pass through expense, and I wouldn't blame them. 

    My wife has a commercial office building she’s selling. It’s leased NNN but taxes and insurance still are crazy. Add rate resets and it’s time to pivot. We likely won’t be immune from the same issues but we are migrating to warehouse space in another market. 

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  18. Well I’m not supportive of non-compete clauses that masquerade as non-solicitation clauses. As most well written contracts state, headings are meaningless. If it’s a non compete it’s non compete regardless of what it’s called. 
     

    this development will put continued pressure on non-solicitation clauses and they should be focused on customers and clients the employee interacted with in the last say 12 months, and those prospective clients that the employee was actively involved with pursuing at the time they left.

    a non-solicitation clause has to leave room for the employee to legitimately work for a competitor in the same position.

    i haven’t read the details here to know if and how true non solicitation clauses will be impacted. I’m actually on a planning call with an exec and a future employer this week on how to circumvent his non compete and then this happened. My go to non compete litigator will be well versed and spoon feed me I’m sure.

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  19. I think non-solicitation clauses should be enforceable, obviously confidentiality and trade secret clauses too but straight up non-competes are bullshit - though high level executives it’s justifiable but those deals almost always come with a $1 for $1 severance package for the length of the non-compete. Looks like exec non-competes are still enforceable. 

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  20. On 4/14/2024 at 10:26 PM, Rimbo said:

    Surprisingly effective is getting exercise. I haven't been like I need to. I keep thinking about the other advantages and forgetting this.

    Almost 49 and if I don’t exercise hard at least 4 days a week i’m teetering on madness. I also need to indulge my hobbies. I also work from home and I’ll do all sorts of daily tricks - I walk the yard and check on plants and pull weeds for a 15 min break, I’ll get sun light and for sure I will get my strenuous work outs in too. Religiously eat well for breakfast. It feels restrictive but the alternative is an unmitigated disaster. I still have “is this all there is?” and “holy shit I might have only 20 great years left, FML!!” syndromes. I’m not sure when my midlife will hit, I hope to god the stunts I’ve pulled and upgrading my wife situation was it but I don’t think it was.

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  21. Fingers crossed I annihilated yucca bugs with my homemade insecticidal soap mix. It’s dark but earlier today I sprayed a whole infestation and tonight I shook the branches and they all fell to the ground with no resistance. 
     

    let’s hope troph versus bugs round one went to the trophster. 
     

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