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17 minutes ago, Pancho said:

Quick update on the current status of higher ed: shit show

 

We already have students who have trouble with FAFSA, so this is going to take it to another level. This also impacts those students who have Pell Grants as well, which is just cruel.

I’m having an emergency meeting with all departments within my division (I’m the dean) on what to do in case ICE shows up on campus because faculty are freaking out. We in administration are having a hard time telling if students not showing up yesterday and today are because they were just lost on campus, forgot class began, or are scared of ICE showing up. 

I suppose the utlimate pulling up the ladder move would be for Boomers to basically shut down higher education in America, and force young people to take the shitty jobs being done by immigrants, all the while ensuring those in power can continue to wield their power until literally the last one fucking dies. 

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29 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

If I worked in DEI for an organization who receives money from the federal govt, I would be working to transfer to a non DEI dept yesterday. It’s obvious that defunding DEI will be a requirement to receive those funds. 

This describes the non-profit that my wife works for to a tee.  They work in education and public health.  Every project has been shut down to scrub every mention of anything that could be construed to involve DEI.  They received instructions to remove all pronouns from signatures, not to discuss any issues regarding DEI on company email, and to remove from their personal social media any reference to the company as their employer (along with a plea to please consider the effect on the company and their colleagues when they post on social media). 
 

They’ve furloughed those who have USAID related projects and placed everything else federally funded on hold (except to change all materials that may offend the new administration).

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On 1/27/2025 at 8:11 AM, Beantown Express 2.0 said:

Plus, the $3 for a 10 cent hashbrown and the $4 coffee plus tax means you can get a nice breakfast at McDonalds for $20.  Thanks Biden

Potatoes are still cheap. Make your own hash brown. 
 

we need to, I don’t know, make America grate again. 

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2 hours ago, CooterBrown said:

It'll go to the SC who will rule in favor of the President having spending authority.  Without spending authority, Congress is no longer necessary.  Think of all the money saved by eliminating Congress!

 

I also see SCOTUS vectoring off slightly in that decision to employ a unique interpretation of the commerce clause to require menstruation tents. 

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57 minutes ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

I will never call it the Gulf of America. 

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1 minute ago, Gatorubet said:

I also see SCOTUS vectoring off slightly in that decision to employ a unique interpretation of the commerce clause to require menstruation tents. 

this too.

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4 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

I also see SCOTUS vectoring off slightly in that decision to employ a unique interpretation of the commerce clause to require menstruation tents. 

Well, even the current SCOTUS is going to get something right once in a while.

 

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1 hour ago, David Dennison said:

 

Clearly Trump's renaming of the Gulf of Mexico was petty, and meant to invoke US dominance, but TBH, Gulf of America is a more accurate descriptor for this body of water because it is literally surrounded by South America, Central America, and North America.

That said, fuck it.  It will always be the Gulf of Mexico to me.

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16 minutes ago, Jatrain said:

This describes the non-profit that my wife works for to a tee.  They work in education and public health.  Every project has been shut down to scrub every mention of anything that could be construed to involve DEI.  They received instructions to remove all pronouns from signatures, not to discuss any issues regarding DEI on company email, and to remove from their personal social media any reference to the company as their employer (along with a plea to please consider the effect on the company and their colleagues when they post on social media). 
 

They’ve furloughed those who have USAID related projects and placed everything else federally funded on hold (except to change all materials that may offend the new administration).

Tell her to go work for World Vision, or according to this board, the Methodists. They are going to get all that money. Oh, you want food? Send your kids to Bible Study. Oh, you need plastic for your roof after the hurricane? Come and sit for a sermon.

It already happens, now it will just be sanctioned.

12 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Potatoes are still cheap. Make your own hash brown. 
 

we need to, I don’t know, make America grate again. 

That is bad, even for this site, so of course I applaud you.

I love McDonalds hash browns. They should serve them all day.

Got a recipe?

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Just now, Pato del Muerto said:

Potatoes, grater, oil, heat, pan, pepper. 

The quality of hash brown requires skill with heat and pan. 
 

Never have come close to the crispness of McDonald’s hash browns, but I wonder if cooking them in oil twice has anything to do with their crispness, as it does with French fries.

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5 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Potatoes, grater, oil, heat, pan, pepper. 

Yeah, I know how to make them and do it here and then. But that taste.... Like old oil or something.

 

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3 minutes ago, Willfully Horn said:

The quality of hash brown requires skill with heat and pan. 
 

Never have come close to the crispness of McDonald’s hash browns, but I wonder if cooking them in oil twice has anything to do with their crispness, as it does with French fries.

The other option is that every McDonald’s has an unlimited supply of fry cooks with the requisite skill or can teach it. 

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1 minute ago, Willfully Horn said:

The quality of hash brown requires skill with heat and pan. 
 

Never have come close to the crispness of McDonald’s hash browns, but I wonder if cooking them in oil twice has anything to do with their crispness, as it does with French fries.

Rinse and dry your hash browns to remove excess starch.  Dust with a bit of corn starch and mix well.  Fry in clarified butter.

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3 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

Yeah, I know how to make them and do it here and then. But that taste.... Like old oil or something.

 

I agree. What I make does not taste like what they serve. 
 

was going to mention what cooter said above- mine always seem too wet (twss) and I envisage a day where I use a cheesecloth to squeeze the water out of the hash to see how that changes things. 

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15 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

I agree. What I make does not taste like what they serve. 
 

was going to mention what cooter said above- mine always seem too wet (twss) and I envisage a day where I use a cheesecloth to squeeze the water out of the hash to see how that changes things. 

Soaking in water helps to bring out the starch so they fry up crisper.

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1 hour ago, SubliminalHorn said:

Yep it’s a fucking shame that’s even a possibility. But pain needs to be felt for people to wake up out of this fucking daze. Or it’ll happen with nary a peep from an exhausted populace further entrenching authoritarian rule. Can’t wait to see which!

I wish it affected the Rogan bros in college more than it will.

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50 minutes ago, DixonHur said:

Clearly Trump's renaming of the Gulf of Mexico was petty, and meant to invoke US dominance, but TBH, Gulf of America is a more accurate descriptor for this body of water because it is literally surrounded by South America, Central America, and North America.

That said, fuck it.  It will always be the Gulf of Mexico to me.

It wasn't named after country Mexico. It was named after the people that lived in Mexico well before North, South and Central America was "discovered" by Europeans.

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1 minute ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

It wasn't named after country Mexico. It was named after the people that lived in Mexico well before North, South and Central America was "discovered" by Europeans.

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19 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

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Need one of these but for Kamala. Something like "I know, I just wasn't comfortable with a woman being President". If they were all white, she could say "black woman". 

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4 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

Fuck now I want hash browns.

btw I make the best breakfast tacos in travis county, every sat and sun mornings. with beautiful expensive eggs and my potatoes are like golden kisses of fluffy yumminess. my wife says it's one of my best traits. I think that's a good thing, I think?

10 minutes ago, BurdineBandit said:

Just sitting here listening to AOC's last IG post to talk about week 1 of the new admin and what's going on. Clearly/explicitly, in laymen's terms, and discussing what the implications for these EO's are and what we should do. Explaining how the oligarchy is upon us and who is involved. But we live in a country that doesn't want to listen to an educated woman. Especially a 30-something Latina from a working-class background. Because it makes them feel insecure that they aren't nearly as intelligent as her. They want to listen to billionaires who have spent their entire lives enriching themselves, like their daddies before them did, and convince themselves that they are on the people's side. 

I'm not sure where I'm going with this other than realizing that some people are saying things, but they might seem "maddeningly" silent because they are being silenced. The media is complicit. This is aside from the fact that people were told BEFORE the election exactly what would happen, and frankly, too many people didn't give one shit. What is more noise going to do? The tree is falling in the forest. 

spot on. it's infuriating.

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Just now, troph said:

btw I make the best breakfast tacos in travis county, every sat and sun mornings. with beautiful expensive eggs and my potatoes are like golden kisses of fluffy yumminess. my wife says it's one of my best traits. I think that's a good thing, I think?

what time should I be by with mimosa fixins?

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45 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

It wasn't named after country Mexico. It was named after the people that lived in Mexico well before North, South and Central America was "discovered" by Europeans.

Not trying to start a fight, but that's not even a little bit true.

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Parts of the Medicaid portal are down in all 50 states.

Medicaid block grants are 2.7% of GDP .. if that's down for more than a day the 2008-09 recession will seem like just a bad day playing penny slots. 

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After listening to Trump’s  “young and attractive” press secretary, at her first press conference, it was easy to see why he likes her…besides her looks.  She took every opportunity to blame and demean the previous administration.   She was sharp, but made defamatory disparaging belittling degrading sarcastic and unflattering comments about all things Biden, California, and Dems. policies , egg prices….inflation.  She was like an aggy doing the Horn’s down sign after answering each question.  I was waiting on her to spike the mike when she finished.

 

 

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27 minutes ago, Michael Knight said:

In Mexico they just call it the gulf

Saw where Google Maps is changing the name of the Gulf.  I don’t use their maps.

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2 hours ago, troph said:

fuck this nonsense.

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From Britannica.com:

The name Gulf of Mexico has been applied to the body of water since at least the late 16th century. English geographer Richard Hakluyt referred to the “Gulfe of Mexico” in The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation (1589). That same year, Italian cartographer Baptista Boazio produced a map of Sir Francis Drake’s 1585–86 naval campaign against Spanish colonial holdings in the Americas. Boazio depicted Drake’s fleet skirting the edge of the “Baye of Mexico.” Other names, including the “Gulf of New Spain” and the “Florida Sea,” appeared on maps and in publications over subsequent centuries. 

So, we're just renaming something that historically has had its name for...nearly 500 years because why?

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9 minutes ago, DDD Dad said:

From Britannica.com:

The name Gulf of Mexico has been applied to the body of water since at least the late 16th century. English geographer Richard Hakluyt referred to the “Gulfe of Mexico” in The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation (1589). That same year, Italian cartographer Baptista Boazio produced a map of Sir Francis Drake’s 1585–86 naval campaign against Spanish colonial holdings in the Americas. Boazio depicted Drake’s fleet skirting the edge of the “Baye of Mexico.” Other names, including the “Gulf of New Spain” and the “Florida Sea,” appeared on maps and in publications over subsequent centuries. 

So, we're just renaming something that historically has had its name for...nearly 500 years because why?

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You know why.

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25 minutes ago, Cairn Horn88 said:

After listening to Trump’s  “young and attractive” press secretary, at her first press conference, it was easy to see why he likes her…besides her looks.  She took every opportunity to blame and demean the previous administration.   She was sharp, but made defamatory disparaging belittling degrading sarcastic and unflattering comments about all things Biden, California, and Dems. policies , egg prices….inflation.  She was like an aggy doing the Horn’s down sign after answering each question.  I was waiting on her to spike the mike when she finished.

 

 

I just want to know where/how she met her husband. 

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3 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

If I worked in DEI for an organization who receives money from the federal govt, I would be working to transfer to a non DEI dept yesterday. It’s obvious that defunding DEI will be a requirement to receive those funds. 

We were hosting friends this weekend that were in town visiting from out of state. The wife is a grant writer in higher education and she said she has spent the last two weeks doing nothing but scrubbing all references to DEI in their grant applications.

Posted (edited)
28 minutes ago, The Original Greaser Bob said:

In the sketchier areas of Lake Highlands, we call it the pinche gulf.

Lake highlands itself is known as the gulf of thujone 

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7 minutes ago, The Original Greaser Bob said:

In the sketchier areas of Lake Highlands, we call it the pinche gulf.

You mean Garland?



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