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	Damor started following SJSU Game Thread , Will UT Bend the Knee? and Why is the younger generation so intolerant?
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	Dumb Austin parking question amnesty, plz. We're going to see Lord Huron at the Moody on Thursday, and this is the first time I've ever paid for VIP anything. We get access to enter at 5p. I reserved parking at Garage R over by Scholz, but it doesn't officially start until 5p. My preference would be to get there early and get something to eat /drink at Scholz, then walk over to the venue by 5p. Will I be able to enter the garage between say 3-4p, or is it all state employee access until then? Do I need a different plan? It should be evident I haven't lived in Austin in a long time.
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	Yeah, mine is finishing his up for this weekend. I've been doing my best to be as hands-off as possible while still being supportive, but it pains a Plan II grad that he doesn't want my help or editing of his essay or short answer questions. Gotta let that go, though. Since I haven't been all in his business, should he be able to tell in the Common App pretty easily which schools want an official SAT report? Sending those to a bunch of schools he's only kinda interested in seems like it would add up to almost as much as the damn application fees.
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	We promised not to move to wherever he chooses to go to school, whether Mines, CU, or CSU. But we lie.
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	My son's exact words. I was a successful dad in a few key areas.
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	I got to go up to Colorado to do another round of college visits for my younger one and to visit the older one. I absolutely love the drive up there once you get out of Texas. I was blessed with an amazing sunset and this incredible thunderstorm between Ft. Sumner and Santa Rosa. Pics don't even come close to reality: Equinox Brewing in Ft. Collins is one of my happy places. The leaves sure do weird things up there: Gratuitous mountain pics. Sorry, they always look good on my phone but turn out to be way overprocessed otherwise. Short hike to a pretty amazing waterfall: Dear God, the weather was beautiful. Amazing to wake up to this but go out by the river, sit in the morning sun, and feel perfectly comfortable at 27deg: Pics of marginal trout are in the fishing thread, but including this little guy who was very displeased that I was taking up his spot. He proceeded to dip in the water and scare everything out of the hole (explaining my lack of trophy fish pics).
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	Got to get up to the front range for college visits for the younger one, and then to visit the older one in Gunnison last week. God, I love it up there. Water was upper 40s, but I was still stupid Texan enough to wade in boots and neoprene socks. Worth it. Didn't do as well as last time, but I was still absolutely content to be out there. Best I came up with: This little guy was not pleased with my shitty fishing in his personal hole, and so decided to slip in and swim all through it, scaring away all the absolute units I was otherwise assuredly going to catch: Let's be honest, these were much more representative of my experience and skillset: When can I go back??
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	Fair, I don't get out to a lot of shows, and I'm certainly not an audiophile. Maybe my hearing is going. Now get off my lawn.
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	I thought the same about the sound for Leon. I haven't been to a ton of shows at the Moody, and I'm not really qualified to explain it, but it seems like bad sound there is more of a feature than a bug. The National sounded awful to me, too, and it got so acoustically tiring that we left both that show and Leon early. Between that and the floor seats feeling like sitting in Basic Economy on Spirit, I'm approaching being done with the Moody Center.
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	This is me not saying, "that would be a positive turn of events."
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	I guess I just feel that the sheer volume of it on stupid social media and relative lack of accountability allows the gradual ratcheting down and blurring of lines between what's intended as ironic humor and what's just racism veiled in humor. Particularly because the "humor" is usually really stupid and/or absurd either way. In other words, the dismal tide. But there I go just being old again. /principalskinner
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	I don't disagree with you in principle, and my poorly organized thoughts don't convey it well, but I am mentally picturing the flood of brain rot on TikTok and what's considered within bounds to shout at your derrrp buddies while playing Helldivers. A "professional" comedian who will be held accountable socially and economically for their hot takes is another fair issue for discussion, but not what I was envisioning, but thank you, as I was very unclear.
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	This is only partially related, but it brings up something that has been bothering me for a long time in my boys' peer groups and social media shithole, which is the rise of casual racism as a hilarious joke. I'm still wrestling with it, and in some ways it's similar to the shock humor I grew up with in terms of dead baby jokes, Garbage Pail Kids, and Andrew Dice Clay. Maybe I'm just showing that I'm an old, but it makes me very uncomfortable and concerned, and I try to explain that to them. On the one hand, I can hope that on a generational level, maybe it's "meta" and such behavior from previous generations (particularly their grandparents') is so ludicrous as to be amusing to them in an ironic way. So in one way, they think they're done with racism as a serious mode of thought, and feel comfortable having a laugh at that. /sweetsummerchild.gif On the other, that requires that the recipient be aware and intelligent enough to recognize it as such -- not instilling a whole lot of confidence in me. Mine are smart enough to get that but have grown up in a relatively small town without a lot of diversity, so it's been on me to help them to understand that a portion of their peer group can't make that distinction, and that their minority friends get stuck in the position of trying to laugh it off, but also having to know that segment of their "friends" goes home to see those attitudes modeled in a very real and unironic way. It just worries me that it gives them false confidence that the world they're going into has gotten over it, and it softens their resistance to racism by blurring the lines of what's "acceptable" humor and what's a foothold for things that we taught them were unacceptable. Well, look at me, I'm ramblin' again. These are ill-formed thoughts, but it's been making me uncomfortable and giving me, as they would say, the ick. I should have just said that yes, social media is the worst, and also, the dismal tide.
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	With regard to recent events, let's hope he doesn't need an MRI or accompany any player who does. Not gonna post the video.
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	Another for the Lord Huron fans. Never released on an album outside of a soundtrack and for some reason hard to even find a decent version on Youtube. I missed the year they played it at Red Rocks. I probably would have broken.
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