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[News/Updates] Mass Shooting at Robb Elementary Uvalde - 5/24/2022
Pods replied to Ghost of LL's topic in Daily Texan
The single most important thing right now is to emphasize that the cop is wrong when he calls it a "battle rifle". It's a common mistake. He's probably not around guns much. AR doesn't stand for Assault Rifle. It stands for ArmaLite Rifle. I bet he probably calls a magazine a clip too.- 1359 replies
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[SWEET SIXTEEN BOUND] Texas vs Penn State - NCAA Tourney round of 32
Pods replied to shadow_operative's topic in Basketball
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Accurate so far.
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Arizona fans going to dread getting a 2 seed from now on. Now it's a pattern.
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Nah, they're small town zombies. He'll have plenty of advance notice, because they will be stopping to help, and then eat the brains of, anyone broken down on the side of the road.
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"We'll even teach you how to flush the toilet. Hell, take Putin out and we'll throw in a bidet."
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Y'all seriously think this fucking coward would drop a nuke? He is clearly terrified of death. He won't let anyone else get within 15 feet of him. He drops a nuke, his allies are all gone and he's a dead man walking. He will not risk that escalation, which results in him personally being targeted. If he was going to drop a nuke, he would have done it on any one of his myriad of bluffs and it would have been when such a decision could have delivered a tactical win. Those days are long gone. When the stupid motherfucker finally realizes he has no chance to hold his gains, he'll do what gives him the best chance of survival. He'll declare victory and retreat to his bunker.
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Well, moderator. We just say moderator.
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Governor Pussy in Boots
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Here's the article. This object is quite a bit smaller than the previous Chinese spy balloons. The object was ~40,000 feet, instead of 60,000, which threatens civilian air traffic. We shot it down the same way as the last one, F-22 firing a sidewinder missile. We don't officially know what the object we shot down is yet. The object broke up when it hit sea ice.
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Like a moth to the flame...
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Erdogan is a de facto dictator. There is zero chance he'll be threatened in the election. It's rigged. This is about appearing "strong" to the rest of the Muslim world, so he can set up his caliphate, and getting the west to look the other way while he oppresses and murders the Kurds. He's not dealing in good faith. Every time Sweden thinks they have a deal, Erdogan changes the terms and extorts them some more. This is a guy that ordered his bodyguards to attack US citizens on US soil when they had the audacity to protest him. The bigger question is why de facto dictators like Erdogan and Orban are allowed to block near unanimous NATO and EU decisions made by the democracies that actually drive both alliances.
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Well, it's a few days since the Rammstein conference concluded, but it looks like the only acceptable outcome has been reached. Du Du hast Du hast tanks
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I hope Prigozhin does stick to basements. So many Russians dying falling out elevated windows. It's kind of played out. I want to see one of them die falling up through a basement window.
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The Mike Leach offense in restaurant form.
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Agreed. The logistics for supporting the Abrams seems to be a legitimate problem. Germany knows that the UA can't support them effectively. Germany is using this as an excuse to make sure Ukraine does not get ANY tanks.
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22% of men (incl. Kevin) don't realize that a chimp would fucking wreck them
Pods replied to Prepuce of Doom's topic in Lulz
Warning, long detour ahead... Velociraptors were actually Mongolian and the size of a big turkey with a long, stiff tail. Velociraptors in Jurassic Park were based on Deinonychus, which lived in Montana and was a little over 4 feet tall. After Jurassic Park came out, Utah's state paleontologist and some colleagues discovered a dromaeosaurid in Utah that's much closer to the dimensions of the one in Jurassic Park and named it Utahraptor. Pack hunting is actually a really complicated behavior to try to study. There is very little evidence for pack hunting in any dinosaurs, including Dromaeosaurids. It's mostly based on a specimen from Montana of a plant eating dinosaur (Tenontosaurus) with several dead Deinonychus preserved around it. Some paleontologists have interpreted this as evidence of them all being killed in the act of cooperatively hunting, but there are other plausible explanations, so it's unfortunately not much to go on. There is zero direct evidence for the behavior in Velociraptors. That doesn't mean they didn't do the behavior, but it's extremely unlikely to fossilize, and difficult to interpret even if it did fossilize. Fossilization is a very rare process that almost never preserves behavior. There is unfortunately a huge amount of ambiguity for how to interpret the small amount of data we do have. With no solid direct data, the next best thing is a technique called Extant Phylogenetic Bracketing. Basically look at what the closest still living relatives do and try to bracket the behavior with data from more ancestral and more derived relatives. If you see the behavior widespread in living relatives, you can make assumptions the fossil animal may have done that behavior too. It's usually a pretty clean method and easy to interpret, but not here. Pack/cooperative hunting is extraordinarily rare in modern predatory birds, which are the closest relatives, having evolved directly from non-avian predatory dinosaurs. As of the last time I checked, it had only been plausibly reported once in a single species of hawk in a desert environment with scarce resources. It's possible it's been documented more since, but it's clear birds of prey almost always hunt solo. Another problem is this may or may not even be informative, because almost all predatory birds hunt aerially and only some dinosaurs did this. Most of them were terrestrial hunters, so it's plausible the behavior could differ from modern predatory birds. There are a few terrestrial predatory birds and they hunt solo, but it's an uncomfortably small sample size to draw big conclusions from. Crocodylians may hunt with a bunch of other crocs nearby, but they don't cooperatively hunt, though they may communally feed once one of them brings down prey. More recent studies suggest turtles are also close relatives, though more distant than crocs and birds. Turtles don't cooperatively hunt. Just like with birds, this behavior may also not be informative, because they are almost all primarily aquatic creatures, while most dinosaurs were terrestrial. All other archosaurs are dead, so we can't get any observational behavioral data for them without a time machine. We do know from trackways and mass death sights that plant eaters often moved in herds, so a lot of paleontologists think it is plausible some of the predators may have hunted in packs, especially given how dangerous some of the potential prey could be in a large herd. However, we don't have any actual evidence for it and the Extant Phylogenetic Bracket method is the only thing providing actual data, which suggests that cooperative hunting was probably rare, if we can trust the data, which I'm not sure we can. If I put myself on the spot to draw conclusions, I'd say cooperative/pack hunting was likely more common in non-avian dinosaurs than it is in any close living relatives, but we'll likely never have the data to really know. A rock is a tool/weapon and one other primates also use, along with sticks, to attack each other and other animals. If we get to use them, so do the chimps, which they do commonly to war on neighboring troops. That said, this discussion has been about one person against the animal in unarmed combat. In the video posted, there are two people. One of them is using a tool (deer antler) to distract the badger, while the other guy grabs it from behind. Even with two people, and one of them using a tool, the stupid bastard that picked the badger up still almost got nailed. Tendons, blood vessels, nerves and muscles in the forearm are pretty vulnerable. That guy would have needed major reconstructive surgery if the badger had gotten a hold of his forearm and/or hand. He's as lucky as he is stupid. One person trying that without any tools/weapons would get fucked up fast. -
22% of men (incl. Kevin) don't realize that a chimp would fucking wreck them
Pods replied to Prepuce of Doom's topic in Lulz
Yes, there is. Weapons. We're soft and squishy with shitty teeth, piss poor jaw strength and useless nails instead of claws. We didn't become murder incorporated until we invented spears and the atlatl. Can vouch for this. I was chased by both camping when I was 13. I ran like a bitch from both and would do it again. My sister and I accidentally got between a female moose and it's calf. Not even anywhere close to either one, just accidentally somewhat between them. Mama didn't take kindly and immediately charged us. We ran as fast as we could back to camp, dodging trees as quickly as we could. The moose didn't dodge shit, just ran right through them. It was fucking terrifying hearing it smashing through the trees and rapidly gaining on us. Fortunately, my grandma had a very loyal boxer that heard us from camp and saved our asses. She came hauling ass towards us right as we exited the tree line and flipped the tables on the moose. The moose turned tail and ran, pursued by the dog. Dog came back about 30 minutes later proud as she could be and got some steak for dinner. I still miss that dog. One of my cousins got chased back to their truck by a bull moose around the same time. Cousin lept into the truck bed and had to climb into the cab through the back window. While they attempted to climb into the cab, the moose repeatedly charged and rammed their truck. The truck got fucked up pretty good before they could get it started and drive off. I've also had interactions with moose that were completely chill. Moose are either totally cool, or psychotic and the switch between them flips easily and somewhat arbitrarily. The badger was me and a buddy being stupid bored 13 year olds throwing rocks into a hole. Come to find out, a badger lived there. The badger came out fucking pissed and took off after us. We had to climb onto some nearby boulders and wait almost an hour for it to stop circling around the base of the bolder hissing and growling at us. -
The Republican Civil War - it will be because we destroyed ourselves
Pods replied to tx 3 putt's topic in Cloak Room
Ryan and McCarthy both knew exactly who Trump is and who pulls his strings, but they covered up for him and protected him for years. They are traitorous pieces of shit whose names should never be mentioned without being followed by some form of the word traitor. Fuck Paul Ryan. He had his chance and chose to betray his country and protect the assets of our #1 adversary.- 1453 replies
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It's honestly surprising more companies haven't moved on their own sooner. They lose enormous amounts of money and market share to Chinese intellectual property theft. China has spent decades now blatantly ripping off our science and intellectual property. In exchange, we get a more competent Chinese military and a whole lot of cheaper, shittier, counterfeit and knockoff products on Amazon. We need to stop funding our adversaries. The sooner we move our manufacturing back to our hemisphere the better.
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