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Homercles

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  1. Wtf is wrong with some of yall? Signed, Oklahoma State fan
  2. Homercles

    2025 ACL

    Between being a big pop star and the unending Taylor Swift rumors, I figured Sabrina was going to be a madhouse so I stayed with my group instead of bouncing to Strokes. The red message on screen and dude on the PA telling everyone to step back was a new one to me, probably trying to be proactive after Chappell last year. This was my 20th, missing only 2013 as we were in maternity with our newborn son…and this is the first time that serious discussions have kicked off about breaking the ‘buy early bird 3 day, buy Chuy’s parking pass, get in early to setup home base in the shade, and be all in’ default plan. Friday night as we were shuffling through the EotS/Hozier crush, staring at a bright Range Rover sponsor booth, lamenting the loss of draft beer, breathing dust, carrying a $17 Coors…I wondered what VIP is like. Then I look at the VIP stands and the $30k bungalows, and they’re all jockeying for position at the rails…and fighting They’ve made a ton of improvements over the years and my core memories there are fully intertwined with my life in Austin…but as prices just get to stupid levels and I get older/less tolerant to heat/dust, can see a point where we just wing it with a 1-day after lineup is released.
  3. Homercles

    2025 ACL

    Yeah that sounds about right. They can’t control an artist’s popularity between booking and showtime, see Lizzo / Chappel Roan / Lumineers / etc…but EotS really surprised me as they’ve been around for well over a decade. Based off Reddit chatter already, wondering if Passion Pit is going to be a massive spill out of the tent. Not likely to cause an actual crush, but it can jack up traffic there with food/bathroom access. Have loved that guy since the Manners day, so blows my mind that these youngins may be lining up for him…possibly without a tour band? Who knows, I’m a grumpy bastard with all the corporate / bungalow / profit squeezing shit they’ve been doing.
  4. Homercles

    2025 ACL

    Man that crush between rock island and the ‘tent formerly known as beer tent’ was Lizzo-levels for that EotS/Hozier handoff. Recall years ago when there used to be a stage there, it was often a choke point…but we got caught up in that mess tonight, and it was borderline dangerous. Moral of the story is when you’re making a big move across the park to close out the evening, don’t let your friend Chris navigate. Fuckin Chris.
  5. Yeah gotta love the “there was no autism in my day” crowd that pivots immediately to their strange Uncle Steve…who never got married, ate at the same table at the same diner and ordered the same dish for 25 years, and whose house was converted to a model railroad shrine…didn’t need no commie socialist liberal mental health care.
  6. Pardon longcat: I’ve seen too much of this world to project my personal experiences on others…especially youth/young adults. That said, I’d argue: - Housing is either runaway rent in desirable locations, or affordable starter homes are owned by corporations/more affluent older folks - As expected the ‘supply chain’ price increases during COVID never went away - Large businesses are hell bent on using GenAI to eliminate entry level positions, making the hiring process a robot-driven maze of shit, and squeezing the last ounce of life from those who make it (RTO, social media monitoring, stagnant wages, etc) - College education cost:benefit has spiraled as prices rise uncontrollably - Their primary schools are regularly shot up, or closed due to budget, or quality teachers leave red states - One health problem can bankrupt you Theres plenty more, but I feel fortunate to have had an entry level tech support job after finishing college in 2002 which afforded healthcare, a starter home 3 years later, $12k in college debt and no PTSD from lockdown drills. There’s a huge portion of young adults that are being denied the American Dream and looking at a future of slave wages where they don’t ever end up owning anything…setting the stage for being susceptible to misinformation, happily fed to them by both traditional and social media that are now concentrated in the hands of a few people/corporations (Zuck, Musk, Sinclair, Nextstar). Feeling hopeless and angry, with endless ways to connect with others in the same boat and a government not only encouraging but actively spreading misinformation…you’re gonna pizza when you should have French fried.
  7. If it weren’t so sincere and sinister of a motive to hate on LGBTQ folks, I’d crack up at their pearl clutching…guess all that gay, lesbian, ‘trap’ or trans or whatever that seems to be about 1/3rd of every porn site is only viewed by dirty liberals huh?
  8. Shit, I feel MORE confident when I see a black person in a position of responsibility/authority…because you know their ass had to not only meet the requirements, but also overcome bullshit at every crucial point in their career while being careful to not piss off the bigots.
  9. I too keep a lectern made from recycled Popov handles in my IKEA showroom office.
  10. What’s she gonna do? Like Kirk even let her learn how to drive.
  11. Party of personal responsibility…”Kirk was an angel spreading his heavenly message on all of us, you haters ignore Jesus” Party of Free Speech…”we are going to impeach, fire or otherwise harass anyone who even quotes him” Party of law and order…”we gutted the FBI and put it under the watchful lazy eye of some meme personality such that monkeys that were fucking a football decided to stop and laugh”
  12. “It’s always your own peoples, sometimes it’s your own peoples”
  13. Yeah I have so many ‘favorites’ to chose from… “Black women do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously. You had to go steal a white person’s slot to go be taken somewhat seriously.” Or maybe “Gun control, like vaccines and masks, is focused on making people feel ‘safe’ by taking freedoms away from others.” Or how he doesn’t believe in retirement, or his hypothetical 10yo daughter would carry the rapists baby, or he doesn’t trust black pilots, or comparing trans folks to wearing blackface, maybe how democrats women want to die alone. Edit: Actually after that I think I’ll stop wrestling with the pig and settle for only getting my shoes dirty
  14. Incredulity is the embodiment of Skinner saying “am I so out of touch? No it’s the children who are wrong”. I’m stealing the idea of asking people what their favorite Kirk quote is…Incredulity can go first
  15. …as there’s a drive to deep left field by Castellanos
  16. Any Project 2025 scholars here? Wouldn’t surprise me if somewhere in those 700 pages is a “operative assassinate right wing political commentator as excuse to do xyz awful thing” plan
  17. I’m not so much worried about tanks, perversely given I live in a red state…I’m more concerned about redneck vigilantes throwing Trump flags, guns, and a gallon of Military Special going door to door for purity tests. Austin is surrounded by rural communities filled with right wingers who certainly have plenty of guns, time and motivation on their side. My neighborhood up here in Cedar Park is heavily Indian and N Asian folks…my kids love doing stuff like Holi and Diwali + we are good friends with a bunch of them…and I could see potential for trouble. See that MAGA? It’s called caring for others…empathy may be too big of a word for you…beside yourself or your carbon copies on Truth Social.
  18. Fucking flags spend more time at half mast than full lately, it feels like. Country definitely headed in the ‘right’ direction…
  19. Two more feet and I can fit it in the fridge
  20. Yeah that’ll show China! Surely their lost revenue from Texas will keep them from funding the armada assigned to taking Taiwan…
  21. Anyone remember the If Google Were A Guy skit, one of the earliest ones where the Guy had two piles of paperwork…”I’ve got one that says it does and four hundred thousand that says it doesn’t” and the woman says “Thank you” grabbing the single result. Just like TikTok it’s all a symptom of tiny attention spans seeking the easy answer that puts the blame on someone else…right up the alley of stupid people who want a catchers mitt with eyes telling them vaccines, dyes, pasteurized milk and clean water are the cause of their woes. So now our kids get to grow up surrounded by walking bags of Covid, flu, mumps, measles, rubella, etc…fucking kills me
  22. Just wait until copilot is embedded into the OS and can’t be turned off…keep waiting for Apple to do the same on iOS. It’s not enough that they install 100+ cookies and max out my phone’s cpu with ads just to read an article, the entire OS needs to be a data vacuum that captures every interaction I have with it while constantly pushing their paid services as notifications. When that bubble does pop I’ll be interested to see what happens with all these monster data centers…anyone remember all that excess dark fiber from the .com bust? Except here the heavy money is invested in rapidly outdated racks of GPUs, though I’m sure the rest of the compute fabric depreciates more slowly. Opportunity for some enterprising person, like Switch did in Vegas. Of course none of the trechbro dickheads or obstinate c-suite types will likely ever admit it, but seems obvious to me that Transformer won’t scale itself to sentience. Plenty of folks find it useful (or fall in love with it), but they’re not going to be operating at massive losses forever so the usual flow of hooking people before raising prices may not work for trillion dollar chat bots. My guess is we see it go the way of Grok, highly valuable as a means to steal your data while spreading disinformation sold to the highest bidder…sorta like Plaintir. Gotta justify those capital outlays somehow
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