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  1. Basically, huge Day One jumps for Travis and Bexar, slight Day One dips for Harris and Dallas. That's good. I figured there was something like that going on.
  2. This article says over 56k for Dallas County (it was 60,958 in 2020) https://www.nbcdfw.com/decision-2024/north-texas-sees-record-turnout-challenges-on-first-day-of-early-voting/3676885/
  3. There's no way exactly 100,000 people early voted in Harris County yesterday. That has to be some kind of cap or limit or glitch in the reporting, right? https://earlyvoting.texas-election.com/Elections/getElectionEVDates.do There's no way exactly 0 people early voted in Dallas and Tarrant Counties yesterday, either. 46,280 for Bexar is a record high First Day EV turnout https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/bexar-county-early-voting-record-19848470.php 46,611 for Travis is a record high First Day EV turnout https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/long-wait-times-seen-as-early-voting-kicks-off-in-texas
  4. An effete violin prodigy with TV executive parents goes to private school, gets a book deal from a wackadoodle Christian publisher, gets a cushy columnist gig from Andrew Breitbart while in law school, does conservative talk radio, then jumps to David Horowitz's think tank before being bankrolled by oil tycoons to do Daily Wire. He's been a media ghoul since the womb, and damn near every dark money asshole we've never heard of has a few of these pet projects cooking.
  5. May God help anyone who's caught snitching. The delay is what saved us on that DPI, but it didn't have to take the form of bottle-throwing.
  6. My guess is we'd be relinquishing our full share of the TV deals. I don't think kicking us out would be in the cards unless things truly weren't working out, but that wouldn't have been the bottle throwers' fault.
  7. I bet there are time-wasting jagoffs whose indecision and lack of preparation are causing long lines.
  8. The guy who can't spell one of the most visible brands on the planet, who's never worked a real job in his life, has his finger on the pulse of America.
  9. If it's in a flipbook, I think so.
  10. You have that badass ranked choice system we're jealous
  11. If you do it, don't get caught. All I want is your vote to count.
  12. Technically shouldn't be on Surly while in line or not beyond the invisible "no signs no campaigning" line.
  13. He would lose his title if he'd said anything that Hartzell wouldn't approve. Sad to see, but I ain't surprised.
  14. They more or less threatened our alcohol privileges, if we don't.
  15. This was a situation where a comparable make-up call was not likely to happen. I really liked how Sark handled that moment, and I will give the officials credit for reversing the call when the fans gave them every reason not to. Although the fans were breaking the rules, I don't see any other way Texas could have prevented Georgia from starting the next play. Barron had taken the ball to the 9 yard line, and then you can't really see who got the ball. Three members of the crew spoke quite a bit before announcing the alleged DPI. ABC was not showing us whether or where the ball was being placed after the alleged DPI. I think this is Matt Loeffler pointing at a beer can at the 30 yard line after 12 seconds had run off the clock, and the clock had indeed been running for those 12 seconds until there was a stoppage at 2:48, which leads me to infer that the ball had already been placed at about the 46 yard line (the spot of the "foul") and might have been snapped if it weren't for that meddling beer can. Some Georgia staffer walked the width the field to grab the beer can, and it seems the clock resumes not long after he stepped off the field of play, because at the 1:55 mark of this video both teams are lined up at the 46 and eight seconds had run off the clock (thanks ABC for taking the clock off the screen during these replays). This is an important moment to me because it sure as fuck doesn't look like the crew had any intention of chatting more about this DPI call. Two members of the crew are over 25 yards apart, by the Pythagorean theorem, and no two officials are standing close enough to one another to talk without having to shout. At that point a bunch of bottles had already been thrown at the north end zone, which prevented Georgia from snapping the ball again. As that was going on, Loeffler motions to "bring it in." I am convinced this call would have stood if it hadn't been for the forced delays. I agree with the $250k fine, and I agree with there being consequences for the people who actually threw bottles and could have hurt someone (old people lose their balance easily and a stadium is a bad place for them to lose their balance), but I don't agree with mass surveillance or doing more than the bare minimum to find out who could be punished. Instead of Big Brother, we should put 4 of our best detectives on it, in case there are any leads.
  16. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/fox-news-bret-baier-defends-kamala-harris-interview
  17. I'm not sure if I believe in any kind of lie detection, but polygraphs are 100% horseshit and outside of law enforcement were probably were used in the 80s and 90s as a cover for racial hiring.
  18. El Paso, Corpus Christi, and the Valley look to be run by barely-sentient skeleton crews. Possibly AI or Cambodian sweatshops.
  19. If it's what I think it is, I love it
  20. Journalism is really dying.
  21. Usually its because some asshole bought the paper. Let's see. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/aug/12/pearson-sells-economist-stake-exor
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