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  1. As a once-teenager and current observer of teenagers, I can assure you that no teenager would allow itself to be stuck in a concrete tub at Sea World like an Orca. Also, the shitty MSPaint okra/orca is the content I'm here for.
  2. Barcelona for the summer. Dipped out to Paris for a few days last month to avoid Sant Joan, since we have two young kids and my son hadn't yet seen the Eiffel Tower. Kids love their school (casal) since it's in Castellano and not Catalan, and there's a shitload of activities. Babysitters are like 10 euro an hour. Days are free and nights are fun. Sounds braggy, but this is the thread for it, right?
  3. This. My BIL is a 30yo about-to-be UT grad and he'd laugh his ass off at me if I suggested he check this place out.
  4. As a poor whitey first-gen everything who joined the Army to pay for school and ended up with degrees from three pretty good schools (Northwestern, Michigan, Harvard), I should naturally be against affirmative action *and* legacy admissions under the doctrine of "I walked uphill both ways to school. In snow! You should, too.." However, as a dad that's an alum of those schools and whose kids are mixed, I could not be any more *for* affirmative action and legacy admissions. Especially if there's scholarship money involved. (In reality, I think that Texas' top 10% [is it 7% or something now?] is the best of a lot of tough ways to go about a sticky situation. On one hand, it gets kids who were truly disadvantaged in, without letting in too many Carlton Bankses in. On the other hand, so many spots get taken up there's not a ton of room to let a lot of 3x legacy Chauncey Higgins IVs in.)
  5. TLDR: My $0.02 is that most of these guys are harmless dorks. This is a very weird culture. I stayed with my buddy -- played HS sports together, got an apartment together in college, etc., so an old and good friend -- in Medellin in March for awhile and met some folks like this. He's arguably one, with his Venezuelan immigrant gf who has allowed(?) him a one-way open relationship. Like 80-90% of the expats are just kinda dorky guys back in the US, Canada, wherever, who are just trying to get laid like the cool guys did back home, aiming to do it for free but paying for it if free doesn't work. Not predators, but just dorks who want pussy and can work remotely or have some money attached aside. Like 2%(?) are actually handsome, charming guys just passing thru. The remainder come off as predators. I've also spent a good amount of time in Brasil and the Dominican Republic and it was similar. No thoughts on Asian countries because I've never done more than a brief vacation anywhere in Asia.
  6. Somewhat off-topic, but I'll be damned if I'm not frustrated that a recent update changed the Zoom taskbar icon/logo from to this piece of shit: It grinds my gears every time I look at or click on it.
  7. Ha. Thanks everyone (and to those that DMed). He will plead ignorance -- that he didn't know he could plagiarize himself -- but that he should have been aware of the policy, in any case. He will maximize contrition and point out that he has no record of academic dishonesty and it's something he never would have done had he known it was wrong, and from now on he'll work to be aware of all applicable rules and regs. Guessing he gets something like a zero for the assignment, some sort of wrist slap, maybe has to write an apology letter or a paper on academic integrity or so on. Fingers crossed it's that easy.
  8. My brother-in-law is set to graduate from UT after the fall semester. Best I can gather, we took a class pass/fail in the fall and passed it, then re-took the class this spring semester for credit. One of the assignments was essentially the same between semesters and he may have reused portions of his work from the previous semester. It wasn't a midterm or a final or anything, but a garden variety assignment. He received a letter from the Office of the Dean of Students alleging a violation of UT's Institutional Rules. Specifically, "11-402(a)(7)(c), [sic: it's actually 11-401(a)(7)9c)] about "self-plagiarism," which reads as follows: Plagiarism [is]...when a person submits essentially the same work for two assignments without the permission of the Faculty Member. In any case, he's freaking out since he only has one semester left. Anyone have any experience here? Is this the type of thing where he goes hat-in-hand to the Dean and gets some sort of training under the "Restorative Practices Alternative?" Perhaps he just gets a zero for the assignment or a lowered grade for the class? Is academic probation in play? How about expulsion? I get the sense that the violation is minor enough that a slap on the wrist is warranted, but if his graduation is threatened, I think it makes sense to lawyer up. FWIW, he is an older student who left school and started a successful business and who went back to UT to finish his degree out of pride/see-it-throughness and his love for UT. So that pride part would really be upended if he couldn't graduate. Any background on likely outcomes, experiences you've had, or guidance in general would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
  9. Now away from the MF thread jack? What if Zelensky's statement about the counteroffensive is yet another feint, in order to keep the orcs constantly stressed/on edge? Normally you keep these things quiet but I think the Ukrainians constantly talk about it (as well as the allies) to keep the Russians on edge. The Russians constantly think every action is the beginning of a counteroffensive, look at the Telegram stuff posted here. At this point, I'm not even certain they will launch one, at least in the traditional sense.
  10. Slava Ukraine. FYI in spoiler to hide something CR-adjacent.
  11. Internal Monologue: "Don't go CR, don't go CR, don't go CR." *walks up to the ledge* *looks over* Huzzah(!) for a well-done ceremony, but it'd be nice if they could do it without the heredity title part or, especially, the hereditary obscene wealth.
  12. How cool to be a Ukrainian with the last name HIMARS these days!
  13. I thought you were being sarcastic or silly in your last post. I've demonstrated that (1) they're not the same category of vehicle in terms of simply slotting/categorizing them (weight, purpose, function, etc.); and (2) the performance isn't comparable to today's supercars for what, you know, supercars do. If you have a Tesla and calling it "basically a supercar" IRL helps you get laid or boosts your self-esteem, cool for you. It's simply not a true statement, unless you stretch the statement to it's breaking point and then some. If you want the last word, have at it. It's tough to argue with "your mom," which is up there with "because I said so" or "nuh-uh."
  14. What is the 3rd reason?!?!? If I weren't so lazy, I'd insert the "well, we're waiting" meme here. Anyway, point is that the Model S isn't and shouldn't properly be called a supercar or compared to one. Call it a fast sedan. Compare it to an M5 or Caddy CT5-V or whatever. Or better, an F-150 Lightning or one of these other electric torque monsters like the Model S. But not a supercar.
  15. For example, the Porsche Cayenne turbo -- which is an SUV(!) -- is comparable to the Model S Plaid(!) around what's often considered the world's benchmark track, at around 7mins, 35 seconds. True supercars can cut about 30 seconds off that, which is a LOT, and get down around 7mins flat. The point is, this annoys me because it's a good example of how much of a salesman/huckster that Elon is.
  16. I couldn't disagree more. It is a dragstrip car, akin to a Dodge Demon, and *nothing* like a supercar. IOW, it can go fast in a brief straight line, but is a goddamned dog on a track. So it's a dragster with dated styling and cool tech. The specialist. The kicker or punter of the car world. Not intending to call you out specifically, btw. It's a common enough misconception that it's become a pet peeve for me.
  17. As happy as this makes me, I'm not getting too excited because I already had the wool pulled over my eyes once when O-o-o-O'Reilly went off the air. Next douchebag up to inject poison into the gullible boomer masses. The system moves on.
  18. In reading about this, in many instances, the play seems to be to lease (to get the full $7500) and then buyout the lease at the end of the deal is favorable under the market conditions at the time.
  19. FWIW, if you're including me in that group, I'd encourage you to re-read my post, where I say it's not simple or easy and involves hundreds of small lifestyle changes over years, if you're going to get it to stick. As with most things, cold turkey doesn't work for most people and then, when it doesn't work, they get frustrated. Also, I think it's implied that what folks are talking about here doesn't apply to people with health challenges like pituitary gland issues or hormone regulation issues or something like that. For the remaining large majority of larger people, though, it would apply.
  20. Former fatty-ish here -- 260 at 6'3" in my late 20s/early 30s. I'm now around 200 at 41yo. Cutting back a bit for another visible abs summer (douche alert), when I'll be low 190s. Is it simply or just a lifestyle change? Not quite. it took the better part of a decade for my wife and I to deprogram ourselves from our poor people lifestyle patterns and the typical American diet. We are still working on it but are pretty close to a good equilibrium that allows us to have fun but not pack the pounds back on. But I think it's facile to chalk it up to diet. Or wrapping it up neatly in a package of just lifestyle change. Most people need to be comfortable with it being dozens or hundreds of small good habits that you build, and bad habits that you lose until, one day, you blink, and you can't believe how you looked in pictures or what you used to eat. But I agree with those in here that think it's asking a lot to make a broad lifestyle change. But to ask people to do something small better a few times a month until, a year or two down the road, it aggregates into a lifestyle change? That's fair.
  21. My grandparents and then my grandpa outside of Kassel a couple years later. Two things always struck me in these pictures: - Family legend is that my grandma's heart broke when my grandpa shipped off, only to repair itself when he came home. As my great aunt, who took this picture told it, they tried to get my grandma to smile throughout the day he shipped off, but she couldn't do it. Interestingly enough, her pictures usually have a couple of sentences describing the picture and the year. Here, it's "off to France" in black, and "to war, John and I" in blue. I always imagined her beginning to write her description, not being able to make it through it, and having to pick up her writing at a later day or time, just with a different pen. - In his pictures throughout the war, I notice that he loses his baby fat and becomes more hardened, and you can see it in his pic from Kassel. I know that I went in the Army and came out differently, a more hard person physically and mentally but a much more soft and caring person socially/emotionally, and I wish he would have lived long enough so that we could have talked out our respective stories.
  22. 😡 <--Me, a Detroit homer, pissed we just missed at $284B. Our MSA should include Washtenaw County/Ann Arbor, which would put us around $313B (313 y'all!) Source material if you're interested in going beyond the top 15: https://apps.bea.gov/itable/index.html?appid=70&stepnum=40&Major_Area=5&State=5&Area=XX&TableId=533&Statistic=3&Year=2021&YearBegin=-1&Year_End=-1&Unit_Of_Measure=Levels&Rank=1&Drill=1&nRange=5&AppId=70
  23. Good luck! You also may want to edit to take your name out of the pic of the body part.
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