TKthunder2

Social programs and defense spending require an ever increasing population. You cut social security, Medicare, public education, public works (roads, parks, utilities) down to the bone/privatize and strip the military down to just patrolling our own border and maintaining the nukes and it might be possible. But as none of those will occur in any reasonable amount of time (for better or worse) we have to figure out how to support an aging population while at the same time getting through rising healthcare/education cost and housing/water shortages. Go us!

Daniel ‘Wilson’ got married and people started sending him wedding presents. The website is dead now but yeah he changed his name again.

When he got married it was Daniel Wilson aka Daniel Joseph aka Daniel Figurelli.

True but (not discounting the cost of supporting them) you guys do realize that these countries demographics desperately need immigrants right? Most would rather take Ukrainian and Russian refugees than those from Africa/Middle East. Right or wrong, Muslim immigrants have been problematic for most of Europe.

To be fair they aren’t just losing the RRSO. During the regular season this year FOX/FS1 had a Texas or Oklahoma game every weekend except for the RRSO which was on ABC this year, a week where OU had a bye, and one random week where Texas was on ABC and OU was on ESPN2. So FOX is losing roughly 10 games each year. They still have the same number of game inventory, but the quality will take a hit without Texas/OU.

Depends on what metrics you’re really looking at (undergrad, research, quality, doctoral) but after Texas it’s roughly: Kansas, Oklahoma, Iowa State, Baylor TCU, Tech, Oklahoma State K State West Virginia

Yep it hits home. Maybe this should go on the Dad thread, but I’ve seen a similar one about not knowing the last time you pick up and carry your son. My boys is 6, and I think about it pretty often.

Would be very difficult for that to happen, as you’d have to get ESPN and the SEC to agree. Locking down a few out of conference games with Big 12 teams is the path of least resistance, even if it’s not our favorite option.

Hiring ahead of your attrition rate was a big deal over the last decade in tech. While cutting certain departments down to the most efficient head count (fewest) they could manage to get the job done, it quickly became apparent that you couldn’t stay on top of your work as soon as you had attrition. And while cutting cost is good for the stock holders on the surface, not getting development, support or implemented on schedule is bad for retaining clients and revenue. As a result workforce management runs numbers to anticipate hiring needs relative to workload and attrition rates so that they can keep running lean without falling too far behind in their business needs. If it take 3 months to get someone fully trained up then you’re typically 3 months behind (not to mention the front-loaded lag time from recruiting, HR, new hire orientation, etc). When you hear slowing down hiring, it typically means they are adjust those numbers due to lower than expected attrition. If I hired two new devs in Q3 in anticipation that 2 would leave between Q4/Q1 and none have left, then slowing down hiring is completely normal and almost a nonevent as the team is now sitting heavy in headcount (which also makes it ripe for layoffs, either cutting underperformers or high cost employees that no longer justify the salary). This is only noteworthy because it’s happening at scale across the industry and now the talent market (which has been bereft of talent recently) is now flooded with a few hundred thousand new applicants. I’d only get concerned if we see another round of layoffs later this year at this same scale. The market correction is good for the business and recent events have given just about every company a free pass to recalibrate their talent. I feel for anyone that was affect by this but on the bright side if tech keeps growing most of these people will find new jobs within a few months.

Everything you said is true, but he’s not a true dictator or else elections (even rigged ones) wouldn’t happen. If he appears to bend to the West and the religious/conservatives will not be happy and the “election” would give them an opportunity do express that unhappiness. The liberal/progressives (if you can even call them that) could also join the protest (because why not take advantage) and that is often the prefect precursor for lightning the fuse on a regime change. Fake dictators stay in power by giving the illusion of choice but that illusion can be dangerous…which is why these “elections” are still politically important in regards to the NATO elevations.

Seems like a lot of people are glossing over this little tidbit. ”With an election slated for May, Erdogan is aiming to burnish his support from religious conservatives.” I would bet after the May election they “negotiate” and they all are singing Kumbaya by the Annual NATO Labor Day cookout.

Zero, only 46 Johns. It was sting on the clients only.

Men that see this bust in that area may temporarily lower their frequency of visits to prostitutes. But in a few months or even weeks it’ll be right back to normal. Enforcement shit like this is pointless.

How’s the war on drugs going?

This is breaking news to me!

So we just remodeled the kitchen and the wife bought two dishwashers so that she didn’t have to put shit away all the time. Not a joke.

@immamac FYI

It’s doesn’t clear anything. Something is fucked up on the backend. and yes I checked, my $3.50 has been paid

What the fuck is wrong with you, Parliament?

I got the ads…

They will not place officials in their house to make sure you fuck and then follow the women around to make sure they carry to term. That is just dumb. The only semi realistic option I’ve seen would be for them to open a series of state sponsored brothels. The best and brights of the men will get to visit and the women will be forced and paid big money to carry to term. Women do not want the personal burden of having kids so China will have to take them on as wards of the state. The girls would be be forced into the brothels until they crank out 4-5 kids and then they would work in the state sponsored daycare for a period of years until they marry one of the numerous unmarried males while still in their childbearing years who may also want children for their own family line. The males will be trained and judged on results and sent out into the world accordingly to the state’s judgement. This would be a way to increase the population, alleviate sexual frustration of the elite class that could cause issues politically, keep children completely indoctrinated by the state in their early developmental years, and remove the burden of people taking care of their elders for a large portion of society in the future which is a top reason people are avoiding having kids today. It’s a pretty disgusting idea that could only work in a system where the state has absolute authority which means it’s perfectly realistic for someone like China.

Clearly a theme from school this week with my 6yo. ”Dr Martin Luther King JR wanted all people to have the same skin color as him” Playing pretend with a kids doctor set with his 3 yo sister… “Do you want to be a nurse or Dr Martin Luther King JR?”

Yep dead as fuck, UH threw a huge fit and since UT bought the land “in secret” the legislature basically lampooned it and lobbed not so subtle threats as to what could happen if we went ahead with the plans. Basically nobody had a chance to line their pockets so they were pissed and sided with UH as it was an easy way to get back at UT.

https://www.goodbullhunting.com/platform/amp/2023/1/19/23557588/where-did-texas-a-m-aggies-transfer-portal-players-end-up