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  1. Not sure I have ever seen anything quite like this. Hardly anything is frozen, yet, but there's just inches of slush everywhere there's not traffic. Tomorrow morning is gonna be an absolute shitshow, along with the overnight.
  2. Despite, or because of, his silly tendencies at times, love me some Peter Berg.
  3. Wild-ass guess. The sidearm delivery probably only produces accuracy over a pretty short throw and at relatively low velocity. You don't see third basemen and outfielders with sidearm throws. And the sidearm delivery lets him throw about 3/4 velocity, fast, accurate short passes without setting his feet, much like a shortstop. Doesn't work so well for airing it out.
  4. It really doesn't. It has had gobs of opportunities to rule for Trump either without creating a much precedent or creating no precedent at all. The most pro-Trump ruling is the immunity decision, but that's not a personal favor to Trump, that's more of an "imperial president" or "unitary executive" decision. Everything they've done has implications beyond Trump and Trump only wins if the court likes those implications.
  5. Odds that the exhaust is wide open and he's dropping throttle routinely?
  6. No one is better than Emma. Maybe Zoe. 😛 Quality back row depth makes me happy.
  7. That might be more of a latter-day thing. This was in the days of MS-DOS, VAX, S360 and frame-relay networks. The College of Business in those days had "DPA," but Baylor's MIS at the time seemed more CS and less applied CS. That wasn't my bag, but I had more than one friend or acquaintance in engineering, and business for that matter, that wanted a CS degree and couldn't really find one at UT. The notion of Baylor was nearly as repellent then as it would be today. Sidenote, I find it amusing that the former "College of __________" has now been replaced by major donor/patron names and that the college structure was based on UVa. At the time I thought that was cool, because UVa was a school worth imitating. Now, I see that as likely kind of a lost-cause type of thing.
  8. In the minds of the majority, apart from any arguments from Trumpco.
  9. Two things on this. The current SCOTUS doesn't serve Trump per se. A policy that favors Trump needs to favor some other aspect of the christofascist/P2025 agenda. I'm not sure how this would serve any interest other than Trump. Second, the 22nd was drafted and ratified in the modern era, so it doesn't suffer the vagary of many of the founding documents and first 100-150 years of legislation, so it is far less susceptible to fuckery.
  10. Yeah, I harbor some hope along these lines. His ability to bring votes to the GOP is growing limited by, if nothing nothing else, his impending death, let alone his inability to run for further office.
  11. Back in the 80s, UT didn't have a computer science degree, then only a BA that wasn't very rigorous. A few people interested in that field actually transferred to Baylor or got an abbreviated second undergrad in MIS (some of these people were EEs that realized that wasn't what they wanted and it was too fucking hard). I realize now that MIS is far from the same as CS, at least as conceived today. Not sure how that worked out for them.
  12. It was penance for prior meddling in Central America that has proven to be disastrous. Although the point has been made that it would probably have been a disaster, anyway. Possibly less bloody.
  13. Don't forget bitches, preferably foreign ones, who let you grab em by the pussy. This guy is such a completely aberrant personality. Makes Nixon look well-adjusted.
  14. It's slightly complicated. Some amount of water from Norcal is kept in Norcal to maintain ecosystems that house endangered species like the Delta Smelt. If the Delta Smelt is ignored, more water heads south. But south means Central Valley, not LA, where the wildfires are. Of course, LA was founded on stealing water from the Central Valley, but I'm not sure where that stands. So, ultimately, Trump is lying.
  15. What a great bunch. All credits to the university.
  16. Did they get Bubbas? Or is that only UP?
  17. REM City Coliseum 1986. Sound was extremely muddled, and, it was right after releasing Life's Rich Pageant and they mostly played what was then obscure shit from that album. But the sound was so bad it was hard to tell what they were playing.
  18. I think Turner's main accomplishment was maintaining strong alumni support and fundraising in the post-death-penalty era at SMU. SMU's academics prior to the 80s were on par with UT's, for the most part, especially their business school and fine arts. But it had begun to wallow a bit in the 80s and killing off football endangered it. And tuition had become astronomical, making it a dubious value proposition. Another thing Turner did was revitalize engineering and STEM after SMU had previously declined a monstrous donation from TI founders to beef up their engineering programs that instead went to UTD and is largely responsible for its ascendance. I have seen credible reports that Turner and Hartzell made the same, so I'm not sure they had to go a lot higher to attract him, given the other shit he was having to deal with that he won't at SMU.
  19. Well, unless they get a medical school on campus and a whole lot more research money, affiliation with the UMC will be the least of their problems. The AAU ain't for small private schools.
  20. I looked at their donations and they're all over the map. Whatever is likely perceived as in their business interests, but not Trumpy/Magat. Also a whopping about $150k in donations.
  21. Unless you're on the Board of Trustees, I'm not sure anyone conclusively knows why SMU attempted the split. It was clearly related to the 2019 General Conference, which, thanks to non-US churches and conferences, voted to maintain bans against LGBQT clergy and marriage. Ironically, somewhat, that caused the schism under which "conservatives" left the UMC denomination, despite having "won." When the BOT amended the Articles of Incorporation in 2019, SMU President Turner mentioned that LGBQT rights were protected, whatever that means. Supposedly, Bishop Scott Jones was one of the only dissenting votes to the amendment, and he was the sole Trustee that was actually affiliated with the governing body, the Southern Conference of the UMC. And no, SMU is nothing like Baylor and never has been. The UMC has not been at all heavy-handed with the university and would never do shit like ban drinking or dancing on campus.
  22. Yeah it really isn't about education at all. The dumbfucks and morons have always been there. What is different is that they never had someone riling them up with stupid and bigoted shit. No one's had the gall and lack of shame of Trump since probably the segregationist days and even they were more serious people than Trump. They have always been engaged on an actual quasi political level, which doesn't often get them off the couch. Nor did they have sources of pseudo information cloaking it all with some form of legitimacy. If no other way than by repetition and acceptance by other morons.
  23. Good idea. Small contributions to TI PAC, which is all over the place.
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