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Everything posted by TwiceHorn
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Yuuuup. Damn. They were also cagey as fuck, the hatefulness was just barely concealed beneath the surface of the ads. Not you and too liberal.
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Goddammit. And I knew it, too, while seeing them. I harbored some faint hope that people would see through it, but no.
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Pretty good piece on Trump's contortion of Article II. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-meaning-of-article-ii-and-'executive-power'-to-trump Basically, if Article II is silent, he has implied or inherent power. Also, Article II trumps Article I. Fun shit.
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I was buddies with some ZBTs in my complex. That means Jewish guys, but these weren't the ones from Illinois and NY, they were from Houston and South Texas had mounted deer heads on their walls wearing tallits (prayer shawls), dipped copenhagen, wore wranglers and boots most of the time.
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Went to Cheap Trick here in Dallas a couple of weeks ago. Good show, they're still pretty tight. I have a friend that plays in local bands that basically idolizes them (has been playing since early 80s) and clued me in that they have a shit ton of material since their last hit/airplay, something of which I wasn't really aware, thought they kind of hung it up when Bun E did. Made me kind of sad, and I understand they're sort of resentful of not receiving much of their due.
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Latest Hot Teacher Has Sex with Student
TwiceHorn replied to Hoosier Longhorn's topic in Daily Texan
All three of my Spanish teachers were gringas. Pero one was a red-headed Argie (or maybe Uruguayan) with a German surname and another was a blond Castilian. -
We need to do something about these private equity bastards
TwiceHorn replied to Horn Under a Bad Sign's topic in Cloak Room
I remember seeing that GE annual report posted. Couldn't find it again but found an archive of them and glanced at the 50s-60s ones and didn't see the same sentiment. Did see some anti-union and usual rent-seeking sort of stuff, though. I do know that before the depression, equity investment (stocks) were regarded as rank speculation, while bonds were the dominant form of corporate finance and Benjamin Graham's Securities Analysis focused on very fundamental business analysis like cash flows, assets to debts, etc. so the emphasis was on long-term survival and measured growth based on sustainable profitability. "Internet stocks" would never have achieved the value they currently have under such analysis. And we all know what has happened since. -
One of the problems with any kind of transparency: if the hoi polloi are incapable of understanding the subject matter (e.g. mRNA vaccines), no amount of transparency, radical, super-duper, or ultra-, is going to help anything. This is why private-sector health care is so fucked.
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I note the Standard assiduously avoids using either term. Also, performative waste of money. An Arleigh Burke costs about 81 million a year to operate, so 6.75 million/month or 225k/ day.
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We need to do something about these private equity bastards
TwiceHorn replied to Horn Under a Bad Sign's topic in Cloak Room
Here's a question for you or anyone else. I feel like (muh feels!) that business at one time in this country was a bit more civic minded and socially responsible than over the last few decades. There are some milestones like Milton Friedman and "trickle down" that seem to correspond with declining social responsibility, but is my feeling one of those erroneous notions like 50s America was great? Also, this brings to mind that Trump's adoration of the "gilded age" is so on point: an industrial revolution not unique to America exploited by robber barons where wealth and income inequality skyrocketed, culminating in anti-business legislation. He loves it because of tariffs and no income tax, but it was a fairly disastrous few decades for all but the very wealthy. So, post-WWII America, the "golden age," for all its flaws, is much preferable to the gilded age. -
Of course, that will be dismissed as some kind of deep state shit. But those people are exactly the kind Elmo usually likes minus the ideologuy. This was a pithy quote from the article: “‘Move fast and break things’ may be acceptable to someone who owns a business and owns the risk. And if things don’t go well, the damage is compartmentalized. But when you break things in government, you’re breaking things that belong to people who didn’t sign up for that,” said Cordell Schachter, who until last month was the chief information officer at the U.S. Department of Transportation.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
TwiceHorn replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
That seems to be a sort of modern phenomenon. It used to be that rookie engineers felt pretty useless for several months in their first job: you know all this stuff of sort of general application, yet everyone around you seems to know how to use it in the specific project and you're often told "good thought, but we've already tried that and here's why it didn't work" and things like that. Or a favorite task for a rookie engineer is the most challenging non-critical task, sort of nothing else we've tried will work, see what you can come up with. -
A few things here. Theoretically speaking, truth is no defense against a non-disparagement agreement, but from a policy standpoint (as in voiding the clause) and a factual standpoint, relaying objective facts that may or may not cast a business in a bad light may or may not breach the agreement. Legally, you can probably bargain away your First Amendment rights, but the public may also have a right to know factual information. This is a problem with NDAs generally when they concern non-trade-secret/commercial information. But a couple of the main things is a) they are personal (they don't extend to publishers or republishers if the information is non-defamatory) b) they are enforceable typically only by monetary damages rather than an injunction, which is a possible remedy in trade secret disclosure cases. Arbitration is kind of an amusing way to have to handle this. It's private, so that's probably a big win for Zuck and the forum/arbitrator is probably less likely to conclude that enforcement of the clause violates public policy. But the damages award is likely to be pretty conservative and subject to pretty strict proof (it's hard to causally connect disparagement to actual financial losses, so these usually have liquidated damages clauses, or just purport to force you to return severance). So, such clauses are kind of nasty, but they're not as effective as employers would like them to be.
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I think my broader point may be that Bessent seems to be a trader and kind of a financial hack that's interested in gains and to hell with everything and everyone else. That's par for the course for Secretary of Treasury. But, I actually think that guys like Paulson, heads of ibanks and even merchant banks, may have a better and broader understanding of macro- and international economics. I'm not quibbling with unnecessary stimulus or some of his other points but he acts like that happened only under Biden. And, I think his statements that Trump is economically sophisticated are just plain pandering. I can believe that Harris was not, but I don't find that a fatal flaw in a presidential candidate. I am highly suspicious of anyone that would attach themselves to Trump. Some of their motives, the P2025 types and Musk, are obvious. I'm not sure what's in it for this guy
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
TwiceHorn replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
I tend to agree. But I could say that if you haven't taken calculus, you're not actually educated. I tend to blame high schools as much as college. I can't speak for aggy, but UT was conscious of engineers' inability to write and at least paid some lip service to it. In some of our courses, we got writing grades administered by linguistics grad students. I don't think they were really the best choice as their grading was over-harsh and didn't seem to give any credit to the "difficulty" of the subject matter, meaning not that it was incomprehensible, but difficult to "write well." But a BSME degree was already 131 hours nearly 40 years ago, and that with the three Englishes, the humanities elective, history and government, etc. The biggest issue for us was a lack of practice of writing outside of basically lab reports. Engineers tended to get pretty good grades in electives, if for no other reason than to help their GPA, so it's not like we're complete left-brain regards (although some are). And, as 956 notes, also a lack of reading of anything but technical academic texts. -
The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
TwiceHorn replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
Good point. Although I might submit that depending on the context of the reading (pleasure, academic, etc.) the benefit to writing can sometimes be lost. On the other hand, some of it seems to be kind of osmotic: you read it, it's gonna make some kind of impression. I say all this having never written a grad school thesis or dissertation, but I have converted about a dozen of them into patent applications, or at least read them as a resource, which probably makes me a rare bird outside thesis advisors. -
The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
TwiceHorn replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
Sometimes true, yes. All the professions seem to have their jargon. But I don't think it's really intentional, it's just immersion. More than anything else, I think grad school theses and dissertations tend to just be a slog to document the research. Not a great deal of thought is given to good writing or communication in most cases, just vomit it out and maybe try to spell things correctly and use complete sentences. And it is incredibly easy when documenting research or experimentation to lapse into passive voice, because often the object (the research) is of far more importance than the actor. Conversely, it can be quite hard to use very active voice. ETA: Hat tip to Terri LeClerq for helping me understand that neither I nor engineers were fundamentally defective writers, it's the nature of the writing we did in undergrad and the lack of more conventional persuasive or communicative writing. Writing patent applications can be much the same way, but you have the benefit of doing it over and over again, not just "one and done" (and thank God at that). So, if you give a shit, you can use it as writing practice and strive to make things as clear and readable as possible, even if you're stuck with certain obscure vocabulary. -
America's Foreign Policy & Other Shit Going On Around the World thread
TwiceHorn replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
Not sure what this references, but you're a big Tulsi Gabbard supporter. Her reposting ot IMC kind of shows what sort of media environment in which she's immersed. And also shows sterling judgment. But I guess it's ok to say the quiet part out loud now. And to be unserious. Also, I suspect a DNI should follow our own injunction and gtfo twitter or at least do it on the down low. -
The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
TwiceHorn replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
Well, in this day of specialization and poor basic education, even the very learned in their field are often very poor writers. And that's been true for a very long time. Theses and dissertations outside the humanities, and a lot in the humanities, I'd wager, will make your eyes bleed. -
The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
TwiceHorn replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
There's an even simpler explanation. A lot of counselors/therapists, even some very effective/good ones. are a complete mess personally. A lot of "physician heal thyself" in that profession, minus the healing. -
Genre-benders of all kinds amuse me tremendously. In this sense, ethnicity/nationality/accent/dialect as a genre. Also, the word "perv" cracks me up. When I was maybe 10, or younger, one of my peers must have overheard their parents calling someone a "pervert." But he misheard it as "perver." And promptly introduced it into our little circle of friends. So we ran around calling each other "perver" for a few months. You perver! So, any use of variations of pervert, perv, etc. is liable to make me chortle, even grin, highly inappropriately in most cases. /csb
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Damn, man. You might actually be the most interesting guy in the world. A lot of that "interestingness" come by hard, but still.
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One fun thing about the court shit. The libs are using a tactic devised by fascists -- the nationwide injunction -- against them. Most of the earliest ones were granted by Texas federal judges against the Obama administration. Well, how ya like them apples?
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That guy is disingenuous as fuck. Basically blaming asset inflation and wage disparity on the Biden adminstration. Also, fucking hilarious how he and a bunch of other robber barons made 20% a day fucking with the Bank of England.
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A pretty large number of Biden's EOs were for no other reason than to reverse Trump's, I'd wager. Congressional inaction and ineptitude is a real problem. But I don't think overweening executive power is the answer.
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