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TwiceHorn

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  1. Why not both?
  2. I have had more than one asshole try to tell me their 401k was better under Trump than Biden. When I point out that every major index was higher during Biden's term than during Trumps and finished at all time records, they're like, it just was. Allergic. To. Facts.
  3. What's bizarre is that our OL, maybe on the strength of talent, took a noticeable step up upon Sark and Flood's arrival. But it also kind of plateaued at good but not great.
  4. The nattering nabobs have been grumbling about Sark for several years now. But that could be dismissed as nitpicking and the usual stupid fanbase shit. I'd have to think that regardless of W/L record, this year's fall from grace and grotesque offensive ineptitude would a) put CDC on Sark's ass and/or b) force some changes.
  5. I'll help ya out, Lee, and save us all some money in the process. The chemtrails people are the dumbest motherfuckers on the planet. That's the bottom line.
  6. If noise is an issue, isn't range? I'd be worried about a .22 in an urban/suburban setting unless you're using subsonics, which I assume won't cycle a semi-auto. There are some fun airguns out there. Spring pistons of the inexpensive variety (big box stores) probably aren't them, though. The challenge they present to accurate shooting can add a dimension though.
  7. Well, either they provide the Fed with the same data that's publicly announced, in which case why say anything. Or, they give the Fed something they don't give the public. And if the latter, which seems more likely, why?
  8. Actually one of the healthiest fast food options I believe. Healthy being measured by farts per ounce.
  9. These motherfuckers love them some circuses.
  10. Also, that's stupid as fuck. It's not a calculation, it's looking up the melting point of steel.
  11. Generally agreed. If that politician confines his remarks to something apolitical, that would be ok. "But we should support Israel" is not that.
  12. I think that would be easier to do with smaller districts.
  13. The worst part of arguing with a MAGAt is the whataboutism. They will not ever follow a topic to its conclusion, which is inevitably negative for Trump and their world view. That and they are truly allergic to facts.
  14. I have to admit being intrigued by the "outsider" candidate, if not "business man." But Ross Perot should have disabused us all of that notion. I was familiar with Trump going back to the 90s and thought he was a complete assclown. But I have a special loathing for braggarts and self-promoters. So complete that I thought it was really a "bit," and once he was elected, might actually get down to business and be a serious president. I did not, however, vote for him.
  15. Fort Worth may be the largest city that remains pretty aligned with the regime. So that's rather ironic. I have had this nagging feeling that the biggest obstacle to decent schools in big cities is the huge ISDs. Of course now if they were broken up into smaller units, that would be heavily and racially/economically influenced and a disaster.
  16. Grimy little pimp. With the possible exception of "little," and Trump is little in every sense of the word except his physical corpulence, Lane's epithet has never been more fitting. Trump out grimes and out pimps Pete Campbell in every sense.
  17. Because these were filed during the Biden administration, I'm relatively certain they were performative-only, and would not have resulted in the filing of suit, just a lot of bitching that they were politically denied by the WeAPoNiZeD Biden DOJ. They were super-doomed when filed, because litigation on all of these questions had not concluded at the time they were filed, although now it has due to Trump's election and the DOJ non-prosecution policy, which should doom them anyway. But the Biden DOJ fucked up by not denying them and let them linger into Trump's administration, where they stand a decent chance of being granted. There is a notion that your tort claim filing limits what you can ask for in court. For sure, you can't ask for more than your tort claim, but it might work the other way too, that you can't back off an outrageous demand the same way you can in court.
  18. Because you asked, I have been intrigued about the application of the title "engineer" to those without formal qualifications for quite some time. Musk is far and away not the only one. And many "engineers" lack any kind of degree at all. Engineering didn't arise as an academic discipline until the mid-late 19th century. Originally, it was taught in European military academies for those trained to provide infrastructure support to other units, ie "military engineering" and was just a part of military officer training, not a degree per se. French universities, or a French university, adapted a curriculum for non-military students and called it "civil engineering." And the field has become increasingly specialized ever since. I used to kind of resent the term "software engineer," but have to admit that it fits. I will say this about "atypical engineers," and that is that just being some wild-ass idea guy like Elmo is not engineering, period, paragraph. To legitimately claim the title, I think you have to be involved in the nitty-gritty actual solution of problems. So there you go. 🤪🤪😬😬
  19. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53249645 A lot of people assume that the Finnish swastika stems from the Winter War against the Soviets, making them nominally Nazi aligned. But they didn't ally with Germany until later, and the swastika dates back to WWI for Finland.
  20. Somehow, every time I see the oval office, there's some new trashy gold shit.
  21. Can't edit, but his wiki bio says he was accepted to a materials science program at Stanford. Weirdly, their webpage says Applicants who hold a previous degree in a subject other than Materials Science and Engineering are welcome to apply. We welcome applications from students from a wide range of academic backgrounds. That's so weird to me. Do they make you take remedial undergrad courses in materials? Do those count toward the degree?
  22. To be fair, though, his degree is a BA, which is pretty lame in a hard science field. But yeah, I have seen physics and even applied math people do well as engineers. But I think a whole ton of that has to do with the courses they took.
  23. Off-topic, but we spend so much time lamenting the enshittification of Wall Street darlings that we don't even notice the shenanigans of smaller corners of the market like fire engines and first responder radios.
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