Everything posted by TwiceHorn
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Nancy Mace: Sexual assault survivor or cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs?
Her lawyer is Larry Klayman. Lol.
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Re-season Cast Iron Pans
Tooling generally is almost a black art. Sand casting is necromancy.
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Texas GQP is spontaneously combusting
I think he's referring to Texas elections and the local electorate pulled another stupid yesterday.
- Trump’s America
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Texas GQP is spontaneously combusting
Pretty sure this is all about going full anti-semite and anti-brown and openly endorsing Nick Fuentes. Half or more of them want to really badly.
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Charlie Kirk got ded, Erika Kirk grifts in place
Fify.
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Trump’s America
That Kaffir sandwich is something else, eh bru?
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Tariff wars, they have began
SG D. John Sauer? As far as I can tell, he's pretty much a dickhead advocate. Paul Clement is a prickly prick, but he's not a dickhead advocate.
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Election Day 2025
I wanted to write in one of our cats in 2016. Texas doesn't allow write ins though. At least not in presidential elections.
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Non-political election thread (seriously)
Yes. One of the main problems with bail was that it had become cookie cutter. This offense = $x bail. Recent bail reform focused mostly on eliminating that and forcing an actual analysis of defendant risk and commensurate bail. It does kind of default to "personal recognizance." Most of the controversial bail decisions are probably a result of judicial atrophy. They don't know how or care to perform the danger/flight risk analysis and set commensurate bail. So bail reform is kind of at fault in the "but/for" sense, but doesn't require low/no bail when the defendant is a risk.
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Tariff wars, they have began
I'm super skeptical of reading tea leaves based on oral argument. But the fact that the justices would say "major question" or "non-delegation" in public and in connection with an anti-Trump appeal gives me some hope.
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Trump’s America
Ah fuck it. It'll be like going to a foreign country. For real.
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Vandergrift Marching Band’s truck takes the fast train to UIL
Almost complete thread jack, what the hell is going on with that locomotive and the flat overhanging roof at the rear?
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Rest in Piss, Dick Cheney
Well, I do think Cheney was less cynically self-interested than Trump and many/most of his cronies. That his policies empowered and enriched him and those of his "class" was a nice side-effect of policies he thought best for the country. Which is subtly, or not so much, different from Trump's "what's good for me must be good for everyone else, but mostly it's good for me."
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Rest in Piss, Dick Cheney
So, this may not be the exact place for it, but I continue to be fascinated by "strong executive" political theories. I don't endorse them, particularly as currently implemented, but have to admit that they make some sense in a realpolitik sort of way. As noted in the piece above, Clinton and Obama were beneficiaries of and not exactly opposed to the strong executive theories advanced and implemented by predecessor administrations and people like Cheney. This partly or maybe largely in response to a gridlocked and ineffective Congress. But let's examine some things that make a strong executive sort of make sense, or, in the same breath, why Congress has become useless. Proliferation of agencies (Congress lacks the expertise and agility to address many situations and policies, so they delegate to agencies) Agencies are inherently a) undemocratic and b) easily captured by moneyed interests (point a) may actually be necessary) Do the agencies have to be executive controlled? Money in politics means Congress critters are less responsive to their constituents, to the people Related to or subsumed by the above, Congress critters are obsessed with reelection to the exclusion of doing congressional business The two-party and primary system force Congress critters to adhere often to "national" rather than local priorities, at least for election and fundraising purposes Writing these down, I start to think it is really nothing more than money in politics that has fucked everything up. No more, no less. Everything else is symptomatic. Blinding glimpse of the obvious, there.
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Arch Manning: Scores every way possible
I dunno, we'll see. I don't discount the possibility that he's going to try to Sark up the offense at the earliest opportunity. But, he's been slapped in the face with a couple of really hard points of evidence that I'm not sure he's encountered before: two top 10 wins by going away from the preferred offense, and a loss and two bad wins with complete offensive stagnation while attempting the preferred offense. This will be Sark's opportunity to extract himself from the ourobouros of suck.
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Charlie Kirk got ded, Erika Kirk grifts in place
This era of political celebrities is disgusting. On general principle. The specifics of these particular celebs is extra disgusting.
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UPS Airlines crash on take off at Louisville Airport.
Hence the Hawaii Air 737s becoming targa tops in flight (lotta pressure cycles). One of the more fascinating things I'll never forget. My senior project sponsor was LTV. We went up there to tour their facility. At the time, they were rebuilding A7s for sale to smaller countries. So they had an A7 airframe/wingless fuselage up on a giant jig, with hydraulic cylinders at the nose and tail and it was fixed around the wing box. The cylinders were pushing the nose and tail up and down relative to the wing box to find the real-world fatigue limits of the airframe. Notable was that the nose and tail were being deflected nearly a foot upward relative to the wing box. You don't think of that kind of deflection in an airframe, but I guess it happens.
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Re-season Cast Iron Pans
In case you were unaware, most cast iron anything is cast in sand. Engine blocks, skillets, you name it. I was shocked to learn in the 80s that it remains, to this day, one of the dominant methods of casting iron and other alloys. And there's a lot of science or technique that goes into it. What kind of sand you use, how often you change it, whether and for how long you tamp the mold before casting to compact the sand, and so on, that provide opportunities for cost-cutting and enshittification. And some other things, like high-clay-content sand can make smoother castings. But the water content of clay molecules means they explode on contact with molten iron or other metals, which sends silica molecules into the atmosphere and creates silicosis problems for casting workers. And once the clay gets burned, like pottery, it goes from a fine colloid in the sand to big burnt clods, making castings rougher when you don't change the sand. Also, one of my lifelong fascinations is the amount of technology (engineering and ingenuity) that goes into manufacturing even a prosaic, no-moving-parts item like a cast-iron skillet.
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Election Day 2025
A characteristic of stupid people is bad memory.
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Election Day 2025
I always note the presence or absence of ag tags. It's notable that a lot of the troglodytes on texags lack the ag tag. Then again, not having an allegiance to a school by attendance/graduation and voluntarily selecting eaTme to root for and texags to do it on tells you most of what you need to know.
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The destruction of America's public education system
https://sites.google.com/view/abmack33/speaking-out/updates?authuser=0
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Texas @ Georgia Watch Party - Austin - Celis Brewing 10001 Metric Blvd
Do we have any little fellas on the board?
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Election Day 2025
Also "without presenting evidence," which implies that there might be evidence. They've never had evidence, there is no evidence, they're fucking lying.
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Mad Men
Well, you could make her a more sympathetic, less bitchy frustrated, depressed, and drug-addicted housewife that is kinder to her kids. But that would make Don seem more like the dickhead that he probably is sooner than you discover that.