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12 hours ago, scottsins said:
That’s the Bob Bullock museum.Thank you, yes. I've conflated them in my head somehow.
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On 10/21/2025 at 4:17 PM, jimmyjazz said:
I didn't watch it, and won't, but that may be parsing it a bit fine for the layman. Musk has a degree in physics. Physics is not engineering, I get it, but they're pretty related. I've worked with plenty of people with physics degrees who operated in an engineering role and did great.
I mean, let's hate Musk for the right reasons.
Just to parse things a bit finer, for the hell of it, he has a BA in physics, not a BS. Some schools differentiate between the two, with the BS requiring much more work and difficult courses, but I'm not sure if Penn does or not. Many of the folks with physics degrees you've worked with in engineering likely had a BS in physics. Musk does not, but again, there may be no distinction at Penn. So now it's all as clear as mud.
ETA: I kept reading and see that TwiceHorn beat me to this comment. I'll leave it up anyway.
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2 minutes ago, 'stache said:
The plan is probably to demolish the LBJ library and put some gaudy gold nonsense joke of a trump library in its place. Zero doubt whatsoever Hotwheels and friends would make it happen.
Didn't the LBJ library once show a film where something in your seat would poke you to make you think a rattlesnake is biting you? Maybe I'm remembering a different place, but I don't want to think about the details of such an attraction at the Trump library.
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7 minutes ago, Vegas64 said:
I wonder how much of that (the staying in your big house once empty nest) is a cultural shift. Used to be, once my kids are 18+, in college or college educated, they go out and get a job and have an apt or house with roommates, go live a life. It's not much different than the spartan life you lived as a broke colelge student, but it's a little better and it's a life. Earn some money, gain some skills, go out, go on dates, etc. but be 100% independent. The only time your kids moved back in with you was if something really bad happened and it was kinda shameful. That or there are some fundamental issues like with disabilities or handicaps that precluded the ease of a normal life.
Now it seems like a cultural norm to have your kids stay with you longer, the coddling mother saying "just live here and save some money", while you go to school or work your first couple of entry jobs to pay your dues. It's not uncommon for able-bodied adults to live at home until their 30's these days, which kinda blows my mind, but I get that it's harder than ever for kids to live without roommates in desirable cities and locations so it's not longer the burn outs and losers who live at home, but good kids who need more time and help.
And I wonder how many parents don't sell their big house because they are taking a "wait and see" approach to see if their kid will be able to muster it or if they need the extra rooms for the boomerang in case they need some more time and help.
That sounds a lot like enabling, and I suspect you're spot on for a lot of folks.
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2 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:
Tack on 180 days and a $2k fine (that's what's allowed). Hit him with everything you've got.
Of course, he's in Travis County, so even if charged, the DA will probably blow the deadline to try the case.
Oh, I don't know. He sure sounded and acted like a white fella with some means. Seems like a target Garza might actually put some effort into. If it happens, we should take the win.
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That's the type of guy who somehow snuck through life without ever taking an ass whipping, likely because he's only a dick to people who aren't a threat, like a kid.
ETA: From that Reddit thread it looks like the parents found out who he is and are taking action with law enforcement. Good.
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16 hours ago, Satchel said:
Did anybody catch Campbell standing with Trump today as he bragged about demolishing the East Wing? That guy has an agenda and it’s not about college athletics.
No doubt. His agenda is making sure we can drill for oil wherever and whenever.
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1 minute ago, CooterBrown said:
Wait until I tell you that AISD 7th grade advanced ELA “book reports” are actually art projects where they draw important scenes from the book. They don’t actually write anything for a book report.It's maddening. I understand making that an option for some kids, since we've all but given up on actually educating the bottom half of students and instead focus on their feelings, but making it the mandatory method for a book report is just giving up on everyone, and is representative of how our system is failing by focusing on ensuring all kids feel good while neglecting to actually educate the kids who can handle it. My autistic 8th grader would be much happier writing a five-page book report. Those stupid fucking art projects stymie him. The other area that this shows up prominently is how daily busy work counts for 70% or more of your final grade, while exams are typically no more than 20%. That same son will score 100 (or more if there is extra credit) on every single exam in every single class, which are all upper level, but nearly fails many of his classes because he doesn't turn in forms on time, or has the wrong color of binder. All of this in a school district where half the teachers don't even have emergency certification (i.e., they have no fucking clue what they're doing). This bullshit to make sure kids who don't test well don't get left behind is leaving behind kids who are excellent at content mastery (which should be the fucking point) but suck at inane busy work is a crazy way to run an educational system. We're so focused on creating a new generation of drones who will either skip college or get a business degree if they go, that we're failing to nurture the people we'll need to take the lead in the future.
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While I won't like moving away from the familiarity and friends, I can't wait to get the hell out of this house when the kids head off to college. We might stay put for four years or so to get them through undergrad with a familiar place to come home to, but that will be it. I need less house and more open space, a workshop, etc., and most importantly, no more city of Austin insane taxes.
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4 minutes ago, Satchel said:
I don’t think Houston is, yet, but that Tech triumvirate is rabidly right wing. Its new face to the world and chief branding officer is Chancellor Brandon Creighton, who is the chief architect of all of the anti DEI legislation in Texas. He’s the worst and a UT grad to boot. I don’t think my theory is at all far fetched. Narcissists understand one another. All Campbell has to do is give Trump some money, tell him how wonderful he is, and promise to use redirected research dollars to advance conservative causes. Funny thing is, no reputable scholars would want to go anywhere near Tech.
That last line isn't entirely true, but it's going to be completely accurate for both Tech and UT very soon. If you think Eltife is any less of a MAGA bootlicker than Campbell, I think you might be failing to look at this objectively.
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1 hour ago, Satchel said:
I’ve seen quite a few pics recently of the Tech Board of Regents chairman with Trump at the White House. I believe one main reason Tech has caved in advance, and surrounded itself with a bunch of virulently right wing politicians is to be in position to receive a windfall of research dollars Trump has extorted or redirected from other universities who refuse to play ball with him. UT will resist for awhile, but I don’t have hope that saner heads will prevail
Tech's BOR was appointed by the same guy who appointed the UT BOR. I like your conspiracy theory, but it's missing some pieces and gives Tech more credit than they deserve for being clever. Their chairman has been buddies with Trump for a long time, going back to his first term and long before CC was on the Tech BOR. Like every single BOR member at any major public university in the state, including UT, he's there because he gave Abbott money. Tech isn't surrounded by any more virulent right-wing politicians than UT is. They're both drowning in them, along with every other public university in the state.
The fact that Tech is the nation's leading university for wind energy research is going to make things interesting if Trump does make that offer, which I doubt ever happens because he'll move on to the next shiny object any day now and this compact nonsense will be forgotten. Just like UT, Tech is full of liberal professors and has cavemen on their BOR. Their alumni will hate or love this shit at a similar percentage as UT alumni do. And like UT, they will likely sign it if given the opportunity.
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It doesn't really matter if your kids are in AISD or a palace in the suburbs. If they're in a Texas public school, they're not getting much of an education. This isn't anything new; it's just getting worse.
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14 minutes ago, gsoda3 said:
humble brag
Not really. I left out the part where I die penniless.
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3 minutes ago, bluto said:
What about Stephenville naming the new stadium after him this yr.
Stephenville is smack dab in the middle of the devil's triangle, or if you prefer, the epicenter of American evangelicalism. Nobody knows how to cover up sexual assault like that crowd, not even the Catholic Church.
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58 minutes ago, Lamar said:
There are only a few things sacred enough to override your personification (football, Christian man...). When your child gets sexually preyed on, its over. No one gets let off the hook for that. Prove me wrong.
Surely you're aware of the countless number of southern baptist ministers who got away with diddling kids for years before the SBC released their names after they died. A metric shit ton of christian men get away with pedophilia solely because they are christian men.
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13 minutes ago, HenryJames said:
Are they Siamese twins?
lol, no. But I'm not too keen on driving one of them across town for school at the same time another has to be driven somewhere else. The FAA has never been deemed an official magnet program, because they would then have to provide buses for the kids if it were a magnet program. One of many little wrinkles or our underfunded system. We've been hauling them to Lamar and back every day for three years due to no buses, and I'm not super keen on continuing it for another four, especially if it's to two different schools.
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3 hours ago, South Austin said:
I have one McCallum graduate who thrived there, and a freshman who looks to be following her path, both in the FAA (though also zoned to McCallum). When my son applied last year, he had classmates at Lamar who applied to the FAA but did not get in. And McCallum is one of those schools that this year is over-enrolled. If schools are tightening up on garden-variety transfers after the new boundaries go into effect, I imagine it's going to be tougher to transfer via the FAA.
It's a bummer. I've got two 8th graders at Lamar through the FAA. They both desperately want to go to McCallum with their friends. My fear is that one of them gets in and the other doesn't. In that situation, I suspect we'll just put them both at St. Stephen's and be done with public school altogether.
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21 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:
Is there anything, anything, that could get Celina to cancel a football season? Anything.
Only if you could somehow convince the community that football is the preferred sport of dirty liberals.
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Cancel football.
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2 minutes ago, horn009 said:
I'm glad to see that someone is starting to crack down on that degenerate fan base. Anyone who ever went to a UT-Tech game in Lubbock knows that Tech fans are by far the most hostile fanbase.
No doubt. Games there feel more like a pro game crowd than a college one. There is a relatively simple explanation for it, though. Their location prevents alumni from easily attending games. At least 80%, but probably more, of the folks in the stands never stepped foot in a classroom at Tech. They rely on the local community (the county has 330k with a trade area close to 1M) to fill seats. A ton of them are blue-collar folks whose company bought up a bunch of tickets and handed them out to employees. It's a rough crowd, and often a very drunk one. There isn't another major school in Texas that has this issue. The percentage of college graduates at UT games has to be north of 70%. It's a different vibe, for sure. It's kind of cool how much support they get from the locals, imo, but it does make the gameday experience less than family-friendly. When you bump into Tech people at away games, they tend to be alumni and normal people, not discernibly different from UT grads.
I personally find the Aggie gameday atmosphere much more uncomfortable, but for very different reasons.
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2 hours ago, RoyalBevo21 said:
Red Raider degenerates on Twitter are pissed they can't throw their tortillas anymore. Brett Yormark has become persona non grata in the hub city.
This has lead to a plethora of tweets saying "fuck the Big 12, Campbell needs to get us into the SEC." Lol these goons think they can buy their invitation. I also don't think it's going to end well with this Cody Campbell character. The football team and fans seem to treat him as some unlimited piggy bank. I imagine he'll get sick of that shit after awhile.
Campbell isn't even their biggest donor, he's just the most vocal one. Tech will not be running out of money anytime soon. More than that, and what people seem to have trouble seeing, is they've built up the entire program. The facilities, the management, the coaching, all of it competes with the top programs now. The only thing they lack is skins on the wall. We'll see if that's enough to keep them away from the big boy table, but whining from fans of traditional blue bloods who don't like the new money walking around in the wrong pair of shoes isn't going to stop it.
I find it funny that Tech fans suddenly sound just like UT fans did when the Horns were in the Big 12, with the "fuck the Big 12, get us out of here" talk. They've got the target on their back now, I guess. As for them getting to the SEC, I don't think it's going to shake out like that. Whatever super league is eventually formed may well include Tech. They're certainly more deserving than at least half the programs in the SEC and Big 10, even if they're not a historic blue blood.
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1 minute ago, I Plead Da Fif said:
I agree and when y’all land Kavian Bryant it will be understood by everyone what Tech is doing out in Lubbock. Ojo y’all overpaid heavily for a 5 star project. Have been very impressed so far this year though by the product on the field.
As much as folks are rooting for Tech to play Aggy in the playoffs, I’d rather have us play and settle this best front 7 in college football debate 🤘🏻
That would be quite the matchup between the two defenses.
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14 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:
Yep. You can portal in a number of good players, but you also have to recruit well and manage both effectively. It's depth that the BB's have. Season's getting longer only benefit the BB's more and more. They have a deeper roster of talent to adjust to inevitable player injuries, transfers, etc.
I agree with this, but some of you should probably take a look at what Tech is doing on the recruiting trail beyond the portal class from last year. They went heavy portal to help close the gap, but they're landing some whales now and winning recruiting battles against blue bloods. I don't know if they will successfully pull off this transition from mid-tier-also-ran to consistent contender in time for the big shake-ups coming in a few years, but they are doing everything right to make it happen. It will be fascinating to watch. The old school way of looking at college football doesn't apply anymore, and Tech is playing this new game as well or better than any other program in the country at the moment. It's shocking, frankly.
Anyone who hasn't watched the Tech defense play yet should do so, especially if you understand and appreciate what good defense looks like. That front seven is as good as any team in the country, I don't care what conference they're in. And they're not all portal guys. If Tech doesn't go deep in the playoffs, it will be because their starting QB is a middling game manager who fancies himself a gunslinger. This doesn't look like a one-off season for them, either, so they're going to be in the discussion, and likely the playoffs, for a while. The gap between their program and the rest of the Big 12 is large. History tells us they'll find a way to fuck it all up, though.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
in Daily Texan
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Lawyers: I don't actually know shit, but I can think nonlinearly and solve nuanced problems. I'm fun to party with, and your wife secretly wants to fuck me because I can flirt better than you can and know how to make eye contact. My liver or a jilted wife/lover will eventually kill me.
Engineers: I can solve every problem on earth better than anyone else, no matter the context, so long as it is black-and-white, with no nuance. I could be a great lawyer or doctor if I wanted to be, but that seemed too easy, so I stuck with trade school. No one wants to party with me, but I've made some cool friends, usually by building things that explode, and I occasionally get invited to parties where I end up making everyone else uncomfortable. Your wife doesn't want to fuck me unless she, too, is on the spectrum. A miscalculation and some hubris will eventually kill me.
Doctors: I studied one thing and do one thing really well, and I think that means I know everything about everything. I should probably run for political office. No one even invites me to their parties, unless they want to ask me to invest in their latest venture. Your wife doesn't really want to fuck me, but she still thinks about it in the context of being my next wife and enjoying my big house and frequent vacations. I'll live longer than the rest of you, but I'll spend most of that time focused on a weird collection or a hobby that I don't really enjoy but makes me feel artificially masculine, like fishing or motorcycles.