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Samson's Wig

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  1. EDIT TO ADD: Thank you for both undermining the stereotype and showing those sentient bowls of pudding how to properly respond around here.
  2. Jesus fucking Christ. I give up.
  3. That seems like really harsh language for a simple mistake.
  4. That so many engineers here can't recognize the use of hyperbole in my post to dramatize the point is a prime example of why every college student should be forced to take some liberal arts courses. It's like talking to Data from Star Trek with you people.
  5. Nope. It was your mom.
  6. There's a teenager popping up in Westlake and other West Austin big box stores like Lowes, pointing a camera at grown men and yelling that they're trying to fuck him and could someone please help. He's been kicked out of numerous stores. I guess this is what he's trying to do? Survival of the fittest doesn't work fast enough on clowns like these. Is stupid cleansing so wrong, if you really think about it? Harmless stupid people should be left alone to waddle through life, but YouTube pranksters, people who can't stay within their lane while driving on a slightly winding road, the Kardashians and their clones, dudes with $200k worth of boat and truck on a $40k annual salary, anyone who goes somewhere specifically to take a photo for "insta", and, I don't know, Marjorie Taylor Green, should be viable targets. Wouldn't the world be better off if all of these people were shipped off to say, central Nevada, where they can live out their lives in a walled community with no access to the Internet and pose no more harm to others? Is that so wrong? We can feed them.
  7. It certainly doesn't hurt!
  8. We all really appreciate it.
  9. The only thing to understand is that we have a lot of engineers who post here, and like most engineers, they can't fathom that any other educational path has any merit. It's fucking weird, frankly, but myopia can impact anyone even if it seems like an engineer-specific trait. The fact that 99.9% of engineers work for someone who is not an engineer has never dawned on them for some reason.
  10. What do people do who can't handle the notion that life is meaningless and that chaos is the true underlying principle of the universe? They cling to notions like religion or aliens because any explanation at all is more comfortable than accepting reality. I, for one, urge everyone to embrace and accept the meaningless and banality of our existence. For me, at least, it has actually led to much more meaningful relationships with my family, friends, and even strangers. When you get down to the bones of it all, that's all we've got: a short amount of time to share with other people. Make it count and stop staring at the heavens in a desperate attempt to find meaning in the meaningless. Too many people waste their lives hiding behind the notion that something bigger and better is waiting for them when the big beautiful thing is already staring them right in the face - and rapidly slipping away.
  11. The much more important question when considering Baylor is just how rapey you are and how much you want to develop that trait. Their program is off the charts, and not somewhere anyone comfortable with half-measures should even apply.
  12. The fucking idiot Brits and Brexit wrecked this for our kids. They have UK citizenship through their grandmother, but the EU has now gone out with the bathwater.
  13. Definitely similar, although Lubbock is a much bigger city. Tech's campus is nothing to sneeze at (one of the nicer campuses out there, surprisingly). Greeley has a decent jazz festival every year, but that's all I've got. Oh, the feed lots in Lubbock don't blow into town like they used to, so it doesn't stink anymore (supposedly). Both places have rough weather at times (but so does central TX these days). I'm pleased to neither live nor work in either place, but wouldn't mind my kids at either school if it was the right fit. Lots of talk about Texas State around here but little mention of Tech, which is a better university in almost every measurable way (I get that we're supposed to hate them, but I'd rather see my kids there than aggie, personally).
  14. No doubt about it, and no question as to why, but that's a discussion for another forum.
  15. We'd, of course, be thrilled with any of the three. Wife and her parents are UofT grads. We're in Toronto a lot visiting family, so I'm rooting for McGill to have the excuse to visit Montreal more often. EDIT TO ADD: Canadian Universities are a different animal than down here in that there are tons of excellent small universities that focus heavily on one area. Depending on what you want to study, there are tons of quality options.
  16. Hot damn that thing is ugly.
  17. My kids have Canadian citizenship through their mom and can attend any school in Canada with resident tuition. They still subsidize their schools up there, and compared to U.S. public universities they are very affordable. I'll never say it to the kids lest I lead them in the other direction, but that's what I'm holding out hope for.
  18. Alternative option: move to Austin where you'll take the rate the city says you will and you'll like it.
  19. What's likely dumber is not pouring more resources into building up other Texas universities (in the UT system or otherwise), but our state seems on a hellbent mission to destroy education and scare off anyone who actually has any (unless it's from aggie I guess)
  20. I can afford to construct a building on their campus and still be disappointed about it.* * I can't afford that.
  21. We're still a few years away, but my son asked to go tour Harvard last time we were in Boston, and he fell in love. One of us is going to be really disappointed in a few years.
  22. lol. Look, obvious troll, go peddle your bullshit elsewhere. Maybe there is an RFK rally somewhere.
  23. Completely agree. The estimates are wide, but my point was even the lowest ones dwarf the bullshit concern of myocarditis, which is only brought up by disingenuous anti-vax types. This was the main point of the posted video, that concerns over myocarditis are so severe that people should really not get this new vaccine until we learn more. We already know exactly how extremely rare myocarditis is, which means the good Dr. Offit is either purposefully obfuscating or he's lost his ability to think rationally. EDIT TO ADD: Now that they've pinpointed a variance for long Covid, I suspect we'll see better data in the coming months as it will finally be easier to track.
  24. That is an insane level of flip-flopping from Dr. Offit. Really weird. It's almost to the point I would suspect a deep fake on that video, although I don't see evidence of that watching it. He's throwing out talking points of anti-vaxxers and QAnon idiots, people about whose stupidity he has literally written a book. I'm not sure if he's just chasing that attention high he received during the pandemic by switching teams, if it's fake, maybe just edited so that we're missing some of the context, or if he just fell off the old man cliff and needs to be put to pasture. But this is a guy who was on the same hit list as Fauci for a lot of mouth breathers out there over the last few years. What a confusing video. He's fully in the "just asking stupid questions" camp, now, apparently. I don't know whether people should get this next shot or not (I haven't yet but probably will when I get my flu shot), but I'll definitely look elsewhere than a pediatrician in his 70s who appears to have shifted his entire professional viewpoint in his waning years for medical advice. This is all especially frustrating coming at a time when we now know Long Covid is real and not psychological (which I admittedly thought it was), and this asshole is talking about myocarditis, which is almost statistically insignificant even for the only group really at risk for it (35 out of 100,000 for 12-17 yo males). So he's worried about a side effect that at worst impacts .03% of a small group of young healthy people who will also almost all recover from it just fine when long covid, which affects somewhere between 7%-40% of people who contract Covid (of any age). The more I think this through the more that video is just more bullshit anti-vaxxer porn.
  25. You sound like someone who lives for the moment, has no regrets, and will likely die young (and who possibly suffers from ADHD based on chronic procrastination with a lack of self-loathing). NTTAWWT
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