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UAP Pentagon Report (UFOs, Foo Fighters, Commie Drones)
Samson's Wig replied to Doc Reeves's topic in Daily Texan
And therein lies the problem with religion. EDIT TO ADD: and the child molestation. That's also the problem. Apologies for leaving that out before. -
UT alumni of a certain age aren't exactly peaches. I'm sure most here remember the emails during the Eyes of Texas debacle. But aggies do seem to take it to an entirely different level. I will echo what others have stated here, that the current student body doesn't really look or act like what most of us think of when we think of mouth-breathing, sheep-humping idiots with jizz jars, speech impediments, and lift kits on their pickups. Times have changed, even though the alumni and admin haven't.
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If Oregon and Washington follow suit, as is being aggressively rumored this evening, and AZ makes the logical move and follows CU, the Big12 will be fairly salty, and arguably as good or better than the Big10, which is so top-heavy in football it's ridiculous. BIg 12 already the better basketball conference. Could be a more interesting landscape with three top conferences instead of two.
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Speaking of being offended: cmt pulls Jason aldean video
Samson's Wig replied to Im_smarter_then_you's topic in Daily Texan
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Are they still getting rid of frats/sororities? That seemed to be a trend a few years ago, with positive results regarding graduation rates and GPAs. I can't see it disappearing in southern schools anytime soon, as it's so intertwined with the culture. Not sure how the pandemic impacted things. I was in a fraternity and remain friends with some of the guys decades later, although I am closer to other friends from university that weren't in the fraternity. It was a positive experience, but I would have had just as good of a time without it. I'm hoping my kids avoid it, as it tends to be more of a distraction than anything else, and I don't really see a net positive for most folks unless your hope for your kids is a house in the burbs, a job in middle management, and a mediocre marriage. Some buck that trend, but it seems to be the default position (perhaps this is simply the case for all college grads). If my kids go the greek route, I'll support it, but I'm sure as hell not dropping $4k for consulting. It was always a form of purchasing a guaranteed social life, which has some merit if you're awkward and don't meet people easily, but paying a consultant is next level nonsense. Ultimate FOMO drives membership these days, imo, and especially now you're not really missing out on anything that can't happen outside of the system. In the old days it was a bit more of the only game in town. Good on anyone with a consulting business like this milking a generation of parents more involved with Facebook than their kids. It's a bit of a snake eating it's own tail situation, but more power to them.
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Speaking of being offended: cmt pulls Jason aldean video
Samson's Wig replied to Im_smarter_then_you's topic in Daily Texan
While the grades may vary, you just described the experience of learning history for the majority of public-school-educated Americans under the age of 40 or so (and many over 40). Young people from every part of this country don't know history, as it has been slowly but surely culled from education for varying reasons. In well-intentioned school districts, it simply took a back seat to STEM classes (as foolish and misguided as that is), and in others, it was a blatant act of whitewashing and/or myth-building. Sometimes it comes down to the reality that the people who would be best suited to teaching history (or any other subject) to kids wouldn't come within 300 miles of the job due to pay and bullshit. Either way, many people in this country have a massive gap in their knowledge of history. Throw in the folks who went to religious schools and learned absolutely nothing of value beyond how to protect their cornhole from predatory religious leaders, and things get even scarier. -
lol. Yes, one school district in MA did something like that in their middle schools I believe, which made national headlines (particularly among news outlets with a particular bent) but changed course very quickly thereafter as I recall. This is also the Massachusetts whose students outscore every other state's students in math by a wide margin. Massachusetts is the #1 state in math with a bullet (and #2 in overall education after New Jersey, go figure). Texas, by comparison, is #25 in math and #37 overall for k-12 That's higher than I would have guessed, to be honest, but still pathetic given the resources we could sink into educating our kids if we weren't more concerned with football and book bans. Even Florida does a much better job. Fucking Florida. The average Texan is significantly less educated than the average Floridian. Let that sink in. It wasn't always this way, but we've very purposefully chosen to make things worse. Because we're morons. Perhaps you were tongue in cheek with your comment, but there is absolutely no argument based on any objective measure that Massachusetts isn't by far the #1 state for math and in the top 2 for education overall, and it's not even close. The sad part is, even Massachusetts is mediocre compared to other OECD countries. As a nation, we are ensuring our populace remains stupid and sated. Some of this is budgetary (no excuse) and some of it is because it helps get certain folks elected. It is shortsighted and will end poorly for all of us. Recent trends show Texas trying to lead the charge to the bottom on this front. At least Massachusetts is carrying its own water. We can't say the same for our great state.
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We've been hiding out in New Mexico mountains for the last few weeks to get out of the heat. I've been working on the back deck enjoying the fresh air more in the last few weeks than I have in the last ten years in Austin. Our kids were born in NM when we lived there for a stretch before we got the hell out, as it's an awful place to raise kids or earn a living (not bad for retirement so long as you're healthy). Turns out that returning to Austin may have been a terrible mistake as well. AISD has completely fallen apart, and the state is hell-bent on ensuring public schools get even worse. Private schools are fine, but it's not where we want them if we can help it. Wife works for a company in Boston, and this summer especially has us talking about making the move to at least somewhere on the East Coast (I'm pushing for NC). The thought of leaving my folks, who are in the panhandle, so far away when they're entering the years they really need help, is the big sticking point. I'm a drive away right now, and although they're not far from some form of assisted living, I don't think they'll be willing to move out of Texas to be close to us. Too scary for Texas lifers.
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Fuck the other states and fuck the blue hairs and fundies that allow for the continuation of these foolish policies. The morons just provide cover for the politicians taking bribes to keep everything illegal. If Abbott and co. really want to get rid of property taxes (they don't), the only way it's going to happen is to upset the uneducated and unwashed religious goobs who keep them in office by legalizing and taxing "sin".
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I love how the most hypersensitive people on the planet, with absolutely zero self-awareness, are the ones most consistently bitching about how hypersensitive modern culture is. Sure, some of it's over the top, but would the young you really want the old you determining what is or isn't appropriate? It's not as if it's anything new that many people hit a certain age and slip into a rocking chair lifestyle where they smile while spewing uncomfortable and outdated things to their children and grandchildren. If that's where you're at, embrace it, but don't try to convince anyone that you have the moral high ground. You're just an old bigot like every other old bigot that existed in every generation before. The target of bigotry shifts over time, but the sentiment doesn't. The longer you live the more likely you are to end up there. I'm sure I'll get there someday myself (if I'm not already). Counterpoint: The guy who has demonstrated being more intellectually divergent than any other regular poster on this site complaining that he can't say the R-word may have a point when you consider the other comments regarding reclaiming slurs. Maybe that's what is actually happening here and we should be celebrating his mission.
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It's viewed more in our house as they have Canadian content that my wife enjoys, but I don't take our personal usage as illustrative of any broader trend. Your list is essentially in order of the number of subscribers, so I take your point (although Prime is puffed up by users who never utilize the streaming service). Hulu's 50 million subscribers is nothing to sneeze at, however, which was all I was getting at. They're doing just fine.
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Your personal experience is definitely the barometer we should use to judge such matters. I'll call Hulu and let them know to just shut it down.
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Young GenXer = old. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. Take care of your heart and be kind to your loved ones so they remember you fondly. You don't have a lot of time left to make a good impression.
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No doubt he was a terrible defensive driver (assuming there wasn't someone right on his bumper) and likely could have avoided the accident, but that doesn't make it his fault that Ponytail forced his way into the lane and caused the accident in the first place. You don't have a right to merge whenever and wherever you want just because you put on a blinker. Most people don't drive, they aim. Both of these dorks seem to fall into that category.
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Lol at ponytail boy. What a pussy. Hits the gym on occasion so thinks he can fight, I guess? This is a common mistake of many gym rats. He couldn't even land a sucker punch, and he's damn lucky he was picking on an aggy weatherman. Anyone with a lick of fighting sense would have destroyed his ass with evidence of self-defense on the dashcam. I don't really care who was at fault in the car accident (it was definitely Prius boy), but anyone who tries to throw a punch like that is less than half a man and deserves to get their shit dragged in county jail. He probably has a subscription to Andrew Tate's Hustler's University. Fuck that loser.
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I see a ton of listings in the $1M - $1.5M range sitting on the market for months now in Austin. A lot of it is delusional sellers reaching retirement in older homes who missed their opportunity to sell during the pandemic and are still clinging to hope that they'll sell for a premium that doesn't exist anymore. Many of these properties are sub $1M in reality. Most buyers in that range will still be taking out a mortgage, and the prices aren't reflecting the reality of current interest rates. If you take all of those stupidly priced listings and bring them back to reality Austin might drop out of the top ten.
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Legacy admission into colleges and universities
Samson's Wig replied to Pancho's topic in Daily Texan
Texas public school admissions are fucked up, UT in particular. If you are good enough for engineering at GT, you're plenty good enough for UT. -
Legacy admission into colleges and universities
Samson's Wig replied to Pancho's topic in Daily Texan
There are all kinds of unqualified kids getting into most universities, for a variety of reasons. I don't think schools are doing anyone a favor by letting them in for legacy, affirmative action, economic, or any other reason beyond a demonstrated ability to thrive in an academic environment. When these types of factors are used as tie-breakers, it makes some sense, but if they become a deciding factor we've fucked up. Racking up student loan debt just to drop out because you weren't capable of succeeding in an academic environment isn't going to do you any favors or right any historical wrongs, even if it makes some of us feel better to attempt it. Graduation rates aren't pretty in general at around 65% for public and private non-profits, with private for-profit schools being at the bottom of the barrel at around 30%. Legacy students are an outlier in that they graduate at a higher rate than other students, but affirmative action students and socioeconomically disadvantaged students have a significantly lower graduation rate than other students. Simply granting a kid entry to the party isn't enough if they weren't prepared for the experience beforehand. Any programs like these should be combined with additional resources to help these kids overcome the deficit they're starting with. Or perhaps we should be doing a fuckton more to ensure kids are getting educated properly at the grade school level, as that's where the inequities truly lie and by the time college rolls around it's often much too late. Once vouchers get going at a significant rate, a bunch of white kids will be getting spoonfed Jesus bullshit all through grade school and their parents will have guaranteed they are disqualified from attending any school that isn't Oral Roberts or similar. That should open the floodgates of opportunity for others if our public schools don't completely collapse. -
Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Samson's Wig replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
You know, if someone came out with an affordable fuck robot, I bet we'd see a significant drop in mass shootings (and probably a significant drop in public sightings of aggies). Maybe we should let Elon explore this one. -
Legacy admission into colleges and universities
Samson's Wig replied to Pancho's topic in Daily Texan
But what if you were like super attractive, a varsity athlete, worked four jobs (AT THE SAME TIME!) and the most popular guy in school? Did any of that factor in? -
Little known fact: most divers are terrible swimmers. Have you noticed how quickly they skedaddle to the side of the pool after a dive? It's because they're scared shitless of drowning. It's kind of like track and field athletes who do shotput or discus. Ask them to run a lap and they'll laugh at you. I'll bet Louganis could out-dive any shark alive, though.
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