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Amazon ending the "Amazon Smile" charity effective Feb 20
Samson's Wig replied to AUS-97HORN's topic in Daily Texan
I think the algorithm assumed you wanted dad trash tv based on your shopping and web browsing profile and pushed it forward for you. Plenty of great content on there that doesn't fit that profile. I still don't think cancelling was a bad idea, though. -
We need to sanctify Nick Offerman and get him in front of as many young men as possible. Not Ron Swanson, but Nick Offerman. That dude gets it.
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I know even less about Pederson than this Tate guy (thanks to this thread), but isn't the Canadian a philosophy professor or something like that? How is he connected to incels and this mouth breathing idiot? I assumed he was just a typical academic talking nonsense over people's heads so he could smell his own farts better.
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Lots of Briles' most ardent supporters live there and have been active in trying to get him and his former assistants jobs since they left Waco. Horseshoe Bay has all kinds, like anywhere else, but it has a significant cabal of rich Baptists who love them some Briles.
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Glad to hear that TCU fans have come out against the hire in enough numbers to potentially stop the hire. For what is essentially a girls school, hiring anyone associated with a rape scandal is mind boggling.
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I hear you, and yes publicly they have made those moves. The Briles camp, however, is 100% entrenched with Southern Baptists, and that is who has pushed for their careers to carry on after the fallout. No doubt religion connections played a significant role behind the scenes in getting Dykes/Kazadi, and now Briles. The Horseshoe Bay asswipes have been working overtime for years now to make it all happen.
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I think every school has that group among their fanbase. There were people here who wanted to bring Briles to Austin after the fiasco in Waco. I know a lot of Tech fans wanted to bring him back home during their ten years in the desert and were quite vocal about it. Fortunately, administration at both schools were smart enough to ignore those voices. However, I don't recall seeing or hearing a single TCU fan or alum say a word about Kazadi being brought over from SMU with Dykes. Most of the TCU alum I know are women, and when I asked them how they felt about a rape enabler and alleged (snort) steroid slinger on staff, who contributed significantly to their magical season, they mostly just stared at me like I was crazy. I suspect that's because a large portion of the fanbase just doesn't pay much attention other than on game day, but it was every bit as eyebrow raising and Briles Jr. As for the stands being full, well, the jokes kind of writes themselves there. If the TCU athletic department continues to pull ticket shenanigans like they did with Tech this season (and like UT has done with Tech in basketball for that matter), there may never be full stands again. Aren't enough frogs in existence who care about football enough to fill that stadium. Between the ticket nonsense and the hires that have gone on in the last year, it's hard to believe Donati has an ethical bone in his body. While I'm neither surprised or even disappointed that the school has made these moves, I am sad to see Sonny Dykes stoop so low. I had a great deal of respect for his dad, and it carried over to him by proxy I suppose. That was a mistake. I'm very much with you, though. If any member of Briles camp shows up on the sidelines at a school I've graduated from, I'd be out too.
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I don't care if they're religious or not, shouldn't have included that. Much like Baylor, they can get away with a lot of bullshit due to a small alumni base that largely doesn't pay attention to the athletic department beyond watching on game day. There's no microscope on them like UT, A&M, or Tech.
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First Dykes hires Kaz Kazadi (Art's juice man who was called by a mother telling him her daughter was raped and did... nothing). Now he hires Fingertapes McRapeface. Fuck Dykes, fuck TCU, and fuck anyone who has anything to do with them. No one on that Baylor staff should have been allowed anywhere near a school again for the rest of their lives. That another private religious school is clearly making the choice to look the other way in order to win is shameful. Fortunately, FT McRapeface sucks as a coach, so getting in bed with the devil likely won't result in much. The increased strength and speed they got in just a single season with the Kaz hire is very real, however.
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KK will stay in the NFL. He can't/won't recruit, and college makes no sense for him. He'll have a duty to mitigate, unless it was waived (it wasn't) that will have him at least interviewing for OC NFL gigs soon enough.
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I agree with this, but don't think there's a whole hell of a lot we can do about it. They're going to crater, and we can't force western companies to continue manufacturing there to prop them up. It will ultimately be up to them to save themselves, and a communist government is damn near incapable of such a thing. When you stifle competition, and therefore innovation, you're left with a bunch of ass licking bureaucrats to come up with new ways to spark economic growth. Good luck with that. In the end, the U.S. will likely just prop them up financially to avoid the fallout, and American taxpayers are not going to like it one bit. That's when Trump Jr. seizes his opportunity and we get to relive the 2010's all over again. Letting China fall apart doesn't sound so bad when you think about it.
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I'm having a really difficult time believing traffic is worse in Dallas and Houston than it is in Austin. Driving regularly in all three for decades I'm calling bullshit. I'm in LA all the time, and lived in Chicago for a number of years. Those two I can buy. Haven't driven enough in the NE to have a worthwhile opinion, but my limited experiences driving in NYC and Boston still leave me thinking Austin is worse. I suppose if it's based entirely on commuter data maybe it makes sense, but that doesn't really speak to the totality of shitty traffic. Commuting sucks and anyone who does for any reason other than not having a choice is insane. When it takes for fucking ever just to go grab a bit to eat or run an errand in your general area, then you know you have truly shitty traffic. Flawed list is flawed.
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What they're not telling you is that she's pregnant.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Samson's Wig replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
That's some of the saddest shit I've ever read, and not the parts about how pathetic Elon is, which is now well established. That posting on social media has become something discussed as if it's an art form or special skill may be the most depressing thing I've run across lately. How does someone who has dedicated their career to such a thing look themselves in the mirror? There are plenty of inane jobs out there, but holy shit. If you asked me this morning what the most pointless job on earth is I would have said real estate agent. But now... -
Sometimes we get the government morons elect.
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And that's fair. As already noted in the thread, most local politicians don't have to give a shit about anything in this town as their positions are completely secure. Single party systems are a joke and rife with corruption, and sadly that's the state of most cities. With the disappearance of local journalism, city councils are running amok all over the place.
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Masters in what? Plenty of highly educated people can't string together two complete sentences. Almost every engineer who ever lived comes to mind, not to mention most MBA recipients. It's more surprising that he didn't have a ghost writer take care of it like every other celebrity book out there.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Samson's Wig replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
I'm always amazed by arrogant real estate agents. There are very few careers that require less intelligence, skill, and training than being a real estate agent. It's what one does when all other options have ceased to exist. The bar could not be any lower. It's nothing to be ashamed of (well maybe a little), but to act arrogant for having literally the easiest job on the planet is something else. -
Two terms of four years each. ADIT TO ADD: But it doesn't make any difference when the child voters in Austin continue to elect the exact same type of worthless bag of meat over and over again. A small handful of decent folks have served on the council over the decades, but never enough to overcome the smooth talkers who are only there to cut real estate deals or use it as a springboard to better political gigs.
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Meh. The upside is we're already seeing a slow move of manufacturing away from China, which was starting to happen even before the pandemic. The U.S. still holds the largest card in this cat fight, and ultimately China is not a nation worth putting up with their bullshit once American manufacturing moves elsewhere. The China gambit has been a profitable one, but the CCP has made it clear that it will never be a long term scenario. The other reason for playing nice with them is the desperate and cloying attempts to woo Chinese consumers. That shit is short sighted and often fails miserably (looking at you, film industry). For those that have had success, such as the NBA, it comes at quite a price. Ultimately communists will do what communists do, and there won't be any significant amount of consumers in China to make it worth it. Starving people don't have spending money. They're already headed for the cliff edge, if not already over it. The only thing that will make China worthwhile in the long run will be complete government upheaval, and like all single party systems, the one thing they are good at is maintaining their control. They're still way more likely to head back to the dark days after the revolution than they are to emerge as a serious global leader. Fuck communists and China in particular. They haven't earned the right to play on the world stage, and this pandemic is all the evidence anyone should need. Treat them like the third world shithole they continue to insist upon being and move on. The Mexican border is begging for a 1,951 mile long manufacturing region. There's no need for sudden and drastic measures, such as demanding debt reduction or (snort) an apology. We need to move our shit out slowly but surely, and let the decoupling happen without fanfare. They're going to implode from within either way. TL/DR: China threw one hell of a party and most of us had a great time, but the cop sirens are blasting in the distance and it's time for the U.S. to grab its girl and its bag of weed and get the fuck out before the house burns down.
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Flight disrupting assholes Thread of Shame.
Samson's Wig replied to crash_davis's topic in Daily Texan
They need to tell the Alabama woman who lost her kids that the cartel has them and drop her off in Mexico. Two birds, one stone. -
Have you seen how strong the dollar is right now? Go forth and travel, my friend. A decent sized bag of pennies will take you around the globe!
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