Everything posted by Serak The Preparer
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Surly Horns Burnt Ends NIL Program- How YOU can help Texas with the NIL right now!
It's been said many times already but shit, this really is awesome. I am looking forward to spreading the love to other positions as this becomes even more established. Just a great job getting this up and running, and props to all who have signed up already.
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COVID-19 vaccine discussion
Eh, this was relatively harmless but still not good form playing bits on retail workers / servers. The poor bastard answering the phone has enough shit to deal with. Punch up, not down.
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COVID-19 vaccine discussion
Umm, I don't know why. Are you referring to SARS? Common colds? Something else?
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CR: COVID-19 --Political Talk
No, I'm sure this is just part of the group that @slorch knows is fighting to keep kids at home. After all, he said so several times, huge groups of people fighting tooth and nail to avoid sending their kids to school. Of course, when asked several times to indicate who any of these people are, there was no response, but by Jove I think you'll find them now!
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COVID-19 vaccine discussion
I think it's clear that @midtown is stating that the data-driven forecast means no specific new assumptions / intelligence are built into the forecast (e.g. it is purely taking historical trends and applying), as opposed to a prediction which may take things like school openings, mask policy, etc., into account. This doesn't mean that the data-driven forecast is better or worse, just that underlying assumptions are not specifically adjusted for a new forecast.
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CR: COVID-19 --Political Talk
Oh hey @markstanco, you're back. Did you ever figure out what searching for 3-digit numbers on Google was supposed to tell us?
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Surly Horns Burnt Ends NIL Program- How YOU can help Texas with the NIL right now!
This is really amazing to see shape up. I am not surly 1% but definitely want to join. Only question for me is, is there a feeling that there will be multiple Surly position-group camps? If I had to choose, would rather support OL or DE. Frankly, the life expectancy of our TE's scares me to death so want to contribute to other groups as well. Is this something like there will be an SEC-ish gentleman's agreement that OB sponsors OL, Surly sponsors TE, HF (does it still exist) sponsors WR, etc.? Too early to tell?
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The Cloak Room is a terrible place.
You are such a martyr. You don't get negged for being a conservative, you get negged for being mind-blastingly stupid. To your credit, negging you is a little mean because it's not that you are a troll, it's that you literally don't realize how incapable you are of anything approaching any level of critical thought. You got negged for coming into the COVID thread and posting gems like: "I still don’t understand the emotional attachment to getting a shot. There were people in the spring just absolutely giddy that they got their vaccination. Neither the glee nor the regret are rational." and comparing the relief of seeing relatives with stopping at a red light. Maybe you need a special badge that indicates you have extra special protection but don't pretend that your negs are due to being a conservative.
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CR: COVID-19 --Political Talk
I would certainly posit that the large majority of posters in this forum would have a blanket reaction that just about any output of the Trump administration should be viewed with skeptical (at best) eyes. I would further posit that that the same majority of posters are less likely to cast that same skepticism to any output of the Biden administration. You seem to be implying that is some sort of gotcha. If the claim is that there is some team politics coloring this difference, I would agree. But, would you agree that there is a significant baseline difference in overall competence and corruption between the two administrations that would also explain the different reactions?
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The Cloak Room is a terrible place.
I'm not sure I agree with your argument on the two types of posters. Hell, even in DT, with a few exceptions, most posters at least proclaim disdain for Trump. I'd rather say the two types of posters are those that see a gangrenous elephant and think that all it needs is to duct tape a few healthy squirrels and hope that'll save the rotting tissue, and those that say it needs to be shot and we should go get a new elephant.
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The Cloak Room is a terrible place.
It's really weird how everyone is a Libertarian on these charts but we keep electing Authoritarians. It's almost like the quiz has really simple questions that have no reflection on a complex reality. Nah, must be a global conspiracy.
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So-called Green Energy Continues to be a Boon for Fossil Fuels and China
Misrepresenting articles is also a bitch move, as is starting topics that are CR-bound in DT. I tend to agree that drive-by negging posts that aren't clear troll posts or just completely shitty (dropping racial or homophobic slurs, for example), is lame. Hence my reply. Harrison is free to neg me back (as are you or others obviously).
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Fentanyl laced Oxy, Valium, and Xanax
Yes, I'm sure Altria would just love to buy a company that just paid $40 M to settle a lawsuit alleging that Juul was targeting teen users in North Carolina. That multiple other states have also filed lawsuits alleging similar behavior in other states has no bearing I am sure. IT'S JUST THE MEEDYA!
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So-called Green Energy Continues to be a Boon for Fossil Fuels and China
Negged for misrepresenting an article that belongs in CR anyway. The article states that Chinese coal plants are largely responsible for manufacturing of solar panels but contains no analysis (at least not beyond paywall) of cost-benefit over life-time of panel (which, yes, should also include disposal of panels). Even if this analysis is true for solar panels (which again, is not at all clear from the article), that is not true for EVs or wind. A recent white paper on EV's, for examples, concludes that they are a net-positive relative to internal combustion engines. You can certainly argue assumptions, but at least the analysis is laid out.
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Realignment talk not going away
If you're looking for something new, I hear that Jim Rome said some funny things about aggy recently, you could search for that and post it.
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Realignment talk not going away
You've got to be fucking kidding me.
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TX-06 Runoff of obscurity
Exactly. Hey Texas Dems, please help the party of personal responsibility be responsible! We just need, like, half a bootstrap, not even a full one!
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TEXAS AND OU TO SEC IN MS PAINT*
Yes. Was really hoping to be the first to Comic Book Guy "Well actually, this was a continuity error in the 10th panel..." but was of course beaten by a duck. Furk.
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CR: COVID-19 --Political Talk
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Well gee, now that Tarp has confirmed the move, I guess the only suspense in this thread is if @Mitch Cumsteen will neg posts that quote articles with the word-that-shall-not-be-named.- Realignment talk not going away
Well he's sure as shit not running back his words.- Realignment talk not going away
Yeah, well that's what you mom said about my love-making, so take that!- Brett Kavanaugh Confirmation Thread
At least we got to a lot of words to say "Ok, I was wrong and I admit it." I think that's progress?- CR: COVID-19 --Political Talk
You are still not answering the question. You replied to a poster pointing out that conservative politicians and media are now changing their tune on vaccinations. ("Corporate overlords and staring down their base bearing the brunt of delta"). You replied say "Ben Shapiro hasn't changed his mind!". I agree, Ben hasn't. Do you disagree with the actual point that conservative media and news have largely been anti-vax?- The GQP: Trumpist Death Cult
Yeah, all the white police officers are super fucking qualified and if anything, they spend too much time policing their own. Their only weakness is that sometimes they just work too hard. - Realignment talk not going away
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