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Keef

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  1. We had different experiences in Beijing. If you go to China, you need to do some advanced planning. For example, Google (including, importantly, Google maps) is banned, and therefore you can't google what to do if there isn't google. We used apple maps, which was shit. There are Chinese apps, but (at least 5 years ago) none of them were in English. Free wifi is also pretty rare there unless you have a Chinese number and it can be difficult to get cash because few of the banks will take your debit card. I would avoid a VPN, because if you get searched in the airport, they always look for it.
  2. This is 5000% true. America has a horrible tradition of racism. Absolutely horrible. But what is OK to say in polite company in parts of Europe would never fly in the US. Central and south americans can imigrate to Spain pretty easily, so there are lots of Argentenians, Venzuelans, Brazilians, etc. here. They get tons of shit and for the most part hate Spainards.
  3. Yes, but to be fair, the drastic amount of foreigners has not exactly gone over super well with all of the population. I married an Espanola and live here now, and there's tons of complaining about all the migrants (who are either super poor or super rich, many of whom have little grasp of the language) either increasing crime or increasing housing/food prices. Every silver lining has a cloud.
  4. But it didn’t go to the best QB (Mahomes), nor to the QB who had the best season (Jackson).
  5. That's probably fair. But still, just in case they didn't maybe don't publish that.
  6. Not to shoot the messenger NYT, and definitely the CIA's bad here, but maybe don't alert China, Russia, Iran, etc. to that by publishing it?
  7. They would never issue a ruling he telegraphed to them he would ignore.
  8. Elon is a vindictive fuck and always has been. I worked at a law firm that hired someone who had somewhat of a role investigating, auditing, suing (can’t remember) one his companies while working in the federal government. This person was not even a partner, they were a peon associate. Elon threatened to move all corporate work (millions of dollars annually) away from us unless we fired him, which, shoutout to management, they refused to do. All over a mid-senior level associate with law school loans who tangentially had some role in something he didn’t like. I had never seen anything like it.
  9. Yeah, well, negotiations kinda grind to a halt after you’ve shot the hostages.
  10. Oh absolutely. Hiring an extra IRS agent nets a stupid return for the government. That doesn’t change the laws of course, or raise taxes in any way. It just better captures folks who are skirting things.
  11. The IRS for years has wanted to do what most other countries do, which is calculate your taxes for you, send you a proposed return, and have you add on any random income they wouldn't be aware of (which for most of us is $0, since the IRS also receives a copy of your W-2s, K-1s, 1099s, etc.). Republicans always block it.
  12. With this administration, conservatives may actually win the civil war after all.
  13. A lot of this “Luka is fat” talk seems like finger pointing and an attempt at distracting away from the sheer stupidity of the trade. Like, lakers Shaq was overweight at times too, but they never traded him for Shawn Bradley and a bag of chips. Unfathomably stupid and there is some hidden motive at play here.
  14. @Brisketexan, sorry for your loss. Truly. My grandparents raised me, and my grandfather was the best man I have ever known. Just a kind hearted, jovial, and happy person who thought (incorrectly) I hung the moon. The worst part of his life was when my grandmother passed. Whenever I would visit him, he had a big framed picture of her before their wedding right by his chair. I think those of us left behind are often the unlucky ones. I'm happy your father is reunited with your mother.
  15. He's like the Ted Cruz curse for sports teams.
  16. Basically, we denied them Nvidia chips (although they had some from before the ban), which are essential to training AI models, so the founder hired a bunch of scrappy but inexperienced engineers who had to think outside the box given their limitations. They did it for like $10M versus the billions OpenAI is always telling us it needs to raise. If it wasn't, you know, communist, it would be a pretty damned good example of capitalist innovation. This calls into question the valuations of companies like Nvidia and Microsoft.
  17. Pretty good debate between Mick West and Marik vo Rennenkampff, hosted by Jesse Michels (who has the best analyis on this stuff out there, IMO). Mick does Mick things throughout, but cops to getting paid to come up with his debunking stuff, shocking absolutely no one. He declines to identify who is paying him.
  18. In terms of actually being on the field, not very many.
  19. Remember when Tom Herman’s staff compared Hudson Card to Aaron Rodgers? That’s all I’ve got on Purdue football.
  20. Well, my favorite team is the Cowboys, and after all his asshatery and sideline antics yesterday, I actually do wish that on him.
  21. Keef

    Bert!

    We should change the thread title from Bert! to Bert...
  22. All of our problems are coming home to roost lol
  23. More than me, but barely.
  24. Jim Mora looks like a wax museum statute.
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