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  1. Pretty, pretty good, this one.
  2. Just put the motherfucker on ignore, which is what I did after the second time he came in here, drive-by trolling. It's not like you'll miss any of his posts elsewhere on the board, as he brings absolutely nothing to the table.
  3. A whole show devoted to skewering Naziyahoo. While I think I knew most everything covered, all of it put together demonstrates what a corrupt and colossal asshole he is. He and dipshit truly are two peas in a pod, made for each other. 34 minutes
  4. You should probably start a thread comparing women's body types to various WWII aircraft, letting us know which one you find the sexiest. πŸ˜‰
  5. For those debating the exact geographic definition of the Deep South, there really isn't one. For me, one strong indicator would be whether an area voted for George Wallace in 1968, when the Dixiecrats left the Democratic Party after the passage of the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1968 (see election results below). While not perfect, I think it captures some of the geographic vagaries fairly well. I will say, however, this particular indicator breaks down for South Carolina, for whatever reason. That's pretty surprising, considering they were the first to secede. Today, I'd say it still remains largely accurate, except for some of the bigger cities that decided to embrace economic and social progress during the early boom in migration from the North to the "New South," which is basically what drives the economy of what we call the "Sun Belt" nowadays: DFW, Austin, Houston, New Orleans, Nashville, Atlanta, the Research Triangle, etc.
  6. Wordle 1,563 4/6 β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›β¬› β¬›β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ© β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #841 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ πŸ™‚ Daily Quordle 1344 7️⃣4️⃣ 6️⃣5️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ 🟩🟩⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
  7. I hadn't realized this guy was still doing those man-on-the-street interviews and would've thought he'd gotten out, gone dark, or was sent to the front. These are always really interesting, listening to people voice their fears in carefully selected, coded words, or on the other hand, being in total denial with constructed rationalizations.
  8. Kinda dig this. Just read, digest, and translate what the Russian press is saying.
  9. Think of them like how we think of Neo-Confederates still waxing about the Lost Cause. They’re fucking losers. Meanwhile, here's some more video on that drone taking down the Russian helicopter.
  10. More Americans disapprove than approve of Jimmy Kimmel being taken off the air, a new Economist/ YouGov/ poll reveals. A majority of those polled also believe the government has no place pressuring broadcasters to remove content it finds objectionable. The survey β€” conducted Sept. 19-22 with 1,551 U.S. adults β€” comes after ABC News’ parent company announced on Sept. 17 that it was removing Kimmel’s show β€œindefinitely.” ***** In the survey, 48% of respondents said they disapprove of ABC’s decision to pull Kimmel’s show from television. Thirty-six percent said they approve and 16% said they were not sure. On this question, a massive partisan divide emerged. The vast majority of Democrats, 83%, and 51% of independents said they opposed the network’s decision, while 73% of Republicans said they favored it. Respondents were also asked: β€œDo you think it is acceptable or unacceptable for the government to pressure broadcasters to remove shows that include speech it disagrees with?” A decisive majority, 68%, described this behavior as unacceptable, while just 13% said it is acceptable and 19% said they were undecided. Here, again, a noticeable divide emerged across the political spectrum. Most Democrats and independents β€” 88% and 74%, respectively β€” characterized this type of pressure as unacceptable, while a 42% plurality of Republicans said the same. Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article312232886.html#storylink=cpy
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  12. Reminder that there's a warrant out on Naziyahoo's head for being a fucking war criminal.
  13. I was expecting data to back the claim that "most of the right thought the cancellation was bullshit." This only gives six names. Edit: How many names do you think you could come up with if you searched for reichwingers who supported it?
  14. NARA is Rubio's realm. Six of one, half a dozen of the other, regardless. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/25/house-investigation-mikie-sherrill-military-records-00581091 House Democrats called for an investigation into the release of Rep. Mikie Sherrill’s (D-N.J.) military records Thursday, following reports that her personal information was errantly distributed. The ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), called the release of the record a β€œstunning failure” to protect the privacy of a veteran and member of Congress. In a letter shared first with POLITICO, he called for an investigation of what he called an β€œillegal and likely politically motivated disclosure.” β€œThis raises serious questions about whether NARA, currently headed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, released the comprehensive record in a politically motivated effort to aid Rep. Sherrill’s gubernatorial opponent,” the Californian wrote in a Wednesday letter to the archives’ acting inspector general, William Brown. CBS News reported earlier Thursday that the National Personnel Records Center, a branch of the National Archives and Records Administration, released improperly redacted personnel files that included the New Jersey representative’s social security number, among other private information about her military service. Sherrill is running in November for governor.
  15. Under what authority does an American president have the right to dictate where the World Cup is held? Seriously. Can he also say this: β€œAustin is a very dangerous city with lots and lots of illegals, so I don't think they should be able to have a professional soccer team because a lot of Mexicans like the game and they will want to move there. Austin FC will have to find a new home.” Or, β€œAustin has a lot of homeless people, and the Texas football stadium is near a creek where they hang out. One of them even murdered a student once near there. The Longhorns will have to play somewhere else."
  16. Whew! Came close to blowing my streak. Wordle 1,560 6/6 β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬› β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨ πŸŸ¨πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ© πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #838 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ πŸ™‚ Daily Quordle 1341 6️⃣7️⃣ 8️⃣3️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩⬜🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟨⬜🟨🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
  17. Beat me to the punch as I was getting to the bottom of the page. This is exactly what I was thinking.
  18. Wordle 1,559 2/6 β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #837 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 πŸ™‚ Daily Quordle 1340 4️⃣7️⃣ 5️⃣6️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ 🟩⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟨🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  19. I banged a chick from there one night, even if they were one of our football rivals. As mature semi-adults matriculating through college, we were able to overcome our differences. See, there *is* hope for humanity!
  20. Man, that chart is pretty interesting. Steady 2/3 support for immigration, going back 20 years, and then all of a sudden it plummets among a certain cohort in the build-up to the election, and then boom. It bounces back to historical norms. It's almost as if pounding away at a single message demonizing immigrants to a captive, racist, and under-educated audience that's in the thralls of its favorite propaganda channel actually works.
  21. From the Midland Reporter-Telegram: Dallas Fed: Energy companies suffer another lackluster quarter Pessimism and uncertainty continue to prevail in the oil and gas sector, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas’ quarterly energy survey. The survey’s business activity index, the broadest measure of conditions facing Eleventh District energy firms, was negative 6.5 in the third quarter, suggesting a small decline in activity since the second quarter survey. The uncertainty index remained high at 44.6. β€œIt was another lackluster quarter,” Kunal Patel, senior business economist at the Dallas Fed, said. Activity levels and production levels were both down slightly while costs continued to increase, he said. Approximately 78% of exploration and production executives responding to the survey indicated their firms have delayed investment decisions in response to heightened uncertainty surrounding oil prices and the cost of producing oil. Oil prices are hovering just below break-even prices so activity has experienced a slight decline, Patel said. β€œThe U.S. shale business is broken. What was once the world’s most dynamic energy engine has been gutted by political hostility and economic ignorance,” wrote one respondent. Responded another, β€œThe administration is pushing for $40 per barrel crude oil, and with tariffs on foreign tubular goods, [input] prices are up, and drilling is going to disappear. The oil industry is once again going to lose valuable employees.” Demand for employees was relatively unchanged, Patel said, with the employment index negative 1.5 compared to negative 6.6 in the second quarter. He said respondents to the first quarter survey were asked their expectations of how employment would change from December 2024 to December 2025. The consensus was employment would be largely unchanged, but now Patel said there are suggestions employment could decline slightly if oil prices remain near current levels. Oil and natural gas production decreased slightly this quarter. The oil production index was negative 8.6 while the natural gas production index was negative 3.2. Lease operating expenses and finding and development costs rose at a faster pace this quarter. The lease operating expense index was 36.9 vs. 28.1 last quarter while the finding and development costs index rose to 22 from 11.4. Input costs rose again for oilfield support service firms but at a slightly slower pace. The input cost index was 34.8 this quarter relative to 40 last quarter. In other survey findings: About three-quarters of respondents believe shale oil drilling will become commercially viable in international locations outside the U.S., Canada and Argentina in the next 10 years. Fifty-seven percent of executives estimate that regulatory changes since January have reduced their firm’s break-even cost for new wells by less than $1 per barrel. Another 25% estimate a reduction between $1 to $1.99. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act lowers federal royalty rates and increases federal leasing offerings. When asked whether these changes would increase crude oil production, the most selected response was a slight increase, chosen by 58%. Another 36% reported no change, while only 6% expect a significant increase. Similar results were obtained for natural gas production.
  22. I always saw it as an excuse for not making things better in this world. My parents were public school teachers, so we were fortunate that our family's finances weren't directly hit by the bust. The same can't be said for a lot of my friends back then, though. The high school's enrollment went from about 1,500 students to around 1,200 or so. On top of the oil bust, we had just lost the AFB too a few years earlier in the late '70s, so lots of folks, who were already in a depressed state, completely lost their minds for a while there. Drug use was absolutely rampant. The worst of it was that we were already getting our asses kicked in the "Little Southwest Conference" week in and week out. It was like the fucking apocalypse, but we dropped down to 4A when I was in HS and finally became competitive for a while, but they've been back to being a miserable football program for the last couple of decades.
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