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Posts posted by UpperWestside
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11 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:
We really need to see some investment in these schools. Look at Mississippi as an example...
Endowment:
Ole Miss: $775M
Mississippi State: $700M
Southern Miss: $300M
Jackson State: $60M
Alcorn State: $20M
Mississippi Valley State: $2.7M (!!!)
It is embarrassing how little we contribute to HBCU schools considering their historical importance to our country. Even when they get money it is a drop in the bucket to what they deserve.
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Good for this young man on getting paid and getting coached by one of the greatest (if not the greatest) DB’s to ever play the game. I am glad he’ll be at JSU and hopefully the experience is good for him.
I haven’t been to a college football game in a long time, but going to see JSU this coming season seems like it would be fun seeing the on-field product instead of just showing up to see the SONIC BOOM.
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That was just amazing to read. What a way to be remembered!
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44 minutes ago, aggie08 said:
Who the fuck is Austin Reaves?
Someone who should be playing every night. The Purple and Gold need all the shooters we can get that will also try and play defense. I was walking back home during the game and a friend and fellow Laker fan back in Dallas was telling me that “Your cousin just hit the game winner!” Nice to have someone under age 40 doing something positive on the court when he gets his chance.
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On 10/27/2021 at 8:26 AM, Pancho said:
As someone who knows exactly what the kid is feeling in that kind of setting I am so glad that they had a sensory room he could go to. That is so freaking cool! What a great memory for both father and son thanks to a little help from their staff!
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23 hours ago, Sbbruin said:
Monster win! Turning point! Eh, struggling to get excited about this team.
Me too. Still love the Purple and Gold, but this team is decidedly not fun to watch. At least THOSE GUYS are having a lackluster season as well. We can commiserate together with them!
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2 hours ago, David Dennison said:
NRG and the Alamo Dome are dumps compared to Jerryworld. Kids want to play in the premier facility in the state.
Exactly. The players want to play there, the coaches want the games there and overall it’s a pretty awesome experience for them to get to play in that palace. All of the title games should be there every single year.
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1 hour ago, UT_OB1 said:
I’m not as pessimistic as some of you, but I do see us headed towards a Wall-E type situation. Too many willing to be fat and lazy staring at a screen all day. I I completely realize the irony as I type this.
I’m not sure the WallE like scenario (or Terminator) doesn’t overestimate AI. If AI doesn’t become advanced enough to handle not just the conveyor line, but also keeping the conveyor line (and everything else) running, then the second or third generation of WallE humans isn’t floating around space carefree, they are in an oh shit situation where machines are starting to break down and no one alive knows anything about them.
I have mentioned this before, but the show on Prime called The Expanse shows what I believe our future will look like for the poor and destitute. They are given a monthly stipend because there are no jobs left for them to do in America because of automation.
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This thread has some really good thought provoking stuff in it. I was not expecting to read something this engaging tonight, but it’s cool to see discourse happen.
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Thanks for that post and the videos. I want to watch them later today when I have time. There is a few from James Baldwin during that time where he debated thoughts and ideas. The thoughtfulness and respect in those old clips is a far cry from today.
The yelling and screaming accomplish absolutely nothing except lining the pockets of news networks who know we have millions of people who live for the ridiculous drama they see on these network shows.
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24 minutes ago, Murfdogg21 said:
Look who you’re talking to though!
There is so much misplaced hate and anger right now. We should be attempting to bring people back into the fold of modern society. I do believe that the hate and spite possessed by millions of our fellow citizens is not going away anytime soon. However, I do not look at all of them as a lost cause.
Sometimes you have to be the one doing the changing and in the process help others out that need a kickstart to get their life back to some semblance of normalcy. We have really lost that ability to connect with and help each other and it shows in how our society functions.
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1 minute ago, Hate said:
Go to the CR and you'll see why there is a divide. Fly over country? Deplorables?? I've said it before, but spite is a hell of a drug.
Oh I am aware. I post in there, but I do think at some point we all need to step back from the brink and talk to one another as human beings. I may not like everything I see happening, but I would rather try and build a bridge with those folks I do not agree with rather than shun them completely. If you take the road filled with hate it’ll burn you up. We have one life to live and we should focus on taking advantage of that gift as a society.
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6 hours ago, slorch said:
Despite the best efforts of many, America still stands strong.
If you think we're not, well a shit ton of folks sure are trying to become Americans.
When that stops, you might have a point. For most of the self-loathing, those folks are just expressing their guilt complex. WGAF?
I still believe that there are enough good people in this country that we will survive our current crisis and come out stronger as a people. We have a lot going on with civil unrest and people just not liking one another on a personal level.
I think communication with people who think differently is exceedingly important. We have to keep our lines of communication open as a society and remember we are all just people on the same road. Just help as many folks as you can on your own journey and be the person you want others to be.
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I was unable to see the game this year, but I saw the the run by Fagot on that unintended fake. That was awesome to see and his interview after the game was just pure joy from him. I am happy for that young man. What a lifelong memory he will have to tell people.
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I will take the Golden Bears. I have a really good friend that played basketball for SOC and he said they are legit. Their only loss is to Duncanville. I hope they break the DISD drought that’s 63 years long at the moment because of the Carter forfeit in ‘88.
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11-1 and likely finishing at 12-1 in a little over a week from now. I think the man knows what he is doing. They had won exactly one SWAC title since 1996 before this one.
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Vogel is probably not long for the job, but he isn’t the issue. Anthony Davis is not playing at the level they need him at and Westbrook should never have been traded for. I wanted Ball brought back because I am an adamant believer in giving a young point guard time to grow into the role.
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Incredibly sad, but at least it was apparently not foul play. I am glad he was able to get a few years back with his mother and grandmother when both had their federal drug sentences commuted. Another reminder how fragile life is.
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47 minutes ago, Blotto said:
I went to high school with someone who played on the women’s basketball team at Nyack. Last I heard she is back in Texas and is the AD at a small, rural high school in west Texas.
Having Curtis Blow on the alumni list is honestly pretty cool.
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This was a fun movie to watch. It’s hard to adequately describe how cool it was. Bradley Cooper and Sean Penn both made me laugh as did Tom Waits. Cooper Hoffman was great in this in my opinion. His dad would have been proud. Alana Haim also was fun to watch. Those two had good chemistry.
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I like Adam Driver and Lady Gaga as well. The accents in this movie were, well, not Italian. This movie would have been better had it been done with people who speak fluent Italian and actually, and I’m just spitballing here, are from Italy. I never get disgusted with movies and do not consider myself a movie snob, but I went home a little over an hour and a half. I can count on one hand the amount of times I have done that.
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My mom is up here visiting me and there is one theatre that was showing this movie and tonight is the only night they show it. We didn’t have money to watch movies in the theatre as a kid so this was her first time to get to see it on the big screen. I saw it two years ago on the 30th anniversary showing in Times Square, but this was so cool to get to watch this with her. She had a great time! I put on one of the sweaters with his quote about the nuthouse. So many good memories of watching this movie every year.
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I thought about taking my mom to the Nets game last night because it costs roughly 15 percent of what it costs to go to a Knicks game (Seriously it’s harder getting tickets to see the Islanders than the Nets), but my mom was not feeling up to it. They had tickets going for 22 which is ridiculously cheap considering the Sixers are still a pretty good team. I would have had to pay more for a movie ticket to see Spider-Man last night than that. Looks like it wound up being a pretty good game though for those that got to see it.