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  1. i am actually curious if the dad (or anything else you have heard) has given any indication as to what led to the altercation and eventual stabbing?
  2. oh come on, you got your three points yesterday and i didn't even make fun of you guys for doing your prescriptive insufferably whine about the refs thing in deference. though i will admit when they didn't call that obvious red card early on, i couldn't help but think of the aneurysms you guys must have been having...
  3. HEY! i offered to buy you a ticket to be there the one time our shared hero happened to be in austin! and you call me a fucking angry mongoloid?
  4. and that would still be a shitty one..."imagine if the roles were reversed" is yet another giveaway. it would still be terrible and i would still hope the perpetrator was in jail and facing murder charges. as far as i'm aware, the perpetrator here was arrested and facing murder charges. it was an awful tragedy and terrible for everyone that knew him. it would certainly be nice to have more information regarding what led to the altercation but the twitter aggregator did not provide any such info...it just provided a bunch of other white victims more interested in leveraging for their white victim/reverse-racism agenda. it's frankly a microcosm of how everyone in your generation and younger getting information from twitter instead of legitimate news outlets has contributed to the world becoming an utterly idiotic place. on a more positive note, let me know if you need me to buy you a ticket to the lafc-austin fc game in july so you can see our boy olivier's hair in up close and in person.
  5. derka, you posted an image of a well-known trash twitter provocateur who routinely posts both overt and subtle racist content and is also a major figure in the maga world of horseshit that i know you know is putrid. that particular account was attempting to leverage the undeniable tragedy and awful story to mischaracterize the media response in order to promote the notion that the media is reverse-racist because it doesn't care when there is black-on-white crime, only white-on-black crime...implying that there was not media coverage of the incident which was demonstrably false. that twitter account could not care less about the poor victim and is only utilizing it to stoke outrage amongst the type of garbage human beings that would read their posts. it was odd and out of character for you to use that as a source to tell a story when there were numerous other options to convey the facts of the tragedy without the absurd twitter commentary of "zero national outrage." i suspect that is the source of people's negs.
  6. username checks out.
  7. i gotta say guys, you are all focused on all the horrific outcomes of imposing completely arbitrary and capricious trade war disruptions into a humming global economy for no apparent reason whatsoever and predicated on a nonsensical approach not rooted in any thoughtful or measured intention to speak of. but you are focused on the wrong thing. as a professional economist, you have no idea the event study data this is going to create for us. i'm going to be able to publish to most badass dsge model paper that revises all of the widely-accepted consensus from the last 150 years of economic data that overwhelmingly shows how horrible this all is. by demonstrating that while imposing tariffs to achieve some sort of policy goal targeted towards a particular trade outcome between specific actors is super bad and literally never worked in history, being a complete fucking idiot and just throwing a completely erratic and haphazard grenade onto the planet will undoubtedly get the optimum equilibrium outcome benefiting everyone on earth. see you fuckers in sweden while i'm picking up my nobel prize. a halt to the global economy and widespread suffering is a sacrifice that i'm willing for you all to make.
  8. ojo, i would just encourage you to consider that roberts is almost wholly responsible for the fact that elon musk can show up in wisconsin and just pay voters a million dollars to vote.
  9. you are never going to fucking learn are you?
  10. more complete set. thank god we can finally get some equity with réunion island!
  11. do you think obama would have won a state-wide senate race in Texas in 2008 or 2012?
  12. go spend $2,000 on chickfila this month.
  13. so all of those articles all boil down to the competitiveness of getting into the most exclusive and elite schools in the world in which there is significant scarcity. in 1990, the state of texas had approximately 16 million people and the flagship university of texas had approximately 49K students. in 2025, the state of texas 30 million people and the university of texas has 53,800 students. that is a failure on the part of the state of texas. i agree that the drive to get kids into harvard and stanford or else life is a failure is perverted and fucked up and likely causes undue anxiety but a lot of that is the parenting and crony capitalist society as a whole. to the extent that exists, it is largely a failure of the parents imo. i just read each of those stories/opinion pieces and every one of them talks about how the kids are putting so much pressure on themselves and that they will get into 13 of the 14 colleges they applied to but not harvard. not sure what to say about that. those are perverted expectations. as for your chart, i am sure that some contributing element of that rise in anxiety and depression is the pressure of college admissions but as someone who spends a lot of time with regards to data analytics and statistical significance as you profess to, i'm surprised that you would actually post that knowing that the real timeline underlying contribution is social media (25 year olds aren't terribly anxious about college admissions). most of my friends in 1997/1998 were incredibly anxious about getting into their first choice college just like kids today are...i don't think college admissions are causing the anxiety spike for most. but it certainly is for children of perverted tiger parents with fucked up priorities. anyway, i would love to see the pressure dialed down on the college admissions front just like you. a 90 person unaccredited school trying to aggressively grow is not taking some morally superior position by claiming to be less discerning in its admission standards.
  14. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme_stock
  15. no, it is because you responded with a one word answer that appeared sarcastic without explanation. i wasn't bootstrapping anything. was i wrong in my interpretation of your response? why? what is so mind-blowing about it? i'm not offended by its existence. i'm just surprised that some superficial nonsense that they post trying to attract customers resonated so much with you. threatened? fuck's sake.
  16. i'm going to laugh so hard when he says it is from an email newsletter he gets and still claims to not be animaltobacco.
  17. i've spent the last ten minutes daydreaming about 21 year old hot, tan girls with nice tits at arizona state.
  18. the objection amongst the frustrated people (that the university of austin tweet that ana posted was targeting) isn't that ut is the flagship and it should be hard to get admitted...it's a belief that there is an ideological adherence to making it not as hard to get admitted if you are from an underrepresented group as opposed to the white male. the implication being that a white student that does everything correctly, has above average scores, and finished with a good high school career has less of a chance than a immigrant student who overcame [insert sob story] or a black woman whose mom was a crackhead and had to be raised by her grandparents with inferior academic credentials - a slap to the face of merit-based achievement that those of us with the privilege to value indeed value. while there have been state law efforts to raise opportunity (especially for rurals) by 10%, 7%, 6% rules, i have actually not seen much real evidence of this. a lot of it is driven by main character bias from which we all suffer. while the diversity of most institutions has increased, that has been the result of demographics and previously unavailable opportunity.
  19. i mean, you wildcats will always have arizona state to look down upon and make yourself feel better. but my god, the titties. the wonderful titties.
  20. and don't forget, a lot of the foundation as to why universities are so strongly associated with socially progressive ideology is because they were so visibly and strongly part of the anti-war movements of the second half of the 20th century and early 21st century...as well as other social issues at the same time such as integration. while the hippies smelled bad, reeked of privileged superiority, and had terrible taste in fashion, they were 100% correct about vietnam. while fox news was absolutely maligning and villainizing my friends and me in 2002 and 2003 for protesting the invasion of iraq in a disruptive way, we were absolutely right. (ironically, something of a virtue amongst perverted republicans now despite them calling us traitors that should be executed at the time) and i would think someone with an anti-adventurism slant as you do would have more appreciation for the water carried by progressives on college campuses for the last 100 years. you have repeatedly posted about the ills of israel's handling of palestinians, bibi being a war criminal, and the u.s. having a pox on its house because of its support. columbia is being defunded by the president of the united states for allowing its students to express the same sentiments and that whole negative association of ideological environments that people that would go to the university of austin would point to would be rooted in said expression. that would seem problematic to me on your behalf.
  21. i am not going to do all the work in this conversation. but in trying to interpret this, my natural assumption is that you are sarcastically implying a certain hypocrisy in my skepticism about students' unbiased experiences at u of austin because i frame it as an environment with an overwhelming undercurrent of ideology in its mission...and that the reason for the appeal of an institution like this to a certain segment of people is the perception held by many of those same people that traditional universities themselves are ideology associated environments? if not, then i don't know what you are trying to say. if so, drawing a parallel between a tiny incubation of peter thiel's wet dream society with 90 students and universities with tens of thousands of students with an extremely diverse perspective on pretty much everything is disingenuous and absurd. i think universities have become punching bags for allowing some more progressive ideologies to be explored - which i certainly view as natural given the nature of 18-26 year olds in general, as well as university's historical role of being on the vanguard of social progressive movements that can sometimes be extreme. but to say that the university of texas or any other major university is not welcoming to students of all ideologies (including traditionally conservative ones) is just absolute horseshit stemming from right wing propaganda nonsense. it's 50k people from entirely diverse backgrounds that all hate each other and all want to fuck each other. it's a confusing time.
  22. it's currently hard to get at that. i do recall a 60 minutes segment in which they interviewed some students. the problem with that right now is that is such an ideology associated environment and anyone that is willing to be a part of it at this level of infancy (and with no accreditation) is going to have a natural predilection towards believing it's superior. the inherent sampling bias will distort any ability to evaluate it for the larger population given that is has not even hit 100 students yet and, as i said, the ~90 or so people who have participated were like "sure, i believe in what joe lonsdale and bari weiss are all about and i want to spend my time matriculating here."
  23. i haven't read much of the thread after this as i suspect it likely devolved into another shitshow. i'm also certain that a number of posters probably offered a lot of criticism of the university of austin ethos and its mission statement and founders (deserved imo). i would just say while that meritocratic message may be something that superficially resonates for you since it seems you've apparently found some frustrations in the conventional university application process (though i think the characterization of said process in the tweet betrays the ideological bias driving the tweet)...as someone who prides themselves on seeing both the bigger picture of things as well as unmasking propaganda messaging as you do, i'd caution you to view this as anything more than just marketing material and ideological red meat to disenfranchised kids and parents who wonder if they will get a fair shake (dei/affirmative action dog whistle) and further integrate them into said mentality. it's also just pure marketing for an organization trying to get off the ground and get some momentum to reach critical mass in order to be taken seriously and transition from "pre-revenue" to "post-revenue." i don't find it particularly resonant. moreover, if your kid makes a 1460 on the sat, they will not struggle to gain admission into a number of traditional, prestigious schools so it's not like they are offering some sort of lifeline to the otherwise discarded. "courage to join the first ranks of our truth-oriented university" pretty much gives away the game. but perhaps it will be a good landing place for your kids. who knows? give it a shot and follow up. in the last three years, i have hired graduates of upenn, umich, ufla, utexas, and tamu...and shockingly, other than the agro, i'm surprised any of them can get themselves out of bed in the morning and tie their own shoes.
  24. I was just wondering to myself, would it be worth it to kill the watch hijack by inviting bozo and agwithkids in here to talk about gerrymandering? Kind of an ultimate burn it to the fucking ground to clear the whole thing out for a few days move…and then hope the thread organically grows back stronger than ever with no jewelry chat.
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