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wow. holy shit. presumably it is 1/10th of whatever the two manchester clubs did.

In the heart of Westlake, sounds like Fallujah outside. While clearing entire trees and piling shit up outside, I have watched six major veins or entire trees just give in entirely on my street in that half hour. Tree services in central texas about to get rich. temps need to get above freezing asap…I’m about to take a hairdryer outside.

that was like 200 pounds ago.

i would happily trade games against noobs vs. keeping virtually any existing team besides maybe kansas or iowa state. at houston for texas = requirement that someone post pic of 2002 temporary stands.

actually, as i look at it, cincinnati is the team that benefits the most. they avoid the two purple teams in the conference final game last year, texas, and tech. edit: okie state plays all four noobs and dropped all four previous big 12 texas teams. what in the ever loving fuck? are they running conference admin or something?

ou got some seriously favorable treatment. they get three of the noobs and drop kstate, baylor, and tech who all beat them last year.

this place and its constituents will never not be amazing to me. we had a complete fucking disaster mid-ride on this season because of one person's utter emotional stupidity and immaturity and despite that, we have a top ten team that halfway through conference, is going to be sitting atop the conference alone after tonight in the hardest god damn basketball conference i can remember in a long time. doesn't mean they will hold that spot or anything but they are competing in a way we haven't in well over a decade. on top of that, the team is actually kind of fun to watch and very easy group of guys to like and root for. despite that, we have dipshits that are so committed to trying to appear more basketball savvy then the rest of the board, that they claim the season's results heretofore warrant ambivalence.

When I was going through my first delusional I’m going to be a guitar god phase in my early teens in the early 90’s, I loved DS. I resolved that the first solo I was going to learn on my piece of shit squire strat was going to be the sultans solo. my dad said you may want to start with something a bit more appropriate for a beginner and I of course rejected that entire premise like a early teens boy and so my dad said FAFO. i made it about two hours. the brothers in arms album is one the cleanest record/mix/mastering jobs ever done imo.

this is so utterly insane that i figured it was being somehow misrepresented or mischaracterized. i went to the source to try and understand what possible pretext the athletic's association panel could possibly have had in recommending this or what type of nuance was attached to possibly justify such an obviously outrageous privacy violation... couldn't find one. i cannot believe how committed the state of florida is to trying to make the state of texas not look like the biggest collection of dumbfucks possible.

in case anyone isn't familiar with the music that transported you... phenomenal live concert version.

dyche to everton is official. https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/breaking-new-everton-manager-dyche-29069402

or fundraise from the petrostate teams by selling gordon to newcastle. https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/12796776/anthony-gordon-newcastle-united-close-to-agreeing-fee-with-everton-for-winger

"DOOOOOOOOOONG" i get the joke having attended a combined 1 billion texas sporting events...still funny username for the post.

username, etc...

man, the timing of this most recent raid into the Jenin camp and its similarity of the new season of fauda that just dropped on netflix is presumably fortuitous i guess?

gee, i can't imagine why whatever woman that was dumb enough to allow herself to get knocked up by this dipshit didn't want to see the pregnancy through...

that would be nice but the real explanation is far more boring unfortunately. it is entirely a function of different wavelengths of light and what scatters light at each wavelength. you'll notice that in the optical image from hst (which is optical), there does not appear to be a hole but instead light, (blueish colored) non-dense dust and gasses. in jwst, it looks like it is just an empty hole of space. that is because jwst is capturing the infrared wavelength instead of optical. infrared is a longer wavelength than the visible light from hst and passes through denser regions of space than optical without the light scattering...meaning it looks like nothing is there. so the distant high energy infrared light sources appear to just pass through the gas/dust untouched through a hole even thought it isn't really a hole. it's just a non-dense area of dust/gas and matter in that portion of the galaxy in which the infrared just passes right through without scattering. you see the same thing in the top right of the image. a terrible, but easily understood analogy would be imagine everything in the left picture is skin. that's what we see when we look at it with our eyes. now imagine everything on the right is bones. when we look at it in x-ray wave lengths, it looks like the skin goes away and all that is left is bones. sure, there was non-dense skin that doesn't scatter x-ray light there, but there are no bones either so it looks like a big hole in the image. why there is such a drastic change in density there is simply a function of the governing dynamics of galactic formation.

in for a few k. first order of business. all out assault to sign mbappe and haaland to take over the attacking roles.

i think you have that all right except it wasn't matt gaetz she claimed stalked her kid. it was man named laurent hetu that she alleges was hired by gaetz to do so. but yes, the case was dismissed for a lack of evidence. so that does not bode well for this little momentary outrage. gaetz is clearly a piece of shit but rebekah jones is not being forthcoming in the verifiable stuff so it is casts a serious skepticism over anything she offers.

one more, this is the chamaeleon molecular cloud 630 light years away. it is extremely cold to the point that it is comprised of complex ice molecules including ammonia, methane, methanol, carbonyl sulfide... this is essentially the cloud of shit that is necessary to start forming stellar nurseries and planets.

lots of cool new stuff... just like they did with neptune, jwst turned its near infrared cameras on jupiter to generate this image. you can make out its faint rings and auroras at its poles. the white dot at the left edge of the rings is one of its moons and only 20 km in diameter...pretty wild to resolve that. brighter white dot to the left of the image is a 150 km diameter moon. here are some resolved clouds on saturn's moon titan. some higher resolution, zoomed in shots in infrared of the hydrogen jets and outflows from new star formations in the carina nebula. here is an image of the debris disk resulting from a red dwarf star. the star is 32 light years away yet they resolved these images which are about 60 astronomical units wide (1 astronomical unit is distance from sun to earth). so this is looking at a diameter about the same as the distance between the sun and jupiter from 32 light years away. this is insane. the blue image is at a wavelength where finer dust particles scatter the light and and the orange image is larger material. here's a look at the heart of the phantom galaxy comparing the famous hst optical images with the jwst (along with a composite). amazing how much more shit is there than we can see (right click to check out full size).

character assassination? it appears that you are overreacting to a perceived attack on you that you have constructed in your head. it isn't an attack, it is a clarification of what you are seeking here. you yourself have admitted you aren't actually seeking an outcome here that is a competing currency. forgive my confusion that a discussion of actual competing currency theories as set forth by hayek and other economists over the last 200 years was the topic of discussion in a thread called "competing currencies." the 2011 bill linked in post 5 that you want to make this about really have absofuckinglutely nothing to do with the economic concept of competing currencies. that bill is simply a tax shelter on metal coins and currencies used in interstate/foreign commerce. that's it. period. there's nothing remotely high-minded about it and it has nothing to do with implementing free banking/competing currencies concepts into our monetary system. you yourself said: you have now been clear with your thoughts. those thoughts have nothing to do with competing currencies, they have to do with a 2011 bill that never received a vote and that i simply don't take seriously that was intended to elevate certain investment types above otherse. i don't know why you're having such an emotive response (mixed with unfounded condescension) to me clarifying what the actual outcome of this bill is and it's grand canyon sized disconnect with the notion of competing currencies (which is a real thing). of course they are regulated...what i'm unclear on is whether or not when they are used as a transactional currency utilized in commerce (something the above bill doesn't actually give a shit about), whether you think that should be regulated or if it should be left to the whims of the marketplace? if it is going to be regulated, who do you suspect would be doing it and how would it solve your federal reserve problem? in some of your posts, you blame the volatility of crypto on unregulated marketplaces for them...in other posts, you say the market will keep gold and silver speculation in check stating "It's not going to cause a 30-40% "overvaluation" any more than people in China or India buying gold and silver does. The price of physical gold/silver will still be set by the free (and global) market." that's debatable based on the thin text of the bill... https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/hr1098/text you might find interesting reading what the supreme court sad about section 10 of article 1 in the farmers merchant bank v. federal reserve case. but critically, this really cements what i said earlier...this is not about competing currencies, this is about giving special status to gold and silver investments. and that's fine...i just don't understand why you are couching it as "competing currencies" and then getting emotional when i say this is not a discussion about competing currencies. if we were actually talking about competing currencies, we would have to talk about all of these unpleasant outcomes because they are precisely what occurs in that context. you don't want to and don't have to because you want to talk about the bill which has nothing to do with competing currencies as evidenced by: okay, forgive my confusion. again, this goes back to you deciding what you want to talk about...in the context of a competing currency discussion, you raised the notion that "sound money" acting as a competing currency that may enact gresham's law. now you don't want to talk about gold standard money. you're all over the map, man. but now that i recognize that you started this thread with the intent of discussing the narrow implications of a decade old bill that no one ever took seriously that has nothing to do with competing currencies but instead simply giving special tax status to gold and silver, i now see that i have wasted our time. it's not vague. in a world with value pegged sound money, what monetary tools do you believe exist to deal with the type of collapse that would have occurred as a result of the covid pandemic in april 2020 without the ability to generate significant, distributable liquidity and increase the money supply? is there anything that can be done besides debasing the value peg?

bang on.

i don't think you'll find much disagreement that ignorant simpletons being bamboozled into self-destructive decisions and behaviors do not warrant a type of shadenfreude that is being discussed. it is a loss of life and sympathy ultimately should be the humanizing response to any tragedy along those lines. however, when the key inputs into the machinations of the misinformation and abuse of things like social media platforms - not to mention public political figures who leverage it for opportunism - ultimately display an attitude that so hostilely rejects that same human empathy and sense of what's best for the community in order to make their own uninformed (what they believe to be) political statements then suffer the consequences of those prideful demonstrations of stupidity, it is hard to blame those machinations when it was the type of confirmation bias they sought in the first place. that is not to hold blameless the enabling interfaces and their business models that serve to feed you that confirmation bias...but ultimately the inputs and the manipulation is driven by human stupidity. when a radio host tries to garner market share towards people he or she knows are morons like a maga crowd by saying insanely stupid and unfounded shit...amplifying the misinformation...there is virtually no sympathy when it is the irony that figuratively kills them. like fisher's case study in the text you reference, it isn't the morons in myanmar that elicit shadenfreude, it was the extremists pumping out the misinformation meeting their demise that brings some (admittedly perverse) sense of satisfaction. in that case of genocide, i would not have minded if they all met an unfortunate demise.