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  1. Thank you for the additional information. The high support is nowhere to be seen on the Aggie forum--they figure AI and models can take care of it and/or the numbers are not a high enough percentage to matter. When I was little I used to watch my older brother play this really old and beat up arcade game at a pizza place our family dined at for a treat. He didn't get to play games like that very often so can't imagine he was all that skilled. I can't remember what it was called but it seemed like it ended with missiles raining down until the screen was practically white. We're only at the end of February and I'm bug-eyed like I was watching him try desperately to play that game.
  2. The Onion has had some gems today (SIAP)
  3. Per usual, The Onion with the brushback pitch:
  4. Mrs Whiggins

    LBGTQ

    Thanks for the clarification.
  5. During the first Trump administration, I recall reading an article that there was a push to privatize the agency. Imagine the havoc that a service industry like that going private would be during extreme events. Want updates on that hurricane? Fork it over man. See if I can find that article...ah, well there have been more since that one so here's a few for anyone that wants some quick reads listed newest to oldest: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-private-forecasting-companies-cant-replace-the-national-weather-service/ https://www.npr.org/2024/11/15/nx-s1-5188571/a-meteorological-arms-race-is-shaping-up-about-privatizing-the-weather https://www.sej.org/publications/backgrounders/weather-data-privatization-poses-conflicts-changing-meteorology-landscape https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/who-benefits-from-the-privatization-of-weather-data https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/14/politics/noaa-nominee-accuweather/index.html
  6. I know she's a teacher and all, but you'd think she'd know that stupidity isn't really a hidden thing in America. It's front and center every day.
  7. I don't know about the legal charges, but he does seem to have a proclivity for "grooming" young men with the knowledge of how to "groom" women until they're essentially compliant to be abused. Right on course for this administration. I mean is anyone surprised that he's landed in Florida? Matt Gaetz probably picked him up in a limo at the airport.
  8. Locations in San Antonio, College Station, Magnolia, and Little Elm. Maybe more than that but not sure. I've never eaten there. Less because of the MAGA/politics theme, it's just not the type of food we go for when we dine out.
  9. Elon doesn't look like he could change an air freshener either....
  10. According to the Texas DSHS, it was a false alarm. However, I'm sure there will be more confirmed cases in new locations in the coming week. The ill person who traveled to San Antonio was not an outlier when it comes to human behavior.
  11. I'm glad he was your longtime barber even if he will be no longer. The LAST thing I'm going to do when someone is holding a pair of scissors near my face and neck is open my mouth and talk politics, even if they continue talking aloud to themselves.
  12. Mrs Whiggins

    LBGTQ

    I'm not a lawyer either so I may have misunderstood, but yes, the point of it is still the same as it ever was.
  13. SIAP: Lubbock health officials are confirming Walmart and Target as two measles exposure sites in that city. With symptoms taking a while to develop, I'm crossing fingers that the San Antonio exposures will end up null, but that Buccees is a wild card.
  14. Mrs Whiggins

    LBGTQ

    I read the bill to be that using barring public monies to fund transition was what was proposed. That being said, it has similar characteristics to the chipping away strategy that the GOP used for Roe v Wade and will use for other rights they oppose.
  15. Some states kind of do this in a roundabout way with Medicaid. There was an article that talked about how some states claw back Medicaid payments using a federal law with respect to the estate (after death) and it was a decent read. https://www.thegazette.com/health-care-medicine/iowa-medicaid-sends-4m-bills-to-two-families-grieving-deaths-of-loved-ones-with-disabilities/ It's not unlike the way some states bill prisoners for the time spent behind bars which leads to a mountain of debt that they cannot realistically overcome if they're ever released.
  16. The quote: "This fucking guy has no clue what he's doing." Martin Eberhard, Marc Tarpenning, and BoDs of Zip2 and PayPal: Just now discovering this, America?
  17. Your site, your rules so I abide. Carry on folks! Once I rose above the noise and confusion Just to get a glimpse beyond this illusion I was soaring ever higher But I flew too high
  18. This thread is about Elon Musk and since he's decided to rule America via an unelected personal mandate/fiat/coup, should probably be moved to the Cloak Room and anyone not afraid to actually enter that forum can do all the Trump talk they desire. @immamac thoughts?
  19. Another reason I mentioned the tie to MAHA is that one of the areas they emphasize with respect to vaccines is the length of the trial. That would perhaps be fine for a long standing vaccine (unless they nitpick which they very well may) but what is one to do with their focus on trials with short season vaccines like the flu? (While its manufacturing process/etc took over a decade to develop, it's the type of loophole logic I expect anti-vaccine proponents to exploit) Hence the concern over whether these vaccines will even be available next season.
  20. I LOVE flying, but I draw the line at crashing.
  21. Let me get this straight, and correct me if I get it wrong. The guy that has remora-ed himself to the President is telling everyone that the agency with a not too bad track record for safety is under extreme distress and only his product can save it? And he's offering it up like a late night info-mercial with the fine print no where to be seen? A product that may or may not be a little sus for foreign intervention and national security? Something seems a little ratchet with this dude. Pass. Hard hard pass. (Narrator: of course this Starlink contract is going to happen.)
  22. Yeah, it's a long list but I wanted to point out that once MAHA really gets going, this could have a definite impact on people's ability to evaluate their healthcare options. Legislation and doctors being NOT APPROVED would run up against the AMA but now that there are these look alike associations with similar names, it will confound folks even more.
  23. So, let's defend RFK Jr shall we? Here is a man who is aligned with Del Bigtree, the nonmedical huckster who turned anti-vaccine rhetoric into a lucrative career. Bigtree was, for a time, in Hollywood as a sometime actor and producer and it was during one of the shows he was assisting with that he ran across Andrew Wakefield. I don't need to tell you more about Wakefield I'm guessing. Anyhoo, Bigtree discovered that huckstering with this crowd can make some real money and he's been active ever since. Fast forward to NOW: Bigtree took RFK Jr's place at MAHA after Kennedy was picked for Secretary. MAHA is Make America Healthy Again and Bigtree is now CEO. No medical training whatsoever, but he's fine with that because medicine isn't necessary for what ails America apparently: (this is from an interview he did with FOX) So this is two men who will be promoting a "health" version of the political groups that give a scorecard and will without a doubt be promoted by Fox, Xitter, and be a defacto government mouthpiece for anti-science rhetoric. I know RFK Jr has his own thread, and the US certainly needs to revisit health and wellness policy but after the absolute shit that people gave former First Lady Obama for trying to amend the corporate foothold in the school lunch program and encourage dietary moderation, fuck their care and concern. They just want to grift off of ignorance.
  24. The trans phobia will only be broadcast when they've got something else they wish to either obscure, deflect, or gain votes/support from. However, the two topics above are pretty much policy and in place. W/respect to it affecting the economy, it will be a short term gain with long term negative consequences, IMO.
  25. I've watched Everything, Everywhere All At Once both sober and buzzed. I 'get' that movie sober, but I enjoy it a lot more when buzzed if that makes sense. But rep to the poster who listed John Wick on page 1. I'll watch those movies anytime but they're awesome with a nice cocktail in hand.
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