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  1. 2 minutes ago, Armybrat said:

    Shakespeare’s “Dick the Butcher” should’ve included the bean counters in his little rant 425+ years ago.

    IMO the problem isn't that bean counters exist - we need budgeting and to know how much of what we have. It's that collectively, we have decided that financials are ALL that matters in any business decision. And that leads to the shortsighted decision making and enshittification that we all enjoy today and your great (great?) grandchildren will grow up thinking is normal

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  2. 3 hours ago, WelfareBuysMyWeed said:

    My dad started deep space 9 tonight after we watched a couple episodes of TNG. The first episode of Deep Space 9 blew his fucking mind.

    And the 1st season is when the show is the the least locked in - by S3 or 4 they're really cooking with gas. It's surprising how many of their episodes are still pretty dang topical today

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  3. 3 hours ago, F250 said:

    The Jedi come off as weird religious dorks.

    I don't disagree with your post, but IMO, isn't the Jedi looking like weird dorks the point? We see their downfall in the prequels in part because of their hubris and insistence on relying on harrumph and traditions. 

    I am convinced that the Jedi party we see in ep3 did some unspeakable evil in the name of the Order, and that's at the heart of the story

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  4. On 6/13/2024 at 10:24 AM, Buzzrock said:

    Trivial thing that annoys me for sure, but I do find it eye-rolly when the new writers feel like they have to come up with things like spice cream. I can’t even really explain why. 

    So they can sell them in their theme parks

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  5. 9 minutes ago, bolverk said:

    Is there a statute of limitations on sex crimes with children in Texas? Isn't there a law against not reporting abuse? Is there a time limit on that?

    It seems to me everyone but the victim should get punished for this shit.

     

    Hey man they prayed real hard on it so they're all good now, no need to get to get the laws of THE WORLD involved in matters of the soul

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  6. https://watchkeep.org/2024/06/a-survivor-comes-forward-alleging-child-sexual-abuse-by-texas-megachurch-pastor-robert-morris-gateway-church/

     

    On December 25, 1982, Robert allegedly began sexually molesting Cindy when she was 12 years old.  Robert would have been 20 years old. He told her that night that she could never tell anyone what he did, because it would ruin everything. He continued to create opportunities for the next 4.5 years to sexually molest her, countless times in Oklahoma and Texas, because her family became close friends with his family. 

     

    Very top of the page has a gross update from today: 

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    Update: someone reached out to me to share the email that Gateway Church elders sent to church staff today about this story. Church elders and Robert Morris confirmed the survivor Cindy’s story. He admits to sexually abusing her & doesn’t deny that he offered her money in exchange for her silence. She was 12 years old when the abuse began and continued for 4.5 years. That’s a child not a “young lady.” This isn’t just a “sin.” This is a crime.

     

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  7. 1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:

    But then you have the artists buying back their catalogs from recording companies.  I'm not sure the artists then become eleemosynary institutions.

    Better the artists own their own art than the recording labels memory holing their work just to secure a tax write-off, as has been happening with a shitload of media properties lately

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  8. 2 hours ago, Spaulding Smails said:

    You're exactly right in all aspects of load.  26-KW is the largest air cooled model Generac makes and is typically what we sell for most 2,500 - 4,500 SF homes.  Huge price jump with liquid cooled to get a larger unit.  But, they'll run continuously for a much longer duration and can handle a full load without interruption for a significant duration without shutting down non-critical circuits.  

    I feel like you'd have to be operating an enterprise for that to have favorable economics

  9. 35 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

    https://archive.is/skako

    this was previously unreported....

    Southwest Plane Plunged Within 400 Feet of Ocean Near Hawaii

        April flight landed safely after ‘roller coaster’ maneuver
        US regulator investigating previously unreported incident

    Reading the article, it sounds like more automated systems kicking in... Or maybe just a shitty pilot?

     

    Southwest Flight 2786 dropped from an altitude of roughly 1,000 feet to 400 feet above the ocean in just a few seconds, according to data from ADS-B Exchange, a flight tracking website. The plane, which was near Lihue Airport on the island of Kauai, then began a rapid climb.
    The pilot was “pitching up and pitching down with the power and close to out of control — very close,” Kit Darby, a former commercial airline pilot and flight instructor, said in an interview after reviewing details of the flight. “It would feel like a roller coaster ride.”
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    According to Southwest’s review, the incident occurred following an aborted landing attempt due to inclement weather that blocked the pilots from seeing the runway by a specified altitude.
    The captain opted to put the “newer” first officer in command on the short flight to Lihue despite the forecasts, according to the memo.
    The less-experienced first officer “inadvertently” pushed forward on the control column, then cut the speed causing the airplane to descend. Soon after, a warning system sounded alarms the jet was getting too close to the surface and the captain ordered the first officer to increase thrust. The plane then “climbed aggressively” at 8,500 feet per minute, the memo said
  10. 15 minutes ago, elfenix said:

    The bankruptcy discharges the judgment as a debt. Anything he earns after the filing date and time is free and clear.

    But @dcbchad assured me that Jones won't just get away with it again

  11. Chrispy I appreciate you typing up a fullsome response, but in just reading I can feel the doublespeak that's used by the modern christofacist movement today to steer public policy. First you say:

    30 minutes ago, BeardIP said:

    In no way, when I talk about the rulers and authorities that I believe Christians are fighting against, do I mean Joe Biden or University of Georgia's LGBT policies or any specific human being who believes differently than I do.

    Which is fine and good, but when you follow that immediately up with 

    30 minutes ago, BeardIP said:

    I take it to mean the unseen, "immaterial", forces that exist since the creation when Lucifer fell from heaven and, arguably, took some angels with him. Unholy forces that corrupt a man as he tries to walk a path of obedience, discipline, self-control and righteousness and holiness in an attempt to look as close to Jesus as one can on this side of Eden. Temptations, lusts, pride, you know, all the tricks in Satan's bag that have haunted mankind forever, and then some that are newer to our species (idolotry of worldiness, moral relativity, "my truth is my truth").

    You'll quickly find in substantive conversation that your brothers in christ are going to apply the "unholy forces that corrupt" label to basically anything and everything that doesn't meet their cultural fit. We see it today with the modern evangelical church in general STILL opposing homosexuality, and using that ideology of "obedience, discipline, self-control and righteousness" as a cudgel to control their members through shame and otherness. 

    So that's not to say that you're being dishonest, but rather maybe that you're just in too deep to realize that you're a mark that's believing kayfabe over reality. 

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  12. 9 minutes ago, Pancho said:

    I’m actually surprised UT had a WFH option for Staff (and I had no idea UT was doing this). It’s not really a thing in higher ed. 

    The only state I know of that gives the option for WFH for staff and administrators is Maryland (and I think Massachusett) and even that is iffy by campus. 

    What interesting is data has shown that as long as students have access in some way to the student services they need (advising, FA, TRiO, etc.) when they need then, they don’t care if the person is on campus or online. They just want the help.

    My mom runs UTs student services onestop and has been for a few years prior to COVID. She said since their move to virtual they've actually been able to increase call volume that their office handles and they went from being the finaid desk to the front door for all of student services. 

    They moved her office to the tower out of SSB, and Lord knows there ain't enough room for all of the call agents clocking in and out. Having the home work environment combined with a modernized call platform meant her employees and student workers could serve the university from anywhere. It's a meaningful and significant constraint to force everyone back into the office 

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