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956 Worldwide replied to Eastwood's topic in Daily Texan
A no-fly zone in Ukraine would require US support and intel at lease. I am far from confident this admin would do that. It would be easily the most āescalatoryā thing weāve done since 2022. -
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956 Worldwide replied to Eastwood's topic in Daily Texan
I will also addā Russia has with this āerrorā entirely deflected attention away the clearly non-erroneous massive air raid on Ukraine at a time when weāve allegedly demanded that stop or else. Instead we are talking about what to do since they droned Poland. This is a classic of Russian negotiations: demand all of someone elseās cake and then act like they've conceded something by āsettlingā for only half. -
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956 Worldwide replied to Eastwood's topic in Daily Texan
Itās deliberate a deliberate gray zone probing action, designed entirely to see how NATO and the president will respond. Early returnsā weakly. Letās see the outcome of the Article 4 mechanism (which is a fairly big deal to invoke) and what kind of unity emerges. Either way, some other type of escalation from Russia is likely. -
Why is the younger generation so intolerant?
956 Worldwide replied to hornian's topic in Daily Texan
Even if youāre fully on-board with this EOā surely you concede that childrenās lit on these themes exist and that those books have been really influential one way or another, right? How are you supposed to teach a survey without bringing them up. Itās like if we decided we were big mad at, I donāt know, European national identity in the Habsburg realm and said we couldnāt teach anything about it. And then said any survey course on 19th century European lit had to completely ignore books on those topics. Itās totally stupid and conflates understanding something with advocating for something (which I will grant youā understanding often leads to tolerance). -
UAP Pentagon Report (UFOs, Foo Fighters, Commie Drones)
956 Worldwide replied to Doc Reeves's topic in Daily Texan
Iām not sure what youāre watching. This video is missing a lot but Iāll use cardinal directions to make it easy, even though we donāt know the actual bearings: 1. The object is lined up within the MQ9 targeting cross hairs and the MQ9 camera is tracking it on a near perfect SE bearing, matching its speed and bearing. Expectedā this MQ9 is using its laser to target the object for another MQ9. 2. The Hellfire from another MQ9 comes into frame at about :17 roughly from the NW. It makes impact on the object and knocks it out of the targeting cross hairs towards the WSW. 3. The object tumbles and then falls out of frame at about :21. Its trajectory is now far more SXSW than SW and it falls out of frame almost directly due āSouthā of the targeting crosshairs. For it to disappear from frame after having been perfectly matched to stay in the MQ9ās targeting cross hairsā either it changed trajectory or the MQ9/MQ9 sensors did. Occams Razor says the thing that got hit with a missile changes its trajectory. At :22 or :23 the view changes to a zoom out. Thereās no time stamp or telemetry here. We have no idea when this was filmed and what filmed it. Itās interesting but without that infoā useless to use for speculating on what happened. So yesā the thing that got hit with a missile behaved like it got hit with something. -
UAP Pentagon Report (UFOs, Foo Fighters, Commie Drones)
956 Worldwide replied to Doc Reeves's topic in Daily Texan
Except it doesnāt. It spins around and then goes off on a markedly different course. The debris from the impact that is picked up on this sensor also goes off on the same trajectory. And you canāt tell in this short clip about altitude and what happens next, itās entirely possible that this thing is in the process of crashing. We at least have to share a common understanding of what we see; and this is not an object that sustains its original flight path after itās been hit with a missile. -
UAP Pentagon Report (UFOs, Foo Fighters, Commie Drones)
956 Worldwide replied to Doc Reeves's topic in Daily Texan
For contextā the Shahed-type drone used by the Houthis weighs over 400 pounds. They are bigger than you think. Plenty of things in the sky that wonāt be completely destroyed by a glancing Hellfire strike. Thatās not to say thatās what this was but the way the object reacted is not out of line with extremely terrestrial technology. -
UAP Pentagon Report (UFOs, Foo Fighters, Commie Drones)
956 Worldwide replied to Doc Reeves's topic in Daily Texan
Maybe, it could. A Hellfire weighs about 100 pounds and this one doesnāt detonate (we donāt know why and the impact simply could not have been hard enough to trigger). Depending on where and what it struck, itās absolutely possible for it not to be demolished. Whatever it hit didnāt just continue on its way, it clearly changed trajectory and went glancing off another direction. And you canāt see altitude from this angle, or length of video. Any sort of effects are artifacts of the sensors youāre viewing this through. Bottom line, whatever it was, it as not acting out of line with physics as we understand it. -
UAP Pentagon Report (UFOs, Foo Fighters, Commie Drones)
956 Worldwide replied to Doc Reeves's topic in Daily Texan
Itās hard to tell without all the telemetry and also we are relying on the word of whomever leaked it that this was indeed Yemen. The Hellfire is not an air to air missile by design although it can be adapted for use against relatively slow targets. I would bet itās some kind of drone. The missile delivered a glancing hit, caused debris to break off, and then whatever it was went spiraling off orthogonally. Iām just not seeing anything beyond the ordinary here. -
Why is the younger generation so intolerant?
956 Worldwide replied to hornian's topic in Daily Texan
This is a great post, and I think the commodification of higher education and everything has also led to a problem of TOO MUCH tolerance. Not of people or ideas, but of behavior. Thereās been a slide towards accepting almost all outbursts of opinion, no matter how incoherent or disruptive, as legitimate expression that must be accommodated. To the point where disruption of othersā free expression or preventing people from hearing ideas you donāt like is elevated to an equal level of expression. A student who is disrupting a class like this should be told to sit down and STFU or leave. Donāt like the content or disagree? Professors have structured times for students to question or push back. If youāre really pissed you can leave, you can write letters to the paper or dean, you can stand outside with a placard. But erupting in anger and derailing a lecture is not legitimate expression. Screaming and preventing others from hearing a guest lecture is not expression, itās anti-expression. Itās like pressing an air horn on a theatre. And thereās undoubtedly been a trend towards accepting and accommodating disruptive āexpressionā that has only the goal of silencing voices you donāt like. And every time the curators of spaces intended for dialogue, exchange of ideas, and learning treat that form of disagreement and disruption as acceptable, they send the message that it is effective and legitimate.- 310 replies
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956 Worldwide replied to Eastwood's topic in Daily Texan
Worth noting that as Poland shoots down these drones, Russia has a massive buildup of troops for ZƔpad exercises in Belarus just across the border. -
UAP Pentagon Report (UFOs, Foo Fighters, Commie Drones)
956 Worldwide replied to Doc Reeves's topic in Daily Texan
Also important that this was engaged with at all. The military doesnāt shoot at things that are unidentified; thatās why all the other UAP videos are just tracking. Someone in the chain identified this as a Houthi target and got the green light. -
UAP Pentagon Report (UFOs, Foo Fighters, Commie Drones)
956 Worldwide replied to Doc Reeves's topic in Daily Texan
Those are pretty high-value and usually used when itās important to avoid civilian casualties. If Reapers and Hellfires were used then the object was moving fairly steadily and not too fast. This area is some of the most heavily monitored and a site of active air defense operations against Houthi missiles and drones. My bet is the Hellfire failed to detonate against some sort of one-way drone. Good article here: https://www.twz.com/news-features/revelation-that-mq-9-reapers-are-now-engaging-aerial-targets-comes-from-uap-hearing -
Why is the younger generation so intolerant?
956 Worldwide replied to hornian's topic in Daily Texan
Iād argue that the current of thought among the right-wing is idealistic and utopian. Itās a question of who the intended utopia is for; but these ideas are meant to usher in a bright future of plenty and peace for the ārightā people. Thereās no iron law that says dissatisfied youth will glom onto a progressive cause; much of the tumult in the Muslim world in past decades was young students reacting against the perceived defects of secular and liberalizing governments in favor of a retrograde Islam promising perfect truth and justice to the faithful. Thereās been decades in the West where liberal democratic values and ideals of equality, tolerance, and individual rights have been on the march. Young people who feel like the system isnāt delivering are reacting to dismantle those structures. Whatās really new is that todayās far-right views the āground rulesā of society as illegitimate in the same vein youāve ordinarily heard from the far left. The proposed replacement they come up with is of course radically different. There are fewer and fewer people who see things like free speech and freedom of conscience as inherently good and needed. -
Why is the younger generation so intolerant?
956 Worldwide replied to hornian's topic in Daily Texan
Being a rabid MAGA supporter or bigot or far-right weirdo is far more transgressive and anti-establishment on most college campuses or in polite society than it is to be a pretty standard liberal. Thereās for sure an element who sees an appeal in that, especially at a young age. -
Why is the younger generation so intolerant?
956 Worldwide replied to hornian's topic in Daily Texan
Groups like TPUSA and after October 7, some pro-Israel orgs have really picked up on the opening in recent years. Their stuff is often astro-turfed but they are using the structures and arguments in place. Student āsafetyā has been a big winning argument to silence and sanction people and that one got ripped directly from left-leaning successes. The really disturbing new element is that the feds have put their thumb on the scale. This case is fairly boring on itās face, whatās notable is that the university admin had the right initial instinctā to tell the student that no one was getting fired. And they did an about face under implicit threats to lose federal funding. The Feds and the right are being mendacious and hypocritical and have no good will here. At the same time academia as an institution has been woefully bad for a long time at genuine defense of academic freedom and free speech.- 310 replies
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Why is the younger generation so intolerant?
956 Worldwide replied to hornian's topic in Daily Texan
The university administrators bit is just blatantly untrue. Itās been a problem for years. Universities have set pretty ugly precedent on this front. FIRE is a great group that takes an extremely principled stance on this. https://www.thefire.org/news/report-scholars-punished-their-speech-skyrocketed-over-last-three-years- 310 replies
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Why is the younger generation so intolerant?
956 Worldwide replied to hornian's topic in Daily Texan
Itās not particularly new for college students to believe that they have a right to silence speech they believe conflicts with their moral values, and itās not particularly confined to the left or right. You canāt even begin to count the number of guest lectures that have been pulled down on college campuses over the last 15 years or so after undergrad groups threw fits over the content. It is fairly new for the chief executive of the country to indulge their tantrums.- 310 replies
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Wow- Roy Jones Jr was given the Gold Medal by the S. Koren boxer!
956 Worldwide replied to AUS-97HORN's topic in Daily Texan
Roy beat the hell out of him. The SK boxer lifted Jonesā hand on the stand and told him he was sorry. -
Saw they were picked 2nd in the Southland. A loss to a P5 school and a decent game against ranked ACU wonāt sink them. UIW is the class of the conference but they may challenge for a 2nd playoff spot. For sure not an FCS power but theyāll be a challenge for UTRGV.
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He is LDS and Iām pretty sure that would have been a culture clash with both the bourbon set and the nerd set at UVA. UVA for years wanted to be Harvard all week and then Alabama on Saturday, but the Harvard set usually won fights. Itās a hard job. A really hard job for institutional reasons. If he was going to be successful at NM he was going to have to go and raid Utah, Arizona, Colorado for recruits and he can likely do that easier at Utah State. NM has woeful high school football. And he gets to be at home and close to grandkids as he winds down his career. I think heās a case of a guy who got the perfect job for him (BYU) and only realized it after he left.
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Telling all the idoits I donāt like that it seems they have mitochondrial challenges, so thanks for that one RFK.
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