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Posts posted by Brisketexan
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How many of y'all think that the lesson cops take from this case will be "well, we shouldn't pull all that criminal shit that Goines pulled?"
Vs. how many of y'all think the lesson that cops will take from this case will be "okay, we need to make sure we do a much better job covering our tracks/creating deniability than Goines did?"
Rhetorical question, we all already know the answer.
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This right here [mention=593]Brisketexan[/mention]. You did nothing but confirm to him that he is right and the commenters are wrong. You of all people should know that the cog dissonant crowd needs the plank pulled out of their eye, then to be whacked about the head with said plank. Your subtleties are lost on them.
Kinda thought that just highlighting the leopards are eating his face would start to turn his eyes towards the light. You can’t undo years worth of thinking in one post.-
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2 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:I like the concept but we're getting to the point of raising our credit card limit so we can go to the mall later today. I'm in favor of adding to necessary govt services but we never want to address the costs. Most likely the only way to get this proposal passed is to give the Republicans a tax break. Receive less in tax revenue and spend more.
We'll see what the proposal actually looks like, but by its summary term, this is the key point: "The vice president will propose establishing a home care benefit through Medicare focused on helping families afford the cost of caring for seniors at home instead of in nursing facilities."
We already spend a shitload of Medicare dollars on elder care. We just spend those dollars in nursing facilities. If we can spend similar dollars on home health care, often with better care, outcomes, and dignity, that would be a really good move. Even if it was a 1 for 1, and folks with even moderate means could supplement the benefit to pay for home health option, that would be big.
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7 minutes ago, RPM said:
Looks like people are listening.
Yep. This has real Katrina - Rita vibes from 2005.
Two back-to-back major-ass storms (not a common thing, last happened nearly 20 years ago).
First storm does epic and catastrophic damage, getting national attention and wide-eyed "HOLY SHIT" from anyone paying attention.
Second storm comes along, and authorities say "this one looks as bad as the first storm, maybe worse."
People rightly remember the fresh lesson - from literally days before - of the ass-kicking administered by the first storm, and say "Fuck that shit, I'm outta here."
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13 minutes ago, chainsaw said:
Tolerance can be good or it can be bad. It all depends on what's being tolerated.
This, always this. It is very important to understand that tolerance is not a moral precept -- it is a treaty/compact:
QuoteTolerance is not a moral absolute; it is a peace treaty. Tolerance is a social norm because it allows different people to live side-by-side without being at each other’s throats. It means that we accept that people may be different from us, in their customs, in their behavior, in their dress, in their sex lives, and that if this doesn’t directly affect our lives, it is none of our business. But the model of a peace treaty differs from the model of a moral precept in one simple way: the protection of a peace treaty only extends to those willing to abide by its terms. It is an agreement to live in peace, not an agreement to be peaceful no matter the conduct of others. A peace treaty is not a suicide pact.
The protection of a peace treaty only extends to those willing to abide by its terms. That is, I have NO obligation to tolerate your intolerance. In FACT, by terms of the treaty, I have an obligation NOT to tolerate your intolerance. You have broken the compact. I should enforce the compact.
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13 minutes ago, ABSR said:
You mean like Ukraine did when they relinquished all their nukes to Russia for concessions and agreement of sovereignty? Not sure the lesson learned from this is to give up your nukes and it will make your country more secure.
That's his point.
One of the worst geopolitical lessons/outcomes of the war on Ukraine is "if you have nukes, never ever ever give them up....and if you don't have any....get some ASAP." Russia is fighting a war of nuclear blackmail, and has asymmetrical power to do so because it has nukes and its opponent doesn't.
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1 minute ago, Goredho said:
It is hilarious that the only two possible explanations are:
A) Government weaponization of the weather against its citizens, or
B) Act of God
Well, NONE of these people believe in anthropogenic climate change (including the AF meteorologist). Because it's clearly preposterous that hundreds of years of pumping carbon into the atmosphere would have the effect that carbon is known to have in the atmosphere, and causes small, incremental changes to climatological patterns that manifest in adding an extreme margin to some weather events.....but it's TOTALLY credible to believe that "they" have a "trillion watt laser" that can create and steer hurricanes.
These are not smart people or critical thinkers. They decide on a conclusion, then "rationalize" their way to it, selectively considering some possibilities, while ignoring literally thousands of other data points.
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2 minutes ago, hornmpa96 said:
I’m confused by this. I thought MAGA Texans wanted people to walk around freely carrying AR-15s.
Oh, they do. Why, there is no greater symbol of America and freedom than walking EVERYWHERE with your AR. Walk the streets, go into Chipotle, shop at Wal-Mart, all with your freedom boomstick by your side! You can practically hear the Lee Greenwood music right now, can't you?
Except, of course, this does not apply if you're not....you know.....a "real" American. Wink wink.
They don't even try to hide it anymore. Not even a little bit.
White guy with an AR? Freedom eagle Jesus gun freedom stick patriot!
Brown guy with an AR? Terrorist illegal murderer rapist!
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2 minutes ago, immamac said:
Tolerance is paraded around as "respect" and everyone should be "respectful". That's just simply a bunch of nonsense. Calling someone stupid who is in fact stupid or telling someone they are lying when they have demonstrably lied is not disrespectful, It's necessary for a functioning society and that doesn't require tolerance.
So much this. Call lying liars what they are -- liars telling lies. Call them on their specific lies, immediately. Do NOT amplify and repeat them.
That's not "political." It's fucking foundational to a functioning society. Only one political faction thinks that's political, and it's fucked up that they think that.
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9 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:
I see a lot of references to the metric system in there commie
Duh. And don't even get me started on (((joules))).
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6 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:
Texas League of Women Voters is where I start.
Co-sign. Always a great, and (even though the GQPers complain about it now, because they are deranged nutbars) neutral, fact-based analysis.
Seriously....they have always been the go-to source, and haven't changed their methodology or approach, but now the GQP hates them and calls them biased when they say something as simple as "Candidate X states that his number one issue is preventing sloth attacks in Texas. Texas has never recorded an attack of a sloth on a human being."
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I mean, I'd quit X, but it's just not the same thing to follow all of my posts on Surly with my note of "pussy in bio." So, I'm torn....
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The mining thing....hell, let's just pick on how stupid their math is.
So, the mining company supposedly just got $250 MILLION in grants!
Cool. So...to give that company some sort of advantage somehow.....we gin up a storm that will cause $200 BILLION in damage. Seriously, like 1000X the purported value of the grants, with much of that cost having to come out of the gov't's pocket.
So....wouldn't it be incredibly easier and cheaper to, I dunno, funnel $1 billion in grants/bennies to Blackrock, and keep $199 billion in your pocket?
There is ZERO high-level perspective on ANY of the shit they talk about. Everything is the result of some elaborate Rube Goldberg scheme, when - IF you accept the premise that there's some cabal out there working towards a particular goal - there are 1,000 more direct, efficient, and cheaper ways to accomplish the same result. WHY? Why would anyone craft some elaborate 38-step scheme that costs hundreds of billions, when they could just follow a 2-3 step plan that costs .01% of that price?
The stupidity has reached a point of singularity, consuming all that comes anywhere near it.
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20 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:Now's the time for you to parachute in and drag your nuts all over his face.
Fair enough:
QuoteI love ya, brother, but this thread is FASCINATING to watch. You are-literally-a trained weather scientist. You understand the relation of weather to energy, which is just basic physics. For example, "A hurricane generates energy in many ways, so if you bottle up all the energy output of the wind, rain, evaporation, you get a really big number. In fact, the wind alone creates 1.3 x 10^17 joules of energy per day. That’s according to the Atlantic Oceanographic Meteorological Laboratory. That is equivalent to half the total electrical generating capacity on earth. Now, when you take into account the wind and add in how much energy it takes to generate rain and clouds, through the process of evaporation, that is equivalent to 200 times the total electrical generating capacity on the planet." Summary: a hurricane involves such MASSIVE amounts of energy, the idea of localized weather control to create/enhance/steer such a beast is a physical impossibility. The energy of a total hurricane life cycle isn't just that of dozens of nuclear detonations, it's the energy of THOUSANDS of nuclear detonations. YET....you have the "open your eyes, don't be programmed!" crowd telling you you're full of it. Up is down, down is up, physics is fake, "joules" are made-up, we have the technology! In a world where nothing is factual or true, anything you WANT to be factual or true BECOMES the truth. Scientists don't get everything right, it's always a process, but to turn it into "and therefore, if science says so, the OPPOSITE must be true" is insanity. Yet....here we are. Enjoy.
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7 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:
Also "Simi," whatever the fuck that is.
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This morning, I got to enjoy some Leopards eating a dude's face.
Old friend of mine who I'm still connected to on FB. Super conservative catholic, former Air Force meteorologist. He has gone full Trumpy/conspiracy theory -- plandemic, the jab, "they" can't be trusted, all that shit.
But...he's still a trained meteorologist. So this morning, he posts about the absurd conspiracy theories that Hurricane Milton is government weather manipulation:
"An airplane with a doohickey cannot make nor steer a hurricane.
A lot of y’all need to get off the web and get your meds dialed in."Initially, some of his friends/followers chimed in, agreeing. But then, the critical mass of the insane conspiracy theory crowd he hangs with overwhelmed him:
"you're wrong on this one....this tech has been around for decades"
"Pretty shocking how unaware of this you are, actually."
"https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTFPHWvkj/
This guy goes over the same info but the way he summarizes it is interesting.
Put that together with the plane seen flying for hours above that area and it has to make you wonder."
"Clearly you’ve not researched anything. But you could also look up in the sky. It’s called called Geo Engineering, it’s a cocktail of Aluminum Nano Particulates, Barium and Strontium 7. It’s been going on since 1948.
- The Patent office has all the patents listed. It’s public Information
- CIA chief Brennan has admitted to it.
- It’s now been banned in Tennessee and New Hampshire"
"It took a minute but I don't agree with you on this one. I do think there is some weather engineering or other contributing factors going on in our world today. I do not believe it's all just an act of God."
"There are also tons of these lines. I’ve watched a lot of hurricanes and never seen them. People are saying it’s because of electromagnetic waves. All this shit is plausible because we’re watching it."
"Critical thinkers have eyes & brains. Programmed humans have neither."
Some people chimed in "what about cloud seeding?" He explained in short form how the physics don't work when talking about a hurricane:
"cloud seeding is to hurricanes as farts are to tornadoes."
All to no avail. Just a CASCADE of people saying "nope, do your research."
I gotta tell ya, I am now amused to watch an ACTUAL expert/trained scientist in the field explain how the laws of physics simply preclude any of the batshittery they're talking about (the amount of energy involved in a hurricane is more than any device can interfere with). Not so funny now, is it? Dumbass, getting hoisted on his own "we can't trust the science!" petard. Fuck em all.
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I thought Sikhs wore turbans, and Muslims wore taqiyahs
Well…see….your MAGAs, umm…aren’t smart. At all. Not even a little bit.-
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Dunking on morons is kind of surly's thing.
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So, Sunday night, my cousin's husband ---- who is so stupid he makes other people's brains hurt ---- comes out on Facebook saying that his church in Burnet had been threatened by two Muslims carrying AR-15s and that authorities were looking for them. He's 110 percent MAGA, and this turned into a multi-posted thread about immigrants and the border and Kamala Harris. I didn't engage him because I never do, but other people did. Naturally, my question was "how do they know the religion of the alleged assailants if they're still looking for them?" I've long ago learned that trying to talk with him is pointless, but I thought "there's got to be more to the story."
There was.
It was all fabricated.
https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/church-shooting-fabricated-man-arrested-texas-burnet-county-church-at-the-epicenter/269-d5d85745-596b-42b5-8a85-eee39928af2c
The report wasn’t just that there were two men armed with rifles attacking the church, they were two men “wearing turbans.” Fucking MAGA and lying go together like peas and carrots. MAGA, lying, and racism? Even better.-
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Straight ticket. Like everyone else in this unbelievably predictable poll.
Guess you missed the part where many of us used to split tickets, even being heavier on the R side of the ticket.
Shit has changed. We saw it and figured it out. You haven’t.-
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Wow. In perhaps 12+ years on this and the other site, this is the first post in which we are in agreement. Bravo.
Hey, I’ve said that OU sucks, Salma Hayek is glorious, and great barbecue is awesome. So, surely we agree on a few other things.
Unless you’re a gay vegetarian Sooner. But I’d really only judge you for the Sooner thing.-
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1 minute ago, ClubWhatever said:
It's not in the Atlantic
Yes it is -- that means "the Atlantic basin." For US hurricane purposes, we have Atlantic hurricanes, and Pacific hurricanes. Gulf hurricanes are Atlantic hurricanes.
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15 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:
Totally normal weather behavior …
The boy just moved to Mainz for the academic year. I got to laughingly send him a "so, prepare your anus for a tropical storm" text. He asks WTF, then looks up the weather. Well, well, well. I suspect the euros won't know what to do, and will flip their shit.
6 minutes ago, UnivTex34 said:Wait...where are you getting that. 211 mph winds? For real? Source?
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24 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:
Does it reflect poorly on me that I laughed at that old bitty getting tased?
It's one of the most delightful things on the internet. Seeing the entitled "laws don't apply to ME! Just to, you know.....those 'other' people" crowd get the law applied to them is fucking glorious. The living embodiment of the "I'm someone who the law protects, but does not bind" ethos, and then she gets it shoved up her ass. It's awesome.
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
in Cloak Room
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Seriously. Imagine the CEO of a publicly traded company who made such an infantile public statement. The fucking stock price would drop 25% that day, with good reason.
And we're about to appoint that man to the highest position on planet Earth. Fucking amazing.