Everything posted by Vegas64
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Greenland - Tassa Eller Asu !!!!
The opposition party that came second in last year’s Greenland election is more open to dialogue with the US. The party’s leader remarked this week, “the US can’t do anything to us that Denmark hasn’t done already.” The Danish Defence Intelligence Service labeled the US a security risk last year. I really am starting to think a deal gets done.
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Trump’s America
Trump is retro, apparently. The US the world thought it knew looks gone. Or perhaps more accurately, the pre-WWII US is now back: exceptionalist, transactional, and unapologetic. Or maybe this was always there, just behind a more benign and internationalist veneer. "Maybe this augurs some new golden age in America — Greenlanders and Danes be damned. But history shows the US can suffer hubris, and with big flexes against Iran, Venezuela, and Greenland, Donald Trump does seem a tad close to the sun."
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Trump/MAGA has ruined sports
I like it. I also like when Mario Cristobal or Carson Beck or Trinidad Chambliss talk about God and Jesus as the first thing they do after they win, before talking about the X's and O's.
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Things not going well in Venezuela
I hear you. I just think we are seeing that political power and history, well...it doesn't repeat but rhymes as they say. Much like fashion and trends, it seems like there is a cyclical "come back" of styles and we are certainly in our Brat Boi Winter era as a country.
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Popular comedians that are not funny. I’ll start : Bert Kreischer
You can dislike or not like Chapelle's POV's, but he's absolutely doing the public intellectual / social commentary stuff and it's awesome. I'm watching George Carlin right now and it's well-scripted, smart, dark social commentary like you said. But it's actually not funny at all.
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RFK Jr. off the chain and off his rocker
In another stunning "a broken clock is right twice a day" I actually don't hate RFK's newest announcment on nutrition guidelines pushing more protein and whole foods and less processed food and sugar. Just like his phobia for food dyes and chemicals, this is actually a good thing in a vacuum IMO. Thoughts from resident nutritionists? Adults should consume 1.2 to 1.6 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight daily—50% to 100% higher than previous guidelines—from red meat, poultry, seafood, eggs, dairy, or plant sources. A new “healthy fats” section favors full-fat dairy over low-fat options and recommends cooking with olive oil, butter, or beef tallow. Highly processed carbohydrates like white bread are a big no-no for the first time. Whole grains are recommended, but they’re depicted as the smallest portion of the pyramid. No added sugar until age 10 (up from age 2). Adults should also avoid it and artificial sweeteners, including the aspartame in your Diet Coke. Reactions: The American Medical Association approved, while the American Heart Association raised concerns that the guidelines could lead to overconsumption of sodium, protein, and saturated fats. -- All in all, pretty reasonable!
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Things not going well in Venezuela
I'll channel my inner briskettexan here. "Have you not being paying attention the last 100 years? There is NO International law. It never existed! It was just some made up, dressed up shell cover for hard US power. It hasn't been international law stopping China from invading Taiwan all these years it's been the US seventh fleet. Same as it ever was!"
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Things not going well in Venezuela
I think in a vacuum it's a flex straight out of the "might is right" era. In much the same way you can disagree with the IDF in Israel, you have to give them credit for their effectiviness. In a lot of ways it's reminding the world that the US is no longer bluffing! No more tweets and finger wagging. Special forces will build an exact replica of your villa, then pants your China-built ‘anti-stealth’ defenses, kill 32 of your crack Cuban bodyguards, and haul you before a New York judge without even suffering a grazed knee. That strength and ability must shake our enemies a little bit you'd think. "It weakens any despot’s perceived security behind sovereignty, raises the costs of defiance, and encourages the next Maduro to just hold elections instead of dancing on TV."
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2026 Fiesta Bowl - Miami vs. Ole Miss (CFP Semifinal #1)
- 2026 Fiesta Bowl - Miami vs. Ole Miss (CFP Semifinal #1)
- 2026 Fiesta Bowl - Miami vs. Ole Miss (CFP Semifinal #1)
- Robinhood Prediction Market
Here is what I ended up doing. Trimming my in the money bets to take back my original investment and use house money for a stake in Oregon. So now with $0 exposure, so long as Indiana does not win, I will get back at least $1000 with a highside of $2000. If Indiana wins it all I lose $185 (unless I trim $185 profit off the semi-finalist position I will still have money in).- 2025 Christmas
We've just been spreading it back and forth since around December 15th with church, sports, parties, like 5 parties. Going back to work this week felt like a nice break actually. I might prefer work to holiday parties. Am I a monster? Also feeling better today for the first time in a week helps.- Mamdani's Mamdate
Nothing like a luke warm Pret-A-Manger black coffee to chew the fat on the good old days.- Mamdani's Mamdate
This is the part that threw me "When she got home, he was genuinely shocked from her description about how safe, walkable, clean and fun Manhattan is." I love NYC but would never call it clean.- Trump/MAGA has ruined sports
That's a good one. If you don't drink and you don't like to gamble, when you chance into a casino (work events, restaurants, concerts/comedy) it's wild how disgusting the experience is. Sad sack people and loud, wild noises with the smell of a 2015 Kia from Avis that has been chainsmoked in for years but whose wet-dry vac did it's best to clean. It's actually very sad and it's the most depressing when you see people who objectively should NOT be gambling their prescription or car note or rent money doing so. Anyways, free beer though.- Mamdani's Mamdate
So, not sure if Houston is a leftist city or not, but I'm in SF 5 days out of the month and NYC 5 days out of the month and IMO and experience in 2025, doing a 12 month lookback, Houston was a bigger craphole. I witnessed and saw more crime, homelessness, mental illness, open air drug use, and disorderly conduct from the Four Seasons / Discovery Gardens all the way to Theatre district and especially in the heart of Fannin / Louisiana / Walker / Texas St's whatever that area is called. Walking at night is like walking in Atlanta at night versus the normalcy of SF/NYC.- Dumbass Shit We See On Facebook
7 minutes. They don't make men like they used to- Flight disrupting assholes Thread of Shame.
And I would imagine, you can correct me if I am wrong, but I can imagine as a seasoned flyer with decorum you took the inconvenience on the chin and dealt with the bad hand as a one-off and deferred to your betters of the next few hours, on your left and right.- Flight disrupting assholes Thread of Shame.
I already addressed this with the below. In my experience middle seaters are usually a) people who rarely fly so they don't know anything b) poorer type people or c) people who know how to fly and do it a ton, but have had to accept a middle seat for a same-day flight change or stand-by option because their project ended early in XYZ and they want to get home earlier to ABC. In all the cases above, middle seat grins and bears being a second-class citizen for a few hours as the social contract dictates.- Dedicated Stranger Things Series Thread
I didn't watch a single second of it the last 10 years. But because it's one of the few vestages of monoculture (because it started like 10 years ago) I decided to speedrun the series and feel like I got a good grasp of the thing and invested around an hour in youtube recaps of season 1-4 and then a longer season 5 episode by episode recap. I got it, seems like it was decent and creative and nostalgic for the Gen-X folks. Personally I wouldn't have enjoyed it based on understanding it all now. But I can imagine a messageboard of UT guys and gals (smart/dorky), in their 50's (gen X, nostalgia), could love it.- Things not going well in Venezuela
Rumors are it could have been O&G employees as some of them had an advance notice.- Dedicated Stranger Things Series Thread
Just read online that (contrary to this thread) most online are deeply disappointed and creating alternative conspiracy theories: The Stranger Things Finale Was So Bad That Fans Are Convinced There’s Another Episode Surprise Dropping This WeekWe’ve got another “The Johnlock Conspiracy” situation on our hands. For the uninitiated, “Johnlock” was the ship name for John Watson and Sherlock Holmes from BBC’s Sherlock. “TJLC” was the fandom term for a very specific set of shippers who believed that the show’s January 2017 finale, where Holmes and Watson remained just friends, must be a smokescreen for the real finale where they ended up together. This time around the ship is Byler, or fans of Stranger Things fans that think that Will Byers and Mike Wheeler should have similarly ended up together in the finale. And, again like in 2017, fans are so angry about this that they’ve convinced themselves that there’s a secret second finale dropping this week. They’re calling it #ConformityGate and they believe that the last episode was all an illusion created by the show’s villain, Vecna, and that a new episode released on January 7th will confirm this.- Things not going well in Venezuela
We are a country world that is now deeply entrenched in the attention economy: Maduro’s arrest is connected to a new kind of politics I’ve spent the last year struggling to describe. A profoundly embarrassing collision of violent nationalism, illiterate social chatter, and memetic fascism that’s been spreading across the globe since the pandemic. We’ve seen hints for years now that the elites of the world are just as addicted to — and dependent on — the same social platforms that we are. Ignoring the near-constant public embarrassments of our shitposter ruling class that play out on platforms like X every day, our leaders are also digitally networking with each other behind closed doors. There’s Chatham House, the group chat that fried the minds of Silicon Valley’s most reactionary CEOs like Marc Andreessen, that’s been running since COVID started. Which is adjacent to the text message network of powerful men that convinced Elon Musk to buy Twitter in 2022. Last year, the Trump administration was caught planning out airstrikes in a Signal group. And days before the campaign in Venezuela, Republican operatives secretly teamed up with a far-right YouTuber to storm daycares in Minnesota. You take all of that and throw in last year’s Discord-based election in Nepal, the international white nationalist incel terror cells spreading across Telegram, and the fact Charlie Kirk’s killer allegedly carried out the attack for the members of his Discord channel and the picture couldn’t be clearer: Politics — and political violence — is now something performed, first and foremost, for an online audience. It almost doesn’t matter what happens irl if it makes noise online.- Running Through Walz to Fix America - Democratic VP Nominee
It reminds me of during the debates when Trump was called out for something unethical/illegal/negative that the D's would have been slammed for he simply replies, "Akshully, that makes me smart" and then the rubes eat it up. He's a genius bidness man!
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