Everything posted by Vegas64
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Charlie Kirk got ded, Erika Kirk grifts in place
Because I hadn't been touched by the algo before he died, i searched out a bunch of short form videos and from what I can gather, he was basically a really articulate (truly) thinker and speaker who reasoned with logic really well extemporaniously (at least, relative and compared to young college students) and defended his conservative positions well.
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Charlie Kirk got ded, Erika Kirk grifts in place
As a parent and now a grandparent, the thing that has stayed with me about this while thing (the shooter and his motives, etc.) is something I read the mom said or commented on. I read somewhere and I'll try to find the source but it's been a few days, where the family member or the mom said something to the effect of "he was into his games and internet and even went as some sort of meme once for Halloween when he was in high school" and was just so oblivious and hand-wavey about the whole thing. Clearly no real oversight or discipline into how he was raised with respect to technology. That screams to me either laziness or apathy, but either way, a very dangerous way to raise kids in the social media/internet dsytopian timeline. Like many kids, if he maybe had more attentative caregivers who moderated and policed his online behavior and activity as a youth and teen in those developmental years, maybe some of the internet-induced mental illness could have been avoided. Then again, maybe guys in their late 20's and 30's end up breaking their brains on the internet on their own and it was inevitable. I truly don't know.
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Charlie Kirk got ded, Erika Kirk grifts in place
We live in a chaotic world full of mental illness in pockets and genres that I didn't even know existed. I couldn't dream up this scenario or the players to this if I tried.
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Charlie Kirk got ded, Erika Kirk grifts in place
- Do We Have a Christ Followers Thread?
100% agree. American Christianity is a lazy, fat cat from lapping at the easy dish of cream. Christianity has always thrived when it was practiced in the margins in, dare I say, persecution. Americans (and yours truly) would be wise to heed Isaiah 1:22, "Your silver has become dross..."- Israel vs everyone war thread
I'm guessing the boots in Gaza per reports today?- Unpopular Opinions Thread
- Charlie Kirk got ded, Erika Kirk grifts in place
Wait, I JUST got this joke. This is funny. ugh, i do have it don't i.- Charlie Kirk got ded, Erika Kirk grifts in place
This is a great point and it jives and makes me recall another piece of this that I had forgotten about that time until your post-- the mandatory trainings around hiring and recognizing subconscious bias and giving some rules of the road on how to better interview, score, bar raise, etc. You actually couldn't interview candidates much less get an HR partner and get candidates unless you had done the corporate certification at that time around DEI.- Charlie Kirk got ded, Erika Kirk grifts in place
no idea tbh- Dumbass Shit We See On Facebook
- Charlie Kirk got ded, Erika Kirk grifts in place
Yep my bad. sorry...- Charlie Kirk got ded, Erika Kirk grifts in place
Sorry did I mess something up? Sometimes I do that. Maybe have a touch of the 'tism. I've heard it before.- Charlie Kirk got ded, Erika Kirk grifts in place
Asians and Southasians (Indians) are generally not considered to be beneficieries (but rather hurt) by DEI policies and practices. I say generally becaue DEI policies obviously differ on case by case basis, but overwhelmingly do not include them (and likely due to the pervasive and harmful "model minority" myth).- Charlie Kirk got ded, Erika Kirk grifts in place
Southasians / Indians don't qualify as DEI from what I recall. They are typically very conservative and don't like DEI/affirmative action for this reason.- Charlie Kirk got ded, Erika Kirk grifts in place
Anectodal experience that sort of cuts a line in the middle between what you and enchub are saying: I worked for a Mag 7 in 2018 through the heart of Covid. I was part of hiring a lot during the #MeToo and DEI peak (as it relates to corporate popularity, lots of money was budgeted for DEI programs post-George Floyd youll recall) and there absolutely was a focus on metrics. Specifically, KPI's that make your departments and overall corporate footprint have a better ratio of demographics that skew away from white and indian men. So we were told to score more graciously (and we were operationally incentivized because the standard hiring workflow from req to onboarding was cut in half) and to favor the hiring of what we termed URG's (underrepresented gender) and URM's (underrepresented minorities) over a more "typical" profile. At the time, it actually didn't seem that wild of a practice because the general mood and sentiment of corporate America (and politics) was on board. Cut to today, there is zero chance that any sort of direction like that would be given as DEI seems to be made borderline illegal (if not illegal) by Trump. And it feels almost quaint thinking back to those halycon times.- Dumbass Shit We See On Facebook
Eddie George was the cover of the 2000/2001 Madden for PS2. I think he's correct (and that is a PS2 screengrab).- Do We Have a Christ Followers Thread?
Nice. "An evil and adulterous generation" we, too, are. Turtles all the way down.- Charlie Kirk Assassinated [Shooter in custody]
I'm not talking about politicians, I'm talking about people.- Charlie Kirk Assassinated [Shooter in custody]
Agreed. I was responding to the poster who was decrying the death of the idea of "unity" in the country, not the OOP of the POTUS tweet. I am just agreeing with him that the idealism of unity and us ever healing seems to be as far as away as I've ever seen it in my lifetime.- Charlie Kirk Assassinated [Shooter in custody]
Neither side thinks the either is worth a flip. In a society where it's common to go no-contact with your family, why not with people you don't know but only share a flag with?- Protest Songs
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TIL I learned Superhero lives in a hostel.- Charlie Kirk got ded, Erika Kirk grifts in place
The bold is the answer. As someone who is social media sober barring this site and college football twitter, I didn't even really know who Charlie Kirk was and his prominence/belovedness to conservative Texans. I blissfully didn't know anyone's opinion on Charlie Kirk, even those very close to me, until after he died. I think in the new era of America, superpowered by AI, the answer is to deccelerate online connectivity and activity and try and curate more in person, microcommunitiies around us. I mean, I don't know, other than I feel lke you do.- Texas Football 2025 - Seven Win Steve Rides Again
I have a friend whose parents are the neighbors of the Owens' in Cypress (a fine family and people the Owens', btw, generally speaking). Owens is and has always been effortlessly strong and big and fast. So for him to be completely out of the conversation means he's a 3 star in a 5 star stud's body? The inverse of Lacey. - Do We Have a Christ Followers Thread?
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