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  1. I agree by all accounts the owner was a good guy and died trying to save those girls. People have short attention spans and reach for the easiest answer so the blame will fall to him. The county, state, and definitely the federal people like Noem know this and will ride out the storm pointing fingers until the next tragedy hits and the public moves on. By then they'll have their stories straight on who to blame like Trump was already blaming Biden on this, like c'mon. The level of negligence/culpability with regard to Mystic vs. the RM pros who checked them off vs. the county vs. the state doesn't really matter; Mystic in its current form is done. Even if they did everything "right" they're going to get sued into the ground and there is no way they have the assets for a long fight over 30 wrongful death suits. They'll end up liquidating and selling the land. Kerr County will install a few sirens so they can say they did something, and that will probably be the extent of it. My take is cynical but warranted. Uvalde was just a few years ago and I'm still waiting on real consequences for our DPS heroes who stood outside in violation of their training and policy while that dude massacred a bunch of kids.
  2. Just got done with a fun Vegas trip with my wife and my buddy and his wife for his birthday. He and I play craps while the wives play slots usually. We stayed at Aria but craps was mostly $25 min. We walked to Park MGM and they had $15 tables so played there the first night. Down about $300. Next day we did more Park, then took a trip down to Fremont and started at El Cortez ($25 wtf?), then Grand which had $10 tables, now we are cooking. Made about $400. Last day we decided to walk a little and ended up at OYO (old Hooters), where they had one craps table at $5. Super cool dealers. We played there about 3-4 hours and I made $1000. Finally we crossed over to Excalibur and it was hella fun, good $10 table made me about $400 again. There was some other stuff in there too but I ended up +$1400 which was pretty good. My strat is a little different than HG, which I do want to try. I rarely press. I usually play the pass line minimum unless I trust the shooter. I always play max odds. If the point sets 5, 6, or 8, I’ll bet the other two. I will also play the field here, but setup my bets so if I lose the field it’s paid back on the 5, 6, or 8 with interest. For example on a $10 3x/4x/5x table I’ll put $10 on pass. If point sets at 8 I’ll put $50 on odds. I’ll lay $30 on 6 and $25 on 5 and $25 on field. If 5 or 6 hit you lose the field but pays $35 on your 5 or 6. Collect the $10 difference and $25 back up on field. Obviously I’m putting more at play, so you have to come in with a decent bankroll to take the waves. But when a shooter is going for a while you have a win condition on every single number other than 7. Point then 7 crushes but you can say that for everything. When the point hits after you’ve been collecting fields for awhile the payout is awesome. And collecting double on 2 and triple on 12 is a nice sweetener.
  3. I get the analogy but Manu is a HOF player. He’s in the top 75-100 all time players somewhere. Kobe is top 5-10, but I don’t think you’re saying Wisner is a HOF top 100 level all time back.
  4. Dan Patrick has such a punchable face. What a complete asshole. When he dies if he doesn't end up in hell, there's no point in having one.
  5. No. You see some version of this pining for a SWC redo on other sites and in comment sections as people wax nostalgic for "regionality" in college football. Let's all remember what regionality did for Texas: Rampant cheating in the SWC Baylor fucking us at the lege TTech trying to fuck us Bleachergate with UH TCU, Tech, Baylor turning the Texas game into their annual jihad game Those same teams restricting tickets for Texas fans into buying multi-game or season ticket packages just for the Texas game Drafting off of Texas' massive fanbase and TV ratings, while simultaneously complaining about big bad Texas Texas today is right where we should be, and where we need to be. We're in the top conference, where we get consistently pushed by other blue blood programs. We are still a massive brand but we are one of many peers with Bama, Georgia, Tennessee, Florida, etc. All teams that care a lot about football, and invest a lot into football, and have large fanbases. Getting a lot more money is just a side effect of all that. Fuck TTech and Baylor in their ungrateful bitch asses. The only time we should play them again is in the playoffs, if they make it. And BTW we're still regional. We play OU, Arky, A&M, and LSU.
  6. Same and it was pretty dead in the morning. Didn't feel super crowded until after 10AM. Got into the stadium really early but hung out under the stands due to the heat. Wife has instructed me to get shade seats this year...Hmmm we shall see
  7. Anti-drone tech is getting better and better every day, but it's always going to be chasing. Directed microwave and laser are probably the best shots against this type of attack and I'm sure we're rolling that out at high risk facilities. Our B-2's are only based at, what like 2 bases? B-52's only a handful and the B-21 Raider is just coming online. Most of the China wargame stuff I've seen says that if China got serious, the majority of our USAF losses would be planes sitting on the ground in Guam, Kaneda, etc. We are not built for a long attritional war like Ukraine is in, we don't have the raw materials or resupply industrial base like we had in WWII. Right now we are as vulnerable as we have been in decades. Golden Dome isn't a bad idea, we should have it AND anti-drone tech as well. But if China rolls up to the port of SF or NY and pops open a container of 10,000 suicide drones to fly into highrises, nobody has a defense for that. And that would be a warcrime and very different than hitting a military target.
  8. Not sure how I have missed this one. 20 years after D-Day, Walter Cronkite interviews Ike at Normandy.
  9. Not sure where this would go, so I guess Daily Texan. A good/interesting article on the Texas Rangers participation in the U.S./Mexico war in the mid-1800's By the fall of 1847 Scott’s occupation challenges had dramatically increased with his inexorable march west and stunning capture of Mexico City. The strained American army of approximately 24,000 men now relied upon an embattled chain of fortified outposts to govern conquered territory, stretching 260 miles from capital to coast. As negotiations failed, Mexican aristocrats along the line of invasion enthusiastically embraced the call for “War without Pity” as the guerrilla resistance transitioned to a wide-spread insurgency. To remedy this untenable scenario, Scott called for the deployment of a specialized counterguerrilla force to compliment his pacification strategy. The general needed cavalry unlike any other, a cadre of irregulars forged in the crucible of frontier combat. For the hard task at hand, he needed Texas Rangers. This essay explores how federalized Texas Rangers, officially designated the First Regiment of Texas Mounted Volunteers, supported the U.S. Army in Mexico in 1847 and 1848 by providing critically needed counter-guerilla capacity. It investigates the Texans’ contributions to the American governance program, enabled by their singular mastery of repeating firearms and horsemanship, by pursuing two lines of inquiry: How did they achieve consistent tactical superiority over Mexican mounted forces, and how did their kinetic activities both support and undermine American pacification plans? The answers to these questions will reveal the Texan regiment as a controversial, yet overall beneficial, component of American victory in the decisive campaign of the Mexican-American War. https://smallwarsjournal.com/2025/05/30/fighting-fire-with-fire-texas-rangers-tactical-innovation-and-counterinsurgency-operations-in-the-mexico-city-campaign-1847-1848/
  10. Putting Venables and Bielema in the same bracket is malpractice. That's a finals matchup, semis at worst.
  11. This is the least worst way to do 16. Still has value in the conference championship. The final step is to move the quarterfinals on campus and we will achieve perfection. That leaves 6 games for the hollowed out husk of the bowls and then the championship, which should be permanently put in the Rose Bowl.
  12. I'm sure he was doing his stupid circular gesticulations with his hands while making noises about "player safety" all while rapidly shifting his recruiting to suit the new world.
  13. "Here comes Texas, destroyer of the SWC and Big12, trying to throw their weight around to get an advantage with an earlier kick!" Fuck everyone. I hope we did.
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