Horn of Gabriel

As a result of losing does he still get to claim a % of your future work???

That would be hilarious.

Maybe OU can pay us back in meth and dicks for 30 years.

Type 1 diabetes checking in here. I've helped a few people on the board with issues on this and am always happy to talk, I could write a book on this disease. Chapter 1 of the book is what I'm going to call "It's not fucking Type II diabetes, idiot, I was born this way!" So many ignorant people who hear "diabetes" and go immediately into "dibeetus" mode and gift me with a lecture about how I need to eat better to control it or even make it go away! Thanks chucklefuck, I do need to eat better, but no that won't make Type 1 go away because it literally doesn't work that way. I also have Hashimoto's Thyroidosis which I think is classified as auto immune? They took my thyroid out a few years ago. The combination of T1 and no thyroid makes my metabolism basically non-existent which makes weight management a joy.

Yesssss. Heat is an all timer. Hope Mann can recapture some of that tension here, trailer looks great.

For this reason I wonder if NIL isn't better targeted at the transfer portal guys who can't leave after they transfer (grads excepted), unlike recruits who can take the money and run (hi QE!)

LOL, another NIL thread about a school-other-than-Texas where @RGBIII is immediately shitting on it and telling everyone how "illegal" it is! We get it dude we heard the podcast, you spent 30 years studying the in's-and-out's of NIL law and you know it better than the compliance departments, yada yada yada. I'm fairly certain you haven't seen the contract this recruit signed. You're reading a 2nd or 3rd hand characterization of it and making black and white assumptions. That's dumb. With the lawyers involved, it's probably legal. "Spirit" of NIL is just bullshit that people trot out when they feel mad that someone else got one over on them. Not illegal: Not inducement: it's written into the terms itself per the Athletic. You can argue all you want about how this contract and aggy are actually bags and they'll cut off the players but ain't none of that in the contract itself and verbal doesn't count. Not pay for play: the player can go to another school from wherever he originally signs and retain the benefit of the contract, JUST LIKE JARED WILEY is with Burnt Ends (said you on the podcast) even though he's transferred to TCU. Not a college-enrolled student-athlete: you're getting your panties knotted on this. Per Opendorse, if this recruit is in California (likely), Utah, Nebraska, Kansas, New York and a number of other states they are legally allowed to sign NIL deals as a high-school student. Unlike QE here in Texas unfortunately. Aside from definitely not being illegal, even if it were, who exactly is going to enforce any rules breaking? Not the toothless NCAA. So long as a NIL collective can provide the basic stamp of legality, we'll see the edges on this keep getting pushed out further and further until someone finds a line to cross. Of course that won't be Texas, because we're purer than the driven snow, by gaud.

My good friend was an Asst. Director on Idiocracy and told me that what we saw in the final product was 1/1000th of how good the on set improv and dialogue was. They cut a LOT out of it to tone it down. I attached the original Idiocracy script here in case anyone wants to read, pretty hilarious. 3001 Original.pdf

It's actually really interesting RE: US v. China that MAD is not just about nukes now. It's about debt and trade. The scary thing about MAD, aside from the world-ending nuclear apocalypse, is how you get to that point. MAD works if both sides are roughly equal. For US v. Russia sure it's close enough. China is working hard to make that a triad (see what I did there?). But what happens when a country like Russia manages their country so poorly, or gets sanctioned so hard that everything craters? Poverty, starvation, etc? What is left to lose at that point via MAD? The "D" in MAD only works if you have something you care about that you don't want destroyed.

Russia has the same triad we do for nukes. They have thousands. There is no pre-emptive strike option, that's MAD. Even one nuke getting through to a US or European city would a disaster without comparison. I think Biden and the US/NATO have played this right so far. Fight the proxy war, fuel the defenders with weapons, and cripple the RU economy with sanctions. Don't engage Putin's sabre rattling on the nuke stuff by escalating our nuke force posture tit for tat. Maintain our high readiness and if he wants to FAFO we'll be here but stay a step or two from provoking that directly.

Yes of course. The question is do they have the ability to track our ABM interceptors at the terminal phase? Or do they take the word of our "public" tests? Honest question.

OK, sounds like you know more about this than I do. I thought that sat/radar tracking was really good/accurate for launch (detecting plumes), through boost and mid-course, but I didn't realize that our adversaries sat/radar was accurate at tracking our ABM at the terminal phase where we're making intercepts. Especially when we're testing out in the middle of the Pacific. I realize the tests are "public" but also that the military strategically lies here and there also. Maybe I missed something?

Do you think we're up front with our true ABM capabilities? Wouldn't surprise me if we're holding actual capabilities close to the vest and underselling here.

All the talk about the oligarchs rising up against Putin is wish casting. He's there because of them not in spite of them. They've been able to pillage Russia and flaunt law and order openly because of him. They don't actually want him to go anywhere. Sanctions and asset freezing might change things on the periphery but not that much, because these are multi-billionaires. They've got hidden accounts and assets all over the place. Plus, if you take a shot at the king and miss, you're dead and not in a pleasant way. That's a pretty strong incentive for inaction. Plus what do you think happens to the oligarchs' wealth if/when Putin is deposed? If there's a popular uprising and a Yeltsin-style populist gets into power over Russia, great for the rest-of-world but for the oligarchs that's their heads on pikes. At a minimum they're losing almost all of their assets. If you're a multi-billionaire who has benefitted from the largesse of Putin and him looking the other way, would you rather: Take a 50% hit to your net worth in sanctions and confiscations but stay alive, or, Potentially try to replace Putin with a different crony and have a high chance of dying in the process, or, Wait for a popular uprising and potentially lose everything AND die? Logically your lowest risk option is to stand pat. Especially if the reports are true that Putin has "sequestered" the oligarchs for their "safekeeping."

No shit, she got dragged through the mud along w/ Harsin. Not sure who's going to pay out that money though, for anonymous internet rumors. Now if she got fired OTOH...

Unpopular opinion: I think that building is kinda cool for what it is, an art exhibit. The light patterns that come through the windows are interesting.

OMG her knees So out. Uh, actually not at all.

Yeah it would definitely be tight on the existing footprint and they'd either need to go really vertical (really expensive) or get creative. Why not just cut off Jester Circle right at the parking garage and then they can build over what used to be the street and even into the Jester beach area, which would give a ton more footprint. It looks like with some creativity they could poke a truck sized entrance to the rear of Jester's loading dock from 21st street, between the dining hall and Breckenridge Hall to still allow them to get supplies in and collect trash from San Jacinto hall - there is already a small service drive there that could be expanded. That's probably the easiest. Alternatively, and a LOT more expensive and political...eventually UT will need to close off the little leg of San Jacinto street that curves over Waller Creek, and turn that into usable land. We can make Trinity 2-way for the small leg next to the Santa Rita drill (assuming that can't be moved due to historical reasons but if it can that opens up a lot of other possibilities). If that small part of San Jacinto is gone, the Cooling station can be relocated down the hill next to the SR Drill parallel to MLK, which opens up a massive footprint when combined with the basketball courts for the rec center or whatever.

Why not build a new rec center on footprint of the basketball courts behind Jester next to the parking garage? Could fit plenty in there if they went vertical and also could build into the side of the hill there. Also an easier walk from West.

The expense and risk involved in making truss changes that will affect the structural integrity of your home will pale in comparison to just renting a storage unit. Do that, the storage unit won't cause your house to fall down either.

No doubt 250 is HOT. Something is up, radiator, t-Stat, fan clutch, cooling fan installed backwards. I'm at a loss; we've done so much: Engine was rebuilt by a reputable rebuilder (WCH racing engines in Midlothian, TX) Bored over New rings, pistons, seals Broke in and bench dyno'd Replaced undersized x-flow rad with OEM correct sized down flow rad Added rad fan shroud Removed fan clutch, fan is now direct drive (yes it's facing the correct direction, LOL) Added FiTech TBFI system which should in theory run the mix correctly so it's not overly rich or anything Removed old headers for ceramic headers Also wrapped those headers New fluids obviously Yet it still is having this heat issue. At this point if the flush doesn't do the trick, I'm wondering if they might have messed up the bore and gotten too aggressive, maybe the cylinder walls got too thin or something? Seems unlikely but possible? Any other ideas?

Going down the road it’ll settle in at 190-200. Sitting at a light it goes up and up and doesn’t stop. I saw the gauge hit 250 at a long light before I was able to get moving again, freaked me out that it would going to boil over and make some damage. It does burp coolant out of the rad overflow tank.

They do good work. I need to take the Cuda back to them to see if we can knock out the overheating issue. They called me the other day suggesting that the engine rebuilder we outsourced the 383 re-do to may have failed to flush it correctly and a possibility is that there is debris in the water channels impacting flow. They want to do a power flush and see if they can get anything out. I'm at a loss right now and will try anything; I hardly drive it because i can't trust it right now

They were doing expansion of the work floor so the tour wasn’t open (will be open in the Spring) but the tasting room was open. Blanco is a fun place and an easy 1 hr drive from North Austin, and there are several different distilleries out there as well as breweries.