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Wolfgang Puck can’t find waiters because of labor shortage
Horn of Gabriel replied to Armybrat's topic in Daily Texan
No one tells the truth when it comes time to raise prices. Because if you're pricing correctly, you're pricing based on what people are willing-to-pay for the product. You blame your costs when raising prices because that is what the market accepts. It's why the airlines always point to fuel costs when raising prices even though they've hedged their fuel cost 20 years out. Prices aren't raised to pay CEO bonuses and shareholder dividends. Those things are the effects of higher profitability not the causes of pricing increases. Companies who over-shoot pricing increases are either beat by competitors who undercut them or the market who refuses to pay for their products and they aren't paying big money to shareholders for failure. -
Your Favorite CFB Announcers, or Announcing Team
Horn of Gabriel replied to Augustus's topic in Football
Next time try watching with your wife, she'll explain the rules to you. -
This Spurs fan is going Suns all the way!
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Really? Are ND fans worked up about not getting top 4? Because, there's...a pretty clear path for ND to get a top 4 AQ...just not the one they want. I'd argue ND has more, not less, access to CFP in the 12-team playoff. Before you had to go undefeated or have things break just right with a loss. Now you can go 10-2 and probably still get in. Oh and it completely takes away any pressure to join a conference, cementing ND's independent status b/c you get that without joining the ACC and not having to compete in a CCG. Seems like a pretty fair trade, in fact I'm not sure Texas couldn't do the same, hmmm.
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Betting the fucking PAC and Rose Bowl find a way to sink this. I have such a love/hate relationship w/ the Rose Bowl. On one had, they should be the all-time host of the CFP Championship. The venue is just too perfect. On the other hand fuck the Rose Bowl and their B1G/PAC hangup.
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For SEC to get 5 in, they need their conf champ, plus 4 of the 6 at-large spots. Possible? Sure. Likely? Hmm, we'll see I guess. I can easily buy 3 and maybe 4 but 5? I haven't looked into the past several years, would the top-12 rankings support that? Regardless, the following is true: SEC has gotten and will get in the short/medium term more teams into the CFP than the other conferences That won't change until SEC starts losing on the field You can't beat them on the field w/o getting teams into the playoff, which means... You need to do everything you can as a conference to get more teams eligible for the playoff, not kowtow to some idea that RR is "best," or "more pure," "most real" way of getting to 1 true champion, b/c the people who matter with regard to CFP access have demonstrated that they don't care about that Which is the reason why people upthread are advocating for BIG12 conference wide shift in scheduling to take out the RR and replicate part of the SEC model for scheduling. Less in-conf, more OOC, more wins, fewer losses, which... Starts the process of breaking the self-fulfilling prophecy the SEC has set up. Right now we're fighting w/ one hand tied behind our back. I don't like fighting on an unlevel playing field.
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We may not like it for fan service, but it's pretty clear we need to 1) keep the CCG, and 2) stop the round-robin by reducing the in-conf games, which creates more intra-Big12 losses and the perception of a weaker league, especially @ the bottom. Split by divisions, play a protected rival and add an OOC. The strength of that OOC can be higher OR lower than the in-conf game we'd be losing depending on how that team wants to schedule. It's pretty apparent that scheduling cupcakes hasn't damaged the SEC, pretty much the opposite. So we have lots of data on that. Or we could add a marquee name if we prefer; I'd go for mid-tier P5 with compelling road trips personally vs. going to Ames (no offense to ISU).
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Uhh, so dumb question amnesty...how do you get those big ass cranes out after they build themselves in?
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Dr. Anthony Fauci Appreciation Thread
Horn of Gabriel replied to Texas St. Armadillos's topic in Cloak Room
I see a lot of justification that seems suspiciously like hand-waving from elite virologists like Peter Daszak of EcoHealth Alliance regard GoF and its benefits to mankind and preventing or mitigating exactly this type of pandemic. When I look for specifics I get some variation of "well you have to be an elite virologist to really understand any of this..." That is bull. Lots of complex topics are made simple and clear in terms of their benefits and risks to laypeople, many of whom in the U.S. are apparently funding this research via the Government. I'd love to see this broken down as "we prevented X pandemic" or "our GoF research accelerated vaccine discovery and production for a virus we first created artificially in the lab and later actually emerged in the wild." And for good measure I'd like to hear that from someone other than the scientists directly benefitting from the research grant. Maybe those benefits actually exist; I'd love to see them! Right now the risks seem pretty clear, the benefits murky. OK? Thank you for illustrating a real benefit to tradeoff against the risk. Dealing with horrifying pathogens involves risks and should be regulated tighter than it is today. It still doesn't address the question of what benefit we're getting from literally creating new, more horrifying, more transmissive pathogens. -
Dr. Anthony Fauci Appreciation Thread
Horn of Gabriel replied to Texas St. Armadillos's topic in Cloak Room
Regardless of lab-leak or natural, can we agree that gain-of-function research is fucking stupid? I see Dazak and virologists who want funding talking about all these wonderful supposed benefits of GoF: we need to "get ahead" of nature, etc. Have any of these benefits actually come true? Where was getting ahead of nature w/ COVID? Do we have demonstrable benefits from GoF to weigh against the real, documented lab-leaks that happen anywhere there is a BSL lab? -
Dropping into this thread for the first time in a long time...I'm still fighting my (lifelong) battle here in Cedar Park with nutsedge. Fuckin' A I hate this stuff. I have an ornamental garden and it's a total PITA. I've tried super-concentrated glyphosphate w/ surfactant and it laughed at me, plus that shit kills the nice plants I want to keep. On the recommendation of this group I went to sedgehammer and then finally to Certainty (applied w/ surfactant w/ handheld sprayer) and that works...sort of. Takes awhile to see results and no sooner do I have it knocked down than I have to do it all over again and damn if it doesn't come back on my quick. If I get lazy or miss it then it's all over the place FAST. Is there any newer or better recommendations here or is it just a fact of life that this stuff sucks and "deal with it?" Second question is new, I use Emerald Lawns for helping me manage the routine with the turf grass (St. Aug in the front of the house, zoysia in the rear), and every other year I had been getting core aeration done. They've shifted to "liquid aeration" which they claim is better, here: https://emeraldlawnsaustin.com/services/lawn-aeration/...is that true or B.S.? It's certainly less expensive per application than core, but they want to do it more often. What's the truth? Oh one other question...I have a really nice thornless "Maverick Mesquite" tree at the edge of the turf and garden. It hasn't done anything since the freeze...I'm really hoping it's just still dormant and not dead. I've read that mesqites sometimes take a long time to come back or can even skip...anyone with direct experience here?
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Critical Race Theory policy in hiring at UT
Horn of Gabriel replied to PHLaggie's topic in Cloak Room
"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" is a slogan popularized by Karl Marx in his 1875 Critique of the Gotha Program. Nope, not Marxist at all. -
Critical Race Theory policy in hiring at UT
Horn of Gabriel replied to PHLaggie's topic in Cloak Room
LOL right back atcha. I told you like I see it also. And because this is an online political thread: get fucked you Nazi cuck bitch -
Critical Race Theory policy in hiring at UT
Horn of Gabriel replied to PHLaggie's topic in Cloak Room
I'd characterize it as are we looking forward or backward. At the risk of cloaking this further, if you have nail everything looks like a hammer. Let's say that this...lacks imagination and there may be lots of reasons beyond government policies to account for differences between groups. LOL are you suggesting that, assuming an achievement gap exists for Nigerian-Americans vs. AA as a whole, that Nigerian-Americans is too fine-grained a slice to statistically represent? That's...interesting. This is too CR already and everyone's entrenched into familiar positions. I'll close my participation by stating my opinion, which is that closing the wealth gap programmatically is not feasible, and will not have enough political support in my lifetime to perform once we move from generalities that everyone gets behind ("let's raise up AA to redress past wrongs!") to specifics ("The gov't is going to spend $12 trillion to cut direct payment cheques to AA and those who identify as AA [for at least 12 years], raising taxes significantly for you and your kids to pay off"). To tie this back to the OP, I and apparently others believe that CRT and it's execution vehicle DEI are a stalking horse for reparations - if you convince the world that if you're white, you're racist, then you must "feel bad," "check your privilege," and assign any difference between groups as a result of your (in)action and lack of antiracism, so reparations are the logical end step to the journey. Except I'm not convinced if we cut $12 trillion in direct payments as Sandy Darity suggests in the video above that it would be the end of anything. It would be the beginning. I'll hang up and await being called racist... -
Critical Race Theory policy in hiring at UT
Horn of Gabriel replied to PHLaggie's topic in Cloak Room
Now we are getting somewhere! Kendi hasn't to my knowledge expanded more on this amendment, but it sounds pretty horrific to me, an unelected department with veto power over laws at every level and the ability to somehow punish those who talk wrongly. Yikes. You want to affirmatively lift up those who have been pushed down by policy; a laudable goal. How far back do you want to go? Are we lifting those up pushed down by policy today (I'd argue for fixing the bad policy itself first if it hasn't been addressed) or are we redressing old policies? If old, does the person pushed down still need to be alive and suffering or do we extend that grace to their children? Their children's children's children? Is the goal to create equality of opportunity or equity of result? If equity, do you, like Kendi, put 100% of the differences in outcomes between races on racist policies? If so, how do we account for certain subgroups of BIPOC achieving at much higher rates than the mean of the group, such as the Nigerian-Americans and Cuban-Americans cited upthread? -
Critical Race Theory policy in hiring at UT
Horn of Gabriel replied to PHLaggie's topic in Cloak Room
Just a friendly reminder that however biased or not Fareed Zakaria is, he is still a plagiarist. -
Critical Race Theory policy in hiring at UT
Horn of Gabriel replied to PHLaggie's topic in Cloak Room
Holeeeee shit...do you even KNOW what anti-racism means? Here's a hint, it's not what you think it means. Do you agree with Kendi's pro-discrimination approach? Do we need more discrimination? And the anti-racism solution, again per Kendi (NOT ME): Are you in favor of a constitutional amendment enshrining WrongThink? -
Critical Race Theory policy in hiring at UT
Horn of Gabriel replied to PHLaggie's topic in Cloak Room
You're being either disingenuous or too literal. Of course no one is teaching the "5 tenants of CRT" to elementary school children. Just like you teach addition and subtraction to them before they get to physics, DEI is the vehicle operating under the framework of CRT. There are many examples posted upthread and elsewhere... -
Critical Race Theory policy in hiring at UT
Horn of Gabriel replied to PHLaggie's topic in Cloak Room
CRT and DEI are definitely related. If you believe the problem as framed by CRT, then DEI is a tool to resolve the problem. I'm definitely against CRT and think it frames the problem far too simplistically. However I'm open to the idea that CRT has been driven far past its original intent by those who would push for DEI. In fact I think we need to break DEI apart, I believe if you were to survey Americans you'd find wide acceptance for Diversity and Inclusion. Equity however is a far different story. By simplifying differences between people to their race and racism alone, and creating a framework that Kendi proposed above to create equity is so far beyond most Americans' thinking. Most people will hear equity and think "equality" which is probably the intent. But it's subterfuge for a much different intent of amplifying the culture wars and drive redistribution and discrimination (again, not me saying it, it's Kendi). If we require redistribution to advance as a society, let's do it up front as reparations, not under the covers as "equity." -
Critical Race Theory policy in hiring at UT
Horn of Gabriel replied to PHLaggie's topic in Cloak Room
I never said it was unbiased, of course it is; we all are. What do you disagree with now that you've pointed that out? -
Critical Race Theory policy in hiring at UT
Horn of Gabriel replied to PHLaggie's topic in Cloak Room
Critical Race Theory may have started in academic circles but it has grown far beyond that, and is now being used (daresay stretched?) as justification for lots of policies, training, and jobs. CRT advocates might not like it to be pointed out but it is highly reductive (everything, ev-re-thing is about race & any differences in outcomes between races is a result of racism on behalf of whites). And yes, at its core it is about redistribution and power, just like <gasp> Marxism, but under a new name. The Courage of our Convictions from the Manhattan Institute Of course if every difference in outcome is the result of racism, then equality of opportunity is insufficient. We need equity, which sounds very similar but is very, very different. In other words, we need equity of outcomes. Because, if you're white, anything you have is the result of your racism, any hard work you've put in is a distant second to systemic racism. DEI is the response to the problem-framework CRT poses, and in practice looks like this: So CRTs lapdog of DEI are at their core reductively sorting based on race and not individual, and "anti-racism?" That means active discrimination, just toward whites. It's not me saying this, it's Ibram X. Kendi, CRT advocate, from his book How to Be an Anti-Racist: That's pretty informative to me. Equality of opportunity, bad. Equity of result, good. White mean oppressor and BIPOC means victim. CRT is the diagnosis and DEI the cure. -
San Antonio Spurs 2020-21 Season Thread: Puro Pinche Loteria
Horn of Gabriel replied to Kermit's topic in Basketball
Fat AT&T Lily sighting -
San Antonio Spurs 2020-21 Season Thread: Puro Pinche Loteria
Horn of Gabriel replied to Kermit's topic in Basketball
Love seeing Murray destroy Grayson Allen -
San Antonio Spurs 2020-21 Season Thread: Puro Pinche Loteria
Horn of Gabriel replied to Kermit's topic in Basketball
Yeah but that’s 99% on kawhi and 1% on PATFO. That said PATFO has fucked up since then with a lack of clear direction and shooting for the 8 seed. -
San Antonio Spurs 2020-21 Season Thread: Puro Pinche Loteria
Horn of Gabriel replied to Kermit's topic in Basketball
Hard to believe a team that relies on long 2 point jump shots is struggling in the playoffs! Did not see that coming!
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