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Horn of Gabriel

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  1. 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?
  2. "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.
  3. 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
  4. 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...
  5. 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?
  6. Just a friendly reminder that however biased or not Fareed Zakaria is, he is still a plagiarist.
  7. 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?
  8. 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...
  9. 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."
  10. 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?
  11. 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.
  12. Love seeing Murray destroy Grayson Allen
  13. 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.
  14. Hard to believe a team that relies on long 2 point jump shots is struggling in the playoffs! Did not see that coming!
  15. We’re getting out hustled. Defense optional. And we are passing up wide open 3’s in favor of contested 2’s. So…same as all season long? I haven’t been able to watch because youtubetv doesn’t have Bally sports…
  16. I'm also LHAB so I got the email as well, he's got a good background. Assume he wouldn't be in that role now if he wasn't in alignment with administration on the EoT. One can hope...
  17. You can definitely hear Buffy's voice in True. Whedon has a knack for writing self-destructive, quick witted, me-against-the-world heroines. And for sexual harassment, apparently. Too bad, its entertaining but take out his writing and I think it gets pedestrian quick.
  18. It's a small electric pusher fan on the front of the radiator that's connected via relay to the a/c system...I'll see if I can grab some pics for you
  19. Ah I'd have to ask the shop on that, I know they pressurized it to spec but not sure about ongoing pressure measurements. The engine however was overheating even with the a/c off; the Mopar 383 just runs hot! Lower t-stat, better radiator, shroud, header wraps, tuned TBEFI made it better...just money...<cries>
  20. It actually cools off now when the A/C is on, because we have a supplemental electric fan that kicks on w/ the a/c system. Not sure what refrigerant is in the Classic Air systems, but they're modern so I'm sure it's up-to-date w/ current regulations and technology. Not sure on head pressures, the engine was just rebuilt by a reputable rebuilder and I have all those stats somewhere but there were all in spec. Putting the shroud on really helped a lot, as did wrapping the headers. It hovers around 190-200 in normal driving now, might go to 210-215 at a light but usually not beyond that.
  21. The B1G is strong right now but the PAC and the Rose Bowl have never been weaker. Now is the time to strike, with the PAC missing the playoffs for half a decade or whatever it's at now.
  22. I'm not, read my OP where I specifically said that it didn't need to be. I just think the right range is 12- or 16- not 8. But I'd take 8 over 4. And the shitty bowls can stick around too, even as they become less and less relevant with opt outs and whatnot.
  23. I'd still take a 16-team CFP with actual stakes vs. two 6-6 marginal shit teams in a meaningless bowl.
  24. Except when they're not...sure Bama and Clemson will curb stomp anyone. But someone like Fresno State has a history of upsets and OU has a history of choking, so...
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