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1 minute ago, TwiceHorn said:

I thought about that.  Yes, perhaps across the board not completely socially liberal, but at least avoiding abject hatred of poors and other and cruelty toward same.

From my limited experience, not a whole lot of prosperity gospel at mass, either.

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37 minutes ago, Updawg said:


I assumed all $5million would. Who’s gonna check or stop it

You must not have read it correctly. Says it will go towards the deficit. I, for one, believe them.

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Posted (edited)
27 minutes ago, Willfully Horn said:

Research universities have decided not to honor their doctoral commitments. Our oldest is despondent.

Fuck you all, you shitastically moronic Republicans.

what's the backstory here? Funding pulled = research incomplete in last semester = denied doctorate?

 

Terrible news either. Very sorry. Young people are taking it on the chin in every way possible.

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10 minutes ago, Willfully Horn said:

Daughter was about to start her doctoral studies; (she’s been doing research at UT Health in SA,) and had a meeting today in which she learned there is an official “pause” at the university she was committed to, while other universities are declaring they will not honor their commitments.

What's Big Balls' take on your daughter's research project?  

 

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53 minutes ago, Satchel said:

It’s still absolutely astonishing that this man can brazenly give a Nazi salute before the entire world, deny he did so, and have people agree with him.

Did he ever deny it or offer any explanation?

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11 minutes ago, jw4381 said:

Why in the ever loving fuck is there no one putting a boot to those goon’s’ faces?

Watching all those alpha men sitting there with arms folded is telling.

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49 minutes ago, Nivek said:

What's Big Balls' take on your daughter's research project?  

 

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To be clear, I am joking. My work is grant-funded as well and focuses on transition (special education not gender).

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2 minutes ago, HornPhD said:

 My work is grant-funded as well and focuses on transition (special education not gender).

Well sorry man, you are fucked as well. They just have not gotten to DOE yet.

And yeah, my kiddo is worried. Graduates in May. Damn good school. STEM, 3.9, double major, etc. Kicked ass in HS and during the last year of Trumps administration received a full NASA scholarship.

Grad school is on hold. No scholarships coming in. She is worried since she has two strikes against the applications for federal assistance for research. Hispanic is strike 2.

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38 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

Well sorry man, you are fucked as well. They just have not gotten to DOE yet.

And yeah, my kiddo is worried. Graduates in May. Damn good school. STEM, 3.9, double major, etc. Kicked ass in HS and during the last year of Trumps administration received a full NASA scholarship.

Grad school is on hold. No scholarships coming in. She is worried since she has two strikes against the applications for federal assistance for research. Hispanic is strike 2.

I will be ok as my wife (EE degree from UT) is a VP and makes very good money. One more promotion for her and I’m retiring. 


Hopefully, this is just a speed bump for your daughter. Honestly though, going into industry for a bit could be a good thing for her. 

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2 minutes ago, HornPhD said:

I will be ok as my wife (EE degree from UT) is a VP and makes very good money. One more promotion for her and I’m retiring. 


Hopefully, this is just a speed bump for your daughter. Honestly though, going into industry for a bit could be a good thing for her. 

Oh I agree. I never advocate for straight through. Certain groups wanted her research to continue. She wanted to head to Uganda and finish a refugee center her Women in Engineering team designed. Wanted to go for at least a year. But nope.

Good thing she knows how to run a greenhouse and grow shit.

 

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16 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

small town texas is heavily reliant on govt money / checks 

More or less, yeah, except for the towns with oil, but that's going to go away, too (at least as an industry with job prospects).

Something to keep in mind is that, in some weird ways, small towns might actually be the canaries in the coal mine. Harbingers, so to speak, of the eventual changes to the labor market as AI hits the White Collar class and replaces more of those automated or back-office kinds of jobs in the cities and suburbs (obviously, there are risks to more jobs than those).

But don't worry; this isn't a treatise, pompous lecture, or grand theory but only a thought to seriously consider. It's more or less the same concern that leads to grappling with the possible necessity of UBI over the long-term.

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3 minutes ago, bolverk said:

It's more or less the same concern that leads to the eventual possible necessity of UBI.

UBI? lulz

This is what we are getting.

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Posted
11 hours ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

Guess this goes here?

 

 

 

10 hours ago, HornPhD said:

“A suspect has not yet been identified, but investigators believe that the victim knew the perpetrator and are treating this case as a potential domestic violence incident. However, the perpetrator's motive remains unclear.”

It's widely known here that she was murdered by her wife...a woman who previously served a prison sentence for killing the MAN she was married to. 

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41 minutes ago, bolverk said:

More or less, yeah, except for the towns with oil, but that's going to go away, too (at least as an industry with job prospects).

Something to keep in mind is that, in some weird ways, small towns might actually be the canaries in the coal mine. Harbingers, so to speak, of the eventual changes to the labor market as AI hits the White Collar class and replaces more of those automated or back-office kinds of jobs in the cities and suburbs (obviously, there are risks to more jobs than those).

But don't worry; this isn't a treatise, pompous lecture, or grand theory but only a thought to seriously consider. It's more or less the same concern that leads to grappling with the possible necessity of UBI over the long-term.

 

that oil money is held by a very small group

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Medicaid covers:

- 21% of Americans nationally
- 83 million low-income Americans
- 4 in 10 children
- 1 in 4 adults with disabilities
- Nearly 50% of kids with special needs
- 41% of births nationwide
- 5 in 8 nursing home residents
- 32% of people in Mike Johnson's home state

 

 

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4 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

Medicaid covers:

- 21% of Americans nationally
- 83 million low-income Americans
- 4 in 10 children
- 1 in 4 adults with disabilities
- Nearly 50% of kids with special needs
- 41% of births nationwide
- 5 in 8 nursing home residents
- 32% of people in Mike Johnson's home state

 

 

Fuck those people -- Elon needs to break records for total wealth. We need to focus on what's important - Elon being the bestest!

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8 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

Medicaid covers:

- 21% of Americans nationally
- 83 million low-income Americans
- 4 in 10 children
- 1 in 4 adults with disabilities
- Nearly 50% of kids with special needs
- 41% of births nationwide
- 5 in 8 nursing home residents
- 32% of people in Mike Johnson's home state

 

 

Well, all that will have to be done on 880 billion fewer dollars. Rich people need their money! 

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30 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

that oil money is held by a very small group

Living back in the Permian now, believe me, I know. I was just mentioning the one and only thing keeping them afloat with any kind of real opportunity.

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what is this bullshit
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/25/politics/us-gold-card-foreigners-trump/index.html
Asked whether he would consider selling the cards to Russian oligarchs, Trump responded: “Yeah, possibly. I know some Russian oligarchs that are very nice people.”
 

I saw this on Reddit and thought it was a fake quote. Stupid me.

Close your eyes, relax and go back in time and imagine Obama saying and doing this. It would have been talk radio fodder for at least 18 months. We’d still probably be talking about it.
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With the Academy Awards coming up, Trump gives you this:

It beats out the Ron DeSantis bodybuilder video for the Oscar. There's something funny about the dancers at :16 but I can't put my finger on it.

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49 minutes ago, Bullneck said:

With the Academy Awards coming up, Trump gives you this:

It beats out the Ron DeSantis bodybuilder video for the Oscar. There's something funny about the dancers at :16 but I can't put my finger on it.

This type of shit is the thing that should have him run out of town on a rail. But his Cult is completely cool with it. It is really unfortunate he is a narcissist, because he needs to Jim Jones himself and his cult (and Elmo). The world would be better off. 

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Posted
9 hours ago, F250 said:

A nation to save from the global hive?

These are the dumbest fucking people.

They could just restore Taxes back to 1999-2000 levels.

But no, they will just watch everybody starve. To save the youth who have really bright prospects.

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9 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

small town texas is heavily reliant on govt money / checks 

In some states, over 25% of the population receives assistance. Fascism has no use for those who no longer contribute to capital so they must be relegated to the human capital stockpile of bodies that are a drain on the system. The elderly, women past childbearing age, the disabled, etc. That's fascism and the only remedy to it has already been prescribed over and over again.

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Posted
14 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

I've been behind a little so SIAP, I wonder if Nazi appears when one says "Musk"

 

Unironically this is some incredible data science. That means apple has enough linguistic data that its embedding process is finding "racist" in the same vector-space as "trump". 

It's a shame that the underlying data is a trade secret, those sorts of insights are the actual utility of this """AI""" dystopia were barreling towards

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I watched the first half of "Einstein and the Bomb" on Netflix last night.  Einstein had a quote about Nazi Germany in the 30s: "The present state of affairs in Germany is a state of psychic distemper in the masses. Hitler picked up human flotsam on the streets and in the taverns and organized them around himself."  I think that describes the American Right perfectly. Trump didn't "organize" anything but his violent rhetoric drew them to him like flies to a huge steaming pile of shit. 

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