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16 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:

Any leopards in South Florida?

https://apnews.com/article/trump-latinos-deportations-south-florida-cubans-venezuelans-d3b1cc3b59adec62a8c55557e91df9f2

This is my favorite. Yes, I broke the law, took advantage of the system, and got to stay. Fuck them, send them home.

Barbara Canales, a 49-year-old certified nursing assistant who lives in Hialeah, said her mother brought her as a young girl from Honduras with a visa and overstayed it. It took them many years to legalize their status and to be able to bring other family members.

“That’s why I totally agree that you need to take illegal immigrants out of the United States. I’m sorry, but they should do it,” Canales said, adding that she feels most of the migrants arriving in the past few years are different. “When you come in with a visa is a totally different story.”

Blows my mind that people don't know that we shrank the numbers of allowed yearly immigrants from certain countries.

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So you have to visit a Social Security office in person to receive benefits.
But they are closing Social Security offices.

Yeah, the free market is a bitch for poor, old, uneducated, and isolated people. Its very inefficient to deliver water, electricity, roads, schools, hospitals, and mail to rural areas.

The democrats, even when they were a racist party, literally paved the way for communities across the country to exist. That democrats were the only thing standing in the way of elimination of these services must be a giant surprise to people obsessed with trans and immigrants.
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56 minutes ago, Eskimohorn said:


Yeah, the free market is a bitch for poor, old, uneducated, and isolated people. Its very inefficient to deliver water, electricity, roads, schools, hospitals, and mail to rural areas.

The democrats, even when they were a racist party, literally paved the way for communities across the country to exist. That democrats were the only thing standing in the way of elimination of these services must be a giant surprise to people obsessed with trans and immigrants.

The goal here is the Russian model.  Sell off everything that the government does profitably and then just leave the unprofitable stuff undone (but leave it undone in such a way as to enrich certain favored government allies who are charged with "doing" the undone thing).

Have you ever been to rural Russia?  The roads are typically not paved.  There very frequently is not running water.  Electricity is spotty.  Broadband is . . . ha--that's funny.  But goddamn--they fucking love Putin in rural Russia.

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10 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

The goal here is the Russian model.  Sell off everything that the government does profitably and then just leave the unprofitable stuff undone (but leave it undone in such a way as to enrich certain favored government allies who are charged with "doing" the undone thing).

Have you ever been to rural Russia?  The roads are typically not paved.  There very frequently is not running water.  Electricity is spotty.  Broadband is . . . ha--that's funny.  But goddamn--they fucking love Putin in rural Russia.

Yep, this. Stalin was not a Communist, he was a Stalinist. We are seeing similar shit

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13 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

The goal here is the Russian model.  Sell off everything that the government does profitably and then just leave the unprofitable stuff undone (but leave it undone in such a way as to enrich certain favored government allies who are charged with "doing" the undone thing).

Have you ever been to rural Russia?  The roads are typically not paved.  There very frequently is not running water.  Electricity is spotty.  Broadband is . . . ha--that's funny.  But goddamn--they fucking love Putin in rural Russia.

 

the rise of american oligarchs 

Posted
3 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

Yep, this. Stalin was not a Communist, he was a Stalinist. We are seeing similar shit

Communist is similar to Christian as in they are labels plastered over things that aren't in any way actually Communist or Christian. 

Communism and Christianity do not exist today.

Bastardized versions of fascism have replaced communism and Christianity and wear the label like a little red hat. 

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Yep, this. Stalin was not a Communist, he was a Stalinist. We are seeing similar shit

The other thing we’ll see is open bribery and extortion. “Hey judge, you ruled against us. Thats a shame” One day later “whoops your son was arrested for…”
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1 hour ago, Eskimohorn said:


The other thing we’ll see is open bribery and extortion. “Hey judge, you ruled against us. Thats a shame” One day later “whoops your son was arrested for…”

Add to that contractors. There is 1 project I was positive would be DOA. Nope, good to go. NSF led. Been with the same group for 20+ years and have not done shit. Massive overhead, etc.

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Oh my god, I feel so sad for kids born into families like this. Extra sad knowing I grew up with a mom who was antivax and had to get all my shots at age 27 to travel abroad for work. I was going to Nigeria and they had a whole list of required vaccines to enter the country. Nigeria of all places has stricter immigration/work visa vaccine requirements than the US. Just bonkers. 

 

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7 minutes ago, Dutchrudder said:

Oh my god, I feel so sad for kids born into families like this. Extra sad knowing I grew up with a mom who was antivax and had to get all my shots at age 27 to travel abroad for work. I was going to Nigeria and they had a whole list of required vaccines to enter the country. Nigeria of all places has stricter immigration/work visa vaccine requirements than the US. Just bonkers. 

 

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Yeah that vacant look in their eyes just screams intelligence. 

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Oh my god, I feel so sad for kids born into families like this. Extra sad knowing I grew up with a mom who was antivax and had to get all my shots at age 27 to travel abroad for work. I was going to Nigeria and they had a whole list of required vaccines to enter the country. Nigeria of all places has stricter immigration/work visa vaccine requirements than the US. Just bonkers. 
 
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Because they know what those diseases look like and do.
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34 minutes ago, Dutchrudder said:

Oh my god, I feel so sad for kids born into families like this. Extra sad knowing I grew up with a mom who was antivax and had to get all my shots at age 27 to travel abroad for work. I was going to Nigeria and they had a whole list of required vaccines to enter the country. Nigeria of all places has stricter immigration/work visa vaccine requirements than the US. Just bonkers. 

 

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That's an image of two people sharing a single brain cell, if I've ever seen one.

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On 3/19/2025 at 8:38 PM, RomaVicta said:

The process for earning a masters or PhD has become, seemingly to me (an idiot), an assembly line of templates and specific directions for writing. Passive voice. Over-describing a single item. Adoption or creation of words that are not needed.

Recently, I read a description of a process where I work. If done correctly one might hope to attain "connectedness" with another person. There's already a word for what the writer wanted to convey, but the person's mind and writing were full of academic sounding words and forms that are tedious and sometimes obscure.

It's my guess that back when graduate degrees were rarer, the candidates were actually gifted intellectuals who did not worry about articulating their thoughts and discoveries. They arrived to grad school having already established a voice and ability to array information in a natural way.

I cringe when I hear someone talk about what the data says. Where I work, we must seek "data-driven" solutions. 

This shit will all pass when some other arcane or needless phrase appears from some doctoral candidate striving for a new expression to distinguish their largely useless investigations from the other useless investigations conducted on nearly the very same subject.

Don't get me wrong. I'm sure the elite intellectuals who defined graduate degrees in the past are still present in that system and doing brilliant, useful work. I also think peddling grad degrees as a resume enhancer is a racket kind of like student loans. $$$$

I write for a living. I'm sensitive to overuse of the arcane. I'm not an elite writer, but I know what I'm doing and don't copy a template. Those who need one are not elite intellectuals in my humble opinion.

 

On 3/19/2025 at 8:45 PM, TwiceHorn said:

Well, in this day of specialization and poor basic education, even the very learned in their field are often very poor writers.  And that's been true for a very long time.  Theses and dissertations outside the humanities, and a lot in the humanities, I'd wager, will make your eyes bleed.

 

On 3/19/2025 at 8:55 PM, 956 Worldwide said:

At nearly every mentorship or informational interview I have, I tell grad students and interns to learn how to write clear declarative sentences and to practice turning five pages of work into one. Without AI.

 

I work with a lot of technology architects and work with them on written and live presentation comms.  It's always a battle to elevate the message out of the SME level they like to live in to something the rest of the world can understand that they are taking into account important constraints and objectives.  They will talk about the what and how all day but completely forget why we're doing it in the first place.

 

23 hours ago, GenXer said:

I have legit crazy and personality disorders in my family. I sure as hell wasn’t going to invite more in. I needed respite from that shit. Great sex be damned. Hard pass. 

Yeah, I had one woman coming on to me hard when I was still single and she said her theme song was "Strong enough to be my man" by Sheryl Crow so I listened to the lyrics and said "nope"

 

@troph  With your experience with your dad I'd bet you would love the old British Sitcom "Keeping up appearances"

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1 hour ago, Dutchrudder said:

Oh my god, I feel so sad for kids born into families like this. Extra sad knowing I grew up with a mom who was antivax and had to get all my shots at age 27 to travel abroad for work. I was going to Nigeria and they had a whole list of required vaccines to enter the country. Nigeria of all places has stricter immigration/work visa vaccine requirements than the US. Just bonkers. 

 

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Big dumb eyes

Posted
3 minutes ago, Post Oak said:

Big dumb eyes

As said elsewhere, this ignorance is quite similar to maga and they probably are maga, if they can even vote or do vote..  But it has its genesis somewhere else.

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3 hours ago, bolverk said:

Age of Enshittenment

Enshitenment, it rhymes with Enlightenment but incorporates the German word shite

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On 3/20/2025 at 9:34 AM, Ghost of LL said:

Joseph diGenova, who has spent the last several years running around every cable news program he can find stanning for Donald Trump, just got his SSN and other personal information leaked when Trump declassified the JFK files in the typically slapdash manner that we have come to expect from this Administration.

So that's fun.

I haven't seen that fuckface in years. Does the fat fuck still wave an unlit cigar nonstop?

Posted
2 hours ago, mchookem said:

i mean when you have a passle of kids you're bound to lose one here or there

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Fuck around and find out.

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Posted
3 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

Yeah that vacant look in their eyes just screams intelligence. 

TBH, I have that same look after what the trees/grasses have unleashed in Houston. 

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I’ve lost the ability to critically think here lately but not vaccinating for measles is fucking child abuse and I don’t understand how they can get away with it. Maybe I should not believe in paying taxes. 

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not the poor Ukranians and Venezualans escaping war zones and whatever horrible plight in their home countries... but fuck them cubans.

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Posted
23 minutes ago, Clintonaldo said:

I’ve lost the ability to critically think here lately but not vaccinating for measles is fucking child abuse and I don’t understand how they can get away with it. Maybe I should not believe in paying taxes. 

Don't worry, pretty soon it will be illegal to vaccinate your kids.

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29 minutes ago, Clintonaldo said:

I’ve lost the ability to critically think here lately but not vaccinating for measles is fucking child abuse and I don’t understand how they can get away with it. Maybe I should not believe in paying taxes. 

If you ask them, they have vague but extremely strong beliefs that vaccines are dangerous. And it's RUDE (!!!!!) to point out their delusion



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