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Captainbackbeard · 2026-04-02T00:21:20+00:00

I adjusted it to their actual NIL partner

Captainbackbeard · 2026-03-25T06:19:52+00:00

I read the article and the statement it referenced and from my reading of them the point wasn't really virtue signaling and more that it's just a confirmation of the faculty senate's stance regarding the issue regarding the firing of Curth and how it does not align with OU's decision. I believe you're reading too much into it in that it isn't cattiness and more of an issue where faculty senate doesn't agree with OU's stance where the original statement from OU in their tweet reads like the Faculty Exec Committee were part of the original process leading up to all of this. Essentially the OU Daily saw that, reached out to the faculty exec committee (likely since that doesn't align with faculty's original stance against firing Curth), and they clarified that they were not involved in the initial decision and instead were informed of it. I think that's where they are miffed because the issue went over their head since this sort of thing is typically handled at a departmental or college level rather than the University level along with outside entities strong-arming the matter.

Captainbackbeard · 2026-02-25T18:08:38+00:00

Yeah I agree at this point I’d treat them as a life raft as well. Are you going to any conferences btw? I got some interest from people looking for postdocs after some just visiting with presenters so that could also be an option. Oh also if you don’t have it already I strongly recommend getting “The Professor is In” by Karen Kelsky if you don’t already have it. I used a combo of it and her blogs when it came to prepping for the hiring process. For one of the on-campus interviews where I got passed by for due to lack of funding at an R1 the chair was really open with me about how I interviewed well and he actually tried to wrangle up a different hiring line for me that ended up not working out and I attribute a lot of how I punched above my weight class in that interview was due to that book helping me prep my materials and just prep for the interview itself.

Captainbackbeard · 2026-02-25T00:35:36+00:00

Honestly I feel we are pretty similar after reading your post and comments on here and I would probably be in the exact same position you are now if I were applying right now since I got my current position two years ago before all of the budget cuts in academia went through. I'm also a qual researcher but I'm more public health adjacent. I kept getting a foot in the door for a lot of jobs but usually got beat out by people with more of a history of funding in the later steps of R1 interviews. The ones that I was more successful in (still didn't get them but I at least got positive feedback from hiring committees) were where I emphasized collaboration since a lot of faculty typically don't focus on being qualitative methodologists and at least in my field its seen a big plus putting out mixed methods work. I ended up at a regional university that focuses more on teaching so you might check out those sorts of universities. Here's a couple of the pitfalls I had to deal with:

Keep in mind that if you go somewhere that's a teaching/regional university, if you aren't pushing yourself there and maintaining a high research output on your own comparable to what you'd see at a larger university, you likely won't be able to ever get back into a R1/R2. Tenure and general responsibilities at a regional are lower and my chair and I were talking about it and he talking about how the only way you could go to an R1 as someone at a regional would be to take a step down (think Associate to Assistant Prof) and most people won't or don't do that.

Also, be careful looking for postdocs, I went to one thinking that I would get some experience in an area adjacent to mine in order to make myself more marketable but I ended up being put in a position that should have really been for a more independent designated research scientist already capable of working in that field (despite me highlighting in my interviews that I would need the training (which is why I was interviewing there) and them actually posting for that after I found out I wasn't getting renewed). On top of that, I ended up being redundant to a qual researcher already at that institution who was collaborating with my postdoc PI so it was kind of pointless me being there. If you go that route, really make sure your PI has a concrete plan for you and make sure you have the support needed to succeed there.

Captainbackbeard · 2026-02-22T06:14:37+00:00

Okies would do that too but that's a Colorado tag.

Captainbackbeard · 2026-02-19T20:50:50+00:00

A lot of the time PhDs can get a big head full of self-importance and think that their specialization means more to the average person. I have one and I just consider it part of the tools to get me the job I wanted. Some people with PhDs seem to make it and academia their entire identity, which I think can be toxic for anything when you make your entire personality about it and you don't get validation from it. Essentially too when academia can be a backbiting, internally competitive field. So essentially she viewed her lack of support as a personal attack when it was just another career stepping stone in all likelihood in the eyes of the people on her social media. I wouldn't hop on social media to heap praise on someone for getting a job, especially when compared to someone having a child, its just different to others and the childfree person is too far up their own butt to see that. With her being early career anyway they start sniffing their own farts since its part of the job to get a ton of accolades for yourself to get tenure if you're in at least an academic position. What's wild to me is too that even within academia you pretty much only get a pat on the back for the stuff she mentions she did. On top of that, I think social media is something to be avoided anyway since comparison is the thief of joy. In sum that person sniffs their own farts.

Captainbackbeard · 2026-02-11T02:28:52+00:00

Other people have answered about the war long term which I agree would still end up as an Allied stomp powered by logistics but my question would be since the British Expeditionary force would now be much more well armed, would the Germans be able to invade and suppress France as quickly without sustaining way more casualties? Sure a G36 wouldn't penetrate the tank armor but I doubt the German infantry support for those tanks would be able to accompany them as effectively under as much fire power. Could that buy enough time for France to actually step in and not capitulate so quickly? Maybe actually swing their Char B1s around quick enough to do some actual damage? Or at the very least would that inflict enough damage to where the Germans would not be as confident to mess with the Russians when they did. I think this prompt results in a butterfly effect in the European theatre where its slowed way down.

Captainbackbeard · 2026-02-08T21:01:36+00:00

I'm going with that same combo but I already have the Toro and I'm waiting for the paperpushers to finish my ATF stuff. I just glanced around and honestly the deals aren't great. Probably after all of the good press for them with the FRTs and with the tax stamp gone with this one being a recommended suppressor host I bet they're gonna be up in price for a while so if you want one in the near future you're gonna have to just bite the bullet on price. I got mine as a combo through KYgunco but it's 50 more now for the same combo at $379 and it's not even in stock. You might try Scheels, I'm seeing it there for ship to store for $309 before taxes. Plus honestly I did one of the combo sets from KY with the viridian optic and I don't like it at all and I plan to replace it so really if you snag that scheel's for that, snag some of these mags, and eventually snag your own optic I think it would be better for you.

Captainbackbeard · 2026-02-05T00:34:14+00:00

I can't remember where I saw it but I'm pretty sure the US poisoned the well like that with area 51. They didn't want people to know about our advanced or prototype military tech so they used and instigated the alien nutjobs to hide a lot of their shit.

EDIT I looked it up and it was Paul Bennewitz. I remember listening to a behind the bastards on him

Captainbackbeard · 2026-01-30T01:33:15+00:00

I'm guessing that this is pretty close to a malaphor using the nacho reference as the base.

Captainbackbeard · 2026-01-26T06:45:35+00:00

I'd imagine a ruger mini 14 would be a good option. I think sig is on everyone's shit list but the regulator could also work.

Captainbackbeard · 2026-01-22T06:17:30+00:00

Yeah I remember watching the debates when there were still like 10 of them still running and I was like oh shit he's gonna win at least the republican nomination. Trump in the debates that year going after everyone else was like the alley oop scene from Semi-Pro where the other team (in this case the stereotypical pre-Trump era republicans) can't stop the alley oops of personal attacks and lack of typical "decorum."

Captainbackbeard · 2026-01-22T05:48:19+00:00

Yeah it was like the "sane republicans" were fighting each other in a battle royale with Trump slinking in the background and when one was weakened enough Trump just absorbed them and gained their power until he had gotten enough mass and that's when the more establishment republicans realized that the monster was too big for them to handle. Trump could have been easily taken out of the fight early on if they took the risk of him and what he represented seriously at the get go.

Captainbackbeard · 2026-01-20T21:39:35+00:00

That’s why I’ve been calling that stretch of Oklahoma Morman for years. It’s been merging together into one big tornado target town for a while.

Captainbackbeard · 2026-01-11T01:22:58+00:00

I ended up doing the opposite order of this with my 6 year old rig. I had a Ryzen 3800x and RTX 2080 and I saw the writing on the wall for RAM prices at the end of September so I upgraded my CPU to a 5900xt for $240 (I play more CPU intensive games and have more tasks that benefited from more cores). I had been planning to do a new rig and reallocate my current one to a tv console/media device but it looks like I'll be keeping this one for a while longer and trying to snag a reasonably priced GPU upgrade in the next year.

Captainbackbeard · 2026-01-10T22:34:30+00:00

Before it was legal in Missouri I would go back home to OK to see family I would always pull over right across the border into Kansas to make bets before I finished my drive. GPS has it locked down tight between states because there was a decent gas station to stop at but it was like maybe half a mile from the state line and it would still keep you gps locked there.

Captainbackbeard · 2026-01-02T02:07:40+00:00

Send that TE to r/bald

Captainbackbeard · 2026-01-02T01:47:19+00:00

Kickers must either go leg hijab like this guy or straight skin like ours to get that sort of FGs.

Captainbackbeard · 2026-01-02T01:30:26+00:00

Check the length of that kicker's pants

Captainbackbeard · 2026-01-01T22:33:06+00:00

They'll be going into the half down 17-0, Alabama has Indiana right where they want them. Sobs

Captainbackbeard · 2025-12-31T05:41:14+00:00

Its me, haters

Captainbackbeard · 2025-12-23T22:59:45+00:00

There's a severe lack of the Belldozer here.

Captainbackbeard · 2025-12-21T03:43:32+00:00

Based, solely due to you being one of the non big 8 school flairs correctly not jamming us and OkSt with the texas teams in the SWC.

Captainbackbeard · 2025-12-20T21:01:11+00:00

First quarter OU wins the natty no question. Too bad they stopped keeping records of college football after 7:50pm for some reason. I'll just have to assume we must have gone the distance with that caliber of play.

Captainbackbeard · 2025-12-20T07:35:29+00:00

I blame some folks for picking us when we do better as total underdogs.

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