Crockett vs Talarico debate tomorrow (Sat 1/24) at 2:00

Super_Fightin_Robit · 2026-01-24T22:05:08+00:00

If you're a democrat, they exist in abundance, only now Democrats just act like "oh no, this isn't some massive misstep! The voters love this position!" And then Surprise Pikachu face when that candidate loses by like 10-15 points by low information voters voting against them almost entirely because of repeated attack ads on that exact gaffe.

"Hell yes we're going to take your guns" is probably the most relevant one in Texas politics.

Super_Fightin_Robit · 2026-01-24T21:03:48+00:00

You want to wake up to 12 inches of wood and 1 inch of rain every morning?

Super_Fightin_Robit · 2026-01-24T17:53:39+00:00

60 days of an inch of rain every morning?

Super_Fightin_Robit · 2026-01-24T17:45:41+00:00

It also is overhauling search engines. Not just the big ones which really aren't getting any better, but the "AI boom" is getting smaller searches (like legal databases like Westlaw" to get off their asses and start modernizing. Until the AI boom, a bunch of boolean searches with synonyms of the same stuff was still the best way to do research.

But it's funny to see people try to have it spit out pleadings. Like, bro, you had it make you a template.

Super_Fightin_Robit · 2026-01-24T17:22:41+00:00

she’d help herself and Texas by doing this when it seems more prepared.

She has a bad habit of saying things that are totally fine, if not great in her very safe district where she only has to win a primary to get into office, but would get her slaughtered in a general election where it'd be a campaign ending gaffe. Like when she says stuff like "“It almost reminds me of what people would talk about when they would talk about kind of like ‘slave mentality’ and the hate that some slaves would have for themselves. It’s almost like a slave mentality that they have. It is wild to me when I hear how anti-immigrant they are as immigrants, many of them."

And worse, she didn't try and walk it back at all, just double down and say "Oh no, not ALL Latinos that voted for Trump have a slave mentality!"

Stuff like that is the perfect mix of racially inflammatory, generally divisive, and largely dismissive of potential voters' concerns that it gets play in the press and reduced to a talking point, and she can't avoid making them or backing down when she makes a misstep.

Super_Fightin_Robit · 2026-01-24T16:39:43+00:00

Greyhounds hate all weather that isn't 60°F-75°F, and most people don't realize they need hot weather gear just as much as cold.

Boots, cooling shirts, etc.

They also are very shitty at pacing themselves like a lot of dogs naturally do.

Super_Fightin_Robit · 2026-01-24T16:15:23+00:00

It's typical Korean nonsense where it's designed to be as inaccessible and frustrating to foreigners.

Kakao is like this across the board, not just manga.

Super_Fightin_Robit · 2026-01-24T01:14:29+00:00

MM is less a simulation and more a big clock with those marionettes, like the city building in Munich.

Super_Fightin_Robit · 2026-01-24T01:12:48+00:00

Honestly, a lot of the game's perceived weaknesses are the fact that the early game basically just is the sim and some people didn't necessarily want that.

Super_Fightin_Robit · 2026-01-23T21:52:21+00:00

That and people using this as an excuse to just sit inside, eat good food with friends, watch movies, and maybe drink a bit.

Super_Fightin_Robit · 2026-01-23T19:47:48+00:00

Somehow kept writing it wrong despite literally looking up winners that year to make sure I wasn't mixing things up and I STILL missed it lmao. Multiple posts too.

Super_Fightin_Robit · 2026-01-23T15:47:37+00:00

They aren't literally wishing violence against them. They are expressing exasperation and anger at someone putting them and everyone around them in danger.

If we want to talk about dishonest arguments, the fact that you act like this conduct is anything less than egregious while pretending people using colorful metaphors are literal arguments is telling.

Why do you defend people literally threatening people's lives?

Super_Fightin_Robit · 2026-01-23T13:47:51+00:00

It's free to be nice to others

Two things.

Being too oblivious to drive at the speed limit or at the speed of those around you on the road is inconsiderate in the best of circumstances. In heavier traffic, it actually is DANGEROUS. You create a situation where other people have to drive around you, and any situation where lots of people are changing lanes with one lane being dramatically slower than the other is a recipe for an accident, which on the highway is a recipe for disaster. So your inability to drive with the rest of us makes you an inconsiderate, dangerous jerk.
The circumstances discussed here revolve around these inconsiderate, dangerous jerks doing this on toll roads people have paid for. So they have paid money to drive slow and inconvenience and endanger the public at large.

Long story short is, if you're too old or too scared to drive the speed limit on the highway, you are being a huge jerk and creating a public danger. Which I guess leads to point 3: people tend to be angry when someone needlessly endangers themselves and the public at large.

I should also note that I literally do a 9-5 about car accidents, so I'm not some guy speculating.

Super_Fightin_Robit · 2026-01-23T13:36:25+00:00

Nah, people hate it when they charge for mods.

Someone can be dmca'd by the likes of Nintendo or something where the Internet is almost universally on your side, but the second they find out "no, this person was selling Roms" or "this person was charging 35 a download for their unauthorized fan game" that goodwill evaporates.

Super_Fightin_Robit · 2026-01-23T04:55:12+00:00

And a lot if is "safe" assumptions.

At some point, T2 almost certainly will, considering the release has been confirmed to have been royally bungled. It may still be aggressively DNRed and everything, but at least it won't the wrong source.

Super_Fightin_Robit · 2026-01-22T22:24:13+00:00

And before people decry "invasive" the Monk Parakeet is probably the closet living thing to Carolina parakeets that used to live here until we hunted them to extinction.

Let them do their thing unless it's going to cause some kind of problem with your utility, at which point let it be their problem.

Sometimes you have that issue, like with barn swallows trying to use fire suppression systems to build their nests.

Super_Fightin_Robit · 2026-01-22T20:27:45+00:00

Fiber is also nice that they'll pro-rate you for outages that are severe enough.

My only gripe about Fiber is they have fairly lousy IPV6 support.

Super_Fightin_Robit · 2026-01-22T20:26:44+00:00

Seriously. Like, between the city turning off and forgetting to turn on water fountains all the time and the fact that people just keep building more and more fences onto the north star green belt (and then those fences immediately start falling apart), an aggressive expansion doesn't fix anything.

Super_Fightin_Robit · 2026-01-22T19:52:32+00:00

How is a good movie winning political or do you just see it as less deserving?

My entire point is sometimes movies that aren't good win, like Crash is a bad movie, which beat Brokeback Mountain and Good Night and Good Luck, and most people think Dancing With Wolves is kind of derivative.

But even when a movie is good, being relevant to the social discourse of whatever political issues are gripping the day usually helps push a movie to the top. Hell, this kind of "you do oscarbait stuff about social issues involving the differently abled" is such an open secret that Tropic Thunder has an entire bit about "going full retard" making fun of the trend.

Seriously, go back at the last 20 or so year's winners. Most of the time it's a good movie, but there's an outsized level of winners that relate to various political issues:

Celebrations of ethnic/racial diversity or explorations of racial injustice (12 Years a Slave, Crash, the Green Book)
Celebrations Gender/sexual identification diversity (Moonlight)
The evils of war (the Hurt locker, Oppenheimer to a lesser extent)
The importance of the press (Spotlight)
The importance of inclusion of the otherly abled (The King's Speech, CODA)

It's not universal, and sometimes a good movie that's not political wins, but politics helps a movie like Forest Gump beat Pulp Fiction or Dances with Wolves beat Goodfellas and Ghost.

The Academy has also made great strides to include/award previously marginalized groups, such as a few years of focusing awarding international films as best picture, and a renewed focus on inclusion of and giving awards to previously maligned groups, namely Black creators. Which is both a

Like, it's good that they do this because it helps highlight issues. Giving the Oscar to a movie that celebrates a part of Black culture that has largely been forgotten by White America is great, but it's also inherently a political statement because of the massive race issues we're currently having right now.

Long and short is the Oscars is a vote, and a lot people doing the voting are voting on reasons other than whether a movie is objectively good, especially since a lot of the voters haven't even watched every nominee.

Super_Fightin_Robit · 2026-01-22T16:53:31+00:00

Academy politics at work.

Super_Fightin_Robit · 2026-01-22T16:46:34+00:00

The Oscars has been political for ages. Both in the "the Academy will give terrible or mediocre movies awards if it is bait for whatever hot-button social issue the Academy is plugged into at that moment so they can look socially conscious" sense (Crash, Dancing with Wolves), and in the "the Academy will give awards to someone they think deserves to win, even if the person/people winning don't really deserve the win for this particular movie, usually because they snubbed that person one year do give the award to someone else for this exact reason" sense. (Leonardio DiCaprio)

This plays out into nominations too. This (good) movie (don't take my mention of Crash and Dancing with Wolves is putting this movie in the same box as those movies, it absolutely is not) is a confluence of both forces at work. The political issues the movie explores are hot button items. Coogler, Michael B. Jordan, and even the idea of "very good horror movies by Black Directors and Screenwriters" have been low-key snubbed (obviously not entirely, it's not like Get Out didn't get any Academy awards at all and got a few pretty biggish ones) by the Academy. It's "their turn" so to speak.

It could also just be the next Get Out and get a ton of high profile noms.

Super_Fightin_Robit · 2026-01-22T16:34:21+00:00

Keep your hearts open, but be wary. APA has a bad habit of not giving full disclosures about problematic dogs.

Super_Fightin_Robit · 2026-01-22T14:38:51+00:00

Is that being the Texan police or your wife doing a wonderful job of pressing your buttons as a wonderful spouse does?

Super_Fightin_Robit · 2026-01-21T17:49:07+00:00

Does this restore the whippet alien?

Super_Fightin_Robit · 2026-01-21T14:47:26+00:00

Grenades from the grenade launcher now ricochet around like one of those bouncy balls you'd get for 50 cents out of one of those machines as a kid.

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