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Showing content with the highest reputation on 05/29/21 in Posts

  1. the conservative exit from the board, on shaggy, was possibly due to what led to the [serious] manifestation. what a lot of you don't understand is that a lot of moderation is driven from reported posts. you don't report, often we don't see it. generally, my goal is not to take any action on anyone for any reason. the whole point of these boards from shaggy to here is free discourse. the only rule is no trolling. and that's the rub. defining trolling from honestly misled people. i think too many times, people make people a troll in their mind when the poster actually believes the bullshit they are spewing. generally, i side on the "this person is honest" side of the equation, which is why i rarely take action on the political board, aside from calling people out like a normal poster, but not as a mod. the whole reason for [serious] was because people weren't actually engaging in serious discourse. and there was a not insignificant group of posters who really did want that. some did not, and they trolled those threads. and that accounted for what you perceived as moderation bias. the desire for actual discussion was the genesis there. and i understand that it did not work as well as it could have, but that's not entirely on the moderation. a community is a sum of individuals. i took a RATION of shit for any moderation move i made on the old site. i think much of it was unfair. marvin the martian comes to mind. that dude was obviously a troll, but when i banned him, i got called out repeatedly for bias. nevermind that i banned trolls on #bothsides. the one obvious right wing troll, and come the fuck on, he was obvious, got me catching a ration of shit. and this idea that people on the "right" were getting banned left and right is utter bullshit. i can probably count on my ten fingers the number of posters who earned a holiday for trolling. almost nobody was proper banned. that i can count on one hand. perception bias is a hell of a thing. i really think some of yall need to have a think about how you perceive things versus how things actually are. conservative posters schism'd from cloak room on the move here because of the timing. it was impossible to be honest about donald trump because the man is fundamentally dishonest. that's why some left the cloak room. many left the site altogether, i reckon. swam, tahoe, the insidiously dishonest but clever laphroiag (known by many names, but always detectable). notably, many conservative posters did not leave. @ChiTownDoc and @Ghost of LL and @Lobo come to mind. yall think the cloak room is liberal for some reason. it's far from it. ask @bad_teammate, and he'll set you straight. he thinks all these republican converts are fucking up the show for proper democratic policy. yall came here to dt because you don't want to get called out, and you got no real defense. that's the sum of it, imo. i acknowledge my biases, and i like to think i'm honest with myself, and i always second or third guess before i take any moderation action. but you (not you, wulaw, the editorial you) have CLEARLY wanted to bring political discussions to the daily texan. whether it is to bait people into coming offsides, or doing it yourself, you are engaging in pretty clear shenanigans.
  2. Didn't expect to lose these two within 5 months, but they will forever be best friends. I hope they're snoozling together in the sunshine forever more.
  3. Since losing awesome dog part-II almost six months ago, all that’s left is this cat that Little Homesick made me buy him while I was going through my divorce. The fact that I paid actual American money, for this animal baffled me. The the shop owner, upon seeing the malnourished, terribly flea ridden, crusty black cat in the back of the cage (behind some of the prettiest kittens I’d ever seen) said, “if that’s the one your son wants, you can reach back there and get him yourself”. He didn’t even smirk when I asked him if I could get $5 off for doing his job for him. Since then, Beans (Little Homesick has a penchant for names that are awesome, and he was four at the time), has been one of the coolest animals I’ve ever had the honor of being acquainted with. Not only do full sized dogs pull their owners across the street upon setting foot on the sidewalk that borders Bean’s territory (as he sits on the rocking chair, cleaning his teeth), but I had the honor of receiving a letter from our USPS mail carrier letting me know that I could pick up my mail at the local post office. She was done seeing headless squirrels on my doorstep. Beans is a killer, dyed in the wool. But he’s also a lover, who has completely changed my opinion of cats. I’m sorry for your loss man.
  4. seems relevant to this discussion, although that one is a 2021 with carbon ceramics (probably 140k+), this one is mine that I just got on Thursday. IMG_6396.mp4 @blacklab already drove it. This thing is better than I even imagined.
  5. My cat put this right on my desk next to me while I was working.
  6. 8 points
    First, you'll have to earn the trust of a local squirrel. Talk to him, feed him peanuts or pecans. Gradually you can teach him to press the button on the spray can when you give him the signal. Make sure it's aimed away from his face, or you will lose the trust you built.
  7. The situation in DT came about because we had 4 years of Donald Trump. The reasonable conservative posters were no longer willing to defend him and stopped posting and all that was left was the trolls and die hard trumpkins. They were outnumbered just like in real life and then fled to their safe space and cried fake news fake news my views on how poor people should be rounded up into camps and separated from society is totally not political and respect my opinion stop being meanies.
  8. I mean, I guess “Monkey Business” was out of the question? (That’s a deep cut for you youngins.)
  9. Who has the longest deer legs ever?
  10. We traded Horney for a monkey. Think we are much improved just on optics alone.
  11. 6 points
    Ohhh shiitttt... Friend of a friend just cleaned out his parent’s liquor cabinet after they passed. Told him to look for dusty’s and he pulls this out: Offered to purchase and he said “Forget that, we’re drinking this mother fucker!”
  12. 6 points
    Forever for the people around him in line.
  13. I've been dying for a lap steel for a long time and, well, who likes dying? Bought yesterday.
  14. That's not true at all - there's lots of good discussion here that isn't driven off of an agenda or current events. I know that the threads with that as the focus are what you are talking about - but there are many other threads that are just great discussions on general policy and stance. Those are actually the ones that are the least polarizing because people aren't starting from a position of defending or attacking, just simply thinking and positing.
  15. Wondering if I have 8 hours today to watch Texas baseball
  16. I was expecting a more uplifting thread so here's a majestic pussy
  17. The conservative identity in the US being relegated to victimhood and whining about message boards would shame supply-side Jesus
  18. Well it is also baseball and while some look to have a positive outlook and for a reason to move on to the next game, others like you tend to the exact opposite "expect the worst hope for the best" coping mechanism. So if the team loses you can say you were right and if they win well hey they proved you wrong, win-win. The hitting has been atrocious since the start of the tournament and even with the last 3 games at the plate they are still hitting .280 as a team with a .396 OBP. In other words they can hit they just for whatever reason have looked absolutely sick the last 3 games. Oddly enough and maybe coincidentally I'm not sure, their 6 worst offensive performances this season have come on neutral field. The 2018 team had 3 runs on 10 hits and went 0-2 in the tourney so this Texas team can very much win a regional. The two have no correlation so I don't know why you brought them up. In some odd way winning two games in which you combine for 8 hits and strikeout 31 times in 16 innings is impressive because their aren't many teams out there could win with that poor of an offensive showing. They have walked 24 times over the last 3 games. There are positives, they aren't going to the plate getting mowed down in 3 pitches. Really is one of the oddest offensive funks I've ever seen.
  19. Bea Arthur was a talented actress. No way I'm fucking her.
  20. 5 points
    When my granny died I found a half drank bottle of peach schnapps in the back of the pantry. This is bullshit
  21. 5 points
    Speaking of dusty bottles, just brought this back from my grandpa's house. He got it when my great aunt died 15 years ago, and her boss brought it back from a business trip in the 80's (I think). Anybody know what I'm looking at here?
  22. Or we could just beat those meth-toothed traditionless pussies after they piss their pants reading the letters on our shirts.
  23. White Women: Not Even Once
  24. Not the best pic as most of my animal pics are of my dog Crosby (RIP). But this here is Jack (orange) and Skylar. They are really awesome cats.
  25. Ah shit. Ah well sucks to lose but we got a couple wins and ended OU's chances to get into the tournament. See you guys on Monday for the Regional selections.
  26. Congrats to the Russian petro state club on defeating the Abu Dhabi petro state club.
  27. Hi, Treefiddy. I'm Fred Sawtelle. I live at the address you have posted so very publicly on here. I haven't done anything to you. I haven't ripped off any credit cards from you or anyone else. Why don't you email me and let's talk about what might be going on, that brought me and my address to this point. My email is my first initial and last name at gmail dot com.
  28. She makes me RAGE.
  29. Sorry guys I haven't been paying attention I will stream these games on the discord now that I've got some time to set it up
  30. Do you know why we're at top 8 national seed? Here's a hint... it's the 40 wins before this week that you clearly didn't watch.
  31. A few years from now we'll all be in a trench and UpperWestside will be waxing poetic about the Democratic women coming to save us and at that moment Brisket will have an aneurysm and die, then the whistle will blow and the rest of us will run towards the Maga machine guns
  32. I assume that the arm bands just have “stare at first pitch strike”, “swing at something outside”, and “just have fun”.
  33. Agreed. When transgender persons vacuously, selfishly, stupidly, and insultingly try to foist their vacuous, stupid, selfish opinions on us and make us pay their salary to do so, they should be called "assholes" just like non-transgender persons acting in such an assholish fashion.
  34. If the concept of sample size is too difficult, I’d suggest finding a different sport to follow Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  35. I wonder what these posts would look like if that middling scrub WV RFielder doesn't rob Antico.
  36. Elite teams find a way to win when they struggle in one aspect of the game.
  37. Or maybe a bunch of college-educated posters changed their minds and their worldview when presented with new data. Which is something that people with college educations sometimes do. In this case, it happened fairly rapidly after 2016, and so it was a lot more noticeable. I imagine this same thing happened on a somewhat smaller scale after we invaded Iraq back in 2003, but it was somewhat drowned out/diluted by the fact that 9/11 was still fresh, and people were still trying to be patriotic.
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