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Surly kids who can't get into UT
I've said this many times, depending on the school, the price isn't usually the price when talking D3 schools, depending on your income. If you are middle class, after need and potentially merit aid, the cost is often 1/2 to 2/3 less than the listed price. Don't look at that sticker and immediately swear off a school. It's worth reaching out to the coach, having a conversation, throwing in an application, and seeing what the school offers you. Your child doesn't have to be resigned to the Greek IM field at second tier state U.
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- A Spy Among Friends (Damien Lewis, Guy Pearce) MGM+
Australian Actors mostly end up going back to Australia. Same for a lot of New Zealand actors. Outside of the odd Mel Gibson, they all go back. Pearce eventually left Melbourne and moved to Amsterdam with his second wife, a model, but 90% of the time when an actor from down under doesn't have the career you thought they were going to have, it's because they hated Hollywood and left.- Southern CA Fires- Extreme Santa Ana Winds
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With Societies, it depends on whether they are charity based or science focused. A charity based society should either be funding research or charity efforts and most of that money should be going out the door. A scientific society usually is a member based organization that also publishes/runs conferences to help cover the cost. Doesn't mean the executives aren't well paid, but their primary mission is more internal focused than external. There's a big difference between the American Chancer Society and the American Society of Clinical Oncology.- Southern CA Fires- Extreme Santa Ana Winds
I'd roll Doctors without Borders for international. The real green light moment for me was during the Indonesian Earth Quake when they basically said: We have enought money, send it somewhere else. They caught a lot of shit for turning away donors, but that's just how they roll. Also, they are the canary in the coal mine on international situations. When they announce they are leaving or call for intervention you know its about to go down. Their work in Rwanda in 94 is fucking legend.- Southern CA Fires- Extreme Santa Ana Winds
The Red Cross is well known in the DC non-profit community for inefficiency, wasteful spending, and other shady practices. World Central Kitchen is on the ground in LA if you are looking for a national non-profit with sterling ratings/reviews/reputation and don't have the time/energy to sort through local relief orgs.- Can we talk about Zuckerberg?
My only differences is vintage car and truck content. As Jerry Wayne Longmire puts it: If you can't find an agreeable woman to while away an afternoon in a vintage camper with a bottle of Old Crow, I'm not sure we can be friends. That kinda sums up my algorithm as well.- Surly kids who can't get into UT
For those with kids who excel in sports and grades: I am imploring you to look East towards quality Div III programs. They are desperate for quality athletes and the coaches can get preferred admissions. Do you have a child who is National Merit and also All District or Region? Good enough to not get stomped by Div. I athletes, but not good enough to get an offer to a school that is up to academic snuff? The New England Small College Athletic Conference would very much like to make their acquaintance.- Can we talk about Zuckerberg?
I see you have the same instagram search page that I do.....- Can we talk about Zuckerberg?
No, No. I think the solution here is MORE social media.- Can we talk about Zuckerberg?
- 2025 Cotton Bowl: CFP SF - Texas vs. Ohio State - 6:30pm on ESPN
- Who should we blame for Bro Country?
It’s not like this shit hasn’t been going on for years. What do you think Guitars and Cadillacs is about?- Southern CA Fires- Extreme Santa Ana Winds
They going to bring in that crazy mother fucker who flies the firefighting DC-10 like a Skyraider in 1965?- Southern CA Fires- Extreme Santa Ana Winds
The controlled burn thing is a bit of a lark. It's hard to control burn in residential areas, because (waives hand).....Houses. The goat/brush clearing is actually a significant point, but again: you are talking 100 mph Santa Anna Winds in a defacto desert area, following on the heels of an irregularily wet season. Brush clearing on a mega basis is expensive. Texas had a week long power outage because.....it was "too expensive" to insulate the natural gas lines. Control burns work well in rural areas, but believe it or not, in addition to regulations, there is actually an industrial forest fire fighting complex that actively lobbies against controlled burns. Because 'murica.- NFL Black Monday Thread/Coaching Carousel
Totally. The owners would love to see Davis sell to a well capitalized ownership group. That's based on an a forbes estimate from his wiki profile, and I don't know how much I entirely trust those. Sheila Hamp is a Ford Heiress. Davis' worth is the team. Dan Snyder was reported to be worth billions before he sold the team, but the NFL had to lend him money to buy out his partners.- NFL Black Monday Thread/Coaching Carousel
The Raiders are absolutely terrible, but they are also by far and away the poorest NFL franchise, in owner personal wealth terms. As a throwback to the old AFL, the Davis family made their money AS team owners. He's probably the only non-billionaire at the league meetings. It doesn't excuse their terrible decision making, but it does provide context for why they are consistently stupid in almost every aspect of the team's management. Because Al Davis literally talked his way into the Raiders organizational structure, acted as coach, scout, gm, etc during their AFL years, and leveraged that as a salaried employee into a minority stake, and eventually ownership, I suspect in addition to lack of resources, his son and current owner, Mark Davis is simply not able to separate the Football Team from the Family Business in a way that even Jerruh would find confusing.- Southern CA Fires- Extreme Santa Ana Winds
I read an interesting article about the Maui fire and the lessons they learned from it about house fire prevention from the few residences that survived: https://www1.wsrb.com/blog/wildfire-in-maui-what-can-we-learn Connecting wooden fences, composite roofs, and shrubbery around the base of your house is a bad idea in fire prone areas. Although when you are facing 100mph winds, I think it really just comes down to luck.- NFL Black Monday Thread/Coaching Carousel
It's going to be awesome when they trade up to #1 so they can get Travis Hunter.- Mack Brown Tarheel Football: The Orange Slice Boogaloo
He's such a desperate, grasping attention whore.- Mack Brown Tarheel Football: The Orange Slice Boogaloo
It's all fun and games until he's standing on the 50 yard line in November and the University is naming part of the Stadium or something after him. Which is clearly why he's back, now that UNC has definitively kicked him to the curb forever.- Jay Hartzell has entered the Transfer Portal
This. AAU is about your ability to bring in big research dollars and members of the National Academy. Oregon nearly lost their AAU status a while back before Shoe Daddy dumped a bunch of money into the STM programs to lure federal dollars and top tier talent.- Trump’s America
Yeah, the Dems will need to be selective with the filibuster. He’s going to be calling for its end by this summer. I’ll wager Murkowski is a hard no, but after that? 🤷♂️- Trump’s America
I guess Tuberville never played San Diego State, huh? - A Spy Among Friends (Damien Lewis, Guy Pearce) MGM+
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