Everything posted by Paper_jam
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Dallas Cowboys 2024 Season Thread -- Jerrah the Asshat Rides Again
Don't be such a downer! We just need to upgrade one or two spots on the OL. After that upgrade in protection, Dak will put up numbers that will make you forget all about the feebles and the commies. Plus it will fix the running game.
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Trump’s America
I mean it's pretty much OK now to shovel money and gifts at American politicians and judges, so why should foreigners miss out on that gravy train. Trump is such a crook, he makes Nixon look like goddamn George Washington.
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Super Bowl LIX: Chiefs vs. Eagles
Why do games in the Superdome look so ugly? The field looks brownish and the colors in general look all wrong. It looks like they use sodium vapor lamps or something similar that doesn't have full-spectrum white light.
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Trump’s America
I'd also look at the undervote (meaning ballots that were filed but no vote for president was recorded). I'd like to know if there were a lot of ballots in certain areas that for some reason appear to not register a vote for President. Of course that can happen when both parties have unpopular nominees, but if it's more than 1-2% then something is up.
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Trump’s America
Yuge surpise. Trump selling out our elections to Russia & China. Trump’s Justice Department shutters specialized FBI team combatting foreign election interference threats The shuttering of the FBI Foreign Influence Task Force and planned reassigning of team members follows a directive from incoming US Attorney General Pam Bondi dissolving the team. https://electionlawblog.org/?p=148505
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Trump’s America
This climate is inspiring shitheads and wannabes to take the law into their own hands: https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/04/us/ice-impersonators-on-the-rise-arrests-made-as-authorities-issue-national-warning/index.html Pardons incoming in 3, 2, 1 ...
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Plane Crash in Philadelphia
Those were oxygen generators, which (AFAIK) don't contain gaseous oxygen like a cylinder, but they generate O2 through a chemical reaction when activated.
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Federal Worker RTO and Buyout Offers
When mass layoffs happen in business, there is usually** (OK, sometimes) a plausible business case as to why it's necessary, or how it will improve the organization. And, usually**, there is a rational basis in the methodology of selecting who is retained and who is terminated. No good business would just arbitrarily cut XY% of the workforce for the hell of it. Does anyone really believe these federal RIFs are going to improve the effectiveness of the government, at least towards the goals these agencies are intended to perform? This is a naked attempt to degrade institutions that serve and protect the public, and redirect those institutions to instead protect corporations, oligarchs, and other large political donors.
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My father died last night.
Sorry for your loss. My dad died about five years ago and, like you, my strongest connection with him was through time we spent together fishing. Although to be honest, my dad didn't really give a crap about actually fishing, he'd just prop up his pole and read the paper, or enjoy a Michelob. He wasn't doing it for himself, he just did it to spend time with me.
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Dallas Cowboys 2024 Season Thread -- Jerrah the Asshat Rides Again
I would literally rather have Mack Brown. Or Major Applewhite. Or Tom Herman. Fuck, was Charlie Strong not available?
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Trump’s America
What kind of shitheel thinks, "Hey there was a disaster here. I can use that to extort something I want from these suffering people." Disgusting. Trump is incapable of cooperation because he sees everything as a transaction that he has to "win." Fucking grotesque.
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Texas -- a failed state
If we're gonna have religion in schools, that means we can post other religious shit on the wall too, right? Like the Seven Tenets of the Temple of Satan, or Anton Levey's 11 Satanic Rules? Also if we do school vouchers that fund religious schools with public money, I sure hope someone opens a Lucifer Charter School or something similar. What's good for the goose is good for the gander, as they say.
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Southern CA Fires- Extreme Santa Ana Winds
Very nice of God to save that one Christian when like 5,000 other Christian families had their house burn down.
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"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." Trump wiped his ass with the Constitution (especially Article II, Section I and the 12th Amendment relating to the certification of electoral votes) and the people let him get away with it.
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2024 Week 17 - Cotton Bowl CFP Semifinal Texas vs Ohio State
Game checklist: Alcohol inventory status: GO BP meds taken early: CHECK Snacks prepositioned for deployment: CHECK
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2024 Week 17 - Cotton Bowl CFP Semifinal Texas vs Ohio State
Me after reading that
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2024 Week 17 - Cotton Bowl CFP Semifinal Texas vs Ohio State
Our early season jitters are out of the way now, everything is gonna come together. Sark is going to have a strategic game plan, and not kill drives with silly fancy plays that take ages to develop. Quinn is going to scan through his progressions like a Cray supercomputer, throwing laser bolts to the best open man. His pocket awareness will be Jedi-level. He will decisively use his mobility when necessary. but not in a panicked or haphazard way. Our OL will open huge holes that our RBs will gash them with. Blue will not fumble. Our special teams will be ready to jump all over any stupid fakes. Auburn will have calibrated his leg and fixed his hair with a Johnny Unitas cut. The defense will continue to be excellent and will pressure and disrupt their quarterback without losing containment. We will make solid tackles, limiting yards after contact, and not give the opponent extra downs through defensive penalties.
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2025 Peach Bowl: CFP QF - Texas vs. Arizona State - 12pm on ESPN
This was a win? It's been several hours and sveral drinks later and I still feel like shit. My voice is hoarse and I hurt my foot when I repeatedly kicked the fuck out of a chair when Bert missed the 2nd FG. My friend said my face turned so red it was scary. There should be a class action suit over the cumulative damage, mental and physical, this game inflicted on us older fans.
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Winter Weather 2025 - Arctic Blasts or Sweaty Ass?
Keep 'er bow into the wind, Cap'n!
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Boeing 737 crashes with 180 on board in South Korea
Can we infer anything from the apparent loss of ADS-B data at basically the same time as the (first?) bird strike? Does that suggest a major electrical failure or disruption? Also, kinda weird that as far as I've seen, there were no comms at all past the first go-around. I know flying the aircraft comes first but you'd think they'd at least say something about a second landing attempt. Nothing about this makes sense unless they actually had a dual engine failure, or shut down the wrong one as user t-eight posted above. But the video seems to show some thrust (blurry heat waves) from the #2 engine at the time of landing, while showing seemingly nothing from the #1 engine. Although those could be compression artifacts in the video. And "some thrust" from one engine would not necessarily be enough to hold altitude or go around again.
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Boeing 737 crashes with 180 on board in South Korea
Looking at it again, I also don't see them using the spoilers/speedbrakes on the top of the wing surface. Which seems kinda odd but probably would not have mattered without gear/brakes. But may all go back to a major combined systems failure with hydraulics or something
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Boeing 737 crashes with 180 on board in South Korea
Yes, but it's possible that the same thing that kept the gear from deploying also kept the flaps from deploying (hydraulic or electrical issue). Although jets like this normally have quite a bit of redundancy and flexibility to let you work around some of those problems. Or maybe SOP for a gear-up landing calls for a lesser flap setting for some other reason... no idea.
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USN beats USN
So does that leave the carrier group with a degraded air defense? It's a Ticonderoga, dunno if they have another air defense ship as capable** as that in the group. ** when shooting at enemies
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2024 Rain Thread: All Your El Nino Are Belong to Us
Of course the line of storms forms just east of Travis County.
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Pics of parking douche baggery
Some people almost deliberately pick the most dangerous and or most critical places to park their broke-down shitbox. Oil pressure light's been flashing red for 20 miles? Time to get on the freeway! Oh no, the motor locked up--who could have seen that coming? And even when a car is dying, it's usually not instantaneous---you should be able to feel it sputtering or misfiring and maintain enough momentum to get it to the shoulder instead of just stopping in the fast lanes, etc..