Jump to content
View in the app

A better way to browse. Learn more.

Surly Horns

A full-screen app on your home screen with push notifications, badges and more.

To install this app on iOS and iPadOS
  1. Tap the Share icon in Safari
  2. Scroll the menu and tap Add to Home Screen.
  3. Tap Add in the top-right corner.
To install this app on Android
  1. Tap the 3-dot menu (⋮) in the top-right corner of the browser.
  2. Tap Add to Home screen or Install app.
  3. Confirm by tapping Install.
Football ... Basketball ... Baseball ... Other Sports ... Futbol ... 🤫995🤫 ... Gambling ... Movies & TV ... Music ... Hobbies ... Lulz ... Food & Travel ... Daily Texan ... Business & Markets ... Cloak Room ... Help ... For Sale ... Board Discussion ... Advertise... Tailgate Donations

Tuco

Legacy Members
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Everything posted by Tuco

  1. Fuck ICE ICE baby by No$hu (I also recommend streaming KEXP, the local Seattle station. Their DJs are working protest songs into their playlist, which is where I heard this one.)_ https://youtu.be/YB1aROXqnXM?si=m_pC0Yw9k4DHtQ2r
  2. It's another government shutdown looming. Last time, it took a while for it to really hit the air travel, so you will probably be okay. Although, this time I expect less patience from the TSA and air traffic controllers.
  3. Washington also has a bill that aims to bar anyone employed by ICE from working as law enforcement in the future. Not sure if it will pass.
  4. Regarding Schumer stance: The polling he is seeing internally must be pretty strong for him to take that as an opening position. My guess is he is looking to split the spending bill. Make it clear they are a long way from consensus. If Republicans want to avoid a long shutdown, they need to separate out the DHS (or at least ICE) funding. At the end of the day, I assume he will sacrifice some of those points. Some of them are fairly vague, so it might be a change in language with no real legislation. I wouldn't plan on flying next week.
  5. Tuco replied to tx 3 putt's topic in Cloak Room
    Also, Trump doesn't give a shit about whatever trade deal his administration negotiates. His administration negotiated the USMCA five years ago, and then he shat all over it during his campaign and subsequently violated it with tariffs. Oh no, Carney is going to make this negotiation more difficult my recognizing reality. Who the fuck cares. Certainly no Canadians.
  6. It was never the point. It's just harassment. A less violent way of scaring the American public. It won't work.
  7. Seems a bit edgarded.
  8. Tuco replied to tx 3 putt's topic in Cloak Room
    I think that's kind of the point. Buying a weapon doesn't give you combat training. Shotguns are effective without much training. Also, for self defense in a urban area, you are much less likely to kill a neighbor with a stray shot. They are good guns for people who aren't gun people. A laser sight is also easy to aim, assuming you set it up correctly and calibrate it, which most normal people don't want to fuck with. I'm not getting a gun. We inherited a little 22 handgun from my wife's dad. In the last year, I've changed the storage location and basically hid the clip. I need to just get rid of the fucking thing. During these bullshit times, I am more concerned about my wife's mental health than I am worried about fighting government forces. If it ever gets to the point that federal forces are invading my house, I'm already dead. They know how to kill armed people. If I'm going to be a martyr, I will be a more effective martyr if there is no excuse to kill me. And honestly, I don't want to kill anyone.
  9. I think folks may be overreacting a bit to Walz's comments. 1) He has no control over the protestors or observers. He's not even particularly influential. Politicians focus on politics; activists don't trust politics, which is why they do other shit. 2) He's continuing his Midwestern-nice schtick, which is good for the public narrative that Trump is currently losing. 3) Minneapolis has done enough. If he can negotiate ICE's surge exit, he will. Not shitting on your opponent helps negotiations. And that exit doesn't really help Trump. Every time Trump loses, he shrinks a little more. Getting driven out of Minneapolis by a bunch activists with whistles is a big loss.
  10. Is that a skull and crossbones on his hat? Not the same style as the SS, but certainly the same mentality. We are the baddies.
  11. What layer of abstraction do you need to recognize that small-dollar creators aren't able to make a living without copyright laws. I think you are in the mindset that it protects large companies from consumers, but it absolutely protects individual creators from unpaid exploitation by large corporations. To put it another way, AI is a tool by which Google/Facebook/Amazon/Twitter can effectively reproduce anyone's art, inventions, writings and likenesses, and then sell it with the advantage of their superior resources. IP laws are the only obstacle to that.
  12. Big Tech has a much more impressive slugging percentage than batting average. They are swinging for the fences and frequently strike out. Off the top of my head, the richest man in America has failed to deliver self-driving cars, vacuum tube subways, that cable company that Tesla stockholders bailed him out on. Oh, and the CyberTruck that makes the Edsel look successful. Meta keeps failing to outfit Americans with "smart" glasses. I'm still not sure whatever the fuck the Metaverse was suppose to be. I don't think Google's plan for on-line gaming has panned out yet. And these failures are all consistent with their culture. They push you to take risks. For normal shit, that's all good. They are good gamblers. But they are all now over their credit limits. If AI had a similar investment to self-driving cars, I wouldn't be worried. They strike out here, it could have serious impacts on their companies and the economy as a whole. And "eventually" doesn't really cut it. And to be clear, BigTech is the new Wall Street as far as the employees it attracts. Ball caps and beards have replaced suits and cufflinks, but other than that, it's the same picture. All of these Big Techs are on their second and third generation of employee rotations. They are staffed by people who joined large corporations with rigorous hiring practice, not people who dropped out of college to pursue their dreams. The latter may be in Silicon Valley, but they are at the start-ups.
  13. Is that just in rhetoric or are their specific policies you believe candidates should embrace or shun?
  14. Do you think that is because he's speaking his mind or do you think it's because these talking points are making the rounds with political consultants?
  15. In a normal world, that's enough for a murder conviction. In our current reality, Ross gets an accommodation for marksmanship.
  16. We had a much more balanced policy regarding Israel during the Cold War. We were way more worried about the Arab world tilting towards the USSR than we were concerned about Israel. If we pissed off the Arab world too much, the West could lose access to oil supplies and the Suez Canal. The Religious Right (and really most Americans) saw Communism as the biggest threat to Christianity and Western values. After the Cold War ended, it is amazing how quickly Communism was replaced by Islam as our enemy. Iraq invaded Kuwait less than a year after the Berlin Wall fell. By 9/11/2001, Islam was firmly established as the biggest thread to Christianity and Western values. That switch blew away any kind of balance we had between Israel and Arab (or Muslim) World.
  17. To get views, either directly for the Youtube revenue or to draw attention to something they are selling. That, of itself, isn't a big deal. The problem is that it is so easy to do and getting easier. It's like the SPAM in your inbox or robocalls to your phone: it's so cheap to create them that they can basically flood the platform, disconnecting us from finding the real stuff.
  18. This administration had so many choices to where and when they could push conflict. They are choosing Minneapolis in Jan/Feb. I lived in Minneapolis for year. Those people are crazy about winter. They have outdoor parades in February.
  19. And that's all fair. I was limiting it to Biblical-version of God. I am undecided on the what God is. I really dig learning about religions and ancient cultures, because I think it tells us about human nature stripped of our modern culture. At some point in our evolution, we all seemed to start worshiping. That could be because 1) We are connected to God in some way, or 2) There is something about how our brains work which results in us inevitably inventing him. Either conclusion is interesting, but I think the second may be more practical in solving modern problems.
  20. Well, I didn't translate it from ancient Hebrew, but raining for 40 days is absolutely what is says in multiple English language versions. There is also a bit about the springs welling up, but it also rained for 40 days. So, yeah, tell me about the ignorant people some more. For the rest of the post, sure, I get that iron-age writers of a certain region would consider raining for 40 days as something supernatural. (In Seattle, we call it winter.) I didn't speak of God revealing himself in nature. I am talking about how God is revealed in the "holy texts" seems pretty limited by the context of the time. When comparing it against modern context, many folks will cite the conflicts with reality. I more impressed by how limited he appears. I think raining diamonds on/in Neptune is more amazing than raining frogs in Egypt.
  21. Not to impose on anyone else's belief, but I do think its odd to have this belief in any kind of Biblical-type God when what we can witness in the Universe is so much weirder. Iron Age writers tried to document the nature of God, but they did so with such lack of insight that it seems childlike compared to how astrophysicists describe reality. We witness nuclear fusion every sunny day with temperatures so hot it tears apart and recreate atoms, but we are suppose to be in awe of a God who made it rain for 40 days?
  22. I'm not sure violating policy would preclude a self-defense defense. I think the lack of a real threat should prevent it from being successful. FWIW, Minnesota statute: Subd. 2.Use of deadly force. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 609.06 or 609.065, the use of deadly force by a peace officer in the line of duty is justified only if an objectively reasonable officer would believe, based on the totality of the circumstances known to the officer at the time and without the benefit of hindsight, that such force is necessary: (1) to protect the peace officer or another from death or great bodily harm, provided that the threat: (i) can be articulated with specificity; (ii) is reasonably likely to occur absent action by the law enforcement officer; and (iii) must be addressed through the use of deadly force without unreasonable delay; or (2) to effect the arrest or capture, or prevent the escape, of a person whom the peace officer knows or has reasonable grounds to believe has committed or attempted to commit a felony and the officer reasonably believes that the person will cause death or great bodily harm to another person under the threat criteria in clause (1), items (i) to (iii), unless immediately apprehended. (b) A peace officer shall not use deadly force against a person based on the danger the person poses to self if an objectively reasonable officer would believe, based on the totality of the circumstances known to the officer at the time and without the benefit of hindsight, that the person does not pose a threat of death or great bodily harm to the peace officer or to another under the threat criteria in paragraph (a), clause (1), items (i) to (iii).
  23. Awesome. Go fuck yourself.
Football ... Basketball ... Baseball ... Other Sports ... Futbol ... 🤫995🤫 ... Gambling ... Movies & TV ... Music ... Hobbies ... Lulz ... Food & Travel ... Daily Texan ... Business & Markets ... Cloak Room ... Help ... For Sale ... Board Discussion ... Advertise... Tailgate Donations

Configure browser push notifications

Chrome (Android)
  1. Tap the lock icon next to the address bar.
  2. Tap Permissions → Notifications.
  3. Adjust your preference.
Chrome (Desktop)
  1. Click the padlock icon in the address bar.
  2. Select Site settings.
  3. Find Notifications and adjust your preference.