Everything posted by TwiceHorn
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RFK Jr. off the chain and off his rocker
You'll come in 5th!
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Ok, so found the deal on this. https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/n-25-69.pdf State law or company policy may pay more generous overtime than that required by FLSA. Only that required by FLSA, generally time-and-a-half for hours over 40/week, is exempt from taxation, anything additional (double time, OT based on 8 hours/day, but not 40/week, etc.) is not tax-exempt. Not sure what an employer's obligations are with respect to withholding/not withholding, but it looks like Fedex is withholding on all of it and letting the employee figure it out. Which could be a monumental pain in the ass.
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Things Not Going Well in Venezuela, 2.0
6 cent, 7 cent, 8 cent bunch.
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The Trump Economy
All the ecological revanchism is God awful. The Clean Air and Clean Water Acts made a very material difference in ecological conditions in this country.
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Candace Owens
Not directly on point, but the Paris Court of Appeals, the highest court, reinstated the trial court verdict of defamation and harassment against Amandine Roy and Natacha Rey, two of Candy-O's "sources," and whose convictions had been inexplicably reversed by an intermediate court of appeals. Yahoo TechParis court finds 10 people guilty of cyberbullying Brigi...Brigitte Macron won a lawsuit against 10 people who made defamatory remarks about her online.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Well, in the absence of state laws and company policies, FLSA would require them to pay OT.
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Trump/MAGA has ruined sports
We'll take the one at west point. Almost gone and free tuition!
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Trump’s America
Well and it seems highly likely that he's going to be stripped of his tariff power.
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Greenland
But it's a republic, not a democracy!
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The Trump Economy
They'll happily tax you 10% plus the income tax. Maybe you should pull it down to cash instead. On Tuesday.
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Trump’s America
What in the bloody blue fuck is this blather. Somehow, I continue to be amazed at the shit this guy spews.
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The GQP: Trumpist Death Cult
This could go on any number of threads here. As if army-navy was threatened by any other bowl or playoff game.
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ICE activity/raids
Hugely ironic, too. Abbott and others screeching about how Texas bears the brunt of unlawful immigration as a border state. So, ostensibly, we'd have far more "illegals" than say Minneapolis and be far more in need of a militaristic purge.
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Trump/MAGA has ruined sports
Yeah, I'm an only child and childless. My line/name stops with me. Does that bother me? Not in the least, certainly not more than having missed out on children. So, all this worry about "my line" or the culture in the future is not my concern at all. Except to the extent I'd like the future not to be Thunderdome. But I feel like white or cultural supremacy is more likely to lead to Thunderdome than cultural diversity.
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Trump/MAGA has ruined sports
Fuckin a! (you're yt tho). As context, the supreme court used the word liberally in the civil rights era to describe unlawful discrimination. But it is otherwise pretty obscure.
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Trump’s America
Please tell me this asshole is getting abused on x.
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Trump/MAGA has ruined sports
Addendum. It's this kind of ennui that I describe above that I think Bozo uses to partially excuse or justify past political choices. So, yeah, it exists, it's a thing. But at some point you gotta wake the fuck up and get woke enough to realize what's really going on.
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Trump/MAGA has ruined sports
I dunno man. I grew up in the whitiest possible environment. But it wasn't ignorant either. People were wealthy, educated, and well traveled, but my peers were young and inexperienced at life. I never encountered any hardcore racism growing up, among my peers. I saw it elsewhere, in the country where family was from, for example. My Dad in particular was extremely anti-racist. The n-word was absolutely verboten in my house. He grew up around it and knew it was bullshit. You might hear another kid throw it around on occasion, but it was like saying any other curse word, done for "naughtiness," not with any real malice aforethought. What there was, though, was a sort of indifference and ignorance. The black struggle, slavery, Jim Crow, was an abstraction, something you read in history books. No one I knew growing up felt superior by virtue of race, if anything it was economics. Occasionally, you'd hear the cheer "that's alright, that's ok, you'll be working for us someday." That was rarely directed at the very black school we played, Wilmer-Hutchins, but rather the poorer, mostly white schools we played, Mesquite and Garland. We also generally knew it was wrong, but the naughtiness of it made it more fun. The sense that it invoked slavery was why it was never used on the Hutch, so the sense of wrongness was very much there and the desire to be "naughty" didn't overcome it. I was not taught that the Confederacy was good, or that the civil war was about anything but slavery. The concept of "states rights" came up, but only as a lame and insufficient justification for secession. The adoration of RE Lee and other Confederate "heros" around us was just accepted, not thought through at all. I have mentioned that as a child, I was a civil war buff and generally "preferred" the confederacy as a side. But it was because I was southern and they were the underdog. No one in my life, my parents, peers, anyone, encouraged me to be a "Fan of the Confederacy." Indeed, my parents discouraged me from that belief. Same general thing at UT, but there was more consciousness of the exclusion of minorities from various things including an uneasiness about why that was. You learned about Sweatt v. Painter and that was cringey as fuck, but also an abstraction, despite the physics/science building being names after Painter. I had noticed that a fair number of my peers in engineering at UT had not had calculus and physics in high school, because their schools didn't offer them The first time was my physics lab partner, a Hispanic kid from PSA deep in the valley. I knew he was behind the eight ball in engineering. That applied to plenty of white kids, too, I didn't connect the dots, or connected them solely to economics, not to race. I was grateful for my advantages and didn't see any reason to feel superior to Marcus (the kid from PSA). Note, I just looked and Marcus graduated one semester behind with a BSCE and later with an MSCE. Orale, amigo. Still, all along, I never encountered anyone that I believe felt they were superior by virtue of their race. I do know they exist, obviously. One thing we need to differentiate here. Everyone has a little bit of a superiority complex. At some level all of us think we're smarter, better looking, more virtuous, more deserving, whatever than at least some of the people around us. I still have not known anyone personally that holds that belief on the basis of race, as far as I know, although there probably are some. On graduation and application to graduate school, affirmative action became something of a reality that was grumbled about a little bit. But rarely, that I saw, did anyone personalize it to "that minority took my spot." It was more, "ok, admission to Harvard Law is pretty much out the window and affirmative action has something to do with that." Jokes that minority friends could "check the box" and had it made, admission-wise. Maybe a debate on whether it was a valid policy, informed yet again by the abstraction that the civil rights struggle remained for peers. At some point in this timeframe, I came across an article that stated that a very small fraction of non-white college students achieved what was then known as the "Texas index," the median GPA and LSAT score of the students at UT Law School. At the time, that was a 3.5 GPA and a 37 on the LSAT, yielding a Texas index of 72 (GPAx10 + LSAT). That floored me. And it didn't make me feel superior. It made me begin to understand that there were things at work that made it harder on non-white students. That poor neighborhoods and schools didn't just suffer by being poor, that maybe it affected every damn thing. The initial thought was that it was an issue of economics, alone. I still hasn't quite snapped to the notion that institutional racism was a factor both economically and otherwise. And, during this time, social and cultural aspects of conservatism started coming to the fore, and I was increasingly uncomfortable with that. It conflicted/s with my fundamental belief that as people we are more similar than different. But what overlies all of this is that I am comfortable. I am educated, reasonably well-traveled, and economically secure. I can afford to be indifferent or ignorant of the struggles of others. The flip side is that I don't need to find scapegoats for my own inadequacies or insufficient circumstances. It's that last thing, I believe, that drives people to scapegoat others invidiously (without valid reason), and race is as good a reason to scapegoat others as any, when you're that ignorant and resentful.
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Texas -- a failed state
Yeah, Tuscola is a little shitsplat town south of Abilene, home of ACU, the center of Christers in Texas. More Baylor than Baylor. So I think it's mostly an issue of assumption (that everyone decent is like them) and ignorance (that Christers don't hold the monopoly on decency, quite the opposite, actually) rather than a calculated white Christian supremacy. And jocks aren't known for introspection or self-awareness. In a lot of cases, they're kind of the ultimate conformists. It is somewhat surprising that a guy that plays college football for four years then is on an NFL roster for nearly 20, with a bunch of black players, doesn't pick up a little more awareness. But I imagine a lot of those black players claim to be Christians, too, so maybe they just kind of bond over that and gloss over the rest.
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Trump’s America
Man, the pathology with this guy is deep and various. First, raised by an abusive alcoholic father. And I think it was his father that first made him acutely aware that he hadn't done anything except inherit his business and his money. Then he has some minor success, mostly driven by political corruption and manipulation, in the Grand Hyatt and Trump Tower. Daddy still ignored and belittled him, and Manhattan social and financial circles saw him as a vulgar slumlord and refused to acknowledge him. He didn't help himself with his mail-order brides and unrelenting bad taste. And then he just became an absurd striver taking any kind of accolade he could get from anyone, including just flat making them up.
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
So, that thing is basically a 40mm grenade launcher. Although it's "just" shooting chemical irritants, much like blank cartridges, you'd kind of have to think the "wad" or whatever contains the chemical is pretty fucking dangerous if not near-lethal at very close range. Guy's a jackass.
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Whatcha reading?
God have mercy on your soul.
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Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - I'm With Stupid
Im not really either. I just remembered that the outright transfer to the University was in the lower seven digits, typically. And, the University doesn't incur outright costs providing athletic or any other scholarships. But there is some cost associated with it. I wonder if the AD makes an actual cash transfer at tuition value, or something else.