Everything posted by Mole
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Parler = Trumpkin Facebook....?
Wet He People Warrior is a solid hashtag.
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Donald Trump 2020
As much as it’s possible for a pop singer with several notable big hits to be underrated, Miley Ray is an underrated musician.
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Things not going well at West Point
Yeah, spring 2020 was the most labor intensive semester of teaching that I’ve ever had. Some things can be reconfigured on the fly, some can’t. Taking classes that were never intended to be online and suddenly moving them online during midterms is pretty disruptive. Students no longer had access to basic school resources like the library. Many students had limited or spotty internet access. Some students just fell off the map. Add in the existential dread from the daily inside higher ed fear porn articles about how we’re all going to lose our jobs and have to go back to prostitution, of course everything was a mess. I caught the usual volume of cheating but had parents stepping in (a first for me) with cries of “but COVID made my angel cheat.” My courses this fall looked much different, but that takes time and advanced planning.
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Sweet Jawja Special Elections
Harry Connick Jr. is such a fabulous musician. The knowing looks to the band always crack me up. The smoothness and subtlety of the extra beat is brilliant. You barely notice it unless you're listening for it. It doesn't sound like an extra beat shoved in where it doesn't belong; the line makes sense and then suddenly everything starts to groove really hard like magic. I've used that clip to demonstrate so many concepts. You can show non-musicians how different kinds of music put the emphasis on different beats and how much it actually matters. You can teach musicians of all levels about feel since Harry Connick Jr. plays with such great feel in spite of the audience. You can even show how great musicians raise the levels of those around them and make everyone sound better. He makes the clueless clappers sound good and they don't even know it. We should all aspire to such things in every aspect of our lives.
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Sweet Jawja Special Elections
Don’t vote for anyone who claps on 1 & 3. The reaction of the drummer gets me every time. For anyone who doesn’t understand what they’re listening to, the square French are enthusiastically clapping on 1 & 3, killing the feel. During the piano solo, he adds an extra beat, moving the clapping to 2 & 4, making it feel better without killing that square French enthusiasm. You see the drummer raise his hands in triumph right after it happens.
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Sweet Jawja Special Elections
I just saw a great and short Warnock ad. I’ll post it if I can ever find it. Essentially it said, Kelly Loeffler is lying about everything, because if she actually believed what she’s saying about Warnock, why did she speak at his church earlier this year?
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We are famous!
To be fair to the “lack of variety” comment, this incarnation of the site is pretty young. I wouldn’t expect an outsider to wade through the last version in its current state to pick up most of the history. I don’t even know if there’s a way to work through the old old board or the old old old board to get the origin stories to that history. There’s a lot of subtext that wouldn’t be apparent on a simple skim through this place. The full richness of a culture is really, really hard to pick up for an outsider. This culture, as misguided as it might be, is particularly cloaked in shadows scat and blinking envelopes.
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We are famous!
Too be fair, that’s a Cam Newton (for the SEC flavor) level talent there that makes even mediocre surrounding talent and leadership look great. I don’t think we can afford him anymore ever since he started trying to break into the presidential portrait game (no CR). He’s big time now. For all of the weaknesses of Texags, they did produce Akita, who tore down his own fence in solidarity against the BOMC. Their own real life Chad Briscoe.
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Sweet Jawja Special Elections
That’s because some of the stuff in that thread was pure bigotry. It’s pretty much inevitable whenever religion is discussed here (or anywhere on the internet) that there will be a fair share of anti-religious bigotry. This is distinct from anyone who thinks religion is stupid/harmful/whatever and certainly distinct from acknowledging the obvious hypocrisies that come up. The bigotry is always amplified when then ugly union of politics and religion comes up. Living in Georgia, the attacks against Warnock are ubiquitous and pretty ugly. The mailers are out of control. At least Purdue has backed off the anti-Semitic ads this time around (so far), so let’s celebrate the progress. I’m not sure if I’d call the attacks against Warnock religiously-based even though they’re using his sermons and support of Jeremiah Wright. The attacks are wholly dishonest, but I still wouldn’t characterize the attacks as specifically religiously bigoted or religious discrimination. From one perspective, it sounds like they’re attacking him for actually preaching the Gospel, but it isn’t religiously based in the same way the ACB stuff was. The attacks are about fabricated versions of his politics as revealed through out of context clips of his preaching. They aren’t attacking his religion so much as using his public words to construct an anti-American straw man. The stuff that came up about ACB involved complete and dishonest misreadings of the practices of her religious group wrapped in old fashioned anti-Catholic bigoted tropes. It was drawing conclusions based specifically on religious affiliations. ACB was deemed unqualified by a few on that thread because of her religious affiliations and beliefs; Warnock has been deemed anti-American by his opponent because his public words — that happen to largely be sermons — can be edited to sound so. Maybe it’s too fine of a line to draw, but I see them as different kinds of ugliness and dishonesty. If you want to call the attacks on Warnock terrible, dishonest, and disgusting, I agree; if you want to call them based on bigotry, I’d also agree; if you want to call the attacks religiously bigoted, I’m not so sure. I’d add that I’m in general agreement with the main point of the letter. I just see it more as a race issue than a religion issue. I can understand how black ministers might not see any distinction.
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So, am I getting another $3900 check? Should I?
He had no arms or legs. He couldn't hear, see, or speak. This is how he led a nation.
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Running Alt-Right Thread of Mockery and Hypocrisy
I think we’re supposed to call them rioters, not protesters.
- Saudi Arabia Issues
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Urban Meyer or bust
- Urban Meyer or bust
Sorvino, Milano, lets call the whole thing off.- Urban Meyer or bust
This is this board’s Alyssa Milano ice cream cone thread with the added fun that a sizable number of posters think that she’ll be by later tonight with a gallon of tutti frutti. Any good story needs a certain amount of suspension of disbelief or you’ll miss the fun. I’m ready for the Twitter Nostradamus posting only Seinfeld gifs to lead me to the Urban Meyer promised land.- Sweet Jawja Special Elections
It’s all corruption vs. communism/Jeremiah Wright/Anti-military preachers right now.- CR: COVID-19 --Political Talk
Pluralizing data is the minimum I expect from someone calling themself Dr.- The Stupidity of the Average American Voter
Honestly, this past month alone probably qualifies him for worst president ever. This past month has been the 2000 Pedro Martinez of bad presidencies.- Beethoven's Birthday
If you don’t have time to listen to all of his symphonies, this is a little more time efficient: It’s surprisingly listenable, although you mostly just hear 3, 5, and 9. Someone did a Haydn version that sounds like Ligeti.- The National and Bon Iver featuring Taylor Swift
I force myself to keep up with musical trends so I don’t get calcified ears. I tried listening to her new album but found it really boring. It’s really well executed, but I thought it was painfully uninteresting.- Beethoven's Birthday
A very short and incomplete list of movements by Beethoven that move me right now: Symphony no. 6, last movement — it sounds new to my ears even today; a pretty straightforward sonata-rondo form with nice horn fifths to make the A theme; it always reminds me of a Henry Mancini 80s TV theme song, like the Newhart show’s theme song but not at all Symphony no. 3, 1st movement — so much drama in one note (c#); just one tense note and you have a whole movement String Quartet no. 14, 1st movement — fugues, man; I’m not crying, you’re crying GroßeFuge — more fugues, man; Beethoven was a time traveler from the future apparently, Schoenberg before there was Schoenberg and much more listenable and enjoyable; still challenging enough for our lazy ears- the trump election lawsuit thread of dominance
I’m adding investment purses to my portfolio to diversify my current collection of Beanie Babies, Cabbage Patch Dolls, and baseball card gum. Financial independence here I come!- The Batshit Insane QAnon Conspiracy Theory
Remember the Maine.- the trump election lawsuit thread of dominance
Someone posted the showboating that went on in 2000 in one of these threads. It looks like the same will happen on 1/6 — sound and fury, signifying nothing. Nothing new under the sun.- hey, no big deal, fbi busts attempt to kidnap michigan gov and overthrow the government
Yep. Documented proof of Michigan voter fraud right there. Checkmate Democrat party. DO SOMETHING!! - Urban Meyer or bust
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