Everything posted by Ghost of LL
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2024 Random Games thread
This was a completely shit game for 55 minutes, and then just turned amazing.
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2024 Random Games thread
Oh, my god!
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2024 Random Games thread
My dude—it’s the tritone metallic nonsense that makes them fire.
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2024 Random Games thread
I mean, not yet. But that’s not a bad suggestion.
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2024 Random Games thread
Jesus—this Maryland-Oregon game may feature the best uniform matchup in the history of college football.
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UGA vs Ole Piss
The Ole Miss student section not really helping their team out but keeping the bottles in the stands.
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UGA vs Ole Piss
Wild holding there.
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Trump’s America
Mike Leach is so fucking lucky that he got to die before this shitshow came to pass.
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Trump’s America
@Brisketexan will tell you that I pour very good whisky out here on the ledge.
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
Holy shit--I caught up on this thread!
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
So yesterday I closed on the sale of a house. Very long story--was supposed to be Mrs.LL's dream house, but interest rates happened and the timing and shit and now it just makes more sense to renovate the current house. So today, I have quite a lot of money sitting in cash in my brokerage account. Here's the thing--Wall Street doesn't understand shit about politics. Mrs.LL was in finance for a long time, and ever since we've been together, I've always been shocked by how little Wall Street understands politics. So much of their business is dictated by what happens in Washington, but they understand fuck-all about it. And right now, Wall Street is expecting 1) a Trump win (and the inflationary and recessionary dangers that come with that) and 2) a period of uncertainty surrounding the outcome of the election as happened in 2020. Based on everything we know, I strongly expect neither of those things. And I think the market is going to react very favorably to 1) No Trump, and 2) certainty (irrespective of who wins) when the race is called shortly after midnight CST. So fuck your prediction thread--I'm putting my money where my mouth is. When the market goes up 5% tomorrow on the strength of a definitive Kamala win, the first round at Chili's is on me.
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#18 Pitt @ #20 SMU - 7 pm CT ACC Network
I have to tell you--I'm not particularly clued in on the SMU fanbase as a whole, and I certainly cannot speak to every contingent out there. But wouldn't it make sense for them to be focused on Texas right now? Texas is quite clearly the best team and the best program in the state. So I don't see it as fantasizing about some perceived rivalry as much as it is wanting to challenge for the top spot.
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#18 Pitt @ #20 SMU - 7 pm CT ACC Network
I mean, "can" is doing a lot of lifting in that sentence. But if they were healthy (which is to say, with R.J. Maryland), it's not wrong to say that they could win a game against Texas. They wouldn't be favored to win. But if they played that game ten times, they might win three. And really--those aren't terrible odds.
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
Didn’t the Duke brothers settle this with their groundbreaking experiments in the 1980s?
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A&M at Souf Carolina ABC
Oh, yeah—this is the stuff.
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#18 Pitt @ #20 SMU - 7 pm CT ACC Network
The best thing about this game is seeing the stands completely full. This may be an attendance record for that stadium.
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A&M at Souf Carolina ABC
Oh my god, it’s amazing.
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Courtesy to Robots
There's a piece published from Imperial College, London that humans feel empathy for robots that are bullied. And I thought about that this morning as I was driving in to work on MoPac. Going northbound on MoPac, there's one of the Waymo driverless cars in the second lane. It* wants to get over to exit at 5th Street/Cesar Chavez. So like a conscientious driver, it puts on its blinker and someone lets it merge in. And it immediately occurs to me--if that were a human driver, there's a high likelihood that the driver next to him would've sped up to prevent him from merging in. I followed the Waymo car a fair bit down Cesar Chavez, and it made several lane changes. Each time, it used its blinker, and each time the driver in the other lane let it merge in with no difficulty. In Austin! And it just really fucking bothers me--why the fuck are we more courteous to fucking robots than we are to other humans? Why do we take a car driven by a human wanting to merge into traffic in front of us as some sort of personal affront, but when a robot does it it's just fine? It's the first time I've really felt John Connor vibes: And weirdly, I notice as I type that I anthropomorphize the robots. In the first sentence, I initially typed "robots who are bullied" and then later initially typed "He wants to." Weird.
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2024 Presidential Election Thread - Let's keep the party going.
Jesus Christ--is this what a Yale education gets you these days? London hasn't felt like an English city in 300 years. It's an Imperial capital. It feels like an Imperial capital. It has felt like an Imperial capital for three centuries. When you land at Heathrow, you land alongside flights from the Subcontinent, from the Caribbean, and from the Antipodes. Then when you take the Elizabeth Line in, you're going to be next to people from right across the old Empire. And when you get into town, you'll get some kick-ass Chinese, Jamaican, and Pakistani food--all because many of those families came to London when London was still their capital, too. For its part, New York isn't "American." It was a Dutch colony. Actually, it was an enterprise of the Dutch East India Company. And the Company didn't give a fuck whether you came from the Netherlands or England or Italy. The Company didn't care whether you were Protestant or Catholic or Jewish or Muslim or nothing in particular. The Company cared that you would be economically beneficial for New Netherlands. These weren't religious zealots like you had up in Boston. New York has always been multicultural from the moment it was founded--intentionally so. Do they seriously not teach this shit at Yale anymore?
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2024 Random Games thread
The Ponies are good, but goddamn—-with four fumbles inside the red zone it’s a miracle they have the lead.
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Texas vs Vanderbilt - 3:15pm on the SEC Network
Fucking game wasn't really that close. But jesus.
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Texas vs Vanderbilt - 3:15pm on the SEC Network
Thank you little baby Jesus.
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Texas vs Vanderbilt - 3:15pm on the SEC Network
Quinn finally stepped up.
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Texas vs Vanderbilt - 3:15pm on the SEC Network
Jeez--what a shit series this is.
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Downtown Projects
Wait a minute--you want the City of Austin to build an elevated promenade so that the upper classes can jog along an elevated platform and literally look down on their social inferiors inhabiting the surface from their elevated perch? And you think that's not just a tad dystopian? Regardless . . . I really don't understand why you're chiming in on this thread. You never visit Downtown. You're too afraid, and you're too secure up in Williamson County to go visit a city. So what the fuck do you care what the City does with any stretch of Congress? And why do you care so much that you have to wildly misrepresent what the plan even is?