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Why does Rice play Texas?
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December 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
December 6, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I’m not saying dude shouldn’t leave, but adjusting to a company without the massive resources of Apple (pretty much any other company) will be an adjustment
December 6, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Me: which way to the end zone?
Boise State:
December 6, 2025 at 4:15 AM
ten years from now, fighter pilots getting disciplined for saying “6-7” to each other over and over on the radio
That quote is a reminder we have zoomer fighter pilots.
December 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I think we can all agree that a $140K income barely covers taxes, expenditures, investments and savings
December 5, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I am the very model of a predatory pinniped
Another fascinating MGP side quest
December 4, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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This is a subpost
November 19, 2025 at 6:23 AM
December 3, 2025 at 3:17 PM
STEPHEN A: Skip I want to ADDRESS this issue.
[BAYLESS nods]
You KNOW I am not suggesting that Democrats ignore the law, nor am I suggesting we go back to the Robert Moses era.
BAYLESS: Absolutely
STEPHEN A: BUT!
There is such a thirst in some progressive centrist circles that they will look at the Trump administration as a model to get things done. I think its worth addressing the argument. This is from Mark Dunkelman, author of the widely praised "Why Nothing Works."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/o...
Opinion | What the Left Could Learn From Trump’s Brutal Efficiency
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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A radio station here in Minneapolis is stuck -
cities971.iheart.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:18 AM
I don’t get it much any more, but “isn’t that boring?” is not a good thing to say to anyone
What’s the worst question someone can ask after you tell them your profession? For linguists, it’s definitely “how many languages do you speak?”, but I’m curious what else is happening to the rest of y’all out there?!
December 1, 2025 at 10:15 PM
(goose honking meme) preventative of what
December 1, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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The secret to early retirement; dine out rarely, fly economy and be a Google employee making $390,000/year married to a fellow Google employee 17 years older than you who likely makes twice as much as you.
37-year-old quit her $390,000 Google job after saving up $1.5 million—see the 'no buy checklist' that helps her spend less
She left a $390,000-a-year job and now uses a simple set of rules to make her savings last in Switzerland.
www.cnbc.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Re-reading “the once and future king” after the kid watched the animated “sword in the stone” and wow, quite the whiplash from book 1 to book 2
November 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Solar power also continues to skyrocket in Texas, with solar generation up 40% compared to last year!
November 29, 2025 at 12:05 AM
November 27, 2025 at 5:23 PM
16384 today, walking through the park
He got all the way to 2048 before finishing his French toast sticks
November 26, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I will not let this RuSans/Sweetwater/ABC erasure go unchallenged
In Atlanta in 2005 it was hard to get craft beer or sushi, there was no soccer team or no stadium, no DoorDash/Waymo, even no Twitter/Bluesky…
November 26, 2025 at 5:53 PM
They could have just bought t-bills! But they had to get greedy
might just rival SBF for the biggest bag fumble of all time. I guess the thing about crypto is the way to make money is skimming from the true believer morons, but the people who end up running crypto "companies" are the same true believer morons
November 26, 2025 at 4:59 PM
On the other hand, my kid has beaten me three games to zero so let’s hold off on that for a bit
I got a Dominion set for my birthday, just putting it out there
as the husband of a mahjong addict, dudes need to identify an activity that can be done relatively easily in groups with minimal financial commitment so they can get out of the house for 2-3 hours on a school night, have two beers, and shoot the shit with their buddies.

It won't be mahjong tho.
November 26, 2025 at 1:48 AM
November 23, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Turning a giant dial that says “brain rot“ and looking back at the total addressable market like a contestant on the price is right
The company essentially turned a dial that made ChatGPT more appealing and made people use it more, but sent some of them into delusional spirals.

OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.
November 23, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Shocked myself in a demo in physics 2 in highschool, I was fascinated by it.

Five years later, took a class with the worst professor I ever had, still enjoyed the material.

One year after that, I had all my job offers except one withdrawn, in a little preview of the Great Recession.
What’s the lore behind choosing your career path ?
November 22, 2025 at 8:42 PM