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UT now has enough COVID positive players to field a full offense or defense: https://twitter.com/BryanDFischer/status/1273647574390460417
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Since republicans always yammer on about wanting to run the country like a business, are there any corporate models that use the same "lol, you figure it out! I don't want to get primaried or murdered by my own cult members." top-down management style we are getting?
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Roumba posted:Since republicans always yammer on about wanting to run the country like a business, are there any corporate models that use the same "lol, you figure it out! I don't want to get primaried or murdered by my own cult members." top-down management style we are getting? people usually point to sears and how it was managed where the individual departments were knife fighting each other constantly because the CEO was a crazy person
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Roumba posted:Since republicans always yammer on about wanting to run the country like a business, are there any corporate models that use the same "lol, you figure it out! I don't want to get primaried or murdered by my own cult members." top-down management style we are getting? Well, taking over the entire federal government and then running enormous deficits to pay for tax cuts/preferred payments to certain favored investors, while steadily trimming away bits of the organization leaving it less and less able to compete and serve citizens/customers in a changing environment, sure sounds like it could've been a strategy borrowed from the old Bain Capital leveraged-buyout playbook.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/abbieperro/status/1273689587743891456 This Chris Hooks article is going to get a lot of attention
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Who would win, Abbott or the California Karen? https://twitter.com/slime_golem/status/1272560366782906368?s=20
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i say swears online posted:let's get some if y'all's predictions for the 2022 gov race in writing. imo: I have no idea what the political landscape is going to look like on Jan 1 2021 much less 22. I have no idea what the landscape is going to look like in 2 weeks. Here comes Elon to socialize some losses and screw us over https://twitter.com/NateMJensen/status/1273615862826754052
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Hooks posted:This type of maneuver has dictated Abbott’s response to COVID-19 generally. Call this most recent imbroglio the Greggian knot. A Gordian knot is a complicated problem with a simple solution. A Greggian knot is a simple problem made hopelessly complicated by the governor’s own desire to be removed from the consequences of his own actions. Excellent.
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Yeah, I think the attitude of doing the exact wrong thing in order to pander to your head executive and going back around to try playing like you were doing the opposite in an extremely obtuse way to avoid responsibility for your actions sounds like a classic middle management ploy. Ideally a well-run company would weed out people like that, but it's probably the best tactic to survive in management if you don't have much skill of your own and your boss is an idiot with terrible ideas. Because the vaunted meritocracy of the business world is usually dominated by wealthy idiots who are just kept afloat by the inertia of wealth and so many businesses are basically run as pyramid schemes to increase stock value that only accidentally have a real industry attached to them.
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https://twitter.com/elwasson/status/1273713784738193408?s=20 tfw you see the latest polls
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Tired: We must keep Confederate statues up out of respect for the traitors who attempted to destroy the United States in the defense of chattel slavery Wired: We must keep Confederate statues up because they are important civilian defense structures responsible for the protection of Texas students against crazed gunmen https://twitter.com/mikefinger/status/1273719679723483140 e: Juneteenth's about to become a federal holiday and John loving Cornyn is getting out in front on it, holy poo poo some things really are shifting quickly Blotto_Otter fucked around with this message at 22:12 on Jun 18, 2020 |
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Badger of Basra posted:https://twitter.com/elwasson/status/1273713784738193408?s=20 https://twitter.com/cd_hooks/status/1273721466291474433
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https://twitter.com/JeremySWallace/status/1273737454433046531 So it's clear here that the case increase is not due to the increase in testing. zoux fucked around with this message at 03:24 on Jun 19, 2020 |
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This is a few days old but it's hard to keep up with all the 'rona impacts on every aspect of life. Apologies if this was mentioned earlier in itt. Why Texas schools won’t get their $1.2 billion in federal coronavirus aid On top of the ridiculousness that is deducting the CARES money from what ISDs would be getting otherwise, somehow e-learning doesn't count for the state and there's still a big question mark on if they are even going to fund remote learning.
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The curve is starting to go vertical. We're goin exponential folks! Edit: Man I'm bad with forum code, how do you post an image from imgur on the post itself? Thank you! \/\/\/ Fireant fucked around with this message at 00:18 on Jun 19, 2020 |
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Right-click the image and open in a new tab to get the actual image URL
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Fireant posted:The curve is starting to go vertical. We're goin exponential folks! Where did you get the image from? I'd like to keep bashing it over my stupid relatives heads that this poo poo is getting worse.
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Jiro posted:Where did you get the image from? I'd like to keep bashing it over my stupid relatives heads that this poo poo is getting worse. Looks like the Texas Tribune graphic. https://apps.texastribune.org/features/2020/texas-coronavirus-cases-map/
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Fireant posted:The curve is starting to go vertical. We're goin exponential folks! https://twitter.com/GregCasar/status/1273616407310340096?s=20
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Fireant posted:The curve is starting to go vertical. We're goin exponential folks! At my work, the only people wearing masks are the Reservoir Engineers because we have to deal with risking project and math with exponentials. HR took our interns out for lunch today and I really hope that A/C doesn't move enough virus around for infection.
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Oil! posted:At my work, the only people wearing masks are the Reservoir Engineers because we have to deal with risking project and math with exponentials. HR took our interns out for lunch today and I really hope that A/C doesn't move enough virus around for infection. Yeah so, bad news about that: https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/7/20-0764_article
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Do the AC units not have those HEPA filters that help stop the virus? My uncle makes a poo poo ton of bad faith arguments, but I was hoping he was right when he responded to me talking about AC spreading it that most do.
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mastajake posted:Do the AC units not have those HEPA filters that help stop the virus? My uncle makes a poo poo ton of bad faith arguments, but I was hoping he was right when he responded to me talking about AC spreading it that most do. Most of them don't. According to what I have read on the subject the AC installation in China in that example is basically the same as AC installations in the rest of the world, there really isn't a good reason to believe that you would get different results elsewhere in the world.
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Blotto_Otter posted:Wired: We must keep Confederate statues up because they are important civilian defense structures responsible for the protection of Texas students against crazed gunmen this tweet is fantastic
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AVeryLargeRadish posted:Most of them don't. According to what I have read on the subject the AC installation in China in that example is basically the same as AC installations in the rest of the world, there really isn't a good reason to believe that you would get different results elsewhere in the world. Real question did you actually read that article? Because you answered a question that the study doesn't reference at all. The issue is the AC pushes the droplets further than normal. So yes if someone were to presumably sneeze near an intake the bends and the filter would prevent the spread of the virus. But if a nearby table had an infected person and they coughed or sneezed the virus has a higher chance of infecting another person because of the air flow direction
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Looks like the Dallas mask requirement is official, unless I'm missing something. What a stupid rollercoaster of death we're on.
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https://twitter.com/quorumreport/status/1274000493891780610 Well well well, those secret recordings sure are a bitch huh
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/quorumreport/status/1274000493891780610 Putting the audio behind a paywall is a bitch move, especially since it'll be all over the place very quickly.
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PostNouveau posted:Putting the audio behind a paywall is a bitch move I don't think you get it, the recordings are secret
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smoobles posted:I don't think you get it, the recordings are secret Apparently they accidentally posted poo poo that was recorded during a podcast session but wasn't meant to air. They secret recordinged themselves.
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This is like that Sun-Tzu thing about not getting in the other guy's way when he's making a mistake, but updated for the post-zombie apocalypse era we live in where you don't get in the way when the guy's own zombie creations are eating him bite by bite, which probably makes it more of a Jewish fable about golems or something. Anyway, whatever it is, let them eat Greg.
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/quorumreport/status/1274000493891780610 Whomst among us, though
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Oh poo poo I thought it was just a couple of randos not Cary Cheshire and Tony McDonald lmaoquote:It posted a recording of about three minutes of “out-takes” in which Cary Cheshire, vice president of Texans for Fiscal Responsibility, a project of Empower Texans, and Empower Texans general counsel Tony McDonald discuss their disillusionment with Abbott. The two had just finished taping a final segment of the podcast. https://www.dallasnews.com/news/pol...-in-wheelchair/ Cheshire is one of the worst conservatives you'll see on #txlege
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https://www.themarshallproject.org/...r-wants-answers Just saw the video of this and holy poo poo
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https://twitter.com/DanPatrick/status/1274034854615822337 No one in the state has received more ET money in the last 8 years than Dan Patrick
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Someone briefly shared the recording link from out of the paywall and I heard it. The cringy comments on Abbott being a wheelchair user above seem to be the only ones on it, but the rest are just insulting him in general. And honestly, a lot of it is accurate and things the left has been saying - that they're pissed off by Abbott making a riddle out of the mask requirements instead of taking responsibility for his own leadership decisions. But they're anti-mask, and so they're just pissed off on the other end of that issue. But it is also so fun to see EmpowerTexans shoot themselves in the foot.
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No one likes Empower Texas, even their ostensible policy allies, so maybe they'll take this as an opportunity to sweep them out of the capitol. Braddock's already asking Dan if ET is going to get their floor press access (a huge and inappropriate favor Patrick did for his benefactors last session) yanked, since his got pulled because he said a swear about one of his top staffers. They loving cratered in '18, no one is expecting 20 to be better, and even though everyone was obviously a thousand times more mad at Bonnen, there's no way members are cool with MQS secretly recording conversations for blackmail purposes. Oh also https://twitter.com/ShannonNajma/status/1274076778051575810 
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Listen we’re just trying to attract SpaceX by simulating a rocket launch with our case count everything is fine and dandy
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