TigerHornII
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re: Africans are posting videos, dunking on black Americans for being sold as slaves?
Posted by TigerHornII on 8/27/26 at 7:10 pm to Roaad
For those who don't know, European & Arab slave traders rarely set foot in continental Africa. Slaves were captured and sold by other Africans, on both East and West sides of the continent.
Basically, what they're saying is your ancestors were either too slow, too stupid, or got their asses kicked in some tribal conflict.
Basically, what they're saying is your ancestors were either too slow, too stupid, or got their asses kicked in some tribal conflict.
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re: Student Loans
Posted by TigerHornII on 8/26/26 at 9:34 am to chadzthename
Texas has a loan program aimed at upperclassmen in a list of STEM and accounting type professions that are at 3.3% interest, Check to see if your state has a similar program.
re: Target apologizes, removes costume that “resembled” Jim Crow
Posted by TigerHornII on 8/24/26 at 9:06 pm to fr33manator
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How is it offensive? Creepy clowns are offensive now?
They tried to be "equitable" and stuck a black kid in it. If the kid had been white or asian you would have never heard of any of this. Morons.
re: How 'Dark' Tankers In Strait Of Hormuz Are Keeping Oil Prices In Check
Posted by TigerHornII on 8/24/26 at 2:26 pm to LegendInMyMind
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Wouldn't those transponders eventually be turned back on?
You have ships on one side of the strait. One day they aren't there anymore and the trackers can't see them. They eventually show up on the other side of the strait when they turn their transponders back on. At that point it is just putting 2 and 2 together. Unless the tankers just turn their transponders off forever, which I doubt.
Transshipment is a thing. Dark tankers come out, offload into other tankers - a more common practice than you might think for a litany of reasons - and the other tankers carry the crude on to its destination.
re: How 'Dark' Tankers In Strait Of Hormuz Are Keeping Oil Prices In Check
Posted by TigerHornII on 8/24/26 at 2:23 pm to The Third Leg
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Gas prices up 35-40% since this started
Strategic reserves depleted to lowest level in 4 decades to cover some of the estimated 10-15% of global oil supply has been removed from the supply chain
Russia has gained massively, with reported exports growing 25% since the conflict.
$200bn spent militarily, $1.8bn per day
1. It's summer, typical US summer fuel price rise is anywhere from 10% to 25%, so it is disingenuous to claim that all of the fuel price increase is due to the war.
2. The market prices for crude disagree with the contention that the supply has been constricted by 10-15%.
3. Russian crude exports are running well behind 2022 and are presently falling like a rock, They are just below 2023-24 numbers, and have been all year. Worse still for them, Ukraine has seriously impaired their ability to export higher margin refined product, so their net margins are down significantly.
4. The $200B number accounts for all the costs of running the carrier battle groups, pay for sailors and troops, food, water, munitions expended, etc. The catch is that NONE of that goes away except the munitions expenditures if we do nothing. Sailors and soldiers still get paid and fed, carrier battle groups still put to sea etc, etc. Real incremental cost is closer to that of Somali learing centers than it is to $200B. Go and calculate it for yourself.
re: How 'Dark' Tankers In Strait Of Hormuz Are Keeping Oil Prices In Check
Posted by TigerHornII on 8/24/26 at 2:11 pm to Mung
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Depending on the metrics used, we won in Vietnam and Afghanistan. We killed more of their guys and left their economies in shambles. But we didn’t overthrow the enemy’s government, nor forced them to capitulate and become our allies, like we did to Japan and Germany in WWII. So, congrats on the victory, I guess. We’re all paying for it.
Winning ain't what it used to be.
The real goals with Afghanistan were to find and kill as many of those responsible for 9/11 as possible, which we did, and to kill enough jihadis that they could not pull off another 9/11 style attack here again, which 25 years on, seems to have worked.
re: How 'Dark' Tankers In Strait Of Hormuz Are Keeping Oil Prices In Check
Posted by TigerHornII on 8/24/26 at 8:34 am to Decatur
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The ship trackers haven’t been able to confirm anything close to this.
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In the end, the only validation that matters is the free market price. It says a lot is getting through or going around.
re: How much would someone have to pay you to get on this plane to India?
Posted by TigerHornII on 8/22/26 at 2:41 pm to One72
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In fact flight anywhere in SE Asia is an experience, Asians are the worst at airports,
Strongly disagree.
Stop spreading generalities of the less traveled.
Below are three examples of international Asian airports that I’ve spent time in.
They were all spotless.
Hong Kong.
Singapore.
Kuala Lumpur.
Been to Seoul, Shanghai, Beijing, and about half the airports in Japan, all very clean and orderly, but I think the post you replied to refers more to SW Asian than SE, in error.
re: Vader’s Model Desk: Vought SB2U Vindicator
Posted by TigerHornII on 8/22/26 at 2:36 pm to Darth_Vader
Not a common aircraft in any discussion or pics of WWII, but when it and the Devastator torpedo bomber debuted in 1936 and 1937, they were state of the art. Just four years later - really 2 years - , completely obsolete.
Beautiful work as always.
Beautiful work as always.
re: A disruptive peer in elementary school leads to a 3% decrease in future earnings
Posted by TigerHornII on 8/21/26 at 12:52 pm to Pepperoni
Demographics for the county in 2000:
No amount of editing will fix the formatting. 1st column is total population, 2nd column is incarcerated population, third column is non-incarcerated population.
Reported in
Census 2000 Incarcerated
Total 217,955 1,506 216,449
White 160,128 521 159,607
Black 42,062 943 41,119
Latino 12,493 57 12,436
No amount of editing will fix the formatting. 1st column is total population, 2nd column is incarcerated population, third column is non-incarcerated population.
Reported in
Census 2000 Incarcerated
Total 217,955 1,506 216,449
White 160,128 521 159,607
Black 42,062 943 41,119
Latino 12,493 57 12,436
re: A Quick Way To Pay Down/Pay Off The $40 Trillion National Debt
Posted by TigerHornII on 8/21/26 at 12:39 pm to dyslexiateechur
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What do you consider an entitlement? And do you have a source to back up your 50-60% claim?
Source already answered - I was right
I do not consider SS an "entitlement", it is an actual entitlement. What I do consider "entitlements" is fraud and waste in the system, which a certain party goes into conniptions over if you try to address it.
I also consider overly generous Federal retirement benefits (NOT veterans benefits) to be "entitlements", as well as SNAP and the massive fraud in that system.
re: A Quick Way To Pay Down/Pay Off The $40 Trillion National Debt
Posted by TigerHornII on 8/20/26 at 5:40 pm to Montezuma
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Here’s the reality: The parasites have to take less.
That is Israel, Egypt, MIC, and every large corporation receiving corporate welfare, right? And reduce the Pentagon budget by the annual amount they can't account for. Must not have been important if they don't know where it went. And stop all foreign conflicts on behalf of the mult-national firms, creating the refugee crisis in Latin America and the Middle East.
Will save 1000x more than Jose getting to go to the hospital.
Demonstrably dead wrong, but the fact that you made the statement means you're too ignorant of facts to argue with.
re: A Quick Way To Pay Down/Pay Off The $40 Trillion National Debt
Posted by TigerHornII on 8/20/26 at 5:34 pm to Cosmo
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Or just completely eliminate all foreign aid and cut every dept by 10%
Budget balanced
Sounds good on paper, won't work.
"Entitlements" dominate the budget. They are 50-60%.
Foreign aid is <2% of the budget
So, you have to find money elsewhere.
- Push out illegals, they are a huge drain on services and cause medical rates to go up, which is a drain on medicare/medicaid
- Drive re-shoring of of the supply chain for all industries. In a three tier chain, that is 18% profit per step that is not taxed by the time you get to final product PLUS the worker's wages that are not taxed PLUS the capital investment in factories that would have also generated taxes during construction.
- Use tariffs to force the former, which in the short term generates revenues as it forces a long-term structural change that will be better for everyone.
Costs will rise (inflation) but wages will also rise as the labor pool tightens and more value-added manufacturing is done vs wages to dump frozen fries in the fryer. A lot of why we are where we are today is because of the rise of McJobs. Many older members here will remember when a restaurant was where you worked while looking for a real job or between real jobs, and most co-workers were teens.
re: If you're into that fake place called space..
Posted by TigerHornII on 8/18/26 at 8:27 pm to Snipe
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Interesting facts.
Voyager 1 launched on Sept. 5th 1977
on Sept. 5th 2026, Voyager 1 will have traveled 0.0027 light years distance from Earth.
Some time on November 2026 Voyager 1 will reach 1 light days distance from Earth .
Roughly around the year 19,026 Voyager 1 will reach 1 light years distance from Earth. (incidentally, the nearest neighbor outside our solar system in Proxima Centauri, a small red dwarf approx. 4.25 light-years away)
What year do the friggin' Klingon thugs take target practice on it - and only wound it like a typical gangsta - before it gets repaired and sent back to us? I seent the documentaries on that...... :nana:
re: If you're into that fake place called space..
Posted by TigerHornII on 8/18/26 at 8:20 pm to cgrand
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that has to be there to make the math work.
why is that uncomfortable for you? Dark matter and dark energy are placeholders until we figure out, if we ever do, the mechanics of the universe. What we already know is a lot but it is a very small fraction of what is there to be discovered. That’s what science is
We can observe that the laws of physics that are proven here on earth clearly apply everywhere else we look. That implies that the rest of orbital mechanics is also consistent, we just need more information
For centuries, everything we could observe indicated that Newtonian mechanics was the end-all, be all. Then we started figuring out quantum mechanics about a century ago and turned all of that on its head.
The science is never, ever, settled.
re: Advice? Senior dog suffering from arthritis
Posted by TigerHornII on 8/18/26 at 8:15 pm to BluegrassCardinal
Fish oil - capsules from Costco, no enteric coating - did wonders for our similarly aged Aussie. We gave it in conjunction with Closequin, worked much better than Closequin alone. She would groan and struggle a bit when standing up or laying down. After fish oil, she stopped groaning altogether.
First few times, prick the capsule and squeeze a little oil out, doggo will start to think of it as a chew treat after that.
First few times, prick the capsule and squeeze a little oil out, doggo will start to think of it as a chew treat after that.
re: Thoughts on Title IX and whether it should exist?
Posted by TigerHornII on 8/18/26 at 2:37 pm to UFFan
When it came into affect in the late 1970's, fully half the high schools in Alabama, if not more, cut their boy's wrestling programs to comply. My school was one of them. I had a good shot at placing if not winning a state title the next year. :angry:
re: California regulators approve new rules limiting what replacement tires you can buy
Posted by TigerHornII on 8/18/26 at 2:35 pm to BregmansWheelbarrow
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so it's a road tire restriction....any performance, off road, or specialty tires are excluded....what a complete waste of time
Read it more carefully. It affects 70-80% of the tires sold in the state, forces all mainstream tires to low rolling resistance, which hurts braking distance and cornering grip in favor of fuel economy. The only UHP street tire you can get will be a winter all season one.
re: Towing with Nissan Pathfinder
Posted by TigerHornII on 8/16/26 at 9:03 pm to Boudreauboudreaugoly
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No. Boat, trailer, fuel, equipment. passengers, ice chests. I figured it all up and it came to around 5200 pounds. I was trying to be conservative. Never wanted it to come down to splitting hairs. I would never want to tow anything “right at” the tow rating for a vehicle. No room for error. Really was just “fishing” for some educated, experienced advice. Didn’t know 2021+ Pathfinder did not have CVT. Just the type of info I was looking for…………..(minus the sarcasm) but I get it. Thanks anyway.
I don't care how you slice it, towing >5k lb+ is fullsize truck/SUV territory. Towing that is borderline with anything less, I don't care what the baws here think they know. If they can afford a 5200 lb boat/trailer, they can afford to be safe towing it.
Expedition/Tahoe/Denali/Armada and you want one with factory tow. If you just really love abysmal MPG, get a 5.7 Sequoia. They still do not have the engines sorted in the new Sequoias.
re: United States to Soon Unveil Unprecedented Sanctions on Iran
Posted by TigerHornII on 8/14/26 at 10:31 am to Stealth Matrix
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we are going to apply measures like have never been seen in the history of economic isolation on a country
Worse than what almost the entire planet does to North Korea?
NORKs have two things going for them that Iran doesn't:
1. A land umbilical from China that can supply 100% of the country's needs. The land umbilical to Iran is long, restrictive, and can't supply anything like 100% of their needs.
2. The NORKs had been eating grass to survive with no outside world connections for nearly half a century when the main global sanctions kicked in to try to stop their nuke program. Iran had internet, and a semi-function civilization before all this. Their population will not submit so easily.
re: Best player from your school to never win a conference or national title
Posted by TigerHornII on 8/10/26 at 12:22 pm to Fearless and True
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James Bostic
Wasn't he on the '89 team with a tie for the SECC?
Also, Charles Barkley has to be part of the conversation.
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