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Opened a CO2 tank huh.
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White women ain’t gonna do shit
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Today? 50-55, and at least two of them are divorced and in the midst of a sexual re-awakening. So….in.
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Do you FIRE? Financial Independence, Retire Early
CleverNickname replied to UTGrad98's topic in Business and Markets
quoting myself from 2 years ago... fwiw ERS now offers a "COLA-ish" annuity option: +2% fixed rise every year. I will pick that (bought 3 years, now eligible 2031). The 100% spouse option was about 94% of just my life (we abiut the same age), and looks like the cola is 77% or that. Still makes retirement planning way easier. My budget and retirement spreadsheets show we could retire at age 52/51. Wife has TRS (and AISD so also social security). More than kikely we would enjoy our mandatory 3+ months break. Wife still wants to teach, so part time or sun for her. I could try to find a 50% part time attorney job. That income is just bonus - or subsidizing college or just iut of college kids. What I really want is to take 2-3 week vacations in late Sept/October and March/ April, when shoulder season weather is cool and the summer tourists aren't so crazy. -
Good one, Kahuna Horn. In my dotage (74) and since Bama’s off this week, I was reflecting on autumn Saturday mornings at my in-laws circa 1970-2000, which were joyfully entertaining. Never been a morning drinker, but there’s a first time for everything. Good luck tonight over the Shoustons.
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Lando had a great chance to start on the front row and potentially make up most of the points to Piastri in one race. Then qualifies 7th. Challenging conditions, to be sure, but Liam Lawson figured them out.
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Well I've got things I can do I guess
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Tottenham Hotspur 2025-26: For a Few Trophies More
Captain Ron replied to Captain Ron's topic in Futbol
I don’t. But spurs need to dig deep. -
JPeg bowed up. Or Katie failed, either way.
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Tottenham Hotspur 2025-26: For a Few Trophies More
kingkoopa6 replied to Captain Ron's topic in Futbol
Yikes. Wow -
Tottenham Hotspur 2025-26: For a Few Trophies More
DeepEastTexas replied to Captain Ron's topic in Futbol
I think we're done here. -
Drinking started early for you this morning, I see
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We have raccoons, skunks, opossum, foxes, and deer (though they rarely venture too far out of the nearby forest). Some of the things I've curated over the years get eaten, while others do not. I know that certain types squash-ish things have a very bitter taste and are low-grade poisonous, so I suspect that the survivors tend to get nibbled at and then all nibblers quickly learn that eating them was a mistake. I think I posted about this upthread, but we had a "volunteer" (i.e., unplanted and unplanned) squash of some kind in our yard one summer. I contemplated eating it, but learned beforehand that in humans, common symptoms from eating volunteer squash include total hair loss as well as months-long bouts of diarrhea. I did not eat it.
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Details, schmeeetails. He doesn't care.
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That kind of aww shucks folksiness must have tested well in the focus group.
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We keep hearing about threats to pull a network’s license, but, and someone please correct me if I’m wrong, the actual broadcast network doesn’t possess a broadcast license. Except in the case of owned & operated local stations, the networks don’t own the spectrum. The local stations own the licenses so it’s the companies like Tegna, Sinclair, Nexstar, etc that own the actual licenses that the regime keeps on threatening.
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Probably not. But like, everyone knows this is the end. Just waiting out the clock, like Mack Brown in 2013 Hopefully Gundy doesn’t go kill himself recruiting in Florida and then fly circles around Stillwater to avoid the firing meeting
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Off-shoring and H1B are complementary. Almost half visas are not given to high-skilled, innovative tech companies. They’re given to IT outsourcing firms, which then strategically transition knowledge and operations overseas. After Amazon the biggest recipients of H1Bs are companies like Tata, Infosys, etc. Indian firms sponsoring visas for Indian workers to come get trained to then bring the work back to the HQ in India. You’re supposed to advertise to Americans first but they will print ads in actual print and the applications go to their “Global Mobility” teams and not even HR. Truly insane system and at odds with how it was envisioned, and the numbers involved and workload mean you can’t effectively police it. This method is dubiously legal and might not stand up in court but H1B as it was conceived has nothing in common with what’s going on and the whole thing did need to be blown up. It’s the type of things Dems who care about the middle class should have tackled.
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My father-in-law, as great a man who ever lived and a most frank and candid son of the depression, had a way with words. He also held the occasional wager on college football games. On autumn Saturday mornings his kitchen table in Tuscaloosa, upon which the line sheets were spread, was like the set of The Sting. During the desert wandering years before Saban, Alabama once had a QB2 who was a baseball pitcher. QB1 went down to a knee injury, and the pitcher started a few games. I believe we lost them all. Dad’s customers continued to bet Bama anyway, every week. He would jack up the line, pretending it had shifted. If the actual line was Bama -6, he would “adjust” the 6 to 10 or 11 and make a few extra bucks each weekend. He knew he was safe because of the baseball QB, who was a decent athlete but a shitty passer. “That boy couldn’t hit a bull in the ass with a bass fiddle.” Dad would have a heyday with this SEC.
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My plan is to apply, deposit the $50k then have my bone spur flare up.
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well, we know somebody's getting fired
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So, I liked the last episode but have one major complaint. This show isn't the only time I've seen it. It's a frequent Hollywood trope they use often but it drives me nuts. These 3 folks are trying to escape from a fortified island where the know killing and warping memories of whoever is a-okay whenever, for what ever reason. However, they are walking calmly, chatting taking in scenery, reflecting and enjoying themselves like it's a romantic hike in the mountains.
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Kirsch clearly tolerates BK but doesn’t loop him in on things.
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