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  1. Playing in the State Mid-Am qualifier at Grey Rock tomorrow. Buddy (better golfer than me) is gonna caddy, which really means walk with me and help read putts :). Hitting it ok, but really haven't been playing much. We'll see how this goes, but excited to put the tee in the ground again and have to count all the shots.

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  2. 50 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:

    I kinda dig the one-page retro style sheet though. Main disappointment was that there wasn't a 5,000 word screed in remarks hidden among the code.

    Possible that it's in the <header> tag tho ... because he "knows his way around computers"

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  3. I don't understand OP's point (probably because this thread was extracted from another thread). "We have more murders" is a stat; what point are you making for which that stat is a defense? Are you saying that Americans are shitty people who just love a good murderin' on a Saturday night? Are you linking this to race? Did it start as a gun-control thing?

  4. On 7/3/2021 at 1:44 PM, washparkhorn said:

    The old (literal) guard of politicians stunts this nation's growth. I am not sure a majority of them understand how much has changed in this nation since the 30's, 40's and 50's when they grew up. It keeps us locked in a sclerotic system where little is done by Congress.  There are exceptions, of course. 

    This take is just completely and fundamentally wrong. Prior to Newt Fucking Gingrich, the old white dudes in Congress pretty reliably got plenty of shit done, and across the aisle no less. I mean for the love of god, in 1984 Ronald Regan carried 49 states, 59% of the popular votes cast, and 525 electoral college votes (and the state he lost was Mondales home state of Minnesota, and he only lost that state by .18%!!!!). Bi-partisan politics worked passably well in this country from the end of WW2 right up until Newt. Goddammit.

    https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/11/newt-gingrich-says-youre-welcome/570832/

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  5. City Council is so fucking weird to me, as a concept. You get people like Delia Garza; actual firefighter with AFD, then law school graduate and lawyer, councilmember and most recently elected county attorney. She's on her way up in the world, and is genuinely motivated to help people and this city.  And on the other end of the spectrum, fitlump. 

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  6. On 6/14/2021 at 10:59 AM, atomheartbevo said:

    I keep thinking she has to have a handler of sorts.  She's not had any major mishaps outside of the the APD/Proud Boys fiasco back in November, her social media game has been pretty clean of the more nationally polarizing stuff, she's tapping into major issues in Austin while playing both sides.  She's picked up some national name recognition with her Fox News appearance over the "homeless are harassing me" but when people pointed out that Austin is not as bad as she was making it out and it sure looked like she was presenting only one side of that encounter, within the week she had pivoted into the whole "the homeless should have our compassion, we need to help them out! (while hiding them in the greenbelts)" thing.  She has hobnobbed with some of the power players in the state, but tossed some of them under the bus when they fell out of favor.

    It's really uncanny.  It's like she's finally found her calling.

    Way to go Nasty's/NSAA?

    She worked closely with Matt Mackowiak during her campaign. While I don't particularly like the guy, he's damn good at what he does. I'm betting he either told her who to hire, or has shared some best practices for managing the crazy.

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  7. 43 minutes ago, dcar00 said:

    yeah sure.  what I was saying is you can't barrel over the catcher at all.  you have to slide.  if you make contact sliding its all good.

    Edit: my comment is related to the situation in which the catcher has the ball.

    Not trying to beat a dead horse. But you don't have to slide. You just can't barrel over the catcher when he has the ball. If you tap-dance around him, you're not automatically out (subject to existing baseline rules).

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    2 minutes ago, blacklab said:

    deleted some posts about wages/trickle down economics/other CR shit.

    feel free to start a thread in CR if you'd like to discuss those topics.

    That's my bad. I think it's relevant, because Uber blows, but I'll delete if you want me to.

  9. 8 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

    Sounds more like talking points to me.  But you do you.  

    Don't try and handwave this shit away. We aren't a free-market economy, and haven't been since the first tax law was passed.

     

    Here's the output vs wages data. You don't have to look hard, it's everywhere - https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/.

     

    Forbes.com sucks, but this article sources a lot of data showing that corporations benefitting from tax cuts didn't grow jobs or wages - they just bought back stocks - https://www.forbes.com/sites/annemarieknott/2019/02/21/why-the-tax-cuts-and-jobs-act-tcja-led-to-buybacks-rather-than-investment/?sh=1515343a37fb

  10. 1 minute ago, justhookit said:

    So I’m having a tile backsplash put in my kitchen this morning. Ordered the tile through a large company and got a quote for installation thru them for 1200. Contacted a local guy directly who subcontracts for them and would have done this job. He’s doing it for 480.

    Cash?

  11. On 3/20/2021 at 11:02 AM, mdmost said:

    People live to be outraged by something. Now that Trump is gone, they'll find dumb things like an f'ing cartoon reboot's animations to get outraged about. I'll occasionally check the Twitter trending section every couple of days which I like to think of as "what are people outraged about today". There's sometimes a good question of which side's outrage is more ridiculous on a certain day. 

    This is just the stupid "both sides" argument applied to the "cancel culture" label. Willingly removing six books from publication because of blatantly racist characters appropriate at the time but horribly offensive now isn't 'cancel culture from the left,' it's very simply "now that we know better, we do better." Stomping your feet and refusing to buy Dixie Chicks merch and making it perfectly clear that you're doing so because they oppose the war and your god-president is very much cancel culture. And they're not the same thing. 

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  12. 3 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

    Major League is seriously close to the bottom of my baseball movie rankings.  It's so incredibly cliched and full of guys who look like they've never played baseball.  (Hell, in all seriousness, Madonna looks like a better baseball player than Corbin Bernsen.)  It has its moments and is definitely watchable, but I shake my head whenever I see people say it's their favorite baseball movie.

    Because it's fucking hilarious. GTFO with any hate for Major League.

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  13. Just now, LonghornSean said:

    UT app has the radio broadcast

    I may be doing something wrong, but I open the UT app. There's a section on the main app page for "Baseball Gameday." There's a button that says "Live Audio." If you click that, it redirects to the Texassports.com audio feed, which is not live, and says "next broadcast women's softball 6pm." Is there a different spot I shoudl be checking?

     

    I consider myself fairly technically adept. This is insane.

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