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  1. I knew vet care pricing was getting a little nuts but this report is pretty eye opening as to why vet care costs have skyrocketed in the last few years. In aug of '23 my Sadie started walking at a slighlty diagonal angle to me.. instead of coming directly at me, she was walking a few degrees off to her left. Vet recommended taking her to Pet Specialist of Austin on 39th & Guad. I went there, let them do some basic tests and they gave me the devastating news that she most likely had a brain tumor, and probably 3-5 months to live. They said they couldnt be sure without doing a MRI. and all that assurance would give me is final confirmation that she was going to be gone in a few months. But i would "know" for sure when it came time to say goodbye. I asked how much it would cost and their quote absolutely shocked me. It shocked me because I had had an MRI myself less than 3 months earlier where I was offered the choice of using insurance and dealing with the copays and all the insurance craziness, or I could just pay $1900 Out of Pocket and have it done (used Insurance). So I assumed the cost would be somewhere around $1900 for a dog MRI.... No isnt even remotely the right word to describe the quote I got.... $5,300. more than FIVE FUCKING THOUSAND DOLLARS to confirm that my girl was going to die in 5 months anyway. I sat there stunned and told them my cost on my MRI just months earlier and I got told that its because they have to take extra precautions and that the dog has to be sedated and thats why it cost was almost 3X as much... (oh yeah and at 14, the death rate of sedating a dog is much higher) I was like BULLSHIT... yeah sedation costs like $200, the doc to watch the dog might be another $400, and an overnight stay being monitored is probably another $200. $2800 max, and you all are quoting basically DOUBLE that ammount? I immediately knew they were trying to guilt pet parents into spending more than they needed to. left, spent the next 4 months loving her and saying goodbye in Dec
  2. i hope he was wearing a helmet... sheesh
  3. I took my first real cooler hand in a while on Friday. lost my first 500 buyin with AK vs AJ on a A-5-7 flop in a 4 bet pot where he turned 2 pair. then adding 500 more, spent 3 hours getting smaller wins targeting one specific player to get up around $1100. Its now past 1am. new super splashy player gets in, the kind that likes to blind bet 500 all in.... and wins an inordinate percentage of the time. he quickly ends up with a 1.1k-ish. I get AKdd MP, there was a $10 straddle and a $30 open. I make it $100, splashy player calls. so does the open player. Flop is As Ks 9d. open bets out $100, I raise to $200.. splashy player shoves. folds to me. This screams flush draw to me. and I know he doesnt have AA or KK here based on his play. so I snap call.... and he turns over 99.... ouch... no escape for me and Im felted and done for the night. -1000
  4. where there is a will... there is a whale
  5. BUUUUULLLSHIT AB we all know you were looking for that older mama porn
  6. had a productive session today. bought in for 400, lost around 80 on my first hand, and then went total card dead for 2 entire rounds. like not even worth a limp call kinda bad cards. finally get a hand where I 4 bet AJo from $10-$25- to me making it $85 from the SB. got 2 callers, A high flop, bet out 90 both fold. win a few smaller pots to get to somewhere around 7ish. then the hand of the day. I am UTG after a live 5 straddle, 3 players acting behind me have been raising most hands. so I limp call KK with the intention of raising... except 5 others limp until the straddle basically min bumps it to 15. I again slow play here because 2 of the aggressive guys are still in and they love to make a move in this kind of spot. except my plan totally fails and everyone calls..... 7 to the flop. which is K 4 2 rainbow. checks to me.. now I want to keep everyone in. so I bet 15. all but 1 call. turn is fantastic, its the 4th suit 9. checks to me.. and now i size up, but again am trying to get anyone with a whatever straight draw to call i make it 55... and it folds completely around to the straddle 😒 who if he plays back at me, has me covered, He starts mubling about wanting to pack up and go... and then tosses in 1 chip and then 2 seconds later says all in... I dont react at all... dealer correctly tells him the all-in isnt valid, the chip meant call. inside Im like DAMMIT.... cause duh i have the nizzles right now. I also know based on the fucking go home speech hes got a big hand. river is a total brick. its a 7. and the straddle follows through with his all in. i announce nuts, call .. and he flips over AA. more than double up... play for only another 45 mins before the table unexpectedly breaks. in for $500 (had to buy time) out for $1512. AA v KK gets ugly a lot... this one just happened to go my way. I also played it super passive which isnt normally my style and is probably the reason he thought he was good.
  7. uh.... thats pretty redundant.
  8. its a pretty unpopulated part of Russia, so if it only is the EQ, then it sucks but damage should be limited to the area. if its made a tsunami... shit is could get real along the entire west coast in about 9 hours.
  9. actually second check, we are convinced that all surly references by rule automatically deny your request. the surly dog mafia are not respectable enough citizens to override this decision
  10. i was playing poker last night and the guy next to me got the email at the table. It wasnt for the practice or par 3 tickets, but I couldnt tell if it said which spcecific regular round day the tickets were,for.
  11. I know its becomming absolutely cliche, but how in the fuck can a supposed supervisor review the body cameras of that stop and not think... maybe that was a tad excessive? like not even put a fucking warning letter in the jacket of any of those assholes? I mean fuck... even if the driver was actively mouthing off (which he clearly wasnt) and telling you to go fuck yourself, once hes told you the window is broken you dont just get to punch it out and then give the driver a few closed fist chin pops. 5 fucking months that police department has had the other side of that incident on camera, and they didnt fucking review it at all????
  12. nope, it was fake.
  13. not sure if real, but I have seen several pics showing a bay in alaska that looks like its been drained out.
  14. just hearing thunder after thunder near 183 and Ohlen for the last 15 mins. some wet stuff... but it sounds hyper ominous.
  15. whodda thunk that spending the last 15 years being an absolute asshole at the tables would finally end up with a a ban for the rest of the year (albeit after he won more 300k).... Kassouf eliminated from Main Event... and then escorted off the premises and banned for the rest of the series not that there are that many events left. but at least being a raging asshole and hiding behind it as speach play is done for this year.
  16. interesting session. sit down, but in for 300, first hand. there is a live 5 straddle, 1 caller, im LP.... with AQss, make it 25, get 4 callers. flop is Ks Js Tc. First to act yeets out 100, there is a caller, and Im last to act, i call. turn is Ad. First to act shoves for 150, other fold, I call. hes got AJ. somehow no AJ or Q on the river. solid start... 1 round later, I raise to 20 in LP with JTdd. very active dude who has been getting froggy makes it 50 from the SB. folds to me, I call. Flop is Kc Jc 3d. He looks nervous, puts out 105 with 200 behind. I shove.... and after a min he calls. turn Ac, river Tc.... I show and he shows TT..... yeesh. so I am basically right back to 300. table gets crazy, I top off to 500, tread for a while. froggy dude just starts insta shoving, and he goes on a fucking tear, like an unholy run of whatever he needs to hit to crush the table. i get two small wins in to get to around 550 when I get AA in MP... lots of limps cause crazy froggy is now on my direct left. he makes it 50, gets 3 callers, and then suddenly BB announces 700. folds to me, I call, froggy calls. everyone else folds, takes a while to figure out the side pot. i need to pee, so I show the hand and go to the restroom.. Im told froggy had QQ that hand, doesnt matter because I come back and 1800 is in front of my seat. minor hands until the same guy who made it 700 before (who has finally badly hurt the froggy dude and now has me covered) makes it 25 in MP, I am button with Ac9d. I call, froggy who is SB has rebought for 500 makes it 50, and 3 of us call and go to the flop. Ad 8c 3c. checks around to me, I bet out 40. folds around MP bumps it to 100. I call. turn is 9c. MP bets out 100, I reraise to 240. MP calls. river is 9d... and MP leads out for 250. I take a while and finally say 750. he tanks for a very long time before folding. i show the A9 cause Im leaving anyway in for 500 out for 6 bucks shy of 2500. best 1/2 session in a very very long time.
  17. this might be the most out of law video in a very long time... and it happened on Friday. typical dispute amongst apartment neighbors somehow ends up with the cops being called and a training police sgt and 3 junior officers arrive and try to get details of the incident... but the couple knows their rights and demands a white shirt sup to show up. you can literally see and audibly hear the exact moment the training supervisor decides hes done being a cop and going to ignore all constitional law and then do a warrantless forced home break-in with the 3 junior puppies storming through the breech. training sgt just goes for full on UFC body charge with both fists swinging to the male. and of course the 3 juniors are all being taught how to be a cop by this guy so they all join in an illegal break=in and proceed to beat the occupants and charge both of them with..... resisting arrest. the reason? because road rage supervisor scratched his fucking pinky on the victims arms that were clearly defensively trying to protecti him from an illegal beating.
  18. again... drunk and stupid is no way to go through life.... skinny midget got his bull rung and he and his friend are now gonna go cry to mommy
  19. we lost rational Brisket a long time ago... the idiocy of the last 8ish years have broken him (and probably more than a few others).
  20. with the uptick in stories about "entire command units/buildings/meetings" being blown up in the last 2 months or so, I think we are going to find out in a few months that either the Russians reverted back to their un-coded cell phone use communications we saw from Feb-May of 2022, which resulted in 6-ish Generals being killed. --I know the KIU twitter page only shows 10 total killed since 2022, but there were multiple instances in that timeframe where known Generals in command have never been mentioned since May of 2022. Or Ukr somehow found a way to track high-end command units and blast them when they meet in a critical mass (4 or more Majors or higher).
  21. I dont think you are taking into account that the 24 hour rainfall numbers for LCRA show no fewer than 20 rain gauges that end up in Buchanan, LBJ or LT, showing over 1 inch of rain in the last 24 hours (4 of those showing more than 2 inches), plus its still raining in some parts of the drainage basin, with the ground being soaked already, a lot of that rain is going to end up in LT. I know its a metric fuckton of rain to take it from 657 to 660... but there will be runoff for at least another week (probably 2) hitting the 3 main lakes, I think 660 is almost a certainty in the next week.
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