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Homercles

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  1. I had to poop exactly once during the decade I went to ROT…I rode all the way back to my house in Pflugerville vs trying to use a porta potty shared by hundreds of sweaty, beer-swilling middle aged weekend warriors. Also…have a feeling ACL is going to be brutal this year
  2. I bet it is. Was thinking everyone at Breakaway was shuttling their birds out, but checked ADSBExchange to see a pair of Air Tractors out of Fredericksburg doing pylon turns over the fire. Went up to my roof to watch them do a few more circuits, then pull up and head east to Exec…doing maybe 150kts at 200ft they’d have zero time to react if they smashed into a drone. Bend a main rotor on a chopper would be even worse. Saw a drone vid of someone flying above the Travis County helicopters altitude. Even our mayor, between praising every conceivable person (again, including Abbott for some reason) said it’s a crime to fly them there. Stupid.
  3. While it’s cool to get the visuals, flying your drone while EMS helicopters and those turboprop Air Tractors are navigating a tight airspace at low altitude is dumb as fuck…
  4. I mean…the Cedar Park fire chief said it + parts of 1431 are closed.
  5. Fire chief said that it started along Parmer, moved around those Bexley apartments, one building is a total loss with two more damaged. Mayor all about thanking everyone from EMS to Abbott to Elvis I guess. If it was a fucking dumbass throwing a cigarette out the window…
  6. I’ve walked back there many, many times…sometimes as a way to get back home after dropping my car at the Firestone. Parts of those biking trails are known as Suburban Ninja. That apartment complex is right against the woods. Wouldn’t take much for a cigarette butt or grill dumbassery to light the whole place up. Off the trails it is nothing but brush, downed limbs and dried out tinder. Last time I walked there was probably March, and was surprised to see evidence of a sizable fire about 100’ into the woods from the apartments.
  7. I am absolutely all for this kind of WFH architecture. It should be role, tenure, maturity and character dependent…not unilaterally handed down I’ve been at the same company for 20 years, in the same role for 5, and my chain of command lives in either Boston or Ireland. Have gone in to meet interns, or whiteboard big projects, or wherever else needed. Making me, in my personal circumstances, come into the office to find a hotel cube nowhere near my peers and an office with minimal services…is stupid.
  8. So give more of my money to big corporations…got it. The money I save goes into more pleasure travel, clothes, eating out / better food / delivery, turn that office real estate into housing to ease pricing = there’s your construction, and fuck oil/gas, they can either evolve like everyone else does or slowly die out like the buggy industry… (I have a special hatred for industries that cry to the government and fuck over employees in rough times, but milk the public for every cent they can during booms while handing it to execs and shareholders) Again I feel like all my pissy posts lately are directed at organizations/people who fail to recognize that things change (gender views, technology, climate, etc). And I’m not saying everyone should WFH…but blanket statements and policies are reflective of the same shit that has people losing rights in general: “fuck you, my way is the right and only way”
  9. I just love this too much
  10. As always, a lot can be gleaned by seeing who reps a post
  11. Then people need to be saying this when they berate her, not posting to Twitter that she’s anti-American or attributing it to buzzwords like wokeness. The prevailing social constructs of sexuality and identity have changed in a broadly global sense, so if you make a blanket judgement or simply express glee at her/their misfortune without expounding then it’s fair game to assume motivation is a perfunctory reflection of your beliefs.
  12. Bartender there told me that sign was put in place specifically because of a guy known only as Anastasia
  13. Waiting for posts about the USWNT and memes about Megan Rapinoe next
  14. All right…new poster, digging up Covid thread from April, to post an ‘investigation’ on Fauci to support his opinion he’s a scumbag
  15. Wait…so now, instead of being up in arms over folks kneeling for the anthem, when they do stand they’re now required to sing along as well? It’s the World Cup…the apex of these peoples careers. If I were in their shoes I’d be so deep in thought about the upcoming game that it’d be a win if I put my shorts on the right way. I don’t see every motherfucker in a uniform singing at the Super Bowl…oh wait they’re not uppity women. What’s next for women/minorities…they have to a cappella the whole thing wearing the flag and holding sparklers?
  16. Please don’t tell me we have a ‘climate is cyclical, it was this hot back in 2011/1909, the nino (I translated it from Spanish) causes this every decade, etc’ guy in here. It’s absolutely irrefutable that swings are getting more extreme and the rapidity with which it has happened should scare everyone. Come on now
  17. I don’t care what starting salary is, my point has been that the ratio of income:expenses changes much more rapidly, paired with a long-term trend that means people born even five years apart can’t compare their experience. Hell even since Covid, prices have gone up insanely. I totally get that long-lead supply chain issues in a global economy drive effects that take years to work out, and more sensitive to shit like bird flu outbreaks driving egg prices through the roof. Sticking with just the Covid era example…I read about companies making record profits, exec pay/golden parachutes, PPP loan abuse, etc while watching my weekly grocery bill go up 25%. Airlines and hotels are neutering rewards programs to squeeze consumers when demand is hot yet cry for bailout money when times are bad. You won’t pay a living wage so you default tip machines at counter service joints to 25%? All of this shit makes me sour on medium/large businesses…including my employer as some of us organized our life around WFH yet now suddenly we need to come into the office to use tiny hotel cubes with no privacy or food service espousing ‘culture’ when really it’s because your commercial real estate value is crashing? GTFO of here. Point being to this YGIFS rant (again) is I have a little empathy for this ‘people don’t want to work’ shit…every opportunity to squeeze customers/employees/govt is taken with a grin on their face while handing profits to shareholders and execs. Why should I be loyal and give my soul to you when you tell us to suck it up and get roommates in a $1,300/month apartment in Shitsville Houston?
  18. Another notch in the belt for The Wire, at least to me, is how well it showed all the factors that played into a character’s ultimate outcome. “All the pieces matter”. Who you rolled with, what (if any) roles the adults played in your life, how lucky you were in a gun fight, etc all influenced where they were at the end of season 5. And not to say choice was irrelevant either. Some had an opportunity to escape and took it (Poot, Cutty, Bubbles), others ignored it (Dukie with Prezbo), some explicitly chose that life and gave exactly that (Snoop, Omar, Prop Joe), and one pawn benefited from fortune and sheer badassery to cross the board to be a queen (Slim Charles).
  19. What I feel like some of y’all fail to appreciate is that shit CHANGES. I bought my first house in ‘05 for $125k on a $40k salary…it’s now worth 3x that. The tech support position I had at the time now pays 1.5x that. I graduated OSU with $10k in student debt and paid it off in five years. My parents paid the first year, I managed the rest through student loans at ~3% APR and a part time job payin $8/hour. Average student federal debt loa is 3x that with rates 2x. Wife and I built our 3500sft house for $350k in 2012 with a 3.5% rate. It’s now worth almost $1M in Cedar Park and rates are almost double that. I couldn’t come out of college and repeat my experience, no matter how hard I worked. I recognize that timing, luck and general fortune often play a huge role in addition to character, perseverance and ethics. Boomers do that shit all the time and it pisses me off…”well yeah grandpa, your employer gave you a pension, houses cost $20k and gas was a quarter…I’m not denying you toiled away in the acid mines with an onion tied to your belt but cost of living has outpaced income the last fifty years”
  20. Well hang on…what are some comparable left wing websites? Legit will check it out to see their message/anger levels. NPR? Daily Beast? Salon?
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