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CHIEF

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  1. I have seen one or two open carries that I definitely knew were Qnon crackpot types. Seen a lot more dressed nice, open carry, no badge, but look the part type of folks (men and women). One would assume that in Houston, you would see that much more often. CHIEF
  2. I carry one in the center console of my truck. I was unarmed, and got into an altercation with three ex-cons and their cousin in Throckmorton in 2006. Apparently they were the town bullies, had shot some folks. Just generally bad people. My truck wasn't recognized, so I was a sure mark.I fucked them up and lived through it at 38, not sure I would live through it at 55. I had CHIEF Jr. with me, he was eight at the time. If I would have stopped way out of town, where it all started, if they would have killed me, they would have killed him on the side of the road. CHIEF
  3. I don't really have a problem with STEM students using it as an aid to write code in a timely manner, or working out physics, calculus, and equations associated with those subjects. They still have to know how to plug the numbers in, and they still need to know the equation for exams. CHIEF Jr. and his fellow engineering students just uses it for the mundane shit, stuff they already know, but takes a while to put down on lab reports. AI will become increasingly important in engineering, maybe the most important. Currently, there is so much spent on R&D, trial and error, basically human mistakes. The lead engineer on the F-22 said there were over three million change orders. That was the reason for the huge cost. He said each F-22 is basically a prototype, no two are exactly alike, due to human error. The efficiency upgrade in the defense industry, and O&G, alone, should have university STEM departments pivoting towards ChatGPT and AI to eliminate human error and eliminate the millions of change orders due to that human error. Liberal Arts students are a whole different ball of wax. Will we see a decay in journalistic integrity? Sure. Graduates that really don't have a grasp of the knowledge needed to be an expert in their field of study? Yep. Take home assignments just need to be weighted less, and the bulk of their grade should be determined by Blue Books and Scantrons. I say this with a Liberal Arts minor. CHIEF
  4. Resin, it’s a stoner question. There are six letters don’t use the k. CHIEF
  5. Immigration attorneys, family, staffers, and their families. CHIEF
  6. Of course not. She loathes this board and how much time I spend on it. She calls y’all that bunch of cocksuckers on the internet. CHIEF
  7. Got my first big boil coming up this weekend. 200 lbs. (six sacks). The guy is picking them up in Louisiana today, I pick them up in Weatherford tomorrow for $3.25/lb. Gonna be more work than fun. CHIEF
  8. Shit, they had a Rolls Royce dealership in the 1980’s. Smallest city in the World to have that dealership. CHIEF
  9. Mrs. CHIEF has never made a showing on this thread. Smart, levelheaded, always thinks before she says sumthin'. I don't think she has ever even curb washed a wheel rim. BUT, she has the female tendency to ramble a bit more than I like on how her day went. The tried and true, but subtle way I have found to get her to reach the end is the old "the play clock is down to 6 seconds, hurry up offense!" coach's hand motion. Just offering a tidbit that works in my household. CHIEF
  10. I'm gonna swing for the fences on this prognostication. I feel BP will be able to convince aggy that Jimbo can't adapt, and can Jimbo as soon as economically possible. He will be the interim coach, and convince them to hire him as the replacement. He will be better than Jimbo, but not enough to ever get them to the CFP. CHIEF
  11. If they included Midland-Odessa, I bet it would smoke everyone on that list. I know of several dozen people, personally, with just high school education making easy six figures, some are even mid to high six figures. CHIEF
  12. My son and his buddies have started using chatGPT for writing lab reports and term papers for class. Cut and paste a supporting paragraph from an article into chatGPT that supports your view on the subject, and ask it to rewrite it with a few extra comments. It takes about 45 minutes, and it turns out a stellar report or essay that cannot be recognized as being plagiarized (and let's be real, this is what we were basically doing manually in college). This has been a boon for him, as he has dysgraphia, and writing has always been his big "thorn" since kindergarten. This is the new norm in colleges apparently. He and his fellow students are way ahead of the curve. CHIEF
  13. Super talented, even played bass for Zepplin. CHIEF
  14. You can put up to about 32 RV spots per acre, but it would be extremely cramped. 20 per acre, you can maneuver and park. They rent from $400 to $450 per month per spot without electricity provided. They make individual secondary meters to put at each spot for electric. I'm working on $10k cost per spot, land, utilities, concrete, and paving. Maybe include a picnic table at each location. That is a possible cashflow of $8k/acre/month. Even at 60% occupancy, you are still grossing $4800/acre/month, more than enough to cover the payment, and still make a profit. 3-4 acres is what I look for, big enough to be profitable, but not too big to saturate the market. There is a board https://www.workamper.com, where you can advertise for a custodian. I have a friend whose parents didn't quite have enough retirement put back, but they sold their house, bought a travel trailer, and worked at a RV park in Rockport. They checked people in, the wife worked in the little convenient store, he did small repairs, and made sure the lawn service kept the grass cut. They both worked about 10-12 hours per week, got a free spot, free electricity, water, and internet. The problem with mobile home parks, is the demographic. A lot of folks with disabilities and paycheck to paycheck living live there. You have to deal with squatters rights, and the mobile homes have to be secured in the flood plain according to FEMA rules. They are not mobile and will get flooded in a record turd floater. I wouldn't trust the owners to keep insurance, and since they are semi-permanent you would have to carry flood insurance on them. i have an uncle that lives on my paternal grandparents old place, it is in the 500 year flood plain. FEMA is requiring him to carry flood insurance on his old double wide, as it is underpinned, and the axles and tires have been removed. CHIEF
  15. I've been toying around with the idea of putting in RV Parks. You can put them on cheaper land in 500 year flood plains. I have found a 6 acre tract on the west side of Ft. Worth that has city sewer and water at the back of the property. Much like the O&G guys out in the Permian, a lot of the commercial construction guys buy an RV, and pocket their per diem. My aunt also has property on the loop in Cleburne, a huge part of it is in a flood plain. I have contacts for utilities, concrete, and paving. Put a laundromat in one corner to build a slush fund. My banker would loan me 100% on a purchase and a construction loan, but I think I'm going to see about using family and other investors. CHIEF
  16. I tend to think that those majors are already dominated by the privileged class. 30 years ago, those degrees were rather "cheap" to get. You could get out of college with little or no debt, and have a career that just required a degree, and you got to study something of interest. Now, with so many people going to college, there aren't as many of those type of jobs available. You need to get a degree that is specialized, and can put food on the table, or have a high GPA in those studies to get into post graduate schools. CHIEF
  17. Would be a good time to blow the Kerch bridge. Make that fucker try to get out by boat or plane rather than an armored train. CHIEF
  18. I dated a girl from Holy Cross, IA one summer. She came to Texas to spend the summer with her aunt, in Clifton. She had the most spectacular tits of any woman I have ever been with. Pre-IPhone years, so, unfortunately, I have no pictures but wish I did. Thats my only Iowa story. CHIEF
  19. Can’t wait to see her on Meet an Inmate thread. CHIEF
  20. I wear these, I have three pair (two gray, one black) because I simply refuse to bend over and tie my shoes anymore. Other than tying my dress shoes up for funerals, I haven't tied shoes in probably 3-4 years: CHIEF
  21. Judging perps who eat peeps. At 14, I would have eaten a peep out of that perp. CHIEF
  22. This. Young adults think they have to live a "cultured", affluent, young urban lifestyle. There are $100k+ jobs at Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant, but you are gonna live in Glen Rose, or Granbury. But $100k in this area is like $60k in Austin, or Dallas. CHIEF
  23. Wrong music, should have been set to this: CHIEF
  24. Round one of sanctions. We ought to threaten it just for them “ saber rattling. “ CHIEF
  25. My Dad's number was $2000/acre to break even. Maybe $5000/acre for sprigged coastal. If you own the land outright, there is money to be made. We would buy cow/calf pairs with the cow already bred back. By the time you sold the second calf, you pretty much had your cow note paid off. If cattle prices were poor, it sometime took the third calf. You have to go way out in the fucking boonies now to find $2k/acre land, and that land can probably only support a cow per 30 acres or so. At our lease, in Benjamin, you can buy farmland at $1k/acre, but it only gets 10 inches of rain per year. The ranch we are on probably runs 60 acres per head. CHIEF
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