Everything posted by tokamak
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Hip-hop / Rap that you're listening to
I like OT just fine but that is not his best work IMO
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Texans, Fire Up Your VPNs/Present Your Government ID to View Porn Online (Now they want to ban all porn nation-wide)
Proton has a sale right now. I think it’s like 80 bucks for two years. Timing is coincidental I’m sure.
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2025 Surly Roto Baseball
I want to drop this bum Sonny Gray so bad. But I know that as soon as I do, one of y’all will scoop him up and he’ll pitch to like a 2.75 ERA for the rest of the season.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2026: Boulevard of Broken Bagmen
there's always one of those
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Electric Cars
We also drove and really liked the Ioniq 5. Much nicer ride than the Mach E. What kind of scared me off the Hyundai was that our local dealer was a total shitshow. Bunch of clowns. That kind of turned us toward Ford but I think the Ioniq 5 is a great car. At 80% charge, our extended range Mach E tells me I have 220 miles to work with. At 100%, it's about 300. I just don't go up that high because I don't need to and they say keeping it at 80-90 is better for the battery long term. One really underrated aspect of EV ownership I've found so far (if you can charge at home like we can) is no more gas tank anxiety. My wife used to blow me the fuck up if she got in the car in the morning to go somewhere and the needle is on E. Or those days when you had a long day at work and just want to get home but have to stop for gas. Those situations never happen anymore. As long as you remember to plug in at home, the car's always ready to go.
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Electric Cars
Yeah, 4 doors. People get confused a lot when I tell them I bought a "Mustang Mach E". They don't know what the hell that is and think I bought a pony car. I get why Ford used the Mustang branding, but it's dumb IMO. We like it a lot so far. Pros are that it's a ton of fun to drive, I like the styling a lot (matter of opinion), and the interior is comfortable and feels good quality. Cons are that the ride is pretty bumpy/stiff and the infotainment screen can be kind of laggy sometimes. I've already gotten used to and now really like the one-pedal driving. I can't really say on charging speed. It came with a 32A charger. I just plug it in when I get home from work and walk away and it's good to go in the morning. I have it set to stop charging at 80%. I want to say it takes maybe 6-ish hours to go from around 30% to 80%, but don't quote me on that. I think we could invest in a faster charger, but this setup works fine for me. Not sure yet on the cost, either. It has a 91 kWh pack. So if I'm charging 60%, that's about $6.50 at 12 cents/kWh. I haven't gotten an electric bill yet since I got the car.
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Electric Cars
It's pure anecdote, but I feel like I've seen a lot more Ford, Chevy, Hyundai, Honda, etc EVs on the road lately. Maybe I'm just noticing more since I joined the EV club, but I feel like in the past a lot of those people would have been buying Teslas. Competition is good.
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Pete Rose, Shoeless Joe reinstated by MLB - now eligible for HoF
That’s where I’m at. I don’t mind making the steroid guys wait a couple years as “punishment”, but the idea of never letting them in is fucking ridiculous. AFAIK, there’s no hard evidence that Rose bet against the Reds, but he definitely bet on them some games and not others. I think it might be different in my mind if he bet on them every night without fail. The steroids guys cheated to gain an advantage and that’s bad but ultimately a way different situation IMO.
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Pete Rose, Shoeless Joe reinstated by MLB - now eligible for HoF
This kind of came out of left field for me. Turns out that baseball's unforgivable sin is actually forgivable...after you're dead. Personally I don't think they belong but I'm probably in the minority on that. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/45115659/pete-rose-shoeless-joe-jackson-players-reinstated-mlb
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2025 Surly Roto Baseball
I always appreciate the wheeling and dealing in these Surly leagues. I've been in other leagues in the past that went the whole year without any trades.
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Electric Cars
It's a Select but it has the package that gives it a lot of the Premium features. Only things it really lacks are the glass roof and power liftgate. Extended battery, AWD. Ford is fucking proud of these things right now, I'll tell you that for free.
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Tequila y Mezcal
I wonder who put the plaintiffs up to that. I kinda doubt that a random NYC bartender just woke up one morning and said to himself, "hey, I should sue Diageo". There's been significant drama in the tequila world lately. The Mexican government bitchslapped the additive free people. I really doubt they're behind this, though, unless they're just complete morons.
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Nick Saban to co-chair President Trump’s planned commission on college athletics.
The players started getting their piece of the pie, and we just can't fucking have that, can we? Agree that there is absolutely nothing that can come out of this that would be a net positive for Texas.
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2024 - 2025 Dallas Mavericks Season Thread - This time we're not happy to just be here.
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Sinners - Coogler, Goransson, and Michael B Jordan
Saw it tonight and liked it a lot. Like everyone keeps saying, the music and the cinematography are really top notch. It was definitely much more vampire-ish than I went in expecting. Wife was pissed because she knew nothing about it and horror’s not her thing. Hailee looks great. And yeah, surprising amount of cunnilingus for a vampire movie.
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Electric Cars
Well I finally did it, boys and girls. Bought myself 365 hp/500 lb-ft of all-electric muscle electrons? It’s pretty sweet.
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Texas Rangers 2025: Pitching has been fire. Bats not so much.
this is fucking painful
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Conclave 2025: All of the Smoke, None of the Brisket
Pizzaballa or we fucking riot
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The Dallas Stars 2025 Playoff Thread
Is this game not on victory +?
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Dallas Cowboys 2024 Season Thread -- Jerrah the Asshat Rides Again
Also, we need a new thread. Or at least a new thread title.
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Dallas Cowboys 2024 Season Thread -- Jerrah the Asshat Rides Again
Of note is that Pickens is on the last year of his contract. Probably gonna cost in the neighborhood of $25 million to franchise tag him for 2026. I assume with a decent year that he'll be looking for something like Tee Higgins money for an extension (4 years, $115 million, $41 million guaranteed).
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2025 NFL Draft
Per capita would be more interesting
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Texas Rangers 2025: Pitching has been fire. Bats not so much.
Maybe Boone has a good roids hookup or something
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The Dallas Stars 2025 Playoff Thread
we don't need to talk about the 2011 World Series...ever
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Transfer Cycle 2024-2025 - Stop Being Poor
The guy probably wants to go into coaching and will be essentially a grad assistant that also suits up.