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  1. 14 hours ago, Dennis Taylor said:

    I'd say "Holy Shit" is appropriate here

     

     

     

    Anti-shark cage? You go inside the cage? Cage goes in the water? You go in the water? Sharks in the water? Our shark?

    Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies...

     

     

    52 minutes ago, CooterBrown said:


    How does the beetle heat it to 212F?

    Yes, I’m too lazy to google it.

     

    Do you even chemistry bro?

     

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  2. On 3/23/2025 at 12:41 PM, Bozo_Casanova said:

    Priced in. Here’s the deal- the culture war shit is so potent in part because it’s a way to connect people and places that are better off with moral decay and violence. Incidentally this is also true on the bottom rung of the socioeconomic ladder in big cities. 
    But outside of the six largest metros and a handful of vacation destinations, things are pretty bleak. And they know it. They don’t need anybody to come up with scare stories on fox to show them the problem. So Democrats in Texas need to be on the ground, in Montague and Bandera and Terry and Anderson and Jasper and Aransas and all the other counties where the suicide rate is double the state average, talking about how shitty things are and pointing fingers. 

     

    Finally some good news. 

     

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  3. 6 hours ago, Vegas64 said:

    Is there a more tired opinion in 2025 than the "octopuses are so smart and amazing and [insert 9 facts] and probably they are the REAL aliens akshully and they are advanced life forms so as a quasi-intellectual and fake interesting person, I've stopped eating them. Howboutu?"?

    I blame the aforementioned My Teacher the Octopus movie for dumbing down what once only the nerdy Slayer fan knew due to his niche friend group all having H.P. Lovecraft hard-ons. And that Netflix documentary was boring and sucked.

    Also octopus is gross and weird. I'll only eat the circle versions of calimari and only from the most classy of establishments. You know, TGI Fridays, Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen, Bennigan's, etc.

     

    whatever. I still enjoyed seeing that idiot almost get his face suckered off and drown. 

     

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    Look at the third scale on the ventral side of its body. If it bites you and you die before you can get help, its probably an African Death Adder. If you don't die, its probably what we call a "cute little brown snake"

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    18 hours ago, David Dennison said:

    How many officers are willing to carry out orders to use force against Canada?

     

     

    This is now my revised guess on how American Civil War II starts. Insane dOTarD orders military to invade Canada. Some units refuse. Some states refuse to send their national guardsmen. More insane shit from ThE DOAtard. Voila- Civil War II. 

     

    Original guess was doTard was convicted of some federal crime, Florida refuses to extradite him, Biden or Harris sends in US marshals to arrest him, florida state troopers fire on US marshals, etc etc etc. 

     

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  6. On 6/10/2023 at 4:22 PM, billfromlaketravis said:

    They made a Freddie movie, and it was pretty good given the budget.

    Yeah I’d be all in on an Owney Madden - Hot Springs movie or show. I liked Boardwalk Empire, but in a different world, Owney in Hot Springs is a more entertaining show. 

     

    Cool story bro: I was on the TCU campus one day 10 or so years ago, and there was something going on at the stadium. It was free to go in, so I did, and they were filming that movie. I got to sit in the stands, so maybe  I'm an extra in the stands somewhere. I had to sign a release before they would let me in. 

    It was cool to watch how they filmed the football scenes. But it was also hot as hell, so I didn't stay long. 

  7. On 2/20/2025 at 10:22 AM, tigol said:


    Then why do these truck owners leave them running constantly? Some fuckers won’t even turn them off at the pumps. They sure as fuck don’t when they run in for their 12 pack.

     

    Might be because they don't want the interior to get hot with the AC off for five minutes. 

    But I think a lot of those idiots think its better for the engine to leave it running than to turn it off and back on. Gramppaw probably told them that when they were 15. 

    I don't know too much about diesel engines, but way back in the day that might have been true for gasoline engines. Not anymore. Now it just wastes gas. 

     

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  8. On 3/9/2025 at 5:19 PM, Beau Vine said:

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    They didn't lose, they just ran out of wind?

    Are they seriously blaming the wind for losing? Does the wind only blow when they are at bat? Even the weather is against them?

    jfc. 

     

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  9. 3 hours ago, bolverk said:

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    https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/solar-accounted-84-new-us-power-added-2024-report-says-2025-03-11/

    March 11 (Reuters) - Solar energy accounted for 84% of new electricity generation capacity added to the U.S. power grid last year, but the industry faces a challenging future with the new U.S. administration's energy policies, a report published on Tuesday said.

    The country installed 50 gigawatts (GW) of new solar capacity in 2024, the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and Wood Mackenzie groups said in the report, adding that 2024 was largest single year of growth by any energy technology in over two decades.

    WHY IT IS IMPORTANT
    The solar industry was a major beneficiary of subsidies contained in former President Joe Biden's landmark 2022 climate change law, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).

    The Trump administration has said it was reviewing federal funding plans, and any removal of tax credits issued under the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act would impact clean energy deployment.

    The clean-energy sector has been on high alert since the election of Donald Trump, whose first executive orders prioritized unleashing U.S. fossil-fuel production, paused federal wind projects and froze funding for clean-energy projects from two Biden-era laws.

    BY THE NUMBERS
    Total U.S. solar capacity is expected to reach 739 GW by 2035, the report said, warning that changes to federal tax credits, supply chain availability, and permitting policy will cause slowdown in solar deployment.

    The low case forecast showed a 130 GW decline in solar deployment over the next decade compared to the base case, representing nearly $250 billion of lost investment, according to the report.

    KEY QUOTES
    "Last year’s record-level of installations was aided by several solar policies and credits within the Inflation Reduction Act that helped drive interest in the solar market," said Sylvia Levya Martinez, Principal Analyst, North America Utility-Scale Solar for Wood Mackenzie.

    "We still have many challenges ahead, including unprecedented load growth on the power grid. If many of these policies were eliminated or significantly altered, it would be very detrimental to the industry's continued growth."

     

    Dual land use- grazing and solar generation. Sheep/cows/whatever get some shade, humans get electricity and wool/beef/whatever. 

     

    Also, what is causing the unprecedented load growth? Could it be.. I don't know... bitcoin and AI?

     

     

     

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