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  1. 23 hours ago, F250 said:

    IMO, NPR is for members of polite society that use their passports-yes but not enough, debate on which university to send their kid to-not really she can decide that, choose Target over Walmart-you're goddamn right the ass much hotter in Target, only purchase Apple devices-lol no, overpay for coffee-cheap and black, like my soul, used to buy Teslas never have and never will and donate to NPR without a second thought-yes, time and money. It's not a beacon of leftwing journalism. It's for people that like to sniff their farts.

     

     

    Honestly, I think NPR kind of sucks on the whole. About the only thing I like about them are the hourly news headlines my local affiliate plays. Having said that, NPR is by far the best US-based news source on the radio, period. 

     

     

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  2. 3 hours ago, LCHorn said:

    It's an economic loss in the sense that's treated water, but isn't that just helping recharge underground aquifers and preventing more subsidence loss?

     

    Depends on the depth of the aquifer (assuming there is one), porousness of the overlying soil/rock, how much gets sucked up by evapotranspiration, etc etc etc. 

    Short answer: Maybe in some relatively few cases, mostly probably not. But even in those relatively few cases, its better to just fix the leaks as much as possible and leave the billions of gallons of wasted water in the ground/river/wherever. 

     

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  3. 27 minutes ago, Snake Diggity said:

    If the situation plays out to give Dems control of the House, they better RAM through every god damn thing they’ve ever wanted.  The find out needs to be the most find outtie of all find outs.  Fuckin Medicare for all, codified abortion access, massive taxes on the super wealthy, order of magnitude increases in education funding, free universal childcare, massive gerrymandering restrictions on states, and a change in who is eligible for the presidency (no one under current indictment or currently being tried for a felony).  FUCK THOSE DUMB MOTHERFUCKERS.

     

    You forgot:

    voting rights act 

    Impeach Thomas

    Pack scotus

     

    probably some more I'm missing, but they won't make it past the senate filibuster. 

     

     

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  4. 3 hours ago, nnm said:

    Because I grew up in NM, with green chile served with almost every meal, I think bell peppers are completely useless. Chile peppers are supposed to have taste and heat. Bell peppers have neither. 

     

    Agree on the heat, but the green bells I grow in my garden are pretty tasty imo, picked when either green or red. If I let them get red the birds will eat them, so usually picked green because I'm too lazy to cover them. 

    Of course I also grow two or three different peppers with some heat. 

  5. 5 minutes ago, DixonHur said:

    Nice compact swing using the hips to generate force.  

    Someone should get props for teaching her proper technique.  Kudos.

     

    also a good follow through

     

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  6. On 4/3/2024 at 12:13 PM, Parliament said:

    Drug mule

    jk

    Good one here.  After a summer of sweating his butt off in the Austin sun, sitting in a classroom reading a textbook will be fun.

     

    I told my dad after my freshman year I didn't want to go back to college. He got me a job working on a roofing crew that a friend of his ran. 

    I was back in school that fall. 

     

     

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  7. 38 minutes ago, honolulu horn said:

    Agreed. He was ignorant about Covid in the beginning, then made it political. He maligned the Surgeon General and the CDC. He began to rail against mask mandates and distancing as time went on. He set a poor visual example by never masking or distancing. He talked about it being akin to the flu. He talked about using light or bleach to cure it, or using those horse pills to cure it. He gave the MyPillow guy a platform to talk about it. He absolutely 100% politicized vaccines and public health. I give him credit for fast-tracking the vaccine-making infrastructure, but his public-facing rhetoric about it was totally political and rejected all common sense and science. Then he had the audacity to get covid a survive it, which was his biggest sin in the whole thing. 

     

    Well give the man a cookie! / Chris Rock

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  8. 15 hours ago, RomaVicta said:

    It's obvious. It's on the TV. Seems that stuff is irrelevant. 

    The motherfucker belongs in a cell or home arrest pending outcome of criminal proceedings including what is apprarent treason and insurrection even though we can't call it that because we're the ones constrained by law.

    He wanted to be in the lead of the Capitol invasion but was denied by his SS driver.

    In summary, execution would be appropriate.

     

    Sometimes I like to ponder "what ifs". 

    What if I had majored in a liberal art instead of a science? 

    What if Jackie Smith had caught that touchdown pass in Super Bowl 13? 

    What if that SS driver had taken DOtarD to the riot and let him out of the car?

     

     

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  9. On 4/16/2024 at 5:41 PM, Dnaguy said:

    The night special is 16.90 for the first 4 hours.

    Parking for 2 minutes negates the special and makes that >$2000/ hr for parking…thats astronomical. Even for New York.

     

    heh heh "night special"

     

     

  10. 56 minutes ago, Guadaloopy said:

     

     

    Yes, FSD failed this particular test.  It's actually a very difficult test.  It doesn't take a very critical eye to watch this and see that the test was engineered to result in failure. 

    - The dummy was dressed in neutral colors and earth tones to blend in with the background vehicle and background vegetation and wall. 

    - The dummy remained stationary until very late in the test.

    - The dummy was accelerated to a near instantaneous running speed at the last possible moment.

    These conditions would be difficult for an unsuspecting human driver.

     

    O'Dowd is a disingenuous and untrustworthy Tesla FSD critic.  He is a competitor, and he is not above manipulating and falsifying experiments to show the results that support his arguments. Previous videos from O'Dowd have showed a warning on the Tesla screen indicating that the accelerator is being pressed by the human operator to override FSD's automated actions.  O'Dowd has passed these off as FSD failures when the failure is actually due to the overriding actions by the human operator. 

    This particular video has a warning on the screen that appears to be unrelated to FSD, but if multiple warnings are active, you can cycle through them to see the one you want.  There is something weird happening in this test.  In the first three tests, you can see the vehicle start to decelerate as it approaches the crosswalk and sees something, but it doesn't stop.  That leads me to believe that O'Dowd and his team are gaming the warning displays and actually slightly pressing the accelerator during these tests, effectively overriding FSD's automated actions.  I would like to see this test completed on a vehicle with no visible warnings on the screen.    

    I would also like to see videos from O'Dowd with the technology he supports passing this same test.

     

    I don't know anything about O'Dowd. But if FSD can't avoid hitting a kid in those circumstances, it absolutely should not be released to the general public. 

     

     

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  11. On 4/12/2024 at 4:27 PM, UTGrad98 said:

    I can drive/turn the wheel, shower, carry milk, brush my teeth, and wipe my ass without pain although i have to be deliberate in my movements.

     

    So what's the problem then?

     

     

     

    Y'all need to stop stretching BEFORE you work out. Stretch at the end of the day before bed. 

    Warm up before lifting, but don't stretch. 

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