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  1. 21 minutes ago, Captain Ron said:

    Did she include a picture of her under a tree (in Reno of course) with the application?

    Dreamt 

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    https://www.outsideonline.com/adventure-travel/destinations/north-america/pandemic-move-new-york-reno/

    I stand corrected. There are exactly 2 people I've heard of in this world that wanted to move to Reno. Meet Eve Peyser.

    Because obligatory tree shot was discovered with Google: Reno image search.

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    I was in the Reno with my husband for the very first time in October 2023. We fell in love with the city and the entire area. 

    I have read and heard a lot of bullshit in my life. I've met a lot of people from a lot of different walks of life. One of them was even born and raised in Reno.

    What I've never heard or read, from anyone, be it fiction or real life, is a dream "to live in Reno".

    Never. Not even close. Hell, I've never met anyone who wanted to move to Reno, not even the guy who grew up there and left it. I'm sure there are people who want to move to Reno, for reason i don't care to know, but they've never crossed my circle.

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  3. 1 hour ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    I feel like geo and then Saturn were attempts by GM to create a new entry level so that they could raise prices on Chevy on up to caddy for no reason. 

    The GEO line was a cross work with Japanese companies to make GM marginally engaged in that market, it failed.

    The Saturn was an attempt at a "New Start" for GM post the 80s absolute debacle by GM and frankly every US automotive company. That the Buick Grand National is the penultimate vehicle of the US 80s with the GM 454 SS truck and arguably the Typhoon (both early 90s) being the only vehicles worth note in that entire era tells the story. Edit - Ford Escort RS should be added in here so should SVT Mustang.

    Keep in mind VW was doing the GT, Nissan was doing the Z, Honda had the NSX and Civic S, Toyota was doing the Supra and MR2 during the same period. All of those are iconic in car world lore.

    The US had a bad ass 3.6 liter turbo charged 2 door sedan and SUV and a rear wheel drive truck.

  4. On 3/14/2024 at 1:43 PM, Guest said:

    After a few months of friendly encouragement (he can get REAL defensive if he feels attacked), I finally took off the kid gloves and  lit into him a little bit and let him know he needs to do something -- any step -- or I don't have much to say. Still talk occasionally, but I pick up only when it's convenient for me. I feel bad as I'm fairly sure he's just sitting in the apartment alone. 

    Honestly, glad to see this as I've been feeling pretty conflicted about giving him the cold shoulder.

    I said the same damn thing. This is Austin.

    Oh man, I'm not gonna dismiss Austin, but I feel confident Bear Schlong will back me up in saying, there is a lot of crazy everywhere.

    That said, I know some of my family felt bad about giving me the cold shoulder at some point. I can only hope some friends I lost did too.

    When I say hope they felt bad, let me be clear, that's me hoping I can still or have to some degree redeemed myself. I hope those I lost will forgive me if I get a chance to apologize. I hope I didn't cause them too much pain.

    Basically, "I hope they felt bad" should really be, I feel bad for having run them off. I hope they'll forgive me.

    That's me rambling late after driving too many hours and recently becoming unemployed but still happy to be alive and sober for over 10 years. If it's poorly worded, I apologize.

    Saw a good friend today, seeing family and friends this weekend.

    Love this world, love my life.

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  5. 5 minutes ago, Orange&White said:

    The light at old spice wood springs and 360 has been ill timed since November. It basically rotates through every scenario in the rotation, every time, regardless if anyone is waiting in one of the directions. I had an hour long convo with a very helpful woman from txdot that leads the 360 construction project back in February and she was more than willing to help. The next day she told me that COA is actually responsible for all lights on 360. I put in a request to COA online. It was immediately marked as closed and nothing has happened in 3 months. Good luck.

    What kind of backwoods regard puts a city not a department of transport or I dunno, some traffic oriented government entity in charge of traffic light patterns. 

    :::check thread title:::

    Forget i asked

    It's fixed, case closed

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  6. 46 minutes ago, Born to Run said:
    15 hours ago, YGIFS said:
    Most Austin cool band name lineup ever:
    Opener:  ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
    2nd Opener: I Love You, But I've Chosen Darkness
    Headliner:  Servant Girl Annihilator 
     
    FYI:2 FBI special agents did show up to help investigate but haven't been heard from in a long time.  In totally unrelated news, Nicole was seen walking back uptown, flicked a cigarette, and said, "I guess we're gonna need some more FBI guys..." 

    *Free-Range Organic Bass

    Fixed?

  7. On 3/17/2024 at 11:38 AM, atomheartbevo said:

    I was down at the Long Center this morning for the Bluey Live Show with my kids, and out in front along the river lake there were several fire trucks, and then an ambulance was by the water, with an EMS command vehicle pulling up,  
     

    @Nicole44 

    The Rock Eyebrow GIF by Jumanji: The Next Level

    Are your children willing to testify to that fact? Are you in cahoots with Nicole, a side piece assistant while she's allegedly in Atlanta? 

    Before you answer, know that I don't believe you. When was the last time you ate Chilean Sea Bass?

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  8. 21 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    I love this.  "Wartime CEO mode."  I mean, I can see this: "Everything is exploding and in flames!  I'm taking authoritative command and making hard decisions to save the ship!"  That kinda makes sense.  But when it leaves out the response of "but....Captain....you're the one who decided to set off all our depth charges while they were still on board to 'own tha libz.'  And you're the one who pointed all of our missiles down at the deck before launching them straight into our own ship.  So.....maybe we should look to new leadership who won't blow up our own ship and then yell that only he can save us?"...well, that's a pretty seriously incomplete statement.

    You're the captain now!

  9. 4 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

    Concerning 

     

    3 hours ago, Celery Man said:

    The QA team was fired for cause.

    Yeah while it's amusing in one regard, QA issues are already a concern among the Tesla lineup. Reducing the employees from a problem area is not likely to help the problem area unless of course they are replacing them with better folks... which I'm pretty sure they aren't.

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  10. 12 minutes ago, kevwun said:

    A lot of sites block non-US traffic as a defense against getting hacked.  If 99% of your visitors are in the US, it's an easy way to help stop people from trying to hack in to your shit.  It's not fool proof as the good hackers can get around it without too much difficulty, but it helps.

    This was my basic assumption given my limited knowledge. They also want to track website/app behavior as I have a family member who lives in that world. Of course, banking entities aren't the only ones. 

  11. 10 hours ago, tokamak said:

    Anyone used Proton VPN?

    That's what I use. The pay to play version. It's fast, but there are a goodly number of web pages that kick back when in use. Banking is one of them. I've found if I switch to a US first link it works or short term turn it off. Happy to learn of work arounds others might know for this issue, since this now seems to be the VPN thread.

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