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wild_turkey

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  1. I’m not sure I follow unless you’re suggesting the State of Texas is giving the Feds a proportional cut of the $200 EV fee. I’m assuming that is not happening, in which case the federal gas tax is irrelevant.
  2. Just renewed the registration on my wife’s Tesla and I see the state of Texas has now added a $200 EV fee to registration. I guess it’s supposed to make up for lost fuel taxes, which is $0.20/gallon. So that assumes the EV driver would otherwise buy 1,000 gallons of gas in Texas per year. At a modest 25 mpg average, that’s 25k miles per year driving within the state, which seems absurdly high. In a state with a strong O&G industry and lobbyists, the $200 EV fee certainly seems punitive against EV owners.
  3. Going to Glass Animals this Friday in Dallas.
  4. I’m not saying you’re wrong, but if Laura Loomer is First Lady, then America as I know it is completely dead and it’s time to look elsewhere for places to live.
  5. Yeah but some of his friends thought the assassination “joke” was funny so I guess we all just had to be there.
  6. Didn’t Eric interview in that conference room at one point? Unless I’m misremembering, I liked that tie-in.
  7. That was a fantastic episode. Marisa Abela is doing some incredible acting this season.
  8. I love The Bear but it should definitely be in the drama categories. It felt like season 3 tried to give more screen time to the Fak brothers to support the comedy designation, and that was way over the top and hurt the season.
  9. It seems plausible from what I remember. She has been distraught all season and we only saw bits and pieces of the time on the boat. I could picture a situation in which he went after her again, especially if they were both fucked up, and then she pushed him off and never told anyone. More of a self defense than a cold blooded murder.
  10. Perhaps she pushed him off the boat and his body finally washed up somewhere? There’s not much to pull off in that type of scenario.
  11. Haven’t read this thread in a few months but…fuck. This is gonna happen for a long time.
  12. Was this a new episode on 60 Minutes? I skipped over it tonight because I felt like I had seen it before.
  13. This show is really good right now. Rob and Yas are my two favorite characters and the plot is revolving around them in a great way.
  14. I rented it for $5.99 through AppleTV.
  15. Finally saw it yesterday. I was entertained and would give it a B+. The action sequences were a lot of fun. The only thing that kind of bothered me is that it felt like it was written by someone from CA who has no idea what it’s like to live in a tornado area. At multiple points in the movie, people were outside doing stuff (rodeo, baseball game, town fair) when a tornado struck in under 5 minutes. Calm skies to total destruction with almost no warning. Also, the local people seemed to have no idea how to respond when tornadoes hit. People running everywhere with no apparent purpose and thank god a group of tornado chasers showed up to explain to get indoors, away from windows, and find a basement or low ground.
  16. I watched this tonight and really enjoyed it. Agree with a lot of the comments here - fun movie, strong resemblance to Inglorious Basterds, hints of Tarantino, gratuitous violence against Nazis will never get old, and finally, yes, Eiza Gonzalez is pure smoke.
  17. Texags and large chunks of the south: This wouldn’t happen if we didn’t have mental health problems, people drifting away from God, black people, and gang violence! Also Texags: Why wasn’t anyone upset when Trump got shot? When are they going to lock up the shooter’s dad? Other countries with mental health problems, non-Christians, and minorities: Our kids are safe.
  18. I hate this country sometimes. In what other developed nation are school shootings a fact of life? Gee, if only there was a solution.
  19. It felt like someone from The Bear wrote that episode. There were moments I felt genuinely sad for Rishi and moments I hated him and everything in between.
  20. I got similar. 2 comped nights in the future plus it seems all my incidentals from this stay were comped. They were willing to refund my stay but since I paid with Chase points and not dollars, there was no good mechanism to refund those points. I feel like the solution was fair.
  21. That’s the frustrating thing. We’ve stayed at a variety of downtown hotels (Van Zandt, LINE, South Congress Hotel) and there are things we like about all of them, but our initial impression of Fairmont was that it was overall better and also the best option if we want to take our kid for a weekend. Now I’m conflicted. I hate to write them off over a disaster they didn’t cause, but I’m annoyed at their lack of response.
  22. Not sure yet. We checked out and I didn’t want to take it out entirely on the front desk girl because it’s not her fault and she looked tired. She offered to move us rooms but I said no to that. Since I booked through Chase, she said to go through them to request a refund. She put a note on our bill that we were leaving early and not to penalize us. Chase is usually pretty good about resolving problems, so we’ll see, but I’ll ask them for a full refund. She started to tell me about valet charges ($62/night) and I said I would rather not pay for that and she took it off without any pushback. She didn’t say anything about the food and drinks we charged at the pool, roughly $250 total but $100 was already comped in our stay. I’m not sure if that balance will get billed later or if their system is so messed up they don’t even know who charged what. My only concern is that the pool servers won’t get the tips that we left. Oh well.
  23. Room was roughly 80 degrees all night. Everyone is still using service elevators this morning which is slooow. We were originally planning to stay until tomorrow but we can’t deal with that any longer. We considered leaving yesterday but after drinking at the game and then dinner, we didn’t want to drive, so leaving was not an option and we hoped it would get worked out. Obviously not. I get that problems happen and no one can help that, but we’ve had zero communication from the hotel on this. They could at least send out an email to all guests explaining what happened, a timeline for fixing it, some kind of compensation or credit for a stay, etc. They’ve said nothing. I suppose we’ll check out and ask for a full comp of the room and all charges.
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