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I went to the rooftop bar at Wicked Butcher over the weekend. Service was a little slow so I just ordered drinks from the bar, but otherwise I liked it. Nice atmosphere and there was a decent breeze so it wasn’t hot, although it was ~11 pm.
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This show is great every week. I'm struggling to understand how anyone could not thoroughly enjoy it. "Jamie Tartt is a muppet, and I hope he dies of the incurable condition of being a little bitch."
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It doesn’t matter that much. I walked into my Walgreens and they gave me a paper asking if I’m immunocompromised. It’s pretty loosely defined and I checked YES and got the shot. They don’t care what your condition is or what meds you take. They only care that you check YES on their paper.
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Got my 3rd Moderna shot today from a nearby Walgreens. My 2nd dose was late January. I’m technically immunocompromised due to an autoimmune condition and due to the immunosuppressant I take for it, although it’s not nearly as bad as having cancer or an organ transplant. I’m also a physician and see ~140 people a week, many of whom are elderly and many of whom are undoubtedly unvaccinated, so I figured it was a good time to get the 3rd shot and hopefully reduce my chances of getting or spreading Delta. There were 4 other people there, all getting their first shot. It made me somewhat happy to see there is still a small trickle of people choosing the vaccine. I wonder if part of the September 20 date for boosters was chosen to allow unvaccinated people ~1 month to finally get 1st and 2nd doses before there is a new rush of already vaccinated people getting 3rd doses.
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I thought Lenovo was loaded with Chinese spyware or something like that. I’m surprised anyone in the U.S. would buy one.
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Did you give them your original vaccine card so they could write the 3rd dose below the other 2 doses? Did they say anything about the fact that you were already vaccinated? I'm interested in doing this. Seems like an official recommendation could be given at any time, but then I wonder if it will be chaos all over again trying to get an appointment.
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I liked the show overall and don’t take it too seriously. The ending was fine but it was more about the build-up for me. If I wanted to nitpick, it would be odd details like this: -Shane’s suite had a queen bed. -The Mossbachers went on a family vacation to an expensive resort, stayed in a fancy suite with a kitchen, but the suite only had 1 bedroom and their game plan was apparently for their teenage daughter and friend to share a sleeper sofa and their teenage son to sleep where exactly? -The White Lotus (Four Seasons) is totally cool with people sleeping overnight on the beach and has zero security. -The Four Seasons Maui has shitty pool and beach furniture, like something I would expect at a Galveston condo. Unless the film crew brought that in, which I’m not sure why they would intentionally make it look less swanky. -The guests arrived by boat to a hotel in Maui. I guess it’s a fictional location, but those same guests left by plane. -Olivia sleeps with a bra on. But none of that stuff truly bothers me with this type of show. Well, maybe the last one.
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COVID-19 2nd wave - Texas only - Stats and such
wild_turkey replied to justhookit's topic in Daily Texan
I expect that it will be endemic for a long time. I’m wondering how likely it is that a new variant eventually comes along that is more transmissible than Delta, including infecting vaccinated people at a higher rate, and that the end point is for this future variant to rapidly burn through the world’s entire population (regardless of vax status) and we finally achieve herd immunity through that wave? Would that be such a bad thing to hope for, if you knew it would occur in such a way that vaccines and other therapeutics could limit the worldwide mortality? Otherwise, I’m growing increasingly concerned that in 2030 we are still going to be arguing about masks and vaccines, avoiding mass events like concerts and sports, limiting school attendance, canceling vacations at the last minute, working from home, etc. That’s a pretty shitty future if 2021-life is our status quo for the next 5-10 years. -
Really enjoyed the show. Armand was the most entertaining character and I’m sad to see him be the one who was killed. I’m slightly confused why his body was being loaded on a plane back to the U.S., although I guess we were never explicitly told that’s where the plane is headed. Quinn was my favorite character and his transformation was perfect. Sad to see Rachel accept Shane back so easily. I guess she made a Faustian bargain after all and it means all characters minus Quinn returned to their former selves.
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It’s such a Ted Lasso thing to do to air a Christmas episode in August. And it was great. And it will be an instant classic that we watch each year while having Sexy Christmas.
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I was in disbelief as well. That’s why at first I thought it must be a scam or a simple mistake, because surely a tech savvy auto company with the highest market cap in the world would not accidentally approve a loan and hand over a $56k car to a new owner without all the financial stuff resolved. How does that even happen? Very sloppy on their part. We finally received some communication from various Tesla people in the past 24 hours, which I think is due to increased intensity of phone calls and emails on our part. Still no resolution but at least a few people are now acknowledging that we do exist and that we did receive a car from them and that some stuff needs to be fixed. They are “working on it” and we should expect a call in 1-2 days. Wife also got a temporary tag exemption that is good until Sept 9 so at least she can legally drive the car now. At least the car itself has been great.
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When we ordered our Model Y in April, we used the Tesla financing program because the interest rate was lower than our mortgage so why the hell not. The Tesla application said financing was instantly approved with Wells Fargo who we currently bank with. Ok cool, easy enough. We took delivery of the vehicle on June 2. On July 9, over a month after having the vehicle, I received an email from fundingresolution@tesla.com saying there was a problem with the financing. Apparently the car was ordered under my wife's name (her car) and the loan application was under my name (higher income), so the SSN didn't match up. I'm not sure how they didn't catch this on the application when they initially said the loan was approved. The email correspondence was kind of sketchy and at first I thought it might be a phishing attempt, but I tried to work with them to figure it out. Then, that person stopped responding to all of my emails as of July 14. Nothing at all past that point despite multiple emails from me. Since that point, I have called Tesla multiple times at both the local store and at their main "Tesla Finance" number with very little help. None of them seem to have any visibility of the problem and simply say "they are working on it" (they as in the mysterious Royal They which is a department deep within Tesla that you cannot actually speak with directly). No one ever returns my calls and it's been going on a month. I then called Wells Fargo since Tesla gave me an approved loan agreement for Wells Fargo as the lender. Turns out, Wells Fargo had record of an application being submitted but never gave a decision due to the SSN discrepancy mentioned above. So there was never a loan to begin with. Wells Fargo has offered to do the loan application again, but that would circumvent Tesla and might mess things up even worse. At least Wells Fargo is trying to help. They also call me back about once a week to check the status, which is more than Tesla has ever done. Ok fine, I pretty much decided to quit worrying about it and figured Tesla will eventually contact me if they want to get paid for the remainder of the vehicle. Except there is now one major problem - the temporary dealer tags were good for only 2 months, so they expired on August 2 and we can no longer drive the car legally. The full registration is apparently being held up by the funding problem which no one is attempting to fix. Great, so we "bought" a car from them that we can't drive. I have explained this multiple times to the Tesla and the local store says they don't know what to do but that someone will contact me soon, which no one ever does. I called my local tax assessor office to explain the problem about the tags. They said I could file a formal complaint against Tesla as a dealer, except that the Tesla dealership is in Washington and a complaint in Texas will probably be worthless. I guess I'll file a complaint anyways. They said I can also go pay $29 for a temporary 30-day tag exemption, which can only be done 3 times in the life of a vehicle, and Tesla actually burned the first 2 times when they gave me "dealer plates" that weren't actually dealer plates. Great, so I can do that 1 more time which buys me until September 2nd if they get their shit together by then. I could write them a check for the rest of the car but no one will ever respond. This shit is absolutely ridiculous and by far the worst customer service I have ever received from anyone, which includes AT&T and American Airlines. /rant TLDR: if you are considering financing a Tesla through Tesla, please do yourself a huge favor and go directly to your lender of choice.
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Anyone have a rec for a lawn care service? I’m in central FW and need someone to do weekly mowing plus someone to do fertilizing and weed control.
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This thread is full of a bunch of “get off my lawn” old men who seem to have a negative worldview about everything. This Olympics was held under the worst possible circumstances - once in a lifetime pandemic causing a year delay, no fans - yet it still had amazing competitions, amazing athletes, and amazing stories. Simone Biles story gets you down? Umm.. she was sexually abused by Larry Nassar and she self reports mental health issues. She’s also the greatest gymnast of all time and she returned to competition to win a bronze medal with a great beam performance. Sorry if that triggers you. American athletes should really learn to internalize their sexual abuse and mental health. Athletes look like they don’t want to be there? Are you fucking kidding me?! Are those of you saying this actually watching or are you merely projecting your own shitty worldview onto Olympic athletes? I’ve seen a bunch of athletes who look completely pumped to be there, and that’s without fans to increase the excitement. Not enough star power? Do you only enjoy the Olympics if you are watching Carl Lewis or Michael Phelps or Usain Bolt? Do you only watch UT football if VY is taking snaps? Come on.. Alysson Felix became the most decorated U.S. track and field Olympic athlete in history. Caeleb Dressel won 5 medals in the pool. The men’s and women’s basketball teams both continued their dominance, the men being led by a particular star who has now scored more points than anyone in Olympics basketball history. The women’s 400m hurdles featured 2 amazing runners - McLaughlin and Muhammad - who BOTH broke the world record in the same race, only to go on to destroy the competition in the 400 relay. Simone Biles withdrew from competition and then we get to see Suni Lee rise to the challenge. There’s plenty of star power, what more do you want? Don’t forget the ton of other cool stories like Molly Seidel winning a bronze medal in her 3rd ever marathon. Yes, I get the time difference. It’s annoying but the internet and smartphone are both here to stay and we can’t turn technology back to 1992 to maintain suspense on the outcome of competitions. That isn’t going away. Deal with it. I think we’re lucky to have even had Olympics, and given the worldwide circumstances of the last 17 months, this year was pretty damn good. Our athletes represented the U.S. very well and we walk away the overall medal leader with a lot to be proud of and plenty to be entertained about.
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They are all incredible. So happy to watch them dominate the competition.
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NYT The Daily podcast has an episode about unvaccinated people. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-daily/id1200361736?i=1000531193097 They interviewed a few people and the reasons for not vaccinating were pretty much what you would expect: -I’m not an early adopter of anything so I’m waiting to see how this plays out. -Waiting for a more effective vaccine that will prevent infection from all future variants. -I don’t like any vaccines and my child is unvaccinated and I plan to keep him that way. -I don’t trust the government putting something in my body. -It’s still experimental and hasn’t been fully tested or FDA approved. -Vaccinated people can still get sick so what’s the point? -Vaccinated people still have to wear masks so what’s the point?
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I’m a fan of Dalilah Muhammad and wanted to see her win another gold, but I also like Sydney McLaughlin and it’s easy to be happy with that result. What a race and they both smoked Sydney’s WR that’s only a few weeks old.
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I love the Olympics despite its shortcomings. I think it’s a great event that brings people together from all over the world to showcase athletic abilities and creates national pride. Yes, the IOC is corrupt. Yes, hosting the Olympics is difficult and creates financial hardship for host cities. Yes, there are certain sports that should be eliminated. All of those things need reform, but that doesn’t detract from my ability to love watching anymore than NCAA corruption prevents me from loving college sports. It’s also ok to not like every event. Watch the ones you like and skip the others. Someone else may like them. Finally, this is a very difficult Olympics mainly due to COVID, so I wouldn’t write off the entire event based on one exceptionally atypical year. Lots of sports have been negatively affected over the past 15 months.
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Watched it last night and thought it was fine for what it was. Entertaining mostly with lots of plot holes. Enjoyable while watching but I’ll probably forget it ever existed in a couple years. Of the many plot holes, the part that bothered me the most is that Chris Pratt jumped back to 2022 with the female toxin with intent to mass produce it and return to 2050. Then they found out the jump portal no longer worked so the plan was thwarted and everyone felt defeated. Why not just mass produce it and wait ~26 years for the war to start? Once they have the proper technology in the earlier timeline, it’s pretty straightforward to start preparing and wait. Losing the ability to jump forward was not a problem.
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A lot of old men in this thread.
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COVID-19 2nd wave - Texas only - Stats and such
wild_turkey replied to justhookit's topic in Daily Texan
And no foie gras or wine for the unvaccinated! -
Flight cancellation and trip insurance
wild_turkey replied to wild_turkey's topic in Food and Travel
Normally I don’t either because my credit card has decent travel insurance. I thought in this case it might be good to have an extra layer of coverage, but I guess that was a waste of money. Oh well, lesson learned. -
COVID-19 2nd wave - Texas only - Stats and such
wild_turkey replied to justhookit's topic in Daily Texan
First of all, I work in healthcare and wear a mask every day all day at work. So I'm not shedding the mask anytime soon as much as I would like to. I don't wear a mask to go into stores lately, but I also don't go into a lot of stores and I generally don't get too close to other people. I travel a decent amount and wear masks in airports and on planes. I'm not sure where else I should be wearing a mask that I'm not already. Second of all, I'm highly skeptical of the idea that vaccinated people who don't wear masks will significantly increase the likelihood of a new deadlier variant emerging. I still feel like the rate of transmission from vaccinated people to each other or even to unvaccinated people is exceptionally low. Do I think it happens somewhere? Absolutely, but that's a tiny fraction of the total new cases of COVID in our country and worldwide, and therefore, a tiny possibility of a deadlier variant emerging. If people are truly concerned about variants to that exceptionally small fraction of cases, then we should've never stopped masking to begin with, and we should continue all distancing precautions until the disease is completely eradicated from the earth. Close the bars, close the schools, stop allowing spectators at sports. Any new COVID case could be the deadly super variant that overpowers the vaccines and humanity will end. But that would be ridiculous and we all know it, and anything to that effect, including asking vaccinated people to wear masks in public again, undermines the integrity of the vaccines and further supports unvaccinated people foolishly deciding not to ever get vaccinated. -
COVID-19 2nd wave - Texas only - Stats and such
wild_turkey replied to justhookit's topic in Daily Texan
Seems like there are a few ways to more strongly encourage vaccination: 1. Restrict freedoms for unvaccinated people. No more flying on a plane without a vaccine. Travel is a privilege and air travel currently has a mask mandate from the federal government, so replace the mask requirement with a vaccine requirement. Maybe restrict in person learning at public universities to vaccinated people only. I suppose that would be a state level decision which means a lot of states with low vaccination rates wouldn’t do it because politics. 2. Provide more freedoms to vaccinated people. If unvaccinated people can’t fly, then everyone in the airports should be vaccinated and should be allowed to fly without a mask because we believe the vaccines are working. Get rid of the COVID test requirement for vaccinated people entering the U.S. from foreign travel. On that note, almost every situation that currently calls for a COVID screening test should be supplanted by proof of vaccine. 3. Pay people. At a certain point, it’s simple economics. Estimate the healthcare cost of the projected Delta wave, take half that money, and divide it up as a tax incentive to everyone who was vaccinated this year. They probably should have made the last round of stimulus money contingent on having a vaccine. If people are really hurting financially and need money, then they need to at least do their part to help end the pandemic that triggered their hardship. -
COVID-19 2nd wave - Texas only - Stats and such
wild_turkey replied to justhookit's topic in Daily Texan
Well sure, but even if the U.S. was 100% vaccinated with very low new transmission, variants can easily emerge in other parts of the world and make their way here.
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