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  1. On 4/28/2024 at 10:22 AM, Storm the Field said:

    Heading out to Sebastopol, CA on Thursday for a friend's wedding weekend. Gonna be brutal:

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    Feel bad for the bride now. Thursday and Friday still look excellent, but cold front rolling in overnight Friday. Rainy and in the 50's on Saturday during the wedding. Literally only day on the extended forecast that isn't sunny and cool.

  2. 14 hours ago, B00M said:

    The issue is that a majority of Americans live paycheck to paycheck so they may vote for “change” simply because they’re struggling. 

    This is a totally made up stat.

    It's supposed to mean "If I miss a single paycheck, I'm screwed. Not gonna make rent, car gonna get repossessed, have to decide which utility bill to pay and which to get shut off....."

    When you see a stat in some news article saying "70% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck," it's guaranteed bullshit. 

    1. Typically, the source is basically a pull commissioned a shady debt consolidation firm or personal loan provider. Almost every article on this cites a "study" by LendingClub.Com.

    2. Question wording matters, hugely. If you ask "would it hurt to miss your next paycheck?" or "do you feel like you don't have enough money left over at the end of the month?" you'll get a majority agreeing. If you specify something like the definition I provided above, the percentage drops precipitously. People that make six figures, but max out their 401K, put money into their kids college funds, have multiple car notes, take multiple vacations every year, will agree that they live paycheck to paycheck if you don't accurately define it.

    3.  Only 78% of people age 25-65 are even in the labor force. You're telling me an overwhelming majority of (>90%) of people in this country who receive a paycheck are "struggling financially"? The poverty rate in America is 11%. The numbers just don't make sense if you dig even an inch deep into them. 

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  3. On 2/20/2024 at 11:54 AM, Storm the Field said:

    Pit Room's 2nd location out in Memorial City is almost ready. They just posted yesterday that they're hiring staff for an expected March opening.

    Finally opened today. I'll have to head out there for lunch sometime soon. Significantly bigger than the original.

  4. Paywalled story. I don't really care if you're in favor or opposed to this particular project. I am; however, a bit concerned that a new mayor can come in and direct the permitting department to no longer issue any permits for projects he doesn't like, even if they've already been funded and passed through the years-long design and approval process.

     

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    Houston city officials have put the brakes on the middle piece of a planned redesign of Shepherd and Durham along the edge of the Heights, a decision that community officials and others say puts millions of dollars destined for the city at risk.

     

    Rumored for weeks, and predicted by critics of Mayor John Whitmire’s transportation policies, the city's decision to not support any plan that removes lanes along the parallel, four-lane-wide corridors is likely to leave a gap in bicycle lanes along the streets between Interstate 10 and 15th Street.

     

    For the segment from near White Oak Bayou to north of 14th Street, it may also mean that no repairs other than routine maintenance happen in the coming months or years.

    “The potential exists for the project to be canceled entirely and for its associated federal funding to be reallocated somewhere else in the region,” Anne Lents, chairwoman of the Memorial Heights Redevelopment Authority, told board members, according to a printed copy of a monthly report she delivered Thursday.  “At this point, this is out of our direct control as a redevelopment authority. Ultimately, we are an entity of the city and are reliant on the (mayoral) administration and city permitting and approvals to advance projects.”

     

    Marlene Gafrick, a senior adviser to Whitmire and former city planning department director, confirmed she told the redevelopment authority, which is building the project with local and federal funds, it would only receive city support – and permits – if it redesigned the project.

     

    The two criteria Gafrick gave the redevelopment authority, which also operates a tax increment reinvestment zone of the city, is that the project “maintain the original lane widths and number of lanes” and maintain only six-foot sidewalks.

     

    That conflicts and makes the fully designed project impossible unless the redevelopment adds the cost and complexity of acquiring land, and even then turns planned 10-foot paths into smaller ADA-minimum sidewalks.

     

     

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  5. 20 minutes ago, WBT said:

    Meh.  Loperfido is going to put up a Chris Carter like K rate

    I don't give a fuck. Sure, he's gonna strike out ~40% of the time. He's fast, not terrible on defense, and will hit for extra bases when not striking out. That's an improvement. 

  6. 1 hour ago, Mo Horn said:

    Obviously I don't know shit, as the markets are up. That's why I pay a financial advisor and stay in my lane. Lol

    Lulz. I had the "nailed it" gif locked and loaded for later today.

    In related news, GOOGL joins the $2T market cap club, hitting a new all-time high this morning.

  7. On 4/21/2024 at 5:47 PM, Texzilla588 said:

    We watched all four last night and it’s been a long time since I heard my wife laugh so hard out loud so much.
     

    Hah. Similar experience. We watched the first one together late Sunday night. I enjoyed it and got plenty of laughs, but was getting really sleepy by the time it ended and headed up to start getting ready for bed. Wife stayed up and watched another 2 episodes and I could hear her howling laughing multiple times as I was falling asleep. That's a rather uncommon occurrence. If anything, I'm usually the one audibly laughing when we're watching something truly funny. 

  8. SIAP, but have recently discovered a new favorite guitar channel on YT.

    If you haven't seen Jamie Robinson, he's an insanely talented player, but also a professional instructor and comes up with some great technique exercises that both sound cool and are fun to play. Also, he's got quite a collection of custom guitars.

     

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  9. On 4/16/2024 at 4:24 PM, patrickdrinksbeer said:

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    7am weekdays, 9am weekends serving Tenfold beans and pastries from Kraftsmen. And yeah, you can get a morning beer, too.

    Sweet. Gonna pop in tomorrow morning on my way home from the Y. 

    **For a coffee and quick bite, probably not a pre-work beer.

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  10. Had the pleasure of attending yet another loss today. I haven't seen a home win in person in ages. This one at least actually felt good for a while. When it was still tied with 2 outs in the Top of the 10th, I thought we might finally break the cycle. When you're the home team and hold the visitor scoreless in extras, you have a very good chance of winning in the bottom. Nope. 

    It never fails lately. On any given night, 1/3 of the team doesn't show up, and just badly enough to lose. Either the starting pitching doesn't make it out of the 3rd with under 5 runs, bullpen shits the bed in the 8th or later, or bats never show up.

    Fucking Groundhog Day:

    Starting pitching good =  We lose 2-1 or 7-1 (6 runs scored after 8th inning)

    Stating pitching mediocre = We lose 5-2 (We get a 2 run lead in the 1st, never get man past 2nd base through next 8 innings).

    Starting pitching bad - We give up 11 through 3 and eventually lose 12-7. 

    Extra Innings = Guaranteed Loss. 

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  11. 43 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

    Yes- you cannot survive in the bigs with a 35% k rate. He needs to get that down to like 25-28% to be effective at all. He’s not got crazy power or plate discipline for a big league dude. 
    hopefully soon. Like June 1st or July 1st we start to see that. 

     

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