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The Royal We

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  1. Brilliant. I never thought to do that. I'll put it in cleaning mode and then unplug it so the wand stays out. But yea, something else wonky is going on too. I don't know why it would yeet water across the room when the wand self cleans, but I can just leave that disabled if I can get the pressure back up. Thank you!
  2. I cleaned out the filter and it helped with the pressure, but the wand is still acting funky. I had to turn off the self cleaning function because it sprayed water across the room onto the floor after I fired it back up. 😒 Did you just soak your filter in vinegar or how else did you use it?
  3. Sad day in TRW household as after 8 years my Toto Washlet appears to be on the fritz. It started to glitch out a few weeks ago and would misfire during the self cleaning mode and spray water on the floor. Then this week I noticed that it started to deploy inconsistently and now pressure is almost gone unless I crank it up to enema mode. I think the hard east Texas water has gummed up the internals to the point where buildup is blocking the flow. Has anyone else had this problem? I'm going to make a last ditch effort to take it apart and soak the filter in vinegar to see if that fixes it, but I might be in the market for another Toto soon.
  4. The screens are a total pain in the ass and dangerous to use while driving too. The AC controls of my wife's XC 90 only being available on the screen makes me crazy. Maybe if the controls had a permanent location on the screen it would be better, but having to dig through a couple of menus while driving is horseshit.
  5. Toughen up snowflake. I agree with his analysis of diminishing supply/peak shale output due to the nature of the reservoirs, but I've heard a few other people explain that in the past. I didn't know what else from it should be required viewing. Sorry, I fully admit my bias was in play prior to even listening to the parts that I did, but it's hard not to when he chose what he did to put on the cover of his vid and chose this picture of himself. Smarmy level = 99 I guess Judge Smails had to borrow his hat?
  6. Meanwhile, over here in the real world. Would de-dollarisation drive this mythical King Dollar! your boy Adam is talking about? https://www.reuters.com/markets/currencies/de-dollarisation-could-speed-up-with-us-isolationist-policies-analysts-say-2025-03-27/
  7. Adam comes across as being full of shit on some of this. The Mar a Lago Accords (speculation) and King Dollar! aren't coming to save you.
  8. My nephew is on the Hebron team. I've got 3 kids of my own so I haven't seen them play a game yet but hope they can win it all again this year.
  9. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/04/us-oil-prices-tumble-after-opec-agrees-to-surge-production-in-june.html?__source=iosappshare|com.google.chrome.ios.OpenExtension
  10. The Royal We

    Spoon

    That’s it! Great venue.
  11. The Royal We

    Spoon

    Great thread that brings back a lot of memories. I probably listened to Spoon more than anything else circa 2002-2005. I had an old girlfriend that was a massive fan too and we'd go see them all the time at a place on 6th that had a smallish venue upstairs - 311? Mercury Lounge? I can't remember, but it was a great place to see a show that seemed waaaay too small for a band as good as Spoon. I can close my eyes with this song playing and still see Britt nailing the vocals ~10 feet from me. I haven't listened to them much in a few years. It sounds like I need to give their newer albums some spins.
  12. They'll have more time when they hand-wave the period between ~1619 - 1865 when people from Africa were being imported and given "on-the-job-training."
  13. I agree with you. But the stock is down ~40% from the 12 month high. (still ridiculously inflated) At what point do they throw him overboard?
  14. I don't know enough to say with any certainty, but it would seem like large investors would at least be members of the Elon fan boi club, if not officers of the club. Money over everything tho.
  15. Tesla is trapped wrt Elon. His cult of personality and status as a "visionary" is a large driver of TSLA's meme stock status. But his toxic political brand is incompatible with the market that is most likely to buy electric cars. It seems like the music is going to stop at some point, but I don't know if it will before Elon is able to fully pivot to Tesla being an AI company. Quite the conundrum. It seems to me that the BOD ripping the Elon band-aid off and eating the stock price meltdown shitburger now is their best chance to save the company, but I don't think that is likely.
  16. Kendall was the guest speaker last night at the Nacogdoches County Democratic Party "Beans and Jeans" fundraiser. I came away very impressed by his passion and his message of focusing on working class issues and education. He's from New Boston, TX and comes across as very genuine. Time will tell if he'll be able to make the changes necessary to actually help Dems win in Texas again, but he's a step in the right direction IMO. I spoke with him briefly afterwards and thanked him for coming to Nac and told him how great I thought his message was. I hope he is successful. Talking about why he thought he was elected as chair in a 7-way race: He also has some good thoughts around the 6:50 mark about why a lot of dem leaning people stayed home in 2024.
  17. I don't know how many times I heard about the "Trump Bump" when the stock market went up after the election/prior to the inauguration. So, that was all from the coming economic wizardry of Dear Leader, but now that he's been in office for 100 days we are still "suffering" from Bidenomics?
  18. Resident libertarian is more concerned with who is offended by certain slurs than he is by lawyers being visited by badge-less “officers” and being fired for talking to migrants. Curious.
  19. I've got two friends who bought glass rods the last few years. Both of them really seemed like they got it more for the novelty and/or to win the parking lot competition because they do look cool and are a conversation starter if nothing else. Neither one of them can cast them for shit though. It may just be that their casts are better suited and trained for a graphite rod or they were trying to throw heavier flies when I fished with them. But I don't really get it either. I need all the help I can get so I don't think I'd buy a rod that needs even more skill to cast well.
  20. You took the words right out of my mouth. Transparency in pricing is now a hostile act. JFC.
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