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The Royal We

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  1. First pass. It's hard not to take Scottie in the A group, but surely there's no way he can continue the torrid pace he's been on. Right? This article gave me ideas for the 4, 5, 6 guys. https://golf.com/lifestyle/2024-masters-sleeper-picks-break-out-augusta-national/
  2. Taking my first stab at a Masters pool and Tier 5 and 6 feel like such a crap shoot. I don't like any of these guys to make the cut. Especially if the weather is shit on Thursday and Tiger and Phil have to play 36 on Friday. Maybe Zach Johnson in 6. I feel like he's got a decent chance to make the cut.
  3. This can't be said enough. I mentioned it already, but we almost didn't leave the house because of the weather and the fact that our house was going to get 98% totality. This thread and comments like this one were the nudge I needed to insist to my wife that we were going even if it was a 50/50 shot that we could even see it. After experiencing totality, I'd drive a long way and put a lot of energy into a 10% chance to experience it again.
  4. 1000% We listened to The Daily on the way out there and "Mr Eclipse" was talking about how impactful his first total eclipse was on the rest of his life. I honestly thought it was a little much and maybe he was just a wackadoodle. Nope. I get it now. All three of my kids really enjoyed it too. My middle son is skeptical of pretty much everything and I could tell leading up to today that he was happy to get out of school and was humoring me with his interest, but that shit went out the window the moment totality hit. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/08/podcasts/the-daily/mr-eclipse.html
  5. Man, that was fucking incredible. We ended up on the shore of Richland-Chambers lake at a public boat ramp park and there were only 3 other cars out there to see the eclipse. The clouds started to break on the way out there and by the time we started to notice it getting darker it was pretty much clear. We had ~3:30 of totality pretty much unobscured, so I'm very glad we decided to take the kids out of school and still go for it. Thank you to the people on this thread for saying 99% isn't in the same ballpark as 100%. Taking the glasses off and observing totality withe naked eyes is one of the coolest things I've ever seen in my life. We could've stayed home and seen 98% coverage, but... ain't no fucking ballpark, ain't even the same league, it ain't even the same fucking sport. No traffic at all going or coming. Got back home around 4pm and the heavens opened up about 4:15. I'm feeling so damn lucky that everything came together like it did and that we got to experience it as a family.
  6. A pallet, some chain-link fence, car batteries, a few knockoff Pelican cases, plywood and a handful of reversed cell phone boosters - all held together with what looks like clothesline wire. I think I might be able to build one of these in my garage right now.
  7. Man, that's a random ass place to buy a house. I'm thinking somewhere around Cayuga is where we'll end up. I'm definitely overthinking this, but having 3 kids and my wife stuck in the car with me for 4 hours because the traffic was insane sounds....not fun.
  8. I've had a family member do this to me too. "Every time we talk about politics you say things that make me feel like I'm stupid." Well then stop bringing up the latest BS thing you heard at the hair studio and I'll quit giving you my opinion. I don't think you're stupid, I just think you are getting terrible information and you're not thinking critically about it.
  9. Thank you, I saw that but forgot about it. According to that, traffic was much heavier in populated areas. The shitty weather will also cause quite a few people to stay home or seek an area with better weather too.
  10. I'm thinking the opposite on the bigger cities vs. some random rural road. It seems like people coming from further east will be going to bigger towns. I'm in Nacogdoches and have been planning on going almost due west to find a spot along 287 on the other side of Palestine. The path of totality looks to cross this area 10-15 miles west of Palestine on 287. What's the consensus, a bigger city like Tyler where they have better infrastructure or a more rural place where there should be fewer people? My plan has been to find somewhere in the red circle that has a larger shoulder where we can turn around and be pointed back to home and safely watch from the side of the road. Will areas like this be all jammed up too?
  11. I think we'll have two guys there. I'm not one of them unfortunately. Maybe keep the snuff in your pocket on the airplane, mmmmkay?
  12. Thank you for sharing. I was unaware that you could get an ag exemption for keeping bees. I've got 7.5 acres and have been reading all morning on the Texas Beekeepers Association website about how I can make this happen.
  13. It's such a fucking bailout too. These fucks know they are supporting some bullshit but still do it because tax cuts or woke or whatever the fuck scare porn has been playing on FNC recently.
  14. Try not to suck any dick on your way to the parking lot.
  15. It's not a bad thought, but I'm not sure he would have seen the error of his ways and sought new sources of information if I'd only have asked him where he got his information all 37 times he spouted some obviously made up bullshit. Where did you get this information that approaching conversations like you suggest has been successful in cutting through people's echo chamber of bullshit? I'm willing to try anything because I've certainly not made any headway with what I'm doing.
  16. I get what you're saying but we were sitting at a breakfast table having a conversation. I wasn't going to whip out my phone and pull out a news source that he would hand-wave away anyway. (I don't think I'm going to find a link on foxnews.com that shows an accurate depiction of murder rates) So I rolled my eyes and laughed in his face - ahhhhhhh, of course, the statistics are made up!!!! I think this is as big of a part of it as anything else. My mom got off Facebook (I think when they started taking down obvious Covid disinfo) and is very active (not sitting in front of the TV on Fox all day), but the people she spends time with are absorbing this BS in all their waking hours. So even though my mom isn't getting on FB everyday, she's still inundated with the same horseshit. She gets it at the hair salon, at the Mahjong game, at trivia night at the only good pub in town, etc. It's an echo chamber of bullshit and it's very rare that these people come across someone like me who will push back/call them out/shame them/laugh in their face. They are shocked to encounter someone that completely disagrees with them about most things while still looking and sounding like them.
  17. I think there's a decent chance both of my parents are going are going to be in the same bucket. They're in Texas so it won't make a shit, but hopefully there's a decent amount of these people in swing states. eta - my mom brought him up last summer and asked if I thought he had a chance to "make things interesting in the election." I was engulfed in the ranch waters and told her I didn't think he had a snowball's chance in hell. Looking back I should have talked RFK up more...
  18. I actually had a conversation with my old boss about this a few weeks ago. He was convinced all of the big cities were in the middle of a huge spike in violent crime. When I told him the actual statistics did not support his argument he told me "Oh yea, I have heard that, but it's just that the FBI has been under reporting the crimes." How in the fuck do we deal with this? I know it's something that comes up on here daily, but how can you reach people like this if we can't even agree on a shared reality? This is a smart and very successful person - he just won't accept any data that doesn't support is priors. I just shook my head and laughed in his face.
  19. Space City Weather guys are saying the forecast is pretty grim for all of Texas being able to see the eclipse.
  20. Pffft. Do you even gain of function bro!?
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