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  1. 18 minutes ago, Somnio said:

    I'm not trying to be a dick, but why? 

    It's Spring, and I'm pretty sure we've had below average precipitation for the last few months at least.

    It's almost certainly going to be a normal Summer, meaning scorching heat and no rain for months on end is just around the corner.

    We're all supposed to be sheltering in place anyways.  The way I see it is there's no better time than now.

    And it’ll help wash out all the fucking pollen.

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  2. 4 hours ago, Gale Snoats said:

    I'm a business litigation lawyer in Austin and right there with you on the work stuff.  We're as busy as we've ever been and I'm very proud of our associates and my partners for making the transition to WFH without losing really any productivity / hours.  My main concern is how long can clients continue to pay.  

    I’m the opposite of you and Brisket. While my litigation practice has been set up to work from home when I’ve needed for the past year or so, and our whole firm, from attorneys to paralegals to staff, has done a heroic job transitioning to WFH, my work has slowed down considerably. Depositions, mediations, hearings, trial settings, all gone for an indefinite time, and may not really ramp up until May or June at the earliest. I have a few things to keep me billing each day, but it’s starting to make me nervous.

    Fortunatley I have a decent amount of savings and my expenses are manageable, so it would have to be several more months of this before I hit the panic button.

    So until work picks back up and things get closer to normal, I’ve been doing in-home workouts almost every day, I run the Town Lake trail a couple days a week before sunrise, have been trying out some new recipes, and have been fucking quite a lot.

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  3. And again this afternoon. I’m a fan of social distancing.

     

    Edit:  And in all seriousness, we’ve pretty much closed a loop, so it’s not like I’m fucking without being mindful of the current situation.

  4. 1 hour ago, Chapo said:

    Biggest money saver is no childcare

    Not for me. I need to get work done and can’t be a homeschool teacher or entertainer for my kids, so I’m still paying a nanny, and probably a few more hours a week because she’s not limited to after school care.

    For me the biggest savings are gas, dry cleaning and eating out.

  5. 10 minutes ago, The_Great_Hornsby said:

    I am actually on the side of the fence that thinks we will have college football. I think improved testing where you only need 5 minutes to tell if someone is positive or not. Plus better therapies to improve outcomes and prevent hospitalizations, will take the bite out of this illness. If we get a therapy that can reduce hospitalizations to under 1%, this is over immediately and life can return to normal. 

    But the counterpoint to the sentence in bold is what do you do once someone tests positive?  Since you can be asymptomatic for a few days and transmit to others before you show any signs, once one teammate or coach tests positive, there's a good chance others will follow, and then several players and coaches, if not all, will have to be in quarantine for some time.

    Maybe we have shit under control at that point.  Or maybe we treat it like any other injury -- if 15 members of your team coincidentally tear their ACLs in one week, well tough shit, you have to play your next opponent with a significant handicap.  That's life.  But I don't think with what we know at this point it's as easy as you say.   

  6. 14 minutes ago, BradInATX said:

    Here's how this is going to go down.

    Over the next few weeks one or two of these antivirals are going to prove to be effective enough to keep the death mostly limited to the very elderly and very unhealthy, which will allow us to open the economy back up (perhaps with some distancing measures still in place). We'll make it to a vaccine early next year. A bunch of morons will claim that they were right about it being "no big deal, just another flu" the whole time, despite the fact that the only reason we mostly made it through it was because the professionals didn't listen to the morons, and shut everything down for two months. By middle of next year everything will be fully back to normal, and we will have forgotten all of the lessons we learned. China will still be eating fucking bats and spiders and whatever other bullshit they eat. We as a country will still refuse to stock up on hospital equipment and gear that we'll need if this happens again because it would require we buy one less fighter jet. People will still profit-take every ounce of blood out of their businesses so that a one-week interruption in revenue requires bailouts, and we'll derp along until the next crisis hits with a bunch of toilet paper in our attics.

    Way she goes.

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  7. 2 minutes ago, SwanderedTalent said:

    Randolph's answers always spend way too much time in the thin tails of what "could" can be contorted to mean, instead of the bell curve of what "will" actually entails

    Given him a slight bit credit, though.  He managed to weave in another jab at aggy.

  8. If the 2020 season is cancelled and the University doesn’t refund season ticket purchases, then in light of the decline of college football attendance over the past few years, combined with the product Longhorn fans have seen on the field the past decade, there’s a strong chance the University loses a ton of good will and a significant amount of season ticket holders. Maybe a lot of folks will accept that and continue to fork over money for season tickets. I likely won’t be one of them.

    And despite RD’s obtuse response that meanders in off-point directions, there is indeed a meaningful distinction between whether a governmental entity can legally be forced to pay or refund private citizens money in light of immunity and whether it will in fact do so out of contractual obligation, good business sense, and/or public relations. Were there none, governmental entities would breach contracts or refuse refunds when paid-for goods and services aren’t not provided with impunity.

    And spare us all the do-something-or-don’t-complain mantra. It’s a fucking message board with a wide variety of topics where we all do just that, for Christ sake. If a lack of action precluded us from raising and discussing critical issues, this board would dry up.

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  9. 5 minutes ago, Randolph Duke said:

    No way, you say. Lol,

    You obviously don’t understand your available remedies.

    If the season does get cancelled, and you don’t get your money refunded, go ahead and take the university to court and tell the judge about “no way.”

    In the mean time, read up on sovereign immunity. 

    You may or may not get your money refunded. You may or may not get your payment applied to the 2021 season. You will not legally compel the state to refund your money. 

    I’m a lawyer who’s handled several immunity cases for and against governmental entities, though maybe not as many as you have. I was just asking about possible University policy. But while you’re at it you can tell me about times tables.

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  10. SIAP, but if they do cancel the 2020 season, then Shirley I'm getting my money back for season tickets, right?  I just paid $2,200 about a week before the shit really hit the fan.  I'm sure my Longhorn Foundation won't be refunded as it's an annual giving that locks in my season ticket entitlement each year, and I'm fine with that.  But no way that the University keeps all of its season ticket money. 

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  11. 10 hours ago, tantric superman said:

    Stone Roses - Stone Roses

    Not my top 10, but that's a damn good one.  Discovered it my freshman year in college and wore it out.  I heard in an interview with The Edge that U2 was listening to a lot of Stone Roses during the creation of Actung Baby and they were one of the bands that influenced the sound of that album.

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