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Paper_jam

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  1. Lately I've been getting a shitload of spam calls from a 424-287-XXXX numbers (I don't know anyone in Los Angeles), but they either don't speak at all or speak such broken English I can't understand them.
  2. yeah but i need oil to make the smoke tune in my bro truck go brrrrrp. Real talk: in 2024, turnout was pretty darn high, something like 88% of registered voters voted, if the numbers I'm finding are correct. About 64% of eligible voters voted. For the many eligible voters who are not registered, or the registered voters who chose not to vote, it's not clear to me that their vote would have changed the outcome. This Pew Research article suggests that, of the nonvoting bloc, 44% of nonvoters preferred Trump and 40% preferred Harris. I'd love to think that the problem is turnout, but I think the real problem is that people are malicious idiots.
  3. "Bubbles!? I'm the fucking prince of darkness!"
  4. I don't get this "in group" stuff. I went to UT and I don't remember a line on the application form asking what summer camp I went to. How would an admissions officer or whoever is reviewing & approving freshman applications even find out this kind of information?
  5. Reports that Apple is outbidding everyone else (ESPN) for the rights to cover F1 in the USA. Not sure I want to pay for another streaming service just for F1. I love it when sports franchises (looking at you, MLB) hide their product behind paywalls and end up killing interest completely.
  6. Hypothetically, if I [not a pilot] was flying a light plane and lost all or most engine power, and I believed that a crash was imminent, I might hit the fuel cutoff just before impact in the faint hope that it might reduce the extent of fire or explosion. But with a 787 full of many tons of jet fuel, I can't imagine it would make any difference.
  7. If we end up with 200 or more victims, this has to be the deadliest non-hurricane flood event in many, many years (in the US). Or does it count as a hurricane-related event?
  8. This may sound trivial in light of all the unfathomable tragedy, but is Austin going to lose the water treatment plants like in the flooding in 2018? I'd like to think Lake Travis can absorb most of this before it gets into Lake Austin, but IDK.
  9. Also, the videos I saw didn't really indicate a major nose-down movement prior to impact, and it certainly didn't look 50+ degrees nose down at time of impact.
  10. Police need to have guns that shoot nonlethal tranquilizer darts for situations like this. We can't have major transportation infrastructure shut down for hours every time one person has a bad day.
  11. What possible reason could there be for this kind of decision? Is there a huge cost savings, or is the release of this weather data to forecasters some kind of national security risk? Or is the real reason some bullshit like "weather forecasting is WOKE and we won't allow data to be collected that might further demonstrate anthropogenic climate change"?
  12. Y'all can thank me for that rain in Austin today around 3:00, I got my car washed just before. I swear an hour before there wasn't anything on radar within 20 miles and then as soon as I'm out of the car wash, sudden squall line outta nowhere.
  13. A commenter on one aviation channel on Youtube suggested that the dust was kicked up by the 787 going into the runway overrun area, but I'd take that with a grain of salt.
  14. I can't really see anything obvious from the engines to suggest bird strike(s), but it could still be the case. My unfounded speculation leans toward a) flap misconfiguration or premature retraction, (which you'd think would almost be impossible on such a modern aircraft), b) takeoff distance or load miscalculation leading to not enough speed to maintain climb once out of ground effect, or c) problem with engine power setting (autothrottle or TOGA malfunction, or human error setting throttle position for takeoff/climb). I'm not a pilot but I have a lot of hours in MSFS...
  15. Random question about UT campus that I should know: If you turn onto San Jacinto from Dean Keeton, there is a sign at that end of San Jacinto that says "No Thru Traffic--Entering University of Texas." But I don't see anything that prevents someone from using San Jacinto to drive all the way thru campus from Dean Keeton down to MLK. Why does it say "No Thru Traffic"? Is there a guard checking permits at some checkpoint or something?
  16. Just for the record, F-16s have shot down a number of Soviet-built MiGs in other conflicts, but I guess those were export MiGs operated by other governments.
  17. This POS is Travis Decker. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/grim-details-revealed-deaths-three-washington-girls-search-father-cont-rcna211044
  18. Fuckin A'. Does ESPN or somebody not have enough room on their fuckin' normal cable channels to give us a spot? I don't watch anything that requires a fucking app or specific login. UT needs a blanket policy for our three major sports: we don't consent for our games to be televised except on "mainstream" sports networks, Don't let these fuckers leverage our programs into making more money for them, at the expense of fans and the general public.
  19. No, I never saw anything like that. I was spooked by some kind of bigass gar once. This was way back in the early and mid-1980s so I don't know what may have changed there. But the public park there was a pretty decent place for bank & wade fishing.
  20. From the article: According to the AG's office, both Gonzalez Gonzalez and the unnamed man, are undocumented Venezuelan nationals :andherewego:
  21. When I was young I fished Coleto Creek lake a lot along the bank, and would just wade out far enough to cast to the outer edges of the weedbeds. It worked pretty well but I'm not really keen on wading around in murky water anymore, especially when I'm not familiar with the topography under the surface. Kayak is definitely a good way to do it, but with my body size and shape, that would inevitably result in me appearing in a viral "fat man thinks he can ride in a canoe" video.
  22. I too have a leak in my master bedroom closet. Roof was redone not even 4 years ago.
  23. we are checking
  24. This bigass storm line tracking towards Austin is going to fizzle out or change direction before it gets here
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