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  1. I vaguely remember that a cobra escaped somewhere in far North Austin 5-10 years ago, causing some consternation until they found it dead on the road.

     

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  2. 6 hours ago, ROFL BOX said:

    Quick, informal survey:

    If you have a garage, how much of it / what % is actually functional as a garage vs. has crap / household whatevers in it?

    If discussing, 1 car... 2 car... 2 car single door with a separate 1 or 2 car setup, etc.

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    My garage has about 75% of the floor area open for parking. (The rest is taken up with mowers, gardening shit, etc.) The builder called it a two-car garage but I call bullshit, it's only 18' wide so you could only get two cars in there if you have nothing else taking up floor space. There ought to be some kind of building code that requires something represented as a "two car garage" to be at least 20' wide.

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  3. Are there even statutory or regulatory codes that give TABC the authority to consider or review a private businesses' internal rule about vaccines as a factor in whether or not an establishment can hold a liquor license? Most state agencies are terrified of taking any action that isn't explicitly authorized by statute--not just in terms of the general subject area for which they are authorized to regulate, but even in the scope of authority they have to request or consider additional information not directly related to the issuance or enforcement of permits, etc.

    It would be like the Railroad Commission denying a drilling permit because RRC found out the operator was catching redfish that didn't pass the size limit.

    Edit holy shit, from that article I should have read before posting:

    "To ensure Texas businesses follow that rule, “each appropriate state agency” — in Launderette and Fresa’s case, the TABC — “will ensure businesses in this state comply,” according to the bill. These agencies can “require compliance [...] as a condition for a license, permit, or other state authorization necessary for conducting business in this state.” "

    Looking forward to the state asking Exxon, Chevron, etc. about their vaccination policies for every permit and registration they apply for.  After all, if you're checking up on the little mom and pop restaurants, it's only fair to ask the big guys, right?

     

     

     

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  4. The whole metro area (Austin/Round Rock etc.) has a severe light dome. The farther away you can get, the better, but I'd say to even get anything close to dark-ish (relatively) skies you'd need to go east of Manor or north of Georgetown, west of Cedar Park, etc. Basically outside all the suburban areas.  (If you are closer to the city, you'll probably still be able to see some brighter meteors directly overhead, but obviously darker is better.) 

    On a light pollution map, the Granger Lake area doesn't look bad, you might be able to use one of the parks there (check the hours). I've never been there at night though.

    Edit: Lago Vista and points west might also be decent, especially if you are looking to the northern or western sky.

     

     

  5. I just can't really get my head around a Texas-based aquarium. I like to fish the coast but it's not not really a blue-water-coral-reef-tropical-fish kind of habitat that I associate with aquariums.  Also, we don't have seals, sea lions, killer whales, etc. You could put some hardhead catfish and maybe a redfish or spotted trout in a bucket of oily brown water and it would be pretty representative.

     

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  6. 10 hours ago, Lobo said:

    George P. did about all he could to shore up to Commander Dipshit, so this begs the question---what did Paxton do to/for Trump to earn such an emphatic and very early endorsement?  Given the parties involved, obviously it was illegal, whatever it was.  

    Paxton filed that bogus suit with the Supreme Court trying to nullify the election results in four states.

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  7. Both of those Sony models in the original post are IPS panels, which are going to have relatively poor contrast (poor black levels).  They might be OK for a room where you watch TV with the lights on, as that will sort of mask the issue. But in a dark room they are not going to be good. 

  8. Streaming devices (like Roku) that have a terrible interface when it comes to precise forward/back control of the video. The Roku app for Youtube won't let me do anything but jump forward or back in 10-second chunks. Even on a good 1980s VCR, or a late-90s DVD player, you'd be able to rewind or advance to exactly the position you want, go frame-by-frame in slow motion, etc. Can't do anything like that on this Roku.

    Also: fuck you DirecTV for this "feature" on my DVR that auto-rewinds ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE BEGINNING if I touch the back arrow when I start playing back a recording. Usually, when I start playing back something that I stopped in the middle of, especially a sporting event, I instinctively want to rewind a few seconds to orient myself with the context of things. But, if I do that the DVR  jumps back like 3 hours to the beginning of the recording and it takes FOREVER to advance back to where I was. 

    Which reminds me:  why the fuck don't they have a way to let you make large jumps FORWARD in time on a recording or streaming video?  Like some combination where if you press "FFWD" and "3" it jumps right to 3 hours?  Just as an example.

     

     

     

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  9. 1 hour ago, tx 3 putt said:

    So 24 hr voting ban and drive thru voting ban will be challenged ?

    What’s stopping them from banning non English ballots ?

    I'm no lawyer but I'm pretty sure that alternate language ballots are federally required in areas with a significant number of  citizens that speak a non-English language as their first language. 

  10. A few days ago the Comptroller raised the revenue estimate by $7.4 billion. I'm not sure if that's just for the next year, or the full biennium, but either way it's a tidy sum that could be used for any number of good and necessary causes. In any case, is the Lege going to do anything in the special session(s) to put that money to use for the betterment of all Texans (hah) or are they just going to use it as a pretext for tax cuts for fat cats and favored industries in the next session?

     

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