Everything posted by Paper_jam
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Blastfurnace 2025
It's only an "indoor day" for highs under 20 F? And 95 F can be OK, depending on humidity. Map is biased against Southern states. Like to see a version where highs under, say, 32 F are indoor days, which is a more realistic threshold IMHO. An "average" and correct-thinking person would consider 20 F considerably more unpleasant and extreme than 95 F.
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Houston Texans 2025 Season Thread
Every time I try to get into the Texans (as a backup to the Cowboys) they shit the bed so hard. Time to change the mattress again.
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2025 Game Week 4: Sam Houston @ Texas
This is kind of irrelevant now because I found a stream--but I just want a sanity check. Yesterday I checked listings on Youtube TV, and I swear it showed the Texas game on either ESPN regular, or on SEC Network (regular, no "plus," no bullshit, etc.) I selected the game to be recorded. I even checked my scheduled recordings and it showed up as a future event to be recorded. But tonight, I tune in to Youtube TV and it didn't record, and it wasn't running on ESPN or SEC Network. It turns out it wasn't carried on Youtube TV at all. Did the game get moved off the scheduled channel to ESPN+/SEC+ at the last minute? Does anyone know why? If it was always going to be this way, why did Youtube TV let me set up a recording for it yesterday?
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2025 Game Week 4: Sam Houston @ Texas
This week Arch is gonna go into Chow Yun Fat dual-wielding mode
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Formula 1 2025
Did you watch Glengarry Glen Ross and come away with the opinion that the Alec Baldwin character was supposed to be anything other than a complete shithead?
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2025 Random Games thread
I bet that dude is pulling lots of coed ass at the dorm.
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2025 Thread of the Rains
Got just a 5 minute shower today, ground is already dry again. Austin will get widespread deep soaking rain soon right?
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Dallas Cowboys 2025 season thread: 8-9 and divine. The world according to Jerry
Jerry you dumb greedy fuck.
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Non-political tariffs thread
Are menu prices at Indian restaurants going to go up?
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Trump’s America
Laying the groundwork for overturning or nullifying the results of an election that doesn't go MAGA's way. #1 Enact rules to make it harder for voters who are not MAGA to register or vote. (Restrictive voter ID measures, selectively control polling locations, eliminate early voting, mail voting, etc.). #2 Make rules that dilute the influence of those voters, if they still manage to vote. (Gerrymandering, electoral college, etc.) #3 Establish mechanisms to overturn elections with an outcome you don't like, in case you still lose in spite of #1 and #2, #4 Do away with elections altogether?
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Let's figure out the cheapest option to watch the most games possible 2025
OK that was weird... there was a lag so I hit "reply" a couple of times and ended up with duplicate posts. Sorry!
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Let's figure out the cheapest option to watch the most games possible 2025
YTTV & Fox: fix your shit and stop trying to minmax your fucking quarterly earnings using football as a hostage. Somewhere in my junk pile I have an old OTA antenna but I don't want to fuck around with my TV setup to hook it up. Plus I much prefer to watch games on DVR so I can skip ads.
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2025 Thread of the Rains
Motherfucker all the good heavy stuff jumped over me or just slightly west of me. Why is it so scattered and random. One guy can get nothing while a half mile down the road someone else gets 3 inches.
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Why Can't I Quit You, Austin?
Bridge looks really nice but if there's no shade I bet it's hot as fuck in the summertime.
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What the fuck is wrong with you, Austin?
While we discuss fine Italian cusine, I hate to break it to everyone, but the Johnny Carino's Tech Ridge location closed recently.
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¡Snek!
Snek is not up to code. (Not equipped with backflow prevention device.)
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Medical Scam Spam Calls
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.
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corporation for public broadcasting shutting down
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.
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2025 Celebrity Death Pool
"Bubbles!? I'm the fucking prince of darkness!"
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July 4th Hill Country Flooding Tragedy
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?
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Formula 1 2025
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.
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Air India B787 crash
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.
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July 4th Hill Country Flooding Tragedy
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?
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2025 Thread of the Rains
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.
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Air India B787 crash
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.