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Paper_jam

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  1. Surly posters, can we throw enough money together for a plane ticket for uncle?
  2. Look on the bright side. This action by the very-concerned-about-consumers AG's office surely means we will soon see similar actions against the shitton of misrepresentations and fraud committed by other industries in Texas. Like, say, car dealerships; oil, gas & chemical; energy conglomerates, and so on, I mean it's the AG's office, that's a respected state institution. It's not like they're just going to selectively target prosecutions to score cheap political points. That would be something that happens in a banana republic.
  3. It can happen. I remember flying out of ABIA early one morning just before Christmas (about 20 years ago) and there were tornado warnings and torrential rain. We went into the bathrooms to get away from the terminal windows.
  4. Is there even a comics section in the Daily Texan anymore? For that matter, is there still a Daily Texan? Robert Rodriguez had a pretty good strip (Los Hooligans) in the early '90s.
  5. I'm sure** the actual contract language is more specific, but from that summary, from the structure of those bonuses it's not explicitly clear that he only gets the highest applicable bonus. (For example, I'm assuming A&M intended that if he wins the CFP, he gets the 3.5 M bonus, but not all the preceding lesser bonuses too.) ** well, it is aggy so I'm not actually sure
  6. Deep State Activation Alert: Initiate psyop module Fisher2, codeword "Elkhunter"
  7. https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/texas-gov-greg-abbott-delivers-meals-to-homebound-austinites-thanksgiving-morning/ Conservative politicos love to be seen serving meals in a soup kitchen for a few hours a year, or doing other charity photo-ops, while simultaneously advancing policies that don't support (or actively harm) the vast majority of people in poverty or people at economic risk. I guess they either see no hypocrisy in that, or they don't care about the hypocrisy. Or they have some twisted justification that it's somehow bad or wrong when assistance comes from the government but it's OK if the assistance is coming from the religious establishment. If I was ever in a role of authority in a nonprofit or church institution and one of these tools wanted to do a self-aggrandizing photo op I'd tell them to go pound sand.
  8. 128 possible outcomes?! If only we had available to us some type of calculating machine, capable of rapid computations and the application of rigorous logic, that could solve for these outcomes and lay forth a definitive and complete analysis of this seemingly impenetrable mystery.
  9. Neighborhood book clubs have a lot more drama than I thought
  10. Oh, please may I be the first driver to go over one of the reworked holes full of quickpatch at 200 MPH? That sounds super safe.
  11. Sark has a Commodore 64 in Belmont running simulations of every possible scenario in a continuous updating loop. They got this. (The same computer is used to compute game day halftime adjustments.)
  12. Was the old Bonanza chain better, worse, or same as Golden Corral or Sirloin Stockade? Somehow I never made it to a Bonanza before they went belly up.
  13. I was hoping this was the start of a new Holiday Season Family Bitch thread but I guess it's still a little too early to start that. But Thanksgiving is just around the corner!
  14. Y'all are pretty hard on Dusty. Baseball isn't all statistics and logic and beep boop decisions arrived at through methodical reasoning. Baseball is magical. It's instinctive. It ebbs and flows with the intangible, unquantifiable currents of the universe. Sometimes you just have to close your eyes, turn off the targeting computer, and trust in the force.
  15. On defense? Well, we didn't allow** their QB (or anyone else) to run on us. (But giving up so much in passing kind of diminishes that.) We also recovered a fumble and got one interception. On offense: our running game was pretty solid, when Sark would actually put in running plays other than "run into the pile in the middle." We didn't give up any fumbles or interceptions.
  16. Giving up 378 passing yards against a team that only had 233 passing yards against UTSA does not make me feel good about this secondary. Heck, UTSA held UH to 17 total points.
  17. I don't have kids so I've been saving the state a small fortune for years. Do I get a voucher?
  18. How the fuck does this family dollar min wage Purdy punk who looks like a 15 year old kid dominate and shred the vaunted Dallas Cowboy defense like tissue paper? Zillion dollar Dak is completely helpless (yeah, the OL sucks, the receivers can't get open, but I'm used up on excuses for Dak . The 49ers look like a well oiled football machine, quick and precise and creative. Dallas plays like a janky random pile of spare parts with no coherent execution or plan. Dallas only looks good when they play the worst teams in the league.
  19. Line needs to build up more to the west
  20. Is tonight's game available on TV in Austin?
  21. I hear the updated vaccines upgrade real-world content to 4K HDR.
  22. It's hard to believe how much it's changed in a generation. I was admitted to UT in '89 and it seemed like you could be a total mushroom and still get in with nothing more than a pretty good SAT (1250+). I don't think there was an essay, or any real need for extracurriculars. UT even threw money at me even though my family had no financial need., Tuition was like $400-500 a semester those first couple of years. I was practically making a profit.
  23. Fucking horrid game. Got beat badly by a bunch of scrubs and losers. We can't contain this fucking Dobbs guy? Why the fuck is the end zone like Kryptonite to Dallas? Shameful loss.
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