Everything posted by Paper_jam
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Fishing Megathread: Looking For Big Girls Who swallow
Anyone experienced with bank fishing at Lake Pflugerville? I've been skunked several times, mostly fishing along the south shoreline and the dam. Would I have better luck on the north side? Or that marshy area on the west side, along Becker Farm Road? Thanks for any tips... As a side note, maybe my eyesight isn't so hot, but I never see a lot of aquatic life there. (Minnows, perch, frogs, crayfish, etc.) I also rarely see bass jumping or feeding, compared to other lakes I've fished. I'm not sure that lake has a well-established ecosystem. You need that to support the gamefish at the top of the food chain.
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The ABIA Thread of Gross Incompetence
Many years ago I used Supershuttle quite a bit, but it seems like they folded during Covid, and reorganized, and now their rates are insane. I mean like 4 times what their old rates were. How is there not a van-based airport shuttle that can do it for $25 or so?
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2024 Hurricane Season thread of DOOM
I hope a Cat 5+ wipes Mar-a-Lago off the map.
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2025 Crime in the USA / Homeland Security
Pretty sure most security professionals would say carrying around that much cash is dumb. I hope this person doesn't make important decisions relating to security matters.
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Trivial Things That Make You Surly
I almost never eat at McDonalds unless external circumstances force me to, so I'm not up to date on their menu. Today, I wanted something "breakfasty" and McD's was the only thing nearby. I figure a sausage biscuit or egg mcmuffin would be a safe choice. So I go in and see some kind of breakfast combo that looks decent. Turns our I ordered something called a "McGriddle" by mistake, which on the menu board looks a lot like a biscuit. But instead of a biscuit, the top and bottom "bun" are some type of pancake saturated in a fake log-cabin syrup flavor. Yeah, it's on me for not ordering right--but here's an idea: don't sell a bunch of "breakfast sandwich" type products that look very similar on the menu. Stick with what you're known for. I bet 95% of McD's customers just want the regular biscuit or mcmuffin, not this griddle abortion that tastes like chemical death.
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Texas -- a failed state
"...university courses in Texas can't "require or attempt to require a student to adopt a belief that any race, sex, or ethnicity or social, political or religious belief is inherently superior to any other." Wait--isn't this the same thing as moral relativism? Which I thought conservatives hated? This sounds like they can't teach that White European Colonial culture is superior, or that Christianity is better than Islam. Is this like the time they accidentally banned all marriage by trying to ban gay marriage?
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Texas -- a failed state
Future generations will be indoctrinated in religious schools, taught a superficial understanding of history, and undereducated (at best) in hard science and critical thinking. A recipe for a permanent Republican majority. And the best part--we're paying for it. If the Robin Hood system is still going to exist, the City of Austin should refuse to make any more payments into it.
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Annual buttfucking with no lube, 2025 Appraisals
Mine (Travis Co., NE Austin) went down about 2-3%. My neighbors on both sides got a bigger drop, more like 6-7%. I'm jealous.
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Trivial Things That Make You Surly
It makes me surly when buy I buy a new sportcoat or suit online and the pockets come all stitched up. I'll forget this shit and only find out when I'm late for a wedding and I don't have the time or tailoring tools to fuck with this shit. Just deliver the goddamn coat with the pockets already opened.
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Tariff wars, they have began
For the ten thousandth time, "Can you imagine the reaction on Fox News if Obama had done this?"
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Non-political tariffs thread
Well at least I won't have to worry about capital gains taxes for a while, since I won't have any. On an unrelated note, where can I buy mass quantities of canned cat or dog food, cheap? I like the Mighty Dog "Seared Beef" flavor the best but willing to consider other brands if price is right.
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Everything is Shit: Tracking the Great Enshittening
And while we talk about enshittening, I'd also like to take this opportunity to complain that ALL airlines have completely fucked up up their service/ticket counter/check-in experience. They have all this counter space for customer service agents, but only put 1 or 2 overworked agents there to handle ticketing & baggage check, when there are literally mobs of people in line needing service. This is because some executive decided everyone will do all this ticketing and check-in shit electronically, but the real world isn't like that--there are situations and problems that need direct human interaction to resolve.
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Everything is Shit: Tracking the Great Enshittening
I don't fly often, but when I did, I chose Southwest most of the time, because I liked the free checked bag policy (I don't like hauling shit around airports or fucking around for overhead bin space.) I also liked their open seating. Now I have zero reason to choose SWA,
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Tourist Trip to Titanic Terribly Turns Tragic
Disney's 20,000 Leagues under the Sea ride was better-engineered that some of these contraptions.
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2025 Thread of the Rains
As soon as that wave of showers got to the north side of Austin it evaporated and retreated.
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Welcome Coach Sean Miller! What he brings to the table
I want a team with a great inside game that dominates in the paint and around the rim. A team that can penetrate and take high percentage shots, instead of passing the ball around the perimeter until the shot clock expires. Will this be that?
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2025 Thread of the Rains
All that lighting and thunder around me but only five minutes of actual rain at my house
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What makes you angry?
When people who are extremely dumb, dishonest, and/or malevolent hold positions of high authority.
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2025 Thread of the Rains
Raining at my house!?
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Abbott being Abbott
They gonna convert the rainy day fund to bitcoin.
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Covid/Influenza/Black Death. 2024 and beyond
Thankfully our Texas Legislature is tuned in to the latest science and is protecting all of us by banning mRNA vaccines (and in fact all medical treatments involving mRNA): https://kerrcountylead.com/virdell-to-lead-the-effort-to-ban-mrna-vaccines-in-texas/
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We should change the time in the middle of the day
We just need to get serious and convert to French Revolutionary Metric Time. Failing that we need full time DST because I'm a childless degenerate who never gets up before noon, and mows my yard at 9:00 at night.
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Xavier Worthy - Chiefin'
That message seems to establish motive and, at least tacitly, suggests he put hands on her. I'm not a lawyer but my instinct would be to clam up about this, at least for any public communications.
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Yogurt shop murders
I've eaten yogurt there, once, 35 years ago (roughly). I didn't murder anybody there, I promise.
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Ukraine War
Despicable and murderous. What a shitstain on the world.