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Paper_jam

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  1. I can't really decide. Fuck Baylor on general principles, but then I think back to the Crabtree catch in '08.
  2. Lost in a Guatemalan jungle? With the Urban Sweatsuit from J Peterman, you'll be as dry and comfortable as if you were still in your air conditioned West Side brownstone. Inspired by the practice of Central American natives who learned that lining their underclothing with shredded palm fronds would wick away sweat and odor. A patent-pending blend of natural fibers and advanced biopolymers to control moisture while still providing excellent breathability.
  3. These kids today with the dreadful, vulgar rappin music and the backward caps and baggy pants, always on the burner phones and beepers. My generation was sensible, having come of age during the estimable Reagan Era.
  4. I can't believe I bought a month of Sling just for tonight's game on LHN. (Which was choppy as fuck at 30 FPS, what the fuck, Sling, its 2023, you can't manage 60 FPS in sports?)
  5. Buncha corrupt cowards, protecting each other. We live in a banana republic. I can't wait to GTFO this state.
  6. It's not just that systems dissipate as they approach Austin from the west--the cherry on top is when they re-form into a heavy line again once they get east of here.
  7. All the heavy cells missed my hood. I doubt I've had more than two tenths out of this system.
  8. Could some of y'all experts speculate which games besides Wyoming are most likely to end up on LHN? I'm thinking about singing up for Sling Orange w/ LHN, but it's not really worth it to me unless I get at least two games within a payment period. It seems to me like the Kansas game might be something LHN picks up, but that's just a wild guess.
  9. Even at night, there's gross overuse of outdoor lighting. Almost every house in my hood keeps lights blasting (front and back yards) all night long, like it will keep the boogeyman away. One down side to energy efficient lighting is that since it doesn't impact the electric bill much anymore, there's no incentive to use restraint. We need laws to prevent light trespass--light your own property if you want, but if your neighbors can see direct glare from your unshielded fixtures you are doing it wrong.
  10. It was when the sellouts put a got dang Wendy's franchise in the Texas Union.
  11. You know it's been a bad summer when 97 feels like got damn sweater weather.
  12. Odds on that shower near Bastrop holding together & making it to South Austin?
  13. 74?! You can do better than that! I'm at 79 and have zero lights on. It doesn't feel good.
  14. I admittedly haven't followed this story closely but isn't a charge of manslaughter kind of harsh when the accused had basically every reason in the world to believe that the fucking gun that someone handed to him ON A FUCKING MOVIE SET FOR PURPOSES OF SHOOTING A FUCKING MOVIE SCENE would not be loaded with real ammo? If I'm on that jury I'd have a hard time finding that degree of guilt regardless if he pulled the trigger or not.
  15. TAMU is now a full-on, politicized hack institution. It's not a University, it's just a puppet of the Texas Legislature. It'd be funny but they're trying to do the same to UT.
  16. This gripe especially applies to online news, but print journalism as well. It's maddening how many news articles leave out critical details or information. You see reports about proposed or adopted legislation that don't identify the bill number or author. You see accident reports that have no real description of the persons, vehicles, or locations involved, or who is at fault. Crime coverage is the worst: the articles are so generic you can't even tell what really happened. A good news report should include enough detail so the reader can form a complete picture of the events in their mind. If you read a modern news article about a murder, it will go something like: "Police apprehended a person of interest after a body was found Tuesday night on the sidewalk in the 7000 block of Shipley Road. The cause of death is under investigation. A police spokesperson said the death is believed to be an isolated incident and is not a continuing threat to the public." If you read a newspaper article in 1955 about the same incident, it would read something like this: "Police arrested a male suspect, Jonathan Frakes, 29, a white man, in connection with the murder of Jennifer Jones Jackson, 22, of Pflugerville, an unmarried woman. Jackson's body was found at 10:18 PM Tuesday, on the sidewalk just outside Franklin Sporting Goods store at 7216 Shipley Road. The body had deep stab wounds to the torso and the victims' upper clothing had been removed. Police said that Frakes did not previously know the victim, but went into a murderous rage when the victim made a gesture which implied he had a small penis. This reporter interviewed a neighbor living in an apartment adjacent to Mr. Frakes' , Mr. Jake Moss, who stated that it was well known within the building that Frakes had a tendency to react violently to any sign of disrespect. Frakes was taken to Travis County Jail for holding, his arraignment is scheduled for Monday." It's like news today is intentionally sanitized to be free of details like motives, timelines, relationships, everything that would make it interesting.
  17. If, 50 or 100 years from now, there are fragmented remnants of humanity still eking out an existence in the After Times, I hope they build shittoriums where they defecate on monuments/effigies/pictures of all the people in power who let it happen--no, more like actively worked to ensure that it happened.
  18. Those water temps are scary, End of Days shit. If the ocean currents get weird and/or the marine ecosystem crashes it's game over, man.
  19. Yeah, I can't stand Rummy but I think he was pretty much on point with that quip.
  20. It seems like there should be a market for a new airline that isn't luxury, but provides just enough consideration for the customer to approximate the experience of air travel in the '80s or '90s. Like you get a free checked bag, one or two inches of extra leg and hip room, a simple free meal like a sandwich and a complimentary beverage (whole can). And free wifi and in-flight entertainment. It seems like someone could offer all of that with only a very modest increase in fares. And, if you could add to all that a rule that no kids under 5 are allowed, people would beat a path to your door. Is there no legal way to operate a baby/toddler-free airline, or is that doomed to get crushed under some kind of EEOC lawsuit? What if you structured your airline as a private club that requires membership?
  21. Just another example of the right pursuing actions and policies that result in outcomes that are directly the opposite of what they claim to be seeking. ERIC must have been finding too many fraudulent registrations on the (R) side. When Republicans talk about election security, what they really mean is making sure they have enough control over the process to guarantee or manufacture the desired outcome regardless of what the people actually want.
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