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  1. 1 hour ago, D3zii said:

    Might be the coolest video I’ve ever seen from the Texas media department

    from coming out to the boo’s, to Quinn being in aww of the atmosphere, to hearing the cheers and Texas fight simply amazing!!! 

     

    Is this available somewhere in better quality? Twitter is...not a great platform for video.

  2. 7 hours ago, Longboard Horn said:

     

     

    My God... $@.50 for a fucking ticket to a game! What a time to be alive!

    Yeah, but $2.50 in 1962 is equivalent to $25-30 today, so not as cheap as it sounds. (But still cheap compared to current tix)

  3. On 7/10/2022 at 7:49 PM, VABuckeye said:

    They didn’t replay Grosjean’s accident until he was safely out of the car.  Same with Zhou. It’s SOP if there’s an accident that looks bad. 

    The coverage now seems really sanitized, compared to how I remember crashes and injuries being covered on American TV in the 70s and 80s. ABC's coverage of the Indy 500 routinely showed guys on fire and limp bodies hanging out of shattered racecars, replayed from every possible angle.

     

  4. If we get to a point where a state legislature sends electors that pick a candidate who didn't win the election, the people of said state need to burn it all down.

     

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  5. Surly today because I have at least SIX partially-full spray bottles of Tilex, Tru Grit Bathroom Cleaner, etc. which I can't use because the spray pump mechanism doesn't work, leaks excessively, or just breaks off. Including two almost full bottles. Now I have a bathroom cabinet full of household haz waste that I can't use or dispose of easily.

    When you put caustic chemicals in a plastic spray bottle, for fucks sake use high quality chemical-resistant materials that are appropriate for the fucking job. All the people who design and sell shitty container packaging like this should be EXECUTED and I will happily pull the trigger myself.

     

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  6. A decade or two ago, you'd hear a lot about Africanized bees in Texas, and after an attack like this there'd always be something said about getting some kind of analysis done to confirm if the swarm was Africanized or "standard."  But in recent fatal bee attacks I rarely even see that question asked or answered. Are Africanized bees still a thing here?

     

  7. I keep hearing suggestions that high energy prices are because environmental nuts have killed production of fossil fuels. But based on the data I can find, domestic oil production is only a few percent down from it's high (2019): 
    2018: 5,588,101,000 barrels of crude oil + petroleum products  
    2019: 6,246,598,000 barrels of crude oil + petroleum products 
    2020: 6,023,457,000 barrels of crude oil + petroleum products  
    2021: 6,052,509,000 barrels of crude oil + petroleum products 

    The EIA says 2022 oil production is running above 2021, and forecasts that 2023 will set a record for US crude oil production.

    https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/report/us_oil.php

    When it comes to natural gas, the story is about the same--steadily increasing US production with a peak in 2019, a slight decline in 2020, and we are now nearly back up to 2019 production levels.

    So at least for oil & gas, the numbers I can find don't support the theory that we've slashed production. Whether current production is enough to keep up with demand is another matter.

    Now coal production in the US has indeed fallen off a cliff in the last 10 years. I'm not too broken up about that as coal is nasty and I'd prefer it only be used in situations where natural gas isn't available in sufficient quantities.

     

     

     

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  8. It looks to me like Travis County new cases are creeping up to (very roughly) 200+/day, where we were more like 100/day a month ago. That's based on the DSHS data in the lower left panel of the site linked below. I hate to see the trend inching up, but I'm certainly not surprised given that so many people, including me, are back in the office, starting to dine out, travel, etc.

    https://austin.maps.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/39e4f8d4acb0433baae6d15a931fa984

     

     

  9. 2 hours ago, longhornmatt said:

    I just want to say I’m on the side of the guy who used a BOGO coupon on a first date and not the stuck up girl who can’t appreciate a frugal partner.  Also, my thoughts on this matter may or may not be influenced by the amount of purchases my wife made on our AMEX last month.

    Using a BOGO is fine with me; the even more pro move would be to get her to pay for the "buy one" part.

    Yeah I'm still single why do you ask?

     

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  10. I can see a point not too far off where my property taxes will equal or exceed my federal income tax liability, unless my income goes up a lot unexpectedly. (And I only own one home.) Glad I bought when I did--despite a higher salary now than in 2002, I couldn't buy my own house again based on it's current value and my current salary.

  11. Let's say I live in Austin and want to watch Astros games this season. I have Youtube TV as my provider. What channel(s) are going to carry the Astros?

    (This is where you tell me, silly boy, the Astros games won't be on any regular basic cable network, they're only on some AT&T-exclusive bullshit. And even if an Astros game happens to fall onto a basic cable channel, it's going to be blacked out in Austin for reasons.)

     

     

  12. I hope it's OK to start a thread on this; I ran a search and found threads for prior tax years, but not for TY 2021.

    To start things off, I'll ask about something that happened to my TY 2020 return, which may affect my filing for TY 2021. This is a 1041 return for a family trust. For TY 2020, when preparing the 1041 I calculated that I had overpaid by (approximately) $2000. Instead of requesting a refund, I selected the choice to have that overpayment credited to my future 2021 return.

    A few months after filing the 2020 return, I received a terse notice from IRS stating that I owed an additional $700 (roughly), which I paid promptly by check. The notice did not indicate how the IRS arrived at the additional amount due, or what it meant for the amount that I had previously requested be applied to my 2021 taxes. So now I'm uncertain if I can still claim that full $2000 amount as a credit towards my 2021 taxes, as intended, or if some or all of it was actually "consumed" by the IRS towards my 2020 tax liability, which was apparently more than I had calculated.

    When a taxpayer indicates the choice for an overpayment to be credited to next year's return, does IRS "lock it in" for only that purpose, or can IRS apply some or all of that "overpayment" amount to the current-year tax due, if additional tax liability is discovered? Thanks for any feedback.

  13. If shit were to hit the fan,  what are the most likely targets (in Central Texas) for a strike? Warhead counts are not as high now as they were 30-40 years ago, so I don't know if we'd just have one or two bombs coming to our fair city, or a whole slew of them. I'm not a Russian war planner but off the top of my head, the following come to mind:  

    Downtown Austin & Capitol area

    UT area

    ABIA

    Pickle Research/IBM area

    Decker power plant

    Fayette power plant

    Samsung plant

    Fort Hood

    Mansfield Dam?

    Cedar Park & Round Rock?

    and lots of military stuff in/around San Antonio

     

  14. On 3/6/2022 at 12:33 PM, synoptic said:

    This is correct.  The most accurate and reliable Russian ballistic missiles are the Bulava SLBM and the Yars ICBM.  That is what they will likely lead with and what a given city has the greatest chance of getting hit with.  Both of these have 100 - 200 kT war heads.  A 200 kT warhead has a fireball/instant vaporization radius of less than half a mile.  The kill radius is much larger than that, but if you aren't within half a mile of a strike, chances are you won't be vaporized.

    https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/  

    What concerns me is that if you're far enough away from potential targets that you don't get vaporized immediately, but still within 10 miles or so, it may take some time (a number of seconds anyway) for the blast wave to reach you...during which time you will be literally roasting alive from the radiant heat of the fireball. It would be anything but a quick, painless death.

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