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Skipper

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  1. Car Dealership Guy is a good twitter follow on car market, interest rates, delinquencies etc. As you would expect, big picture is popular vehicles/brands still doing well. But some (specifically Stellantis) increased pricing way too much during inflationary period and nobody is buying their inventory at current pricing. Unfortunately what we are looking at are in the popular category so not much movement on pricing to date.
  2. Yeah, I'm personally enjoying the cash return right now and selfishly hoping rates staying high continues to put a strain on new car sales since I'm in the market over next few months (so I might be able to get pricing at actual MSRP or less instead of garbage dealer add-ons). But I'm very interested to see what happens to consumer delinquency curves. They keep ticking up but I feel like it's only a matter of time until we see a more meaningful jump. But I've been thinking that for almost a year now so who knows.
  3. That was fun last night. First time at the arena, for me at least, that it really felt like hockey season. It was significantly more lively than the October and November weeknight games I attended where the arena felt dead. I really think football needs to end + combo of tight race and checking scores/standings daily to get into hockey mode at least in my mind.
  4. I've never understood Hamas' actual strategy or goal with respect to the 10/7 attack but maybe you just articulated it. Get Israel to kill as many Palestinians as possible to extend multi-generational jihad. Which would also explain to date their approach to recent cease-fire negotiations.
  5. This time last year I never would have thought we would go through the first quarter of 2024 without cutting rates. Now we may make it through the 2nd quarter.
  6. This is why nobody posts in this thread. It's turned into a group think circle jerk where any statement other than "Fuck Israel" is met with responses like this.
  7. It was probably talked about in this thread. But really think Kyle should have taken a TO before either of those crucial 3rd downs where they blitzed the fuck out of them. Perfect defensive playcall against a young QB that is pressing. Take a TO there, settle your guy down, and prepare him for what's coming (and get into the right play call if it does).
  8. Yeah, I don't think anyone can advise you all because season tickets were plentiful when we were winning 5 to 7 games with marquee opponents being Tech, ISU and KSU. There were quite a few games over the past 20 years I've had season tix that I couldn't give tix away. The increased demand with a waitlist is new.
  9. God damn, make one fly by statement about a nutty person (in my opinion which I stand by) and the fucking Covidian Cloak Roomers swarm. Made my points but out of this convo. You guys have fun.
  10. Nice red herring in the first sentence. If you want a substantive response, I don't think I took a position in posts above on low risk vaccinations. But you are correct in your assumption that I see no real benefit at an individual level (in particular given in many cases negative vaccine reaction is similar to actually contracting the disease). I'm not sure I agree with your assertion that vaccinating low risk people materially impacts death or severe disease in high risk people. Do you have any data to back that up? Because I don't recall seeing data that "cases" or "infections" are materially mitigated by a vax since the O.G. vax (i.e., until it mutated via Delta). It's a big reason why way back in 2021 I was pro vaccine mandate until I wasn't. Because post Delta the data did not support that vaccination was materially reducing the spread (it was still reducing severity, so it was still a decent debate at the time given hospital capacity issues). Do you have new data that supports your position? I know how much you hate anecdotal data but most of the (few) people I know who have actually gotten a vax in the past year also got Covid in the past year (both parents, aunt + wife's low risk friend that led to my initial response). Also observational but Anastasis made the point above he sees no real correlation. To be clear, I'm entirely supportive of my 70+ parents getting annual vaccinations. As you admitted, the death data posted above is not responsive to actual points made that got you worked up. But since you like to make global warming analogies if anyone makes anecdotal observations, here is hospitalization data for under 40 which is a better reference for what we were actually talking about (i.e., risk evaluation). Note that this data does not net out high risk under 40 (which I would expect make up the majority of hits) and also doesn't appear to distinguish "with COVID" vs. "for COVID", yet even without those potential (material) differentiators, still proves the point about risk evaluation quite nicely IMO. CDC COVID Data Tracker: Hospital Admissions
  11. I'm saying I don't know of (or even heard indirectly of) a single person in real life that is "low risk" and has had what I would consider a "bad" COVID experience since the OG Delta 2021 wave and the people I'm thinking of that had their ass kicked back then were not vaccinated. I think for those loaded with Covid antibodies (as almost everyone other than Longhorn94 is, whether natural, vax or for most, both) there is likely material more value to getting a flu vaccine as the flu is much more likely to kick your ass. Like I said, it was initially an evaluation of some in our society that have seemingly lost the ability to evaluate risks post COVID but have clearly touched a nerve.
  12. On the drive home I did catch Corby and Dave in character as gay secessionists interviewing some poor unsuspecting practice squad player. It wasn't the quality of some of the great bits from the past, but I did chuckle out loud a couple of times. I'm actually interested to hear about 10 minutes of the U2 reviews tomorrow as the concert/experience sounds cool and I haven't read any detailed reviews online to date, but I suspect @Jive Turkey is right and that topic dominates airtime.
  13. Alright, clearly the local Covidians still lurk in any Covid topic. I'll see my way back out. I just can't imagine living in the year 2024 in a low risk category and having a single ounce of anxiety about Covid. I've had both COVID and flu the past 2 months or so, and just as I would have expected, flu was 5X the misery (and that is with getting the annual flu vax but no Covid booster since the OG shot).
  14. Here you go. an altered or impaired sense of taste. diarrhea. increased blood pressure. muscle aches. abdominal pain. nausea. feeling generally unwell. I don't "care" per se. It's an evaluation that COVID has completely broken some people's brains (i.e., Exhibit A of absolute "lowest" risk (young, healthy, 10+ combined natural/vax antibody and T cell memory creating exposures with no remotely concerning impact to date) yet still fear it as though they are high risk without any ability to differentiate or analyze that distinction). I can't imagine a well informed Dr. would actually prescribe a prescription drug targeted at high risk individuals in this scenario (but any doc in the box quack can obviously if you ask for it).
  15. I'm sorry. Someone healthy, under 40, with 6 or 7X vax antibodies plus 3 or 4X natural antibodies (in a 3.5 year period) getting a prescription drug that is not recommended for them (i.e., no "high risk") is not "cautious". It's a complete inability to understand or evaluate risk.
  16. Just heard the craziest COVID people I know (somewhat friend of my wife and her husband) contracted COVID for a documented 4th (or maybe 5th?) time (I'm guessing they test about 50X per year with every sniffle). Under 40, completely healthy, have gotten every booster within days of it being available, never had an issue with actual COVID beyond a minor inconvenience (including multiple confirmed infections before Paxlovid existed), and I heard they immediately went and got a Paxlovid prescription in a panic. Just blows my mind how some people loaded with antibodies and actual experience with the disease still fear it like its April 2020. It just broke some people.
  17. Echo what everyone else is saying. In prior years this was prime ticket listening. I've tried (including listening to some top 10 on the app) and yet to hear a segment I find really compelling or funny. I mean they are in fucking Vegas. Came here to see if I was just somehow missing the good stuff. Agreed loss of D&J really apparent so far this week.
  18. So what does this do to the YTTV's of the world. I'm assuming they (the new streaming service whatever it will be called) are probably going the Bally's (attempted) model (i.e., no longer negotiate in good faith when contract is up for renewal so eventually you have to subscribe in order to watch sports) except I would also assume they aren't completely incompetent and will wait until their platform is actually operational before taking that step. But if any renewals are up before they are operational it could get messy as the existing streaming services well aware they are losing content in the near term will likely try to max profits while they can.
  19. Had to kill some time solo parenting with the kids (7 and almost 5) this past weekend and took them. They loved it. Already asking to buy it on streaming (which apparently you can). I had zero expectations so going in from that perspective enjoyed it as well. I thought it was really well done overall.
  20. I saw this terrible take on Twitter. I'm guessing it was on the show as well. Bob sucks.
  21. Yeah, I can't handle Cowboys talk on any platform. I just don't give a shit. It's a big part of why my listening flips heavily in favor of XM84 during the fall. I make sure and catch the HL Klatt segment each week and will listen to Mavs/Stars/Rangers or non-sports segments here and there but not near as much Ticket listening in the fall.
  22. Last few pages of this thread are fucking ridiculous. Shit is getting worse than the football board.
  23. Yeah I'm going to check it out. I mean I still enjoy the hardline most of the time despite Bob and Corby's incompetence as it relates to college football topics.
  24. So you are trying to defend lazy and stupid sports takes? I don't care if it's about Texas. A lazy or stupid CFB take by anyone is pretty much auto tune out for me on principle. It drives me crazy when people that are "sports talk professionals" are too lazy to know WTF they are talking about. And it happens with CFB all the time at the Ticket (and apparently still on Jake and Dan's podcast). We all have full time jobs in "not sports" and 90% of this board has more general college football knowledge than these idiots do.
  25. If he said "Texas isn't ready for Miss St" (whether talking about the team or the fans) that's just idiocy. There is really nothing I can't stand more than terrible college football sports talk. I listen to Sirius XM84 90% of drive time during the college football season for a reason. Much better quality than the Ticket (which is just terrible at it). When Corby is your "expert" and I know more about his own team than he does, that says it all. Jake actually used to have decent takes (I liked the BAD radio segment with McElroy at least) but yeah, if they want me to make the effort to find their podcast (instead of just hitting a preset button while driving) going to have to have better takes than that.
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