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  1. 6 minutes ago, StassneyHorn said:

    This President has shown he can do a hell of a lot to lower gas. Last President absolutely showed his words move markets. Miss me with that.

    We are popping champagne. You’re saying vague, elementary shit like watch out something bad can happen and calling that a historical fact. 
     

    You were warned, but now I have to ban you from this thread.

    neg for all this and you're kind of being a dick.  WTF.

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  2. 29 minutes ago, elguapo said:

    The problem for me at least is his music is just not that interesting 

    Seth Meyers Lol GIF by Late Night with Seth Meyers

    Its chill music... good for driving, hanging out, etc but we all have different tastes so that's cool.

    20 minutes ago, CooterBrown said:

    Picked up tickets to see Sisters of Mercy. Really excited for the opener, Blaqk Audio.

    Thinking about this, too.  I've heard mixed reviews on the shows but I used to love the Sisters of Mercy.  

  3. 32 minutes ago, C-Man said:

    stc's crusade against Goth Babe is weird. I had no idea Griff was that polarizing to anybody. I mean, it's not like we're talking about Phish or something. 😁

    Yeah, Griff seems to be a cool and genuine guy, lives his life surfing and living on a sailboat and advocates for mental health and some good causes.  Don't see the issue.  

  4. 11 minutes ago, C-Man said:

    Same. Seen him just the one time in Dallas last year and loved it. Looking forward to the September return to Dallas.

    Saw him at ACL then Stubb's.  Just good vibes all around at his shows.  He's a great example, as stc will attest, of finding a new band (new to me) courtesy of ACL.  Dope Lemon, Genesis Owusu, Past Lives, etc were bands I got to enjoy for the first time at ACL.  

    stc - wait 'til you find out I have been Oliver Tree twice.

  5. 17 hours ago, Dignan said:

    We have a trip booked in June for two weeks. Me, the wife, 17 year old son, and 9 year old daughter. yay. :) Expecting a few "I AM TIRED" from the daughter, but, should be fun.

    We are flying from Austin to Frankfurt to Milan (1 night; cheaper flights) - Venice (3) - Florence (3) - Rome (4) - La Spezia (Cinque Terre) (2) then back to Milan for a flight out.

    We planned the whole thing on our own and are hoping we don't over do it. We are pretty much doing all of the touristy stuff since we are first-timers. 

    Milan: Duomo
    Venice: St Mark's, Doge Palace, explore the city, Lido di Jesolo for a bit
    Florence: Uffizi, Duomo Firenze, Accademia, half day driving to Pisa
    Rome: Vatican, Pantheon, Collosseum (haven't gotten tickets yet), etc.
    La Specia: Train to Cinque Terre

    We are staying in airbnbs mostly and have had a fun time getting on Google Earth to check out the surroundings. 

    You'll have a great time no matter what.  See the Castello Sforzesco in Milano.  I went there one Ferragosto weekend and the town was E M P T Y and walking around there was so peaceful.  

    Venice, if you go to Lido, find a nice beach bar/club where you can enjoy chilling for the day, having lunch, aperitive time.  I imagine its not much different than a place like Rimini but more expensive.  Just get into the rhythm of the day.  For Venice, believe me... the further from San Marco, the better the prices and food quality.  San Marco should be explored by try to stay in an area like Dorsoduro and just wander backstreets looking for places that serve cichetti.  You will get lost but Google maps will help you out.  

    Rome, explore some of the off-the-beaten path places that are likely to be much less crowded.  Sometimes its nice to get into a park and just chill out for a bit.  We used to like to go to Villa Celimontana, not far from the Colosseum.  Near there you can visit something like this which should be quiet... https://www.coopculture.it/it/poi/case-romane-del-celio .  Also, duck into random churches.  I used to like going into Basilica dei Santi XII Apostoli since it was a beautiful church and usually empty.  Also, check out lesser-visited museums like Palazzo Venezia.  June will be a beating in Rome so seek quiet moments.  Trust me.  I've spent an awful lot of time in Rome and now we spend our time in Italy elsewhere.  I've been many times and there's a lot I have not seen so Rome can be visited many many times and each visit can be different.  Agree about going to Tazza d'Oro.  Get the granita.  Also, go to Ostia Antica and/or The Appian Way.

    Our summer trip in Italy will be based in Mattinata, Puglia and Rimini in Romagna with little stops on the coast in Le Marche and probably time spent in Bologna to see friends.

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  6. 17 minutes ago, HookEm said:

    Smells like money.

    I lived northeast of town and I never got the stench.  My wife lived west of town and it would sometimes get bad. But they also had a big variety of animals (cows, pigs, sheep, goats, chickens) and so it never exactly smelled like a hospital anyway.

    I did enjoy being so close to New Mexico.  The mountains were less than 3 hours away if you drove fast.

    I'll be honest I can't imagine growing up out there... but I can see the benefit of wasting as much time as possible traveling out to Taos.

  7. 10 minutes ago, BehoId, The Underminer! said:

    really interesting study on change of number of donors by county.  a nice measure of support i've not seen looked at.  so you're not just looking at numbers, but the change since 2020, which is useful to compare against because you know who won each state in 2020.

     

    https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/16/us/elections/biden-trump-donors.html

     

    AZ: Biden (left), Trump (Right). Green is positive delta against 2020, orange negative.

     

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    So if I'm reading that correctly, Biden making massive gains in PHX and Tucson while Trump is hemorrhaging money there.  Looks like Biden not doing great in Vegas but while Trump has made some gains, it looks like they are offset by losses.  

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  8. I have a question about a show this fall at the Moody Amphitheater.  We bought GA tickets for Goth Babe in September.  Well, Moody is a pit with assigned seating and then lawn/premium lawn.  So is GA just general mayhem and "grab what you can" for the venue?  Just seems like an odd set-up.  I saw Sofi Tukker is doing the same thing for their show in September.

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  9. 6 hours ago, DixonHur said:

    Only been through Muleshoe a handful of times, on the way to New Mexico, and every time we drove through a literal cloud of particalized manure.

    I don't know how you survived.

    If the wind is blowing in the wrong direction, it smells like a massive public restroom full of overflowing piss troughs.

  10. All those three-eyed fish are about to grow a fourth eye. 

    I rag on Galveston a lot but I will point out that even early Spanish explorers would find tarballs because of the naturally occurring oil in the area.  In theory, Galveston's water is actually semi-okay but good Lord. I can't even imagine what's in the ship Channel

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  11. 2 hours ago, BrickHorn said:

    The proposal that humans will ever sustainably colonize Mars (much less in the next 30 years) is painfully stupid.

    Never mind the obvious issues that Mars has no food and virtually no oxygen or water, so we would need to haul all that shit out there just to set up a small enclosure that could support life.

    The bigger problems are geological. Mars has no global magnetic field. Couple that with the thin atmosphere, and the sun would bombard any human on Mars’s surface with ionizing radiation.  Even assuming we could eventually set up a colony there, its inhabitants would need to be artificially shielded (in spacesuits, under ground, etc.). 

    And Mars has only 38% of Earth’s gravity. Living in reduced gravity long term could have all kinds of negative impacts on human health and could potentially fuck up our ability to reproduce. And the low gravity coupled with the lack of a magnetic field means any attempt to terraform Mars (i.e. create an Earth-like atmosphere) would be doomed to failure - the Sun would eventually blast it away. 

    Can we solve this problem? Not in our lifetimes. You’d have to somehow slam Mars with asteroids or some shit for millennia, and wait for it the resultant composite to form a solid planet of sufficient mass. We’re talking about geological time scales here. And even then, there’s the problem of how to get a global magnetic field going on Mars. 

    And further: even if we could do all of that, compared to Earth, Mars is 50% further from the Sun. Which means we can’t just add an atmosphere and some water and hope to replicate Earth’s climate there. (This problem would be exacerbated if we don’t go to the trouble of scaling Mars up to Earth’s size and mass).

    It’s fun to ponder extraterrestrial colonization and space exploration is important if for no other reason than it expands our knowledge. But talk of a near-term sustainable colony anywhere outside of the thin little habitable shell on our home planet is fucking idiocy. 

    I agree.

    People who are all bought in on this idea of a Utopian society on Mars believe that Sea Monkeys look like this...

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  12. 27 minutes ago, tbone_ said:


    Outstanding

    99% sure my wife will not be interested in attending.  I anticipate it to be an amusing train wreck.  It is very cringe-worthy on so many level which is why my teenager likes it.  I will look like the chaperone for the show, I'm sure.  Then again, I don't care.

     

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  13. 40 minutes ago, Macklemore said:

    Elon was one of the first investors into Tesla and was actively involved before they produced their first EV car. That’s a founder in my book.

    I love how he sued so that he could be called a co-founder

    Founding (2003–2004)

    The company was incorporated as Tesla Motors, Inc. on July 1, 2003, by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning.[8][9] They served as CEO and CFO, respectively.[10] Eberhard said that he wanted to build "a car manufacturer that is also a technology company", with its core technologies as "the battery, the computer software, and the proprietary motor".[11]

    Ian Wright was Tesla's third employee, joining a few months later.[8] In February 2004, the company raised US$7.5 million (equivalent to $12 million in 2023) in series A funding, including $6.5 million (equivalent to $10 million in 2023) from Elon Musk, who had received $100 million from the sale of his interest in PayPal two years earlier. Musk became the chairman of the board of directors and the largest shareholder of Tesla.[12][13][10] J. B. Straubel joined Tesla in May 2004 as chief technical officer.[14]

    A lawsuit settlement agreed to by Eberhard and Tesla in September 2009 allows all five – Eberhard, Tarpenning, Wright, Musk, and Straubel – to call themselves co-founders.[15]

    Roadster (2005–2009)

    Elon Musk took an active role within the company, but was not deeply involved in day-to-day business operations.[16] The company's strategy was to start with a premium sports car aimed at early adopters and then move into more mainstream vehicles, including sedans and affordable compacts.[17]

    In February 2006, Musk led Tesla's Series B venture capital funding round of $13 million, which added Valor Equity Partners to the funding team.[18][13] Musk co-led the third, $40 million round in May 2006 which saw investment from prominent entrepreneurs including Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, and former eBay President Jeff Skoll.[19] A fourth round worth $45 million in May 2007 brought the total private financing investment to over $105 million.[19]

    In August 2007, Eberhard was asked by the board, led by Elon Musk, to step down as CEO.[20] Eberhard then took the title of "President of Technology" before ultimately leaving the company in January 2008. Co-founder Marc Tarpenning, who served as the Vice President of Electrical Engineering of the company, also left the company in January 2008.[21] In August 2007, Michael Marks was brought in as interim CEO, and in December 2007, Ze'ev Drori became CEO and President.[22] Musk succeeded Drori as CEO in October 2008.[22] In June 2009, Eberhard filed a lawsuit against Musk for allegedly forcing him out.[23] The case was dismissed in August 2009.[24]

    Tesla began production of the Roadster in 2008 inside the service bays of a former Chevrolet dealership in Menlo Park.[25][26] By January 2009, Tesla had raised $187 million and delivered 147 cars. Musk had contributed $70 million of his own money to the company.[27]

    In June 2009, Tesla was approved to receive $465 million in interest-bearing loans from the United States Department of Energy. The funding, part of the $8 billion Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan Program, supported the engineering and production of the Model S sedan, as well as the development of commercial powertrain technology.[28] Tesla repaid the loan in May 2013, with $12 million in interest.[29][30]

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