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Big soccer tournament this weekend. Qualifier for the U90 Supercopa. We're a smaller town team that don't have the luxury of recruiting players like some of the bigger teams have, but our girls generally outmatch anybody they play in skills if not sheer athletic ability. We've actually already qualified for the tournament, but that was collaborating with another team that ended up being mostly our girls with two or three of their players helping out. This weekend is our chance to qualify for the second year on our own. With the collaboration, we were ranked second in the state, but our team by itself (and missing our star forward who didn't play in that league) is only ranked sixth. There are some good teams in the tournament, so it will be a challenge.
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I haven’t kept up with everything, but I did see speculation that they may just be pausing production. I bought a Lightning about three months ago, and honestly I love driving it. Can I drive it cross country confidently, probably not. That would take careful planning. But it does everything I need on a daily basis. My commute to work and back is about 50 miles. I plug it in when I get home and it is ready to go in the morning. I work shift work, my work is about 25 miles in one direction, but my wife works and kids go to school in a town about the same distance in the opposite direction. Our oldest plays competitive soccer in the later town. I have no problem getting off work, picking up the younger two kids from her, and driving back home to get them to bed at a reasonable hour. I'm still fully charged in the morning. My family has land a little under 30 miles away. I have no issue buying whatever I need for hunting or fencing or whatever and driving up there. The Lightning meets 99%+ of my needs. And if I need something that can tow a trailer cross country, I still have my old truck which had too many miles and was too old to be worth much in trade. And on top of that, it is like driving a sports car that rides like a truck. It is about as quick off the line as my bike (a Harley 1200) is and has instant torque available no matter whether I am cruising in town or getting annoyed at the car in front of me going 69 in a 70. When you hit the accelerator there is no waiting for the transmission to downshift and the engine to rev up to hit a proper torque curve. It just takes off.
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Strongest Solar Flare of this Solar Cycle…
NotActuallyALonghorn replied to Rip76's topic in Daily Texan
I don’t know. -
Looks like his momma got with a moose.
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Strongest Solar Flare of this Solar Cycle…
NotActuallyALonghorn replied to Rip76's topic in Daily Texan
Are the pigeons riding the ponies or carrying them? -
Things not going well in Venezuela
NotActuallyALonghorn replied to Parliament's topic in Daily Texan
That's a link to the CIA's website, right? -
Way to brag about your 1/4 nuts.
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I think they make a multi-pack of these with the main screw driver set, a small screw driver set, and a little stubby set. That pretty much sets you up for most of your basic screw driver needs.
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Ken Burns: The American Revolution 11/16
NotActuallyALonghorn replied to GhostOfTomJoad's topic in Movies and TV
Just finished, and the treatment of slavery (other than no mention of my largely insignificant ancestors who fought) is probably my biggest complaint. We all are hopefully in pretty much unanimous agreement that slavery was abhorrent and is one of many blights that was rightfully exposed in this documentary. I want to be clear on that point because reactionary Surly can be reactionary, but most of the southern slave holding founding fathers where in a serious pickle when it came to slavery. Slaves represented a significant capital investment, and were often leveraged. Even if they were serious about ending the practice, and few were dedicated enough to jeopardize their lifestyle for the cause, most of them didn't have the financial means. They were cash poor and land rich. It'd be like a modern farmer just deciding that he should buy out the bank for all of his tractors, outbuildings, and other equipment. Slavery was not particularly economical at the time. You had to feed, house, and clothe a labor force that remained idle for significant portions of the year. It seemed like it was an institution that would die a natural death and hopefully not ruin them financially to most of the founding fathers who were slaveholders. They were happy to kick the can of horrific human subjugation down the line. La Fayette was one of the few who put his money where his mouth was and actually purchased a plantation with slaves with the intent to free them. But then came along Eli fucking Whitney with his fancy cotton gin and made slavery economical again... -
Heh.
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Most annoying Christmas Movies
NotActuallyALonghorn replied to NotActuallyALonghorn's topic in Movies and TV
A Christmas Story is great to have on in the background during Christmas get together. There's no obligation to sit down and watch, but it offers the opportunity to tune in during the iconic scenes like when his dad unboxes the lamp or the flagpole scene. -
The Polar Express has to be up there. The animation is terrible and disconcertingly creepy. Like they couldn't be bothered to spend a bit of extra time to make the movements seem in any way natural and decided spreading nightmares was about as good as spreading Christmas cheer. The wife put it on for the kids tonight, but she and the 4 year old were the only ones watching. The middle child was playing Mario 64 on his Switch (pos rep for him) while I pretty much ended up doing everything for him after he tried and failed, or got to distracted dropping the baby penguin down the chimney (he's 6, so he thought that was about the funniest thing ever). Of course we were too much of a distraction from her slow roll horror movie that never ends. Speaking of which, they finally arrived at the North Pole at about 9 o'clock, and I ask if we should start getting the kids ready for bed, as they've already stayed up pretty late and I have stuff I need to do, like watch Ken Burns' American Revolution Documentary. "It's almIost over," I'm told. Fourty five minutes later they are still waiting on Santa to shut up so they can go home and finish the damn story. How in the most unholy of abominations do you stretch a story out so long? It's worse than the droid factory scene in whichever Star Wars prequel that was.
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Heh.
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Then I thought, "When am I ever going back to Haiti?"
NotActuallyALonghorn replied to Deej's topic in Daily Texan
Pirate booty. And who doesn't like booty?
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