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Nice Guy Eddie

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  1. Memorable day from my young childhood.
  2. Hopefully no one should get mad or triggered about renaming the Gulf. Instead laugh about it. Point out how childish it is to rename something like this. i think Houston should rename all freeways to Houston Freeway as opposed to how we currently name it in where it goes outside of Houston. Houston is more important. The Katy Freeway should now be called the Houston Freeway. Gulf freeway? Nope, that is also the Houston freeway. NW freeway is how the Houston Freeway or perhaps SE Freeway since it’s SE to Houston.
  3. I know a handful of guys from Pittsburgh and they do their best to wear tshirt and shorts 365. But even the ones I know wouldn’t wear shorts in 20 degree weather like fetterman does. They would break out sweat pants and maybe jeans. Fetterman is just a weird guy and his clothes are one of the signs
  4. Fell asleep early last night and woke up to a perhaps the most snow I’ve seen in Houston on the ground. And I’ve been here 30+ years.
  5. Presidents often are saddled with problems that are from the previous administration or external forces, but they can still be judged on how well they handled the crisis. In my opinion, Biden deprioritized battling the inflation and contributed to it. The opposite argument could be that he was trying to save the economy from COVID but inflation, or the lack of dealing with it, is on his watch. And I don't care about arguments that are, "but Trump..." I give Biden A+ on many other areas especially in helping to show what a paper tiger Russia is. In the past, the Soviets could put a force almost anywhere in the world and perhaps win. Today they can't beat a much smaller country literally on their doorstep. They're a nobody.
  6. what does that have to do with cryptocurrency? take it to the CR threads.
  7. Unsure where else to post this. The aircraft carrier USS JFK CV-67 is being towed from Philadelphia to Brownsville to be dismantled. Should arrive in 2 weeks if someone wants to see it. I discovered a few years ago that a ship breaking yard in Brownsville has cut up many naval vessels including other carriers. Historic naval aircraft carrier makes final voyage to Texas
  8. If they will have him, Biden should go on 60 minutes this week to provide his justification on his family and govt pardons on the last day. He should go on the record, in his own words, on why this was necessary when a new president has an enemies list and has threatened legal action to punish Biden via his family. Also important to remind Trumpers that Trump also pardoned at least one relative who was 100% guilty of a crime. Talking about Jared's dad.
  9. I'm happy to be at work today and not even slightly tempted to watch over the internet. I figure that I can read the lowlights later tonight. I'm more interested in reading the exec actions tonight.
  10. If he's transferring money from his base to his pockets, I really don't care. His social media company is worth over $8B when it earns less than a single Chick-fil-a location earns. The sooner that we all accept that the Trump family will earn at least 10s of billions over this time, the easier it is. I hate it but it's going to happen.
  11. Many top performers will travel to authoritarian countries to perform 5 songs at the wedding of the dictator's kid. They normally do this very quietly. There is a difference when they do it for an US president who is unpopular with a fair number of the core fan base. However I also bet that many of their fans would agree that they should grab the bag when given the chance. I wouldn't put too much stock in counting on Snoop's ethics. Didn't he used to sing about pimping out whores? And have a famous pimp perform on stage with him. He's only cleaned up his act not changed who he is.
  12. The dangerous precedent is when the incoming president is threatening prosecution even if it never comes to fruition. I dislike that Biden has to issues these pardons not that he did issue them. It's a final act of loyalty to these people who did the best they thought for the country AND legal experts agree that they didn't' break any laws.
  13. Same here. I’ve used the app but rarely.
  14. One of Milchicks roles as asst mgr was to take them into the break room. Which was a good name since it was about breaking them down after they misbehaved. Will that be Ms Huang’s job now, or is the new Lumon not into that behavior now? on the question on how would Helena be taught everyone and everything, the place was crawling with cameras and microphones. In the cartoon, we saw how lumon had recorded basically everything they said or did. As for her being able to perform the macro data refinement, who knows since we don’t understand it. This is a show that is unlikely to answer every mystery.
  15. I feel like Sonos is missing out on the old crowd by selling them on the idea that their sound bars can create clearer vocals for TV shows. Many buy a nice TV then cheap out on a sound bar that is just loud. And while some complain that Sonos doesn’t provide enough HDMI connectors on some of their devices, it makes them less complicated.
  16. For at least the US, college educated women are becoming a larger percentage of high earners so they don’t need to marry to have a great life, financially speaking. Many do want a spouse/children but there is a problem with that due to a combination of their unrealistic expectations of men and many men failing to meet lower, reasonable expectations. Add other elements like becoming used to staying home with COVID and declining alcohol rates, and I bet a fair number of younger people don’t even go out at night much to meet others. At least in comparison to what us old folks did in the 80s-00s. as for declining rates in the rest of the world, no idea.
  17. Forecasts looks to have shifted the colder temps a little sooner in Houston and bumped the low temps up a few degrees. I have a healthy fear of frozen water pipes. What are the downsides of just turning off the water to my house, at the meter, for 36-48 hours during the extreme lows? I can have water stored for drinking, washing and the toilet. I assume some remaining water in the pipes could still freeze but could that still burst the pipe? and in some unexpected case of absolutely needing a hot shower, I could turn the water back on. I live alone so there wouldn’t be anyone in my ear complaining about the lack of running water.
  18. Uecker gone, and Vitale and Corso not doing well. Unique job that often keeps them on their jobs, to some extent, until the very end.
  19. I was a fan of Biden’s but the last year or two of his presidency was not good. And that debate sealed the opinion of every voter. It would have been better if he had immediately thrown up on the podium and they postponed it. His handlers should have realized over a year ago that he was not up for a campaign. and while I don’t blame him for pardoning Hunter, he never should have promised that he wouldn’t pardon him. I don’t care if trump lies more before 8am every day, we don’t lie like that. The Hunter pardon doesn’t impact the US but it impacts my opinion of Biden. i voted for Biden and then Harris but im glad that we’re on the last day of Biden. edit: it would even have been more acceptable if Hunter had been sentenced and Biden commuted the sentence after the no-pardon promise. At least it would give Biden supporters more cover. Instead Biden told his supporters to f-off.
  20. I do my best to give as few tax dollars to Texas as possible. I actually believe I spend less in state sales tax in 2024 than I did in 2000. I’m too much of a miser/investor now. Unfortunately my property tax has skyrocketed over that time but at least most of that stays in Harris county.
  21. What’s also confusing, in an entertaining way, is that we only saw the inside-Lumen view in this episode. milchick, aka milkshake, provided some info but it’s all suspect. We don’t know it’s 5 months later, or that the 4 became the face of the anti-severed movement. The fact that they’re back in Lumen tells me that everything milchick said was a lie.
  22. Biden sucked at communication most likely because his staff knew he couldn’t handle it. I’ve learned in the business world that it doesn’t matter how great of a job you do if you can’t communicate how good of a job you’re doing. on top of that, Biden waited too late to address inflation and I guess his argument was that he was saving us from a pandemic. But then again he refused to talk.
  23. Perhaps the deal is that the US Attorney will be out of a job on Monday and he wanted to wrap up some cases.
  24. Didn't the 27th amendment take 200+ years to be ratified by the states. This is the congress compensation amendment. The first state ratified it in 1789 and the 38th state in 1992. It's recognized as an official amendment from the US govt. For those who do not know, a 1982 UT student restarted the process to get this amendment passed in the last few remaining states. Nice bit of trivia there.
  25. The latest starship explosion shows why you can’t give Elon control of the govt. he’s perfectly ok blowing shit up if he learns from it. “maybe that latest economic decision blew up the retail industry but we’ll do better with the next decisions about oil and gas because we’re better informed now”
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