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TKthunder2

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  1. Where do you think all the waste water in Austin ends up? https://www.austintexas.gov/department/wastewater-treatment-plants With more than 95 percent of wastes removed, the wastewater then passes to the chlorine basins for disinfection. To further reduce suspended solids, the wastewater flows through filters or another clarifier. Then a small amount of sulfur dioxide or sodium bisulfite is applied to remove the chlorine before the fully treated water is discharged to the Colorado River or reused through the City's Water Reclamation Program. Hate Elon, fine by me, but for fucks sake some of you see anything he does and immediately assume he’s wrong/evil because you hate his dumbass political takes. Austin and LCRA don’t fuck around with wastewater, if he fucks up in anyway he’ll pay out the ass.
  2. Targeting is an NCAA rule not the Big 12.
  3. We? Nothing. ESPN can though. FOX wants to lock up the Big 12 long term since they are now boxed out of the SEC/ACC and likely out for the PAC10. Only having the Big Ten and Big East isn’t going to cut it. For them to do ink a deal with the Big 12 before that are able to go to open market, they need ESPN to join them since they jointly own the rights currently. If they fuck over ESPN, ESPN can fuck them back. I still think this is all just negotiating. 2024 when ESPN has 100% of the SEC was always the mostly likely time for Texas and Oklahoma to join. If the Big 12 doesn’t let UT/OU go in 2024 they lose some significant leverage they had over ESPN in negotiations. Big 12 will lock up a new TV extension in the next few months with ESPN and FOX. FOX will allow the Big 12 to let Texas/OU go early to ESPN in exchange for more favorable content distribution in FOX’s favor. It’s as close to a win-win-win as ESPN, FOX, and the Big 12 can get.
  4. 2020 was a shortened season due to COVID, all Fall athletes are eligible for 1 additional year. https://www.ncaa.org/news/2020/3/30/division-i-council-extends-eligibility-for-student-athletes-impacted-by-covid-19.aspx edit: that was spring, this is fall https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/ncaa-approves-blanket-waiver-for-2020-fall-sports-athletes-to-retain-year-of-eligibility/
  5. Why do people think it’s his last year? Doesn’t he have the ability to come back and use his COVID year? He’s got some some NIL deals likely paying him about what he could make as a UDFA on a NFL practice squad (if he even gets picked up) and more than he likely could get in CFL/XFL/USFL, plus he could get a master’s degree (if he doesn’t have one already), absolutely dominate any Okie State QB record stats and better set himself up for life after football where he can pull in some extra money from the OSU alumni even if he ends up working as a salesman.
  6. Saw a clip in my feed for Hot Girl Hospital. It’s was…not good.
  7. 10 in 6 miles, but 8 miles to the closest Central Market. Yeah Austin seems like a market that they need to over invest in quality locations (like Mesa/Spicewood Springs or the one in Westlake on Bee Caves) and not quantity, they need to throw in the towel in locations where they are in heavy competition against HEB (like Braker/183/Jollyville where they are basically across the street from each other).
  8. I thought this was a safe space man…lol A: the sprinkler was already out there she just turned on the hose so the effort level wasn’t much (though to be fair she did some other cleanup trimming yesterday in the yard). B: she’s watched the news every night with me and knows it was going to rain a bunch and still watered anyways but yes it’s not going to make her top ten this year so I’ve let it go for now
  9. It used to drive me nuts when the wife bought Christmas gifts for teachers, doctor's office staff, etc. Over the years, I've come to appreciate the relationships she's developed with these folks. I fine with the gifts, it’s the whole making a mountain out a molehill shit that drives me crazy. Did she ask if they are vegan, gluten/dairy intolerant? Just put nuts on the fucking brownies and send them to the teacher or don’t, but asking the kids to ask the teacher if they like nuts and then making them that way adds such an unnecessary level of complexity. if they don’t like nuts they can pick them off, if they are allergic they can send them back or just accept them and throw them in the teachers lounge and not eat them. That’s the part I don’t get.
  10. We got about 2 inches of rain in the last 12 hours which was awesome. I look out the window this morning and the sprinkler is running. Texted the wife asking wtf? Apparently she decided to water the grass because it was dry yesterday evening, forgot about it, and left the sprinkler on all night. I haven’t decided how to respond, but I assume it’ll be my fault somehow.
  11. Refs signaled Texas ball, implying it was a fumble. Replay was called for, the ref stated the ruling on the field was the runner was down by contact (so not a fumble). After reviewing the replay, the ref said that the call stands, Longhorn’s ball Glad they got it right in the end, but Big 12 refs are still giants fuck ups.
  12. That was about market dominance. HEB had stores at Anderson Mill/620, Lakeline/183, Parmer/McNeil, and Braker/183 and they were still losing a larger chuck of the NW Austin market to that little Randalls simply due to location, location, location. Since that is an environmentally sensitive area and the easy access land around that area was already developed they didn’t really have any other options. Similarly I’d bet money they’d buy out the Randall’s at Spicewood/Mesa for similar reasons. In DFW they are still in a very early process of entering that market. If they were a publicly traded company then I could see them trying to rush to gain market share to appease the markets, but knowing how they take a very long term strategy on their developments I agree with Trey that’s they’ll sit this one out and hope their entry into DFW and lack of interest in these properties will drive down the sales price and limit Kroger’s capital while they ease their way into the Metroplex.
  13. I thought I heard the Bertha I will go in the hall of fame just like Smokey II, but haven’t seen that published anywhere.
  14. Yep, at best they’ll let Krogers take a beating on the real estate transaction and then buy it second hand a few years down the road. If I was betting on it, I’d guess your see a good chuck of them get converted to Walmart neighborhood grocery stores.
  15. I’m not positive about this, but I thought the SEC had that time slot specially called out in their contract. CBS may downgrade them to the 2nd string broadcast team, but I don’t think they can take that spot from them.
  16. I assume you’re agreeing with me since that’s what I said above, though I disagree with CBS not wanting to give up the SEC, I think they’d love to move on if they can do so while making money at the same time. CBS just signed a deal with the Big Ten for over $300 million starting in 2023. If they can get ESPN pay even more than $300 million for the SEC’s final year then they essentially be getting a free year of content. Why talk up the SEC for another year just to see them go to ESPN. It would be like fixing up your apartment when you know your lease is about to end. If the only thing standing between UT/OU moving to the SEC in 2023 was CBS then that deal would already be done. But as I said before, ESPN would have to pay CBS and the SEC, FOX, and the Big 12 to make this happen which seems unlikely especially as time is winding down. 2024 seems far more likely.
  17. This is the kind of shit I’ll never understand about women.
  18. I can throw in a built in blender anywhere you’d like for the right price.
  19. I did contract to hire a little over a decade ago with Hilton corporate global distribution management. They converted me to full time after about 5 months. I actually am trying to get something instituted right now at my company since we have issues finding the right talent and we’ve been overpaying due to market competition. The issue is that it’s made it harder to “coach” people out of a job when they suck, and letting people go for performance issues isn’t as easy as it once was.
  20. That last sentence is important. Without a new deal FOX has no reason to give up access to Texas or Oklahoma. But if they strike a new deal/extension ESPN could easily give up future Big 12 inventory to FOX to make them whole for the early departures. But I don’t think ESPN wants to deal with placating FOX in order to give those too Texas/Oklahoma games to CBS. They could buy out CBS but that seems like a bridge too far. ESPN would have to increase their payout to the SEC, make a good deal with the new Big 12, placate FOX with 2 years worth of inventory trades, and buy the SEC rights for 2023 from CBS. It just seems like a bit too much. Take CBS out of the picture, lower FOX’s inventory trade to a single year, and know that the Big 12’s leverage diminishes greatly after the 2024 season and 2024 seems like a more realistic departure.
  21. Which part, my money is UT/OU are stuck in 2023 (SEC already released their 2023 schedule and CBS still has first tier rights until 2024).
  22. Shooting from the hip Texas will play Oklahoma, Tech, TCU, Baylor, Houston, BYU and West Virginia both years then rotate KU, K State, Cincy, UCF, Iowa St, Okie St Oklahoma will play Texas, Okie St, Kansas, K State, UCF, Cincy, and Iowa St both years and rotate Tech, TCU, Baylor, Houston, BYU, and WVU It would be really weird to me to not play Oklahoma State in our final year in the Big 12.
  23. Cool thanks, I have been sat in the visitor section on the second tier back in 2012. I probably have a picture somewhere.
  24. Only Sam Houston is in the lower division (for now). Miami, App State, and UMass are all FBS.
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