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PvilleStang

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  1. Someone with the knowledge, fill me in here.  If an ETJ votes for disannexation, are they required to get a winning percentage of the vote, or do they have to obtain a certain amount of FOR votes in order for the proposal to pass?  E.g. in an ETJ of 1000 registered voters, they need to receive 501 YES votes to proceed, vs a mere 51% of the votes.

  2. 6 hours ago, JosephStang said:

    The teams are pretty clearly divided between Texas Secession, the Mormon Physicist, Joe Rothschild, and the IAA tell-all vs the pedophile army. Anyone not on those teams is superfluous. Anybody unclear on that is superfluous. This is the war against accelerating WWIII.

    I'm guessing the Sooners and aggy fall into the Pedo army?

  3. Just now, billfromlaketravis said:

    I’ll give Tech credit. They’re consistent. When they knew it was over with aggy and they’d never play them again, they threw shit in the aggy team bus. When they figured out Texas hoops would never again set foot again in Lubbock, they threw shit on the court. 

    This had to be the first time they were gracious hosts for UT.  They bent over and took it like a champ!

  4. 5 hours ago, Crapinon said:

    Probably should go in the divorce thread but I'm not divorced so I'll put it here. 

    "Referencing research pertaining to corporate psychopaths and how they operate in high-achieving roles in workplaces, Dr. Boddy explains female psychopaths tend to be more manipulative than males, use different techniques to create good impressions, and use deceit and sexually seductive behavior to gain social and financial advantages more often than male psychopaths." 

    https://studyfinds.org/female-psychopaths-are-surprisingly-common/

    An old boss of mine comes to mind here.  She got mad because her flirtatious manipulation wasn't working with me (she wasn't my type...).  Somehow she blew the right people though to end up a C level around the Austin government.

  5. 11 minutes ago, JosephStang said:

    You can't hide the Toroid forever, but that's not why you are angry at me. You are angry at me because you royally fucked up, and you don't want it publicized. The "Jacob had Tennessee's money" storyline was in my head the whole time. And all I get from MM is laughter. The happy kind. 

    Don't sell yourself short, I'm sure you can hide it quite a long time.

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  6. 2 hours ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

    Drives me nuts and also makes me get in my truck and close the door until it's filled up.  Fuck 'em. 

    Push all the buttons to the right of the screen.  Usually the second or third button mutes that crap.  I think I'm more pissed about all the buttons you have to push before you can start pumping your gas.  "Do you want to add fuel additive into your gas today?"  "Would you like a receipt?"  "Do you have a fuel rewards account?"  "Would you like to join?"  Just let me swipe my card, verify the chip, and let me pump my 87 octane, asshole.  And take your 10% ethanol and shove it.

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  7. 7 hours ago, Texas Jeff said:

    CapMetro's new station is about a third of a mile from their existing station.  We paid $60 million to move the station 1500 ft to better serve the needs of the soccer population.  It will be used once every 1-2 weeks for four hours during soccer season.

    Folks on reddit said that to get on a train you had to drive to one of the rail endpoints, park, and hop on there.  So to ride the rail to a soccer game, you have to drive to either Leander or downtown and find parking.  Then get on a train and ride halfway down the line.  Then fight for space on the train on the way back to your car, which is all the way at the end of the line.  Or ... you could pay for parking, walk a bit, and save yourself a few hours.

    Rail is great for a steady flow of traffic but it sucks for special events.  Buses are great for special events, like Texas used to do for football games.

    This is my EXACT argument against the YIMBY clowns.  Trains are the answer for mass transit.. Bull shit, you're not taking cars off the road, you're just changing the destination and adding time onto someone's commute.  Might be saving some fuel for the commuters, I agree.  But it's the equivalent of kicking out the mobile homes of a nice neighborhood.  They're not getting rid of the problem, they're just moving the issue out of sight.

     

    And can't forget: the train stops traffic when it crosses roads, too, leading to vehicles idling while waiting 2 minutes for the 10 second crossing.

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  8. 9 minutes ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:


    That seems tip-worthy.

    I guess I left the other point out: If you are my DD driver and get a delivery here in a timely manner, I should be able to tip you more than some dude that picks up four orders and drops mine off last.  It's no longer a tip in my book since it's not tied into the level of service of the driver, but a bribe to get them to consider picking up your order to begin with.  And the restaurant staff that got your order together get jack shit from that tip.

  9. Door Dash and Uber Eats et. al.:

    Why can't we tip after we receive our orders?  When we tip servers, it's after the fact at a restaurant, and it's based on their level of service.  I feel like the food delivery services, we're paying a bribe to ensure the driver doesn't fuck with our food in transit and that it gets picked up and delivered to begin with.

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  10. I winterized it as best I could.  Pulled the freeze plugs and let them drain, disconnected the impeller hoses and drained them.  Second time I've had to do it the old fashioned way while the motor was not running.

    At this point, it's like Schrödinger's boat.  I can still believe it works as long as I don't know the oil is the forbidden sludge at this point. 

  11. The ol' Yellow boat club!  Gotta get ours to the mechanic and see if it's salvageable.  Went to winterize it in the fall, and it was struggling to start.  Swapped fuel relays, and she ran for a good minute before stalling out again.  Couldn't get it back up and running after that.  I'd say there's a 60 percent chance it's garbage gas (pump gas with ethanol in it sitting for a year and change), 20% it's a fuel pump (replaced it 2 years ago with an Amazon pump), and a 5% chance it's a cracked block after a freeze.

     

    Did get down to the lake park to fish with the family on Saturday, and the water was pretty nice, but the surfer boats were coming out in force, throwing some 5-6' wakes without anyone in tow.  And saw some junker outboard bayboat towing in a fairly nice older direct drive ski boat, and gave me a good laugh.  It's the older junkers that are still floating that get the care for sure.

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