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Samson's Wig

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  1. Why would they do any of that when they have LCRA in their back pocket? May as well drain all the current resources and then look for alternatives.
  2. Fuck the rice farmers. They and the bitcoin miners should both GTFO of Texas altogether.
  3. Same when it comes to hunting and fishing. I'll still happily wake up at 3:30 AM if the missus needs some attention. But I'm not setting an alarm for it.
  4. The only extracurricular activity I've enjoyed enough to go through all of that effort is fucking. I definitely don't need to golf that badly. Good on you for having a passion.
  5. You're on to something here. If I could build a soundproof bubble around it and listen to music while riding up and down the stairs for fifteen minutes, that might just do the trick.
  6. Are we getting dumber as a society, or is the stupidity just more apparent than it used to be? Sometimes, I talk to older folks and think, "Thank God kids are better educated these days." And then I read stories like this one and think, "Fuck, kids are dumber than a steaming pile of shit with a homeschool education from evangelical parents."
  7. Well, if AI says so it must be true.
  8. Don't get me wrong, I'm also more productive at home (although everyone thinks that, and most people are wrong, perhaps me as well). But you also have somewhere to go two days a week, which would completely take care of what I'm talking about, which is simply being a bit stir crazy living 90% of my life inside a single building. If I wanted to work out of the house I could easily go get an office, but I choose not to. While the lack of transition time can be bothersome, I still prefer to be here and see my kids and wife more than I would working out of the house.
  9. I've primarily been working from home since around 2008. I miss a commute all the time, as it provides a dividing space between work and home. Time to decompress a bit, listen to music or a podcast, and generally shift your mood before spending time with your family. Now, I walk downstairs from a stressful day in my office, and I'm immediately bombarded with all of the family's problems, household chores, etc., with no opportunity to decompress or simply shift gears before diving into them. I'm not saying I want to commute for an hour each way, but I wouldn't mind a little something in there, and I understand why some people don't mind a commute.
  10. I've had the good fortune (or is it misfortune?) of being friends with many doctors, most of them surgeons. This story doesn't surprise me in the least.
  11. Thanks, Brisket. Done and done.
  12. You fuckers with no satellite clearly do not have Spectrum for an internet provider (sadly, the only real option where we're at). I'm not trusting gameday to an internet service that goes out five times a day. DTV's platform for watching sports is also much better than any streaming service, very much including YouTubeTV. I enjoy recording NFL games and speed watching them. DTV's remotes even have a button for skipping ahead 25 seconds, which is perfect to hit between plays. You can watch an entire game in less than an hour. You can't do that with streaming as you can't see the footage when fast forwarding or reversing, and those functions are clunky at best on streaming platforms. The experience is oddly more like it was in the old days, where you will watch the entire game, including commercials, and you'll fucking ike it or else. DirectTV has sucked in many ways since the worst corporation in the history of the United States (AT&T) bought them, but I completely understand why some hang on to it. We're a big hockey house (Canadian Wife) and the satellite Canadian broadcasts of every Maple Leafs game, complete with local ads, will keep that satellite on our roof until it doesn't work anymore. Now paying $340 per month, even for fifteen televisions or whatever it was, I can't wrap my head around. That's just not even bothering to have a conversation with them.
  13. So it's become all too obvious that Tesla drivers are the absolute worst drivers on the road. My question is this: Is it because the type of people who are interested in driving these vehicles are inherently shitty drivers, or is there something about the vehicles themselves that turn otherwise standard issue mediocre drivers into awful ones? There's also the element of dumbasses thinking Teslas are somehow safer than other cars and are buying them for their teenage daughters (damn if there isn't a teen girl driving a Tesal across two lanes on 2222 every fucking time I drive down it now), but the shitty driving predated this slew of teenagers in mom or dad's used Tesla.
  14. It's a smart move, even if there are short term pains. I've wondered for years why Texas Tech and TTUHSC don't merge. They would almost instantly become eligible for AAU status, along with other tier 1 research rankings. My understanding is that the pushback from administrators who aren't interested in losing their jobs and/or titles with a merger is the biggest stumbling block to moves like this.
  15. While one could certainly debate whether Katz's represents old Austin (I think it qualifies well enough, personally), calling it a Houston chain is a bit silly. It was in Austin first by quite a long stretch (I think they opened in Austin in '78 or '79). They weren't in Houston until the very late 90s. Maybe you were being facetious, and I didn't pick up on it.
  16. Clinging to that thoroughly debunked belief is a bright flashing neon sign that reads, "MORON." We're around parents of autistic kids a lot, having one of our own, and I've gotten to the point when someone (it's most often a mom, FWIW) brings up vaccines, I immediately say something akin to, "Well, fortunately only a complete idiot would believe something that stupid, so at least you and I don't have anything to worry about." That phrase has prevented me from having to listen to untold hours of nonsense. It did backfire once and I had to calm down an angry husband.
  17. Only someone without a mother would ask this question.
  18. So TEA gave themselves a letter grade bump? Seems legit.
  19. I know that nothing will change regarding this utterly corrupt town run by a gang of grinning criminals, but I'm still amazed that the line just never seems to get crossed for most Austinites. Is it just the largely transient young voters who keep the grift running for these con artist motherfuckers, or are there truly invested residents who keep voting for them? At some point, even the most dye-in-the-wool progressive has to look at how we're being taxed and what we get in return for it and at least think, "Hey, wait a minute!" We pay an insane premium to live somewhere not controlled by Bible thumpers, and most days, I think it's worth the pinch. I wouldn't mind something more in return for getting openly robbed at gunpoint every year, though.
  20. Which will most efficiently turn you into a drooling idiot with renal failure and a dysfunctional libido? 1. Eating lead paint chips 2. Listening to sports radio
  21. We used to have some neighborhood boys doing the same thing, for the same reason. It's not that difficult to put the fear of god into them if you don't give a shit what their parents might say to you. Most young boys these days act the way they do because they've never been afraid of anything before. That makes them foolish, as the world is full of things that can hurt you if you're an idiot. I don't know why we stopped raising boys to understand this, but we did. I may not be the most popular guy in my neighborhood, but the teen boys stay clear of my place now, as do the cyclists.
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