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gyroprotagonist

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  1. cool! only 1 site within 10 miles of my hood, but it's in Mesquite and who wants to go there, right? not 1a or 1b anyway but if there were dozens of places with wide open bookings i might try to sneak in there.
  2. probably because it does. I have noticed the same thing (although i drive much less too) with NPR, but they usually follow that up with stats that back up the claim. I heard a piece on Pandemic jobless and they said that women were more likely to lose their job than men. Then broke it down further and black women were most likely to have lost their job in the pandemic vs any other group. I don't know the right balance that reporting should take, but i think they are trying to show that yes there are problems in the country and yes x race seems to have a harder time of it. is it all borne out of racism? is it more because of the types of employment black women were working at the time? Are those two related? dunno, probably some from each column. read this article today: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/24/us/smith-college-race.html (may be paywall; i was reading on phone) and it starts off with a story we have seen before of white employee at college questions why black person is eating while black in this specific area. But then goes on a little deeper and paints of picture of nobody really did anything wrong or racist, but black student still felt she was being profiled and harassed and may have falsely accused or amplified the circumstances. There was a kids camp going on and they were trying to keep people out of that area. anyway, i think it's fair to report on the stuff and it's fair to be fatigued about it.
  3. corn on the cob
  4. just like Slick Rick, i would rather die of extreme cold and lack of potable water with no federal regulation on our energy grid on my feet rather than live in an electrically stable temperature controlled home drinking safe water on my knees after kowtowing to federal regulation. But you pussies do what you want
  5. look man, i don't question your addictions or where you go to get a fix. plus i can quit anytime i want.
  6. are you saying people that believe in the virus and actually take precautions (masking, SD) but don't want to get a vax? seems off I thought just the don't tread on me patriots and jenny mccarthy types were not getting the vax + people who don't trust docs
  7. loved Fry's but here we are today. Hell, i am a EE that used to work for AMD and stopped building my own PCs. Used to go there all the time for passive components and you could count them to have most everything in stock. Last store i would just go visit 'just because' or because my pops was in town and he loved going in there.
  8. well, if they get convicted, I look forward to their scholarship offers coming from OU forthwith.
  9. so I'm not Tucker, but ... asking for a friend ... where would one go to find Q lulz these days? Texags was gold but even they took their ball and crawled back to their mom's basement. is the 8 chan site/thread still running?
  10. neat concept as a gas grill replacement but the proprietary charcoal sets off an alarm for me. what's it made from? I have a temp control add on for a my BGE where you can dial in pit temps and also monitor the food temp. it has a fan and controls the air going into the base, but mostly use it for longer smokes (12+ hours). For grilling or shorter indirect cooks, i just use the vents to eye ball it. Does this have an indirect heat option? Can you add real wood chips or anything like that? The auto light feature looks cool and that's something no one really relishes doing but not sure it's a big enough draw. anyway, use the hell out of it and report back.
  11. they are 7-5 w/o KP this season and I think they had a wining record w/o him last season as well. I think the defensive metrics go way up when he is not on the floor, but there are games when KP will get 6 blocks and you think it's alright. KP is unguardable as far as getting his shot off, but very guardable if he is missing that bankshot from 12'. so it's a mismatch tradeoff both ways, but if the guy KP is defending can get the rim at will it takes a tremendously hot hand for him to keep the balance. throw old school fundamentals out the window on Luka's last shot. you need the ball to go in with no time on the clock. That's Luka's shot and he obviously works on that stepback a ton. He was perfectly set; he chose the exact spot we was going to shoot from and had a clean look. If he drives, they collapse and he has to pass. Not sure i want anyone else to take the last shot. Contrast that with Texas' last possession in regulation vs Kansas. About the same scenario, but Texas took a running fade-away 3. not a good shot, not one they had practiced and worked on and was taken with a man right in his face. you can say Texas should have driven or run something else there and i agree.
  12. way too skinny. make some room for more candy FFS
  13. here's how high the gas bill is the expected to be for Feb
  14. so how does that conversation end? well, your biological father was more interested in showing off than actually providing for this family. so be a good boy and get your new step dad a beer out the fridge.
  15. pre-crime division I blame the doctors. They should stop doing sonograms because the general public clearly cannot fucking handle it.
  16. it works on duck duck go! it has to be real. OP is probably AMAZED when 2 of 7billion people on the planet have the same birthday. what are the odds?
  17. yeah, this is kinda where i am coming from. We bail out stupid corps all the time. People sorta grumble about it, but no one really bats an eye; there are no cries of 'poor life choices' . But you start bailing out individuals and a lot of people start losing their shit. I get the sentiment of 'fuck around and find out' but my point is the consumer should be somewhat protected. Not made whole, not given the same fixed rate pricing, but also not $9/KWh. I have seen where some providers are offering ~10y financing on the bill. That's $50 a month on a $6K bill. Sucks for them, but it's not crippling debt which should be the goal. Keep people financially stable as possible. It does no good to cause people to not make rent/mortgage because of this. If Texas decides to try and 'fix' this, consumers are going to pay more and cover the cost. Pay generators to be on standby (for real this time) in the winter and operate for a few months in the summer.
  18. my main filter line cracked, but the water fall/fountain pump kept going so the pool did not freeze. Power or something stopped the pumps for about 3-4 hours and that's all it took. have not opened up the filter yet, but it seems ok. damage is in the in-line chlorinator and one section of pipe around a check valve. if I had to do it again, i would just drain and cover the pipes and throw in pool floats and stuff to try and keep the surface from freezing.
  19. i think the $17k bill was 3 properties/meters combined. at least i saw a story in Dallas about a guy in that scenario and it was not just on 1 property. Claimed he tried to switch but could not in time. Dunno what the right answer is here. No one should be stuck with that kind of bill, but none of the fixed rate consumers enjoyed low rates when energy was cheap. Probably the variable rate bills should be recalculated at a max rate capped at something equivalent to $100/day. Who, ultimately is left holding the bag if relief is given to consumers in the form of bill forgiveness? The energy providers who bought at the high prices and passed it on?
  20. we should do away with having fellow americans represent us. instead we all get to vote for 1 thing we want to happen with the government. The top 50 choices get written out on a chicken-shit bingo card and once a month we let full-bellied hen go to town and then implement that square. you could still have fights over redistricting of squares and what not, but I can't take the partisan-hack moronic braying of these people who somehow find their way into office.
  21. you like them 3 super bowls? how bout high priced natural gas? https://www.si.com/nfl/2021/02/19/jerry-jones-gas-company-jacks-prices-during-texas-power-crisis
  22. they seem to work OK. but there are some comments in the amazon page that said they still were setting off CO sensors. i would definitely limit usages inside and have a sensor nearby.
  23. they make conversion kits for gens to run tri-fuel. might depend on your model, but as posted earlier in the thread, i have a honda that will run LP or gas. would run NG too, but i would need to get a different regulator. just google gen tent and that should set you up. make sure to stake it down. maybe a marine battery setup would work for a short term solution? not super familiar with those, but have seen buddies use them for tailgating to run tvs and small appliances.
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