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  1. 32 minutes ago, Nicole44 said:

    Here is the article about the incident in Brenham:

    https://www.fox26houston.com/news/brenham-dps-office-crash-multiple-injuries-reported
     

    I am particularly drawn to his prior record below. We keep denying the simple fact that there are people that don’t need to be free. Some people will never “get it” and this guy is one of those fucking people. 
     

    Parker is facing multiple felony charges at this time and according to court records, he has previous criminal charges going back to 1999 including criminal trespass, arson, and prohibited weapons.

    On what planet (outside of California) does this guy get a CDL? Now a person who worked at the DPS is dead. At least he won’t be out of jail for a long time now. But maybe if he gets out he can kill someone else? 

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    Also this article from KWHI, one of the longtime local Brenham radio stations:

    https://kwhi.com/2024/04/12/one-dead-several-hurt-after-18-wheeler-crashes-into-dps-office-suspect-in-custody/

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  2. 15 minutes ago, petscii said:

    I've not been to the Houston campus.  But is it any worse than the area around Reckling?   I never felt unsafe as a younger man but I would not ask/expect my GF to walk with me in those areas to a game.

     

    The Rice University campus is patrolled by the Rice University PD and most of the exterior area that borders the Rice campus is heavily and safely patrolled by the West University Place Police Department (and not Houston PD), since West University Place is its own incorporated city that exists separate from the city of Houston, even though it's surrounded by Houston.

    Even before the decades where the mc-mansions started appearing across West U, West U was a safe place to walk the streets at night by yourself.

  3. At the corner of Elgin Street & Cullen Blvd?

    They can gentrify the surrounding area all they want, but the same thieves tool around that whole area looking for marks. 

    Nah, I like my car, and prefer to not have it stolen. 

  4. 1 minute ago, UnhappilyMarried said:

    Celebrating xbh and energizing the dugout is objectively good. The idea that this is some new thing that has the potential to start fights is udderly regarded

    It's not new; I never said it was new.

    I've already seen shortstops and 2nd-basemen try to stop it even in past years, so it's only a matter of time.

  5. 22 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Call me an old fart, because I am, but I am not fond of the various choreographed moves when a batter reaches 2nd, either side.

    Yep, it's Shit. Outlaw it.

    They do it so that if they make the regionals/super-regionals/CWS they can do it for the ESPN/Sportscenter hoopla and claim they were doing all season (so they only do it for months so they can do it in the playoffs).

    It's CRINGE, and I remember in '86 when Astros reliever Charlie Kerfeld, after making batters hit weak grounders to the mound, would field the grounders and used to point at the batters and talk shit before tossing the ball to first.

    But since the weak NCAA won't even get rid of the fucking multiple Vandy whistlers, I don't expect this cringe second-base shit to end.

    Maybe it'll end when there's a half-dozen bench-clearing brawls in a short time as a result of it-- won't that be something to see!  Lulz.

  6. 5 minutes ago, Hookem2147 said:

    I think I am reading where the finish to game 1 will be on ESPN+ with the normal LHN broadcast for the second game?

    Source?

    If you look at the graphic, it says LHN.

    Why would they put LHN in there, then?
     

     

  7. 9 hours ago, crimsonlonghorn said:

    The moon's orbit is elliptical and not constant so the distance from the moon to the earth is what determines whether it is a total eclipse or just an annular eclipse. If the moon is too far away the apparent size of the disc is too small to entirely cover up the sun even if it passes directly in front of it, which makes an annular eclipse. The moon needs to be closer to the earth and appear bigger for it to be a total eclipse.

    The earth's orbit around the sub is also elliptical and the distance from the earth to the sun and the apparent size of the sun also varies a little bit and also factors into this determination, but the distance to the moon is the main determinant. 

    Fun fact that I read recently: the moon is slowly moving away from the earth which means that the occurrences when it is big enough to completely cover the sun are gradually getting fewer. Several million years ago in the past there were many more total eclipses and fewer annular eclipses than today. Eventually - like 600 million years from now - the moon will be far enough away that total eclipses will no longer be possible and we will then only have annular eclipses. 

    Feh.

    The moon wanders out a little in its orbit sometimes, and sometimes wanders a little closer in its orbit. I doubt it'll wander out that far without outside forces causing it. 

    It seems more likely in that amount of time that some other cataclysmic event (another bombardment period, comet/asteroid strike, one of the other planets gets damaged from the same things and sends out debris to cause bombardment here, etc.) happens first before that theory gets a chance to happen.

    Besides, if the Earth gets a gamma-ray burst from any black holes aimed at us, we'll be gone so quick that no one will be left to care what happens in 600 million years.  So don't worry about it.  Lulz.

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