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gmr548

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  1. The entire Boeing saga over recent years is just a metaphor for contemporary American society/economics at large, nothing being more illustrative of that than the fact that the bolded is a controversial statement. The race to the bottom continues.
  2. "Texas voters can walk backwards through a field of dicks, court says."
  3. Not to mention if they even get halfway to what they want it'd be an unmitigated disaster.
  4. Never thought I'd want to join Estonian Secret Service but here we are.
  5. It was pretty clusterfucky. I mean, it's always clusterfucky but especially last year. I chalk it up to being the highest profile matchup between the two teams for a while, and the first really big one post COVID. In 2021 Texas had some of the wind taken out of its sails when they got rolled by Arkansas, and it was hot as fuck. 2022 OU was a train wreck and everyone knew it. 2023 was a matchup of top 10-12 teams (don't remember where exactly OU was ranked), Texas was #2 or #3 and obviously the profile was riding as high as it had since 09 with the Bama win. College Game Day, perfect weather, all that.
  6. Offseason is for lurking the recruiting board. For most of recent history the football board has also been good for laughing at spiked kool aid but I have been overserved myself this year so I've got nothing to say on that front. Honestly, CR is a better place than the football board in the off season. It's an election year, after all. Never a dull moment.
  7. The Butts are pretty big GOP donors, no? I don't imagine this will have a direct, material impact on votes - most people will never see this story and it/s party over everything for the GOP anyway - but indirectly it could be a problem in a year where the GOP is at a major financial disadvantage with so much of their resources being funneled to Trump legal fees. Not the smartest move to spite a major donor in that situation.
  8. Nothing says Texas Tough like Dr. Phil amirite
  9. lmao this is the most bitch made, snowflake titty baby shit I've seen on this site in a while. Bravo.
  10. This is one of the consistently weirdest phenomena on this site.
  11. Also on the topic of polling, Split Ticket did a poll and accompanying piece on young voters: https://split-ticket.org/2024/03/27/we-polled-young-voters-heres-what-we-found/
  12. I want to believe this, which means I find myself extremely skeptical. To play devils advocate: Polls have indeed missed pretty significantly in both elections with Trump on the ballot - that's true! Both misses were large and... in favor of Trump. Polls were pretty accurate in 2018 and 2022 midterms, where Democrats were also murdering the GOP in special elections. One could easily conclude that presidential election polling is struggling because it can't capture the low propensity voters that tend to lean Trump. Why is that wrong?
  13. Weird, in my experience your wife is pretty into backside approaches.
  14. They were. The people missing are the road work crew. Two found, several still missing. Because it happened at 2am and there was construction going on, which enabled closure to traffic very quickly when the ship put out a mayday. Well, I'm going to hell.
  15. You must not remember renewing last year.
  16. Ironically I wasgoing to say that's not funny and looks like the lazy MAGA boomer memes.
  17. Yep, and that is not Sydir Mitchell even at his theoretical peak. January is probably the closest thing to being that guy. Love that he is impressing early. Be sure to tell them how important it is to win the spring game too. Agreed. The conference schedule is only difficult this year because of the way the timing falls with OU/Georgia back to back, and the two hillbilly holy wars at Arkansas and A&M within three weeks in November. Texas is probably only an underdog to Georgia in conference play, and a very slight one. In terms of overall quality, this season's eight-game SEC schedule is roughly on par with a nine-game Big 12 schedule, and that's only because Georgia's legitimately a different animal. The rest of it? Whatever. Texas has had plenty of good DL come through and has had plenty of good DL units since 2010. DLs also don't play each other. What this line of logic would indicate needs an upgrade - and they have very clearly looked at it that way - is the OL.
  18. In a desirable inner loop neighborhood like Timbergrove I buy that you can spend $2k or more on a 2BR apartment but you can also find cheaper. Of course, then you get into subjective criteria like quality of the unit or the demographic of the property when thinking about whether you actually want to live there, which can vary wildly between different people and properties. And Timbergorve is mostly SFH anyway so not necessarily a ton of rentals to go around and those are more expensive. My two cents, Montrose, River Oaks, and Rice Village are probably the only neighborhoods where I'd say you're really lucky if you find something < $1k/person. Otherwise, there's still stuff out there. To your point plenty of it may not necessarily be up to standard for higher income renters but for a 20-something just getting started and moving to TX for that first job, coming from a VHCOL market, or stuff like that, there are options that are going to look decent in most neighborhoods in Houston still.
  19. You can't call Houston a global mega city and DFW a huge suburb. DFW is bigger and growing faster than Houston, and this: is closer to truth than fiction. There are obviously some cultural and environmental differences but DFW and Houston share like 90% of their DNA. You can draw parallels down to the neighborhood in the urban cores of Dallas and Houston. I'm sure that goes over real well in Collin County lol maybe take a look at the source on the graphic
  20. I am both a Houston renter and in multifamily real estate by trade, and you're misinformed on this one. Hence my use of qualifiers. There are always exceptions to rules.
  21. I don't necessarily disagree, I just don't see a lot more to be gotten out of Broughton given his physical profile. Sweat wasn't thought of as an Outland type at this time last year, but everyone knew he had the tools to be really good if he locked in and was excited about him coming back.
  22. Not necessarily true. Vast majority of people that relocate across state lines (or choose not to, for that matter) are driven by household economics (cost of living, job/educational, opportunity, whatever) or family dynamics. Politics is typically a secondary/tertiary concern if it registers at all. "Voting with your feet" is, for the most part, a privilege of the class of people who are probably going to be fine wherever they go. Between that and the age issue the base case on this should be that most young people moving here probably fall somewhere between "well, the politics kinda suck but I can get a room in a 2BD apartment < $1,000 and still live in a major city with jobs and shit to do" and complete political disengagement.
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