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Posts posted by TexasEd
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New lock screen for next time I fly
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30 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:
28 upvotes…
as an aside, I’m in the middle of a road trip to Cali, and back to Houston. After visiting Disneyland, universal studios, and plenty of stops at hotels near national parks (small towns) I feel pretty fucking comfortable saying much of America is a sad, borderline grotesque mass of fatbodies and low IQ dipshits in WWE t shirts and motoring around on rascals. So this post is hits close to home, in a different way.
San Diego, and in particular La Jolla, remains fucking awesome and full of attractive people . And some Russians.
In San Diego right now and the ratio of hot women it’s high and the number of obese people I see a day is single digits. Like maybe 3 or 4 a day. So low that you don’t really notice.
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Yes. I’m switching over to how I spend every day items now.
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11 hours ago, immamac said:
Any of y'all go to kinda tropical on Mondays?
One of my friends goes every time. He has a 65 Mustang
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So the next big thing is probably the rewards partners. I see Chase has BA, Iberian, SouthWest and others on the web site but I cannot find the partner list for Capital One. Are they hiding it?
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Yes, realizing I will need to use it for normal purchases now.
We do about 3K per month so no issue other than moving subscriptions and autopayments for things like cell service.
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44 minutes ago, TheStoicPaisano said:
I don’t think Trump has the guts to blade.
(Though neither do I)
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Starting to plan my sabbatical trip to Europe for next summer. Possible destinations include something like London, Aberdeen, Paris and maybe Brussels or possibly Rome, Venice and possibly Croatia. Have not decided yet but the first one is more likely. Could drop off Paris or Brussels.
So I want to start earning the miles/points now. Origination will be Austin so thinking BA is the way to go for the UK trip but could be others for the Italy trip.
What are the best rewards cards and programs to earn points that I can sign up for now and use over the next 12 months. I saw some mention of the Hilton AmEx and I already have one but just ear HHonors points there. I also Have the AAdvantage Visa but think the Capitol One Venture Rewards with 75,000 bonus miles with $95 fee or Chase Sapphire Preferred (About the same deal) might be better.
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I was supposed to do this a couple years ago but my parents scheduled a cruise for the granddaughters and I couldn't be the heel that said no. So I need to reschedule my family trip there.
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Can I book this for next summer? k thx
Seriously I would have been on this but too late now. We're going to San Diego this year and planning on Europe next year when I have a month off.
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4 hours ago, Pancho said:
This is fucking sad as fuck
4 hours ago, wildcat09 said:They're ruining "daddy" for all the well meaning perverts out there. Truly, nothing is safe from them.
Wait, is this supposed to remind us that the Epstein files have not been released yet or this?
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3 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:
Yes. That appears to be exactly what they did. Fighters, tankers, bombers, naval assets, surveillance, and electronic warfare assets all had to be precisely timed and routed. Small individual deviations given the distances, scale, and timeframes involved would have been greatly amplified. This level of coordination is very impressive.
And yet I'll bet they had radios on where they received their course corrections and other coordinating adjustments over satellite coms but never transmitted. Impressive but the mission objective was not to fly around radio silent.
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Operationally successful = All planes delivered bombs on target and returned home before is was published to the press on Signal. No one is arguing against this. Our Military can do things other nations cannot like replenishing fuel and weapons for ships while traveling at 20+ knots in a heavy fog. We don't do the complex missions or exercises for the sake of doing them, we do them to be able to complete a mission objective.
Operationally Effective = objective of the mission is realized. On this one we can't even get the White House, Pentagon and Director of National Intelligence to agree on what the objective was. Granted there can be multiple objectives but Hegseth can't get them out in order without sounding drunk. Trump is focused on planes flying a dropping bombs "The pilots pulled off something never seen before!!!" and only occasionally remembers that you have to assess effectiveness of the bombing. Can you imagine an oncologist who was only concerned with delivering the chemo and not whether it killed the cancer?
Was the Objective to:
- Prevent Iran from achieving a nuclear bomb in the next 2-5 years? - Unknown, saying there is a setback is fair but how big?
- Destroy the infrastructure to enrich uranium beyond 60% - Unknown, sure bombs were dropped but there is no BDA on the facilities under the mountain just satellite images from above. Analysts said before the operation that it could take successive missions.
- Destroy all current 60% uranium stockpiles - Unlikely, some reports are saying the stockpiles were moved before the mission.
- Cripple the corporate knowledge, research arm of Iran by killing the scientists - Partially effective.
The people at the podiums are not serious people who can wait for the assessments to be complete so they front run it with their sensational stories because it doesn't matter if they are right when the real mission is something else.
SpoilerAll the evidence point to the real mission being something else:
- Distraction from the BBB in congress
- Distraction from the flop of a birthday parade
- Distraction from dropping poll numbers and the unrest spreading over losing constitutional rights like Habeus Corpus and Due Process.
- Edit: Bailing out Netanyahu for starting something he could not finish. (Thanks to the guys that pointed this out)
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4 hours ago, Reagan1k said:
Most if not all will charge a %-based transaction fee on any credit card payment. Unless you can make the value of the rewards exceed that cost, it might not be enough juice to warrant the squeeze - or even worse you could be hustling backward.
UT = 2.3%. TAMU = 2.25%. TCU = 2.85%
Dealing with Texas State (Yay Pac 12?) and I don't have that information yet but is something I was concerned about.
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14 minutes ago, Larry T. Spider said:
You would probably be spending enough to take advantage of the big sign up bonus and minimum spend requirements on 2 or 3 cards.
Yeah, I realized this yesterday but need to do the math. Some of the cards I saw had annual fees. I would want to make sure of the redemption rate and cost per mile after any annual fees and figure out if I keep or shut down and cycle through a different card. I could do 3 cards, Me, my wife and my college age kid. Is there a restriction or can you do them all under one name?
One of the goals is to get to Europe next summer.
I'll check food and travel again.
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On 6/24/2025 at 6:01 PM, wildcat09 said:
This isn’t even the first time a right wing murderer has pretended to be the right’s fake lefty conspiracy version of himself as a troll. You’re basically promoting a terrorist’s manifesto. Good work, dipshit.
J6 was Antifa
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2 hours ago, UTPhil2006 said:
There's a guy on here buying a 2/1 condo for his kid. Not the worst idea I've ever heard. And then sell or keep renting after 4-5 years
If both kids go to the same college I might do that.
I've also thought of that when I retire. Rent my huge house to my kids and buy a new one for me to downsize.
Right now I have a 1% unlimited cashback card I plan to use but there has to be a better payout.
Different Capitol one cards have things like 75,000 bonus miles after spending $4000 in the first 3 months, 1.5% on all purchases and other offers.
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No. I put some in a Roth IRA but don’t think I will need to tap that. Most is coming from taxable investments like EESP or retail brokerage accounts.
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Going soon. Too bad the track is not open until July
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Got my first college student starting in the fall. I have the cash side of the equation with different securities, CDs, and investments maturing on a schedule to withdraw as we go so this isn’t a saving for college question but how to best pay for it.
I want to know thoughts on how to go about maximizing the transaction between taking loans, paying with credit cards, etc. I remember when I was a student my dad had a GMAC rewards card and with 4 boys in college at one time he earned enough to get a new truck.
I have one starting in fall 2025 and the next one in fall 2027.
How do I maximize the opportunity for things like airline miles, cash back, new cars or just floating the cash with a low interest loan and bank the spread on a higher interest CD?
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19 minutes ago, Vegas64 said:
Thought this was an interesting thought about computers:
Will aliens have computers? Deutsch’s question (Is there a (single) universal computing device which can efficiently simulate any other physical system?) is a simple, fundamental question about the nature of the universe. It’s the kind of question which alien counterparts to Deutsch could plausibly come to ponder. And the alien civilizations of which they are a part would then be led inexorably to invent computers.
In this sense, computers aren’t just human inventions. They are a fundamental feature of the universe, the answer to a simple and profound question about how the universe works. And they have likely been discovered over and over again by many alien intelligences.
Like Star Trek was a documentary.
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On 6/18/2025 at 10:22 PM, mchookem said:
it's true, everybody hates Ted Cruz.
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Markets still falling like whoa
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I think chaos for the sake of chaos and insider trading is the issue. Stable gains were too slow for some people.