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  1. 9 hours ago, UnivTex34 said:

    When Paxlovid first got temporary approval, the urgent care would not prescribe it to me due to having high BP. Luckily I didn't need it, as that time it turned out to be a big nothing burger (my third time).

    Me too this past August.  Simply because I take bp meds at all

  2. 1 minute ago, Native Horn said:

    Not sure if it is the formatting or what, but that is a terribly written article.  And Tony Plohetski is a great journalist.  

    Yeah, I had to have this high-ranking federal agent I know explain it to me.  He said he is totally legit, FWIW. 

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  3. 22 minutes ago, DFW Horn said:

    I thought the Big12 had copyrighted Big14, 16, 18, etc. Now would be the time for a re-branding.

    But, I don't think the current logo is any worse than others.

    I never liked the “wide at both ends and thin in the middle” curved design over the original that just used plain romans. But you have a point that the logos all suck.  SEC has the benefit of being an improvement over the old one.  

  4. I just hope the Big12 finally gets its marketing act together.  Morphing coaches, cryptic ad reads over seizure-inducing strobed pictures, I don’t even think the logo was designed well.  I would watch the SECSECSEC ads, the BiG map ad or the ad with babies and old people and  think “Those look professional.  Big 12 ads look like a student media team did an ad for a third-tier sports drink.”  Hell, even the Pac12 “Conference of Champions” ads were better.  

    WWE is not the answer.  

  5. No weather issues at DFW.  Clear skies both times and she watched other planes take off.  She was paying attention-she asked a ton of times and got different stories, sometimes from the same person.  
     

    But that’s not really what I’m asking.  I get that they might just say whatever if they don’t know to get people off their backs.  But I’m really asking if it’s some AA thing because other people related similar experiences flying AA out of DFW specifically.  

  6. Question for those who know a lot about American.  
     

    My wife has had two trips on American in the last 5 months. Picked American mostly for the schedule.  Both trips were Houston to Dallas then change planes at DFW.  
     

    Both times (Asheville and NYC) she got to DFW fine, but both trips the second plane did a thing where it would taxi away, sit on the tarmac for hours, come back to the gate, sit in the departure area for hours, then cancel and AA gave her a voucher to a shit hotel and said try again tomorrow.  Various inconsistent explanations for why the plane didn’t go depending on who you asked.   No known weather issues on either end, though.  
     

    I fly a lot on everything from Spirit to Emirates, but not much on AA since we moved to Houston.   When we lived in Dallas AA was my go-to, partly because hub and partly because I had a company AA visa so expensing was easy.  For a lot of people I know and work with in Dallas that’s still pretty true.  

    But anyway I have never had anything like that happen to me unless there was some raging storm or clearly explained mechanical difficulties.  And never have I sat on the tarmac for hours and not eventually taken off  

    So I have asked a bunch of Dallas friends an colleagues and quite a few of them say AA pulls this kind of shit all the time.  Since they fly AA nearly exclusively, they just assumed all airlines did it. 

    Have I just been unreasonably lucky and people like to bitch, or is this actually some AA DFW thing? Asking because wife right now refuses to ever set foot on an AA plane again. 

  7. 50 minutes ago, HouTex said:

    “May see rolling blackouts. . . “ doesn’t mean we will have them.  Some of you guys are chicken littles.  The last estimate shows a small surplus in capacity at 8:00 am tomorrow, otherwise it’s fine.   And this is from the ERCOT site regarding the estimates:

    *Note: The 6-Day Forecast graph should only be used as a relative indication of future system conditions. Due to uncertainties associated with the longer-term nature of the forecasts used, both the Available Seasonal Capacity and Demand Forecast may adjust significantly as the Operating Day approaches.

    *Note: Capacity available from demand response programs is not reflected in the Current Day and the 6-Day Forecast graphs unless these programs have been deployed.

    My issue is that graph has changed back and forth over the course of the day from just barely surplus to significant shortage.  So they just don’t know.  

  8. 3 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

    Last time they tried rolling blackout for the Texas grid, it didn't go so well. As long as the shit is happening while I slumber, I don't care.

    Well the graph that just loaded on my phone now shows we won’t exceed available again.  

  9. 41 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    What imbeciles were saying this?

    He said that rural suburbs can be identified by “a disproportionate number of obscenely over-powered trucks that are never actually used for their natural applications”

    If that’s the criteria, then…

  10. 13 hours ago, Steel Shank said:

    Ross playing 0.15 level checkers

    My kids used to do that at 3 or so.  Just slide the piece down making engine noises and yell “king me!” When they got to the other side. 

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  11. 10 minutes ago, MonkeyDoughnut said:

    Roughly 60% of Texas homes and businesses have electric heating systems.

    I have lived in apartments with electric heat, and we have electric heat down at the bay because there are no underground lines out in the nowhere.  But how do businesses have electric heat?  Strip centers?

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