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  1. I don't know if this is trivial or not but I'm going to rant so... I am so sick and tired of infrastructure trash. I had commented on another thread about picking up litter in our neighborhood and on my walks since I can no longer run (per doctor). So I walk. I pick up beer and spiked tea cans. I pick up energy bar wrappers. I pick up Whataburger, McDonalds, and Chik-fil-a bags and containers. I pick up plastic coffee cups from Dutch Bros, Dunkin', and Starbucks. But the thing that pisses me off is the large amount of trash left behind by road construction and other municipal uses such as old signage, orange barricade cones, sand bags, posts...and telecom wires, boxes, covers to conduits, phone poles that were replaced by larger ones and left lying in a ditch, silt barriers complete with t-posts, and so on. No one seems willing to claim this trash after the job or original use is complete and many of these objects are too large for one person to handle and haul back to place in the regular trash collection so I just fume about it. Hmmfph. Surly indeed.
  2. I read this and despite the warning in BOLD LARGE FONT, I'm going to comment: no need to use bold large font. We get it, you are affected directly because you voted without using your brain which isn't surprising because the one you have is rather insignificant. *not directed towards the Surly poster but the FB poster, just to make clear.
  3. To quote George Clooney (Danny Ocean) in Ocean's 11: Ted Nugent called. He wants his shirt back.
  4. You're correct of course; however the vaccination rate is still high enough in some areas that aren't west Texas that an outbreak (3+ cases) in the Dallas area may be limited IF they can limit exposure. I realize that's a big if, and I'm not in RFK Jr downplay mode or anything; but IMO the larger risk is still someone who travels around the Midland/Odessa or Lubbock corridors to other Texas cities spreading it or unvaccinated thru travelers who catch and spread it along their way east/west/north south--lots of people who travel to Colorado & NM to go skiing this time of year. It's measles season, and there have been other ongoing cases in other states plus Ontario has an outbreak right now that is of similar size as Texas has. Obviously Europe and other countries have outbreaks right now as well so international travel is aiding the virus the way it always has. Thus far, those with vaccinations have been protecting others but the system is being strained and we'll see how long it holds. As much of a ledge sitter as I tend to be, I'm going to try and remain optimistic.
  5. Texas DSHS has confirmed 146 cases now, with 98 of them being in Gaines County. Most of the cases are in counties near to Gaines County so thus far it has not gotten a toehold further east.
  6. Elon has a new toy in his sandbox. Hell, he's got the entire sandbox now, he's never going back to Tesla in a functional way.
  7. I'm no engineer, but that would piss me off in more than way. The idiot is driving a huge-ass SUV onto something that may not be structured to withstand that psf. Every time I watch drivers do shit like that on (taxpayer as opposed to private spaces like this building in the photo) curbs, sidewalks, medians, and so on it pisses me off. Like we don't have enough construction in this state without people selfishly causing more issues.
  8. I'm not sold on ai for weather given some of the other product I've seen out there. I mean, a person living in OKC just minutes away from the Severe Storms Lab in Norman (eventually shut down due to cuts) and a Category 5 is barreling down I-35 towards the subdivision and ai goes with: "Hell is empty and all the devils are here!" Now that might be appropriate to have a quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest since it is Oklahoma and all, but LuAnne and Walter in their 2100 sq ft tract home are going to be screwed.
  9. Thank you for the additional information. The high support is nowhere to be seen on the Aggie forum--they figure AI and models can take care of it and/or the numbers are not a high enough percentage to matter. When I was little I used to watch my older brother play this really old and beat up arcade game at a pizza place our family dined at for a treat. He didn't get to play games like that very often so can't imagine he was all that skilled. I can't remember what it was called but it seemed like it ended with missiles raining down until the screen was practically white. We're only at the end of February and I'm bug-eyed like I was watching him try desperately to play that game.
  10. The Onion has had some gems today (SIAP)
  11. Per usual, The Onion with the brushback pitch:
  12. Mrs Whiggins

    LBGTQ

    Thanks for the clarification.
  13. During the first Trump administration, I recall reading an article that there was a push to privatize the agency. Imagine the havoc that a service industry like that going private would be during extreme events. Want updates on that hurricane? Fork it over man. See if I can find that article...ah, well there have been more since that one so here's a few for anyone that wants some quick reads listed newest to oldest: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-private-forecasting-companies-cant-replace-the-national-weather-service/ https://www.npr.org/2024/11/15/nx-s1-5188571/a-meteorological-arms-race-is-shaping-up-about-privatizing-the-weather https://www.sej.org/publications/backgrounders/weather-data-privatization-poses-conflicts-changing-meteorology-landscape https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/who-benefits-from-the-privatization-of-weather-data https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/14/politics/noaa-nominee-accuweather/index.html
  14. I know she's a teacher and all, but you'd think she'd know that stupidity isn't really a hidden thing in America. It's front and center every day.
  15. I don't know about the legal charges, but he does seem to have a proclivity for "grooming" young men with the knowledge of how to "groom" women until they're essentially compliant to be abused. Right on course for this administration. I mean is anyone surprised that he's landed in Florida? Matt Gaetz probably picked him up in a limo at the airport.
  16. Locations in San Antonio, College Station, Magnolia, and Little Elm. Maybe more than that but not sure. I've never eaten there. Less because of the MAGA/politics theme, it's just not the type of food we go for when we dine out.
  17. Elon doesn't look like he could change an air freshener either....
  18. According to the Texas DSHS, it was a false alarm. However, I'm sure there will be more confirmed cases in new locations in the coming week. The ill person who traveled to San Antonio was not an outlier when it comes to human behavior.
  19. I'm glad he was your longtime barber even if he will be no longer. The LAST thing I'm going to do when someone is holding a pair of scissors near my face and neck is open my mouth and talk politics, even if they continue talking aloud to themselves.
  20. Mrs Whiggins

    LBGTQ

    I'm not a lawyer either so I may have misunderstood, but yes, the point of it is still the same as it ever was.
  21. SIAP: Lubbock health officials are confirming Walmart and Target as two measles exposure sites in that city. With symptoms taking a while to develop, I'm crossing fingers that the San Antonio exposures will end up null, but that Buccees is a wild card.
  22. Mrs Whiggins

    LBGTQ

    I read the bill to be that using barring public monies to fund transition was what was proposed. That being said, it has similar characteristics to the chipping away strategy that the GOP used for Roe v Wade and will use for other rights they oppose.
  23. Some states kind of do this in a roundabout way with Medicaid. There was an article that talked about how some states claw back Medicaid payments using a federal law with respect to the estate (after death) and it was a decent read. https://www.thegazette.com/health-care-medicine/iowa-medicaid-sends-4m-bills-to-two-families-grieving-deaths-of-loved-ones-with-disabilities/ It's not unlike the way some states bill prisoners for the time spent behind bars which leads to a mountain of debt that they cannot realistically overcome if they're ever released.
  24. The quote: "This fucking guy has no clue what he's doing." Martin Eberhard, Marc Tarpenning, and BoDs of Zip2 and PayPal: Just now discovering this, America?
  25. Your site, your rules so I abide. Carry on folks! Once I rose above the noise and confusion Just to get a glimpse beyond this illusion I was soaring ever higher But I flew too high
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