Everything posted by LCHorn
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
Jalen Beeks is the early winner for small sample size luck. I wouldnāt lose any sleep over that one.
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All Encompassing Mortgage and Real Estate Thread
Is Habib saying anything positive?
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the best tv show you're not watching is...
A show that my my wife and I liked (and she loves Colin from Accounts) that seems to have a similar vibe is Starstruck on Max and I don't know anyone that has watched it. Caveat, I haven't seen season three but wife and reddit appeared to hate it.
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
Is that necessarily a problem? Pay for field manager is probably related to experience and outside of a couple of managers, I doubt thereās sufficient experience to justify a premium. Iād rather the money go to an outfielder. FWIW, judging by the team hitting statistics and how offensively futile 2/3 of the hitters have been, 4-6 doesnāt look that bad.
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All things Apple, the tech not the fruit
This is probably too late to help you, but for anyone else, Costco will give you a $100 store credit if you buy it there at the T Mobile kiosk. Weirdly, they wonāt let you pay for the full balance for the phone and it has to be added as a recurring charge to your bill (no interest, mind you).
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
Same, I think weāre a bat short. Starter depth is also an issue, but thatās always a concern.
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
Maybe we can trade for Verlander a third time.
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All Encompassing Mortgage and Real Estate Thread
Iāve been in meetings all morning and come out to a bond market thatās lost all of its gains from last week-I thought this the upside of my 401-K falling 20% was at least rates were going down.
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2027: I remember watching his dad play
That dude is never getting carded to buy beer.
- WBB: Final Four - Texas vs. Souf Carolina - 6pm on ESPN
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The Portugal Thread
That line is nuts and no tourist should be spending 2 or 3 hours there that could be spent exploring. You probably already know this, but that park to the right of your picture became our āletās chill a bit and let the kids have a break and drink Caipirinhas.ā spot to rest. Also highly recommend ducking into the train station to see the amazing tile work and grab a bite at the Time Out market adjacent (charred octupus was a highlight). We also did a boat tour that I might pass on (not terrible, itās just more fun to be on foot).
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James Gunn's DC Universe
I love it, go get it. They arenāt going to do a straight adaptation because All-Star is pretty self contained and itās clear this is meant to be the jumping off point in Gunnās DC movie universe.
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James Gunn's DC Universe
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The Democratic Party
I think they found it, itās why they are winning.
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The Democratic Party
I'm looking at Colin Allred's platform (link here) and it's all pretty standard stuff that most voters would identify as leftist. I would agree that there's pretty fertile soil for economic populism, particularly five months after the election. It's because I'm skeptical and I want to see a more developed response (which you gave a couple of days ago, but I also want to know what other people are thinking). At least locally, I don't believe in a big D silent majority just waiting for their hearts to be stirred by Beto, Lina Hidalgo in 10 years or the or someone channeling the ghost of Ann Richards. I just don't think there's enough of us, despite the more progressive members of Surly trying to shout down anyone espousing that the middle should be targeted. If that's correct, then it means the party has to change. People like @Bozo_Casanova think it's largely self-inflicted, and maybe he's right, but if the remedy is "Texans really are more amenable to classical leftist programs than their own votes are telling us" then I'd like to know which programs. Texans are voting for abortion restrictions, transgender health restrictions, school vouchers for religious schools, etc., maybe not directly but in their choice of representation. Maybe you might counter that it's not the policy, it's the politician, but I'm skeptical about that, too, when their standard bearers are Patrick, Abbot, crazy eyes and Ted Cruz. Is there a single person in that group you'd want to have a beer with?
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The Democratic Party
I'm not real fond of performative stuff but the Dems have to quit playing to the traditional media for approval, and alt media and social media will rewards anything that grabs attention. You think they'll do better appealing to the left?
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All Encompassing Mortgage and Real Estate Thread
This is the Surly real estate thread equivalent of "ugly knees, would not bang".
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All Encompassing Mortgage and Real Estate Thread
I'm working on a loan for a tech employee and need RSU income to qualify. Stock is down 15% from close yesterday and getting worse. I don't know if that's representative of a massive sell-off but I'm guessing that's happening, at least early.
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2024-2025 Houston Rockets thread - Prepare for Liftoff š [Now Featuring Kevin Durant]
5 for 7, all from 3 in 9 min is nuts.
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
You forgot that Whitley is thus far unhittable in 2025.
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The Portugal Thread
Btw, youāve not really lived if you havenāt had your asshole puckered driving down the twisty and steep cobblestone streets of Porto in a borrowed Audi.
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The Portugal Thread
We took an uber. The town hates tourist cars making it hard for residents to get in and out.
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H-E-B employees petition to ban non service animals in store
Ezra Klein and Jonathan Haidt (Anxious Generation author) touched on this on Ezra's most recent podcast episode--in Haidt's opinion, we've lost a shared moral philosophy that was centered around Judeo-Christian values (as citizens have moved away from organized religion), and what's replaced it (or left behind) is a philosophy centered on the market as the moral arbiter of what is right. In other words, if the market rewards certain behaviors, then those are okay, and if it punishes other then those are wrong. Tying this back to dogs and HEB, I agree with @Brisketexan and think we all should shit in their carts. I feel deeply it's what Jesus would want.
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All Encompassing Mortgage and Real Estate Thread
I pass by that house on my way to Counter Cafe and it's amazing. I think I could live with the driveway.
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āIām your huckleberry.ā RIP, Val Kilmer
Same-probably my first exposure to the idea that you could be smart and fun and that not everything social had to revolve around small town sports, drinking beer at the bank parking lot and making out in the bed of a pick-up trucks in some pasture.