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Vegas64

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  1. Awesome dad!
  2. All the talk of UTD-- wasn't there a parent here who disclosed how much UTD was and it was obsence for an in state tuition, commuter school experience? I'll try and find it.
  3. 100% in agreement. Dropping anything more than $100k for a bachelors degree IMO, outside of S-tier, truly transformational opportunities (e.g. Ivy League, Target schools with a plan).
  4. JDVancetownhorn?
  5. I was supposed to be at the relase party today at the Wingstop on 75 and Skillman supporting some friends of friends (music management), but because he was arrested in deep ellum last night it was cancelled.
  6. So does BigXthePlug doing country fusion!
  7. He's actually a pretty good vocalist and singer I was shocked to learn, in intuitively picking up pitch and harmony. See this:
  8. The biggest problem (for those of us who post on surly, at least) if that the HHI is usually really low to qualify for free tuition. I joke, but also don't joke, about being poor, but it's really just being solidly middle class. Solidly middle class has never been a great place to take advantage of social programs, such as free tuition, etc.
  9. Understood and honestly super relatable. I wasn't really directing that last post your direction. I was thinking and processing it more as, well this is what I actually thought: "What if, in 10-15 years, we have a generation of adults of are saddled with $200k of college debt and loans. Not because they didn't learn from the previous generation who can't afford anything due to the crushing debt, but because it was their ticket out of a red state" And that's kinda sad. It's almost like looking at going to college like becoming a refugee or looking for asylum.
  10. The problem with a re-brand is they suck. Their menu is poorly constructed. CB is the epitome of the restaurant you haven't eaten in a long time and you think, "you know what, that might be good, sure let's go" and then 10 minutes into the drive, the tchotsky store and the menu and you remember why exactly you don't go. It sucks. THAT SAID You know it's a good year when you limit out dove hunting by 10am and the whole lobby is full of old, gray men in camo with our big ol bellies.
  11. Great last few pages, especially the empathy for the homeless. My key takeaway is that the Democratic Party is singing "Well holy moly, me oh my / you are the apple of my eye" in 2025 and nobody is here for it.
  12. That cat was awesome.
  13. There is certainly a fair amount of privilege to be able to spend $50k a year to be educated in California (or New York or Seattle, etc.) and accelerate the move out of Texas for an education that is average-to-above-average (e.g. Oregon, Arizona, Colorado, San Diego St., Cal Poly, etc.) Like I said, I'm old and poor-- my kids had to do for in-state tuition and if you can't get into the affordable good schools, we have McDonald's cheap second-tier schools at home
  14. That makes sense. Probably an easy 5x uplift in tuition for OoS kids right?
  15. Dude what? I agree with you. If I wasn't so brokeback poor you think I would live in Texas? Southern California is a paradise, brother.
  16. I kinda agree with you but I think there is a level of nuance that should be employed when talking about speculative "bubbles". While they all have something similiar in common in an arc and a bust, they are not all created equally. There is a lot of conversation about how a bubble is not just a lot of noise but actually a very positive signal. Bubbles can be very productive if the asset or technology is going to be transformational (e.g. Internet vs Tulips) in that they build the foundations and infrastructure, encourage experimentation, segementation, creativity, IP, skillsets and experiences during the boom. When it busts, you have all the debris and detritus that will be valuable and integral inputs to the rise of the standardization and forms that mature. Companies (and governments) are investing hundreds of billions into the data centers and infrastructure as @Captainant points out. Chip fabs, silicon, design, development. This isn't the same as dotcom's raising $100 million dollars and buying billboards and creating e-games to deliver coupons and pay for Super Bowl ads. I think we oughta be careful about lumping the AI bubble with the Crypto bubble (and even the latter has it's merits and of course naysayers).
  17. Vegas64

    Grammer Bored

    On a serious note, the things that sucks the worst about the commodization of LLMs and GPT's is that those of us who actually are extremely well read and with an extensive and arrayed vocabulary (and who have horrible writing crutches like the em dash, which are organically and well earned from years of trying to write in at least a semi-serious manner)-- we are the babies who are thrown out with the bath water when it comes to automatically disqualifying our original writing as cheap ChatGPT output.
  18. Outside of UCSD and UC-Irvine (which as stated by others, if your kid can't get into UT, they ai't getting in from out of state), adn Trinity, the list feels like a very, very expensive (out of state) list of 2nd tier/B-tier schools. If saving money is a concern there are a much cheaper local (in state) options that are comparable. But I know there are a lot of folks who are biting the out of state bullet to get out of Texas for political reasons too...
  19. or OU vs Arkansas or Bama vs Ole Miss, etc. Half of SEC West seems Texas kids now (sans Auburn & Vandy & UTk)
  20. China already had the solar game on lock. Crazy those guys.
  21. Where did you get that hood ornament? I got it from off of the car in the junkyard.
  22. General Question: Are the brains of people who can not only grasp, but fully understand and expand upon things like theoritical physics, four forces, standard model, classical physics and quantum mechanics built differently and more capable and able than the rest of us?
  23. It's a must to get on early if you have an overhead bag and don't want to be that guy swimming upstream to find a compartment or check at the gate.
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