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  1. 3500 sq ft house is just a giant waste of money and time in terms of heating/cooling, furniture just to fill empty of life unused rooms, and cleaning. I guess if you are a fat ass who never leaves your house, maybe a 3500 sq ft house makes you feel better about yourself. I'd rather have a 17-1800 3 bed 2 bath house at 6000 ft in the foothills of Colorado than have a 10,000 sq ft house in whichever shitty Texas town not named Austin. When you live somewhere with amazing weather and a shitton of free shit to do, your urge for stupid materialistic shit goes away. I don't need that $80k truck with a 8 year payment and a 3,500 sq ft house filled with shit I'm never going to use to compensate for how miserable my life is.
  2. I worked in VZ for over 15 years. I worked for another small telecom company who was a supplier to the big 3 (4 at the time). Mostly companies "want" to be good at cyber security, up to a point. I don't think you can ever build Fort Knox around a network. There are just way too many points of entry from switches, routers, corporate spies, to Joe Blow clicking on a phishing link. Maybe Fort Knox can be built, but it'll be expensive as fuck. But even then it won't protect you from the threats which have already been installed and lay dormant. Cyber security is all cost. You can't market and sell that you spend $200M a year on protecting your network, knowing that's not going to be enough. That dictates the smaller guy's attention to it. But having government regulations requiring something will at least make some companies spend money on cyber security. The leadership at the small company did not want to do anything. We were mandated by our customers (the big 3). Even then it was the least amount (cheapest) effort possible.
  3. I don't know how much he was "living" after the first 2 or 3.
  4. more #winning. I wonder how long this anti-American sentiment lasts after Trump. Companies are pivoting to non-US suppliers and will sign long term contracts. Consumers are creatures of habit. When they shift brands, they don't usually go back. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-factories-rocked-unprecedented-rise-181751859.html US factories rocked by ‘unprecedented’ rise in unsold stock US factories are suffering from an “unprecedented” rise in unsold stock as Donald Trump’s trade war hits their overseas sales. American manufacturers’ unsold inventory soared at the fastest pace in more than 18 years in October, according to the S&P Global Manufacturing purchasing manager’s index (PMI). Businesses reported that their production exceeded overall demand after tariffs saw their export orders slump for the fourth month in a row. Sales declined to key markets such as Canada, China, Europe and Mexico, which have all been hit by steep new US tariffs. Although Mr Trump’s tariffs apply to imports from these countries, it seems they have also had a damaging impact on US sales abroad. Chris Williamson, chief business economist at S&P Global Market Intelligence, said the surge in unsold stock was “worrying” and “unprecedented”. Mr Williamson said: “[It was] widely linked to weaker than anticipated sales to customers, especially in export markets, which could trigger a downshifting of production in the coming months unless demand revives.” Business confidence among consumer goods producers fell to a two-year low as manufacturers became concerned about future demand. Mr Williamson added: “Firms [are] growing increasingly worried about household spending in the US and falling sales to consumers in export markets.”
  5. When we slept Georgia's ass, will Kirby complain about our having a bye week before the game and the unfair advantage we were given?
  6. The piece of shit Cheney was one of Trump's harshest critic. That's how batshit crazy the Republican party is now.
  7. I will cut you.
  8. Colorado should "tariff" the vacationing Texans who voted for Abbott and Trump.
  9. I'm thinking kidnapping and forced prostitution. That or a kinky Twilight the movie cult.
  10. Between my 2 daughters, they have over 20 friends and friends of friends (about half went to UTexas) who moved from Austin to NYC after college. Most of them would never move back to Texas. All of them will vote for Mamdani.
  11. Bubba and Mary Sue are going to see TAX and vote for anything which reduces and/or prohibits taxes, whether those taxes exist or not. They don't understand that it takes money to run a state. Reduce taxes in one thing raises taxes on another, or else shit doesn't get paid for and services go away. 85 of the top 100 SNAP counties voted for Trump. They sure the fuck didn't think it through what they voted for. This will be the same gotdamned thing. What gets me is that many of the Props are just performative bullshit to make Bubby and Mary Sue think the leadership is doing something. It'll work.
  12. What a fucking joke! I don't know what's sadder, the dipshit "threatening" this bullshit or that he thinks his base is SO GODDAMNED STUPID that this performative bullshit would resonate in some way? What exactly is he going to "tariff" on the incoming New Yorkers? Pay higher sales tax? Pay higher property taxes? https://www.newsweek.com/greg-abbott-threatens-100-tariff-new-york-election-moving-texas-10986837 Greg Abbott Threatens ‘100% Tariff’ On New Yorkers Moving to Texas Texas Governor Greg Abbott has said he would "impose a 100 percent tariff" on New Yorkers moving to Texas. “After the polls close tomorrow night, I will impose a 100% tariff on anyone moving to Texas from NYC,” the Republican wrote on X on Monday night. Abbott’s post came on the eve of New York City’s mayoral election, in which democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani is the frontrunner.
  13. Reading a thread on Reddit says it's due to mis-management of water. Maybe so but you can only conserve so much if there's no rain in forever. I was watching Lake Travis trickle down. Lucky (unlucky for many families) we got that deluge in July or else we'd be fucked in a few years.
  14. Duane Akina Assistant Coach, Football - Defensive Passing Game Coordinator Sooooo, what exactly does he do? Can we NIL him for a younger coach who maybe knows how to coach our DBs to not be so shitty.
  15. Amazing discovery. This is eerily similar to how dipshit Magats have their heads so far up the orange felon rapist dipshits ass that they can only see when the piece of shit pedophile opens his mouth to suck Putin's dick.
  16. There are videos of probably a thousand people in TSA line but sure, it's overblow. Just be thankful you went through a day after the shitshow.
  17. Ehh, who are we kidding. They have already gone through the back door and remodeled the house to build even more backdoors that we don't know about. This just leaves the front door unlocked which doesn't really mean shit.
  18. Immigrants are bad but Russia, China, NORK, Iran, Israel, and any country with a bunch of bored 20 yr olds with computers hacking every phone is the small price for owning the libs.
  19. Tehran enters the chat. 2 weeks before people kill eat other to drink the blood of their victims. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/2/drinking-water-in-tehran-could-run-dry-in-two-weeks-iranian-official-says Drinking water in Tehran could run dry in two weeks, Iranian official says A historic drought in the country has culminated in a ‘100 percent drop in precipitation’ in the Tehran region. The main source of drinking water for residents of the Iranian capital Tehran is at risk of running dry within two weeks, according to state media, due to a historic drought plaguing the country. The Amir Kabir Dam, one of five that provide drinking water for Tehran, “holds just 14 million cubic metres of water, which is eight percent of its capacity”, the director of the capital’s water company, Behzad Parsa, was quoted as saying by the IRNA news agency on Sunday. At that level, it can only continue to supply Tehran with water “for two weeks”, he warned. The announcement comes as the country experiences its worst drought in decades. The level of rainfall in Tehran province was “nearly without precedent for a century”, a local official declared last month. The megacity of more than 10 million people is nestled against the southern slopes of the often snow-capped Alborz Mountains, which soar as high as 5,600 metres (18,370 feet) and whose rivers feed multiple reservoirs. A year ago, the Amir Kabir dam held back 86 million cubic metres of water, Parsa said, but there had been a “100 percent drop in precipitation” in the Tehran region. Parsa did not provide details on the status of the other reservoirs in the system. According to Iranian media, the population of Tehran consumes around three million cubic metres of water each day. As a water-saving measure, supplies have reportedly been cut off to several neighbourhoods in recent days, while outages were frequent this summer. In July and August, two public holidays were declared to save water and energy, with power cuts an almost daily occurrence amid a heatwave that saw temperatures rise beyond 40 Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) in Tehran and exceed 50C (122F) in some areas.
  20. for you folks flying out of Houston IAH, here's thread on Reddit with updates. Looks like the shitshow has diminished, mostly?. goose2point0 •29m ago Update 11/3 12 pm Just went through security at terminal E. Precheck line took about 25-30 minutes all in. Regular line looked to be 2-2.5 hours. It was snaked all the way to close to the entrance but it didn't go outside. I gave myself way more time than needed but I would rather chill in the terminal than miss my flight. Ok_Engineering6302 •4m ago I just got through the general boarding line in less than 10 minutes at 12:30. Don’t know why there was no line today? Yesterday I was in the line for 1.5 hours at 5pm and didn’t even get close to the checkpoint, missed my flight
  21. A douche magnet.
  22. Before the spell check police get me, yes I know it's Jadan Baugh.
  23. I guess maybe it'll be a litmus test on Sark's long term career intent by how hard we hit the portal to address obvious holes in the roster. If we don't at least throw a shitton of money Jordan Baugh's way, then we are either poorer than we think we are and/or Sark's gone.
  24. Let's not even get started on the bullshit $100s of millions allocated for these privileged leeches.
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