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Hefeweizen

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  1. Realize that most of these guys have just now understood the US is like an elephant that just snorted coke.  You probably just want to get out of the way for a while until the elephant crashes or finds something else to fuck up.  You aren’t winning a head to head battle.  So worst case, you fold, take a loss, and bide your time.  They don’t have have much of a choice.

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  2. 3 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    I think I’ve told you this before, but I would make Rick Perry Governor for life if it saved us one month of Greg Abbott. He’s the worst governor we have ever had, and no one is close. 

    Rick Perry was just a typical grifter politician. I remember 30 years ago him coming into my old bosses office to talk about the manor airport site.  He was just a dumb guy who was pretty likable and political.  Nothing like the evil criminals we like to put in office these days.

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  3. 17 minutes ago, Teddyballgame said:

    Enterprise Alamo and National are all the same company, the cars all go to same cleaning facility and then brought back for rental.   A car returned to National is just likely to be rented next by Enterprise or Alamo. 

    I knew Avis and Budget were the same, but not Enterprise and their sisters.  It's interesting because their service is superior to all the other brands.  My company uses Enterprise exclusively because of our experience with them.

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  4. On 6/27/2025 at 7:22 AM, squib said:

    This has been my experience putting two through on a 529 and the third about to start. I am always looking for credit card points, but the universities charge CC transaction fees that undermine any reward. I just do a bank draft type of payment. 

    Same at UC system schools.  Just pay via echeck without fee.  In the case of UC it's still like a 50 cent fee but for a 15k payment whatever.

     

    There isn't a way to game tuition payments that I found to work to be honest.  I tried all the different alternatives.

  5. I'll be honest in that in my retirement calculations SS doesn't even factor.  I am expecting our debt payments to get so bad that the government slashes benefits.  FWIW I'm early fifties and financially ready to retire but nervous wife, kids with big post college expenses (post grad education) and extreme guilt about leaving the team I built over 25 years.

    The US is coming to a reckoning soon.  I'm not a doomsday cultist but our debt service expense is the most rapidly growing expense of the federal government and I think we're on the precipice of the doom spiral of debt.

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  6. 9 minutes ago, burnt beanz said:

    I like how you say it’s not a red team blue team issue but your solution is raise taxes and cut defense spending. 😝 Please get serious. 

    The solution is cut all spending. But that is too painful so it will never happen. Nothing stops this train. Protect yourself how you see fit. 

    Lol wake me up the first time defense spending is cut.  Fucking bullshit, like we always expect from your new names.

  7. 2 hours ago, mininghorn88 said:

    I would love to wear contacts but there is no way on God’s green earth will you find me voluntarily touching my eyeballs. So…I suffer with wearing glasses and trials that it brings.

    Yeah I got progressives which don't do much for distance in terms of adjustment, but pretty strong on reading, and they are awesome for wearing all the time.  No way I could do contacts.

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  8. 2 hours ago, Pancho said:

    Jesus Christ 

    I primarily rent with Alamo. If they try this shit, I swear…

     

    Yeah that's going to be a no from me dawg.  They can fuck themselves with a rusty butter knife before I agree to that.  Uber/Lyft etc.

     

    By the way Enterprise is usually the better bet anyway,

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  9. Holy shit my takeaway from this little kerfuffle is that if you bought Soviet or Chinese air defense equipment you’ve been put on notice you’re fucked.  This is a huge boon to western manufacturers of air defense and especially to anti missile defense.  Crazy how easily Israel established air superiority and that there is basically nothing Iran can do except asymmetric responses at this point.

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