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Hefeweizen

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  1. Damn this is pithy, sad, and dark. Well done sir.
  2. I thought you were supposed to fist yourself? I really wish people would put trolls on ignore and not respond with quotes so we don’t have to read their horse shit. Attention and outrage are their fuel. Take that away and they’ll get bored and go away.
  3. This whole page is blank so I’m guessing I didn’t miss much. Here’s a suggestion: ignore trolls. They will go away if no one responds.
  4. Fat penko slipping and falling was the highlight of that match. Wasn’t Kvitova the one who was attacked in her home with a knife and fought the dude off? Tsetse fly destroying Batista Agut right now. Fritz should beat Cressy easily.
  5. Quit watching the news. Go for a run, play a sport, or enjoy your hobbies. There is a lot more where this bad shit is coming from, and a lot of pain still to come. I am doing what I can to protect my family including getting an escape place in another country (including citizenship) but ultimately you have to live your life and do what makes you happy.
  6. Speaking of loans I close on next Friday, 22 days from the offer being written. That’s pretty impressive by any metric except all cash. I got to say even though my lender isn’t Phil or Thad, I’m pretty happy. The kick in the balls was when we found out some of the new appliances are over six months out. Now to be back to debt slavery for a few more years. It was liberating being free from all debt for a month and a half!
  7. Not that young anymore. And I’m not really sure I want the job. I’m trying but it’s tough to work remote. It would be a lot simpler to just work out here on local projects.
  8. Truth. Access to just about everything is awesome. I just starting the finding out portion of my move today. Some of my clients in Texas are pretty sarcastic about it. I offered to not work on their stuff anymore. So far no takers. I will say, Texas pride is probably going to end up costing me a lot of my business. But I was prepared for that too.
  9. Did anyone have 25% of the population having confidence in the Supreme Court on their bingo card? Because that is the number now. The country is circling the drain. I don’t know when civil war is coming or what will start it but those levels of mistrust in all institutions is exceptionally corrosive. I don’t see a path back to trust, either.
  10. It’s really only for a certain kind of people. Because I’ll really admit there is Jack shit for sports viewing nearby, there is no night life at all, and there are no young singles if you want to find a partner. But for me it’s pretty much perfect. The weather, outdoor activities, individual sports, access to the ocean, and overall small town quality of life are incredible. They have great internet, a fantastic public library, and I can walk or bike anywhere. If I need to go to a big box it’s 15 minutes to seaside or marina.
  11. O saco estava cheio meu amigo. Nao tinha mais para dar jeitinho. As anyone who knows me can tell you I’m a slow decision maker but once it’s done it’s over. And icepocalypse was not the final blow in terms of lack of trust in the governing entities in Texas, the response to it was. We became a failed state and the response (I know because I touch on a lot of emergency management items) was literally to pass some more paperwork for utilities to fill out. Emergency preparedness plans. L o fucking l. I work full time remote which honestly kind of sucks but living out here is worth it.
  12. I’ll play. We sold our home in Westlake Hills in May and moved to the Monterey peninsula in California. For me it was a quality of life move. I had terrible cedar allergies, I was tired of how much traffic I sat in, and finally, I was tired of Austin. For my wife and daughter it was a strong desire to leave Texas period, due to the politics. For both my kids it is also planning on attending school out here and living here long term. I am really glad we did it. Texas seems like a bigger clusterfuck by the day.
  13. You’re engaging with the proverbial idiot sandwich. Talking to a tree is more productive. I don’t have a problem with higher gas prices. Let the market roll baby. I have a problem with subsidies and government whipsawing regulations which is what is making things uncertain right now. Energy policy is not something you can change on a dime.
  14. We sold a 2.8 and are buying a 5. But we downsized by over 50 percent to move. Convincing my wife wasn’t that hard because of the location but yeah the value proposition of a million dollar mortgage at 5 percent is scary. Essentially the buyers are betting on being able to refinance in a few years, which I think isn’t a safe bet at all. I wonder what my buyer in Westlake Hills is thinking right about now…
  15. Same here. I bought 100 bucks of ETH. I’m willing to throw that out. But my little brother uses BTC to bypass exchange rates as he earns USD and lives in Brazil. So for him it’s a pass through but when these giant moves happen it’s got to be scary. He’s an adult but I wouldn’t have relied on it for a store of value.
  16. No worry of that happening unless Goldman and JP Morgan need it.
  17. Hope everyone sold at 60k. It’s at 18k and once the saps figure out they were the marks, it is going lower. I will buy at 3k.
  18. If he sells some of his shitcoins? But why buy Twitter, honestly. I think he’s better off walking and letting them sue him for breach.
  19. Holy shit I bought some Hoka shoes and they are awesome. Like sex for the feet. I am running in those puppies now.
  20. The city took the plans off their web site early on during the “review “ process. The whole thing was under construction within weeks of submittal with what are called rough cut permits, no one else can do that… A typical project of this magnitude would take 18 months to permit through city and county going balls to the wall. It was shifted by the county into a special third party review (also not done for anyone else). And I am pretty sure they got water and sewer from the city. Not septic for a facility that size. That would be a permit from the state of Texas due to its size.
  21. I knew it. Fuckin boomers messing with my ALPP stonks.
  22. The lack of permits for the Tesla facility in Travis county is well known. Anyone else who did this would have been publicly shamed. But the county, city of Austin, and state of Texas bent over for it. It is ludicrous and an affront to all the developers in central Texas who follow the gotdam rules. It happened before with COTA and it’s going on with Samsung in Taylor. If hot wheels (or perry for COTA) is backing you and you bring “jobs” however many actually end up here, you’re golden.
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