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utee94

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  1. I'm just pulling my kids out of school all day on Monday. I think it's a worthwhile tradeoff.
  2. I've tried almost everything over the last 2 years and in my experience DTV Streaming and YouTubeTV are the best for F1 coverage, and pretty much most sports coverage in general. DTV Stream has LHN, and YouTubeTV does not, but that's about to become meaningless. I dropped my Spectrum TV streaming package, which unbundled me and drove up the price of my Internet access. Overall, putting YouTubeTV on top of the new higher-cost Spectrum internet, ends up being a bit more expensive than the previous Spectrum internet/Spectrum streaming TV bundle, but the increased quality and quantity of offerings on YouTubeTV is enough to make me feel like it's worth it. For now, anyway. I'm sure it will all change again in a few months or a year.
  3. If people are getting the simple message "Paul is bad" from the movie, or the book, then they've missed the actual message as badly as you possibly can.
  4. I'm not making any value judgment on the various responses by local/county/state actors, I'm just pointing out that THOSE are the appropriate levels of government to consider, when discussing the length of time any particular group of students stayed out of full in-person schooling. THOSE were the people making the decisions. Not the president, not the CDC, not Congress. I'm keeping all of my commentary strictly within the context of this thread, which is "Kids' happiness" and not other issues related to the pandemic and any entities' responses to it. In Leander ISD, my kids were only out from mid-March 2020 thru mid-September 2020. It wasn't two years, it wasn't 18 months, it wasn't even one year, it was only 6 months. However, that 6 months made an incredible impact to my then-6th-grade daughter. I saw her turn from a bright, cheerful, outgoing, deeply happy child who excelled in all of her classes and never once thought about NOT turning in an assignment on time, into a withdrawn, timid, introverted, morose, ghost of a teenager who lost track of all sense of responsibility and normalcy. It took her almost two years to re-form good school habits and re-engage with her friends. She's now thriving, a straight A+ student with tons of friends and tons of activities, but even those 6 months set her back potentially years. So people who are debating the 6 months versus 2 years or whatever, are completely missing the point. It's much less amount the DURATION of the event and more about the total psychological trauma induced by the event itself.
  5. Far be it from me to dissuade a good president-bashing, but municipal and state response had far more to do with how long kids stayed out of school, and when they returned, and how things were managed in-between, than anything at the Federal level.
  6. So now that the 2026 SEC schedules are out and they're the same as 2025 but with the home/away games reversed, I assume we'll see another round of ag complaints about how the sips are getting off easy on the scheduling, again...
  7. She is so dang hot. I'm not normally one for face tats, but she pulled it off.
  8. I mean I guess I could have quoted the tweet from the previous page. This is all my fault and I apologize.
  9. Okay it's official-- I now wear Bottas underoos.
  10. Yeah the city gets involved in plenty of stupid projects and plenty of grifty projects, but this one was privately funded all along. I saw the articles when they first announced it and thought the trolls were pretty cool-- I think Austin is as good of a place as any to have one. I do seriously wonder, though, how long it'll be before some asshole tags it or destroys it. That'll suck.
  11. Megaforce, Krull, and Beastmaster were all in heavy rotation on HBO and Cinemax in the early/mid 80s. I've seen each of them probably dozens of times, and I'm not ashamed to admit it.
  12. Stiles Switch - chicken-fried BBQ beef rib (when available)
  13. What do you expect from a dude named Jose' Porn?
  14. Yup that was what we called "The Field." I had a friend on Melshire as well, we dug a complete tunnel under his fence and covered the yard-side of it with some scrap plywood and branches. We'd tell his folks we were playing in the backyard but then we'd go escape into The Field. We thought we were living some real-life prison movie escape drama. Turns out his parents knew the whole time and just played along for fun. Good times.
  15. Totally agree, so glad we ignored the advice NOT to go there, and went anyway, armed with this knowledge. Had some fantastic beer and snacks, ignored the schnapps and watched a nearby table get angry when they found out what a scam that was. Also the oompah band knew the tune to "I've Been Working on the Railroad" so we tipped them to play it, and then confused everyone by singing The Eyes over and over again...
  16. Of course, a brand new 1979 Trans Am only cost around $7,200, so advantage aggy.
  17. I think you and I have talked about this before, I grew up about a block away from Playland (my parents still live in the same house), and although it was always Playland for me, there was still "The Field" in between those two old sections of the "Shoal Creek North/Northwest Terrace" neighborhood, where Benbrook and Thrushwood dead-ended. The Field had a lot of trails cut through it, with a lot of built-up bicycle jumps, that we thought were just totally awesome in 1980. It also had a big brushy tree-lined area at the south end where I can only imagine the older kids went and smoked weed.
  18. Didn't get shit, piss, or fuck in NW Travis. The Austin FF farts in this storm's general direction.
  19. It's been addressed by a couple of posters already, but the answer is-- yes it does happen, depending on the company, or even the position or job code within that company.
  20. That talks about desires, but I didn't see anything about actions. I'm interested in seeing if there are actually any studies of people who have already moved, that would support the assertion that "it's mostly Republicans fleeing Democratic states." And it's not so much "can't afford to live in California" but more like "can buy more for their money" in Texas. I'm an engineer/business guy in high tech in Austin, most of the California transplants I know are tech workers that have relocated, often for the same company but switching from bay area offices, to Texas ones, to make their money stretch further. And like I said, not a one of them would be classified as conservative or Republican.
  21. Could be? Is there a link to back that up? I know lots of Californians that have moved to Texas. Not a single one of them could be described as "Republican."
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