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  1. 17 minutes ago, Gravy Train said:

    I'm shopping Fort Collins right now and you might want to bring that timeline forward a bit... or buy sometime in the next three years. Opening FNL will be massive for the area.

    Unfortunately, we are waiting on my wife retiring from the state.  My job is portable so I can live anywhere.  I guess if the legislature destroys public schools in the next session, we may just say fuck it and bail early so my youngest can spend her last 6 years getting educated.

  2. 50 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:


    Doesn’t matter.
    Every single person bitching about how the LAFD needed a bigger budget, or more hydrants, or more reservoirs, ALSO has a “TAXATION IS THEFT!” post within the last 90 days.

    IIRC, a residential water system is built to support fighting maybe 2-3 fires at a time.  Trying to fight 20+ and you won't have water in about 3 minutes.  As each house burns down, that water line is now spewing water, taking pressure out of the system anyway.  Don't forget that water pump stations and tanks that force water up those hills also burn up.  You can have 1 million LAFD firefighters out there but there's no way to get enough water to residential areas so it won't make a shit.  

    Plus, the only real way to fight wildfires is to cut fire blocks. Good luck doing that in the steep canyons these fires are burning through.

    West Austin, you're up next.

     

     

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  3. Just spent a week in Colorado and having back to back weeks of 30-something degrees between CO and TX, I finally could tell that 30 degrees in Texas is so much worse. Never once felt cold in CO. Even when it was 18 degrees one day when we were skiing, it was perfectly fine. The lack of humidity is huge.

    My uncle grew up in Glenwood Springs and he always said cold days in TX were way worse than the same temp in CO. Until I experienced it immediately back to back, I didn’t realize how big of a difference it actually was.

    Only 7 more years until we move to Fort Collins.

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  4. Aside from class rank and SAT, how much consideration is given students with extra curricular activities?  I’ve got a Freshman who’ll play sports most of HS, does that help at all with admissions (not playing in college)?  Will probably work a number of jobs too in HS. Does anyone believe extra curriculars helped with the admissions, or really it’s class rank and SAT?

    Sports don’t mean shit because they are the differentiator for athletic scholarships and lessened admissions standards for recruited athletes.

    Having a job matters more especially if they get promoted while working. Community service and extracurriculars related to their major are valuable.

    But to be honest, for 99% of colleges none of it matters that much. AP course load is supposedly the biggest indicator of college success and if they take the most rigorous offering for each class and have good grades, they’ll do well. For that 1% (Harvard, etc) You better be in the top 1% in grades, test scores, and cured cancer in an extracurricular you founded.
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  5. 3 minutes ago, softlynow said:

    I'm not worried about WW3, though. The last WW was preceded by aggy's only MNC. An Aggy playoff run, let alone a title, seems quite unlikely in the near future. 

    When we win the title, aggy, as a branch of the University of Texas, will claim the title as their own. 

    Yep. We are fucked.

     

  6. 8 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    How many ships of the Atlantic fleet could even fit through the canal?  How functional is a battle group without its carrier and whichever ships have to stay with the carrier?  Would we ever put all of our naval platforms on one ocean?

    Carriers wouldn't fit.  But, yes, let's anchor billions of dollars of naval assets in the grid lock that is the Port of Panama while waiting days/weeks to transverse the canal.  Talk about shooting fish in a barrel.

     

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  7. That’s awesome. I was worried when that block sold but I honestly forgot about it. At least it’s a lifeline.

    I’ve been taking my 8 year old daughter with me the last few times I’ve gone. Hopefully it’s something I can do for a little longer before she is old enough to have her own Spotify account and tells me I’m dumb for buying records.

    I took my 12YO to Waterloo and she asked for her first vinyl. It was a Taylor Swift record of course. Taught her how to use the turntable. She sat there listening in silence and said “there’s so much more music in these songs.” She was blown away at how much better vinyl sounded than Spotify. She listened to the album in its entirety. I may have a convert.
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