Everything posted by CooterBrown
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Texas -- a failed state
Spoiler Lamar MS has had a half dozen cases of whooping cough since September. Could be more and they just quit sending out the notification emails.
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Government Shutdown 2025: This Time It’s Personal
The 2025 election was a wake up call for the GOP. There won't be a 2026 midterm election. At least not one that conforms to past election rules. They now know they can easily lose. They won't let that happen.
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Where are y'all getting wood for your smoker?
I vaguely remember reading that kiln dried wood is usually too dry and it doesn't impart as much flavor as seasoned wood. I guess you could probably negate that a bit if you leave your kiln dried wood outside and let it get a bit of moisture content.
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Shit HEB Makes (when its open).
I vaguely remember Fiesta selling red corn tortillas in their bakery a few years ago. I haven’t been back since then.
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2025 Random Games thread
Any tighter of a window and the ball would’ve passed through the DB.
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2025 Random Games thread
Maybe Moore shouldn’t have given up on that long breakaway run. That should’ve gone to the house.
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Predator Badlands
A bit goofy in parts but entertaining AF. I hope it gets a sequel.
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Austin ISD School Consolidation
Has TEA ever stated if there’s a path from takeover back to local control? I don’t remember that ever being discussed. My gut tells me that each district is eventually passed to a private company to run for a healthy profit.
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Concerts you are attending
Oh shit. The video from the party just hit the interwebs...
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Predator Badlands
Seeing this on Saturday. Can’t wait.
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Predator Badlands
Miller is supposedly in talks with HBO to have a limited series for what was going to be the last movie.
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Government Shutdown 2025: This Time It’s Personal
If there's one drug that should be free, it's probably GLP-1. If you lose weight, you can eliminate so many health problems and dependence on other maintenance drugs. However, there's no money to be made in a healthy population.
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Trump’s America
What will be amazing is if the Epstein files are released hours before the Peace Prize ceremony and FIFA has to give him his participation trophy in the immediate aftermath.
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Election Day 2025
Let's be honest. If he was white, it would've been 50+ percent.
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Do you FIRE? Financial Independence, Retire Early
I have found it difficult to search for them on many of the listing sites. Some terms are "over 55", "patio community", "patio home", "gated", etc. Usually, I found them by accident. If you could search by HOA fee, that would probably flag them since their monthly fee is usually $250+. Maybe a realtor can chime in if their MLS search tools are better than the public facing ones.
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Election Day 2025
The boss move is to replace him with another Jew just for the lulz.
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Miss Piggy getting her own flick
At least not since 2005.
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Do you FIRE? Financial Independence, Retire Early
Instead of a condo community, do a patio home community where yard and exterior maintenance is handled by the HOA. All the benefits of locking it and leaving without having common walls with neighbors.
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Election Day 2025
They swept all propositions in Texas. Texas. The bellwether for retardation nationwide.
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Welcome to Costco .....
I buy that all the time. It’s really good but it does need a bit more seasoning when you grill it.
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Austin ISD School Consolidation
Someone found the original deed for the Ridgetop ES property. It states that if the property isn’t used for a public school, ownership reverts back to the previous owners or their heirs. LOFL if AISD doesn’t even get to profit from the land sale now.
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Predator Badlands
Saw a review today that because all the kills are aliens and synthetics it could be gruesome as long as the blood wasn’t red and still get the PG13 rating.
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Bugonia - Yorgos, Emma Stone, Jesse Plemmons
This was really good. Plemmons should take home some hardware. There was one major flaw no one has mentioned…
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Netflix to produce Witcher series starring Henry Cavill
Making the Witcher a minor character in his own show may have been a mistake.
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What the fuck is wrong with you, Austin?
Those are all choices and lifestyle dependent. You may need 3500 sq ft in Texas because it fucking sucks to be outside in 100F+ 6 months of the year but only 1,500 sq ft in Colorado because you're out of the house all of the time. There's no way to realistically compare those types of choices. What I did was just compare the baseline. That's good enough for my situation.