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19 hours ago, Dnaguy said:

2.) Tree trimming quotes.

 

Got a couple bids the other day to have 2 trees taken out. What was a really nice green ash tree last year, already half dead this year and growing. It got those green ash borers pretty bad at some point in the last 8-10 months. It’s about a 25ft wide canopy, and close to 30ft tall. 

The other is a “seedless  cottonwood” that’s close to 50ft tall, with maybe a 20ft canopy. It gets beat up and loses a lot of limbs from heavy winds.

To remove both trees and grind the stumps, one bid was $2800, the other was $3100.

 

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19 hours ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:

So I am at the airport with my boss and his boss calls me.   Said “can you talk alone.  We’re gonna fire ______ and you will take his place. “. I’m staring at the guy as these words are being uttered.   
I am more sad than happy.  Not sure how to process. 
 

Not an actual tarmac as they will fire him when he lands

Username checks out

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3 hours ago, futureman said:

I was reading about willie mays and saw this:

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can any of you olds explain 24 all star games in a span of 20 seasons?

The website is AI generated.

 

or Willie Mays is also AI generated.

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- the trouble with women is that there ain't no trouble with women.

The trouble is with men, who'll be dazeled by a wigglin'"posterior without regarding what mind might be lurkin' in the attached head.

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Who is looking at how our power grid is going to support the massive needs of a world many seem to want where AI, crypto, and electric cars dominate?

Not a political question at all - just an infrastructure question. Are there smart people looking at how big of an infrastructure gap we have and the trillions of $$ it’s going to take to close it?

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20 hours ago, Armybrat said:

 

Now that's fuckin funny.

 

4 hours ago, tbone_ said:

Who is looking at how our power grid is going to support the massive needs of a world many seem to want where AI, crypto, and electric cars dominate?

Not a political question at all - just an infrastructure question. Are there smart people looking at how big of an infrastructure gap we have and the trillions of $$ it’s going to take to close it?

 

Well, we're about 30 years away from the first legit fusion reactor having a successful test.

 

 

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If you take a nice, long hot shower, thoroughly scrubbing every nook and cranny of your body, then dry yourself with a nice clean towel...

why is that towel now "dirty"?

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On 5/27/2025 at 8:31 AM, tbone_ said:

Who is looking at how our power grid is going to support the massive needs of a world many seem to want where AI, crypto, and electric cars dominate?

Not a political question at all - just an infrastructure question. Are there smart people looking at how big of an infrastructure gap we have and the trillions of $$ it’s going to take to close it?

There definitely doesn't seem to be much urgency.  I don't claim to know the ins and outs and whathaveyous of the entire grid.   There seems to be a massive disconnect between electrification mandates for transportation/home along with data center construction(AI) and generation.  I have heard tale of data center RFPs floating around that are for loads the size of entire major metropolitan areas in the last few years.

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I tried a VR driving game today and nearly threw up.

3 turns into the first lap, my brain started whispering “this is not gonna end well”. I kept driving because I paid money for this torture. Mid way through the last lap, I literally ripped off the goggles and wobbled off the seat. The whole room was spinning like I was beyond drunk  

The guys working there snickered, but told me about 60% of people have the same reaction.

 

 

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Oh, man did I just get lucky. On my way home after a series of shopping frustrations and traffic hassles, I pulled into the left turn lane(s) to get past a long line of traffic, speeding toward the green arrows, only to see them turn yellow before I could make my turn. I can also get home by going straight through the light, which turned green after the left turn arrows went red. I normally wouldn’t do it but there were two beats and the person at the front of the line hadn’t moved. And I still has momentum. So I was that guy and blew on through the intersection merging back into the straight lane, bypassing all that traffic.

After I was committed, I noticed that the first car at the light coming in the opposite direction was a cop. Either they didn’t notice me or they didn’t care. I expected to see them to turn on their lights and chase me but they didn’t. The car that should’ve been behind me was also egregiously invisible; fucking slacker. But that also meant that they were giving the cop plenty of space to turn around and give chase.

Whew!

Maybe it was good karma because earlier this morning i gave up first position in the right lane at the light and merged behind some cars in the straight only lane because someone behind me turned on their signal well before they got to the intersection. (Holy run-on sentence, Batman!) I normally won’t be first in the right lane if I’m going straight but it’s been one of those days and I was ready to assume that I was giving up pole position to someone else who wasn’t going to turn. But I’m a big believer in signaling your turn early and giving up the right lane to people wanting to turn. So I hope that driver (two drivers in consecutive cars, actually) noticed me stepping on the brakes and merging into the left lane behind traffic about 30 yds from the light so they could make their turn. 

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if you have a car painted matte black especially an old beater or an older truck or SUV there is a very high likelihood you have experimented to determine the potential benefits of meth

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4 hours ago, Kennythetiger said:

Goddamn. I think my wife logged on here. 

Lulz. Yeah, I knew it was a mess but I had ribs on the smoker and beer to drink and didn’t want to take the time to edit it down. Just wanted to dash off some thoughts after a really close call. The cop must’ve been looking somewhere else, maybe at their phone. 

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15 hours ago, ButtFumble said:

if you have a car painted matte black especially an old beater or an older truck or SUV there is a very high likelihood you have experimented to determine the potential benefits of meth

There are none, trust me. 😉

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4 hours ago, Underdog said:

SMDH watching a co-worker putting 6 creamers in his 12oz coffee this morning. Had to ask him if he wanted any coffee with his creamer. 

 

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A little while ago I was fiddling with my new iPhone looking at WhatsApp and noticed it has a FaceTime feature. 
Never have tried that much (only one time long ago), so I touched the button.
Lo and behold, it started dialing a number…..and our Brit friend Fiona in Wolverhampton, UK answered - appearing in her kitchen on my screen! 
The Welsh girl was lookin’ good, busy whipping up some dinner. 
Had a nice 6 minute chat to catch up.

Technology has come a long way since my family was stationed in Taiwan back in the late 1950s.
We were pretty much cut off from family & friends back in the USA, what with no telephone service to speak of - and writing a letter to get a question answered took at least two weeks, sometimes longer.

Then there was the time my brother (a UT student) back in Austin mailed a package full of Christmas presents to us in Taipei, but it never arrived. Seems the cargo plane went down somewhere in the Pacific without a trace. Disappointing to say the least - maybe some deep sea fish were wondering what my fancy Texas belt buckle was for.

We tried once to communicate with brother via shortwave radio - from the US military facility in Taipei, to our ham radio cousin who was a professor at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio. We were trying to “broadcast” in the middle of the night, hoping that cousin’s radio transmitter (a very professional set with worldwide range) could pick up our random calling signal.
 We had not heard Jim’s voice for more than a year. But apparently the hit or miss conditions were not right, and cousin & brother never made the connection. Mom was extremely disappointed and wept all the way back to out house.

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19 hours ago, tbone_ said:

Would (with vigor),x, x, x, x, x

that's Shannen Doherty on the right there

def would

sure, she's young then, but the same age as me then so it's ok

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On 6/2/2025 at 10:55 AM, Tex Long said:

If you take a nice, long hot shower, thoroughly scrubbing every nook and cranny of your body, then dry yourself with a nice clean towel...

why is that towel now "dirty"?

Why don't they just have 5 towels hanging up for everyone at the locker room then?

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1 hour ago, Iceman said:

Why don't they just have 5 towels hanging up for everyone at the locker room then?

"They"? I'm talking about home...

You want to talk gym locker room... bring your own damn towel. You shower up, rinse off, stuff your wet towel in your bag with sweaty smelly tee, shorts, jock and sox - all bets are off.

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Maybe gross to some, but we just wash towels 1X per week.  If we just used them 1X per washing, pretty sure my head would fall off at the wastefulness. 

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1 minute ago, Iceman said:

Maybe gross to some, but we just wash towels 1X per week.  If we just used them 1X per use, pretty sure my head would fall off at the wastefulness. 

Is that uncommon? I also only wash my towels at the end of each week. Gets throw in the hamper after Saturday shower and replaced with a clean one for the new week 

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4 hours ago, Js1 said:

Is that uncommon? I also only wash my towels at the end of each week. Gets throw in the hamper after Saturday shower and replaced with a clean one for the new week 

It was uncommon in my home growing up. Mom made us use a fresh towel for every shower. Didn't learn until college that most people don't do that. 

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Call us disgusting, but we wash ours maybe every 1.5 - 2 weeks. Separate load for all the towels throughout the house.

A new towel for every shower just blows my mind. We don't live in a hotel.

 

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I solved the towel insanity by getting "my own" set - bright red, nothing else in the house like it. Bath sheet, bath towel, face towel, coupla wash cloths. Wash 'em myself when I think they need it, all together so they fade at same rate. All I need now is a big red mat...

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48 minutes ago, Superhero said:

Call us disgusting, but we wash ours maybe every 1.5 - 2 weeks. Separate load for all the towels throughout the house.

A new towel for every shower just blows my mind. We don't live in a hotel.

 

Unless you have daily maid service, a stay at home spouse or a magical linen closet that just replenishes towels every day, that's a lot of washing, folding and buying towels.  Every person in the house needs 7 towels per week? 28 towels for a family of four.  And does that include some days you have to shower twice? 

Jesus.  I don't even use a brand new towel every day in a hotel. 

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