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smokebomb

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  1. Looks like Tate and his brother are now being held overnight: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gd02j64y9o.amp
  2. Bill is speaking tomorrow.
  3. It is illegal - it is a violation of the Logan Act but only two people ever have been indicted and neither were convicted. And Trump isn't the first to violate it, Nixon most famously violated it to help his campaigns in 1968 while some theorize Reagan violated it 1980 to help his. Nixon's actions were the most egregious in that it prevented a possible end to the Vietnam war: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/08/06/nixon-vietnam-candidate-conspired-with-foreign-power-win-election-215461/ Regan and the October Surprise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_October_Surprise_theory TLDR - Same shit, different day.
  4. In case any of you use the Anova Sous Vide cooker to cook their steaks, Anova is implementing two major changes: #1 - they are going to start charging $10 a year for Anova app access for any accounts created after 8/21: https://anovaculinary.com/blogs/blog/update-existing-users-grandfathered-in-new-users-will-pay-a-small-app-subscription-fee?srsltid=AfmBOor0R0kHCR4_qHtOBxkGCHzhZH-T_VIfBK3an4L3XL8gx-zdF94P #2 - they are going to disable Bluetooth/WiFi access from the app to older cooker models next September. You’ll be able to manually set the cooker on the cooker display but not through the app: https://support.anovaculinary.com/hc/en-us/articles/27322197681165-The-Original-Anova-Precision-Cooker-Bluetooth-Bluetooth-WIFI-remote-connectivity-sunsetting#:~:text=Anova will be shutting down,Cooker on September 28th%2C 2025. I’m really disappointed as the product worked perfectly & they are only making changes to try & squeeze in a few extra bucks. It will still function but in a degraded state.
  5. FAFO - https://www.fox7austin.com/news/lockhart-pit-bulls-shooting-mini-horse
  6. It’s starting to kick off..
  7. I've always felt that Cruz looked like Kevin from the Office... Kevins-Chili.mp4
  8. Damnit - GenXer beat me to it. Festivus-Cruz.mp4
  9. Alex might be thinking of hiding out in Terlingua: https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/what-is-alex-jones-doing-in-terlingua/
  10. Guess Nicole is back in town: https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin-police-medics-responding-to-body-found-in-lady-bird-lake-near-longhorn-dam/
  11. The travel agency that runs those nude cruises, Bare Necessities, is actually based out of Austin. Maybe they have a Surly handle?
  12. An IP is an identifier used by your computer to use the internet. Typically you get assigned the same IP by your cable modem. If you leave your cable modem off for few hours, you’ll get assigned a new IP. But most people don’t do this & pretty consistently get assigned the same IP for months at a time When your account gets banned, you can no longer use the account but you can create a new account & start over. When you get permaban’d, your account gets banned AND Surly tracks your home IP and won’t let you create a new account from that IP anymore (and maybe even prevent access to the website at all). This effectively prevents a specific person from using the website. A VPN is a service that is used to encrypt/prevent others from looking at your web traffic. But it also has the added benefit of changing the IP address Surly sees when you visit. If he used a VPN, Derka’s account would be still deactivated but the permaban wouldn’t completely work since he could create new accounts & use the site. This then would most likely lead to imamac playing wack-a-mole & permabanning each account & IP that Derka use. Identifying Derka would be relatively easy due to his known writing style but requires annoying work by Imamac. And this is one example of why people get burned out running message boards.
  13. Video in link - dogs look to be pit bulls. https://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/local/video-shows-pair-aggressive-dogs-tear-through-car-get-cat-inside/52DNUHOQTVHVTBT3GSIAIDPDXM/ And of course it is in Florida.
  14. Couldn’t happen to a better person if true.
  15. Some researchers are thinking Alzheimer’s may actually be an autoimmune disease: https://www.sciencealert.com/alzheimers-might-not-actually-be-a-brain-disease-expert-reveals
  16. Pretty detailed discussion on the I-35 TxDoT work: https://www.kut.org/transportation/2024-02-21/your-ultimate-guide-to-the-i-35-expansion-through-central-austin
  17. My 2 cents (and prob doesn't apply as much to MBA or Law School programs): 1. I'd go see a graduate advisor and talk to them. They should be very blunt about your chances and let you know what you need to do. I did this at UT and was literally laughed out of the advisor's office but that's what happens when you have a C undergraduate average in Liberal Arts. 2. One thing that most people don't know is that you can still take UT undergrad classes after you graduate. If you are serious and think you need some extra help, re-enroll to UT and sign up for a graduate class as an undergrad in the department will be applying. You will need to go the professor and ask their permission, but as long as you are taking it for a grade and not auditing or pass/fail, they prob won't have a problem with it. This will get you used to school again and if you make an A (in grad school anything below a B is bad), you can use the professor for a referral on your graduate application. This will show that you are serious and can handle grad level work. I did this and although I made a B, the professor wrote me an appropriate referral and that was the only reason I was able to get into my grad school. If you are not in Austin, doing this may be difficult but if you can take a grad class near you, the same applies. 3. Figure out what you want to focus on. Grad work is typically very specialized and coming into the application process with a good idea of what you want to focus on will be very important. The more precise, the better. 4. A cursory glance shows that UT has a terminal masters program for Economics. If this is what you want to study, I personally think your grades would be fine (the advisor would be able to confirm). If you want to get a PhD though, I would guess you might have to show do a bit more to get accepted. Doing well in a grad school class or two might help but you may even have to get a grad degree elsewhere before applying to the PhD program. They may allow people to transfer into the PhD program after they have finished the Masters but since it is labeled as terminal, I have the impression this may be difficult. Again - these are just my opinions, I am sure others have their own first hand experiences and may offer different insights. Good luck - I really enjoyed grad school. It was much more difficult than undergrad but I was more mature and studied subjects I was way more interested in.
  18. From the Austin subreddit:
  19. Who knows how true:
  20. This means a 14% increase during the non-busy periods for just the Mopac expressway: https://www.kvue.com/amp/article/traffic/toll-road-rate-increase-austin-texas/269-0bba20f2-ef69-4e7d-81b7-ef61c952c16e
  21. Smells like Greeley!
  22. If they remove Biden from the ballot, then all the Democrats can vote in the Republican primary & select someone else as the Republican nominee…
  23. I can’t see the neighborhood ever getting behind this: https://www.mysanantonio.com/business/article/naus-enfield-drug-redevelopment-18554544.php
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