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Nicole44

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  1. Lots of twitchy housewives today. Lol. So glad I abandoned FB a few years ago. Funny seeing people hop on “X” to check what is down and why their shit ain’t working. Nonetheless, the obligatory
  2. I hope we don’t see any more deaths from the wildfires in the Panhandle but I know that’s wishful thinking…
  3. This reminds me of Austin some days. (Make sure to watch with sound for the full effect.)
  4. Cool cool cool…60 mph winds…
  5. I think 85% of the cattle in Texas are in the Panhandle. The loss of thousands of cattle due to the wildfires will be felt for years.
  6. I thought so too. I am absolutely not surprised that Amarillo hasn’t brought in HEB yet. There are three main families that have run it forever. One particular person is my BMD (the person who told me Herman was gone before it was reported and that in turn got us Sark.) they run everything. They like being the big fish in the small pond type deal. It’s hard to comprehend how much big business they have turned away over the last say 40 years but it’s a lot. HEB is a standup organization. Wish most were like this. If I were in highschool that’s where I’d get a job. They care about you. As an employee. That’s very rare.
  7. It would be nice if there were rain in the forecast for the next ten days…but just mainly sunny skies and wind. Fuck.
  8. Braums is exceptional. I miss having one. I love their little grocery store. You can go in there with $20 and come out with 5-6 things even with prices as crazy as they are now.
  9. This is fucking incredible. Sometimes I feel like there is more bad than good. The truth is, it is the other way around. 💜💜
  10. I know it was 30 years ago today, but I still miss John Candy. I guarantee he would have been in some great films in the last 30 years or in a great series making us laugh:
  11. Despite all the problems I have with the state of Texas, HEB is a bright shining star. I’ve been to grocery store chains in other states. HEB is the best. Other places wish they had HEB: They don’t even have HEBs in the Panhandle area as far as I know. I hope Braums also reaches out to help bc those affected are prime customer base…
  12. https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/thousands-of-cattle-have-died-in-the-texas-wildfires-devastating-ranchers/ Over 3,000 livestock (cattle) lost. Mainly up to $3,000 a head. That is a massive loss for ranchers already hurting financially. Damn…. And that’s just the livestock as far as losses. Many off those towns likely do not recover from this. Places like Fritch and Wheeler and so on. It’s just depressing.
  13. Well there are no sharks in it so it’s not as impressive: Some pretty incredible footage:
  14. He’s not a first responder but he’s a hero in my book. Saved an 80 year old man being attacked.
  15. Thank goodness everyone made it out! Fuck. No alarms. wtf? AUSTIN (KXAN) — People who lost their homes in a Feb. 1 apartment fire in south Austin are sharing their story about that night, as the city’s fire department is providing more details about why it never received reports of the smoke alarms sounding off during the blaze. On the morning of the fire, many residents said they did not hear the smoke alarms ringing to alert them about the fire. Many people were woken up by either their neighbors or first responders slamming on their doors. That’s how Ali Shammar was awoken that early morning. “I just heard someone knocking on the door. I didn’t hear anything I was just sleeping,” Shammar explained. https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/i-lost-everything-inside-people-share-their-experience-from-south-austin-fire/
  16. He has taken some great pictures as well. I love that he gave his wife props though. Trying to find a little levity watching the Panhandle go up like a Roman candle.
  17. I get that. They are non-TCH ones for pain and such. I am proud not to have taken a drink since April 24, 2022. I wish I had the same luck with cigarettes. That’s harder to quit. I miss them more than alcohol. But yeah I get the sober/not sober thing. I’m just a hell of a lot happier and functional. The real question (didn’t want to start a thread) is where is Kate Middleton? Maybe she is hiding out in Austin? That whole story is odd af. Hasn’t been seen or heard from since January 16th for a planned abdominal surgery and isn’t going to make an appearance until after Easter. Bizarre. The internet is full of the best memes. story is really catching fire and the palace keeps saying fuck off we told you she ain’t coming back until after Easter. Meanwhile Charles has actual cancer and is making appearances. Odd shit. Maybe she’s the Rainey ripper?
  18. Yeh I guess this is referring to the same: obviously I’m late in posting it as it’s a couple of hours old.
  19. Cancer sucks. RIP Chris. I enjoyed his work. Great reporter.
  20. Proud to still be sober. I do gummies though. For my arthritis. From a store. They rule. Fuck Zima. When I donate I do local charities and then Chef Jose’ Andres’ charity for feeding the world. He was on tv talking about food to Gaza. Said doesn’t matter how it gets there they need food. We need humanitarian aid on the border. It would be great if we could fund this with the taxes from selling weed. That would be cool. Get some doctors and nurses to see people. Maybe even help build a train to get across all of south, Central America and Mexico. Provide food and aid. Move a lot of factories and manufacturing plants there. We are at a breaking point in Austin. We were not meant have this many fucking people. We can’t sustain this. However they are coming here. It’s too many people. And we have fewer and fewer police and horrible traffic. Water issues in the horizon. It’s too much. We are going to be in a real mess in a decade. A huge mess. And people are worried about shit that might happen in 200 years to the climate. We may just run out of water and be fucked.
  21. I don’t disagree. The other day a group of teachers got a car for their school janitor who walked to work every day. Austin would probably just make the sidewalk wider for him. I dislike both extremes. We need more help funneled into the right areas. But I don’t think implementing failed solutions regarding certain societal problems just because a certain class of people is more affected is bullshit. I’d legalize marijuana and the sale of it and pour money into the communities that most need financial assistance. I’d use the taxes to protect our border but also to allow for humanitarian aid there. More processors to find out who people are. Who we are letting in. I’d make a realistic path to citizenship. I wouldn’t call them new comers/immigrants/illegals and so on. I would refer to each person as a citizen of whatever their country of origin is. Seeing them as one group all the same with all the same intentions is a fallacy. Because we are letting in some bad apples with a lot of the good ones. Those bad apples are committing real crimes like murder and rape. Those bad apples do not represent all of the individuals that come over here. However they come over. 1 million people can’t all claim asylum here. We can’t take on millions and millions. There has to be some limit. No other country would allow this. None. We don’t owe millions and millions of people south of the border citizenship in the United States. Any more than Canada owes some of us who’d like to flee our oppressive states in the US citizenship. As far as the homeless population in Austin I’d follow as an example places like Finland or Houston or San Antonio that have had success with their homeless populations and follow a program that has proven to work. You shouldn’t go to jail for selling a little weed. If you’re a cartel that’s different. Gangbanger that’s a little different. Rolling around doing other crimes. That’s different. Decriminalization only works if the people you intend to help accept a little personal responsibility. The truth is: I have a lot of regrets. Things I look back on and wish I did something different. Said something or helped in some way. I don’t need more shit piled onto the shit I pile on top of myself on the daily. If we all tired a lot harder to first take care of our own messes and see our own actions kind of led us to where we are as well as other factors life would be a lot different. We would be better able to care for those among us who are unable to. If the ones of us with ability would all fix the shit in our own backyard and ask for help for the stuff we can’t fix life would be a lot different. It won’t change. Things won’t change because the ones who have power won’t give it up and the ones who don’t have power want that power. We all look at each other as the enemy. I can’t take on the responsibility of anyone else’s blame or guilt or shame any more than I would ask someone to take on mine. If we’d take care of our own bullshit we’d be able to fix a lot of problems. Pointing the finger and blame hasn’t worked either. Bringing up the last 200 plus years has nothing to do with me. I didn’t create that. I am not going to shoulder that and I don’t think 60% of American people should have to or want to shoulder the sins of America’s from its origins. All this breeds is more hatred, guilty, shame and entitlement and division. We are more separated than ever. We see people in a group. As part a group. We don’t see individual people. It sucks and makes me sad. I have a lot of regrets. I have a lot I can do and should do and am trying to do. I am not responsible for anything more than that. I sure as shit am not responsible for how someone’s life in Podunk Idaho turned out. We want 100% alignment with everyone on every issue and solution or we get triggered or go ballistic. No middle ground. No compromise. It’s a mess. Austin is becoming a bigger mess because of this same thing. We don’t take care of our own messes and it bleeds into everything. Bigger messes and we think the best thing to do is make easier for people to create even bigger messes without supervision.
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