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Homercles

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  1. Why do you care about ice on your trash bin?
  2. I’d like to express my gratitude to the city of cedar park, for their newsletter email states ‘we are reaching out to make sure you’re aware the NWS has issued a winter storm warning’.
  3. Here in cedar park I walked outside for five minutes to inspect my own situation…during which I saw two huge branches fall of neighbors trees and hear an ominous buzzing every 90 seconds. I know what PhD said about once-in-a-thousand-years but I’m still getting major snowvid flashbacks from the ice alone.
  4. Weren’t you, just an hour ago, hoping for a work cancellation because you’re still drunk and not interested in navigating the streets?
  5. I don’t care what happens so long as my 6yo goes to school Thursday. The 9yo is cool as shit and we can hang, but his sister is not made for snow days.
  6. As expected RRISD closed tomorrow. Wondering if the slight warm up / non-freezing rain will keep it closed Thursday too.
  7. I figured schools would be closed Tues/Wed. Here’s hoping that doesn’t extend into Thursday…after 2-3 days of kids cooped up they’re safer on icy roads than at home with their burned out parents
  8. “I'm doing like one of them marriage counselors. Charge by the hour to tell some fool he need to bring some flowers home. And charge another hour telling the bitch she oughta suck some cock every little once in a while. You know, keep a marriage strong like that.”
  9. I put the faucet covers on outside, since it’s even easier thing to do than SA’s mom. I honestly don’t think they make a shit, because even with those + towels + hand warmers they still freeze up…but since my pipes seem to live on after multiple freezes I am concluding that PEX flexes enough that it’s not a huge issue. Besides one of the spigots is on a garage exterior wall so it’ll freeze no matter what.
  10. Surprised they didn’t call Wednesday too. I’m just counting on two days
  11. RRISD canceled as well. Isn’t Wednesday supposed to be the worst?
  12. I comment the same every time this happens…armies of (mostly women it seems) berating the Twitter/FB feeds of RRISD anytime there’s weather. My conclusion is that they don’t have jobs. So I’m with you, I want my kids in school so I can work. Feeling like it won’t be bad at all and my kids will be bouncing off the walls while I try to get shit done.
  13. So far RRISD agrees with you. Canceling after school but normal dismissal
  14. One of my close friends in Memphis is dating a cop administrator there and sent me this:
  15. Every year. I can hear the Facebook Karen’s preparing to inundate my districts FB page with demands to close school the rest of the week, just to be safe, because apparently they don’t have jobs and secretly just want to homeschool them.
  16. This game is bananas
  17. If KC could just cover the middle of the field with more than one dude in zone they’d have the ball back
  18. Again, why bother? It’s about three pages of the same argument, and you’re not going to convince him…he will always deflect, reference his personal anecdotal experiences or find some study/math.
  19. Impressed I didn’t see ‘bootstraps’ mentioned
  20. Wanted to add that ‘statistical’ is exactly that…reflective of the inherent distribution of possible outcomes across their lifetimes, given their starting point. That starting point is inclusive of physical location, economic stature, race, sex, etc and their journey is influenced by work ethic, opportunity, the broader economy, etc. No one particular outcome is any kind of ‘gotcha’ for the system at large. Just ask the folks on the gambling board for examples…and that system is infinitely more narrow than the experiences of an individual across their entire lifetime. How many flawless brackets, created by people with endless knowledge/effort/compute, get ruined every year by someone missing a free throw while a dogs vs cats ‘joke’ bracket wins the office pool? You can influence your trajectory quite a bit, but not deterministically Not to mention bias when looking back is very real…Joe Walsh of all people had a great quote at the end of the Eagles documentary that goes something like ‘at the time, your life seems like random chaos but looking back it’s a finely crafted novel’. So it’s easy to romanticize your forebears life.
  21. “All the middle class folk that I know in my small corner of this country are 95% where they are because of their own choices”
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