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  1. On 12/19/2023 at 9:12 PM, jimmyjazz said:

    My daughter has "hot sauce" on her Christmas list.  Any recs on a good gift pack from a particular vendor?  Maybe 3 types?  Nothing too hot, more like table sauce heat (Crystal, Cholula, etc.).  I'm thinking red, green (Dona-ish?) and something a little more exotic (mango-habanero or some such).  Hopefully available either local retail or amazon.  Thoughts?

    too late for now - mikey v's is from georgetown and has a retail shop on the south side of the courthouse square.

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  2. 15 hours ago, immamac said:

    You can also invest in a home mini pc like these ones from umbrel or I can build you one for cheaper and pre configure it before I ship it to you/you pick it up. You can put all the apps that back up your stuff on it and it is basically like having all the cloud services for free forever. Ofc you should back that up to a hard drive or something that you can plug in. Use the cloud for what it’s good for. Remote copies of the most important data. 

    https://umbrel.com/

    is the "app store" just a bunch of docker containers?

  3. 5 hours ago, shadow_operative2.0 said:

    @elfenix, you ever find Huy Fong Sriracha & chili sauce again? West FW finally has it back.

    Also bought the Ghost pepper Ranch chips mentioned here because they were out of Cajun Wavy. 

    Haven’t even tried looking, might go to the h mart tomorrow and see if they have it

  4. 2 hours ago, Pam Cummings said:

    I would like to see gun owners required to participate in monthly training and safety classes. I believe that this would give gun owners more respect for the damage these tools can do, plus education is never a bad thing.

    A militia act for the 21st century.

  5. 11 hours ago, TheStoicPaisano said:

    when a passenger’s suitcase containing rotting fish was in the overhead bin and opened up resulting in maggots falling onto passengers and the plane turning around

    this is the actual shit TSA should be looking for.  whoever that was should be banned from air travel for the rest of their lives (along with people who stick their feet onto your armrest from the row behind)

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  6. 27 minutes ago, Zone Read said:

    Been sous viding for a few years now, foolproof way to make a perfect steak.  Recently moved to a new home, now have to cook on an electric range where before I had gas.  I could put a heavy Calphalon pan on my old gas range and get a great sear on a ribeye, not so much on an electric range.  Any recommendations for cookware on an electric range?

    https://www.amazon.com/SEARZALL-Stainless-Steel-Culinary-Restaurants/dp/B00L2P0KNO

  7. 17 hours ago, babysdaddy said:

     

    Because of this.  Which means March rate cuts aren't happening.  Which means valuations are too high.  Thanks for coming to my Ted talk

     

    all the reporting i've heard is don't expect a rate cut before may and has been for months.  i guess there was some irrational exuberance that there would be a cut in march and this put that to bed? 

    the big mover here is shelter, which is 36% of the index.  owner's equivalent rent (25.44% of the CPI) was up 6.2% yoy while rent rent (7.671%) was up 6.1%.  the way the BLS calculates these is somewhat controversial and famously laggy.

    on top of that, the fed really can't do much about it.  higher interest rates leads to lower supply, both because builders are going to build fewer new units with their cost of capital going up, and because owner-occupied units have golden handcuffs.  at the same time there's lower demand because the price of money went up.  in that situation the only thing you know for certain is that the quantity will be lower, you do not know if the price will be lower (turns out that, right now, it isn't). 

     

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  8. 10 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Thanks for the parenting lesson.  My daughter is a 21 YO junior at UT and she thinks for herself.  She is idealistic and naive like most kids her age.  At least she is concerned.  She says she'll vote for Biden but she doesn't like it.  My concern is that a lot of kids stay away from the polls, because they don't understand the practical concerns.

    📸?

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  9. 8 hours ago, deft said:

    Who didn’t love the secret dart bowl menu home run……order of enchiladas with the fried egg and white onion……but on top of a chicken fried steak. Toast on the side.

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