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  1. 1 hour ago, futureman said:

    what gen are today’s teenagers?  gen alpha?

    gen z extends to at least 2012, so most teenagers are gen z.

     

     

    the average age of new mothers in the united states is 27 so generations should be 27 years wide. that doesn't do much for marketing weenies so they use the term "generation" for smaller cadres.

  2. fuck the earth amirite?

     

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    Feb. 5, 2025 (Spaceweather.com): What goes up, must come down–which could be a problem when you’re launching thousands of satellites. Since 2018, SpaceX has placed more than 7,000 Starlink satellites into Earth orbit, and now they are starting to come down. In January alone, more than 120 Starlinks deorbited, creating a shower of fireballs.

    “The sustained rate of daily reentries is unprecedented,” says Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard Center for Astrophysics who tracks satellites. “They are retiring and incinerating about 4 or 5 Starlinks every day.”

    https://spaceweatherarchive.com/2025/02/19/unprecedented-starlink-reentries/

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  3. 1 hour ago, bolverk said:

    Just stick with standard time. It's what our circadian rhythms are best suited to, according to all the studies.

    Would help if US timezones weren't already skewed heavily west. This map is timezones pretty closely following longitude (border counties are assigned based on the longitude of the primary city in their MSA)

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    Did you know that if you live in Austin and have to get up at 5:30 am clock time tomorrow to get your kid on the bus you're actually getting up at 3:30 am?

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  4. 43 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    I've never quite understood why we all need to be on the same schedule.  Some industries (finance, etc.) yeah, but even a lot of that is 24/7 these days.  Schools, sure.  Covid showed us work from home and flex schedules aren't a big deal in most cases.  Traffic gets better if we spread out commutes according to need instead of "8 to 5".  We're not an agrarian society, however much that canard about DST rang true in the first place.  

    In short, I agree, leave the clocks where they are as of today and let people adapt to hours of daylight, etc.

    it didn't at all. sun, crops, and livestock have no idea what the clock says.

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  5. Just now, RockwallJim said:

    If you say so.  I agree that Elon has been louder and more public than any prior donor, but for the amount of string pulling on our government, no difference.

    is this a bit? you have to tell us if this is a bit.

  6. Hey, let's pretend we're in the Eastern Time zone for the next 8 months. 

    (Austin pretends it's in the Central Time zone for the other 4)

  7. On 3/2/2025 at 9:04 PM, billfromlaketravis said:

    Back to the affordable steakhouse well. Saltgrass has a pretty outstanding one. $3 drafts, $4 Rita’s, $5 wines, and I believe their cocktails are $6. The bacon wrapped quail is $13, and its outstanding. They do the traditional quail hunter way with cream cheese and jalapeño. The wrapping is so tight and well done it’s like eating a drumstick. They also give you a full side of their excellent brussel sprouts with it. It could easily be an entree. 
     

    I’d skip the crap cakes. The steak bites are pretty good and only 7 bucks.

    I will say the Memorial winos frustrate me some. It’s usually standing room only at the bar of most of the restaurants in the hood. Spending every night at the same bar is no way to go through life. It’s a lot cheaper to drink at home.

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  8. 42 minutes ago, Firemans4Horn said:

    Trump is a bitch. Fucking around with tariffs and executive orders only to turn around 2 days later because they turn out to be a disaster is bitchmade. 

    How much are trumps friends making shorting the market?

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  9. On 3/1/2025 at 6:02 AM, Underdog said:

    I've long advocated that litterbugs should be shot. 

    Drove by a Starbucks cup standing perfectly right side up on the 1 foot wide shoulder alongside the dividing wall of I-45 this morning. Someone stuck in traffic had to have opened their door and deliberately placed it for it to be standing like that.

     

    Cops shouldn't be summarily executing citizens but I think I'd make an exception for that asshole.

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  10. 14 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:

    Israel and the US say no to the Pan arab plan to rebuild gaza. I read it and it is well designed. I thought this is what would happen. Damn I was wrong. 

    The US and Israel have rejected an Arab plan for the post-war reconstruction of the Gaza Strip that would allow the 2.1 million Palestinians living there to stay in place.

    The proposal, endorsed by Arab leaders at a summit in Cairo, is their alternative to President Donald Trump's idea for the US to take over Gaza and permanently resettle its population.

    The Palestinian Authority and Hamas welcomed the Arab plan, which calls for Gaza to be governed temporarily by a committee of independent experts and for international peacekeepers to be deployed there.

    But both the White House and Israeli foreign ministry said it failed to address realities in Gaza and stood by Trump's vision.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn7vd4pnxx3o

     

    so much for the theory he was just tossing ethnic cleansing out there to prompt others to come up with a plan

     

    he's also negotiating directly with hamas, while telling gazans (who are also hostages of hamas) that they need to give up the israeli hostages or it will be levelled, but chummy with russia which has been taking ukrainians hostage for a decade+ now.

  11. 2 minutes ago, RPM said:

    Where do the cruise ships tie up? Seems like developing the area around USS Texas into tourist/historical area. Make money off those passengers coming and going.

    There's a big new cruise terminal at 10 and most of the parking is between 10 and 15. It's a great location for the battleship so long as the industrial bit between 15 and 18 goes away (which, as I mentioned up thread, is the plan iirc).

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