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Bateshorn

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  1. Once McCarthy breaks, everyone with ambition (Scalise, Stefanik, Jordan) will come piling in. It’ll be total chaos.
  2. This is the 1000000000 dollar question. If most of them break back to McCarthy, then he can stare down the Biggs people and say we will do this all night. If more people break from McCarthy on the second round, tho, it’s katiebarthedoor
  3. You say this like it’s a bad thing.
  4. Now that I have a kid at Oregon watching USC collapse:
  5. So much this. You Austin stans just do not understand how woefully undeveloped your infrastructure is. And the quirky shit that made up for it is disappearing by the second.
  6. I used to have to answer a Fair amount of mail from these loons when I worked for a Texas Congressman 20+ years ago. It usually revolved around the 16th amendment being invalid due to (choose your favorite): Oklahoma botching ratification, inconsistent wording in the state approval process, bad punctuation, etc. We had a very standard response detailing a brief overview of Supreme Court activity in the area, plus. Strong recommendation to reach out to the IRS if you were in arrears and manage your tax debt. Basically FAFO.
  7. When my great, great Aunt sold her house at what is now MLK and San Antonio and retired to Westminster , the Statesman covered her move, as the University was acquiring one of the last private residences that was Drag adjacent. One of the last lines in the article was how Austin wasn’t as good as it used to be. Having recalled that and cooked down town in the late 90s, going to shows waved in by bouncers, drinking at Egos late night with the service crew, coffee at Flipnotics, taking the back way home via the low water crossing at Tom Miller to avoid the Westlake PD, don’t tell me this place hasn’t changed. And not for the better.
  8. I say this with all seriousness: I live in DC, technically second in the nation for traffic after LA pre Covid. Austin is worse. Noticeably. When we’d visit my mom, our mantra was be where you needed to be by 3 (usually back in Westlake). Or you were stuck there till 7.
  9. Show me the lie. When my mom finally threw in the towel and retired out of state her simple comment was “This place sucks now.”
  10. The dinner party isn’t essential to the story, but it provides an enormous amount of color and filling into exactly how fucked the Atriedes are.
  11. Sounds like Cavill left because he had creative differences with the producers, but more importantly, Bezos money whipped him into doing Warhammer 40K, with full exec producer control (and he’s a huge nerd/warhammer geek) link
  12. Lol. Mostly what struck me was the footprints in the dead pools in the canyon itself. I don’t know if it was migrants or just stupid tourists, but the river didn’t have enough flow to scour them away.
  13. This was just outside the mouth of Santa Elena last December. That’s Mexico on the right
  14. Certified Not Poor here. SWA is the biggest carrier out of BWI, which is my most convenient airport and the easiest route for Boy #1 in SAT.
  15. While I suspect this is a joke over my head, I have friends who scuba and like golfers, they cannot avoid checking unless you want to rent.
  16. I did 2 weeks in Asia on a 22 carry on And under-seat back pack Granted we did laundry a couple times. If you are willing to rewear clothes and bring a collapsible day pack, you can absolutely make it work. I’m not one of y’all Up In The Air level travel hounds, but 90% of people travel with tons of stuff you don’t need/won’t wear. The rest is learning how to turn one piece into multiples/. A quick dry cargo swim short is swim/workout/hike/sleepwear.
  17. Open seating is in theory second fastest way to board a plane, beyond outside in, back to front, which nobody does in practice because of boarding groups and status. But it doesn’t do you a lot of good if your plane doesn’t actually fucking fly because of complete system collapse.
  18. I stand corrected. It’s gone up since the last time I looked.
  19. I’ve seen almost every major blockbuster. But I’ve definitely missed a more off the beaten path Best Picture winner here or there (Shape of Water, 12 Years a Slave, etc). My big no see is Hamilton, either show or the Disney live verson. At this point, I’ve become a Non Star Wars watcher about it: people have demanded I watch it so many times that I will obstinately go to my grave uninitiated. The Avatar non watchers aren’t missing anything. I forgot 3/4 of the plot before I hit the Movie Theater exits after it was over.
  20. Just a quick reminder, It’s 6 degrees with a -15 windchill in Des Moines rn, where 1/3 of the states energy is wind supplied. Minimal outages. It doesn’t have to be this way in Texas. You actively choose this.
  21. Damnit @atomheartbevo beat me to it.
  22. Dripping all the faucets in PG County:
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