VolenteHawk

I don’t think it’s a good call. If any reasonable fraction of the people that would have hit the park otherwise go eat in a restaurant then the city has made the situation (at least moderately) worse for no good reason.

I wish I had that kind of pull, but I’ve only lived here for 20 years.

It was that way, but I’m not seeing it anymore. I stopped at the Stripes in Kyle on our way to baseball for breakfast tacos two weeks ago then last Sunday. Same store, roughly the same number of people inside. First time, zero masks on customers and a couple employees without one. Sunday, exactly one person in the store not in a mask.

We were shelter in place for 5x the incubation period. We had noisy spikes from meat packing and prison outbreaks, but there wasn’t a downturn during lockdown. Blame too broad of a definition of essential business or whatever, but there is no evidence the reopening would have been different if delayed. See California. NE states that got slaughtered aren’t the fair compare here.

Too quickly yes, too soon...nah. Texas never had a reduction in cases, because we never had a first spike. Cases drifted up during the lockdown to a constant-ish daily rate that corresponded to our definition of essential business. If we had opened up the same way, I don’t think it matters if that was Memorial Day or the 4th of July...a spike was coming.

He has a project car, buys a lot of sneakers, and still gets laid.

The NCAA has fucked up by trying to shoot the moon on KU. We can talk about shady recruiting practices and innuendo all we want (I’m on record here on my opinion on that...it echoes Mike Brey’s comments), but 5 level 1 charges for what they actually have is insane and it’s why KU flew their middle finger and lawyered up. What the NCAA actually HAS is text messages about a player that signed with another school, alleged payment from Adidas for a player that signed but never played, and $2500 (rumors of a $20k that was allegedly agreed to but never paid) to a parent of a player that was hit with a 2 year suspension before it was reduced by a year on appeal. And while I don’t particularly believe it, there is under oath federal trial testimony that payments were intentionally hidden from KU. Overplaying their hand against a crown jewel program with a joke for football revenue was and is going to get bloody, and with NIL payments on the horizon anyway...the NCAA is much more likely to be killed in that fight. OSU got screwed (though I suspect reduced punishment on appeal), Mizzou got screwed. Schools should never, ever cooperate with the NCAA again. Especially basketball programs, where essentially every top 100 kid is ineligible if you dig enough.

Most of my futures bets are on credit. I’ll even take a slightly worse number than I have available at other outs to not tie the cash up. It’s not legal and depending on exposure the limits might shrink on me, but it generally has worked out.

Dave harmonizing with the water glass makes me laugh my ass off every time.

I’ve never seen a good off topic board that doesn’t limit political talk to one sub forum. When I have seen integration tried, it always makes the news/current events board worse. Edit: By political talk I mean partisan mudslinging. If we were smarter, we could mention harmless, factual policy centric stuff without it going that way. Alas, we are not.

So coronavirus is gonna be all geared up, take an expensive pill, disappoint her anyway, and wake up at 3 in the morning rock hard and getting turned down? Wait. I mean, Viagra? Never heard of her.

Lucky. My conversation went... ”Into the cup? Ewww that’s too clinical.” ”Fine, I’ll just go beat off.”

Was a suburban white chick choked to death with a knee to the throat this week or are we still mostly limiting that to DeAndre?

Good times.

It’s the Florida of Texas.

But she has black friends.

The Uchii locations in Austin are running crazy waits for pickup and no bodies are piling up the streets. Probably fine.

I guess if I had to make a counterargument if would be that with no fans the most talented teams are less likely to lose on the road. So a full schedule with no fans could have the loser of the RRR run the table, and I'm holding a really well intentioned ticket for a team that's not in actual game.

If you can figure out a way to map a shortened college football season to conference odds, there is something there, I think. As an example, if Big 12 games are cut, they're still playing the RRR, they're still playing Bedlam (in Norman), everything else is on the block I'd assume. So, I don't see any great reason why an Iowa State flyer would be a bad idea right now for conference champion. If we play all games you're holding a market value futures ticket, which admittedly is not great but if they do slash games, what gets protected for ISU...the Kansas Schools probably? Talk me out of it.

Stay out of their deer blinds...they're wild animals.

Maybe, but you seem to be taking a pretty extreme view of what returning to normal means. The notion that an outbreak approaching NY is even possible now is silly. We're not going back to jammed subways and bro hugs with fellow season ticket holders at Knicks games.

As I read the story, she's 6.

In places like Texas, we never even had a curve to flatten...we locked down very early in the viral process. The infection and death rate on May 1 is the baseline rate for our definition of essential businesses, as we'd been sheltering in place for 5+ weeks by then. Most geographies tell a similar story. If you argue the essential business net was too wide, I'd probably agree with that, but our spike has been damn near non-existent. I can't really square that with the idea that we didn't take it seriously.

I'm not sure this one counts as trivial. Wait until the next time you have to change your password on Best Buy's website. It required more complication than any other website I've ever used up to and including all my banks, (USAA, Citi) retirement accounts (Schwab, Fidelity), and post tax investment holdings (ETrade). So, compared to every dollar to my name, my Best Buy account is (theoretically) more secure even though the rewards balance value varies pretty reliably between 4 and 11 dollars. I've had two security breaches in the last handful of years across my entire life...my Best Buy account ordered an iPad Pro for shipping to Maryland and I had a credit card number compromised by guess who*? There is a 0% chance I can actually buy something at Best Buy right now without going through the lost password routine and generating another one that meets all their rules that I similarly won't remember. If Circuit City still existed, this would cause me to change my buying behavior entirely. *I can't actually prove Best Buy was at fault, but the story is a lot better if they were.

Not that I miss her or anything, but it’s my weekend with our wife.