Everything posted by VolenteHawk
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Supreme Court just ruled that half of OK is still Rez.
If they didn’t adequately pilfer the whole state, the Sooner name needs to go. Offensive to proper criminals.
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COVID-19 2nd wave - Texas only - Stats and such
In Austin, National Instruments does it this way...there is an accrual limit, but it's a lot (several years worth). Vacation used to roll over similarly with a generous cap, then a less generous one, and as of a couple years ago doesn't at all.
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COVID-19 2nd wave - Texas only - Stats and such
We did that for longer when there were fewer infections, and it didn’t do much other than delay our first wave. They’re gonna need the essential business list to be far shorter, which I don’t think anyone will have the stomach to do.
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Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away
We couldn’t squash it with a 6 week SIP when there were a fraction of the cases. We’ve had all the good compliance to lockdowns that we’re getting out of young, healthy people. Buckle up.
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COVID-19 2nd wave - Texas only - Stats and such
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.
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Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away
I wish I had that kind of pull, but I’ve only lived here for 20 years.
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Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away
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.
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COVID-19 2nd wave - Texas only - Stats and such
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.
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COVID-19 2nd wave - Texas only - Stats and such
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.
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Wives and the Stupid Shit They Say/Do
He has a project car, buys a lot of sneakers, and still gets laid.
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2019-20 Big 12 thread
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.
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Anyone do futures bets?
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.
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Wives and the Stupid Shit They Say/Do
Dave harmonizing with the water glass makes me laugh my ass off every time.
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preference on Daily Texan moderation
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.
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Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away
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.
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Vasectomy
Lucky. My conversation went... ”Into the cup? Ewww that’s too clinical.” ”Fine, I’ll just go beat off.”
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Unpopular Opinions Thread
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?
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Social Distancing Pub Quiz
Good times.
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Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away
It’s the Florida of Texas.
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Ex Cop and son kill unarmed black man jogging
But she has black friends.
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Takeout in the time of Coronavirus
The Uchii locations in Austin are running crazy waits for pickup and no bodies are piling up the streets. Probably fine.
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Gambling in the age of covid-19
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.
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Gambling in the age of covid-19
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.
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Cool stuff my neighbor catches in his live trap
Stay out of their deer blinds...they're wild animals.
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Formerly DT: COVID-19 - Featuring Lots of Politics, now CR because political talk not going away
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.