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Paper_jam

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  1. Did you watch Glengarry Glen Ross and come away with the opinion that the Alec Baldwin character was supposed to be anything other than a complete shithead?
  2. I bet that dude is pulling lots of coed ass at the dorm.
  3. Got just a 5 minute shower today, ground is already dry again. Austin will get widespread deep soaking rain soon right?
  4. Are menu prices at Indian restaurants going to go up?
  5. Laying the groundwork for overturning or nullifying the results of an election that doesn't go MAGA's way. #1 Enact rules to make it harder for voters who are not MAGA to register or vote. (Restrictive voter ID measures, selectively control polling locations, eliminate early voting, mail voting, etc.). #2 Make rules that dilute the influence of those voters, if they still manage to vote. (Gerrymandering, electoral college, etc.) #3 Establish mechanisms to overturn elections with an outcome you don't like, in case you still lose in spite of #1 and #2, #4 Do away with elections altogether?
  6. OK that was weird... there was a lag so I hit "reply" a couple of times and ended up with duplicate posts. Sorry!
  7. YTTV & Fox: fix your shit and stop trying to minmax your fucking quarterly earnings using football as a hostage. Somewhere in my junk pile I have an old OTA antenna but I don't want to fuck around with my TV setup to hook it up. Plus I much prefer to watch games on DVR so I can skip ads.
  8. Motherfucker all the good heavy stuff jumped over me or just slightly west of me. Why is it so scattered and random. One guy can get nothing while a half mile down the road someone else gets 3 inches.
  9. Bridge looks really nice but if there's no shade I bet it's hot as fuck in the summertime.
  10. While we discuss fine Italian cusine, I hate to break it to everyone, but the Johnny Carino's Tech Ridge location closed recently.
  11. Snek is not up to code. (Not equipped with backflow prevention device.)
  12. Lately I've been getting a shitload of spam calls from a 424-287-XXXX numbers (I don't know anyone in Los Angeles), but they either don't speak at all or speak such broken English I can't understand them.
  13. yeah but i need oil to make the smoke tune in my bro truck go brrrrrp. Real talk: in 2024, turnout was pretty darn high, something like 88% of registered voters voted, if the numbers I'm finding are correct. About 64% of eligible voters voted. For the many eligible voters who are not registered, or the registered voters who chose not to vote, it's not clear to me that their vote would have changed the outcome. This Pew Research article suggests that, of the nonvoting bloc, 44% of nonvoters preferred Trump and 40% preferred Harris. I'd love to think that the problem is turnout, but I think the real problem is that people are malicious idiots.
  14. "Bubbles!? I'm the fucking prince of darkness!"
  15. I don't get this "in group" stuff. I went to UT and I don't remember a line on the application form asking what summer camp I went to. How would an admissions officer or whoever is reviewing & approving freshman applications even find out this kind of information?
  16. Reports that Apple is outbidding everyone else (ESPN) for the rights to cover F1 in the USA. Not sure I want to pay for another streaming service just for F1. I love it when sports franchises (looking at you, MLB) hide their product behind paywalls and end up killing interest completely.
  17. Hypothetically, if I [not a pilot] was flying a light plane and lost all or most engine power, and I believed that a crash was imminent, I might hit the fuel cutoff just before impact in the faint hope that it might reduce the extent of fire or explosion. But with a 787 full of many tons of jet fuel, I can't imagine it would make any difference.
  18. If we end up with 200 or more victims, this has to be the deadliest non-hurricane flood event in many, many years (in the US). Or does it count as a hurricane-related event?
  19. This may sound trivial in light of all the unfathomable tragedy, but is Austin going to lose the water treatment plants like in the flooding in 2018? I'd like to think Lake Travis can absorb most of this before it gets into Lake Austin, but IDK.
  20. Also, the videos I saw didn't really indicate a major nose-down movement prior to impact, and it certainly didn't look 50+ degrees nose down at time of impact.
  21. Police need to have guns that shoot nonlethal tranquilizer darts for situations like this. We can't have major transportation infrastructure shut down for hours every time one person has a bad day.
  22. What possible reason could there be for this kind of decision? Is there a huge cost savings, or is the release of this weather data to forecasters some kind of national security risk? Or is the real reason some bullshit like "weather forecasting is WOKE and we won't allow data to be collected that might further demonstrate anthropogenic climate change"?
  23. Y'all can thank me for that rain in Austin today around 3:00, I got my car washed just before. I swear an hour before there wasn't anything on radar within 20 miles and then as soon as I'm out of the car wash, sudden squall line outta nowhere.
  24. A commenter on one aviation channel on Youtube suggested that the dust was kicked up by the 787 going into the runway overrun area, but I'd take that with a grain of salt.
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