Everything posted by Paper_jam
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Many custom-built concrete pools in the Austin area installed since 2017 are suffering from "Concrete Cancer"
So, more like Concrete Osteoporosis?
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2024 Property appraisals are out
In NE Austin, my 2024 market value is actually ~1% less than my 2023 value. Most of the homes around me either stayed the same or went up very slightly (a couple of percent). Not too bad.
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Official Thread for Abortion Demagoguery
I'm not that optimistic about the Texas electorate "waking up" anytime soon. The Republicans can shut down their publicly funded jobs and schools, fuck up HEB, take away their Social Security, and more... and those voters will just blame it on immigrants, minorities, liberals, OBAMA, or whatever strawman Trump et al designate as the target.
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Greater Houston / Harris County Stuff
Example number eleventy billion of Republicans being against using government funds or services to help anyone--except for people and organizations that are connected to them. Even so, this is an alarmingly crass and cruel example of those in power punching down. Despite years of this shit somehow I still continue to be surprised at the depths these shitheels will sink to. They literally have no shame.
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Surly #Stonks
I don't know if this is the best place to ask, but I'm looking for a simple and free way to look up historical closing prices for certain stocks as of certain dates. I thought this would be easy but a lot of the charts I'm looking at adjust their historical data to account for stock splits and other events in ways that confuse me. Just for example, based on media reports from the time, I know that in late 2018, one share of GE stock was trading in the $6-8 range. But every stock chart I look at now shows that during that period it was trading at~$35, give or take $5. Why don't the charts match the prices that the stock was actually trading for? And where can I find the correct historical closing prices? Thanks.
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2024 Solar Eclipse - never too early to get ready
Got to see a few intermittent peeks between & through clouds. I wasn't expecting so much light to be coming around the periphery of it. Almost like the moon's disc wasn't quite big enough to fully occlude the sun. (Watching from between Manor and Pflugerville.)
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2024 Solar Eclipse - never too early to get ready
I live within the projected zone of totality, but very near (~3 miles) to the eastern edge. In a situation like that, if I look to the east, will I see terrain in that direction which is still illuminated by the sun, while I'm in (relative) darkness? Will the eastern part of the sky remain lit like a sunrise? With the cloud cover it's probably moot, but I'd like to know what I'm missing.
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2024 Solar Eclipse - never too early to get ready
That's how you end up with a Damien.
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Texas -- a failed state
Waiting for our intrepid AG to uncover the real truth--those power lines fell down because DEI.
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DEI bans in Texas threaten recruiting, finances at Texas Universities
What if ESPN and partner networks decided not to televise games in these states?
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Downtown Projects
It's so beautiful. I'm not crying, I just got something in my eye.
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2024 Solar Eclipse - never too early to get ready
To clear the skies along the centerline of the eclipse we could airburst a chain of high yield nukes at 10,000 feet or whatever, to burn off the cloud cover. Or just call the USAF and get them to use HAARP.
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2024 Solar Eclipse - never too early to get ready
Do these people know that you can see this event just as well from a Waco or Dallas hotel parking lot as you can from Enchanted Rock or Dripping Springs?
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What the fuck is wrong with you, Austin?
This fucking city just wants to make driving anywhere in your own car (and parking, once you get there) completely intolerable. We need infrastructure that completely segregates cars from bikes, not infrastructure that tries to force two fundamentally incompatible modes of transport together.
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2024 Rain Thread: All Your El Nino Are Belong to Us
I love the rain but it'd be nice if my 'hood didn't lose power seemingly every time lightning strikes within a mile of my house. It's like Bluebonnet Electric put up lightning rods that, instead of grounding the strike, feed it directly into critical transformers or switches or something.
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DEI bans in Texas threaten recruiting, finances at Texas Universities
I'm a fiftysomething white male so it's ludicrous for me to even be suggesting a course of action to people affected by this shit--but if I was, for example, a promising young athlete of color being recruited to play in major college athletics (hell, even pro athletics) I'd make it a point to say fuck off to any schools or teams in states doing this shit.
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What the fuck is wrong with you, Austin?
Yesterday I saw a silver Mercedes with a completely smashed front end driving with no front or rear plates whatsoever (not even a paper tag). How does a car like that not get pulled over immediately? Do the police have to wait until they see a moving violation?
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[Remains Found] Caleb Harris, the disappearing A&M CC kid
Seems to me the Mizzou kid is getting way more national media coverage than the CC A&M kid.
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Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max crashes killing 157
You could strap a Saturn V booster to a 787 and it still wouldn't gain ~200 mph in one second. Granted, the cited data is groundspeed not airspeed but still.
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[Remains Found] Caleb Harris, the disappearing A&M CC kid
They'll find his body in Town Lake.
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What the fuck is wrong with you, Austin?
I'd probably be OK with (or, at worst, apathetic about) Garza having a position on city council or as a state rep. I agree with those above that the office of DA isn't really where I want policy to be made. The DA's job is to prosecute criminals. I doubt some of the sensational negative claims about Garza are true, and Austin's overall crime statistics still compare favorably with almost any other city of equal size. But I don't want the general public (including the criminal segment) even having a perception that Austin is "soft on crime." My tolerance level is lower now that recently me, and people close to me, have been victims of mail theft, hit and run, bank jugging, vehicle break-ins, cat converter theft, etc. It seems like those kinds of crimes are rarely investigated or prosecuted. I've been fortunate to live almost all of my 50+ years, without being a victim of crime. But the last few years have been different, and not in a good way.
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What the Fuck is Wrong with you, Orcas?
They just want Seal to come out and play!
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Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max crashes killing 157
Recent Boeing management looking about as good as Sears or Enron.
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#24 TEXAS vs. #7 TEXAS A&M (Tuesday, 3/5, 6:30pm, LHN)
I dunno, Luling used to have a pretty sharp little bowling alley. Don't know if it's still there.
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What the fuck is wrong with you, Austin?
Old timey train >> new boring train Who's idea was it to make the new one look like a utilitarian modern freight train engine.