Paper_jam

Let's say I live in Austin and want to watch Astros games this season. I have Youtube TV as my provider. What channel(s) are going to carry the Astros? (This is where you tell me, silly boy, the Astros games won't be on any regular basic cable network, they're only on some AT&T-exclusive bullshit. And even if an Astros game happens to fall onto a basic cable channel, it's going to be blacked out in Austin for reasons.)

I see a 70% chance of rain for Austin coming up soon, but the NWS precipitation forecast maps look dire. Is this another nothingburger?

I hope it's OK to start a thread on this; I ran a search and found threads for prior tax years, but not for TY 2021. To start things off, I'll ask about something that happened to my TY 2020 return, which may affect my filing for TY 2021. This is a 1041 return for a family trust. For TY 2020, when preparing the 1041 I calculated that I had overpaid by (approximately) $2000. Instead of requesting a refund, I selected the choice to have that overpayment credited to my future 2021 return. A few months after filing the 2020 return, I received a terse notice from IRS stating that I owed an additional $700 (roughly), which I paid promptly by check. The notice did not indicate how the IRS arrived at the additional amount due, or what it meant for the amount that I had previously requested be applied to my 2021 taxes. So now I'm uncertain if I can still claim that full $2000 amount as a credit towards my 2021 taxes, as intended, or if some or all of it was actually "consumed" by the IRS towards my 2020 tax liability, which was apparently more than I had calculated. When a taxpayer indicates the choice for an overpayment to be credited to next year's return, does IRS "lock it in" for only that purpose, or can IRS apply some or all of that "overpayment" amount to the current-year tax due, if additional tax liability is discovered? Thanks for any feedback.

Black boxes are tough as shit but I'd be really surprised if they made it through this impact. Hope I'm wrong because that data/voice would be key to the investigation.

The transition from level flight (autopilot) to screaming dive is scary fast. I gotta go with severe failure or malfunction of horizontal stabilizer and/or elevator. Or suicide. (But if I was a suicidal pilot, I'd wait to start my death plunge from a lower altitude.)

If shit were to hit the fan, what are the most likely targets (in Central Texas) for a strike? Warhead counts are not as high now as they were 30-40 years ago, so I don't know if we'd just have one or two bombs coming to our fair city, or a whole slew of them. I'm not a Russian war planner but off the top of my head, the following come to mind: Downtown Austin & Capitol area UT area ABIA Pickle Research/IBM area Decker power plant Fayette power plant Samsung plant Fort Hood Mansfield Dam? Cedar Park & Round Rock? and lots of military stuff in/around San Antonio

What concerns me is that if you're far enough away from potential targets that you don't get vaporized immediately, but still within 10 miles or so, it may take some time (a number of seconds anyway) for the blast wave to reach you...during which time you will be literally roasting alive from the radiant heat of the fireball. It would be anything but a quick, painless death.

Will interest rates on things like traditional savings accounts and CDs ever be enough again to actually matter? Or would that only happen in a hellworld of hyperinflation anyway, negating any benefit to the consumer? I'm old enough to remember when my parents were raking it in (seemingly) on CDs and such in the 80s.

I thought we de-MIRVed our inventory, but maybe this is out of date now: https://allthingsnuclear.org/emacdonald/the-end-of-mirvs-for-u-s-icbms/

Jesus wept, are those prices typical? My last system (Carrier AC & gas furnace, in 2012 I think) was less than $5k and I thought that was outrageous at the time.

Wendy's hasn't been the same since they took out the tables with the old-timey newspaper theme. Gave you something to read while you eat.

Too much teal in that Mercedes livery for my tastes. I know its a Petronas thing but Merc should tell them to go pound sand, it's not a racy color. Would look better if all the teal areas were done in red.

Austin trash collection is seriously fucking with me. If I have a small item or small extra bag of garbage in the trash can, they always leave it or put it back in the can. I don't know how they actually empty the cans, I thought they use a mechanical arm that turns the can over and shakes everything out, but however they do it, is not fucking working. Today I had a small second bag on top of a kitchen-size bag underneath it. Somehow the large bag (on the bottom) is gone but the small bag of shit is still in the can. That's impossible unless one of their workers put it back in my can instead of throwing it in the truck. Do they have an official policy of refusing to collect trash in "nonstandard" bags or containers? If this was a one-off I wouldn't care, but it's happening almost every week now. Next time I'm going to stand on the fucking curb all day and scream at them "TAKE MY SHIT. TAKE IT ALL."

It seems like teams that make the ball go in the hole a lot have more success. I think our guys should do that.

I'm glad the state has good medical and pension, because otherwise I look back at my career (specifically salary and lack of regular COLA) and get really depressed about what I made/make compared to seemingly everyone else in this city (considering education, etc.). If you had told me 25 years ago what my salary would be in 2022, I'd probably say "hey that sounds OK" but back then I didn't know a house in Austin was going to cost a million fucking dollars (more or less).

I don't know WTF happened at Ullrich, but if unclean water did enter the citywide distribution system, as was my understanding, how does me running my cold water taps for 1-5 minutes flush all that out? It seems like there could be a huge volume of potentially-tainted water still lingering in the system. Even if certain locations tested clean, how do we know whether those samples are representative of conditions along the whole system? Or should I just be quiet and have faith that our municipal leaders and institutions have really fixed it?

Anything elevated (flyovers, upper decks, etc.) is probably iced, although they might be sanded by now. In my area (NE Austin) the neighborhood surface roads are still drivable but there are icy spots, Concrete sidewalks and driveways have ice & sleet. Anything still wet is likely to freeze as it gets colder tonight. It's really borderline and may even depend on the part of town (N. side, south, etc.).

My back yard is basically a shallow pond. Maybe this thing will mostly rain itself out before the temperatures drop below freezing.

I just got a robocall from "STATE OF TEXAS" telling me it's going to get cold, and recommending that travel be avoided. While listening, I was wondering if it was going to say anything about conserving power, but it did not. So we must be good to go.

They should do a tie-in with GI Joe and have a live-action Cobra Commander mascot character.

I thought the rain was past but it is just dumping now in NE Travis County

This looks like a costume party, although damned if I understand the theme. If this photo is recent, who wears a "W '04" cap in 2022? Even a MAGA hat would make more sense.

I still don't understand why the markets did so well over the pandemic when everything was obviously shitty and I don't understand why they are in a tailspin now. But I'm just trying to get myself in a position for retirement soon, and this isn't helping. In the immortal words of Oscar Rogers,

In NE Austin, I haven't had a thorough rain (the kind that actually wets the soil) since one time in October. And I don't recall getting anything significant in September.

Maybe it's just me but it seems like a shitload of games for us are not on broadcast or basic cable sports (only on LHN or ESPN+). Fucking pisses me off.