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Paper_jam

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  1. I hear the updated vaccines upgrade real-world content to 4K HDR.
  2. It's hard to believe how much it's changed in a generation. I was admitted to UT in '89 and it seemed like you could be a total mushroom and still get in with nothing more than a pretty good SAT (1250+). I don't think there was an essay, or any real need for extracurriculars. UT even threw money at me even though my family had no financial need., Tuition was like $400-500 a semester those first couple of years. I was practically making a profit.
  3. Fucking horrid game. Got beat badly by a bunch of scrubs and losers. We can't contain this fucking Dobbs guy? Why the fuck is the end zone like Kryptonite to Dallas? Shameful loss.
  4. I can't really decide. Fuck Baylor on general principles, but then I think back to the Crabtree catch in '08.
  5. Lost in a Guatemalan jungle? With the Urban Sweatsuit from J Peterman, you'll be as dry and comfortable as if you were still in your air conditioned West Side brownstone. Inspired by the practice of Central American natives who learned that lining their underclothing with shredded palm fronds would wick away sweat and odor. A patent-pending blend of natural fibers and advanced biopolymers to control moisture while still providing excellent breathability.
  6. These kids today with the dreadful, vulgar rappin music and the backward caps and baggy pants, always on the burner phones and beepers. My generation was sensible, having come of age during the estimable Reagan Era.
  7. I can't believe I bought a month of Sling just for tonight's game on LHN. (Which was choppy as fuck at 30 FPS, what the fuck, Sling, its 2023, you can't manage 60 FPS in sports?)
  8. Buncha corrupt cowards, protecting each other. We live in a banana republic. I can't wait to GTFO this state.
  9. It's not just that systems dissipate as they approach Austin from the west--the cherry on top is when they re-form into a heavy line again once they get east of here.
  10. All the heavy cells missed my hood. I doubt I've had more than two tenths out of this system.
  11. Could some of y'all experts speculate which games besides Wyoming are most likely to end up on LHN? I'm thinking about singing up for Sling Orange w/ LHN, but it's not really worth it to me unless I get at least two games within a payment period. It seems to me like the Kansas game might be something LHN picks up, but that's just a wild guess.
  12. Even at night, there's gross overuse of outdoor lighting. Almost every house in my hood keeps lights blasting (front and back yards) all night long, like it will keep the boogeyman away. One down side to energy efficient lighting is that since it doesn't impact the electric bill much anymore, there's no incentive to use restraint. We need laws to prevent light trespass--light your own property if you want, but if your neighbors can see direct glare from your unshielded fixtures you are doing it wrong.
  13. It was when the sellouts put a got dang Wendy's franchise in the Texas Union.
  14. You know it's been a bad summer when 97 feels like got damn sweater weather.
  15. Odds on that shower near Bastrop holding together & making it to South Austin?
  16. 74?! You can do better than that! I'm at 79 and have zero lights on. It doesn't feel good.
  17. I admittedly haven't followed this story closely but isn't a charge of manslaughter kind of harsh when the accused had basically every reason in the world to believe that the fucking gun that someone handed to him ON A FUCKING MOVIE SET FOR PURPOSES OF SHOOTING A FUCKING MOVIE SCENE would not be loaded with real ammo? If I'm on that jury I'd have a hard time finding that degree of guilt regardless if he pulled the trigger or not.
  18. TAMU is now a full-on, politicized hack institution. It's not a University, it's just a puppet of the Texas Legislature. It'd be funny but they're trying to do the same to UT.
  19. This gripe especially applies to online news, but print journalism as well. It's maddening how many news articles leave out critical details or information. You see reports about proposed or adopted legislation that don't identify the bill number or author. You see accident reports that have no real description of the persons, vehicles, or locations involved, or who is at fault. Crime coverage is the worst: the articles are so generic you can't even tell what really happened. A good news report should include enough detail so the reader can form a complete picture of the events in their mind. If you read a modern news article about a murder, it will go something like: "Police apprehended a person of interest after a body was found Tuesday night on the sidewalk in the 7000 block of Shipley Road. The cause of death is under investigation. A police spokesperson said the death is believed to be an isolated incident and is not a continuing threat to the public." If you read a newspaper article in 1955 about the same incident, it would read something like this: "Police arrested a male suspect, Jonathan Frakes, 29, a white man, in connection with the murder of Jennifer Jones Jackson, 22, of Pflugerville, an unmarried woman. Jackson's body was found at 10:18 PM Tuesday, on the sidewalk just outside Franklin Sporting Goods store at 7216 Shipley Road. The body had deep stab wounds to the torso and the victims' upper clothing had been removed. Police said that Frakes did not previously know the victim, but went into a murderous rage when the victim made a gesture which implied he had a small penis. This reporter interviewed a neighbor living in an apartment adjacent to Mr. Frakes' , Mr. Jake Moss, who stated that it was well known within the building that Frakes had a tendency to react violently to any sign of disrespect. Frakes was taken to Travis County Jail for holding, his arraignment is scheduled for Monday." It's like news today is intentionally sanitized to be free of details like motives, timelines, relationships, everything that would make it interesting.
  20. If, 50 or 100 years from now, there are fragmented remnants of humanity still eking out an existence in the After Times, I hope they build shittoriums where they defecate on monuments/effigies/pictures of all the people in power who let it happen--no, more like actively worked to ensure that it happened.
  21. Those water temps are scary, End of Days shit. If the ocean currents get weird and/or the marine ecosystem crashes it's game over, man.
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