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Paper_jam

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  1. At Monaco they should go full retro--make all the teams change to small vintage-style cars from the '60s, and bring back hay bales etc. for barriers.
  2. Just curious, are there fish in Waller Creek?
  3. You can see that the line north of Austin put the brakes on and doesn't want to come any further south. Keep the hail away but I need some rain to wash in the ironite and weed/feed I just put down in anticipation of this.
  4. Yesterday I swear KXAN's forecast said 90% chance of rain on Sunday. Now it's 50%. The NWS forecast said periods of very heavy rain. Now it doesn't. The fuck is going on.
  5. "Bad with rain" does not compute
  6. I don't know if Paxton has any actual evidence of a crime being committed, but regardless this is a really shitty thing to do. How do you sleep at night, you fucking cockeyed carpetbagger. https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/paxton-moves-to-shut-down-charity-housing-undocumented-migrants/
  7. My HP-20S from my college days still going strong, well after 30 years.
  8. 1985 JVC amplifier/EQ/tuner/turntable rack system, still has original speakers. Been played loudly on a regular basis for almost 40 years. 1987 Zenith Hi-Fi VHS VCR. Still plays tapes, but the tuner is fried so can't make recordings. An old Panasonic cordless landline phone of indeterminate age (at least 15 years). I recently retired a 2005 Panasonic Plasma TV which was still working. I still have a '97 Sony Trinitron CRT television, which works but is basically never used anymore. Moral of the story: electronics made in Japan were good shit.
  9. The line west of Austin seems to be shrinking and tracking more to the north. Guess I should be happy with what I got earlier tonight, but was hoping for an even bigger dump into the lakes.
  10. Everything was better when the vast majority of people only had access to a daily local or regional newspaper, and a half-hour of broadcast network news from NBC, CBS, ABC, or PBS. Cable news, and especially click-driven internet news, has poisoned people's brains.
  11. I don't get the apathy from young voters, especially after everything that's happened since 2016. Cynicism, yes, but not apathy. It's like saying that Mon Mothma broke a promise on my pet issue so I'mma let Vader/Palpatine have it, both sides are the same.
  12. Driving to work this AM made me wish the Central Texas population would decline a whole fuckin' lot. It shouldn't take 45 minutes to go 6 miles. (In 2010, I could do this same drive in 10-12 minutes.) At this rate, in 2038 the same route will take 3 hours.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.)
  18. 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.
  19. That's how you end up with a Damien.
  20. Waiting for our intrepid AG to uncover the real truth--those power lines fell down because DEI.
  21. What if ESPN and partner networks decided not to televise games in these states?
  22. It's so beautiful. I'm not crying, I just got something in my eye.
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