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Fun Fact, Almost everything at Applebees is a fancy microwave dinner. This comes from a girl I know who used to work at Applebees corporate. The same restaurant group that owns Applebees also owns IHOP and she did quality control. She would have to fly to random area's of the country, walk into an IHOP and order a meal then take pictures of the pancakes/etc with a measuring tape to show how big the pancake was/how many chocolate chips were in it etc. Then with the waitress not looking she would bag up all the food, label the restaurant and time then ship it back to HQ for it to be analyzed. She would go to 5-6 IHOPs a day and then ship everything back in coolers with dry ice. Interesting job.
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As Royalsfan and other have pointed out this conflict is turning commodities markets on their head. Wheat futures up 70% YOY and that's just the beginning. Russia/Ukraine account for 25% of all wheat exports and 20% of all Corn exports. Even if the farmers can get their grain planted/harvested Russia seems hell bent on cutting them off from the black sea. Russia has been shelling their ports and has sunk some merchant vessels. I think the Ruskies try and take all of Ukraines black sea coast (they are halfway there) including Odessa and that would make it impossible for Ukraine to export anything they harvest. Almost 95% of Ukraines exports go through the black sea. Even if they don't succeed, no commercial bulk cargo ship is going to pull into Odessa to get filled up with grain if there is a possibility the Ruskies might shell the ship, the insurance companies wouldn't allow it. Gonna be a wild summer in MENA if this war continues.
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Anyone ever sit back and realize how crazy it is that we are getting live updates and video of what is currently happening from all over the world in the middle of a thread on a UT Sports message board? I remember when we invaded IRAQ in 2003 and it was basically just a couple of CNN journalists with some live footage of bombs falling in Baghdad. 20 years later and a college sports message board is putting out 10x more content featuring people tuned into European politics and live feeds from the UN/Places in Ukraine getting shelled with updates on where the Russian troops are moving. Its a hell of a world we live in.
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Time to piss on the fire and call in the dogs. (Old coon hunting phrase for its time to go)
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My family has some land out in western ks and the barn cat population goes from boom to bust every couple of years due to coyotes. About 2 years ago there were around 6-7 full grown cats and 10ish kittens running around the barns and outbuildings. Within 1 year they were all gone due to coyotes and the mice population boomed due to no cats, you could open a barn door and see 10 mice scurry to cover. My dad tried to grab some feral/barn cats from a city shelter to repopulate the farm but they kept asking questions about how he would care for them, are there predators around etc so he just found some other farmer who had a surplus of cats and relocated a couple to his land. The coyotes will probably get them at some point but then the cat and mouse game will begin again.
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An ex GF's dad used to farm in western KS and he said every couple of years he would have to shoot some random dogs messing with his cattle. According to him people in the city (5k towns) would just drive their dogs out to the country and let them go if they couldn't take care of them since there were no shelters around etc.
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This is the best explanation I have seen for the Russia/Ukraine conflict. I interviewed for a job this summer where I would live in Kiev and train employee's at the company's Ukrainian office. Good pay, free condo to stay in, free travel, they talked up how first world Kiev is and not some Eastern European shit hole etc etc but I turned it down specifically because I didn't want to be stuck in Ukraine if Russia started screwing with them again....which is exactly what Russia wants, to keep Ukraine from sliding further into Western European/American influence.
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I have never hunted deer but may try and grab one in early January next time I'm out there. Mix of white tail and mule deer, I've even seen a couple of antelope. They usually come up and drink from the cattle water tanks first thing in the morning.
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Since there are no tree's out there I bump at least 2-3 deer a day from thick weeds where the pheasants hang. This gal just stood there staring at me for about 20 seconds before she took off.
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Kstate fan here looking to soak up some longhorn tears tomorrow and checked this thread and am surprised it's all deer. Are there no pheasants or quail in TX? My family has some shit ass land in NW Kansas that they were still giving away for free in the 1890's that has some pheasant on it. Got 6 on opening weekend 2 weeks ago. Here are 5 of them and my German shorthaired pointer who doesn't point because I picked her up at a shelter but will jump in the nastiest weed pile there is without hesitation.
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Hey real estate moguls - what’s going on in the housing market?
Ted Dantzler replied to tbone_'s topic in Daily Texan
It's the low interest rates... adjusted for inflation the monthly payments are actually lower than in the past. -
I'm not drifter but there are some definite negatives of being a truck driver. - Away from home for long stretches of time. - Unhealthy lifestyle due to driving 10+ hrs a day and eating truck stop food. - Most drivers are treated like shit by shippers and receivers... 15 minutes late to your appointment because of bad weather? Sorry, wont be able to unload you for 18 hours etc. - Boom/Bust industry. Rates are good now but there is a constant yo-yoing of rates every couple of years since it's such an easy market to enter/fragmented.
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I worked in the transportation industry for 10 years and this will never happen in the US. The 25 largest trucking companies in the US (Jb hunt/swift/etc) only control 20% of the truckload freight out there, the vast majority of the TL freight out there is moved by small companies or independent operators who would lick their chops at some of the big company drivers going on strike. Plus TL rates are through the roof right now, if there was going to be a strike it would of been spring of 2020 when every carrier out there was hurting for freight due to lockdowns.
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Prairie Rattler in NW Kansas
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Also found a couple of newspapers in a cubby in the garage. No idea how mice didn't get to them in the 50+ years but they were in pretty good shape.
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Cleaning out my grandfather's stuff I found a picture of the flight board they used to document each bombing run. This was one for a bombing run on Berlin, May 8th 1944. I put it in a frame along with a poster for his unit and some other random items.
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Assuming you are healthy HSA's are the best option after getting up to your 401k match ,the only downside is the low amount per year you can contribute. No tax going in, no tax on earnings and no tax on withdraws(for health expenses)...and the best part...If it goes directly from your employer to your HSA there are no FICA taxes taken out either. Once you turn 65 you can withdraw from it like a normal IRA or continue to use it for health expenses without paying taxes. As they are currently set up there is also no limit on how long you can wait to reimburse yourself for for medical expenses. Lets say you have a $5,000 medical bill and pay it out of pocket without using funds from your HSA. You can save a copy of that receipt and reimburse yourself that $5,000 tax free from your HSA 10/20/30 years from now. In the meantime that $5,000 is still in your HSA growing tax free. Its really the ultimate retirement account https://www.madfientist.com/ultimate-retirement-account/
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Weather variance is putting it lightly, we have some family land in NW KS and got 26 inches of rain in 2019 and 13 inches in 2020. When we first inherited the land I was going through some numbers with my dad and they just weren't adding up so I asked him "How does anyone make money farming?" His response.... "The government".
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Random K-State fan here but I dated a girl this summer who's older brother was a homeless drug addict living in Austin. When covid started her parents bought him a bus ticket back to KS....he lived with her parents for a couple of months and stole some stuff then headed back to Austin because "It's better there" Nothing more to add besides that besides the whole fitlump becoming a city councilwoman story is wtf/hilarious since I don't live anywhere near Austin.
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Spent last year hunting without a dog then decided to bail a 6 month old GSP mutt (Milo) out of the local pound a year ago to assist. She can't point worth a shit but works great as a flusher, got her first rooster after Thanksgiving. Should of had 3-4 more but I can't shoot worth a shit. We were hunting a weedy draw in the middle of a corn field, Milo started sniffing a giant weed pile then jumped in...3 roosters flew out maybe 5 yards away from me, missed the first then the gun jammed on the reload. She also flushed a rooster on the edge of a field in some weeds that flew right across my line of sight at 15 yards...3 shots and nothing. She was so disappointed in me. Still a 10/10 great time, nothing better than seeing your dog get birdy and go nuts tracking a bird.
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Glad to see some pheasants in this thread. How far south do pheasant get in TX? We recently inherited some of my grandparents farmland in western KS so I've got into pheasant hunting the last couple of years. I still have no idea what I'm doing but just love walking around the edges of fields and blasting at the random birds that fly up...worst case scenario you go on a nature hike for a couple of miles.
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Not all bobcat's have bobbed tails
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Last year I was hunting pheasant in some CRP(tall native grass) in NW Kansas. I came to the top ridge of a V shaped gully and about 150 yards away a large cat that had been bedded down in the grass took off on a sprint through the grass away from me. I couldn't get a good enough look at it to actually confirm if it was a large bobcat or mountain lion but the coat looked solid light brown with no spots as it was running through the tall grasses. I watched it for a couple of minutes as it ran across another pasture, looked back then disappeared into a recently harvested corn field. My dog was blissfully unaware of the entire situation. More than likely it was a bobcat (game cams have shown some large bobcats in the area) but it definitely scared the shit out of me.
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Being a Kstate fan I agree with this 100%. They beat up on Kstate and the other Big8 schools (minus OU) for 60+ years, just pummeling our faces in while smiling about what great fans they are. When Kstate finally started beating NU consistently (5-2 from 98-04) they couldn't take it and fired Solich which started their downward spiral to where they are now. Then they left us and their 100+ year history with the Big8 schools to prove they were still relevant. I would have loved nothing more than to have spent the last 10 years jumping up and down on their dying corpse as corn kernels shot from their mouth like BB's. I want them back in the Big12 for that reason alone, to kick them while they are down until there is no more leather left on my shoes.
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