Everything posted by drt
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2025 Thread of the Rains
Same. Seems to be pea sized for the most part.
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American Happiness Reaches Five-decade Low
Based on what?
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American Happiness Reaches Five-decade Low
Not to be a dick, but rural America doesn’t have shit for economic opportunity compared to urban. Which means significantly lower quality of life. I have enough cousins in rural Arkansas to know this.
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2025 Thread of the Rains
Hate to be Debbie downer, but we are actually running out of the type of sand we need.
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Wildfires - 2025
Is that why I smell smoke in south Austin, or are the neighbors just having a good time?
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What the fuck is wrong with you, Austin?
To be fair, you have to designate those zones as high risk to force people to build lower risk housing via building codes. Housing stock that is already there is actually higher risk and should pay more. Besides reducing fuel in proximity, not much else you can do until people decide to do work on the individual houses. Also have to hope they pull permits so shit gets done correctly. Maybe fund some grants or rebate programs for people to do that work? Goddamn I can’t believe I just defended insurance companies. I’m going to go take a shower.
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Covid/Influenza/Black Death. 2024 and beyond
Yeah I had my 9 month old in the other day. Pediatrician said while they do the shot at 6mo to a year for kids that travel, the immunity doesn’t stick when they’re that young, so the kiddo would get the 1 year shot per normal. In addition sometimes insurance covers the early shot, sometimes not. I’m still waffling on taking the kid back to get the shot for 2.5 months of coverage. People are the worst.
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Winter Weather 2025 - Arctic Blasts or Sweaty Ass?
The bluebonnets in our neighborhood have 1 or 2 blooms. I also think the last freeze confused the shit out of the plants.
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Covid/Influenza/Black Death. 2024 and beyond
Seeing as the CDC only releases data on Thursday's, where did you see this? I’m trying to decide on getting a baby vaccinated ahead of schedule, would appreciate more info.
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Like the national forests? Go while they're still there.
I always had a hard time empathizing with the environmental terrorism of previous years. I get it now.
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Winter Weather 2025 - Arctic Blasts or Sweaty Ass?
In practice I don’t recommend the manifolds, especially for the hot side. Adds a ton of water volume before you get hot to the fixture.
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Covid/Influenza/Black Death. 2024 and beyond
My wife got tested for immunity during her last pregnancy. She has to go get a booster, as her immunity had waned. Apparently that’s a thing.
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A Shaggster From Long Ago May Get a Federal Pardon
Ok. I didn’t know Ross but knew a few that did. I also don’t claim to know the full story, but as I understand it Silk Road was a marketplace for everything from mail order weed (IDGAF) to hard drugs, criminal acts for hire and worse. Meaning it’s almost a certainty normal folks were directly affected in a negative way by his facilitation of this marketplace. And he was convicted by a jury of his peers, appealed and lost. Meaning he gets a get of jail free card, and those of us who live their lives by the rules of our social construct probably wouldn’t get that “do over with 650 million in an offshore bank” if we did the same things he did. I’m genuinely asking, why is that cool, because to me it seems a bit the opposite?
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A Shaggster From Long Ago May Get a Federal Pardon
Can you expand on this?
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Southern CA Fires- Extreme Santa Ana Winds
I’m guessing most of the ones that survived were sealed attics. I’d put money building code is changed within two code cycles (6 years…which is fast for the industry) to heavily discourage vented attics in wildfire prone areas.
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Winter Weather 2025 - Arctic Blasts or Sweaty Ass?
HEB begs to differ.
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Winter Weather 2025 - Arctic Blasts or Sweaty Ass?
Dewpoint in Austin is 10. Don’t know I’ve ever seen it that low.
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What the fuck is wrong with you, Austin?
For carp? Sure. Bass, they’re assholes.
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Heating the garage
I have used incandescent work lights to add heat to the garage in the past. Put it next to the water heater and the plants we bring in. Granted I’m in Texas so it’s not often but it works surprisingly well.
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USN beats USN
The cost of training all the people that will be fired because of this might cost more than the plane
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Blastfurnace 2024
This has convinced me to add a standalone dehumidifier. Goddamnit I’m done with this shit.
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Suzanne Simpson, the disappearing San Antonio realtor (UT alum)
Is your wife a dude?