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Dallas "Cowboys" is a sexist term. Anybody that disagrees is sexist.

Yall keep your eyes out for accounts of these illegal, they are absolutely illegal, actions of Antifa. It IS happening and it could happen to any of us. These Antifa goons are setting a very bad precedent by not identifying themselves. A precedent leading to any group of thugs to don black camo with Marxist markings, and begin terrorizing the public.

That's crazy because I was on AT&T Fiber and my promotional rate ended a couple of months ago. I called AT&T asking to keep the promotional rate, they said no, and jacked up the rate by 50%. So, I just switched back to Spectrum to get their promotional rate, plus Spectrum threw in an Apple TV 4K 32GB for free, which I've already sold for beer money.

I live in central Austin (Allandale). Workers just put signs all the way down my street and in front of my house: "No Parking - Tow Away Zone. For questions, please call Google Fiber at XXXXX". All the natural gas lines have also been marked. I assume Google Fiber is being installed in my neighborhood. AT&T Fiber is already installed and Spectrum has high speed coax. I've been switching between AT&T Fiber and Spectrum every year or two to get their latest promotional rates. Hopefully I can add Google Fiber to the rotation.

Not new, same as last year.

Beer bust under the moon tower, yo!!

A new company based in Pflugerville is making medical masks locally. I ordered some a couple of weeks ago, and received them today. They look pretty good. They are authorized by FDA under emergency use authorization (EUA). https://buy.armbrustusa.com/

Austin requesting restaurants back to 25% occupancy, https://austin.eater.com/2020/6/15/21292075/austin-restaurants-indoor-dining-reduced-capacity-laws-coronavirus

Is Cook the one that hit Foster's car?

https://electrek.co/2020/05/15/tesla-factory-austin-texas/ Tesla’s next factory is going to be in Austin, Texas and it’s going to happen quickly A source familiar with the matter told Electrek that Tesla has chosen Austin, Texas for its next factory and it’s going to happen quickly. The race to secure Tesla’s next factory is apparently over. According to a reliable source familiar with the matter, Tesla CEO Elon Musk is set on bringing the next Tesla Gigafactory, or now Terafactory, to Austin, Texas, or at least close to the city. The people familiar with the project said that Musk has tasked the engineering team working at Gigafactory Nevada to start the process for the new factory, which is expected to make the Tesla Cybertruck electric pickup truck and the Model Y. Tesla’s CEO also reportedly wants to move extremely fast. We are told that the decision for the site is not set in stone since Tesla was apparently given a few options in the greater Austin area, but Musk is said to want to start construction extremely soon and aims to have Model Y vehicles coming out of the plant by the end of the year. It would be an even more aggressive timeline than Gigafactory Shanghai. However, we are told that Tesla would aim to only have a general assembly line ready on that timeline and it would keep building the factory around the first phase in order to increase production capacity of different parts next year. By late next year, the new Texas factory would be producing Tesla’s new Cybertruck electric pickup. Tesla already has some connections to Austin, Texas. When Tesla started building a team of chip engineers for its Autopilot hardware 3.0, it hired several engineers from AMD’s corporate offices in Austin and Tesla decided to open an office there for its Autopilot hardware engineers. Recently, Musk has been talking about moving Tesla’s California operations to Nevada and/or Texas due to the automaker’s difficulties working with the local government to reopen the Fremont factory, where it currently produces most of its vehicles. This project is not directly related to that announcement. We are talking here about Tesla’s previously announced plans to build a ‘Cybertruck Gigafactory’ in “central US”. Electrek’s Take I think most people won’t be surprised by the news. Elon seems to have been leaning toward Texas for a while now. But the timeline was really surprising to me. This source has been really reliable in the past and they seem adamant that Tesla is pushing to have cars coming out of the factory by December, which just sounds crazy. Although we are talking about just general assembly here so it’s not like Gigafactory Shanghai, which was built on a quick timeline too, though not as aggressive as this. Tesla had Gigafactory Shanghai producing cars within a year after starting construction, but it was also producing the body of the vehicles and for now, it sounds like the bodies of the Model Y vehicles coming out of the new Texas factory would be produced in Fremont. Therefore, I don’t think it’s impossible, but like it’s often the case with Tesla, the timeline is extremely aggressive. What do you think? Let us know in the comment section below. We will try to keep you updated on Tesla’s plans for the new factory. If you know anything about it, don’t hesitate to reach out to me at Fred@electrek.co, via Wickr: Fredev, or through my social media: Twitter and Instagram.

The US doesn't need to buy oil to fill up the strategic petroleum reserve. Instead, since all other storage is full, the US can simply charge oil companies to store oil in the reserve. In fact, today Australia announced they are leasing space in the SPR to store oil there.

Sorry, I didn't know only essential employees were allowed on the subway.

As a reminder, the subways in NYC are still operating.

The rules seem restrictive: "Jacksonville's beaches will be open daily from 6AM to 11AM and 5PM to 8PM for exercise such as walking and swimming only. Banned are sunbathing, chairs, towels, or loitering on the shore, and beach goers are required to remain six feet apart."

Austin 2020 property taxes are out. I live in central Austin, no change from last year for me and the houses on my street. Wow!

According to CNBC article: “Our product development team is largely based in China, where personnel costs are less expensive than in many other jurisdictions,” Zoom wrote in a regulatory filing So that may help explain low security standards. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/26/zoom-key-profit-driver-ahead-of-ipo-engineers-in-china.html

BTW, please don't hoard.

Amazon, Walmart online, etc. Please don't hoard.

There's lots of surgical style masks on Amazon now. Don't leave home without one.

Here is The National Clearinghouse website to connect healthcare providers with critical equipment. They get personal protective equipment to front line medical workers across America. Items like gowns, gloves, ventilators, and masks. The website connects healthcare providers and PPE suppliers. https://www.projectn95.org/

This is great, thanks for sharing. I'd also like to see the per capita inflection rate by zip code - it might explain Pflugerville (i.e. higher overall population). The map is also great to show where I should do my grocery shopping to avoid local hot spots.

More info at the link below. Includes a photo of the necessary parts. Apparently, one of the innovations is the mask with a better seal to the face. https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/mercedes-amg-f1-ventilator-cpap-covid-19/

Medtronic publishes specs for ventilator, enables other companies to build Medtronic Shares Ventilation Design Specifications to Accelerate Efforts to Increase Global Ventilator Production DUBLIN, March 30, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Medtronic plc (MDT), the global leader in medical technology, today announced it is publicly sharing the design specifications for the Puritan Bennett™ 560 (PB 560) to enable participants across industries to evaluate options for rapid ventilator manufacturing to help doctors and patients dealing with COVID-19. This decision is consistent with the recent FDA Guidance and in accordance with the public health and medical response of governmental agencies globally. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/medtronic-shares-ventilation-design-specifications-121510826.html specs here: https://www.medtronic.com/us-en/e/open-files.html

France officially recognizes chloroquine as treatment... sounds like some good news! Debate Ends Over Chloroquine as France Officially Sanctions Usage "Days after beginning a large scale double blinded trial, the so called gold standard, France has now reached the conclusion chloroquine is recommended to treat corona. Speaking at a news conference, Jérôme Salomon (pictured), France’s director general of health, said the officially sanctioned prescriptions of chloroquine to treat corona “allows a temporary authorization to allow certain patients with coronavirus to benefit from this therapeutic route.” Doctors in France now will finally be able to treat patients with Didier Raoult, a renown doctor that specializes in infectious diseases, announcing new clinical results that show out of 80 patients treated with chloroquine, 78 recovered within 5 days." https://www.trustnodes.com/2020/03/28/debate-ends-over-chloroquine-as-france-officially-sanctions-usage