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  1. royiv
    WTF does this protracted discussion of what is or isn’t O&G have to do with the current events in Deer Park? This discussion is a beating.
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    Say what?
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    Texas BBQ

    royiv replied to Washpark's topic in Food and Travel

    I took the 281 route between Austin and Ft. Worth a couple of years ago for the express purpose of stopping at Hard 8. They could have just had an off day, but it was awful when we stopped there. Someone who has been there more recently might be able to corroborate or dispute that review.
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    The point that I was trying to make is, who gives a flying fuck? A pipeline exploded, people’s shit is getting wrecked and the air quality in Houston takes another hit and people are squabbling about what an O&G company is. Maybe focus on the events at hand instead of dumb semantics.
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    Would your say that Apple and Nvidia are both tech companies?
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    My wife’s family (not MAGA in the least) has a lake house in rural WA. Most MAGA place I’ve ever been. We went up for the 4th two summers ago. MAGA flags everywhere. On every house, on every boat, on every business, on every truck. I saw more confederate flags than I’ve ever seen in Texas. The local small town was having a berry festival complete with a civil war reenactment. Guess which side the locals were cheering for? After that, we decided no more visits on holiday weekends.
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    Slorch’d
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    He and his ilk resort to the tired trope that they’re so much smarter than anyone else because they don’t think in binary terms when that’s exactly what they do. If a candidate doesn’t check every single box for them, then they’ve determined that candidate not to be worthy. It’s a yes/no for them that always ends up no/no since no one candidate can pass their test. We see it on this board from several posters who are on the far left progressive side, too. The rest of us look at both candidates and make a determination for which candidate most closely aligns with enough of our interests and vote based on that. It just so happens that in this election we have one candidate that is openly calling to discard the constitution and become a dictator that it becomes a very quick decision to make.
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    Texas BBQ

    royiv replied to Washpark's topic in Food and Travel

    They also have a location in College Station. It’s like Planned Parenthood for sheep.
  10. royiv
    I confused OR and WA. Already cleared up earlier. Anyhoo, was agreeing with you that the myth of Texas being a low tax, low cost state is all a facade.
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    Dammit, I always get WA and OR confused. OR=no sales tax, WA=no income tax.
  12. royiv
    1. Farther from the border and fewer uninsured drivers. 2. Fewer natural disasters and weather events. 3. You have an income tax to offset Texas’s stifling regressive property taxes. 4. Experienced the same when I moved from AZ to TX, except in the opposite direction. Overall, our taxes and utilities went up when we moved to the low tax, deregulated utopia of Texas. Voters in this state are dumb or, perhaps worse, don’t even bother to vote.
  13. royiv
    Replying to you, but this directed at all dem voters. If a dem campaign volunteer knocks on your door, please answer and let them know two things: 1. You are enthusiastic dem voter and 2. You have plan to vote early. They will enter these responses into their database and this lets the campaigns focus on the folks that they need to be having face to face conversations with to GOTV. It also has the side benefit of that particular campaign know that you are a safe voter and they can leave you alone in the future.
  14. royiv
    And who does JD think is harvesting those watermelons? Eliminating Section 8 would do wonders for reducing the cost of housing for the working poor. What a dumbass.
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    These days? That would imply that this is a recent development.
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    So Marge and Ladybugs have kept their mouths shut about Loomer. I guess she put them in their place. None of these people have a spine when it comes to doing what’s best for the country. They’re all in it for themselves and got shut down by a white nationalist on twitter.
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    Given all the price cuts that Tesla has done to stimulate demand, a Model 3 can now be had for about the same price as a well equipped Civic. And those price cuts have dropped the resale value of Teslas like a rock such that a slightly used on can be had for cheap.
  18. royiv
    Is it possible for chip fabs to treat their wastewater and reuse it in the manufacturing process? It just seems ridiculous to put these plants in places like Central Texas or Phoenix that already have water access problems that are only going to get worse.
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    I couldn’t fine a single Tesla in the picture of the Tesla Factory’s parking lot in Fremont that accompanies that article.
  20. royiv
    And grandpa doesn’t even know their names.
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    aggy
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    Yep. Basically the Taiwanese way is 12 hour shifts and being on-call 24 hours a day so if, for example, a piece of equipment goes down in the middle of the night an engineer is expected to go in and have it fixed within an hour instead of waiting until the morning. In addition, a lot of language barriers when they’ve sent Americans to train in Taiwan where they won’t speak English in meetings and all of the PowerPoints and such are in Mandarin. Add to it, public shaming by managers not being an effective management strategy in the US.
  23. royiv
    Ask Trump. It’s the weapon of choice of the Venezuelan street gangs roaming our cities according to him.
  24. royiv
    I’ve also read a couple of articles that TSMC is struggling with workforce and cultural issues out in AZ impacting their production timelines. With the big push to onshore production, what’s the realistic timeline to get production at these fabs up and running?
  25. royiv
    Every time I see a pic of you my first thought is how miserable that hair and beard must be in the summertime in Texas. As much as I sweat I think I would have to push around an IV pole with a constant drip of fluids if I had that much hair on my noggin.

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