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wood

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  1. Yep. My bingo card just fucking sucks. Didn't have "Police called in to calm out-of-control golf hooligans". You stay classy out there on the links, 'Murica.
  2. Welp. My bingo card just fucking sucks. Didn't have "Police called in to calm out-of-control golf hooligans". You stay classy out there on the links, 'Murica.
  3. What's the score, yo?
  4. It was always very intriguing strategy-wise, trying to discern what fuel strategies people were on, etc, but there wasn't a lot of passing on the track. The mistake I think many people make in that regard though (not y'all) is just assuming that the presence of refueling was the primary driver of the lack of passing. It was a completely different formula with super-durable tires that lasted a full race. Currently there wouldn't be much passing without DRS, either. In the refueling era they had no DRS but had the same problems following closely. Probably worse in that regard. I dunno if refueling would help with variability in the current F1 world. It might, or might not, but the automatic assumptions that many people make about its effect on the racing are overly simplistic imho. There are so many factors to consider. One way it could help with variability would be when some cars at the start of the race are fueled heavy to go further without stopping, vs others that fueled very light to stop sooner, creating performance differences among the cars on the track.
  5. ... and she's an insurance lawyer, at that. LOL.
  6. And this. I could never justify the cost.
  7. That's cool, and I know there are some golfers I'd like to hang out with.
  8. Yep. I've always thought I'd enjoy golf, the technical nature of it, the beautiful courses, fresh air, sunshine, etc. The biggest thing that always kept me from picking it up was knowing that I'd have to be around golfers to do it. Thanks, but I'll pass.
  9. Desperate. He knows more and more people can see right through him and know what he's done. Every word he says is him trying to convince them otherwise.
  10. This right here. Regimes like this always fall. It's just a matter of when.
  11. Fucking POS, that dude. Karma's gonna be a real bitch to him.
  12. What if the rapture has already happened, and we just didn't notice, and all the good people have already been taken upstairs? Might make some sense of the mess we have ... ETA: Never mind. I see I was way too slow with that lol. Maybe COVID was the rapture.
  13. Family friend at one of the local affilaites told me that TJH is the biggest local tv ad spender in SA, Austin, and Dallas. Probably more.
  14. I was posting that more in reference to Trump incorrectly thinking Chicago is hosting the WC (shocking, I know), but yeah ...
  15. Yeah the cheapest I could find in SW Austin the last couple of days was $2.69 for Regular and $3.79 for Premium. $1.79 my ass. Average price right now is $3.16. The lies know no end. ETA: I can't find where he said it's $1.79, but in May he said it was $1.98 when people were paying about $3.16 on average at the pump (same as now). So, what he was doing there is quoting a futures price of unfinished gasoline on the 'RBOB', not the pump price. At best, it's slimy and disingenuous. Really though, it's just a lie. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/05/where-trump-is-likely-getting-his-1point98-gas-price-figure.html
  16. The newest polling data from the Associated Press and National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago found that 49% of Republicans think that the United States is heading in the right direction, which was down from 75% in June. https://apnews.com/projects/polling-tracker/
  17. He also said he'd move the WC out of Chicago if he thought it wasn't safe.
  18. He also said that we're currently experiencing record non-inflationary growth right now. "There's no inflation", he says repeatedly, like a Jedi mind trick. I guess we're all just imagining the high prices we're paying. Gets worse every time I go to HEB (when it's open).
  19. Oh gotcha. So Trump gets to be on the wall twice ... because of course he does in this fucking insidious timeline.
  20. Would you characterize it as ... inflammatory? OK. I'll show myself out now.
  21. Trump to the left and the right of the signature pic? Is that whole wall Trump photos? Imagine being one of the people who's a career White House staffer, seeing the traditions of the White House getting shit on day and night. If you haven't seen The Residence yet, I highly recommend it. It's a great whodunit, and I think it's probably a great representation of how the WH staff looks at goings-on in the residence. It's also, imho, an allegorical, thinly veiled reference to Trump hating American & its institutions, and shitting all over them. That's probably the real reason it got canceled imho.
  22. Yeah I hate that fucker too, but the only reason he's in F1 at all is to sell Haas machine tools to a broader, more international market and to network in the paddock. IMHO as long as he's the owner, 'Haas' will be on the cars.
  23. I'm 60, and almost everyone we know that's in our age group is anti-Trump. The only Trumpies we know are one friend a little older than me, the nextdoor neighbor who's a little younger, and older relatives of ours and our friends who are in their 70s, 80s, and 90s ... who really should fucking know better. But we're in Austin.
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