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Only through 4 episodes. So bad but can’t stop watching. Would finish if it wasn’t for work.

Lots of wind in Galveston las night and still some today. Dead birds everywhere.

About 30% of the adult population in early December.

We definitely come from different periods. In my life (born in 82), while things may get bad in the short term, they always bounce back. So unless I’m banking on the total dissolution of the US, I should just buy and ride it up. He however grew up and started work during a period where the stock market dropped for about 20 years. I’m sure that altered his perception and behaviors quite differently. And as far as the gov is concerned, they have been pushing 401k for retirement so long, and that’s where most people’s limited eggs are, that if they let the market drop too much for an extended period of time, there would be a pretty big financial crisis for the older generation that would impact everyone.

Too short.

Was taking with my FIL while they were over for Christmas. I learned he is very conservative on his investments and spooks easily. He pulled money out way too often over the last 20-30 years. He probably also tried to sled manage a little too much. I feel bad. If he’d just let shit ride in 88(?), late 90s, 08, 18, etc, he probably would have retired a few years ago.

You don’t sound married. Got a pressure washer for my wife that she has been wanting. After her first use, it of course end up in the middle of the garage, cords everywhere. So instead of passively aggressively dumping it on her side of the bed, I took the gun off, wound up the hoses, and put it away in the shop. Fast forward a few days and she’s trying to use it again, and she’s yelling at me from outside about not taking the gun off. I asked her, with intentional tone, if she wanted me to put it back on for her real fast. 10 seconds later I handed it to her. “So you have to turn it backwards to put it on?” Me - no. Righty tighty Her - but you were turning it left me - no i turned it right. (Picked up and demonstrated. Her - no that’s backward. me - (now getting pissed because surely she must be trolling me) well google it or ask your dad since you are clearly not going to believe me at this point. next morning I get a text to some stupid link about righty righty and clockwise and how she was right. I happened to be in the shop and sent her back a video of me tightening it and loosening it. She came down and said you are turning it backwards! At this point, it is amazing that no one is in jail. I did it for her again, with her a foot away, also indicating which way a fucking clock goes. Nope, your loosening it now. I had to leave. She’s gas lighting me, right? About an hour later it came up again, and she finally got it. We can laugh now. And I bring it up every chance I get over the last few weeks, but I really think she might have been trying to get me to stroke out so she could collect insurance.

2 of the main actors in the upcoming captain marvel 2 will have been introduced in the Disney + shows.

Up to 6 or 7 now. Only one unvaccinated, and only one that felt really bad (he was vaccinated). Symptoms were so mild, we only learned of some because their family members tested positive. Oh, and at least one of those family members is on second round of Covid - first round back in the summer.

If someone had asked, I would have said Colt was generously listed at 5’11”.

Fuck 3po, annoying cunt. Not cute even as a baby. Should have dismantled him on the production lines.

Either colt is larger than I remember, or Sam is a lot smaller than I assumed he was these last few years.

Even Amos. I think. lolz

Great weather. Kids swam at the beach today. I need to water temp to be over 85 to get in past my knees personally, but they loved it. So did the grandparents, who hadn’t left Austin or seen much of their family since the pandemic started

You have a thread? As far as taxes go, I’ve got no background, but I am an engineer and good with numbers, and I’ve not found it difficult to do our taxes with just our handful of rentals and w2s. Biggest difficulty is just remembering to keep up with your records as you go. Especially mileage, as remembering where you went 12 months later can be tough if you didn’t happen to buy something on trip and forgot to log it. I could see where you might want help by the time you had 8-10+ properties, or if you also had a smaller traditional business.

There wasn’t peace. The robots started fighting each other because of the loss in battery power. So you ended up with 2 factions - the ones at peace with humans and working with them, and the ones that were still hunting humans (that didn’t stop for long if at all the way I interpreted it) and trying to lockdown and overwork the batteries

You think that because you disagreed with the poster(s), and probably (definitely?) about something political. I’ve had quite a few in this thread on ignore at one point because every time I came across their post in dt or cr they seemed like shithead assholes talking circles round each other. However as I started spending more time in other places like movies, hobbies, etc I started occasionally reading the hidden comments and came to realize that most are normal enough outside of those 2 threads and football, and I have less on ignore now. Most of those banned posters were good posters in other places.

Would be pretty cool if the evil stranges ended up being the same. The ancient one said that the time stone was what was holding back the evil. Time stone is gone. I think / hope they dig in to what it means for this timeline to not have a set of infinity stones.

I thought neg repping to the point where someone is just negging every random post unrelated to the offensive post, even going back days or weeks or months was considered harassment. That’s at least the gist of what @immamac has said to me. I think rep should be turned off after a post is up for some period of time -2-3 maybe 5 days. Too many unhinged people here with high rep go around trying to neg ban people on their own. If someone makes a shit post in CR and they get banned because 30 people negged it over 2 days, fine. But people getting punted or even just going red because a single poster doesn’t agree and negs all their posts Movies and hobbies from the last 3 years is BS.

Been a pretty bad 6 months for that area there between (if I’m getting my companies correct) Gulbrandsen, lyondell, lubrizol, and now this.

I don’t know if it is because I was watching from home and had minor distractions and not theater quality sound, but i had trouble following the first 5-10 minutes with Morpheus 2.0. Had a much lighter and cleaner feel to it than the original, darker due the video game part of it. Granted, it was supposed to be slightly horror inducing since it looped and showed him trapped, potentially going crazy. Im guessing Smith was there because he is part of Neo now? Does he leave when Neo leaves? Somewhat interesting to think about. Although it seems like he should be attempting to destroy everything when Neo is there

Hi - so I think I had a number of issues combining. Main issues is that when the old house was retrofitted with AC, it was easier to run ducts underneath, and for some reason they didn’t put in a filter on the return. So my coils had gotten pretty filthy. 2nd issue was that I found that a lot of the holes for the vents underneath were not well sealed. Quite a bit of cold air blowing in from the house and cooling off the metal boxes. I cleaned the coils and caulked the vents really well and the problem seems to be resolved. There was no insulation in the attic, and I added some about 18 months ago. Difference is noticeable. None in the walls. If I ever gut it I’ll definitely add some. I don’t think insulation down below would matter as much since it isn’t being super heated by the sun, but I do think good ventilation helps, whether it is just screened openings or forced air. Also, what is your flood insurance like? Insurance penalizes closed in crawl spaces. I didn’t know that when I first bought it. Ours is enclosed and used as a shop (eh, hoarder tendency storage). After digging a bit, found out you can install “engineered” flood vents. You need 1 sq in opening per sqft of house, and it’s about $100 per 500 sq in opening. Anyway, after installing our flood insurance went from several thousand to ~$500. You said yours is open, and I’m having trouble picturing what you mean this late, so it may not be helpful. Edit to add - you also have to get a survey after installing the vents that I think was $300. Even then, payback on the vents was really fucking quick.

Yeah, for this show, it was a reason for him to want to find it to keep his wife and kids off the radar. I don’t think they were setting up anything, but it wa s also a nod to Mockingbird - a comic shield agent and Hawkeye love interest.

Before I go looking, does this spoil anything for No Way Home? Haven’t gotten to see it yet

If you liked (most of) the marvel movies, and if you like TV shows, you’re probably going to enjoy them anyway.