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TXSooner518

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  1. I feel like a pretty big majority of golfers would have more fun moving up a box. I hit my 5i about 165 and am currently a 22.1 trending down, and generally look to play around 6000 yards, but I agree that slope is an even better indicator. My brother hits his about 190 and doesn't keep an index, but is probably a 10-12 or so and also plays the whites with me. Our dad also plays whites, though now he will pick some holes to play up if there's a decent forced carry, he's always been a low ball hitter, but just doesn't have the power anymore.

    So many players just default to "next up from tips" even though they would have a significantly better time playing further up. When I played Paiute, my buddy and I got paired with a single. My buddy and I played the white tees (Par 72, 6035 yards, 68.8/111).  The single played the yellow tees (next ones back, one up from tips, 6635 yards, 70.9/118).  My buddy and I shot 102 and 96, respectively, and the single definitely was north of both of us, and had a considerably worse time. The game is hard, why make it harder unnecessarily?

  2. 13 minutes ago, Bevo said:

    No, urgent care could have even done something. Oxygen and steroid inhaler and albuterol nebulizer at minimum. Maybe epinephrine.

     

    11 minutes ago, Herbie Hancock said:

    Beds or no beds EMTALA still applies to a hospital. This story is missing some facts

    Yeah, I obv dunno all the details. The person who posted it I have known for 35 years, and she is quite conservative and lives in Oklahoma, so it definitely isn't just a "friend's brother in law heard" or "libtard scare tactics".

    Obv it could be something like they said "Hey, look, it's either gonna be 8 hours before someone gets to you so just sit in that chair, or you can go home and come back if it gets worse" or whatever.

  3. 5 minutes ago, Bevo said:

    So did the ER. Sending her home was not appropriate.  Did they even give her a breathing test and get a pulse oximeter reading?

    I dunno. But if there aren't resources to give, there aren't resources to give, right? Take it to the logical extreme with 1 doctor and 1000 patients, what should they do? 

  4. Driving to NOLA with wife, brother, and brother's GF from Wed, 9/1 thru Sun, 9/4. Wife is a picky eater (no seafood) and brother's GF is new to NOLA, so including some toury stuff:

    WED
    Stop at Darrell's in Lake Charles on the way
    Staying at Harrah's, two nights free, no resort fees, yay
    Dinner at Butcher, Felix, or Acme
    Booze

    THU
    Breakfast at Ruby Slipper
    9a sightseeing bus tour - tours all of the neighborhoods, which I've never done
    Lunch either Johnny's PoBoys or chargrilled at Drago's, maybe some iced Irish coffee and poboys at Erin Rose
    Museum of Death (we all love the morbid and macabre)
    Dinner res at GW Fin's, they have a $45 3 course special for COOLinary. Wife will have limited options, but they exist, and she's very excite for the salty malty caramel pie
    Killers and Thrillers tour
    Booze

    FRI
    Breakfast at Stanley
    11 am tour of Sazerac House - this is free and comes with booze samples
    Saints and Sinners tour
    Drunken History of NOLA tour
    Dinner at Butcher, Acme, or Felix whichever we haven't hit yet
    Booze

    SAT
    Breakfast at Willa Jean
    Head to Tulane and watch OU-Tulane
    Sat afternoon/evening open plans that will be involving lots of food, booze, and watching more college football, open to recommendations on great places to do that. Full plans depend on if we hang on the Tulane side of town or head right back to hotel and how much energy we have after 4 hours of football in 277% humidity with a mask on. Considering Bulldog, also considering grabbing Camellia Grill right after the game. Considering Frenchmen this night (or possibly Friday) and Bamboula's or Dat Dog. If we do that Friday, would need to hit Butcher, Acme, or Felix likely this night.

    SUN
    Cafe du Monde in the morning - I know it's touristy but wife and I always sit out and soak in a bit more of NOLA on our last day there
    Hitting Billy's and/or Best Stop on the drive home

  5. What would you do if you were UTG there?

    I would just call. You aren’t folding out anything that has a draw to beat you if you raise (maaayyybe 2p but we obv would much rather 2p call than fold). Might as well get more value from hands we beat.

    I would raise the flop with AT if I’m last to act, get some more money in. But raising from UTGs spot makes it too easy for people who haven’t acted yet to fold.
  6. Mandatory Tier
    Crispy Crazy Corn
    Deep Fried I-35
    Pork Shots
    Lucky Duck Dumplin
    Brisket Brittle
    Pumpkin Poke Cake
    Toffee Coffee Crunch Cake

    Certainly would eat the Armadillo, but seems just "standard." Interested for sure in the Gumbo Balls, but wary of State Fair Seafood Coopin Inflation price there. The Deep Fried Halloween is one of those things like a funnel cake sundae, where sharing with 3 other people is glorious, but eating it alone will be a day-stopper. So that will be pending my group's tastes and decisions.

    Can not WAIT.

     

     

  7. 1 hour ago, wildcat09 said:

    For anyone needing to push back against some bullshit they've heard from people:

    Regarding the argument that the government has covered up the effectiveness of any therapeutics because finding a therapeutic would require them to terminate the EUA for the vaccines, as of December 2, 2020, the FDA had granted EUAs for eight different therapeutics. And yet the vaccines still were granted EUAs. 

    This took me literally five seconds to find. The people who push bullshit like this are either brazen liars or absolute fucking idiots. Like, "they should be under constant adult supervision for their own safety" stupid. 

    It's so amazing how the I DID MY RESEARCH crowd cannot be bothered to do anything other than read the title of an article or YouTube.

    My dipshit anti-vax brother has yelled at me 3 diff times that "Bill Gates is the largest owner of farmland in America".  My response, obv, was "sure, no shit, the richest person in the world has invested in a lot of appreciable assets OH WOWWWW!!!"  He says, nah, it's because he is freezing food production in America to starve the anti-vaxxed after all the vaxxed die from vax. I ask him "what % of farmland do you think Bill Gates owns?"  He ballparks 15%.  The actual answer is 242k acres of 900 million US farmland acres.  1/3700. Took me 2 minutes to find this info. I DID MY RESEARCH.

    On a better note, my 14 year old overcame her traumatic phobia of needles to join #TeamPfizer today and I couldn't be prouder of her. 

  8. 2 minutes ago, Chewbacca said:

    Nope.  Literally the day the mandate dropped, mask wearing fell off a cliff.  Maybe mandates wouldn't work in Texas, but they worked well up here.

    Even here, during the time when HEB was requiring them, it was literally 99.9%, I saw 2 people without in dozens of shopping trips. Now that it's "encouraged", I would say it is 50/50 at best. 

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    Edited by TXSooner518

    7 minutes ago, midtown said:

    The CDC issued its new mask guidelines on the premise that vaccinated persons can spread the covids as easily as the unvaxed based on the same inconclusive research on viral loads in the nose.
     

    Obviously not, per their website. They changed it because with delta, vaxxed spread it more likely than the negligible amount with previous variants. Nothing says "as likely to spread as unvaxxed" on the CDC site, and in fact it says the dead opposite. 

    Also, a big part of the change in guidance (not all of course) is the logistical difficulty in implementing the ACTUAL policy they recommended which is that vaxxed people go without masks and unvaxxed wear them. Unfortunately, even when businesses state that as a policy, lying scum unvaxx take it as an excuse to go maskless and violate the policies of the business they are patronizing. So either people have to be completely monitored, or back to everyone wear masks. 

  10. 42 minutes ago, midtown said:
    50 minutes ago, TXSooner518 said:
    Yeah, they really are.  Data "some vaxxed people have same level of viral load in nose, but not in throat/lungs, but means they may transmit" then gets screeched as "ZOMG VAXXED JUST AS LIKELY TO GET COVID AND SPREAD COVID". They will spin anything other than "no vaccinated person has a single Covid virus in their system ever" as PROOF they don't work and PROOF that it is reasonable to not get vaxxed.  Hint: it is absolutely unreasonable to not get vaxxed for the VAST majority of the population.

    The worst part? The CDC agrees with the antivax on this issue.

    Citation? CDC website says "COVID 19-vaccines are effective. They can keep you from getting and spreading the virus that causes COVID-19." And then specifically under Delta, "Fully vaccinated people with breakthrough infections from this variant appear to be infectious for a shorter period."

    So, uh, no.

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    Edited by TXSooner518

    7 minutes ago, Lurch said:

    How the fuck does a 24 break 80?!?!?

    Nice shootin

    Now to run like that at the tables!

    I would estimate that I've only broken NINETY maybe 12-15 times, so it's pretty statistically bonkers.

  12. 21 minutes ago, XYZ said:

    That’s a strawman fallacy.

    Not sure if serious, but he posted that he didn't think a drop from 1% to 0.4% (a 60% drop) "justifies vaccination in [the pre-infected] population." If you are mocking his proposed response, carry on, and I apologize for my obtusity.

  13. Additional fun facts when contemplating how absurd that 77 is, I had three sub-40 nines lifetime before today (now 5 obv), and this was only my 2nd time to break 85! So this is 8 shots ahead of my 3rd best round lifetime. 

  14. Sooner Sandbagger at it again!  Felt like I was closing in on a breakthrough and obliterated my career best by 5 shots. Shot 77 (was at Mustang Creek, fairly easy par 70), went into today with a 24.1 index and 22 course handi (so smoooooth net 55 lol). Index dropped to 22.3 when I entered it. Week after next, I'm playing 6 rounds in 6 days, so presuming I can keep up the form, great chance to peel tons of strokes off the index.

    Just really never fucked up. 8 bogeys, 9 pars, 1 birdie. One score over 5 on the card. Hilariously, I parred or birdied every hole (it's a 9 hole) today other than #2, which is the #18 handicap, and both times I made a one-putt bogey.  The second time was a real round saver, as I obv know where I stand after shooting 39 on front. I cold-topped my drive on 11 maybe 15 yards, pulled my 3w second into trees, tried to hit a 9i over a tree and clipped it and dropped down. So I'm hitting 4 out of rough under a tree about 85 yards out. I punch a 7i that rolls just on the front, then bury a 15 footer for bogey.  Next hole then stuff a 5 iron to 10 feet and make it for bird and back in the saddle.

    Then, after the round, my Amazon Music auto-shuffled to Jason Isbell "If It Takes a Lifetime" which is a damn fun listen when you just went career by 5 shots to finally shoot in the 70s.

    In summary, FUCK YES.

  15. Multiple federal district courts have ruled that way, and the Supremes only declined to vacate the stay based on the CDC's express promise that it wouldn't be extended beyond July 31.

    Also, the order itself doesn't actually address any court action, it simply says "a landlord may not...", so in Texas, since the Texas Supreme Court's 34th Order expired, there hasn't been a way to legally apply it to evictions courts in Texas. The current situation is the court asks the landlord if they are aware of the moratorium and still wish to proceed. If the landlord says yes, the case moves forward, and if the landlord is in violation, they can be sued/prosecuted under the order, which isn't going to happen.

    It's much more theater as opposed to the REAL, ACTUAL solution which is getting money in the hands of landlords and tenants and forgiving the mountain of rent debt for tenants. When the moratorium ends, many people are going to be 18 months in debt. People have been forced to allow another person to use their property for free for a year and a half. I don't understand how people call masks tyranny when that is happening. 

  16. Incredibly ignorant move, especially when the U.S. Supremes have explicitly said this is not legal. Get fucking money to tenants and landlords you motherfucking dullards. Also, JFC the morons on Twitter and the like who are like "oh well landlord shouldn't buy houses if you can't afford the mortgage", sure you dipshit, I'm taking your car and using it, be sure to keep paying the car note. No, I'm not giving you a penny, shouldn't buy a car if you can't afford it. As if no available rental housing is actually a favorable outcome for the working class and the poors. 

    Fucking hate everyone.

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