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gyroprotagonist

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  1. yeah, that's the big takeaway here. States could have a mask mandate and it the citizens could be defying it left and right and still show an increase. opposite is true with a no-mandate state where maybe the major cities are still mostly following masking and the cases could continue down as more and more folks are vaxxed.
  2. it is tax season. any complaints coming from H&R Block?
  3. well, when i said interesting I really meant a combo of SKYNET + Maximum Overdrive where people are getting killed from BT enabled dildos. At least Stoops will be the first one to go.
  4. it's been bad this week for sure
  5. did you look at CVS? They have no city residency as far as I know. I live in Dallas and got jabbed in Lubbock and set up 2nd shot back in the DFW area.
  6. yeah, way back in the day i used to work for AMD and contract fabs for the high end chips was sorta in it's infancy as TSMC was starting to ramp up big time. But the CPU for computers were taking ~14+ weeks for a lot to go through the fab. Now you had lots starting every week, but any big process improvement took 4 months to bear fruit. So switching over a line from say an auto industry chip to a phone IC takes a long time from start to finish. Also, you are going to see devices at the low end get squeezed in favor of higher priced ones. When the same LCD screen or camera can be put on a $99 phone or $499 phone, it's going to go to the higher priced phone where more margin is made. CPUs also will trend to the higher end. AMD used to 'downbin' a CPUs speed to fill higher demand for lower priced computers, but i doubt that's happening now. It will be interesting to see what happens when all this new capacity comes online in 2-3 years. Hell i saw a commercial where a freaking plug in air freshener was touting a PCB controlled deployment mechanism.
  7. so Gibson sitting at 135.0 and the team at 10 we looking good for a record breaking season. early season stats are fun
  8. should have told her that it's every 5 kids that people get a free drink. sooo close.
  9. is this not the exact same thing as taking a knee? Abbott is bailing on chance to sing the nat anthem and throw out the first pitch because of a difference of opinion.
  10. what's the worst team ERA in baseball history? just curious, no reason.
  11. We would have the whole planet scouted already if they had managed to load this bad boy on the rocket. Plus Marvin Martian would be running scared
  12. the shortage is real and it's spectacular. I read the biggest cause was that, on top of the disruptions that the initial C19 caused in all the mfg sectors, automakers dropped demand and canceled orders in anticipation of much lower demand. When that lowered demand did not fully materialize, they scrambled to re-place those orders and then some. Plus the boom that WFH has caused to all things with screens. Then add on the multiple stimulus packages in the last year and you get a lot of people wanting stuff that depend on these chips. i work on the planning side in the cell phone industry and it's notgreatBob.gif as far as supply on basic components goes.
  13. The plot thickens. Apparently I applied to the commonwealth of Virginia for unemployment benefits but the letter sent to me, sadly, denied my eligibility as I am gainfully employed in Dallas during the time period in question. I guess I should not have given my ssn to that nice Russian fellow in exchange for a free copy of Russia Today. Seemed legit.
  14. he was totally lip-syncing to Danke Schoen
  15. hmmm. quick google shows that the ones sent by the Treasury were Visa Debit. Mine is a Mastercard debit. may just try it at the pump next time i fill up and hope it does not ask for a PIN
  16. i think you are on to something. maybe something like a homeless snowpiercer train that never stops? you could probably score some Biden-bucks with infrastructure stimulus as well.
  17. i'm totally surly 1% so i put on my white gloves before opening as to not have to touch a pre-paid CC, but WTF is this thing? I'm guessing someone used my info to sign up, but what's the point? it's pre paid, so how would it even benefit a fraudster? To get any info online, the website says I need to enter SSN and birthdate. website seems legit, but still don't want to enter that into in there. Seems like on the phone i can access the account details by just entering the last 4 of SSN and bday. would this even show up on a credit report? I have access to transunion for free and nothing shows up as a new account there. I don't think it's a rebate for anything for anything. I had just missed out on a $500 gift card on my tiny giraffe purchase, so that can't be it.
  18. it's from say anything he had a much better ride in Better of Dead back to your regularly scheduled recruiting talk
  19. I have said this on various threads, but the CVS website has shown availability for shots in Lubbock every single day since it launched while 90-95% of the other cities always show fully booked. There is a reason the gov announced his lifting of the mask mandate in the hub city.
  20. seems like it. here's a blurb from a googled article. there are a lot out there trying to describe the situation. Just a weird deal if the boy's bio dad was in Miami the whole time.
  21. he used to date nestor's (older; yes I felt i needed to type that out) sister and then I think the boy kept living with him even after they broke up. i don't think there was ever any formal adoption.
  22. that's what gets me. my brain has chocolate receptors and holds back the serotonin until it's demands are met. I am not proud of eating an entire chocolate pie on Sunday, but it was damn good.
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