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gyroprotagonist

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  1. it was obvious that Trump wanted as many deterrents in place as possible to make crossing the border as traumatic and painful as possible. From separating families to if you believe the inside sources who recounted the bizarre stuff like shooting migrants in the legs, electrifying the fence, even a moat with gators and snakes (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/01/us/politics/trump-border-wars.html_) - look, if you are a brutal dictator who wants to close off your border, breaking hearts and minds of those trying with this stuff probably seems like a good plan. So now that we don't have a brutal dictator in place, the surge of people trying to get in is expected. How to manage this is the billion $ question.
  2. on a 30hr round trip my wife drove ~10 of those hours and we did not get lost, wreck or go slow. end thread?
  3. just got 1st moderna today at a CVS in lubbock. They are the only city that has consistently shown availability on the cvs website. we were there visiting in-laws and scheduled the wife and i. still openings if anyone is in or around the hub city. Scheduled 2nd and got appt in Mesquite (we live in Dallas). lol at the lubbock CVS not even enforcing mask wearing, though. guess there was a reason hotwheels lifted the mask ban there.
  4. user name checks out for false accusations
  5. this was (mostly) hyperbole as when a POC commits a murder/heinous crime these things instantly come up. "No dad in the picture", "mom DNGAF and probably used drugs"
  6. i think the victims and their families 'had a bad day'. the shooter should be labeled a savage murdering POS with no empathy for human life. and his parents should be shamed for raising a monster.
  7. my HS education was turrrible. i entered UT in the EE program and was so far behind it was sad. my small town had 1 HS and it's plan was to cater to LCD and actually make smart kids teach the dumb ones. kids from Houston and Dallas were coming in with Calc I and II / Physics I and II credit from their HS. basically starting with a 4.0 on 40 hours or so. My HS did not even offer those classes. I had a shitty study regimen because HS was so easy, so had to adjust fast. our kids went to both public and private before they were diagnosed with dyslexia/dysgraphia. then we moved to a private school that specialized in that and could tailor their classes to best remediate the issues. We are lucky to be able to afford that shit and try to give a healthy amount to scholarship programs so other kids might get the same chance. the tuition is insane though, no humblebrag
  8. wife and i booked ours in lubbock for this weekend. CVS has consistently shown available doses every week there and a lot of the panhandle. we are upper 40s, but not really in 1b. we happen to be there seeing the in-laws (who got vaxxed) and said fuck it. if there are available doses we will partake. looks like Moderna. 2nd dose scheduled back in DFW area seems like DFW is getting screwed by abbott per this tweet by Jenkins. I read this as the red bars are what an area should have gotten based on total doses available matched with the population of the area and the blue was the expected doses based on allocation after divvying up the pie. You can see that lubbock got a shitload of doses early on and got their fair share every week after that.
  9. he was running a little flat
  10. first time on a board. my 10yo seems to be a natural. I finally got to try out my new board (170cm ultra wide) and it helps a ton keeping my size 15s off the snow on toe turns keystone has been good so far. snowing on and off a little bit most of the time but nothing heavy. no ice. should get a lot of sun tomorrow. going to drive to Breck on Thur as that was the only place to get her a boarding lesson in the area.
  11. I cannot tell you how lucky you are the storm got here late. No doubt. I was pessimistic and prepared to hole up at Co Springs if it was bad. Saw a weather report that said it would start in Denver around noon but not accumulate till later in afternoon. and then figured we could get there sooner than that. Appreciate all the knowledge 🙏
  12. Made it in to keystone around 1:30. Just rain on 25 up through Denver for the most part. 70 was nice and clean too with no ice or snow on the road. Drove into Lubbock last night then took off around 4am this morning. Kept checking the road cams and saw reports that the snow was a little delayed so we pressed on.
  13. Is it snowing in Denver yet?
  14. should be negged for bringing up Seager. That guy should pursue 10-day contracts with teams that are currently playing the Rangers. 1st ballot HOF
  15. well for the jello, what can i say? it was hot and i was hungry
  16. what's the latest on when it's supposed to dump?
  17. appointments are refreshed. there are even some in bigger cities like Dallas open. I'm giving it 1 more week for 1B-ers to get their shit together before i try to book one next week. i'm upper 40s, so close enough
  18. i get the concept of the thread, but there are going to knife fights over the most basic food items. maybe jello? fries? cheese quesadilla?
  19. it a great story and along with Black House has a ton of ties to the Tower universe.
  20. work for large multi-nat company that had in their policy you could do 1 remote work day per week. Then we went solely from home for the last year and we are told to stay remote until Q2 end. I have a 45 min each way commute, but the kids' school is about a 30 minute trip and on the way, so it's not a big deal. Once we open back up, i will definitely take advantage of the remote day. I would not be surprised if they extend that to 2-3 days per week. We have all proved we are productive mf'ers working from home. But some face time is sorely needed in my group. we had 2 people transfer out and hired 2 new people. I think they feel like they are not fully part of the team yet since we have all been remote.
  21. are we sure this is not some inception level humble brag about 52-80's 15,500sqft mansion where it actually might take too long to heat back up? you would leave the heater going in the tiny giraffe's room, right?
  22. They will play the eyes at the end of every sporting event, just like they have for a long fucking time. No one will be required to sing it or participate if they feel like it offends them. Donors need to stop fucking with players that don't want to participate. Stop fucking moving your hand/hookem sign the entire song. it only happens at the end.
  23. ok, thanks. would coming up 9 from even further south (head west from Pueblo on 50 and come up through Hartsel/Fairplay) even be an option? or would those roads be worse to traverse in a storm?
  24. i don't really know what to say about that other than poor kids. the need for that guy to drag her dead body out for the sole purpose of dunking on her in front of the kids is ...
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