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Flew from DEN to IAH on Tuesday night, flew right over the expanding Panhandle fires. Just surreal to see lines of grass fires as far as the eye could see from 36k feet... in February. I'll have to see if my wife (window seat) got photos. Also caused a shitload of turbulence.

I agree. We have an aggressive Russian dictator waging war in Ukraine and one hardline faction of one political party blocking aid. One of the two presidential candidates has stared Russia would have carte blanche to proceed to attack NATO states without US involvement. The "invasion" rhetoric is stupid and racially charged but the fact does remain we have a dysfunctional and inhumane immigration system. The same hardline faction of the same party that is fighting for Russian interests scuttled the strictest immigration legislation in I have no idea how long. A governor of the same political party, again, is playing fake army and killing people in Eagle Pass while doing nothing about the larger problem. We have war irrupting in the Middle East and the presumptive Republican nominee tried to start a war in the same region by assassinating a top Iranian general, and has spouted all sorts of inflammatory and irresponsible rhetoric. I am glad you agree and will be voting Democratic this fall, which is the only logical choice for national security.

It's interesting but comparing Biden's donor numbers from 2019 to now isn't apples to apples and to portray it in a way that even remotely implies it is is shitty reporting. Broad Democratic cash advantage, though, that's real and meaningful.

LBJ was a racist that personally passed the most consequential civil rights legislation for racial minorities in this country's modern history, surpassed only by Reconstruction Amendments (which he actually put teeth into). Woodrow Wilson was a racist that purged the Federal Government of black people and honestly would have reinstated slavery if he could.

The odds that it was one of the two, though... pretty close to 100%.

Bruh that's not even a down payment on tose court damages.

SD license plates all over Mexico too thanks to expats remotely registering vehicles.

I mean checks and balances are a two way street. Wisconsin is one of the 2-3 truly 50/50 states in the county. Getting maps that more orless reflect that out of a legislature that isn't just GOP controlled, but GOP dominated is a win. I don't know what else you expect?

Is Rosetta that hot of a table? We got stuck in CDMX overnight midweek last May and walked over to Rosetta for dinner. Got a spot on the patio immediately. Wasn't a weekend but you might have luck walking up. Was really good, btw.

The fuck ever happened to 140 characters?

Cosigned. I was in both band in football through 9th grade and stuck with football after that because I am ugly.

I'm pretty sure "guaranteed compensation" in this context of that screen cap is simply base salary and there is a specific buyout procedure outlined elsewhere in the contract.

Don't know if it's fully guaranteed, it wasn't before (to my knowledge) so I doubt they would do that in addition to such a massive salary increase. This is kind of concern troll-y. Texas's financial situation is also, uh, a little better than aggy's. And this is such a weird thing for Texas fans to be proud of. It's an overpay. It is what it is. It's not coming out of the actual school's pocket so I don't care that much but it's a weird thing to spike the football over.

Hot take: MT will slowly trend blue and then forcefully flip and never look back ala Colorado.

This is honestly fantastic evidence of the power of brands in CFB. Kansas + OSU >> Florida + Kentucky on the field the past couple years. OSU especially, the typical Gundy OSU team over the past 15 years would be the third or fourth best team on Texas's schedule this coming season while Kentucky and Florida will be also rans. Over that time OSU would be the tougher opponent over Florida more often than not. But because Florida is a helmet school and Kentucky is SECSECSEC we get takes like these. Not wrong of course - ultimately it's a purely subjective matter - just interesting to see play out after years of us bashing the SEC as overrated on this site.

NE corridor Amtrak is fine. Nice even relative to flying or sitting in traffic on 95. The Pacific coast route is supposedly stunning and a very nice way to cover some ground on a trip out that way. That's about it lol.

Yep. The gameday buzz around a highly anticipated OOC matchup after a long offseason and the opportunity for novel road trips are two of the best parts of the college football fan experience. This is supposed to be fun. Playing Michigan is more fun than playing Colorado State.

Cornyn won by 9.5 in 2020, he'll underperform that. 4-6 sounds right to me, but never in doubt. Kind of like Trump in 2020.

I've been surprised at the characterization of the House as a tossup this year. To me, Democrats are strong favorites. Not quite a strong as the GOP in the Senate, but it's definitely a Democratic lean for me. Seems maybe the GOP is realizing that.

Really need the ninth SEC game and for them to rebalance the A&M and Arkansas home/away years. The home schedule this year is Georgia and the six dwarves.

Are you suggesting George Santos would not make the decision that results in the most attention possible on himself?

Yeah I'm not knocking your methodology just pointing out that Texas is kind of culturally weird in that regard. Case in point: College Station. Brazos County would be the 10th largest county in GA, 12th largest in NC (and just a few thousand from #8, weird cluster right at 235k), fifth largest county in AZ, 10th largest in MI, etc etc. In Texas, much like aggy football's national stature, it is fringe top 25. No one is referring to aggyland as an urban center, but you add it together with Bell, Brazoria, Lubbock, Nueces, and McLennan Counties and you've gone and cancelled out Democrats' largest raw vote margin in Dallas County. This state won't flip until the suburbs electoral preferences reflect their demographics as opposed to their lilly white southern evangelical roots.

Urban/rural is a weird split to pin down in Texas. There are very conservative rural areas that are part of the major MSAs due to being located in a given county. There are places like Bell County, Lubbock County, Nueces County, etc. that no one would really call culturally urban but have populations north of 250k-300k and would be top five or ten counties in most swing states.

OER is the most ridiculously stupid "statistic" I have ever seen and the fact that it is included in any official surveys or inflation calculations is mind bogglingly dumb. It's literally a made up number. CPI rent data isn't great either - it's likely propping up headline inflation now just as it likely sold it short at the peak - but at least it is rooted in real numbers. I don't know what Zillow's observed rent index is but keep in mind they are so good at projecting rent growth and valuations that they lost their ass as an iBuyer.