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TexasEd

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  1. Optimism is evaporating except for Fox News audience that doesn’t look at their accounts since they are not reporting anything on how bad the policies are working. go to their website and no news about the economy or markets. I heard that they took the ticker off the tv channel. covering Pope’s death gives them temporary cover. I have the same feeling as February 2020. The market is going to get even worse.
  2. Did a lot of work Saturday. Went and took a video after
  3. Wakeland High School is in Frisco. Wakefield must be in Friso.
  4. No
  5. So I bumped my head on this and cut my head. Fuel is being delivered but I have a stuck float in the secondary and flooding at times. That’s the next project
  6. Built and Installing the AN fuel line now. Wish me luck
  7. So I wrote my friend RFK Jr and told him I’d written the perfect conspiracy post and he said I had not written the perfect conspiracy post because it didn’t mention vaccines, the deep state, flat earth, pedophiles or pizza parlors.
  8. I saw 500M total Trump claiming 2B per day https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/16/us-customs-tariffs-revenue-generated-since-april-5.html
  9. I saw a stat lately that the consecutive intraday swings like we’re seeing only happen in the big market events like 2020, 2008 and 1987.
  10. You live in Texas and you’re casting stones at Florida? /jk maybe not
  11. Will they get an F on their Economics final? will there be any jobs for them when they graduate? who cares? Now do Russia.
  12. Bonus FAFO: A lot of the people affected are retirees. They have burned through their retirement saving at an accelerated pace and will be left to outlive their savings. Just when they rely even more on Social Security and Medicare it is getting ready to go *poof*.
  13. No one said affordable. The post I responded to said the housing market is going down. They are different things. It's making the property values drop. So the asset part of the equation goes down in value but all the recurring expenses go up. So technically the property is cheaper to buy but total cost of ownership is up. Some owners are losing enough equity to owe more on their loans than it is worth to sell in the current market. Properties will be abandoned and then it will affect the neighbors too.
  14. Apparently it is in Florida. Insurance rates are skyrocketing and the flood plains are being expanded because of the continued effects of global warming. Older houses are uninsurable and whole neighborhoods are in new floodplain zones. If you pull a permit or rebuild you have to raise the foundation several feet to get insurance and even then it's through the roof. 90% of insurance lawsuits are filed in Florida and insurance companies are going bankrupt. Add on top of that people not making premium payments. https://news.fiu.edu/2022/the-big-reason-florida-insurance-companies-are-failing-isnt-just-hurricane-risk-its-fraud-and-lawsuits https://www.newsweek.com/florida-home-insurers-worst-claim-payment-rates-2057407 Combine that with rising property taxes and people are literally and figuratively underwater in their homes.
  15. Thanks, I did use a bender. they looked good but I went through 4 and was still trying to get it right plus I needed different types of connectors to get inverted flares joined to AN fittings so going all in on AN for now. Might do the hard lines again in the future but need to figure out the rough idle problem.
  16. Been enjoying the weather here. Took my son to get a Blizzard and he said, "I get to drive home, right?" Getting ready to build my first AN Fuel line to replace the rubber line I currently have. I've had symptoms of vapor lock with the current line that gets too much heat from the way it is routed. I tried bending a steel line and it looked nice but just so hard to get it just right. I also got the correct oil pressure sender on. Had to use an extension. Now I have a working oil pressure gauge.
  17. I don't know a lot about Tesla but I thought the whole thing was the deals are done online and you take delivery at a delivery and service center, not a dealership. Just log in to Tesla and try to trade one in.
  18. George HW Bush learned that (Read my Lips) and then Clinton actually reaped the benefit of the new taxes and reined in the deficit. Loose loan policy under W and resulting bailouts plus the COVID welfare turbo fucked us.
  19. Elon wondering if this is what winning looks like
  20. Lol. The trends are clear.
  21. There are a few different ways that could be interpreted: I'm sorry but based on political climate including executive orders and threats to withhold funding to any university that has DEI related programs you're likely to have a hard time getting interviews at research grant universities, you might try the public sector instead. Sorry, Lib. Daddy's home and said you can take your woke ideology and use them to keep you warm at night. Only 1st hand interaction and context would offer insight to which end of the spectrum this was.
  22. A face that could feed a leopard for a week
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