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  1. 37 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Counter-counter-point:  They only needed 5 of 9 unelected officials to Dobbs.

    They're gonna need 269 plus elected officials to do this.

    Inb4 the supreme court gives us another Calvinball ruling that finds that social security is actually unconstitutional 

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  2. 12 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    If we see the cops going crazy, going to be some extremely nasty phone calls from BMDs telling Abbott and Paxton to fix things.  Assuming it hasn't changed, in the past agricultural, construction, and oil & gas were the biggest donors to Texas governors and other statewide (and local) Republicans, and Abbott and the legislature/Danny Goeb are entering FAFO territory if he drives away a bunch of folks.

    Oh good, as long as we can rely on our benevolent oligarchs to fight for the wage earning class then there's nothing to worry about!

  3. 3 hours ago, Guadaloopy said:

    It is.  Mine is updating as I post this. 

    I question that Waymo is "light years" ahead of Tesla. 

    Waymo vehicles only operate in limited geographic areas that are meticulously mapped with LIDAR so that the vehicles can compare the LIDAR map to what its LIDAR sees.  That's why Waymo vehicles have seen limited release only in urban and suburban areas.  They cannot operate outside of those limited areas.  LIDAR maps not only need to be exceptionally thorough, they need to be constantly updated with roadway changes and construction impacts.

    Tesla's is a more general approach that aims to develop an AI Driver that can operate on any roads and use visual input and GPS to make it's driving decisions like human drivers currently do.  It is a more adaptable approach than the LIDAR-mapped approach.   Telsa's FSD beta vehicles are operating all over the country.

    I don't know which approach will win out.  If we ever want to move to a fully autonomous transportation system on all of our roads, Tesla's approach seems to have the most potential.  If we want to limit fully autonomous vehicles to higher population urban areas only, then Waymo surely has the jump there.    

     

    You are grossly mischaracterizing Waymo's sensor fusion approach. Their long term strategy is to gain real world data across a ton of instruments to build an agent based driving model that is generalizable. And they use more than just LIDAR, since it turns out that fog and rain significantly degrade their visibility. 

    You need more than just one set of inputs from the outside world to effectively drive. Tesla's approach will never work in anything less than a sterile environment 

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  4. 4 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

    Hasn't TurkeyChew bragged before about being pretty well off? Now he's acting like he's a middle income millennial. I think the chatbot is broken again.

    is beardIP chrispy? It feels like he's using totally different rhetorical styles and arguments - I thought beard was a different poster

  5. 1 minute ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    But in the flip side, the young are protected against falling market in that the actual amount lost is low and they don’t need their retirement income for a long time. From that perspective, they should view it as an opportunity.

    Except for whenever markets fall, it's used as an excuse for layoffs which make it hard to justify saving up to reach that critical mass. Boomers and olds had the benefit of market and employment norms that provided significantly more stability and opportunity to take risks than current 20-40yo bracket. 

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  6. 16 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Aside from the fact that it is Kyle Rittenhouse, the idea that a Texas representative candidate tout an endorsement from a 20-year-old non-Texan with no relevant experience or knowledge is really something.

    It's almost like republicans have completely dropped any pretense of their platform being pure culture war, or something. It's a good thing that republicans haven't totally coopted our justice system to rubber-stamp all of their shit

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  7. 22 hours ago, Thetexashammer said:

    Islam does not accept secular government. And the Koran is not Islamophobic. It is clear, for example, that the penalty for homosexuality is death. women are treated like slaves in Islam. Muslims are taught to hate jews and christians. These ideas are not compatible with democracy.

    You do know that we are currently, in the name of the Lord your God, forcing women to carry dead fetuses to sepsis and cause the mother permanent damage right? And those same christofascists are marching through the streets with torches chanting how the "Jews will not replace" them? And the chosen leader of the modern evangelical movement, Donald J Trump, is just deadass stealing lines from Hitler?

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  8. 49 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

    How about don’t really give af guy?  As someone who has lived >5 years in a town of ~700 residents, and grew 17 years in a town of less than 3000, I would bet having actually lived it, I have a pretty good idea on small town restaurant and grocery options.   Don’t know how you pit lived experiences against what you’ve recently learned on tiktok, but you know, I feel pretty qualified to speak to it.   
     

    LOL at an IT guy throwing shade at my industry while while parroting talking points from TikTok and the communist caller, then thinking anyone would give a fuck what you just learned. Gouging!! Hey y’all, don’t know if you’ve heard, we’ve got investors buying real estate!!1!!   Fucking stock buy backs and private equity and executive compensation, oh my. Just scares you to death.  

    Your fixation on something I've never done - directly source and cite my information from social media - really undercuts your point. Please, tell me what talking point I'm parroting, if they're so obvious. Or is this just you doing another "people are saying" bit?

    I can appreciate some actual factual shit talking, but you're simply lying through your teeth and acting like you're righteous. Incredibly aggy. 

  9. 29 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

    Well, as you noted that wasn’t the conversation we were having. Sorry I couldn’t speak to the conversation we weren’t having but you wish we were?

    The lack of grocery stores and places to buy fresh produce is absolutely part of the problem and what drives people to buy fast food as a primary option. Your act of playing okeydoke stupid oilfield man is old

  10. 27 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

    Correct.  If they want to support their local restaurant they will. If they don’t/can’t, we’ll, it goes away. There’s typically one nicer diner but still. Part of the game to give up Michelin stars if you want to live in the country I suppose. 

    Grocery stores and food deserts aren't really the same convo as restaurants and service oriented food. But enjoy lying to yourself

  11. 1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

    So those are 7% - 10.5% increase per year, much of that time during the biggest housing price boom in Texas history.  I'm not particularly shocked.

    I think you are ignoring that the price increases have been driven by PE investment moving the housing market to be more expensive, at a rate far faster then inflation

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  12. 8 minutes ago, StassneyHorn said:

     

    Actually you did shame it. How many times do I have to post you can find a place in Midtown, Montrose, the Heights, DT or EaDo for under 1300 and a 2 BR for under 2000 before it lands with you.

    EaDo is pretty much the only cheap place left in Houston. There's not much affordable left in Midtown or Montrose - the shit box efficiency my wife rented in her 1L year has gone from $800/mo back in 2017 to $1450/mo. For a 750sqft efficiency that still has dog shit coin-op washing machines. Hell, the 2/1 we were renting in midtown before we bought our house has gone from $1650/mo to nearly $2500/mo. 

    You should really look at rent prices 

  13. 3 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

    Username yada yada but I get stuck in some small towns for work and unfortunately sometimes McD is their “best option”, which is some sad, sad shit. 

    The Almighty Free Market has spoken. "Fuck them poors" is the most succinct translation, but the longer version is that its not profitable to sell decent food in those areas, so they don't. 

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  14. 4 hours ago, Neonmoon said:

    Isn’t Waymo way ahead of him anyway?

     

    3 hours ago, Captain Ron said:

    Well they had self driving cars on the road. Someone was here chatting a few months back about how Elmo put more self driving cars than anyone. That’s pretty weird when the number is 0. Waymo and Cruise had many on the road. 

    I've seen a Waymo data collection rig on I-45 a couple times driving between Dallas and Houston - they're using a shitload more than just video. From what I could see, they had pods on each corner with video and radar, and spinners for LIDAR on top

  15. 7 hours ago, YGIFS said:

    Blessed with natural gas, WTI oil, and lots and lots of sunshine.  And we just help but lose hundreds and sometimes of thousands of people every single year to the elements because we manage our energy system like A&M manages their coaching staffs.  

    Crazy when I know you're describing Texas, but it's also pretty on the nose for russia 

  16. 2 minutes ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

    I think there are also spots where we are being gouged.

    I think it's rent and housing costs underpinning the inflation. Since PE firms have been buying a plurality of the single family housing market, it's been driving down inventory while spiking costs for individual buyers, and the investment purchases are turned around and rented at a profitable rate. 

    People need more money to pay to have a roof and bed, so they demand more pay, which gives firms the reason to push prices up at accelerated rates. The housing market has always been the invisible hand controlling the greater economy, and individuals are getting muscled out by the investor class

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  17. It's now a legal fact that our public utilities don't have an obligation to provide electricity during a future storm. Consumers have zero recourse for when power generating firms decide to negligently ignore maintenance and seasonal preparation. 

    https://www.kut.org/energy-environment/2023-12-15/texas-power-plants-have-no-responsibility-to-provide-electricity-in-emergencies-judges-rule

    This week, Chief Justice Terry Adams issued the unanimous opinion of that panel that “Texas does not currently recognize a legal duty owed by wholesale power generators to retail customers to provide continuous electricity to the electric grid, and ultimately to the retail customers.”

    The opinion states that big power generators “are now statutorily precluded by the legislature from having any direct relationship with retail customers of electricity.”

    ...

    Now, this recent opinion leaves the question of who, if anyone, may be taken to court over deaths and losses incurred in the blackout.

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