Everything posted by GringoSalado
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Game Atmosphere
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The Big 5 & all the rest
It's not insidious,it's reality. Some stranger in, say, Manhattan, gives zero fucks about you. This is less true as pop density goes down, I was stranded just outside Floydada, TX once but only for about ten minutes as multiple people pulled over to offer help. It's human nature.
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Game Atmosphere
Right? Alum side, obv
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Game Atmosphere
I dunno man, I'd apologize for the GD word. We don't even like typing it out here, opting for Gotdammit. Aside, twice I've been asked to take off my cowboy hat. Obliged once when the request was polite, said fuck you the time it was not, esp. since that was two rows back. Bitch called the usher who declined to do anything. What say the shag on stowing my cowboy hat?
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Small engine help
Does it have one of those vacuum operated fuel pumps? Just spitballing but maybe a failure of that pump and the various interconnected crankcase ventilation circuits, and, well, keeping wildlife, um... an amphibious rodent, for... um, ya know domestic... within the city... that ain't legal either
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The Big 5 & all the rest
Good point, and not to beat a dead horse, but some of these older gaming sites were put in years ago when resistance was much, much higher. So that is, IMO, indicative of a mindset that allows change. Mind you I'm not talking about E Texas, I've never really been there. In rural NM we don't have any sort of Bible Thumping resistance to those sorts of things. We have meth instead.
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The Big 5 & all the rest
hyperbole. If there is no gambling anywhere, and Shithole TX puts in a casino, it's a boomtown. Every subsequent casino that opens anywhere subtracts from that. So even if you never get to "every state has plenty of casinos" as you approach that, you approach zero benefit.
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The Big 5 & all the rest
Yes and the end game is we all have casinos, and we are all right back where we started. There is no inherent economic benefit to gaming. edit: as a kid we used to run quarter horses a bit (as a side thing to our rodeo business). Ruidoso Downs was a big deal, fairly swanky (I'm talking early 1980's), lots of money. They opened the Mescalero casino and that took to to 11 so to speak. Great food, entertainment, and West Texas money poored into the town. I was up there recently. It has (more or less) regressed back to a shithole. The casino is okay, the resort and golf course a litle ratty, and the track is failing.
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The Big 5 & all the rest
In some ways gambling is a zero sum attraction IMO. Unless you attract out of area money, you are just cannibalizing your entertainment dollars.
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The Big 5 & all the rest
Yeah the gambling thing. SE OK is a shithole, they have (Choctaw) gambling. Tularosa is a shithole, they have gambling (horse racing and Mescalero casinos). edit: lost of ugly as shit windmills all over west texas. A huge solar install near Tularosa, also a very depressing eyesore.
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Woman licks inside of Blue Bell ice cream tub, returns it to store freezer
yeah I had never heard of that. Interesting that this more recent thing spawned so many copy cats.
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The Big 5 & all the rest
Good points, I think your last sentence sort of says it all. I'm from New Mexico, and in my former life operated a few ranches in the state, so I lived near (but not in) some smaller towns (Tularosa, T or C, Santa Rosa). Gorgeous scenery, but when you lower your eyes you see toothless meth heads. I would literally check your teeth before I hired you. The Chicken/Egg thing, all the folks who don't like meth moved to Albuquerque and got good jobs. Traveling in those rural circles I've also spent time in places like Big Spring, San Angelo, and Milano. All those little Texas towns are 1,000% better off than the best of the shitty NM towns (like say, Silver City).
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UT to give full scholarships to in-state students from families making less than $65K
Agreed. OTOH
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Woman licks inside of Blue Bell ice cream tub, returns it to store freezer
Can't remember where I heard this but somebody pointed out that this started w/ Ariana Grande licking a donut? I had not heard of that.
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Sam Ehlinger
- UT to give full scholarships to in-state students from families making less than $65K
- UT to give full scholarships to in-state students from families making less than $65K
Lol but nothing is free. Let's keep doubling tuition every 5 years and see how the PUF takes the length.- UT to give full scholarships to in-state students from families making less than $65K
Cheap enough for a $65k houshold? Maybe the answer is it should be cheap enough that median income can service student loan debt. For sure, if I were King, I'd at least limit future increases to cpi. Shit is borked.- UT to give full scholarships to in-state students from families making less than $65K
If tuition had tracked the CPI since I attended UT it would now be about $1,500 a semester. Get off my lawn.- UT to give full scholarships to in-state students from families making less than $65K
Wow. There sure is some evidence that it is, including the rising default rate. I recall that in the late 90's, back when books were more expensive than tuition, ROI on a Texas MBA was around 0.- UT to give full scholarships to in-state students from families making less than $65K
I guess my "I like this but" post is if tuition growth continues apace this is unsustainable. It seems obvious to me that 1) college is way, way too expensive currently 2) too many kids go to college- Woman licks inside of Blue Bell ice cream tub, returns it to store freezer
Except Listeria?- Woman licks inside of Blue Bell ice cream tub, returns it to store freezer
I stand corrected.- Woman licks inside of Blue Bell ice cream tub, returns it to store freezer
Nursing home buys influenza ice cream and feeds it to elderly. edit: but I agree, I don't see this as a felony, esp. since the ice cream never left the store.- Woman licks inside of Blue Bell ice cream tub, returns it to store freezer
To be fair, afaik, blue bell wasn't intentionally putting listeria in their ice cream. They're just incompetent. You don't jail aggy for being who they are. - UT to give full scholarships to in-state students from families making less than $65K
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