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utee94

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  1. Some will no doubt consider China as an alternative. But China's longstanding anti-competitive practices are already harsher than anything the USA has ever done, including these new tariffs. Talking about turning to China is easy, doing it in practice is much more difficult, and more painful. Almost time to BUY!!!
  2. If anyone thinks China is going to be less heavy-handed than the US, they're kidding themselves. Rock and a hard place for those countries.
  3. So the choices are Virginia Tech on steroids, or Virginia Tech on meth...
  4. Among the scholarly community that studies economics, there's not a consensus on whether or not tariffs are effective. Their effects in the highly complex global macroeconomy are hard to measure and conclusions are difficult to derive. I'm not an economist but through my professional career I know a decent amount about international business and a great amount about global supply chains. In general I'm opposed to tariffs, I prefer to see policies that stress positive internal economic incentives to pursue the desired changes to national business policy, rather than negative external policy like tariffs. But I don't believe these tariffs are actually being put in place in the usual way, in an attempt to discourage general anti-competitive behavior on the part of other global players. Trump usually tells us exactly what he's doing, whether we believe him or not, and he's already saying that these tariffs are all about bargaining power. This is his usual MO and it's not at all surprising. So in this case, analysis of whether or not tariffs in general are effective, is irrelevant. Rather, the speculation and debate should be about whether or not this particular bargaining maneuver will be effective. There's already been plenty of discussion along those lines, on this thread.
  5. Nice. Add a chrome roll bar with some daylighters on top, and then we're talking.
  6. *were
  7. Many companies in my area started them over a month ago. Disti channel is already seeing it, direct routes to market will see it starting today. Average of 10% increase across the board, higher in cases where value is higher. There's been a flurry of customer buy-ahead activity, that should come to an end now.
  8. The "talking to him for 3 days" translates to "Beard is tolerating the ags' advances just enough to secure a large pay raise and contract extension from his current employer."
  9. Well that, plus, Texas absolutely did not have to fire him. Texas could have kept him, and then when the charges were dropped, acted like everything was okay. Which would have been the wrong thing to do. Just like the ags attempting to hire him was the wrong thing to do.
  10. Per the announcement a little while ago:
  11. Nah my aggie wife and her direct family are awesome. The extended family, on the other hand, not so much. But I rarely have to interact with them, so it's okay.
  12. One of my aggie inlaws' aggie cousins told me straight to my face that UT was a sleazy disgusting win-at-all-cost hellpit and there's no way we would fire a horrible person like Beard, when it would hurt our chances of winning. Until of course we did a couple of days later, but I don't recall him having anything to say about that. I haven't talked to him in months but I sure would be curious to see what he thinks about Beard these days.
  13. It all started in 1876. Texas didn't join the SEC until 2024.
  14. Used to be standard at so many Tex-Mex places. Memories...
  15. I've tended to go in the hot summer months and often had the place almost entirely to myself.
  16. Cool, appreciate your insider insights.
  17. Is Meanwhile underrated or is it widely liked? I like it quite a bit, but don't hear many folks outside of this thread talking about it. And Distant Relatives is legit BBQ, really tasty. That's an awesome place to spend a spring afternoon.
  18. One of the drawbacks of the craft beer explosion in the US, is that it's become harder and harder to find import beers here, especially on draught. I used to go to the Dog and Duck or the Gingerman or Maggie Mae's Olde Side and drink the hell out of some Fuller's ESB, or Whitbread, or Young's Oatmeal Stout, or Sam Smith's Taddy Porter. It's not easy to find a lot of that kind of stuff on tap anymore. These days I walk into a bar or tap room that's got 30 taps on the wall, and 20 of them are some version of American IPAs, 4 are various hard ciders, a couple are macro-swill from BudMillerCoors, and there might be one or two that I actually find interesting. It's a travismahockery.
  19. We used to do a Burnet Road dive crawl for a friend of mine every year on his birthday. Buddy's Place, Ginny's Lil Longhorn, Poodle Dog, and Lala's. Originally he rented a bus for all of us, then later we realized we could just take the #3 the whole way. You've never seen folks as confused as the normal bus riders watching thirty or forty late 20s/early 30s pile onto the #3 to ride for 3/4 of a mile. We also tended to overwhelm the regulars at Buddy's Place but after a couple of years they started expecting us. Plus, some of us went there pretty regularly ourselves, anyway.
  20. Oh yeah Waterloo too. Or Cooter's depending on how old your kids were. Or, Monterrey House, way back in the day.
  21. My parents still live in the same house I grew up in, a couple blocks away, over by the skating rink. My dad would gladly share a pregame youth soccer tailgating beer with you, but alas their house isn't close enough to have been a parking destination for you. Pluckers or Trudy's (RIP) wouldn't have been a terrible walk, though. I feel like my usual parking spot at Town & Country was probably about the same distance.
  22. Doss Owls are a weird breed. Makes me even more glad, that I'm a Pillow freaking Panther.
  23. Finally got a little at my place. 0.4" is better than a sharp stick in the eye.
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