Everything posted by Larry T. Spider
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Leon County: Escaped Inmate Kills Family
So we are rooting for the same people that monumentally fucked up the uvalde school shooting and messed this deal up on multiple levels to……checks notes……go rogue and torture people before killing them? Ill settle for them doing their job.
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Ancient Art Takes Beating for a Bitch
I’m gonna need to see pics of the girl before making any determinations.
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2022 Rain Thread
Got a solid 10 minutes in round rock.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Would you rather hire the best people that live within commuting range of your office or hire the best people in the world?
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COVID-19 2nd wave - Texas only - Stats and such
Depends. Where is she on the crazy/hot scale?
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Blastfurnace 2022
Time to bump the ercot thread?
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Blastfurnace 2022
Seeing 105 in Austin on Monday and Tuesday. Furk.
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[Discussion] Mass Shooting at Uvalde Elementary School
I can confirm. Emailed years ago and immediately started getting fundraising emails. Fuck that guy.
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[News/Updates] Mass Shooting at Robb Elementary Uvalde - 5/24/2022
All the training now is get in and engage immediately. Half the time the guy will just off himself when engaged. I’ll wait for confirmation, but that’s bad if they were outside waiting for a tactical team before going in.
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[Discussion] Mass Shooting at Uvalde Elementary School
Considering the number of deaths, “it could have been worse” should be a massive call to action. What does that even mean? 40 dead kids?
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[Discussion] Mass Shooting at Uvalde Elementary School
All true. Some of it was pandemic related but we couldn’t even get subs this year. Principal, AP, counselor, office staff, etc ready to jump in and teach at any moment. One adult per class is doing good. Two is a pipe dream. Also, most districts spend about 87% of their budget on staff. To put two people in each room, it wouldn’t double the budget, but it would be a significant increase. Texas taxpayers would never go for it.
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[News/Updates] Mass Shooting at Robb Elementary Uvalde - 5/24/2022
Year 1 is 47k in uvalde. Year 10 is 50k….
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[Discussion] Mass Shooting at Uvalde Elementary School
There is constant pressure from parents for more access to the building for assemblies, events, or just to hang out. Then shit like this happens and they want a super max prison. But then the memory fades and the pressure to open the doors starts up again. There is plenty of funding blame to go around, but part of the problem is that communities are divided on this. It comes up on almost every school tour I do. And no, there really isn’t a safe way to do any event that’s going to have more that 30 parents in attendance. Checking people in one at a time would take several hours.
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2022 Rain Thread
It’s going to rain when the one line comes across but be nothing close to what people were talking about a few days ago. Most of us knew better. Yards won’t need watering for a few days but we will be right back in the shit. Lakes still low/dropping as well. The only good thing would be the ground getting some water in it meaning that future rain would run off….but it’s not in the forecast.
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ABIA Expansion Thread
They should just put a live feed of the line. Let the zoo run it.
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2022 Rain Thread
Just started raining in western round rock.
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Beer 2022: Electric Boogaloo
Seems like the RIPs to breweries has ticked up this year. Weird to survive the pandemic then fold. PPP loans running out?
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Markets still falling like whoa
This is where I am too. Two of the four need to get fixed to see things calm down. Monetary policy and China getting back to work seem most likely to me. Who knows what will go on with Russia and oil. But, slowing consumer demand could lower oil prices even if supply stays somewhat tight.
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Markets still falling like whoa
I think the only thing keeping the market from going off a cliff is the pent-up consumer demand after two years of Covid (see airlines). But, that is going to be put to the test between now and July 4th as gas will go over $5 in parts of the country that aren’t used to seeing that. You get the double whammy of higher costs for businesses at the exact same time the average consumer becomes much more price conscious. I do think it gets somewhat sorted out in the next 6 months though. China isn’t going to stay offline forever, gas prices drift back down in the fall, and people will have made their peace with the higher interest rate environment. Should be a rough summer though.
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Texas Rho fuckheads finally charged from 2020 sexual assault incident
Other than cops gonna cop, why did this take so long?
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Blastfurnace 2022
What did lake Travis get down to in 2011?
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ERCOT Urging For Energy Conservation
The rest of the week is going to be hot in all the major Texas metro areas. Any ercot warnings going out or are we supposed to survive this round of heat?
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ERCOT Urging For Energy Conservation
I used to think we had a mess of a grid. Now I think we have a mess of a grid and people trying to make it snow inside.
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ERCOT Urging For Energy Conservation
77 is perfect for me
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Markets still falling like whoa
I’m thinking about selling puts on some stable value companies that I wouldn’t mind owning anyway. I’m good if I buy at what I consider a value. I’m good if they just expire and I make a few bucks in this market.