Everything posted by gurt
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COVID-19 2nd wave - Texas only - Stats and such
The Economist reported exactly this recently: https://www.economist.com/united-states/2021/11/27/ivermectin-may-help-covid-19-patients-but-only-those-with-worms
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COVID-19 2nd wave - Texas only - Stats and such
Damn dude, maybe get off the internet for a while.
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New IH-35 Thread (for Austin)...
Insert hank Scorpio gif
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Better.com layoffs
this CEO seems like he has more than a few screws loose: https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/the-ceo-who-fired-900-employees-on-a-zoom-call-is-out-its-a-tragic-example-of-how-not-to-manage-people.html
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2022 - Idiotic Slapfights Unrelated To 2022 Recruiting
Gone silent might just mean a teenager is tired of getting 20 texts a day from weird grown men...
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Ewers or Bust- Lord have mercy I’m bout to bust
Yeah its a damn shame. What was once so pure and free of corruption...
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2022 Transfer Thread - It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
that's his girlfriend... unless he is realllllllyyy close with his mom
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2022 - Idiotic Slapfights Unrelated To 2022 Recruiting
Question for those involved: How did y'all land on TE for Burnt Ends and OL for HWH? Their general suckitude for the last decade?
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2022 - Idiotic Slapfights Unrelated To 2022 Recruiting
that might be the dumbest Ian Boyd article yet, which is really saying something
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Texas Recruiting Notes 2022 - Idiotic Slapfights Unrelated To 2022 Recruiting
Y'all convinced me too, happy to support the effort
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CBD gummies and other sleep aids
I use CBD for sleep and anxiety and have found it to be very effective. I take the tincture and do a 25mg dropper at bedtime and occasional half droppers during the day if I’m stressed out.
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2021-2022 Astros Offseason Thread
Don’t get me wrong, it’s more important to get better starting pitching. But a good amount of the time we were scoring on station to station hitting, which is hard to maintain. That’s why I hope we go after Story or Semien to replace Correa.
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2021-2022 Astros Offseason Thread
Which we saw in some of the games in the WS, getting on base with a bunch of singles, but not able to score them
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2021-2022 Astros Offseason Thread
Anybody else kinda worried about not having more power in the line up? Brantley and Gurriel are already seeing drops in their power and I don't feel like any of the young (outside of Tucker) outfielders are gonna be more than around league avg slugging. Bregman has been avg to below avg the last couple seasons. It puts all the pressure on Yordan and Tuck to drive in runs, especially if we don't replace Correa with a plus batter.
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Words with Friends 2 Fun
so THIS is where all the horny singles in my area have been hanging out
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Cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, etc.)
welp, shoulda sold SHIB when I had the chance...I guess I'll just hold it and wait to see if it rebounds
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All Encompassing Mortgage and Real Estate Thread
Are building costs coming down at all lately? I know lumber has started to fall back after the craziness of the first part of the year, but has that made its way back to the consumer yet? We are thinking of doing a screened in porch on the house but wondering if we should wait a bit more to let things normalize...or is that a fantasy at this point?
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Hey real estate moguls - what’s going on in the housing market?
How huge are the bedrooms in your house? I live in a 3 bedroom house that is less than a third as big as yours lol
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Hey real estate moguls - what’s going on in the housing market?
my wife and I make a combined 50k less than you and have a 1900 a month payment with zero issues...no kids, which does make our situation simpler, but this feels like you are bordering on an unhealthy level of risk avoidance. There are always things that could come up, and I'm not advocating for living fast and loose like so many Americans, but you are holding you and your family back with this level of conservatism IMO.
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Bijan Robinson is special
I see a lot of Cedric Benson in him. Short legs, low center of gravity with a choppy stride. Very quick to top speed but not a burner. Can juke you or truck you. But Bijan has even more wiggle and is an elite receiver. To me he’s the most talented RB we’ve had since Ricky.
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population decline
It's gonna be really bad for China in the next 20-30 years when all the people who were born prior to the one-child policy start retiring. Especially as their average age of retirement is 54 (they have been talking of raising it for years). Impossible to fund all those people with a much smaller working cohort. Who knew that top down, unilateral policy making might have unintended consequences?
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Building a Custom Home-question about upgrade costs
That's good to know. How does that change for instances where we are selecting from certain models, not truly customizing from the ground up?
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Building a Custom Home-question about upgrade costs
1800-2000
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Building a Custom Home-question about upgrade costs
So my wife and I are considering building a house on her family's land south of Austin. We went to a custom home builder and got some prices for fully built out, but it was with completely basic options. Like stained concrete for the floors, basic It came out to about 300k. My question then is, how much should we expect to pay on upgrades? We aren't needing top of the line everything, but say nicer faux wood floors, upgraded bathrooms and kitchen, etc. It feels like we'd get to a 100k extra in a hurry. Just looking for general ball park costs before making any decisions.
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Texas BBQ
Looks like I didn't see this in time, but I HIGHLY recommend Smokin Oak BBQ in Taylor. Its a trailer at the old Taylor High, which they have turned into a shopping and dining area. I admit that I am biased, since I grew up with the guys who run it, but to me it blows places like Louie Mueller's way out of the water.