Is Illy that expensive? Its about the same as store brand where I shop. Maybe $2 more?

I agree with the rest. These people seem like more of a pain than they are worth. Charge them an orgy fee of (cost x 2 or 3) or tell them to do it themselves.

What button mod are you using?

Reel Big Fish’s “Our Live Album is Better Than Your Live Album” is a masterpiece of ska

I posted this a few months back and it is still anecdotal but in the Houston metroplex I have noticed a significant amount of commercial for lease signs and it seems to be increasing with time. That is concerning because commercial real estate is often built on credit (mortgages) then the tenant’s payments go to pay the loans. When occupancy goes down, the ability to pay that loan goes down until its unsustainable and it goes into default.

If you default on you home loan of say $300,000, its your problem and the bank has recourse and gets your asset. When a commercial loan of $5,000,000 defaults and no one was renting it already, the bank gets the asset but it’s not “worth” anything other than the building/land and it is harder for the bank to recoup that value.

When that happens en-masse, that’s a problem for the bank… Which makes it a problem for the economy, and it becomes a problem for all of us. This has been going on for a while and no one is doing anything about it. The cliff looks to be approaching.

Unrelated but did you know that Libraries oftentimes have cd’s, dvd’s, and even audiobooks available to borrow?

I really like Emby. The media recognition has been better/more accurate than plex in my experience.

How dare you insult the second gen ford lightning like that, it was a shitty truck that had too much power and came with a fisher price quality interior but the yobbos have moved on from it now. It should be a mid 90s dodge ram diesel with extra wide wheels, low profile tires, and it’s tow mirrors out and a plume of diesel smoke billowing out of a poorly attached, trashcan sized, exhaust tip.

Does it drain the tube when you pull it?

Don’t worry, the (actual) children will be back to work there soon. Hyundai/Kias subsidiary companies/suppliers have a history of using child labor in the US.

Since I am getting downvoted for some reason, here is a source. Their Alabama plants got dinged a couple of times. Department of Labor

Well yeah, they have guns and know how to use them.

Dropkick Murphys are killing it right now. Their last 3 albums are all great.

I also really dig Jeff Rosenstock.

Even just “retouched” pictures are really bad, colors that the human eye cannot perceive, angles that look like an mc escher painting, and lighting that would set fire to most synthetic materials. The fake grass copy/paste is pretty bad on its own. Adding the ai stuff should be material misrepresentation/false advertising.

I just don’t understand it either, what are they hoping for? Do they think that someone is going to hit buy it now after seeing the pictures, then not fight them about how it isn’t like the pics?

Our real estate photographer “digitally staged” a few of our prictures at the recommendation of our realtor. When I was looking for our current house, that meant adding digital furniture to show what a room could look like. Instead, this photographer fed the pics into some ai editor that changed a bunch of shit in the pictures in addition to adding furniture. I was livid. It wasn’t even well done, it added extra lights in the middle of mirrors, added fake switches, put in fake door trim, etc…

They are in for a shock if they come to Texas thinking is cheaper. The property taxes and insurance on houses is crazy here and can be counted on to increase at 10% per year. I went back and looked at my homeowners policy from 2016 vs 2025 and I started out paying $1600 per year and just paid $4800 for worse coverage this year. No claims or anything, I don’t live near the coast, not in a flood zone, not in a forest, no history of damaging hail, roof was replaced in 2016.

Your example of working to unconsciousness is overly reductive, as in this case it would actually accomplish nothing. Circumventing laws that are outright harmful by utilizing a tool at your disposal is a reasonable expectation.

By not doing so, there are years if not decades long repercussions for significant chunks of the population of Texas. Best case scenario now, the status quo is maintained in the federal house races. More of this godawful legislation is going to get rammed through the Texas Legislature now that they are back and since they are under protective custody now if something comes up they want to kill in process they can’t leave again.

It’s not their fault that the Governor is pushing these laws, its also not their fault that their Republican colleagues are voting for it. It is their fault for not following through until they had some other means of stopping the bleeding here. Voting no when there is no meaningful result produced doesn’t get you a gold star.

When someone leaves you no other option to prevent this kind of thing from moving forward, you do whatever you can to stop it. Virtue signaling for a few weeks then going back to business as usual while the steamroller keeps rolling over people as you tell it to stop isn’t enough anymore.

Yeah, The Governor is the one to blame for this being on the agenda. Yes, the Republican reps voting in favor of this are to blame for supporting it, and so are the people who voted them in to start with when given the choice between a Republican and a Democrat. But the Democrats who just came back from the quorum break are also to blame because them not being present prevented these fucks from passing this stuff and god knows what else to come.

Its not the time to roll over and accept that fascism is coming while saying “well I didn’t vote for it” fuck that defeatist attitue.

I am pissed at a lot of this, the situation sucks, “voting harder” isn’t the solution here. Yeah, you as the electorate still need to vote in every election and Democratic Reps need to vote no or ammend everything they can, but if there are legal methods to stop this shit (like the quorum break) I expect my representatives to do that because its their fucking job. Saying, “well we tried” is what got us here in the first place and it won’t get us out of where we are.

Just a reminder, Texas democratic reps had been on a quorum break preventing legislation from moving forward and they came back. This was preventable just like the redistricting. Yes, there is nuance to why they came back, but there was also the option not to come back because they knew more of this shit was coming down the pipeline.

Had great luck so far with some seagate 12tb ones. I bought them pre-tariff bullshit for like $99/drive and they have been happily spinning away since. I think I got them from serverparts.

I make one off fixtures to position parts for fiberglass layups or woodworking and its amazing to be able to get really precise fitups without needing a cnc machine or expensive metal for single use stuff.

The only issue I had was on bazzite 41, the automated media creator refused to make functional install media. I installed silverbpue first, then rebased with no issues. Its been good for almost a year now and runs everything I have tried except pubg.