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ReindeerF posted:Total non sequitur, but since I am legally stuck here I have been forced to get a cell phone plan and I am getting Amber Alerts. Fine, whatever, great idea, I believe the children are the future, etc. Thing is, I click OK and then I get the same alert again after a few minutes. Then I click OK again and I get it again after a few minutes. Sometimes this goes on for a while. Is there a button for "OKAY, I FUCKIN' GOT IT Y'ALL, drat" that I'm not seeing? I don't have an answer for you but everyone in my house is now awake as of 10 minutes ago for an amber alert 300 miles away. I feel like maybe ~90% of the amber alerts i get are for counties that are at least 3 hours from me, which makes me wonder is this because they're issued on a state-wide basis and our state is yuuuge, and is there a concentration of amber alerts originating in certain counties?
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Hawkline posted:I don't have an answer for you but everyone in my house is now awake as of 10 minutes ago for an amber alert 300 miles away. I feel like maybe ~90% of the amber alerts i get are for counties that are at least 3 hours from me, which makes me wonder is this because they're issued on a state-wide basis and our state is yuuuge, and is there a concentration of amber alerts originating in certain counties?
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May 1, 2020 13:01
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A&M saying football is going to happen like there usurping the NCAA is very funny to me. The fact that silver taps is probably gonna be a weekly thing next semester is less funny
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ReindeerF posted:Total non sequitur, but since I am legally stuck here I have been forced to get a cell phone plan and I am getting Amber Alerts. Fine, whatever, great idea, I believe the children are the future, etc. Thing is, I click OK and then I get the same alert again after a few minutes. Then I click OK again and I get it again after a few minutes. Sometimes this goes on for a while. Is there a button for "OKAY, I FUCKIN' GOT IT Y'ALL, drat" that I'm not seeing? On android > Open messenger app, click the very obvious and intuitive ". . ." button for settings, click settings, turn off "roaming emergency alerts". For whatever reason that kills it for me despite sounding like something completely different. Enjoy no longer looking out for a dark colored corolla from the other side of the state. e: ReindeerF posted:Yeah, I wondered the same thing. Also, "Black 20## Chevy Silverado #######" or whatever is just, you know. Might as well say "Fat Male With Football Sticker On Vehicle." Hispanic male 5'3-6', 21-55yrs old, driving a truck, please call crimestoppers if you see this man
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Marxalot posted:On android > Open messenger app, click the very obvious and intuitive ". . ." button for settings, click settings, turn off "roaming emergency alerts". For whatever reason that kills it for me despite sounding like something completely different.
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May 1, 2020 13:05
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Speak of the devil. Why, yes, I would like Severe Threats, but I'm just not that into Extreme Threats.
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May 1, 2020 13:15
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The only thing you can't disable is the presidential text system. Somehow no one has managed to tell Trump about it so thankfully it hasn't been used his entire administration.
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May 1, 2020 13:53
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Dameius posted:The only thing you can't disable is the presidential text system. Somehow no one has managed to tell Trump about it so thankfully it hasn't been used his entire administration.
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May 1, 2020 14:14
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I guess severe threats are hide in the closet, and extreme threats are drive in a convoy of a million people to Dallas or San Antonio. God, I think I walked faster than we drove during those evacuations. Guess it made getting to the cooler in the bed of the truck easier, but jesus.
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Killer-of-Lawyers posted:I guess severe threats are hide in the closet, and extreme threats are drive in a convoy of a million people to Dallas or San Antonio. https://www.weather.gov/wrn/wea quote:The Extreme alerts from the National Weather Service include warnings for tsunamis, tornadoes, extreme winds, hurricanes and typhoons. The Severe alerts from National Weather Service include warnings for storm surge, flash floods, dust storms, and snow squalls.
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May 1, 2020 15:14
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Dameius posted:The only thing you can't disable is the presidential text system. Somehow no one has managed to tell Trump about it so thankfully it hasn't been used his entire administration. They did, but he can’t use it to directly communicate. It’s only for emergency use like the EAS. A couple years ago, the government was doing a national test where they’d send an alert to every cell phone in the US. for about a month liberals were screaming and making thinkpieces about how “Donald Trump will use this system to spread his hateful rhetoric!” and there were also many, many lawsuits filed about it too. the hateful message was “This is a test”
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https://mobile.twitter.com/TexasTribune/status/1256270073460858886 Interesting that it's not the steepest decline in even recent history though Also 1100 new cases today, we've been over 1000 three times so far, once on April 10 and then the past two days.
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May 1, 2020 18:22
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Yeah, that's way less bad than it could have been. Thailand's exports fell by nearly 12%, while tourism fell by about 100% in an economy where that's ~20% of GDP. If oil hadn't gone through the floor, which provides a shitload of tax revenue in the logistics process, Texas would be doing pretty okay all things considered (though given that a lot of that tax revenue comes from refining and downstream processing, it'll stay up better than production). In other news, Houston being Houston, y'all: https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/strip-club-reopens-at-midnight-owner-claims-its-a-restaurant quote:Police shut down a strip club in Houston that tried to reopen at 12 a.m. on Friday.
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May 1, 2020 18:25
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zoux posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/TexasTribune/status/1256270073460858886 April's sales tax revenue consists of taxes collected by businesses in the month of March. The next time they report monthly sales tax revenue (consisting of taxes collected by businesses during April) will be a whole lot uglier.
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We should trust businessmen to know when it's safe to operate because it is in their best interest to preserve the health of their custo- https://twitter.com/tplohetski/status/1256291841462489089
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ReindeerF posted:Rural Texas is way more interesting than it gets credit for - and not always in a good way, heh. Not that these things are at all confined to rural Texas, but they stand out a lot more in the sparsity of the view out here. The manquinitas down here in the RGV have usually been money laundering ops for the cartels across the border, they'll pay off small town JPs to look the other way same with police chiefs, until they rack up enough attention from the state or federal level that they'll get busted up. Once that happens they move on to the next county to set up shop in another desolate town, and just keep doing that. What's interesting is for down here it almost always was an operation under the cartel's thumb, THESE days you're actually seeing more and more Asian run ones especially when you're getting out past the Valley more Northwest in the empty space between here and Laredo. It's also not just old folks but the people working the fracking fields will go there too and blow their cash, so up until recently you started seeing them sprout up in boom towns. poo poo, it had a hand in bankrupting the entire town of Crystal City, Texas not too long ago.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/AmandaRuizFOX7/status/1256307295056584704 APD seems to go a lot easier on white dudes with guns vs some folks without rent checks
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ReindeerF posted:Texas is done opent: I'm still thinking about whether it's worth risking going out to eat tonight. It seems very iffy since it's Friday and the first day anyone can eat out in 2 months. I think it may be like eating at plague central anywhere you go tonight.
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May 1, 2020 23:04
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May 1, 2020 23:09
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Finally got around to giving blood today. Things are going to go very badly for the people of this state soon and there's nothing I can do. Sales tax is a regressive tax, and the state government should rely more on getting money from the people who have it instead.
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radical meme posted:I'm still thinking about whether it's worth risking going out to eat tonight. It seems very iffy since it's Friday and the first day anyone can eat out in 2 months. I think it may be like eating at plague central anywhere you go tonight. Don't eat out. If you have to get food from somewhere, get it at a drive though.
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Alkydere posted:Don't eat out. If you have to get food from somewhere, get it at a drive though. or order for take out. dont dine at a restaurant. do try to support local restaurants. dont go to fast food establishments.
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Yeah carry out is my line on acceptable risk, although I strongly prefer curbside walk up options to needing to walk inside, especially with dining areas opening up.
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SlothfulCobra posted:Finally got around to giving blood today. Things are going to go very badly for the people of this state soon and there's nothing I can do. I sold plasma through biolife last summer to build up a small emergency fund. Finally looked at my account with them in order to use it because the world is ending and it's nearly all gone because of monthly fees I didnt know existed As euphemistically as possible, I would like their management to be in dire need of their product sometime in the near future
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radical meme posted:I'm still thinking about whether it's worth risking going out to eat tonight. It seems very iffy since it's Friday and the first day anyone can eat out in 2 months. I think it may be like eating at plague central anywhere you go tonight. As I'm driving down to a friend of mine's house on the bay, I can see places are getting pretty packed, especially down here in syncretic retired libertarian coastal redneck alcoholic golf cart land (San Leon) Photos to follow if anything funny is spotted. Not planning on hanging out in anywhere like that, heh.
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Hawkline posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/AmandaRuizFOX7/status/1256307295056584704 a friend led this protest. he and a few others took over every lane of 35and crept southward at 5mph. the cops towed the cars when they exited to cesar chavez to end it
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i say swears online posted:I sold plasma through biolife last summer to build up a small emergency fund. Finally looked at my account with them in order to use it because the world is ending and it's nearly all gone because of monthly fees I didnt know existed Yeah, that's another reason to tax wealthy individuals and organizations more. They cheat all the time. I do think there's something neat about the way the state uses the department of unclaimed property to snag money that nobody's using and promise to give it back later if anyone comes looking as a revenue stream though. It's worth a look.
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I predict Texas will have to shut down again within 4 weeks.
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i say swears online posted:reindeer is our thread's jim swift This jarred loose memories that I didn't even realize that I had.
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smoobles posted:I predict Texas will have to shut down again within 4 weeks. I give it until 4th of July.
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The response from here on out should probably be like China and any other huge country that's further along, which is to say regional. If there's a spike in Harris County, but not in, I dunno, Kenedy County, where no one lives except the sheriff who gave me a since-unpaid speeding ticket 20 years ago, then absent circumstances specific to that area, there's probably no real reason to shutter Kenedy County. The main issue in most populated areas will be lack of testing to keep tabs on contact tracing and so on, but it's a big country and this is a big state. The whole big place doesn't necessarily need a one-size-fits-all solution anymore than a massive country like China does post-first wave - and if it does, one can be implemented.
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Post ITT if your idiot elderly Boomer parents went out to a restaurant today (ihop, of all loving places. Goddammit!)
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Senator Sprinkles posted:Post ITT if your idiot elderly Boomer parents went out to a restaurant today I straight up gave my parents a death stare about that earlier today, and said you better loving not. Then my mom scolded me for cussing.
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Give me Rooty Tooty Fresh and Fruity or give me death!
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I like pancakes. I don't think I'd die for them, but I guess that's just me
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I made some out of things I had in the pantry Edit yesterday it was pancakes, this morning it's toast, home fries, fried eggs and white gravy
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