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That sounds totally reasonable and about what I expect the election night totals to be
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Shut up the expansion will guarantee my job for decades.
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Looks like Moser will probably lose. https://twitter.com/BobbyBigWheel/status/999079337033916416
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Badger of Basra posted:Looks like Moser will probably lose. They were both out in force all week, Moser more so in my area, but we also have far more Lizzie signs than Moser signs. I do think Lizzie is more likely to swing on-the-fence Culberson voters than Moser will spur participation from those who wouldn't otherwise vote.
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Badger of Basra posted:Looks like Moser will probably lose. Curse the DCCC Ladies and gentleman, Republicans: https://mobile.twitter.com/cd_hooks/status/999137747133706242 zoux fucked around with this message at 05:11 on May 23, 2018 |
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zoux posted:Curse the DCCC  https://twitter.com/NaomiMartin/status/999144749062938624
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Also Bunni Pounds lost in her GOP primary. I don't know anything about Bunni Pounds except my brother informed me someone named Bunni Pounds was running in a nearby election. His girlfriend: "That's my porn star name!" Edit: I was thinking Bond girl. BrutalistMcDonalds fucked around with this message at 06:00 on May 23, 2018 |
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:Also Bunni Pounds lost in her GOP primary. I don't know anything about Bunni Pounds except my brother informed me someone named Bunni Pounds was running in a nearby election. Pence backed her heavily so it's good she lost. Also who's pumped for Lupe Valdez  Nothing in this Hell State is ever going to get better https://twitter.com/eramshaw/status/999281577485053952 Also, lol: https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/999260531251871744 https://twitter.com/eramshaw/status/999288056673918976 Who to believe, MQS or actual electoral result 
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Lote posted:Austin is terrible. In 10 years, Austin will officially become a parking lot from which people post on twitter about how “progressive” and “weird” Austin is and how much they love live music even though they haven’t gone to a concert, ever. I hate Austin more and more each time I go there; it is a certifiable shithole. The people are loving awful and the traffic is even worse. The only upsides are reasonably good restaurants, but so many now have terrible gimmicks (no reservations unless you use their app) that there's no tangible benefit to living there.
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IT BURNS posted:I hate Austin more and more each time I go there; it is a certifiable shithole. The people are loving awful and the traffic is even worse. The only upsides are reasonably good restaurants, but so many now have terrible gimmicks (no reservations unless you use their app) that there's no tangible benefit to living there. Gotta keep Austin Weird guys.
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I mean, "primary runoff turnout" is not a thing to fret about I think. I ended up not voting for various reasons, but I'll vote in the general for sure. Also, Cornyn with the re-post of the nuclear take of "the Santa Fe shooter is the real victim here" leading to the best twitter ratio I've seen in a while: https://twitter.com/JohnCornyn/status/998870161049481218 No Safe Word fucked around with this message at 18:28 on May 23, 2018 |
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https://twitter.com/NYTLiz/status/999333512812613632 Eheeheheh
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My stupid congressman https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/politics/Rep-Michael-Burgess-signs-letter-nominating-President-Trump-for-Nobel-Prize-481677371.html?amp=y
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Man, I didn't really think Obama deserved his, but the abject jealousy they feel over it is still hilarious.
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How does someone who owns 15 properties not have $12,000 in the bank to pay their taxes?
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 This is really a chicken and egg situation; if Texas Democrats would just get their poo poo together, they might be able to attract some actual talent, but they can't get their poo poo together without some real talent in the first place. Keeshhound fucked around with this message at 21:17 on May 24, 2018 |
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https://twitter.com/AnnieLowrey/status/999252076893913088 Christ this guy gets hosed. Interesting law though that I didn't know about : quote:States are trying to fight back. It isn’t easy.
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Can she do worse than Wendy, or is the Democratic base going to be energized enough for the other races that she gets past 40% by default?
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General Dog posted:Can she do worse than Wendy, or is the Democratic base going to be energized enough for the other races that she gets past 40% by default? I think there's enough energy to have her do better than Wendy still gonna lose bad though
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Keeshhound posted:
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Proud Christian Mom posted:The best chance is the Castro twins and neither of them wants to risk taking a loss. They're gonna stay mint-in-box forever apparently
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RisqueBarber posted:https://twitter.com/AnnieLowrey/status/999252076893913088 I bumped into that a few times, almost every ER visit I ever had, usually had some random rear end in a top hat who was out of network as a subcontractor or something. Fortunately, my ER coverage included out of network costs. However, I had to do extra legwork to make sure the out of network rando had my proper billing info and I had to keep following up to make sure he got paid. Whatever it was a company plan or an self-paid ACA plan, every plan covered out of network costs for ER so thats sorta news to me that something wouldn't be covered. The big exception for that is the ambulance costs, that's usually the big surprise bill for ER visits.
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The thing is, it's intentionally obfuscatory. They are, on purpose, soaking people who are in a situation where they are at their most desperate and least competency to judge. It's like if you had to buy a used car within 10 minutes or some guy shoots you in the head and it's loving deeply immoral. Here's how bad it is: Texas Republicans are trying to do something about it
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Zil posted:
not wrong though.  welcome to the party fam
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Big K of Justice posted:The big exception for that is the ambulance costs, that's usually the big surprise bill for ER visits. I really enjoy being on scene with a patient who has absolutely nothing wrong with them but a bystander or family member is shouting "YOU SHOULD GO GET CHECKED OUT THE MONEY ISN'T IMPORTANT". Uhhhhhhh yes, it is because we live in a horrendously broken system.
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slouch posted:not wrong though. Oh yeah, as an atheist, abortionist pervert, I agree with the sign. Just not a great sign to have up on the side of the highway. Seems more like something you would see in a forward from grandma or a facebook post.
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1stGear posted:I really enjoy being on scene with a patient who has absolutely nothing wrong with them but a bystander or family member is shouting "YOU SHOULD GO GET CHECKED OUT THE MONEY ISN'T IMPORTANT". It gets even more fun when you need an airlift. One of my EMT buddies directed me to the Air Care/REACH card. It's around $65-100 a year but the upshot is it gives you medivac coverage in 37 odd states with a few hundred airbase locations. There's a chance you'll get an out of network air carrier company but anything helps. It works as secondary insurance, generally, it goes through your primary first, and Reach picks up the rest of the tab for you. My EMT buddies swear by it, [a bunch of them off road/bike/camp alot]. Better to deal with a club membership vs getting a 20-30k air transport bill. Also covers redirections and hospital transfers [eg. you get a road ambulance to a hospital, the ER there realizes they can't handle your case and you get sent to another trauma center]. Some insurance companies only covers the first ER trip towards your total out of pocket expenses, and if you get transferred/redirected that 2nd trip is 100% on you with most health plans [I found out about that little horror story], but the Reach thing covers that. Texas seems to have pretty good coverage with the program, it would be nice to get state governments or the feds to agree on a standardized fee schedule for EMT/Ambulance services so it can be covered with more normal plans.
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Badger of Basra posted:https://twitter.com/timmytyper/status/998746318767050753 I know nothing about that area so maybe they do have a point, but that article seems like your typical Texas "wasting are tax dollars  " fare but with a side of "highways are racist" and "Why bother building it if people are just going to drive on -my- highway.It's very Texas. (also please fix the highway by my house I'm tired of taking a literal hour to drive 15 miles) 1stGear posted:I really enjoy being on scene with a patient who has absolutely nothing wrong with them but a bystander or family member is shouting "YOU SHOULD GO GET CHECKED OUT THE MONEY ISN'T IMPORTANT". I get this from my family every time I gently caress myself up and it's like, the hell is the doctor going to do about my hosed up ribs or a busted shoulder? Nothing is out of place so all I'm going to get is the privilege of footing a grand for a doctor to give me an x-ray, say "gg idiot you wrecked yourself, now take it easy for a few months", and a prescription for tylenol. Marxalot fucked around with this message at 06:16 on May 27, 2018 |
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When my mom was visiting for the first time and I took her to Austin we passed this sign (or something similar to it. It was right by the little Aggie rest stop with the mini bonfire on 21 near Bastrop) and up until that point she thought all the super republican super rural hype was overblown. Gotta love that Yankee naiveté
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Marxalot posted:I know nothing about that area so maybe they do have a point, but that article seems like your typical Texas "wasting are tax dollars Nah, you've got this read wrong. The new progressive vision for cities is basically to try to bring the city back together as much as possible to allow for multi-modal transportation instead of assuming everyone has a car. It's not about saying "gently caress your cars, use something else", but about ensuring that the policy isn't "Buy a car or gently caress off". There's a good story from the CityMAP report referenced in that story about traffic engineers studying along I-35 towards a solution for connecting the continually growing Design District on the west side of I-35 to Victory Park on the east side of the freeway. They're standing at a rail station along the east side of the highway, when all of a sudden they notice a guy on the west side of the freeway who crosses the frontage road and then walks into a drainage tunnel. He comes out the drainage tunnel on the east side of the highway, grabs a board that's been left there, and uses it to climb a wall that separates the drainage tunnel from the light rail stop. At first they figured he was homeless, but when he gets close enough they realize he's wearing slacks and a polo, and he pulls an iPad out of his bag while he's waiting for the train. They start asking him questions, and it turns out that he does this for his commute to work just every work day. The light rail station is situated where it is because of the stadium nearby, which has happened to place it roughly exactly halfway between the streets that run under the highway, which are basically the only places where traffic can cross it. For anyone not in a car, the highway is serving as a giant wall. And as they're asking this guy if this is a regular thing, they see another person crawling over the same wall using the same board. The new plan, at least hopefully, is to recognize that while highways are necessary to enable some heavy level of automobile transit, you have to recognize and try to ameliorate the negative side-effects of them. When they're not necessary for traffic purposes, they shouldn't be there, and if they are necessary, you at least need to try to minimize their impact on the neighboring areas (burying them below grade, providing mechanisms for pedestrians and bikers that aren't just "there's a tiny sidewalk along the bridges built for cars", etc). The TxDOT study throws all those principles out the window and basically says "It's been a while since we expanded these roads, so it's time to pave more highways and further disconnect these neighborhoods". And that's because TxDOT doesn't give a poo poo about what's good for the cities, it just cares about doling out construction money.
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