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It just never stops being frustrating seeing the people who fought for global warming and college debt try to say that they want to provide a future for their children. Of course, a couple years of slump isn't going to have much effect on the economy 20 years from now, and it's an entirely transparently meaningless bit of rhetoric, but still. i say swears online posted:here's a game: where is dan crenshaw in 30 years? i say swears online posted:what if oil but too much Big Shell.
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ReindeerF posted:Ah the old fractional signs. Most appropriately paired with one of these, which I have not seen in person since buying gas at a rural station in 1993: we had one at the theatre i worked at in the early 2000's, kept it around for when the internet went down so we could keep taking credit cards.
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zoux posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/1252400233662693377 i am pro life and take no pleasure in reporting this but my sources say the death penalty is being considered for all texans over 65
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Incidentally, the anti-quarantine monsters have been trotting out the "my body my choice" line, by which they mean the choice of employers to force their income-unstable employees back into the danger zone or face being fired, as opposed to when they contract the disease and finally go to the emergency room after spreading it for two weeks and get fired for missing work while in a hospital bed. But hey, maybe it'll momentarily boost stock prices before the disease spikes again and forces them back down again. It's entirely consistent with most companies making decisions that are terrible for the long term in the name of short term stock price gains, and I keep getting distracted from the sheer amorality of killing thousands by the fact that it won't even do what they want to happen. Ends v. Means is irrelevant when the ends can't be achieved by the means.
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In case you're not in rural Texas and in touch with the hoi polloi:
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The A&M System is completely panicking right now, how much of their available budget comes from oil?
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JosefStalinator posted:The A&M System is completely panicking right now, how much of their available budget comes from oil? where are you seeing that they are panicking anyway, there's this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_University_Fund_(Texas) two-thirds of the PUF goes to the UT system and one third goes to a&m some more info about how the crisis is affecting Texas universities: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/article/Record-low-oil-prices-could-cost-Texas-15175534.php that article is from three weeks ago though, im sure things are worse now Slow News Day fucked around with this message at 08:08 on Apr 21, 2020 |
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enraged_camel posted:where are you seeing that they are panicking I work at one and the admins are admitting they're panicking, anticipating state budget cuts, oil revenue losses, and also afraid enrollment will decrease. Not sure why they're worried about the latter but that's what their emails say.
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yes, they have every reason to panic. i started seeing articles like this: https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/a-twenty-year-professor-on-starting-college-this-fall-dont-df3ea4024f70
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I really wish I had done a gap year, too bad if you're 17 right now you can't find a job to save up cash and didn't get trumpbux
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https://mobile.twitter.com/JimWright4Texas/status/1252375842140782594 would love to hear jim describe competitive practices
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i say swears online posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/JimWright4Texas/status/1252375842140782594 I mean we could just look into other energy sources where two other countries don't have massive leverage on us, but I'm weird and like doing things the easy way
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Panty Saluter posted:I mean we could just look into other energy sources where two other countries don't have massive leverage on us, but I'm weird and like doing things the easy way But jobs?
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Panty Saluter posted:I mean we could just look into other energy sources where two other countries don't have massive leverage on us, but I'm weird and like doing things the easy way That's not even it though. America is the #1 oil producing country on the planet. That's still below OPEC if you look at them as a single unit where they produce 44% of the world's oil, but it's still a lot. Saudi Arabia is #2, Russia is #3. That translates to American gas prices being pretty low relative to a lot of the rest of the world. It's easy to forget because we're often still riding the cultural memory of the OPEC embargo in the 70s. But what it also means is that the US has a very large oil industry so that while we're not entirely a petrostate, there's a lot of (wealthy) Americans whose fortunes are tied to oil. I think there's something where a lot of crude oil produced by other countries still gets refined by US companies. So this isn't energy dependence on the rest of the world, this is economic dependence on oil remaining a valuable commodity.
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I thought the whole thing was that SA and Russia were choking out US oil with this oversupply of cheap oil, since most of ours is shale that's harder to extract. Also, Dan Patrick continues to be the evil toady who is around solely to make Abbot look good: https://twitter.com/Newsweek/status/1252556817772744704
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IT BURNS posted:I got my appraisal today (higher than last year, of course) and the AD added an insert that basically just gave everyone a gigantic gently caress YOU, in red bolded font no less: Contest it anyways. Regardless of COVID, you can still contest if the appraisal incorrectly appraised the market value and/or if the appraised value is unequal compared to other properties. My suggestion is to divide your appraised value by the number of square feet in your home to find the price per square foot. Next, look in your neighborhood for comparable homes (same number of bedrooms and baths) that sold around January 2019 and see what they sold for (Zillow is spotty but has this information). Divide the sale amount by the number of square feet that home has and see what the square foot price compares to your home's appraised value/square foot. Get a couple of properties, find the lowest square foot values, multiply that square foot value by the number of square feet in your home and argue that value should be the appropriate appraised value. Many counties allow you to contest your appraisal online (your property tax paperwork should have a letter in it that talks about information regarding electronic protests). If your county doesn't offer electronic protests, mail your property owner's notice of protest (it should be in the paperwork they sent you) to your local tax assessor's office. MAKE SURE TO READ THE FORM CAREFULLY. If you don't check the right boxes (Incorrect appraised market value and Value is unequal compared to other properties are separate reasons) you can lose before you even start. You'll notice that there is a "temporary disaster damage exemption" box. Don't bother with that for now as Ken Paxton recently put out an AG opinion requiring physical damage for that to apply (so no economic loss due to COVID). You can request a hearing in front of the Appraisal Review Board by person or by telephone and even request they send you a copy of the ARB hearing procedures ahead of time. If your appraised value is reasonable and you can back it up the tax assessor is likely offer to settle on an agreed value below the initial appraised value. If you like their number you can take it. Otherwise, you can take your chances in front of the ARB. GamingHyena fucked around with this message at 18:46 on Apr 21, 2020 |
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https://mobile.twitter.com/JohnCornyn/status/1252550962859909120 The economy isn't “off”. If you look at timelines, most restaurants, for example, saw a massive decrease in business before stay at home orders. People aren’t going to be packing into movie theaters or whatever. It isn't a choice between “economy or shutdown”, there would still be no economy. Abbott has another press conference at 2 today, that's gonna be a big indicator of where we're headed in Texas. This oil poo poo has them on the ledge, they'd rather risk the lives of hundreds of thousands of people, at least, rather than risk having to raise taxes.
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36.2% of the US is obese, so 48.3% of patients being obese is not surprising. I'm sure obesity, along with the other diseases listed, puts you at increased risk of COVID-19 putting you in the hospital. But also a lot of us are obese and/or have one of those diseases, so if he's trying to suggest most of us are fine...a ton of us have underlying health conditions we just ignore.
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Mistaken Frisbee posted:36.2% of the US is obese, so 48.3% of patients being obese is not surprising. I'm sure obesity, along with the other diseases listed, puts you at increased risk of COVID-19 putting you in the hospital. But also a lot of us are obese and/or have one of those diseases, so if he's trying to suggest most of us are fine...a ton of us have underlying health conditions we just ignore. Obesity is second only to age for correlation with more severe Covid symptoms.
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They're also extremely common co-morbities. Old people have heart disease. Old people are overweight. Old people have diabetes. Old people have hypertension. Also love the framing in that article like the death rate in the US is because of our weak character and laziness. https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1252684785237004292 https://twitter.com/scottbraddock/status/1252686620870000641 I hope that's true zoux fucked around with this message at 21:02 on Apr 21, 2020 |
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https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1252591306028785667 lol but also thank god I'm terrified of what a legislature facing a -25% revenue estimate are capable of
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Let's legalize weed.
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Nonsense posted:Let's legalize weed. And gambling.
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1252591306028785667 well they aren't capable of tax increases so you can scratch that off the list o' possibilities.
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The entire government is sold off to a private company much like the tollways. Enjoy paying 25 cents to vote (1.50 if you want express skip the line).
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Viceroy John Mackey
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https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/midland-the-second-richest-city-in-america/quote:That being the case, Midlanders are circumspect about the ranking, at least according to a Reporter-Telegram online poll (left). 38.3 percent of respondents said the city “needs to diversify in preparation of a bust,” while 27% said the city’s wealth was a good thing for the community, but “only for some.” Building more hotel rooms and restaurants and office buildings isn't the most useful kind of "diversification" in a resource-based nowheresville. Perhaps Midland should have looked to its big brother city down Southeast.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1252963583861960704 Business is coming back to Loving County folks
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zoux posted:Business is coming back to Loving County folks Also the virus.
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zoux posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1252963583861960704 this might be relevant https://twitter.com/BriannaChesser/status/1252884652118798336
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Nearly a decade ago, when Dishonored came out, I thought the idea of a ruling class purposefully infecting their people with a terrible disease as a means of killing off the lower classes was ridiculous. Now though, well...
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Imagine the stealth opportunities to come though.
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zoux posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1252963583861960704 He's gonna override municipalities, isn't he?
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Sardonik posted:Nearly a decade ago, when Dishonored came out, I thought the idea of a ruling class purposefully infecting their people with a terrible disease as a means of killing off the lower classes was ridiculous. Not much of a history buff, huh?
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Captain Monkey posted:Not much of a history buff, huh? I suppose I shouldn't be surprised if that actually happened.
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zoux posted:Imagine the stealth opportunities to come though. I’m already sneaking around at night to avoid other people
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I yet slumber https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1253065680137707527 https://twitter.com/RobertTGarrett/status/1253090632660389905 Whoops got a bit out over your skis there greggy, now if it's bad you'll have been unfair and nasty to Mr Trump
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