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Slow News Day posted:60, yours? Keeping it at 76, I'm doing my part!
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Sir Tonk posted:https://twitter.com/AsteadWesley/status/1404621648024715267 Ivory Hecker
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Jun 15, 2021 14:20
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Immortal lock that the $250 million coming out of the prison system is from the food budget. Nutraloaf for all!
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Jun 17, 2021 13:07
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Please god I hope they kill the 45 expansion
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Jun 24, 2021 17:22
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Shooting Blanks posted:Serious question: what are the alternatives to the 45 expansion? It's been on the table for so long that I don't know that I've even seen other plans beyond just " the Pierce elevated will suck forever" just not doing it would be great, TxDOT could set the money on fire and it would be more socially and environmentally beneficial than expanding 45
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Jun 24, 2021 19:56
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The Woodlands... is not good. One of my uncles moved out past Conroe because the Woodlands was getting too built up or something like that 
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Jun 27, 2021 21:18
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Houston mayor is limited to two four-year terms, county judges can serve as long as they keep getting re-elected. It would probably be better to not become mayor of Houston. Also a Houston mayor tried running for governor and 2010 and got creamed, so, not exactly a good precedent. And Bill White was an old white former CEO with much of his business experience in the energy sector.
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Jun 28, 2021 16:19
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Yeah a Lina Hidalgo is basically the mayor of Harris County, no idea why she's called a judge but she doesn't do anything with hearing cases. Also somewhat confusingly, she heads the commissioners court, which is also not a thing that hears cases - there are four county commissioners (no idea if this number is standard for all Texas counties or just for Harris), and the five of them vote on stuff for the government to do or not do. Hidalgo has executive power over county government organs but is just a regular voting member of the court, she can't veto anything and if she loses a vote, she is bound to follow the outcome.
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Jun 29, 2021 15:00
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There's definitely nothing in Galveston that needs any government money, send it all to the border!
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Jun 29, 2021 19:35
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That guy looks to be shopping for fixed rate plans, which is smart. Remember, all the people who were facing tens of thousands of dollars had variable rate plans, or were Griddy customers that exposed people to wholesale energy prices, which is basically predatory and should never have been allowed. On a fixed rate plan, it's your retail provider who gets hosed when energy prices spike. Still, I never understood how adding a power retail middleman was supposed to lower prices. Adding another layer just means another person who needs to skim profit off. Bring back Houston Lighting and Power!
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Jun 29, 2021 20:15
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zoux posted:Right, but your average guy doesn't know anything about wholesale v. retail power. I have Austin Energy and I have never once even spared a thought for "Gee who should I buy electricity from". Also a lot of other states are deregulated in this regard, but a) are still connected to the national grid and b) require things like capacity markets and other safeguards so that you don't have 10000 amps running through a straightened out coathanger suppling 50 percent of power to the city of Houston. Yeah for sure, it's idiotic. Asking consumers to get involved in wholesale markets that they almost certainly don't understand (lord knows I don't) is asking for them to get taken advantage of, and even variable rate plans are like that. If you don't have much money, a variable rate plan that promises lower rates on average is going to look better than an more expensive fixed rate plan... until prices spike. You're basically asking people to gamble on energy prices, which, why the gently caress should a normal person need to understand this? Get rid of it! Just run all these utilities as government-owned service providers that don't need to make money. It's not like Houston has deregulated water (although the city council did recently raise water prices  )
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Jun 29, 2021 20:25
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In Houston it's basically impossible to get a speeding ticket it seems. I have a friend who moved to San Antonio and he always complains about traffic enforcement and how many speeding tickets he gets. Go the speed limit dude!
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Jun 30, 2021 01:30
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It's not strictly traditional but andouille and chorizo are both great in chili
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Jul 3, 2021 22:12
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I really love the idea of cooking ground beef in a separate frying pan but not then cooking your vegetables in the rendered beef fat. Who needs that! Chili is a one pot dish man!
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Jul 3, 2021 23:22
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Just realized he wants you to use sugar and brown sugar... what da...
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Jul 4, 2021 00:15
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Houston is alright and i enjoy living here but if anyone is touting proximity to Galveston as a plus... just lol. It's a negative if anything, you might end up knowing someone who actually likes going there my wife really likes Galveston 
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Jul 5, 2021 21:44
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Corpus Christi is pretty nice, or it was the last time I went which was like 8 years ago.
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Jul 6, 2021 01:11
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i say swears online posted:the y'allodomor drat lol
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Jul 7, 2021 14:19
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Hey Biden: poz my neg hole (if you dare)
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Jul 7, 2021 18:09
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if the rule you followed brought you to this bathroom, of what use was the rule?
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Jul 11, 2021 00:24
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The sidewalks in Houston, where they exist, are almost always in lovely condition. There are also a lot of homeless people here, where the hell did your friend hear otherwise?
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Jul 13, 2021 00:17
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*walking into warby parker* ah yes I'll have the pedophile glasses, please
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Jul 15, 2021 22:21
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I went to HEB on Sunday and hardly anyone was wearing a mask except for the employees. I think I was the only non-old person who was wearing a mask. For my household it feels kind of pointless to wear masks anymore, my wife's employer is requiring her to be in-person full time, and she works with the public, and my kid is in daycare. In fact my wife and I are both suffering from some kind of respiratory illness, but we went out for COVID tests this weekend and it's not that thank goodness. I'm still going to be wearing a mask in public for the foreseeable future but it also feels like I'm going to get COVID anyway. We're both fully vaccinated at least.
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Jul 20, 2021 12:26
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very glad the daycare we send our kid to made its employees get the covid vaccine and makes them wear masks all day.
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Jul 31, 2021 14:12
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/brianlopeztx/status/1425100723973406734 Unused capacity is inefficient and expensive, so they've been eliminated. There are other factors as well, but the US had more hospital beds in 1975 than it did in 2019. Best healthcare system in the world!
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Aug 10, 2021 15:59
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Your honor, I should not be punished for drunk driving this time because of all the other times I escaped punishment for drunk driving, furthermore, I do everything else while drunk.
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Aug 11, 2021 20:06
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The idea of getting wasted at PF Chang's with an infant in tow is extremely funny. Old Lady West rocks!
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Aug 22, 2021 03:51
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Oh no they demolished the siloes, what was that land being used for before being turned into a church?quote:After operating as a grain elevator for decades, the site was most recently a boat and RV storage lot. Hmm can't really say we lost very much here.
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Aug 25, 2021 04:58
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i think houston and austin are both fine v v
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Aug 25, 2021 18:42
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I saw Hakeem Olajuwon at a restaurant in the 90s. He was very tall. He looked especially tall to me because I was like 7 or 8.
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Aug 25, 2021 23:37
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George H.W. oval office posted:If you didn't see James Harden at a strip club in Houston did you even really live there? I saw him at a hookah bar once
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Aug 26, 2021 02:45
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lol my boss has a kid in school and both she and her daughter already got Covid. My boss is vaccinated!
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Aug 27, 2021 17:47
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me and the boys getting absolutely blasted on ivermectin
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Aug 28, 2021 21:47
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Spacebump posted:I got a job offer today in Texas and I just don't know if I want to move back with how crazy it seems to be getting. What part of Texas, it's a big state
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Sep 1, 2021 18:33
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dalstrs posted:We're all under the same crazy state government. Yeah but the people you'll encounter in your day to day life in Midland will be different than if you move to a DFW exurb and that will be different than if you move to what passes for an urban core in Houston.
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Sep 1, 2021 18:50
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jokes posted:Except Houston has better food. Houston also has sidewalks (inside the loop)
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Sep 2, 2021 00:33
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litany of gulps posted:I don't know man, I drove through Houston neighborhood Sugar Land once, and it looked like what portions of Dallas aspired to be... Sugar Land is a suburb and its own city, not part of Houston. It is also a bad racist suburb.
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Sep 2, 2021 02:56
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Governor McConaughey slams his fist on his desk and screams into his phone. “I don't give a hot gay gently caress what the lege says! Legalize weed, dude!”
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Skyarb posted:Hello thread, I'm very late to this issue and I'm also dumb. How is the new Texas law on abortion even legal with Roe v Wade? There are 5 anti abortion justices on the supreme court, that's how
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