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Guinness on tap is great and as mentioned even though the beer is dark it isn’t heavy. Never got into IPA’s or craft beer much and am fine with drinking whatever is available on the rare occasions when I do drink. Last few times we went to Vegas for football we take a few packs of white claws or trulys, load them up into backpacks filled with ice and down those at the sportsbook. Less heartburn, calories and easier to drink than beer. Anyways happy 4th.

An aqueduct, some desalination plants along the coast, reservoirs and whatever else can be done. Whatever they're going to do hop to it as we did the drought dance in SoCal from 2007-2009 then again from 2012-2016 and our elected officials did absofuckinglutely nothing. I'm not an engineer and don't pretend to know what it would take to get some of these things done but there's no good reason why going back to 2007 something hasn't been done to address this. Must not be profitable enough for our elected officials despite the fact that CA exported over $20B in agriculture in 2020 and represents 13% of agriculture production in the US.

I think I mentioned probably 16+ months ago in this thread that I went per your recommendation. The first time we went there was some random wind/rain that overturned a few of the umbrellas outside so everyone had to move inside but luckily we already had a spot inside watching college football. Went back a few months later and tried most of their beers. I enjoyed it more than 4 sons between the price, beers and setup. I'll definitely look to go back one of these days.

No need save for a rainy day when you can pass the cost on to taxpayers. Kind of like CalPERS playing it fast and loose then when their investments shit the bed they go after cities and taxpayers for the difference.

Politicians love to pass things like this when there's a "surplus" because they can get away with it and they know it won't ever stop even when they're in the red and going after taxpayers for more revenue.

Worst first half drop in the market in 50 years: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-62005360

Those cups look like they came with a combo meal.

I mentioned in the 2022 Midterms thread that you can never discount the ability of either side to do something that costs them seats particularly the R's. Like the 2020 election where Trump egged people on who normally may not vote to vote against him and his platform I think this will have a similar effect particularly in battle ground states.

Not just outkick: https://news.yahoo.com/biden-accidentally-flashed-cue-card-104115491.html

Subprime lending definitely played a part. Mortgages of all types were grouped into CDOs that initially paid a high rate of return but over time various institutions got more creative with the CDOs due to little or no regulation because money was being made. Normally the mortgages of varying types would have a low default correlation as you wouldn't expected more qualified buyers to find themselves in a situation similar to less qualified buyers while the tranches in CDOs reflected this belief. When the bottom fell out and housing prices crashed even the "safe" tranches in CDOs got hammered because more qualified buyers watched their equity get wiped out and lost jobs. At it's peak before the crash subprime lending supposedly represented ~21% of the mortgage originations which was double the amount a few years before. Plenty of blame to go around and hopefully we won't see history repeat itself but if it does I hope the government stays out of it.

Oil Company profit margins are historically lower and in some cases much lower than other industries like insurance, pharmaceuticals, restaurants, soft drink companies and so on. The federal government takes ~7x what the oil companies make via federal gas taxes and yet they seem to take less criticism for how that money is spent or how many roads they're responsible for that are in poor shape. It's always easier for our elected officials to point the finger at corporations rather than looking at how efficiently and effectively the money the bring in is spent.

Perhaps he meant unprecedented growth in inflation and that US families are saving at the lowest rate since 2008. A lot of talk is US stock indices have another 10-20% to decline. Crypto has gotten crushed which has me interested in BTC/ETH as a lottery ticket but sentiment is it has further to fall and I don’t know if I’ll have the risk appetite for it. Rising mortgage rates and reportedly the lowest number of mortgage applications in 22 years seem to point to a correction in housing but time will tell and every market is different. Locally there’s more houses on the market and it seems like a lot are having price drops.

We have Biden because the other candidate is a piece of human excrement who only cared about himself. Amazingly he could have been re-elected if he would have just shut up but his ego wouldn't allow that and instead he pissed off people who normally wouldn't have voted so that they voted against him which is a mindset that ironically helped him beat Hillary.

Apparently they want the fans in attendance to suffer even more https://www.yahoo.com/sports/angels-nickelback-walk-up-songs-amid-12-game-losing-streak-030542592.html

F'in Madison.

Makes about as much sense as any other reasoning for the cops response:

I think everyone realizes that now but people are trying to figure out exactly why they did nothing because that's the exact opposite of what they should have done. Initially their story kept changing and now you've got records of kids in classrooms calling the cops begging them for help. Even if the message came from the top I don't understand how one of the officers with a conscience could stand down. Just rotten from the top down. Like UTH said they need to get them out ASAP especially now that they aren't cooperating.

I wonder if Arte's age factors into how any of this plays out as he's 75 now and the team is here for at least 7 more years. Does anyone know if any of his family or anyone else is involved from an ownership standpoint? I know he's the guy it's just that at a point some owners seem to hand some functions off usually to their kids.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/border-patrol-tactical-team-ordered-170904118.html Feds say it was a clusterfuck when they arrived, local swat could have responded sooner and local police kept them from going in earlier. Hollywood couldn’t write up a more ridiculous way for the response to have played out.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/uvalde-residents-voice-frustration-over-shooting-response-11653588161 So according to the timeline outlined by the Texas department of public safety the guy was outside the school for 12 minutes before he went in. He fired at people across the street at a funeral home which led to someone calling the cops, hopped a fence and made his way into the school. He exchanged gunfire with cops who arrived then locked himself in the classroom and killed those kids and teachers. Those cops sat outside for an hour until the border patrol tactical team went in and killed him. The guy was absolutely a threat and they should have gone in. Maybe TORS can chime in and correct me but I can’t imagine anything procedure wise says to not go in and stand down for an hour. They had to have heard him shooting in the school.

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic again or not. According to every account reported so far shortly after entering the school and barricading himself in the shooter opened fire. I understand that if shots haven't been fired then you get a negotiator and try to talk the person down. Once the situation becomes an active shooter situation policy or just common sense should dictate that they need to go in. Otherwise said shooter could just go to classroom from classroom killing kids until swat or whatever response team arrives.

Those who sat outside should be charged, lose their job and their pension but I know pension rules vary by state. Probably a sacrificial lamb or two and paid leave for others but that's me being jaded and expecting the good old boys club to circle the wagons.