Located 2612 results from search term 'Texas'
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Commented in Why No One Saw The Success Of Demand Response Coming.
By being an interruptible and steady baseload, the crypto mine could pull energy from the wind farm and prevent the need for curtailment when the wind was at full tilt.
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If the miners weren’t there the service would need to be procured from other potentially more expensive sources, such as commissioning grid batteries. Covid-19 Pandemic Pictures
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“The Texas grid is the fastest evolving grid in the USA because it’s an unregulated market, so people have an incentive to do things the entrepreneurial way.
So ... rather than store extra power in batteries, they throw it away mining bitcoin because that's cheaper than batteries. Makes so much sense...NOT.
Because Texas.
The state that people ended up getting charged tens of thousands of dollars because power generating companies didn't spend the extra money to make their generators able to work in the cold.
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Commented in Gov. Greg Abbott says marijuana pardons will not be happening in Texas
I wish Texas could all build their own island nation and move everyone onto it.
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Commented in The Texas Abortion ‘Whistleblower’ Site Still Can't Find a Host
When I was young, losing wars got you some great consolation gifts. Japan and Germany got the Marshall Plan and brand new economies. When the U.S. lost Vietnam, they got Pho and Bahn Mi. Now, they lost Afghanistan to the Taliban and the Taliban gone on and taken over Texas and the U.S. Supreme Court. Someone didn't cut a very good deal this time around.
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Commented in Texas is set to pass a new law banning Facebook from censoring conservatives
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Commented in Texas is set to pass a new law banning Facebook from censoring conservatives
I.m sure they will get their way. /s
Texas is the second state to push through a bill aimed at combating the alleged censorship of conservatives online. In May, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a similar measure that would fine platforms for banning political candidates. The law was blocked by a Florida US District Court judge in June. The judge wrote that much of the bill’s text was “wholly at odds with accepted constitutional principles.”
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Commented in The Extraordinary Power of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Instagram Live
From what the rioters were saying themselves
Where was this reported? And were there names to attach to the rioters who said there was a kill list, or were they anonymous rioters. Because there's no way an antifa member would put on a red hat and drop some good sound bites for a pocket full of cash.
And if it was really an insurrection, why did they all bring flags, not guns.
She may well have been afraid. I doubt it, just based on her staged photos of crying at a parking lot fence that was supposed to be "children in cages". You know, the overflow facility for solo illegal children in Texas. The one Obama established, Trump shut , and Biden just reopened. If she can be a victim, a martyr, or just get attention, she'll do it. Why are we opening the borders to make it necessary before we open restaurants?
Sorry for the tangent, it's just everything the government has done since 20 Jan makes no sense.
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Commented in New Kavanaugh accuser Julie Swetnick details parties where girls allegedly were drugged and raped
I remember in the 70s, it was global cooling.
Hopefully science will, one day, have progressed far enough for us to know whether your face will get stuck like that. Or if sitting too close to the television will make you go blind. You know, the way we finally found out what happened to that white dog poop from the Seventies.
Then warming. Then climate change.
When you put a kettle on and crank up the stove, what do you think is going to happen?
Are we back to warming again?
Oh, you noticed?
whatever it is doesn’t matter, because nothing will be done
Nothing being done is a different thing than it doesn’t matter.
It may already be too late.
Not if there are expected future profits at risk, apparently.
So anyway, you were saying? Are all of Kavanaugh’s accusers liars, like Trump’s victims, or are they all telling the truth, like Bill Clinton’s?
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Commented in Report: Trump Admin Denying Passports to Citizens Along Border
The practice of denying passports to people who were delivered in the Texas-Mexico region by midwives started under the Obama administration, The Post reported
This comment kind of changes the tone of the whole story. I mean it is still a very sad story, if you ask me but... it was not Trump who started it, so all those "racist regime" claims are actually exaggerations.
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Commented in California: man driving wife to hospital to give birth arrested by Ice agents
You have to wonder how these ICE agents are being briefed on these types of actions. This is in California, a liberal state, this wasn't Texas
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Commented in Inside the Russian effort to fuel American secessionists
When it's Texas...oh the outrage, when it's California, not so much.
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Commented in 'Carbon-free fuel': Australian hydrogen car breakthrough could go global
Yes. Because ammonia is so safe. It's not even as safe as hydrogen. Pretty sure they meant say cheaply, but couldn't. There not being any export market for hydrogen whatsoever.
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Commented in Mueller has "pieces" to charge Trump for conspiring with Russia, says ex-FBI official
You might want to pick on another country, then, Ivan. Say one with an economy more Russia's size, which is to say smaller than Texas. You know, something more like Latvia size. Because these colors don't run, the Snowden revelations apparently never happened, and somehow the president in our frictionless, perfect democratic system works for a set of unnamed surveillance state Cold War fanatics clearly motivated more by their allegiance to the War Party than such polite fictions as country. Man alive, is my mouth dry. I wonder if anyone on Mueller's crack team of legal eagles is working overtime day and night to moisten that for me. Hmph, maybe by the next general election.
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Commented in Fifth Circuit Says No, You Fucking May Not Strip Search A Classful Of Female Students To Find $50
Why is it always Texas? Seriously what is wrong with Texas school administrators?
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Commented in Santa Fe, Texas, School Shooting Leaves Multiple People Dead; Suspect Is in Custody
the things they mentioned I don't believe apply to this weeks shooting
I'm right there with you on gun reform policy considered up against what actually happens in these mass killings. Versus letting hysteria take its course. Most gun control policy ideas are so poorly considered that if any of them are coming close to addressing what's actually taken place in any of these things, we gotta given them a "Great job, Champ!"
This would have been great for Parkland, not Texas.
Hey, any harebrained mass shooting mitigation scheme that doesn't tacitly assume the No-Fly List is sound due process gets a polite nod from me these days.
The licensing I would like is training courses for those that want concealed carry permits
Training requirements could be made somewhat more uniform between the states as well were there the will in the country, I'd expect.
I have to take a safety training course to hunt, why not to carry a concealed weapon.
I know, right? How hard should that be? Any more tooth-and-nail than usual?
Can't fault people affected by such horrors too badly for mistaking their issue for something quite different, but it so often leaves them mopping with the wrong end of the mop. You gotta feel for them. Morose gun violence protesters have easily as much pathos as morose anti-choice protesters have their hathos. Who sets themselves on ostensibly moral crusades to deprive people of specific human rights that way? Wait, I've answered my own question with another question: why don't they pay taxes?
Still, in the history of gun reform in America there was a clear before-Parkland, and after-Parkland.
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Commented in Santa Fe, Texas, School Shooting Leaves Multiple People Dead; Suspect Is in Custody
They deal with regular gun control talking points, yes we could do things, but the things they mentioned I don't believe apply to this weeks shooting. Parkland sure, but not Texas.
virtually unanimous support for "universal background checks"
Well he didn't get them legally he took them from his father, so the background check would have done nothing. Magazine size was also mentioned, that would have done nothing because it was a shotgun and revolver.
It appears that the Santa Fe shooter used what one analyst called "a Wal Mart beginner hunting gun"—a sawed-off shotgun in most accounts, along with a semiautomatic pistol—while on his rampage, confounding the idea that particular weapons are especially lethal.
I've heard reports of this but the police haven't confirmed yet as far as I know on the sawed-off shotgun, they did say he used a revolver for the handgun.
"gun violence restraining orders" (GVROs), which would allow family members and law enforcement officials to petition a court to strip individuals of Second Amendment rights
This would have been great for Parkland, not Texas. I support this so long as they aren't permanent unless charged and convicted.
a federally issued license for simple possession of all semi-automatic firearms
We can't even agree on the federally required real ID drivers license requirements. The licensing I would like is training courses for those that want concealed carry permits, I have to take a safety training course to hunt, why not to carry a concealed weapon.
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Commented in Santa Fe, Texas, School Shooting Leaves Multiple People Dead; Suspect Is in Custody
Isn’t Texas one of the most gun centric states? Where was all the good guys with guns?
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Commented in Today’s Catty Question: Who Thought Cat Cafes Were a Good Idea?
The Journal is paywalled, so here's the text:
A public cafe that combines the cat-loving cappuccino set with slumbering felines. What could go wrong? A lot, it turns out: ill-timed belly rubs, great escapes, protests from animal rights activists and reluctant landlords claiming to be “dog people.”
These are the travails faced by entrepreneurs around the country who have opened more than 40 “cat cafes.” It can be a frisky business. “I wasn’t ready for all the things that can go wrong,” says Sana Hamelin, owner of the Denver Cat Co.
Ms. Hamelin once lost a cat inside the 1,500-square-foot cafe for two weeks, although “Gus” crept out at night to nibble food. A cat named Morpheus bit a hands-on patron. “You shouldn’t go for the belly rub,” Ms. Hamelin says. “The belly rub is dangerous.” Then there was the vandalism this summer. “Someone who hates cats threw a brick through the cafe window at 3:30 a.m.,” the cafe speculated in a June Facebook post.
Cat cafe proprietors took a page from Asia, which started the trend, and brought cats to U.S. cafes. These institutions typically rely on shelters to supply the cats, which can number a dozen or more. They often hang cat-themed art and serve coffees like “caramel meowcchiatos.” Patrons may pay a cover charge to interact and sign a waiver from all kinds of catastrophic consequences.
The concept is warm and fuzzy. Stressed-out humans get comfy chairs and time with free-roaming, mostly adoptable cats. The reality is hairier: soul-scratching attempts to win over neighbors and an operation that hinges on unpaid staff, cats, which won’t take orders, because they are cats.
Cafe rules can look like they were written by the felines themselves. Don’t make loud noises; don’t wake sleeping cats; don’t pull tails or ears; don’t pick up cats against their will; and “if you upset them and something goes wrong, please don’t sue the humans,” say the “House Rules” at Le Cat Café in Philadelphia.
The rub here is that cats can sleep 12 to 16 hours a day.
“It’s almost like going to a meteor shower and not seeing any meteors,” said Jeff Ivey, a San Diego truck driver who felt “ignored by the cats” who wouldn’t frolic on a recent cat cafe visit. “I’ll admit it,” he said, “I wanted to get in there and play with them and throw a feather at them.”
Rebecca Arevalo, a 59-year-old family therapist in La Habra, Calif., said she and her husband seek out cat cafes on trips. “We’re weird that way,” she said. At San Diego’s Cat Cafe, owner Tony Wang said an orange tabby took issue with a patron’s attempt at petting. He said the customer interrupted a “clearly grouchy” feline.
“He just jumped on her legs and hugged them,” Mr. Wang says of the 2016 incident. “It was not super aggressive, though obviously he’s got claws.”
Ashley Brooks and a friend raised $23,000 in a Kickstarter campaign toward the opening of Pounce Cat Cafe & Wine Bar in Charleston, S.C., in late 2016. By early 2017, Ms. Brooks’s skin was red and itchy. She sought treatment. “The doctor said, ‘Yep, you’re allergic to cats,’” she says. Aided by allergy shots, she is staying. “I’ve already sunk so much money into this business, I can’t just walk away,” she says.
Cats show no such loyalty. At Cat Café Mad in Wisconsin, a reddish-haired feline named Sunny outfoxed the door attendant and when the door opened, ran like a cat out of he...
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Commented in Homophobic, religious and race hate crimes on public transport are soaring
That's what it's become.
Clarifying, do you mean down at the local bingo parlor or something affecting the whole of British transport generally?
If I call you an ass because you are behaving badly, and you are a woman, I hate women.
Your hatred of women may be completely incidental to your behaving badly. You may sense it's as clear as that in your case, and I'll defer to your specific knowledge of your dark-hearted motivations, but you may not even be conscious of your issues either before or after accosting women that way. I'm not sure how clear you are on it now, for instance.
If you're one of the however many genders there now, I'm some flavor of -phobic.
I'll give you one piece of advice for free. You should avoid taking any kind of science, but biology in particular. I don't think you're ready. There are countless genders. Yet somehow, ordinary people do tend to manage to treat one another reasonably well in everyday life. Go figure! Why couldn't it be that easy for us, do you think?
If you're black, I'm a racist.
Watch out, you're coming right up to the very edge of a realization here. It's better to let people think you hate most people about the same than, by speaking up in specific cases this way, remove all doubt you hate some people more equally than others.
Same if you're an illegal immigrant.
Or just generally too brown to fit a given definition for a "Texas teen."
Anything that offends is done on the basis of hate
Really? Because I'd gotten a strong impression you've been saying so this whole post.
because you can't be any of these things AND be an ass, apparently.
False dichotomy. You can easily be all of those things and an ass. I should've thought you would've known.
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Commented in Trump treats Texas hurricane victims better than those from Puerto Rico
Texas is a state, Puerto Rico is a colony.
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Commented in Texas teen was beaten, had hot cooking oil poured on her after refusing arranged marriage: police
Al Hishmawi’s parents — Abdulah Fahmi Al Hishmawi, 34, and Hamdiyah Saha Al Hishmawi, 33
Yeah, "Texas teen".
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Commented in Tempe Police release fatal Uber crash video (Video)
I deliberately cross in the middle of the street so I can see all the cars coming. In Texas it's safer. Nine out of ten Texas drivers are just as safe as anyone else, but ten percent are murderous.
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Commented in Dead Texas bombing suspect identified as local man, 23
Oh, a bombing...in Texas. What, no gun? I wonder why...
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Commented in US stealth bombers in Guam appear to be readying for a tactical nuclear strike on North Korea
Modern progressive revisionist history starts with the premise that the US was bad, wrong, misguided, and/or evil and seeks to apologize for it.
That’s some mean word salad you’ve got there. My main problem with this is that the sense you mean by the word ‘progressive’ has nothing whatsoever to do with Progressivism, progressives, what’s meant by ‘progressive,’ or anything like that. It’s a [PLACEHOLDER] for something else. One could as easily've used 'meddlesome kids,' 'longhairs,' 'libtard,' or 'Cultural Marxist.' Too quickly, this sentence conflates any critical thinking about American history with sedition, libels it with appeasement and then heaps on ladel after rich, steaming ladel of support of the enemy. Kind of a coversation chiller. Doesn't it seem a little bit on the nose, though? Like, whoever these modern progressives are you're talking about sure do seem to've set out for treasonous wreck and ruin the way you tell it, right? Let's agree to use the truer euphemism of the day for this, "The Blame America First Crowd," meaning anyone with an inkling of how different history is from how it's taught in Texas and California.
It's seen through the lens of current morality and modern warfighting, which is of course evil in itself. (Can't we all just get along?)
Yes, there is morality. Yes, war, whether yesteryear's now's or tomorrow's, isn't so far away from and certainly is not apart from evil. Fuckin' A. It's not working out. Let's just not. If we can help it. The stakes are too high. It is time to get beyond war. For real. Cheers.
WWII was a war to the knife.
I'm all for a good March to the Sea on an as-needed basis, but however sound the beating it's still cruel, still destructive, still waste — however little the regret.
Civilians were valid targets, not only because of their contributions to the war effort, but because bombs were so imprecise.
Let's not confuse targets with valid targets, if you're seriously claiming we cannot in any way judge events in the past through the veil of our times. Beyond our mere powers of consideration or not, make up your mind. If we get to have moral compasses of our own, then I didn't sign up for total war as the eternal condition of humanity. If I regard things like avoidable mass loss of life, forced relocation and collective punishment, enslavement, militarily attacking civilian populations, time and again nuclear sneak-attacking city after city to 'send a message' to some third country, ethnic cleansing, genocide, oh, mass organ harvesting, plus maybe bizarre sadistic medical and scientific research as war crimes and crimes against humanity then guess what, I may not be able to see eye to eye with you around how 'valid' Dresden was.
So what?
Had Japan known that the US didn't have more, and wouldn't have another until at least November of '45, the war might have continued.
Huh. If there was only some way unprecendented air, sea and land power could be used in some way against an island or set of islands. Tk!, thought there was the germ of an idea there for a moment. Ah well, I guess the tide went out there. Guess I've got a memory blockade.
The US brass thoughts on the morality or even military necessity then are as irrelevant as yours or mine today.
What am I paying you for then?
They advise, they don't decide.
Ike did. Ike went to the wall against nuking Japan, didn't he? Ike knew better. Was that irrelevant? To whom? ...
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Commented in Why do Texas prisons ban 'Freakonomics' but not Adolf Hitler's 'Mein Kampf'?
Texas prisons
The answer is right on the title.
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Commented in Texans Brace For President’s Response To Hurricane
Trump to Texas: You're fired!