TCEQ is a fucking joke. They’re a rubber stamp for anything industry wants, and they don’t care where.

Burnet county TX residents are currently trying to fight the installation of (another) rock crusher/quarry in an area with limited water and where three other similar plants already exist.

TCEQ rubber stamped their air quality permit after admitting they have ZERO air quality monitors in the entire county. But I’m sure it’s fine.

If that’s their approach, I’ll just refrain from doing business with a company whose default position is that their customers are intending to commit fraud.

Yeah… that should be tied to the product, not a person. And it doesn’t need a unique serial number. Take the old one back, verify it’s not a fraud, send the replacement. If it’s a fraud, destroy it and let the customer know why, then offer them credit on a genuine piece.

A backpack company doesn’t need to know who I am.

No one is wondering why a backpack has a serial number to begin with? Vehicles, sure. Electronics, ok. But a backpack? Why does it even need a serial number?

It’s essentially a clothing item. My t-shirts don’t have serial numbers. I’m just finding it a bit insane that a backpack would have a unique serial.

Second OT in Super Bowl history… both lost by Kyle Shanahan teams after a comeback by the opposition.

Fucking Phil.

Yeah! That’s the one.

Boy I’m glad they approved that “winter storm surcharge” from 2021 so they could make all the necessary updates to the grid, so we’d never have to deal with this again.

On top of courts ruling that they’re not really responsible for making sure you actually HAVE power… can’t get in the way of that sweet, sweet cash flow.

HEB was a circus. It’s like the apocalypse was announced. There’s so much shared PTSD over the ‘21 storms it’s crazy.

Speaking of… any of y’all got that ercot dashboard page still? Not the official one, but the aggregated monitor?

Maybe I’m misunderstanding the issue, but I’m reading it as a dislike for the new “modern” start menu in win11 that’s center screen and feels designed for touch interfaces?

You can disable that and turn it more like a win 7 style start menu.

but I still can’t get over the crippled start menu

You know you can set it back to “legacy”, right? I’ve been using Win11 since it was beta and when you swap the new default gui elements back to “legacy”, it’s much better than even win 10.

I like looking at female characters more than male characters. I enjoy the female form.

Pat Finnerty is great. This song is awful for a lot of reasons, and he tries to hit them all.