Property taxes and municipal utility district fees in Texas are crazy and they go up annually.

You have the option of doing average billing in the US but we just pay based on usage. Most of the other plans with promotions or discounts ended up being more expensive when I ran the numbers in my case.

Google made lots of stuff that I used and enjoyed, then slowly made them worse or outright killed them off. Hangouts was imo the gold standard of simple chat programs, their podcast app was excellent and ad free. Both are now gone.

They also have been ceaselessly working to wring every last cent out of their products at the expense of the user experience. The products and services were fine and they were making loads of money even with adblocking and tracker blocking in place but they knew they could make more money and most people would just accept the inconvenience so they said fuck em and ran with it.

Yep, no one else will.

That team breaks younger drivers and number 2s. I want better for Lawson than driving for 3 races and getting shit canned.

I want him to do better so badly because he is fully capabale of it. Its rough, both he and us deserve better.

The awesome thing is that those marks can be counterfeit and you only know by looking up the number.

Remember kids, the lone star is our review rating.

I went from a commute of 1hr 15min each way to 5 min each way and my life improved so much. No activity in the car would make me ever change back to my old setup.

Is there a way to disable it on mobile? I have not seen anything yet.

Did you see any Bort license plates at the gift shop?

Flechettes are an option but yeah, its imperfect.

You can fit a choke and longer barrel with higher caliber pellets to improve the range.

I went the same route, it was significantly less expensive to get a nicer custom ring made by a local jewler I knew, to my spec/design then to get a commodity one from a store.

Welcome to The Jungle originally by Upton Sinclair, now a live experience brought to you by the SCOTUS' lack of ethics.

The answer is it depends on a lot of things, my answer comes from my current financial situation which is stable but not anything crazy.

If I have been working a lot and have money to use, I value my free time at ~2-3x my equivalent hourly wage. If the task is something I enjoy and I have time, I'd rather do it myself than pay someone else. If it is something messy, something I don't want to do, or something I am bad at or might screw up, that is a problem that money can solve.

It shouldn't be controversial to say this but humans deserve free time, we should have leisure and hobbies. You should not have to constantly fight/work to survive. We as a species are past that point and it is sad that society has not figured that out. Instead society chooses to keep the status quo where some people have to work 60-80hrs a week to exist.

No, I don't have the answer on how to change that.

I trust the Texas Legislature even less than the average Texas voter. This seems like a way to intensify the radicalness of the pool that goes to Washington but admittedly, I am not familiar enough with this kind of system to have an informed opinion on it.

Fun fact, when our trash Govt leaves, it is effectively litter removal. Its the one positive they do for the state, going away.

Can confirm, we had power during Harvey and the two major freezes, but lost power today. First time being without power for more than an hour in 7ish years of being in our current house.

55 seconds is life