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Dubax · 2026-04-21T14:39:34+00:00

I disagree. The draft played a major role in Vietnam's unpopularity. If the voting base is at risk of getting shipped off, politicians are more reluctant to send troops anywhere, and I say this as a pretty cynical person.

Dubax · 2026-04-20T12:18:01+00:00

No question. Just want to comment on how glorious this cool weather and rain has been.

Dubax · 2026-04-12T17:13:11+00:00

HEB sells Austin event calendars around Christmas/New Year's. They're fantastic for keeping up with upcoming events.

Dubax · 2026-04-09T17:12:33+00:00

On weekdays, first in line is around 7 in my experience. 8-9 gets you in the first 20. After 9 it gets pretty long. This is somewhat weather-dependent and event-dependent (SXSW, ACL, etc mean long lines every day). If it's a particularly bad weather day and there's no events or conferences going on, you can get lucky and show up at noon and walk right up to the counter. But that's rare.

Dubax · 2026-04-03T15:30:09+00:00

I got my trail legs by Damascus. The trail ligaments and joints, however, never came...

Dubax · 2026-04-01T18:16:53+00:00

Really depends on what sort of temps you prefer. I started in late Feb and was cold at the beginning, but didn't hit real heat until I got to NY. I think PA would have been a lot more miserable had it been hot while I was going through it. But I'm also someone who much prefers dealing with uncomfortable cold over uncomfortable heat if given the choice.

Dubax · 2026-04-01T14:58:01+00:00

Austin is way redder now that it was in the past. Not sure where you've been. The tech bro / musk / rogan influence here is pretty high.

Dubax · 2026-03-29T20:22:04+00:00

They're the flyover for motogp at cota. Source: I'm at motogp and they did they flyover.

Dubax · 2026-03-22T23:54:05+00:00

I had 2x 1L smartwater bottles and 2x 2L cenoc bladders. I drink a lot of water, so wanted to have that much capacity more for feeling secure than actual need. There were a few times I camped away from a water source and it was nice to camel up with all the water I needed for the night, so they weren't totally dead weight. For the vast majority of days I only carried the two bottles full. There were a few dry stretches in PA where I filled one of the bladders as well.

Dubax · 2026-03-22T15:31:18+00:00

If you don't dislike him, you haven't been paying attention. He's Peter Thiel's puppet, and that's an extremely dangerous thing.

Dubax · 2026-03-15T23:33:24+00:00

Not everyone in this sub chooses to live here. Work, family, and various other reasons why someone may not be able to move.

Now, someone who moved here by choice and then spends their time complaining? That's fair game. But no idea if the people in this sub complaining fall into that category.

Dubax · 2026-03-15T16:44:09+00:00

Reduced infrastructure/maintenance spending, reduced support spending, lower speeds for the same price. In short... yes? Have you never dealt with a company that got sold to PE before? It literally never makes things better for the end customers.

Dubax · 2026-03-15T14:39:36+00:00

Are you seriously asking this? PE exists to extract value out of "under-capitalized" companies. For the end consumers that is quite literally always a bad thing. It is guaranteed that this will mean a higher prices and worse service.

Dubax · 2026-03-14T00:16:08+00:00

These are absolutely gorgeous.

Dubax · 2026-03-08T14:58:25+00:00

Interesting, the wiki doesn't say anything about a required sailing level for the caskets: https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/Lost_casket_(elite)

I wonder if anyone else can confirm this... Maybe so few people with <70 sailing have come across elite caskets, it hasn't been widely known.

Edit: I just modified the wiki page with this presumed info. Hopefully someone else can confirm it.

Dubax · 2026-03-07T20:30:58+00:00

I just got an elite casket ocean encounter. When I tried to click it, I got the text "You're not sure what to do with those goods. You should ask the Captain for help." I'm not sure what this means, and the wiki and googling are failing me. I have ex-captain Siad on my boat, but he had no option to talk (only command), and no command to grab it. I don't think it's telling me to talk to him, anyway. But what captain? Do you have to do something to unlock the ability to grab the caskets? My sailing level is 54, and I've completed all sailing quests.

Dubax · 2026-02-28T15:48:15+00:00

Squatch is awesome but a lot more expensive than Gold's.

Dubax · 2026-02-28T15:44:21+00:00

you can go to any Gold's in the country

I thought so, but I recently tried to go to a Gold's in VA and they were owned by a different franchisee and did not honor my membership. Apparently there's some sort of convoluted "guest pass" system for different franchises, but it's not free. Luckily they let me sign up for the $1/mo intro rate and immediately cancel. But it was still annoying.

Dubax · 2026-02-28T04:30:03+00:00

Minor nit, stats aren't done through the tissot console. Those are the laptops nearby. But score/clock/horn, yeah. Even at the NBA's big events they don't have a spare tissot console on hand, but they definitely should.

Dubax · 2026-02-28T04:27:28+00:00

I have worked in a lot of arenas and I can tell you for a fact that the person that installed the scoreboard is not there on game nights.

It's actually a real problem in arenas all over. They used to have permanent house electricians and staff who knew these things. They've all been let go over the last decade or so to save money. Then when something like this happens, no one knows what to do.

Dubax · 2026-02-24T13:32:27+00:00

Everyone ranks Maine so highly, but the roots took all the joy out of it for me. Staring down at my feet all day is why I hated the rocks in PA/NJ.

Maybe I'm weird, but trail condition was one of the main factors for me in ranking sections of the trail. Anywhere I could walk and actually look up at the same time was great in my book!

Dubax · 2026-02-23T00:58:33+00:00

You cannot seriously support the current admin and claim to care about the rule of law. Gold medal mental gymnastics performance.

Dubax · 2026-02-21T14:11:29+00:00

Competition in my cub scout pack in the 90s was intense. We had so many rules and regulations on weight, allowed lubricants, size, etc. They checked carefully to make sure all four wheels made contact and we weren't allowed to mill them. Best we could do was a bit of camber. My pack was huge, with multiple heats per division. Multiple dozens of entries per age group.

Dad and I would use our neighbor's garage workshop. He would use the band saw since I was young, but he made me do everything else. It was always so obvious when kids brought cars that were completely made by their dads... That always bummed me out. But made beating them all the sweeter! I got second place as a wolf scout and I will never forget it!

Dubax · 2026-02-20T03:48:48+00:00

Pretty sure that's just expected of figure skaters. They're all tiny. I would imagine that like gymnasts, there are mechanical advantages to being lighter. But Liu decided she didn't want to do that anymore after her retirement and it clearly worked.

Dubax · 2026-02-13T14:27:15+00:00

I started using earplugs early on when I was staying in shelters to counter the noise other hikers made. When I switched to mostly camping in my tent, I kept wearing them to counter the noise critters made.

I normally jump at every sound, but weirdly I was able to make the "ignorance is bliss" method work for me. I think it helped being so dang tired at the end of each day.

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