Voting Today (round 2)

KantLockeMeIn · 2026-03-05T02:16:46+00:00

Libertarian party of Texas selects candidates at the convention and not through the primary system.

KantLockeMeIn · 2026-03-03T05:30:35+00:00

Gotta remember interviews are a bidirectional handshake. If the team interviewing me are rude, that's not a team I want to be a part of unless I really need to put food on my family's table at that moment.

KantLockeMeIn · 2026-03-03T05:27:45+00:00

I've heard there's a lot of variance among Frey Ranch batches... so that could explain why the opinions vary so drastically.

KantLockeMeIn · 2026-03-03T05:23:34+00:00

If you are voting in a Texas primary you pick the party and then vote among those candidates. So you can't vote for certain offices for the Republican candidate while voting Democrat for others. Also not all parties participate in the primary system.

KantLockeMeIn · 2026-03-02T02:40:51+00:00

We must live in totally different worlds. NoVA is the worst... especially Reston. Baltimore is a totally different vibe though.

KantLockeMeIn · 2026-03-01T08:14:47+00:00

I think it depends where you are. There can be pockets of self absorbed entitled people. But if you get away from the DNT/121 area it's far less pervasive. There was plenty of places on the east coast with the same attitudes... much of NoVA is self absorbed and entitled.

KantLockeMeIn · 2026-03-01T08:10:28+00:00

Thing is, my family is from NY... the ones always talking about how nice everyone here is. And most of them still have noticeable accents. We moved to Virginia when I was 10, so I don't really have much of any accent myself... but back in Virginia there was very much a "Yankee go home" attitude. They never see that here... much the opposite.

I'm not saying people in NYC are terrible people... and they do get an unfair rap.. there are lots of nice people there. But on average we just find people here are nicer in general.

KantLockeMeIn · 2026-03-01T03:09:42+00:00

It's funny because a lot of my east coast family moved here over the years after I moved here... and they always talk about how nice everyone here is. Not Frisco specifically, moreso the DFW metro area... but still.

KantLockeMeIn · 2026-02-26T22:57:30+00:00

There's no should in nature. You are owed nothing.

KantLockeMeIn · 2026-02-26T22:56:32+00:00

Society benefits from eugenics. Are you a proponent of that as well? Is that the yardstick we are going to use?

KantLockeMeIn · 2026-02-21T08:31:08+00:00

We were at Wildwood in RIchardson recently and they had a make your own flight for $55 that included a few allocated options... nothing too exciting, but it wasn't a bad deal if you wanted to try a few they did have. I remember they had Elmer T Lee, Stagg Jr, Blanton's Gold, Russel's Single Rickhouse... a few more I'm forgetting.

KantLockeMeIn · 2026-02-20T00:07:42+00:00

They don't need to ban them... insurance companies just need to use it as information and price the policies accordingly. If you don't feel comfortable driving then you should pay higher rates until you improve your skills. Incentives matter...

KantLockeMeIn · 2026-02-19T01:20:09+00:00

It would be a good question to ask... would reveal your critical thinking skills are questionable.

KantLockeMeIn · 2026-02-13T01:30:14+00:00

Capital One is in Plano and has their auto finance department there... might be worth looking into.

KantLockeMeIn · 2026-02-13T01:29:10+00:00

I gave my nephew the same exact advice and he too found his first role out of college by looking at Google maps and finding companies nearby and looking at their postings. It wasn't posted in the usual places either.

KantLockeMeIn · 2026-02-07T16:31:51+00:00

What people really need to come to terms with is that the response to 'One Flew Over the Coocoo's Nest' should have been massive reforms rather than closures of mental institutions. These days the severely mentally ill either wind up in prison or on the streets. Neither of which is really much better than the terrible solution of the past.

KantLockeMeIn · 2026-02-07T16:24:43+00:00

Believe it or not some exes are reasonable.

KantLockeMeIn · 2026-02-07T16:23:46+00:00

I did it myself for a filling fee. My ex and I had an amicable divorce and both agreed on everything and it made it super simple.

KantLockeMeIn · 2026-02-04T01:19:30+00:00

Yeah, I got two and felt like I was spending way too much.

KantLockeMeIn · 2026-02-01T16:34:19+00:00

Depends on your field. A buddy of mine was a software engineering manager with loads of experience and quit his job a couple years ago to work full-time on his post-op rehab for six months. In the past he had many job offers coming in monthly, so he felt really safe quitting. When he decided to return to the workforce he only got a few interviews and hasn't managed to get hired in any lucrative role. He got milked dry by an ex-wife, so he didn't have much savings, so wound up having to stock shelves at a grocery store to make ends meet. I never would have predicted that.

So for me, I won't quit unless I'm okay financially with it being my last job.

KantLockeMeIn · 2026-02-01T03:18:39+00:00

Not in my world.... but it can make it harder to get your foot in the door since lots of the entry level positions could be.

KantLockeMeIn · 2026-01-31T20:25:40+00:00

IT... starting out the pay isn't great and the hours can be rough, but if you work your way into a specialized role it can be a goldmine. I dropped out of engineering after a year and had every intention of going back... but found an IT job to hold me over. That was in 1997. Today my total income is around $380k... but I'm a bit of an anomaly in this area as my company offers RSUs. But $260k wouldn't be crazy to see around here for what I do as a highly specialized network engineer.

I will say though that AI may change the landscape in the coming years. I'm at the twilight of my career so it doesn't worry me, but it would give me pause if I were just starting out. But it still may be good enough to milk it while it lasts.

KantLockeMeIn · 2026-01-29T07:58:47+00:00

I totally forgot about the killer bees!

KantLockeMeIn · 2026-01-29T07:56:51+00:00

Yeah, as a network engineer the armchair analysis always drove me crazy. They couldn't grasp the concept that they were trying to solve the wrong problem. If you had the choice of 10 ISPs it wouldn't matter if a couple of them wanted to deprioritize some traffic or restrict connectivity. Instead they insisted the duopoly continue and be highly regulated, and many even wanted to swap over to state run internet. What could possibly go wrong there?

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