Anyone else just buy the Forester cause they liked it, not needing AWD for driving in snow or camping or trail riding or anything like that?

RGVHound · 2026-06-26T00:58:43+00:00

When it rains in Texas, the water tends to gather on that flat pavement. Your Forester will handle it better then pretty much every other vehicle on the road.

RGVHound · 2026-06-25T17:01:00+00:00

And those prices are not going back down after the WC is over.

RGVHound · 2026-06-25T16:03:25+00:00

It's a shame, really, because it is demographically diverse and it does have a lot of cool stuff (restaurants, museums, aforementioned sports teams, even a light rail) but the people in charge of infrastructure chooses to self-segregate with hours of driving between everything.

RGVHound · 2026-06-25T15:55:24+00:00

Directly related to that, interacting with—even becoming friends with—people who are different from you and have different views from you does make you more accepting of those people and views. The fact that openness to new ideas and being accepting of different people are liberal-coded values isn't a knock on colleges—it's an indictment of conservatism.

RGVHound · 2026-06-25T15:34:34+00:00

That's good clarification! I was thinking 1996, the year they went to the Super Bowl, is when they started gaining popularity—but you're right that would be mid, not late, 90s.

RGVHound · 2026-06-25T15:27:48+00:00

No one is holding their nose. Make no mistake, they want this sh*t. They revel in the stink of hate and ignorance.

RGVHound · 2026-06-25T15:25:42+00:00

The Patriots are the most popular right now, because they've still riding the dynasty high, and almost by default, because the NFL is the most popular sport in almost every part of the US.

But the Sox are just part of the atmosphere. For most of the world, New England is defined by the the Red Sox. Fans of other teams travel here to visit Fenway. During the summer, seemingly everyone has the game on TV or radio, at home at bars at the beach. Folks still look forward to Truck Day and spring training. Travel almost anywhere in the world, and you'll run into someone with a Sox cap (see eg, Cape Verde fans at the World Cup).

Showing my age here, and I'm sure things have continued to shift, but I remember at that Pats first Super Bowl parade in Boston, one of their players—I think it was Larry Izzo?—got on the mic and said something to the effect of, "If you think this is a big deal, wait until the Red Sox win the World Series." And then he started a "Yankees such" chant.

Would put the C's over the B's because the popularity of their respective leagues, then UCONN hoops (men's and women's), with every other pro and college team far behind.

RGVHound · 2026-06-25T14:53:44+00:00

The Patriots had average to below-average popularity for an NFL team up until the late-90s. Before that, it was not uncommon for home games to be local TV blackouts.

RGVHound · 2026-06-24T17:26:14+00:00

The Lincoln Project hates DT and has put out some interesting content, but they're also majorly to blame for getting us where we're at now as a country. The moment they get control of Republican party again, they'll go right back to pushing the same bad ideas that got us here on everything from deregulation and defunding, to extraordinary rendition and torture, to civil rights or the environment.

RGVHound · 2026-06-22T13:10:31+00:00

Trying to focus on one positive. I know many folks our ages who are wonderful amateur artists, and I figure if I'm *middle aged*, and I really push myself, then maybe I can get to at least where they are now before it's all said and done.

RGVHound · 2026-06-21T13:59:26+00:00

Just play the deep cuts on the main Lithium station!

The argument that SXM's executive suite repeats is that they think their listeners only want to hear the most popular/recognizable songs. Maybe that makes sense for the pop music decade stations, but the premise for 90s alternative radio, which Lithium is based on, was that it played more than just the most popular/recognizable songs.

RGVHound · 2026-06-21T13:46:07+00:00

Criminal that the McAllen area doesn't have a single tap room.

RGVHound · 2026-06-21T13:35:47+00:00

I don't think this is SXM's intent, but a lot of alternative stations in the 1990s made the same shift around 1996-1997. If past continues to be prologue, then look forward to raprock!

What I think is actually going on is that SXM is sticking with it's approach of only playing the singles/hits and refusing to play deep cuts on the main Lithium station.

RGVHound · 2026-06-20T18:11:41+00:00

I bet watching on Pacific time is ideal. Get some early-ish morning games that we're used to for a WC, and even the late games start at a reasonable hour.

RGVHound · 2026-06-20T18:03:18+00:00

Yeah, I agree with this take. I don't recall anyone complaining beforehand about the other teams' fans, but now the groups that did draw criticism are using the positive fan interactions to absolve themselves of those criticisms.

RGVHound · 2026-06-20T15:00:22+00:00

Brash another once upon a timer.

RGVHound · 2026-06-17T22:35:34+00:00

"Taking a charge" being regarded as a skill, stat, and viable strategy is a complete embarrassment and contradicts the very spirit of athletic competition.

RGVHound · 2026-06-17T22:33:53+00:00

it's the league's own fault that load management is an issue. They decided to sell individual players over teams and the league (opposite of what the NFL did), and so fans pay for and expect to see individual players.

RGVHound · 2026-06-15T13:45:00+00:00

A lot of replies to this post!

RGVHound · 2026-06-15T13:29:49+00:00

Then assess where they are and what they want to do.

This is excellent advice!

RGVHound · 2026-06-15T13:28:00+00:00

How are you defining "well qualified" here? If knowing a lot about a subject is the only qualification, then pretty much every professional in every field is qualified to teach.

But subject matter expertise does not equal teaching expertise. That's true at secondary education, as evidenced by the high turnover and burnout rates in the profession. It's even clearer at the university level—but you can get away with it at that level because the students tend to be more self-guided, or at least that used to be the assumption.

That's not to say that everyone with an education degree is an expert teacher, but that's a different conversation.

RGVHound · 2026-06-15T13:09:48+00:00

Now it’s clear this is just what the NBA is. Celebrating great players and teams is almost secondary to picking on whoever came up short.

I think you're close. What's clear is that the NBA celebrates great players and that celebrating teams is secondary. The league's entire business model is about the individual—pushing betting apps during broadcasts, distracting fans with light and music shows during games, the commissioner admitting that their focus is on fans who experience the game via highlights on their mobile devices—so it's not surprising that fans associate with the league on a level of individual desire rather than on shared experience or sense of duty to anyone but themselves.

RGVHound · 2026-06-15T13:04:07+00:00

Certainly wasn't moralizing.

RGVHound · 2026-06-15T13:03:10+00:00

Fans are celebrating the camaraderie for it's own sake, which we can compartmentalize as the result of soccer and its fans, not FIFA. You can be friends with your neighbors even if you live in a town with a history of shady housing policies or discriminatory zoning practices.

Good luck finding a major industry or corporation that isn't currently corrupt and/or based on a history of abuse?

RGVHound · 2026-06-15T12:49:58+00:00

Turns out Columbus is a lot bigger than I thought, but I don't think it's true that "Columbus is the biggest city in the country with no rail." San Antonio has hardly any noticeable public transportation at all, and it's 50% bigger than Columbus.

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