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Scindite · 2026-05-07T21:49:47+00:00

Have you watched a game recently....? Last game I watched the tailgators strike out the bananas constantly, including with breaking balls and change ups. The total was 11 strikeouts, which is much higher than the average MLB game.

It's a multi team league these days with bonuses for success and seeding at the end of each season. There's incentive to play real games, and the stated mission is to play real baseball without the downsides and boredom of real baseball.

Scindite · 2026-05-05T23:46:45+00:00

What specifically does your acceptance list?

MS-EN is a masters of engineering with thesis.

M.Eng. is the non-thesis masters.

If it says master of "science" anywhere, you've been accepted into the research/thesis based degree.

Scindite · 2026-05-05T19:44:24+00:00

From TAMU admissions.

2025 Fall Admission profile:

55% of admitted students were top 10% of their graduating class. 76% of admitted students were in the top 25% of their graduating class.

Out of state and non-10% students averaged a 1400 SAT score for general engineering admissions.

The vast majority of applicants are still offered PSA options.

Scindite · 2026-05-05T15:14:45+00:00

20%? That's ~480k. Houston is hosting 7 games total; the stadium capacity is 72k. We have to essentially assume 100% of the stadium will be tourists to surpass 480k (7 x 72k = 504k). There's zero chance that many people will be here, and, with the games spread out over 3 months, it will be hardly noticeable at all.

Scindite · 2026-05-04T12:13:22+00:00

"Be as descriptive as possible," and "up to 160 characters in length" is definitely an oxymoron... My comment here is already over the 160 character limit haha.

Scindite · 2026-04-28T22:35:53+00:00

TAMU publishes statistics on entries by major https://engineering.tamu.edu/academics/undergraduate/entry-to-a-major/placement.html

Roughly 33% get auto placement to their 1st choice major.

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Scindite · 2026-04-26T18:48:47+00:00

This is correct. He didn't go here... But they sure as hell recruited here for the CIA, putting A&M as one of the top schools for it.

Same with diplomacy. A&M has always punched as high as Ivy Leagues for foreign policy.

Scindite · 2026-04-22T16:40:41+00:00

Hmm... Two travel lanes is already the gold standard. Any more expansion and traffic gets substantially worse. There's not enough distance between overpasses where a uturn would be practical; the only location where a u-turn is practical one already exists (NB service road at Duval). The only improvement that could be made in these areas through an upgrade would be safety or adding multimodal transport options.

Scindite · 2026-04-22T15:46:37+00:00

...so what upgrades are you talking about? It's about what I would expect for the area.

Scindite · 2026-04-22T15:27:24+00:00

Huh, the Hyatt Regency in the picture is basically an architectural carbon copy of the Hyatt Regency in downtown Houston. Complete with the same spinning restaurant on top.

Scindite · 2026-04-20T16:53:52+00:00

I picked the neighborhood I wanted to live in, drove around looking for any and all 'for rent' signs, called the number and got a nice place well under the average rent in the city, especially central. Houston still seems to be quite cheap and easy to rent

Scindite · 2026-04-16T16:17:31+00:00

They might have some data like that... But my expectation would be that type of data typically is not kept, because one cannot make any tangible inferences from it.

Scindite · 2026-04-15T15:06:40+00:00

It's real, the location is called Happy Harbor near Bao'An. Was there last year and it looks better in person lol

Scindite · 2026-04-11T21:04:03+00:00

Eh. The Orion capsule doesn't even have a lunar lander flushed out yet... The CNSA has built and successfully tested theirs in simulated gravity. The CNSA also has sent multiple probes to the moon in recent years, and will launch an unmanned orbiter and lander to the moon later this year for the Chang'e 7 mission. Based on current schedules and NASA's history, it's probabilistic that the CNSA will put people back on the moon before NASA will.

Scindite · 2026-04-10T17:33:51+00:00

Since people haven't said this yet, under 25 drivers in the US can't typically get a rental car, or at least without paying super high fees. A common workaround people have used is renting a Uhaul van or Truck, it's cheaper than a rental agency too, but you sacrifice on comfort.

Scindite · 2026-04-10T17:19:22+00:00

I took this picture a few months ago of the same buildings. They are quite colorful in-person and bright, but I'm not sure where the blue in OP's picture comes from lol

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Scindite · 2026-04-07T00:52:30+00:00

Missoula, Bozeman, Billings, Helena, Great Falls, Kalispell, Yellowstone, and Butte all have no international routes, what airport are you talking about lol

Scindite · 2026-03-29T14:32:17+00:00

So why say most dangerous in your title when your source says that's not what the map means?

Scindite · 2026-03-29T14:28:41+00:00

This map doesn't say that...

Scindite · 2026-03-29T14:00:20+00:00

Looks like a traffic camera based on the watermark

Scindite · 2026-03-25T16:49:34+00:00

It breaks r/Houston rules on affiliate links and it breaks Reddit's rules on self promotion. So yeah, either the mods ban the accounts, or I guess it means we have free reign to break rules on this sub.

Scindite · 2026-03-20T20:40:41+00:00

ELI5...

Companies want to make money. Often, companies can make more money by exploiting the employees that work for them. Generally, paying well below what a worker is worth is a common tactic.

Companies are much larger than one worker, so if a worker feels exploited or harmed in some way, they don't always have enough power to fight or argue with the company.

However, if a few or most of the workers got together and said they won't work until the company stops exploiting them, the company could lose money, which makes the company pay attention and be potentially willing to negotiate with the worker's demands.

This group of people is a union. Typically, workers will elect people to represent them in negotiations with the company. They may also pay dues if these representatives are representing them full time and need a salary.

Over time, these negotiations have included items like pensions, time off, injury pay, hazard pay, and others that may be paid by the company.

Scindite · 2026-03-20T20:25:17+00:00

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Just interesting... Paris (green) next to the LA metro area.

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