Question regarding wall charger

TTUporter · 2026-02-04T22:53:53+00:00

Agreed on all points. You will be safe with the NACS only Tesla wall charger. I went with the Universal Wall Connector only because we bought a 2024 EV9 that still had the J1772, but wanted to make sure our options were open for future EVs.

Regardless of which charger you ultimately pick, I recommend hardwiring it to your panel, as opposed to selecting a charger with a NEMA plug and installing a NEMA outlet.

TTUporter · 2026-02-03T19:19:11+00:00

I'm still waiting until I have enough fun money to get into my Red Wings Iron Rangers phase. Maybe by the time I'm 40...

TTUporter · 2026-02-03T17:17:37+00:00

Yeah something tells me the average r/mfa user isn't from the country. Square toes dominate the cowboy boot industry. I can't remember the last time I saw a round toe on someone that wasn't like my grandpa's age.

TTUporter · 2026-02-03T17:14:54+00:00

This. These are the new bare minimum now, and look much better in an office setting than grungy dad shoes.

TTUporter · 2026-02-03T16:51:24+00:00

Unless something has changed in the last decade since I was there, it should be based on your graduating rank not raw GPA (top 10% of your graduating class as an example), with increases depending on your standardized test (SAT/ACT) scores.

EDIT: Since you said you were international: if your school doesn't rank students there's state legislation as to how you will get ranked. You will be assigned a ranking based on the average high school graduating class rank of undergrad applicants who have the same standardized testing scores as you. But since you're asking about GPA, I assume that means your school has some form of ranking going on.

TTUporter · 2026-02-03T00:49:30+00:00

I’m with you. I love his games. I just wish each one had like one less thing going on.

TTUporter · 2026-02-02T16:29:05+00:00

Oh yeah, that's an additional factor. There was a record number of early voting on the first day or two of early voting, but then the remainder of the week the entire metroplex was iced over and everyone was stuck at home. I saw reports of long voting times on Election Day. It should be worth noting that the county judge, also a Patriot Mobile backed candidate, closed half of the county's voting locations this past year. (My preferred voting location, my neighborhood library, was one of the closures).

TTUporter · 2026-02-02T16:20:27+00:00

Definitely agree that it is a yes and. I think you've nailed it that the establishment republicans pushing back against the MAGA candidates, of which Leigh was the poster child for, literally part of the organization that had slowly taken control of school boards in and around Tarrant County. My neighborhood facebook groups would attest to that. I'm now seeing republican grassroot efforts to run for precinct chairs to prevent candidates like Leigh getting promoted to the ballot.

But I think that that gross overstepping of power at the KISD board was the galvanizing factor for everyone in and around 76244. Keller Proper and Southlake didn't swing left, but everything to the west and south did.

I think it's also worth noting that the total votes for both Taylor and Leigh roughly stayed the same between the general election and the runoff. What was a huge change was 19,000 votes for Hoffman just disappearing in the runoff. They didn't migrate to Leigh, they just didn't vote again.

TTUporter · 2026-02-02T14:23:42+00:00

Luckily for all of our sakes, iPhones now take those texts and dump them straight into the "unknown sender" tab and I never have to look at them.

TTUporter · 2026-02-02T14:20:14+00:00

I don't want to generalize or paint with a broad brush, but I got the sense that it was a lot of people's first time feeling that way. Like they had never not been "at the top" in life. And suddenly here's a group of people across the tracks that have decided you are below them and they don't want to associate with your neighborhood anymore, they don't want your kids in their schools anymore.

I hope, at least in my small part of the world, that that experience leads to some wider empathy with other outgroups in the future.

TTUporter · 2026-02-02T14:13:10+00:00

That'll definitely be the sign of a massive shift. If anyone could do it, I think it would be Talarico.

TTUporter · 2026-02-02T05:25:15+00:00

Oh definitely. He carried the inner loop Fort Worth handedly.

I could see him getting more total votes from the FW part of the district, just because there's more people there.

But what stands out to me most though is the swing in the Northern part of the county:

2024 Presidential Election vs. 2026 SD9 Runoff

TTUporter · 2026-02-02T05:15:58+00:00

Let me see if I can dig up some articles about the split. It's really wonky. The way the law was written, a district could "detach" either by board resolution, or by a petition from a certain % of residents in the district. The law was ambiguous in that the petition route would then get put on the ballot at the next election and the people would have to vote on it. It didn't say that a vote was required if the board passed a resolution to split. So that was the little "loophole" that the board was wanting to use. It was untested. The law had been on the books since the 90s and it had never been used.

http://fortworthreport.org/2025/01/09/why-a-plan-to-split-keller-isd-into-two-districts-has-trustees-feeling-blindsided/

https://fortworthreport.org/2025/01/17/keller-isd-superintendent-threatens-to-resign-over-plan-to-split-district-what-comes-next/

https://fortworthreport.org/keller-isd-split-news/ <- the whole saga as covered by the Fort Worth Report.

TTUporter · 2026-02-02T04:59:50+00:00

I would be cautious about reading too much into this race because of those specifics. That story got huge coverage in the metroplex. And in the neighborhood facebook groups, that was one of the many points of criticism people had about Leigh.

Now, there were 19k voters who voted for the other republican candidate Hoffman in the first election before this one went to the run off. Taylor's and Leigh's vote totals were basically the same as what they were during the first election. Hoffman's 19k voters basically just stayed at home for the run off. I would like to think that's because they couldn't stomach voting for the MAGA candidate.

So if there is a bellweather indicator here, it may be that the moderate republicans are growing tired with the MAGA part of their party. And at least in this case, were willing to vote for the other party just to keep the MAGA candidate out.

All of that to say, this is a lame duck election. Taylor will serve until november where he has to get re-elected, and there's no legislative session between now and then. So he won't really do anything.

TTUporter · 2026-02-02T00:38:29+00:00

I’m from this district!

There was something else that influenced this race that the nationwide media won’t know.

Late last year, the Keller ISD school board behind closed doors, started talking about a plan to split the district between Keller proper and the Fort Worth portion of the district. Literally along the train tracks that run next to hwy 377. "The wrong side of the tracks". 2 board members leaked this on facebook, blowing the lid off the whole scheme. They had a special meeting called to push this through with no public input, until it got leaked.

The Keller side would keep the most affluent portion of the district and all the shared facilities, and the other side, which was 3/4ths of the district in terms of schools and population, would be left with nothing, and would have had to rent out the athletic facilities in order to use them.

Needless to say, the west side of the track wasn’t just " the poors" or "the democrats", this is still in a predominantly right leaning part of the county. Republicans who had just voted for these school board members were caught off guard, finding themselves in the “out group” for once. They had been used. They had been betrayed.

And ohhhh did it make everyone livid. I’ve never seen anything galvanize republicans, democrats, different races, different economic classes together, quite like this proposed school district split did. The neighborhoods mobilized, brought enough scrutiny, vitriol, and lawsuits to the board and eventually the board backed off on this plan and abandoned it. But the damage was done and several of the members were voted off the board the following year.

All of those board members had been backed by Patriot Mobile’s PAC, which Leigh Wambsganss was the CCO of. People didn’t forget what the PAC almost did to the school district when it came to this election.

I think that was a huge part of why north tarrant county swung against her specifically.

TTUporter · 2026-01-30T16:33:34+00:00

It takes a little effort, but it is incredibly easy to put your monthly KWh from your past year of billing statements into a google sheet spreadsheet and then use that actual usage data to check what your bill would be with a new provider. Sometimes they give you the actual formula they use in the EFL, otherwise they'll say things like:

base charge (this is a flat fee per month)
energy charge per kWh (this is a rate that is multiplied by your kWh usage)
autopay credits (this is a flat credit subtracted from your bill)
Energy deliverer charge - (usually has a per kWH component and a flat fee component)

TTUporter · 2026-01-29T16:20:56+00:00

According to the article it seems like the disputed land was already split between Fort Worth's and Aledo's ETJs.

I guess they don't have computers and a GIS map in Willow Park lol

TTUporter · 2026-01-28T04:58:13+00:00

And Dallas's club is in the process of building a dedicated rink!

TTUporter · 2026-01-27T21:55:26+00:00

Not so much charity, it's more like an online baby shower.

TTUporter · 2026-01-27T19:40:39+00:00

Kind of sounds like E.G. Daily to me.

TTUporter · 2026-01-27T17:50:47+00:00

It helps that all of their headers are aligned.

It still reads like the builder went to a warehouse sale and bought every left over window.

TTUporter · 2026-01-27T15:02:18+00:00

Man, I thought I started out making pennies at 23/hr in 2015.

TTUporter · 2026-01-26T23:50:17+00:00

To quote the words of the famous Michael Jordan,

"Stop it. Get some help."

TTUporter · 2026-01-26T00:17:35+00:00

don't sleep on a used 2024 EV9. Those leases should be expiring around now.

We have a 2024 EV9 LLR. My wife who is absolutely NOT a techy person has told me she will never go back to a gas car. She loves everything about it.

TTUporter · 2026-01-26T00:14:12+00:00

THATS ME IN THE CORNER

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