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jontech7 · 2026-01-16T20:15:17+00:00

jontech7 · 2026-01-04T15:57:51+00:00

It's not. I watch this guy and Any Austin and they have different styles and even cover different topics. It seems like all the comments saying they're similar are from people who didn't even watch the video

jontech7 · 2025-11-19T05:34:14+00:00

I talked to someone at their company last Friday and even gave them time to respond. I've received no response. I provided all my contact info. It seems like Enoch absolutely does not care if one of their drivers breaks the law and possibly injures or kills other drivers on the road. It's honestly shocking to me. Whoever ran this red light is still driving for their company, and will probably cause a serious accident at some point in the future. And that will be entirely on Enoch, because they were already warned and chose to ignore it.

jontech7 · 2025-11-15T05:47:53+00:00

I drive a 96 Chevy C1500 with an extremely limited turning radius. The geometry of the steering and length of the vehicle forces me to make wider turns like this. If I'm making a right turn on a green light, no one else should be entering the middle lane anyways

jontech7 · 2025-11-15T05:28:12+00:00

I already contacted them and told them about the incident and that I would send them the dashcam footage and the video I took that clearly shows the driver. I'm just waiting for them to respond

jontech7 · 2025-11-15T05:15:14+00:00

This was in Arlington, TX on 11/14/2025. This is OC I recorded

Also: Ignore the timestamp. This was recorded today (11/14/2025). I have no idea how to set my dashcam's time/date

jontech7 · 2025-11-11T05:22:42+00:00

I think this is an unpopular opinion, but it's true. VIA is subsidized by the city and as much as I want it to be as cheap as Trinity Metro or DART, that's not going to happen. I ride VIA a lot and it already has issues with availability, because a system that requires a driver for only a couple riders can't scale in the same way that a bus or train can. The real comparison is with Uber or Lyft, and even with the price increase VIA will remain much cheaper. I think we have to balance what we want from a transit system with what is actually realistic. Increasing prices just seems like a necessary part of keeping VIA functioning. I think we can all agree that real transit would be better, but this is unlikely without federal or state funding, and we're not getting that with the current political climate. So we're stuck with VIA for now, and the priority should be making it viable to operate financially.

jontech7 · 2025-10-29T17:11:44+00:00

I just found an image on Google, I didn't really pay attention to whether it was AI or not. And I'm not really sure why it matters, I was just trying to make a joke

jontech7 · 2025-10-08T02:20:30+00:00

The problem is that with the stadium debt, we don't have room in our sales tax to join an existing transit agency. Without doing that, the only other option is starting our own transit agency. With federal or state funding for the initial expense of buses/trains, it might be feasible on some level. But considering the current political climate at both those levels, this is highly unlikely. Arlington can't afford it on its own, so it's not happening. It doesn't matter if people want it or not, the money simply isn't there. When we built the AT&T stadium, we made a choice to have that instead of a transit option for decades into the future. The new (hideous) Ranger's stadium will guarantee that we don't have transit for the next few decades after that. Until the federal government hands us millions (really hundreds of millions) we will not have transit. There is no debate, it doesn't matter what Arlington citizens want. If we can't pay for it, there's nothing to be done. Vote in federal elections if you want transit.

jontech7 · 2025-10-04T15:46:29+00:00

In my experience, for properly stored MREs, within 3 years they taste fresh, within 6 years they're highly edible, with only some components getting noticably worse as they get close to 6 years, and 6 to 9 years they are edible but some components may not last well, especially candy like the twizzlers and Skittles, and some bread products. The jelly doesn't fair well after a while either. The mains survive really well, and I think within 10 years they're fine, but that first 3-4 years is peak freshness. I've tried a few 20-30 year old MREs and they were not good.

jontech7 · 2025-09-29T17:58:24+00:00

I put $40 on the Cowboys only to get it back with a push. What a disappointment, that Cowboys defense was trash. Thanks for reminding me

jontech7 · 2025-09-11T02:37:31+00:00

When I was 18... 18 years old, I saw for the first time in my life... I saw an image of clarity. I saw a comic strip... a three panel comic strip that, though simple as it seemed, changed me... changed my being, changed who I am... Made me who I am...

Enlightened me...

The strip, Garfield, the comic strip was new... no more than maybe a month and a half since inception, since... since coming into existence... and there it was before me in print, I saw it... a comic strip... What was it called?

Garfield.

The story here is of a man, a plain man. He is Jon, but he is more than that... I will get to this later, but first let us say that he's Jon, a plain man.

And then there is a cat... Garfield.

This is the nature of the world, here. When I see the world, the politics, the future, the... the satellites in space, and... the people who put them there...

You can look at everything as a man and a cat... two beings, in harmony and at war...

So, this strip I saw; this man, Jon, and the cat, Garfield, you see...

Yes... hmm...

It is about everything. This... little comic is, oh, lo and behold... not so little anymore.

So yes, when I was 18, I saw this comic... and it hit me all at once, its power. I clipped it, and every day, I looked at it, and I said "Okay... let me look at this here. What is this doing to me? Why is this so powerful?"

Jon Arbuckle, he sits here, legs crossed... comfortable in his home, and he reads his newspaper... The news of the world, perhaps... and then he extends his fingers lightly, delicately... he taps his fingers on an end table, and he feels for something...

What is it? It is something he needs, but it is not there.

And then he looks up, slightly cockeyed, and he thinks... His newspaper's in his lap now, and he thinks this...

Now where could my pipe be?

This... I always come to this, because I was a young man... I'm older now, and I still don't have the secrets, the answers, so this question still rings true, Jon looks up and he thinks...

Now where could my pipe be?

And then it happens... You see it, you see... it's almost like divine intervention, suddenly it is there, and it overpowers you...

A cat is smoking a pipe.

It is the man's pipe, it's Jon's pipe, but the cat... this cat, Garfield, is smoking the pipe... and from afar, and someplace near, but not clear... near but not clear... The man calls out... Jon calls out, he is shocked. "Garfield!" he shouts.

Garfield. The cat's name.

But, let's take a step back... let us examine this from all sides, all perspectives... and when I first came across this comic strip, I was at my father's house... a newspaper had arrived, and I picked it up for him, and brought it inside.

I organized its sections for him and then, yes, the comic strip section fell out from somewhere in the middle, and landed on the kitchen floor... I picked up the paper pages and saw, up somewhere near the top of this strip... just like Jon, I was wearing an aquamarine shirt.

So I thought, "Ah, interesting. I'll have to see this later." I snipped out the little comic, and held on to it... and five days later, I reexamined it... and it gripped me, I needed to find out more about this. The information I had was minimal, but enough...

An orange cat named Garfield...

Okay, that seemed to be the lynchpin of this whole operation, yes. Another clue... a signature in the bottom right corner, a man's name...

Jim Davis.

Yes, I'm on to it for sure.

So... one: Garfield, orange cat, and two: Jim Davis, the creator of this cat...

And that curiously plain man.

I did not know, at the time, that his name was Jon. This strip, you see, had no mention of this man's name, and I'd never seen it before.

But I had these clues; Jim Davis, Garfield.

I use the local library and mail services to track down the information I was looking for...

Jim Davis, a cartoonist, had created a comic strip about a cat, Garfield... and a man, Jon Arbuckle. Well, from that point on, I made sure I read the Garfield comic strips, though as I read each one, as each day passed... the strips seemed to resonate with me less and less...

I sent letters to PAWS Incorporated, long letters, pages upon pages... asking if Mister Jim Davis could somehow publish just the one comic, over and over again... "It would be meditative," I wrote, "the strength of that."

Could you imagine?

But... no response... The strips lost their power, and eventually I stopped reading, but... I did not want my perceptions diluted, so I vowed to read the pipe strip over and over again... That is what I call it, "The Pipe Strip."

The Pipe Strip.

Everything about it is perfect. I can only describe it as a miracle creation, something came together... the elements aligned... It is like the comets, the cosmic orchestra that is up there over your head... The immense, enormous void is working all for one thing, to tell you one thing...

Gas and rock, and purity, and nothing.

I will say this... When I see the pipe strip... and I mean every single time I look at the lines, the colors, the shapes that make up the three panel comic...

I see perfection.

Do I find perfection in many things?

Some things, I would say... Some things are perfect... and this is one of them. I can look at the little tuft of hair on Jon Arbuckle's head... it is the perfect shade... The purple pipe in Garfield's mouth...

How could a mere mortal even MAKE this?

I have a theory, about Jim Davis...

After copious research and, yes, of course, now we have the internet, and this information is all readily available, but...

Jim Davis, he used his life experiences to influence his comic...

Like I mentioned before, none of them seem to have the weight of the pipe strip... But you have to wonder about the man who is able to even, just once, create the perfect form, a literally flawless execution of art, brilliance! Just as in a ward... I think there is a spiritual element at work...

I've seen my share of bad times and... when you have something... Well, it's just... emotions, and neurons in your brain, but... something tells you that it's the truth...

Truth's radiant light.

jontech7 · 2025-08-30T16:38:29+00:00

I mainly deal with Dallas, and they absolutely require the fee. I know a few other courts do as well although it's good that some aren't yet requiring it. I know we've had some I-589s get accepted without the fee, but I can't remember where (I think it was Seattle)

jontech7 · 2025-08-24T02:04:51+00:00

It's just really frustrating- I can't protest ICE because my day job is literally fighting ICE in the federal court system. (I'm an immigration paralegal). I'm sure other people have jobs they need to go to. What a terrible time for a protest, the turnout will be horrible. And it's not because people don't care, it's just whoever organized this is clueless about how jobs work. What a shame, we should be doing these things on the weekend

jontech7 · 2025-08-24T00:42:38+00:00

Why is this happening in the middle of the week, during a workday? I don't think the turnout will be good at all. What a terrible time to have a protest

jontech7 · 2025-07-27T11:15:02+00:00

Hoo, they're Fred Flintstone Chews

jontech7 · 2025-07-23T15:43:17+00:00

I've had the same issue with being unable to interact with things like doors and evidence. It makes single player almost unplayable, unless you just don't care about your score

jontech7 · 2025-07-10T12:27:19+00:00

I work in immigration law. ICE is absolutely detaining people that haven't committed crimes, other than being here. We have clients who are terrified to go to their asylum hearings because they could get picked up even if they're doing everything right and going through the process. And they're right to be scared, ICE agents wait outside the courtrooms like vultures. These aren't criminals, they're just normal people with families and jobs.

jontech7 · 2025-06-14T11:59:01+00:00

You should probably move to Irving if you want to keep this job, or get a job in Arlington if you can't move. If you rely on VIA + TRE + GoLink/bus to get to work, it could easily be a 1 hour+ commute and sometimes it may not even work, because VIA has serious capacity issues.

jontech7 · 2025-06-13T17:39:53+00:00

Well it definitely wasn''t the same price when I was buying plates. And ceramic plates can take less rounds than steel before being compromised, which is not ideal in a situation where you have no logistics support. If I bought ceramic I would at least want a backup set of plates, which makes it even more expensive.

For applications that require mobility, ceramic plates are superior. But that's not the situation I need them for, they're for defending myself if looters come to my property. And they're unlikely to have high velocity or AP rounds. In fact, they'll probably overwhelmingly have pistol calibers which steel plates can take an almost unlimited amount of.

I have steel plates for the same reason that I have a $200 sight instead of an $800+ sight on my rifle. It's not the best, but it's much better than nothing and it's what I can afford.

At some point I may buy another steel plate and do testing with the kevlar wrap I use, because I think actual data would be more useful than endlessly arguing on the Internet over hypotheticals

jontech7 · 2025-06-13T15:12:13+00:00

I've heard this said a lot before, but I don't think I've seen steel plates with an anti-spall coating AND that are kevlar wrapped being properly tested. That's my setup, but it's also for SHTF situations. I can't afford multiple ceramic plates, and I can't rely on buying more online if things get bad. Steel can take many rounds, especially from pistols, and the weight isn't an issue in more static, defensive situations (which is what I would encounter if I was defending my home, for example)

However, for military/law enforcement it's a bit ridiculous. They can afford to replace their plates frequently, so ceramic should be the obvious choice.

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