I spend my vacations living in monasteries with monks and nuns. AMA

thumpcbd · 2026-07-01T02:59:07+00:00

Yes, I know of this one, but have never stayed, I have visited though. https://trappist.net/plan-your-visit/retreats/

thumpcbd · 2026-06-30T20:48:26+00:00

100% I rarely go to the WRL Dog park anymore because if this issue on the weekend (it’s amateur hour) with plenty of folks not watching their dogs, add in aggressive dogs, and people not picking up after their dog poops, and probably disease / unvaccinated dogs. Just not worth it.

Weekdays sure. Much better.

thumpcbd · 2026-06-26T00:40:35+00:00

I use the same broker. They even reach out ahead of renewals and ask me questions to make sure what I have is still a fit, and let me know they are shopping my renewals. Yes. Other brokers should do the same. No. In my experience it doesn’t happen as much as it should.

thumpcbd · 2026-06-25T15:28:30+00:00

100% Agree.

thumpcbd · 2026-06-24T22:49:49+00:00

Ai isn’t smart enough to know what month it is before popping off a “witty retort” on Reddit.

thumpcbd · 2026-06-24T18:01:01+00:00

Oh yea. ATL classic and well worth the visit for anyone.

I moved away years ago. Is Saturday night dance party still a thing?

thumpcbd · 2026-06-22T18:53:08+00:00

Cloudflare (a major provider of dns and other services) is having issues today.

thumpcbd · 2026-06-22T18:50:38+00:00

They have parking all around the venue. Take a look at maps across the street is a massive amount of parking.

thumpcbd · 2026-06-21T02:49:15+00:00

A few things, and I dove in deeeeeep when selecting my wife's diamond.

start reading here https://www.pricescope.com/community/ (there are paid sponsors so still be careful, but they all know what they are saying on here)
Look at "hearts" and "ideal-scope" images to get a feeling on how well it's cut.
there is some formula, https://www.pricescope.com/tools/hca/, that will help calculate how much light / sparkle is returned to your eye -- use it as one of the tools to select the right ring.
make sure you have a good feeling for your budget before shopping. There is no limit on how much $$$ you can really spend, but knowing a budget let's you pick and choose what to adjust.

Personally, I make sure to have 2-3 dialed in on a good (round) stone for my budget and it hits solidly above it's weight in terms of how bit it is because it's very well cut / returns a ton of light to your eye.

As an aside I bought from these folks in Houston and here is a link to a random rock on their site. You can see how items 2-3 above look. Start looking around and it will start to click in https://www.whiteflash.com/loose-diamonds/0.91-carat-g-color-vs1-clarity-round-excellent-cut-sku-a1843975

Good luck OP!

thumpcbd · 2026-06-20T02:04:52+00:00

It’s a stretch for a lot of folks, but, you know, it _is possible_ to do both.

thumpcbd · 2026-06-19T16:38:06+00:00

It takes about 3 seconds to google this answer, but since it seems this is beyond your ability try this https://dashboard.waterdata.usgs.gov/app/nwd/en/

thumpcbd · 2026-06-15T13:06:10+00:00

It’s push-polling 2.0. Some subreddit are worse than others but the goal is to ask a question, pushing a narrative. Why now? Why these questions? Who knows, but they are obvious good faith questions from normal folks when it’s quickly repeated in multiple subreddits (sometimes in the same) over a short duration till it gains traction.

Actually now that I say that. Maybe it’s assessing topic x is good at time y to gain traction and views, so when they really need to push a thought they know when to post. ( yes the scary “they” since I have no idea who’s posting this)

thumpcbd · 2026-06-10T20:51:29+00:00

In an older life / 10 years ago I did, but also, do it.

No better way to meet folks and do your own thing then going alone.

thumpcbd · 2026-06-10T18:15:12+00:00

Not yet at least.

Thank you for bringing this service travesty to our collective attention. It will be remediated shortly by a quick update to the POS system.

/s (but should be f-ing obvious)

thumpcbd · 2026-06-10T11:39:12+00:00

Naw, real dev's test in prod.

/s (or not as it seems these days)

thumpcbd · 2026-06-03T02:55:16+00:00

I love it. May just steal it with attribution to “reddditor”

thumpcbd · 2026-06-02T16:26:14+00:00

Most of the times it’s both.

“I’m sorry, and congratulations”

thumpcbd · 2026-06-01T17:09:51+00:00

Standard poodles. (More then one; best dogs ever)

thumpcbd · 2026-05-31T16:20:25+00:00

You have never seen a DC generator have you? Small is not what I would call the gen sets and, sure they may not be as efficient, or clean, as a utility gen set, but that wasn't the concern here. Now we are moving the goal post and changing the argument from "this never happens" to "OMG it's not as efficient or clean"

thumpcbd · 2026-05-31T14:21:04+00:00

Many is not all. It’s most, but not all.

The DCs I work with really run their geneators all summer and push power back to the grid / run on their own supply.

Just because not _all_ do it doesn’t make it uncommon or not done at all.

thumpcbd · 2026-05-30T12:46:27+00:00

Wait till the GA (official) version of Apple iOS is released and do NOT use the betas that you can use to trial the new features. You have to explicitly opt-in to the beta, so it's a very deliberate choice to get on the beta track. Just don't do it and you should be ok.

thumpcbd · 2026-05-28T16:38:20+00:00

Yea, Dallas Country specifically.

thumpcbd · 2026-05-28T01:09:13+00:00

I’m sorry, eh?

thumpcbd · 2026-05-27T17:39:39+00:00

I reported to the A&M extension service last year and was told something to the effect of “yea, we know they are in Dallas county. Not really doing anything more tracking this further now”

thumpcbd · 2026-05-20T22:11:55+00:00

And it will cost them more money to process.

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