The episode aired in January 1998

Close, 1998.

Remember when the Dancing Baby was on Ally McBeal? Pepperidge Farms remembers

Edit to add a link to David Hasselhoff’s 1997 cover of Blue Swede’s cover of BJ Thomas’s “Hooked on a Feeling”

Is that for both gas and electricity? Because the article is only referencing natural gas.

Our natural gas bill in Texas has been creeping up and up despite reducing our consumption by replacing several gas appliances with electric. The gas companies see the writing on the wall and are moving to a regressive flat fee-based structure because their demand is cratering.

Next up, I want an induction stove

First, other countries can accept tariffs on their exports to the United States without retaliation, providing revenue to the U.S. Treasury to finance public goods provision. Critically, retaliation will exacerbate rather than improve the distribution of burdens and make it even more difficult for us to finance global public goods.

Second, they can stop unfair and harmful trading practices by opening their markets and buying more from America;

Third, they can boost defense spending and procurement from the U.S., buying more U.S.-made goods, and taking strain off our servicemembers and creating jobs here;

Fourth, they can invest in and install factories in America. They won’t face tariffs if they make their stuff in this country;

Fifth, they could simply write checks to Treasury that help us finance global public goods.

They genuinely still think other countries are the ones that will pay the tariffs…

Yes, and Trump has done it a lot. This is different though. This is going to undermine US trade relations permanently, even if he tries to walk back the tariffs or “cut deals” with some countries

Lichen can lichen my ass

You have a lot of rules in your head that don’t exist. Where did you learn these things? As a 40-something man who has lived a lot of life, nothing you’re saying here lines up with my observations of reality

Yeah, that was me, a few comments above lmao

One might argue the data derived from Tinder, Bumble, and Hinge users who also upload their data to Swipestats.io is unlikely to be representative of the general population

This graphic is making fun of the man-o-sphere bullshit idea that all women are only attracted to “alpha males,” my dude. You’ve totally missed the mark

This was a joke

Federal money is money paid by the states and the people though? Texas is one of those rare red states that actually pays more into the federal system than it receives.

Either way, this article is about sending disaster coordination responsibilities back to the states from the federal level, and that’s what I’m talking about. Texas can reasonably handle itself (as could e.g. California, New York, or Washington) whereas there are other states who are probably really going to struggle, like Louisiana, Mississippi, or West Virginia.

Are you talking about the Harvey response? I’m genuinely not sure. I’m from Louisiana, btw, solidly Cajun here. I lived in Houston over a decade after that. In no way trying to disrespect anyone

Pretty much everywhere that rarely gets snow shuts down when it snows. A lot safer to shut down for a couple days than to expect everyone who has no experience driving in winter weather go about their days

Fully functional? Lol

We certainly appreciate the help! But “dependent” might not be an accurate description

Basically a map of the most hurricane-impacted areas

No argument here. Hello from Travis County, where we get similar treatment

I live in Texas, and I recognize we would probably be able to handle our own disaster response, given our size, economic heft, and functioning government (this last one is arguable, but in general Texas is pretty good about keeping the things they want working).

I used to live in Louisiana, which would be totally fucked under this plan. They have no hope whatsoever to take care of themselves.