You’re probably right. I’ll admit it’s a self selection bias because I’m old enough to have made up my mind not to associate with people that have fundamentally different beliefs than I do.

So there are likely a lot of them, but none of them are MY friends, so it’s easy enough to believe in my little sphere.

Yeah dude, I’m fairly confident most of us dislike Reagan a fucking lot.

At least, most people in my generation that I hang out with, so it could be self selecting.

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Blue is the one that threw me, but once I caught purple I understood it.

Same. 14kW system on the roof, 2800 gallons of water storage refilled from well with electric pump. 4xPowerwall batteries for storage/backup, all electric appliances/hvac.

We can theoretically go for weeks as well, assuming moderate sun.

Central Texas, 260+ days of sun here.

So this is a bit of a personal peeve of mine, so please don’t take it as an attack or argumentative, I’m just offering a perspective.

Generally speaking, gamey is a misnomer. Unless, if by gamey you mean “doesn’t taste like domesticated beef”, in which case you’re right on, but gamey itself isn’t a flavor.

Every meat has its own distinct flavor and calling something gamey just indicates that it’s not culturally normal for you.

Tie it to the federal retirement age, which is currently 67.

TCEQ is a fucking joke. They’re a rubber stamp for anything industry wants, and they don’t care where.

Burnet county TX residents are currently trying to fight the installation of (another) rock crusher/quarry in an area with limited water and where three other similar plants already exist.

TCEQ rubber stamped their air quality permit after admitting they have ZERO air quality monitors in the entire county. But I’m sure it’s fine.

If that’s their approach, I’ll just refrain from doing business with a company whose default position is that their customers are intending to commit fraud.

Yeah… that should be tied to the product, not a person. And it doesn’t need a unique serial number. Take the old one back, verify it’s not a fraud, send the replacement. If it’s a fraud, destroy it and let the customer know why, then offer them credit on a genuine piece.

A backpack company doesn’t need to know who I am.

No one is wondering why a backpack has a serial number to begin with? Vehicles, sure. Electronics, ok. But a backpack? Why does it even need a serial number?

It’s essentially a clothing item. My t-shirts don’t have serial numbers. I’m just finding it a bit insane that a backpack would have a unique serial.