Tarps99
| Favorite team: | New Orleans Saints  |
| Location: | Lafourche Parish |
| Biography: | SLHS/Nicholls grad |
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| Number of Posts: | 12654 |
| Registered on: | 4/29/2017 |
| Online Status: | Not Online |
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re: Cali spent $189 million to give iPads to every state prisoner. They use them for grooming
Posted by Tarps99 on 5/13/26 at 6:49 pm to Oilfieldbiology
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Why do prisoners get iPads? Prison isn’t supposed to be pleasant.
If they give them something, it should be a ten year old android tablet that is so slow you can measure the response time with a sundial.
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They were bad a few weeks ago, now coming back with a vengeance.
I wonder if they evolved into different broods like the cicadas. One week is this brood and another week is another brood.
Or they are triggered by weather patterns. It was a few weeks if not months since this area had a lot of rain. These suckers like damp and moist conditions.
Our resident entomologists or etymologists can chime in.
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What’s it like to live in Chalmette
Every once and a while a refinery goes boom, and the locals hate progress when the port decides to build a new cargo terminal.
I have a few cousins that have relocated to there from south Plaquemines.
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Because this would accomplish next to nothing?
You sure about that. An acre of land can produce anywhere from 300 to 500 MW hours per year.
That could definitely put a dent in the energy consumption of the data center especially if the data center covers a large area with a large roof. I would be better there than a consuming more farmland or placing it on residential roofs.
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With data centers consuming vast amounts of regional electric power and driving up prices in some markets I could see owners of single family homes eventually rethinking the math on if a solar panel and battery system might make sense for them.
How about these massive data centers put solar panels on their roofs first without subsidies and see how that goes?
re: Annual post Mother’s Day termite thread
Posted by Tarps99 on 5/13/26 at 8:31 am to CaptainJ47
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Is this how the hantavirus spreads?
Might be how the apocalypse starts.
Revelation 9:3-11 KJV
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And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads. And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man. And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them. And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men. And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions. And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle. And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months. And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.
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experiencing homelessness
Did the writer have a quota on characters?
You could have just written that he was homeless.
Didn’t know some people got their language pointers from drug ads.
re: La. Senate committee to take up redistricting at 6:30 pm
Posted by Tarps99 on 5/13/26 at 6:27 am to OysterPoBoy
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love how they think they can’t be represented by a white. shite, I’ve had Cleo as my rep forever. You think he and I agree on much? Am I disenfranchised?
Here is a bold idea, not sure if it would hold any constitutional mustard.
Drop the district shenanigans and go at large congressional districts. That way everyone in the state has a say on who represents the state in the House.
Not sure the best way to ballot it as six separate races or one race and pick 6 candidates like some areas have for aldermen races.
re: Medical Experts: Hantavirus may be more contagious than previously thought
Posted by Tarps99 on 5/12/26 at 9:48 am to The Pirate King
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Medical Experts:
Whenever someone postulates a headline: ________ Experts Say ______.
Expect some major major bullshite and conjecture to follow.
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My GI tract has turned into such a pussy.
Same here while on the big Ozempic. Some food like red beans give me the sulfur burps and smell like arse coming out my mouth instead of the other end.
Also when taking a dump, it feels like you are trying to pass a kidney stone out your arse.
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I still can’t believe a place as big as Walmart or 7/11 doesn’t have tap to pay at check out or pump.
Walmart while it doesn’t support tap to pay, it does have something called Walmart Pay.
To use Walmart Pay, open the Walmart app in-store, select "Walmart Pay," and scan the QR code displayed on the checkout screen with your phone camera. Ensure a credit, debit, or gift card is linked in your account wallet. This contactless system, which requires a PIN or fingerprint, eliminates paper receipts by providing a digital version.
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My Australian Shepherd learned if I pulled out the cast iron skillet there was a high chance the smoke detectors would go off and she’d hide lol
My German Shepherd sees me in the kitchen and she will plant herself there waiting on me to give her something like cheese or some of the food I am cooking.
re: How smart is your dog?
Posted by Tarps99 on 5/11/26 at 11:44 am to TigerReich
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a Bread Pug
They do come in the same size as a loaf of bread. And they have feet and a tail. The dark brown/black ones are the ones that were in the oven for too long.
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The caveat is important: Clinton did not do this alone. He had a booming economy, the post-Cold War defense “peace dividend,” higher tax revenues, the 1993 tax increase, welfare reform, and, after 1994, a Republican Congress pressuring spending restraint
But by 1998 or 1999 that economy was built on a stack of paper and eventually collapsed in the dot com bubble and companies like Worldcom and Enron went bust. You also had some fiscal restraint where the federal government was not funding countless green new deals, early education programs, Medicare Part D, TSA, subsidized health insurance, etc.
In case you missed the segment:
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I'm waiting until they make a Taylor Swift Holograph Projection Concert to see her because I think once it's done like that ticket prices might be reasonable.
I am waiting on the Brittney Spears comeback concert series special.
re: Penny hoarding
Posted by Tarps99 on 5/10/26 at 9:47 am to LazloHollyfeld
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Just so you know, my 6 yr old nephew is devastated the penny is no longer being produced (no idea why) and has made it his personal mission to become president one day and reinstate the penny - so don’t get too comfortable collecting it.
By the time he is elected president in 30 years, a dollar will carry the same value as a penny. An all transactions will be rounded to the nearest dollar and most transactions will be digital with some limited paper transactions.
re: Frontier Airlines Denver - Entering Coulter Rule Territory?
Posted by Tarps99 on 5/10/26 at 7:53 am to OccamsStubble
Could it have been a way ward traveler that got dumped on the car rental lot and their car wasn’t there and had to walk back to the car counter and ended up on the runway.
I always think of that scene when I have to use airport bus transportation to get from point A to point B like MSY or LAS to get to the car rental place.
I always think of that scene when I have to use airport bus transportation to get from point A to point B like MSY or LAS to get to the car rental place.
re: Did any meteorologist predict this much rain? Who has flooded already?
Posted by Tarps99 on 5/9/26 at 5:12 pm to TigerDCC11
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The "Weather" people were absolutely clueless on this system. During the week, they were saying, "It won't be as bad as last weekend".
A retired TV meteorologist this week put a blast on Facebook about the current crop of meteorologists and how they drifted away from showing you satellite imagery and explaining how the weather pattern is developing. Every thing now is computer models and the forecasts change in the blink of an eye or are so long term they are merely an educated guess by a computer. And they parrot what the computer tells them.
He even blasted one TV station that is paying top dollar to a marketing firm to get the title of most accurate weather cast, yet except for their chief meteorologist that retired not along has been a carousel of different meteorologists (one of whom made it on here for an incident at Gretna Fest). He said that his station was approached by the same firm wanting $$$ and they turned them down because they knew they were a scam.
I wonder if they do the same for Vandy and Acadiana.
Double header tonight if Vandy loses pack a sleeping bag and a tent in case it rains 9:30 start time for game 3. Although Vandy manhandled them in the fourth scoring nearly 10 runs in the inning alone.
That late time reminds me of some of those SEC tournament contests that went into the wee hours of the morning.
Double header tonight if Vandy loses pack a sleeping bag and a tent in case it rains 9:30 start time for game 3. Although Vandy manhandled them in the fourth scoring nearly 10 runs in the inning alone.
That late time reminds me of some of those SEC tournament contests that went into the wee hours of the morning.
re: Been waiting to land at MSY for 45 minutes circling the gulf
Posted by Tarps99 on 5/8/26 at 4:11 pm to kywildcatfanone
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You are supposed to be on airplane mode
Some flights have gate to gate wifi.
Even my Breeze flight a few weeks ago had it.
It is from Imersat, download speeds were pretty fast in the tens of Mbps and not SpaceX.
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