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re: Mass casualty event

Posted by Rize on 4/28/25 at 11:27 pm
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I've noticed this too from watching police bodycams on YouTube. It'll be the middle of the day and an older white lady will get pulled over absolutely blitzed. It's insane.


I only make just enough money to make sure my older white lady wife has to work. It eliminates the blitzed days to Sunday bottomless mimosas.

re: Stupid 401k company match question

Posted by Rize on 4/28/25 at 7:51 pm
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This got me curious, I know my company match is very good, 8% (Technically it’s 50% of the first 8% matched, plus an additional 4% profit sharing) I’m very grateful for it and obviously take full advantage, but it got me wondering, is this abnormally high?


My shite is complicated as hell so I don’t even know what the match is. There is some formula they take into consideration for tenure on esop portion.

I put in 12k to 14k and they put in around 20k to 23k the last few years.

re: 3rd & Longhorn: Mack Brown Interview

Posted by Rize on 4/27/25 at 10:23 am
I’m going to check it out on my drive back home this afternoon.
I am up on my accounts YTD but still down from the end of last year.
I’m not sure but I’m positive on my accounts YTD now.

re: Reveal x 3.0 or the Reveal Pro 3.0

Posted by Rize on 4/25/25 at 12:01 pm
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Yes sir, other than the battery life, everything else about them was awesome. We tried changing settings and pic delay times. Nothing solved it. When u got to swap batteries on 14 cameras every weekend that gets costly quick


Yeah the reveal isn’t much better. I was in a bind by not planning so I bought a bunch of lithium batteries and they were dead in a month :lol:

Never again will I use batteries.

re: Reveal x 3.0 or the Reveal Pro 3.0

Posted by Rize on 4/25/25 at 11:31 am


I have a mix of the 2.0 and 3.0 but all I think are the pros. They all seem to take pretty good pics when I look at the on my phone in the app.

I like the app better than my stealth cams and the price is better. Ended shutting off the stealth cams because they couldn’t get my pricing right. Kept charging me $35 a month for 2 cams. I think it’s $12 for each additional cam you add to Reveal.

re: Reveal x 3.0 or the Reveal Pro 3.0

Posted by Rize on 4/25/25 at 11:22 am
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I tried the WiseEye last year. Had 18 of the DataCam 2. Battery life sucks with them. I tried there solar panels and lithium batteries also. Didn’t make a difference


Man that sucks to hear. I have no problems with the Tactacam/battery pack and solar setup.

Only issue is squirrels will eat the cord occasionally so then you have to replace with one of the metal ones.

re: Thermals...School Me

Posted by Rize on 4/25/25 at 11:05 am
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They are now Noxpix or whatever. They use Chinese stuff so they had to rebrand. Do want you want with that info. I’m not a fan of their image. Too much contrast and it seems to always needs focus.


I have a Pulsar XP50 2 currently. Would it be worth it to upgrade or wait a few more years for the technology to change.

Also what’s you favorite settings to get the best image for scanning open fields at long distances.

re: Reveal x 3.0 or the Reveal Pro 3.0

Posted by Rize on 4/25/25 at 9:25 am
I buy the Pro’s and run 14 of them. I’d look at wise eye and their ranch package if you’re going to run a lot of cams.
I hope he falls to the third round. His dad is a dick and apparently the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

This dude will be a major bust.
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I didn't swear off but I will say that 10 years ago, I'd have skipped a family member's wedding for a run of the mill LSU SEC game and now frick, I don't think I watched a single game last year when it happened. I watched SOME replay action. This, from a guy who used to sit in his car in Florida during the fricking Chad Loup / Jesse Daigle era to listen to scratch AM radio being boomed by LSU back then.


You sound grumpy.
I feel sorry for anyone that has stayed in their home town. I moved 1200 miles away at 20 from Beaumont TX to Phoenix AZ in 2002. Then I moved 2100 miles from Phoenix to Charlotte in 2006. Moved to Baton Rouge in 2011 and now Spring Texas in 2024.

I have enjoyed my time in all places but couldn’t see myself living in Arizona again unless I went North of Phoenix.

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A lot less than you would pay in income tax if you can afford a half million dollar house and you actually get shite for what you pay. If you’re just an idiot conscious objector to taxes, I get it. If you are a half way intelligent person you don’t complain about Texas tax system


4k seems low for the woodlands on 500k but I’m not a tax expert and most info you find isn’t accurate or outdated. I googled the tax rate for my neighborhood and got 2.01% to 1.97% but when I pulled the tax info and added it up it was 1.58%.

I paid around $17,000 a year in state income tax in Louisiana and paid another $6500 in property taxes. The tolls in Texas probably average out the difference in the sales tax. I’m in one of the lowest tax rates that I could find and looks like I’ll be paying 20k in property taxes if I don’t win my protest and it should be 13.5k to 14k based on purchase price.

Property tax would be close to 40k if I bought in the neighborhood next door with the new proposed appraisal.
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An aquatinace just told me she paid cash for her daughter's car.


I finance everything but I’m a retard.

I have a spending problem and if I want it bad enough I’ll just finance it if the rates are decent vs waiting to pay cash.

Hell I’d probably still buy stuff on layaway if I could :lol:

re: Anyone financed a new car lately?

Posted by Rize on 4/24/25 at 10:52 pm
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Pay cash


I like cars too much to pay cash. Not the best financial decision but I’ve always been a car guy so it’s something I spend my disposable income on.