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Showing content with the highest reputation on 03/06/20 in all areas

  1. So, my attorney wife likes this one local judge who is R. She appears before him regularly, thinks he rules fairly, blah blah blah. Apparently the winner of the Democratic nom is an asshat who she thinks is dishonest, a bad attorney, whatever. There was this attorney thing going on at happy hour yesterday, so I went with my wife. That judge was there. We were introduced, and he said something like "Do I have your support in the general." I said "No." Conversation went something like: Judge: "But your wife is supporting my candidacy, the other guy is not so smart, blah blah blah". Me: "I will never ever vote for an R again." Judge: "What? Why?" Me: "One word: Trump" Judge: "What, why, this shouldn't be about Trump, I don't like Trump either, blah blah blah." Me: "Then switch parties to Independent or Democratic and I'll vote for you. I'll even put a sign in my yard, at least until the HOA tells me to take it down." Judge: "But but I'm a conservative..." Me (interrupting): "This stopped being about conservative vs liberal three years ago. I'm going to go get another beer." I have to admit, It felt good to say all that. My wife was not pleased however.
    23 points
  2. Whoever stole my wife's Ipad managed to return it to her desk later that day, and placed it below some papers she was working on.
    18 points
  3. 15 points
  4. Joe Biden: America’s Presidential slump buster.
    14 points
  5. Posted this on another thread but thought y’all might enjoy it here too. She was right in front of me sitting in traffic on I-30 in East Fort Worth. When I passed her I gave her the Hook’em and she smiled big and gave it right back. Pretty cool random encounter.
    13 points
  6. Biden might be the Dems’ W, but I’ll take it. It’s early morning in America. As in 1:59 AM at the Dirty 6th shots bar. This is no time to be picky.
    12 points
  7. I beg your pardon, good sir -- we have the finest experts on bird law in the business. We aren't going to stop it or contain it, and I don't think that any rational strategy would even have that goal. Our goal should be to slow the rate of spread so we can attenuate it/spread it out to avoid crashing our hospital/healthcare system. We can handle 200 people at a time hitting Austin hospitals for oxygen and ventilators, and we can do that for a long time. We can't handle 2,000 needing oxygen and ventilation all at once. Slow the rate of spread, and we can avoid crashing our hospitals, which means that we can provide better care to the critical patients, lowering the death rate. To me, that's the goal now.
    12 points
  8. That’s a bullshit take. You sound like someone cushioned by a middle level salary in a bloated corporation or government entity. Putting start-ups and small businesses together is hard fucking work and risky as hell. Your view, which I see espoused by critics who’ve never taken a risk in their life, is either naive or bitter. Early stage businesses can be fragile, like children. That doesn’t mean they shouldn’t exist. Restaurants and bars are often a labor of love and life for the investors and entrepreneurs. Every foodie and fan of good experiences and service should be saddened by this stuff. When you’re left with a bunch of fucking Landry’s chains, Chili’s, Red Lobster and fast food joints, I’m sure you and the city of Austin will remain very smug in your satisfaction of staving off the next addition to the common cold.
    11 points
  9. I can’t wait to sign up for your political science class
    10 points
  10. Dude get a safe instead of leaving heaters laying around the house when you're not home. It's probably going to get sold for drug $$$ and someone is going to wind up getting killed with your pistol.
    9 points
  11. Man. Trump looks....pissed.
    8 points
  12. Oh, and academic discussion aside -- the SXSW cancellation is going to be just awful for a lot of folks economically, including a lot of local small businesses. To the extent we can, we need to support them with our business in the coming months. Academic discussions on a board are one thing -- real people losing their livelihood in the real world is another. That sucks, and I truly and genuinely feel sorry as hell for a lot of folks around here.
    8 points
  13. The Onion’s Biden shtick was amazing. ”Advising the 1,500 new graduates to “check out this shit,” Vice President Joe Biden reportedly lost control of his rapidly twirling butterfly knife Saturday while delivering the commencement speech at the University of South Carolina.”
    8 points
  14. the rioting should have started a long, long time ago - and continued until Trump was physically removed from the White House. and he will be let off the hook once he is out of office, whenever that is. just like he has been with everything else. it will be chalked up to “moving on and healing.” there will be no meaningful consequences for Trump or any of his criminal family members of administration beyond what is already in the books (much of which will likely go away via pardons). they are all going to skate.
    8 points
  15. The "Biden is riddled with dementia" notion is frustrating to me. His brain might be slightly brittle due to age, but Biden's problem isn't due to a slow deterioration. Joe Biden is dumb. He's always been dumb and he has been lighting himself on fire by simply talking since the 80's. No matter how many times he's told, he can't speak to people without awkwardly touching them because his idiocy comes from an innate, simian core of stupid instinct that he can't ignore. He's incapable of speaking to other humans without playing with their hair or a button on their shirt like an infant who can't process their environment without physically touching it. He has managed to be stone fucking stupid multiple times without intense scrutiny. His overall image has somehow managed to be maintained by multiple appearances on cable news to discuss ONE topic for 40 seconds in the last 20 years. I remember when he looked keen and concise by railing against the Iraq War on MSNBC. It was an appearance that lasted about a minute with Chris Matthews. But the second it was over all you could say was "nice segment, Joe, but you voted for that war, you potato-brained drool tube." Joe Biden is dumb. He's old, but he's not dumb because he's old. He's just dumb as a fucking stump because he's dumb. 9 months of intensely parsing every sentence recklessly mumbled by Joe Biden will immerse all of us in a swirling toilet flush idiocy. Maybe it won't matter. Trump said some of the dumbest shit I've ever heard in 2015 and won. We're about to witness a bonanza festival of idiocy with two presidential candidates in the name of mainstream normalcy. This election might be decided by who luckily manages to bump into the least sharp-cornered objects. Hopefully every room will have covered wall sockets and smooth, rounded edges on the furniture. Godspeed. We're all counting on you.
    8 points
  16. Think the Knicks are way ahead of this with no fans in attendance for their home games.
    7 points
  17. Damn...my buddy runs Turf n Surf (restaurants in Lavaca Street Bars). His tacos are awesome and you need to go try them if you haven’t. His blackened ribeye and fish are very, very good. Look at his Yelp reviews. Anyhow...he’s having to borrow money to stay open because of SXSW cancellation. Please stop by and support him if you can. I promise you the food is that damn good.
    7 points
  18. How bizarre. Elon Musk is above reproach on any subject because he's a brilliant inventor and entrepreneur? What did Henry Ford have to say about the Spanish Flu?
    7 points
  19. Yeah, I mean something that has been occurring, and steadily growing, since the 80s definitely shouldn’t be considered stable enough to feed a significant portion of a small business. Fuck those shortsighted business owners and the people who are stupid enough to work for them. They should have taken their talents to Starbucks or Taco Bell. Oh, and how about the dumbasses who are stupid enough to build communities around a ski resorts? Those dipshits should have seen the planet warming years ago and stuck to providing summer entertainment.
    7 points
  20. We have spent BILLIONS in the past three years in a frantic panic about MS-13 and ISIS and shit like that.....which in that period, MS-13 in the US killed [checks stats published by the strongly anti-immigrant group the Center for Immigration Studies] around 100 people, and ISIS/islamic terrorists in the US killed [checks stats, which are hard to find, can't find much] 8 people. So, we've dedicated all of these efforts to stop something that kills around 40 people a year.....and we slash funding and efforts to deal with a problem that could kill hundreds of thousands in a year. Trumpist, fear-based politics is absolutely the belief system for people who are really, really, REALLY shitty at math.
    7 points
  21. I thought the question the (KEYE?) reporter asked Adler was a good one Reporter: ”Two days ago you said you had no power to cancel SXSW, you could only suggest such. But now you're saying you’re canceling the event. How can both be true and what changed?” Adler: “Uhhh...”
    7 points
  22. You two need to just dock and get it over with.
    7 points
  23. The Democrats' utter silence on how badly Trump has bungled this is infuriating. They need to be pounding the fucking table about all of the personnel and procedures Obama had put in place that Trump fired and abandoned and going on every cable channel attacking the administration for ignoring this entirely until the market started to panic. These assholes have spent years now telling us they want to run on health care. Now they've got the opportunity to do so and they're quiet.
    7 points
  24. I disagree. He may not make YOU feel anything, but there's a reason the Medal of Freedom video made people tear up. There's a reason the memes with Obama went viral. There's a reason pictures of him sitting at a Whataburger make the rounds on social media. He's authentic, or at least can make people think he is. He seems like a real human being. And that shouldn't matter, but it does. Especially when you look across the ticket. And I know we are all cynical here online, but moments like the one below will make a difference and they are something that the other establishment candidates (Hillary, Gore, Kerry) that Biden is being compared to were wholly incapable of producing.
    7 points
  25. Yeah, what's the use of a safe if you don't use it. I keep a 1911 in a biometric safe affixed vertically to the side of the nightstand facing the bed. With two dogs in the room with us and an alarm and cameras, I have plenty of time to get the little safe open. There's more to being a gun owner than just owning a gun.
    7 points
  26. If I take my readers off it’s like wanking it to scrambled showtime when I was a kid.
    6 points
  27. Looks like they will need to cut teacher salaries, close pools in East Austin and close down the Zilker train forever. Bike lane funds not affected.
    6 points
  28. This has good hour to hour data: Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases by Johns Hopkins CSSE China has been sitting on 80k cases this week, while outside of China has blown up by 11-12k new cases since 3/1. Look at the graph in the lower right corner of the link, expand it and use the 3 options at the bottom to look at "daily cases" and then "new confirmed". What you can appreciate is a linear slope which speaks to rate of new cases/day. China spiked in mid/late January then started a level/downslope. What it shows over the last two weeks is the global curve outside of China and today we're essentially at the rate of new cases per day that China was at its peak, and it sure looks like an up-slope over the last two weeks, i.e. infection rate is increasing outside of China. Yes you can point to fuzzy incomplete stats and the effect of increased testing, but the big picture view that the graph depicts makes sense and is generally also consistent with what's being reported here in the US. I was hopeful a week ago that Covid-19 was actually already pretty widespread in the US over the past month and we simply didn't recognize it, which in it;s own way is kind of reassuring, but unfortunately I don't think it was nearly that prevalent, or as prevalent as it's about to be.
    6 points
  29. He has a quarter melded to his skull.
    6 points
  30. Lulz. More like "getting to be married." Melania would be getting fisted for tokens on chaturbate to pay the rent if she didnt manage to attach herself to Donald's bank account.
    6 points
  31. Excellent article for sure. And pos rep for reminding to copy/paste plain text (wish more would do that simple task). I Lived Through SARS and Reported on Ebola. These Are the Questions We Should Be Asking About Coronavirus. For concerned civilians and journalists covering the coronavirus, the figures and projections can be overwhelming, frightening or confusing. Here’s what reporter Caroline Chen is focusing on to keep things as accurate and clear as possible. I grew up in Hong Kong and was 13 when SARS swept through the city, infecting about 1,750 people and killing nearly 300. As a teenager, the hardest part was being stuck at home and missing my friends. I only started to pay attention to the daily death toll after my parents decided that’s what would dictate when I could go back to school. But the experience shaped me. I picked up personal hygiene habits, like pressing elevator buttons with my knuckles. And I developed a deep respect for front-line medical workers, many of whom labored around the clock until they, too, succumbed. That was only my first experience with an outbreak. In 2014, I was a rookie reporter on the Bloomberg News health desk helping to cover the growing Ebola crisis in West Africa when we got word that the U.S. had its first diagnosed patient. My editor looked down his row of reporters and his eyes fell on me, the one with no familial obligations. “Hey Caroline,” he said, “want to go to Dallas today?” The experience gave me a deeper look into how governments and scientists grapple with a fast-moving, deadly target. I learned about contact tracing as I tagged along with CDC disease detectives. A colleague and I delved deep into how the government’s cumbersome contracting process delayed the development of a possible treatment for Ebola. I later covered Zika, reporting on Florida’s lonely fight against the virus, as Congress gave the state little assistance. Every time, I’ve seen the same gaps emerge in the public’s understanding of what’s really happening. On one side, I have epidemiologists and lab directors explaining to me, in excruciating detail, nuanced models and technicalities, like how PCR assays work. On the other side, I see oversimplified headlines and misleading statistics touted by government officials. Now I’m on ProPublica’s coronavirus reporting team, speaking to dozens of sources every day, from epidemiology experts and worried medical workers to members of the public, who are not sure what to take from the headlines they’re seeing. ProPublica specializes in accountability journalism, and our goal is to find out what’s happening and let the public know of any shortfalls in emergency response. Here’s what you need to know:
    6 points
  32. So maybe electing a huckster reality tv star as President has consequences. Who could have predicted that?
    6 points
  33. Wells followed with this note: Aledo studs JoJo Earle (‘21 4* WR) and BJ Allen (‘22 stud DB) are coming to UT this weekend, both confirm to IT. Texas is going full throttle in the Earle sweepstakes. We’ll have more in the Humidor.
    6 points
  34. Plenty of married dudes on here who won't get laid ever again if they don't have a post or two of remorse to read out loud to the wife. j/k not really
    6 points
  35. I'm sorry, but I think this is ridiculous. Joe Biden favors a public option. I recognize that it's not the plan you want. But it's certainly not a "rightward" movement. He will reinstate DACA and pass it into law. I would like more. But that's not a "rightward" movement. He has a plan to invest trillions of dollars in green energy with a goal of zero carbon emissions by 2050. Maybe we could do better. But it's not a "rightward" movement. Joe Biden wasn't my first choice (or my second or third or fourth). But he's going to be our nominee. And more than being just better than Trump, he actually has policies that are good. And at some point, you need to be happy with pretty good.
    6 points
  36. In more coronavirus updates, my wife miraculously found the only place left in San Antonio that still had hand sanitizer. It was a custodial supply place that allegedly is the go to source for the local police and fire departments. They apparently have a chemist who supplies them directly, and the alcohol concentration is upward of 75% vs. the regular 60% that the local ignoranti are using. All you 60% motherfuckers are surely going to die or get the heebie jeebies. Unsurprisingly, my wife cleaned them out of whatever stock they had plus she special ordered 4 more fucking gallons of the shit. She somehow spent $137 on got damn hand sanitizer. She's also hoarding the shit from her family -- don't tell Typhoon Mary that we are sitting on the motherlode because we ain't sharing. The good news is that whatever we don't use to clean our hands (I estimate around 3.9 gallons), I'm pretty sure I can mix with Topo Chico and lime and get shitfaced.
    6 points
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