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Bozo_Casanova

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  1. 2014-2016. You know, back when a bunch of really painful choices were visible on the horizon but still avoidable.
  2. A few years ago I pitched a couple of school board members that AISD could solve several problems at once by redeveloping AISD properties and even school campuses to offer housing to teachers, staff, city and county employees, and families with children enrolled in AISD schools. The families would get slightly* below market rate rental housing in 3 and 4 bedroom apartment, row home and courtyard bungalow units. The district would get an infusion of young families with kids AND a recruiting and retention tool, and by offering it to other parts of the public sector AISD would strengthen interagency cooperation and open up other potential sources for financing and land. It also makes transportation more efficient, Austin would get some missing middle housing, etc. Because, you see, AISD’s biggest problem is a mismatch between the places where the schools are (Austin) and the places where young families and teachers can afford to live (suburbs). Anyway, one nonsensically said it seemed like “a cash grab for developers.” The other said “the neighborhood groups will burn me at the stake if I suggested something like this.” *not subsidized or offered through rental assistance, just priced a little cheaper.
  3. He’s a liability for all four. The T-Wolves are the worst matchup in the field for the Lakers. This
  4. Who would they put in?
  5. The interesting thing is that it stirred up a hornet’s nest on the tankie left and (for different reasons) among nominally democrat voting neighborhood reactionaries, who increasingly are making common cause with suburban Republicans at the state level. The alliance of the Austin Neighborhood Coalition with Bill Aleshire and Ken Paxton to stop zoning reform and transit planning being a local example.
  6. Shortages would be the least of our problems in the “bad” scenario.
  7. The short version is that commodity products are priced by market forces in real time and fundamentally subject to demand. The long answer is extremely complex and the extremely long, but relatively straightforward in that you can’t price in what the market won’t accept, so who ends up wearing the cost increase comes down to 1) elasticity, 2) who has leverage and, 3 on the other hand, who has the balance sheet to use a secular cost increases to consolidate share. The bigger and stronger a player is, the most likely it is that for inelastic goods they eat cost or even lower prices to take share unless they think nobody else can. Contracts are unimportant. Most high volume relationships are done on what amounts to papered up handshake.
  8. Very underrated IMO Very overrated IMO Say more about this- what school, what’s your connection, where does it go, etc.
  9. Yeah and I’d like to talk through her options for MS-13 insurance.
  10. Who would they put in? I like Dodo but the lakers roster is dogshit outside of the top 4 guys.
  11. “they believed that they were making the best trade on behalf of the Denver Nuggets. Whether that turns out to be true, again, only time will tell.” - Adam Silver, probably
  12. Well, that’s enough internet for today
  13. Watching this game is so weird. The wolves are very good at every spot, and the Lakers only have one real starter-caliber player other than LBJ and Luka.
  14. How embarrassing, my gawd
  15. Looks like he’s smuggling hams into the park
  16. I grew up in tech. My Dad was an engineer in the HCF era, and I’m old enough to remember when I was a kid and they had ashtrays next to the dumb terminals in what would now be called “data centers.” I got my first job in tech in 1999 and spent the next 25 years at 5 companies. I left tech 18 months ago for a lot of reasons. I was running towards something more than running away from anything, and I would go back if I needed to, but from one old veteran to another, the ride is over. We had a hell of a run, though.
  17. Not related to politics exactly but Nissan needs to bring back the Xterra and launch a barebones Mini truck to compete with the Maverick.
  18. And a woman who’s a little plump, scotch girl, and a daughter who‘s thirteen.
  19. You try feeding that with a little 12oz roll. It ain’t gonna work.
  20. Agreed, we are not talking about the same thing. I understand your point. My point is that Christians have been spent the last 500 years beating each other up over your point, and should not do that.
  21. Ok, fine - BUT that line is for Christ to draw and for you to think about. If the church can and in fact does acknowledge that those who, through no fault of their own, do not know the Gospel of Christ or his Church, but who nevertheless seek God with a sincere heart and, moved by grace, try in their actions to do his will as they know it through the dictates of their conscience may achieve salvation, SURELY those who think of themselves as Christians can acknowledge the same thing about other Christians, or at least spend more time consider the great beam in their own eye.
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