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Bozo_Casanova

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  1. Holy shit a huge unlock today. Now I know what I’m supposed to do with my wrists and why I keep topping the ball and hooking (bad address, rushing, wrong grip). This makes much more sense. 7i just went from 125->160. Driver from 170 with a bad hook to basically straight and 235 at 75% effort. Also getting 190 off the tee and 165 off the deck with a 5h, but I’m not sure what the point of a 5h is other than it came with my set. Why not just grab a 6 iron? Of course I’m 3 weeks in, so about 40-50% of the time everything is fucked. In short this game sucks and I think about it all the time.
  2. Fuckin A man. I hear you but a national profile means jack shit in a May primary and you’ve got to win in Bouldin Creek, Hyde Park, French Place near South Austin, etc and she’s personal friends with all the vote ropers at the precinct level. It’s similar to the Obama vs Bobby Rush dynamic in 2000. She’s just very strong on the ground. My guy tells me she’s not running, and I hope that means she’s going to go after Danny G. But if she decides she wants to serve in congress, Greg is in for the first real test of his career.
  3. Man, I would never bet against Sarah Eckhardt in a Travis County primary. She’s well liked and all that, but also, her organizational strength is unreal.
  4. He would’ve been an awesome reacher
  5. Yes and no. It’s not his DNA. But he usually killed with an accomplice, and on more than one occasion he forced the accomplice to rape the victim.
  6. I think John Cena is a very good comedic actor, and comedy is much harder to pull off than drama. Based on the few dramatic scenes in the first season, I would really like to see him in a serious role at some point.
  7. He’s good, but he’s not any more talented or better than Greg Casar. He just happens to be running for Mayor of New York City and drew an inside straight, so he gets a lot of run. Speaking of Greg, I’m a little worried about his future at the moment. I tried to convince him to run in the new district 37 because I think he could win. I think Doggett could win it too, but with Doggett opting to retire, it’s very possible Sara Eckhardt will get in the primary for 35. I don’t think Greg wants any part of that. He could still win, and I like contested primaries, but she wouldn’t have to leave the Senate so the risk is much higher for him and either way there’s going to be a lot of blood on the floor when it’s done.
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  9. Jesus. It’s worse than we thought
  10. I’m sorry I don’t have one goddamn second for purely representational arguments about what color of well connected ivy-leaguers get to talk.
  11. The government is carrying out literal purges and these silly mfs are worried about who gets to talk on cable news. We are cooked.
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  13. Oh right. I think I had some $20 chilaquiles there a few months back. It was decent but expensive and full of insufferable single millennials with loudly ticking biological clocks glaring at each other.
  14. There’s this joyless vegan restaurant on Toomey. I can’t remember the name, but it’s fucking terrible. You’d love it.
  15. I’ve never heard of Joann’s. Some kind of clip joint, I take it? Do scantily clad women sit down at your table and strike up conversation before asking you to buy them some Cucumber Fingers?
  16. I never order that drink because most bartenders make it so poorly, and a bar one is legit terrible.
  17. What’s gone underreported is the new admission requirement that the brow of applicants be inspected for the outward signs of moral defect or onanist tendencies.
  18. If you are looking for a model, go see Community First Village on Hog Eye road. People say that’s too expensive, but in reality it’s much more cost effective than anything else, for the simple reason that it works.
  19. The irony is that Bernie has been on the receiving end of the purity tests as often as not- Hillary Clinton and The Groups burned him at the stake for suggesting that rural Vermont and New York City should have different approaches to gun regulation.
  20. Opening this thread like
  21. Thank YOU for giving a fuck about the human being sitting in front of you in a world where most people just look away.
  22. Well, there you have it. Nothing ventured and predictably, nothing gained. The problem in a nutshell. It depends on the person- there are a lot of populations involved here but I wouldn’t use labels at all when talking to a person. I’ll ask how long they’ve “been outside,” or “where do you stay.” Hurt and wounded isn’t a bad sign, though- it’s a sign of life. The more comfortable a person is with their homelessness the less likely they are to get out. You know, this is a funny one. Giving people money is a dilemma because a most of them do use it in irresponsible ways, very often to hurt themselves. They will buy food and necessities, but even those choices are often bad. I don’t want to help pay for the fentanyl that kills someone. On the other hand- giving them money gives them some agency back, and also shows that they are cared for and therefore worthy of attention. They feel visible . It’s tough. My problem is that I don’t like just walking by. So what I try to do is carry around $2 bills and give those away, because they don’t see many of those, and they think about it before spending it. They see it as a possession.
  23. So… this is an incredibly good example of the distance between the academia, policy think tanks, and ideology that powers the progressive movement and the people the movement seeks to serve. I understand you are coming from a good place, but it really doesn’t. Im not picking on you. This is a PSA: “Unhoused” does not provide more dignity and less stigma. It obscures reality and confers the moral license to look away. I spent years actively volunteering with the homeless. I’ve cooked for them, cried with them, washed their feet, raised money for programs, spent the night with them at the cold weather shelter and so on. My wife volunteers with a homeless support program. My mother was homeless, and died as a result of her homelessness. So that’s my bona fides on this. People who actually spend years with the homeless mostly hate the term “unhoused.” It reduces an extraordinarily complex and devastating syndrome to a real estate problem. They are not just ‘unhoused’ people. They are homeless people, which is to say they are trapped in a self-reinforcing process of slow dehumanization, spiritual/psychological decay and isolation. To call them “unhoused” implies that the problem can be solved by providing housing only, or housing first, and that simply isn’t true. In some ways that’s as bad as sending them back to the jungle or to jail, or perhaps worse than jail, since jail offers the remote but occasional possibility of stabilization and rehab. Anyway, sorry to go off- but I speak for a lot of people on this one. Just say homeless.
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