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  1. I barely remember the 1st one.
  2. I never realized how much the bass contributed to the sound of Maggie May until I listened to some bass covers. I love all the fills at the end of each line. I also never knew Ronnie Wood played bass on it.
  3. I agree with you the ROI on a half billion spent on the cops does not seem "great" in our fair city. But we're locked in with the contract we have at the moment. On the homeless bullshit, you fell for the trick the pencil fuckers wanted you to. That's 10 mil only for the "strategy office." There's $80 million in homeless spending buried in social service contracts (source: 25-26 budget online, pg 379). And the level of grift and waste flowing through that contract "process" is no doubt mind boggling. In the 25-26 budget, homeless spending is over 50% of the amount allocated to parks and rec spending. That gives you a sense of the scale. The social services contract spending in particular has ballooned tremendously. In 2014-15 budget, it was about $7 million. Now it's 80 million. Does it seem like the problem is getting any better? Blindly paying out money to non-profits and NGOs with no real accountability doesn't solve anything. It's just wasteful.
  4. I loved the bit about the under secretary being the only guy "intact," wearing a suit. Lulz.
  5. Nikki Glaser is a national treasure. What the fuck is wrong with some people?
  6. Dennis Hof checked in ahead of me in a hotel in Greenwich Village about 15 years ago. I was starstruck.
  7. Give me your credit card number, your cvv, and your address, and I'll tell you if your credit card info has been leaked in a hack.
  8. I think they give you some extras, like in a lego kit.
  9. The director of weapons and barbarian produced it. Definitely has elements of his style. Surprisingly darkly funny.
  10. companion was entertaining. Bit of a genre bender.
  11. They've spent about $330 million on the professional and admin thus far, mostly out of the capital fund. Money well spent I'm sure. The light rail capital fund will have almost nothing in it by the end of 2025. The operating fund will have about 300 million for future spending in it at the end of the year.
  12. Prop A was not a bond package per se. It was a tax package, like prop Q this year. It was implied that construction bonds wold be issued and the tax would be used to help pay for the bond repayments.
  13. To answer this question, Prop A in 2020 raised property tax rates (sound familiar?) and committed 8.75 cents of the rate to a newly created Austin Transit Partnership. Currently, ATP pulls in about $150 million per year as revenue from this tax - it's by far the key source of revenue. What does ATP do with this money every year? You can review the budgets here. Some of it has been squirreled away in various reserve funds. This fiscal year, about $120 million will be spent on consultants, engineering reports, and admin. ATP has about 55 full time employees and spends about 200K per employee on personnel costs. We have no idea the ROI on these consulting and engineering reports, as well as other admin. I'll let your imagination fill in the blanks. ATP has issued no bonds. The entire funding structure is being litigated, costs have ballooned, and the feds are not going to kick in shit under this administration. TLDR, tax money is being collected, some reserved, much of it spent. Citizens have little to show for any of this.
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