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  1. 21 hours ago, RCRanger03 said:

     

    Also as I said earlier in this thread the assertion that a person who is homeless is any more likely to commit a crime is just patently false.Mostly "crimes" that are more likely to be committed when not housed were the ones charged under the since repealed ordinances. Suburban teenagers of all races commit petty theft at higher rates, High Income Earners commit violent crimes at a much higher rate, Surly posters are just as likely to be drunk/high in public... (joking on that last one, Surly posters are much more likely to be pissing drunk in an alley). Some basic source material if you want to research it a little https://www.jstor.org/stable/3096817?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents 

    The human waste problem could be solved by just providing public facilities. Once again you and I have never been denied entry or had the police called on us because we needed to nip in to drop a log real quick.

    Also I'm here as a homeless advocate to let you know that anyone coming at you aggressively for panhandling or not, aren't to be treat any better post ordinance repeal. In fact the new language makes those people MORE likely to be arrested.

    The link you provided doesn't support your assertions at all. Did you even read it?  Using data from the 80s in Austin, the homeless were no more likely to commit rape and murder than the general male population.  However, for burglary, general theft, robbery, and car theft, homeless persons were much more likely to commit these offenses (see Table 3).  Do you have other references?  

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  2. 2 minutes ago, dingleberryswitzer said:

    Ok, serious question.  When you go 5 miles down, where do you take your morning shit?  Drive the 5 miles back to the restroom?  Dig a cathole?  Squat over a trashbag?  

    2nd sandbar.  

  3. 2 minutes ago, ocugolf said:

    Just listened to Dr. Death. It’s about a Dallas neurosurgeon that was permanently injuring patients (including his best friend). Kind of makes you lose faith in medical care. It’s absolutely insane that it is a true story. It is really well done.

    yep - great podcast.  And horrifying.  I had to FF through the details of some of the procedures.  

  4. 12 minutes ago, Pasken said:

    It'll be interesting to see what they do when they start tearing down the old garage between the terminal and ride share area. I guess they'll have more trams running because it will be a long walk around the garage. 

     

     

    what are they doing with the old garage?

  5. 31 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    personal tangent:

    When I was at a very large company leading a strategy and planning team our org hired a Harvard/Wharton guy, which is not unusual, most people were top school MBA.

    So I took this guy to lunch on his first day, and he’s asking about my background, which at that time was 7 years with the company, in a role specifically created for me with wide latitude, following successful, progressive, fast promotion based on results delivered across a wide variety of functional roles. And a BA in Government from UT.

     

    epic humblebrag.  

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  6. 34 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    Would you say most have never left the school environment?  Elementary-middle-high-undergrad-grad-teaching?

    Yes.  Business school profs often have some real world experience as analysts, bankers, accountants, etc, but it’s still pretty limited. 

    Law school profs like the guy in the article often go to law school, then clerk for a judge for a short time and then enter academia. 

  7. Adler wrote an OP-ed in the statesman.

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    Adler: Want to stop people sleeping in public spaces? House them.

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    Our homelessness challenge requires us to reintegrate vulnerable people who’ve lost their footing. People experiencing homelessness aren’t “others.” They are us. That tumble off the last rung of the social ladder might have begun with a lost job, a rent hike, a drug problem, a mental health issue, a family schism, a divorce, or a perfect storm of several hitting at once. The roots of homelessness lie in human fragility — a condition we all share.

    Yet, many see embracing others as we would have others embrace us as ignoring legitimate concerns about our public spaces. I reject the suggestion that this is a forced choice. We will succeed against homelessness when we are successful with both.

    Our homelessness challenge is becoming more chronic and visible as Austin becomes more unaffordable and bedrolls are replaced with tents. We must do better, but how? We’ve had some success. We’ve achieved “effective zero” veteran homelessness and helped half the homeless children off our streets.

    Unfortunately, a lot of what we’ve done, empowered by ordinances, has been merely to move people around — from here to there and back again. A business owner calls the police. The police tell the person to move along. The immediate concern is handled as the person and the challenge shift out of view — but only for the moment.

    Still homeless, she moves to a different door, neighborhood or overpass. Along the way, she loses belongings and a piece of her remaining dignity and hope. You and I spend millions of taxpayer dollars playing this perverse game of moving people around and solving nothing.

    I refuse to play any longer. We can actually address both our concern for people and our concern for our public spaces. There is one simple answer. Want to help people? House them. Want to stop people sleeping in public spaces? House them.

    EDITORIAL: United effort needed to house Austin’s homeless

    Courts recognize this, too. Across the country, ordinances are being invalidated that outlaw people camping in public places if the government can’t tell them where they should go instead.

     
     

    To prevent camping, sitting and lying in certain locations, we need to provide better and safer places for people experiencing homelessness to be, with the appropriate social services. That’s the deal, the quid pro quo, the social compact we must achieve. The council laid the groundwork in June to start the process in August of finding those better and safer places. This social compact is one piece of the comprehensive solution needed to actually address the challenge and stop relying on band-aids for symptoms.

     

    We can do this. Austin’s unhoused numbers are not overwhelming — about 2,200 people experience homelessness on any given night, a 4% increase from last year. Seattle, with 200,000 fewer people, has six times our number in their homeless population. The national average yearly increase was 5%; Dallas was at 9%. Los Angeles’ homeless population increased 16% to almost 40,000 people.

    TELL US ABOUT IT: Click here to submit a letter to the editor

    During recent visits to Los Angeles and Seattle, Mayors Eric Garcetti and Jenny Durkan told me they wish their cities had acted more decisively and earlier. Their cities, they warned, relied too much on half-measures and ordinances that dealt with symptoms, not solutions. Sound familiar?

    Achieving real results requires difficult decisions and community and political will. It won’t be easy to prioritize needed spending on housing and wraparound services because of competing needs. It won’t be easy to place housing because there will be opposition to any location. Our goal must be to address neighborhood concerns, rather than be stymied by them.

    Let’s also be clear. Police must be able to arrest and ticket anyone creating a public safety or health risk, and the City Council’s June vote specifically preserved these tools. Shame on those who suggest otherwise.

    I believe the recent community-wide conversation about the June council actions has sufficiently elevated the homelessness issue to forge the will to act meaningfully and decisively. We must take advantage of this moment.

     

     

  8. The port season (2) was my 2nd to least favorite (after Season 5) upon first viewing, but it grew on me.  I suggest sticking it out to season 3 (the political scene and drug legalization).  I think you'll agree by that point, even if you don't love the show, that it's not just your "run of the mill" cop show.  

  9. The first question is a good one.  I can't find too much online about what they actually did for this game, but I think if implemented, it's going to have to be a standardized zone like it is on TV, not customized like it's implied in the rule book. That hurts guys like altuve and helps guys like judge.  

  10. The Atlantic League tried it out for their all star game.  Seemed to work out ok.  Thoughts?

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    YORK, Pa. — Professional baseball allowed a glimpse at its future here Wednesday night for keen-eyed observers of the home plate umpire’s right ear and back pocket.

    A computer officially called balls and strikes for the first time in the game’s history in the United States at a minor league all-star game. Major League Baseball in February inked a three-year agreement with the independent, eight-team Atlantic League to install experimental rules in line with Commissioner Rob Manfred’s vision for a faster, more action-packed game.

    Among the first changes discussed was an automated balls and strikes regime, run via a panel above home plate made by sports data firm Trackman. After a half-season of testing, the system was ready for the league All-Star Game, debuting with great fanfare and an unambiguous strike.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2019/07/11/robot-ump-calls-first-professional-game-with-one-hitch-no-controversy/?utm_term=.8cf9f4cb1ef4

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    YORK, Pa. — During the second inning of Wednesday night’s Atlantic League All-Star Game, Joe Van Meter’s two-strike fastball to Joey Terdoslavich sunk low into the catcher’s mitt and was caught just barely above the ground. The pitch looked low not only to the hitter but also to the umpire, who nevertheless signaled strike three—but it wasn’t exactly his call.

    Terdoslavich did a double take, glancing back at home-plate umpire Brian deBrauwere with a look of disbelief. deBrauwere, however, merely pointed to the AirPod in his right ear, his way of reminding the batter that the call came from TrackMan, the 3-D Doppler radar hanging from the roof of the ballpark. At that, Terdoslavich returned to the dugout, unable to advance his argument against an inanimate object.

    In the official debut of an MLB-sanctioned automated strike zone, controversy was avoided with no egregious errors and few challenged calls.

    “I didn’t really hear any complaining from anybody. If that [low strike] was the one blunder—because I know it was low, I just know it was—but if that was the one blunder, was it 99.9% [correct] then?” said Terdoslavich, who played parts of three seasons with the Atlanta Braves from 2013-15, before adding: “It ran better than I thought it would.”

    https://www.sporttechie.com/mlb-umpire-automated-strike-zone-abs-atlantic-league-all-star-game/

  11. 13 hours ago, Huckleberry said:

    This post is terrible.

    The three true outcomes are solid analytics and are effective, but that kind of baseball is boring as fuck. A bases loaded gapper is the most exciting play in baseball. We need fewer walks, fewer strikeouts, and fewer home runs.

    I too would like to see more pure hitting and balls in play.  But I think that ship sailed  before the juiced balls of the past couple of years.  The fly ball revolution started before MLB changed the ball in 2017.  Perhaps the change was in response to hitters' change in approach at the plate and it has only reinforced the hitting trends you don't like.

    But at this point I think because of Turner, Donaldson, etc, more players would be swinging for the fences anyway.  The main thing the juiced ball is doing is turning what would have been a routine F8 into something that is more likely gone.   I'm not sure that's a more boring brand of baseball.

    The only way we are getting more bases loaded gappers with fewer HRs and fewer walks is if hitters consistently increase their number of singles, which seems much harder to do against today's pitchers and shift defenses.  

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