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bschoolprof

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  1. More enshittening. The cable companies have basically died and we're still getting fucked. They weren't the problem.
  2. UTD feels like a college campus designed by Lumon from Severance. Not a great vibe imo. Great engineering and business schools though.
  3. Show your work. In 2015, the city spent $286 million on non safety from the general fund. In 2025, it's 634 million! What grown up goodies are we really getting for that extra 350 million? You don't think a reasonable person could find 30 million to trim there? Only Austin would consider a permanent tax increase to cover this. It's insanity.
  4. Yes. If non-safety spending increased at the rate of the "overpaid" cops, fire, and EMS over the last decade, we'd have a surplus, not a deficit. I went through the last 10 years of budgets on the city website. Non safety EMS has gone up by about 7-8% every year for a decade. There's a lot of fat there. Easily 30M. This whole charade is laughable, and shouldn't be partisan. And in what way did I imply that the city should spend money only on police and EMS?
  5. 1) Council can easily find 30M in the general fund budget to cut to avoid this increase. As I discussed on another thread, non public safety spending (police, fire, EMS) has soared over the last decade and should be reigned in. 2) Why care so much about tax rates? The property values in the Austin metro are the highest in the state, so of course rates will be lower. Austin used to have the highest total tax paid by residents per capita of any major metro, and likely still does. Yes, Robin Hood is a disaster. That's no reason to have city raise taxes even more. 3) meh. There are no good guys in any of this.
  6. This time espn has a streaming service of its own to prop up.
  7. Just dropped abc and espn due to a contract dispute.
  8. yeah, same. Some lady came out missing an arm, and that was enough for me.
  9. 50/50. Everyone hated him and he had mediocre performance. If he was beloved with the same record, me might have stayed on another year or two. OTOH, if he were 12-0 with a natty, he would still be here. He would just be our asshole.
  10. so is this an actual business? I'm too Surly 1% to even understand what I'm watching.
  11. never touch another man's crown. I thought this was common knowledge.
  12. he beats me because he loves me.
  13. My dog when he takes his morning piss on Wed.
  14. I don't think Sark is the guy . . . how can anyone look at the program right now, in year 5, and say he is with a straight face? That said, I don't really want him gone. Because we've shown no ability to pick good coaches - most programs suck at it. So I'm the battered wife stuck in a shitty marriage.
  15. I’m gonna guess it’s a crazy homeless guy with a long rap sheet but little prosecution/jail time. Seems to be the pattern.
  16. not a great OC. With Saban's program and players maybe.
  17. Shoulda put my money where my mouth was.
  18. If they had a better coach, the season would have been much better.
  19. this. It's a total clusterfuck for in store shoppers and feels like HEB wants all of us to get out. We need grocery stores for people that want/like to shop for their own groceries and warehouse stores for people that want shit brought to your car. you should come to my store. it's a goat fuck.
  20. I hate those motherfuckers.
  21. I've learned that Surly is mostly lawyers, tech dorks, and sales douches that sell tech dork stuff.
  22. Listened to Scipio's preview of Miss St, and now I think we lose. sad panda. Vegas line seems off to me.
  23. Explain this to me like I'm five. I don't manufacture or sell internets. Old school is on premises equipment (like servers and such). Cloud is outsourcing all the hardware/software to someone like AWS. What is a private cloud?
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