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South Austin

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  1. "You like that word, don't you? Bullshit." "Yeah." "It's a good word."
  2. I agree it'll be somewhere south of 75%, but still a shitload of people. And I'm by no means an expert in the jobs market, but just this morning NPR reported that the jobs report to end December 2024 showed a pretty low unemployment rate, so I think the private sector is going to be hard pressed to absorb these former-federal workers. And yes, getting those folks new jobs is one thing, keeping essential federal services that the MAGAs take for granted is a whole other. It's going to be like the fucking tariffs, which all the MAGAs cheer on, until a farmer in Iowa or a steel plant manager in Pennsylvania feels the pain.
  3. I hear Surly is hiring.
  4. Completely agree. I see middle-aged to old guys at the gym who just hop on a bike or elliptical machine doing nothing else, and I shout at them in my head, "You're doing it wrong!"
  5. I know, I know. But he's proud of his recruiting forum. You know, that's a damn rare thing these days.
  6. They beat Texas twice last season and still can't stop bitching about us. Jesus.
  7. I've had this one in the queue for a while and will try on Sunday. https://cafedelites.com/buffalo-chicken-dip/
  8. Same. I'm 50 and I'm long past the days of maxing out with 5-6 reps. I'm not trying to get swole. I lift to failure in the 8-12 rep range, focusing on form, and on most exercises I rest just a minute between sets. It works just fine to maintain lean muscle mass, tone, and endurance.
  9. I saw Jeremy Allen White with a film crew at the Chili’s off 45th and Lamar.
  10. Oh Jesus Christ.
  11. They're not being deported, they just ran out of papers.
  12. Really? I never thought he was all that attractive.
  13. Yep. Chip is a badass, and one of the nation's experts in media and defamation law. He's also a really nice guy, as long ago through a mutual work relationship I had dinner with him several times. Lively's lawyers are going to have their hands full with him.
  14. Justin Tucker would disagree.
  15. Following up on my comment about Cobain above, I think Layne Staley, with or without Alice 'N Chains, might have kept a musical career going had it not been for his suicide. From everything I remember and have read about Cobain, he seemed so sick and tired of fame and touring in front of crowds. Not to compare him musically to Jim Morrison, but before Morrison died he appeared to have given up on music and retreated away to focus on poetry and stuff other than being in a rock band. I think Kurt Cobain would've done something like that.
  16. Would've loved to see what John Lennon did in the 80s and beyond. Same with Marvin Gaye, especially how R&B evolved so much in the 80s and 90s. I'm sure a lot of people would mention Kurt Cobain. I think folks forget that the "grunge" genre which exploded with Nirvana and other bands in the early 90s very quickly got diluted and essentially destroyed with the crap that the latter part of the decade produced. I've wondered how Cobain would've deal with that, and if he hadn't eventually killed himself, he may just have faded into the background.
  17. I know this is all incredibly so fucked up and infuriating. But that bit about resettling Chuck Shumer made me chuckle.
  18. I also have a low key Super Bowl Sunday planned since we'll be looking after our one-year old pup coming off shoulder surgery. I never really cared for pimento cheese until my wife got me hooked on it a few years ago. Ina Garten has a spicy pimento cheese recipe that kicks ass, and I put that with bacon on sourdough bread for grilled pimento cheese sandwiches. That and maybe some sort of meatball action and a buffalo chicken dip.
  19. If we can get a college located in Gaza, how long before they get a P5 football team?
  20. A slightly more recent example is Brown v. Board of Education. The Court issued the decision in 1954, and it took another decade for large parts of America to fall in line. And it's not because state and local governments just decide it was time to obey a decision from the highest court of the land. It took federal and congressional enforcement.
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