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Paper_jam

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  1. Last year the US Post Office took four weeks to get my Christmas cards from North Austin to faraway kingdoms like Del Valle and Spicewood, so I wouldn't exactly feel good about putting my ballot in the mail.
  2. I remember Cap Metro (or maybe UT itself?) running game day shuttle buses years ago, it's been done before. I don't know why they stopped but some football-hating bureaucrat probably decided that it was an allocation of resources that was not in harmony with their core mission or some bullshit. (While having a brother in law ready to set up a private service to do the same thing.)
  3. Dammit why is it going fucking up again in a week
  4. Goddammit Saints, you had one job
  5. It looks like a pretty clean break. Just stick it back on with about 100 gallons of model cement.
  6. What an iconic performer. I could watch him in anything. One of those few actors capable of elevating a film just with his presence.
  7. O'Keefe Media Group stirrin' up trouble again
  8. Going back before the interception, I swear Blue caught that and it came out after the tackle. I want to see a review.
  9. Closely watching the video of explosions on the road, off to the left side some distance away you can see a brief flash in the distance at about 0:02 and another more visible explosion/flash at 0:06. Looks to me like something was fired from over there, like mortar rounds.
  10. Paper_jam

    LBGTQ

    So an executive branch agency can just ignore the courts when they want to? Is there an underlying statute that DPS can point to, giving it the authority to ignore such a court order? Checks, balances, branches of government--it's all moot now. The Texas Republican Party Platform is the ultimate law of the land. Counting down to when I can retire and GTFO this corrupt banana republic.
  11. Is there a thread with picks for regular season wins & losses, floor/ceiling, etc? If that goes here, I'm gonna predict Texas goes 10-2. This is based on my exhaustive review** of the strengths, weaknesses, and tendencies of each of our SEC and nonconference opponents.
  12. Boeing management: sounds like we can cut some costs and just use one link then
  13. If the over-65 exemption just freezes the taxable value or assessed value, that doesn't seem to fit this case. The person just recently turned 65, and their taxable value has dramatically and recently decreased by over 100K... which is way better than just "frozen."
  14. I saw an article about tax increases for Travis Co. and City of Austin, which got me looking at projected taxes using this link: https://travis.trueprodigy-taxtransparency.com/taxTransparency/propertySearch I searched my own address and compared my projected tax amounts it to some similar homes around me. I noticed something odd with one home close to mine, very similar in construction, age, and market value. Their projected taxes were much lower than mine, and I wondered how that is. I have the standard homestead exemption and that's it. Travis CAD shows their house as having "HS, OTHER" for exemptions. I don't know what the "OTHER" exemption is but I think it may be the over-65 one because one of them (married) turned 65 recently. Anyway, the data for their property shows as follows: Net Appraised Taxable Value City of Austin: $ 350,230 $ 126,184 Travis County $ 350,230 $ 143,784 How is their taxable value so low? My taxable value is more than 100k more than theirs despite a very similar net appraised value. Does the Over-65 exemption knock off like an extra 100k of taxable value? No one owning or living in that home has an apparent disability, or is a veteran. The owner has a good income (2X mine) from a professional job and they are healthier than I am. Thanks for any insights. Maybe I should look forward to turning 65 if it has this dramatic of an effect.
  15. How does this order have legal effect unless it's actually passed as a bill into law? What authority does Abbott have to just demand hospitals, especially private ones, do stuff like this? Or does Abbott know it's not actually legal, and just not care, because it makes his base happy? Abbott orders hospitals send state info on undocumented migrants https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/abbott-orders-hospitals-send-state-info-on-undocumented-migrants-they-treat/
  16. I know fuck all about being a lifeguard, but one would think he could at least paddle his boat over there so the guy could try to hang on to it. He could get off and they could both hang on to it while waiting for more help.
  17. At work our office restrooms were completely renovated and I just had to use one for the first time. The new toilets are installed so ridiculously low, it's like squatting on the fucking floor. It's a beating for my fucking back and knees just to get up off the thing. The new sinks and countertops are shit too. The countertop is really low, and the sinks are not close to the front edge, so you have to lean way forward and down to get your hands under the faucet. If I'm designing or installing commercial sinks in a men's bathroom it seems like common sense that the countertop & sink should be high enough so that an average height man can stand at the fucking sink and use it without throwing out his fucking back. Also, they put in those fucking faucets that you have to hold down either the hot or cold knob to keep the water flowing. Why does everything get shittier instead of better?
  18. Will we ever see $5 tickets at HEB again? Those were the days.
  19. Kinda sucks that just as I get interested in maybe getting a Tesla (Model 3 Performance) Musk goes full MAGA. OTOH based on what I see on Tesla forums it seems like his cars have pretty sloppy QC, maybe I'm better off staying away.
  20. Maybe I don't understand this law, or Musk's objection to it. Is Musk angry that public schools in CA can't be gender police? Is that what schools are for?
  21. 76 seems kinda young for a fitness guy.
  22. For some reason my booze addled brain parsed this as Danica, as in Patrick. And I gotta say, I'd enjoy seeing her try her luck at F1.
  23. Maybe it's just me but it seems like the accuracy of modeling for hurricanes making landfall on the Texas coast is a lot worse than it is for hurricanes making landfall elsewhere in gulf states or the Atlantic coast. I get there is always uncertainty, but 48 hours ago weren't we projecting Brownsville as the center of the track? That's like forecasting a landfall at Daytona Beach, FL but instead it happens at Charleston SC.
  24. Dammit why won't this cluster of showers move east of 35,
  25. These sharks aren't malicious, they're just trying to warn people about the hurricane.
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