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  1. It's incredible what phone cameras can image now. With the naked eye I could barely see a smudge, and that only with slightly averted vision. Looked decent in binocs though.

    I wish the Austin metro area and surrounding suburbs had some rigorous light pollution restrictions but people would never go for that. But not every gas station, car dealership, and store parking lot needs to be lit up like it's high noon on Mercury.

     

     

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  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. On 9/4/2024 at 3:55 PM, ChiTownDoc said:

    https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/41122997/commanders-suspend-vp-comments-players-jones-goodell
     

    What’s this guys Surly handle?

    Some gems:

    Enteen also said, "I don't think the commissioner of the NFL hates gay people, hates black people. Jerry Jones, who really runs the NFL, I think he hates gay people, black people."

    Enteen told the undercover reporter that "most of the fans are high-school-educated alcoholics" and called them "mouth breathers."

    Kind of nails it…

    O'Keefe Media Group stirrin' up trouble again

     

     

  4. 7 hours ago, KYHorn said:

    Interesting. False flag or not, this isn't going to help Ukraine's case to fire longer range weapons

     

     

    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.

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  5. 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.

     

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  6. 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."

  7. 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.

     

  8. 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/

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  9. 1 hour ago, smuggs said:

    The "lifeguard" doesn't have any type of can, tube or other rescue flotation on him, other than a paddleboard. Good luck saving a 200+ pound dude in the midst of the water death throes.

     

     

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    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. 

  10. 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?

     

     

     

     

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