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  1. living through the last 28ish years in this town, i think i might can add some perspective to this post. i also worked for the us census in 2010, so i'm hoping to add some further insight. when i came to town, we had drag worms. some drag worms were homeless, and some were westlake goth kids. i'm not lying. looking back, i'm not a fan of the nomenclature, but that's what it was. i remember in the late 90s, here in school, there was a bunch of folks selling roses in the south of the river area. i dated a girl down there, and we always went to the movies down off stassney. we always joked that there had to be a "rose king or queen" because they were on every corner selling roses. now i feel like the equivalency is the jesus people selling fuck if i know at every south austin intersection, but it all feels similar. anyways, austin has always been friendly to homeless folks, mostly because the ethos of this town used to be "i'm about to be homeless unless i achieve this dream." this used to be a homeless person couch-surfing town. i remember being told that when i graduated in 2000, if i didn't leave for houston or dallas or somehwere else, i would be chronically underemployed here in austin. problem is, i met a girl in austin, and i had a ton of mostly younger friends in austin, and i had a liberal arts degree in 2000 when the job market was...eh....i stuck around. then i met a girl from here, and she had deep hispanic roots here, so that's sort of that, so i stayed. as a result of that, and of a real love for the undercity in a city, i've always kept an eye on counter-culture, graffiti, homeless, and other sorts of lovely austin weirdness. so, aside from a year in japan that was once well-documented, i've pretty much lived here since the mid-90s. i love this town, and what i love most is the goddamn friendliness. even most of the homeless, compared to other cities all over the globe, are pretty goddamn friendly. so i've never really understood the animosity, aside from it being a pretty white-bread provincial town (west of 35 and north of ben white at least) toward the homeless, as compared to what i've experienced globally. a lot of that to say, i was unemployed in 2010. the federal government was hiring for the census, which looked interesting, and paid fucking well. our first assignments were to locate, confirm, and prepare to count the homeless in austin. this would determine federal funding for services on a per person basis. this meant engagement, understanding of the local homeless community, where they actually lived, because homeless people aren't usually actually homeless, and a plan to count the local population. since i don't know how this happened, i cannot assign any sense of blame, but the dictate to count the homeless came down to this: one night, starting midnight, after engagement with local advocates, police, city leadership, etc, the census did this: 1) count occupied homeless shelter beds. give those people free census t-shirts. 2) send us out, starting from 10pm, to known camps. our jobs, with flouro vests, was to walk into known occupied homeless areas and try to count them by audio (you know, asking them questions, which they are so fucking keen to answer from someone from the government) or by visual after dark. the census requires a certain number of criteria to count a person. as i recall it was 3. i could be any 3 of 7 or something, to include, name, gender, race, blahblah, but if as an enumerator, you got 3, you win. but it all had to be volunteered. until we got to the homeless where i got real fucking practical and weird. if i went door to door and asked questions, i needed 3 things, and that's a W. with the homeless, we needed like 2 real things. 1 - is that a person? and 2) can you determine gender, race, or something about this person? yup. why? because the fucking plan was to count them from 12am to 6am while they were passed out. not in the homeless shelters. that was the easy work. i got the assignment of travelling around known homeless encampments and asking questions, or trying to count comatose people in parks, or asking people to control their dogs, or finding entire communitites of people in the city of austin (and i mean 50+) in areas where you'd never. anyways, there was a big local controversy about the idea of government employees shining flashlights into homeless folks eyes in the most vulnerable part of the night; people got fired, fucking apd ran everyone they knew in camps through local jails, and the homeless didn't get properly counted that night. tl;dr: sorry, but they are going to be here, whether or not you like it. where you want them?
  2. now let's all entertain a fun intellectual exercise amd wonder why he might not have done that
  3. fucking exactly they are all scared of something we don't know Probably russian nra republican money i mean whatever I dunno
  4. @SubliminalHorn is absolutely in an at risk demographic. I'm sure you weren't aware and I'll let him tell you what's up if he wants. but let's all try not to build divides where we are all united
  5. so, I uh have this theory. I think elon might be on drugs NOW HEAR ME OUT I think elon got on drugs long ago. right? rich white south African does drugs...news at 11 whatever but then there's grimes. she fucked up his world with sex, drugs (but the real bark like a dog, bitch drugs), and whatever she calls her music. (yall know this theory of mine if you've been around) the problem is that she stepped on some childhood trigger. I reckon it was a sex trigger that turned into a drugs OH MY GOD SEX IS SO MUCH BETTER ON DRUGS situation, which then turned into a OH MY GOD THESE DRUGS ARE TELLING ME WHAT A VISIONARY I AM; FUCK; I CAN SEE INTO THE FUTURE situation. I also think she got him some drugs that he's never heard of and they blew his mind. problem is, you gotta come down. that's when the self preservation kicks in. OH FUCK WHAT DID I DO LAST NIGHT; you know it: we've all been there. Elon doesn't have that. elon sees the future. he'll tell you. the problem is, the sober him sees the x fail and the future tesla crater (due to inflated stock prices due to: 1) weird market dynamics that don't make sense that he doesn't understand but loves, 2) tesla benefiting from selling ev vehicles and carbon offsets as a result (seriously, look it up, this will be the ultimate cause of the tsla crash), 3) a weird cult of personality related to Twitter and tesla and spacex as though he is Stalin (OH SHIT I MAY BE CLOSE TO FIGURING IT OUT), and he understands that there is no way out of the trap he's invented for himself. He's never had to face internal failure, so he seeks external sources for the feel good success feels. Enter donald trump v2. V1 was not elon friendly but this v2 version might just be his exit stage wherever so he jumps up and down did this clown because he didn't want to be the clown himself. God the irony Also I'm massively high. The irony
  6. hey Mr. "not gonna die on this hill but I'll spam-troll cloak room and threaten to leave when called out for flat out falsity" - go fuck yourself. this is such a bitchass move and fuck you for using it. you don't get to come in here with your facts all fucked up, and when you're are fucking plainly called out for it, bitch out and hide under @immamac's weird protective umbrella. you are either a liar or a collaborator or a fool. I'm so tired of this dumb bullshit. calling out posters for being liars is not community destroying. it's community self- regulation. Jbj came in here pretending not to care but then fired off how many posts? Lol, whatever bro.
  7. I have so many thoughts on this topic right now I wish I could organize them to try and explain to yall exactly what adhd is as a life long "sufferer(?)" but then again I don't really think it's going to do anything much productive in this conversation because people get really weird about meds for some reason (I get it i really do, i have never been on add meds and it took me to my mid 40s to consider amd start taking antidepressants) and they just shut down and refuse to listen to other people's experiences because some weird part of their identity needs to believe in the superpowers of the human whatever system but they will take their statins and boner pills and their milk thistle and say hey that works for me but I'm here to tell you what works for your and your kids
  8. so...the goats. i just can't get past the dumb goats. it's like they threw that in season 1, with an idea of what to do in season 2, but we are left knowing very little about the goat people. they were a means to an end - the end of drummond, and that's basically it? i probably missed something. it feels like the writers have lost the plot, but they are still killing it with things like the camcorder scene, the hr review, etc. milchik is fucking amazing. great season, but i'm cautious about next season. sometimes when you peel an onion too slowly, the inside gets rotten.
  9. Holy shit man. I'm so glad yall are okay. That had to be fucking terrifying.
  10. Russia. nra. money laundering for campaign purposes-agh! Black bag black bag!
  11. i cannot believe we are actually in here discussing this like the fucking weather. we are fucking black bagging people and OUTSOURCING THEIR IMPRISONMENT. What the fuck. My decision to try and go without news continues to fail
  12. Yeah. I'm not even close to rich but 3200 in a retirement fund is not life altering
  13. probably wherever college republicans hang out. God they've always been terrible
  14. lol you are describing an oligarchy. you know that right? "enough connections to the administration" lol DO YOU MEAN WHITE PEOPLE?
  15. I mean putin did it so........
  16. my wife and I actually went out on a fun date last night. First time in awhile that we carved time out for ourselves. our uber driver last night on the way home was Venezuelan. his worry? His fucking wife and daughters being fucking deported. this is our country. fucking Kristi noem adverts telling people to go home and never come back. Fuck all yall
  17. Oh okay. congrats on paying court ordered child support
  18. fuck I'm high and hate you all what is all this positivity? stars better not fuck this up
  19. yeah i am not sure you ever thought that. i went up to dallas with you and [redacted] and [redacted]. those folks can enter the conversation as they see fit. i have positive thoughts of coors lights and Virginia slims in my mother's house. i remember talking about Obama care and my saying "it is at least a policy start" and I do remember you arguing so hard against me. My whole point was that "fuck it's not perfect but it is a policy start. Congress can fight against health as a right but I think they will fail" I remember disagreeing. Smokes. Meeting up with [redacted] and [redacted] the next morning. I remember my having 0 breakfast but [redacted]'s family hosting [redacted] and them talking about an embarrassment of breakfast. All I wanted was beer and corny dogs. We all went to the game together... that was cool
  20. think this is a good look? It's unfortunate because I guess at one time I thought you were thoughtful. i was so wrong. stand up and applaud for yourself i guess. i dunno what you even stand for
  21. can you repost this in english?
  22. also are you a billionaire or a billionaire for the right? galaxy brain work here
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