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  1. 1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:

    The profession encompasses a shit ton of lawyers, and most of us don't feel we're in any sort of crisis not applicable to the population at large.

    The DOJ is in a crisis, for sure.

    I suppose the problem is that, closely related but actually external to the legal profession is politics.  Laws come mostly from legislatures these days.  The ultimate interpreters of those laws and the "common" ones that don't originate from legislative bodies, that is, SCOTUS and the courts of appeal to a lesser extent, are and always have been political creatures making basically political decisions that filter through varying degrees of legal analysis.  Because the politics are corrupt and craven, so too are their mostly political decisions.

    I think what bozo doesn't want to say out loud is maybe you should think before you say out loud what you want to say when your mind triggers into "well, actually" mode. you are smart, not like everybody says. 

    but your lawyer cya other side consideration makes you their bitch in normal discourse

    meant friendly

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  2. 5 hours ago, Bojack said:

    I think people are more often ignoring him and that's part of why he's become an even worse poster. He's getting a bit less of the attention he craves, so he's increasingly embraced maga and more often flings personal insults among other things. 

    this is it 100%

     

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  3. 8 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

    You should probably stick with your sub-deal of jerking off to pics of Sydney when your wife is out of town.

    I feel attacked

    8 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    Look, a deal on this is close. Bottom line. 

    concepts of a plan for a deal?

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  4. 7 hours ago, Texas Jeff said:

    Liiving through the last 10 years or so, it seems to me that the more we spend on homelessness:

    1. The more homeless we seem to have here in Austin ... when they count it seems to go up.

    2. The fewer homeless I see anywhere else in the region ... nice for them because their spending on homeless can go to zero.

    3. The more entrenched "homeless spending" becomes in Austin ... meaning more and more orgs and salaries are dependent on homeless spending.

    4. The more homeless I see, particularly on streets around the rapid bus line routes.

    The Mobile Loaves and Fishes guy seems to have a plan to help.  Everything else seems, just from what I see, to be creating a homeless industry.  I don't see our tax dollars creating solutions to problems, but I may not be looking hard enough.

    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? 

     

     

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  5. 2 hours ago, immamac said:

    Yeah he should have stood his ground and said there were not and have never been any tattoos like that on his hands. It's completely false. 

    now let's all entertain a fun intellectual exercise amd wonder why he might not have done that

  6. 2 hours ago, immamac said:

    This guy is a fucking terrible journalist. Why doesn't he call him a fucking retard and say that there was never any tatoos that said ms-13 on his fucking hands. 

    fucking exactly

    they are all scared of something we don't know

    Probably russian nra republican money i mean whatever I dunno

  7. 36 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

    You are in the demographic that will be fine. Some of us are watching the situation very very closely, have our passports updated, and bugout bag on the ready.

    @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

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  8. 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

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  9. 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

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