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  1. 1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

    I say this as a homeowner who pays almost $20K per year in property tax

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    50 minutes ago, Samson's Wig said:

    I've got no issue with community colleges, and I acknowledge their benefit to the community (although it's a stretch in Austin that community college grads are sticking around to contribute, based on the cost of living alone).  I got my foreign language credit knocked out at ACC many moons ago. 

    Yeah, outside of the trades related courses, it’s a joke of a school that only serves to allow kids to get college level credits without having to put forth college level effort. Maybe it helps raise the worst students up to a barely functioning level. Maybe that’s enough value-add to the community. Maybe the new 4 year programs have elevated the rest of the school. For your mental health, you’re better off getting blackout drunk and just writing the check instead of analyzing where your taxes go. 

  2. 40 minutes ago, royiv said:

    Pepper spray /= firearm

    Not everyone needs to be armed with a lethal weapon to protect themselves from occupational hazards.

    As for your links, how many millions of deliveries are made each day? Of the occupational hazards of the occupation, I’m guessing FiFi is way below auto accidents, distracted driving, slip ‘n falls, back strain, etc. 

     

    First, I never said that dumbass should have shot harmon’s dog. 

    Anyway, nothing you said changes the statistics about how Americans feel about guns and how it’s legal, especially in Texas, for delivery drivers to be armed.

    I pulled a few links supporting that dogs are a problem for delivery drivers. I’m struggling to find good data ranking their occupational hazards beyond “dog bites are a frequent source of injury” — the official number appears to be around 6k/year. 75% of those are pits and rots.

    A driver is probably not gonna pull a gun on their lower back strain or the guy they rear ended in traffic so I’m not sure how relevant that is to the discussion. But sure, I’ll admit that I was technically incorrect when I said dogs are probably the biggest threat to delivery guys — it’s in fact accidents. 
     

  3. 1 hour ago, Hank Kingsley said:

    I know this sounds crazy, but I have a proposal. 

    If your dog isn't well trained and could possibly run at or jump on a stranger, have the dog properly secured or keep it inside the house. 

    If you're afraid of dogs, find a different tool outside of a lethal weapon to discourage it from invading your space. 

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  4. 13 hours ago, royiv said:

    Lol if you think 67% of food delivery folks are packing heat. Additional lol that you think “uncontrolled pit bulls” are some sort of gigantic threat to delivery drivers. How come postal carriers aren’t dropping like flies when all they can be armed with is pepper spray? Where are all the headlines about UPS, FedEx and Amazon delivery drivers getting mauled? Dude, you either sound like someone scared of their own shadow in this post or you just really want to justify killing a 30 pound dog. 

    Words. “Biggest threat” is not the same as “gigantic”threat. I didnt even realize USPS could carry pepper spray.  It’s pretty damn effective against dogs, it’s like you’re making my argument for me. Theres a reason the UK has banned several breeds including pitbulls under multiple names. 

    anyway, here are the first Google results…
     

    Fancy pitbull (staffordshire terrier):

    https://amp.star-telegram.com/news/state/texas/article280954793.html

    This dude was killed by dogs

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/amazon-delivery-driver-found-dead-apparent-dog-attack-rcna53834

    And another victim

    https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/horrible-dashcam-shows-dog-attacking-delivery-driver-in-cooper-city/3132248/?amp=1

    and so on.
     

  5. 51 minutes ago, royiv said:

    Who carries a gun to deliver food?

    67% of American adults are willing to admit to pollsters that they either own a gun or would be willing to own a gun. I’d wager at least that percentage of delivery drivers carry, either on their person, or at least in their car. It’s naive to assume otherwise and it’s naive to assume every situation a delivery driver might get sent into is safe. Dogs are probably the biggest threat to a delivery driver because the worst, dumbest Americans are the ones that own uncontrolled pitbulls. 

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  6. 1 minute ago, gofuckyourself said:

    It's a doggy dog world out there, and delivery drivers are wearing milk bone underwear.

    I will say I've done in-home services among various jobs, going in to 5 to 8 houses a day.

    There are definitely clueless owners who laugh and say "He won't bite you" as they strain to hold it and the dog is foaming at the mouth and barking at me from 8 feet away. I'd chuckle and ask them to put them away regardless.

    But there's no way this guy was really in trouble taking 10 seconds to drop some food on a porch.

    Fixed

     

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  7. 7 minutes ago, SquishMitten said:

    There’s a substantial portion of Ukraine that has not be leveled… They can just skip past those territories if they took everything to the west 

    Of course. But the only way Russia is actually taking territory from Ukraine today is by absolutely leveling it with artillery, glide bombs, and cluster munitions. Do you think there will come a time when Ukrainians decide they’d rather be slaves to Russia than die fighting for liberty? I get these sort of vibes:

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  8. 24 minutes ago, Parliament said:

    Much easier to steal improved land than it is to develop your own.

    Is it though? The land they’re taking at this point is worse than undeveloped. All infrastructure is destroyed and left in ruin. There’s unexploded ordnance, mines and chemicals in all the fields and forests… the next (or first?) great leader of Russia will be the person that focuses on internal development: educating the population, raising standard of living (you know, luxuries like flushing toilets outside of Moscow and St Pete), and increasing GDP. Make it a first world nation. How does someone as intelligent as Putin look at his country and decide what will make people remember him is increasing the land area by a couple percent? The 500k men that have been killed or disabled in this war could have been improving infrastructure in that shit hole of a country. 

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  9. 8 minutes ago, Spider2YBanana said:

    Yelling at clouds because I do not want to watch every single play of every game. I suspect he'll get better this season, but hope Mukuba is the starter. Regardless, he was not good they last 2 seasons, but payers grow and get better (even Jett Bush got better), and since Taaffe is a smart kid, I hope his athleticism catches up with his brain. He's not Gideon or Haines. 

    Are you saying he’s better or worse than Gideon and Haines?

  10. 4 hours ago, Spider2YBanana said:

    2-3? Go look at the entire season where he was picked on constantly. He's slow as fuck, takes shitty angles, gets burned, but I guess those 3 INT'S make up for it since they landed in his hands at the perfect time. 

    Ok so you can’t point to any specific plays… do advanced stats show his deficiency? Are you willing to support your claim at all or are we just here yelling at clouds?

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  11. 4 minutes ago, ztejas said:

    I mean - it's a very relevant topic considering we're joining the conference next season. 

    I never said that or thought that. I just think Texas is going to need to do a bit more than go 2/3 against the B12 this season to make any noise at all in the postseason. The conference is pretty clearly down. "Ranked" OU just got swept by fucking Lamar.

    I think we should all be able to agree that Texas needs to be better and more consistent from here on out than we have been. In the series win against Tech we gave up 7 runs every game. In this series we weren't competitive in one of the games. We lost a game at home to a shitass Baylor team. 

    I'm glad they're scrapping and staying alive and taking advantage of a bad conference - but they're going to need to do more to have any hope of making a run this season. 

    Also, hook em. Definitely enjoyed that one today. Especially going yard back to back on the 2nd coming of Mariano.

    Beyond hosting and getting an easier path, baseball post season success has almost nothing to do with the regular season. All that matters is being hot at the right time. We just need to take it one game at a time and get into the tournament. Next year is next year. Yes, we need to bring in transfers if we want to win the SEC. Maybe our portal additions next year won’t all get hurt and/or quit the game, that would be cool. 

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  12. 19 hours ago, YGIFS said:

    Man, I'm a lunatic poster and all.  But this shit is really starting to fuck with my head.  Not a hard task, granted.  But there's a house at the end of my street, and it's probably one of the ten most valuable homes in our HOA.  And this Russian lives in it.  And I'm talking all week to our guys at our Maryland terminal/domicile about logistical changes they gotta make with the bridge outta commission.  And was speaking with Tom yesterday.  Been with the company in some form or fashion for 55 years.  And it's just a shitshow. 

    After Russia invaded Ukraine, this Russian at the end of our street, buys a decked-out Audi Q8 and leaves it parked at the base of his driveway for a week with no movement.  Then after things go sideways, it suddenly disappears and he's back in his Toyota.  Then earlier this month, two separate police vehicles show up to his home as I'm picking my daughter up from the bus stop.  One of the four officers had his hand on his service weapon which gave me great pause.  I learn from a contact in local LEO that the FBI is looking into his 'household situation.'  This week, he's been out of town...I don't keep track.  I only know this because his son shows up on my immediate next-door neighbor's Nest Camera (or whatever you call them).  His son and his friend decided to take a piss in my neighbor's driveway (they've been bothering all the girls on the street lately as some sort of pre-teen act-out phase).  Neighbors are on vacation.  But he  texts and says yeah, they were being weird, took off the shirts and sprayed urine everywhere.  Few hours later, they show up on our driveway to race bikes down it.  Which is fine, lotta kids do it because it's long and has a good pitch.  He scrambles back to his home because there's an Uber pulling up and the kid screams he's gotta get home to say hello to his dad coming back from a business trip.  And to try to make nice, I was making small talk with the kid as I was pulling weeds so he'd understand we're nice people and to leave my girls alone.  And I politely say, "Alright, well have a good evening.   Where is your dad coming back from?"  And of course, the kid says, "Baltimore."  These people are really starting to piss me off.  

    You should share the Russians address, broken up with special characters so this doesn’t come up in a Google search, of course. Not that anyone on the site might be interested in triggering him with Ukrainian flag magnets or anything like that

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  13. 47 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    Check this out for a glimpse: Speaking at the 2024 AFA Warfare Symposium, Gen. James Hecker described what the U.S. has learned from unmanned aerial vehicles—or UAVs—in Ukraine, and how they will change warfare. 

    He’s kind of a big deal https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/1152399/james-b-hecker/

     

    Is this the one from a couple weeks ago where he talks about how they use cell phones to listen for drones? 

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