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    45 minutes ago, Somnio said:

    I take it you aren't aware of the roughly $20 billion worth of transportation projects that are or will in the next few years be under construction?

    I guess not. Only aware of Project Connect which is well shy of $20 billion and will take 13 years to fully implement. I haven't seen any concrete plans to address and fix gridlock through the center of town. Even if construction started on all of these projects yesterday, it will take another decade to complete. Thes are projects that were needed a decade ago.

  2. 1 hour ago, CooterBrown said:


    And Colorado is still fucking great.

    For a city, you’re either growing or you’re dying. There’s no such thing as a healthy stagnation. Rural Texans will continue to be the largest segment of migrants to Texas cities. Everything will continue to get more expensive and crowded just like it has every single day of every growing metro’s existence.

    No one should worry about the “real Texas” though. All the assbackwards parts of Texas will still be dying a slow death for everyone’s satisfaction.

    That only works when you know how to manage the growth. Austin has historically been woefully inept in managing and being prepared for growth. The city's infrastructure is a decade or more behind where it needs to be and, with more growth coming, won't catch-up without some serious investments. Austin will choke on the growth if the city doesn't get its act together.

  3. From Southwest press release yesterday:

    Starting April 12, 2021, Southwest Customers will be able to fly between Houston (Bush) and five destinations nonstop: Chicago (Midway), Dallas (Love Field), Denver, Nashville, and New Orleans.

     

    Looks like a total of 18 flights per day with DAL getting 6 and MSY getting 4 per day.

  4. 16 minutes ago, ztejas said:

    But I've always thought blaming the consumer for moral issues up the supply chain is kind of silly - I understand that many people disagree with that assertion. 

    Don't disagree. Note that I didn't mention the consumer in my reply to you. I mentioned the seller and the need for sellers of a product to understand their supply chain.

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  5. 56 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

    Shiiiiit, buying Tomatoes ain’t victimless when you consider the slave labor brought in to harvest produce. I think the victimless comment was about the user doesn’t end up dead in the 

    You can easily ensure the tomatoes sold at a local farmer's market are harvested without slave labor. Know your supply chain and it shouldn't be terribly hard to ensure that fellow human beings aren't suffering because of decisions we make as consumers. Unfortunately, there are way too many examples of human exploitation.

  6. Wasn't quoting you with the word victimless. Didn't intend for it to come off that way, but understand how it could. Was just putting my thoughts out there on a subject I often struggle with.

    The drugs themselves may be harmless, but the supply chain is highly harmful. While I do agree with you on placing fault on the US and Mexican federal government, I do disagree with you on it not being Joe Q dimebag seller's problem. If you're selling a product that has the blood of others on it, you are culpable. It's an uncomfortable fact for many, but it's still a fact in my mind. Legalize and regulate the supply chain and put the cartels out of business.

  7. 13 hours ago, ztejas said:

    And then you have things like weed or psychedelics that aren't really dangerous or ruin people's lives anyway so there's really no justification needed other than the legal risk involved.

    I struggle a bit with weed sales being totally victimless unless you know where your supply is coming from. Cartels still have their hand in the weed supply chain and those folks are very, very harmful to many people on both sides of the border. Of course, this is one of the big reasons to legitimize and regulate the sale of weed, but until the cartels are eliminated from the supply chain, weed sales are not victimless in my mind.

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  8. 4 minutes ago, DanRydell said:

    Would be a much better use of that land but they're going to have to figure something out with ingress and egress and the traffic on that stretch of 360, which might already be the biggest consistent traffic jam in Austin.

    Agreed. That is going to be a huge engineering challenge given the differences in elevation between 360 and the property. 

  9. 15 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

    Yep. She also knows almost nothing about bbq, cooking, restaurants, or Texas. Kind of a strange show. It’s like watching a Canadian visit Texas for the first time. 

    Yeah, I watched, well I scrolled through, the Houston episode earlier after reading the initial comment. It was cringeworthy. The host is most definitely not smoke and she's terrible at being in front of a camera.

  10. 12 minutes ago, Billy Pilgrim said:

    He mentioned the Cleveland on the way to the school auction before he even thought about killing Elena. Was he just going to fly to Cleveland and hang out?

    That's the timeline I recalled as well and wasn't going to go rewatch to confirm. Didn't understand why he would have some sort of premeditated cover story for going on the lam after killing his side piece.

  11. 9 hours ago, HouTex said:

    No way Hugh Grant’s bad ass lawyer puts the wife on the stand. She would have read the 911 transcript as well as her police interview. The mother in law story about the death of the sister might have been new but the rest of the cross examination would have been foreseen. The lawyer would not have risked the waiver of the spousal privilege.

    This is what pissed me off. I expect legal dramas to take a lot of license when it comes to criminal trials. The liberties taken in the last episode were so, so far from the reality of any criminal trial that it just irritated me and felt lazy.

  12. 32 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

    Yeah. Some are. My wife tells me there’s a pair of lululemon shorts that are worth hundreds or thousands of dollars on a resale market. There’s always money in anything folks collect. But treating it like a stock market isn’t smart. 

    We're going to need to see a picture of the woman wearing those lululemon shorts to determine whether or not they're worth thousands of dollars.

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  13. On 11/19/2020 at 8:45 PM, Jimbaround said:

    Okay, what is the Goddamn story on Nidda Thai? That strip center has been remodeling for two years. However, the new Nidda sign was on there starting a few months back.

    Live in the neighborhood and have noticed the lights on inside on weekdays with quite a few trucks parked outside. It looks like they're getting close to being done from the looks of it. 

  14. Once you own the car, you've lost all leverage. I would, at the very least, call them today and say that you're returning it due to the shoddy paint work. I bet that gets more than an appointment on 12/11. Then again, I'm not spending that kind of money on a car to get shitty workmanship. Elon needs to learn how to manufacture a car without massive build quality problems.

  15. 9 minutes ago, Superhero said:

    We took delivery on Sunday. It was delayed the week because of paint issues. I can't imagine HOW bad the paint was before, because holy shit, the paint on the frunk and front quarter panel is awful. Some look like water marks, but there are a LOT of marks that look like the paint is already oxidizing.

    My wife already made a service appointment to take the car in on 12/11. I doubt they'll be able to finish it in one day and couldn't promise a loaner car. Between the 2 of us, we've had 9 new cars before this (3 of them black) and we've never had a paint issue upon delivery. 

    I can't believe this is saving Tesla any money fixing paint on new cars. They need to get their shit together in the paint shop, because apparently the paint on the 3s and Ys are also a shit show.

    Why would you accept delivery of a vehicle with obvious defects? If someone delivers me a defective vehicle, there's no way I'm accepting that vehicle.

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  16. 1 hour ago, Beau Vine said:

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    The longer that he stays holed up in the WH and doesn't go down to Mar-a-lago for Thanksgiving or to get in some rounds of golf in FL, it makes me think that part of his plan is to be a squatter in the WH. If that's the case, I want it on live TV with multiple cameras, Live PD style, when he's removed from the WH on inauguration day.

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