Posts posted by royiv
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8 hours ago, HookEm said:
3/4 of the students at Arkansas are from Texas. As such, Fayetteville is very Texan friendly in my experience. My daughter goes to school there.
There whole area hits above its weight with quality of restaurants. On the downside, there are no nice hotels that I’m aware of. We always end up at the Hyatt Place (which is decent as far as that chain goes).
Geraldi’s is probably my favorite place to eat. Right by campus and legit Italian. Atlas is a good high end spot downtown. Giusinger Cocktail Club is a great cocktail bar on the main square. Buttered Biscuit is a good breakfast. Wood Stone pizza is a nice local pizza chain.
I could easily retire up there. Prices are reasonable and it is beautiful. We need nonstop flights from Austin.Not in Fayetteville, but the 21c Hotel in Bentonville is nice and it’s a nice walk from there to Crystal Bridges.
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13 minutes ago, texashorne said:
I live in DFW and had a work meeting come up in Houston at 9 AM tomorrow. I elected to drive rather than fly because I'll need to get to a specific office in Houston and dont want to Uber to and from, especially from as I dont know when the meeting will end. I want my own car while there.
The high speed train wont take you to the specific place you need to go in the respective cities. You will have to figure out transportation when you arrive making many people like myself just continue to take a personal car.
Counterpoint: I despise driving on 45. Give me a HSR option and I’ll take it every single time. Uber can take care of the final mile transportation. To me, time spent staring at a windshield is completely wasted time.
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54 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:
UTD got a huge boost early on from TI and TI founders, who wanted a school to work-study TI employees. They offered to do the same for SMU, but SMU declined, seeing itself as a liberal arts and business school. So its beginnings were different from most of the other UT "satellite" schools.
Yeah, I fund an endowed scholarship with my name on it at UTD. I’m well aware of its history.
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18 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:
While the UT system isn't up to UC standards, there are a few options where a good education is possible. UT-Arlington, UT-Dallas, and UT-San Antonio all have their good points.
UTD is on a different plane than Arlington and San Antonio. If the state had any sense, it would be plowing a whole lot more money into that campus, but absent that, what they’ve done on that campus in the last 20 years is pretty remarkable.
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1 hour ago, mchookem said:
i mean it's pretty fucking obvious that many if not most of these 'federal agents' are straight off the streets - makeshift uniforms, personal vehicles, their physical fitness, the way they carry themselves, the language they're using, the trigger-happy reactions, etc etc etc... not like actual existing LEOs are that much better, but these are so clearly untrained thugs straight off the street. just incredible.
I understand the point you’re making here, but you’re giving “actual existing LEOs” too much credit. Have you not witnessed what the law enforcement community has devolved into over the past few decades? It’s just a bunch of fat pigs in tacticool gear.
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1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:
Well, Dallas has more murders ytd (113) than DC (101). So does Houston (112 through May).
Houston has more than 3x the population of DC and a million more than Dallas. I’m honestly surprised that the homicide rate here in H-town is that low. I guess my fellow Houstonians are less stabby and shooty than I thought they were.
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12 hours ago, elfenix said:
Some douchecanoe had red and blue LED lights facing front on his truck. They were constantly on but they'd be blocked the reappear as traffic passed between us, making him look a bit like a cop. Fucking jackass. Everyone with accessory lights needs to be dragged out of their car and beaten.
Curious if this was in Houston? I’ve noticed that the constables in my hood have added always on red and blue front facing lights to their vehicles. I have no idea what the purpose is.

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