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  1. Well, hmm. UT was most assuredly not selective in the 80s and 90s. "Room for above average and good students" pretty much excludes elitism. I suppose that depends on the definition of elite, but most of them include highly selective and the current eliteness is a product of the selectiveness imposed by "top __%." But I think its outcomes, particularly in certain fields, were elite.
  2. And that the California examples came not from random doctors, but politicians and officials, including POTUS. And then lets not forget the less directly offensive, but equally inappropriate self-congratulatory press conferences from Kerr, Texas, and federal officials.
  3. This, I think, is proof positive that Trump isn't playing some kind of 4d chess or have some vision, however unlikely, of trade surpluses, weakened dollar, and low interest rates. He is simply lashing out at countries he thinks have been "unfair" to us in some way. Or to him or his interests.
  4. It will be interesting to see if they can get to the land. And also interesting to see what happens to the value of land with river access. I suspect some rich folks, like the ones on oceanfronts everywhere, are going to build things squarely in the danger zone, regardless.
  5. Fucking gross. Also, perfection for the timeline. Who's Hunt? Wesley Hunt.
  6. Hmmm. Well I was contemplating this. It seems that the nature of things is that most of us probably made better grades than our parents in more rigorous curricula in hs and college than our parents. Yet, our ability to live a better life than our parents hasn't necessarily risen concomitantly. Like, I make more money than my parents did, in inflation-adjusted dollars , but my mom was stay-at-home and they purposely moved to an "elite" school district. Things I'm not sure I could or would do today and that are objectively harder than they were in 1963. A lot of that is just the result of equity, sans affirmative action. "Regular" white people got opportunities previously reserved for "elite" white people. And then that opportunity started spreading further. White women started doing things previously reserved for white men. And then other "minorities," with a boost from the Civil Rights Act, and yes, affirmative action. That's progress, but is it "progressive" or just sort of the natural order of things absent a cultural and economic revanchism like we're currently experiencing.
  7. Godalmighty.
  8. I believe lidig8r has something of an axe to grind with this physician over eating disorder issues.
  9. Well, that vindicates NWS, as apparently message received. Although perhaps not timely enough, but I don't think you can ask for much more given the vicissitudes of weather. Then it appears that Mystic/Eastland lollygagged a bit, perhaps belying the "disaster or evacuation" plan. But it makes it pretty clear that Kerr County officials were almost completely asleep at the switch as far as reinforcing the warnings and providing assistance.
  10. Things have gotten pretty objectively worse since the 90s. For white guys, anyway. And more competitive for everyone.
  11. He was #metoo 'ed once with a not terribly credible allegation. He's had some other problematic behavior relating to either a substance abuse problem or brain injury or both. He seems to be blacklisted.
  12. Yeah, the value of a university education doesn't necessarily lie in the education itself and that has always been true. But the ability of a university education to be a "cheat code" to a better life is probably lower than its ever been. I think there are a few areas where it's difficult to impossible to auto-didact (engineering for example) where the degree retains most of its value. Also, affirmative action or not, more non-white non-males are competing for education and jobs. And even in good ol boy fields like commercial real estate, good ol boys are being pushed out in favor of the objectively more competitive.
  13. There apparently was an Austin attorney named Neal Bonner, now deceased. He was probably the founding director or registered agent of the Mystic corporations and thus became the nominal correspondent on property tax stuff. Not much to be read into it.
  14. You could say that about many criminal prosecutions and it still doesn't happen until you get a hack like Trump in office.
  15. Again, political expediency aside, its just not normal to release investigation files until everyone is dead for 25 years. You don't do it, it never happens. And there has to be a real public interest, not a real public curiosity.
  16. They're not my norms. https://www.justice.gov/jm/jm-9-27000-principles-federal-prosecution#9-27.760 Generally, you don't disclose factual material underlying investigations and prosecutions until constitutional requirements mandate disclosure to the defendant. For uncharged parties, you don't disclose material that might incriminate them because they have no forum in which to defend themselves. 'there is ordinarily “no legitimate governmental interest served” by the government’s public allegation of wrongdoing by an uncharged party, and this is true “[r]egardless of what criminal charges may . . . b[e] contemplated by the Assistant United States Attorney against the [third party] for the future.”"
  17. Like some tiktoker or some such, "what is gonna take to get these people to have some empathy before something bad happens."
  18. The Dems didn't release it for one main reason: the Biden Department of Justice respected norms. To the extent it was an ongoing criminal investigation, in old America you don't release that information. To the extent it was a terminated criminal investigation, in old America you don't release that information until everyone is dead, if then. See, JFK. MAGA therefore brewed it into some giant conspiracy to protect pedo Dems, Trump world bought into it or at least thought they'd curry favor, then they looked at it. Whoops.
  19. https://esearch.kerrcad.org/Property/View/19022?year=2025&ownerId=588726
  20. Yup. And not-so-good. Unclear to me what we're dealing with here. As far as the Eastlands go. I'm not so sanguine about Kerr County officials.
  21. Also, adding to what's been said before, I know a number of people whose judgment I respect that think the Eastlands are/were very good people. Not just nostalgic campers. And, while I think at least initially being a camp director is a labor of love, there's quite a bit of evidence that this has become a big, profitable business over the last 30-40 years and there was some greedheading going on. So, I think it is quite unclear whether the disregard of the flood risk was complacency bred of familiarity or the result of greed and arrogance. I suppose the line is fine.
  22. I believe that's correct. And if you are willing to "go naked" on flood insurance, it's fine. Federally backed loans are going to require it, though. I don't imagine much commercial development is federally backed, though. And, while all this shows an awareness of the potential for flood problems, and a disregard of potential risk, there's nothing fundamentally wrong with it, I guess. FEMA can't survey every waterway, they establish floodplains based on historical and statistical data and it makes sense that an aggrieved landowner can do an actual survey and "escape" the floodplain. Now, if we start finding out they played fast and loose with the surveys, that's another kettle of fish entirely.
  23. If I am reading correctly, instead of this arrangement: OP has something more like this: And is having trouble filling the gap.
  24. Well, there is a slightly less than 1 in 4 chance that a Kerr County resident did not vote Trump. And, some of those Trump voters may just be complete ignoramuses instead of hateful fucks. But yeah, it's not those commie libruls that bring up the politics. I'm a conservative. I haven't voted R in nearly 10 years, but I'm still conservative. That ain't conservative.
  25. By many accounts, he seems to be shitting uncontrollably a good deal of the time. That's a lotta shit.
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