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PvilleStang

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  1. He's rich, he can afford the white servant.
  2. They've also attempted to grow the police force to match the officer per resident ratios, which was a major reason for the growth. Again, not defending some of the dumb shit they do, but population growth leads to the necessary growth of Fire, Police, EMS. The 4 employees per truck approach on the trucks, not sure how that stands up to national averages, but doesn't seem too out of line, either...
  3. The fact that Vanessa twatwaffle is in Japan on the city's expense right now is asinine. The $10M to artists that aren't even based in Texas is another level of bullshit.
  4. Are you kidding me?! Every Pro-Q group is either one of the many homeless NGOs, or some other group of asshats funded by the City Council. The dude that's the sock puppet for Love Austin PAC is Watson's former campaign manager, some kid that's maybe 2 years out of school and looks like John Belushi's morning shit. This camp houses the grifters and shills of Travis County, the dishonest shitstains of public service and money-grabbing non-profits. The Anti-PropQ crowd is about as non-partisan as you can get for city of Austin. I've seen the usual suspects (SAN and Mat Mackoviak) all the way to left leaning orgs saying avoid it at all costs. The main point they've been trying to vocalize is that city council codes all their ancillary projects into the budget, and leaves the essentials on the chopping block to play to the voter base. "Voting against Q is voting to cut police, fire, and essential city services," when in fact they need adults in the room that can set a budget within their means. And to speak to point 2, no one in here is saying the AISD taxes are acceptable, but AISD taxes aren't on the ballot. Recapture needs to be audited and rebalanced, as it seems to have completely overshot the initial desired outcomes of bringing the small districts into parity with the big ones, and now all the big districts are suffering. The fact we elected last go-round to jack up AISD taxes to the sum of $90M just so the district could pocket $20M says how fucked recapture is, and how stupid the voter base is to keep voting for every damn tax increase.
  5. What am I missing here?
  6. First off, does the Price / kwh factor in fees? Austin has a ton. Second off, Houston is not a monopoly. I can't speak for Dallas, but when I lived in Houston, we had the choice in power provider, so you can actually shop around. Austin, on the other hand, has no choices, if you're in Austin or a large swath of Travis County, you're forced to use them and pay their fees that are back-filling the general fund of the City of Austin. If you're "donating" this amount of money back to the general fund, it makes you wonder what kind of overcharging they're doing. https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/why-does-austin-energy-transfer-millions-back-to-the-citys-general-budget/
  7. Your average Razorback fan pre-game ritual?
  8. Austin Energy itself is a giant fucking scam. They're a monopoly, and they stack fees on your bill to, well: If you're going to offer rebates, how about NOT fleecing the customers to finance them?!
  9. How dare that guy park with new tires! The horror!!!
  10. Ah yes, the ol' Bob Stoops Service Loop.
  11. Man, that's some damn good service right there. The big names around Austin would just upsell you to the next tier if they had a part missing, to the tune of a couple grand more. Used to use Precision religiously, but when Fox Service bought them out, it went WAY down hill. They came out a few months ago to troubleshoot the indoor unit not working. Sent a greenish tech, and they triaged the unit for a good 2 hours, replaced the transformer then put a fan motor on order. Given this was a Friday afternoon around 4, they couldn't get the motor in hand until at least the next day. I called the office the next day, and swapping the fan motor is considered a new install, so they had to assign a different tech to return and install the unit, and installers only work M-F 8-5 hours, so had to sit the entire weekend. Fast forward to Monday, they tried to duck out for another no AC call, but the tech had already talked to me, and I told him the situation, and he came early and swapped the motor for me. Now 2 months later, they come out for an annual maintenance on the system, and they stated we really need to clean the fan (the one they pulled 2 months prior to swap the motor) and it was $800 to clean it since they'd have to pull it again. Could have easily taken a brush to it for 2 minutes while it was out of the system and knocked off all the dust and debris before mounting the new motor, but that would have made too much sense, right?
  12. Ring on left finger missing, divorce party?
  13. Watch out, blacklab has had people banned for less
  14. When the same suspects keep getting elected to City Council, the homelessness crisis isn't going to subside.
  15. Those are great, but cost 4x what a properly sized cap does.
  16. I need to, but I have several AC units I maintain, and would need to keep different sizes stocked...
  17. Window Salesmen: Renewal by Andersen quotes a quarter of the value of your house for window replacement (I think we got quoted 3700 / window) and their sales tactics are more aggressive than a used car salesman. What they do is not terribly difficult, but most of the big box stores won't sell drop-in replacement windows for standard sizes, so even Lowes / Home Depot get you by the short and curlies trying to force custom orders and install fees. HVAC techs. Granted, when you're paying $400 for a capacitor replacement, you're paying $20 for the part, $100 for the diag and labor, and $280 for not having to drive to the HVAC supplier and waste half a day to get said part and do it yourself. My number 1 complaint about HVAC is the suppliers seem to be open from 10a to 3pm M-F, and you usually find out your crap's broken on a Friday afternoon at 4pm. Either pay the tech fees to get it fixed in a few hours, or sweat out the weekend and hope you can get to the parts depot first thing Monday. Plumbing, well, you pay the premium for the tools, experience, and most importantly WARRANTY. The barrier to entry to do PEX is a big enough step to keep most plumbers in business.
  18. Question: is it best to back-in park while using HEB curbside?
  19. I mean, the text read "permanent suspension from SEC Conference games". I'm sure Yormark has an offer letter drawn up already.
  20. Since Herbie is talking about it, it might be true. But I do have to admit, his take on refs is shit. My view on refs is they should be in the background and not part of the game. When they interject themselves every chance they get and make blown calls left and right, they absolutely need to be questioned on it, especially when there's clear bias (see OSU games in 2015 and 2022).
  21. Why?! I have still yet to see a single article that doesn't rely on them as their source of the news. FoxNews, ESPN, Yahoo, the Atlantic, all of them user YH as their source.
  22. LTYA cancelled all the soccer games for tomorrow, we're not getting a drop now.
  23. Again, all using YH as their source.
  24. It's a local rag for some Alabama town that's pissy about the Auburn loss to Georgia. All other outlets are linking YH as the source of the story, and they have no cited source, nor has the SEC or NCAA or any other outlet reported this. I would permanently suspend my subscription to that paper pretty quickly.
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