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  1. 9 hours ago, Texas Jeff said:

    I would be OK with more money for schools if the schools actually got the money, and if schools were free to raise more money, with voter approval, to pay teachers what they think they are worth.  I'm OK with Austin ISD's school bond money and I wish they would ask for more, as I think the 2022 bond is underfunded.  All of the bond money stays in the district.

    It is bullshit that I pay "property tax", which is labelled as "school tax", which is actually "money to be paid to the state for education", which may become "money to put razor wire in the Rio Grande".  It should be illegal to collect a tax for one purpose and confiscate it for some other purpose.  If the state wants Robin Hood money or private school tuition or more razor wire, they should do it via a state-wide tax.

    The AISD bonds that we keep funding are complete BS.  They collect X amount of dollars, of which 30% might go to AISD, while the rest is recaptured for school district golf courses and water parks in the valley, or Football Stadiums that house 5x the ISD population and outdo Rice and Houston's stadiums.

  2. 8 minutes ago, Felix said:

    Yeah I think that's what it was called.  It was a short hike from the loop 360 entrance.  I remember that story too.  That was about 15 years after my last time in there.  I remember it was mostly low but large chambers back to around 150 yards in and then there was a truly terrifying squeeze that I seem to remember was around 10 or 12 feet of just inching along and then it opened up into a fairly big chamber but I only attempted that once.  We usually stopped in that last room before that which you could actually stand up in.  Those guys that got stuck were way back in there. I never trusted a flashlight that much.

    Man, made me go down that rabbit hole.  My friend was the third "unidentified" student that went in.  To this day they still haven't released her name.  I guess Tony Plohetski did an interview with the other two.
     

     

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  3. On 6/19/2025 at 9:39 AM, Felix said:

    When I was young we used to go to that cave on the Barton Creek greenbelt before they closed it.  Within the first 10 feet or so there was a 4 or 5 foot squeeze like that and I did it multiple times with no issues. Then one day on the way out as I was inching myself along I suddenly thought of all that rock over me and now I can't even watch these videos.  That was my last time in a non-tourist cave.

    Airmen's Cave?  I was friends with one of the three that got stuck back there in '07.  Buddy was the guy who called it in around 5am.  Crazy enough of a story to ensure I'll never set foot in there.

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  4. Toyota's EVAP system on my wife's 2001 4Runner was convoluted at best.  They were located atop the fuel tank, so I would absolutely believe changing the fuel pump could have EASILY caused that. 

    But, from other experiences: I would grab a wiring diagram for your model year, and see if there's a specific pigtail that runs to the EVAP systems noted in the codes, and double check it's seated correctly.  If we're talking a Tundra, I wouldn't be surprised if they pulled the bed to replace the fuel pump rather than dropping the tank, and there's a likelihood they disconnected some of the wiring to get it done, and left it partially connected.

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  5. On 6/18/2025 at 2:16 PM, Wally Pryor said:

    I don't know anything about Selena Xie but I'll take anyone over that useless-corpse-of-a-council member Paige Ellis. 

     

     

     

    I mean, Natasha Harper-Madison might be the corpse on the Dais.  Who holds the record on remoting in to ACC meetings the most via Zoom?  Hell, I'm pretty sure she might own the most unexcused absences in city council history.

  6. Back in the day when I worked on the east side, there was a dude that had a bike (think of the ice cream tricycle with the bin on the front) that would sell a dozen tamales for like 4 or 5 bucks.  Man, those might be the best tamales I ever had.  Thanks to gentrification, those guys have long been pushed aside I'm sure!  

  7. 17 hours ago, TonyTexas said:

    Of course. 

     

    Is this actually true?!  They're commissioned into the Army National Guard OR Army Reserves as officers?!  Not even the ACTUAL ARMY?!?

  8. 33 minutes ago, Mittens said:

    Condescending IT cunts who can't fathom that you've done everything correctly, yet there might be a bug in their system.

    Yesterday, I'm trying to download some documents from a vendor site that I need for clients.  Couple of them DL no problem, then I go to another section for the others (this is another bitch altogether - the vendor used to email you 1 pdf that included the entire set of docs, and now they are piecemealed all over their site and it takes 20 DL to get the full set), and get an error message.  OK cool - hit the support button and email in w/ my issue, asking them to email me the documents I can't DL.  Get an email today saying they don't see anything on their end, and I need to log out of VPN, clear cookies, etc.  I do all of that, reboot my computer just to make sure it's all reset, and still no joy.  Reply saying the issue persists and ask for them to please email me the documents.

    Get a call from one of their IT guys offering to help, so we start going through the suggestions and it's clear he thinks I'm the dumbass and his system is infallible - mind you, this website was re-done like 3 months ago and while it looks flashier and shinier than the previous version, it takes forever which = sucks, afaic.  He asks if I can DL the docs on Edge or FF, and I tell him I don't know, because I don't use those.  He says he's just trying to help me get what I need and I remind him that since I don't use those browsers, this isn't a solution.  As I'm trying to log in via Edge, the password won't work and he's being condescending again, saying i must have fatfingered the PW, and when I say it's C/P, he basically says I'm C/P'ing the asterisks, not the actual PW...even though I'm C/Ping the actual PW, because I can P it into a .txt file just fine. 

    As I'm about at the end of my rope w/ this prick, he has a moment of clarity and tells me that now that he's digging into it a little more, it seems they did a system reboot of some kind recently and my account and some others didn't get something or other so he is going to have to delete my account and I'll have to start over in a couple of hours.  Fucking shitbreath son of a bitch.

    PEBKAC, but in this case on the other end.

    Which is funny.  I had this real prick call in earlier and he was pissed he couldn't download the last 6 months of his OnlyFan receipts in PDF format.  I asked him if he tried using Edge or Firefox, and he was just being a complete asshole.  I pretended to try a few things on the back end, but I was really just playing video games while I held him on the line for 30 minutes.  I then told him his account was accidentally purged, and we'd have to create him a new account.  He was mad enough he finally got the hint and hung up!

  9. JFC, look at the URL on that.  There's some group on FB that's pretending to be Longhorn fans that does the same crap.  The same clickbait stories that are false and leading to malware-infected websites.  DO NOT CLICK!

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  10. 12 hours ago, Dnaguy said:

    Heart O the Hills 

    the density of summer camps in Hunt, Texas blows my mind.

    How? Why?

    But also, why can’t I fucking go to camp?

    Adult summer camp would be fucking sick.

    Swimming, archery, horse riding, and all meals prepared. 
    Although I could never pay for my own happiness like I pay for my families…. 
    But the month with no kids is one fucking nice fringe benefit.

    The sad part is that I just end up working late every day, but just feel less guilty about it.

    What the hell are we talking about again?

    River Inn!  Wife's family got me hooked on that place.  Bring a keg or a few cases of beer, and sit on the water for a few days and unwind.  Don't mind the motel rooms, it's like a flashback to the 80s and 90s, but it's somehow better than staying at a 5* hotel in a major city by a mile.

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