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  1. 20 minutes ago, Dnaguy said:

    Heat pumps?

    Man, my house burns Natural Gas like a red-blooded American.

    Heat pumps are for commies and europeans.

    Some of us aren't so lucky to have gas hookups.  My first house had it, was the tits for sure!

  2. 2 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:


    Prosecuting bad cops = “vendetta.”
    Expecting the city that employs cops to have…oversight of them…= “unacceptable.”
    Yeah. Thanks for making my point. Cops aren’t willing to be cops unless they have 100% power and 0% accountability. Call that CR if you want, but the cops have made their position crystal clear.

    I'm sorry a cop fucked your wife once while you watched, but not all cops are bad.  And yes, it's a fucking vendetta.  How many cops has Garza dragged through the courts thus far?  He indicted 17 cops then dismissed them back in December.  The two Javier Ambler sheriffs deputies, who were found to be not-guilty.  Christopher Taylor has been through two mistrials.  Jose Garza has wasted resources and money prosecuting officers with exactly 0 guilty verdicts.  If you're a police officer, and you could work for Austin and get paid significantly less with risk of litigation left and right, or go work in a more police-friendly city that pays better and has a better working relationship with the DA and the City Council, why the hell would you come to Austin!?

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  3. 23 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    And WHY are police departments understaffed?  Because the word is out: becoming a cop doesn't mean you have absolute power with zero accountability, you aren't fucking gods among men.  The kind of people who might be interested in becoming cops if the job comes with absolute, unquestionable power.  And the ones who are already cops are quitting/retiring, because they aren't interest in staying on the job if they don't get to keep the "absolute unquestionable power" card.

    Take this crap to the CR.  APD is suffering more from the image of the DA office's vendetta against the police.  And the City wants unlimited oversite on the APA and APD, and the city council renegs on the contract negotiations.  Until you can get City Hall, the DA's office, and APD to cooperate, it's going to be a gigantic shitshow like this.

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  4. 1 hour ago, Dnaguy said:

    Why didn’t she put it on 80 so that the house will get hotter faster.

    /DNAgal

    She's right, you know... 

     

    At least when you have emergency heat like most heat pump units have, if you set your temp high enough, it will engage the heat strips and start blasting the heat out quickly.  Downside is it draws like 4x the power to run.

  5. 1 hour ago, ImissWallyPryor said:

     

    I don't know what's better: her trying to reholster the gun between the girls while it's still hot, or her taking a hot minute to deploy the gun itself.  Hold on, Mr. Attacker, I'm going to shoot you, but I need a minute to whip this out, cock it, get my hand out of the front of the barrel, aim it, and I MIGHT get you then...

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  6. On 3/16/2024 at 11:44 AM, CHIEF said:

    At full pool level, not over filled, I have seen depths of over 300 feet, on a high end depth finder, in the area right below The Oasis. I remember back in the 90's when someone lost a sailboat, and they didn't find it for about a decade. It's pitch black at the bottom.

    CHIEF

    Man, your depth finder must be REALLY off.  Below the Oasis, you MIGHT see 200 if you're lucky at full pool, but I would bet closer to 180 from my recollection.

     

    CSB: did a night dive on the dam a decade and change ago, and with the survace elevation around 680', I shoved my arm with the depth gauge about 2 feet into the silt at the bottom to hit 170' at the deepest point on one of the "jail houses".  If you guys REALLY wanted the easiest way to increase capacity, dredge the river beds, and I bet you could get a good 10-15 feet of silt out of there, not to mention a few dead bodies.  Removing the peninsula / sometimes islands, you're going to be blasting away for ages to get minimal results.

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  7. At Twin Peaks, had a check for 14.86.  Tipped her "pi" (can't find the symbol) for the tip, and totaled it out to 18, which was a fair tip.  She had to call over two to three managers to figure out what was going on.  Was a dick move for sure, but worth the laughs.

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  8. 1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

    It wasn't a question of "affordability", they couldn't attract enough lifeguards.  The budget was already fixed.  Ultimately they increased wages a bit and have not had that problem any longer.

    You do realize wages pretty much went up across most service industries coming out of the pandemic, right?

    So they didn't have the cap in the budget to raise wages high enough to attract life guard applicants?  Essentially they didn't budget for inflation / growth and hamstrung themselves.

  9. 21 minutes ago, Wally Pryor said:

    That troll is a cool work of art and just in time for the hippies to worship next month in Pease. 

    But, yeah, its days are numbered. When not going after body parts the bums enjoy taking out windows, front doors, etc. Imagine what they'll do to that pile of kindling. I'm guessing the over on Malin surviving is 10 months. Smart play is the under. Hope that's wrong. 

    Aggy's next bonfire location for the Texas game in 2025.  

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  10. 7 minutes ago, JosephStang said:

    Your vitriol and @PvilleStang refusal to answer is starting to convince me you are the Trey Stinette that stole 100k from me. You refused an adult discussion then, just like now, because you are a coward and a thief. Dale Carroll said I should have paid someone 10k to put a bullet in your head. I left because you are married to my sister. I wonder if you are also part of the Christian conspiracy that has harassed me from dark corners for the last 6-7 years. It would make sense because I foolishly trusted you again when the Jesuit asked who should be in charge of the network. I was being psychologically tortured by Israel at the time. I'm sure HaShem forgives my foolish trust and has my best interests at heart. Cheers.

    Well, @immamac might have to send you a refresher in surly rules.  Pretty sure posting shit like this will get you a banning...

    EDIT: and if you need to delete this post, mods, feel free...

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  11. 1 minute ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    It’s true.And I was being somewhat tongue in cheek- under the old system there was a ton of abuse. Like anything that deprives someone of their liberty it requires well designed independent oversight and high standards. 

    Austin is truly the pinnacle of cities when it comes to oversite and standards.  Just look at Project Connect!  And Austin Energy and their brush management, and Austin Water, and our homeless strategy department...

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  12. 1 minute ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    lol perfect example. It’s the same thing with mass shootings. We have a huge mental health crisis and it creates mayhem and violence, but we can’t actually do anything about it because “conservative” men keep tagging themselves in revenge fantasies about pissed off neighbors and scorned women.

    Riddle me this: what are the implications of having been admitted into a mental health institution?  You're going to get red flagged on a lot of future applications for anything from gun ownership to security clearances to TSA Pre, etc.  There's a negative connotation, just like there is with DWIs, Class A-B misdemeanors, etc.  Someone found to be mentally unstable and tagged as such will have a barrier to overcome in their future.

    And it is not unreasonable to believe that people will abuse this for their personal or financial gain.  It's all politics around these parts, anyways.

  13. I think the conservative aversion to Mental Health: it becomes a very slippery slope if we start admitting people into mental health institutions who we deem to be mentally unstable.  At what point do people abuse the system and claim their wives or girlfriends or neighbors are acting crazy and getting them incarcerated in a mental hospital.

     

    I fully agree, our state-funded mental institutions are spread extremely thin, and we need more private mental health facilities.  But the stigma behind mental health and the real lack of funding really keeps the status quo where it's at.  Until someone takes it up as a priority at the txlege or at the Whitehouse, we're stuck sending a bulk of our homeless to ASH or TSH for lobotomies.

  14. 3 hours ago, MissingInAction said:

    PMs are the fucking worst.

    At least those I deal with. They have zero technical acumen, and I always have to take over their role for our projects eventually. So I guess I'm a PM by default.

    PM is one step away from office of special projects, where all good state careers go to die.

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