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  1. 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.

  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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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  8. 3 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    This is the reactionary flip side of “we should just put them in hotels!”

    I'll call bullshit on this.  I don't care if it's a mentally stable, premeditated mass murderer, or a crazy dude driving a vehicle into a crowd of people.  If you're capable of doing that kind of harm, you need to be incarcerated.  Claiming you were insane and should get a free pass on a murder is complete bullshit.  You're a threat to society, plain and simple.  Mental state should only play into whether you grow old in Terrell State Hospital or Huntsville.

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  9. Stuck behind some RAV4 on 71 today, and the dude's doing 2 over the limit on the left lane, crawling past the dude on the right lane.  2 minutes later, he finishes passing the other guy, then slowly pulls into the right lane, and starts going 80.

     

    Fuck Off Greg Kinnear GIF by Shining Vale

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  10. https://www.kvue.com/article/news/crime/austin-police-swat-merle-drive/269-c7c62924-f455-45b6-b3e2-a5137b4bc270

    This one was interesting, too.  I'm interested if anyone has the dude's name yet, and what his priors are.  Several tweeting he was out on bond when this happened.  Sorry for partying?

     

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    AUSTIN, Texas — A man is in custody following an hourslong SWAT standoff in South Austin.

    According to the Austin Police Department, they received a burglary hotshot call just before 12 p.m. Wednesday at a home near Merle Drive and West Ben White Boulevard.

    When officers arrived at the home, police said they learned a naked man forced his way into the home and assaulted one of the residents.

     

    Police believe at least two people were inside the home at the time and were able to get out of the home safely. After the residents got out, the homeowner told police that there were several loaded firearms inside the home, which led to APD's SWAT team coming to the scene.

    After nearly three hours, the man surrendered and was taken to the Travis County Jail where he faces a felony burglary charge, according to police.

    Residents in the area reported gunfire during the standoff, but police said those reports may have been caused by "distractionary" devices used by officers during the incident.

    Meanwhile, police said they're unsure if the man was intoxicated or suffering from a mental crisis at the time of the incident.

    Per the spaceman:

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    When she turned around, a naked man holding a drug pipe and a butane torch lighter was standing in her living room, she said. She tried talking to him, she said, but he appeared to be high on drugs because his eyes were darting back and forth and he wasn't able to say anything coherent.

     

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