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Looks like [insert name] is a DOB/sexual predator
Samson's Wig replied to South Austin's topic in Daily Texan
The only way this story about Abercrombie and Fitch would be surprising is if any women were involved. I'm not sure how they went from outdoor goods supplier to gayest retailer in history, but they were 100% of the way there by the mid-nineties. -
My son wants a cat. I've read a lot about the benefits of cats for autistic kids and want to make it happen. I've been allergic to them (cats, not autistic kids) all my life, although some breeds, e.g. Maine Coon, don't seem to bother me. We actually had a Maine Coon for fifteen years before he passed. He was awesome, but was a kitten rescue and grew into an unexpected monster. Anyone have experience with a breed of cat that is good for allergies, but isn't the size of a school bus? Any thoughts on males v. females, especially if we really want the cat to bond with my son rather than his sister or my wife or me? Thanks to anyone with any thoughts on the matter.
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Everything is Shit: Tracking the Great Enshittening
Samson's Wig replied to 956 Worldwide's topic in Daily Texan
"Medical Device." "Former owner." It's okay to admit the truth. This is a safe space. EDIT: Damnit, Brisket beat me to the joke. Should have read the rest of the page before commenting. -
Who's been covid vaxxed? Stand up and be counted.
Samson's Wig replied to High Plains Drifter's topic in Daily Texan
At first I was skeptical of his story, but then I remembered some of the doctors I know and realized it was probably true. -
Suzanne Simpson, the disappearing San Antonio realtor (UT alum)
Samson's Wig replied to chainsaw's topic in Daily Texan
I'll take your word for it, and that makes sense. My dad's pacemaker alerts his physician's office with irregularities, so I'm familiar with that process. I assumed in AB's case that it was the physician's office that maybe had an itchy trigger finger in terms of calling in support. That still seems more plausible to me than a sheriff and EMT showing up based on his phone, or whatever, monitoring his conversation with his wife. -
Suzanne Simpson, the disappearing San Antonio realtor (UT alum)
Samson's Wig replied to chainsaw's topic in Daily Texan
That was definitely your pacemaker sending out the bat signal. -
If what happened to Alberto doesn't make your blood run cold at the thought of the lengths our government will go to destroy an individual just for holding an opinion that differs from those in power, even when it's one of their own, I don't know what will. We're run more like a communist regime than we like to think. We just flip which assholes are in power from time to time, so those being persecuted get a brief respite while a new group gets a turn. As for the Cuban government, count me in the club that thinks communists are pieces of shit, due in large part to the inevitable violence baked into their supposed cupcake ideology. However, I also agree with those who think the best way to subvert the Cuban system and gain some measure of influence over the country is to normalize relations. The CIA is a joke and has been pretty much since its inception. Cuba is perhaps the ultimate example of their ineptitude. We shouldn't be letting those clowns dictate policy. Ever.
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Here's a great article about a buddy of mine and what lengths those hawks will go to in order to keep the status quo: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2005/07/the-assassination-of-alberto-coll.html
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Suzanne Simpson, the disappearing San Antonio realtor (UT alum)
Samson's Wig replied to chainsaw's topic in Daily Texan
Well, yeah. Lie detector tests don't detect lying. Never have, never will. They're just a tool to try to get a confession, or at least a slip-up, out of you. I'm sure most of you already know this fun fact: Willam Marston, the inventor of the lie detector test, also created Wonder Woman. Lasso of truth and all that. -
I wrote and deleted a few things. I can't seem to find the words for this one, but I'll try two: people suck.
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Suzanne Simpson, the disappearing San Antonio realtor (UT alum)
Samson's Wig replied to chainsaw's topic in Daily Texan
Fucking you without consent? It sounds like they may be Pikes, too. I smell a conspiracy. -
What does your sticker say?
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Thank you for bringing up the second item in particular. I have no particularl knowledge whatsoever of traffic systems beyond experiencing them as a driver, but Austin's system has (for decades) felt like it is nonsensical, inefficient, and constantly leaving huge blank spots in traffic. It's something that has always bugged me when driving here versus many other larger cities, and it's rare that you hear any discussion of it at all. It seems like the most obvious, least expensive, and easiest-to-implement solution for the traffic woes here is to throw some money and experts at updating the system and ensuring traffic is flowing as optimally as possible on the roads we already have. We instead waste money on projects that don't solve anything but make a handful of vocal groups happy. We seem hell-bent on making the same mistakes as in the past, only dressed up in modern notions. Austin neglected ever to build a decent public transport system while expanding roadways haphazardly; consequences be damned. Now we take every opportunity to reduce lanes in some quixotic quest to magically reduce traffic while still neglecting to build a public transportation system to fill in the gap; consequences be damned. We've just swung from one idiot branch of the dumbass tree to another one.
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If we're being honest, the same thing is true with most real doctors as well.
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If we can't manage to ban them altogether, there should at least be a one-bite, and you're done policy with pits. Fuck pit defenders. Everyone loves their dog. That's not a justification. I respect the restraint of the father above whose daughter was attacked. I don't think that dog would still be breathing if I were in his shoes, and I'd be in jail and paying some hefty fines. Where I grew up, if a loose dog killed anyone's livestock or family pet, that dog was dead. If it bit a person unprovoked? Dead. No questions asked, and rarely much pushback from the dog owner either. It was just the understood way of things.
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Thank you for presenting, much more intelligently, what I was trying to get at with my post above. This situation should never have been allowed to get this far, and we'll all be impacted by people on both sides of the negotiation acting foolishly.
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iPhone 12 Pro Max here (yeah I know), and no issues today for me in Austin.
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Greed is shitty when executives wield it, and it's just as shitty when a bunch of low-skill assclowns wield it. The Biden administration should have been on top of this, and there is no reason for the rest of the country to be impacted because a bunch of fucksticks who are already significantly overpaid decide to say "fuck 'em" to millions of people who work harder for less money. Unions are great, until they're not.
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I look forward to the higher rates, or most likely just the continued made up usage numbers, to cover what is almost certainly a negligence-related incident. I know that some here believe that city employees are warm hearted geniuses and we should all just get out of their way so they can make Austin a modern marvel, but at the moment I'm just hoping they can keep pumping water to my house. You should run for office.
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Every now and then the crazy voters here get it right.
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This is about as moronic a response to this topic as I can think of, but okay. No one blamed teachers for school shootings. And if you don't realize that there are lots of shitty teachers out there, which is one of many things kids have to deal with, you live in a bubble of willful ignorance.
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Looked and could not find a discussion on this. Apologies if I missed it. Just in the last week, there has been a threat to Hill Elementary from an unmedicated schizophrenic: https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/austin-police-make-an-arrest-linked-to-austin-isd-elementary-school-threat A kid was pulled out of class at Lamar Middle School by police for threatening gun violence (no article on this one, but I have spoken to the school principal about it personally). Another threat to Lamar Middle school happened over the weekend, which now appears to have been middle school girls from another middle school (so hopefully not a credible threat). Just in case anyone mistakenly thinks this is isolated to AISD, here's just a handful of similar instances happening out in the burbs. https://www.kvue.com/article/news/crime/social-media-threat-response-school-districts-central-texas-list-of-arrests/269-ec879603-9371-45f0-8c53-c5c38edc35ab Tons of kids are being kept home today due to all this shit, although we sent ours as there doesn't seem to be any active danger. I don't really have much to add other than I hate that kids are growing up with this as a baseline reality. I have 12 year old twins, and it's difficult to explain to them why the adults (myself included) can't create a safe environment for them. Getting kids motivated to go to school and put up with all the bullshit that involves (shitty teachers, boring lessons, misguided romantic entanglements, asshole bullies, etc. etc.) gets even tougher when you have to add "oh, and you might get shot and die" to the list of crappy things that come with middle school and high school life. These kids are growing up in some genuinely shitty times, but the adults haven't done a damn thing about it other than complain about how millennials and Gen Z are so dysfunctional as adults. Well, we made them that way.
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I'm sorry, but I can't wrap my head around your view of this city, other than I think you may be too close to how the sausage is made to have an objective opinion. You're way off lumping me into the group you are, which is what you do with anyone who doesn't see the city through your oddly tinted lens. And yes, while I was being (only mildly) hyperbolic about voters here rubber-stamping bonds without understanding what they're even voting for, let's not be disingenuous and act like we don't pass damn near every tax hike or bond in this town just because a couple of items haven't gone through over the decades. And none of that has anything to do with management of the airport, which is what was being discussed. I suppose you thought the handling of the imminent domain move on the south terminal was managed with skill and grace. I agree that voters here suck, as do the elected officials. But I also think you moved somewhere hoping for a world class city, and that is not something Austin ever was and likely ever will be, regardless of what voters do or don't want. It's just what it is. You live in a fairy tale. Detroit has the highest taxes of any city in America. How's that working for them? Throwing more money at bad leadership isn't going to solve anything, but it will continue the tradition of graft in this city quite well. You've managed to label just about everyone as dumb or incompent, whether it's the majority voters, the minority voters, or the city leadership. Who does that leave that knows what they're doing and can implement this magical world class city experience you are looking for? You? If you're the only genius who knows what's best for Austin, and if everyone else would just stay out of the way and do things your way, we'd be living in a modern marvel of a city? Sign me up, seriously. Maybe we should elect you Emporer of Austin, and all our problems will be solved. Just let me know how much to make the check out for. If you can deliver that I'm all in. Hell, if you could just deliver a functional light rail system for a reasonable cost and without funneling millions to your buddies I'll fully support your dictatorship. But I think you're just another naive idealist with an authoritarian streak who wants to live in a magical fairy tale city that suits your specific needs and wants everyone else to pay for it, just like most Austin voters. No offense, though.
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No one else wants to tell me, so I guess we're all in the dark. What did I miss? If we rejected a public improvement bond related to the airport (or anything else) in the last fifteen years or so, I was definitely in a coma that week. While that's certainly possible, it would be highly out of character for the voters in Austin, which was my point. I thought the vast majority of the funding for most of the current improvements is coming from state and federal grants, so I don't understand your blaming voters for any of it outside of your tendency to carry water for city leadership no matter the topic. I'm sure you have your personal reasons for doing so, but how anyone can think this city has been well-managed over the decades is mind-bottling.
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