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Samson's Wig

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  1. Even when we do something right, we have to fuck it up at least a little with politically based choices that make nitwits who wish they lived in Denmark happy, even if it's at the expense of reason. All in all, I'd still call this one a win. In my case, the try-hards actually won. I gave up and sold my full-sized truck a long time ago. Navigating this city in one isn't worth it. It makes our frequent camping and fishing trips a much bigger pain in the ass, but c'est la vie.
  2. Perhaps that's your reward for having to deal with raising five children. You'll never retire, but you'll never get covid. Congrats!
  3. Please don't bring facts to an Internet argument, sir.
  4. Chiming in very late to say I love the downtown library. One of the few things this city has done right in the last twenty years or so.
  5. Layer on your facts all you want, but we all know it's just that older generations worked harder to pay their own way through school, and kids these days are soft. It has nothing to do with state university tuition being subsidized at 90% or more for boomers and less than 10% now. Those good folks would have never accepted a government handout. We know this to be true.
  6. Yeah, that would fall under "directly involved" in my book. I understand why these parents are being prosecuted. I was speaking more to the general notion of parent culpability for their teenager's actions. We have to be very careful what precedents are being set, in my opinion, as overreach is likely.
  7. I don't have a problem with culpability for the parents from the straw purchase perspective. I don't know much about this case, so I don't know if the mother was involved in that aspect of it. As a general rule I don't think it makes any sense at all to punish parents for the actions of their kids unless they were directly involved. Good parents have terrible children all the time, just like good kids have terrible parents all the time.
  8. What I'm gathering from this is that moms are stupid and maybe we shouldn't listen to them. Children everywhere should take note and rejoice.
  9. So it's a tech company. The few that make it know how to manage the grift better.
  10. You are all clearly just misguided and uninformed. The notion presented above by our resident urban jingoist that the city council or city management in this town will listen to citizens who bother to participate is hilarious when time after time, this city's leadership moves forward with all kinds of graft-laden nonsense expressly after hearing from countless citizens just how much they don't want it. It often takes lawsuits and voter referendums to prevent the city from ramming crap down the majority's throat precisely because they don't listen. We haven't reached Chicago levels of backroom skullduggery, but damn if this isn't a sweet city to work the local government for easy money. The average voter here will eat any pile of shit put in front of them so long as it's seasoned with imitation progress.
  11. I like roundabouts and have no issue with the one at 51st. It's not the best setup, but it's better than before. It will probably feel like you're risking your life when using it for another generation before Austinites learn how to use it, though. Lots of fuckery every time I go through it. To be fair, that's the case at almost every intersection in this town lately. Some people never hear of a modern urban planning concept they don't like. Sometimes they're right. Often they're just distracted by new shiny things and can be easily taken advantage of. This city is too easily distracted by new shiny ideas, and we waste an insane amount of money on projects that add zero value but feel good because they tickle the right ideological bone. That roundabout at 51st is not one of those things. Kudos are due when they're due.
  12. The ideologues are happy, and that's what matters most. How ugly these unused bike lanes make neighborhoods is an overlooked aspect of this foolish practice. In addition to being much more difficult for vehicles Shoal Creek and similar streets are now an awful eyesore, all at the expense of those who actually live there and for the benefit of almost no one. The folks who own houses on that street are lucky to live in such an insane housing market, as that crap would make your home almost worthless in most places. Even here, it's going to put you at a relative disadvantage when selling.
  13. White people make up what, 10% of the earth's population? I don't see why we make such a fuss over such a tiny group. They could multiply like rabbits for a couple of centuries and still be an afterthought.
  14. What I'm proposing, is maybe that's not such a bad thing.
  15. I think the pro-Russian comments are coming from a certain nutbag politically affiliated group, not AI bots. The Internet, like any open forum dating back to at least the Roman one, has always been a place for bullshit to reign supreme an nonsense to spread like wildfire. No one should ever take it seriously because the vast majority of humans are stupid as fuck, and even the somewhat intelligent ones will seize any opportunity to talk out of their asses about something they don't know anything about.
  16. As a former Chicago resident, I recognize that address well. If that's where he can be found, he's okay in my book.
  17. The bicycle lobby is the number one thing about Austin that fucking sucks, and that's saying something. These unused lanes all over town are so completely stupid, and on the rare occasion you see someone using them, it's a goober in spandex getting exercise, not a commuter. We shouldn't be subsidizing workouts for middle-aged assholes too embarrassed by their slight frame to step foot in a real gym, especially at the expense of functional roadways. If I thought for a second that large numbers of people would commute via bike in this town, I'd be all for it, but they won't and they never will. There are plenty of great cities in climates that make commuting via bicycle a reasonable option. Austin is not one of them. I don't know how the morons got control of everything, but it's like living in a bizarro world here sometimes. That news story about Barton Springs is hilarious. They couldn't even find someone on a bicycle using the new lane for their b-roll, so they had to create a photo op with Meg Merrit, Austin resident and "transportation expert," just to show someone actually using a bicycle on this stupid fucking waste of money. We're a clown show.
  18. Shit, I've been a fool. Thanks for this.
  19. Agreed. I don't get it. She's 11. We've failed as parents.
  20. My wife's vehicle has a 360 overhead camera view and she uses it religiously, so I tend to believe she was parked just fine, but yeah, you never know. Those spots are tiny in that lot. Fuck that guy either way. Perhaps the worst part is neither of us can stand Starbucks and wouldn't go there, but our daughter has taken a liking to the bagels, of all the fucking things, so she asks to go there with some regularity for a plain bagel toasted with butter. It's mind-numbingly ridiculous, but we give in now and then.
  21. Absolutely. No need to involve anyone else. DM me your address and we can chat about it.
  22. Don't talk to fat ugly chicks, and don't use face recognition on your phone. Problem solved. To be fair, you can be drugged without talking to any strangers, good looking or not, while out and about. Happened to me.
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