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Samson's Wig

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  1. Those places are stacked to the gills with multi-unit per-lot developments. I'm not talking about the suburbs.
  2. These young transplants and true believers will be sorely disappointed when this does nothing to improve housing affordability in Austin for any of them. I don't think that's really the goal for even the pie-eyed, however. It's more of an us vs. them jerkoff session. Those who stand to make money off this are laughing their asses off at how stupid we all are. Now, I'm off to purchase a home in central San Francisco, Portland, Chicago, New York, Boston ,Toronto, or somewhere similar. You know, the cities where multiunit development in historic single-family neighborhoods has been in place for decades, and therefore they have no issues with housing affordability.
  3. I think you're touching on the heart of the situation, but I can't entirely agree with your conclusion. As the parent of a mentally ill young man, I can tell you firsthand that it's not as simple as coming up with a system for locking up people with problems or red flags. As we did in the past, we would sweep up way too many harmless people and separate them from their families, making things much worse for those individuals while doing nothing to protect the public. If we can find a way to determine who is a threat and who is not accurately, perhaps it could work, but that's not how these things ever work. Legislation will be too broadly drafted (as it always is), and sick kids will be placed into terrible environments in which they don't belong. It has been a long-held notion in this nation that one is innocent until proven guilty, that we would prefer a guilty person go free than lock up an innocent one. I have always believed strongly in this and still do, especially when we're talking about people with mental illness. The answer is not just to start locking up sick people, although we need to start treating mental illness seriously in this country. If you're not wealthy, your kids will have difficulty getting meaningful treatment. That's a place we can start right there. Mental healthcare reform. Force the fucking insurance assholes to cover mental health services and require mental health providers to accept insurance for payment. We're completely broken as a nation in this area, but we could make a significant difference with relatively simple legislation. Acts like the one this week can be better prevented not by locking people up but by making treatment available in the first fucking place. The other thing that would do more to stop this crap than anything else, but won't happen because Americans are dumber than a bag of rocks/hammers/dildos, is to get rid of fucking guns. All of them. Now. But as Brisket has mentioned repeatedly, we have the country we want. What we want is to divert attention from the real problem by demonizing mentally ill people because a large segment of our population is struggling with an inferiority complex and feels better being surrounded by weapons. I think these discussions routinely focus on the wrong mental health issues, personally. Obsessive behavior around guns is the more significant mental health problem, but it's not ever discussed at all. A bunch of patriots think an America utterly beholden to the insurance and gun lobbies is the best version of America. And who do you think loves the more recent narrative regarding mental illness? Another large industry with significant lobbying power, perhaps? It's all fucking bizarre and should be shameful to anyone who truly believes in the notions that this nation were founded upon. King George, thy name is now industry.
  4. So whose wife was the cop fucking?
  5. lol. Isn't Farmhouse the "Christian" frat? I hope they at least butchered and ate it.
  6. Just leave Harnarayan Singh alone to continue his excellent hockey broadcasts. Please.
  7. You've just got to love all of the territory grabs taking place worldwide. Things worked out well the last time this sort of thing came into vogue.
  8. Show up to challenge it. They'll likely toss it. Or ignore it. Your name isn't connected to it in any way. Sucks for that other guy, though.
  9. Not a witness, but rather a by-standard.
  10. Don't worry, folks, the government is here! After shuffling some deck chairs and spending money on new government jobs that didn't exist last week, they're sure to get us out of this mess soon! Seriously though, I hope this leads to better outcomes for struggling people. Throwing money at real estate deals didn't help anyone, but who could have possibly seen that coming? Here's hoping the new department can coordinate services more effectively than we have before. I doubt it, but here's hoping.
  11. It's just plain old racism, but is't just one asshole on twitter. We've got plenty of our own dumbasses along these lines. The interesting part is that Tech has way more Hispanic students than any other school in Texas. They've actively and purposefully recruited these students for years and have some kind of active designation from the feds as a Hispanic forward university, or something along those lines.
  12. ‘We are attorneys, not statisticians.’ Garza is a loathsome creature. Fucking hell. DA's are just politicians, and they all suck and lie with every breath, but holy shit he takes it to another level.
  13. That ship sailed, brother. The only difference now is oil money.
  14. Exactly. That would be a scenario where I could see some weird voodoo coming into play. At this stage, I think they took a big sigh of relief last night and won't be nearly as excited for the game on Friday. Even the fan base is deflated after the heightened expectations coming into the season. And honestly, they were a decent offensive coordinator away from having a great season, making this game a much more important one for both teams. It took him about half the year to realize he had a future NFL stud running back on the team that the offense should run through. It was bizarre to watch, but that's what they get for insisting on hiring an air raid coordinator. EDIT TO ADD: Their interior D-line in no joke at all, and will cause some issues on Friday, but this year's Tech team just hasn't put it together offensively to be a real threat in this game. They have a second-string QB with a gunslinger mentality but without the skills to back it up. Their o-line can run block but are terrible in pass protection. Receiving corp is the worst they've had since Mike Leach stepped foot on campus. No separation, ever. The larger issue is the OC isn't experienced enough to make adjustments based on situational football. He's just barely out of diapers and the only mentor he had was Kingsbury (lol).
  15. I don't think Tech will be as hyped up for this game as some think. Their expectations coming into this season were that this game would be a deciding factor in who goes to the championship game. After some terrible coaching followed by tons of QB injuries, they're thrilled (and surprised) to be bowl-eligible as of yesterday. This will be a letdown game, of a sort, for them. The Longhorns will roll over them with ease and the game will be over by early in the third.
  16. We can't even hire more lifeguards. It's certainly not a lack of tax collection causing these "shortages".
  17. I wish they mandated them, but it's effortless for the morons to opt out of it. They must sign an affidavit that they didn't vaccinate their kids for "Reasons of Conscience." That's it. That's all they have to do. Texas ranks among the highest in the nation for unvaccinated kids (and while I doubt a proper study could be done to prove it, I suspect we also rank among the highest for dumbasses per capita). This is why we have outbreaks of things like measles. If you think your public school kids are in an environment full of vaccinated children, think again. Only certain private schools truly mandate and enforce vaccinations.
  18. Also, you know, kids. School and all. All due respect, yadda yadda yadda, but this particular type of theater needs to end.
  19. A lot of it depends on where you are, including down to which driver's route you live on. UPS was absolute dog shit at our last house, but it was the driver. He was replaced, and things magically improved. We live at the end of a large neighborhood next to a green belt, where people come to dump all kinds of things (I once found a stolen car still running in gear jammed up on a tree). We see piles of Amazon packages with some regularity. Sometimes it's porch pirates dumping loot they don't want, but sometimes it's just a bunch of unopened boxes, where the driver clearly just said fuck it and dumped out whatever was left to go party or whatever. I've acted as a delivery driver for our neighborhood more than a couple of times. FedEx, I haven't had many problems with lately. Based on this thread I'll start preparing for the worst.
  20. For anyone reading/participating in this thread, for whatever reason, Nathan Fielder's new series on Showtime, "The Curse" may be of interest.
  21. Just another example of why the Grammy's are meaningless. They'll nominate anyone for just about anything. I think their strategy is that if they nominate enough people, the nominees will convince friends and family to actually tune in to watch or care in the slightest. Viral marketing, baby!
  22. Lake Travis, dude. This probably doesn't crack the top ten list of terrible shit those entitled little twats did to each other in a locker room. For anyone considering raising your children out there, I have two words: Baker Mayfield.
  23. Based on the thousands of them they ensure remain alive and go to homes that can't handle them in this city, it seems only fair that they deal with one at work all day.
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