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Samson's Wig

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  1. I think you may be giving that crowd (or any crowd) too much credit.
  2. My son once asked me to watch a live Travis Scott concert with him in Fortnite, and I did. So this hits close to home. Big crowds often lead to injuries and worse. People should generally avoid them, but concerts are fun and young gonna young. Whoever let a ten year old in there should probably be charged with a crime, though. Fucking hell.
  3. If you reread the post I was responding to, his last comment was about property taxes, although he did mention bonds earlier. I could have been clearer.
  4. Prop A would have required a certain number of police based on population of this city. Essentially putting it in line with other large cities. While it had nothing to do with funding, as the funding has already been restored, it would have put a dent in the budget to get enough cops hired and trained quickly. Essentially, an inelegant solution to what is a real problem (rising crime rates). Heavy money was spent on both sides and the entire thing was ugly and stupid politics on both sides. Fortunately the best outcome happened, even if the messaging that led to Prop A failing was as silly as the messaging supporting it.
  5. Yep, and then cry when there's no money left for basic services. Fuck those fucking fucks.
  6. Good point. I was mostly just responding to the notion that Austin has smarter voters than other places. We very much do not.
  7. I don't understand how we still have antisemites in America. Even the shitty public school in Redneckville I went to decades ago drove the right messages home on this topic. What kind of backwards ass piece of shit do you have to be to believe the bullshit these neo-nazi white power idiots believe? It's just willful ignorance, which I know is the only thing we don't have supply chain issues with these days, but got damn. I've heard schools haven't been teaching much history for the last two or three decades, which is a crying shame. I hope this guy suffers.
  8. Weeeelllllll, we won't vote for something that Matt Mackowiack pushes anyway.
  9. If we're being honest with ourselves, which I know is generally frowned upon, the hoarding of state resources by one system is the main cause of the weak public university system at large in Texas. It would take decades to catch up to what California has built, but we should probably at least try.
  10. We got an email from our pediatrician saying they expect it to be approved and they're taking appointments for Nov 6th, but would do it earlier if it gets approved earlier. I like your pediatrician. Ours said, "Fuck off and call back once it's been authorized."
  11. Do tell. How did you pull that off when approval hasn't come yet?
  12. The number of people defaulting to the position of "these are bjust decent folks just trying to help" need to wake up. Dutchrudder outlined some good info above. CAM is anything but good people just looking to help. If we could rescue the kids and leave the adults to rot, I'd be all for that.
  13. I'm fairly sure of two things: 1. the folks behind the project will get exactly what they want to out of this, and; 2. there will never be a giant amphitheater in SW Austin.
  14. WTF? I don't live in the Eanes district, and I know I shouldn't be surprised by how completely stupid people can be, but holy shit. This is the woman who almost made the school board, right? Good luck to all you rich assholes in Westlake.
  15. None of them ever are, but many are proclaimed to be. That was my point.
  16. All this shit does is further whet the public's appetite to "tax the rich", so then we go and pass tax reform that purports to do that very thing. Next thing you know, the middle class is being bled dry and the rich are still riching along without paying their fair share. Rinse and repeat.
  17. I remember some nasty fights in high school, and was involved in a couple myself, but I'm so far removed by years from that kind of violence that even the fight itself is unsettling. The thought of my kids being around that is unnerving. Add in guns and it gets difficult to send your kids to school in the morning. What a fucked up world.
  18. You are of course correct. I was thinking about within North America, not globally. And they'll still hang on here as well, in a limited capacity.
  19. Catholic Church will slowly die in large part due to this scandal, albeit with a handful of child molesting priests holding a giant bag of cash. The Baptist Church, particularly in Texas, has the same problem with molesting kids and shuffling the offenders around to other churches. They somehow manage to avoid getting lumped in with the Catholics, though. I don't understand why. Baylor admin probably knows.
  20. This seems like some superhero level shit going on. Whoever made this happen deserves a medal.
  21. Mostly typical teenage stupidity (not to excuse it). Stealing/damaging halloween decorations, smashing pumpkins, etc. The kind of thing that should probably get them kicked out of their extra curricular activities, grounded, and forced to do some yard work for those they harmed. But they apparently also rummaged through some vehicles and stole some things. So that's another matter.
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