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  1. 1 minute ago, Hookah Horns said:

    It's always funny when someone is this confident in their ignorance. Being a huge prick about it too is even more entertaining.

    You have no idea what the fuck you're talking about. Did I say that the US would launch the nukes? No, you illiterate boob, I didn't. 

    I'm not sure what your hatred of the "few keystrokes" comment is all about. Maybe you're not aware that Russian hackers already almost certainly have back doors in critical systems. Yes, it's a few keystrokes. 

    You are just doom mongering and it's stupid. NATO isn't tolerating shit and your entire post was dumb and made to get people to think shit is all scary. 

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  2. 18 minutes ago, Hookah Horns said:

    It's pretty clear by now that we will tolerate anything short of a literal attack on US or NATO territory. 

    It's not just nukes that scare us, the Russians are all up in our cyberspace and could bring us to our knees with some keystrokes. The scariest thing there is MAD doesn't exactly apply to cyber; while we could (probably) still fuck a lot of their shit up, we are vastly more connected and dependent on the internet than they are. They also have less to lose in a cyber war, seeing as how we've already taken the piss out of their economy. However, cyber attacks on a big enough scale could easily lead to nuclear war, so MAD is still part of the calculus. 

    And who knows, maybe we're not even in their stuff to the extent they're in ours.

    This is the dumbest thing I've read today and I was in the track and field pages of the 2023 recruiting thread earlier. 

    Cyber attacks from Russia would comprise of a lot more than "a few keystrokes" and the mitigation of said attacks has already been underway and they have been unable to effectively cripple Ukraine with said cyber attacks (and even physical EMP attacks against space x). The threat of catastrophic Russian cyber attacks is extremely low - and we haven't even retaliated yet. 

    Meanwhile Anonymous has hacked the shit out of the Russians relentlessly for the last 50+ days, mainly using the hacks for information exposure instead of Ransom or deletion. The Kremlin and it's internal network have been compromised.

    Removing them from the wider backbone to mitigate large scale cyber attacks is also relatively straightforward - there are already 2 pipes shut down, only 4 or 5 more would need to go and poof no external access for Russians. Good luck starting a cyber attack outside of Russia. 

    Cyber would also under no circumstances ever lead to an escalation from the US into nuclear war. This is the fucking dumbest thing in your whole post. Maybe Russia would start shit if we started a cyber attack on them, but there would be no world where we would retaliate with a non-lethal disruption of service with deaths of hundreds of millions. Like I can't even fathom how stupid that statement is. 

    In case you haven't figured out Russia is firmly in the "and find out" stage of fun around and find out. 

    Their flagship of the black sea sits at the bottom of the sea. They have not had a single military success in the entire campaign and were forced to massively retreat from the northern Ukrainian theater. They are sitting ducks with dwindling supply, meanwhile Ukraine now has more mobile artillery and armored capacity than Russia due to supply from the rest of the world coupled with a drastic amount of losses on the Russian side. They are quickly being backed into a corner which will require them to fully retreat or be eradicated inside of Ukraine, which is leading some actual experts to think a tactical nuke will be used. Once nukes are used China and India can no longer sit on the sidelines and it effectively starts WW3 or ends with Russia being cut off from the ENTIRE world. If it's close enough to a NATO country and there is real demonstrable damage it could also be enough to initiate article 5.

    In short, Russia is fucked unless China and a few others who have sat on the sidelines side with them over the rest of the world on using nukes against a non nuclear threat in a sovereign country, which they are invading, not being invaded by.  

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  3. 40 minutes ago, Snake Diggity said:


    Wanting the common person to have the leverage to be able to demand dignity and respect, and to not feel guilty about prioritizing his family and passions over his work is a sad worldview?  Whatever dude.

    Immigration is a wildcard that might turn the tables back, but the people who want to return to the old ways are generally anti-immigrant.  We will certainly continue to see outsourcing and automation replace the American worker, but I still expect the worker supply/demand equation to heavily favor the worker.

    And your comment denigrating burger flippers says plenty.  Why should the burger flipper not have dignity?  In the new way, the “skill” is the willingness to work.  The actual task doesn’t matter, because information is available such that the gap between white collar and blue collar has narrowed to almost nothing.

    The fact that you think willingness to work is the barrier to entry is indicative of why your world view is sad. 

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  4. 37 minutes ago, Snake Diggity said:

    Give me a fucking break.  Sure, it’s not “unheard of” for visiting execs to invite employees out.  But it sure as shit shouldn’t be expected that all employees attend, especially if that expectation wasn’t set before the employee was hired.

    You are operating under the old way, where employers made the rules and we were all “lucky to have a job”.  Where kissing ass was required for survival, because the boomers ahead of you did it and set that expectation.  In most workplaces, THOSE DAYS ARE OVER.   There are more jobs than workers and the workers that are available don’t give one runny fuck what corporate wants; they’re out for themselves because they’ve realized companies don’t really give a fuck about them.  So shove your ad hoc happy hour up your ass, I’m going to my kids game.  In fact, fuck you for even insinuating this is required.  Don’t like it?  Kiss my fucking ass and good luck finding my replacement without overpaying.

    The tables are turning and I am all here for it.

    this is such a sad view of the world, and honestly one that will be the demise of the American economy. It is the employers fault first for not having wages follow productivity and profit, but it's also a dangerous thing to say that your skill is really a skill if there are so many people that can do it. People are talking about white collar work like flipping burgers at mcdonalds, if that's really the case there is bad news on the horizon, because if any dumbass can do it then they will just move that job somewhere else. 

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  5. 1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

    I'm not sure I get your point.  One feature of a standard mortgage is fixed payments.  You are directly benefiting from the value appreciation, and the cost is higher property taxes.  The ratio of property tax to mortgage is uninteresting.

    Explain to me how I'm directly benefitting from this value appreciation. I have not taken any equity out and Austin is arguably worse off than when I bought the house in every measurable metric of public services and utilities. 

    If at the sale of my home I owed the city and state a %age with no cap that would align to your comment, but that's not what is happening. The point of bringing up a mortgage is generally speaking that is the benchmark of homeownership, not what your monthly amortization of taxes are. The main barrier is the mortgage, not the taxes. Now after you pass that barrier to entry the state is coming and constantly pushing people out of places they have been for a while. The 10% HS cap wasn't put in place to max out every year like clockwork it was there to protect homeowners from getting fucked into unaffordability. 

  6. Also I'm not complaining, I can afford it. I'm saying there's a lot of people who can't. 

    It's absurd that an expensive house now has a tax burden more than the mortgage when it was an expensive house. That's the point I'm making. It makes living in Austin and buying a house impossible without doing cash out refi or HELOC 

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  7. 1 minute ago, gmr548 said:


    1.) Your property tax bill is $24,000? Implying a million + dollar taxable assessment even with a homestead exemption?

    2.) lol normal government is never coming back

    Yep. Bought it for obviously significantly less than that and not for an under market price at the time. It's an original except for alliances and HVAC 1954 constructed 2/1 bungalow in zilker. 

  8. 1 minute ago, DaysOff said:

     

    I mean...we could easily encourage and bolster population by offering free childbirth, paid parental leave, and childcare for the good of the economy in the future. Nah, fuck all thatl.

    We don't want population growth, we want population stability and steady growth - like any developed nation. There isn't a shortage of births happening, there may be a shortage of births in your community focused around careers and earning potential etc. What everyone keeps forgetting is that most people don't own homes, most people don't have only 1-2 kids and most people are poor. 

    The "bubble" that we all live in is just big enough for us to never "leave", because you can stay in the same bubble when traveling from big city to big city and staying in areas that resemble your own (or nicer). The simple truth is that most of dallas, houston, san antonio, fort worth, dallas are just not full of nice houses and they are largely populated by people that make at or below the median income. Just because your server isn't covered in fleas and doesn't live in a shanty doesn't mean there isn't a world between the normal white collar worker and the service industry worker. These aren't transient positions for most of these people, they are how they make ends meet over the long term. 

    I'm fine paying more when I go out to eat, I hire a lot of things I could do myself out, mostly to small independent non-corporate companies where the lions share of the service charges go to the workers and the owner is usually one of those workers. The more people hire the Radiants of the world and pay triple for the same work, while the workers are making 50-75% and the rest going to the greedy corporate overlords (they claim marketing is expensive bla bla bla). It's the same problem that is happening with housing, everything is becoming too focused on "convenient for me, I don't care what it means for you" that it's a doomspiral. Eventually it's going to be inconvenient for those who can afford the convenience and they will be like "omg what happened?" 

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  9. 11 minutes ago, BehoId, The Underminer! said:

    some of this will ease as the outer communities become stronger.  living in austin will be expensive, but living in manor may be more palatable as the exurbs grow and begin to offer more.  sort of dallasing our austin, where people's nucleus is mckinney or plano and they don't come in to dallas.

    What about the people who have lived in Manor for 10-20 years? They are just going to get fucked, they will have property taxes that are triple what their mortgage ever was. 

    None of this makes sense.

  10. I know everyone wants to talk about all the robinhood stuff and whatnot. That's not the real issue, the real issue is that my taxes for a house I bought in 2010 are now more than the mortgage, interest and insurance. 

    ~2000/mo in taxes

    ~1650/mo mortage+insurance

    This is the issue. Housing is becoming unaffordable for those who already own a home. It's absolutely absurd to pay more than your mortgage to the local and state government to live in the house, even if it's paid off. There is nothing that can make that make sense, it's a problem and it's one that will destroy the city. 

    Wages have become stagnant and employers are not adjusting for inflation, even in high paying jobs. It's completely unsustainable, there isn't a place for normal people to live in this city anymore - soon we'll have friends buying houses together and just being roommates forever. I don't know how much of this problem is attributed to "boomers" for living too long and staying in their houses, but something is extremely fucky about how this is going down and not just for those who don't already own homes (making it near impossible for them to own one) 

    I mean who is going to fund the bump in rents that is going to happen across the board when the rental market adjusts to this complete assfucking by the city? I don't see companies shelling out the extra compensation required to live here - so what happens then? Where are all the service industry folks going to live? Austin isn't cool enough to live like a ski bum with 5 people to a 2 bedroom and the houses overall are much too nice to even allow for a setup like that generally speaking. 

    I just don't see how this doesn't lead to some major reform once we get a normal government back in Texas instead of raping everyone for the 1% or better, which is what is happening all across the state. 

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