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Ghost of LL

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  1. 50 minutes ago, BehoId, The Underminer! said:

    Welp

    Just out of curiosity, let’s check the methodology.

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    The New York Times/Siena College poll of 980 registered voters nationwide was conducted on cellular and landline telephones, using live interviewers, from Feb. 25 to 28, 2024. The margin of sampling error for the presidential ballot choice question is plus or minus 3.5 percentage points among registered voters. Cross-tabs and methodology are available here.

    They actually ran a telephone poll in … lemme check my calendar … 20 motherfucking 24? Is this a joke?

    The NYT actually paid Siena for this shit. That’s unreal.

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  2. 47 minutes ago, Teebox said:

    What's the verdict on Keen's?   I haven't been in years and last time (at bar, alone, for lunch), I was pretty non-plussed. 

    I don't know exactly how to review it.  

    As an experience, it's really cool.  It's an historical site as much as a restaurant.  The pipes smoked by various famous people going back to the Nineteenth Century is really a unique thing.

    As a restaurant, it was good and fairly unique.  But my experience was atypical--Mrs.LL and I went before the Billy Joel concert.  So our reservation was at 6:30, and we don't typically eat until 9:00.  So neither one of us were very hungry.  We split a seafood tower (pretty good, but standard fare--hard to give much of a critique on that).  For a second course, she had the lobster bisque (good, not spectacular) and I had the appetizer portion of mutton.  Now, here's the fun thing: you don't see many steakhouses with mutton on the menu.  And I like mutton.  It was good damned mutton.  But I'll also recognize that not everyone digs on the sheep.

    And man--they turned that table in an hour.  And that was cool with us, because we were going to the show (and I think we told the waiter we were going to the show).  We didn't exactly feel rushed.  But as we headed out, I had the very conscious thought, "damn--we weren't in there very long."  I'm not sure if that was the standard service plan; I suspect they were hustling on a kind of pre-show plan.  But if that is standard, I would understand how one would feel rushed.

  3. 4 hours ago, PvilleStang said:

    Crap, my bad, I didn't mean ETJ, I meant areas like Lost Creek subdivision.  The ones that are currently being put to a vote. 

    It's just Lost Creek that is being put to a vote.  It's the result of a very specific piece of legislation passed last year by the 88th Legislature, following years of lobbying by a handful of residents.  Perhaps it won't surprise you to learn that there are a few lobbyists who live in Lost Creek.

    Anyway, it's just a majority of votes cast needed for disannexation.  That's why the City's move here is so puzzling.  In a low-turnout election, it's going to be the highly motivated people who carry the day.  And on this issue, that's clearly the pro-disannexation people.

  4. On 2/23/2024 at 3:04 PM, Grundy said:

    Looking to take the wife and two adult kids to Germany and possibly Switzerland for 10ish days.  Looking for a mixture or culture and nature. Any suggestions on itineraries, must sees?

    Sure.  Give me a bit more information, though.  Where are you flying into and out of?  Are you open to flying into someplace like Frankfurt and out Zurich?  Or are you intent on flying out of the same place you flew into?  And what about internal transit?  Are you doing trains or renting a car?  And how ambitious do you want to be on transit?  Like a "if it's Friday, it must be Munich" itinerary?  Or more of a "let's find one or two bases of operations and go from there?"  And what do you mean by "culture?"  Are you looking for art museums?  Cites of historical significance (and if so, what era)?  Or more like street art and the KitKat Club?

    Just three ideas:

    Rhine:

    Fly into Frankfurt and drive up to the Romantic Rhine (i.e., the stretch roughly from Bingen to Koblenz).  Spend a couple days there checking out the various castles.  Drive down to Strasbourg and spend a few days there.  Then drive down to Basel and spend a couple days there exploring the Rhine as it exits the Alps.  Fly out of Zurich.

    Berlin & Dresden:

    Fly into Berlin (will require a connection) and spend five days there.  Drive down to Dresden, which is an under-visited and -appreciated city by Americans.  About halfway is the Spreewald, which is where the River Spree naturally spreads out into a huge floodplain but has, over the millennia, been carved up by small canals.  It's just a beautiful area that you can now get a gondola, a bike, or just hike around.

    Munich & the Bavarian Alps:

    Fly into Munich and spend three or four days there.  Then drive down to Garmisch-Partenkirchen, see King Ludwig's castles, hike the Partnachklamm and the Alpspitze, take the gondola up to the top of the Zugspitze (the highest mountain in Germany).  Maybe go over to Salzburg and check out Berchtesgaden if there's time.

    Those are just some ideas.

  5. 21 hours ago, alincoln said:

    2024 Iowa State Home Football Schedule

    Saturday, Aug. 31: North Dakota

    Saturday, Sept. 21: Arkansas State

    Saturday, Oct. 5: Baylor

    Saturday, Oct. 19: UCF

    Saturday, Nov. 2: Texas Tech

    Saturday, Nov. 16: Cincinnati

    Saturday, Nov. 30: Kansas State

    Wow. This is Conference USA level. Even worse is that ISU has to play at Arkansas State in 2025.  

    I'm pretty sympathetic to UCF because Mrs.LL is an alumna.  But even so, seeing "UCF" on your schedule isn't going to get any Iowa State fan excited (or fan of Kansas State or Texas Tech or Utah).  And let's be real--the same goes for Cincinnati and Houston.  BYU excites Utah fans because of that historical rivalry, but that's about it.

    I mean, I get why the Big XII did it at the time.  But woof--those additions just look worse and worse on a schedule that is now lacking Texas and Oklahoma.

     

    And by the way--how the fuck did Iowa State not get one of the new Pac-10 refugees on its home schedule?  That would add a little spice to this otherwise completely shitty and bland Hot Dish.

  6. I really like Cologne, but for me it's no more than a day.  See the Cathedral.  Check out the Roman Museum across the street.  Have a few little tiny glasses of Kolsch.  And then you've pretty much exhausted Cologne.  I'm not saying don't go.  I'm saying not to spend too much time there.

    If you're interested in Medieval History--and I mean, really, who isn't?--go over to Aachen.  It is generally regarded as the oldest city in Germany and was Charlemagne's capital.  The chapel from his palace is still there (most of the palace was destroyed by the Vikings in 1000), and is kind of the remaining masterpiece of Carolingian architecture.

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  7. 59 minutes ago, The Original Greaser Bob said:

    The Supreme Court is going to copy the Appeals Court's work, tweak it just enough to make it look like their work, but in doing this will give Trump at least a month of delay.

    I think this is the high likelihood.

    31 minutes ago, GopherRock said:

    Also, April 22 is considered expedited? 

    In all honesty, yeah.

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  8. 1 hour ago, Armybrat said:

    Here in Brushy Creek (west side of Round Rock - 78717) we voted to de-annex from Austin’s ETJ 20+ years ago and join with Round Rock’s ETJ, not long after the Legislature allowed it. 
    We were fairly new residents then, so I do not recall how the process was started or who initiated it. 
    In retrospect, I am very grateful we voted ourselves out of Austin’s unwanted clutches.

    ETJ isn't really a thing anymore with legislation that has passed over the last decade.  I mean, it still exists.  But it doesn't have a real material impact on anybody who actually lives in the ETJ.  It only matters for developers (and it doesn't really matter to them anymore).  So it really wouldn't matter for you.

    As to @TKthunder2's question--the disannexation vote is specific to Lost Creek.  It was annexed back in 2015 just before legislation took effect limiting (pretty much eliminating) cities' ability to annex.  Since then, a bunch of residents have been trying to get the Legislature to allow for a disannexation vote.  And that's what finally happened this last session.  But the legislation is very specific to Lost Creek.  Nobody else anywhere in the state is going to be able to do it without passing new legislation.

  9. 14 hours ago, Texas Jeff said:


    You can’t early vote at the Randall’s in West Lake Hills?
     

    Nope--only at this place I never heard of halfway across town.

    And really, what the fuck is the City thinking?  Does it actually want Lost Creek to disannex?  Because guess who's going to show up at a distant polling place that's not well-publicized?  It's not the people who are like "well, I kind of like the City picking up my trash and I don't really have any complaints about it."  It's the pot-bangers who spent the last four years at the Legislature trying to get this vote in the first place.

    The City is going to lose this election like 9-1, probably in large part because of its own vote suppression.

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  10. So the Lost Creek disannexation vote has been set for May 4, with early voting April 20-29. 

    So of course the City only put up on early-vote location.  And, I mean, why would they have more, right?  The ballot only affects three precincts.  So presumably the City put the early-vote location in Lost Creek, right?

    Right?

    Fuck no--they put it way across down at the Austin Permitting and development Center at 2222 and I-35.

    You know--I was undecided about this issue.  But when you pull that kind of vote-suppressing shenanigans, it tells me that you know you don't have popular support.  And damned if I'm going to vote on your side when you're doing that.

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  11. 5 hours ago, chainsaw said:

    I'd kill for Jon Stewart or maybe even one of those British journos who doesn't care about being polite.

    I was watching BBC this morning, and you’re dead right about their hosts.

    They were interviewing the Deputy PM and asking him about some comments from some rando Tory MP. And he just wouldn’t say whether the comments were racist.

    Finally, the interviewer just says, “and our viewers will have discerned by now that you don’t want to say whether the comments were racist, but ….” It was exactly right and very clever, because it kind of forced the guest to provide something of an answer.

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  12. 47 minutes ago, cactusflinthead said:

    I don't hate it. You can fret about it Frodo, but the Shire has to be scoured. Hit them where it hurts. People have been calling Democrats pussies for not hitting back and NOW you're upset?

    What if they started hitting back when it was Reagan making deals with Iran to not release the hostages? Atwater might have regretted it on his deathbed, but he knew how politics worked.

    You aren't voting for someone you're voting against that other person. It's not going to get better. Wimpy indies wring hands and wonder why we can't get along.

    Here's what the Republicans are FOR

    AND letting Russia do whatever they want 

    You expect them to sell that or any of the other laundry list from hell of what they do want?

    They haven't run FOR anything in years. Oh I suppose you can point to the amorphous Support the Troops/Police/arbitrary authority figure here trope but it's as empty as any of the other appeals to the working class. So, because they can't run on the wildly unpopular shit that they do want their only other option is to gin up anger and campaign negatively. The Democrats tried taking the high road and pointing out all the good stuff. That's nice but Newt is over there slinging shit at you. You might want to return fire. 

    You're pining for a world that doesn't exist.

    I'm definitely FOR me not having sex with that woman.  So see--even in a negative environment, you can run a positive campaign.

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  13. 35 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Oh, agreed that's Alabama's goal.  And they'll achieve it.

    That's why GOLL said it's going to be an interesting decade for them.  Because educated households are the the drivers of the bulk of economic activity and prosperity (see, e.g., cities being the economic engines of our country).  If Alabama wants to run off all of its MBAs (women, or male MBAs who are likely married to educated women), and other degreed individuals, groovy.  We'll see how their economy does when its driven mostly by the number of people working at a Dollar General or Circle K.

    Human capital is one of the biggest sources of prosperity.  Alabama is self-selecting for the lowest-yield human capital out there.  FAFO.

    And let's not sleep on the fact that the majority of degrees are now going to women.  

  14. On 2/11/2024 at 3:18 AM, futureman said:

    Nutty Putty has always creeped me out but still I could read about it and watch vids on it without any sort of visceral reaction.  This, though, I had to stop watching.  3:20-7:30 is about the most awful shit I’ve seen on the internet in my whole life.

    Ok--that's terrifying.

    But I have to observe . . . and I really can't believe I'm the first one to say this . . . I'd like to slide into the Widow Emily's tight spaces.

  15. 3 hours ago, Chad Fuck said:

    Hmm, going after the religion that isn't of the dominant power.  Nothing to see here.  Those Catholics aren't "real" Christians anyhow, are they? 

     

    There's going to be a real interesting RFRA lawsuit coming out of this.

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  16. Just now, crash_davis said:

    When all of the OB/GYN leave Alabama, they'll blame it on woke doctors. 

    Fuck fake christians. Fuck you for being too stupid for the nation's own good.

    That's another predictable result.

    Let me give you another: serious brain-drain in Alabama.  If you're a couple who has fertility problems and the wherewithal to pay for fertility treatments, are you going to continue to live in Alabama?  Fuck no--if you have the financial resources to afford fertility treatments, you have the ability to take your talents to Georgia or California or Massachusetts.  And conversely, if you're a woman who has an education and may consider possibly being something other than a baby-incubator, you're going to seriously think about locating your life and career elsewhere.

    Alabama (and any other state that follows its lead) is going to go through some things over the next decade.

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