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  1. Pretty sure a lot of their "solution" was buying them a bus ticket to Austin. Not sure Austin can use that strategy.

    Yeah one Houston tactic was to relocate them to the burbs and they just went back to their hide-holes when funding dried up.

    Seems what Houston is doing is what you can do with a police that doesnt quietly quit. But thats a churn strategy, hopefully you help the ones you can faster than others migrate in.

    Austin does have intervention programs for short term homeless.
  2. Austin Energy itself is a giant fucking scam.  They're a monopoly, and they stack fees on your bill to, well: 
    https://austinenergy.com/rates/residential-rates/other-line-items-on-your-bill

    Other Line Items on Your Bill

    Charges and Fees

     

    Community Benefit Charges

    The Community Benefit Charges include:

    • Customer Assistance Program (CAP) — The City of Austin Customer Assistance Program provides assistance to qualifying low-income and disadvantaged residential customers in the Austin Energy service territory. CAP provides bill discounts, such as waivers of Austin Energy's Customer Charges and a 10% reduction of electric charges.

      Learn more about the Customer Assistance Program
       
    • Service Area Lighting — The Service Area Lighting component recovers the costs of street lighting (except for those maintained by the Texas Department of Transportation) and the operation of traffic signals in the City of Austin. Customers who live outside the City do not pay these charges.
       
    • Energy Efficiency Programs — The Energy Efficiency Programs piece recovers the cost of energy efficiency programs. This includes rebates offered to residential customers to make improvements to their homes to reduce their electric bills.
       
      • Energy Efficiency Improvements — This component recovers costs for Austin Energy rebates and incentives, which can reduce the cost of making energy efficiency improvements to homes, businesses, or multifamily properties.

        Learn more about Austin Energy Rebates and Incentives
         
      • Solar — This component includes recovery of the cost for solar rebates to encourage the installation of rooftop solar systems. These systems help decrease long-term costs for Austin Energy and the ERCOT system.

        Learn more about rebates for installing a solar system in your home
         
      • Green Building — This component recovers the costs for Austin Energy Green Building, which promotes and implements policies and guidelines to increase energy efficiency and sustainability in the construction of new homes and businesses.
    If you're going to offer rebates, how about NOT fleecing the customers to finance them?!

    Cheaper than Houston or Dallas

    https://quickelectricity.com/texas-electricity-rates-per-kwh-by-city/

    Whats your deal?
  3. So I finally got around to watching The Morning Show. While I know he's done other things, it was bugging me as where else I had seen Billy Crudup (Network Exec Cory Ellison in TMS).
    At first I thought he had played the title role in one of the Steve Prefontaine movies, but driving home late last night, Elton's Tiny Dancer came on the radio and of course I thought of the bus scene from Almost Famous. Billy is Russell Hammond, the lead singer of Stillwater. 
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    While he’s Tier 2, he’s been a legit leading man for 25 years now. You may also recognize his ginormous CGI schlong from the Watchmen and being the son in Tim Burton’s Big Fish.
  4. I thought it was meh when I saw it, but didn't hate it. I was bumping channels the other day and this was on, and the five seconds I watched was "Superman" holding a CGI baby above CGI water surrounded by a bunch of CGI garbage with CGI shit flying all over the place. I quickly changed the channel and decided I do actually hate this movie.
     

    About the point I checked out. Not sure I enjoyed a single second of it, except for all the hotties cast in it. And Im glad the mrs didnt watch it with me like we planned because the cute dog getting suffocated by Exotica McTechAss with her goop.
  5. When the same suspects keep getting elected to City Council, the homelessness crisis isn't going to subside.

    Plenty of blame to be shared, including city management and police.

    Name one major city “solving” homelessness. This is a regional, state, and national crisis. Hell, we have private and county prisons sending vulnerable pops to Austin and have been for decades. Cuts in public housing and hospitals have had a huge effect. As have our self-started opioid epidemic and policies attacking our middle class.

    Stop talking about things you dont know anything about and focus on expanding Pflugerville’s strip centers and smoke shops.
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  6. I will continue to stand by my idea that a mini series about the Pacific naval battles would be kick ass.  
    Episode 1 - The Japanese planning and rationalization for the attacks on Pearl Harbor and other IJN attacks in December 1941.   
    Episode 2 - The days before Pearl as the IJN left Japan and got into position
    Epsiode 3 - The attack on Pearl plus Clark/Subic, Malaya, Guam, etc.    
    Episode 4  - The aftereffects of Pearl, HMS Prince of Wales and Renown, Wake Island and then the lead up to Coral Sea.
    Epsidoe 5 - Coral Sea and losing the Lexington, getting Yorktown back to Pearl and patched up in time to head out for Midway and giving the codebreakers at Pearl more credit for breaking the IJN code
    Epsidoe 6 - Midway
    Episode 7 - Guadalcanal sea battles and coastwatchers
    Episode 8 - Philipine Sea.  Mitscher's wreckless but ballsy "turn on the lights".  
    Episode 9 - Leyte Gulf.  Taffy 3 is the star here with the Battle off Samar getting the attention it deserves.  Emergence of kamikaze attacks.
    Episode 10 - Okinawa, the ramp up of kamikaze attacks, sinking of the Yamato and then just this footage of the Missouri pulling into Tokyo Harbor and flag officers arriving on board
    https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/battleship-uss-missouri-pulling-into-tokyo-bay-fleet-news-footage/169568035
    Roll credits on the number of men, ships and planes involved on all sides of the conflict.   Losses, etc.  
    I could justify this being 12-16 episodes because some of those could be split into multi-parts and I didn't throw in stuff like the Java Sea battles, Santa Cruz, a bunch of other smller engagements, sub warfare and the Indianapolis delivering the bomb to Tinian and the aftermath of that.  

    Got ep 1-4 locked and loaded

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  7. Eh fuck that if QBs are running and diving forward it is what it is. We don’t wanna go back to the big12 where every hit is illegal

    Im not a big fan of finishing helmet hits, falling downwards at someones head, especially in college where the ground ends the play. Cheap, but probably legal shot
  8. Im pretty sure we’ve benefitted from more PI calls in this game as we did some years in the Big 12 - see Tom Herman quote that the receivers werent doing enough ti draw calls

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    This is my own creation for lunch today: Goes Without Saying It’s Gringo Cheeseburger Nachos

    >Repurposed Crumbled Turkey Burger
    >Shredded Mexican Cheese
    >Sharp Cheddar Cheese Slice (Pieced by hand)
    >Cantina Laredo Chips or some shit
    >Mi Tienda Salsa

    Matt’s doesn’t look so bad does it?

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  10. Best scene is Will Ferrell being a total asshole about his "ugly" wife(who's Eva Mendez in her prime).
     
    I watched Chainsaw Man Reze Arc last night...if you're into anime, especially gory, shonen ones that fucking destroy you, it's a good watch.

    It was a decent running joke, but there were so many excellent running jokes and sequences. The scene with Christinith was great as were the Gator pimp flashback, the quiet funeral fight, Keaton’s TLC references and BBB meeting, the bribe montage, the list goes on. Great movie.
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  11. Good lord.  Money is always going to trump crooked refs.  Money will even trump national championships when it comes to recruiting as much as I hate to say it.  Exhibit A:  Oregon.

    You serious? I laid out the impact of various factors including crooked refs and coaches. Crooked refs directly cost us money each year and indirectly cost us championships, prestige, and mo money and leverage. Wandering the wilderness from 2010-2022 cost UT Athletics hundreds of millions than they already made being mediocre.

    What would happen to our finances if Brian Orakpo and Sergio Kindle were allowed to destroy QBs then use Chase Daniels as a ragdoll in the big12 title game? Then, having a deeper and more confident team heading into the MNC against Tebow. Muschamp would have curb-stomped them.

    A better decade would have given Texas much more leverage. Nevertheless, politics is probably the most important factor, but dont want to CR this thing up.
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