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  1. Damn. Not ideal if true. Come on Owens, get your shit together.
  2. Look at all that 5G the plane is making!
  3. Yep. We are the non Kinesiology and Health majors.
  4. Perspective. Great website putting our budget, deficit, and DOGE cuts in perspective. I tried copying and pasting but the pasting formatting fucked up the content. It's much better viewed in the website. https://www.debtinperspective.com/ A Scaled Down Look at Spending, Revenue, and What's Being Cut The national debt is being used to justify spending cuts - but do these cuts actually reduce it? Current US National Debt $36,214,714,517,960 Source: U.S. Treasury Debt to the Penny (updated daily)
  5. Only the truly fucking deranged would even consider it. I can't wait for them to reveal themselves. One just did.
  6. Bitch should've waited until it is posted on Surly and then laugh freely.
  7. Wife or mother? Either way, it doesn't look it's the first time he's had to deal with this shit.
  8. Anyone have better ideas on how to spend $101M of taxpayer money? https://www.austinmonitor.com/stories/2025/04/homelessness-strategy-plan-calls-for-101m-in-spending-from-city-partner-groups/ Homelessness strategy plan calls for $101M in spending from city, partner groups Austin’s Homeless Strategy Office is proposing a funding package totaling just under $101 million for homelessness response efforts in the city’s next budget, with about one-third allocated toward maintaining existing programs, one-third for new city investments, and one-third for initiatives expected to be funded by partner organizations. The proposed investments broadly break down as follows: o Roughly $3.8 million for prevention, diversion, and rapid-exit services to keep people housed or quickly rehouse them o About $5 million for expanded street outreach and encampment management efforts o Approximately $32.3 million plus capital costs to expand emergency shelter capacity, with a goal to add 550 new shelter beds by 2029 o Nearly $24 million for rapid rehousing programs that connect people to short-term rental assistance and case management o Around $8 million for ongoing supportive services tied to permanent supportive housing projects already underway o An anticipated $23 million per year in new spending after 2027 to continue growing the city’s permanent supportive housing inventory through 2034 The presentation emphasized that maintaining the city’s homelessness response at current service levels would require about $22.9 million in addition to new funds to replace expiring federal dollars. City budget officials confirmed that closing that gap on top of addressing a projected $33 million budget shortfall would likely require seeking additional tax revenue through a voter-approved tax rate election that could take place later this year. “Assuming we don’t cut homeless related programs to balance our $33,000,000 deficit, that means we need… about $50 million of new money that we would have to come up for with next year’s budget,” Councilmember Ryan Alter said. “When we’re going to taxpayers, we have to tell them what they’re going to get for that investment. No one’s going to just say, yes. I want to pay more because it feels good. They wanna know, what’s that tangible result? What do they get out of it?”
  9. It sure doesn't smell like suburban America, and how fucking glorious that is.
  10. Dry run for Russian hackers for the impending invasion of Europe?
  11. Before the non-Austin people ask, the A school in the east side of I-35 is LASA, which is a magnet school. It's also the academically best school in Austin. I-35 is the proverbial train track. Predominantly, one side has the wealth, the other does not.
  12. I'm only 2 episodes into season 2. I loved season 1. I didn't play the games but know what happens in the story. Question: in the game, is Ellie as completely unlikable as she's become in season 2? I loved her in season 1. In that game, is she just an unlikable bitch? Is her season 2 character staying true to the game or is this just a really bad adaptation? Have not watched ep 3 but the general online sentiment is that this episode minus Joel and full dose of Ellie/Belle Ramsey is causing people to Nope to the rest of the season. If she's even more of an unlikable bitch in this episode, I may be right there with them.
  13. Closest Colorado ski destination is Wolf Creek. You can rent a place in Pagosa Springs or South Fork. PS has more and better restaurants, shopping and city shit.
  14. I'm too lazy to look but it is up to $800M+ in '22 or '23. I remember seeing that in '25 the state is now collecting over $5B in recapture money. After paying off the poor ISDs, it sends the excess, which is a significant amount, to the State General fund to use for non-education shit. Give the excess monies back, Abbott, you dipshit. Also for the $800M AISD payment year, the 2nd highest paying ISD was Houston ISD. They only paid a little over $200M. AIDS is getting ROYALLY fucked.
  15. Remember that AISD gives roughly 50% ($800M the last time I checked) to the state. I've bitched many times about how fucked AISD is getting by the state. In spite of budget cuts and shit infrastructure from us getting raped every year, we are doing relatively OK compared to other metro school districts.
  16. It's incredible the turn around that Sark has done here. For the longest time, good Texas players simply were not getting the respect that they should have. How many undrafted Longhorns ended up on NFL teams. The players had talent. The GMs just didn't respect Texas players to draft them or drafted them much lower than they should have been. That's all on the previous coaching staffs going back to Mack's FUPM years.
  17. And then he'll hire Deion to coach
  18. longer yt video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JZkEBF8g3M&ab_channel=MadeiraAirportSpotting
  19. #winning https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/thousands-us-layoffs-mack-truck-volvo-b2737683.html Trump’s tariffs driving thousands of layoffs at US manufacturing plants Donald Trump’s tariffs are already triggering thousands of layoffs in American manufacturing plants, mostly in the Midwest and the East. Companies are ejecting workers in the wake of Trump’s purported plan to use the levies to bring manufacturing jobs back to the country. The Volvo Group has announced it’s cutting 800 workers at its Volvo and Mack Truck plants in Pennsylvania, Virginia and Maryland. “Heavy-duty truck orders continue to be negatively affected by market uncertainty about freight rates and demand, possible regulatory changes, and the impact of tariffs,” a Volvo Group spokesperson told Reuters. Pennsylvania Democratic state lawmaker Josh Siegel told ABC27 that Trump’s tariffs have been a “devastating blow to Lehigh Valley workers” in a region where Mack remains one of the region’s largest employers. Earlier this month Stellantis, which manufactures a variety of vehicles, announced it was laying off 900 employees at plants in Michigan and Indiana after the company paused production at some of its Canadian and Mexican assembly operations, according to a company memo obtained by CNN. Steelmaker Cleveland-Cliffs laid off more than 1,200 workers in Michigan and Minnesota in March, and General Motors announced earlier this month it would temporarily lay off 200 workers at a plant in Detroit. California Democratic Representative Ro Khanna claimed earlier this month that more than 4,100 factory workers had been laid off across the U.S. as Trump’s tariffs rattled markets. Some analysts have estimated that ultimately some 177,000 jobs in the U.S. would be cut after Trump announced his first round of tariffs February. Goldman Sachs noted last week in a report that the president’s tariffs would likely create about 100,000 manufacturing jobs, while also killing up to 500,000 jobs across all industries.
  20. Interesting review of the Driver from LA Golf. Supposedly it has an optimized budge and roll (gear effect) face for off center hits based on swing speeds. If you are familiar with Bryson's drivers and irons, then you know about budge and roll. TLDW: It works. Spins from off center strikes were optimized for spin and distance. Maybe Bryson's not totally full of shit.
  21. Also, like every company, we are trying to diversify our suppliers to migitate tariffs impacts. What this means is that we are moving and are looking to move from long established, high quality suppliers to smaller and upstart suppliers with suspect quality. We are having to start the long process of engineering and quality validation of new global suppliers (no we are not getting many new US suppliers probably because of the same reason we are looking elsewhere: cost and quality). Tons of people are working long hours trying to mitigate the impacts of this bullshit. We just know our costs are going to increase, by wide margin, and the quality is probably going to suffer for awhile. The losers will be mom and pop because the cost increases and shittier quality will all be felt in the products that they buy in stores.
  22. I can't get too specific but for this one prodcut, we manufacture it in 3 places, 2 in the US and one in Mexico. I addressed this earlier in the thread. The labor rate for US is over 2x more expensive and the quality is worse than our Mexico plant. If we could we'd move all manufacturing of that product to Mexico but that creates other issues. Dipshits masturbate thinking we should be moving all manufacturing to the US. Dipshits do not realize they DO NOT want manufacturing moved back to the US. Doing that would be akin to the fake DEI shit that they abhor.
  23. For my company, we have forecasted $500M in increased costs due to tariffs. Our contracts and sourcing teams have been working 10-12 hour days for 2 months updating contracts and re-calculating costing and pricing models. Our suppliers regularly send us updating pricing. We are on version 20+ on many amendments. As soon as we model for new revisions, new versions comes in. This is for 100s of suppliers and their contracts. We are doing the same to our customers. This whole thing is beyond fucked. Our execs have no clue what the fuck any of this is about. We manufacture and own 70% of the market for our industry. We have not been contacted by anyone in this administration about anything manufacturing related. We manufacture both domestic and internationally. Our materials come from around the world. Our suppliers materials come from around the world. This is just fucking stupid.
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