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Somnio

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  1. In 2019 the United States averaged 7,767 deaths each day. Does anyone know how many deaths total we are currently experiencing?
  2. Does anyone know a source which shows how many total deaths including Covid are occuring daily in individual states? I ask because I am looking at data in previous years, which for Texas shows about 550 deaths a day for 2018 and 2019. I am curious as to how much Covid-19 has caused those numbers to rise. Here is the link. You can look at the entire U.S., or every state, county, and metropolitan area individually. https://www.recenter.tamu.edu/data/population
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    Austin FC

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    Moody Center

    I dunno. A needed new basketball arena costing $338 million being constructed with private dollars seems like a dream scenario. Not many cities or universities could ever pull off something like that. I'm not sure I see any potential gains lost. I also think the arena looks fantastic. I don't think the renderings are doing it justice.
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    Moody Center

    UT ain't paying a dime...
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    Austin FC

    Statesman gallery with a bunch of photos... https://www.statesman.com/photogallery/TX/20201110/SPORTS/111009994/PH/1
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    Moody Center

    A rendering I hadn't seen, and a construction pic showing the arena beginning to take shape.
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    Austin FC

    Away kit.
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    Austin FC

    Create your own Austin FC Kit! https://kit.austinanthem.org/ Here's my design for home games.
  10. Goodness, I am relieved most of the folks posting in this thread aren't indicative of Austin's electorate! Austin's moving forward while y'all cling to the past, repeating the same tired rhetoric ad infinitum. This was a historic vote for Austin, and it's citizens made clear what path forward we'll be taking. Vaya con Dios, bitches!
  11. Screenshots from link if someone doesn't wish to click....
  12. Early voting numbers look very promising that both Prop. A and Prop. B will pass! https://countyclerk.traviscountytx.gov/elections/election-results-1/results-for-november-03-2020-joint-general-and-special-election.html Austin, you fucking rock!
  13. I just don't understand how it's not simply a supply and demand issue. If you build too much housing, the prices will drop. If you don't build enough the prices will rise. The reason Central Austin is so expensive is because the number of housing units is hundreds of thousands less than the number of people whom wish to live there. This has an effect on the whole market, and is an issue that's been ongoing for decades. The solution is much more housing. I say let them overbuild! I guarantee you when there's a glut of housing on the market prices will stagnate if not begin to drop.
  14. Supply and Demand. Also read this about filtering. There's also a lot more about the subject on this blog. https://www.austincontrarian.com/austincontrarian/2008/06/filtering.html Also, no one's going to stop Austin and it's suburbs from sprawling. Building a healthy core, and expanding further out are not mutually exclusive.
  15. You know damn well it's misleading. It's intended to make people believe their property taxes will rise 20 plus percent if they vote yes.
  16. Oh, the developers who have and continue to develop tens of billions of dollars worth of needed housing and office space in our city adding untold millions of dollars year after year in perpetuity to the city's tax base? The ones who's property taxes subsidize the disposable auto oriented sprawl that pollutes and destroys our quality of life which guys like you cherish? Those guys?
  17. What's surprising about landowners in the central city wanting to improve mobility near their properties? It's no more surprising than car dealerships contributing big money to defeat the proposition. Can't go and let people have the choice to live car free! Oh hell no, cars for everybody! 16 year olds operating 2 ton machines is a great idea! 4 cars per household if you want to keep up with the Joneses!
  18. Naw, I'm just a really slow learner.
  19. WTF?!? Terrorists attack a city, and most of the replies are about fucking nazis? Motherfuckers have lost their damn minds.
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    Austin FC

    A little off topic, but I just saw this article regarding the stadium under construction in Columbus. It really highlights what an amazing opportunity that Austin nearly squandered in regards to our stadium and training grounds. Just as a reminder, the taxpayers of Austin didn't pay a dime for our $240 million stadium or the $45 million St. David's Performance Center. I still can't believe it was actually a controversial decision in this city. I guess we have to keep it weird... https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/2020/10/18/no-financial-reports-tax-money-spent-columbus-crew-new-soccer-stadium-mls/3639934001/
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    Austin FC

    Oops, I didn't take the photo, just sharing one I saw on the web. Here's the link to where I saw the pic... AustinTV ⚽️🌳📺 (@WeAreAustinTV) Tweeted: Seats are going in fast! Loving the different shades of Green! Soon the East Stands will be ALL VERDE! 💺🟢 #austinfc #MLS #LISTOS #VERDE https://t.co/8IaykzrWBG https://twitter.com/WeAreAustinTV/status/1322265258942177286?s=20 But yes, I do believe that's from the SW corner.
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    Austin FC

    Here's a serving of your daily greens....
  23. If you're going to include the one time capital costs, plus operating and maintainance, to calculate the so called subsidy it seems every ride from the day it opened until today should be counted into the equation. With every single passing year the "subsidy" should be decreasing as the number of trips taken continues to grow every single day, year after year. Do the math with 6 or 7 million trips taken on the Red Line and look at the "subsidy" then. Also, it's s a commuter train, not light rail. It's single tracked most of the way. During weekday morning and afternoon peak hours the trains were full of suburbanites commuting downtown. The line can grow as more improvements to the line occur, and more development occurs around the stations. But again, the big money being spent on Project Connect is on light rail in the heart of the city where there's already density of population and employment. The areas already have high transit usage, and that can and will continue to grow. Having trains gets these transit users out of buses which are contributing to, and getting stuck in traffic. This is not about today, though it would be fantastic and well utilized even now. This is for 10, 20, 30, 100 years from now. Imagine the Austin area twice the size it is today, pushing 5 million people trying to get around only by car. Lamar isn't getting widened. Neither is Burnet or Congress. The Express Lanes on Mopac are it. Mopac north of the river is done, no more lanes. I-35 is about to be widened for the first and last time. 2 more lanes in each direction. Do you think it won't still be a parking lot much of the time? People are going to need a way to get around besides the gridlocked roadways. This is the plan that gets us there.
  24. Seems like a deceptive way calculate a "subsidy". Capital Metro used the money the voters of this city authorized to make an investment in passenger rail. Dividing that upfront cost associated with upgrading tracks, building stations, buying trains, etc. as if it's an ongoing cost by the number of passengers in a single year is misleading. Capital Metro didn't go into debt to build the Red Line. There's no more cost except the operating expenses and maintenance. The number of passengers continued to increase since that article was written in 2014 which would further lower the "subsidy". Also, transportation projects are not intended to be profitable whether you're talking highways, buses, or trains. They are public works for the betterment of society. Imagine calculating a "subsidy" for public schools, parkland, or libraries with such a formula. But with that said, I do know the history of how that election was forced upon Capital Metro with threat of it's funding being pulled. You're not going to have huge ridership on an old single track freight line taking a roundabout path missing many of the employment and population centers of the city. This whole argument is really a straw man because Project Connect does everything right whereas Capital Metro was forced to put a half-baked plan to a vote at risk of the Texas Legislature pulling it's funding. We have guys like Gerald Daugherty and Mike Krusee to thank for that, two whom I'm sure certain posters in this thread think highly of...
  25. Naw, I'm good. But I don't believe you. Sounds a lot like the claims of 24% tax increase by the same group of scumbag liars that come out of the woodwork every time we have a transit election.
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