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Bozo_Casanova

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  1. I think that only really exists in two places 1) police 2) economic development In virtually every other area, what people experience as a lack of accountability is, in reality, the city suffering from decades of underinvestment and public indifference.
  2. I didn’t say they were overpaid, but when six of the best paid police stand around to watch two others conduct a traffic stop half a mile away while not responding to somebody setting a fire in my alley and breaking into my garage and any number of other things they don’t have time for, it doesn’t put me in a back the blue mood.
  3. It’s not. But for the record, we’ve been short changing everything but police fire in EMS until the last decade or so. I realize that most people here do not want to live in a grown-up real world big city, but that’s what Austin is and will be whether we act like it or not.
  4. Soared? If you say so, but I think a city should do more than just police and EMS. And, not for nothing, our police are among the best paid in the state but not among the best cops in the state. No, but there are worse guys, and the movement against prop Q unites all of them.
  5. Yes. Nobody can possibly compete with the immense power of Big Homeless. It is nonpartisan. I said it united the worst and most dishonest people in town. From left to right. Find me a person who has either gotten something spectacularly wrong or intentionally lied to the public about something really important to serve their personal agenda in the last 15 years and they are solidly aligned against Prop Q. Along with a few good ones.
  6. He’s like Matty Iglesias and Jiminy Glick had a baby
  7. After some back and forth, I’ve decided to vote for prop Q. To be clear, I expect Prop Q to fail. I also expect the failure of Prop Q to launch careers and other initiatives that will cause this city real harm. Im voting for prop Q for three main reasons: 1) Half of this increase covers essential needs. Yes, our homeless strategy is an incoherent, inhumane mess and it’s likely that 25-30% of this will be wasted or actively increase misery. That’s unfortunate but there is no reality but this one. 2) Austin’s city taxe rates are not too high and won’t be if this passes. We’re getting killed by recapture, and the people bitching the most about this increase are the same people who vote for the people robbing us blind while their party bans books and refuses to reform property taxes. 3) Most importantly, opposition to Prop Q has united the worst and most dishonest people in Austin’s public life, and they have run their campaign on the basis of misinformation and kicking down. Fuck them.
  8. Maybe, but there was this one guy who ran for president back in 2016 that had some turnover on his staff due to public controversies and concerns over ethics, and he did OK.
  9. That’s true, and Jackson Heights probably has the overall best ethnic working class food in America. More like this guy, fewer tired boomers
  10. It’s fantastic and also both uplifting and depressing in that way.
  11. A clean and sanitary Popeyes? wtf
  12. Dude that’s the good Popeyes
  13. Late night Biryani + Tiger = Win
  14. Have you seen Slumdog Millionaire?
  15. Wordle 1,595 5/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  16. You thought it was depressing? Interesting. Anyway if you liked City of God you’ll probably also like Amores Perros.
  17. They got pills for that. but seriously it’s a break barrel
  18. There’s no telling whether he rebuilt it, but I’m positive he tinkered with it as needed. It was old when he found it, so it’s probably closer to 95 years old than 75. He used it regularly from when he came back from Europe until he passed in 2022. It’s a single shot, so he told me the important thing is not to miss. Here he is at age 98, heading out to bag a squirrel for dinner:
  19. I don’t have that problem, the Diana my grandfather liberated from a house he cleared along the Moselle is a taxi driver and still in good working order.
  20. My daughter brought me these from the grocery store she visited in Latvia. Long Chips are kind of like Pringles, but long.
  21. Considering that most of my extremely limited exposure to the former comes through my experience with the latter, it doesn’t seem like much of a leap.
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