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Bozo_Casanova

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  1. Indeed. My agent asked if I wanted to make an offer over list, and I do. $995,001.
  2. This is a frustrating 4
  3. Wordle 1,597 4/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  4. If they were actually willing to sell it anywhere close to that price, it would be a great deal.
  5. Anyway, want to go camping?
  6. Huh. I’ve met quite a few HUB contractors. What percentage do you figure were Trump/Abbott/Patrick/Paxton voters? 65-70%, I bet.
  7. A new house popped up in our screen today- a 2025 4K SF spec build that has been on the market for 6 months. Originally offered just over $4mm. here’s what happened since then:
  8. your moms ulna
  9. Say what? He threw him open.
  10. At least they have a sense of humor
  11. shot: Chaser: First they came for the trans people and the immigrants and I said nothing…
  12. Wordle 1,596 3/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟨🟩⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  13. “Defense wins championships”
  14. I don’t know about that, but either way, look- it’s almost certainly not going to pass. No it’s an indictment of the voters and the citizens of a city that has overcome incredible strokes of good luck and natural advantages in order to avoid being a great city. Our council isn’t great, but it’s 100x better than the voters deserve.
  15. I’m more concerned about the important shit they don’t do, like responding to break-ins in progress even when close by. Agree with you there- Fire is a unique subject because the truth nobody wants to say out loud is that we have more Fire stations and trucks than we need, because things don’t burn like they used to, which is why they arrive before EMS so often. But everyone loves the fire department and it’s not unique to Austin, so it’s relatively benign as such things go.
  16. You are the one implicitly asserting that the total is excessive so please feel free to show your work if you are moved to do so. That said, I’m 100% sure that well over 5% of spend in this city (including the police and public safety) is bloat, just as it is in every city and every big company and every other complex bureaucracy in the world. Nobody gets to perfect efficiency but the city of Austin is not a worse offender than, say, Dell, WalMart, or the University of Texas. But in the aggregate most of that increase is merely catching up with the cost of being a fast growing real life city our size.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. He’s like Matty Iglesias and Jiminy Glick had a baby
  23. 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.
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