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Bozo_Casanova

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  1. I keep saying “he sucks” about Garza so the bolded text above is … quite a leap. examples:
  2. I think I could make that throw to third with one hop in 8th grade.
  3. The DA sucks! You should run against him! But none of that justifies the police not doing their jobs.
  4. Let me get this straight: you don’t like the DA so when there’s a guy breaking into the house next door it’s fine for the police not to respond, even though they can and do respond quickly to low/no risk calls. Do I have that right? Your safety in real time is expendable because Garza?
  5. Y’all. The voters enacted a camping ban. PEOPLE CAMP IN THE PARKING LOT OF THE POLICE HQ.
  6. It’s legit terrible logo design for anything. Consider it done; you’re also ugly This. This is like the very open secret that nobody wants to talk about. Even a lot of cops are frustrated about it. And there’s no appetite to take it on. It they do, it’s quite likely the State Gov will basically gut the homerule charter. But make no mistake: our police do not police this city well. Even when asked, or especially when asked. Want to see 10 cops? Send a landscape truck across Tarrytown after 7pm. Want to see no cops? Call them when your car gets stolen.
  7. No argument there. I’m not a fan of Broadnax (he doesn’t have many), but Cronk was in way over his head here and didn’t lead effectively. Winter storm or no, the timeline was going to be about the same. I agree they go beyond pay, but you have got to be joking about the risk. This is not a dangerous town for cops compared to peer cities, full stop. As much as the APD hates the DA (nobody likes the DA), he’s not the reason our police department is so mediocre at conducting their task. Poor leadership at APD and the police union is the cause of the staffing issues and poor recruitment at APD, and that’s caused by poor management, which is caused by a weak council, which is caused by cheap, dumb voters. The problem with AFD is that we overspend on fire relative to EMS. We don’t tho All of that, in total, is a rounding error compared to public safety. Stop listening to KLBJ-AM. Bad for brains. Your opinion is wrong and you should feel bad. It’s unbalanced and looks cropped on both sides.
  8. I bet he sure missed going up to Muleshoe on Friday nights.
  9. The expense account fracas is a perfect example of how Austin voters get distracted by nickels and dimes while dollars fly right by. The two biggest expense categories are police and fire, at about 37% and 18% respectively. We have among the most well paid police in the state, and yet we struggle to recruit, most of our police don’t even live in the city and the quality of our policing is extremely mediocre. We have bigger fire trucks and more firefighters than we need, and yet we struggle to find funds for parks, underinvest in infrastructure, underinvest in EMS (which is why fire gets to EMS calls before EMS so often), our animal shelters are ghastly and rely on volunteerism to function, and we treat the enterprise departments like piggy banks. And it’s funny, you know, because the people who bitch about salads? They’re the reason why. They’d rather live in a penny wise, pound foolish city that gives a blank check to the cops but can’t stomach the idea that a senior exec has an expense account. And then you whine about why we don’t have top talent even though we pay top dollar? My man, it’s the same reason nobody good runs for city council: the pay isn’t nearly enough to take such a bad job.
  10. Good post- however I believe the phrase “Five Cities in the Middle of Nowhere” came from Warren Leslie’s remarkable post-Kennedy assassination anatomy of the reactionary Dallas power structure and the Citizens Council, Dallas Public and Private, all the more remarkable since Warren Leslie was an Executive VP and and primary spokesman for Neiman-Marcus at the time.
  11. Wordle 1,539 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  12. I don’t have any illusions about that but I don’t think Dallas gets enough credit for getting shit done. The best and most accurate description of Dallas I’ve ever read is from 1964- “five cities in the middle of nowhere.” Where Austin is and was an embarrassment of natural riches and advantage that manages to achieve very little, Dallas had nothing other than collective hustle and the will to become a world-center of industry and commerce, a great city. And it did. Something to be said for that. I often defend Austin’s city government on here because people act like there’s some secret inner working or cabal in charge and that’s fantasy. Virtually anyone can step into the arena in Austin and make a big difference, but people in this city are mostly too lazy and cynical to do it. Austin’s not corrupt in a meaningful way, just myopic and small minded. This logo exercise is a good example. They just think too small.
  13. Oh yeah. Big time. Not a fan of Johnson but we’ve done worse. And besides, since Dallas is not a strong mayor city (and neither is Austin, Mashallah!) he doesn’t actually manage anything.
  14. Fifty and they hit it out of the park, too. As always, Dallas does everything about being a city better than Austin and decades earlier. Probably because it has much smarter voters and far stronger civic leadership both inside and outside of city government.
  15. $1.1mm? That’s WAAAY too cheap for a consultant grift. This is just a poorly executed design.
  16. She’s not wrong, but only half of that is spent externally. The rest is cost that will get deployed going forward.
  17. $570k- $200k for the actual design work and the balance for engagement. Actually rebranding stuff with it will cost another $500kish. So, this isn’t a high dollar project for this kind of work. But the result is Fiverr level circa 2010.
  18. They spent about $500k on this and the majority was on engagement as opposed to design hours. So… pretty much.
  19. Avocado oil is fantastic and has become the default for all uses in my kitchen that involve cooking with unsaturated fat except for those that specifically require others, eg sesame.
  20. As branding exercises go, this wasn’t terribly expensive and I don’t get bent out of shape by small potatoes expenses but the result here is absurd and somebody in the CM’s office should have redirected this or better yet, done it in-house. This bears all the marks of overthinking engagement and feedback during the process. The firms involved should have insisted on a better outcome.
  21. This new unified brand is … wow.
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