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bschoolprof

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  1. worthy is 160 pounds of piss and vinegar
  2. I had to switch watching from youtube TV to my antenna. Too much delay.
  3. I love playing MM up on the receivers in press. That's his strength.
  4. next motherfucker that asks about the white uniforms gets a free cd of the national anthem singer
  5. But I think I can safely say we're all OK with "SoCo." No issue there at all.
  6. MLK was renamed as such in 1975. Oldtimers like my dad still sometimes refer to it as 19th street (he doesn't live in Austin). He also used to call 35 "interregional."
  7. Except I don't oppose the plan. I think it will help with supply, and bring prices down (relative to the counterfactual of doing nothing), but not to the extent that we'll get 300K units close in. That's a pipe dream. That's the only part I was pushing back on. And I am fine with developers making money - that's the price we pay in a market system to get new housing.
  8. Don't lump me in with those commie nutbags. I don't oppose developer profits (obviously). I'm just saying that even in a real estate market with no land use restrictions at all, desirable housing (close to downtown where everyone wants to live, on the beach, etc) will always be expensive. There's no way to build enough housing close in to get relatively "cheap" prices. This is self evident.
  9. Yes. I did not watch the previous season (and maybe even the one before it). Each season is self-contained in terms of story. Even if you didn't see the movie you would be fine; you'd just miss out on all the references/familiarities. For example, and this is not really a spoiler, the husband of the female protagonist runs a car dealership.
  10. Hamm's new wife > old wife. He didn't want "helpless hitchhiker?" Also needs a better master bedroom.
  11. Central Austin will always be expensive, as demand will far outstrip supply. There is no govt "fix" for this issue, in the same way that there is no way for us all to have affordable beach houses. Govt policy can make things worse, however, via land use restrictions that prevent more housing. The policy described above might facilitate, say, 3 fairly well off buyers/renters residing on one current lot instead of one really wealthy one. That certainly won't allow teachers to buy in tarrytown, but it will create slightly less expensive housing than before. There will never be decent sub-300K housing close in though. That's silliness.
  12. I don't really have a dog in this fight given where I live, but I watched 15 minutes of that video and didn't hear a single cogent argument as to why changing government regulation to allow for the building of more housing is bad when there is a strong demand for more housing. Perhaps there are good arguments to be made in that regard, but there were none in that 15 minutes. Just a bunch of bloviating and nonsense. Colonizing? Really? The activists in this town are batshit.
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