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  1. Airline pilot. http://i.imgur.com/e3iWiCt.gif
  2. I wasn't sure whether to post this sick story here, or in the WTFIWWY Austin thread. It works in both. https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/austin-police-to-hold-press-conference-on-missing-child-case/ The Austin Police Department is asking for the public’s help in finding a missing 9-year-old girl, concerned for her welfare after her mother was accused of locking another child in a closet for “weeks at a time,” according to an arrest affidavit. Ava Marie Gonzales was last seen by family in December 2017, when she was two years old. She was in the custody of her mother, Virginia Gonzales, at the time, police said." In regard to the 7-year-old found locked in a closet, "The girl was taken to Dell Children’s Medical Center, where she was found to weigh 29 pounds, the affidavit said. She had dark-colored spots covering her body that medical staff said were signs of malnourishment, police said. She also made comments that her “bones hurt." "The closet had no light or air circulation and was about 4 foot 9 inches by 1 foot 10 inches."
  3. As long as people act rationally and responsibly, with consideration for the best interests of everyone, we can get through this. We're so fucked.
  4. Anyone experienced with bank fishing at Lake Pflugerville? I've been skunked several times, mostly fishing along the south shoreline and the dam. Would I have better luck on the north side? Or that marshy area on the west side, along Becker Farm Road? Thanks for any tips... As a side note, maybe my eyesight isn't so hot, but I never see a lot of aquatic life there. (Minnows, perch, frogs, crayfish, etc.) I also rarely see bass jumping or feeding, compared to other lakes I've fished. I'm not sure that lake has a well-established ecosystem. You need that to support the gamefish at the top of the food chain.
  5. Many years ago I used Supershuttle quite a bit, but it seems like they folded during Covid, and reorganized, and now their rates are insane. I mean like 4 times what their old rates were. How is there not a van-based airport shuttle that can do it for $25 or so?
  6. I hope a Cat 5+ wipes Mar-a-Lago off the map.
  7. Pretty sure most security professionals would say carrying around that much cash is dumb. I hope this person doesn't make important decisions relating to security matters.
  8. I almost never eat at McDonalds unless external circumstances force me to, so I'm not up to date on their menu. Today, I wanted something "breakfasty" and McD's was the only thing nearby. I figure a sausage biscuit or egg mcmuffin would be a safe choice. So I go in and see some kind of breakfast combo that looks decent. Turns our I ordered something called a "McGriddle" by mistake, which on the menu board looks a lot like a biscuit. But instead of a biscuit, the top and bottom "bun" are some type of pancake saturated in a fake log-cabin syrup flavor. Yeah, it's on me for not ordering right--but here's an idea: don't sell a bunch of "breakfast sandwich" type products that look very similar on the menu. Stick with what you're known for. I bet 95% of McD's customers just want the regular biscuit or mcmuffin, not this griddle abortion that tastes like chemical death.
  9. "...university courses in Texas can't "require or attempt to require a student to adopt a belief that any race, sex, or ethnicity or social, political or religious belief is inherently superior to any other." Wait--isn't this the same thing as moral relativism? Which I thought conservatives hated? This sounds like they can't teach that White European Colonial culture is superior, or that Christianity is better than Islam. Is this like the time they accidentally banned all marriage by trying to ban gay marriage?
  10. Future generations will be indoctrinated in religious schools, taught a superficial understanding of history, and undereducated (at best) in hard science and critical thinking. A recipe for a permanent Republican majority. And the best part--we're paying for it. If the Robin Hood system is still going to exist, the City of Austin should refuse to make any more payments into it.
  11. Mine (Travis Co., NE Austin) went down about 2-3%. My neighbors on both sides got a bigger drop, more like 6-7%. I'm jealous.
  12. It makes me surly when buy I buy a new sportcoat or suit online and the pockets come all stitched up. I'll forget this shit and only find out when I'm late for a wedding and I don't have the time or tailoring tools to fuck with this shit. Just deliver the goddamn coat with the pockets already opened.
  13. For the ten thousandth time, "Can you imagine the reaction on Fox News if Obama had done this?"
  14. Well at least I won't have to worry about capital gains taxes for a while, since I won't have any. On an unrelated note, where can I buy mass quantities of canned cat or dog food, cheap? I like the Mighty Dog "Seared Beef" flavor the best but willing to consider other brands if price is right.
  15. And while we talk about enshittening, I'd also like to take this opportunity to complain that ALL airlines have completely fucked up up their service/ticket counter/check-in experience. They have all this counter space for customer service agents, but only put 1 or 2 overworked agents there to handle ticketing & baggage check, when there are literally mobs of people in line needing service. This is because some executive decided everyone will do all this ticketing and check-in shit electronically, but the real world isn't like that--there are situations and problems that need direct human interaction to resolve.
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