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Paper_jam

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  1. Boeing management: sounds like we can cut some costs and just use one link then
  2. If the over-65 exemption just freezes the taxable value or assessed value, that doesn't seem to fit this case. The person just recently turned 65, and their taxable value has dramatically and recently decreased by over 100K... which is way better than just "frozen."
  3. I saw an article about tax increases for Travis Co. and City of Austin, which got me looking at projected taxes using this link: https://travis.trueprodigy-taxtransparency.com/taxTransparency/propertySearch I searched my own address and compared my projected tax amounts it to some similar homes around me. I noticed something odd with one home close to mine, very similar in construction, age, and market value. Their projected taxes were much lower than mine, and I wondered how that is. I have the standard homestead exemption and that's it. Travis CAD shows their house as having "HS, OTHER" for exemptions. I don't know what the "OTHER" exemption is but I think it may be the over-65 one because one of them (married) turned 65 recently. Anyway, the data for their property shows as follows: Net Appraised Taxable Value City of Austin: $ 350,230 $ 126,184 Travis County $ 350,230 $ 143,784 How is their taxable value so low? My taxable value is more than 100k more than theirs despite a very similar net appraised value. Does the Over-65 exemption knock off like an extra 100k of taxable value? No one owning or living in that home has an apparent disability, or is a veteran. The owner has a good income (2X mine) from a professional job and they are healthier than I am. Thanks for any insights. Maybe I should look forward to turning 65 if it has this dramatic of an effect.
  4. How does this order have legal effect unless it's actually passed as a bill into law? What authority does Abbott have to just demand hospitals, especially private ones, do stuff like this? Or does Abbott know it's not actually legal, and just not care, because it makes his base happy? Abbott orders hospitals send state info on undocumented migrants https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/abbott-orders-hospitals-send-state-info-on-undocumented-migrants-they-treat/
  5. I know fuck all about being a lifeguard, but one would think he could at least paddle his boat over there so the guy could try to hang on to it. He could get off and they could both hang on to it while waiting for more help.
  6. At work our office restrooms were completely renovated and I just had to use one for the first time. The new toilets are installed so ridiculously low, it's like squatting on the fucking floor. It's a beating for my fucking back and knees just to get up off the thing. The new sinks and countertops are shit too. The countertop is really low, and the sinks are not close to the front edge, so you have to lean way forward and down to get your hands under the faucet. If I'm designing or installing commercial sinks in a men's bathroom it seems like common sense that the countertop & sink should be high enough so that an average height man can stand at the fucking sink and use it without throwing out his fucking back. Also, they put in those fucking faucets that you have to hold down either the hot or cold knob to keep the water flowing. Why does everything get shittier instead of better?
  7. Will we ever see $5 tickets at HEB again? Those were the days.
  8. Kinda sucks that just as I get interested in maybe getting a Tesla (Model 3 Performance) Musk goes full MAGA. OTOH based on what I see on Tesla forums it seems like his cars have pretty sloppy QC, maybe I'm better off staying away.
  9. Maybe I don't understand this law, or Musk's objection to it. Is Musk angry that public schools in CA can't be gender police? Is that what schools are for?
  10. 76 seems kinda young for a fitness guy.
  11. For some reason my booze addled brain parsed this as Danica, as in Patrick. And I gotta say, I'd enjoy seeing her try her luck at F1.
  12. Maybe it's just me but it seems like the accuracy of modeling for hurricanes making landfall on the Texas coast is a lot worse than it is for hurricanes making landfall elsewhere in gulf states or the Atlantic coast. I get there is always uncertainty, but 48 hours ago weren't we projecting Brownsville as the center of the track? That's like forecasting a landfall at Daytona Beach, FL but instead it happens at Charleston SC.
  13. Dammit why won't this cluster of showers move east of 35,
  14. These sharks aren't malicious, they're just trying to warn people about the hurricane.
  15. Sorry for my coastal friends, but I feel like anything less than a Cat 2 at landfall will just evaporate into nothing before getting to central TX.
  16. https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/judge-rejects-paxtons-efforts-to-shut-down-el-paso-migrant-shelter/ Judge Francisco Dominguez sided with the shelter, sharply criticizing Paxton’s legal action as “outrageous and intolerable,” accusing him of acting outside of his authority for political motivations. “The Attorney General’s conduct in harassing and pursuing predetermined outcomes, without regard to the rights of Annunciation House’s employees and guests is imminent, ongoing and irreparable,” Dominguez wrote.
  17. All that stuff we grew up hearing about--freedom, democracy, the rights and liberties enshrined in our Constitution, our finely tuned system of checks and balances, equality for everyone before the law--they are tearing it all down. A lot of it was propaganda that we never lived up to anyway, but they were ideals I still believed in and hoped we could incrementally achieve. We should all go on a general strike until we get a new Constitution that bans corporate and dark money campaign contributions, explicitly frames the separation of church and state, puts term limits on all offices including the Supreme Court, and eliminates the electoral college (or at least, apportions EVs fractionally in proportion to the popular vote in the state). Alternatively, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWdfRRtAs3o
  18. Max is just a Dutch Dale "the Intimidator" Earnhardt.
  19. In 2016, Obama should have made a recess appointment or whatever to put Garland on the bench. I would have declared that the Senate was afforded an ample opportunity to "advise and consent" on Garland, and abdicated that responsibility. Should have used US Army or National Guard troops to escort Garland up the steps if you had to.
  20. I posted it to Youtube, but just let me know if you want it taken down. It;s too good to not share with the world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMoj3FmmGWM
  21. As the crow flies, it's only 130 miles from downtown Austin to Lavaca Bay. Edit: beaten by Bolverk. I should read the whole thread before replying to stuff.
  22. I need want my own private complex of underground ICBM silos. For self defense. (The 2nd refers to Arms, not just guns.)
  23. Wouldn't mind seeing Russian air defenses degraded to the point where we could impose a NATO no-fly zone over strategic areas...
  24. I began my carefully curated collection of original paintings 25 years ago with a scintillating vista of an alien landscape crafted by an anonymous master artist working on the sidewalk on 6th street. He used nothing more than some spray cans and folded newspaper, but the result was spectacular. It's displayed proudly as the centerpiece of my art room.
  25. but the NWS forecast this AM said "heavy rain" tonight
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