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  1. BradInATX
    See, everyone was right about you being a Russian bot
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    Texas gonna open up to the general public in a couple months and nobody's going to show up because errryone already got 1b.
  3. BradInATX
    Yep. A few thousand stimmies ain't shit.
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    Looks like she finally got a new dress, maybe that's why she can't afford a babysitter.
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    nm
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    I have a theory that the first wave in June had a lot of spread in minority communities and households, and the big holiday/winter wave went mainstream with white people. Based on some anecdotal evidence, some looking at data, and just some gut feeling. I'm sure at some point the data guys will give a better breakdown of each wave and we'll see if I'm right.
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    Not Texas, but the DT Covid thread is terrible and to be avoided, so posting here. Cliff's is that Israel is already seeing a huge bend in the curve in the older population (that has over 50% vaccinated). itshappening.gif
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    We're at a pretty key and interesting time for the numbers. Hospitalizations are plummeting like the aggy rollercoaster in November. The 7 day moving average chart is beautiful. But cases look like they're ticking back up some like @BrazilHorn mentioned. If we see hospitalizations continue to go down over the next couple of weeks, without a bounce in about 5-10 days corresponding to the increase in cases, then that'll be great news. It'll mean the vaccines are shielding the most vulnerable and that we're reducing mortality risk even while cases still chug along. Eventually the cases line isn't going to correlate to the hospitalizations/deaths lines two weeks later, and that divergence is when we know we're seeing vaccine impact. We're going to get to a point where number of cases doesn't really matter, as long as the death/hospitalization numbers are negligible or flu-level.
  9. BradInATX
    This is the safe space for those who want to talk politics but not actually have to defend their stances like you do in the CR.
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    If Trump runs the MAGA candidates will clear out for him so as not to alienate his base for future runs. It'll end up Trump vs. a few other more normal candidates and he'll destroy them. If he doesn't run, Haley has to be the frontrunner. Cruz is damaged and gross. Hawley is damaged. Pence will never win and he knows it. He's damaged with moderates for being too Trumpy and Trumpers for being too moderate. He won't run. The rest are charisma vacuums.
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    Yeah and that's a factor too. Pops don't grow on trees. Not many coaches could take Derozan, a bunch of young guys drafted in the 20s, and the corposes of Rudy Gay and LMA and win more than 30 games. I think we're in for some pain when Pop retires. And it'll be depressing to lose the last vestige of the 2000s Spurs.
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    BTW @B00M, my understanding is that this hotel rollout also comes with a repeal of the camping thing. I'd assume the point of the distributed model of hotels all over town (instead of just throwing them in the hood like you talked about) is to get people off of the street in certain areas and into the homes. Doesn't moving 70 homeless from various underpasses and street corners into one location where they can be monitored and have an increased police presence serve the greater good? I get the argument of not wanting them nextdoor to your house. But, and this is a very overly simplistic hypothetical, doesn't it make more sense to move 70 homeless from 20 street corners in district X into one hotel in district X? I don't see the negative, except for maybe the one house that's nextdoor to the hotel. They sort of get hosed on the scales of greater good, but someone always does.
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    I have a family member that was homeless for a few years due to addiction. He stayed in a ton of these places. You'd be surprised where they are. For all you know they're a half mile down the road from you already. He's a year away from his Masters Degree currently. This isn't even some new thing. It's just an opportunity for people to cry and vent political frustration. FWIW, I'm of the opinion that letting them camp wherever they wanted was an unbelievably stupid decision. I'm not at all a white knight for COA. But the homeless issue seems to bring low-information opinions out like flies to a light.
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    Of course they will. Are you unfamiliar with how these type of places work? They already exist. There are already apartments and fourplexes and old motels doing the exact same thing these hotels will be used for. They have social workers assigned to them, and typically nonprofits partner with each facility and provide staffing as well. You really should try to actually inform yourself about issues before you dive head first into them. Maybe @Bozo_Casanova or @Pasken can chime in with more specifics.
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    I don't have a plan. You haven't seen me on this thread criticizing the city about their long-term housing plans for the homeless because I'm smart enough to know what I don't know. I'm not even saying that the city's plan is great. I'm mostly just reading and absorbing the information. And making fun of Austin for some of the stupid shit they do is always a fun sport, but the "everything Austin does is stupid even though I have no better ideas" schtick is pretty terrible.
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    "Austin government is so stupid. They want to put them in hotels where they can be monitored and have access to shared services? What an idiotic idea. Everyone knows we should just put them in FEMA trailers in Zilker Park!" Holy shit.
  17. BradInATX
    This is literally the stupidest idea on the entire thread. You should be banned from ever commenting again on governance at any level just for saying this.
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    Trading DeMar for picks or undeveloped talent probably makes us 6-10 wins worse which basically takes us out of playoff contention and creates a huge void in the veteran leader/go-to-guy role. I'm not satisfied with just making the playoffs, but this team has the potential to continue to build, add a max free agent, and as Derozan ages make a smooth transition from playoff team (who might be able to win a series or two each year) to a studly young up and coming squad. It's not like this is a garbage squad that will never go anywhere. With continued development of the young guys, continued good drafting, and smart use of the cap space we'll have in the near future, this team could get intself into contention. Trading LA makes a lot of sense. Trading Demar doesn't. He has more value to us over the next 3-4 years than the sum of assets we'd get back for him will.
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    Where would you put them?
  21. BradInATX
    If you buy a home near a motel, you're probably already used to that kind of shit happening. We're talking about old, beat to shit antequated motels, right? I'm not advocating that they let those hotels look like the sidewalk in front of the ARCH, and I don't think that's the intention. These people have to go somewhere, and having them in motels is better than the greenbelt or even worse, where they are today. The point of my post is that they have to go somewhere, and if every NIMBY gets to veto them being within two miles of their house, then we're going to end up right back to where we are today with them camping. With the added bonus of our taxpayers sending them through the cycle of the justice system over and over.
  22. BradInATX
    Yep. Friend and I got jumped by about six dudes right in front of that station walking to our car from sixth street one night sometime in the 2000s. I got popped in the face a couple times and got one or two good shots in on somebody, and my buddy got knocked around pretty good. Cop sitting in his car 50 yards away pointed right at the gas station said he didn't see it and we couldn't prove anything so no reason for him to do anything. Still remember the protection scam if you'd park under the bridge there. Bums asking for $5 or $10 to "watch your car" AKA not mess with it. That two block area has always been a shit show.
  23. BradInATX
    Yep. Wonder how many people who complain about the ARCH ever parked their car or walked under the overpass at 35 and 6th/7th before they cleaned it up. Or the Shell station right there. Shit was dangerous.
  24. BradInATX
    This is going to be a devil you know scenario. I might have to vote in the R primary for hot wheels if the Trump candidate is an actual threat. Strange times. But I'll take the bird in hand traditional R who did a better job with Covid than most R governors over a risk that we have an absolute moron MAGA person as our governor.
  25. BradInATX
    I wouldn't at all mind holding on to Demar. He's great at coming in and settling things down when the young guys lose their way and his game will age gracefully, unlike LA's. We're in the 4 seed with a shitload of young talent, why would we blow it up?

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