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Alamo Drafthouse Committing Suicide
Forget the food. They should put a QR code on the screen before the movie and beg for cash. If enough cash is raised, they skip the trailers and start the film. Just get on with it, I have a life.
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Parker Livingstone
Also, lots of folks remembers Emmitt from those awesome years with the Cardinals. Not me. It never happened:
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Texas WBB 2025-26: Return to the Final Four
Booker did something to her knee in the 2nd quarter and looked very uncomfortable. She was back in after halftime. Oldacre absolutely dominated the entire area under the basket.
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Minneapolis ICE Murder
The new video adds a lot of humanity to the murder victim. You can hear her voice. She says "I am not mad at you." She has a dog in the car. No one is stuck in the snow. Someone else says that he should go get some lunch and gets in her car. She reminds me of many of the other parents I met during my journey with my children. You can see her turning the wheel away from the murderer as he crosses in front of her car. She had no intent to harm anyone.
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ICE activity/raids
No way. I just watched the video, which is on Youtube and CNN. A driver in a car that is in reverse is approached by two people. One of the people is pulling on the door handle to try to open the door. It sounds like at least one person is telling the driver to get out of the car. The driver reverses the car a bit and puts it in drive. The soon to be shooter steps across the front of car. The car is moving forward at this point but it appears to be turning to the right and it is not moving rapidly. The driver of the car turns the wheel a bit to the right and starts forward. As the driver does, the shooter fires three times, into the windshield and driver side window. The shooter had to rotate as the car drove by. The last two shots were fired after the driver was already past the shooter. The shooter ended up unhurt by the drivers side window, and the car continued forward. The car did not hit the shooter. The shooter was not "violently, willfully, and viciously" run over. The shooter remained on their feet. The car wasn't moving that fast. The shooter crossed the front of the car, raised a weapon, and shot the driver. That is what happened.
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What the fuck is wrong with you, Austin?
TBH, I was thinking of those groups as small non-profits, vs targeting someone like Exxon. I was a member of several non-profits associated with my kids' schools and they usually had four or five figures in the bank, sometimes low six if they had a kick ass fundraiser. A $1M settlement would wipe most of them out.
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What the fuck is wrong with you, Austin?
Those seem like two groups that are unlikely to have deep pockets.
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What the fuck is wrong with you, Austin?
Downtown Austin has a few blocks north of the river that are downtown-ish. Get north of ... let's say 8th street ... and downtown dies as you get into the capitol complex. Just dead. State workers drive in from suburbia, sit at a desk, drive home. North of MLK ... vibrant again! UT has done a great job laying claim to everything between Disch-Falk and Lamar, either through direct ownership or campus living. It's very walkable and will get more so with the IH-35 cap. The state property is the weak link. At some point that needs to change or the towers will find somewhere else to grow. Austin should preserve a few views of the capitol, ditch the rest, and start thinking about a downtown all the way from the river to campus.
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The movie you just watched
Rear Window starring Grace Kelly. Jimmy Stewart is also in this movie, but I didn't notice him much. Grace Kelly is stunning and Jimmy can't stop looking at neighbors out his rear window, even though Grace Kelly is traipsing about his apartment.
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Waymo cars Hit the Freeways
Back to the original idea - Waymo on highways. I think they've started on slower speed roads because the consequences of a failure are lower. Fender benders vs 80 mph collisions. And they know that they are being held to a higher safety standard than human drivers. And they also don't want to hurt people. They are getting more confident that they can handle higher speeds and greater risk and they are expanding to highway driving. But it's not their main use case right now. Right now, they are expanding to more cities ... mostly as an inner city taxi service. More cities gives them more visibility to more people, and establishes them as *the* leading driverless car solution. They have a limited number cars and they are trying different business models in different cities, while experimenting with higher speeds on highways.
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Pluribus - Vince Gilligan and Rhea Seehorn
Martin Brothers' Cafe on Guad north of campus ... closed in 1997 so it might be an unknown for many of you. Magnolia Cafe on Lake Austin Blvd ... thought it would always be there.
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Trump’s America
Trump's $1776 "bonuses" are being funded by congressional increases in troop housing allowances: https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/12/trump-rebrands-congressionally-approved-troop-housing-subsidy-warrior-dividend-bonus/410250/ Congress approved more money for military housing, also called the BAH, as part of the defense bill they just passed. The DoD is giving this to the troops in the form of the $1776 bonuses. So the cost of housing is going up, Congress recognized this and is giving our troops more so that they can afford housing, and Trump's team rebranded it as a "Warrior Dividend" and made it look like a bonus.
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Trump’s America
How much do billionaires have? Trump just talked about $1776 payments to about 1.4 million military members. That's about $2.5 billion dollars. Trump's own net worth went up by about $4 billion when he was given stock in Truth Social, although the stock has gone down since then. He didn't work for that money, it was a stock grant. Stack cryptocurrencies and a free airplane on top of that and the pile just gets bigger. Which is pennies compared to Elon, who is worth about $648 billion. Elon could give $1776 to each military person, each month, for a year, and it would cost him less than 5% of his net worth.
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Trump’s America
America just saw what George saw:
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