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Charlie Kirk assassinated at an event in Utah (by a 22 YO groyper)
Texas Jeff replied to msbesq's topic in Cloak Room
He also said that the deaths in the hill country flash floods this summer would have been lower if Austin did not have a black fire department chief. For anyone not in the know, the floods occurred about 120 miles from Austin. -
This is a big cause of the disconnect. Here's a 2016 Statesman editorial stating that 73% of the officers at the time lived outside Austin, and how that was a problem: https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2016/09/04/public-would-be-better-served-if-austin-police-officers-lived-in-city/10061173007/ We all have our biases. Folks in hiring positions tend to hire people like them. If everyone recruiting and hiring is living in far off suburbs, then new hires are likely to live in far off suburbs. If police can drive into Austin four days a week, do their shift, and go home having never lived here, what incentive do they have to serve the local population well? They are not bad people, they are just doing what they have to do to get a paycheck. They are focused on their kids and their family and their community, and none of that is in Austin. The police department should try to build homegrown officers. They should be recruiting at LBJ, Akins, Navarro, Crockett, and all of the other schools within the city of Austin. They should be providing a pathway for interested graduates to get relevant experience and return when they are ready to enter the academy. And the city should provide financial incentives for officers to live within the city limits. Even if the homegrown folks eventually moved to the burbs, we would have police officers with local relatives or a memory of growing up in Austin, and perhaps they may feel more connection to Austin and be more incented to try to improve the city rather than just police.
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I have a kid living in west campus and I'm happy the UTPD folks are around. They are on bikes and they are visible and able to get around and interact with folks. There is another crew that is going around cleaning and repairing stuff, on the drag and throughout west campus. Generally it looks better than it did a few years ago. West campus does not seem that dangerous. The students are a bit naive and inexperienced. Most spent years chasing a top 6% rating, then a year in the dorm, and now they are living in a quasi-urban place where everyone is 19-22 years old. The UTPD folks provide a bit of a handrail. The drag (aka Guad, somehow the name changed) is empty by mid-80's standards. I'm not sure what happened. It needs to be re-weirded.
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A 66 year old Baton Rouge retired accountant always wanted to be in the LSU marching band. So he re-learned the tuba, worked out, enrolled in LSU so that he could try out for the band, and now he's a freshman tuba:
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Interview with the guy that created the logo: https://www.fastcompany.com/91398484/how-pentagram-designed-austins-first-ever-logo He claims it was the ultimate design by committee. I believe him.
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Some stuff I looked up: How much does an Austin Police Officer make? Base Pay: While in academy, $60,000 per year. After graduation, base pay rises to $70,644 After 1 year, base pay rises to $79,277 After 2 years, base pay rises to $87,498 After 10 years, base pay hits $100,176 .. and tops out at $118,132 Officers can earn overtime pay and other pay stipends based on language skills, certifications, education, etc. These might add $10,000 or so to base pay, for those that qualify. This job requires a high school diploma or GED, US citizenship, a drivers license, the ability to read, write and speak English, and either 12 semester hours of college credit or 2 years in the military or two years of work experience. You have to be 20.5 years of age to enter the academy. You can graduate high school, work two years somewhere, and you are good to apply. The job comes with health benefits and a pension. Officers get 150 hours of vacation, 150 hours of sick leave, 88 hours of holiday leave, three personal holidays and 16 hours of wellness leave. Officers work four 10 hour days in a row, then have three days off. At 10 hrs per day, they have about 43 days of leave per year, if you add up all of their vacation/sick/personal/etc. They can take an additional 120 hours for military leave. Most of my data is from here: https://www.austintexas.gov/apdrecruiting/pay-benefits How dangerous is it to be an Austin Police Officer? I could not find data on officer injuries, but the city lists 29 officers killed in the line of duty from 1875-2025: https://www.austintexas.gov/page/officers-killed-line-duty I count eleven that were killed by gun violence and fourteen killed in a vehicular collision. One had a heart attack. Three were killed by COVID in Fall 2021, which was after vaccines were rolled out. Either they didn't get the shot or were unlucky. The police department has about 1500 officers. It's possible to die on the job as a police officer, but it's not common. You are as likely to be killed in a crash as you are by a gun.
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I asked ChatGPT to come up with a new logo for Austin, Texas and it coughed up this for free in 5 mins:
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Meanwhile, in America:
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Alabama must get their US reps out of an old white guy Pez dispenser.
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Elect me president and I will rename it Starfleet and move it to San Francisco. Might as well get started on the future right now.
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If Trump does not win the Nobel Peace Prize, I am certain he will create a new World Peace Prize and award it to himself. When it happens you can say you heard about it here first.
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Some schools offer "rolling admissions", which roughly means that they will admit a student they want at the time the student applies. Texas A&M is a school like this, but only for certain majors. Other schools have a "early action" deadline and a "normal" deadline. UT is a school like this. "Early action" just means that you will hear back from them sooner, but it does not mean that they will fill up the spots in the order the applications were received. But there is no admissions advantage to getting an "Early action" application in early. "Early decision" is different ... not all schools offer early decision. If your kid is top ten percent, or top 5 or 6 for Texas, then you will probably be automatically accepted to the school within days of applying. Because they have to let you in. You will be accepted to the school, but probably not to the major. You have to wait until Jan/Feb to find out if you got the major. However, getting accepted to the school generally lets you to apply for university owned housing. And housing is generally handed out by date of housing application. Generally, the earlier you are accepted by the school, the earlier you can get in line for housing, which means that the earlier your kid will be able to pick their dorm or room. And all of that varies by campus. So, there is an advantage for certain campuses for certain majors, if they offer rolling admission for that major. And applying early to a top ten percent campus, if your kid is in the top ten percent, may give you an earlier acceptance to the school, but not the major. And that may allow you to apply for housing provided by the campus sooner. My kid did all of the apply to school work and I did all of the fill out housing application work. Obviously we ended up cancelling all of the housing apps except for one.
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Rudy’s is well defended…
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2025 Week 1 prediction thread- Texas @ Ohio State
Texas Jeff replied to Wulaw Horn's topic in Football
Texas 28 OSU 21 -
Estimated cost of attendance for 2025-26, full time undergrad living on or off campus, but not with parents ... from each school's websites, I picked costs for a CS major when I had to choose: UT: $32,344-$35,152 UTD: $35,982-$37,830 UTA: $29,256 UTSA : $31,120 UTEP: $24,680 Also: Texas A&M: $32,960 Texas Tech: $30,277 UTD has a lot of money for scholarships, so a lot of students are paying way less than that MSRP price. As of Fall 2025, the UT system offers the Promise Plus plan at all of its institutions, which gives free tuition and fees to all students from families earning under $100,000. Generally tuition and fees are about $13,000 of the total cost per year.
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Lloyd needs to go. He's been there since before the Cowboys' last Super Bowl win. Like the Cowboys, it's hard for me to think of his accomplishments since 1995. Folks shouldn't occupy a House seat for 30 years. 10-12 years is enough. It's supposed to be service, not a career. If you want more, run for something else.
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It was a misprint. It was supposed to say "Pursuing Peace Prize".
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We visited the National Museum of the American Indian in May. Many of the exhibits displayed some artifacts along with two perspectives that went along with the display ... what the settlers and the US government were thinking at the time and what the native Americans were thinking at the time. I thought it was a pretty cool way of showing the disconnect between the two sides. I wouldn't want it altered to show just one perspective. I also spotted a MAGA hat on display at the American History museum in an exhibit on presidential stuff, so there's that... Trumps claims about nothing about success ... I saw Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo spacecrafts almost side by side, next to Neil Armstrong's suit and across the hall from Yeager's plane, next door to mock-ups of all the Mars landers which were underneath a model of Voyager .. yeah nothing to crow about at all inside the Smithsonian.
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And all the moose are like, "God dammit I voted for Trump! Who could have seen this coming!"
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Holy shit balls is Intel (INTC) Fucked?
Texas Jeff replied to immamac's topic in Business and Markets
CNBC folks were just talking about the administration asking for stock in exchange for the Chips Act dollars for Intel. They were talking about the government taking a 10% position. -
Perhaps ... I was going off these news reports, which are now about six months old. Things may have changed:
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The city is being a little weird, IMHO. On 6th street, they are adding cars to a heavily pedestrian street to make it safer. But over on Congress, they are proposing closing part of the street to cars to make it safer for pedestrians. What if the folks that are causing issues on 6th just migrate over to Congress?
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