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    I’m fairly confident in the levees given the backlash after Katrina. The biggest danger is flooding. In 2017 severe rainstorms uncovered significant problems with SW&B’s drainage system, and as you’d expect the city hasn’t done much to alleviate the problem on its own. Latoya basically shrugged and said, “This is a city that floods”, and now you’ll get a nice tweet letting you know you can park your car on the neutral ground.
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    Only the Strong Survive, Texas Monthly 1979
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    Same. He went on to note he would take the vaccine because he “was a 52 year old man that won’t get pregnant”, so he's still mired in misinformation. Reminds me of those nature videos where you see some stupid prey animal like an impala get saved from the jaws of a crocodile by a water Buffalo or something and then promptly continue to trot along the river bank, floating through existence like a jellyfish.
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    It was literally the French Laundry thing. They were already butthurt about the shelter in place and mask mandates, but the FL incident is what sparked the first petition. The second shelter in place only made it worse. So the reason is, muh freedoms.
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    Jackson’s was a solid Saturday spot. It’s still there, really, as The Patio. At its peak, Vintage was like the Studio 54 of Houston. If you went to UT (and especially if you were Greek) you knew 80% of the crowd. I’d argue that it was one of the best post-grad bars to have existed anywhere in the country at the time, besides Smith Point in DC when the Bush twins graduated. True Recession millennial grads had their moms drop them off in the PetSmart parking lot.
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    Well I think I’m @billfromlaketravis’s age or so, the Gallant Knight was my Thursday spot in 2008-2009 (before Vintage Fridays, RIP) and was definitely not a scary place. The Silver Slipper wasn’t either - older crowd that got dressed up for dancing and Zydeco. Admittedly, it felt a little voyeuristic in that we were crashing in on a spot that was totally off the spatial geography of white Houston. But those moments waiting for an Uber to confirm they’d come pick up you at 1 am in the Nickel? Pretty terrifying.
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    Ever been to the Silver Slipper? Old music club that’s a vestige of Frenchtown, the Fifth’s old Creole neighborhood. When Uber came to Houston a few of us finally braved it - really cool place, though the crowd was blown away that a couple of white guys stumbled in on a Saturday.
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    Sorry, I phrased my question poorly. Yes, of course I know you can vote in person. I actually waited to vote in person last fall because I was excited to partake in the quirky city tradition of residents volunteering their garages as polling stations. But for some reason, the polling station on my block had closed, so I went down to City Hall, where I was given the exact same ballot I had on my desk at home. As a Texan used to voting machines, my trek downtown seemed pretty pointless to me. So to rephrase my question, if all registered voters are mailed ballots, is there any indication that Republican voters would wait to vote in person?
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    Dumb question from a transplant: is there really true in-person voting in CA? All Californians were mailed recall ballots. In San Francisco County, voting in-person voting is just filling out a mail-in ballot on-site. It’s pointless. Regardless of how other counties conduct elections, I’d think the universal mail-in ballot would undermine the national narrative of Dems voting by mail and R’s voting in person. But it should give Newsom an edge by making it easier for otherwise apathetic Dem voters to vote.
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    My favorite was when baby Gaga began copying and pasting Facebook posts as arguments in the CRT thread.
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    CNS News lol got a chuckle out of seeing a Hunter Biden headline for the first time in a while.
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    Double post.
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    Antone’s is still around but unfortunately it’s history and significance isn’t really appreciated, which is unfortunate because it’s one of those unique Texas things this thread is about. I’d add parisa in Medina County.
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    We last drove through the area last October. Around Eureka (maybe Klamath) we saw a jacked up F-250 with a huge Trump 2024 sign. Couldn’t tell if the dude was a pessimist or an optimist.
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    Oh yeah, I get what you mean. I was just pointing out that Cajun country is west and south of New Orleans, and New Orleans Creole is the product of the port city’s confluence of French, Spanish, Afro-Caribbean, Italian and Irish immigration. It’s a common misconception to conflate the two because they are from south Louisiana, but they have distinctly different roots. It’s all in the gumbo. I would argue there is definitely a “New Orleans restaurant”, but that’s for a different thread.
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    Yep, lots of hiking. Eureka is kind of shitty but has a nice little downtown. Stopped in Crescent City once during a road trip and there’s a surprisingly nice brewpub there.
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    Nope, not at all.
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    Will vote no for the recall. Live in SF and signed both petitions to recall the DA (first has failed) and the school board.
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    New Orleans creole Thai - northern, Isaan Vietnamese - being a Houstonian, biased to southern Chinese - Szechuan BBQ - CenTex
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    FQF canceled, not like it’s a surprise at this point.
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    It might work. I spent four months in NOLA during winter/spring. Bohemian oasis in the sea of MAGA fuckery it is, I found New Orleanians taking it as seriously as I’ve seen in the Bay Area. But more importantly, Louisiana gonna Louisiana. Once local governments discovered COVID fines were a cash cow, they were all over enforcement. It’s why contact-tracing lists were required long after they went out of fashion elsewhere. The issue will be with crowds hanging out on Bourbon. The city could never find a workable solution at the height of the pandemic (they even briefly banned go cups) and I doubt they will going forward.
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    I want the city to be as smothering with its enforcement as it was last summer with its nonsense parklet rules (full meals, no standing, etc). I am tired of this shit. So happy it’s flat out full vaxxed too.
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    I mean, I guess, but the FDA advises against it and another (non-peer reviewed) study found it had no effect whatsoever. But seriously, horse paste.

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