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Larry T. Spider

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  1. Won’t have that problem in about 2 more months when the lakes are completely empty. I see some pretty severe water restrictions in our future.
  2. Don’t take this as defending Arredondo, because he was an absolute failure, but all the talk about him seems like scapegoating. This was a massive fuckup across multiple agencies and the higher ups are pointing fingers at one local yokel. Where is the pressure on McCraw to answer for why his officers stood around for so long? And don’t give me any jurisdiction bullshit because nobody knew who was in charge. If Arredondo was so inept and not following basic procedures, as McCraw states, why were all his guys standing there watching him break protocol for an hour? I don’t want to hear anything else about Arredondo until others are facing the same scrutiny.
  3. Don’t take this as a defense of the local and ISD police, but the DPS grandstanding comes across as shifting the blame more than an honest investigation. I would be very wary of taking what they are saying publicly as fact. The locals are pushing back but seem unorganized and completely unable to wage a PR war against Austin. If they have a bit of truth on their side, we will likely never know it.
  4. This is insanity. It’s like they were committed to seeing as many people die as possible.
  5. The environment may change as we are now seeing some layoffs, but these days hinting that the company might be in trouble with just result in people leaving. Company is in financial trouble and bonuses may not happen? Peace ✌️
  6. This pisses me off so much. Fuck joint Facebook accounts.
  7. So we are rooting for the same people that monumentally fucked up the uvalde school shooting and messed this deal up on multiple levels to……checks notes……go rogue and torture people before killing them? Ill settle for them doing their job.
  8. I’m gonna need to see pics of the girl before making any determinations.
  9. Got a solid 10 minutes in round rock.
  10. Would you rather hire the best people that live within commuting range of your office or hire the best people in the world?
  11. Depends. Where is she on the crazy/hot scale?
  12. Time to bump the ercot thread?
  13. Seeing 105 in Austin on Monday and Tuesday. Furk.
  14. I can confirm. Emailed years ago and immediately started getting fundraising emails. Fuck that guy.
  15. All the training now is get in and engage immediately. Half the time the guy will just off himself when engaged. I’ll wait for confirmation, but that’s bad if they were outside waiting for a tactical team before going in.
  16. Considering the number of deaths, “it could have been worse” should be a massive call to action. What does that even mean? 40 dead kids?
  17. All true. Some of it was pandemic related but we couldn’t even get subs this year. Principal, AP, counselor, office staff, etc ready to jump in and teach at any moment. One adult per class is doing good. Two is a pipe dream. Also, most districts spend about 87% of their budget on staff. To put two people in each room, it wouldn’t double the budget, but it would be a significant increase. Texas taxpayers would never go for it.
  18. Year 1 is 47k in uvalde. Year 10 is 50k….
  19. There is constant pressure from parents for more access to the building for assemblies, events, or just to hang out. Then shit like this happens and they want a super max prison. But then the memory fades and the pressure to open the doors starts up again. There is plenty of funding blame to go around, but part of the problem is that communities are divided on this. It comes up on almost every school tour I do. And no, there really isn’t a safe way to do any event that’s going to have more that 30 parents in attendance. Checking people in one at a time would take several hours.
  20. It’s going to rain when the one line comes across but be nothing close to what people were talking about a few days ago. Most of us knew better. Yards won’t need watering for a few days but we will be right back in the shit. Lakes still low/dropping as well. The only good thing would be the ground getting some water in it meaning that future rain would run off….but it’s not in the forecast.
  21. They should just put a live feed of the line. Let the zoo run it.
  22. Just started raining in western round rock.
  23. Seems like the RIPs to breweries has ticked up this year. Weird to survive the pandemic then fold. PPP loans running out?
  24. This is where I am too. Two of the four need to get fixed to see things calm down. Monetary policy and China getting back to work seem most likely to me. Who knows what will go on with Russia and oil. But, slowing consumer demand could lower oil prices even if supply stays somewhat tight.
  25. I think the only thing keeping the market from going off a cliff is the pent-up consumer demand after two years of Covid (see airlines). But, that is going to be put to the test between now and July 4th as gas will go over $5 in parts of the country that aren’t used to seeing that. You get the double whammy of higher costs for businesses at the exact same time the average consumer becomes much more price conscious. I do think it gets somewhat sorted out in the next 6 months though. China isn’t going to stay offline forever, gas prices drift back down in the fall, and people will have made their peace with the higher interest rate environment. Should be a rough summer though.
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