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The Blake Lively (Ryan Reynolds's wife) Controversy
Samson's Wig replied to chainsaw's topic in Daily Texan
Say what you will about social media, but YouTube is where the truth-tellers of our time share their voice. They definitely have no motivation to push a certain angle on a story if they thought it would draw more views and likes from incels and Trumpers who have latched onto this story when absolutely no one else cares. I've been saying for years that YouTube celebrity gossip channel hosts are the Walter Cronkites of our modern era. -
Holy shit I forgot about that abomination of a movie. Go Disney!
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That really is incredible. Some days, you just gotta stay in bed and deal with the consequences.
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Yep, this is where they landed. It's a shame they didn't go "all in" (admin and board's phrase) on these schools before now. You know better than I how they've been kicking this can down the road for many years. I am sincerely hoping for the best, but I don't see how they will improve these schools in one year when all of the district's resources and energy have been spent on these same campuses already, including insane amounts of funding for special programs, specially trained staff, etc. to the detriment of students at other schools in the district. Despite what some outside community organizer agitators, with no personal stake in this situation, have been spewing online and in their podcasts, these underperforming schools have had much higher budgets, better facilities, teachers with higher qualifications, etc., than the so-called "privileged" schools in the district. This move seems like magical thinking more than anything, especially when these campuses have already been on a specialized turnaround plan for a couple of years that has been failing. I'm still operating under the assumption that TEA will be rolling in after next school year. I hope I'm wrong, but I'll be ready to pull my kids out when the stormtroopers show up in 2026. For now, I'm selfishly thankful that my kids' last year of middle school won't be ruined by the cockeyed plan that sawed off little superintendent tried to push through with his blatant lies. He needs to be shown the door after next year, no matter what happens.
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Gotta love this place. Because this particular camp endangered wildlife (allegedly), it was a top priority to go. Camps endangering other humans? Fuck 'em. At least we now understand the playbook. I'll be bringing up the golden cheeked warbler in an attempt to get the assholes in the woods near us evicted before they start a southern CA style wildfire in our neighborhood. If it stopped development in our area it can sure as shit be used to justify getting the useless junkie trash out of the woods.
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I don't think there is any risk of that, at least not in our lifetimes.
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Honda has been offering the DCT since 2010 or so on a few models. I wish other manufacturers would do likewise. It would open up riding to many more people, which is a good thing for all of us. Triumph kicked ass in 2024 by offering up small displacement bikes and making things easier and more affordable for new riders. I hope they realize they can double down on that success by coming up with an automatic platform of their own. BMW has its ASA options on bikes such as their new 1300 GS, and Yamaha is coming out with its Y-AMT system this year. Harley decided to ride the nostalgia train almost into the ground, but who knows? With what's going on now with their CEO getting the boot and their sales in the toilet, they may decide to finally start offering bikes other than oversized and overpriced machines with dated tech. Their demographic is aging out of riding by the second, and they forgot to build interest among the younger generations. My wife has a 300cc Vespa GTS that she loves riding, and though it can go 90 on the highway if need be and easily keep up with my 1200cc Bonnie, she wants something that won't get blown around so much at higher speeds, especially when the wind is blowing. Using a clutch has held her back from trying a lot of bikes, but I'm going to get her on a few of the Honda DCT models to see if one will work for her. I suspect the Rebel 1100 will win out, given the lower seat height, but I'm secretly hoping she goes for the Africa Twin so I can ride it some too. Of course lots of bikes come with quick shifters and auto blippers these days, but that's not quite the same for someone who is either afraid of a clutch or can't use one due to physical limitations.
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H-E-B employees petition to ban non service animals in store
Samson's Wig replied to Derka's topic in Daily Texan
Oh yeah. We have an old timer in our neighborhood who will hire a sheriff's deputy to come issue tickets from time to time. It cracks my ass up every time our block text thread blows up form incredulous women complaining about getting speeding tickets. It happens every few months like clockwork, and not once has one of them ever expressed that maybe they should just slow their asses down. It's always a bitch fest about how unfair it is that they were targeted. -
H-E-B employees petition to ban non service animals in store
Samson's Wig replied to Derka's topic in Daily Texan
Oh it was satire. -
H-E-B employees petition to ban non service animals in store
Samson's Wig replied to Derka's topic in Daily Texan
This is anecdotal, but that video tracks with who I see not picking up their dogs' shit in my neighborhood. Older women. It's a really strange form of entitlement, but they have so few entitlements I don't want to judge too harshly. Nah, nevermind, fuck those old ladies. Pick up after your animals or learn to live alone with your thoughts. -
I like the new Trident 660 a lot. Saw it the first time at the big Triumph event a few months back, where they unveiled the 2025 lineup. If you're in Austin, AF1 has been such a massive improvement over the last shitty dealership that had Triumphs (and had them taken away by the manufacturer). If you change your mind and go the modern classic route, it's not too late for the Distinguished Gentleman's ride this year.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Samson's Wig replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
A hearse for space robots from 1960s television. -
Ah, Seagraves. I dated a gal from there for a stretch. She moved to Sundown, and for some reason, that ended things. She probably found a better-looking fella with a nice truck or something. My dad's family moved from the Goldthwaite area to Brownfield when my grandma was pregnant with him, and the poor guy was born in Hobbs, NM, when they went there for a visit for some unknown reason. Mom's side is cotton farmers from the south end of Wolfforth. Both folks went to Tech, and I did as well for undergrad. Still tons of family growing cotton and raising cattle scattered amongst the communities in that triangle of Lubbock, Big Spring, and Midland/Odessa.
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It was indeed Cooper, back when it was a backwater. It's incredible how much has changed. My mom taught at Andrews for a few years, driving down from Lubbock every day. That would have been the early seventies if my memory is sound. She ended up at Lubbock-Cooper, so I did too.
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It sucks, and the only way it will change is the same way it changed back in the '90s. SCOTUS will have to force the state's hand. There is a zero percent chance the fundagelical voter base in the suburbs will tolerate their politicians taking a single thing away from them, as they are content letting inner city kids wallow in rat infested schools getting a crappy education as somehow, in their minds, they deserve it. The vast majority have no clue how their happy little suburban districts were built on the backs of Austin taxpayers and at the expense of inner city kids, and will argue over it even when presented with facts. As for the PB and West Texas in general, I went to a very poor rural school (no oil) that was in a district with places like Seminole (the heart of the current measles outbreak). They had their own indoor pool, a golf course, modern beautiful buildings, state of the art theater, etc. All paid for with oil and all in the middle nowhere. Any time we went there for athletic or academic competitions we always felt like the Clampetts visiting Beverly Hills. And it was always a long two hour busride back after getting our butts kicked in whatever competition we were there for. Thanks to recapture, my dinky little school has quadrupled in size and is now drowning in money. As we do with everything in this country, we overcorrected, and it's really difficult to find an equilibrium after that. We're just going to overcorrect again with vouchers, but I have to admit I'm intrigued to watch suburbanites finally wake up to what's going on in public education when their schools start losing tons of kids to all of the pop-up Jesus schools that are about to appear.
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True, but they're still handy on a motorcycle. Not for backing up, but for keeping an eye on the asshole in the cage coming up behind you at intersections while staring at their phone. I've managed to dodge an idiot teenager and an idiot soccer mom in a vehicle too big for her husband to handle, thanks to the rear camera I installed. They're also handy for providing evidence that the accident was, indeed, caused by the person on four wheels who wasn't paying attention and not the guy on two wheels who has to pay attention very closely if he doesn't want to die. They also provide blind spot detection, although I don't find that as useful as my neck still works. A few more years on me and that might become a feature I enjoy more. One huge negative of the EV market is how dangerous they are for motorcyclists and bicyclists. They encourage people to not to pay attention when driving (at least the idiots who believe their car is "self driving", which seems to be a ton of them). Clueless drivers is already a major problem thanks to smart phones, but EVs have added to the problem considerably. They weigh a metric shit-ton, so collisions are much worse compared to ICE vehicles of a similar class. The number one brand killer of motorcyclists is, you guessed it, Tesla. I'm not arguing against EVs, but this is a major negative that doesn't get discussed much as most people don't give two shits about motorcyclists (or bicyclists for that matter). I didn't see the weight numbers for the Slate, but for something that looks like a Lego toy it will weigh as much as a full size Chevy Silverado, if not more, but with better acceleration, handling, etc., that lead clueless drivers to drive them recklessly. All you have to do is watch the average Tesla driver try to navigate a moderately windy road (or even a straight one a lot of the time), to know they have very little control over their vehicle.
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There aren't many places (any?) in Austin where you can get to the airport in an Uber for ~$25. And that's before a tip. Factor in where people are more likely to live who travel for work, which is most often not anywhere near the airport, and you can easily double that number. For those early morning work flights, we typically use Blacklane or another private car service, as Uber/Lyft are unreliable in the early A.M.
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This type of forward thinking you two are bringing to the table is exactly what will never happen in a system controlled by people desperate to just hang onto their overpaid jobs long enough to land the next one. I love the ideas, though.
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Just wanted to add that the Mendez B you referenced was achieved after they were taken over by a charter school, the same one that could take over Dobie, Burnet, and Webb and turn them around, but instead AISD is going to force those kids to spend two ours a day on a bus and cram them into A/B schools, thereby bringing down the quality of education at those places. We're not racing to the bottom. We're there already. What we're experiencing now are the final swirls before this district is completely flushed.
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Obnviously, he was being facetious, but is that so different from the current setup where more than half of it is used to fund suburban districts' basic needs so they can afford 8M football stadiums, and thereby secure the republican votes in those communities, or even more on point for republican pork projects that have nothing to do with education at all?
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No hate coming from me about the vehicle, I think it's a cool idea. I just don't think it's a viable product in this market. I've driven similar vehicles in the past (small trucks), and I'm somewhat familiar with the market for small and midsize trucks, including those of the EV variety, as I currently drive one and pay attention to the market. The positive use case for this type of vehicle serves a very narrow demographic, and that demographic has other factors, such as access to parking and charging, that make it even less plausible for this vehicle to sell well in the United States. Range phobia has held back EV sales in all categories for years, but a basic truck with no paint and no other amenities is going to crack that code? This looks more like a standard-issue private equity bullshit play than a viable product to me.
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A/C off, absolutely no passengers beyond the 150-pound manlet in the driver's seat, and absolutely zero cargo. Electric ranges are inflated by every manufacturer, just like mpg for ICE vehicles. This thing could work well for someone who doesn't venture beyond a ten to fifteen-mile radius of their house, which is a lot of urban dwellers. They still have to park it and charge it though, and that will eliminate a lot of that exact demographic.
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I like the concept, but a two-seater makes it extremely flawed and almost impossible to succeed. You're immediately eliminating most buyers. I'm the guy who dreams of ditching his smartphone the second he retires, and I'm not a fan of all the modern tech in most vehicles. I'm still struggling to believe this will sell well enough in the U.S. to make it worth the tax-funded squeeze. Even the old Pups, Luvs, etc., that this will be most similar to for older American consumers, had a radio in them and a paint job. They were also quite sturdy for what they were. This thing looks like it would fall apart if you loaded it up with fertilizer bags, not to mention your range would drop down to about twenty miles.
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