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7 minutes ago, TexasEd said:
He literally said that he was in Oakland, which is not Austin
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3 hours ago, Gatorubet said:
Update: I received an unexpected call from a Detective from Oakland. Someone had called in and reported my mugging and the black sedan. They must have given a partial license, because the detective said that their crime detection cameras and license plate scanner had found the car quickly. Using my credit card information from the gas station they found my address and phone number, and called me to ask if I was in Oakland on Monday around 11:30. When I confirmed I was mugged around then and my watch stolen, the detective was extremely happy. They weren’t sure if anything was taken, but the guy they arrested had just gotten out of jail for robbing people at gas stations. There was also a mini crime spree Saturday, Sunday and Monday, which they think mostly involved this guy at nearby gas stations. Because of the information I gave them (watch stolen) they were now formally charging him with a felony. I told the detective that I would be happy to fly to Oakland on my dime to testify, and to tell the Dipshit that at the pre-trial.
Given that I never made a police report, the fact Oakland detectives tracked me down and have arrested a likely suspect is pretty damn awesome. Remind me not to go crime-ing in Oakland.
oh. They got a subpoena for the car from the scan match - and found what looks to be some stolen stuff in it. If they find my watch, they will send it to me after the case is closed.
Tell me you weren't in Austin without telling me you weren't in Austin.
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lol. This is probably the worst thing that could have happened to Ken. Cornyn must be ecstatic.
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3 hours ago, Bevo said:
That sounds like a personal issue that you will have to reconcile within yourself. Plenty of scientists believed that a lab leak was possible. The issue was that the initial response from authorities was that it wasn't a lab leak. This moved the lab leak theory to the land of conspiracy. And some people have a natural tendency to dismiss any and all conspiracy theories. Now that it is proving true, the people who were involved in the coverup either knowingly or unknowingly now are not willing to speak up to admit their fault and their part in spreading the Chinese coverup theories.Once you agree with all that there is only one more leap that you will have to make for complete clarity.
I'm sorry, but I'm not following your line of thinking here at all, up to and including whatever leap you're talking about at the end. Perhaps I just need more coffee. I agree that authorities denying early and often that a lab leak was even a possibility fueled the conspiracy crowd. My comment that it's a shame that it was the anti-vax nutjob crowd that largely latched onto the lab leak notion, is not a personal issue in the slightest. It's just what happened. Like with every thing these days, the most radical among us (of whatever persuasion) latch on, make it political, and drive people into camps based on their teams, reality be damned. A lab leak was always the simplest explanation to this, and should have never been dismissed outright until proven not to be the case, but when the wingnuts were the ones screaming about it the loudest, it's going to make non-conspiracy driven people less likely to consider it. That's all I was getting at. If some dumbass who actually believes vaccines cause autism tells you that water is wet or the sky is blue, you might pause for a second and consider whether that's actually true. It doesn't make the dumbass wrong in that instance, it just muddies the water.
1 minute ago, Bevo said:
I think conspiracy theorists have always been around: Social media just gives them a louder voice and more visibility. It also gives them validation as like people flock to their site.But I always thought that conspiracy nuts were nuts on a single subject like aliens or moon travel. Is it really the same people who think microchips were in the Covid vaccine? Not that it would surprise me, but I guess I don’t even come across many kooks in my readings. Well, that is except for Surly kooks.
No doubt they've always been around and like every other marginal group, the Internet has allowed them to clump up, strengthen their resolve, and multiply like rats.
Yes, they're the same type of people, as it involves the same type of magical thinking. It's not really that different than religiosity. Some folks just can't stand it when there isn't a clear answer to a question, so when none are forthcoming they'll just make some shit up or believe some shit someone else made up to fill in the gaps. It's a comfort seeking activity for the highly sensitive. Even though it's easy to blame it on a lack of education or general dumbassery, I've known some highly intelligent and successful professionals who were also completely lost in conspiracy land. Perhaps higher intelligence just makes for more elaborate conspiracies, but ultimately it comes down to succor for folks who simplly cannot handle chaos, ambiguity, and open ended stories. Working hypothesis: If you're somone who enjoys puzzles but would lose your fucking mind if you work your way through a puzzle only to find you're missing a couple of pieces, to the point you then go grab some cardboard and some markers to make new pieces to fill in the gaps, you might be susceptible to conspiratorial nonsense and other magical thinking.
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Not what Dumbledore had in mind back in '67.
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What I've learned today is that next Wednesday, when I take an Uber from San Francisco to the Oakland Airport, I will by no means allow the driver to stop for gas.
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Glad this wasn't an uglier event, as it easily could have been.
The only people who care about the difference beteween a Citizen and an Omega are douchebags, so at least those kids have that going for them.
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23 minutes ago, Your Mom said:
She must have been part of the Mueller well-regulated militia.
They're armed and ready to ensure every neighborhood becomes a soulless clone of walkable, yet still unaffordable, communities across the country. With enough vigilance, we'll all be living in an undifferentiated hellscape of brightly painted cheap building materials stretching from one coast to the other. This nine-fingered hero is doing us all a service, really.
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3 hours ago, Texas Jeff said:
Evidently a woman accidentally shot herself in the hand yesterday in the produce section of the Mueller HEB. She allegedly had a gun in her purse and she reached in and whammo.
Out of all the HEBs in Texas, I would have never guessed that the Mueller location would see a self-shootout.It's the epicenter of where people who didn't grow up in Texas (and therefore are less likely to learn how to handle firearms growing up) live around these parts. Makes sense to me as a self-inflicted wound story. If she had shot someone else, then yeah, I would be surprised.
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22 hours ago, Blotto said:
In the time frame of humanity, Christians are like the people that moved to Austin in 2015 and love to tell you all about how the city is ruined today, and has been going down hill ever since Rainey Street got turned into highrises.
It's helpful when you hear a solid lament about Rainey Street changing. It reveals a great deal about the person.
I love this analogy.
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I can at least somewhat understand the appeal of Trump to certain people, even if it's lost on me. He says what they want to hear, has a certain kind of confidence, and has been a public figure for a long time, which carries weight for some people for whatever reason. In short, he's a populist. It doesn't do it for me, but I can understand it and the tactic has been used successfully throughout the history of democracies. What I will never understand is how these same folks are not concerned that someone like RFK Jr. has his hands in anything meaningful. That man couldn't find his way out of a wet paper bag if you gave him a knife. How is this shit even possible? Outside of the absolute dumbest motherfuckers alive, who listens to this man and thinks, "Yep, that's the guy for the job!" I just can't wrap my head around it.
Anyway, back on topic. Fuck AI, fuck tech bros, fuck private equity, and fuck anyone who profits from any of it. Go find work that actually means something before your humanity is completely lost. A fry cook adds more value to society for fucks sake.
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4 minutes ago, CTC2 said:
I saw some guy talking on TV about how there was a blue collar uprising that ushered in the Trump era. He then went on to say that because of AI, the next uprising will be white collar due to AI job displacement.
White collar uprisings, historically speaking, are what we more commonly refer to as actual revolutions. The idiots in charge, along with the tech bro asswipes, should be doing everything they can to steer away from that situation. It hasn't ended well for their kind in the past.
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12 hours ago, royiv said:
I have no idea how I would act if one of my family members was a victim, but I’d like to think that I would not want to be put through the trauma of a trial. I would like to think that I would find peace knowing that this guy will never spend another day of his life as a free man.
12 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:And, I think it's a tall order to resist the desire for vengeance, but I really think that trying to find some kind of solace or resolution to the death of a loved one though the "fate" or "disposition" of their murderer is probably a pretty futile endeavor. It might serve as a distraction for a few years, but when it's over and done, you're still left with it.
I agree with both of these statements, so I'm simply adding to this with no intention of being contrary.
Setting aside the ethics of the death penalty in general, the notion that it is what's best for the survivors/families has been largely debunked.
There's plenty of data out there that victims' loved ones, even those who support the death penalty and want it for the perpetrator, find no solace in it once it's done. Most of the time, it merely drags the case out for years, or even decades, delaying any closure and extending the grieving process for an insanely long time. I know I would likely want the death penalty were I ever in those shoes, and I completely understand the impulse. Still, I hope that I would be able to find a sliver of rationality about it in the moment and recognize that the death penalty is ultimately just further punishment for the surviving victims than it is anything else. The main reason we have the death penalty at all is to satisfy the vengeance lust of the community at large. We know it doesn't deter crime, it doesn't bring peace to the victims' families, and it doesn't serve the state's needs from a financial perspective or any other perspective. Setting aside any moral/ethical discussion, there aren't any rational arguments for the death penalty that hold water.
The nations in red on this map are the ones with an active death penalty. We can draw some pretty obvious conclusions from it in terms of what factors drive the desire for the death penalty, both from the perspective of the state and its citizens.
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3 hours ago, Ted Lange said:
This is sustainable so long as we allow grifters to dominate our economy. This is nothing new, as we've been gobbling up shitty tech for decades now with little to show for it outside of PE jags laughing all the way to the bank. Profitability? What does that have to do with anything anymore?
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5 hours ago, Blotto said:
The most amusing thing about this thread are all the comments singling out Mormonism as a cult, because somehow their version of their sky fairy is weirder than all the other sky fairies out there.
Evangelicals are every bit as weird as Mormons, but lack the introspection to see it. Indoctrination of the young works.
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1 hour ago, Blotto said:
New shit has come to light...
https://ksltv.com/local-news/jake-retzlaff-lawsuit/791607/
There is a fan conspiracy floating around the internet that the female was a Univ of Utah student and this was a setup to get him suspended. In other words, force him to claim the sex was consensual to get him suspended, and now drop the case. Sounds like bullshit, but that would be some next level skullduggery.
That's a lot of work to get rid of a mediocre QB at a football program that isn't exactly miles ahead of Utah. Not to mention, that even if BYU suddenly sucked this seaon Utah still has almost no chance of finishing in the top third (or even half) of their conference. Every fan base is delusional.
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On 6/20/2025 at 10:32 AM, Js1 said:
Because unless you lived under a rock from 2015-2021 and again in 2023-24, you knew you were going to be severely targeted by the incoming administration?
Other countries aren’t targeted tax paying permanent residents like the U.S. Gestapo
I understand what you're saying. My wife was here for decades as a permanent resident, but after the first Trump term ended, we quickly got her naturalized. While I'm relieved about it with everything going on now, I also wonder if we've just trapped her on a sinking ship.
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37 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:
The comments on that tweet were pretty stunning. Lots of anger from apparent Republicans, some even threatening not to vote for him next election, which of course they will regardless.
I don't want to create an account to read them. Are they threatening not to vote for Patrick or Abbott?
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34 minutes ago, F250 said:
I was an SBC kid during the rise of the Religious Right. I remember the reprogramming that took place regarding abortion as a newly categorized sin. I also remember the effort to get church members to join the Republican party. That stands out because I remember the really old Southern Baptists throwing a fit while expressing Civil War/Reconstruction grievances. There was also a lot of distrust of the political coalition because of the charismatics being heavily involved.
I've brought this up with people that are older than me who were there for the experience and they act like it never happened.
Shared history.
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12 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:
The Southern Baptists, the types that kicked Beth Moore to the curb, may not openly say it, but they don't care for the Catholics, and I'm not just mentioning the Catholic angle by the way, - I'm throwing in that the Muslims, Mormons, etc., are liable to get stuff put in the classrooms.
Southern Baptists, and evangelicals in general, hate Catholics so much that they were pro-choice up until the 90s or so, to make sure no one thought they were in alignment with the Catholics on any issue whatsoever. Most of the brainwashed cult members of today seem to be operating in ignorance of that reality. They are a political cult, not a religion.
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27 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:
Lol, no they aren't. It's like you have this fantasy world concocted in your head and no idea what is happening in reality.
We'll allow only one religion to proselytize in public schools, and there will be nothing anyone can do about it. That's the American way of doing things.
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I was just mugged
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Truth. Plus, they're a bunch of weirdos.