Samson's Wig

Something tells me no female has intervened in any capacity with this fella before.

We live in a very muckety-muck neighborhood ourselves. The only pit we've seen is the rescue that I mentioned earlier. A woman with kids going through a divorce picked it up at Austin Pets Alive. Maybe she thought it would keep her ex away? When I was a younger man living in a rough neighborhood, there seemed to be one or more pits in every other house. Doodles are fucking everywhere, though. There are so many I expect some kind of neurotic uprising to occur any day now.

Gotcha, and I agree with that. I wrote, "As a breed pits can be just fine . . ." I should have put the "can" in italics or simply worded it better. The intent was to convey that I understand there have been pits that never went bad, not to imply that if raised correctly they never go bad.

I enjoyed this quote: "While it is unclear why Europeans see Mississippians as screaming in a courtroom, it could be in part of the state's passion for debating." Sure. That's why they envision angry white people screaming in a courtroom. It's not the countless movies set in Mississippi courtrooms involving racially motivated crime. Nope, that couldn't be it. It's definitely the well-known Mississippian passion for debate.

I know it's not a popular opinion. I hate it for the dogs as it's ultimately a people problem, but sometimes it's appropriate to cull animal populations, especially when culling the human population is off the table.

NM - too late.

Shelters have no shame lying their asses off to people about the presumed breeds of their dogs. Austin Pets Alive is often sitting at 90%+ pit mixes, but it's rare to find even one listed that way. I love dogs, but I don't support our no-kill policy. It just floods neighborhoods with bad dogs. We have a neighbor who adopted a pit mix (she was told boxer I believe) who broke free from his leash and attacked our dog (on leash). They wouldn't get rid of it after that incident, even after the city came out for a hand slap. Then it attacked one of their kids. Gone now. As a breed pits can be just fine when raised from birth by responsible people. The sheer volume of pits in shelters who come from miserable backgrounds and irresponsible jackass humans is at the root of the problem, IMO. I'm not necessarily advocating for putting down every pit mix that lands in a shelter, but I'm open to that discussion. Perhaps not breed-specific rules, but a checklist of traits and history that fast-track certain dogs for termination would be the way to go.

San Antonio was already much faster on the draw in this regard.

They may as well ask the question the right way: "Do you want your kids to be molested by a religious leader while they're at school, or would you prefer we give parents the choice to have their kids molested by a religious leader at church on the weekends?" It's all about parents making the decisions for what's best for their kids, right?

If cedar season has been over for a while, wtf has my allergies blowing up for the last week?

What do his original intentions have to do with it? The saddest part of that origin story is that he came up with the idea because he couldn't afford his rent. Now he's made sure many more are in the same boat. As for the second item, it would probably be easier for you to catch everyone else up to speed on how anyone on the Tesla board is anything but a rubber stamp. But you can find one example of Gebbia being little more than a bro if you look at his direct tweets at Elon, including telling him that threatening to go private was a "baller move" instead of calling him out (or being able to recognize it) for what it really was. I'm sure he's a nice enough guy and fun guy to party with, which is probably how he ended up on Tesla's board in the first place, but like most of the tech bros that so many deluded goobs look up to these days, he's an empty suit that causes a great deal of harm without adding much of anything of value beyond funneling wealth into a smaller and smaller pool. That's not something I find commendable, personally.

And yet that man-child built his fortune by founding a company that has done more to make home ownership a pipe dream for most Americans than any other factor. Don't forget he's also an Elon bootlicker and on the Tesla board. Fuck Joe Gebbia.

I'm sure they'll get that knocked out and passed in no time.

Sorry if I missed someone already posting this. https://www.kut.org/2024-02-12/bozeman-montana-city-manager-austin-hiring-job

The world is full of insufferable cunts, but it doesn't matter much until they inherit a shitload of money. I assume PETA will take ownership of the real estate when she's gone?

I'll take the curbside shoppers over the old ladies at the grocery store any day. They both take up the entire aisle and couldn't less that anyone exists or is trying to shop, but only the old ladies look at you like you're a piece of shit when you politely ask to get by them.

Unless I glanced past it, the article is missing the obvious part of him laundering the money in Vegas, not actually wasting it in the casinos.

Were all his victims real estate developers? If so, this may be a Batman/vigilante justice type of thing that the feds should just mind their own fucking business about. It would also explain why his victims would readily believe they did something to piss someone off enough to put a hit on them.

Thank you for putting this more eloquently than I did. How anyone can remotely try to compare what Austin has going on to any of those places is ridiculous.

Not really making an argument so much as trying to understand what Austin is trying to accomplish with its complete lack of direction downtown. I don't hate condos, I owned and lived in them. I wouldn't buy one in Austin if they were giving them away. It is not a pleasant place to live for the demographic you just described. Downtown Austin is simply nowhere in the same stratosphere as any of those neighborhoods in terms of a functionally livable environment. I have actually lived in River North, the Financial District, and downtown Austin (albeit well before the boom). Austin doesn't just lag behind these other locations, it's not even reasonable to compare them. Pied-à-terres are not the issue, as we clearly have way more than anyone wants to inhabit. The issue is what surrounds them, and while not a complete dead zone it's damn close. I don't know who we're trying to attract to downtown, but it isn't exactly filled with DINKs, affluent singles, or downsizing empty nesters. There's a reason. And those neighborhoods you mention did not start to revitalize by building condos and nothing else. If I have a point at all, that's it. We're doing it backward and I'm trying to understand why. It's not working. My concern is I don't think we're moving forward. We have a bunch of dwellings with no one living in them full time, like a Chinese suburban development.

I agree with you, but that's a bit like bragging about being the fittest guy in the buffet line at the Golden Corral.