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Samson's Wig

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  1. That has been done numerous times. He's been confronted by neighbors, confronted by cops, yelled at, spoken to calmly, you name it. Pics and video of him and his truck driving like a madman are posted up on social media at least once a week or so. He's impervious to Karens or anything else. Part of me would respect the obstinance if he wasn't such an asshole and endangering people's lives for no reason.
  2. I know who you're talking about. That guy is a fucking menace indeed. The cops have talked to him multiple times, but nothing happens because, apparently, a middle-aged white guy can do whatever the fuck he wants. I wish I knew how to take better advantage of that reality myself, but other than talking shit on this site I'm generally working hard to stay within the bounds of civil society.
  3. I'm a fan of traffic circles in general, but that's up there with the one at Lakewood Dr and Driftwood Dr. It's too small to work effectively and absolutely makes the bad drivers (which are the majority) think that if they're going "straight" through they have the right of way. Some of the latest moves to make our roads safer have done nothing but create larger, dumber problems. What they're doing to Far West by Doss and Murchison should be criminal after they already fucked up North Hills. All for some goofy ass political dream. As for the accident at hand, it sucks. People haul ass through our neighborhood all the time as well, despite there always being tons of kids and adults out walking and cycling. We have a wide main thoroughfare with a speed limit of 30 mph. I don't get through a single day without someone tailgating the shit out of me because they're mad I'm driving the speed limit. It's anecdotal, but it definitely seems like full-size pickups and Teslas are the worst driven vehicles on the road these days. Trucks have just grown too large for most folks to handle them, especially the type of bros who most commonly drive them as commuter vehicles so they can take them fishing or hunting once a year and confirm their manliness. Who knows, though? They may need to buy plywood someday. Maybe. As a lifelong truck driver myself I shake my head at the typical jackass in a truck who has no concept of how much longer it takes to stop one of those beasts compared to say a sedan or a small SUV. There should really be different (slower) speed limits for larger vehicles, even on neighborhood surface streets. Teslas have become the number one killer of people on two wheels, particularly motorcyclists. I don't know why that is, other than perhaps morons thinking the "autodrive" crap is any different than the lane sensor and cruise control on any other vehicle these days. Those Tesla cameras do a really poor job of recognizing pedestrians, but an even worse job of recognizing bicycles and motorcycles. It leads to tons of rear end accidents while enlightened assholes jerk off or whatever they do in those tin cans of death. They've also become extremely popular cars for parents to buy teenagers, which is dangerous but still better than the classic full size truck for teenage boys I guess.
  4. Feed something shit, get even stinkier shit in return. AI in a nutshell. It all seems like just another scammy part of Web 3.0 to me. It's amazing how most societal leaps forward involving technological innovation have made life better for most humans, until we ran into the latest iteration (the computer age). I know the jury is still out, but I'm failing to see how any benefits outweigh the huge stonking negatives of the high-tech era we've been living through. Perhaps we'll find a way to regulate the nonsense, much like the industrial revolution required to fix the issues it caused with unsafe work environments, health and environmental hazards, etc., and the end result will end up positive. I have a hard time seeing it though. It's all just a fucking shell game, with the only winners being the douchebags with their hands on the cups (and those lucky enough to ride their coattails and get a payoff).
  5. He may want to read up on how many lawyers have already lost their license due to relying on AI, because you know, AI just makes shit up from time to time. Most competent lawyers are avoiding it like the plague now. We tried implementing it in a handful of ways to cut down on doc prep and you end up spending more time than before running back through everything and correcting all of the errors. The things that are simply missed, rather than the glaring mistakes, are the biggest concern as they're harder to catch. We scrapped all of it, and rightfully so. AI is fun toy, and has some applications where it can be beneficial. Anything that involves precision shouldn't be anywhere near it. Mostly it's just a vehicle for violating IP rights, as well as privacy and publicity rights. So the Internet and children love it, naturally, but I'm still waiting for real world applications that actually amount to anything of substance. The one area you can maybe point to, the applications in the discovery of new antibiotics and other drugs leave me skeptical, frankly. Given how shitty it is at everything else, should we really be trusting what it outputs for pharmaceuticals?
  6. No doubt Chinese tourists have been around a while now, just not as long as others. It's an interesting culture for Americans to get used to, as many things we deem rude here are not there. I have a master's from Peking University and have spent significant time in China. I think most of what we see as rude behavior stems directly from privation resulting from the revolution and communist aftermath. E.g., If waiting your turn means you and your family don't eat, lines cease to be relevant. There is also the element of new money involved, which tends to make folks unbearable no matter where they're from.
  7. I wonder how much longer that will go on. The shell scheme they used to generate a middle class has to collapse eventually. However, I keep thinking the same thing about the tech industry, and it never happens. Ever onward, make-believe-bullshit economics!
  8. Agreed. Big cameras and sharp elbows. Chinese tourists are right there with them; they haven't been on the scene for as long.
  9. He's in San Antonio. The women there couldn't waddle across a parking lot to commit the act, much less run away after they did it.
  10. Strippers, unresolved childhood trauma, daddy issues. There must be a connection here somewhere.
  11. When is it as low as 71 at night? In January? We're dealing with a two-fold quandary here. The information was written by a Gen Z journalist, which means he was raised in the era of dubious educational theories about teaching literacy, resulting in a couple of generations of near-illiterate Americans, including those with a college education. It's also modern journalism and, therefore, slapdash by default. However, even if the article was fully researched, heavily vetted, and edited multiple times by someone taught how to read and write properly, he's still working from language drafted by our city employees and elected officials. When has a local ordinance ever been drafted clearly? I agree with requiring landlords to air-condition properties, though. Hopefully, once the lawyers get this sorted out, it will be good for the city.
  12. I saw a cybertruck drop off what looked like Torchy's Tacos at a neighbor's house the other day. I was flabbergasted on multiple levels.
  13. Ah, so this was your fault.
  14. I'm not sure they could, even if they tried.
  15. So you're saying it's the tech industry in a nutshell, eh?
  16. I missed this old-fashioned crafty Jews conspiracy remark upon first read of this page. Way to stick with the classics, arschloch.
  17. You just made me consider the notion that there are enough dumbasses in this country that Tate may well be president in another decade or two. I will now go drink and fill out some "just in case" immigration paperwork.
  18. Here's a picture of the fucker (can't get imgur to imbed): https://imgur.com/a/J4Q901U, If you haven't run into him yourself in the last couple of years, you don't spend much time downtown or have been very lucky. Some people just need to be removed from society, and I suspect an individual will eventually do just that with this guy since our justice system doesn't seem to have any means of willingness to incarcerate him or otherwise help him. That piece of shit has an Instagram account where he weaves flowers into his hair for photos and waxes poetic about peace, love, his choice to live a homeless lifestyle, and when he thinks he might go back to jail for a couple of days before being rereleased. Numerous people have been attacked by this asshole, most often with the heavy chain he brandishes, but he's still wandering about. Some see mental illness here and immediately give him a hall pass. I see a selfish asshole who abandoned his daughter so he can get drunk and fight people. Either way he shouldn't be on the streets.
  19. Why do you say commie? Are their suspicions about who started it floating?
  20. That's where I think you're wrong. We demonstrate over and over again in this state that the families in Chipmunk Estates don't matter at all. Neither do the families in the neighborhoods the Chipmunk kids will have to ride the bus to. The only families or family values that matter come from the burbs. The city is for suckers, clearly.
  21. Kind of. The Texas Supreme Court ruled that our method of financing schools created unconstitutional inequities, and the legislature responded with the Recapture bill.
  22. There is waste everywhere, to be sure, but AISD is spending less per kid than most school districts in the state, and in line with other city school district. Suburban schools spend significantly more (often without paying for it themselves). This type of simple thinking makes folks in districts with giant football stadiums think they paid for it themselves because there was a bond election for it, while completely disregarding the millions in recapture dollars that were received to pay for everything else. Austin residents paid $1.67 billion in taxes and $940 million in recapture (much of which went into the general fund to be passed out to cronies through contract work). It's robbery. I love that Spring Branch tried to put their foot down last year, even though they ultimately had to cave. I would love it if AISD school board told the state to fuck off and come and try to take our money. It would be symbolic, ultimately, but the know-nothing voters in this state need to be made more aware of what type of pure criminals they keep electing, who don't mind stealing from kids to line their own pockets. I suppose as long as it's those inner city kids many still won't care, but it's bound to wake some people up. Our school funding system has been hijacked by low rent criminals, and most Texans don't care. That's not the type of Texans I recall being brought up with.
  23. Gotta love the response of, "Just learn to live with it", to what amounts to direct theft from a school district whose residents pay significantly more than any other district in the state just to allow dipshits in the suburbs to have football palaces and robotic labs that no one uses. Kind of reminds one of Clayton William's "May as well lay back and enjoy it" line (which was amazingly repurposed by a dipshit candidate in Michigan in 2022). This all ultimately amounts to taxation without representation, and if the shoe were on the other foot the folks in the burbs would be marching on the capitol with guns. I don't want to see vouchers pass, but it will be fascinating to watch all the handwringing from the same crowd when their public schools get as shitty as city school districts are now. We just can't stop electing criminals in this state, and it baffles me when the default setting of most Texans, regardless of their politics, is to be hardworking and honest. It's been an amazing and scary con to watch play out since the nineties.
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