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I'm concerned about AISD as well, and ready to move the second it happens. AISD is terribly managed, but the only entity that can do a worse job is the TEA.

I completely agree with your point, but . . . "your mom's panties"? Dude. Maybe it wouldn't hurt for you and KY to sit down and at least talk.

That, I hope, will be a much tougher hill to climb. VPNs serve many functions beyond accessing porn in theocracized states.

In my experience, if you dig deep enough into who is responsible for any fucked up interchange in Texas, you'll eventually find an aggie engineer.

The smart play is clearly to wait and follow them home.

Man, that encapsulates what is fucked up about this city so damn well.

I'm nowhere near cool enough to pull off a purple Rolls, but that is sweet. The Taycan may be more my speed.

I really like Ron. Here's hoping he continues moving up the political ladder in the state (or beyond). He's a good dude and was raised in Austin and educated by our very own AISD (try not to hold that against him, it was a heck of a school district back then).

It was a buddy's Model X that I drove. I've ridden in a Y and an S as a passenger. The X experience started with fifteen minutes of my friend trying to get the doors to work due to some kind of glitch. The single-pedal driving doesn't bother me, as that's just a matter of getting used to it. The acceleration is dangerously overpowered even if it's a lot of fun. I wouldn't put a teenager in one of these, and I think we're all fortunate that the typical buyer seems to be a cautious driver (anecdotal on my part - the Teslas I see cruising our area always seem to be driven like a Prius - almost too slowly and carefully). Once you're hauling ass, however, I found the handling to be choppy and the suspension was indeed very stiff (I believe he had air suspension but my memory could be off there). The overall sensation was that I was in a cheaply built plastic bucket that was going to fall apart around me. There was no sense of becoming one with the vehicle, which is crucial for a positive driving experience. To be fair, this sensation may come with more drive time. Driving experience aside, if I'm dropping over six figures on a vehicle, it better be meticulously finished out and have a genuine luxury feel to it. The Teslas I've been in felt more like driving a Kia (another brand whose appeal is a complete mystery to me). Also, as a non-tech enthusiast (although no Luddite), I just don't enjoy driving what feels like a car designed by and built for someone who spends hours per week sitting in a chair playing video games. The entire experience feels like using software in beta testing mode - it's cool, interesting, and innovative but doesn't seem finished. I do understand that appeals greatly to some and there's no judgment from me in that regard. It just isn't for me. I suspect the legacy automakers will end up designing something that's a better fit. I would love to drive an EV for a daily driver if the right one comes along.

Where are EV sales as a percentage of all personal vehicles sold in the US? Still around 3-4%? I'm in agreement, generally speaking, that EVs can make for better vehicles and that it's where we're headed eventually, but this just isn't anywhere near the radar of the vast majority of Americans at this time. Some of you guys are overly bullish. I think projections of 30% of sales by 2030 are overly optimistic. California has lost its mind with the regs they passed. It will cause much more harm than good, like most well-intentioned legislation. We've had twenty-five years since the hybrid version of the best-selling car of all time came out, and its sales have been . . . okay. We'll see how a similar EV does once one takes off, but trying to force the issue is never going to make it happen. Lots of emotion from all sides on this topic, which I find fascinating. I want a vehicle that does the functional things I need it to do while also looking good and bringing me joy to drive. I don't give a shit what's under the hood or what's powering it if it works as intended. I've only driven a Tesla as far as EVs go, and it was cheaply made and a bad driving experience. I would absolutely hate driving one daily. I know better options exist, but I'm not willing to overpay for the novelty alone like some early adopters. I respect that innovation can be a major source of joy for others, however. What I really dream of is a day where no one can fucking drive anything anymore. I would rather give up the privilege of driving than have to be on the road with the masses of distracted, entitled, no driving pieces of shit I encounter on a daily basis. Many of them are in EVs given the area I live in, but the shittiness knows no power source. It's as pervasive as herpes and bad taste in music. I miss living in a well-functioning big city with proper transit, but Austin will have to do for now I guess.

Is it funny that the guy often compared to Winnie the Pooh walks as if he's stuck in a vat of honey? Good lord what a slow pace.

My kids will be in that school in a couple of years. I'm not sure one of these fucks will have a functioning knee left if they're still pulling this shit at that time. A couple of dads and a couple of bats and those candy-ass pieces of shit will have to protest from wheelchairs next time. There's almost a zero percent chance that at least one of those pussies isn't carrying a firearm when they're out there spreading hate right next to a school, so wtf are the cops doing? Can you carry right next to a school now (I honestly have no idea)? Mostly I just hope those pathetic losers haven't procreated. Holy shit the world is nuts.

7 months in solitary? Is he talking about the pandemic or prison?

Shit, you're right. I tried to delete my posts but it's too late. Mea culpa.

Agreed. Although I would argue Trump and/or conspiracy theory thinking has simply replaced religious leaders and religion for a lot of these ignoramuses, and it's a lateral move at best. Jumping from one fantasy to another. What a way to live.

They aren't doing shit without cash in the bank first. No self-respecting defense attorney would. This isn't a contingency "let's see how much we can squeeze the insurance co for" fee. The nutso part is that his mouthbreathing and largely poor support base is who is footing the bill.

I'm glad they faked the entire thing so they didn't have to give this speech.

Baptists, man. They're some of the nuttiest fuckers around, and that region of Texas is littered with them (that stretch from Stephenville to Waco may be the worst/most corrupt place in America. I won't even stop to take a piss in Waco. When a collective group of people can enable and cover up that much rape and child molestation (not to mention all of the other shenanigans) and have a majority of its members still pretend like it never happened and that the rest of the world is the fucked up place, you've got a cult that makes Koresh's tiny enclave look like child's play. Half of those fuckers are New Apostolic Reformation wack jobs and don't even realize it. And those TV home improvement twats are as bad as the rest of them. I know good people live in Waco. I don't know how they can stand it. I also know good people can be Baptists. I don't understand how they're so willfully blind.

I don't care if Zuckernerd has been in training, or whatever. A fight between those two would just be a weak version of this:

In our Austin neighborhood, it is. I can't speak to the insanity that is DFW. I can get over someone painting brick, especially if it's old and outdated. Painting natural limestone should be a crime.

It fucking kills me how many transplants have moved into our neighborhood and turned their homes into some version of that look. There are a couple of assholes who painted their limestone exteriors white. That type of thing makes you too stupid to exist. New Yorkers, whaddayagunnado?

This sounds aspirational (albeit misguided), but I don't see it as what is happening in practice. How do you explain the palaces some suburban kids enjoy, while Austin kids are lucky to have running water and air conditioning? Austin raises more revenue through taxation than any suburban school district could ever dream of. Don't say bond elections, as that's bullshit. Austin has those too, just to keep the lights on. Suburban school districts end up with a fuckton of revenue to take care of the basics so that they can afford to put bond initiatives before the public for things like football stadiums for 1/64 of the students to utilize. I'm just not buying that recapture only levels the playing field. It's clear on its face that this is not what is happening.

My kids are at Lamar as well. Here's hoping for a better future at McCallum. It's a damn shame the way funding works has cut off AISD at its knees (and that the political children who run this state take joy in ensuring AISD, in particular, falls apart). Add weak leadership at AISD over the years (mainly in the form of well-intentioned do-gooders, who often cause more harm than good) and things compound into a complete mess. I suspect we'll see TEA take over the district before your son or my kids get to high school, and I don't know what to make of that other than Mike Morath would serve humanity better by picking up dog shit in public parks than running TEA. He makes Betsy Devoss look like a decent human being.

I remember a classmate in Contracts 1 getting his asshole ripped wide open by the professor in front of the entire class for writing that on an exam.