Everything posted by Samson's Wig
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What the fuck is wrong with you, Austin?
Oh shit. Just when you think the city can't get any fucking dumber.
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Pollen: Texas ongoing thread
Those numbers are not surprising. The last few days have been a fucking beatdown.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
If you have to go in, whether for a new license or because it's time to take a fresh photo, it's a gigantic pain in the ass. Scheduling an appointment can take months. Months. Renewing typically takes place online, and yes it's very easy - but that's not what was being discussed. I know this first hand from just this past fall. I never renewed my motorcycle license after leaving the state and moving back, but I wanted to start riding again, so I had to go in person to get the endorsement added, which is essentially the same process as getting a new license (even the same form). It's fucking insane. No appointments are available for months, no matter how far into rural Texas you are willing to drive. Not only is the process, including the document deliverable requirements, completely stupid, but the DMV is so short-staffed they can barely take care of anyone. Even with an appointment, you'll be there for a few hours, and once you finally sit your happy ass down with someone, you're getting about the same IQ of ~70 that we've always dealt with from DMV employees, only now they're also overworked and surly. All of this was for someone who already has a Texas driver's license and just needed to add the letter "M" to it so I can ride a bike. I can't imagine how much more difficult it is if you move from out of state or need a TX license for the first time. My wife had an easier time getting a TX driver's license as an immigrant, but that was over twenty years ago. The state government is blaming the pandemic for the shortfall in staff, which is about as laughable as it gets. The pandemic that was overblown by blue states? The pandemic that has been over for at least a couple of years at this point? That pandemic? You have to be pretty dense not to recognize what they're doing and why.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
a.k.a. the "big tech" era. The sooner VCs and tech bros become a thing of the past, the better for this nation and the world. We're funneling all the money and influence into the hands of folks with no discernable skillset beyond unsubtle grifting.
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Texas Basketball 2023-24
lol at PilotsError being a little bitch and negging posts from a week ago. Go root for Ole Miss, if you love that sawed-off rage monger so much. What's coming?
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NFL Fans going goon not going away
Skimming this thread just makes me all the more amazed that some folks think we're not already overpopulated.
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2023-2024 Winter Weather
Someone planted palm trees in DFW? How fucking stupid are they?
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What the fuck is wrong with you, Austin?
They convinced a bunch of moms to pay $10k or more over invoice for those tellurides, selling a mediocre tin can for the price of an entry-level luxury SUV. I'd be more impressed if I thought they didn't just do what has been done for decades and slip JD Power, Edmunds, et al. a ton of cash to rank them first in category. They are the pandemic success story.
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What the fuck is wrong with you, Austin?
It's sad that something like that isn't immediately recognizable as a joke.
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San Antonio woman cons $100,000,000 out of US Army
How much time do you think he actually spent there? I have to assume, with any of their coaches, it's as little as humanly possible.
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San Antonio woman cons $100,000,000 out of US Army
Dude, that's Owen Wilson.
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What the fuck is wrong with you, Austin?
This is the type of shit you get when your city government runs the airport, the water supply, the power supply . . . There is nothing like ensuring the basic needs for day-to-day existence are being managed by folks incapable of being hired for a real job.
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Explosion in Downtown Fort Worth
It's interesting how similar their posting styles are to one another, and they have similar usernames, presumably selected independently. Twins separated at birth?
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What the fuck is wrong with you, Austin?
They will start by banning Kias. The numbers will drop immediately. From there, they've got nothing.
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Reptile Rash Rides to Record, Raider Rash Recedes
https://www.insidermonkey.com/blog/10-colleges-with-the-highest-std-rates-in-america-579700/?singlepage=1 10 Colleges With The Highest STD Rates in America No Red Raiders to be found, but a certain Christian school in Texas with the initials TCU has found itself surprisingly at the top yet again, just not in football. Congrats, horny toads!
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Do You Know Anyone Personally Who Was Murdered or a Murderer?
NM I was late to the party.
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Everything is Shit: Tracking the Great Enshittening
I agree. I was employing a rhetorical technique, perhaps poorly. You left out the rest of my post, which made it clear I don't think that behavior is acceptable.
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What the fuck is wrong with you, Austin?
Yes, of course during the day, but there has been an increase of crime at night in that area. "Trending that direction," not "already a shit show."
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Everything is Shit: Tracking the Great Enshittening
Love all the bending over backwards to justify theft over the last couple of pages. I wouldn't have said anything about the $100 mistake either, but that's because I'm a flawed individual, and I don't really give a shit. Pretending like you're not a thief when you're blatantly a thief is ridiculous. Just own it. The extremely weak attempts at justifying the behavior (mostly not from the poster who committed the act) are ridiculous but entertaining to read. The enshittening isn't just happening to corporations and their products/services. It's happening to all of us. But one thing has remained constant through the history of mankind: we'll come up with any half-assed justification to get one over on others, whether it's the tribe in the next valley or the "evil" corporation down at the shopping center. It all boils down to some version of, "They do something that I consider bad, and therefore it doesn't matter if I treat them poorly." It's the same weird instinct that makes people more likely to break into vehicles that have messy interiors or to litter on a street that already has graffiti sprayed on the buildings. We justify our own bad actions by the bad actions of others. It's ethically bankrupt but hardwired into our subconscious. Torchy's is bad tourist food.
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Texas vs TTU- 7pm on ESPN2
One factor is that the panhandle simply has a much longer love affair with basketball than the rest of the state. Football is still first like the rest of Texas, but basketball has been serious business for a long time up there. I'm not talking Tech/Texas but rather what the average sports fan is interested in, starting from kids on up to the olds, and what sport is played more often by the kids. I think it's weather related. Real winters = basketball. As for showing up for road games in Austin lately, they were doing it decades ago as well. They quieted down for a stretch due to sucking so badly after Knight left and his kid took over, but they've been one of the better-traveling fanbases for basketball in Texas for a long time. These days, there are also a lot more Tech alum in Austin than there used to be, and they will show up for an easy local game. Historically they were mostly in DFW, with a decent chunk in Houston. They do in fact show up in Norman and Stillwater, as well as Waco (even moreso than in Austin at times). I agree I haven't noticed them in mass at either Kansas school, but they are both a longer drive. They'll be out in force for Houston games now, no doubt. As for the near constant apathy regarding Texas basketball over the years, idfk. We're a football school/fanbase. I guess it's as simple as that.
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Texas Basketball 2023-24
The craziest part to me is how many fans here want him back when you couldn't find a single Tech fan that would want him back under any conditions. We're rationalizing domestic violence and national embarrassment of the university when they won't even forgive him for simply leaving under cover of night for a rival. When your standards fall that far below the average tech fan, maybe step back and consider your life choices.
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Texas Tech player a bit rapey
The timeline on this one is one is weird. The Steffe son doesn't get any playing time and is told in no uncertain terms that he will redshirt and the program will help him find a transfer landing spot if he wants. The Bahamas tourney happens, and whatever goes down between Isaacs and his Steffe's sister happens, with the parents and the brother of this girl directly on site and involved in the partying. Both parties are of legal age so as long as it was consensual there is nothing to see here. Fast forward around six weeks, and Isaacs is bragging about whatever happened with the sister (likely giving the brother shit because he's a spoiled little bitch and asked for it, but still shitty behavior on Isaacs' part). Daddy gets pissed about all of it and wants his son to leave the program altogether, but attempts to shake down the program for $250k on the way out the door, and they tell him to get bent. Magically, a civil suit is conveniently filed by Dad one day before conference play begins, with no allegations coming directly from the young lady at all. The suit doesn't use the word rape a single time, and it absolutely would if that is what was being alleged. The suit's language is vague and contradicts itself, but this is likely because it is Daddy filing it, not the young lady. He's angry, or crazy, and doesn't have his story straight even to a point his attorney can draft something that makes sense. While all of this is going down, Dad is posting creepy social media pics and comments with and about his daughter, crossing even Trump/Ivanka levels of daddy/daughter creepy. Who the fuck knows? If the daughter comes forward and accuses the guy of something, I'd be inclined to believe her. Until that happens, this all smells like a douchebag (and severely creepy) father pissed off that his son had no playing time and that his princess hooked up with a college kid. Sleeping with your teammate's sister is a shitty thing to do under any circumstances, even if said teammate is a douche and no one likes him. It still all adds up to sour grapes from a Baker Mayfield type of family looking for a payday. We're supposed to believe thing guy's story even though he waited months to do something about his daughter being assaulted, and never involved any authorities. What father would handle it this way if something really happened? The student section did what they should do, though, and gave Isaacs hell all game, but it didn't seem to bother him based on his performance. Some of the chants of "pedophile" were over the top, IMO, but I know most folks are just reading headlines and don't know any details. Ultimately, this will come down to whether or not Tech's Title IX office functions like it should or has taken on a Baylor style of coverup. They've been draconian in the past when players have been accused, and thus far, they say their investigation has not found anything on this player. Unless we see evidence that this office is acting like Baylor's coverup shop, and there is zero indication this is the case, I'll tend to believe them given the current information.
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COVID-19 vaccine discussion
I hear you. There are a million different ways to be thoughtless, and we're all guilty of some of them at one point or another. You would hope the last few years would have at least brought this particular type of thoughtlessness to the attention of everyone, but it instead caused some folks to double down. I'll never understand it.
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What the fuck is wrong with you, Austin?
I'm sure there is, but I don't know it.
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What the fuck is wrong with you, Austin?
Read the police reports. It's not anything like downtown, but trending that way. If they clean up downtown (I don't believe for a second this will ever actually happen) then I could see things moving up to the Domain. It's the natural life cycle of any bar/club district. Violent crime is on the uptick at the Domain, especially late at night.