
Samson's Wig
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I see a ton of listings in the $1M - $1.5M range sitting on the market for months now in Austin. A lot of it is delusional sellers reaching retirement in older homes who missed their opportunity to sell during the pandemic and are still clinging to hope that they'll sell for a premium that doesn't exist anymore. Many of these properties are sub $1M in reality. Most buyers in that range will still be taking out a mortgage, and the prices aren't reflecting the reality of current interest rates. If you take all of those stupidly priced listings and bring them back to reality Austin might drop out of the top ten.
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Legacy admission into colleges and universities
Samson's Wig replied to Pancho's topic in Daily Texan
Texas public school admissions are fucked up, UT in particular. If you are good enough for engineering at GT, you're plenty good enough for UT. -
Legacy admission into colleges and universities
Samson's Wig replied to Pancho's topic in Daily Texan
There are all kinds of unqualified kids getting into most universities, for a variety of reasons. I don't think schools are doing anyone a favor by letting them in for legacy, affirmative action, economic, or any other reason beyond a demonstrated ability to thrive in an academic environment. When these types of factors are used as tie-breakers, it makes some sense, but if they become a deciding factor we've fucked up. Racking up student loan debt just to drop out because you weren't capable of succeeding in an academic environment isn't going to do you any favors or right any historical wrongs, even if it makes some of us feel better to attempt it. Graduation rates aren't pretty in general at around 65% for public and private non-profits, with private for-profit schools being at the bottom of the barrel at around 30%. Legacy students are an outlier in that they graduate at a higher rate than other students, but affirmative action students and socioeconomically disadvantaged students have a significantly lower graduation rate than other students. Simply granting a kid entry to the party isn't enough if they weren't prepared for the experience beforehand. Any programs like these should be combined with additional resources to help these kids overcome the deficit they're starting with. Or perhaps we should be doing a fuckton more to ensure kids are getting educated properly at the grade school level, as that's where the inequities truly lie and by the time college rolls around it's often much too late. Once vouchers get going at a significant rate, a bunch of white kids will be getting spoonfed Jesus bullshit all through grade school and their parents will have guaranteed they are disqualified from attending any school that isn't Oral Roberts or similar. That should open the floodgates of opportunity for others if our public schools don't completely collapse. -
Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Samson's Wig replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
You know, if someone came out with an affordable fuck robot, I bet we'd see a significant drop in mass shootings (and probably a significant drop in public sightings of aggies). Maybe we should let Elon explore this one. -
Legacy admission into colleges and universities
Samson's Wig replied to Pancho's topic in Daily Texan
But what if you were like super attractive, a varsity athlete, worked four jobs (AT THE SAME TIME!) and the most popular guy in school? Did any of that factor in? -
Little known fact: most divers are terrible swimmers. Have you noticed how quickly they skedaddle to the side of the pool after a dive? It's because they're scared shitless of drowning. It's kind of like track and field athletes who do shotput or discus. Ask them to run a lap and they'll laugh at you. I'll bet Louganis could out-dive any shark alive, though.
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I wish that short-term rentals were going away, but they're not. The two quickest solution to affordable housing in most cities would be to ban short-term rentals and ban entity ownership of residential properties. Alas, neither will ever happen in most places.
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Driving a BMW is already the equivalent of a giant flashing neon sign on your car stating "I'm an entitled piece of shit with no self-awareness!" (it's a big sign), but that paint job takes it to levels heretofore unseen.
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What an incredible amount of joy that man has spread in the world. He had one of those instantly likable personalities. Alzheimer's is a bitch, and you hate to see anyone having to deal with it, but when it's someone as lovable as Jack Hanna it hits even harder.
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Agree. Too much emphasis is placed on dating apps and just like social media apps, people dramatically overestimate their influence. Most people are still meeting the old-fashioned way (face-to-face, being introduced, etc.). For incels to essentially go postal because they don't have luck with a dating app is as stupid as people wringing their hands over Twitter's demise as if it is the downfall of modern society. This shit just isn't as important as people think it is.
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If you don't have a son between 11 and 18 Tate may not have popped up on your radar. His bullshit, like most asswipes like him, is easy to manage if you're paying attention to your son and discussing things like this with him in a constructive way (and more importantly modeling what a real man acts like). Unfortunately, there are too many absentee fathers, even ones who still live in the same house, which is why young boys turn to doofuses on the Internet for guidance. When the only countervailing point of view presented to them is that of a disinterested and dismissive father, Andrew Tate's bullshit starts to sound good.
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That's a fascinating list you put together, particularly the part where you didn't name a single living individual. You forgot to list Pol Pot, Vlad the Impaler, Ivan the Terrible, Robespierre, Attila the Hun, Hirohito, Caligula, Jim Jones, Osama bin Laden, Chairman Mao, Elizabeth Bathory, and let's throw in Judas Iscariot for good measure. That list can go on forever. While I agree that Tate was largely an Internet shyster before it became clear that he's a rapist and sex trafficker, he symbolizes and promotes an ideology that allows for the rise of "strongmen" type leaders (all of whom were/are really piss-their-pants little babies). To name some living assholes, people like Putin, Erdogan, Orban, or even our homegrown wanker who shall not be named, don't rise to power without a large number of supporters who buy into philosophies similar to Tate's. Tate is not just a misogynist (although that term feels too weak for what that piece of shit actually is); he's also a racist, so he and Bandera have that in common. Tate and West have a bit in common as well, as they both enjoyed manipulating people, including children, for their own gain. Tate fits in quite well with your list (his views on women also line up fairly well with fundamentalists among the Abrahamic religions, although they'll hedge and deny it), he just had less political power than some of them and was undoubtedly dumber than any of them by orders of magnitude, but given the breadth of social media and his access to children, one could argue he had an even wider influence than any of them. And in today's world (not the past where your list of villains arises), someone with a loud voice on the Internet, especially when it's one that kids' ears perk up for, can do more damage than any world leader. We now have a young generation of boys who actually think women secretly want to be raped and that the measure of a man is how many pushups he can do and what kind of car he drives. The next couple of decades are going to be a blast as these boys become young men. I suspect you're just being contrary, which is fine by me and part of the fun around here, but if Tate's message actually resonates with you, I hope you take some time to sit down and really think it through.
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It's almost as if Texas is large, and contains multitudes. At any given time there are going to be a few people doing the right thing, a few people doing the wrong thing, and most people doing what seems like the right thing at the time but turns out to be the wrong thing once younger, smarter, and more enlightened people come along to point it out. The best we can do is try not to take a small sample size of shit behavior and attribute it to everyone (GRhorn's bullshit post up-thread comes to mind), while also recognizing that we shouldnt' take a small sample size of good behavior and attribute it to everyone. There will always be work to do.
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People like Tate are the worst that humanity has to offer. A weak, candy assed piece of shit with daddy issues desperately trying to convince himself and everyone else that he's a real man. Here's hoping he's punished to the fullest extent of Romanian law, whatever that is, or even better that one of the fathers of these women get hold of him and do the world a favor.
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Trying to shift this problem into a classist argument is weak, IMO. The people who pay the most taxes, pay the largest bribes, or otherwise wield influence will get a little extra attention from the government when they ask for it. It works that way everywhere in the world, always has and always will. It doesn't matter if your society is capitalist, socialist, or fucking anarchist. Someone will have more things than other people, and with that comes the ability to buy influence. You may as well shout at the moon to fall out of the sky if you think this will ever change. We can't naively navigate our way out of this problem by complaining about rich people, even if it's the de facto argument to solve all problems lately. My solution? Hire the homeless to run Austin Energy, Austin Water, and even ABIA. It will provide steady income, airconditioned office space during the day, and they certainly can't do worse than the clowns that have been running things have done thus far. Why not give it a shot? If they do a good job we can elect them to city council and the mayor's office and really get things cooking around here.
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It's Reddit. Your life will be okay if it disappears completely tomorrow. Take a breath.
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Some people really don't like it when their free toy gets taken away.
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This city will bend over backward for anything that brings outside money in, even to the detriment of the city, and it has been decided that tourists are the answer to everything. I do not understand for one second why someone would come to Austin as a tourist. What the fuck do they do here that is so special and can't happen almost anywhere else? Coming here for a convention or other event, sure. But just to visit? I don't get it. As for convention activities, SXSW is a prime example of something that has grown too large for Austin to handle. It's a complete shit-show every year now, and by all rights should move to a city better equipped to handle that volume of tourists at one time. But fuck no, we're going to cram even more people in, despite having too few hotel rooms, too few rental cars, too few traffic lanes, and too few of absolutely everything except young Instagrammers spending daddy's money. They're never going to limit flights. You'll wait in line for four hours outside in the Texas heat, and you'll like it.
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There's only one reasonable answer to this question, and if it's the case it would get anyone else a swift(ish) death at the hands of the justice system. In this case, we all know something like that isn't going to happen, and sadly we can't completely disregard the possibility that he's just an idiot. But it's difficult to see anything here but traitorous behavior.
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Austin's complete inability to elect/hire competent people to run its major service sectors, e.g. water, gas, electric, airport, aside, one major issue hitting the airport is that air travel is too fucking cheap these days (and Austin has become a tourist hotspot for peasants young people). It was mentioned up thread, although I don't recall who wrote it, that this is what happens when bus people start flying. I don't know when the airlines will recognize what other industries have figured out in spades over the last few years - jack up your rates and make more money serving fewer people. Stop trying to cram bodies in seats with dirt-cheap fares and simply charge double (or more). I know it sounds elitist, but I don't care. Take the fucking bus like I and everyone else that couldn't afford to fly used to do. Flying should return to being a special event that most people can't afford to do too often.
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And tourists. All three groups shouldn't have a voice in how the city is operated — especially the cyclists.
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