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Samson's Wig

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  1. Well, sure. But it's not anywhere near as hot and disgusting as Texas at the same time, so still an improvement.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. I am astounded how often I get hit on when I'm out with the kids sans wife. Some of the women are shameless in their approach.
  7. While the trial start date will almost certainly get pushed back, I'm still thinking about canceling that Miami trip we had planned in August.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. It's Reddit. Your life will be okay if it disappears completely tomorrow. Take a breath.
  14. Some people really don't like it when their free toy gets taken away.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. And tourists. All three groups shouldn't have a voice in how the city is operated — especially the cyclists.
  19. Austin is so desperate to be a real city, but continues time and time again to fall flat on its face. We're a homeless guy in an evening gown, stumbling around trying to get admitted to fancy restaurants for dinner. Only the places with drunk hostesses think we're cool and let us in. I know it won't happen, but I'd sure like to see this pandemic bump in population evaporate into thin air. Surely people who moved here in the last couple of years have to be asking themselves, "What the fuck have I done?". The airport is half the size it needs to be, the traffic is as bad as cities four times its size, and you can't even find a fucking primary care physician who can see you sooner than six months from now. Austin does not have the infrastructure, private industry, or anything else to satisfy a population half its size, despite the city drowning in tax dollars to play with. What a shit show.
  20. No embalming in Ecuador?
  21. I think some of you live under rocks. Plenty of ugly/dorky men (and ugly/dorky women) are out there getting fucked regularly. Need proof? Walk outside. Ugly/dorky people are everywhere. They didn't just spring up out of the soil. That 80/20 number from up thread is nonsense and something incels bring up to justify their bullshit. Women can be choosier on dating apps because better-looking men will throw a fuck at a dog on occasion. He isn't going to marry her, though, and we're talking about companionship here more than sex. When it comes to long-term coupling, people generally are in line with their partners in terms of attractiveness. Should some people recalibrate expectations? Perhaps, but not for the reasons mentioned above. We live in an era where the lowliest skanks and dumbest fools think they're deserving of luxury, success, and free love. Why? Because lowly skanks and dumbasses permeate pop culture. Looking at you, fat half-Armenian family with no discernable skillset beyond middling oral sex skills and a willingness to whore on camera. Looking at you, everyone who got famous on Youtube. If these people have money, active sex lives, and fame, why can't anyone? The problem isn't that subpar people expect too much. The problem is that subpar people have legitimately been handed the keys to the kingdom. If we celebrate mediocrity (or worse) as a culture, then perhaps these folks' expectations aren't so unreasonable. Why study hard, work hard, develop skills, etc., when so many people can fast-track to success without putting in any effort? This culture didn't appear overnight, and yes the parenting trends of the last few decades have played a major role in the entitlement of otherwise forgettable people, but I mostly blame Ryan Seacrest. This thread has a hilarious combo of borderline incel comments mixed in with white-knighting bullshit. I think it boils down to this. This isn't an issue of equity, or modern gender politics, or anything else. Men and women have been treating each other like shit for centuries, but in the end, almost everyone loves fucking and will find a way to get it done. If you can find someone you enjoy being around who also wants to fuck you, lock that shit down. Only ~30% of American adults are single (which is the real reason some single people struggle to meet someone), so this is a lot of words and a long thread to discuss a minority population, a significant chunk of which has no interest in sex and dating (and another significant chunk of which is not heterosexual and haven't been factored into this discuss at all that I've noticed). So really, we're talking about maybe 5-10% of the adult population that wants a partner but has had trouble finding one. I don't think this is really a problem at all, or worthy of dissection, but rather, like many hot-button topics these days, serves as a vehicle for people to drape their other issues upon.
  22. I'm mostly just pissed that I couldn't read some reviews of ceramic grill temp monitors on reddit yesterday. How dare they lock it down, I need my free advice!
  23. There is someone out there who is proud to be popular in every county in Oklahoma. That may be the craziest thing to come out of this darkest timeline we've been stuck in for the last seven years or so.
  24. Tons of them out there, of course. My earlier post was commenting on how there are fewer in a city like Austin, which skews young. Successful and attractive women of a certain age have trouble dating all over the world, apparently. Too many tiny-dicked Andew Tates running around out there I suppose, while the real men are largely married and settled. With the education gap skewing hard in the historically opposite direction, it will only get worse for these women - but much more enjoyable for a single and enterprising fellas who aren't wastoids.
  25. Someone in that position should consider moving to a town that actually has a sizeable population of people over 35. Austin might be the worst city in America if you're over thirty-five and single (assuming you're looking for a partner). If you just want to sleep around with younger women, Austin is not a shabby spot at all. This is a young city and the single olds here tend to be used up divorcees with limited options.
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