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Homes over 1M dollars in 100 most populous US metros
Samson's Wig replied to Im_smarter_then_you's topic in Daily Texan
You don't necessarily want to have it in America, either. -
Winter Weather 2025 - Arctic Blasts or Sweaty Ass?
Samson's Wig replied to NorthLoop's topic in Daily Texan
That's no doubt some of what I see around here. We have plenty of olds in our hood, although it's probably the younger families who moved here from big cities and never dealt with a yard before. -
Winter Weather 2025 - Arctic Blasts or Sweaty Ass?
Samson's Wig replied to NorthLoop's topic in Daily Texan
I let our St. Augustine go dormant every winter, as it's better for the grass, my pocketbook, and the water supply. But we have plenty of neighbors who water year-round, and their St. Augustine stays green year-round (this is in Austin). It's a choice, I guess, depending on the climate where you're at. -
I might quibble with the use of the word "men" there.
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The Blake Lively (Ryan Reynolds's wife) Controversy
Samson's Wig replied to chainsaw's topic in Daily Texan
This "reporter" may be the most obnoxious person involved in this story, partly because she's not involved at all but is working overtime to appear to be. She's also a bit of a dumbass, as she highlights at the very top of the video. Every actor with the slightest bit of juice (perceived or in reality) tries to gain some creative control over their projects or, at the least, to be credited for more than acting. This has gone on for ever and is not at all unique to Lively. It's often obnoxious behavior, especially when it is unearned, but it's not something every actor you love to watch hasn't also done. Much like the first video this reporter posted, it's a rather weak attempt at clickbait and has nothing to do with the ongoing dispute with Baldoni. She's getting what she wants out of it though, which is more attention for herself. -
For fuck's sake. How do a bunch of jags who constantly go on about groomers, traffickers, etc. support this guy? I know reason left the building a long time ago and I shouldn't be surprised, but damn. Mostly, I can't believe this Tate piece of shit isn't dead yet. He's bound to piss off the wrong brother/father/boyfriend at some point, and lose that tiny little pinhead of his in an "accident."
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I have not heard they are being targeted. Someone mentioned it upthread. Apologies for the derail. I agree with your sentiments as to how any downsizing should be handled. But we've sent in an unelected con artist with a penchant for the grift and little else due to a myopic intelligence and outsized level of self-importance to hack away with a dull chainsaw. This shit is not going to work out until some actual adults come in and clean up the mess at some point down the line. If the end result is a more efficient federal government, great, but the stated goal of DOGE and the actual actions are not exactly lining up. Self-service is taking place, but little else. I'm just hoping there is still something left to repair in the end, but I'm also fearing how much it's going to cost to fix all of the broken shit and what taxation over the next three decades is going to look like. I predict pain.
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We could roll back to the system before the TSA. It worked just as well. There was still security, it just wasn't such a clusterfuck. Test after test of the TSA shows they don't catch shit other than lots of people who forget to put medical devices, etc. in a separate compartment or take off their shoes or whatever new dumbass rule based on nothing they require. I've got TSA pre-check, Clear, and Global Entry so I don't typically have to deal with most of the bullshit other than the lines, but air travel still takes twice as long as it used to and for no reason whatsoever. If it made anyone safer, I'd support it, but I don't like having my time wasted on bad theater. One of my favorite bullshit rules is the liquids in small containers in a separate plastic bag. I've never done it. Not once since they implemented the policy 20+ years ago. I've never been asked a single thing. My wife gets harrassed every time she has a liquid in a container a tenth of an oz over the limit. she must look like trouble and I don't, I guess, but the point is it's all for show and does nothing. People can, and have, taken whatever the hell they want onto planes since TSA came along, up to and including firearms. Another favorite moment was when they wanted to physically search my seven-year-old daughter because they thought the bath bomb in her suitcase that her grandmother gave her for Christmas was an actual bomb (fucking geniuses). I told them the little pink suitcase was my bag, that it was my bathbomb, and they wouldn't be touching my daughter without trouble. They went along with it and searched me instead. They wanted to go to a private room, but I made them do it in front of everyone, so lots of folks got a nice view during the pants-dropping portion. It's all a joke. And I guess you were right earlier when you asked who touched me at the TSA, because I did get a nice "hey how are you" that day. There are good people who work for the TSA, of course. It's a job and I don't blame anyone for working a job. The system is stupid, pointless, and serves no one, however. I can' think of a bigger waste of taxpayer money.
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They serve no benefit whatsoever. They shouldn't be privatized. They shouldn't exist. I don't care where they find jobs. Fast food would be the most similar skillset match, although they would have to step it up to hang.
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Wait. Did I miss something? Are they going to get rid of the TSA? I've been waiting patiently for them to come to that conclusion, with it being the only truly worthless division of the federal government, and have been surprised it has flown under the radar while they attack departments that actually serve a purpose. I'm not a fan of what's been going on the last couple of weeks, but if the TSA disappears I might grumble just a tiny bit less.
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What the fuck is wrong with you, Houston? Non-CR thread
Samson's Wig replied to crash_davis's topic in Daily Texan
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Some of these folks will have a skillset that will be attractive in the private sector. Many won't. One of the major assets a government employee can carry with them to the private sector is internal knowledge of how the sausage is made, which can benefit a private sector company looking to work with a specific department/agency. If that department is now gutted and operates completely differently, or not at all, that aspect of their value has disappeared. I feel really badly for folks going through this, many of whom have dedicated their lives to a career in government. I have a number of buddies who are NLRB lawyers. Once the board shift is done, most expect to be out of a job. Some of them will land on their feet at private firms with a labor relations group, and there will undoubtedly be plenty of litigation in the coming years as the feds shift heavily to employer-friendly regulations. Still, many of them will be starting from scratch. Looking for a new legal job in a new practice area in your 50s is not a position I envy.
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What the fuck is wrong with you, Houston? Non-CR thread
Samson's Wig replied to crash_davis's topic in Daily Texan
Motion denied. Every major city has its embarrassing burbs full of mouth-breathing morons. That particular one is full of aggies. Sorry, but they're Houston's and no one else's. -
Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Samson's Wig replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
Absolutely. Not to mention that critical thinking skills, especially those of the nonlinear kind, are not developed through STEM. That comes from liberal arts. Kids are getting little history, little civics, and almost no critical thinking development. They're getting heaps of STEM thrown at them to the detriment of all else, and they're still not doing well collectively in STEM. This country has never seen a problem it couldn't severely overcorrect for. It's who we are. STEM scores are looking bad relative to other countries? Let's throw out and demonize everything else and only focus on that! Girls are struggling in schools? Let's make them inhospitable to boys! We, as a nation, are incapable of nuance or balance. We're exactly what our stereotype says we are: fat, loud, and dense. One great result of all of this is we've got a couple of generations, so far, whose leaders are those handful of linear-thinking STEM kids who rose to the top. They can't communicate, can't think outside of a straight line, and unironically mistake "disruption" for creative thinking. These are the folks venerated by youth in this country, and it's because we made them this way. -
The last thing Trump expected when he started fucking with Mexico was that he would end up having to negotiate with a Jewish president.
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I'm fairly sure my wife and kids are real, but I can't wholly discount the possibility of some sort of dissociative fugue state.
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Just getting caught up on this thread. For context, I'm married to a Canadian, have lived in Canada, have half-Canadian children, never miss a single Maple Leafs game all season long lest I run afoul of my wife (but also really enjoy it in spite of myself), and hang out with a number of Canadian celebrities regularly thanks to my work and marrying into a well known Canadian family (it's a bit like rubbing elbows with a mattress salesman who is known locally in the metroplex for their commercials on the CW, if that mattress salesman also had some Emmys and Grammys to go along with their Geminis and JUNOs). Holy shit, man. Everyone, at one point or another, talks out of their ass about topics they don't know much about. I know I do. But you, sir, are the Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, Yogi Berra, Derek Jeter, AROD, and Thurman Munson (combined) of Dunning-Krugering. Congratulations.
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My Canadian FIL complains about this just about every time we talk, ane yet he thinks it's weird that anyone cares about college football or basketball in the U.S.
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They make for an excellent source of graft if set up properly, i.e. without what most would consider appropriate transparency.
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They sure bury the lede in that segment, don't they?
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And yet, no question marks to be found.
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Bucee's Sues Super Fuels For Logo Trademark Infringement
Samson's Wig replied to TwiceHorn's topic in Daily Texan
Solid advice. Thank you, and I'll report back in October after the next trip. -
Bucee's Sues Super Fuels For Logo Trademark Infringement
Samson's Wig replied to TwiceHorn's topic in Daily Texan
Those of you mentioning how quickly you can get in and out of a Buc-ees, I wonder if it depends on which one you're at. I refuse to stop* at the fucking place for several reasons, but the main one is that I always have to wait in line for a gas pump, then wait in line to take a piss, then wait in line to buy the kids some shitty processed snack food. It takes for-fucking-ever. That defeats the entire point of a highway pit stop. I also find it to be the most depressing place I've ever been outside of touring concentration camps. Loving Buc-ee's is no different than loving Wal-Mart, and you don't see many folks stanning for that shithole. The customer bases look eerily similar, though. The more pumps/bathrooms/square footage one of those hellholes has, the longer it takes to get in and out. It almost makes me believe the bullshit studies that show if you build more roads you just make traffic worse. Almost. * I actually do stop at a Buc-ee's once per year on an annual fishing trip, as I get outvoted by my idiot friends. One is an aggie, and he has infected the other two with stupid. Every damn year we're stuck in that god-forsaken hell hole for twice as long or more than it would take to stop at literally any other gas station to fill up and take a piss. They know I hate it and take much glee from my curmedgeonly attitude while I stand outside and wait on them to fill up on shitty aggie snacks and cheap trinkets for their kids. I never miss smoking more than those days. -
The Blake Lively (Ryan Reynolds's wife) Controversy
Samson's Wig replied to chainsaw's topic in Daily Texan
I'm sorry you had to go through that. I have a sister who fits the same mold and has ruined my parents' lives. I managed to get away from it and know exactly what you mean about the fog lifting, but they're stuck until the end, it seems. It's ugly and painful. I think what others have been pointing out is that it's been obvious that you went through something like that based on your response to this story, and based on some of the other posts in this thread, I don't think you're alone. Relying on anything released by PR firms or attorneys is never a way to find the truth of any situation. Any of that nonsense is designed to manipulate, including and especially the court filings. No objective truth exists in these situations, not even for the two main players involved, at least no truth that can possibly be determined. If it upsets you, as it seems to have done, I recommend you walk away and avoid any press about this until it blows over. It's not worth dredging up your own shit over what a couple of inconsequential people you don't know are feuding over. -
The people upstream must get at least a little chuckle watching the hoity toits downtown have to deal with even a little bit of a drop in the water level. Do Lake Austin next!
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