Samson's Wig

I've had the good fortune (or is it misfortune?) of being friends with many doctors, most of them surgeons. This story doesn't surprise me in the least.

Thanks, Brisket. Done and done.

You fuckers with no satellite clearly do not have Spectrum for an internet provider (sadly, the only real option where we're at). I'm not trusting gameday to an internet service that goes out five times a day. DTV's platform for watching sports is also much better than any streaming service, very much including YouTubeTV. I enjoy recording NFL games and speed watching them. DTV's remotes even have a button for skipping ahead 25 seconds, which is perfect to hit between plays. You can watch an entire game in less than an hour. You can't do that with streaming as you can't see the footage when fast forwarding or reversing, and those functions are clunky at best on streaming platforms. The experience is oddly more like it was in the old days, where you will watch the entire game, including commercials, and you'll fucking ike it or else. DirectTV has sucked in many ways since the worst corporation in the history of the United States (AT&T) bought them, but I completely understand why some hang on to it. We're a big hockey house (Canadian Wife) and the satellite Canadian broadcasts of every Maple Leafs game, complete with local ads, will keep that satellite on our roof until it doesn't work anymore. Now paying $340 per month, even for fifteen televisions or whatever it was, I can't wrap my head around. That's just not even bothering to have a conversation with them.

So it's become all too obvious that Tesla drivers are the absolute worst drivers on the road. My question is this: Is it because the type of people who are interested in driving these vehicles are inherently shitty drivers, or is there something about the vehicles themselves that turn otherwise standard issue mediocre drivers into awful ones? There's also the element of dumbasses thinking Teslas are somehow safer than other cars and are buying them for their teenage daughters (damn if there isn't a teen girl driving a Tesal across two lanes on 2222 every fucking time I drive down it now), but the shitty driving predated this slew of teenagers in mom or dad's used Tesla.

It's a smart move, even if there are short term pains. I've wondered for years why Texas Tech and TTUHSC don't merge. They would almost instantly become eligible for AAU status, along with other tier 1 research rankings. My understanding is that the pushback from administrators who aren't interested in losing their jobs and/or titles with a merger is the biggest stumbling block to moves like this.

While one could certainly debate whether Katz's represents old Austin (I think it qualifies well enough, personally), calling it a Houston chain is a bit silly. It was in Austin first by quite a long stretch (I think they opened in Austin in '78 or '79). They weren't in Houston until the very late 90s. Maybe you were being facetious, and I didn't pick up on it.

Clinging to that thoroughly debunked belief is a bright flashing neon sign that reads, "MORON." We're around parents of autistic kids a lot, having one of our own, and I've gotten to the point when someone (it's most often a mom, FWIW) brings up vaccines, I immediately say something akin to, "Well, fortunately only a complete idiot would believe something that stupid, so at least you and I don't have anything to worry about." That phrase has prevented me from having to listen to untold hours of nonsense. It did backfire once and I had to calm down an angry husband.

Only someone without a mother would ask this question.

So TEA gave themselves a letter grade bump? Seems legit.

I know that nothing will change regarding this utterly corrupt town run by a gang of grinning criminals, but I'm still amazed that the line just never seems to get crossed for most Austinites. Is it just the largely transient young voters who keep the grift running for these con artist motherfuckers, or are there truly invested residents who keep voting for them? At some point, even the most dye-in-the-wool progressive has to look at how we're being taxed and what we get in return for it and at least think, "Hey, wait a minute!" We pay an insane premium to live somewhere not controlled by Bible thumpers, and most days, I think it's worth the pinch. I wouldn't mind something more in return for getting openly robbed at gunpoint every year, though.

Which will most efficiently turn you into a drooling idiot with renal failure and a dysfunctional libido? 1. Eating lead paint chips 2. Listening to sports radio

We used to have some neighborhood boys doing the same thing, for the same reason. It's not that difficult to put the fear of god into them if you don't give a shit what their parents might say to you. Most young boys these days act the way they do because they've never been afraid of anything before. That makes them foolish, as the world is full of things that can hurt you if you're an idiot. I don't know why we stopped raising boys to understand this, but we did. I may not be the most popular guy in my neighborhood, but the teen boys stay clear of my place now, as do the cyclists.

That was my first thought watching it. There was a 100% chance those boys did something to piss the guy off. I love that their moms and other moms who watch the news actually believed the kidnapping bullshit. Groups of roaming preteen boys are some of the most obnoxious humans on earth, following close on the heels of roaming groups of teenage boys.

Shirley this is a joke and not real. Nevermind, I just remembered every dumbass high school football coach I've ever met. These are the guys we choose to overpay while we let real teachers struggle to make ends meet. SMDH

I often wonder the same thing. It's not my neighborhood, but nearby and I pass through it frequently and see all the complaints online. I'm shocked he hasn't had his ass kicked by an angry father based on the videos posted, although the dude screams micropenis with a handgun energy, so that may be working to keep people away from him. He'll end up injuring a kid or yelling at the wrong guy's wife eventually and get what's coming.

That has been done numerous times. He's been confronted by neighbors, confronted by cops, yelled at, spoken to calmly, you name it. Pics and video of him and his truck driving like a madman are posted up on social media at least once a week or so. He's impervious to Karens or anything else. Part of me would respect the obstinance if he wasn't such an asshole and endangering people's lives for no reason.

I know who you're talking about. That guy is a fucking menace indeed. The cops have talked to him multiple times, but nothing happens because, apparently, a middle-aged white guy can do whatever the fuck he wants. I wish I knew how to take better advantage of that reality myself, but other than talking shit on this site I'm generally working hard to stay within the bounds of civil society.

I'm a fan of traffic circles in general, but that's up there with the one at Lakewood Dr and Driftwood Dr. It's too small to work effectively and absolutely makes the bad drivers (which are the majority) think that if they're going "straight" through they have the right of way. Some of the latest moves to make our roads safer have done nothing but create larger, dumber problems. What they're doing to Far West by Doss and Murchison should be criminal after they already fucked up North Hills. All for some goofy ass political dream. As for the accident at hand, it sucks. People haul ass through our neighborhood all the time as well, despite there always being tons of kids and adults out walking and cycling. We have a wide main thoroughfare with a speed limit of 30 mph. I don't get through a single day without someone tailgating the shit out of me because they're mad I'm driving the speed limit. It's anecdotal, but it definitely seems like full-size pickups and Teslas are the worst driven vehicles on the road these days. Trucks have just grown too large for most folks to handle them, especially the type of bros who most commonly drive them as commuter vehicles so they can take them fishing or hunting once a year and confirm their manliness. Who knows, though? They may need to buy plywood someday. Maybe. As a lifelong truck driver myself I shake my head at the typical jackass in a truck who has no concept of how much longer it takes to stop one of those beasts compared to say a sedan or a small SUV. There should really be different (slower) speed limits for larger vehicles, even on neighborhood surface streets. Teslas have become the number one killer of people on two wheels, particularly motorcyclists. I don't know why that is, other than perhaps morons thinking the "autodrive" crap is any different than the lane sensor and cruise control on any other vehicle these days. Those Tesla cameras do a really poor job of recognizing pedestrians, but an even worse job of recognizing bicycles and motorcycles. It leads to tons of rear end accidents while enlightened assholes jerk off or whatever they do in those tin cans of death. They've also become extremely popular cars for parents to buy teenagers, which is dangerous but still better than the classic full size truck for teenage boys I guess.

Feed something shit, get even stinkier shit in return. AI in a nutshell. It all seems like just another scammy part of Web 3.0 to me. It's amazing how most societal leaps forward involving technological innovation have made life better for most humans, until we ran into the latest iteration (the computer age). I know the jury is still out, but I'm failing to see how any benefits outweigh the huge stonking negatives of the high-tech era we've been living through. Perhaps we'll find a way to regulate the nonsense, much like the industrial revolution required to fix the issues it caused with unsafe work environments, health and environmental hazards, etc., and the end result will end up positive. I have a hard time seeing it though. It's all just a fucking shell game, with the only winners being the douchebags with their hands on the cups (and those lucky enough to ride their coattails and get a payoff).

He may want to read up on how many lawyers have already lost their license due to relying on AI, because you know, AI just makes shit up from time to time. Most competent lawyers are avoiding it like the plague now. We tried implementing it in a handful of ways to cut down on doc prep and you end up spending more time than before running back through everything and correcting all of the errors. The things that are simply missed, rather than the glaring mistakes, are the biggest concern as they're harder to catch. We scrapped all of it, and rightfully so. AI is fun toy, and has some applications where it can be beneficial. Anything that involves precision shouldn't be anywhere near it. Mostly it's just a vehicle for violating IP rights, as well as privacy and publicity rights. So the Internet and children love it, naturally, but I'm still waiting for real world applications that actually amount to anything of substance. The one area you can maybe point to, the applications in the discovery of new antibiotics and other drugs leave me skeptical, frankly. Given how shitty it is at everything else, should we really be trusting what it outputs for pharmaceuticals?

No doubt Chinese tourists have been around a while now, just not as long as others. It's an interesting culture for Americans to get used to, as many things we deem rude here are not there. I have a master's from Peking University and have spent significant time in China. I think most of what we see as rude behavior stems directly from privation resulting from the revolution and communist aftermath. E.g., If waiting your turn means you and your family don't eat, lines cease to be relevant. There is also the element of new money involved, which tends to make folks unbearable no matter where they're from.

I wonder how much longer that will go on. The shell scheme they used to generate a middle class has to collapse eventually. However, I keep thinking the same thing about the tech industry, and it never happens. Ever onward, make-believe-bullshit economics!

Agreed. Big cameras and sharp elbows. Chinese tourists are right there with them; they haven't been on the scene for as long.