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Flight disrupting assholes Thread of Shame.
Samson's Wig replied to crash_davis's topic in Daily Texan
I'm glad to see a Yankee break the continuous string of Texans acting like assholes in this thread. It seems like flights in and out of DFW are involved in at least half of these incidents, with Atlanta coming in a close second. -
Want to charge your Tesla? That's a blasting!
Samson's Wig replied to DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt's topic in Daily Texan
I appreciate the sentiment. I've often thought about a scenario where we dump all religious people in Utah and build a wall around it. In this case, however, we're talking about two Tesla drivers. I love a story that completely undermines stereotypes, and this is one of them. If the headline said this was two guys in F250s fighting over a diesel pump, no one would even read it. When tech bros/yuppies start slinging lead, the issue may not be as black and white as we thought. It turns out pussies come in all the colors of the rainbow. -
Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Samson's Wig replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
FIFY These people won't leave just because Elon wants to be sued for brand disparagement. Almost anyone left there now is either an incel/bigot/asswipe or has a full-blown addiction to the tech, an addiction it was purposefully designed to create. They can't help themselves, and, like all addicts, they make up all kinds of excuses that sound good to their own ears as to why they're still hitting that sweet, sweet Twitter sauce. Just put the fucking thing down. It's nothing more than a platform built to collect your data so others can sell you shit you don't need - just like every other social media platform. But just like cigarettes and booze, it's not that easy. Apropos of nothing, I'm currently seeking investors for my new luxury tech addiction rehab centers. Along with the tech wellness centers, we're developing a new app that will help people who can't quit other apps get back to living in the sunshine, swimming in the sea, and drinking the wild air. So long as they log their activity twice an hour on our app, the rest of their time will be free to pursue all that life has to offer, with suggestions for products based on their interests and activities delivered directly to them through the app so they don't have to waste any time elsewhere. If they follow the program diligently, they'll never need to utilize any other app again! -
Using a leaf blower on your lawn? That’s a blasting!
Samson's Wig replied to TexEx15's topic in Daily Texan
I don't think I've seen a single homeowner in our neighborhood use a leafblower themselves. It's all hired crews. Some of these crews are so fucking efficient about it - in and out in twenty minutes, having done a fantastic job. What is there to get upset about? But then there are the other crews, who seem to have the older, i.e., loudest, leafblowers and mowers take two hours or more to knock out a single house. Are they billing suckers by the hour or something? Every Tuesday, the house behind us has a crew come to handle their yard work. They are there for three hours minimum every week, with one running a leaf blower for the vast majority of that time. How many fucking leaves can you accumulate every week over and over from March through December? I haven't had the heart to ask them, as I suspect they're being ripped off. Electric mowers are great if you have a small yard. We're on a quarter-acre lot, and I have to put in a fresh battery after mowing the front before I can cut the back. Not a major inconvenience for me, but I would need a third battery if we had any more yard. -
If you think about it, Jason Bourne made Treadstone.
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Cash App founder stabbed to death in San Francisco
Samson's Wig replied to ztejas's topic in Daily Texan
Sounds like an upstanding fella. -
Cash App founder stabbed to death in San Francisco
Samson's Wig replied to ztejas's topic in Daily Texan
I have laughed mightly while reading through this thread after a couple of weeks away. After I was blasted by a handful of meatheads for noting that statistics are not facts (because they're not and you have to be fairly dense to think they are) tons of examples of the selective use of statistics to manipulate a narrative were presented in this very thread. But stats are facts, bro! Anyone who thinks San Francisco is more dangerous than your typical blue-collar town is delusional or hasn't spent significant time in a large city in the last few decades. I think this largely comes from folks who live in the suburbs and are simply frightened by the sight of homeless people. Or perhaps they're just people who can be presented with a statistic, any statistic, and immediately believe the narrative attached to it. See the Tucker Carlson thread for more discussion of these types. There's an easy joke there when a former fire commissioner is now in the cannabis industry, but I'm too unfunny to land on it. If he's the one bear-spraying people, well, fuck him and he got what he was asking for. Finally, and to repurpose an old lawyer joke, what do you call 500 dead tech "founders" at the bottom of the ocean? A good start. -
How many Tucker acolytes know he's from San Francisco? I'll bet that nugget would make at least a few heads explode, especially since he styles himself like a douchebag teenage frat bro from Mississippi.
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Fuck this town. Damn.
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Things are not going to end well for gun shop employee
Samson's Wig replied to GoPokes83's topic in Daily Texan
I propose a two-step process for eliminating incidents like this. I'm well aware that neither step will ever happen. 1. Actually pursue and punish people for theft, using the laws we already have on the books, and throw the book at them. In places like Austin, thieves know not a damn thing will happen to them, which has opened things up to brazen behavior. While I'm not a big fan of the deterrence theory for criminal justice, it's the best we've got (reform sure as fuck didn't work when we tried it, although it wouldn't hurt to give it another go with the large number of assholes we lock up for theft in this scenario). While this won't deter the ever-referenced yet largely mythical starving and desperate man who needs to feed his family (who, in reality, has many avenues available for assistance and doesn't really exist in significant numbers - because a desperate man can always find menial work in this country if he's willing and able, and if he can't work there are hot meals, beds, and a roof for any who are willing to ask for and utilize them - and if he's not willing to either find work or ask for help to take care of his family, he's just in the piece-of-shit category with the rest of the low life thieves). However, it just might slow down the idiot pieces of shit who steal because they can't be bothered to do anything productive with their lives because stealing is too easy and carries low risk. When the cost/benefit analysis tips toward getting a job, that's what most of them will do. Hell, it just has to tip toward begging to make thieving a less appealing option. Right now that scale leans much too heavily toward criminal behavior in many areas. The risk is low, so why not? I'll never forget when we first moved to New Mexico years ago and there was a statewide discussion about why auto theft was so rampant. They just couldn't figure it out. It turned out auto theft was only a misdemeanor under state law. They finally made it a stacked felony (4th first time, 3rd degree second, etc.) and amazingly auto theft rates plummeted. Fucking idiots. They all but made auto theft a legitimate means of making a living for a long time. 2. Get rid of guns. All of them. Platters of cheese are to be made available to all gun owners to enjoy with their whine. -
I suspect that a lot of those Gen Z numbers fall in the "B" category as well, and most of them will go on to procreate the old-fashioned way regardless.
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I had to have a similar chat with my 11 yr old son.
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Let he who has not murdered a young lady cast the first stone
Samson's Wig replied to Goredho's topic in Daily Texan
There was a homeless fuckstick pulling this same shit on Anderson Ln near Mopac a year or so back. Took out quite a few windshields and sunroofs. He injured a few people, including a teenage girl, but no one was killed that I know of. And of course, there was TxTow. Reading the story above, my mind immediately assumes deadbeat teens, but the two local stories above were adults. Regardless of age, that kind of reckless disregard for human life should result in as strict a penalty as premeditated murder, IMO. EDIT TO ADD: I don't believe the cops ever did anything about the homeless asshole. Some citizens confronted him and he threatened them with a knife (or maybe it was a machete). APD! APD! APD! -
San Marcos to hire armed civilians for elementary schools
Samson's Wig replied to Beau Vine's topic in Daily Texan
I would pull my kids out of that shit, and if there are no other options, move. People have lost their fucking minds. What could go wrong with introducing a loaded weapon into an environment full of mentally underdeveloped maniacs pumped full of stupid hormones? -
Just got a new roof last week, so I hope you like hail, West Austin.
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His target audience is 12-year-olds for a reason. It should come as no shock in the wake of the culture we've been living in for a while now, that someone like Tate would realize that morons like Alex Jones, Joe Rogan, a politician who shall remain nameless on this forum, anti-vaxxers, and hell even the Kardashians built wealth by appealing to the absolute lowest common denominator among young males. The fact he blew up out of nowhere on TikTok certainly begs the question as to whether the Chinese promoted him purposefully (which would be brilliant on their part), but I suspect he just figured out the algorithm for attracting views from easily susceptible kids and adult morons and went to town. He's like the antichrist to Mr. Beast's Christ figure. (I know how ridiculous that sounds, but I'm leaving it because I think it works). TLDR - fuck that piece of shit and anyone like him who preys on kids to line their pockets. Hope he dies painfully and soon, preferably in a way that he finds completely humiliating.
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How did we not convince the Romanians to put this dude down while they had him in custody? These fucks are a more significant threat to society than just about anything I can think of, as they're grooming the next generation of incel pieces of shit. The most laughable part is guys like Tate seem actually to believe that they know what being a man means when it's blatantly obvious he's never met one, particularly a father figure.
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I'd be interested to see that list compared to a list of states based on poverty levels. I know Mississippi and New Mexico often duke it out for the poorest state, with Louisiana in the mix, and there's your top three on this list. I don't have a conclusion to draw from it, if there is indeed a correlation, but it jumped out at me.
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Cheerleaders in a parking lot? That’s a blasting.
Samson's Wig replied to CooterBrown's topic in Daily Texan
I don't see any reason, outside of misguided moral policing, that both questions can't be covered in a discussion about an incident that involves both questions. Questioning why children are participating in something that put them into a dangerous situation, a situation that anyone with common sense would have been concerned about as a parent, does not take away from the fact that this is entirely the shooter's fault or that he's clearly a piece of shit. Nor does it take away from the more significant issue of gun ownership and how fucking stupid it is in this country. Zero-sum thinking is ridiculous no matter which color t-shirt you're wearing, and (barely) nuanced discussion shouldn't be shouted down by a pack of well-intentioned folks who, rightly or wrongly, claim the moral high ground. EDIT TO ADD: I don't know anything about the poster who first brought this up. Perhaps there is history there (or from the political board) that has colored peoples responses that I'm just missing. I didn't pick up on victim blaming in his post, myself. -
Cash App founder stabbed to death in San Francisco
Samson's Wig replied to ztejas's topic in Daily Texan
lol, you read a lot into what I wrote that wasn't there. I didn't even mention homeless people, and I'm definitely not on whatever "team" you're talking about. Statistics are as capricious as feelings, if not more so. And no, modern tech of the silicon valley variety has not added significant value when totaled. It has added a lot of pointless nonsense and funneled much of our nation's treasure into the hands of vultures. And to make it worse, the financial nonsense involved in making shit businesses look valuable has bled over into legitimate industries in order to milk that sweet sweet cash. It will end in disaster. -
Cash App founder stabbed to death in San Francisco
Samson's Wig replied to ztejas's topic in Daily Texan
So the standard talking points are in place from the usual suspects in the press and local politics. It's always nice when the citizens of a city proclaim that they don't feel safe, and that crime is getting worse, and someone with their own agenda shouts back, "But the stats!". Don't worry. Austin is well on its way toward adopting all of San Francisco's terrible traits and none of its positive ones. Give it a bit more time. Just when things get their most ridiculous is when I predict the tech industry will pick up and move somewhere like Salt Lake City to continue its path of destruction. Then we'll be saddled with failed policies and no jobs. Awesome! Say what you will about the fossil fuel industry's actions over the years, dude, but at least they contributed something. Tech has wrought nothing of significant value, but it has made a handful of dweebs and a ton of soulless PE folks really really ridiculously wealthy. -
Here's what I don't understand: all these misinformed folks who moved to Texas over the last few years mistakenly thinking that taxes are low, and not realizing that low taxes here only apply to the very wealthy while the rest pay more than most states, are still here. Take the hint and GTFO, please. I want to stay home and have affordable housing for my children should they choose to stick around, thank you very much. Instead, the next generation will be getting the hell out of Texas (brain drain is already in full effect but it will get worse as affordability becomes even more of a joke). All I hear from the transplants are complaints in the form of "Texas needs an income tax!". Yeah, that'll solve the problem. Those property taxes would immediately plummet I'm sure.
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Equivocation, impotence, and appeasement? From a Frenchman? Say it ain't so!
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The Austin / Rainey St / Lake Serial Killer
Samson's Wig replied to tx 3 putt's topic in Daily Texan
I have a theory that the killer was actually working in Los Angeles and is the son or daughter of someone very important. Rather than arrest him, they just sent him to the facsimile of LA that is Rainey St, and he never realized the difference.
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