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Samson's Wig

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  1. Where are EV sales as a percentage of all personal vehicles sold in the US? Still around 3-4%? I'm in agreement, generally speaking, that EVs can make for better vehicles and that it's where we're headed eventually, but this just isn't anywhere near the radar of the vast majority of Americans at this time. Some of you guys are overly bullish. I think projections of 30% of sales by 2030 are overly optimistic. California has lost its mind with the regs they passed. It will cause much more harm than good, like most well-intentioned legislation. We've had twenty-five years since the hybrid version of the best-selling car of all time came out, and its sales have been . . . okay. We'll see how a similar EV does once one takes off, but trying to force the issue is never going to make it happen. Lots of emotion from all sides on this topic, which I find fascinating. I want a vehicle that does the functional things I need it to do while also looking good and bringing me joy to drive. I don't give a shit what's under the hood or what's powering it if it works as intended. I've only driven a Tesla as far as EVs go, and it was cheaply made and a bad driving experience. I would absolutely hate driving one daily. I know better options exist, but I'm not willing to overpay for the novelty alone like some early adopters. I respect that innovation can be a major source of joy for others, however. What I really dream of is a day where no one can fucking drive anything anymore. I would rather give up the privilege of driving than have to be on the road with the masses of distracted, entitled, no driving pieces of shit I encounter on a daily basis. Many of them are in EVs given the area I live in, but the shittiness knows no power source. It's as pervasive as herpes and bad taste in music. I miss living in a well-functioning big city with proper transit, but Austin will have to do for now I guess.
  2. Is it funny that the guy often compared to Winnie the Pooh walks as if he's stuck in a vat of honey? Good lord what a slow pace.
  3. My kids will be in that school in a couple of years. I'm not sure one of these fucks will have a functioning knee left if they're still pulling this shit at that time. A couple of dads and a couple of bats and those candy-ass pieces of shit will have to protest from wheelchairs next time. There's almost a zero percent chance that at least one of those pussies isn't carrying a firearm when they're out there spreading hate right next to a school, so wtf are the cops doing? Can you carry right next to a school now (I honestly have no idea)? Mostly I just hope those pathetic losers haven't procreated. Holy shit the world is nuts.
  4. 7 months in solitary? Is he talking about the pandemic or prison?
  5. Shit, you're right. I tried to delete my posts but it's too late. Mea culpa.
  6. Agreed. Although I would argue Trump and/or conspiracy theory thinking has simply replaced religious leaders and religion for a lot of these ignoramuses, and it's a lateral move at best. Jumping from one fantasy to another. What a way to live.
  7. They aren't doing shit without cash in the bank first. No self-respecting defense attorney would. This isn't a contingency "let's see how much we can squeeze the insurance co for" fee. The nutso part is that his mouthbreathing and largely poor support base is who is footing the bill.
  8. I'm glad they faked the entire thing so they didn't have to give this speech.
  9. Baptists, man. They're some of the nuttiest fuckers around, and that region of Texas is littered with them (that stretch from Stephenville to Waco may be the worst/most corrupt place in America. I won't even stop to take a piss in Waco. When a collective group of people can enable and cover up that much rape and child molestation (not to mention all of the other shenanigans) and have a majority of its members still pretend like it never happened and that the rest of the world is the fucked up place, you've got a cult that makes Koresh's tiny enclave look like child's play. Half of those fuckers are New Apostolic Reformation wack jobs and don't even realize it. And those TV home improvement twats are as bad as the rest of them. I know good people live in Waco. I don't know how they can stand it. I also know good people can be Baptists. I don't understand how they're so willfully blind.
  10. I don't care if Zuckernerd has been in training, or whatever. A fight between those two would just be a weak version of this:
  11. In our Austin neighborhood, it is. I can't speak to the insanity that is DFW. I can get over someone painting brick, especially if it's old and outdated. Painting natural limestone should be a crime.
  12. It fucking kills me how many transplants have moved into our neighborhood and turned their homes into some version of that look. There are a couple of assholes who painted their limestone exteriors white. That type of thing makes you too stupid to exist. New Yorkers, whaddayagunnado?
  13. This sounds aspirational (albeit misguided), but I don't see it as what is happening in practice. How do you explain the palaces some suburban kids enjoy, while Austin kids are lucky to have running water and air conditioning? Austin raises more revenue through taxation than any suburban school district could ever dream of. Don't say bond elections, as that's bullshit. Austin has those too, just to keep the lights on. Suburban school districts end up with a fuckton of revenue to take care of the basics so that they can afford to put bond initiatives before the public for things like football stadiums for 1/64 of the students to utilize. I'm just not buying that recapture only levels the playing field. It's clear on its face that this is not what is happening.
  14. My kids are at Lamar as well. Here's hoping for a better future at McCallum. It's a damn shame the way funding works has cut off AISD at its knees (and that the political children who run this state take joy in ensuring AISD, in particular, falls apart). Add weak leadership at AISD over the years (mainly in the form of well-intentioned do-gooders, who often cause more harm than good) and things compound into a complete mess. I suspect we'll see TEA take over the district before your son or my kids get to high school, and I don't know what to make of that other than Mike Morath would serve humanity better by picking up dog shit in public parks than running TEA. He makes Betsy Devoss look like a decent human being.
  15. I remember a classmate in Contracts 1 getting his asshole ripped wide open by the professor in front of the entire class for writing that on an exam.
  16. If we start taking down corrupt officials in small towns, where are the officials suspected of such activities in big towns supposed to disappear to? Let's think on this one before taking any serious action.
  17. Respectfully, read more closely. You weaken your arguments through poor comprehension. The failings of Christianity only sound like hyperbole to someone with their head in the sand, and that blindness is a cancer in this country. Less respectfully, go clean up your own house. It's where the bad shit is happening.
  18. Twas a joke. Cribbed from the late, great, Norm Macdonald. Of course the racism and child abuse are the worst part.
  19. Of course they don't read the Bible. Even Baptists, who pride themselves on Bible study, merely twist that shit into whatever they need it to be. This is nothing new, it's what Christianity has always been, whether it's priests, pastors, or assholes in the flock manipulating people through fear of the boogieman. However, the "no true Scotsman" bullshit that comes from many Christians (including many Southern Baptists) is almost as bad as the openly bigoted assholes in the club. It pisses me off more, in fact, as at least the bigots openly out themselves. And we all know hypocrisy is the worst part, not the racism and child abuse.
  20. This is at the heart of what is wrong with public discourse these days, and yes it's people of all stripes. It's manipulative nonsense and everyone, myself included, falls for it all the time. Fuck politics, religion, and designated hitters.
  21. It was on the top floor after leaving a shoe store. I don't want to write anything further in case any more comes of it. Thank you for the offer, but I can assure you he and his buddy remember the encounter well and will not likely ever forget it. The fucked up personality required to assault a kid is bad enough, but the stupidity to do it right in front of her father (who is not a marshmallow) is the part that has always stuck with me as the most insane. Dad strength is real. Don't fuck with it.
  22. I took my ten-year-old daughter to Barton Creek Square about six months ago for a pair of shoes. As we walked down one of the main pathways, a 20-something-year-old piece of shit walking with his buddy leans over and screams as loud as he can directly into my daughter's ear for no reason. A physical altercation ensued involving me and the two assholes. Security did eventually show up, but it was all over by that point. Malls are dead. Long live (outdoor) malls. I guess. Shit can happen anywhere, but that place is a dump and, like malls always have, attracts young people with nowhere else to go. And in any crowd of young people, you're going to find some troublemaking dipshits.
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