
Samson's Wig
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I hate to admit it, but I'm pretty sure I'm the one who says and does stupid shit in our house. Outside of the occasional car accident due to the inherent dangers of driving while female, my wife has her shit together way better than I do. I think it's because she didn't go to public school in America, and I did.
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20 hours ago, TKthunder2 said:
We spread out distribution to aggy and they fucked it up so much the state no longer lets them manage their own endowment. Why does this state need SEVEN 4 year university systems (UT, aggy, TT, UH, UNT, TX St, TWU)? It’s a shit ton of effort/energy duplication for no reason.
Arlington College, State School of Mining and Metallurgy, Edinburg College, Texas Southmost College, and Tyler State College we’re all self governing institutions before joining UT. Why do you think other institutions can’t do the same? In your post you talk about football, and that is likely the ONLY stupid fucking reason (athletic pride) that Tech and UH aren’t already UT schools sharing in the endowment and PUF.
The UC system is literally the best university system in the world, and UT is working towards the goal of bringing that same level of regional excellence to the state. Giving TT/UH and others funds that do not support that goal is counterintuitive to The System’s mission.
If you rolled Tech/UH into UT and it would pay dividends on top of dividends immediately. TTHSC-El Paso could work hand in hand with UTEP on research and community care, and Houston/UTHSC-Houston could do the same. Both schools would be able to work on a long term vision for research and regional growth. UT’s best and brightest in energy (O&G and clean) research could help put TT on the map and UH would host UT space/aerodynamics programs at their Clear Lake campus while working closely with NASA, or host UT’s marine biology research out of Port A. Traveling professors doing research or consulting could would be able to stay in system and teach in Lubbock/Houston and raise those school’s academic profiles with higher quality staff. Initiatives like Tech’s vet school would have UT’s full support and funding and they would be able to override the aggy veto with ease.
Their are many MANY reasons why this is a great idea and the only reason this hasn’t already happened is that PRIDE is fucking them up. The answer is amazingly simple for all but the simpleminded who accuse others of arrogance.
There's that arrogance I referenced. It's shortsighted and complete UT tunnel vision. I get it, but I don't agree with it. Perhaps I'm simpleminded, but you've got your lips planted on your own ass. And your solution to roll fully developed systems under the UT wing, for reasons, (which some goob always brings up in these discussions) is about as simpleminded as it gets.
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Distribution of funds needs to be spread out more in Texas. As cool as it is, on one hand, to be the "richest" university, it's also a bit embarrassing for a public school as it has come at the expense of other Texas schools. Texas (the state) has placed so much emphasis on football rivalries over the last century+ that we haven't created a decent system for educating young Texans. There is entirely too much "fuck 'em" attitude among the state schools, with aggie being the absolute worst about it. From our shitty public elementary schools up to our extremely top heavy public university system, we've fucked up and we'll all pay for it (already are).
I know the argument that we should fold the other major publics into the UT system is a common refrain around here, but it's a weak argument founded on the same arrogance that created the problem in the first place. And it's never going to happen, so seeking practical solutions would be nice to see. UT's endowments are large enough to carry all its water, and the athletic department operates in the black (not the case at most schools), so perhaps the solution is to simply go back to properly funding those state schools that rely on tuition revenue to survive. No tweaks to what is happening at UT, just up our game in funding the rest of the state.
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1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:
I'll go much further than that: I think it would be a great idea to make it a condition of holding office that you occasionally party like a fucking rock star. Lame-ass fuckers, GTFO.
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1 hour ago, ChuckNorrisActionJeans said:
it's even worse than the recapture bullshit itself -- after the pitiful funding allotment the state sets per student is met in other districts, all those sweet extra millions of Austin's property taxes goes into the general fund. For Abbott to fuck around at the border with, do culture warring, or any other fucking thing he or the lege feels like doing. The state has a $27 bil surplus right now, and AISD is tens of millions in the red, so can't pay teacher salaries, meet special ed requirements, or fix all the failing AC systems. It's a fucking shell game that should be illegal.
It really really sucks all around. Between the state fucking with Austin, and Austin leadership tripping over their own dicks at every step, it's getting more and more difficult to justify staying here. But it's been home for so long the thought of leaving isn't a comfortable one.
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3 hours ago, SydneyCarton said:
We're a non-religious household. Our son goes to a religious private school because of some fortunate circumstances (at least at first) for us. That being said, there's good ones and bad ones, imo. I wouldn't be dismissive out of hand, although it was startling to hear my 4 year old come home and start talking about God. I'd keep an open mind and look hard at the schools if you're seriously going away from public. Just my 2 cents.
I spoke too broadly as nuance doesn't often translate well to message board banter. I would absolutely send my kids to a religious school where religion takes aback seat to the academics, as is the case with the good ones.
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8 minutes ago, hayden_horn said:
aisd is fucked for many reasons, some of which include some overinflation of admin, in my opinion, but when half your shit is gone before you even start, it's sort of a non-starter.
That is true in every school district. I agree completely that recapture is the largest part of AISD's problems, but it will never change. No way will rural and suburban school district reps ever vote to shift that money back where it comes from.
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This topic is a tough one for me. We're are a decidedly nonreligious family so I don't give a flying fuck about my kids attending a religious school. I would never send them to one under any circumstances. But the pandemic seems to be the final nail in the coffin of public schools, especially in the cities. AISD went from just barely hanging on as an "okay" district to becoming a complete failure of an inner city school system during the pandemic. We already pay a fuckton more than the rest of the state in public school tax dollars, only to see our schools become completely worthless. I would rather see that money stay in my hands where I can utilize it on nonprofits that actually help kids rather than the nonsense that happens in Texas now, which is that city tax dollars subsidize million dollar football stadiums in the suburbs. Public schools have failed in Texas, but it's not the fault of charter schools. Charter schools are a symptom.
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I find it fascinating that anyone would claim some sort of moral high ground based on thermostat settings.
Setting the thermostat to 75 in one house will not feel remotely the same as setting it to 75 in another house. It's not apples to apples.
And if some people prefer to be cooler, or hotter, and are willing to pay for it, then everyone else should fuck off about it. Residential power usage is a gnat on the elephant's ass.
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It's getting harder and harder to justify living in Austin. When the average age of voters in the city is 33 years old, you get the shenanigans we get. Children will vote yes for anything, and elect anyone who knows how to memorize a few buzz words. Every city has its share of morons in public office, but Austin takes the cake for Texas. It's frustrating.
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13 hours ago, Rex Kramer said:
Most parents are bad judges of their kids’ ability, and most get emotional. More parents act poorly than do not, believe me. You cannot equate this very normal, yet irrational behavior with those that would not only bring a gun to a 9 yo sporting event but actually use it. Yet you just did equate them. Believe me, more parents have visceral reactions and yell at games than do not. It takes a special kind of thug to bring a gun to a game.
This guy ought to get the death penalty and Aqib ought to go to prison for aiding and abetting. These brothers are scum of the earth.
It's the exact same impetus, just carried farther. Any adult who gets upset enough to yell and scream at a youth sporting event is a douchebag at best, and is most likely in need of intense therapy. It's a continuum, and Talib is on the extreme end of it. Don't kid yourself though, if you're one of the jackasses yelling at refs, kids, your own kid, or other parents at a youth sporting event, then you have a lot more in common with Talib than with the sane parents cheering for their kid and just hoping they have a good time and learn a thing or two that can translate to real life. Having umped, refereed, coached, and sat in the stands as a parent at thousands of these events I completely agree that more parents than not act poorly. It's not because they're emotional about their kid (what a load of crap that is - if they cared about their kid at all they wouldn't act that way), it's because more parents than not are complete pieces of shit. Trying to justify their behavior with the "at least they didn't shoot somebody" defense is ridiculous.
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1 hour ago, Kringelbert Fishtybuns said:
As shitty as they can be sometimes, AE made out like bandits because they didn’t have a derate/unit trip the whole week. They were one of two generators that ended up in the black for the whole event.
It absolutely was the grid failure that was the root cause for most of the problems here - including exposing the idiots at Austin Water. There were some transmission issues, but they weren’t that long in duration given the severity of the storm.
Nobody defends Austin Water as they are fucktards.
Selective memory? AE couldn't figure out how to turn the power back on after turning it off for what was supposed to be a rolling blackout. The grid didn't fail in Austin. AE did. The fact they saved money by not providing power to over half the city for over a week is cold comfort (pun intended), and a really odd thing to bring up as a positive point for AE. Austin was without power longer than any other major city in the state. That wasn't the grid. People died in this town because public utilities, like other government departments, tend to attract and hire the absolute bottom of the barrel of functional human beings. It's not any better than people dying due to private industry worshiping the almighty dollar at all cost. They all suck. But some can't seem to bring themselves to point blame where it is very much warranted, I suppose for political reasons. There's plenty to go around and AE deserves their fair share along with ERCOT, state government, and private energy companies.
And yes, agreed, Austin Water is 100% a bunch of fucktards.
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56 minutes ago, Captainant said:
I gotta disagree with your framing man - publicly owned utilities isn't "nationalized". It's the norm. Texas' privatized utility system has had nothing but negative effects on the downstream consumers who are subject to a state-sanctioned monopoly that is purely profit driven with no requirement to plan for severe events.
It shouldn't be on Joe Consumer to build his own durability into his home - the utility and grid operators are supposed to be covering that. They're shirking that responsibility down to the individual so that they can reap even larger profit margins with the reduced overhead costs.
You don't go to the gas pump with a fucking hydrometer to make sure you're getting quality fuel - you have an expectation of getting an immediately usable product. I really don't understand this reflexive need to cover for these greedy and maintenance-averse operators.
I put it in quotes in an attempt to make clear that I was using the word to contextualize it against the free market set up in most of the rest of the state, where Texans actually have options on where they buy their power. The main point being, neither way works that well.
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I'm fully onboard with the notion that ERCOT has its hands tied and the state lege, along with private interests who set up this system, are at fault for creating what is at best a tenuous power supply. Locally in Austin, however, the city seems to get a complete pass for their actions during and after Uri. It wasn't the grid that caused the problems here. It was the absolute fucking moron government employees who run our power and water supply. While we all bash the shortcomings of the free market system throughout TX, let's not forget about the "nationalized" system in Austin for electricity and water, which is even worse than what the rest of the state is dealing with. None of this shit is working like it should, and like with most things the solution likely falls somewhere in the middle.
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7 hours ago, deadshank said:What is the psychology of shooting another man to death over pee wee football?
Enlighten me.The same psychology that drives idiot parents to yell, spit, punch, swear, etc. etc. etc. at youth sports everywhere. It transcends economic class, race, education level, you name it. The psychology is simple: a lot of people are terrible fucking morons who only take up space and contribute nothing of substance to the world. And these people are likely to procreate and force their children into sports whether they want to be there or not.
If you want to absolutely hate humanity, go ump little league games for a season or two. I couldn't have been happier when my son decided he was done with baseball so we could get the hell away from those people.
Any adult who actually cares about the outcome of a youth sporting event to the point they have a visceral emotional reaction, whether it's a tee-ball game or a high school football game, should either seek professional help or do the rest of us a favor and disappear from society. Yelling at a youth sporting event is like holding up a flashing neon sign that says, "I'm an emotional toddler trapped in a grown up body and present a very real threat to those around me. It all stems from the fact my dad never really loved me and didn't care that I knew it. Also - my own kids hate my guts but I'm too stupid to see it." (EDIT TO ADD: It's a big sign.)
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The Beach family, in spite of their terrible loss, seem like assholes.
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3 hours ago, Poe It Up said:
Isn’t Pancho a professor? How does he constantly fall for this stupid shit?
I don't know Pancho, and anyone can be suckered by internet click bait. But I think you may be giving professor's more credit than they deserve. There aren't many professions that involve more heads up asses and/or completely myopic existences.
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WTF is tik tok cop talking about that the guy was getting up on him? Lots of cops need an ass-whipping, but holy shit that guy is a ticking time bomb.
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Houston showing up on these polls is puzzling. I know they win games in their dinky conference, but the only teams with a pulse they played in the regular season last year were TTU and Cincinnati and they got smoked.
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Lots of shitheads in that video, but if I have to choose - team car.
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3 hours ago, Longboard Horn said:
You're cousin is a cuck. She definitely has his balls in her purse.
Yes without a doubt.
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After reading this thread it seems clear that this is not really a message board for Longhorn fans, crass retorts, and offensive/titillating photos. This is a thinly disguised therapy group for people with terrible families.
I don't have time for details so I'll bullet point a couple of highlights:
* scumbag uncle ran porn theaters in west texas in the 70s. Was murdered and left in a cotton field in '77.
* one DFW area cousin (son of aforementioned uncle) in prison for most of adult life for drugs, theft, armed robbery, etc.
* other cousin from same uncle is schizophrenic, among other issues including opioid addiction, most likely triggered by exposure to chemical weapons in first gulf war
* Sister has borderline personality disorder along with a laundry list of other issues. Would rather spend a holiday with my convict cousin.
* Another great uncle conned a bunch of people and left them in the lurch with his tractor dealership decades ago. Think Bart Reagor but smarter. Bled his mother (my great grandmother) dry of the wealth her husband (his father) left her, leaving the rest of us to care for her financially and otherwise in her waning years. He's old and somehow still alive and selling insurance (naturally).
* Another cousin's wife got busted fucking a student at the school she worked at. He's still with her.
That's just my mom's side of the family. Somehow, my folks turned out great so I lucked out there.
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1 hour ago, Hermanator said:
Committed where?
Thanks to a certain group of assholes virtually all the pre 1970 financing of mental health facilities is gone and the country has been allowed to be flooded with guns.
True, but let's not forget the ACLU litigation that played a huge part in this as well. Difficult to justify funding for facilities with no patients thanks to an inability to commit anyone. Those facilities were nightmare factories to boot.
There is obviously a middle ground that involves publicly funded safe spaces for mentally ill people to receive treatment, as well as mechanism that allows for the nonconsensual committal of folks based on well-vetted factors. Do you have any faith we live in a nation where political leaders are capable of finding a middle ground solution to anything? I don't.
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19 minutes ago, AUS-97HORN said:
This story is originally from Feb of this year.... but we have one of the dumbest fucking cops in the history of cops caught on camera literally lighting a suspect on fire because of the COPS ACTIONS and choices- NOT the suspects.
first off for whatever reason the suspect/victim was singled out of a group of 8-12 guys on dirtbikes being general nuisances on a public street.
as far as all the reports go, no accidents happened, but the dirt bikes were clearly riding illegally and recklessly. So a chat and some tickets were legit in order.
But for some reason the helicopter decided to focus on 1 rider and let the rest go. the copter then directly 5-6 cops who were all roided up and in hot pursuit because the dirt bike riders had refused to respect their authoritay. and they decide to bum rush the rider who was at the pump (having thought he got away from the cops because it was several mins later that they charged him)
so they take him down in the act of pumping gas in his bike, knock him AND the bike over, gas pours onto the ground and on the now FOUR cops wrestling with the ~180lb driver who is of course in the middle dead center of the gas spill.
and deputy RETARD hears someone scream GAS! GAS! and our boy is like, Gas? cool, lets use a taser and the predictable happens.
as of the May 25, 2022 update the deputy was put on 10 weeks of paid admin leave, and being charged with being a dumbass. Meanwhile the suspect had burns over 75% of his body and thats gonna take MONTHS to recover from, at least 2 cops are lit on fire as well, both suffering 3rd degree burns on a body part. and its possible the idiot who ignited the taser while covered in gas was one of those burned.
how in the holy fuck is it OK to have a reckless driving charge- where the suspect is cornered and not trying to escape, turn into a fucking 3rd degree barbeque?
oh yeah... and AFTER this driver was put out, but obviously in extreme pain on 75% of his body, these fucks then jumped on his ass to force his hands into handcuffs.
I mean holy fuck, hes NOT fucking running at that point hes barely going to fucking move at that point.
I'm not 100% up to date on the current scoring system, but I think your outrage at police is at least partially negated by the use of the "R" word. I turn to younger, more informed posters for a final verdict. For now, at least, you should probably remain in outrage timeout until this gets sorted.
Also - fuck that fucking fuck of a cop and the entire department for causing that situation.
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Tx High school football WTF?
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I would have thought that hyper-closeted jocks and frat boys would be a thing of the past in the more permissive culture we now live in.