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Samson's Wig

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  1. All else being equal, if this guy was my neighbor and firing rounds that could easily travel outside of his property and accidentally kill my loved ones, I'd be at least a little bit grateful that the cops killed him so  wouldn't have to.  A simple arrest and douchebag is back firing off his weapon for no reason a few days later.  One way or another, someone had to confront him.  Better the cops that a neighbor, in my opinion. 

    Do I wish he had been taken in peacefully somehow?  Sure, of course - I'm not a monster.  Do I think that would solve a problem like this? No, not at all.  Better that guy is dead than the six year old girl next door.

  2. This whole thing reminds me of an old serial that came on Saturday evenings about a successful 19th century snake oil salesman selling his business to a new buyer, Musty Ephron, and all of the past customers got really pissed because Ephron is an asshole with goofy viewpoints who then proceeds to charge a nominal fee for customers to get the "premium" label snake oil, which is really just the old snake oil in a new bottle with a blue label on it (and doesn't even really taste the way the old oil used to).  Everyone gets mad and talks about how they're all going to die without their snake oil and that the community will crumble without access to the snake oil, but they are unwilling to pay extra for this bullshit new blue label when they used to get it for no additional fee. 

    The former customers start putting up posters all over town making fun of the new guy and also pinpointing exactly where he'll be later that day.  Then ol' Musty gets mad at them and refuses to sell them any snake oil at all.  Meanwhile, Musty's original business (selling modern conveyances with a new fangled contraption called the internal combustion engine) starts to suffer as his customer base, it turns out, was largely made up of forward thinking individuals who put a great deal of faith in all things modern.  Things get even trickier when it turns out that Musty Ephron sold off a big chunk of his modern conveyance business to finance his purchase of the snake oil business, and now both entities are struggling.

    In the next episode, we learn that Ephron's other futuristic endeavor (long distance train travel) may be in jeopardy as Chester A. Arthur himself has been refused the sale of snake oil, which he dearly loves, and has decided that the government will not bankroll this new business for Ephron like it has already bankrolled the modern conveyance and long distance travel businesses.  Meanwhile, thousands of former snake oil users begin to realize that life without snake oil is exactly like life was with snake oil, and further realize that the vast majority (over 90%) of people never tried even a sip of snake oil in the first place (even though the customers were certain that everyone was doing it) and their neighbors and friends rejoice as they rejoin society at large and recognize that they were hiding inside of a bottle of inconsequential nonsense.

    I don't remember exactly how it ends, but I think after having been exposed as a fraud with no actual business sense beyond taking advantage of poorly conceived government programs, Musty Ephron ends up moving to an island with a  bunch of illegitimate offspring and performing weird experiments involving human/animal hybrids. He also starts wearing a fun hat. The former snake oil customers discover a new product  called cocaine, being peddled by some oddly muscled up bald guy named Buzzleby Geoffs, and realize that they were sorely mistaken about how awesome snake oil was, as this new stuff has a real kick to it.  Geoffs buys all of  Ephron's old businesses for four or five old greenbacks (that were technically not even legal tender anymore).  After an evening of sampling his own product, he invents space exploration, packs up all the assets of Ephron's old businesses, and launches them straight into the moon on a giant penis.

     

     

     

  3. 21 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    Publicly, not sure, but if he's skipping on paying rent and stiffing vendors, then twitter is not long for San Francisco.  I don't think the companies that own the buildings or the contracts are going to think "well, we'll let him skip the payments for now, I'm sure he'll make it up latter" because he's erratic as hell, and there is absolutely nothing that he is doing that makes it look like twitter will turn a profit any time in the future.

    Plus, if you are with those companies and looking down the road when Musk has various payments coming due, you know that he won't give a shit about paying you for the lease or services rendered if he's got to make payments on twitter.

    This kinda feels like some dot-come bubble stuff coming back to haunt us 20 years later - CEOs in over their heads, and stiffing vendors and landlords to keep the company running.

    Completely agree.  I don't like that it will probably be Austin area businesses/landlords/etc. that will take the biggest hit when this shit comes crashing down.  Keep the valueless social media tech companies where they belong: California.  Those fuckers falsely enriched the tech bro contingent and they should be the ones eating the shit sandwich when reality catches up.

  4. I miss how dimly lit everything was in the good ole' days.  Twas a better time for those with less than stellar looks, but mostly I just miss that mood.  Modern lighting feels so artificial and cold.  While not a brand, incandescent light bulbs are mostly gone (except in dollar stores in shit-ass poor places).

  5. "Slowly" is the key word from the title of this thread.  DQs are the slowest fast food chain in Texas, especially those in small towns.  Nothing worse on a road trip than stopping at a DQ and waiting half an hour for a shitty burger.

  6. 14 hours ago, texasdago said:

    Because Lubbock sucks?

    That's certainly part of it, but the majority is aggy jags not wanting anyone else to have nice things.  If any system should just disappear it's that complete waste of educational space.  The world has enough neonazi, antivax, fake-cowboy idiots without funding an entity to hone these personality traits into an established network of mouth-breathing, low-info, closeted, sheep humping know-it-alls.

  7. 2 hours ago, crash_davis said:

     

    Fuckheads from Dallas and Houston like to shit on Austin but those fucksticks love coming to Austin to vacation because it's nothing like Dallas or Houston. If Austin were run like Dallas or Houston, all of Town Lake would be filled with a shitty boardwalk filled with shitty souvenir shops. It'd be another atrocious River Walk. All of the Barton Creek watershed and greenbelt would be developed and sub-divided. We'd have fucking chain restaurants everywhere. 

    Give it time.  We're well on our way.

  8. The funny part to me is how many yahoo voters outside of Austin would applaud such a move.  He's playing to his base perfectly.   In contrast, I can't fathom giving two shits what goes on in Frisco.

    The rest of the state seems to have really funny notions regarding Austin, based largely on nothing more than a visit or two.   Although central Texans also carry ridiculous notions about other parts of the state, especially West Texas.  I guess it's just the nature of such a large place.

  9. Some of you clearly don't know much about Tech, including that it has the third largest endowment of any public system in the state.  It's a far cry from UT and A&M, but we all know the political reasons behind that (if it weren't for aggy political bullshit Tech would likely have surpassed them a long time ago).  Regardless, Tech is sitting alone in a second tier below UT and A&M (or arguably tier 3 if you want to split UT and aggy into two separate tiers), and well above everyone else (you could arguably throw Houston in that tier given they have the 4th largest endowment, but they're damn near a non-entity in many respects).

    Talk of rolling Tech into any other entity is silly unless we're talking about merging all the publics under one banner, and those who have mentioned Texas State as if it is remotely comparable really don't know anything about anything.  The two are not even in the same stratosphere in terms of size, influence, and most importantly money.  It would be like saying Tech is comparable to UT. 

    I don't know what they were thinking with that proposal, but it's not reflective of their position (and it definitely deserves the mockery it's getting). They either didn't really want it, didn't want to spend any money for some reason, or put a monkey in charge of the proposal.  All are certainly possible.

  10. 4 hours ago, Chopper said:

    edit and actually the 4th reason, if the lack of moderation has been sufficiently recorded or verified, then yeah it's very possible twitter is going into the dustbin with gettr and social. I've seen several reports this morning, all only subjective, about how horrible it's become over there with nazis, incels, russians and chinese misinformation.

    How is this different than Facebook?  It's a free for all shit fest for the most part, which is why everyone's aging parents have gone full-stupid over the last few years.  Who advertises there?  How does lizard boy manage this shit better than Elrond the half man? Or does he?

  11. 20 hours ago, ChuckNorrisActionJeans said:

    This is all such a primitive guy thing too. Women who aren't MAGA or otherwise brainwashed are on the sidelines baffled about the obsessive focus on and fetishization of these weapons. It's just so damned juvenile. Another instance where more women in leadership would moderate shit.

    Tell me you don't know any redneck women without telling me you don't know any redneck women.

     

    Most educated people live in a bubble, myself included, but I escaped the shit-show to get here.  Women, generally speaking, won't moderate a damn thing.  The right woman might, though.

  12. Just now, Brisketexan said:

    Well, and her reciting what would have been an accurate statement by an attorney ("these charges carry a maximum sentence and fine of X") means....what, exactly?  If she took that as "welp, I have no choice but to take the deal," that's on her.

    Of course. I wasn't going to pass up an opportunity to shit on aggy though.  And as an attorney who may or may not be really fucking stupid, it's also my bar given right to shit on attorneys.  :) 

  13. On 11/4/2022 at 4:23 PM, Biff Tannen said:

    Isn't the state hospital undergoing a multi-million dollar upgrade and expansion?  I know it is because I drive by it once a week.

    Doesn't matter how big we make it if we can't force people to go.

    I'm not knowledgeable in this area of the law, but we've got to find a way to make it easier to commit people.  I understand the impetus for the ACLU move to try and stop the shenanigans that went on in the 20th century regarding committing people to hospitals.  At this time it was the right move, but the unintended consequences are on the streets all around us. Surely there is a middle ground. 

    Perhaps it's just not possible to prevent egregious misdeeds by they system, though.  Look at how many judges are caught sending people to privately run prisons (or worse) to line their pockets.  The same type of thing would likely happen with privately mental institutions, which would be the natural new business model were the state able to medically institutionalize people again.  Or we can just follow crash_davis' advice and shoot these folks.  Hope I'm never one of them.

  14. Those of you more in the know: does Facebook/Instagram not have large companies advertising on their platform due to all the bullshit on it?  My knowledge of this entire topic largely stems from reading this thread (so shaky at best), but lots of folks are talking about legit advertisers dropping off of Twitter due to concerns over content. Do these companies already not advertise on Facebook?  That hellhole doesn't moderate anything last time I looked.  

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