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  1. 5 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

    Bruh, we are actively and continually dumping 10’s of billions of dollars into a country that just got thru dumping millions into POTUS’ crack addicted sons bank account.  For fucks sake. 

    Excuse me, are we back to the Burisma russian propaganda story? What the fuck is going on lol

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  2. 9 minutes ago, Macklemore said:

    anti-Semitic. Give me a fucking break. Who the fuck do you think is funding the campaigns for these progressive DAs and the nationwide push for no-cash bail? It’s coming primarily from one source — Soros. You have no problem tagging the Koch brothers or Adelson for the crap they are pushing for. 

    This is literally not true, Soros donated to Ogg's opponent. 

    https://thetexan.news/elections/2024/soros-funded-pac-hidalgo-support-democratic-primary-challenger-to-harris-county-district-attorney-kim-ogg/article_6cbc9ccc-b70c-11ee-a233-7f288b1a7577.html

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  3. 7 minutes ago, Macklemore said:

    The DAs who have pushed for no-cash bail and ROR’ing repeat violent offenders need to answer to the multitude of victims that have died or been injured by criminals who belong in jail. Soros backed DAs can go to hell.

    You should be upset at the state of Texas for not creating more judgeships to handle the increased case load that comes with population growth. The state literally cannot hold these people.

    Your antisemitic meme and frustration towards the DA is misplaced, they're just at the bottom of the hill that the shit flows down

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  4. 3 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    One of the keys is learning to be content with LESS -- that is, "enough." 

    Shareholders and billionaires cannot and will not learn this. That greed and hunger is what drives the constantly escalating growth targets. 

    It's infuriating that it's only the wage earners that must learn to say "enough"

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  5. 21 minutes ago, BeardIP said:

    And you, my friend, are getting dangerously close to relating to what it's like to be a middle and upper middle class salary+benefits+taxes slave in modern times.

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    My guy, earning six figures (in Texas at least) is not any type of """slavery""". And miss me with complaining about taxes. I paid more in taxes this last year than my pretax income was when I started working in tech. 

    21 minutes ago, BeardIP said:

    We are being compressed by both sides and it's a stressful walking on coals for 45 years to get to the green grass of retirement, maybe. Hopefully. Potentially.

    We have the easy version of this where we don't have to worry about keeping a roof over our heads or feeding or children, or looking for last minute childcare because your schedule changed and if you don't make it you're fired. You think WE'VE got it rough? 

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  6. 8 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

    Define arbitrary.  How would you prefer companies provide sustained and metered growth for their capital stakeholders? 

    I'm suggesting that """sustained and metered growth""" ad infinitum is not a healthy or sustainable business strategy. It ends in the current state that we are discussing in this thread and that you seemingly cannot comprehend. 

    In biology when something grows constantly and never finds equilibrium, we tend to call that a cancer. The promises of trickle down have been a lie. Despite more billionaires than ever, we don't have proportionally more jobs and better pay for their workers. 

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  7. 34 minutes ago, Rex Kramer said:

    Sure. But that’s all Captainant looks for. Ignore and discredit. It’s the tact of partisan hacks, particularly when video is involved. 

    It's more that the supermajority of links being bandied about this thread are from accounts that were CERTAIN the 2020 election was STOLLEN and that COVID was fake. Idk about y'all, but I think it's important to know what sort of past reporting and inaccuracies a """citizen journalist"""" has in the same way I think it's important for credentialed journalists to stay accountable to their past reporting. 

    It's a big part of why I try to link to journalistic sources and real reporting when available. Does in-the-moment Twitter reporting fill some of that breaking news gap for emergent events? Absolutely. But the folks being linked here aren't at any of the events they're """reporting""" on - they're just stoking the outrage fires to superlative effect. Especially when there's not much new being posted and it's more "RECENTLY UNCOVERED SHOCKING FOOTAGE FROM A WEEK AGO!!!" that frequently misrepresents or overstates what actually happened in the video

  8. 44 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

    Said it before and I'll say it again - the word "privilege" might be thrown around a little too much these days, but the real privilege is being born to good parents who take an active role in raising and supporting a child.  Kids also emulate their environment.  You are spastic and anxious all the damn time, guess what....your kids probably will be as well.  You lose your shit in traffic or watching right/left-wing media all the time, they're watching.  You tell them to get their shit together while you're on the coach drinking a beer and looking like 200lbs of chewed bubble gum.  They're watching.  

    To that end, you're getting dangerously close to talking about systemic issues that are causing specific demographics to have a more difficult time achieving an ideal child raising environment. When the parents have less and less breathing room to survive because their job(s) is (are) squeezing them, the children feel that too. 

    When I was a kid, my dad getting WorldComm'd still stands out in my memory as a significantly stressful and traumatic period for my family. Nowadays it's not scandal and fraud driving the pain, but layoffs and arbitrary growth targets bringing the pain and stealing the stability that many of us enjoyed as children. 

    If we want happier children, it would probably go a long long way to reduce the uncertainty and churn that's endemic to being a modern wage earner. More than a couple days leadtime on schedule changes, actual benefits provided and not held just a few hours a week out of reach, less 1099 contract work with easy to fuck up taxes, etc etc etc. It just is much less friendly to be a wage earner now than it was when our parents were raising us. 

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  9. 16 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

    At that peak, storage providers were getting paid at a rate of $16 million per hour ($5,000 per MWh x 3,200). Neither the peak price nor the peak discharge lasted a full hour obviously ), but you can see how potentially lucrative storage can be.  Real time pricing averaged just under $3,000 per MWh from 7pm to 8:30 pm. 

    No no no, we shouldn't be funding battery storage! We should be writing checks to crypto miners from China so that we can induce demand to induce supply! Why on earth would Texas take a direct step towards addressing a problem when they could instead enrich a business with public funds and hope for a second or third order desired outcome?

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  10. 41 minutes ago, Bevo said:

    ACC, Anderson High School, St. Edwards, and the Challenger School are not UT affiliated.

    Strictly speaking, as a member of UIL, Anderson HS is """UT affiliated"""

     

    That said, Hartzell and the Johnny Sacks of the world are using rhetoric that would lead one to believe that some flown in protesters are getting arrested at UT. Austin residents going to a protest in a State-designated free speech area in Austin seems like a normal thing to me.

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  11. 5 hours ago, PvilleStang said:

    All this point out that most of the arrests that made it to the APD booking photo database are indeed UT students.  I can't tell if any of the others are staff or faculty if they aren't notated.

    It seems a little disingenuous to call an ACC student "non UT affiliated" as a means to paint them as outside agitators, considering UT is a major cultural focal point for Austin as a city. Its one hell of a weasel statement to hang your hat on by Hartzell

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  12. 10 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

    What exactly is the "socialist bullshit" that is espoused in that video? The guy literally talks about the changes that would need to be made to make sure a dollar is worth the same as it was for prior generations. That's not socalism, that's called "Maintaining the status quo." Be specific. 

    You forget, if it's a public program that benefits poor people it's socialism. If it's a public program that benefits corporations and billionaires, it's free market capitalism 

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  13. 1 minute ago, Js1 said:

    So apparently all laws must say they include President Donald Trump or they don’t apply to him?

    They're applying the same braindead "if it's not an EXACT fuckin match we do nothing" logic that is used to determine if a cop murdering a dude should be prosecuted or not. Authoritarians are looking out for Bossman. 

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  14. 18 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

    https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-autopilot-probe-us-prosecutors-focus-securities-wire-fraud-2024-05-08/

    May 8 (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors are examining whether Tesla (TSLA.O)committed securities or wire fraud by misleading investors and consumers about its electric vehicles’ self-driving capabilities, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters.

    Someone get @Guadaloopy on the case!

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