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  1. DanRydell
    I'm not sure that's a patently unreasonable suspension but it's hard to reconcile with the suspensions received by Marcell Ozuna, Roberto Osuna, Aroldis Chapman, Addison Russell, etc. in recent years.
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    It's a movie by a director who is largely unknown to the average moviegoer (and to the degree he is known, it's for being weird and esoteric), with lead actors who are either unknown or known from niche TV shows, plus it's pretty fucking weird and gory. I'm not sure Gladiator is a hit if it had been directed by Spike Jonze or Danny Boyle and starred Luke Perry and Tilda Swinton and had a bunch of bizarre ancient religious imagery and prophecy and witchcraft.
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    Robert Eggers is a weird fucking dude
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    I often disagreed with her but O'Connor wasn't a partisan hack
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    Married to a teacher, can confirm
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    You can also borrow against the increased equity but yeah, the benefit, at least until selling (and even then, really only a benefit if leaving the area) are significantly outweighed by the costs.
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    If anything that would make housing prices go up even more/faster.
  8. DanRydell
    Texans' general preference for property taxes over income taxes has never made sense but here we are.
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    Redistributing money from property rich districts to property poor districts is a good thing generally (within the confines of funding schools through local property taxes). And Austin ISD sending over 50% of tax revenues to recapture is not inherently a problem. The problem is that the remaining funds are nowhere near adequate for Austin ISD to effectively operate.
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    Redistributing money from property rich districts to property poor districts is a good thing generally (within the confines of funding schools through local property taxes). And Austin ISD sending over 50% of tax revenues to recapture is not inherently a problem. The problem is that the remaining funds are nowhere near adequate for Austin ISD to effectively operate.
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    If we didn’t have a Texas Supreme Court full of whores and assholes, we could instantly create at least 10,000 new homes by just completely banning STRs.
  12. DanRydell
    If we didn’t have a Texas Supreme Court full of whores and assholes, we could instantly create at least 10,000 new homes by just completely banning STRs.
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    This is a component of the housing crisis that doesn’t really get talked about. While populations have exploded and household sizes have shrunk, house size and lot size have also shot up. I’d bet the square footage of housing per resident in the Austin area today is 4x what it was 50 years ago.
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    Oh certainly. The increased taxes is one of the least significant of the problems created by our current housing situation.
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    I mean, it's a fucking bonkers market, but it's a reasonable assessment of market value by TCAD and they're probably still undervaluing your property. Everybody likes to bitch about their appraisal but virtually none of those bitching would sell their house for their appraised value. Attempting to fund government through property taxes on unrealized gains rather than income taxes on actual gains is idiotic and these are the consequences of that. But for reasons that defy any logic whatsoever, Texans for some reason find paying property taxes more tolerable than paying income taxes.
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    1. Yes 2. Probably 3. The land vs. improvements part is pretty arbitrary and doesn't really make a difference, but also building costs have gone up significantly so the cost to rebuild your house is almost certainly higher today than it was a year ago.
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    The DA recused so it was Paxton’s office in charge of presenting the case but yeah, they spiked it.
  18. DanRydell
    I need reviews from people who hated The Lighthouse
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    The benefit of the homestead exemption is it can decrease your assessed value (by virtue of the 10% cap) and also your taxable value (by virtue of local tax exemptions) to lower numbers than your appraised value.
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    What the fuck do you think an appraisal is if not an assessment of market value? Texas Tax Code Section 23.01
  21. DanRydell
    Glad you’re enjoying them!
  22. DanRydell
    If anybody wants two free tickets for tonight behind the visitor's dugout, shoot me a DM.
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    I mostly liked it (although it was too long and I definitely liked the first hour or so more than the rest, but yeah, I didn't understand that at all either.
  24. DanRydell
    It’s just north of where Dean Keaton is going to cut through to San Antonio. But Jenn’s Copies is fucked.
  25. DanRydell
    Along with your call, are you going to donate the billions necessary to cover the costs of another 3 miles of tunnel?

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