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Who was it that had a jihad level of hate for her on the old board? @Gardner Barnes maybe? I’ve always found her kind of attractive but NIMBY shrew mom is my fetish.

Let us know what they say-I don’t think they’ll show it because true IMAX screens are such a rarity and they are booked out a year in advance. It sounds like there is going to be several re-releases nationally this year to account for all the strike disruptions on the production side.

You make it sound like he has a choice. I guess he could resign but he’s a political animal.

I would support a "no-ginger" rule with those spots going to pretty much anyone that doesn't sunburn in five minutes.

It seems like if you have elbow soreness of any kind it’s going to mean Tommy John at some point.

I don't disagree with the premise (that African American's are under-represented at the University level), but I don't think it's on the face true that having a DEI program is a requirement to get there. No one will say this out-loud today, despite the hostile environment for it, but about ten years ago I was told (by a dean, no less) that the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement was a Bill Powers/Dr. Vincent project and it was mostly just for show. I'm sure it's had a chance to evolve in the interim, but a program with 350 staff members seems like a lot bureaucratic bloat. From a public policy perspective, we'd probably be better off taking that same head count and creating an enrichment coordinator or guidance counselor at the 350 high schools with the greatest proportion of African Americans with the main job of pushing average or slightly better achievers towards college*. That's likely where you could do the most good. I'm sure they/you might not feel this way, but to some degree the African American scholars at UT are closer to the "haves", in that most have been admitted because of their grades and test scores, which is a product of good study habits, raw intellect, support at home, school quality, etc. *yes, I know the state government is not making that choice. If you study the history of the US' world renowned higher ed, it's mostly a story of federal research dollars flowing into them.

Third university after four high schools. Maybe he only likes the beginning of things.

Finally caught up this on Paramount plus-super fun.

That kind of superlative is only appropriate if they sign with A&M.

This-I’ve heard Straus speak a couple of times and he‘s subtle about it but not hiding the fact the Texas GOP is in thrall to a minority.

Looks like they showed it at the Bullock Imax last year, now I’m disappointed I missed it.

Just turned on the game, Jesus.

I thought he had already had it before. Maybe I'm confusing it with another medical issue.

Another highlight of the scooters, in my opinion, is that they mostly occupy the bicycle lanes and they are even bigger assholes to the bicyclists than cars and pedestrians.

That was kind of my point but I also don’t have deep insight into what UWM and Rocket may have done to mitigate this. In 2007 lots of banks were alive yesterday, dead today because they really didn’t have assets to speak of-they were middle men that sold aggregated loans to other entities. If those entities aren’t buying or in smaller quantities it can cause cash flow problems super quick.

When I worked downtown I used to see scooter wipeouts weekly, like the universe was trying to reassert balance. Given it appeared to be mostly visitors I just figured this had become part of the Austin experience.

All I know is that I had a great sideline seat in 2007 when the brokers got fucked by the regulators and it looked to me like the mortgage bankers were able to protect themselves. 17 years later and I think the independent mortgage bankers are vulnerable and wholesale banks like UWM and Rocket appear to have grown sufficiently large that they have a created a target on their back. I wonder if this lawsuit is the first cannon shot. You’re relatively new to this and haven’t watched banks disappear overnight like that scene in Brand of Brothers where they faded out all the Currahee guys who didn’t make it to Berchtesgarden. Everyone thought Countrywide had deep pockets, too.

IMDb says it’s in post-I agree with you, though-there was nothing about the character’s introduction in BP2 that made me think “I want to know more about her story.” I actually appreciate Marvel trying to grow the audience by adding more diversity both in front and behind the camera, but it’s pretty clear that there’s just a finite numbers of performers charismatic enough to pull it off. Anthony Mackie is a great example-he’s a solid enough actor, I like him in a supporting capacity, but I don’t feel any particularly curiosity about his story out of the orbit of Steve Rodgers. Thunderbolts is going to be a test case for “you wouldn’t pay $10 for a ticket to see any single one of us, but will you pay $10 to see ALL of us?!?!”

I kind of don’t understand why they are fucking around with a side character when you could easily make a show that’s just about D’Onofrio’s Kingpin clawing back his criminal empire. That was the best part of Daredevil, anyway. Plus it‘d be cheap.

Yeah, that total seems ridiculous. From a public health perspective 26,000 rapes, period, since 2022 is unacceptable.

I don’t they are eager to reboot X-Men at the moment. I expect they will spend every dollar possible making sure the F4 story works before going into preproduction-this is Disney’s best chance for a reset. Kang would have been ideal as a villain if Majors wasn’t fired. Totally agree with all of this. I have to think they aren’t stupid and Feige and co know it, too, and have adjusted budgets so they aren’t spending $200m before advertising.

I was thinking something like that-obviously I’m out of the loop. Anyway, back on the subject of property taxes, our top ten problems by rank of priority are recapture repeated 10x, then maybe Travis County taxes, then CofA, then ACC, imo. I know everyone wants to bitch about city of Austin services but at least they exist. Travis County, comparatively, gets none of the scrutiny and they are quite content to take our tax dollars, build a few roads, and haphazardly run the appraisal district.

Granted this is 20 years ago, but I attended ACC for a year while I was suspended from UT and I thought the quality of the instruction was better than I expected (and certainly no worse that I was getting at UT). For one, quite a few of the instructors were UT professors with a side gig, and others appreciated being able to teach without the pressure to publish, fundraise, and fight for tenure. I was actually thinking, in my reply to @Samson's Wig, that maybe one solution would be more partnerships with AISD that would allow ACC to be on high school campuses for AP or introductory college classes (and maybe AISD could save on labor) but I bet they do that already or the savings just doesn’t move the overall needle by much.

Surely you understand that Austin citizens can’t simply repurpose tax revenue from ACC to AISD, right? If you want to complain about the state recapture impoverishing Austin students you’re welcome to join the party but reducing ACC taxes won’t help. On the appraised value side, I still haven’t had my arbitration following my 2023 tax protest when they claimed my value went up 20%.

I'm on episode three of Echo and don't really understand what's going because on because I kept falling asleep during the first two episodes. Does it get better?