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1 minute ago, InkaUtexas said:

Not the right thread, but would love your take on Humanitarian assistance to those down south.

Folks in Atlanta (if she is really there), I think Nicole found some Zima. Stay away from rivers and ponds.

Proud to still be sober. I do gummies though. For my arthritis. From a store. They rule. Fuck Zima. When I donate I do local charities and then Chef Jose’ Andres’ charity for feeding the world. He was on tv talking about food to Gaza. Said doesn’t matter how it gets there they need food. We need humanitarian aid on the border. It would be great if we could fund this with the taxes from selling weed. That would be cool. Get some doctors and nurses to see people. Maybe even help build a train to get across all of south, Central America and Mexico. Provide food and aid. Move a lot of factories and manufacturing plants there. We are at a breaking point in Austin. We were not meant have this many fucking people. We can’t sustain this. However they are coming here. It’s too many people. And we have fewer and fewer police and horrible traffic. Water issues in the horizon. It’s too much. We are going to be in a real mess in a decade. A huge mess. And people are worried about shit that might happen in 200 years to the climate. We may just run out of water and be fucked. 

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On 3/1/2024 at 9:45 AM, utee94 said:

Tan My around the corner is much better, it's actually the best pho in Austin.  When I heard a car had run through a pho place in North Austin near the Target at Ohlen Road, I was screaming in my head "NOOOOO, please don't let it be Tan My."

I mean, it still sucks for Pho Van of course, but ya know...

I’m going to have to disagree with you.

Pho Phung Luu is the best pho in Austin.

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4 hours ago, leaf said:

I’m going to have to disagree with you.

Pho Phung Luu is the best pho in Austin.

I doubt it but I'll give it a try.  Every time someone suggests a place I haven't tried, I'm always willing to try it, but inevitably when I go there I'm disappointed and wish I'd just gone to Tan My instead.

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13 hours ago, Deej said:

If you're using gummies, you aren't sober. 

I get that. They are non-TCH ones for pain and such. I am proud not to have taken a drink since April 24, 2022. I wish I had the same luck with cigarettes. That’s harder to quit. I miss them more than alcohol. But yeah I get the sober/not sober thing. I’m just a hell of a lot happier and functional. 
 

The real question (didn’t want to start a thread) is where is Kate Middleton? Maybe she is hiding out in Austin?
 

That whole story is odd af. Hasn’t been seen or heard from since January 16th for a planned abdominal surgery and isn’t going to make an appearance until after Easter. Bizarre. The internet is full of the best memes. story is really catching fire and the palace keeps saying fuck off we told you she ain’t coming back until after Easter. Meanwhile Charles has actual cancer and is making appearances. Odd shit. Maybe she’s the Rainey ripper? 
 

 

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7 hours ago, utee94 said:

I doubt it but I'll give it a try.  Every time someone suggests a place I haven't tried, I'm always willing to try it, but inevitably when I go there I'm disappointed and wish I'd just gone to Tan My instead.

My wife is Vietnamese and has been here in US for 5 years.  She swears that this is better than most places back in Vietnam.

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21 hours ago, Nicole44 said:

Austin is dumb. Let’s try shit that ain’t working other places like with the police or be a sanctuary city or do this or that. Or fuck up I35 or go crazy vet bike lanes and other transit that isn’t going to work and have a ramped homeless issue and have more people than resources like water!

Yet they still prosecute the shit out of DUIs.

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Thank goodness everyone made it out! Fuck. No alarms. wtf? 
 

AUSTIN (KXAN) — People who lost their homes in a Feb. 1 apartment fire in south Austin are sharing their story about that night, as the city’s fire department is providing more details about why it never received reports of the smoke alarms sounding off during the blaze. 

On the morning of the fire, many residents said they did not hear the smoke alarms ringing to alert them about the fire. Many people were woken up by either their neighbors or first responders slamming on their doors. 

That’s how Ali Shammar was awoken that early morning. “I just heard someone knocking on the door. I didn’t hear anything I was just sleeping,” Shammar explained.

https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/i-lost-everything-inside-people-share-their-experience-from-south-austin-fire/

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22 hours ago, Nicole44 said:

Proud to still be sober. I do gummies though. For my arthritis. From a store. They rule. Fuck Zima. When I donate I do local charities and then Chef Jose’ Andres’ charity for feeding the world. He was on tv talking about food to Gaza. Said doesn’t matter how it gets there they need food. We need humanitarian aid on the border. It would be great if we could fund this with the taxes from selling weed. That would be cool. Get some doctors and nurses to see people. Maybe even help build a train to get across all of south, Central America and Mexico. Provide food and aid. Move a lot of factories and manufacturing plants there. We are at a breaking point in Austin. We were not meant have this many fucking people. We can’t sustain this. However they are coming here. It’s too many people. And we have fewer and fewer police and horrible traffic. Water issues in the horizon. It’s too much. We are going to be in a real mess in a decade. A huge mess. And people are worried about shit that might happen in 200 years to the climate. We may just run out of water and be fucked. 

As someone who lives in Los Angeles 

 

lol. Welcome  it’s fucked 

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17 minutes ago, Deej said:

I think you're responsible for keeping fresh batteries in your apartment smoke detectors.  

Those fucking things do an amazingly annoying job of reminding you when they are low on battery. Either the detectors were defective or the people somehow miraculously lived for weeks (I'm guessing weeks, don't know because that shit makes me change the batteries immediately) through the constant beeping.

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6 hours ago, Nicole44 said:

The real question (didn’t want to start a thread) is where is Kate Middleton? Maybe she is hiding out in Austin?
 

That whole story is odd af. Hasn’t been seen or heard from since January 16th for a planned abdominal surgery and isn’t going to make an appearance until after Easter. Bizarre. The internet is full of the best memes. story is really catching fire and the palace keeps saying fuck off we told you she ain’t coming back until after Easter. Meanwhile Charles has actual cancer and is making appearances. Odd shit. Maybe she’s the Rainey ripper? 
 

 

If it was something “real” I think they would put it out like Charles, at least at a high level.

My thought is it is something like a tummy tuck and skin or fat removal.   Not sure after pregnancies if she returned to prior size and shape, but those surgeries take a lot of recovery and you are laid up for a while to recover.  And they can be done in stages if needed including follow up cosmetic surgery if needed which makes recovery longer.

No shame in getting it for most people who don’t have to pretend to be an icon,  but it is elective and I can see people jumping on her for it otherwise.

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15 minutes ago, ABSR said:

If it was something “real” I think they would put it out like Charles, at least at a high level.

My thought is it is something like a tummy tuck and skin or fat removal.   Not sure after pregnancies if she returned to prior size and shape, but those surgeries take a lot of recovery and you are laid up for a while to recover.  And they can be done in stages if needed including follow up cosmetic surgery if needed which makes recovery longer.

No shame in getting it for most people who don’t have to pretend to be an icon,  but it is elective and I can see people jumping on her for it otherwise.

All I know is that William has been able to hang out and enjoy some guilt-free pegging from his mistress while Kate's away, so good for Will!

 

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Sorry for your loss, but I mean c'mon...the train joke was right there.  

csb/ My mom was just here for the first time in about a year.  And she's having memory issues but was actually more cognitive than the last time I saw her but physically worse.  Anyway, like a lotta folks her age...she can remember these random facts or events from decades ago but can't remember what happened an hour ago.  But she was actually doing better this time because her last visit in 2023, she screamed at me that I was born on May 21st.  "I know when you were born, I gave birth to you!"  I was born on May 27, or so the Germans would have us believe.  Anyway, she visited the girls a lot over the years whenever her health and schedule would allow from Chicago.  So he brings up, "Hey, what ever happened to that little train they used to have in the park?"  Now she never went on it with our girls because we only took the oldest on there once or twice, just the wife and I.  Then it was shut down after we had our youngest plus Covid plus just City of Austin fuckups.  So I'm genuinely wishing that maybe later in 2024, Grandma can come down and ride it with the girls.  But then I remembered, we're in Austin.  We'll fuck it up again.  

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7 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

Sorry for your loss, but I mean c'mon...the train joke was right there.  

csb/ My mom was just here for the first time in about a year.  And she's having memory issues but was actually more cognitive than the last time I saw her but physically worse.  Anyway, like a lotta folks her age...she can remember these random facts or events from decades ago but can't remember what happened an hour ago.  But she was actually doing better this time because her last visit in 2023, she screamed at me that I was born on May 21st.  "I know when you were born, I gave birth to you!"  I was born on May 27, or so the Germans would have us believe.  Anyway, she visited the girls a lot over the years whenever her health and schedule would allow from Chicago.  So he brings up, "Hey, what ever happened to that little train they used to have in the park?"  Now she never went on it with our girls because we only took the oldest on there once or twice, just the wife and I.  Then it was shut down after we had our youngest plus Covid plus just City of Austin fuckups.  So I'm genuinely wishing that maybe later in 2024, Grandma can come down and ride it with the girls.  But then I remembered, we're in Austin.  We'll fuck it up again.  

I know what sight I am on. Don't live in Austin anymore so did not know about this shit. Replacing the old little one? Why not the trams as well?

How is it powered? Patchouli oil? Or a modern version of this bad ass?

 

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3 hours ago, ztejas said:

That thing is ugly as fuck.

 

Est. Completion - June, 2032

Why would they possible post this?? Wait until it "actually" is working. Last time they did this it flunked testing and here we are a year and a half later.

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Old timey train >> new boring train
Who's idea was it to make the new one look like a utilitarian modern freight train engine.
 

The same people’s idea who couldn’t figure out how to build and operate a miniature train.
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1 hour ago, Shaggy3.0 said:

so with the garza angst in this thread, i'm SURE full surly voter participation is a certainty.

right?

VOTED 

 

/no cr

Did my part.

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5 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Okay.....so in the various state house races, which are the GQP races that we should watch to see if the nutbar Paxton/MAGA challengers take out incumbents?  I know to watch Dade Phelan's race, but which others should I be watching?

Also, I'll be watching the three TX Ct of Criminal Appeals races to see how the incumbents do because Paxton is made at them for following the law.

Probably a better thread for your question?

Anyone voting the Austin DA race will be voting on the dem ballot. 

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Just now, Brisketexan said:

Shit.  Thought I was in that thread.  Mea culpa.

I was wondering if you posted in the wrong thread lol. Not trying to thread police but it seemed a weird post for the Austin thread. 

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22 hours ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

Hey Project Connect fans... your $1B train just arrived:

 

 

We are due for a train robbery. Can't let San Antonio own the last robbery.

 

https://www.tpr.org/arts-culture/2020-07-10/50-years-ago-there-was-a-great-little-train-robbery-in-san-antonio

An iconic San Antonio attraction has a darkly quirky event attached to it for all times. It happened in Brackenridge Park, on that little train that 300,000 people, primarily parents and children, ride yearly.

Tim Morrow is President and CEO of the San Antonio Zoo, which operates the train.

"It's a historic miniature train that's been in Brackenridge Park since the 1950s," he said. "It's just a fun experience to be on the train, to hear the train horn going as you go through the park.”   

The train wends its way under the tree canopy of Brackenridge, over creeks and the rolling grassy hills of the Brackenridge Golf Course. One Saturday in July of 1970 though, the experience that families relish turned downright weird.  

"Fifty years ago, next weekend, two robbers stopped the train and began to rob the passengers of their goods — their checkbooks, their jewelry and their money," he said.

Passengers first laughed, thinking it was an Old West re-enactment gag. But when one of the robbers put a gun to the head of a passenger, they figured out it wasn't a joke.

"It was the first time a train robbery had happened in Texas in 47 years, so it had some historical significance to it," Morrow said.

The robbers were soon apprehended and turned out to be Army soldiers stationed at Ft. Sam Houston.

"It was a federal crime to rob a train, so those two gentlemen did their time," he said.

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On 2/29/2024 at 4:20 PM, Ghost of LL said:

It's just Lost Creek that is being put to a vote.  It's the result of a very specific piece of legislation passed last year by the 88th Legislature, following years of lobbying by a handful of residents.  Perhaps it won't surprise you to learn that there are a few lobbyists who live in Lost Creek.

Anyway, it's just a majority of votes cast needed for disannexation.  That's why the City's move here is so puzzling.  In a low-turnout election, it's going to be the highly motivated people who carry the day.  And on this issue, that's clearly the pro-disannexation people.

 

So, honest question here, just curious: what are the pros (for those in Lost Creek) to be disannexed? 

 

 

 

On 2/29/2024 at 8:08 PM, onsager said:

This is a pretty abysmal take, in my opinion. When public transit is done well (and to be clear, I'm not saying it's done well in Austin), people will use it instead of driving. For example, I used to drive almost everywhere when I lived in the Houston area. After I moved to the Bay Area, I walk, bike, or use public transportation for 95% of my trips, and only use my car when going to the beach/mountains/camping/etc. with friends.

If you are someone who loves driving, it is in your best interests to have well-designed public transit. It means there will be fewer cars on the road and you'll be stuck in less traffic, which saves you time. And, it means people like me can save money and be healthier by walking, biking, and taking public transit instead of driving. In fact, for trips that are <2 miles, biking is usually faster than driving for me here, making it kinetically favorable.

Right now, we are stuck in the high energy transition state between two energy minima, which is what results in these non-idealities. But if Austin commits to doing this right (and in a cost-effective way) I think it'll be very good for the city in the long run.

 

Pos repped just because of all the cunts that negged it. 

 

 

 

 

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