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7 hours ago, Deej said:

That's appropriate as the average Chez Zee customer is old enough to need a funeral home soon. 

Truth. I took my mom there for brunch a couple of months ago and I thought that a local nursing home was having a field trip.

Also, the food and service were terrible. I don't know if it was an off-day or the restaurant has gone downhill the last couple of years.

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That’s spitting distance from my house and I drive that stretch every day. I don’t recall seeing black smoke or anything like that. I must be totally blind to it somehow.

We’ve lived here for 10 years and been to Chez Zee once. That was enough.

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38 minutes ago, HornOnTheBayou said:

Also, the food and service were terrible. I don't know if it was an off-day or the restaurant has gone downhill the last couple of years.

My sister in law lives nearby and my MIL/FIL loved the place, so I've been quite a bit over the years.  It definitely slipped a while back but seems to be on the rebound now.  Their gorgonzola jalapeno pasta is actually quite delicious, although I have no idea what relation it might have to any halfway legitimate Italian dish.

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On 3/16/2025 at 8:02 PM, Wally Pryor said:

The 37-acre homeless camp monstrosity at Montopois and Ben White is getting (compassionately) shut down by the city because it's a "high wildfire issue".  It's been a chamber of commerce landmark for awhile now so who knows what will really become of it.

At some point voters should decide whether public camping is allowed in the city. Unlikely to happen but who knows.

https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/austin-homeless-camp-closed-wildfire-risk/269-5c0032b5-0797-4c35-973e-d4f2a002bff7

At some point the people who care the most about this will stop giving the police department a pass on the issue. The DA and County Attorney are a problem in other areas but the camping problem is mostly a police priorities issue in my opinion.

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1 hour ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

At some point the people who care the most about this will stop giving the police department a pass on the issue. The DA and County Attorney are a problem in other areas but the camping problem is mostly a police priorities issue in my opinion.

Those "failure to signal a lane change" tickets aren't gonna write themselves.

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On 3/22/2025 at 8:14 AM, Wally Pryor said:

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Some people living in north Austin said they have concerns about the environmental impact of a cremation business nearby. Neighbors living next to Weed Corley Fish Funeral Homes and Cremation Services said they’ve seen multiple instances of black smoke coming from there.

https://clickhole.com/how-many-of-these-glowing-reviews-have-you-left-for-your-local-crematorium/

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7 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

At some point the people who care the most about this will stop giving the police department a pass on the issue. The DA and County Attorney are a problem in other areas but the camping problem is mostly a police priorities issue in my opinion.

police priorities?

lol

they are working in shifts!

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22 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

At some point the people who care the most about this will stop giving the police department a pass on the issue. The DA and County Attorney are a problem in other areas but the camping problem is mostly a police priorities issue in my opinion.

Police are prioritizing things that get prosecuted.  It's hard to hang a banner on the wall for most arrests that never go to trial.  There's a point where leadership at APD says, don't worry about <insert low level offense> arrests / tickets, as they all get tossed.  Focus on XYZ instead.  Again, at the end of the day, if you keep arresting people only to get the charges dropped, you don't earn the department any money, and waste everyone's time.

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1 hour ago, PvilleStang said:

Police are prioritizing things that get prosecuted.  It's hard to hang a banner on the wall for most arrests that never go to trial.  There's a point where leadership at APD says, don't worry about <insert low level offense> arrests / tickets, as they all get tossed.  Focus on XYZ instead.  Again, at the end of the day, if you keep arresting people only to get the charges dropped, you don't earn the department any money, and waste everyone's time.

No offense but bullshit. Prior to the ban being rescinded it wasn’t being prosecuted, either, just policed. There’s no upside. Do you want to fill up the county jail with homeless people?

 

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It's not just homelessness, it's been seen everywhere.  Basic policing in Austin has demonstrated time and time again to be reactive policing rather than proactive.  Traffic enforcement, what's that?  Thefts?  File a report.  You don't want to believe the DA and CA's approach since 2020 has had any effect on APD policy and behavior?!

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17 minutes ago, PvilleStang said:

It's not just homelessness, it's been seen everywhere.  Basic policing in Austin has demonstrated time and time again to be reactive policing rather than proactive.  Traffic enforcement, what's that?  Thefts?  File a report.  You don't want to believe the DA and CA's approach since 2020 has had any effect on APD policy and behavior?!

Oh, I certainly believe that our PD has had and is continuing to have what is effectively a years-long temper tantrum whereby they are "quiet quitting" and just not doing their jobs, as a "SEE!  If you don't let us do EXACTLY what WE want, and EXACTLY HOW WE want....well, we just won't do our jobs at all!"  Austin is not the only place it has happened.

Both things can be true (our DA is piss-poor, and our PD is petulant spoiled assholes who don't want any oversight or accountability, it only pisses them off).

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A homeless woman recently broke into Paragon Prep (a small private school that moved into the space by El Dorado that formally housed Magellan) while they were on break.  She spent a few days shitting all over the place (apparently damn near every room), destroyed tens of thousands of dollars worth of property, and scared the hell out of a bunch of kids when they showed back up for school.   I wonder what, if anything, will happen to her.  Obviously, she needs help, but she also has no business on the streets and among the public.  I suspect the revolving door will be in full service for her.

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13 minutes ago, PvilleStang said:

Don't you be letting the CA off the hook, she's dealing with the Misdemeanor enforcement, which is a bulk of the homeless citations.  

Yeah, those are a bitch.  Because what do you do, jail them over and over for jaywalking and shit?

The real problem is making this place a magnet for homeless people while simultaneously not actually offering sufficient real and effective programs to keep them from being an absolute mess.  That's on city leadership and, yes, law enforcement for not making arrests (arrest and short-term detention is really the only practically available short-term deterrent we have).

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1 minute ago, Samson&#x27;s Wig said:

Obviously, she needs help, but she also has no business on the streets and among the public.  I suspect the revolving door will be in full service for her.

The revolving door is the only one we have.  We have no coherent plan for dealing with the homeless.  Truly, functionally zero plan.

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2 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

No offense but bullshit. Prior to the ban being rescinded it wasn’t being prosecuted, either, just policed. There’s no upside. Do you want to fill up the county jail with homeless people?

 

Hell no. That’s what debtors prisons are for. Surely we can place some barges on the river.

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2 hours ago, PvilleStang said:

You don't want to believe the DA and CA's approach since 2020 has had any effect on APD policy and behavior?!

Of course I do, and said so above. I mentioned them both being a problem. But this one is on the cops.

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1 hour ago, ChickenSandwich said:

These born losers will kill someone or be killed by someone soon. Not great

Yeah, my fucking dad was talking about defending that dealership from left wing terrorists. He absolutely never would’ve considered buying a Tesla a year ago. We’re so fucked.

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On 3/24/2025 at 7:43 AM, PvilleStang said:

Police are prioritizing things that get prosecuted.  It's hard to hang a banner on the wall for most arrests that never go to trial.  There's a point where leadership at APD says, don't worry about <insert low level offense> arrests / tickets, as they all get tossed.  Focus on XYZ instead.  Again, at the end of the day, if you keep arresting people only to get the charges dropped, you don't earn the department any money, and waste everyone's time.

@Bozo_Casanova is doing a truly terrible job of trying to say that policing doesn't mean arresting. Kidding bozo sorta.

this is part of the problem with "data driven solutions."

there is no real effective way to "measure" compassionate policing. seems the only way we know how to measure it is by arrests made, successful prosecutions, cracked skulls, etc.

 

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18 hours ago, Pam Cummings said:

Chatter on this one is that a northbound dump truck was driving at a high rate of speed, got cut off by a car, and in trying to avoid it, jumped the median and ate a car heading southbound, killing the driver.

Fucking I-35 is a deathtrap, and I hate every minute that I have to drive on it.

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12 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Chatter on this one is that a northbound dump truck was driving at a high rate of speed, got cut off by a car, and in trying to avoid it, jumped the median and ate a car heading southbound, killing the driver.

Fucking I-35 is a deathtrap, and I hate every minute that I have to drive on it.

Ordinarily, people who drive under the speed limit annoy me.  But I give all of them a pass on I35.  I consider myself a pretty good and confident driver, but I white-knuckle it for some stretches on that corridor of hell.  

My parents live in Georgetown, and even thought it's farther and subject to tolls, I usually take 130 when I visit them and avoid I35.

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On 3/24/2025 at 11:12 AM, Brisketexan said:

The revolving door is the only one we have.  We have no coherent plan for dealing with the homeless.  Truly, functionally zero plan.

Scroll up. We have several cremation centers.

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38 minutes ago, South Austin said:

Ordinarily, people who drive under the speed limit annoy me.  But I give all of them a pass on I35. 

Maybe not the fuckers going 45 in the left lane every goddamned morning. 

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17 hours ago, B00M said:

Yeah, my fucking dad was talking about defending that dealership from left wing terrorists. He absolutely never would’ve considered buying a Tesla a year ago. We’re so fucked.

How old's your dad?

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1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

Chatter on this one is that a northbound dump truck was driving at a high rate of speed, got cut off by a car, and in trying to avoid it, jumped the median and ate a car heading southbound, killing the driver.

Fucking I-35 is a deathtrap, and I hate every minute that I have to drive on it.

I have a hard time believing the words "high rate of speed" on that stretch of 35 in RR, either NB or SB, between 45 and 79.  

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2 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Chatter on this one is that a northbound dump truck was driving at a high rate of speed, got cut off by a car, and in trying to avoid it, jumped the median and ate a car heading southbound, killing the driver.

Fucking I-35 is a deathtrap, and I hate every minute that I have to drive on it.

I’m obviously sad my girls went to college so far away from home because I miss them, but I worry about them far less in Edinburgh and NYC specifically because they are almost never in a car. 

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30 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

I’m obviously sad my girls went to college so far away from home because I miss them, but I worry about them far less in Edinburgh and NYC specifically because they are almost never in a car. 

100%.  Seriously, have had that conversation with friends.  Realizing 1) how inherently dangerous travel is by car, and then 2) how EXTRA-dangerous it is/was when young, stupid, often drunk college students are involved (yeah, I was at UT in the late 80s), it is an inescapable conclusion that based on just the fact that they are hardly ever in a car (Ubers sometimes, and occasional road trips on highways that are much slower and safer than ours), my kids' safety risk in college was WAY lower than ours.

And I still break into a cold sweat when I stop and think/realize that you can be doing everything right, and then a fucking dump truck jumps the median and kills you dead, you never had a chance.  That....fucking bothers me.  A lot.

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Maybe not the fuckers going 45 in the left lane every goddamned morning. 

if its rush hour thats about as fast as you can go. Braking is the issue. Rush hour is a different animal.
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7 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

100%.  Seriously, have had that conversation with friends.  Realizing 1) how inherently dangerous travel is by car, and then 2) how EXTRA-dangerous it is/was when young, stupid, often drunk college students are involved (yeah, I was at UT in the late 80s), it is an inescapable conclusion that based on just the fact that they are hardly ever in a car (Ubers sometimes, and occasional road trips on highways that are much slower and safer than ours), my kids' safety risk in college was WAY lower than ours.

And I still break into a cold sweat when I stop and think/realize that you can be doing everything right, and then a fucking dump truck jumps the median and kills you dead, you never had a chance.  That....fucking bothers me.  A lot.

This- it’s funny, I get asked all the time if I worry about my kid riding the subways in New York.  She’s far safer there than driving a car on I35 or 2222.

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13 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

And I still break into a cold sweat when I stop and think/realize that you can be doing everything right, and then a fucking dump truck jumps the median and kills you dead, you never had a chance.  That....fucking bothers me.  A lot.

A parachute not opening, that's a way to die. Getting caught in the gears of a combine, having your nuts bit off by a Laplander, that's the way I wanna go!

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9 minutes ago, Eskimohorn said:


if its rush hour thats about as fast as you can go. Braking is the issue. Rush hour is a different animal.

Pre-rush hour. 

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5 minutes ago, South Austin said:

A parachute not opening, that's a way to die. Getting caught in the gears of a combine, having your nuts bit off by a Laplander, that's the way I wanna go!

I'd rather burn in at 200 mph and have some laughs, then to eat it in a car accident, I mean thats a really dumb way to go.  No, really, you see like the one thing I wanna do before I join the cosmos is to hang glide off of Mt. Everest. Yeah, but wait, this is the best part: NAKED! 

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24 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

100%.  Seriously, have had that conversation with friends.  Realizing 1) how inherently dangerous travel is by car, and then 2) how EXTRA-dangerous it is/was when young, stupid, often drunk college students are involved (yeah, I was at UT in the late 80s), it is an inescapable conclusion that based on just the fact that they are hardly ever in a car (Ubers sometimes, and occasional road trips on highways that are much slower and safer than ours), my kids' safety risk in college was WAY lower than ours.

And I still break into a cold sweat when I stop and think/realize that you can be doing everything right, and then a fucking dump truck jumps the median and kills you dead, you never had a chance.  That....fucking bothers me.  A lot.

Now, with vehicle inspections a thing of the past in Texas, you'll have many more random car parts flying into the path of your vehicle at a high rate of speed. 

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