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Sydin posted:Indeed. I've been told by coworkers how awesome Austin is before, but I just don't buy the "blue dot in a sea of red" pitch. Sure, the influx of young tech workers primarily from California has shifted city level politics to the left. Fine. You still have to deal with the conservative state government, not to mention shitheads like Abbott. California has its fair share of shitheads. Weren't you guys just talking about a dude who submitted a ballot proposal to kill gays?
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enraged_camel posted:California has its fair share of shitheads. Weren't you guys just talking about a dude who submitted a ballot proposal to kill gays? That just takes one person. Our ratio is much lower.
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enraged_camel posted:California has its fair share of shitheads. Weren't you guys just talking about a dude who submitted a ballot proposal to kill gays? We have plenty of shitheads yes, but our state government is overwhelmingly left leaning, whereas Texas'... isn't.  Also there's a difference between some random shithead lawyer abusing the ballot proposition system, and the governor of Texas himself being a shithead.In either case, my point is more that even if places like Austin or Dallas are fairly blue, local governments can only do so much. Eventually, they're going to end up butting heads with the more conservative state government.
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Mar 24, 2015 23:46
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nm posted:California loves America way more than Texas.
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Mar 25, 2015 01:11
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One major problem with Austin is the lack of diversity. All the "cool" points of Austin are pretty much "Whites Only".
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Mar 25, 2015 01:15
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FRINGE posted:Well yeah, but the Taliban and ISIS love America more than Texas does so I dont know if it means much. I dunno, all the Texans I know are all "'Murca!" people. Big flags and poo poo. Yet, they keep talking about leaving the US to form some terrible failed state. I support texas independence as long as they pay us back for the infrastructure. They're nearly tapped out of oil anyhow.
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nm posted:I dunno, all the Texans I know are all "'Murca!" people. Big flags and poo poo. Yet, they keep talking about leaving the US to form some terrible failed state. I support texas independence as long as they pay us back for the infrastructure. They're nearly tapped out of oil anyhow. http://www.businessinsider.com/texas-state-budget-crisis-2011-1 http://www.businessinsider.com/texas-budget-shortfall-2011-1 quote:But there's one state, which is fairly high up on the list of troubled states that nobody is talking about, and there's a reason for it. No idea whats current though.
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all this hate is getting too east coast for me, can't we just chill, like true Californians. LA, SF, Austin...getting some low frequency vibes, my dudes.
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FRINGE posted:I lost track a couple years back, but I remember there being a kind of stealth implosion with the State finances in TX that the media was ignoring because it was too busy talking about CAs money woes and how taxes are bad for people. (Therefore everything TX does is good for people!) They currently have a budget surplus, actually. As do we.  Granted, a lot of their surplus was built on the oil, and that ship is continuing to sink. Prices won't stay down forever, but if it continues out to the next budget cycle Texas is going to feel the squeeze.The big upcoming issue for Texas' budget is actually that the current proposed budget doesn't spend all the money they have. Dems want to put the remainder into education and highway infrastructure. Abbott wants to use it to buffer tax cuts, and increase border security. I wonder which way Texas will end up going? 
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Space-Bird posted:all this hate is getting too east coast for me, can't we just chill, like true Californians. LA, SF, Austin...getting some low frequency vibes, my dudes. That was all fine until Ricky Perry came to CA and declared war on us.
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Space-Bird posted:all this hate is getting too east coast for me, can't we just chill, like true Californians. LA, SF, Austin...getting some low frequency vibes, my dudes. In other news, I wonder if this photo was taken at the exact moment that protesters at the UC Regents meeting started taking off their clothes:  And apparently the state legislature is now considering limiting some of the autonomy that the Regents have over the university system. Bizarro Watt fucked around with this message at 02:13 on Mar 25, 2015 |
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Shbobdb posted:One major problem with Austin is the lack of diversity. All the "cool" points of Austin are pretty much "Whites Only". Austin really is a PNW city after all.
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Bizarro Watt posted:And apparently the state legislature is now considering limiting some of the autonomy that the Regents have over the university system. My vote is to limit their autonomy over the system by ejecting them from it at lightspeed. What? They're all multi-million/billionaires, they'll bounce back. Let 'em go gently caress up some private oil company, or Ebay, or something. Just put the public universities under the control of somebody actually looking out for more than their own pocketbook, please.
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Bizarro Watt posted:In other news, I wonder if this photo was taken at the exact moment that protesters at the UC Regents meeting started taking off their clothes: The problem is that being autonomious is why the UCs have not fallen as far as the CSU system given the cuts. Historically, it has been useful. For example, in the Reagan years it prevented him from firing people who took him on. The whole this is a poo poo show between Brown and Napalitano. The tuition increases were really just a tool to try to increase UC funding. The legislature passed it and brown vetoed it. Brown is absolutely correct that the UC has too much bloat, but the increases are certainly shared fault.
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nm posted:The problem is that being autonomious is why the UCs have not fallen as far as the CSU system given the cuts. Man how did the UC system used to be world class while being cheap, it must have been magic. Lets put together an administrative committee to figure it out.
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Mar 25, 2015 03:39
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Somebody shot a cop in San jose this evening. News is saying it was with a rifle from a nearby balcony. http://kron4.com/2015/03/24/massive-police-presence-in-san-jose/
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Ron Jeremy posted:Somebody shot a cop in San jose this evening. News is saying it was with a rifle from a nearby balcony. Glad I moved out when I did.
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Zeitgueist posted:Man how did the UC system used to be world class while being cheap, it must have been magic. Lets put together an administrative committee to figure it out. Could have to do with the state paying almost 1/3 the amount per student today than they did in 1974. Good news though, the UC is cutting the admin bloat! A faculty assistant (who is classed as admin, but really is a researcher and is masters minimum and Ph.D preferred) just got a faculty position at UCD. She was previously paid $55k, which for a Ph.D ain't much. Her replacement? UC put a $35k per year cap on the job. For a STEM masters. But next year, the spending will go down a whole $20k (or possibly 55k, as no qualified applicants have applied given the pay). nm fucked around with this message at 04:49 on Mar 25, 2015 |
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nm posted:Could have to do with the state paying almost 1/3 the amount per student today than they did in 1974. I once earned $20K a year working prep at a fast food restaurant.
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Ron Jeremy posted:Somebody shot a cop in San jose this evening. News is saying it was with a rifle from a nearby balcony.  Fan-loving-tastic.
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computer parts posted:Austin really is a PNW city after all. It's actually more of a fusion. It's got a lot of Vermont in there too.
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Shbobdb posted:It's actually more of a fusion. It's got a lot of Vermont in there too. So White people who look and try to act liberal, but are actually libertarian as gently caress.
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Forceholy posted:So White people who look and try to act liberal, but are actually libertarian as gently caress. Reminder that Whole Foods' CEO  -ed about Obamacare being fascism.
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Forceholy posted:So White people who look and try to act liberal, but are actually libertarian as gently caress. That's more of a Bay Area thing. Austin and the PNW will gladly have a black President, but would be uncomfortable with a black neighbor.
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:Reminder that Whole Foods' CEO He's also vocally anti-union. Mackey is a textbook libertarian crybaby.
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Austin was fun to visit and all but holy poo poo the amount of casual racism we encountered in a week (especially when traveling a few miles out of the city) basically turned us off forever.
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Dismantle the UC system, start fresh. Can't fix what doesn't work in the first place.
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Bastard Tetris posted:Austin was fun to visit and all but holy poo poo the amount of casual racism we encountered in a week (especially when traveling a few miles out of the city) basically turned us off forever. I have visited Austin several times in the past, and moved there last week. I'm very surprised by your comment because out of all the places I've visited and lived in, including Seattle and LA, Austin is by far the most tolerant city.
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Hitlers Gay Secret posted:Dismantle the UC system, start fresh. The perfect recipe to create a system that meets all of the needs of the prison guard lobby (or whichever lobby is most willing to throw money at it).
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enraged_camel posted:I have visited Austin several times in the past, and moved there last week. I'm very surprised by your comment because out of all the places I've visited and lived in, including Seattle and LA, Austin is by far the most tolerant city. I think a lot of black people disagree. http://www.npr.org/2015/02/13/385495327/a-community-takes-on-racial-tensions-once-hidden-under-the-surface Thats in the "progressive" neighborhood. Meanwhile, Sacramento, hardly the model city in CA, was declared the most integrated city in America. (Everyone is still racist, just less than other places I guess.)
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nm posted:I think a lot of black people disagree. I didn't say there is no racism in Austin. Incidents like the one in the article happen everywhere. But how many places do you know where a community/neighborhood realizes and openly admits it has a racism problem and starts an open and constructive dialogue to try to fix it?
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Sacramento seems like a cool place, maybe I should move there.
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FCKGW posted:Sacramento seems like a cool place, maybe I should move there. Sacramento is actually very very hot in the summer.
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withak posted:Sacramento is actually very very hot in the summer. Can't be worse than the rest of the valley below or above it, or most of inland SoCal.
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nm posted:Meanwhile, Sacramento, hardly the model city in CA, was declared the most integrated city in America. (Everyone is still racist, just less than other places I guess.) Sacramento doesn't have a right and wrong side of the tracks. It is a patchwork of several nicer and run down neighborhoods interspersed. You can't live here without at least acknowledging that there are different people and most of them are decent humans. The poeple that can't come to terms with that move out to one of the far away suburbs like eldorado hills.
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CopperHound posted:Sacramento doesn't have a right and wrong side of the tracks. It is a patchwork of several nicer and run down neighborhoods interspersed. You can't live here without at least acknowledging that there are different people and most of them are decent humans. The poeple that can't come to terms with that move out to one of the far away suburbs like eldorado hills. Jesus I knew this one half-Filipino CS student (natch) from Rocklin at school who talked a lot about how black people just needed to get over slavery and bootstrap.
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:Can't be worse than the rest of the valley below or above it, or most of inland SoCal. It's definitely worse than inland socal, at least when I lived there. LA got hot but Sac was holy poo poo never turn off the AC bad.
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California might try to require warrants before cops can intercept your cell phone: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/03/california-bill-requires-warrant-for-stingray-use/quote:A California state bill that would require a warrant to access all kinds of digital data passed its first hurdle after being approved by the Senate Public Safety Committee on Tuesday. Of course, cops have issues with the new bill: quote:Vranicar told the committee that the bill would "undermine efforts to find child exploitation," specifically child pornography.
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Zachack posted:It's definitely worse than inland socal, at least when I lived there. LA got hot but Sac was holy poo poo never turn off the AC bad. La is not inland socal. The IE is. The climate is vitually the same, except sacramento has wetter winters and has more water due to the sierras.
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Yes, Sacramento can get real hot during peak summer. But the nice part is most of the suburbs and Sacramento itself cool down nicely at night. Further north and south in the valley are the struggling points, because the breeze coming through the delta doesn't make it that far. Going to Chico State, I experienced some real bad nights...like waking up at 2 or 3 am, still sweating in bed from the heat. too cheap to constantly run the A/C.
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