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Old people just really don't give a poo poo about anyone younger than them, do they? I can't wait until I'm real old. 
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Now the biggest source of Austin immigrants wont be from CA it'll be from BGTX.
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Aug 16, 2016 16:55
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blue squares posted:10 more years.... Looking at the numbers, the 46-65 set are pretty hard in the tank for Trump too, but maybe not enough to offset young+demographic changes, especially since there won't be a friendly SCOTUS to uphold their voting rights fuckery.
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blue squares posted:what is BGTX Battleground Texas (I'm assuming)
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https://twitter.com/evanasmith/status/765571878823956480
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Parachute posted:Old people just really don't give a poo poo about anyone younger than them, do they? Why wait until then?
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ReidRansom posted:Republicans really, really seems to be against the high speed rail project. Now individual counties are passing laws to interfere with it and don't you know that's just fine with a bunch of republican lawmakers. So long as you're not banning fracking or plastic bags. That type of project legitimately has (rich) bipartisan opposition. Texas just has lots of Republicans.
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Even without Trump you still have Abbot and the tea party running around like psychopaths , scaring minority and women voters away from the GOP, that's on top of the fall in the price of oil exposing years of mismanagement and fuckery, plus Johnson running around with 5-10% , which is going to gently caress up some of the gerrymanders around Houston and Dallas. .
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Aug 17, 2016 11:47
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXFy-cl46Wc Austin Tourism video c. 1987. Can you imagine how much Austin would own if it was still under 500k population.
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zoux posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXFy-cl46Wc It's easy to romanticize the past. As much as the slacker era seems awesome now, Austin was also a weirdly desperate place back in the day. Like, everything was cheap and low-key but that's because the majority of the city was also fairly poor and didn't have much opportunity to advance themselves. The best jobs were at UT or working for the state, and they weren't that great (especially since they usually required a bachelor's degree). Also, we were a real amateur city. Like, there was all kinds of interesting experimental art, but the art stayed amateur because nobody would/could pay for it. Like, maybe your band would get $20-$50 for a gig to split between the 3-8 of you, but if you were doing theater or dance or poetry or anything else you were pretty much expected to be performing for free. Austin was a great place to find out what you wanted to do, but if you wanted to actually succeed at it you had to leave for somewhere else. Things were also really insular, and Austin didn't have much cultural cachet anywhere else. I can't remember who said the quote, but I remember it ringing very true in the late 90s - "You can be a god in Austin and not even be able to get laid in St. Louis." Sure, you could work a part-time job at the IRS from January to April and make enough money to pay your $75/month rent for the whole year, then spend the rest of the year playing with your band and drinking lone star around the firepit in somebody's back yard. And honestly, as much as that can be paradise for a while, it's not exactly something you can plan a retirement around. Also, the food was absolute poo poo. Notice how they showed a picture of Taco Cabana in the tourist video when talking about local cuisine? So yea, as much as the tech money (and the new population) hosed up the slacker's paradise that Austin used to be, it also gave more opportunities for awesome poo poo to develop.
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Aug 17, 2016 17:02
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Yeah but you could drive on I-35.
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Sounds like 1990s Austin was 2000s College Station, but with the state capital.
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The Mandingo posted:Sounds like 1990s Austin was 2000s College Station, but with the state capital. No, the music scene here in College Station has never been good.
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I know nothing of Austin's demographics from that time period but that video made the city look exceptionally white and monoculture.
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e_angst posted:if you were doing theater or dance or poetry or anything else you were pretty much expected to be performing for free. It's not like people pay you for theatre, dance, or poetry nowadays, unless you're doing it in the one or two venues per city that have oil money.
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Dameius posted:I know nothing of Austin's demographics from that time period but that video made the city look exceptionally white and monoculture. Well we didn't know about diversity before 1994.
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e_angst posted:Notice how they showed a picture of Taco Cabana in the tourist video when talking about local cuisine? Man, honestly I'd kill for some Taco C on the reg. It beats any of the poo poo I can get up north.
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Another Austin time capsule is the 1991 movie Slacker which is odd and plotless but is still definitely Austin alright.
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https://twitter.com/ppppolls/status/765990291421691908 Actually, I'm in favor of the OK wall. The rest is out now: https://twitter.com/ppppolls/status/766004260047822848 Houston is Texas' baseball team, get hosed Rangers. https://twitter.com/ppppolls/status/766005101295202304 Agree. zoux fucked around with this message at 21:15 on Aug 17, 2016 |
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Aug 17, 2016 20:16
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zoux posted:
Fixed that for ya.
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Aug 17, 2016 21:29
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I've never liked Dallas teams, dunno why. Except the Cowboys, but that's because my formative football years were the mid 90s.
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Aug 17, 2016 21:31
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I still want the Oilers back 
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I can't really talk about my team anymore.  I mean, I can, but I don't really want to.
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ReidRansom posted:I still want the Oilers back My dad is from Houston and was a massive Oilers fan and I still remember watching that 93 Houston-Buffalo game with him because it was the first time I got that football could be amazing.
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Aug 17, 2016 21:38
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zoux I think maybe we could be friends.
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zoux posted:Well we didn't know about diversity before 1994. And then we learned about it and went a bit nuts. Keep Austin Weird at all costs, y'all!
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zoux posted:I'm mostly a rabid UT fanboy so probably not. Who's tentatively ready for September the 4th???? Cause I have no loving clue what to expect from this season.
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Jiro posted:Who's tentatively ready for September the 4th???? Cause I have no loving clue what to expect from this season. Same, except from A&M. Well, I expect at least 3 high profile games we lose, but after Auburn a year or so ago who knows.
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Jiro posted:Who's tentatively ready for September the 4th???? Cause I have no loving clue what to expect from this season. I expect to receive an email every week informing me of where I can and cannot park
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Welp, it looks like Laredo just had a court overturn its plastic bag ban.quote:A state appeals court has struck down a plastic bag ban in Laredo in a high-profile fight over local control that could ultimately impact similar laws in other Texas cities. At this point we're really just turning into a state governed by right wing talk radio.
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Aug 18, 2016 16:04
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Good gently caress plastic bag bans ¬_¬
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zoux posted:Good gently caress plastic bag bans ¬_¬ Bag bans own and I love them.
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I try to use reusables like some dirty Californian, but I tend to forget most times.
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I will destroy plastic bags.
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Seriously, since I left Austin I've been seeing them everywhere.
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Dallas had the ban all of 6 months before they repealed it. It really isn't that much of a burden
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The TribFest schedule has been posted for anyone who's interested. It looks like most of the same people as usual (which includes some big gets), but they also got Vicente Fox.
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Badger of Basra posted:The TribFest schedule has been posted for anyone who's interested. It looks like most of the same people as usual (which includes some big gets), but they also got Vicente Fox. Ah at last he has returned to America to personally apologize to Donald Trump. He's gonna be in town next week 
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