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No Safe Word posted:I mean, the Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo is a pretty good dude, y'all That guy has probably been all over the state in the past 5 years because he’s constantly fired.
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:there's not much to do there and the terrain is barren and devoid of trees so people might go a little nuts Last time I passed through there, I was struck by the number of people that I saw casually spitting.
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Sardonik posted:I am baffled yet intrigued. Amarillo is a city pretty much because there needed to be a city in a reasonable proximity to all the surrounding areas. Likely because it lay along a main east to west trade route. A literal and figurative way station between the ultimate destinations. No one ever thinks I'm going to Amarillo to live my dreams. You're there because you were born there or got stuck there on the way to somewhere else.
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I remember Art Acevedo going on the Alex Jones show and talking about growing up his family would stash anti-Castro guerrillas in their house in Florida and how "the only good communist is a dead communist" or something like that lol
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Sardonik posted:What horrors lay beneath these perfect yet slightly off-kilter grids? Nukes
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:I remember Art Acevedo going on the Alex Jones show and talking about growing up his family would stash anti-Castro guerrillas in their house in Florida and how "the only good communist is a dead communist" or something like that lol what the gently caress, seriously hahaha there are TONS of these. i was totally unaware http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=alex+jones+art+acevedo i say swears online fucked around with this message at 08:09 on Oct 7, 2018 |
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Skex posted:Amarillo is a city pretty much because there needed to be a city in a reasonable proximity to all the surrounding areas. Likely because it lay along a main east to west trade route. A literal and figurative way station between the ultimate destinations. No one ever thinks I'm going to Amarillo to live my dreams. You're there because you were born there or got stuck there on the way to somewhere else. As someone who's visited Amarillo and spent nearly a decade in Lubbock that sounds about right. Lubbuck is about a 2 hour drive south and about the same: just a city that sprung into existence because you need a central hub every so often to service the farms/ranches/oil pumps in the panhandle. The only difference is that it then got to seat a major state university in the mid-20's which helped it grow that much bigger.
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Ivan Shitskin posted:Nukes Along with most of the rest of the country too, granted Although the risk of an accidental detonation seems real enough that the DoE has encased the nukes in giant dome bunkers a few miles east of the city. On the plus side we know where we'd get the irradiated, two-headed cows from the Fallout universe. i say swears online posted:what the gently caress, seriously BrutalistMcDonalds fucked around with this message at 09:38 on Oct 7, 2018 |
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Alkydere posted:As someone who's visited Amarillo and spent nearly a decade in Lubbock that sounds about right. Lubbuck is about a 2 hour drive south and about the same: just a city that sprung into existence because you need a central hub every so often to service the farms/ranches/oil pumps in the panhandle. The only difference is that it then got to seat a major state university in the mid-20's which helped it grow that much bigger. amarillo and lubbock's metro areas are almost identical in population, strangely BrutalistMcDonalds posted:There ya go. Yeah I don't know why Austin finally sent him packing but underneath his tendency to sob for the cameras, there's a hardened would-be enforcer of Batista 2: Cuban Boogaloo my dad loves acevedo for reasons i could never grasp, i guess that makes sense
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i say swears online posted:amarillo and lubbock's metro areas are almost identical in population, strangely But Lubbock has a large transient student population as well, and Texas Tech brings in mad cash from grants and the students themselves which means Lubbock has a few areas built up to be nice/expensive. 75% of Lubbock looks more or less the same as Amarillo though: worn but cared for and covered in a permanent layer of dust.
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i say swears online posted:amarillo and lubbock's metro areas are almost identical in population, strangely Amarillo By Morning did more for humanity than anything out of Texas Tech ever will.
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i say swears online posted:what the gently caress, seriously 
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i say swears online posted:what the gently caress, seriously Well, this puts a nice little bow on everything I knew about Art.
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Alkydere posted:As someone who's visited Amarillo and spent nearly a decade in Lubbock that sounds about right. Lubbuck is about a 2 hour drive south and about the same: just a city that sprung into existence because you need a central hub every so often to service the farms/ranches/oil pumps in the panhandle. The only difference is that it then got to seat a major state university in the mid-20's which helped it grow that much bigger. Also, the major regional university in the Amarillo area (West Texas A&M) is in Canyon, like 10 miles south. It's not as big as Texas Tech by any means, but it means the development is gonna be slightly split. Amarillo sucks but honestly its food isn't that bad. It just needs a costco 
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:
We were not paying him enough, that or we are not a big enough city to give him the admiration he desired.
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:there's not much to do there and the terrain is barren and devoid of trees so people might go a little nuts But do they have a Buckey's?
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Parrotine posted:But do they have a Buckey's? Uh, excuse me it's spelled Bucc'eez
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No Safe Word posted:I mean, the Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo is a pretty good dude, y'all he's a loving lunatic Alex Jones type who keeps getting fired because he's too stupid to be a cop. He's too stupid to be a cop. That's worryingly stupid
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 Reminder that Tuesday is the last day to register to vote. You can either go to your county tax office and do it in person (list of offices here: https://www.sos.texas.gov/elections/voter/votregduties.shtml) or get a form and send it in by October 9. In Travis County at least you can pick up a form at public libraries, post offices, and a lot of grocery stores. They should already have paid postage. I imagine this is similar for other large cities. If you moved within the same county and need to update your address, you can do that here: https://txapps.texas.gov/tolapp/sos/SOSACManager
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sexpig by night posted:he's a loving lunatic Alex Jones type who keeps getting fired because he's too stupid to be a cop. Are we talking about the same guy? He was chief in Austin for 9+ years, and got hired away for a better position, not fired.
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Acevedo always seemed like one of those "cool cops" who people seem to like for vague reasons. But he says stuff like this:quote:Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo apologized Saturday for comments he made during a press conference about the arrest of a jogger for jaywalking near the UT campus. During that press conference, Acevedo said that "In other cities there's cops who are actually committing sexual assaults on duty, so I thank God that this is what passes for a controversy in Austin, Texas." Of course, the chance that no APD officers commit sexual assault on duty under Acevedo was basically 0%.
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Wasn't he disliked by the police union and other brass for wanting to make Austin PD more accountable on things?
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Badger of Basra posted:
Also you can apparently register at the dessert gallery I found out the other day, if you live in Houston.
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You can check to see if you're registered here https://teamrv-mvp.sos.texas.gov/MVP/mvp.do
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Jiro posted:Wasn't he disliked by the police union and other brass for wanting to make Austin PD more accountable on things? Yea he publicly supported black lives matter and that was the end of it for Austin
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Got some interesting competing narratives for the story of Art Acevedo in here
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I didn't know about the InfoWars thing, which is pretty funny and at least it looks like most of them predate Jones going all right wing crazy instead of lovable Austin goofball crazy (dunno when he begin his decline so don't quote). But the BLM matter thing was in the news a lot ( https://www.statesman.com/news/20160816/acevedo-no-comment-on-union-criticism-for-appearing-with-activists ; https://www.statesman.com/NEWS/20160915/Austin-Police-Chief-Art-Acevedo-punished-in-David-Joseph-case) and he bailed to Houston like two months later. Stories came out that he had a strained relationship with the city, but the city gave him a pay raise to keep him from going to San Antonio not long before he went to Houston, so who knows. Some people liked him and some people didn't, but the idea that he kept getting fired is just wrong. You can look it up. He started with CHP in 86, became chief of CHP in 2005, became chief of APD in 2006, and chief of HPD in 2016.
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I remember that some audio leaked of him berating commanders after a bad shoot Article here. He was crosswise with the union for firing the cop that shot that naked kid, or at least that's what he says. He says all the right things in the audio but, there was also some speculation that the audio leaked on purpose and it was more of a show than substantial. quote:“The union got all pissed off because I fired Freeman,” he told the group. “Some of you might have gotten pissed off. I’m going to tell you right now, if we have another Freeman tomorrow, that is what’s going to happen. I didn’t lose a minute of sleep. If you can’t handle a kid in broad daylight, naked, and your first instinct is to come out with your gun, and your next instinct is to shoot the kid dead, you don’t need to be a cop. I don’t give a poo poo how nice you are.”
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zoux posted:You can check to see if you're registered here Just to be clear, if this site says I’m registered (well it says I will be on 10/12), I don’t have to worry about any of the vote.org shenanigans? I sent in a voting application by mail, but it may have come from there.
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I believe so. I would check with your county dept of elections as well.
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Just to warn people; when I check that site it tells me I'm NOT registered (I moved recently), but I called the Travis County Tax Office to confirm last week and they've got my new address and say I'm registered to vote, so it would be prudent to just get in touch with a live human just to be safe.
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https://twitter.com/barstoolnewsn/status/1049377632402505729?s=21
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Welp, guess I'm a Ted Cruz man now.
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Ted Cruz has murdered a lot more than the dab.
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I was already going to vote for him but killing the dab would never lose my vote
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Beto this is the opposite of punk rock how could you.
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zoux posted:You can check to see if you're registered here Just double checking but does this mean I'm good or need to reregister tomorrow? 
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Spacebump posted:Just double checking but does this mean I'm good or need to reregister tomorrow? Likely good! Check for the Voter Status tag under that. If it's ACTIVE, you're set (but tbh double check tomorrow morning because why not).
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isk posted:Likely good! Check for the Voter Status tag under that. If it's ACTIVE, you're set (but tbh double check tomorrow morning because why not). Thank you, the site says active. I figured I was good but am paranoid and wanted to make sure.
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