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Roumba posted:If he launches Cruz out of the solar system/into the sun, I'll consider it. hmmm.. I might have been too hasty.
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Captain Monkey posted:you can gently caress right off with that. Move right into the now abandoned Humble Oil tower downtown. What better symbolism than an electric car company displacing the first gleaming skyscraper of oil and gas.
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Apr 8, 2021 19:25
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It's simple, there is Q and there are Anons, there is no QAnon. What do you mean that makes no sense, it's what Q told me to say!
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Apr 8, 2021 19:45
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The Russian computer person who started Q poo poo seeing it take over Texas: "Yee Haw! Gig Them, My Agricultural Friends!!"
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Apr 8, 2021 19:49
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Sab0921 posted:Move right into the now abandoned Humble Oil tower downtown. What better symbolism than an electric car company displacing the first gleaming skyscraper of oil and gas. I'd rather the building sit abandoned than Musk take possession of even a single broom closet. He can gently caress off forever.
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Apr 8, 2021 21:39
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Y'all are weird. Elon Musk may be an rear end in a top hat, but Houston's future is dim at best as an oil and gas town. Getting the largest EV company and fastest growing automaker to move to Houston would be a huge W for the city and may help shepherd us into the future away from extractive industries. Plus, you know, there are like 10,000 people that work at Tesla - some of them may even be nice and would be a great addition to the city.
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Apr 8, 2021 22:19
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My opinion is that Tesla is a fake company propped up by memes and one day it's going to come crashing down like a house of cards.
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Apr 8, 2021 22:24
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Man, I hate Ken Paxton, I hope he's out of office soon! *monkey paw curls*
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Apr 8, 2021 22:25
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Sab0921 posted:Y'all are weird. Yeah, but the city would give them everything and raise taxes on all the rest of us living here.
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Apr 8, 2021 22:26
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Good annotated dissection of the terrible voter suppression bullshit: https://twitter.com/emilyebytx/status/1380214038492295179
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Apr 8, 2021 22:29
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Sab0921 posted:Y'all are weird. what will we do if we don't fellate a guy whose familial wealth was built off african emerald mines, and whose main contribution to companies is posting on twitter and getting fined by the SEC? what will become of our city?? edit: wait, another one -- Just what we need, more mysterious fires in Houston. Yngwie Mangosteen fucked around with this message at 22:39 on Apr 8, 2021 |
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Apr 8, 2021 22:32
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Sab0921 posted:Y'all are weird. yea Tesla is a great longterm investment for a city to build its entire identity around, including giving them massive tax breaks and protections, whatever you do don't google Tesla's actual financial and investment trends!
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Apr 8, 2021 22:35
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Captain Monkey posted:what will we do if we don't fellate a guy whose familial wealth was built off african emerald mines, and whose main contribution to companies is posting on twitter and getting fined by the SEC? what will become of our city?? If anything is going to bring the return of Austin's Slacker-era (those years post-S&L Crisis that resulted in a massively overbuilt city with super-cheap rents for the remaining residents who had few job opportunities but plenty of time to hang out and make stuff), it will be Tesla going all-in on Austin for several years before their massive amounts of fraud catch up to them and the whole company collapses.
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Apr 8, 2021 22:38
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zoux posted:My opinion is that Tesla is a fake company propped up by memes and one day it's going to come crashing down like a house of cards. Yeah, the problem is specifically this company and this shithead, not the concept of a large employer and EV manufacturer moving to Texas. Musk's talents are as a salesman who is very good at driving hype and maximizing government subsidies for his business, not so much engineering or design or management or any of the grunt work that goes into making a sustainable manufacturing concern. There's tons of smoke and mirrors in both Tesla's financial management and manufacturing practices, anybody who promises them hundreds of millions in tax breaks and incentives to get them to move is running the risk of winding up like Wisconsin with their Foxconn factory debacle.
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Apr 8, 2021 22:41
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Sab0921 posted:Y'all are weird. Not to keep piling on, but Houston is also going to be under water within the next 20-30 years. It has way bigger problems to deal with than getting Musk's attention. Musk is predatory pure and simple. It's how he conned Brownsville into putting in LNG poo poo in the Port of Brownsville and convinced them it's totally a good idea to put up a "spaceport" in the middle of a coastal wildlife refuge that is prone to hurricanes and tropical depression-type winds on the regular. Yeah the dude is smart, and he has decent futurist ideas, but he's willing to trample over anyone and anything in order for history to label him as a titan of industry and visionary.
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Apr 8, 2021 22:43
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zoux posted:My opinion is that Tesla is a fake company propped up by memes and one day it's going to come crashing down like a house of cards. I feel pretty dumb for saying "the next crash is just around the corner" since 2015 but good lord it has to happen sometime on the flip side it seems we have a federal government that wants to keep the spigots open to prop things up
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I mean you can already see how great an investment Tesla is with their 'hey come gentrify this city so we don't need to actually support the people already here' campaign elsewhere. It's like watching Jason hacking someone to bits and going 'we should invite him here next, I bet he'll really stimulate the local machete and hockey mask market'.
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Apr 8, 2021 22:44
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Sab0921 posted:Y'all are weird. sir you appear to have a head injury
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Apr 8, 2021 22:53
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Looks like a mass shooting just happened in Bryan. And there was just that big murder-suicide pact in Allen the other day. It was nice when we had that nearly year long stretch where it seemed like there weren't really any mass casualty events happening with any regularity.
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Apr 8, 2021 22:58
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https://twitter.com/TexasTribune/status/1380271008637149185 lol this sucks so loving much on so many levels, can't imagine why we keep losing though!
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Apr 8, 2021 23:01
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Cool pics tho
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Apr 8, 2021 23:01
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zoux posted:Cool pics tho yea I mean if the goal was some nice profile pics for the coming year they aced it, not sure how 'we throw flowers at your feet to show...disrespect...' fits in with the goal of voting rights though!
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Apr 8, 2021 23:03
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litany of gulps posted:Looks like a mass shooting just happened in Bryan. And there was just that big murder-suicide pact in Allen the other day. It was nice when we had that nearly year long stretch where it seemed like there weren't really any mass casualty events happening with any regularity. Yeah, only Texans dying from a good ole plague.
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Apr 8, 2021 23:09
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sexpig by night posted:yea I mean if the goal was some nice profile pics for the coming year they aced it, not sure how 'we throw flowers at your feet to show...disrespect...' fits in with the goal of voting rights though! Oh that was absolutely the goal
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Apr 8, 2021 23:11
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Jiro posted:Yeah, only Texans dying from a good ole plague. True, good point. There's something about mass shootings that just has a different impact (no pun intended). Objectively, the pandemic has hosed my life up way more than mass shootings. Reading about shootings feels more tragic somehow, though. Maybe because the stories tend to focus more on the damaged individuals that conduct them or on the senselessness and randomness of so many of them, while stories about the pandemic are so much more often presented almost statistically.
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Apr 8, 2021 23:16
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A guy I use to work with I think worked there. Wonder if he did it
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Apr 8, 2021 23:17
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sexpig by night posted:https://twitter.com/TexasTribune/status/1380271008637149185 Did they workshop this idea with the people who came up with the Kardashian/Pepsi commercial
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Apr 8, 2021 23:33
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Lol at the guy who thought houston will fold without that oil and gas money. The city is a little too diversified for that, even without oil and gas it has a monstrous medical center with The premier cancer center, a big rear end port that serves the entire southwest and mission control/a bunch of NASAs training facilities. It'll take a lot more than a single industry dying to sink the city like it's Detroit or something .
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Apr 8, 2021 23:52
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Yeah, itll take one hurricane going up the houston ship channel
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Apr 8, 2021 23:55
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Yeah it isn't the 80s any more. Houston would for sure hurt if O&G collapsed but we'd survive.
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Apr 8, 2021 23:58
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FoolyCharged posted:Lol at the guy who thought houston will fold without that oil and gas money. The city is a little too diversified for that, even without oil and gas it has a monstrous medical center with The premier cancer center, a big rear end port that serves the entire southwest and mission control/a bunch of NASAs training facilities. It'll take a lot more than a single industry dying to sink the city like it's Detroit or something . True. Now Beaumont on the other hand...
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if the geology people I know and see on linkedin are any indication o&g is in a shedding weight cycle right now anyways Speaking of energy- my electricity provider emailed me and said they were getting out of the selling electricity to people game email posted:
 I wonder how many of these companies are belly up or in the process of shutting down or retooling now whenever my contract expires I guess I’ll go on powertochoose.org and find the cheapest one with no minimum fees again
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Man I love property appraisal notice time, local social media is going batshit loving crazy right now. Comal county is growing so fast and property values are shooting up. Everyone wants top dollar when it’s time to sell, but come tax time they can’t believe it.
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wolfs posted:if the geology people I know and see on linkedin are any indication o&g is in a shedding weight cycle right now anyways I have a friend that works in the bankruptcy section of a Big Law firm in Houston and the answer is all of them.
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jokes posted:The Russian computer person who started Q poo poo seeing it take over Texas: "Yee Haw! Gig Them, My Agricultural Friends!!" Zdraste, serfs and laborers, I have a small folk tale for you. Old Pок was contemplating the nature of good and evil, and he said to no one in particular “Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.” Then he killed two women, and the Cossacks came and killed the rest of the pochinki. And that is what we will exactly do to them!
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FoolyCharged posted:Lol at the guy who thought houston will fold without that oil and gas money. The city is a little too diversified for that, even without oil and gas it has a monstrous medical center with The premier cancer center, a big rear end port that serves the entire southwest and mission control/a bunch of NASAs training facilities. It'll take a lot more than a single industry dying to sink the city like it's Detroit or something . Did you ever wonder why the premier cancer center is in Houston?
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saintonan posted:Did you ever wonder why the premier cancer center is in Houston? It's because of NASA isn't it.
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Because it being the major port for the southwest turned it into a huge trading hub and one of the largest cities in the country? The city initially grew before oil existed and it will still exist even if oil crashes. Does it have a ton of money in oil and will take a big hit if oil and gas magically vanish? Absolutely. But it won't turn into a shithole and die without the magical intervention of a man whose claim to fortune is being a giant shithead with a cult of personality that let's him abuse the hell out of his employees.
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FoolyCharged posted:Because it being the major port for the southwest turned it into a huge trading hub and one of the largest cities in the country? The city initially grew before oil existed and it will still exist even if oil crashes. Does it have a ton of money in oil and will take a big hit if oil and gas magically vanish? Absolutely. Buzbee isn't THAT bad...
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IT BURNS posted:Buzbee isn't THAT bad... I will always like Buzbee just a little bit for parking a tank on the street in River Oaks.
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