Activist, Investor, Little League coach, Cognitive dissonance about wine
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7 Oct 2025
Austin City Council is proposing raising property taxes by close to 20%. But per the below, ATX spending seems way too high. According to @SaveAustinNow ATX Mayor Watson admits ~50% of increase will go to the [Homeless Industrial Complex].
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7 Oct 2025
Of the ~$103K raised so far by “Love Austin PAC”, the main PAC supporting the ballot measure, ~$67K appears to come from organizations that would benefit from increased public spending on the Homeless Industrial Complex
services.austintexas.gov/edi…
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9 Sep 2025
This tragically illustrates the problem with the failure to punish crime in CA and other Dem-led states. This guy kills 6 passengers in his minivan while driving drunk. Based on his rap sheet, in the 1990s CA, he likely never would’ve been able to do this.
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29 Aug 2025
Unlike CA, which has imposed a 1% mental health services surtax on personal incomes above $1 million p.a. since 2005. This has obviously done so much to reduce the population of mentally ill living on the streets of CA cities…Oh wait.
29 Aug 2025
Trump and JD have cut OVER $1 TRILLION in mental health funding including:
- $1 trillion in Medicaid, the nation’s primary funder of mental health services
- $1 billion from school mental health programs
- $1.1 billion from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
- $1.81 billion in National Institutes of Health mental health-related grants
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19 Aug 2025
Having recently been in CA, I think one of the most visible signs of CA’s government not representing the typical resident is the non-stop proliferation of bike lanes while removing parking and car lanes. Only 1% of LA County residents commute by bike. So why does this continue?
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24 Jul 2025
A commonly held belief regarding our day-to-day lives is that icing an injury helps healing. Increasingly, research is showing that cold impedes healing, while heat improves it. I just came across this recent piece adding to that body of work: physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.c…
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13 Jul 2025
I’ve been wondering whether failing spectacularly in fund management leads to online porn addiction (OnlyFans) or whether it’s caused by the same underlying pathologies. Thoughts?
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Spectacular failure leads
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Same underlying pathology
228 votes • Final results
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14 Jun 2025
. @FT What is the source / basis for the statement “In Tehran — a city of 10mn — the strikes on houses of senior regime officials hit residential areas, resulting in significant civilian casualties, including women and children” in this article: on.ft.com/43WhzqD
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2 Apr 2025
Oh San Francisco… You never cease to amaze me (with anti-social public policy).
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10 Mar 2025
Quick poll question, if you will. When considering impacts that AI could have on the job market in 10-15 years, do you see science or social studies as being more important in K-5th education?
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7 Mar 2025
A quick education poll if you please. In K-5th grades, which is more important: Social Studies or Science; or, are
they Equally Important?
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Science
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29 Apr 2024
Damn you, USC! Why haven’t you ended the war in Gaza? (Sarcasm)
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Carson C Block retweeted
8 Sep 2020
#ValleyFire #CreekFire #ElDoradoFire If fire comes too quick to #evacuate and you're stuck, OR if you're preparing #evacuation bc you're in a warning or are worried, please see linked thread for what to do! Cell service often goes out. Take your pets! 🔥💚x.com/ChaliceGarden/status/1…
6 Sep 2020
If you must SIP, put wet towels under doors, close all windows & fireplace damper, & if you have time, get on roof & cover vents. Before fire approaches, turn off gas at meter, fill trash cans/buckets/tub w/water, wet down roof and vegetation (thread...)
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28 Jul 2020
#SoCo Health Officer, whose county is prohibited from opening schools in the fall due to infection rates, sees no need for more business closures. When this generation of school kids attain lower HS graduation rates than their parents, remember these decisions @NorthBayNews
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16 Mar 2020
I think of all the bread types out there, sourdough would make the best toilet paper.
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4 Mar 2020
If governments are “economies”, are people “virus consumables”?
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4 Mar 2020
Jill Biden deserves a lot of credit for her quick movements to protect her husband from the vegan protesters, but I think the ease with which the protesters were removed confirms that it’s hard to build muscle on a vegan diet. m.youtube.com/watch?v=wl3lRi…
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3 Mar 2020
A news story I could never have imagined - according to the @WSJ, Bernie Sanders‘s campaign was the catalyst for Public Enemy’s breakup: wsj.com/articles/biden-vs-sa…
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25 Feb 2020
The SF ballot reliably providing proof of the city’s complete political dysfunction:
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