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@tomorr53 @CompletedStreet have you ever been to a green grocer? Or have you only lived in places where you drove 10 minutes to get things? I am confused about whether you are trying to be funny or just provincial.

@_adamdoug @CompletedStreet Well you see, a store can function if they only sell spinach. Stores need to sell a vast majority of things to make money to stay open. People steal lots of things, which causes the store to close, which causes the spinach to disappear.

Other countries: Fresh, affordable food available within walking distance of every neighborhood. U.S.: 15 brands of genetically modified hyper-processed ice cream that requires a $35,000 vehicle to access.

@tomorr53 @CompletedStreet What does theft have to do with access to good food? nobody steals spinach.

@_adamdoug @CompletedStreet No. Not everyone should have access to good food. I’ve lived in poverty stricken areas in my youth, and nothing is there for a reason. Business owners shouldn’t have to it up with continual theft and crime.

@tomorr53 @CompletedStreet that is a good analogy. Not sure if they are profitable or not but I like the one near my Mom's house. Some of us have 10 grocery stores to choose from - some have the convenience store they can walk to. everyone should have access to good food.

@_adamdoug @CompletedStreet We have neighborhood Walmarts where I live. They are great. Little Walmarts in the middle of neighborhoods.

@aytoozeeusa @CompletedStreet yes. Back in San Francisco, you could do most of your food shopping within 3 blocks. Just not at 7-11.

@_adamdoug @CompletedStreet You buy food at the gas station?

@JackWalkerFarm @CompletedStreet not sure - it was just really handy, when I was taking care of my grandmother, to walk 3 minutes to the local place and get good, fresh food. hard to find that in the states. It is just different, you do not have to expect anything.

@_adamdoug @CompletedStreet They probably quit selling it because noone use the gas station as a fruit stand. I also don't go to a fresh meat market and expect to be able to buy a quart of oil and a gallon of antifreeze.

@SarahisCensored actually, forcing data to fit your prejudice is exactly what equity is.

🚨Fact - It was brought up in the bond hearing by the prosecution that Karmelo Anthony had a “prior assault” or “altercation” involving Karmelo on February 4, 2025, two months before the stabbing of Austin Metcalf. The incident was “handled internally” by Frisco ISD and did not involve law enforcement or criminal charges. It was referenced in court as part of the prosecution’s argument to keep the bond at $1 million (they lost; the judge reduced it to $250,000 with house arrest and an ankle monitor). Some believe he brought a knife to school. I have been told by multiple sources that he allegedly threw a chair. Either way, somehow it went away. 🚨ALSO a fact - The Texas Education Agency (TEA) told Frisco ISD in 2020-2021: black males were being disciplined at ‘disproportionate’ rates compared to their population share. Black students ~11% of enrollment, but ~35% of out-of-school suspensions. So the TEA ordered the district to review & revise its Code of Conduct. 🚨Translation: Stop disciplining black students so much or we’ll keep flagging you. This isn’t ‘equity.’ It’s telling schools they can’t report reality when the numbers don’t match racial quotas. Behavior doesn’t care about demographics. Lower standards help no one - it clearly did not help Austin Metcalf.

@FWPlayboy If she is fit, join a running or rowing or biking group - lots of men there who would like to meet her. Meetup has some cool/no pressure social groups for the 60+ too. Good luck to her!

She should focus exclusively on newly widowed Men 60+. She should cruise the obituaries, funeral homes, and let her friends know what she’s looking for, These Men are accustomed to being married, being providers, don’t carry baggage of a divorce, children are grown, and he wants to return to normalcy (Married Man) as soon as possible. She’ll be fulfilling a much needed role.

@lizisamused better and cheaper birth control is also at play. Most of the younger women I date have IUDs or those shots - much easier for them to stay on birth control longer than the older pills from what I read.

"Women are the reason the birth rate is dropping!" Could you please point to the men in college or their early 20s or their mid 20s or their late 20s who were dying to get married & have kids? Cuz honestly, most guys I watched get married in those age ranges either straight up didn't or were dragged into it by a woman 🤷🏻‍♀️

@gdevega what don't you like? have you been to Chennai? Have you lived in northern DFW recently?

@_adamdoug Reading your posts, we agree on a lot of things. But this post is just something else. . . . shameful:

Dallas, Texas is quickly becoming unlivable with the Indian invasion

@Dylan_Morri keep in mind that my guy in the pic probably works 65 hours a week to afford her.

The south isnt “easy” for men to find pretty girls. it’s that the southern culture breeds respectful, strong, confident, and kind young men. Women tend to like that

@LizzyStarrrdust I took some great body shots back in the pit days - now, I watch them online. Love it when they let the little kids in there to mosh it out! great feeling getting smashed around having fun.

What I love about punk shows is that I, a 5'3* 46 year old woman can be in the pit alongside a 3'11" 10 year old boy, and a 6'2" 25 year old brick house of a motherfucker all jumping around, letting it all go and being purely human.

@LVann_Sports crossfit starting in California in the early 2000s, FYI.

@data_atx no data on how many used this hotline? 800k for a mid call center seems high.

Austin city nonprofit contract of the day $830k/yr for a phone hotline to point homeless to resources Maybe this is good? But the problem with running everything through nonprofits, we have no idea how many people call, is it working?, and how to rate it vs other $$ needs

@data_atx @AleshireLaw what is the punishment for a city council person to tell the truth? lol.

We gotta get some second legal opinions on this Is it possible that a council member would be prohibited from just saying if they voted yes or no on an item? Mr @AleshireLaw ?

@OwenGregorian yet, somehow, the young learners I work with are not independent with their studies. They want everything as an App. that is the opposite of why the internet is cool.

Elon Musk on Why We Don't Need Colleges: 'Learn Anything You Want for Free' | Ward Clark, RedState For those of us who grew up in the days before the internet, even now it's rather amazing that we have all the knowledge of the world literally at our fingertips. When I was a kid, if I wanted to know something, I looked in books; if my parents' rather extensive library didn't have the information I sought, there were a couple of city libraries within an hour or so by car, and I could generally find what I sought there. Now, though? If I'm not sitting here at my desk in front of four 27" screens and access to the entire internet, I can squint at the tiny screen on my phone and find pretty much the same information. Granted, the internet being what it is, there's an awful lot of chaff to be sifted through before one finds the wheat, but sometimes disappearing down those rabbit holes is part of the fun. I'm also a guy who went to college. Twice, in fact, in the mid-1980s for an undergraduate degree in biology, then in the early Oughts for an MBA in technology management. In the case of my undergraduate degree, in those days, I only used a computer to write up research reports and to run a very elementary biostatistics program for some of my research. That MBA, though? All of that was information that I could have found on the internet. Elon Musk has now taken the interesting position that this technology is making the university system obsolete. He might have a point. Here's the key point from this: Elon Musk just put the entire university system on trial. Not the curriculum. Not the professors. The premise. Musk: “You don’t need college to learn stuff. Everything is available basically for free. You can learn anything you want for free.” For a thousand years, universities held one monopoly. Access. You paid the toll or you stayed ignorant. The internet erased that in a decade. Every lecture. Every framework. Every textbook. Free. From any screen on Earth. The six-figure tuition is no longer buying knowledge. It is buying a signal. Yes, everything you want is free, but there is a certain discipline required to attain and absorb that knowledge to the point where it's marketable. Colleges and universities can provide that discipline, or, rather, they can enforce that discipline. But here's the question: Should they have to? Our system of higher education is badly broken. The system once brought a young skull of mush discipline and knowledge, but now, it seems increasingly like a rubber-stamp for... what? Elon says these days that college is "basically for fun." Not everyone agrees with Elon. Gen Z’s relationship with higher education has never been more fraught. Soaring tuition costs and a brutal entry-level job market have left many young people questioning whether getting a degree was worth it at all. But Valerie Capers Workman, who served as vice president of people at Tesla, has a sharply different message for the graduating class of 2026: Don’t buy the noise. This comes even as her former boss, Elon Musk, is part of the chorus of powerful voices casting doubt on college. “Do not let anyone, not a tech founder, not a headline, not a podcast host, convince you that your education was a waste,” Workman said last week at the Defining the Future conference at California State University, San Bernardino. “It was not. It is more valuable today than it has ever been.” Color me skeptical. The American university system isn't functioning. It's not focused on producing young adults with marketable skills. It has been co-opted by the far-left, coddled by leftist politicians, and devoted to spewing out a plethora of useless Ethnic Underwater Dog-Polishing Studies degrees. Maybe only the few that are dedicated and focused enough to learn on their own should be employed in fields where they are, in essence, selling their knowledge. That's how the world worked for hundreds, even thousands of years. Now, with all the knowledge in the world at our command, why shouldn't it work that way again? redstate.com/wardclark/2026…

@DEI_Champion @magachrchpastr Can we pull Bo's records? MAGA loves to talk IQ - I bet this dude's IQ is lower than today's high temp. When I grew up in Texas, we were tested and measured regularly. What info do we have about Bo as a student?

@magachrchpastr Our local bro is Bo French.

Since I love bringing pro athletes up on stage, I paid Jaxson Dart to headline our "Band of Bros Men's Event" last February. He's just as smart as you'd imagine a person named Jaxson Dart would be🙏🇺🇸

@Ratherocity @data_atx weird that there is so much secrecy. I have been learning about how Austin government works lately and I wish I hadn't.

@_adamdoug @data_atx What Ryan ** knows** and how he votes are not always the same. He succumbs to pressure like a pro. The business community came out en force to lobby for these peakers. My guess is Ryan fell in line..

Since Harper-Madison and Fuentes were absent at the meeting, its not that hard to guess how the secret natural Gas plant vote went down. Only 3 council members could have voted 'no' Alter was very against these when they were first discussed a couple years ago ( see below ). Also Siegel seems generally against them. If I HAD to bet , I'd guess they voted no, maybe Qadri joined them, and Chito was the swing vote to approve. That is just my guess.

@amilynne87 bees are your friends, they will not bother you - otoh, the wasps and hornets in my backyard will chase you inside. jerks.

@_adamdoug Oh no I am terrified of bees, but I love lavender

All schools should have gardens. Shame this one is closing - I hope the community finds a way to do something cool with this space. kut.org/education/2026…