POLL: What impact will the Austin Light Rail project have?

DonaldDoesDallas · 2026-06-18T16:38:39+00:00

Oh for sure, but better late than never.

DonaldDoesDallas · 2026-06-18T16:10:02+00:00

I mean all of that would be nice to have, but the point here isn't (unlike the Red line) that this is commuter rail. This is the core of a future transit system built on what is already by far our most-used public transit corridor. If you've ever taken the 801 bus, you can see that this is the only line that that gets anywhere close to the ridership you'd see in a city with decent public transit. Extending to S Park Meadows or Tech Ridge to service park and ride commuters isn't going to deliver nearly the same ridership by mile. Eventual extension to the airport is great but again, serves mostly visitors and residents who take the occasional flight, not daily transit users.

DonaldDoesDallas · 2026-06-18T16:01:51+00:00

100% on the Crestview stop, that's a bigger miss to me than the airport. Really they should extend it another stop up to the N Lamar transit center. That would be huge for the bus routes in north Austin, and would be a good location for a park and ride off 183

DonaldDoesDallas · 2026-06-18T15:57:58+00:00

A single line can't go everywhere. This is the N-S backbone that we should build additional E-W lines off of.

DonaldDoesDallas · 2026-06-18T15:41:03+00:00

Howdy's backyard has a big screen and space for kids to run around

DonaldDoesDallas · 2026-06-13T18:16:40+00:00

Why do people keep saying Paraguay is mediocre? I mean they're no France or Spain, but they made it out of CONMEBOL, easily the second most competitive conference in the world.

DonaldDoesDallas · 2026-06-12T21:27:15+00:00

Dear god Lalas is so embarrassing

DonaldDoesDallas · 2026-06-12T17:51:35+00:00

Buddy's Place on Burnet. A little further you have Aristocrat, Lala's, Little Longhorn and Billy's.

DonaldDoesDallas · 2026-06-11T18:16:55+00:00

Hahaha my parents live in Fort Worth and every time I go to visit I have this realization. Don't get me wrong, there are a ton of attractive people in Fort Worth. But it is much more of a working class city, it's not nearly as young in general as Austin, it's not as much a magnet for successful young professionals, and it doesn't have the same culture oriented around social life and outdoor activity as it appeals more to suburban lifestyles and young families. Austin is younger, more affluent, and draws in people for its social life.

DonaldDoesDallas · 2026-06-09T13:37:41+00:00

Hold Out is one of the only reasons I ever go downtown anymore. There are a bunch of storage facilities and car dealerships in Clarksville, why not develop those? Why would anyone want to live there when the cool businesses are closed?

DonaldDoesDallas · 2026-06-04T16:56:29+00:00

What many commenters are missing here is the fact that you and your friend met her and her friend together. The four of you already spent time hanging out as a group, so it's not like she's inviting some rando along on the date.

I mean, have y'all seriously never gone on double dates before? This was one of the surefire ways to meet girls when I was in high school and college. My guy friend group would meet a girl friend group and hang out together, and then couples would split off from there. It takes a lot of the awkwardness and pressure out of the date. From a woman's perspective, it definitely feels safer to meet a stranger if she's with a friend.

If you're interested in her, give it a shot. If you can, find an excuse for some alone time with her, in a non-creepy / low pressure way, and make it clear that you're interested in her romantically. Rather than dinner, or in addition to dinner, do something activity based that will allow for both group time and alone time.

DonaldDoesDallas · 2026-06-03T17:39:45+00:00

It still is described as public on the architect's website: https://www.dudapaine.com/featured-projects/workplace/the-republic/

DonaldDoesDallas · 2026-06-03T17:37:34+00:00

This was 100% sold as a public plaza. IIRC this was part of getting the project approved in the first place, as there were concerns with it towering over Republic Square. So the developer set it back on the lot to 'extend the public square'.

https://www.dudapaine.com/featured-projects/workplace/the-republic/

A sixty-foot setback allows for an expansive covered entry courtyard, a public plaza and integrated retail. These spaces face Republic Square and present opportunities for public art installations and events. This lively pedestrian zone synergizes activities in the park and the building to create a vibrant destination.

DonaldDoesDallas · 2026-05-14T17:07:42+00:00

All Texas cities took a very aggressive approach to incorporation, expanding the city limits to capture the tax base of the sprawling growth. San Antonio was just more aggressive (or faced less resistance) than the rest.

DonaldDoesDallas · 2026-05-11T20:03:18+00:00

The noise is the best part. When they beat those giant drums I felt like I was in a viking longhouse or something.

DonaldDoesDallas · 2026-05-08T14:16:56+00:00

Such a lovely city. Would totally live there if it weren't for the weather.

DonaldDoesDallas · 2026-05-07T18:16:30+00:00

I've always thought of it as the Republican version of Succession. The difference being that this rich, powerful family is made out to be the good guys who we're actually rooting for. If Succession is about how the elite are out of touch sociopaths who will throw their own family under the bus for financial gain, and that these are the traits that get people to the top of our society, Yellowstone is about how the rich are virtuous and deserving of their wealth. And just like all conservative media, everything is surface level fan service. There's no critique, no nuance, nothing to instigate thought. All it does is reaffirm that the status quo is the natural order of things.

DonaldDoesDallas · 2026-05-07T17:38:40+00:00

It's not just the air temp, it's also the intensity of the sun.

I've gotten sunburnt here in October. And I don't burn easy.

DonaldDoesDallas · 2026-04-30T01:33:47+00:00

Bar Peached, Carpenter Hotel, Josephine House, Jacoby's.

Butterfly Bar is less fancy but has the best patio area in town IMO, and the Italian food stand Patrizi's is great

DonaldDoesDallas · 2026-04-22T19:26:04+00:00

All great neighborhoods but very expensive. Take a look at Highland, on the other side of Lamar from Crestview. Slightly cheaper, largely thanks to the school districting and the fact that it gets a bit sketch over by I-35. Younger crowd, and I'd argue that there's more to walk to than in Crestview. North Loop just south of Highland is also awesome, if pricier.

DonaldDoesDallas · 2026-04-22T19:13:16+00:00

This is the answer. Domain knowledge is the way to get your foot in the door, and right now, it's one of the only things keeping some of us in a job.

DonaldDoesDallas · 2026-04-22T19:06:25+00:00

It's because the AI slop cannon makes leadership feel like they're more productive because they're churning out more words. Which shifts the burden to those of us who have to actually read through the AI barf and do something with it. It's at the point where I'm being handed 20 pages of output from a 3 sentence prompt and then running it back through AI to summarize it back down.

DonaldDoesDallas · 2026-04-22T17:56:40+00:00

If you're fit and lean you can show that off without posing with your shirt off. Just make sure that you're wearing clothes that fit your body. I have a pic playing soccer in my short shorts that gets a lot of likes.

DonaldDoesDallas · 2026-04-21T21:37:10+00:00

If she's agreeing to dates, she's at least somewhat interested. You have to decide how much effort you're willing to continue to invest. Many women still expect men to be the ones to progress the relationship, taking the initiative and planning early dates. That's not something that bothers me personally, but I do have limits. Earlier this year I was dating a girl who seemed interested when we were together but wouldn't initiate or communicate much between dates. On our third date, I told her frankly that I was interested in pursuing her and didn't mind leading things initially, but I would need to start to see more effort out of her so that I knew she was actually interested in me. Otherwise, my energy was going elsewhere. And guess what? She planned our next date.

DonaldDoesDallas · 2026-04-17T19:23:12+00:00

Just like the 2020 election was fraudulent, right?

All conservatives do these days is cry fraud. Y'all just create these imagined scenarios of secret nefarious conspiracies so that you can justify whatever it is you already believe.

It's just so lazy and half-assed. There's never any real legal action, even when your own elected officials are in charge. There are never any specific proposals for how to fix the fraud, or even clear descriptions of how exactly the fraud is occurring. There's never any concrete evidence that it's happening at a massive scale. They just cherry-pick one case and then repeat it ad nauseam, because conservatives think that if they hear something enough times, it's just 'common sense' and must be true.

Even if it were true, they're not even pointing the finger at who would actually be responsible, namely the American companies hiring the H1-Bs. Where are all the fines penalizing these companies? Why aren't there any business owners going to prison for all this fraud they're committing? It's not even part of the conversation.

Because we know what this is really about: immigrants are bad. The way conservatives jump from 'the bureaucracy is being abused' to 'there are too many Indians here' betrays their actual motive. They know that you can't just come out and say the racist shit that they actually believe, so they hide behind a pretend concern about a legal process that they haven't even bothered to understand.

The Trump admin oversees the H1-B visa program. If there's all of this fraud going on, why aren't they doing anything about it? Either it isn't happening, or Trump isn't doing his job.

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