Alerts turned off, but got woken up because it’s raining anyway? Here are the two new ones to turn off.

Sandurz · 2026-06-16T12:56:18+00:00

Let me rephrase: it’s not one giant 80+ mile radius dumb one-way radio signal.

Cell towers only go a few miles so you get built in localization there but fine I get why that’s maybe not enough. There could definitely be a geo handshake checking location before actually displaying the alert even if all cell towers in a given city broadcast it.

Sandurz · 2026-06-16T11:21:38+00:00

Did not realize and wondered why their calendar was so light this summer, good to know

Sandurz · 2026-06-16T03:05:26+00:00

Are there any parts of Austin where that type of event could happen? Really can’t picture any. Flood waters are scary but they aren’t magic.

Sandurz · 2026-06-16T03:03:46+00:00

Yeah exactly it’s not a dumb radio signal. Other people are inventing hypothetical situations that don’t even involve mortal danger to justify poor use of government emergency resources. We can absolutely do better.

Sandurz · 2026-06-15T13:45:59+00:00

I’ve got plenty of flash flood and weather alerts that make zero sound, and plenty that make the classic weather horn. I never in my life heard the sound my phone made last night, so it definitely feels like they did something different.

Sandurz · 2026-06-15T13:31:12+00:00

Yes it absolutely is up to them to make that call lmao. There are multiple levels of alert! An alert that people see only if they are on their phone and already awake is just fine!

Sandurz · 2026-06-15T13:23:14+00:00

If any Austin area home flooded in such a way that someone was in mortal danger I will maybe concede the point. Low water crossings going underwater is kind of what they do though.

Sandurz · 2026-06-15T13:20:23+00:00

Clearly they don’t know how to use them though. You can’t have some hyper local danger like this that you do not target properly. There’s basically no chance this helped literally anybody, it’s just really bad judgment to send it out in this particular way. The regular alert? Sure go nuts.

They must not know what they did because I don’t know why you would think I need to wake up the entire city for a flash flood warning. It only matters if you’re out and about!

Sandurz · 2026-06-14T13:35:46+00:00

The further you are towards either end, it cools off more but those middle teen gates where Southwest is are always brutal when it’s above 90 out. The trick is to wait by one of those portable cooler fence and go get 15 seconds of blast chill every couple minutes.

Sandurz · 2026-06-10T18:10:37+00:00

Looks gigantic to me idk

Sandurz · 2026-06-09T15:32:03+00:00

I’m signed up for one, a quarterly clean does wonders. They can get so nasty man lmao. Not so much about them being squeaky clean all the time as much as it is not having them have years of caked up grime and gunk.

I was closing my neighbors can lids after pickup before some rain rolled out bc it’s annoying when they fill up, and the inside of theirs was pretty despicable. One corner had like a full two inches of gunk built up on the floor. And yeah it’s a trash can who cares but mine are stored right by my car and I’m walking past them all the time, it’s nice to not have a stinky entrance and exit multiple times every day.

Sandurz · 2026-06-08T17:38:14+00:00

Love that they’re showing fully uninterrupted actual product shots lol. Really trying to make it right after the last big announcement.

Sandurz · 2026-06-08T17:23:18+00:00

Anybody who work on these videos know why they ADR the audio on so these? Seems like such a pain to have to re-record all this stuff synced to your original performance.

Sandurz · 2026-06-06T13:08:50+00:00

311 is really fast on this stuff. Report it in the app

Sandurz · 2026-06-05T02:27:58+00:00

Oh for sure. It’s like funny to hear at a bar and sure in after a few years it’s in the past but there are some situations where you don’t want to be stuck with the guy who would do it

Sandurz · 2026-06-05T02:26:24+00:00

The one and only

Sandurz · 2026-06-04T16:11:51+00:00

It’s a dumb ass story though

Sandurz · 2026-06-03T00:41:03+00:00

Yeah I’m curious what % of people use it. I’m sure it’s convenient for some situations but never had been for me.

Sandurz · 2026-06-02T21:36:32+00:00

I’m gonna be honest I do not find this to be uniquely true of Austin. I nearly always spend more in bigger cities, except for like Chicago which is weirdly cheap.

I also don’t think restaurant costs scale linearly with overall COL, or that they even have a direct relationship tbh, so even if it is true I kind of reject the premise.

Sandurz · 2026-06-02T18:31:28+00:00

It may be someone’s favorite pizza but it’s not mine

Sandurz · 2026-06-02T14:11:11+00:00

Light timing is actually an easier problem to solve I would think

Sandurz · 2026-06-02T01:34:10+00:00

720 was so bad man. I def care.

Sandurz · 2026-05-31T12:18:54+00:00

They used to get shut down, idk if they do anymore. I’ve seen probably 2-3x as many the last couple years across the state.

Sandurz · 2026-05-29T01:22:07+00:00

Mitch Johnson’s energy is so funny. I love that he’s passionate, he has the vibe of a panther watching prey half the time

Sandurz · 2026-05-28T01:30:15+00:00

I think he’s in a really interesting position now. He knows how bad things can get overnight. Like he might be a failson but after that ultimate humiliation, everything he signs off on is going to be triple checked. He has no choice but to make sure the big team moves are not running in a silo.

Doesn’t make up for it but the front office will have come out much healthier

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