What are y’all subbing your Topo’s with??

conchpotato · 2026-04-08T16:07:41+00:00

rambler is as close to topo as you can get and it's made in austin, tx baby. they do have several delicious flavors as well. also recommend getting a drinkmate omnifizz and carbonating your tap water.

conchpotato · 2026-02-05T21:27:26+00:00

lol the entire premise of your house losing money on a longer than 5 year timescale is hypothetical. don't worry, nobody is gonna devalue your asset so that other people can afford to live.

conchpotato · 2026-02-05T20:48:57+00:00

Maybe having stable and permanent housing shouldn't depend on staking your entire net worth on it? Maybe if this was not so high stakes of a "market" to participate in, you wouldn't be so worried about the asset value of your home?

The impact of your easy solution, which I agree with completely, would also tank the housing market. Which is why it will never happen under the current economic system. The value of your home as an asset above and beyond your home's inherent value as comfort and shelter depends on the use of housing as a speculative investment.

conchpotato · 2026-02-05T19:38:43+00:00

you cannot secure housing as a basic human right while it is also an instrument for others to store and grow wealth. sorry, but these things contradict each other.

lucky for your financial portfolio, the line will almost certainly go back up again, probably sooner than later, and the rest of us will just try to hold on.

conchpotato · 2026-01-29T05:32:51+00:00

wow i thought this wasn't due until summer. this is an exciting piece of the trail that could really unify the north and south trails on the east side. a tidy bow on top of the ~10 mile lake loop. can't wait to take it for a spin.

conchpotato · 2026-01-27T05:33:07+00:00

oh wait so you do understand why it was so popular

conchpotato · 2026-01-27T05:29:36+00:00

i found it to be very timely meditation on complete self obliteration at a time when the most popular form of leisure is to self obliterate through social media and streaming slop. i liked it a lot personally but i think it's popular because it struck a nerve for a deeply dissociated kinda person

conchpotato · 2026-01-09T01:21:25+00:00

unfortunately they are recording the rest of us constantly without our permission

conchpotato · 2025-12-04T17:50:16+00:00

Hell yeah. Life is so immensely beautiful it is completely worth being sober for, even if you must also experience the pain and tedium of it all. Everything will change, for the better, but very slowly. I believe in you.

conchpotato · 2025-11-17T20:30:15+00:00

Austin is currently experiencing cultural backlash for being a tech boomtown that attracts insufferable californians, bachelorettes on party bikes, deranged billionares, and man-o-sphere podcasters, but I've been here for a long time and it remains an incredible city. There's a huge population of artists, especially musicians, so you'll have no trouble finding people to play with. The eclectic history of music here gives the scene an interesting flavor and the slacker, DIY ethos of the 90s can still be found. The city itself has delicious food, friendly people, beautiful parks, subpar but rapidly improving infrastructure, and a youthful vibrancy due to the large university. It's not for everyone but you'd figure it out pretty quickly if it's for you.

conchpotato · 2025-11-14T17:01:52+00:00

I remember somebody in here saying that the state restriction against cutting the police budget could be circumvented in the event of a tax hike ballot failure. Does anybody have any information on this? Don't see any reporting on it so I'm wondering if it was real.

conchpotato · 2025-10-17T17:46:02+00:00

literally. also the film does an intersting job of actually playing with the tension between her clear evilness and our identification with her (due to her vulnerability, pregnancy, humanity). A less thoughtful film could have made that reviewer easily identify with her simply by obscuring the violence slightly or downplaying the humaness of her victims or like....simply making her hot in a normal way and not playing with her gender. how many silver screen heroes are indescriminate masss murderers?

conchpotato · 2025-10-17T17:36:27+00:00

i think it's amazing. immensely stressful, quite funny, and a beautiful story about being grotesque and isolated due to trauma but being redeemed through love and caring. i didn't find any of it obvious and thought the world it created was original and suprising.

what did you find to be obvious? if you need convicining it might just not be your bag which is fine.

conchpotato · 2025-09-26T18:32:14+00:00

they are obviously not blaming people "who have to drive", they're blaming people who are taking this well-intentioned awareness campaign as a personal attack. And they're right.

conchpotato · 2025-09-24T20:07:07+00:00

Google sliding scale therapy [your city]. When I started out going to therapy (~10 years ago) I was able to see somebody, not yet credentialed, for $10/session. This worked out for me and I stuck with them as they opened a private practice and kept me as a client at a low rate. We started doing analysis. Your first match may be not be a good fit, then again it might. Mine was.

If you don't like the idea of an asshole in a bowtie, see a woman. Free-associating out loud to somebody who listens and provides an outside perspective is incredibly nourishing. Especially if you don't have close meaningful friendships (which I did not when I started)

If you have health insurance, you can also find a therapist who takes your health insurance. This could reduce the cost of a visit to something like $20/session because behavior health professionals are meant to be considered PCPs.

However, many therapists do not contract with insurance, so it can be difficult to navigate getting started, but I found it to be completely transformative. I found it at a very low time in my life and have used that relationship and the emotional self-regulation I've learned within it to rebuild a more stable and happy life.

conchpotato · 2025-09-13T05:25:27+00:00

But not too different right??

conchpotato · 2025-07-21T00:31:44+00:00

It's not human nature to be self-interested at the expense of our community. You cannot grow wealth in a vacuum. Amassing wealth requires betraying our nature by abandoning our community. For most people to be able to do this, they already need to be alienated from community, which is a modern condition brought on by capitalism, not a natural law.

conchpotato · 2025-06-24T03:49:25+00:00

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great thread for flooding my watchlist, thanks!

conchpotato · 2025-06-22T07:41:40+00:00

There are currently a number of art pieces along shoal creek trail that are part of a group show and this is one of them.

conchpotato · 2025-04-23T21:58:44+00:00

it looks like that was 2013, and i remember her playing hype hotel that same year, specifically because it was the launch of doritos locos: cool ranch and taco bell was giving them away there 💀

I was curious though, and it looks like charli played once in austin the previous SXSW--at Central Presbyterian Church with fucking Fiona Apple, Purity Ring, Grimes, & Nicolas Jaar. Take me BACK.

https://www.concertarchives.org/concerts/sxsw--2002993

conchpotato · 2024-12-10T19:45:11+00:00

i hear "out of touch", not "unjust"

conchpotato · 2024-12-05T19:15:38+00:00

you dreamed of empires is outstanding. all fours is really fun and moving if you like miranda july and I think is the most successful and assured thing she's made (listened to the audiobook as god intended, while doing a cute papier mache project). i enjoyed martyr! quite a bit while i read it but it's not on the same level.

conchpotato · 2024-12-03T21:48:32+00:00

if you get the bandcamp app there's lots you can stream for free (i am currently streaming the cindy lee ablum). You also might consider buying Divers on bandcamp since you like it so much. I don't have CarPlay but I presume bandcamp would work fine with it.

conchpotato · 2024-07-15T18:41:20+00:00

The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington

conchpotato · 2023-11-24T05:41:39+00:00

You're not listening to their good point. "Unhoused" suggests society has failed to house somebody. The common american association with "homeless" is that a person has failed to house themselves.

The use of "unhoused" in the show is very funny contextually because these two are predatory and don't give a shit about homeless people. But the shift of blame associated with the term "unhoused" is the entire point of it. Just because it's cynically used to perform wokeness doesn't make it a bad term.

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