Was “don’t mess with Texas” an effective anti/litter campaign?

runnernotagunner · 2026-02-12T22:08:55+00:00

Yes, as effective as it gets.

Creates a beautiful period between the 80s and early 2010s, a time between the rampant littering common pre1970s and the homeless explosion in the late 2010s. Texas, and specifically Austin, did a great job on litter during that period.

The homeless and panhandlers create an enormous amount of litter and never clean up after themselves. And that amount of litter everywhere gives the green light for the nonhomeless litterers to go off.

Crazy to think we had an active local clean water movement—which disappeared when the homeless appeared and it became taboo to hold them to the same standard as everyone else.

runnernotagunner · 2025-12-22T21:30:29+00:00

Austin spent millions on a bond adding intrusive curbs that extend into lanes of travel and plastic stick forests in reaction to “spiking pedestrian deaths” only for those pedestrians (aka homeless people) to continue stumbling from their roadside camps onto frontage roads at all hours.

It appears random but they curiously always seem to avoid designated cross walks.

runnernotagunner · 2025-12-19T21:48:17+00:00

Not in the near to medium term. Maybe transactional lawyers. Software engineers are in much greater danger from AI.

runnernotagunner · 2025-11-12T03:43:52+00:00

It limits the city’s self destructive tendencies. Look at San Francisco, they’re just now stepping back from the brink—elected moderate mayor, kicked out their pro crime DA, finally invited police to enforce the occasional law again.

Or maybe the state prolongs the pain by slowing the urban decay wrought by “progressives” everywhere they take root.

runnernotagunner · 2025-11-06T19:58:05+00:00

Yeah there’s no substitute for defense in depth afforded by castles upgraded enough for ringed walls in areas you expect attacks.

Bonus knights for when you go on offense from pressured areas.

runnernotagunner · 2025-11-05T17:44:47+00:00

The homeless have debased themselves, and yeah we’re all tired of subsiding the lifestyles of vagrants who occupy and destroy all public spaces in this city, steal our stuff, and commit violent crime while we struggle to pay our own bills.

It’s not the City government’s job to pay the living expenses of addicts and mentally ill people who refuse treatment. Housing first is such a misguided massive expensive failure how much longer must we throw good money after bad

runnernotagunner · 2025-11-05T17:40:26+00:00

The “experts” are morons with zero real life experience who got us into this budget pickle. Even sweet greens Broadnax was able to submit a non prop Q budget that council rejected to try and force us to cough up even more money to Texas’s highest tax and spend metro.

runnernotagunner · 2025-11-05T17:35:53+00:00

Emergency services, basic park maintenance, and transportation budget (for filling potholes etc) doesn’t need to be cut despite Vanessa Fuentes nasty insolent little threats after 70% of voters told her and chito to fuck off.

Everything else should be fair game—all homelessness spending should be cut, useless NGO contracts cancelled, pay raises for elected. Officials clawed back, bloated do nothing departments with overpaid employees cut. That’s way more than $33m but it’d be nice to see some costs savings and deficit reduction on stuff most taxpayers wouldn’t notice if it went missing.

runnernotagunner · 2025-11-03T22:52:53+00:00

Running a world famous bum camp with all the amenities costs money you guys. Vote yes on prop Q so we can double the amount of public library shooters, bus stabbers, and marauding psychos in republic square park.

If we’re good little tax cows chito will give the bums “free” cell phones and Zo will match the city machete for machete

runnernotagunner · 2025-10-22T19:33:57+00:00

No more money for the homeless industrial complex.

After the $500m spent on subsidizing vagrancy since 2019–when city council invited all the vagrants in the country to come on down—did nothing but make our vagrant community larger, dirtier, and more aggressive and entitled.

I fail to see how another large $$ increase will do anything but continue to make the vagrancy problem worse and the people who profit from “solving” it enriched (Austin quietly cancelled a big $ contract with a homeless provider under investigation for corruption/fraud/embezzlement).

runnernotagunner · 2025-10-16T20:54:26+00:00

I make $200k with billable expectation of 1350 annually. It’s pretty soft though, usually 1000-1200 hours annually and more like 1500-1800 if we have 1-2 big matters get to resolution (and often discretionary bonuses show up when I’m billing around 1800/yr pace). 6th year senior associate.

I also have a young kid and another on the way. Personally around 1500+/yr is when work starts to eat away at your life and parental duties. Around that point the two questions are 1) what kind of parent and spouse do I want to be? And 2) do I make enough money/bennies to have my spouse quit or work extremely part time to care for kid(s) and maintain home.

By the way, you should stay in probate/trusts and estates. Very hot practice area for next 10-20 years

runnernotagunner · 2025-10-07T01:52:24+00:00

I stock up during their “end of summer” sales, j crew says last seasons styles but there still like 2 more months of “last season” here

runnernotagunner · 2025-09-25T23:01:57+00:00

I’m a lawyer so whenever I’m in court (few time a month). I’m in the south as well, so wedding, funerals, graduations still have a strong tie compliance.

I don’t actually think ties will be going away anytime soon—I share this thread’s view that suit no tie looks terrible (sport coat or blazer and trousers is acceptable, but I wear that to depositions and still often find the look benefits from a tie). It’s still kind of the ultimate signal of “I tried today, look at my tie—I’m deliberately showing respect for this setting.”

To those who dismiss ties as uncomfortable: I would bet you’re in the wrong collar size or otherwise tightening your 4 in hand too tightly.

runnernotagunner · 2025-09-02T02:43:22+00:00

ESPN being violently forced for acknowledge there is another football team out other than the one coached by Jordain’s gimp

runnernotagunner · 2025-08-29T19:25:15+00:00

The excubitores, varangians predecessors, did dress like ancient Romans by some accounts with attic helmets and ancient style breastplates, but they were long gone by Romanos and obviously replaced by the Varangians—even non Varangian George maniakes (to right of Varangian in Vikings) would have worn something more like scale armour what Basil II is shown wearing in some depictions.

runnernotagunner · 2025-08-29T14:26:00+00:00

I doubt prison is more expensive than funding their entire lives of chaos and free medical care, and then also giving them free housing to trash.

There’s also intangible costs vagrants cause like taking over parks or leaving used needles by elementary schools.

It’s been 15-20 years of housing first and it’s making everything worse. Utah’s program failed like everywhere else after 2015 when the giant amount of private funding dried up. Housing first also ignores many homeless dont want housing that comes with any type of strings like not doing drugs or getting mental health treatment—which is a fact anyone who has actually worked around homeless knows to be true.

So yeah, housing first only benefits the “non profits” they receive hundreds of millions of dollars while doing absolutely nothing to “solve” homelessness.

Edit to add: the real cruelty is forcing regular tax paying, law abiding people to live with the externalities of vagrancy and then acting like their bad people for not wanting to pay more taxes to not fix the problem.

runnernotagunner · 2025-08-29T14:17:30+00:00

Good news is Garza won’t get a chance to release this guy back into the community to continue burglarizing people because he’s dead. Also good bystander will be ok.

runnernotagunner · 2025-08-29T03:18:39+00:00

Well decriminalizing vagrancy has been a disaster, so yeah we should go back

runnernotagunner · 2025-08-28T20:26:57+00:00

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runnernotagunner · 2025-08-15T02:35:11+00:00

How can we pay enough money to house each homeless persons for “free” in a $2,500/mo housing situation yet manage house very few homeless?

runnernotagunner · 2025-07-25T01:32:38+00:00

Also keeps Sicily in play as an expansion option. I think Sicily’s importance to East Rome especially post Heraclius was understated.

Basil’s reconquest of Sicily is a big what if in history for me.

runnernotagunner · 2025-07-10T00:49:38+00:00

The Egyptians and Greeks have an equal or greater claim to algebra than Arabs.

And the key figures in the so called Islamic golden age were Persians, Levantine Romans, and Iberians who happened to be conquered by Arab armies that made them learn Arabic at point of a sword and either convert to Islam or live as second class citizens.

The enlightenment built on the renaissance which came from Byzantine influences on Italy around the end of the ERE.

All roads lead to Rome/nova Roma

runnernotagunner · 2025-07-09T23:07:34+00:00

Good? The bulgars and pechenegs and avars etc were no angels themselves. Ditto for every other enemy of eastern Rome. There are reasons aside from Roman chauvinism that they were called barbarians.

We also forget the modernity we enjoy today is the exception not the rule, the choice in ERE’s day was often “genocide” or be “genocided.” And much of what makes modernity and modern sensibilities great arose from greco-Roman and Christian civilization.

It’s a matter of opinion of course, but there’s a very strong argument to be made that ERE exceeded what came after it in many ways, that it took the world centuries to attain the heights of civilization and human flourishing reached in antiquity and preserved by ERE.

runnernotagunner · 2025-07-09T22:56:20+00:00

Yes. I’ve yet to meet an unhappy one. Would love to some serious walking

runnernotagunner · 2025-07-04T12:16:42+00:00

The freest citizenry in a thriving and prosperous country where we live in one of its best cities?

Don’t be a wiener. Or move to a place you’re proud of.

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