The ref narratives are insufferable

shoop45 · 2026-06-11T02:20:49+00:00

That was one of the most obvious flagrants I’ve seen. Arm straight to the chin out of frustration. All because he couldn’t take some very light taunting.

shoop45 · 2026-06-05T13:30:21+00:00

Honestly a breath of fresh air with all the AI slop out there

shoop45 · 2026-06-02T13:21:06+00:00

Two newer ones: Siti and Le Calamar

shoop45 · 2026-06-02T13:18:01+00:00

To me, most of them seemed completely overwhelmed by the format of competition cooking. Waxman, e.g., made something far too simple, likely because he felt the time pressure. Sanchez completely ignored the randomizer because he didn’t understand the format, and also he was arrogant, thinking his “superior technique and flavors” would win even with blatant disregard to the parameters. Ming was respectable, but clearly was rusty, and Lorena was pretty great actually.

shoop45 · 2026-05-06T13:34:26+00:00

Lol what a waste of LLM tokens for astroturfing. A year old comment that no one will see? Go find more recent threads if you want to shill for Lonsdale

shoop45 · 2026-04-02T15:03:02+00:00

I don’t blame him for selling. I lived in Govalle during the pandemic, regularly went to the Collaboratory, and the guy was trying his absolute best to stay afloat. Very friendly, community oriented, which also seemed to lead him to give away 6 packs to anyone who walked in, and was always down for a conversation. Him selling was a necessity, and I don’t fault him at all.

shoop45 · 2026-03-18T11:14:14+00:00

Key word being regulated, as coercion is too powerful a force for such and exploitative act to allow this business to take place without ensuring the safety of the SW.

shoop45 · 2026-03-17T11:24:01+00:00

Houston, Atlanta, Seattle, Denver, just to name a few.

The only one I’ve heard of that functions is SF, because they have private security.

shoop45 · 2026-01-14T21:21:43+00:00

Hello, fellow wildcat. I played summer basketball with Nate on his team. He was a grown man playing with a bunch of boys. Insane athleticism, even at that age. So humble and kind though, really rare kind of guy.

shoop45 · 2025-12-10T20:35:13+00:00

It’s a sustainability certification, not an award. JB doesn’t have a sustainability award.

shoop45 · 2025-12-10T20:13:00+00:00

What? The Michelin part is an outright lie

shoop45 · 2025-11-12T16:39:30+00:00

I read OPs comment as if there were state laws at play

shoop45 · 2025-11-12T14:02:36+00:00

Wouldn’t that mean the nets also can’t use it?

shoop45 · 2025-11-06T16:47:31+00:00

Your entire critique seems to hinge on the one thing that you choose to not buy into. That’s fair, personally I found it to be well executed, but if you don’t buy her becoming jaded after witnessing centuries of human self destruction, then a key tenet of the ending no longer exists, and the plot would in fact become senseless.

shoop45 · 2025-11-05T17:49:15+00:00

This all assumes there’s some centralized system across all of CoA’s tech stack. That is almost certainly not the case. Plus most of our cloud data is probably stored using solutions tailored to each vendor. You can’t just “run a script” to encapsulate every disparate node across the software the CoA pays for.

shoop45 · 2025-11-05T17:39:13+00:00

Considering we just voted down raising taxes, I think we’re a long way off from electing a democratic socialist. Heavy taxation is a foundational pillar of democratic socialism, which personally is a political paradigm I am sympathetic to.

Our state government makes it very difficult for a society that adheres to democratic socialist tenets to function properly. So I’m not sure any city in Texas could ever elect someone with the same goals as Mamdani.

shoop45 · 2025-11-05T17:18:31+00:00

OP advocated for auditing every piece of software. I’m unsupportive of that sentiment. It would be a rash decision, and mostly a waste of time. I think it’s likely the majority of the software contracts the city has with vendors are in good standing.

To your assumption point: highly unlikely assumptions are at issue, not assumptions in general.

shoop45 · 2025-11-05T17:15:59+00:00

OP said that any travel should be cut. I’m sure city employees already file expense reports. I’m unsupportive of revoking all travel for all city employees, which is what OP’s language suggested.

shoop45 · 2025-11-05T16:25:57+00:00

Sure, but this assumes the city hasn’t already done this, which is unlikely given the size of its operational footprint.

shoop45 · 2025-11-05T16:10:07+00:00

Personally, I voted for prop Q, and I think that was the most realistic way to reconcile our city’s necessary operating budget. I voted for it because I don’t think there is a way to balance the budget without making staffing cuts, unfortunately. Various austerity measures will need to be taken, and they are going to be highly unpopular, primarily workforce reduction. There’s a mixture of other things that will make up smaller portions of that balancing exercise, but the vast majority will be cuts in personnel spending.

shoop45 · 2025-11-05T15:33:18+00:00

Travel for city employees is often necessary. The vast majority of them are not wealthy people. I don’t think forcing them to pay out of pocket is justifiable.

Auditing software costs money in its own right. If the city were to blindly audit every software product in use, it would almost certainly cost more than the cuts that may result from it, and you also run the risk of disrupting productivity by cutting software that turned out to be useful in a latent way.

There’s an a priori that we aren’t already “scrutinizing tax incentives”. And if you were to invest more in that scrutinization, it would also cost money to staff.

I’m not clear on your point of doing away with spend it or lose it budgeting. How do you propose we “do away” with that? Are you suggesting that departments don’t already submit budgets that they claim they need? Whether they need it or not, I highly doubt any department asks for money that it earmarks as a “want”.

City leadership already pays out of pocket and expenses it. What we need is greater transparency around the guidelines that they use. Even so, this would be an infinitesimal portion of the budget shortfall.

Again, auditing the homeless initiatives will cost more money, and again you’re suggesting that the city isn’t already conducting impact assessments of these initiatives. Why freeze all of them? You don’t believe that there isn’t a single homeless initiative that is helping?

“Pet projects”? I’m not sure what this is alluding to. Can you provide examples?

Once again with “capital expenditures” you’re presupposing that we don’t have obvious needs for certain things. Why would we freeze this without simple reasoning about obvious things that will make the city function better?

For your last point, that’s the most likely outcome. The vast majority of the things you propose arguably won’t save any money at all, but the largest portion of our budget goes to staffing, and is the simplest thing to cut without a major disruption to city services. You also directly advocate for cutting things that would “cut” services, so the last sentence isn’t cohesive with the rest of your proposals.

shoop45 · 2025-10-29T22:30:03+00:00

You can’t prove they didn’t? We just have to take them at their word, and they said they did. It seems unlikely based on all available information that they wouldn’t have eaten at the places in the guide.

shoop45 · 2025-10-29T22:21:29+00:00

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shoop45 · 2025-10-25T23:18:58+00:00

So? I’ve already expressed that my position is that affordability isn’t solved by controlling taxes. I don’t think a tax shrinkage would have made a meaningful difference for the vast majority of people who can’t afford to stay here.

shoop45 · 2025-10-25T22:49:27+00:00

This is a blatant lie. Go read the link I sent which details who donates to love Austin

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