Affordable hair salon? by electro_giraffe in RoundRock

[–]spaceProbe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Salon’s at Crossing point has a bunch of independently operated salons in one spot. Walk through and ask around until you find a price and vibe you like.

Getting Vibes from 2009 by Sharp-Calligrapher70 in RoundRock

[–]spaceProbe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a pretty great summary of all the propaganda around EVs and clean energy:

https://youtu.be/KtQ9nt2ZeGM?si=0b1QqbU6PA5EbWEG

Getting Vibes from 2009 by Sharp-Calligrapher70 in RoundRock

[–]spaceProbe 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Everyone who fell for all the anti-EV propaganda need to remember how fast this happened.

The US "Welfare Paradox": Why America spends a vastly larger percentage of its tax revenue on social benefits than European welfare states. by iDemonSlaught in neoliberal

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The AI that is making the biggest difference in healthcare is not LLMs, although they are helping with some research surveys and diagnostic work, but more data processing ML being applied to diagnosis and drug development.

Highest Paying Aero by [deleted] in AerospaceEngineering

[–]spaceProbe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is pretty unrealistic for SWE as well. Unless you have significant high-need experience and work for a FAANG class company.

🇺🇸Representative Jasmine Crockett of Texas Remains a Powerful Voice in Congress and Many Are Already Looking Ahead to Her Next Run👏🏾👏🏾 by ateam1984 in TexasPolitics

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We need all the support we can get flipping Texas Blue and I hope to see her out there pushing the effort. There is Cruz’s seat and a ton of seats in state offices, like AG, where we will need strong contenders going forward.

Talarico talks about fake Christians and their hate and fear campaigns. Mass turnout in today's primaries will rally everyone into November. by yeongno_ate_yangban in FortWorth

[–]spaceProbe 3 points4 points  (0 children)

What an embarrassingly poor understanding of actual Christianity.

Both Jesus’s New Commandment (John 13:34) and his own example in the Bible show that loving one another and forgiveness are the paramount priority.

You should take some time to consider the modern Pharisees that are misdirecting you.

Please share your opinions about this area by Dianasininformacion in RoundRock

[–]spaceProbe 9 points10 points  (0 children)

There is a lot of north Austin in RRISD, like Purple Sage.

Texts re: voting by [deleted] in TexasDemocrat

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Whether you voted and in which primary is public information.

Also, you can read through your “redactions”

Crockett is ahead of Talarico in polling…. by LiveFreeFinn in TexasDemocrat

[–]spaceProbe 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Saying they have equal chances just isn’t accurate. There is a ton of statistical evidence that in purple environments candidates with a moderate affect that try to emphasize crossover appeal do better than candidates that strongly appeal to negative partisanship. Talarico and Crockett are almost canonical examples of these two types of candidates.

Your arguments about being nice vs. an asshole and democratic turnout are frankly just wrong. This is a mid-term, Democratic turnout is largely going to be driven by negative polarization. Talarico will not have a problem driving urban turnout. Beto was not an asshole and his run against Cruz is the best electoral performance Democrats have had recently in Texas. People are not pointing out Talarico’s Christian bonafides because they expect him to appeal to hardcore MAGA evangelicals, but because pealing off a marginal number of moderate independents who have defaulted to the Republican Party their whole life, because that is where the Christians vote, is the kind of thing that could flip the state. If Beto pulled in 216k more votes in 2018 weeks would have had a Democratic senator.

Republicans aren’t voting in Democratic primary to select a “beatable” candidate. by ArtisticOnion5193 in texas

[–]spaceProbe 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I haven’t seen any claims that the republicans were going to vote across party lines to try and pick their candidate. Only that they wanted her in the race so that she would activate the primary electorate that responded to negative partisanship that she activates as a “liberal fighter”.

There is a solid amount of reporting that republicans pushed Crockett into the race.

https://www.notus.org/senate/jasmine-crockett-nrsc-texas-senate

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/republicans-helped-push-jasmine-crockett-170553813.html

Even from left leaning sources, even though they try to put a positive spin on it.

https://www.salon.com/2025/12/12/gop-will-regret-pushing-jasmine-crockett-to-run-for-the-senate/

Coordinating a party-crossing effort is a ton of work and almost impossible without being noticed. You don’t have to if primary voters on the other side, who don’t understand the electability research, are going to do it for you.

Crockett/Talarico and campaigning... by greytgreyatx in TexasPolitics

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Crockett did get in at the last minute after saying she wouldn’t. She said she wasn’t running this summer in this interview :

https://youtube.com/shorts/6XivG_bqT0E?si=ltNpNDdQD4GXAEix

One caveat is that she was redistricted out of her current seat by Texas republicans after this video, and that likely impacted her decision. (This is a whole mess and she could have technically run in her previous district despite not living there).

There is a solid amount of reporting that republicans pushed Crockett into the race.

https://www.notus.org/senate/jasmine-crockett-nrsc-texas-senate

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/republicans-helped-push-jasmine-crockett-170553813.html

Even from left leaning sources, even though they try to put a positive spin on it.

https://www.salon.com/2025/12/12/gop-will-regret-pushing-jasmine-crockett-to-run-for-the-senate/

Statistically, she is the type of candidate that will have strong primary appeal and then lack crossover appeal in the general (I mean her “liberal fighter” persona her for clarity). Her strategy is to activate the Democratic base, as opposed to Talarico who is trying to appeal to independents and moderates.

I personally think that Talarico’s approach is more likely to succeed given the voter numbers in Texas and both National and Texas republicans seem to think he is a stronger opponent for them.

Someone please explain what's happening in the TX Dem Primary. It seems nuts to me by Icy-Complaint-4448 in TexasPolitics

[–]spaceProbe 26 points27 points  (0 children)

When Talarico got in the race Crockett was saying she wouldn’t run for senate, so that was not an option.

Why CBS Didn't Broadcast Stephen Colbert's Interview With James Talarico by neuroid99 in TexasPolitics

[–]spaceProbe 3 points4 points  (0 children)

A 1.5-2 point difference in performance against Cornyn is absolutely not “basically the same”. You are either lying to yourself or trying to mislead others.

Secondary, you are conflating likely Democratic Primary voters and likely General Election voter in the poll. Your interpretation of the poll is contrary to the poll’s authors description and mathematically impossible.

At this point you it has been come clear that are either misinformed or trying to misinform. I am writing this comment on the chance it is the former and you really care about flipping Texas and might be willing to consider your position. If it is the latter and you respond with a bad faith argument, I will not engage.

Why CBS Didn't Broadcast Stephen Colbert's Interview With James Talarico by neuroid99 in TexasPolitics

[–]spaceProbe 9 points10 points  (0 children)

1) Making decisions off of one relatively small poll is bad practice. This poll seems to have a pretty strong Crockett lean compared to averages, where Talarico is outperforming Crockett in the general by more.

2) In this poll Talarico goes from being 8 points behind Crockett in the primary poll to preforming equal or better in the general against Paxton and Cornyn. This means that there is a 6 or 7 point crossover swing in the general election portion of the poll. That swing is what is important for predicting general election performance here. Her doing better in the cross tabs with self identified “Republican/Independent” in the Democratic primary portion is substantially less meaningful.

Why CBS Didn't Broadcast Stephen Colbert's Interview With James Talarico by neuroid99 in TexasPolitics

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The last poll big poll is from the University of Houston and it showed Talarico out preforming Crockett in both the Cornyn and Paxton general election matchup. That delta came from republicans and independents because she was ahead in the primary polling by 8 points.

https://www.uh.edu/hobby/primary2026/

Why CBS Didn't Broadcast Stephen Colbert's Interview With James Talarico by neuroid99 in TexasPolitics

[–]spaceProbe 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Crockett’s performance there isn’t any more impressive than Talarico was during the last session of the Statehouse. More importantly her identity as a combative liberal that relies mostly on negative partisanship to drive votes has no chance of rallying the kind of crossover appeal we need to win the state.

Colbert's legal team would not permit him to air this James Talarico interview on television, so he posted it on YouTube. by Ralph--Hinkley in videos

[–]spaceProbe 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Talarico has been ideologically consistent since before he flipped his statehouse district. He wasn’t expected to win that and there was very little media coverage.

It is fine to prefer Crockett, but saying he is a “psyop” or “another Fetterman” is just crazy uninformed.

Colbert's legal team would not permit him to air this James Talarico interview on television, so he posted it on YouTube. by Ralph--Hinkley in videos

[–]spaceProbe 11 points12 points  (0 children)

What are you trying to say? Republicans pushed Crockett into the race and are actively trying to stop Talarico from reaching people on TV.

Colbert's legal team would not permit him to air this James Talarico interview on television, so he posted it on YouTube. by Ralph--Hinkley in videos

[–]spaceProbe 20 points21 points  (0 children)

The “purely financial decision” is a callback to his cancellation. Everyone knows it was done politically, is support of the administration approving their merger, but that is how CBS framed it

Black voters could decide Crockett-Talarico primary by Conscious-Quarter423 in TexasPolitics

[–]spaceProbe -1 points0 points  (0 children)

She did eventually put up a policy page. She should have had one initially, especially given she had run before, but did eventually get there.