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9 hours ago, Tumbleweed_Tx said:
where's that eyeroll emoji.
The State has always rolled it's eyes at Harris County and it's issues, it does the same for Dallas and Tarrant Counties.And at Austin, I believe.
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34 minutes ago, mattyt36 said:
You've got to be kidding me--it would work as every other revolution in history has.
That's a very broad brush you got in your hand, brother. Can you be more specific on how you would imagine it would play out here? Mark Milley turns the US military on Biden and anoints Trump the god king?
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14 minutes ago, mattyt36 said:
augie, here's where I am obligated to remind you that you're the one who brought the Nazis into the discussion and linked them to the GOP. I know this infantile pseudo-libertarian cynical nihilism has made some people literal to the point such that, until Trump sprouts a toothbrush mustache, does the Nazi salute, and has a ribbon cutting for concentration camps in San Francisco, you won't believe him to be a fascist. (Although, quite honestly, I wouldn't be surprised to see if you couldn't find some way to laugh it off with something like, "lolz, can't you do better than that?") If that's what you want to hang your hat on, be my guest--those are definitely some "special" kind of moral standards to aspire to. I'd definitely not want to spend my personal capital standing behind that bunch as if it were some sort of shield, but you do you, buddy.
Just making a counter-point in a similar vein. And pointing out that using obscure news involving a baker's dozen of nuts as evidence of impending doom doesn't carry much water. You really should dump those in favor of the constitutional argument, although I can only find one reference so far that Trump advocated suspending the part of the Constitution regarding elections. Has he really stated this "openly multiple times" or is that a bit of hyperbole? And how would such an abrogation actually work?
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3 hours ago, mattyt36 said:
Watched the Tampa video, counted a whole 11 Nazis demonstrating on a street corner.
The Facebook issue is so obscure that no one other than a scholar or a political hack deliberately looking for a case to make would even notice. That's assuming that the 88 and red triangle were not actually coincidences or, in the case of the triangle, misinterpretation of an antifa poster someone sold on a website somewhere. Assuming this all was a deliberate, subliminal attempt to awaken the the Nazi zombie army, how many Trump campaign workers would have known the symbology and had the access to write the ad and place exactly 88 ads? One perhaps, maybe a couple?
Mom's for Liberty, Hamilton County Indiana chapter? Anyone heard of this group or place outside the news report? Exactly how many "Moms for Liberty" are there in Hamilton County, Indiana? And how many of these moms put the quote they then had to apologize for into said newsletter? One perhaps?
Please, I know you can do better than these...
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On 7/4/2023 at 3:16 PM, mattyt36 said:
I'm all for arguing that the extremes generate bad political results, but there is only one political party whose "mainstream" is now effectively being run at the national level by extremists, with the unstated (well, unwritten, I guess, as we've now gotten to the point that plenty of people are "stating" it openly) platform of said party being authoritarianism. This is an important distinction to make, especially considering they are justifying such positions based on paranoid fantasies about a left-wing that is a marginal participant in U.S. politics at best (yet always a favorite go-to boogeyman).
Would that be akin to the other paranoid fantasy that the Republican party is being run by Nazi's? I need not say that Nazi's are the hand's down favorite go-to boogeyman in certain circles.
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Number of 'mosquito days' in Houston falls since 1970s due to extremely high temperatures
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13 minutes ago, hbcu said:
Where is this multi family demand coming from out this way?
Just a quick look at the area around there on zillow is showing house prices going from $294k up well past $1M, with the majority being $500k and up. Definitely going to be demand for lower priced options in that environment.
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Go to Oyster Creek Park in Sugar Land and you'll see them. I don't think they generally do well in urban environments, though.
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8 hours ago, __nevii said:
Yea, abolishment of those requirements could be done right away w/ the stroke of a pen: a complete wipeout of those rules even out to Kingwood and Clear Lake City. Even better, framing the entire thing as "market-based parking/setback methods" should soothe even the most "commiephobic" of the suburbanites.
And yet they don't. So why is that?
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7 hours ago, samagon said:
well, since the city (thanks to the state) will have a much harder time annexing land for the sole purpose of raising the revenue from taxes, the only real option they have to increase tax revenue is to make land more valuable, and the only way to do that is to make the city more dense, and promote infill on the empty land.
That and raising water and sewer rates and tacking fees onto your coh water bill.
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4 hours ago, trymahjong said:
I didn't exactly know where to post this........am a huge Citizens Environmental Coalition supporter ............. happily sharing many events on HAIF.This little blurb....sorta left me gobsmacked.........😶
Can you live without power for one hour from noon to 1 p.m.? Daylight Hour challenges environmentally conscious people to save energy and promote sustainability June 21. Not only will participants save on electricity and reduce CO2 emissions, but they’re invited to share their experiences via Instagram and Twitter with the hashtag #DaylightHour. Organizers hope to save five times the power it would take to run the Empire State building. For more info and to sign up, follow this .https://daylighthour.org/join/
Live without power for one hour in Houston on a day that hits 100? Maybe by riding around in your car for that hour? 😛
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1 hour ago, gene said:
that was funny and stuff🤪
W don't get no love...😜
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RIP...
John Nova Lomax, who documented Houston and Texas stories, dies
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19 hours ago, IntheKnowHouston said:
Today, CultureMap published an article about Citizens / Citizens of Montrose. This is an all-day Australian cafe from NYC. It's opening in FM Kitchen's former space at 907 Westheimer Rd, Suite C.
Citizens aims to open in June, according to CultureMap.
From CultureMap:
An Australian-inspired cafe from New York City is coming to Houston. Citizens will open its first Houston location in the former FM Kitchen space at 907 Westheimer Rd.
...the 3,500-square-foot space will look the part courtesy of a design by Geisel, who trained as an architect before becoming a restaurateur. Details include an outdoor waiting area with self-serve beer and coffee taps, vintage photographs of Australia, and wallpaper that depicts a young Queen Elizabeth II.
https://houston.culturemap.com/news/restaurants-bars/citizens-cafe-coffee-shop-montrose-2023/There is also mention of Citizens in today's Houston Press' Openings & Closings:
https://www.houstonpress.com/houston/Print?oid=15695779Is it just my imagination or do Australian cafes seem to originate in NYC of late?
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1 hour ago, mkultra25 said:
I have wondered the same thing. As you pointed out, nouns are gendered in every Romance language. I can't imagine that changing any time soon to reflect latter-day gender identity politics, but that probably gets into a debate of linguistic prescriptivists vs. descriptivists. Who knows what languages will look like in several hundred years - consider the differences between Chaucer's 14th-century English and that which is spoken today.
In several hundred years the most commonly spoken languages will be English derivatives.
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Special counsel John Durham concludes FBI never should have launched full Trump-Russia probe
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/15/politics/john-durham-report-fbi-trump-released/index.html
Imagine that...
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12 minutes ago, editor said:
There have been plenty of newspaper articles in the last year about backlash against the term "Latinx" in the Hispanic community.
I don't speak anything well enough to have an opinion on it. Unless you count gibberish. That I'm fluent in.
I believe Latinx is an American English term. What I'm talking about are things like word gender, where each noun is one of two or three genders (masculine, feminine, or neuter). As such, the typical convention in Latin based languages is to use the masculine form for plurals where males are part of a mixed group. For instance, in Spanish you would use the masculine form "ninos" to refer to a group of boys or a group of boys and girls, but if, and only if, the group is entirely girls would you use "ninas".
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4 hours ago, Texasota said:
Yep. And technically alumni actually only refers to men. Multiple Judies Cook would be alumnae.
But I'm fine with removing that distinction. It's a dumb thing to gender and just makes life harder.
Singular vs. plural is a meaningful distinction though.
And, as with it's modern descendants, in Latin you use the masculine form, alumni, to refer to mixed groups of men and women. I always wonder if people who get up in arms about gender usage in English have their heads explode when they find out that in much of the wider world languages can have distinctly patriarchal patterns deeply embedded.
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On 5/12/2023 at 7:48 AM, editor said:
I didn't realize that she can only work on one thing at a time. Maybe she could hire someone to help her out with things, so she can deal with two issues at a time.
Well, she's already signed up to work on the Biden campaign so hopefully she'll be at least dedicating some time to Harris county issues as well. Regardless, Judge Hidalgo put the Astrodome at the bottom of the bottom of the list some time ago.
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10 hours ago, editor said:
You don't have to look any further than America's own history, and the way business works today, to understand that population decline will mean people moving into cities and large towns, and not spreading themselves thinly across the landscape.
Texas is littered with dried up small towns that didn't make it. People who live in small towns across America today constantly complain about the kids moving to the big city and leaving their towns to die. That's been going on for at least the last half century.
From a business perspective, if I'm opening Ed's SuperSud Washateria, I'm going to put it as close as I can afford to the most people, I'm not going to put it out in the middle of a mouldering suburb with few people and no future.
From what I've read, I think Japan and South Korea are at the leading edge of the depopulation trend. Their governments are giving the last remaining people in suburban villages incentives to consolidate into larger towns and cities. It's just too expensive to maintain infrastructure (roads, water, sewer, police protection, fire cover, etc…) for a declining population spread out over a large area.
I don't think you can look at America's history for guidance on this particular issue. America has been in population and economic growth mode for all of it's history. What we're talking about is permanent year over year declines in population. That's whole different animal (and not a farm animal at that). It's not at all clear that the long term (generations) reaction to that will be the further growth of urban areas.
Japan and South Korea are export economies. They need to sell goods overseas because their populations are in decline and they don't have the consumer base to support their economies. Without the option to sell abroad, they would (will) experience significant declines in their economies, possibly going as far as deindustrialization. Bear in mind that it's industrialization that has led to the phenomenal growth of urban areas since the second world war. That's the reason people left the farms for the big cities. If that goes away, so does much of your urban population. This is whole economy level stuff, not Ed's SuperSud's level stuff. No doubt, governments will try to maintain (obsolete?) twentieth century trends as you are implying Japan and South Korea are, but that's a losing battle in the end.
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10 hours ago, editor said:
I'm surprised that it's coming down in the future, since the general manager and the disc jockeys on the air yesterday kept mentioning the new Caroline building like they're proud of it and expect to be there a long time. Go figure.
Go out to the sticks to the west of Houston, and you'll see it on billboards put up in cow fields by local wantrapeneur real estate developers trying to convince people to move out of Houston.
Real estate developers trying to convince people to buy their developments? Now there's a shocker.
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4 hours ago, editor said:
No one said any such thing, but if you enjoy living out in a field like a farm animal that's your choice to make, so you have to live with your decisions.
Moreover, the "hive" thing is just a real estate industry meme spread by desperate low-end agents who can't come up with any logical arguments. It's the real estate equivalent of calling someone a "poopyhead," and reveals more about the writer than the position being argued.
I hate to break it to you, but the notion of continuously building vast expanses of single-family homes is last century's thinking. Population decline is a thing, and has already arrived in many developed countries. Who's going to live in all those empty suburbs?
To @Ross' point about moving because of his job, moving around for work is not unusual. In the 70's and 80's, there was a joke in the tech industry that IBM stood for "I've Been Moved." From 1994 to 2006, I had a job that constantly moved me and my family not just from neighborhood to neighborhood, but across the country. I lived in about 11 states because of it. But it was a choice I made. I never thought, "We should spend billions of tax dollars building freeways to accommodate my chosen way of life."
I think the extreme would be wild animal, not farm animal. Though life on a farm would be nice.
I'm not in the real estate industry and so wasn't aware that "hive" was a real estate pejorative. I'll keep that in mind now that I know.
Population decline is absolutely a thing. Though for the US that will happen well into the future and at a much slower pace than the rest of the world. The big unknown is how population decline will affect the economy and life in general. It's likely, though, that when the population declines economic activity will also decline. It's far from certain that economic decline is going to increase urbanization. It seems more likely that such decline would increase ruralization as people return to greater self-sufficiency out of necessity. The only example I can think of off of the top of my head is the de-urbanization that happened in Europe after the collapse of the Roman Empire. If you have some other examples of what happens to a society when populations and economies collapse, I'd genuinely like to hear them.
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2 hours ago, pablog said:
The ideal is for people to be able to live the life they want/prefer without imposing that lifestyle and negatively affecting the life of others.
Do you love to live in the country or suburbs? Great for you! But your need for a car-dependent city negatively affects the quality of life of people living in the communities or neighborhoods closer to town.
You love dense walkable neighborhoods and towering skyscrapers? Great for you! But your love for those things shouldn’t mean we ban suburbs and cars.
The great thing is that there is a great solution/compromise; trains and public transportation, not wider highways.
Wouldn't requiring the use of public transport negatively affect those living in the suburbs? How about trains AND wider highways?
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Elements Coffee - 1005 Ennis St.
in EaDo, the East End, and East Houston
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It's so you can say truthfully that you "went to the gym today". But really you just got a coffee.