I can see the club OWNERS having to have a special license - and the business would need a liquor license, etc. But are the strippers themselves that often in the mob?

Not to mention that the women who strip bear the burden of fees by the club and are often exposed to customers who think they can treat the dancers however they want. Why are the dancers having to jump through all these hoops when it should be the dudes with a fistful of dollars?

Getting fingerprinted isn’t difficult at all! Uber and Left made the city of Austin spend $640,000 to host an election on a non-standard election day. Then they spent $8 million ad bombing the city which definitely sketched out this Austinite. Bonus! They were never forced out of Austin! Their ad campaign hinged on…

Death by stripper is the 3rd leading cause of death in the United States. It’s a fact. Death by ride share is way back there with bee stings and sewage falling from air planes. That’s a fact.

This is how I feel everytime one of my friends are like “But Austin is so great!!!!” and I’m just like... it’s still in Texas?

I had to be fingerprinted to teach preschool. I had to go on my own time (meaning taking unpaid time off from my job because the place to get fingerprinted was only open during schools hours) and pay with my own dime (3 hours worth of pay before taxes).

A degree of regulations for ride-sharing is a good idea and Uber and Lyft are being shady and ridiculous, but Austin is a fucking mess. As a resident, it has been frustrating as hell to vote time after time for better infrastructure, only to have the majority of voters go against the, admittedly imperfect,…

mmm i would say austin is pretty much a cookie-cutter case of being progressive in name only; we tout our “diversity” and “keep austin weird” but that just means we like co-opting cultures while simultaneously driving out all POC and the poors from the city. gentrification ho!

You know, three times I’vr had to get fingerprints for VOLUNTEER work. It’s not that burdensome.

I think I spent less than an hour driving around Austin before concluding that I did not care how many cool things people listed about the place, I would never live somewhere where people obviously hate traffic engineers. And that was in the mid 90s! I assume it’s much worse now.

well yea that’s the point — if one of these two very different industries must require fingerprinting and licensing, then i wouldn’t pick strippers first

So while Austin is less TEXAS, it’s still pretty much Texas?

“Allow me to introduce you to the liberals who proudly protest the likes of residential density and rail lines.”

Exactly how I feel. If it makes me look snug or pretentious or what the fuck ever, I don't care.

Ok, I’m gonna sound like a typical smarmy over educated liberal here but....shit like this is why people think of the Republican Party as “the stupid people party”. It’s also why that saying “if you want to see what life was like 25 years ago go to the south” is becoming so prevalent and incredibly true. I know that…

The party of small government is at it again.

Huh. I hadn’t thought about whether these bathroom bills were also stealth attempts to harass gays, lesbians, and bisexuals before. This must be part of that new educational series, The More You Didn’t Want To Know.

Are you fucking—...

I had to have an American friend special order the last season and send it to me in Canada. Sometimes I’d watch and be like, how do I adore this show so much?

Legit loved this show. Stoked.