The “Texas Miracle” loses some of its magic as Oracle announces it’s moving its new HQ out of Austin and Tesla lays off nearly 2,700 workers.

  • @[email protected]
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    1123 days ago

    You haven’t seen Texas, then. Texas has Big Bend, which is my second favorite National Park in the whole country. And I’ve been to over 100 National Parks, Preserves, and Monuments.

    Yosemite is still more beautiful, though.

    • @VerdantSporeSeasoning
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      122 days ago

      OP mentioned that there are pretty places, they’re just not near anything. I’ve been to a lot of Texas–Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Austin, Amarillo, Midland, Del Rio. None of those are anywhere near Big Bend. I mean, for context, I think El Paso (the only major city nearby) is the halfway point between Dallas and LA. Most of the folks living in Texas aren’t seeing the beauty of BB on a daily or even regular basis.

    • @[email protected]
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      -623 days ago

      National parks are owned by the Feds, so using them as “my state is beautiful” is cheating. Guarantee it TX was actually responsible for the maintenance of their parks… Well they probably wouldn’t exist to begin with, but sure as shit wouldn’t be what they are today