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  • An easier way to reach the app in Android is the Google Play store. It's named Austin 311 from City of Austin. Some negative reviews, though, like (20 Jan 2023) "You can't report when your trash doesn't get picked up - easily 99% of the reason I ever call 311" and (9 June 2022) "App sucks. The categories are very limited and hard to locate. I should be able to search on a keyword and your app suggests appropriate categories. Where do i report a malfunctioning pedestrian cross signal, for example. Very disappointing!"

    I just checked out the Web page. That has a search capability (I don't see one in the app), both built in via a Search text box, and the browser's own facility (except there are not many items per page). I think I prefer it, even on my phone.

    But the Android app at least has a map of recent reports, which is a nice feature; I don't see it in the web page. It also has one central place to enter the reporter's info; it looks like the Web page has it on each request.

  • Austin Texas Community @lemmy.world
    pigeonberry @lemmy.world

    (KXAN) Central Texas drought ‘top one or two driest’

    It's an interview with Brian Fuchs, a climatologist with the National Drought Mitigation Center, which publishes the Drought Monitor map. He talks about the center itself, He talks about how they determine drought, considering lots of different factors and their impacts. There's a distinction between short-term and long-term drought. He compares the current situation with 2011, which was actually the peak of a long drought that lasted until 2015 or so.

  • As an analogy, I go to r/spacex, see important things that are being mentioned, and post it in !spacex@sh.itjust.works with a link to the original tweets or articles or whatever. Wikipedia may say

    the name "Reddit" is a play-on-words with the phrase "read it", i.e., "I read it on Reddit."

    but for a good number of posts, you could describe them as "I read it somewhere and decided to post it here".

  • A lot of talk about what may have happened to the Kerch Bridge, or some part of the Kerch Bridge. It has been pointed out that Russia and Crimea are quite close together and there are ferryboats, including a roll-on-roll-off boat. It has also been suggested that the rail bridge is still intact. So it might have mostly symbolic value for Ukraine.

  • Controlled burns, which are another alternative to controlling invasive plants in the area, often lead to reduced air quality and can compact the soil, Anderson said

    That's kind of slanderous against controlled burns. There is reduced air quality while it's burning, but the benefits can last years where the time of burning can last hours. I have not heard of compacting the soil as a drawback: a bit of Googling suggests that that's a drawback of cutting with machinery instead. Furthermore, there are ecosystems that are adapted to having burns from time to time, so they can be useful if done right.

    However, the article mentions poison ivy. Goats can not only eat it, they actively like it, and their bodies destroy the urushiol (the irritant) so their milk is safe. Furthermore, for a burn of poison ivy: some people did that upwind of my sister and a lot of other people on a military base, and the results were Not Good.

  • Austin Texas Community @lemmy.world
    pigeonberry @lemmy.world

    Opinions about the fireworks at Q2 tonight?

    I saw the fireworks at the Q2 stadium tonight, but from a building nearby.

    I thought they were kind of meh. 11 minutes and the grand finale was not grand.

    Were people inside the stadium able to see them? From a distant angle, it looked like they were being launched off the top of the roof on the southern seating area.

    Austin Texas Community @lemmy.world
    pigeonberry @lemmy.world

    Travis County jury duty notice

    (I selected Language English when posting this, but there's "Warning: If you deselect Undetermined, you will not see most content." above that. Did I do a bad thing?)

    My last jury duty was many years ago, and I don't even remember what jurisdiction it was.

    I got a jury duty notice from Travis County. Is this a "one day or one trial" system? Anything to note, like take the bus early rather than try to use a parking garage?

    Austin Texas Community @lemmy.world
    pigeonberry @lemmy.world

    This community has really gone downhill since it was created.

    It's for Austin, so it had to be posted. The meta must flow.

    Also, I wanted a little test and a little traffic.

    Ooo, cool, here we can edit the title.