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Homercles

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  1. Please don’t share @Neikea home movies again
  2. Jesus I step away for a few hours to teach my oldest how to power slide in Mario Kart and come back to this thread blowing up…and PAC12 all yoda in this bitch
  3. So…any recommended VPN apps for iOS? Pretty sure my wife isn’t going to buy that this new law is a valid reason to get down every single day.
  4. As usual, your takes often piss me off despite being a fellow Poke. There’s a lot of valid nuance being discussed here. DEFCON: LOBO warning I moved to Austin metro from Stillwater in ‘02. Since then I’ve bought two houses, gotten married and have two kids. If it weren’t for my parents living in GTown, our entrenchment with friends/schools and my employer suddenly backtracking on remote work…we’d have left already. There’s early markers my 9yo son may be gay, based on my wife’s 20 years as an educator. Jury is obviously way out, but if that’s the case and nothing changes in Texas…I want him the hell out of here when he’s old enough. My 6yo daughter has a vagina, if nothing changes in Texas I want her the hell out of here. My property taxes equal my mortgage payment…yet schools are being deprived of funding, we are only building toll roads and public infrastructure is literally falling apart. Local PDs are receiving record funding in some areas, yet they fail to respond a vast majority of the time and actively lie on Props. Schools are getting shot up…yet folks bring rifles to the Capitol to protest and pistols to HEB. It’s getting hotter due to climate change and we live in Frontier Days during winter storms…yet we spend budget surplus on fucking floating balls in a river and lawyers to defend the practice against federal lawmakers. Oh and they’re finding bodies in them. Our AG has a web of fraud accusations I can’t keep track of. Criticizing the Lt Gov gets you suspended. These clowns are generally fucking with nationally-recognized universities down to calling special sessions to further cripple public school systems. Voting rights are being systematically disabled / made harder, disproportionately affecting ‘liberal’ cities and their diverse population. Districts are ass backward as fuck to keep it that way. /Lobo warning TLDR: There’s so much going wrong in this state that waving a ‘quit moving here’ hand is fucking embarrassing…and I’m one of the lucky ones who is a white, straight, upper middle class male who built a house in 2012 back when it was reasonably affordable. I’m allowed to be pissed about things that don’t directly affect me, because I generally care about other people (except The Darrel, fuck that guy)
  5. So the rhino exhibit I saw in Xiamen wasn’t real either?
  6. It tellshh me that goosh stepping morons like yerrshelf should try reading booksh instead of bahhhhning them!!!
  7. Best thing to come out of Girls was Adam Driver.
  8. I group a USAF brat and really got into music seriously as a teen…when we were stationed in Turkey from 93/96. No internet, AFN-only tv. All I had was my parents turntable and their record collection…Fleetwood, Steppenwolf, Floyd, etc. Gained an appreciation for 60’s-80’s, along with properly exploring an album, because it’s all I had. Made my own mixtapes to carry around, which helped me appreciate good ‘production’ as I had to normalize, use DNR, etc if I wanted a good tape made from wildly varying vinyl sources. I recognize things/tastes change, but definitely lost something of an art with singles-focused, digitally-produced music. Floyd/Parsons had to make a loop of tape around a mic stand to repeat the Money sound effects…now you just ProTools it with one click, and it’s perfect. However now I appreciate creativity even more when it happens in the digital era:
  9. I just want to see the PAC12 get stripped bare enough I can use the term ‘2PAC’ seriously in a sports context one time
  10. I just use google news as an aggregator, read multiple sources if I’m interested in the topic, and make up my own mind. Shit like TikTok certainly trains people to have minute attention spans, but that’s their problem…except when my wife sends me fuckin TikTok recipes. What grinds my gears more is websites with usually interesting content but are so mired by ads, menu bars and content preview that it’s a long, battery-draining slog just to consume their content. I’m looking at you Jalopnik
  11. I think they’re real, and the intergalactic probe crash landed in Lubbock wherein the aliens took one look around before promptly committing suicide.
  12. Best I heard today was ‘Glitch McConnell’
  13. So a mass shooting was averted by…a mass shooting?
  14. There were at least four I can remember…the state highway slowed to 35mph, a bunch of abandoned buildings with trees growing through them, a leaning barn, and then a gleaming post office right before speed limit went back to 65.
  15. If our drive from Austin to Durango was any indication, the only nice building in the whole one-stoplight was the…federal…post office. “Got damn bums living off that thur gobment handouts up there in Portland, stealing from us werkin folk”
  16. At first I thought Musk was driving some scheme to manipulate markets for his Tesla stock (maybe shorting, I dunno), then figured he bought Twitter to control messaging on SpaceX/Tesla/etc…it’s almost been a relief to validate he’s some regarded pseudo-villain like a real life Mojo Jojo.
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