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  1. What is the sargassum situation in the Miami area this year? We have a one night stop in a few weeks and I’m trying to figure out if we need to stay on the beach or just somewhere with a good pool. Obviously many hotels offer both, but it would help to know what to expect on the beach.
  2. Also, is it possible their friends were merely happy about free access to alcohol and the rest of the cruise experience was just background noise? Promise them they’ll get booze and sunshine in better ways and you’ll all be happier for it.
  3. If you’re willing to fly to Europe and also to spend 7-10 days possibly split between 2 locations, you have so many incredible options that would check all of your boxes. Do a major city for 3-4 nights to give your son the museums and cultural stuff and your wife and daughter the shopping and nice dinners. Then head to the coast to relax near the ocean, essentially what you would be doing on a cruise ship, except in a nicer hotel in a single location for probably less money and a better mix of people around you. Some examples would be: 1. Italy - Rome or Florence, then Amalfi Coast or Capri 2. France - Paris, then Saint-Tropez or Nice 3. Spain - Madrid, then Barcelona 4. Croatia - Split, then Hvar or Vis
  4. Have you considered getting a private catamaran to sail around Croatia or somewhere similar? That could be classified as a cruise and you make your own itinerary.
  5. Asking surly for cruise advice is like asking surly which section at Kyle Field is good to sit in.
  6. Why are you interested in a cruise and not simply going to 1 or 2 destinations that check all of your boxes?
  7. That sounds to me like Rahr is on the verge of dying off. Moving out of a brewery without a new one lined up is not a promising sign. Someone on Reddit says they auctioned off their brewing equipment too.
  8. I’ve been listening to Malcolm Gladwell’s newest book Revenge of the Tipping Point, and there is a chapter about Philip Esformes, who was convicted of Medicare fraud in 2019. He owned a bunch of nursing homes in Florida and had a kickback scheme, bribes, prescribing narcotics to keep people in the nursing homes, etc. It was a $1.3 billion dollar case that was the largest Medicare fraud case in history, and he was sentenced to 20 years in prison. He was pardoned in December 2020 by none other than Donald Trump. It’s especially rich that he talks about finding and eliminating fraud and waste and then when the government has caught a guy for doing just that on a grand scale, Trump pardons him. Motherfucker you had one.
  9. There are shady people in every profession, but any doctor that refuses treatment on the basis of political affiliation is a disgrace and should choose a new line of work. That’s not a doctor acting in his/her best financial interest or covering their ass. That’s a doctor being an intentional asshole for no reason other than to be hateful and deny the care they were trained to provide. Your buddy’s wife is a different situation altogether, which is terribly sad and an unfortunate consequence of the backwards laws this state has implemented on women’s healthcare. It’s awful and will become more common and every Republican lawmaker and every voter who helped elect them should be ashamed.
  10. https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/abbott-signs-law-permitting-use-of-fracking-wastewater/287-89df9861-29c7-4faa-b658-d651f94013ae So basically the TCEQ will be responsible for monitoring that the fracking water meets certain safety standards, and we just have to trust that this process is sound and that no one will cut corners or turn a blind eye, because oil companies and our state government have a long history of caring about public health and putting the public’s best interests ahead of profits. And HB 49 apparently protects the oil companies, landowners, and water treatment companies in the event the water causes harm.
  11. Your Friends & Neighbors was surprisingly enjoyable. I was not impressed by the trailer and thought it would be mediocre at best, but I was very wrong. It’s like a weird combination between Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Out of Sight, and Hitman. Highly recommended and I’m looking forward to season 2.
  12. I couldn’t attend my local event due to being out of town, but it makes me very happy to see the overwhelming turnout nationwide juxtaposed against the very pathetic images and videos from FDT’s parade. People seemed enthusiastic, creative, peaceful, and happy to stand together for a shared cause. Contrast that with the parade that seemed forced, uncoordinated, poorly attended, and oh yeah, the U.S. government needed Coinbase to sponsor them. It was the best possible outcome for the day as a whole and it gave me a tiny bit of hope, more than I’ve had in 6 months. I do wonder what is next? Nice to see this turnout but it seems it was coordinated in response to his birthday and parade, so will there be another nationwide event in the near future? Hopefully so. Also nice to see some celebs like Jimmy Kimmel and Mark Ruffalo standing up, but I feel like we could really use a hero to do something monumental. Like in my fantasy world, it would be Taylor Swift and Beyoncé hosting a free concert on the National Mall. I know it’s wishful thinking, but America needs influential people to build energy.
  13. Other than the bill screw up, was it any good?
  14. Tried to start Murderbot last night and it was so bad I only made it 10 minutes before stopping. It was one of those awkward shows/movies that you think is supposed to be funny but I couldn’t find a single line worth even snickering at. Not sure if it’s actually that bad or if I didn’t give it enough time or if I’m not the target audience. Oh well. Switched to Friends and Neighbors instead and wife and I both enjoyed the first episode. We were reluctant to start it because the trailer looked like generic cheese, but it was better than expected. We’ve also watched a few episodes of Carême and we’re liking it okay.
  15. Santa Fe is permanently closed, just fyi. There are some great places to have lunch, but I can’t imagine going to St. Barth and not going out for dinner. It’s one of our favorite things about it. Many of our favorite places are not even open for lunch.
  16. Heading back this week for the second time. Staying in a couple of different hotels and trying to explore some other areas. The agenda is to visit nice beaches and eat and drink the best food and wine we can find. I have high hopes.
  17. So we are not liberated after all?
  18. besthugerocks.com
  19. I probably won’t. I follow the official team accounts for the Longhorns and other teams, but I don’t see a reason to follow individual athletes. I mainly took issue with our starting QB advocating for Trump at a time when he was struggling to come back from an injury. Perhaps if he had been a better leader and not a turnover machine, it would’ve been easier to ignore his political posts.
  20. Oh yeah, I knew about Quinn because I was following him on IG for most of his Texas career until he started posting Trump shit in October leading up to the election. He completely lost me as a fan then. Good riddance.
  21. I’m in the dark so please elaborate.
  22. This thread resonates with me. I posted a while back that I was at an MLB game and realized during the national anthem that I didn’t want to sing it or even acknowledge it right now. The people currently in charge of this country are full of hate and I don’t feel right to honor that. I think July 4th will be weird this year and possibly for the next 4 years, maybe forever. I’m saddened by that but I won’t unconditionally profess my love to a country that is completely broken from the top down. Fuck that. I used to be fairly patriotic about July 4th, the national anthem, the Olympics, recognizing our country’s many accomplishments on the world stage, watching something like Band of Brothers and knowing my grandfather’s generation kicked some ass, the list goes on. Now those things evoke feelings of frustration and disappointment. Trump is an evil person, but MAGA is a disease that he unleashed on us and will be here long after he is gone. He has weaponized misinformation on a grand scale and created a perfect playbook for his eventual successors to continue down the same path. Corruption and lies are the keys to success because half of Americans think of politics as an “us vs. them” team sport or merely entertainment. Many people apparently get a sick pleasure from watching someone oppress people who are different (LGBTQ, female, brown, non-Christian, whatever), and they will gladly continue voting for politicians to continue to inflict that hate. America has a cancer for which there currently is no known cure. I don’t have much hope for a peaceful correction, unless possibly economic hardship eventually causes the MAGA movement to fail and a generation of voters dies off and gets replaced by people with new values. We also have to find a way to better educate (lol) our population and combat misinformation. All signs are currently pointing in the other direction.
  23. Maybe I missed something at the end of DR or the beginning of FR, but I didn’t understand why Luther was sick. Or maybe that’s not important and we just accept that he was sick as people are prone to get sick, but it was odd that he was in a little makeshift hospital room in the tunnels underneath London with a nurse but apparently no security, not even a door with a lock to keep people like Gabriel out. I guess I just got confused early on with the skipping around on camera work between Ethan and Gabriel and showing scenes in non-chronological order. If anyone has a better explanation for that part, I’d appreciate it.
  24. I thought the same but wife reminded me they used masks to bust Frenchie out at the beginning. Surprised that was it though. Like maybe Ethan could’ve at least been incognito at that gala where he got captured.
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