Posts posted by texasdago
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I'm surprised Elon hasn't started pitching something like Cybertruck NFTs to his legion of rubes.
Not to say there aren't other people trying...
https://www.cybertruckownersclub.com/forum/threads/cybertruck-nft-freshly-minted.4855/
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Edited by texasdago
21 hours ago, YGIFS said:Obviously, we're lumping together unrelated accidental deaths, suicides, and murders. But even to the casual observer, the last several are starting to fit an even more narrow pattern of coincidence. Or as we said, once you get a fully built-out party district near a body of water with no lights around it and plenty of drugs and booze...maybe just more and more shit happens. Walk off Rainey street to the west from Van Zandt to the MACC. Or at the southern tip past those multi-family towers. Yeah, there's some dim lights, but you can easily wander into some points of entry to the lake and stumble into it unconscious, conscious with struggling to swim, or just plain fucked up on drugs/booze. If you don't recognize the gravel of some of the paths under your feet like an outfield warning track, it's pretty fucking dark, and you can find yourself falling in rather easily. I don't recommend this, but go walk it at dusk or dawn and notice how poorly lit it is between rainey street CRE and the water. Again, I think that's how it's happening but I'm not McNulty from BPD. I just think that's more plausible from that busy party area than somebody killing them and dumping them on one of the busiest streets in Austin where there's a 100 building cams pointed down there. And the creepy thing is most of the bodies show no sign struggle/blunt force trauma/stabbings/etc. I bet toxicology would reveal something, but we gotta 10 year backlog on rape kits so I'm sure "Drunken Minnesota man parties too hard" kit isn't a big priority for the guys working in shifts. Somebody real fucking powerful's son may be the next to die and bring this whole thing crashing down and right quick.
Y'all... for real... think about where all of these incidents are happening. Everyone keeps looking around looking around... what could it be? There's only one obvious answer and its not on the ground level...

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2 hours ago, Porterhouse said:
A) What are their names?
B) Any family member that seriously complains about YOUR child’s name is to be ignored. Mom/Dad, it ain’t your choice, so keep your goddamned mouths shut.
Mine have Italian names so its never been an issue with my parents.
Luigi and Mario, of course.
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Went to Matamoros my freshman year in college... since we were all underage, my buddy decided he wanted to buy a bottle of cheap Oso Negro Vodka to bring back to Padre... so, he buys a Mexican blanket, rolls up the bottle in the blanket and puts the blanket around his neck... kind of like a scarf or a trashy beach python... and just strolls back across the border in the US without a second look. Those were the days...
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2 hours ago, Patricio Swayze said:
So we have various Latin American countries representing. Looks like a couple of Brits/commonwealth folks. What else?
Italy (duh)
When we came here, my mom really complalined about the lack of good pasta, olive oil, etc. We would either visit Italy or have relatives visit us from Italy with big old jugs of olive oil. My mom felt like it was a wasteland from a cooking perspective. Not to mention some people would hear us talk and just assume we were Mexican.
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On 3/4/2023 at 11:05 PM, jw4381 said:
Bumpty bump
We've lived in small towns since leaving Grapevine in 1993.
Steamboat Springs
Los Alamos
Taos.
I didn't post about this yet. Kind of been wondering when to do so.
After our last progeny left home in 2020, we decided to jump to this awesome little town. There's no DQ.
We used to come here for any occasion - birthdays and anniversaries, music (Robert Plant and Allison Krauss will be here in June), and just for the hell of it. We were in Los Alamos for almost 24 years. Raised all our chitlins there.
So it was our dream to get here somehow someway, sometime.
In August of 2020, we were driving through, the Mrs. announces she's starting to look at properties. 5 months later we closed on a pretty damn cool place, I must say.
Population here is about 6,600. We have about 32 places to eat/drink within a 15 minute walk. Wilderness within 15 minute drive. World class skiing within 30 minutes. Got a new hot tub.
We sold our gym to one of our coaches a month after we left Los Alamos; still coaching locally at CrossFit Yeti.
It's awesome.
I know where you are based on that description... cold cold place or so I've been told. You've got world-class skiing for sure about 30 minutes away and another mountain about 45 minutes due east. Amirite?
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6 minutes ago, JCHIL said:
My family enjoyed Ski Portillo in Chile. All inclusive place once you get there-excellent slopes and service - highly recommend going during Chilean wine week which is last week in July I believe. Early July is early season so snow conditions may be questionable then....Ive heard good things about Valle Nevado - more of a do it yourself planning trip - Valle Nevado is on the IKON pass as well....
Portillo is on my ski bucket list... would love to stay there. Talked to some friends last week who stayed there and said it was amazing. Sounds like the Condor lift is an experience!
While Europe has taken a beating this year, thankfully where we're going is hanging in there... just had 8" of new snow yesterday and the base is allegedly sitting at 80" . I so cannot wait.
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1 minute ago, atomheartbevo said:
The "most exciting announcement of the day" is that they are building a new factory in Mexico to build their next-generation models. I'm sure that went over well with his fanboys.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/tesla-stock-veers-between-gains-and-losses-as-investor-day-gets-under-way-a771 (all of the above is from this link)
His right-leaning fans must be so conflicted with all the things he promotes that they hate.
EVs
Sustainability
Eliminating fossil fuels
Jobs for Mexicans
"But but... uh... he owns the libs!!!"
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9 hours ago, royiv said:
It's 11p. At what point do we worry that he hasn't checked-in?
Well, I made it. I learned two things:
1. My buddy thinks everything Tesla is doing is perfect and they're the best at everything and they're brilliantly safer than any other car and will eventually be the best selling car in the world because Elon
2. I walked past a parked Tesla and noticed the door was wonky and not lined up properly. I didn't realize this was an issue with Teslas until recently when my neighbor bought one and he said his panels and front headlight were kind of off. Quality control.
That and I told him about the review that the cyber truck looks like an out of place paper towel dispenser. He said it's not for everyone.
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4 US Citizens Kidnapped in Matamoros
in Daily Texan
Vietnamese friend was telling me in Vietnam there's plenty of racism among the Vietnamese based on skin darkness, as well... but, man, we are on a tangent.
In the end, I think there are plenty of areas in Mexico that can be safe and enjoyable. Matamoros has not been one of those areas in decades. Anyone who does not need to be there does not need to be there. Anyone who is not Mexican that does not need to be there definitely does not need to be there. This is appears to be a classic case of uninformed FAFO, unfortunately.