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austingirl

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  1. Took me forever to realize where I'd seen Katherine Lanasa before.
  2. Oh, NOW McConnell breaks rank? I will never, ever forgive him for his role in all of this.
  3. IDK how these motherfuckers just fly into hurricanes. I have to pop a Xanax for a short flight on a sunny day.
  4. If we learn nothing else from the disaster scenario in which we currently live, it's that bad actors can find loopholes everywhere and there's no way to write a completely airtight set of rules to govern a democracy. For civilized society to remain civil, you have to be able to rely somewhat on people applying laws and rules in the manner in which they were intended. We're never going to get anywhere if we spend all our time arguing over what the word "shall" means in the 22nd amendment. American society is a Jenga tower that has relied more heavily on norms than most of us believed, and we're one or two blocks away from the whole thing falling down. All it took was a cult of personality and a few social media algorithms.
  5. Didn't love it, but it's a pilot so I'll definitely give it a few more episodes, especially because of I'm not super interested in the military storyline, but ok. Let's see what happens. I'm much more interested in the Hanlon family story and I hope they go into what happens at the nightclub. I'll spoiler this next thing just in case, but it's something interesting I noticed in IMDB.
  6. Really, the goal is to get away from everyone else for a bit. If y'all have recs for other places to visit close to Rome, I'm all ears!
  7. We'll be in Rome in December with our kids, my in-laws, and @HornOnTheBayou's sisters. We'd like to get away one night on our own, maybe to Firenze. Is there a good quick overnight trip for us to take by train, where we can chill and drink good wine and food without the kids or the rest of the family. And take a break from the full-on touristy stuff the rest of the family wants to do. I speak about an intermediate level of Italian so regions where very little English is spoken would be ok. Any recs for places to stay and places to eat/things to see?
  8. All this. I loled when they called that kid unc.
  9. The day of the wedding, I actually had a conversation with someone about the dove hunt they'd gone on the day before. 😂
  10. Hereditary is my 17-yo's favorite movie - we watch a lot of horror, and he compares everything to it. Highly recommend Midsommar too. I haven't enjoyed Ari Aster's last two movies as much, but I'm hoping he goes back to his horror roots soon. This is one of my favorite horror movies. A couple of Halloweens ago, I dressed up as Grace. Carried around a Red Ryder BB gun for trick-or-treating.
  11. Did not take pics but yes, I can verify that he looked gooood.
  12. Thanks for the rec - we won't be there that long this time but I'll remember this for future trips to SETX.
  13. Instead of attending the No Kings rally, I will be at a family wedding in Anahuac.
  14. "I got rings on"
  15. This is tangential, but did y'all know that the Frank Wilhoit who originally said that line is not the political scientist, but another Frank Wilhoit who was posting a comment to a blog post? This Slate article goes into it more, but it's such a weird coincidence.
  16. I posted this Wired article in a different thread a few weeks ago, but it's well worth the read. The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. They’ve been a road map for the billionaire ever since.
  17. SCOTUS rejected her appeal.
  18. Saw it yesterday. It reminded me of Skinamarink in a lot of ways, being a similar high-concept film. You never see the humans' faces clearly. Since it's shot from the dog's POV, most of what you see is from about knee-height. I watched it with my 13-yo and we both really liked it. It didn't stick the landing 100%, IMO, but it's still a good movie. The filmmakers do a great job of conveying tension. The Drafthouse had a good post-credits thing, about 5 minutes long, where the director talked about how they shot the movie with a dog who - and he could not emphasize this enough - did not realize he was in a movie. It took 3 years to film it because they spent so much time getting the reactions they wanted out of Indy, who is adorable.
  19. Let me ask you one question: is your money that good? Will it buy you forgiveness? Do you think that it could? I think you will find, when your death takes its toll All the money you made will never buy back your soul.
  20. I mean, I thought it was the rule in every revolutionary group or gang; they just say "snitches get stitches" instead.
  21. This is a fascinating, if long, Wired article about Peter Thiel and the philosophical beliefs behind everything he does. It goes into his background with Vance and touches on his reasons for investing in Facebook, and all that eventually converges to provide a ton of insight into his political leanings. The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel's Antichrist Obsession I kept thinking about the concept of mimetic rivalry as I watched clips of the right's reaction to EscalatorGate. It started off with fairly typical MAGA outrage, but as more and more people joined in, the outrage got worse and worse ("we should bomb the UN and Trump should put piece of the rubble on the Resolute Desk!"), as if they were competing for a title. Thiel explained that he was "betting on mimetic rivalry" when he invested in Facebook - people have called him the founder of the Like button. Anyway, I think some of you will find it as interesting as I did.
  22. Ah got it - no, I went to Port Neches-Groves HS.
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