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  1. i think if something happens and Trump ends up not running (whatever, could just be him actually afraid of losing and coming up with some excuse, or a conviction, death, whatever)... anyways, i think RFK Jr. would take up the MAGA mantel pretty seamlessly and step into their weird savior role. he'd probably reinvigorate them tbh. it's not like they have any actual convictions about anything, other than worship of a demagogue... something about following RFK Jr would give them that same dopamine hit 🤔

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  2. i'm an ATJ fan, first saw him in Nocturnal Animals and he was absolutely fantastic. Bond would obviously be total opposite, but he's suave enough to pull it off. Cavill would be an easy pick, but i feel he's too buff or something

  3. 21 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    The public sector is inefficient compared to the private sector as experienced by the client because the public sector’s budgets, hiring authorities, and revenues are set by the legislative process which is not responsive to shifting demands, technologies, etc.  Even the highly professionalized public sectors are vulnerable to this, as you can see when the Army decides it doesn’t need a base anymore but Congress says it does. And we keep electing people who tell you outright that they are going to deliver less efficient and good services in exchange for lower taxes.  
     

    You can’t throw some genius MBAs at that simple dynamic and fix it. There are not a bunch of geniuses who ruthlessly manage geniuses in the private sector.  They just are able to redistribute and invest resources in a quicker and more focused way because they don’t have a whole bunch of elected barons who are only accountable to voters they can dupe calling the shots. 
     

    LOL, the private sector actively fucks up the public sector. The IRS has a pilot online filing system in some places that’s actually pretty good.  It took this long and you can’t use it because private tax preparers have been lobbying to keep the IRS paper based and shit.  

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    'drown it in the bathtub' and then bitch that it's dead. 🙄

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  4. On 3/15/2024 at 11:39 AM, troph said:

    I think I reached my lifetime limit on therapy but if I were to return existential dread caused by climate change and human filth would be a top 3 reason. 

     

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  5. On 3/2/2024 at 10:09 AM, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

    I’ve been to Mont St. Michel.  We just went during a day.  Had no issues.

    buy tickets online beforehand i assume? with a tour? would anybody who's been recommend a guide? 

    been working on our Paris leg. we are skipping the two biggest ticket items (Tour Eiffel, Louvre), i just don't want to spare the time mostly, and there are good substitutions. we'll do a mix of metro (bus mostly), walking and Uber (or taxi) throughout the day, i've scoped out routes and times. did i mention i was a 5 star trip planner? ☺️

    one day we'll start with les jardins and plaza around the tower, get some touristy pics, move on pretty quick to Les Invalides...a much better place to spend several hours! work our way down to Jardin du Luxembourg, towards Latin Quarter. plan to have Catacombs tickets for sometime that day (they only go on sale 7 days before). optional: add Montparnasse at dusk, see the city from there with the tower in it :)

    btw, studying street view and pics...the whole Eiffel area reminds me of the national mall in Washington. i assume that is on purpose? man we were really close with the French for a while weren't we? i'll be looking for the Statue of Liberty too lol 

    another day we'll start at Petit Palais and work our way down the river front...Musee L'Orangerie, Tulieres, Louvre plaza, Palais Royal...generally working our way towards Marais. optional: add Le Centre Pompidou which is open late.

    optional stuff is just if we're feeling like it. so other than a few hard targets (Les Invalides, Orangerie, Catacombs), a lot of our time will be just...strolling thru parks or neighborhoods, ha, which we enjoy and which i am anticipating is going to be fabulously in bloom this time of year! i dig architecture and gardens the most, and my mate tends to get impatient if we're in one spot for too long. so the days feel full but fairly slow-paced.

    a third day we will spend in Monmartre...we have a walking food tour in the morning and then will spend some of the afternoon kicking about that neighborhood. the tour includes lunch from the various shops we visit, fun!

    and of course our first day which will only be about 65%...just rest, check out our immediate neighborhood, then we have an evening dinner cruise.

    with a couple of exceptions (like Lafayette's) i'm not trying to go out of our way for any particular restaurant. there appear to be several within a few blocks of where we're staying in the 17th. i could maybe use recommendations in the Latin Quarter or Marais? otherwise i'm sure we'll stumble on something pretty good. 🙂

  6. 16 hours ago, MrX said:

    Seafood, Mexican food, and BBQ is a tough ask in Denver. Everything else can be had. 
     

    The best sushi place I’ve found is in Littleton. 
     

    Brewery Bar II is a good hole in the wall for Tex Mex. La Loma was good at the original location but seems to have lost a step after it moved. 
     

    Yazoo’s is the best BBQ I’ve had in the city. 
     

     

    i don't know which loc is the original but we did find the La Loma downtown back before the holidays and it immediately jumped to the front of the line as far as Mexican food here goes! the homemade tortillas were a major score (sooo good!), the tortilla soup tastes very similar to Baby As in its prime, the crispy tacos and fajitas are absolutely fantastic. it's a bit pricey but most things here are. sadly...still no texmex enchiladas to be had 😒, but the margaritas are loaded so all in all we're pretty happy to have found it! 😁

    i think we tried Yazoo's a while back and once again it was OK, not great, and not what we were craving. that's where i actually asked them if they could slice my brisket instead of chop it (seriously, that's what they do here, take beautiful slices of brisket and go ginsu on it, so strange!) and the guy looked panicked and actually said 'i don't think we have a knife big enough to do that', which...wut. lol. 🙄

    anyways, i've added Post Oak to our list to try... we'll keep testing 😄

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  7. we go to Blue Island on Mondays sometimes bc they have $1 oyster night so it's better than the $3.50/$4 per oyster they normally charge. the oysters are from Long Island, they are tasty but boy they are tiny. i mean i miss this!

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    and yeah, the best catfish, shrimp, gumbo, etc we've had here is def Pappadeaux, so there's that. 

    funny story about AJ's...summer we first got here (2022) i was on a bbq mission and i found AJ's. we'd already tried several other bbq places and were severely disappointed (wtf is with serving de-boned chicken and chopped up brisket?? weirdos.) we walk in AJ's and i'm like 'well at least this place looks and smells right!' it was pretty good... i'd say the best we've found here, we've gone back a few times, but still not quite 'it'. 

    fast-forward about a year and we start seeing it mentioned in a bunch of local media and social media posts...turns out AJ's was added to the Michelin guide for Denver lol. i felt proud for having found it on my own already haha.

    anyways i think i know the problem with bbq here...big outdoor smokers are prohibited by local clean air ordinances. even AJ's has an indoor smoker/grill with a giant hood over it. i think that's why none of it here can really nail it.

    our neighbors have a weekend place up in Estes and supposedly there's a bbq joint up there with a big smoker out back that they swear is the best bbq around, will give that a try this summer. i did try a bison rib at a joint up in Longmont, that was pretty fun/good 😊

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  8. i'm in Denver and while i also enjoy going to my neighborhood dispensary then traveling 20-30 minutes for some spectacular nature or even just riding my bike around the 800 miles of urban bike trails in an exceptional year round climate...but my god i miss texmex, bbq, and cajun seafood!

    there's good seafood here but it's at the level of Truluck's or Clark's or whatever... man i miss a dozen juicy gulf oysters with hush puppies and a shrimp poboy! and brisket with a fucking bark. and cheese enchiladas with chile con carne

    my world-traveled French exchange student from a few years back (along with her Norwegian and Swedish friends) swore up and down that the best food they'd had in the world was in Texas.

    and those British Jolly guys on TikTok picked Black's bbq as the best thing they'd tasted in the world. literally.

    Texas food wins and it's not even questionable.

    but most everything else...meh.

  9. On 3/11/2024 at 2:26 PM, mchookem said:

    my mate is going on a fishing trip this week... so i just got a ticket to see it again in IMAX friday, oh yeah!

    trying to remember the last movie i saw more than once in a theater...i think it might have been Heat 🤔 

    i mean this is just a fucking fantastic movie. just wow.

    the music is worthy of another Oscar. i bet this thing sweeps awards next year. 

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