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Samson's Wig

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  1. Let's call him what he is. An evangelical. Evangelicals are no different than Islamic terrorists. It's way past time we start treating them as such instead of giving them a pass due to their inherent stupidity. Their insanity is not harmless.
  2. Chinese settings weren't activated.
  3. Most intelligent species, indeed.
  4. I spend time in all three bodies of water as well, but Town Lake is the only one I work hard to stay on the surface of. I'll occasionally kayak it or embarrass myself on a paddle board, but I'm not swimming in it. I can't remember where I found the info, but Town Lake is decidedly more disgusting than Lake Austin or Lake Travis based on every possible measurement. Given its location in an urban center, this really shouldn't be a surprise. To be fair, Lake Travis and especially Lake Austin are both fairly gross too, but nothing compared to Town Lake. Never mind the toxic algae, the sewage, and the commercial pollutants. The volume of STDs in Town Lake, based on the crowd that spends the most time in that water, must be staggering. We might end up ground zero for the next sexually transmitted pandemic based on what's brewing in those waters.
  5. No one talks about manopause, but that shit is real.
  6. Who knew Operation Weserübung would have such far-reaching implications? Fucking Norwegians, man.
  7. We're special, haven't you heard?
  8. Definitely of a piece.
  9. Give it time, give it time.
  10. Of course, we can't do that. We can only overcorrect every time and vacillate between two extremes of stupidity. It's more American than apple pie and baseball. We lost some family members in assisted living facilities during the COVID pandemic who likely died much earlier than they would have due to isolation. It sucks, but I also understand that during the first and second year of the pandemic there was a great deal of trial and error trying to figure out how to handle things best, and there is never going to be a solution that is 100% perfect for everyone. Don't forget how many old folks in New York assisted living facilities died due to contracting COVID in the early days. Nowhere to store the bodies, there were so many. Understandably, the response was to lock down those facilities around the country as the disease was becoming more widespread, and there is no doubt, based on those early numbers, that many lives were also saved because of this. How anything got done at all, given how dysfunctional the federal and most state governments were/are is kind of amazing. But yeah, the response wasn't perfect. How could it possibly have been? It's hilarious for people, especially Texans of a particular political bent, to be complaining about what went down as if they were being oppressed when their man was in the white house and their other men were in the governor's, lieutenant governor's, and AG's offices. Who exactly was oppressing them? Mean people on Twitter?
  11. It would be a rare thing indeed to meet someone on a jet ski who isn't a collosal piece of narcisistic shit. I don't know the why of it, but that just comes with the territory. They are a cancer on just about any body of water. Apparently the same rule applies in Venezuela.
  12. This joke just keeps writing itself. Holy shit.
  13. Hometown Hero has already moved to that bastion of progressive thought and individual liberty (compared to Texas): Oklahoma. They knew this was coming. No disruption to their Texas service yet.
  14. I've come to the conclusion that Teslas have always appealed to people who are inherently terrible drivers. BMW/Mercedes/Audi drivers are the worst on the road in terms of entitled bullshit and zero concern for others (German engineering and ugly vehicles must appeal to dickheads for some reason). Still, Tesla drivers, on the whole, are simply bad drivers. You can't blame FSD, or whatever the previous versions of it are called, for the nonstop fuckery that goes on in those vehicles all the damn time. Can't stay in a lane, awkward braking, either driving much too fast or much too slow, etc. The point is, maybe we're thinking about this all wrong. As shitty as Elon's FSD undoubtedly is, what may matter the most is if it's better than the shitty drivers who buy Teslas. If so, it's a net positive, right? Nothing scares me more when I'm on a motorcycle than a Tesla in the vicinity (they are the number one auto brand killer of people on two wheels, after all). Perhaps, maybe, fuck if I know, FSD will make them a little bit less scary. Maybe I'm grasping at straws. All I know is I will be avoiding riding downtown when their fucking taxis launch, which is a bummer as I enjoy riding down there on the occasional early weekend morning when no one is around but Waymos and hobos.
  15. I don't. A little less than half of Democrats consider themselves Christian, and a bit more than half of Republicans do. Christianity, in the broad sense, is not a political designator. I was writing specifically about evangelicals, and more specifically, the 56% of them who oppose legalizing marijuana (the number from the chart quoted above).
  16. The answer, in part, falls in the "born-again protestant" line of your chart, which has the lowest numbers of any cohort on the chart. Those folks vote at a higher rate than others, and when they do, they vote for pieces of human waste like Patrick. There are folks in this thread who acknowledge that they belong to this group of people, but they just can't understand why this is happening. Those folks need to wake the fuck up. It's the people in your pew who are fucking this state right back into the late 19th century.
  17. Alas, he's doing exactly what he was elected to do. I don't understand it, nor do I agree with it, but it's what Travis County voters want. Much like another controversial politician who shall remain nameless, Garza has delivered exactly what he campaigned on, and no one should be surprised by his actions (or lack thereof).
  18. The national average is around 14%. New Mexico is the worst state at 25% (and if you've spent any time there, that shouldn't come as a shock). I didn't find data by city, but 30%+ is really damn high.
  19. We've got a Vespa GTS 300 in the garage too, along with a 150. My wife rides them more than I do, but I love the 300 for running errands around town. If Austin took the money and energy it spends on cyclists and spent it on encouraging scooter riding, or even motorcycles in general, we might actually do something about traffic and environmental impact. Alas, we'll continue placating the insignificant number of people willing to commute on bicycles to our collective detriment.
  20. Agreed. There is also a lot of ridiculous tech masquerading as innovation being pushed on these blind c-suiters by grifting tech bros. Web 3.0/Web3 has been little more than a con game to further enrich asswipe dweebs like Andreessen who haven't been able to develop anything innovative since the 90s but know they can sell ice to eskimos so long as it is wrapped in tech era fappery and leans on the FOMO marketing that tech relies so heavily upon.
  21. Shit, you're right. My rant has lost its edge based on that error. Everyone, please substitute New Jersey for Florida in my earlier post. It still works that way.
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