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Samson's Wig

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  1. "Affordability" is 100% not about lower taxes in an Austin political ad (or any other big city political ad). It is code for "I promise to tax "rich" people more and then pretend to give free shit to poor people while endorsing policies that make things more expensive for everyone." It's bait for burnouts and bottom dwellers. It's lower than buying votes, as it is just an empty promise to buy votes.
  2. Turns out there are some rednecks who haven't yet been gentrified out of North Carolina.
  3. There it is again. Until we collectively stop giving evangelicals a pass as being "regular christians", this shit will keep getting worse. There is nothing regular about that cult, and they need to be treated like the fucked up mouth-breathing dumbasses they are. These aren't your grandma's born-again christians. These people are evil and convinced they're righteous. That's a bad combination, and for some reason Americans can only recognize it for what it is when it comes wrapped in the flag of islam rather than christianity.
  4. I sincerely hope we are setting the bar significantly higher than the average licensed human driver. The average licensed human driver shouldn't be licensed at all.
  5. The heart of it is the violent cult of evangelicalism. Social media is just a means of spreading the message of hate to dummies faster than in the old days.
  6. The friends I've had over the years who were the most naturally attractive to women were always the ones who were the most relaxed and positive. Be chill, know how to smile and have fun, and remember that people, regardless of gender, are all essentially looking for the same thing. The rest will take care of itself without a ton of effort. Too many young men get caught up in their heads and worry themselves to the point of fearing women while simultaneously becoming a beatdown to be around. That negative headspace isn't anything new.
  7. I'm glad someone finally brought this up. Lost in these discussions is that the same things apply to women (at least half of them are mediocre or below, just like the guys). This discussion, every time it comes up, whether tacitly or explicitly, puts women on a pedestal by default and assumes the very traditional notion of women being the one who sets expectations that men must meet, when in reality it cuts both ways. You reach a certain age, as most of us here have, where you've either been through a divorce or seen many friends and acquaintances go through one. Can anyone honestly say that in every situation it's predominantly the man's lack of effort/attractiveness/etc. that leads to the split? In my experience, at least, it's about right down the middle in terms of which partner was the piece of shit. That's a hetero couple only observation. All of my gay friends who settled down have stayed happily married, so whatever secret they've figured out, they need to share it with the straights. Being toxic, or even just boring, is not a gender specific state of being. Many aspects of traditional male/female gender roles are in the process of flipping or altering in some way, and mid-tier women will have to recalibrate their expectations just like mid tier men have done for most of modern history.
  8. See how this works for you.
  9. That article reads like little more than the classic complaint certain women have when they set unreasonable expectations and then lose their shit when the men in their lives do not meet them. Or perhaps just a shift from "he wont' share his feelings with me" to "I don't have time for his bullshit feelings". Ultimately, this seems more like a siloed problem for a handful of women and not a widespread problem. Buzzfeed/Huffpost probably should have been the first clue on that front. Young men are certainly facing some serious hurdles these days that they didn't before, but framing that as just another problem for women to deal with is top-shelf feminonsense.
  10. 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.
  11. Most intelligent species, indeed.
  12. 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.
  13. No one talks about manopause, but that shit is real.
  14. Who knew Operation Weserübung would have such far-reaching implications? Fucking Norwegians, man.
  15. We're special, haven't you heard?
  16. Definitely of a piece.
  17. Give it time, give it time.
  18. 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?
  19. 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.
  20. This joke just keeps writing itself. Holy shit.
  21. 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.
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