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  1. First human to have Elon's Neuralink installed is, you guessed it, aggy.

    All jokes aside (and there's some low-hanging fruit in this article), this is an interesting read. The subject is 30 and a quadriplegic due to a lake accident while serving as a kids' camp counselor. Apparently, the thing "worked" great for a month after being implanted in January but isn't performing nearly as well now. A bit shocking for an Elon product, no? 

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-05-16/neuralink-s-first-patient-describes-living-with-brain-implant?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTcxNTg1NzgxNSwiZXhwIjoxNzE2NDYyNjE1LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTREtSV01UMEFGQjQwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiI5MTM4NzMzNDcyQkY0QjlGQTg0OTI3QTVBRjY1QzBCRiJ9.nW2vqsd38x6-nHJMMj-ZzTwKvPWoy6nDuKFl3ZsbTz0

  2. 7 hours ago, BigDHornfan said:

    Colorado busted their nut last night.  We dominate tomorrow night.

    I tend to agree.

     

    23 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

    yup, and even said they were surprised we didn't close it out. they've bought in. so has Messier

    Messier was all over praising the Stars after Game 4. It was clear he thought the Stars were the best team still playing after the G4 win.

  3. My run of seeing live music in six of the last eight days/nights ended last night in Fort Worth at the Phosphorescent show. Fuck, I'm tired -- and have a cold coming on, I think. During this run, I saw all or parts of:

    • Echo & the Bunnymen
    • Alvvays
    • Yoke Lore
    • Courtney Barnett
    • Ty Segall
    • Vampire Weekend
    • Beach Fossils
    • Slow Pulp
    • Dinosaur Jr
    • Cautious Clay
    • Santigold
    • Postal Service & Death Cab
    • CSS
    • Yves Tumor
    • Kevin Kaarl
    • Ekkstacy
    • Dayglow (had no idea these guys are from FW)
    • Interpol
    • LCD Soundsystem
    • Ratboys
    • The Decemberists
    • Phosphorescent

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    We've got a few weeks to regroup, then down to Austin for Rainbow Kitten Surprise on 5/25 and then Vampire Weekend in Las Colinas on 6/7.

    Oh, there were two GA tickets to Real Estate for Sat night on our upstairs table at Tannehill's last night at the Phosphorescent show. (I don't think we'll go because my son is flying back from school that night.) Says subject to capacity but I'm assuming they haven't sold well and are trying to fill the place. Phosphorescent crowd was very light last night. We hadn't been to Tannehill's since the venue's second show (Spoon last year), which was a total shit-show. They weren't ready to open but seem to have fixed every problem it had that night. Nice venue in the FW Stockyards.

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  4. 6 minutes ago, texasdago said:

    Saw him at ACL then Stubb's.  Just good vibes all around at his shows.  He's a great example, as stc will attest, of finding a new band (new to me) courtesy of ACL.  Dope Lemon, Genesis Owusu, Past Lives, etc were bands I got to enjoy for the first time at ACL.  

    stc - wait 'til you find out I have been Oliver Tree twice.

    stc's crusade against Goth Babe is weird. I had no idea Griff was that polarizing to anybody. I mean, it's not like we're talking about Phish or something. 😁

  5. 17 hours ago, Born to Run said:
    17 hours ago, Prepuce of Doom said:
    It's perfectly fine that you don't know anything about cars, but this is a truly terrible take. 

    Yeah the Avalanche, Aztek, or 80s era Cutlas would be a good example. While not my jam, Miatas freaking rip and are fun as shit on a drive up Lime Creek rd

    My parents have owned Miatas for quite a few years and are in a Miata Club in SA. They drive all over the place. I can promise we'll still see Miatas on the road in 20 years. Probably can't say the same about Cybertrucks.

     

    13 hours ago, fattyflattie said:

    I believe you in the functionality. I don’t think they are far less. I see 80k used Rivians somewhat regularly at a dealer in Houston area. That same dealer has mid 60s Lightning’s somewhat regularly, too. Decently high mileage ones. I don’t know shit about the new cost of either.  The Fords are typically high trim

    So, the total opposite of Lara Loomer.

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  6. 1 hour ago, texasdago said:

    Third show... neg rep away.

    Same. Seen him just the one time in Dallas last year and loved it. Looking forward to the September return to Dallas.

  7. Go see Phosphorescent in Austin tomorrow. What a good show Matthew and the boys played tonight. His wife is not on keys for this tour it appears. Anyway, go check him out.


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  8. FYI, for those of you seeing Phosphorescent tomorrow in Austin, Matthew is opening for himself. He’s playing 7-8 solo songs and then taking a break before coming back for the full set with the band. He started tonight at 8:20 or so and just finished the first set.

  9. Don’t think we have one of these yet. Anybody been to Nikki on Lovers yet? Opened by Lisa and Tom Georgalis, who used to own Inwood Tavern before selling to Len Critcher & crew and then started The Ivy. Turns into a bar/nightclub after the restaurant closes.

  10. Not sure this qualifies but didn’t know where to put it. It appears that that weirdo location on Lemmon near Bob’s that has been a half-dozen concepts from Tallywhackers to Eggselent Cafe appears to have re-opened as the “new” Stoneleigh P. I loved Stoneleigh P but that seems like a really fucking weird landing spot.

  11. Mitt Romney says Biden should’ve pardoned Trump. I mean, WTAF?!?!

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/rcna152420

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    Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, argued that President Joe Biden should have pardoned Donald Trump after the Justice Department brought indictments against the former president and pressured New York prosecutors not to pursue Trump's ongoing hush money trial.

    In an exclusive interview on MSNBC’s “The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle,” Romney expressed his dismay in response to Republican lawmakers, including the presumptive Republican presidential nominee’s vice presidential prospects, rallying to Trump’s defense outside of the Manhattan courthouse where Trump’s hush money trial is taking place.

    “How does that make you feel about Republicans?” Ruhle asked Romney.

    Romney, a vocal critic of Trump, said, “I think it’s a terrible fault, for our country to see people attacking our legal system — that’s an enormous mistake,” he said. “I think it’s also demeaning for people to quite, apparently, try and run for vice president by donning the red tie and standing outside the courthouse and it’s just — I felt awkward.”

    The Utah Republican argued that Biden should have pardoned Trump when the Justice Department announced charges against him and that the president “made an enormous error” by not pressuring New York prosecutors to drop their case against Trump. (Presidents can only pardon in federal cases.)

    "He should have fought like crazy to keep this prosecution from going forward,” Romney said, referring to Biden. “It was a win-win for Donald Trump.”

    Pressed by Ruhle whether that is Biden’s job to pardon Trump, Romney said he believes that Biden should have taken a cue from former President Lyndon B. Johnson, saying that the president could have stepped in and urged New York prosecutors to drop the case.

    “I’ve been around for a while, if LBJ had been president, and he didn’t want something like this to happen, he’d have been all over that prosecutor saying, ‘You better not bring that forward or I’m gonna drive you out of office,’” he said.

    Ruhle then noted that Romney supports having separate but equal branches of government.

    “I do. ... I mean, you may disagree with this, but had I been President Biden, when the Justice Department brought on indictments, I would have immediately pardoned him ... President Trump. Why? Well, because it makes me, President Biden, the big guy and the person I pardoned a little guy.”

    House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and several of Trump's potential vice presidential picks issued public remarks in front of the Manhattan courthouse where Trump is required to attend court proceedings in the hush money trial against him, expressing their support and loyalty for him as the trial limits his time on the campaign trail. The potential VP picks, which include Ohio Sen. JD Vance and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, have echoed, without evidence, Trump's accusations of the trial being a Democrat-led effort to interfere with his campaign.

    Biden and Trump on Wednesday agreed to participate in general election debates in June and September, at least the first of which will not have a live audience. Asked whether debates matter today and if he thinks it would influence votes, Romney, who unsuccessfully ran for president against Barack Obama in 2012, said people have “low expectations” for Biden but “much higher expectations” about Trump.

    “The image that comes to mind is those two old guys on the Muppets, you know, that sat in the back that — Statler and Waldorf — that comes to mind, but I actually think there’ll be a huge audience for these debates,” he said. “I think people have very low expectations as to what President Biden will do. I think they have much higher expectations about President Trump and his competitiveness.”

    Romney added that he has had “good exchanges” with Biden and that Trump “seems energetic and forceful” during his rallies, but he’s unsure about what to expect when they go head-to-head in debates.

    “You got a cheering crowd and you got teleprompters you could read, so how will they do in person?” Romney said, referring to presidential campaign rallies. “I don’t know the answer to that, but I think America will be watching.”

     

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  12. 4 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    All of those things would be just another product flop.

    What makes it hysterically entertaining is 1) all of the fanbois eating their shit sandwich while proclaiming how delicious it is, as 2) Elon continues to insist that it's delicious.  Watching people utterly bitch-ify themselves will never not be entertaining.

    Like our poster on here who keeps tying himself up into a pretzel defending the utter shit-show that FSD is?

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  13. Just now, BeardIP said:

    Of course it's unlikeable in the sense that you don't want to buy one. But it should be something that unites us all in ridicule, not the breathless indignation seen on this pages.

    I ridicule his Tesla missteps as they have little to do with my life, and never will as I will never, ever buy a Tesla until he’s no longer affiliated with the company (and probably not even then). SpaceX has little bearing on my daily existence as well but, hey, that seems to be the venture of his that is doing the most “good.” Twitter/X is where I draw the line because of what that place has become under his watch. It has complete laid bare the man as an utter fool/fraud, who is amplifying some really bad actors either through stupidity at best and downright evil at worst. Again, I’ve been calling him Miles Bron since I saw The Glass Onion and I’m not backing off that today.

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  14. 4 minutes ago, BeardIP said:

    Definitely think that the people who bought the thing should be upset, but it seems as if they aren't really, at least from reading the viral tweets and such. It seems more that the Musk haters are mad that the Cybertruck even exists and is talked about and people dare and deign to drive one in their suburb. 

    I agree with you-- it's a silly truck for silly people. But there are markets for that. Silly people have been buying silly vehicles en masse since whenever the Mazda Miata was produced.

    It’s ugly. It’s dysfunctional as a pick-up or any other kind of SUV. It’s expensive and has a shit-load of bugs and other design flubs that 99.9% of other new vehicles don’t. It also wasn’t delivered anywhere near Elon’s timeline. What’s not to like?

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  15. Following up on my earlier comment about Clar Khunt. I’m in a “Trump is a fucking idiot” text chain with about five or six (mostly female) friends and my wife. One of our good friends responded to me posting that link that she’s heard the Chiefs have actually wanted Butker to be more vocal because Chiefs fans were getting pissed off that Kelce and Taylor Swift are so liberal.

  16. 51 minutes ago, bolverk said:

    Yeah, I largely agree with all of that. I was just trying to remember who the guy is and how 956 had described him a bit like an Orban-lite or aligned with him, creating an Eastern European shitbird tripartite made up of Hungary, Serbia, and Slovakia. I'm wondering how this attempt will get spun in light of that, especially as the EU is holding its parliamentary elections next month.

    Will this get portrayed as the "intolerant West" trying to take out a true man of the people and hero of the Slavs kind of shit?

     

    CNN.com story here says he's extremely tight with Orban and is very pro-Putin in the Ukraine/Russia conflict.

    https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/15/europe/slovakia-prime-minister-fico-shooting-intl/index.html

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  17. 9 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    This could go any number of places, but we know who the majority of these people are voting for.

    https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/raw-milk-sales-spike-despite-cdcs-warnings-of-risk-associated-with-bird-flu

    Sales of raw milk appear to be on the rise, despite years of warnings about the health risks of drinking the unpasteurized products — and an outbreak of bird flu in dairy cows.

    Since March 25, when the bird flu virus was confirmed in U.S. cattle for the first time, weekly sales of raw cow’s milk have ticked up 21% to as much as 65% compared with the same periods a year ago, according to the market research firm NielsenIQ.

    That runs counter to advice from the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which calls raw milk one of the “riskiest” foods people can consume.

    “Raw milk can be contaminated with harmful germs that can make you very sick,” the CDC says on its website.
    As of Monday, at least 42 herds in nine states are known to have cows infected with the virus known as type A H5N1, federal officials said.

    The virus has been found in high levels in the raw milk of infected cows. Viral remnants have been found in samples of milk sold in grocery stores, but the FDA said those products are safe to consume because pasteurization has been confirmed to kill the virus.

    It’s not yet known whether live virus can be transmitted to people who consume milk that hasn’t been heat-treated.

    But CDC officials warned last week that people who drink raw milk could theoretically become infected if the bird flu virus comes in contact with receptors in the nose, mouth and throat or by inhaling virus into the lungs. There’s also concern that if more people are exposed to the virus, it could mutate to spread more easily in people.

    States have widely varying regulations regarding raw milk, with some allowing retail sales in stores and others allowing sale only at farms. Some states allow so-called cowshares, where people pay for milk from designated animals, and some allow consumption only by farm owners, employees or “non-paying guests.”

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    Still, testimonies to raw milk are trending on social media sites. And Mark McAfee, owner of Raw Farm USA in Fresno, California, says he can’t keep his unpasteurized products in stock.

    “People are seeking raw milk like crazy,” he said, noting that no bird flu has been detected in his herds or in California. “Anything that the FDA tells our customers to do, they do the opposite.”

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    Before milk standards were adopted in 1924, about 25% of foodborne illnesses in the U.S. were related to dairy consumption, said Alex O’Brien, safety and quality coordinator for the Center for Dairy Research. Now, dairy products account for about 1% of such illnesses, he said.

    “I liken drinking raw milk to playing Russian roulette,” O’Brien said. The more times people consume it, the greater the chance they’ll get sick, he added.

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    Despite the risks, about 4.4% of U.S. adults — nearly 11 million people — report that they drink raw milk at least once each year, and about 1% say they consume it each week, according to a 2022 FDA study.

    Bonni Gilley, 75, of Fresno, said she has raised generations of her family on raw milk and unpasteurized cream and butter because she believes “it’s so healthy” and lacks additives.

    Reports of bird flu in dairy cattle have not made her think twice about drinking raw milk, Gilley said.
    “If anything, it is accelerating my thoughts about raw milk,” she said, partly because she doesn’t trust government officials.

    Such views are part of a larger problem of government mistrust and a rejection of expertise, said Matthew Motta, who studies health misinformation at Boston University.

    “It not that people are stupid or ignorant or that they don’t know what the science is,” he said. “They’re motivated to reject it on the basis of partisanship, their political ideology, their religion, their cultural values.”

    It apparently gets dumber than consuming raw milk. Some of these fuckers are actively seeking raw milk WITH H5N1, aka bird flu. These are the same fuckers who vehemently refuse vaccines.

    https://futurism.com/neoscope/raw-milk-enthusiasts-demand-milk-infected-avian-flu-h5n1

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    Raw milk enthusiasts are dead set on exposing themselves to the H5N1 aviary flu virus by drinking contaminated and unpasteurized cow milk, the Los Angeles Times reports.

    Mark McAfee, who founded the Raw Milk Institute, told the newspaper that he's been getting inundated with calls from "customers asking for H5N1 milk because they want immunity from it."

    It's a bizarre reality that flies in the face of a wealth of scientific evidence. We've known about pasteurization's ability to fend off germs and other pathogens for well over 100 years.

    But that hasn't stopped a group of raw milk enthusiasts from seeking out untreated dairy in their search for purported immune system benefits.

    It's an especially foolish idea considering there's a lot we still don't know about the current spread of the H5N1 virus. The first incident of the virus breaking out in dairy cows in the US was reported in March. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there have been infections in mammals across Asia, North America, South America, and Europe.

    While scientists suspect it may be possible for the virus to be transmitted from mammal to mammal, the risk to humans is still not entirely understood. Given the wide geographic spread, the CDC suggests there could be an "increase in sporadic human infections resulting from bird and animal exposures," but that "the current risk to the general public from bird flu viruses is low."

    In other words, intentionally seeking out being infected by the virus by drinking raw milk — something the CDC expressly advises against — is a bad idea.

    "Deliberating consuming raw milk in the hope of becoming immune to avian influenza is playing Russian roulette with your health," UC Davis researcher Michael Payne told the LA Times. "Deliberately trying to infect yourself with a known pathogen flies in the face of all medical knowledge and common sense."

    \The virus was detected in 36 dairy cattle herds across nine US states, but scientists have yet to find any evidence of the virus surviving in any pasteurized milk samples.

    So far, there's been one case of a dairy worker in Texas who was infected. His symptoms didn't extend beyond a moderate case of pink eye.

    "Every time it gets a new mammalian host species, like cows, there’s more risk of human transmission and reduced human immunity," Boston University environmental epidemiologist Jessica Leibler told Nature.

    One study also examined dead barn cats at dairies in Texas and Kansas that were infected by the virus, suggesting that raw milk may be dangerous to other mammals. The research is similar to another study in which cats were infected with the virus.

    "While there have been no known cases of human transmission of H5N1 from raw milk, it’s certainly conceivable that it could happen, and this is a highly fatal virus not just for cats but for humans too," said American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Infectious Diseases chair Sean O'Leary said in a recent statement.

    In short, drinking raw dairy milk is as bad of an idea as ever. While we still don't know the exact risks involved, it's an extremely ill-advised way to become immune — if that's even possible in the first place.

     

  18. 14 hours ago, BevoAbyss said:

    How about we add to that: 

    Christian Fascist Theocrat … who is 100% itching to violently repress women and LGBTQIA … reject vaccines and general science … and herd millions of immigrants and brown people on trains to the border.

    Fuck that guy and his pseudo-macho beard. 

    And guess what, you gotta know he ain’t the only one in the NFL or Chiefs organization with similar beliefs … or he would not be so open. 

     

    Hell, the owners probably love it. Clark and his wife are the ones who drove the bus on HPISD banning a shit-load of "objectionable" books 10 years ago.

    https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/parents-get-books-suspended-from-high-school-reading-list/

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