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C-Man

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  1. This been discussed? I know it's Daily Mail and all but found it interesting. Murdered health insurance boss Brian Thompson backed 'malicious' AI that denied 90% of patient coverage https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14165741/unitedhealthcare-brian-thompson-ai-patient-coverage-lawsuit.html
  2. All good world leaders have online merch stores.
  3. Fuentes hit with battery charge for incident outside his house in Illinois. https://thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/nick-fuentes-battery-275931
  4. I’ve posted this FB acquaintance’s drivel before. This one is a doozy:
  5. I'm of the opinion that neither side really wants to "fix" immigration. It's a canard. One side has successfully used it as a wedge issue to win elections. The other, I think, at least tries to make things slightly more humane. If immigration was really a huge problem in Texas, the GOP would've done something measurable about it in the last 30+ years it has been in total control of this state. Also, several key Texas industries are about to have their pee-pees whacked if Trump follows through on deporting tens of millions of illegal immigrants. (FTR, I'm all for making the immigration process simpler and more manageable. I also don't know how to do it other than make the path less murky. Let's have them get taxed more easily. But part of the allure to the current system is that they're not paying taxes for basic municipal services. They're paying sales taxes on all goods purchased but most everything else is under the table. But, the flip side to making everything above board is that costs will go up for everything.)
  6. Hmm, can we play with two #0's on defense? Is that allowed? 😀
  7. Michael Terry III and Justus Terry in the same week? Dare I say it? Austin is about to become ... ... Terrytown
  8. Sark is that dude. Holy fucking shit!
  9. There are two left, I think. I loved this week’s “Warriors” ep.
  10. Sen Ladybugs flip-flops on Hegseth https://apple.news/AVFP5ie2GTdaIVJrfbfyGdQ
  11. Next door neighbors have a Dreame L10S and love it. Wife has been wanting one so I got a good Black Friday deal for $399 or so. We haven’t fired it up yet.
  12. That’s where I was leaning. This settles it.
  13. Kash Patel likes the booger sugar like Jr? https://www.threads.net/@ronaldfilipkowski/post/DDKJPjNxw1U?xmt=AQGzvwZ4FvwD0_jpzVyfcMvWrdJPV_yL3Xwx-5LJmfYjqg
  14. Now I'm reading that Thompson and his wife were separated and perhaps have been for quite some time.
  15. Well, now we know for sure he wasn't acting alone. I'm not sure anyone has ever looked hotter in the history of the world than Salma Hayek did in that scene in From Dusk 'Til Dawn.
  16. Right. Not the same backpack, not the same jacket, not the same e-bike.
  17. C-Man

    Dallas | Burgers

    I get it. We used to go a lot. Like a whole lot. The burger is great and so are the fish tacos (which are more like wraps). I love the French chicken. Happy Hour martini/oyster deal is tough to beat too. But I'm kind of steering clear of Hunter Pond places these days. My understanding is that he's a gigantic piece of shit.
  18. A big problem with Biden is that he was never the most effective communicator in his best days and in his advanced age, he's even worse. I don't think he's senile but he sure as fuck looks and sounds like from time to time. They couldn't put him out there in front of the media to spout off his accomplishments because he could no longer effectively do that.
  19. So, I wasn't quite sure how it would shake out or what had been decided upon before showing up last night. We didn't play a tournament, which was a relief to me. Look, I'm an insurance guy -- I have an inherent instinct to mitigate large losses. The idea of likely being out $300-$600 or walking away with a one-in-7 chance of $3000 or so is not the pool I usually swim in. (Not to mention a few of these guys are borderline degenerate gamblers -- they were betting on first halves of the ACC-SEC Challenge while we played card.) Anyway, we had a finite time because the dealer was "on the clock" from 8-midnight. So the deal was, initial buy-in for $300 with the opportunity for another buyback if you busted out before the end of the night. I had an extra $100 with me but hoped to not get to that point so I played very conservatively. I don't need to be losing $600/night in a monthly card game -- that shit's not fun to me. I also was unaware how "experienced" the table is/was. I haven't played in several years so maybe I'm the patsy at the table. So my plan was to play some, have a good time, not chase things and try to get out of there with something close to what I started with. I didn't get very good cards for the first couple of hours. I chased a couple "inexpensive" pots and didn't win any and I was the last of the seven at the table to finally win a hand. Two guys won at the beginning but busted out a couple hours in -- and bought back in at $300. I'd already decided I was only buying back in at $100 more -- if at all. Hell, at that point I planned to sit back and sip Blanton's or E.H. Taylor and watch the rest of them take each other's money. Good buddy had a large stack early, lost it all and then threw another $150 on the table at 11:45. He was pretty soused at that point and was chasing a last-minute miracle. I wasn't going to indulge that and let him lose it to somebody else because ... At any rate, I won a small hand or two about halfway through but was still a little underwater before hitting on a big pot that I slow-played. I had a suited pair on the draw and got two more diamonds on the flop. Like I said, the pot wasn't huge but it was a decent payout and everybody folded but me and my good buddy above, who as I said was up big early. Fuck it, let's see this one through. I checked and damned if another diamond didn't come out on the turn. So I raised a modest amount. My buddy had a good hand -- can't remember what he wound up with but do remember I could've been boned on the river. Luckily, the last card did nothing for either of us. That pot made the night for me. I won a few more as we were down to five players by the end. The guy who came in saying he knew next-to-nothing about Hold 'Em hit some big ones early and was the big winner on the night, which infuriated (in a funny way) the guy to my immediate left (he lost $600 total). He was playing everything 100% right but couldn't get the cards to work in his favor. He finally went out on his buyback with KK on the draw. (He lost to AA draw. That was a fun hand to watch play out.) The inexperienced guy was in big on a pot and threw his cards on the table thinking he'd lost since he didn't hit his flush draw (but had a straight or something). I think he cashed out for nearly $1200 at midnight. (He had way more than that at one point.) I cashed out for $640 total so a $340 profit on the night. Sounds like this will be an every-other-month game, maybe once per quarter.
  20. Have watched first two now. I'm enjoying it.
  21. I’m on the bubble as far as making playoffs and need to decide between Darnold and Tua at QB. Any thoughts?
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