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Captainant

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  1. Thinking back to my late dad, the memories that jump to my mind are the smell of fresh cut grass on an autumn afternoon and going to sonic after soccer practice for a brown bag special. You're right on the money that it's the time around the sports that I remember more than the sports
  2. Funny story, I saw a fuckin hard mountain dew in the beer aisle in HEB a few weeks ago Seems an inopportune product launch lol
  3. I'd say it's more the sickness of our fucked up markets finally metastasizing and impacting our political process. Ultimately, a major factor in voting trump was the presumption of it making you personally a boatload of money. Now, those idiots did get scammed as you describe, but they are suckers for that bait
  4. Heartbreaking episode
  5. Down to $39.8B now https://treasuries.bitbo.io/microstrategy/ Seems like there's a strong floor at $80k right now, but never forget
  6. I strongly recommend the auto-frother function on the plus! Every morning my normal flow has been: pull a double shot for my wife's flat white steam the milk with the auto-feature while the milk is steaming clean the basket and prep the next double shot puck assemble wife's flat white make my coffee and steam my milk And it'll all get done in 5-10 minutes depending on how much attention the baby needs. Freakin' wonderful just being able to push a button and do other stuff! ... When it doesn't break after like 1000 drinks made lol
  7. The Bambino Plus, the auto-froth feature actually works surprisingly well. It's never perfect, but it's always at least a B+ if not an A in terms of foam and texture
  8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stagflation crazy how much of this is self-inflicted market uncertainty too
  9. Are you telling me that having Dan Bingoino as deputy FBI director is not a thing a serious person would do?
  10. a little over a year old, and it was still making excellent espresso just fine in both cases. It was just the steam wand that was crapping out - the first time a little metal ferrule looking thing ended up in the tip of the steam wand. That was internal tube clamp that sent steam from the boiler to the wand. Breville repaired it, and I guess it wasn't a good repair because after a couple months it started losing pressure while steaming. I'm hoping it's smooth sailing from here - from reading online it seems like they had a run of machines with my flaw but I haven't seen much chatter or forum posts about it since mid last year I have really liked how fast the machine is ready though. It's basically got a tankless water heater for a boiler, so it's ready to start making coffee in 5 seconds after I turn it on and it can switch back and forth to steam and brewing with no waiting
  11. "If line no go up, mongo lose his shirt"
  12. Down to $42.3B in BTC now, at an average purchase price of $62.4k. https://treasuries.bitbo.io/microstrategy/ The kicker is that they can't exit their position rapidly without paying an extra premium from over supply on the open market
  13. Gotta bump the thread to praise Breville's support. My machine broke internally back in Nov, some tubing let go of it's connector. Their warranty send in was super easy and they had it back to me in 7 days. Unfortunately, wherever the fix was didn't stick and the machine stopped frothing milk again. So I called their support and they decided to just send me a brand new machine. Cross-shipped and everything at no cost to me. Pretty thrilled to have such an easy and painless experience. Sucks my machine has broken twice now, but I'm also making 2 drinks a day every day so I'll take a free replacement and keep on chugging
  14. Just took a look and it seems all pretty on topic? Granted there is heavy historical comparison going on, but bruh. There's more than just videos of ivans getting liquidated to the conflict. Our nations abrupt heel turn factors significantly into how much soil Ukraine is ultimately going to cede to the aggressive invaders.
  15. Y'all have me knocked over with the Blazing Saddles call out. Holy shit elmo is just the sleezeball railroad builder with the ear of the idiot governor. Is not an inaccurate depiction of the White House
  16. president elmo leading the first cabinet meeting of the 47th president “We simply cannot sustain as a country $2 trillion deficits. Just the interest on the national debt now exceeds the Defense Department’s spending. … If this continues, the country will become de facto bankrupt,” Musk explained of DOGE’s work, adding that he’s received a lot of “flak” and death threats for it. Later Wednesday, Trump is scheduled to sign more executive orders. source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/26/trump-presidency-news/ photo credit: Brian Snyder, Reuters
  17. I've got season tickets again to the Houston Sabercats - had a ton of fun last year and have way better seats for this year. My buddies and I usually have a couple extra tickets so if anyone ever wants to hit a game shoot me a PM. Their stadium is about 10 minutes south of NRG on 288, and all the games are on ESPN+ this year
  18. Aww it's so cute when they just repeat whatever Dear Leader is saying. I wonder what other things they're going to copy from great fascists of the past.
  19. USCSB published their findings from the explosion. Wild it was 5 years ago - I remember it waking us up in when we lived in Midtown, and my neighbors said it broke windows TLDW: an old propylene line gave way, started leaking, and leaked continuously into an automated working area. Watson Grinding had previously disconnected their gas detectors from their computer control system. So there was nothing to stop the building from filling up to stoichiometric levels and to cut power to the building. Facilities DID actually send out a warning notification to workers, but the first person in for the shift didn't hear any alarms or look at his messages, and turned on a light switch that ultimately was the detonation ignition. The kicker? Watson seemingly did not break any statutory rules or safety standards as they weren't required to create a process safety standard, but USCSB argues adoption of those mechanisms would have prevented the explosion. Ultimately, Watson did not maintain their safety equipment and operated a facility that did not fail into a safe state. The facility was designed with fail-safe measures, but they had been disabled years prior to the incident. Contractors had raised concerns in writing to Watson in 2013, 2016, 2019, and just weeks before the explosion. Watson was replacing copper lines with rubber hoses, and had disconnected their safety equipment. Thank god for our business-friendly state!
  20. Very thankful for that. Still don't really wanna roll the dice on the motherfucking measles because some Karyn decided Aidyn doesn't need shots
  21. I've got an almost 10 month old that can't get the MMR vaccine yet. Do we fucking hide her away? I've got a Texas Exes event in Katy to play at this weekend and we want to bring her! But there's definitely a big overlap on venn diagram for "antivax", "bucees" and "Katy"
  22. Oh, like the site-generated dark mode? Interesting, I leave the site on the "light" style and use system level settings on my phone/computer OS to render pages as dark. Never had a problem like that with block background coloring to the text. Sorry to anyone I've ever unintentionally flash banged with a big block of white text lol
  23. Sometimes I intentionally don't post in plaintext so it's more apparent I'm posting the direct text from the thing I'm linking to, is it really that disruptive when formatted text comes up?
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