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  1. I’ve been banging this on this thread for a while now. They spent way too much time on the Cybertruck and its awful and tough manufacturing process. They didn’t even do a refresh on the rest of the lineup, and now all are due for one at once. If not a completely new model.
  2. Strong chance but in British English they usually just use prawn for shrimp. There’s really no way to tell except look at the origin. And as @flatdawgs and I mentioned— usually local seafood is a point of pride and marketing advantage so they’ll tell you at restaurants if it’s local or close to it.
  3. I’ve only been to Seattle once but Ivars was freaking ambrosia.
  4. It is wild to me how much of right-wing politics is just beefs with different brands.
  5. Over the past years, I’ve moved into directing larger and larger teams and eventually a hard truth has to be learned all around: when things go sideways, it matters less about who was in the right and more about who’s more willing to cooperate to fix stuff. Not always satisfying but that’s how it is. I haven’t been around near as long in this community and haven’t got the history with Derka. He loves his school and adds a lot. To put it in hoops terms, Derka, I know it looked like the three was open. It wasn’t and you can take the layup or come away with nothing. Just try out the ignore feature and then if it doesn’t work, you’ll likely find more receptiveness to your preferred solution.
  6. I like to neg for the cycle, I’ll ad a pos rep elsewhere. Homer for food. No hook ‘em since I’m not a Horn. So I give out hearts and it’s not weird unless you make it weird.
  7. Well, that church is not SBC which means they have a lot of freedom to do what you want. One thing about the real South— there is far more latitude for “eccentricity” and personal foibles than you see elsewhere and it cuts both ways. This is neither a praise or damnation. Kind of comes with Flannery O’Connor’s “Christ haunted” theory. A lot of backwoods yelling and brimstone but a deep suspicion that you’re a sinner, too so better not get too high on the horse. And layer that on top of a temperament of “protect our own” clannishness. You can get away with most anything in the South expect for public rejection of the South and your people.
  8. I doubt they were, churchyards in the United States are usually attached to only seriously old plots of land. I read it as cemeteries somehow connected with SBC.
  9. Sorry man, didn’t mean to steal any thunder, I scanned the front page. To be fair I did it at like 0700 on the morning train.
  10. This is the wildest damn story I’ve read in a long time. In 1988 a guy working at a hot dog cart in Albuquerque stole his colleague’s identity and a car. That man went on to become a pretty well paid hospital IT administrator with a family. The real guy ended up with felony convictions, homeless, and was confined to a mental hospital for insisting he was himself. https://www.thegazette.com/crime-courts/former-university-of-iowa-hospital-employee-used-fake-identity-for-35-years/
  11. Lol, no one is making Ohtani work on an oil rig either, I thought we are talking about sports. Anyway all those things except government programs and getting saved last are things men choose or do to themselves. You want to pull statistics on who is most likely to be a victim vs. victimizer in random violent attacks, rapes, murders, domestic abuse, etc? Have you ever, in your life, been physically afraid of a woman you’ve never met before and just happened to run into? I guarantee almost every woman you meet has a story about a man. Its the old saw— deep down men are afraid women will reject them and women are afraid men will kill them. Anyways, this is getting into some bullshit MRA debate and I am out on this forum. The important thing is that Kim Mulkey is terrible regardless.
  12. Right, and thanks for confirming my point that it’s just one additional layer of bullshit and barriers for women athletes. Try to imagine a world where some local reporter snaps a shot of a 17 year old boy track star and within weeks it’s all over every sports message board with grown ups talking about his body and attractiveness. It doesn’t happen. And then when attractive women athletes accept it and try to turn it into a positive like Olivia Dunn, people shit on them for that. Even though they’re going to be ogled and sexual used no matter what.
  13. Man, not sure I am there aside from the pure function of more attention on the men’s games. Those women athletes that do break through get more heat than the men, the Williams sisters got all kind of bullshit. Simone Biles. Not to mention the real weirdos and what happens if you’re pretty and good at sports, remember that high school pole vaulter and the creepiness around her? Wasn’t even a famous name, just a teenager. And Monica Seles got stabbed on the court by a crazy person. Can’t remember that stuff happening to a man since the MLB player who got shot by a fan in the thirties or something. WBB is going to see more since it got bigger.
  14. Kim Mulkey’s wardrobe is from the Ric Flair collection and she gives PCs like Ted Dibiase. Her whole schtick is heel, she’s from the South and knows what she is going, the difference is that she actually wants to be hated because she needs to be hated to justify her existence. I don’t know why you’d deny her what she wants. I do have sympathy for Angel Reese as she is young and I don’t think she actually wants to be hated or has a coach and people around her capable of helping her work on some emotional maturity. She doesn’t need to feed on toxicity like Mulkey does. And no one deserves racist death threats for any reason.
  15. Don’t assume. The Dirty Al’s network of restaurants is good with their shrimp. They will also tell you what fish is from the Gulf and isn’t. Ceviche Ceviche also serves gulf shrimp. Gulf and Texas shrimp is a point of pride and most places will tell you if that’s what they serve. If they aren’t telling you, then it’s probably the farmed stuff.
  16. https://www.yahoo.com/news/indian-company-sold-contaminated-shrimp-023949494.html I fucking love shrimp but it’s been a longtime prejudice of mine (a bias from growing up on the coast) that it is not worth it to eat non-U.S. origin shrimp. (Or local when traveling in Europe or other places). I won’t buy it in a store and I don’t order restaurant shrimp unless I know the place and what I am getting. Shrimp farms overseas are fucking disgusting and always have been. Anyway, check your labels at HEB. And for the love of God DO NOT BUY any food at all that was packaged on the subcontinent aside from maybe spice blends. And pro-tip, aside from a very few coastal retailers all wild-caught shrimp” is flash-frozen at sea and the “fresh stuff in the counter has been thawed out. Frozen wild Gulf shrimp is nearly always your superior choice.
  17. Anastasis is in here calling everyone racist and then announcing that he doesn’t give a shit about dead people unless he can blame the United States for killing them, which is super awesome. Its. Not. About. Palestine.
  18. I should add that there are other options as well, like the majority partner cobbling together another coalition after a vote of no confidence, or a new coalition coming together. But for a minority party to force general elections they have to begin with a vote of no confidence.
  19. If a minority party leaves a coalition then it can force early elections by calling for a vote of no confidence, but they don’t always want to do that. If they don’t call for a vote of no confidence then the government can continue as a minority government. If they win a vote of no confidence then usually you’ll get a caretaker government appointed until there is a fresh election.
  20. Kim Mulkey is a POS who went full apologetics for Baylor and Briles. Do not let the culture wars Jedi mind trick you into carrying her waters Mulkey is a POS and anyone save Baylor and LSU fans need to be haters.
  21. Have you considered that adjusting thinking in reaction to reality is more intelligent than knee-jerk dogmatism. Just a possibility for you to mull.
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