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  1. Elon discovers that people in the Army pass through the nation’s largest military installation.
  2. I thought I might date myself. I’m in my 40s and really too young to know about him if not for the family and West Texas CoC connections. What a legendary bullshit artist, he’d have done so well in the 2020s.
  3. One of my “real Texan” bona fides is that Billy Sol Estes is a peripheral relative. He turned up at a family function I attended as a kid in the early 90’s, stayed a while, and then left. Following his cameo appearance, a bunch of the aunts and grannies— church of Christ ladies to a one— tutted about poor ole Billy Sol and how he’d been railroaded and mistreated. And Billy Sol was famous for taking a turn at the pulpit. Anyway, later at a “core family” dinner my dad mentioned that no matter how Billy Sol might have been railroaded it couldn’t have been worse than how he absolutely conned the people who were the targets of his preaching and that everyone should know better than to listen to a “woe is me” tale from a crook.
  4. Citing Rod Blagojevich’s thoughts as expressed to Joe Rogan is possibly the most insane way I’ve ever seen someone argue against the U.S. justice system.
  5. I don’t think the “recent convert” angle is going to hold, given that this appears to be his birth name and that his family in Beaumont is speaking to local media through an imam. I think the source for that claim is an ex-wife’s subsequent husband. He could have begun acting much more externally devout and rigid as part of the radicalization process, which is pretty common and could read as a conversion. https://mynbc15.com/news/nation-world/imam-shamsud-din-jabbars-family-says-tragic-incident-driven-by-hatred-and-ignorance-beaumont-new-orleans-attack-islamic-state
  6. Turn your ordinary car bomb into a shaped charge with this one simple trick.
  7. The kind of mental illness where you find four other people with the same mental illness and plan things out all together.
  8. https://www.ft.com/content/91183cbb-50f9-464a-9d2e-96063825bfcf I firmly believe that all of generative AI is complete bullshit and on balance has made anything it touches worse. Also, we are on our way to making Dead Internet Theory a reality.
  9. They gotta work on these statements. I know what they mean but “we found an ISIS flag on the car used to do a terrorism. We are hard at work investigating if the perp was associated with terrorists” is such an asinine way to explain what they are doing.
  10. Looks great., what’s in them? My NY peas are always pretty simple— bacon, salt pork, onion, garlic, salt and pepper.
  11. These are the actions of someone who has no one who cares about him, just sycophants and hangers on. I need to be clear, I don’t feel bad about that because it’s his own fault.
  12. I’ll likely do leg of lamb for NYE. It’s significantly more affordable than prime rib, it’s more forgiving, and it’s a fantastic centerpiece. And great with that horseradish sauce. I like to get the Weber hot and indirect roast over coals.
  13. Watch this space with Stanford, I posted about it a bit on the general football board. They’ve hired Drew Luck as head of football operations with the HC reporting to him. I think it’s an interesting move and am sure other P5 schools are watching. With NIL and the portal, roster and budget management are now such a huge part of the game, it’s right for someone with a moneyball mentality to come in and let the HC just do Xs and Os and some of the happy side of recruiting. The experiment could be a dead end but trying it out was inevitable.
  14. Yep. The time stamps show four minutes between, too.
  15. The universe has conspired to make the richest man also completely and utterly unlikeable. He’s a fairy tale character, his life seems completely miserable TBH.
  16. That lamb looks perfect.
  17. Port Isabel Quick Stop shrimp fresh from the marinade and ready for ceviche. And the finished product. Beach house serving bowl, so the service isn’t classy but ceviche is best outside of pretentious restaurants.
  18. The way to do this is to stay a weekend on the island and then drive to Brownsville for breakfast. Also, Ultimo Taco. Eat ceviche and fried shrimp in PI or on the island.
  19. Elon saying that H1B is why he’s here is the best argument I’ve seen for shutting it down.
  20. In the homeland and I made my pilgrimage to Brownsville and Vera’s Backyard BBQ. This is the only place in the state you can get underground pit smoked barbacoa. Only on weekends. The heads are wrapped in foil, unseasoned, and slow cooked underground over mesquite and ebony. This place is pure Brownsville. Inside, the walls are covered in Americana— I Love Lucy prints, photos of family members in the service, flags. But the food is pure South Texas Mexican and you need to order in Spanish. You order by the half pound. Cheek, tongue, eyes, and “mixta” (all the leftovers scraped together. Brains are back on the menu after a long hiatus after mad cow if you are truly adventurous. You assemble your own tacos— I got cheek/tongue and mixta— inside steaming fresh corn tortillas from the tortilla factory down the road and add salsas, pico de gallo, onions, and cilantro and a sprinkle of salt. Wash it all down with a coke or a hot coffee. This may be the very best breakfast in the nation. It’s not “Texas barbecue” in the way most people think of it, but it’s simply perfect, the last place to eat like a vaquero.
  21. I lived in Karachi for a while, it was the worst place I have ever been, almost entirely devoid of any redeeming qualities. One of the more instructive lessons I learned was that the nation’s political and economic elite really were not bothered by how awful it was and frequently would ask westerners how they managed to live in our home countries where it was impossible to afford household servants or armies of coolies. They actually preferred everything awful, because it was so much better to be rich. They could say that out loud to me. It did not take me long to see the appeal of Islamism or military authoritarianism in a nation where the educated elite who spoke posh English, drank whisky neat, and let their daughters go unveiled exhibited such disgusting sentiments. I think about that a lot.
  22. Yall got Elon’s real motivations twisted. No one stans harder for Elon than Indian tech dudes on Twitter so that’s what side he’s on.
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