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Gumbo
Stringy Chicken is my favorite bluegrass band.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Grok would reject that, until you tell it “make Sela Ward 12 years old.”
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Gumbo
Just had a bowl of gumbo at the Old Fulton Seafood Cafe in Rockport. My colleague agreed with me - it’s actually really damned good.
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ICE activity/raids
When you realize it long ago blew past “argument” territory, and is just full-on “use deadly force to suppress any dissent,” then you’ll really understand the dynamic.
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Trump/MAGA has ruined sports
Man....I've had her on an installment plan for decades. By my reckoning....I still owe more than the original price.
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Trump/MAGA has ruined sports
Yeah, my wife have become mildly "Vegas people" the past few years, driven entirely by going to see concerts and have nice meals and chill in a nice hotel together. We tried gambling our first couple of trips. We can't even understand the "slot machines" that are out there. Seriously, no more "3 pairs of cherries, you win $10." Instead, it's a complicated screen, where a monkey runs in from one side, two presidential portraits come up, and a gunboat fires 3 salvos, maybe at the monkey. I end up just looking at the card reader to tell whether I won or lost. I might as well just hand money to a guy and ask him "did I win?", which he answers with "no" and keeps my money. I like blackjack, but not enough to go to a $50 minimum table. I DID have fun on one occasion. Was during CFB season, wife made a spa appointment. I went downstairs, sat at a bar, and played video poker. I could watch a couple of games, have some fun (was up $80 at one point), and got free beers handed to me. She came downstairs, sat next to me, and I said "I either leave with $100, or $0" (I'd started with $10). I left with $0, but didn't mind - it cost me $10 to sit and watch football and drink beer for a coupla hours. Not bad. In any case....neither of us gets any charge/thrill out of it. Even when I win a nice hand of blackjack, it's cool, but there's no high I'm driven to chase. I understand that will real gamblers....that's not the case. It's all about chasing the high. I'd rather just spend the money on a nice french dinner and then enjoy some sexy time with my wife. Costs WAY less, with a guaranteed payout.
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
This.
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What's happening in Iran?
Love of homeland? I'm sure most Iranians have a baseline love of their country. But these didn't erupt because "we love Iran, but the mullahs don't." It arose for the reasons almost all such movements arise: economic failure/collapse, water supply collapse, exhaustion with same, etc. Rejection of Islam? I see no evidence that's anything but you wishcasting. Now, is there likely a broader social desire for less THEOCRATIC Islam? Probably. But this isn't a movement that is looking to denounce Islam, turn into a Baha'i or Christian movement, etc. Rejection of the mullahs and repressive Islam as a form of government is far from a "rejection of Islam." Love of monarchy? Yeah, that is DEFINITELY you wishcasting. No polling I've seen shows any overwhelming or even majority support for a return to a monarchy. Almost all of the positions boil down to "something else, and definitely not this shit we've been dealing with for decades." I hope that the Iranian people find some degree of freedom, peace, and prosperity. I know that it wouldn't be what I would choose, because guess what, I'm not Iranian, I'm not muslim, etc. Trying to impose our individual beliefs/desires onto an entire population is just lying to ourselves.
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ICE activity/raids
Well, fuck. I thought that me drinking a buncha Dr. Pepper was all the license I needed to start blastin'.
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Gumbo
My daughter's 8th grade science project -- thickening propensity/viscosity of different roux colors/doneness. A basic white roux thickened liquid to infinitely slow to flow. Deep chocolate? Hardly thickens at all.
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ICE activity/raids
..cheered on by the majority of the country. Don't forget that. It's the important part. The murderous Gestapo was bad. The German population that supported and empowered them was the actual poison, though. We are drinking poison, celebrating extra-judicial murder by lawless and above-the-law government forces, and we have the gall to wonder how that will end up going for us all. It will go the way it always does. Gestapo, Stasi, SAVAK, it doesn't matter -- they are all the same, and it always turns out the same.
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Greenland
It's not just that this is the play, it's that it's a play that started with a Putin manipulation (a fake letter years ago) intended to achieve this result. And we are being played -- either as useful idiots, or intentional collaborator idiots. But idiots however you cut it.
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Trump/MAGA has ruined sports
It's made sports TV (pre-game talk shows and the like) fucking unwatchable, to me at least. But we are on the fast-track to the lowest common denominator of literally EVERYTHING these days, so sure, why the fuck not? Everything in this country is geared at the amygdala of fucking meatheads, might as well be consistent.
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Mamdani's Mamdate
I do love how anything left of Attila the Hun and mass deportations and death camps is ZOMG COMMUNISTSOCIALISM, all while ignoring multiple high-functioning western democracies that have similar policies in place and are doing just fine, no gulags or giant May Day parades with ICBMs and shit. Meanwhile, the current American regime is literally exercising significant control over "the means of production" in numerous industries (it's no fucking argument, you can't operate freely without the blessing/permission/paying the vig to the current regime). You know, the ACTUAL exercise of socialism, happening right here in River City, to the detriment of all of us. Nope. That's not socialism, or a problem. Instead, the greatest crisis America has faced in its history is a dirty mooslem NYC mayor proposing....policies that are already in place in numerous Western European countries and cities.