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  1. Brisketexan

    Pizza

    Pretty good. When I got home, I did my trick of crisping up a coupla pieces on the griddle, and they were pretty damn fine. Again, I wish they offered anchovies, that woulda taken it up a notch. I’d get it again, but I also didn’t think it was a material upgrade from Eastside Pies.
  2. Yeah, dudes. It was a direct shot to the neck. No ricochet, no body armor. Just stop.
  3. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Wait…yeah… Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Man, yall are funny.
  4. Angie’s does a decent version. But the best in town are the ones I make at home.
  5. It’s really the classic mistake when dealing with authoritarians. “If I appease him, I’m safe.” That is never, ever true. You have to add “until he inevitably decides that he’s done with me, which is when I’m fucked.” All that appeasing an authoritarian does is buy you time. Only fighting AGAINST the authoritarian has any chance of securing you actual freedom. That’s it. It’s the only path.
  6. Ahh, you remember the case that established that Texas doesn’t recognize a negligent infliction of emotional distress tort. You get an A for today’s participation grade, gunner.
  7. That’s ok. I’m sure all of the “inflammatory rhetoric is bad” crowd that was just born a week ago is going to rush out there and condemn this….actual open call to lynch black people. Yep, here they come. Any….minute now. What’s that? They’re not coming? Shit. Does this also mean that Ann Margret’s not coming?
  8. Brisketexan

    Pizza

    Picking up Pedroso's for the first time in a bit. We'll see how it is. Fuckers don't have anchovies (I'm getting this one without my wife, so I like anchovies when I do that).
  9. It's okay, Troph. Add it to the pile. The rhetoric and dual systems of justice are already okay with it being open season on messicans (El Paso), black people (Buffalo), jews (Pittsburgh), LGBTQ (Colorado Springs), and Democrat politicians (Minnesota). We'll just keep adding to that. But....do you notice how THIS is the shooting that has certain folks flipping out about "inflammatory rhetoric" and its connection to violence? Not when it was people being hunted for -- as expressly stated by the shooter, in most of those cases -- reasons directly quoting that inflammatory rhetoric. When those murders/mass murders happened....crickets. We're going to get "justice" here. We're going to get it good and hard. But then again, that's largely like we've been getting it already. The good thing about having a completely broken country is that it's hard to tell when the rubble breaks some more. Yeah. I mean, there is a negative infinity times a million squared chance of that happening. Come on, man.
  10. Dude. America 2025 has more viruses and completely fucked up pop-ups than your dirty uncle's PC picked up from him hitting all of those Albanian porn sites. A simple unplug-plug in move ain't gonna fix that shit.
  11. So....he's a Surly poster I presume.
  12. Dear God I love machaca. Haven't ever been to Kiki's, although I've heard great things. Last couple of times I've been, locals have taken me to Carnitas Queretaro. It's a bit "nice and shiny and new" for my tastes, but the food is really pretty damned good. And, if you're traveling with a lady friend/wife, she might appreciate that atmosphere more. Man, I love carne adovada. And I will forever miss the greatness that was H&H car wash.
  13. I am certainly using "nutbar" in the broader sense. Not hearing voices and shit, but broken-brained, having gone down at least one (probably multiple) rabbit hole, and really fucking mentally lost. Delusional is surely a good word to describe at least a part of where these types are coming from. And the "loser-in-life" status as well -- anger at that, and/or wanting to do something important/make a big splash, often plays a role. The El Paso shooter? Loser: "According to his LinkedIn page, Crusius described himself as not “really motivated to do anything more than what’s necessary to get by” and that he spent most of his day on the computer.* According to reports, Crusius was unemployed and recently moved out of his grandparents’ house at the time of the shooting." Buffalo shooter? Loser: "Former classmates of Gendron who were interviewed by The New York Times claimed that Gendron was quiet, had rarely attended in-person classes, and exhibited a range of idiosyncratic behaviors, including wearing a hazmat suit to class." These types are susceptible to WHATEVER infrastructure they find themselves in. In the present case, it seems that infrastructure is even weirder than usual.
  14. To be fair, Joe Rogan is impressed by the talking Zoltar fortune telling machine.... "HOW DID HE KNOW THAT??"
  15. This. The decline in American religious life and the negatives it brings aren't so much about a "loss of faith" as they are a "loss of community." People's "church group" and "church friends" are important in keeping people grounded, and believe it or not, even offer some diversity (more than you have in much more insular community). I grew up in a Catholic parish, and am involved in a Presbyterian church today. In both groups were people of different experiences, different socioeconomic groups (grew up with some pretty rich kids, and some whose families were just scraping by, but we were all at the church picnic and our first communion together). But the point is, they were a community. Our "Bowling Alone" problems have only become more acute, impacted by both the COVID experience and the increasing ability (and incentive) to engage online only. Having a church community is a counter to that phenomenon, and by losing that community (along with all the other communities we've been losing), we've become even further adrift. The truth is that "we are all in this together." But the "truth" we are trying to live (and failing at, by the way) is "fuck you, I'm all that matters, and I can't be sure I'm winning if I don't see you losing." Zero-sum thinking is almost always destructive, and we've elevated it to a near-holy rite.
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