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Brisketexan

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  1. 57 minutes ago, Goredho said:

    This isn't really political, but as for living in the US in the future, I'm trying to prepare my kids to be agile.  To not expect a 40 year career in a single industry.  They might need 8 five year careers.  I'm also steering them away from my field (computer science) as there are about to be a glut of workers for a contracting number of jobs that likely won't be returning, and generally educating them in how to recognize fields that will be similarly impacted by AI-augmented productivity.

     

    47 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

    Teach them to be mobile and how to leverage moves to their benefit. If you wait to have a family you can do well for yourself taking advantage of opportunities others cannot. 

    And this.  We've had a lot of conversations about "keep your eye out for the next opportunity, and be brave and pivot to it."  The AI revolution is truly unnerving, across the board.  Hard to predict exactly what will be there long-term, and what will not.  That's universal, not isolated to the US.

  2. 1 hour ago, Iceman said:

    The beef rib ordering...

    Regardless of venue, I typically will try to get it take out and bring it home for lunch, and then finish it for dinner.  Sometimes, there's enough scrap to make with eggs the next day for breakfast.

    Multiple times with work folks, some dumbass will order a beef rib and then other stuff. 
    "Dude, that rib is like a small roast.  Who are you sharing it with?"
    "Oh I got it?"

    Then when we leave they have eaten half of it at most.  "I didn't believe you.  I was hungry."

    The beef rib is usually a group deal.  As in, we take a group of folks to eat bbq, we get one rib.  I then carve off chunks and distribute them.  You get 2-3 oz of beef rib, a couple of slices of brisket, a pork rib, a link of sausage, and whatnot.  It's more than enough.  Not just because the beef rib is huge, but it's also really rich.  Even if you're up for eating a pound of pure meat, a pound of that rib meat is a lot.

  3. ^^^^^^^^
    those, but the double stuffed.  Mmmmmmm.  That chocolate filling is waaaay better than the Oreo stuff.
     

    Goddammit. Yall mad eme pick up a pack of these at HEB yesterday (side note: had to shop in the dark, as the power was out to everything except the registers).
    They taste EXACTLY like “mom gave us a couple when we came in from riding our bikes.”
  4. I guess I need to see the data on this.  Corporations will continue to be able to "sell" inclusion and basically continue as they have been and try to avoid discrimination lawsuits of all types.  What they are giving up is the D and E of DEI -- nomenclature that fostered a cottage industry that didn't feel particularly successful.
    The question is -- how effective were DEI initiatives pre-Trump II?  I mean, they had to be highly successful, no, guaranteeing equity in the board rooms and in equal pay?
    I think the best argument is that attacks on DEI are symbolic of more serious racial divides that Trump is pushing, but I just don't think making private company employees attend three hours of DEI and unconscious bias classes every year was much more than window dressing. 
    Dems should focus on economic affirmative action that would really mean something.  DEI feels like the "ho hum" being the enemy of "great".

    Everything like this is incremental. So, doing it for a few years is meaningless.
    Women didn’t really start to get full access to the workplace until around 50 years ago. Only in the last decade or so has it been a case of “and half or more of highly qualified college grads getting hired are women.”
    But we all know the real reason “DEI” efforts of the last half decade or so didn’t result in half of all businesses and boardrooms being run by minorities. It’s because minorities…you know, don’t have what it takes. That’s what the renewed claims of “MERIT-BASED” (while proceeding to hire some of the least qualified humans to have ever lived…but at least they’re white) is code for.
    Only hire people of merit!
    And if you hired a minority, that’s not what you were doing!
  5. Just now, tokamak said:

    I'm grateful for all the constructive comments I've gotten, but this was never meant to be a "fuck this, I'm out, where we going?" thread. I'm well aware that we already have that on this forum. The extremely high likelihood is that I personally live out the rest of my days and kick the bucket right here in these United States.

    For your kids, the key is to give them options.  And where that starts is to give them perspective.  Travel, but not just to the tourist highlight places.  Spend some time like a local, with locals.  My kids love to travel, and have lived in multiple countries....and both of them acknowledged early on that "every place has its own shit to deal with."  So, they need to get a realistic perspective.

    Then, once they get perspective and realize that they can be mobile in this world, then they have the option of choosing mobility.  The easiest way to start with that (and it's often cost-effective for you, too) is to attend university outside the US.  There's a shitton of great options all over the world.  And if they do that, then they have more options to stay someplace, or to choose to come back to the US.  

    Give them information and tools.  Give them options.  Then, because they'll be grown-ass adults of their own, let them choose their path.

  6. 1 minute ago, Macanudo said:

    I continue to stand by the assertion that if those who hire undocumented employees where fined/jailed for doing so, things would get shook up pretty nicely.  

    That would violate the sole governing principle of modern conservatism:

    Quote

    Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

     

  7. 12 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    Kim Kardashian?

    Yep.  The toxic female counterpart is definitely of the "look pretty and use your looks to exploit mens' weakness" variety.  It's a shitty model for women....first, because it's as exploitative and denigrating of men as Tate's misogyny is of women, and second, because it is similarly unrealistic for 95% of women.

    Most men aren't going to be muscle-cut big-dog alphas because....they aren't that.

    Most women aren't going to be incredibly put-together women with a mix of great natural beauty and enhanced beauty because....they aren't that.

  8. 1 minute ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

    Is that what you call it when the fart bubbles up the front and escapes from one of your fupa folds? 

    No, a front flanker is when it bubbles up, but you have to shift side-to-side in your chair to let it slip out the front.  Which is also an effective way to blow-dry your nads.

  9. 4 minutes ago, bolverk said:

    however, his judgment appears muddled when it comes to actually encouraging equal opportunities for all rather than simply passively requiring them.

    You'd like to think this is the case.

    Requiring equal opportunity - that means "you don't screen out any candidate based on race.  Evaluate all of them equally."

    Encouraging equal opportunity - that means that in addition to recruiting at UT, you also send recruiters to universities with larger minority and first-gen college student populations (like Prairie View, TAMU-Laredo, etc.).  Doesn't mean you FAVOR any such candidate - a shitty resume from a Prairie View grad gets treated like a shitty resume from a UT grad.  It DOES mean that you are expanding your search beyond your historical habits.  

    But in Greaser Bob land, the answer is actually much closer to this:

    8 minutes ago, bolverk said:

    Or maybe I'm being too charitable and he's actually opposed to equal opportunities to all, after all.

    Daring to look for candidates in non-traditional places, full of minority candidates who have historically been overlooked....well, that's RACIST AGAINST WHITE DUDES.  Not hiring, mind you....merely LOOKING, and trying to increase the pool beyond your existing good-old-boy network...is illegal discrimination.

  10. 2 minutes ago, Thatguy said:

    Lol. Any black person that has done well for themselves knows what Brisket here said is dead on balls accurate. You're one of the good ones. "You are so well spoken". They have it in their heads that everyone else is ignorant and a criminal. Just one or two good ones.

    Bingo.  And the cousin of that (for my folks) is "I don't even think of you as a mexican....you're like a real American," or words to that effect.  Which carries with it the bold implication that the DEFAULT is if'n you have a messican name, you're not a "real American," and the burden is on you to prove otherwise.

    Applies to any "foreign-sounding" name/ethnicity as well.

    And yeah, it has ALWAYS applied to black people in America.  One of the good ones, you're so well-spoken, you're a credit to your people, all that shit.  But, you know, racism isn't a thing anymore, and Thatguy and I are just making shit shit up/relating things that ended in the 1950s, etc.

  11. Just now, Captainant said:

    They've been told so frequently that they've got it uniquely worse than everyone else that they're failing to realize that that's just how it is for everyone

    "When you are accustomed to privilege, equality can feel like oppression."

    That doesn't mean that what's happening is fundamentally unfair.  But it does mean that it sure FEELS unfair to certain groups.  Again, we ignore that feeling at our peril.  Because there are voices out there who are all-too-happy to tell them "yeah, it IS unfair, and you should be pissed!"

  12. 37 minutes ago, Jive Turkey said:

    This choad is so worthless. His continued re-election to office pains me more than any other elected official in Texas. 

     

    "What a stupid question!  Everyone knows that marihuana makes white women listen to jazz music and be seduced by negroes!  You heard the story of Mildred Johnson!  One puff of reefer, and she left her family to cavort with a black saxophonist!  And no, don't ask me any stupid question about how many Texans die each year from alcohol poisoning or accidents while drunk. We're here to focus on the real threats: negro men and jazz!"

  13. 4 hours ago, Jerry Callo said:

    I think this is the definition of playing to your opponent - draw against crappy ATL and RSL; draw against top tier MIN and VAN.

    Yep.  Was a bit bummed to miss the match last night, but between the weather and my wife feeling lousy, was the right call.  Was not fun to watch until we made our subs.

    Gee, Nico....have you noticed how this team gets a fire lit under them when we make our subs, like EVERY time?  So, maybe don't wait until the 70th-80th minute to fucking do so?

  14. 10 minutes ago, Underdog said:

    Lunch today, Krispy Krunchy Chicken… 

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    Man, don't sleep on that outfit.  Sure, it's only in gas stations....but they know what they're doing.  It may have a claim to "best fast food fried chicken" out there.  You heard me, I said what I said.

    That said.....wife and I had a LONG delay leaving Vegas on Monday (weather in Austin held us up for 4 hours).  Bummer.  BUT...what that meant was that I got to walk over to the C gates and get me some Popeyes for dinner before our flight.  Victory from the jaws of defeat, amigos.

  15. 5 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

    The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don't Exist

    Shocking. Who could've predicted this?

    This is literally the governing principle of the Regime controlling our country right now:

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    They reach the conclusion they want.  Then find the 1% of people out there who say something consistent with that authority, and cite them as "the gold standard."  What makes them "the gold standard?"  Well, they're the ones who say what we want them to say.  Duh.

    We are committing cultural suicide by stupidity, and doing it with passion and vigor.

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