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Posts posted by Brisketexan
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Also, unpopular take here: I'm kinda "meh" on Birria. It's good, don't get me wrong. I'm just not feeling all the hype. It's a style of food that wasn't ANYWHERE around here, and now it's everywhere. It's originally from Jalisco, and then Tijuana....which means it eventually ended up migrating into California, and became a trend. But for most long-time Texas hispanics, it is not and was not a "thing." I never saw it anywhere -- restaurant or home -- in the parts of mexico I grew up visiting (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon). It's a bit messy, and honestly, it's often bland to me. And lord, do the hipsters love it, which is automatically off-putting to me and my more pedestrian and proletarian sensibilities.
Give me a good S. Texas taco joint inside a gas station, and I'm a happy man.
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39 minutes ago, Updawg said:We voted for the largest increase in pub ed funding in Texas history, and folks complain about it,
Le me put that in real terms:
After starving someone for years so that they've lost an unhealthy amount of body mass, we served them one meal. BUT, it's the biggest meal they've every seen, and the bastards still have the nerve to complain about their years of malnutrition.
Fuck this Lege. Fuck this party. Fuck everyone who votes for them, especially when they've made it plain they have nothing but contempt for YOU, the fucking citizens they serve, who are fucking ABOVE EVERY FUCKING ELECTED OFFICIAL ON THE ORG CHART OF THIS STATE.
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13 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:
If only this was an AISD problem and not a social, political, cultural and economic failure*. But, heads gotta roll and roll they will. It’s easier than fixing things.
Anyway, “closing failing schools” or a state takeover or whatever costume change they come up with won’t solve anything. You could put Eanes in charge and it wouldn’t get one iota better. We’d still be just rearranging deck chairs while we listen to the strings play “Nearer my God to Thee.”
* I’d like to point out preemptively that I didn’t mention funding, because even though the way we pay for education in Texas is a huge part of the problem in Austin, the amount we pay is more than enough.
TLDR; Statewide, we have built and set up a system guaranteed to deliver failure, and in that respect, it's a roaring success.
This is all working as designed and intended. The death of public education is the end-game. They aren't hiding it.
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1 minute ago, Orale said:
I drink the Zero sodas occasionally to satisfy my sweet tooth. Maybe once a year I'll have a regular Coke or Dr. Pepper and it's so goddamn sweet that I can't finish it. I get changing habits is hard, but taste buds can definitely change to transition off sugary foods/drinks using no/low sugar products with a similar flavor profile. Artificial sweeteners and sugar alternatives have their own issues, but I'd imagine exponentially fewer than the problems caused by sugar.
I drank more soda than I should have as a kid and college student. And then simply realized that it was so much damned empty sugar that I had to dump it. Now, I hardly drink soda. I'll drink a Coke Zero on occasion, but if I want a soda, I want the real thing as a treat. So, my wife and I buy the Coke Classic in the small glass bottles (like, 7 oz I think). Keep them in our bar fridge. Every now and then, I want a real-deal Coke. So I pop one open, and drink the 7 oz bottle. It's more than enough to satisfy my desire. I also like mexican fruit sodas (like Jarritos), and again, a few times a year, will get one as a treat with a taco plate. But truly.....I'm talking maybe 15-20 sugared sodas a year, and half of those are 7 oz servings. It's just an easy way to dump a lotta sugar out of your diet.
But then, sugar really wasn't ever my weakness. Neither was fast food. And, in spite of my rep around here re Allsup's burritos and such, those are genuinely a road-trip treat -- once or twice a year, that sort of thing. Naah, my weakness is just good food, and portion control. Can I eat 2 dozen oysters on the half shell? Hell yeah. A big plate of BBQ? Yep. A Popeye's three piece spicy? Fuck yeah. Now, I eat a lot fewer of those meals than I used to (they are mostly treats, as opposed to anything like a regular meal choice), and have way trimmed back my portion size, and that helps - I've lost a decent amount of weight the last couple of years, and still need to lose some more (I also need to add in some weight training, as I'm of the age where losing muscle mass is a thing). Exercise has never been my thing, and finding time for it has never been my thing.
But I've pretty much always known what my weaknesses are and how to address them. And I've seen other folks -- mostly NOT in my socioeconomic group -- who really don't know. I have some sympathy for them, and I do love that there are SOME resources out there to offer them information. But it's not nearly enough.
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28 minutes ago, Rip76 said:
If you were or were related to a SETX gal, a "fried shrimp plate" was so often their go-to choice when you went out for a "nice dinner" (read: mid-priced joints). If it was on the menu someplace, my Beaumont-born MIL would consistently order the fried shrimp. It's just a solid classic.
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Shit, I remember that we always stopped at Kincer's Chevron near Kendleton 40 f'n years ago on our pre-dawn trips to go goose hunting, because they had next-level breakfast tacos. There have always been small-town gems offering different variations of goodness at gas stations.
And of course, there have also been the versions that simply have a giant deep fat fryer and the willingness to fry....anything. Then you get a glass display case with 40 variations of brown fried goodness. In high school one time, we went to one such location in Devine, and bought like $30 worth of....stuff. And had a fried buffet with beer for dinner. It was glorious.
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29 minutes ago, CooterBrown said:
TLDR: The whole situation is fucked. They are rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. If you are an A/B rated school in AISD, you will be absorbing one to two F rated schools in the next few years. It's a death spiral I don't know if AISD can get out of.
8 minutes ago, royiv said:TEA has an agenda and AISD is playing defense. This doesn’t end until TEA manages all the large urban ISDs.
These -- while not granting ANY absolution to AISD and its overall management and handling style, this circumstance is mostly a result of a system the Legislature purposefully set up as a trap to ensure eventual state control of all urban school districts. AISD may have done a poor job, but they did a poor job of an impossible task: ensure that no school in a massive urban district ends up with an F grade. Socioeconomics alone dictate that WILL happen.
And once THAT happens, then there are very limited tools available to stave off state takeover.
Combine that with shrinking enrollment (as what used to be affordable family neighborhoods are no longer places where families with kids can buy/move), massive budget holes due largely to 1) recapture sucking half of our money away and 2) fuck all in the way of state funding (the goal is to starve and kill public schools, and the Lege is achieving that goal)....and this shit was inevitable.
And it's only going to get worse. The Legislature set a trap that can't be avoided. And if it means that thousands of kids will be utterly fucked over in the process....well, that's actually the point. It's maddening, but you know, fuck you for living in a community (we call them "cities") that our current Legislature actively hates and wants to cause maximum harm to.
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29 minutes ago, Deej said:
So the people who worried about being tracked by chips in the Covid vaccine voted for people who want to track people with autism?
Exhibit eleventy billion in the case of "irony isn't just dead, it's been dismembered and disposed of in a series of unmarked graves."
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Are you sure? Next thing that you are going to tell me is that maybe the outcomes aren't measured in timeframes of 24 hours.
Trust in a market and economy is definitely built in long-term timeframes.
Trust in a market and economy - like trust in anything or anyone - can be destroyed in 24 hours. Less, even.
Trust destruction? Going swimmingly.
Any inkling of even a coherent foundation for building a long-term trust? Nope.
You are siding with the economic strategy of a man who literally made up a fake authority that is an anagram of his own name to cite in his book. This is fantastic. That you are all-in on it with zero chance of ever admitting you might have it wrong makes it even better. -
It’s painfully obvious he text the kiddos they’re going bombing Yemen tonight. And some 4 star general is wondering why the fuck he’s going to Chuck E. Cheese.
I mean, FFS, we’re probably a week away from bombing Chuck E Cheese.-
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You are only proving the point of that last sentence you quoted. Do whatever the guys at jpm tell you with your trades. I’ll keep running my play.
And maybe…just maybe…the economy is about more than betting right on the stock market. A guy can make a lotta money betting on destruction….which is still destruction.
Celebrating a plague because you invested in coffin futures is certainly an approach.-
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You are clowning yourself brisket. It doesn't take much to understand that the DJI is an very flawed index. The post I responded to was a clown post, the dip on that day was driven by one stock, which just exemplifies the underlying issue with the DJI. Like the top 4 stocks drive 25% of the index. I am sorry i guess that pointing out these very basic things triggers some ledge dwellers like you. The fact that a handful of you have to continually mischaracterize to get any traction only speaks to how weak your takes are.
Says the man who thinks that an economic approach that has the world - not just China, the whole fucking world and everyone in it - dumping 1) our assets, 2) our debt, and 3) our currency….is 10-D chess.
I’m perfectly good with where you and I stand relative to each other. And yes, I know what your point re the DJIA was…which was also a deflection from the fact that the market as a whole, not just the DJIA, has been taking a massive dump with no sign of arresting the trend.
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Correct. What we need is for them to start losing their jobs and off the charts inflation. Hitting them from every direction.
Recessions sure as shit hit people with no 401k.
The world is 1) fleeing US investments, 2) fleeing US treasuries, and 3) fleeing and weakening the dollar. JPM is up to a 90% likelihood of a recession coming right soon.
But see, none of them understand the DJIA and smart trade policy like Ana does. The genius outcome is headed our way any minute now. Annnnnnnnny minute now….. -
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Even when EVERY SINGLE AGENCY has the same function - HR/Payroll? So you need hundreds of HR/Payroll offices? And they don't share any information? That's extremely inefficient.
Why not have one central HR/Payroll office that handles those functions instead of hundreds of them - each with X number of VPs, Y number of Directors, Z number of managers?
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These are the EXACT same people who shrieked incessantly (without basis, mind you) that the Obama admin “IS GONNA CREATE A NATIONAL ID CARD! THE GUBMINT WILL KNOW ALL YOUR INFO! IT’S THA MARK OF THE BEAST!”
Exhibit infinity about how they never, ever had a problem with an expansive, all-knowing, all ruling federal government. They just wanted it done by THEIR guy.
Oh, and the reason that we don’t want every agency sharing all data about everyone is because no, they don’t need it all. And as for me, I actually DO believe the government’s access to and use of our personal data shouldn’t be more expansive than it needs to be. Amazingly, it turns out I am and always was more libertarian than all the folks who claimed to be libertarian when Obama was around, but now can’t gobble enough authoritarian cock.-
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Trying to absolve themselves of responsibility. Only morons didn't see this coming so they're either stupid or just assholes who thought they would escape unharmed. Or both.
Yep. Translation: I thought he’d engage in targeted insane fuckery against people OTHER than me and my interests, and I was super-ok with that. Which means you’re a shitty person.-
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58 minutes ago, Frank Drebin said:
Plenty of healthy or healthier meals you can make much cheaper than processed junk. Beans, rice, frozen veggies, chicken, ground beef, etc. There are entire subreddits dedicated to eating cheap and healthy and those meals cost a lot less than processed shit. My family was in the grocery business. You cannot imagine how much SNAP was spent on shit that provided no nutritional value and does not fill you up by poor people. Sugary drinks alone account for about 10% of all SNAP spending.
I can afford to buy what I want. I can tell you I spend way, way less on food now that I eat healthier and cut out all drinks with any calories.
Yes, if you want 100 percent organic with proteins from Central Market, it can be expensive. But some rice, chicken thighs, and frozen veggies you can buy at any store in the country will be a hell of a lot healthier and cheaper than processed bullshit. And water is free whereas your Mountain Dew costs about a buck a serving off the shelf.
You skipped over WHY there are whole subreddits dedicated to that.....because people without that info DON'T KNOW. In fact, like most cases of basic ignorance, they don't even know what they don't know. I've perused some of those subreddits, and find it objectively fascinating; someone is genuinely learning and having their eyes opened when people explain that if you buy whole chickens/chicken parts and roast them in the oven yourself, that both 1) saves money and 2) is much healthier than buying the frozen bag full of processed chicken. But also realize that for every person who stumbles onto that subreddit and asks a question, there are 100 who don't.
Knowledge is a resource. Time is a resource. Money is a resource. For those who don't have much of any of those, and have never been shown how to manage what they DO have of those resources....fuck, man. They are in for a world of hurt. When you realize that better than 90% of America has less knowledge and money than 99% of the posters on this board, it's humbling shit. For a lot of America, "choose not to be fat" is as pointless a berating as "choose not to be poor." They don't have the first fucking clue how to do anything BUT that.
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2 minutes ago, Michael Knight said:
Hegseth is a historical embarrassment, quite literally the most unqualified and most incompetent member of any administration so far...
Whos up next; Kid Rock, Steven Segal, Kyle Rittenhouse?
Yeah, dude....it's all three.
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5 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:
Apparently, they are hung up on the request that the Prime Minister’s deputy dress in a Sailor Moon costume. Also, Trump insists on them serving well done Wagyu steaks at negotiation dinners, but the Japanese chefs are balking.
1) the Japanese have NO credibility pushing back on anyone's kink
2) yeah, overcooking steaks should be deemed an act of war, so there's that.
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Just now, Clintonaldo said:
I had this argument yesterday and my buddy was like well if China’s economy is in trouble also and I was like yeah maybe so but China don’t give a fuck. They literally welded apartment doors shut during Covid. Their leadership will make them enjoy pain that our soft asses can’t.
This. Never get involved in a "to the pain!" dispute with an opponent who has this guy's pain tolerance:
And no worries....if it gets too painful for them and there's some unrest, they can run the one-two punch of 1) Tiananmen square their asses, and 2) start a distracting war with a neighbor, maybe Taiwan.
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33 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:
Trump treats countries like a 6-times bankrupt real estate developer treats contractors. Whoops.
FIF accuracy. Because I know of a full spectrum of developer types. The ones that have been around forever, who thrive when times are good, and manage to survive when times are bad (because dudes, that market be cyclical) generally treat their contractors alright. Because maybe on THIS deal, the project ended up being one where the contractor took it in the shorts.....which is okay, and he won't end up in litigation or a major dispute with the developer, because he knows that on the next deal, he'll be treated fairly, and will have a chance to make a decent profit. Repeat dealings mean stability, reliability, and risk avoidance.
There are shitty developers who are combative with everyone, and try to fuck over everyone. Those developers don't seem to last very long.
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1 minute ago, WBT said:
Ours was at the intersection by the prison farm. It doesn't get much more Texan than that
Did we know each other growing up? I recall us stopping to buy shrimp right by there.
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3 minutes ago, royiv said:
There’s a lot to be pissed off about reading that story, but what really got me is how shitty that CBP officer was. Since the major Canadian airports are pre-cleared, that asshole lives and works in Canada as a guest of the Canadian government. You would think most normal people would have more respect for people that they interact with at the grocery store, Tim Horton’s, etc.
Our national motto -- or at least of a sizable portion of our nation now -- is "emboldened assholery." All brakes/checks are OFF. These folks are now free to be as huge an asshole as they ever dreamed of being.
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The Trump Economy
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This is the result of a specific case, about a specific product, which was specifically found to be subject of unfair subsidies and then being priced below their cost of production (dumping). In other words....THAT is the kind of situation that specific, targeted tariffs are SUPPOSED TO BE USED FOR. The problem is that this admin has taken such an idiotic blanket approach to tariffs on....everything....against....everyone....that it's functionally impossible to separate the wheat from the chaff....and the shit....and garbage....and shards of glass.
Tariffs are a tool. They can be useful in certain specific situations. Running around and whacking everyone you see on the head with a hammer is not a good way to convince people that a hammer can be a useful tool when it comes time to drive a nail into a board.