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  1. 28 minutes ago, bolverk said:

    near Fort Stockton and northern Coahuila, just west of Del Rio.

    That's the 5th line in my soon-to-be smash hit song.  It also involves the hero getting into a running gunfight over a misunderstanding involving a raven-haired beauty with green eyes as well as the ownership of a certain cantankerous burro, and has a great line in it about skinny dipping with said raven-haired beauty in Balmorhea springs to cool off after the sun went down, leaving just enough light from the fingernail moon to let me know what pleasures awaited when we got out.

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  2. 1 minute ago, bolverk said:

    Can someone give me a summary of who's who and what's what? I don't have the patience to wade through the past week of arguments.

    Is there anything new to this story, or is everything still in the suburban rumormill stage?

    • Who's the cast of characters involved now?
    • Who's swatting the victim's family?
    • Who's the "criminal Armstrong"?
    • Has new evidence become public?
    • Has this whole thing gone completely CR?

     

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  3. 14 minutes ago, Underdog said:

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     This is the kind of enchilada plate i want whenever visiting DFW but we end up somehow at Blue Goose or the like.  

    That is the platonic ideal of a cheese enchilada plate (even has the right number of them: 3).  Could use some fresh diced onions on top, but not having them is fine, too, as that's literally the only matter of choice for that meal: "You want 'em with onions or without?"

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  4. 6 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

    Wha' doncha' want!

    You're probably that asshole from New York who tried to order trout back in 1987.   They don't sell no goddamned trout.

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  5. 19 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

    My reply to this story on another thread:

    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.

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  6. 10 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

    Is there a difference between an Allsups burrito in Texas and an Allsups burrito in New Mexico?

    Nope.  I mean, other than the criminal laws of each jurisdiction are slightly different, so how you subject people to your post-burrito farts may matter.  I dunno, I don't practice crimlaw.

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  7. 2 minutes ago, Js1 said:

    I have a friend who is like that, and she loves sweets, but Jesus, she eats like 5 bites of food at lunch/dinner and that's it.  She should be 200 pounds, easily, with her diet and lack of exercise, but I doubt she consumes 1200 calories a day. 

    It's just so fucking childish, and narrow-minded.  We can get into some broader discussion about how being open-minded about food also speaks to socioeconomics and sophistication.  And yeah, I can be a judgmental snob in that regard.

    For example, years ago, I took all of our law clerks out for happy hour.  Conversation turned to discussion of the various places people had traveled -- turns out that each of them had been to some cool place or another.  So I asked "okay, so what's the most unusual thing you've eaten while traveling that you ended up liking."  Got lots of different answers, some of them were pretty adventurous.  Till we got to one guy, and he said "you know, everywhere I've been, I've found that they serve some version of steak and potatoes, so I just eat that when I'm traveling."  Dude had been to something like 8 countries....and BRAGGED about only eating meat and potatoes.  And just like that, this narrow-thinking dude dropped off my list of potential hires (I need creativity, and people who aren't afraid of taking on assignments that nobody has ever done before).

    Or my kids, who have traveled and live internationally.  I remember when my daughter was on her first solo jaunt in Germany, just a little two day excursion by herself to Dresden.  She texted us one day to tell us about her breakfast mistake -- she misread the menu, and ordered mett.  It's raw pork and onions on bread.  Hit it with a little lemon and salt:

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    She said "yeah, I messed up and misread the menu, and got served raw pork for breakfast."

    "Did you eat it?"

    "Fuck yes I did, you didn't raise a whimp."

    Now, it's not her go-to breakfast order, but she'll eat it.  I've tried it since, and I actually like it.  The point being . . . there's something social and open about trying a people's food, and accepting what they serve you.  It goes hand-in-hand with living a lifestyle that is likelier to be healthy.   Somebody who has never left Dayton, Texas . . . probably doesn't have the healthiest eating habits.  That goes with socioeconomics, exposure, wealth/poverty, all of those factors.  Dude in Dayton doesn't know that "fresh asparagus season" is a thing in Germany.  He doesn't even know how to prepare asparagus.  It's biscuits and gravy and such for him.  Can't blame a fella too much for just not knowing things.

  8. 1 minute ago, Frank Drebin said:

    We did not tolerate picky eating.  If my kids chose to not eat what we were serving, they could wait for the next meal.  Never forced them to eat everything on plate and tried to serve stuff we all liked (I won't eat Lima beans to this day because I hate them).  But we would feign indifference if they did not want to eat.  If you're hungry enough, you will eat and missing one meal won't kill anyone.  It takes both parents to be on board.  But we were adamant because we saw how some friends kids were way too picky and the parents would get so stressed.

    Our standard backup was "you don't have to go hungry.  We always have bread and peanut butter, you can make a peanut butter sandwich if you don't want to eat anything on the table."  That worked for us because they were ok on PB sandwiches -- they'd eat them, but they didn't love them.  So, it was an option for the path of "fine, you need a food you'll eat, but not opt into every meal because you love it."  I think it happened for each kid maybe 2-3 times.  Most other times, if they REALLY didn't like what we served, they might ask "are there any leftovers from last night's dinner, because I liked that."  And there would be, so one of them would eat a plate of leftover arroz con pollo while the rest of us had meatloaf and broccoli.  

    I genuinely believe that truly "picky eaters" are made, not born.  Sure, everyone has taste preferences, some more than others, but when you treat all food equally and don't make a show or production about feeding them "kid friendly" food, they'll eat a much broader range.

    My buddies still laugh about watching my daughter -- 10 months old, with no teeth yet -- working on her second big slice of tender brisket at a friend's 30th birthday party.  She was thrilled, and my buddies all chuckled and said "yeah...she's your kid for sure."  She ate what we ate.  We didn't bring special kid food.  She had brisket and beans for dinner at under a year old, and loved it.

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  9. 5 minutes ago, Larry T. Spider said:

    Certainly anecdotal but one thing I’ve noticed is that unhealthy eaters are very picky and unwilling to eat foods they aren’t used to. It can be counterintuitive because they eat a lot.

    Let’s take my FIL with food addiction for example. He would eat maybe 2 or 3 meals on that list and wouldn’t be happy about those. Cooking time or money is not an obstacle for him. The problem is that he likes maybe 15 different foods and they are all unhealthy.

    I think about my biggest friend from HS who I am still good friends with 20 years later. Same issue. He’s a very picky eater, which is strange for a guy that’s 350 pounds. But his diet is almost all wings, burgers, bbq, Tex-Mex. The AI menu would work for him but only because it would be a starvation diet.

    Yep.  I remember the son of one of my wife's friends (mom group).  He at chicken nuggets, pizza, and mac and cheese.  That's it.  That's the whole list (I mean, I assume he also ate sweets like birthday cake and ice cream, but I really don't know).  To the point that as a young kid, he had major constipation issues and such.  NOW....I put a shitload of that on the parents.  We were respectful of our kids' strong dislikes (I get it, you don't like cauliflower), but 1) really didn't indulge them much, and 2) fed them what we were eating, pretty much.  If tonight was braised lamb shank with wild rice, then that's what they got to eat.  Now, it's a plus and a minus that they developed reasonably sophisticated palates (good food costs more than shit food, and they both LIKE to eat good food, which can add weight), but we didn't have any of that picky eater bullshit.  And yeah, sure, they'd eat some nuggets and mac and cheese when it was served (shit, I'll eat 'em when served), but it was never an expectation or regular thing.  Their peer was hardly alone - we knew plenty of "picky eaters," and it's amazing that the list of foods they would eat was always almost entirely pure shit.

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  10. Just now, Celery Man said:

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    Yeah....at the sort of events listed, it generally does mean that.  If you're at a burger joint, not so much.

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  11. 17 minutes ago, Gil Bang said:

    new tariff on solar panels from certain Asian countries:  3,521%.

    Oddly specific. 

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    Products from Cambodia would face duties of more than 3,500% because its producers elected not to cooperate with the US probe.

    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.

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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. 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.

  15. 28 minutes ago, Rip76 said:

    Cheese Enchiladas - Lopez (11606 South Wilcrest Drive, Houston)

    Fried Shrimp - my house

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    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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  16. 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.

  17. 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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  18. 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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  19. 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.
  20. 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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  21. 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.
    I’m going to nod my head largely in agreement with what the guys at JPM are observing, not a self-styled brain genius on surly who thinks the exact opposite.
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