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Brisketexan

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  1. Man. We're gonna check all the boxes, seems like.
  2. Yeah, I've had the CC forever, so we still get free bags. But shit, my reasons for flying SWA USED to be: - great (frequent) schedule to places I'd regularly travel domestically. - easy to get status (A-list) so I could board priority, even get a companion pass now and again - free bags - with A-list status, boarding relatively early so I get a good seat - affordable, often the cheapest, fare to places like ABQ, LAX, Long Beach, El Paso, etc. Now....pretty much the only one of those left is the free bag, and that's just because I still have the CC, which I use rarely these days.
  3. I can see that location being a focal point for frustration. Fuckers are always out of spicy whenever I try to hit it up (spicy fried chicken is one of my "the wife is outta town and can't judge me" indulgences). Seriously, they NEVER have it, then ask "we're making a batch, do you wanna wait thirty minutes?" No, goddammit, I don't. I have no desire to sit in the damned Church's parking lot for half an hour while you cook chicken that you should have up and ready all the time, especially at the dinner hour. I mean, I've never gone on a shooting spree about it. But I've been plenty annoyed by it.
  4. All really valid concerns. (A) doesn't bother me as much, as I'm not a tech worker, although my field does have AI vulnerability. That said, I've also reached a level in that field where I am much less vulnerable than a young attorney starting out. I do worry about a lot of friends and peers whose careers ARE much more dependent on what AI does to the tech sector, so I worry for them. (B) concerns me just due to the volatility issue (dot com bubble 2, market bust boogaloo). And yeah, the percentage of our market and wealth dedicated to AI is....concerning. (C) concerns me a great deal. Especially with a kid whose skillset is languages. She claims to be paying attention to things, and have vision for how her skillset translates in a world where AI is ubiquitous in the language space (she was never looking to be a translator/interpreter, so that's good). But Jesus, we have people out there saying "AI is going to replace 50% of jobs." Fucking cool, cool. Then what in the FUCK are people going to do? It was one thing for technology to replace agricultural jobs, then manufacturing jobs. Take away white collar jobs....and I sure as shit haven't seen anyone talking about what the next frontier of employment is. A world with a couple hundred billionaires and 8.2 billion peasants doesn't sound super rosy to me.
  5. "When you shart constantly, all faces are shart faces."
  6. I mean....you know with 100% certainty that's what it was suspended for, right?
  7. It's not. That said, took some visitors to the gun range yesterday afternoon. Three hours out in that heat, and yeah....shirt was soaked through. Drank so much water (and an agua fresca) that I had to get up and piss twice last night. It was damned hot....yet, it was tolerable. The guests were English, they were wilting a bit more, but even they could soldier through. So, just "normal August hot," not "shit, we can't survive here anymore" hot.
  8. Seriously, is there a segment of Americans that has simultaneously beclowned and debased themselves as much as "libertarians?" Decades of ranting against overreaching government, everything the government does is authoritarian, etc. etc.....and then when an actual authoritarian government shows up and starts doing its thing, their only reaction is.... Which I guess is polite. You want to clean up your face after gobbling that much authoritarian crank.
  9. Don't you remember? Greg Abbott promised to "eliminate rape." And it was done, just like that. There's no more rape in Texas! The fucking delusional fantasyland shit that drives our policies is maddening.
  10. Top it with a few extra dollops of a good red sauce (michaels of Brooklyn is great) when you pop it in the oven, and it's a winner for sure.
  11. So, let's see....crime is lower than it's been in 30 years. And the man who blamed Nancy Pelosi, and her alone, for not deploying the National Guard on January 6th to secure the Capitol in DC....is now deploying the National Guard unilaterally, something he has insisted for years he had no ability or authority to do. And the people who voted for them don't just not mind the the constant lying and authoritarianism, they LIKE IT. Guys, y'all do realize now that there are some situations you end up in that are so dire the only way out is to shoot your way out, right? Pick up a history book or two. Read, reach your own conclusions.
  12. Brisketexan

    Austin FC

    That is a change from the usual approach - they usually do show the run of play (which is handy for us, as our seats are at one end of the stadium, so if we want a good depth-perception view of what's happening at the other end, we can check the screen). There was MUCH discussion on the Reddit thread about the game about this change. Lots of bitching, don't know if there was something wrong, or if this is the way they're going to do it from now on. If it's the second, that's a shitty choice. And on the PK....shit, they weren't going to find the footage of that "foul" anyway. It was some light contact that had happened FOUR MINUTES before they stopped play and decided to check. And then the ref spent EIGHT MINUTES looking to figure out if the foul was "clear and obvious." Dude. If it take you 8 mins to figure it out, it ain't clear and obvious. Really poorly officiated match. I went home and went through the live broadcast replay, and even on the live broadcast, it took them several minutes to figure out what was going on.
  13. Went old school today. The boy has two friends in from the UK, so we did a “bbq and hit the gun range” near Lockhart day. Took em to Black’s, and it was, as usual, reliable and fantastic. Is it the absolute best? No. But it’s up there. And it’s easy, and no real line. Then, we went and sweat our asses off at the gun range. The petit gal from Surrey can SHOOT. And, my new .45 1911 shoots like a dream.
  14. We’ve spent a fair bit of time there. Academically and politically, Bonn has a lot going on, so that’s good for her, as that’s why she’s there. Also, it had the best program for the degree she wants (she was also accepted at Koln and Tubingen, and another school in Vilnius, but Bonn was first choice). But yeah, we love Koln, and we’ve spent a lot of time in the Koblenz area (we have friends who are like family in the area). The Rhineland is really pretty and full of things to do.
  15. Well, one of our new airports will now be Cologne-Bonn. Daughter is wrapping up her gig in London, starting a two year masters program in Applied Linguistics at the University of Bonn. Tuition and fees? $1500 per year.
  16. Will add them to my list. Loved the Pemaquids, Blackstones, and Norumbegas. But am definitely open to trying em all.
  17. There are, no doubt, 1000 Asian places in Houston that are just completely outstanding. That said, if you look for that sort of place, you can find a number of them in Austin now. We went to Special Noodle last night up 183, and it was fantastic and authentic as hell. A number of places on north Lamar, too. But they don’t get the Instagram buzz, and aren’t on the beaten path. Whereas Houston is so hodge-podge, someone you might know is close to every such spot. No doubt, in looking for good Asian grub, it’s easier to find in Houston. But Austin has improved by leaps and bounds, you just don’t hear about it. Because influencers aren’t eating there, and this town’s entire scene is defined by fucking influencers.
  18. Huh. I’m banking my rep points on surly as part of my retirement portfolio. They work kinda like S&H green stamps, right?
  19. So much this. We were hiking in Acadia last week, sometimes stopping to enjoy a pretty stretch of coast. This beautiful national park…and multiple dickheads had their speakers out playing their music. Yeah, I totally wanted to listen to Travis Scott instead of the surf and the birds and the GODDAMN FUCKING NATURE THAT IS THE REASON YOU GO TO THE WOODS.
  20. Shared this with the daughter, one of her flatmates in London is a big Greek dude, George, who is the flat’s grill king etc. He’s often cooking up various lamb and beef dishes for everyone, and he is beside himself about this news.
  21. Just know that premiums for all of them are likely going up around 20% next year. And not just because of their greed, but because of the “Big Beautiful Bill” Congress just passed. So, buckle up folks.
  22. That Irvine area is really nice, and super convenient.
  23. I would be. But that’s because I said something that really pissed off my wife.
  24. “Clumsily and imprecisely.” I’m sure RFK deeply appreciates that you, without fail, have his back. He wasn’t referring to illness-specific vaccines. That’s not what he said. He almost certainly doesn’t understand what he’s talking about, or what’s referenced above. Remember, he thinks infectious diseases aren’t a real problem.
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