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Brisketexan

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  1. To be fair, that pic could just be put in the "typical Austin driver, probably made a turn from the middle lane" file, and nobody would blink.
  2. Oh, it's very normal. If you're reading the right history books. Normal, expected, 100% according to the script/playbook. Not even a minor deviation from that playbook, it's spot-on.
  3. Oh my sweet summer child. You think that there are still rules and laws. There are not. There are many that nominally remain, and will remain....because the regime doesn't want to mess with them. But if the regime decides that the law is something else tomorrow -- that contracts are only valid if the parties are wearing MAGA hats when they sign them, for example -- that will be the law. It may take a bit of time to get cemented through official actions and such, but that is how it works now. You live in an absolute monarchy now. It's time you realize it.
  4. See, that's why I stay out of the news. Bad stuff is always happening to people in the news, so my advice is: stay outta the news! Thanks for coming to my retarTED talk.
  5. Not just higher. "Orders of magnitude" higher. Remember, fascist regimes don't just tell little lies. They tell huge, outlandish, insanely obviously false lies. It's one of the key, telltale moves of a fascist regime. Stephen Miller's surprised expression on his body suspended upside down at an Esso station -- which is how fascist regimes end -- would be a fitting historical coda. We'll see how accurate the historical parallels remain, but I gotta tell ya.....thus far, they are dead-on.
  6. Ok, I'm the devil, and here's the deal I'm offering: You, Loomer, and MTG in a no-holds-barred, all-day threesome. Anything and everything WILL happen. Shit that would make a sailor blush will happen. You're gonna need to drink a lotta Gatorade, maybe even get an IV at some point. BUT, in exchange, this regime ends. Immediately. Would you do it, for your country?
  7. I've used this analogy before, but the MAGATs claim vindication and the genius of Trump's moves because America didn't burst into flames the instant after he implemented his dogshit batshit insane policies. The answer to that is "of course it didn't, because that's not how shit works. It takes time for the effects to manifest, both because of lags and economic planning by participants (like stockpiling goods to blunt the impact of tariffs in the short term)." Instead, it works like blowing the dam in Force 10 from Navarone worked. The Brit commando set the charges inside the dam. Then, when they were clear of the dam, he set them off, big booms. Americans observing say "It didn't work! Nothing happened! The dam is still there!" Brit officer sits there smoking a pipe. Says "wait." The cracks the blast put in the dam start to grow. And open wider. And open some more. Water starts to push through. Cracks get bigger, more water pushes them even bigger, until.... Trump has set off the charges. The damage is done. Now, we just sit on the hillside, smoke our pipe, and watch the inevitable unfold over the coming months.
  8. Man. Why do you hate traditional households and alpha males?
  9. My personal memory was Prodigy. Got a new Packard Bell computer for law school in 1992. In the package of materials was a CD Rom like this: I distinctly remember reading the booklet that came with it, explaining what it was for, and I actually said out loud to myself as I tossed it all in the trash, "Internet? Sounds like a scam." I was either an idiot or a genius in that moment. Most likely a healthy serving of both. Took me a couple more years before I figured out this "email" thing that was on offer.
  10. Yeah, not a word on circumstances or motive yet. That's bothersome. Was also SUPER fun when we had to take out-of-town guests from a place where guns and gun crime aren't so ubiquitous (the UK), and actually had to take a route that avoided driving by either of the cordoned off crime scenes of a triple murder. "Yeah, we have to avoid that area because that's where the car chase of a guy who shot three people was interrupted" was a fun little mention.
  11. They sound woke, and their corrupting devil music must be banned, for the safety and purity of real patriotic americans.
  12. "IT COULD HAVE BEEN WORSE" ® That really is our official state motto now, isn't it?
  13. True enough. But pointing it out as a "we live in a dystopian hellscape!" reason is pussified insanity. Again, I've seen shitheels pulling such stuff in Possum Peter, USA. Nobody is calling in the national guard to tackle their shithead kids and meth-addled trailer trash. Nor should they. Because we're not the United States of Scared Pearl-clutching Pussies. Or, at least, I didn't think we were. Guess I was 100% wrong about that. And don't get me started on those negroes and their jazz music and marihuana cigarettes corrupting our pure white women.
  14. So, in other words.....the exact shit we see in every small town that they worship so much as an idyllic paradise? "Ride an ATV and do a wheelie? TRY THAT IN A SMALL TOWN!"
  15. Now, that's silly. Policy in this state isn't that they WANT everyone to have a gun. The policy is that they'd really like to REQUIRE it.
  16. See, this town has gone to hell. And you didn't even mention the .69 drinks and picking up middle-aged secretaries at Dallas Night Club. Geez.
  17. Isn't that a mechanic shop? And in any case....that's a pretty long haul in this heat, and even running at full tilt, it ain't exactly nearby.
  18. Reports are that he made it away from there. What I don't understand is how/what in... What VW dealership would that be?
  19. 1 -- closer to my casa, and convenience counts 2 -- as much as it pains me to say it, Church's spicy MIGHT be superior to Popeyes. Depends on the day and the batch, but it's genuinely good These are things Brisket believes.
  20. Man. We're gonna check all the boxes, seems like.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. "When you shart constantly, all faces are shart faces."
  25. I mean....you know with 100% certainty that's what it was suspended for, right?
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