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Brisketexan

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  1. He's really liked it. Made good friends, likes his field of study, likes the uni and the city. Plans to stay for a couple of years after graduation if he can make it work. Happy to share more info offline.
  2. Yep. In his Sr year now.
  3. So, she's attractive, batshit crazy, and a garbage human. Fellas, that's a Surly 9.
  4. It really is amazing how hard Target has stepped on its own dick in recent years. Took a pretty beloved brand with real customer loyalty (sample size: my wife and all of her peers, holy fucking shit could they drop money at Target), and have fucked it up a dozen different ways, including taking a completely unnecessary harsh political position re DEI (an unforced error). My family alone is responsible for a lost couple thousand dollars a year in sales for our local Target. I know we're far from alone. They need to do some real turnaround shit, or they are in real existential jeopardy. And soaring sales at Wal-Mart by increased spending by upper tier shoppers is not a good economic sign, the way I read it. When people with money stop buying steak and start buying hamburger, that's a yellow flag for overall spending.
  5. Hope Solo frowns on your shenanigans.
  6. Ring is Amazon. AND, teams up with Flock and other law-enforcement spying outfits, so....no thanks. That said, wouldn't mind some sort of remote monitoring system, both for our main home here and our flat in Scotland. Any recommendations for a simple system that provides functionality like a Ring does, but without Ring's baggage and negatives?
  7. The superseding question is "is this DOJ capable of being embarrassed?" Of course, the answer is "no." Clowns expect to be performing in a circus.
  8. Well, I'm thinking that after today....more will. This is 100% so the military can recruit and sign on open white supremacists and nazis. Hell, they're gonna turn this movie image into a recruiting poster: ...both because it's nazi, AND because it's somewhat homoerotic, and thus falls entirely into Hegseth's wheelhouse. Next Coast Guard operation name: "Operation Turgid Rod"
  9. That seems...sub-optimal. Really is gonna end up being a lot like AA 191, isn't it? Maybe not caused by a maintenance procedure, but consistent pylon stress of some sort leading to failure, systemically.
  10. That dissent is an embarrassing piece of writing. A literal federal judge wrote that screed…holy shit, it’s one of the most pathetic pieces of judicial writing I’ve ever read (and I didn’t even read all of it, because it’s a 100 page Facebook post of shittiness).
  11. @Judge Roybeanbag has a story. Loved that place, BTW.
  12. Strong for the highland lakes, though. Llano ends up in Travis (LBJ and Marble Falls are pass-through lakes).
  13. I’m a no on 5 of them, 6 if you count “Basket” Robbins. Kinda odd that I’ve never had Hardee’s or Shake Shack, but there we are.
  14. Fucking seriously. Unambiguously calling for the DEATH of his political opponents, but Dem rhetoric is the problem. Anytime anyone brings that up, the response needs to be a short “fuck you, your president called for me to be put to death, and you’re just fine with it. Fuck off, you piece of shit.” Stop playing “norms” and shit.
  15. They have indeed put themselves into a corner. They ran on a shouted creed of "RELEASE THE FILES! WHAT ARE THE DEMS HIDING?" Releasing redacted files won't get them there. It's an easy response of "they're still hiding the truth from you, people." You either release the whole goddamned thing, or you don't release it. Those are the two choices. And they never will release the whole goddamn thing (here's the stupid truth: they never could. The files contain way too much personal victim info, and almost certainly contain significant CSAM (if there are videos etc.). So, the previous administrations WERE acting appropriately when they concluded that they weren't just going to do a dump of massive quantities of unredacted investigative materials....but the Trumpists were too stupid to realize that). So, they will continue to hang themselves with their own rope. Good.
  16. Yep. Nobody is making a 4-engine bird anymore, are they? There are still plenty of such planes in service, but no new ones, right?
  17. You should be pretty close. I mean, we literally learned last week that Trump, too, consumes dicks.
  18. Yep, stressed pylon failure. I mean, I also think that on a 4 engine bird, having two engines side-by-side creates a similar risk (truly catastrophic failure not confined to the engine housing can take out the other engine), so there's no perfect solution for a more-than-2-engine plane.
  19. Imagine how awful your character must be for literally one of the worst humans around to say "holy shit, even I am disgusted by this guy." Trump's character is below the level of Jeffrey Child-fucking Epstein. And MAGA worships the man like a literal god.
  20. And the Dem response should be short and to the point: "Insane president Trump just called on us to be killed for calling on patriotic americans to follow the law. He wants to murder people who refuse to break the law for him. He's a criminal, and every day, all he does is commit crimes to hurt you and enrich himself."
  21. Fucking hell. Looks like complete engine/pylon separation happened FIRST. That is, the engine didn't blow and have its disintegration cause structural failures - looks like the structural failure happened, causing the catastrophic damage on its own. And yeah, they were already nose-up and almost airborne.....no possible time or way to abort takeoff. Furk.
  22. That 100% checks out. One they get a few $500 steak dinners and $100 glasses of scotch experiences, they convince themselves that these are golden times and will never end. Anyone with a single gray hair knows that's bullshit. The music always stops, eventually.
  23. Just the President of the United States, calling for the death of members of the opposing party for calling on members of the military to....follow the law. Nothing to see here. Seriously. This motherfucker is the worst human being this country has ever produced, and yes, I'm aware that's saying something. I mean, the USA produced Bob Stoops.
  24. It's all just the latest iteration of fake shit shell game bullshit. The Enron/Worldcom comparisons are perfect. The actual tools and mechanisms used are different, but the philosophy and ethos behind them are pretty much the same. They've just put flow meters on the money pipes. And so long as huge volumes of money are flowing through those money pipes, and showing up on the flow meter as big flows, then it doesn't really matter where the money is coming from or where it's going. Look at all this money (showing up on the flow meter)! Big things are happening! I truly can't believe that we're going to do the same stupid shit all over again, but then, I looked at the calendar. Enron etc. was a generation ago. Seems that each generation needs to touch the same hot stove. Put a pin in 2050 or so, when we'll run this same fucking drill all over again.
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