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Brisketexan

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  1. It's still a good idea. Just not here. Remember the days of.....just a few months ago....when many of the brighter minds from all over the world would come and study in the US because we had great scientific research and research-based university programs? Well, flip the script. European, Canadian, Australian, Asian, etc. universities have quickly turned their eyes to the US and bright students with potential from the US. In fact, many of the professors leading the programs your kid might have joined here in the US have left or are in the process of leaving for some of those universities. Yesterday, you could study biology under Professor Smartypants from Harvard. Now, you can study biology from Professor Smartypants, who is now teaching at the Sorbonne. Our loss will be the world's gain. And that's part of being agile for your kids. Follow the research and funding if they want to study science. Odds are increasingly high that their path will take them somewhere other than the US. Unless, of course, your kid wants to be a government-funded drone working for 1/10th of the market rate for Elon Musk or some other oligarch who has wrangled government-funded research programs to do his business's work for him.
  2. So, wait.....generative AI performs the way that most wives want their husbands to perform?
  3. There needs to be a concerted effort on that front. Don't let nazis live without being constantly shamed. They chose their path.
  4. Hell yeah I am, man!
  5. The new American Gestapo, that's who. These are people who ENJOY doing what they are doing. They aren't reluctant, they aren't "just following orders." If you told them that the next step was to send these subhuman browns to a gas chamber, their smiles would get BIGGER, not smaller. Anyone who works for ICE is full-on evil. They take pleasure inflicting suffering on the weak. They get a fucking hard-on when they get to punch down. Seeing the fear and pain in the eyes of their victims? It causes them immeasurable joy. That's what we are dealing with.
  6. Yeah....nobody in a same-sex relationship has ever been pregnant. WTF? There's this thing called "science" - it allows for such things. Happens all the time, in fact. It is an undeniable truth that it is more dangerous to be pregnant in Texas than in a jurisdiction that allows the full spectrum of care for women. You don't have to worry about that. Yippee for you.
  7. Flew to Dallas for a meeting two weeks ago - morning flight for an afternoon meeting. Meeting locale was slightly closer to DFW, so I booked on American instead of SWA to Love Field. A couple of hours before my scheduled flight, I started getting notices...."delayed 30 minutes." Then "delayed 45 minutes." No biggie, I'd built in plenty of cushion. Then "delayed 90 minutes." Nope, that ate too much of my cushion. Ditched the reservation, bought a ticket on SWA for a flight departing 10 mins after my original departure time. Easy-peasy, no delays, got there in plenty of time. Meanwhile, I'm actually IN my meeting, and still getting text messages - "your flight is now delayed three hours." Then "your flight is now delayed four hours." I don't know when it ever fucking took off, I don't care. SWA has slipped, it's not what it once was, etc. But by and large, I don't have experiences with it pulling shit like that, which I've had with American at a much higher rate. Most of my travel is short domestic routes. Take off on time, get me to my destination when scheduled. That's 99%of what I'm asking for. And American can't seem to do that with regularity.
  8. And that right there was the thesis of my longer post above. For what most of us look for in a bbq joint -- the trinity of brisket, sausage, and ribs -- there are easily 50-75 places in Texas that serve a plate of those that ranks a 9.5 outta 10 or better. Again, yeah, any place can have an off day, but they turn out product that would have been "the best thing I ever ate" 25 years ago. Now, we're spoiled. I'm serious, you can go to the Black's location by campus and get a plate of BBQ at lunch that you would have been telling your friends about 25 years ago (yes, there are plenty of places that are "better," but again....we're arguing about whether it's a 9.5 or a 10). Now, it's just another easy lunch spot. So, yeah, deciding how to rank places has to turn to more esoteric things. Which is fine. But it's also a bit silly. We're down to arguing the ranking of supermodels based on which ones have the best mole and freckle placement. Who gives a shit? They're all some variation of a 9.9 or better. Take home the 10th ranked supermodel, and you're still spending the night with one of the hottest women on the planet. I'm dead serious, I'm thrilled with a plate of sliced brisket and a link of sausage from Black's on Guadalupe for lunch. It's top-notch barbecue....and the fact that there are 100 other places like it/that are just as good or better doesn't denigrate Black's, it tells us that we live in glorious times. What was once rare (great barbecue) is now ubiquitous. Looking down your nose at those places is like looking down your nose at Gisele Bundchen with a "knees are too pointy, would not bang" comment. It's just stupid. I can walk into any one of 10 places in this town and get barbecue in 10-15 minutes that I would have had to drive to or wait in line forever for even 10-15 years ago. Winning.
  9. What a perfect Austin photo. A fallen tree....on a Tesla shitbox....in the parking lot of a much-beloved fake taco place. Captures the essence of Austin in 2025 right there.
  10. Elon Musk is an evil man, who directly caused the deaths of at a minimum, tens of thousands of people. People whose lives depended on mere pennies a day of US aid. When the books are written on the most evil humans of this era, Elon will get an entire chapter. The moment of his death will be a huge net positive for humanity, as he will no longer be able to inflict his evil onto this world. In the meantime, any human being of any morality and decency should do all they can to ruin him, destroy him and anything that gives him power (that means all of his business enterprises), and drive him to an early grave.
  11. And this. We've had a lot of conversations about "keep your eye out for the next opportunity, and be brave and pivot to it." The AI revolution is truly unnerving, across the board. Hard to predict exactly what will be there long-term, and what will not. That's universal, not isolated to the US.
  12. Actual policies and laws emanate from our politicians. Here's just a few, statewide and national, that affect my kids: - my daughter can no longer get the full spectrum of medical care she may need in Texas if she gets pregnant. A bad pregnancy is much more likely to kill her now. - she wouldn't want to raise kids and educate them in Texas anyway; by the time any kid she could have tomorrow ends up in school, public education in this state will be on its last legs, as is the openly stated intention of the Tim Dunn crowd. Glad your kids have already made it through our schools. The next generation won't have that luxury. - she is in a same-sex relationship. She is demonstrably less safe in Texas than elsewhere. And if she ends up in a same-sex marriage, is likely not to have legal rights as a married person in Texas. - she is applying to graduate schools. Entire programs are being terminated with little notice as our government revokes their funding (we have a friend who was accepted into a program, then got a letter terminating that because funding was removed). My son will be in this boat in a year or two as well. - the academic freedom of schools to which she would apply in the US is being sharply curtailed more every day by the administration. - one of the regime's chief advisors has equated all 65 million hispanics in the US (that's my family) as "illegals." And the Regime has openly stated that anyone they deem illegal is not entitled to any due process. So, the fact that my family's last name subjects us to the risk of being grabbed by a fed with a grudge, and we end up on a plane to El Salvador, is a risk that you don't have to worry about. Cool. We do. - job prospects for new college grads have plummeted in just the past few months as the Regime has injected unprecedented economic uncertainty into the mix. - we have decided to become a full-on oligarchy instead of a functioning democracy. In terms of long-term economic prospects and personal freedom, that never, ever bodes well. - they cannot count on the protection of the rule of law if they engage in any activity or thought that the Regime doesn't like. At the very least, "you can beat the rap, but you can't beat the ride." Can keep going....for a long, long time. I will comment on how it always seems to be white men of economic means who say shit like "things haven't changed, what are you worried about? I'm doing fine?" Or "why get bent out of shape over some mean tweets?" It's a fuckload more than "mean tweets." If you are a member of ANY of the "out groups whom the law binds, but does not protect," this state and country are not good, and are getting worse at breakneck speed. And here's the punchline....in a fascist regime, EVERYONE eventually ends up in that class. Even the favored classes fall out of favor as an ethos that is built on constantly having enemies continues to search for new enemies. No place on earth is perfect. This country is bad, and is getting much worse, at a rate of acceleration that surprises even me. Glad you don't have to worry about yourself. Those of us with disfavored last names and such don't have that luxury.
  13. The beef rib is usually a group deal. As in, we take a group of folks to eat bbq, we get one rib. I then carve off chunks and distribute them. You get 2-3 oz of beef rib, a couple of slices of brisket, a pork rib, a link of sausage, and whatnot. It's more than enough. Not just because the beef rib is huge, but it's also really rich. Even if you're up for eating a pound of pure meat, a pound of that rib meat is a lot.
  14. I understand that they can't just "temporarily" take all that stock to other stores to keep from losing it, but I kinda wish that they had a system to look at the clock, realize that all that stuff is gonna hit critical temp in, say, 4 hours, and call the foodbank and say "come grab what you can - you have two hours." Hell, even if they used an HEB refrigerated truck and volunteer labor to load it. Just seems a shame to lose all that food when people are in need.
  15. Goddammit. Yall mad eme pick up a pack of these at HEB yesterday (side note: had to shop in the dark, as the power was out to everything except the registers). They taste EXACTLY like “mom gave us a couple when we came in from riding our bikes.”
  16. I always liked it. Good old school ribs, a schooner of ice cold beer. Good stuff.
  17. Everything like this is incremental. So, doing it for a few years is meaningless. Women didn’t really start to get full access to the workplace until around 50 years ago. Only in the last decade or so has it been a case of “and half or more of highly qualified college grads getting hired are women.” But we all know the real reason “DEI” efforts of the last half decade or so didn’t result in half of all businesses and boardrooms being run by minorities. It’s because minorities…you know, don’t have what it takes. That’s what the renewed claims of “MERIT-BASED” (while proceeding to hire some of the least qualified humans to have ever lived…but at least they’re white) is code for. Only hire people of merit! And if you hired a minority, that’s not what you were doing!
  18. Man, I haven’t had country tavern in a jillion years. Just don’t get up that way anymore.
  19. I see a change to the Great Seal of the United States coming soon....
  20. For your kids, the key is to give them options. And where that starts is to give them perspective. Travel, but not just to the tourist highlight places. Spend some time like a local, with locals. My kids love to travel, and have lived in multiple countries....and both of them acknowledged early on that "every place has its own shit to deal with." So, they need to get a realistic perspective. Then, once they get perspective and realize that they can be mobile in this world, then they have the option of choosing mobility. The easiest way to start with that (and it's often cost-effective for you, too) is to attend university outside the US. There's a shitton of great options all over the world. And if they do that, then they have more options to stay someplace, or to choose to come back to the US. Give them information and tools. Give them options. Then, because they'll be grown-ass adults of their own, let them choose their path.
  21. That would violate the sole governing principle of modern conservatism:
  22. Also....power at my old man's house went out, and remains out. No real damage there....but all of my venison is in his garage freezer. Sure hope we get it back on soon.
  23. Yep. The toxic female counterpart is definitely of the "look pretty and use your looks to exploit mens' weakness" variety. It's a shitty model for women....first, because it's as exploitative and denigrating of men as Tate's misogyny is of women, and second, because it is similarly unrealistic for 95% of women. Most men aren't going to be muscle-cut big-dog alphas because....they aren't that. Most women aren't going to be incredibly put-together women with a mix of great natural beauty and enhanced beauty because....they aren't that.
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