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Brisketexan

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  1. How do they know they're ICE agents when they connect? Do their Tinder profiles specify "seeking men with 3" or smaller dicks who have anger issues?"
  2. Thankfully, we have a perfect combination of the best imaginable political and business leadership working on just that issue.
  3. Spirit airlines laughs at your shenanigans.
  4. Bummer. The extra inch really makes a difference.
  5. From the chyron.....tell me more about this "sex warfare." Because, I mean....if there's a draft or something.....gotta make sure my Selective Service registration is up to date.
  6. I have a Calphalon deep 13" skillet that I use for.....a lot of stuff. Works a lot like a wok for simple stir fry. I use it for braising (short ribs, lamb shanks, etc.). Arroz con pollo. Small batches of chili. Lentil stew. Carne guisada. Etc etc. Really, anything your mom might have done in her deep electric skillet, I use this for. It is easily my most used pan. I use several others, but this one gets the most frequent use, it's so damned versatile.
  7. Ahh, so you're familiar with my retirement portfolio....
  8. This....is what we've been saying. A stock market tied to vibes, disconnected from actual real-world metrics (you know, old school shit like profits and losses), and built heavily on circular investment (I invest money in you, which you use to buy my product), etc.....is fucking doomed to collapse once enough of/the right people say "wait a fucking minute, that's all fucking bullshit." And this. And very much this.
  9. Yeah, but the price of Sharpies suitable for rectal insertion has gone way up, so it's pretty much a wash.
  10. Counterpoint: you're probably more of an expert on Senate Rules than all but 1-2 Republican senators.
  11. At least you've figured out the plan. It's enshittification of the entire economy: capture the whole fucking thing, then as a monopoly/oligopoly, fuck everyone and everything because what are you gonna do about it? That's a "tomorrow" problem. And in America, tomorrow is irrelevant. See below. We have zero long-term vision for our society. Our society as a whole is a bucket of resources (dollars) from which every drop has to be extracted, and extracted now. I've used the seed stock metaphor before, but it continues to be apt. If American society and the people in it were a grain silo, containing some grain to be sold/consumed and some to be held back for next year's planting....we've reached a point where the only activity is monetizing every last seed in that silo right now, and tomorrow/planting season can get fucked, that's someone else's problem. The American people are nothing but an expense item and a source of dollars to be extracted. When all dollars have been extracted, we'll be like a shitty tapped-out oil well: abandoned in place with not another thought.
  12. And Elon polls even worse than 1% among people who have actually met him.
  13. Steamed farts just hit different.
  14. Oh, yeah. I read about that. It was in the last issue of NO FUCKING WAY FUCK THAT SHIT MONTHLY.
  15. My old man had extra pairs of binoculars in their bar, for guests. As a courtesy. For real.
  16. My mom. 100%. She was a class act.
  17. Threadgills was fine. We mostly stuck with the sides (you could get a plate of 3 or 5). Best items were spinach casserole, garlic cheese grits, butter beans, scalloped potatoes, and San Antonio squash. Greens were good enough, and back in the day, they had a Cajun Italian eggplant casserole that was really good. Entrees were nothing special. Their meatloaf was good, as were the fried chicken livers. And when they made their biscuits fresh, they were outstanding. I’d eat a fresh one with honey. But then they quit making them fresh, and went to frozen or some shit, and that was the beginning of their real slide. Their location was south of 183, though - right by the Yellow Rose.
  18. Don't forget the other thing AI has in common with all recent bubbles: its evangelists spend incredible amounts of energy telling everyone that all the bubble talk is bullshit, this stuff is the future, and anyone issuing warnings is just bitter because they missed out on the massive increases in valuation. It's like clockwork.
  19. $20 a month X 0 subscribers HAS to be more than $10 a month X 0 subscribers, right?
  20. Yeah, we replaced both units just a few years ago when we were flush with cash for a while. Thankfully, the units are fine. But our 40 year old wiring is not. Because it's always something.
  21. Apparently they've ID'd the guy, and he has a history of unhinged engagements like this. Now, whether the Travis County DA will do shit about it......
  22. Sigh. The storms Friday-Saturday did a number on our A/C. Temps were tolerable through last night, so we made do until we could get a tech out today. Turns out, all kinds of wiring is shot, and it will take a couple of days. And today has gotten pretty warm, so we'll probably sleep downstairs where we have working A/C. And who knows how much the fucking repair will be. So, summer with one last "fuck you" before it packs things up, I guess.
  23. I learned about this from watching the documentary Thundarr the Barbarian.
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