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Brisketexan

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  1. This. And gold and precious metals have long had intrinsic/practical value: aesthetics (gold, silver, platinum used for jewelry and shiny objects) and now practical value (plenty of uses in technology). Now, those practical uses don't completely match up with the end-point value; there absolutely is a "speculative/store of value" component. Hell, even beanie babies had some intrinsic value; both of my kids had some stuffed beanie babies that were treasured toys when they were little. Again, the speculative/store of value for beanies ended up (for a time) vastly outpacing the intrinsic value, but there was SOMETHING there. Crypto? There's nothing. It's literally electronic ones and zeroes. That's it. Sure, they're SECRET ones and zeroes, very hard to duplicate, steal, all of that. But that's all it is. Does it have value today? Sure. Because enough people/social groups have decided they do, they assign a value, and they trade them. They could just as easily do the same with old stamps (finite supply), original prints of Looney Tunes cartoons, you name it. All it takes to create a class of objects that are a "store of value" is enough people agreeing that said class should store value. That works great. Unless and until the collective belief falls apart. Which, historically, it has for most all such classes of items. Waving around the dollar, or the pound, or other national currencies and saying "how are these different?" is bullshit, because there is a very clear difference: the dollar is backed by the full faith and credit of the United States. The pound is backed by the full faith and credit of the United Kingdom. CAN those things fail? Sure, see Zimbabwe and other currency collapses. But there's a reason that the dollar is the world reserve currency, and the pound was back in the day: because of the size, wealth, power, and durability of the nation state backing the currencies. Bottom line, if the dollar collapses because the United States collapses to a point where it can't back its currency, we and the world have much bigger problems than the value of the dollar. But can you make money speculating on crypto today? You bet. Just like you could have made a fortune on tulip bulbs and beanie babies. The catch is making sure not to be stuck holding the bag when the music stops.
  2. Yep. It's been our go-to forever. My favorite version? Use fresh-picked dewberries.
  3. Seriously. It totally checks out that Trump would stan for bro country. Johnny Cash would beat his ass.
  4. "I visited personally with President Trump, and he assures me that nobody has ever sucked his dick and cupped his balls as well as I have." Also.... I'd like to come up with the perfect name for a mediocre white man of no particular merit and zero intergrity. Wadda ya got for me? "Trever."
  5. Maybe one of the worst parts of this whole MAGA movement bullshit is that it has presented us with a cascade of women that no reasonable man would put his dick in. WTF? That's just fucked up. "Make American Men Indiscriminately Horny Again." A bit long to put on a hat, but a slogan's a slogan.
  6. Wait...did you get an advanced preview of our Christmas card this year? Because that's our Christmas wish for friends and family. It's the little things that make life worth living.
  7. But you aren't, you got that order exactly right.
  8. Apparently, overdosing on Trump semen can cause such delusions. These idiots don't even bother to wipe their chin before praising him.
  9. 99% confident that a box or two will be coming home for christmas with the girl. Along with paprika Pringles, to which my wife has an addiction.
  10. Much more likely that Maduro makes a commitment to buy $500 million in Trumpcoin per year, prompting Trump to post: "Invasion of Venezuela CANCELLED. Venezuela commits to NO MORE DRUGS, and free trade with US, at levels never seen before. Maduro is now a great friend of your favorite president, Trump, which means he is now a great friend to AMERICA. American investment in Venezuela is now welcome, together we will MAKE VENEZUELA GREAT AGAIN! NOBLE PEACE PRIZE FOR TRUMP?"
  11. Flush valve follow up....motherfucker and goddammit. I spent a goddamn hour yesterday replacing it. Should have been a 15-20 minute job. Why did it take so long? See that grey plastic nut at the bottom? It's a 4" plastic nut. Nobody has a wrench to fit that. But MOST manufacturers include a circular plastic wrench IN the replacement kit, so you can easily remove the old nut, and tighten the new one. But not Kohler. In fact, the old nut was stuck on the old valve FAST. I looked up hints online on how to remove it, and I was not alone in my frustration. So, how should one remove this? It involved cutting the old valve, and the nut, in multiple places with a goddamn saw. I had black plastic sawdust all over the damned bathroom floor. Finally got it to break, and release the old valve. Once I got that done, then installing the new gaskets and valve took maybe 10 minutes. But to get there took fucking forever. If Kohler had included a cheap plastic wrench (manufacturing cost about 8 cents) in its kit, it would have saved me a shitload of headache. Fucking enshittification. Fucking Kohler. Toilet is all fine now. Yay.
  12. Daughter is in school in Bonn these days, she really likes their Christmas market. Family friends from Koblenz came up today so they could all have a day at the market together. Man, central Europe really nails Christmas markets.
  13. I gotta admit, for as insanely batshit evil and deranged as I - of all people - knew this was going to be, even I didn't have "start a random-ass completely unprovoked war with a major South American nation" on my bingo card. And that's a bingo card that has "launch an airstrike against locations in California" on it. This is just inexplicably stupid and wrong-headed and extra-constitutional and fucking nuts.
  14. ...and two strands of it are down.
  15. Dove season. And yes, dove were moving pretty well that part of the season last year. Got to watch the game, then go out and have an afternoon hunt, IIRC I got 5-6. Enough action to keep things moving, but not a limit or anything like that. Early season early kickoff games are great for that - watch football, then go hunting.
  16. I do love the “I saw people with signs of wealth. Clearly, they’re all in debt.” That’s what someone with a little money says when they are around real money. No, dude….thats what “money” really looks like. You don’t put shit like a private plane on a credit card. And after the Michigan game last year, I was out hunting in the ABIA flight path. The line of private planes coming in starting around 4-5 hours after the game ended…yeah, you dumb aggy fuck, Texas has MONEY. Goddamn these fucking idiots have zero self-awareness.
  17. You fry the hearts. You use the soul to make gravy.
  18. Posrep mostly for the aggies losing. But the gumbo looks ok too.
  19. God, that reminded me of another thing I hate about aggy: how they turn short verbs into sacred nouns. “Cut.” “Stack.” Fucking stupid-ass shit.
  20. UT-UH 1990 was my first date with my now wife. Pretty goddamn good start to a relationship, I’d say. This fact is a stop-down for any conversation about aggy. For the love of Christ, YOU FUCKING SICK FUCKS JIZZED IN A JAR - A GROUP OF YOU DID - AND THEN PUT IT ON TOP OF A CEREMONIAL FIRE. That is among the most psychotic, pathetic, demented shit to ever happen. Not in college football, not in sports, but in all of human existence. You people are beyond fucked in the head. What was enraging wasn’t the bonfire investigation report. What was enraging was 1) that it pointed out severe and obvious significant systemic and cultural failures and flaws that led to the deaths of a dozen Texans, and 2) aggy didn’t make any meaningful changes in response. They are incapable of self-reflection or self-improvement, because their pathetic egos are too fragile to make any meaningful changes because they would include an admission that they’d been doing something wrong….and they’re too fragile and weak to ever, ever do that. They will never change. They will never join the ranks of rational humans. Not because they won’t, but because they can’t.
  21. Don’t forget that Kegbreath is actually retired military. And recall that thing he threatened Mark Kelly with - recalling him to active duty and submitting him to court martial proceedings under the UCMJ - is an actual thing. Get a Dem president elected, and you e don’t need to send these criminals to the ICJ. They can and should be subject to American justice, under American military law. And the subordinates who obeyed the illegal order will need to be given a plea deal: testify truthfully about the order he gave you, and you can be dishonorably discharged instead of going to prison. This is important. If we want to ever have the rule of law again, it’s very important.
  22. Ditto. Need some simple work done on my son’s old 12 ga in Austin.
  23. “Paradox of Futile Desire” was the best soft core porn movie of 1975.
  24. Yall post the highlights over here. I can’t go there…I can’t moderate or regulate my intake. I’d be like a coke fiend in a back room at Studio 54, and dead by morning.
  25. This. Post em up.
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