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Way to tell us you never get drunk/high. Tell me that's not a box full of happiness right there.
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It doesn't. The problem here is that the people bitching about them are so, so, so dumb. FFS, it works pretty much like a sales tax, and nobody claims that Texas's sales tax - which tacks 6.25% onto every shoe sold here, whether it was made in Austin, Boston, or Shanghai - skews any trade balance. Because it doesn't. At all.
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At this point, that statement is rock-solid truth. That's because "reality" is so insane and impossible to calculate at present and predict in the future that it simply cannot form a basis for any business or valuation decisions. When objective reality goes "poof," all you HAVE LEFT to base your decisions on is "vibes." Which, of course, is a terrible place for an economy to be, because "vibes" aren't real either, and thus they can change 180 degrees in an instant without any external, objective event to cause that direction change. The market and many stocks were more disconnected from reality and fundamentals than was healthy. The Trump admin's approach to uprooting and trashing the entire global economy not only does not improve that situation to tether things more closely to reality, it actually makes things worse in that respect. There's nothing about Ron Vara's approach to things (and that's exactly what we're seeing implemented here -- an economic approach that comes from a LITERAL pathologically lying madman) that makes long-term sense or will make anything better. It's all bad. All of it. Even the tiny slivers of it that MIGHT be somewhat good in a different or limited context (see, e.g., targeted tariffs having their place), are executed in such a way as to be super shitty.
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There's something to be said for that. Unlike pizza, which even when mediocre, is pretty good, mediocre brisket is meh. Really good, tender brisket with a great bark is a thing of beauty. Tough and/or underseasoned/undercooked brisket is definitely meh. Growing up when mediocre chain bbq was the norm (think Luther's and such in Houston, or the various Mikeska's restaurants), brisket wasn't something I particularly craved. Once I found it done RIGHT, though....yeah, it's glorious. I can take or leave kolaches (that is, the sweet, fruit-filled etc.). Klobasniky, though - again, done right, where the ratio of meat/filling to bread is right, are awesome. But there is one variety that is worthless: boudin klobasnek. Too doughy and starchy. Even though I love both items, together, they just don't work. And Blue Bell can get fucked. HEB Creamy Creations is better both in taste and ingredients. A lot of Texas's other food abominations are creatures of Texas being part of the south (jello salads and such) and also part of the midwest (go to far north Texas and the panhandle, and you might as well be in a kitchen in Nebraska, with NO seasoning or flavor).
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If it’s an actual A/C communication, then you can claim that the device has privileged communications with your attorney.
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What I like about these massive, indiscriminate tariffs is that they give me the chance to make my bootlegger dreams come true with an infinite variety of cargo. Maybe I'll smuggle lumber! Or injection molded dildos! Perhaps cell phones! French cheese! Whatever the case, at some point in the smuggling journey, I need to utilize a sweet wooden Chris-Craft, because motherfuckers, it's all about the style.
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I suspect that had a part to play. But let's not kid ourselves - they are not high culinary art. The are a tasty, cripsy treat on the road. Sure, best when relatively fresh, but nobody is going to change religion over them. They are what they are.
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Co-sign. Except my family is northern mexican ranching stock....sure, we ate corn tortillas, but flour were our go-to. Again, regional variations that piss off hipsters who want to believe they've found the one true authentic mexican food. Corn tortillas are authentic as shit. Flour tortillas are authentic as shit. Just like new england clam chowder, fried chicken, and chili are each utterly authentic American dishes....which are very different from each other based on regional specifics.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Brisketexan replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
Tesla and its autonomous robot shit: -
That's the 5th line in my soon-to-be smash hit song. It also involves the hero getting into a running gunfight over a misunderstanding involving a raven-haired beauty with green eyes as well as the ownership of a certain cantankerous burro, and has a great line in it about skinny dipping with said raven-haired beauty in Balmorhea springs to cool off after the sun went down, leaving just enough light from the fingernail moon to let me know what pleasures awaited when we got out.
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17 year old stabbed to death by another 17 year old at Frisco track meet
Brisketexan replied to Derka's topic in Daily Texan
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That is the platonic ideal of a cheese enchilada plate (even has the right number of them: 3). Could use some fresh diced onions on top, but not having them is fine, too, as that's literally the only matter of choice for that meal: "You want 'em with onions or without?"
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You're probably that asshole from New York who tried to order trout back in 1987. They don't sell no goddamned trout.
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My reply to this story on another thread: This is the result of a specific case, about a specific product, which was specifically found to be subject of unfair subsidies and then being priced below their cost of production (dumping). In other words....THAT is the kind of situation that specific, targeted tariffs are SUPPOSED TO BE USED FOR. The problem is that this admin has taken such an idiotic blanket approach to tariffs on....everything....against....everyone....that it's functionally impossible to separate the wheat from the chaff....and the shit....and garbage....and shards of glass. Tariffs are a tool. They can be useful in certain specific situations. Running around and whacking everyone you see on the head with a hammer is not a good way to convince people that a hammer can be a useful tool when it comes time to drive a nail into a board.
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YOU'RE WEAK.
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Nope. I mean, other than the criminal laws of each jurisdiction are slightly different, so how you subject people to your post-burrito farts may matter. I dunno, I don't practice crimlaw.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Brisketexan replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
This. God bless my BIL, who is a physician and not the most open-minded guy, but even he has turned on all this MAGA bullshit. He walked into my FIL's therapy room with my wife (kids were trying to get a handle on his affairs -- FIL was not helpful), and Fox news was blaring. He immediately grabbed the remote and turned the TV and said "you have to quit watching that shit. It's garbage and it's literally destroying your brain." No nonsense or ambiguities. Now, I'm positive it didn't work, because my FIL is a juvenile, immature, selfish racist, so Fox is just telling him what he already believes: nothing wrong in his life is his fault, it's all the fault of dirty minorities and such. But BIL did the right thing. And you gotta tell your parents "first thing first -- you gotta stop consuming that poison. Watch the fucking Weather Channel if you need background noise on." -
It's just so fucking childish, and narrow-minded. We can get into some broader discussion about how being open-minded about food also speaks to socioeconomics and sophistication. And yeah, I can be a judgmental snob in that regard. For example, years ago, I took all of our law clerks out for happy hour. Conversation turned to discussion of the various places people had traveled -- turns out that each of them had been to some cool place or another. So I asked "okay, so what's the most unusual thing you've eaten while traveling that you ended up liking." Got lots of different answers, some of them were pretty adventurous. Till we got to one guy, and he said "you know, everywhere I've been, I've found that they serve some version of steak and potatoes, so I just eat that when I'm traveling." Dude had been to something like 8 countries....and BRAGGED about only eating meat and potatoes. And just like that, this narrow-thinking dude dropped off my list of potential hires (I need creativity, and people who aren't afraid of taking on assignments that nobody has ever done before). Or my kids, who have traveled and live internationally. I remember when my daughter was on her first solo jaunt in Germany, just a little two day excursion by herself to Dresden. She texted us one day to tell us about her breakfast mistake -- she misread the menu, and ordered mett. It's raw pork and onions on bread. Hit it with a little lemon and salt: She said "yeah, I messed up and misread the menu, and got served raw pork for breakfast." "Did you eat it?" "Fuck yes I did, you didn't raise a whimp." Now, it's not her go-to breakfast order, but she'll eat it. I've tried it since, and I actually like it. The point being . . . there's something social and open about trying a people's food, and accepting what they serve you. It goes hand-in-hand with living a lifestyle that is likelier to be healthy. Somebody who has never left Dayton, Texas . . . probably doesn't have the healthiest eating habits. That goes with socioeconomics, exposure, wealth/poverty, all of those factors. Dude in Dayton doesn't know that "fresh asparagus season" is a thing in Germany. He doesn't even know how to prepare asparagus. It's biscuits and gravy and such for him. Can't blame a fella too much for just not knowing things.
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Our standard backup was "you don't have to go hungry. We always have bread and peanut butter, you can make a peanut butter sandwich if you don't want to eat anything on the table." That worked for us because they were ok on PB sandwiches -- they'd eat them, but they didn't love them. So, it was an option for the path of "fine, you need a food you'll eat, but not opt into every meal because you love it." I think it happened for each kid maybe 2-3 times. Most other times, if they REALLY didn't like what we served, they might ask "are there any leftovers from last night's dinner, because I liked that." And there would be, so one of them would eat a plate of leftover arroz con pollo while the rest of us had meatloaf and broccoli. I genuinely believe that truly "picky eaters" are made, not born. Sure, everyone has taste preferences, some more than others, but when you treat all food equally and don't make a show or production about feeding them "kid friendly" food, they'll eat a much broader range. My buddies still laugh about watching my daughter -- 10 months old, with no teeth yet -- working on her second big slice of tender brisket at a friend's 30th birthday party. She was thrilled, and my buddies all chuckled and said "yeah...she's your kid for sure." She ate what we ate. We didn't bring special kid food. She had brisket and beans for dinner at under a year old, and loved it.
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Yep. I remember the son of one of my wife's friends (mom group). He at chicken nuggets, pizza, and mac and cheese. That's it. That's the whole list (I mean, I assume he also ate sweets like birthday cake and ice cream, but I really don't know). To the point that as a young kid, he had major constipation issues and such. NOW....I put a shitload of that on the parents. We were respectful of our kids' strong dislikes (I get it, you don't like cauliflower), but 1) really didn't indulge them much, and 2) fed them what we were eating, pretty much. If tonight was braised lamb shank with wild rice, then that's what they got to eat. Now, it's a plus and a minus that they developed reasonably sophisticated palates (good food costs more than shit food, and they both LIKE to eat good food, which can add weight), but we didn't have any of that picky eater bullshit. And yeah, sure, they'd eat some nuggets and mac and cheese when it was served (shit, I'll eat 'em when served), but it was never an expectation or regular thing. Their peer was hardly alone - we knew plenty of "picky eaters," and it's amazing that the list of foods they would eat was always almost entirely pure shit.
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Yeah....at the sort of events listed, it generally does mean that. If you're at a burger joint, not so much.
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This is the result of a specific case, about a specific product, which was specifically found to be subject of unfair subsidies and then being priced below their cost of production (dumping). In other words....THAT is the kind of situation that specific, targeted tariffs are SUPPOSED TO BE USED FOR. The problem is that this admin has taken such an idiotic blanket approach to tariffs on....everything....against....everyone....that it's functionally impossible to separate the wheat from the chaff....and the shit....and garbage....and shards of glass. Tariffs are a tool. They can be useful in certain specific situations. Running around and whacking everyone you see on the head with a hammer is not a good way to convince people that a hammer can be a useful tool when it comes time to drive a nail into a board.
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Also, unpopular take here: I'm kinda "meh" on Birria. It's good, don't get me wrong. I'm just not feeling all the hype. It's a style of food that wasn't ANYWHERE around here, and now it's everywhere. It's originally from Jalisco, and then Tijuana....which means it eventually ended up migrating into California, and became a trend. But for most long-time Texas hispanics, it is not and was not a "thing." I never saw it anywhere -- restaurant or home -- in the parts of mexico I grew up visiting (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon). It's a bit messy, and honestly, it's often bland to me. And lord, do the hipsters love it, which is automatically off-putting to me and my more pedestrian and proletarian sensibilities. Give me a good S. Texas taco joint inside a gas station, and I'm a happy man.
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Le me put that in real terms: After starving someone for years so that they've lost an unhealthy amount of body mass, we served them one meal. BUT, it's the biggest meal they've every seen, and the bastards still have the nerve to complain about their years of malnutrition. Fuck this Lege. Fuck this party. Fuck everyone who votes for them, especially when they've made it plain they have nothing but contempt for YOU, the fucking citizens they serve, who are fucking ABOVE EVERY FUCKING ELECTED OFFICIAL ON THE ORG CHART OF THIS STATE.
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TLDR; Statewide, we have built and set up a system guaranteed to deliver failure, and in that respect, it's a roaring success. This is all working as designed and intended. The death of public education is the end-game. They aren't hiding it.
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