Everything posted by Brisketexan
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The Trump Economy
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.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
And Elon polls even worse than 1% among people who have actually met him.
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The Democratic Party
Steamed farts just hit different.
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2026 World Cup in North America: Step 1 - the host cities
Oh, yeah. I read about that. It was in the last issue of NO FUCKING WAY FUCK THAT SHIT MONTHLY.
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Maybe we need an Argentina thread too
My old man had extra pairs of binoculars in their bar, for guests. As a courtesy. For real.
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Dumbass Shit We See On Facebook
My mom. 100%. She was a class act.
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Overrated Austin restaurants?
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.
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What the fuck is wrong with you, Austin?
Onlyfans page?
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I for one welcome our new AI overlords
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.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
$20 a month X 0 subscribers HAS to be more than $10 a month X 0 subscribers, right?
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Blastfurnace 2025
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.
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What the fuck is wrong with you, Austin?
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......
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Blastfurnace 2025
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.
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Comet 3I/ATLAS
I learned about this from watching the documentary Thundarr the Barbarian.
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Overrated Austin restaurants?
Yep, they were solid as well. Some great options on that N. Lamar corridor. Truly, I'm waiting for the day the hipsters discovery the real-deal, cheap, affordable and amazing places along N. Lamar between 183 and Walnut Creek. Once that dam breaks, the area will be gentrified to shit within 10 years.
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Overrated Austin restaurants?
You mean the place where you can spend $14 on a Banh Mi that's not nearly as good as a $7 Bahn Mi from Lily's sandwich shop or Baguette House? F that hipster-ass place.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Yep. They are burning it all down to show two different groups of people: (1) The minority poors....who will be just as fucked and stuck here as the white poors. Congratulations, you just played yourself. and (2) The investing class, who, when things get shitty enough, will say "cool...see ya later" and just fucking leave. You'll be left with a combined poverty class that's even MORE fucked by its own doing, and a very small oligarch class living in walled castles and whatnot, surveying it all as kings of a rotted kingdom. That's what "MAGA! WINNING!" looks like.
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Comet 3I/ATLAS
If you aren't keeping an eye on your competition, what are you even doing?
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Trump’s America
link to greens recipe pls?
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
This. This is the outcome, it's the only thing that matters. MAGAs keep pulling the cord on the suicide vest, and they completely disregard the fact that they are blown to shreds, focusing solely on the "others" who got hammered by the shrapnel - they grin in gleeful victory, nevermind the fact that they turned themselves into pink mist. So. Fucking. Stupid.
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Maybe we need an Argentina thread too
It's hard to trumpet a "surplus" when you're simultaneously begging for a $40 billion bailout lest you collapse. And the inflation rate is.....back to 2021 levels (yes, it was hyperinflation for a period, so any decrease is good, but let's not go sucking each other's dicks just yet). Accounting bullshit is bullshit when the rubber meets the road. Well, I mean....I was married by then. But even my wife agreed "holy shit, these women are gorgeous."
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Things not going well in Venezuela
I didn't say the trade-off would be worth it (and Paint it Black is fucking awesome). I said we'll get what we get, and we'll call it a win, no matter how stupid a loss we take. And even one American life spent on "conquering" a country that doesn't constitute any material threat to us--solely so the "peace president" can simultaneously pretend to be a badass AND distract from his deep relationship with the world's most notorious pedophile--is a fucking loss.
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Comet 3I/ATLAS
Is it made of nickel? Or Stanley nickels?
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Maybe we need an Argentina thread too
My folks' apartment in BA looked over the park with the Malvinas memorial. Not many visitors to the memorial. But on a sunny day, LOTS of stunning Argentine women sunning themselves on the park lawn. Solid location for an apartment balcony.
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Maybe we need an Argentina thread too
Argentina is one of those places where the voters' thought process is largely simple, clear, and understandable. "We've tried X and Y for the past 50 years.....and we've ended up ratfucked, completely. So, fuck it, let's try Z, we literally can't do any worse." And they're right. What's the worst that can happen? They turn into a bankrupt, totally failed economy? Been there, done that, a dozen times in the past several decades. They've seen rock bottom, they were just at another rock bottom, fuck it, let's try something different. I still don't think this gambit will really work, but I genuinely can't blame them for trying something completely different, given their track record.