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Brisketexan

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  1. If correlation = causation, I think we can safely say that the ruination of humanity is.....boy bands.
  2. The consequentially of sex is one of the cornerstones of the Politics of Dancing. Duh.
  3. Wrong. She won't let him fuck her. She's disqualified.
  4. Biff gets it. This is the odds-on call. I'm not kidding, not even a little bit.
  5. "Texas: which is completely fucked up." New state motto done -- send it to the printing presses for distribution.
  6. Hell, that's a variation of my old man's rant about breakfast tacos. "There's no such thing as a breakfast taco. They're all just tacos. Some of em you eat at breakfast more often than you eat em at other times, but they're all just tacos." But I actually DO have a rule about tacos. It's a real taco if 1) you put some mexican-ass shit on there (carnitas, picadillo, chorizo and egg, what have you), OR 2) you put some poor-ass struggle food/leftovers on them. Example of what is and is not category 2): a leftover chicken tender and some bbq sauce on a tortilla? Taco. A purposefully designed concoction with a chicken tender, microgreens, a cranberry glaze, and aioli? Gringo taco.
  7. Any hope applied to this situation is wasted. See the first post I quoted. There are a number of good, or "good enough" paths forward out of this. They are not difficult to discern. None of them will happen. The worst elements of both belligerents are in charge. The only path either one is interested in is genocide. Genocide today because they can today. Or hoping to improve one's position so that they can commit genocide in the future. Killing is the only goal here. It won't stop until they have actually completed the job.
  8. And I did. Note that the first three charts I linked went back to 1930, 1945, and 1964. And every one of them shows a turning point in the early 1970s -- the divorce between productivity growth and wage growth and the end of significant real wage growth. That's not a new observation, either (obviously). That is, I'm not cherrypicking some random take on things - those two phenomena have been widely discussed for many years now.
  9. Texas is going full retrograde. You almost have to admire the commitment to the bit. Fuck the right to vote for minorities. Fuck women controlling their own bodies. Fight back against any attempt to decriminalize the devil's lettuce MARIJUANA. Ban porn. I'm expecting the AG's suit to enjoin any further playing of that goshdarned Rock and Roll "music" any moment now.
  10. Props to Alex. Also, I'm curious to see what the "Death Blossom" was in the porn parody of The Last Starfighter. Wait....no I'm not. Nevermind, yes I am.
  11. The term "smoke haboob" should be dirtier than it actually is.
  12. I read exactly what you posted. Now reconcile that with the information I posted, as to...yes...REAL wages. If you're suggesting that what we posted is identical, then yes...something is WAY off. Here's another data set, showing a comparison: That's pretty unambiguous for a nearly 20 year period. Real household income - inflation adjusted for the CPI, so yeah...in terms of how many shirts and sandwiches you can buy -- remained flat for that period. Nominal income, though....that increased at a rate that pretty much matches your FRED chart. Note that I'm not accusing you of shenanigans. I am genuinely asking why we have two very disparate takes on data here. I've just plucked some of cleanest examples I found, but most of them were in line with what I queried about: income in terms of shirts and sandwiches has been flat. But your chart, by using the term "real," indicates that it has NOT been flat. So, trying to understand the disconnect.
  13. Can't imagine anyone here would disagree with that statement. What we would disagree with is the strident shouting of the second clause at the expense and exclusion of wanting to do anything to improve on the first clause. I'm an overweight middle-aged man. But I make good money, have a job that doesn't expose me to real danger or beat up my body, have good healthcare, and otherwise good nutrition. I am healthier than middle-aged men in many, many countries (dude making bricks in Bangladesh definitely has it shittier than me). So, it is accurate to say that "Brisket's health isn't perfect, but it's still damn better than his peers most anywhere else." Your approach gets screaming mad and calls anyone a communist who sees my pretty obvious health risk and says "so, I think it's important that Brisket mix in some more salads and exercise more." Even more importantly, when discussing the economic aspects above, the degree of PERCEPTION, and its impact on reality, is as important as the reality itself. The psychology of rising inequality is human, universal, and real. The psychology of having to wage a fight during transaction after transaction to avoid getting fucked over, even when that is a result of us having more consumer choice than we did 50 years ago (not much to fight about when your choices were much more limited) is real. It beats people down. Shit, not to go CR, but by actual DATA measures, Americans are doing better than they were several years ago....but the psychology of living through an economically chaotic time that included the sharpest inflation rates in 40+ years is real, and it causes people who actually are doing economically okay relative to where they were a few years ago to FEEL as if they are doing poorly. And people who feel that they are doing poorly do the exact same things socially, politically, and economically, that people who are ACTUALLY doing poorly do.
  14. Saw some of the updates on that. Is there any phrase in the English language more depressing than "shelter in Pampa?"
  15. Other suggested Surly submissions: It's HIMARS o'clock, and OU still sucks Is it muledick? This shell is worthless without pics Tits or get blown the fuck up To complain about being blown up by this shell, PM Derka May this shell kill more men than Nicole44 has Vatnik: your life is worth tree fiddy
  16. The problem is that you're answering the wrong question. What is a dollar? It's just a unit of currency. What matters is how much in goods/services can be purchased using that currency. If my annual salary of $10k in 1975 is enough to buy me decent housing, healthcare, a functioning car, and sufficient food, then I'm doing ok. If my annual salary of $30k in 2020 is NOT enough to buy me those things, then I'm not doing okay. We aren't paid in "dollars," just like someone in the UK isn't paid in "pounds." We are paid in "how many sandwiches can I buy," and "how much of a home can I buy/rent?" That's what matters. I don't care if you pay me in dollars, pounds, euros, or Stanley Nickels....I care how many apples, shirts, and containers of laundry detergent I can buy with whatever you pay me. And in THOSE terms....most Americans haven't gotten jack shit in benefit for decades. More money....with no increase in the ability to buy/afford things. The trend of real wage stagnation is 50 years old. And it's a big change from the prior pattern: We are producing more - that trend line continues to be positive. But the pay for that increased productivity, so that real wage growth could continue? It ain't there.
  17. While that was clearly a glitch, the model of "make it functionally impossible to escalate and dispute" is 100% an intentional profit center for many businesses. Fuck everyone up the ass for a modest amount -- say, an extra $20 that shouldn't have been charged at all -- and count on maybe 20% of people actually taking the time to dispute it? You just made 80% of your $20 bullshit charges as pure profit. Probably more, as even among that 20% that disputes it, half of them give up after being stuck navigating a phone tree to nowhere for 2.5 hours. Ripping people off is a business model. And it's one that works because it's ubiquitous. I encounter it regularly, and I don't have the fucking time or energy to fight every assfucking businesses try to give me. I am far from alone.
  18. Truly, countdown to "HEB! GO WOKE, GO BROKE!" campaign starts now....and won't take long to get going. ....but it won't be. Most Texas voters would happily take a steaming shit in their own drinking water if they thought there was a 1% chance it would "own tha libz!" They'll turn on HEB without even pausing to take a breath.
  19. You mis-typed "1970s." Also, you forgot "and also in full relief sculpture of the bleeding face of Christ topped with the crown of thorns, positioned directly in front of you in the bathroom as you sat on the crapper." Or was that just a feature of my tia's house?
  20. For the bacon version, I prefer thick cut bacon, cut into chunks, mixed in with the eggs. But at home, my wife likes her bacon truly crispy, so I do the whole slice thing. And I do the full BEC suite of ingredients. For chorizo, cook the chorizo, keeping most of the grease, add the eggs to cook, then top with cheese and a good red salsa. That was the taco I grew up on -- I'd get up for school, and mom would ask "what kind?", which meant what kind of taco did I want. If we had chorizo, it was always that one. Sausage egg and cheese -- same plan as for chorizo. Crumble sausage, cook, add eggs to hot pan with grease. Potato egg and cheese - lots of variability on the potato. I don't like it when they're too soggy/almost mashed. Give me crispy potatoes -- cubed are fine. I've used leftover french fries that I crisp up in the pan. Tots work too. The best variation I had was by an old army cook with a dive joint out by the airport. He'd cook a huge amount of shredded hashbrown potatoes on the flattop in butter till they were crisped, would slide those onto a big flour tortilla topped with two scrambled eggs, and a coupla slices of melty American cheese. Add a dash of salt and salsa, and it was glorious. A big-ass meal for $1.25 back in the day. Bean and cheese - always a good combo. Adding bacon never hurts. The best gringo breakfast taco is the Otto at Taco Deli: bacon, beans, cheese, avocado? Yes please. And the forgotten prize is machacado. Cook shredded machacado and onions in oil (you can add diced peppers if you want), when the onion is cooked through, add your eggs, make your taco. It's glorious. Sometimes I add cheese, sometimes I don't, I always use a good fresh salsa. These are the breakfast tacos. They are what Jesus (pronounced in spanish) gave us. We should be thankful for our blessings.
  21. THERE'S PORNOGRAPHY ON REDDIT??????
  22. Yep. I came down with COVID (not a fun case, but not brutal) less than a month after having a heart procedure (not major, but still...a heart procedure). Called my electrocardiologist to get his input, he responded 1) he had an active case of COVID at that very moment, so he gets it, and 2) you don't need Paxlovid (he knew I'd been vaxxed and boosted). He said "you'll feel crappy, you'll be okay." He was right. I do think Paxlovid has a real place for the most vulnerable, but now that functionally everyone is seropositive via either vaccine or prior infection, the whole problem of the "novel coronavirus" is much diminished because it's no longer "novel." It is, instead, endemic and everyone has some protection against it. But again, glad that things like Paxlovid are around and an option for those who truly benefit from it.
  23. That's pretty much what I'm looking for. I mean, I can take a mellow drive down far N. Lamar past Rundberg this weekend and probably find what I need (and get some great tacos while I wait), but if I can get some names....even better.
  24. Ahh yes. Chapter eleventy billion in the book of "When will white people ever get a break in this country?" I love that book. It's the biggest book in American history. Well, second biggest. Right behind the book listing "All the Fucking Breaks and Advantages White People have had in this Country." I mean, we turned a brown-skinned middle eastern jew into a Nordic God so he could actually be the Son of God in our culture, so...spare me the Elon tears.
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