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  1. 5 minutes ago, gyroprotagonist said:

    it's my 9yo's 'job' to unload the dishwasher, but either me or the wife end up doing it half the time cause dishes are piling up and we need to get the dirty ones in.  Plus it's not entirely fair to triple her workload through no fault of her own.   It's the fact that we have about 3x the dirty dishes on a daily basis than we used to.  That squared away feeling you get from the sink being completely empty and all dishes clean and put away is very fleeting.

    1st world problems to be sure, but it is one of the more noticeable things during all of this.

    The cook doesn't clean is some Randy Marsh bullshit you saw on Southpark.  It's 'Things I learned from Mom 101' clean up your mess; ask for help when needed.

    I'm in a different boat ...  My kids are 14 & 16 and frankly spoiled rotten.  Breakfast and lunch is their responsibility.  Son takes care of the garbage/pool, daughter does dishes.   We don't just dump our dishes and make our daughter do them.  Everyone puts their dishes in the dishwasher, it's almost as easy as just dumping them in the sink anyways.   Misc stuff she takes care of.   If my wife cooks, I make sure to clean pots/pans/knives, it's not a big thing.  When I cook she is always helping out ... We like spending time together and helping each other out.  Kids pick up on that and pitch in too.  Before bed run the dishwasher.  ezpz

    Since I have teens and not small kids they can help and have been learning to cook meals for themselves (since they were 10 or so)  So the hard part for me is we burn though a lot of food.  Maybe once a week we have them cook.

  2. 23 minutes ago, Hate said:

    First of all, there are no “great” Mexican joints in South Austin. Second of all, local people work at the Chili’s. The waiters, cooks, and managers are just as much a part of the community as other places. Ideally, all people would be aware of how important dollars going to small and local restaurants is, but most people just want a sense of normalcy right now. And like it or not Surly 1%, most people can’t really afford to spend $30+ on a steak at a Surly approved steakhouse. To many people, eating out at Chili’s may be their “big night out” for the family. Some people, gulp, may actually like the food there in the absence of being able to attend French Laundry on a weekly basis. 
     

    I get that “Chili’s” is easy to make fun and I understand why. The intelligentsia’s disdain for it is merely a metaphor for their disdain for the average American.

    I agree with 99% of your take here.  And if you like Chili's or have a weird craving...  fine.  But my first meal out will be at a non chain restaurant.  I want my money to go fully back into my community and not to distant C-level exec comp packages & shareholders.

    The only thing I've been craving that I can't make at home (very well) is some Thai Red Duck Curry & spicy calamari. 

  3. 5 minutes ago, Armybrat said:

    We can all protest more effectively about whatever in six more months. Yeah CR

    Anyways, back to the steak talk.

    Steiner Ranch Steakhouse has not let up on the tv advertising at all during the shutdown. But I’d rather spend my $$ on some prime beef from Sam’s or Costco and grill it myself.

    Sous Vide  & Searzall / Cast iron finish.  

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  4. 13 minutes ago, Casual Encounter said:

    You guys aren’t really stupid enough to believe this is the basis of their protest, right? I get that simplifying it makes it much easier to make fun of them, but in their minds each time the government takes control of one more thing, it’s another brush stroke in the larger painting of control. I don’t buy into it, but I understand their way of thinking. These types of people will dig their heels in on almost any threat to their constitutional rights because they enjoy their freedoms as much as some enjoy the protection provided by the government.

    Spoiler alert the guys in the Hawaiian shirts "bugaloo gear" want to overthrow the government and form a white ethnostate.  So no, they aren't fighting for 'Merica.  They are baiting for a race war.

     

    1 hour ago, Casual Encounter said:

    ... These people aren’t as extreme as you want to make them out to be. 

    And they are much more extreme than you make them out to be.  Maybe others marching along with them don't know what they stand for or don't care.  Ignorant and armed... America..Fuck yeah!

     

     

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  5. 13 minutes ago, Casual Encounter said:

    Look, I don’t tote a gun around in public but I have more respect for someone boldly displaying their rights in public during a peaceful protest as opposed to wearing masks, running people over with vehicles,  looting, and burning shit down. These people aren’t as extreme as you want to make them out to be. 

    Why is this guy wearing a hawaiian shirt?

    michigan-anti-quarantine-protest-05-gty-

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  6. Just now, Somnio said:

    I'm sure the Surly elitists would frown upon it, but all this talk of steaks makes me want to hit up Texas Roadhouse.

    They serve a damn good steak, but since it's affordable enough for the sub $100k salary type, I'm sure it's considered a filthy shithole serving slop.

    Amirite?!?

    Correct

    But I also think the super high price streak houses are for pretentious douche bags.   Learn to cook a steak and everything else sucks donkey balls.

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  7. 5 minutes ago, C-Man said:

    You can get antibody testing done through Quest Diagnostics now, at least in Dallas. Call your doc and they can order the test or if they won't, call Quest Direct and purchase the test yourself for $119. My doc ordered mine last Tuesday, I took it Wednesday afternoon and had positive results back by 1 AM Thursday morning.

    from Quest Diagnostic

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    Positive results may be due to past or present infection with non-SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus strains, such as coronavirus HKU1, NL63, OC43, or 229E.

    https://www.questdiagnostics.com/home/Covid-19/Patients/

    idk how prevalent the other coronavirus are...but that seems like an important caveat

  8. 1 hour ago, Neonmoon said:

    I’m sorry for the employees and how this has negatively affected them

    but fuck the cruise industry. They all avoid taxes by being based out of Angola or some shit. They can rot 

    This right here!   They fucked over their crews too, cutting their communications and trapping them on the ships to avoid repatriation expense.

    And on Aug 1st the dumbest motherfuckers on the planet will be boarding those ships.   

  9. 2 hours ago, MaybeACoordinator said:

    Those pics always make things look worse than they are. Very few strangers get much closer than ten feet to you in a family day at the beach type setting -- it's not Spring Break out there, folks. There are rules. 

    There is probably a half-mile of beach in that top photo...If you took a sweeping panorama picture of certain neighborhoods with active young families and somehow made the trees and buildings invisible it wouldn't look that different from that pic. 

    Similar pics emerged from Corpus about a month ago and people were promising Nueces County was about to become another Wuhan or New York. Not so much: Nueces County has reported 107 total cases and three deaths through the whole pandemic. At least one of those deaths had nothing to do with the beach.

    I agree on that long beach shot... a telephoto lens fore shortening is real....   However

    I drove down by the beach here yesterday and while the sand is closed there were people packed on top of each other and <2% had mask on and fewer if you only counted the folks wearing the mask even remotely correctly.   My exact thought was man I hope the recirculate valve for the AC is legit.

    The bars on the sidewalks were open and getting busy.   I was completely surprised at the number of people that seemed to be trying out roller blades for the first time. (wtf on several levels)   Also even more disappointingly, the good looking women were not out there.  Dudes over 50, Karen and her whole family, cankles/tube top rollerblading team, or hipsters on trick bikes / long boards.

    Ocean looked nice though.

  10. 19 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Well, we saw increases on hospitalizations and deaths sloping upward rather dramatically.

    Now, we've seen those rates hold relatively steady.  I mean, the approach was about "flattening the curve," and the curve has literally flattened.  On March 31, we had 369 deaths a day.  By April 15, 1,880 per day.   April 22, 2,715.  April 29, back down to 1,899 per day.  In a month we went from 370 to a peak of 2700, and are now back down to 1900.  So, I mean, it demonstrably lowered the fatality rate (a trailing indicator of transmission rate).

    Again, whether the juice was worth the squeeze is its own conversation.  But you seem to be questioning whether we got any juice at all....which we clearly did.

    1) They were going to die anyway

    2) It's probably because they didn't go to the hospital....  oh wait

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