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  1. Ate at the sad husk of a once proud Chuy's for dinner. Chuy's is about 5 years away from becoming Baby A's.
  2. Mayahuel in Autry Park is new and interesting: https://www.mayahuelrestaurant.com/ Renonwed pastry chef and chocolate guy doing a family style mexican concept with a finer dining twist. Not high/fine dining but definitely trying to do more than the base case. The menu was above average and the location was really cool. The service was mid. Crowd favorites was the carne asada and beef cheek with the homemade tortillas and the shrip and beef cheek tacos. The cochinata I would not order again and the sea bass you could get anywhere. The apps outside of the pan y butter or whatever were forgetabble. I think I got some ahi tostado stack and some raw salmon something or another. The desserts as you can imagine were the best part-- the vanilla and coffee were my favorite. Good value and pricing here though. I wasn't particularly paying attention to costs and what I would have assumed/guessed felt like a $600 meal (with drinks) actually came back closer to $400. 3.5/5 Edit to add: looks like the just opened on July 18th so probably still working out a lot of the kinks.
  3. Not getting enough love....
  4. Is it my opinion? I mean, how else do you describe the guy walking around barefoot with no shirt and a ratty blanket wrapped around his body screaming at imagined spectres about the God knows what? There is one on every corner. Houston could have a really cool downtown. It's inherently walkable from one end to another, I do it often. But it's increasingly concerning and scary. There will be a violent occurance sooner rather than later it seems, not if but when.
  5. Can't really even be mad when he puts it that way...
  6. I mean, they arent that as you describe. They are CLEARLY suffering from mental illness and/or addiction. And in very bad straits. And acting out and harrassing the general downtown area of commerce and business.
  7. Watched Captain America Brave New World. Very meh and Aldous Huxley is rolling in his grave with the sullying of that good name. Caught Wayne's World on cable. Haven't seen it since the early 90's. Actually a lot smarter and interesting and funny than I remember as a 20-something when it was a popular movie. It was a fun re-watch.
  8. I've been traveling to Houston a lot this year for work. 2 or 3 times a month I'm in Houston. I'm also regularly in places in like New York City and San Francisco. I haven't been to Austin regularly for at least a year and a half-- I was downtown at the Omni for two days in the spring. I give that context before I say: It feels like this year Houston is giving those places a run for it's money in what you traditionally think of as unchecked mental illness, drug use/abuse, and harrassment from those experiencing homelessness. I've seen more barefoot, screaming into the void mental illness and homeless people veering and intimidating the white collar population than I've seen in SF recently. Louisiana, Texas, Main, Fannin, Rusk, you name it, it's on every corner. From the JW Marriott to Vinson & Elkins to Shell Plaza it's crazy. And I've seen more downtown police and enforcement patrols just ignore it and look the other way (and to be fair, most finance and o&g workers downtown seem to be used to it) as they focus on ticketing parked cars. tl;dr Houston is rivaling San Fran in 2025 in smelling like urine.
  9. Memphis is the scariest place in America. I read somewhere "Memphis is what the right tries to tell America what Chicago is" and I felt that.
  10. And now you are 63. 3 years closer to Sheol. kidding, I’m in my 60’s as well and went so far as to get x-rays done and get a consultation for a surgery. Just never pulled the trigger. I throw a football with the grandsons like a girl, but that may because I’m weak and old now though I like to blame it on the shoulder.
  11. Exactly. But it's make believe value and wealth that has been materialized (on paper and in markets). GM and their shuttered autonous driving tech Cruise can't say that. Etc. Sure it's all fugayzi fugazzi but there is a big difference when you have the cult of personality to actually create the fungible value versus just talk about it. And that is it's own debate.
  12. Lots of ink has been spilled about this particular part of Musk's controversies, but I happen to think he "earned" the money, in the sense that is described as below. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/business/dealbook/musk-tesla-compensation-billion.html
  13. Gillie da Kid has always been unhinged. He's one of those rappers who never made it, but could have possibly made it? I don't know. I think his claim to fame was being a ghostwriter for all the big name rappers of the 00's.
  14. Tesla shares are up today after the company revealed its plan to give Elon Musk part of his long-promised blockbuster payday — some $29 billion, as its original proposal remains stuck in the Delaware courts.
  15. Another AI-theletes $$$ news drop: In 2021, NBA legend Steph Curry finalized a four-year, $215 million contract extension. Mark Zuckerberg recently offered 24-year-old Matt Deitke $250 million over four years to come work at Meta’s superintelligence lab, and he accepted. Ars Technica compared that to J. Robert Oppenheimer’s $10,000 annual salary in 1943 for leading the Manhattan Project, which, adjusted for inflation, would be $190,865 today.
  16. While I hear you, I for one am enjoying the mildest summer in DFW I can remember. Thanks to an above average wet spring and summer (which itself brought tragedy, though).
  17. This is good. I specifically came here for the Sidney Sweeney memes because it has creates a lot of ridiculous internet content on both sides. But just one funny meme and no thread. Alas, too much serious pain in the world to focus on innocuous funny.
  18. Not sure I agree 100% with your police work there Lou!
  19. Here is the existential problem, my dudes.... The endangerment finding isn't just a technical legal document; it's the foundation for federal climate action in the United States. Without it, you don't have the ability for the EPA to regulate and there is effectively no Clean Air Act. The good news? 1000% there will be legal challenges from states, multiple states, a coalition of states, environmental agencies, etc. that will tie this thing in legal morass for many, many years. Hopefully we can run out the clock in courts until 2028, seems to be the best case.
  20. FYI for those with kids and grandkids who really appreciate the family programming of PBS Kids: PBS Kids will not shut down, but some shows will be cancelled, and the surviving shows will make fewer new episodes, at least for the next couple of years. If you want to see PBS Kids survive, the best thing you can do is become a member of your local PBS station. If you're already a member, raise your donation level if you can.
  21. I love this, it's actually quite brilliant.
  22. The position is that for a representative democracy and federal system to work as a federation of (United) States, then it makes sense to have the system we have. If you want to re-architect the system (burn down and build from the ground up, as you or someone else suggested was the way to break free from the chokehold of a two-party system) then I can see doing away with the EC for something else that might a) be deemed more appropriate for 2025 and b) something that would need buy-in or ratification. Maybe just the former small-state resident in me (Live Free or Die!), but I find it personally distasteful to have agreed and entered into a political system and construct with an architecture undergirding the federal system of states that was agreed to and then completely changing the system to a population system where 3 or 4 states effectively run the rest of the 46-47. I won't use "pull the rug" or "bait and switch" as granted it's been 250 years, but it's definitely not something to be undertaken lightly.
  23. I deeply disagree. Unless you are talking about blowing everything up and starting from scratch, this time without an EC, then I could see it depending on the re-archituring of the nation.
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