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  1. 48 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

    yesterday i was afraid that burnt bean would be sold out of everything (they close at 3). so i pulled into city market 

    any other bbq spots off i10 ?

    city market isn't top tier but it sure hit the spot yesterday 

    Mikeska's in Sealy 

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  2. On 4/19/2025 at 3:00 PM, VABuckeye said:

    OK.  Flying into Milan and overnighting on the 14th of June.  Train to Bolzano on the 15th and rent a car there and then drive to Ortisei.  We're in Ortisei from the 15th until the 19th with daytrips to Lago de Braies and Tre Cime for sure and possibly other spots.  We will take the cable car in Ortisei to the top of the mountain.

    On the 19th we train to Bologna for five nights.  We daytrip to Parma via train on the 21st and Modena on the 23rd.  Parmagiano Reggiano tour in Parma and just check out the town.  In Modena we'll have a packed day with a balsamic tour, a tour of the Enzo Ferrari museum and I should be able to get lunch reservations at Franceschetta 58.  The other two days will be spent exploring Bologna.  We'll then train from Bologna to Milan on the 24th for the return trip home.

    I'm open to any must have dinner reservations thoughts in Bologna.

    Very best lasagna I've ever had was at Trattoria del Tempo Buono. It was unreal. Reservation recommended but I showed up in a rain storm late afternoon looking like a drowned rat and they took pity on me. Completely revitalizing. 

     

    Otherwise there's amazing food to be had just wandering around and popping in for tigelle or tagliatelle or tortellini 

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  3. 12 hours ago, Red Five said:


    It’s still hard to believe how lazy that sequel trilogy was. They didn’t even bother trying to come up with an explanation as to why Palpatine was back. He was just there, with a massive fleet of Star Destroyers.

    Was he a clone? Was the original a clone? Did he somehow survive the Death Star explosion? Who knows?

    It's like they basically just skipped to the end of Heir to the Empire

  4. 14 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:


    A whole lot of this. It’s a counterpart to the strategy of loudly moaning with pleasure when they aggressively pat you down. You can fake sounding orgasmic when they touch you. I mean, I don’t have to fake it, but you can.

    jizz in my pants GIF

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    Trump’s D.C. U.S. attorney pick appeared on Russian state media over 150 times

    Nominee Ed Martin did not initially disclose his RT and Sputnik appearances from 2016 to 2024 to the Senate. The State Department has said the networks act like arms of Russian intelligence.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/04/16/ed-martin-rt-sputnik-usattorney/

     

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    WASHINGTON, April 16 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday he was shutting down a State Department office that had sought to counter foreign disinformation, accusing it of censorship and wasting U.S. taxpayer money.

    https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/us-state-department-closing-office-aimed-countering-foreign-disinformation-2025-04-16/

     

     

    again, it's not whether he's a russian agent, it's what exactly would a russian agent have done differently?

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  6. 27 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

    I swear to god, he doesn't know how the internet works.  He talks as if he's describing how things are on an old-time radio broadcast where he's free to tell the listeners what's happening and they can't see it or verify anything because they're thousands of miles away.

    The people who do their own research definitely don't do their own research 

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  7. 2 hours ago, Ag with kids said:

    I'm confused by this argument.

     

    So DOGE, an agency under the purview of the executive branch, is getting access to data from the Social Security Administration, another agency under the purview of the executive branch.

     

    Would there be some reason why executive branch agencies should segregate?  Seems inefficient...

    username checks out

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    members of the DOGE team asked that their activities not be logged on the system and then appeared to try to cover their tracks behind them, turning off monitoring tools and manually deleting records of their access — evasive behavior that several cybersecurity experts interviewed by NPR compared to what criminal or state-sponsored hackers might do.

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    The employees grew concerned that the NLRB's confidential data could be exposed, particularly after they started detecting suspicious log-in attempts from an IP address in Russia, according to the disclosure.

     

     

    https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security

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