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  1. I just canceled Netflix last week. I guess I’ll reactivate it long enough to watch this.
  2. Must feel pretty awful to be the friends who dared him. Young guys dare each other to do stupid shit all the time, and maybe it was so outlandish they didn’t expect him to actually do it, but now he’s dead and that’s a heavy weight to carry.
  3. I thought the finale was good and it was true to the overall show. I could’ve done with a little less of the back and forth with Shiv in this episode, but it did serve the purpose of allowing them to have a brief moment of fake happiness before blowing it all apart. Each of the Roy siblings was terrible in their own way, and none of them would be good at the CEO position. It’s a fitting ending that none of them would get the thing they wanted the most, especially Kendall who has felt entitled to it from the very first episode. I like that Tom ended up CEO, mainly because he was always treated like a second class citizen by the Roy family and he’s the only one still involved in their business, even if he’s just a puppet for Matsson. Tom has always been slightly less terrible in my book, due to him being an outsider who did something to make a name for himself, rather than assuming the world was his birthright. I think he’s a little more competent for his role in the company, but it’s obviously not why he was chosen in the end. Not sure how to interpret Shiv and Tom’s relationship in the end. On the one hand, you could say he’s a cuck of the highest order, listening to Matsson say he wants to fuck Shiv and still going along with it without protest. On the other hand, I think Tom has considered their dead for some time and it’s purely business for him moving forward. In the past, he seemed to always welcome Shiv back, and when she asked him about the prospect of a real relationship, his answer was “I honestly don’t know.” If there are any winners in all of this, it would be Gerri, Frank, and Karl. They got what they wanted and can ride off into the sunset.
  4. I haven’t been to a Chili’s in 10+ years but I would say Press Cafe has far better food than anything Chili’s serves, plus their location is great. Chili’s has bad food and sterile generic bad locations. So no, they are not the Chili’s of brunch. There are other places in town I typically prefer for brunch, but Press Cafe is a reasonable option on occasion, especially when the weather is nice and you want to have brunch outside.
  5. Press Cafe has a great outdoor space. When the weather is nice, that’s hard to beat. Their food is okay and their service is usually slow.
  6. Headed to Napa for the first time today. Tried to go 4 years ago and our dog got incredibly sick so we had to cancel last minute. Then Covid. Then California caught on fire. Finally making it happen, but if there’s an earthquake or anything like that, it’s definitely my fault. We got a driver for tomorrow and will be visiting Stags’ Leap, Regusci, and a couple others. I tend to drink more French wine but I’m excited about this. I also fully expect to get some Pliny this week, which it’s been way too long for me on that front. After a couple days in Napa, we are heading down to Carmel for a few nights. Got a boat one day, probably go down to Big Sur for another day. I have been there before but it was years ago. Should be a good time.
  7. I watched the first 4 episodes and I’m enjoying it, although there is a lot of suspension of disbelief over little things - Where do they get batteries? How have all computers not failed after 140 years? Lightbulbs? How do they maintain breathable air? Infectious disease? I can mostly look past those issues for now. It felt from the beginning like they are being lied to about the outside world, which makes them prisoners. Assuming that’s how this pans out, it feels like I’ve seen this story before, both in the movie The Island and the TV series Ascension. The details were a little different, but the general idea of keeping a group of people captive in an enclosed environment was basically the same. I’m hopeful this will be different, and curious how that will be.
  8. In the interest of closing out this saga, the package thief paid me the full $982 via Venmo for the stolen package. I dropped the police case as a result. Without knowing the full details on her side, it would appear that she paid full price for clothes that she likely sold for a fraction of the cost. I would also assume she lost her job as property manager of that particular Airbnb. I feel like that’s enough punishment and hopefully a life lesson for her to not commit petty crimes of opportunity.
  9. I half expect Mattson to name Greg as CEO in title only, especially after they went out drinking together and he knows Greg is someone he can control.
  10. Too woke!!!
  11. I'd rather live in a country with 20m ARs floating around than live in a country 10 years from now with 30m ARs floating around. This whole argument about "We've already sold too many ARs so why stop now?" is the biggest fucking bullshit of all. It's basically admitting defeat as a society and allowing all of our prior shortcomings to dictate our future. Fuck off with that shit.
  12. As far as I’m concerned, you are complicit in the next mass shooting. You are putting more guns out in the world and putting money in the hands of firearms manufacturers and the NRA, who then put money in the hands of politicians like Ted Cruz who actively oppose any form of solution. You are actively making the problem worse. So congrats on that. Maybe you could look at the videos from Allen before you go to sleep tonight.
  13. Poor little bastard was practically born a criminal. He just needed to get his hands on an AR-15 to solidify it. Luckily, our great state of Texas makes it very easy for young people to achieve their potential.
  14. Just so we’re clear, you think a woman getting drunk makes her a whore?
  15. The Gun Owners thread does not want to raise the age to buy assault rifles to 21 because 18-20 year olds will find a way to get them anyways. I think this is clear evidence that even 12 year olds can get them, so in the spirit of being good Texans, we should go ahead and lower the age to at least 12, probably even 10 for safe measure. All 10 year olds should be able to legally buy an AR-15.
  16. That part made sense, but Roman was talking as if ATN's call on the election would finalize the result and hand Mankin the presidency. And Shiv was basically saying the same thing, but from the opposite side of the political aisle.
  17. Pardon my ignorance on this part, but how much did it really matter that ATN called Wisconsin prematurely? If Fox News called Georgia or Arizona early in 2020, or even declared Trump the president, that would not have changed the actual outcome. It would only create divisiveness, which did happen. The result would still be the result. Was this intended to show that the Roy children, or possibly mass media in general, overestimate their influence in politics? They have enough narcissism to believe that a decision by Roman and Kendall would determine the next president?
  18. The Greg pouring La Croix scene was greatness.
  19. I binged the first 3 seasons, and aside from the Greg and Tom banter, I wasn’t a huge fan of the show. I complained about it somewhere upthread. I’m now watching this season weekly and enjoying it a lot more. This probably wasn’t the best show for me to binge because watching a rich family treat each other like shit for 1-2 hours a night gets to be a beating. It’s much better for me when it’s only one night a week. I look forward to it now. I also grow frustrated with shows that tread water for seasons on end, and that’s what the plot felt like with the Logan vs. Kids never ending power struggle. Having this be the last season allows the plot to finally move towards a conclusion, which I appreciate. I’m in the camp that none of the kids end up winning. I predict Gerri or Frank, or maybe there is a twist where Pierce or another outsider (but not Matsson) ends up with it. It seems like a poetic ending that all the fighting ends up with them all losing what they want the most.
  20. The Edge of Tomorrow Free Guy
  21. I have started following her IG thanks to this show and I enjoy her puns. I will probably buy her memoir.
  22. If you are a gun owner and you are unwilling to participate in conversations about gun control and strategies to prevent the wrong people in society from acquiring guns, then you fall somewhere between being naive about the current status of your hobby and being flat out complicit in the next mass shooting. This conversation has spilled into this thread for the exact reason that some of you want to celebrate guns while conveniently ignoring their risks and the harms they pose to society. There should no longer be a safe space for people to do that. This is the price of gun ownership, and we have arrived here because people have ignored the problem or fought against potential solutions for far too long. I own 2 guns fwiw, and I am strongly in favor of tightening the laws around gun ownership.
  23. You still didn't answer the question. You seem incapable of that. If increasing the age to purchase a semi-automatic rifle from 18 to 21 would prevent one mass shooter event every 5 years, do you think that would be worth it? Why or why not? You seem hell-bent on deflecting to this assumption you have made that 100% of mass shooters who would be affected by this change will have a person they can turn to who would be willing to purchase the weapon for them. I think that's an entirely false assumption. Some of these mass shooters clearly act in isolation, do not seem to have a broad social network, and live at home with their parents. Who exactly would they be asking to buy this gun for them? Their parents? And you think 100% of those parents will do this without asking any questions about it? That's insanity, but you already know that, and you are being intentionally obtuse or naive when you claim this.
  24. We’re having multiple mass shootings per week. What’s wrong with implementing “mildly effective” or “partially effective” strategies? Can we only do things that are proven to be 100% effective? If you had cancer and your doctor offered you a treatment that was partially effective, vs no treatment at all, would you be interested in the treatment?
  25. I was being extremely conservative with that question, and I was asking you, IF it stops ONE mass shooting over the next 5 years, would it be worth it? You still haven't answered. For me, it would clearly be worth it. I think most reasonable people would agree. Stopping ONE mass shooting every 5 years at the expense of 18-20 years old not being able to legally purchase an AR-15 seems like a no-brainer. I'm assuming you don't feel that way since you won't answer the question. You will instead dodge the question and shift the argument to something else, or say that this is all hypothetical and wishful thinking, therefore we shouldn't even attempt to solve this problem and should just accept that our laws are stuck the way they are and that our mass shooting situation is hopeless.
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