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Bateshorn

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  1. One of the benefits of living in DC is I won’t have to try my hand at surviving in a post Apocalyptic world. I have an old coworker whose joke was “when the nuke sirens go off, Ima a grab a bottle of scotch from the liquor store down the street and just walk towards the White House. Won’t feel a thing.”
  2. I had it in January. Basically a really intense 3 day flu, fever and hideous congestion, then on day 4 my fever broke and I was symptom free by day 6. Just like that. my wife had it too, it took 2 weeks to clear, and she still occasionally gets short of breath. We’ve both had the max shots and I mixed and matched Moderna and Pfizer.
  3. KC will remain at the top of the game as long as Reid stays and Mahomes is willing to take a home town deal (via restructuring) to allow the team to bring in good talent at other positions.
  4. The worst part will be tomorrow when everyone is bitching about the anti-climatic ending and wailing for rule changes. If you watch the NFL regularly, every week there is a game that ends like this with smart kneel downs, intelligent clock running and a boring ass short field goal.
  5. It is a pity that the GOP is so clownish and stupid on entitlement reform. SS is not really that complex to bring into funding stability, but it will likely require raising/eliminating the tax cap, moving to chained CPI, and potentially monkeying around with the bend points to cut benefits to the wealthy. Since Rick Scott walked into the room and publicly blew his dick off, there’s very little chance of a viable bipartisan reform that could deflect voters anger.
  6. It’s true. You could annilate the federal government beyond Medicare, Medicaid, SS, DOD, and Veterans care and we’d still run a deficit. it ain’t the department of wasteful bullshit that got us in the red. we are a senior support and healthcare company with a military and legacy war fighting costs. The rest is couch chamge.
  7. This. The Russians blew up the existing operational pipeline, with the intent of freeze and squeeze Europe, then proffer the "There's this other pipeline that's available, turn it on and let's get you all warm and hooked on our sweet, cheap NG again" Sometimes this shit is not that hard.
  8. As one does…
  9. One of my perspectives about Biden is his administration in some areas is absolutely driven by his own personal views and passions. The Obama administration was a technocrat administration that also constantly tasted the wind of politics. Biden is much more likely to act in a way that is personal to the President. And this issue is a perfect example. I think Biden personally hates the idea of legalization. I wouldn’t be surprised if behind closed doors he calls it wacky weed, Mary Jane, and marijuana cigarettes unironically. And the best you’re going to get out of his presidency is quiet acceptance if Congress were to ever send him something with overwhelming majorities. OTOH, I’ll bet real money he commutes to life sentences everyone on federal death row before the end of his presidency.
  10. Well now, hold on. Let’s not get ahead of ourselves here, maybe we are overthinking it.
  11. I can’t remember where I saw it last night but the Pentagon actually talked the White House out of shooting it down. Basically they don’t see it as threat at all, and juice isn’t worth the squeeze cost wise or the rare chance the debris could cause ground damage. Edit: looking at that flight map, I’m sure it would also disrupt travel because they’d have to clear out a lot of commercial traffic, just to be safe.
  12. All I know was in the 90s I flew home from Bates specifically for the Baylor game n Austin because the Baylor girls that came down were such sluts once they got out of Waco. True to form, I absolutely disrespected somebody’s daughter on Friday night. And Richard Walton came in and won the fucking game.
  13. The Magicians did an episode called “A life in a day” where two characters are trapped in a pocket world and build an entire life and death together. It was also similarly very touching and well done.
  14. I saw that. It’s the little things.
  15. The hazard of the 3 days later. Still: flour.
  16. So I finally see episode 3 and drop in here to discuss how it’s a great episode with an excellent love story, and expect a bunch of prepper talk. Instead I get an argument about flour and the origin of the zombies. Never fucking change.
  17. Do I Think certain NFL teams get a sorta standard raw deal (no holding, trigger happy delay of game, bullahit PI) because they’ve gotten crosswise with the league (Saints, Raiders) or others have ownership groups that are seen as core to the business (Giants, Patriots, Steelers) and get a bit more leeway? Yes. But in general, humans are terribly fallible. Cock up before conspiracy.
  18. As a Texpat who has spent decades living in a place with real winter weather: ITS STOPPING, not going, that is the hard part in icy weather. None of y’all have proper winter tires and your 4x4 system and big pick up don’t mean shit when you hit the brakes. Stay home until the temps get up and you get a proper melt.
  19. We gonna do the Shaggy Engineers vs. Liberal Arts/Plan II bit again, huh? Maryland removed the requirement for college degrees for non specific government jobs a couple of years ago: https://www.npr.org/local/305/2022/03/16/1086860660/maryland-will-no-longer-require-four-year-degrees-for-thousands-of-state-jobs
  20. You know I love you brother…
  21. I worked in a shitty kitchen once where butrock was the only thing everyone could agree on. I listened to a lot of KLBJ that summer. If I never hear "More than a Feeling" again, it'll still be too soon.
  22. You are essentially making a sauce Mornay every time you make queso (bechemel+cheese). You could try some sort of colby jack maybe? It won't have American or Velveeta's unctuousness, but it should be a close-ish approximitation. Or a combination of mild cheddar, colby jack.
  23. Yes. The Foo Fighters are basic butrock. "Welcome back folks. That was Dave, Taylor and the boys bringing us out of that 45 minute rock block. It's now 9 pm and courtesy of our friends at Patterson Chevrolet, it's time to GET THE LED OUT! KBSurl, NOTHING BUT ROOOOOOOOCK......"
  24. I enjoyed it as a truly unique and creative movie. It got quite dusty in my house during the Rocks scene as well as the entire parental relationship aspect as as an empath who was raised by a emotionally distant parent. I also thought is was excellent to shoot Michelle Yeoh in a different beauty configurations so we could see how what is an objectively beautiful famous human can look different depending on stagecraft/framing/lighting/outfit/make up, etc. I also found myself being more than a bit annoyed with several stretches in the movie. In particular, the hot dog fingers began to wear on me as the movie went on, despite the plot twist at the end that showed it's relevance. I thought the Jamie Lee Curtis/Michelle Yeoh romantic story line was just bloat: it was an easy editorial cut that could have shaved 15 minutes off the movie with virtual no impact. The initial hotdog scene was more than enough. From a multiverse perspective: it was better than Dr. Strange, but the animated Spider Man movie is still just in another league. I applaud the filmmakers for making a truly innovative movie. But it wasn't nearly the home run I expected and doesn't come close to the overall brilliance of Tar.
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