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Snowden did massive damage to the intelligence community and did so completely illegally. It doesn't matter if you think what he did was right or wrong he's a criminal and fled to gain protection. You are on my last nerve. Stop fucking things up in threads and provoking people with nonsense. If you want to talk policy or beliefs/viewpoints go ahead stop coming in off the top rope with conspiracy bullshit and easily disprovable nonsense or hand wavy distraction equivalence.

2oz patty is normal bun sized smash patty anything more is gonna smash too big for the bun unless you have oversized buns. Leave in ball form unseasoned. Get pan (preferably cast iron, but anything will work) up to 450+. Plop in burger and spray spatula or flatener thing with oil or use parchment paper. Smash the fucker. Season it. Wait till edges cook and curl a bit. Flip. Season again. Done. Patties should flatten out to about 1/4 inch in thickness or so. IMO smash-burgers are far inferior to a good properly cooked thick-burger (1.5-2" thiccboi types) but have more character and flavor complexity than a regular ass burger 1/2"-1" thickness. You also need at least 2 patties per bun because it's just not that much meat per patty.

Up way too early for no good reason. Roast the hogs. TEXAS!!!

My car is nicer than a Malibu.

Should I set up a bluesky server for surly users?

They can structure it however they want tbh. It's just kinda dumb to pay it up front and hope they stay compliant so no one really does.

Yeah always tell authorities about it to get protections if you are asked to do illegal shit. Also nothing is illegal anymore so just do whatever you want to get money. Just like your pharmacy owners.

Thanks for the invite, I thought we were brothers! (Sarcasm and congrats!)

Go to the shower and watch the TV in the other room like a normal fucking person. Also there's a fuckton of parking on Rainey street what the hell are you talking about?

I love Juan, but no - he needs more catches and a TD. His blocking has been great and he's been doing fantastic this season, but he needs to be on the level of Gunnar last season to get the award.

Arkansas is a lot like OU - a lot of mouthing off and a lot of horns down and the "fun" type of hatred. It's an opportunity for people who don't understand it to get into an altercation and escalate beyond a certain point, but if you know what is going on and just flash the horns and move on with your life no one is going to attack you. We had a huge party on Dickson street and went out before and after the game. No issues. I think that College Station this year is going to be shitty well beyond that. They can't help themselves they are going to be dicks beyond just smack talk.

Back on topic.

I'm aware of how shitty humans are. Humans have been shitty forever. Being "White" or "Western" has nothing to do with it is what I'm saying. The second half of the post wasn't aimed at you directly it was more topical to the bigger conversation, only the first 2 lines were aimed towards the reply - probably should have indicated that by breaking up the post better. ^^ this is where I'm at. The "greater good of the tribe" being the focus of the tribal leadership generally results in periods of long lasting peace not without turmoil, but at least not barbarism and regression to the basic animal nature of humanity. What's happened is the population has lost touch with what makes it great. When people think America isn't the greatest country on earth (generally speaking, not nit picking bullshit to fit a narrative) it's really strange and sounds like someone who isn't well traveled or hasn't read a lot of history or spent a lot of time outside their socio-economic demographic.

cool, now do the middle east, asia, india and Africa. None of those places are "white people" same problems. The problem with America is that it hasn't kept up with the times. It was a progressive nation that held true to it's ideals and wanting to have a better future than past. People are so fed up with how good their current lives are they are willing to destroy the future for everyone else so they can feel better about their lives which are already fucking incredible (relative to the past). The issue isn't one of race or creed or whatever the fuck you keep pushing. It's that the American population has it so good they don't even know what good is anymore so they want to try and have all 300M+ people live like the people they see on youtube, Instagram, cable news, whatever.

Mechanically this would be the sub-forum all of these things are possible there. Then I could revoke access easy without removing access to the whole board etc. Offenders get a single strike then removed from convo. Other option is opt in for something like one time 5 bucks or something and then you get access forever and if you get booted you get booted.

more people voted for "air" than for either candidate. People die every day all over the place for all different kinds of reasons. People die of fentanyl overdoses, people die of gun violence, people die of cancer or other illnesses etc. There's all kinds of preventable loss happening it's not exclusive to women, stop being so hyperbolic and myopic. A whole bunch of people died in the freeze in Texas because the grid basically failed, I'm sure there's a list that goes on and on that includes a ton of government inaction or complete mismanagement that leads to the deaths of innocent people due to failed policy. We get it, reproductive care and rights to privacy are beyond important, they are sacred. Move the fuck on, this isn't the thread for that holy shit.

fixed?

Then how do you keep the trolls and Pearl clutchers out? I don't hate the idea of the thread but how do you police it? IMHO a sub-board with a hard and fast nonpartisan and original thought only global rule would make more sense.

America has a greed and unchecked lust for power problem coupled with an apathy and ostrich problem. It doesn't have a white man problem. White men just are one if the largest sufferers of these ailments. What causes a population to become so checked out of an election that they don't vote? What causes a population to become so greedy that their greed is satisfied simply by seeing others have less than them? What causes a population to reward control and gamesmanship or politicking over effective and positive outcomes? Its not being white and its not having a penis. Something is wrong with America and it is why a Truce cannot exist.

Ah yes, the concepts of a plan. Why don't you stop attacking people who very much fucking get it and aren't dismissing that women's rights have been trampled on and are being threatened to be taken back decades. Be a part of the solution not part of the outrage cycle.

No, because it's impossible to moderate because the people posting in here aren't doing it in a spirit of trying to talk a solution out.

I'm not the one over here talking shit about what needs to change I'm the one actively trying to change it. Penelope is talking shit. She threatened the job thing not me. I'm the one who actually quit their job. If you want to talk shit participate this isn't a spectator sport. Otherwise shut the fuck up and take @Brisketexanadvice and focus on getting yours. I love that cartoon series, but this is demonstrably not that. The entire system is in dire need of a graceful deleveraging or hard reboot. The only hope we have left is that there won't be blood. Revolution is coming, and soon, because it must. Its like NIL everyone loves to talk about it but me and a handful of others actually did it. None of this "just happened". Things don't just magic themselves into existence.

This is what people don't understand. It's how obvious no help is coming and the Democratic party is completely worthless. You wanna know what would affect change immediately? Every woman who disagreed with this quitting their job. Wanna know the damage that happens when a pandemic like shift in employment happens because people are fed up? Catastrophic. You know how fast change comes then? Immediately. Everyone is too much of a fucking pussy to actually stand up for what they believe in because bitching about it and crying foul for how bad you feel everyone else is easier and you get to feel like you are part of the fight when you are just a fucking cheerleader in the stands. @PenelopeWitherspoon quit your fucking job and leave the country. Quit talking about it. If you weren't ready for a Trump win financially and didn't make plans for the possibility already that's just plain stupid. Don't fucking lecture me from a place of fucking privilege on what rights are in jeopardy you will be just fine and your feelings for everyone else who isn't going to be fine matter fucking 0. Stop clutching your pearls and organize a movement of people willing to do what's right to shape the world you know needs to exist. Maybe I have a different outlook on this because I made all these moves already. If you don't believe I'm about it and not just talking about it then you haven't been paying attention to what's in front of your face. Doing the right thing is hard. It's getting harder. Don't talk about it. Be about it. I walked away from well over 7 figures in long term compensation and a mid 6 figure annual cash comp role to do what I know is the right thing to do. I have the fucking receipts.

*checks notes* team this guy just quit on just destroyed Florida and is the favorite for SECCG berth and has nearly locked down a playoff spot no matter what.

This thread is a great example of why no truce will ever exist and why your relationships of convenience and circumstance have led to this outcome. All praise the war machine. The only truce will be as we all are forced to look upon the raging fires of our society in full collapse because we couldn't give up our money and lifestyle to actually fix what's broken. Bill Gates out here saying Billionaires are fucking things up and he should be taxed 67% of his wealth, then does literally nothing to stroke a check to the US Gov because then the other billionaires will not do that and he will just look like a dumbass. Its laughable to say the filibuster and antiquated rules of congress are good. We live in a world with actual equivalents to Supercomputers from the 2000s in our pockets. The ability to process and send information has never been faster not just to individuals, but for policy makers. Instead of focus on making great policy with measurable and predictable outcomes which can be simulated and shown in their full complexity using statistical, computationally intensive modeling we have a bunch of idiots running around writing bills that don't do shit for anyone then arguing about whether or not to even vote on the legislation. What's wrong with our country is everyone is too focused on what they believe the right way to do things is the important part not where we are going. The biggest economic boom right now and one that is propping up the majority of spend in the largest sector was not even mentioned a single time in either candidates or any of the Republican or Democratic platforms. I've been told it's because people are too stupid to understand AI, computers, technology, industry, economy etc. It's really because if you focus people on shit that truly doesn't matter like abortion, immigration, fascism whatever they don't look at what's really happening. I've thought about it a lot, and there's no use in a truce on a sinking ship. If you abandon your principles now because you want on the life raft you have been fake the entire time. Everyone knows the right answer and everyone is too afraid of doing the right thing, because the right thing involves unwinding a lot of really bad things we have done and it requires repaying all the debt we have incurred both fiscally and morally as a society. The entire US economic apparatus is propped up by junk debt that will never be repaid and profits that will never make sense in the ponzi scheme of all ponzi schemes.