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  1. Best Mexican food I’ve had in Europe is in Bratislava old town: amazing al pastor. Whole family from Veracruz, abuelo tends bar and talks about his amateur boxing glory and abuela runs the show with some bemused Slovak waitresses studying Spanish at the university. The old man is something of a lothario, I gathered, and abuela runs the restaurant social media. A couple times she got fed up, posted long complaints about his errant ways (in Spanish) and announced the joint was closing and she was heading back to Mexico. Within a week there’d be a new post full of forgiveness and promises he’d change his ways, and assurances they’d keep dishing up amazing tacos. Better than a telenovela. Czech has a decent BBQ scene, Texas style. Sort of reverse cultural exchange since Czechs and Germans pioneered old school meat market barbecue. I knew an expat who imported pellet smokers and sold them to the upper crust, a real luxury item. The best place in town didn’t do brisket but made more than acceptable beef cheeks, homemade sausage, and ribs. All peppery, good bark, and sauce only ok the side. At Thanskgiving they’d sell smoked turkey and fixings. And made watermelon margaritas. It’s good enough that I would eat there if it were in Texas, although not elite.
  2. Trad Jack o’lantern maxxing. Not seduced by the lure of Big Pumpkin with stencils and little saws. Risking fingers like my dad and his dad before him to carve a snaggle tooth smile with kitchen knives.
  3. ā€œFar less nimble.ā€
  4. Super petty just because you were besties with the most famous child sex trafficker and were named as someone who molested kids, they won’t let you be prince anymore.
  5. I once went to a Mexican restaurant in Warsaw and they had enchiladas with a ā€œforest mushroom cream sauce,ā€ -3/10.
  6. Boosters have more of a personal stake in the game because now you’re paying players directly. It’s a vicious cycle because there is no reward to paying NCAA players aside from winning, it’s not like the pros where the owners balance other interests.
  7. Been sick the past couple days and really got into ā€œNot So Quiet on the Western Front.ā€ I think that WWI gets short shrift in how much it shaped modernity because of the knockout younger sister. It’s very Brit focused but they do a great job. Standout episodes: U Boat series, Trench Slang, and Carrier Pigeons (really). Edit: Cavalry episode also really good, people weren’t stupid and it wasn’t just charges at machine gun nests.
  8. I would imagine that mobbed up guys will be happier to extend credit to ballplayers out over their skis with gambling debts. Which is likely how these guy got roped into insider shit to begin with.
  9. In a serious take: I don’t birdwatch but have accepted a few invites to go. It’s not bad. You’re outside, first of all, and you have a reason to disconnect from the bad news machine in your pocket. You engage your senses and combine it with just the right amount of focus. You’re listening and looking and paying attention but it’s not an adrenaline dump into your brain. And then if you do it right, you see this whole little animal that maybe you never saw or noticed before but that shares this planet with you, doing its own thing. And that’s cool. It’s some time using our senes the way they evolved over millennia to be used. I think you can get the same experience hunting or fishing or hiking or almost anything that motivates you to go touch grass, literally.
  10. Go play outside everyone.
  11. I imagine you can get similar effects with bridge or mah jonng without all the incel shit.
  12. It is weird but….the northern spotted warbler doesn’t have a stream where he talks about how he’s a Mussolini-inspired fascist because all lady warblers have gone Woke.
  13. We unironically need a reverse age limit on video games. You turn thirty and get a redirect to baking or birdwatching or some shit. Stuff actually does cause brainrot.
  14. I’ll join your letter writing campaign (is it still writing if you’re cutting letters out of magazines and newspapers and gluing them to a piece of paper that you photocopy?)
  15. The problem is this: the only people trying to build sexbots are also the people who want to fuck robots. But anyone with enough brainpower to design a good sexbot has better intimate options beyond ā€œcircuitboard.ā€ I see no way out of this gap between ambition and ability.
  16. This is gonna be a messy shitshow and I’m here for it.
  17. That loss to Iowa State is really hurting the Hawkeyes; other than that they’ve played brilliantly and are one of the few teams to look competent against Indiana. They have a chance to prove themselves against Oregon and USC. Nebraska can’t take ugly losses against the Big 10s third tier and then seek respect. I think most pollsters aren’t tracking Mizzou’s QB issues.
  18. Wikipedia actually got really good; better probably than the old Britannica used to be especially on non-niche and scientific topics. GenAI is truly trash. As shown above— it’s so bad its often not even wrong.
  19. GenAI is such dogshit and its incredible how much worse it makes everything its put into. Verifying ND’s playoff history and this this is the gobbledygook it spits out. Eat a dick, Google, for ruining yourself.
  20. Dumb.
  21. They fired him after a 9-3, top 25 year. I kind of think they started some of the true unreasonable madness. Ans hired Bill Callahan never to recover.
  22. ā€œState taxesā€ always kills me as a message board factor for coaches. As if Sexton is negotiating these contracts and then someone comes in and says ā€œhold up, have we factored in the state income tax in these talks?ā€ I promise everyone that these agents are presenting coaches with take-home numbers during this process.
  23. I don’t think it’s as easy to make these lists. And it’s too early in the NIL and portal era. Stuff like money is still super important, location near a recruiting base less so, and a sophisticated NIL system really important. History matters but maybe not as much. Even big programs are still figuring it out. Clearly teams like OSU and Texas are still high up. Whats not clear to me: why not Indiana now that they seem to be committed to winning at football? Why isn’t Notre Fame a tier one job because based on recruiting and performance it sure looks like one?
  24. You can always just not do the interview with Issac Chotiner and I’d expect a WH press secretary to know that. https://archive.ph/2025.10.27-221339/https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/why-bidens-white-house-press-secretary-is-leaving-the-democratic-party
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