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  1. Port Isabel Quick Stop shrimp fresh from the marinade and ready for ceviche. And the finished product. Beach house serving bowl, so the service isn’t classy but ceviche is best outside of pretentious restaurants.
  2. The way to do this is to stay a weekend on the island and then drive to Brownsville for breakfast. Also, Ultimo Taco. Eat ceviche and fried shrimp in PI or on the island.
  3. Elon saying that H1B is why he’s here is the best argument I’ve seen for shutting it down.
  4. In the homeland and I made my pilgrimage to Brownsville and Vera’s Backyard BBQ. This is the only place in the state you can get underground pit smoked barbacoa. Only on weekends. The heads are wrapped in foil, unseasoned, and slow cooked underground over mesquite and ebony. This place is pure Brownsville. Inside, the walls are covered in Americana— I Love Lucy prints, photos of family members in the service, flags. But the food is pure South Texas Mexican and you need to order in Spanish. You order by the half pound. Cheek, tongue, eyes, and “mixta” (all the leftovers scraped together. Brains are back on the menu after a long hiatus after mad cow if you are truly adventurous. You assemble your own tacos— I got cheek/tongue and mixta— inside steaming fresh corn tortillas from the tortilla factory down the road and add salsas, pico de gallo, onions, and cilantro and a sprinkle of salt. Wash it all down with a coke or a hot coffee. This may be the very best breakfast in the nation. It’s not “Texas barbecue” in the way most people think of it, but it’s simply perfect, the last place to eat like a vaquero.
  5. I lived in Karachi for a while, it was the worst place I have ever been, almost entirely devoid of any redeeming qualities. One of the more instructive lessons I learned was that the nation’s political and economic elite really were not bothered by how awful it was and frequently would ask westerners how they managed to live in our home countries where it was impossible to afford household servants or armies of coolies. They actually preferred everything awful, because it was so much better to be rich. They could say that out loud to me. It did not take me long to see the appeal of Islamism or military authoritarianism in a nation where the educated elite who spoke posh English, drank whisky neat, and let their daughters go unveiled exhibited such disgusting sentiments. I think about that a lot.
  6. Yall got Elon’s real motivations twisted. No one stans harder for Elon than Indian tech dudes on Twitter so that’s what side he’s on.
  7. The GOP is fracturing along the fault line of people who say the n-word and people who use the term “human capital.” The former is finding out the latter doesn’t view them as valuable capital and the latter is finding out the former doesn’t care how high-value you are if you’re brown. The Orcs are turning on the Uruk-hai.
  8. Sounds great. I’d likely add a few more peppers, but that recipe would work for just about everyone.
  9. We successful and striving South Asian immigrants are winning because we didn’t watch your trash 90s middle school TV. We don’t want to be your AC Slaters, your Zach Morrises, we could care less about taking Topanga to the dance. We certainly didn’t watch that one episode of Family Matters where Steve Urkel became a suave and attractive “Stefan” and we didn’t try that out and then cry ourselves to sleep when our school’s version of Kelly Kapowski shot us down. We were too busy at Kumon Math, not jerking it to Lisa Turtle. Whiplash is an insane movie to pick here because the whole movie is about how a kid destroys himself with pointless striving for a pitiless gargoyle who only cared about what he could extract from the kid. You’re suppose to hope Miles wises up and enjoys banging his cute girlfriend and gives himself a break. Of course Vivek sees a motivational story. Anyway, Vivek’s whole worldview is revolting and people are right to reject the idea that the good life is to toil away without a shred of enjoyment or socialization so you can return shareholders value. But core MAGA can’t formulate anything except “brown people are the enemy.” They voted for White Power and are getting a government of LinkedInfluencers, LOL. They deserve each other.
  10. Racists vs MAGA tech dipshits is the right-wing cage match I am here for. And FWIW the H1B program is a complete scam, rife with fraud, and is completely designed to drive down wages.
  11. MAGATs elected Trump to get rid of immigrants and now the DOGE guy is tweeting about how Americans are shitty because they raise kids to be jocks and cheerleaders and go to sleepovers instead of crushing them to become coding slaves.
  12. Concede to the surly lawdawgs on ownership, but you cannot shoot or otherwise bring down drones.
  13. No, you cannot. Drones are considered aircraft and shooting at them or trying to use electronic countermeasures or otherwise interfere with flight is illegal under federal law. You can’t own airspace.
  14. Yeah what’s @hobbes2702. Usyk is in the size range of fighters from the golden age of heavyweights. He’s fighting and beating massive, athletic super-heavyweights. Joshua and Dubois are not scrubs and Fury is a fantastic fighter. At cruiser-weight the convo is Holyfield and Usyk and no one else. At heavyweight you have to leave him in the conversation around boxers like Holyfield at the heavyweight rank. The dude has incredible ring IQ, good power, footwork, and one of the best gas tanks ever on a heavyweight. No real gaps in his game. The one knock is that he doesn’t have a long record at heavyweight, but instead of fighting cans he was beating up excellent cruiseweights who would have been heavyweights in prior generations. He could compete in any generation.
  15. Usyk is such a great fighter. He is in the convo as an all-time great. He should think about retiring, there’s no one left for him to beat.
  16. A reminder that Roman emperors did not call themselves that (at least as we understand the word) and that they were persnickety about maintaining the trappings of republican rule. They accumulated sets of existing and newly created offices, titles, and honorific and cobbled together the structure of imperial rule with the assent of the Senate.
  17. It didn’t even get close to 218. They blew up a bill they negotiated with Dems, then negotiated a new one with themselves, and blew that one up too. Whatever. Expected.
  18. All about the Constitution till we get to . . . Article I.
  19. Begging people not to overthink this, Elon repeats everything that’s helpful to Russia and he has huge business interests in the PRC. He’s not that dumb.
  20. Everything the Founders did was illegal till it wasn’t. There will always be an excuse.
  21. Fair enough I went to an office Christmas party and am a few in.
  22. And what I am saying is the overarching principals are more important than the subordinate ones. Here is what principals look like in March 2024: ”It is clear to me that our constitutional system rests upon the right for the fee press to speak freely about former chief executives and candidates for the highest office in the United States. That right far outweighs the personal interests of any candidate or former occupant of said office. Accordingly I am dismissing this lawsuit on First Amendment grounds and higher courts may overrule me on their conscience.” The jet has been hijacked, dawg. We don’t need to give them a chance to comply with ATC.
  23. I really like @TwiceHorn but this piece is exhausting. The simple fact is that a POTUS or POTUS elect should never sue a media outlet. The awesome power of the executive should exclude this type of stuff, if not on the pure legal side, then the principal side. No U.S. citizen should ever have to stare down POTUS or POTUS elect in a court of law because of something they said. The republic is dead and the courts played their role.
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