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Brisketexan

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  1. Also, when you reach the "we're going to use some creative and maybe/maybe not legal 'financing' vehicles/mechanisms/schemes for the sole reason of avoiding transparency/mandatory disclosures" phase, you're entering the end-game. These schemes are not being deployed because the companies can't get financing, because there's no money, etc. They're being deployed so that the disclosed picture does not reveal the actual debt load behind the curtain. When you have to start hiding shit, things are about to get fucky.
  2. It'll be released. In two weeks.
  3. Pacman gets it. That's 100% the play. It will be allowed. And it will work.
  4. Seriously.....I've hugged plenty of women who aren't my wife (or very close family members) over the past 30 years. Close friends. Strong professional contacts, even. Never have I (1) put my hands on her hips like JD did, or (2) had her with her hand caressing the back of my head. Like....never. Not even close. That's....something.
  5. If you'll write me some Susanna Hoffs fan-fic involving young Brisketexan and some Popeyes....I'll read it.
  6. For real. The only thing the American people truly understand is their own pain. We've tried to warn huge swaths of them "don't dump over that pot of hot grease, you'll burn us all." They keep charging towards it, and people with decency keep getting in their way, getting burned in the process. No more. You want to dump over 2 gallons of burning hot oil? Go for it. See what happens. Are a lot of people going to suffer greatly? Absolutely. But that's going to happen no matter what. We can get out of the way, and let the path unfold that offers SOME chance of convincing SOME people to correct course. We need to do that. Sucks that people, and children, will suffer. But we aren't doing it to them. THEY ARE. The Republicans insist they'll shoot the hostage. Fine. Let 'em.
  7. Also, in "that is one of the most Brisketexan things ever" news, there's this: Cleaning out my parents' house after my dad's death. They kept....EVERYTHING. Seriously, like stacks of those little notepads my dad would carry in his shirt pocket. We have a million of those. Last weekend, we were really tackling all the papers pretty hard. I'm going through those notepads, and I get one that's from what looks to be around 1978. My dad was clearly pondering some investment ideas/ways to make money. His current job had him traveling to Louisiana for probably two weeks a month; he knew S. Louisiana like the back of his hand. So, I get to the page where he listed what he thought were his best three options. I can't even remember what the other two were, but there in the #1 spot was "Popeye's franchise?" Imagine that. Familia Brisketexan coulda been the folks who brought Popeyes to Texas. What coulda been....
  8. .....and in the current climate, we can't even have the fucking discussion. Do I agree that my house has an issue with too many spiders being in places where I don't want them? Sure. But I can't even have a fucking conversation with people whose sole proposals are "burn Brisket's house to the ground" or "hit the house with 10,000 gallons of poison, killing everyone and everything in it including Brisket and his family." No. There's not even a starting point in a conversation where people are intent on ending either my home or my family, and who are willing to completely disregard the law of the land (arson and murder are kinda illegal) to do it. Layer on the fact that we DID try to address the spider problem a year ago, through legal means, and those same people killed that plan dead so Donald The House and Family Destroyer could be elected. Fuck all the way off.
  9. In fairness, it's tough to tell what with the blurred genitalia and all.
  10. [laughs in Alito Thomas Kavanaugh Gorsuch Barrett]
  11. Dude. We're past tax cuts. What they want is a flow of tax revenues (paid by others, of course) TO them. And they'll get it. Why will they get it? Because they will use SOME of that revenue to "invest" in the regime's private interests. Want $1 billion in government funding? All you gotta do is buy $100 million in Trumpcoins, easy peasy. You won't pay any taxes. You will actually GET tax money sent to you. All you gotta do is pay the boss his vig. This has already happened dozens of times. I'm not telling you anything new.....
  12. Finish the sentence. They have that answer. But they 100% oppose imposing or funding that answer. So, the solution WOULD BE UBI.....but we cannot ever, ever, ever, have UBI or do the things that would fund UBI (like, you know, collecting tax revenue from the big winners in their new technodystopia). The most important commodity in this new world is not money, it's not technology. It's lies. Lies are the foundation on which the whole fucking model depends. Burst the bubble of those lies, and it ALL goes poof.
  13. The Democrats. Who control [checking numbers in the various branches of government] not a single one of the branches of government. Every single branch is controlled by the GQP. The GQP has the pilot, co-pilot, and navigator. And they've locked the cockpit door with the Dems on the other side. And then ask "why won't the Democrats stop us from flying this plane into a mountain?"
  14. We live in a world where there are no laws except Wilhoit's law: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. Copyright laws are no exception. Do they apply to peons who might infringe on the works of mega-tech platforms? 100% YES. Do they apply to mega-tech platforms who ADMIT to pirating copyrighted information and storing it to train their models? 100% NOPE. Guys, you need to accept the fact that we do not live in anything even remotely resembling a Republic built on the Rule of Law anymore (imperfect as it may have been). We now live in modern conservative oligarchy. What's even more maddening is that it is all made possible by the continuing support OF MEMBERS OF THE OUT GROUP. Cletus in Possum Dick keeps voting for this. Why? Cuz fuck trannies and mexicans, that's why.
  15. "Volatile" is not the word you are looking for. The judges would have accepted broken, non-functional, failed, and fucked. "Volatile" implies unpredictability. Nothing here is unpredictable. Quite the opposite. Throw a Republic off a cliff, and gravity will compel it to continue to fall. That's what's happening.
  16. The end-around on that is the Elon-Thiel worldview: human beings have no inherent value. We are either a source of revenue, or a cost center. Either way, they don't care if we live or die, or are miserable beyond measure. All that matters is whether your existence or elimination can yield them anything greater than $.01 to their bottom line. And sure, there have always been such cutthroat profiteers in this world. But these guys have full capture of the entire US government. They can do whatever they want.
  17. You sound woke. Human beings are obsolete. Does that scribe bring profit to an oligarch? Alternatively, will eliminating the cost of that scribe bring profit to an oligarch? That's the only calculus that matters. We have a choice of two shitty outcomes here. Shitty outcome (1): AI succeeds, and eliminates most jobs except the most basic of manual labor. Humans have neither any purpose nor any income. OR shitty outcome (2): AI doesn't come close to delivering on its promise, the bubble pops, and it crashes the global economy that is propped up by just that foundation. Pick your poison. But you WILL be drinking poison.
  18. Yeah, that's the thing I've had a hard time processing. Everything bad I learned about totalitarian communist states: "papers please," secret police not bound by any law and grabbing people off the streets, military beholden to the dear leader being deployed to provinces that are not suitably obedient, oligarchs living in opulence while the people struggle, etc. etc. I thought "yeah, fuck that bullshit." Turns out, you can just go to Kinkos, have them print out some "CAPITALIST" signs to cover up the "COMMUNIST" signs, and not only is all of that stuff okay, it's worth fighting for. Exact same shit. EXACT. Just put a different brand on it, and it's wonderful. Fucking idiot state we live in.
  19. Man.....that looks fucking good.
  20. I was itchy, and umm....million to one shot, doc!
  21. The takeaway point there: The question is....what happens when they don't win. When the music stops, and they don't have a chair to sit in? Sure, the companies that have diverse enough interests will likely weather the storm. But those that are all or mostly AI-dependent (see Nvidia)? They're fucked. And so we're fucked.
  22. Dammit, you're making me do a "well actually" in defense of AI. Which, by the way, IS a technology that has a place. It's just not the miracle cure for everything. AI transcription of meeting notes is really quite good. We've used it for various boards and committees I'm on, and it's great. We have accurate and detailed notes in our in-box right after the meeting. No depending on faulty memories etc.
  23. Ain't no desperate/starving civilians if you just kill them too. Which is fine, because they're also terrorists. QED. Problem solved. And....scene.
  24. It's like the observed rule of reincarnation from Bull Durham:
  25. You know, for someone who fucking HATES immigrants and thinks that they're responsible for bringing about the downfall of western civilization.....Elon's fucking companies seem to make all of their repairs EXACTLY like my mexican ass would do it. Ain't nothing that duct tape, or some gorilla glue, or a drill and some screws you have in a coffee can, etc., can't fix.
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