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Posts posted by Brisketexan
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1 minute ago, Deej said:
I can handle a few Hail Mary's.
The Baylor model.
Well, Baylor also adds the layer of blaming the victim, at least when the victim is someone inferior, like a female. And when they can layer on some racism. "Of course she got raped....she was hanging out with....that element."
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1 minute ago, Deej said:
I always thought that was the one good thing about Catholicism...do whatever you want and then just go to confession and get it taken off the books.
I mean....you at least had to confess the sin. And usually, do SOMETHING for absolution. Far from perfect and definitely worked around....but it at least made a place that required you to state and be contrite for the sin.
The fundagelical model? None of that is needed. Rape and murder a puppy? No need to confess, no need to make amends, any of that shit. Nope, you just hold up your "I ACCEPTED JESUS CHRIST AS MY LORD AND SAVIOR" card, and you're as good as gold.
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6 hours ago, bolverk said:
Abbott has repeatedly accused the mosque without evidence of promoting "Sharia law" — referring to a body of religious laws forming part of the Islamic traditions, which itself has been the target of conservative legislators across the country.
Actually, if ANY "financing" is involved with the project, it almost certainly IS following "Sharia law," because traditional interest-based lending is barred by Sharia law. Instead, Islamic finance mechanisms are used (these are quite common, and are offered by multiple institutions, including some right here in Austin -- again, they are common):
QuoteThe most famous rule in Islamic finance is the ban on usury. In economic terms, this means lender and borrowers are forbidden from charging or paying interest or riba. Sharia-compliant banks don’t issue interest-based loans.
The obvious question then becomes: how do Islamic banks make money? Instead of lending money to their clients at a profit, they buy the underlying product—the house, the car, the refrigerator—and then lease it or re-sell it on installment to the client for a fixed price typically higher than the initial market value. The key notion here is risk sharing—the banks make a profit on the transaction as a reward for the risk they took with the customer. Instead of thriving off of interest rates, Islamic banks use their customers’ money to acquire assets such as property or businesses and profit when the loan is successfully repaid.
The problem here is that there is absolutely nothing illegal about such arrangements. "Sharia law" -- the broad term -- is not illegal. The sole basis for these assholes to go after the transaction is based on religion.
But, being that the 1st Amendment only applies to white, Christian males, making statements in support of/agreement with the regime, nothing fucking matters anymore.
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7 minutes ago, BurntEyes said:
Based on my very limited knowledge she seems to have pulled back her social media presence and gone back to regular life.
I mean.....drop $50 million in my lap, and I'm probably all "peace, OUT!" too.
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3 minutes ago, Eskimohorn said:
Brisket’s got friends in every town and bar from here to the Aruba. He speaks one language and a little latin, knows grammar and penmanship. He'll blend in, disappear; maybe sweat a bit. With any luck, he's got the grail already.
[cut to Brisket pissing himself in an El Salvadorian prison]To be fair, I also know a little German.
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1 minute ago, Kennythetiger said:
She’s a lot more attractive than you are.
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8 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said:
Should have played the OnlyFans long game and bilked losers out of tens of millions. Instead she went for the quick payday and got burnt.
Yet....she didn't get burned at all. Word is that she cashed in $50 million on that deal.
On a flagrant - yet maybe legal - scam....she made more money than I will make in my lifetime, by a large margin. This fucking timeline is fucking insane.
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39 minutes ago, Brian Fantana said:
Any dog can become unpredictable and dangerous when they get around that many other dogs and get overexcited.
To be fair, that applies to most of us at Texas-OU, so....yeah.
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8 minutes ago, Hornius Emeritus said:
I think it's simply that she didn't break any existing law. As I think about it, I don't even think it was a scam. I think she simply launched a crypto coin, made no promises, dumb people bought in, and she got away with their money. The fact that she made no promises negates there being a scam.
I could be wrong, of course.I think it just lends itself to pump-and-dump by its very nature. Insiders get special access and ability to unload at high prices tied to....nothing (which is literally the crypto model). Insiders get to sell magical 1s and 0s at a price that shoots up for no rational reason, and then afterwards crashes for the rational reasons of 1) people dumping their holdings, which 2) have zero inherent value.
Is crypto the perfect "currency" for this moment in time? Seems like bullseye perfection to me. Nothing could capture the zeitgeist better.
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4 minutes ago, BurntEyes said:
This, fucking @Brisketexan and his constant need to hate on all thing Llama. Every. Fucking. Time. Next thing is he will start dropping propaganda links about how Llamas are shitty pack animals, eat too much hay, or should be deported back to Patagonia.
He needs to take that shit to the Andes Room.
you're goddamned motherfucking right. Team puma, all day, every day....
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Of course it is. Because 1) laws and enforcement of same are stone-cold dead when it comes to applying them against people with money, and 2) they are SUPER-stone-cold dead when it comes to crypto.
There are no rules or laws when it comes to crypto. It is MADE for scamming. It is happiest when it is being used in a scam.
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5 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:
surly never fails to deliver. 8/7.7 = 1.039 you dumbasses.
Fail, because you did not specify if a treadmill was involved in this calculation.
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2 minutes ago, SubliminalHorn said:
Sounds like I can count on you to get me out of El Salvador right
Sorry, no hablo espanol.
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26 minutes ago, Samson's Wig said:
If you believe that once "saved," you've got the eternal bliss green light no matter what, I can see where that would make you less self-reflective and remorseful of harmful actions and more likely to sweep scandals of fellow believeres under the rug as no big deal (see Baylor).
Bingo.
You can do whatever horrible shit you want, but at the end, you hold up your "But I've accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior" card as a full, no-exceptions free pass. You're this fucking asshole:
The Magic Jesus Pass means that you're good, you're heaven-bound no matter what you do.
It's not just a shittacular way of being, it's also TERRIBLE theology. But then, "terrible theology" is the foundation of modern American Christianity, so keep on keeping on, I guess.
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8 minutes ago, SubliminalHorn said:
I’ve never been more embarrassed to be an American. I was mortified after 2016 and more so after our pandemic “response”. But the feeling I have now? America is on life support for me. I never thought I would have to even think about carrying my passport with me just in case I get harassed by federal agents. I’m still in disbelief that we just threw it all away
Personally? I'm actually kinda hoping that some gestapo dumbass makes the mistake of arresting, disappearing, and deporting me.
I have the means to get help (financial and otherwise) wherever I end up, rather quickly. I have the legal resources at hand (real-deal friends and some rather skilled acquaintances) to fight back and make as big a fuss and test case as you can imagine. I'm real close to wishing a muthafucka would. Because I am a dream plaintiff. That's what we need, for these overreaching fascists to fuck with the wrong plaintiff.
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10 minutes ago, High Plains Drifter said:
This writer got away with taking a turtle to fancy restaurant
I have no problem with that one.
The turtle soup at both Commander's and Galatoire's is one of my favorite dishes on earth.
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21 minutes ago, SquishMitten said:
It’s generally a good idea to read up on things BEFORE you double down on your position
Sir, this is Surly. Go fuck yourself.
And muledick.
And probably dickbutt.
Wait, DEFINITELY dickbutt.
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3 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:
It’s completely intuitive if you know what log scale is.
I presume that's how you measure how big your dumps are.
Whatever the method is....I am a contender for the medal stand in that respect.
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19 minutes ago, Deej said:
Don't disagree, but we have people complaining about dogs on patios where the business clearly allows it. I get the grocery store argument, but give me a break complaining about dogs at a dog friendly establishment. It that business model works for them, good for them.
I have no problem with dogs on patios where allowed. Maybe others do, but that's definitely a "hey, the business allows it, so chill." Hell, I like it when I see a place with a patio and fresh water bowls and whatnot, I think it's a nice courtesy. And I enjoy it if a well-behaved dog is sitting at the table next to me, and lets me give him chin-scratches and whatnot. I miss having a dog.
Just all things in their appropriate time and place. And yeah, even if a grocery "allows" it, it's still a crappy idea. On the other hand, take your dog to the outdoor farmer's market on Saturday? Cool, sounds like a nice little outing, so long as your dog isn't an ill-behaved hellbeast, in which case you shouldn't take him anywhere, even where dogs are allowed. And yeah, that logic applies to kids as well. There were phases in our kids' lives where we just didn't go out to eat anyplace that didn't have a playground where they could run free and be hellions, because that's where they were developmentally. Lotta dinners eaten frazzled on the patio at Central Market next to the playground for a time. What we DIDN'T do is say "hey, kids are allowed in this restaurant, so tough shit that you have to listen to my daughter cry about the fact that they won't cut her pancakes into dolphin shapes."
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4 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:
I'm sure Ana can explain why social security has to be upgraded from COBOL as soon as possible without regard to the consequences of of Big Ballz fucking it up and people not getting checks they depend on.
Big Ballz?
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2 minutes ago, elfenix said:
Republicans drove us into this debt over the last 40 years with tax cuts and overseas wars of choice in order to get normies to agree to cut their own benefits and undergo certain and immediate pain because of a unspecified and uncertain amount of pain at an unspecified and uncertain time in the future.
Well, you DO notice Ana furiously masturbating about the millions DOGE is supposedly saving us all by taking a chainsaw to programs on which human lives actually depend.....but you also notice that he has not a single problem with the trillions of dollars ADDED to our deficit by virtue of the reduced revenues caused by Trump's tax cuts.
See, we are in deficit danger! "DANGER! WE MUST DO SOMETHING! Let's cut this, and that, and that thing over there I don't even know what it is or what it does or whether it's important but let's cut it!"
Cool. So, I guess we should also see if we could find some more revenues, too, to add to the plus side of the ledger to help close that gap, right, since "unsustainable deficit" is the greatest existential threat the Republic has ever seen?
"Oh...no. We need to slash revenues too."
Anyone who has passed third grade math:
Deficit hawks are liars. They always are.
If my household budget was truly in the type of dire straits that Ana says our country is in, I'd both 1) slash spending (sorry, no more purses, no eating out, turn the A/C temp up, no vacation this year) AND 2) tell my wife she needs to get a full-time job to give us more revenue.
If I followed the DOGE plan, I would 1) shut off all my utilities, sell my cars so I couldn't get to work anymore, decide that only 3 out of 4 of my household get to eat each day, and 2) tell my wife to quit her part-time job, and start working less myself, because hey, producing revenues is hard and unpleasant. Oh, and I'd slash more in revenues than I slashed in spending because like Barbie said, math is hard.
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7 minutes ago, Deej said:
Not everyone needs to cater to your preferences.
EXACTLY. Like, for example, the goddamned HEB shouldn't cater to people's inexplicable desire to bring Mr. Fluffywumps with them EVERYWHERE THEY GO. You love your dog. Great, that's awesome for you, and your dog. But maybe don't impose on all of society all the time wherever you go by insisting that Fluffwumps be there too. That's all that this is about. It isn't anti-dog. It's about appropriate "time and place."
Re kids, for example, society is and has been just fine with kids at a grocery store. On the other hand, we are NOT fine with having erratic and potentially crying toddlers at a michelin-star fine-dining restaurant. If you had to sit next to a crying toddler at Barley Swine, most of us would agree that such behavior was bullshit and the parents were shitty and hell, we even like nice restaurants that say "please no young children."
Young children are not appropriate to take some places.
Dogs are not appropriate to take some places.
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Just now, Deej said:
I call bullshit, but maybe you should stop shopping at the HEB where the bored housewives shop. Be brave. Go to some of the lower income areas of town. I promise you it's probably entitled, higher income white folks.
That is actually not wrong at all. I shop primarily at three HEBs. Two of them in NW Austin, one of which is pretty white and higher income. That is absolutely where I see the most dogs. The other one, which is bigger with a more mixed bag, very few dogs. The third HEB -- the "United Nations" HEB at Lamar and Rundberg (GREAT mexican groceries available)....I've never seen a dog there. Not once.
So, yeah, the "I have to bring Mr. Snugglybutt Fluffywumps with me wherever I go" is absolutely an issue with entitled white folks, almost exclusively. And again, my observation is that it skyrocketed post-pandemic. Maybe after people got used to spending all day at home with their pets, so now they want their pet with them wherever they go?
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17 minutes ago, Derka said:
Meh. This is just the system working exactly as designed, especially the part where the jackboots have zero accountability or way to stop them. Sound familiar? This shit is about to get 10X WORSE. It will NOT be getting any better.
DOGE: America Fucking Around
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Fuck that pussy ass bitch. Dishes out cruelty by the ton, yet when someone simply mentions the blowback, he cries like the pathetic, worthless little bitch that he is. The sooner he offs himself the better humanity will be.