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Brisketexan

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  1. My son and a buddy stayed at one in Amsterdam, because they were on the cheap. Got shitfaced. Ate late night McDonalds. He ended up hopping up in the middle of the night and repeatedly, and loudly, destroying the single shitter, which was right outside the sleeping room. The story made us all laugh. He was not as amused.
  2. 100% And, now they're pissed because they bought her fake internet money, but she still won't bang them. All while they ignore more attainable women. So, it's only natural that they reach the conclusion that all women are evil and deserve to die/be enslaved. Fucking bitches. Duh.
  3. MAYBE? Dude. We are dead-center in the era of "oh yeah, you should totally buy fake internet money from a rat-faced hillbilly who uses snot for sex lube. Not doing so means you are a woke libtard."
  4. Yes and know. We don't give a shit because we don't know. I'm sure somebody was shot dead in Cincinnati this week, but I didn't hear about it, so by definition, have had no emotional reaction to it. But if you showed me the story of a dude shot while walking out of a meeting, I'd probably think that it's a sad/tragic tale.
  5. I also love that he's clearly styled the kid to be a pre-douche. Might as well give him a kid's size Patagonia fleece vest and start teaching him how to sexually assault his preschool classmates when he's had one too many juice boxes.
  6. Trolley problem. Trolley problem. It's like almost every other complex task that takes effort/money. I can spend $100 billion to get you 95% of the way to your ideal goal. We can then spend another $100 billion, which gets us up to....97% of our goal. There is no amount of money that will get us to 100% of our goal. So we'll oppose any reform or restructuring by using the criticism of "it doesn't get us to 100% perfection!".....which ignores the fact that our current system gets us to maybe the 70% mark. Of course, the reason for that is because our system is NOT designed to deliver healthcare. It is designed to deliver profits. Healthcare is just the mechanism it uses to deliver those profits.
  7. These. I'm sure y'all remember Brisketexan's rules, but I'll repost them if you forgot: 1) It only gets worse. 2) There is no bottom.
  8. "And it was ready for another wiener." South Austin's mom's words to live by.
  9. And it's not an unfair point. NO system is perfect, delivering miracle top-end medical care to 100% of patients. WHICH DEFINITELY INCLUDES OUR CURRENT SYSTEM IN THE US. We don't even deliver good care for BASIC, COMMON serious illnesses - think of any number of cancers. I can't tell you how many friends and acquaintances on my social media feed are now sharing their horror stories of their family cancer experience: shit like having a child with a deadly cancer, and on top of all of the stress and heartache for that, getting a $100k bill (on a teacher's salary) because the insurer is refusing to cover random shit irrationally. Our system, confronted with the Trolley Problem, has opted to enthusiastically steer the trolley towards the large group of people instead of the small one, because DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MUCH SHAREHOLDER VALUE IS CREATED BY CHOOSING THAT PATH??????
  10. Again, the near universal reaction to this is what really blows me away. My wife and I were talking about it last night, and there's a real takeway from this of "maybe you should live your life in a way so that, if you are ever murdered on the street, the universal reaction isn't this:" I mean....what a horrible coda to a human life. You lived, you did things, and you did them in a way so that when you were murdered -- not just died, MURDERED -- 98% of the world reacts like Reese above. What a failure of a human being. It's almost worse than being a megalomaniacal dictator or some shit -- sure, people danced in the street when Hitler died, but he also had devoted acolytes who thought he was great. This dude? Even the people who "liked him" (his board and such) can easily replace him. He's just a robot that costs $10 million a year that performs the basic function of denying healthcare to people. It's plug-and-play....he's not even special. Just mundane evil. So, adios. Our society has spent a lot of time sowing, creating institutional inhumanity. It was/is inevitable that reaping will come.
  11. Grew up in a Mexican purist family. Tamales were eaten plain, or maybe with some good salsa. Wife’s family (gringo) ate tamales too, because Texas, but topped with canned chili. And I love em that way too.
  12. If the post had been “here’s some super cheap beef I roasted till tender then covered with ketchup and ate it out of the pan because I was fucking shithammered,” I’d have had so much more respect for it. Hell, I might have even tried it myself.
  13. Here’s just one example, they’re out there to find. And it’s kind of “the book on how to handle someone in crisis.” Calm tones, keep a safe distance to avoid the risk of violent confrontation, and when they relent, take them into custody safely and compassionately. Yes, if the person in crisis is actively threatening to harm another person close to them, you may not have that option. But if the person is only a threat to himself, give him the room and time to ratchet it down safely. I agree that cops are not the ideal people for that job. But it’s a job they insist on doing, and not ceding to anyone else.
  14. Huh. Who’d have thought that whipping up the masses into a populist frenzy…and then realizing that the monster you so enthusiastically created and fed ends up behind your control…could actually happen? Gosh. Shocker.
  15. One who keeps a sizable distance between themselves and the knife-wielding person having an episode. It’s done all the time. That’s how it is supposed to be done. This cop chose a path that put him in immediate close proximity to the victim. And yeah, it sucks that our primary mental health intake system is cops. Lots of folks talked about a path of diverting some do those resources and dollars to people who are actually trained to respond to mental health calls, but the “back the blue” crowd wouldn’t have it. They insisted on keeping all of the funding, and all of the power. And now they’re bitching about having the responsibility that comes with those things. I’d have more sympathy for cops if they were actually interested in solutions instead of just bitching at us because we don’t 1) give them everything they want, while 2) holding them responsible for nothing.
  16. Oh….everything on offer comes with that. In fact, even if NOTHING is on offer…it comes with that.
  17. Also my wife's pet name for me. Tough, but fair.
  18. I thought a certain someone was going to "defeat the bots or die trying." Was that commitment.....not true? I, for one, am utterly shocked.
  19. Yet, this is an encapsulation of their thinking: "Neither candidate was in favor of this. Advantage: A&M."
  20. 1,777,093 likes. Make that 1,777,094 likes...... Great. Now I'm a suspect.
  21. Yeah....I'm betting that list isn't tiny either. It's probably comparable in size to the list of dudes who have liked posts showing Salma Hayek in a bikini.
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