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Brisketexan

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  1. Again, it's just all Wilhoit's law.
  2. See the bullshit with John Deere. If a farmer wants to use his tractor to do X, or he needs to make repair Y.....he fucking can't. Not without paying an extra fee, or not without bringing it in to the dealer for some proprietary "process" that costs 10X what his repair in the field would cost. I grew up in a world where farmers and ranchers kept a whole shed of spare parts, bits and bobs that could be used to fashion spare parts or makeshift repairs, etc. When something went wrong with a piece of equipment, the first place we went was the shed, to see if we could find something to use to fix it ourselves. Now? Get fucked. You just breached the "license agreement" (that's right, you don't even fucking own the whole tractor, you just have a license to use some of its features), voided the warranty, etc. etc. Make a product. Sell it at a fair price that provides a decent profit. Buy that product. Own that product. Use it as you wish. That model is fucking DEAD.
  3. Jesus, the echoes of the late 1920s are deafening. Vibes bubbles writ large. It's insane and unsustainable, and anyone who says so gets shouted down as a negative nancy, this rocketship only goes up, up, up! Let's keep going till their market cap is eleventy trillion! Let's give Elon a $ 1 trillion compensation package! Fucking hell, this bubble bursting is going to make 2008 look like child's play.
  4. On excerpt that is interesting: This is a huge problem. It has multiplied exponentially. BUT, it's not entirely new. I recall 40 years ago, a high school buddy had a used GM car. Something was wrong (I can't recall what), and he wanted to fix it himself - good money-saving move, we were poor students and such. Turns out, the part required a special GM-only wrench or fitting or somesuch to remove and replace. Why didn't GM use a standard setting (that is, something an ordinary screwdriver/socket/hex wrench could turn)? Because they couldn't gatekeep that. Want to replace your air filter? Cool. You need to buy our $20 air filter wrench. I thought that was shitty in the mid-80s. I had no idea how ubiquitous that approach would become. Everything is proprietary, with no standardization or interoperability.
  5. "Have you joined our Executive member's club? Have you downloaded our app? Would you like our credit card, you'll get 10% off your purchase today?" You get that at Costco....you get it at Bob's House of Lightbulbs, it doesn't matter. Every. Single. Place. Fuck, I hate looking to buy something online. Hey, I'd like to check out nice wool overcoats. Search. See a link to nice coat at Calvin's Coat Shop. Click to see it....the screen is immediately blocked by multiple windows asking me to sign up for their Executive Premium Platinum Members club, and then to download their app, and then to apply for their store-branded credit card. Fucking hell, I just wanted to look a the coat to see if I want to buy it. I am trying to decide whether to buy something you are selling, and BEFORE you let me do that, you put up multiple barriers to me doing so. Fuck you.
  6. What I love is the openly endorse concept that if only the UK could be rid of everyone but the native English and such, it would be a crime-free paradise. Yeah. Those native-born white Englishmen, not a troublemaker or criminal to be found.
  7. You just made @MissingInAction curl up in a ball and weep in the corner.
  8. Well, that seals it. I'm not fucking Charlie Sheen.
  9. Geopolitically, we're mirroring the lead-up to WWI. Economically, we're mirroring much of the roaring twenties lead-up to the Great Depression. This is fine.
  10. You and I should be friends. We share certain....tastes.
  11. Except that most of us are very cautiously optimistic. Let's see if it really pans out. As opposed to the Ivermectin crowd, who is pretty much to the point of "it cures everything: COVID, cancer, male pattern baldness, malaria, bent dick disease!"
  12. Yeah. Just leave cash.
  13. The broke and sick and dead Americans are what tells you it’s working! MAGA!
  14. Empty nesting, dude. I cook for just 2 now. Even a "small batch" of something (I used it to make picadillo and a lentil stew in the past week) lasts us 3-4 meals. Fuck making a big pot of chili unless I'm cooking it for company.
  15. It's coming, man. But they won't be mere drug dealers. They'll be "terrorists." And quickly under that umbrella will be "people who publicly disagree with the regime." The playbook has been written and followed countless times before, and we're following it to the letter.
  16. three words of perfection.
  17. Being an evil collaborator cunt isn't a bit. It's just being an evil collaborator cunt. Fuck that evil collaborator cunt piece of shit, I hope her death is as painful as she's made people's lives.
  18. You'll know it's a done deal when Jim Davis is rushed to the hospital to have 10 gallons of Trump semen pumped from his stomach. Likely any day now.
  19. Why would they be? Monitoring the weather for the common good is woke.
  20. Bullshit. God, the hopium around here. We are all going to burn. All of us. To the fucking ground. Because that's how they want it to end, so that's how it will end. They're never getting released, dude.
  21. Mississippi becomes infested with diseased monkeys. Public health in Mississippi improves by 30%.
  22. How do they know they're ICE agents when they connect? Do their Tinder profiles specify "seeking men with 3" or smaller dicks who have anger issues?"
  23. Thankfully, we have a perfect combination of the best imaginable political and business leadership working on just that issue.
  24. Spirit airlines laughs at your shenanigans.
  25. Bummer. The extra inch really makes a difference.
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