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Brisketexan

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  1. You went into Fiesta. Learn spanish, bitch.
  2. Imagine having a bunch of people who like to have a good time and have and regularly share delicious food move in near you.....and all you can do is hate them. If they're rude and blocking the streets, if you've already built some relationship with them, you can go over and say "hey Rohan...man, this looks like a great time. And holy shit, this naan is great. But, the neighbors need to get through here, so could y'all leave a lane open for us? Thanks. Wait, are those pakoras? Mind if I grab a couple?"
  3. Yep, we dig it.
  4. The West Coast may just take care of that on its own. We are running at breakneck speed towards dissolution, because when one side says "we don't want you or your approach here at all, and we'll enforce our will by authoritarian force," union is impossible. When that split is over something as profound as slavery, that split is understandable. When it's over....all of the stupid and performatively cruel shit of this regime...well, it's fucking baffling. We're going to scrap the Republic because a trans kid played volleyball and because we didn't think multi-billionaires had enough of an advantage? WTF?
  5. Nepalese food is also really tasty. Indian-ish, with a Chinese-ish element/twist. It's one of my son's favorite ethnic fare, there used to be a really good place on N. Lamar, but it closed. We've eaten at Nepalese place in Durango and one in Flagstaff (notice how Nepalese restaurants end up in mountain towns?) that were both fantastic. Momo are next-level good:
  6. Fine. I have my design program queued up.....
  7. Dude...."should" was escorted from the building, taken out in the back alley, and double-tapped to the back of the head a long fucking time ago when it comes to the Rule of Law. It's over, man. It's been over for a while, now's just when it all manifests, with no impediments or inhibitions.
  8. That is fucking diabolical insanity. Truly, of all the shitty things he's said, that's up there near the top. What that translates to is "my uneducated idiocy is as valid as your educated and experience-based expertise." FFS, apply that to....cardiologists, pilots, electricians, structural engineers....the list is nearly infinite. "Those pointy-headed experts say this building needs steel beams for support, but my internet research showed a multi-story building held up with popsicle sticks. My plan will save us millions, and I'm not getting any kickbacks from 'big steel' like that expert dude surely is!"
  9. Highest words of praise my no-nonsense, S. Texas rancher/oil patch bum grandfather ever had for me: "You know, old Brisket's gonna do alright. He's smart enough to know how dumb he is." That is a central element of success in this world. Be smart enough to know how dumb you are. I educated myself with my electrocardiologist. I worked to understand the procedure he recommended, and he did a good job explaining it. But at the end of that conversation, he was still the expert with 1,500 of these procedures under his belt, and I was just another dude with an electrical issue with my heart. It came down to "if this was you, would you undergo the procedure?", and deferring to his expertise. Like I defer to the pilot's expertise every time I get on a plane, etc. etc. I'm a smart enough guy. But I'm also smart enough to know that what one gains through years of education and decades of experience can't be replicated by a few hours of watching fucking Youtube videos by some fucking quack. That intelligence/wisdom apparently puts me at the upper echelon of American thinking these days. And if that is true....dear god is this country fucked, because as smart as I am, I'm still a fucking idiot.
  10. 1) this is correct. 2) this will never happen. Because we no longer have the Rule of Law, we just have the rule of Supreme Executive Power, as decreed by the POTUS and SCOTUS. I will now list the limits on executive power (as wielded by the actual POTUS, so long as that POTUS is a Republican) this SCOTUS will ultimately find and uphold: .... .... .... Yep, I think that covers it.
  11. So much fucking this.
  12. Never said it's the only thing, just that it's a part. As with most every social issue, it's a complex picture, many parts of which we aren't even close to understanding. For example, I think that the ubiquity of porn -- and graphic porn -- has a part to play. I've read things about young men's expectations of sex, and what it should be like, and what their partner should be like, that make my jaw drop. Yeah, if that's how you think it should be, I could see how the clash of your expectations and the reality of who willing partners might be creates some issues. And that's just one dimension of the problem. But as to the particular element I mentioned, as someone with a son (with peers and friends of both genders) from that generation, I've heard it first hand. In shorthand, the girls say out loud that guys who are Andrew Tate disciples (to use a shorthand for that ethos/approach) are an immediate no-go. And from the boy's perspective . . . NOT being one of those puts him a class ahead, and the pickings are easy. And yes, these are necessarily generalities, exceptions abound.
  13. What if the trash is blocking the bike lane?
  14. I mean....that may be the least hideous part of that book. The girls are like elementary school age in pic one, so 20 years later would make them 25 or better. Those are actually women, well into legal age. How refreshing! I'd have expected the dates to be 183 to 1993, so he's getting some of those sweet 14-16 year olds. And yeah, Jesus....every one of these people knew EXACTLY what Epstein was - a fucking predator - and they didn't shy away from it, they celebrated it. Imagine if one of your friends was into fucking underage girls. First...imagine that you remained friends with him after finding that out. Then, imagine that you wrote him funny notes celebrating the fact. WTF is wrong with these people?
  15. I truly am not trying to CR this....but look when that upswing really kicked into gear. And think about what's been said to and about women by defining leadership in this country since then, and what has actually happened to women and their rights in that timeframe. Shitting on people and telling them that they are second-class citizens tends to get a reaction from them.
  16. And...if you want to look into the issue of "young men aren't getting laid nearly as much," that graph plays no small part. Shockingly, women....particularly liberal women, aren't too keen on sleeping with retrograde misogynists who believe that women should be trad-wives and submit to their male betters. Back to the baseline rule we would all be best served by: don't be a dick. Just....don't be a dick. You'll get laid more, you'll enjoy your job more, you'll have more friends (who are also less likely to be dicks). Being a dick opens the door to just one thing: being liked by and friends with....other dicks. We have an information ecosystem that tells young men that THE way to be manly is "be a dick," and it turns out that the downsides of that approach just makes people angrier, more frustrated, and more likely to be even more of a dick.
  17. Funny enough…a coupla hundred years ago, the Catholic Church in South America declared the aquatic capybara to be a fish…so the poor could eat them on Friday. It swims, so it’s a fish. I dunno how they taste, but they do make an incredibly soft leather.
  18. Because he IS a tik tok girl. Seriously, that’s the intellect and maturity in action here. Because he IS a tik tok girl. Seriously, that’s the intellect and maturity in action here.
  19. "Sexually degrading?"
  20. Read the syllabus. The class is not to teach people about a particular piece of kiddie lit. It's about teaching the concept and application of kiddie lit/YA lit, INCLUDING its themes, authors, audiences, etc. And it EXPRESSLY said it would explore "conceptions of . . . gender." Saying that the prof was fired because discussing conceptions of gender was not in the syllabus is a flat-out lie. The prof was punished for daring to teach the perspective of more than two genders. Period. That was it, that was the reason.
  21. Bingo as to the narcissism. My wife and I called it "I am the only person in the world" energy, our kids corrected us and said it's "I am the main character" energy. In any case, it's toxic individualism that is not just at the expense of community/any common good, it's directly opposed to it. That is, if something is good for us collectively, it MUST be bad, and MUST be opposed, because that certainly means it's not the best thing for ME, individually. And I am - literally - the only person who matters. The death of the commonwealth, people (leaders, like Elon) declaring that "empathy" is poison, etc. It's fucking killing us. A society of 340 million people, each of whom is vastly more important than everyone else, at the expense of everyone else, is a recipe for collapse. We need a healthy dose of "dude....just don't be a dick." Instead, we celebrate maximum dickishness as the only true measure of whether you're doing good/right. Oh, and the aggy President's statement on why the dean and prof were dismissed is a flat-out lie. He said that it was because the prof was going to stick with teaching something that "wasn't in the syllabus." Yet the syllabus expressly referenced examining concepts of "justice, power, gender": In other words, the pretext -- prof addressed a concept that was not disclosed in the syllabus, and thus "broke his contract with the students" is a lie. The action taken was not because the syllabus was inaccurate. It was because the US DOJ and other very political entities did not like the subject matter. That's chilling as fuck. But, it's the new normal.
  22. Good post. And I definitely agree that we are in an era of "my authoritarianism is better than your authoritarianism" rather than "the neutral Rule of Law and protecting human freedoms are better than authoritarianism." For a dwindling number of us, we don't see goose-stepping authoritarians in snappy Hugo Boss uniforms as an improvement over (real or imagined) goose-stepping authoritarians with red stars on their hats. For those of us "On Liberty" types, this is NOT our era.
  23. A lot of this. See @DDD Dad, who IIRC was active in the Fed Soc in law school....and these days, is quite opposed to their actions, mission, etc. Interesting way to tell us you TRIED to have an inappropriate relationship with a pretty young coed, but none were interested. SAD.
  24. Well, but see, that's why it's more important than ever to run off a huge chunk of our labor force. See, we knew there would be fewer jobs (that's part of the Trump Economic Miracle, don't you see?), so to make things work, we needed to make sure there were fewer workers out there to do those jobs that went away. DUH. 29-D chess!
  25. People actually available and qualified to build complex plants in the US: Who our leadership wants to build complex plants in the US: Result: ain't shit gonna get built. But Cletus will surely end up collecting 100% "disability" after "working" about half a shift.
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