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LCHorn

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  1. I’m glad she’s reaching out to sports fan but I still want her on Rogan.
  2. I don’t think they are garbage, but I’ve been re-watching with my eight year old and there’s definitely some weak spots that I bet Nolan would acknowledge don’t work. Heath Ledger, fwiw, is still incredible. Have you seen the Phantom Thread? He’s relatively subdued in it and it’s probably the best lead performance of anyone in 2017.
  3. Voted yesterday at the Balcones Woods shopping center. Line was about 40 deep both before and after I voted but it moved fast; I was in and out in half an hour. Definitely extra satisfying this year compared to ‘22. I wish I could vote against Ted Cruz every morning for a little hit of dopamine.
  4. I live close and eat out a lot so have been to everywhere in the Domain and most of them close by. The restaurants in the Domain are all aggressively mediocre. On the bright side, no place is terrible but there isn’t a standout and there isn’t a budget friendly option. Ambiance is usually the best part of all of your options. We usually will do Flower Child or True Food because there are at least healthy options. Outside the Domain there’s Turnstile (love their drink menu), Con Todo for tacos (also a Taco Deli is close at Gracy Farms). Tomodachi Sushi is relatively close, as is House of Three Gorges (over praised on the Austin Reddit thread but probably the only “wow, that was great” meal I’ve had in Austin in years).
  5. All the more reason why structural reform that better enables majorities to craft policy should be the #1 Harris priority. You can’t “fix” things if a nihilistic minority is empowered to put the breaks on everything, or you need to have a rare moment when all of the levers of power are in the hands of your party. The GOP should want this, too, if there are any left capable of acting in good faith.
  6. And yet, it would be worth it.
  7. If Green didn’t like it he could have just played out his rookie contract and go into restricted free agency. This is a compromise option between getting some security. If he has a good year the Rockets will want to max out an extension. If it’s not heading that direction then it’s probable the Rockets will want to move him.
  8. At least in Austin, it‘s hard to get more “foody” than a $10 taco at Nixta* *what’s worse is they don’t innovate-the menu is mostly the same as five years ago, just more expensive.
  9. Hot take-Cuantos Tacos is the most overrated taco in Austin. Also, calling a taco Mexico City style is bullshit. They have ALL KINDS of styles in Mexico City.
  10. The Persians don’t really have any experience with socialism, but some of the olds do recall the Shah fondly and I think there’s some sympathy for the authoritarianism. The younger, 2nd gen vote like their white generational peers and most lean Dem because they had to become white collar professionals or risk the wrath of maman and baba.
  11. Sorry dude, you read like someone who, by virtue of friendship, has had their reason compromised. And I would say the same to someone who has family in Gaza-they just aren’t able to make smart decisions at the moment. It’s unfortunate that there’s so many innocents caught up in the violence, but the cold reality is the policy of the United States remains supportive of Israeli agency over alternatives and they should be voting for a Harris presidency that promises to at least show compassion to the Gazans who have lost so much.
  12. I generally agree with your takes but excusing Muslim Americans voting for a greater evil, in essence out of petulance, for a lesser evil is ethically indefensible.
  13. Well, it might be better to say that MY presumption about his handicapping is suspect 😉 So what’s your prediction?
  14. That’s one reading of it. I think there’s more chaos in the markets at present than one explanation can account for, i.e., there’s little consensus about what comes next. The immediate, post 9/18 deterioration in bond pricing wasn’t due to inflation concerns, it was reassurance the the Fed would be more accommodative and that the risk/reward balance favored equities (which depressed bond demand). War in the Middle East, oil price shock risk, the election, inflation coming down globally, seasonal adjustments are all in the strew pot, I just don’t know how you tease one out from another. My old boss wrote a blog post a couple of days ago and he thinks the rates will fall after the election*, but it might be later in Q1 before we get back to where we were 9/12-9/17. *he actually didn’t write this part, but I bet he’s counting on the Dems losing the Senate, House and President both go Dem, and a divided Congress reassures markets that fiscal policy will be restrained.
  15. Not like we hang, but I bet Farrell loves it and will happily cash Warner Bros checks as long as they want to produce it.
  16. That’s a really good one.
  17. That’s a big commitment to Sengun and a certain style of play.
  18. On the bright side, if you’re like me you have eight hours of continuing education to spend contemplating how the rest of 2024 is going to go.
  19. If shaving wasn’t required when I was in high school I would have looked like Billy Gibbons at graduation.
  20. Probably better places in the unpopular movie opinion thread, but Fire in the Sky has one of the unsung all-time best casts.
  21. I’ve been thinking about what a post Harris win Democratic Party focuses on, particularly if the goal is to pull back in men, and I think they need to go very strong into pro-labor, strengthen unions, etc., even if it makes the Wall Street donor class queasy. You can build into the longtime Republican derived plans like job re-training, apprenticeships, lowering or eliminating professional licensing requirements. A lot of these aren’t federal but the party needs to promote the vision. They’ve got to figure out a message that appeals outside of urban and educated population centers.
  22. I have my own personal thing with Navy SEALs (we were in the same AO in Iraq and they were total glory whores and unfortunately had the command pull to get mission priority) but it seems like the bulk of their veterans who have run for office are kind of shit bags. Sheehy, Greitens, Crenshaw, Van Orden.
  23. I bet I was six or seven when I first saw Excalibur and the sex scene between Uther in full plate mail and Igraine. It was a long time before I realized that’s not really how one performs the act. Also had parents who didn’t really police watching HBO back when it was the only premium cable available and saw pretty much all of the late 70’s/early 80’s horror before I was in second grade.
  24. The best thing about voting there is I can pick up paint and whiskey in a single stop.
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