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Vegas64

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  1. We need Matthew McCoughnney (sp?). Step up to the Green lights courtesy phone and save the country, sir.
  2. Last Breath. Between this movie and Salesforce commercials, is Woody Harrelson okay financially? Is he in his Nic Cage / Bruce Willis era?
  3. Glass half full of what is NOT wrong. I read today that prices for real estate and especially rent have dropped drastically (22+% YoY) and that a ton of new supply and housing has been built. Austin is no longer the most expensive city but now it's DFW. +1 point Austin!
  4. And nobody even knows how many nukes he has that works. Maybe add Modi/India in for Putin. How old is Putin anyways? Seems like without him Russia will go lose some steam with whomever succeeds him as I don't think I've ever heard of any real plan or attempt to groom a successor (probably because Putin is a paranoid android).
  5. lol this guy thought we were confused because he had the same first name. You can't make up the level of maturity and discourse that people are willing to have in 2025. Moving on, Dealbook had an interesting artile today about how Euro Defense stocks are rallying and up along with the Euro in response to the region vowing, coming off of the Starmer meeting that Europe is going to do a lot more of the heavy lifting financially and militarily. I thought this was the most prescient pundit analysis I've seen since the ill-fated meeting last week-- especially around the realities of Europe NOT being as papered up as us (sad) and saying the quiet part outloud about the end game for the "troika" of Trump, Putin, and Xi being the 3 strongmen to carve up the world again like it's a land grab: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/business/dealbook/europe-ukraine-defense-stock-market.html
  6. This tracks with a lot of what I've seen and heard as well, essentially a "DOGE is a good idea on paper and with a rational, sane process-- what we've seen is NOT that and is horrific abuse."
  7. Was blown away by this quote I just read: Poland's Donald Tusk put it like this: “500 million Europeans are asking 300 million Americans to defend them against 140 million Russians. [...] Europe today lacks the belief that we are truly a global force.” C'mon Europe!
  8. On year there was an upstairs bathroom we were remodeling and took part of it down to the studs. It was spring and somehow that bathroom got infested with carpenter ants. Had the pest guys come out and blow them all away and treat the area. Never saw another carpenter ant again. This was pre-Covid. That's all I got.
  9. I know this is a serious thread, and your contribution is a sad one, but I could only think of this (because of the guns): https://youtube.com/shorts/-KcxMMkm68I?si=SzSSbSDlgOz-JukE
  10. Sounds like a dicktater.
  11. Alright, well...I respect the opinions and feeling of my fellow Texans. And I can empathize and agree with a lot of the ire and regret being shared here today, but I draw the line at not being proud to be a Texan. That's just me. As for me and my house, we stood a bit taller in our boots yesteday with a pride to be a part of and descend from those brave, awesome men and women who came before us.
  12. I personally find it cool and awesome. YMMV. The fact that, in 1845, we weren't the result of some federal admins filing the appropriate paperwork to get M&A'ed into the United States, but we had fought and won belligerent independence from a foreign country, to plant our flag as our own country is about as 56-inch-barrel-chested man as it gets. Every Texian was walking around crotch-first and all the plains states held their manhood cheap when in the mixed company of a conquerer. Maybe it's my broken brain, but I find that spirit and verve and success to be worth celebrating and being proud to have in my lineage.
  13. Exactly. Embody the true Texas spirit. One that is rebellious if the time calls for it and can win a revolution. Hence my saying all the self-defeatist sad boi stuff is lame. "Why should I change my pride of Texas, they are the ones who suck" mindset.
  14. I just meant that celebrating Independence Day for Texas is not the same thing as celebrating MAGA culture in Texas in 2025. The Texas Revolution and the whole origin story of defeating Mexico is awesome. Being the only state that was it's own country before being annexed a state of the U.S. is awesome. Texas history is awesome.
  15. When I saw the grift that musicians did during Covid (e.g. Lil Wayne and all the super star musicians), I had the same thought. Just straight up stole Covid money.
  16. Oh good God, are we to a point we can't celebrate our state's independence day? Self-defeatist wimps, I say.
  17. His shows are so long I only catch 10-15 mins these days once a month, but during lockdown he was my go-to. Shame. Live long enough to become a villain, I guess. Maybe it's the water in Nashville.
  18. Theo Von is hilarious and awesome. I've never seen him get overtly or overly political (though you can guess his political leanings). This is a disappointing turn of events if it's him.
  19. Beat me to it.
  20. As the lone other Pynchon fan, I got that reference.
  21. Voluntary and positive acceptance I meant. As in, it's part of the "aura" or "vibes" and is cool to be sober or sober-curious. Versus the nagging, nanny state "knows what's best for you" and makes booze illegal. C'mon.
  22. I was in a trendy tiki bar and got the mocktail. $18 for a glorified apple juice. I think I got a sugar high. Mocktails are the biggest waste of money and should be the highest margin item on a menu based on my experiences with them.
  23. True, but we've never seen as big a cultural acceptance and push for "non-alcoholic" then we have now. Beers, bars and even hard liqours. VC money pouring into the space (starting with Liquid Death you could argue) because there is a growing TAM and demonstrated traction of Gen Z not engaging in the alcohol culture that was the baseline before them. Things can always change and they can easily revert to being just as big a consumer bloc as their predecessor generations (in the same way that as generations age they move from liberals to more conservatives)-- we will see.
  24. username checking out in a very morbid way.
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