TexasDrunk

Local demographic here, and it's deer hunting season. I can corroborate this.

Some are absolutely exactly who you have described. Some want to pretend that it's really the Democrats that are super racist so they keep around their tokens so they can say "I have a black friend!". Others are entirely disengaged and don't give the slightest shit about it one way or another.

They're not a monolith and they have to pander to each of these groups differently. For the first they pander to literal members of organized Nazi groups and peddle shit like the great replacement theory. For the second they appoint folks like this and point out folks like Gregory Cheadle and say "That's my African American!". For the third they yell about how prices have gone up and promise they'll bring them down with voodoo economics. It doesn't matter that the economics are lies. It doesn't matter that they're using women and people of color as props. All that matters is they tell enough conflicting things that everyone gets to latch on to their own lie and say that everything else was just bluster.

These weren't mistakes. Some of them were slow walked because they were friendly judges waiting to see when they could dismiss without it coming back. Others were slow walked trying to fuck Trump during election season.

This was a miscalculation by state officials who cared more about playing politics than they did about justice.

I always figured this story was about how Lot was molesting his daughters and blamed them for it.

I'm not going to say what I assumed happened to her, but I'm really relieved to hear this.

As someone who has several mini PCs with HoloISO, I totally hope they put out an official box because I'll replace all of mine. I'll repurpose one of my current ones into something fun and give the others to some local nerd who wants to do nerd shit.

I get the cheap GameSir controllers and they work fine. I've got probably 10 of them running around and I need to grab two more to replace my dying Stadia controllers. None have given me a moment of trouble.

That said, I'm not picking up two more if there's a new steam controller coming. I'll wait. I don't usually need more than 8 at once so I can put it on the back burner for now until I need to host a holiday.

We all knew this was going to happen. Even the optimists like myself figured it out when sentencing was scheduled after the election.

I go to Wurstfest almost every year. I couldn't make it this year for personal reasons. I just love the fact that there's a whole festival about sausages. That's it. There's also plenty of beer, dancing, and music but mostly they just want you to put their sausage in your mouth.

You were talking about the run up to the end. You're moving goalposts. Would you like to try to redo this so that you stay on topic, or do you want to complain?

I don't care either way, you're a useless person to me. But I thought you might want to try to at least make it look like you've got a real problem with this specific thing rather than just being miserable and trying to make everyone around you miserable as well.

Yep. If I'm feeling depressed I'll slap on Bojack. If I'm feeling good, Disenchantment. That's pretty much the only things I watch on Netflix when I sub it for a month to see if it's gotten any better.

Smoking meats is a hobby. To get dinner ready, you start at 3am and tend the firebox all day. You try different rubs, woods, and techniques to make the product of your craft the best it can be.

3am?!? What tiny little brisket are you doing at 225 to start that late? You've got to leave time for it to rest.

Ok, in all seriousness this is one of my main hobbies. By that I mean I do it often and I've stuck with it for years while other hobbies have come and gone. I've got a couple of offset smokers, a drum smoker that I built, and a pellet smoker when I don't have the time to tend the firebox but still want to smoke something.

I said all that to say this: there are plenty of people who couldn't give two shits about smoking meats who absolutely come ask me questions about it. Not because I'm the best, and not because they want it to be their hobby. But because I'm excited to talk about it. I also tend to bring full plates with me for my friends (and usually a couple of extras) so they get the benefit of having food.

I've also had women ask if they can come hang out next time I crank up the smoker. It's an easy way in for someone who wouldn't normally be confident enough to approach you.