It do be like that.

Oh, I’m very familiar with the Czech Shop and Slovacek’s. When my brother lived over by Round Rock and we used to play up in Deep Ellum. We’d stop every time on the way and load up. But I’m not driving almost 3 hours for them when I’ve got reasonable knock offs nearby.

It’s the same reason I’ll get Barbecue sandwiches there. I’ve got a bunch of good places actually nearby. However, if I’m on the road I’m guaranteed to get a minimum quality sandwich that’s pretty alright on top of clean bathrooms.

But I 100% agree about the Kodi coolers. We’ve also got the RTIC store over here if you wanna get fancy.

I’ve been trying to get people to put a beaver on Buc-ees home decor for years. But that’s not a conversation for polite company.

No coolers, pie fillings, home decor, or kolaches? You didn’t buy a rocking chair or a grill while you were there? Are you sure it was even Buc-ees?

Yee haw, fuck the law.

I also ruined my pants when I accidentally caught myself on fire.

I agree with my Tex Mex bazooka friend and now I want something in a flour tortilla with slightly too much cheese.

I removed Gemini and installed assistant. That made it searchable in my app list. Then I just plopped the button on my home screen. When I short press the button it pops up something that asks me to try Gemini, but I just say whatever it is I want and it does it just like it used to in the search bar.

The old assistant wasn’t bad, especially before they put lens in the search widget instead of being off in its own place where it belongs so that I can uninstall it.

I thought Gemini needed 6 more months of development to be ready for prime time. Apparently I wildly underestimated it. Simple tasks barely work and it offloads anything useful to the old assistant anyway.

I set up a separate assistant button because the assistant on the search bar, even without Gemini, only searches now. I use Firefox so I don’t need it for search. I use it to add things to my to do list and to set timers, the only two things voice assistants are good for in my life.

I don’t understand why they won’t just let me use technology the way I want to use it rather than trying to force me to use it their way. Well, I refuse to understand even though I kind of get it (if I used shit the way I wanted they’d never have the opportunity to show me an advertisement).

Edit: clarity

Step one for gun control should be a fully functioning mental healthcare system. That’s not the final step by any means, but if people are getting the mental help they need there will be fewer shootings.

https://xkcd.com/37/

We dry clean them. Otherwise they shrink.

How many cows do they own in East Texas?

I like to make my own because it’s quick, easy, and much tastier than most store bought, but I also understand that not everyone has an immersion blender or the desire for one.

I like to add fresh herbs to mine. A little dill or parsley really livens it up. I’ve tried mixing them in store bought and it’s not the same.

Sadly I did not. I have visited but I was only there a few weeks to have beer and bratwurst.

I’m starting to think that there are a lot of managers who demand the impossible.

Same. Technically I report to someone at the company I contract with but mostly that’s just to let them know when I’ll be in and when I won’t.

Was it me? Because I had that conversation back in '10 or '11. I ended up taking most of it off then took off the rest after the project “off the books” (but with an email paper trail because I’ve been burned before).

You’re absolutely right. Watching porn is not a big deal. I care far more about the hypocrisy of being part of a party who wants to ban porn while going every damn day to semen covered booths with glory holes than I do about the actual porn or anything he was doing in those booths. These are the people enacting porn bans on “moral grounds”.

Of course I care more about the Holocaust than the hypocrisy, but I can think he’s a shit stain for two reasons.

If the code is there it can be exploited, and that’s a big ol’ honking attack vector.

I’ve got everything from an American G&L to a shitty $80 acoustic bass off Amazon. My favorite that I purchased instead of built is currently a mid level Alvarez, followed very closely by a butterscotch Squier 51 that I’ve had since they first came out (for under $100).

The biggest problem with low end guitars and bass guitars these days is mostly QC. Sharp frets, super high action, and bad tuners are fixable as long as your neck isn’t complete garbage. The problem comes in when new folks really have no idea what it should feel like and they don’t want to take it down and pay half the cost of the instrument to have a good setup done. So they suffer and quit when they could have spent $45 and turned a garbage $80 no name special into a reasonable beginner instrument.

To be fair, QC has also become a problem with much more expensive guitars as well in some cases (looking at you, Gibson).