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I'm a Methodistic heathen, so our service was at 5:00. Then we had some Kurdish food for dinner.

re: Fat for Roux

Posted by BottomlandBrew on 12/24/25 at 9:55 pm to
Smoke point issue aside, I would think it would depend on the type of gumbo. Would probably work better flavor-wise in a seafood gumbo than poultry/sausage gumbo, imo. I've never done it, though.
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I’ll never understand the GOP’s never-ending obsession with keeping marijuana criminalized


"Donations" from alcohol, pharmaceutical, and correctional companies. These people don't represent you. They represent their corporate overlords.
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Betcha they are mad their ancestors fricked it up for them.


Maybe. A few of those people would have been killed by their oldest sibling, or imprisoned in a corner of their castle for their entire lives.

Fbd - for old times' sake

Posted by BottomlandBrew on 12/23/25 at 6:23 pm
Fbd. Saw that Rogue went under, so I grabbed a final 6'er of one of the OG gateway beers for a lot of us.

They had to dredge 25 acre-feet of literal shite out of an urban lake. That's expensive. The monetary impact of not dredging the lakes would have far outweighed the amount it is taking to dredge the lakes.
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Those contractors are gonna milk that easy money for all they can


Well, if one were to read the publicly-available contract instead of saying bullshite, one would see it's a fixed bid contract with the following timeline:



There are also liquidated damages of $1500/day.

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re: Jonah Hill turned 42 on Saturday

Posted by BottomlandBrew on 12/23/25 at 11:51 am to
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The pics I've seen of him recently make him look like he's living on the streets.


I'll be honest: If I had a full bank account and didn't have a real job, I'd probably look like a bum, too.
Picked up Town to City on sale the other day. Next thing I know it's 1:00 am. Solid little indie city builder. Low-stress/cozy-ish.

Town to City

re: Anyone Drink Celsius?

Posted by BottomlandBrew on 12/23/25 at 7:48 am to
My normal coffee is about 120 mg of caffeine. A Celsius has 200 mg. Of course it'll jack you up.
I try not to, but those little bastards sometimes get the best of me or land a groin shot and I let one slip in frustration. I was working on construction sites by age 10, so I've perfected cursing into a fine art over the years. My general rule is to not cuss until the other person cusses. Then, it's game on.
Is it non-compliant, or not in the spirit of the rules?
I've done my fair share of dumb shite in cars over the years, but as I've gotten older, I've come to realize I can only be trusted on a track with fast cars.
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Yeah, don't think I'm going to watch that one.
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I absolutely believe it to be the reason for the change in their policy.


I think it's a reason. Maybe not the reason. There's a lot of bullshite that goes on with their open-seating policy. I'm glad to see it going away.
Consciousness is something special. Where it comes from is beyond human comprehension, imo, and why we can't give it to something else.

Now, that doesn't mean AI can't frick some shite up. We can certainly bungle alignment and have it kill all of us.

re: Elf on a Shelf

Posted by BottomlandBrew on 12/22/25 at 11:11 am to
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it’s worth it each morning to see my daughters wake up excited to see where he is. It’s the first thing they do.


I used to be anti-elf prior to having kids. Now, when I see my kids lose their minds in the morning, I get it. Yeah, I forget some nights, but it ain't hard to move an elf around the house. We don't get fancy in our positioning of the elf.
The Odyssey is pretty fricking metal. Monsters, cannibalism, sex slaves, unimaginable torture, gods being dicks to people and one another, orgies, the underworld, and so on. The only thing I'm worried about is how they condense such an epic story into a few hours. I'll have to adjust my expectations going in knowing that not everything can be shown. The story has enough material to last several seasons of a series.
I didn't realize the author of Generation Kill, Evan Wright, also killed himself last year. He also apparently went through a lot of shite in his life.
He was a pretty damn good actor. His parts in both The Wire and Generation Kill had me not liking him at first, but on repeated viewings I really got to like his characters and how he portrayed them.

Sounds like he had some pretty serious childhood trauma from being sexually abused by a tutor followed up with substance abuse. It's sad.