Gas Bandit's Political Thread V: The Vampire Likes Bats
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GasBandit
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Hey, Taco Bell isn't all bad. They're probably one of the less unpleasant ways to completely evacuate the entire contents of your lower intestines and colon. Sometimes you need a good cleanse.
I admit I have a weakness for their Double Decker tacos. They're structurally brilliant.
I admit I have a weakness for their Double Decker tacos. They're structurally brilliant.
Dave
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Sometimes I think I'm the only person with basic human empathy. Take the case of Dr. Anjali Ramkissoon. Don't know who she is? Well, apparently a drunk Dr. Ramkissoon tried to take some else's Uber a couple nights ago and when the driver wouldn't take her someplace she had a drunken meltdown. It was pretty bad. But here's the thing. Now she's been outed and she'll probably be fired and possibly never be able to work in medicine since any background checks will invariably show this event. Go ahead. Google her name and see what you get. And the internet is gleefully piling on. Yeah, she did something stupid, but does the punishment fit the crime? I say no, but it's a very unpopular opinion.
My favorite fast food taco for the last bazillion years. It's so sad you never see it on the menu anymore, but at least they still make it on request.
As for Freebirds vs Chipolte. When I want something outrageous just filled with everything possible with a Texas twist (or maybe just some nachos), I go with Freebirds. If I want a burrito that feels more "Californian" with some good guacamole, I can only really get that at Chipolte. If I had to choose between one or the other, I would likely choose Chipolte, but my wife would be the opposite.
People can kind of forget that they get used to local flavors they grow up in, and as a California to Texas immigrant, I enjoy a certain type of Mexican food that is different then the standard Tex-Mex that saturates most Mexican restaurants in this region (Austin, Texas), including Freebirds. My wife (a local who grew up here) swears by Freebirds as the best burritos ever, while myself, and most former California natives I know, feel we get much better flavors out of Chipolte. In the end we just switch off based on which of us chooses dinner that night.
It sucks ass. I'm so glad I grew into an adult before the modern online shaming trend.
GasBandit
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This is part of the brave new world that we live in. There's no more privacy, no more obscurity, every human foible and bad decision is forever immortalized in social media, and the mild disdain of a billion internet users quickly builds to a cumulative tsunami of hate because it feeds on itself.
That said, she tried to assault a police officer. That's not alright. That's not just a minor bad decision during a night's drinking.
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This I didn't know.
This was me. I do not remember hitting anonymous.
GasBandit
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The story is, apparently the cops showed up after the video ends, she ends up in handcuffs and then starts trying to kick the officers. They have to muscle her into the back of a squadcar and there she breaks down, starts crying, says she could lose her medical license, etc.
I don't know how drunk I'd have to be to think it a good idea to fight a police officer, even if he was arresting me, but I am pretty sure it is well beyond the point where I would be able to stand, much less fight.
That's what she said.
And people are even now working to make sure you can never have any more personal privacy. It's one thing if millions of teens want to share every little thing on Facebook, it's quite another when they are trying to forcibly take it away from you "because terrorism."
--Patrick
I wouldn't be surprised if 10-15 years from now, we get a law that keeps employers from ether observing your social media or at least preventing them from using stuff from before you were 21 against you. It's really going to come down to it.
Combine the two and you have a potential time bomb. Eventually the public will accept that people don't have a right to privacy for these things, and that expanded use - say, by your credit agency or employer, or for political purposes, or for journalistic investigation - is acceptable.
The problem being that perhaps at that time people will change their behavior so it isn't considered a problem, but in the meantime there's all this historical data and suddenly it's considered fair game, where right now people believe it's a locked box, and act accordingly.
This reminds me of the story "The Dead Past," where the government tries to do quite the opposite, to prevent snooping, but the unfortunate actions of a few well-meaning individuals leads to the absolute and utter death of any form of privacy whatsoever.
--Patrick
The only type of American fast food you'll ever hear foreigners lament and ask "why not here?' is Burger King. There are regular petitions to get Burger King in pretty much any country that doesn't have them (including Belgium). You don't see any asking Taco Bell or Freebird or Wendy's. So by that metric, they win.
By that same measure, the only reason they don't ask for a KFC is because any country that wants one has several. Fuck, Japan turned KFC into -the- stuff to get on Christmas so hard that you have to order it months in advance if you want it for Christmas.
The place they should be asking for is Triple O's: https://www.tripleos.com/ The burgers are just-about good-restaurant quality, with the speed and price of fast food. I'm not saying it's the best burger out there, I'm saying it's far and away the best FAST burger out there, and beats most sit-down places too IMO. Unfortunately, there's almost-exclusively in B.C.
Now I want one, and I'm the entire country away from one.
All we got are Hardees.
GasBandit
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We don't even have that.All we got are Hardees.
Wait, B/CS doesn't have a Carl's Jr? How the heck did our little podunk have something that you guys don't have? You do have lots of stuff that we don't have though.
There is a Carls Jr in Cedar Park not far from me. I stop there while passing through to the in-laws. Oddly it does not hold up as much as I remember.
GasBandit
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Because our local governments is dildos, Toki. Hooters wanted to open a franchise here, but they wouldn't let em unless they changed their "colors" from orange and white to maroon and white. It was an impasse that was never overcome.
Was this a local school issue or something? That's about the only reason I can think of why the colors would matter.
I think it's hilarious that the only thing more important that scantily clad women in Texas is FOOTBALL.
