TexasDrunk

@TexasDrunk@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I feel attacked⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I picked drinking and having a band. Except that’s also what I did from age 16 to 40. Maybe I’ve always been in crisis.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Challenges accepted.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not one I’d use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes, this is⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is actually the most clever way I’ve seen this done. But, just like with all art, I can say something is clever (or good, or technically proficient) and still hate it due to the content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Italian style pizza⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m going to start my own pizza brand and label it “now with no asbestos!”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“It’s Compiling!”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m an independent consultant who works from home 99% of the time. My boss keeps sexually harassing me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's bad man⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re not shitting then you need to see a doctor, friend.

  Otherwise, if it’s not your jam there’s nothing wrong with sitting it out. In fact I don’t recommend drinking as heavily as I have or take as many fun drugs as I used to (I can still do them but I choose to heavily limit myself) because there are long term consequences.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's bad man⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For me it’s the knees. I can still shit and bang and drink and do all the same fun drugs I did at 25. But I miss my cartilage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨7 for me⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wear boots and hold a bottle of whisky. I don’t know why they wouldn’t include that on the list.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What was she thinking when she did this?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How dare anyone enjoy anything that I wouldn’t or couldn’t do myself!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Once they shoot out it's fun to give them the names that they might have become⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s 7 of them. Maybe she should have swallowed a few.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ye song glorifying Hitler gets millions of views on X while other platforms struggle to remove it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What in the actual fuck? I went and looked up the lyrics. I went and looked at some of the things people were saying on xcancel. I haven’t looked at the service formerly known as Twitter in years.

  So I repeat, what in the actual fuck? The very loud unveiled racism, the calling a black preacher “more like rabbi” for calling out hate, the glorifying Nazis by saying they drug Germany and the world into the modern age…like not dog whistles. Out and out fucking craziness.

  I mean, I knew these people existed. I know some in real life. I grew up near a whole town built on white supremacy and dated a woman whose incarcerated brother was in the Aryan Brotherhood (she cut off contact but her mom gave out her address…I got to read the letters from him and they were disturbing). Hell, a MUD I played had a front end called Stormfront so I ended up in a very bad Internet forum looking for info and even it was tame comparatively. I’ve never seen so many gathered in one place using such uncoded and terrible language.

  Jesus tapdancing Christ. It’s a different thing knowing something this horrible exists and seeing this bullshit go down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can you tell 23 subgenres of equally shitty growls and screams apart, but not see the most Metal basics?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Like Violent Femmes. It’s punk played on acoustic instruments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bruh⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not op, but the only place I go anymore is bars. I can’t find a nice place to change my baby at 1am after killing an entire bottle of Old Grandad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The pipeline⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I hereby crown you King Wing, the manliest of all people!

  (This was supposed to be light-hearted, but I realized after reading it that it sounds like I’m mocking you…I promise I’m not).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has anyone told MAGA they are free to shut themselves off from the rest of the world all on their own. Honestly they do a pretty good job of it already.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Get in the truck, we’re headed out. I guess you can bring the fam but they might have to sit in the bed because I’m not putting my electronics back there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Striking Motorcyclists More Than Any Other Brand: New Analysis⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m on mine far more often than I’m in a car. I think Tesla found out that I point and laugh at any cyber trucks I see at red lights while I’m out and is trying to kill me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes, in the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the one! It’s also in the garage. Still worked a while back when I hooked it up through a few adapters.

  I always dumpster dived for computers. My buddy showed me where to go and when so we’d upgrade every year together when one of the local junior colleges threw out a bunch of stuff. We were always a few years behind but we had more tech toys than folks on the edge of poverty had the chance to pick up back in those days.

  I remember being a teen in the late 90s with some computers to use and some to sell and we ended up selling enough to both get Bigfoot drives. A couple of gigs was MASSIVE compared to the TI stuff we both started on.

  He’s still got the tax software with the booklet and ads featuring Bill Cosby running around somewhere. He’s also got a tattoo of the motherboard of the TI-99/4a because he said without it he wouldn’t be where he is today. But he doesn’t like Bill Cosby anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes, in the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a 40 year old book about TI BASIC somewhere in the garage plus some magazines with games. I built a fantasy game and saved it to cassette.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Foot Pedal To Supplement Your Keyboard⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Back when I did stuff for the sake of doing it, I mapped DAW transport buttons to these. I never bothered replacing them when they broke because I moved to a jog wheel to scrub through much more efficiently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I firmly believe all 3-4 letter acronyms will eventually be used for evil.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve got a friend that, when cornered by acronym soup, starts discussing very detailed analytics for whatever they’re talking about. He says the acronyms don’t matter as long as the audience is sufficiently bored by whatever your answer is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not real... *for now*⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You take them off?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech jobs are now white collar trades that need apprentices⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My favorite was "here’s Exchange 2003, you’ll figure it out. We seem to be sending out thousands of emails every few minutes and are on all the spam lists. See you in a bit. ".

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech jobs are now white collar trades that need apprentices⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what they did to me 20-odd years ago. I did my best to train up the guys that came after me, but I am only one guy. I hope they’re not still doing that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Merry weekend yall⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m texasdrunk and I support this message.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same in the 00s. Everyone knew and no one gave a shit.

  Side note: I love how “fuckin business” works a couple of ways.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HP adds 15 minutes waiting time for telephone support calls⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had an issue a couple of years ago with an HP laptop where the USB-C port would stop working after a reboot. DSIM cleanup-image would temporarily fix it so it had to be software based. The warranty was only good for about another week when I first got in touch.

  They did everything in their power to run that week out and tried getting me to send it in for repair that could take a month rather than fixing the issue. I finally found an obscure forum post that fixed it. Their support is absolute trash.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨my version is better⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not like the old days, but you can still find high energy local acts out at places like BFE. Just keep an eye on their roster. I’ll likely see you there someday!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨my version is better⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I get it. We played Fitzgerald’s a lot for the last few years before it closed. My buddy was sitting in the lighting booth watching the last show.

  I don’t think there’s anything that’s going to capture that vibe anymore. BFE is cool. Numbers, for whatever reason, was never really my scene. I’ve played there but I don’t go out of my way to do it. Even The Farm isn’t really what it used to be. I wish I could remember what the name of it was before because we played there a lot too. Wildcatters out in Katy is pretty cool on the right night. Brash has the arcade. Karbach usually has something cool going on (I’ve got a friend over there right now). But none of that is like what Fitzgerald’s was back in the 00s (I was too young and hours away in the 90s, then I left for the military).

  But you know what they say. You can never go home.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨my version is better⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are some cool places closer in but I try to avoid heading that way. We played White Oak Music Hall recently and it’s pretty neat. Fitzgerald’s closed a few years back and that place was amazing. On the other side of town is House of Blues which is always a good time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨my version is better⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I like The Farm and BFE, but those are two completely different vibes. I miss Acadia so much. That was my favorite place to be but they closed down last year.