Matt Benacci

@Lawton_Braves @RealJayMikes S.C. Gwynne raises the question of who was probably a more 'successful' leader, Sitting Bull or Quanah Parker. Most folks know the name Sitting Bull, but not so much Parker's. To me, it's a strange parallel to the way Ranald Makenzie and George Custer are remembered.

Wow, you ask great questions. Much more violent at first. The Mexicans and Comanche directly competed over land, and the Comanche won through very aggressive raiding. Relations with the Anglos was peaceful for a long while, until their pioneer trains to California and Oregon started to encroach on our hunting lands. That's when we turned our attentions to them, and it became a tit-for-tat series of raids and attacks.

I've seen this clip (but not the whole movie/tv show it comes from) and it's interesting. It almost gets it right. "Comanche" comes from kɨmantsi, which was the name the Ute had for us. The Spanish heard that and changed it to "Comanche". The name itself means "enemy" or "anyone who wants to fight me". We call ourselves Nʉmʉnʉʉ, which translates to "the people" or "the human beings".

@JenRobichaux @oltorf One kind of has to hope that a given board member has enough judgement to know when to draw a line between letting admin do their jobs, and when it's time to burn bras and flags and slit throats, in a manner of speaking.

@JenRobichaux @oltorf Bah, typo in my original reply that changed the whole meaning. Meant to say-- this shouldn't excuse a board, just because training emphasizes a mostly hands off approach. But, most taxpayers have no idea how much hands off is underlined in the training.

It is both satisfying and tragic to see folks finally waking up to what bad leadership we have had at AISD. The clown trustees should resign in mass.

@JenRobichaux @oltorf I'd like to hope that any given board member would have enough heart to make objections when they feel grounds to and be willing to express their displeasure. The training emphasizes teamwork, blah blah, but every governing body needs a lower taxes crank.

@VodkaPundit @GMFWashington

Big Steve Martin fan. I remember age 10 listening to A Wild and Crazy Guy on LP with the volume so low I had my ear pressed against the speaker so I wouldn’t get caught. Anyway, I tried rewatching L.A. Story not long ago, and had to turn it off because it’s a love letter to a city that just isn’t there anymore.

Like everything else these days, this is class war disguised as something else. Runaway production mostly hurts blue collar craftsmen and LA tourism… execs, producers, agents, lawyers, managers, writers and even stars and directors don’t really GAF where movies shoot.

@RonSonic @ingelramdecoucy Holla back to the year 2006

@ingelramdecoucy Flashback to James Lilek's Gallery of Regrettable Food with its atomic pineapple cake. Oh, I gotta look. BRB. Yep, there it is: lileks.com/institute/gall…

Nobody in America has regularly eaten this stuff in probably 50 years at least but I nonetheless feel the need to defend Ambrosia and Watergate Salads here because they’re slop but they’re delicious diabetes inducing slop that I hope to see make a comeback in popularity

@Jcrow27105 @ingelramdecoucy Watergate salad is awesome

@ingelramdecoucy Never had Watergate Salad but love me some Ambrosia.

@ingelramdecoucy Had a sweet restaurant in town, local guy kept fresh Watergate salad on hand for desserts, alongside your traditional flan and such. Amazingly good food. Had a handshake deal with the landlord. 3 months in the landlord tried to raise the rent, so he shut down. Tragedy.

@AVARY @DylanTweetin It doesn't matter who votes. It's who counts the votes!

@DylanTweetin It did work. But stealing the vote worked better.

Can’t believe this didn’t work

@Rodriguez Next year? Plz!

I WISH every DUSK fan could have been at the AZTEC THEATER Friday for this fully immersive movie experience. It was off the hook, people lost their minds. And it was by far the best screening I’ve ever been to. It will never be topped! (Unless we bring it back next year!) Thank you Aztec Theatre for including us in your 100th anniversary celebration! See you at the Spykids 25th Anniversary screening and Family Concert at @TheAztecTheatre on July 11th, Special announcement for that tomorrow!

@Lawton_Braves @chrisbrunet Potato, pota-toe.

@chrisbrunet Was it also the most vulgar?

the UFC fight last night was easily the best piece of propaganda I’ve ever seen

@MuseZack @Boca_Tina I've never been, but I can confidently say it's going to be legit.

@Boca_Tina Okay, but real question: how is the Mexican food in Boca Chica?

Lots of misinformation being spread about me the last couple days, so some quick facts - My name is Tina, not Guo Can (or Jessie Anderson). I’m one of many Raptor flight operators on console since flight2. Before that, I wrote control software for the vehicle, and was a stage software operator for flight1 - Been living in Starbase since surborbital days in 2020, absolutely love it down here. The people are wonderful and so so excited about the mission - the lows are lows but the highs are very high. My friends here are the best in the world, and I love them to the moon/mars and back :) - The reason I decided to say something was because facts matter, but also because wanted to share my real life journey to how I got here. I don’t have a masters or a PhD, I started full time directly after college after 2x internships also at spacex doing software/automation. I was on a couple design teams in college, including Stanford solar car + mars rover. When I started spacex as a software engineer, I knew very little about fluids / propulsion engineering - I learned a lot of it on the job with some pretty incredible mentors. Then I swapped over to propulsion about halfway through my career and have been loving it ever since

@Lawton_Braves @FilmUpdates Unserious times all over.

@FilmUpdates There was a time, I thought, where actors took their craft mildly seriously.

Chris Evans confirms he will return in ‘AVENGERS: SECRET WARS’ “I can tell you that I start working on the next one in a couple of months. I can’t tell you how much I’m in it, but I’m in it.”

@KennethRWebster Yeah, that's a little... Not preposterously funny enough to excuse the awkwardness of the joke. It may hit differently with older vs. younger folks. But, eh, you might try and tweak it. It needs to be bigger. More ridiculous somehow, or it risks coming across a bit petty.

Jim Belushi turns 72 today.  He'll spend the day like he does every other:  Trying to convince us that God didn't take the wrong brother.

@ChrisVitetta @marinasmigielsk With posts like this one below? Your crown's coming, King.

@marinasmigielsk Ahem I would like respectfully disagree. I do not in fact run anything.

Balding men run the world and I’m tired of pretending they don’t.

@marinasmigielsk Maybe it's got something to do with rolling out of bed mostly ready already, not having to spend much time on arranging the day's coiffure.

@octal @Molson_Hart I try not to be impressed. Then I go out, and I survey my own business empire. And you know, that Musk guy, I guess you could say he's done ok.

@Molson_Hart I think a lot of the SpaceX success was more impressive because it was to a great degree in spite of the government, not because of it, but I really don’t care — man makes big, powerful, inexpensive rockets.

My SpaceX IPO take: 1. SpaceX’s near 100% reliance on government contracts before Starlink makes the company’s success less cool 2. Reusable rockets are amazing. Such a powerful moment when that was demonstrated for first time. 3. Starlink is amazing too and now accounts for most of their revenue. 4. Tesla is more impressive as an accomplishment because it was a consumer driven success from beginning to end that was less dependent on government money (though still was) 5. Most people don’t understand that you need to allow people to become rich. Otherwise there is less incentive to work hard and invent. If your country blocks this, these talented people will otherwise leave your country or channel their talents into being a mob boss or corporate/government cronyism. It’s better to explain this to people who don’t understand it than to shame them. 6. Cool that so many employees became rich at the same time. It’s an amazing human accomplishment and a testament to America’s greatness but, I dunno, it feels overrated and fake somehow, so I can’t celebrate it as much I might’ve a few years ago.

@CIt1836 @MattMackowiak @leachfortexas @TLRPAC Many of the best words in a murky mess like politics tend to cut both ways. If you don't have a specific dog in the fight it's always entertaining.

@MattMackowiak @leachfortexas @TLRPAC lol. I figured you were referencing Leach with this comment.

Hey Christopher - Did you know this photo of great conservative champions was taken at an event to help raise $$$ for @TLRPAC just months ago?

@Lawton_Braves I have a friend. His whole life, he's believed he's Lakota Sioux. The minute money, or the possibility of money entered the picture, he and his mother were immediately told "Not Sioux enough." (I assume gambling or some kind of federal spiff, doesn't matter.) It's complicated.

Honestly? I can see how that might upset some people, but as a Comanche who considers himself fairly traditional, I can't see how we can engage in that kind of opportunistic outrage. Comanche raided like crazy and took many slaves. Those slaves often married into the tribe and became full members. But now the tribal council is going with the whole "must be one-eighth" thing. I think fullblood Whites that do good service for our community should be admitted to the tribal roster.