cayman
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These are whiskey bullets. They perform two functions. 1) It is how Texans cool their drink without ice melting and diluting said drink. 2) It gets you and your family a free tour of @DublinAirport baggage transfer and screening under armed airport police supervision when you have it in checked baggage. To be fair, they were very good about it, once I had explained the concept to them (still in the original packaging, wife had brought them to gift to me), and after some rather bemused close examination by the officer they escorted us to the front of the immigration line after the delay, which I appreciate.



Idgaf about what any of yall say about Dallas I love it here

I’ve always wanted to circumnavigate DFW via bike, so today I did. Some casual observations about things I saw, did & thought: - N. Dallas is nice, Ft. Worth is nice, and everything in between was very meh - I had a bike lane about 4% of the time - Arlington and Grand Prairie have nothing but auto salvage yards, used appliances, enough Class B - F industrial to make @fortworthchris blush, and a few really nice stadiums - The suburbs are underrated - Name another city with not one, but two world class, clean, organized airports. I rode by both. - The people most likely to sideswipe me are 30-50 year old white soccer moms in minivans and dads in massive trucks (Note: you won’t get there any faster by risking my life) - Aside from the occasional accidental highway detour, and some shady neighborhoods, I felt pretty safe the whole time - I hit the wall at mile 64 but some Doritos and sour punch straws bailed me out by 73 - Maybe the nicest weather day in 5 months - 10-15 MPH Headwind for the last 50 miles wasn’t pleasant - Ft. Worth is classy. Real southern charm. Other cool things I rode by: - Texas State Fair - @HeimBBQ (get the hatch green chili Mac & cheese) - Cowboys & Rangers stadiums (so nice) - 27 auto salvage yards - Manheim auto auctions - 17 shady Ft Worth ambulance chaser billboards - 6 Flags - 7 Chipotles I know cyclists look dumb and hey, we feel dumb, too. But hop on a bike sometime and you’ll see why we do it. Thanks for reading. DFW is pretty cool.

Neft Dashlari, a Soviet-era industrial settlement built entirely on the Caspian Sea for the purpose of oil excavation.


Francis Fukuyama is a fucking genius and a prophet.

The District of Columbia is overwhelmingly Democratic. The northern suburbs of VA are overwhelmingly Democratic. So too the MD suburbs. So don’t tell me the workers in the Federal government are not overwhelmingly Democratic. The Federal bureaucracy is part of the D machine. They leak, they fight against, and they wait out R presidents. It’s a real problem.







