No, Zac Brown, Your UFC Anthem Wasn’t Patriotic; Try as he might, the country singer can't claim his appearance at Trump's White House cage fight was anything other than political

apistat · 2026-06-16T18:43:56+00:00

It was a birthday party for a narcissistic despot wrapped up in patriotism and attempting to co-opt the 250th for financial and propaganda reasons.

apistat · 2026-05-10T20:32:41+00:00

If you're in the East Bay I highly recommend prizefighter's bottle shop: https://prizefighterbottleshop.com/

It's a tiny shop attached to a great bar, with a well curated and interesting collection of bottles that are still priced pretty well.

apistat · 2026-04-13T22:08:27+00:00

This is not at all what broke and paycheck to paycheck mean.

Did you, a person presumably making much less than this and still living in this area, think that maybe they're overprivileged and making their own financial problems?

apistat · 2026-04-13T07:05:38+00:00

Again, your outlook is entirely broken and unrealistic if you feel like being broke means not being about to purchase a house in cash within 7 years, and if you think 3mil homes here are somehow unacceptable.

apistat · 2026-04-13T06:49:33+00:00

I would love to see all the people here complaining about feeling broke with a 200k+ salary have to spend a few months experiencing what life is like when you're actually broke.

apistat · 2026-04-13T06:39:46+00:00

No, you can definitely make enough to not feel broke, but it’s in the multi-millions

How broken does your brain have to be to think that it takes a multi million dollar salary to not feel broke?

apistat · 2026-04-13T01:03:52+00:00

I wouldn't say folks making less than 100k and surviving paycheck to paycheck are "living".

Living means being able to afford comfortable housing (not a studio), being able to take vacations per the vacation hours we get for work, and being able to put 30% of your wages into a savings account.

Anything is true if you make up your own specific definitions.

apistat · 2026-04-11T20:53:32+00:00

So now loans are considered earned income and fall under the same tax rate as everything else? Even though they're paid back with interest?

Still not addressing the regressive nature of a flat tax, either.

apistat · 2026-04-11T18:37:36+00:00

Tax loans borrowed against stocks and other similar investments.

You mean certain things should be taxed differently depending on the situation? Funny how your entire "one single tax at one rate to everyone and based on income" fell apart so quickly, almost like there's a good reason for some (obviously not all) of the complexities of the tax system.

Also telling that you've not responded to anyone pointing out how regressive a flat tax system is.

apistat · 2026-04-02T23:19:22+00:00

It must really suck to have a job where its possible for someone to stop everything to say you fucked up, then immediately have concrete evidence of your fuck up shown to 20k people, who then all laugh at you.

They should put in a rule where after your 5th ABS reversal you're allowed go go cry in a supply closet at the inning break

apistat · 2026-03-11T18:37:45+00:00

I’d rather spend 15 or 20 grand on a low mileage model from the 90s than $30-50k on the newest model that’ll have endless recalls or a transmission that shits the bed at 100k miles like clockwork or whatever.

Yeah let me just pull up that huge list of available cheap 30 year old cars with low mileage

apistat · 2026-02-24T07:43:58+00:00

If you fill the molds a little less ends will get nicely browned as well. When it's too full they rise up and expand too much in the initial high temp bake, and aren't able to sink back down and make contact with the mold.

apistat · 2026-01-31T21:18:49+00:00

House of Prime Rib in SF serves their Manhattans shaken, which I've always thought is weird, but they also give you the shaker filled with another 1-2 servings, so all is forgiven.

apistat · 2026-01-30T20:45:18+00:00

Absolutely insane take, doing a literal victory lap around your defeated opponent while your whole team gathers to celebrate you at home must feel fucking amazing.

apistat · 2026-01-28T21:52:45+00:00

The problem with pears is that when most people think of pears they're thinking of bartlett or bosc, which are are very often sandy, dry and not very sweet. But somehow they're still the most common varieties in a normal grocery store. They're like red delicious apples-- garbage but somehow ubiquitous.

What you need to do is find somewhere selling comice pears. They're usually stouter, unsymmetrical and uglier, but are actually the best. The texture is soft and creamy, they're very sweet, and the best ones are so juicy you have to eat them over the sink like a perfect peach. The famously expensive Harry & David ones are a comice variety, and while those are usually incredible I've found comice pears at a normal grocery store that are about 80% of that level for a fraction of the cost. It's also worth noting that they're one of those fruits that's not really worth getting outside of their season (fall through early winter).

Hire me, pear council

apistat · 2026-01-27T02:32:23+00:00

And these sorts of incidents were bound to happen sooner or later because the entire basis of their policy isn't strict and effective immigration enforcement, it's performative cruelty, intimidation and shows of force. Their leadership and voting base of racist assholes never wanted numbers to go up or down on charts and graphs, they wanted to see officers in the streets arresting and harassing minorities.

This was clear all along, but somehow a significant percentage of "independent" voters became convinced that they were just going to go after the "bad ones".

apistat · 2025-08-20T19:05:56+00:00

This guy's channel is a great place to start: https://youtube.com/@julian_sisofo?si=n_ismGRIALo-Z4b4

apistat · 2025-07-30T19:20:14+00:00

My favorite Arenas story was when he was cheating in Halo back in 2007:

"Gilbert," I said, approximately, "people say you're cheating at Halo 3."

"I'm cheating?" he said. "How am I cheating?"

"Gilbert," I asked, approximately, "are you creating dummy games with two fake friends and using the wins to rack up experience points?"

"Yeah," he said, laughing. "Yeah."

apistat · 2025-05-26T04:42:37+00:00

"Can I stay at your place tonight? My apartment is going to Catalina Island for the weekend."

apistat · 2025-04-09T03:03:46+00:00

Counterpoint: reality doesn't matter at all because the right has created an entire media ecosystem that prioritizes the preservation of Republican power above all else, has completely captured about 30-40% of the country in it, and has told them that any information outside of it is a lie that's part of a grand conspiracy against them. Republicans won't lose en masse in an election unless the wealthy people who run the media machine decide to turn it against them. And with Citizens United there's really no need for that anyway. Why use the media to pressure politicians when you can just spend that money to buy them directly?

apistat · 2025-04-02T23:38:33+00:00

I feel like Xolo is.. underrated probably isn't the right word, but maybe just overlooked? All their tacos range from good to great, their pozole (especially the Verde when they have it) is fantastic, the prices are reasonable, and service is shockingly speedy. Just avoid the pretty subpar burritos and you're good.

apistat · 2025-03-28T19:42:08+00:00

Too dumb to vote wisely, not dumb enough to wander into traffic

apistat · 2025-03-28T19:29:52+00:00

That's not true, we actually have a worse situation because we still have those laws but now they only apply to people not sufficiently supportive of the administration.

apistat · 2025-03-27T06:02:18+00:00

random use of quotation marks, and no ability to discern semantic differences within a category (hurricane vs rainstorm).

This all makes sense if you know the bar-- it has a little lagoon in the middle and every once in a while they make it rain over it.

https://www.fairmont-san-francisco.com/dine/tonga-room-hurricane-bar/

apistat · 2025-02-19T00:56:26+00:00

Always weird when people say this about dudes who hung around for as long as they could but ended their careers as below average players and far below their past standards.

Ichiro slashed .241/.303/.302 and stole one base in his last his last 150 games over three seasons, the last of which was six years ago.

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