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***** Texas Saturday Breakfast *****

Taco Time! Are you ready for some Saturday Breakfast, still All-Fresh? Currently, All-New? Bring out the Drones! The NewTexas Happy Taco Stands, in conjunction with the NewTexas Incendiary Corporation, has approximately 1 trillion of the fastest, lightest drones you have ever seen. This fleet is specially designed to deliver tacos to every man, woman, child, whatever, in Texas, all 2,288,481,000,000 of you.

Today's special breakfast will Saturday Green Eggs and Ham and Cheese Breakfast Tacos [COVID-19 Week CLXXXII Edition]! The Big Tex Happy Taco Stands of NewTexas is kickin' up an all-new oddball one for you today Texas! Today's taco is one no Texan may have ever had. We take genuine Texas, farm-raised Grade A Jumbo Eggs and scramble them up with enough parsley, cilantro, chives, and a touch of jalapeño to make them more green than yellow. At the same time, Genuine Texas Abuelas are slicing slabs of Texas smoked hickory ham, smoked on-premises all night. They slice in thin strips and simmer it in Red Eye Gravy. WooHoo! We make it decadent by loading up a big ol' flour tortilla, made by certified Texas Abuelitas with love, and top it all off with shredded Longhorn Jack cheese (made right here in NewTexas, naturally). Remember, a whole egg in every taco!®

Today's Special Salsa is - Salsa Verde - a Tex-Mex tradition! This spicy green sauce is made from tomatillos, serrano peppers, and onion and garlic. Want to go gonzo on the "green"? A sealed cup of pickled jalapeñoes is included. The taco is hermetically sealed in a Stay-Warm® pouch that is wrapped in the same ol' aluminum foil we are all so familiar with for our breakfast taco. We are trying to keep it real, peeps. For your beverage accompaniment, a packet of Sanka, Tang and a Lipton Tea bag will be included with every delivery as well as salt and pepper and a napkin. Yes, it is different, but it works and you do not even have to leave your residence. Woo! And, watch out for the drones! Start your day off the right way; munch out and go back to sleep. You know you want to!®

Stay Safe Texas. Stay Well. Hang in there!

***** Texas Chat Reminder *****

The Texas Weekly Chat Session will be Saturday (TODAY) at High Noon Texas Time (CDT) ***Saturday***. And, if you can't be there right at Noon, that is OK, Texas Chat usually runs 3, 4, or 5 hours with some Chats running as high as 7 or 8 hours.

The Texas Chat Site is here: http://texasregion.net/blab70/login.php

Please register with your nation name. This is an excellent opportunity for nations old and new to Texas to discover what is happening! We chat, debate, and talk about the weather, stuff we like, stuff we hate, random stuff, and more. But, it is never stuffy. Usually, it is about meeting your fellow Texans and discussing the latest and most exciting stuff in NationStates. But then again, sometimes NationStates does not even come up. It is wide-open chatting with peeps from around The World both IRL and NS. It is Texans, EuroTexans, WannabeTexans, ex-Texans, VirtualTexans, and plenty of Friends of Texans. We have it all and all are welcome.

We have added a new feature to Texas Chat, Texas Movie Chat! Chat with Texans while watching a movie. Fun stuff! So far we have watched Halloween, Shootout at the OK Corral, Red, and recently a few new Star Trek series episodes. Want to watch something together?

Texas Chat, 964 weeks and running! For the math-challenged, that is over 19¼ years! Check it out! Good stuff!

Trecdom2 wrote:

Well, the dress uniform still fits. Barely, I'll have to get new pants and belt for next time

Getting old already?

Gig em Aggies wrote:

Well despite putting Miss State in the dog pound last night Jimbo is most likely be told to pack his bags by the Texas A&M Board of Regents. I made a prediction a few games ago that even if Jimbo made a bowl he probably would not be here next year it came true sort of.

I was about to come here and ask you how you felt about the Jimbo firing. Seems like that giant contract was a mistake. Hope you get an actually solid hire this time

Trecdom2 wrote:

Speaking of which...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnACS8FgSeg

https://youtu.be/PxBNbWFyEE8?si=hwRXqNv3b90dsmYG

Me and my mom are huge fans of both of those channels. Plus SEC Shorts came to College Station a couple months ago and me my mom and my sister went to go see them.

A little late but let’s go! Rangers won the World Series!

howdy howdy howdy

How do yall fellow Texans like my new national flag?

“Do what you can to show you care about other people, and you will make our world a better place.” Godspeed Rosalynn Carter. (National Park Service LEGO Vignettes)

Trecdom2 wrote:

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/air-mobility-commands-fleet-of-tankers-cargo-planes-go-incognito

Article is from March, but still interesting. I'll have to pay attention next time we have a Bird from off-base and pay attention to the paint scheme, or lack thereof

That seems like a waste of perfectly good red tape and gray paint. There has to be something they are not telling us.

Trecdom2 wrote:

“Do what you can to show you care about other people, and you will make our world a better place.” Godspeed Rosalynn Carter. (National Park Service LEGO Vignettes)

I honestly thought Jimmy was going to beat her to the finish line.

Indian Empire wrote:

finally switched from Chrome to Firefox today. It was well deserved

What are the pros and cons?

Issues Test Bed wrote:

What are the pros and cons?

I'd say Firefox is definitely better than Chrome, and I'd very much recommend making the switch soon.

I switched for two reasons. One, Chrome is a memory hog on your computer when open, so it makes everything run slower and more bogged down. This was starting to become a problem with the amount of things I do with my computer. The second reason was the Manifest V3 update coming up. That's a very technical topic, so I'll leave the most layman explanation I can find below this paragraph, but the general gist is that Manifest V3 is what Chromium based browsers/extensions will be running on starting in Mid 2024, and it is decently likely to make ad-blockers significantly less effective or straight up break due to establishing an API limit on the tools the ad blockers use to block the ads when you load in a page- I wanted to get ahead of that curve and switch to a non chromium based browser, especially since ad-blocking is so immensely valuable on today's internet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygUf9TDUCVE

Overall, I would say Firefox has a lot of positives- it definitely runs better and has more functionality (pop out video player, better customization, etc). The main downsides for me have been losing some extensions (Firefox has the common ones, but if you use anything obscure you may not be able to bring it over) and having to log into stuff again (not a problem because I transferred over passwords). Ultimately, it's a good decision IMO and one I would do again in a heartbeat.

Issues Test Bed wrote:

Ok, I've been playing with Firefox this morning. The first problem I'm seeing is that YouTube is painfully slow to load. I'll keep tinkering and see if I can figure out what the hang up is.

I was reading about this issue ~5 minutes before I saw this message, so here's the article I read, maybe it'll help you in your tinkering.

https://9to5google.com/2023/11/20/youtube-firefox-slow-down-loading/

It appears, according to the article, that Google essentially added some "timeout" code to YouTube for those using Firefox. Some of the solutions mentioned in the article were to either spoof firefox as Google Chrome or to put a filter on that specific line of code so that it doesn't kick in when loading YouTube.

Holiday message from the Brass at the DHA thanks everyone for operating at the "speed of relevance." Interesting phrase I've not heard before. And despite all the emails I get, I'm technically not an employee of the DHA as I'm a contractor. We're not included in the list of new employees and don't get perks like early dismissal that the civilian employees get.

Finally got the chance to watch the newest "hit" show of sorts, The Amazing Digital Circus. Fascinating film. It is sort of horror but without the blood/death really and with a tiny amount of humor mixed in so it's definitely pretty tame I would say. All in all, would definitely recommend.