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Xprimentyl

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Found this flag I'm getting to put in our yard the two times or so a year that we smoke a brisket. In our heads, it's a simple 2-step process: smoke for 4 hours, then in the oven, low and slow, for another 6 or so hours. But inexorably, the first step leads to either an uncontrolled burn of our smoking wood, or no smoke at all which leads to our adding more fuel, then the uncontrolled burn.

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And this is just funny. I don't know who @its_zaac is, but he's my sarcasm hero.

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In terms of watching I outgrew the show around the end of the Johto League but I dipped in and out now and then to see how Ash was going. If nothing else I was kind of interested in the amount of cool Pokemon he ended up acquiring in later series with a final team that, to be honest, I'd have used in Sword and Shield.

But I gotta admit, even if I'd gone in with no foreknowledge, as soon as that remix of the OG theme kicked in, I'd have known. This was it. This was the moment Ash got his dream. And I was not disappointed.
 

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The best fireworks shows are the ones where things go safely but catastrophically wrong
Reminds me of story of guy selling his trapeze artistry to circus owner who doesn't want him as he already has many such artists. Guy performs for him without a net and falls flat on his face. Moment of shock goes by, artist gets off the ground telling the owner he has trained to withstand such falls and that audiences do not want to see a well performed act: they want to see if the guy breaks his neck.

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Only took 24 years but finally!!!

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Brief backstory: Daniel Ricciardo is a Formula 1 driver who was driving for Red Bull (the currently dominant team,) made a couple of moves to other teams over the years, then tucked tail and accepted a spot as a third/reserve driver for Red Bull again this season. Well, rookie Nyck de Vries at Red Bull's sister team Alpha Tauri lost his seat, and Ricciardo has been called up to replace him. Meanwhile, many (including myself) thought Ricciardo was gunning for Sergio "Checo" Perez's seat at Red Bull. Checo is the teammate of Max Verstappen, and compared to Max, who has literally obliterated everyone else this season, he's been struggling (and by "struggling," I mean he's currently #2 in the World Driver's Championship behind Max, so... doing awful?) and the buzz was he might lose his seat, and Ricciardo would get a proper Bull again.