benjamin elrod

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[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

I went to In-N-Out and ordered a cheeseburger. The cashier, a calm young woman named Destiny, asked me a question I did not expect.

"You want that Animal Style?"

I paused.

I did not know what this meant. But a samurai does not admit he does not know. So I answered with weight.

"...Animal Style."

"Cool. So that's mustard-grilled, extra spread, grilled onions, pickles. Yeah?"

I understood now. This was a sacred permission. For one meal, I was being told to put down my manners at the door. To eat the way a beast eats, without shame. I had waited my whole life for someone to give me this order.

"Yes," I said. "I will become the animal."

Destiny did not blink. "...Okay. You want your fries Animal Style too?"

I stopped. Even the potatoes?

"The potatoes also become animals?"

"I mean, they get cheese and sauce and grilled onions, so..."

"Then yes. Let the potatoes abandon their restraint as well."

"...Got it." She was the calmest woman I have ever met. "3x3, 4x4, or just the one?"

I did not know these numbers, but I knew a challenge when I heard one. "How many must I face?"

"It's, like, how many patties you want."

"How many is the most honorable?"

"...Four is a lot."

"Then four. A warrior does not ask for fewer."

She wrote it down without argument. A 4x4, Animal Style, with animal fries. She warned me once, kindly. "That's gonna be huge." I told her I was counting on it.

It arrived. It was a tower. Cheese and sauce ran down my hands the moment I lifted it. There was no clean way to eat it. There was no dignified way. That was the entire point.

I ate it like a beast. Both hands, no honor, grilled onion on my chin, and I have to be honest with you, it was the best thing I have ever put in my mouth.

For thirty years I have kept my manners at every table in the world.

They handed me a burger and told me to be an animal, and I have never felt so free.

So tell me, America.

The whole country knows the secret menu. What else are you hiding in plain sight?

And "Animal Style." Was I eating the animal, or finally becoming one?

[benjamin elrod @eltrain13]

@COLORMktgDesign As an admittedly casual fan, this team seems much more deliberate and precise than in prior world cup matches. OG notwithstanding, this has been fun to watch!

[benjamin elrod @eltrain13]

@John_A_Held @AvonandsomerRob Had a hand me down 1972 olds 98 2 door convertible. And it was closer to 7 mpg.

[Aimee Terese @aimeeterese]

The strongest red flag was when leftists lost the ability to be funny. Comedy relies on subverting expectations to expose truth. Leftism subverts the truth to peddle lies. That’s why they can’t be funny, they can’t reveal the truth, their entire politics depends on concealing it.

[Jason Fried @jasonfried]

Bragging about how much software you’re shipping with AI is like holding down the shutter button and bragging about how many photos you took.

[Drew Powell @thedrewpowell]

Hey y’all! Will jet into it more in detail later but PLEASE beware that @cardon_assoc is bad news and Harbour Manor in particular is a place to avoid! Don’t want anyone else to go through the hell that my family has because of them!! Beware!!

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

Thomas Massie is exactly right. The PRIME Act is about one thing: getting Washington out of the way of American farmers.

Small producers shouldn't need to jump through federal hoops just to sell meat directly to their neighbors, local restaurants, and small businesses. States should have the power to govern their own local commerce. Big government has no business standing between a farmer and his customer. The House has passed it. Now it's time for the Senate to do the same.

[benjamin elrod @eltrain13]

@COLORMktgDesign This morning

[MJ @noneofabove1]

@stoolpresidente Aaron Hernandez Murder Case (2013)
Deflategate (2015)
Spygate — Extended Allegations (2007, revisited ~2015)
Spygate 2" — Illegal Filming of the Bengals (2019–2020)
Robert Kraft Solicitation Scandal (2019)
Mike Vrabel & Dianna Russini Affair Scandal
Dave You are a fucking idiot!

[60 Minutes @60Minutes]

Extended interview: Former Nebraska senator Ben Sasse has metastatic pancreatic cancer. He spoke with 60 Minutes' Scott Pelley about where America has been and where it could still go.

[benjamin elrod @eltrain13]

@chimoose @UTAustin Good to virtually see you

[Linus ✦ Ekenstam @LinusEkenstam]

I was skeptical, but now I’m completely convinced. Fencing will become super popular due to this one very particular improvement to the sport.

“Sword tip visualization” It’s going to debut at the summer olympics.

Every single duel will look like a bloody lightsaber fight

[Greg Matthews @chimoose]

This was the soundtrack of my youth. RIP, Bob Kevoian.

[CWBChicago @CWBChicago]

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[benjamin elrod @eltrain13]

Chicago 2050: Stacy Davis Gates writes on a city of community schools https://t.co/puD9PixJRj

No mention of educating our children.

[benjamin elrod @eltrain13]

@johnrooksjr @reemadamin @paschutz It's not about the kids, nor the parents.

[benjamin elrod @eltrain13]

@ClueHeywood @BunkiePerkins How to say you hate Arkansas without saying you hate Arkansas.

[benjamin elrod @eltrain13]

@elonmusk But it is all trained and based on human generated content. Ever been to the house of mirrors? Ever yell echo in the canyon?

[benjamin elrod @eltrain13]

@Aboujahjah @elonmusk Save Palestine from Hamas.