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BERKELEY – The California women's tennis team is splitting its squad between the ITA National Fall Championships and the ASU Thunderbird Invitational this week, with Jessica Alsola, Katja Wiersholm, Erin Richardson and Makenna Thiel heading to fall nationals in San Diego, and Valentina Ivanov, Hannah Viller Moeller and Cami Brown traveling to the tournament in Tempe, Arizona, as Cal closes out the first half of the regular season.
The annual ITA tournament takes place at the Barnes Center in San Diego, where, in Wednesday's doubles first round, Alsola and Wiersholm will play Texas Tech's Metka Komac and Cristina Tiglea at 2:30 p.m., while Richardson and Thiel will face UCLA's fourth-seeded Kimmi Hance and Elise Wagle at 5:30 p.m.
KAILUA-KONA, HI – Junior Mika Jin moved up 12 spots in the individual standings after her second consecutive 1-over par and the Cal women's golf team stands in fifth place after the second round of the Pac-12 Preview at Nanea Golf Club.
Jin is one of three Cal individuals in the top-20, with junior Cristina Ochoa leading the way in a tie for 10th place at 2-under par for the tournament. Sophomore Jieming Yang is in a tie for 12th at 1-under.
BERKELEY – The California men's basketball team will play its lone exhibition game prior to the start of the 2022-23 regular season when it hosts Chico State Wednesday night inside of Haas Pavilion.
BERKELEY – Ryder Jackson, a Cal men's tennis junior, competes in singles at the ITA National Fall Championships to close out the first half of the 2022-23 season for the Golden Bears. The annual tournament starts Wednesday and ends Sunday at the Barnes Tennis Center in San Diego.
In the opening round of 32, Jackson faces Wichita State's Kristof Minarik at 12 p.m. on Wednesday.
ATLANTA – Matthew Cindric was one of 12 players across the nation to be named a semifinalist for the 2022 Wuerffel Trophy on Tuesday. Known as "College Football's Premier Award for Community Service", the Wuerffel Trophy is named after Danny Wuerffel, 1996 Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback from Florida. The Wuerffel Trophy exists to honor college football players who serve others, celebrate their positive impact on society, and inspire greater service in the world.
Cindric was selected despite suffering a season-ending injury at Colorado on October 15.
Auburn fires OC Eric Kiesau (Cal WR Coach in 2002-05 & 2011), TE coach Brad Bedell, Football Chief of Staff Brad Larrondo, and Director of Recruiting Darren Uscher.
I think a lot of people questioned the Musgrave hire. I know I did because I saw his journeyman OC history as a huge red flag. A successful OC shouldn’t be getting a new job every 2 years.
Kansas basketball coach Bill Self and assistant Kurtis Townsend on Wednesday were suspended for the first four games of the season, and the Jayhawks imposed several recruiting restrictions as part of the fallout from the FBI investigation into college basketball corruption stemming from 2017.
Self and Townsend were named in the NCAA's notice of allegations that accused the school of five Level I violations tied to its relationship with Adidas.
That MFer gonna make so much money when he sells. Only in sports does this happen. Like, you can't buy a McDonald's franchise, run it into the ground, piss off all of your customers, and then sell it for an enormous profit.
Roughly 14,000 McDonalds restaurants in the US, only 32 NFL franchises in the US.
The NFL is a strange sport that benefits from both socialist management policies: shared revenue between each franchise, salary cap so that the rich and big market teams can just outspend the smaller market teams, last place teams get the best picks in the draft.
The NFL also benefits from capitalism and supply side economics.
The worst part of this news is that it's been YEARS since I've had to sit through endless Monday dissections of the Epithets' games, if they get good, my peace will be shattered. On the other hand I don't seem to be heading back to an office any time soon.
I've disliked the team ever since I moved here. Just disliked it much more during the Snyder years. Fans are so entitled from 30+ years ago so I agree it will not be positive if they get good again.
The U.S. attorney's office in the Eastern District of Virginia has opened a criminal investigation into allegations that the Washington Commanders engaged in financial improprieties, two sources familiar with the matter confirmed to ESPN on Wednesday.
The sources said prosecutors are focused on several areas, and that the inquiry was triggered by a letter the House Committee on Oversight and Reform sent to the Federal Trade Commission and several attorneys general in April that alleged deceptive business practices. Attorneys general in Virginia and Washington, D.C., also are investigating allegations of financial impropriety.
Team spokeswoman Jean Medina did not immediately comment but provided a statement from attorney John Brownlee of Holland & Knight, who represents the Commanders.
I'm a little rattled about how quickly and fully the baseless conspiracy theories about Paul Pelosi took root amongst republicans. On Sunday, I was talking to five smart, respectable republicans - all of which have successful and influential careers - and each of them had completely accepted the lies as fact. They thought I was the rube for believing it was a politically motivated attack.
It's beyond alarming the extent to which people anymore seem comfortable believing what they want to be true, without regard for the potential consequences of believing (and acting based on) false information. It's been the Trump strategy that the Republican establishment has adopted, but I've also seen it in other quarters, and not just in the political arena.
I get why the spin mentality does this, in part because it remarkably is actually working, but its also a case of influencing things in their favor in the short term, and getting out of the collapse zone before it eventually blows up. What I don't get is why so many people who will be in said collapse zone, and have to deal with it, aren't concerned. Are they really so entitled to think and assume someone is surely going to clean it all up for them?
Collapse zone? Blowup? Why do you think either one of those things will happen? They will just continue to move the goalpost to the next conspiracy theory. QAnon hasn’t collapsed and shows no signs. The GQP is moving beyond a political party and becoming a cult.
QAnon isn't going to collapse; what I was referring to is whatever policy or economic based problem lunatic thinking leads to or allows to happen. You are right; these people (mostly) move the goalposts or move along when things go wrong, and leave others to clean up the mess, while they get to work on creating the next one.
I’m not. These people operate in a pre-conceived reality silo’d off from critical thinking. They scour the Interwebs for seeing any nugget of information that even potentially validates their truth even a little bit. It’s exactly like how people went into 2020 basically wanting there to be election fraud and interpreted normally unremarkable things like ballots being transported in their cases as “proof”.
Do you guys think that younger folks, digital natives, are as gullible about this stuff as middle aged and older ppl obviously are? I want to hope that this is just custom lagging technology, older people just not understanding social media, but not sure if that is the case. If younger ppl buy into obvious lies spread on the internet/social media just as often as older people do, then we are truly fucked.
Unfortunately I do because the GQP is basically becoming a cult now and these kids are being raised in the church of QAnon. Even regular churches are becoming politicized in their sermons while reinforcing GQP and QAnon talking points. These kids have about the same chance of escaping as those in regular cults.
when someone - say, a friend - regurgitates some bullshit from MAGA-land like the Paul Pelosi conspiracy theories, do you call out the dangerous misinformation or ignore it?
Part of me thinks I have an obligation to call it out in the interest of saving democracy, but the rest of me thinks it's useless and will only bring aggravation upon myself.
Somewhat related, only it happened before January 6.
Mrs. Slug's BIL is a dittohead. At a summertime family function in 2019 (it might have been 2020), I was sitting outside with my sons drinking beer and the BIL sits down. He starts going off with something that Limbaugh was propounding at the time (it probably had to do with the cost of gas and the idea of "forcing people to move to urban areas" or some such nonsense). I thought he was clearly trying to get a rise out of me. I *did not* respond. I simply looked at the boys and they looked at me and then their uncle. No utterances of any sort. Zero, zip, nada.
After an awkward silence of about 30 seconds, someone brought up something else, far less controversial. I think it was baseball.
I find that awkward silences in these situations are very helpful. I don't have to say anything and it gets the point across: I won't discuss nonsense with you, I won't validate nonsense by discussing it or even trying to refute it. In short, I take the Dana Carvey as George H.W. Bush approach - "Not gonna go there. Not a good idea at this juncture."
Another challenge of trying to call out people like this is that these kinds of galaxy brain ideas don't form based on facts and common sense. If a fundamentally sound rebuttal is going to be met with "nuh-uh," then there's not much of a point.
You can’t say anything direct, agree. But a bit of humor goes a long way I think - both to lighten the mood and also to highlight the absurdity of their position.
Depends on the kind of relationship you have with them. If you know this is someone who just wants to soapbox, ignoring is probably best. If it's someone who might actually listen to you, then I'd probably respond, but not in a combative way . . . try to ask questions and understand what's driving their opinions and then come at it on a personal level.
I've had a bit of success in talking to older relatives about trans issues, for example. Though these were not far right wing dittohead types, just standard older "I find this hard to understand" types.
Sigh, yeah I think you are right, I guess I lost my friendship with my best friend (all the way from college) in 2018 when we got in an argument about the crazy mean stuff that the Trump was doing to immigrant families then.
Neither of us have called the other since then. He had become more conservative over the years - didn't vote for Trump because he knew he was dumb - but this endorsement of this evil move shocked me.
Sorry to hear that, Cugel. I've essentially lost my best friend from grade school to time and distance. Not what I would have expected, but it happened.
I like their Asian chicken wrap. I would buy them driving cross country. 2 full wraps cut in half and I would eat one half in the parking lot, one half for dinner, then repeat the next day. Inexpensive and healthier, I think, than fast food.
Every Halloween I'm reminded of how good homemade pumpkin seeds are: put them on a baking sheet, lightly spritz with olive oil, give them a dash of sea salt, and bake for 20-40 minutes in the oven at 325 (shuffling seeds every 10 min to ensure an even roast). I'll be snacking on roasted pumpkin seeds all week.
I made Persian fesenjoon last night. It's chicken in a toasted walnut puree made with reduced pomegranate juice. It was so different than anything I've ever had before. It's like a nutty/sweet/sour molé or pepian. I would probably change the recipe to reduce the pomegranate juice before hand to reduce the cooking time because the chicken gets overcooked.
I'm totally onboard with doing a reduction in advance of the primary recipe.
A few years ago, Mrs Slug and I decided to try a port reduction for our sweet potato recipe (served at Thanksgiving). Mrs Slug did the port reduction one day ahead of the sweet potato recipe. It was absolutely the right call as she was able to focus on the reduction process and it yielded an excellent product. It also aided us in producing an excellent batch of sweet potatoes.
supermarket black tea, like PG Tips, Tetley, Ty-phoo, maybe Yorkshire tea. More commonly called "brickie" tea as I understand it, but I thought that might be one localism too far
I've learned of this custom in Britain of offering a tea to whoever's been hired to do work at one's house. I have a Scottish-born friend that feels compelled to make such an offer here in upstate New York. As you'd imagine, his contractors, plumbers, and landscapers just stare at him, having no idea what to make of this.
Studies have shown that sweetened iced tea can lead to an increase chance of kidney stones. Iced tea contains high concentrations of oxalate, which is one of the key chemicals that lead to the formation of kidney stones.
working at a physics-based company now, your conference rooms are named after famous physicists. i am currently the in Marie Curie room on a Zoom call.
I got to name the conference rooms on my floor of my building, and I chose local beaches. We have Stinson, Ocean, Muir, Pescadero, Montara, Drake and I forget what else.
Our building has rather pedestrian conference room names -
Conference Room 3A/3B which indicates the floor (3rd, obviously) and that there are two halves (A and B). Most of the conference rooms have two halves that can be divided by a folding barrier. Typically, conference rooms are not divided when used.
Fortunately, its a versatile item that can be used in a variety of ways. I recommend trying all of them. Maybe more than once, just to be sure you have a good test.
Disagree. In part it depends on what you are boiling it in (various sausages in beer), and the nature of the source meat. My mom made a great boiled beef using essentially scrap pieces that would have had to be ground or fed to the dog to salvage much, but with proper seasoning, it essentially was boiled in a broth.
This can also be a tactic when you want to soften the flavor of some gamey meats, or otherwise strong tasting meat from an older animal. Also a worthy tactic when dealing with "earthy" tasting waterfowl.
The opinions of conservatives. They've gone off the rails and so much of what the spout is utter nonsense and not worth considering. Ideas have been replaced by hysteria.
What does the blue check mark even get you? Honestly, about all this Twitter stuff, I could care less. It will inevitably be replaced by something created over the summer by a 12 year old
Finished season 4 of Stranger Things last night. I agree season 4 was much better than season 3 and tied together everything. But I didn't think season 3 was as bad as some people have said.
That is the best show I have seen this year. Am thinking of rewatching with my wife who has yet to see it, but who has a deep disdain for corporate office culture
Really enjoying ANDOR on the D+. Showing both how one becomes a hard core rebel, the grinding banal evil and incompetence of the empire, and the political machinations required all 'round.
CAL
Non-fiction
https://twitter.com/tegbridges/status/1587067793584918529?t=DnEv1Gv6CchnfGbOmjEmvQ&s=19
Depth chart vs. USC
https://twitter.com/rob11hwang/status/1587512488823693312?t=rQ8MHu-D5ut7maK03SFyIg&s=19
The ILB position next to Sirmon is a mess. How do they not know which of the 4 guys are the best player?
Also good that Lu Magia is back.
Go Bears!!!
WR Mason Starling out for season
What's the injury?
It is either a lower body injury or an upper body injury.
Serves (fill in the blank here) right for asking.
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How do you know it's not a head injury? Front side of the head or back side of the head?
[WTEN] Four Bears Head To Fall Nationals
https://calbears.com/news/2022/11/1/womens-tennis-four-bears-head-to-fall-nationals.aspx
BERKELEY – The California women's tennis team is splitting its squad between the ITA National Fall Championships and the ASU Thunderbird Invitational this week, with Jessica Alsola, Katja Wiersholm, Erin Richardson and Makenna Thiel heading to fall nationals in San Diego, and Valentina Ivanov, Hannah Viller Moeller and Cami Brown traveling to the tournament in Tempe, Arizona, as Cal closes out the first half of the regular season.
The annual ITA tournament takes place at the Barnes Center in San Diego, where, in Wednesday's doubles first round, Alsola and Wiersholm will play Texas Tech's Metka Komac and Cristina Tiglea at 2:30 p.m., while Richardson and Thiel will face UCLA's fourth-seeded Kimmi Hance and Elise Wagle at 5:30 p.m.
[WGOLF] Bears Stand In Fifth At Pac-12 Preview
https://calbears.com/news/2022/11/1/womens-golf-bears-stand-in-fifth-at-pac-12-preview.aspx
KAILUA-KONA, HI – Junior Mika Jin moved up 12 spots in the individual standings after her second consecutive 1-over par and the Cal women's golf team stands in fifth place after the second round of the Pac-12 Preview at Nanea Golf Club.
Jin is one of three Cal individuals in the top-20, with junior Cristina Ochoa leading the way in a tie for 10th place at 2-under par for the tournament. Sophomore Jieming Yang is in a tie for 12th at 1-under.
[MBB] Bears Host Chico State In Exhibition Wednesday
https://calbears.com/news/2022/10/31/mens-basketball-bears-host-chico-state-in-exhibition-wednesday.aspx
BERKELEY – The California men's basketball team will play its lone exhibition game prior to the start of the 2022-23 regular season when it hosts Chico State Wednesday night inside of Haas Pavilion.
[MTEN] Jackson Competes At ITA Fall Nationals
https://calbears.com/news/2022/11/1/mens-tennis-jackson-competes-at-ita-fall-nationals.aspx
BERKELEY – Ryder Jackson, a Cal men's tennis junior, competes in singles at the ITA National Fall Championships to close out the first half of the 2022-23 season for the Golden Bears. The annual tournament starts Wednesday and ends Sunday at the Barnes Tennis Center in San Diego.
In the opening round of 32, Jackson faces Wichita State's Kristof Minarik at 12 p.m. on Wednesday.
[FB] Matthew Cindric Named Wuerffel Trophy Semifinalist
https://calbears.com/news/2022/11/1/football-matthew-cindric-named-wuerffel-trophy-semifinalist.aspx
ATLANTA – Matthew Cindric was one of 12 players across the nation to be named a semifinalist for the 2022 Wuerffel Trophy on Tuesday. Known as "College Football's Premier Award for Community Service", the Wuerffel Trophy is named after Danny Wuerffel, 1996 Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback from Florida. The Wuerffel Trophy exists to honor college football players who serve others, celebrate their positive impact on society, and inspire greater service in the world.
Cindric was selected despite suffering a season-ending injury at Colorado on October 15.
On Todd McKim’s podcast yesterday, JW said Millner won’t be getting any more reps in practice than usual.
Cal football Instagram just posted a TD of Millner. Of course it's filled with Start Kai comments, including Anthony Miller's
Coaching malpractice
Just give us something to be excited about, man. No one will be excited about seeing Plummer limp out there and leading us to a 40 point loss
Once we lose to SC, we will be mathematically eliminated from bowl eligibility. Perhaps then JW would play Millner? I hope against hope
I would imagine that he's hoping to not play him any more, and allow this to count as a redshirt year (he's only been in 2 games, I think)
Didn’t he already redshirt last year?
When your estranged spouse buys you a whole new wardrobe
https://twitter.com/Dalmcm/status/1587875312481681408?t=Zur63vTSItyhcjequuVUiw&s=19
Elsewhere in college
Rolo has his voice back no thanks to Elon Musk
https://twitter.com/BrianMFloyd/status/1586093047582175232?t=KqXayXCet-C9-7ImtdDNmQ&s=19
Bobcats beat the Buffalo Bulls 45-24
https://www.espn.com/college-football/recap?gameId=401416633
Kent State flashes in the first half 13-0, but Ball State owns the second half to come from behind to win 17-13.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/recap?gameId=401416632
Oklahoma State's starting punter Tom Hutton (RS-Jr) has to medically retire due to injuries. He is 32 years old.
https://twitter.com/jacobunruh/status/1587608065783767040
https://www.the-sun.com/sport/6280167/tom-hutton-oldest-active-college-football-player/
Herm Edwards rejoins ESPN
https://twitter.com/ESPNPR/status/1587475620811997186
Failing upwards
An additional 4 MSU players suspended for the beating of a Michigan player in the tunnel.
https://twitter.com/msu_athletics/status/1587557217619755009
Auburn fires OC Eric Kiesau (Cal WR Coach in 2002-05 & 2011), TE coach Brad Bedell, Football Chief of Staff Brad Larrondo, and Director of Recruiting Darren Uscher.
https://twitter.com/JLeeAULive/status/1587193012131713029
Auburn hires a new AD. John Cohen was previously the AD for MS State.
https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/34918614/auburn-finalizing-hire-mississippi-state-ad-cohen
It would be so Wilcoxian to hire Kiesau
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That was a good time period for wide receivers and offense in general. That was also a good time period for O lines with future NFL players.
Yes it would.
We should do alot better than Kiesau, but just curious if Kiesau would actually be better than Musgrave.
Probably, more college FB thought in him.
It's hard to imagine how he'd be worse than his predecessor. Then again, that's what most of us thought when Musgrave replaced Baldwin...
Yeah... I hope Wilcox will go for a homerun hire than "he should be better than Musgrave" hire.
The Musgrave bar is so low that a bunt single would be an improvement and successful hire.
I think a lot of people questioned the Musgrave hire. I know I did because I saw his journeyman OC history as a huge red flag. A successful OC shouldn’t be getting a new job every 2 years.
On brand
Speaking of cheaters.
Kansas suspends Bill Self for 4 games in infractions case
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/34932400/kansas-suspends-bill-self-4-games-infractions-case
Kansas basketball coach Bill Self and assistant Kurtis Townsend on Wednesday were suspended for the first four games of the season, and the Jayhawks imposed several recruiting restrictions as part of the fallout from the FBI investigation into college basketball corruption stemming from 2017.
Self and Townsend were named in the NCAA's notice of allegations that accused the school of five Level I violations tied to its relationship with Adidas.
I’ll take “slaps on the wrist” for $800
PRO
Dubs go cold in Q4 and let the game slip away vs. Heat
https://www.espn.com/nba/boxscore/_/gameId/401468259
Dubs are really scuffling. Klay in particular seems pretty off. Is this the last year of his deal?
I wonder if Klay not playing pickup during the offseason means he need much more time to get his shot dialed in.
1... 2... 3... 4... 5! Five dingers, ah ah aaaah! Phils win 7-0
https://www.espn.com/mlb/game/_/gameId/401467557
Nets' GM Sean Marks (Cal MBB 94-98) fires Steve Nash
https://www.nba.com/news/nets-coach-steve-nash-agree-to-part-ways
Had to. No other option.
Daniel Snyder considers ‘potential transactions’ for Washington Commanders
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/11/02/dan-snyder-sale-washington-commanders/
That MFer gonna make so much money when he sells. Only in sports does this happen. Like, you can't buy a McDonald's franchise, run it into the ground, piss off all of your customers, and then sell it for an enormous profit.
You got that right.
Similar nonsense applies to John Fisher and the A's. I really despise Fisher.
Roughly 14,000 McDonalds restaurants in the US, only 32 NFL franchises in the US.
The NFL is a strange sport that benefits from both socialist management policies: shared revenue between each franchise, salary cap so that the rich and big market teams can just outspend the smaller market teams, last place teams get the best picks in the draft.
The NFL also benefits from capitalism and supply side economics.
The NFL truly has the best of both worlds.
Sadly, I think Trump made money when he sold the lease to his DC hotel.
The worst part of this news is that it's been YEARS since I've had to sit through endless Monday dissections of the Epithets' games, if they get good, my peace will be shattered. On the other hand I don't seem to be heading back to an office any time soon.
I've disliked the team ever since I moved here. Just disliked it much more during the Snyder years. Fans are so entitled from 30+ years ago so I agree it will not be positive if they get good again.
You know it is just a matter of time until Elon tweets he is buying the team.
Gawd-awful cheap compared to Twitter, at that.
Not so fast my friend.
Sources: U.S. attorney's office investigating Commanders over alleged financial improprieties
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/34934158/sources-us-attorney-office-investigating-commanders-alleged-financial-improprieties
The U.S. attorney's office in the Eastern District of Virginia has opened a criminal investigation into allegations that the Washington Commanders engaged in financial improprieties, two sources familiar with the matter confirmed to ESPN on Wednesday.
The sources said prosecutors are focused on several areas, and that the inquiry was triggered by a letter the House Committee on Oversight and Reform sent to the Federal Trade Commission and several attorneys general in April that alleged deceptive business practices. Attorneys general in Virginia and Washington, D.C., also are investigating allegations of financial impropriety.
Team spokeswoman Jean Medina did not immediately comment but provided a statement from attorney John Brownlee of Holland & Knight, who represents the Commanders.
Happy Birthday Jimmy G
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Garoppolo
Astros are still cheaters
https://twitter.com/Starting9/status/1586527237825863681
Can we have this O-Line?
https://twitter.com/OllieConnolly/status/1587387084486098944?t=E7dUZqR9-P-21olwooQwFA&s=19
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
Restraining order granted on armed group that is intimidating voters at drop-off boxes in two Arizona counties
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/judge-orders-armed-group-away-from-arizona-ballot-drop-boxes_n_63624393e4b039b01e20fc56
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Declares Mail-In Ballots Without Dates Invalid
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/01/us/politics/pennsylvania-supreme-court-mail-in-ballots.html
There is time, though, to cure the defect (no date). I don't see anything in the story that says that the defect cannot be cured.
Then there's this quote from the same article -
Ronna McDaniel, the R.N.C. chairwoman, heralded the ruling as a “massive victory for Pennsylvania voters and the rule of law.”
Very ironic given that McDaniel had offered support the January 6 insurrection which was anything but an exercise in the rule of law.
I'm a little rattled about how quickly and fully the baseless conspiracy theories about Paul Pelosi took root amongst republicans. On Sunday, I was talking to five smart, respectable republicans - all of which have successful and influential careers - and each of them had completely accepted the lies as fact. They thought I was the rube for believing it was a politically motivated attack.
We're so very fucked.
@Shocked@
It's beyond alarming the extent to which people anymore seem comfortable believing what they want to be true, without regard for the potential consequences of believing (and acting based on) false information. It's been the Trump strategy that the Republican establishment has adopted, but I've also seen it in other quarters, and not just in the political arena.
I get why the spin mentality does this, in part because it remarkably is actually working, but its also a case of influencing things in their favor in the short term, and getting out of the collapse zone before it eventually blows up. What I don't get is why so many people who will be in said collapse zone, and have to deal with it, aren't concerned. Are they really so entitled to think and assume someone is surely going to clean it all up for them?
To answer your question, YES!
If "affluenza" is an assertion in a criminal case, then there's your answer.
Collapse zone? Blowup? Why do you think either one of those things will happen? They will just continue to move the goalpost to the next conspiracy theory. QAnon hasn’t collapsed and shows no signs. The GQP is moving beyond a political party and becoming a cult.
QAnon isn't going to collapse; what I was referring to is whatever policy or economic based problem lunatic thinking leads to or allows to happen. You are right; these people (mostly) move the goalposts or move along when things go wrong, and leave others to clean up the mess, while they get to work on creating the next one.
I’m not. These people operate in a pre-conceived reality silo’d off from critical thinking. They scour the Interwebs for seeing any nugget of information that even potentially validates their truth even a little bit. It’s exactly like how people went into 2020 basically wanting there to be election fraud and interpreted normally unremarkable things like ballots being transported in their cases as “proof”.
Do you guys think that younger folks, digital natives, are as gullible about this stuff as middle aged and older ppl obviously are? I want to hope that this is just custom lagging technology, older people just not understanding social media, but not sure if that is the case. If younger ppl buy into obvious lies spread on the internet/social media just as often as older people do, then we are truly fucked.
Unfortunately I do because the GQP is basically becoming a cult now and these kids are being raised in the church of QAnon. Even regular churches are becoming politicized in their sermons while reinforcing GQP and QAnon talking points. These kids have about the same chance of escaping as those in regular cults.
I feel like younger generations are less likely to be drawn in by the same tactics, but it can still happen.
Question for people:
when someone - say, a friend - regurgitates some bullshit from MAGA-land like the Paul Pelosi conspiracy theories, do you call out the dangerous misinformation or ignore it?
Part of me thinks I have an obligation to call it out in the interest of saving democracy, but the rest of me thinks it's useless and will only bring aggravation upon myself.
Somewhat related, only it happened before January 6.
Mrs. Slug's BIL is a dittohead. At a summertime family function in 2019 (it might have been 2020), I was sitting outside with my sons drinking beer and the BIL sits down. He starts going off with something that Limbaugh was propounding at the time (it probably had to do with the cost of gas and the idea of "forcing people to move to urban areas" or some such nonsense). I thought he was clearly trying to get a rise out of me. I *did not* respond. I simply looked at the boys and they looked at me and then their uncle. No utterances of any sort. Zero, zip, nada.
After an awkward silence of about 30 seconds, someone brought up something else, far less controversial. I think it was baseball.
I find that awkward silences in these situations are very helpful. I don't have to say anything and it gets the point across: I won't discuss nonsense with you, I won't validate nonsense by discussing it or even trying to refute it. In short, I take the Dana Carvey as George H.W. Bush approach - "Not gonna go there. Not a good idea at this juncture."
Another challenge of trying to call out people like this is that these kinds of galaxy brain ideas don't form based on facts and common sense. If a fundamentally sound rebuttal is going to be met with "nuh-uh," then there's not much of a point.
Exactly. The best way to undercut the nonsense based on emotionalism is to say nothing in rebuttal.
You can’t say anything direct, agree. But a bit of humor goes a long way I think - both to lighten the mood and also to highlight the absurdity of their position.
Depends on the kind of relationship you have with them. If you know this is someone who just wants to soapbox, ignoring is probably best. If it's someone who might actually listen to you, then I'd probably respond, but not in a combative way . . . try to ask questions and understand what's driving their opinions and then come at it on a personal level.
I've had a bit of success in talking to older relatives about trans issues, for example. Though these were not far right wing dittohead types, just standard older "I find this hard to understand" types.
Sigh, yeah I think you are right, I guess I lost my friendship with my best friend (all the way from college) in 2018 when we got in an argument about the crazy mean stuff that the Trump was doing to immigrant families then.
Neither of us have called the other since then. He had become more conservative over the years - didn't vote for Trump because he knew he was dumb - but this endorsement of this evil move shocked me.
Trump and QAnon has caused a lot tension and relationships to end between friends and family.
Sorry to hear that, Cugel. I've essentially lost my best friend from grade school to time and distance. Not what I would have expected, but it happened.
More politically motivated violence. A PA state congressional candidate was attacked and knocked unconscious in his backyard.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/93a8qp/pennsylvania-richard-ringer-assault
Are we at the John Brown and Bleeding Kansas stages of our second civil war?
DBD Cooking Academy
I like their Asian chicken wrap. I would buy them driving cross country. 2 full wraps cut in half and I would eat one half in the parking lot, one half for dinner, then repeat the next day. Inexpensive and healthier, I think, than fast food.
Every Halloween I'm reminded of how good homemade pumpkin seeds are: put them on a baking sheet, lightly spritz with olive oil, give them a dash of sea salt, and bake for 20-40 minutes in the oven at 325 (shuffling seeds every 10 min to ensure an even roast). I'll be snacking on roasted pumpkin seeds all week.
I made Persian fesenjoon last night. It's chicken in a toasted walnut puree made with reduced pomegranate juice. It was so different than anything I've ever had before. It's like a nutty/sweet/sour molé or pepian. I would probably change the recipe to reduce the pomegranate juice before hand to reduce the cooking time because the chicken gets overcooked.
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1020224-khoresh-e-fesenjoon-persian-chicken-stew-with-pomegranate-and-walnuts
I'm totally onboard with doing a reduction in advance of the primary recipe.
A few years ago, Mrs Slug and I decided to try a port reduction for our sweet potato recipe (served at Thanksgiving). Mrs Slug did the port reduction one day ahead of the sweet potato recipe. It was absolutely the right call as she was able to focus on the reduction process and it yielded an excellent product. It also aided us in producing an excellent batch of sweet potatoes.
What is your favorite tea?
Earl Grey
And in the black tea world, second place is so far in the distance!
However, various green teas can give EG a run for the money, depending on mood, food, etc.
Twinings lemon & ginger herbal tea
The weak tea of uninformed east coast bias, because it's so satisfying to smack outta their hand.
Chai
Whiskey
PG Tips govnor.
Green
Lapsang Souchong
any British (or Irish) "bricklayer" tea, anything else is a herbal infusion.
I'm curious. How would you describe a "bricklayer" tea? I've never heard the term before.
supermarket black tea, like PG Tips, Tetley, Ty-phoo, maybe Yorkshire tea. More commonly called "brickie" tea as I understand it, but I thought that might be one localism too far
the point being, tea that you'd see bricklayers (or other trades) drinking on a building site.
I've learned of this custom in Britain of offering a tea to whoever's been hired to do work at one's house. I have a Scottish-born friend that feels compelled to make such an offer here in upstate New York. As you'd imagine, his contractors, plumbers, and landscapers just stare at him, having no idea what to make of this.
My mother has been known to offer workmen lunch & you'd be amazed at the speed with which works get done after guys have been fed.
Also commonly called "Builder's tea". Generally served with milk and quite a lot of sugar.
Long Island iced
Do you prefer hot or iced?
Hot, always
Iced
If I wanted something iced in the afternoon, it was always coffee with sometimes cream in it even (which I never drink in the morning - black always).
Hot.
As much as I enjoy a nice glass of sweet tea when I visit the south, it's better for my teeth and my waistline to avoid it.
I drink unsweetened iced tea all day every day. I drink hot tea only when I'm cold.
Do you believe that iced tea contributes to kidney stones?
never heard that. where does this idea come from?
Studies have shown that sweetened iced tea can lead to an increase chance of kidney stones. Iced tea contains high concentrations of oxalate, which is one of the key chemicals that lead to the formation of kidney stones.
If the tea regularly consumed is laced with sugar, then yes.
Otherwise, unadulterated tea shouldn't increase the risk for kidney stones.
Yorkshire Gold or Yorkshire decaf (I buy both and mix to get half caf tea).
Polonium
working at a physics-based company now, your conference rooms are named after famous physicists. i am currently the in Marie Curie room on a Zoom call.
Which of the famous physicist rooms is named for Cal physicists?
I got to name the conference rooms on my floor of my building, and I chose local beaches. We have Stinson, Ocean, Muir, Pescadero, Montara, Drake and I forget what else.
Baker, perhaps?
Yes. And there's one other. I'll have to look the next time I go into the office.
Limantour?
Nope. Might be Mavericks?
Point Reyes!
Our building has rather pedestrian conference room names -
Conference Room 3A/3B which indicates the floor (3rd, obviously) and that there are two halves (A and B). Most of the conference rooms have two halves that can be divided by a folding barrier. Typically, conference rooms are not divided when used.
Something Polish
Keilbasa is my favorite - i always get one at Top Dog.
in New Hyde Park, which was our first NY-metro-area-living, we lived in a heavily Polish neighborhood w/ fantastic Polish delis.
we would get fresh Keilbasa and babka pretty regularly. on the other hand, they would always sell dark Lithuanian bread instead of anything Polish.
According to my Polish in-laws, kielbasa should be boiled - not grilled.
I like to boil in beer to cook and then finish by grilling.
Fortunately, its a versatile item that can be used in a variety of ways. I recommend trying all of them. Maybe more than once, just to be sure you have a good test.
Tradition aside, boiling is basically always the worst option for cooking any kind of meat product. That is, if you care about taste.
Disagree. In part it depends on what you are boiling it in (various sausages in beer), and the nature of the source meat. My mom made a great boiled beef using essentially scrap pieces that would have had to be ground or fed to the dog to salvage much, but with proper seasoning, it essentially was boiled in a broth.
This can also be a tactic when you want to soften the flavor of some gamey meats, or otherwise strong tasting meat from an older animal. Also a worthy tactic when dealing with "earthy" tasting waterfowl.
Except corned beef!!!
Good point. In that case you would be working at cross-purposes.
My wife (1/2) and child (1/4).
Dolly
I want to say they did a few, but they turn out to be not as hardy as regular grown.
https://pbblogassets.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/06/14160100/Wheelchair_Dolly.gif
My freshman year at SC there was a guy in the dorm who was 1) in a wheelchair, and 2) a film major, and he absolute filmed that way.
Something that is a lot less interesting as you get older
Game shows.
Newellbany
this is fair.
The opinions of conservatives. They've gone off the rails and so much of what the spout is utter nonsense and not worth considering. Ideas have been replaced by hysteria.
other people's dating lives, and monogamy or lack therof.
Something you learned from either parent based upon their experience from their job
According to my mother, don't go into HR. The career ceiling is flat and low + you generally deal with bad people all day long.
The credit card surchage is well worth it, saving you the trouble of going after the many clients who write bad checks.
According to this schmuck, free speech costs $8/month.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1587498907336118274
What does the blue check mark even get you? Honestly, about all this Twitter stuff, I could care less. It will inevitably be replaced by something created over the summer by a 12 year old
DBD AV Club
Finished season 4 of Stranger Things last night. I agree season 4 was much better than season 3 and tied together everything. But I didn't think season 3 was as bad as some people have said.
I can't wait for season 5.
I don’t think season 3 is bad but I don’t think it is as strong as seasons 1, 2, and 4.
Season 3 was fun but just not as good as the others.
It just generally felt like wheel-spinning: another monster in the same town, another secret base, etc.
But it did introduce Maya Hawke's character, so that was a good thing.
Finished American Gigolo and am now quite intrigued by the whole escort profession.
Give it a go! You don't have the wardrobe to be a pimp, so you're probably gonna have to work for one.
Now I picture JC in the Kramer get up, complete with pimp cane.
https://youtu.be/-_zKCUG20xs
Severance is rather intense! Watched ep 4 last night.
That is the best show I have seen this year. Am thinking of rewatching with my wife who has yet to see it, but who has a deep disdain for corporate office culture
Really enjoying ANDOR on the D+. Showing both how one becomes a hard core rebel, the grinding banal evil and incompetence of the empire, and the political machinations required all 'round.