you'd think the republicans would be all over this investigation since it'd result in the arrests of Antifa thugs, who were impersonating Trump supporters.
2020-2021 is a massive lesson in the lethality of stupidity. Or put another perhaps more accurate way, how critical education is to a properly functioning democracy, and how badly we have neglected that critical need. On two points:
1) Covid - vax deniers/mask refusers/horse pill swallowers lead to more deaths not just among unvaccinated but also among population generally because they provide vast reservoirs for virus to stick around and mutate
2) January 6 — every dictator from Xi to Putin to XYZ future guy will hold this up as an everlasting example of the inherent flaws of democracy. This legitimizing their own authoritarian regimes and the terrors inherent therein, whether they be having the army open fire en masse on its own peacefully protesting citizens (China, 1989), imprisoning millions of ethnic and religious minorities (China, today), jailing dissidents and reporters (Russia and China today), poisoning dissidents (Russia, always), the creation of Orwellian levels of surveillance (China and North Korea today), and whatever fresh horrors authoritarianism will bring in the coming decades. Xi will be playing that Jan 6 footage on a loop like the Cal student store plays the Play on a loop during Big Game week
Yes true, but if there were unified Democratic opposition to Prop 13 for example, it would no longer be law. I think people of all stripes care more about low taxes than about funding education
Strange things are afoot at the Circle K.....it is on Cinemax as we speak, SGB....they're about to abscond with Billy the Kid, after kidnapping Napoleon...
First principles, Clarice. Read Marcus Aurelius. Of each particular thing ask: what is it in itself? What is its nature? What does he do, this man you seek?
Clarice Starling:
He kills women...
Hannibal Lecter:
No! That is incidental. What is the first and principal thing he does, what need does he serve by killing?
Pot: never have and don't plan on it (mostly out of habit and laziness), but same for all other drugs. Altho when battling depression about 25 years ago (and not eating), I was close to doing it (edibles) to get an appetite.
Wouldn't smoke pot (or tobacco) due to smoke in lungs. I'd consider shrooms since it's "natural" and hallucinogenic (which seems interesting). No acid or needles.
I'd go for that also! But I can do tea bag Earl Grey (so drink at work). Can't do green tea that way. So there's more effort to drink green tea for me (leaves, strainer, etc.)
I've seen some cool coffee making devices. The best I saw was in Philly in an Asian cafe. There is this apparatus above the pot holding the water. You light something that heats the air up in a pipe above the pot and creates a vacuum. It sucks up the water through a filter with the coffee. When it cools enough the coffee drops back down into the pot.
I had coffee made that way at a place in Ballard in Seattle some years back. They were trying to finish off a bag of some absurdly rare and expensive single origin beans so we got it at a fraction of the original price. It was delicious
I also like coffee, making it, and drinking it. I don't think about making it and drinking it except in the very early morning when I'm up and haven't yet had my coffee!
I’m with you. I think the relevant comparison is to a night of drinking. Drinking will often produce fun moments and stories, smoking pot much less so. Caveat though re smoking at a concert
Take two corners and invert them. Tuck those two into the normal corners. Invert one of the double corners and tuck it into the normal double corner. Fold in 1/3s, fold in 1/3s again. Done
When it came to folding linens, this was my MO for years. Then I learned that to fold fitted sheets you start with overlapping/inserting the corners. Everything else proceeds from that. Game changer.
Both Foundation and Invasion had great eps last night (e.g., moving things along). Invasion was only 33 min...that's shorter than most S2 Ted Lasso eps
Depending on what survey you want to believe, about one-third to one-sixth of marriages start by dating a coworker. I wonder if there is going to be a marriage recession coming soon because of Covid social norms.
No Draymond tonight? Hopefully they'll adjust better than against the TWolves. Knowing in advance should help, but the higher level of competition won't.
With Cal (UCSD), UW (No. IL) & now ASU all with brutal home losses, the P12’s NCAA Tourney chances are taking a beating....rough, rough week for the Conf’s bubble teams.
This very easily could be a 2-bid league this year.
The ASU loss could wind up being materially negative. Everyone knows Washington is going to amass losses, and Cal is probably going to finish 15th in the Pac-12.
I don’t think many had ASU dancing this year, even with Bagley back...but these losses are killing the P12 conference RPI, which will hurt SC, CO & AZ come tourney time, as they figure to all be living in Bubble City.
I think ASU not having Remy Martin hurts them. I've seen at least 2 games and he dominated Cal. The last game I watched he just distributed for the first 3/4 or so of the game and then he decided to take over and lead ASU to a convincing win.
UCR might be sneaky good. They've got all their starters back and are expected to compete for the Big West championship.
Losing to a team that shot nearly 50% from deep and (mostly) hung close with SDSU a few nights ago isn't too shameful. Not ideal, obviously, but it hardly relegates ASU to the scrap heap of the conference.
Steve Bannon indicted for contempt of congress, arrest warrant issued. Happy Friday!
Thank you! This was driving me nuts, that people were just ignoring lawfully issues congressional subpoenas with seemingly no repercussions
interesting to see if anything really happens.
you'd think the republicans would be all over this investigation since it'd result in the arrests of Antifa thugs, who were impersonating Trump supporters.
2020-2021 is a massive lesson in the lethality of stupidity. Or put another perhaps more accurate way, how critical education is to a properly functioning democracy, and how badly we have neglected that critical need. On two points:
1) Covid - vax deniers/mask refusers/horse pill swallowers lead to more deaths not just among unvaccinated but also among population generally because they provide vast reservoirs for virus to stick around and mutate
2) January 6 — every dictator from Xi to Putin to XYZ future guy will hold this up as an everlasting example of the inherent flaws of democracy. This legitimizing their own authoritarian regimes and the terrors inherent therein, whether they be having the army open fire en masse on its own peacefully protesting citizens (China, 1989), imprisoning millions of ethnic and religious minorities (China, today), jailing dissidents and reporters (Russia and China today), poisoning dissidents (Russia, always), the creation of Orwellian levels of surveillance (China and North Korea today), and whatever fresh horrors authoritarianism will bring in the coming decades. Xi will be playing that Jan 6 footage on a loop like the Cal student store plays the Play on a loop during Big Game week
Neglected? More like deliberately undermined by Republicans.
Yes true, but if there were unified Democratic opposition to Prop 13 for example, it would no longer be law. I think people of all stripes care more about low taxes than about funding education
Whoo-Hoo!
Today in subjective lists:
The Irish Post's top Irish bar for every US state
https://www.irishpost.com/news/the-best-irish-pub-every-us-state-revealed-180435
What would you guys say is best one in Bay Area? I can think of a few ok ones but nothing that great
The Irish Bank in SF, simply for their extra large outdoor seating area
The Dead Rabbit in NYC .. has an amazing collection of Irish whiskeys. many are not even for sale, but displayed anyways.
Their cocktail book is something else. Half graphic novel. Not very approachable for the home bartender sadly.
McSorley's in NYC is great
indeed. just walked by it last night and was tempted to pop in and get yelled at.
went to Death and Co instead for some nice cocktails at some investor event since they are raising a 2nd round of capital
Famous ee cummings poem about it: https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/i-was-sitting-mcsoreleys-outside-it-was-new-york-and-beauti-fully-snowing
An all time spot...I've spilt plenty of ale on that sawdust on the floor.
A disturbance was felt
https://twitter.com/HamillHimself/status/1458516365849948162?t=qtwiHaul109cPDGcBcfTMA&s=19
heh.
Too much love
Someone bothered to splice together 45 minutes of Love Boat guest introductions.
https://youtu.be/bPwxmrNVKKE
not going to watch, but gave it a <3
Favorite Marcus Aurelius' quote
Be Excellent To Each Other
Strange things are afoot at the Circle K.....it is on Cinemax as we speak, SGB....they're about to abscond with Billy the Kid, after kidnapping Napoleon...
WHOAAAAA!
Hannibal Lecter:
First principles, Clarice. Read Marcus Aurelius. Of each particular thing ask: what is it in itself? What is its nature? What does he do, this man you seek?
Clarice Starling:
He kills women...
Hannibal Lecter:
No! That is incidental. What is the first and principal thing he does, what need does he serve by killing?
Following on from yesterday's Heuristic Squelch - back issues are online, but not complete
https://squelched.com/
Pqtm. Apparently, cursed sexy Oski is a thing.
oh boy, that's an image.
Refuse to do
Eat cilantro. Drink coffee. Smoke pot.
Eat anchovies.
Just had some cilantro chutney on leftover spicy Indian food for lunch mmmmmmmmm.
Cilantro is wonderful! (altho I know it's binary)
Coffee: I noted the same opinion below
Pot: never have and don't plan on it (mostly out of habit and laziness), but same for all other drugs. Altho when battling depression about 25 years ago (and not eating), I was close to doing it (edibles) to get an appetite.
Wouldn't smoke pot (or tobacco) due to smoke in lungs. I'd consider shrooms since it's "natural" and hallucinogenic (which seems interesting). No acid or needles.
I was thinking of you and cilantro when this topic was introduced.
I had to pick a handful out of a salad last night that did not list it in the ingredients. 😡
soap flavor? I've heard that
Sit through an episode of most sit-coms. Or the horrid mis-redeaus of super-hero stories that CW has been pumping out.
Drink coffee. Tried it once or twice. That stuff is disgusting.
Hate coffee. for me it's:
Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.
With milk and sugar
If I'm going to drink tea, I prefer green tea, with nothing added.
and "nothing added". better be that way! my dad used to put sugar in his tea at Chinese restaurants...ugh!
altho "added" could be roasted barley (genmai) or something like that, which is acceptable!
I'd go for that also! But I can do tea bag Earl Grey (so drink at work). Can't do green tea that way. So there's more effort to drink green tea for me (leaves, strainer, etc.)
Does the Earl object when you teabag him?
I wrote that. I re-read it. I had trouble with how it was written grammatically. But left it just to troll for your reply! ;-)
I’m not a fan of coffee, especially hot coffee. I’ll drink an iced coffee sometimes if I’m tired and desperate.
i am the opposite. i love coffee, but only hot.
very rarely will drink it cold except maybe an iced espresso w/ a splash of milk
I think you meant to type "awesome".
Agree! Love coffee, love making it, love drinking it, love thinking about making it and drinking it
Lovemaking coffee??? (I know you had a space in your version)
[I'm just getting indirect revenge for DC Trojan having accused me of tea bagging Earl Grey!]
I've seen some cool coffee making devices. The best I saw was in Philly in an Asian cafe. There is this apparatus above the pot holding the water. You light something that heats the air up in a pipe above the pot and creates a vacuum. It sucks up the water through a filter with the coffee. When it cools enough the coffee drops back down into the pot.
I had coffee made that way at a place in Ballard in Seattle some years back. They were trying to finish off a bag of some absurdly rare and expensive single origin beans so we got it at a fraction of the original price. It was delicious
If someone did not make a sex joke out of my comment I would have been disappointed!
happy to have obliged. as I noted with the tea bagging, it wasn't intentional, but when I realized it, I left it there intentionally!
I also like coffee, making it, and drinking it. I don't think about making it and drinking it except in the very early morning when I'm up and haven't yet had my coffee!
I don't technically refuse to do so. But I almost never smoke pot despite it being easy to find and no moral qualms.
I’m with you. I think the relevant comparison is to a night of drinking. Drinking will often produce fun moments and stories, smoking pot much less so. Caveat though re smoking at a concert
I've always just been generally uninterested in recreational drugs of any kind.
I enjoy my life too much for any of them to be allowed to destroy it.
edibles are the way to go
Fold a fitted sheet. Frustration > Utility
Take two corners and invert them. Tuck those two into the normal corners. Invert one of the double corners and tuck it into the normal double corner. Fold in 1/3s, fold in 1/3s again. Done
When it came to folding linens, this was my MO for years. Then I learned that to fold fitted sheets you start with overlapping/inserting the corners. Everything else proceeds from that. Game changer.
So what do you do - just ball it up and throw it in the closet?
Step 1. Acknowledge frustration
Step 2. Purposely underperform on folding effort
Step 3. Wife grabs fitted sheet and says "Gimme that. You're banned from folding these."
Step 4. Success
Agreed
Touch a chalkboard, terracotta, or similar porous texture. Geeeeaaaugh. The feel gives me the heeby jeebies.
Normal
Norm, as in short for normal, comes from the Latin word for carpenter square. Norm, as short for Norman, is Norse and means northern man.
NORM!
DBD Test Kitchen
Some dish inspired by a Japanese stew - beef and squash with udon noddles, very tasty.
DBD AV Club
Both Foundation and Invasion had great eps last night (e.g., moving things along). Invasion was only 33 min...that's shorter than most S2 Ted Lasso eps
Our Crumbling Democracy
https://twitter.com/edsbs/status/1458825769577295874
Maybe turn around if you see that hair style upon walking into the attorney's office...
Yeah. I'm an overaged hippie with shoulder length hair and a gray beard and that would get me to turn around.
Today in Covid 19
I just cancelled my Pfizer booster appointment and rebooked with Moderna.
I'm booked for my Moderna booster on Monday morning, Pfizer was for the first two
I'm planning on M3 tomorrow.
Daughter's kinder is supposed have in-class shots next week (will see if they follow thru on it!). So she'll be on Team P. I'll still love her, tho!
Worst-case: P1 on 19 Nov, (hopefully) P2 on 10 Dec, two weeks later: 24 Dec. And we can go do more shit.
Depending on what survey you want to believe, about one-third to one-sixth of marriages start by dating a coworker. I wonder if there is going to be a marriage recession coming soon because of Covid social norms.
Amazon drivers will all have like 5 families
nah - love, even short term, finds a way
Pro
USA vs Mexico at 6 PM PST -
🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
No Draymond tonight? Hopefully they'll adjust better than against the TWolves. Knowing in advance should help, but the higher level of competition won't.
He wasn't eligible, but this is magnificent
https://twitter.com/espn/status/1459007245015003139?t=5bPv-0-d2Nhy_JVDFxBz1g&s=19
Watching it live, I thought maybe the ball was tipped but it clearly wasn't. Still impressive and every lineman's dream.
our own lineman
https://cdn0.sbnation.com/imported_assets/522896/34860_usc_california_football.jpg
Other College
UC Riverside inbounds ball trailing ASU by 2 with 2 seconds left.
https://twitter.com/DougHaller/status/1459000839196921857
https://twitter.com/NCAABuzzerBters/status/1459001192265117699
Bonus: watch again several times to see the universal surrender cobras in the background and foreground.
Couldn't have happened to a more deserving fan base.
With Cal (UCSD), UW (No. IL) & now ASU all with brutal home losses, the P12’s NCAA Tourney chances are taking a beating....rough, rough week for the Conf’s bubble teams.
This very easily could be a 2-bid league this year.
The ASU loss could wind up being materially negative. Everyone knows Washington is going to amass losses, and Cal is probably going to finish 15th in the Pac-12.
I don’t think many had ASU dancing this year, even with Bagley back...but these losses are killing the P12 conference RPI, which will hurt SC, CO & AZ come tourney time, as they figure to all be living in Bubble City.
I think ASU not having Remy Martin hurts them. I've seen at least 2 games and he dominated Cal. The last game I watched he just distributed for the first 3/4 or so of the game and then he decided to take over and lead ASU to a convincing win.
Ya, definitely - after testing the NBA waters, he just went for 15 in Kansas’ win over Sparty...he’ll have a great time in Lawrence.
the only team of those 3 with a remotely realistic chance of the tourney is ASU.
True, and even their chances were slim...still not the worst P12 home loss to a Big West UC school this week.
Of the 3, N Il was probably the best team of the 3. At least in the past they have been.
UCR might be sneaky good. They've got all their starters back and are expected to compete for the Big West championship.
Losing to a team that shot nearly 50% from deep and (mostly) hung close with SDSU a few nights ago isn't too shameful. Not ideal, obviously, but it hardly relegates ASU to the scrap heap of the conference.
So that makes Cal's loss even worse.
The fact that it was only marginally surprising is what I find most disappointing.
Cal
Go Bears!