This is the 14 year-old Polish girl Czesława Kwoka, She wasn’t Jewish. She was Catholic, but had the misfortune of simply living in the wrong place at the wrong time. She was sent to Auschwitz, where she was executed via injection into her heart. One can see the inverted red triangle on her tag. This is just one example why we should still hate Nazis. Still hate white supremacists. Still despise those who use their iconography.
I was expecting a wine shipment yesterday. Today, the delivery system says that it was delivered and an adult signed for it, but my doorbell never rang, and I certainly never signed anything!
I called the delivery company, and the representative asked if I had asked my neighbors. I said, "I certainly don't feel comfortable ringing people's doorbells during a pandemic."
The image file is a scrawl, and the record says, "Y. Yj" which I assume is a computer guessing what the scrawl is, not actually reflective of what it might be.
"Big Girls Don't Cry" by Fergie. She is actually a really talented singer masked behind the pop/faux R&B pieces that pays her and her entire crew's bills. This song is actually got some range for her to actually emote and vocally stretch.
OSHA NIOSH Heat Safety Tool - tells you about heat stress/heat stroke potential conditions based on how hot the forecast, and how hot the phone is right now.
Kleptocrat - an app about how people launder money
Rooam - allows you to order and pay for food and drink at restaurants and bars, checks you out and pays when you leave the location. I think it mostly covers east coast and some Midwest cities.
opensnow. snow forecasts for every ski mountain. you can save your favorites too.
also, i am probably one of the 10 people in the world that have the Android version of the SoulCycle app. it is pretty useless but trying to be an early adopter and given them feedback
12/19. I'm rarely going to turn down sweets, but I tend to more often crave savory. And there are some things that one started, will absolutely be finished no matter how crappy they make me feel (I'm looking at you, bowl of Peanut M&Ms).
I feel as if liking savory and liking sweet are not remotely at odds. I enjoy both immensely, and I don't feel like I'm choosing one over the other, generally.
That is quite interesting! Is it consistent in the way it correlates to various parts of the cycle? Like... I dunno, more tendency for craving sweetness close to ovulation for example?
It was consistent within an individual, but I don't know if it's consistent across all women. That is, one told me that she always craves fries in the week leading up to her period, but ice during her period.
I crave fries and ice cream all the time, regardless of cycle :P
Ah, there is a way in which you can tell which you like better, doesn't mean that enjoyment is in any way in "conflict" - but you get near the end of the meal, do you have seconds, or do you save room for dessert?
Does anyone have the number on how much of the money spent on campaigns actually go to the people (such as the local economy of campaign stops) vs. some major companies?
It can vary widely, if the campaign has a robust ground game with organizers to GOTV, those people get paid (but not that much, I was once one). If not, it goes to consultants, mailing houses, radio and TV stations and now Facebook.
Are they still making those "hoverboards" that were all the fad a few years ago...until the possibly exploding batteries might have curbed their popularity?
They have just in the last couple of years been getting more commonplace in these parts. So of course, supply, support, and service will dry up. Brilliant.
Unfortunately it's Ky so I'm sure Moscow Mitch will win. But man if they made him sweat a little bit that'd be awesome. If all the Dems in Louisville and Lexington voted, I wonder if it would be enough to take him down.
I think it all depends on how many absentee ballots get submitted. Which it looks like this year should be a record. Especially since Gov Beshear, I think, opened it to all registered voters and told them how to register for absentee ballots.
Did a little background check. She did a in-the-weeds Instagram video post on why BLM should not be supported because everyone needs, like, a metric ton of Jesus. She got fired from her job because of it because it is unintentionally racist. So she gets a little time right-wing notoriety for being a victim of Cancel Culture. Problem is, she's dumb as a bag of hammers - and this speech is a result. Went to Louisiana's lowest 8th best public university. Naturally, Trump leered at her as she walked off.
NC 11th District: 24 year old Madison Cawthorne trounces Lynda Bennett (66% vs. 34%), after the latter earned a plurality in the first ballot. Apparently, voters were turned off by Bennett -- an ill-tempered real estate agent with no political experience - getting a backing by Trump, Jim Jordan, and Mark Meadows. Apparently, when Meadows stepped down the day before candidacy registration closed, he handpicked her as other leading candidates already registered for other offices thinking that Meadows would run for re-election. She performed poorly at speeches and then refused to debate. Her main attribute: she is a friend of Meadow's wife. Cawthorne will likely be an underdog because NC-11 was un-gerrymandered to include the other half of the main (and notoriously liberal) city of Asheville, NC.
Nah. With the rest of Ashville now merged back into the district, Cawthorne will probably lose to Moe Davis. Davis is part of the new wave of Democrats put forward since 2016 - veterans, very smart, and political savvy. Davis will wipe the floor with Cawthorne if they ever debate.
Something I saw online said that Michelle Caruso-Cabrera was a Republican until earlier this year, and whose husband is a huge Trump donor. I did not fact check this.
I remember they were talking with him way back before coronavirus started. I'm guessing he'll take whatever they're offering. Maybe something like 1/8? 2/15? They're in the drivers seat right now.
I'm still annoyed that I didn't get the chance to visit the inside of that museum in Memphis on the Ole Miss trip. Me missing my flight (mostly my fault...and lost 3 hours of sightseeing time) and being stuck in traffic for 2-3 hours due to a bad accident (almost missed my return flight) took away the time that I thought I had to visit it. I will have to return to Memphis at some point.
Same thing happened to me. Raced across Nashville from airport. Rocked up within an hour of closing and they wouldn't let me in. Went to Gus' chicken instead. I wearing their t-shirt now.
I'm not sure I like the framing of "Nazis were so bad, they killed non-Jews indiscriminately as well". Like, Nazis were (and are) bad, full stop. Doesn't matter whether their mass extermination was hyper-targeted or not.
It depends on how you look at it. If you think about it as also not forgetting about other victims of the Holocaust (minority groups such as the Roma, dissidents, random others), then it seems reasonable.
I visited the Dachau concentration camp just outside Munich last year. The memorial sculpture there certainly still does not have all of the colors of the different types of prisoners that were once hold there. The homosexuals and mentally ill (and I think somehow gypsies are also lumped into this group) are not remembered the same way...yet.
True, a truly depressing book I read recently, "An Iron Wind" about how Nazi occupation affected civilian populations in Europe, many Poles think that Poles were the real victims of the Holocaust, and blame the Jews for "meekly" going the the death camps.
I hope that's not where pierrezo is coming from; he is factually correct however.
More Champagne to ease the pain...
I was expecting a wine shipment yesterday. Today, the delivery system says that it was delivered and an adult signed for it, but my doorbell never rang, and I certainly never signed anything!
I called the delivery company, and the representative asked if I had asked my neighbors. I said, "I certainly don't feel comfortable ringing people's doorbells during a pandemic."
I said that to a DELIVERY COMPANY.
I feel like a jackassasaurus.
I have been getting wine deliveries also, and they have not generally been taking the signatures. The delivery guy just makes like I signed it.
I have been receiving the wine though, thankfully.
sounds like the delivery guy got a wine shipment yesterday
Did you ask for the name of the adult that signed for it?
The image file is a scrawl, and the record says, "Y. Yj" which I assume is a computer guessing what the scrawl is, not actually reflective of what it might be.
Besides the scrawl, the driver is supposed to ask and type in the actual name.
The NFL announces that the mascots will be a famous local food. What are the teams now called?
San Diego Fish Tacos
Arizona Ice Tea
Washington Oven-roasted Redskins
Carolina Hush Puppies
Miami Red Beans & Rice
Minnesota Hot Dish
Detroit Wings
Denver Rocky Mountain Oysters
Philly Cheesesteaks
Arizona Ice Tea
Jacksonville Menthol slim 100 & White Claws
Minnesota Hotdish (pronounced 'hoddish')
Green Bay Brats?
Minnesota Jucy Lucy
LA Leftover Burritos (for the Chargers)
Ha!
The Washington Half-smokes
The Baltimore Steamed Crabs
Half-smokes - I had to look that up.
It’s pretty niche but it’s one of the few genuinely local things to eat in DC. Otherwise I’d have gone with the Washington Peruvian Chicken
Pittsburgh Pierogis
Las Vegas Buffets
Nashville Hot Chickens
SF Mission Burritos
Sure, but what famous food is local to Santa Clara?
Ha! That's why they ain't the Santa Clara 49ers
And screw Rice a Roni. Ain't nobody in the City eating that crap.
I have two boxes of four cheese Rice a Roni in my pantry right now. It's great when I want to mainline sodium (mostly when I'm hungover).
SF Sourdough Loaves?
SF Dungeness Crabs
Which team gets Barbecue? Carolina? Kansas City? Houston?
Houston Phở
Lots of Vietnamese in Houston but I haven’t yet had good pho there. Plenty of so so pho.
LA Street Tacos
LA KBBQ.
NY Pizza Slices
NY Bagels
Buffalo Wings
New England Clam Chowder. Duh.
LA Street Dogs
A song recorded by an artist waaaay outside their norm
"Big Girls Don't Cry" by Fergie. She is actually a really talented singer masked behind the pop/faux R&B pieces that pays her and her entire crew's bills. This song is actually got some range for her to actually emote and vocally stretch.
September, Taylor Swift. Though her arrangement is much to her style.
Toby Keith’s versión of “if I had a hammer”
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds by William Shatner
Heh, I think that IS his norm.
Fair point
An app on your phone that most people don't have
BOSS chromatic tuner
I have ukulele tuner which sounds close.
Bad pun.
OSHA NIOSH Heat Safety Tool - tells you about heat stress/heat stroke potential conditions based on how hot the forecast, and how hot the phone is right now.
Kleptocrat - an app about how people launder money
Rooam - allows you to order and pay for food and drink at restaurants and bars, checks you out and pays when you leave the location. I think it mostly covers east coast and some Midwest cities.
Overseas real estate apps for fantasy browsing
Torque, an OBD ii scanner app. nRF Connect to scan for Bluetooth Low Energy devices.
opensnow. snow forecasts for every ski mountain. you can save your favorites too.
also, i am probably one of the 10 people in the world that have the Android version of the SoulCycle app. it is pretty useless but trying to be an early adopter and given them feedback
Libby. Not entirely unknown, but it is still neat. Allows me to check out books from my local library. I use it to listen to audio books.
Sweet tooth on a 19 point scale (19 = rubbing powdered sugar on your gums)
3/19. I like to eat chicken for dessert.
Probably 16/19
17-18/19. What's for dessert?
We had lemon bar that my daughter made last night washed down with some chocolate
That sounds good!
I just had a cream soda float to settle some bbq ribs.
12/19. I'm rarely going to turn down sweets, but I tend to more often crave savory. And there are some things that one started, will absolutely be finished no matter how crappy they make me feel (I'm looking at you, bowl of Peanut M&Ms).
I feel as if liking savory and liking sweet are not remotely at odds. I enjoy both immensely, and I don't feel like I'm choosing one over the other, generally.
Usually there is no reason to choose.
Some women I know will lean more toward savory or more toward sweet depending on where in their cycle they are.
That is quite interesting! Is it consistent in the way it correlates to various parts of the cycle? Like... I dunno, more tendency for craving sweetness close to ovulation for example?
It was consistent within an individual, but I don't know if it's consistent across all women. That is, one told me that she always craves fries in the week leading up to her period, but ice during her period.
I crave fries and ice cream all the time, regardless of cycle :P
Ah, there is a way in which you can tell which you like better, doesn't mean that enjoyment is in any way in "conflict" - but you get near the end of the meal, do you have seconds, or do you save room for dessert?
You've had me over enough times to know, I take seconds *and* have room for dessert ;-)
Dark chocolate peanut m&ms is my fave.
15 as well.
i have dessert w/ coffee as first breakfast everyday.
If there were no consequences, I absolutely would do the same.
no consequences. a healthy 2nd breakfast makes up for it.
If I only ate breakfast, that'd be fine for me. I just don't want to spike my blood sugar all day most days.
pqtm
15/19
Love all desserts, but I have some self control.
4. Savory all day, every day - except for dessert.
9/19, prefer savory
Obama and Biden raise $7.6 million...
Does anyone have the number on how much of the money spent on campaigns actually go to the people (such as the local economy of campaign stops) vs. some major companies?
It can vary widely, if the campaign has a robust ground game with organizers to GOTV, those people get paid (but not that much, I was once one). If not, it goes to consultants, mailing houses, radio and TV stations and now Facebook.
If we’re talking about the trump campaign, not much...
Segway production is ending
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/23/tech/segway-pt-shut-down/index.html
Are they still making those "hoverboards" that were all the fad a few years ago...until the possibly exploding batteries might have curbed their popularity?
I'm sure they will smoothly transition to their next product...
I...I didn't know they were still making those
They have just in the last couple of years been getting more commonplace in these parts. So of course, supply, support, and service will dry up. Brilliant.
for tours where people are too lazy to walk
they're pretty damn fun, for what it's worth. it doesn't fill any kind of even niche need for me, or I might've bought one.
I'm pretty lazy...but I guess not that lazy
Elsewhere in college
An Ivy League football scholarship lost in the blink of eye.
https://nypost.com/2020/06/23/nate-panza-cornell-football-commit-booted-after-using-n-word/
Triangle
Below Canal Street
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOLivyykLqk
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
Devin Nunes loses his legal suit against a fictional cow
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/devin-nunes-loses-legal-battle-with-twitter-cow.html
Trump and his mask-less rallies are making the Republican party a death cult.
Upstart progressive challenger in Kentucky Senate primary makes it a race, currently too close to call.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/kentucky-senate-primary-race-decide-who-challenges-mitch-mcconnell-too-n1231961
Unfortunately it's Ky so I'm sure Moscow Mitch will win. But man if they made him sweat a little bit that'd be awesome. If all the Dems in Louisville and Lexington voted, I wonder if it would be enough to take him down.
I'm not so sure about that, he's likely to win, but it's not a sure bet.
I think it all depends on how many absentee ballots get submitted. Which it looks like this year should be a record. Especially since Gov Beshear, I think, opened it to all registered voters and told them how to register for absentee ballots.
Speaker Reagan Escude at Trump rally: Aunt Jemima was cancelled, but she was the American dream.
https://twitter.com/brooklynmutt/status/1275582279289581571
She has a bright future ahead of her in the right wing media ecosphere
Did a little background check. She did a in-the-weeds Instagram video post on why BLM should not be supported because everyone needs, like, a metric ton of Jesus. She got fired from her job because of it because it is unintentionally racist. So she gets a little time right-wing notoriety for being a victim of Cancel Culture. Problem is, she's dumb as a bag of hammers - and this speech is a result. Went to Louisiana's lowest 8th best public university. Naturally, Trump leered at her as she walked off.
Pretty sure that Jesus only saves in Imperial tons
Federal Appeals Court orders dismissal of Flynn case
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/24/politics/michael-flynn-dismiss/index.html
NC 11th District: 24 year old Madison Cawthorne trounces Lynda Bennett (66% vs. 34%), after the latter earned a plurality in the first ballot. Apparently, voters were turned off by Bennett -- an ill-tempered real estate agent with no political experience - getting a backing by Trump, Jim Jordan, and Mark Meadows. Apparently, when Meadows stepped down the day before candidacy registration closed, he handpicked her as other leading candidates already registered for other offices thinking that Meadows would run for re-election. She performed poorly at speeches and then refused to debate. Her main attribute: she is a friend of Meadow's wife. Cawthorne will likely be an underdog because NC-11 was un-gerrymandered to include the other half of the main (and notoriously liberal) city of Asheville, NC.
He's probably the favorite, because Trump won that district by 17 points. The Dem has a shot, but Cawthorn would have to blow it.
Nah. With the rest of Ashville now merged back into the district, Cawthorne will probably lose to Moe Davis. Davis is part of the new wave of Democrats put forward since 2016 - veterans, very smart, and political savvy. Davis will wipe the floor with Cawthorne if they ever debate.
He’s a former Guantanamo prosecutor, right?
NY 14th District: AOC smokes Michelle Caruso-Cabrera in primary (74% vs. 19%)
why was someone running a primary against her? or was it one of those people who just put there name on the ballot for the entertainment value.
Something I saw online said that Michelle Caruso-Cabrera was a Republican until earlier this year, and whose husband is a huge Trump donor. I did not fact check this.
so she was just troll'n.
Wall Street types hate AOC and were trying to take her down. Very unsuccessfully.
NY-16! Bowman defeats Engel!!
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Looks like the NASCAR/Bubba Watson noose was probably not an intentional threat against him.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bubba-wallace-noose-nascar-garage-fbi-no-crime-committed/
Bowden @ CBS Sports: Giants will talk to Puig
https://twitter.com/JimBowdenGM/status/1275597854585823233
I remember they were talking with him way back before coronavirus started. I'm guessing he'll take whatever they're offering. Maybe something like 1/8? 2/15? They're in the drivers seat right now.
hoo boy here we go
FedEx temporarily replaces its logo for the National Civil Rights Museum on Denny Hemlin's car for Talladega. Hemlin drives for Joe Gibbs Racing.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/22/us/nascar-denny-hamlin-fedex-national-civil-rights-museum-spt-trnd/?iid=ob_lockedrail_topeditorial
I'm still annoyed that I didn't get the chance to visit the inside of that museum in Memphis on the Ole Miss trip. Me missing my flight (mostly my fault...and lost 3 hours of sightseeing time) and being stuck in traffic for 2-3 hours due to a bad accident (almost missed my return flight) took away the time that I thought I had to visit it. I will have to return to Memphis at some point.
Same thing happened to me. Raced across Nashville from airport. Rocked up within an hour of closing and they wouldn't let me in. Went to Gus' chicken instead. I wearing their t-shirt now.
The museum was amazing. Even better than I though it would be. I went Fri around lunch time and there were a lot of Cal fans at the museum.
Hamlin
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51n9vRHYs2L._AC_SY445_.jpg
CAL
Go Bears!
Cal FB Recruiting puts up the Bat Signal. Some times, good things happen after they do this...
https://twitter.com/CalRecruiting/status/1275857591491366913
No Cal players in top 17 of 247Sport's 2020 Pac-12 football players
https://247sports.com/LongFormArticle/The-top-10-college-football-players-in-the-Pac-12-for-2020-148459438/#148459438_1
Almost 3 million non-Jewish Poles were killed in the holocaust.
I'm not sure I like the framing of "Nazis were so bad, they killed non-Jews indiscriminately as well". Like, Nazis were (and are) bad, full stop. Doesn't matter whether their mass extermination was hyper-targeted or not.
It depends on how you look at it. If you think about it as also not forgetting about other victims of the Holocaust (minority groups such as the Roma, dissidents, random others), then it seems reasonable.
I visited the Dachau concentration camp just outside Munich last year. The memorial sculpture there certainly still does not have all of the colors of the different types of prisoners that were once hold there. The homosexuals and mentally ill (and I think somehow gypsies are also lumped into this group) are not remembered the same way...yet.
Right, I think it's important to remember, and I just think the framing is important regarding the messaging and how it's perceived.
True, a truly depressing book I read recently, "An Iron Wind" about how Nazi occupation affected civilian populations in Europe, many Poles think that Poles were the real victims of the Holocaust, and blame the Jews for "meekly" going the the death camps.
I hope that's not where pierrezo is coming from; he is factually correct however.
No disrespect, man. I was just surprised to learn how many non-Jewish Poles were killed.
I visited Auschwitz a few years back. Completely surreal.
If not for their treatment of the Jews, the Nazis' treatment of the Russians would have been considered the worst atrocity of the 20th century.
What about the deaths Stalin is responsible for?
Or what about the Great Leap Forward?
I think they're all in the discussion.