I’m back, just getting caught back up and realized once Starlink gets through beta testing in a few years, I can probably be sitting in a tent mounted to a pickup truck and working productively in my own basecamp outside of Bryce Canyon. Do I need to own the campground? Hell no. I’ll move the truck if you ask.
This is my review of La Cumbre Azulito Mexican Lager:
I have to apologize for the stream of consciousness but this begins with a public health emergency in Ohio:
Human Parainfluenza (HPIV) is circulating and has many of the same symptoms as influenza which we see in the fall and winter, and COVID.
HPIV can cause upper and lower respiratory illnesses in infants, young children, older adults, and people with weakened immune systems, but anyone can get infected.
Just so we’re clear this is not the flu nor is it COVID, but its worth mentioning because holy crap people if this takes hold upon the tenuous fear of the mob we’re going to become experts in Human Parainfluenza. Its just like it though but its not the flu or COVID.
Which is like saying any thick, juicy cut of meat is steak. Well, its not. Steak is steak, and any attempt to prove to me otherwise is just propaganda from the people that want you to eat less steak because cows cause climate change.
This rebrand of familiar terms to mask the appearance of what is and what is not, has been the plan for decades. An example early in my experience was in the late-90’s when Oprah Winfrey dedicated an episode of her show to the potential dangers of Mad-Cow disease. This caused her to yet again do what she does best: enable white women. The conglomerate of big beef interests sued for defamation but ultimately lost as back then Oprah Winfrey technically had freedom of speech. As a result demand for beef dropped for some time out of fears of mad cow.
But there were other scares during that time to create animosity for the beef industry. Another example was the 2001 Bovine Foot and Mouth outbreak in the UK. Even earlier was the 1993 Jack in the Box E. Coli outbreak that made sure that burgers could never again be tasty as they could only be sold in one way: overcooked and possibly burned.
I guess the moral of the story is if you are in Ohio and not feeling too well, stay at home and rest for a bit. In the meantime, fortify your immune system by enjoying a delicious and nutrient dense meal. Like a steak.
Accept no substitutes.
Blue corn is often used in Mexican food as it sometimes comes in the lovely blue color in its indigenous form. It is however, often a gimmick. The fact is though, you eat with your eyes first so I sometimes will purchase blue corn tortillas for taco night because of the novelty. In the end though, its a bit different but more or less tastes the same. So when an outfit from New Mexico throws in blue corn in place of yellow corn for use as an adjunct for a traditional Mexican lager you can rest assured it tastes exactly the way its supposed to—excellent. Although points were lost because I am admittedly disappointed the beer didn’t come out blue. La Cumbre Azulito Mexican Lager: 2.8/5 4.7% ABV
Sounds more Chinese than black.
“In the meantime, fortify your immune system by enjoying a delicious and nutrient dense meal. Like a steak.
Accept no substitutes.”
I endorse this message.
“Although points were lost because I am admittedly disappointed the beer didn’t come out blue. ”
#metoo
Then you could mix it with yellow beer for St.Patricks.
“Kars4Kids CEO suing over gun law that targets Jewish NYers ‘where children are’
Religious Jews in New York have become sitting ducks for antisemitic attacks due to the concealed carry gun law passed last year, the CEO of the nonprofit Kars4Kids claims in a new lawsuit.
Eliyohu Mintz is taking aim at the Concealed Carry Improvement Act, which prevents most New Yorkers from bringing weapons into places of religious observation or summer camps — and which he is seeking to be deemed unconstitutional, according to the June 30 Albany Federal Court filing against the state.
In addition to heading Kars4Kids — known for its ubiquitous ad jingle — Mintz is CEO of the Jewish charity Oorah, which runs a summer camp in Schoharie County.
“The violent attacks on Jewish people targeting places of worship and places where children are — the most vulnerable of the population — are random and provide the victims with no notice or advance warning,” Mintz, a concealed-carry permit holder, said in court papers.
“I cannot be left unprepared and unarmed in the event that an evildoer decides to attack one or both of the campuses, nor can the other licensed staff members.”
The suit is one of several to challenge the Concealed Carry Improvement Act, which was swiftly passed and signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul in July 2022 in the wake of the Supreme Court striking down New York’s longstanding law determining who could obtain a concealed-carry gun permit.”
https://nypost.com/2023/07/08/kars4kids-ceo-suing-over-new-york-gun-law-restrictions/
I can’t believe I’m rooting for Kars4Kids.
IKR? That song is annoying af
K4K
That is 4Ks…. One K better than the other guys….
Or KK is in love with herself. :-p
They make me want to beat children
I feel like beating a lot of parents.
“Improvement”? More like “banishment”.
It’s like the Inflation Reduction Act that printed more money.
Maybe Kars4Kids can change their jingle
There’s some edge cases for Starlink but as a universal broadband service, it’s not. Reality will set in eventually.
I tend not to be an early adopter. I’ll wait for them to prove its as fast as they say.
The important test is can it stream the GlibFlicks movie?
I was at a motel (Dutch Lake Resort & RV Park) in Clearwater, B.C. last week that used Starlink for its “high-speed” WiFi / TV service.
I wasn’t impressed. It’s better than nothing, but so is a 56K modem.
Meh. Wrong end of Ohio. You’re on your own, Mr. Ilium.
This rebrand of familiar terms to mask the appearance of what is and what is not, has been the plan for decades.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/steak
Huh, so they can throw one of these on a stick and call it a steak.
https://time.com/6231339/lab-grown-steak-aleph-farms-taste/
Is it as good as Pacifico?
I picked up some Modelo Negra yesterday. First time in a long while. Still tasty.
Lienenkuegels Creamy Dark is in the same neighborhood, and also tasty. Particularly on tap, from a fresh keg.
Is it as good as Pacifico?
Yes.
However in your case it may be best you stick with familiar brands that make you feel more like a man for buying them. Lest we accuse you of drinking hipster juice.
“Excellent”
“2.8/5”
I’m struggling to reconcile these two.
“For a lager”. Not Mexi’s favorite style of beer.
Mex strikes me as a particularly tough audience for beers,
I find even on Untappd (which doesn’t encourage a lot of thought before rating), I need something that really wows me to even get into the 4’s.
I’m struggling to reconcile these two.
They didn’t make it blue. Make it blue and its over 3.
Note to self: when it’s 85 and humid, consider walking to the supermarket on another day. Holy crap I didn’t think one human could sweat so much.
Conscientious capitalism
“When companies agree to work together to punish disfavored views or industries, or to otherwise advance environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals, this coordinated behavior may violate the antitrust laws and harm American consumers,” Republicans wrote.
That same month, West Virginia’s Republican Treasurer Riley Moore joined a growing chorus of GOP state financial officers calling on the chief executive of BlackRock, Larry Fink, to step down.
“I think Larry Fink should resign,” said Moore, who is now running for a seat in the House of Representatives, in an interview with The Federalist. “I don’t think he’s obviously somebody who’s too concerned about what policymakers in the United States think.”
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As the finance sector religiously implements Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) goals, which prioritize climate extremism and left-wing social politics over shareholder interests, BlackRock has been the primary driver. In recent days, however, Fink has tried to distance himself from the ESG term. Last month, the CEO said the ESG moniker has been “misused by the far left and the far right” but re-affirmed his devotion to “conscientious capitalism,” which is just ESG by another name.
Listen to Larry. He knows what’s good for you.
Rolling stone with a weird movie review of Sound of Freedom
https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-reviews/sound-of-freedom-jim-caviezel-child-trafficking-qanon-movie-1234783837/
He spends most of the review arguing that the anti-child-trafficking activists are conspiracy theory nuts and one supposes that child trafficking therefore isn’t real?
I dunno… But this is a weirdly fired up take.
This RogerEbert critic focuses on the movie instead of an odd political defense. He finds it boring and poorly acted… And then reveals contempt for the actor because he played Jesus in the passion of the Christ and the filmmakers because they appealed to the faith community.
https://rogersmovienation.com/2023/07/07/movie-review-sound-of-freedom-never-quite-rings-that-bell/
As per usual, these reviews reveal more about the reviewers than the movie.
They’re probably bitter people who are forced to carry water for shitty movies in most circumstances. When presented with an opportunity to unload on people they don’t care for anyway, they let loose.
Those dumb religious people will buy anythin’ if you put Jeezus on it.
To be fair, this used to be my view of Christian rock back in the 90s when people tried to get me to listen to stryper.
Shortly their after. Actual talented people began making a lot of money in the Christian music arena and that critique no longer applied.
Passion of the Christ kind of did that for faith films. They are mostly much better than they used to be… Even if some are made-for-TV level, they are more often than not at least competent.
Also… Is anyone else struggling with virtual keyboards and auto correct? Mine has taken to “correcting” correctly spelled words into different and unintended words. Witness “thereafter” above.
One particular annoyance is that somehow one of the spell check algorithms I am subject to has decided that when I type “this” I often mean “thus”. So more than half the times I use “this” in a sentence, I have to go back and change “thus” back to my intended word. Often more than once.
(And yet, typing that paragraph, I had to fix the automatic conversion of “thus” into “”this” both times. )
I don’t have autocorrect or even predictive text on. All my typos are my own.
That happens from time to time. You may need to update the OS on your device.
Hollywood used to make faith films as mainstream movies. Sometimes just another movie with plot line, but a number of films from the golden age would be now regarded as fringe religious movies if made today.
+1Cecil B DeMille
Stryper wasn’t awful.
True, they were mostly just meh.
They’re actually pretty good. Obviously, (((I))) have different religious beliefs. But I have to give these credit. They love hard rock and heavy metal. They are faithful Christians and they wanted to play the music they love with the beliefs they have. They were the first ones to do it and effectively pioneered a new subgenre. Kudos to them.
I’m not a particular aficionado. Most of the “Made for Christians” product is average at best.
But in the same breath that assholes like Klee would offer nothing but judgement and disdain for something with political leanings they don’t care for, they would also praise utter tripe like Kraven, the trailer for which was practically unwatchable.
They’re just cheap whores for the Left.
Sturgeon’s Law says hello.
And while Mo is right that Stryper wasn’t awful, they were hair metal, which means they’re getting graded on a curve. Any band in that genre that learned a fourth chord were instant gods.
“Any band in that genre that learned a fourth chord were instant gods.”
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
I’m so bloody rich! I own apartment buildings and shopping centers! And I only know THREE CHORDS!
Ugh. I’m a bigger Spider-Man fanboy then almost anyone, and the trailer from Kraven killed any interest I had in it. I didn’t have a lot of faith after Morbius, but still…
I’m at a loss why Marvel thinks minor villains can carry a movie. I’m at a greater to loss understand why they believe using people who hate the source material will lead to a popular movie.
Kraven is fully Sony, not Marvel. Sony has the Spider-Man license, and they’re going to run it into the ground. Kraven is also a fairly important Spider-Man villain, but has always been a villain.
I would prefer more super-hero movies not going to save the universe/galaxy/world and just deal with something street level again.
Person of Interest ran for 4 seasons. What tf is this guy talking about.
His imagination.
There are only 3 reviews by “top critics”. These two, and a positive review by Variety.
Interesting that the two negative reviews are either overtly political or tinted with politics.
Meanwhile. I just learned that Michael Medved doesn’t count as a top critic to Rotten Tomatoes.
Wow. They really have gone full woke. He is unequivocally one of the top critics, and has been so for decades. But being a family and faith guy is now disqualifying, I suppose.
So… 78% of not-top-critics at Rottentomatoes give this a positive review. And only 33% of top critics view it positively. And only 3 even deigned to review it. I think Adam Carrolla is onto something.
Meanwhile, the audience score is 99%. That is their new “verified audience”, so only people who bought tickets online, I suppose. 5,000+ strong.
Miles Klee looks and sounds like your typical political queer whose main role at Rolling Stone is to mock anyone who threatens the woke narrative, and not in a particularly intelligent way.
The hilarity is in his constant “debunking” of the portrayed heroics, as if Hollywood doesn’t constantly oversell and amp up the stories they adapt.
So let me get this right. Human trafficking is happening everywhere all of the time so that flight attendants and taxi drivers need to step in, but child trafficking is just a figment of fevered minds.
Now you’re getting it.
Cognitive dissonance is a hell of a drug.
I’m somewhat skeptical of the movie because human trafficking is one of those phrases that’s been redefined to be almost meaningless and because I don’t trust any movie “based on real events”. That said, what I’ve read about the movie the story doesn’t deviate from the truth any more than other movies inspired by true events, and the negative reviews don’t say that this stuff didn’t happen, just that the protagonist is icky.
I have zero doubt the truth about children being trafficked for sex, if it were known, would drive decent human beings into a homicidal rage.
Agreed. Which is all the more reason to wish that the term hadn’t been rendered suspect by being gratuitously applied to every run-of-the-mill prostitution case.
Ding ding ding!
+ 10,000 missing child migrants.
Re Starlink and backwoods access: Paging KK. KK to the white courtesy phone.
We discussed that briefly on a Zoom. 5G routers are still a superior option in many cases. Starlink has yet to roll out across the entire nation. Even when it does, the wider rollout of 5G may beat it.
I thought I read that one of 5G drawbacks is limited range. That and the data caps. I used a 4G router once.
I’m looking for a residential solution though. Not a mobile one.
Where I am, Frontier bought the Verizon network. Originally people though the network was doomed. Frontier has been great. Highly recommend if their fiber is available. I can run three work computers and any number of streaming devices with no latency.
The only fiber around here is Metamucil. Miles away and I don’t see it getting here…maybe ever.
I have a pretty stable 100mbps DSL connection (and that’s the fastest available). It’s $145/month. Seems high compared to some of my friends but they are closer to a town than me.
400 megabips over cable here. Honestly 100 megabips (our previous service) was fine for home and home office use.
Strange bedfellows
https://www.commondreams.org/news/free-julian-assange
Fuck how did this end up here?
Gilmore’d that sucker.
I have the same experience.
Also 5G is being pushed as a replacement for home internet. It’s the first OTA network that can actually do that. There are dedicated 5G modems now.
Or course it’s being pushed. Wireless companies have reached near saturation and are trying to figure out how to keep their growth rates up without being solely poaching and being poached by fellow companies.
All wireless broadband is ultimately crap with higher costs and trade offs.
There are, but they still are wireless. Wired connections are better in any standard use case.
Re 5G, at least on my phone and my mom’s phone.
I hate it. She hates it. My husband hasn’t noticed. We don’t get near the service we used to on 4G and considering her phone is her only internet connection (because she lives out in the boonies), it’s tres inconvenient. However, I DO NOT live out in the boonies. I could have Google Fiber if I wanted, which I don’t, and still my 5G service and reception is shit. No, we cannot force our phones to use 4G. There is no option for that.
I don’t know how a 5G router might be different from a phone, but if it has “5G” on it, I’m not going to trust it.
I’m curious about it. It’s supposed to go live here this year. I’m interested because my current and only ISP is overpriced and the ISP’s customer service leaves a lot to be desired.
I got the front windows done today.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/7BlOuwNVRFqsqlh6-Bdy1w.VuMIRF-JSO0oGhWBJkp7PQ
I’m happy with the way it came out.
Tinting?
Yup
Very nice job!
😁
They do a good job there. Nice, friendly people too.
Not Harvest Gold?
At least it’s not completely opaque.
https://www.pennlive.com/nation-world/2023/07/way-overdue-book-returned-to-library-after-119-years.html
Kinda neat.
Obligatory.
Oh no, it’s FLUVID! We’re all going to die!
Finally
Only those lucky few of us who survived the end of Net Neutrality.
Trump’s tax cuts did me in.
I was killed by the Y2K bug.
However in your case it may be best you stick with familiar brands that make you feel more like a man for buying them. Lest we accuse you of drinking hipster juice.
True.
5G routers are still a superior option in many cases.
I have to admit, mine sucks somewhat less than it used to.
A while back, I went in to one of the many t mobile stores and asked (not bitched) if there was a problem, because it was being extra glitchy. He asked for my address, and said, “Ooh, you’re kinda out there (on the fringe of service, presumably).” He also said, yes there is a work order in but they are waiting for parts or a work crew, I don’t remember which. Any way, some time after that it became at least a little more reliable.
If that beer is as good as Pacifico, I might give it a try if I happen to see it. Or I could just buy Pacifico. Change for it’s own sake is not something I do. Boring, I am.
Don’t forget your Powerball tickets.
Don’t forget your Powerball tickets.
Idiot tax. The dumber you are, the more you pay.
I’m only a little dumb. 😉
*ahem
STEVE SMITH HAVE POWER BALLS!
You can’t win if you don’t ply, they tell me.
Rambo is on the lam
Michael Burnham escaped from a jail in Warren, near a huge forest, overnight on Thursday.
The public has been told to be vigilant and report suspicious people.
He was last seen wearing an orange-and-white striped jumpsuit, croc shoes and a jail-issued blue denim jacket.
Officials say the jail noticed he was missing on Friday morning, and that he managed to escape by climbing the equipment and exiting through a metal roof.
He then used bed sheets that he tied together to lower himself off the roof.
“We have no indication that he’s being assisted by anyone at this point, but he is familiar [with] the area and… he is a survivalist and has survivalist skills,” said Warren County spokeswoman Cecile Stelter.
The jail is located around 18 miles (28km) from Jamestown, New York, near the Pennsylvania border and is near the Allegheny National Forest.
The size of the forest is approximately 515,000 acres, according to the US Department of Agriculture, which oversees US national forests.
They’ll never catch him. He’ll pick them off one by one.
Completely off topic (it came up when I searched for the link above)… I remember growing up being somewhat into basketball before I realized I had zero coordination.
Big fan of the Celtics – not so much for the team, just remembered that Bird and McHale were really good.
Been wondering how much of that was youthful rose colored glasses — but check this clip. I think younger me knew what he was doing…. Good times for the NBA.
Actual basketball. Last NBA games I ever watched. The player are faster & stronger but palming the ball halfway down the court ruins it.
I gave it up during the 90’s when I saw MJ punch Danny Ferry in the face, Danny retaliate, and Danny get the technical.
The carrying and traveling just make it easier to stay away.
I followed the Lakers/Celtics rivalry religiously in the ‘80s. If that’s what the NBA was putting up now, I’d still be a fan.
It was better. I used to be a big Suns fan but the game is terrible now. I think the turning point was when LeBron went to Miami to make the first super team.
There are far too many “great sports memories” that deal with bad things in Cleveland.
/stares at OMWC
The NBA is way better now. That’s because I’m a Warriors fan and they don’t suck like they did for most of my life.
The NBA is way better now, except for the flopping, the palming, the travelling, the focus on three point shooting, and most of the rest of the game.
But other than that, what has the NBA ever done for us?
I’m enjoying the political posturing and China fellating.
I can probably be sitting in a tent mounted to a pickup truck and working productively in my own basecamp
As a recent owner of a pickup truck roof mounted tent I must say preach it brutha! Starlink I have no idea.