Once again, I am troubled by manmade horrors beyond my comprehension.
This is my review of Wren House Brewing Black Caddis:
The horror beyond my comprehension of course is the UK. That’s its, what’s today’s beer?
Okay…fine I can entertain you a bit more. As I enter week three of Dry January I find the algorithm has given me more of what I want. Apparently, the ads for women’s leggings on my social media feeds are no longer what I want. I want more temperance now…for reasons. Anyways, Labour is considering a ban on non-alcoholic beer sales to underage customers. The rationale of course is the same reason candy cigarettes were banned: it creates a bad habit out of an play version of the action taking place. This of course is bullshit, and many of the manufacturers of candy cigarettes simply stopped making them because it made kids look cool, just like Joe Camel. Joe Camel was a straight up baller. Yes, the MP floating this looks exactly the way you think she does.
Overall though, it could just be changing attitudes on drinking, which could be a good thing. Given the preconceptions many in the medical establishment have on drinking, many conditions are overlooked due to the preconceived notion they are caused by drinking. If these are caused by drinking the doctor therefore has no interest in other potential causes. Clearly, the guy gets blasted every afternoon and is just lying about his alcoholism. Given the direction the medical industry is going with AI, I anticipate these troubles to persist because the LLM is just going to regurgitate what humans put into it. Maybe insurers will start to deny claims because the AI didn’t agree with the treatment plan. Even if they are able to cite retrospective data as evidence the treatment will have limited efficacy, our own biases will be used against us.
Anyways, I need to take my company’s training on appropriate AI use for healthcare now.
Yes its that time of year everything on the shelf suits my biased tastes for beer. I should probably pick another month in the middle of the year before I try this again, because I really want to drink something besides water. I don’t like to keep soda in the house because if its there my kids will drink it, and quite frankly soda is just as bad. This is a fairly light take on the classic Enlglish porter that is just straight porter. There’s no chocolate, or peanut butter, or peppermint stick floaters its just..exactly what it says it is. Which is nice to be honest. Wren House Brewing Black Caddis: 3.1/5
How many candy cigarettes do you want?
Oh yeah
In days gone by there was also a licorice stick that looked like a skinny cigar. Strong anise flavor, cost a nickel as I remember. When I could scrape up a nickel away I went…
Bubble gum cigars were a thing.
Fourscore:
Sorry, no cigars, and it looks like the Licorice pipes have been discontinued. I blame the kids.
Spudalicious:
Still are.
I grew up within smelling distance of Swell Gum, Havertown, PA that made bubble gum cigars. Right now, I’m looking at my framed box of their “Presidential Favorites” featuring Goldwater and LBJ. 5 cents each. The slogan on the box is “Your Profit is Our Favorite Ingredient.” My buddy’s mother worked there and would throw factory seconds out the back door to us.
Aw.
How do they smell now?
Candy cigarettes AND Big League Chew together. Can’t be beat.
quite frankly soda is just as bad.
I’d say worse.
There’s nothing wrong with soda water.
OK, quite frankly pop is just as bad.
Happy now?
WTF is pop?
Minerals, if you’re KSue’s parents.
Soda water is like the wine Smedrick gives the skeleton in
the Last Unicorn.
It’s an insult.
Apparently, the ads for women’s leggings on my social media feeds are no longer what I want.
Sad.
This is a fairly light take on the classic Enlglish porter that is just straight porter. There’s no chocolate, or peanut butter, or peppermint stick floaters its just..exactly what it says it is. Which is nice to be honest. Wren House Brewing Black Caddis: 3.1/5
This sounds good.
Indeed. I dislike all the extra crap that gets put in the darks these days.
Maybe insurers will start to deny claims because the AI didn’t agree with the treatment plan.
AI should set reimbursement rates based on efficacy of treatment.
Paying for results? That’s just crazy talk.
When many insurers are just pass throughs for CMS, I’m not sure I want CMS determining “efficacy”.
And AI might lie or hallucinate about the efficacy of the treatment.
There’s nothing wrong with soda water.
It’s all the sweeteners and flavoring and other toxins the Coca Cola Company adds to it.
Oh… you’re talking about pop. 🙂
That’s twice now. WTF is pop? Do I need a prescription for it or can I just pick it up over the counter?
mexican sharpshooter:
At least we’re not coke freaks.
For the record, if it’s not from the Cocaine region of Colombia, it’s not really Coke.
80s kid from the north west.
We called it soda-pop.
Or cola if we were talking about Coke/Pepsi/RC/Shasta/Tab
📺 🎶
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d35B12ltib0
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/textbased/sciencetech/text-15470375/Scientist-cracks-CocaCola-secret-recipe.html
Im not doing dry January cause I don’t think it really helps with anything. I have vastly reduced my alcohol consumption every year going on five years now and feel better than I did at 30, largely because of it. Last year’s goal was four days a week of zero booze and a max of 3 drinks the other three nites. This year it is five days a week of zero. I recommend soda waters, especially the stuff that comes in glass bottles, like Mineragua and Topo Chico. Add a slice of lime and they are damn tasty.
I’m a big fan of the fever tree mixers, especially their mini cans.
Right on I’ll try those. I actually love the Safeway generic soda waters, they are awesome for 30 cents or so a can. But there is something about the taste of beverages from a bottle, and soda water is no exception. They are almost a buck fiddy each so they are more of a treat, but they are damn good. Soda waters and green tea (especially green tea with roasted brown rice) have become my booze subs. But tonite is a Saturday, so it will be one Manhattan (Makers, Dolin red vermouth, extra Angostura bitters, stirred not shaken with a Fabbri cherry). Followed by two Sierras as the Niners are gonna hopefully get an underdog win against the Sea Chickens.
KSuellington:
Unfortunately, the Dry Soda company seems to have gone under. They had some really good low sugar (as in a tablespoon per bottle/can) pops, they used to be stocked all over the place here, then they were gone, and I had seen they pivoted to marketing them all as mixers.
Have you seen these guys’ sodas? I haven’t tried them as I mostly go no sugar, aside from dark chocolate, but it looks interesting.
https://drinkolipop.com/
KSuellington:
Yeah. That’s all over the place here. The whole pro-biotic thing rubs me the wrong way, and I have a strong aversion to most of the non-sugar sweeteners out there (they nearly all taste foul to me), so I haven’t tried them.
Dry for 40 years now, the next morning I couldn’t remember who I offended.
Now I can’t remember what I had for breakfast.
As my Irish father says, “the only thing I don’t forget are my grudges”. Although truth be told he is far more sanguine about some of the wrongs he incurred than I would be.
For many it’s just better to give it up entirely. One of my best friends ended up in the hospital for a month a few years back from booze. He is lucky to be alive. I don’t think it’s a bad thing that attitudes about alcohol are changing. It’s a drug, and one that has and will cause lots of problems.
I picture your parents as the ones in …Axe Murderer but Hibernian.
Add a slice of lime and they are damn tasty.
I do that for Topo Chico all the time. Although I have tangerines fairly often since my kids like eating them, works just as well.
Heheh, not all that far off Tox. I just heard the other day from him, “getting old is no fun, I’m stiff in all the wrong places.” My mom just rolls her eyes.
Completely stunning revelation
Democrats are bullish about retaking the House of Representatives and making Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) the next Speaker after the midterm elections. Part of that optimism is the cushion of five seats created through further gerrymandering of California’s U.S. House districts.
According to one respected Ninth Circuit judge, however, California may have a slight problem: Its new congressional map may be based on racial discrimination.
Judge Kenneth Lee this week dissented from a decision upholding the districts, and his detailed dissent could lay the foundation for a serious challenge that goes all the way to the Supreme Court. At issue is Congressional District 13, in the Central Valley, which Lee reveals was the result of openly racial criteria by the principal architect of the new districts.
No fucking way, Shirley!
America, please do your part to keep that smug prick away from yet more power and more tedious bloviating at the rest of us.
kthxbai
I know Team Blue will nominate a shit bag. I just want it to be a different shit bag.
I was referring to Jeffries but if you happened to be referencing Newsome, yeah he is a crapbag too.
I can’t keep the players straight, but let me guess the gist: Central Valley farmers voting R remains a thorn in someones’ sides.
Too many whiteys in one district? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Since racism with the purpose of not too many whites in a district has been OK with the courts for decades.
Paging Victor Davis Hanson… (Too prolific to keep up with!)
VDH is going to be out of circulation for a bit: https://www.foxnews.com/media/victor-davis-hanson-reveals-serious-complications-during-cancer-surgery-adds-he-recovering-well
Heh. I had beers with VDH once back in the nineties. He was a customer of mine, we both love James Ellroy, and he hired my ex to be an adjunct prof at Fresno State.
Having lived in the valley, I would say that the whole thing is racially gerrymandered to all get-out.
New fridge in place. Yay!
Happy chilling! 🍻
In fairness to the panel, there were respected key witnesses, including redistricting experts Dr. Bernard Grofman and Dr. Jonathan Rodden of the Hoover Institution, who rejected race as the key criterion. They helped create a record to support redistricting driven by political motives. The majority also stressed that there is a presumption of good faith in such plans.
Their intentions are good. You can’t let a bunch of white supremacists run the country.
They are experts. They know what is good for the country. And that is electing more Democrats.
I thought Ashleys were pretty. At least get that diastoma fixed.
MS, I see you have a pineapple this week.
That’s for the front porch.
Upright, I’m sure.
I bought it to make al pastor, weirdos.
Yeah, I was wondering how the cumin and onion could be involved.
“Given the direction the medical industry is going with AI, I anticipate these troubles to persist because the LLM is just going to regurgitate what humans put into it”
Huh. This depends on the parameters humans put into it, but does AI ever call bullshit on the bullshit humans put into it? Not ‘can,’ but *does* AI look at data and see comorbidities etc and detect that the Narrative doesn’t match the data? Lying is assuredly(?) harder for AI to weed out, but I wonder if it actually looks at who’s funding the data and publishing the stories.
Adding to the confusion, sometimes AI does what it isn’t supposed to, like when it saved copies of itself to prevent it getting deleted, and such. Much wonder, haveth I.
I received some coffee today.
It’s snowing.
The mailman put the package in a plastic bag. The plastic bag was ripped. The rip faced up.
The mailman left the package underneath my mailbox at the end of my driveway.
Thankfully the plow hasn’t come by to clear the road yet.
Trash pandas jonesing for some caffeine?
Drunk raccoons moving into Irish coffee?
Hmm…..
Selling or consuming? (Can raccoons be trained?)
Serious journalisming for serious people
Practical or not, achievable or not at this moment in time, which of Trump’s illegal, unconstitutional and criminal acts does not warrant impeachment? Who among his wrecking-crew leadership does not deserve the same? “It’s not a presidency,” Democratic strategist Simon Rosenberg has written, “it’s a crime spree.” He said that less than a month ago, and the spree has escalated rapidly since then.
The primary difference between Trump and his predecessors is Trump doesn’t bother to skulk around in the shadows.
I’m not reading that trash but do they bother furnishing a list?
And does it contain anything actually illegal – there is surely a lot of that, as there is for any politician – or is it just “stuff neocons don’t like”?
If Trump did it or said it, or if someone even imagines he said or did it, it’s illegal.
I like how you think, STWI. Got a law degree? Even if not, there’s room for you on the Supreme Court.
All you have to do is look at the photo of Renee Nicole Good’s front seat, with its blood-covered airbag and stuffed animals spilling out of the glove compartment, to grasp not just the enormity of what Trump is inflicting on America but also the relatability of the tragedies playing out in families and neighborhoods everywhere.
Wheeeeeeeee!
That was indeed sad. At least the toys aren’t her kid’s.
Rebecca Good sounds like a character from The Crucible.
Why did she have stuffed animals in her car, anyway?
Six-year-old stepson’s, I gather.
But enough about the rampant crime that Democratic party policies have been encouraging for decades.
Guy stumbles on museum piece at a gun show.
Cool
Beautiful.
That was indeed sad. At least the toys aren’t her kid’s.
I have done my best to maintain an impenetrable ignorance regarding this story, but I cannot help but see this woman as some sort of exploited child.
She lost custody of her own two kids to their father, and then apparently went sapphic, is all I know.
With the current state of family law, that says something about her.
It sure does. I’m guessing her backstory is very unflattering.
Her and new spouse were apparently trained by The Resistance at exactly these tactics – taunting ICE and trying to block their activities with a vehicle. That is why there is so much video of females screaming at cops and often from inside a vehicle. They’re all going by a playbook.
Cultists
Dr. Patti Truant Anderson, policy director at the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future, applauded the emphasis on whole foods, fruits and vegetables, but questioned the emphasis on animal proteins in a statement.
“Plant-based proteins like beans, peas, and lentils have fiber, which we know is associated with satiety and health benefits,” Anderson said. “In addition, beef, pork, and dairy production use vastly more water, land, and energy than plant foods. A plant-forward diet is better for both health and the environment, and it’s a shame they chose to de-emphasize that.”
Advise people to eat what’s good, and good for them without without being a hectoring nanny? What a crying shame.
Truant?
If you love it so much, set a good example.
Fat is satiating too.
Only perfect vegan food I know of is avocados, and meh to them.
Patti needs some meat in zirs diet.
And well worth it!
Oh noes!
You could always please Gaia even further by not eating.
I have so much water it leaks out of the sky. When it doesn’t I turn on the hose so the grass/flowers/garden will grow and the critters will drop by to enjoy a nutritious meal. Even the animals need to be thinned out occasionally so they grow better.
I bought 4 nice porterhouses today.
Dr. Patti can go fuck herself.
I’ve got a shepherd’s pie variant (bison instead of lamb) about ready to go in the oven. So far, the winning name for the variant is the cowboy pie.
Plant-based proteins like beans, peas, and lentils have fiber
Also carbs, which you don’t need. You *can* get enough protein out of a vegetarian diet, but you’ll have to ingest way more calories than if you just eat meat.
I genuinely like those, but 1) flatus and B) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antinutrient
Meat production is “sustainable” isn’t it so what is the problem?
Why do you hate Gaia?
It sure does. I’m guessing her backstory is very unflattering.
She was a SAINT!
re: Coke – “What kinda Coke do ya got?” – “Coke, Mountain Dew, root beer…” or “We have Pepsi” are ok. “Coke” encompasses all. Sprite is a type of “coke.” Pepsi sucks. (too sweet) Issues have rarely come up, tbh, except that one dude who mocked me when I was a kid with a “Coke, Diet Coke, what else do ya want!?” answer when he clearly had other shit. I didn’t give him money and I’m proud of me and ~10yo Ev. Pop and soda are dumb words used by vindictive people.
re: NFL – It’s good I don’t care about football cuz I’m always rooting for an exciting game. Hopefully I get ’em. But I kinda like the Bills cuz Buffalo’s a small market and underdogish. I kinda like the Broncos cuz Dad like Elway, who *was* fun. And Manning won there, too. So that’s nice. Go good games. And fuck the Dodgers. (We may agree on that, yes?)
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Elway is the freaking devil.
He did bring us “John Elway’s Talking Sports Football” on Sega.