Well, that beer was definitely not an IPA.
The talk of downtown on St. Patrick’s Day was the alien action taken.
All the comfort of Lego in the form of a Croc.
Is it wrong of me to think that this is being celebrated through Korea?
Where all the white women mothers at?
How will we mitigate this tremendous and terrible “risk”?
Just another Saturday night, right?
Of course it isn’t your fault.
Over 4.3 feet? The girlfriend makes the cut.
For the cocktail this week, blood oranges are still on the shelves (and Meyer lemons have been popping up as well), so let’s go with:
Blood [NOT RASPBERRY] Orange Margarita
- 6 part (1.5 oz) tequila/mezcal
- 3 part (0.75 oz) triple sec/orange liqueur
- 1 part (0.25 oz) Campari
- 3 part (0.75 oz) blood orange juice
- 3 part (0.75 oz) lime juice
- 1 part (0.25 oz) simple syrup/agave nectar
Put your glass up in the freezer while you build the cocktail. Going with mezcal over tequila will add a smokey note through the drink, which I’m a fan of. Everything goes into the shaker, shaken until combined, and strained into the chilled glass. Now, if you would like, you could salt the rim (or go with a Tajin rim), and garnish with a slice of blood orange.
With that, I hope you enjoy your weekend, and forgive any links that have been shared already.
Hmm. I recently acquired a bottle of Liber & Co. Blood Orange cordial. Possibilities as a substitute?
Excellent music choice.
So if Haiti is not safe for Haitian citizens and it is the responsibility of the United States to keep them safe… is it also the responsibility of the United States to move American citizens who live in unsafe cities into safe cities?
I’ve heard it said that the US isn’t safe for black people anyway what with all the white conservatives out there noosing black people in the dead of winter in Chicago. So moving them out is an act of mercy.
Also, I have it on goof authority Haiti is not a shithole. It’s vibrant and cultural.
I thought they ate dogs?
No man’s freedom is safe when Congress is in session.
Hitoshi Tanaka, a former diplomat, wrote on X that Ms. Takaichi’s approach was “bizarre and embarrassing.”
“It’s a relationship between heads of state,” he wrote. “While some flattery is fine, if it’s overdone, it ends up repulsing the onlookers.”
‘Member back when OMB met Putin in Helsinki (basically Russia’s backyard) and said some nice things about him? The usual extremely online suspects went completely batshit, howling “TREASON!” and “PUTIN’S STOOGE!”
Apparently you can’t be mean to another head of state, and you can’t be nice either. Or maybe there’s just no pleasing some people.
Putin stole the presidency from Hillary so of course they hate him.
He failed to respond to the Reset button.
Hillary gave them an overload button instead.
I still think ol’ Vlad should have judo chopped Hillary and her stupid button.
He’s 79. Naturally the first person the NYT is going to want to get on record.
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%94%B0%E4%B8%AD%E5%9D%87
It’s telling that his Wiki page doesn’t have an English entry. That’s incredibly rare for most Japanese politicians and the like.
Technically, isn’t Emperor Naruhito the head of state?
I honestly never got that into the weeds for royalty.
I do know that after VJ Day he’s no longer divine, however.
That’s correct. Trump is both head of government and of state while the PM is merely head of government.
IIRC, Hirohito (WW2 emperer) was the last god-emperer. Neither his son Akihito, nor his grandson Naruhito went through the Shinto ritual to make them gods.
I doubt Trump’s pointless insult to the Japanese Prime Minister is being celebrated throughout South Korea, being that 70% of their oil imports flow through the Straits of Hormuz.
I’d say it’s mixed. The animosity between Korea and Japan has to be experienced to be believed.
https://imgflip.com/i/an3zq1
Situational forgiveness
The endorsement from Warren also comes at a crucial important moment for Platner, after Mills launched her first attacks against him this week. Mills released a TV ad that highlights 2013 social media posts in which Platner downplayed sexual assault. Platner released a response ad saying those comments “are words and statements I abhor from a time in my life when I was struggling deeply after returning from war” and “not who I am.”
“Look, he has apologized for that and he’s out there talking to the people of Maine every single day,” Warren told HuffPost on Thursday.
Having Warren’s backing could be a helpful boost among progressive female voters as Platner tries to fend off those attacks, said one Democratic strategist granted anonymity to speak candidly about primary dynamics.
It’s not like he was riding around on Epstein’s plane. I guess they swept the “Nazi tattoo” under the rug, too.
“I guess they swept the “Nazi tattoo” under the rug, too.”
Yeah, they’re doing performative outrage about Hedgseth’s “Deus Vult” and multiple crosses tatts, but are conspicuously ignoring Platner’s ink. They love mutilating bodies, so I’m surprised they haven’t aske platner to have them removed.
This is why one shouldn’t get any tattoos at all.
Elizabeth Warren? I have problems believing any young person would care about what she has to say.
The U.S. Supreme Court will soon make a decision that could cost some Ohioans their lives.
The only Ohioans who will be at risk are (a) the housepets of people who live in Ohio, and (b) the poor drivers who have the misfortune of meeting a Haitian on the road.
Or does the newspaper claim that people who snuck into the country and then remembered their coaching to claim “asylum” are instant Ohioans?
In the past week here, we’ve discussed retiring before AI got too far. Today my manager and I discussed goals for this year, and company-wide we all have “get more stuff done because now you have AI to help you.” I’m too young to retire, but I am thinking a career change might be a good move.
I will be having the exact same conversation with my boss next week.
The next step is, “AI is making you so productive, we need fewer of you, so the ones that aren’t best friends with AI go first.”
Haven’t heard that I my job . . . . yet
One of the few benefits of working in a heavily regulated business is that process change is usually time-consuming and painful. So, there is a certain amount of inertia.
But AI comes up every time there is a townhall meeting. The engineering staff regularly voices concerns about job security in the face of AI.
I think you left out a word between “my” and “job.”
Sigh . . . .
Haven’t heard that I at my job
I’m getting close to retirement age. If AI makes me irrelevant, I’ll be happy to take a golden handshake.
I said handshake, you perv.
I read reacharound.
Pretty sure everyone saw that too.
First full week or work unlocked! I don’t know the last time I felt this happy. A huge weight has been lifted, mentally and financially. Also, Jet Lag: The Game has a new season coming out next week. Life is good again.
Huzzah!
Yay, Happy Dance.
👍
*of work
Nice
Woo hoo!
Yay!
⬅️
Work is a four letter word.
Excellent news
The local Moms Demand Action is having a meltdown because Magpul gave a child an AR-15 magazine at a 2A rally at the state capitol in Richmond. They were giving away mags for free to anyone who wanted one. “Irresponsible. Bad optics.” They’re getting roasted on social media.
BTW, the name is hilarious in its cluelessness. But I suspect the “moms” are not the sort who’d appreciate, or be any good at, the “action.”
“Bad optics.” No duh, it was a magazine, not a scope.
That was noted by several people, but I suspect went right over the heads of the “moms.”
I think that I once owned “Moms Demand Action 6” on VHS
What’s the kid going to do with the magazine?
Use it to kill 800 people. duh.
But I suspect the “moms” are not the sort who’d appreciate, or be any good at, the “action.”
Yeah, I suspect “Moms Detest Action” would be more likely.
Wear a sweater
Instead of waiting for disrupted production to recover, lowering demand could ease pressure on consumers and help bring prices down more quickly.
Minimizing road and air transport, working from home where possible, and switching to electric cooking could significantly help cushion the shock for consumers, the agency said.
Heightened geopolitical risk has rattled traders, sending not only crude prices higher but also sharply increasing costs for refined products such as diesel and jet fuel, which directly impact transportation, logistics and consumer prices.
I wonder if people are dusting off their coal gasification projects yet.
Cut emissions by firing 99% of HR and government.
There is a small uptick in emissions as you are processing those people.
The next step is, “AI is making you so productive, we need fewer of you, so the ones that aren’t best friends with AI go first.”
“We have half as many people, but they’re twice as productive!”
https://www.reddit.com/r/CantParkThereMate/s/KgyKGSkSK9
That was an unfortunate choice.
Tesla, the new BMW, but with greater turn signal usage.
Looks like only RWD version too.
Time hasn’t healed any wounds for Kristin Cabot, the woman caught canoodling with her boss on Coldplay’s kiss cam last July.
And her eyes look crazy.
That was an unfortunate choice.
I’m mildly surprised Tesla doesn’t have traction control able to get out of there.
It should. Mine is awd, however.
We have details on NH’s appeal in the ongoing car inspection repeal drama.
After the legislature passed a law ending the annual inspections, Gordon-Darby filed its lawsuit based not on allegations that the state had wrongly ended its contract with the vendor, but that the state was violating the federal Clean Air Act by failing to mandate vehicle inspections. In January, U.S. District Court Judge Landya McCafferty ruled in Gordon-Darby’s favor and issued a preliminary injunction against the state’s plan to end the inspection program.
The state is asking the Court of Appeals to block the injunction, arguing McCafferty lacks the authority to override the state’s legislature, governor, and Executive Council.
“Such an extraordinary injunction, designed solely to try to bring about the cessation of private economic harm to a corporate third party, is beyond the authority of a District Court to enter under the CAA, blatantly commandeers state officials to implement a federal regulatory program, improperly seeks to manage how those state officials may speak to the very public that employs them, and has (and will continue to) subject the citizens of New Hampshire to substantial confusion about their legal rights and a potential raft of unconstitutional seizures if New Hampshire police are federally forced to stop motorists with expired vehicle inspection stickers and prosecute them not under any existing state law but on the strength of a single federal district court’s preliminary injunction order,” Lucas and Harrison wrote.
It should. Mine is awd, however.
The left rear is spinning. I’m surprised the software can’t isolate traction to the right rear, or at least lock the rear diff.
It’s a single rear motor with an open diff. It will brake the faster spinning wheel.
ICE vehicle does similar.
I’m not sure why it’s not doing that. AWD does the same but has front motor that is disconnected from the rear unlike ICE AWD with the same brake the fastest spinning wheel approach.
My source in the county GOP says rumors are the RNC is predicting a loss of 50 seats if the Iran war drags on and on with high gas prices. And they will be scrambling to keep the Senate at 50-50. Stock up on popcorn!
Isn’t this the same guy whose track record of pessimistic defeatism that didn’t pan out before?
A war and a shitty economy isn’t going to help the GOP.
No, the guy said the RNC/GOP did not fully anticipate the defeats that led to only a narrow margin of control in the House. RNC also thought they would have at least two more Senate seats: thought they would defeat Fetterman and win one of the Georgia seats. It appears the RNC isn’t pessimistic enough.
RNC is predicting a loss of 50 seats
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
-H. L. Mencken
The stopped clock may be telling the correct time. Their solution will be to become the Blue Dog Democrats of old.
Which might actually increase their margin of loss as Team Red voters stay home.
They have already backtracked on immigration and cutting government waste and spending. Voting reform looks bleak too.
Note to Donald and the rest of the GOP: They’re just not that into you, regardless of how many promises you break.
Game of life has been done
Restaurant of life was better
And yeah — top level management is all “you’ll do so much more, so much faster!” (with an implicit ‘or else’ that I’m hearing… and expecting the ‘you aren’t agentic enough, buh-bye now!)
*shrug*
I’ll play along. I’m too old and needy to look for another !@#$ job at this point.
Escalator of Life