Obligatory music choice to start this off, although I doubt many will be partaking. It’s damned cold out (40s and raining), so glad I prepped the bikes for riding.
Final reminder for FCBD!
I predict many broken watches and/or wrists.
I have questions, the first being why is the library offering delivery?
DRM continues to be defeated, surprising no one.
Yes, the Republicans are the only illiterate ones in the modern world.
TIL that there’s a difference in the diagonal stripes.
If only this covered the stock market too.
I have… questions.
Not sure if this was shared here or not, but I think we all know the correct response.
For the cocktail this week, I’m going to one I’ve brought back into the rotation while trying to work through a bottle I don’t really care for.
Gimlet – Modern version
- 2 part (2 oz) gin
- 1 part (1 oz) lime juice
- 1 part (1 oz) simple syrup
The ratios for this drink shift, with most bumping up the gin, and dropping the lime and simple. The key is that the lime and simple should be equal parts to balance each other out. This drink was never a hugely popular one, but it held its own, and is still a delightful drink. But I really wanted to share it to lean into a literary reference, and since the Mint Julep would be too damned predictable for Derby weekend.
Gimlet – Chandler edition
- 1 part (1.5 oz) gin
- 1 part (1.5 oz) Rose’s Lime Juice
We sat in a corner of the bar at Victor’s and drank gimlets. ‘They don’t know how to make them here,’ he said. ‘What they call a gimlet is just some lime or lemon juice and gin with a dash of sugar and bitters. A real gimlet is half gin and half Rose’s Lime Juice and nothing else.
The Long Goodbye
For either drink, add the ingredients to a shaker, add ice, shake until chilled and combined, and strain into a chilled coupe or Nick and Nora glass.
With that, I hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend.
“ Trump is making it harder for the IRS to do its job. He has called its civil servants vindictive, factional, and even anti-Christian. He has fired 25,000 of them, slashing the agency’s budget by nearly 10 percent. “
How horrible.
Not for nothing, but they made a public apology for being vindictive, factional, and even anti-Christian after the Tea Party targeting scandal. And laying off 25,000 of them after the 80,000 head count increase under Biden still means the agency is 55,000 stronger than it was in those dark days of… 2022. You remember, when the federal government had no tax revenue because there was no one there to collect it.
Almost decimated!
Just when you thought they ran out of 80/20 issues, here they are defending the IRS.
Do it again. I dog dare you!
“restore the 55-mile-an-hour speed limit. (Honestly, not a bad idea.)”
F off slaver.
The left really wants to go back to the seventies.
The British don’t care about their flag so I don’t know why we should.
Outstanding, outstanding point.
Hell, some of them will prosecute you for attempting to fly it.
Conspicuously absent from that article:
Before I clicked on that, I thought perhaps it was the libertarian revolution. Silly me. That will never happen.
I’m sorry you didn’t get your revolution; here, have a useless stadium instead.
All that money so people can go to the stadium with paper bags over their heads because they’re so ashamed to be there.
I’m glad I don’t know enough about the NFL to deeply ‘know’ about the Browns’ decades+ history of being a shitty team. No clue.
So riddle me this: The Cubs famously (mostly, not all-y) sucked for a century. Yet the “Lovable Losers.” Yes, Wrigley and the community play a big part of the continued, fervent fandom over the years.
The Browns don’t get the same.. solely cuz Cleveland blows that hard? (No, not in the $20 way.) Rivers catching fire and all sorts of shit, so, yeah. But there must be more. Nope. I’m not looking ‘it’ up.
Speaking of, Cubs game started as my workday was ending and could have it on in the background. Interesting game, it’s been. And continues to be. *grrrmble*
Evan:
The Browns fandom is treated as the insane retards, since we keep cheering for the same team year after year. The ownership, management, and coaching have been making idiotic decisions, huge mistakes, and mind boggling play calls since the days of Marty Schottenheimer. FFS, Belichek looked like a retard here.
You can ask OMWC, the fandom knows all of this. We go to games like a Catholic goes to Confession. Yet, they’re still our damned team, and we’ll cheer for them while cursing the ownership and being certain we could have made that kick (I absolutely could NOT make that kick).
Evan:
BTW, the Indianapolis Clowns are playing now. Game started at 1900.
lolwut
There is just cash lying around, waiting for some worthy suitor to grab it?!
The unclaimed funds is for things like settlements, abandoned 401(k)s, abandoned bank accounts, inheritances that haven’t been claimed, and the like. You can search online to see if there’s any in your name out there. The stadium funding plan got a deal from the state where they would use some (I want to say $200 million) to back some bonds, with the team “promising” to repay any shortfalls.
I’m not directly involved, but I know some of my coworkers at the credit union are required each year to identify dormant accounts (five year w/o activity, I think,) send notice to the last known address of the account holder(s), give them at least 30 days to respond, and if we get no response, report them all to the state and send the money. (This is a crude summary of the process.) And it’s not just financial institutions but all kinds of businesses that hold funds due to others.
But Congress is spending $7 trillion a year, pumping out as much fiscal stimulus now as it did during the Great Recession. All of those excess dollars are spurring retailers to raise prices
The Atlantic getting inflation right? WTF?
In the coming years, a smaller share of Americans will work and a larger share will require Social Security payments, Medicare, disability-insurance coverage, and long-term care. More mandatory spending plus less revenue plus soaring interest costs on a hefty preexisting debt load add up to a big problem.
“Mandatory”. Congress created SS and Medicare, Congress can change them at any time. And should. But won’t.
quaint relic of a less polarized time—like proposing that the country bring back voice votes at town halls.
Still have it in my town for deliberative sessions. There are rules for getting a secret ballot but normally all voting is done by voice and/or holding up cards.
Or restore the 55-mile-an-hour speed limit. (Honestly, not a bad idea.)
Fuck off.
Or tie scolds to the ducking stool again. (When you think about it …)
The scolds might like that.
Curses. Paywalled out of that scintillating Wired commentary on the unfathomable ignorance of MAGA blockheads..
The right doesn’t realize animal farm isn’t a critique of communism. Hur dur
I was reading a different article about how Angel studios (just the distributor, not the producer of animal farm) is in a real jam. In trying to promote the film to its core audience and they just aren’t dumb enough to buy it
I assume angel studios is already skin suited. Or it’s headed by prog lite christians
Pretty sure that’s the same outfit that created The Chosen. If so, they’re Mormon.
There has been so much crap about that film that I feel like I should see it myself.
I didn’t realize Chaim Potok was Mormon.
Their Mormon.
So yeah, mostly commies.
He has fired 25,000 of them, slashing the agency’s budget by nearly 10 percent. “
Prepping for the flat tax?
I crack myself up.
Based. Next: Blu-Ray
Is there a pro “crack” argument here that does not involve theft?
Whitney Houston had a pro-crack argument.
For games, there’s the following arguments (in no particular order):
1) Preservation
2) Offline play
3) Security issues (IIRC Denuvo fell victim to a zero-day exploit that compromised the OS)
4) Compatibility issues
For movies, you’ve got backup and format shifting. WB never replied back to me about my bit rotted DVDs.
Yes. Ownership. I bought the disc and the data it contains. I should be able to access and use the data I purchased. The person who sold me the disc should no more be able to dictate my usage of the data on it than Barnes & Noble should be able to tell me I can’t cut pages out a printed book I purchased.
I should have specified “realistic” arguments. OK, the offline one is a good argument.
It seems to me that most people just crack software in order to steal it.
There is a reason every license says words to the effect that “you don’t own it”.
Not being snippy. Just airing the other side I don’t see so much.
I haven’t used a cracked version of anything in a long time.
But I’ve ripped many of my DVDs and a decent chunk of CDs.
No objection from me if you’ve already paid for it.
I may have asked this before – what’s the difference between a gimlet and a daiquiri?
Never mind. I had a little retard moment there.
One or your orphans is slow?
A daiquiri has more red meat?
Never mind. That’s the difference between a hamster and a gerbil.
Gimlets were invented during World War Eleven.
The girlfriend got really upset the first time I pointed out she liked only two drinks:
A lime sour – %spirit%, lime, simple (Margarita, Gimlet, Daiquiri)
Ginger Mint drinks
She calmed down when she understood that I was trying to point out that she should look for those key flavor notes on menus.
Doesn’t pretty much every region that has a local distilled spirit do a riff on the sour?
Local spirit
Citrus
Sweetener
The aforementioned gimlet, daiquiri, whiskey sour, caipirinha, sidecar, margarita… what am I forgetting?
Shpip:
100%
It’s so popular because it works across the board. Understanding that is how you get to the point of looking at a couple of bottles on the shelf, some random citrus fruit, and some syrups and come up with a drink.
The snippet they quoted of Gaines’ tweet doesn’t mention anything about capitalism, let alone Animal Farm being a full-throated endorsement of it. Orwell was a socialist teetering towards the anarchist side. And yet both Animal Farm and 1984 are still critiques of Marxism. Sorry, shithead.
Critiques of Stalinism really. The only question left is – is Stalinism (or Maoism or Pol Pot) an inevitable consequence of Marxism. Trotskyites will deny it is.
Funny how it always ends in mass graves. Bad luck, I guess.
Orwell may have as well, but then again, maybe not. He seemed to grok that you can’t build a revolutionary Marxist state that will actually wither away when the time comes, and probably would have been a Libertarian in the original sense of the term, when it referred to Marxist anarchism/stateless Marxism.
Yeah, I don’t believe Orwell truly gave up on The Cause, it was just problems with leadership. The right men could do it the right way, without all of the brutality. They just never seemed to rise to the top of the revolution. Damnedest thing.
Since cocktails are on the agenda, I stumbled upon, or perhaps invented, a Tabasco Collins. It’s easy peasy: whip up a Tom Collins, but swap in Absolut Tabasco flavored vodka for the gin. They absolutely nailed the Tabasco flavor.
If you haven’t seen it before, my lazy Collins recipe:
Italian soda/sparkling lemonade
Gin
Yes, you can mix up lemon juice, simple syrup, and soda water and make sparkling lemonade, but I do go for ease of drinks as well.
I like it. I typically already have the ingredients on hand, but if I was just making a one off, why not take the work out of it. Marco Pierre White advocates using boxed pasta – says you probably won’t make it at home as good as the Italians.
So they have to launder their insider information through friends, family, and their broker, like when they passed the STOCK act?
Instead of doing something about it, Washington is egging on a nationwide tax revolt. Politicians from both parties are slashing rates and spinning loopholes. They’re telling workers that they shouldn’t have to pay for social services, and that even prosperous Americans are overtaxed. In doing so, they are imperiling the country’s financial security and making it harder for future politicians to pass transformative initiatives. Uncle Sam is going to need to raise some money. And that’s going to be hard to do if Americans see their tax returns not as a fair contribution to the greater good but as a punishment or an injustice.
Good old Annie Lowrey. She knows how to get right to the heart of the matter.
Mention *anything* about ‘us having a spending problem’ and Rhy’s correct, no meaningful conversation can be had. It will immediately devolve into hospitals and orphanages, women and children first, being thrown into the street to sleep in the gutter and be eaten alive by ravenous raccoons, as the AP gets a shot of it all with a broken doll lying smudged in a puddle.
That’s all they’ll ‘think’ about. And how *badly* you want to inflict such a death upon innocent children. Same part of the brain. It’s religious. Mostly proud atheists, still seeing divisions just like Catholics and Not Catholics anywhere else in time.
People be predictable. (yeeeeesh)
I have no desire to be transformed, but it seems I must to fulfill their glorious visions.
Fuck ’em.
BIGLY ANNOUNCEMENT. YUGE!
After taking some feedback from potential GlibsCruise vacationers, we found that GlibsCruise 2 – Eclipse Boogaloo was a little… ambitious.
So we’re making the next one much more accessible in terms of expense and logistics. Introducing…
GlibsCruise III (that’s three, or one hundred eleventy if you’re a Minnesota Somalian).
Departs Tampa on April 4, 2027 — that’s the Sunday after western Easter
Three port days (Bimini, Nassau, Cozumel), three sea days. Nothing too exotic, easier on the wallet than Iceland. Getting to Tampa is certainly less daunting than the journey to Reykjavík.
The link has the phone number for Suzanne, our Glibs travel agent, who can answer any questions and personalize your cruise (if you want WiFi but are skipping the drinks package, etc).
I’ll keep making this announcement in the AM and PM links for several more days, and will draft an article very shortly.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Shpip — Associate Chair, Glibertarians Fun Committee.
Thanks for putting this together. I assume your co-chair is the fabulous KK?
Senator Chris Van Hollen wants to take a family’s cost of living into account on the 1040 form.
Dynamic pricing. Tell us your zip code, and we’ll tell you how much you owe.
Just another way to fuck over Iowa
Let me know when I can remove ethanol from my gas tank.
Oh no Sensei.
You’re going to get E15 year round, and when it separates in the tank you’ll be getting E20-30 and a crap ton of water with it.
Lucky you!
Let me know when I can remove ethanol from my gas tank.
I live in Iowa and don’t put ethanol in my tank.
I pay extra for premium without ethanol.
My cost of living includes certain luxury goods. And ammo.
He’s probably trying to declare Maryland Man as a dependent.
I have questions, the first being why is the library offering delivery?
Local government being a hotbed of wokeness most places. Librarians trying to out-woke teachers. Brick and mortar libraries trying to stay relevant in the digital age. And this is the foot in the door for bookmobiles to get emergency vehicle status (kidding about the bookmobiles, but only partially).
Homeless people seem to congregate at libraries.
That, too. They are repositioning themselves as a social services agency. How long until they put cots in the stacks and leave the doors unlocked 24×7?
Tonio:
The county I live in (Cuyahoga) has their library system giving out food staples to patrons. So they’re already becoming food banks/homeless shelters. I think they’re trying to drum up sympathy due to the push to remove property taxes here in Ohio (which would likely cause library funding to be cut), to me it has the opposite effect.
“You have the money to become a food bank, a homeless shelter, a public restroom, bath house, and drug treatment center, but you can’t cut 10% of your budget?”
It’s really sad that as a kid, going to the library was a safe, fun and chill place to go. (I didn’t ‘hang out’ there, and not “SAFE” the way ‘they’ use it now.)
And now… particularly in big cities? Uh. I can imagine a whole bunch of Nope there and along the way. To be very fair, I’ve never lived in a Big US city, and always on the nice edge of any city.
Is the way I think of downtowns now correct, of drug zombies and tent city No Go Zones? Is that much better, or any better than the crack ‘n drug gangs of the 70s and 80s? I kinda suppose so, but not really?
Is that Tremfaya chick running in the ad cute? Yes, she is. Should I eat so much of these delicious sour Skittles? No, I shouldn’t.
I don’t have an answer for those others.
(To be fair, violent crime is way down already, and long declined since it was in the 70s)
That and the evergreen Bastiat quote:
Pat:
Bastiat is my favorite. I’ve been flummoxed trying to find good criticisms of him.
This is why we don’t use the library.
Bedbugs.
Librarians trying to out-woke teachers.
I knew the exception to the rule.
A librarian who was a hard-core Republican and wanted libraries privatized. A subscription service like Ben Franklin’s original library would pay for the library.
The best part? He worked at a library in a Boston suburb.
Not local, but:
https://www.londonlibrary.co.uk/
I’m at a complete loss…
A Chinese hardtail with a springer front end and HD Evo clone motor.
It’s like buying a Rolex clone automatic wristwatch. All the downsides of an archaic design without the quality or heritage of the original.
https://www.theautopian.com/chinas-answer-to-the-harley-davidson-sportster-is-a-motorcycle-with-no-rear-suspension-a-suspicious-engine-and-a-morsel-of-power/
I saw that.
Really. Did you know if you let food ferment in your Thermos it can create pressure that might make the stopper come out forcefully?
The solution – a stopper with a pressure relief valve. How did people survive in the before the 2000s?
https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2026/Thermos-Recalls-8-2-Million-Stainless-King-Food-Jars-and-Bottles-Due-to-Serious-Impact-Injury-and-Laceration-Hazards
That’s like the new microwaves that require a separate electronic button to press to unlock the door. Somehow this prevents toddlers from burning themselves.
Why’s the microwave at toddler height?
Questions that cannot be answered.
Look at this guy ova cheer who can afford grown orphans! Its at toddler height so my discount orphans can microwave my chicken nuggets and ramen noodles.
“Must be this tall to enter the microwave”
Questions that cannot be answered.
The bureaucracy prefers answers that cannot be questioned.
JI wins the intertubes.
*high five to JI for completing the alleyoop.*
Yes, that’s happened to me twice with S’well bottles. You can tell that’s what’s happening because the internal pressure pushes the threads together on the bottle and cap and makes it extremely difficult to unscrew.
Once wasn’t too bad, cap just bounced off the ceiling. Second time, I took it outside to open it, when it finally opened it sounded like a gunshot I never saw the cap again.
What the hell are you people keeping in your work thermos? Kombucha?
Now do ordinary water bottles and elevation changes.
A Chinese hardtail with a springer front end and HD Evo clone motor.
It looks like they copied a cop motorcycle from a ’40s crime thriller.
I like it.
Can you be a little more specific?
You know. The thing.
That Meta story is interesting since the company was pretty compliant with the Australian laws regarding kids and social media (which is separate to the news content referenced in the linked article).
“…after a New Mexico jury slapped the company with $375 million in civil penalties…”
Damn! Just slap ’em with any number ya can slap together. Absurd, and predictable.
Maybe this is how Craigslist comes back.
I found a container of pure unsweetened watermelon juice at the local Grocery Outlet.
I thought “watermelon cocktail” and bought one container.
Absolutely terrible. Tasted green.
One time I did a watermelon puree and reduced it to make a syrup. Strangest smelling thing I’ve ever cooked. Tasted fine when it cooled down, but simmering watermelon is not a normal smell.
At least you didn’t pay retail.
This Bee offering is just perfect. Even includes a swipe at Subarus.
That is solid.
“Podcaster Joe Rogan has viewed and commented on the viral clip, calling the incident “adorable.”
Omar’s not going to fuck you, Joe.
No one thought Omar was mistaken, they were merely pointing out she’s an idiot who while reading prepared remarks that some staffer shoved in front of her.
It highlights that unless she (and other pols) rehearse they are just above rocks on the IQ scale of basic human reading comprehension and speech.
Somalia. Average IQ around 70
Hey! Their IQ is irrelevant.
They fucking built America.
I have it on good authority that the Edge and Bono built America.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qFmh0c61I4Y&pp=0gcJCVACo7VqN5tD&ra=m
Can you be a little more specific?
Sensei motorcycle link.
No fake tits in Minnesota.
Minnesota passes ban on fake AI nudes; app makers risk $500K fines
Desire to go analog and draw said tits has given rise to an increased search of “how to draw my crush naked” in Google.
“Select all images with a
bus”
GFY