Well, it’s the kickoff to summer season, with rib cook offs starting up. So, let’s get started here, as there’s smoked pig to eat.
In local news, there’s now at least a second place making a spirit out of maple syrup.
Is this large enough to count as a ‘compound’?
What could possibly go wrong?
Which one of you is this?
Tastes like grandpa!
Is it going to be more or less articulate?
So what happens when you keep lying to people? They start listening.
Guys… deus ex machina is NOT a good thing.
For those who were looking at Plex, big price jump incoming. I’ve already got the lifetime pass (bought when it was on sale for $99). I’ve heard good things about Jellyfin, which I may start playing around with.
We’re still in May, so I can make a call back to a Cinco de Mayo appropriate drink, right?
Paloma
- Tequila/Mescal/Agave Spirit (honestly, you can go with any white liquor)
- Juice of half a lime (optional, but recommended)
- Grapefruit pop (Jarritos, Squirt, Fever Tree, etc.)
- Pinch of salt (optional)
This is a classic, wonderful, summer highball. There has been a somewhat recent development of people pulling up these classic old drinks and re-interpreting them to be more modern. In some cases, I like the changes, others entirely miss the point of the drink. It’s a quick and simple thing to whip up and enjoy. Now if you want to get fancy, and spend more time, a recipe for that would be:
- 6 part (1.5 oz) tequila
- 4 part (1 oz) grapefruit juice
- 3 part (0.75 oz) lime juice
- 2 part (0.5 oz) Agave nectar
- 2 dashes orange bitters
- club soda to top
To make the modern interpretation, add everything but the club soda to a shaker, add ice, shake until chilled and combined. Strain into a collins glass with fresh ice, top with club soda, and give a brief stir. To make the original, splash some pop in a collins glass filled with ice, add the rest of the ingredients, top off with the pop, and give a brief stir with a bar spoon to combine. For both, garnish with a lime wheel if you wish.
With that, I’ll let you get to the comments, and the long weekend.
Well, huh. I just a little while ago realized it’s Friday, Memorial Day weekend. and I need to go to the store. I better not fiddle around. I’m definitely not going to Winco.
Yeah, I need to pick up another bottle of bourbon myself…
I had one delivered last night. No time to go today
Delivered?
Thank you for reminding me how much Virginia sucks ass…
I gotta resupply on gin tomorrow.
Suspect in deadly Father’s Day crash found in contempt after not handing over phone passcode
I thought the courts had already ruled that you cannot be compelled to state something you know (your passcode) vs you can be compelled to unlock a phone via biometrics (facial recognition or finger print scanning).
The courts already allow taking fingerprints and blood samples against your will. So biometrics fall in this category. But disclosing a passcode would fall under being compelled to testify against your self.
When the Experimenter Fails the Marshmallow Test
Interesting read. Thanks!
That was a good one. As usual, reality is not one side or the other, but a more complicated middle.
Neph which of these links was supposed to be relevant to the topic irresponsible spending?
I found it.
From your…err, lips, to God’s ears.
Seems fishy.
Hailm the Omnissiah and his works! Ave Machina!
But Deus Ex is awesome.
I completed the Original Deus Ex, as well as Invisible War. I did not complete the prequel since I had a stealth build and when I tried, the bosses were still 100% combat enemies, meaning I could not beat the first boss.
You must have had a really weird build – the first boss was quite easy.
When did you pick up the game? They had to rerelease it with a redo on all the bosses because they were impossible for most builds since they had been made by a different team to save development time.
UCS:
I had it at release, there were ways to get past the first boss with a full stealth build. It wasn’t easy, but it was doable.
I didn’t find it.
I wasn’t all that invested in terms of wanting to keep playing, and getting splatted repeatedly just made me go “welp, that’s enough of that.”
When did you pick up the game?
That could be it. I usually buy games between three and ten years after they come out. In gaming I’m the exact opposite of an early adopter.
I’m probably gonna spin up the original Neverwinter Nights RPG over the long weekend…
I couldn’t make it through that Atlantic thing. It wore me out.
I tapped out early when I realized the guy was just patting himself on the back. I did not see any consideration that there were probably other reasons crime was going down that had nothing to do with street lights.
Lips and assholes.
I have some pork butts thawing so I can make sausage tomorrow. Usually we have our annual Sausage Fest party for the roller derby team, but Mrs. TOK recently retired under less than ideal circumstances, so I’m just making about 20# or so and we’ll have a smaller gathering Sunday or Monday. I believe we have hosted our last Sausage Fest.
RIP to 1470s
(GT will get it)
Why, yes. Yes I do. But I never got it there.
“…annual Sausage Fest”
just show up Thursday nights. We have one weekly!
The ironic part is it was probably 75% women attending. We were literally grilling sausage.
Retired from work or roller derby?
Roller derby. After 12 years they cut her from the main roster, and told her she could maybe play on that team if enough people couldn’t make a game. She wasn’t having it.
Sorry to hear that; performance based or right-think/we-don’t-like-you-anymore based?
Sausage Fest should be the name of any Libertarian event.
I’ve heard good things about Jellyfin, which I may start playing around with.
I’ve been using the fork origin Emby.
NORTH HERO, Vt. (WCAX) – A judge found a St. Albans woman accused of killing a young motorcyclist in contempt of court for not giving up her phone passcode, which could contain relevant evidence in her case.
Um, Fifth Amendment?
As someone mentioned earlier – I thought it was ‘established’ law that you could not be compelled to provide passwords but could be compelled to provide biometric information to unlock a device. That’s the reason I don’t have biometric info on any device I own. Now how one could conceivable justify one vs the other is beyond me, but I thought it was well established that providing passwords could NOT be compelled.
With a little more reading, it seems pretty ambiguous at this stage, with state level courts ruling anywhere from warrant required for ‘testimonial’ surrender – revealing a password – to being a 5th amendment violation even with warrant to ‘bend over and take it peasant’.
Right after the accident my car caught on fire. Unfortunately my phone and the on board data collection device were destroyed.
Paloma is delightful with basic rum and a pineapple Jarritos.
Dammit. Now I want one.
Technically not a Paloma at that point, but still a delicious drink.
not giving up her phone passcode, which could contain relevant evidence in her case.
“could contain”
Not a fishing expedition, Your Honor. Scout’s honor.
zWAK is in NYC
Waves from across the Hudson!
Waiting for the rainy weekend.
The skills gap
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) had a simple message for graduates at Suffolk University in Boston last Sunday: AI’s windfall shouldn’t flow only to billionaires. “As AI transforms our economy, we must ensure it serves workers, not billionaires,” he said. The room erupted.
Khanna, whose district sits at the heart of Silicon Valley, didn’t shy away from the fears haunting graduates who’ve spent the past year being told their chosen careers may soon be automated away. His warm reception stood in sharp contrast to the boos greeting pro-AI speakers at commencement ceremonies across the country.
“I think a lot of the boomers who were the commencement speakers are clueless about how young people feel about the current broken economy,” he told Fortune.
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Still, Khanna proposed a “Work for America” plan to help young people get the professional skills they need as entry-level paths dry up. This program is meant to act as a safety net for those entering fields threatened by AI automation, offering federal jobs to displaced workers not unlike President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal Works Progress Administration.
“They could be building their skills towards their profession,” Khanna said of the proposal.
There’s an urgent need for employee reskilling. The private sector has started to fill that gap, with firms like BlackRock and Lowe’s launching training programs to address the shortage of electricians, plumbers, and other tradespeople needed to build out the country’s AI infrastructure.
Embrace the future. Learn to serve your AI overlords.
“Young people are attracted to the leftist bullshit their professors have been beating into their heads for four years. I am here to say the same stuff.”
But beyond any single policy, Khanna’s pitch to those graduates ultimately came down to a broader argument about the widening wealth divide, a concern that seems to be at the heart of those boos.
“If we’re building all this wealth, you can’t have all this wealth and then people don’t have health care or people don’t have child care,” he said. “We need a new social contract in this country.”
Free health care and $100/hr minimum wage. Make the rich pay their fair share.
It could work!
My husband likes to read. So one night, we were talking and I said, “I can’t do X.” He said, “Why not?” I said, “It’s a deus ex machina.” I explained what that was, and he said, “I don’t see anything wrong with that.”
I’ve been chewing on that ever since.