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What I told my wife when she said my steel Baby Eagle .45 was heavy, "Heavy is good, heavy is reliable, if it doesn't work you could always hit him with it."-Boris the Blade MOLON LABE
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Quitter.
Ron has Outlook Internet.
He’s logging in with his AOL email.
The allegations primarily focus on a toxic work environment, as well as dispensing medications to lawmakers and their staff without prescriptions and a lack of oversight of controlled substances, they said.
This kind of atmosphere is reserved for the executive branch!
Rear Admiral Resigns as Congress’s Top Doctor Amid Probe
Brian Monahan has been attending physician to lawmakers and Supreme Court justices since 2009
https://www.wsj.com/politics/rear-admiral-resigns-as-congresss-top-doctor-amid-probe-55aba49d?st=TBNfMA&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Maybe they could pass a law allowing pols/staff access from their computer and office delivery in a plain brown wrapper.
Who the hell is probing? He must have done something outside passing out meds. You know that’s in the job description.
Looking at his picture
“What, me worry?”
lol spooky
Why does Congress have a designated doctor?
Since Medicare is so wonderful, shouldn’t Congress be required to use it exclusively?
If you like your doctor, you can keep them.
Rear Admiral – proctologist?
Navy, go figure.
I find myself caring less and less about more and more.
Stoicism?
Fatalism?
Nihilism?
Reality?
Life.
Yes.
Perspective. I very much feel the same way. My circle of control is small and I try to keep my circle of concern proportional.
So, sometimes when procrastinating on writing, under the guise of worldbuilding, I’ll throw some select details at an AI and see what extrapolations can be drawn. This includes trying to suss out inspiration for cuisine items.
Recently, I tried this related to Jinwick, and the AI suggested a recipe that was borderline “Salami and Fig Pie”. Admittedly the sausage used in the recipe was described as “Salt Cured Pork Sausage”, But the filling consisted primarily of salt cured pork, and dried fig.
Does this even make culinary sense?
Okay, so technically salami isn’t a salt cured sausage. Things got muddied.
But still
That actually sounds like it could be quite good.
While mince meat and dried fruit were perfectly reasonable ingredients i think most historical recipies had some other ingredients. At least some form of gravy and some spices maybe some vegetables like onion
🤔
Perhaps my consternation was the result of thinking of it as a sausage dish rather than mincemeat.
I don’t have the whole recipe with me in the office, so I can’t recall what else the computer wanted to put in it.
In europe there was pork and apples or raisins but figs should work
https://youtu.be/r3NXAVPEkgE?is=Iedf6Du6x8H-Lq9N
Do you have a Mici recipe?
Not really i buy them at the butchers like a normal person.
Though you need to add sodium bicarbonate.
But it it usually half beef half mutton (somtimes pork instead of mutton) 80/20 with some bone broth for moisture, garlic thyme allspice coriander bicarbonate(mixed with lemon juice) salt pepper
But i guess you did not want a recipe and are just being snarky
Some also add some paprika
I’m actually curious what goes in them. My neighbor tries to make them here (also with bicarb, mixture of beef and pork), but they aren’t the same as what he’s able to smuggle through customs at the airport.
We grill them at the pool. They seem much crispier than what you’d get with just baking soda. I suspect some starch too.
Wait wait wait..
bicarbonate mixed with lemon juice? What’s the point of that?
If sodium citrate is required, I have a container of it.
leavening?
dunno what to tell ya man that how its done but it can work as a leavening
AI gets everything from somewhere. In this case, probably r/stupidfood
It has been known to hallucinate too.
salt cured pork, and dried fig
Pass.
Since Medicare is so wonderful, shouldn’t Congress be required to use it exclusively?
They should all go to a VA clinic in downtown DC.
Didn’t the ACA explicitly exempt Congressional staff from its provisions because they all got up in arms when the first draft came out?
Yes, also the “Cadillac” tax for high-end plans was also dropped b/c unions (public and private sector) complained. Panels for rationing also dropped, but the individual mandate stayed-put. Rahm Emanuel is making the rounds with the updated version of the ACA where everyone has the same insurance as government employees and is forced to the exchanges.
Unfettered capitalism
Speaking at a news conference on Thursday, Industry Minister Mélanie Joly said the government had served Stellantis with a formal notice of default, giving the company 30 days to address its concerns or face legal action.
“We sent a notice of default and, basically, they have 30 days — or else, of course, we will sue them,” Joly told reporters in Toronto.
Joly said Stellantis had violated its contractual commitments to the Canadian government and the workers at Brampton by announcing an agreement to sell the plant to armored vehicle manufacturer Roshel earlier in the week. She added that the company was now “on the hook” for hundreds of millions of dollars over the move.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has described the situation at the Brampton plant as “unacceptable” and a “betrayal” of its workers.
Give the plant to the workers and let them build Alfa Romeos and Maseratis.
They will bury us.
New: Mayor Brandon Johnson’s CFO resigns after three months on the job, saying she is no longer able to fulfill her duties to provide accurate statements about the city’s finances.
https://x.com/byaliceyin/status/2121249703849255160
I assume racism is at play
Sounds like she has a scrap of honesty left in her.
Cooking those books is going to demand a master chef?
Lovely day we had today. 24C and sunny
Now at 19:47 i am still outside in a tshirt
Tomorrow it dropps to 6C it seems quite a steep drop
Recalibrate your thermometer.
Next week i will be with work in germany and will miss bucharest whsiky fest. Sad.
Got my little resistance fighter back today from the government. That was yet another painful interaction as the three Gen Z’ers at the desk had no fucking idea what they were doing.
Dog was confined into a 6×6 cage for 11 days never being allowed to leave. No interaction. Just noise of dogs barking and misery and he looked it. Didn’t even seem to register when he first saw me. It wasn’t until he was out that it fully sunk it and some life returned to his eyes. Getting out of the building he was trying to tackle me and god I need to cut his nails.
He lost a decent amount of weight through this. And I can’t help but think it was some petty little fucking bureaucrat covering his ass and being spiteful because they wanted him dead.
The kennel/cage had a nice big “BAD DOG” sigh on it. I guess because he’s in there with dogs to be adopted but it’s like fuck you people.
The dangerous dog did nothing but sniff anyone when he got near them. Dopey girl was too scared to open the door but a few inches for me as I tried to stick a hand through and put on one of those slip leashes because I didn’t realize they had cut off his collar or it was destroyed somehow.
I’m sure he’ll recover especially once the drugs they’ve been feeding him wear off.
I really don’t mind saying I fucking hate people/society/this country by this point. Blue, red…doesn’t fucking matter. They all fucking blow.
Fuckface ‘roommate’ was 15 minutes late to get the dog out. Said there was traffic. Like no shit there was traffic in rush hour you dumb inconsiderate fuck. Someone who loves to call other people lazy and demands they jump when they need a favor or something done for them but is late and never did nuffin.
But I’ll end the rants for now. Appreciate everyone putting up with it.
Rant away. Always enjoy hearing about Butters’ adventures, especially getting out of prison given the circumstances. Said it before- keep the dog, put the roommate to sleep.
The winter swimming season has begun in the Russian Federation. 😊❄️ Always in November
https://x.com/MartinKuban/status/2121047075869618562
There is good propaganda and there is bad propaganda
Approved
Nice.
It felt about that cold getting into bed last night.
Sooo chat are we feeling confident about starship?
They really should consider a better hour for euros to watch live
Jefferson Starship?
He just wants somebody to love.
Every time I find a super hot “OF model” and check out her labia minora, they are “hypertrophic” (excess) according to doctors.
https://x.com/jess_ann_pin/status/2120709694125691346
“I handed over the country in better shape than I found it,” Merkel assures
https://x.com/welt/status/2121274047761727902
No. Hell no. Hell no bitch.
Alzheimers already?
Is she talking about the DDR or FRG?
Scary part is Talerico understands he could stroke Trump’s ego.
The comforting part is his base is so rabid they will eat him alive if he even suggests it.
Bipartisanship is great but only when Republicans do whatever the Democrats want.
+Maverick when voting with Dems, -1 Hitler when not.
The NSF broadcast of the SpaceX orbital launch and catch of Starship is up
https://x.com/NASASpaceflight/status/2121287254559658433
but the actual launch is too late to see live
Big local news here is that LAUSD students are dropping the hard “N” on their teachers.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-11-11/black-teachers-n-word-lausd
It’s racist to say the word, and it’s racist to expect poor brown children to not say the word.
LAUSD’s annual budget is $20 billion, and this is what they’re focused on.
Soft A or Hard R?
Hard “r” is retard now. I don’t make the rules.
That’s retarded.
I don’t believe any of that.
I had assumed it was coming from black students.
Hoax is always a possibility.
No, man, I don’t speak jive no more.
Then it wouldn’t be “news”. And that’s probably routine.
The paid 3D print file world cracks me up. I was going to try to print a dummy training magazine for my Glock 43X. Basically print it and glue some wheel weights I have into to make it the same weight as a loaded magazine.
I can buy an actual magazine and gut it for not much more money than the STL. When you include plastic and the inevitable revisions and reprints it will cheaper to buy another magazine and modify it.
OT – anybody wants the STL for a CZ Shadow 2 specific chamber flag that will let me know. I meshed a few prints together just for the hell of it. My range actually doesn’t require them.
Sure. I’ve got four spools of ASA in dryboxes I suppose that’d take the bite of the slide closing if the slicer settings are done right.
I was going to put it on Printables, but I don’t have a photo to upload it. Do you have an easy way for me to get it to you?
You could email scribe at ev combine dot net
no spaces.
It’s the email I use for communicating with most glibs
I have just taken screenshots of the slicer and trim that down for posting stuff to printables.
Done!
I like to use inert magazines for dry fire, but you may have a hard time finding them for a 43x. Most dedicated dry fire accessories are built for guns used in competition shooting – pretty much no one else dry-fires seriously.
You could just take a spare magazine and stuff it with easily identifiable dummy rounds. That, combined with a BarrelBlok, is enough of a safety margin for my paranoid ass. https://www.concealedcarry.com/product-category/dry-fire/
I currently have proper mag with proper weight dummy rounds in it. I’ve also got a 3D printed piece that sits atop the rounds that prevents the slide from locking back.
It’s just a pain to load it and unload it and I can only fit 9 rounds in it with plastic piece that won’t lock the slide. Not the end of the world. I’ve already got lots of plastic and it was more of a hobby project.
Real solutions for real problems
The City Council passed a bill Thursday that bans companies in New York City from using surveillance pricing, which charges different prices based on algorithms or shoppers’ personal data.
Surveillance pricing means shoppers see a price based on their personal data like demographics, credit, browsing history or purchasing history. The bill prohibits surveillance pricing both online and in stores, although the practice is mainly used on the web.
Speaker Julie Menin described surveillance pricing as an “insidious and predatory corporate practice” that erodes privacy and fairness.
“It’s a practice that worsens the affordability crisis, and today it’s a practice that we are going to be ending,” she said during a press conference ahead of the vote.
You forgot racist.
Doesn’t this prohibit risk-based pricing for insurance as well?
You also forgot ‘non-existent.’ This doesn’t happen and it never has.
How do you tell the difference between a “discount” and a “surveillance price”…?
They are already setting the stage to go after stores that have electronic pricing on shelves based-on this premise – of course it is really about ensuring stores have as many employees as possible.
Also about getting a foot in the door for government-mandated price controls.
I haven’t seen that anywhere and I’d narrow my eyes at it if I did see it.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani said in a statement that he supports the ban. He called surveillance pricing “just another way corporations are finding to squeeze working people.”
If corporations did not exist it would be necessary to invent them.
It’s a good thing the city government doesn’t “squeeze working people”.
I’m enjoying our AI current year
https://x.com/trenthawkin/status/2121333495624581257
Whelp, video evidence of any kind is dead. I can’t tell that this isn’t real at first glance.
Sweet. I just received a 47-page “security assessment” report on the web app I’ve been vibe-coding for months with a bunch of high-priority issues that require immediate attention. This thing was supposed to be delivered months ago lol.
Now all I have to do is teach myself how to fix the issues.
Don’t worry the “security assessment” was done with AI too.
Undoubtedly. I know it’s automated to some extent. And I know the issues are real because this sort of application is new to me which means I don’t know everything that I am doing yet and because every other team that migrated off the old platform to the new one using the same vibe-kit encountered the same issues.
The other teams are probably all web developers already. I haven’t developed a web app for work in shit, 15 years?
https://www.reddit.com/r/StarTrekTNG/comments/1xucifn/arthur_carlson_his_face_forlorn/
😂