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  1. Plus this little detail because why not boost revenue in more than just sales: "According to Wired, Starlink supplies key support to scam centers in Southeast Asia with "criminals running multibillion-dollar empires across Southeast Asia appear to be widely using the satellite internet network." Wired identified more than one hundred Starlink devices in use at just one center, KK Park in Myanmar." --source Wiki & https://www.wired.com/story/starlink-scam-compounds/
  2. Just wait until she notices the bag of kitty litter in the corner used to clean up vomit. The horror.
  3. He also secured a pardon for his felon father, Charles, granted by his father-in-law on December 23, 2020. One could consider it a late Hannukah present but I suspect given the grantor, it was a Christmas gift from one felon to another. Because, you know, there was a war on Christmas that year.
  4. Speaking of Steve Carrel being in The Four Seasons, I am so pleased that Crazy Stupid Love is still on Netflix because there is not a number of times that is too many for watching it. I watched it yet again this weekend and the fight scene and the shopping with Ryan Gosling still completely crack me up.
  5. Plus, one cannot blame Mother Nature for hurricanes as that is blasphemy. God sent the hurricane and no Sharpie can render it asunder.
  6. Ahem--this Gen Xer must be old school then.....
  7. Totally not surprised by this; I used to frequent several blogs for recipes and cocktails and not all that long ago had noticed that even blogs that were not Face/insta/pin type platforms were getting raided/copied and it made wading through that a monetized nightmare. Only have one or two reliable faves bookmarked now and since I don't use the socials, have managed to avoid the crazy. I watched AI invade other areas as well and it is enshittifying a lot of creative spaces. Sort of like a lot of tech tools wherein, the original idea is great but humans manage to mess it up at some point by inserting it where it ought not to be.
  8. Fascinating how each position can get so specific within a field. Piping designer within oil and natural gas versus: or or yeah no...not going there you degenerates.
  9. Plus a couple more private ski areas to be developed most likely. I'll get a little CR here, but rather fascinating that the first national parks (Yellowstone was the very first I believe) were signed off on by a Republican president (Grant), and later promoted further by another Republican president (Teddy R) and large swaths of the Teton Range were purchased by a private capitalist (John D Rockefeller Jr) and then donated to add more conservation land to those parks (Yellowstone and Grand Teton) in Wyoming. It sorta puts the conserve in conservatism to do so and yet, here we are forgetting the roots of why capitalism eventually eats its own and conservatives and the GOP are no longer in the same tent.
  10. Given the number of Florida applicants I was noting in a recent conversation about some open positions, the state is having a bit of a brain drain problem as a result.
  11. If those kind of hats take off then we oughta bring back the Wild West nicknames too. Noseless Ned from Nacogdoches, Holey Head Hank, Sieve-ebellum Steve, and what not.
  12. Well at first I thought 'no way. it has to be fake' but Pritzker's office getting a little of their own back: Here's CBS and NBC with a little more: https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/pritzker-office-slams-mocks-homeland-security-kristi-noem/ https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/noem-visit-to-springfield-draws-sarcastic-response-from-pritzkers-office/3739586/
  13. Purtying up the old pump jacks?
  14. Yes, although the number that you're hosting might need an even larger recipe.... 3 Eggs 2 1/2 cups Buttermilk 2 Tablespoons Oil (I use vegetable) 2 1/2 cups Flour 2 teaspoons Sugar 2 teaspoons Baking Powder 1 teaspoon Salt 1 teaspoon Baking Soda Mix as any batter. For your crowd, if you decide to scale up from that, then you may wish to double the above but if you do, note the differences between the small batch and large batch recipes with the slightly extra amounts of eggs and buttermilk. The large batch recipe is supposed to make around 20 small pancakes but I make salad plate size pancakes and keep them warm in a very low oven as I'm cooking them so we can have stacks. If your oven will be otherwise occupied with other dishes, then just toss a clean towel over them to keep warm or (like when everyone is starving) serve 'em as they come hot off the griddle. Good luck!!
  15. No. Think of it more like a timeshare.
  16. Ed Sheeran required a skin graft on his foot after he walked off path and stepped in a hot spring while traveling up a volcano in Iceland. He's told the story in several interviews. It was his 25th birthday.
  17. I'm familiar with *Hutterites, and I believe they outnumber the Mennonite congregations in North Dakota by quite a bit, but given the number of Mennonite groups just across the border in Canada (Manitoba, but I think they are clustered further east), it wouldn't have been a huge stretch but I think you're correct in that it's more likely a rando transmission that found an opportunity in an unvaccinated host. *very fascinating history they have.
  18. Pure speculation, but seems to me that someone slightly higher up the food chain may decide that this should be consequence enough and it will end quietly after it has sidelined him on a national level. I could see Florida electing him as a senator but that's either waiting for Rick Scott to step down or to oust the recently elected Ashley Moody.
  19. Money perhaps? Pakistan and India have a number of natural resources (coal, oil, minerals) and maybe the Trump regime figures they can work out a Ukraine style deal if Pakistan is subdued? That's my Dunning-Kruger University take on it. Ignores all the other reasons, but money and power are the two motivators that seem to drive the bus.
  20. I read the print edition at the library (PTL that its shelves are still full) but there is a recent New Yorker article by Andrew Marantz titled "Is It Happening Here?" in which he discusses some points adjacent to your discussion. I can provide a link and will post it below as I suspect the original is paywalled. I have found a different link that may work, but anyhow, the author references other research including the authors of How Democracies Die, but what I found interesting was the section where he wrote about the hollowing out of Central European University amidst Viktor Orban's solidification of power in Hungary and the inconvenient questions it raises for citizens (I"m grossly paraphrasing here and will spoiler a quote that is taken slightly out of context) Marantz saying that "in the real world the cataclysm often comes in on little cat feet, muffled and distant so that people continually adapt, explaining away the anomalies" seems to be what a large part of our populace is undergoing. IMO, it's a good article and while a slightly longer read, it's worth the time. Link: https://milled.com/the-new-yorker/is-it-happening-here-STvOfTBFmOuoAthB This is a podcast link below and not the article. I didn't listen to the podcast. https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/how-bad-is-it-andrew-marantz-on-the-health-of-our-democracy
  21. I suppose it helps that the North Dakota population only numbers about fifty people, but joking aside, I believe there are several Mennonite communities there (as well as South Dakota) and have been there for many many years and the northwestern part of the state is also home to oil production which can bring traffic coming and going. The article didn't mention any of that, but measles being so contagious and the US having these pockets of low immunization rates likely means that the Lubbock health official who mentioned that it would take at least a year to bring case counts down was not wrong. If citizens don't vaccinate, then this will return to a seasonal virus that we, the people, will have to endure. Because we're stupid like that.
  22. w/o getting too CR with recent news, having international films like Flow really emphasizes the importance for art to have no geographical boundaries. I understand that there are economic considerations that come into play but the world is poorer in a different way when we cannot 'see' the brilliance of an artist's creation.
  23. Of course. 45 days is juuust long enough for her outrage GoFundMe to raise the $$ needed to fund her (checks notes) chi-chi Walmart lifestyle. After all, prices going up.
  24. The red light saber is ironic, but the carryover from the first regime and enhancing with the overinflated muscles is mind bottling. Anyone, and I mean anyone that lives in reality, that has ever watched this man knows that even in his youngest military school days did not, nor ever would, have a Terminator physique. Hell, even Arnold turned away from the Dark Side.
  25. I'm thinking that is likely and around the internet when one drives past the Hollywood and Christmas doll outrage, there must be something else that's going to drop (besides supply chains and the market) soon that's much worse perhaps?
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