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  1. Seriously though I agree that it can be difficult to find certain show threads because there isn't a standard nomenclature and sometimes the search engine has loopholes that don't pick up the title, etc. @Pancho created a thread title that (to me) works well because it lists the name of the show followed by the platform in parentheses, i.e. The Righteous Gemstones (HBO Max) Clear and easy to understand. Most of the time things work out regardless.
  2. It isn't just the threads, it is what is in the threads and I'm here for that: and just for @Bama Chick because I miss her Surly posting:
  3. How it started... How it's continuing...
  4. Bit too on the nose there with your fix it @Js1 ...
  5. Some good ones in there. I especially like the one that is slightly different from Matthew 7:15. Beware of false prophets. They come to you wearing comb overs, Cover Girl Creamy Orange Foundation, and tiny watches on their bloated arms but inwardly they are ravening weak-minded insecure lunatics.
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    Two years ago in June, the commencement speech at Northwestern University contained this gem: "The best way to spot an idiot, look for the person who is cruel. Let me explain. When we see someone who doesn't look like us, or sound like us, or act like us, or love like us, or live like us, the first thought that crosses almost everyone's brain is rooted in either fear or judgement or both. That's evolution. We survived as a species by being suspicious of things that we aren't familiar with. In order to be kind, we have to shut down that animal instinct and force our brain to travel a different pathway. Empathy and compassion are evolved states of being. They require the mental capacity to step past our most primal urges. This may be a surprising assessment because somewhere along the way in the last few years, our society has come to believe that weaponized cruelty is part of some well-thought out Master plan. Cruelty is seen by some as an adroit cudgel to gain power. Empathy and kindness are considered weak. Many important people look at the vulnerable only as rungs on a ladder to the top. I'm here to tell you that when someone's path through this world is marked with acts of cruelty, they have failed the first test of an advanced society. They never forced their animal brain to evolve past its first instinct. They never forged new mental pathways to overcome their own instinctual fears. And so their thinking and problem solving will lack the imagination and creativity that the kindest people have in spades. Over my many years in politics and business, I have found one thing to be universally true. The kindest person in the room is often the smartest."
  7. No need for classes when a rake costs <$15. See, that cuts some waste, right Emmitsburg?
  8. 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/
  9. Just wait until she notices the bag of kitty litter in the corner used to clean up vomit. The horror.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. Plus, one cannot blame Mother Nature for hurricanes as that is blasphemy. God sent the hurricane and no Sharpie can render it asunder.
  13. Ahem--this Gen Xer must be old school then.....
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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/
  20. 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!!
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
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