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  1. White vinegar is much stronger than most of the other types of vinegar and so that goes both ways. For pickling and stuff, you will need more wine or cider vinegar to get the same level of pickle-ness if you use something other than white. And on the flip side, using white when wine or cider is called for will add more harshness and you will want to cut it with water and maybe some sugar. I find for marinades and things, you can change the flavor profiles between cider, red, and white wine but plain white vinegar overpowers everything and breaks down meat fibers faster. 
     

    It will take some experimenting to dial in. 

  2. 3 hours ago, bolverk said:

    It's worth reading the comments of Slovaks and Hungarians on this thread in reaction to this pro-Russian candidate getting elected. They sound very similar to us talking about Republicans and the idiots who vote for them.

    Here's one example:

    It's kind of impressive if you think about it. An in the closed gay being openly against gay rights won the election by claiming the other candidate would send our soldiers to Ukraine (despite him being against it).

    He literally claimed he is not a product of marketing, while he exceeded the limit that he can legally spend on a presidential campaign, because third parties campaigned for him (yes it is against the law, but there's minimal punishment for it)

    I feel sick...im a slovak, but seriously fuck this country

     

    I could just about write my analysis of this in Slovak but I’ll resist the urge. Suffice to say that Pellegrini won this election with an appeal to lies, fear, hate and with extensive foreign interference. He got through to the second round by posing as a centrist and then mobilized to grab the neo-Nazi and pro-Russia vote even as his opponent (Korcok, former foreign minister and ambassador to the U.S.) got more votes than the current incumbent president. Slovakia’s president is much weaker than the U.S. president. This basically removes any institutional hurdles (not brakes) to the criminal group currently in government. 
     

    There’s lots of comparisons to the way the GOP behaves and who they mobilize, and how they exploit foreign interference. Example: Slovakia has a “campaign moratorium” where all public campaigning stops 48 hours prior to polls opening until poll closure. The winner of this election went to Hungary and gave a fawning interview to state TV which Orban then ran almost non-stop through the moratorium. Slovakia is home to about 500,000 ethnic Hungarians who all are in the Hungarian media space. Non-stop diet of Orban telling them who to vote for and calling the democratic bloc tools of Soros. Every accusation is a confession. 
     

    Slovakia is rapidly turning into No Country For Young Men (Women, Gays,  Educated, Tolerant, Kind….). I personally know about a dozen of the smartest Slovaks who bailed to Czech Republic and many more weighing the move. There’s almost no linguistic friction and you can even study for free in Czech schools so for about a decade the top 30 percent of Slovak students have gone to Czech schools. That will speed up and the current crowd of Kremlin tools can rule over an empty European Appalachia full of terrified pensioners, literal Nazis, and oppressed Roma. Here’s what one of my smartest friends, who is leaving, texted me:

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    It sucks that someone with whom the majority of normal educated people don’t agree represents your country and decides about your future

    The thing is— that’s fine with them. Just like that vision is appealing to our GOP.

    Oh, and today Zelenskyy announced that Ukraine will lost without Congressional action. He’s right (which is why I’m too angry to go near the DT thread now). And Anastasis and GRU and the GOP that wants us to be more like Russia and Slovakia can suck each other off.

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  3. 35 minutes ago, troph said:

    I was trying to be irreverent and highlight the absurdity of the use of the word.

    i agree 100%.

    my best friends daughter has Rett Syndrome - while she would squarely fit in the slur if used by someone - she is hardly deserving of such a name. Though unable to control her body and unable to speak she is a nuanced and complex person with emotions, thoughts, hopes and desires and someone that knows she’s not like the others and has done the hard work to cope with her condition. Hardly what I would consider “retarded”  it’s a terrible word.

    Got it, need to adjust my meter. I’ve just noticed that one was always favored by the shithead right but recently adopted by the asshole dirtbag left to prove they can be edgy too. It really just shows they’re mean and too cowardly to use slurs that might get them punched or canceled.

    Not putting Lobo in either category, I know it’s not malicious just a linguistic relic we can afford to toss.

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  4. On 4/3/2024 at 5:00 PM, troph said:

    if it's a proper noun it's ok?

     Not really, and I know it wasn’t meant is malice in this post. The people hurt by it are the least likely to come after you, so I’ve noticed it’s come back into fashion among people who’d never think of using a racial or LGBTQ slur. 

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  5. On 4/2/2024 at 1:11 PM, Daddy Fat Sax said:

    What is your preferred economic system for a society? Almost every single one of your posts has an anti-Capitalist flavor. 

    Free market killing it, rewarding high performers. Capitalism winning, this is for sure how markets are supposed to work. 

     

     

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  6. I bet a fun thing would be to go way back in time to where there was going to be an eclipse and tell the cave men, "If I have come to destroy you, may the sun be blotted out from the sky." Just then the eclipse would start, and they'd probably try to kill you or something, but then you could explain about the rotation of the moon and all, and everyone would get a good laugh.

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  7. 5 hours ago, royiv said:

    I’ve been banging this on this thread for a while now. They spent way too much time on the Cybertruck and its awful and tough manufacturing process. They didn’t even do a refresh on the rest of the lineup, and now all are due for one at once. If not a completely new model. 

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  8. 6 hours ago, ClubWhatever said:

    I assume that anything labeled "prawn" is from SE Asia.   Is that right?

    Strong chance but in British English they usually just use prawn for shrimp. There’s really no way to tell except look at the origin. 
     

    And as @flatdawgs and I mentioned— usually local seafood is a point of pride and marketing advantage so they’ll tell you at restaurants if it’s local or close to it. 

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  9. 3 hours ago, RPM said:

    Our base was at Pier 36. Every payday we would pile in the MPU (Mobile Party Unit), cash our check at Sear's and head straight down Alaskan Way to Ivar's Fish Bar for Payday pigout. The sidewalk fish bar sold the same food you got inside, but a whole lot cheaper. My favorite was a double order of fried oysters, fried clams and a cup of nectar.

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    I’ve only been to Seattle once but Ivars was freaking ambrosia. 

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  10. Over the past years, I’ve moved into directing larger and larger teams and eventually a hard truth has to be learned all around: when things go sideways, it matters less about who was in the right and more about who’s more willing to cooperate to fix stuff. Not always satisfying but that’s how it is. 

    I haven’t been around near as long in this community and haven’t got the history with Derka. He loves his school and adds a lot.

    To put it in hoops terms, Derka, I know it looked like the three was open. It wasn’t and you can take the layup or come away with nothing. Just try out the ignore feature and then if it doesn’t work, you’ll likely find more receptiveness to your preferred solution. 

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  11. 7 hours ago, Samson's Wig said:

    I took away that the cemeteries were not connected to his church as well.   Nothing else in that story indicates his church wouldn't have been happy to bury him if they had a cemetery.   For Southern Baptists, his church was definitely an outlier.

    Well, that church is not SBC which means they have a lot of freedom to do what you want.

    One thing about the real South— there is far more latitude for “eccentricity” and personal foibles than you see elsewhere and it cuts both ways. This is neither a praise or damnation. Kind of comes with Flannery O’Connor’s “Christ haunted” theory. 
     

    A lot of backwoods yelling and brimstone but a deep suspicion that you’re a sinner, too so better not get too high on the horse. And layer that on top of a temperament of “protect our own” clannishness. You can get away with most anything in the South expect for public rejection of the South and your people. 

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  12. 12 hours ago, Willfully Horn said:

    Thanks tor the quoted part. I assumed the cemeteries weren’t associated with his church. If one is, then I drew the wrong impression, and am even more dispirited by these events. 
     

     

    I doubt they were, churchyards in the United States are usually attached to only seriously old plots of land. I read it as cemeteries somehow connected with SBC. 

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  13. 3 hours ago, Dahobbs said:

    I'm not as good at thread titles it seems. 

    Sorry man, didn’t mean to steal any thunder, I scanned the front page. To be fair I did it at like 0700 on the morning train. 

    15 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

    To be Frank   frank, it seems like Kierans ought to serve the full 30 years for his crime(s). Nothing the real Woods said could cut the mustard with authorities until they used the DNA evidence to ketchup to Kieran's subterfuge.

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  14. This is the wildest damn story I’ve read in a long time.  In 1988 a guy working at a hot dog cart in Albuquerque stole his colleague’s identity and a car.  That man went on to become a pretty well paid hospital IT administrator with a family. 
     

    The real guy ended up with felony convictions, homeless, and was confined to a mental hospital for insisting he was himself. 
     

    https://www.thegazette.com/crime-courts/former-university-of-iowa-hospital-employee-used-fake-identity-for-35-years/

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    Keirans used Woods’ identity “in every aspect of his life,” including obtaining employment, insurance and official documents, and even paying taxes under the name, according to a plea agreement signed by Keirans.

    In 1990, Keirans obtained a fraudulent Colorado identification card with Woods’ name and birthday. He used the ID to get a job at a fast-food restaurant and to get a Colorado bank account. He bought a car for $600 in 1991, using Wood’s name, with two $300 checks that bounced.

    He drove the stolen car to Idaho, where it broke down and he abandoned it. He withdrew all his money from the Colorado bank using an ATM in Idaho and left the state. An arrest warrant was issued for Woods in Colorado because of the stolen car, though documents don’t indicate whether Woods was arrested at that time.

    It wasn’t the first time Keirans had stolen a car. When he was 16, he stole a car after running away from his adoptive parents’ home in San Francisco. He was arrested at the time in Oregon, under his own name, but never appeared in court, according to court documents.

    In 1994 — six years after he started using Woods’ name — Keirans got married. He had a child, whose last name is Woods.

    In 2012 — 24 years after he started using Woods’ name — Keirans fraudulently acquired a copy of Woods’ birth certificate from the state of Kentucky using information he found about Woods’ family on Ancestry.com.

    By 2013, Keirans had moved to eastern Wisconsin. He started his IT job with UI Hospitals and worked remotely. He earned more than $700,000 in his 10 years working for the hospital. In 2023, his salary was $140,501, according to the hospital.

    Keirans obtained multiple vehicle and personal loans from Iowa credit unions under Woods’ name between 2016 and 2022, totaling more than $200,000. He also had money stored in a national bank under Woods’ name, court documents state.

    Woods’ arrest

    In 2019, the real William Woods was homeless, living in Los Angeles. He went to a branch of the national bank and explained that he recently discovered someone was using his credit and had accumulated a lot of debt.

    Woods didn’t want to pay the debt and asked to know the account numbers for any accounts he had open at the bank so he could close them.

    Woods gave the bank employee his real Social Security card and an authentic California Identification card, which matched the information the bank had on file. Because there was a large amount of money in the accounts, the bank employee asked Woods a series of security questions that he was unable to answer.

    The bank employee called Keirans, whose the phone number was connected to the accounts. He answered the security questions correctly and said no one in California should have access to the accounts.

    The employee called the Los Angeles Police Department, and officers spoke with Woods and Keirans. Keirans faxed the Los Angeles officers a copy of Woods’ Social Security card and birth certificate, as well as a Wisconsin driver’s license Keirans had acquired under Woods’ name.

    The driver’s license had the name William David Woods — David is Keirans’ real middle name — rather than William Donald Woods. When questioned, Keiran told an LAPD officer he sometimes used David as a middle name, but his real name was William Donald Woods.

    The real Woods was arrested and charged with identity theft and false impersonation, under a misspelling of Keirans’ name: Matthew Kierans.

    Because Woods continued to insist, throughout the judicial process, that he was William Woods and not Matthew Kierans, a judge ruled in February 2020 that he was not mentally competent to stand trial and he was sent to a mental hospital in California, where he received psychotropic medication and other mental health treatment.

     

     

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  15. 15 minutes ago, shadow_operative said:

    try and imagine a world where women have to build bridges and roads and work construction, where women exclusively do the most dangerous jobs like work on oil rigs, logging, iron work, steel work, etc; a world where women are always the last to be saved during disasters, where women are incarcerated more than men, where women have more mental health issues than men, where women commit suicide more than men, where women have fewer government and social programs available to them than men etc, etc, etc.

    you listing one example of one thing that women have to deal with that men don’t does not prove your point at all. what’s hard about being a woman might be different than what’s hard about being a man, but that does not prove that kim mulkey or angel reese or any other female sports figure gets treated differently than men do for the same behavior. 

    Lol, no one is making Ohtani work on an oil rig either, I thought we are talking about sports.

    Anyway all those things except government programs and getting saved last are things men choose or do to themselves. You want to pull statistics on who is most likely to be a victim vs. victimizer in random violent attacks, rapes, murders, domestic abuse, etc? Have you ever, in your life, been physically afraid of a woman you’ve never met before and just happened to run into? I guarantee almost every woman you meet has a story about a man. 
     

    Its the old saw— deep down men are afraid women will reject them and women are afraid men will kill them. 
     

    Anyways, this is getting into some bullshit MRA debate and I am out on this forum.  The important thing is that Kim Mulkey is terrible regardless. 

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  16. 8 minutes ago, Blotto said:

    Dude, some cornerback from Colorado State got a bunch of racist death threats last fall when he took out Deion's kid. Nobody knew who he was before that Saturday, and by Sunday, Deion was defending the guy. Google "NBA death threats" and you'll see stories referencing Westbrook, Grant Williams, Paul Pierce, Demar Derozen, Draymond Green, Danny Green, etc ....  People are shitty, and it naive to assume it wont happen to women.

    As for creeps attracted to women, well thats a story as old as time. 

    Right, and thanks for confirming my point that it’s just one additional layer of bullshit and barriers for women athletes.

    Try to imagine a world where some local reporter snaps a shot of a 17 year old boy track star and within weeks it’s all over every sports message board with grown ups talking about his body and attractiveness. It doesn’t happen.

    And then when attractive women athletes accept it and try to turn it into a positive like Olivia Dunn, people shit on them for that.  Even though they’re going to be ogled and sexual used no matter what. 

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  17. 7 minutes ago, Blotto said:

    I have yet to see anyone argue that she does deserve it. And male athletes don't deserve death threats and racial abuse either, but I would be willing to wager that a hell of a lot more of that behavior has been directed towards male athletes over the years than their female counterparts.  If anything, the behavior directed towards Reese is evidence that women's athletics is finally achieving national relevance. 20 years ago, nobody would have known about Angel Reese's antics because nobody was watching. The bad comes with the good, unfortunately. 

    Man, not sure I am there aside from the pure function of more attention on the men’s games. Those women athletes that do break through get more heat than the men, the Williams sisters got all kind of bullshit. Simone Biles.

    Not to mention the real weirdos and what happens if you’re pretty and good at sports, remember that high school pole vaulter and the creepiness around her? Wasn’t even a famous name, just a teenager. And Monica Seles got stabbed on the court by a crazy person. Can’t remember that stuff happening to a man since the MLB player who got shot by a fan in the thirties or something. 
     

    WBB is going to see more since it got bigger. 

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  18. Kim Mulkey’s wardrobe is from the Ric Flair collection and she gives PCs like Ted Dibiase.  Her whole schtick is heel, she’s from the South and knows what she is going, the difference is that she actually wants to be hated because she needs to be hated to justify her existence. I don’t know why you’d deny her what she wants. 
     

    I do have sympathy for Angel Reese as she is young and I don’t think she actually wants to be hated or has a coach and people around her capable of helping her work on some emotional maturity. She doesn’t need to feed on toxicity like Mulkey does. And no one deserves racist death threats for any reason. 

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