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I pledge to post more pictures of this STEAK
956 Worldwide replied to Landomatic's topic in Food and Travel
Watch Gordon Ramsay do it here. The butter goes in the pan at about 1:30 and the steaks are out of the pan a bit after 2:00. 30-45 seconds after a good sear and crust has formed is plenty for the butter baste and he even says “don’t let this burn, that’s why you start out with oil.” -
Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
956 Worldwide replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
956 Worldwide replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
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Sorry man, I can’t believe paragraph one on this. Whatever else you think, Mandami comes from an extremely privileged and sophisticated family and went to an elite private grammar school in Morningside Heights. His dad is an academic and professor at Columbia in post-colonial studies. Of all the things in the world the family knew, it was college applications and admissions process and American racial politics. They paid tens of thousands of dollars for a guidance counselor to help them do it! And that should be ok, it just isn’t a good look to be head in the sand about someone looking to use an affirmative action program that is supposed to be a good thing. That is exactly why he ticked the box.
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Ghislaine "Sgt. Schultz" Maxwell: "I know NOTH-ING"
956 Worldwide replied to Gil Bang's topic in Cloak Room
Trump’s superpower is that he lies clumsily and openly, and he tells the truth completely devoid of subtext or nuance. Trump has a knack of turning the implicitly scummy into the extremely explicitly scummy. When he said (paraphrasing) “yeah, I know Epstein, he has parties with lots of hot women. A bunch of them are really young,” you can accept on its face that this is what was going on. It’s an exemplar of how Trump is incapable of speaking between lines. -
I pledge to post more pictures of this STEAK
956 Worldwide replied to Landomatic's topic in Food and Travel
I’ve gotten away from the butter baste because I find that making a compound butter and putting a room temp disc under and on top of the steak as it rests delivers the same experience with less drama and chance to go wrong. If you want to use the same pan and baste, add the butter and herbs very late, like 45 seconds before you’re going to pull the steak. Use a big spoon to do the baste as it melts and then pour the drippings on the steak. You can also use clarified butter to reduce the chances of burning even more. Butter is for finishing and not cooking in. That steak is not going to absorb the flavor of butter and herbs into the meat by the time you’re cooking it. You just want it melted and mixed with dripping and any resting juices. -
Ghislaine "Sgt. Schultz" Maxwell: "I know NOTH-ING"
956 Worldwide replied to Gil Bang's topic in Cloak Room
Could be, I didn’t follow too closely as it got swamped with nuttiness. I know Epstein himself knowingly preyed on very young girls. I thought most of the girls he took to parties and the island had been in their late teens and twenties. None of that is to offer an excuse or defense; it’s the textbook example of trafficking minors. And it happens because gross old men allow it to. -
Ghislaine "Sgt. Schultz" Maxwell: "I know NOTH-ING"
956 Worldwide replied to Gil Bang's topic in Cloak Room
Just having a hard time believing that old rich guys were doing it simply for sex with beautiful women they believed to be in their late teens or early twenties. It’s can’t be so simple and obvious. -
Ghislaine "Sgt. Schultz" Maxwell: "I know NOTH-ING"
956 Worldwide replied to Gil Bang's topic in Cloak Room
They for sure removed lots of files. This is the reality (or something very close to it): Epstein and Maxwell realized that wealthy and powerful people (including themselves) enjoyed sex with beautiful young women. They used Epstein’s money to bring beautiful young women, some of them underage, to events hosted by Epstein. The women and girls were given to understand it might be worth their while to have sex with the powerful men who came to party with them. Epstein did this to ingratiate himself to powerful people. No blackmail was needed, these powerful people did favors for the guy who gave parties where young women appeared, and no one bothered to ask too many questions about them. No client list was needed, Epstein did this because he enjoyed it and the men he invited enjoyed it. It’s all very simple and very sleazy. A rich man procured beautiful women and then invited powerful men to meet them. And no one checked IDs. -
I am kind of astonished at the ugliness under the surface of some posts here. This camp was indeed a place for upper-class city girls to go over the summer. I think I mentioned up-thread that I went to a church camp within a few dozen miles that was $100 dollars per week in the 1990s; today it’s all of $200. There are scout camps dotted around that also host more middle-class and modest means kids. And of course there were lives lost in RVs and campgrounds where plenty of Texans were spending the 4th. And the fact is that for decades people have been going to those places and been safe and had fun. The last big camp disaster was in the 1980s and happened because they tried to ford a crossing. This truly was a completely beyond the norm event. None of this applies to the legitimate and well-founded criticism of governments and responsible parties. The aftermath of a disaster is EXACTLY the time to hold elected officials and the agencies they run to account. But for God’s sake take a beat and ask if you’d be proud to show one of these moms or dads— whether from Camp Mystic or a RV park— what you wrote for the world to see before offering up thoughts on the families and their motivations and actions.
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Oh shit: New pillow guy lawsuit coming "in two weeks"
956 Worldwide replied to Gil Bang's topic in Cloak Room
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There has been a flooding event that killed campers in the past. In 1987 a church bus trying to evacuate a bunch of kids got swept away and 10 kids died close to Comfort. It was a scarring event and when I became a camper a few years later (at a one week, $100 dollar church camp), it was always on the minds of adults. Buses parked for the week where everyone knew them, close to the cabins and pointed at the “back way” out to avoid the river, radios in cabins, etc. I completely agree that local officials needed to be more on this. I just do think that this is going to be a cascading chain of failures in planning and reaction down the line.
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The natural response is always to prod the pros to do things better. And I want to be clear that I am a huge advocate of the NWS and NOAA and am furious at their defunding, and the DOGE massacres. That absolutely has to be part of the post-op. But the fact is that user error is usually at fault and that’s where the deep probing needs to happen. Weather forecasting is always inexact and you will never have a system that can’t be ignored. The tough questions are going to be on the camp side. Questions like: who monitored weather and emergency alerts and how? What was the plan in place if you had gotten advance warning in time? How often did you practice that plan? What staff members knew the plan? What did the campers know about the plan? Was it activated? How far along did you get? I have a suspicion that the breakdown was around the first and second question. Maybe I’m wrong.
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Those flash flood warnings are usually not for you, they are for travelers and people who are living or staying in flood prone areas. The banks of a CenTex river is certainly that. There will need to be a serious post-mortem to discern how the camp administration was keeping track of the weather and alerts. Anyone at any time camping or staying along those rivers or hiking in canyons should have an NOAA weather radio where they can hear it basically all the time.
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Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Body in Congress? Oh you mean Marjorie!
956 Worldwide replied to Pancho's topic in Cloak Room
I agree with Marge’s initiative. We’ve perfected chemtrails for mind control but trying to manipulate the weather is dangerous and unproven. -
I agree that the EAS with silver and amber alerts is overwhelming. But, an NOAA weather radio is pretty damn good and in this case broadcast a life threatening flash flood warning at 0116. The questions are what people did with that info and who had the radios. A weather radio will automatically alert even if its not in use.
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We have no idea yet what happened in the camp in those hours and what they knew; it’s far too early to make them the primary point of failure and there will have been multiple points.
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The last three feet to the audience are always the most critical and most difficult. If you’re not on Facebook at 2AM, then a Facebook or Twitter post doesn’t help you. Radio is the gold standard.
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I have worked in crisis comms before. There will need to be a whole post-mortem so take this for what it’s worth but: all the major work and structure has to be done and in place well before an event. Counties and local governments, depending on the size, are often not staffed and trained on this appropriately. They’ll do a training and prep, get everything in order, and then a few people retire or get new jobs and things just slide. The strong likelihood here is that it was the 4th, it was late. Someone was on leave, someone was sleeping off beers, maybe a couple someones. And they just didn’t get someone with the keys to accounts awake and in the game.
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People trying to bring the Shuttle Discovery to Texas
956 Worldwide replied to atomheartbevo's topic in Daily Texan
Completely agree. The Udvar-Hazey Center is likely the best flight and space museum in the world and an orbiter belongs there with the rest of America’s treasures. Moving it will simply deprive generations of aviation lovers and future aviators or engineers from marveling at what America can do. The correct answer for what to do was to put a line in a budget a decade ago to install the NY orbiter in Houston properly cared for. To fund NASA to tell its own story. Obama should have asked for it and Congress should have voted for it. This is just sheer idiocy at this point, they don’t like the “woke Smithsonian” and so the shuttle ends as it lived- far underfunded and directed at the wrong mission. -
It’s the point. They want Ukrainians to die and surrender so Trump can say he got peace. Peace of the grave.
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Calling from burner phones and refusing to ID yourself, then asking for secret information is a famously effective way of getting intelligence officials to talk.
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Islamophobia is a whack term. It’s usually deployed in one of two ways: 1. As the accepted term for anti-Muslim bigotry (which is a real thing), although “anti-Muslim” would suffice. 2. As a subtle way to try and blend the lines between legitimate criticism of some types of Islamic belief and practice with anti-Muslim bigotry. Among some types of academics and commenters there is a pervasive effort to make people think they are talking about 1) when they mean 2); and to use it to immediately silence any justified scrutiny of Islam. Similar playbook to “Russophobia,” it’s possible to be an anti-Russian bigot who hates Russian people but “Russophobia” as a concept is just a way to try and silence any legitimate criticism of the Russian state, Russian state ideology, and Russian behavior.
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Apparently this was his unilateral decision. Blindsided everyone else, no coordination with other agencies. What happens when you have no NSC and stocked the apparatus with amateurs, drunks, and buttlickers.
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