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  1. I tend to believe that Baldoni and the furniture guy were real pieces of shit who got what’s coming to them. I do love the Hollywood and celebrity beat though. It’s all fake beef and manufactured feuds and the dipshit journalists running quotes from publicists as “close friends.” And then you’ve got some actual super predator like Weinstein or Diddy just devouring people alive and the most media saturated environment on earth it’s “we had no way to know.”
  2. There’s clearly a culture clash here as the European interviewer got blindsided by Lively and Posey’s performative bullshit in response to a nice congratulations on an expected baby and a question about wardrobe in a period movie. The chef’s kiss here is these two being up on their high horse here and it’s a promo tour for a film they did with fucking Woody Allen, notorious sex pest and creep.
  3. The state of enshittened streaming.
  4. The deep irony of the Western Hemisphere discussion is that for several decades now, the main complaint those countries have had has been too LITTLE U.S. engagement and care. We may be about to see some monkey paw shit.
  5. 90 percent of the referred to unpleasantness can be resolved by simply tossing fare-jumpers out by the scruff of their necks— that’s who is creating the problem. You notice things more when you ride daily. If you 1 out of 20 rides is shitty, it’s not a big deal if you’re visiting. It’s a different story if you take a minimum of 2 trips every work day all year. You have a zero percent chance of a hobo vomiting in your personal car on your morning commute. (There’s a reason I keep coming back to that). How often is too often to have to get yelled at for not coughing up “spare change” when you just want to get home. A couple times a year, ok, yeah you suck it up. Weekly? Daily? Monthly? At some point you do start to see if you can budget parking and toll fees, especially if transport cost keeps rising.
  6. It’s not near as bad as it’s made out to be, but not nearly as low as it should be. And that doesn’t include the “non-serious” shit that makes life generally suck more: vomiting, shouting, Bluetooth speaker impromptu concerts, panhandling, etc. And of course it’s location dependent as well. But I’m a current daily U.S. mass transit commuter and have done daily all over the world. It’s not just my impression from tourism. Our system can’t compare on the infrastructure or general pleasantness.
  7. Russia is up over 6 percent and was at 5 before the invasion (nominally), and I believe Israel was over 5 even before October 7. A few others, too (not including Ukraine). But the point of collective defense is to not become garrison states, so you are correct that the statement is moronic. The broader issue is that even before taking office we are artificially creating fault lines and grievances within NATO and between members, and we should absolutely suspect that this is to set the groundwork to get the GOP to attack membership in the Alliance.
  8. Have you been on a public transportation system in a large Central European or East Asia city? It is just as efficient, more affordable, cleaner, quieter, and no one talks about the violent crime rate on the metro or bus because the violent crime rate on the system approaches zero. You can spend years riding it and never be next to a bum who barfs in your car. And you can see fare evaders immediately ticketed and shown off.
  9. There is nowhere in the United States with first rate public transport. The problems here are many and manifest. Generally the right likes to starve it of funding so it crumbles. The left refuses to implement the social controls needed to maintain it. The answer is simple— funding, ruthless fare enforcement, draconian and immediate response ejection of anyone who does anything in the system but ride quietly and pay their fare. Big northern cities used to have this pragmatic democrats and republicans at the local level who would do this but those days are gone.
  10. This little scheme works as long as you don’t have anywhere important to be at a required time.
  11. The very wealthiest among us don’t have income, which is the major problem with progressive income tax being your most “progressive” vehicle.
  12. It’s in the cloakroom now! I didn’t make that call.
  13. He also announced that members need to spend 5% on defense, a figure we don’t meet ourselves and that is impossible and a moved goalpost. He’s attacking the Alliance preemptively. I think an under-appreciated aspect of DJT is that he has never had a friend. I don’t like to personalize international politics but this shapes his worldview just like being a second rate spy does for Putin. DJT cannot comprehend relationships beyond suckers to bilk, partners in bilking, or assholes trying to stop him from bilking. Trust, loyalty, patience, genuine support— all these things are foreign to him, he’s never been experienced them or demonstrated them and he views them as suspicious. He cannot believe in any relationship where both parties are happy and getting something different but valuable, or giving as much as they can even if it isn’t equal. . That carries over.
  14. The HFAC majority tweeted this out then deleted it. It’s important not to sanewash this stuff, but equally important not to dismiss it as something he won’t try. And there are other things at play here. He wants to leave NATO but that requires Congress to approve. Inciting a flagrant territorial dispute with a member that would draw anger and condemnation from the entire Alliance would be one way to whip the idiot caucus in Congress into doing that.
  15. If there had been a company of American soldiers at Vasilkyiv in 2022 and we told Putin “you wanna kill Americans? Bring it.” That would have been a complete game changer.
  16. Venezuela. Nicaragua. Bolivia. It wouldn’t be Rammstein. But a company? Some trainers and advisors? Some PMC mopes? That can easily be sustained and changes dynamics in a big way. The same way putting a company in Western Ukraine in January 22 would have changed the game.
  17. One entirely foreseeable and not far-fetched idea would be the invitation of Russian or PRC troops by other Western Hemisphere nations to deter any similar U.S. aggressive action.
  18. It made no sense to expend significant resources on Greenland prior to melting polar ice, beyond the mentioned early warning AFB and monitoring/potential ASW. Any “invasion force” or even reconnaissance vessels would be forced to approach via North Atlantic approaches (or, I suppose from the South Atlantic or through the canal although that’s loony-tunes far-fetched). These new concerns are real with warming sea ice, although it’s not really the fear of an invasion but rather free use of potential Arctic navigation. But that has to be divorced from this idea because none of the security issues arise from the Danes controlling Greenland or are solved by us controlling Greenland. It’s a naked resource grab and it’s completely insane, we can’t let Real Serious Foreign Policy assholes sanewash DJT.
  19. Greenland was also part of the Kingdom of Norway, later joined to Denmark, for almost 500 years. The Norse lost contact and the presence died out. It will never not be funny that the Norse were in Greenland before the Inuit and have a longer historical presence all together even with a few centuries gap.
  20. Did Christmas with family in Texas and so decided to make a big dinner on the last day of my subsequent home vacation. The situation here: herb-anchovy crusted leg of lamb, sweet and sour green beans with candied bacon, roast potatoes and lamb pan gravy, @jimmyjazz horseradish sauce.
  21. I don’t see how this becomes anything but CR. Everything the POTUS-elect suggested today was not just insane, it was immoral, illegal, and harmful to our country and some of our very closest friends and allies. Any attempt to implement would hopefully spark waves of resignations and if the military was ordered to invade a friendly country, a refusal to implement and impeachment. There’s nothing to debate here, this stuff isn’t even “a bad idea.”
  22. What else would you make seafood stock out of? I freeze shrimp shells in ziplocks and use them to make stocks for gumbo and for soup. And if I am making a seafood pasta, I’ll let the pasta water boil with salt and some shrimp shells for a bit, then fish the shells out and do the pasta. Give it a try, it will take what you are making up a level.
  23. It’s a lot like adding soy sauce, and I bet fish sauce would work too although I haven’t tried it. I add 3-4 anchovies with the trinity and they break down and dissolve and leave the kick you are talking about. I am a traditionalist but stuff like this is different than adding a bunch of tomato to gumbo or putting beans in chili. With the former you’re trying to make the best version of a dish. With the latter, you may have made something really good but it’s not chili or gumbo anymore.
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