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  1. Some analysts think giving Putin all he wants will reward him, amazing analysis WaPo. We are done. We can’t win important wars. We can’t build ships. We can’t build airplanes. There’s no backbone or steel in any spines. It’s Jake Sullivans and Mike Johnsons all the way down.
  2. 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.
  3. 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: 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.
  4. 956 Worldwide

    LBGTQ

    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.
  5. 956 Worldwide

    LBGTQ

    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.
  6. Free market killing it, rewarding high performers. Capitalism winning, this is for sure how markets are supposed to work.
  7. Not fair to us, sheep don’t cut our fingers off when they accidentally get stuck inside them.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. I’ve only been to Seattle once but Ivars was freaking ambrosia.
  12. It is wild to me how much of right-wing politics is just beefs with different brands.
  13. 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.
  14. I like to neg for the cycle, I’ll ad a pos rep elsewhere. Homer for food. No hook ‘em since I’m not a Horn. So I give out hearts and it’s not weird unless you make it weird.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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/
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 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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