New From The Lemon Twigs: "A Dream Is All I Know"

New From The Lemon Twigs: “A Dream Is All I Know”

Official video for “A Dream Is All I Know” by The Lemon Twigs, from their album ‘A Dream Is All We Know,’ out May 3, 2024 on Captured Tracks. Listen: lemontwigs.ffm.to Order: lemontwigs.ffm.to

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Eclectic Cyborg Mar 17, 2024 • 10:40:21am

Joe Bacon ✅ Mar 17, 2024 • 10:43:24am

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani predicted he would be disbarred and that it would help him “in heaven.”

During his Sunday WABC radio broadcast, Giuliani offered what he said was “confidential stuff” after he was found liable for defaming two Georgia election workers, Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss.

“The Bar Association is going to crucify me no matter what,” he griped. “I will be disbarred in New York. I will be disbarred in Washington. It will have nothing to do with anything I did wrong.”

And if you listen to the link they refer to 2000 Mules…

rawstory.com

Dr. Matt Mar 17, 2024 • 10:47:18am

And no Kkkid Rockkk restaurant in sight.

jaunte Mar 17, 2024 • 10:47:18am

@blueheronfarm.bsky.social

They partied so hard they got put in time out.

Same.

Dr. Matt Mar 17, 2024 • 10:50:13am

re: #2 Joe Bacon ✅

“America’s Mayor” is in desperate need of therapy.

Joe Bacon ✅ Mar 17, 2024 • 10:52:02am

re: #5 Dr. Matt

“America’s Mayor” is in desperate need of therapy.

Don’t know which part of Screwdy G’s body is messed up more—his brain…or his liver…

goddamnedfrank Mar 17, 2024 • 10:56:04am

Just finished up a fairly minor kitchen remodel (new countertops, backsplash, sink and appliances) and ended up looking for decorative wall plates to cover up a phone jack that’s not being used anymore. Anyway I found a nice wooden one on Etsy with a floral pattern burned in via pyrography, which I bought:

and then for some reason I kept looking and found further evidence that this country just isn’t going to make it:

Joe Bacon ✅ Mar 17, 2024 • 11:06:04am

So much for conservatives and that “respect the sanctity of life” shtick.

Did he point out on the doll where the baby hurt him?

Dr. Matt Mar 17, 2024 • 11:13:49am

PhillyPretzel ✅ Mar 17, 2024 • 11:24:44am

From the AP: Early Returns show Putin has nearly 88% of the vote where the opposition was stifled. As if we did not know what would happen.

Unabogie Mar 17, 2024 • 11:30:43am

re: #8 Joe Bacon ✅

So much for conservatives and that “respect the sanctity of life” shtick.

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Did he point out on the doll where the baby hurt him?

Are they sitting on a private jet?

What are the weird photos of?

Why is there a monitor with a different video of Lara running as they talk?

Why are they festooned in American flag regalia?

Did he ride a razor scooter on the plane?

Are these our alleged friends of the “forgotten men and women of America?”

I have questions.

silverdolphin Mar 17, 2024 • 11:32:04am

Anyone curious to see how the Biden-Harris campaign would deal with the bloodbath comment? Here is one example. Not letting it hang there in isolation.

Biden-Harris Communications Director Michael Tyler: Trump is promising a ‘bloodbath’ if he loses. The same guy who said there were ‘very fine people’ in Charlottesville, told the Proud Boys to stand back and stand by, and champions insurrectionists. This is who Trump is pic.twitter.com/RKvG1BEOdT

— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) March 17, 2024

silverdolphin Mar 17, 2024 • 11:34:00am

Another of the best surrogates for Biden now on CNN, putting the bloodbath comment in proper context.

Speaker Emerita Pelosi: We have to win this election because Trump is even predicting a ‘bloodbath.’ What does that even mean? He’s going to exact a ‘bloodbath’? There’s something wrong here, you wouldn’t even allow him in your house much less the White House pic.twitter.com/tn6PSjfXzE

— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) March 17, 2024

“There’s something wrong here, you wouldn’t even allow him in your house much less the White House”

Unabogie Mar 17, 2024 • 11:36:54am

re: #12 silverdolphin

Anyone curious to see how the Biden-Harris campaign would deal with the bloodbath comment. Here is one example. Not letting it hang there in isolation.

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See? This is the way. Hammer the shit out of him. He’s said and done enough to know that this is what he means. Make him own it, and make sure the public hears about it.

sizzzzlerz Mar 17, 2024 • 11:40:35am

re: #11 Unabogie

I have questions.

Me, too. Mainly, what the ever lovin’ fuck was that about?

silverdolphin Mar 17, 2024 • 11:49:51am

Trump essentally started all his political stuff because of the lampooning Trump got at the White House Correspondents Dinner by Obama., So Biden, for the first time during his Presidency, shows up at the Gridiron Club dinner and … lampoons Trump.

“The big news this week is two candidates clinched their parties’ nomination for president,” Biden said in remarks. “One candidate is too old, mentally unfit to be president. The other’s me.”

“In the coming months, Kamala and I will be making the case how Americans are better off than four years ago. How we got so much though the pandemic, turned around the economy, reestablished America’s leadership in the world all without encouraging the American people to inject bleach, All without destroying the economy, embarrassing us around the world or itching for insurrection,” he added. “Look, I wish these were jokes but they’re not.”“

You know this is really getting Trump’s goat.

PhillyPretzel ✅ Mar 17, 2024 • 11:55:41am

re: #16 silverdolphin

I certainly hope so. And continue to GOTV for Joe.

Decatur Deb Mar 17, 2024 • 12:00:18pm

It’s been a month since the major GoFundMe was started for poor broke-assed Trump. It has run down to the point of one small donation every hour or so. The total is less than 1.4 million from fewer than 24 thousand donations. I hope someone is watching the distribution.

ckkatz Mar 17, 2024 • 12:03:07pm

Joe Bacon ✅ Mar 17, 2024 • 12:04:59pm

re: #18 Decatur Deb

It’s been a month since the major GoFundMe was started for poor broke-assed Trump. It has run down to the point of one small donation every hour or so. The total is less than 1.4 million from fewer than 24 thousand donations. I hope someone is watching the distribution.

Someone IS watching the distribution—David Miscavige because it’s really going to go into the main bank account of $¢ientology!

Unabogie Mar 17, 2024 • 12:05:57pm

re: #18 Decatur Deb

It’s been a month since the major GoFundMe was started for poor broke-assed Trump. It has run down to the point of one small donation every hour or so. The total is less than 1.4 million from fewer than 24 thousand donations. I hope someone is watching the distribution.

Imagine donating scarce personal money to a guy who claims to have ten billions dollars after he was found guilty of financial fraud.

Joe Bacon ✅ Mar 17, 2024 • 12:13:38pm

re: #21 Unabogie

Imagine donating scarce personal money to a guy who claims to have ten billions dollars after he was found guilty of financial fraud.

Well when thousands of Pulpit Pimps are commanding their marks to do that today another wave of donations should be on the way!

Joe Bacon ✅ Mar 17, 2024 • 12:16:45pm

Memories of Frank letting loose…

Fire And Chains (Live, 1988)

silverdolphin Mar 17, 2024 • 12:22:14pm

‘He is just even more unhinged’: GOP insider raises alarm over Trump’s ‘bloodbath’ rant

Republicans know what he meant.

Backwoods Sleuth Mar 17, 2024 • 12:25:08pm

Mastodon

Randall Gross Mar 17, 2024 • 12:25:17pm

Last night was date night, the first we’ve done since my wife completed her treatments. We ended up at a semi-sports bar, and got a booth behind a group of people who seemed nice, that is until this braying jackass with a voice that could carry across the deck of a carrier while the jets were lifting off starting declaiming about how he could (mansplain) the bible to anyone. The fucker would not shut up the whole time, nobody else in the party got a word in for the whole dinner, and we had to lean across the table to hear each other, which wasn’t bad, kinda romantic…

but anyway I felt pretty bad for everyone else at the other table up until the point he got to the line where he said he could ‘debuke’ the theory of evolution to anyone, and actually said “so if evolution is true, how come there’s still monkeys huh? Explain That!” I had never pictured anyone actually saying something like that in all seriousness in public, and nearly fell out of the booth laughing. It made my night.

Belafon Mar 17, 2024 • 12:26:50pm

re: #25 Backwoods Sleuth

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Someone should tell it every 20 seconds, and then dare him to keep drinking until he suffers from alcohol poisoning.

jaunte Mar 17, 2024 • 12:27:32pm

re: #24 silverdolphin

“But he said it was a NICE country we had here and it would be a SHAME if anything happened to it.”

A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS Mar 17, 2024 • 12:27:43pm

Hey, all! Just dropping in to say I’m on Fakarava, a little atoll in the giant Pacific, and my phone works! (slooowly) Oh, brave new world…

dharmamark Mar 17, 2024 • 12:33:17pm

re: #26 Randall Gross

He was probably drinking Fireball…

Joe Bacon ✅ Mar 17, 2024 • 12:34:57pm

Another reason why I have no confidence in NPR

Former NPR All Things Considered host David Greene, in comments flagged by the conservative media watchdog group Newsbusters, asked in his latest podcast whether journalists can “believe in democracy without being pro-Biden.”

Greene said in his recent “Left, Right & Center” podcast, which is part of the NPR Network, “I, as a journalist, believe in democracy. I support democracy.” He went on:

I believe in a free press. I believe in democracy. I believe that Donald Trump is very transparently and pretty brazenly, um, acting anti-democratic in a lot of ways right now — when he talks about his plans to dismantle institutions, to pack the federal bureaucracy with people who support him. I mean, he has praised authoritarian leaders around the world. So I think the bind that a lot of journalists are in is, how can we be passionate believers in democracy and not be biased in a presidential election?

Greene said he knows “voters get to decide,” but thinks reporters have to describe the “stakes” of the 2024 presidential election, asking, “Can you believe in democracy without being pro-Biden?”

Presstitutes are doing their damnedest to bothsides us into Fascism.

mediaite.com

Yeah Sure WhatEVs Mar 17, 2024 • 12:35:51pm

re: #25 Backwoods Sleuth

I hate that guy as much as I hate trump. He’s constantly running ads about “a divided Canada” which he created. They and he are infuriating. Liar. Grrrrr.

nines09 Mar 17, 2024 • 12:36:17pm

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ckkatz Mar 17, 2024 • 12:41:31pm

For those who need a break from doomscrolling, here are some points of good news:

1. Cystic Fibrosis
The Cystic-Fibrosis Breakthrough That Changed Everything

The disease once guaranteed an early death—but a new treatment has given many patients a chance to live decades longer than expected. What do they do now?

Imagine, though, that you had never been able to simply breathe. Imagine that mucus—thick, copious, dark—had been accumulating since the moment you were born, thwarting air and trapping microbes to fester inside your lungs. That you spent an hour each day physically pounding the mucus out of your airways, but even then, your lung function would spiral only downward, in what amounted to a long, slow asphyxiation. This was what it once meant to be born with cystic fibrosis.

*snip*

Cystic fibrosis once all but guaranteed an early death. When the disease was first identified, in the 1930s, most babies born with CF died in infancy. The next decades were a grind of incremental medical progress: A child born with CF in the ’50s could expect to live until age 5. In the ’70s, age 10. In the early 2000s, age 35. With Trikafta came a quantum leap. Today, those who begin taking the drug in early adolescence, a recent study projected, can expect to survive to age 82.5—an essentially normal life span.

*snip*

2. Food Allergies

‘Breakthrough’ allergy drug: injection protects against severe food reactions

A study suggests that the asthma treatment omalizumab can reduce the risk of dangerous allergic reactions to peanuts and other foods.
For people with food allergies, accidentally eating the wrong thing could prove deadly. Now, for the first time, an asthma drug has been shown to protect people from severe reactions if they ingest a small amount of a food they’re allergic to.

*snip*

3. Malaria Vaccine

Nearly 10 000 children vaccinated as malaria vaccine rollout in Africa expands

Brazzaville - Nearly 10 000 children in Burkina Faso and Cameroon have now received the RTS,S malaria vaccine since being introduced this year. A wider malaria vaccine rollout is underway this year in several African countries, with Cameroon being the first outside the malaria vaccine pilot programme to do so.

Cameroon launched the vaccine on 22 January 2024. It is being integrated into its national routine immunization programme in more than 500 public and private health facilities across 42 health districts in the country’s 10 regions.

Burkina Faso introduced the vaccine on 5 February, becoming the latest country in the region to kick off the immunization. The game-changing vaccine complements the existing range of malaria control measures to prevent the disease and lower its burden.

*snip*

PhillyPretzel ✅ Mar 17, 2024 • 12:43:21pm

re: #34 ckkatz

Thanks. :)
Cheerful news is always accepted.

HRH Stanley Sea Mar 17, 2024 • 12:43:58pm

re: #33 nines09

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ckkatz Mar 17, 2024 • 12:48:32pm

re: #33 nines09

Cooper! having a ball

Definitely an excellent antidote to doomscrolling

nines09 Mar 17, 2024 • 12:48:56pm

re: #36 HRH Stanley Sea

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JC1 Mar 17, 2024 • 12:49:03pm

re: #22 Joe Bacon ✅

Well when thousands of Pulpit Pimps are commanding their marks to do that today another wave of donations should be on the way!

It’s not an accident that most of Trump’s hardcore supporters are people for whom religion is very important.

jaunte Mar 17, 2024 • 12:51:44pm

re: #34 ckkatz

On 2.: one of my daughters had severe asthma as a child; when she was one of the early few finally able to get omalizumab/Xolair, the results were miraculous.

“…Omalizumab was the first, and for a long time the only available monoclonal antibody for the add-on treatment of severe allergic asthma. In particular, omalizumab selectively targets human immunoglobulin (Ig)E, forming small-size immune complexes that inhibit IgE binding to its high- and low-affinity receptors. Therefore, omalizumab effectively blunts the immune response in atopic asthmatic patients, thus significantly improving the control of asthma symptoms and successfully preventing disease exacerbations.”
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Backwoods Sleuth Mar 17, 2024 • 12:52:23pm

Mastodon

nines09 Mar 17, 2024 • 12:53:04pm

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JC1 Mar 17, 2024 • 12:55:57pm

My other half just sent me this pic.

Click to Reveal

She’s taking a food break while skiing in Park City.

Jay C Mar 17, 2024 • 12:56:24pm

re: #34 ckkatz

For those who need a break from doomscrolling, here are some points of good news:

1. Cystic Fibrosis
The Cystic-Fibrosis Breakthrough That Changed Everything

2. Food Allergies

3. Malaria Vaccine

Nearly 10 000 children vaccinated as malaria vaccine rollout in Africa expands

Interesting point about your #3: despite the disgusting xenophobic crap so many of our anti-Immigration obsessives like to bray about “disease-ridden” incomers from “plague-infested” Third World countries, would-be immigrants even from poor and backward nations are likelier to have been vaccinated against common diseases than many “advanced” Americans. Maybe because they don’t get Newsmax in Burkina Faso…

BeachDem Mar 17, 2024 • 1:00:45pm

re: #31 Joe Bacon ✅

Another reason why I have no confidence in NPR

Former NPR All Things Considered host David Greene, in comments flagged by the conservative media watchdog group Newsbusters, asked in his latest podcast whether journalists can “believe in democracy without being pro-Biden.”

Greene said in his recent “Left, Right & Center” podcast, which is part of the NPR Network, “I, as a journalist, believe in democracy. I support democracy.” He went on:

I believe in a free press. I believe in democracy. I believe that Donald Trump is very transparently and pretty brazenly, um, acting anti-democratic in a lot of ways right now — when he talks about his plans to dismantle institutions, to pack the federal bureaucracy with people who support him. I mean, he has praised authoritarian leaders around the world. So I think the bind that a lot of journalists are in is, how can we be passionate believers in democracy and not be biased in a presidential election?

Greene said he knows “voters get to decide,” but thinks reporters have to describe the “stakes” of the 2024 presidential election, asking, “Can you believe in democracy without being pro-Biden?”

Presstitutes are doing their damnedest to bothsides us into Fascism.

mediaite.com

I don’t see the bothsiderism. He asks if you can believe in democracy without being pro-Biden. And even the creeps at Newsbusters say:

Greene, like the vast majority of journalists covering politics, clearly believes the answer is No.

What am I missing?

ipsos Mar 17, 2024 • 1:07:15pm

re: #45 BeachDem

I don’t see the bothsiderism. He asks if you can believe in democracy without being pro-Biden. And even the creeps at Newsbusters say:

Greene, like the vast majority of journalists covering politics, clearly believes the answer is No.

What am I missing?

And Greene no longer works for or speaks for NPR.

Left, Right and Center isn’t an NPR production. It comes from one of your local public radio stations in LA, KCRW.

Romantic Heretic Mar 17, 2024 • 1:08:50pm

re: #10 PhillyPretzel ✅

Not an election. An ‘election-style event’.

Backwoods Sleuth Mar 17, 2024 • 1:10:20pm

Mastodon

wrenchwench Mar 17, 2024 • 1:11:44pm

re: #45 BeachDem

I don’t see the bothsiderism. He asks if you can believe in democracy without being pro-Biden. And even the creeps at Newsbusters say:

Greene, like the vast majority of journalists covering politics, clearly believes the answer is No.

What am I missing?

It looks like David Greene is having a hard time covering reality, because it seems to have a pro-Biden bias, and bias is bad.

There needs to be some Philosophy of Journalism or Journalismologising done for these practitioners to figure this out.

jaunte Mar 17, 2024 • 1:12:53pm

re: #48 Backwoods Sleuth

That’s some incredibly fine detail, considering the artist probably made their own miniature tools to create it, too.

jaunte Mar 17, 2024 • 1:13:57pm

re: #49 wrenchwench

Reality and the Magical Balance Fairy are parting ways.

jaunte Mar 17, 2024 • 1:15:41pm

@whet.bsky.social

ah.

nytimes.com…

BeachDem Mar 17, 2024 • 1:16:44pm

re: #49 wrenchwench

It looks like David Greene is having a hard time covering reality, because it seems to have a pro-Biden bias, and bias is bad.

There needs to be some Philosophy of Journalism or Journalismologising done for these practitioners to figure this out.

I guess I’m reading it exactly the opposite. He says he believes in democracy and that you can’t do that and not have a pro-Biden bias.

wrenchwench Mar 17, 2024 • 1:22:42pm

re: #53 BeachDem

I guess I’m reading it exactly the opposite. He says he believes in democracy and that you can’t do that and not have a pro-Biden bias.

Your read seems to make more sense. I didn’t read the full Mediaite piece, let alone hear David Greene. And I missed a ‘not’, or something.

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Mar 17, 2024 • 1:28:49pm

Vehicles on the berm, for some reason:

Reykjanes volcano 17 Mar 2024

They are fortunate the lava stopped before hitting the ocean and the ocean-side road.

But lava is still pouring out of the central vents:

Reykjanes volcano 17 Mar 2024

The vents are building little cones. Eventually this will stop; last eruption ended only after a little over a day.

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Mar 17, 2024 • 1:30:57pm

re: #52 jaunte

Trump is so obviously as bigoted as bigots go, but much of the mainstream media have a hard time admitting in public that the reason Trump’s fans love him is that they resonate with Trump’s bigotry.

FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Mar 17, 2024 • 1:32:35pm

re: #56 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Trump is so obviously as bigoted as bigots go, but much of the mainstream media have a hard time admitting in public that the reason Trump’s fans love him is that they resonate with Trump’s bigotry.

Twisting themselves into knots to make a horse race out of something that should not be.

nines09 Mar 17, 2024 • 1:53:58pm

Beth Hart cancelled her US tour last October or thereabouts. She just cancelled the makeup date in April. She has issues and is upfront about it, and God bless her for that.
She is wrapped tight, and in concert you can hear it, because she bleeds as she performs.
She brings me to tears in concert.
She has it.
I’ve witnessed it before, been fortunate to witness raw talent just bleeding out in front of you and you are with them.
They love her in Europe.
I love her here.
We see.

Beth in the dark time….

Am I The One - Beth Hart Live

Dave In Austin Mar 17, 2024 • 1:54:52pm

So Fox News is doing prayers now.

Hecuba's daughter Mar 17, 2024 • 1:58:14pm

re: #51 jaunte

Reality and the Magical Balance Fairy are parting ways.

As Stephen Colbert said many years ago: Reality has a well-known liberal bias.

ckkatz Mar 17, 2024 • 1:58:34pm

re: #44 Jay C

Interesting point about your #3: despite the disgusting xenophobic crap so many of our anti-Immigration obsessives like to bray about “disease-ridden” incomers from “plague-infested” Third World countries, would-be immigrants even from poor and backward nations are likelier to have been vaccinated against common diseases than many “advanced” Americans. Maybe because they don’t get Newsmax in Burkina Faso…

Certainly that is the goal of some of our nihilists. Ruth Ben-Ghiat studies dictator and other strongmen.

BenGhiat Xitter post

Decatur Deb Mar 17, 2024 • 1:58:34pm

re: #47 Romantic Heretic

Not an election. An ‘election-style event’.

American Pasturized Cheese Food Product.

nines09 Mar 17, 2024 • 2:00:14pm

Beth Hart along with the best guitarist you never knew the name of.
Tim Pierce is on the acoustic, and the rest of these guys are session masters. You have heard them on hundreds of records, you just don’t know it.
bbl

Beth Hart - ‘Babe I’m Gonna Leave You’ 2022

No Malarkey! Mar 17, 2024 • 2:06:40pm

Something I have been thinking about since I saw a video about bonobos a couple of weeks ago. The last common ancestor of humans, bonobos and chimpanzees lived about 7 million years ago, and bonobos and chimps split from each other about 2 million years ago. Something chimps and humans have in common is that they often fight when a conflict arises and sometimes kill their fellow chimp or human. Bonobos have matriarchal societies, and when a conflict arises they fuck, in any combination you can imagine, instead of killing each other. So sometime in the last 2 million years bonobos got this figured out, and as humans try to creep towards what bonobos already know, the chimps among us fight like hell to stop it. That’s all; I just wish we could be bonobos instead of chimps.

sizzzzlerz Mar 17, 2024 • 2:21:49pm

re: #63 nines09

Beth Hart along with the best guitarist you never knew the name of.
Tim Pierce is on the acoustic, and the rest of these guys are session masters. You have heard them on hundreds of records, you just don’t know it.
bbl

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In addition to his own YouTube channel, Tim often appears on Rick Beato’s stream. He’s done some really interesting interviews on what being a session player is all about, what it took to get there, and what the future of the session player may be in light of the changing environment on how music is being produced these days. Suffice to say, the business is nothing like it was in the heyday of the Wrecking Crew.

JC1 Mar 17, 2024 • 2:23:53pm

Long read with a happy ending about a fundie getting elected to a PA school board.

The education of a true believer

washingtonpost.com

wrenchwench Mar 17, 2024 • 2:25:40pm

re: #64 No Malarkey!

[…]

That’s all; I just wish we could be bonobos instead of chimps.

How much of behavior is genetic, and how much is cultural? Violence is a winner, because it is effective and simple. Other options take more work, which goes against nature.

I believe culture is flexible enough that we can be the bonobos if we can convince enough people to give up violence.

nines09 Mar 17, 2024 • 2:34:49pm

re: #65 sizzzzlerz

Tim shows you what others charge. Sweet guy, killer talent.

Teukka Mar 17, 2024 • 2:40:40pm

Hamas News Network latest. Upgrade of the “US DoD dropping Haram meals in Gaza” narrative going around and being gobbled up by many. Spoilered because reasons.

Click to Reveal

Palestinian activist Ahmed Kouta exposes the contents of US airdrops to the starving population of Gaza. pic.twitter.com/IFLTeOJuon

— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) March 16, 2024

PhillyPretzel ✅ Mar 17, 2024 • 2:43:18pm

re: #69 Teukka

I am waiting for Hamas to complain about Chef Jose Andres and his contributions to the Palestinians.

wrenchwench Mar 17, 2024 • 2:51:49pm

One for the pear tree. Wordle 1,002 4/6*

Click to Reveal

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Teukka Mar 17, 2024 • 2:57:46pm

re: #70 PhillyPretzel ✅

I am waiting for Hamas to complain about Chef Jose Andres and his contributions to the Palestinians.

I’m sure they’ve already complained that “it’s not enough”…

Belafon Mar 17, 2024 • 2:58:48pm

re: #72 Teukka

I’m sure they’ve already complained that “it’s not enough”…

“He’s supposed to let us distribute it, not give it to the people.”

nines09 Mar 17, 2024 • 3:07:00pm

re: #65 sizzzzlerz

Hey Joe Jimi Hendrix Guitar Lesson Tim Pierce

HRH Stanley Sea Mar 17, 2024 • 3:10:14pm

re: #66 JC1

Long read with a happy ending about a fundie getting elected to a PA school board.

The education of a true believer

washingtonpost.com

Worst computer set up ever.

Ouch

Dave In Austin Mar 17, 2024 • 3:15:19pm

Toxic out there today……

retired cynic Mar 17, 2024 • 3:17:25pm

re: #69 Teukka

Hamas News Network latest. Upgrade of the “US DoD dropping Haram meals in Gaza” narrative going around and being gobbled up by many. Spoilered because reasons.

[Embedded content]

Muslims are allowed to eat “haram” food if facing starvation, for goodness sakes.

Patricia Kayden Mar 17, 2024 • 3:20:17pm

re: #1 Eclectic Cyborg

Doesn’t the Bible say that you should love your neighbor as you love yourself? Doesn’t that mean that you have to love yourself first? Believing in yourself is part of loving yourself. Nothing wrong with that at all.

Patricia Kayden Mar 17, 2024 • 3:22:56pm

re: #69 Teukka

By now it should be obvious that Hamas wants Palestinians to suffer and die. I’d argue that they hate Palestinians more than most Israelis do. I feel sorry for Palestinian people who must be absolutely terrified of speaking out against Hamas for fear of retribution.

Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ Mar 17, 2024 • 3:28:28pm

re: #75 HRH Stanley Sea

Why do people put their monitors in such a way to cause neck strain?

sagehen Mar 17, 2024 • 3:28:53pm

re: #77 retired cynic

Muslims are allowed to eat “haram” food if facing starvation, for goodness sakes.

MRE’s do come in kosher and halal versions.

Each one has enough calories and vitamins for 1 adult per day, they don’t need refrigeration, and they come with a self-heating thingamajig.

cat-tikvah Mar 17, 2024 • 3:36:08pm

Hi fellow 🦎 lizards,
I haven’t been on here since last week. I’m taking a break and will be back soon enough.
Scaly wishes to all. This place is my lifeline for news and views!

JC1 Mar 17, 2024 • 3:36:24pm

re: #67 wrenchwench

How much of behavior is genetic, and how much is cultural? Violence is a winner, because it is effective and simple. Other options take more work, which goes against nature.

I believe culture is flexible enough that we can be the bonobos if we can convince enough people to give up violence.

Steven Pinker’s Blank Slate is a good read on this topic. It’s a bit dated now, but I think it’s still solid. TLDR: we’re more nature then we’d like to think.

JC1 Mar 17, 2024 • 3:37:44pm

re: #78 Patricia Kayden

Doesn’t the Bible say that you should love your neighbor as you love yourself? Doesn’t that mean that you have to love yourself first? Believing in yourself is part of loving yourself. Nothing wrong with that at all.

The Bible says a lot of things..

Belafon Mar 17, 2024 • 3:39:53pm

re: #78 Patricia Kayden

Doesn’t the Bible say that you should love your neighbor as you love yourself? Doesn’t that mean that you have to love yourself first? Believing in yourself is part of loving yourself. Nothing wrong with that at all.

The problem with the Golden Rule is if you think it’s ok to be an asshole it still applies.

sizzzzlerz Mar 17, 2024 • 3:40:29pm

re: #80 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

Why do people put their monitors in such a way to cause neck strain?

It hurts my next just looking at her looking at her monitor. And placing the mouse on a different level than the keyboard? What’s up with that?

Backwoods Sleuth Mar 17, 2024 • 3:42:24pm

re: #86 sizzzzlerz

It hurts my next just looking at her looking at her monitor. And placing the mouse on a different level than the keyboard? What’s up with that?

some kind of penance for using ebil technology

Teukka Mar 17, 2024 • 3:42:36pm

re: #77 retired cynic

Muslims are allowed to eat “haram” food if facing starvation, for goodness sakes.

tiktok.com
Note that they don’t show the packaging of the MRE that would make it easy to identify. Making allegations it contains pork and other things.
But as you can see in the pdf, there isn’t a curry “standard” MRE, but there this is one of the specifically Halal religious accomodation MRE meals, chicken curry with basmati rice.
dla.mil

sagehen Mar 17, 2024 • 3:47:20pm

MRE’s are not delicious. But they’re healthy, and it’s what we feed our own soldiers when they’re away from base.

They come in many varieties, many flavors, but according to Daniel Jackson (Stargate SG-1), they all taste like chicken.

Targetpractice Mar 17, 2024 • 3:48:11pm

re: #84 JC1

The Bible says a lot of things..

It speaks to me at night, telling me all sorts of naughty things.

Nojay UK Mar 17, 2024 • 3:49:15pm

re: #86 sizzzzlerz

It hurts my next just looking at her looking at her monitor. And placing the mouse on a different level than the keyboard? What’s up with that?

Given the pairs of glasses visible in the picture I’d guess she’s extremely long-sighted and needs a monitor positioned well back from her chair.

The article is behind a paywall. Posters who think the story is worth reading by others might consider that not everyone has a subscription to the poster’s favourite sources of news on the internet.

Targetpractice Mar 17, 2024 • 3:51:14pm

re: #89 sagehen

MRE’s are not delicious. But they’re healthy, and it’s what we feed our own soldiers when they’re away from base.

They come in many varieties, many flavors, but according to Daniel Jackson (Stargate SG-1), they all taste like chicken.

Many moons ago, we had some Army guys at the hotel who had to unass at a ridiculous hour in the morning to catch a flight straight to the Middle East. One of them had about a dozen Chili Mac MREs that he had to get rid of since he couldn’t take them on the flight and offered them to me. May not have been gourmet meals, but they were pretty damn good and made excellent lunches for work.

Backwoods Sleuth Mar 17, 2024 • 3:51:58pm

re: #91 Nojay UK

Given the pairs of glasses visible in the picture I’d guess she’s extremely long-sighted and needs a monitor positioned well back from her chair.

The article is behind a paywall. Posters who think the story is worth reading by others might consider that not everyone has a subscription to the poster’s favourite sources of news on the internet.

it wasn’t under a paywall for me and I’m not a subscriber

Backwoods Sleuth Mar 17, 2024 • 3:52:41pm

re: #93 Backwoods Sleuth

it wasn’t under a paywall for me and I’m not a subscriber

it was actually a pretty decent article

jaunte Mar 17, 2024 • 3:54:51pm

It was a cool green Eschery day here at Mud Gully.

GlutenFreeJesus Mar 17, 2024 • 3:58:03pm

re: #80 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

DEI and wokeism.

Teukka Mar 17, 2024 • 4:01:29pm

re: #88 Teukka

tiktok.com
Note that they don’t show the packaging of the MRE that would make it easy to identify. Making allegations it contains pork and other things.
But as you can see in the pdf, there isn’t a curry “standard” MRE, but there this is one of the specifically Halal religious accomodation MRE meals, chicken curry with basmati rice.
dla.mil

Chaser:
Menu #12: Elbow Macaroni in Tomato Sauce
From what I can gather, pork-free.
Pic is screengrab where menu of MRE is visible.

The USA has disgustingly air-dropped expired gluten (containing Pig Fat) onto Gaza, deliberately targeting Muslims with Haram foods. This is beyond shameful and deserves our strongest condemnation. Shame on the USA for this appalling act pic.twitter.com/pZ9Sgb7EyO

— Hartentoren (@david_febv41755) March 13, 2024

Unabogie Mar 17, 2024 • 4:02:16pm

re: #79 Patricia Kayden

By now it should be obvious that Hamas wants Palestinians to suffer and die. I’d argue that they hate Palestinians more than most Israelis do. I feel sorry for Palestinian people who must be absolutely terrified of speaking out against Hamas for fear of retribution.

I think this is a very important point, but one quibble. Hamas doesn’t necessarily hate Palestinians so much as they see them as disposable tools of their ideology. It’s the same reason Ron DeSantis stokes anti-vax rhetoric even though it kills the people who support him. It’s the same reason why Trump sends his cult to die in an insurrection. It’s the same reason Putin sends his troops into a meat grinder in Ukraine. Authoritarians never respect the dignity of people who are their most fervent followers. Hell, I’d wager they support their enemies a lot more.

Nojay UK Mar 17, 2024 • 4:02:38pm

re: #92 Targetpractice

Many moons ago, we had some Army guys at the hotel who had to unass at a ridiculous hour in the morning to catch a flight straight to the Middle East. One of them had about a dozen Chili Mac MREs that he had to get rid of since he couldn’t take them on the flight and offered them to me. May not have been gourmet meals, but they were pretty damn good and made excellent lunches for work.

Ratpacks of various types in most militaries are prioritised for storage first, calories second, comfort and morale third and nutrition last.

Ten-year-old ratpacks are edible and safe to eat even after being stored in poor condition. The taste may be impacted but they will get you through a day in the field doing hard shit. The calorie content is high because doing hard shit burns calories — the old Age of Sail Royal Navy fed their sailors with about five thousand calories a day and there weren’t many fat sailors.

Flavour is important because ten minutes eating warm food that tastes good is a wonderful boost to the mental state of a troop or squaddie who is ankle-deep in mud and tasked to get to the next objective five klicks away in the driving rain once she’s finished eating. The dark secret of flavour in these sorts of mealpacks are the things that earn top chefs Michelin stars, that is salt, sugar and fat. Nutrition and healthy eating comes a long way down the line. You can get all the salad and low-fat yoghurt you can carry in a regular cookhouse canteen or ship’s galley but that’s not what MREs are for.

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jaunte Mar 17, 2024 • 4:05:05pm

re: #97 Teukka

Gluten is protein; fresh or “expired” it has no fat of any kind.

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Teukka Mar 17, 2024 • 4:06:22pm

re: #100 jaunte

Gluten is protein; fresh or “expired” it has no fat of any kind.

Exactly. And also, MRE’s have a BBE date, i.e. may be edible for a bit after the date, just perform standard sniff/taste test, no?

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BeachDem Mar 17, 2024 • 4:06:24pm

re: #66 JC1

Long read with a happy ending about a fundie getting elected to a PA school board.

The education of a true believer

washingtonpost.com

If she wants to see some true Christian kindness in Bethlehem, PA, I suggest she go and see the good Sister Virginia has done at Stephen’s Place.

stephens-place.org

(She’d probably hate it because “As soon as you start to give privileges to one group, you are taking away from or neglecting others,” Wenhold said)

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BeachDem Mar 17, 2024 • 4:08:19pm

re: #91 Nojay UK

Given the pairs of glasses visible in the picture I’d guess she’s extremely long-sighted and needs a monitor positioned well back from her chair.

The article is behind a paywall. Posters who think the story is worth reading by others might consider that not everyone has a subscription to the poster’s favourite sources of news on the internet.

wapo.st
Gift link

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Romantic Heretic Mar 17, 2024 • 4:12:26pm

re: #31 Joe Bacon ✅

Currently, in the States, there’s no other choice. If you’re pro-democracy you are pro-Biden. If you’re pro-Trump you’re anti-democracy.

No gray areas involved at all. For once.

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HRH Stanley Sea Mar 17, 2024 • 4:14:47pm

re: #91 Nojay UK

Here’s a gift link

wapo.st

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HRH Stanley Sea Mar 17, 2024 • 4:16:51pm

re: #97 Teukka

These guys are liars. Influencers? Clicks? Liars.

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Romantic Heretic Mar 17, 2024 • 4:17:33pm

re: #62 Decatur Deb

American Pasturized Cheese Food Product.

I didn’t even know you had to feed cheese.

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coin operated Mar 17, 2024 • 4:19:23pm

re: #89 sagehen

MRE’s are not delicious. But they’re healthy, and it’s what we feed our own soldiers when they’re away from base.

They come in many varieties, many flavors, but according to Daniel Jackson (Stargate SG-1), they all taste like chicken.

1. The best change to the MRE lineup was the addition of a small bottle of Tabasco sauce. Didn’t matter what meal it was…it changed the game completely
2. The tuna casserole MRE was my favorite. Everyone else hated it, so I was assured of my favorite MRE any time we were deployed…I can promise you it didn’t taste like chicken 😁

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BeenHereAwhile Mar 17, 2024 • 4:19:35pm

re: #95 jaunte

It was a cool green Eschery day here at Mud Gully.

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Carpe diem.

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jaunte Mar 17, 2024 • 4:21:26pm

re: #109 BeenHereAwhile

Unfortunately I was on a slippery perch.

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TedStriker Mar 17, 2024 • 4:23:16pm

re: #101 Teukka

Exactly. And also, MRE’s have a BBE date, i.e. may be edible for a bit after the date, just perform standard sniff/taste test, no?

Hell, that’s Steve1989MREInfo’s whole YT gig; he’s gone into rations from all over the world (though, as an American, he leans into US rats/MREs). Some of them decades-old, but most are of recent-ish vintage:

youtube.com

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Belafon Mar 17, 2024 • 4:23:58pm

re: #108 coin operated

1. The best change to the MRE lineup was the addition of a small bottle of Tabasco sauce. Didn’t matter what meal it was…it changed the game completely
2. The tuna casserole MRE was my favorite. Everyone else hated it, so I was assured of my favorite MRE any time we were deployed…I can promise you it didn’t taste like chicken 😁

Around 25 years ago, I had what was supposed to be black cherry cake from an MRE, and it tasted like tuna. I like tuna, but could not eat it because my brain knew I was supposed to be cake flavored.

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ckkatz Mar 17, 2024 • 4:27:44pm

re: #97 Teukka

There are a number of different kinds of mres.

My guess is that the depicted rations are most likely MARC or HDR rations. MARCs have been used in Iraq and Afghanistan for decades and have been continually refined based upon local feedback.

And, of course, there is the game of deciding that no religious authority beyond that personally selected by (and controlled by) HAMAS is legitimate.

There are the humanitarian daily ration (HDR) rations. These are setup to have no animal or alcohol based products or byproducts. And very few dairy based products.

Meal, Alternative Regionally Customized (MARC). Fully vegetarian, sometimes have local style foods, but usually some sort of vegetarian style like cheese tortellini. These are what is often being issued to civilians in the Middle East and Western Asia.

Meal, Religious, Kosher/Halal.

These are generally for servicemembers who have strict religious dietary requirements. Usually labeled “Glatt Kosher” or “Dhabiha Halal” and are specialized and separately palletized.

There is also a specialized meal certified for Passover requirements. Called “Meal, Religious, Kosher for Passover”.

And finally, there is a pork free version for less strictly observant service members. It is basically selected pork-free regular mres. It is called “Meal, Ready-to-Eat (MRE), Pork-Free, Individual”.

ETA source:
Wiki:Meal, Ready-to-Eat

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Joe Bacon ✅ Mar 17, 2024 • 4:28:23pm

Recipe time.

Sometimes Costco Rotisserie Chickens aren’t enough and I need to step up to Coq Au Vin!

Ingredients

2 whole small chickens (about 3 pounds each, see notes), each chicken cut into 4 pieces, backbones reserved for stock
2 cups dry red wine (Suggestion—step up from 3 Buck Chuck! 😏)
8 ounces pearl onions (see notes)
1/4 pound slab bacon or salt pork, cut into 1- by 1/4- by 1/4-inch sticks (NOTE! I USE TURKEY BACON!)
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
8 ounces button or cremini mushrooms, woody stems trimmed if necessary, quartered
3 medium carrots, diced (about 1 1/2 cups)
4 medium cloves garlic, crushed
2 sprigs thyme
2 bay leaves
2 cups gelatinous homemade chicken stock (see notes) or low-sodium chicken broth
3 tablespoons cold unsalted butter, cubed
1/4 cup minced flat-leaf parsley

Preheat oven to 350°F (180°C). Add chicken to a 1-gallon zipper-lock bag. Pour in wine and seal bag, pressing out air. Let stand while you prepare the remaining ingredients.

Using a paring knife, trim off the ends of each onion and score a light “X” into one cut side. Bring a small pot of water to a boil over high heat. Add onions and cook until outer layers are soft, about 1 1/2 minutes. Drain onions and run under cool water until cold enough to handle. Peel onions with your fingers and discard peels.

(NOTE—I use Turkey Bacon in this step!)—In a large Dutch oven or rondeau, cook bacon over medium-high heat, stirring and reducing heat as necessary to prevent scorching, until browned and fat has rendered, about 10 minutes. Remove from heat and, using a slotted spoon, transfer bacon to a paper towel-lined plate.

Remove chicken from zipper-lock bag, reserving wine, and pat dry. Season with salt and pepper. Return Dutch oven with rendered bacon fat to medium-high heat and, working in batches, add chicken, skin side down, and cook until browned, about 7 minutes. Turn and brown other side, about 5 minutes. Transfer browned chicken to a wire rack set over a rimmed baking sheet. Reserve at room temperature.

Once all chicken is browned, add mushrooms to Dutch oven and cook over medium-high heat, stirring frequently, until browned, 10 to 12 minutes. Add pearl onions, carrots, and garlic and cook, stirring, until lightly browned, about 5 minutes. Add bacon, wine, thyme, and bay leaves and bring to a simmer, stirring up any browned bits.

Stir in stock. Add chicken legs skin side up, nestling them into the Dutch oven so that they are partially submerged but top of skin is above the liquid. Pour in any accumulated juices from chicken. Transfer to oven and cook, uncovered, for 1 hour.

Add chicken breasts, nestling them skin side up amongst the legs, and return to the oven. Cook until breasts are just cooked through (they should register 145 to 150°F/63°C to 66°C on an instant-read thermometer), about 20 minutes.

Transfer chicken breasts and legs to a clean rack set over a rimmed backing sheet. Set Dutch oven over medium-low heat and simmer until sauce is lightly viscous, about 10 minutes. Whisk in butter, then season with salt (if necessary) and pepper. Stir in half of parsley.

Return chicken to pot, spooning sauce on top. Garnish with remaining parsley. Serve right away with buttered potatoes, pasta, or rice.

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Teukka Mar 17, 2024 • 4:32:18pm

re: #113 ckkatz

There are a number of different kinds of mres.

My guess is that the depicted rations are most likely MARC or HDR rations. MARCs have been used in Iraq and Afghanistan for decades and have been continually refined based upon local feedback.

And, of course, there is the game of deciding that no religious authority beyond that personally selected by (and controlled by) HAMAS is legitimate.

There are the humanitarian daily ration (HDR) rations. These are setup to have no animal or alcohol based products or byproducts. And very few dairy based products.

Meal, Alternative Regionally Customized (MARC). Fully vegetarian, sometimes have local style foods, but usually some sort of vegetarian style like cheese tortellini. These are what is often being issued to civilians in the Middle East and Western Asia.

Meal, Religious, Kosher/Halal.

These are generally for servicemembers who have strict religious dietary requirements. Usually labeled “Glatt Kosher” or “Dhabiha Halal” and are specialized and separately palletized.

There is also a specialized meal certified for Passover requirements. Called “Meal, Religious, Kosher for Passover”.

And finally, there is a pork free version for less strictly observant service members. It is basically selected pork-free regular mres. It is called “Meal, Ready-to-Eat (MRE), Pork-Free, Individual”.

ETA source:
Wiki:Meal, Ready-to-Eat

I know, I perused the military site.

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ckkatz Mar 17, 2024 • 4:39:14pm

re: #115 Teukka

I know, I perused the military site.

If they’re getting the “Meal, Religious, Kosher/Halal” rather than HDR, they’re getting the best stuff we have, specifically designed to be issued to US Military service members.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines Mar 17, 2024 • 4:45:58pm

Variation of a joke about Trumpite election deniers (previously posted here)

2 Republicans die and go to heaven. They ask God if he’d answer one question. “Of course,” God says. They ask how the Democrats rigged the election in 2020. “It wasn’t rigged,” God replied. Republicans look at one another and say, “This conspiracy goes higher than we thought!”

Pre-emption: The premise of repugs going to heaven requires a major suspension of belief.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Mar 17, 2024 • 4:47:08pm

So some blurb on the internet claims that the fastest growing areas of the country are DFW and Houston.

Both those locations are sprawl exemplar.

We lament that people don’t take climate change seriously, and (some) leaders talk about how we have to limit our carbon emissions… and yet we promote sprawl.

This is why I have sort of given up on seriously believing we will do mitigation to the extent needed.

Our mitigation efforts are more than tokens but still fall far short of what is needed.

My answer to sprawl is direct and impossible: counties and municipalities should refuse to offer building permits for a single family dwelling until said builder has built at least one multi-family dwelling AND paid money to build a rail service to connect said dwellings into a regional network.

But that will never happen.

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TedStriker Mar 17, 2024 • 4:48:09pm

re: #116 ckkatz

If they’re getting the “Meal, Religious, Kosher/Halal” rather than HDR, they’re getting the best stuff we have, specifically designed to be issued to US Military service members.

The HDRs are specifically made for deploying in disaster areas/humanitarian operations; they’re cheaper and simpler to produce than full-on MREs (part of this is typically no animal proteins and fats, which also makes them acceptable to the widest number of people observant of religious restrictions), are calorie-dense, and are relatively easy for malnourished people to consume and digest.

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Romantic Heretic Mar 17, 2024 • 4:49:34pm

re: #83 JC1

We are not thinking machines that feel but rather feeling machines that think. - Antonio Dimasio

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Mar 17, 2024 • 4:50:21pm

re: #118 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Texas counties lead the U.S. in population growth, Census says

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darthstar Mar 17, 2024 • 4:50:48pm

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Mar 17, 2024 • 4:54:40pm

It’s my biggest disappointment about Joe Biden - his campaign is bragging that US oil production is at an all time high.

If that doesn’t convince you that we are not that interested in mitigation then nothing will.

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Romantic Heretic Mar 17, 2024 • 5:06:38pm

Here’s an interesting take.

Barron’s: Biden shouldn’t be taking credit for the better economy because wealth is distributed unevenly.

Jesus, lady! Whose fault is that?

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darthstar Mar 17, 2024 • 5:07:39pm

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austin_blue Mar 17, 2024 • 5:10:11pm

re: #118 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

So some blurb on the internet claims that the fastest growing areas of the country are DFW and Houston.

Both those locations are sprawl exemplar.

We lament that people don’t take climate change seriously, and (some) leaders talk about how we have to limit our carbon emissions… and yet we promote sprawl.

This is why I have sort of given up on seriously believing we will do mitigation to the extent needed.

Our mitigation efforts are more than tokens but still fall far short of what is needed.

My answer to sprawl is direct and impossible: counties and municipalities should refuse to offer building permits for a single family dwelling until said builder has built at least one multi-family dwelling AND paid money to build a rail service to connect said dwellings into a regional network.

But that will never happen.

You gotta buy where land is cheap if you want affordable housing. Simple economics.

When we bought our home in 1997, which is walking distance from downtown, three blocks from the Symphony/Ballet/and Opera Hall, our dirt was valued at $25,000.

If we sold our house today we could get $1.4 million and they’d demo the house. So any developer could put up a duplex on the lot, but would have to sink $200 per sqft just in the dirt before construction could begin.

So, yeah, “affordability” is a pipe dream in my neighborhood and in close in neighborhoods in Austin. In addition, 50% of the housing stock in our zip code is already in Multifamily zoned structures (duplexes, triplexes, and apartments, including a lot of Section 8 units).

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jeffreyw Mar 17, 2024 • 5:12:27pm

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Reuben or Rachel?

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wrenchwench Mar 17, 2024 • 5:15:27pm

re: #118 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

So some blurb on the internet claims that the fastest growing areas of the country are DFW and Houston.

Both those locations are sprawl exemplar.

We lament that people don’t take climate change seriously, and (some) leaders talk about how we have to limit our carbon emissions… and yet we promote sprawl.

This is why I have sort of given up on seriously believing we will do mitigation to the extent needed.

Our mitigation efforts are more than tokens but still fall far short of what is needed.

My answer to sprawl is direct and impossible: counties and municipalities should refuse to offer building permits for a single family dwelling until said builder has built at least one multi-family dwelling AND paid money to build a rail service to connect said dwellings into a regional network.

But that will never happen.

Little start:

In this town, there are no more areas zoned single family only. There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth from owners of large houses who did not want more than a few neighbors. But it got done.

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Cheechako Mar 17, 2024 • 5:17:26pm

For the finicky soldier:

Pizza MRE

Note: No pineapple toppings.

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Patricia Kayden Mar 17, 2024 • 5:18:04pm

YouTube comments in a nutshell

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ckkatz Mar 17, 2024 • 5:25:11pm

I’m in the midst of a rabbit hole regarding clean-energy programs mostly stemming from the Inflation Reduction Act. Also, Energy Department grants.

I haven’t parsed through everything yet. But, compared to current situation, it, at least on the surface, looks like an improvement.

One set of companies is working on Geo-Thermal energy projects. On the downside is that the companies with the most expertise seem to be oil and fracking companies.

Archived WSJ article: Frackers Are Now Drilling for Clean Power

Archived WSJ article: The Biggest Winners in America’s Climate Law: Foreign Companies
(Look at the definitions. As I understand it, they define foreign as projects that include foreign companies. But they define domestic as 100% US companies. With global corporations, this is an ‘interesting’ approach.)

Archived WSJ article: Small Towns Chase America’s $3 Trillion Climate Gold Rush

There have been a number of recent mineral ‘discoveries”, such as the Salton Sea Lithium deposits. There have also been Helium, Hydrogen, and Wyoming Rare Earth elements domestic mining discoveries.
New Lithium Discoveries Can Secure America’s Clean Energy Future

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austin_blue Mar 17, 2024 • 5:25:57pm

The four largest designated Metro areas in Texas (DFW, Houston, San Antonio, and Austin) (urban and surrounding counties (Austin has five)) contain 70% of Texas’ population.

There’s a shitpot of cheap land in Texas. Most of it is parched or played out and getting worse.

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wrenchwench Mar 17, 2024 • 5:26:00pm

re: #126 austin_blue

You gotta buy where land is cheap if you want affordable housing. Simple economics.

When we bought our home in 1997, which is walking distance from downtown, three blocks from the Symphony/Ballet/and Opera Hall, our dirt was valued at $25,000.

If we sold our house today we could get $1.4 million and they’d demo the house. So any developer could put up a duplex on the lot, but would have to sink $200 per sqft just in the dirt before construction could begin.

So, yeah, “affordability” is a pipe dream in my neighborhood and in close in neighborhoods in Austin. In addition, 50% of the housing stock in our zip code is already in Multifamily zoned structures (duplexes, triplexes, and apartments, including a lot of Section 8 units).

My understanding (in very short supply today) is that any unit can be a “Section 8” unit if the rent is in a certain relationship to the median rent in the area.

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Belafon Mar 17, 2024 • 5:28:27pm

re: #118 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

So some blurb on the internet claims that the fastest growing areas of the country are DFW and Houston.

Both those locations are sprawl exemplar.

We lament that people don’t take climate change seriously, and (some) leaders talk about how we have to limit our carbon emissions… and yet we promote sprawl.

This is why I have sort of given up on seriously believing we will do mitigation to the extent needed.

Our mitigation efforts are more than tokens but still fall far short of what is needed.

My answer to sprawl is direct and impossible: counties and municipalities should refuse to offer building permits for a single family dwelling until said builder has built at least one multi-family dwelling AND paid money to build a rail service to connect said dwellings into a regional network.

But that will never happen.

Nope, it won’t because there is no way you could build any kind of rail system here in the DFW area that would keep up with our population growth because it would take the kind of money that Republicans won’t spend, and it would require removing some existing houses and other things to place the rail so that it could be installed. But they are also building apartments as fast as they can, even though people show up to city meetings to stop them.

You know what would also help: ending red state blocking cities from providing their own internet service, and force companies to have to allow people to work remotely unless the job involves manufacturing.

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teleskiguy Mar 17, 2024 • 5:31:07pm

re: #56 teleskiguy

I’m in Crested Butte, CO. Can’t sleep. I’m participating in this tomorrow while my colleague runs the demo tent at the base. I’m dressing up as a “Bishop” (that’s the name of the company I work for, heh) with a robe, pope hat, staff.

Well that was too much fun!

Mastodon

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ckkatz Mar 17, 2024 • 5:35:55pm

re: #127 jeffreyw

I’ve probably led a sheltered life, but I’ve always heard that the Rueben is the Corned Beef sandwich, the New Yorker is the pastrami and the Rachel is the Turkey one. After that the naming starts to fall apart with things like turkey pastrami, kimchi etc.

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Belafon Mar 17, 2024 • 5:38:46pm

re: #124 Romantic Heretic

Here’s an interesting take.

Barron’s: Biden shouldn’t be taking credit for the better economy because wealth is distributed unevenly.

Jesus, lady! Whose fault is that?

It’s better than it was before he took over.

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wrenchwench Mar 17, 2024 • 5:45:15pm

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TedStriker Mar 17, 2024 • 6:20:38pm

re: #135 teleskiguy

Well that was too much fun!

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The Pope of the Slopes…

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Eventual Carrion Mar 17, 2024 • 6:24:24pm

re: #135 teleskiguy

Well that was too much fun!

[Embedded content]

Love it!

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jeffreyw Mar 17, 2024 • 7:05:51pm

re: #136 ckkatz

I’ve probably led a sheltered life, but I’ve always heard that the Rueben is the Corned Beef sandwich, the New Yorker is the pastrami and the Rachel is the Turkey one. After that the naming starts to fall apart with things like turkey pastrami, kimchi etc.

The comments on that thread are split but there is mention of all of that and more.
My own thinking is that a Rachel is with coleslaw and a Reuben needs sauerkraut. I do the sauce on the side. Some combo of the above on lightly toasted rye with a pickle spear on the plate. I’ve used Swiss cheese or provolone, I lean Swiss. Served all melty hot. A dish of mustard for the occasional bite.

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ckkatz Mar 17, 2024 • 7:19:39pm

re: #141 jeffreyw

The comments on that thread are split but there is mention of all of that and more.
My own thinking is that a Rachel is with coleslaw and a Reuben needs sauerkraut. I do the sauce on the side. Some combo of the above on lightly toasted rye with a pickle spear on the plate. I’ve used Swiss cheese or provolone, I lean Swiss. Served all melty hot. A dish of mustard for the occasional bite.

Had dinner an hour ago, but on reading this, I’m starting to get hungry again.

That naming convention works for me as well as anything else I’ve seen. For a good sandwich, I’m happy to meet the restaurant on their terms and terminology.

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Charmingly Persistent Mar 18, 2024 • 7:53:41am

re: #91 Nojay UK

Given the pairs of glasses visible in the picture I’d guess she’s extremely long-sighted and needs a monitor positioned well back from her chair.

The article is behind a paywall. Posters who think the story is worth reading by others might consider that not everyone has a subscription to the poster’s favourite sources of news on the internet.

Can people see the Apple News link below? It isn’t on News+ which you pay for, so I am hoping you can.

apple.news

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