There is no reason to cheep out on commodity pantry items. Quality flour, potatoes, rice, beans, frozen veggies, and canned goods are never going to break the budget and make a huge difference in meals.

You can afford the good flour.

The interesting question is how does the pitcher hit themselves? Throw the ball around the world? Portal gun?

It was always Wonka’s plan to “fail” all the children. It was only then that the decision about the gobstopper was most meaningful.

None of the children knew Wonka wanted an heir. None were promised anything but a tour.

If you read the article, this is a very specific legal question. And honestly, it’s too gross to contemplate, and having a strong opinion about this on the internet is rightly suspicious.

The good news is the criminal in this case didn’t just posess CSAM, and no matter how this shakes out, they going to jail.

Symbols are for the symbol minded

-George Carlin

This mayor is a fool for thinking his flag-staffs are important. Getting outraged over this makes the same mistake.

he has a personal private army deputized as federal Marshalls by the US president, and he owns an intercontinental ballistic missile system that can fire a 10 ton tungsten rod into your country’s capitol from orbit and decapitate your entire government.

Who is on Ketamine?

Leaving aside the scifi conspiracy crap, (And I’m holding out hope you’re just kidding) “Rods from God” are almost as stupid as space lasers. Every Newton of energy released by a kinetic weapon must fist be stored as potential energy, i.e. lifting 10 tons into orbit.

But you can’t just do it once. You’d need several projectiles for each launch platform, and you’d need multiple platforms to credibly threaten the whole earth, and more still if you don’t want to wait hours for the launch platform to orbit over your target.

Ballistic nuclear weapons are superior in every concealable way and that’s why we built those instead of scifi fever-dreams and star wars.

I love it when a program says theirs a new version, would you like to download? pffffftt.

pacman -S [program name]

It’s important to salt the eggs like 15min before cooking.

The corn starch thing reminds me of Cantonese scrambled eggs. Eggs are cooked in a wok on high heat. The curds are repeatedly dragged up the side of the vessel forming layers of fully formed and custard textured curd. The end result is similar to a French omelette, without all the fuss and technique.

I use a non-stick pan tilted over the burner to replicate this. I pour the eggs in, wait for a curd to form, then pull it up to the side of the pan that’s off the burner. Allowing the liquid to run back down. Do this repeatedly until the eggs are as firm as you like.

Plenty of young girls are attracted to older men

I can’t help but notice that in May-December relationships, December usually comes with Christmas.

It should be stressed that Ukraine isn’t attacking WB instead of attacking refineries, logistics, and shipping. They’re doing it in addition.

Warehouses are a soft, easy target. And, like oil facilities, you’re counting on the goods themselves to do most of the destruction with a little incendiary help. Ukraine has a large supply of slow, cheap suicide drones and this is a good use for them. You force Russia to move air defenses away from the front, absorb economic and financial losses, and remind regular “non-political” Russians that they’re at war. Also, you minimize collateral damage because unless workers are killed in the initial attack, they’re likely to escape the conflagration that accounts for most of the damage.

This doesn’t make any sense. NATO is much stronger than it was before the war. Russia is much weaker.

The Baltic States started the war isolated, partially surrounded by Russia. Today they sit in a NATO lake that can not only support the Baltics, but threaten St Petersburg.

Russia would have to defend a front stretching from the Black sea to the Arctic sea.

Even if the US declined to help, Russia starts in a position of great weakness. And worse still, everyone knows it.

I guess we got tired of hating on Skyler White and Jenny from Forrest Gump so we’re spinning the wheel and it turned up MJ from two Spidermans ago.

Neat fact: Japan maintained continuity of government through surrender and occupation. In Germany, a new government with a new constitution was formed. Nazi ideology, symbology, and officials were purged. (to one extent or another).

Not so in Japan. Only the top leadership was removed (but not the emperor). Their culture and curriculum puts Neo-Confederates to shame with it’s atrocity-denial and historical mutilation.

This is jaw dropping. I wonder if this is pressure by the Trump regime to get Israel to get in line behind whatever Iran deal Trump can conjure.

Vance has publicly rebuked Israel to be “careful” with it’s most powerful ally. Netanyahu then rejected Trump’s peace plan. Friction from a normally sycophantic Huckabee may a signal that America’s love isn’t unconditional.

Whatever private channels of leverage Israel has in the US, they appear to be weak.

Despite what Alex Jones will tell you, Israel is a vassal state to the US, not the other way round. It may seem confusing considering how bad of an ally Israel is. But that’s my point, people on the left and right are starting to wonder if Israel is more trouble than she’s worth.

It’s extraordinary that Israel doesn’t seem to have much direct leverage and instead seems to be relying on their ability to spoil an Iran deal as their “cards”.

Vance has already publicly warned Israel that back-biting their most powerful friend was risky.

Driving a wedge between the US and Israel may be the lasting consequence to this war. Nevermind the straight of Hormuz.

Microslop has designed a hardware solution to disable AI features on Windows for advanced users.

https://nebula.tv/videos/lindsayellis-south-park

Stone and Parker are the embodiment of genX politics. That is the cynical mantra that people who believe in stuff are the real fools. And it doesn’t matter if you deny the Holocaust or advocate for green energy, in South Park you’ve committed the same sin.

Sure they make fun of Trump. But they also had an entire season devoted to frat-boy bullies and tyrants who advocated for inclusion, equity, and social justice. Because that’s a social problem in American and Matt & Tray simply have the courage to finally speak truth to power.

Oh, and meanwhile Global Warming is a hysterical myth that Al Gore invented.