Fuck republicans, but also, what in the absolute fuck is this?

Another part of the deal was that House Republicans said they wouldn’t take action to remove Democratic Rep. Brad Tabke, whose narrow 14-vote win in November was called into question when election officials discovered they’d accidentally thrown out 21 absentee ballots without counting them.

Even if all 21 ballots ended up being votes for the challenger, they should and need to be counted.

As opposed to a sex cult that is under control? /s

I’m not going to kill your dream but be careful. Lots of it would probably be covered in hydrazine which is super duper toxic.

I don’t want Walz anywhere fucking near a presidential run. He’s associated with the highest stakes loss in world history. And part of the reason why is because the biggest thing he had going for him is that he seemed awfully similar to a middle-aged dad. I’m not on board with that experiment again. Harris and Walz had one shot at it and they blew it. Sucks, but that’s life. It will need to be someone completely disassociated from Harris-Walz and the current democratic party elites.

Hey, on the bright side she has an opportunity to make a sone money. Either through a potential lawsuit (doubt.) or the smarter option: oil on canvas artwork of her experience in the detention center. Her story is global now and the notoriety may boost the sale price.

Thanks! I’ll have to check it out when I get back home. I’ll leave this post up as a resource cause I do think there’s some valuable information in here still.

Top Gear UK seasons 1-22

I’ve checked and that’s not true of the public trackers I use.

Ripping. I’ve searched the sidebar for guides but nothing jumps out to me. I’m sure I could find it eventually, but I don’t necessarily want to waste a couple hours browsing if someone knows where to look off the top of their head already. Any help is appreciated obviously!

So that all that’s left in America is dipshits and bountiful breeders. That’s a recipe for Idiocracy.

Fair enough! I just like being able to break the routine every now and then to do something new. It’s actually becoming a bit of an issue 😅. I’d love a space on my kitchen wall to display all the different brew methods I have and would like to collect more. Right now I’ve got a gaggia classic pro for espresso, Bialetti for moka, a pour over brewer, cold brew carafe, this vacuum brewer, aeropress, a chemex, and just a regular ol’ drip machine that’s kinda been retired by now. I’d love to find an affordable Europiccola to refurbish!

Woof. Cold brew has the highest caffeine content of any other brew method. You probably drank 4-5 times the amount of caffeine you’re used to lol

My breakfast is an over easy egg on homemade toast every morning. It’s relatively low calorie and contains a good amount of protein to give me a feeling of fullness. Eggs are great sources of protein and aren’t as damaging to the environment as something like bacon, ham, or sausage.

It’s been built into the culinary culture of the United States. Just as much as beans for breakfast in the UK or pasta in Italy. Hell, even carbonara was born in Italy during the second world war because Americans asked italians to make hearty american meals with pasta and eggs. Its probably because America was/is so large that many households used to raise chickens for an easy source of protein when meat wasn’t as easily transported in the 1800s and early 1900s. All you needed was a backyard, a coop to keep them safe from raccoons/foxes/hawks/etc., and food. Its not as common now but maggots are an excellent food source for chickens and it’s super simple to build a “maggot farm” with compost. Plus you would get free dirt for the garden out of it.

This is when 12ft.io comes in handy or if that doesn’t seem to work, I just ignore whatever they were trying to get me to read. No news article is ever that important.

You’re right about it not going anywhere, but its because Amazon uses USPS as a subcontractor to deliver packages that they can’t deliver reliably. Not because any of the current administration give a shit about the Constitution or what it has to say about the USPS.

A mixture of emotions. In my case,

1.) I live in Illinois and bought a home in 2020 when the interest rate was 3.2% as a first-time homeowner. If I were to sell and look for a new home, the interest rate in Canada would be somewhere around 4%, plus the cost of living is higher compared to where I live. That’s ignoring the complications that could come from obtaining a permanent work visa as a foreign citizen.

2.) I love my job as it is now and it may be difficult to find a job in the same field. Also, my wife recently found a job in her career field and for the first time wants to stay at her employer for the foreseeable future; working in public health and helping the people this horrible healthcare system is failing to care for.

3.) Family and friendship ties to the area.

4.) There’s some semblance of hope if we stay. I do still want the best for everyone that I share this earth with. Even if it were financially viable for me to leave, there’s millions that aren’t so lucky. If I pack up and leave that’s one less person voting for progressive policy and advocating for empathy in a country that has real projective power in the world.

5.) Illinois, as a blue state, is temporarily insulated from damaging policy that Trump is trying to enact. JB Pritzker has remained steadfast in his opposition to Trump and regressive political action.

I liken it to French opposition during the period of Nazi occupation. (Clearly it’s not a 1:1 comparison.) The french resistance hampered Nazi wartime efforts just enough to keep Nazi logistics from being able to cross the channel and occupy Great Britain. If that were to happen, the United States wouldn’t be able to set up any sort of staging area on the other side of the Atlantic ocean. Amphibious assaults would have taken place on the western coast of GB where there’s cliff faces rather than the sandy beaches at Normandy. Maybe Germany is then able to allocate more troops to the eastern front in that scenario, who knows. But thankfully that’s just a hypothetical and isn’t something we have to ponder.

I’ve got a flat spot on the back of my head that I used to be self conscious about. My 2¢ is that this guy isn’t a human. Any attacks on his head shape don’t really relate to me. So in my opinion, go ahead and let this traffic cone know that it looks like he cosplayed as a torpedo when his mother had to give birth. I’d wager that if his head shape made birthing him less painful, it was the most compassionate thing he’s ever done in life.

If that’s how you view it, then sure? But my wife was excited to take my last name. I actively told her that she could keep her name and that the change doesn’t matter to me in the slightest but she still ended up taking my name. I don’t think anyone is strong arming their spouse into a decision like that.

Good thing we all stand to lose everything if we do nothing.

This is what I use as well. It even has Open Street Maps profile integration.