How to Yakiniku or “Korean BBQ”.
Taking the monorail because there will be drinking. Lots of drinking.
First, find seedy looking Yakiniku place in a poorly lit alley.
Sit you and your terrible shirt at a table and get ready for meat.
Nomihodai (all-you-can-drink) for 2,000 yen/90minutes, so get drinks first. That’s a Yuzu sour which is Yuzu (a citrus fruit like an orange and lemon mix) and shōchū.
Order meat. They’ll bring you a plate of it raw and the grill. Charcoal and vent at the ready. That’s Karubi (boneless short rib). Cook to your heart’s desire.
For seasoning, each person gets a three section tray. Tare (sauce), lemon and salt. I go with the salt, but do you what you want.
Don’t forget it’s nomihodai. Switched to beer. That’s number 3 and we’re only 15 minutes in.
Ordered the “Karubi dragon”. Giant slab of some swinging meat.
My reaction.
Little fatty and *poof* up like Wendy’s.
Dip in the Kiwi fruit and whatever sauce they’re using. *This was great and sorry for not asking what it was.
Hormone time. It’s offal on other awful stuff like liver. “Horumono” which literally means, “discarded stuff”. Wife and kid like it. Too rubbery for me.
Kuppa or “Gukbap” in Korean. Rice soup with chunks of meat (beef in this case). Not spicy and is a good way to finish off the night.
So that was Yakiniku. If you’ve never tried it, get thee to a meatery.
Well i’ll be first.
I think i agree.
The meat looks good tho.
I would have guessed “hormone”.
MONORAIL!
But your daughter is 10 right? why not let her drive home?
Sounds like toxic masculinity.
Japanese ‘seedy looking’ looks much less seedy than I think of when I think of seedy looking barbecue joints.
seedy looking barbecue joints
I only eat at places the sheriff padlocked months ago where they don’t even try to clean the soot and grease off of anything: they just paint over it every ten years or so
Carbon black is just as good as paint anyway.
*thinks back to the platonic essence of pork sandwitch that I experienced many years ago in rural Virginia on a trip down to look at colleges with my dad. Just an old fat black dude with a dutch oven/smoker and a cash box sitting on what looked like a lemonade stand by the side of the road.
I can’t even spot the establishment in the picture.
Maybe that’s what he’s alluding to.
This looks delicious.
Convenient because it is lunch time for me.
But I go out when I don’t feel like cooking for myself…
We ate at a really swanky Japanese restaurant in Scottsdale a few years ago, can’t recall the name. Super old school vibe, dunno how authentic. 8 tables, maybe? The menu was essentially “whatever the chef feels like today” (meaning, no actual dishes were listed) and the options were 3 courses or 4.
One course was pho-ish, with strips of raw been and a heater for the broth. Cook your own, essentially. This reminds me of that.
One of the better meals I’ve ever had.
Very common in sushi restaurants. Shame Sensei doesn’t like raw fish.
What Is Omakase? Why This Japanese Dining Experience Should Be on Your Bucket List
Fish with Fingers? No thanks.
Sushi was (and still is) a finger food.
Similar to lobster in the early days of the US it was cheap food for the working guy until it became haute cusine.
I’m not a sushi guy.
There used to be an excellent Japanese restaurant I went to (and was my first experience with “real” Japanese food.) I went there often enough that they would occasionally bring me stuff to get the opinion of the local market to new menu ideas.
One time they brought me a plate of something that had the shape of cole slaw in the jagged shredded appearance but the look of meat. I asked them what it was “Taco salad” they said. I of course asked them to repeat that and they again said “taco salad.”
I later realized that they were saying “tako (octopus) salad.”
It was really good, but apparently I was the only one who liked it because it never went on the menu.
tako salad sounds like it might be good – provided I can use a fork and the octopus is properly cooked (it’s easy to get it wrong)
I’m sure they had forks available, though at the time I was waaaay too proud of being a white boy who could use chopsticks to ever ask.
shabu shabu?
Far more Korean style barbecue in NYC than Japanese style.
I’ve done both, but only in Japan was the offal a regular part of the menu. My friend was surprised, but I have no issues with eating offal. I do generally draw the line with “sweetbreads” however.
Indeed. There a couple places in Queens that we go to on the regular. One of which is my son’s favorite birthday spot. We are always the only white folk in the building and I get side-eyed looks from the other patrons because I disregard the vegetables/lettuce wraps and just eat the meat.
https://www.firearmspolicy.org/hr4568-body-armor-ban-2020
Exempts . . . former law enforcement officers
mmmmkaaaay ?
*John climaxes forcefully on the ceiling*
I’m disappointed. I thought you were smarter than that.
/also immediately thought of John
This is why the piggies will have no problem taking your guns away. They’ve got theirs.
I like the extra exemption they usually stick in for former police officers.
Not that I think this diaper-load has much chance of passing, but…
Body armor is a good thing to have. If you have the means, I highly recommend it.
Ned Kelly agrees.
He’d make those robbers swing.
That all looks tasty and bit dicey – have the Pepto on standby.
The various dipping sauces for after cooking are a big part of the flavor.
Korean BBQ Rocks! I did it once many years ago,
Tasty stuff Straff!
Speaking of offal…
Opening salvo from a Rolling Stone piece, which I shall leave lying in the dirt like a rotting gut pile:
Donald Trump’s astounding incompetence in recent months — worsening the effects of the lethal COVID-19 pandemic, mishandling the ensuing economic disaster, and maliciously inflaming racial tensions — has affirmed that he is without question the worst president in American history. None of the other contenders for the dishonor, including James Buchanan and most recently George W. Bush, can match Trump’s record of bringing on or aggravating three devastating crises at the same time, any one of which might have ruined another president’s reputation. And two incidents amid the turmoil suggest that Trump, having made a career out of shafting justice, might finally pay the price.
No linky. Fuck Rolling Stone (now owned by Roger Penske’s son, if I recall correctly; the Captain must be beaming with pride).
Look, not saying they aren’t awful, but if “Worst President Ever” includes the last two presidents from the opposite party, you might need to step out and take a look at your partisan stances.
Especially since Bush and Obama admins are practically indistinguishable. Not trying to “Whatabout” i’m just saying you can’t say Bush was won of the worst, without also implicating Obama, something i think the writer doesn’t want to do.
Can’t say i’m a fan of his admin, but my reasons are different than the mainstream.
You got that right.
Winks, knowingly.
Especially since Bush and Obama admins are practically indistinguishable.
Word.
Is that what Jay is up to now?
worsening the effects of the lethal COVID-19 pandemic, mishandling the ensuing economic disaster, and maliciously inflaming racial tensions
0_o
When you put it like that, how can you not think Trump is the worst?
worsening the effects of the lethal COVID-19 pandemic By allowing mass demonstrations in Democrat cities?
mishandling the ensuing economic disaster By urging Democrat governors to stop ass-fucking their economies?
maliciously inflaming racial tensions By implementing criminal justice reform, promoting police reform, and condemning rioting and looting?
Fuck these mendacious assholes for making me defend Trump.
All the crises we used to make Trump look bad are making him look bad. Shocking!
That is some astounding projection. Apparently Trump ordered assisted living facilities to accept covid + residents, ordered nationwide lockdowns and cant shut up about race, race, race.
Wife and I did Korean BBQ once. We plan to do it again. It was fun. Bunch of sauces and condiments. Ton of meat. Only issue was that I was cooking so fast I had a hard time not using my raw meat utensil to pull cooked meat off. Didn’t get sick so no harm no foul.
Chicken gizzards are the best.
They’ve got that too! Specialized chicken places are called yakitori – meaning “grilled bird”. Different sauces for the different organs.
Yakiniku means “grilled meat”.
I saw “offal” and “chewy” and went directly to chicken gizzards. LOL
I teethed my daughter on chicken gizzards.
I just went out to the little strip mall in my town. Made a haircut appoint for next Tuesday because that’s the first my barber has available (just re-opened today).
Talked to owner of the gym I go to. He still has absolutely no idea when he’ll be allowed to reopen and make a living again. His guess is sometime in August or September. With Murphy, you never know – and he seems to really hate gyms, which explains his physique.
Talked to my real estate agent – business is booming as people flee the cities, while others around here flee this fucking state. Told her we are looking to go on the market first half of next year, hopefully prices will have jumped up a bit by then.
Lots of cursing of our Governor’s name by all involved, even the nice old lady who sells real estate.
I haven’t seen any recent popularity polls about our esteemed governor. They were pushing the one early in the lock down, but now only silence.
I find it fascinating that none of these stories bleating about President Cartoon Villain’s gross mishandling of the Great Zombie Flu-Like Plague offer up much in the way of examples of either Trump’s egregious malfeasance or Herself’s putative superior competence in the face of identical circumstances.
Hrmm…
I was inspired to look at what restaurants are open near me and during so found a local food delivery service that started up in 2008 and hasn’t yet been bought up by one of the big tech companies.
Should I order delivery or just stick to what I can cook up from the contents of my freezer?
We’ve been trying to support the local restaurants so we have actually ordered out more than usual.
The biggest difference is that this would also be a local delivery service that serves multiple restaurants.
I’m going to try it and see. Plus it’s been a while since I’ve had greek food.
Arby’s has a passable gyro.
We have actual Greek family restaurants around here. Passable wouldn’t compete.
… and I don’t know where the nearest Arby’s is.
Greek restaurants around here are few and far between. The closest good one to me is 30 miles away.
Same.
Hrmm… they have the option for contectless delivery.
Don’t know if they added it for the virus, but I don’t like talking to people anyway.
bah – I just go pick the stuff up. I don’t want people coming to my house.
I’m working, and I don’t want to be hassled for my refusal to wear a masktotem.
‘Masktotem’
I am stealing that.
You wear a ‘totemask’, the ‘masktotem’ is the piece of furniture you store them on when not in use.
My quick review of Mealeo.
I hate the name. The food arrived at the time estimated by the site.
Delivery fee was $3.19 for a $25 order.
The process was hassle free and nothing went wrong. I got my food. Driver didn’t notice that I’d gone with contactless delivery, but didn’t complain that I was unmasked (diriver was also unmasked.)
May use again, but tip + delivery fee makes me hesitant.
“Proudly based in Latham, NY; Just like you we are local too”
Umm…. But that’s not local to me.
They’re advertising to the capital district, I don’t think they’ve expanded out to Utah.
Well do they want my business or not?
Not yet. Maybe later.
I’ve found that most of the meal delivery services are very much overpriced. They upcharge the food, add a large delivery fee, and expect a 20-25% tip. All in, I’m spending 50-100% more than if I had just driven over there and picked the food up.
The food price is the same as the restaurants’ in-house prices so far.
If you can find places that don’t raise their prices, it’s not so bad. The sushi place around the corner didn’t raise their prices, so we had a sushi dinner the other night for no more than we usually pay.
I assume this has been posted before:
https://themargins.substack.com/p/doordash-and-pizza-arbitrage
And someone’s still sinking money into that?
These underhanded tricks aren’t unique to Doordash though. In recent weeks there has been some great work coming out around a Yelp – Grubhub phone scam.
Which is indistinguishable from the real estate scam where realtor.com, Zillow, and friends put contact info to some completely unrelated realtor on the page for each listing.
Oh wow, I remember going to a place in Okinawa with a little grill in the table like that. It was an all you can eat, cook your own food place, and the amount you paid determined how long you could stay and continue to eat. There was a vending machine at the front where you bought a time-stamped ticket for 20 minutes, 30 minutes, an hour, whatever. You then displayed your ticket on the edge of the table and a little old man would walk around checking your ticket for when it was time to go.
Could you re-up?
Yes, unless there was a line for tables.
Speaking of – just jumped over to the English language Japanese news and June 22, 1945 was the official end of the “Battle of Okinawa”.
If only some of our current snowflakes should take a lesson from that horror. Watched a recent documentary of that and it took me a couple of weeks to watch the episodes as I needed to recover from the previous episodes.
I remember someone (VD Hanson maybe?) arguing that if Buckner had not been KIA he may well have been court-martialed for his conduct of the Okinawa campaign. I have no idea if that’s valid or not, but it points to the brutality.
That horror erased all doubts about using nukes on Japan.
That’s the way I feel about that too.
But I also feel that the firebombing of Tokyo doesn’t get the examination it should either.
I’ve been sort of an amateur WWII scholar for most of my life – more so the European war than the Pacific war, but still. Even given that, until I went to Okinawa, saw the war memorial (which is kind of similar to the Vietnam memorial in DC, only 5 times larger), and started reading up specifically about the battle, I had no idea how enormous and bloody the Battle of Okinawa was. Incidentally, I found out later that my grandfather’s brush with death in the war, which I had heard him talk about when I was young (he died when I was 8), came off the coast of Okinawa when the LST he was on was hit by a kamikaze.
I was interested to learn that the Okinawans kind of hate both the Japanese and the Americans for the battle, seeing it as something horrible foisted on them by both sides that they had absolutely no desire to be a part of. The Japanese have long decreed Okinawans (and the other Ryukyu people as well) to be Japanese, but many Okinawans don’t consider themselves Japanese.
Yes – the history of an independent Okinawa and Japan doesn’t get the press it deserves.
I think it is part (obviously not all) of the reason for some of the resentment of the US bases there. Tokyo has determined that you all get to deal with noise and aggravation of a base there.
What documentary?
LOL – we had the same discussion around a month or so ago! – The Pacific War in Color
Got it. Thanks. Thought maybe this was a doc specifically on the battle of Okinawa.
I’m not sure I could take that.
From the NASCAR “noose” story on the last thread. It was the hand-loop to pull down the garage door.
These people are stupid and malicious – I hope they lose all their fans.
Not the first time. I remember when a partially-installed piece of cable was called a “noose” and made national news. Not to mention the current “swings are the same things as nooses and if you don’t understand that you’re racist!” nonsense.
I honestly don’t know if I believe that bit of zabruder film esq sleuthing. It is weird we don’t know more about what happened, like a picture of the noose or the person who found it coming forward. But the FBI is involved so maybe they are keeping it tight till that illustrious organization comes to a conclusion.
Personally I like Bubba and he does not come off as the type who would make this up at all.
He apparently didn’t see anything and was simply told about it
And he may not have – the reports say he never saw it. It was someone in his crew who reported.
I’m sure that the FBI crime lab will b able to examine the noose and tell us the handedness of the perpetrator, his height and weight, as well has what he ate in the 24 hours leading up to the tying and any prescription medicine he was taking.
“Well, only because we goaded him into doing it.”
Because this is what the FBI should really be spending it’s time on?
I honestly don’t know if I believe that bit of zabruder film esq sleuthing.
I saw another picture showing the same kind of lanyard. I don’t think it was a still from that video, but I could be wrong.
The thing is, once you announce “noose hate crime” and you start posturing and signaling about it, its really hard to back down and say “oopsie, never mind”.
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oopsienoosie, never mind”This week’s farm delivery includes a 1.75# ham steak that has “NOT FULLY COOKED” on it. I didn’t even know that was a thing outside of country hams. Which makes me wonder if I need to soak this thing first.
Bad link. Pie would disapprove. https://moxie-box.com/collections/all-products/products/acorn-finished-whey-fed-ham-steak
Same. I wonder if it is a CYA thing to help them stop any claims of food poisoning.
It does have that thick fat layer on the outside. I imagine I could remove it, grind it and use it as a cooking fat.
People be weird, yo. I have had two different confrontations with people today just out of the blue. The first one, I was accosted at Walmart about the state of my salvation. The second one was on FB with someone who wanted to buy the thing I am selling, but decided I was too sketchy after I told her I was a woman.
Thats waht you get for living in a Crypto-Fascist Red State. / sarc
Sorry about that. People be jerks, i usually avoid them.
It’s bizarro world today. I’m waiting for bizarro incident #3, since things happen in threes.
We do have four planets retrograde after all.
Well, what IS the state of your salvation? Seriously though, we have a mezuzah on our door. The LDS missionaries (there is a rental unit in our neighborhood, that I think is owned by the Church, and is full of a rotating cast of earnest, young, fresh-faced, do-gooders) just need to have it explained to them once and they will stop the proselytizing and commence with being damn fine neighbors. The Jehovah’s Witnesses (Brooklyn is their world HQ.) are not so courteous , and will return every Saturday until driven off by me acting the fool.
Hehe. I doubt it is owned by the church, but the units are rented by it, and when they switch out individual missionaries, it will still be used by the new ones. Typically when you get to a new area, the other guy was already there before, so some knowledge about houses to knock on vs not is passed down.
The LDS missionaries just need to have it explained to them once and they will stop the proselytizing and commence with being damn fine neighbors.
I had to laugh at this because I have a voicemail I need to delete from the LDS missionaries from my old neighborhood who call every single month trying to meet with me. They stopped by my house a few years ago, I invited them to a party with all of my church friends (including 3 Baptist ministers), and gave them my number so that they could text me if they decided to come. They didn’t show, but they did put me on a list.
Personally, I find door-to-door Evangelism distasteful and will leave a church that makes it a priority. IMO, there is no faster way to make a whole lot of people hate your religion, except maybe plowing a bunch of airplanes into buildings.
Same here. We don’t get much of it in my neighborhood, but we had a very disappointing experience with a Baptist? I think evangelist a few years back. I wasn’t home, and she knocked on the door. My husband answered, and she said she was stopping by because I had been to Sunday school the past weekend and she wanted to follow up with me. She used my name. I had never been in that church, or even heard of it. She must have peeked in the mailbox first? It was pretty creepy.
A few weeks ago I received a letter from the Jehovah’s Witnesses. In Russian! The letter writer explained that he would have come in person but it was not a good idea during the pandemic.
I go to Walmart and I’m perusing the sugar-free gum (I’m not yet a connoisseur) and some old woman (unmasked) comes around the corner, looks at me, gets real close, touches my arm, and says, “Are you a Christian?”
“Yes.”
“Do you believe Jesus is going to come again?”
“Yes.”
“Do you believe it will be soon?”
“No.”
*shock* “Why not?”
*explain history and things have been worse and now we have news and so on and so forth*
“Oh no, it’s worse now than it’s ever been.”
“Are you a student of history?”
“I read the Bible.”
“Yeah, okay, what about the plagues in the middle ages?”
“There were plagues because the Jews weren’t doing what they were supposed to be doing.”
“Okay, that’s where I’m out.” *shakes off her hand*
She goes down the aisle a ways and mutters, “And that’s where I won.”
“Won?” I bark. “You stop a complete stranger in a grocery store to pick a fight about religion? And you think you won?”
=========
I sadly was too shocked and thus, not quick enough on my feet to either object to her invasion of my personal space, her touching me, or her evangelizing.
I also was not interested in getting into a discussion of scripture because, though I could wipe the floor with her own doctrine, nothing I would say would be effective. She seemed possessed by the demon of her preacher’s fanaticism.
So that was before Jews started practicing medicine? Is that what she means?
I was kinda shocked that came from an evangelical, tbh. I’d never heard that line in my entire 9-year Southern Baptist edjumakashun.
Jumpin’ Jimminy! And that’s where nice, obsequious l0b0t gets replaced by Imperial Inquisitor l0b0t of the Ordo Malleus, come to root out heresy in all of its demonic forms. “Hey lady, what’s your position on Monophysitism?”
Thing is, I don’t usually mind indulging an eccentric old lady, so I went along with it. Too long.
Monophysitism
Queue Catholic School flashback.
Because Jesus talks to me, and He told me when He’s coming. He also told me you’re not getting saved.
“Slab of Swinging Meat” was my nickname in college
Ah, so you worked in a slaughterhouse.
Well, the babymama’s family do run a butcher shop.
“Slab of Swinging Meat” was my nickname in college
Huh. Small world.
The guy who taped the “I have a black husband” woman? Yeah, he does this shit a lot.
I kinda read that earlier. It was in the sidebar of an article Drake linked.
http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=61550
https://twitter.com/ferrreir4/status/1275440002931949568
See it’s ok for us to do this awful thing because those guys over there did something awful.
If someone calls you racist, and you’re married to the race they think you hate…. I think we all know who’s being the retard.
To be fair, a lot of people hate their spouses.
JFC. What, An. Asshole.
https://twitter.com/CathyYoung63/status/1275272327975100416
Are these people for real? How does she suppose the remedy to this is? If everyone is canceled noone is. These people have been given a long rope and there have been discussions talking about how pernicious this behavior is for at least 5 years they don’t care and aren’t honest brokers. Fuck them. The right has no cultural power at this point turnabout is the only fair play they have.
Cathy Young: willfully stupid
Boo fucking hoo
A third factor behind a possible second Great Depression is the budget crisis facing states and cities. The federal government does not have to balance its ledger year to year, and perpetually spends more than it takes in. Yet every state but Vermont and most cities and towns are required to remain in the black. Right now, sales taxes, real-estate-transfer taxes, income taxes, fines and fees—they are all collapsing, leaving local governments with a budget gap expected to total $1 trillion next year. Without help from Washington, this will necessarily mean massive service cuts and job losses: namely, an estimated 5.3 million job losses.
The shrinking of the government at the state and local level has already started, as Congress dithers on providing fiscal aid. Michigan is facing a $3 billion budget gap this year and a $4 billion one next year: It has instituted a work-share plan, asking two in three state employees to accept a partial furlough. In New Jersey, the government has asked 100,000 public workers to move to abbreviated schedules. Schools have already let go more workers than they did during the Great Recession, with nearly 500,000 positions lost.
Oh, no. State and local governments may be forced to reconsider what they do, and how they do it? Truly, an epic tragedy has befallen us.
Fuck that cunt. She was literally celebrating the unemployment numbers and cheerleading the fucking shutdown.
Off Topic.
I got really annoyed at a hollywood writer’s idea of a technicality recently. Supposedly the main characters got their friend off the hook for a crime by pointing out that the otherwise properly filed and executed warrent that uncovered the evidence was written using the character’s nickname instead of their disliked birth name. Of course, the nickname is the one that they have been introducing themselves as since before the first episode, is their “doing business as” name, and unambiguously identifies the individual when combined with the address on the warrent.
Not even a Hawai’ian judge would throw out the evidence over something like that.
Or, as my husband says, “Plot.”
It wasn’t even a plot, it was a rushed mechanism to return to the status quo.
Have you ever noticed that a lot of shows create a complex and interesting scenario and you can tell the writers don’t know how to resolve it (usually because it would kill off a main character) so they find some uninteresting cop out to return to the status quo?
Yes. So when I rant about it, that’s when my husband says, “Plot.”
Well, he’s copping out if he’s allowing plotholes to be unaddressed.
I was reading something incredibly interesting about that apparently writers operate on the premise that the show will be canceled in one season or two so they literally formulate an arc that lasts that long with a way to neatly tie up a story if it doesn’t get renewed. But I love when writers clearly are totally bamboozled from an interesting arc they took too far like you describe. Although write after that I generally check out I believe the industry term is “jumping the shark” lmao.
Jumping the Shark is more when the writers are out of ideas and start thowing in more outlandish stuff.
The other problem is when they have something reasonable like a 5 season arc in place and then the show drags on for 8 or 10 seasons.
“I was reading something incredibly interesting about that apparently writers operate on the premise that the show will be canceled in one season or two”
See the last episode of S4 Babylon Five.
Yeah, I’m reminded of the movie Outward Bound, which was made some 75 years before Lost.
The NYT’s stated reason for doxxing Scott Alexander was “Gosh, sorry, it’s just company policy”
Yeah, they were lying.
And every false accuser of rape.
Any readers of the NYT know if they printed Jackie Coakley and/or Eric Ciaramella?
Shit, Reason won’t even print Jackie Coakley’s name, so you know the NYT hasn’t.
*rummages through drawer looking for shocked face*
*settles for “the press is the enemy of the people” sign*
Not trying to be rude, but I don’t go out to eat to cook my own food.
Indeed. Give me the Brazilian bbq places.
I guess I’m not making many friends here today, but I’m not big on those either. Don’t get me wrong, they’re usually good. But they tend to bring the cuts of meat I really want around too slowly. Most of the time, I’d rather just order a giant ribeye or prime rib.
The Korean places in the NYC are aware of this – the waitstaff will cook it at your table for you.
That prolly originated as a (((Saturday))) thing, right?
I still love this place,
https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/88285110
How dare they have any fun!
HEY YUFUS!
Sup Tres!
Go big or go home.
I defy anyone to find a better culture than ours.
And innovators, We make anything from anything! Just for fun!
Homemade Saturn V. Go bigly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlVcAJFU-5E
And that was for Fun! America! Fuck Yeah!
Exhibit A, ladies and gentlemen of the jury:
The Trump administration has repeatedly argued that there is a trade-off between the country’s economic health and its public health. But economists and physicians have repeatedly argued that that is untrue: Ending the pandemic would have been the single best thing the federal government could have done to preserve the country’s wealth, health, and economic functioning. The Trump administration, in its hubris, obstinacy, and incompetence, failed to do it.
It’s all you need to know.
“Ending the pandemic” – via some special superpower?
If Hillary won she would have stopped the virus.
It’s because they believe TOP MEN are all powerful. Look at how they viewed Obama.
I was going to latch on that too. I mentioned that to my mother who was complaining that we had the spike because we opened too early here in Utah. Maybe, but we were never not going to have people sick with this. We aren’t going to be able to eradicate it. Prolonging the shutdowns during summer (a time when there is no flu season and so the most optimal time to have more sick people in the hospital…) is going to be better than just closing everything and hoping it goes away.
Remember the early days when we were told “80% of the population will get the virus, but we need to flatten the curve”
Goalposts have long moved.
Wow.
Ending the pandemic
How?
failed to do it
He deferred to State’s initiative and to Dr. Fauxci. What is it you expect/want?
We live in total clown world. If you had told me 5 years ago what public discourse would devolve into I would have thought you were an absolute lunatic and asshole. Trump has exposed these people to be a level of mentally deranged hacks I could have never conceived of. It’s humbling to realize no matter how cynical I thought I was the reality of just how either malevolent or dangerously retarded(a distinction without a difference) these institutions and reporters were is so much worse.
The Trump administration has repeatedly argued that there is a trade-off between the country’s economic health and its public health. But economists and physicians have repeatedly argued that that is untrue:
Just ignore the mountain of data showing that economic downturns are very bad for people’s health. There is absolutely a trade-off between inflicting economic damage and public health. When you public health policy inflicts economic damage, ignoring that is hubris, obstinacy, and incompetence.
There can’t be a trade off, because that would mean not everything is Trump=Evil.
Good news AR pistoleers!
10.5″ is enough to work with
10.5″ is enough to work with
That’s what she said.
It took more than a half hour for someone to swing at that.
I am so very disappointed.
It was fresh when I replied. I WORK!
7.4 magnitude earthquake hits southern Mexico – that can’t be good
Did it split off central america and eliminate the need for the Panama Canal?
It’s weird to be there ten stories up and swaying about and thinking: I can’t get out of here, and the line for the emergency room will be 9M long
“How did you get a spot before me?”
“My building fell into the Emergency Room.”
L. fuckin. O.L.
How come Mexicans Can’t build a proper high rise in Mexico,
But they do just fine over here?
All the good builders are North of the Border making bank.
If it wasn’t so corrupt, you could start a nice business down there with the money they make here,
Big sections of Mexico City are just plopped on top of a filled in lake. When a larger quake hits, those areas just shake like jello and partially liquify.
They are also sinking do to Subsidence of said lake, in some places a story or more, and they built stairs to get to the first floor
liquefaction (or Where Did Half the County Go?)
Well it’s been a while since the blood sacrifices have been made. What did people expect to happen?
Also 7.4 is huge.
I mean, it’s respectably above average, but I wouldn’t call it huge.
That’s what she said!
Am I doing this right?
Yes.
We now have a trend.
Beautiful.
It did 100s of millions in improvements.
Noose story – OBE theory. NASCAR puts out press release that they are no longer allowing the Confederate flag and/or images. Not a whole lot of belly aching generated images of NASCAR fans losing their shot over it, so someone on Bubbas crew claims a ‘noose’ was found and bam! NOW WE HAVE THE CONTROVERSY WE NEEDED!
It’s racist to even suggest that the story could be fake.
NASCAR going along with it when there’s visual evidence it’s BS is certainly telling.
And he [Bubba Wallace] may not have – the reports say he never saw it. It was someone in his crew who reported.
Publicist/ media relations chick, would be my bet.
Meaning Bubba can’t be held accountable when it turns out to be a hoax.
Apparently “Jussie Smollett” searches are trending
If it turns out this was just a lanyard, and people knew it but decided they’d rather posture, preen, and signal than tell everybody “Good news, just a misunderstanding, not a ‘hate crime'”, then I won’t care if those people’s jobs and careers go away.
Nice, straff. Meat on a grill is always a good thing. I’ve not done the Japanese version, but I can spend some time sitting in front of a Korean bbq.
Thanks straff! Driving today so this is my coffee break (not at Doutor). Looks good! Maybe 2021 to get back. Two yuzu trees planted and so far the deer haven’t killed them. Love those Nikka highball glasses.
Japan related links to share with your FB friends
https://youtu.be/pLrpa1ojeKs
https://youtu.be/GpOP_-Imzk4
OMG – the second link…
Hitler-san that was into cleansing?
J-pop at its finest.
To be fair to C-Cute – they were an idol group from something like age 10. So my expectation is that their level of schooling may leave something to be desired.
OTH, I rather got into it with one of my friends when one of my language teachers didn’t know who Hirohito was. Her argument was that since he was deceased my younger teacher would have ONLY known him by his era and deceased name – Showa.
I don’t have enough background to know the merit of this.
Now I’m wondering, why do we not refer to Japanese emperors by their regnal names? That seems at odds of our habit of immediately accepting any change in self-identification. (see also Myanmar, Mumbai, Bejing, et. al.)
What do Burma, Bombay, and Peking have to do with anything?
BBP -> MMB
hmph.
Goalposts have long moved.
Nobody should have to die just because you’re a selfish bastard!
I miss Korean bbq…had a great one by my work. I’ll still take working from home over going there though.
Another Clinton pal is suicided.
Geeze. Jumping off a building would not be my method of choice.
You are assuming he had a choice
If that ever happens to me, you’ll know it was murder. I am terrified of heights. Oddly enough, I was a stage electrician for a time. Catwalks never bothered me, but ladders… *shudder*
Actress Elizabeth Hurley tweeted that she was “devastated” over the death of Steve Bing, the father of her 18-year-old son.
I see an opportunity for Tundra.
Interesting data point on the “how rich do I have to be to make Elizabeth Hurley my baby-mama?” question.
My Little Pony Fans Are Ready to Admit They Have a Nazi Problem
My Little Pony fans primarily express their enthusiasm for the show by sharing their own cartoon drawings of the main characters, which they usually upload to the image boards. The most popular of these sites is called Derpibooru, a combination of a character’s name and a common term for image boards. Derpibooru hosts millions of My Little Pony artworks, plenty of which are simple tributes to magic, friendship, and magical friendship. But a substantial number of them are extremely, jarringly violent. An image that I recently viewed on the site depicts a My Little Pony character presiding over three lynchings and one beheading of cartoons drawn to represent various marginalized groups. Derpibooru even lists “racist” as a searchable category, and more than 900 pieces of art are tagged as such.
IDGAF but this is somehow exceedingly funny. So, in case you didn’t know, new rule: if some weirdo delinquents fall in love and malappropriate your work, you are still morally responsible for the victims they might trigger.
It’s like they never learned how to deal with the bullies that tease you at school by ignoring them.
The way you deal with them is you maneuver yourself into a position of power and then you become the king of the bullies. Right?
Yeah i typed that and then realized that their method of dealing with bullies was to run to the teacher, so it kinda makes sense.
My Little Pony fans older than 5 have bigger problems in their lives than whether they’re racist or not.
Way to beat Crusty while he’s down.
Dammit, I thought it was a crusty link, not a Don link.
That, what he said.
I’m reminded of the time a proggie professor gave me a B on a paper I wrote (class was History of Philosophy) where I argued that free markets were the most democratic means of resource allocation. It went directly against the course material he assigned.
I’m impressed he gave you a B instead of an F.
I had a “Economics of Race, Politics and Gender” professor, who i was sure would do that, so i had to walk a fine line of only making arguments in papers that i still felt were true, but that she would agree with.
Queue “Nu UH!!!, Humans suck at probability, ipso facto they can’t make good decisions for themselves”. I.E Kaneman et al.
68% true !
Queue: take one’s place or arrange a line of people or sequence of data items or commands
Cue: something that signals a performer to deliver a line or begin a performance.
Loook Spelling shit wrong is my thing.
You spelled “queue” correctly, which isn’t easy.
true, using the wrong homonym is my stick.
I laffed
but your point is mute
I hope Swiss doesn’t see this, I don’t think he’ll chock it up to mere banter.
Super fun post – makes me want to travel to Korea & Japan all the more – thanks!
Interesting: Blue Leaks.
More than one millions documents were just leaked from law enforcement fusion centers
OK, I’m willing to believe they aren’t just provocateurs, but I wonder what else the author thinks they are?
Their Anti-Fascists! They are like the troops storming Normandy. saints every one of them.
Now the Proud boys, those are entirely provocateurs.
I feel dirty for clicking on a Salon link.
Queue Chris Cumos telling you that looking at this is illegal, unless you are a journalist.
:winks at RC Dean:
PA Supreme Court will hear Cosby appeal
In a stunning decision that could test the legal framework of #MeToo cases, comedian Bill Cosby has won the right to fight his 2018 sexual assault conviction in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
The 82-year-old Cosby has been imprisoned in suburban Philadelphia for nearly two years after a jury convicted him of drugging and sexually assaulting a woman at his home in 2004. He’s serving a three- to 10-year sentence.
The Supreme Court has agreed to review two aspects of the case, including the judge’s decision to let prosecutors call five other accusers to testify about long-ago encounters with the once-powerful actor and comedian. Cosby’s lawyers have long challenged that testimony as remote and unreliable. The court will also consider, as it weighs the scope of the testimony allowed, whether the jury should have heard evidence that Cosby had given quaaludes to women in the past.
Secondly, the court will examine Cosby’s argument that he had an agreement with a former prosecutor that he would never be charged in the case. Cosby has said he relied on that agreement before agreeing to testify in the trial accuser’s civil lawsuit.
I bet that rapist Kavanaugh will side with Cosby / DU poster
If it gets that far. It’s at state level at the moment.
Great article, straff!
I absolutely would lay waste to that place.
And cooking at the table would be fun as hell.
The model says . . . . .
You’ve got questions. We’ve got assumptions.
But it totally works when applied to climate change. /xkcd
A former employer just sent me the best text ever. He’s thrilled that, while looking for plant layout documents, he found the folder I created that has every detail I ever took down notated in easy-to-read, easy-to-modify documents. He sent me a picture of his screen of the directory to the folder, every file named in the identical, unambiguous system for the easiest of scanning and selection.
I love creating value, especially when it makes my colleagues’ work easier. That something I did years ago continues to help is extremely gratifying. As you might guess, even though I’m a job hopper, I’ve never hurt for references.
every file named in the identical, unambiguous system for the easiest of scanning and selection
I do that. It drives me effing crazy that nobody else does. I have naming conventions for contracts, drafts, policies that make them easy to sort, search for, find. From what I can tell, most people name their files by banging their heads on their keyboards.
Me too, but it’s not for anybody but me. I will lose my way very quickly if I named files haphazardly.
As do I.
However, don’t get me started with Word documents, tracked changes and teh versioning that go through my GC and my vendors and their GC.
right click, save picture
ahh yes, “asdf.jpeg”
oh, that already exists?
“asdfasdf.jpeg” solved.
oh that does too?
“asdfasdfasdfadsfadsf.jpeg”
perfection.
Yep, I’m literally rewriting our database because I can’t trust the other people in the department (and in our outside counsel) to name a damn file correctly. (among other things)
My onedrive is ordered by docket number, and then by action date and type. At that point, I’ve mitigated the many naming conventions that exist. At least I know more or less what the file is related to.
Let me add email subjects to the list of things nobody knows how to do correctly. First thing in the subject line should be what project/matter this relates to. Next should be a call to action. Next should be all the superfluous bullshit.
“FE: RE: RE: RE: FW: RE: RE: That thing for Bigclient”
my emails are always thus:
Client: issue short name ( position or action or change I’m recommending / updating )
Volvo: clutch polarity warranty ( don’t change design: not our fault, I’ll fly to their plant tomorrow )
My colleagues seldom need to read the detail in my emails; just sort email titles on Don to see what to do to fix the world.
Yep. I do it this way: [matter number] [what this is or what I need] additional detail.
[123987][Draft] Contract for review, DUE: May 17th
I don’t even have drawings for some of our legacy products 🙁
Good on ya, Don. Excellence when no one is looking is becoming a lost art.
it’s just what you do
I’m no purist, though, especially in the diminishing returns area: you’ll never find me bragging about oiling the windmill three times a week
“Oiling the windmill”
Heh.
And I made another 0.5% on the life savings today as I cash out all my equities * checks account * NOW !
Joe Rogan has Colion Noir on, again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgxaD7u28A4&t=627s