I think the Glibertariat’s weekly engagement with fitness has shown? resulted in? a consensus that diet is the biggest part, by far, of managing weight. Exercise certainly has its role, but absent a strenuous and time-consuming daily fitness routine, working out just isn’t going to burn enough additional calories above your baseline to really make that much of a difference. Whether working out can reset your metabolism so that you burn more calories all day, I couldn’t say. Eventually, I suppose, putting on muscle will help burn calories at a somewhat higher rate, but I don’t think that will move the needle enough for most of us.
So, for those of us who are fat (or fat-adjacent), diet it is.
By way of background, I have gone from eating mostly carbs, through an Atkins phase (which was very helpful for resetting my diet away from all carbs all day), and a keto phase, to the current kind of macro-ish phase which is basically a fairly balanced protein/carb/fat diet – heavier on the protein and fat and lighter on the carbs than the Food Industrial Complex might like, but screw them. I tag along with Mrs. Dean on macros, so I don’t actually track them for myself. If you are serious about managing your diet, though, tracking what you eat/your macros is a very good idea. Mrs. Dean uses MyFitnessPal, but I’m sure there are others.
One thing that I picked up a number of years ago on an employer-sponsored wellness program that I think has a lot of validity is that the way we eat is part of the problem. Most people eat out of habit, and eat too fast. Part of the program was to figure out how many meals we really want, and when. If memory serves, a majority of people are really two meals a day people, some are three, and a few are four or five (counting substantial “snacks”). You find out how many/when by paying attention to how hungry you actually are. It hard to break a long-term habit of eating at the same time every day, though. I think its worth looking into – a surprising number of people actually “want” their meals on a different schedule than the classic breakfast/lunch/dinner. I am either a victim of habit, or a three meals a day person.
So, what greatly simplifies things for me is that I eat exactly the same breakfast and lunch every weekday. I am not one of those people who needs a lot of variety in my meals – the variety comes at dinner. I make my breakfasts and lunches for the coming week on Saturday mornings (Mrs. Dean gets the kitchen on Sundays). It takes about an hour and a half or so, and I have breakfast and lunch lined up for the following week.
Breakfast is what we call “egg pucks” – basically scrambled eggs baked in a muffin pan – and (currently) roasted sweet potatoes. With New Mex red sauce. There was a stretch where I had egg pucks and smoothies, and I may substitute roasted veggies for the sweet potatoes. This is more to give you ideas than a strict recommendation.
Egg Pucks (makes 10, for two each weekday)
- 5 eggs
- 1 ¼ cups egg whites (we use the stuff out of a carton)
- 1 cup chopped steamed broccoli (we buy frozen broccoli florets)
- Cheese
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees, and put the rack in the middle or a notch higher. Grease the muffin pan – I just squirt with a little Pam. I highly recommend the silicone muffin pans for this – the pucks should just come right out when cool.
Steam the broccoli and chop fine, enough to fill one cup. Whisk the eggs and egg whites together, and add salt to taste. Put chopped broccoli in each muffin space in the pan. Put ¼ cup of the egg mixture in each muffin space – this pretty much fills them up for our pan. Top with cheese. Put in oven for 22 minutes. They will start to rise when done. Remove when done, let cool (they will come out much easier if cooled off), box up in your container of choice, and put in the fridge.
I put two of them on my roasted sweet potatoes, top with red sauce, microwave to warm them up, and I have breakfast in about 5 minutes max.
Lunch (makes 5 lunches)
Lunch is steamed broccoli and piri-piri chicken thighs. I steam all the broccoli for breakfast and lunch at once, and put the chicken thighs in the oven when the egg pucks are done (after switching over from baking to broiling).
- Steamed broccoli
- Salad dressing or similar (I’m partial to the chipotle Bitchin’ Sauce) for the broccoli
- 3.5 lbs boneless skinless chicken thighs
- 1/3 cup piri piri sauce (I use Macarico)
Put the oven on high broil. The rack can stay where it was for the egg pucks – middle or a little higher. I prep the broiler pan with foil on the bottom tray and on the top tray, and cut out the slots in the foil over the top tray slots so the fat can drain.
Pat the chicken thighs dry – I think it helps the sauce stick. The amount is approximate, since we buy prepackaged chicken thighs and I use either two or three packages, depending. There’s no reason you couldn’t use chicken breasts, but those tend to get dry. Put in a mixing bowl, add the piri piri sauce, dredge around to coat everything, and put on the broiler pan.
You can do a lot of different things with chicken thighs – I’ve used regular hot sauce, or ginger/lemon/honey. Cook seven minutes on a side – ideally, you want a little char on the chicken with the piri-piri, so your oven and time may vary. Remove, let cool, and chop into bite-size chunks.
Portion out the broccoli and chicken for 5 lunches. Since I was doing my lunches this way when I was working, I put the sauce for the broccoli in a little container and everything goes in a tupperware.
Amounts, spices, you name it, are all subject to change, but I think having pre-made meals like this is very helpful for portion control as well as managing what it is you are eating every day. I hope this gives you some ideas on how to better manage your diet.
But, you ask, “R C, where’s muh cocktail?” I’m still working on my Boulevardier recipe, so you’ll have to wait for that one.
Simpson’s hot dog recipe?
A kitchen scale is a must for determining portion sizes.
Yup. I periodically spot check to make sure I’m getting sufficient protein.
Yep.
That and measuring cups. Some foods, like beans, and more easily measured by volume.
I tried premaking meals, but my reaction was ‘meh, leftovers’. So at the moment I’m seeing if I do better with pre-portioned ingredients so that I cook it fresh and avoid that ‘leftovers’ reaction.
I can eat leftovers of very particular things. Some things I won’t eat leftovers because it just doesn’t taste good.
I couldn’t do pre-prepared meals, and definitely not the same thing every day. Closest I came to prepared meals was when my wife town on a long business trip, and she cooked me a lasagna and froze it so that I could use on a day that was going to be logistically difficult.
I still struggle with diet. Part of it is that I work too much and plan too little. I need that time to plan out the diet for the week and things go smooth.
Thanks, RC!
Some good ideas. Have you calculated the macros of the egg pucks?
Also, Cronometer is my favorite of the tracking apps. https://cronometer.com/
No. They are basically two eggs, a little broccoli and cheese, so it wouldn’t be hard.
I eat far too many carbs. I’m trying to adjust that.
Of course, I believe I recently saw another flurry of headlines about how Paleocarnivorism is killing the planet. That seems to be a recurring theme.
Oh yeah. There is absolutely a war on meat. So fucking stupid. The most nutrient dense foods on the planet.
There is a war on meat, and I’m winning it.
Om nom nom.
I think I get overall fewer calories from carbs than protein or fat but still a bit much… though I have low carb days and high carb. Had sushi for dinner tonight so that is high carb
Yeah, I’ve noticed a recent push to brand Keto diets as deadly. Seems to be based on a study that looked at diets that weren’t Keto at all.
In Fathead, all he did was keep carbs to under 100g/day. That seems like a reasonable target for most people.
Reasonable?!? You’re killing Gaia if you don’t eat more!
When I 1st started my low-carb venture, I set it at 50g.
It wasnt tough, but not cheap. You go through a lot of meat, eggs, and cheese.
Dont forget salad….that fiber is needed to keep from getting stopped up. I learned the hard way.
Way back when I did Atkins Induction phase (20g/day), fish oil capsules helped things moving along.
Huh, I consider myself a food geek, but have never heard of piri-piri sauce.
I think I know what I’m making this weekend.
I also tend to eat the same breakfast and lunch every day. I have yet to get tired of low carb stir-fry for breakfast and bratwurst with broccoli for lunch.
have never heard of piri-piri sauce. – strange I heard of it and Romania was decades behind the US in this sort of thing
I grew up in Minnesoda – salt and pepper were considered “spicy”
I used to think I was heavy on the salt – until I had dinner with a bunch of mid-westerners.
Mrs. Dean’s piri-piri chicken is the best I’ve ever had. Spatchcock and dry-brine a whole chicken, hit it with the sauce, and bake. I think she finishes with a quick broil. Anyhoo, there’s plenty of recipes for it.
“Steamed broccoli” – I generally do not comment on glib editorial process but you really should keep the extra disgusting stuff for the later night posts. I needed to pour a beer to just get over this and this should be a non alcohol day for me
Mmm, steamed broccoli.
I like to saute it in oil, or just have it raw. Sauté no doubt adds fifty billion calories.
Steamed with water and melted, salted butter in a small pot, drain, add a dash of black pepper and a sprinkle of parmesan cheese and you have a fine meal.
Frozen steamer bags of veggies are a staple in my freezer. It boggles my mind that I can get 12 ounces of frozen broccoli for ~$1 frozen, while fresh it’s currently over $3/pound.
I thoroughly recommend nuking fresh veg rather than steaming; it’s faster, uses less of that precious and expensive electricity, and doesn’t mess up a pot.
Steamer bags.
Egg Pucks – I usually just boil eggs in advance and add a few slices of 90+ % lean turkey ham and some raw vegetables for that sort of breakfast.
And you’re picking on broccoli?
Dude.
broccoli is unpalatable. Lean turkey while not perfect can be eaten.
Ham is a cut of meat. There are no hams on a turkey.
Yes, you can have cured turkey meat, but it’s not a ham.
well if there is turkey bacon why can there be no turkey ham? Anyway I heard americans use the term I did not come up with it myself
What is mislabelled as turkey bacon is no such thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7mqI5klgaQ
If the FDA did it’s job, there would be no such thing as turkey bacon being sold.
If it doesn’t come from the bacon region of Turkey, it’s not bacon.
WFH means I can just fry my eggs every morning.
Turkey ham?
I thought that was mall cops and security guards….
I buy pre-fab hard boiled eggs. Already boiled and de-shelled. I am lazy, and for some reason, eggs these days are a giant pain in the ass to get out of the shell after boiling At this point the price differential is about nil.
Using a pressure cooker is the secret to easily peeled hard boiled eggs. Cook in the pressure cooker, put into an ice bath for a couple of minutes, and pop them out of the shell.
Steaming works a treat as well:
https://www.seriouseats.com/the-secrets-to-peeling-hard-boiled-eggs
Eat more nuts.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08237XW24/
These are good.
Brazil Nuts were always the disappointment hogging space in the jar of mixed nuts.
These don’t compare to Planter’s disappointment cans. Much better.
Brazil nuts are the tastiest. Plus plenty of nummy background radiation.
My grandma,(and probably yours too) had an alternate name for Brazil nuts…
Brazil nut, please.
+ ______ toes
I heard it alot growing up too
hazelnuts are the best nuts and it is not even close.
hazelnuts, almonds, pistachios, walnuts are all far superior to brazil nuts. They may not be technically nuts but they are generally in the category.
Do you not get pecans over there?
I like walnuts, but pecans are way higher in the rankings then them.
Do you not get pecans over there – not really. you may occasionally find them in a specialty store but very rarely. never ate any myself.
Now I want pecan pie.
Thanks you two. 🙁
thanksgiving is around the corner…
oh wait pie day is in 5 days
no wait again that is pi day my bad
What is wrong with you people. The correct answer is cashews.
Wegman’s sells them seasoned with everything bagel seasoning.
JFC, they’re good.
Ugh…not Wegman’s…I meant the Fresh Market.
Glad you corrected yourself, I would’ve been pissed searching for those at Wegmans and not finding them.
I have a weird nut allergy. I’m fine eating them, but things get real itchy on the way out.
Chicken Thighs are muy bueno. Turkey thighs- even better.
Ostrich Thighs?
Any recipes for moose?
The book says “Combine one bull moose with one cow moose and gestate for eight months. Results may vary.”
They eat leaves and bark.
I’ve never heard a moose bark…
Be glad you haven’t. His bark is worse than his bite.
A moose once bit my sister…
No realli!
Damn you
Sure, you don’t have to worry about a moose bite, but your sister does.
The moose was shot by a panda.
sous-vide for 72 hours
Of course this is the lunch post on the day I’m doing a 24 hour fast.
Good info! I scrolled past the pictures though.
I’m still in that Atkins-ish space. Not really losing weight, but I feel better and I look slimmer. When I slip off the bandwagon, I feel like crap for a week and hop back on.
I normally do the same breakfast every day (2 eggs over medium, 1 homemade sausage patty), but have struggled with lunch. I’ve done salads and bowls and wraps and 100 different things, but never have been able to settle on a good standard fare. As a result, lunch is usually some leftovers followed by snacking on fruit and other snacky stuff the rest of the afternoon.
OK, I gotta stop thinking about food for a few minutes…
a 24 hour fast. – sounds like right wing extremism to me
Bacon.
Bacon.
Bacon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKHoMi-U8g4
I’ve been working to get back to my last year weight (with a stretch to get down to fit into some of my favorite bowling shirts for Viva at the end of April). I’m within a couple of pounds of the first goal, and then I can start working towards fitting into those shirts for Viva. Weigh in today was the lightest I’ve been since back in August.
“By way of background, I have gone from eating mostly carbs, through an Atkins phase (which was very helpful for resetting my diet away from all carbs all day), and a keto phase, to the current kind of macro-ish phase which is basically a fairly balanced protein/carb/fat diet”
This is my food journey exactly. Right now I’m trying to put on some muscle, and using MyFitnessPal, I’ve found I rarely eat enough calories unless I’m tracking my food. And I can’t get enough calories without some carbs.
We’re less strict with meal prep, but about once a week we cook up a lot of meat, and so we have that all week for lunches and dinners on the nights we don’t feel like cooking. It’s much easier to follow your diet plan if you make it more convenient to eat the food you want to eat instead of junk food or fast food.
“It’s much easier to follow your diet plan if you make it more convenient to eat the food you want to eat instead of junk food or fast food.”
Bingo. Mrs. Dean usually cooks a couple of stews/soups/casseroles on Sunday that are mostly what we eat for dinner during the week. Every few weeks I’ll get takeout, but most restaurants give you a dinner than can be split in half for two meals. Today I’m hitting the New Mex restaurant for exactly that.
The available snacks in the house consist of salted peanuts and tortilla chips. We don’t really snack, though – the peanuts are for garnish on some Asian dishes she makes, and the chips are for our weekend lunches.
We like to make things like grilled chicken breasts, that can be spiced up and repurposed for different meals. You can make a “burrito bowl” with beans, rice, and grilled chicken, or heat it up with a curry sauce, or a cream sauce, or a red sauce, or a stir fry.
well if there is turkey bacon
There’s your trouble.
spoiler Alert: there isn’t
Need help from the
code monkeysoftware engineer contingent:One of my tool vendors has finally burned the last bridge with us. The problem is that one of the pieces of equipment we have form them is having a software issue and the maker wants $300k to put a new version of the control software on it (they claim that the original version does not exist). Boss has tasked me with finding an independent party to write new software for this machine. I cannot believe that a custom software would be cheaper than what the vendor has already, but what do I know?
Assuming none of you want this job, suggestions for places to go? Google searching is providing results that are extremely paper-pushing, not motor automating. Alternatively, is there usch a thing as a troubleshooter/bug-fixer for hire that can repair the broken software we currently have?
I doubt you have the source code of the software so I cannot see a troubleshooter doing something unless it is about setup and not the software itself. I cannot imagine my company using anything but vendor official software your standards must be different. I cannot help with suggestion unfortunately.
The custom route almost always ends in expensive disaster, so you’re right about it being cheaper just to pay the vendor.
You could try tracking down employees who have left the vendor and see if they can help, assuming that’s not barred by any contract you have with the vendor. Kind of a long shot, but you never know.
This right here. I know in the telephony world, it’s pretty common for employees to leave one vendor and shift to another where they sell the software that the first vendor made. The person then becomes a primary contact for support for the software in the new company, and leans on contacts at the old company to escalate issues.
Funny thing — this vendor’s business is making chap knockoffs of his former employee’s machines.
Without knowing more about the complexity of the control software, it’s hard to say if the $300K is insane or not. Shoot me an email with more details if you’d like. I doubt I’d take the job on myself, but a former employer has a NY office that might be able to help, and I could put you in touch.
Adding to Fatty’s reply, even if you find someone who can write software for that tool, you don;t know the operating system the software was written on, you don’t know what development tool/compiler was used to write the software, and even if you can figure all that out, then you have the issue of fully testing the software in all the conditions it will be used.
So you either have to get a novice who will need months to figure all that out, or pay for an experienced developer who has familiarity with the exact tool and software and no longer works for the vendor. And I am guessing they will insist on all sorts of legal protections should the tool malfunction after you sign off on it and put it into production.
Am I right in assuming your boss did not want to pay the annual maintenance fee on the tool/software after the original contract expired? Happens all the time… and software vendors are moving to a software as a service model meaning if you don’t pay the tool will stop working.
Yes, it’s a racket. Has been since the 1940’s.
Basically, except it’s not a software maintenance fee but an overall service contract fee. Anything mechanical/chemical/electronic/pneumatic/etc. I or someone else here have been able to fix.
software vendors are moving to a software as a service model meaning if you don’t pay the tool will stop working
We’re going to everything as a service. Not only will the tool stop working, but the repo man will rip the server out of the rack and the AP out of the ceiling if you stop paying.
Haha. If it’s older, check at “half-price books” for a copy. You would be amazed. Alternatively second hand software dealers might have something shady. I would not at all recommend having someone come fix it from scratch. That always ends in costly failure.
If the tool is made by Applied Materials, or any of the other big vendors, be careful. Some of them will not sell replacement parts or service the equipment if you have third party software or hardware.
I wish it were Applied. The FSE they’ve assigned to us is a cutie, and brings her mini-Aussie to the park.
What failed?.. did an O/S patch make the software not work.. or have you found a bug in a corner case? Or is this embedded software? and it just went *poof*.
Everything seems to work fine, except the recipe we need to run the most common type of job we have causes the software to crash. DBs have been deleted and restored, recipes have been purged and rebuilt. I would go so far as to suspect that it’s not software related at all, except of the error messages being thrown.
Although it is too late, this is when you wanted a disk image of the SW. And I guess the vendor’s techs did all of the “installation” so you don’t have the original packages. But yes it could be the HW throwing a response that is now different and *crash*.
I convinced my coworkers to take images of their systems before an upgrade, because the vendors “rollback” was to remove the patches etc. Which is no guarantee that the system will be byte for byte the same as before the patch.
I have had vendors pre-instal software (linux based) for me.. I re-installed everything from their published versions and archived the .iso .
One of my current problems is that my copy of the software that was upgraded from 11.30P2 to 11.31.P6 to 11.32 P4 doesn’t behave like their 11.32 P4 in the lab. a new install from ISO is not the same as 3-4 large level version patches. They can’t re-create our bugs in their version.
I cannot stand broccoli but I like Brussels sprouts, most of my friends are the opposite.
I can if I struggle eat the thing, unlike any form of cooked cauliflower. I love pickled cauliflower but simply cannot eat it cooked. Besides broccoli and cauliflower the only vegetable I cannot really stand is zucchini or various other squashes.
My dad used to love this casserole dish my mom made in the oven of cauliflower with sour cream and cheese. I hated the smell so much I never entered the kitchen when it was cooking, never could eat more than half a forkful
I’ve had a similar cauliflower dish before. I do like them however along with broccoli.
I’m with you on squash and zucchini. The few dishes I like are butter nut squash soup, curry spiced squash in a stir fry, and tempura fried squash.
The rest is watery crap, zucchini especially.
It didn’t help when you have parents who would plant several (SEVERAL!) zucchini plants in their garden every… gods forsaken… year. Still can’t stand it, and I do give it a shot every couple of years.
Winter squash on the other hand, those I love.
the way I ate squash was my grandma used to grate squash mix in 2:1 proportions with grated cheese, form into patties bread and fry.
One of my tool vendors has finally burned the last bridge with us. The problem is that one of the pieces of equipment we have form them is having a software issue and the maker wants $300k to put a new version of the control software on it (they claim that the original version does not exist).
Have you tried turning the clock on your computer back?
I used to suggest this (half) jokingly to people who bought old IndyCars with out-of-date Pi data acquisition software. “Just reset the date on your laptop to 1993.”
Mr. Dean pondered on the ded-thread about Biden and his classified docs, lo and behold.
Huh. Why do I seriously doubt that his lawyers are in any way cleared to handle or store classified documents? Yet there they are.
Can you imagine the hourly rates in a SCIF?
Lawyer, pictured
Well played Gustave, well played.
Dammit! Was supposed to be
https://tenor.com/view/archer-stop-my-penis-can-only-get-so-erect-algernop-krieger-gif-17427361
And, having wandered around a little over at Politico.
Things I know:
1. I’m postmenopausal.
2. I eat when I’m bored.
3. I’m a sugar addict.
4. Low-carb is best for me in every way possible.
5. I can no longer lose weight on diet alone (see #1).
2 is a huge issue for me. I get bored at work, grab a snack, and then another and then another and by the time dinner rolls around I’ve eaten 1000 calories in snacks. Switching to healthier snacks has helped, but my next big push is going to be cutting out the snacking completely. I want to get to the point where I eat during meals only.
I have the wonderful problem of a wife whom can really bake well. She has been on a cookie kick. This week she made a 3 quart Tupperware container full of coffee, mint, and dark chocolate cookies. She gave several way, but the rest are right there for eating a few hours after dinner. I have been eating 3-5 cookies a night for the past few weeks.
I feel like I have gained 5 lbs from this alone along with the usual 10lbs winter weight gain that I typically see.
I’ve actually added a couple of snacks to my daily routine – yogurt/blueberries/shredded wheat mid-morning, and a sort of oat/protein/chocolate chip bar thingie that Mrs. Dean makes in mid-afternoon. Mrs. Dean thought they’ve would help keep my metabolism going between meals, and I have lost a few pounds since I added them.
Snacks aren’t necessarily bad. Much depends on what they are. And, of course, how much you eat. Boredom snacking is basically a habit, and man, are they hard to break.
I have become excessively dependent on Weider 60% protein bars… 27 g of protein for 170 kcal is the best macro I found in a bar.
I’m debating making two changes. Maybe ill do one of them or maybe both.
1) cut out breakfast and cook my current breakfast for lunch instead (i.e. intermittent fasting with a standardized lunch)
2) push lunch from 11:30 to 1:30
Mostly in trying to avoid that afternoon dip that sends me unthinkingly walking to the pantry.
More protein will help. If you shoot for 40-50G each for breakfast and lunch, you won’t be snacking.
It’s expensive, but frozen cooked shrimp is a great source of protein. 6 large = 17 grams protein. Defrost in a bowl with slow running cold water for 10 minutes et voila. Convenient as all get out.
Frozen uncooked shrimp can go straight into the sous vide, which is awesome. 20 minutes @135 and they’re just about perfect.
(briefly had hat as ‘uncocked shrimp’. Proof-reading FTW)
I love my sous vide stick almost more than words can express. I seriously under-utilize it, even though it cooks my lunch every day, but it’s a marvel. I’m hoping/planning to do a beef roast again in the next month or so.
I don’t use mine enough either but it’s my go-to for shrimp now. Asparagus, too – perfectly cooked every time. And sausages before grilling.
My wife got me
https://www.amazon.com/Sous-Vide-Better-Cooking-Cookbook/dp/1984822284
a while back and it’s good but he tends towards a lot of secondary cooking/finishing. Great for entertaining but extra steps when just cooking on a weeknight. That said, I need to revisit it and try some new things.
It’s perfect for salmon. Never overcooked.
Oh, yeah, sous vide salmon is a beautiful texture – though I usually cedar plank that & use my probe thermometer, which comes out well.
3 meals and 3 snacks is the way to go, IMO.
I work myself too much, then just eat while working. Two whole fried chickens and a Coke will made it into my mouth. I need a gag.
What, no dry white toast?
I forgot that.
+ 1 Hasidic diamond merchant
I heard they still owe you money fool!!
3 and 4 seem to be at odds with each other.
No. I’m postmenopausal. That changes the chemistry DRASTICALLY. That’s why I led with that. At this point in my life, low-carb is maintenance only. However, it also helps my mental health and my joint pain. (I also believe it curtails diabetes-like numbers [e.g., A1c on the high end of normal, aka “pre-diabetes”].)
Oh, and good news – The Boulevardier recipe is in my next post, already submitted. I know you were worried.
I thought it was supposed to be the premium subscription bonus content!
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Isn’t it just equal parts, like a Negroni?
Wait and see.
But the short answer is no. Ye olde recipe was equal parts, but it doesn’t sit well on modern palates, including mine. Because the Campari is such a strong bitter flavor, this one took some reps to get a balance I liked.
Huh, I’m looking forward to it.
I’m happy with the classic ratio (I like bitter), but I’m willing to try something new.
Thanks RC!
OT – This guy doesn’t understand either what he signed up for what has become of the judicial system.
The privacy loophole in your doorbell
Police were investigating his neighbor. A judge gave officers access to all his security-camera footage, including inside his home.
TW- Politico
The corporation is a vassal of the state.
We call those “egg cups”, but usually have little bits of ham or crispy bacon in them instead of broccoli. Now I’m going to have to combine them with sweet potatoes in a meal since I haven’t done that yet.
I need to get back to just eggs for breakfast. For a long time I was just frying 2 eggs in bacon grease every morning and that was it. I slipped away and now am very stuck in the habit of a cereal every weekday morning – the Special K with dried strawberries.
Have never heard of the “figure out how many meals your body really wants” thing. I think I always want a real breakfast and dinner (usually leftovers), and then very little supper, so maybe I’m 2.5. There’s 5-7 of us at the house every night for supper, though, so we tend to have a real meal and I have to exert effort to keep my portions down.
I’ve recommended them before, but Dr. Cate’s books on nutrition are first rate.
For general knowledge:
https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Nutrition-Your-Genes-Traditional/dp/1250113822
Specific to weight loss:
https://www.amazon.com/Fatburn-Fix-Great-Weight-Using/dp/1250114497/ref=sr_1_2
I do fast, cheap and easy, anyway…three out of four ain’t shabby. I’m chronically underweight, at least twenty pounds lighter than when I feel at my most healthy. My problem isn’t keeping weight off, it’s keeping my stomach from being upset, which happens far too easily. My go to practice for this is to chew my food far slower and more thoroughly than I did as a younger man. Another thing that helps for me is to abstain from any sort of beverage while eating. I’ll wait at least ten minutes before having a sip. I can’t back this up with any science but that really seems to help keep the acid reflux in check, almost like my stomach needs to adjust to breaking up the food before it can handle any liquids. Finally, when I do actually have enough food to keep me fed for a few days on hand I try to make only a small to moderate sized plate at a time. Once it’s finished I’ll wait about twenty minutes to see if the ol’ evolutionary trait of your brain/stomach tricking you into thinking your still hungry passes. If not, I’ll have a second, smaller helping and I’m good…just try being kinda poor. It’ll work wonders for your waistline!
Fast, cheap and easy, like my women.
Taibbi’s congressional testimony is epic.
Glenn Greenwald showing his Twitter game
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1633866757398986763?t=_kt4M1f2XasVlZPWh-2J9Q&s=19
Taibbi brings the instant smackdown…
https://youtu.be/vEeaVOzqwAY
The democrats are going full scorched earth. They call Taibbi a “direct threat to all who oppose him” . They claim the whole thing is a fabrication. And they even seem to brag that the FTC issuing $150 million fines was used to gain compliance with the censorship demands
The democrats crossed the line into defamation quite a number of times.
Lucky for them, congress is immune from defamation liability.
I watched that, Taibbi and Shellenberger did a great job. There was some Republican hacky stuff, like the concern that mostly conservatives were targeted. But mostly the Repubs stuck to the government telling Twitter to censor lawful speech. Of course the Dems made me sick, trying to score GOTCHA points. Musk is bad, Saudi investors own Twitter, Russian disinformation, Trump inciting an insurrection. None of which was either true or pertinent.
Example… Debbie Wasserman Schultz
https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1633867549770235905?t=-u1EoEPqu9v6tFo60SV0YQ&s=19
Being a professional journalist, I would expect him to make money DOING HIS JOB.
Are they clowns?
Yes. Yes they are….
https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1633874644955430921?t=tWy5ssPgIn-v8nC9ohtE2g&s=19
That one also had no idea what Substack is.
Holy fuck, my blood pressure can’t take that.
So, of course, Buffalo Hat Guy’s lawyer repeatedly asked for video footage, and the DOJ flat-out lied and said they didn’t have any.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/its-appalling-qanon-shamans-lawyer-says-doj-lied-withheld-videos-aired-by-carlson
An ethical judge would immediately vacate his conviction and order him released, would hold any DOJ lawyer who made that representation in contempt of court, and would submit them to the DC bar for discipline, with a recommendation that they be disbarred.
Of course, nothing else will happen.
Huge Twitter thread about the Proud Boys trial. FBI agent gets caught lying on the stand.
The FBI gets caught destroying evidence…
Exactly the same as the Whitmer case… FBI bosses order destruction of evidence, alteration of reports about who was at informant meetings…
https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1633808394850127872?t=NeR2NaD9rbFiDL-hJkw7-Q&s=19
At this point, being an Agent of the FBI should be a felony. I think RICO applies.
I’m so thoroughly black pilled on anything “American system” at this point that it’s irredeemable. We’ve known that the executive and legislative branches were compromised to the core. Here’s plain evidence that (despite muh SCOTUS majoritah) the judicial branch is similarly compromised.
Saddle up, folks, you’re living in your favorite dystopian novel.
*looks around* Where are my Xenos, Chaos Cults and insterstellar travel by flying through Hell?
It’s going to get worse if the normies are forced to confront that. I’ve seen a little of it in someone not so jaded and the reaction is akin to a breakdown.
Destroy their god and watch their entire worldview melt away. Regardless of people’s professed faiths (or lack thereof), most have a revealed faith in ‘Murika in some form or another. Government has successfully replaced God, and those who see through the charade later on get wrecked.
Where are the feelies? I’ve never been on a bearskin rung before…
Yeah none of that’s going to happen.
AND, they’re setting up a future round of fake outrage for if and when a future R president (if there ever is one in the world of fortified processes) orders pardons of all the J6 political prisoners. They’ll trumpet that he/she’s pardoning “terrorists”, etc., counting on their low-info public to know absolutely nothing about all of their lies and corruption, and just believe the smears.
And, that low-info public deserves to be treated like cattle.
One thing worth pointing out is how seriously they teach Brady and what happens to the prosecutors when they violate Brady by withholding exculpatory evidence at law school. It was up there alongside “don’t steal your client’s money” as one of the fundamental ethical rules.
The idea of the judiciary going along with clear Brady violations from the prosecutors is a massive indicator that bad shit’s a brewin’.
Hell, even Marisa Tomei knows that the prosecution has to give you all the evidence.
It’s called disclosure, ya dickhead!
‘member when Clinton pardoned actual terrorists?
Of course not, that never happened.
It’s possible the DOJ didn’t have the footage, if the Capitol Police never gave it to them. Technically not a lie, but still sleazy.
Possible, but it beggars belief that the FBI/DOJ wouldn’t ask for, and receive, video footage that was known to exist of “crimes” they were investigating and prosecuting. I also seem to recall select snippets being introduced in some of the cases.
Oh, they had it alright.
I can imagine the DOJ saying, “Just give us the good stuff”. If I were trying to railroad someone and maintain plausible deniability, that’s what I’d do.
They know that’s unethical. The only question is are they going to try to sacrifice some flunkey, or are they brazen enough to Capone it?
Not a chance. They would want it all so there wouldn’t be any surprises.
Adam, you don’t have to do this to yourself.
And he didn’t even include the double yy in Zelenskyyyy’s name. Sad.
“Adam, you don’t have to do this to yourself.”
Yes he does, it’s part of his douchebag cred.
He’s the biggest sack of shit in the Congress which is no small feat.
He’s no longer in Congress, thank FSM.
There wasn’t a Democrat on that panel that didn’t make Matt FUCKING Gaetz look intelligent, ethical and honest.
On topic?
The left can’t meme, chicken sandwich edition.
We covered this in the morning linx
I thought you were talking about Elon.
I did. I also talked chicken and literally said the left can’t meme 😀
To be fair, he is a moron.
Harsj on old Brad P
Brad is not my favorite “libertarian”, but he’s just resharing a bad meme.
I saw the same chart as this morning and thought it wasthe same moron.
Also, this chart leaves out the double down, which is back.
Life not gotten weird enough for you? Well, here’s a story of the Anti Tank Vespa.
Want.
Forgot to mention in the lynx but this day in Romania
Mucenici is a Christian feast of the 40 Martyrs of Sebaste, a traditional holiday in Romania and Moldova. It coincides with the start of the agricultural year.[1]
On the day of the martyrs (mucenici), in the popular belief, the tombs and the gates of Heaven are opened, and the housewives make, in honor of the Holy Martyrs, 40 coils called sfinti, mucenici or bradosi.
The tradition for the menfolk is to drink 40 glasses of wine on this day, although it is just a thing people say not do. We do eat a traditional pastry glibfit
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/Mucenici_with_honey_and_walnuts_moldavian_style.jpg
Glasses must have been really small back then. I blame McDonalds for the giant drinks.
That pastry looks good.
That is the Moldavian version, which is getting popular in my part of the country as well, our version is small pasta in a soupy liquid, it requires a plate and spoon. That one is easier as you can eat it on the go…
https://savoriurbane.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Mucenici-muntenesti-fierti-cu-nuca-reteta-simpla-savori-urbane.jpg
Doctor weighed me this morning and I was down 15 lbs. from January! When the cataract issues hit, I just decided to cut out chips, pretzels, candy,peanut butter toast. Clothes are fitting better but I’m irritable (more than usual) and feel hungry all the time. Shooting to lose another 20 to get back to pre-retirement weight.
I was in the best shape of my life when I was in college having frequent relations with my D1 athlete and cheerleader ex wife.
I am looking for a doctor who will prescribe daily relations with a D1 cheerleader and an insurance company who will pay for it….
Doctor weighed me this morning – you should refuse that and educate him about body positivity
Flying Fort Collins to Memphis in a few weeks for work. I am leaving from the FNL instead of DEN so I don’t have to drive down and pay to park (work would pay, but hey, save them some money and me some effort). United has a “flight” from FNL to DEN. Its a bus.
I looked at it for family trips too, but 3x the bus cost is more than parking for a week. It does have the bonus advantage of not having to hit the luggage carousel in Denver, your luggage goes straight to the bus.
You still have to go through security when you get to Denver though, so its not as awesome in that direction. But luggage is already checked at FNL.
If it works as awesomely as it seems, I might use it for future family trips. United isn’t my favorite to fly, but its super convenient for Memphis and since SWA cancelled their direct SDF-DEN flights, its easier for seeing my Mom. And if they are going to get me literally almost to home (google maps says 11 min drive, and that is mostly circling the airport) then that is a point in their favor.
I can get it to 10 mins by forcing google to take the correct path.
“Flying Fort Collins to Memphis in a few weeks for work.”
Watch out for DOE freakshows at the baggage carousel.
Education or Energy? In Memphis?
You’ve never been in the Memphis airport have you? It’s not big on people traveling through it.
I connected thru Memphis once. Once.
And that was 2003.
You fedexed yourself somewhere?
I get that not everyone is all fired up about the Twitter files… But just do me a favor and watch this.
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1633873417958211587?t=30Kze8hGfgxauE9SluGjKg&s=19
This is your government at work. This is who we trust to make the laws that govern us.
She got her “hard on Republicans” sound bite for her next election ad.
There is an entire industry of people cutting out democrats clowning themselves and calling it “p0wning these republican shills”.
That post was actually by a Democrat who thinks she killed him.
“Sylvia Garcia DESTROYS Taibbi”
🤡 🌎
For those who don’t know, Taibbi, Weiss et al were given free access to see what they wanted, and publish anything at all about it.
The only conditions: proper attribution and publish on Twitter first.
They are trying to pretend that this means he is just publishing what he is told to and is lying about everything.
Also…
He submitted his prepared statement to the committee before testifying.
The democrats (several of them) are trying to pretend that this is them “working with the republicans” because the committee staff is republican, since they hold the majority.
Really… it is that bad.
They’re trying to paint the FBI as just trying to do the Lord’s Work of preventing Russian interference in our elections, and preventing Donald Trump from causing an insurrection. As if there weren’t hundreds of examples of censoring verified US citizens who were telling jokes or reporting vaccine injuries.
Oh, and trying to nitpick and say the FBI providing a list of people to censor is not an order to censor those people. As if there was an option to “respectfully decline” their request.
What a confusing twat. Let the man answer. She was trying to twist everything he said.
Purposeful tactic. Nobody watches CSPAN, bug if she gets him to slip and say something unfortunate, she gets a valuable ad campaign out of it.
She should die of ass cancer.
I’d settle for her having to live through the decline of her position to a point where she can no longer pretend to have the raw power that she spent her entire life from when she was 2nd grade class president trying to accumulate.
Just don’t scroll down, the Dem cheerleading makes me nauseous.
Indeed.
Oh, please do scroll down.
The thread is about the dems destroying the journalists.
They feature one guy who is more competent. A buffoon… but more competent.
He asks about Taibbi’s opening statement, which references the censorship of the NY Post Biden laptop story. Taibbi says the story was suppressed even though it is true.
Dem hack says that the first paragraph of the story says that Biden pressured Ukraine to fire a prosecutor who was investigating Barisma. Dem holds up the impeachment of Trump report and says that this document shows that it was government policy and acting in concert with many nations policy.
Therefore, he says, the story is false.
Taibbi not allowed to respond.
But words mean somethjng…. and that didn’t invalidate the article in any way.
I hope, and know that Matt will wrote about it. All I saw so far was another intimidation attempt / pony show. That wasn’t a debate, or a hearing of facts. It was a struggle session.
Watching them flail about trying to discredit everything about it was actually horrifying. They are full on Harrison Bergeron, 1984, Animal Farm…. and a peek on Twitter shows there are millions who have already learned to love Big Brother
Dumb twat.
Man Tasked With Preventing World War 3 Foiled By Stairs
So good.
Thought it was gonna be about McConnell.
On a weekend morning, hungover AF, knowing you dont have to do shit the rest of the day, its tough to not binge on McD or BK and go back to sleep.
Not a bit healthy, but does the job. Specially if you toss a couple shots of Crown in your coffee.