Close but no cigar
The Bears won a game that by all measures was quite ugly. The gig weekend of college football is all but here. Liverpool lost in the Europa League. And I got pretty much nothing else for sports, so let’s get right to…the links!
This is a touching tribute. Give these people a Nobel Prize in both medicine and peace.
What the fuck? Isn’t that the job of the parents?
Adios
“Say it ain’t so, Joe.” At least that’s what Team Blue are saying about a seat they’re all but certain to lose now.
Does she not have a party affiliation? Because it’s never mentioned in the article.
Christ, what an asshole. I got nothing pithy to say on this one.
I’m surprised they didn’t cite global warming. I can’t believe they didn’t jump at the chance to trumpet that bullshit.
Sick man
Maybe he drank the water. Because that would do it.
God, I hope this headline is correct. It would be the best possible outcome for the kids.
What a classic. I could hear that song twenty times a day and never tire of it. I could do it ten times a day for this one. What a magical band. Enjoy them.
And enjoy this lovely Friday, dear friends. I’m off to Columbus with my daughter to see some football.
(Cockney accent)
Ya mate… all the damned lying, that don’t enter into it!
(Cockney accent off)
I guess we’ve moved past the “Okay, maybe we were wrong now everyone should just forgive” attempt and are back to full on “These idiots don’t know what’s good for them” again… Yay.
Morning, Sloopy — have to say, your commute is stranger indeed apparently.
Oh, love this at the bottom of the article —
Yeah, I’m sure a Kaiser related foundation is 100% neutral and unbiased here. I suppose “Organization to Promote Pfizer Yachts!” wasn’t available today.
It’s like that never happened.
Makes me wonder what fresh bullshit they have in store for us this winter.
You’re telling me. I was in Mexico all week until last night, where it was 85 and beautiful, and now I’m turning around and heading to Ohio to freeze my nuts off for a game that’s inexplicably being played at night.
Don’t they play High School games in Texas on Friday nights?
Since leaving his post, Rivkees has been stunned to see the state health department subsumed by political meddling
It wasn’t political meddling when the correct side was meddling
It wasn’t the measures themselves that fueled mistrust, it was people having memories longer than a goldfish who noticed that one week they were saying to not wear masks and to go to Chinatown to hug a Chinese person to the next week you need to wear a mask over your anus and to lock yourself in your house, and if you do leave the house, burn your clothes upon reentry and leave groceries in the garage for 3 days before bringing them inside.
The worst thing that happened wasn’t people being wrong, it was people being wrong and going after everyone else with a different opinion like the gestapo. If they had been a little humble and said, “Based on the information we have now, this is what we recommend, but things may change as we learn more” we’d still have respect for science and some of our government institutions.
I still have respect for science. “Science”, not so much.
Woah, that pic is way too huge.
Sloopy’s just trying to remind us of scale… must go faster!
We should stick a flag in that island and declare it Libertopia.
Equally doomed to be subsumed quickly? (Yeah yeah, I know I’m just black pilled these days… )
Counter weight… puppies!
I’m suspicious that they didn’t want any chance of people looking at volcanic emissions relative to mankind’s emissions in the global warming context.
“A new unofficial poll found that 42 percent of HISD teachers said they would not renew their contracts for the 2024-2025 school year.”
Article doesn’t say why?
The new superintendent is implementing new standards that base retention partially on performance and they’re pissed.
Hope that idea doesn’t spread, local schools need baby sitters, too.
“They expect results? What is this, the private sector?!”
Wait, they actually have to produce something of value to keep their jobs? What kind of crazy ultra-MAGA right-wing nazi shit is that?
Capitalism, mannnnn…. Everyone will be able to just be an artist come the Revolution.
They wanted to be fully evaluated on performance?
Best wishes to him… Woz always seemed (from afar, never met the man) like a solid head on his shoulders engineer type who just had a good break to benefit his solid work.
“His wife Mei Haskell, 37, is missing, and detectives are trying to work out whether the torso is hers.”
They would have figured it out if they played beach volleyball.
They think it is her — but it is just a gut reaction.
I don’t know how someone could have the stomach for those types of investigations.
The detectives got a leg up on the investigation though
The top two are running neck and neck.
He’s got some spleening to do if the torso is his wife’s.
Well, until they stopped and got a six-pack of AB’s on the way home.
He’s got money, so he’ll spend an arm and a leg on high-powered lawyers.
Apparently he could do that and still have an arm and a leg left for other things.
This pun thread
Is coming to a head
Swiss will come to pun-ish us once he finishes his navel gazing. But he knows it is just gentle ribbing.
I’m surprised this even made the news since it isn’t gun violence. They don’t even say if anyone was armed.
Confident prediction: Mosby won’t spend any time in jail, and probably won’t permanently lose her law license. Although she might be barred from representing people in federal court.
She does have Democrat protection from the full force of the law.
Based on my brother in law’s bemused tales of Baltimore politics, she might even get elected again when the new guy turns out to be even more corrupt.
And she was a black woman elected to citywide office in Baltimore, so it would have almost been redundant to mention her political party affiliation. Though leaving that out seems deliberate, since if she had been a GOPer, that would have likely put in the headline.
A GOPer getting elected to Baltimore office would have been the bigger story.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12732769/Euphoria-star-Sydney-Sweeney-shows-ample-cleavage-low-cut-dress-returns-Australia-film-Ron-Howard-movie-Bondi-Beach.html
She should play beach volleyball.
The $2 Million Coal Mine That Might Hold a $37 Billion Treasure
Quick somebody get EPA, OSHA and any other federal agency on the phone. This must be stopped at all costs!
I’m sure it will quickly become a National Historic Landmark to ensure no possible development can
interfere with PPP’s Chinese mastersdespoil the natural beauty.It could turn out to be land sacred to half a dozen feather Indians. That one always works.
“Sorry. Based on this coal mine, looks like the Great Spirit already pulled a train here. Ain’t no coming back from that.”
Tell me again how the government seizing lands based on religious claims isn’t an establishment of religion?
I wonder if the establishment of religion clause ever came up in a court case protesting land seizure.
Yeah, good luck actually being allowed to mine rare earths in this country in any serious quantities.
Yeah, isn’t that what we have China for?
I like how they compare two things as if they are equivalents in order to make the case for the “dramatic drop”:
Hey, idiots: getting the vaccine and believing it’s safe & effective are two entirely different things. Remember, you forced millions of people to get the jab or lose their job. It want because we wanted to.
Under 20% of the population received last year’s booster, and this year’s was 3% just a few weeks ago.
Clearly the anti-vax Republicans to blame.
Plus they leave out the huge issue of burning the initial trust (whereby a lot of people figured it was probably safe enough and got the initial round) as the facts leaked past their censorship and that the government flipped over to “you MUST!” mode (which raised a lot of hackles in the “Um… if it is so great, why the hell do you need to force it?” vein). So initial vaccinations would be higher… but then confidence would drop.
I know that’s my personal journey — I was pretty sure I’d already gotten it in January 2020 so wasn’t in a rush (and wanted higher risk folks to go first because I wasn’t at risk). Figured I’d get it at some point. But then the stupidly ludicrous “99% effective!” crap came out which pushed my BS meters… and the mandate really pushed it… and my heels started digging in the more we learned, flipping me into the “Oh, hell no” camp.
There’s one of those supercut videos out there with Fauci, Biden, Birx, and a bunch of media people saying over and over, “If you get the shot, you won’t get sick! The virus STOPS!” And then it notes that every single one of them got COVID, Biden getting it twice.
The regular people figured it out really fast. I know many people who got COVID a few times, and it was worse after they were vaccinated. People aren’t getting the shots because they do jack shit.
Or they are not getting them because the shots do something. Like my daughter’s young athletic boyfriend who got a “million to one” stroke that would have killed him if my daughter wasn’t a doctor and reacted quickly.
And she got angry when I even questioned if she had considered a much less rare cause for said stroke.
“David DePape, man accused of attacking Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer, was ‘caught up in conspiracies’ about the wealthy elite, but had ‘no intention of harming’ the 82-year-old, defense says”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12733445/david-depape-nancy-pelosi-paul-pelosi-hammer-attack-trial.html
I thought he was in his underwear? That video shows him fully dressed.
No it was always just Pelosi.
That’s not what I remember.
There was an erroneous report by a local TV station that DePape was in his underwear that got spread around, but it was retracted pretty quickly.
The Bears won a game that by all measures was quite ugly
Glad I already gave up on the NFL and the panthers
“Washington Post removes ‘racist’ cartoon depicting ‘grossly mischaracterized’ Hamas terrorist with women and children tied to his body after reader backlash”
Several outraged letters were also included in the apology note, which slated the drawing as ‘grossly mischaracterizing’ and ‘blatantly mocking’ the crisis in the Middle East.
‘The caricatures employ racial stereotypes that were offensive and disturbing. Depicting Arabs with exaggerated features and portraying women in derogatory, stereotypical roles perpetuates racism and gender bias, which is wholly unacceptable,’ one reader from Fairfax, Virginia, wrote in a letter.
Suzanne van Geuns, a research associate at Princeton University, said in a separate letter: ‘I am a scholar of religion and media; I recognize a deeply racist depiction of the ‘heathen’ and his barbarous cruelty toward women and children when I see it again in Michael Ramirez’s Nov. 8 editorial cartoon.
‘It is in no way informative, helpful or thought-provoking to look at this conflict through the glasses of 19th-century colonialists.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12731809/Washington-Post-remove-racist-cartoon-Hamas.html
OFFS!!
What they really can’t abide is the succinct exposure of Hamas’ hypocrisy. But they won’t say that and attach their names to it, so they just scream racism.
What hypocrisy? Hamas is pretty straightforward with their intentions/goals.
“We want all the Jews and infidels dead and we’re more than willing to sacrifice every Palestinian but us to do it” is pretty straightforward, yeah.
Because it’s more informative to view centuries-old conflicts through the lens of woke postmodern horseshit?
“‘It is in no way informative, helpful or thought-provoking to look at this conflict through the glasses of 19th-century colonialists.’””
Or, you know, 2023.
The caricatures employ racial stereotypes that were offensive and disturbing. Depicting Arabs with exaggerated features and portraying women in derogatory, stereotypical roles perpetuates racism and gender bias
This person does not know what this word means.
Being used as a human shield is a derogatory, stereotypical role?
Damn fine caricature.
It’s literally a caricature of the Hamas spokesman Ghazi Hamad.
More importantly, it’s true.
Thus the objection. Cockroaches always want light switches removed. That is how you know they are cockroaches.
More importantly, it’s true.
Which is of course the reason it can’t be allowed.
Regarding Houston teachers:
“Things change weekly on what they need to do and don’t do,” she added. “We know right now that Miles is asking people to do a lot of things that in the past they [teachers] may have been paid extra for because they are salaried employees, so I think unless there are some promises made very quickly or assurances made very quickly, I think we will have teachers leave.”
And? This happens every hour of the day in the private sector. Cry me a river you privileged twats.
If it’s not in the union contract, they ain’t doing it.
That is why you have three times as many people, say, building a subway line, as in Europe. Here you’ve got one guy who can tighten screws and another one to untighten them.
Gotta call an electrician to plug in your monitor!
We had to pay an exorbitant amount of money just to have an extension cord plugged in at a trade show. Why? Because it’s unionized, of course.
Lawsuit claims Mark Zuckerberg allegedly ignored warnings about Instagram’s impact on young users’ mental health
He’s supposed to monitor this how?
Isn’t that the job of the parents?
The stateFacebook owns your children, I guess.“He’s supposed to monitor this how?”
To be fair, Zuck’s operation monitors everything else, so why not?
Srsly.
Anyway, at one time, I may have said they need to button up a little (help us parents out a tidge), but now Pinterest is truly buttoning up because of all the child porn assholes collecting pictures on their Loli boards or whatever. I have had 2 pins removed for “suggestive content,” but one was of a bra (on an adult) and the other was an embrace, as seen from the back where the woman was naked. Also an adult. Both pictures were put back after somebody complained. So their algorithm is FUUUUUUCKED.
Also reports of people having their accounts suspended randomly for no reason given. I’m backing up my Pinterest boards as fast as I can. I haven’t spent 10 years collecting pretty pictures to all of a sudden get my account suspended because there’s a lady with a bra on in the LINGERIE section of my clothing board.
Mrs OBE had her boards out right deleted and probably for the same reason.
They’re always careful to tell you it’s not because of something YOU did. I believe that. Their algorithm has no biases. It’s GIGO.
Luckily, she created, unknown to me an account on my phone and because of the algorithm, my boards or suggestions were nearly everything she saved. So…win?
And also, I took down all my tumblr-acquired racy pins a long time ago.
a seat they’re all but certain to lose now.
You mean to tell me that they can’t rig an election in a deep red state?
Does she not have a party affiliation? Because it’s never mentioned in the article.
Democrat should be assumed.
Christ, what an asshole. I got nothing pithy to say on this one.
This story has a lot of body.
“Tech-mogul Bryan Johnson undergoes shock therapy on penis to get ‘erections of an 18-year-old’”
https://nypost.com/2023/11/09/lifestyle/tech-mogul-bryan-johnson-undergoes-shock-therapy-on-penis-to-get-the-erections-of-an-18-year-old/
No.
That face is a bit creepy looking to me. Too much plastic surgery to try to look 18?
Just guessing but I think that guy might have some issues.
The pinnacle of human health and wellness is obsessing over every detail of your life. Fucking biohackers.
Oh, this creep. Yeah, all kinds of mental issues with that one.
Does that even leave room for food? He probably gets enough protein from the gelatin capsules.
“to get ‘erections of an 18-year-old’”
I’m skeptical he’s capable of getting 18 year olds aroused.
Oh, I dunno. A strong breeze can get most 18 year olds aroused.
I can’t believe they didn’t jump at the chance to trumpet that bullshit.
The climate change narrative is under water at this point.
That which is dead can never die?
My lawyer once was telling me about a case he had in Fed Court.
Me: “Jim, I didn’t know. you could practice in Federal Court.”
Him: “Well sure….wait, what do you mean?”
Me: “You have to have some kind of certification for Federal Court. I dont know what they call it.”
Him: *Picks up phone and queries a colleague*
Him: “Holy Shit. I have been putting cases before them for 20 years. I did not know that.”
More shit to wake him up at night in a cold sweat worrying that it will come back one day to bite him in the ass.
“You don’t know what you can get away with until you try”
/Flip Wilson
Yup. You have to be admitted to federal court. It’s pro forma if you have a state license, but there it is.
Everyone says the same thing about him. “He is the best lawyer you will find….if you can catch him sober.”
Was he ever a barber in St. Paul?
I had to catch that guy early in the morning, before he got warmed up.
You can catch him in the bar at The Cherokee – I’ll check back tomorrow
More leftist insurrection…
NYPD car smashed up and tagged with “Free Gaza” and “IDF”, “KKK” outside of New York Times building.
This comes after thousand of Pro-Palestine protesters marched from Bryant Park and stormed the NYTs building lobby demanding a “Ceasefire Now” in Gaza.
Police show up and then have to protect their own cars from vandalism.
In addition to protecting the rioters, of course. We all know why they showed up at all.
“”Nobody needs grizzlies, nobody needs wolves,” another resident added during the event last week. “And the thing we need even less than that is the Department of Fish and Wildlife. These guys know nothing about fish, they don’t care about wildlife. All they want to do is ruin the most important people, which is farmers and ranchers who grow our food. There’s no reason for these people, there’s no reason for grizzly bears.””
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2023/11/09/the-government-wanted-to-release-grizzly-bears-where-n4923771
I liked him in Ghostbusters.
lol
We have a bear that comes around every year and eats all of my figs. Apparently the booger knows where all of the figs are up and down this bayou and exactly when they will be ripe.
A few years back he wandered into town and tried to get into the Dollar Store. A customer was able to lock the doors half a second before he got in. By the time the sheriff showed up he had wandered away.
He doesn’t bother me as long as he sticks to the figs.
Do you mean a bear or your local federal Fish and Wildlife guy?
We have a few Forest Service guys about but not many. I think the feds have two possum cops for the north half of the state.
State guys….only a few more. The one they have in my area is usually looking to write traffic tickets as they have full police powers. More money than in catching poachers I suppose.
Hateful.
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It’s Friday. I’m all over the hints.
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Ugh… again with the “that’s not in the list!” with things that danged well should be. And resorted to the letter hints on the main one.
All in all, a real crap fest on my part.
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So you are saying that the judge with a name that sounds like that of a villain might not be impartial.
I have Uncovered screenshots from the X account of Dawn Marie Engoron, the wife of Leftist NYC Judge Arthur Engoron, who is overseeing the civil fraud against President Trump shows that she has been posting attacks on Trump from her account @dm_sminxs as the trial is ongoing.
This is incredible bias. Less than 24 hours ago she posted tweets in which she said “FUCK TRUMP”. She posted photoshopped pics of President Trump in an orange jump suit, she attacked me during my Live show last night for exposing her husband, and she is openly attacking President Trump’s lawyer @AlinaHabba.
May be day-old news, but I see the ultra-MAGA House leadership just greenlit the FBI’s massive new HQ.
DC delenda est.
Because equity.
/not kidding
Given that the self-appointed ruling class has become so wildly corrupt, incompetent and unaccountable, delenda est indeed.
Florida man Friday.
Two Florida officers deliberately rammed and ambushed today, both in critical condition.
Hillsborough County sheriff’s deputies were responding to a domestic disturbance call when they were attacked. The suspect, later identified as Ralph Bouzy, 28, intentionally accelerated his car into them, slamming them both into their patrol vehicle.
Both deputies are currently in critical condition at a local hospital. Sheriff Chad Chronister says Bouzy is in custody and faces charges of attempted murder.
The restraint by the cops is admirable.
Chris Christy is a fat man with a fat chance in the election, folks. His initials are CC but I call him “Double D Christy” because those bags are big. Everybody knows.
Chris Christie was heckled throughout his speech in Florida today.
Sometimes it’s nice to review the classics.
https://jezebel.com/have-you-ever-beat-up-a-boyfriend-cause-uh-we-have-294383
https://jezebel.com/is-the-uva-rape-story-a-gigantic-hoax-asks-idiot-1665233387
Ugh, I forgot how much I hate the chick keyboard warrior expletive filled rant style of Jezebel.
Meh, they were just feminist trolls. That was their shtick…say outrageous shit to bait people into a fight.
These were a good read.
In another sports highlight, the Blackhawks got another win and Bedard had a 4 point night, the youngest player to do that since 1944. They need better defense and more depth, but the kid is starting to live up to the hype.
Because the militant response by the federal government is clearly warranted here…
Wait, no it isn’t.
How do we think about a government that clearly thinks about us as their enemy?
I think very little of it and do not consider it to be legitimate.
Meanwhile, thousands of young men from countries on the terrorists watch list just saunter in across the border.
This.
All battlespace prep for the public when they execute the guy. Use it to justify FBI humvees (like what the fuck) rolling down the streets and jumping in people’s backyards and another similar to Boston shelter in place nonsense.
Somehow, the universe looks out for me. After a complete electrical failure at 6am, the neighbor asked if I need help when he saw me fiddling with the junction box. Turns out his son, who is with him on their RV, is an RV repair tech. They traced the problem and will install a new plug head on my power cable when they finish breakfast.
That’s a win. Now you have to figure out how to thank them.
Good problem to have however.
Baked goods or booze are always good for that.
I offered them beer, propane, and cash – all declined
Clearly, you should have offered crevasse, cash or grass.
LOL @ crevasse
$20?
I may take inspiration from the Etsy commercials I’ve been seeing and watch them to see what they drink, and go buy them some.
“Now you have to figure out how to thank them.”
She fixes the cable?
Assuming no euphemisms here.
“install a new plug head on my power cable”
These euphemisms are getting more obscure.
Internalized racism.
Belcher said, “This idea of being tough on crime or being tough on immigration, being tough on terrorism. There’s a fine line between being tough and camouflage for hate. I think they cross that line at the debate when you look at the language about shooting people dead and bombing and wiping people off. That’s not about being tough on terrorism. That is crossing the line and becomes a camouflage for hate.”
You seem to think that all non-whites are criminals. Says more about you…
He continued, “I hate to say it, but you know American history very well. There is a landing space for hate in this country, and hate does mobilize people in this country. We have seen it time and again. As a matter of fact, it’s the whole predicate of Donald Trump’s presidency is that hate.”
Except leftists are the most hateful people on the planet. But you are free to hate, first amendment and all that.
All projection, all of the time.
Forget it, it’s MSNBC-town.
He jumped right over the explicit calls to eliminate Jews at riots, in the US, to blame Trump. If there’s a landing space for hate in this country, how is it not, first and foremost, the universities that teach it, reward it, and display it?
Whether it’s a mental illness or just pure mendacious hatred, I don’t care.
Know what else makes people hate? Being constantly vilified and denied justice.
A study published in July found that Republicans and Democrats in Ohio and Florida died at roughly similar rates before Covid vaccines emerged, but a disparity between parties grew once the first vaccines were widely available in 2021 and uptake diverged. By year’s end, Republicans had a 43% higher rate of excess deaths than Democrats.
What did they die of?
Gave up the ghost after Red Wave failed to materialize and they realized America was doomed under pinko progressive b.s.?
A very good question. There was little difference in the vaccine uptake among the elderly by party affiliation. Pretty much all the old people became “fully vaccinated” whether they were Democrats or Republicans. The vaccine uptake difference by party exists only among young and middle-aged people. But they don’t die of covid. I wonder how the data were massaged by the propaganda operatives to get this result.
Democrats are more likely to be women.
Two words I don’t see:
Risk adjusted.
The estimates of differences in excess death rates between Republican and Democratic voters (adjusted for age, time, and state) were small until the summer of 2021, when excess death rates among Republican voters began to increase compared with excess death rates among Democratic voters (Figure 2C). The analyses stratified by age showed that Republican voters had significantly higher excess death rates compared with Democratic voters for 2 of the 4 age groups in the study
So which two groups?
, the differences for the age group 25 to 64 years were not significant (Figure 3; eFigure 1 in Supplement 1).
The groups were 25-64, 65-74, 75-84, and 85+. So only two of the older groups (over 64) showed higher excess mortality. The study shows no significant difference in excess deaths for people under 65.
Democratic voters had significantly higher excess death rates compared with Republican voters for the age group 65 to 74 years. The analyses stratified by state showed that differences in excess death rates between Republican and Democratic voters were primarily seen in voters residing in Ohio, with smaller, and generally nonsignificant, differences in weekly excess death rates between Republican and Democratic voters in Florida (eFigure 2 and eFigure 3 in Supplement 1).
So this effect only happened in Ohio. How does that happen? Weren’t the vaccines the same?
In analyses that pooled data from March 2020 to December 2021, Republican voters in Florida did not have a statistically significantly higher excess death rate than Democratic voters in Florida (Figure 3). Additional sensitivity analyses supported our main conclusions (eTable 2 in Supplement 1).
So again, only happened in Ohio. But yeah, definitely apply this as gospel to the whole country.
The Morning After: Humane’s Ai Pin wearable costs $699 and ships in early 2024
In case you thought there were no longer rich fools in the Valley with money to burn. This makes the Juicero seem like a sound business decsion.
I had no idea what Juicero was…
“The company attracted significant negative media attention when consumers and journalists discovered that its juice packets could be squeezed just as easily by hand as by the company’s expensive juicer.”
Weird aside…. I always wanted to carbonate my own beverages, but the price of the name brand thing that was a fad a few years back scared me off.
I read an article in Omni or some such magazine decades ago that touted carbonated milk as being terrific. They just couldn’t make it shelf stable. The writer did such a good job of selling the experience that I’ve always wanted to try it.
And unlike many here, I’m not really much of a drinker… and I like Welch’s sparkling grape juice better than any wine I have ever had.
But I don’t buy it because they get like $3.50 or $4 per bottle. But if I could carbonate a 2-liter of grape juice from concentrate…..
Anyone know if there is a cheap path to at-home carbonation?
Find a local brew shop or an online shop.
There are adapters designed to connect to standard plastic soda pop bottle. Then you can attach a micro-regulator with a min CO2 carriage.
You can scale up using dedicated stainless steel growlers with similar adapters and taps.
I will try to grab a few links shortly.
Here is the connector to a 2-liter soda bottle.
https://www.williamsbrewing.com/Home-Brewing-Equipment/Kegging-Equipment/Gas-Distribution-Parts/Stainless-DuoTight-Carbonation-Cleaning-Cap
That looks like fun…. what is the carbonation for in Homebrew? Packaging? Pressurizing mini-kegs? Recarbonating if you don’t bottle the live stuff?
I always wanted to try this too… but I don’t really like beer well enough to make a giant batch… I like the microbiology and chemistry way more than the beer.
Good lord, that is A level nerd territory…..
There are two ways to carbonate beer. First is bottle conditioning. You put some new sugar into the beer; bottle the beer; and the yeast eats the new sugar to produce CO2. The second is forced carbonation. You put the beer into a keg; connect it to a high pressure (relative to serving pressure) CO2 source; then wait for CO2 to be absorbed. This can be done at room temperature, but it is normally done under refrigeration which is way more efficient and speedy.
Good lord, that is A level nerd territory…..
Uh, yeah that’s me.
I have full-sized kegging equipment. Plus I have mini-kegs that I use to take samples to classes and festivals. Everything I use is standard ball-lock connectors.
I have full-sized kegging equipment.
I only have full-sized pegging equipment.
You do you.
Micro regulator
https://www.williamsbrewing.com/Home-Brewing-Equipment/Kegging-Equipment/Micro-Regulators-Parts/Brewers-Edge-Dual-Stage-Micro-Regulator
Note that Amazon has tons of solutions for stainless steel growlers, micro regulators, and micro tapping systems. Most of them use proprietary connectors which is not a problem if you only use these for carbonating fruit juices or home-made sodas.
The equipment from Williams is compatible with full-scale kegging equipment for home brewers. This is why I use it. It costs more that other stuff available on Amazon.
But it provides some ideas for what you can look for online.
I suppose it might be good if you like sour milk, since carbon dioxide makes things taste sour.
As far as carbonizing your own drinks, I’ve only heard of Sodastream, but there have to be others out there that might be cheaper.
I’m guessing you could buy a seltzer bottle and put milk instead of water.
It’s the cleaning that keeps people from using seltzer bottles for anything but water.
This looks like a decent overview of what’s out there. I expect one of these would also make a good Christmas present for people who don’t want to nerd out with regulators and refillable CO2 bottles and the like.
https://reviews.chicagotribune.com/reviews/best-soda-makers
I have carbonated home-made root beer using dry ice pellets. There is a bit of trial and error (and cleanup) to determine how much dry ice goes into a 2 liter plastic bottle. The first few tries exploded the bottles.
I has also done it with Soda Stream. Crush the dry ice, weigh out the correct amount (weight is usually on the cartridge label), re-seal and let acclimate to room temperature. Use in your Soda Stream machine as you would normally.
From the Volleyball movie discussion, Suthen had the rejoinder that the girls were fine – meaning extremely attractive, not ‘acceptable”.
That was kinda my point. In your history class, any one of them would be super cute. They are “real world attractive”.
There is a big difference between real world attractive and movie star attractive. For the most part, even the “girl next door” types were the hot girl in high school.
But then there is “TnA movie attractive”. I’m not sure this category of movie still exists, so maybe this category of actress doesn’t exist either… but it used to be a serious category. There were nameless versions of the type, but there were also B list stars that did quite well – typically mediocre at best actresses who were over-the-top attractive. Pamela Anderson might be the most successful… you have Tracy Lords, Brigitte Nielson, Barbie Benton…. the list is pretty long.
That is the kind of talent you want for a sexploitation B movie.
Or you get a supermodel like Kathy Ireland to be in Alien From L.A. Or Paulina Porzigova.
Back when I was in high school my buddy took a photography class. He would ask the hot girls from school to model for him. That Volleyball movie felt like the student film equivalent… a handful of guys with film equipment put together a film just so they can ask the hot girls from class to be in it. Strong game if you are in film school at the Technical Community College of Knoxville…. but not so strong in the skinamax universe.
I am biased. I find ‘real world attractive’ very attractive. Movie star attractive….not so much.
I developed my appreciation of the female form from figure drawing classes. I had one teacher (an older woman) who refused to use models with breast implants. She said they had one once, and it looked like “she had oranges strapped to her chest.” The prettiest one was a ballet dancer. Great legs and every pose was just so elegant and graceful. She had both the male and female students swooning.
You and me both, Suthen. I usually think I can see some serious issues peeking out of the movie-star attractive women that comes from a life of being, well, privileged because of their looks.
I don’t generally call people “attractive” unless their looks are conventionally attractive. But just because I find someone’s looks to be generally attractive doesn’t mean I find them attractive to me. Another for instance: Objectively speaking, penises are ugly. Subjectively …
Different sorts of people catch my eye. Unfortunately, it’s rude to stare, so I can never look at them long enough to figure out why they caught my eye.
The state’s advice changed once more when the CDC recommended updated covid vaccines in September. DeSantis incorrectly said the vaccines had “not been proven to be safe or effective.”
I thought a pretty standard measure of effectiveness was whether or not a “vaccine” prevented the subject from infection.
Another “asserted without evidence” moment from the press.
It is really sad that a mediocre stand up comedian like Steven Crowder does better research and offers better documentation than actual reporters.
You say “incorrectly” you had better reference an actual peer reviewed study that hasn’t been raked over the coals. Implicitly citing the CDC as the expert that automatically refutes a critique of the CDC isn’t exactly journalism.
Anyone know if there is a cheap path to at-home carbonation?
I have some friends who have a Sodastream. It seems to work pretty well, but I have no idea about the cost.
That is the one… it was like $90 back when it was the hot item. Seemed a bit much to me, but what to I know? I’m not sure there is a cheap path… I just looked and a 5 lb CO2 cylinder os over $50. That is before you get any sort of adapters and regulators.
I had an idea that you could just plunk a bunch of CO2 pellets in a 2 liter and seal it up and have it work… as long as you didn’t put too many.
If I still worked in a lab I might try it, despite lack of assurances about “food grade” co2.
Yeah, I looked into that a couple years ago and it seemed pricey although I didn’t crunch the numbers very fully.
All the components are very expensive but maybe it saves money over time? I didn’t get that far.
See above – I linked an article with a bunch of options. Doesn’t list prices, though.
My husband has a sodastream (he won it, of course), but doesn’t use it. I’m tempted to say he finds something a little “off” about the pop, but I’d have to ask him what his problem with it is.
The problem is that he’s trying to make pop, not soda. It’s not called a Popstream, after all.
HE says he’s making soda. He is dead wrong. He’s making pop.
I loved my Sodastream. The pain in the ass is disposing of the empty bottles. You’re supposed to be able to exchange them for a discount on new bottles, but the exchange places (IIRC Williams Sonoma and Kohls were tow of them) never seemed to have the right one for my machine.
But they work really well and are simple to use.
On the Vax…. we had a high school student running a 10k or somesuch drop dead down here a week or so back. Heart attack.
Everyone immediately started speculating about the vaccine – and this is deep blue territory down here. It was the obvious first question when a high school athlete inexplicably drops dead.
How many times does that have to happen before people get it…..JFC.
It’s why you beat safe and effective into their brains so they can’t figure it out.
There’s no answer to that. They will never associate their own beliefs and actions with the terrible things they see happening. If they were capable of doing that, they’d never have adhered to those beliefs in the first place.
(And yeah there’s like a few percent who actually will be able to turn. I’m generalizing about the other 95+% and rounding off.)
Some just never will, and they are the majority in the media.
“Election offices across the United States, including a key battleground state, have been targeted with suspicious letters containing white powder, some of which have tested positive for fentanyl. The incidents have led to the evacuation of several election offices, causing delays in ballot counting.
The letters, which have been sent to election offices in Georgia, Nevada, California, Oregon, and Washington, have been reportedly “intercepted” in some instances before reaching their destinations. The FBI and U.S. Postal Inspection Service have confirmed that four of these letters contained fentanyl….
The letter accompanying the powder carried a disturbing message: “End elections now. Stop giving power to the right that they don’t have. We are in charge now and there is no more need for them.”
The letter added, “Also be aware your ballot drops are very susceptible to noxious chemicals like am/bl, they are unsafe to the public just saying.”
The letters have featured symbols associated with ANTIFA, a progress pride flag, and a pentagram.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/11/election-offices-across-u-s-receive-white-powder/
am/bl?
“The FBI said in a statement to The Post Millennial: “Per long-standing FBI policy, we will not be confirming or commenting on investigations until such time it reaches the public realm.”
“For your reference, the FBI can never open an investigation based solely on protected First Amendment activity. We cannot and do not investigate ideology. We focus on individuals who commit or intend to commit violence and criminal activity that constitutes a federal crime. The FBI will investigate when someone crosses the line from expressing their views to breaking federal laws and engaging in violence.””
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-exclusive-election-centers-in-georgia-washington-state-receive-fentanyl-laced-letters-covered-in-antifa-symbols
LOL
So mailing letters containing fentanyl is not a crime as long as I dress it up in ANTIFA? Got it.
It’s so over-the-top it looks like a false flag.
Isn’t antifa generally beyond parody?
Yeah, I think so.
Am and bl are your pronouns?
Tribal conflict
Ramaswamy’s “Ten Truths” mantra is the political update to Jordan Peterson’s “12 Rules for Life.” Both men have found a market in the age of the “man crisis.” Ramaswamy doesn’t shy away from expressions of his greatest strength and weakness: his aggression and raw ambition.
His style has rubbed Haley raw from the start, leading to her memorable diss from the second debate. “Every time I hear you, I feel a little bit dumber,” she told Ramaswamy.
It’s as if Ramaswamy embodies every slight dealt to Haley by a male colleague during her ascent — particularly those younger and less experienced than her. Never was it clearer than when Ramaswamy purposely evoked her gender by referring to Haley as Dick Cheney in drag.
“Do you want a leader from a different generation, who’s going to put this country first,” queried Ramaswamy. ”Or do you want Dick Cheney in three-inch heels?”
Good question.
If somebody had shown me the “three-inch heels” quote without saying it was to Haley, I’d definitely have guessed that he was referring to deSantis.
nevernikki
He referred to Nikki and DeSantis. Ten points for Vivek’s house.
“I don’t even give [Ramaswamy] the time of day,” Haley said in the post-debate scrum. “He has proven that he is just not worthy of being president of the United States. Everybody knows it. Everybody sees it.”
She sounds nice.
Reagan asks WTF has become of my party?
“BREAKING: Anti-Israel protesters occupy Kirsten Gillibrand’s office to demand ceasefire”
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-anti-israel-protesters-occupy-kirsten-gillibrands-office-to-demand-ceasefire
They just wanted to get some ranch.
News to arsed to dig on what is funding this? Cause high-production protest signs are a sure give away that there is some money behind it.
Qatar.
Insurrectionists have invaded the Capital Building?
Well, they’re not really obstructing an official proceeding.
I encourage the radical left to keep tying themselves to this issue and showing the world the true depth of their malignancy.
Back again
The top House Democrat, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York, has said that his party will only support a so-called “clean” continuing resolution — a bill that extends government funding at current levels with no additional provisions.
Sure, why not? Everything is going so well.
JFC. What kind of tool do you have to be to not recognize that that particular institution is rotten to the core?
President Not-My-Money
President Joe Biden said Thursday that all autoworkers deserve contracts like the ones recently won by the United Auto Workers from General Motors, Ford Motor and Chrysler-parent Stellantis
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Biden, wearing a red UAW T-shirt given to him by a local union leader, said the deals won by UAW negotiators are “game changers” that set a “new standard” for blue-collar workers.
The deals include 25% wage increases, including 11% upon ratification; reinstatement of cost-of-living adjustments; additional contributions for retirees; billions in new investments; and other benefits. The tentative deals must still be ratified by union members; voting is ongoing.
“I’m a little selfish, I want this type of contract for all autoworkers,” Biden said during a visit with UAW President Shawn Fain in Belvidere, Illinois. “And I have a feeling the UAW has a plan for that.”
He’s never done an honest day’s work in his life. Money just grows on trees.
It’s not like anyone Biden knows is going to be priced out of the auto market.
I guess I’ll never be able to afford a new car again. Or a used one, for that matter.
I love it when a plan comes together
Has a president ever taken the side so in the open like this? Not lip service or even having them meet in an official capacity at the White House, but openly go to picket lines and wear their shirts?