Yeah sorry, I am not referring to the Fox News host, but can you really blame me for the reference?
This is my review of 903 Brewers Sherman Bock:
For those of us disappointed by the recent release of the Epstein Files, we could at least shrug and acknowledge the fact they can’t really release much with that because its a fairly new conspiracy. Which means people involved are still alive, and possibly still doing awful things in the name of “National Security”. We can’t expose these awful people because then the terrorists will win, right? Somehow people covering up pedophile rings are still better than terrorists, right?
Alright…let’s see the JFK files! Everybody involved is dead, or old enough executing them seems somewhat unnecessary.
Turns out its 80,000 pages and everyone seems to be reacting in the same manner as Epstein. Its exciting, but we didn’t really learn a lot says the Crown News. Mostly we learned more about Oswald and that he was on the CIA RADAR. As if we’ve never heard that before…
…but there is also a lot here on “sources and methods” that they are always going on about. Of course this being something that took place over 60 years ago I’m sure more than a few updates went into effect since then. Finally, the last thing we learned is there are still redactions to these files, so we may never really learn the truth about what happened because they’re still covering it up.
I would happily continue to look the other way knowing they are just lying liars that going to continue to lie, until Ben Shapiro threw out his opinion. (TW: Don’t play at 2x). Apparently, he is on Team “What difference at this point does it make?” What difference does it make an intelligence agency run by a shadowy cabal of unelected bureaucrats known for staging coups around the world that used to do really awful things in the name of “National Security” that still exists today and makes it extremely difficult to release information on an event that occurred over half a century ago? Sure they did bad things then, but there’s no evidence to suggest they STILL do that, right?
I’m was more or less on Team “Magic bullets don’t exist” to begin with, now I’m willing to believe the CIA killed McKinley and Garfield while they were at it. Way to go Shapiro.
The event in question took place in Texas so a Texas brewery seems appropriate. Bock is a German style lager that is popular among Texas-based breweries. It known for for being dark, rich, and often strong, but best enjoyed cold. Wait that can’t be right, Germans drink beer relatively warm compared to Americans. Texas is a warm weather state so it makes sense a lager style becomes popular with breweries in a warm weather state but Bocks can be thick enough for meal replacement. Is this some kind of conspiracy? Texas is screwing with us…again. This one isn’t bad, even at 7.1% ABV its plenty drinkable even for where I live. Suiting the rich, malty flavor the style is known for without leaving you feeling “meh” the way Shiner does. 903 Brewers Sherman Bock: 3.4/5 7.1% ABV
We have returned from the ether…
I need your opinion…
Help! My Friend Named Her Baby After a Vegetable. I Said Something About It, and Now Things Have Gotten Way Out of Hand.
TW Slate
I have worked with two “Cale”s over the years.
“That’s little Brassica, don’t tell him he’s named for a cabbage.”
r/tragedeigh
“We didn’t like Broccolini, so we went with Rape.”
Better I guess than being named for a female body part.
Eggplant
Thats one of those words that I’m not too sad to see disappear.
I’m sure my son has no idea about it. I wonder how many know about it. You need an older Italian population .
Am I the only person who couldn’t give a fuck less about Epstein?
It is not about Epstein. It is about the moral character of the people who hold power which is less than zero.
“Well, he’s dead now.” – Bill Gates
I don’t think anyone really cares about Epstein himself. The question is who else was playing.
It’s more what Epstein showed us about our rulers.
A seemingly-unimportant memo foretold the truth about Kennedy’s demise.
The comments do not disappoint.
The Top.Men. at Ars never fail to make me smile.
Trump White House drops diversity plan for Moon landing it created back in 2019
Tokenism as been official policy in D.C. for a long time.
But you admit as much at your peril.
“I resent it being implied that I am the token woman.”
Whoa – a different age indeed.
The google nooz puked up that Teen Vogue thing about Musk’s “estranged” child. I actually read a bit of it, out of morbid curiosity. I was forced to tap out well before the “interview”. It was pretty much what I expected.
Good gravy, what an absurdist clown caricature that person has made of itself. I will be very surprised if we don’t hear about it being found dead in a hotel room with a needle in its arm in less than five years.
Poster child for the evil that progressive brainwashing produces. It destroys people by design.
This looks like the repairs will be both expensive and well deserved.
Finally got some use out of my new dashcam
What did I miss?
A Lotus Evora has very little ground clearance. I’m going with multiple rims, suspension components and maybe an engine pan. Bonus if there is chassis damage.
It was a ‘dumbass wrecks car’ video but lots of ‘are you over 18’, mature content, trigger warning nonsense. Ok, dumbass wrecks car. And?
10 bucks says the driver was not the owner. People who buy tires do not do burnouts, at least not sane ones.
Any time the driver who films one of these lets out an expletive fucking Reddit makes them mark them as NSFW.
What did I miss?
Sensei being an idiot in a car?
10 bucks says the driver was not the owner. People who buy tires do not do burnouts, at least not sane ones.
The last time I had my Mustang at the shop, someone in a Mustang did a burnout in front of the shop before pulling into the shop.
The driver of that other Mustang was the owner of that other Mustang. He had set up a maintenance appointment for the car which involved getting new tires. He did the burnout before pulling into the shop because he wanted to do one last burnout before getting new tires.
It’ll buff out.
That is no way to make a left turn.
“That was crazy!” sounded exactly like https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4r7wHMg5Yjg
Out. Standing.
think “Kale,” only even sillier.
Arugula?
Leek?
Radish?
Rhubarb?
Swiss Chard.
Way to ramp up the discussion.
Rutabega.
There was an injun (feather, not dot) in Christmas, Arizona that named her daughter Gonorrhea because she thought it was a pretty name. I suppose it is but…you know….
Speaking of JFK, I long ago heard an apocryphal story about a girl born not long after he was assassinated and was lying in state pre-funeral. Her mother named her Rotunda.
Her mother named her Rotunda.
Now THAT is how you light the Tres signal.
I have heard this urban legend my whole life:
A mother had twins. She named them “L’monjelo” and “O’rangelo” (pro. leMONzjelo and oRONzjelo).
Also heard of “Chlamydia” (“It sounds pretty.”)
I’m about sick of seeing “Nevaeh” everywhere. No, you are not clever.
XX’s name is Lydia, but I didn’t know about the song. I named her after Lydia in the New Testament, who was a disciple of Paul (showing not-great judgment on her part, but oh well), but her importance was that she was unmarried, also with no mention of a father or other male family member, and a “seller of purple,” so she was a rich businesswoman in a time that just didn’t happen.
Now, XX changed her last name because she feels it is ugly and she was bullied for it in school, but she LOVES her first name. She tells people it was because of Lydia in Beetlejuice, and everybody thinks it’s way cool.
When she was little, we called her “Lydibug,” and thought we were very clever. Also, didn’t know another Lydia before she was born. Then my life exploded with “Lydia”s, like when your attention is drawn to a car you’ve never seen before, and the you’re seeing it everywhere. Or when you learn a new word, and then it’s everywhere. So when a friend of mine had a granddaughter that was named Lydia, they, of course, called her “Lydibug,” and thought they were very clever.
Prior to the writing of the New Testiment, The Kingdom of Lydia was the home of Croesus and the place where coinage was invented. So a rich name even further back.
Oh, thank you, UCS! That is NEAT!
XX is ambivalent on WHY I named her that, because she likes the Beetlejuice connection better, but I’ll pass this along to her.
🤗
Sometimes my random collection of knowledge is good for something.
Thanks.
not referring to the Fox News host
She’s still ex-MTV VJ to me.
Yes. All I know of her is from MTV
Martha Quinn, ultimate girl next door > Kennedy
I vote “foe”.
This looks like the repairs will be both expensive and well deserved.
All I get is some weird popup block. Apparently reddit don’t cotton to my duck duck go browser. Oh, woe. How can I go on?
Moron did at least 4 digits of damage to an Evora.
It known for for being dark, rich, and often strong, but best enjoyed cold. Wait that can’t be right, Germans drink beer relatively warm compared to Americans. Texas is a warm weather state so it makes sense a lager style becomes popular with breweries in a warm weather state but Bocks can be thick enough for meal replacement. Is this some kind of conspiracy? Texas is screwing with us…again. This one isn’t bad, even at 7.1% ABV its plenty drinkable even for where I live. Suiting the rich, malty flavor the style is known for without leaving you feeling “meh” the way Shiner does. 903 Brewers Sherman Bock: 3.4/5 7.1% ABV
I had cold beer everywhere I went in Germany.
The Bock looks good.
So Texas is fucking with us? I knew it!
There was no air conditioning in Gruene TX for the longest time. Cold Shiner Bock was one of the only way to get relief.
“leaving you feeling “meh” the way Shiner does”
Preach it.
Don DeLillo wrote a book about Oswald (presumably fictional) called Libra, which was excellent. I thought so, anyway.
Greetings from North Nowhere Vermont. After a slightly strange Winter[1] we’re having bouts of Spring. I’m out on my Adirondack chair enjoying sunny dry weather and I’ve realized that this is my favorite time of year:
– Dry. The relative humidity is in the single digits.
– No leaves. You can see through the woods for hundreds of feet! I need to get my surveying equipment out.
– No bugs.
I just had a neighbor bicycle up to chat. She was at an Adirondack Mountain Club meeting where she met an Aunt and Uncle of mine. It’s a small State. She acknowledged my observations of this brief time of year and suggested I come up with a Season name for it. So far I’m stumped.
Footnotes:
[1] Slightly below average[2]temperature, slightly below average snowfall, but no thaw since January 1st so huge mounds of snow.
[2] 30 year average.
The unusual cold and drought wasn’t confined to your area. Down here on the PA/DE line it was the coldest January and February in a dozen years. Also fairly dry, and like you what show we got persisted. Spring here is about two weeks behind, our aconites were done blooming by Feb 20 last year and are only just finishing up a month later.
Winterfilth? (Stolen from Tolkien)
Unpossible. I’ve been assured by Top Men the globe is warming.
My problem with the “Magic bullet” is that the diagrams all ignore two things – the actual position of the seats, and the position of the people in the seats when the shots were fired. They weren’t seated as if watching a movie projected in front of their face, they were playing the crowd. And the front seat was small, low, and more towards the centerline.
The more I learn, the less I believe there was a second shooter.
I just can’t burn any cycles on an assassination from over 60 years ago.
We have returned from the ether…
That shit’s bad for you.
Definitely don’t drink it
Break out the thumbscrews and the rack
The Pentagon’s intelligence and law enforcement arms are investigating what it says are leaks of national security information. Defense Department personnel could face polygraphs in the latest such inquiry by the Trump administration.
A memo late Friday from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s chief of staff referred to “recent unauthorized disclosures” of such information, but provided no details about alleged leaks. Earlier in the day, President Donald Trump rejected reports that adviser Elon Musk would be briefed on how the United States would fight a hypothetical war with China.
“If this effort results in information identifying a party responsible for an unauthorized disclosure,” then such information “will be referred to the appropriate criminal entity for criminal prosecution,” according to the memo.
At the Homeland Security Department, Secretary Kristi Noem pledged this month to step up lie detector tests on employees in an effort to identify those who may be leaking information about operations to the media.
“Persons not authorized to speak” might want to clam up. Or they can step up and take responsibility for their actions, instead of sniping from cover.
Way too much stupid is covered up under national security wrapping.
Mojeaux, should you be around, I read your short story “Dog Food”:
https://moriahjovan.com/talesofdunham/stories-essays/dog-food/
That’s the most literary entertainment I’ve had in a long time.
Oh, thank you! Prof1 fluved it and Prof2 was … less than enthusiastic.
Fun story.
Riling up the marks
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York drew large crowds at stops in Greeley and Denver, part of a “Fighting Oligarchy” tour through multiple Western states while Congress is in recess. The Denver crowd at Civic Center Park was estimated at 30,000 people, with fences that closed off the event surrounded by spectators as well.
“In the hundreds of rallies that I have done, we have never, ever had a rally as large as this,” Sanders said. “And Denver, your presence here today is not just significant for Colorado. You are sending a profound message all over the world. The whole world is watching, and they want to know if the people of America are going to stand up to Trumpism, oligarchy and authoritarianism.”
A capacity crowd packed into the University of Northern Colorado’s Bank of Colorado Arena booed as Sanders, an independent socialist who caucuses with the Democrats, recounted his attendance at President Donald Trump’s second inauguration alongside Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and other ultra-wealthy figures with close ties to the president.
In the grand tradition of tent show revivalism. Salvationism pays.
It wouldn’t surprise me if Bernie Sanders decides to retire at the end of his term. Not because he thinks it’s time to relinquish power to a young successor[1] but because there’s a good chance he won’t be reelected.
Bernie is insanely popular in Vermont but that’s because it was trivially easy for him to bring back the Federal bacon. Vermont has the population of a small U.S. city. Bernie didn’t have to do much at all in the Federal legislature to deliver popular funding. This is why he’s still considered “independent.”
But the Trump administration is cut-and-slashing a lot of Federal excess and people in Vermont are wising up. The last State election deprived the Democratic/Progressives of their super-majority and now, with the popular former businessman Republican Governor reelected, there are bills to repeal some of last year’s batshit insane environmental politices that were vetoed but then passed by legislative override last year.
Basically, hysterically progressive Vermont has been an appendage and social experiment of the Federal government for decades and that’s going to abruptly change, at least for the next four years. At the end of it I think Bernie is going to regret his last reelection.
Footnotes:
[1] Vermont’s sole federal Representative is currently Becca Balint:
https://balint.house.gov/
Who uses the word “Proudly” a lot just in case you don’t understand that she’s a lesbian.
Vermont’s sole Representative is historically an easy stepping stone to State Senator.
To US Senator?
I’m pretty sure that’s what Richard is going for.
Someone asked Arnold Schwarzenegger “If you could be any style of beer, what would you be?”
Speaking of which, guess who had a birthday yesterday?
Ahhh. Two hours of shooting, two hours of mat work. What should I do for the rest of the day?
Hookers? Blow?
Yes, but not in that order.
Sounds like whiskey time, to me.
Not Bill Murray
So a couple of days ago, I was informed that my medical transcription gig is probably going bye-bye by June. The clinic is heading to voice wreck, recorded visits with AI transcription, and/or docs just sitting there typing as you speak, so they’re bidding my company adieu. There may be a few docs who still want human transcription, but after June, they’ll be asked to pay for it out of pocket.
I’m not surprised. My company’s process is very primitive, something you’d have found in the late 90s, early 00s. Typing takes no time at all. Your time is actually spent copying from Word and pasting into the clinic’s web-based interface (boohiss), which may or may not be at a snail’s pace. Then there are other little administrative doodads you have to do to complete a voice file that might be 15 seconds. If I were paid on production (which is the usual way), I’d be pissed, but I happen to be paid hourly (which is unheard of in the industry).
During the company meetings with the head dog, it was clear to me he had never actually worked in the industry and didn’t know what was going on around him in it, as he kept talking about innovating with this or that some “new” tech that has been around since digital transcription was a thing, and he kept reinventing the wheel without knowing that was what he was doing. They also pay above market rate, and not in the usual manner. The industry pays on production by the “line” (65 characters [may or may not include spaces]). Other transcription places pay by the audio minute/hour, but I’ve never seen that in MT in 20 years, but this place does that if you work on production.
All that to say, I’ve been there 2 years and I’m shocked they lasted this long. I was just along for the gravy train. Easy work, easy money. Enjoy it while it lasts.
I think OMWC mentioned that Prime (who is a pediatrician) got a new system that she thought was exorbitantly priced until she saw what it could do and cut their costs considerably.
My company also supplies coding/billing services, so that’s not going anywhere FOR NOW. The transcription and coding went hand-in-hand as a combined service, but the coders don’t need human transcriptionists to do their job. However, THAT is ALSO becoming more automated (so my coding course was $5,000 down the drain).
Anyway, so I may just go for legal or medicolegal or general transcription. I would LOVE to do forensics (autopsies, psychiatric evaluations, personal injury/medical malpractice) and/or IMEs for workman’s comp. They’re long files with hours of straight typing and very little ancillary work (see above copying/pasting into other interfaces). The only specialty I’ve never done is radiology.
Now. To go job hunting. 🤢
Coding, which goes off of electronic medical records and definitely “magic words” in those records, strikes me as a very straightforward application of LLM/AI technology.
Yes, that’s what I’ve been thinking, The coding school greatly exaggerated the ability for a n00b coder to get a job.
Glad you rode it while it lasted, knowing it (likely) wasn’t gonna. Smart play.
I’m interested in transcription work, as well, but also copywriting and (maybe Jarflax?) mentioned fivrr to me. I’ve known about it, but never played. Apparently the Voca Rehab people will pay for a neuro-exam of some sort. ($2k, but free to me, they said). I don’t know how meetings after intake will go, but I’m not optimistic. Positive? I did lay on pics to show ’em 1000 words each, and my kinda-good -at-it 1:1 gave ’em swoons.
I’d love to know more about how fivrr /transcription etc ‘work’ for a newcomer, if ya have insight.
I still gotta write, and rehearse, a Tight-Five to woo with comedy and taking my example of a Yankee in King B̵l̵u̵e̵ Trump’s Court. (Fuck. That opens up whole new possibilities. The shit people *wanted* to rile over but couldn’t aloud. Hrm.
Sorry to hear that. I had an interview last week and they asked what my experience was working with AI. I told her I played around with a few LLM, but not sure how useful it is in a HIPAA controlled industry.
I won’t get a call back, but not for that.
ugh I hope I’m on my last job.
It’s possible that Oswald made all three shots (I don’t think he shot even once, myself), but exhibit 399 was not one of the bullets from his gun.
The Warren Report gathered a lot of information, left a lot of information out, and drew the politically necessary conclusions.
The best JFK take:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortal_Error
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Conducting his own investigation, Donahue eventually decided that the bullet that struck Kennedy in the head had in fact been fired by United States Secret Service Special Agent George Warren Hickey Jr. (March 24, 1923 – February 25, 2005) from an AR-15 rifle carried in the car immediately following the President’s vehicle. The proposed series of events is as follows: After the first shot (which hit the street) was fired, Hickey turns completely around and looks toward Oswald, who is on the sixth floor of the school book depository building. His turned head is documented in an AP photograph by James Altgens. Hickey reaches for the AR-15 under the seat, releases the safety and begins to lift the gun. The second shot is fired by Oswald, hitting the president and Texas Governor John Connally. The president’s car and the follow-up car containing Hickey suddenly speed up. This is attested to by Secret Service agent Clint Hill. Hickey, who is unstable because he is standing on the cushion of the seat, rather than the floor of the car, begins to fall back due to the acceleration of the vehicle, pulling the trigger of the AR-15. The gun is pointed toward Kennedy at that instant, and the bullet strikes him squarely in the back of the head.
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Makes sense as Hickey was even supposed to be on guard duty. He was covering for the regular crew who were all hungover.
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As agent John Norris said in Bill Sloan’s book “J.F.K.: Breaking the Silence” and in an interview for Vincent Michael Palamara’s book “Survivor’s Guilt”: “Except for George Hickey and Clint Hill, [many of the others] just basically sat there with their thumbs up their butts while the president was gunned down in front of them.”
According to the Vanity Fair report, nine of the 28 Secret Service men who were in Dallas with Kennedy that day had been out until the early hours of the morning. A few were sleep-deprived and had been drinking while traveling with the president.
However, this type of partying by Secret Service members was not unusual.
In his 2008 book, “The Echo from Dealey Plaza,” Abraham Bolden, one of the only African American agents in Kennedy’s detail, writes that he was later framed and sent to prison as retaliation for speaking out about the lax behavior tolerated within the department.
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https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/jfk-secret-service-agents-too-hungover-to-react
You wait so long
And your heart goes on like a freight train, you know that I’ll help you, if, if I can, but I’m just a raindrop in a river, just a little iddy-biddy grain of sand.
Oh dear, let’s not hope I get sentimental. Like Trampled By Turtles Alone. And I start thinking about relationships I had. We wouldn’t want that
The comments under this song are heartbreaking.