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Ummm, Victoria... just what is it with you and transmissible diseases?

thenewdaily.com.au/news/2022/0…



Another reason why Linux is great (for me), it comes bundled with software that I need
in reply to Esmail EL BoB :dinosaur:

src: wikihow.com/Create-an-ISO-File…


Trump thinks the Mar-a-Lago search will help him in 2024


nbcnews.com/politics/donald-tr…

Press space, gratis.



Angelina Jolie-Brad Pitt FBI document revelations raise an interesting legal point


nbcnews.com/think/opinion/brad…

But “pressing” charges doesn’t mean filing them in court; that’s what prosecutors and grand juries are for. It means providing your account to law enforcement and signaling your willingness to testify before a grand jury and in court. The reality is that the FBI and local police departments, though funded by taxpayers, do not report to them.

in reply to tom grzyb

Seems we have been misled. I'm always reading about people "pressing charges". It seems that is not how it works.


Angelina Jolie-Brad Pitt FBI document revelations raise an interesting legal point


nbcnews.com/think/opinion/brad…

But “pressing” charges doesn’t mean filing them in court; that’s what prosecutors and grand juries are for. It means providing your account to law enforcement and signaling your willingness to testify before a grand jury and in court. The reality is that the FBI and local police departments, though funded by taxpayers, do not report to them.



Angelina Jolie-Brad Pitt FBI document revelations raise an interesting legal point


nbcnews.com/think/opinion/brad…

But “pressing” charges doesn’t mean filing them in court; that’s what prosecutors and grand juries are for. It means providing your account to law enforcement and signaling your willingness to testify before a grand jury and in court. The reality is that the FBI and local police departments, though funded by taxpayers, do not report to them.



Dorli Rainey, symbol of Occupy movement, dies at 95


apnews.com/article/seattle-occ…



I have once again fallen in to the Toaster Wormhole, and have discovered the Sunbeam Radiant Control Toaster (alas, no longer made).

youtube.com/watch?v=1OfxlSG6q5…

in reply to David de Groot 𓆉

Which seemed to be called a Toastermatic in Australia.

johnrogers.com.au/toastermatic…

The last models, like the TA-8400 looks like it would have done exactly what I wanted from a toaster, long slice, and frozen bread setting.

Shame they stopped making them.

in reply to David de Groot 𓆉

I’ve watch the guys YouTube video and I think their filament layout was different as the one I recall my nan had left bars on darker toasted bread and wasn’t even at all. It might have also been old.
in reply to David de Groot 𓆉

I’ve a breville one that lowers with a button press, for a toaster it’s ridiculously priced but it does a good job have had it for like 5 or 6 years (or more) and I have come to really like it. Even handles frozen bread well.
in reply to Ben 🏳️‍🌈

I have had two long slot top of the line Brevilles. I loved them, but died within a month of the warranty expiring. 🙁
in reply to David de Groot 𓆉

In mid-September, Tineco’s Toasty One is going on sale. The company even trademarked part of its tech
“Two slices don’t have to be the same, meaning that you can individually adjust the toast for each slot. Crucially, this means you no longer need to worry about “who goes first” – two people can have their ideal toast cooking away, simultaneously,” the company writes. Only $340.00 US 😱
in reply to Bob

see I’d pay that if it can do what I need. Toast from Frozen, toast evenly. Handle long and thick toast, and crumpets. Oh and work on 240V circuits.
in reply to David de Groot 𓆉

Now I want a Crumpet….. we will have to see when it actually comes out what it can do, it’s supposed remember 10 different peoples settings so I would hope it could do what you need.

in reply to Esmail EL BoB :dinosaur:

Came back from rescue mode, and provided needed logs for OVH cloud and now we wait....


So not only you install spyware addon on my PC but also you do not support my OS, wtf


Dear Internet Beings,
I've been drawing people I think should be more famous (okay, Che's famous, but the others not so much) for an eventual calendar or something, but in the meantime, they're free-range art pieces that I am humbly putting up for sale...
L-BOE.redbubble.com
All proceeds support a gay swirl and their cat, and their dream to one day form/join a rural sustainable economy/community.
Boosts appreciated 🔁​🙂​
#mastoart #art



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alcohol - beer
Partaking jn this pretty tasty Porter. Less burnt overtones than many stouts, quite smooth, hint of hops but it doesn’t overpower the malt.
in reply to David de Groot 𓆉

re: alcohol - beer

a less burnt Porter does sound good, especially if the hops aren't making it too bitter.

Also, I was looking at a similar marble rolling ping like you have in the background there, but I found it a bit too heavy to wield. (Though I can also see a benefit to that for flattening.)
What's your experience with it compared to a traditional wooden one?

in reply to FiXato

re: alcohol - beer

I *love* the marble rolling pin. It's fantastic for tortillas, and pastry. Esp. when you are doing a short pastry, as it stays nice and cold.

Not a huge fan of wooden ones, but I haven't used a wood one in years.



Berkshire Hathaway Pumping Money Into Oil Industry


reuters.com/markets/us/us-regu…

in reply to tom grzyb

"Buffett is taking advantage of stock market participants who are foolish about the oil and gas industry and consider it a dead business," said Cole Smead, president of Smead Capital Management Inc in Phoenix, which owns Occidental and Berkshire shares. "Buffett thinks it can make him wealthy."

Killing his grandchildren though.


in reply to tom grzyb

I wonder if Texas would like to better understand the homelessness problem that California has...
in reply to tom grzyb

If Texas wants the rest of the country to help deal with the boarder problem, the place to do that is in Congress, not on the bus.


food
Cleaning out the confectionery cupboard (because @Kymberly overflowed it with a care package) and I found these Fruit Tingles which must be older than 2005 because that was when they changed the branding to “Life Savers Fruit Tingles”.
in reply to Deborah Pickett (inactive)

food, a bit cursed
I was going to say they're probably safe to eat, since there's usually very little that can go bad in hard candy even if the color's faded, but I don't know what chemicals they put in it to make it tingle. My usual safety heuristics don't apply to experimental food 😬



Capitalism Cannot Fix the Climate Crisis. It Will Also Not Survive It.


counterpunch.org/2022/08/19/ca…

in reply to tom grzyb

I do think it important that more people drive electric vehicles - there has to be a critical mass of drivers out there before market pressures force the oil companies to take a good hard look at their business. We will have to use the market forces if the government cannot get involved directly.
in reply to tom grzyb

... we cannot give up trying to bring our emissions under control - the end result depends upon what we do now.


The Green New Deal Goes Local


counterpunch.org/2022/08/19/th…

in reply to tom grzyb

An excellent idea - just because the Federal Government has failed to significantly address climate change does not mean that other levels of government cannot push forward. Cities, and States often have the legal power and even the financial ability to carry a Green New Deal forward.
in reply to tom grzyb

In fact there are a number of areas where the Federal Government has been unable to make progress where states can likely push forward, such as with Single Payer medical care, for example.


Scientists Petition EPA to Take Bold Steps


counterpunch.org/2022/08/19/sc…

Haven't they heard? The EPA has been captured by the industries it regulates.

in reply to tom grzyb

Thing is, we have to take something close to radical action. The EPA will have to be forced to do that. But who can force the EPA to do anything? Industry.
in reply to tom grzyb

As natural disasters increase, perhaps industry will become cognizant that this is hurting business. Idiots.


The Obama-Trump-Biden Persecution of Julian Assange


counterpunch.org/2022/08/19/th…

in reply to tom grzyb

By his inaction, it’s clear that Biden approves of the criminal state attack on Assange.


Reading Vinciane Despret again, and she references Jean-Luc Nancy asking if the arm is part of his body, why does he call it "mine" and not "me". In the same way, Despret proposes, is the spider's web "her" or "hers"?

It is even more interesting to consider if your arm is touched, you might say "something touched me". If you lose the arm, then your body is "incomplete".

In the idea of self-ownership this asks where the boundary of the body ends, or begins.

From library.oapen.org/handle/20.50…

in reply to Fionnáin

I'm reading this book about posthuman folklore that discusses storytelling in non-human animal cultures very interesting. Happy to find this. seems very complimentary to that book.


Court rules Barr wrongly withheld text of Russia probe memo


apnews.com/article/russia-ukra…

The Justice Department under Attorney General William Barr improperly withheld portions of an internal memo Barr cited in announcing that then-President Donald Trump had not obstructed justice in the Russia investigation, a federal appeals panel said Friday

in reply to tom grzyb

Barr, like just about everyone appointed under Trump, was corrupt.
in reply to tom grzyb

Friday’s appeals court decision said the internal Justice Department memo noted that “Mueller had declined to accuse President Trump of obstructing justice but also had declined to exonerate him.” The internal memo said “the Report’s failure to take a definitive position could be read to imply an accusation against President Trump” if released to the public, the court wrote.

Why this obscurity? The investigation became worse than useless, leading to false interpretations.



U.S. Treasury disputes lies that new IRS funding would increase middle-class taxes


reuters.com/world/us/us-treasu…

in reply to tom grzyb

I am starting to think it's a psyop. The whole thing about 1099 a as an instrument for access to the money which is securitized against you from birth. You still pay a 30% capital gains.
in reply to tom grzyb

Rich people do not pay anywhere near 30%. Sometimes they pay nothing.



Explosions rock Russian-held areas far from Ukraine war front


reuters.com/world/europe/ukrai…

in reply to tom grzyb

The act of war is based on logistics, more than anything else. Ukraine is seeking to exploit Russia's manifest weakness in this arena.



Good news everyone! @iFixit@twitter.com - the encyclopedia of fixing stuff is now available offline (and in 12 languages)
kiwix.org/en/turn-your-phone-i…


Cormorants and humans benefiting from one anothers' efforts...Cormorant Fishing
wildchina.com/2021/07/cormoran…


so. hello, new followers! I was a bit intimidated by my followercount going up by about 1/6 after @FediFollows boosted me, so to mitigate my intimidatedness (which is a real word, probably!) I made a doodle thingy based on your avatars. sorry people with photos, you'll probably not recognize yourselves, but I promise I tried 😁

soundtrack:
* brian eno - taking tiger mountain (by strategy) as suggested by @ernstd
* primus - frizzle fry as chosen by me

#mastoart #wimmelbild #doodle #lineart




#OtD 19 Aug 1936 the gay socialist poet Federico García Lorca was executed a month after the Spanish civil war commenced. "I will always be on the side of those who have nothing and who are not even allowed to enjoy the nothing they have in peace." workingclasshistory.com/2020/0…
#otd


Pet loss, - - -

Saying goodbye to our oldest cat today, the one that got diagnosed with late stage kidney failure a year ago. We're amazed we got this much extra time with him but there's nothing more we can do for him now 🙁

Jaco found him in the middle of the motorway in 2010 when he was stuck in traffic on the way to work. He was a kitten a few months old.

He was my drawing buddy. I'll miss him 🙁

in reply to Calligrafae

Pet loss, - - -
damn, it is the year of passing pets. A couple of weeks back the last known puppy from the litters we bread passed (17yo), then today, a friend's golden retriever (also old), not your cat. 🙁


Court Finds Florida State Government Suppressing Freedom of Speech


cnn.com/2022/08/18/politics/de…



Dualistic ‘Naturalism’ disrespects nonhuman animals, the natural world, and everything in it


counterpunch.org/2022/08/18/we…

Alone in the face of matter, human beings nevertheless remained in vertical contact with God, who sanctified it as his Creation (natural theology). The death of God entails a terrible and perfect loneliness, which we might call the anthropo-narcissistic prison.

in reply to tom grzyb

Dieu est le prétexte à toutes les aberrations humaines !


From Book Banning to Book Burning


counterpunch.org/2022/08/18/fr…

Conservatives are seeking to remove the raw material of thinking from our schools.



The Tendentious Mr. Brooks: the Chickenshit Conformist of the NYT


counterpunch.org/2022/08/18/th…

in reply to tom grzyb

Me either. 😀

After a few attempts, and an occasional peek, I realized there is nothing worth my time there.

in reply to tom grzyb

"Platidudinarian". I would never be able to get the spelling of that right. He is the agar agar of thin notions.

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