A sizable minority of Ukrainians thought he would support them if he was elected in 2024. Hope springs eternal in the human breast.

This doesn't seem particularly irrational to me, Trump said he would solve Gaza while Harris and Biden seemed to offer benign neglect at best

Wait I was promised a case of Busch Light.

I thought this point Eric made about how libraries are early introductions to a social contract was really interesting, too:

National study means "USA"?

Marx wrote about why classes form (or don't). He used Napoleon's support among the peasants as an example.

A class that doesn't coalesce isn't really a useful entity.

I will believe that when the Dems stop confirming Trump's appointees.

https://allthingsliberty.com/2021/10/george-washington-and-the-first-mandatory-immunization/ Obedient to the prevailing laws, Washington was still advocating the quarantine approach, setting up a smallpox hospital for that purpose near Fresh Pond, about a mile and a half west of the Cambridge common. A sentry was deployed to ensure that anyone coming or going had proper clearance from the medical staff. Any man suspected of having the disease was to be removed at once to this quarantine location. To further mitigate against the spread of the disease, Washington issued a July 4, 1775 General Order that included a provision that “No Person is to be allowed to go to Fresh-water pond a fishing or on any other occasion as there may be danger of introducing the small pox into the army.”[9]

Hope you mentioned that smallpox mitigation extended beyond innoculation to include quarantines.

A picture of a majestic humpback whale leaping from the seas with the caption “humpback whales are forming super-groups”, rather than simply admire the wonder of nature I am making a poor quality music gag

This is why whale punk had to happen

Kurz vor dem Auszug hat Mini noch eine offene Walnuss gefunden.
#Eichhörnchen #squirrels #babysquirrels 🐿

What does partial membership mean in this context? Is it an "association agreement"?

The fall of female pregnancy ages 15 to 19 broken down by race and ethnicity. https://opa.hhs.gov/adolescent-health/adolescent-sexual-and-reproductive-health/data-and-statistics-on-adolescent-sexual-and-reproductive-health

Given the racial profile of teen pregnancy 30 years ago, I am going to say a reversal would not end the way that they imagine.

Bullard was something of an iconoclast as Fed governor, yeah? He didn't fit neatly in the Bernanke "dove" group nor the hawk group.

Old kimchi is better, fresh kimchi is better as a side imo. I discovered there is a pureed sauce. I use it to get the right color and flavor balance.

Two tips: you can reuse the dashi materials, I drain and save them in my freezer. The secondary dashi is the original kelp + bonito + 1 1/2 L water. Slowly simmer until reduced by 1/2 to 1/3.

A few other things I have gleaned is that old kimchi gets softer and more sour as it ages.

I dislike the dashi powder, whatever I eat I always end up with an aftertaste like I have pennies in my mouth. To me, steeping kelp in cold water is perfectly good. Anchovies are the most intense form of it and I would never discourage anyone but even a humble kelp stock exceeds powder.

There are multiple options in between instant powder and anchovy stock. Soaking kelp in cold water is very good and takes no effort at all. And few things are easier to do in the kitchen than making dashi from scratch, although you will need a strainer. I don't bother with the cheesecloth.

OMG those eyes, I am dying here.

I never expected to live in a world where the Pope speaks so wisely about technology.

I think it is maybe because I never had that album. And while I am old enough to have probably seen it multiple times, I have no recollection of it.

We will continue to make two-dimensional maps. Because your mind can't handle the truth.

Album cover of Ornette Coleman "The Shape of Jazz to Come"

That album cover reminds me of Ornette Coleman's The Shape of Jazz to Come.

Ted Rall cartoon Oct 4 2003, "Our Concentration Camp"

We are here.

I knew Mae West was a comedian but I had no idea she wrote a(?) play.

More Gray Whales Are Visiting San Francisco Bay, and Many Die There

The animals might be entering the Bay in search of food as climate change disrupts traditional sources. They face huge risks from ships in the area.

Michael Curtis "Three Against the Third Republic" CHAPTER VI ATTACK ON DECADENCE All three writers were concerned about the decadence of France, the weaknesses in the system, and the decline of what they considered to be the appropriate traditional values. The manifestations of decadence they saw prevented France from maintaining her historic status as a first-class power and from being the political and cultural leader in the hierarchy of nations. It was this concern about the declining place of their country among the powers of the world and the awareness of France's internal weakness that made the writers prophetic of those in other countries whose reaction to a similar problem was to be a violent one, dangerous to the peace of the world. Sorel, Barrès, and Maurras were all aware of the diminished glory of the country, and in this each paid almost as much attention to the literary as to the physical attributes of France. *"We must serve France and defend a Latin culture of which we are the extreme bastions,"*¹ said Barrès. From the European point of view, argued Maurras, "every Frenchman is a politician." All three writers were disappointed with the existing political institutions and with the politicians running them, whom they considered to be betrayers of the best interests of France. The three condemned the overcentralization of the country, which had had unfortunate effects. But each of the writers stressed a different aspect of the problem of France's decadence. Barrès and Sorel emphasized the negative characteristics of the Republic, its lack of doctrine, energy, and heroic qualities. Maurras and Barrès emphasized the foreign elements, personal and ideological, which in the cultural, economic, political, and financial worlds, were rotting the very fiber of France.

Like the proto fascism of pre WW1 France, the obsession with culture (jews), rise of integralism, national sclerosis & the rise of rivals. And decadence. All three of these guys dabbled with Action Francaise. Sorel influenced Mussolini. Maurras got excommunicated and did hard time for collaboration.

The artwork features a tall woman in a wide hat and patterned dress standing on a beach with a black cat. The background shows a starry night sky over a cityscape and a river. Faragó was known for his poster art and theatrical costume designs.

1913 Art Nouveau painting "Slim Woman with a Cat" by Hungarian artist Géza Faragó.

Were the usage attributable to politicians? I tend to agree with Beshear's point that Democratic politicians should be more plain spoken. But I think phrases like "justice involved" is more the language of academics and specialists and doubt politicians are actually using the term.

Trump is not going do be around much longer and Israel has lost almost all of its Democratic support. He has two choices. Either play for a total victory over Iran to solidify wavering Republicans, or lay low and hope Republicans win the Whitehouse and senate.

It's great for its original purpose: accumulating vitamin D while living far from the equator in a damp, dark peat bog.