Sounds like Bezos needs a waaahmbulance!

They tried, but they did not bank on this incredibly broad array of crooks all coming to power at the same time. If they could see this, I have no doubt they'd change a few things!

Nice pic! If there's a more impressive mountain in the whole lower 48 I don't know what it is. Truly otherworldly, and it dominates the landscape for almost 100 miles in every direction.

Religious leaders are not supposed to celebrate fucking hate crimes! That goes for every single religion that is worth a damn.

Indeed, it is a miracle of evolution, but that only means it is good enough to keep the species alive. It is far from perfect, and studying all the ways in which it can fuck up and how to fix them has been the defining element of my own career in immunology. I hope your own journey turns out OK!

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You understand all of evolution now! Biology is like trying to reverse engineer the most poorly written, kruffty, kludge-upon-kludge code that could only have been produced by countless chimpanzees banging on typewriters randomly for eons, until somehow they produce all the splendor of life.

I bought a fancy Samsung oven with an internet connection a few years back, and within a week the thing developed a psychological issue that made it refuse to heat up. After three attempts to fix it, it got carted away to be replaced by a thoroughly unintelligent but very reliable Kitchen-Aid model.

Jaws was one of the best horror films ever made, and TMK there is nobody out there now hunting great white sharks for revenge. People are killing much smaller sharks for food, often wastefully just taking their fins, but that has exactly nothing to do with Spielberg's masterpiece film.

The look of her eyes in that pic makes me believe in demons.

I am a first-generation Austrian-USAer, FWIW.

The schnitzel in process, time to eat!

Mmm! Those have got to blow your average mash out of the water!

I bought a giant hunk of untrimmed pork shoulder, and this, cut from the nicest bits, is tonight's Wienerschnitzel dinner ready to be breaded and fried. I rendered up all the cap fat so as to fry it as God intended in its own lard. The bulk of the meat is in the fridge, cubed for tomorrow's pozole

That looks pretty darn good to me! And I think that starting by learning to do just a dozen or so things that you particularly like really well is a good approach to learning. Less ingredient noise, more focus on universally applicable techniques.

They are like the ravens, true survivors. And seeing them just about every time I go to a beach park in Northern California fills my heart with joy.

Sounds great, but let's see if it gets past this SCOTUS!

This absolute pillage of DoJ by the orcs is going to take a very, very long time to put right. There is going to have to be a whole lot of process to root out all the traitors and return it to its proper function. I hope I live to see it is all I can say.

I truly fear for that man's life. He is the closest thing to the Anti-Trump I can see in our political landscape, and if he keeps going this way, they are going to come after him. I hope he has the best security money can buy!

That picture hits hard right now. It just makes me so angry and sad to look at this and then think about the horrible, monstrous people in charge of our federal government now. America can do so much better!

Gnocchi (Knockerl in German) is just a generic term for small dumplings. They can made from potatoes, flour, semolina or any combination thereof.

I hope at least this carrier has some sammitches aboard!

You don't close the Strait of Hormuz! I close the Strait of Hormuz!

It's quite simple. RFKJ has never actually believed a single thing that he has said. It has always been about the grift.

Secretary of State: Pathetic snivelling empty suit
Secretary of HHS: Crackpot junky charlatan
Attorney General: Unindicted co-conspirator
Secretary of the Treasury: Montgomery Burns with a facelift

All that's missing is the bratwurst and sauerkraut!

For a brief moment after the Great Depression, America threw off the shackles of extreme oligarchy and immediately became the most powerful nation on Earth. The billionaire class has since by and large had no objective other than to destroy that great nation and replace it with a new oligarchy.

At the very least, no Senator who voted to confirm this criminal assclown to lead America's top law enforcement agency should keep their job. A lot of them should be up on corruption charges as well if we ever get a functioning DoJ back.

This is what happens when Congress abandons its essential responsibility of insuring that the entire administrative state is not taken over by a gang of crooks in favor of getting in on the grift themselves. Every single senator who voted to confirm Bondi or Patel especially needs to lose their job.

What's all this then?

A brilliantly conceived, perfectly executed parable about the dangers of AI. How it ended up turning into the muddled mass of incomprehensible plot spaghetti represented by the HBO series is a mystery to me.