How come they don’t raid country clubs, golf resorts or large hotels? Especially down in Florida.

Utter evil.

Depends on the temperature of the oven, but the wood handles are easy to unscrew, they have a steel rod running through them that is capped with a cast iron loop. I usually start searing on the stove when cooking roast, pop the pan into the oven and unscrew the handle. When it’s done, I put the handle back on before taking the pan out.

Plastic bottles are usually made from preforms delivered from the plastic bottle manufacturer. The rinsing would ideally be when the bottle is formed from a preform at the soda plant, before the bottle is filled. Some do this (sometimes with harsh chemicals), but most don’t as they consider the preform as sufficiently clean enough to fill.

It’s mainly a staycation.

We’re moving furniture around , getting rid of no longer necessary furniture and making cat friendly climbing shelves along the walls.

I managed to boot up an old NAS (by fixing the fans and re-soldering some broken connectors) and discovered it had content I thought I had lost forever.

Today my five weeks of paid summer vacation starts. Looking forward to taking it easy and puttering about with plants, redecorating at home and planning out a new network setup, in between hanging out with friends, visiting new places and trying new things.

As another user wrote, thank you @LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone for starting these Friday conversations.

What is wrong with this timeline? It makes the Cold War and various idiocies from then seem fully sane and normal.

Don’t worry, someone will let you know with a deeply snarky comment.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Maybe they should focus all of their efforts on the 1% now.

Ok, thank you, good night, now I’m off watching owl and birdwatching videos as brain bleach before I fall asleep.

I kind of prefer my Switch 2 fantasy compared to visualizing Marquis de Sade writings…

While most of us would applaud that as “finally some consequences for that murderous despot!” it’s probably more of a “nah, not interested, just use any old excuse so that I can stay at home and play some sweet sweet video games!”.

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Well, it’s how it’s spelled in pretty much all of the English-speaking world. Barring the USA and Canada.

Edit: my favourite ”whelp” is apparently not what I thought.

Is this a shower thought?

It seems that every article from Jacobin is skewed ever so slightly, not enough to make most think there’s something wrong, but it seems to skew anti-progressive by tone and wording, while being assertive in part to some center (or right-leaning by European standards), and aggressive in language towards selective parts of the far-right while mellowing down the tone against conservatives in general.

It’s like eating candy and discovering that the sugar coating is actually aluminium.

We discovered I had some kidney cysts. Which isn’t unusual, fairly normal above a certain age apparently.

One had previously burst (during a time when I thought it was overexertion during ten days hiking a trail) and had left scarring. As I had had no complications (other than three days of constantly feeling like someone kept stabbing my back), it was considered normal and had resolved without any other complications than some scarring.

The other popped recently, and it felt like someone had stabbed me in my sleep, it jolted me awake, hurt like hell and then I had bloody urine with clots. Was scary, but once I went through ultrasound and cat-scans it was deemed as not all that unusual and not to worry. I am now on antibiotics and oxy, with a follow up visit later this week once my blood results come back.

Well, my popping kidney cysts certainly didn’t feel normal. But my doctor told me it wasn’t unusual, and just to deal with it with some meds.