The CHAZ/CHOP didn’t really accomplish anything either. The #1 thing they wanted was cutting the police budget by 50%, how did that work out?

https://www.kuow.org/stories/did-seattle-defund-the-police

"While the police department lost a little over 10% of its budget between 2020 and 2021 (mostly because 911 dispatch and parking enforcement were moved), it has been closing that gap since.

Tellingly, not a single sworn officer has lost their job or pay due to budget constraints. In fact, the department has consistently received more funding for hiring than it can spend."

No, people should organize to take back the House and Senate in '26.

Oh, Trump wouldn’t care. Congress arguably would if the protest shut down the city.

Trump would fuck off to Mar A Lago.

Looking at the Bahamas sometime this year, but my wife needs to secure the time off first. :(

LET THE FREE MARKET DECIDE!

WAIT! NOT LIKE THAT!

I really should remove this as it’s not an article, but it goes a long way to show just how ineffective a general strike is.

They need 11 million people to commit, they have less than 300,000. 2.7% of their goal.

Good luck with that!

They aren’t talking about demands until they’ve had 8 to 11 million commit to the strike. LOL - good luck with that…

Less “not thought about it while conducting the survey” and more “reporters not thinking about it when reporting the results of the survey.”

From Oregon, but we have a large Scandinavian population here.

https://junctioncityscandia.org/

Unmoderated?

Spam and shitposts top to bottom.

My wife will do this when driving. She will drive the complete opposite direction from where we need to go and if I dare ask “Why are we driving AWAY from x?” she gets mad at me for pointing it out.

Cooking at scale is a much, much bigger deal. Hard to maintain quality, both in terms of ingredients and end product.

There’s a good reason why school lunches are garbage. :(

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie's_School_Dinners

Doing grilling lately so just follow the smoke. :)

It was really good, with bacon, veggies, braised in Malbec wine and Grand Marnier.

I found 2 recipes I couldn’t decide between so I just combined them. ;)

1 pack of bacon, diced and cooked in olive oil on medium high until the edges were brown, then removed.

In the same pan, 2 diced carrots, 2 diced celery stalks, 2 diced Walla Walla sweet onions. Cooked on medium high until carmaelized, then removed.

3.37 pound boneless chuck roast. Patted dry, heavily salted and peppered, seared on one side for 5 minutes, flipped and then seared on the other side for 5 minutes and removed.

Added back 1/2 cup Grand Marnier and 2 cups of Malbec Wine. Deglazed the pan scraping up all the brown bits.

Put the bacon back in, put the veggies back in, stirred until well distributed. Added bay leaves, thyme and rosemary, several cloves of minced garlic, topped with the meat.

Brought to a boil then placed in a pre-heated 325° oven for 3 hours.

After 3 hours, beef was to temp and easily shreddable. (Finally! A reason to use the meat claws!) Resting on stove top while I cook some pasta to go with it.

Pasta was super simple. Boiled water and salt, cooked a bag of egg noodles for 8 or 9 minutes. Drained, removed, then melted a stick of butter in the pot, added a small container of heavy cream, added rosemary and thyme, brought it to a simmer then popped the pasta back in and cooked a couple of minutes.

So I have this problem… I enjoy cooking and when my grandmother passed away, I inherited her recipe book and her Le Creuset dutch oven.

THEN I discovered I lived a short drive from a Le Creuset outlet store AND they have a mailing list that regularly delivers 30% to 70% off coupon deals.

So I’ll find a pan that makes me go “Oooh!” then I look for excuses to use it.

So it’s not really a lack of motivation, but rather I want people to cook for. Cooking just for me? Incredibly lazy. “More time to make and clean up than eat? I’m not making it.” Cooking for OTHER people?

Chuck roast:

Shakshuka:

Chocolate hazelnut chocolate chip cheesecake:

Beef roast:

Pork loin w/ scalloped potatoes:

Ableskievers:

Start the clock…

Although… my company went that route and ended up being sold to a big tech company, so there can be happy endings…

“Psychohistory”.

It could very well be the start of WWIII with the US being on the wrong side of it.

Imagine, Trump concedes Ukraine to Russia, Taiwan to China, and Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, and Syria to Israel.

In return, he faces no outside resistance for invading Canada, Greenland, and Mexico.

Look at you, speakin’ French and stuff! /s

Exactly the problem with self reported surveys.