Well, Billy Joel’s 100th Madison Square show is on CBS. Pretty good.

@LuFins-Dad said in Quick! Smashburger Advice: Is this even a question? Did you seriously just ask if you should use bacon grease to fry a burger? Yes...much to my shame, I've never tried it. In point of fact, I have fried burgers only a few times. I don't have a wide spatula for smashing, so I read a tip - take some non-stick foil and wrap around the bottom of a saucepan. Use that to smash the burger. Worked really well. The downside is a lot of spatter and a lot of smoke. Now… How was it? I have a stovetop griddle that I used and they came out really nice. Only used salt and grilled onion. Oh, a piece of cheese as well. No ketchup, mustard or anything else.

If he is paying $288 million, is he going to be penalized for not paying his quarterly estimates?

@George-K said in "No one is above the law.": In New York, it's a felony to possess an unregistered firearm. Police took possession of E. Jean Carroll's unregistered gun after her testimony Police in New York took possession of a gun belonging to writer E. Jean Carroll in February after she said during testimony in her defamation lawsuit against former President Donald Trump that she had an unlicensed firearm at home, according to a police report obtained by NBC News. The chief of police in Warwick, New York, visited Carroll at her home on Feb. 15 “to discuss some open issues,” the report states, including Carroll’s disclosure of the handgun while she was on the witness stand Jan. 17. During the second day of the civil trial, Carroll had told the federal court in lower Manhattan that she kept a “high standard revolver, nine chambers” at home with ammunition. “By my bed,” she said. “I still do not have a license,” Carroll added. .22LR. Shot more than one. Lock her up!

@Mik said in It's Bunday!: Yours? Nah, I wish. A local farm's.

@Renauda said in Scarecrow?: This true? Not in my experience. https://askentomologists.com/2020/07/14/do-wasp-nest-decoys-work/ [image: 1713117062279-image.png]

We Were The Lucky Ones on Hulu is pretty good. So is Sugar, which I think is on Apple.

"Cadillac" Frank Salemme of the Boston mob used to live in the next town to ours - our kids used to go to the playground that was right around the corner (he'd moved out by that time) Very nondescript... [image: 1713105696268-f4e662b9-1fc9-44a6-8db4-72f01a1f738b-image.png]

@Jolly said in Vivek Speaks: Where have many of our highly touted job gains come from? Government, or government requirements. We have created a better-paying WPA, without the Depression part. And the public works projects…

The production of fake narratives has increased a enormously on TikTok as people get paid based on clicks. The quality of real acting is often quite good, let alone what is now and soon will be enabled by AI. And most have nothing to do with politics.

Happy birthday, George!

cuz that spell uses a lot of glitter Well there's your problem, right there. The components for Animate Dead are a drop of blood, a scrap of flesh or a pinch of bone dust. Not glitter. They're trying to use Disney Dollars at Caesar's Palace.

@George-K said in Discount: San Francisco’s doom loop just got worse Another city with maybe a worst problem https://www.businessinsider.com/st-louis-downtown-doom-loop-is-worse-than-san-francisco-2024-4?op=1 A vacant office building in downtown St. Louis just sold for $3.6 million — a nearly 98% discount from its 2006 sales price, signaling a concerning course for the Midwestern city's downtown area. The former One AT&T Center, which at 44 stories is the third-tallest building in St. Louis, sold for $205 million in 2006 and recently sold for $3.6 million to the Goldman Group, a real-estate investment firm, according to CoStar News. The steep drop in the tower's value is just one sign that St. Louis' central business district is struggling, reports say. The challenges facing it and other Midwestern hubs are perhaps graver than bigger downtowns that have been more widely depicted as abandoned or dying, like San Francisco's, according to economics and public-policy experts.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/pittsburgh-bridges-reopen-after-26-barges-break-loose/story?id=109202345

Here is the picture from the German gallery [image: 2048.jpg?width=1900&dpr=1&s=none]

Amsterdam was 2017.

Saw a sign for barnacle parking enforcement today in Galveston. We paid our 16 bucks to avoid it.

Paper Paul and mache

@George-K said in Bill Maher: What we can learn from Canada, and Sweden, and others: But, here's the question, has he moved to the right, or has the left totally abandoned him. Like @Mik and the Republiccan party, not a surprise to see the other side do the same thing.