@taiwan_girl said in Zero calorie noodles?: @Mik :eek cucumbers = ok celery = not ok. LOL Nimitz loves celery, but he cannot digest it. (Obscure SF reference. Carry on.)

In his inaugural speech: "The tears of Adam Toledo’s parents are made of the same sorrow of Officer Preston’s parents," Johnson said. "To the family of Officer Preston, my heart is with you." Adam Toledo was a 13 year old gangbanger who was shot by police after dropping his gun while running away from police. Body cam footage of Toledo's shooting, released on April 15, 2021, showed that Toledo was unarmed at the moment he was shot. The video shows officer Stillman chasing Toledo into the alleyway and yelling at him to stop.[44][47] Toledo slows down and stops as Stillman catches up to him.[44][47] In footage taken from another angle, Toledo appears to throw a pistol behind a fence just before turning to face the officer (body cam footage shows a pistol being recovered behind the fence two minutes after the shooting).[44][45] Stillman yells "Show me your fucking hands" and "drop it" while flashing a strobe flashlight at him.[44] Toledo turns around with his empty hands in the air, and Stillman then shoots Toledo as he does so. According to the CPD, there were 838 milliseconds (0.838 or 5⁄6 of a second) "between gun shown in hand and single shot". Areanah Preston was an off-duty Chicago cop who was shot and killed by 4 kids (youngest 16, iirc) while on the way home from her shift. Officer Preston, who has just returned home in uniform after her shift, is fatally shot standing in front of her home in the 8100 block of South Blackstone. Video surveillance from the scene shows the suspects running towards Preston and "muzzle flashes" from at least two guns. After she was shot, one of the suspects ran back and took Preston's gun. That gun has not been recovered. Frazier told investigators that all four of them were armed. One of these things is not like the other.

Oh, how special. I don't know where this Buitengebieden gets his material, but he's got a special touch.

@Jolly said in Anybody watching CNN besides me?: Yep. Unlike Biden, he can have a sense of humor and be funny. I am not sure he was trying to be either, but at least in this case, he was honest. 555

Barely.

idiots https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12086629/Miller-Lite-APOLOGIZES-using-women-bikinis-sell-beer.html 'It’s time beer made it up to women': Miller Lite APOLOGIZES for using women in bikinis to sell beer after campaigns featuring Sofia Vergara, Meghan Markle and Pamela Anderson: New ad echoes woke Dylan Mulvaney controversy Miller Lite created a campaign for Women's History Month in March to buy up old marketing materials featuring women in bikinis As part of the 'Bad $#!T to Good $#!T' campaign, those materials would be turned into compost, which would be used to make fertilizer to grow hops The hops would then be sent to female brewers

Turns out it was a fight between two people who knew each other. The guy that got stabbed was apparently part of a drug/sex group, and was a FWB of the stabber's sister. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/bob-lee-cash-app-murder-b2338668.html

@Copper I think he cares about 2 things (you can debate which comes first) America Mr. Trump beyond that, I think he is flexible I totally agree with you. Personally I don’t think the order is that important. It is like everything else about Trump, flexible and dependent on the opportunity at hand.

There's only one rule when it comes to absurdist performance art: no matter what, gotta keep it going. The more committed he remains the funnier it's going to get.

Nice video

Exactly right. A tip is for services received. It’s not a participation trophy

@George-K said in Speaking of Landlines...: To "buzz" a visitor into our condo, the visitor enters or code in the panel in the outer lobby. Having visitors is so 2019.

@89th said in "Praise the Camera Man.": Nice! Good twitter sub, too. This reminds me of when Aqua and I were in college making a short film. No Jon, not that kind. Anyway, I would ride on the hood of his volvo as he drove like 40 mph so that I could get a shot of the camera coming out of the passenger side window, moving to show the front of the car/road and then back in to the drivers side window. Man, I should find that VHS and post it here. What really sucks about that shot is that we were too successful at it. You watch it and you're like, yeah, okay, big deal, I see things ten times more interesting than that in the movies on the regular. But when you look at what we had to work with, it was quite the achievement. Worked perfectly and it completely hides how it was done.

My Ancestry.com experience has been a bit interesting. I'm slightly more than 50% confident I know who my biological parents are, based on: a biological first cousin on Ancestry, and how they fit in with what I know about my biological parents and known dates and locations I have no idea what to do with this information. On the one hand, there are very good reasons why the contact procedure is what it is. On the other, Maryland's is completely broken and ridiculous, so going through proper channels, there'd be absolutely no way to even know any of this, let alone contact anybody. It weirds me out just thinking about it, so likely I'll just let it sit and do nothing.

I've talked to my mom every week since I moved out of the house. Not really by my choice, tbh. I might prefer fewer hour long sessions of sharing excruciating details of our lives. But my mom doesn't take no for an answer. We'll be getting together with her and my brother's family later this week, for a four day celebration of my nephew's bachelor's degree graduation, organized by his mom. Seems excessive again. But one does what one can. These things, in my experience, are always in service of the female members of the family, who literally can't imagine other people not deriving great joy from it.

Bank robbers might need to stop and re-evaluate their lives before they do themselves untold harm. Edit: Sorry - I wasn't trying to make light of Jon's previous situation. He had to go and post something serious while I was still writing!

I’ve always thought they were doomed to fail, it sits right at the intersection of adverse selection and the tragedy of the commons.

Oh it's so good. Every time I watch it I notice something else... like just now at the very start he closes the door when he first sees it. Later he closes it again. The way he says succulent chinese meal always makes me hungry btw.