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Tackett's book reveals just how seriously McConnell considered voting to convict Trump of related impeachment charges in 2021.
Americans are so dumb. That was never going to happen.
Also - maybe I'm remembering things wrong but I'm 95+% certain that before the senate impeachment even started McConnell did a press scrum and he basically said in so many words Trump was going to go free.
I never had this but I'm thinking of trying it - minus the eyeballs. Marshmallows in my drink isn't my thing. Instead I'll pretend eyes are there. > If you’re looking for a spine-tingling Halloween cocktail, look no further! This ghost cocktail is every bit spooky and satisfying. Featuring ingredients like simple syrup, heavy cream, vodka, club soda and pure vanilla extract, this Halloween vodka cocktail is sure to get the party started. This creamy cocktail is even more fun to enjoy thanks to the sparkly black sugar rim and creepy marshmallow eyeballs that look up at you with every sip. > > One of our most popular Halloween alcoholic drinks, this spooky sipper is ready to serve in just 10 minutes and will definitely have everyone drinking in spooky style. > > **INGREDIENTS** > > Rimming Sugar > > - 1/4 cup sugar > - 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract > - 10 drops black food color > > Marshmallow Eyeballs > > - 1 large marshmallow > - 2 drops black food color > > Cocktail > > - 1/2 cup heavy cream > - 2 tablespoons simple syrup > - 1 ounce vodka > - 1 teaspoon vanilla extract > - 1/4 cup cold club soda > > **INSTRUCTIONS** > > 1. For the Rimming Sugar, mix sugar and vanilla on a small plate. Add food color; mix until sugar is evenly tinted. Wet rim of beverage glass with water. Dip rim of glass into black sugar to lightly coat. > > 2. For the Marshmallow Eyeballs, cut marshmallow crosswise in half. Place 1 drop food color in center of cut-side of each marshmallow half. > > 3. Fill cocktail shaker two-thirds full with ice. Add cream, simple syrup, vodka and vanilla; shake until well mixed and chilled. Strain into rimmed beverage glass. Top with club soda. Garnish with Marshmallow Eyeballs. Serve immediately. The link is at the McCormick website. I stripped out the adverting - "McCormick® All Natural Pure Vanilla Extract" etc. https://www.mccormick.com/recipes/beverages-cocktails/ghost-busted-cocktail
Do you have a fool-proof method? Test link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMeWsh7H6RI - I have Internet Download Manager and it has browser integration. But the programmer can be very annoying. It stopped working 100% of the time. And I guess he's not going to fix it. And I bet he won't even make the link available so I can grab it with another app. - I also use yt5s.com. It used to be golden but starting yesterday it's gives me 403 error sometimes. - At [deturl.com](https://deturl.com/) - I tried all the download links to other sites but it seems the site was abandoned. The links are dead and the sites that work - also generated 403 yesterday. I'm about to try right now but I expect 403s again.
InevitableSwing
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offset black's first move advantage
I don' have a go comment from the 1920s or now but I think chess should flip the script and turn the board around so black goes first and white first move advantage disappears.
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Seriously though - I sometimes wonder what kids are listening to. I never spend any time around them and I'm not interested (much) in recent music so I have no idea at all.
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It's nice when Youtube surprises you in a way that isn't vile or nasty but contemplative.
The message to this song is one to take to heart. Too many people seem to neglect giving due consideration to their choices. Eventually we will all be held accountable for our actions, and the life we live will be a product of the choices we make. It is not possible to bribe our way out of those consequences, only delay them. Eventually we all end up at the gallows, and the hang man will not be swayed. Remember this, and live your life accordingly. Consider your actions and what the potential consequences can be, and do not make choices unless you are prepared to face those consequences.
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I shut my eyes and I’m transported back 50 years and I’m 17 again for a precious few minutes.
The math is different for me but the feeling's the same.
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I haven't had much experience with ASMR. In fact - I think the last time I listened was ~5 years ago. I'm just not an ambient kind of guy. But this thread made me curious - maybe I'll listen to some vids for a minute or two and see if I change my mind.
InevitableSwing
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He's actually doing something.
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Does anybody have a link or more info? I googled but of course google is shit and I couldn't find it.
old Jewish (?) ladies... One of them also drops an "Oy Vey"
Gentiles can say "oy vey" but proceed with caution. It's an in group word. My mom would sometimes she'd use it. I sometimes use it on the net but not in real life unless I want to proclaim my Jewishness for some reason.
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the big wet one himself.
HOWW DAER YOU
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I can already hear a r/politics redditor intoning.
Look, InevitableSwing, you're not helping. Okay? You're not. You said "Fuck royalty," but have you considered Kamala's outreach towards monarchists is timely being that it's just weeks before the election? She needs every vote she can get in the swing states. That's a fact. And, furthermore, "Fuck Dick Cheney"? My - aren't you clever? Again - consider the swing states. Dick Cheney might not be your cup of tea and he's not mine either but he's important because...
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And I reply with "Very wet fart noise". About an hour later I'm temporarily for four weeks banned for "incivility".
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I don't know why he used all the other words.
PRESSURE OF WOKE
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I try my darnedest but you really can't avoid it.
I can but only because I only very rarely use the internet on mobile. But the other day I had to deal with a chess.com issue so I disabled Ublock to try to figure out the problem. Within seconds an ad started talking at me. I almost started laughing at the idea. How can that possibly work on somebody on a chess site? Then again - maybe I'm wrong and it does work. I don't understand people at all - Americans in particular.
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My only hope for LLMs is that someone finds a cheap and energy efficient way to make them do this and only this.
That would be very dangerous. That could be a downward spiral. That would be my heroin. I'd want to watch every second of that primo, bizarro AI vid shit. I'd be done for. How many hours would be created very single day? 100s? 1,000s? I'd become an insane person.
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The very first time I heard there was a drink company called Liquid Death - I was 95+% certain it was a bit but I googled anyway and I got a surprise. I still don't know anything about them because I avoid a lot of pop culture stuff and I refuse to watch any ads at all*. I had a super-quickie look at their Wikipedia page.
Promotions
In May 2020, the company released Greatest Hates, an album of death metal music created with lyrics from hate comments the company received online; a second album of hate comments, described as "punk rock", was released in November. In February 2022, during Super Bowl LVI, the company released an advertisement featuring children enjoying the beverage with Judas Priest's song "Breaking the Law".
Parodying advertisements for alcoholic beverages, the advertisement ends with the tagline "Don't be scared, it's just water".
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* Definitely not true. I do sometimes watch ads just to check them out but just silly stuff. Never anything trying too hard to be uber-Americans like Super Bowl ads. I'll never understand the fascination. "Do you wanna see what they showed on the Super Bow?!?!" No. I like horror movies but eldritch self-referential fetish pop culture consumerism love and patriotism is beyond what I can take.
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It's my favorite AI thing of all time. There isn't even a close second. It's almost amazing to me that there was no actual intelligence (or sense of humor) behind it. Everything happened by chance. It's like if evolution all by itself created a super-phallic spinning mushroom creature with legs.
I'm getting out of control in c/food today. That's three posts today and it's only the early afternoon. Don't worry. It's probably a one day thing. *Probably.*
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"There'll be no charge. Trump is paying for it."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXK_UVX9pN8&t=533s
Lots of people don't know this but Trump is more illeist than Rickey Henderson and Trump stole more bases when he played in the major leagues. It's true. It's true.
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I didn't know that. Haha.
December 18, 2023
Liquid Death, a Santa Monica-based canned-water brand experiencing substantial retail growth, recently changed the name of one of its latest products from "Armless Palmer" to "Dead Billionaire" after the estate of late golfer Arnold Palmer, who is credited with inventing the tea-and-lemonade drink, threatened legal action.
In an Instagram post to its 2.6 million followers in late November, the company announced the rebrand of this beverage it launched earlier this year.
Now it has a way cooler name that won't require us to fight a senseless legal battle with a large enterprise who sent us a letter saying we can't use the word 'Palmer'.
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IED's (improvised explosive drinks)
I'm no lawyer so I wonder if a bioweapon attack automatically leads to more jail time.
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Seriously though - if somebody milkshaked Trump - the libs would be up in arms about the "violence". The correct way to deal with fascists is to win arguments against them.
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"Lots of people don't know this but my genius uncle at MIT knew. And he told me. if you wanna fry something frozen really fast - you can just put the ice in the super hot oil pool. See if I—"
To protect the president - the Secret Service leaps into action and knocks the ice bag from Trump's arms and wrestles it to the ground.
Trump glares at them and keeps talking "What is it? What is it called? The super hot oil pool. Plasmaoil? Yeah, plasmaoil. Like the sun - so strong."
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I moved sentences around in the quotation.
Rogalski and his colleagues on the investigations team weren’t sure whether it was a story for them. For one, Coffee City is more than three hours north of Houston, outside of KHOU’s viewing area. Would their audience even care? Rogalski also recognized that digging into the tip would require a lot of work. He would need to submit dozens of requests for the personnel files for each of the officers.
He decided to do just that. Rogalski made nearly 100 requests to all of the officers’ past departments, asking for their personnel files, including any disciplinary actions and the reasons for their departures. The requests cost roughly $1,000 and resulted in nearly 9,000 documents.
[50 officers], Gibson said, initially didn’t make sense. The department didn’t even have enough police cars for that many officers. “A lot of the officers were never even in the city,” Gibson said. “They’re doing this warrant division, work-from-home thing.”
Within two weeks, the city council had voted to fire Portillo and disband the entire police department. In December, Portillo was given six felony charges for tampering with government records by failing to disclose his DWI charge on his Coffee City job application. Several other former Coffee City officers face felony charges.
Executive producer of investigations Jennifer Cobb said she has never seen a story she worked on cause such rapid change. The investigation’s success — despite her team’s initial doubts — is a reminder to take a chance on stories that strike her curiosity, Cobb said.
“I use it as my reminder now to keep an open mind if I’m curious about something even though it may not seem like the sure thing or the story that makes ‘sense,’” Cobb said. “It’s good to take a breath sometimes and take chances on stories and see where they’ll take you.”
KHOU’s investigation won two national Edward R. Murrow Awards and a Poynter Journalism Prize in local accountability reporting.
Kudos to KHOU 11. And this story shows why local press is vital. It makes me rage that Google, Facebook, etc should have been regulated during Obama's terms. Instead there's been a strong bipartisan effort for years and years to destroy local press by letting the giants destroy them by starving them of revenue. The NYT and the WaPo continue to survive but this lack of regulation killed off untold number of Podunk Times. And will kill more.
> [Arnold Palmer (drink)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Palmer_(drink)) > > The Arnold Palmer is a non-alcoholic beverage that combines iced tea and lemonade. The name refers to the professional American golfer Arnold Palmer, who was known to often request and drink this beverage combination; some attribute the invention of the beverage to the golfer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXK_UVX9pN8 \--- Edit I edited the title. It took me 20 minutes to think up "Our Big Fry Boy". Better late than never I guess.
I cropped it from this - [The Beauty and Challenges of AI-Generated Artistic Breakdance Olympic EDITION - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz3pHOy1CYU)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Gi-iEke4UI
A few minutes ago somebody rang my doorbell. And I didn't answer it because I was here. Then there was knocking. I worried it was my elderly next door neighbor having some kind of issue. If I didn't answer - I'd feel guilty. As I went to the door through the window I could see it was an old couple I didn't know. Great. A few weeks ago the Mormons also did the shtick where they ring the doorbell and knocked too. I might put up a "no soliciting" sign. I really hate this shit. When I opened the door there was a package right there. I really wondered what was up. It turned out they it that out of the rain and they were with the democratic party. After a few seconds I let them know I wasn't interested and I thanked them for moving my package. So far - no story. Then I went out to my mailbox and there was a handwritten postcard in cursive with a stamp and a postmark and my address also handwritten. > Dear InevitableSwing, > > Thank you for being a voter. Who you vote for is private, but whether you wrote is public record. Please vote in the Tues Nov 5 election. > > John I'm mystified how the postcard has a postmark. Maybe it's fake? The couple's efforts annoyed me and sort of creeped me out. Thumbnail source - [Need Postcards-to-Voters Help ASAP please! - dailykos.com](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/10/14/2276878/-Need-Postcards-to-Voters-Help-ASAP-please) \-- **Edit 1** I meant one of these signs.  \-- **Edit 2** I just realized I was so freaked out - I missed a possible obvious solution to the postcard mystery. It was dumb luck. Maybe they sent it yesterday or two days ago. (1) I happened to get the postcard in the mail today. (2) They happened to show up *after* my mail was delivered and not before.
www.theguardian.com
> Donald Trump’s campaign may be failing to reach thousands of voters they hope to turn out in Arizona and Nevada, with roughly a quarter of door-knocks done by America Pac flagged by its canvassing app as potentially fraudulent, according to leaked data and people familiar with the matter. > > [...] > > The Trump campaign earlier this year outsourced the bulk of its ground game to America Pac, the political action committee founded by Musk, betting that spending millions to turn out Trump supporters, especially those who don’t typically vote, would boost returns. > > But leaked America Pac data obtained by the Guardian shows that roughly 24% of the door-knocks in Arizona and 25% of the door-knocks in Nevada this week were flagged under “unusual survey logs” by the Campaign Sidekick canvassing app.
My title is the title of the article. The phrasing is vague because it's unclear exactly what "struck" means. The first half of the article describes the incident. > The Saint Louis Chess Club announced Wednesday night that 17-year-old grandmaster Christopher Yoo had been expelled from the U.S. Chess Championships for "gross violations of our Code of Conduct and the U.S, Chess Safe Play Policy" after he crumpled up his scorecard, stormed off, and allegedly "struck a videographer from behind" following his fifth-round loss to Fabiano Caruana. Per local NBC station KSDK, the cops said that Yoo was arrested and charged with fourth-degree assault. > > They identified the victim as a 24-year-old woman and confirmed that Yoo was released as the case will be dealt with in the juvenile court system. While Yoo's scorecard meltdown was captured on video, no recording of the full incident has been made public from which we can contextualize the somewhat vague verb "struck." > > This has prompted some players such as former World Championship challenger Ian Nepomniatchi to wonder whether Yoo getting fully booted from the tournament was an overreaction. That's a fair question—though, according to both KSDK and arbiter Chris Bird, Yoo outright punched the videographer, with Bird calling the punch "completely unprovoked, from behind and in no way accidental." > > Levon Aronian, currently competing in the championships, said he saw a video of the "awful" punch and called it a "well prepared punch to a completely innocent person." > > https://defector.com/teenage-grandmaster-christopher-yoo-booted-from-u-s-championships-arrested-after-post-loss-meltdown
https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/1844460494490419420#m Transcription from another source > “You know, despite I could be right now in the most beautiful ocean, on the sand, exposing my really beautiful body — so beautiful — to the sun and the surf. Skin cancer, right? To the sun and the surf all over the world. Or I could be in Detroit with you, and I’d rather be in Detroit with you, okay?”
https://archive.ph/zDJz4
https://subium.com/profile/joshuajfriedman.com/post/3l6qkl25mog2y
::: spoiler Hint 1 Black must avoid checkmate. ::: --- ::: spoiler Hint 2 (a very big hint) Black's e pawn. ::: --- ::: spoiler Spoiler https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/122884427351?tab=analysis&move=72 e1=N+ - underpromotion! Underpromotion is very rare. The key thing is it's a check and a check is a tempo which is a very important concept in chess. Why not a queen? No tempo :( so white has checkmate in 3 starting with Rc8+. I watched this speed chess game live and the move happened even before I thought about underpromotion. I wonder how long it would have taken me to see it in a slow game. :::
TIL - Advertising jargon has a phrase also used in prisons. The general population is “gen pop”. > [Inside the Secretive $700 Million Ad-Testing Factory for Kamala Harris](https://archive.ph/mL7zC) > > Future Forward has ascended to the top of the Democratic political universe, but it has also drawn suspicion and second-guessing. > > [...] > > Future Forward’s advertising strategy can be summed up in four words: Reserve early, spend late. The group began booking fall ads in January to secure the best prices. The most intense spending is occurring now, guided by an unswerving belief that the persuasive effect of ads decays quickly. > > [...] > > The group is, in some ways, an ad-making laboratory masquerading as a super PAC, testing thousands of messages, social media posts and ads in the 2024 race, ranking them in order of effectiveness and approving only those that resonate with voters. Ad makers produce roughly 20 potential commercials for every spot that ever airs. > > [...] > > Future Forward’s belief in designing digital and television advertising to appeal to the general population — “gen pop” ads, in industry shorthand — has also worried strategists who want more messages tailored to people of color. > > [...] > > The most intense friction between Democratic groups and Future Forward has concerned issues of race. Future Forward opened October spending $35 million to broadcast a single advertisement that juxtaposes Mr. Trump telling his “rich as hell” supporters that he will cut their taxes with a Black voter supporting Ms. Harris because he is “not rich as hell.” > > The idea is to target everyone at once, and Future Forward found in testing that the spot was in the 95th percentile for effectiveness with white, Black, Asian and Hispanic voters — as well as the electorate overall. But the approach has skeptics among party strategists who believe Ms. Harris needs to specifically mobilize key Democratic constituencies in other ways. > > [...] > > Founded by a group of wonkish Obama campaign veterans, Future Forward is animated by the idea that a blend of data science, political science and testing can usher in a new era of rigor in advertising. The group’s ads were widely praised in 2020, and Future Forward earned the coveted designation as the official super PAC first for President Biden and then for Ms. Harris. > > But throughout the year, some top party strategists have worried about the consolidation of so much money and decision-making in a single group. They warn of succumbing to what some describe as a tyranny of testing and about what they see as an almost dogmatic belief by Future Forward in the power of late advertising — to the detriment of other methods of reaching voters. > > In September, the Harris campaign made an unusual public statement suggesting donors back other groups devoted to get-out-the-vote operations. > > Soon after, Billy Wimsatt, who runs a donor group called the Movement Voter Project, warned in a memo to Democratic donors, Future Forward and the Harris campaign last month that get-out-the-vote operations were “dangerously underfunded” — to the tune of $165 million, mostly affecting groups that turn out Black, Latino, Asian and young voters. > > “It seems like a ton of money is going to paid media and not enough to the ground game,” Mr. Wimsatt warned. More recently, the Harris headquarters has been frustrated by a lack of mailers being sent by allies.