As early as 2016, some observers suggested that the president was a Russian pawn, an instrument to end American hegemony, to ruin America's ability to project its influence into the world.
It's funny how absolutely nothing that's happened since then contradicts the idea.
Let us also recall his remarks concerning the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi :
"You’re mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn’t like that gentleman that you’re talking about,” he said. “Whether you like him or didn’t like him, things happen."
Like so many criticisms of others he offers, it would be perfectly applicable to himself.
I'm not sure what to think. It does sound like people living within earshot must be getting a raw deal.
On the other hand, designating Mayfield Road as "quiet" is ridiculous. Cracking down on horns but not loud motorcycles (and, more and more these days, cars) is ridiculous.
The authorities always seem to be asking themselves "What excuse can we invent to shut these little people up?" and never "How can we justify kicking this car dealership out of town?"
“Good, I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people.”
When we say every accusation is a confession, by golly, we mean every accusation.
This is a great story to illuminate the large number of problems that could be addressed by decent public transit, better options for walking and biking, etc.
I think a post like this would be more useful with some kind of geographic hint in the title:
[Hawaii, USA] Wahiawa dam failure expected! Haleiwa, Wahiawa: Get to higher ground now!
Of course, best of all would be to post it to a Hawaii community, but I don't know if there is one.
I spent a couple of years doing phone support (for a Windows program, in the internet-by-modem days), and we had a paper manual that we spent a lot of effort on. I'm not sure it helped too many people. We didn't have a way of measuring, though. We had no idea how many people were blundering through things on their own, how many people set things up on their own with the manual's help, or how many people were chucking the whole product in a closet and forgetting about it.
Sure, some callers definitely felt it was a waste of time to learn how to work things; they just wanted their things to work. They wanted their things to serve them, instead of the other way around, and I can't even argue with that philosophy.
But most callers just didn't have the technical experience to make sense of any documentation we could write. Some didn't know what the desktop computer they used every day even looked like, didn't know which of the metal-and-plastic boxes around their desk was "the computer." They didn't know the difference between a floppy drive and a hard drive, and they'd argue with us about it. "I don't have a floppy drive, my drive takes those hard disks." No manual or knowledge base article was going to help these folks, no matter how much effort we made.
I don't think it's strictly about "moral high ground." If you're willing to do anything to win, then if you do win, the winner will be a person who is willing to do anything.
I don't think I would have guessed this one was generative imaging, certainly not from one or two pictures. I would have guessed something was up with it, though, from the prurient interest. The barefoot poses, the tongue-out poses, the so-short skirt, the pictures specifically framed to include the high heels, the form fitting crop top with the perfect "emphasize my bosom" pose. Individually plausible, I guess, but together the effect is less military and more OnlyFans.
Edit: I guess I'm not finishing my point, here. A more subtle operator would be able to fool me with this level of image generation, in fact, I don't have any good reason to imagine that hasn't happened already.
Is the Umbrella Corporation logo on her shirt relevant to anything?
I baked some rosemary-infused sourdough from the Hungry Ghost Bread Cookbook.
It's a pretty basic sourdough, with some olive oil and a gigantic amount of rosemary mixed right in.
Starting with the as-written 840g of flour, 14.4% comes to 121g of rosemary. Dried rosemary. Which is more powerful, gram for gram, than fresh rosemary.
I failed to consider just how much rosemary this was when I started mixing up the dough. All the rosemary I had in the house, dried and fresh, came to just 20 grams or so. And I put it all in. The resulting loaf was, by my lights, powerfully rosemary scented and flavored. I can't fathom what it would be like to actually include a whopping 120 grams of rosemary. At grocery-store prices, 120g of rosemary would cost me $15 or more. I actually wonder if the 120g in the book was an error. But the book's fennel flavored bread recipe is similarly extravagant with the fennel.
I got the book as a holiday gift and I've enjoyed it. This loaf was among the best I've made. My family gobbled it up. I'm hoping to try some of the other ideas in the book: The fennel bread, the fig and sage bread, etc.
Seems like an appropriate companion piece:
The 49MB Web Page
I guess I must have seen that here in the Fedi.