Military pilots are outraged about The Signal fiasco. NYT report. https://archive.is/cxvG2

@Quirt-Evans said in Moving to Canada: There was a very good analysis that I saw recently. The gist: if you don’t care about due process for non-citizens, you don’t care about it for citizens. The reason: if there’s no due process for non-citizens, the government can arrest anyone, claim that they aren’t a citizen, and send them to a detention facility in El Salvador without a court hearing. At a minimum, if someone says they are a citizen, they have to be entitled to a court hearing on whether that’s correct or not. Yes, Trump likes to overwhelm with illegality it isn't a single move - but on such a scale that makes it difficult for the system or public to fully respond. It is a blitzkrieg of action across a broad front. For example, it seems to have worked with the Emoluments Clause. I'm sure he thinks he could hold up a liquor store without consequence.

I have a Canadian student in one of my classes. She came in today emblazoned in a red "Liberals" shirt. This one, in fact. She had been home in Ontario during the Liberal Party convention, paid her membership fee, and attended, voting for Carney. She said she attracted some TV coverage because she was up front, and rather younger than the average convention goer! So, I decided to get the same tee, and I might wear it to class! https://d1w8c6s6gmwlek.cloudfront.net/shamblestees.com/products/383/932/38393240.png

Feature, not bug. You make government inefficient then dissolve it due to inefficiency. Textbook, this.

I fail to see how it could be worse than expected, but here we are.

@DougG said in People who still use typewriters: I still own, and can use, one of these https://mechanicalcalculators.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/imgp6458.jpg I worked in the payroll department at Wilson Sporting Goods one summer when I was in college. Mid-1970s. People in the factory submitted their piece work tickets, someone coded them with the pay rate, and then we calculated the pay owed on each ticket. There were maybe ten of us clerks in the department. Nine of us who used adding machines used to get smoked by the one older lady who used a Comptometer.

I know of it, but have never had it. I'm not a fan of kombucha. I don't know how it compares to kvass/gira. I've seen the commercially prepared kvass in various international grocery stores in my area. From the article it sounds like those products are not an accurate reflection of the original product. "Gira, for all its refreshing qualities, can be a bit of a mischievous drink," Eidukevičius adds. "There's a running joke in Lithuanian households about 'gira explosions' because it ferments in closed containers where enormous pressure can build up like a bottle of Champagne. There's nothing quite like walking into a cellar and finding gira sprayed across the walls and ceiling like some kind of fizzy, rye-bread-scented geyser. It's a testament to how alive this drink is. It's a reminder that we're working with natural processes, and sometimes, those processes have a mind of their own." Mr wtg's grandparents had this happen to a batch of beer they brewed. Instead of using metal caps, they pounded a cork into each bottle and put the bottles up in the attic to "age" a bit. Hilarity ensued.

Wow, that was so beautiful.

Beautiful!

Appeals court refuses to lift Boasburg's order to keep more migrants from being deported. https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5215883-appeals-court-boasberg-alien-enemies-act/?utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c06e5d78644b3aab4472

I was going to try and take one for the team and watch the whole thing so the rest of you didn’t have to, but I just couldn’t make it to the end. I’m sorry that I failed y’all.

@kluurs said in Be careful what you say: The handful of Canadians (and folks from other nations) who might have thought of visiting the US - ain't gonna be coming. The ill will from other such pro-US initiatives is such that Canada, Europe and China could remove tariffs - and no one will be buying anything US. The US may become one giant Amish community in few years. Seems to me the MAGA true believers will be happy to have a locked down, isolated America; one free from any and all foreigners.