Yeah, this is a big difference between Western democracies and the Asian countries. India and China are very big on going all-electric for every day commerce, but (at least for China) there is always suspicion that they go all-electronic to tighten controls by the government.

@wtg said in My. God.: President Donald Trump doubled down on his criticism of Rob Reiner, asserting today the slain Hollywood director was “a deranged person.” “I wasn’t a fan of his at all,” Trump said from the Oval Office, less than a day after Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were found dead in what is being investigated as a homicide. “He became like a deranged person – ‘Trump derangement syndrome.’ So, I was not a fan of Rob Reiner at all in any way, shape or form. I thought he was very bad for our country,” he said. The irony is this level of narcissism meets the definition of deranged 100x over.

Princess Bride… or maybe Stand By Me. But it’s amazing how many classics he was involved with.

It was Gene Hackman who died, after his wife Betsy Arakawa died of hanta virus. So sad.

I cooked a couple of squashes yesterday, one delicata and the other a kabocha. Both were splittable with a big chef's knife without pre-cooking. In my experience, butternut squash is in a whole 'nother category...

Got me thinking what that process would look like in 3D if it were in a weightless environment. Unfortunately I couldn't find a video for this with a quick Google search.

Agreed! Mr wtg and I have watched some of her shows on PBS and enjoyed them immensely.

Link to video

Of course! D'oh

New this year will be making Demi-glacé. We ff to buy some bones…

One state governor said he regretted signing a bill permitting sports gambling online. Sports gambling was illegal???

I wonder if the argument that serifs make text easier to read is related to the notion that cursive handwriting is better for the flow of ideas. After all, they both involve extra strokes that guide you from one letter to the next.

Thanks, wtg! And Loki thanks you, too.

@Bernard such fun shows! A dance party, for sure.

He made it! There's an American Masters segment about Van Dyke on PBS. Link is good till early January: https://www.thirteen.org/programs/american-masters/starring-dick-van-dyke-vuwz7y/

@Mary-Anna Yes, it took a few months to completely recover but all is well now. I'm interested in how COVID (the disease and/or the vaccine) affects our bodies, especially in light of my own reaction to the vaccine. When I saw the results of this admittedly early study it just brought home once again how complex and how individual our responses are to various pathogens and treatments (vaccines, medications, etc.). The tofu remark was a bit tongue-in-cheek, but I did wonder if there might come a day when someone could front load with tofu (probably in a pill rather than a stir fry) before getting a COVID vaccine, so they could get the benefits of the vaccine without possible negative effects..

I have had chives in a big pot on my deck for ten years. They come back every year without fail!

@chas Alcohol sales in Ontario (and I believe most other Canadian provinces) are all controlled by arms length government entities that import and manage the sale of liquor. Here you can only buy spirits from the LCBO (short for Liquor Control Board of Ontario). Beer and prepackaged mixed drinks, up until a couple years ago, were only sold at LCBO (depending on the alcohol content) and the Beer Store (privately owned by brewers, but isn’t allowed to sell spirits. For example, Twisted Tea, a hard canned iced tea, is made with malt liquor if you buy it at the beer store, but vodka at the LCBO). Wine is its own category and has been sold in little kiosks in some grocery stores for a number of years but the stores are separate from the grocery and they are only allowed to sell products from their own winery. Distilleries, wineries, and breweries are allowed to sell their products in their on site stores as well. Recently, wine, beer, and packaged mixed drinks (again, depending on alcohol content) have been allowed into grocery and convenience stores. TLDR: The Government of Ontario controls the sale of spirits in Ontario. It is similar in other provinces.