Doesn’t bode well for the Strategic Crypto Reserve.

@Bernard I had that exact Underwood typewriter. I gave it to a friend when I moved away from NYC. I have two other typewriters still--a Smith Corona 1962 manual with a jeweled escarpment that I wrote my first magazine articles on in the 1980s. And a Smith-Corona electric that my uncle gave me when I graduated from high school. Both are portables. The manual typewriter came to me when I lived in the wilderness and didn't have any electricity. My supervisor brought it up to me by mule. I'll never let go of that one. I once read an essay by the author of "Bel Canto" that finding her old manual typewriter was like finding the axe that she used to build the house she lived in. Very much how I feel about mine.

Just imagine the second term telling the first "hold my beer."

I had no plans of voting Liberal in the upcoming election (I was going to vote NDP, which is left of Liberal). My son and his girlfriend were also going to vote NDP. We all feel that the party was going to move a bit to the right after Trudeau’s departure. But given the current circumstances, all three of us will now vote Liberal. We feel that Carney - a person who none of us would have previously aligned with - is the right person for this moment. So the Liberals are getting voters from both the right and the left. Carney was smart to call the election. He’s following Doug Ford’s playbook, taking advantage of the Elbows Up sentiment, rather than waiting until the fall (which is when the election was going to happen).

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

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

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.

Beautiful!

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.

Yea, no kidding.

@Mary-Anna said in I know it's not spring everywhere...: I've got four tabletop aeroponics systems Ooh, tell us more! I didn't know we had crocus until a patch of purple showed up in our back yard. (Unfortunately, we also have deer or rabbits or something, because something ate them.) Rabbits love crocus leaves and flowers.

Beautiful.