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We have so many ethnic grocery stores.

H-Mart (several locations)

Mitsuwa - Japanese

Caputo's - Italian

Garden Fresh Market and Brookhaven Market - Eastern European

Deli4U and Montrose Market - Polish

Tony's Fresh Market - a little bit of everything

Patel Bros. - Indian and Indo-Chinese. Looks like they've gone national - look for one near you! https://www.patelbros.com/

And an outdoor Mexican market that I haven't been to, but that looks intriguing. I'm guessing @Steve-Miller would be in seventh heaven...

https://fooditor.com/most-authentic-mexican-street-food-market-chicagoland/

wtg

May as well start some conspiracies...

Why isn't JD wearing a flag pin on his lapel? Is it a signal to his minders?

Inquiring minds want to know....

wtg

Official portraits:

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Maybe we need a caption contest....

wtg

To the Capitol Rotunda, ostensibly because of the dangerous cold. NWS forecast is for 23 degrees, lower with wind chills.

Oh, and because Reagan did it in 1985. Nice touch.

I think TFG is afraid the mall would be empty, and that looks bad on TV. Remember how goofy he got about crowd size during his first inauguration?

eta: Could also be that there is some threat of assassination that they're aware of....

wtg

@jon-nyc said in Where the TikTok refugees are going:

Shame on Reuters. Very sloppy to call it a ban.

Doesn't make it right but they're all doing it.

wtg

The Supreme Court ruled Friday that a controversial ban on TikTok may take effect this weekend, rejecting an appeal from the popular app’s owners that claimed the ban violated the First Amendment.

The court handed down an unsigned opinion and there were no noted dissents.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/17/politics/tiktok-ban-supreme-court/index.html

"Our position on this has been clear: TikTok should continue to operate under American ownership. Given the timing of when it goes into effect over a holiday weekend a day before inauguration, it will be up to the next administration to implement," a White House official told ABC News in a statement.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-administration-leave-trump-implement-tiktok-ban/story?id=117753133.

wtg

Good news: The government can change things on your computer remotely and without your knowledge to remove malware.

Bad news: The government can change things on your computer remotely and without your knowledge.

The FBI, working in tandem with law enforcement authorities in France, have turned the PlugX malware’s own self-delete mechanism against it, erasing the China-linked remote access trojan from more than 4,200 infected computers in the United States.

Notably, the owners of the infected computers had no knowledge of the operation. The FBI said it was working with ISPs to provide notice to US owners of Windows-based computers affected by the court-authorized operation.

https://www.securityweek.com/fbi-uses-malwares-own-self-delete-trick-to-erase-chinese-plugx-from-us-computers/

wtg

Good thought that will go nowhere. I can just imagine how that budget cut proposal would be received by the congresscritters....

wtg

Specifically high fructose corn syrup...

Corporate welfare has propped up high fructose corn syrup for decades. It’s unlikely to end anytime soon.

https://thehustle.co/originals/how-corn-syrup-took-over-america?

wtg

....even when the conversation isn't in Chinese.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/14/openais-ai-reasoning-model-thinks-in-chinese-sometimes-and-no-one-really-knows-why/

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