WTF-Beta

We have an H-Mart. I like it.

By the way, let’s not fall for the ‘RedNote’ English language branding.

The name of the app is Little Red Book. As in Mao’s.

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

The fact that the CCP would rather turn it off than let ByteDance sell it is proof this is first and foremost a PsyOp and only incidentally a business.

You wouldn't be swayed by the age of the unit?

In glad to hear the coyotes find Whole Foods prices to be as outrageous as I do.

New house came with a ‘microwave drawer’ under counter. No formal dx but by all appearances the magnetron blew.

Don’t have a quote on repair. Probably need a guy to come out twice, once to confirm dx once to replace, plus order the part.

They aren’t cheap, $1299 new. Then again service ain’t cheap here either.

Unit was built in July 2017.

I’m leaning toward replace as it’s getting close to 8 years old.

Thoughts?

12 years ago today she passed.

Oh no!

Very nice pictures. I can’t wait to see the cathedral again. I was last in Paris in 2021 when it was under reconstruction. We actually had an Airbnb right around the corner from there on Ile de la Cité.

Last time I saw it for real was January 09. I remember the dates because we watched Obama’s inauguration from a crowded bar there.

Islam is foul.

https://open.spotify.com/track/7h4Ayplz18fKgoPUIWfaJd

When’s the piano party?

Trump has a theory.

https://x.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1868000735360905364?s=46

Another interesting thing are words, usually adjectives, that you only ever hear used with one particular noun.

It actually can a little funny to hear them used with another.

Examples, copious notes. Unbridled capitalism. (Or unfettered)

Defenestrate

Fastidious

Overmorrow

Garrulous.

@Axtremus said in Words you don’t hear much these days:

Malarkey

But for Biden it would have been decades since I heard it.

I just looked at my sleep history on my iPhone. I've been using an Apple Watch since May of 2023, so 19 months (before that was a Fitbit). My average sleep duration for those 19 months is 5hr38m

I've worn a sleep tracking watch since September 2016. Over that time, I slept over 8 hours exactly zero times. I did hit 7:59 on one occasion. I've been retired all that time, so didn't set a regular alarm.

This is me.

I disagree.

1. It's true that few people are ever prosecuted for the gun charge on its own, but Hunter actually copped to the crime in a book he published for personal financial gain. THat's the kind of thing the DoJ would look into. If he hadn't included that detail in his book, I'd agree.

2. It's true that most people who don't pay their taxes but eventually pay them with interest and penalties are not prosecuted, but the ones they actually do prosecute tend to be high-profile people, in order to send a message to the broader public. He was just such a person so it wasn't out of the ordinary for them to go after him on that one. I do think if there was a more tightly negotiated plea deal it would have been accepted by the court. But the ambiguity in the actual plea deal, which was probably the result of aggressive representation protecting him from other potential charges, ultimately tanked it.

3. If his (President Biden's) real concern was what he said it was, i.e. future charges by a politicized DoJ (a very real concern, btw), he could have pardoned him for any potential crimes from 2014-2024 EXCEPT the two he had been charged with. That way he would have kept his promise, while also protecting his son from Trumpian lawfare.

My view has long been that Biden was always going to pardon him if it were necessary to keep him out of prison. As a father I don't blame him at all, I would absolutely do the same thing.

I just wish he had been honest and said 'I'm doing this because he's my only surviving child, he's vulnerable, and because I can' and not thrown his own DoJ under the bus.

Having said all that, I agree with his points about political pressure changing the outcome of his plea deal.