WTF-Beta

Not in Indiana. Janet grew up on it. But it did have beans.

Color me pink and blue. Beans in chili is heresy.

I have SO MANY recipes favorited or saved, but except for a few I seldom go back and revisit. . Not sure I'd really get the benefit.

That's been true for decades. Not sure about the rate, but the city was built on marshland.

Actually I think it's Boy-NYC.

But I get a daily email from Ahhhnold for his Pump Club. It's got a lot of good info.

Still, I would not describe myself as buff. More like puff.

It depends. With my weightlifting regimen AI says I should be eating a couple hundred grams of protein a day, which is ridiculous. I generally don't get to 100 and I suspect my kidneys thank me for it.

But I'm all for getting rid of as many artificial ingredients as possible. My general rule is if I read the ingredients and there's something I don't recognize as food in its own right or as natural it goes back on the shelf.

The other thing it will do is drive more young folks into the trades, which we badly need.

But extremism isn't limited to the left. I'm probably voting Democrat in all local, county and possibly state elections this year and right wing extremism is why.

Former Rep. Barney Frank, a liberal icon who was a key architect of the landmark Wall Street regulations Democrats enacted in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, has entered hospice care at his home in Maine. And as one of his last acts, he is preparing to release a book repudiating his party’s left flank.

A champion of liberal causes during his 32 years representing Massachusetts in the House, Frank says progressive Democrats have “embraced an agenda that goes beyond what’s politically acceptable.”

“Until we separate ourselves from that agenda, we don’t win,” he said in an interview Tuesday.

and

Known for his acerbic wit and sometimes combative style, Frank chaired the House Financial Services Committee through the heart of the 2008 financial crisis, from 2007 to 2011. His name is synonymous with Democrats’ last signature achievement in the financial policy space — a sweeping 2010 rewrite of Wall Street oversight known as the Dodd-Frank Act that put new scrutiny on U.S. banks.

and

His latest book is set to be released later this year (“I face a literal deadline, so I don’t know how we’ll adjust to that,” he said of the timing). He’s hoping “to use my reputation and my record of being on the left to give courage to many of my colleagues who I know agree with me but are inhibited from saying so.”

“For a lot of my colleagues, the argument has been, ‘well, we don’t support defund the police or open borders, and we don’t say we do,’” Frank said. “But my point is, no, it’s not enough … to be silent. We have to explicitly repudiate it.”

He says he’s “not arguing that anybody should stop his or her advocacy.”
“But it’s one thing to advocate something knowing that you’re going beyond the current viewpoints, and another to make it a litmus test,” he said.

In the progressive-moderate clash roiling his new home state, Frank supports Gov. Janet Mills for Senate over Graham Platner.

“I worry a little bit about the tendency on the Democratic side to fall for the flavor of the month,” he said, though he credited Platner for focusing his attacks on incumbent GOP Sen. Susan Collins, not Mills. “There is this flirtation or this attraction of people who are new and who are very good at articulating a response to the anger, but without talking about what you do about it.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/28/barney-frank-hospice-democrats-00897112?utm_content=politico/magazine/Politics&utm_source=flipboard

Ax is right, there will be more of these. A lot of that will come from the fact that thorough testing has become rather a lost art. Things get tested, but in most cases not rigorously. Back when dinosaurs did the programming, we were dedicated to trying very hard to break whatever we coded. That doesn't happen very much anymore.

You see a lot of this in online systems where if you color outside the lines at all you're screwed. It doesn't recover or catch it.

It is everywhere. Janet was in grocery wholesaling for 10 plus years. Not a good industry for nice people. The competition is fierce and the players venal.

I haven't tried any of those, but the larger stores all carry godawful stuff too. I find Aldi's quality to be very good. And cheap.

Aside from that, I enjoy my trips to Aldi. That alone puts it above the big boxes.

Aldi is great for certain things. They occasionally have chicken leg quarters for fifty cents a pound, just bought a couple lamb racks there at $10 a pound. They have the best charcuterie, prices on nuts, some very good cheap wines and they are a small footprint. The major grocers here, Meijer and Kroger, are these enormous stores that just takes too long to get through. I do clicklist pickup there.

I suppose they have to do something so that homeowners can get insurance.

I've never lived in a place that had green rocks and clay.

I was not aware of this, although I knew an Aldi owned TJs.

Technology has also revolutionized baseball pitching. Pitchers today are much better than in the past, and harder to hit.

@Rontuner said:

Sugar, Peanuts, Palm Oil, Peanut Flour, Cocoa, Hazelnuts, Lecithin as Emulsifier, Salt, Vanillin: An Artificial Flavor.

Yeah, that sugar as the main ingredient throws me off. I'd prefer a natural peanut butter with a good jam on it.

Also if you have wifi, use it rather than the cell signal. It uses less battery.

See my comment in the sigma thread. Labels serve only to reduce people to a stereotype.