Trump envoy reportedly told Kremlin official that Ukraine must cede land for peace deal

This statement is gibberish. It makes no sense.

“But I’m saying instead of talking like that, let’s talk more hopefully because I think we’re going to get to a deal here.”

A deal with who for what? This is an American talking to a Russian?

What the fuck is this point of this stupid verbal diarrhea?

Strange, I put the same link in one of my comments and a mod removed it.

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I highly recommend to everyone just turning off your watch history on YouTube. You will not be given recommendations and you have to make a search for something in order to get anything at all to watch. Only works on desktop/laptop though. I successfully kept my parents away from all these destructive algorithms (I managed to keep them totally off Facebook, et al), but YouTube got them because you cannot turn off recommendations when using YouTube apps on phones/tablets/TVs - and it single-handedly turned them into right wing sycophants over about a four year period (to be fair, they were already the religious type).

I mean, the core idea of the technology - that a single monolithic file can be broken up into a torrent of smaller packets and losing the connection won’t mean that you lose your progress towards downloading the big file - doesn’t require that you also act as a seeder. Personally, I’m fairly sure Steam uses something like this behind the scenes, as their delivery system, because you can interrupt it and it will continue once you resume.

HAL did nothing wrong.

Oh well if a senator said it then by all means, let’s stop and take notice.

Ah yes, White Christmas. That episode fucked me up. It’s a depiction of hell, straight up. And heaven is depicted similarly in San Junipero - not sure if you have seen that one.

It’s being handled by algorithms and AI, not people. It requires only a relatively few people at the top of the largest hedge funds and financial institutions, all of whom are benefiting from it. Truth be told, they don’t look at themselves as bad guys and in all honesty, they might not be. Aside from the unfortunate side effect of giving them the power to pick winners and losers, literally everyone benefits from a market that can’t implode.

It’s not like it isn’t being said openly in certain corners of the Internet. Anyone who “breaks ranks” and says it will just be downvoted and ignored as a crank (as my simple comments here can attest). In the meantime, the indices will fluctuate and react to the news giving a veneer of authenticity, yet the march will move ever upward (as it has, manifestly, since the last “real” crash, 2008).

For those who think this is just bullshit, I would suggest that you read a fantastic book called Flash Boys and then contemplate that it was written in 2014. The author, Michael Lewis, had this to say, also, 11 years ago.

The stock market is wholly price controlled by the biggest players via dark pools, algorithms, AI and HFT and that there will not be an appreciable crash ever again because of this. So it’s going to be very interesting as it continues to make less and less sense and we continue to get ever-higher numbers coming from Wall Street.

Edit: downvoted every time man, people really want to believe in the stock market (or maybe they just want to believe it can go down in flames lol). Well that’s cool, the big players I’m sure are glad for your existence. But you’ll all come around.

Not just Emmerich, but Devlin as well. I’m worried about this. They tried to reboot the movies in 2014 and pitched a TV show in 2019. They’re both on the record as being salty about SG-1, and I understand why they were salty about it but it’s well beyond them now and after all these years, they’re gonna come in totally play ball, just like that? And this while Malozzi and Wright are “consulting producers,” meaning they give money to the production to get their names on it but they will be largely ignored. I hope I’m wrong, but I’m worried.

Oh hey, that was easy. I guess they have nothing to hide after all!

Yeah, was gonna say - this guy is another one of the “always, in every context, thinking about gay sex” closeted Republicans. Religion does this to them, the systematic and merciless repression of sexuality causes it to become an immense burden.

Well. Robin Williams, a (hilarious) American comedian and actor, gained much of his early fame/notoriety on a TV show called Mork and Mindy circa 1978 in which Robin played an alien named Mork.

The show was actually a spinoff of Happy Days, where the “Mork” character first appeared.

“Bjork and Bindi” is clearly a play on words that leverages this.

I barely managed to understand this and I am from this era.

Awesome. 👍 There’s variations in stoves and beans, etc, so if for some reason they’re too al dente, just keep cooking in 15 minute increments until you’re where you want to be.

That looks and sounds great! I use navy beans in my seven vegetable soup.

The great thing is you are in control. My navy beans, for example (and you should try them, they have such a great flavor when cooked in salted water as described) - if you don’t want mush, just cook them for 1 hour (instead of 2) after the soak. They will be discrete and the skins will be intact and they will be absolutely al dente. I bet you’ll dig them.

For 1/2 lb beans I use 3 cups water and 1/2 Tbs kosher salt.

It does make a difference. It’s not preservation, the beans will still go bad, but soaking and cooking in salt water reduces the water available to microbes and inhibits their growth. The result is (and I have observed this directly) the beans last about twice as long in the fridge before they start to have that “I’m not gonna eat that” appearance and smell.