There’s always that guy.

The more I learn about his victims, the more I sympathize with Ted Kaczynski. Terrorist, sure. He just happened to have a valid point

The host city’s infrastructure is sub par.

• critical of the host city

In his defense, he’s built like a Sasquatch

Why is every field on my phone just NULL VALUE now??

I use my phone and a cheap controller that the phone slots in to. Has not failed me yet. Well, that’s not true, it’s powerful enough to emulate Wii games but the motion controls are hard to replicate without an actual Wii remote. That, and I want for a PS2 emulator, failing that, it’s been great.

I didn’t have prime for the streaming and hardly used it. Until Christmas when I just wanted Christmas bullshit on in the background and prime decided to cut in mid sentence to run an obnoxiously loud ad. So that’s how we finally cancelled prime.

Also, paying to watch ads was how cable worked.

Because that used to be illegal so there was no need to tax it

Ok. In brief: more than a century of tangled alliances and a dying empire has errybody lickin they chops over all this shiny land that was just… Right there. All you gotta do is take it. You got Russia ruled by one of the most profound idiots to ever rule a country, Germany ruled by one of the other most profound idiots ever to rule a country, and Austria-Hungary ruled by the last gasps of the Hapsburgs.

Anyway some thugs did a Cohen Brother’s movie about Franz Ferdinand, the younger brother of the emperor. As it happens he kind of thought the people were important and wanted to do right by them, and also his dad hated him for not marrying his cousin. Anyway he dies.

The next 30ish days are another Cohen Brother’s movie. I’ll try to summarize. Kaiser Wilhelm gives Austria a blank check to start a fight, then goes on vacation. Austria sends a list of demands to Serbia, who delays until they can get some back up from Russia, and ultimately capitulates on all but one demand. A bunch of shit happens over the course of 3 weeks, when the Kaiser gets back he’s like “the fuck, I said go to war mother fucker.” At some point this could have been averted with a phone call but as it happens, a phone line did not exist between the two cities in question yet. Anyway, Russia starts “mobilizing” and then everybody loses their damn minds and actually mobilizes. To which, Russia formally mobilizes.

Up to this point, war was a formal affair, where you could dig in, stand in a line, and shoot. However between the last major conflict and this one, two things happened.

Somebody discovered a way to make cannons out of steel, and then sold those much more powerful weapons to literally every country that would ultimately be involved in WW1. (Previously they’d been cast in bronze. Steel was too brittle. The story of the motherfucker responsible is quite interesting.)

and somebody else invented man portable weapons that fired continuously, and sold those weapons to every country involved.

So now when you get a bunch of guys in a line and have them shoot, instead of a handful of them dying and the rest running away, everybody dies.

In 18 months all of the armies in Europe were depleted, to the point where a cease fire was called so they could get more guys for the meat grinder.

Anyway, a stalemate eventually emerged. Germany was doing ok, but it was clear that this was going to go on for a WHILE. The US decided she wanted to participate in the military industrial complex that the cannon guy from before invented, and started selling weapons and ammunition to the British. But like, under the table. And also like, not very quietly.

So the Germans started targeting American ships they thought were carrying weapons. One of those ships happened to be a passenger vessel that was absolutely carrying ammunition. But, sinking it turned public sentiment against Germany, (this was a major contributing factor in prohibition becoming law) and the US entered the war. By virtue of having more dudes on their side, and not through any particular action or technology brought by the US, this turns the tide of the war.

Wilson, the US president, had this whole plan for a post war clean up that might have worked. But he had a stroke, and his wife kind of ended up running the country for a few years. (This would lead to women’s suffrage.) So the league of nations and the 14 point plan kind of went out the window, Germany got stuck with the bill for the war that Austria started with Russia (who backed out after murdering the Tsar and his entire family in a fuckin’ basement).

The engineered post war collapse of the German economy would go on to have no consequences whatsoever.

Also this entire experience would lead to the Lord of the Rings. A book about children walking in to a hellish landscape for reasons they do not fully understand but generally agree is necessary.

Anyway how is it with rice?

Ah, so it was brought up in bad faith.

Prenatal testosterone has well studied effects but brain development isn’t one of them.

It’s equally possible that the default state is risk taking, and estrogen causes risk averse behavior.

Science: “we found absolutely no link between this behavior and this chemical. We checked multiple times and then checked everything we checked again.”

Some random jackass on the Internet: “BUT THERE COULD BE ONE STILL YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND SCIENCE!!11!”

The problem is that the specific argument you point to is often brought up either in complete ignorance or straight up bad faith. Communism bad, look at (insert one of like, 5 events here)

But let’s ignore the untold millions slaughtered, enslaved, or maimed in the name of profit.

Not to worry, your worry is caused by the location of your particles. That will be corrected after the measurement.

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I have completely forgotten about what exactly Streisand was trying to hide. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen the actual media she was embarrassed about.

I make Span-ish rice based on a recipe a gal I used to work with gave me. Her whole family was from Mexico. It’s pretty simple, do with this what you will.

2 cups long grain rice.
2 cups good chicken stock (I use better than bouillon).
1 small can tomato sauce.
A lot of cumin. Like a lot. A can of adobo sauce (optional). 1 can of Rotel (optional).
2 tablespoons of butter

Melt the butter in a large saute pan (nonstick is wise), toast the rice and ground cumin until the rice smells nutty. While that’s going mix together the tomato sauce, stock and any adobo sauce or blended chipotle peppers you plan on using. If you don’t like it spicy I’d still suggest using a little adobo. When the rice is toasted and in the liquid and Rotel. I generally stir it together here. As soon as it’s boiling put a tight lid on it and let it go at a good simmer for 15 minutes. Take it off the heat, remove the lid and fluff the rice with a fork and let it sit for a few minutes. This is a good time to taste for seasoning and add salt if you feel like it’s needed. I find this gets better as it sits. Always better the second day.

If you plan on adding any veggies like onion, Bell pepper, or corn, I’ve found it’s best to saute them separately and add them back to the pan with the liquid. I’ve never added chicken but I would imagine if you use chicken thighs you could do the same thing.

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That poor spherical cow doesn’t stand a chance