Wait just a minute! You're comparing sugary spreads to our peanut butter? Imma remember this next time somebody from Europe gives us shit about sugar in our sandwich bread.

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Puzzle #1110
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::: spoiler Lame!

In my dialect, the hock in hockey sounds almost entirely unlike hawk. Was this puzzle made by a Canadian?

I understand that Platner can be divisive, but that aside, I seem to recall some unpopular, four-term President declaring that he welcomed that hate from his adversaries. Probably a bad idea to do the same; he might win with that kind of messaging, and winning is against the Democratic ethos.

You know how it's a cliché that an early warning sign of serial killers and other psychopaths is cruelty to animals?

Welp.

Hah, joke's on me. I threw that in to head off the complaining from his haters, so we could focus on the good things he's doing. Can't please everybody, I guess.

My take: Trillions of dollars added to bank ledgers through four rounds of quantitative easing by the Fed. Those dollars went somewhere, and ever notice how the stock market de-coupled from the health of the economy when QE started? It's kind of like they are playing with Monopoly money.

Anyway, lots of companies don't even pay dividends. The only way to make money on them is through market trades of the stock. P/E was just sort of a fig leaf so traders could lie to themselves that there was some rational basis to what they were doing. The underlying asset doesn't matter, as long as the buyers think that they can re-sell it higher. It doesn't even have to be stocks they're trading, it could be pogs, since the market works entirely on vibes now.

Smooth things over... like with a steamroller? No, Mamdani is not a violent person, but the conversations with Congressional Democrats should all be along the lines of, "buh-bye."

We say "genocide," the media hears, "Israel." Quite revealing, actually.

Unless the point is to avoid getting kicked in the balls without one's armor on. Then, it makes sense to cover your face, so your enemies don't recognize you.

It's not quite so straightforward. The United States has a deeply broken culture (hyperindividualism, for one thing), and these giant vehicles offer individual balm for the systemic rot. That's why we can them emotional support vehicles.

I put a wall of stones across my front yard, in part becase it looks good, but also in part because there was a car crash in front of my house the first week that I lived here, and one of the cars demolished the neighbors' stone wall (and not their house).

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The Yankees Hotel Foxtrot triad is an excellent nod to Wilco, but was an obvious red herring, Foxtrot had to be the dance. Sure enough, four styles of dance. Then, hotel: Four items from the game, Monopoly. Of the items remaining, the sorting options were pretty obvious, since I was in the Lemmy mindset already. That left the purple, which was the only way I would ever get that group. Earth and fireplace I get, but I don't know what the connection is between emperor, yankees, and mantle/mantel.

On the command line, virsh lets you destroy VMs.

A blue pool too cool for school would rule, if it weren't the ego-stroking tool of a cruel, doddering, old fool (and some say ghoul).

I have to ask, if it really takes 30 years to get infrastructure in place to reduce car use (it doesn't, but for the sake of argument), then shouldn't we be starting on it, like, yesterday? Where are all of those efforts? Are EVs really just a stop-gap measure?

The CityNerd video about Disneyland is pretty on-point about Autopia: In an otherwise compact, walkable park, that attraction takes up an inordinate amount of space, and often has long queues, because it's so space-inefficient. Only a handful of people can get in at a time.

It's, like, the perfect demonstration of driving, in miniature.

Also, being on fire. The way they pushed, "stop, drop, and roll" so hard, I presumed that being on fire was a routine part of life.

Here's a tip: If you don't tell anybody that you have no friends, they won't know. Perhaps it's not the part about not wanting to have friends that makes people suspicious, but rather the need to constantly tell other people about it?

Based on the track record, I hope that Iran can do a better job with the reflecting pool.

Just a comment to say I'm sorry hearing about this struggle, and you're doing the right thing. Unfortunately, loving somebody and being in a relationship with them are two separate things, and one is simply not enough to make the other work.