I want someone to project that map onto a globe to illustrate how ridiculous it was. The elegantly circular arcs of the north sides of those storms would look bizarrely teardrop-pinched, if I'm not mistaken.

One of them (Zoom I think) at least used to be able to pop up a request for attendees to turn on their mics. I was glad to see it required permission, and I was not glad to see the host must have clicked that request.

Are there still places that legally mandate car refueling operators? That seemed like a job that literally only existed to give some people a job.

Might have just found out about another?

Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say - https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-planted-explosives-hezbollahs-taiwan-made-pagers-say-sources-2024-09-18/

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If you're on a ".gov" site, it's safe to expect that it is a legit site of the US government.

And primaries are the "real" elections to get us there. General elections will continue to be major party A vs. major party B, with a "this is the most important election ever" backdrop, while primaries are where we have to try to get our important issues (like election reform) carried by generally electable candidates to get those issues injected into the parties.

And the amount of money spent on primaries confirms how influential they are capable of being.

Nice

Sun Tzu nods, wisely.

I'm under the impression there are more votes to lose by not appearing to stick with Israel than there are votes to lose by not attempting to intervene. At least, that's what the party appears to have assessed.

It's absolutely not enough time. Those are serial killers in the making.

Fuck is wrong with you?

I support this new saying. What's wrong with people literally fitting the original label? I think we generally appreciate those people, right?

Perfect new name for a "love blanket", lol.

Also peppers and potatoes. It's amazing to me to think about how adaptive people are that "old world" places have so thoroughly integrated these "new world" items into their culinary cultural identities.

Wikipedia gives a decently quick tour of chili's evolution.

I've been spouting about the "chili queens" of old San Antonio as the origin, but it sounds like they were more significant as an early analog to food trucks that drove chili across cultural gaps. The origin of that food sounds like it originated back, at least, to indigenous peoples and does sound like a staple of cowboys/vaqueros long before the Great Depression.

Then there's Cincinnati-style chili, "developed by Macedonian and Greek immigrants, deriving from their own culinary traditions", so that merging of another style under the same name might muddy the water when it comes to talking about the origin of spiced meat bits.

____________________________________________________ gun control ___________________.

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That's a big motivation for me, too, but I'd say it's about equally that I want archival of the best stuff for when rights holders pull their catalogs from the services I stream. I used to think that was mainly for the more obscure stuff, like local bands' early albums that I can barely find anymore, but recently I've noticed albums missing from main services (Tidal and Spotify, in my case) for bigger acts, too.

Cleveland clinic says says about coffee's laxative effect:

Researchers found that 29% of coffee drinkers report a desire to poop after drinking coffee. The feeling can come pretty quickly, too. (In as little as four minutes!)

And about lactose intolerance (same article):

An estimated 65% of people have some difficulty digesting lactose, which can lead to restroom runs. Lactose intolerance can cause diarrhea and other gastrointestinal (GI) issues within 30 minutes of consumption.

At least they didn't write "brand's", so there's that.