At least they didn’t make you do it the original way, with the Bellamy salute:

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I don’t pretend to be any restaurant that has opened in New Orleans. However, want to share a few tips I’ve discerned over a few years:

• The holy trinity is critical to Creole cuisine, and red beans in particular. The holy trinity consists of onion, Bell pepper, celery, and garlic is “The Pope”. This is perfectly vegan.

• to a non-vegan red beans and rice, the only ingredients I would add are bacon (or another source of pork fat) and pork ham in some form. I would substitute with any reasonable vegan source of fat

• sweet potatoes are still good if you absolutely need to turn this into patties for a complete meal at the end.

Doesn’t a Google Pixel device come with its own OS image by default, independent of Graphene OS? Is there some kind of step that we’re missing here?

Clearly not, because $country did all this shit, and capitalism did not collapse, somehow…this time.

Fun fact: the Big Three US American credit unions have a time horizon of seven years. This is set by law. This fucks me, because all my credit accounts are older than that. But the seven year horizon is good for this guy and folks who have declared bankruptcy.

Meanwhile, Nintendo positioned this method to compete with Aladdin, which simply hired Walt Disney animators to do the sprites.

When this country was founded, tariff revenue was enough to fund the entire federal government. Those days are long gone, and they’re not coming back.

Nowadays, there are basically two reasons to play the tariff game. 1. Extract tariff concessions from your trading partners, and 2. Encourage domestic production. The problem is, if you’re going for #1, you have to be willing to drop your tariffs at the drop off a hat to make a deal. If you’re playing #2, the people that build factories and whatnot want assurances that the tariff supports will be in place for years and years.

So you can see that there’s an inherent trade-off between #1 and #2. To some extent, you cannot serve both masters. But Trump has been playing both strategies at the same time without a care in the world. There are… consequences… to doing that, which I am sure we will all get to experience.

Edit: okay, okay. This Bolsonaro thing is a brand new strategy #3 which I’m calling… Oh geez… I gotta go but some more beer.

Here’s this from the National Republican Senatorial Committee:

What Ken Paxton has put his family through is truly repulsive and disgusting. No one should have to endure what Angela Paxton has, and we pray for her as she chooses to stand up for herself and her family during this difficult time.

That is not the kind of statement these people put out when it’s a regular adultery or whatever. Whatever the “biblical grounds” are, they seem a lot more serious than usual.

In the previous opinion, SCOTUS didn’t say that nationwide class actions or APA suits are legal. They just declined to rule on those, and I believe a justice said class actions might be viable substitutes in a concurring opinion.

My guess is we’re going to find out what they think about this class action pretty fast.

The use of Stingray by US law enforcement has been challenged on grounds that the law enforcement agencies have no spectrum license. Those challenges seem not to have found success.

On the other hand, prisons in the US have been stopped from operating cell phone jammers on prison grounds, on the same complaint of no spectrum license.

32% year over year decline in traffic fatalities. That is just absolutely huge and frankly rather shocking.

Exactly. This is completely insane. The DoD has the negotiating leverage to write these right to repair requirements into their RFPs, specifications, and contracts. The idea that their procurement offices simply failed to do this boggles my mind.

Back in the war, if you had a winning design, you were required to license it, full drawings included, to many different manufacturers at fair prices. The Defense Production Act is still on the books, and it contains a lot of power to control the economy. Why is DoD handcuffing themselves?

Pork is famously ‘the other white meat’ according to an old advertising campaign.

Richard Reid is serving three consecutive life sentences, plus 110 years on top, for the original shoe bombing plot. The shoes contained 10 ounces of C4. He resides at ADX Florence.

Turkish Grok is suddenly pro-Kurdish and pro-Kemalist at the same time. This is now under investigation by the Turkish government.

Military literally planting the American flag on Wilshire Blvd.

Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Abrego* is in fact staying in pretrial detention with the US Marshal temporarily. The judge agreed to delay enforcing her order to release Abrego at his own request. The Marshal will at least ensure he shows up to court in TN–something I’m not willing to say about ICE.

*This judge also asked Mr. Abrego in a hearing what surname he prefers, and the answer was “Abrego.”

American car insurance covers collision damage from other cars or external factors. It doesn’t cover mechanical failures. You can get extended warranty coverage, both from your car dealer or from third parties, but this is usually not financially worthwhile.