I'm almost curious to know what TFG is saying, but not curious enough to actually Google it. I am a Katrina victim, and I have zero tolerance for any shit from politicians about this stuff.
They have hooked us up and are going to help us to feed AN ENTIRE SHELTER this evening in Asheville, NC!
Just like the other places we have went, the workers at Waffle House said we have to stick together! They just reopened, and were serving with a smile!!
Thank you all for helping us be able to help others!!!
Batman - oka Chef Andrés - is also there with his team
"Quick report on my way to Ashville to join @WCKitchen teams, from a @WaffleHouse
in Abingdon, picking up sandwiches for any hungry first responder I may find in the way! Proud of the teams responding in many states from Florida to North Carolina plus our response in Acapulco"
IF people have room in their charity budgets (I think everyone understands how budgets are tight because of PRICE GOUGING) -- please give to World Central Kitchen if you can
Why isn't OHJB down there preening for the cameras and obstructing relief and rescue workers, like the guy who likes to call himself "your favorite President?" And where is HIS Magic Sharpie?
He keeps talking about Alabama, which as far as I know wasn't affected much by this hurricane. But Alabama is the state he Sharpie'd in when he was prez to try to cover up his stupid.
OT: Well, enough of this yivshish. I want to get outside and spread some poison on the ants, because S. invicta are the Devil's spawn and unworthy of life (and I want to get this done before any afternoon rain starts up).
Ants decided to take up residence in one of the planters on my office window sill sometime this weekend. So now I have a fine film of death, aka diatomaceous earth, spread across the sill as well. Have fun with that, you little fuckers! I told you to stay outside, dammit.
Anyone here lived through a hurricane? I have, and it’s fucking terrifying. 30 years ago Hurricane season always ran through October, I believe Prometheus59650 100%
I grew up in Jacksonville and all I remember as a kid was watching shit blow down the street. And we got off from school. But after moving back here in 2003, we got hit with 2 hurricanes back to back in 2004, and another pretty nasty one in 2005 (late october). Fuck this idiot.
Later the former President went to the parking lot behind Denny's and jumpshotted some paper towels at local residents who had lost everything in the flooding.
Two comments down, in the WeatherWest tweet-thread I posted, a lot of what Swain talks about is people looking at modeled catastrophic scenarios and saying "it can't happen". Even when those scenarios are things that *have* happened in the paleo-climate record.
It’s a narcissistic trait of his. He will pretend that he’s discovered something no one has ever heard of before and he’s a genius for telling you something everyone already knows.
I haven't been to HK since before the handover, but holy god the food you got at street stalls in Kowloon (which mostly essentially seemed to be the equivalent of a hot dog cart in NYC, except there was (limited) seating) was earth-shatteringly good. That and a ride on the Star Ferry (for a pittance): priceless.
Along the lines of "real info, not Trump bullshit"...WeatherWest (Daniel Swain) with a long tweet-thread on this disaster. He compares it to "ARKstorm 2.0", the simulated models of what might happen today when (not if) the great California flood of 1862 repeats. This flood put the Central Valley underwater and saw newly-elected Governor Leland Stanford taking the oath of office from a rowboat.
In his view the impacts from Helene in the southern Appalachians are comparable. Not sure about exact details, but comparable.
The TVA was set up in response to an epic flood. I notice there was not any mention of Tennessee in the pres conference, so I guess the flood control system worked.
Well, I went to work on two things. The last one was dumping the spices I will NEVER use and putting useful stuff in them, relabeling. (The useless spices will serve as some sort of room aroma.) "Gun Barrel Venison" spice mix. No idea why I ordered that. "Allspice." Sure, Jan. Into the aroma bowl, where it belongs next to the Gun Barrel stuff. All this will mix with rosemary and mint scents in the place, for a melange of whatever.
How long do you let your spices stay in your (or your mom's, or grandmom's, because there WILL be resistance) spice cabinets before you dump them -- excuse me, move them along?
I have a lifetime supply of fennel. Sometimes you go to an asian market and just get swept up in the excitement of being able to buy a 5 pound bag a cumin or turmeric.
I saw a meme with a picture of a person's spice rack, which noted that Marco Polo traveled to the far east in search of spices, and that apparently many of the person's spice collection were samples returned on that very trip.
OT, but I just had my day immeasurably ruined. Netflix is giving "Ancient Apocalypse" a second season, and it comes out soon. That show drives me up the wall, because it paints this image of history as a "just asking questions" thing about literally extending known history back tens of thousands of years, and if you don't agree with host and pseudoarchaeologist who believes in Atlantis Graham Hancock, you're part of the establishment who hates him.
For sweeping history docs, PBS Documentary is worth a trial subscription. Michael Woods' History of India and History of China are quite entertaining and seem reliable.
Also, Amazon Prime now has decades of episodes of Time Team, very local archaeological adventures in the UK.
You'll be far better served by checking out "Alternate History Hub" by "Cody" on YouTube. He knows his history, and explores interesting alternative scenarios. Most recently, he looked at "What if Anyone Won the Korean War?" and "What if America Never Joined WWI?"
Times have been tough in this Western Carolina town. Power outages, tree damage, flooding, houses swept way by Hurricane Helene. So when they heard Trump talk about a national day of violence they finally had something to cheer about. But now the woke mob is trying to take that away.
Stupid gotcha questions from that Douchey creature, yet again. Boy, howdy, is he tiresome.
I'm almost curious to know what TFG is saying, but not curious enough to actually Google it. I am a Katrina victim, and I have zero tolerance for any shit from politicians about this stuff.
Same here. "Pre-K" hasn't meant "pre-kindergarten" for a lot of years now.
Just more bile.
You don't want to know.
https://x.com/ChrisHallWx/status/1840773937984070016
Chris Hall, Y'all
@ChrisHallWx
WAFFLE HOUSE IS OPEN!!!
They have hooked us up and are going to help us to feed AN ENTIRE SHELTER this evening in Asheville, NC!
Just like the other places we have went, the workers at Waffle House said we have to stick together! They just reopened, and were serving with a smile!!
Thank you all for helping us be able to help others!!!
Love this
Very grateful
Batman - oka Chef Andrés - is also there with his team
"Quick report on my way to Ashville to join @WCKitchen teams, from a @WaffleHouse
in Abingdon, picking up sandwiches for any hungry first responder I may find in the way! Proud of the teams responding in many states from Florida to North Carolina plus our response in Acapulco"
https://x.com/chefjoseandres/status/1840616329859973465
IF people have room in their charity budgets (I think everyone understands how budgets are tight because of PRICE GOUGING) -- please give to World Central Kitchen if you can
I'm sure President Klan Robe is spewing some lies to be distributed through the rightwing media human centipede.
Glad we have a great president in command though who will make sure everyone gets help and won't play political games.
Why isn't OHJB down there preening for the cameras and obstructing relief and rescue workers, like the guy who likes to call himself "your favorite President?" And where is HIS Magic Sharpie?
He keeps talking about Alabama, which as far as I know wasn't affected much by this hurricane. But Alabama is the state he Sharpie'd in when he was prez to try to cover up his stupid.
I bet OHJB would have a better arm at lobbing paper towels.
But alas, competence and all. I completely forgot who the FEMA administrator is because it's not a three-ring circus.
OT: Well, enough of this yivshish. I want to get outside and spread some poison on the ants, because S. invicta are the Devil's spawn and unworthy of life (and I want to get this done before any afternoon rain starts up).
Ants decided to take up residence in one of the planters on my office window sill sometime this weekend. So now I have a fine film of death, aka diatomaceous earth, spread across the sill as well. Have fun with that, you little fuckers! I told you to stay outside, dammit.
smoking laaaaaaaamp
is
LIT
You're a minute late. Go stand in a corner.
No dessert.
ummm, blame yr snubstack?
You heard me.
And put down that ice cream.
that cone does not contain any dairy products, mate!!
*sneaks you sorbet*
here, I'll trade ya!
lllllllloooooooongreach
Arby d'airy!
orrrr, perhaps
Kona cone, eh?
Trump Claims ‘Nobody Thought’ a Hurricane Would Hit This Time of Year Despite It Being Peak Hurricane Season
https://www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-claims-nobody-thought-a-hurricane-would-hit-this-time-of-year-despite-it-being-peak-hurricane-season/
Doesn't he, like, LIVE in Florida? All the Floridians I know are experts in hurricaneology
Anyone here lived through a hurricane? I have, and it’s fucking terrifying. 30 years ago Hurricane season always ran through October, I believe Prometheus59650 100%
I grew up in Jacksonville and all I remember as a kid was watching shit blow down the street. And we got off from school. But after moving back here in 2003, we got hit with 2 hurricanes back to back in 2004, and another pretty nasty one in 2005 (late october). Fuck this idiot.
The hurricane wouldn't have hit if we had charged tariffs!
I know people in storm country. They don't stop watching the water until Christmas.
Sometimes I can go a few days without looking at it but always go back. And when I do there is some shit out there.
Later the former President went to the parking lot behind Denny's and jumpshotted some paper towels at local residents who had lost everything in the flooding.
Why didn't he divert it with his Sharpie?
Donnie is not very bright. :(
That's like saying degenerate matter is somewhat heavy.
No one knows what's coming out of his mouth. He doesn't know either. I'm waiting for the day when he spits up pins, needles, and big-ass swamp toads.
Black bile and a Geiger nightmare.
Nobody thought Trump would spew lies out of his mouth hole, despite it being a day ending in "y".
“Tr*mp claims…Poot Poot Poot pbpht pfert blaaaaacht pferrrrrrrt…”
NYT: Donald Trump turns his attention to disaster relief.
Which is sort of like the Eye of Sauron, no good can come from getting his attention.
Two comments down, in the WeatherWest tweet-thread I posted, a lot of what Swain talks about is people looking at modeled catastrophic scenarios and saying "it can't happen". Even when those scenarios are things that *have* happened in the paleo-climate record.
Nature listens to people saying 'it can't happen' and grins evilly.
It’s a narcissistic trait of his. He will pretend that he’s discovered something no one has ever heard of before and he’s a genius for telling you something everyone already knows.
It’s like if one’s face could produce actual feces Trump’s mouth would have produced it already
The thing I want most in the world is just for him to shut the fuck up.
To be fair, he's also startled every morning when the sun rises, panicked every night when it sets, and baffled when things fall out of his ass.
(and can't tell the difference between his brains, poop, or Senator Graham)
"It's not Sharpie® season!"
It's like he's dumber than shit or something...
It's exactly like that
Mind-fuckingly stupid.
I don't know if this has a paywall, but I really enjoyed this article today. It made me hungry though. Son takes his mother back to Hong Kong to revisit her favorite food stalls. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/09/26/magazine/hong-kong-dai-pai-dong.html
This was just lovely, and visuals are so memorable. I guess it's part of a series of six Food Voyages?
Here's a gift link, just in case, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/09/26/magazine/hong-kong-dai-pai-dong.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Ok4.D-wc.QYRBYSsmloOv&smid=url-share
I haven't been to HK since before the handover, but holy god the food you got at street stalls in Kowloon (which mostly essentially seemed to be the equivalent of a hot dog cart in NYC, except there was (limited) seating) was earth-shatteringly good. That and a ride on the Star Ferry (for a pittance): priceless.
Along the lines of "real info, not Trump bullshit"...WeatherWest (Daniel Swain) with a long tweet-thread on this disaster. He compares it to "ARKstorm 2.0", the simulated models of what might happen today when (not if) the great California flood of 1862 repeats. This flood put the Central Valley underwater and saw newly-elected Governor Leland Stanford taking the oath of office from a rowboat.
In his view the impacts from Helene in the southern Appalachians are comparable. Not sure about exact details, but comparable.
https://x.com/Weather_West/status/1840108495250542771
The TVA was set up in response to an epic flood. I notice there was not any mention of Tennessee in the pres conference, so I guess the flood control system worked.
Eastern Tennessee got whacked, but Western NC has had all its roads closed for days.
Both states had dams that were on the verge of failure.
I thought that, but no one nationally is mentioning that. Any idea what gives?
Well, I went to work on two things. The last one was dumping the spices I will NEVER use and putting useful stuff in them, relabeling. (The useless spices will serve as some sort of room aroma.) "Gun Barrel Venison" spice mix. No idea why I ordered that. "Allspice." Sure, Jan. Into the aroma bowl, where it belongs next to the Gun Barrel stuff. All this will mix with rosemary and mint scents in the place, for a melange of whatever.
Allspice is good stuff. I use it all the time. Give it a chance.
https://www.allrecipes.com/article/what-is-allspice/#:~:text=Often%20mistaken%20for%20a%20blend,black%20pepper%2C%20cinnamon%20and%20clove.
Good in pies.
It's now doing yeoman's duty as aroma therapy. Right with the Gun Barrel Venison spice mix.
How long do you let your spices stay in your (or your mom's, or grandmom's, because there WILL be resistance) spice cabinets before you dump them -- excuse me, move them along?
Ha! I can relate to this. I have three jars of coriander - two leaf, one seed. When did I get these?
I have a lifetime supply of fennel. Sometimes you go to an asian market and just get swept up in the excitement of being able to buy a 5 pound bag a cumin or turmeric.
Cumin I'll take. Turmeric, uh, nope.
Yeah, I'm eying that coriander seed, and wondering what I could do with it.
Use it to flavor Enchilada filling.
You were out of weed and thought you'd experiment?
I saw a meme with a picture of a person's spice rack, which noted that Marco Polo traveled to the far east in search of spices, and that apparently many of the person's spice collection were samples returned on that very trip.
I saw one that said celebrating Columbus Day is getting drunk and lost in the grocery store looking for the spice aisle.
the clash piece.
The only Clash song I know goes -- I think --
"You're really gonna like it
Rockin' the cash bar, rockin the cash bar ... "
It was a big hit at corporate events.
Can't wait to see how impressive next year's storms are . . .
Next month's storms... also
Hurricane season officially ends on November 30th.
Of what year?
What colours are you not allowed to wear after that?
Ian Paisley. It's a color that makes you say "NEVER!"
Haynd's tayth!
Ecru
Taupe.
They say taupe is very soothing.
It's clear that these storms no longer pay any attention to the calendar.
Well, I did say "officially."
Has someone told the hurricanes?
Man proposes, Nature disposes.
....in this part of the world.
And we still might get storms after that. I recall we had a tropical storm in the Atlantic in January 2006 (it's listed as part of the 2005 season).
I guess it's time to watch "The Day After Tomorrow" again.
OT, but I just had my day immeasurably ruined. Netflix is giving "Ancient Apocalypse" a second season, and it comes out soon. That show drives me up the wall, because it paints this image of history as a "just asking questions" thing about literally extending known history back tens of thousands of years, and if you don't agree with host and pseudoarchaeologist who believes in Atlantis Graham Hancock, you're part of the establishment who hates him.
Ugh. I feel like "Cunk on Earth" is more factual, and it's a satire.
Her view about sports aligns precisely with mine.
Cunk on Earth at least makes me laugh, and she does accidentally raise good questions!
For sweeping history docs, PBS Documentary is worth a trial subscription. Michael Woods' History of India and History of China are quite entertaining and seem reliable.
Also, Amazon Prime now has decades of episodes of Time Team, very local archaeological adventures in the UK.
"I'm not saying it was aliens, but..."
Everything I know, I learned from "Cunk on Earth."
You'll be far better served by checking out "Alternate History Hub" by "Cody" on YouTube. He knows his history, and explores interesting alternative scenarios. Most recently, he looked at "What if Anyone Won the Korean War?" and "What if America Never Joined WWI?"
https://www.youtube.com/@AlternateHistoryHub
"And that, my liege, is how we know the Earth to be banana-shaped."
Open yore mind! Whoosh.
As an archaeologist, I'm not allowed to watch this genre of show. It's the law here in California.
You should look up miniminuteman on YouTube. He takes down a lot of these pseudo archeology programs
Hancock's a known fraud and conspiracy theorist going back decades. Anyone who still listens to him is deliberately ignoring reality.
Which means the housemate will want to see it.
Le sigh.
Yup yup. And they pay him to walk around, go to actual historical sites and potentially damage them, while spewing his bullshit.
(megafacepalms)
Dog doesn't like to get their nail trimmed.
https://imgur.com/gallery/oscar-goes-to-VQKaEfy#chm2H9j
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNsU6aNzM3E
I had a siberian husky I am well aware of the fur coat I would wear after brushing her.
They don't like them painted either.
Well, how often do dogs go places where they need to dress up that much?
OT
https://www.rawstory.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-hurricane-funding/
Marjorie Taylor Greene is asking for money to help Georgia, which clearly needs it.
She also complains Biden is not a man of action.
And I'm pretty sure she was one of those trying to get the government shut down recently.
The President can declare disaster areas, but the states have to ask for help. We can thank "Good job, Brownie" for the policy.
So she runs her mouth while Joe sends the relief. Got it.
SSDD.
Maybe Trump could shamble on down to Georgia and toss some paper towel rolls at the constituents.
Government small enough to drown in a storm drain.
We allll float down here....
She was, she was bitterly disappointed that it didn’t. Has the Governor not requested FEMA assistance?
He has.
This is Marj just grandstanding and doing what she always does- ranting and hooting because she literally doesn't know what's going on.
Also, fucking Trump used to regularly threaten to withhold aid from "Rothschild space laser" caused California forest fires.
Yeah, didn't she vote against the CR? The one where Speaker Johnson forgot to add an increase in FEMA funding?
Clearly biden didn't have the balls to "nuke the Hurricane" .
Or Sharpie it out of the way.
Times have been tough in this Western Carolina town. Power outages, tree damage, flooding, houses swept way by Hurricane Helene. So when they heard Trump talk about a national day of violence they finally had something to cheer about. But now the woke mob is trying to take that away.
NYT
Jesus, if they haven't already written this, they will NOW.
Make them pay you for it.