I love these updates on Canada. I went to University in Saskatchewan for a while (many years ago) and love getting a window on their situation. Don't need updates on Saskatchewan much though. That place was a conservative mess in nineties and I'm sure continues that tradition today.
First out, a whole 16 inch long grilled fish, white rice, a plate of noodles, raw green veggies, something like chicken tenders, spicy minced pork, stir fried broccoli and mushrooms...and mysterious sauces.
seems to me while unusual to ascribe it to bringing your own to a tea party, I usually heard it in relation to leaving a door open, the implication that "you are not civilized" was not too much a stretch?
Remember that the Mythbusters proved that you still get benefits from laying prone and resting, even if you do not get sleep.
I'm a shitty sleeper myself (very light sleep most of the time, wake up by 5am every day regardless of when I went to bed) so I have to take what I can get too!
Lying quietly for a few hours seems to be all I need to do these days. It has quite literally been more than a full week since I've been able to fall asleep.
My next door neighbor has been suffering from insomnia lately. Then she had a TIA last Thursday and she's in the hospital. Still not sleeping, they gave her some oral morphine solution. Out like a light! Try it!
Indica works for me, no point going straight to the morphine.
I'm really sorry to hear that, honestly. At least you seem to be maintaining a grip on reality, however tenuous, and have yet to imagine children being sold at rock bottom prices at wayfair.com!
They do not. They've had braying sycophants telling them how amazing and smart and wonderful they are for their whole lives, and they think that they are amazing and smart and wonderful as a result.
Read on FB--"Progressives are going to stay home, or vote 3rd party."
How the F do you call yourself a "Progressive" if every time you pull this purity pony bullshit, the country goes backwards? Seriously, the choice this year is between Democrats and a party that is one step away from calling for a reinstitution of slavery.
Just assume it's Russian disinformation like everything else on the non-Wonkette internet, and treat it accordingly (though it's not environmentally sound to print out facebook posts and wipe your ass with them, so maybe not exactly accordingly...)
I am not yet loving these "progressive lenses". I can't see without contacts, and now need cheaters to read if the contact are in--haven't had glasses forever, which is annoying in the middle of the night when I have to get up (or want to), because I don't want to put in contacts but also don't want to have my face two inches from the computer when I'm approving nighttime warrants or whatever...anyway, I might have to rejigger how the computer is or something, because there's a lot of blur I'm not used to.
What I'm saying is I should have just got glasses that weren't so WOKE and just taken them off if I needed to read!
With one exception. When you are deciding what to do to a image before having it printed make sure the glasses for that purpose have no coating that can alter the color balance of the images you are looking at.
I'll take bifocals anyday over the progressive lenses. The bifocals I have is set at long distance and intermediate. The intermediate being the seeing distance to the instrument panel of the car.
For reading I take my glasses off and use none or use full frame reading glasses.
I dislike trifocals enough to do it this way.
Everybody does have different preferences and this is how this retired optical engineer likes to do it.
With the progressive lenses I find the distortion awful. Also the limited view angle for some values of optical power.
That's the key - it's literally follow your nose. Turn your head, not just your eyes, and point your schnoz at what you're looking at. For reading, be sure to drop your eyes, but not your whole head, or you'll be looking through the intermediate or distance power.
It def takes some getting used to. Not sure how clear I can make the tips in print, but I was an optician for 15 years & progressives were my jam back in the day. Working with someone in person, I very rarely had someone who couldn't adapt...but there are certain work (or craft, or whatever) situations that just aren'te suited for progressives.
I'm also a bit annoyed because (for reasons having to do with the strength of my prescription) I couldn't get the giant frames...I LOVE oversized frames because my head is enormous and I feel like they make me look more in proportion and less like Dr. Bunson Honeydew.
lol lol I get the large frames myself XD I HATE looking around and seeing the edge of my glasses in my vision
I too have a big ol head so I can get away with em.
Side story: Had a bad time in college chem because I never had it in HS, and the proff just assumed we had, so taught that way. Anyway, was in the lab once struggling and frustrated and the head of the chem department wandered in (and helped, he was soooo much better than my prof) and made a joke that of COURSE I could get this, I must be super smart with that big head.
At first I was a bit insulted- did dude just call me a fat head?- but then I rolled it off with a quip about it being more cranial bone than vault.
It sickens me that the the shitstain's useless fascist fuck party is likely to "win" the next election.
For those who are not aware, in Canada, political parties routinely win "majority governments" with < 40% of the vote. It's not just the electoral college that is a dumb stupid system that helps the right wing wield outsized power...
These rules were written way before any of these assholes were involved, this is the fault of not adapting and changing as times change.
A lot of USicans have this belief that a robust multi-party system is a good thing, and it is, if your electoral system can handle that. Neither Canada's nor the USes are electoral systems that can handle robust multi-party systems, but Canada decided to do that anyway.
I do not have that belief. *glances at UK, Israel, etc* seems me the robust multi party thing tends to just split up the center from the left letting the right waltz in with a minority time and again.
In a perfect world where people can put aside ideology for a common good it would be good, but this world seems less than ideal.
Honestly, the Liberal minority propped up by the NDP is probably the best possible outcome for Canada for the foreseeable future. Until we get SOME form of electoral reform (ideally STV, but I'll take anything short of electing the candidate who can guess how many jellybeans are in a jar...)
Ranked voting would need to go hand in hand with a multi party I figure, or else the 1/3 that is batshit will clean up every time. Maine learned this after not once, not twice, but three times letting that happen XD
We already have the multi-party up here, so at least that won't be an issue.
I do at least hear some stirrings that there is potentially some sort of electoral reform discussion at least planned, but given that it was a promise the first time Trudeau was elected, I'm incredibly disappointed, even though I know the alternatives would be WAY worse.
Not just the South, I'm afraid. I had them in Nevada, and now they're in the southwestern part of California, too. So, pretty much all across the lower tier of USAmerica.
Beautiful
I love these updates on Canada. I went to University in Saskatchewan for a while (many years ago) and love getting a window on their situation. Don't need updates on Saskatchewan much though. That place was a conservative mess in nineties and I'm sure continues that tradition today.
Hockey rink in a prison? Wassamatta not enough fighting?
Ahhh, now to try to end this sleepus interuptus and get some more sleep.
I am the drunkst, and I spilled my water, and I am...
Something.
I was going to be blasphemous.
However, I say to you, friends, make good choices.
Well, Mrs PDL chose the restaurant, and we are now in a very local joint on the alley that parallels the old railroad tracks.
It's not Mississippi; it's Thailand.
I'm pretty sure this meal will involve pig guts, chicken feet, and bony fish.
Updates forthcoming.
First out, a whole 16 inch long grilled fish, white rice, a plate of noodles, raw green veggies, something like chicken tenders, spicy minced pork, stir fried broccoli and mushrooms...and mysterious sauces.
Into the breach.
Yum. Love it!
Not a wonkmeet
https://www.gocomics.com/adamathome/2024/03/18
I don't think the writer knows the meaning of "born in a barn."
seems to me while unusual to ascribe it to bringing your own to a tea party, I usually heard it in relation to leaving a door open, the implication that "you are not civilized" was not too much a stretch?
I would have gone with, "were you raised by wolves?"
I would have gone with "What kind of asshole brings his own to a kid's tea party?"
But I do not write comics.
Funny, as I clicked on that there was a Culligan commercial on TV where the guy brings a gallon of Culligan water into a restaurant.
Good day, beloved Wonketteers. I love and appreciate you all and I bless us all with love, health, peace. and grace. Please, stay safe. You know how!
Slava Ukraini. 🌻🇺🇦💙💛
Good morning, my friend--you and your beloved be safe and well!
I feel seen
https://www.gocomics.com/arloandjanis/2024/03/18
I just simply do not go to sleep anymore. I can lie there for hours with my eyes closed but I do not fall asleep.
Now I can't even lie there anymore, it's gotten uncomfortable. It's time to turn on the news and find out what's going to be pissing me off today.
Remember that the Mythbusters proved that you still get benefits from laying prone and resting, even if you do not get sleep.
I'm a shitty sleeper myself (very light sleep most of the time, wake up by 5am every day regardless of when I went to bed) so I have to take what I can get too!
Lying quietly for a few hours seems to be all I need to do these days. It has quite literally been more than a full week since I've been able to fall asleep.
My next door neighbor has been suffering from insomnia lately. Then she had a TIA last Thursday and she's in the hospital. Still not sleeping, they gave her some oral morphine solution. Out like a light! Try it!
Indica works for me, no point going straight to the morphine.
I'm really sorry to hear that, honestly. At least you seem to be maintaining a grip on reality, however tenuous, and have yet to imagine children being sold at rock bottom prices at wayfair.com!
𝐹𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑒𝑟 𝑁𝑒𝑤 𝑌𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝐶𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑀𝑎𝑦𝑜𝑟 𝑅𝑢𝑑𝑦 𝐺𝑖𝑢𝑙𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑖 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑜𝑛 𝑆𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑙𝑜𝑦𝑎𝑙𝑡𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑒𝑟 𝑃𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝐷𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑑 𝑇𝑟𝑢𝑚𝑝 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝 ℎ𝑖𝑚 "𝑖𝑛 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑛."
Heaven isn't where you're gonna need help, Bud..
He may get away with a non-custodial sentence though.
In heaven, everything is fines.
Boy is Roodles going to be in for a big surprise.
EGGGG-ZACTLY! Trump throws everyone under the bus. No one is immune.
All it takes is even a perceived slight against him and boom — under the bus it is.
Hey Roodles, have fun finding out.
Nah. The willful ignorance prevents that from happening.
They do not. They've had braying sycophants telling them how amazing and smart and wonderful they are for their whole lives, and they think that they are amazing and smart and wonderful as a result.
They all think they sound like great orators..
These people no longer possess ANY functional relationship with reality.
Read on FB--"Progressives are going to stay home, or vote 3rd party."
How the F do you call yourself a "Progressive" if every time you pull this purity pony bullshit, the country goes backwards? Seriously, the choice this year is between Democrats and a party that is one step away from calling for a reinstitution of slavery.
Just assume it's Russian disinformation like everything else on the non-Wonkette internet, and treat it accordingly (though it's not environmentally sound to print out facebook posts and wipe your ass with them, so maybe not exactly accordingly...)
Not sure we should take anything on FB at this point with even the grain of salt.
I mean there will be some doing that, I am sure, there always is, but idk about it being widespread
edit: for context, there were claims on social media of the same thing happening in 20, and in 22.
I am not yet loving these "progressive lenses". I can't see without contacts, and now need cheaters to read if the contact are in--haven't had glasses forever, which is annoying in the middle of the night when I have to get up (or want to), because I don't want to put in contacts but also don't want to have my face two inches from the computer when I'm approving nighttime warrants or whatever...anyway, I might have to rejigger how the computer is or something, because there's a lot of blur I'm not used to.
What I'm saying is I should have just got glasses that weren't so WOKE and just taken them off if I needed to read!
Consider getting blue-blocker lenses when staring at a screen. They genuinely do help with eye strain.
Second this!
With one exception. When you are deciding what to do to a image before having it printed make sure the glasses for that purpose have no coating that can alter the color balance of the images you are looking at.
As a certified colour-blind person my career as a graphic designer was cut tragically short.
Progressive lenses can be annoying, as they keep pointing out your blind spots and insisting you see more and more, all of which is depressing.
They really need to rename those "progressive lenses" to something else. Before the MAGAts find out about them.
🤣🤣🤣
Walk face-first into a signpost to own the libs.
I had to chose from "Progressive" or BI-focals! It's outrageous!
I'll take bifocals anyday over the progressive lenses. The bifocals I have is set at long distance and intermediate. The intermediate being the seeing distance to the instrument panel of the car.
For reading I take my glasses off and use none or use full frame reading glasses.
I dislike trifocals enough to do it this way.
Everybody does have different preferences and this is how this retired optical engineer likes to do it.
With the progressive lenses I find the distortion awful. Also the limited view angle for some values of optical power.
Distortion! Thank you, that was the word XD
I too found that bit bad about those lenses. I have to turn my head a lot at work, lots of up down motions too, and they made me dizzy
That's the key - it's literally follow your nose. Turn your head, not just your eyes, and point your schnoz at what you're looking at. For reading, be sure to drop your eyes, but not your whole head, or you'll be looking through the intermediate or distance power.
It def takes some getting used to. Not sure how clear I can make the tips in print, but I was an optician for 15 years & progressives were my jam back in the day. Working with someone in person, I very rarely had someone who couldn't adapt...but there are certain work (or craft, or whatever) situations that just aren'te suited for progressives.
Not sure I really need tips, as it were. I wore them for 2 years and got used to them, just did not like them.
Bifocals do not have that issue, so I went back to them
EGGGG-ZACTLY!
Can you wear Bi-focals if you're straight? Asking for a friend.
Yes, but your vision is more limited than with panfocals or polyfocals.
I do glasses and tried the progressives, but for me they were a fail. Went back to Bifocals for the current pair
Same here.
I'm also a bit annoyed because (for reasons having to do with the strength of my prescription) I couldn't get the giant frames...I LOVE oversized frames because my head is enormous and I feel like they make me look more in proportion and less like Dr. Bunson Honeydew.
lol lol I get the large frames myself XD I HATE looking around and seeing the edge of my glasses in my vision
I too have a big ol head so I can get away with em.
Side story: Had a bad time in college chem because I never had it in HS, and the proff just assumed we had, so taught that way. Anyway, was in the lab once struggling and frustrated and the head of the chem department wandered in (and helped, he was soooo much better than my prof) and made a joke that of COURSE I could get this, I must be super smart with that big head.
At first I was a bit insulted- did dude just call me a fat head?- but then I rolled it off with a quip about it being more cranial bone than vault.
Alright, you lovely miscreants.
I need to settle down, now.
You, be you.
All of you are awesome (except you, you horrible person - you know who you are).
Good this night.
Me too?
Good this very night to you, my sweet Babe Paley.
{smooch}
Aw! What a lovely way to start
A Day.
*return smooch*
You seem kind.
I am friendly.
Maybe, I have misspoken.
It sickens me that the the shitstain's useless fascist fuck party is likely to "win" the next election.
For those who are not aware, in Canada, political parties routinely win "majority governments" with < 40% of the vote. It's not just the electoral college that is a dumb stupid system that helps the right wing wield outsized power...
They wrote the rules ... so of course the rules benefit them.
These rules were written way before any of these assholes were involved, this is the fault of not adapting and changing as times change.
A lot of USicans have this belief that a robust multi-party system is a good thing, and it is, if your electoral system can handle that. Neither Canada's nor the USes are electoral systems that can handle robust multi-party systems, but Canada decided to do that anyway.
I do not have that belief. *glances at UK, Israel, etc* seems me the robust multi party thing tends to just split up the center from the left letting the right waltz in with a minority time and again.
In a perfect world where people can put aside ideology for a common good it would be good, but this world seems less than ideal.
Honestly, the Liberal minority propped up by the NDP is probably the best possible outcome for Canada for the foreseeable future. Until we get SOME form of electoral reform (ideally STV, but I'll take anything short of electing the candidate who can guess how many jellybeans are in a jar...)
Ranked voting would need to go hand in hand with a multi party I figure, or else the 1/3 that is batshit will clean up every time. Maine learned this after not once, not twice, but three times letting that happen XD
But at least they learned it
We already have the multi-party up here, so at least that won't be an issue.
I do at least hear some stirrings that there is potentially some sort of electoral reform discussion at least planned, but given that it was a promise the first time Trudeau was elected, I'm incredibly disappointed, even though I know the alternatives would be WAY worse.
The Beeb's reporting that Australia has a brand-new nasty little critter - and it's an import!
It's the Argentine fire ant, Solenopsis invicta, a bane of lawns and fields in parts of the American South.
Not just the South, I'm afraid. I had them in Nevada, and now they're in the southwestern part of California, too. So, pretty much all across the lower tier of USAmerica.
That's a weird name, I'd have called them chuzzwazzers.
They are nasty. I've been stung before.
I'm happy to share mine.
When I cleared out my bar a few years ago, the fire ants got Jose Cuervo. It killed them.