Jews from the Pale of Settlement (in what is now Russia/Ukraine/Poland etc) that fled pogroms in the late 1800's early 1900's started as peddlers and spoke Yiddish and by the 1940's their children were writing "White Christmas" for Bing Crosby to sing (Irving Berlin, a Jew), "Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire"(Mel Torme, a Jew). We are a proud melting pot and are made MUCH better by immigrants. Where does this dope think Pizza came from? Chinese food, kabobs, Thai, Tacos, pasta,sushi?
Rain was predicted for this afternoon, and I heard thunder in the distance. I brought the few pieces of still-damp laundry inside and hung them over the dining room chairs.
Back injury (20+yrs) has been close to agonizing for a couple of days, much of the time, so I'm on the heating pad and crossing limbs/digits. A hot cup of oat-milk cocoa-mocha, hopefully Maddow soon, and this should improve matters. HOW'S EVERYBODY?
Saving my energy for Maddows A block. Mrs Rib cruises the heating pad after her morning coffee on the regular.
We’re both shaking our fist at our new treadmill barely six months later - as it’s showing problems that require new parts. We’re pissed as the last treadmill we bought for $100 lasted 10 years.
So I walked all the way to the liquor store (and back!) and Neil Young played non-stop in my head! SOUTHERN MAN. I saw ass kickings and more ass kickings. Aaaahahh ahhhah ahahhahh. Neil wasn't even there. Nor was Skynerd. Fuckiingsplitters!
Baconz said this before, and again, and again. and aga.....
Women's hockey is played in the true style. They play like such "gentlemen". Im sure that sounds sexist (calling women gentlemen). But, its the true If you like hockey you may understand that statement.
None of that slashing and grabbing or cheap shots like I did when I was 12 playing ice hockey. Such a clean sport.
Now dont get baconz wrong. They have bruises in the 2nd period too. Hockey is a full contact sport. But they dont play cheap. Like in the NHL or Canadian Jrs.
Women's hockey players are constricted in how hard they can hit. If they hit an opponent too hard, they can get penalized for an "illegal hit" -- an infraction unknown in men's hockey.
I'm sure that parsing out just how hard they're allowed to hit someone is a source of ongoing frustration for the players.
My role on my hockey team was what they call "goon" or "shadow". I hated that role. But I was big and bad skater. So that was my role. I hated it. But any ice time was good time. My heart was on the ice every 1:30.
I was not.....let's just say I led the league in penalties and game suspensions.
Oh, lovely. Anthropic has built a "Claude Gov" version of its chatbot for use by the military and in classified projects. But the Pentagon is upset with them because .. it has too many guardrails. Was first reported by Axios (https://www.axios.com/2026/02/16/anthropic-defense-department-relationship-hegseth). Bloomberg sez "Anthropic wants to put guardrails in place to stop Claude from being used for mass surveillance of Americans or to develop weapons that can be deployed without a human involved, the person said, asking not to be identified because the negotiations are private. The Pentagon wants to be able to use Claude as long as its deployment doesn’t break the law. "
i recall that Anthropic created a version of Claude that would run an in-house vending machine. Workers could suggest items for it and their price ranges, and the AI would do the purchasing..... It did not turn out well. People quickly figured out how to get all sorts of things - from a PlayStation (they claimed to need it for 'research') to a live fish. So I'm not surprised that Anthropic would want SERIOUS MAJOR GUARDRAILS on anything they're making for the government.
Jews from the Pale of Settlement (in what is now Russia/Ukraine/Poland etc) that fled pogroms in the late 1800's early 1900's started as peddlers and spoke Yiddish and by the 1940's their children were writing "White Christmas" for Bing Crosby to sing (Irving Berlin, a Jew), "Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire"(Mel Torme, a Jew). We are a proud melting pot and are made MUCH better by immigrants. Where does this dope think Pizza came from? Chinese food, kabobs, Thai, Tacos, pasta,sushi?
Why am I not at all surprised?
https://bsky.app/profile/ronfilipkowski.bsky.social/post/3mey6hvqjvk2j
Whole pineapples and dragon fruit for the lot of them.
RFK Jr: “TBH, I just really wanted to talk about rectums. RECTUM.”
Many things sadden me, but not much surprises me anymore.
Austrian just kicked that incredible Norwegian off the top in Men's Slalom, these guys are fabulous.
What the fuck is this snow you are threatening me with, weather app? Surely it hasn’t been 12 years since the last dusting already . . .
Rain was predicted for this afternoon, and I heard thunder in the distance. I brought the few pieces of still-damp laundry inside and hung them over the dining room chairs.
It did not rain a drop.
Okay, good. Just checked a different app, and it looks like endless rain on that one, no snow. *That’s* the winter weather I expect.
Firefox, why did you decide to fuck everything up? Things were going so great.
What did they do?
Why I gave up on them decades ago.
Why? They were actually trying not to be assholes, as far as I've known.
Back injury (20+yrs) has been close to agonizing for a couple of days, much of the time, so I'm on the heating pad and crossing limbs/digits. A hot cup of oat-milk cocoa-mocha, hopefully Maddow soon, and this should improve matters. HOW'S EVERYBODY?
Not bad, I guess? I did 6 miles/10k on the treadmill today, and my body is feeling it. 10:00 pace, which is not slow for me
Saving my energy for Maddows A block. Mrs Rib cruises the heating pad after her morning coffee on the regular.
We’re both shaking our fist at our new treadmill barely six months later - as it’s showing problems that require new parts. We’re pissed as the last treadmill we bought for $100 lasted 10 years.
I'm random skull in the bra, had a good dinner and a nice glass of wine good.
And, helping my mom through her arthritis driven back pain in overdrive for six months, I'm so sorry, that pain sucks!
The primary, older, worse injury has now gone arthritis, and yeah it does.
Dinner + wine + bra-skull = excellent.
Tetman Callis! I've finally found what your pictures remind me of because I saw similar
Peggy Buth photographs St Louis
https://www.biorama.eu/vom-nutzen-der-angst-was-praegt-ein-stadtbild-wirklich/
It was in the V&A in London when I was there.
I was stunned by it and your photos reminded me very strongly of hers. That's a compliment, btw.
Suburban decay.
Exactly that. Our friend captured it perfectly as well.
Speaking of boiled ham: Joe Rogan most resembles a butt plug, does he not? A giant, bald stupid butt plug.
It’s hard to believe that the News Radio dude was him. Current Joe Rogan is like if they grew human wart people from News Radio dude’s butt tissue.
Maura Tierney is no longer impossibly cute, but she’s not the horror that Rogan is.
Missouri Man
https://www.firstalert4.com/2026/02/16/man-arrested-after-causing-1m-damages-sexually-harassing-building-resident-staff/
Come on, come on, come on, come on
Now, touch me, babe
Can't you see that I am not afraid?
How the heck did Robert Duvall get to be 95 years old while my head was turned?
I dont have better language than he was a fixture. Like Al Pacino, Gene Hackman and more if I weren’t enjoying some spirits.
They are just there, ageless. Until.
Dustin Hoffman.
We went through the same thing with Gene Hackman last year.
So I walked all the way to the liquor store (and back!) and Neil Young played non-stop in my head! SOUTHERN MAN. I saw ass kickings and more ass kickings. Aaaahahh ahhhah ahahhahh. Neil wasn't even there. Nor was Skynerd. Fuckiingsplitters!
Neil's solos are memorable.
The Neil Young song I keep coming back to is "Ohio."
Boiled ham libelzz!
Although nothing can compare to steamed hams -- a delicious family recipe!
Boiled ham hocks - growing up in the 70's - libulz as well!
Ham hocks and cabbage, with potatoes.
Most of the ham hocks I see now in the stores have almost no meat on them.
OT.
Baconz said this before, and again, and again. and aga.....
Women's hockey is played in the true style. They play like such "gentlemen". Im sure that sounds sexist (calling women gentlemen). But, its the true If you like hockey you may understand that statement.
None of that slashing and grabbing or cheap shots like I did when I was 12 playing ice hockey. Such a clean sport.
Now dont get baconz wrong. They have bruises in the 2nd period too. Hockey is a full contact sport. But they dont play cheap. Like in the NHL or Canadian Jrs.
But the women can trash-talk with the best of them. In most languages.
Women's hockey players are constricted in how hard they can hit. If they hit an opponent too hard, they can get penalized for an "illegal hit" -- an infraction unknown in men's hockey.
I'm sure that parsing out just how hard they're allowed to hit someone is a source of ongoing frustration for the players.
No Hanson Sisters then?
My role on my hockey team was what they call "goon" or "shadow". I hated that role. But I was big and bad skater. So that was my role. I hated it. But any ice time was good time. My heart was on the ice every 1:30.
I was not.....let's just say I led the league in penalties and game suspensions.
(I also led the league in blocked shots and +/-)
A person who makes 50K a year and gives $35 to charity is more generous than Musk.
https://bsky.app/profile/joshuasweitz.bsky.social/post/3meytdzulvk2n
Too bad Mackenzie and Melinda don't make the "richest" list.
They'd join Warren.
Warren Buffett pays me to agitate.
Again, stop being jealous.
And you can bet that for all "generosity" they got tax write offs.
My generosity is not slapping people whenever I want to.
(My hand would be useless after a few days otherwise. Still: GENEROUS.)
Mardi Gras spices 25% off! 🎵🎶🪕🎻🎺🥳🥳
https://www.penzeys.com/shop/spices/?categoryId=194&mkt_tok=NzgxLVFISi00MDYAAAGgBU9A-D1JiSlW-0i1ttM-FShsbQanmrOL7kdQQGu3L4iZ4dZqssrL2RvPkIyzAo94ReHrYAivmAPlXaOI6CcSZEZNVaTTQDKjsSNo5gFxSZVr
Oh, lovely. Anthropic has built a "Claude Gov" version of its chatbot for use by the military and in classified projects. But the Pentagon is upset with them because .. it has too many guardrails. Was first reported by Axios (https://www.axios.com/2026/02/16/anthropic-defense-department-relationship-hegseth). Bloomberg sez "Anthropic wants to put guardrails in place to stop Claude from being used for mass surveillance of Americans or to develop weapons that can be deployed without a human involved, the person said, asking not to be identified because the negotiations are private. The Pentagon wants to be able to use Claude as long as its deployment doesn’t break the law. "
i recall that Anthropic created a version of Claude that would run an in-house vending machine. Workers could suggest items for it and their price ranges, and the AI would do the purchasing..... It did not turn out well. People quickly figured out how to get all sorts of things - from a PlayStation (they claimed to need it for 'research') to a live fish. So I'm not surprised that Anthropic would want SERIOUS MAJOR GUARDRAILS on anything they're making for the government.
What kind of fish? It's important.
"The Pentagon wants to be able to use Claude as long as its deployment doesn’t break the law."
Very cute.
Like murdering Venezuelans in small boats?
It would require Congressional approval to use any weapon?
Given how lax Drunk Hagueseth is about national security ...
Bomb the data centers.