> Always use the clear stuff; dark crème de cacao is clear cacao with brown food coloring. When you use crème de cacao in moderation, it doesn’t read as “chocolate.” Instead, it provides an earthy sweetness that’s entrancing in all sorts of cocktails.
Hooper, you will be disgusted / amused to hear that I used to take office-vending-machine hot-chocolate and add a splash of DeKuyper creme de cocoa. The result tasted like a melted Tootsie Roll, *and* *I* *loved* *it.*
(Other brands of creme de cacao did not have the same effect. 🤷♂️ And now DeKuyper's website doesn't show any of their cremes, just a bunch of bottled cocktails. 🤷♂️🤷♂️)
God you make me want a little stocked bar, and a drink that tastes like bananas foster is the best idea I've ever heard. For someone who doesn't really drink, but would enjoy a little something sweet and not too strong now and then, what half dozen bottles of stuff would you recommend? And will they all last years on the shelf, or that's sherry in particular?
We got into a stupid argument once and one of the girls called 411 to ask the question; when the operator responded they didn’t know, she very (well as indignantly as she could because stoned) said “Well, you’re information aren’t you?”.
"This equation—testosterone = aggression = combat power—is not clearly backed by scientific study. For starters, unnecessary testosterone treatment can be associated with a host of health problems: cardiac risk from heart muscle damage, risk of blood clot, higher cholesterol and liver disease, mood swings, and more. Many of these concerns need to be monitored even when testosterone is within healthy levels.
And, some experts are calling for more research on testosterone’s impact on behavior before doling it out to soldiers. “If I were a general, or if I were in some version of command where I knew the people underneath me had been altering their testosterone levels, I would want to know: How does that affect their decision making?” Dr. Tom Hildebrandt, a psychiatrist at Mount Sinai in New York, told the New York Times.
Hegseth’s effort is part of a larger recent trend of normalizing testosterone use among cisgender men and women, easily available to those with the funds at “wellness clinics” around the U.S. (even as its use is being vilified and denied to transgender patients) for things like better gains at the gym. But it also tells a much older story, a “web of direct claims and indirect associations that circulate around testosterone” which, according to Rebecca Jordan-Young and Katrina Karkazis, the authors of 2019’s Testosterone: An Unauthorized Biography, “weaves folklore into science.” This mythologizing, the authors argue, “frames social issues as a matter of the chemicals functioning inside individual bodies, leaving scant room to consider power asymmetries, structural arrangements, or histories.”
In other words, our ideas about testosterone’s link to inherent violence are largely a myth."
Forgot to mention it earlier, but I saw my first owl "in the wild" this morning. I was stopped at a stop sign in a wooded area on the way into work, and this barred owl (90% certain on the ID*) zipped across the street...
* too small and no ear tufts for a Great Horned, too big for a Screech, too brown for a Barn....
I have lived in Massachusetts most of my life and have never fucking *heard* of 'The Big E'
I guess it's a big deal state fair which happens in the western part of the state. . . the *really* western part. I don't get out that way but it's weird to have never even heard of it.
"The Eastern States Exposition, branded as The Big E, is an annual fair in West Springfield, Massachusetts. It opens on the second Friday after Labor Day and runs for seventeen days.
It is billed as "New England's Great State Fair", the largest agricultural event on the eastern seaboard and the fifth-largest fair in the nation.[2] The Big E is inclusive of all six New England states: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont."
Don-Don can face your economic, health, education, rights and cultural problems he has exacerbated. He can face the energy and food shortages he has exacerbated. He has no problem facing his destabilizing NATO, encouraging Putin and Un. He faces the trade chaos he has engendered with aplomb (yes, it ends with a 'b'). But he simply cannot, will not face the fact that he is the record-breaking number one fuck-up of all time.
"Five of the officials said there have been at least 22 military fatalities — four more than what appears in the Pentagon’s public database, known as the Defense Casualty Analysis System, or DCAS."
The Trump regime is incapable of telling the truth, about anything.
Fortunately, they evacuated some of the ME bases before they were pounded to rubble, or the casualties would be much higher. That should tell you how the war is really going.
My phone has a translate function but I have to download an app and set up an account. It uses AI. Not sure if it's worth the effort. Maybe I can continue to skate and just say "No Espanol."
My son took Spanish through school. And he worked in kitchens for a long time. In the Twin Cities, there are a lot of Ecuadorians in restaurants, no idea why.
He's a bit nervous to use his Spanish in settings that aren't very blue-collar. He learned a lot of his "Kitchen Spanish" from the other guys and he isn't 𝟏𝟎𝟎% sure all the words mean what the guys told him they meant.
Like, he thinks it means, "I'm not sure that's done yet," but every other Spanish speaker not working in a restaurant might hear...well, something I shouldn't type out even here.
I mean…six years ago, Ecuador dug a mass grave for 300 that they planned to top with a mausoleum when full. That might explain why those folks came up here.
I have no questions about why they left. I was a little surprised to discover how many of them wanted to get away far enough to make it to 45° North latitude.
It was probably the usual thing. One guy takes a wrong turn at Albuquerque, finds an ok spot and tells everyone else, and then there's a movement.
...lets take him on a brief cruise of the Arctic Sea. Just take EVERY precaution to keep the decks clear of ice so that Drumpfenfuehrer doesn't waddle up and across it, taking skid and summarily sliding overboard...
Don-Don also apparently just joked — publicly, with his cabinet in attendance — about grabbing Melania by the front / back bottom. This more than anything else could mean the end for our Sacred Grabber of De Pussy.
"Barbra Streisand criticized President Donald Trump’s “unchecked ego” amid the ongoing debacle surrounding the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts."
President Donald Trump announced Friday that the United States has reached an agreement with Denmark and Greenland granting it "permanent control over security, and all other needs" on the Arctic island, a characterization that neither Copenhagen nor Nuuk had immediately confirmed.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump said the arrangement gives the United States "the complete ability to do what is necessary in Greenland" and described it as an "Infinite Life" agreement with no expiration. He said no U.S. adversary could establish a base, maintain a military presence, or make sensitive investments on the island "without our express written approval," and that the deal carries "NO COST" to the United States.
"For over 100 years, Presidents have known the strategic importance of Greenland, but NONE of them were able to do anything about it," he wrote, adding that the administration would "immediately begin the process of developing a large Military presence in the appropriate part of Greenland."
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The US can already put as much military equipment on Greenland as they like under treaties negotiated by goddamn Eisenhower.
As for the rest of it, no, Greenland surrendered none of its sovereignty when it comes to investments.
He's going to start a war with NATO, accidentally or not, and all Congress will do in response is come up with a case of the concernds.
Busy questions go.
You know you now must make a drink called The Goatfucker!
> Always use the clear stuff; dark crème de cacao is clear cacao with brown food coloring. When you use crème de cacao in moderation, it doesn’t read as “chocolate.” Instead, it provides an earthy sweetness that’s entrancing in all sorts of cocktails.
Hooper, you will be disgusted / amused to hear that I used to take office-vending-machine hot-chocolate and add a splash of DeKuyper creme de cocoa. The result tasted like a melted Tootsie Roll, *and* *I* *loved* *it.*
(Other brands of creme de cacao did not have the same effect. 🤷♂️ And now DeKuyper's website doesn't show any of their cremes, just a bunch of bottled cocktails. 🤷♂️🤷♂️)
I'm impressed with your office bar set-up! I used to stick with Glenlivet in a drawer, but then I was working with lawyers...
God you make me want a little stocked bar, and a drink that tastes like bananas foster is the best idea I've ever heard. For someone who doesn't really drink, but would enjoy a little something sweet and not too strong now and then, what half dozen bottles of stuff would you recommend? And will they all last years on the shelf, or that's sherry in particular?
Is my mail here yet? I don't wanna walk all the way if it's not.
Lusty Bonobo is among the more redundant drink names i've heard.
Who would win a race between a kangaroo, an emu and a koala riding a dingo?
Are there drop bears? Do the koalas have chlamydia?
Did you redo?
Is the Koala riding bareback?
Western saddle or English saddle?
Won't the cassowary be upset about not being in this race? I wouldn't want to see an upset cassowary.
https://substack.com/@leftcoasttom/note/c-164418350?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=2lgfqe
This sounds like a conversation I'd be having in the dorm around 2am Saturday, sometime in the late 1970s.
We got into a stupid argument once and one of the girls called 411 to ask the question; when the operator responded they didn’t know, she very (well as indignantly as she could because stoned) said “Well, you’re information aren’t you?”.
Gary Busey on a Harley until the crash.
If the dingo is taken by surprise, I'd bet on the dingo.
That's the only way Kash can take one as he's not the quickest cannibal on the Congo.
I think it depends on the distance.
MARC ELIAS GOING LIVE AT 6:30
https://www.youtube.com/live/ZsxWpusR-lA?is=ZSrQUWXQU4mK0T0q
"This equation—testosterone = aggression = combat power—is not clearly backed by scientific study. For starters, unnecessary testosterone treatment can be associated with a host of health problems: cardiac risk from heart muscle damage, risk of blood clot, higher cholesterol and liver disease, mood swings, and more. Many of these concerns need to be monitored even when testosterone is within healthy levels.
And, some experts are calling for more research on testosterone’s impact on behavior before doling it out to soldiers. “If I were a general, or if I were in some version of command where I knew the people underneath me had been altering their testosterone levels, I would want to know: How does that affect their decision making?” Dr. Tom Hildebrandt, a psychiatrist at Mount Sinai in New York, told the New York Times.
Hegseth’s effort is part of a larger recent trend of normalizing testosterone use among cisgender men and women, easily available to those with the funds at “wellness clinics” around the U.S. (even as its use is being vilified and denied to transgender patients) for things like better gains at the gym. But it also tells a much older story, a “web of direct claims and indirect associations that circulate around testosterone” which, according to Rebecca Jordan-Young and Katrina Karkazis, the authors of 2019’s Testosterone: An Unauthorized Biography, “weaves folklore into science.” This mythologizing, the authors argue, “frames social issues as a matter of the chemicals functioning inside individual bodies, leaving scant room to consider power asymmetries, structural arrangements, or histories.”
In other words, our ideas about testosterone’s link to inherent violence are largely a myth."
https://www.playboy.com/read/politics/military-testosterone-violence-myth
Forgot to mention it earlier, but I saw my first owl "in the wild" this morning. I was stopped at a stop sign in a wooded area on the way into work, and this barred owl (90% certain on the ID*) zipped across the street...
* too small and no ear tufts for a Great Horned, too big for a Screech, too brown for a Barn....
Baby has his Greenland binkie
https://bsky.app/profile/dhnexon.net/post/3mvt4kbxd7c2c
Step 1: Slip Trump a copy of the 1951 Defense Agreement, but with the name changed.
Step 2: Describe it in the most favorable light possible, since he won't read it anyway.
Step 3: Trump goes on "Truth Social" and proclaims himself a genius negotiator.
RayRay: Months ago he sawed off his ankle bracelet, said he DGAF.
He's been questioned twice in the disappearance of two dogs who would not shut the fuck up all night. First one, then two nights later.
RayRay has retained counsel (me) and is talking to no one but me.
The dog's bodies have never been found.
I have lived in Massachusetts most of my life and have never fucking *heard* of 'The Big E'
I guess it's a big deal state fair which happens in the western part of the state. . . the *really* western part. I don't get out that way but it's weird to have never even heard of it.
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"Eastern States Exposition"–https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_States_Exposition
"The Eastern States Exposition, branded as The Big E, is an annual fair in West Springfield, Massachusetts. It opens on the second Friday after Labor Day and runs for seventeen days.
It is billed as "New England's Great State Fair", the largest agricultural event on the eastern seaboard and the fifth-largest fair in the nation.[2] The Big E is inclusive of all six New England states: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont."
https://www.thebige.com/
I'm looking forward to the tiltin' jay.
I only know about it because I had a roommate who loved attending.
Don-Don can face your economic, health, education, rights and cultural problems he has exacerbated. He can face the energy and food shortages he has exacerbated. He has no problem facing his destabilizing NATO, encouraging Putin and Un. He faces the trade chaos he has engendered with aplomb (yes, it ends with a 'b'). But he simply cannot, will not face the fact that he is the record-breaking number one fuck-up of all time.
"Five of the officials said there have been at least 22 military fatalities — four more than what appears in the Pentagon’s public database, known as the Defense Casualty Analysis System, or DCAS."
The Trump regime is incapable of telling the truth, about anything.
Recall, if you might, Himmler begging all at a meeting of the Nazi High Command to not boast about their kill numbers.
Fortunately, they evacuated some of the ME bases before they were pounded to rubble, or the casualties would be much higher. That should tell you how the war is really going.
it's more than ten, and they ran out of fingers.
It's not a war, so the correct number of official casualties is zero.
Now THAT'S how you make America great!!!
My phone has a translate function but I have to download an app and set up an account. It uses AI. Not sure if it's worth the effort. Maybe I can continue to skate and just say "No Espanol."
Feelin' lucky?
My son took Spanish through school. And he worked in kitchens for a long time. In the Twin Cities, there are a lot of Ecuadorians in restaurants, no idea why.
He's a bit nervous to use his Spanish in settings that aren't very blue-collar. He learned a lot of his "Kitchen Spanish" from the other guys and he isn't 𝟏𝟎𝟎% sure all the words mean what the guys told him they meant.
Like, he thinks it means, "I'm not sure that's done yet," but every other Spanish speaker not working in a restaurant might hear...well, something I shouldn't type out even here.
I learned Spanish from Cheech and Chong. My repertoire? "Adios pendejos."
I know a few words and phrases, but I don't use them since the person usually sees that as if I am fluent and goes wild leaving me even more confused.
I mean…six years ago, Ecuador dug a mass grave for 300 that they planned to top with a mausoleum when full. That might explain why those folks came up here.
Yes, I think I remember that.
I have no questions about why they left. I was a little surprised to discover how many of them wanted to get away far enough to make it to 45° North latitude.
It was probably the usual thing. One guy takes a wrong turn at Albuquerque, finds an ok spot and tells everyone else, and then there's a movement.
That was the subject of the darkest poem I wrote during lockdown.
And they signed a year lease before they lived through a January.
Or just learn Spanish. Duolingo rocks!
Còn tiếng Việt thì sao?
Kiu vi parolas Esperanto?
What about them?
RAISE A GLASS OF CONQUEST!
Trump laughed at as he trumpets 'permanent control' of Greenland -- Raw Story
...lets take him on a brief cruise of the Arctic Sea. Just take EVERY precaution to keep the decks clear of ice so that Drumpfenfuehrer doesn't waddle up and across it, taking skid and summarily sliding overboard...
[snicker/smirk]
“So fat he floats!” For a little while…
This is gonna be news to Mette Frederiksen.
Don-Don also apparently just joked — publicly, with his cabinet in attendance — about grabbing Melania by the front / back bottom. This more than anything else could mean the end for our Sacred Grabber of De Pussy.
Q: China is one of the most repressive countries for journalists in the world--
TRUMP: Well, I don't know about that. I think we're repressive also
He's bragging about it.
And probably doesn't know what "repressive" means, anyway. Just that if China does it, we must do it more.
It’s more than two syllables, and he’s a demented illiterate, so he *definitely* doesn’t know what it means.
He probably heard "..pressive" and thought it was "impressive."
Heh. You may very well be right.
The 'Streisand Effect' . . . 🤪 🔥 8️⃣ 6️⃣ 4️⃣ 7️⃣ 🤡 ☠️ ⌛️ 🙏🏽
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"Barbra Streisand Slams a ‘Humiliated Trump’ for Closing Kennedy Center After Losing Name Feud" https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/barbra-streisand-trump-kennedy-center-closure-1235628646/
"Barbra Streisand criticized President Donald Trump’s “unchecked ego” amid the ongoing debacle surrounding the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts."
ONE TWO THREE FOUR! It's Dee Dee Ramone's birthday today! Here's one he wrote, "I Wanna Be Sedated":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x09XSa1X1eU
Here's one of Dee Dee's from the band's first album, "53rd & 3rd". That's him singing the bridge, I think:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOGHjBPR7Sg
I don't know if Dee Dee had anything to do with this one, but it's my favorite Ramones song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3F2y2hRP4o
This is a lie:
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President Donald Trump announced Friday that the United States has reached an agreement with Denmark and Greenland granting it "permanent control over security, and all other needs" on the Arctic island, a characterization that neither Copenhagen nor Nuuk had immediately confirmed.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump said the arrangement gives the United States "the complete ability to do what is necessary in Greenland" and described it as an "Infinite Life" agreement with no expiration. He said no U.S. adversary could establish a base, maintain a military presence, or make sensitive investments on the island "without our express written approval," and that the deal carries "NO COST" to the United States.
"For over 100 years, Presidents have known the strategic importance of Greenland, but NONE of them were able to do anything about it," he wrote, adding that the administration would "immediately begin the process of developing a large Military presence in the appropriate part of Greenland."
***
The US can already put as much military equipment on Greenland as they like under treaties negotiated by goddamn Eisenhower.
As for the rest of it, no, Greenland surrendered none of its sovereignty when it comes to investments.
He's going to start a war with NATO, accidentally or not, and all Congress will do in response is come up with a case of the concernds.
Did he put in a provision that they have to speak English?
Michael Scott meme “I DECLARE MANIFEST DESTINY!!!!”
Man that hit me in just the right spot. I think I scared the cat.
He is well into the hallucinatory stage of his psychosis.
bingo!
and this is just the start of it.
Ayup. Caligula 2.0 here we come.
So, they are gonna replace Mitch with a thouroghbred?
DIE ALREADY
I long for the day of the Big, Beautiful Obituary.
I have three bottles of Canadian ice wine that have been sitting in my refrigerator forever
We’re gonna party like it’s 1999
"In a post on Truth Social...."
So he made it up.....
"Words came out of his mouth"
So......
"Infinite Life"??? He wishes.
Of course it's a lie. 'Trump announced.'
In Honor of Every Strong Woman I Have Ever Known: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTOcbONX5rs&list=RDhTOcbONX5rs&start_radio=1