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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

fair enough :-)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Since you aren't vegetarian, may I recommend trying a 'Reuben' pizza (or stromboli)?

Instead of pizza sauce, use Russian dressing. Top with sauerkraut and chopped up corned beef and finish with shredded swiss cheese (use a good swiss and shred yourself for best results). You might optionally add onion before baking or dill pickles afterwards.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

hmmm.... my dough is still rising, but it has a bread-flour base that might make for tough rolls.... though perhaps I can amend the dough to be fluffier before the final rise.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Yes! I LOVE veggie crumbles. I use them in spaghetti sauce, chili, tacos, enchiladas, and most everything else that calls for ground hamburger -- especially when in a sauce.

My bigger issue is how to construct a 'thing' that works with dough. Maybe something like a 'cheese steak' stromboli would work.

 

I am craving something bready and sloppy for dinner, but I can't think of anything that fits the bill. I could make a giant vegetable pot pie (I've done that before and they are tasty), but for whatever reason, I'm wanting bread dough instead of pie dough and I don't think that would work as well. Focaccia by itself would be too much bread without enough 'stuff'. My better half is vegetarian, so I'd like to keep it meatless (cheese is fine). We have too much tofu right now, so I'm slightly tempted to make an S&B curry stew and then baking it inside bread dough, but would that work? It'd certainly have the sort of savory I desire, but it might be too gloppy. Really, I'm looking for something more like stromboli but I can't think of anyone but Italians that bake lots of filling inside a bread wrap.

Any ideas?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Well, don't leave us hanging! Which bags lasted 10 years? Where do we get them? I'm having a hard time because the only really good bags I have require a minimum purchase of 50 (these: https://enviro-tote.com/product/medium-grocery-tote-bag/).

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago

It sounds like the donor had requirements. From The Tribune:

The University of Chicago has received a $100 million gift from an anonymous donor to support free expression, marking what may be the largest-ever single donation to support such values in higher education, the university announced Thursday.

And:

Discussions surrounding the donation have been ongoing for over a year, according to a university spokesperson.

From https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2024/09/26/university-chicago-donation-free-speech-expression-forum :

The gift was ridiculed by advocates involved in the encampment that highlighted abuses against Palestinians in the Israel-Hamas War and torn down by the university in the spring.

“It’s truly a slap in the face,” said Yousseff Hasweh, a U of C grad who’s diploma was withheld by the university for two months, allegedly for his involvement in the protest.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Facts?! That just makes them devolve to No true Scotsman rhetoric. ;-)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Vance and the rest -- including Trump himself -- are suggesting that the attacks are because Democrats are demonizing Trump and Democrats need to tone down the vitriol, ignoring that Trump has said Democrats are destroying America and that we won't have a country left if they get in office and all the rest. At least Vance is -- after saying on TV with Dana Bash that they have confirmed reports from Springfield (in an interview about the pet eating thing) -- that he, too, ought to tone down his rhetoric, but let's see if he can stick with that for more than a day.

Here's a story from July about the left/right spread in toxic language: https://theconversation.com/trump-shooting-is-a-warning-about-how-toxic-language-leads-to-violence-234637

Note the disparity on their graphic:

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

That is so pretty!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Ehn. The latest guy called Putin a terrorist on camera, which is something a Trumper would never say.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

@[email protected] draw for me misprogrammed bots making surrealistic space for violence in America -- now with kitties!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Be impressed that the bot put an actual sentence on the image!

 

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/16039719

This series started last week, but it continues tonight Friday the 13th through November 1st.

The films are drawn from a list compiled by The New Republic last year of the 100 most impactful political movies.

The films encompass both documentaries and dramatized works; most are American, while a few are from other countries. Their release dates range from 1915 (The Birth of a Nation) to 2016 (I Am Not Your Negro). Many will have celebrity presenters introducing them, along with TCM host Ben Mankiewicz.

From Hollywood Reporter:

The series runs Sept. 6 to Nov. 1 — four days before America votes for its next president — and features TCM host Ben Mankiewicz in conversation with the likes of Steven Spielberg, Spike Lee, Lee Grant, Sally Field, Andy Garcia, Melissa Etheridge, John Turturro, Bill Maher, Alexander Payne, Diane Lane, Josh Mankiewicz, Barry Levinson, Maureen Dowd, Stacey Abrams and former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.

More from the Advocate:

LGBTQ+ issues won’t be neglected. I Am Not Your Negro, for instance, is a documentary based onan unfinished manuscript by Black gay writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin, reflecting on the lives of Medgar Evers, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Baldwin himself. The Times of Harvey Milk(1984) will be featured, presented by Sally Field, the proud mother of a gay son. Also scheduled are 1964’s The Best Man, scripted by gay writer Gore Vidal, in which a same-sex liaison threatens to derail a politician’s career, and Born in Flames, director Lizzie Borden’s 1983 vision of a dystopian future in which women, LGBTQ+ people, and people of color are oppressed.

Borden will be among the celebrity presenters, introducing Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, Chantal Akerman’s 1975 feminist feature about a widow engaged in sex work. Melissa Etheridge will be a presenter as well, discussing the 1928 silent classic The Passion of Joan of Arc.

Times listed are for Eastern Time. I've skipped last week and bolded titles ranked in the top 20.

Friday, September 13 - Night Two

  • 8:00 PM Reds (1981) (Bill Maher - #41)
  • 11:30 PM The Parallax View (1974) (Kyle Smith - #47)
  • 1:30 AM Germany, Year Zero (1948) (Alexander Payne - #97)
  • 3:00 AM Gabriel Over the White House (1933) (#30)
  • 4:30 AM The Battleship Potemkin (1925) (#7)
  • 6:00 AM The Fog of War (2003) (#56)

Friday, September 20 - Night Three

  • 8:00 PM Dr. Strangelove (1964) (Spike Lee - #3)
  • 9:45 PM Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) (Stacey Abrams - #11)
  • 12:15 AM Hearts and Minds (1974) (Phil Mattingly - #39)
  • 2:15 AM The Lives of Others (2006) (#19)
  • 4:45 AM Born in Flames (1983) (#43)
  • 6:15 AM Bicycle Thieves (1948) (#52)

Friday, September 27 - Night Four

  • 8:00 PM Three Days of the Condor (1975) (Maureen Dowd - #72)
  • 10:15 PM I Am Not Your Negro (2016) (Sara Sidner - #58)
  • 12:00 AM The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) (Melissa Etheridge - #88)
  • 1:30 AM The Last Hurrah (1958) (#57)
  • 3:45 AM Night of the Living Dead (1968) (#35)
  • 5:15 AM The Tin Drum (1979) (#92)

Friday, October 4 - Night Five

  • 8:00 PM The Times of Harvey Milk (1984) (Sally Field - #81)
  • 10:00 PM The Best Man (1964) (Josh Mankiewicz - #69)
  • 12:00 AM I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) (Sec. Lonnie Bunch III - #95)
  • 1:45 AM City Hall (1996) (#80)
  • 3:45 AM Strike (1924) (#25)
  • 5:15 AM High and Low (1963) (#84)

Friday, October 11 - Night Six

  • 8:00 PM A Face in the Crowd (1957) (Barry Levinson - #10)
  • 10:15 PM Wag the Dog (1997) (Diane Lane - #54)
  • 12:00 AM The Murder of Fred Hampton (1971) (Abby Phillip - #37)
  • 1:45 AM JFK (1991) (#34)
  • 5:00 AM Z (1969) (#15)
  • 7:15 AM Night and Fog (1956) (#21)

Friday, October 18 - Night Seven

  • 8:00 PM The Birth of a Nation (1915) (Jamelle Bouie - #5)
  • 11:30 PM Lincoln (2012) (Hon. Robert M. Gates - #24)
  • 2:15 AM Malcolm X (1992) (#22)
  • 6:00 AM Primary (1960) (#38)

Friday, October 25 - Night Eight

  • 8:00 PM All the President’s Men (1976) (Steven Spielberg - #4)
  • 10:30 PM Citizen Kane (1941) (Frank Luntz - #33)
  • 12:45 AM Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) (Lizzie Borden - #36)
  • 4:15 AM Olympia Part One: Festival of Nations (1938) (#86)
  • 6:15 AM Olympia Part Two: Beauty of the Festival (1938) (#86)

Friday, November 1 - Night Nine

  • 8:00 PM Being There (1979) (Andy Garcia - #71)
  • 10:30 PM The Candidate (1972) (Kaitlan Collins - #20)
  • 12:30 AM Harlan County USA (1976) (Lee Grant - #12)
  • 2:15 AM The Manchurian Candidate (1962) (#2)
  • 4:00 AM Weekend (1967) (#94)
 

This series started last week, but it continues tonight Friday the 13th through November 1st.

The films are drawn from a list compiled by The New Republic last year of the 100 most impactful political movies.

The films encompass both documentaries and dramatized works; most are American, while a few are from other countries. Their release dates range from 1915 (The Birth of a Nation) to 2016 (I Am Not Your Negro). Many will have celebrity presenters introducing them, along with TCM host Ben Mankiewicz.

From Hollywood Reporter:

The series runs Sept. 6 to Nov. 1 — four days before America votes for its next president — and features TCM host Ben Mankiewicz in conversation with the likes of Steven Spielberg, Spike Lee, Lee Grant, Sally Field, Andy Garcia, Melissa Etheridge, John Turturro, Bill Maher, Alexander Payne, Diane Lane, Josh Mankiewicz, Barry Levinson, Maureen Dowd, Stacey Abrams and former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.

More from the Advocate:

LGBTQ+ issues won’t be neglected. I Am Not Your Negro, for instance, is a documentary based onan unfinished manuscript by Black gay writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin, reflecting on the lives of Medgar Evers, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Baldwin himself. The Times of Harvey Milk(1984) will be featured, presented by Sally Field, the proud mother of a gay son. Also scheduled are 1964’s The Best Man, scripted by gay writer Gore Vidal, in which a same-sex liaison threatens to derail a politician’s career, and Born in Flames, director Lizzie Borden’s 1983 vision of a dystopian future in which women, LGBTQ+ people, and people of color are oppressed.

Borden will be among the celebrity presenters, introducing Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, Chantal Akerman’s 1975 feminist feature about a widow engaged in sex work. Melissa Etheridge will be a presenter as well, discussing the 1928 silent classic The Passion of Joan of Arc.

Times listed are for Eastern Time. I've skipped last week and bolded titles ranked in the top 20.

Friday, September 13 - Night Two

  • 8:00 PM Reds (1981) (Bill Maher - #41)
  • 11:30 PM The Parallax View (1974) (Kyle Smith - #47)
  • 1:30 AM Germany, Year Zero (1948) (Alexander Payne - #97)
  • 3:00 AM Gabriel Over the White House (1933) (#30)
  • 4:30 AM The Battleship Potemkin (1925) (#7)
  • 6:00 AM The Fog of War (2003) (#56)

Friday, September 20 - Night Three

  • 8:00 PM Dr. Strangelove (1964) (Spike Lee - #3)
  • 9:45 PM Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) (Stacey Abrams - #11)
  • 12:15 AM Hearts and Minds (1974) (Phil Mattingly - #39)
  • 2:15 AM The Lives of Others (2006) (#19)
  • 4:45 AM Born in Flames (1983) (#43)
  • 6:15 AM Bicycle Thieves (1948) (#52)

Friday, September 27 - Night Four

  • 8:00 PM Three Days of the Condor (1975) (Maureen Dowd - #72)
  • 10:15 PM I Am Not Your Negro (2016) (Sara Sidner - #58)
  • 12:00 AM The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) (Melissa Etheridge - #88)
  • 1:30 AM The Last Hurrah (1958) (#57)
  • 3:45 AM Night of the Living Dead (1968) (#35)
  • 5:15 AM The Tin Drum (1979) (#92)

Friday, October 4 - Night Five

  • 8:00 PM The Times of Harvey Milk (1984) (Sally Field - #81)
  • 10:00 PM The Best Man (1964) (Josh Mankiewicz - #69)
  • 12:00 AM I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) (Sec. Lonnie Bunch III - #95)
  • 1:45 AM City Hall (1996) (#80)
  • 3:45 AM Strike (1924) (#25)
  • 5:15 AM High and Low (1963) (#84)

Friday, October 11 - Night Six

  • 8:00 PM A Face in the Crowd (1957) (Barry Levinson - #10)
  • 10:15 PM Wag the Dog (1997) (Diane Lane - #54)
  • 12:00 AM The Murder of Fred Hampton (1971) (Abby Phillip - #37)
  • 1:45 AM JFK (1991) (#34)
  • 5:00 AM Z (1969) (#15)
  • 7:15 AM Night and Fog (1956) (#21)

Friday, October 18 - Night Seven

  • 8:00 PM The Birth of a Nation (1915) (Jamelle Bouie - #5)
  • 11:30 PM Lincoln (2012) (Hon. Robert M. Gates - #24)
  • 2:15 AM Malcolm X (1992) (#22)
  • 6:00 AM Primary (1960) (#38)

Friday, October 25 - Night Eight

  • 8:00 PM All the President’s Men (1976) (Steven Spielberg - #4)
  • 10:30 PM Citizen Kane (1941) (Frank Luntz - #33)
  • 12:45 AM Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) (Lizzie Borden - #36)
  • 4:15 AM Olympia Part One: Festival of Nations (1938) (#86)
  • 6:15 AM Olympia Part Two: Beauty of the Festival (1938) (#86)

Friday, November 1 - Night Nine

  • 8:00 PM Being There (1979) (Andy Garcia - #71)
  • 10:30 PM The Candidate (1972) (Kaitlan Collins - #20)
  • 12:30 AM Harlan County USA (1976) (Lee Grant - #12)
  • 2:15 AM The Manchurian Candidate (1962) (#2)
  • 4:00 AM Weekend (1967) (#94)
 

The incident occurred approximately one block from the stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla., as traffic started to build ahead of a 1 p.m. start to the game.

"How things escalated into the situation that they were in handcuffs and being held on the ground with police is mind boggling to me," Rosenhaus told ESPN.

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The shooter who opened fire inside Apalachee High school is believed to be a 14-year-old boy, a law enforcement source tells CNN.

The source said it is not yet known whether the teen attended that school.

We cannot continue to accept this as normal,” the president said in a statement.

At least four people are believed to have been killed and approximately 30 more were injured in the shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, although it’s unclear how many of the injuries are from gunshot wounds, according to law enforcement sources.

Apalachee High School is located in the city of Winder, Georgia, which is a community about an hour outside of Atlanta.

 

Banksy’s hope, it is understood, is that the uplifting works cheer ­people with a moment of unexpected ­amusement, as well as to ­gently underline the human capacity for ­creative play, rather than for destruction and negativity.

Some recent theorising about the deeper significance of each new image has been way too involved, Banksy’s support organisation, Pest Control Office, has indicated.


A contractor, who only wanted to give his name as Marc, told PA they were planning to pull the billboard down on Monday and had removed it early in case someone “rips it down and leaves it unsafe”.

He said: “We’ll store that bit [the artwork] in our yard to see if anyone collects it but if not it’ll go in a skip. I’ve been told to keep it careful in case he wants it.”

See source article for more details and great pics of the current art campaign.

 

The acknowledgment came after POLITICO began receiving emails from an anonymous account with documents from inside Trump’s operation.


On July 22, POLITICO began receiving emails from an anonymous account. Over the course of the past few weeks, the person — who used an AOL email account and identified themselves only as “Robert” — relayed what appeared to be internal communications from a senior Trump campaign official.


The person said they had a “variety of documents from [Trump’s] legal and court documents to internal campaign discussions.”

Asked how they obtained the documents, the person responded: “I suggest you don’t be curious about where I got them from. Any answer to this question, will compromise me and also legally restricts you from publishing them.”

 

The news he has Emphysema and is house-bound came out about two days earlier. It was accompanied by rumors that he's retired. He's since said that last part is incorrect ... though perhaps his retirement denial is more for his own sense of self than about the probability of any future work as a director.

Emphysema is a form of COPD or Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

“I have to say I enjoyed smoking very much” he wrote “but there is a price to pay for this enjoyment”.

Emphysema is a condition which causes shortness of breath and a persistent cough.

But despite living with it he says he is “filled with happiness” and has thanked fans for their concern.

 

archive | I'm NOT interested in the review, but in the complaint about a generalized movie trend. The author, Louis Chilton, goes on a rant using about what he sees as having gone to far in and overly exemplified by the latest Marvel release:

If we are watching, as some critics have suggested, the death of cinema happen before our eyes, then it’s taken the form of a public execution.

It is a film that is about absolutely nothing – a film with no discernable purpose or artistic ambitions, beyond the perpetuation of its own corporate myth.

He explains a little:

Audiences didn’t love Blade because Snipes just showed up, stood there and barked catchphrases – he was part of a story, with a proper character, and stakes, and intentionality. That Marvel cannot see the difference – or, even worse, if it can see the difference but chooses to ignore it – is surely damning.

We call Deadpool & Wolverine a movie because it is released in cinemas, and is two hours long, but other than these technicalities, it shares almost nothing with a traditional blockbuster, when it comes to intent.

And finally concedes with admonishment:

And of course, people are allowed to enjoy what they like. But freebasing cocaine is surely enjoyable to many people; that doesn’t mean we should all get on board with its production and distribution.

 

Yannick Le Gall, a journalist from France 3, the regional television state channel, who was positioned opposite the steps, said: “We were in front of Lady Gaga’s set, and by the time the music started, the staircase was empty.”

When the singer instead appeared on a giant screen in front of the stands, “spectators booed and regretted having paid €180 to see nothing,” Mr Gall added.

 

I'm hoping Lina Khan keeps up her good work (and that Harris keeps Khan as the FTC head). | archive

Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Edward Markey (D-MA) sent a letter [PDF] to the US regulator's boss Lina Khan on Friday after the pair conducted an investigation into General Motors, Honda, and Hyundai.

Honda buried the disclosures about its business relationship with Verisk, which did not appear on the first page, and were not likely to be seen by many consumers.

GM and Hyundai allegedly neglected to mention selling data to Verisk at all.

If GM car owners wanted notifications about things like attempted break-ins and vehicle component health, they needed to sign up for the manufacturer's Smart Driver program, and doing so would quietly opt them into allowing their info to be sold on.

"The lengthy disclosures presented by GM before the opt-in did not disclose to consumers that as part of enrolling in Smart Driver, their driving data would be shared with data brokers and resold to insurance companies," the senators alleged, adding GM "disclosed customer location data to two other companies, which it refused to name."

Hyundai apparently enrolled its drivers into a similar Drive Score program without even asking, if they enabled the internet connection on the vehicle.

 

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In North America, dragonfly migrations occur annually in late summer and early fall. Although it’s not clear what species of dragonfly caused a stir among sunbathers this weekend, Virginia “Ginger” Brown, the leading dragonfly expert in the Ocean State, told NBC 10 WJAR in 2021 that witnessing such an abundance of dragonflies along the coast is a miracle.

While about 130 species of dragonflies are known in Rhode Island, Brown told WJAR that the Common Green Darner comprise the bulk of those that migrate on a yearly basis, with others accompanying their flights.

The Common Green Darner is the “best-known migrant dragonfly,” according to the Vermont Center for Ecostudies. The large specimens are found in Rhode Island and are known for being fast travelers and “water-loving” insects striking in appearance, with translucent wings and green coloration, according to InsectionIdentification.org.

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