It’s my second week drinking that Four Sisters Donut Shop Blend from Grocery Outlet, and… It’s okay…

It’s not completely awful, and it’s definitely functionally caffeinated, but without a paper filter it’s bitter.

With a filter, it does have a sweetness and fruity acidity that’s nice.

As if it’s made as a filter coffee, which sounds weird, but I suppose it must be possible.

Speaking of paper filters, I started using a mesh filter in my aeropress, and… The result tastes very similar to my French press…

I got a pack of two mesh filters: One 250 microns, the other 200 microns, and the 200 micron filter doesn’t let any fines through at all.

I am alternating days between the two, and I have to say the paper filter in the Aeropress makes a huge improvement in smoothness and taste.

Without fuzes, which are only screwed in just before firing, modern artillery shells are really difficult to set off.

If you think about it, the act of firing a shell out of a cannon and sending it miles away is pretty violent, but the shells don’t explode in the cannon.

Without the correct fuzes, the shells won’t even explode when they land.

https://www.quora.com/How-does-an-artillery-projectile-not-explode-and-destroy-the-artillery-that-fired-it

Is “Have you had an abortion?” going to be on Texas college application forms?

If so, will there be room for an accompanying essay?

I’m saying for his next disinformation show

TIL Lindsay Lohan not dead from drugs, alcohol.

Could be one of those C-suite power plays:

Texeira is managing their one profitable product profitably and looks destined to be CEO.

The old CEO Baker suddenly resigns, and appoints Chambers as (permanent) successor CEO.

Chambers and/or Baker is in tight with the head of HR Chehak, and gets her to declare that Texeira is physically unfit for his job as Chief Product Officer or any other job at Mozilla.

Chambers and/or Baker get their wish for Chambers to become CEO;

Demonstrably competent exec Texeira is essentially out of a job;

Great success!

Depends on how likely your bank thinks you are to default on your mortgage…

Tell your bank, you’ve lost your job, going to prison, and you’re newly divorced with large alimony payments. /s obviously.

Waitaminit…

If a bank sells a mortgage, there obviously has to be a buyer.

Any buyer who does their due diligence is going to see a mortgage on a commercial office property, and weigh the risks of the borrower defaulting on their mortgage, or the borrower not being able to refinance when the mortgage is due.

So given the current environment for commercial offices, any reasonable buyer is going to offer to buy commercial office mortgages at a discount, maybe even at a significant discount, which likely means a financial loss for the bank anyway.

So what’s the difference if the bank holds on to the mortgage, and if the borrower defaults, then seizing the building, i.e. the real asset, and auctioning it off for whatever it can get?

Wouldn’t the loss on a mortgage default and asset seizure, likely the be about same as the loss as selling to a prospective buyer for the mortgage, a buyer who had properly calculated a discount for the risk into their purchase price?

That is highly likely what Jones will do, unfortunately.

As well as hide his income behind all kinds of shell corporations

Sorry Abe, the modern Republican Party is not in your image…

US courts can still try him in absentia, i.e. if he’s not present in the courtroom.

If he’s in a country with an extradition treaty with the US, e.g. the UK, he can be extradited to the US for the trial or with a conviction.

Raul Julia’s Bison makes that movie.

The “It was Tuesday” meme in the fighting game community comes from there.

To think he must have been in pain while dying from cancer while he was acting…

https://screenrant.com/street-fighter-raul-julia-m-bison-play-agree-why/

The official reason for the introduction of the six-day work week is that there is a shortage of skilled workers on the Greek labor market as the population keeps shrinking and the country losing scores of thousands of workers who fled during the economic and austerity crisis in search of jobs in other countries.

So “The austerity and beatings will continue until morale improves.”

I’ve been saying this for years: The US economy is not “growing” not because we’re making more and better products, but because we’re commercializing social support systems that we used to get at low cost, or for free, from our families, relatives and neighbors: Health care, child care elder care, live-at-home spouses and homemakers, even talking with your neighbors and friends has been replaced with social media.

The cost of birthing and raising a child is even commodified in the health care system.

Is it any wonder why wealthy countries’ birthrates are falling? Asides from environmental factors, like microplastics and climate change.

The reasons why the US population is growing are related to immigration: Both directly counting immigrants, and those who still retain enough social capital in their communities to have families.

The so called post-capitalism economy is not productivity growth and making lives better for everyone.

It’s making the production of wealth increasingly meaningless for the average person.

It’s mining social and middle class wealth into the pockets of the wealthy elite and non-human corporations.

But what happens when the wealth in the mines is all gone?

Don’t blame the writers, some of whom are long dead, and some titles are long out of print.

Might also be a sign of a stalemate this is in this area.

Or maybe reduce gun ownership in the US, so that it’s less likely that people falling into despair attempt suicide by cop?

Another opinion from a random pro-Russian idiot’s website.

What is going on with the tankies posting here today?

I think 3M1LY and K4R3N get made before M4TILDA

I was thinking the 72 days they had that fillibuster-proof Senate majority during the Obama presidency.

Since the Comstock Act would have been obsolete at the time, before Roe v Wade was overturned, it should have been a formality.

…And they were busy getting ObamaCare passed, for which I am eternally grateful…

But… Democrats…