In which we yet again post yet another ten thousand plus interesting or amusing -or neither- tweets

Wealthy white South African who grew up during apartheid. That's all he is.

 

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If only she could do something about that!?!

 

Do we have a good thread to discuss housing?


A success story from Minnesota.

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I wonder when she can put her hands on that Swiss bank account.. Then the next day...

 

@roby avert your eyes!

 

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The legendary independent muckraking journalist I.F. Stone was asked why he, with all his sources and contacts in high places, bothered to read the NYT every day. “Because they always have the most important stories. Of course, you’ll usually find those stories on Page A23, continued in a different section, but those stories will be there.”

Looks like he was right, again.

 

Some good news.....

“The International Longshoremen’s Association, the union that has been on strike since early Tuesday at ports along the East and Gulf Coasts, and the management group representing shipping lines, terminal operators and port authorities have reached a tentative deal on wages, ending the work stoppage,“ CNN reports.

 

Good, because Costco, according to NPR’s Marketplace, was reporting toilet paper hoarding. Quoth Kai Rysdall, “people, we’re not going to do this again, are we?”

Apparently, not.

 

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It's doubly stupid because consumer toilet paper is a domestic product. All the major brands (I checked Charmin, Cottonelle, and the Koch brands) are made in the US or Canada.

 

My great-grandmother was born in 1915. In that time, she lived through the flu pandemic, the creation of the Soviet Union, Prohibition, The Great Depression (Those stories were heartbreaking), WW2, JFK, Vietnam, the fall of the Soviet Union, 9/11, and passed in 2008.

Yeah, things are a lot better.

 

I suspected that. And I knew that it was imports that were likely to run short. That’s why I bought 300 bananas today.

 

In my Latin 4 class in high school, I wrote a paper on Juvenal, who wrote that same nostalgic shit 2 millennia ago. That was an important piece of learning, not about Juvenal specifically, but because doing that research showed me plainly that this kind of nostalgia is bullshit and always has been.

And that’s even before noting most people aren’t white straight men, so the idea that things were better in the past is dumb just in that level.

 

Lots of banana bread for you then, huh?

 

Growing up, I disliked hearing the phrase "best years of your life" when I was in high school. I always thought it was naive in a lot of ways.

I had fun in high school and college. But in a lot of ways, I'm having a lot more fun now (Despite some things that could be better) as an adult. Would it be nice to be able to be a kid again? Only if I got the no responsibilities thing, otherwise, I'll take being an adult right now.

 

Guess who the #1 exporter in the world is? The strike could have been devastating for us.

 

Nerd!



(I also took Latin in HS)

 

Rinse them in water -- get rid of the artificial ripening agent -- and then tape the stems to seal them ( that's how moisture gets into the banana) and they'll last a couple months.