100% pure unfiltered decorum. Libs are healing.

Is that a ham radio setup? Looks like he might be doing packet radio.

extremely offline

Thanks for the link she’s awesome. New favorite youtuber. I just finished the ‘What Astrophysicists Think About Aliens’ and her analysis of the Drake equation was excellent.

According to wikipedia Aldi Nord owns USA Aldi’s and Trader Joes but says they operate them separately and Aldi Sud owns Winn-dixie and Harveys. They both own Aldi’s in Germany which must be confusing because even their logos look similar. I’ve heard one of the Aldi’s in Germany is considered upscale so maybe the good German Aldi’s is owned by Aldi Sud.

I might have to try that. 500 100mg tabs on amazon for $9.99 and if avg cup has 100mg than 500 cups vs 30 cups for a lb of coffee

I hear that thunderfoot (don’t look that up) broke his brain on Brexit and Covid so now he’s back on center-left but likely still a misogynist. Dawkins, Ham Sarris, Shermer, Jillete et al. just got old and feeble or outright ded like Randii and Dennett. They only pop in now and then to say something like “more jews won nobel prizes than muslims so we should exterminate all muslims” which they’ve been doing since GWOT

Avoid going down the elevatorgate rabbit hole if you value your sanity. The same people involved in elevatorgate started GamerGate.

BI (before internet) being an atheist meant being in complete ideological isolation. If you tried to discuss it with anyone you would be ridiculed and sometimes even physically threatened. Theists had complete domination. Atheist = devil worshiper/commie. These people developed a persecution complex that dates back at least to Giordana Bruno but probably much earlier. The first real online social networks were newsgroups which were almost entirely academic and darpa techie nerds. I got my first internet uni account around 1997 and gnu atheist rationalists were already controlling the online (newsgroup) narrative by then. For the first time in history they had an advantage and they kinda went mad with power. Reddit and other early social forums were just the graphical web extension of newsgroups.

Iirc there were some obscure social networks BI like Center for Inquiry and James Randii foundation and they quickly took control of the atheist/rationalist online narrative. People like Michael Shermer, Penn Jillette, Richard Dawkins etc. As a 90’s kid I was initially excited because I thought I found my people but I was also becoming a baby leftist and I noticed the far right influence. I believe the right/left split was already there ( Feynman/Randii vs Carl Sagan/Steven Gould) but there was a sense that control of the internet was at stake. A massive war for control raged during the naughts (some really funny shit happened lol) and finally came to a head around 2012 with ElevatorGate. The scorched earth take no prisoners nature of ElevatorGate pretty much destroyed whatever was left of the internet atheist power structure.

He did come back again he’s running for POTUS on the republican ticket

Fully Cooked Ready to Eat!

I haven’t used it for youtube specifically but now that you mention it I’m having trouble downloading Mercouris youtube videos with other apps like JDownloader and 4KvideoDownlaoder since around the start of September

yeah ghost has been ok for me lately but internet archive isn’t working.

ghost archive link

Dad we need to talk

Some art on the walls is a nice touch.

yes. Illinois has good soil but not the right kind for onions apparently

there’s also a Walla Walla sweet onion from Walla Walla valley in Washington and a Maui sweet onion from Hawaii. I tried growing walla’s and vidalia’s from seed in Illinois and they did not do well and tasted like sulfur.

I like to use wine to make sauces sometimes. I make a chicken marsala dish except I use extra firm tofu cubes instead of the meat. I start with sauteing my home grown shallots or onions from the store, add tofu cubes and various vegetables like carrots, pea pods, green beans etc… and finish saute until I get some caramelization on them. Then I scoop them into a bowl and deglaze pan with marsala wine until reduced and transfer that to the veg bowl. I go back to the pan and add olive oil and some flour to make a browned roux. Then I add veg mix bowl back into the pan, add a little water to the bowl to get any bits and sauce left and add that to the pan. After that I just simmer it for a while and finally spoon it onto some rice. You can do the same recipe with Madeira wine.