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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 16:32 UTC

I once again think people are missing forest for the trees, the fact that AIPAC has had to try and make bids against Democrats at all, and that AIPAC spends openly in races now in of itself, is indicative of the waning, not growing, influence of the lobby.

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@mshanahan.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 22, 2024 at 00:07 UTC

A friend of mine, a Kiwi, was teaching at the U of C medical school about 10 years back when all the stories of CTE were coming into view. He tried to get a group of academics together to lobby the school to drop football, as it was the ethical thing to do. Needless to say, it went nowhere.

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@mshanahan.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 18:29 UTC

My wife´s family is of Italian descent. When we get together for the holidays, they often make gnocchi. I tried, once, to add the indents to the cut lengths, and my SIL rather brusquely shouldered me away from the table, scooped up my efforts for reworking, and called me ¨paddle paws." 😔

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@mshanahan.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 11:38 UTC

remaining debt; Discover, 6% and Capital One charged whopping 19% or so. We got out of debt, and are doing just fine now, but those predatory bastards at Capital One can rot in hell.

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@mshanahan.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 11:34 UTC

Many years ago, my wife and I ran up some bad credit card debt when there was a major recession in the building trades (which we were both in). We arranged through a legit consolidation non-profit payment plans with 3 cc companies - Target, Discover, and Capital One. Target charged 0% on the ...

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@mshanahan.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 16:44 UTC

If you´re driving 35 down my 25 mph limited street, you´re not a good driver; you´re an asshole.

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@mshanahan.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 15:29 UTC

I agree that a $100 fine is a lot more onerous to a poor person than to a wealthy one. That´s why we should index traffic fines to wealth.

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@mshanahan.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 14:57 UTC

I´ve heard that to some people, cilantro tastes like soap - though that apparently can be overcome with exposure. So maybe you do lack the genes. Though I suspect that if you had a really good tabouleh made with freshly picked garden parsley, you´d see the light ;-)

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@mshanahan.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 14:27 UTC

But parsley is good.

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@mshanahan.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 14:26 UTC

In the US, coriander usually refers to the seed, and cilantro to the leaf of the same plant. The English call what we call cilantro, coriander, and what we call coriander, coriander seed.

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@mshanahan.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 15, 2024 at 13:38 UTC

The French have an expression ¨L´esprit de l´escalier¨ (~ the wit at the bottom of the stairs), but I like your version, too.

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@mshanahan.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 14, 2024 at 21:28 UTC

Is your offer still ongoing?

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@mshanahan.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 13, 2024 at 16:28 UTC

I recently saw a Jeff Tweedy concert, and the typical audience member appeared to be only slightly younger than this couple.

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@mshanahan.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 12, 2024 at 15:53 UTC

Be careful - gamboling can be addictive.

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