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Can't tell if 4/1 gag or not! Brilliant!
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Surprising the Democrats that the Republicans won. In Republican districts. In Florida.
Not surprising anyone else.
Up until these special elections the Democrats were all about "Three seats! We only have to flip THREE!"
Freedom comes at a cost, what you want is for other people to shoulder the burden and take care of you and that's not an option beyond a certain age, and having someone do that for you also comes at a cost.
Your basic needs will be met either in the military or in prison, but that's not freedom.
You can get a job and pay for your basic needs on your own, which while also not freedom, is still better than the military or prison. :)
You can enroll in college and have food/shelter taken care of, but if you don't have a job to pay for it, you'll bury yourself in debt, paying for your freedom now, with debt chains later.
Surprising ~~nobody~~ Democrats.
The control group would be people vaccinated who never got covid.
If the premise is long covid is caused by the vaccine, and some vaccinated people never got any form of covid (Hi! That's me!) then you can be reasonably sure the vaccine doesn't cause long covid.
Similarly if you have people with long covid who never got the vaccine. They got covid, then long covid. That would mean the vaccine is not a factor in long covid.
I can't recall if I already banned them here or not for their genocide apologia. I did just ban them in politics for that bullshit.
Aha, somebody else did it 7 months ago.
https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=67131
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‘If We Don’t Get Our S--t Together, Then We Are Going to Be in a Permanent Minority’
(www.politico.com)
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'We're digging people out with our bare hands': Hunt for survivors as Myanmar quake kills dozens
(www.bbc.com)
Personal for me since my daughter in law is from there. She's trying to reach out but a) infrastructure damage and b) everyone else is trying too.
Edit 6.4 aftershock 12 minutes later.
https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/myanmar-thailand-earthquake-03-28-25-intl-hnk/index.html
Edit Map for those unfamiliar. Epicenter was NW of Sagaing, close to Mandalay, pretty much dead center of the country.
Buildings ~~damaged~~ completely collapsed as far away as Bangkok.
See dots on map.
Update from my daughter in law:
"I just spoke with my mom. Fortunately, my family is safe, but there are some damages to our house (Yangon) and my dad’s office (Naypyidaw).
I’ve heard that it is worse in Bangkok. My second brother is currently visiting there, and my family is trying to reach him."
Photos from Naypyidaw:
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"Advocates, Lawmakers, Parents Applaud President Trump’s Bold Action on Education"
(www.whitehouse.gov)
Found bags of this at our local hardware store(?) and were like "We have to try this!"
Despite the name, you mix the mix with beer. Yes, they have a pairing chart. For non-alcoholic options, you can use other sparkling beverages, for the cranberry/orange loaf I used a sparkling pear.
Website:
Came out super tasty. More dense than "bread" bread, almost a cornbread or banana bread texture. Which makes sense since there was no rising time.
I have both and wanted to see what difference there was (if any) between them.
Banana Bread w/ dried cranberries and black currants.
Same recipe, same measures in both.
Ceramic pan has a blonde interior, cast iron is black ceramic.
Baked at 350° for 30 minutes, rotated left to right and front to back, then 30 minutes more.
The ceramic baked slightly taller. This may be a function of the loaf pan being just slightly narrower than the cast iron. 5" vs. 5 1/8" (127 mm vs 130.175 mm)
I THINK I shared this recipe before, but I find the pan comparison interesting.
At the 30 minute mark I caught our two youngest cats sitting on the stove trying to figure out where the smells are coming from. LOL. Was not fast enough to get that picture!
INGREDIENTS for blackcurrant banana bread:
3 ripe bananas
60g melted butter (1/4 cup or 1/2 a stick)
150g sugar (2/3 cup)
200g unbleached flour (1 1/4 cups)
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 egg, beaten
1 teaspoon baking soda
150g of fresh or frozen blackcurrants (without defreezing before use) (1 1/2 cups)
PREPARATION of blackcurrant banana bread:
Preheat oven to 350°F (180°C)
If using dried cranberries or currents, soak them in cold water for 30 minutes, dry fruit sucks the moisture out of the bread otherwise).
Mash the bananas in a bowl
Add the egg and butter
Put all the dry ingredients together into a fine mesh sieve or sifter and sift into the bowl
Mix well with a wooden spoon
Bake in a buttered loaf pan until a toothpick stuck into the bread comes out clean, 55 to 60 minutes.
Slice and serve.
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Even with humans, there are good translations and bad translations.
Some of my favorite authors did not natively write in English and the translators did a stellar job of capturing the nuance of the original.
I can't imagine AI giving anything other than a straight denotative translation. It would be readable, but with no soul.
Here's a passage from Carlos Ruiz Zafon's "The Shadow of the Wind" in Spanish ("La sombra del viento"):
"En una ocasión oí comentar a un cliente habitual en la librería de mi padre que pocas cosas marcan tanto a un lector como el primer libro que realmente se abre camino hasta su corazón. Aquellas primeras imágenes, el eco de esas palabras que creemos haber dejado atrás, nos acompañan toda la vida y esculpen un palacio en nuestra memoria al que, tarde o temprano —no importa cuántos libros leamos, cuántos mundos descubramos, cuánto aprendamos u olvidemos—, vamos a regresar. Para mí, esas páginas embrujadas siempre serán las que encontré entre los pasillos del Cementerio de los Libros Olvidados."
The English translation:
"Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later - no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget - we will return. For me those enchanted pages will always be the ones I found among the passageways of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books."
Google translate:
"I once heard a regular customer at my father's bookstore comment that few things leave a lasting impression on a reader as much as the first book that truly makes its way into their heart. Those first images, the echo of those words we think we've left behind, stay with us for a lifetime and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later—no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, how much we learn or forget—we will return. For me, those haunted pages will always be the ones I found in the aisles of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books."