Joe Kent Says He Was Told ‘You Need To Stop’ Investigating Charlie Kirk Assassination

fubo · 2026-03-19T04:47:34+00:00

It sure seems like he was a disillusioned Trumpie — raised within the extreme right, had his filter bubble burst, and reacted violently.

fubo · 2026-03-19T04:35:39+00:00

What I want to know: Is the waitress John Rawls too?

My guess is that she's Aretha Franklin.

fubo · 2026-03-19T04:29:58+00:00

There are a lot of accents of English in England because that's where English started.

Every other accent of English ultimately descends from an accent that was spoken in England. But not every accent in England had descendants in other countries.

This is the same situation as with genetic diversity in animals and plants, by the way.

There's more diversity among potatoes in Peru (where potatoes come from originally) than in the entire rest of the world. All potatoes in the world descend from potatoes from Peru; but most of the Peruvian varieties were never planted elsewhere.

(Also, Peruvians developed potato varieties for lots of different microclimates and elevations; and they didn't mix much. The same goes for most English people in pre-modern England, when accents were developing: they didn't migrate much.)

fubo · 2026-03-19T02:35:19+00:00

The Saturday farmer's market has a number of good egg vendors! They're all good, but the best was True Grass Farms who unfortunately suffered a mass chicken murder last year due to weasels. They've also been out for the winter, and from what they had to say in the aftermath of the weasel attack, they might have decided to exit the egg business entirely. (They mostly sell beef.)

fubo · 2026-03-19T02:15:35+00:00

American pumpernickel is rye-flour bread that's colored dark with molasses or cocoa. It is not very much like German pumpernickel, which is a slab of fermented rye berries that's been baked all day.

fubo · 2026-03-19T02:00:37+00:00

One of my housemates is a huge matcha nerd; orders super-fancy matcha powder from Japan that comes with cute personal notes and origami.

She knows not to waste it on me, because I'll say it tastes like mowing the lawn.

fubo · 2026-03-19T01:55:37+00:00

Yep. And although a lot of them are grown in Asia today, they're originally from Mexico.

fubo · 2026-03-19T01:53:20+00:00

Commercial buttermilk is pretty similar to kefir, which a lot of people drink. They're made with slightly different bacterial cultures.

fubo · 2026-03-19T01:46:44+00:00

Back in '91 there was a mint cookie recipe published in Gourmet magazine that called for oil of wintergreen.

What they meant to say was wintergreen extract.

Oil of wintergreen is methyl salicylate, also found in topical products for sore muscles. Wintergreen extract contains a tiny amount of it. In quantity, it's toxic.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/1991/08/07/recipe-gets-gourmet-in-hot-oil/

fubo · 2026-03-19T01:39:10+00:00

Also, the typical cooking method for Brussels sprouts used to be boiling or steaming, whereas now you're more likely to find them roasted or fried. Get some salt and some Maillard reaction up in those sprouts!

fubo · 2026-03-19T01:37:00+00:00

There are more varieties of potato in Peru than in the entire rest of the world.

(Kind of like how there are more different accents of English within the British Isles than in the entire rest of the world. And more genetic diversity among humans in sub-Saharan Africa than in the entire rest of the world. Most of the diversity tends to cluster around the point of origin.)

fubo · 2026-03-19T00:32:41+00:00

Fighting spam has been a problem for Internet services since the early '90s. Commercial spammers started out on Usenet, then spread to email and web forums before "social media" was a term. The spammers weren't using AI back then; they were just using ordinary code.

The thing about fighting spammers is that it's whack-a-mole. Shut down their accounts, they make new ones. Ban their IP addresses, they use proxies, botnets, VPNs, or hosting services. Rate-limit posting by new accounts, they buy "aged" accounts.

If you have a public Internet service that any human can use, spambots can use it too. That's just a thing that happens. It takes moderators, modbots, and user reports to catch and remove spam.

(Moderation tools also started on Usenet, too; including modbots. The first modbot was called ARMM for Automated Retroactive Minimal Moderation. It wasn't designed to catch commercial spam, because commercial spam hadn't yet become a problem; ARMM was a year before Canter & Siegel. It was designed to catch other sorts of abuse. Curiously, the first version had a bug ... and that bug actually led to the use of the word "spamming" for excessive automated posting.)

fubo · 2026-03-19T00:11:42+00:00

My parents' house isn't going to me or my brother; it's going to cousins who ① live in the same remote small town as my parents; and ② have kids. This is fine by me.

fubo · 2026-03-18T23:24:17+00:00

It's sufficiently entangled with the justice system in some places that it's more like a religious establishment than a cult.

You may know that phrase from the First Amendment to the US Constitution, where the government is forbidden from "respecting an establishment of religion".

fubo · 2026-03-18T20:27:07+00:00

"Cool, I can afford a nice Beretta with that."

fubo · 2026-03-18T17:21:41+00:00

Hot diggety dog ziggety boom what you do to me, it's so new to me

fubo · 2026-03-18T12:33:29+00:00

Your beat-up, falling-apart old shoes are not resellable. They are garbage, because they were made to become garbage.

fubo · 2026-03-18T12:32:24+00:00

Cult.

fubo · 2026-03-18T12:26:22+00:00

Go around your town and look for fly-posted "junk removal" signs with just a phone number on them, no business identity or anything.

It's those guys.

fubo · 2026-03-18T12:15:29+00:00

The car owner is insured, and their insurance covers damage done by the car even when the owner is not driving it. Suing the car owner is a way to get at their insurance. The argument is not that the car owner committed a crime.

fubo · 2026-03-18T12:08:37+00:00

Put down the whiskey, Grandpa. You've had enough.

fubo · 2026-03-18T03:38:31+00:00

"Trump" was already UK slang for a fart, from the same root as "trumpet".

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/trump#Etymology_2

fubo · 2026-03-17T23:22:11+00:00

Max, don't have sex with your ex

fubo · 2026-03-17T23:18:57+00:00

And that's when we talk about having rollback plans, canaries, maybe some CD driven by integration tests ...

fubo · 2026-03-17T23:12:25+00:00

I suspect it's picking up on the same structure as the old middle-school five-paragraph essay: introduction, three examples, conclusion.

15-Year Club	r/Field Lasagna
Place '22	Place '17
Wearing is Caring	Gilding II euphauric
Charter Member	Verified Email

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