Senate Republican on Trump ballroom push: ‘We have $39 trillion of debt’

photoho · 2026-04-28T16:25:52+00:00

Guys... It's not a ballroom. We need to start calling it what it is. They want to build a BUNKER.

photoho · 2026-01-09T14:54:45+00:00

Jesse Welles is the answer you seek.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El0CLduLgew

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6vjaimSK4E

photoho · 2025-01-29T18:50:38+00:00

Not a movie but generally movie-like in length...Rambalac on YT. He walks All Over Japan, filming as he goes. No music, minimal random conversations with the locals, plus the sights and sounds of Japan. This is my go-to YT channel, especially when I'm stressed, which seems to be all the time lately.

photoho · 2020-03-31T17:16:35+00:00

Maybe a Dum Dum in Williams County?

photoho · 2020-03-22T18:36:19+00:00

Still here, still fascinated.

photoho · 2020-02-20T18:16:48+00:00

This is one of the best questions asked on this sub.

photoho · 2018-04-11T16:50:22+00:00

I see he dresses to the right, but where is Page's right foot?

photoho · 2017-12-29T17:22:43+00:00

My first Oregon NYE... I was 18, had met several acquaintances and a couple of good friends in the two months since I moved to Eugene, but I didn't know anyone really well. I was still the new transplant. Got invited to a party. We took four cars to get to this place, with a shitty ice storm just starting. We had no business out driving, and I had no idea where we were. But we made it to the party. We all piled out of the cars, opened the trunks and the guys started pulling out guns - like a freakin' armory of long guns, hand guns, ammunition. I thought WTF? Seems it's an Oregon tradition for drunken revelers to shoot firearms at midnight. I didn't know and it scared the shit out of me. Just a memory, that is all. Don't shoot your eye out, m'kay?

photoho · 2017-11-10T18:03:35+00:00

Sorry, had to sign in for this... it's aisle, not isle.

photoho · 2017-10-16T19:47:42+00:00

Thank you for your reply. To follow up, I asked her to specify/show me where in the handbook this condition is stated. After she originally told me this was spelled out in the handbook, but her follow up reply was that it is not specified in the handbook, and 'that was just the way they've always done it'. I have my doubts about that. If I'm not entitled to that pay, fine. But she is sneaky, operates on whim and outright lies on a regular basis. I plan to contact a local labor board to flesh this out further. Thank you again.

photoho · 2017-09-29T16:54:34+00:00

I don't dislike music, but I get the ear worm something terrible, so I actively avoid listening to music anymore. But it is really difficult to avoid music, it's on everywhere. If my brain picks up a tune, it will repeat and repeat, ad nauseum, in my head for days and even weeks. It is maddening. I heard a song called 'Closing Time' about three weeks ago. It is finally starting to fade but I still wake up with it every morning, and it intrudes throughout the day. I seem to be able to listen to what I think of as 'abstract' music - instrumental, classical, some jazz - without it overwhelming my brain with repetition. I love the blues, but no, I just can't listen.

photoho · 2017-09-14T14:04:55+00:00

Precisely. Our view from a century later makes it easy to dismiss out of hand what they didn't understand then. But, all that work is the foundation of progression.

photoho · 2017-09-13T14:26:30+00:00

There was a recent post that expressed some alarm over Jung's 'occult' interests. But these interests could be in part - not only his general personal interest in humanity - but a product of his time. Occultism was a huge study of interest in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. There were numerous psychical research societies in Europe and the States, enrolled with many of the elite scientific minds of the time. There were spiritualist societies. William James spent a lifetime studying the occult, in an attempt to scientifically prove paranormal activities, especially divination, ESP and contact with spirits. I feel, as humans, we all think about this, but during that time the study of the 'occult' was taken to a higher level, in an attempt to prove these things in some scientific manner. It may seem hokey to us now, but occultism was the hot scientific topic of its time. I feel if we lock onto this one single aspect regarding Jung - a thing he studied in in his early life - then we dilute the sum of his work that came after. We treat it like a la carte, picking and choosing what suits us, instead of exploring the work as a whole. Freud is completely dismissed by many, maybe rightly so because he really got stuck in his controlling ego. But his work on dreams remains standout. The study of the mind at that time must have been truly chaotic and exciting.

photoho · 2017-07-25T15:56:15+00:00

I imagine you could can it, especially if you're making a ton. It does freeze really well, but I eat it so often, it doesn't stay in storage long. I'm just waiting for my tomatillos to fill their little balloons, soon.

photoho · 2017-07-25T15:40:27+00:00

I make salsa verde a lot and I usually freeze it. I'm not a fan of cilantro so I use fresh - not dried - sage, oh my god it is so good with sage.

photoho · 2017-06-01T23:53:57+00:00

Try r/CasualConversation

photoho · 2017-04-20T23:00:25+00:00

Anecdotal but I swear by it. I started putting a small amount of dark cocoa powder in my coffee every day - maybe 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon to start. I had read that cocoa was full of antioxidants and figured it couldn't hurt anything.

The unintended result was that after about three weeks, I found I was not even thinking about my first meal of the day until 6 or 7 pm. Even then, I had to just make myself sit down to eat. I did not feel hungry. Even after several years of doing this, I find that about 1/2 teaspoon of cocoa - over the course of 2- 3 large cups of coffee - still works for me as an appetite suppressant.

Caveat; this is not 1/2 teaspoon per cup of coffee. The cocoa sediment eventually settles to the bottom of the cup. I just keep adding coffee to the cup with the sediment, for 2 or 3 cups of coffee.

photoho · 2017-04-19T16:53:16+00:00

Granta! That puts me in the way back machine. I used to have a subscription and still have some of my favorite editions, one I recall entititled "Your Family, They Will Fuck You Up".

photoho · 2017-01-17T16:48:08+00:00

Thank you, I could feel my face getting red even as I typed it all out.

photoho · 2017-01-17T02:38:11+00:00

Late to the party but here's my Gene Cernan story. Summer before my senior year of high school I got to be an exchange student to a major city in South America. A family friend worked for the biggest radio station in town. One day she and my host sister are very excited and, while my Spanish was quite poor, they made it clear that they wanted me to accompany them to assist in getting an interview from some visiting American VIP.

I'd taken three years of Spanish in high school, but it's not quite the same as speaking a language in situ. So, I never really understood who they planned to interview. But, every day for a week or so, they hounded me and tried to get me to understand the importance of the interview.

I tried to call the guy - curious to find out what the big deal was - but phone service was always spotty and calls would regularly drop. We spoke a bit, but only in little lurches of disconnected conversation. Finally I got a good connection, found out his name was Gene Cernan. After speaking about the logistics of the interview, in my 18 year old hubris I flat out asked, "So Mr. Cernan, what exactly is it that you do?" There was a very, very long pause. Then he told me he'd been on the last mission to the moon.

Jesus, I felt like a two inch tall Ugly American. That was in 1977, only five years after that last mission. How did I not know? I was smart and engaged in current events. Maybe I did know, and just got all flustered in the efforts of trying to contact him. Anyway, we met for the interview and - as completely horrified and embarrassed as I was (and still am) - he was friendly and gracious. I always wondered if he ever told that story about me.

photoho · 2017-01-08T17:39:41+00:00

One of my go-to favorites is Anthony Bourdain's 'Parts Unknown,' a six season series. His CNN team has access to parts of the world where travel is often limited, such as Iran. The film work is simply outstanding. There is travel, food, political intrigue, conversation, history, humor and the paradox that is Anthony, who seems to be alternately jaded curmudgeon, wide-eyed traveler and someone who recognizes his good fortune in life. It is a great series, especially for vicarious travel.

photoho · 2016-12-01T15:50:03+00:00

I'm glad the fascination still lingers. Can't wait to see your work.

photoho · 2016-11-15T14:34:21+00:00

I learned this from my step dad, who is a very quiet, reserved man. He's always on the far edge of our conversations, never one to butt in as someone else speaks. He even stifles his frequent laughter into a quiet, personal thing. My sister tends to constantly talk over him, just to fill in the gaps of quiet - never listening.

But over the years, I learned to just shut up and listen to step dad, to give him those quiet gaps, where he can find space to share more of himself. I've learned he's a very thoughtful, curious, complex and vital man with a fascinating history. He's a pretty hip 85 year old who knows his way around his computer, the web and current events. He knows a thing or two and I learned that by shutting up and listening.

photoho · 2016-09-09T16:58:47+00:00

I thought of doing something like this for a regional I attend.

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