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aramis87

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  • Stardew Valley Creator Shuts Down Rumors Haunted Chocolatier 'Will Be Abandoned,' Insisting: 'It Will Come Out When It’s Ready' - IGN

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  • I mean, he spent 4 years of 70-hour weeks making Stardew. I'd expect Haunted Chocolatier to take equally as long - actually longer, since he's still making Stardew releases, presumably taking some time for himself these days, has to approve any official merch or related stuff like the concert series, etc.

  • Tesla's 'unsupervised' Robotaxis vanish a week after pre-earnings announcement

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  • UPS to cut up to 30,000 more jobs in move away from low-profit Amazon shipments

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  • It's not that UPS doesn'twant to deliver small packages, it's that the Amazon deliveries are extremely small profit for them. Both because Amazon doesn't pay that much for delivery, and because Amazon deliberately offloads the most expensive deliveries (like rural addresses) to rival companies.

    You're not SoL yet as the USPS is mandated to deliver to every address in the country; you may be SoL if they ever finally manage to privatize the Post Office.

  • The Supreme Court will soon decide if only Republicans are allowed to gerrymander

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  • Alternatively, if they [allow California's new map to stand], it will remove any doubt that this Court is trying to rig the game to benefit the Republican Party.

    I don't think that statement holds up, as one decision favoring California doesn't offset the multiple questionable decisions they've already made that strongly favor the Republicans. But thanks for the laugh!

  • The Supreme Court will soon decide if only Republicans are allowed to gerrymander

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  • I'm not sure the current court has the integrity to understand that

  • Elon Musk says Tesla ending Models S and X production, converting Fremont factory lines to make Optimus robots

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  • Even if his robots were ready for primetime (they're not), I don't see how he's going to be able to price them affordably, given the RAM shortages.

  • Elon Musk says Tesla ending Models S and X production, converting Fremont factory lines to make Optimus robots

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  • Nah, he'll have the government buy them as fleet cars.

  • Alleged Ilhan Omar attacker hinted at town hall plans in cryptic texts to neighbor: ‘I might get arrested’

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  • He's already issued a pardon to a woman in Colorado who was convicted [only at the state level] of crimes in trying to overturn the 2020 election. Her lawyer is trying that exact argument.

  • Alleged Ilhan Omar attacker hinted at town hall plans in cryptic texts to neighbor: ‘I might get arrested’

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  • A) he could be pardoned right now, before anything else happens. Except

    B) he's been charged with crimes at the state level, so Walz isn't going to pardon him and a pardon from the federal level would have no effect

  • Stephen Miller acknowledges possible breach of protocol before Alex Pretti’s shooting

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  • So Miller is blaming CBP (they "may not have been following [...] protocol", "The initial [lying] statement from DHS was based on reports from CBP on the ground.”)

    Noem is blaming the White House ("Trump had been privately defending [the killer]", "Noem was given guidance from multiple White House officials on how she should talk about the shooting").

    And trump is distancing himself from both of them, as well as Bovino.

  • 2 federal officers fired shots during encounter that killed Alex Pretti, DHS tells Congress

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  • They've also announced that they're not going to release the killer's bodycam footage.

  • ‘Latinas for Trump’ Co-Founder Warns Immigration Will Cost G.O.P. the Midterms

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  • Well, she's not very intelligent, but I hope she's right!

  • ICE Agents Want Out of Minnesota: Trump’s ‘Battle Is Lost’

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  • Threat briefings are now fixated on alleged “retaliatory” plots against ICE and Border Patrol after the deaths of Pretti and Good. “Lots of people are freaking out,” one officer told Klippenstein, saying agents are “getting seriously paranoid, afraid of being targeted by ‘retaliators,’” and talk as if “we are fighting insurgents,” turning Minneapolis into a domestic Baghdad.

    What's that Battlestar Galactica quote about the people becoming the enemy of the state?

    The result, officers say, is an overstretched and physically and emotionally shattered force. Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) teams are “being squeezed heavily” to police protests rather than tracking down immigration targets. This, they say, leaves “lots of guys totally exhausted out there with a lot of pressure on them” to conduct non-immigration missions, one officer said.

    Poor babies. You can always quit.

    Another warned that the FBI is now “reluctant to participate” in any Minneapolis task forces.

    Interesting.

    One senior ICE agent summed up his reaction to Pretti’s killing in two words: “F--k this.”

    Fuck ICE.

  • ICE Agents Want Out of Minnesota: Trump’s ‘Battle Is Lost’

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  • They only get their 50k bonus if they stay for five years, and they have to pay off all those macho pickups they bought ....

  • What are your cheap, but not miserable, recipes?

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  • Every year, I buy a farm share (CSA) that gets me about half a bushel of produce every week during the growing season, plus PYO privileges; right now, it's running about $400 for 24 weeks, so about $17 a week. The CSA model is that you pay up front, so the farm has the money to run for the year without being dependent on extreme variables like weather and crop prices. When it's a good year, I get extra produce; and if it's a bad year, well, prices in the stores are going to rise anyway. And after I buy my share, I don't have to buy produce for like 2/3's of the year. Anyway, it all means that my meals are very veggie-based, and seasonal; and that I have less of a 'feel' for the cost of my meals because I pay most of it up front.

    Stuff that I make with my share (I freeze about half the stuff I make and eat it through the winter and spring):

    Leafy-green stuff: salad; stir fry; frittatas; lettuce soup (okay but not great, but prevents letting stuff spoil when I get sick of lettuce month); kale chips; spinach salad, spinach dip.

    Veggie dishes: eggplant Parmesan; zucchini boats; stuffed tomatoes, stuffed peppers; feta-crusted baked tomatoes; cinnamon roasted potatoes; French onion soup; seven layer casserole; pizza; mashed turnips with potatoes; colcannon; moussaka; baba ganoush; roasted daikon; radishes with butter; three beet salad; double garlic soup; garlic scape dip; chili; garlic mashed potatoes; creamy corn chowder. [This also doesn't include simple "direct" stuff like roasted carrots or potatoes, corn on the cob, sliced tomatoes, etc.]

    Canning / freezing / dehydrating extras: marinara; salsa; tomato paste; red pepper flakes; hot sauce; pickled garlic, pickled onions, pickled beets; giardiniera; dilly beans; apple slices, apple skins, apple butter; sauerkraut; garlic scape relish. Lots of various herbs.

    Fruit-based or dessert-type stuff I make from my share: strawberry muffins, strawberry shortcake; blueberry pancakes; raspberry jam; blackberry compote; apples baked in lemon custard; zucchini bread, butternut squash bread; pumpkin pie; peach kuchen; sweet potato pie; baked sweet potatoes with apples; baesuk.

    There's undoubtedly a lot of stuff that I'm forgetting to list.

  • Stephen Miller iced out of Trump meeting on future of DHS: MS NOW host

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  • Invited to hear Noem and Lewandowski was White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, press secretary Karoline Leavitt and Steven Cheung, Trump’s communications director.

    So - the person paid to pay attention while Trump takes naps, and two people running the White House spin machine. Meaning that absolutely nothing is going to change except their PR.

  • Who still uses IRC and why?

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  • NetHack. Tracker support. Very occasionally, ebooks and audiobooks I couldn't find elsewhere.

  • Anyone here think smartphones and tech like that kinda peaked in 2019 arnd that time?

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  • I mean, the main reason they're making folding phones is that general phones have gotten so large. I'd love to have some decent small-form phones back on the market.

  • Greg Bovino set to leave Minneapolis and could ‘retire,’ report says

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  • He's ?56?. Mandatory retirement age is 57, so he was headed out anyway.