On the off chance that you might need to tie some stuff together, here’s a site that will help you do it. https://www.animatedknots.com/
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Mike Johnston
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Retired IT director from the US, now living in Lisbon, Portugal. I write about food and travel with my wife at thecookandthewriter.com. #WCEU organizer. Novice website builder. Dog lover, especially Boston Terriers.
“Uncontested races are undemocratic.” What a great idea!
https://jesspiper.substack.com/p/uncontested-races-are-undemocratic
So we started out asking a simple question: Why is the price of olive oil rising so much? Getting to an answer took us down a long rabbit hole. Still not sure where it will lead, but I’m continuing to pull the thread.
https://thecookandthewriter.com/2024/03/22/whats-up-with-olive-oil/
The good news is that I don’t have to rush to make the change! @nathan gave us plenty of advance warning.
My administrator has announced that he will be shutting down the server in a couple months, mostly due to rising costs. Sad to see this happen, but I suspect it will be a fact of life in this ecosystem. So now I’m reading the “how to migrate” documents. The technical piece seems simple enough and I’ve looked at the list of other servers. Just wondering if anyone has thoughts on how to select a new home?
Mary Ann HornIf you’re in Lisbon this Tuesday (20 Feb) and need some entertainment, I’ll be doing a presentation at the Lisbon WordPress Meetup group. Looking forward to a great discussion…and to the chicken dinner afterwards!
AJ Sadauskas (@[email protected])
@[email protected] Is the mainstream media seriously trying to claim that Donald "Covfefe" Trump is the more articulate public speaker?! That Donald "very fine people on both sides" Trump is not gaffe prone?! Donald "grab 'em by the pussy" Trump?! Donald "shithole countries " Trump?! Here's an excerpt from the transcript of Don's 6 January speech. I didn't choose this sample because it's atypically bad, I've chosen it because it reflects how he often talks: "We have hundreds of thousands of people here and I just want them to be recognized by the fake news media. Turn your cameras please and show what's really happening out here because these people are not going to take it any longer. They're not going to take it any longer. Go ahead. Turn your cameras, please. Would you show? They came from all over the world, actually, but they came from all over our country." "I just really want to see what they do. I just want to see how they covered. I've never seen anything like it. But it would be really great if we could be covered fairly by the media. The media is the biggest problem we have as far as I'm concerned, single biggest problem. The fake news and the Big tech." Here's another example: "You know, I say, sometimes jokingly, but there's no joke about it: I've been in two elections. I won them both and the second one, I won much bigger than the first. OK. Almost 75 million people voted for our campaign, the most of any incumbent president by far in the history of our country, 12 million more people than four years ago. "And I was told by the real pollsters — we do have real pollsters — they know that we were going to do well and we were going to win. What I was told, if I went from 63 million, which we had four years ago, to 66 million, there was no chance of losing. Well, we didn't go to 66, we went to 75 million, and they say we lost. We didn't lose." Source: https://www.npr.org/2021/02/10/966396848/read-trumps-jan-6-speech-a-key-part-of-impeachment-trial That's the guy the mainstream media wants to say an articulate public speaker?! But even that's beside the point. Unlike in many elections, we're not comparing a sitting incumbent's actual track record to how the challenger might hypothetically perform. In this Presidential poll, both candidates have served a full term in the role, and we can directly compare their performance in office. We can directly compare their performance in the basic administrative duties of the office. We can directly compare how well they assembled a stable and effective cabinet. We can directly compare how they handled news that contradicted their official narrative. We can directly compare how they responded to major world events. We can directly compare how effective they were at formulating evidence-based public policy. We can directly compare whether (or how often) they engaged in misconduct that resulted in impeachment votes, official investigations, and indictments. No-one is saying Biden is perfect. But his track record is light years ahead of his opponent's.
Ham on Wry (@[email protected])
I don’t think of it as voting for a second term for Joe Biden. I think of it as voting for the Democrats who brought unemployment down to a 50 year low, restarted the economy, reduced gas prices, inflation and are on track for reducing interest rates. There is no alternative unless you want chaos and a group of Republicans who were impotent and useless during Trump’s failed regime.
Molly Cantrell-Kraig 🍷One of my quiet guerrilla tactics against book banners is to buy banned books at the thrift store and place them in Little Free Libraries:
