Correction: Looked like a self propelled gun.

Currently looks like chunks of smoking debris.

Bob Ross’ show ended 30 years ago, and PBS and NPR funding has declined even more as a proportion of operating costs since then.

That’s what NPR and PBS were supposed to be, but they’re so perpetually underfunded that they’re almost commercial stations. edit: with corporate sponsors and viewer funding pledge drives.

Some public stations have been taken over by right wing orgs that came in with massive funding.

Gift link to SF Chronicle article
archived version

For those interested, before the Very Special Military Operation, the 83rd Airborne Brigade had about 40,000 men.

There’s supposed to be a heat wave here next week, so I might have to start my own experiment with cold brew too…

Electric burr grinder is the way to go, unless you’re a masochist.

It’s my second week drinking that Four Sisters Donut Shop Blend from Grocery Outlet, and… It’s okay…

It’s not completely awful, and it’s definitely functionally caffeinated, but without a paper filter it’s bitter.

With a filter, it does have a sweetness and fruity acidity that’s nice.

As if it’s made as a filter coffee, which sounds weird, but I suppose it must be possible.

Speaking of paper filters, I started using a mesh filter in my aeropress, and… The result tastes very similar to my French press…

I got a pack of two mesh filters: One 250 microns, the other 200 microns, and the 200 micron filter doesn’t let any fines through at all.

I am alternating days between the two, and I have to say the paper filter in the Aeropress makes a huge improvement in smoothness and taste.

Without fuzes, which are only screwed in just before firing, modern artillery shells are really difficult to set off.

If you think about it, the act of firing a shell out of a cannon and sending it miles away is pretty violent, but the shells don’t explode in the cannon.

Without the correct fuzes, the shells won’t even explode when they land.

https://www.quora.com/How-does-an-artillery-projectile-not-explode-and-destroy-the-artillery-that-fired-it

I don’t get it. Is Pembrose the couch?

Could be one of those C-suite power plays:

Texeira is managing their one profitable product profitably and looks destined to be CEO.

The old CEO Baker suddenly resigns, and appoints Chambers as (permanent) successor CEO.

Chambers and/or Baker is in tight with the head of HR Chehak, and gets her to declare that Texeira is physically unfit for his job as Chief Product Officer or any other job at Mozilla.

Chambers and/or Baker get their wish for Chambers to become CEO;

Demonstrably competent exec Texeira is essentially out of a job;

Great success!

Good knowledge, but these guys with skulls displayed on their spears don’t look like shrunken-head type headhunters.

Maybe they keep their shrunken heads in humidity controlled, UV filtering display cabinets off camera like I do.

This is one of my favorite strips!

But thinking about it, how much of his head is flesh?

His face isn’t much bigger than normal.

Unless his jawbone has a 1.5 foot chin, most of the head under his mouth is going to be skin and fat.

And if his skull is normal sized, his neck bones must be extremely distended, and his neck muscles must be extremely strong to support the weight of the entire head.

The strip is just better to contemplate as a fanciful idea and move on.

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The official reason for the introduction of the six-day work week is that there is a shortage of skilled workers on the Greek labor market as the population keeps shrinking and the country losing scores of thousands of workers who fled during the economic and austerity crisis in search of jobs in other countries.

So “The austerity and beatings will continue until morale improves.”

Don’t blame the writers, some of whom are long dead, and some titles are long out of print.

Might also be a sign of a stalemate this is in this area.

That’s got all kinds of disturbing implications.

Clearly the toe went to market of its own free will, and left a note behind as a courtesy

1. Selling something that has free will is slavery
2. What are the legal implications of owning somebody else’s digits?
3. Toes are courteous and have free will?

Another opinion from a random pro-Russian idiot’s website.

What is going on with the tankies posting here today?

What is this?

Shit News Source Day?

This one didn’t work…

I think he was trying to do the Warner Bros cartoon thing where a character’s head turns into a pan shape when hit by a pan…

Larson doesn’t capture the zeitgeist of that toon trope, and the figures being arrested are too small.

That’s nightmare fuel…