Cortado doesn’t sound that difficult to make. It sounds like a variation on an Americano.

Something ridiculous like kopi luwak, or siphon brewed coffee.

Places that have those probably have other ridiculous things, so ask the baristas for recommendations.

Funicular means there’s a counterbalance, usually a second car is used as a counterweight.

I have no idea how this particular system works, and there’s only one car.

I hate to say this, but the only way to save US democracy is for Biden to use this new “absolute immunity” to arrest or assassinate the SCOTUS and DJT and other enemies of pluralistic democracy.

I doubt that DJT and his allies would hesitate to do the same to their perceived “enemies”

Correction: Looked like a self propelled gun.

Currently looks like chunks of smoking debris.

It looks like Scarborough, England actually has two funicular systems remaining in operation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarborough_funiculars

Judging by the color and date provided, these photos are of the South Cliff Lift

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

Is “Have you had an abortion?” going to be on Texas college application forms?

If so, will there be room for an accompanying essay?

I’m saying for his next disinformation show

TIL Lindsay Lohan not dead from drugs, alcohol.

Depends on how likely your bank thinks you are to default on your mortgage…

Tell your bank, you’ve lost your job, going to prison, and you’re newly divorced with large alimony payments. /s obviously.

Waitaminit…

If a bank sells a mortgage, there obviously has to be a buyer.

Any buyer who does their due diligence is going to see a mortgage on a commercial office property, and weigh the risks of the borrower defaulting on their mortgage, or the borrower not being able to refinance when the mortgage is due.

So given the current environment for commercial offices, any reasonable buyer is going to offer to buy commercial office mortgages at a discount, maybe even at a significant discount, which likely means a financial loss for the bank anyway.

So what’s the difference if the bank holds on to the mortgage, and if the borrower defaults, then seizing the building, i.e. the real asset, and auctioning it off for whatever it can get?

Wouldn’t the loss on a mortgage default and asset seizure, likely the be about same as the loss as selling to a prospective buyer for the mortgage, a buyer who had properly calculated a discount for the risk into their purchase price?

That is highly likely what Jones will do, unfortunately.

As well as hide his income behind all kinds of shell corporations

Sorry Abe, the modern Republican Party is not in your image…