specseaweed

Back in the before times, bills would come to a vote and bills that had virtually total support would go thru with unanimous consent. Now, bills are blocked from being voted on so that Senators aren't on the record being shitbags. As you quoted Vance saying, "“it’s idiotic for us to take the bait” in regards to Democrats using the bill to force Republicans to publicly declare whether or not they support IVF."

Think about that statement from a Senator, then marvel at how fundamentally different he sees the job of a Senator from say, you or me or regular humans.

Duckworth is putting a face to whoever opposes a wildly popular issue, IVF treatment. It causes people to think about the issue, because legislators are in fact advocators (you know, in complete contrast to Vance trying to hide what he advocates for). There's nothing performative about it.

in my opinion, it is the standard democrat cynicism. it is simply something that in the future can be used as a bullet point for her future candidacy. without context, one could write ‘honestly’ she “fought” for IVF.

For Duckworth and for many people, IVF is a opportunity that is basically magic. It changes their lives and it gives them the opportunity to have children. There are few things more powerful than that, and it's tone deaf to an extreme degree to think that something is performative just because it isn't targeted at you.

I mean, usually I'd say you're being a petulant childish asshole, but I'm trying to be better too.

It's ok if everything isn't important to you, champ. It can be important to others and we can support that. There will be Republican supporters of IVF that wanna know too.

I bought the game and I still considered emulating it just to run it at higher res.

which kinda sucks, honestly. it's not like these kids seem to have really had a great chance before, then she runs for congress.

Thanks so much for posting that. We'll put em all on the list. We've never been to the island.

finally man summit has been a slushie mess all year.

I was all ready to sign up this year and then they went and gave me my own team! I'll be there at the West Seattle Junction FC games.

holy shit what a disaster.

nagelsmann sends his regards

I run Jellyfish with an HD home run and have never had that issue. It’s an internal network, no vpn.

Thanks for posting that. Imma do that. Nothing special on the temps? Hot enough to cook but low enough to not burn the sugar?

So you cut em, marinade em, and then grill em? That sounds pretty cool. I’d imagine you get a much different flavor that way.

So it’s probably been a decade since I did back ribs. I’ve just always done spare ribs, but I saw a nice sale on back ribs and figured sure what the hell.

I’ve always taken the silverskin off. Once I didn’t and I remember getting comments about it, like the mouth feel was a little tough there. This time I went to grab it to yank it off and it was super thin and barely there, so I just said screw it and left it on.

For whatever reason, it was great. Just a crackly little bite on the back side of the rib that came off cleanly. I think the thinness of the skin certainly helped it and if I saw it that thin again, I’d leave it on again.

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