Most of it was psychological, not unlike lines painted on a road acting like a divider. The only barrier, most places, is a mental one. Even when a road is empty, most people obey out of a sense of safety and respect for 3 ton bullets.

Windows on houses, also a psychological barrier to entry. They’re glass, anyone can break them with little effort. Take away the mental restraint and you have every zombie movie ever made.

Belief in the constitution, the democratic republic of America, and the rule of law does not exist with MAGA. As such, there are no mental guardrails to hold anything dictatorial or destructive back.

It has to be easy, low effort, and something there friends are doing too.

As a nation we already have to import degrees. Now, I anticipate bleeding the homegrown degrees out to other countries.

I’m a little shocked the money makers and corporate haven’t pushed Trump out to pasture via the 25th amendment to save the dollar and future innovation/$$$$.

He opened with this, going after the top law firms capable of prosecuting MAGA.

Economist chatter isn’t pleasant right now. I didn’t pull this idea out of a black hole.

Terrifying.

I wonder how much our car insurance will go up due to this.

Until you listen to the Behind the Bastards on him and realize FB started out as a women hotness rating system local to his college. There was no benign origin here.

The bond market is failing. If that reaches fruition the economy collapses, including the banks.

Either Trumps own people turn against him or this horrific outcome may happen.

This is another bullet point on the list of MAGA stopping or confusing the flow and accessibility of information.

We are to know nothing about what they are doing in the world, ideally.

Conservatives tend to increase national debt. Search Engine has a podcast this week, on the difference between your debt and the national debt.

Probably not, based on the gun laws I’m seeing there.

Not the point.

All those jobs so we can have crap delivered to our doors.

It’s quite the perspective to see such a large slice of jobs created due to Amazon deliveries via USPS. In addition, to know that segment of jobs is for delivering Made in China product via Amazon.

I do have to wonder if Trump was mindful of this long game. Last time he said the USPS was getting ripped off by Amazon.

Bezos did do that. He squelched WaPo pre election.

We will see if he has balls by whether or not he actually does it. Saying and doing are two entirely different things.

Sure it’s Leopards, but how is Bezos reporting the truth of the cost a hostile act?

This is such a Cluster B personality disorder style reaction. Malignant narcissists lash out at anyone who contradicts or provides evidence against their false reality, and every malignant narcissist constructs a false reality for themselves and the people around them. Classic. Toxic. Definitely a page from the cluster B personality disorder playbook.

I’m no defender of Bezos, but the additional costs need to be publicized.

Their basic shortbread recipe is spot on, perfect.

When you start, you follow recipes. Pick a type of cuisine you like. At some point as you explore recipes you will start to understand the “flavor bouquet” of that cuisine. This understanding will help you with what spices go together in a pleasant way, and in what amounts. Like Thai food. Or Italian food.

That said, bread can be a gateway recipe. It’s simple: yeast, flour, water + a sugar to activate the yeast. Not all bread is sandwich bread. Starting with flatbread (for hummus, gyro, etc) or pizza crust also works. No bread machines, that would defeat the purpose of your original question, but a stand mixer with a dough hook is ok. For sandwich bread, King Arthur Flour has solid recipes (ignore ingredient branding).

If you like vids, Kenji Lopez-Alt is excellent. He also has a book called The Food Lab which is useful but not necessary, depending on how you learn. Serious Eats also has useful guides.

Whenever suicide is mentioned in conjunction with Epstein, the answer is it wasn’t suicide. Even so, it means there will be no justice.