I saw a news report that the Ukrainian prime minister resigned and was very surprised that it had nothing to do with the impeachment.
You could at least have found a charming picture of a giant alligator eating something.
Like from a Cartoon Network series for children or stoners.
4: If crocodiles use a knife and fork, is that progress?
I've never actually watched the show with the three bears pictured in the previous post.
It's funnier than one might expect.
6, 7: At the risk of further besmirching my reputation - what show is that?
I don't know the name. I just recognize the bears.
It's called We Bare Bears. I like it a lot. It's positive without being cutesy.
I'm at least enjoying Lev Parnas's revelations.
I know it makes me a bad person, but I can't suppress my schadenfreude at the prospect of James Comey being persecuted by the Trump government.
"Les Parnas's Revelations" is not the name of my punk band, but it is the name of a series about conscious re-coupling with eschatology that I'm pitching to Netflix.
I didn't realize this was an option.
Trump bringing in Starr and Dershowitz for his defense is just too perfect.
Nobody hires Dershowitz if they are innocent.
Most guilty people have higher standards too.
Dershowitz believes ("believes") it would be unimpeachable for Trump to let Russia retake Alaska.
Not endorsing the idea. Just saying.
You could go back to a regular state.
I flagged a fact-checker's tweet as suspicious today because it linked to a potentially harmful and misleading site, i.e. the fact-checker's own site.
I flagged a man in Reno just to watch him cry.
29 https://twitter.com/m_tisserand/status/1218546948497727490
I heard a third-hand story recently about a cop from the Lower 48 who took a police job in Alaska. One of his first nights on duty, he and his partner encounter a drunk guy sitting on the side of the road. They help him up, and the new-to-Alaska cop starts to arrest the guy for Drunk In Public. The partner intervenes, telling him, "That's not how we do things here. If they can walk, they can go." And the drunk guy staggers off.
Pretty much how it works here, and, I suspect in most of the world. Many years ago a friend of mine got so drunk that when he was approached by a cop, he not only used said cop to prop himself up, but threw up all over his (the cop's) trousers and shoes. He spent the night in the tank but wasn't charged with anything in the morning.
The whole world is turning into Russia.
30: That one couldn't have been very hard for Columbo. Cash started having bikini pool parties before he even buried his wife.
I'm not suggesting that nobody who murders their wife should ever have a pool party where nearly all the guests are much younger women. I'm just saying that you do that if Columbo is showing up at your house all the time.
That sounds kind of judgemental against murderers. The same advice applies to anybody piloting a plane when there in a crash, even accidental, where they live and their spouse dies plus their mistress dies.
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Love is a battlefield.
Speaking of, I never understood how the combat in "Hit me with your best shot" was supposed to work. Like he's supposed to break her heart or she will win and notch her lipstick case. But since she determines when her heart is broken, he'd be a fool to try to win. And yet she says he doesn't fight fair.
Maybe it's like a Dungeons and Dragons thing and he can win if he rolls a 7 or higher.
31: Do you know what part of Alaska? The context would have a big effect on how to make sense of that story.
In other Alaska legal news, the courts have struck a blow against the scourge of hoverboard dentistry.
39: It's a metaphor. He's her tax accountant. She's trying to evade taxes.
Just LOL at the idea of the Met arresting anyone for "drunk in public". Pretty sure there aren't even drunk tanks any more because of the huge number of medically trained staff they'd need to look after the drunks to avoid the vast expense of a "death in custody" investigation. (As a reminder, any death, whatever the cause, occurring after any sort of contact with the police at all can be included in the "death in custody" figures in the UK.)
41: I don't know for sure. I took it to be smaller-town Alaska, but not isolated-place-reachable-only-by-plane Alaska. My interpretation was that there weren't a lot of jail beds in this particular town, so if the cops went around arresting all the drunk people, they'd run out of room at the jail.
My interpretation was that leaving static drunks for the wolves just wouldn't be sportsmanlike, but walking drunks are fair game.
Just LOL at the idea of the Met arresting anyone for "drunk in public"
Probably easier and cheaper on a Friday/Saturday night to lock up all the people in public who aren't drunk, for their own safety.
Opera must be more fun than I thought.
I know lots of drunk people, but since my mid-twenties at least, none who get sloppy enough to meet the "drunk in public" standards. Did Millennials kill "holding your liquor"?
No. It was their goddamn helicopter parents. Used to be kids grew up getting drunk off the dregs in everyone's glasses. Now it's all soymilk and strictly observed bedtimes.
For the local generation Z, it's proving impossible to enforce bedtimes for the simple reason that the adults are too sleepy to notice what happens after 11:00. But there's no soy milk in the house and nobody has ever left dregs in the glass.
I'm camping but going home today and will resume posting.
It's a bit strange to me how impeachment isn't eating the world. It doesn't even seem to be that Trump's attempt to start a war with Iran is the reason it isn't. It's just everybody knows Trump is a piece of shit and by this point nobody is going to pretend that Republican senators aren't just as bad.
Even armed guns nuts gathering in Virginia doesn't seem to be getting much attention. Maybe I'm just being lazy? Or maybe it's better to let them stand around with gun and scare the norms into voting.
I've basically been reading about yurts since yesterday, so I could be missing things.
Nope, it's been pretty much all yurts this weekend.
It's where you end up when you realize that you can't really construct a cob house on your own in a reasonable period of time.
C'mon, Moby, why do we even have the Mineshaft if not for communal construction of cob houses? Phone a friend!
Yurt materials are self-propelled.
So, I found somebody selling 12 acres that is only accessible by fording a stream.
To be clear, it's not an island in a stream*, it's between a stream and roadless land owned by the state.
* That is what we are, but only metaphorically.
It's also not very isolated. You could, assuming rubber boots are sufficient for the fording, walk to a post office in five minutes. Which may be where you have to park your car. Anyway, you could get a yurt there, but probably not all you need to build a cob house.
I suppose the obvious thing to build if you have 12 acres of forest is a log cabin.
AGW will presumably turn Eastern Woodland into Eastern Prairie. Yurt.
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It says there's a ford with a defined right of way, but google maps doesn't show any kind of physical improvement to make it easier to access the river. The listing shows a grassy landing area. On the town side of the creek, which is 50 feet wide, there's a dock as well as what looks like another landing area with two kayaks pulled up. Buying it would be a great way to establish yourself as a local eccentric. But it costs more than some houses around here.
I was reading the legend wrong. The creek must be at least 100 feet across.
I don't think you can get a yurt, even in pieces, in a canoe. You'd need some kind of row boat thing.
A yurt goes on a wagon. Your horses should be able to pull it across.
I just passed up an opportunity to buy 2.6 acres of swamp for $5000, because I had no possibly way to justify such a purchase besides "I want a piece of swamp."
It seems cheap, but the property taxes get you.
What some folks have done around here is string a cable across and haul everything.
I don't think that will work because the other side is some guy's yard.
Hilltop temples around here too.
Small towns in central PA are usually very into the local monotheism.
(You'd need a permit here, see eg https://missoulacd.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2018/12/12_10_18_Agenda-1.pdf)
If your congregants aren't ready to walk straight up 16,000 steps I don't know why you even want them.
76 So, the easement to cross the river ends at the bank? That's kind of odd useless.
They call it a right of way, not an easement. I don't know what that matters. I can see a couple of places to put in a canoe but there is no obvious path from there to the street.
I can't figure it out. You can see the it here. You follow Church Street straight across the creek (the big creek, not the little one). You can see what looks like a small blue tent in a clearing. You can also see what looks like a largish cabin, but either that is on a different property or it has been torn down. It looks like motor vehicle tracks are around (and possibly there is a rusted out truck), but I can't see how they got one there unless they drove it up the creek.
A yurt just rolls wherever. Cobb looks worse by the moment.
There's a sort of linear clearing between the corner of Church Street and the creek shore (where the canoes are) that could be a right-of-way. It's also possible there's a place to put into the little creek from Church Street that's obscured by the trees.
I certainly looks like a river access.
I don't know your streambed regime, but ours is what it is supposedly because of Equal Footing, and that stream looks pretty likely to be navigable. Which, here, would mean that the state owned the bed.
On googling around, there are outfitters for canoe/raft/kayak trips up and down that creek.
If you zoom out and turn off the satellite image, the map will show that most of the land is state owned around there.
I feel like emailing the realtor just to find out what the fuck. Except that they're asking $150k and I wouldn't want to sound too interested.
Here are pictures.
I guess you guys don't have an online property records system like our Cadastral? It's the best.
If you're in the mood to check it out, geocode 49-0432-01-3-01-01-0000 is Chico Hot Springs.
http://svc.mt.gov/msl/mtcadastral
Allegheny County has a very nice online system so I can snoop and see which of my neighbors are behind on their property taxes or had to have their relatives co-sign for the mortgage. Lycoming County requires you to know the parcel number in order to look up something and that isn't on the listing.
Tracks here on the north bank diagonally opposite the upsilon-shaped tracks by the S bank. Also possible tracks heading from the upsilon SE and reappearing in the clearing directly opposite the tracks on the N bank.
All of which said, that stream is 70m across. Maybe the agent just doesn't know what "ford" means.
Somebody built a pretty big cabin there. They must have driven something across or else had an actual ferry. The listing says there's still a septic system from a cabin, so I'm assuming that cabin you can see in on the property and now gone. Fire? Flood? Nothing in the news.
This picture appears to show a vehicle behind the Christmasy tree just right of center. You can see the same tree on satellite.
If you look at page 8 of this brochure, I think you can get a good idea of what is around. That white area across the river from Waterville can't be much more than 12 acres if I was measuring correctly with my thumb against the scale. It looks like there is a trail and a road into from the land side. The state could have allowed access in the past but closed it off now.
I wouldn't want to build anything substantial in that floodplain, but a yurt wouldn't be a bad call.
A kayak-mounted yurt could be both easily delivered and securely anchored among the flooded treetops.
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I am building here on my pride in being able to successfully distinguish Bukharin, Bulganin and Bakunin.
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there's still a septic system from a cabin
Is it an empty septic system? You could be building your yurt on top of a historical poop deposit from the 1950s. In a floodplain.
I was wondering about why a septic system was allowed so close to a waterway.
A yurt is not built. A yurt migrates.
That actually hurts. Congratulations.
I'm thinking PA has more Russians than Mongolians.
101: B. Akunin is the one who is actually Grigori Chkhartishvili.
I want to take responsibility for 106, mainly because 107 is like having Federer tell you that he's aware of your work.
A man who stands at the pinnacle of his craft.
With maybe one or two others. Stanley is Nadal.
I don't know he was still playing.
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Amazing longevity. They were both in the top 3 in 2006 and are there again today.
I don't know if a Society for Creative Cultural Appropriation is really a good idea.
I wouldn't want to build anything substantial in that floodplain
Steel house on stilts.
http://www.kodiaksteelhomes.com/series/28
That would seem hard to get across a river also.
The easiest way to cross any large body of water is in what is, basically, a big steel house, ideally with some sort of propellor.
Go see A Hidden Life. Truly a film for our moment.
Parasite too. Go see both.
Malick has made one of the most profoundly Christian films of our time but I doubt those who call themselves such will even notice. And stunningly beautiful.
What's a word that means anachronistic, but for place instead of time?
Most people use anachronism when they mean to use prochronism. Prochronism is something that hadn't appeared yet at the time depicted: wristwatches in ancient Rome, for example. Anachronism is something surviving long after it should have disappeared: fighting with longbows in 1940s France, or commuting by horse and trap in modern New York. Prochronism is actually impossible; anachronism is merely unlikely.
126 Fuck me but that's really good.
But he also misses the point, it's not about religion, it's about our current moment.
I haven't actually seen the movie yet, but what's coming across to me most from the retellings is the idea that resisting, or at least refusing to be complicit in evil, matters and is worth doing even if it's utterly futile in terms of preventing concrete harm, will never become known to anyone who cares, and in fact brings disaster down on you. It might psychologically be easier to make yourself do something like that if you think God's watching. Though other sorts of psychological motivation are also imaginable. The quasi-paradoxical thing is how much concrete progress has relied on people not measuring their actions entirely in terms of pragmatic concrete progress.
