I honestly had no idea what was in chorizo. I had been making chili with it at home and it came time to make it for work, I stopped by the market near work and they didn’t have any. I was all “FINE!, I’ll make my own” and looked it up, there are TONS of variations. The one I went for was basically vinegar, coriander, cinnamon, cloves, and most of the spices I already use in chili.

One of my favorite taco shops made one that was very hot and just a touch sweet the cinnamon was forward which I didn’t care for at first, but it ended up being amazing, it was also processed fine like round beef. I’ve been trying to replicate that for a while.

That’s because crappy mobile game art looks like 1993 computer games :)

At least we finally answered the Fermi Paradox.

shrug

Dunno, I was involved on some of the Zynga titles, so maybe I’m biased.

Two looks really decent. Maybe One could have had a few more cosmetic upgrades. It looks to me like maybe they leaned in a little hard into HDR.

If they were going to take the art much further than they did it probably would have been prudent just to make a new version.

“wife”s nudes on state sponsored news?

I doubt he cares about that at all… kinda shocked he doesn’t just come out and say yeah, that’s what I’m fucking.

Then again, that was just their warning shot that they’re serious. If they have something more substantial…

There are photos of him hanging with Epstein.

Ghislaine Maxwell said in court that he frequented Epstein’s Manhattan mansion, where she would introduce him to her friends and acquaintances.

If there was anything to that, and the KGB had some media to support that fact. Certainly, some decent part of his base is unshakable, but not the whole base. It would have to be some pretty gross crap, but I don’t think it’s anywhere near impossible.

So the story goes, they have blackmail against him. Then he made some comments that he might not pay up after getting in. When they released blackmail, it was in order to make sure he pays, not to just call retribution. They have more, he’s their sock puppet.

TBF, any of the big players are rife to capitulate to fed demands with the admin changes. Keep that crap out of Facebook, X, Google, Microsoft, unencrypted chat.

You know, I’ve never tried it with chili, but I’ll bet it would be wonderful. I’m thinking the cardamom’s going to get lost really quickly, I would probably add it once at about the middle of the cooking, and then lightly dust it again at serving for the aroma.

If you use cinnamon and cloves in chili, the cinnamon and cloves should be almost undetectable. The spice is meant to provide a warm undertone.

Realistically, if you want to properly experience it, forget adding cinnamon and add good quality chorizo. It has cinnamon, but brings a lot more to the table.

I make chili for work once a quarter or so. I make two batches, one Vegan, one Fantastic (ok kidding)

Yes, you can use just about any meat substitute they are all fantastic. Slices of seitan, TVP, Small chunks of drained and pressed low moisture tofu, morning star sausage. The spices destroy any of the finer flavors, so you’re just in it for the texture you really can’t go wrong because the only no-no is gristle.

Before the meat alternatives got decent in the past few years, I always just made both batches with beans.

I have a guy, he’s amazing but he just does that. I have to be very careful to not to send him anything outside of normal work hours because he will spin up and do it and that’s not what I want.

Since the US is about to become buddy-buddy with some communist entities, maybe they’ll relax restrictions?

What even is the point

Scheduling correspondence generally falls into one of a couple categories:

1. This message contains information you don’t want them to have until after an event. Raises, Layoffs, Reorgs
2. It’s 2am and you don’t want to bother them at this hour. (more important for Slack)
3. They’re not in our timezone and you want it to hit the box when they’re fresh to work on it. You don’t want them to start a sprawling project at 4:30 on a Friday.
4. It’s the weekend and there’s no reason for them to worry about it until Monday.

The edge of Ukraine to Moscow should be something like 450 - 500 miles.

Quadcopters we’ve been seeing on the news aren’t anywhere near efficient enough to make it that far much less carrying a payload. Off the shelf dragon link uhf would only give them vision for about 27 mi.

Commercial fixed wing planes could carry a little more and go a little further.

If they’ve managed to get their hands on some proper military drones They could get there at low altitude with almost enough range to get back.

I was reading up on the satellite hacking communities back in the 00’s. 1969, that old stuff had only basic security if any at all. It’s possible that anyone all the way down to an amateur might have commanded it to move.

From the description it sounds like it’s orbit has become somewhat elliptical. If some state entity was trying to screw with it, they probably would have left it in more of a stable geosynchronous position. You don’t have to move it far to make a point.

Seeing that it’s dead and they’re not likely to have logs from it, maybe it had a malfunction or a propellant leak.

It would be interesting if they defected to the Ukraine and became part of the resistance.

I wore out 2 copies of Short Circuit. I could start working on a third.

Had that happen once on a game. Guy was exploiting a bug for free currency, selling his service to add money to peoples accounts. Studio started banning people purchasing, Exploiter started giving away money to vast swaths of people.