Iirc, the same fungus that decimated the Big Mike plantations mutated into the one that’s taking out the Cavendish. (Big Mike is still out there, btw, but only in limited areas that didn’t get infected with the blight, and in limited numbers. You know how in all the old movies, people slipped on banana peels? Those were Big Mike; supposedly the peels actually were a hazard, though perhaps not to the extent Bugs Bunny might imply.)
Speculation is icing.
Do NOT listen to the ATC recording.
Seriously, do NOT listen to the ATC recording. You will regret it.
Do NOT listen to the ATC recording.
Do NOT listen to the ATC recording.
Seriously, do NOT listen to the ATC recording. You will regret it.
Do NOT listen to the ATC recording.
Chances are pretty high that the diesel is actually from Iran :/
“Trump administration officials are privately encouraging U.S. firms to accept Russian diesel currently crossing the Atlantic, industry groups familiar with the conversations said, despite warnings that doing so could place them in significant legal and reputational jeopardy,” the report said.
Of course they’re encouraging people to break the law :/
“Moscow and Washington are still scrambling to find takers, but we wouldn’t be surprised if the cargoes ultimately head to Brazil,”
Behind closed doors, very little of this went over well with the state’s other Republican Party bigwigs, many of whom were furious at Ramaswamy for doing something that could imperil the elections of others on the Ohio GOP ticket
Yeah, they didn’t care about the ad, just that it could drag them down with him.
I mean, what else can they do but keep on? They’ve lost a lot of the American public, but if they lose the American Congress, that’ll really start to hurt.
Ukraine is beginning to gather momentum along multiple fronts in counter attacking
They are. But unfortunately winter is coming :(
There were reports a year or so ago, of Musk acting as a message carrier between Trump and Putin.
Oh, wow. Yeah, I’m with you - I’d still be pissed!
My cousin is still carrying her Halloween grudge against her sisters. This is like her only Halloween story, and it goes like this:
"I was like maybe 8 years old? It was some age when both candy and presents were really important to me. And I got chicken pox just before Halloween. [nb: This was before there was a vaccine.] I begged my parents, but they wouldn’t let me go out trick-or-treating; their concession was that they’d send my sisters out with a spare pillowcase.
"Only on their way home, my sisters stopped a couple houses up the street and dumped all three pillowcases into piles on the sidewalk, and then proceeded to ‘exchange’ all my chocolate for their Bit 'o Honey’s and Mary Jane’s.
"They got home and I eagerly went for my candy, only to be confronted by this travesty of all the bad candy. I complained to my parents, who told me to be quiet and just be happy that I got any candy at all.
"A couple months later, both my sisters got chicken pox as well. Except by then it was Christmas, so my grandparents said it was horrible to be sick over Christmas and bought them both extra presents.
“Anyway, that’s my childhood grudge that I’m never letting go of: that when I was sick, all my good candy was stolen, and when they were sick, they got extra presents.” And then she always ends it: “So - what’s your childhood grudge that you’re not letting go of?”
Same reason a bunch of Trump officials will start leaving next year (for personal reasons, to spend more time with their family, to pursue a wonderful opportunity, etc): if they leave now, it’s easier for them to line up jobs elsewhere in the right-wing universe. If they wait until after Election Day, there’ll be a bunch more people competing for the same positions. This way, they can get in early.
Costa Rica doesn’t have an army. But it does have a moderately militarized police force.
Considering that he only left recently, I feel like “probe” is implying a level of examination that likely hasn’t happened yet. I feel like “police inquiries” would be more appropriate here.
the meeting was speedily publicized by the White House with photos and a video, without consent of the participants, and less than two weeks away from the midterm elections.
Imagine being so naive to believe that it wouldn’t be politicized - or that the White House believed in consent.
Convenient how these past-minute changes only affect a heavily Democratic area, and gives plenty of room to allege “irregularities” when poll workers are directed to a place they’re not familiar with that was set up at the last minute. Not to mention the confusion amongst everyone who’s going to show up at the wrong place and have voting take significantly more time than they anticipated.