As work-from-home became the norm, so did the fails and faux pas pic.twitter.com/knfTaY1gU5
— Reuters (@Reuters) May 29, 2020
Exclusive: Zoom plans to roll out strong encryption for paying customers https://t.co/PpQvqUlI1r pic.twitter.com/rdRTOvoH66
— Reuters (@Reuters) May 30, 2020
Inventors across the world have been coming up with ideas to help people stick to social distancing ruleshttps://t.co/iUbcJTb8af https://t.co/Gs08wKRb8p
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) May 29, 2020
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone ???
Baud
The first tweet should have named and shamed the firm that had an issue with cats.
Baud
@rikyrah: Good morning.
NotMax
Musical interlude.
Vive la différence.
:)
OzarkHillbilly
Why reinvent the wheel? A baseball bat held out at arms length has always worked just fine for me.
NotMax
@OzarkHillbilly
Business Attire: Suits Out, Porcupine Costumes In
:)
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: Gonna make using the toilet an adventure in itself.
Betty Cracker
I’m going to make a tray of moussaka this weekend — never before attempted! Hope it’s possible to find dried currants at the supermarket. If not, perhaps cranberries will work.
WereBear
@Betty Cracker: In my experience walnuts and cranberries are natural partners.
raven
It’s our 21st today so we’re going to take a ride out to see some folks who live in the country. I got her a really nice pair of gardening gloves and, if she doesn’t wake up, I’ll sneak out to Traders for flowers.
Betty Cracker
@raven: Congrats, and have fun! Our 23rd anniversary is tomorrow, hence the moussaka.
raven
@Betty Cracker: Cool!
NotMax
@Betty Cracker
Diced dried apricots, golden raisins, dried cherries or dried cranberries as substitutes – in that order, IMHO). What’re sold as currants are generally a different commodity, anyway.
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
Would’ve been a skootch funnier had I taken the extra two minutes to run it through the mental Laff-O-Tron and used this –
Business Attire: Herringbone Out, Porcupine Quills In
Gin & Tonic
@Betty Cracker: I have often seen dried currants next to the raisins in the store.
ETA: should have read all the way to NotMax’s comment.
satby
@NotMax: one of the reasons I grow my own currants. Currant jelly is yummy.
Baud
@raven:
@Betty Cracker:
¡Felicitaciones!
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
My go-to method is intense body odor.
NotMax
@satby
Have a scrumptious recipe for lamb chops with a sauce made with red currant jelly.
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: @Betty Cracker: Happy A days to both of yous.
ETA and hopefully you spouses feel the same
JPL
When I put on the news earlier, the weekday anchors were on. It took a few seconds to realize what day it was.
Geminid
@Baud: But Covid-19 can cause a loss of the ability to smell. If someone gets close, you’d better run.
satby
@raven: @Betty Cracker: Happy Anniversary to you both.
I’ve never heard of moussaka with fruit of any kind in it. It’s always been eggplant, ground beef, potatoes, spices and white sauce. What recipe are you using?
satby
@NotMax: sounds delish! I’m not a fan of mint jelly on lamb.
satby
Trying to mentally gear up for a day with the covidiots. Failing, sort of.
WereBear
@satby: That’s your survival instincts at work, I’m sure.
mrmoshpotato
@satby: Is the farmers market still running?
NotMax
@satby
Made it one time for the parents. Step-father, who never met any meal – hell, anything – he couldn’t/wouldn’t/didn’t knee-jerk lambaste, began with “Gravy doesn’t belong on lamb chops! What the hell were you thinking, serving this!”
After bite number one that became, “Now I understand the difference between a sauce and a gravy. Can I have some more?”
OzarkHillbilly
@satby: What? Not enough ammo?
NotMax
@satby
Would it cut too much into income if you put up a sign “10% off on all purchases for people wearing a mask.”
satby
@mrmoshpotato: yes. And the Michigan plague rats continue to refuse to wear masks. I just stay away from everybody and behind the counter in my own booth. Get there a little late, leave a half hour early. The health department has threatened, but not followed through on shutting violators down, and so the mask compliance is reduced every week. I have to unload stock, or I would pull out and just have them rent my booth for the season. Still might anyway if the behavior gets worse.
mrmoshpotato
@satby: Ugh. Inconsiderate bastards.
“Buh da mask limets muh freedumb!”
satby
@NotMax: No, but it would open me up to even more harrassment. Red states suck.
Am I the only person who gets a “duplicate comment” error for every single comment? It’s annoying (and no Watergirl, I don’t want to trouble shoot it. It’s probably a cache issue on my kindle).
Baud
Via LGM, for Kay.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/05/us-personal-income-coronavirus-stimulus-trump-2020.html
Raven
@OzarkHillbilly: She seemed to like the garden gloves, they are the rose protection kind!
John S.
@Baud: Pesky things like facts and data will never deter the worshipers of the Tax Cut Fairy cult.
But for those of us in the reality based community, it’s great to see that direct stimulus has the desired effect — even if it is dirty soshulism.
NotMax
Ordered a pack of these to attempt to save wear and tear on the ears when masked. Should they not work out, there are probably a dozen other uses I can eventually find for them.
OzarkHillbilly
@Raven: Nice.
debbie
@Betty Cracker:
It may not be traditional, but Trader Joes has dried wild blueberries that I am using wherever I can.
debbie
@raven:
Congratulations to you and your bride!
ETA: And happy anniversary to Betty and the mister!
Martin
@NotMax: Google for ear savers.
The fabric/elastic ones with buttons really work well and are comfortable. Ms Martin has cranked out a few hundred of them for public workers.
oldster
Is zoom going to release a version where it’s encrypted on the sender’s side, and not decrypted on the receiver’s side?
Or maybe just doesn’t arrive at all?
Cause I’d pay for those upgrades.
Spanky
@Baud:
Yeah, we know.
Dorothy A. Winsor
Angele Merkel is my hero. I’d forgotten the furor over where the G7 should be held this year when it’s the US’s turn to host. The other world leaders were sort of giving in to Trump but she said she couldn’t possibly go to the meeting during a pandemic. Trump must be on the floor kicking and screaming.
debbie
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Fucking Trump. He never intended to attend; this is all just to make him look tough and brave in the eyes of his base. Though I do wish NC would allow the GOP convention. Call his bluff.
HalfAssedHomesteader
Capitalists around the world are now musing, “Hmm, a vaccine would be an economic disaster. We have to stop this!”
Immanentize
@raven: @Betty Cracker:
Happy Anniversary to both of you. As all those married or once married know, it can be tricky business! And two decades plus is amazing.
Rose gloves are a great gift, raven. They will protect that finger!
And Betty C., waiting for the currant moussaka recipe with satby….
Brachiator
@Baud:
This piece is wildly misleading and largely wrong.
To talk about “a $3 trillion increase in total government social benefits last month” is absurd, since this describes the entire CARES Act, which is riddled with corporate giveaways and an additional irresponsible tax cut for corporations. These are not social benefits in any meaningful sense.
Also, not all of the money in the bill was spent in April, so the comparison to March is wrong. The Bureau of Economic Analysis report doesn’t even look at the business and corporate programs.
JPL
Volunteers are out cleaning up downtown Atlanta.
Brachiator
@raven:
@Betty Cracker:
Congratulations on your anniversaries!
RSA
I want to see outdoor bubble football franchises in every city.
JPL
@Raven: Happy Anniversary. When working around the rose bushes, I use Kevlar protective arm sleeves. They really do work
Happy Anniversary to the Cracker household also.
OzarkHillbilly
Time for my morning nap to make up for my 2 AM wake up. Y’all have a good day.
hueyplong
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Merkel has handled Trump well throughout his tenure as WH Squatter. He demonstrates on a daily basis his fury at being thwarted or questioned by a woman.
Other than Joe Biden (for campaign reasons), every time a guy thinks up something or decides on a stand that will drive Trump insane, he should step aside so that a woman delivers the message or takes the stand. That clearly bothers Trump more, and we’re at a point at which each turn of the screw could be The One.
It needs to be “all women, all the time,” a ratcheting up of the 3.5 year program of “mostly women, most of the time.”
In a post-Trump world, I want to look back and say that Trump and his co-conspirators screwed over a qualified woman but then they reaped the whirlwind in a way that made Karma smile.
Kay
My son’s local sent them all 4 masks with a letter asking them to wear them outside of work (they’re all required to wear them at work). They’re nice- black, stretchy tightly woven fabric. He gave my husband two- I already have a whole patterned mask selection because I have quilter friends.
I think the Joe Biden manly-mask (in black) becomes the thing :)
raven
@JPL:
HANDLANDY Pruning Gloves Long for Men & Women, Pigskin Leather Rose Gardening Gloves- Breathable & Durability Gauntlet Gloves Medium
by HANDLANDY
Cameron
@hueyplong: He loses his shit completely if he can’t intimidate a woman. Remember when he pulled that ridiculous stalker routine during the debate with Hillary Clinton? (I still think she should have asked him if he needed a potty break.)
Brachiator
@hueyplong:
Merkel, not Trump, is probably the de facto leader of the free world.
MomSense
Sleep wasn’t meant to be last night.
hueyplong
@Cameron: That would have been great. We can all clearly imagine the FTFNYT’s immediate outrage at Clinton’s disrespect and lack of civility toward the racist criminal.
different-church-lady
Maybe they could invent a thing we put in our bodies that makes us immune to the virus.
With Love from MA
@Baud: I was just thinking that my company would’ve been demanding that he not only put the cat on camera, but that we should all be allowed to coo at it.
Some of the Vice Presidents probably would’ve insisted on making the cat lead the meeting.
And I work for Big Corporate…so…
Benw
Congrats Betty and Raven!
Sure Lurkalot
@Betty Cracker: I’m making Baba Ganoush! I haven’t made it in decades so it might as well be my first try. Eggplant rocks!
I use currants in a TG stuffing and they are usually easily findable where the raisins are.
Hope we both make something delectable!
ETA Happy anniversary!
Delk
@raven: huzzah!
SiubhanDuinne
Happy anniversaries to Ravens and Crackers!
MomSense
MN Governor announcing he is mobilizing the National Guard.
CaseyL
Happy Anniversary to Betty C and Raven, and their respective spouses!
Washington has lifted its Stay At Home order, allowing each county to re-open in gradual stages as it meets reduction goals in Covid-19 cases. My office will continue to WFH indefinitely, for which I am grateful as I’m still leery of getting on a bus.
MomSense
@Betty Cracker:
Hold up. Currants? OXI!
I would not put currants in Moussaka.
eggplant, butter, ground beef, onion (grated not chopped), tomato paste, parsley, red wine, cinnamon, kefalotiri (Parmesan as substitute) breadcrumbs, flour, milk,nutmeg, olive oil salt and pepper.
I can list the recipe or email it to you if you want. It’s from a Greek Orthodox Church cookbook so you know it was a hit at the potlucks.
hueyplong
@CaseyL: Good news. Very interested in that particular state’s path back, as my daughter has a teaching job in Seattle this fall (they have set up a remote teaching plan as a contingency).
Geminid
@Sure Lurkalot: Maybe when O.H. wakes up he’ll have a Bubba Ganoush recipe.
grandmaBear
@MomSense: please list your recipe – it sounds perfect!
MomSense
@grandmaBear:
Ok – here goes. Excuse typos because I’m iPhone only.
5 large eggplants, about 1 1/2 lbs each
10 tablespoons butter (1 stick plus 2 tablespoons)
3 lbs ground beef
1 1/2 cups grated onion
2 tablespoons tomato paste
1/4 cup chopped parsley
1/2 cup red wine
salt and pepper to taste
1/2 cup water
1/8 teaspoon ground cinnamon
3/4 cup grated kefalotiri (or Parmesan)
1/2 cup breadcrumbs
1/2 cup all purpose flour
4 cups hot milk
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/8 ground black pepper
1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
3 eggs lightly beaten
oil for brushing eggplant
Remove 1/2 inch wide strips of peel lengthwise from eggplants leaving 1/2 inch peel between the strips. Cut into 1/2 inch rounds, sprinkle with salt and let stand in a colander under a heavy or weighted plate for 1/2 hour. Rinse and dry eggplant rounds.
Melt 4 tablespoons butter in a saucepan and sauté meat and onion until brown. Add tomato paste parsley wine salt pepper and water. Simmer until liquid has been absorbed. Cool. Stir in cinnamon 1/2 cup cheese and half of the breadcrumbs.
prepare the sauce
melt 6 tablespoons butter in a saucepan over low heat. Add flour and stir until well blended. Remove from heat and gradually stir in milk. Return to heat and stir until sauce is thick and smooth. Add salt pepper and nutmeg.
Combine a little bit of the hot sauce with the eggs then stir egg mixture into sauce and cook over very low heat for 2 minutes – stir constantly (don’t let eggs scramble!)
preheat broiler
lightly brush eggplants with oil on both sides and place on an i greased cookie sheet. Brook until lightly browned. Set aside to cool.
preheat oven to 350
sprinkle bottom of 10 x 16 inch pan with remaining breadcrumbs. Place a layer of eggplant on the breadcrumbs. Spread meat mixture over eggplant. Cover meat with remaining eggplant. Spoon sauce over eggplant sprinkle with remaining 1/4 cup cheese. Bake for 40 minutes or until golden. Cool for 10 minutes before cutting.
grandmaBear
@MomSense: Thanks!
Mo MacArbie
Moussaka sb Baklava?
Uncle Cosmo
@MomSense: I thought OXI Day wasn’t until October (and I was right!), but I guess we’ll take exception when it comes to Greek recipes.
Just came back from checking both of my Greek cookbooks (one of which was produced by the ladies of the congregation in Annapolis MD, both of which are >40 years old) and there is nothing currant, electric or otherwise, in either recipe. Whoever gave La Cracker whatever recipe she’s fixing to use needs to be severely chastised for cultural misappropriation. Or something.
Elizabelle
@MomSense: Thank you! Moussaka is one of my absolute favorites. Looks delicious.
J R in WV
@Immanentize:
Rose gloves are great, and do protect against rose thorns and brier stickers very well.
But they will not protect a finger from an immersion blender blade, so warn her, raven !!!
= = = ;-) = = =
J R in WV
@MomSense:
You would have thought so, but wife and I slept the clock around and then some. And ServPro came yesterday, was prepared for them to start tearing out the ceiling in the guest bedroom, greatly dampened after the tree fell on the roof over that room.
But in reality, when they took moisture readings with a little hi-tech instrument, it was no longer damp, due to sun’s heat on the black roof and AC running most days since out door temps hit 87. SO no ceiling removal… This was quite a relief, as you can imagine! Slept really well. Thankful for the long night’s sleep!
WaterGirl
@J R in WV:
So happy to hear that! I had to have that done when the tree fell on my house, and it’s no picnic. Let alone in the time of COVID.
Bill Arnold
@satby:
No mask discipline. Not surprising. /s