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Post by Merge on Jan 20, 2024 4:40:36 GMT
For side comparison of 5 qt artisan and 6 qt pro: ![](https://i.postimg.cc/XY25drTL/20240119-161059.jpg) My cabinets are about 20" from the counter. Those look great. I wish I had room on my counter for a mixer, but I just don’t. The cabinet height is fine but I have very little space. If I get one it will have to live in the pantry until I pull it out to use it.
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Post by Merge on Jan 20, 2024 4:38:24 GMT
There’s nothing quite like standing in front of a classroom full of kids and feeling that gush and slither, is there? 😂🤢 Yes, and walking in the cross walk to pick up your kids and there's an absolute gush. I had to get a blood transfusion before my hysterectomy because of blood loss from fibroids. Women should not have to deal with this. As someone else (maybe you?) said above, if men had to deal with this, there would be multiple low-cost solutions for it by now. It’s ridiculous.
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Post by Merge on Jan 20, 2024 3:52:34 GMT
I just kept a full supply on me at all times until I had my hysterectomy. It was awful! A super plus would barely last 30 minutes for the first couple days. I had to also use a pad. So...I guess I'm not sure why there needs to be blood testing. Buy super, light, etc. I had a box of each size every month. The first thing I did after my hysterectomy was skip down the tampon aisle and not buy a thing. I was still finding extra tampons in unused purses for like a year 🥴 I said the only thing that would have worked was a sheep. I was teaching and leaving my room was a challenge. A clot the size of a lemon left me sprinting out of the room with a panicked face to my teammate hoping she'd cover for me. She always did. Comparing water to period blood just doesn't work though. I still have to imagine that if men had periods, this would have been a much thought out product. There’s nothing quite like standing in front of a classroom full of kids and feeling that gush and slither, is there? 😂🤢
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Post by Merge on Jan 20, 2024 2:59:45 GMT
Turquoise is my favorite.
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Post by Merge on Jan 19, 2024 22:47:20 GMT
I can think of at least two coffee shops I visit that have their pastries and desserts in a glass cabinet and serve you from there. Also the bagel place has its bins of bagels behind glass right in front of you. All of these are independently owned places, not corporate chains, so maybe that plays in? Oh also the nice high-end bakery near here has everything in a glass display case unless you special order something.
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Post by Merge on Jan 19, 2024 22:43:26 GMT
This is a great response to the narrative that immigrants should wait in line and enter legally. Its a short clip, hopefully you can see it ![](https://media1.giphy.com/media/AhgQdQqF0nwPiZkGPc/giphy.gif)
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Post by Merge on Jan 19, 2024 22:34:22 GMT
Thanks all. Pizza dough is not a deal breaker. Whatever I get will be stored in a cabinet and not on the counter as there is simply no space, so being lighter and easier to move is a plus. I will watch the review video above and measure the space I have for storage. Thanks for the input!
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Post by Merge on Jan 19, 2024 19:32:03 GMT
I am a very casual baker. I don't make dozens of cookies or frequent loaves of bread. I need to be able to whip up a birthday cake or a regular batch of cookies periodically. Pizza dough might be nice. It's just me and DH at home and occasionally our adult daughters.
I've been looking at the KA Artisan Mini because I also have a smaller kitchen with limited storage space. I know some of you are serious bakers and have the full-size machines, but does anyone have the Mini? I like the smaller size but find it funny that it seems to be more expensive than the regular size one most places I look. I want to know if the beaters fit the bowl well and mix thoroughly like they do with larger KAs. Would love to hear pea thoughts if anyone has or has used the Mini.
Thanks!
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Post by Merge on Jan 19, 2024 19:26:48 GMT
I'm shocked. ![B-|](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/notamused.png) And also so glad I don't have to deal with that anymore. At least now you know you weren't crazy when their 10 hour absorbency product barely lasted the car ride to work. I can't wait to be done with my period. Fibroids. Fibroids cause a flow that heavy. Hysterectomy was the best thing I ever did for myself.
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Post by Merge on Jan 19, 2024 18:43:08 GMT
I'm shocked. ![B-|](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/notamused.png) And also so glad I don't have to deal with that anymore.
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Post by Merge on Jan 19, 2024 18:41:29 GMT
When we still had our heeler, she and the pitbulls behind us would bark at each other through the fence. Ours just barked, but those silly pits would ram the fence until boards started popping out. Then one of them got his head stuck in the space where a board had popped out and made the most awful noise - we thought something was being killed slowly back there. (The dog was fine, just alarmed.) DH got tired of nailing boards back in place and had a talk with the people over there and I believe they put another, shorter fence inside the main fence to keep them from ramming it.
We were diligent about calling our dog in when they started barking at each other, but we couldn't always get there within 30 seconds to call her and that was enough time for the other dogs to do some damage.
So I guess I'd see about putting another, shorter fence in front of the main one.
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Post by Merge on Jan 19, 2024 18:26:41 GMT
I’m currently listening to the audio book Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder. The book won the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction. Wilder wrote so poetically about life on the frontier, but she experienced one financial disaster after another throughout her life. Laura enjoyed good health for the most part, but her husband suffered a debilitating stroke when he was a young man recovering from diphtheria. He never completely regained his health. Her sister Mary certainly didn’t have the wonderful life portrayed in the tv series after she lost her sight. She went to a college for the blind, but returned home to live with her parents and was dependent on them and her other sisters for the rest of her life. Laura and Mary rarely saw each other after they became adults. Laura’s father illegally squatted on Indian land at one point. On one occasion fled town in the middle of the night to avoid his creditors. I think like most of us, when she looked back at her life, she tended to remember the good and forget the bad. To give Laura credit though about her father and the illegal land, her perspective was of not today but way back then when attitudes were different and not PC. True. I remember some of the things Ma Ingalls said about native Americans in one of the books - not at all cool by today's standards. Much in the way there is language in Tom Sawyer and/or Huckleberry Finn that we wouldn't use or tolerate today. Things things have to be viewed through the lens of historical understanding - they can lead to great conversations about WHY we've changed the way we speak and act.
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Post by Merge on Jan 19, 2024 15:27:54 GMT
I’m pretty laid back and I wouldn’t allow that. If we’re at home, I’m happy to let contractors use the restroom. But I’m not just leaving the house open.
Workers who work outside are often without access to a toilet. They will either pee in the bushes (gross, but not the end of the world for a one day thing) or take a break and go use the bathroom at the nearest fast food place.
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Post by Merge on Jan 19, 2024 15:23:49 GMT
My favorite lately is the Republicans who are on board with cutting and/or privatizing social security saying that retired people didn’t need that money in our great-grandparents’ day. In those days, people died much younger. If they did outlive their ability to support themselves and family couldn’t take them in, they often ended up in the workhouse or they simply starved or froze. Those are the “good old days” people long for. 🙄 To jeremysgirl’s point, a lot of this push in some states to return to child labor, end public schools and put poor kids to work, and to end safety net programs is the result of the need to feed the beast of unchecked capitalism. Corporations need workers who are desperate enough to work in dangerous or grueling conditions for poverty wages. As a society, we’ve raised our kids to want and expect more than that as their birthright for living in a free, wealthy country. The oligarchs have now realized that these raised expectations are cutting into their bottom lines. They want to go back to a time when there was a working class that expected to forgo an education and simply work themselves to death. They lionize the kind of “work ethic” people supposedly had in the past when they did that. They realize Americans aren’t going to return to that willingly, so they want to elect dictators who will force it on them. And part of the way they do that is by convincing the very people who will end up doing those miserable jobs that the Dems are this or that evil thing to be afraid of. Sorry for the novel. This is obviously a hot topic for me.
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Post by Merge on Jan 19, 2024 15:04:25 GMT
We have several Alexas throughout the house. Mostly they’re used for timers and alarms, but we also use them to turn on lamps in the main room. And we can ask Alexa to play music through our Sonos speaker for better sound.
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Post by Merge on Jan 18, 2024 21:48:17 GMT
@ajhall I can't see what I assume are the tweets you posted.
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Post by Merge on Jan 18, 2024 21:39:38 GMT
Why? Many women get surgery for loose skin or separated abdominal muscles when they are done having kids. There’s no shame in it. Why is this more rude than speculating about her inner organs? Makes no sense. To me it’s misogynistic to believe there’s something shameful in a woman having a tummy tuck. Women can do as they like with their own bodies. FWIW, if I had her money I’d have a tummy tuck and breast reduction/lift and wouldn’t hesitate to tell anyone who wanted to know. I have seen celebrity plastic surgery discussed on this board numerous times, often disparagingly, with no one saying boo about it. What makes this different? Because she’s a royal? She’s a public figure, not someone’s underage child. It’s misogynistic because you wouldn’t say it about a man. If the press release said Prince William was out for 6 weeks because of a surgery your comment wouldn’t be “my first thought was tummy tuck.” Your first reaction about her having a health issue was to criticize her body. You took it as criticism. Noting that a woman who is frequently in the public eye might want to mitigate the normal physical effects of pregnancy and keep her decision from the public and press is not a criticism to me. It is accurate that men feel much less pressure to look perfect and have plastic surgery for that reason much more rarely. That's why most wouldn't speculate that about a man. We all know the effect the criticism of the British press had on Diana. Do you imagine that the press there has changed, or that Kate is immune to wanting to appear as she has always appeared to avoid their nasty remarks? ETA: I find all this quite amusing from a member who has frequently talked down about women who don't dress to meet her expectations in public, commented that no woman looks good in jeans, etc. Misogyny indeed.
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Post by Merge on Jan 18, 2024 21:33:22 GMT
Yay! Congrats to both of you!
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Post by Merge on Jan 18, 2024 21:15:05 GMT
And Republicans have already decided to impeach Mayorkas www.nytimes.com/2024/01/18/us/politics/mayorkas-house-impeachment-republicans.htmlHouse G.O.P. Winds Down Mayorkas Impeachment Without His Public Testimony House Republicans are racing to charge the homeland security secretary without his in-person testimony or evidence of impeachable offenses.
House Republicans wrapped up impeachment hearings against Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary, on Thursday, a little more than a week after the proceedings began, racing to charge him with failing to enforce the nation’s immigration laws.
The Republicans are moving ahead without evidence that Mr. Mayorkas has committed high crimes or misdemeanors, the constitutional standard for impeachment, effectively seeking to remove him for immigration policies they argue have imperiled the American public.
They plan to bring charges against Mr. Mayorkas as early as the end of this month, without having featured testimony from him or any other witness from the Biden administration to publicly answer for his conduct, or a single constitutional expert to support their argument that he is guilty of impeachable offenses.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-17-2023-14eIn a letter obtained by Punchbowl News, Green wrote: “Since you continue to decline to come in person, I invite you to submit written testimony for the January 18th hearing record, so that our Committee Members may hear from you directly.”
This evening, an inadvertently circulated internal Republican memo obtained by Rebecca Beitsch of The Hill shows that Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee likely have switched their demand for live testimony to a demand for written answers because they have already committed to impeachment on a tight timeline and cannot wait for the live hearing to be rescheduled.
Green had previously suggested on the Fox News Channel that an impeachment document had already been written even though there had been no impeachment hearings. The memo appears to corroborate that suggestion, saying: “We have scheduled the markup for impeachment articles at 10:00 AM ET on Wednesday, January 31, 2024.”
But now that the Senate appears to have hammered out a bipartisan immigration reform measure, House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said this morning: “It’s a complex issue. I don’t think now is the time for comprehensive immigration reform, because we know how complicated that is.” After a meeting at the White House today with President Biden, Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer, Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell, House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries, and committee heads, Johnson still refused to put the proposed deal up for a vote in the House.
Johnson is caught between U.S. national security and Trump. On the Fox News Channel tonight, Laura Ingraham told Johnson she had just gotten off a phone call with Trump and Trump had told her that he was against the immigration deal and had urged Johnson to oppose it. “He…was extremely adamant about it,” she said. Johnson agreed and said that he and Trump had been “talking about this pretty frequently.”
Trump needs the issue of immigration to whip up his base for the 2024 election.
Exactly this. If the border issue is a crisis as they say, Republicans should be chomping at the bit to pass legislation to help. If it’s not a crisis and can wait, what’s all the blather about?
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Post by Merge on Jan 18, 2024 21:08:01 GMT
Hmm, my first thought was tummy tuck. This is gross and rude with a side of low key misogynistic. Why do we need to be like this to other women? Why? Many women get surgery for loose skin or separated abdominal muscles when they are done having kids. There’s no shame in it. Why is this more rude than speculating about her inner organs? Makes no sense. To me it’s misogynistic to believe there’s something shameful in a woman having a tummy tuck. Women can do as they like with their own bodies. FWIW, if I had her money I’d have a tummy tuck and breast reduction/lift and wouldn’t hesitate to tell anyone who wanted to know. I have seen celebrity plastic surgery discussed on this board numerous times, often disparagingly, with no one saying boo about it. What makes this different? Because she’s a royal? She’s a public figure, not someone’s underage child.
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Post by Merge on Jan 18, 2024 17:03:58 GMT
Uvalde USD PD was not the only agency to fail that day. I wonder if we'll get info about TX DPS as well.
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Post by Merge on Jan 18, 2024 15:12:20 GMT
Hmm, my first thought was tummy tuck. What? She’s skinny AF with zero tummy. I hate all the speculation on the nature of her surgery while she’s begging for privacy. And tummy tucks have 10-14 day hospital stays since when? Geez if she wanted a tummy tuck it would have happened when Louis was born and she was already on maternity leave and out of the public eye. Like they’d just schedule a cosmetic procedure while the King is also having surgery. Speculating like this is just awful. LOL OK. I've known skinny women who get surgery to fix the loose skin or abdominal muscle separation from their pregnancies. I'm not judging her if that's the case. She can do as she likes. I have no idea how long the recovery time is for such things. I'm not sure why speculating about a gallbladder or bowel issue is fine, but guessing tummy tuck is beyond the pale? Y'all carry on.
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Post by Merge on Jan 18, 2024 2:56:58 GMT
Hmm, my first thought was tummy tuck.
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Post by Merge on Jan 18, 2024 0:07:04 GMT
I had not previously seen the blue and white botanical dishes - were they released with this new color? They are beautiful. What a pretty Easter/Passover/Mother’s Day table that would make. Yes I believe those were released as well. Those were pretty too!! If I didn't have 50 some different sets (okay not that many) but a lot, but thought that would be a beautiful set just in itself. uggg.. lol I hear you. I am seriously out of cabinet space and there are only two of us eating here now.
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Post by Merge on Jan 17, 2024 20:28:16 GMT
Oh, you know exactly how they think they can tell. Don’t you need some kind of ID to fly? You do, but it doesn't have to be a US-issued ID. Though my understanding is that immigrants who have been put on planes are first processed and given some kind of documentation saying they can take this flight.
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Post by Merge on Jan 17, 2024 20:10:19 GMT
“Greene: I just traveled in airports across the country just the past few days. You know what I saw in our airports. Migrants, illegal aliens all over in the airport.” What amazing powers, to be able to tell just by looking if somebody is an illegal alien! Oh, you know exactly how they think they can tell.
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Post by Merge on Jan 17, 2024 18:32:21 GMT
I had not previously seen the blue and white botanical dishes - were they released with this new color? They are beautiful. What a pretty Easter/Passover/Mother’s Day table that would make.
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Post by Merge on Jan 17, 2024 16:33:15 GMT
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Post by Merge on Jan 17, 2024 16:06:35 GMT
So some updates on the drowned migrants - DPS is claiming that the timeline shows the migrants were already dead by the time BP alerted them. They're trying to claim that Democrats and the media are lying about the whole thing.
But here's the deal - the Rio Grande is not particularly wide in that spot. That's one of the reasons it's a popular crossing. If DPS had been doing their job, they would have seen the migrants struggling in the water before they drowned. At night, they use spotlights to observe and track anyone trying to cross. They prevented BP from doing that job by blocking access to the river for 2.5 miles around there. No one on our side of the river was in a position to see the struggling swimmers except DPS.
So whether anyone actually saw the drowning or not, we will likely never know. But it seems to me that if they didn't see, they weren't doing a very good job of monitoring the area. And if they did see and failed to render aid, they're exactly the monsters they're being made out to be.
The fact that DPS insists on operating in complete privacy and secrecy in that area should be all the indication anyone needs that something bad is going on. They claim to have excluded BP because BP agents were cutting the concertina wire rather than forcing migrants to climb through it. So is DPS making them climb through it or jump back in the river? There is no transparency here. No way to know if laws are being followed or humanitarian aid being rendered.
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Post by Merge on Jan 17, 2024 15:58:46 GMT
I live in Iowa and I caucused last night. I have several times before but am not a native Iowan, so I have to say I think the whole thing is really weird. But as for the security of votes, etc. each person received a printed ballot with the eligible candidates listed. Each ballot has a serial number on it so it is more sophisticated than a post it note. You can't "forge" ballots because of the serial numbers. When finished, we did put our ballots in a clear bag, held by a person who had a special tag that identified him as a caucus official. We were specifically told though to be sure we gave it to the right person...not to hand it to just anyone to put in the bag for us. As far as the counting process, I left before that took place so I'm not sure exactly how it's done. The AP called Trump the winner just as we were talking in the house...about 15 minutes after we turned our ballots in. My daughter in law hadn't even voted at her caucus location before the race was called. I have a really hard time understanding how that works. This is all fascinating to me. I grew up next door in Nebraska and never really knew how the process worked. Cynic that I am, it seems to me quite possible that someone working for a particular candidate could be provided with a number of extra ballots and use them to "stuff" the bag for that candidate. It's one of the reasons we went to computer voting, right? I just can't square that with the R concern for "election security." IDK. I do appreciate all the first-hand accounts, though.
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