olive oil and sesame oil are the big ones for me. I do a lot of frying root vegetables and serving them with pasta, where olive oil can be used to fry the veg and/or drizzled over the pasta, and making asian-ish soups, to which I add sesame oil just before serving.
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Hmm wonder who the tips go to
oo wee oo hey I smoked that weed from stalin
oh-oh and it rearranged my brain
Been following the Horizon thing in the UK
Here is a little bit more from Adam Crozier’s testimony today at the Post Office Horizon IT inquiry, via PA Media, which has pulled out these bits of transcription, where Crozier said he “doesn’t know” if the money paid by subpostmasters for accounting shortfalls was recorded as profit.
Sam Stein KC, who is acting at the inquiry on the behalf of a large group of subpostmaster and has been notably tenacious in his questioning of witnesses, said: “Subpostmasters and mistresses were being told to pay up. It’s your contractual duty, they were told, to pay up. And many of them did pay up for shortfalls that were certainly not their fault. They got that money from their own pockets.
“They got that money sometimes borrowing from friends. Some, you may recall, got the money from their kids’ piggy banks. Others got money from loan sharks at extortionate interest rates, tipping them into financial chaos and bankruptcy. Help us please understand what happened to that money when it was paid in? Was it properly accounted for?”
Crozier, who headed Royal Mail when it owned the Post Office between 2003 and 2010 responded: “I assume it was through the financial team.”
When asked if it was accounted for as profit, he said: “I don’t know.”
Stein then asked: “It would be wholly wrong, would you agree, to account for a payment as shortfall as profit?”
Crozier responded: “I’m not an accounting expert. I wouldn’t know exactly how you account for different payments.”
And earlier:
Former chief executive of the Royal Mail Group Adam Crozier has said he did not have a “developed understanding” of the way in which Royal Mail carried out prosecutions.
Asked by Jason Beer KC “Is the truth of the matter that in your position you did not have a developed understanding of the extent to which Royal Mail prosecuted or the way in which things were or were not carried into effect?”
Crozier responded “I am not a lawyer. I would not claim it is my area of expertise.”
During Crozier’s time at the helm of the Royal Mail, its legal team, acting as a central team on behalf of the separate Post Office corporate entity, prosecuted hundreds of subpostmasters using Horizon IT data.
ma'am please stop securing the bag please
tekken 8 looks kind of busted, sajam seems to be getting shitty connections and 1 and done matchups all the time. shoutout to alpacas tho
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I have a special affinity for Khajida (and her relation to Sieglinde), people who are laden down with contempt and regret and are exhausted on an existential level are my thing. Also a pairing like Zachikova and Arbitrator I where one party is perplexed and wary and the other is relentlessly aggressive is my other strike zone, and the bomb collar bit is the funniest thing I've ever read in my life.
That's gotta be one of my favourite chapters in the whole damn thing
whole sunday dumpstered due to total brain failure, back to work today 
I watched it and thought it was well-executed. What's the deal
Citing the Belfast Telegraph, the article states:
The assassination attempt started a wave of popular support for Mussolini, resulting in the passage of pro-Fascist legislation which helped consolidate his control of Italy.
Suggesting a causal link between the assassination attempt and Mussolini's supposed popularity. Meanwhile, elsewhere on wikipedia:
On 7 April 1926, Mussolini survived a first assassination attempt by Violet Gibson, an Irish woman and daughter of Lord Ashbourne, who was deported after her arrest.[83] On 31 October 1926, 15-year-old Anteo Zamboni attempted to shoot Mussolini in Bologna. Zamboni was lynched on the spot.[84][85] Mussolini also survived a failed assassination attempt in Rome by anarchist Gino Lucetti,[86] and a planned attempt by the Italian anarchist Michele Schirru,[87] which ended with Schirru's capture and execution.[88]
All other parties were outlawed following Zamboni's assassination attempt in 1926, though in practice Italy had been a one-party state since 1925 (with either his January speech to the Chamber or the passage of the Christmas Eve law, depending on the source)
another monday CRUSHED. only slightly stunned from sunday's drugs