Wild New Music Video From Louis Cole: “Shallow Laughter / Bitches”

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Music by: Louis Cole
Filmed by: Richard Thompson and Genevieve Artadi
Vids directed//edited by: Louis Cole
Animal handler: Liz Cole
All vox and instruments performed by: Louis Cole
except:
Violin: Megan Shung
Cello: Dustin Seo
Saxophone: Sam Gendel

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Lyrics:
World goes around the same
But mine stops at just the sound of your name
I’m only sure that I am here
When you’re near
The reason to even dream, at all

World goes around the same
These birds and neighbors still here today
But I’m not sure I’m still going on
Since you’ve gone
Your shallow laughter still screams, and screams

Bitches

#LouisCole #Brainfeeder

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218 comments
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jeffreyw  Dec 22, 2022 • 11:15:12am

How do I prepare chicken? I just tell them straight up that they’re going to die.

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No Malarkey!  Dec 22, 2022 • 11:16:25am

Mark Meadows may be going to prison.

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Charles Johnson  Dec 22, 2022 • 11:18:40am
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Dopamine Fish  Dec 22, 2022 • 11:20:39am

re: #3 Charles Johnson

The only reason to object to this bill is because of the reforms to the Electoral Count Act. We all know he doesn’t want us closing the loopholes that might possibly allow him to someday be President again.

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lawhawk  Dec 22, 2022 • 11:25:49am

SBF is granted bail - $250 million bail.

Bail is meant to insure showing up at the courthouse. It should be denied when someone is a flight risk or is a threat to others.

SBF is a flight risk, but he’s a dumbass who decided to go somewhere they can extradite him back to the US. Hope they took his passport.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Dec 22, 2022 • 11:27:38am

re: #1 jeffreyw

So, a cow orker of mine told me a thing that I didn’t know about making grilled sandwiches. This is (technically) a Croque Monsieur(?) - use mayonnaise instead of butter on the side facing the heat - olive oil, egg, and lemon.

Cast iron tortilla pan.

I like a little char
Cut open.
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Dopamine Fish  Dec 22, 2022 • 11:30:37am

re: #6 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Yes! I haven’t done a butter-crusted grilled cheese in a while.

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Captain Ron  Dec 22, 2022 • 11:32:33am
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jeffreyw  Dec 22, 2022 • 11:35:29am

re: #6 Colère Tueur de Lapin

So, a cow orker of mine told me a thing that I didn’t know about making grilled sandwiches. This is (technically) a Croque Monsieur(?) - use mayonnaise instead of butter on the side facing the heat - olive oil, egg, and lemon.

Cast iron tortilla pan.

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I’ve done that with mayo but I usually use butter if only because I always have salted butter out on the table - the mayo stays in the fridge.

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Jay C  Dec 22, 2022 • 11:38:28am

re: #8 Captain Ron

Better late than never, one supposes.

Only 97 votes: I wonder who the “missing” three are?

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dat_said  Dec 22, 2022 • 11:38:32am

re: #1 jeffreyw

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How do I prepare chicken? I just tell them straight up that they’re going to die.

Butchering chickens at my aunt’s farm was, let’s just say, transformational.

My task as a six-year-old was to round up the chickens after their heads were removed. Mom and the aunts would swiftly chop and then toss the chickens on the ground. Swore, at the time, that they were chasing me. Seeing the heads with eyes and beaks still moving and, then the headless bodies that would still crow one more time when I picked them up by their feet….

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Captain Ron  Dec 22, 2022 • 11:40:12am
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lawhawk  Dec 22, 2022 • 11:41:08am

re: #10 Jay C

Barrasso (R-WY)
Burr (R-NC)
Cramer (R-ND)

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 22, 2022 • 11:42:31am

re: #8 Captain Ron

Yep. My phone displayed message that Senate passes 1.65 trillion package that keeps government funded through end of the fiscal year. Yay!! Hopefully nothing bad happens in the House.

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Thanos  Dec 22, 2022 • 11:42:57am

Is that a gun in his pocket?

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Jay C  Dec 22, 2022 • 11:43:33am

re: #14 Hecuba’s daughter

Yep. My phone displayed message that Senate passes 1.65 trillion package that keeps government funded through end of the fiscal year. Yay!! Hopefully nothing bad happens in the House.

Well, Nancy Pelosi is still in the Speaker’s chair, so unlikely.

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sagehen  Dec 22, 2022 • 11:43:53am

re: #11 dat_said

Butchering chickens at my aunt’s farm was, let’s just say, transformational.

My task as a six-year-old was to round up the chickens after their heads were removed. Mom and the aunts would swiftly chop and then toss the chickens on the ground. Swore, at the time, that they were chasing me. Seeing the heads with eyes and beaks still moving and, then the headless bodies that would still crow one more time when I picked them up by their feet….

running around like chickens with their heads cut off? You mean, that’s not just an expression?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2022 • 11:44:00am

re: #12 Captain Ron

well, that certainly is a surprising collection

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dat_said  Dec 22, 2022 • 11:47:21am

re: #17 sagehen

running around like chickens with their heads cut off? You mean, that’s not just an expression?

I certainly knew what that expression meant when I was six.

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Charles Johnson  Dec 22, 2022 • 11:47:43am

re: #15 Thanos

Is that a gun in his pocket?

Actually, it’s a zucchini. He eats it between songs.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2022 • 11:47:54am
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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Dec 22, 2022 • 11:48:32am

re: #11 dat_said

One billion years ago, the dad of my two best friends at the time got the bright idea to buy a goat. And butcher it himself. In his back yard. While his kids and I, about 9 or 10 years old, watched.

The first enormous problem was that the goat stayed in the back yard with their dog for the entire day, and the dog and goat eventually played together. We watched.

That set the stage for the second enormous problem, which was that the dad didn’t have the slightest fucking idea how to quickly and humanely kill a goat. There was stabbing, slashing, chasing, bleeding, screaming, tackling, more stabbing, more screaming, more bleeding. We watched.

It was one of the most traumatic experiences of my life, probably second only to seeing my mom react to walking in on my dad’s corpse in a hospital setting.

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Dec 22, 2022 • 11:48:55am

re: #20 Charles Johnson

As one does.

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 22, 2022 • 11:51:57am

re: #16 Jay C

Well, Nancy Pelosi is still in the Speaker’s chair, so unlikely.

I believe in Nancy, but until it actually gets through I’ll be nervous but was truly relieved to see it passed the Senate with 21 GOP votes. Tuberville? Cotton? Those seem somewhat of a surprise,

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2022 • 11:52:16am
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wrenchwench  Dec 22, 2022 • 11:54:55am

re: #18 Backwoods_Sleuth

well, that certainly is a surprising collection

A million dollars for gun violence research! The number one killer of children in the USA. It would make sense if they were outraged at the lateness and smallness of the sum. But no, they put it in there with the Michelle Obama Trail as an outrage that it gets any money.

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sagehen  Dec 22, 2022 • 11:57:02am

what is the Michelle Obama Trail?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2022 • 11:57:32am
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Dopamine Fish  Dec 22, 2022 • 11:57:35am

re: #25 Hecuba’s daughter

I believe in Nancy, but until it actually gets through I’ll be nervous but was truly relieved to see it passed the Senate with 21 GOP votes. Tuberville? Cotton? Those seem somewhat of a surprise,

The Senate GOP aren’t complete morons. (Well, most of them.) They want to threaten a government shutdown to try to defund the social safety net, but they’re not dumb enough to actually go through with the threat. The House GOP, on the other hand, ARE that stupid, and the Senate GOP know this. So they basically told the Republican reps to go fuck themselves sideways - if they vote against this, it’s going to be all-out warfare. Expect some performative art from the likes of Margarine Tater-Greens and Lauren “Salmonella” Boebert, but end of the day, it’ll pass.

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nines09  Dec 22, 2022 • 11:57:59am

re: #15 Thanos

Is that a gun in his pocket?

Spinal Tap - Derek Smalls Airport Security

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 22, 2022 • 11:58:39am

re: #29 Backwoods_Sleuth

Russia: *commits war crimes*
Tankies: “If you don’t want war crimes to be perpetrated against you, maybe you should just roll over and die. Ever think of that, libtards?”

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ckkatz  Dec 22, 2022 • 11:58:59am

re: #17 sagehen

running around like chickens with their heads cut off? You mean, that’s not just an expression?

Yup, if they don’t bleed to death, some of them can remain zombies for longer than one would think. Iirc, one is recorded to have ‘survived’ for several days. No comment regarding the lack of a brain being non-fatal.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2022 • 11:59:01am

re: #28 sagehen

what is the Michelle Obama Trail?

Discover this 6.5-mile out-and-back trail near Conley, Georgia. Generally considered an easy route, it takes an average of 2 h 7 min to complete. This is a popular trail for road biking, running, and walking, but you can still enjoy some solitude during quieter times of day.

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Dangerman  Dec 22, 2022 • 12:00:25pm

why should you have to tell a story now? weren’t you telling the truth all along?

see there’s that word ‘story’

i don’t see ‘truth’ anywhere

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ckkatz  Dec 22, 2022 • 12:02:43pm

re: #317 Backwoods_Sleuth

(From last thread.)

What was old, is new again.

Their baaacckk -

Wiki Automat

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2022 • 12:02:46pm

lol

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Belafon  Dec 22, 2022 • 12:04:46pm

I got second place for my Christmas decorations.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2022 • 12:06:20pm

re: #38 Belafon

I got second place for my Christmas decorations.

bet it was the skeletons!

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Thanos  Dec 22, 2022 • 12:06:56pm

re: #37 Backwoods_Sleuth

lol

I feel like Steve Rogers, I had to google “Cousin Eddie”

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Belafon  Dec 22, 2022 • 12:07:47pm

re: #39 Backwoods_Sleuth

bet it was the skeletons!

I think those helped. We also did a lot of little things like the “What’s this?” on Jack.

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Dec 22, 2022 • 12:08:00pm

re: #37 Backwoods_Sleuth

After receiving the call, a dispatcher described the scene to responding officers as “a male standing outside. He is naked. He has a robe covering part of his body. He is exposing himself, and he has a hose between his legs.”

🙄

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2022 • 12:08:43pm

re: #42 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

🙄

Karens are everywhere

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 22, 2022 • 12:09:04pm

re: #42 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

🙄

Well, the shitter was full. What else do you do?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2022 • 12:24:54pm
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Nyet  Dec 22, 2022 • 12:25:35pm

A Bellingcat investigation about folks who scam rightwingers.

You know, maybe it’s good that these evil fools and their money part ways.

bellingcat.com

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lawhawk  Dec 22, 2022 • 12:32:03pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2022 • 12:33:32pm
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Eventual Carrion  Dec 22, 2022 • 12:33:47pm

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John Hughes  Dec 22, 2022 • 12:33:59pm

re: #29 Backwoods_Sleuth

A SS unit massacred the population of Oradour-sur-Glane. Things like that happen in war, so we should negotiate with Mr Hitler to bring an end to these terrible hostilities.

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A Cranky One  Dec 22, 2022 • 12:34:22pm

re: #47 Thanos

Whenever I play his videos I feel like my guitars are sneering at me.

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nines09  Dec 22, 2022 • 12:35:31pm

re: #51 John Hughes

The Japanese Empire only did what it had to do in Manchuria.

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Unabogie  Dec 22, 2022 • 12:35:35pm

re: #48 lawhawk

The people responding with doctored pictures of Hunter Biden with what looks like a child are sharing what they believe is kiddie porn. I guess sharing actual kiddie porn is OK on Elmo’s House of Freeze Peach?

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No Malarkey!  Dec 22, 2022 • 12:38:31pm

re: #12 Captain Ron

Cry more haters.

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A Cranky One  Dec 22, 2022 • 12:39:15pm

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2022 • 12:40:08pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2022 • 12:41:30pm
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dat_said  Dec 22, 2022 • 12:42:02pm

re: #56 A Cranky One

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Killing birds. Causing Cancer. And, now this.

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lawhawk  Dec 22, 2022 • 12:43:08pm

re: #57 Backwoods_Sleuth

He’s on display behind a velvet rope.

Doing the YMCA gay anthem.

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nines09  Dec 22, 2022 • 12:44:20pm

re: #52 A Cranky One

Whenever I play his videos I feel like my guitars are sneering at me.

Best advice I ever got on playing guitar;
Don’t compare yourself with greats. You are not them and never will be. Play for yourself and because you like to.
Sure I want to be as good as….
I’ve played for over 50 years. Shouldn’t I be better?

Enjoy it for what it is.

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Joe Bacon  Dec 22, 2022 • 12:45:11pm

re: #35 Dangerman

why should you have to tell a story now? weren’t you telling the truth all along?

see there’s that word ‘story’

i don’t see ‘truth’ anywhere

Just waiting for George to appear on the 700 Club and say Jay-Zuss forgave him!

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 22, 2022 • 12:45:23pm

re: #56 A Cranky One

“Dammit Rudolph, not again!”

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 22, 2022 • 12:45:26pm

Crazy NW PA weather the next few days

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John Hughes  Dec 22, 2022 • 12:47:12pm

re: #58 Backwoods_Sleuth

Z[aeiou]l[aeiou]nsk[iy]?y

Fuck. We should just write it un Ukrainian cyrilic, it would be easier.

Possibly what the rapist feels is some faint idea that he went wrong somewhere. But he can’t quiet put his finger on where.

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Belafon  Dec 22, 2022 • 12:53:26pm

re: #65 John Hughes

“What are your spellings?”

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ckkatz  Dec 22, 2022 • 12:53:41pm
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Dangerman  Dec 22, 2022 • 12:54:41pm

re: #61 nines09

Best advice I ever got on playing guitar;
Don’t compare yourself with greats. You are not them and never will be. Play for yourself and because you like to.
Sure I want to be as good as….
I’ve played for over 50 years. Shouldn’t I be better?

Enjoy it for what it is.

that’s how i approach running:
i measure against me. no one else. and only against my best possible today.
which could be better or worse than yesterday or tomorrow, because life still happens.

meanwhile, haven’t run since a minor injury on 12/5.
i’m giving my leg a good rest.
i have seriously tried to cut back on eating, because no burning calories.
it feels like im at ‘only’ 1600-2000 cals a day
and still i’ve gained almost 10 pounds in like 2 weeks.
gah!

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ckkatz  Dec 22, 2022 • 12:55:52pm
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Dangerman  Dec 22, 2022 • 12:58:30pm

re: #66 Belafon

“What are your spellings?”

george carlin:

you can spell your name ‘s m i t h’ and pronounce it ‘Janofski’ if you want.

they’re all silent, nevermind…

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 22, 2022 • 12:58:40pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 22, 2022 • 12:59:17pm

re: #69 ckkatz

He pardoned repeat criminals and other terrible people.

Is anyone surprised by this outcome?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:00:22pm
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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:01:42pm

re: #35 Dangerman

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John Hughes  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:01:43pm

re: #66 Belafon

That’s not a bad regexp. Gets a bit more complex when you add Vlodomy &c.

The fun one was the GNU rexgexp test that was supposed to match all transliterations of Gadafffi’s name.

Edit: transliterations, not “translations”.

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Dangerman  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:01:54pm

re: #72 Eclectic Cyborg

He pardoned repeat criminals and other terrible people.

Is anyone surprised by this outcome?

more than that, he did most of them on his personal whim, without consideration or review or, you know the process.

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Dangerman  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:02:41pm

re: #73 Backwoods_Sleuth

so NOT ‘grocery money’ at all

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:03:52pm

re: #77 Dangerman

so NOT ‘grocery money’ at all

never was

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:04:18pm

re: #78 Backwoods_Sleuth

never was

Exhibit A:

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Joe Bacon  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:05:01pm

re: #69 ckkatz

Gee that’s a real shame! 😈

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:06:13pm

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Mattand  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:06:16pm

re: #72 Eclectic Cyborg

He pardoned repeat criminals and other terrible people.

Is anyone surprised by this outcome?

What’s frustrating is trying to get this info through to people who don’t follow this stuff. That’s where I usually bang my head.

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Dangerman  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:06:49pm

re: #75 John Hughes

That’s not a bad regexp. Gets a bit more complex when you add Vlodomy &c.

The fun one was the GNU rexgexp test that was supposed to match all translations of Gadafffi’s name.

west wing pilot episode, ‘the crossword puzzle clue’

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ckkatz  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:06:51pm

Interesting NPR story about a Kristin Hentschel who was a freelancer occasionally doing work ABC. Using her ABC credentials she also gained access to subjects assigned by her clients as a provocateur in order to embarrass them on video. James O’Keefe vibs.

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Mattand  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:07:56pm

re: #73 Backwoods_Sleuth

Jesus, what was the Squad’s objection to seizing property from Russia?

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EstebanTornado1963  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:08:18pm

Somebody posted about this DUNT the other day.
Here’s her apology.

Here’s another tweet of hers not gonna put up with abusive behavior or trolling, when that was what she was doing to cause this whole situation.

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A Cranky One  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:10:04pm

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A Cranky One  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:11:02pm

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:12:38pm

re: #88 A Cranky One

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This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:13:28pm

re: #85 Mattand

Jesus, what was the Squad’s objection to seizing property from Russia?

some kind of moral outrage, I suppose…money for Ukraine but none for [pick a favorite country being ignored by the USA].

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Belafon  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:14:27pm

re: #70 Dangerman

george carlin:

I had a friend at college who spelled his name J-O-E B-A-C-O-N and insisted it was pronounced Gadeo Takamini.

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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:15:16pm

re: #73 Backwoods_Sleuth

I’ve read their reasoning behind voting against (the D side) and I get the violation of the 4th amendment argument but you never want to be in the same photo as the R’s in that pic. Now it’s going to be “THey hate Ukraine too!” to me seizing putin’s assets when they are literally declaring and fighting a war doesn’t need much “due process”.

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ckkatz  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:15:17pm

re: #73 Backwoods_Sleuth

Sometimes it is worthwhile to consider who else supports that position and whether one wishes to associate oneself with that person.

I suspect that a lot of folks are going to associate AOC with MTG in ways that will not be be positive for AOC.

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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:15:36pm

re: #93 ckkatz

exactly

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Mattand  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:15:46pm

re: #91 Belafon

I had a friend at college who spelled his name J-O-E B-A-C-O-N and insisted it was pronounced Gadeo Takamini.

It’s spelled “Raymond Luxury-Yacht” but pronounced “Throatwarbler Mangrove”.

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:16:26pm

re: #72 Eclectic Cyborg

He pardoned repeat criminals and other terrible people.

Is anyone surprised by this outcome?

He pardoned people who then went on to commit new, fresh crimes thinking they were “pardoned for life.”

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A Cranky One  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:18:32pm

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Mattand  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:20:37pm

re: #92 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

I’ve read their reasoning behind voting against (the D side) and I get the violation of the 4th amendment argument but you never want to be in the same photo as the R’s in that pic. Now it’s going to be “THey hate Ukraine too!” to me seizing putin’s assets when they are literally declaring and fighting a war doesn’t need much “due process”.

re: #93 ckkatz

Sometimes it is worthwhile to consider who else supports that position and whether one wishes to associate oneself with that person.

I suspect that a lot of folks are going to associate AOC with MTG in ways that will not be be positive for AOC.

I’ll give them this much: AOC, Omar, and Tlaib probably factored that in and said “No, I’m standing by my morals, consequences be damned.”

Which is admirable, but also kinda flirts with being that one pacifist in Congress in December 1941 who voted “No” against going to war after Pearl Harbor.

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ckkatz  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:20:44pm
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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:23:25pm
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bratwurst  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:24:37pm
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ckkatz  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:26:14pm

re: #98 Mattand

I understand where you are coming from.

But this seems awfully close to the PopeHat Rule of Goats.

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ckkatz  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:29:04pm
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Eventual Carrion  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:31:01pm

Just shutdown work laptop. Holiday vacation starts RIGHT NOW! No work until after the new year.

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ckkatz  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:35:52pm

1. Kishinev 1903 is a reference to the first of a series of bloody programs against the Jews the Moldavian town of Kishinev.
Wiki Kishinev Pogrom

2. Part of my family fled Moldava in the wake of the pograms. They went to Odessa. And when the pograms started up there, they immigrated to the US.

3. And yes, I have been watching for this crap from Carlson and other rabble rousers.

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Patricia Kayden  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:36:48pm
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Joe Bacon  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:38:01pm

re: #91 Belafon

I had a friend at college who spelled his name J-O-E B-A-C-O-N and insisted it was pronounced Gadeo Takamini.

Knew a John Tomato and Roy Lettus in college.

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nines09  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:40:06pm

Got about 6 inches. Temps are slowly rising as the rain comes down. I was thinking of not doing my driveway, then said WTH.
Too wet to machine throw, back to the shovel.
I needed a small workout. Broke a sweat. Didn’t die. Clear driveway. Win win.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:40:41pm

re: #107 Joe Bacon

Knew a John Tomato and Roy Lettus in college.

There was a Mike Salt and Rob Pepper at my high school.

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ckkatz  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:41:09pm
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Charles Johnson  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:41:30pm
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Jay C  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:43:44pm

re: #45 Backwoods_Sleuth

Roger’s defense that this nym was only meant “ironically” has unfortunately, not been preserved.

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BigPapa  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:48:02pm

New online poker league for Lizards.

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:51:10pm

re: #107 Joe Bacon

Knew a John Tomato and Roy Lettus in college.

I went to high school with a Robin Hood

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:55:24pm

re: #113 BigPapa

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:56:30pm

re: #113 BigPapa

New online poker league for Lizards.

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BigPapa  Dec 22, 2022 • 1:57:40pm

workin on it

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BigPapa  Dec 22, 2022 • 2:01:10pm

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BigPapa  Dec 22, 2022 • 2:04:41pm

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I Would Prefer Not To  Dec 22, 2022 • 2:05:52pm

re: #119 BigPapa

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lizardofid  Dec 22, 2022 • 2:10:49pm

I know spring feels a long time off, but here’s a handy medical tip for when it does roll around.

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darthstar  Dec 22, 2022 • 2:12:05pm
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darthstar  Dec 22, 2022 • 2:18:59pm
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A Cranky One  Dec 22, 2022 • 2:20:07pm

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darthstar  Dec 22, 2022 • 2:20:36pm

I’d love to see a vulture capitalist like Mitt Romney take Tesla away from Musk and put him in a position where he has to sell his SpaceX holdings to pay his debts.

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darthstar  Dec 22, 2022 • 2:21:09pm

Okay - five minutes of internet time is up - gotta go make cinnamon pear sauce.

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gocart mozart  Dec 22, 2022 • 2:22:58pm

Good (scary) thread and article about the loon who wants to be Trump’s running mate in 2024.

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nines09  Dec 22, 2022 • 2:35:13pm

So a long time ago this blasted out of a big tube stereo and I just recalled it. 52 years ago and along way aways we….

bbl

Damn Fool - Exuma

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Belafon  Dec 22, 2022 • 2:37:30pm

re: #123 darthstar

Normally, you measure percentages from the starting point, but I agree with the conckusion.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Dec 22, 2022 • 2:38:47pm

re: #121 lizardofid

I know spring feels a long time off, but here’s a handy medical tip for when it does roll around.

But really, don’t do this. Alcohol augments the effect of the venom. Also, it’s a waste of a good chicken.

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jaunte  Dec 22, 2022 • 2:40:13pm

re: #100 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

I’d like to see Shapiro name a wartime alliance in history which the goals of two of the participating nations were identical.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2022 • 2:44:38pm

LOL, love it when an obvious joke gets pedant-splained

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BigPapa  Dec 22, 2022 • 2:44:45pm

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 22, 2022 • 2:49:26pm

Happy Hanukkah! 5th Light!

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ckkatz  Dec 22, 2022 • 2:50:59pm

re: #123 darthstar

I have seen comments to the effect that Musk’s behavior seems to almost be some sort of stock price manipulation. The intent behind the destroying value still needs to be determined.

Driving the price low enough to permit the takeover via a criminal conspiracy is certainly one possibility.

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darthstar  Dec 22, 2022 • 2:55:32pm

re: #126 darthstar

Okay - five minutes of internet time is up - gotta go make cinnamon pear sauce.

We got hit by Harry & David from 3 people. I still have about 10 pears left after making 3 quarts of sauce…going to make a pear pie for Xmas eve dinner with friends.

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BigPapa  Dec 22, 2022 • 2:57:16pm

re: #137 darthstar

I just made chutney with a fresh pineapple and another with cranberrys.

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Joe Bacon  Dec 22, 2022 • 2:58:36pm

re: #137 darthstar

Grandma Bacon made an incredible pear pie using Harry & David’s Royal Riviera Pears. Juiciest pie she ever made!

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dharmamark  Dec 22, 2022 • 2:58:51pm

re: #136 William Lewis

The kid’s quite talented - wonder where she gets it…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2022 • 3:00:00pm

re: #137 darthstar

We got hit by Harry & David from 3 people. I still have about 10 pears left after making 3 quarts of sauce…going to make a pear pie for Xmas eve dinner with friends.

one of my favorite pear recipes:

skinnytaste.com

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Patricia Kayden  Dec 22, 2022 • 3:02:45pm

I sure do.

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BeenHereAwhile  Dec 22, 2022 • 3:06:22pm

re: #130 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

But really, don’t do this. Alcohol augments the effect of the venom. Also, it’s a waste of a good chicken.

It’s good way to die an excruciatingly painful slow death.

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JC1  Dec 22, 2022 • 3:09:47pm

re: #123 darthstar

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Patricia Kayden  Dec 22, 2022 • 3:11:23pm

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sizzzzlerz  Dec 22, 2022 • 3:12:15pm

re: #121 lizardofid

I know spring feels a long time off, but here’s a handy medical tip for when it does roll around.

And if Tx republicants have their way, that is exactly how future medical treatments for just about everything will be done. At least for those who haven’t got shitloads of money.

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JC1  Dec 22, 2022 • 3:12:20pm

re: #125 darthstar

I’d love to see a vulture capitalist like Mitt Romney take Tesla away from Musk and put him in a position where he has to sell his SpaceX holdings to pay his debts.

TSLA is still worth around 400 billion. Largest private equity buyouts in history were about 10% that size. TSLA is still by far the most valuable car company in the world. Valuation that is in no rational way justified. 3 years ago the stock was trading at 30 bucks, split adjusted. It’s likely to head back towards that unless Elon pulls a magic rabbit out of his a$$.

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darthstar  Dec 22, 2022 • 3:14:47pm

re: #144 JC1

Mathematically impossible for an equity to drop more than 100%. It is possible with futures which can go negative.

Yeah, his math is off - it’s down 70% but if you look at it the other way it would need to go up 200% to get back to 400…and he responded to my reply by saying Musk is a genius. So he has that going for him.

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JC1  Dec 22, 2022 • 3:17:01pm

re: #148 darthstar

Yeah, his math is off - it’s down 70% but if you look at it the other way it would need to go up 200% to get back to 400…and he responded to my reply by saying Musk is a genius. So he has that going for him.

Musk likely is a genius (130+iq). But that’s not really saying much. Can’t swing a dead cat without hitting a genius at any Ivy League school or Wall Street firm.

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William Lewis  Dec 22, 2022 • 3:17:34pm

re: #148 darthstar

Yeah, his math is off - it’s down 70% but if you look at it the other way it would need to go up 200% to get back to 400…and he responded to my reply by saying Musk is a genius. So he has that going for him.

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EPR-radar  Dec 22, 2022 • 3:18:41pm

re: #149 JC1

Musk likely is a genius (130+iq). But that’s not really saying much. Can’t swing a dead cat without hitting a genius at any Ivy League school or Wall Street firm.

Being a genius does not prevent that genius from acting like a complete moron/jackass, which is what Musk is doing.

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William Lewis  Dec 22, 2022 • 3:24:07pm

It appears that the Grey Lady can still step up occasionally.

When videos and photos emerged in April showing bodies of dozens of civilians strewn along a street in Bucha, Ukrainians and the rest of the world voiced horror and outrage. But in Russia, officials had a completely different reaction: denial.

President Vladimir V. Putin dismissed the gruesome scene as “a provocation,” and claimed that the Russian Army had nothing to do with it.

But an eight-month visual investigation by The New York Times concluded that the perpetrators of the massacre along Yablunska Street were Russian paratroopers from the 234th Air Assault Regiment led by Lt. Col. Artyom Gorodilov.

Caught on camera, Traced by Phone: The Russian Military Unit that killed Dozens in Bucha

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2022 • 3:30:06pm
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No Malarkey!  Dec 22, 2022 • 3:32:23pm
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gocart mozart  Dec 22, 2022 • 3:34:55pm
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ckkatz  Dec 22, 2022 • 3:36:08pm
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ckkatz  Dec 22, 2022 • 3:37:45pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2022 • 3:44:18pm

re: #157 ckkatz

wow

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darthstar  Dec 22, 2022 • 3:46:19pm

re: #157 ckkatz

I feel the same when we get coastal warnings and big swells. everywhere from Mendocino to Santa Cruz is stunning.

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retired cynic  Dec 22, 2022 • 3:47:45pm

re: #137 darthstar

We got hit by Harry & David from 3 people. I still have about 10 pears left after making 3 quarts of sauce…going to make a pear pie for Xmas eve dinner with friends.

My mother was the BEST pie maker, and my favorite was a pear crumb pie. I got one every year on my birthday. I sure would love to have one for Christmas. (Closing eyes and dreaming of that wonderful taste.)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2022 • 3:49:07pm
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Dopamine Fish  Dec 22, 2022 • 3:53:43pm

I’ve seen Lake Michigan in high winds. It is something to behold. Rows upon rows of white caps that roll up and crash on the sandy beaches of the dunes.

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Cheechako  Dec 22, 2022 • 3:53:49pm

So, the winter solstice has arrived and that means…

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KGxvi  Dec 22, 2022 • 3:53:57pm

re: #85 Mattand

Jesus, what was the Squad’s objection to seizing property from Russia?

Apparently a legal technicality called the Fourth Amendment:

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 22, 2022 • 3:54:47pm

re: #144 JC1

Mathematically impossible for an equity to drop more than 100%. It is possible with futures which can go negative.

Tesla stock dropped about 70% from its height, not the 231% mentioned. Question though: If liabilities exceed assets, could the company net worth be treated as negative? Of course the stock price wouldn’t become negative.

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retired cynic  Dec 22, 2022 • 3:55:52pm

re: #166 Hecuba’s daughter

I’d take some if they were handing it out.

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piratedan  Dec 22, 2022 • 3:57:48pm

re: #165 KGxvi

can see her point… and tbf, I’m sure that the squad cleared it with Nona Pelosi before casting their ballots. Pelosi is a pragmatist and if she already had the votes whipped, it allows The Squad a certain latitude.

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Patricia Kayden  Dec 22, 2022 • 3:58:17pm

re: #155 gocart mozart

They voted for him after his Democratic opponent voiced concerns about him. Oh well.

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KGxvi  Dec 22, 2022 • 3:59:28pm

re: #168 piratedan

can see her point… and tbf, I’m sure that the squad cleared it with Nona Pelosi before casting their ballots. Pelosi is a pragmatist and if she already had the votes whipped, it allows The Squad a certain latitude.

Yeah, it makes a lot of sense, especially when you consider it can be used as precedent to do it in the future to American citizens.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Dec 22, 2022 • 4:02:57pm

re: #151 EPR-radar

Being a genius does not prevent that genius from acting like a complete moron/jackass, which is what Musk is doing.

Having looked over Musk’s career—no, he’s a fake.

He’s not a particularly good engineer and has consistently fucked up his management roles. He fails up because he’s part of a larger trend of techbro economic niche where you pretend to be Steve Jobs aesthetically while doing loss leaders until you’re either profitably purchased by another techbro seeking a monopoly, or become the monopolist yourself. The only skill he has is echoing back to the kind of scientific positivism that people consume in fiction, even as the products don’t actually do the things he promises: it’s a good skill to have if your jobs is to maintain your stock value through PR, but it points to no other skills.

Furthermore, the scifi persona of genius conceals some rather obvious sinister aspects to his work: Starlink is an another amount of LEO clutter, Tesla is using drivers as beta testers for FSD that kills people, Neuralink is doing “move fast, break things” with animal testing and consequently getting bad results for unethical and poorly-conducted research. The Boring Company seems to exist more to stymie public rail than to produce an alternative, and even if it did the work it makes no logistical sense w/r/t the problem of urban traffic. Solarcity was a piece of financial legerdemain bailing out his brother by promising…but never delivering…a new kind of solar tile.

Proportional to the share of culture and capital he captures, Elon Musk doesn’t do that much that’s interesting, and what successes he does have were made by employees already qualified in their field, not by Musk. What we’re learning in real time is how little there is under that facade, how Musk operates when he’s not parachuting into a design ecosystem that’s already up and running and can work around his eccentricities.

(Musk has been holding spaces chats with Twitter engineers and demonstrating that he does not understand any of the coding of the app, in addition to his rather obvious lack of understanding of where the value of the app to users emanates from. Between this and his public fumbling there’s no sign he has a coherent vision for social media, either, beyond platforming his preferred reactionary shitheads.)

Whatever native talent he ever had simply doesn’t matter because he’s gotten to a level to wealth and cultural authority where he doesn’t have to listen to anyone, and he doesn’t have any kind of internal system that says “this isn’t a good idea, maybe listen to people who know what they’re talking about.”

…but all that’s almost beside the point, because “genius” is a fiction created post-hoc from the life of somebody good at a small number of things, curating around all the failures and faults. Read about people singularly good in their field and you rapidly discover that most of them just stayed in their one lane (and didn’t get super rich) because they had specific, identifiable skills. Those that convinced themselves they were generally competent often royally fucked up but got away with it: Linus Pauling didn’t understand dick about vitamins and yet his ideas about Vitamin C are still part of the cultural wisdom.

We don’t live in a meritocracy at all; there is no natural motion of money or attention towards smart people: quite the opposite, our monetary economy rewards aggression and deceit, our attention economy rewards what is flashy but shallow.
When somebody presents themself as a genius, this should immediately trigger skepticism—what is their skillset, what have they themselves produced in papers or patents—because singular intelligence, intelligence so great that it cannot be challenged and thus is a source of authority, has always been a con. It is con used by dictators, it is a con used by workadays flimflammers…why wouldn’t it be useful to a somewhat-bright person gaming a system that rewards carelessness and myth-making?

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retired cynic  Dec 22, 2022 • 4:04:33pm

This woman is absolutely amazing. She has an Instagram account that goes on forever. I just can’t choose one photo to be an example.

Miniature Interior Decor Elements Crafted With Impeccable Detail by Kiyomi
thisiscolossal.com

Japanese miniaturist Kiyomi imitates antiques with a stunning attention to detail, creating worn and clouded glass jars, slightly tarnished silverware, and cases packed with dozens of drawers. The talented craftswoman produces pieces for dollhouses out of paper, wire, wood, and other materials that imitate their larger companions. To give her audience a sense of scale, the artist will present her small works alongside a scaleable object, either placing a miniature chair on the seat of a regularly proportioned seat or dwarfing a set of drawers by putting it on the step of a ladder.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 22, 2022 • 4:06:46pm

re: #171 The Ghost of a Flea

our monetary economy rewards aggression and deceit,

Two traits of primates at which H. sapiens are particularly skilled.

We are primates and we build hierarchies.

And the way up the hierarchy is through aggression and deceit.

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sagehen  Dec 22, 2022 • 4:09:24pm

re: #126 darthstar

Okay - five minutes of internet time is up - gotta go make cinnamon pear sauce.

that sounds delicious. Share the recipe?

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Belafon  Dec 22, 2022 • 4:12:41pm

Rising mortgage interest rates have slowed home buying for the last four months.

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Smith25's Liberal Thighs  Dec 22, 2022 • 4:13:08pm

Fun day around the house. Today is my sons 16th birthday. Life is different now. Got a quick driving lesson in before he passed his permit test today.

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Romantic Heretic  Dec 22, 2022 • 4:18:51pm

re: #2 No Malarkey!

Mark Meadows may be going to prison.

You’re just saying that to cheer me up.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2022 • 4:21:03pm

re: #163 Dopamine Fish

I’ve seen Lake Michigan in high winds. It is something to behold. Rows upon rows of white caps that roll up and crash on the sandy beaches of the dunes.

it’s even more impressive when the temperature drops and those big waves flash freeze on whatever (like lighthouses)

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Romantic Heretic  Dec 22, 2022 • 4:21:21pm

re: #12 Captain Ron

Cry moar, you evil drug dealers.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2022 • 4:25:00pm

re: #165 KGxvi

Apparently a legal technicality called the Fourth Amendment:

as if this isn’t already legitimately happening
I like AOC but she is full of shit on this

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2022 • 4:27:52pm

re: #170 KGxvi

Yeah, it makes a lot of sense, especially when you consider it can be used as precedent to do it in the future to American citizens.

It already *is* being used against American citizens in arrests where cops claim the smell drugs or drugs detected on cash or any other unsupported bullshit

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2022 • 4:31:10pm

this carrying water for oligarchs masking as “omg, the 4th amendment, whatabout American citizens!!”
WTH have they been with American citizens having THEIR property seized for no other reason than cops saw that money, that nice vehicle, that whatever?

JFC, this has been going on in the USA for decades

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JC1  Dec 22, 2022 • 4:35:16pm

re: #182 Backwoods_Sleuth

this carrying water for oligarchs masking as “omg, the 4th amendment, whatabout American citizens!!”
WTH have they been with American citizens having THEIR property seized for no other reason than cops saw that money, that nice vehicle, that whatever?

JFC, this has been going on in the USA for decades

2 wrongs don’t make a right. Civil asset forfeiture as practiced by US law enforcement and allowed by this SCOTUS is a gross violation of several amendments.

F*ck Russian oligarchs. And as long as US asset forfeiture laws are what they are, let’s take all their stuff. But those laws should be changed, and criminal convictions should be required in order to seize property.

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Joe Bacon  Dec 22, 2022 • 4:39:02pm

re: #160 retired cynic

My mother was the BEST pie maker, and my favorite was a pear crumb pie. I got one every year on my birthday. I sure would love to have one for Christmas. (Closing eyes and dreaming of that wonderful taste.)

Memories of Grandma’s Harry & David Pear pie which was so juicy the bottom crust was soaked in sweet pear juice.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2022 • 4:39:09pm

re: #183 JC1

2 wrongs don’t make a right. Civil asset forfeiture as practiced by US law enforcement and allowed by this SCOTUS is a gross violation of several amendments.

F*ck Russian oligarchs. And as long as US asset forfeiture laws are what they are, let’s take all their stuff. But those laws should be changed, and criminal convictions should be required in order to seize property.

Then they need to address that and that has not a damned thing to do with oligrachs from another country (or even this country)?

Fourth Amendment

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

bolded my part and fuck those oligarchs

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aatharuv  Dec 22, 2022 • 4:39:31pm

re: #182 Backwoods_Sleuth

this carrying water for oligarchs masking as “omg, the 4th amendment, whatabout American citizens!!”
WTH have they been with American citizens having THEIR property seized for no other reason than cops saw that money, that nice vehicle, that whatever?

JFC, this has been going on in the USA for decades

AOC, at least, has been railing against Civil Asset forfeiture against American citizens for at the very least a year, and she’s been in congress now for just a bit under 4 years.

Below link is from a very libertarian site, the Foundation for Economic Education, from the view point, of, “Wow, we agree with AOC for a change.”

fee.org

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2022 • 4:40:27pm

re: #186 aatharuv

my not so surprised face

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Dec 22, 2022 • 4:43:10pm

re: #145 Patricia Kayden

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ckkatz  Dec 22, 2022 • 4:43:28pm

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Romantic Heretic  Dec 22, 2022 • 4:47:29pm

re: #171 The Ghost of a Flea

Worship is easier than thought.

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retired cynic  Dec 22, 2022 • 4:49:26pm

Kamala Harris, a very Turbulent Year in America, and the Challenge of Being First
In an interview with Vanity Fair, the vice president discusses protecting abortion rights post-Roe and tackling immigration, along with how, as a woman of several firsts—from DA to AG to VP—she hopes to “create a path and widen the path for others.”
by Molly Jong-Fast

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darthstar  Dec 22, 2022 • 4:50:28pm

Floor guy who put our hardwood down is back to patch the gap created by the cabinet guy when he ripped out part of the old cabinetry. Not a huge patch - about 12x24” - but he cut every other board about another 8 to 15 inches to create the staggered effect to match the rest of the room. Pretty interesting watching a true craftsman work… And he’s planing each 2” strip of oak as he goes so it lies flush with the floor that had been belt sanded and puttied when he put it in.

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darthstar  Dec 22, 2022 • 4:55:12pm

re: #2 No Malarkey!

Mark Meadows may be going to prison.

All I want for Xmas is extended periods of incarceration for every one of those fucks.

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Joe Bacon  Dec 22, 2022 • 4:55:43pm

Gee I wonder why?

Fox News goes silent on scandal-plagued George Santos after hyping him during campaign

While the media spotlight on Santos has grown increasingly bright this week, conservative cable giant Fox News has all but ignored the growing controversy since The New York Times published its investigation of the GOP politician on Monday.

Of course, this is far from the first time the network has largely turned a blind eye to a story with inconvenient facts for its right-wing audience. In fact, it’s become something of a feature for Fox

“Prior to the burgeoning scandal that may cost Santos his House seat, Fox News had presented Santos as a rising star of the Republican Party,” reported Justin Baragona. “Besides regularly featuring him on its airwaves before and after the midterm elections, the network’s website published multiple ‘exclusive’ stories fawning over Santos’ ‘historic’ electoral victory and giving him space to call himself the ‘full embodiment of the American dream.’”

thedailybeast.com

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 22, 2022 • 5:00:39pm
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Joe Bacon  Dec 22, 2022 • 5:03:44pm

re: #195 Barefoot Grin

Well well well…that little nugget involving Maggie Haberman…

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darthstar  Dec 22, 2022 • 5:04:53pm

Banjo 10 years ago today up at Bear Creek near Alpine Meadows. I used to love driving up in this kind of weather. 3 years off and I’m dreading going back…but I know I’ll enjoy it once I do.

And here’s my wife clearing a path to the car from the house…the next morning the car was just a rumor under a mound of snow. Took me an hour to dig it out. And this was fun! I need to get my shit together this winter…

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 22, 2022 • 5:06:39pm
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darthstar  Dec 22, 2022 • 5:08:01pm
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teleskiguy  Dec 22, 2022 • 5:16:12pm

Chair fell off the haul rope in Breckenridge today, someone was in it! They were not injured. It was super windy, chairlift probably shouldn’t have been running, Arapahoe Basin didn’t open their upper mountain lifts at all today.

I’ve ridden that chairlift dozens of times. 😵‍💫

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gocart mozart  Dec 22, 2022 • 5:16:27pm
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Joe Bacon  Dec 22, 2022 • 5:18:27pm

Know. Their. Names.

28 Republicans vote against bill to protect child sex abuse victims

The bipartisan Respect for Child Survivors Act, a law that would aid victims of child sex abuse and their families, just passed the House in a 385-28 vote.

All 28 votes against the bill came from Republicans.

The bill would require the FBI to form multi-disciplinary teams to aid sex abuse victims and their families in order to prevent re-traumatization from investigation and any cases from being dropped. These teams would include “investigative personnel, mental health professionals, medical personnel, family advocacy workers, child advocacy workers, and prosecutors,” Newsweek reported.

The bill was opposed by the following GOP Representatives: Andy Biggs and Paul Gosar (Ariz.); Dan Bishop and Virginia Foxx (NC); Lauren Boebert (Colo.), Mo Brooks and Barry Moore (Ala.); Louie Gohmert, Ronny Jackson, Troy Nehls, Chip Roy, and Michael Cloud (Texas); Andrew Clyde, Jody Hice, Austin Scott, and Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.); James Comer and Thomas Massie (Ky.); Rick Crawford (Ark.); Byron Donalds and John Rutherford (Fla.); Bob Good (Va.), Clay Higgins (La.), Tom McClintock (Calif.), Ralph Norman (SC), Scott Perry (Pa.), Matt Rosendale (Mont.), and Jeff Van Drew (NJ).

newsweek.com

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 22, 2022 • 5:18:46pm

re: #148 darthstar

Yeah, his math is off - it’s down 70% but if you look at it the other way it would need to go up 200% to get back to 400…and he responded to my reply by saying Musk is a genius. So he has that going for him.

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A Cranky One  Dec 22, 2022 • 5:20:20pm

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The Ghost of a Flea  Dec 22, 2022 • 5:22:14pm

re: #173 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Two traits of primates at which H. sapiens are particularly skilled.

We are primates and we build hierarchies.

And the way up the hierarchy is through aggression and deceit.

Mm…No.

Some primates build hierarchies, and among those some there are very different models. Baboon hierarchy isn’t bonobo hierarchy, and while the latter are our closest relatives the former tend to be closer to the behaviors people attribute as “human nature.” But the intermediate interpreters who arrived at what human nature was were often…completely full of shit guys as much into Herbert Spencer as Charles Darwin, and their work, both ethological and anthropological, hinged on base assumptions that weren’t justified but were very convenient if you were a white person intent on stealing a bunch of land.

Other primates don’t own stuff, so there’s an immediate problem comparing any given primate hierarchy to a culture-bound human hierarchy. No, we don’t reward aggression or size like other primates do, with increased breeding opportunity, (we are also quite opposed to rape and infanticide, two common methods of remaining “the alpha” of a lower primate troupe), we have all kinds of different abstract hierarchies dependent on the perceived value of things and their ownership.

Indeed, most of what’s presented as “natural hierarchy” is rooted in the agreed-upon fiction of property: that a thing can belong to person on any level other than “I can directly control this thing, you can’t take it.” Different cultures have radically different understandings of property, but generally sedentary cultures are the ones that develop the idea to the point that there is a fixed person at the pinnacle. In forager societies power, and thus hierarchy, don’t work the same way: people don’t get the benefit of the doubt, their talents and possessions are not seen as generalized signs of competence. A good hunter is only a good hunter; a good war leader is only a good war leader; if either steps out of line they are subject to shaming or rejection. Attempt to control the in-group with violence and you’ll be expelled or killed.

It’s not actually natural or intuitive to view someone with power and property as superior, because what constitutes “superiority” is so far abstracted from material needs that it’s irrelevant to an animal model…animals don’t have semantics, things do not have meanings or implications that can be weighted and granted significance. But if you’re a property holder, the illusion that your position is natural is incredibly convenient. Which is why kings have always cooperated with priests to make their rule divine, which is why evolutionary science was almost immediately coopted to justify both class and colonialism. At this point it’s pretty much impossible to tease apart the bad-faith naturalistic fallacy from the slim indications that we might have some kind of instinct.

What Sam Bankman-Fried, Elizabeth Holmes, and Elon Musk have in common (along with countless other grifters) is the ability to mimic the external qualities that supposedly reflect internal merit that people with money attribute to themselves. Each has simply adopted a slightly different aesthetic that was found flattering by an audience willing to buy in because if their mannerisms are reflective of merit, I too possess merit. Yeah, that is hierarchical thinking but it’s not in-group animal hierarchy with it’s fixed positions and straightforward negotiation, it’s a highly abstract sense of belonging/not belonging in which the conmen (and kings, and geniuses) do a social performance that creates an in-group of rubes. At the same time, their “aggression” manifests as parasitic behavior…they prey upon trusting subjects, not outsiders. It’s more like a cuckoo egg than an ape.

We are not where we are because we are primates, we are where we are because of capitalism. We’ve rejected the previous hierarchy model of aristocracy—that ritual and ceremony conducted generation after generation grants authority—and instead been trained to think of money as merit, and thus the accumulation of money as indicative of other qualities. This concept is so sticky that it is often applied in reverse—if a person has money, they must have some kind of merit—even as the over centuries market structure alters the value of different kinds of jobs. Indeed, we live in a particularly perverse phase of capitalism where having a job that materially helps people survive is deliberately devalued, while performing the meta-level work of “deciding what has worth” rewards itself disproportionately…and even rewards individuals that fail at that task.

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teleskiguy  Dec 22, 2022 • 5:23:14pm

re: #200 teleskiguy

No write ups at all in the local press about this incident. Hmm.

Breckenridge Ski Area is owned by Vail Resorts, the largest ski area operator in the world.

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Unabogie  Dec 22, 2022 • 5:32:23pm

re: #171 The Ghost of a Flea

Having looked over Musk’s career—no, he’s a fake.

He’s not a particularly good engineer and has consistently fucked up his management roles. He fails up because he’s part of a larger trend of techbro economic niche where you pretend to be Steve Jobs aesthetically while doing loss leaders until you’re either profitably purchased by another techbro seeking a monopoly, or become the monopolist yourself. The only skill he has is echoing back to the kind of scientific positivism that people consume in fiction, even as the products don’t actually do the things he promises: it’s a good skill to have if your jobs is to maintain your stock value through PR, but it points to no other skills.

Furthermore, the scifi persona of genius conceals some rather obvious sinister aspects to his work: Starlink is an another amount of LEO clutter, Tesla is using drivers as beta testers for FSD that kills people, Neuralink is doing “move fast, break things” with animal testing and consequently getting bad results for unethical and poorly-conducted research. The Boring Company seems to exist more to stymie public rail than to produce an alternative, and even if it did the work it makes no logistical sense w/r/t the problem of urban traffic. Solarcity was a piece of financial legerdemain bailing out his brother by promising…but never delivering…a new kind of solar tile.

Proportional to the share of culture and capital he captures, Elon Musk doesn’t do that much that’s interesting, and what successes he does have were made by employees already qualified in their field, not by Musk. What we’re learning in real time is how little there is under that facade, how Musk operates when he’s not parachuting into a design ecosystem that’s already up and running and can work around his eccentricities.

(Musk has been holding spaces chats with Twitter engineers and demonstrating that he does not understand any of the coding of the app, in addition to his rather obvious lack of understanding of where the value of the app to users emanates from. Between this and his public fumbling there’s no sign he has a coherent vision for social media, either, beyond platforming his preferred reactionary shitheads.)

Whatever native talent he ever had simply doesn’t matter because he’s gotten to a level to wealth and cultural authority where he doesn’t have to listen to anyone, and he doesn’t have any kind of internal system that says “this isn’t a good idea, maybe listen to people who know what they’re talking about.”

…but all that’s almost beside the point, because “genius” is a fiction created post-hoc from the life of somebody good at a small number of things, curating around all the failures and faults. Read about people singularly good in their field and you rapidly discover that most of them just stayed in their one lane (and didn’t get super rich) because they had specific, identifiable skills. Those that convinced themselves they were generally competent often royally fucked up but got away with it: Linus Pauling didn’t understand dick about vitamins and yet his ideas about Vitamin C are still part of the cultural wisdom.

We don’t live in a meritocracy at all; there is no natural motion of money or attention towards smart people: quite the opposite, our monetary economy rewards aggression and deceit, our attention economy rewards what is flashy but shallow.
When somebody presents themself as a genius, this should immediately trigger skepticism—what is their skillset, what have they themselves produced in papers or patents—because singular intelligence, intelligence so great that it cannot be challenged and thus is a source of authority, has always been a con. It is con used by dictators, it is a con used by workadays flimflammers…why wouldn’t it be useful to a somewhat-bright person gaming a system that rewards carelessness and myth-making?

Charles, this comment is so good it ought to be front-paged, IMVSHO

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Jay C  Dec 22, 2022 • 5:35:19pm

re: #200 teleskiguy

Chair fell off the haul rope in Breckenridge today, someone was in it! They were not injured. It was super windy, chairlift probably shouldn’t have been running, Arapahoe Basin didn’t open their upper mountain lifts at all today.

I’ve ridden that chairlift dozens of times. 😵‍💫

Geez Louise!
Probably every skier’s nightmare- or at least a bad pang.
But how does one chair come loose?
[OK, just going by this vid, the wind did not seem that intense: and I thought the individual chairs were clamped in pretty tight]

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William Lewis  Dec 22, 2022 • 5:35:39pm

This is fascinating. It seems pottery was used by hunter-gatherer cultures long before agriculture was known…

Ancient hunter-gatherers were potters, too

Broken, charred and still crusted with nearly 8000-year-old food, the remnants of ancient pottery found across northern Eurasia wouldn’t be mistaken for fine china. But the advent of this durable technology—used to cook and store abundant plant and animal resources—was a huge step forward for hunter-gatherers in this part of the globe. It was also home-grown, new research suggests.

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teleskiguy  Dec 22, 2022 • 5:41:04pm

re: #208 Jay C

Geez Louise!
Probably every skier’s nightmare- or at least a bad pang.
But how does one chair come loose?
[OK, just going by this vid, the wind did not seem that intense: and I thought the individual chairs were clamped in pretty tight]

It’s very rare but wind has blown carriers off haul ropes. There were 100 mph gusts up there today. Like I said, they probably shouldn’t have even been spinning that lift.

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 22, 2022 • 5:41:08pm

re: #189 ckkatz

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Don’t know if I saw it here or on Counter Social, but I thought it was funny. Something like:

“I couldn’t understand why the little drummer boy’s parents would let him go outside late at night to practice his drum, then my child brought a recorder home from school.”

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darthstar  Dec 22, 2022 • 5:45:18pm

Snuck in a shot of the process…see how red the oak is? He’ll bleach that out to match the rest of the red oak floor he did a few months back.

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CleverToad  Dec 22, 2022 • 5:57:36pm

re: #164 Cheechako

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ckkatz  Dec 22, 2022 • 6:03:51pm

re: #211 Eventual Carrion

Don’t know if I saw it here or on Counter Social, but I thought it was funny. Something like:

“I couldn’t understand why the little drummer boy’s parents would let him go outside late at night to practice his drum, then my child brought a recorder home from school.”

I think that you are referring to this one. And yes, it takes a special type of family to support and encourage a child to study a musical instrument.

re: #16 ckkatz

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CleverToad  Dec 22, 2022 • 6:13:27pm

re: #172 retired cynic

This woman is absolutely amazing. She has an Instagram account that goes on forever. I just can’t choose one photo to be an example.

Miniature Interior Decor Elements Crafted With Impeccable Detail by Kiyomi
thisiscolossal.com

Lovely! I gaze in awe and admiration, being a dollhouse fan myself

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CleverToad  Dec 22, 2022 • 6:15:32pm

re: #176 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs

Fun day around the house. Today is my sons 16th birthday. Life is different now. Got a quick driving lesson in before he passed his permit test today.

Congratulations to him!
Yep, a whole new set of gray hairs coming

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 22, 2022 • 6:22:36pm

re: #206 teleskiguy

No write ups at all in the local press about this incident. Hmm.

Breckenridge Ski Area is owned by Vail Resorts, the largest ski area operator in the world.

outtherecolorado.com

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teleskiguy  Dec 22, 2022 • 6:27:21pm

re: #217 Backwoods_Sleuth

Nothing from the local newspapers (Summit Daily News, Vail Daily).


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