A Beautiful Acoustic Guitar Arragement of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” - Mike Dawes & Edward Ong

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This is my second collaboration in the =Convergence= series, a digital series of streamed singles in collaboration with exciting and often emerging artists in the global guitar community.

This duet arrangement is inspired by the late Jeff Buckley’s timeless cover of Leonard Cohen’s legendary song.

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170 comments
1
Charles Johnson  May 28, 2023 • 11:19:39am

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 28, 2023 • 11:20:48am

Another heavy weather day in store.

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Belafon  May 28, 2023 • 11:22:08am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 28, 2023 • 11:26:12am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 28, 2023 • 11:30:22am

re: #5 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

and just what substance did they use to fill it in?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 28, 2023 • 11:30:48am

re: #3 Belafon

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Belafon  May 28, 2023 • 11:34:43am

re: #3 Belafon

I know we have a lot of Christians here, and you know this isn’t direct at you, but you definitely know it’s a problem.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 28, 2023 • 11:36:30am

re: #6 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

and just what substance did they use to fill it in?

According to Wikipedia (that fount of all human ken, citation needed), the figure is re-chalked every twenty-five years.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  May 28, 2023 • 11:39:50am
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  May 28, 2023 • 11:41:22am

re: #6 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

and just what substance did they use to fill it in?

Viagra?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 28, 2023 • 11:42:28am

Morans yesterday in northeastern Wyoming.

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Unabogie  May 28, 2023 • 11:49:31am

Move over Peter Jackson.

Lord of the Rings by Wes Anderson Trailer | The Whimsical Fellowship

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darthstar  May 28, 2023 • 11:51:11am

Mastodon

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 28, 2023 • 11:52:59am

re: #13 Unabogie

Wasn’t Adrian Brody considered for a role in the original LOTR?

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  May 28, 2023 • 11:59:00am

The average social security benefit is about 1550 dollars a month. By an interesting coincidence this is also about the current cost of a guillotine.
(It was $1200 three years ago but there has been quite a bit of inflation and all, especially in the cost of lumber.)

My friend Robert, who is a retired IRS lawyer and therefore habitually aware of costs, asked about maintenance, sharpening and the expense of a trained operator.

Sharpening just takes a fine tooth file, sandpaper and a little elbow grease. Even a dull blade would be suitable for especially reviled and disgusting clients, like pedophile youth pastors. Just raise the blade and take a few extra whacks if you need to.

A trained operator isn’t needed. One of the machine’s best features is its intuitive and user-friendly operation. Anyone who can position the subject, raise the blade, and pull the lanyard can get picture-perfect results every time.

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Unabogie  May 28, 2023 • 12:00:21pm

re: #7 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

It is just such utter nonsense. Are they saying their god has a working penis and testes? He ejaculates and has a prostate gland? If not, then how is their god a “male?” Oh, He chooses to present that way? And you accept Him at His word?

Weird how that works.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 28, 2023 • 12:00:30pm

Better call HoloSaul!

ChatGPT: US lawyer admits using AI for case research

A New York lawyer is facing a court hearing of his own after his firm used AI tool ChatGPT for legal research.

A judge said the court was faced with an “unprecedented circumstance” after a filing was found to reference example legal cases that did not exist.

The lawyer who used the tool told the court he was “unaware that its content could be false”.

ChatGPT creates original text on request, but comes with warnings it can “produce inaccurate information”.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 28, 2023 • 12:02:46pm

re: #17 Unabogie

… how is their god a “male?” Oh, He chooses to present that way? And you accept Him at His word?

Weird how that works.

He is the product of a patriarchal nomadic animal-herding society, hence the image of him robed and bearded

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  May 28, 2023 • 12:04:07pm

re: #9 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

According to Wikipedia (that fount of all human ken, citation needed), the figure is re-chalked every twenty-five years.

Not the phrase Ive heard used

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 28, 2023 • 12:05:32pm

re: #20 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

Not the phrase Ive heard used

the only chalk that is acceptable for use has been beaten out of erasers

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jaunte  May 28, 2023 • 12:07:13pm

“…The Sierpiński triangle (sometimes spelled Sierpinski), also called the Sierpiński gasket or Sierpiński sieve, is a fractal attractive fixed set with the overall shape of an equilateral triangle, subdivided recursively into smaller equilateral triangles. Originally constructed as a curve, this is one of the basic examples of self-similar sets—that is, it is a mathematically generated pattern that is reproducible at any magnification or reduction. It is named after the Polish mathematician Wacław Sierpiński, but appeared as a decorative pattern many centuries before the work of Sierpiński.”
en.wikipedia.org

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cat-tikvah  May 28, 2023 • 12:07:51pm

re: #16 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Accompanying song parody, from Les Miserables
Do you see the guillotine
Chopping the heads off greedy men?
It is long past time that such heads should be rolling once again!

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  May 28, 2023 • 12:08:39pm

re: #16 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

I think a guillotine is one the most humane execution methods. If you’re going to execute people. Fast, works every time, just has the ick factor of blood everywhere.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 28, 2023 • 12:10:53pm

re: #24 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

I think a guillotine is one the most humane execution methods. If you’re going to execute people. Fast, works every time, just has the ick factor of blood everywhere.

Which is why it is best suited for outdoors in a rainy climate

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cat-tikvah  May 28, 2023 • 12:12:22pm

re: #23 cat-tikvah

When the beating of their hearts
Ends with the falling of the blade
It’s a quick way to insure
That their debt’s been paid!
🎶

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  May 28, 2023 • 12:15:16pm

Rando:
No one can claim to be a conservative and not pay the goddamn bills.

The GQP ran up most of this debt over the past 42 years. Pay. The. Fuck. Up.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  May 28, 2023 • 12:16:20pm

re: #27 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

Also

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  May 28, 2023 • 12:16:28pm

I’ve been more cynical than usual today and I’m not entirely sure why. It may be that it is actually cause for celebration that one of our two largest political parties has failed in its threat to destroy the world economy for the benefit of its depraved billionaire contributors. They remind me of the Solenoid Robots, the arch-villains in the old Roger Ramjet cartoon series. They were under the direction of “a cabal of evil scientists bent on destroying the world for their own gain.” Just substitute “billionaires” for “scientists” and you have today’s Republicans.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 28, 2023 • 12:16:47pm

So I was out with a ship tour group today docked at the town of Assmanshausen, where we saw a car driving by, honking its horn and flying a Turkish flag.

I asked it that was a Turkish wedding or if they were celebrating Erdogan’s victory.

A lady commented that it must have been a wedding as there was a large bouquet of flowers attached to front of the car.

“True that,” I responded, “Had they been celebrating Erdogan it would have been a pile of skulls!”

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Belafon  May 28, 2023 • 12:21:07pm

re: #29 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

I’ve been more cynical than usual today and I’m not entirely sure why. It may be that it is actually cause for celebration that one of our two largest political parties has failed in its threat to destroy the world economy for the benefit of its depraved billionaire contributors. They remind me of the Solenoid Robots, the arch-villains in the old Roger Ramjet cartoon series. They were under the direction of “a cabal of evil scientists bent on destroying the world for their own gain.” Just substitute “billionaires” for “scientists” and you have today’s Republicans.

Your urge to be pessimistic is running into the fact that the world isn’t burning today?

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  May 28, 2023 • 12:23:57pm

“It’s incredible how a senile, addled, virtually brain dead old man keeps outmaneuvering them.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 28, 2023 • 12:25:04pm

re: #31 Belafon

Your urge to be pessimistic is running into the fact that the world isn’t burning today?

The GOP is being consumed at one end by its base for not being doctrinaire and ruthless enough on social issues, xenophobia, misogyny and general social cruelty, and from the other end by its donors for playing with fiscal fire and fucking with business: you don’t alienate your state’s biggest employer, even if you say it is “woke”.

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Belafon  May 28, 2023 • 12:26:35pm

re: #27 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

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Rando:
No one can claim to be a conservative and not pay the goddamn bills.

The GQP ran up most of this debt over the past 42 years. Pay. The. Fuck. Up.

Is there a chart somewhere that shows total debt incurred by each party over the last 40+ years?

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Teukka  May 28, 2023 • 12:26:58pm

Hachiko - Gold Standard Good Boy

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 28, 2023 • 12:29:10pm

re: #27 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

Rando:
No one can claim to be a conservative and not pay the goddamn bills.

The GQP ran up most of this debt over the past 42 years. Pay. The. Fuck. Up.

Also: Elon Musk and Trump are not big on paying their bills.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  May 28, 2023 • 12:29:57pm

re: #31 Belafon

Your urge to be pessimistic is running into the fact that the world isn’t burning today?

No, my pessimism is fed by things being so bad that the failure of such a catastrophe to happen is a major victory. It’s like being elated to come home from work and find that your house has not burned down
The barbarians have been driven back a few yards from the gate but they’re still in their front-line trenches planning another assault.

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No Malarkey!  May 28, 2023 • 12:29:59pm
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 28, 2023 • 12:30:06pm

re: #37 Eclectic Cyborg

Also: Elon Musk and Trump are not big on paying their bills.

bills are like taxes, something for the Little People to pay

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 28, 2023 • 12:32:23pm

re: #38 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

No, my pessimism is fed by things being so bad that the failure of such a catastrophe to happen is a major victory. It’s like being elated to come from work and find that your house has not burned down
The barbarians have been driven back a few yards from the gate but they’re still in their front-line trenches planning another assault.

The fact that default was a real and looming threat was bad enough

Like 2020: glad and relieved that Biden won, but even with a seven-million-vote margin, it was still way too much of a close-run thing. A margin like that should have decided it outright and sent the opposition packing to lick their wounds, not regrouping to storm the Capitol

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  May 28, 2023 • 12:32:57pm

re: #16 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

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The average social security benefit is about 1550 dollars a month. By an interesting coincidence this is also about the current cost of a guillotine.
(It was $1200 three years ago but there has been quite a bit of inflation and all, especially in the cost of lumber.)

My friend Robert, who is a retired IRS lawyer and therefore habitually aware of costs, asked about maintenance, sharpening and the expense of a trained operator.

Sharpening just takes a fine tooth file, sandpaper and a little elbow grease. Even a dull blade would be suitable for especially reviled and disgusting clients, like pedophile youth pastors. Just raise the blade and take a few extra whacks if you need to.

A trained operator isn’t needed. One of the machine’s best features is its intuitive and user-friendly operation. Anyone who can position the subject, raise the blade, and pull the lanyard can get picture-perfect results every time.

Heh.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  May 28, 2023 • 12:33:52pm

re: #35 Belafon

Is there a chart somewhere that shows total debt incurred by each party over the last 40+ years?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 28, 2023 • 12:35:14pm

an obscure goth-folk band my ex-was into, the Inchtabokatables

The Blade of the Guillotine

(whatever else I can say about here, she generally had really good taste in music)

The Inchtabokatables - Das Beil ( Album : Inchtomanie )

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  May 28, 2023 • 12:35:39pm

re: #38 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

No, my pessimism is fed by things being so bad that the failure of such a catastrophe to happen is a major victory. It’s like being elated to come from work and find that your house has not burned down
The barbarians have been driven back a few yards from the gate but they’re still in their front-line trenches planning another assault.

I just finished rewatching the movie Zulu.
Yours is an apt metaphor

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No Malarkey!  May 28, 2023 • 12:35:43pm
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No Malarkey!  May 28, 2023 • 12:37:12pm

Woke Disney wins again.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 28, 2023 • 12:37:21pm

re: #46 No Malarkey!

It’s the law: any foodstuff must have an expiration date of maximum three years

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No Malarkey!  May 28, 2023 • 12:41:37pm

re: #48 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It’s the law: any foodstuff must have an expiration date of maximum three years

And now I know. Still funny.

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Belafon  May 28, 2023 • 12:48:18pm

re: #46 No Malarkey!

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People in the replies are saying that it has to do with the way the plastic contrainer degrades. It probably means that it would be better if long lasting things, like salt, were stored in more long lasting containers.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  May 28, 2023 • 12:50:27pm

re: #48 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It’s the law: any foodstuff must have an expiration date of maximum three years

Foods like salt don’t have expiration dates, they have a best used by date. And I really don’t know where you got that three year number from. Most food expiry dates are meaningless even within the context of “you’d better eat it by this date “

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The Pie Overlord!  May 28, 2023 • 12:51:05pm

This fucking crybaby:

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sagehen  May 28, 2023 • 12:56:28pm

re: #41 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The fact that default was a real and looming threat was bad enough

Like 2020: glad and relieved that Biden won, but even with a seven-million-vote margin, it was still way too much of a close-run thing. A margin like that should have decided it outright and sent the opposition packing to lick their wounds, not regrouping to storm the Capitol

There is no possible margin that won’t make them complain.

Obama 2008 had 365 electoral votes, to McCain’s 173.
in the popular vote, it was 69.5 million to 60 million. 53% of the popular vote.

Didn’t mollify them at all, did it?

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Teukka  May 28, 2023 • 1:06:29pm

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  May 28, 2023 • 1:08:17pm

re: #46 No Malarkey!

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Dangermom is a slave to expiration dates.

She doesn’t get who makes em up

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No Malarkey!  May 28, 2023 • 1:09:10pm

Dark Brandon, not “Sleepy Joe.”

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teleskiguy  May 28, 2023 • 1:11:18pm

Mastodon

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Targetpractice  May 28, 2023 • 1:14:39pm

re: #52 The Pie Overlord!

This fucking crybaby:

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I’ll meet that challenge when the asshole can tell us how Bernie would have fixed all this without the words “protests” or “polling.”

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  May 28, 2023 • 1:19:09pm

re: #55 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

Dangermom is a slave to expiration dates.

She doesn’t get who makes em up

It depends. Hence my point on “laws” — in the US, we have two food agencies that regulate food safety. FDA and USDA. Both agencies have very different mandates and approaches to food safety. E.g., USDA regs work off of safety of meat products by time according to spillage covers. FDA’S regs often work off what a manufacturer determines to be a best is used by time frame. That is a massive simplification, but the two different expiry dates are very different.

Use our freezer by date on USDA products - or there is a good chance the food will be suboptimal, vs. Best of used by best used by because the manufacturer is putting some arbitrary date that they think works.

Canned tomatoes probably will deteriorate the longer they are in packaged. Salt, vinegary, sugar, probably not.

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Targetpractice  May 28, 2023 • 1:27:42pm

I’m so tired of the “Green Lantern theory of leadership” and the idea that Biden can fix all the problems of America by simply having the will to do so and thus those problems remaining means he lacks said will. Anybody who suggests that he can simply call up a regulatory authority and order them to do so should be pointed to the recent ruling by our Repub-packed SCOTUS bench that declared the EPA cannot regulate CO2 emissions without explicit authority/orders from Congress.

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No Malarkey!  May 28, 2023 • 1:29:54pm

re: #60 Targetpractice

I’m so tired of the “Green Lantern theory of leadership” and the idea that Biden can fix all the problems of America by simply having the will to do so and thus those problems remaining means he lacks said will. Anybody who suggests that he can simply call up a regulatory authority and order them to do so should be pointed to the recent ruling by our Repub-packed SCOTUS bench that declared the EPA cannot regulate CO2 emissions without explicit authority/orders from Congress.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 28, 2023 • 1:32:45pm

The storms are starting up again. The NWS is issuing special weather statements for towns southwest of me. This is between Kimball and Sidney.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 28, 2023 • 1:34:50pm
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Backwoods Sleuth  May 28, 2023 • 1:34:55pm
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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  May 28, 2023 • 1:36:09pm

re: #59 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

It depends. Hence my point on “laws” — in the US, we have two food agencies that regulate food safety. FDA and USDA. Both agencies have very different mandates and approaches to food safety. E.g., USDA regs work off of safety of meat products by time according to spillage covers. FDA’S regs often work off what a manufacturer determines to be a best is used by time frame. That is a massive simplification, but the two different expiry dates are very different.

Use our freezer by date on USDA products - or there is a good chance the food will be suboptimal, vs. Best of used by best used by because the manufacturer is putting some arbitrary date that they think works.

Canned tomatoes probably will deteriorate the longer they are in packaged. Salt, vinegary, sugar, probably not.

I generally buy my meats in the family packs, portion them down into single serving sizes, put them into vacuum sealed bags and then freeze them. They can last up to 3 years that way without degradation in quality. I just had a boneless pork tenderloin chop that I froze back in 2020 and it was great. I also do the same thing with family size bags of frozen veggies. 1 cup per pint bag. vacuum down, seal and put back in the freezer. 2-3 years storage time. I generally buy canned veggies just before a meal that requires them because of their limited shelf life.

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Targetpractice  May 28, 2023 • 1:36:46pm

re: #61 No Malarkey!

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“Progressives” will always have a whine for any of those.

Biggest climate bill? Didn’t spend enough, fast enough, so we’re all still doomed.

Lowest unemployment? Wages still too low, rich still too rich.

Most judges? They think judges are meaningless, because all the rulings they love are viewed as set in stone, and the courts will be too scared of an angry public to rule against them.

And Ukraine? Some of the biggest “progressives” are closeted vatniks who think Zelensky a war criminal and Ukraine an illegitimate state.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 28, 2023 • 1:36:52pm

re: #52 The Pie Overlord!

This fucking crybaby:

Let me explain to that fool.

I have $70K in T-bills and savings bonds that I don’t want to go worthless…

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DodgerFan1988  May 28, 2023 • 1:39:53pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 28, 2023 • 1:41:20pm

windy.com

Here we go.

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retired cynic  May 28, 2023 • 1:43:14pm

This Mysterious Ziggurat Was an Ancient European Pilgrimage Site
Sardinia’s ‘mountain of stones,’ Monte d’Accoddi, is nearly 6,000 years old.
atlasobscura.com

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 28, 2023 • 1:43:29pm

re: #68 DodgerFan1988

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No Malarkey!  May 28, 2023 • 1:47:47pm
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Teukka  May 28, 2023 • 1:50:25pm

*tehee*

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jeffreyw  May 28, 2023 • 1:50:47pm
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Jay C  May 28, 2023 • 1:52:01pm

re: #52 The Pie Overlord!

This fucking crybaby:

Hey, asshole!
You want me to explain my support for the incumbent Administration?

OK, then: I support it - heartily- because it is a generally* capable, honest, and competent Administration which will (at a minimum) be generally* sympathetic to progressive goals/policies - if not always a cheerleader for them - as opposed to the alternative: who believe that progressive ideology/policies/politics are Satanic Evil (often literally)

Otherwise, you can take your purity-pony poormouthing and shove it.

* not perfect, of course: but still an improvement over the Opposition

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Belafon  May 28, 2023 • 2:01:40pm

re: #52 The Pie Overlord!

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silverdolphin  May 28, 2023 • 2:02:24pm

re: #34 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The GOP is being consumed at one end by its base for not being doctrinaire and ruthless enough on social issues, xenophobia, misogyny and general social cruelty, and from the other end by its donors for playing with fiscal fire and fucking with business: you don’t alienate your state’s biggest employer, even if you say it is “woke”.

This is why I Bellevue that by the end of this transition to a new political party system the GOP as we know it will not exist. Its coalitions will have blown up and found a place somewhere else. I think it will go the way of the Whigs and we will have a moderate/centrist Democratic Party and a liberal Progressive Party. We shall see what happens but I do not hold out for much futire for the GOP.

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teleskiguy  May 28, 2023 • 2:13:11pm
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jaunte  May 28, 2023 • 2:13:15pm
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jeffreyw  May 28, 2023 • 2:16:45pm

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No Malarkey!  May 28, 2023 • 2:16:45pm

re: #77 silverdolphin

This is why I Bellevue that by the end of this transition to a new political party system the GOP as we know it will not exist. Its coalitions will have blown up and found a place somewhere else. I think it will go the way of the Whigs and we will have a moderate/centrist Democratic Party and a liberal Progressive Party. We shall see what happens but I do not hold out for much futire for the GOP.

There are tens of millions white christian nationalist voters, so there will be a viable rightwing party, whether its called the GOP, MAGA, or something else, though in 20 years or so their voters will have mostly died of old age.

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Mattand  May 28, 2023 • 2:18:21pm

I have to admit, I still have one foot in “No negotiations with hostage takers, 14th Amendment or GTFO”, but from everything I’m reading, it sounds like Biden may be on the verge of making Kevin McCarthy and the GOP House look like dopes.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  May 28, 2023 • 2:21:05pm

re: #82 Mattand

He will.

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teleskiguy  May 28, 2023 • 2:23:22pm

FVC posted on his Troof Soshul a fleury of posts, every single one of them about DeSantis. Just one post, one, about what’s happening in Texas.

Oh, and he congratulated Erdoğon on his victory and bragged how good of a friend he is.

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mmmirele  May 28, 2023 • 2:25:04pm

re: #16 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

All this talk about guillotines made me put on some Judas Priest “Some Heads Are Gonna Roll”.

Judas Priest - Some Heads Are Gonna Roll (Official Audio)

I learned (via text) that someone had attempted to buy a ticket on Taiwan High Speed Rail with my credit card. I called; the card has been cancelled, but I’m annoyed. Of course it was the card I use for everything.

Speaking of work, I will be so happy when the debt limit deal is done because then it will stop Some People from freaking out. I have personally been of the opinion that the deal would be done when some representatives of very large corporations got Qevin into a room and told him that they were going to destroy him if he didn’t agree on a debt limit. Maybe it happened, maybe they just put a horse head in his bed. I dunno.

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No Malarkey!  May 28, 2023 • 2:28:57pm

re: #82 Mattand

I have to admit, I still have one foot in “No negotiations with hostage takers, 14th Amendment or GTFO”, but from everything I’m reading, it sounds like Biden may be on the verge of making Kevin McCarthy and the GOP House look like dopes.

My post #181 on the previous thread:

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sagehen  May 28, 2023 • 2:30:12pm

re: #61 No Malarkey!

gave the indigenous ownership (or at least stewardship) of large swathes of land. Reduced the cost of prescription meds for seniors. Some baby steps on gun control. Picked an AG who won seditious conspiracy cases against Proud Boys and Oath Keepers. Responded well and quickly to natural disasters, even in States that didn’t vote for him.

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silverdolphin  May 28, 2023 • 2:32:08pm

re: #45 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

I just finished rewatching the movie Zulu.
Yours is an apt metaphor

Loved that movie. But Roark’s Drift was a stupid thing the Zulu did by directly engaging the British. The Zulu King wanted his army to only defend Zululand. But parts of his army disobeyed and attacked the British. The British held out and 5 months later the Zulu king was a fugitive on the run after the British won.

The Zulu were just not organized properly to effectively deal with the British. Sure, they could win some battles but the British adapted won amd without any doubt.

The South was just not organized properly to effectively deal with the North. Sure, they could win some battles but the North adapted and won without any doubt.

The Germans were just not organized properly to effectively deal with the Allies. Sure, they could win some battles but the Allies adapted and won without any doubt.

Thus, IMHO, the GOP are just not organized properly to effectively deal with the Democrats. Sure, they could win some battles but the Democrats adapted and won without any doubt.

The winning side was always organized to deal with greater information flow and, thus could make wiser decisions. Eventually the continuing stupidity of one side, coupled with the wisdom of the other, resulted in victory for the wisewr side.

We can already see how this is playing out with the GOP. They will continue to make stupid decisions that alienate a,majority of Americans, because they simply cannot deal with the current complexity of the world (It is why they want to go backwards).

I believe that what Biden has accomplished, if it gets passed, will be seen as one of the great negotiations in the last 50 if not 100 years. ANd that his first term will be seen as one of the greatest. Here, without control of the House, he may very well have negotiated a Democratic victory next year.

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teleskiguy  May 28, 2023 • 2:36:46pm
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Joe Bacon ✅  May 28, 2023 • 2:37:25pm

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silverdolphin  May 28, 2023 • 2:37:56pm

re: #66 Targetpractice

“Progressives” will always have a whine for any of those.

Biggest climate bill? Didn’t spend enough, fast enough, so we’re all still doomed.

Lowest unemployment? Wages still too low, rich still too rich.

Most judges? They think judges are meaningless, because all the rulings they love are viewed as set in stone, and the courts will be too scared of an angry public to rule against them.

And Ukraine? Some of the biggest “progressives” are closeted vatniks who think Zelensky a war criminal and Ukraine an illegitimate state.

Not completely sure about this. Both AOC and Jayapal were extremely supportive of the legislation passed last year. They both seem to be pragmatists not extremists. They both realize Biden has been great for progressives and is the best path forward for them

But yeah, there are plenty of authoritarians on the Left who want things runs their way. Authoritarians on the Right want a King. Authoritarians on the Left want a Committee of Public Safety. Both are horrible for democracies.

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teleskiguy  May 28, 2023 • 2:46:06pm

LOL

Uh, dude, you ever hear of this thing called the Streisand Effect?

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TedStriker  May 28, 2023 • 2:48:29pm

re: #89 teleskiguy

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No Malarkey!  May 28, 2023 • 2:49:54pm
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sagehen  May 28, 2023 • 2:50:11pm

re: #88 silverdolphin

The Zulu
The South
The Germans
Thus, IMHO, the GOP are just not organized properly to effectively deal with the Democrats. Sure, they could win some battles but the Democrats adapted and won without any doubt.

The winning side was always organized to deal with greater information flow and, thus could make wiser decisions. Eventually the continuing stupidity of one side, coupled with the wisdom of the other, resulted in victory for the wisewr side.

The winning side was always the side with superior manufacturing/economic capacity, and unlimited reinforcements. The left has a lot more info-tech than the right, and young people are very left.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 28, 2023 • 2:53:33pm
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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  May 28, 2023 • 2:53:45pm

re: #88 silverdolphin

Here, without control of the House, he may very well have negotiated a Democratic victory next year.

!

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 28, 2023 • 2:56:16pm

MAGA Nut-Job Calls Tucker’s Firing “An Attack On God!”

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jeffreyw  May 28, 2023 • 2:58:30pm

Sausage and Olives

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 28, 2023 • 3:09:47pm

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Charles Johnson  May 28, 2023 • 3:18:58pm

OK, I’m a little pissed off that Biden caved on some issues but I think overall it’s not a horrible deal. I do hate this revanchist idea of work requirements, though.

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silverdolphin  May 28, 2023 • 3:20:24pm

re: #95 sagehen

The winning side was always the side with superior manufacturing/economic capacity, and unlimited reinforcements. The left has a lot more info-tech than the right, and young people are very left.

Absolutely. And the reason they had superior economic/manufacturing capacity is that they had organized themselve to deal with new disruptive technologies that changed society (ie railroads/telegram, fossil fuel ICE, the internet) in ways the losing side did not. All of these technologies greatly reduced the time it took information to travel even while they created more data that need for be filtered properly. Hard to beat a side that can make decisions based on seconds when your organizational approaches make decisons based on hours.

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Nerdy Fish  May 28, 2023 • 3:20:30pm

re: #101 Charles Johnson

OK, I’m a little pissed off that Biden caved on some issues but I think overall it’s not a horrible deal. I do hate this revanchist idea of work requirements, though.

Yeah, that’s the part that makes me unhappy about the whole deal. I hate that the Republicans (or possibly even Manchin and Sinema, who I know are both big on work requirements) managed to get that one, even if it’s only in a limited fashion. Work requirements are just saying, “We don’t think poor people deserve compassion.”

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I Would Prefer Not To  May 28, 2023 • 3:20:53pm

re: #101 Charles Johnson

OK, I’m a little pissed off that Biden caved on some issues but I think overall it’s not a horrible deal. I do hate this revanchist idea of work requirements, though.

you know that the Biden Admin is going to slow walk any work requirements? could be until the next congress when they can be changed.

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Charles Johnson  May 28, 2023 • 3:21:43pm

Biden’s gonna announce it on the teevee in a few minutes.

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ckkatz  May 28, 2023 • 3:27:36pm

For a Sunday and a US holiday, it’s been a busy news day.

One example…

Lets say you want to make money.

Among the many ways you can do that is to bet that a specific stock will fall in price. You borrow some shares and sell them at the high price, wait until the price falls, buy them back at the lower price, and return them to the lender. That is called shorting a stock.

If you don’t mind that it destroys peoples’ livelihoods; And are clever enough to avoid the legal consequences; You can work schemes to manipulate the stock price.

Let’s say that you also know that certain groups, say MAGA, like to plan, organize and execute campaigns to attack (literally) corporations on the basis of some culture war issue.

Let’s also say that you find out that (or maybe arrange for) these groups planning their next campaign and it happens to be Target…

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ckkatz  May 28, 2023 • 3:29:01pm

Let’s talk about who won the debt ceiling negotiations….

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TarHellion  May 28, 2023 • 3:29:39pm

re: #64 Backwoods Sleuth

In 1999, the Indy Racing League ran at Charlotte Motor Speedway. A crash between two cars sent a tire and related parts into the stands, killing 3 and injuring 12. No Indy-style car races have been conducted at the track since.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 28, 2023 • 3:31:32pm

When I hear “work requirements” brings back memories of Grandma Bacon telling me about the Poor Houses and Poor Farms that existed before Social Security was enacted and benefits were paid out.

Poor Farms and Poor Houses had strict rules when circumstances forced you to enter them. They were a last resort for the destitute and elderly. You literally had to only have a the clothes on your back before you could be admitted and once admitted you had to follow every rule established by the oversight board and overseer. You had to work to be fed and if you did not work you did not eat.

Grandma volunteered to work at the poor house and she took pity on elderly people who were bedridden and literally starving to death. She would clean them up and sneak some pie to them…until she was caught because someone ratted to the Overseer. Grandma was banished from the Poor House and blacklisted as a Communist by those fine Xtian gentlemen.

She never forgot or forgave those Xtians.

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Hecuba's daughter  May 28, 2023 • 3:32:13pm

re: #19 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

He is the product of a patriarchal nomadic animal-herding society, hence the image of him robed and bearded

Don’t these images all violate the 2nd Commandment?

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silverdolphin  May 28, 2023 • 3:36:19pm

re: #101 Charles Johnson

OK, I’m a little pissed off that Biden caved on some issues but I think overall it’s not a horrible deal. I do hate this revanchist idea of work requirements, though.

We will have to see the final words but there does appear to be expansion of SNAP benefits. So it might be a wash. Hope so.

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silverdolphin  May 28, 2023 • 3:38:55pm

re: #103 Nerdy Fish

Yeah, that’s the part that makes me unhappy about the whole deal. I hate that the Republicans (or possibly even Manchin and Sinema, who I know are both big on work requirements) managed to get that one, even if it’s only in a limited fashion. Work requirements are just saying, “We don’t think poor people deserve compassion.”

I also heard that SNAP benefits were being expanded for vets and others. So give a little, get a little. And when we take control next year we can fix it.

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Romantic Heretic  May 28, 2023 • 3:40:18pm

re: #5 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

Only the British can do dry comedy this well.

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Barefoot Grin  May 28, 2023 • 3:40:29pm

re: #110 Hecuba’s daughter

Don’t these images all violate the 2nd Commandment?

It’s been awhile since I had to recite them for Confirmation. Was that: “thou must own at least one firearm”?

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JC1  May 28, 2023 • 3:40:38pm

There’s been a lot of comments about AI and ML recently. If anyone is interested in learning about how all that stuff works, I highly recommend the fast.ai course. It’s completely free. The videos are excellent.

Lesson 3 video explains pretty well what goes on under the hood of a deep learning network.

course.fast.ai

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silverdolphin  May 28, 2023 • 3:43:09pm

Schumer: GOP Will Drag Out And Delay Debt Vote

Of course they are. And it will hang any problems around the GOP.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 28, 2023 • 3:45:14pm

re: #114 Barefoot Grin

It’s been awhile since I had to recite them for Confirmation. Was that: “thou must own at least one firearm”?

Only one?

Nay. For The LORD commandeth that thou shalt purchase as many guns as possible so the Holy Tree Of Liberty gets its needed nourishment of blood.

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ckkatz  May 28, 2023 • 3:45:55pm

Interesting video.

The one thing I would add is to carefully think about where you should go and why you want to go there. Often it’s completely obvious choice. Sometimes maybe less so.

Let’s talk about when it’s time to leave….

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Belafon  May 28, 2023 • 3:46:47pm

re: #106 ckkatz

Target pissed off the group with money by giving into those who hate, even though I totally understand why they did it (the workers didn’t ask to get involved).

Target was trying, but it can tough for a corporation like it to do something like that. We’re going to have to figure out a way to make them understand that giving in to the hate is harmful, but it’s going to need to be done in a way that shows the bigots that they lost. I just personally don’t need a woman’s swimsuit.

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Belafon  May 28, 2023 • 3:47:51pm

re: #106 ckkatz

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silverdolphin  May 28, 2023 • 3:49:20pm

re: #119 Belafon

Target pissed off the group with money by giving into those who hate, even though I totally understand why they did it (the workers didn’t ask to get involved).

Target was trying, but it can tough for a corporation like it to do something like that. We’re going to have to figure out a way to make them understand that giving in to the hate is harmful, but it’s going to need to be done in a way that shows the bigots that they lost. I just personally don’t need a woman’s swimsuit.

Part of the problem is the stochastic terrorism directed towards the employees. With so many nutballs packing, it puts them in a bad position. In fact, Target caring more about its employees than sales is the sign of a woke company.

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ckkatz  May 28, 2023 • 3:52:56pm

re: #117 Joe Bacon ✅

Kahr Arms, owned by one of the sons (Justin Moon) of Rev Sun Myung Moon, when I was following firearms used to have a fairly good reputation. Not sure about now.

The head of Rod of Iron Ministries is a different son, Sean Moon.

*snip*
Far from condemning the day’s violence, Moon praised the insurrectionists who “took dominion of the Satanic Temple” — that is to say, the U.S. Capitol building — and sent “the most powerful people on the planet scurrying away, like rats, in total fear, total panic, in tunnels.”
*snip*
Moon is the leader of Rod of Iron Ministries, a breakaway militant sect of the Unification Church. The pastor, 42, is the son of the late global religious leader Sun Myung Moon, revered as the second coming of Christ by his followers, known colloquially as the “Moonies.” The younger Moon’s church has gained infamy by glorifying the AR-15 assault rifle as the biblical “rod of iron,” an instrument of God’s justice.

Headquartered outside of Scranton, Pennsylvania, Rod of Iron Ministries has stirred alarm with ceremonies in which its faithful bring their weapons to church. Moon preaches an end-times theology that’s intertwined with earthly politics. And along with his brother Justin — who, in a nifty twist, owns a gun company that sells assault weapons — Sean Moon has sought to build political power in MAGA world, by cultivating connections to the Trump sons, hosting an annual Freedom Festival that has attracted Steve Bannon to speak, and even forging ties to the NRA board member who put his name at the top of the list of the fake slate of 2020 Electoral College voters from Pennsylvania. Moon calls Teddy Daniels, a Jan. 6 participant who ran as Doug Mastriano’s preferred candidate for Pennsylvania lieutenant governor, “our great friend and brother in Christ.”
*snip*

Rolling Stone - Rod of Iron Ministries - Sean Moon

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Romantic Heretic  May 28, 2023 • 3:52:59pm

re: #24 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

I think a guillotine is one the most humane execution methods. If you’re going to execute people. Fast, works every time, just has the ick factor of blood everywhere.

9mm bullet in the back of the head works just as well.

If they ever reintroduce capital punishment here in Canada I am going to lobby for that to be the execution method.

I am also going to lobby that the job of executioner be filled by conscription. Everyone on the voting rolls could possibly get a letter reading, “You will appear at this prison at this day and time where you will execute this person.”

It will be amusing to see how many capital punishment supporters will start screaming, “Not me! I’m not a killer.”

Yeah, buddy. You are. It’s just now you have to do your own killing.

It also just occurred to me how amusing it would be to see how a GQPer would react to having to kill one of their own.

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Romantic Heretic  May 28, 2023 • 3:53:49pm

re: #117 Joe Bacon ✅

And their deity says, “Your blood too will serve.”

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Romantic Heretic  May 28, 2023 • 4:01:08pm

re: #51 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

I can dig it.

I bought a chocolate fudge cake at a local grocery for half off the other day. It had ‘expired’ the day before.

Still delicious.

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Barefoot Grin  May 28, 2023 • 4:01:16pm

re: #122 ckkatz

Kahr Arms, owned by one of the sons (Justin Moon) of Rev Sun Myung Moon, when I was following firearms used to have a fairly good reputation. Not sure about now.

The head of Rod of Iron Ministries is a different son, Sean Moon.

Rolling Stone Iron Rod Ministry - Sean Moon

Yeah, that’s some crazy shit.

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darthstar  May 28, 2023 • 4:03:11pm

From what I’ve read so far it sounds like President Biden got a pretty good deal out of McCarthy and didn’t really give up anything the Republicans wouldn’t make nearly impossible to do for the next two years anyway.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  May 28, 2023 • 4:05:40pm

Ok, Harkening back to earlier in the thread Just finished vac-packing a family pack of 10 chicken legs. I packed them two legs per so I now have 5 entrees. Now here’s were it gets interesting. I can let them just thaw OR……. I can cut a small slit in the bag and inject a marinade into the bag and let them thaw while they are soaking in it while I’m at work and then choose how I’ll cook them. Grilled, fried, baked, sous vide, well you get the idea.

The injector.

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ckkatz  May 28, 2023 • 4:06:11pm

re: #120 Belafon

This is very likely true.

However, I suspect that the grifter, whose goal is to make money, is likely not going to be concerned. Plus, this might give him a cover of deniability.

And, I suspect that he will still have no problem selling it to his mooks/cannonfodder/stochastic terrorists.

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sizzzzlerz  May 28, 2023 • 4:08:34pm

re: #37 Eclectic Cyborg

Also: Elon Musk and Trump are not big on paying their bills.

But, they will sue you your ass if you have the audacity to point that out.

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 28, 2023 • 4:10:23pm

re: #89 teleskiguy

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ckkatz  May 28, 2023 • 4:10:34pm

re: #127 darthstar

From what I’ve read so far it sounds like President Biden got a pretty good deal out of McCarthy and didn’t really give up anything the Republicans wouldn’t make nearly impossible to do for the next two years anyway.

Yup!

Beau in the video above notes that the GOP achieved, and gets to sell, two of it’s core goals.

1. Protecting rich people from paying taxes. (Reducing funding to the IRS)
2. Hurting poor people. (Adding requirements to SNAP)

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Barefoot Grin  May 28, 2023 • 4:11:02pm

Starting week 3 of being with Dad. I took him to the University of Illinois arboretum and to the Japan House garden and pond. It is a small trail, so we did it twice. Most walks he’s been asking me to recount Mom’s death events as many as 7 or 8 times on a 45-minute walk. But today only once. We were mostly in the present.

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darthstar  May 28, 2023 • 4:11:36pm

Got another visit from the tool and gadget fairy across the street.

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Nerdy Fish  May 28, 2023 • 4:13:00pm

re: #134 darthstar

Got another visit from the tool and gadget fairy across the street.

[Embedded content]

Please, don’t burn your house down.

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Barefoot Grin  May 28, 2023 • 4:14:20pm

re: #135 Nerdy Fish

Please, don’t burn your house down.

No, no, no. Fill it with canola oil and cook a turkey for us. Right there.

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darthstar  May 28, 2023 • 4:15:43pm

re: #135 Nerdy Fish

Please, don’t burn your house down.

I’ve deep fried turkeys twice. Not my thing. This will be used for boiling crab outside and possibly, if I get the inkling to do it again, brew beer.

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ckkatz  May 28, 2023 • 4:16:23pm

re: #136 Barefoot Grin

No, no, no. Fill it with canola oil and cook a turkey for us. Right there.

It’ll be a hot time, in the old town, tonight!
FIRE, FIRE, FIRE!

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darthstar  May 28, 2023 • 4:17:03pm

re: #136 Barefoot Grin

No, no, no. Fill it with canola oil and cook a turkey for us. Right there.

I was thinking olive oil.

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Nerdy Fish  May 28, 2023 • 4:17:32pm

re: #137 darthstar

I’ve deep fried turkeys twice. Not my thing. This will be used for boiling crab outside and possibly, if I get the inkling to do it again, brew beer.

An interesting idea. And much, much safer than deep frying a turkey.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  May 28, 2023 • 4:17:35pm

re: #134 darthstar

Got another visit from the tool and gadget fairy across the street.

[Embedded content]

I want. Yeah it’s a turkey fryer, But a fill about 1/2 or so and doing a whole chicken…… Hmmmm…

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sizzzzlerz  May 28, 2023 • 4:21:54pm

re: #135 Nerdy Fish

Please, don’t burn your house down.

Indeed. There are dozens of videos on the tubes demonstrating how not to cook stuff using a deep fryer. Houses burned, children and pets burned, and lots more. Nasty things if not treated with great care.

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The Pie Overlord!  May 28, 2023 • 4:23:09pm

re: #101 Charles Johnson

OK, I’m a little pissed off that Biden caved on some issues but I think overall it’s not a horrible deal. I do hate this revanchist idea of work requirements, though.

Yeah because there are just soooo many jobs available for 45-54 year olds!

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Teukka  May 28, 2023 • 4:25:09pm
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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  May 28, 2023 • 4:26:02pm

re: #142 sizzzzlerz

Indeed. There are dozens of videos on the tubes demonstrating how not to cook stuff using a deep fryer. Houses burned, children and pets burned, and lots more. Nasty things if not treated with great care.

Yep. I work with commercial DF fryers daily. If you don’t treat them with respect, the WILL burn you.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 28, 2023 • 4:27:35pm

Before MTV, HBO in the late 70s had “Video Jukebox” that showed music videos. This is the first one I remember they showed of Todd Rundgren.

Todd Rundgren - Can We Still Be Friends (1978)

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Patricia Kayden  May 28, 2023 • 4:31:06pm

re: #144 Teukka

If anyone on the left had advocated killing people, especially if they were POCs, all hell would have broke loose. It’s amazing what conservative White men can get away with.

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ckkatz  May 28, 2023 • 4:32:19pm

But is it a sandwich?

*snip*
In Norway, hot dogs are universally great. Sports events, gas stations, convenience stores, festivals, and kids’ birthday parties serve them. People put them in thermoses and bring them on hikes in the woods. At weddings, they’re the midnight snack of choice. On May 17, Norway’s national day, the country’s 5.4 million people celebrated by eating an estimated 13 million hot dogs.

Norwegians have a long history of loving sausage. The sausages of the Viking tradition—called kjeleormer (kettle worms) for how they coiled in the pot—eventually evolved into Norway’s Christmas sausage. But the pride of the Norwegian gas station stems from their import to the Nordic countries following World War II.

Pølse med brød—directly translated as sausage with bread—is the Norwegian version of an American-style hot dog. “American fast food came to Norway in full force in the 1950s, bringing us hot dogs and soft serve. We were so grateful for Americans’ help during and after the war—everything American was fashionable,” says Annechen Bahr Bugge, food researcher at Consumption Research Norway (SIFO). Young people especially enjoyed hot dogs, and they quickly became part of local culinary culture. Today, six out of ten Norwegians eat a hot dog at least once a month.
*snip*

Atlas Obscura - How Hot Dogs Became Norway’s National Snack

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JC1  May 28, 2023 • 4:35:18pm

re: #119 Belafon

Target pissed off the group with money by giving into those who hate, even though I totally understand why they did it (the workers didn’t ask to get involved).

Target was trying, but it can tough for a corporation like it to do something like that. We’re going to have to figure out a way to make them understand that giving in to the hate is harmful, but it’s going to need to be done in a way that shows the bigots that they lost. I just personally don’t need a woman’s swimsuit.

It’s also hyperventilating hype. The stock didn’t collapse because of this. It’s been selling off for a while and had a big down day on the 17th.

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TedStriker  May 28, 2023 • 4:35:59pm

re: #146 Joe Bacon ✅

Before MTV, HBO in the late 70s had “Video Jukebox” that showed music videos. This is the first one I remember they showed of Todd Rundgren.

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I’m partial to this version he did with Daryl Hall on Live from Daryl’s House:

Daryl Hall - Can We Still Be Friends (Live From Daryl’s House)

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Egregious Philbin  May 28, 2023 • 4:36:26pm

Mai Tai and sitting in the pool time coming up…

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Teukka  May 28, 2023 • 4:48:58pm

Okay, this doesn’t seem right…

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Backwoods Sleuth  May 28, 2023 • 4:50:51pm
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teleskiguy  May 28, 2023 • 4:51:56pm

Hard hitting stuff. You have to watch this.

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jaunte  May 28, 2023 • 4:54:24pm

re: #153 Backwoods Sleuth

Those poor kids don’t understand yet what kind of trash family they’re going to have to grow up connected to.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 28, 2023 • 4:54:30pm

Meanwhile this thug is still given pass after pass for his bullying.

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EstebanTornado1963  May 28, 2023 • 4:55:03pm

re: #151 Egregious Philbin

Public or private pool?

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Belafon  May 28, 2023 • 4:56:00pm

re: #156 Joe Bacon ✅

Meanwhile this thug is still given pass after pass for his bullying.

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At some point, they’re going to have to hold him and have him arrested for trespassing.

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Backwoods Sleuth  May 28, 2023 • 4:58:13pm
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Backwoods Sleuth  May 28, 2023 • 4:59:43pm
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Backwoods Sleuth  May 28, 2023 • 5:01:04pm

re: #92 teleskiguy

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LOL

Uh, dude, you ever hear of this thing called the Streisand Effect?

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Semper Fi  May 28, 2023 • 5:01:46pm

re: #154 teleskiguy

Hard hitting stuff. You have to watch this.

Below the belt for sure…

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Backwoods Sleuth  May 28, 2023 • 5:03:26pm
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Backwoods Sleuth  May 28, 2023 • 5:06:18pm
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Nerdy Fish  May 28, 2023 • 5:10:40pm

re: #164 Backwoods Sleuth

But “Sleepy Joe,” “mentally incapable,” etc.

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Charles Johnson  May 28, 2023 • 5:15:17pm

Mastodon

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The Pie Overlord!  May 28, 2023 • 5:16:36pm
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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  May 28, 2023 • 5:29:43pm

re: #167 The Pie Overlord!

I can get this wonder drug at Target?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 28, 2023 • 5:30:43pm

re: #153 Backwoods Sleuth

Not attacking the children. Attacking Lara Trump.

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silverdolphin  May 28, 2023 • 6:20:24pm

red beans and rice

Going to start the rice for my red beans and rice in a minute. Ummm!!


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