Powerful New Music and Video From Snarky Puppy Founder Michael League: “Right Where I Fall”

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Michael League - Right Where I Fall
From the album “So Many Me” (Available June 2021, GroundUP Music)
Stream/Buy/Pre-Order: https://orcd.co/rightwhereifall

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Music and lyrics by Michael League
Produced by Michael League & Nic Hard
Engineered and mixed by Nic Hard & Michael League
Assisted by Shakthi Prasad KT & David Turk
Mastered by Emily Lazar and Chris Allgood at The Lodge, New York

Vocals, upright acoustic piano, Moog One, Moog Matriarch bass, doholla, & Turkish bendir performed by Michael League.

Director: Jep Jorba
Director of Photography: David Bretones
VFX Artist: Bernat Enrich
Art Director: Renata Carrillo
Art Assistant: Alejandra Garcia
Gaffer: Xavi Ruix
Electrician: Jessica Parreño
Original Idea: Michael League

Special thanks to El Teatre Dels Prats De Rei, Ester Gómez and Jaume Casamitjana.

LYRICS:
High above, you’ll find me here
Circling far to not be near
It feels like I can only glide so long
Before the will to stay my dive is gone

If I’m on the way down
If you love me at all
Leave me right where I fall

I’m a lone, lonely bird
A king in the desert, a spy in the herd
Looking down there’s no use looking back
The day I drop I’ll go without a word

If I’m on the way down
If you love me at all
Leave me right where I fall

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202 comments
1
Charles Johnson  Apr 23, 2021 • 5:43:55pm

Michael League branching out. Doing new stuff. Good to see it.

2
Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 23, 2021 • 5:47:13pm
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🌹UOJB!  Apr 23, 2021 • 5:53:06pm

I wonder what fucking frequency this nut is tuned to?

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BigPapa  Apr 23, 2021 • 5:58:16pm

re: #3 🌹UOJB!

Talk about vibrations in the voice

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 23, 2021 • 5:59:11pm

re: #4 BigPapa

Talk about vibrations in the voice

Death Cat for Cutie.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 23, 2021 • 6:00:05pm
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Eric The Fruit Bat  Apr 23, 2021 • 6:00:55pm

re: #4 BigPapa

Now imagine the sound it makes when it purrs….

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 23, 2021 • 6:05:17pm

re: #4 BigPapa

Talk about vibrations in the voice

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caracal cat — that definitely should be allowed to remain free and not in captivity. It doesn’t belong in this hemisphere, except perhaps in a zoo.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Apr 23, 2021 • 6:05:55pm
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Belafon  Apr 23, 2021 • 6:07:03pm

re: #3 🌹UOJB!

I wonder what fucking frequency this nut is tuned to?

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Imagine if Trump died while they’re all waiting for God to do something.

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Jay C  Apr 23, 2021 • 6:08:40pm

re: #10 Belafon

Imagine if Trump died while they’re all waiting for God to do something.

Yeah: that was exactly the”sign” I was thinking would be likely to manifest itself….

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A Cranky One  Apr 23, 2021 • 6:11:50pm

re: #6 Charles Johnson

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Build the wall!

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HRH Stanley Sea  Apr 23, 2021 • 6:14:24pm

Any Stephen King fan should tune into this

It’s a film festival of the “Dollar Babies” where any student or aspiring filmmaker can get the rights to King’s short stories for a dollar.

Just finished Gray Matter. Remember that one about the bad beer?? It was great.

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 23, 2021 • 6:15:25pm

re: #10 Belafon

Imagine if Trump died while they’re all waiting for God to do something.

You will see millions of Xtians canonize Trump as a saint and lots of them will pray to him just like my goofball aunt prayed to Pruneface Reagan.

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(((Archangel1)))  Apr 23, 2021 • 6:16:02pm
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jaunte  Apr 23, 2021 • 6:18:41pm
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Charles Johnson  Apr 23, 2021 • 6:22:24pm
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Deep State SuperElite Satinist  Apr 23, 2021 • 6:24:43pm

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19
Romantic Heretic  Apr 23, 2021 • 6:27:30pm

re: #3 🌹UOJB!

Lady? I wouldn’t be so eager for God’s intervention if I were you.

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EPR-radar  Apr 23, 2021 • 6:32:24pm

re: #14 🌹UOJB!

You will see millions of Xtians canonize Trump as a saint and lots of them will pray to him just like my goofball aunt prayed to Pruneface Reagan.

Trump being a saint for the US right would be a serious demotion. He is literally their God.

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EPR-radar  Apr 23, 2021 • 6:34:23pm

re: #19 Romantic Heretic

Lady? I wouldn’t be so eager for God’s intervention if I were you.

I’d love to see a Rapture done by a progressive God that whisks half the Republicans directly to hell where their torments are broadcast for the spiritual edification of the other half.

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William Lewis  Apr 23, 2021 • 6:39:32pm

re: #21 EPR-radar

I’d love to see a Rapture done by a progressive God that whisks half the Republicans directly to hell where their torments are broadcast for the spiritual edification of the other half.

Ah, the parable of Lazarus and the Rich Man… ;)

23
jaunte  Apr 23, 2021 • 6:40:02pm

re: #21 EPR-radar

You know they’d just start yelling Fake Hellnews.

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A Cranky One  Apr 23, 2021 • 6:41:56pm

re: #3 🌹UOJB!

I wonder what fucking frequency this nut is tuned to?

R.E.M. - What’s The Frequency, Kenneth? (Official Music Video)

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 23, 2021 • 6:48:59pm

re: #15 (((Archangel1)))

…Instead of AOC debating Greene, how about Katie Porter whiteboards Greene instead?…

No one with any credibility should appear on the same platform as this grifting, treasonous fabulist. You cannot expect a legitimate debate with someone who is shameless, lacks any credentials or knowledge, and refutes your arguments by lies that have no substance. People like Greene crave a public forum where a serious opponent only raises her credibility while reducing that of anyone who engages her. The only person to whom this admonition does not apply would be someone who is challenging her for her seat; then, unfortunately, it is necessary to appear with her.

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wrenchwench  Apr 23, 2021 • 6:52:12pm

Once a day, on average, Mr. w gives me a ‘Rush Limbaugh is still dead.’

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EPR-radar  Apr 23, 2021 • 6:53:38pm

re: #15 (((Archangel1)))

It would be beyond stupid for AOC to agree to debate any lying Republican who is not an election opponent.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 23, 2021 • 6:56:36pm

re: #26 wrenchwench

Once a day, on average, Mr. w gives me a ‘Rush Limbaugh is still dead.’

He’s a good man, that one. You should keep him.

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A Cranky One  Apr 23, 2021 • 6:57:28pm

re: #27 EPR-radar

It would be beyond stupid for AOC to agree to debate any lying Republican who is not an election opponent.

Agree, but watching AOC shred Greene would be delightful. And you know she would.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 23, 2021 • 6:58:39pm

re: #29 A Cranky One

Agree, but watching AOC shred Greene would be delightful. And you know she would.

However, it’s giving legitimacy to a fuckwad who doesn’t deserve it, and besides, the right wing will declare Greene the winner no matter how badly she gets eviscerated.

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A Cranky One  Apr 23, 2021 • 7:00:00pm

re: #26 wrenchwench

Once a day, on average, Mr. w gives me a ‘Rush Limbaugh is still dead.’

Oh good. Given Rush’s need for brains, I was sure he’d turn into a zombie.

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EPR-radar  Apr 23, 2021 • 7:01:20pm

re: #30 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

However, it’s giving legitimacy to a fuckwad who doesn’t deserve it, and besides, the right wing will declare Greene the winner no matter how badly she gets eviscerated.

This. AOC has ideas, some better than others. MTG just produces lying word-vomit.

A debate between ideas and lying word-vomit elevates the word-vomit to the status of ‘ideas’.

See also scientists debating creationists.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 23, 2021 • 7:01:55pm

re: #32 EPR-radar

This. AOC has ideas, some better than others. MTG just produces lying word-vomit.

A debate between ideas and lying word-vomit elevates the word-vomit to the status of ‘ideas’.

See also scientists debating creationists.

“Never argue with an idiot. They’ll just drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”

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A Cranky One  Apr 23, 2021 • 7:03:55pm

Oh, I agree AOC shouldn’t debate Greene, but do think it would be great fun to watch if she did.

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teleskiguy  Apr 23, 2021 • 7:05:23pm
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EPR-radar  Apr 23, 2021 • 7:07:53pm

re: #35 teleskiguy

The sooner this counter gets started for Trump the better.

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EPR-radar  Apr 23, 2021 • 7:08:34pm

re: #33 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

“Never argue with an idiot. They’ll just drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”

An idiot may be educable. Not so with a lying propagandist.

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Secret ANTIFA Operative  Apr 23, 2021 • 7:14:14pm

re: #27 EPR-radar

It would be beyond stupid for AOC to agree to debate any lying Republican who is not an election opponent.

Agreed.

One weapon stupid people like MTG have is the time-honored Gish Gallop. She would bombard AOC with nonsense and then claim victory after she failed to rebut each point.

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Secret ANTIFA Operative  Apr 23, 2021 • 7:16:49pm
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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Apr 23, 2021 • 7:17:20pm

re: #38 Secret ANTIFA Operative

Chess with a Pigeon… we’ve all heard it. That’s what it is now.

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teleskiguy  Apr 23, 2021 • 7:18:07pm
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Belafon  Apr 23, 2021 • 7:42:13pm

I’m sure AOC knows this as well. But she also knows how to deal with drunk patrons.

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Belafon  Apr 23, 2021 • 7:45:35pm

re: #41 teleskiguy

Toby McGuire really let himself go in the top tweet.

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 23, 2021 • 7:49:35pm

Please let her run against Marco Rubio! PLEASE!

45
jaunte  Apr 23, 2021 • 7:56:44pm
46
Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 23, 2021 • 7:59:06pm

re: #41 teleskiguy

It’s the best music for mocking.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 23, 2021 • 7:59:20pm

re: #39 Secret ANTIFA Operative

Democrats are gun-shy because of the infamous media both sideism of the conflict between Democratic efforts to address our problems against Republican obstructionism; the media should be attacking Republicans everywhere for their refusal to accept the Biden victory, for their efforts to disenfranchise people of color everywhere, and their opposition to the bills to protect voting rights. Instead they treat Republicans as legitimate politicians, instead of ostracizing every one of them for their failure to work with Democrats to solve our nation’s problems.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 23, 2021 • 8:00:36pm

re: #45 jaunte

Harold is my new favorite person. 😂😂😂😂😂

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Apr 23, 2021 • 8:05:07pm

re: #41 teleskiguy

One thing I’d add to this is what I refer to as “Disney’s Pirates Problem”.

First Disney makes Pirates of the Caribbean ride. In 1967.
It has some problematic things in it but… they are pirates. They are supposed to be problematic to some degree. They aren’t heroes.

Then Disney decides to make a movie based (sort of) on the ride.

Disney makes the pirates the “good-ish guys” in the flick.

Disney starts to put references to the movie in the ride.

The ride starts to become about the movie, rather than the other way around.

Can’t have the pirates be the heroes but also… pirates. You can’t stick an animatronic Jack Sparrow in the middle of pirates doing pirate things while burning a Spanish port to the ground. So Disney has to start removing problematic things.

They created their own problem. If they had stuck with a “These people aren’t the heroes” stance the whole time, maybe they could have left the damn ride alone or removed less, but they shot themselves in the foot.

Still even with all the above, for every problematic thing they removed, I’m sure someone can find a dozen more still there, and I bet you almost *everyone* who bitches about the ride being “woke” (I hate I have to use that word) loves those damn movies too.

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austin_blue  Apr 23, 2021 • 8:15:16pm

re: #3 🌹UOJB!

I wonder what fucking frequency this nut is tuned to?

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WKRP in Cincinatti.

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teleskiguy  Apr 23, 2021 • 8:16:05pm

re: #144 teleskiguy

Man, skiing was pretty goddamned fun today. Love skiing big lines.

For lunch, I had their super ultra deluxe top-of-the-line extra loaded grilled cheese sandwich.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 23, 2021 • 8:19:13pm

re: #49 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David

More fundamentally, that newspaper opinion piece lauds Walt Disney while supposedly defending some sort of traditional American values.

Thing is, Walt (besides a bit of a bad boss) created material that was explicitly non-Christian. His works fell so far outside of the conservative American church scene that it used to be that Disney was criticized by fundamentalists.

Here’s an article in the same newspaper as that guy lamenting “wokeness” that points out the non-Christian nature of Disney:

IN WALT’S WORLD, NO CHURCHES ON MAIN STREET OR ON SCREEN

“There is an anathema against the New Testament in the Disney films,” said the Rev. Lou Sheldon, head of the Traditional Values Coalition in Anaheim, Calif. “They’re not fair to what the Christian message is of life, death and eternal life.”

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danarchy  Apr 23, 2021 • 8:21:14pm

re: #51 teleskiguy

Man, skiing was pretty goddamned fun today. Love skiing big lines.

I submit that that is not a grilled cheese sandwich, but a pulled pork sandwich with cheese.

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 23, 2021 • 8:22:04pm

re: #52 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Ah Racist Lou Sheldon who actually said the “N” word in a Foursquare Church when he attacked Maxine Waters and Tom Bradley.

Yes the Jesusbots in the church yelled Praise Gawd when Shithead Sheldon used the N Word.

Me? I was hoping that fat fuck would have a heart attack and drop dead on the stage.

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gwangung  Apr 23, 2021 • 8:22:16pm

re: #53 danarchy

I submit that that is not a grilled cheese sandwich, but a pulled pork sandwich with cheese.

Either way…nom nom nom…..

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teleskiguy  Apr 23, 2021 • 8:22:27pm

re: #53 danarchy

Potato potahto.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 23, 2021 • 8:24:42pm
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austin_blue  Apr 23, 2021 • 8:26:19pm

re: #55 gwangung

Either way…nom nom nom…..

No shit, right?

Well except for chopped smoked brisket instead of that foul Carolina pork BBQ.

Fight me.

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gwangung  Apr 23, 2021 • 8:28:55pm

re: #58 austin_blue

No shit, right?

Well except for chopped smoked brisket instead of that foul Carolina pork BBQ.

Fight me.

Go ahead and fight. I’ll chow down on the brisket.

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 23, 2021 • 8:29:55pm

ROTFLMAO because I just saw an advance notice of who won this years RAZZIES®.

And they really deserved the wins!

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William Lewis  Apr 23, 2021 • 8:31:55pm

Nope. Yer all wrong.

Teh Bestest Grilled Cheese: Sourdough bread, butter on the outside, apple butter on the inside, a layer of sliced apple (Macintosh is my preference), apple smoked bacon and havarti cheese. Nothing else comes close.

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Apr 23, 2021 • 8:34:37pm

re: #60 🌹UOJB!

Worst Film: Absolute Proof

Worst Actor: My Pillow Guy in Absolute Proof

Worst Supporting Actor: Rudy Giuliani in Borat Subsequent Movie Film.

Worst On Screen Combo: Rudy Giuliani and his zipper.

I’m curious as to what “365 Days” and “Music” are since they won a lot too.

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William Lewis  Apr 23, 2021 • 8:36:54pm

re: #62 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David

365 Days: en.wikipedia.org

Music: en.wikipedia.org

Both shudder worthy.

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austin_blue  Apr 23, 2021 • 8:37:04pm

re: #61 William Lewis

Nope. Yer all wrong.

Teh Bestest Grilled Cheese: Sourdough bread, butter on the outside, apple butter on the inside, a layer of sliced apple (Macintosh is my preference), apple smoked bacon and havarti cheese. Nothing else comes close.

Goddamit, Will, this was supposed to be a flame war between Texas and Carolina Q, and you torpedo the whole thing with apple-smoked fucking bacon?

Just damn you to hell and gone!

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jaunte  Apr 23, 2021 • 8:37:44pm

re: #62 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David

“Music manages to both underestimate autistic people and infantilise them.”
en.wikipedia.org

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William Lewis  Apr 23, 2021 • 8:38:36pm

re: #64 austin_blue

Goddamit, Will, this was supposed to be a flame war between Texas and Carolina Q, and you torpedo the whole thing with apple-smoked fucking bacon?

Just damn you to hell and gone!

Om nom nom!

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KingKenrod  Apr 23, 2021 • 8:39:53pm
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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Apr 23, 2021 • 8:40:43pm

re: #49 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David

One thing I’d add to this is what I refer to as “Disney’s Pirates Problem”.

First Disney makes Pirates of the Caribbean ride. In 1967.
It has some problematic things in it but… they are pirates. They are supposed to be problematic to some degree. They aren’t heroes.

Then Disney decides to make a movie based (sort of) on the ride.

Disney makes the pirates the “good-ish guys” in the flick.

Disney starts to put references to the movie in the ride.

The ride starts to become about the movie, rather than the other way around.

Can’t have the pirates be the heroes but also… pirates. You can’t stick an animatronic Jack Sparrow in the middle of pirates doing pirate things while burning a Spanish port to the ground. So Disney has to start removing problematic things.

They created their own problem. If they had stuck with a “These people aren’t the heroes” stance the whole time, maybe they could have left the damn ride alone or removed less, but they shot themselves in the foot.

Still even with all the above, for every problematic thing they removed, I’m sure someone can find a dozen more still there, and I bet you almost *everyone* who bitches about the ride being “woke” (I hate I have to use that word) loves those damn movies too.

My problem with the changes Disney made to the ride is that it was coherent — it told a story — before the changes, and a mess afterwards. (I don’t really care much about the movies one way or another.)

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austin_blue  Apr 23, 2021 • 8:42:53pm

re: #66 William Lewis

Om nom nom!

Philistine.

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Apr 23, 2021 • 8:46:23pm

re: #68 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

My problem with the changes Disney made to the ride is that it was coherent — it told a story — before the changes, and a mess afterwards. (I don’t really care much about the movies one way or another.)

Yeah that’s mine too. (I’ve only seen parts of the movies) Now it’s just a bunch of things happening. It’s not something I lose sleep over though, and before COVID put an end to annual passes, I went on the ride every time I went to the park unless it was broke down.

Just IMO the best explanation of why this is all a thing. Whether or not it real pirates doing real pirate things should have been considered family friendly even in 1967… well that’s a whole different story.

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teleskiguy  Apr 23, 2021 • 8:53:55pm
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Targetpractice  Apr 23, 2021 • 8:58:49pm

Coming into this late, but a “debate” between MTG and AOC would be like the “debate” between Ken Ham and Bill Nye from years ago: One side would lay out clear, concise answers supported by the facts…and the other side would engage in endless BS, excuse-making, and name-calling.

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austin_blue  Apr 23, 2021 • 9:01:11pm

Welp, I thought the Carolina vs Texas Q had promise, but turned out to be NO FUN.

Many folks in Texas would pull iron in any argument about the quality of a single piece of brisket, much less a thoughtful discussion about pork vs beef.

sigh

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Belafon  Apr 23, 2021 • 9:02:07pm

re: #45 jaunte

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I want a world where people like him can pursue their dreams.

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Apr 23, 2021 • 9:02:32pm

re: #72 Targetpractice

I also don’t like the implication that AOC is somehow “The Left’s MTG”.

That’s not even wrong.

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austin_blue  Apr 23, 2021 • 9:03:53pm

AOC would rip her a new asshole because MTG has no idea about how public policy works. She’s just a meme machine broadcaster.

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austin_blue  Apr 23, 2021 • 9:05:01pm

re: #75 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David

I also don’t like the implication that AOC is somehow “The Left’s MTG”.

That’s not even wrong.

Um, what?

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Apr 23, 2021 • 9:07:02pm

re: #77 austin_blue

Um, what?

en.wikipedia.org

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teleskiguy  Apr 23, 2021 • 9:07:48pm

I found a video of a line I skied today. This isn’t me, but the skier is skiing pretty much the exact line I skied today. I did it on telemark skis.

The Steep Gullies at Arapahoe Basin | April, 2018 | Steep Motion

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austin_blue  Apr 23, 2021 • 9:13:38pm

re: #78 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David

en.wikipedia.org

Why would anyone use that construction?

It’s not ironic, It’s just confusing.

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Targetpractice  Apr 23, 2021 • 9:17:08pm

re: #76 austin_blue

AOC would rip her a new asshole because MTG has no idea about how public policy works. She’s just a meme machine broadcaster.

Hence why I use “debate,” as MTG has done nothing and said nothing to indicate she is able of doing more than just shitting her pants and then blaming Dems for the smell.

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Apr 23, 2021 • 9:17:35pm

re: #80 austin_blue

Why would anyone use that construction?

It’s not ironic, It’s just confusing.

I know that I’m not using it exactly correct but, I use it when I believe a statement to be so nonsensical that it’s the equivalent to saying “The square root of purple is Mars”.

Saying AOC is the left’s version of MTG is, to me, that fucking ridiculous.

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austin_blue  Apr 23, 2021 • 9:18:18pm

re: #79 teleskiguy

I found a video of a line I skied today. This isn’t me, but the skier is skiing pretty much the exact line I skied today. I did it on telemark skis.

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Video

I like how he has to keep swinging wide to bleed off speed. A-Basin is a killer if you don’t know you’re limitations. I had to be carried down that mountain when I was a kid. My left foot was kinda pointing backward.

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retired cynic  Apr 23, 2021 • 9:18:33pm

re: #81 Targetpractice

Hence why I use “debate,” as MTG has done nothing and said nothing to indicate she is able of doing more than just shitting her pants and then blaming Dems for the smell.

It wouldn’t be judged on policy. It would be judged on “gotchas” and the RW would claim MTF “won”.

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austin_blue  Apr 23, 2021 • 9:19:23pm

re: #82 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David

I know that I’m not using it exactly correct but, I use it when I believe a statement to be so nonsensical that it’s the equivalent to saying “The square root of purple is Mars”.

Saying AOC is the left’s version of MTG is, to me, that fucking ridiculous.

Ah, got it!

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Targetpractice  Apr 23, 2021 • 9:19:51pm

re: #84 retired cynic

It wouldn’t be judged on policy. It would be judged on “gotchas” and the RW would claim MTF “won”.

It would go much like Trump thought the debates last fall would go: He’s get up on stage, show his “dominance,” and get graded for such while Biden would be criticized for not scoring any “gotcha” soundbyte moments.

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teleskiguy  Apr 23, 2021 • 9:20:14pm

re: #83 austin_blue

I like how he has to keep swinging wide to bleed off speed. A-Basin is a killer if you don’t know you’re limitations. I had to be carried down that mountain when I was a kid. My left foot was kinda pointing backward.

Yeah, I recall you telling the story. Back in the days when the most common ski injuries were broken legs, today it’s torn knee ligaments.

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piratedan  Apr 23, 2021 • 9:26:20pm

re: #86 Targetpractice

and if such an event took place, get ready for GOP talking points to be the frame of reference for each debate subject. The questions would likely be about immigration and other culture war bullshit and nothing about clean energy and voting rights.

There’s nothing to be gained because plain and simple, those folks on the GOP side do NOT deal in good faith and the media are their willing handmaidens.

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Targetpractice  Apr 23, 2021 • 9:27:59pm

Really, talking about any such “debate” is academic, because as soon as AOC agreed to it and started trying to set out the rules and conditions, MTG would bog the whole thing down in unreasonable demands and then refuse to “debate” when she didn’t get her way.

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austin_blue  Apr 23, 2021 • 9:28:49pm

re: #87 teleskiguy

Yeah, I recall you telling the story. Back in the days when the most common ski injuries were broken legs, today it’s torn knee ligaments.

Marker Rotomats and a buried tree branch under powder when we entered the gullies. The branch didn’t break.

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teleskiguy  Apr 23, 2021 • 9:33:29pm

re: #90 austin_blue

Marker Rotomats and a buried tree branch under powder when we entered the gullies. The branch didn’t break.

Oof. These bastards? Yeah, clamps have come a long way since these leg snapping bear traps.

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TedStriker  Apr 23, 2021 • 9:34:46pm

re: #50 austin_blue

WKRP in Cincinatti.

BOOGER!

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mmmirele  Apr 23, 2021 • 9:36:24pm

re: #3 🌹UOJB!

I wonder what fucking frequency this nut is tuned to?

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The frequency where she needs to be Baker Acted (Florida’s version of 5150) for her own good.

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austin_blue  Apr 23, 2021 • 9:39:33pm

We were hoping for an inch or two of rain today. We got .35 inches in South Austin, around .7 downtown. This summer is looking to be hot, dry, and crop evil.

And the dry line looks like a crescent from Central Texas through NM and AZ, through central and west CA and straight up to Canada via OR, WA, and ID.

I have a feeling this is going to be a grim, grim fire season.

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ckkatz  Apr 23, 2021 • 9:39:53pm

re: #8 Hecuba’s daughter

caracal cat — that definitely should be allowed to remain free and not in captivity. It doesn’t belong in this hemisphere, except perhaps in a zoo.

There’s an old saying that a caracal is sharp and pointy on 5 out of 6 ends.

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DesertDenizen  Apr 23, 2021 • 9:40:51pm

re: #94 austin_blue

We were hoping for an inch or two of rain today. We got .35 inches in South Austin, around .7 downtown. This summer is looking to be hot, dry, and crop evil.

And the dry line looks like a crescent from Central Texas through NM and AZ, through central and west CA and straight up to Canada via OR, WA, and ID.

I have a feeling this is going to be a grim, grim fire season.

We are expecting another poor monsoon in Arizona. With the aforementioned accompanying fires. Yay.

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EPR-radar  Apr 23, 2021 • 9:41:45pm

re: #94 austin_blue

We were hoping for an inch or two of rain today. We got .35 inches in South Austin, around .7 downtown. This summer is looking to be hot, dry, and crop evil.

And the dry line looks like a crescent from Central Texas through NM and AZ, through central and west CA and straight up to Canada via OR, WA, and ID.

I have a feeling this is going to be a grim, grim fire season.

I sure hope not, but I expect you are right. I did not enjoy the highlights of the 2020 CA fire season, which included smoke clouds in the Bay Area so thick they broke a heat wave.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 23, 2021 • 9:44:38pm

I remain uneasy about the J&J vaccine; they advertise the problem as 15 severe adverse reactions out of about 8 million vaccinations (original report 6 out of 7 million) but that isn’t the correct comparison, given the demographics of those who suffered this reaction. All were women and 13 were less than age 50 — and so you have to compare this to the total number of women in that age range who received the vaccine. It is misleading to continue to describe it as x out of total vaccinations; it significantly understates the risk of blood clots among younger women.

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retired cynic  Apr 23, 2021 • 9:46:39pm

re: #98 Hecuba’s daughter

They should just not give it in the risk group. Use one of the RNA vaccines.

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William Lewis  Apr 23, 2021 • 9:47:30pm

re: #98 Hecuba’s daughter

I remain uneasy about the J&J vaccine; they advertise the problem as 15 severe adverse reactions out of about 8 million vaccinations (original report 6 out of 7 million) but that isn’t the correct comparison, given the demographics of those who suffered this reaction. All were women and 13 were less than age 50 — and so you have to compare this to the total number of women in that age range who received the vaccine. It is misleading to continue to describe it as x out of total vaccinations; it significantly understates the risk of blood clots among younger women.

That’s … odd. I wonder if they were on oral contraceptives or hormone replacement for menopause? That can increase clotting potential in women. It would be instructive to know if they were able to factor that out.

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ckkatz  Apr 23, 2021 • 9:54:50pm

re: #18 Deep State SuperElite Satinist

Still catching up…

Ignoring the theme of lust, desire, and cannibalism, there’s a lot to see in this video.

Here are a couple:

The muscian, Gepe is a Chilean who has done a lot of his music using Andean themes. The small instrument he is playing is called a charango.

en.wikipedia.org

The video was apparently filmed in La Paz, Bolivia in building designed by Freddy Mamani. The architecture is described as Neo-Andean style.

en.wikipedia.org

Interesting video! Plus, I like cumbias. Thanks for posting.

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austin_blue  Apr 23, 2021 • 9:58:24pm

re: #98 Hecuba’s daughter

I remain uneasy about the J&J vaccine; they advertise the problem as 15 severe adverse reactions out of about 8 million vaccinations (original report 6 out of 7 million) but that isn’t the correct comparison, given the demographics of those who suffered this reaction. All were women and 13 were less than age 50 — and so you have to compare this to the total number of women in that age range who received the vaccine. It is misleading to continue to describe it as x out of total vaccinations; it significantly understates the risk of blood clots among younger women.

It appears that the blood clots are occurring among women who are of an age that they can menstruate. On the other hand, women who take Birth Control Pills, also in the same age group of the J&J clotters, suffer blood clots several orders of magnitude more than than those who receive the vaccine.

That’s all I have to say. This a hot potato, though it shouldn’t be, and I’m not touching it.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 23, 2021 • 9:58:35pm

re: #100 William Lewis

That’s … odd. I wonder if they were on oral contraceptives or hormone replacement for menopause? That can increase clotting potential in women. It would be instructive to know if they were able to factor that out.

Hopefully they investigated these cases very carefully to identify any other characteristics that may have contributed to these reactions. Given there are other effective vaccine choices, if I were a young woman, I would choose Pfizer or Moderna. The one silver lining is that they have identified the proper way to treat these clots and so reduce the danger to those who experience them; the standard treatment exacerbates the condition and leads to less favorable outcomes.

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austin_blue  Apr 23, 2021 • 10:01:48pm

re: #103 Hecuba’s daughter

Hopefully they investigated these cases very carefully to identify any other characteristics that may have contributed to these reactions. Given there are other effective vaccine choices, if I were a young woman, I would choose Pfizer or Moderna. The one silver lining is that they have identified the proper way to treat these clots and so reduce the danger to those who experience them; the standard treatment exacerbates the condition and leads to less favorable outcomes.

Assumes you have a choice when the world is exploding around you.

But here in the US, your point is absolutely valid.

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 23, 2021 • 10:06:24pm

This week 35 years ago…If only he had been sealed in the vault for good…

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austin_blue  Apr 23, 2021 • 10:07:11pm

Ding Ding Ding! Midnight Central Time.

Good night all. Sweet scaly dreams. Be safe, be healthy, be well.

We are going to get through this.

Love to you all.

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ckkatz  Apr 23, 2021 • 10:30:10pm

Snippits from an interesting Scientific American article:

What are the symptoms of these blood clots in people who have had the Johnson & Johnson vaccine?

They are different than some of the symptoms people experience right after getting their vaccination, such as fatigue, soreness at the injection site or joint aches. These sorts of things are common, they appear shortly after the vaccination, and they usually go away after about three to five days. The symptoms related to the blood clots tend to appear about a week or two after the vaccination and then continue to worsen. A headache that won’t go away is one symptom. Now, if you’ve just exerted yourself by going for a run or gardening in the sun on a hot day, you might have a headache, fatigue, leg or abdomen pain, or shortness of breath, but if you sit in a cool spot and drink some water, these will probably go away. But if you are experiencing these symptoms, and they continue to get worse despite the fact that you’re doing things that would normally make you feel better, that would be more concerning.

How are these blood clots different from other blood clots?

Blood clots are formed by platelets, which bind together to form a clot, and typically a lot of them are needed to do that. The clots seen with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine formed even in patients who had low platelet counts in their bloodstream. That combination is unusual. Typically, when you have really low platelet counts—a condition called thrombocytopenia—you actually have problems with being able to form clots, and you can develop ongoing bleeding that is hard to stop. Furthermore, we’re seeing this phenomenon of clots forming in serious places such as the brain, the lungs, the legs or the abdomen, despite the fact that platelet counts are really low. That’s a very unique phenomenon. The closest thing we’ve seen is a rare condition called heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT). [Editor’s note: HIT Is a condition in which the anticoagulant medication heparin lowers platelet counts. It increases the risk that blood clots will develop—a condition known as heparin-induced thrombotic thrombocytopenia, or HITT.] We have also seen a similar type of phenomenon with the AstraZeneca vaccine.

Blood Clots and the Johnson & Johnson Vaccine: What We Know So Far
scientificamerican.com

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ckkatz  Apr 23, 2021 • 10:32:35pm

re: #95 ckkatz
Which leads to the question…

What is the difference between a cat and a comma?

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ckkatz  Apr 23, 2021 • 10:34:14pm

And with that, I also need to head to bed.

I have a lawn to mow before the rain arrives tomorrow afternoon.

We shall see whether I can cut it.

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teleskiguy  Apr 23, 2021 • 11:17:30pm

My county sheriff’s department’s K-9. Fun fact: Echo here, like all K-9s, can detect illegal drugs and narcotics, though she is trained to not detect cannabis, reflecting the realities of legalization in Colorado. Her handler is pretty sure she’s the first K-9 in Colorado law enforcement history who’ll ignore weed smells.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 23, 2021 • 11:35:33pm

hi

I had my cardiac stress test today. I survived that, but I wanted to verbally flame every RN at the clinic (five of them).

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 23, 2021 • 11:52:03pm

Nebraska rejects a bill to call an Article V convention of the states.

The bill is stuck in the Government, Military, and Veterans Affairs Committee. The sponsor of the bill was unable to get it voted out of the committee.

Republicans in the Unicameral were calling the national debt the greatest threat to national security, overreach of federal regulations, and no term limits in Washington. Senators Adam Morfeld of Lincoln and Megan Hunt of Omaha led the charge against the bill, noting what happened with the Articles of Confederation.

But opponents, including Sen. Adam Morfeld of Lincoln, raised concerns about whether such a convention could be controlled. Morfeld pointed to the convention called to propose changes to the country’s original Articles of Confederation, saying that group ended up proposing a whole new constitution.

“There are no guardrails and there are no guidelines for this,” he said, noting that the people contacting his office have been overwhelmingly against the proposed convention.

Sen. Megan Hunt of Omaha argued that a convention of states would become a target for special interests seeking to gain advantage. She also questioned how well a convention would work in the current politically polarized environment.

Nebraska will not join others in calling for convention of states to amend US Constitution (Omaha World-Herald)

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Targetpractice  Apr 24, 2021 • 12:13:12am

re: #112 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Nebraska rejects a bill to call an Article V convention of the states.

The bill is stuck in the Government, Military, and Veterans Affairs Committee. The sponsor of the bill was unable to get it voted out of the committee.

Republicans in the Unicameral were calling the national debt the greatest threat to national security, overreach of federal regulations, and no term limits in Washington. Senators Adam Morfeld of Lincoln and Megan Hunt of Omaha led the charge against the bill, noting what happened with the Articles of Confederation.

Nebraska will not join others in calling for convention of states to amend US Constitution (Omaha World-Herald)

Because only conservative wingnuts would be allowed to weigh in on a new/amended Constituion.

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Ace-o-aces  Apr 24, 2021 • 12:18:20am
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Targetpractice  Apr 24, 2021 • 12:31:36am

re: #114 Ace-o-aces

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Police reportedly arrested Rousseau five days after the incident because they did not know how many weapons he had with him on his sailboat, where he lives. “We had our people sit on him and wait on him to come out, instead of creating a situation where he might be firing from the boat,” she said.

Sounds about white.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 24, 2021 • 12:40:01am

When you’re not safe from religious harassment in a major city like New York, it’s hopeless out here on the Oregon Trail.

The Dugger Law Firm, PLLC Has Filed a Sexual Orientation, Atheism, and Disability-Based Harassment Case Against L’Oreal USA, Inc. on Behalf of Rafael Sanchez

On April 13, 2021, Rafael Sanchez filed a federal complaint in the Southern District of New York, alleging New York City Human Rights Law (“NYCHRL”) sexual orientation, Atheism, and disability-based harassment and hostile work environment claims, as well as aiding and abetting of discrimination claims, against L’Oreal USA, Inc. (“L’Oreal”). Rafael Sanchez is being represented by The Dugger Law Firm PLLC.

L’Oreal hired Plaintiff as a makeup artist and skincare consultant during approximately December 2017, through staffing company Randstad Professionals US, LLC.

Mr. Sanchez alleges that L’Oreal, through its long-time Business Manager Viviana Nunez (“Nunez”), engaged in discriminatory harassment and created a hostile work environment based on Mr. Sanchez’s status as a gay male, non-religious Atheist, and/or disabled person.

(more at 360 Magazine)

Lawsuit Against L’Oreal USA, Inc.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 24, 2021 • 1:33:32am

Paging The Satanic Temple to the black courtesy phone:

Montana governor signs bill allowing residents to challenge regulations on religious grounds (The Hill)

Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte (R) signed legislation into law on Thursday that allows individuals to challenge government regulations that infringe on their religious beliefs.

The bill, dubbed the “Montana Religious Freedom Restoration Act,” requires the government to present a compelling reason to violate an individual’s freedom of religion, and to achieve its goals in the least restrictive method possible.

(more)

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Targetpractice  Apr 24, 2021 • 1:36:19am

re: #117 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Paging The Satanic Temple to the black courtesy phone:

Montana governor signs bill allowing residents to challenge regulations on religious grounds (The Hill)

(more)

Now, how about an individual’s freedom from religion?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 24, 2021 • 1:40:17am

re: #118 Targetpractice

Now, how about an individual’s freedom from religion?

Many Christian churches argue that doesn’t exist.

If a court has to get involved in what constitutes a “real religion,” then religious freedom is out the window.

I suppose I could start the First Church of Defenestration, the tenets of which are to yeet those who step on other people’s rights out fifth-storey windows.

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Sufficient unto the day...  Apr 24, 2021 • 1:47:53am

re: #119 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I’m a member of the First Church Reformed, we can’t go above second-storey windows.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 24, 2021 • 1:48:59am

re: #120 Sufficient unto the day…

I’m a member of the First Church Reformed, we can’t go above second-storey windows.

Schism!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 24, 2021 • 1:51:54am

Petition to the House of Commons in Parliament assembled
Whereas:

Atheists are persecuted in several countries both by government and the public;
Atheist persecution can result in serious injury, imprisonment, or death at the hands of family members, street mobs, or governments;
Some countries, including Saudi Arabia, label all atheists as terrorists: this alone should not disqualify them for refugee status;
The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled several times that the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the right to freedom from religion as much as the right to freedom of religion, a standard which applies to refugees as well as citizens;
Atheists are denied access to the Less Complex Claims Policy of Canada because they are excluded from the list of those who qualify, all of whom are members of a religion; and
This is an urgent matter because the lives of several atheists are currently in danger while awaiting their refugee hearings, which would be avoided if atheists were included in the less complex claims process.

We, the undersigned, residents of Canada, call upon the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship to change the policy regarding Less Complex Claims to include atheists in the list of people eligible for the status, so that they will be treated equally with those people belonging to the religions currently listed in the Less Complex Claims policy.

Petition site of Canada’s House of Commons

e-3114 (Citizenship and immigration)

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Teukka  Apr 24, 2021 • 1:52:24am

So this crossed my feeds a while back.
Kind People Are Suffering From Cruelty Sickness
Thoughtworthy.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 24, 2021 • 1:56:52am

re: #27 EPR-radar

It would be beyond stupid for AOC to agree to debate any lying Republican who is not an election opponent.

This is all just a publicity set-up so MTG can claim that her opponent “chickened out”.

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Apr 24, 2021 • 1:57:37am

re: #117 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Paging The Satanic Temple to the black courtesy phone:

Montana governor signs bill allowing residents to challenge regulations on religious grounds (The Hill)

(more)

One thing that has bothered me about the current trend of liberals and progressives cheering on the Church of Satan/Satanic Temple in taking on Evangelical bullshit, is the fact that CoS is basically Ayn Rand’s Objectivism turned into a quasi-religion and using the term “Satanism” in order to be Edgelords and piss off Christians.

I guess use them when it’s helpful and convenient, but be mindful of the fact that the core is just more Ayn Rand bullshit viewed from a different angle.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 24, 2021 • 2:02:26am
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Ming5000  Apr 24, 2021 • 2:51:35am

re: #123 Teukka

So this crossed my feeds a while back.
Kind People Are Suffering From Cruelty Sickness
Thoughtworthy.

Pavlovitz captured a lot of what I am feeling.

Now, more than ever, good and tired people need to cultivate community, to stay connected to our tribes of affinity, and to carry one another through the fatigue when it comes.

At the beginning of the MAGA scourge a group of neighbors started to actively promote community engagement. We had Happy Hours and formed a Welcome committee to engage new neighbors. It helped us get through those years, plus really came in handy during CV-19.
The continuing unhinged actions of so many continues to wear on me. It is not over, so I am settling in for the long haul.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 24, 2021 • 3:02:56am

The Disney debate reminds me of similar ones surrounding major league sports or country music. They are built around what are seen as “positive” values: family, community, fair play, pride in accomplishment, striving to excel.

That is part of their massive popular appeal and part of what makes them such a lucrative market.

But in the end, Disney, Major League Sports and commercial country are all businesses, and although they are happy to embrace and co-opt those “American” values, they are all about generating profit from ticket sales, licensing, sponsorships, film rights, CD and streaming revenue, etc…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 24, 2021 • 3:06:47am

re: #127 Ming5000

The continuing unhinged actions of so many continues to wear on me. It is not over, so I am settling in for the long haul.

I broke up with a girlfriend of over two years because she really started embracing all the craziest theories: Biden stole the election, the Capitol Raid was an Antifa false flag, The Chinese government is funding BLM, Hillary had Seal Team Six assassinated to cover up a botched Bin Laden assassination, The Great Reset is a Liberal Coup Attempt, etc.

I can deal with differing political viewpoints but it is impossible to have a relationship with someone who inhabits a parallel reality.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 24, 2021 • 3:11:53am
While much of the country has embraced the rapid pace of COVID-19 vaccinations as a sign that a return to normal life is just around the corner, one segment of the population has been ginning up fears that mass inoculation is actually an existential threat to the future of the human race.

This long-simmering idea, which could not only help to steer some people away from vaccines but also fan the flames of already volatile cultural divisions and conflicts, came into stark focus in mid-March, when a meme spread across pandemic denialist Telegram channels, featuring a large image of two sheep fucking, and a block of text that reads: “DO NOT BREED WITH SHEEP.”

“People who are vaccinated will have modified DNA,” it continues. “No one discusses that DNA is passed onto the next generation. The risk that your children will marry into other cultures is possibly now shadowed by the fact that your children may marry into a COVID vaxed gene group potentially shortening their lives and that of others.”

(more)

Is This the Most Incendiary COVID Conspiracy Freakout of All? (Daily Beast)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 24, 2021 • 3:13:40am

re: #128 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Which is why conservative boycotts fail, and frequently liberal boycotts force change.

There really are more of us.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 24, 2021 • 3:15:59am

re: #130 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

(more)

Is This the Most Incendiary COVID Conspiracy Freakout of All? (Daily Beast)

This is just Political Performance Art: the canvas is public cluelessness about genetics, vaccinations and epidemiology.

The paints are fear and distrust of science brought about by bad TV and movie science fiction plots.

Add to that religious and other social prejudices and you can paint any picture and make it seem as real as a CGI Godzilla in the eyes of much of the public.

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Dangerman  Apr 24, 2021 • 3:17:23am

re: #25 Hecuba’s daughter

No one with any credibility should appear on the same platform as this grifting, treasonous fabulist. You cannot expect a legitimate debate with someone who is shameless, lacks any credentials or knowledge, and refutes your arguments by lies that have no substance. People like Greene crave a public forum where a serious opponent only raises her credibility while reducing that of anyone who engages her. The only person to whom this admonition does not apply would be someone who is challenging her for her seat; then, unfortunately, it is necessary to appear with her.

do not legitimize crackpots

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 24, 2021 • 3:19:12am

re: #119 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Many Christian churches argue that doesn’t exist.

If a court has to get involved in what constitutes a “real religion,” then religious freedom is out the window.

I suppose I could start the First Church of Defenestration, the tenets of which are to yeet those who step on other people’s rights out fifth-storey windows.

*Chuckles in Czech*

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 24, 2021 • 3:20:14am

re: #134 Dr Lizardo

*Chuckles in Czech*

Die Fensterstürzler

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 24, 2021 • 3:20:50am

re: #125 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David

One thing that has bothered me about the current trend of liberals and progressives cheering on the Church of Satan/Satanic Temple in taking on Evangelical bullshit, is the fact that CoS is basically Ayn Rand’s Objectivism turned into a quasi-religion and using the term “Satanism” in order to be Edgelords and piss off Christians.

I guess use them when it’s helpful and convenient, but be mindful of the fact that the core is just more Ayn Rand bullshit viewed from a different angle.

That was explained to me by no one less than Anton LaVey himself back in the mid-1990s. I met him at a bookstore in Portland, Oregon.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 24, 2021 • 3:21:17am

re: #119 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Many Christian churches argue that [freedom from religion] doesn’t exist.

Unless that religion is Islam…

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Dangerman  Apr 24, 2021 • 3:26:16am

re: #88 piratedan

and if such an event took place, get ready for GOP talking points to be the frame of reference for each debate subject. The questions would likely be about immigration and other culture war bullshit and nothing about clean energy and voting rights.

There’s nothing to be gained because plain and simple, those folks on the GOP side do NOT deal in good faith and the media are their willing handmaidens.

they’d have the “reviews” and analysis written a week before the event took place

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 24, 2021 • 3:55:02am

The very racist high school in Jacksonville my son graduated from is getting sued.

Black Lives Matter: Teacher disciplined for displaying BLM flag sues Florida school district for discriminatory treatment (Southern Poverty Law Center, April 16)

This is more than about the flag though. One might suggest that the undercurrent of this teacher’s treatment is that of a so-called “race traitor.”

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the private employment law firm Scott • Wagner and Associates filed suit in federal court today on behalf of a Florida high school teacher who was removed from her classroom and reassigned to administrative duties in retaliation for displaying a Black Lives Matter (BLM) flag over the objection of school administrators.

The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, claims that officials at Duval County Public Schools (DCPS) violated her First Amendment rights and other constitutional and statutory protections because of her advocacy on behalf of Black students.

Amy Donofrio is a white teacher at Robert E. Lee High School in Jacksonville, a school where about 70% of students are Black.

“I hope this case will set a needed precedent,” Donofrio said. “Teachers should not be punished for supporting their students’ humanity. Our students matter, and as educators, we will no longer tolerate them being systemically damaged, silenced, and failed. To our Black students, we see you, we stand with you, and you matter.”

(more)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 24, 2021 • 4:36:13am

Live: The SpaceX Dragon crew are getting ready to enter the International Space Station, where a welcome aboard party is planned.

Crew-2 Mission | Approach and Docking

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 24, 2021 • 4:49:31am
The Omaha Police Department said Friday that threats that had come in to various locations around the city weren’t credible and had been called in from outside Nebraska.

Police said they began receiving reports of phone calls around 8:30 a.m. “threatening violent acts” at various spots around the city.

In downtown Omaha, Union Pacific employees evacuated the company’s headquarters building at 14th and Douglas Streets after someone called in a threat.

“We received information this morning that we’re taking seriously,” said Robynn Tysver, a U.P. spokeswoman. “We’ve cleared the building and we’ve asked employees to go home for the day.”

About 100 Union Pacific workers were seen leaving the building shortly before 9 a.m.

Schools in the Omaha area also received threats.

Ed Bennett, the principal of Central High School, sent an email to families noting that school administrators learned of “a threatening message directed toward several schools, including Central High School, and private businesses across the Omaha metro.” Police were contacted, Bennett noted, but police “do not believe the threat was credible.”

(more)

Police: Threats called in to spots around Omaha came from outside state, aren’t credible (Omaha World-Herald)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 24, 2021 • 4:54:52am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 24, 2021 • 5:31:12am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 24, 2021 • 5:35:54am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 24, 2021 • 5:52:06am

The sun is up here in Mythical Time, I appear to be alone (or have driven everyone away), I’m tired, so I’m off to bed.

I’ll leave you with this.

One could be forgiven for not having heard about a Chilean documentary filmed in a nursing home, but it’s become something of a phenomenon based on its 2020 premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, after which Indiewire called it “the most heartwarming spy movie ever made.” It picked up nominations for the Independent Spirit Awards, Goya Awards and was named to the National Board of Review’s list of top five foreign language films, then was broadcast on PBS in January before coming to Hulu (and for rent on Amazon Prime Video). And it’s got a good chance at winning the 2021 Academy Award for best documentary.

(more)

Hulu’s Oscar-nominated doc ‘The Mole Agent’ follows an 83-year-old spy sent into a nursing home (SF Gate)

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Florida Panhandler  Apr 24, 2021 • 5:56:35am

re: #2 Backwoods_Sleuth

And of course this right wing effort is all about the grift. The Arizona House kicked the “audit” $150k, QANN has some sort of exclusive coverage deal worth who know how much, they are actively seeking donations, etc etc. As with any Conservative cause, there ALWAYS has to be a way to fleece the stupid and gullible.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 24, 2021 • 5:57:21am

re: #112 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Nebraska rejects a bill to call an Article V convention of the states.

The bill is stuck in the Government, Military, and Veterans Affairs Committee. The sponsor of the bill was unable to get it voted out of the committee.

Republicans in the Unicameral were calling the national debt the greatest threat to national security, overreach of federal regulations, and no term limits in Washington. Senators Adam Morfeld of Lincoln and Megan Hunt of Omaha led the charge against the bill, noting what happened with the Articles of Confederation.

Nebraska will not join others in calling for convention of states to amend US Constitution (Omaha World-Herald)

That’s a relief. ALEC is behind this initiative and they have a whole raft of other proposals designed to guarantee that only the wealthy have any say in the running of our nation, including repealing the 17th Amendment of the Constitution. They are evil personified.

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Dangerman  Apr 24, 2021 • 5:59:33am
Former President Donald Trump said that Twitter has become “very boring” since he was banned from the social media platform, Insider reports.

Said Trump: “I’m really getting a big word out because we’re doing releases. And every time I do a release it’s all over the place. It’s better than Twitter, much more elegant than Twitter. And Twitter now is very boring, a lot of people are leaving Twitter.”

Paging Mr Aesop and his foxy friend

149
jeffreyw  Apr 24, 2021 • 6:01:43am

Good morning!

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Dangerman  Apr 24, 2021 • 6:16:27am

re: #148 Dangerman

Paging Mr Aesop and his foxy friend

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Dave In Austin  Apr 24, 2021 • 6:20:55am

Good thread

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 24, 2021 • 6:25:27am

re: #147 Hecuba’s daughter

That’s a relief. ALEC is behind this initiative and they have a whole raft of other proposals designed to guarantee that only the wealthy have any say in the running of our nation, including repealing the 17th Amendment of the Constitution. They are evil personified.

They’re not the only ones either. A group known as CSOP wants an Article V convention to reduce federal spending, which would slash social programmes (defence is never mentioned in slashing budgets).

ALEC itself wants to remove laws protecting LGBT rights.

Lefties such as TYT at one time called for a convention but have backed away.

If rich libertarians got their hands on the levers of a convention, they could use the existing ratification structure (thirty-four of the least populous states) to impose anything from a feudal state, imposition of debt or chattel slavery, exemption of the rich from all taxes, strip women of all rights, pretty much anything they want.

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Belafon  Apr 24, 2021 • 6:27:18am
154
Dangerman  Apr 24, 2021 • 6:30:24am
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Dangerman  Apr 24, 2021 • 6:31:30am
156
Belafon  Apr 24, 2021 • 6:36:24am

I realize that a common refrain around here is that the US is ending its run as a superpower, but our world doesn’t exactly work that way. Most countries in the world are not able to function truly independently, they just don’t have the resources. Very few do. That’s why, in the past, empires were formed. In our current world, there’s really only two countries that can do that, the US and China. And the rest of the world is going to choose one or the other that benefits them. Had Trump won a second term, I think China’s political stability would have lured in reluctant countries. But having Biden as president has given a lot of countries someone they would much rather deal with.

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A Mom Anon  Apr 24, 2021 • 6:37:02am

re: #151 Dave In Austin

Captain Underpants and Dogzilla books were a huge fave of my son’s. I really never thought about the adhd angle, but it fits. My kid is on the autism spectrum so I looked for reading materials for him about the odd kids, the ones that didn’t fit into a mold, like him. I think we still have all those books somewhere in the mess in our basement.

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dat_said  Apr 24, 2021 • 6:38:28am

re: #148 Dangerman

Paging Mr Aesop and his foxy friend

Cue the Sunset Boulevard clip of Norma Desmond: “I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.”

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Belafon  Apr 24, 2021 • 6:40:38am
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Dangerman  Apr 24, 2021 • 6:41:10am

re: #158 dat_said

Cue the Sunset Boulevard clip of Norma Desmond: “I am big. It’s the pictures that got small.”

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Belafon  Apr 24, 2021 • 6:42:42am
162
Belafon  Apr 24, 2021 • 6:45:11am

In India:

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Belafon  Apr 24, 2021 • 6:45:17am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 24, 2021 • 6:47:18am

re: #159 Belafon

WATCH: Fauci calls out GOP Sen. Johnson’s questioning of vaccine effort: “How can anyone say that 567,000 dead Americans is not an emergency?”

“Self-promoter”

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nines09  Apr 24, 2021 • 6:53:20am

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Dave In Austin  Apr 24, 2021 • 6:54:12am

re: #162 Belafon

In India:

Ok was going to post. India is dying. They are running out of oxygen and beds.
This will decimate whole villages. We will also see if India did in fact eliminate the Caste Sys.
I fear for my friends and their families there.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 24, 2021 • 6:54:48am

170K Karma! Thank you all again, a brief pause on my way to 250K, my lifetime goal.

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darthstar  Apr 24, 2021 • 6:56:46am

This is one way to make America blue. Coastal elites everywhere.

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Apr 24, 2021 • 6:59:32am

re: #118 Targetpractice

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darthstar  Apr 24, 2021 • 7:10:15am
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John Hughes  Apr 24, 2021 • 7:12:03am

re: #126 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

“Many banks in France”.

GDPR muthafuka.

We don’t even have credit scores.

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darthstar  Apr 24, 2021 • 7:20:51am
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GlutenFreeJesus  Apr 24, 2021 • 7:27:35am

re: #172 darthstar

What’s his stance on recreational marijuana? I can’t stand the guy enough to even search.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Apr 24, 2021 • 7:29:40am

re: #168 darthstar

Move it east to cover Indiana, not Illinois. ;)

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danarchy  Apr 24, 2021 • 7:36:38am

re: #154 Dangerman

Don’t know if the article mentions the corporte tax rate, but the tweet doesn’t. It does mention a Cap gains rate higher than I have ever seen.

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Belafon  Apr 24, 2021 • 7:38:29am

re: #175 danarchy

Don’t know if the article mentions the corporte tax rate, but the tweet doesn’t. It does mention a Cap gains rate higher than I have ever seen.

The axios tweet mentions both.

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danarchy  Apr 24, 2021 • 7:43:16am

re: #176 Belafon

The axios tweet mentions both.

The tweet mentions personal tax rate and Capital gains, not corporate.

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Belafon  Apr 24, 2021 • 7:47:31am
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darthstar  Apr 24, 2021 • 7:48:30am
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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Apr 24, 2021 • 8:01:29am

re: #149 jeffreyw

[Embedded content]

Good morning!

Western good morning!

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darthstar  Apr 24, 2021 • 8:04:27am

Between people getting vaccinated in record numbers (popup vaccine clinic two doors down from me ran out of vaccine yesterday due to demand), and President Biden draining the border detention facilities of children - finding them families or sponsors, there’s nothing to be outraged about and even Twitter is strangely quiet. Think I’ll take the boys for a walk and do some things.

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darthstar  Apr 24, 2021 • 8:06:12am

Be like Joey

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Apr 24, 2021 • 8:09:05am

The screens and comfort aren’t there yet for a good experience, but it’s becoming more possible to work in VR. This will be useful for 3D modeling today, and for a lot more when comfort gets better and resolution gets about 50% higher.

Working in VR is GETTING REAL: Oculus Quest 2 Infinite Office #shorts

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Apr 24, 2021 • 8:21:41am

No kitchen counter is safe.

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Belafon  Apr 24, 2021 • 8:47:41am

re: #183 Punish Domestic Terrorists

The screens and comfort aren’t there yet for a good experience, but it’s becoming more possible to work in VR. This will be useful for 3D modeling today, and for a lot more when comfort gets better and resolution gets about 50% higher.

[Embedded content]

I suggested to the guy in the cube next to me that when the resolution gets better, they can track our finger movements, and the keyboard and mouse are mirrored in vr - I want to be able to look down at my keyboard and mouse, see and feel my hands touch and move them - that it will be a near perfect programming environment, and he agreed.

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Belafon  Apr 24, 2021 • 8:48:52am

re: #184 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!

I love the music. Perfect. Especially when the cat walks to the camera.

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 24, 2021 • 8:49:37am

I don’t think VR will work for me. May be just like the time I tried transition lenses and got terrible dizzy spells because my eyes have double astigmatisms and they won’t adjust to the lens configuration.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 24, 2021 • 8:50:20am

re: #182 darthstar

But this…this is quite possibly the finest narration on YouTube:

(somewhat strong/possibly offensive language)

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 24, 2021 • 8:55:56am

re: #156 Belafon

[Embedded content]

I realize that a common refrain around here is that the US is ending its run as a superpower, but our world doesn’t exactly work that way. Most countries in the world are not able to function truly independently, they just don’t have the resources. Very few do. That’s why, in the past, empires were formed. In our current world, there’s really only two countries that can do that, the US and China. And the rest of the world is going to choose one or the other that benefits them. Had Trump won a second term, I think China’s political stability would have lured in reluctant countries. But having Biden as president has given a lot of countries someone they would much rather deal with.

Back when it was the Soviet Union and even today in its diminished state, Russia has the resources and the skills but somehow it never succeeded in transforming itself into an industrial powerhouse because it always lacked the leadership that allowed it to focus on achieving its goals by enriching its people, not just the ruling class, but its average citizens. They have failed on competing in the modern world but they retain the power to bring others down and they were succeeding in damaging us by getting their asset elected president. We came close to losing it all — and that danger remains give continued Republican allegiance to Trump and the party’s full throated efforts to destroy our democracy, with the rabid support of their base.

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sagehen  Apr 24, 2021 • 9:31:03am

re: #181 darthstar

Think I’ll take the boys for a walk and do some things.

pics or it didn’t happen.

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garzooma  Apr 24, 2021 • 9:46:01am

BRIEFING ROOM
Statement by President Joe Biden on Armenian Remembrance Day
APRIL 24, 2021 • STATEMENTS AND RELEASES
Each year on this day, we remember the lives of all those who died in the Ottoman-era Armenian genocide and recommit ourselves to preventing such an atrocity from ever again occurring. Beginning on April 24, 1915, with the arrest of Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople by Ottoman authorities, one and a half million Armenians were deported, massacred, or marched to their deaths in a campaign of extermination. We honor the victims of the Meds Yeghern so that the horrors of what happened are never lost to history. And we remember so that we remain ever-vigilant against the corrosive influence of hate in all its forms.

Of those who survived, most were forced to find new homes and new lives around the world, including in the United States. With strength and resilience, the Armenian people survived and rebuilt their community. Over the decades Armenian immigrants have enriched the United States in countless ways, but they have never forgotten the tragic history that brought so many of their ancestors to our shores. We honor their story. We see that pain. We affirm the history. We do this not to cast blame but to ensure that what happened is never repeated.

Today, as we mourn what was lost, let us also turn our eyes to the future—toward the world that we wish to build for our children. A world unstained by the daily evils of bigotry and intolerance, where human rights are respected, and where all people are able to pursue their lives in dignity and security. Let us renew our shared resolve to prevent future atrocities from occurring anywhere in the world. And let us pursue healing and reconciliation for all the people of the world.

The American people honor all those Armenians who perished in the genocide that began 106 years ago today.

###

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 24, 2021 • 9:47:56am

re: #191 garzooma

Joe is a mensch.

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retired cynic  Apr 24, 2021 • 9:54:57am

Caturday Cartoons

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 24, 2021 • 10:02:44am

And here it is:

Each year on this day, we remember the lives of all those who died in the Ottoman-era Armenian genocide and recommit ourselves to preventing such an atrocity from ever again occurring. Beginning on April 24, 1915, with the arrest of Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople by Ottoman authorities, one and a half million Armenians were deported, massacred, or marched to their deaths in a campaign of extermination. We honor the victims of the Meds Yeghern so that the horrors of what happened are never lost to history. And we remember so that we remain ever-vigilant against the corrosive influence of hate in all its forms.

whitehouse.gov

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 24, 2021 • 10:05:02am

re: #192 PhillyPretzel

Joe is a mensch.

Wasn’t there some talk earlier in the week that the White House was “reconsidering” recognizing the Armenian genocide? As if the compassionate and intelligent Joe Biden could actually do that.

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 24, 2021 • 10:07:13am

re: #195 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

To be honest I have not been paying attention to that. Right now I am more concerned with COVID-19 than other news stories.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 24, 2021 • 10:07:54am

re: #196 PhillyPretzel

To be honest I have not been paying attention to that. Right now I am more concerned with COVID-19 than other news stories.

How dare you have your priorities in the right order. For shame.///

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darthstar  Apr 24, 2021 • 10:13:31am

re: #190 sagehen

pics or it didn’t happen.

Milo with some lab..

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garzooma  Apr 24, 2021 • 10:14:48am

re: #195 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

Wasn’t there some talk earlier in the week that the White House was “reconsidering” recognizing the Armenian genocide? As if the compassionate and intelligent Joe Biden could actually do that.

All the news I saw was to the effect that he was going to recognize the Armenian Genocide. It was just that it wasn’t going to be official until it actually happened this morning.

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sagehen  Apr 24, 2021 • 10:22:32am

re: #199 garzooma

All the news I saw was to the effect that he was going to recognize the Armenian Genocide. It was just that it wasn’t going to be official until it actually happened this morning.

A lot of previous presidents have considered acknowledging it, but Turkey got their panties in a bunch so we didn’t.

We no longer care what Turkey thinks.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 24, 2021 • 10:26:06am

re: #170 darthstar

I had to break up with a GF who was convinced that the Chinese government was funding BLM

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carey94tt  Apr 24, 2021 • 10:34:46am

Update on my March 3 post about Starlink.

Received my Starlink equipment today ($500 + $100/mo).

The dish has it’s own stand and currently is perched atop the horse trailer. Setup takes at 5 minutes. There is one power cord and the cord (cat-6) that runs to the dish. Connect the Starlink app on your phone to the WIFI receiver and you are up as soon as the dish aligns to find a satellite. I was impressed with the packaging and equipment. I connected my Google WIFI to the router without issue.

For me west of St. Louis (rural), I get download speeds from 5-50Mpbs with 50-100ms of latency. The only issue I see is that service drops out occasionally due to satellite availability. That could kill my Teams calls…I’ll find out tomorrow.

I cannot yet call it a win yet….but very promising.

I tired of waiting for Starlink to ship a mounting bracket so I used some duck tape to tighten the joint and put it on the old sat. dish roof mount. That eliminated the tree obstructions. I did have it on top of the horse trailer but that was partially obstructed.

I’m now calling it a big win and cancelling my existing ISP. I can attend online meetings without fear of connection drops (they are rare now). Averaging 12-150 Mbps down (10+ up) on speed tests. Snow and ice are no trouble as the dish heats itself as needed to melt it away.

Some enterprising person created a website (starlink.sx) to plot all the Starlink satellites and show realtime how your dish connects and tracks multiple satellites. It is really interesting to watch for a while.

I’m a happy internet camper now.


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