The Bob Cesca Podcast: Frankenfurter Attractive

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Today’s program from our podcasting affiliate, The Bob Cesca Show:

Frankenfurter Attractive — [Explicit Language] Ruben Gallego running against Kyrsten Sinema in 2024. Our exclusive audio of the 6-pound frog discovered in Australia. Trump indictment any minute now. Classified documents found at Mike Pence’s house. George Santos claimed to be a victim of an attempted murder. FBI official charged with aiding Putin-connected Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. Agent could be a key component in the cover-up of Trump-Russia. Republicans want to cut Social Security and Medicare. The NY Times on the debt ceiling. Trump responsible for huge chunk of the debt. Diamond’s funeral became a loony Trump rally. With Buzz Burbank, music by Betsy Ade & The Well-Known Strangers, Wahlsinger, and more!

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Belafon  Jan 24, 2023 • 2:42:29pm

Diamond’s death certificate listed heart disease due to chronic high blood pressure as the reason for her death.

apnews.com

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Belafon  Jan 24, 2023 • 2:46:15pm
If it weren’t for the cops, I’d want Louise to pull the trigger.

Jerry and Ellen Gilland were married in 1969, two years before Louise and I tied the knot, them in Florida and us in Detroit. They bounced around Florida for a few years, living in Sorrento, Mount Plymouth, and Orlando before settling in New Smyrna Beach where they lived when Jerry started getting really sick.

Really sick as in terminally ill. They tried to handle his illness at home, but around Christmas Jerry started going downhill fast. He told Ellen he couldn’t handle the situation and planned to shoot himself to end it all when things got so bad there was no point in continuing to live, infirm and in pain. After 52 years of marriage, Ellen understood.

But, finally, they couldn’t handle the situation at home: Jerry was admitted to AdventHealth Hospital in Daytona Beach and put in a room on the 11th floor, which was almost entirely occupied by people waiting to die.

Jerry continued to deteriorate and finally, last weekend, asked Ellen to bring their gun into the hospital so he could end his own life. She agreed and brought in the weapon, but Jerry was so weak he couldn’t lift it to his own head. So, in what was apparently a final act of love and compassion after all those years together, she fired the shot for him that ended his misery.

Her plan, she told police, was to kill herself next: her life partner was gone and she’d just committed what everybody from their church to the State of Florida said was an unpardonable crime. But she just couldn’t do it.

Alerted by the hospital that a patient had been shot on the 11th floor, a Daytona Beach Police SWAT team of men armed with automatic weapons and body armor crashed the door, threw in explosive flash-bang grenades, and shot Ellen with a painful metal-filled, plastic-coated “non-lethal” round sometimes euphemistically called a “beanbag.”
She’s now in jail without bond, facing charges of first-degree murder. No husband, no family, no friends. Alone. Miserable. No doubt terrified. And in pain from being shot by the police.

Link to diary: dailykos.com

Link to article about husband and wife: nytimes.com

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gocart mozart  Jan 24, 2023 • 2:49:39pm

Some people say bowling alleys
got big lanes
(Got big lanes)
(Got big lanes)
Some people say that bowling alleys
all look the same
(Look the same)
(Look the same)
There’s not a line that goes here
That rhymes with anything
(Anything)
(Anything)
Had a dream last night
But I forget what it was
(What it was)
(What it was)

Take the George Bush bowling
Take him bowling

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 24, 2023 • 2:50:12pm

re: #1 Belafon

Diamond’s death certificate listed heart disease due to chronic high blood pressure as the reason for her death.

apnews.com

sure, jan…

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Charles Johnson  Jan 24, 2023 • 2:51:12pm

Some of the slowdown we’re seeing now is because Cloudflare is crawling all over the site to cache as much as possible.

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gocart mozart  Jan 24, 2023 • 2:54:19pm
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Patricia Kayden  Jan 24, 2023 • 2:55:34pm

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teleskiguy  Jan 24, 2023 • 2:57:04pm

To be clear, he’s talking about Twitter.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 24, 2023 • 2:57:16pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 24, 2023 • 3:00:59pm

jeebus, this sucks

LARGO, Fla. — In 2020 criminal and bankruptcy lawyers took a big hit. According to a report from U.S. Courts, criminal and bankruptcy cases were down about 11% because of the pandemic. But, lawyers handling divorces and pets have been busy.

“People were at home,” said lawyer April Goodwin.

Goodwin owns the Goodwin Law Firm in Largo, Florida. She has owned her own firm since 2015 and primarily handled employment and civil rights cases. Sometime after, she decided to add pet law to the list.

“I added it to the website, and slowly started getting cases,” she said. “But in 2020, it really took off.”

“People were having more opportunities to fight with their significant other, soon-to-be ex-significant other, or family members, and neighbors over pets. Those are our biggest cases,” she added.

About a year ago, Charles Perkins reached out to Goodwin for help with an issue involving his family’s pet duck, named Fat Duck Perkins.

They got into a dispute with their old apartment complex.

“I cried. I was upset. I thought I was going to die of a heart attack,” Charles Perkins said. “It was very upsetting for me.”

He said Fat Duck Perkins came to their family when she was just a baby. They took her in, and she’s been with them for five years. They love her like family, which is why they fought for her.

“If you love that animal and you care about that animal, you’re going to have to defend them,” he said. “And protect them as much as you can.”

Perkins said he thought they would lose the fight until he found Goodwin’s law firm.

“I never knew anything like pet law even existed,” he said.

more at the link

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jan 24, 2023 • 3:02:08pm

A look back at some news clips of the 20th century:

Holocaust Memorial Day, Hitler Becomes German Chancellor and more

..

The comment section on that video is something else. The BBC draws in neo-nazis and holocaust deniers like crazy.

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gocart mozart  Jan 24, 2023 • 3:03:22pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 24, 2023 • 3:03:49pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jan 24, 2023 • 3:05:56pm

re: #6 gocart mozart

AI imaging is wonderful is used in the right way.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 24, 2023 • 3:07:58pm
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Lilah  Jan 24, 2023 • 3:09:33pm

All day it’s been like the sloth in Zootopia telling that joke. Not that I’m complaining, just noticing.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 24, 2023 • 3:11:13pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 24, 2023 • 3:13:39pm

sigh

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 24, 2023 • 3:17:53pm
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Dopamine Fish  Jan 24, 2023 • 3:18:40pm

Oh thank God. My LGF withdrawals were starting to become quite painful.

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calochortus  Jan 24, 2023 • 3:21:19pm

re: #20 Dopamine Fish

Oh thank God. My LGF withdrawals were starting to become quite painful.

Same here. Things seem to be loading OK now, and maybe this will even post.

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gocart mozart  Jan 24, 2023 • 3:22:41pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 24, 2023 • 3:25:26pm

re: #18 Backwoods_Sleuth

sigh

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 24, 2023 • 3:30:59pm

re: #18 Backwoods_Sleuth

sigh

[Embedded content]

Of the appointments, 3 voted to certify Biden: Thomas Massie, Chip Roy, Kelly Armstrong.
Harriet Hageman was the candidate who defeated Liz Cheney.

Are Democrats permitted to appoint anyone to that committee?

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 24, 2023 • 3:35:27pm

I haven’t had to log back in for months; today, LGF force me to log in twice. Clearly there are still problems here —- related to Cloudflare?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 24, 2023 • 3:40:56pm

re: #25 Hecuba’s daughter

I haven’t had to log back in for months; today, LGF force me to log in twice. Clearly there are still problems here —- related to Cloudflare?

it’s the botswarm

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The Pie Overlord!  Jan 24, 2023 • 4:20:35pm

re: #11 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

A look back at some news clips of the 20th century:

The comment section on that video is something else. The BBC draws in neo-nazis and holocaust deniers like crazy.

Forget it Jake, it’s YouTube comments.

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jeffreyw  Jan 24, 2023 • 4:19:21pm

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Captain Ron  Jan 24, 2023 • 4:17:22pm
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jeffreyw  Jan 24, 2023 • 4:14:20pm

sorry for the double

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Dopamine Fish  Jan 24, 2023 • 4:14:02pm

It’s quiet… too quiet.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 24, 2023 • 4:17:00pm

Is this thing on?

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Charles Johnson  Jan 24, 2023 • 4:22:01pm

Wowee zowee.

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Dopamine Fish  Jan 24, 2023 • 4:22:15pm

Well, that was… interesting.

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Dopamine Fish  Jan 24, 2023 • 4:22:58pm

re: #33 Charles Johnson

Wowee zowee.

Who did you piss off this week, boss? Somebody means serious business.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 24, 2023 • 4:26:06pm

a highlight:

another:

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 24, 2023 • 4:28:04pm

re: #36 Backwoods_Sleuth

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gocart mozart  Jan 24, 2023 • 4:29:06pm
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Charles Johnson  Jan 24, 2023 • 4:32:38pm

It’s like a love rollercoaster chile

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Charles Johnson  Jan 24, 2023 • 4:33:26pm

Restarted MariaDB, I think that helped a bit.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 24, 2023 • 4:34:29pm

Ohio Players “Love Rollercoaster”

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Charles Johnson  Jan 24, 2023 • 4:34:43pm

Yow

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gocart mozart  Jan 24, 2023 • 4:34:54pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 24, 2023 • 4:35:27pm
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gocart mozart  Jan 24, 2023 • 4:38:20pm
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Captain Ron  Jan 24, 2023 • 4:38:50pm
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Charles Johnson  Jan 24, 2023 • 4:39:23pm

Here’s something I didn’t reckon on - switching to Cloudflare has apparently caused the server to start reporting IP addresses in IPv6 format, so stats pages and such that record IPs are suddenly not working because that field in the database is set to be a maximum of 16 characters, and IPv6 addresses can be 39 characters. Ouch.

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Dopamine Fish  Jan 24, 2023 • 4:40:26pm

re: #47 Charles Johnson

Here’s something I didn’t reckon on - switching to Cloudflare has apparently caused the server to start reporting IP addresses in IPv6 format, so stats pages and such that record IPs are suddenly not working because that field in the database is set to be a maximum of 16 characters, and IPv6 addresses can be 39 characters. Ouch.

Could that explain why I seemed to be having more problems getting back than others? I’m running an IPv6 setup here.

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 24, 2023 • 4:40:53pm

re: #46 Captain Ron

That is the NWS. Heck they even told DT to stop butting in on weather predictions.

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sagehen  Jan 24, 2023 • 4:41:38pm

re: #15 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

that bear is flirting with you.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 24, 2023 • 4:41:40pm

re: #48 Dopamine Fish

Could be, I made some quick fixes.

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Dopamine Fish  Jan 24, 2023 • 4:43:05pm

re: #51 Charles Johnson

Could be, I made some quick fixes.

Well, if you ever need a guinea pig for any IPv6-related testing, now you know a guy. I think there are a couple of mainstream ISP’s that support it natively, I’m kinda bootlegging it right now.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 24, 2023 • 4:44:03pm

re: #50 sagehen

that bear is flirting with you.

and I can see that!

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Charles Johnson  Jan 24, 2023 • 4:54:53pm

@Dingfelder@mastodon.nz/109746215425139669">mastodon.social

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 24, 2023 • 4:55:27pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 24, 2023 • 4:56:55pm

because, of course…

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wrenchwench  Jan 24, 2023 • 4:58:08pm

re: #53 Backwoods_Sleuth

Click to Reveal

I realized I was communicating with my hacker when they asked me to make a ‘dummy purchase’ to make sure of…something. I said, ‘If I described to someone what I am about to do, they would tell me I was stupid.’ That’s when it started to become obvious, like getting their own name wrong, trying to use my camera…

I was almost stupid.

I did a pretty good lead-in to stupid.

I’ve gotten away with stupid for a long time.

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Targetpractice  Jan 24, 2023 • 4:58:23pm

re: #45 gocart mozart

[Embedded content]

Yeah, who didn’t see that coming? “Yeah, Pence had classified documents in his house, BUT THAT’S DIFFERENT!!!”

By the way, if he locked those documents in a safe, then he knew what he had was classified. I suppose we’re supposed to believe that he hasn’t opened that safe for the past two years and just totally forgot about those documents.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 24, 2023 • 4:58:48pm

oh my…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 24, 2023 • 4:59:35pm

re: #57 wrenchwench

SzVtTm9ZUTFtSXA1d0FyemU5K2R5dz09OjrGnAY3z025tyjXv1bX7LtT

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Charles Johnson  Jan 24, 2023 • 4:59:39pm

re: #54 Charles Johnson

They had few, if any, friends.

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 24, 2023 • 5:00:11pm

re: #59 Backwoods_Sleuth

Any bets on when the D’s will take over the House again?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 24, 2023 • 5:00:30pm
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Targetpractice  Jan 24, 2023 • 5:00:55pm

re: #54 Charles Johnson

[Embedded content]

These days, the only places you see invertebrates anywhere near that size are in the offices of the Speaker of the House and the Senate Minority Leader.

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Barefoot Grin  Jan 24, 2023 • 5:00:58pm

I’m surprised Gaetz would carry on this way in front of Nestor.

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Dopamine Fish  Jan 24, 2023 • 5:01:09pm

re: #59 Backwoods_Sleuth

stalking the child could be considered “legitimate purpose”

WHAT IN THE ACTUAL GODDAMN BEJESUSING FUCK

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 24, 2023 • 5:01:32pm

re: #62 PhillyPretzel

Any bets on when the D’s will take over the House again?

if the Rs keep falling off roofs and what not…anytime now

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Targetpractice  Jan 24, 2023 • 5:01:41pm

re: #63 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

Something that Repubs used to bleat again and again right up until a couple weeks ago. I can’t imagine what changed…

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Barefoot Grin  Jan 24, 2023 • 5:01:42pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 24, 2023 • 5:04:59pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 24, 2023 • 5:08:17pm

*snerk*

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Targetpractice  Jan 24, 2023 • 5:09:52pm

re: #55 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

He’s doing this at the same time a story drops that “George Santos” admitted to the FEC that he lied about the source of over half a million dollars dropped into his campaign last year, but also doesn’t name the source of that money as if he thinks there’s nothing they can do about it.

Mark my words, before the story of “George Santos” ends, we’re gonna find out that he’s on some foreign nation’s intel agency payroll.

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 24, 2023 • 5:10:42pm

re: #72 Targetpractice

I would not be surprised.

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Captain Ron  Jan 24, 2023 • 5:12:07pm

From a comment on JoeMyGod.

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William Lewis  Jan 24, 2023 • 5:16:41pm

re: #74 Captain Ron

From a comment on JoeMyGod.

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Just imagine being her hubby driving that vehicle… O_O

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Charles Johnson  Jan 24, 2023 • 5:16:46pm

mastodon.social

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Charles Johnson  Jan 24, 2023 • 5:17:43pm
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The Pie Overlord!  Jan 24, 2023 • 5:21:11pm

re: #54 Charles Johnson

[Embedded content]

So uh, how did they go extinct?

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Dopamine Fish  Jan 24, 2023 • 5:22:35pm

re: #77 Charles Johnson

I’ve been posting to Mastodon exclusively. It’s just a matter of time until I feel compelled to shut down the Twitter account, even despite the number of favorite content creators that I follow that have no intention of making the jump.

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Dangerman  Jan 24, 2023 • 5:24:57pm
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Dangerman  Jan 24, 2023 • 5:25:41pm
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Dangerman  Jan 24, 2023 • 5:27:12pm
John Harwood Retweeted
Joe Walsh

@WalshFreedom
*
4h
Do I believe Biden knew he had classified documents in his home? No.

Do I believe Pence knew he had classified documents in his home? No.

Do I believe Trump knew he had classified documents in his home? Yes.

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 24, 2023 • 5:27:32pm

re: #81 Dangerman

You mean to say she finally realized that? She is dense.

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Dangerman  Jan 24, 2023 • 5:29:10pm

re: #72 Targetpractice

He’s doing this at the same time a story drops that “George Santos” admitted to the FEC that he lied about the source of over half a million dollars dropped into his campaign last year, but also doesn’t name the source of that money as if he thinks there’s nothing they can do about it.

Mark my words, before the story of “George Santos” ends, we’re gonna find out that he’s on some foreign nation’s intel agency payroll.

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wrenchwench  Jan 24, 2023 • 5:29:36pm

re: #78 The Pie Overlord!

So uh, how did they go extinct?

Fallen arches.

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William Lewis  Jan 24, 2023 • 5:30:20pm

re: #78 The Pie Overlord!

So uh, how did they go extinct?

Changes in the atmosphere - During the Carboniferous and Permian periods, Earth’s air contained 31-35% oxygen, as compared to just 21% oxygen in the air today. That allowed bigger bugs since without lungs they “breath” through hole in their exoskeleton.

Also flying dinosaurs evolved and they were the predators that the bugs hadn’t had before.

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Targetpractice  Jan 24, 2023 • 5:31:25pm

re: #80 Dangerman

[Embedded content]

Faux: “PENCE DID NOTHING WRONG! THIS IS TOTALLY DIFFERENT FROM BIDEN’S CRIMINAL ACTS!”

Also Faux: “PENCE SHOULD HAVE DESTROYED THOSE DOCUMENTS SO WE COULD KEEP CLAIMING BIDEN’S ACTIONS WERE TOTALLY CRIMINAL!!!”

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wrenchwench  Jan 24, 2023 • 5:31:54pm

re: #86 William Lewis

Changes in the atmosphere - During the Carboniferous and Permian periods, Earth’s air contained 31-35% oxygen, as compared to just 21% oxygen in the air today. That allowed bigger bugs since without lungs they “breath” through hole in their exoskeleton.

Also flying dinosaurs evolved and they were the predators that the bugs hadn’t had before.

…which made their arches fall.

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Dangerman  Jan 24, 2023 • 5:32:16pm

re: #83 PhillyPretzel

You mean to say she finally realized that? She is dense.

i think she did ask for a pardon

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 24, 2023 • 5:33:13pm

re: #89 Dangerman

I agree. I think she did.

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Dangerman  Jan 24, 2023 • 5:33:13pm
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Dangerman  Jan 24, 2023 • 5:33:33pm
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wrenchwench  Jan 24, 2023 • 5:34:05pm

re: #86 William Lewis

Actually, thanks for teaching me something.

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Dangerman  Jan 24, 2023 • 5:34:12pm

they’re shameless

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Charles Johnson  Jan 24, 2023 • 5:35:14pm
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wrenchwench  Jan 24, 2023 • 5:36:07pm

re: #91 Dangerman

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I hope she gets to share a cell with several people whose visas ran out.

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Dangerman  Jan 24, 2023 • 5:36:21pm

re: #94 Dangerman

again

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Charles Johnson  Jan 24, 2023 • 5:38:07pm
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Dopamine Fish  Jan 24, 2023 • 5:38:17pm

re: #94 Dangerman

they’re shameless

I still maintain that the only reason any of this is getting traction is because Trump fucked up so spectacularly by willfully retaining classified documents and even having the guts to sue the government to try to get them back. Government employees unintentionally misplacing classified documents seems to be a far more common occurrence than at least I thought.

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Targetpractice  Jan 24, 2023 • 5:38:18pm

re: #94 Dangerman

they’re shameless

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So he locked the documents up in his home safe and he knew exactly what he had and where they came from. Those sound to me like pretty clear indications of intent, i.e. the key ingredient in criminally charges.

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Dangerman  Jan 24, 2023 • 5:38:59pm
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Dangerman  Jan 24, 2023 • 5:45:16pm

re: #99 Dopamine Fish

I still maintain that the only reason any of this is getting traction is because Trump fucked up so spectacularly by willfully retaining classified documents and even having the guts to sue the government to try to get them back. Government employees unintentionally misplacing classified documents seems to be a far more common occurrence than at least I thought.

i reiterate that whoever packed trump’s boxes had to know.

from a previous post i wont link because it’ll take forever to load:

beause of the quantity and their obvious markings, anybody who packed trump’s boxes had to see at least some things with markings. they knew what they were packing.

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calochortus  Jan 24, 2023 • 5:47:25pm

re: #100 Targetpractice

So he locked the documents up in his home safe and he knew exactly what he had and where they came from. Those sound to me like pretty clear indications of intent, i.e. the key ingredient in criminally charges.

I think he locked them in the safe after they were found in a sealed box. He kept them there until the FBI picked them up. Like Biden’s documents, I think it was an innocent error.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 24, 2023 • 5:47:38pm
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The Pie Overlord!  Jan 24, 2023 • 5:51:44pm

re: #86 William Lewis

Changes in the atmosphere - During the Carboniferous and Permian periods, Earth’s air contained 31-35% oxygen, as compared to just 21% oxygen in the air today. That allowed bigger bugs since without lungs they “breath” through hole in their exoskeleton.

Also flying dinosaurs evolved and they were the predators that the bugs hadn’t had before.

Flying dinosaurs still exist.

Cóndor Andino volando en libertad

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Jan 24, 2023 • 5:53:07pm
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Jan 24, 2023 • 5:53:30pm
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teleskiguy  Jan 24, 2023 • 5:54:22pm

mastodon.social

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Dopamine Fish  Jan 24, 2023 • 5:56:03pm

re: #108 teleskiguy

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Bear in mind, Ron DeathSentence also wants Florida to be a state where any one person can put anyone else to death instantly, for any reason whatsoever. So in that sense, this stance is completely consistent.

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William Lewis  Jan 24, 2023 • 5:56:24pm

re: #105 The Pie Overlord!

Flying dinosaurs still exist.

[Embedded content]

Yup. It was their evolution that gave the bugs effective predation :)

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William Lewis  Jan 24, 2023 • 5:59:41pm

re: #107 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

Only 3 years after the end of the Great War and only 18 years till the next part of The World War would go hot again. One can only wonder if he survived till 1945…

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 24, 2023 • 6:00:53pm

re: #111 William Lewis

Interesting question.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 24, 2023 • 6:02:23pm
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teleskiguy  Jan 24, 2023 • 6:03:33pm

Right after Mikaela Shiffrin won her historic 83rd World Cup ski race at the tender age of 27 the first thing she said to an interviewer right at the Finish Line was to thank the people who built and slipped the course to make it “the best skiing.” She is an incredibly inspiring athlete.

Iframe

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Charles Johnson  Jan 24, 2023 • 6:03:34pm

Still takes a long time to load a full page for the first time but posting and reading new comments seems pretty damned quick.

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 24, 2023 • 6:04:56pm

So far it looks like a mostly rain event for tomorrow’s weather. And I will be off and enjoying a nice dry day.
forecast.weather.gov

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wrenchwench  Jan 24, 2023 • 6:05:38pm

re: #115 Charles Johnson

Still takes a long time to load a full page for the first time but posting and reading new comments seems pretty damned quick.

And Master Spy is running full tilt!

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 24, 2023 • 6:06:48pm

re: #115 Charles Johnson

I guess I will not delete all of my cookies like I usually do.

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Crush White Nationalism  Jan 24, 2023 • 6:07:23pm

re: #115 Charles Johnson

Still takes a long time to load a full page for the first time but posting and reading new comments seems pretty damned quick.

It just took seven seconds to load three comments for me.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jan 24, 2023 • 6:08:01pm

The opposite of Babel Colour:
My son’s family in 2023 visits a photo arcade & has their portrait taken wearing old-fashioned costumes & old-timey sepia finishing:

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Jan 24, 2023 • 6:10:05pm
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Dopamine Fish  Jan 24, 2023 • 6:10:18pm

RE: the AI lawyer stunt being planned, this thread is a good read on their other (supposedly AI-provided) services:

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teleskiguy  Jan 24, 2023 • 6:10:43pm

re: #120 The Pie Overlord!

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Crush White Nationalism  Jan 24, 2023 • 6:11:26pm

Now three comments loaded instantly.

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teleskiguy  Jan 24, 2023 • 6:11:33pm
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wrenchwench  Jan 24, 2023 • 6:11:45pm

re: #118 PhillyPretzel

I guess I will not delete all of my cookies like I usually do.

My browser is set to accept cookies.

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 24, 2023 • 6:13:10pm

re: #126 wrenchwench

Now all I have to do is be able to check who is up dinging me with waiting.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 24, 2023 • 6:14:22pm

I resisted using Cloudflare for years, for some weird reason I can’t remember now. But I could’a been wrong.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jan 24, 2023 • 6:15:11pm

re: #6 gocart mozart

Trump by Cranach the Elder
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Barefoot Grin  Jan 24, 2023 • 6:15:46pm

re: #128 Charles Johnson

I resisted using Cloudflare for years, for some weird reason I can’t remember now. But I could’a been wrong.

I’m sure it was the PERFECT call…

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jaunte  Jan 24, 2023 • 6:17:16pm

test

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jaunte  Jan 24, 2023 • 6:17:56pm

Hey, it worked! I’ve been getting ‘duplicate comment’ messages all evening.

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jaunte  Jan 24, 2023 • 6:18:42pm

The bots must have knocked off for a drink.

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Barefoot Grin  Jan 24, 2023 • 6:18:53pm

re: #132 jaunte

Hey, it worked! I’ve been getting ‘duplicate comment’ messages all evening.

Hey, it worked! I’ve been getting ‘duplicate comment’ messages all evening.

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jaunte  Jan 24, 2023 • 6:19:36pm

re: #134 Barefoot Grin

Infiniterecursionsionsion

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Joe Bacon  Jan 24, 2023 • 6:20:36pm

Took a while to log in when I came back from the gym but I sure do hope the boats are getting swatted.

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A Three Hour Tour  Jan 24, 2023 • 6:21:12pm

re: #113 Charles Johnson

I’m waiting for Elon to replace the Twitter bird with a blue Reichsadler.

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TedStriker  Jan 24, 2023 • 6:22:13pm

re: #128 Charles Johnson

I resisted using Cloudflare for years, for some weird reason I can’t remember now. But I could’a been wrong.

Might have been because Cloudflare once provided DDOS protection to The Daily Stormer and 8chan, only dumping them once people found out about it and public backlash overrode their “we protect free speech, even that we don’t agree with” stance.

blog.cloudflare.com

arstechnica.com

blog.cloudflare.com

arstechnica.com

Thing is, I use Cloudflare for dynamic DNS and DDOS protection for my Unraid server setup (Plex, Nextcloud, etc.), as well as their public DNS servers (along with Google’s) for my home network, even after their handwringing about dumping The Daily Stormer and 8chan, because it’s free, really good, and easy to use; there’s not really another company that does all that Cloudflare does as well as they do that’s free or cheap for home users.

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teleskiguy  Jan 24, 2023 • 6:23:00pm
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PhillyPretzel  Jan 24, 2023 • 6:30:31pm

Spy seems to be running much better and faster than the main screen.

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Dangerman  Jan 24, 2023 • 6:44:00pm

NYT writes

“Now that he is in control, Mr. McCarthy sought to punish Mr. Schiff and Mr. Swalwell, two favorite foils of Republicans who had played key roles in the two impeachments of Mr. Trump, though he denied that his decision was retaliatory.

“Now that he is in control”

As if

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jaunte  Jan 24, 2023 • 6:45:13pm

re: #141 Dangerman

He’s desperate to show he can do something, but committee assignments are all he can do.

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jaunte  Jan 24, 2023 • 6:45:39pm

Or maybe force a default.

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retired cynic  Jan 24, 2023 • 6:49:20pm

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jaunte  Jan 24, 2023 • 6:49:28pm

So many of the world’s problems are caused by weak men trying to look strong.

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jeffreyw  Jan 24, 2023 • 6:55:59pm

neal.fun

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The Pie Overlord!  Jan 24, 2023 • 6:58:23pm
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teleskiguy  Jan 24, 2023 • 6:58:36pm

re: #146 jeffreyw

LOL!!!

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 24, 2023 • 7:04:43pm

re: #147 The Pie Overlord!

Damn. That is awful. DT and Company opened up a can of worms that is going to take a lot to close up again.

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jaunte  Jan 24, 2023 • 7:39:41pm
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retired cynic  Jan 25, 2023 • 7:21:13am

Cracks showing?

Netanyahu drags Israeli democracy into the illiberal mire
wapo.st (gift link)
Analysis by Ishaan Tharoor

Ishaan Tharoor is a columnist on the foreign desk of The Washington Post, where he authors the Today’s WorldView newsletter and column. He previously was a senior editor and correspondent at Time magazine, based first in Hong Kong and later in New York.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 25, 2023 • 9:48:47am

Is this thing on?

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Dopamine Fish  Jan 25, 2023 • 9:51:17am

re: #152 Charles Johnson

Is this thing on?

With a little bit of latency, it seems.

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Dopamine Fish  Jan 25, 2023 • 9:57:08am

Though at least now, I seem to be able to share my glorious achievement from early this morning.

Click to Reveal

Wordle 585 2/6

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Targetpractice  Jan 25, 2023 • 9:59:11am

re: #152 Charles Johnson

Is this thing on?

The hamsters are seeming a bit lethargic.

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Dopamine Fish  Jan 25, 2023 • 10:04:25am

FYI, boss, the bots don’t seem to be targeting just you, though perhaps they’re being harder on you than on others. I can confirm receiving several Cloudflare emails stating automated traffic on our corporate domain is up pretty sharply.

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dat_said  Jan 25, 2023 • 10:05:57am

re: #155 Targetpractice

The hamsters are seeming a bit lethargic.

I can relate

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William Lewis  Jan 25, 2023 • 10:11:04am

Testing?

I’ve been installing Linux Mint 21.1 on my laptop (it’s got drivers for my new wifi 6 card) and was wondering why every other site appeared to be working.

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 25, 2023 • 10:19:41am

I have been trying to get in here since 8:00 AM EST. I had a few downloads that messed up my mail but thanks to Apple Support I am back up and running again.

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Joe Bacon  Jan 25, 2023 • 10:22:35am

Charles I sent screenshots of what I was getting when I was trying to log in. I am noticing that right now the Scroll to bottom button isn’t working and it takes me back to the main page.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 25, 2023 • 10:22:49am
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Joe Bacon  Jan 25, 2023 • 10:23:41am

re: #161 Charles Johnson

Does he mean the M&M’s plant in New Jersey?

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Charles Johnson  Jan 25, 2023 • 10:23:56am

Things seem to be improving a bit.

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William Lewis  Jan 25, 2023 • 10:24:16am

re: #161 Charles Johnson

Don’t let the launch pad hit your ass on the way out.

And don’t come back.

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Dopamine Fish  Jan 25, 2023 • 10:27:07am

re: #164 William Lewis

Don’t let the launch pad hit your ass on the way out.

And don’t come back.

That is the most likely outcome regardless of our feelings about Elon himself. The logistics of a trip to Mars are such that getting there is relatively easy, but getting back is a BIG FUCKING PROBLEM. The reason why we have never returned any samples from Mars - despite the fact that doing so would be immensely valuable - is because of how big a headache that return trip is to arrange.

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 25, 2023 • 10:27:08am

Spy mode is not working.

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Joe Bacon  Jan 25, 2023 • 10:27:13am

re: #164 William Lewis

Put Sleazy E on the Jupiter 2 and have Dr. Smith reprogram the Robot.

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Dave In Austin  Jan 25, 2023 • 10:28:02am

Morning all

You know that feeling you get when you keep pushing the doorbell and no one answers but you know there’s a party going on inside?

That’s LGF today. I finally got inside.

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Dopamine Fish  Jan 25, 2023 • 10:28:24am

re: #166 PhillyPretzel

Spy mode is not working.

It goes in fits and starts. I get bursts of posts and limited ability to upding/view dings/other API stuff, then it goes away again for a short while.

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jeffreyw  Jan 25, 2023 • 10:28:24am

ohai.social

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 25, 2023 • 10:30:44am

thread

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Belafon  Jan 25, 2023 • 10:31:10am
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wrenchwench  Jan 25, 2023 • 10:31:38am

re: #163 Charles Johnson

Things seem to be improving a bit.

More lizards make things better.

If a wordle falls when LGF is down, does it count on your streak?

Click to Reveal

Wordle 585 5/6*

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jeffreyw  Jan 25, 2023 • 10:31:58am

For a while there I was getting a “what do you want to do with this file” dialog when I clicked on my LGF bookmark. I opted to open it with firefox and got several pages of code.

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Dopamine Fish  Jan 25, 2023 • 10:33:13am

re: #174 jeffreyw

For a while there I was getting a “what do you want to do with this file” dialog when I clicked on my LGF bookmark. I opted to open it with firefox and got several pages of code.

Yep, I saw that as well. Things feel like they’ve smoothed out a bit for the time being. Let’s hope the good times last.

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Joe Bacon  Jan 25, 2023 • 10:33:18am

I’m trying to click on a plus and the page greys out.

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 25, 2023 • 10:34:54am

I just tried spy mode and I got a big 503 on my screen.

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Dopamine Fish  Jan 25, 2023 • 10:36:02am

re: #177 PhillyPretzel

I just tried spy mode and I got a big 503 on my screen.

You might need to keep trying; eventually it should load. We’re on the struggle bus here.

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jeffreyw  Jan 25, 2023 • 10:36:25am

Snow Day

Woke up to this, decided to have a cup of coffee before grabbing a snow shovel. After that cup I thought it would probably take two cups.

Edited to add: Good morning!

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wrenchwench  Jan 25, 2023 • 10:36:52am

re: #166 PhillyPretzel

Spy mode is not working.

I was gonna say, ‘Yes it is’ but yours is the last comment in there. in all its irony.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 25, 2023 • 10:38:42am

re: #174 jeffreyw

The host switched our server from Apache to litespeed; you got that download notice because it was in the middle of the switch.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 25, 2023 • 10:39:08am

Posting comments seems to be working much better anyway.

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Jebediah, RBG  Jan 25, 2023 • 10:39:58am

re: #6 gocart mozart

Nacho from Better Call Saul?

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Dave In Austin  Jan 25, 2023 • 10:41:46am

I’m convinced there is some actual reality here that involves Anal Sex.

The Pitcher and the Catcher rolls are yet to be confirmed.

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Dopamine Fish  Jan 25, 2023 • 10:41:50am

re: #181 Charles Johnson

The host switched our server from Apache to litespeed; you got that download notice because it was in the middle of the switch.

Huh. I had never heard of Litespeed before. Apache is very chunky, and if the host is struggling under the load, using a lighter web server is a good call.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 25, 2023 • 10:43:24am

The surface of Mars is exposed to 40 or 50 times as much raw cosmic radiation as Earth. Maybe we DO want Elon Musk to go there.

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Joe Bacon  Jan 25, 2023 • 10:44:43am

re: #186 Charles Johnson

The surface of Mars is exposed to 40 or 50 times as much raw cosmic radiation as Earth. Maybe we DO want Elon Musk to go there.

If he wants to be Dr. Manhattan I say let him go!

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wrenchwench  Jan 25, 2023 • 10:45:15am

re: #185 Dopamine Fish

Huh. I had never heard of Litespeed before. Apache is very chunky, and if the host is struggling under the load, using a lighter web server is a good call.

Litespeed makes titanium bicycle frames.

/must be a different one

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Jan 25, 2023 • 10:46:58am
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Dopamine Fish  Jan 25, 2023 • 10:47:04am

re: #186 Charles Johnson

The surface of Mars is exposed to 40 or 50 times as much raw cosmic radiation as Earth. Maybe we DO want Elon Musk to go there.

There’s that, there’s the radiation people will be exposed to on the ~3 month journey through empty space, and THEN there’s the fact that orbital mechanics mean that they’ll be waiting a while on Mars for a return trip window to open. I have to go look it up now, but I seem to recall something about an optimal return trip window would come about some 2 Earth years after arrival.

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 25, 2023 • 10:49:33am

Okay. I am in spy now.

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Belafon  Jan 25, 2023 • 10:49:40am

re: #190 Dopamine Fish

There’s that, there’s the radiation people will be exposed to on the ~3 month journey through empty space, and THEN there’s the fact that orbital mechanics mean that they’ll be waiting a while on Mars for a return trip window to open. I have to go look it up now, but I seem to recall something about an optimal return trip window would come about some 2 Earth years after arrival.

The closest orbit between the two planets occurs about every 18 months.

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Dopamine Fish  Jan 25, 2023 • 10:51:30am

re: #192 Belafon

The closest orbit between the two planets occurs about every 18 months.

From an orbital mechanics post on Stack Exchange:

From the Case for Mars, which briefly discusses the plan, here are some dates. Both missions take about 6 months to arrive. The Conjunction mission has 550 days on Mars, the Opposition mission has 30 days. The Conjunction mission takes about the same time to return to Earth, 6 months, while the Opposition takes about 14 months return time. It also requires about 2 km/s more delta v to return.

So I underestimated the trip TO Mars (6 months vs 3 months), then the optimal launch window to return to Earth in the shortest spaceflight would require an on-planet duration of 550 days, whereas you could spend over a year in space on the return trip but only 30 days on-planet (and require much more fuel for said trip).

Edit: Link here: space.stackexchange.com

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Belafon  Jan 25, 2023 • 10:52:21am

I would personally love to go to Mars, but unless we decided as a world that there was an urgency to do it, I won’t make it. What I actually think we will need to do first is send robots to build living and work areas first. It could be done, but we would have to decide to do that.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jan 25, 2023 • 10:55:03am

Is LGF back on??

*sobs in relief*

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Charles Johnson  Jan 25, 2023 • 10:56:47am

re: #195 The Pie Overlord!

Is LGF back on??

*sobs in relief*

Sort of. Things are still sluggish.

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Belafon  Jan 25, 2023 • 10:56:55am

re: #193 Dopamine Fish

From an orbital mechanics post on Stack Exchange:

So I underestimated the trip TO Mars (6 months vs 3 months), then the optimal launch window to return to Earth in the shortest spaceflight would require an on-planet duration of 550 days, whereas you could spend over a year in space on the return trip but only 30 days on-planet (and require much more fuel for said trip).

Edit: Link here: space.stackexchange.com

Yep. You leave earth so that you arrive at Mars about the same time that the two planets are closest. And then, if you want to do the short trip, you leave Mars in the same way. Kind of like swimming across a river. If you want to end up at a particular point, you move upstream far enough so that, to you, you’re swimming straight across.

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Dave In Austin  Jan 25, 2023 • 10:57:30am
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Dopamine Fish  Jan 25, 2023 • 10:58:30am

re: #197 Belafon

Yep. You leave earth so that you arrive at Mars about the same time that the two planets are closest. And then, if you want to do the short trip, you leave Mars in the same way. Kind of like swimming across a river. If you want to end up at a particular point, you move upstream far enough so that, to you, you’re swimming straight across.

Yep, exactly. And because Mars’s orbit is slower than ours (being further out in the Solar System), it’s a longer wait to get back than it is to get there. And we haven’t even touched the logistics of making sure that there’s fuel and supplies at Mars for the return trip to be able to carry that much weight. Passengers and science cargo are extremely expensive in terms of fuel.

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 25, 2023 • 10:59:16am

re: #195 The Pie Overlord!

Same here. I am listed on universeodon.com as Philly Pretzel.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 25, 2023 • 11:00:03am
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Charles Johnson  Jan 25, 2023 • 11:01:23am
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PhillyPretzel  Jan 25, 2023 • 11:01:32am

re: #201 Charles Johnson

Oy Vey. They are going nuts.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 25, 2023 • 11:02:37am

Whoa, my LGF email just came back up. A good sign.

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Dopamine Fish  Jan 25, 2023 • 11:02:44am

re: #203 PhillyPretzel

Oy Vey. They are going nuts.

Going?

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wrenchwench  Jan 25, 2023 • 11:02:50am

re: #201 Charles Johnson

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Right to privacy ends at birth.

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teleskiguy  Jan 25, 2023 • 11:06:49am

@ottocrat@eupolicy.social/109748999861796124">mastodon.social

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 25, 2023 • 11:07:26am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 25, 2023 • 11:08:24am
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teleskiguy  Jan 25, 2023 • 11:11:03am
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Charles Johnson  Jan 25, 2023 • 11:13:56am
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Joe Bacon  Jan 25, 2023 • 11:15:37am

So did Sick Nick hurt Sleazy E’s fee-fees like Chuck C did?

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Belafon  Jan 25, 2023 • 11:19:02am

We should also build a series of space stations between us and the planets we want to go to. Ok, I’m getting very futuristic here, but why not.

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Eventual Carrion  Jan 25, 2023 • 11:37:41am

re: #120 The Pie Overlord!

The opposite of Babel Colour:
My son’s family in 2023 visits a photo arcade & has their portrait taken wearing old-fashioned costumes & old-timey sepia finishing:

[Embedded content]

My 2 oldest sons and I did that kind of portrait years ago at some amusement park. I know I took a picture of it but can’t seem to find it right now.

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Eventual Carrion  Jan 25, 2023 • 11:51:34am

re: #154 Dopamine Fish

Though at least now, I seem to be able to share my glorious achievement from early this morning.

[Embedded content]

Took me to a 5/6

Click to Reveal

Wordle 585 5/6

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