Seth takes a closer look at Fox News abruptly cutting ties with Tucker Carlson less than a week after a massive settlement over the Dominion Voting Systems defamation suit.
— Christopher David (@Tazerface16) April 24, 2023
What people like Stephen Miller don’t understand is that the problem is that what $8 buys you is primarily being associated with people like Stephen Miller. https://t.co/zPVprMeKx8
— Damion Schubert - @ZenOfDesign@Brokentoys.social (@ZenOfDesign) April 24, 2023
re: #4 Belafon
My take.
To be frank, we should can all manned missions to the Moon or Mars in Favor of unmanned missions. The cost of providing food, water, air, temperature, radiation protection, exercise and space to people could support fleets of robots to explore the solar system and the universe.
— Slava Ukrayini! (@aagcobb1) April 25, 2023
re: #6 No Malarkey!
My take.
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I’m way more in favor of exploring with humans. Plus, letting China do it, and they’re going to, isn’t actually beneficial to us.
re: #5 ckkatz
It actually angers me that celebrities think we should pay for access to them but they shouldn’t pay for access to us.
— Robert (@RobertNorCal) April 24, 2023
re: #10 Belafon
It’s an almost charming ignorance of how social media actually works and the whole concept of content creation.
re: #10 Belafon
You’re paying to be LIKE them and are hurt they are not playing along.
— Richard Foxall (@RichardFoxall1) April 24, 2023
re: #8 Belafon
I’m way more in favor of exploring with humans. Plus, letting China do it, and they’re going to, isn’t actually beneficial to us.
I respect your take, but I think if we took all the money being spent to send one manned mission back to the Moon, and plowed that into robotic exploration of the solar system, we would get a lot more scientific benefit for our buck. Just my opinion.
re: #6 No Malarkey!
My take.
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Using machines is more efficient.
Sending people gets public support and money from Congress, making some mix of manned flight and unmanned probes the optimal real-world solution.
Not everyone thinks of Cleopatra as beautiful.
But that’s how Julius Caesar.
So, as per Rolling Stone, Tucker got shitcanned and not a single tear was shed, nor a single fuck given by FNC staff:
FOX NEWS AND Tucker Carlson have parted ways. The rest of the network seems thrilled.
“Pure joy,” one Fox reporter told Rolling Stone of their reaction to the split. “No one is untouchable. It’s a great day for America, and for the real journalists who work hard every day to deliver the news at Fox.”
“It was a good move to part ways with Tucker,” added a producer. “He knowingly spread lies throughout his time at Fox, but I fear management will replace him with someone who is just like him … so there probably won’t be any real change.”
“Good riddance,” said a network correspondent. “For a while there it seemed like he was running the network. This clearly is a message that he’s not. In the interim, it’s a morale boost, that’s for sure.”
This is apparently real including the insane expression and the head bobble.
I’m getting so suspicious of visual media these days that I find myself double and triple checking that clips haven’t been deceptively altered. This one is legit.
Candidates have lost elections for less weird clips than this one. https://t.co/HcAzp8lhyG— Arieh Kovler (@ariehkovler) April 24, 2023
re: #3 Patricia Kayden
From The Bulkworks, this ain’t it, Chief.
To what extent there was left-wing bias in rule enforcement on pre-Musk Twitter—much of it unintended and simply reflecting the subjective biases of mostly progressive moderators—is a hugely complicated question to which an accurate answer may be impossible to get.
re: #17 ckkatz
I didn’t realize that il Duce is a real living bobblehead.
re: #13 No Malarkey!
The fun part is trying to keep humans safe. I did the “advances from space exploration” and ran across:
1. Artificial limbs
Innovations originally designed for space vehicles, including artificial muscle systems, robotic sensors, diamond-joint coatings, and temper foam, make artificial human limbs more functional, durable, comfortable and life-like.
2. Scratch-resistant lenses
After NASA developed scratch-resistant astronaut helmets, the agency gave a license to Foster-Grant Corporation to continue experimenting with scratch-resistant plastics, which now comprise most sunglasses and prescription lenses.
Insulin pump
Needing to monitor astronauts’ vital signs in space, the Goddard Space Flight Center created monitoring systems that have been adapted to regulate blood sugar levels and release insulin as needed.
Firefighting equipment
The polymers created for use in space suits have been valuable in creating flame-retardant, heat-resistant suits for firefighters. Newer suits also feature circulating coolant to keep firefighters from succumbing to heat and advanced breathing systems modeled after astronaut life support systems.
5. DustBusters
During the Apollo moon landings, NASA partnered with Black & Decker to invent various battery-powered tools for drilling and taking rock samples in space. This led to the creation of the ultra-light, compact, cordless DustBuster.
There’s a bunch more in the article.
The Bulwark primarily consists of right-wingers. As such, they cannot but help shift blame when they look bad:
The current blanket hostility by some progressives to the “new” blue checks is just as silly and overwrought. All you have to do is scroll through recent tweets and you’ll see that plenty of people who currently have blue checks are neither Elon fanboys/fangirls nor right-wing trolls who show off their blue checks as trophies seized from fallen enemies. People may have all sorts of reasons to pay for Twitter Blue. (For the record, I have a Twitter Blue account for the editing and other perks, though I probably won’t renew it next month.) Assailing people for refusing to pay $8 for Twitter Blue is petty and stupid, but so is mass-blocking people who’ve decided they want to pay the fee.
The idea of “integrity” or “not funding a fascist” or “mocking morons” never occurs to them.
re: #15 jeffreyw
Not everyone thinks of Cleopatra as beautiful.
But that’s how Julius Caesar.
Boooo!!!
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Jordan Peterson has Naomi Wolf on (lol) and they basically don’t talk about Covid at all. Peterson just throws this lil’ hot take in at the end: there wasn’t even a Covid pandemic at all. Turns out Covid was just a meme. Big if true! pic.twitter.com/DJ4qqHEbN8
— bad_stats 🕜💵🖨️🕣 (@thebadstats) April 24, 2023
re: #4 Belafon
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Man’s a genius.
It’s obvious in everything he does.
The problem is us.
re: #14 Crush White Nationalism
Using machines is more efficient.
Sending people gets public support and money from Congress, making some mix of manned flight and unmanned probes the optimal real-world solution.
And I could really see them together. Why not have a crew of a few people managing many explorer bots not only in real time, but with direct human input on what to do, supplying more intricate skills of needed.
re: #21 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
“People may have all sorts of reasons to pay for Twitter Blue.”
Well this is kind of the point of the disdain. The check is now useless as a means of verification.
re: #21 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Also the very basic lie that this is US left-right politics in a conventional sense…it’s not progressives shitting on blue checks, it’s posters who despise that Twitter now has pay-to-play components.
Like, that is politics, but it’s closer to the kind naive anarchism of internet people who just don’t fucking cotton to one rich dude twiddling with the systems in ways that are arbitrary and unpleasant for users, nor to basic lickspittles who can’t actually perform well enough to get sincere engagement buying attention.
re: #23 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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I’ve never seen a meme send so many people I know personally to the morgue or the hospital.
re: #23 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Let Peterson and Wolf continue to be the right wing Pied Pipers leading Republicans to grace the pages of sorryantivaxxer.com.
re: #23 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Where’d he read that, the Dunning-Kruger Times?
re: #24 Dangerman
Man’s a genius.
It’s obvious is everything he does.
The problem is us.
When he’s not attempting to prove something, I do think he is allowing some innovation that NASA cannot do. You might think of his work as of the NTSB was designing rockets, but it also follows an analogy I heard at a college day:
The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on the right solely on its quality.
His procedure was simple: on the final day of class he would bring in his bathroom scales and weigh the work of the “quantity” group: fifty pound of pots rated an “A”, forty pounds a “B”, and so on. Those being graded on “quality”, however, needed to produce only one pot - albeit a perfect one - to get an “A”.
Well, came grading time and a curious fact emerged: the works of highest quality were all produced by the group being graded for quantity. It seems that while the “quantity” group was busily churning out piles of work - and learning from their mistakes - the “quality” group had sat theorizing about perfection, and in the end had little more to show for their efforts than grandiose theories and a pile of dead clay.
His tries are just more expensive. Oh, and he definitely was an idiot for not letting them build the channels.
re: #4 Belafon
More I look at photos of the launch site…I’m not an engineer but I don’t understand the decision to launch that big a rocket without mitigating all the force of its downward thrust.
re: #16 Dr Lizardo
So, as per Rolling Stone, Tucker got shitcanned and not a single tear was shed, nor a single fuck given by FNC staff:
The hilarious thing about these quotes is that the “FOX staffers” are actually trying to say that “FOX News” was, at one time, a “News Organization”, and not a propaganda front for a hard-right Conservative owner who wanted to convince a large plurality of the US population that making rich Western Oligarchs richer was good for America. Full stop.
Given the long story of FOX News, and what they did to this country, this is obviously one of their greatest leaps into Goebbels-land in their Corporate history. A classic propaganda deflection campaign.
We cannot fall for it. FOX delenda est.
You can’t get a bigger spotlight than 4M viewers on FOX and if Murdoch tidies up even a little in the aftermath of Tucker, it will impact his guests.
Andy Ngo yammering about objectively obscure antifa cases in a fake British accent is blatantly weird content.— Michael Edison Hayden (@MichaelEHayden) April 24, 2023
New post on my newsletter: “Tucker Carlson’s cranks” hashes out how the fringe right just lost their biggest champion.
+ Preview of the Robert Bowers trial in Pittsburgh, which I will be covering, and what I recall about his Gab account.https://t.co/twlsXbd80X— Michael Edison Hayden (@MichaelEHayden) April 25, 2023
The Washington Post, desperately rewriting history to make Nikki Haley look “reasonable”:
according to the washington post, the anti-abortion movement wasn’t very aggressive in the late 1990s. by comparison, what happened in the late 1990s. pic.twitter.com/ypDSW4XTOJ
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) April 24, 2023
LOL Ron DeSantis Rickrolled again.
Tough day for Desantis
Started / Going pic.twitter.com/xRFjzatEEG— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) April 24, 2023
They Fired Tucker Carlson pic.twitter.com/c8JD7gOYUr
— Brent Terhune in Erie, PA April 29th (@BrentTerhune) April 24, 2023
re: #13 No Malarkey!
I respect your take, but I think if we took all the money being spent to send one manned mission back to the Moon, and plowed that into robotic exploration of the solar system, we would get a lot more scientific benefit for our buck. Just my opinion.
Fair opinion, but I’d argue that scientific data is only going to get us so far. And that’s not just a “we have to go out there to see it for ourselves” bit, it’s a “we’re gonna have to leave this mudball eventually if we want to survive” one. The longer we stay isolated to a single rock in the vast cosmos, the greater the chances that a threat from within or from without could wipe out our entire species in a single go.
In the category “there’s always a tweet”:
We’ll be interested to see how this poll turns out for Isabella Riley Moody. https://t.co/Y7Rfz65NXi pic.twitter.com/RDnPBXl0Ve
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) April 24, 2023
re: #25 Dangerman
They refuse to accept that it’s not about the money
Of course. Conservatives worship money, it is their only true god. Naturally, they think everyone else is similarly afflicted.
Reminder that some people saw who Jordan Peterson was from the start, and some insisted he was this extraordinary public intellectual https://t.co/kaDGE46Afr pic.twitter.com/gSWME7JiCu
— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn) April 24, 2023
re: #10 Belafon
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Hey, they’re right. Musk needs to cut off access to Twitter to all but those willing to pay for the privilege. I’m sure that the number of paying customers will soar after that.
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If Fox News can break up with Tucker Carlson, maybe today is the day you break up that toxic relationship you’re in.
— Dr. Ruth Westheimer (@AskDrRuth) April 24, 2023
Oh, and I see the “You must join the hive collective in order to do searches” feature is back up at Twitter. So it seems that “free speech” has returned to status quo ante bellum.
re: #39 Targetpractice
Fair opinion, but I’d argue that scientific data is only going to get us so far. And that’s not just a “we have to go out there to see it for ourselves” bit, it’s a “we’re gonna have to leave this mudball eventually if we want to survive” one. The longer we stay isolated to a single rock in the vast cosmos, the greater the chances that a threat from within or from without could wipe out our entire species in a single go.
With current technology, I don’t see people being able to live independent of support from earth in such hostile environments as the Moon or Mars. Maybe in a century or so. I think what might really excite people about space is if we aggressively explored the moons of Jupiter and Saturn to see if life exists in the oceans they have hidden under the ice.
Make more room in the Republican clown car.
During a service last year at Create Church in Richardson, Texas, pastor Ryan Binkley—who just announced that he’s running for president in 2024—brought a young woman onstage who claimed her paralyzed arm was miraculously healed after church members prayed over her. pic.twitter.com/fEYeLdXU5Q
— Christian Nightmares (@ChristnNitemare) April 24, 2023
Lost in Abby Grossberg’s lawsuit was this nugget where Tucker was musing about statutory rape and sexual activity of 14 year old girls: “If it weren’t my daughter, I would love that scenario.” pic.twitter.com/DssIjCQopM
— Tiffany (@TuffTiffResists) April 24, 2023
re: #46 No Malarkey!
With current technology, I don’t see people being able to live independent of support from earth in such hostile environments as the Moon or Mars. Maybe in a century or so. I think what might really excite people about space is if we aggressively explored the moons of Jupiter and Saturn to see if life exists in the oceans they have hidden under the ice.
Reliance upon support from the homeland has been a fact of colonization for centuries, usually as the second step between “Discovery” and “Self-Reliance.” If we set a requirement that any colony be self-reliant from Day One, then we’re never going to get there because there will be all sorts of “what-if” scenarios that will scare off investment in the project.
Ironically, IRL the same thing has stalled numerous proposed unmanned missions because the cost of planning for every possible contingency bloats the overall project cost until either Congress refuses the funding or NASA management cans the mission for being overly expensive in favor of cheaper missions that are less ambitious. Hence why we’re yet to send a probe to places like Europa or Ganymede, because the proposals are so complex that NASA has either shelved them or pushed them back in favor of smaller projects that focus on goals seen as more achievable on a smaller budget.
Stop blaming the technology pic.twitter.com/2DmnTjIQEX
— Green The Atheist (@GreenTheAtheist) April 24, 2023
re: #47 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Make more room in the Republican clown car.
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After months of articles and radio/TV segments about how the unnamed “moderates” of the party desperately wanted a “sane” Republican to run and knock Trump out of the race, the field begins to expand…and it’s Chock Full O’ Nuts.
re: #49 Targetpractice
Hence why we’re yet to send a probe to places like Europa or Ganymede, because the proposals are so complex that NASA has either shelved them or pushed them back in favor of smaller projects that focus on goals seen as more achievable on a smaller budget.
Plus we got warned off Europa.
re: #53 sagehen
Plus we got warned off Europa.
You saw that message too? I thought the guy on the screen was warning me off of some foreign brand from Europe.
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re: #52 Targetpractice
After months of articles and radio/TV segments about how the unnamed “moderates” of the party desperately wanted a “sane” Republican to run and knock Trump out of the race, the field begins to expand…and it’s Chock Full O’ Nuts.
As we all know, all that bullshit is from a media desperate to make the general election into a horse race.
There are no moderates left in the GOP.
I’ve gotta say, I believe him! https://t.co/g0FWHvmTpX
— Senator Megan Hunt (@NebraskaMegan) April 25, 2023
I’m going to lie down for a nap. Make sure no one steals the Website whilst I’m gone.
A two-pronged approach is the best option on the table, whether looked at from a current tech perspective or one of what we hope to achieve in the next 50 years. Focus manned missions on prepping and starting a lunar colony while continuing to send unmanned probes beyond Mars. If nothing else, the bounty that we could harvest from the lunar surface alone would fund missions of both types for centuries. And so long as travel to the nearest Jovian moon is still measured in years, barring successful adoption of more powerful forms of propulsion, then sending unmanned probes to investigate is still our cheapest option. And in-between, we can start looking at asteroid mining which would not only solve our ravenous appetite for mineral resources, but would also us to do so without continuing to scar the only planet we currently inhabit.
All this talk about space exploration has got me wanting to check out Kerbal Space Program 2 now.
This exchange is why it’s hard to leave twitter for good. pic.twitter.com/Hhdh64ozzI
— LALegault @newsie.social (@LALegault) April 23, 2023
re: #64 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
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That’s what is driving me nuts, that Twitter continues to have a legitimate use even though it is collapsing into a scum puddle with every major move that Musk makes. I don’t truly believe that he’s doing any of this out of some malevolent agenda, it’s just a textbook lesson in why you don’t hire a CEO from one industry to work in another he has no experience whatsoever in. Like hiring a guy from Coke to be CEO of a company that builds computer parts, because he’s gonna convince the board that the future of the company is in sponsorships rather than investing in the product line.
The cultural milieu around so much of AI image generation is one of disreality.
And that is most clearly seen in the fact that many of the images posted online from AI image generators are of women that don’t, cannot, exit in real life.
Here’s the output of one model, which I just generated:
I did ask for a “beautiful face”, but even then the result is too perfect, too symmetrical.
I think this kind of disreality is just as bad as say creationism.
re: #67 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The cultural milieu around so much of AI image generation is one of disreality.
And that is most clearly seen in the fact that many of the images posted online from AI image generators are of women that don’t, cannot, exit in real life.
Here’s the output of one model, which I just generated:
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I did ask for a “beautiful face”, but even then the result is too perfect, too symmetrical.
I think this kind of disreality is just as bad as say creationism.
Reminds me of how the crew that worked on Tron Legacy came up with the visual design for the villain Clu. They first digitally de-aged Jeff Bridges face, then they made it symmetrical by mirroring one half to replace the other half. They even stated in supplemental material released when the film came out that the in-story reason for this was that Clu was so obsessed with the idea of “perfection” that he gave himself a perfectly symmetrical face to wipe out what he viewed as his creator’s imperfections.
re: #67 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
re: #68 Targetpractice
About 10-15 years ago there was a major storm over the use of airbrushing and photoshop in women’s magazine, advertisements, etc.
For example -
The Backlash Against Magazine Airbrushing
In recent years there has been a movement to include women models who are not very young with perfect bodies (or body parts).
I guess that the AI art depends upon several things.
First, the tool is still limited and, as I understand it, not able to accurately duplicate actual human images.
Second, if you are appealing for votes/updings you may be dependent upon the votes of a largely male and relatively young population. Who may not be the most discerning art critics.
Third, if you are interested in pleasing yourself, my thought would be that you should have at it and work to create art you enjoy. You may wish to include features that show why you prefer the imperfections. Which is why I posted the Wabi-sabi article link.
re: #4 Belafon
BREAKING: The FAA had grounded the SpaceX Starship program pending a mishap investigation.
This will most likely take many months to complete and require an extensive remediation plan before being allowed to launch again.— Christopher David (@Tazerface16) April 24, 2023
This surprises me exactly nada.
They dropped that Tucker Carlson/Don Lemon news to distract yall from the real truth, Bed Bath & Beyond coupons expire Wednesday. Stay Woke. pic.twitter.com/AF1vQsN0I2
— Roy Wood Jr- Ex Jedi (@roywoodjr) April 24, 2023
No difference pic.twitter.com/2I3xRkJXQA
— Why you should have a cat (@ShouldHaveCat) April 24, 2023
I stumbled into a MFSL play list on youtube and found this.
WHNT-TV
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Friday announced she replaced her director of early childhood education over the use of a teacher training book, written by a nationally recognized education group, that the Republican governor denounced as teaching “woke concepts” because of language about inclusion and structural racism.
Barbara Cooper was forced out as head of the Alabama Department of Early Childhood Education after Ivey expressed concern over the distribution of the book to state-run pre-kindergartens.
Ivey spokesperson Gina Maiola identified the book as the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) Developmentally Appropriate Practice Book, 4th edition. Maiola said she understands that the books have been removed from the state classrooms.
“The education of Alabama’s children is my top priority as governor, and there is absolutely no room to distract or take away from this mission. Let me be crystal clear: Woke concepts that have zero to do with a proper education and that are divisive at the core have no place in Alabama classrooms at any age level, let alone with our youngest learners,” Ivey said in a statement.
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Alabama education director ousted over book’s stance on race
Interesting talk this evening Jay Rosen on Rachel Maddow talking about “Verification in Reverse”.
re: #71 darthstar
To be fair, the article, which is very much garbage, doesn’t say this.
re: #71 darthstar
This surprises me exactly nada.
Falcon 9s and Crew Dragon launches have become so routine that we’ve all but forgotten about those days when the most common stories coming out of SpaceX launches was Falcons tipping over and exploding or Dragon prototypes being sent back to the factory because an RCS tank ruptured during a pressure test. So it’s sort of refreshing to be reminded that these assholes have yet to have a fully successful Starship launch.
re: #79 Targetpractice
This was the first attempt, wasn’t expected to succeed. And knowing a few people that work there, I can say they’re not all assholes. AFAIK that’s just Elon.
re: #80 IngisKahn
This was the first attempt, wasn’t expected to succeed. And knowing a few people that work there, I can say they’re not all assholes. AFAIK that’s just Elon.
Well no, if a full-scale test were conducted before all the necessary elements were in place, I wouldn’t expect much success either.
re: #80 IngisKahn
This was the first attempt, wasn’t expected to succeed. And knowing a few people that work there, I can say they’re not all assholes. AFAIK that’s just Elon.
This is sort of retconning of what SpaceX actually did, which SpaceX themselves actually did.
When NASA launches a new rocket type, they have to have exhaustive testing and design, because a failure means their money will get cut off. The taxpayers don’t want their money spent on failed projects.
When you’re a rich asshole, you can throw as much money at a project as you want. You can afford to absorb losses (move fast and break things, like throwing concrete chunks all over Port Isabel) because you don’t answer to anyone other than your ego.
I guarantee you that Elon wanted that rocket to succeed. The mission plan wasn’t “launch and blow up two minutes later.” The mission plan was “launch and reach a suborbital trajectory then crash into the ocean.”
Elon has successfully retconned this into the former.
SpaceX can learn from the failure, because rocket surgery is hard. But that was not the plan.
re: #83 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I don’t think that’s quite apples to apples. SpaceX has really focused on the rocket factory side of things. They already have a few newer more advanced rockets ready to go as well as a hundred new engines. They had this old, outdated rocket that appeared ready to go, and when they tested it at ~%50 power, the pad held up very well. In retrospect they should have waited for the pad shielding to be installed, but they had an opportunity to get rid of an old rocket and finally get some real test data and they took it.
Of course, they would have liked all mission goals achieved, and had it not ripped up all that concrete, they might have succeeded. Though it looks bad, the damage to the pad wasn’t catastrophic and the rocket did pretty damn well for losing 6-7 engines. The biggest public issue was the sand cloud that reached 5 miles away, you can bet the FAA will make sure that is mitigated before the next launch, but that was the plan anyway.
Elon is definitely a toxic person and CEO, but hearing things on the inside, SpaceX is really happy with the test.
At Reddit’s r/ReligiousFruitcake, a Christian “be fruitful and multiply” meme went up of a family from the Fifties showing six children, saying “woke universities” are interfering with God’s plan for large families.
The photograph is the family of atheist chemist Glenn Seaborg (won the Nobel prize in studies of transuranic substances and discovering six, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission) and his atheist wife Helen (child welfare advocate, supported the YWCA because they helped her during her childhood and helped them racially integrate YWCAs in Washington and Berkeley while serving on both their boards), and helped develop hiking trails in the East Bay area.
Glenn Seaborg authored more than five hundred peer-reviewed articles, numerous books, has a whole slew of honorary doctorates, and is in the Guinness Book of World Records for having the longest entry in Who’s Who in America.
They are pictured with their six children, an argument for increased wages in the modern era.
re: #85 IngisKahn
I don’t think that’s quite apples to apples. SpaceX has really focused on the rocket factory side of things. They already have a few newer more advanced rockets ready to go as well as a hundred new engines. They had this old, outdated rocket that appeared ready to go, and when they tested it at ~%50 power, the pad held up very well. In retrospect they should have waited for the pad shielding to be installed, but they had an opportunity to get rid of an old rocket and finally get some real test data and they took it.
Of course, they would have liked all mission goals achieved, and had it not ripped up all that concrete, they might have succeeded. Though it looks bad, the damage to the pad wasn’t catastrophic and the rocket did pretty damn well for losing 6-7 engines. The biggest public issue was the sand cloud that reached 5 miles away, you can bet the FAA will make sure that is mitigated before the next launch, but that was the plan anyway.
Elon is definitely a toxic person and CEO, but hearing things on the inside, SpaceX is really happy with the test.
So what I’m reading is that they got overconfident, pushed forward with a test before they’d made all possible preparations, and are excusing what looks to outsiders like a waste of a multimillion dollar rocket by saying they got some useful data from the attempt. Am I reading that right?
This looks less like a commercial spaceflight company pushing the cutting edge of rocketry and more like the Peenemünde gang being thrilled that the A4 actually got off the rocket pad this time instead of simply tilting over and exploding.
re: #85 IngisKahn
This part:
Of course, they would have liked all mission goals achieved, and had it not ripped up all that concrete, they might have succeeded.
And that’s the thing. This problem of destroying launch pads and how to avoid it was worked out many years ago. This is the libertarian problem reinventing things which were already invented (such as government) at great waste of manpower and money.
Whether or not this was an obsolete rocket misses the point. He didn’t care if he damaged people’s homes or cars (he did, it’s fortunate no one was injured), he didn’t care that he was told they needed a few more days to complete the water shields. He did it because he could.
There’s no thought here about engineering or science, other than “I want it.”
And he still didn’t achieve his mission goals. A failure is not a success, no matter how they try to spin it as “we learned something so we actually succeeded.”
By comparison, when Apollo 1 burned up on the pad during a pre-flight test, NASA did learn something (don’t use 100% oxygen and don’t use flammable materials). In no way did NASA try to spin that as “it was a success because we learned something.”
re: #87 Targetpractice
Definitely overconfident as far as the pad was concerned. But this was Ship 24, Booster 7. Their last flight test was Ship 15. They’ve scrapped/repurposed over a dozen rockets since then. The plan has always been to churn out as many rockets as possible.
The first 3 Falcons blew up with actual payloads on board, but that lead to Falcon 9 dominating the market. If the first few test article Starships are lost prematurely, I don’t think it’s a major issue.
In the category “Late Stage Capitalism”:
When Magic: The Gathering cards turned up on YouTube last week, publisher Wizards of the Coast sent private investigators from Pinkerton to retrieve them. The resulting confrontation reportedly frightened one woman to tears, and resulted in the confiscation of nearly two dozen boxes of cards by private investigators. Wizards confirmed the incident to Polygon. Meanwhile, the presenter denies anything illegal occurred.
At some point on April 20, YouTube channel oldschoolmtg published a video showing the opening of a box of collector booster packs from March of the Machine: The Aftermath — just one of 22 boxes it said were purchased from an acquaintance. Little has been revealed about the set so far, which is not expected to arrive in stores until May 12. As a result, the video was quickly downloaded and used as fuel for reaction videos all over the internet.
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Magic publishers sent Pinkerton agents to a YouTuber’s house to retrieve leaked cards (Polygon, April 24, 2023)
re: #89 IngisKahn
Definitely overconfident as far as the pad was concerned. But this was Ship 24, Booster 7. Their last flight test was Ship 15. They’ve scrapped/repurposed over a dozen rockets since then. The plan has always been to churn out as many rockets as possible.
The first 3 Falcons blew up with actual payloads on board, but that lead to Falcon 9 dominating the market. If the first few test article Starships are lost prematurely, I don’t think it’s a major issue.
Like I said, I’m speaking as an outsider and a layman with an interest but no direct experience in rocketry, but if the rocket was so obsolete that losing it to what were avoidable issues was no big deal, then how much data could have been acquired through what’s being spun as a successful failure? Especially when the launch was under less than ideal conditions, thus compromising that data with irregularities that are unlikely to crop up in planned conditions? Or are the folks at SpaceX planning that every Starship launch will reduce the pad to pulverized masonry?
In the category “Our Capitalist Dystopia”:
Winco Betty finally gets to retire (Rogue Valley Times, Medford, Ore., April 21, 2023)
A 91-year-old Winco clerk has funded her own retirement during the time she usually spends working for a two-week paycheck.
Betty Glover says she loves to work, but the Phoenix resident admits she’s starting to slow down, so she launched a GoFundMe page two weeks ago in hopes of paying off the fifth-wheel in which she lives. If she could pay off her home, she says, she could cover the rest of her monthly bills with her retirement income.
Business Insider, April 23, 2023
“I really need to retire as my eyesight is failing due to macular degeneration,” she said in a GoFundMe post. “To retire I need to pay off the fifth wheel I live in. If I can do this, I will have enough to pay for the rent of the space, groceries and medications that I need.”
Despite being one of the wealthiest countries on the planet, growing old in the United States is a hardship for millions of elderly Americans. Almost 90 years after President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act, Americans are now approaching retirement at a time of increased inflation and wage stagnation. Meanwhile, the cost of living and medical care for senior citizens has escalated.
As a result, the average retirement age in the United States continues to increase. It is now 61, up from 59 in 2002 and 57 in 1991. Americans are also expecting to retire much later than they did a decade ago.
Glover’s fundraising campaign has so far raised more than $60,000, far exceeding her goal of $40,000. Glover told the Rogue Valley Times, a local newspaper in the town where she still works, that she hopes the money will allow her to finally spend some time with her grandkids.
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So, I’m thinking I’m gonna have to replace the thermostat on my fridge. I’ve noticed for the past few days that fridge compartment is partially freezing up. The door seal is good, and I cleaned the condenser coils and the condenser plate in the back of the fridge, so I’m about 90% sure the fault is in the thermostat itself.
I ordered a universal thermostat, so hopefully, that’ll do the trick. Better to spend $25 and fix it then have to spend $400 or so on a brand new fridge.
re: #91 Targetpractice
I’m just telling you what I heard internally. They are super happy with the launch. They have replacement parts for the pad ready to go. And, yes, the next launch will have protection from exhaust impingement and acoustic damage. So, no cloud of sand, and broken windows should be mitigated on South Padre Island and Port Isabel if indeed any were actually broken.
BTW, the car that got damaged was a camera rig set up in the exclusion zone. No one was close to being harmed.
re: #93 Dr Lizardo
is it a mechanical thermostat? Can you hear it click on and off when you adjust it?
re: #95 IngisKahn
is it a mechanical thermostat? Can you hear it click on and off when you adjust it?
Yep.
re: #6 No Malarkey!
To be frank, we should can all manned missions to the Moon or Mars in Favor of unmanned missions. The cost of providing food, water, air, temperature, radiation protection, exercise and space to people could support fleets of robots to explore the solar system and the universe.
There is a book by Mary Roach, Packing for Mars about how unfit the human organism for any form of extended space travel. Our Solar System seems to be the practical limit of what we can endure mentally and psychologically.
Robots (or modified cyborg humanoids) does seem to be the best approach
re: #94 IngisKahn
I’m just telling you what I heard internally. They are super happy with the launch. They have replacement parts for the pad ready to go. And, yes, the next launch will have protection from exhaust impingement and acoustic damage. So, no cloud of sand, and broken windows should be mitigated on South Padre Island and Port Isabel if indeed any were actually broken.
BTW, the car that got damaged was a camera rig set up in the exclusion zone. No one was close to being harmed.
Well, like I said, the whole thing has an air of the early rocket pioneers being thrilled that the damned thing didn’t jump up a few feet before crashing to the ground in a massive explosion. Like Anymouse pointed out, when such happened during the early space program (ex: Vanguard), the scientists and engineers say that they’d received useful data from the attempt didn’t do much to silence the accusations that they were wasting money and making the country look like idiots.
re: #100 IngisKahn
For sure it looks bad.
I will say that the rocket getting off the ground under the conditions in play was impressive and had it managed to successfully execute the rest of the planned mission would have been a great achievement. And perhaps I’m allowing my personal opinion of Musk and his behavior about the whole thing color my first impressions.
re: #96 Dr Lizardo
Yep.
Might not be the thermostat then. You could always test it with a meter. I’d make sure no vents are blocked inside and do a full shutdown defrost. If ice builds up inside any internal vents, it could cause havoc.
The fan inside my icemaker died, but replacing it didn’t fix things until I got rid of all the ice inside the duct from the freezer to the fridge.
re: #101 Targetpractice
I will say that the rocket getting off the ground under the conditions in play was impressive and had it managed to successfully execute the rest of the planned mission would have been a great achievement. And perhaps I’m allowing my personal opinion of Musk and his behavior about the whole thing color my first impressions.
Elon poisons everything. I’d be working at SpaceX now otherwise.
re: #97 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There is a book by Mary Roach, Packing for Mars about how unfit the human organism for any form of extended space travel. Our Solar System seems to be the practical limit of what we can endure mentally and psychologically.
Robots (or modified cyborg humanoids) does seem to be the best approach
Short of developing artificial gravity that relies on something other than rotational force, we’re probably going to have to look into genetic manipulation for any humans living outside of Earth’s gravitational field.
That or figure out how to terraform Venus.//
re: #35 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Tucker Carlson guests like Glenn Greenwald, Gays Against Groomers, and Andy Ngo are melting down about his exit because it threatens to push them further into the margins.
Carlson and his producers gave a lot of airtime to cranks and they lost today too.
And RT has lost one of its best anti-Biden poster boys
Eh, par is fine. Dipped down into the mid 30s this morning thanks to clear skies and low humidity. Been playing the Resident Evil 4 remake. Quite a game. Enjoy the day/evening Lizard peeps!
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re: #41 EPR-radar
Of course. Conservatives worship money, it is their only true god. Naturally, they think everyone else is similarly afflicted.
It is the sole measure of one’s worth as a human being
re: #105 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And RT has lost one of its best anti-Biden poster boys
Well, they did offer him a job.
re: #52 Targetpractice
After months of articles and radio/TV segments about how the unnamed “moderates” of the party desperately wanted a “sane” Republican to run and knock Trump out of the race, the field begins to expand…and it’s Chock Full O’ Nuts.
Because anyone sane enough to win a general election has no chance in a GOP primary.
re: #67 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The cultural milieu around so much of AI image generation is one of disreality.
And that is most clearly seen in the fact that many of the images posted online from AI image generators are of women that don’t, cannot, exit in real life.
Some women can make themselves look like that in photographs but only in the right lighting conditions and with a touch of Photoshop enhancement.
In the category “Not a Drag Queen”:
An Anglican Church investigation has found former governor-general Peter Hollingworth committed misconduct by knowingly allowing paedophiles to remain in the church when he was Brisbane archbishop, but is “fit for ministry” if he apologises to two victim-survivors.
The Professional Standards Board of the Anglican Church has been considering whether Dr Hollingworth, who remains a bishop, should be defrocked over his handling of abuse cases while he was archbishop in the 1990s.
It found that Dr Hollingworth committed misconduct by allowing two priests he knew had sexually abused children to remain in the church.
However, it found he should be allowed to retain his holy orders.
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Well, at least they have a Professional Standards Board to cover for their child rape apologists.
Ex-governor-general Peter Hollingworth ‘fit for ministry’ despite misconduct, Anglican Church board finds (Australian Broadcasting Company, yesterday)
COBB COUNTY, Ga. — A Georgia pastor has been arrested in Muscogee County based on an arrest warrant out of Cobb County.
The Muscogee County Sheriff’s Office said a search warrant was executed shortly before 1 a.m. Saturday and Zephaniah Dwayne Baker was arrested.
He is currently facing charges of felony kidnapping, felony aggravated assault, felony possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime, battery, and cruelty to children.
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He is also a former mayoral candidate for Columbus, Ga.
(April 22, 2023, WSB-TV, Atlanta)
Georgia pastor, former mayoral candidate arrested on kidnapping charges out of Cobb County
For any scientific test, the goals are what you state before the test.
Sure you might learn other things but that’s not the aim.
That this is a legitimate discussion now everyone’s having ..why did they do it what did they learn what was the plan….and the answer is unclear, says a lot
When people say ACAB, in this case they really meant it (Associated Press, yesterday)
Georgia city suspends 6-member police drug unit amid inquiry
WARNER ROBINS, Ga. (AP) — A middle Georgia city has suspended its police department’s six-officer narcotics unit after the district attorney began investigating alleged misconduct.
Houston County District Attorney William Kendall told local news outlets Monday that he began investigating after he was told of the unspecified allegations against Warner Robins officers on April 11, getting assistance from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
Kendall said no one has yet been charged, but he said if the investigation finds illegal activity, he will ask grand jurors to consider indictments.
“This is just like any other case for us, regardless of whether police officers are involved,” Kendall said. “If people are found to have violated laws, then we’ll hold them accountable.”
The district attorney said he could know by May whether he will seek indictments.
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re: #113 Dangerman
For any scientific test, the goals are what you state before the test.
Sure you might learn other things but that’s not the aim.
That this is a legitimate discussion now everyone’s having ..why did they do it what did they learn what was the plan….and the answer is unclear, says a lot
Pharmaceutical company: The goal of the study is to show the drug cures this disease.
Drug: Kills study participants
Pharmaceutical company: The study was a success. We learned the drug kills people.
re: #113 Dangerman
For any scientific test, the goals are what you state before the test.
Sure you might learn other things but that’s not the aim.
That this is a legitimate discussion now everyone’s having ..why did they do it what did they learn what was the plan….and the answer is unclear, says a lot
Well, it’s not a scientific test. They had zero launch and flight data, now they have tons. :p The extent of what they wanted to learn and what they did learn is probably never going to be known publicly. They are a private company.
re: #116 IngisKahn
Well, it’s not a scientific test. They had zero launch and flight data, now they have tons. :p The extent of what they wanted to learn and what they did learn is probably never going to be known publicly. They are a private company.
“Behind every billionaire there is a policy failure”
-AOC
Billionaires instead of governments exploring space. Private companies keeping their research data to themselves instead of sharing it with the scientific community. Capitalists pursuing profit in space which can, but does necessarily advance our knowledge of space travel.
re: #116 IngisKahn
Well, it’s not a scientific test. They had zero launch and flight data, now they have tons. :p The extent of what they wanted to learn and what they did learn is probably never going to be known publicly. They are a private company.
Science, whether done by academics or private actors, is about proving or disproving a hypothesis.
Science is built on an empire of failures, which advance scientific knowledge (note to future scientists, don’t do this stupid thing I did, it will work out poorly).
Rocketry is especially notable for its spectacular failures.
But the goal here was the proof-of-concept: Launch the rocket to a sub-orbital trajectory and land in the ocean near this spot.
So in the sense SpaceX did not achieve that, they did learn something (this doesn’t work). But they hardly achieved the goal of their test: They publicly stated the goal was to hit their target in the ocean. (They did hit the ocean, but that’s more an effect of gravity than engineering.)
As a company, they have to make this look as positive as possible; they need their investors. Coca-Cola tried to do the same with New Coke.
re: #117 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“Behind every billionaire there is a policy failure”
-AOCBillionaires instead of governments exploring space. Private companies keeping their research data to themselves instead of sharing it with the scientific community. Capitalists pursuing profit in space which can, but does necessarily advance our knowledge of space travel.
Late-stage capitalism is fun.
re: #113 Dangerman
For any scientific test, the goals are what you state before the test.
The flight plan lodged with the FAA for the Starship Heavy launch was to fly the stack to a suitable height, separate the Starship and fly that most of the way around the world in a suborbital hop while the Booster stage would carry out a flyback and demonstrate a controlled hover over the sea before it would be allowed to crash and sink (or float and be recovered later, depending on hull integrity).
What happened last week was nothing like that. The stack became uncontrollable quite early on in its flight, it never reached its planned altitude and velocity, rocket motors were visibly damaged and others failed during the flight and then the entire stack became effectively uncontrollable. Range Safety is not guaranteed in those conditions and the possibility of it flying off in the wrong direction and coming down in a town centre in the US or Mexico was non-zero. FAA regulations are red tape, sure but that’s because they’re written in blood.
I don’t think there’s actually much SpaceX can learn from this flight other than “we’re going to need a bigger boat launchpad”. They intend to fly Starship from Pad 39A at Canaveral after a lot of mods and upgrades and that facility will have all the old stuff like flame trenches and water deluges, you know, the stuff that the behind-the-times fuddy-duddies at NASA, ESA, Roscosmos etc. use to stop their launch vehicles from spraying concrete and steel shrapnel up unto the rocket motors. That is years in the future though.
re: #119 IngisKahn
Late-stage capitalism is fun.
It is fun to watch if you can view it from a safe location.
re: #119 IngisKahn
Late-stage capitalism is fun.
Robert Reich noted there was only five ways you can become a billionaire:
a) Inherit it
b) Exploit a monopoly
c) Exploit politicians
d) Insider trading
e) Fraud
He did leave out the sixth: Win a giant Lotto prize. You do have a better chance of that than becoming a so-called self-made billionaire.
re: #118 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Science, whether done by academics or private actors, is about proving or disproving a hypothesis.
Science is built on an empire of failures, which advance scientific knowledge (note to future scientists, don’t do this stupid thing I did, it will work out poorly).
Rocketry is especially notable for its spectacular failures.
But the goal here was the proof-of-concept: Launch the rocket to a sub-orbital trajectory and land in the ocean near this spot.
So in the sense SpaceX did not achieve that, they did learn something (this doesn’t work). But they hardly achieved the goal of their test: They publicly stated the goal was to hit their target in the ocean. (They did hit the ocean, but that’s more an effect of gravity than engineering.)
As a company, they have to make this look as positive as possible; they need their investors. Coca-Cola tried to do the same with New Coke.
“SpaceX intends to collect as much data as possible during flight to quantify entry dynamics and better understand what the vehicle experiences in a flight regime that is extremely difficult to accurately predict or replicate computationally,” according to a document(opens in new tab) about the test flight that SpaceX submitted to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 2021.
“This data will anchor any changes in vehicle design or CONOPs [concept of operations] after the first flight and build better models for us to use in our internal simulations.”
Elon immediately before the flight:
“Success is not what should be expected.”
“Probably, tomorrow will not be successful. It’s just a very fundamentally difficult thing.”
“50/50 it makes it off the pad.”
re: #122 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Robert Reich noted there was only five ways you can become a billionaire:
a) Inherit it
b) Exploit a monopoly
c) Exploit politicians
d) Insider trading
e) FraudHe did leave out the sixth: Win a giant Lotto prize. You do have a better chance of that than becoming a so-called self-made billionaire.
Elon:
f) all of the above
Why is King James trending on Twitter? Did he depose King Charles to take the throne? /s
Struck out for the first time in a very long time today.
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re: #120 Nojay UK
This is good news for John McCain. /s
All the temporarily-embarrassed millionaires coming in to defend the GOP.
The Republicans in Congress want to repeal the estate tax, giving America’s billionaires a $1.8 trillion tax break.
Don’t believe for a second that they care about working people.— Robert Reich (@RBReich) April 25, 2023
re: #116 IngisKahn
Well, it’s not a scientific test. They had zero launch and flight data, now they have tons. :p The extent of what they wanted to learn and what they did learn is probably never going to be known publicly. They are a private company.
No offense to your friends, but this really does sound like the sort of spin you put on a total cock-up to appease the boss in the hope that he doesn’t come at you with a meat cleaver. “What? No, we didn’t just blow several million dollars on a publicity stunt gone wrong, we got the rocket off the pad! That’s an accomplishment in itself! We got all sorts of new data!”
re: #129 Targetpractice
I agree that’s how it looks, but I was hearing the same story well before launch.
That ain’t happening. They’ll put on the ballot whoever qualifies by state law.
Robert Reich urges secretaries of state to refuse to put Trump’s name on 2024 ballots https://t.co/dl4sxu74eo pic.twitter.com/8tB5Upmyry
— The Hill (@thehill) April 25, 2023
re: #125 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Why is King James trending on Twitter? Did he depose King Charles to take the throne? /s
I am guessing it has to do with Texas wanting the Ten Commandments posted in public schools and now the discussion is arising about which version.
This discussion came up decades ago, and then-Governor George W Bush came out in favor of it. At which point some smart-assed journalist (who probably had a couple semesters of Comparative Religions under his belt) asked Dubya “Which version?”.
To which Bush replied (without further comment) “The standard one.”
Which in itself totally highlights why our Founding Fathers wanted Church and State to be separate.
re: #131 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Robert Reich urges secretaries of state to refuse to put Trump’s name on 2024 ballots
What if they claim it is against their deeply held religious beliefs to put the Antichrist on the ballot?
/
re: #130 IngisKahn
I agree that’s how it looks, but I was hearing the same story well before launch.
Now sounds less like the Peenemünde gang and more like Soviet rocket engineers. “Do not worry, comrade general. A rocket that gets off the ground still counts as a success!”
Working in the Glens Falls Feeder Dam to repair a culvert. Garbage to some, structural habitat for others.
re: #123 IngisKahn
Elon immediately before the flight:
“Success is not what should be expected.”
“Probably, tomorrow will not be successful. It’s just a very fundamentally difficult thing.”
“50/50 it makes it off the pad.”
The Elon who said this in an hour and nine minute YouTube rant in 2021? To me, 50/50 seems like luck.
re: #138 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Oops, fixed the video link.
There is quite a bit of important data that can be gathered from failure. However, I hesitate to call anything a success just because we successfully gathered useful data from its failure. What happened in Texas last week was an unmitigated disaster, and what’s more, it was largely unforced. The complete destruction of Stage Zero (the launch platform) was unnecessary and avoidable, and there is a non-zero probability that the pad’s violent destruction contributed to the eventual failure of the Starship launch.
When I was in high school, I took an engineering class. As part of this class, we were assigned to build a matchstick bridge, and load it until it failed. I was frustrated with my design because it did not perform well, but the teacher told me, “It was always going to fail; the question is, did you predict how it was going to fail, and can you improve the design and make it fail in a better way?” The same applies here. It’s all well and good to claim that the design was likely to fail; the question is if the likely failures were known, or suspected, and that the test confirmed or disproved those suspicions. To me, the whole incident reeks of egotism, that Saint Elno was sure that doing things “his way” would work and that the naysayers would be silenced.
Can’t believe we never got to see the parasitic twin under his lil side bang :( pic.twitter.com/e2dWVmlFZh
— blaire erskine (@blaireerskine) April 24, 2023
Happy Anniversary of this tweet to all who observe https://t.co/jifaniLRuh
— Sarah Cooper (@sarahcpr) April 24, 2023
re: #144 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I recall a quote from the founder of the Church of Satanism that it was basically just Ayn Rand with some rituals thrown in.
Six rare white Bengal tiger cubs were born in a local zoo in Zhengzhou, capital of central China’s Henan Province, becoming new members to the growing family.White Bengal tigers are a variant of the better-known orange Bengal tigers. As their coloration is dependent on a defective gene that is passed on from their parents, such tigers are extremely rare, and the birth of six cubs at one time is an irregular occurrence, making the rearing and caretaking a huge challenge for zookeepers.
re: #133 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
What if they claim it is against their deeply held religious beliefs to put the Antichrist on the ballot?
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If you wanted to imagine an Antichrist, why wouldn’t he look like Trump? Liar, corruptor, fraud, hater, proud committer of every one of the seven sins? We generally think of the Antichrist as some sort of genius, but I don’t know why that would have to be. Why not a stupid Antichrist? Of course the MAGAts, proud warriors for Christ, worship him.
re: #140 Nerdy Fish
There is quite a bit of important data that can be gathered from failure. However, I hesitate to call anything a success just because we successfully gathered useful data from its failure. What happened in Texas last week was an unmitigated disaster, and what’s more, it was largely unforced. The complete destruction of Stage Zero (the launch platform) was unnecessary and avoidable, and there is a non-zero probability that the pad’s violent destruction contributed to the eventual failure of the Starship launch.
When I was in high school, I took an engineering class. As part of this class, we were assigned to build a matchstick bridge, and load it until it failed. I was frustrated with my design because it did not perform well, but the teacher told me, “It was always going to fail; the question is, did you predict how it was going to fail, and can you improve the design and make it fail in a better way?” The same applies here. It’s all well and good to claim that the design was likely to fail; the question is if the likely failures were known, or suspected, and that the test confirmed or disproved those suspicions. To me, the whole incident reeks of egotism, that Saint Elno was sure that doing things “his way” would work and that the naysayers would be silenced.
The man allowed the exposure to go to his fucking head, all the fawning praise from the success of Falcon 9 and Space Dragon. That all he has to do to “succeed” going forward is just keep throwing money at the problems until they’re solved, thus any issues are a matter of funding and not of his unrealistic expectations. Plus, I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that his rush with this launch was rooted in grumbling from investors over instability to the company’s future introduced by his bullshit with Twitter.
re: #147 ericblair
If you wanted to imagine an Antichrist, why wouldn’t he look like Trump? Liar, corruptor, fraud, hater, proud committer of every one of the seven sins? We generally think of the Antichrist as some sort of genius, but I don’t know why that would have to be. Why not a stupid Antichrist? Of course the MAGAts, proud warriors for Christ, worship him.
The Book of Revelation describes the Antichrist first and foremost as a deceiver. That, Trump is in spades. He has many faults and failings, but his one success is in convincing millions of rubes that he is God’s chosen President. I think a lot of Christians and people who are Christian-adjacent are misled by the Left Behind concept of Nicolae Carpathia as an insanely intelligent, devious, intentional character, but I believe that is pride on the part of the authors that it would take an insanely intelligent person to deceive so many people. It clearly doesn’t.
Homebuyers with good credit scores will soon be facing higher mortgage fees as the Biden administration seeks to close the racial homeownership gap and get more first-time and low-income buyers through the door.A new federal rule could raise the monthly mortgage payments of buyers with good credit scores by over $60 a month, while riskier borrowers will get more favorable terms because their fees will be reduced.
Starting in May, the current structure of the Loan-Level Price Adjustment (LLPA) matrix will be upended by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) in the hope of addressing housing affordability challenges in the U.S.
re: #147 ericblair
If you wanted to imagine an Antichrist, why wouldn’t he look like Trump? Liar, corruptor, fraud, hater, proud committer of every one of the seven sins? We generally think of the Antichrist as some sort of genius, but I don’t know why that would have to be. Why not a stupid Antichrist? Of course the MAGAts, proud warriors for Christ, worship him.
when it comes to manipulating media and making people want to support him to the point of harming themselves in the process, then he is a true evil genius
re: #150 Shropshire Slasher
why Biden hates white people: he wants other people to have the same advantages that they take for granted.
The Colorado Springs Gazette editorial board explicitly endorsed the new University of Colorado coach being paid $5MM a year to forcibly lead student athletes in prayers.
Hemant Mehta goes after both the coach and the Gazette. This isn’t the first time he’s done this either: He forced students to pray before practices when he coached at Jackson State.
FFRF has written the chancellor of Colorado State noting he is explicitly violating the law.
The letter worked. They spoke with Coach Sanders and claims he came away with a “better understanding of the Establishment Clause.”
That’s when the Gazette attacked atheists explicitly.
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Includes reading the editorial, which lies about the composition of FFRF’s board and atheists.
Finally watched the last episode of Picard
I liked this season much more than than the last two, and I enjoyed the ending - and it looks like they have set up a promising next series as well.
re: #39 Targetpractice
Fair opinion, but I’d argue that scientific data is only going to get us so far. And that’s not just a “we have to go out there to see it for ourselves” bit, it’s a “we’re gonna have to leave this mudball eventually if we want to survive” one. The longer we stay isolated to a single rock in the vast cosmos, the greater the chances that a threat from within or from without could wipe out our entire species in a single go.
the universe should be so lucky……we’re like mold in the bathroom: we’re gonna keep coming up, pretty much regardless of treatment. there are likely several warlike species in the galaxy that would wipe us out, except that HBO keeps cranking out compelling television.
re: #153 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I am simply anti-clerical: I do not want to see churches or religious leaders have any exemptions or special considerations when it comes to political power and social influence.
I am not anti-faith. In fact, if I were, I would probably support an established church: one which people don’t feel that they belong to, but one that simply exists as part of the power structure, which they go along with in order to advance their personal interests but generally ignore when it comes to what they truly believe in.
re: #152 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
why Biden hates white people: he wants other people to have the same advantages that they take for granted.
An African-American homebuyer with good credit will be penalized as well.
re: #155 steve_davis
the universe should be so lucky……we’re like mold in the bathroom: we’re gonna keep coming up, pretty much regardless of treatment. there are likely several warlike species in the galaxy that would wipe us out, except that HBO keeps cranking out compelling television.
“Let the invasion of Earth commence!”
“NOT BEFORE THE LAST OF US SEASON FINALE COMES OUT, YOU’RE NOT!!!”
re: #157 Shropshire Slasher
An African-American homebuyer with good credit will be penalized as well.
that’s irrelevant. he is hurting white people
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The RNC created a AI response to Biden declaring his bid for re-election
NEW: @Axios w/ a first look at RNC’s video response to Biden
It is also the committee’s first video that is 100% generated by AI software meant to create images that look and feel real (in this case an imagined dystopia look at the future of Biden wins)… pic.twitter.com/S9qH0MXINc— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) April 25, 2023
re: #154 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Finally watched the last episode of Picard
I liked this season much more than than the last two, and I enjoyed the ending - and it looks like they have set up a promising next series as well.
Only thing I’m truly bitter about is the whole reversal of big reveal of season 2. Just how big a check did they sign over to de Lancie to make him change his mind?
re: #158 Targetpractice
“Let the invasion of Earth commence!”
“NOT BEFORE THE LAST OF US SEASON FINALE COMES OUT, YOU’RE NOT!!!”
For every warlike species out there who is prepared to end us before we can achieve interstellar spaceflight, there is another, equally warlike species who is prepared to defend Earth’s mighty hero, “Grogu,” from all harm because he is just too adorable.
My brother in Indiana is a total Fox viewer, and one of things that sent him down that road was trying to obtain a reasonable mortgage (back in the early 70’s when rates were 16% or higher) and feeling discriminated against because black families were getting getting low-rate loans to encourage more black home ownership
re: #153 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I’m looking forward to how Rightwingers react to Muslim coaches leading public school students in prayers to Allah. That should be interesting.
re: #162 Nerdy Fish
For every warlike species out there who is prepared to end us before we can achieve interstellar spaceflight, there is another, equally warlike species who is prepared to defend Earth’s mighty hero, “Grogu,” from all harm because he is just too adorable.
Yeah, but I think there’s a species out there who feels even more compelled to conquer us over the whole Halo TV series.
re: #165 Targetpractice
Yeah, but I think there’s a species out there who feels even more compelled to conquer us over the whole Halo TV series.
I mean, I can’t really blame them for that. Hell, I’ll even help.
re: #160 Teukka
The RNC created a AI response to Biden declaring his bid for re-election
China is going to invade China, just a matter of time, regardless of who is President
Financial markets are going to collapse, that is just part of the unsustainable business cycle, because we like Free Market Capitalism and continue to bail out firms that are Too Fail until their Fail is Too Big to Bail Out.
Our border will also collapse as we are unwilling and unable to enact any reasonable and humane immigration reform, because entire industries base their business model on an endless supply of cheap, easily exploited labor.
The semi-legal drug crisis will continue as long as pharmaceutical companies make enough profits to pay politicians not to enact reform.
And don’t forget all the guns…there will be more guns.
re: #156 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I am simply anti-clerical: I do not want to see churches or religious leaders have any exemptions or special considerations when it comes to political power and social influence.
I am not anti-faith. In fact, if I were, I would probably support an established church: one which people don’t feel that they belong to, but one that simply exists as part of the power structure, which they go along with in order to advance their personal interests but generally ignore when it comes to what they truly believe in.
In that Gazette editorial they make the repeated claim that FFRF is full of racists, and this is about race (Sanders is Black), when the university is just trying to make their staff more diverse.
I am anti-clerical in the sense that proselytisation, regardless of the rank of the cleric (pastor or priest, or parishioner) should not be allowed to use the power of the state to force their religious beliefs on state-run institutions or the law.
The company which owns the Gazette is the same company which owns the Washington Examiner. You know if this coach was enforcing prayer on the athletes of any other religious faith than Christianity, the Gazette editorial board would be howling just as hard to shut it down as they are to promote it now.
Plus they drop back to the old Christian apologetics trope “Freedom of religion does not mean freedom from religion” in the editorial.
re: #169 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
In that Gazette editorial they make the repeated claim that FFRF is full of racists, and this is about race (Sanders is Black), when the university is just trying to make their staff more diverse.
I am anti-clerical in the sense that proselytisation, regardless of the rank of the cleric (pastor or priest, or parishioner) should not be allowed to use the power of the state to force their religious beliefs on state-run institutions or the law.
The company which owns the Gazette is the same company which owns the Washington Examiner. You know if this coach was enforcing prayer on the athletes of any other religious faith than Christianity, the Gazette editorial board would be howling just as hard to shut it down as they are to promote it now.
Plus they drop back to the old Christian apologetics trope “Freedom of religion does not mean freedom from religion” in the editorial.
It does if you think that your religion should be my religion and feel that the power of your position allows you to force the matter or threaten me if I don’t bend the knee.
re: #164 Patricia Kayden
I’m looking forward to how Rightwingers react to Muslim coaches leading public school students in prayers to Allah. That should be interesting.
They don’t have that right because this is a Christian Nation (tm).
They’d lose their damn minds if an anti-theist coach put pressure on athletes to abandon religious faith if they wanted a chance to play.
re: #169 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Plus they drop back to the old Christian apologetics trope “Freedom of religion does not mean freedom from religion” in the editorial.
Which is holy horseshit. Religious Freedoms are individual freedoms. Which includes the right to be free of anyone else’s religion.
re: #169 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Plus they drop back to the old Christian apologetics trope “Freedom of religion does not mean freedom from religion” in the editorial.
AAAAAAAAAAARGH
Yes, you fuckwits, that’s exactly what it means. By necessity - by its literal definition - “freedom of religion” includes the freedom to opt out of any religious belief whatsoever. Since these kinds of people also frequently make the argument that atheism is, in itself, a religion, it seems contradictory to me to turn around and claim that people cannot choose not to believe in God because “freedom of religion is not freedom from religion.”
The original editorial in the Colorado Springs Gazette is here (March 13, 2023)
EDITORIAL: Atheists order Deion Sanders to hide his heartfelt identity
Every word in the editorial is a lie, including “and” and “the.”
Diversity must threaten the Freedom From Religion Foundation. The club’s 15-member “honorary board” consists only of white anti-religionists. These self-righteous faux legal proselytizers want everyone to live and believe as they do.
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re: #174 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
These self-righteous faux legal proselytizers want everyone to live and believe as they do.
Wow. The projection is incredibly strong with these hypocrites. This is word-for-word how I would describe the fellows at the Gazette and their ilk.
Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot. Over.
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— The Serfs (@theserfstv) April 25, 2023
re: #173 Nerdy Fish
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Yes, you fuckwits, that’s exactly what it means. By necessity - by its literal definition - “freedom of religion” includes the freedom to opt out of any religious belief whatsoever. Since these kinds of people also frequently make the argument that atheism is, in itself, a religion, it seems contradictory to me to turn around and claim that people cannot choose not to believe in God because “freedom of religion is not freedom from religion.”
They only ever apply that argument to the Establishment Clause of the I Amendment. All other clauses of it, and the other amendments all have a negative right. Only in religion do Christian apologists say you do not have a negative right.
No Christian apologist would say I don’t have a right not to own a press.
when they calculate the ratings for this week it would appear that carlson’s gonna have the same ratings as limbaugh
re: #102 IngisKahn
Might not be the thermostat then. You could always test it with a meter. I’d make sure no vents are blocked inside and do a full shutdown defrost. If ice builds up inside any internal vents, it could cause havoc.
The fan inside my icemaker died, but replacing it didn’t fix things until I got rid of all the ice inside the duct from the freezer to the fridge.
THIS. I just had to do this a few months ago to our fridge. Also make sure the fridge is balanced front/back, side/side. Unplug and defrost for at least 24 hours. Fixed things up for us.
re: #178 Dangerman
when they calculate the ratings for this week it would appear that carlson’s gonna have the same ratings as limbaugh
I look forward to the day when they share the same stylist that Limbaugh last used…
re: #169 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
In that Gazette editorial they make the repeated claim that FFRF is full of racists, and this is about race (Sanders is Black), when the university is just trying to make their staff more diverse.
I am anti-clerical in the sense that proselytisation, regardless of the rank of the cleric (pastor or priest, or parishioner) should not be allowed to use the power of the state to force their religious beliefs on state-run institutions or the law.
The company which owns the Gazette is the same company which owns the Washington Examiner. You know if this coach was enforcing prayer on the athletes of any other religious faith than Christianity, the Gazette editorial board would be howling just as hard to shut it down as they are to promote it now.
Plus they drop back to the old Christian apologetics trope “Freedom of religion does not mean freedom from religion” in the editorial.
they dont get that it would not work the way they think.
it would cut both ways.
re: #174 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Diversity doesn’t include forcing public school students to listen to and participate in coach-led prayers. What about students who do not share the coach’s religious beliefs? And I am a supporter of FFRF and get their newsletter on a regular basis. There are Black and non-White FFRF Board members. It’s probably more diverse than the RNC.
re: #183 Patricia Kayden
Diversity doesn’t include forcing public school students to listen to and participate in coach-led prayers. What about students who do not share the coach’s religious beliefs? And I am a supporter of FFRF and get their newsletter on a regular basis. There are Black and non-White FFRF Board members. It’s probably more diverse than the RNC.
I mean, to be fair, that’s a really low bar.
re: #106 TarHellion
Eh, par is fine. Dipped down into the mid 30s this morning thanks to clear skies and low humidity. Been playing the Resident Evil 4 remake. Quite a game. Enjoy the day/evening Lizard peeps!
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As a manhunt continues in Pennsylvania for Jackass star Brandon ‘Bam’ Margera, it has been revealed that the target of the troubled star’s disturbing assault was his own brother.Pennsylvania State Police officials told TMZ troopers responded to a reported disturbance at around 11am Sunday morning near Margera’s $1.1million Pocopson Township castle, where an alleged victim said they got into a physical altercation with the 43-year-old pro-skater and suffered minor injuries as a result.
But when police arrived on the scene, Margera had already fled into a nearby wooded area and has not yet been located.
re: #183 Patricia Kayden
Diversity doesn’t include forcing public school students to listen to and participate in coach-led prayers. What about students who do not share the coach’s religious beliefs? And I am a supporter of FFRF and get their newsletter on a regular basis. There are Black and non-White FFRF Board members. It’s probably more diverse than the RNC.
The reason they used the honorary board is its members are all white. If they used the actual controlling board, that wouldn’t satisfy their charge of racism, because the controlling board is a cornucopia of races and ethnicities.
Plus they switch in the editorial between racial diversity (which they don’t care about) and religious diversity (because apparently there’s a real shortage of Christians at Colorado State University).
More antisemitic flyers of some of my comrades and me were distributed in Atlanta yesterday. Cops say they won’t do anything. The city says they won’t, either. This is why we must defeat fascism collectively- as both an ideology and incitement of violence.https://t.co/KLzPA3zhke pic.twitter.com/HgmG2dkJd7
— Eli Erlick (@EliErlick) April 24, 2023
re: #16 Dr Lizardo
So, as per Rolling Stone, Tucker got shitcanned and not a single tear was shed, nor a single fuck given by FNC staff:
I am not convinced the mindset that will work at Fox News has anything other than career advancement and wealth opportunities on their minds if they have even a shred of journalistic integrity inside their bodies.
Disturbing content, Dailymail, gang memers burned alive by vigilantes in Haiti.
This is the horrifying moment suspected Haitian gang members beg for mercy before a vigilante lynch mob stones and burns them alive.
The mob beat and burned 13 men to death with gasoline-soaked tyres on Monday after pulling them from police custody at a traffic stop, police and witnesses in Port-au-Prince said.
Six more burned bodies were laid in a nearby neighbourhood later on Monday, and some witnesses said that police killed them and residents set them on fire, but news agencies said this could not be verified independently.
Snow west, rain and cold east here today.
⏱️ Here’s a look at the precip. timeline through Wed!
🌦️➡️🌨️ Showers developing this afternoon will increase tonight thru Tue, with rain transitioning to snow at some WY locations. NE is expected to see mainly rain. Precipitation tapers off by Wed AM. #wywx #newx pic.twitter.com/KW1CgCvsCP— NWS Cheyenne (@NWSCheyenne) April 24, 2023
re: #190 Patricia Kayden
Technically, distributing flyers like this isn’t illegal. I suppose there could be some defamation involved, but that’s a civil suit, and not the responsibility of the city or the police. The city might have an interest in preventing antisemitic material from being posted or distributed, so that one I can understand being upset about.
re: #183 Patricia Kayden
Diversity doesn’t include forcing public school students to listen to and participate in coach-led prayers. What about students who do not share the coach’s religious beliefs? And I am a supporter of FFRF and get their newsletter on a regular basis. There are Black and non-White FFRF Board members. It’s probably more diverse than the RNC.
Even the Bremerton case they cite in the editorial doesn’t apply to the CSU case.
The thinly-veiled rationale for the Bremerton case by the Supreme Court was the coach was simply privately praying, and everyone simply saw what he was doing and joined in. All of this was Lying for Jesus, but nothing prohibits you from privately praying on public property.
They used that argument to claim the CSU coach was within his rights to hold forceable prayer even outside of actual football play.
re: #192 Shropshire Slasher
As someone with Haitian in-laws (ex-in-laws since I’m divorced), it’s sad that that country has not progressed and is constantly mired in violence and abject poverty. I was hoping that after the earthquake and the world’s assistance, Haiti would have started to move in the right direction but it appears to have gotten much worse. The odd thing is that I know people who have vacationed there (in the north of the country) and find it to be beautiful. It has potential.
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re: #194 Nerdy Fish
Yep. The city and police can’t stop racists from being racists. I have a security camera so if those jokers put flyers on my front porch, I could identify them and send it to my local media to expose their identities. I guess that’s all that can be done — embarrass them.
re: #194 Nerdy Fish
Technically, distributing flyers like this isn’t illegal. I suppose there could be some defamation involved, but that’s a civil suit, and not the responsibility of the city or the police. The city might have an interest in preventing antisemitic material from being posted or distributed, so that one I can understand being upset about.
Annoy them with littering violations for each flyer.
re: #201 Nerdy Fish
This is why we hover the link before clicking, young padawan.
This allegation sits at the center of a sordid love triangle alleged by Ashley Burke and apparently involving her former boss State Rep. Lacey Hull (R-Houston), State Rep. Cole Hefner (R-Mount Pleasant), and their mutual campaign consultant and lobbyist Jordan Berry.
“Tuck Off!” or “Shut the Tuck Up!” ??
We report, you decide
re: #202 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Annoy them with littering violations for each flyer.
You know, I said, “The city might have an interest in preventing antisemitic material from being posted or distributed,” but my slow brain didn’t process that this would also be a violation of the First Amendment. This is one of those rare cases where I happen to side with the libertarians on something. I don’t want to get into punishing thought crimes, nor should the government be in the business of restricting speech it doesn’t like or isn’t popular. I’m all for nailing these assholes with technicalities, though, so if they were in violation of city ordinances concerning the proper way to post or distribute flyers, go for it.
re: #203 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
You forgot Jimmy the Strap-on……. Don’t leave him out
re: #190 Patricia Kayden
Not surprising, considering that LGBTQIA+ were considered as Untermensch by the Nazis, and were described as a Jews conspiracy to corrupt the Aryan race.
These are the women who ended abortion in Texas last session and last week voted against protecting women from sexual assault. #GileadWivesClub #txlege pic.twitter.com/DKrmrPu93T
— Michelle (@LivingBlueTX) April 24, 2023
This will end well.
Texas Senate advances a bill to protect law enforcement officers from being prosecuted for certain offenses when they use nonlethal projectile weapons.
I will sign this law.
Police shouldn’t be punished for protecting their communities.https://t.co/3uJ1wlXX9S— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) April 25, 2023
re: #209 Dave In Austin
This will end well.
And so, the myth of the noble and selfless police officer is propagated yet again.
re: #126 Nerdy Fish
Struck out for the first time in a very long time today.
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re: #205 Nerdy Fish
You know, I said, “The city might have an interest in preventing antisemitic material from being posted or distributed,” but my slow brain didn’t process that this would also be a violation of the First Amendment. This is one of those rare cases where I happen to side with the libertarians on something. I don’t want to get into punishing thought crimes, nor should the government be in the business of restricting speech it doesn’t like or isn’t popular. I’m all for nailing these assholes with technicalities, though, so if they were in violation of city ordinances concerning the proper way to post or distribute flyers, go for it.
It depends on how they are doing this: The I Amendment is not a suicide pact.
Fascism is explicitly genocidal, and it is unlawful to promote genocide.
re: #83 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
This is sort of retconning of what SpaceX actually did, which SpaceX themselves actually did.
When NASA launches a new rocket type, they have to have exhaustive testing and design, because a failure means their money will get cut off. The taxpayers don’t want their money spent on failed projects.
When you’re a rich asshole, you can throw as much money at a project as you want. You can afford to absorb losses (move fast and break things, like throwing concrete chunks all over Port Isabel) because you don’t answer to anyone other than your ego.
I guarantee you that Elon wanted that rocket to succeed. The mission plan wasn’t “launch and blow up two minutes later.” The mission plan was “launch and reach a suborbital trajectory then crash into the ocean.”
Elon has successfully retconned this into the former.
SpaceX can learn from the failure, because rocket surgery is hard. But that was not the plan.
Elon, and all of SpaceX, wanted it to go as high as it could. They didn’t expect it to go to the moon in back, or Mars and back. This was about collecting performance data. And that’s why they consider it a success.
re: #210 Nerdy Fish
So this is open season on “Shoodit! Shoodit in da Head!”
Convince me that I’m wrong.
ALL Texas cops are nothing but thugs and gang members. From the Rangers to the Podunks in Jonestown Texas.
Thugs and Gang members— TravisBlues (@Travisblues01) April 25, 2023
This ‘Disney Dad’ Pastor Is Now FBI’s Most Wanted (Daily Beast, April 24, 2023)
The last conversation Philip Burns had with his father started off completely normal.
It was September 2020, and the then 15-year-old was telling his dad—a former youth pastor turned financial adviser and locally known Georgia radio host—about his upcoming job search. But his father, Chris Burns, ended the conversation cryptically.
“He said, ‘Just remember that I love you always,’” Philip told The Daily Beast, adding that his dad suddenly got emotional and sounded like he was crying. “And I was like, ‘Yeah, duh.’”
That was the last Philip saw of his father. The next day Philip said he found his mother kneeling in the driveway of their Atlanta home in shock. His father was gone.
Prosecutors allege that for years, Burns lived a double life, swindling approximately $10 million from dozens of investors in a years-long Ponzi scheme that spanned three states. Under the guise of a “peer-to-peer” lending program with high-interest promissory notes, Burns allegedly used the money to fund his lavish lifestyle—which included a boat and numerous trips to Disney World.
But the day before Burns was scheduled to hand over documents related to his businesses as part of an ongoing civil investigation, the 40-year-old vanished without a trace. In his wake, Burns left behind a slew of angry investors out millions of dollars, unanswered questions, and a family left to pick up the pieces.
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By the way, Anymouse, I purchased and consumed some of those Snapdragon instant pho packs. They’re pretty good. Probably not my favorite instant noodles, but they definitely made the grade as far as possibly buying them again later. Mrs. Fish is less of a fan, but she has very high standards for noodle dishes.
re: #213 Belafon
Elon, and all of SpaceX, wanted it to go as high as it could. They didn’t expect it to go to the moon in back, or Mars and back. This was about collecting performance data. And that’s why they consider it a success.
Yeah, there was an Elon interview days before the launch where he gives it a 50/50 shot of getting to space. The fact they didn’t blow up on the pad and made it to max q was a reasonably good result, clearly not ideal or what they had hoped for.
Remember this? https://t.co/OqU2EobtII
— Pam 🌊 🚴♀️🥾☀️🦋☮️🌈 (@pelovelo1) April 25, 2023
CLOSING ARGUMENTS continue today in the Proud Boys seditious conspiracy trial starting at 9AM ET. It is the 61st day of proceedings and I will have live coverage for @emptywheel. Today, we can expect closing arguments for ringleader Henry Tarrio, Joe Biggs and Dominic Pezzola. pic.twitter.com/DyuZLEDiuK
— Brandi Buchman (@Brandi_Buchman) April 25, 2023
re: #219 Dave In Austin
I remember that just a week or so ago that someone was pushing a rumor that Carlson, Pirro, and Bogino were all going to be gone.
Well, a week later, 2 out of 3 aint bad.
re: #213 Belafon
Elon, and all of SpaceX, wanted it to go as high as it could. They didn’t expect it to go to the moon in back, or Mars and back. This was about collecting performance data. And that’s why they consider it a success.
That is the claim now, after it failed. As noted above, the goal was to launch the rocket, achieve a sub-orbital ballistic path, and hit a target in the ocean. They failed. The “we really succeeded” narrative now is to placate the investors and keep Elon’s fanbois believing in his storied genius.
Was the destroyed launch pad part of the test?
re: #122 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Robert Reich noted there was only five ways you can become a billionaire:
a) Inherit it
b) Exploit a monopoly
c) Exploit politicians
d) Insider trading
e) FraudHe did leave out the sixth: Win a giant Lotto prize. You do have a better chance of that than becoming a so-called self-made billionaire.
I like Reich and I like AOC. If they actually said these things, then I wholeheartedly disagree with them.
Which of those apply to Michael Dell, Mark Cuban, or Richard Branson?
re: #222 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
That is the claim now, after it failed. As noted above, the goal was to launch the rocket, achieve a sub-orbital ballistic path, and hit a target in the ocean. They failed. The “we really succeeded” narrative now is to placate the investors and keep Elon’s fanbois believing in his storied genius.
Was the destroyed launch pad part of the test?
I am very much a spaceflight stan, and this is also my take. I will only grant that this failure was a success if this was a predicted possible failure mode, and part of the test was to see if things would fail this way. I have seen speculation that this is the case, mostly from Elno stans who seem to think he’s out here playing 4D chess with everything he does.
re: #218 danarchy
Yeah, there was an Elon interview days before the launch where he gives it a 50/50 shot of getting to space. The fact they didn’t blow up on the pad and made it to max q was a reasonably good result, clearly not ideal or what they had hoped for.
Which is totally at odds with what he said “success” is in an hour-long rant on YouTube, linked here.
re: #138 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
re: #138 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The Elon who said this in an hour and nine minute YouTube rant in 2021? To me, 50/50 seems like luck.
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re: #207 Teukka
Not surprising, considering that LGBTQIA+ were considered as Untermensch by the Nazis, and were described as a Jews conspiracy to corrupt the Aryan race.
And are currently described as a Woke conspiracy to corrupt White America
re: #226 JC1
I didn’t fail 5000 at making a lightbulb. I successfully found 5000 ways in which a lightbulb can’t be made.
If humanity only restricted ourselves to endeavors that are likely to succeed on the first try, we wouldn’t have gotten very far.
I agree with this, but that doesn’t mean that this test flight was a success. It was an abject failure when compared to the plan. “We gathered some unintended data on failure modes” does not change the fact that the plan, as designed, failed spectacularly.
re: #208 Dave In Austin
am i allowed to say because it couldnt never happen to them ? //
These are the women who ended abortion in Texas last session and last week voted against protecting women from sexual assault. #GileadWivesClub #txlege pic.twitter.com/DKrmrPu93T
— Michelle (@LivingBlueTX) April 24, 2023
re: #220 lawhawk
“Today, we can expect closing arguments for ringleader Henry Tarrio, Joe Biggs and Dominic Pezzola.”
is it bad that i read “joe biggs and dominos pizza”?
re: #223 JC1
Which of those apply to Michael Dell, Mark Cuban, or Richard Branson?
mostly C) they are rich enough to put politicians in their pockets, and in Branson’s case to take advantage of the privatisation frenzy of Thatcherite Britain.
re: #223 JC1
I like Reich and I like AOC. If they actually said these things, then I wholeheartedly disagree with them.
Which of those apply to Michael Dell, Mark Cuban, or Richard Branson?
Richard Branson: Son of a barrister and grandson of a Privy Council member and High Court judge. Born into wealth.
Mark Cuban: Self-made
Michael Dell: Mother was a stockbroker. Born into wealth.
So we have one example of a self-made billionaire out of how many?
So, why was Tuckems fired with zero notice? Reports are pointing to a discrimination suit by a former producer.
re: #97 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There is a book by Mary Roach, Packing for Mars about how unfit the human organism for any form of extended space travel. Our Solar System seems to be the practical limit of what we can endure mentally and psychologically.
Robots (or modified cyborg humanoids) does seem to be the best approach
Kind of like how we’re unfit for cold weather, or unable to survive long distances in the ocean, or would get sick if we spent too much time in the rain?
re: #233 lawhawk
So, why was Tuckems fired with zero notice? Reports are pointing to a discrimination suit by a former producer.
They have compromising videos of him and Reese’s Pieces…
re: #234 Belafon
Kind of like how we’re unfit for cold weather, or unable to survive long distances in the ocean, or would get sick if we spent too much time in the rain?
Yes, and similar to how we conquered all of those issues, long-term space travel will be feasible once we’ve figured out how to design spacecraft that can mitigate our lack of fitness for long-term space travel.
re: #97 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There is a book by Mary Roach, Packing for Mars about how unfit the human organism for any form of extended space travel. Our Solar System seems to be the practical limit of what we can endure mentally and psychologically.
Robots (or modified cyborg humanoids) does seem to be the best approach
I read a bunch of her stuff
She’s very clever
And I dont recall her saying it couldn’t or shouldn’t be done.
More that its gonna be complicated
re: #237 Nerdy Fish
Yes, and similar to how we conquered all of those issues, long-term space travel will be feasible once we’ve figured out how to design spacecraft that can mitigate our lack of fitness for long-term space travel.
Or cryogenic suspension
re: #238 Dangerman
I read a bunch of her stuff
She’s very clever
And I dont recall her saying it couldn’t or shouldn’t be done.
More that its gonna be complicated
Yes, it’s just that the bulk of our science fiction minimizes the difficulties. There was a bit more emphasis on that aspect on the abortive Away series
re: #237 Nerdy Fish
Yes, and similar to how we conquered all of those issues, long-term space travel will be feasible once we’ve figured out how to design spacecraft that can mitigate our lack of fitness for long-term space travel.
Or we can design ourselves to be more resilient to space.
re: #235 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They have compromising videos of him and Reese’s Pieces…
It was the green M&M.
re: #242 lawhawk
It was the green M&M.
Worse: It was the yellow M&M. He was caught in a gay chocolate relationship.
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He spent the majority of his time on the air telling viewers whom to fear and/or hate, usually targeting various minority groups, including Black people, Jews, and trans folks. As he made his “case” for his agenda, the now-former Foxer used all sorts of dishonest persuasion techniques, including misrepresenting or outright inventing factual information. And like Rush Limbaugh, for whom Carlson served as spiritual heir, he didn’t even believe most of the crap he was peddling, as revealed in the text messages made public courtesy of Dominion.
Or, they can’t afford the discrimination suit being brought by one of his former producers. The former producer claimed discrimination and bullying.
I’d believe it. Carlson is an awful person on an awful network. There are no good people here.— lawhawk #vaxxedforfamilyandcommunity (@lawhawk) April 25, 2023
re: #228 Nerdy Fish
I agree with this, but that doesn’t mean that this test flight was a success. It was an abject failure when compared to the plan. “We gathered some unintended data on failure modes” does not change the fact that the plan, as designed, failed spectacularly.
The thing took off and flew. They learned stuff. I’m sure everyone involved was hoping for more. I wouldn’t call it an abject failure. It wasn’t a full success. There’s a pretty wide chasm between those 2 options.
re: #246 JC1
The thing took off and flew. They learned stuff. I’m sure everyone involved was hoping for more. I wouldn’t call it an abject failure. It wasn’t a full success. There’s a pretty wide chasm between those 2 options.
It only suffered a “rapid unscheduled disassembly.” Other than that, it was fine. /s
Even that corporate gobbldy-gook give the failure away: unscheduled.
re: #232 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Richard Branson: Son of a barrister and grandson of a Privy Council member and High Court judge. Born into wealth.
Mark Cuban: Self-made
Michael Dell: Mother was a stockbroker. Born into wealth.
So we have one example of a self-made billionaire out of how many?
Dell wasn’t a Walton. He was selling magazine subscriptions in high school to make spending cash.
There’s wealth and there’s WEALTH.
Add Warren Buffett to the list, Steve Jobs and Wozniak. The guys who started Google, YouTube, Snapchat, etc.
Genuine entrepreneurship should have been on the list of how one can become a billionaire, that is all.
This is EXACTLY my point @elonmusk .
Twitter has become a stain.
You owe @WalshFreedom an apology.
A fake account tweets out something attributing it to Joe Walsh.
Thousands fell for it and retweeted the disinformation.
I know Joe Walsh well.
That’s not him. pic.twitter.com/pk0Cco4Drt— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) April 24, 2023
Founder of Christian Hip-Hop Clothing Line Sentenced to 35 Years in Prison (Ministry Watch, an Christian organisation which keeps track of crime by pastors and organisations so Christians can donate money to reputable people)
April 19. 2023
The founder of a clothing line popular with Christian hip-hop and rap artists has been convicted of several counts of child molestation and sentenced to 35 years in California state prison.
Jesse Joshua Aceves of Beaumont, California, was arrested by the Fontana Police Department in June of 2020 and charged with molesting three victims over the course of 17 years, the Fontana Herald-News reported.
He is the founder of The Way clothing brand and was active in booking concerts and providing merchandise for musical artists to sell, per Rapzilla, a Christian hip-hop online magazine.
The brand’s Twitter account describes The Way as “an urban lifestyle brand with a message for everyone. It’s more than just the threads, we represent the Way.”
One of the victims alleged that Aceves had molested her multiple times when she was between the ages of 4 and 17. Fontana police detectives became involved after two victims came forward, after which a third victim was discovered. Police said at the time of Aceves’ arrest that they suspected there were more victims and urged them to come forward.
The incidents occurred in both California and Texas, officials said.
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re: #248 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
It only suffered a “rapid unscheduled disassembly.” Other than that, it was fine. /s
Even that corporate gobbldy-gook give the failure away: unscheduled.
It was a TEST flight with no people on board, and no cargo.
If their next flight fails in a similar way then you can more reasonably call this one a failure; that would mean they didn’t learn enough worthwhile things from it.
SpaceX has had a lot of failures over the years. Their rockets have improved after each one.
re: #250 Dave In Austin
They still don’t get it’s not about the money.
Blocking you is free tho. Enjoy.
— Anona Miss (@Femanonymously) April 24, 2023
re: #252 JC1
It was a TEST flight with no people on board, and no cargo.
If their next flight fails in a similar way then you can more reasonably call this one a failure; that would mean they didn’t learn enough worthwhile things from it.SpaceX has had a lot of failures over the years. Their rockets have improved after each one.
The most problematic issue is that they didn’t account for all the damage at the launch pad. Their launch pad is completely wrecked and will likely need to be completely rebuilt/reconfigured.
That will delay anything they want to do, although the FAA investigation will take time that they can use to rebuild.
re: #250 Dave In Austin
That is what Elon wants. He just wants to piss on people and screw you.
Shallow needy ego laden pile of
re: #129 Targetpractice
No offense to your friends, but this really does sound like the sort of spin you put on a total cock-up to appease the boss in the hope that he doesn’t come at you with a meat cleaver. “What? No, we didn’t just blow several million dollars on a publicity stunt gone wrong, we got the rocket off the pad! That’s an accomplishment in itself! We got all sorts of new data!”
Which would be true if it had never happened this way beforehand.
re: #97 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There is a book by Mary Roach, Packing for Mars about how unfit the human organism for any form of extended space travel. Our Solar System seems to be the practical limit of what we can endure mentally and psychologically.
Robots (or modified cyborg humanoids) does seem to be the best approach
great story by bradbury about a space ship leaving the solar system, and one of the astronauts effectively going insane as planet Earth is no longer visible. yeah, I would go insane flying coach, so I definitely wouldn’t handle well leaving the solar system.
So does Japan need his help figuring out which books to ban?
— Dave Thurston (@davewthurston) April 24, 2023
re: #252 JC1
It was a TEST flight with no people on board, and no cargo.
If their next flight fails in a similar way then you can more reasonably call this one a failure; that would mean they didn’t learn enough worthwhile things from it.SpaceX has had a lot of failures over the years. Their rockets have improved after each one.
Launch success rate of NASA (only considers a successful launch, not a payload failure):
1950’s 43.6%
1960’s 85.1%
1970’s 93.5%
1980’s 96.0%
1990’s 93.9%
2000’s 94.7%
2010’s 94.7%
SpaceX themselves don’t give themselves as good a rating as NASA, and they list the Boca Chica launch as a failure.
re: #251 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Founder of Christian Hip-Hop Clothing Line Sentenced to 35 Years in Prison (Ministry Watch, an Christian organisation which keeps track of crime by pastors and organisations so Christians can donate money to reputable people)
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damnit! that’s how my cat spells her name. this is gonna fuck her up on her twitter account, no doubt.
re: #259 steve_davis
great story by bradbury about a space ship leaving the solar system, and one of the astronauts effectively going insane as planet Earth is no longer visible. yeah, I would go insane flying coach, so I definitely wouldn’t handle well leaving the solar system.
For myself, I empathize with Apollo 11 command module pilot Michael Collins, who, when asked what it was like being the loneliest human in existence, said something along the lines of, “Honestly, it was pretty great. When you’re up there, you’re never alone; Houston is constantly in your ear, and you’re constantly talking to each other to get things done. Being on the far side of the moon gave me a chance for some actual peace and quiet.”
It’s so weird reading through the comments here abiut SpaceX and watching all of you have collective memory failure. Do you not remember how they got to their current rockets? They failed over and over, but didn’t call them failures because they kept collecting data. And then they succeeded and are reusing rockets and are the ones sending people into space.
I wonder if we would have lost those two shuttles had NASA been allowed to fail a few times with rocket designs.
Another day, another crooked justice on the corrupted court exposed…
Revealed: Neil Gorsuch sold property to head of law firm ‘involved in at least 22’ Supreme Court cases
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has drawn considerable scrutiny over what his critics consider conflicts of interest, from his relationship with billionaire GOP megadonor Harlan Crow to his wife Ginni Thomas’ efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. Now, according to Politico reporter Heidi Przybyla, another relationship involving a High Court justice could merit close scrutiny — and this time, the justice is Donald Trump nominee Neil Gorsuch.
Przybyla, in an article published by Politico on April 25, reports, “For nearly two years beginning in 2015, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch sought a buyer for a 40-acre tract of property he co-owned in rural Granby, Colorado. Nine days after he was confirmed by the Senate for a lifetime appointment on the Supreme Court, the then-circuit court judge got one: The chief executive of Greenberg Traurig, one of the nation’s biggest law firms with a robust practice before the High Court. Gorsuch owned the property with two other individuals.”
re: #262 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Launch success rate of NASA (only considers a successful launch, not a payload failure):
SpaceX themselves don’t give themselves as good a rating as NASA, and they list the Boca Chica launch as a failure.
Not sure what you’re trying to say or think I disagree with here.
How many non test flights did SpaceX lose?
re: #270 Joe Bacon
It is rapidly becoming axiomatic that Republicans are corrupt. They can bleat on all they like about some of Illinois’ former governors, but Republicans clearly have a lot more rot running a lot deeper in their party than Democrats do.
re: #268 Belafon
It’s so weird reading through the comments here abiut SpaceX and watching all of you have collective memory failure. Do you not remember how they got to their current rockets? They failed over and over, but didn’t call them failures because they kept collecting data. And then they succeeded and are reusing rockets and are the ones sending people into space.
I wonder if we would have lost those two shuttles had NASA been allowed to fail a few times with rocket designs.
The reusable rocket programme has been nothing short of remarkable. NASA estimates that saves SpaceX about 40% of the cost of launching rockets. As that was an entirely new technology, failure of early attempts was expected and planned for. (My previous comment on scientific advancement built on an empire of failures.)
Everything else is him trying to reinvent the wheel, including the failures. He blasted apart a launch pad because he was impatient. (The same reason for the space shuttle failure O-rings: It was too cold and they didn’t want to wait.)
He didn’t call them failures because he doesn’t accept he can fail. Even though SpaceX’s own Website calls the latest launch a failure.
Successful Launches from Boca Chica (Goes to SpaceX): They list zero.
Harry Belafonte dies at 96. The barrier-smashing entertainer and singer of ‘Day-O’ was also a relentless human rights activist.
Belafonte, the singer whose dynamic a cappella shout of “Day-O!” from “The Banana Boat Song” and other music from world folk traditions propelled him to international stardom, used his entertainment fortune to help bankroll the civil rights movement at home and human rights causes worldwide.
re: #275 Joe Bacon
Oh no!! Civil Rights Activist and Calypso singer and actor. May he R.I.P.
Every single attack by these people is projection. Every one. https://t.co/RdcqssprMv
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) April 25, 2023
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re: #270 Joe Bacon
Another day, another crooked justice on the corrupted court exposed…
Revealed: Neil Gorsuch sold property to head of law firm ‘involved in at least 22’ Supreme Court cases
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has drawn considerable scrutiny over what his critics consider conflicts of interest, from his relationship with billionaire GOP megadonor Harlan Crow to his wife Ginni Thomas’ efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. Now, according to Politico reporter Heidi Przybyla, another relationship involving a High Court justice could merit close scrutiny — and this time, the justice is Donald Trump nominee Neil Gorsuch.
Przybyla, in an article published by Politico on April 25, reports, “For nearly two years beginning in 2015, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch sought a buyer for a 40-acre tract of property he co-owned in rural Granby, Colorado. Nine days after he was confirmed by the Senate for a lifetime appointment on the Supreme Court, the then-circuit court judge got one: The chief executive of Greenberg Traurig, one of the nation’s biggest law firms with a robust practice before the High Court. Gorsuch owned the property with two other individuals.”
I said this about Thomas too
Even at a so called “market price” it stinks
Because there were no other buyers
Dealing arms length with strangers he would have had to wait and hold it, or take less to unload it just then
Cops investigating burning cross and racial slur on Colorado mayor’s campaign sign
A Colorado Springs mayoral candidate’s sign was vandalized by a racial slur and a burning cross — and authorities are trying to figure out who did it, reported FOX21 this week.
“The video shows Yemi Mobolade’s campaign sign spray painted in red with a racial slur and a cross lit on fire in front of it,” reported Alina Lee. “Mobolade said he is aware of the video but does not know if the video was real or if it was staged. ‘Either way, it’s reprehensible,’ said Mobolade. ‘This is not the Colorado Springs we know and it is likely the actions of an unhealthy individual.’”
Colorado Springs…where Jesusbots run the Air Force Academy and Focus on The Family is headquarted…
re: #271 JC1
Not sure what you’re trying to say or think I disagree with here.
How many non test flights did SpaceX lose?
Do you mean successful launches which subsequently failed during the mission?
Since March 2006, SpaceX has launched 5 Falcon 1, 204 Falcon 9, and 1 Starship rockets. Of these, 3 Falcon 1, 2 Falcon 9 and 1 Starship launches were complete failures and 1 Falcon 9 launch were partial failures.
So, six by their own count.
I’m off to bed.
Heavy wet snow expected to develop over the Colorado Rockies and into portions of the Front Range later today https://t.co/A3RX3bxaUJ
— NWS Weather Prediction Center (@NWSWPC) April 25, 2023
re: #214 Dave In Austin
The police - every cop in every town in America - are the enemy of the people of America. “But officer X is nice” - but he’s not stopping officer y & z.
It really is that simple.
Likewise, If I see “blue lives matter” or the defaced flag, I know I’m dealing with a racist who is at minimum a fascist sympathizer if not a full blown fascist.
GOP employs artificial intelligence because authentic intelligence doesn’t exist in the party…
BREAKING: Elon Musk has allegedly revealed a secret alt account where he pretends to be a child version of himself posting a lot of bizarre sexual content pic.twitter.com/HaItr9Cl31
— The Serfs (@theserfstv) April 25, 2023
Groomer Carlson https://t.co/tZPG1sJwp9
— gocart mozart (@EdMix13) April 25, 2023
RNC airs video clip of ‘Biden’s America’ — it was actually Barcelona
The video, which appeared during Monday night’s event, shows footage from 2019 protests in Spain.
This take is right - why does the RNC have to make fake footage of a dystopia if their entire argument is that Biden has already made America a dystopia?
Someone didn’t think it through logically but RNC digital thought it was too cute to pass onhttps://t.co/JBgB5og6jZ— Kyle Tharp (@kylewilsontharp) April 25, 2023
The newest addition to the morning crew at Chez Fish is actually a member of the mourning crew; a mourning dove, that is. Its unmistakable song is one of my lasting memories of childhood nights spent at my grandmother’s house.
re: #286 gocart mozart
When someone admits to you who they really are, believe them.
— Teo 😷🧼↔️🌡🤬💉 (@Teukka1972) April 25, 2023
When someone admits to you who they really are, believe them. https://t.co/gnGjHK4lUF
— Teo 😷🧼↔️🌡🤬💉 (@Teukka1972) April 25, 2023
This is Aston. He was neutered yesterday. Hates the cone of shame so much that they had to come up with a better solution. Pants. 13/10 pic.twitter.com/wOTxeUTbGJ
— WeRateDogs (@dog_rates) April 24, 2023
re: #286 gocart mozart
Apparently those comments don’t count/matter because they were said there “a long time ago”…..because reasons……
Sad to hear about Harry Belafonte, but the man lived a long and productive life. We should all be so lucky.
And if we can fight for our freedoms half as hard as he did, we’re doing pretty good.
re: #294 William Lewis
Another one of those images where I’m waffling between black & white vs color. Both, to my eye, have different strengths and weaknesses…
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re: #260 Patricia Kayden
I’m sure DeSantis already has a pocket Florida Legislator already writing up a new bill to allow him to run again as Governor when he announces he is NOT running against Trump. Right now DeSantis is term-limited.
I doubt Trump feels any pressure to strike a deal and guarantee DeSantis a possible Cabinet position if he drops out now.
Judge warns Trump attorneys not to ‘incite violence’ on first day of rape trial
On the first day of Trump’s civil rape trial, Kaplan gave last-minute instructions to the attorneys before bringing in 48 anonymous potential jurors.
“Judge Lewis Kaplan is about to bring in 48 jurors for voir dire. Before calling them in, he told both parties and their lawyers to ‘refrain from making any statements that will incite violence or civil unrest,’ echoing concerns he raised when he mandated using an anonymous jury,” Blooberg correspondent Erik Larson reported from the courthouse.
Kaplan took the unusual step of ordering an anonymous jury in March due to a “very strong risk” of harrassment.
re: #275 Joe Bacon
Harry Belafonte dies at 96. The barrier-smashing entertainer and singer of ‘Day-O’ was also a relentless human rights activist.
Belafonte, the singer whose dynamic a cappella shout of “Day-O!” from “The Banana Boat Song” and other music from world folk traditions propelled him to international stardom, used his entertainment fortune to help bankroll the civil rights movement at home and human rights causes worldwide.
Here’s to Harry. Rest in Peace.
Community Notes has devolved into a place where Elon’s biggest fans insist that the neonazi Great Replacement Theory is real, actually. pic.twitter.com/rObXyaLFyy
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) April 25, 2023
re: #106 TarHellion
Eh, par is fine. Dipped down into the mid 30s this morning thanks to clear skies and low humidity. Been playing the Resident Evil 4 remake. Quite a game. Enjoy the day/evening Lizard peeps!
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re: #304 DodgerFan1988
Community Notes has devolved into a place where Elon’s biggest fans insist that the neonazi Great Replacement Theory is real, actually.
The people who insist that America should be run by a businessman running his business can only concur: one replaces substandard assets with better ones.
Farewell, 161-game win streak. It’s been fun. [Cue Memories or The Way We Were]
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Ex-White House Doctor Ronny Jackson demands Joe Biden take a cognitive test or drop out of 2024 presidential race 😳🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/Vt9jkV83fv
— Daily Loud (@DailyLoud) April 25, 2023
re: #308 Dr. Matt
Coming from the douche that said The Former Guy has “incredible genes”, “he might live to be 200 years”, and “weighs 239 pounds”.
Representative Jackson, with all due respect (which is to say, none at all), go fuck yourself. You are in no position to demand anything.
re: #308 Dr. Matt
Coming from the douche that said The Former Guy has “incredible genes”, “he might live to be 200 years”, and “weighs 239 pounds”.
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CRY MOAR, SUCKERS
This is so sad lol pic.twitter.com/OU2uaIe3aA
— 𝕓𝕒𝕫. (@BazBombadil) April 25, 2023
re: #308 Dr. Matt
Ex-White House Doctor Ronny Jackson demands Joe Biden take a cognitive test or drop out of 2024 presidential race.
This is all about promoting the narrative that Biden is too old and feeble-minded to be President again
re: #310 Joe Bacon
Was he sober when he posted that?
He said it at a podium in the White House briefing room. Scary
re: #311 The Pie Overlord!
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It really is like a bunch of dudes all sitting around in a hot tub, going “I thought there would be more women here.”
It would be unfortunate if this went viral, wouldn’t it?
A thing more people should know:
There’s a Jan. 6 participant who was injured when he was shoved off a ledge after he tried to accost cops while armed with what looked like a giant ass knife.
He was wearing a “TUCKER IS MY HOMEBOY” t-shirt.
Photos sent by a sleuth source: pic.twitter.com/li6ZNKmJdo— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) April 25, 2023
re: #315 Teukka
There’s a Jan. 6 participant who was injured when he was shoved off a ledge after he tried to accost cops while armed with what looked like a giant ass knife.
He was wearing a “TUCKER IS MY HOMEBOY” t-shirt.
again, proof that “replacement theory” is not necessarily a bad thing…
re: #315 Teukka
A thing more people should know:
There’s a Jan. 6 participant who was injured when he was shoved off a ledge after he tried to accost cops while armed with what looked like a giant ass knife.
He was wearing a “TUCKER IS MY HOMEBOY” t-shirt.
Photos sent by a sleuth source: pic.twitter.com/li6ZNKmJdo— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) April 25, 2023
Did he get a Hungry Man TV dinner as a consolation prize?
re: #316 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
again, proof that “replacement theory” is not necessarily a bad thing…
Well, let’s face it. If you’re white and you’re still a drooling idiot after a thousand years of power and dominance, it’s probably time for you to stand aside and give someone else a chance.
re: #307 sizzzzlerz
Farewell, 161-game win streak. It’s been fun. [Cue Memories or The Way We Were]
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For Trump, running for POTUS is like participating in a beauty pageant. The “real work” is the campaigning, then he gets to be “Mr. America” for 4 years.
— Liddle Cherry Pie🌻🌈🍒🥧 (@Pie_Overlord) April 25, 2023
re: #162 Nerdy Fish
For every warlike species out there who is prepared to end us before we can achieve interstellar spaceflight, there is another, equally warlike species who is prepared to defend Earth’s mighty hero, “Grogu,” from all harm because he is just too adorable.
as a species, our greatest psychological struggle in future millenia will be knowing that billions of sentient creatures were wiped out because two ancient civilizations went to war with each other over the ending of the Sopranos.
re: #250 Dave In Austin
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Hmmm if Tucker runs for President will he give a testicle tanner to every man who contributes the maximum to his campaign?
re: #197 Patricia Kayden
As someone with Haitian in-laws (ex-in-laws since I’m divorced), it’s sad that that country has not progressed and is constantly mired in violence and abject poverty. I was hoping that after the earthquake and the world’s assistance, Haiti would have started to move in the right direction but it appears to have gotten much worse. The odd thing is that I know people who have vacationed there (in the north of the country) and find it to be beautiful. It has potential.
Haiti got saddled by France with the cost of all the slaves who were set free by the revolution—and they’ve never really recovered.
Today’s list is going down fast, all of the deck’s hanging baskets are full, watered, and ready for planting and the tall plant pots are ready as well. I repaired the garden sprayer, the polesaw, and the wheelbarrow. The only thing left is for this afternoon: after the grass dries a bit more I will mow it.
re: #288 lawhawk
This take is right - why does the RNC have to make fake footage of a dystopia if their entire argument is that Biden has already made America a dystopia?
Someone didn’t think it through logically but RNC digital thought it was too cute to pass on
forget logic
it makes perfect sense when you consider the target audience
re: #290 Nerdy Fish
The newest addition to the morning crew at Chez Fish is actually a member of the mourning crew; a mourning dove, that is. Its unmistakable song is one of my lasting memories of childhood nights spent at my grandmother’s house.
we now have a resident woodpecker
expanded a hole high up in a dead palm trunk outside my office window
i hear it all day now
re: #312 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
This is all about promoting the narrative that Biden is too old and feeble-minded to be President again
if/when trump is their nominee, all this nonsense disappears
re: #315 Teukka
It would be unfortunate if this went viral, wouldn’t it?
and here i am trying to understand what an ‘ass knife’ is (1/2 because i’m dense sometimes)
A thing more people should know:
There’s a Jan. 6 participant who was injured when he was shoved off a ledge after he tried to accost cops while armed with what looked like a giant ass knife.
He was wearing a “TUCKER IS MY HOMEBOY” t-shirt.
Photos sent by a sleuth source: pic.twitter.com/li6ZNKmJdo— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) April 25, 2023
re: #157 Shropshire Slasher
An African-American homebuyer with good credit will be penalized as well.
Anything to shit on Biden over, eh? Did your good deed for the day or some shit?
re: #335 Dangerman
and here i am trying to understand what an ‘ass knife’ is (1/2 because i’m dense sometimes)
I think the answer lies hidden in a crack.
A very strong conservative (not MAGA) told me years ago about 2 men he knows well:
1. Hannity believes everything he says but is stupid.
2. Tucker knows what he is saying is lies, but he is extremely smart and thinks his audience is stupid.
That made Tucker far more dangerous.— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) April 25, 2023
I’d label this #NotADragQueen but this is so grotesque I’m having a hard time joking at all.
Sick fuck.
Read the Daily Beast article at your own peril. The 20 years he’s eligible for is nowhere near enough.
J.F.C!
Seminary-Trained Professor Charged in Revolting Child Sex Abuse Sting
re: #83 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
This is sort of retconning of what SpaceX actually did, which SpaceX themselves actually did.
When NASA launches a new rocket type, they have to have exhaustive testing and design, because a failure means their money will get cut off. The taxpayers don’t want their money spent on failed projects.
When you’re a rich asshole, you can throw as much money at a project as you want. You can afford to absorb losses (move fast and break things, like throwing concrete chunks all over Port Isabel) because you don’t answer to anyone other than your ego.
I guarantee you that Elon wanted that rocket to succeed. The mission plan wasn’t “launch and blow up two minutes later.” The mission plan was “launch and reach a suborbital trajectory then crash into the ocean.”
Elon has successfully retconned this into the former.
SpaceX can learn from the failure, because rocket surgery is hard. But that was not the plan.
Either he planned to succeed and didn’t or he planned to fail and blue debris over a wide area. Neither are good outcomes.
re: #342 Eclectic Cyborg
Well, Tucker is right about one thing.
His (former) audience is stupid.
I’d say that Hannity thinks of himself as smart, his listeners as smart, but in reality both are dumber than a bag of hammers. Carlson is an opportunistic and bigoted right wing extremist who is a modicum smarter than his audience and far more dangerous.
re: #338 lawhawk
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When Tuckkker was at MSNBC, he was a nerdy libertarian wonk who attempted to come off an “intellect”. That’s a far cry from the blatant white supremacy version of Tuckkker on Fox. In short, Tuckkker is a fraud.
re: #343 lawhawk
I’d say that Hannity thinks of himself as smart, his listeners as smart, but in reality both are dumber than a bag of hammers. Carlson is an opportunistic and bigoted right wing extremist who is a modicum smarter than his audience and far more dangerous.
see above re: #244 Dangerman
eta:
- he was dishonest in how he made his arguments
- he didnt believe the crap he was spewing
Gallup\ surveys in 137 countries show Russia’s image has suffered worldwide since it began its war in Ukraine.
For the first time in Gallup’s history of tracking ratings of world leaders, the majority of the world disapproves of Russia’s leadership.
I suspect a lot of folks on the RWNJ grift circuit know they’re spouting bullshit, but they know there’s a ton of morons who will buy it, so they go with it to keep the money flowing in.
re: #346 Dangerman
Gallup\ surveys in 137 countries show Russia’s image has suffered worldwide since it began its war in Ukraine.
For the first time in Gallup’s history of tracking ratings of world leaders, the majority of the world disapproves of Russia’s leadership.
But wouldn’t it be something to track GOP support for Putin across time… /
one thing is clear it’s who’s a politician and who’s not ready for prime time
With @GovRonDeSantis traveling abroad during the penultimate week of the 2023 Florida Legislative Session, there is increasing chatter that @RealDonaldTrump, the ultimate showman, will visit Tallahassee to meet w/ lawmakers.@JoeGruters would shepherd former POTUS.#FlaPol pic.twitter.com/Cq2nvefJOo
— Peter Schorsch (@PeterSchorschFL) April 25, 2023
re: #334 Dangerman
if/when trump is their nominee, all this nonsense [about Biden’s feeblemindedness] disappears
If DJT is their nominee (which he will definitely be if he chooses to/is allowed to/is physically able to run) then they will DOUBLE DOWN on this nonsense
re: #315 Teukka
I’ve watched that video so many times. And he wasn’t shoved. He slipped and fell on his own.
And they are fine with giving our children access to this, but not The Diary of Anne Frank:
1 Samuel 18:25-27
King James Version
25 And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king’s enemies. But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.
26 And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king’s son in law: and the days were not expired.
27 Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king’s son in law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife.
remeber Rebekah Jones?
Florida scientist says she was fired for refusing to change Covid-19 data ‘to support reopen plan’
Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo altered an analysis released by the Florida Department of Health last year to suggest mRNA Covid-19 vaccines pose a significant health risk to men ages 18 to 39, Politico reports.
One of the reviewers/critics said it appeared he altered the study out of political — not scientific — concerns.
an exhibit of what a DeSantis presidency would be like
re: #351 GlutenFreeJesus
I’ve watched that video so many times. And he wasn’t shoved. He slipped and fell on his own.
Too many Bud Lights before the assault?
And Tuckkker doesn’t have a TV show to vent his outrage. I’m sure Token Candace Owens will chime in.
Barbie has launched their first-ever Barbie doll with Down syndrome. pic.twitter.com/FZKVw7ryrB
— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) April 25, 2023
re: #349 Dangerman
one thing is clear it’s who’s a politician and who’s not ready for prime time
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Aren’t there better ways to describe the man who betrayed us all than “ultimate showman?” How about “seditionist failed former President?”
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) April 25, 2023
re: #355 Dr. Matt
Barbie has launched their first-ever Barbie doll with Down syndrome.
How about a CTE Ken?
re: #354 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
My guess is he’s stupid when sober.
re: #350 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
If DJT is their nominee (which he will definitely be if he chooses to/is allowed to/is physically able to run) then they will DOUBLE DOWN on this nonsense
for 2020 biden did do most of his campaigning from his basement, due to covid.
that won’t work this time. he’ll be out and in it, while still managing to be president and run things.
tfg does rallies.
not much else. no retail. he never actually gets out there.
doesnt do the fairs, events, meeting people personally, etc
he’ll have campaign while managing multiple lawsuits
short of one of them having an actual medical ‘event’, a lot of it will depend on how they look while campaigning
Ground Control is still trying to reestablish contact with the Japanese lander which should have landed on the Moon.
re: #361 No Malarkey!
Ground Control is still trying to reestablish contact with the Japanese lander which should have landed on the Moon.
That sounds more like Ranger than Surveyor I’m afraid…
re: #339 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I’d label this #NotADragQueen but this is so grotesque I’m having a hard time joking at all.
Sick fuck.
Read the Daily Beast article at your own peril. The 20 years he’s eligible for is nowhere near enough.
J.F.C!
re: #361 No Malarkey!
Ground Control is still trying to reestablish contact with the Japanese lander which should have landed on the Moon.
But it’s not a failure, just a different form of success.
/Sorry, I’ll stop
E Jean Carroll rape trial is getting underway, so here’s a reminder of some key moments in the depositions leading up to trial.
BTW, this only *reads* like satire.
As with all things Trump, it’s hard to tell.https://t.co/KEjQuuuZbU— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) April 25, 2023
This self-admitted sex predator couldn’t tell the difference between one of his former wives and Carroll. “Not his type”? Yeah, that’ll be a great defense. /
Brilliant pic.twitter.com/1w3eUKLcAo
— Sean P. OHearn 🏳️🌈 GAY Atheist Animal Lover! 🌻 (@BabaliciousDQ1) April 25, 2023
re: #355 Dr. Matt
And Tuckkker doesn’t have a TV show to vent his outrage. I’m sure Token Candace Owens will chime in.
Looks rather like Sofia Jirau, a woman with Downs who has modeled for Victoria’s Secret.
re: #351 GlutenFreeJesus
I’ve watched that video so many times. And he wasn’t shoved. He slipped and fell on his own.
Shoved because he was somewhere he wasn’t supposed to be because he’s stupid, or did he simply fall because he’s stupid?
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) April 25, 2023
re: #364 Nerdy Fish
But it’s not a failure, just a different form of success.
/Sorry, I’ll stop
Only if they meant to do that?
/me too.
re: #369 William Lewis
Only if they meant to do that?
/me too.
Their engineers are investigating, but they are very proud of their accomplishments and obtained valuable data during the landing attempt.
2 Republicans die and go to heaven. They ask God if he’d answer one question. “Of course,” God says. They ask how the Democrats rigged the election in 2020. “It wasn’t rigged,” God replied. Republicans look at one another and say, “This conspiracy goes higher than we thought!”
— Lord Piltdown (@jimreynolds54) April 25, 2023
This is largely coming from people who want to force the President to “debate” an anti-vaxxer on national television.
People who want a primary process that hurts Biden, even though there is no other candidate that is viable.
People who want Dems to lose the election.— ClearingTheFog (@clearing_fog) April 25, 2023
re: #353 Dangerman
remeber Rebekah Jones?
Florida scientist says she was fired for refusing to change Covid-19 data ‘to support reopen plan’One of the reviewers/critics said it appeared he altered the study out of political — not scientific — concerns.
an exhibit of what a DeSantis presidency would be like
DeSadist and trump are two sides of the same coin. Trump is politically (as in running a government into the ground) dumb as shit but has a magnetic personality that certain followers love, where DeSadist is politically astute but has the personality of a dead fish.
re: #373 lawhawk
DJT does not want there to be any GOP primary debates.
Deranged lunatic is terrified of debating anyone because he can’t control the questions and he would become completely unhinged. pic.twitter.com/IL7NDlykGp
— Spiro’s Ghost (@AntiToxicPeople) April 25, 2023
The second round of Disney layoffs once again hit ABC News on Tuesday, with Nate Silver’s data-driven politics and journalism brand FiveThirtyEight among those being impacted.Silver told FiveThirtyEight employees in a Slack message that he expects to leave Disney when his contract is up, which he added would be “soon,” The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
ABC News is expected to keep the FiveThirtyEight brand name, with plans to streamline the site and make it more efficient.
Nate Silver Out at ABC News as Disney Layoffs Once Again Hit News Division (THR)
re: #370 No Malarkey!
Their engineers are investigating, but they are very proud of their accomplishments and obtained valuable data during the landing attempt.
On a serious note, I’m hoping they didn’t Mars Climate Orbiter their lander. That would be a tragedy. I wonder if the lunar seismometers the Apollo missions left have recorded anything.
re: #378 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Holy shit. I mean, HOLY SHIT!
Annnnd BOOM!!
#Anonymous
Over the next 50 days we will be highlighting #GOP sexual predators with the focus being on consent and underage sexual relations, releasing 20 a day using a variety of reports compiled
This is #OpGOP and while the media forgets we do not
Part 2 pic.twitter.com/R5Wz0olVrn— AnonOpsUnited (@AnonOpsUnited2) April 25, 2023
Community Notes has devolved into a place where Elon’s biggest fans insist that the neonazi Great Replacement Theory is real, actually. pic.twitter.com/rObXyaLFyy
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) April 25, 2023
re: #339 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I’d label this #NotADragQueen but this is so grotesque I’m having a hard time joking at all.
Sick fuck.
Read the Daily Beast article at your own peril. The 20 years he’s eligible for is nowhere near enough.
J.F.C!
From the link:
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