Video: David Pecker, Key Figure in ‘Catch and Kill’ Scheme Takes Stand in NY Trial

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I’m trying so hard to refrain from making (any more) “pecker” jokes, I should get a medal.

Vaughn Hillyard, NBC News Correspondent, Susanne Craig, New York Times Investigative Correspondent and Lisa Rubin MSNBC Legal Correspondent joins Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House with reaction to the first day of opening arguments in the hush money trial in New York involving Donald Trump with David Pecker who was at the center of the catch and kill scheme taking the stand.

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327 comments
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retired cynic  Apr 22, 2024 • 4:32:29pm

No pecker jokes here.

These 150-foot-high sails could help solve shipping’s climate problem
Harnessing the power of wind could both reduce emissions from cargo ships and extend the life of these vessels
wapo.st (gift link)

So great. Automatic sails of different styles retract when docking. Didn’t know this was happening, but am delighted.

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darthstar  Apr 22, 2024 • 4:32:34pm

Oh, I missed this earlier…how precious.

hactivedirectory.com

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BigPapa  Apr 22, 2024 • 4:32:41pm

The memes are so spicy today.

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darthstar  Apr 22, 2024 • 4:33:12pm

re: #2 darthstar

Oh, I missed this earlier…how precious.

hactivedirectory.com

Crap…bad embed.

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darthstar  Apr 22, 2024 • 4:35:55pm

For those who truly enjoy Zappa - bootleg of the year.

Mastodon

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Belafon  Apr 22, 2024 • 4:38:48pm

re: #4 darthstar

Crap…bad embed.

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I thought it was determined that it wasn’t real?

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darthstar  Apr 22, 2024 • 4:39:24pm

re: #5 darthstar

For those who truly enjoy Zappa - bootleg of the year.

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Actually was put up four years ago.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 22, 2024 • 4:41:25pm

Nearly titled this, “Trump’s Pecker Betrays Him.”

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danarchy  Apr 22, 2024 • 4:41:45pm

re: #6 Belafon

I thought it was determined that it wasn’t real?

It was from this tweet:

It was not in fact read in court.

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jaunte  Apr 22, 2024 • 4:43:38pm

re: #8 Charles Johnson

Nearly titled this, “Trump’s Pecker Betrays Him.”

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 22, 2024 • 4:44:08pm

New York University faculty members joined the pro-Palestine protest on campus Monday afternoon, just after the university ordered protesters to disperse.

Video from the scene showed faculty members forming a wall around student protesters as they defied the 4 p.m. order to leave.

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jaunte  Apr 22, 2024 • 4:48:07pm

Tesla Cybertruck Breaks In New, Innovative Way
jalopnik.com

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jaunte  Apr 22, 2024 • 4:48:43pm

“…If you’re not familiar, Tesla really wants you to put your car in Drive or Park using the touchscreen. Since touchscreens can crash, though, you need a second way to get your car into gear. So Tesla put a panel in the middle of the windshield that allows you to put it in Drive yourself. The sun visors also attach to the same panel when in use.
Since sun visors get so much use, and moving them puts strain on whatever they’re mounted to, you’d assume Tesla would have done enough durability testing to make sure the plastic could stand up to repeated use. Apparently, you’d also be wrong.”

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gocart mozart  Apr 22, 2024 • 4:52:41pm
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Patricia Kayden  Apr 22, 2024 • 4:54:48pm

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darthstar  Apr 22, 2024 • 4:55:12pm

Mastodon

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 22, 2024 • 4:56:12pm

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BigPapa  Apr 22, 2024 • 4:57:34pm

re: #16 darthstar

Fuck his feelings

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darthstar  Apr 22, 2024 • 4:58:18pm

re: #18 BigPapa

Fuck his feelings

Yep…with a rake.

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 22, 2024 • 4:58:43pm

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Rightwingconspirator  Apr 22, 2024 • 5:00:30pm

re: #8 Charles Johnson

Nearly titled this, “Trump’s Pecker Betrays Him.”

Careful or it will get Stormy

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jaunte  Apr 22, 2024 • 5:02:32pm

re: #20 Patricia Kayden

Some people call it enemy action.

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TedStriker  Apr 22, 2024 • 5:04:00pm

re: #16 darthstar

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WOMP WOMP MUTHAFUCKA

GET FUCKING REKT

/too much?

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BigPapa  Apr 22, 2024 • 5:04:52pm

re: #23 TedStriker

/too much?

You can do better than that.

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darthstar  Apr 22, 2024 • 5:05:37pm

Mastodon

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TedStriker  Apr 22, 2024 • 5:05:57pm

re: #20 Patricia Kayden

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re: #22 jaunte

Some people call it enemy action.

Ian Fleming: “Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.”

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TedStriker  Apr 22, 2024 • 5:07:08pm

re: #21 Rightwingconspirator

Careful or it will get Stormy

“Pecker Dumps Big Load in Court”

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 22, 2024 • 5:09:29pm

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Apr 22, 2024 • 5:12:26pm

re: #18 BigPapa

Fuck his feelings


He’ll show the world when he’s President for life.
/In the wingnut font because I do not believe this guy will return to power. His nutjob fans love him, but they’re a minority surrounded by women who want their rights, people who care about those women, and people who want America to remain a democracy.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Apr 22, 2024 • 5:12:57pm

I got to get up early tomorrow for Primary Day. To my fellow Pennsylvanians please remember to vote.

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darthstar  Apr 22, 2024 • 5:12:59pm

Alternating between CNN and MSNBC and I have to say CNN is doing a better job of REPORTING on the case while MSNBC is going full Rachel…so CNN it is because I’m more interested in just a discussion of the evidence.

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darthstar  Apr 22, 2024 • 5:15:12pm

10 days of 420.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 22, 2024 • 5:17:29pm

Trump keeps recycling this “argument” again and again without ever apparently realizing he’s saying that Joe Biden could throw him into a deep dark dungeon and keep him there and Trump would have no escape.

It’s another case of: either Trump’s that dumb or he thinks all his marks are that dumb.

— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-04-23T00:16:22.000Z

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darthstar  Apr 22, 2024 • 5:22:29pm

V-Ger responds again for the first time in a while

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darthstar  Apr 22, 2024 • 5:23:42pm

re: #33 Charles Johnson

And every time he makes this complaint/argument it loses a little bit more of its effectiveness.

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Belafon  Apr 22, 2024 • 5:31:13pm

Watching Grimsburg. They went up Mount Taj to fast track through a sequence.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 22, 2024 • 5:37:23pm

re: #14 gocart mozart

Very interesting. Than you got posting that!

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Romantic Heretic  Apr 22, 2024 • 5:41:02pm

re: #19 darthstar

Now imagining Trump as Sideshow Bob.

The Simpsons - Sideshow Bob Stepping On Rakes Compilation

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The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 22, 2024 • 5:43:53pm

re: #33 Charles Johnson

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It accurately speaks to how conservatives view distribution of power—they are special, they deserve unaccountable power, they do not have time to quibble over meaning with inferiors. The “argument” makes perfect sense once you realize that their assumption is only they can hold power legitimately.

Trump succeeds with his audience because he speaks the language of exclusivity and caste they value first and foremost.

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 22, 2024 • 5:46:54pm

re: #38 Romantic Heretic

I believe that’s my favorite episode where Sideshow Bob claimed that “Die Bart, die” was simply German for “The Bart, the”.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 22, 2024 • 5:47:01pm

Trump’s pecker was a co-conspirator.

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mmmirele  Apr 22, 2024 • 5:54:13pm

re: #11 goddamnedfrank

I’m just going to say that students now are much more active in getting into their universities’ faces than we were in the fall of 1982. We were protesting UT Austin’s Permanent University Fund being (partially) invested in companies that did business in apartheid South Africa. Yeah, there were sit-ins, yeah, there were arrests, but man, the profs did NOT join us. It never occurred to us to get tents and camp out on the West Mall.

I have seriously mixed emotions about this. On the one hand, it’s good to see students interested in the outside world. On the other hand, I’m not sure this is going to do anything. I don’t know if these people *get* that it’s not going to take a week or a month. The protesting went on for *years* at UT Austin, up until the end of apartheid in 1990. Also, the involvement of outsiders is sketchy as hell.

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jeffreyw  Apr 22, 2024 • 5:59:36pm

#wildlife #nature #picnickingcritters #raccoons
Random Raccoons

— (@jeffreyw.bsky.social) 2024-04-22T13:52:48.127Z

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Apr 22, 2024 • 6:09:05pm

re: #42 mmmirele

Meanwhile, the from-the-river-to-the-sea folks have set up tents on the Sproul steps (central, but out of the way of the main traffic) and say they’ll be there until UC divests from “pro-Israel” investments. Their pro-genocide chants do not endear me to them (yes, Israel has a lot to answer for in the way they’re prosecuting their war, but.).

My best guess is that they’ll wait until the semester ends (three weeks), then remove the tents and their occupants (it seems they still remember the lessons of People’s Park). Unless the protesters get too obnoxious. The administration is an authoritarian institution, and it’s a bad idea to poke them.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 22, 2024 • 6:09:44pm

Doing Seder with friends tonight. May you all have a wonderful evening and a Happy Passover to all!

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Charles Johnson  Apr 22, 2024 • 6:12:46pm

This country seems to be going wrong in so many ways. I hope we can pull up.

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 22, 2024 • 6:13:00pm

re: #42 mmmirele

I have a bunch of various thoughts on this subject that can all basically be summed up as “if the powers that be don’t want to ratchet up tensions then they shouldn’t do things that ratchet up tension.”

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Captain Magic  Apr 22, 2024 • 6:14:23pm

re: #45 Joe Bacon ✅

A classic seder….

Seder at Vincent Price’s House

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Captain Ron  Apr 22, 2024 • 6:14:57pm
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Charles Johnson  Apr 22, 2024 • 6:18:31pm

re: #49 Captain Ron

Deforestation pushes animals in Uganda forest to eat virus-laden bat poo

same

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jaunte  Apr 22, 2024 • 6:20:04pm

re: #49 Captain Ron

This is not what Earth Day is supposed to mean.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Apr 22, 2024 • 6:23:13pm

re: #49 Captain Ron

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Nothing bad can come of that. Just like with the plandemic, the far left wants to scare you with nonsense about “viruses,” to control you, and distract you from real dangers, like drag queens.

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 22, 2024 • 6:30:49pm

Drew Carey just posted this in response to seeing a Phish concert in the Sphere, and I still don’t know to process it, honestly.

— Dr. Tessa Fisher (@tessafisher.bsky.social) 2024-04-23T00:16:22.544Z

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Charles Johnson  Apr 22, 2024 • 6:31:14pm

have you ever freaked out?

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jaunte  Apr 22, 2024 • 6:33:26pm

@manningkrull.bsky.social

Buddy, same

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GlutenFreeJesus  Apr 22, 2024 • 6:34:52pm

re: #34 darthstar

Glad I scrolled through. Was going to post the CNN article. 15 billion miles away. That’s so fucking cool.

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Rightwingconspirator  Apr 22, 2024 • 6:35:41pm

re: #46 Charles Johnson

This country seems to be going wrong in so many ways. I hope we can pull up.

Call me crazy.

In recent years, I have found myself looking at and talking to people a generation or two younger. And I have that same thought as you. They have many decades ahead and deserve at least what we had or had a shot at.

FFS we got to see the first steps on the moon live. The birth of the internet. The first black President. I think it’s on us to do our part to clear the way for the next bunch. Leave the place in better shape than when we came in.

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Captain Ron  Apr 22, 2024 • 6:44:00pm
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teleskiguy  Apr 22, 2024 • 6:44:11pm

re: #53 goddamnedfrank

That’s a hell of a place to see your first Phish show (by most accounts I’m seeing it was his first time seeing the band). From what I’m seeing they did some rather dazzling things with the venue.

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Belafon  Apr 22, 2024 • 6:45:18pm

I personally would still like to see us try to put humans on the moon and Mars for both scientific and engineering reasons. But, one thing that would aid us in any exploration of the Solar System is an array of communication satellites scattered throughout local space.

For the first time since November, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is returning usable data about the health and status of its onboard engineering systems. The next step is to enable the spacecraft to begin returning science data again. The probe and its twin, Voyager 2, are the only spacecraft to ever fly in interstellar space (the space between stars).

Voyager 1 stopped sending readable science and engineering data back to Earth on Nov. 14, 2023, even though mission controllers could tell the spacecraft was still receiving their commands and otherwise operating normally. In March, the Voyager engineering team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California confirmed that the issue was tied to one of the spacecraft’s three onboard computers, called the flight data subsystem (FDS). The FDS is responsible for packaging the science and engineering data before it’s sent to Earth.

The team discovered that a single chip responsible for storing a portion of the FDS memory—including some of the FDS computer’s software code—isn’t working. The loss of that code rendered the science and engineering data unusable. Unable to repair the chip, the team decided to place the affected code elsewhere in the FDS memory. But no single location is large enough to hold the section of code in its entirety.

[…]

The team started by singling out the code responsible for packaging the spacecraft’s engineering data. They sent it to its new location in the FDS memory on April 18. A radio signal takes about 22.5 hours to reach Voyager 1, which is over 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) from Earth, and another 22.5 hours for a signal to come back to Earth. When the mission flight team heard back from the spacecraft on April 20, they saw that the modification had worked: For the first time in five months, they have been able to check the health and status of the spacecraft.

Yes, the signal would get to and from destinations slower because it wouldn’t be in a straight line most of the time, but it would be a stronger signal on both ends.

phys.org

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teleskiguy  Apr 22, 2024 • 6:47:08pm

I’ve seen Phish a half dozen times. The shows are indeed very fun. Musically, I prefer more math I guess, I’ve seen Umphrey’s McGee almost 90 times.

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bratwurst  Apr 22, 2024 • 6:47:20pm

Hey rock fans, the official Midnight Special YouTube channel has given us our first Todd Rundgren drop!

Black Maria - Todd Rundgren | The Midnight Special

This was the night he largely tanked his career. At the time, he was just a few months after a top 10 hit with “Hello It’s Me”. Fans who only knew him from AM radio at this point were…um…surprised by his appearance here, even if few picked up on the fact he was under the influence of psychedelics.

Coincidentally, I just saw him perform for the first time in 6 years this past Saturday night. His recently started tour is about as “deep cuts” as he ever gets. It’s also less talk/more rock…least I have ever heard him patter in my 30+ shows over the past 38 years. The result is 2+ hours of good and thoughtful music. If you are any kind of fan of his, this tour is well worth seeing and not priced as obnoxiously as a LOT of shows these days.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 22, 2024 • 6:56:16pm

re: #62 bratwurst

Watched earlier, and I’m guessing he’s a LEETLE embarrassed that this is showing up on YouTube after all those years. Or maybe not. I would be.

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darthstar  Apr 22, 2024 • 6:59:51pm

This one legal expert, Suzanne Craig, on MSNBC reminds me of someone, but I’m not sure who…

I mean, her legal opinion is on point, but I’m having a hard time taking her seriously.

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jaunte  Apr 22, 2024 • 7:01:50pm

re: #64 darthstar

I’ve been thinking she looks like John Lithgow’s sister.

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bratwurst  Apr 22, 2024 • 7:07:34pm

re: #63 Charles Johnson

Watched earlier, and I’m guessing he’s a LEETLE embarrassed that this is showing up on YouTube after all those years. Or maybe not. I would be.

While I have met him, I cannot say I know him. Having said that, I feel safe in assuring you that he doesn’t “grok” embarrassment like the rest of us mere mortals who are neither Wizards, nor True Stars.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Apr 22, 2024 • 7:07:35pm

Sean Young filmed the making of Dune with David Lynch 1983

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William Lewis  Apr 22, 2024 • 7:13:27pm

1973 was such a weird year in music… I remember being 10 and hearing everything from “Tie a yellow ribbon” “dead skunk” or “walk on the wild side” - which I loved even then for the beat even if I, uh, didn’t _quite_ understand it for a couple of years. Sorta like when the light bulb when on for “Lola” when listening to it at about 12… 😱😈

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jaunte  Apr 22, 2024 • 7:21:16pm

@lizneeley.bsky.social

Just incredible news on reviving Voyager I.

Think of it: a computer chip 15 billion(!) miles away is broken. The solution is to repackage & move key software, w/ code sent via radio signal that takes 22+ hrs to reach that little 46yr old machine.

AND IT IS WORKING.

https://blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/04/22/nasas-voyager-1-resumes-sending-engineering-updates-to-earth/

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BigPapa  Apr 22, 2024 • 7:22:57pm

Posted without comment

No Sleep Farting
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Dangerman  Apr 22, 2024 • 7:23:31pm

What happened to Marco?

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Dangerman  Apr 22, 2024 • 7:24:01pm

re: #69 jaunte

@lizneeley.bsky.social

NASA rocks!

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Dangerman  Apr 22, 2024 • 7:26:32pm

Depriving an old white man of his golfing and making him sit indoors constitutes cruel and unusual punishment?

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EPR-radar  Apr 22, 2024 • 7:26:36pm

re: #71 Dangerman

Every so often, a Republican occasionally tells the truth.

The Party is working diligently to eliminate all such aberrations.

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bratwurst  Apr 22, 2024 • 7:34:46pm

On one hand, I agree.

On the other hand, these were monuments built while Hitler was in power. It’s nearly impossible to imagine Germans building Nazi monuments long after their complete and utter defeat.

For some reason, we allowed our defeated Nazis to build monuments to themselves.

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silverdolphin  Apr 22, 2024 • 7:38:01pm

So, today is a milestone in my life. A chance I took 20 years ago finally bears fruit.

I left Immunex as a research scientist (where I had been involved in the research in what became Enbrel) after Amgen bought it in 2002. In 2004, I became Head of Research at a company - with now 3 FTEs - called Etubics (as well as being on the Board). This company had new technology that changed how we develop not only vaccines but cancer therapies. To keep costs down, I took my salary in stock.

We were very successful on the research side (there were only 3 of us but we generated over $10 million in non-dilutive SBIR grants from the government). After taking it as far as we could, we sold the company in 2016 to a company called Nantworks with the merged company called ImmunityBio.

My Etubic shares got transferred into ImmunityBio shares. For 20 years, my surrogate salary was a bunch of stock. I wondered if I had done the right thing. Science-wise it was great.

Lots of clinical trials and possible cancer therapies as well as possible disease vaccines were a real possibility. But I have had to wait 8 years for my shares to really be worth anything close to the salary I gave up in order to work at Etubics.

Today is the day. The FDA approved ImmunityBio’s therapy for bladder cancers that are refractory for any other therapy. This is the first in a slew of novel cancer therapies from ImmunityBio based more on modifying the immune system to attack the cancer rather than drugs.

It is great to have been part of something like this. Helping people is why I got into biotech research. And I am glad I was able to not require a salary in order to get that work done. But it is nice that the stock is worth something now. A real win-win for everyone.

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retired cynic  Apr 22, 2024 • 7:40:49pm

re: #76 silverdolphin

Congratulations! That must feel REALLY good!

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teleskiguy  Apr 22, 2024 • 7:41:18pm

re: #75 bratwurst

The Stone Mountain bas-relief needs to be bombed.

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Belafon  Apr 22, 2024 • 7:44:59pm

re: #71 Dangerman

What happened to Marco?

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Trump got elected.

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Belafon  Apr 22, 2024 • 7:45:43pm

re: #73 Dangerman

Depriving an old white man of his golfing and making him sit indoors constitutes cruel and unusual punishment?

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I see Trump’s team filing that motion in the next few days.

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BigPapa  Apr 22, 2024 • 7:48:26pm

re: #78 teleskiguy

The Stone Mountain bas-relief needs to be bombed.

Mount Kaep
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jaunte  Apr 22, 2024 • 7:49:33pm

re: #78 teleskiguy

Replace it with a monument to black musicians.

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silverdolphin  Apr 22, 2024 • 7:51:25pm

re: #77 retired cynic

Congratulations! That must feel REALLY good!

It feels great. Being part of research and a biotech company that develops game-changing therapies that get into people is rare enough. To have done it twice is a miracle.

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Apr 22, 2024 • 7:54:58pm

re: #76 silverdolphin

Hell yes!
Not too many win win win solutions out there that mean much, so kudos and hope for the deserved financial success

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Belafon  Apr 22, 2024 • 7:56:17pm

Random hiccup attack. I haven’t had one of those in ages.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 22, 2024 • 7:56:37pm

So are Bluesky embeds not a thing anymore?

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teleskiguy  Apr 22, 2024 • 7:57:56pm

re: #82 jaunte

Willie Dixon, Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, that’s a good start…

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silverdolphin  Apr 22, 2024 • 7:58:53pm

re: #84 So Cal Greek Hippie

Hell yes!
Not too many win win win solutions out there that mean much, so kudos and hope for the deserved financial success

We will see how the stock opens tomorrow.

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BlueSpotinAL ✅  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:01:07pm

re: #88 silverdolphin

We will see how the stock opens tomorrow.

After hours quote is up 20%.

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wrenchwench  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:15:51pm

re: #86 Eclectic Cyborg

So are Bluesky embeds not a thing anymore?

testing

Come at me you sneezy little bitch

— Wiki Ho (@wikiho.bsky.social) 2024-04-23T01:25:16.918Z

looks good in Preview

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silverdolphin  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:17:05pm

re: #89 BlueSpotinAL ✅

After hours quote is up 20%.

Here is the PR put out by the company. Has a lot of good science. I’m amazed it will be available in a month.

Highlights:

Designated an FDA Breakthrough Therapy, the novel immunotherapy ANKTIVA activates the body’s natural killer (NK) and killer T-cell immune system to attack tumor cells

Therapy stimulates memory T cells, leading to long duration of complete response exceeding 47 months.

The duration of response is ongoing, so the final median duration of response has yet to be determined.

The CR (complete recovery) rate for the 77 evaluable patients was 62% with the upper end of the confidence interval being 73%.

ANKTIVA in combination with BCG is approved for maintenance therapy for up to 37 months with tolerable side effects ranging from 0% to 3% Grade 3/4 adverse events

ANKTIVA is expected to be available in the U.S. by mid-May 2024

They have not been able to determine a median response because so many are still in remission.

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:20:12pm

re: #86 Eclectic Cyborg

So are Bluesky embeds not a thing anymore?

I think LGF is being rate limited.

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Belafon  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:27:07pm

Quote from Russian mathematician V. I. Arnol’d:

It is almost impossible for me to read contemporary mathematicians who, instead of saying “Petya washed his hands,” write simply: “There is a t_1 < 0 such that the image of t_1 under the natural mapping t_1 -> Petya(t_1) belongs to the set of dirty hands, and a t_2, t_1 < t_2 <= 0, such that the image of t_2 under the above-mentioned mapping belongs to the complement of the set defined in the preceding sentence.”

Don’t know who the mathematician is, but the sarcastic remark basically states that mathematicians can’t just make a simple statement.

math.ucr.edu

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teleskiguy  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:48:30pm

Mastodon

Trey has been sober for over 17 years.

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:51:04pm

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silverdolphin  Apr 22, 2024 • 8:59:20pm

re: #95 Patricia Kayden

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I say “Fake”. The cord is too perfect. A real phone cord would have been twisted and uneven, not nicely coiled. /

Like below:

Phone Cord
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goddamnedfrank  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:04:08pm

This shit has happened so many times I’ve lost count. A corporation that sends armed agents of the State after misplaced property absolutely needs to face serious criminal consequences when it does so due to Grey’s Law levels of incompetence.

A man is suing an Orange County car dealership after they provided him a loaner car, then reported that car stolen, leading to his apprehension at gunpoint in Laguna Niguel.

Jamie Rodgers was driving on the 73 Freeway in June 2021 when he was pulled over and held at gunpoint by about a dozen law enforcement officers armed with rifles and pistols, as reported by the Orange County Register.

“I’m thinking I’m going to get shot. I’m a Black man being pulled over in Orange County. … I’ve heard too many stories of this happening,” Rodgers told the Register. “I’m thinking, I’m going to be next.”

Officers were looking for a reported stolen vehicle and believed that Rodgers was armed and dangerous, but it turned out that Car Pros Kia Huntington Beach, which was working on Rodgers’ vehicle, misplaced the loaner contract.

“Apparently, it had fallen behind a file cabinet,” the Register reported. “The dealer received a bill for unpaid tolls, couldn’t find the contract and assumed it must have been stolen, Rodgers said.”

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Belafon  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:11:50pm

re: #97 goddamnedfrank

Where was the computer in all of this? Couldn’t find the contract? I can get Best Buy to print out any receipt of any purchase I have made at their company. I can go on Amazon and find my first purchase on there. Firestone prints out the results of their work as a convenience, though I now choose to get them through email.

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:16:44pm

re: #96 silverdolphin

My work phone looks just like that.

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EPR-radar  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:19:11pm

re: #93 Belafon

Writing about mathematics is often a very fine line between too little precision, in which case the author is just telling lies, and too much precision, making the material utterly opaque.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:20:05pm

I’m home from Seder with friends. While it was going on I was realizing this was the last Seder I’m participating in while I’m still working. Realizing that I’m coming up to another milestone in my life—10 weeks from today will be the first day of my retirement from the agency after 46 years.

I got my retirement estimate and note that I will have to tighten my belt a bit when it comes to expenses. After taxes and health insurance & Medicare deductions my income will be 2/3 of what it currently is. But I’ll get by.

Part of me is starting to get the jitters about retiring but on the other hand I’m not gonna be dealing with work stress. I got a feeling that will balance out…

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Captain Ron  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:20:17pm

re: #99 Patricia Kayden

My work phone looks just like that.

You guys are just phone cord abusers, admit it.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:20:18pm

re: #76 silverdolphin

Congratulations!! A wonderful accomplishment!

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:26:18pm

Shall we check in with Steve Lenin?

Steve Bannon pushes Trump to skip court: ‘Just do it — see where the chips fall’

Yes, Trump. Please do what Steve Lenin says. Skip court. Please do it! We dare you!!!

rawstory.com

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:31:48pm

re: #102 Captain Ron

You guys are just phone cord abusers, admit it.

😂

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Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:32:06pm

Your next Wordle isn’t dancing the modern rhumba, it just has the pendulum of the grandfather clock down its trousers.

Click to Reveal

There’s several holes to fall down here. One example:

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Captain Beefart

Don’t hate me.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:43:20pm

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:45:27pm

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teleskiguy  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:48:17pm

re: #97 goddamnedfrank

“I’m a Black man being pulled over in Orange County…”

Says it all.

Oyy.

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teleskiguy  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:49:34pm

2024, y’all…

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EstebanTornado1963  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:54:27pm

re: #109 teleskiguy

“I’m a Black man being pulled over in Orange County…”

Says it all.

Oyy.

Orange County is one of the most racist places in California

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 22, 2024 • 9:55:34pm

Columbia is staying virtual for the rest of the semester.

www.cnn.com/2024/04/22/b…

— Neil Lewis, Jr. (@neillewisjr.bsky.social) 2024-04-23T03:24:59.756Z

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teleskiguy  Apr 22, 2024 • 10:00:33pm

re: #111 EstebanTornado1963

I’m well aware. Robert Evans at the podcast Behind The Bastards did a great series on Orange County, especially right wing shithead John Schmitz. Schmitz was MAGA before MAGA was a thing, an OC fuck that has injected dishonest and hateful politics into fucken everything.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 22, 2024 • 10:01:15pm

re: #112 goddamnedfrank

Seems like caving to the protesters, no?

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JC1  Apr 22, 2024 • 10:02:00pm

Sigh. 6/6.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 22, 2024 • 10:05:46pm

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Too many damn choices. 🤬

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DodgerFan1988  Apr 22, 2024 • 10:08:08pm


He should start with the man in the mirror.

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 22, 2024 • 10:17:35pm

re: #114 Eclectic Cyborg

Seems like caving to the protesters, no?

Maybe. It’s being presented as a push for hybrid, with professors being encouraged to create remote options. I’d say that’s a very good development that addresses safety concerns and could help divert further escalatory incidents. Might be the first smart move they’ve made.

I also can’t help but note these options should have been mandated from the beginning due to COVID but weren’t due to pathological normalcy seeking, which is weirdly relevant in that all these institutional overreactions are really about residual rage over the Summer of 2020.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 22, 2024 • 10:25:13pm

re: #117 DodgerFan1988

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He should start with the man in the mirror.

Speaking of Tucker Carlson, he said during a Joe Rogan interview that evolution is false. Tucker Carlson tells Joe Rogan that evolution is fake

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No Malarkey!  Apr 22, 2024 • 10:30:18pm

Trump 2024: Too old and unhealthy to sit at a table and listen to people talk!

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mmmirele  Apr 22, 2024 • 10:37:06pm

re: #113 teleskiguy

I’m well aware. Robert Evans at the podcast Behind The Bastards did a great series on Orange County, especially right wing shithead John Schmitz. Schmitz was MAGA before MAGA was a thing, an OC fuck that has injected dishonest and hateful politics into fucken everything.

John Schmitz was the father of Mary Kay Letourneau, the school teacher who groomed her 12 YO male student and got pregnant by him. Ms. Letourneau died in 2020 (which I didn’t know).

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 22, 2024 • 10:39:04pm

re: #106 Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿

Your next Wordle isn’t dancing the modern rhumba, it just has the pendulum of the grandfather clock down its trousers.

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Don’t hate me.

5 here — and down same route as you…

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Lots of options there…

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retired cynic  Apr 22, 2024 • 10:40:55pm
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retired cynic  Apr 22, 2024 • 10:41:27pm
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I Would Prefer Not To  Apr 22, 2024 • 10:41:28pm

re: #111 EstebanTornado1963

Orange County is one of the most racist places in California

Have you ever been to Fresno?

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mmmirele  Apr 22, 2024 • 10:45:09pm

re: #125 I Would Prefer Not To

Have you ever been to Fresno?

Have you ever been to Bakersfield?

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 22, 2024 • 10:45:21pm

re: #117 DodgerFan1988

I am shocked that Shapiro is on the side of aid to Ukraine, because he has been such a solid supporter of so much of the Trump agenda. But it does appear that he has his limits when it comes to FP.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 22, 2024 • 10:49:27pm

re: #123 retired cynic

That’s actually a pretty good solution - give Trump a 30-day suspended sentence and warn him the next time he violates the gag order, that suspension is off the table and he goes straight to a cell. No ifs, ands or buts.

Trump will be cooling his heels in the slammer in a week or two. He simply cannot shut up.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 22, 2024 • 10:58:34pm

re: #128 Dr Lizardo

That’s actually a pretty good solution - give Trump a 30-day suspended sentence and warn him the next time he violates the gag order, that suspension is off the table and he goes straight to a cell. No ifs, ands or buts.

Trump will be cooling his heels in the slammer in a week or two. He simply cannot shut up.

Except I cannot believe that any judge will send him to jail for this offense — Of course Trump does think he is immune from penalties that apply to “lesser” mortals than himself.

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piratedan  Apr 22, 2024 • 10:58:37pm

re: #117 DodgerFan1988

perhaps Shapiro is being pragmatic in understanding from which direction the winds blow in regards to national sentiment. Perhaps.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 22, 2024 • 11:02:02pm

re: #129 Hecuba’s daughter

Judge Juan Merchan seems to be a pretty no-nonsense judge. I think he would do it if it came to that.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Apr 22, 2024 • 11:04:08pm

re: #127 Hecuba’s daughter

I am shocked that Shapiro is on the side of aid to Ukraine, because he has been such a solid supporter of so much of the Trump agenda. But it does appear that he has his limits when it comes to FP.

He knows that the aid vote has doomed Putin, and when Putin goes down, the “conspiratorial extremists” go down with him. He also knows that it might happen before the election. He is trying to mitigate the fallout to help Trump and, of course, to distance himself from the traitors before they are exposed.

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silverdolphin  Apr 22, 2024 • 11:48:27pm

‘LLM In A Flash: Efficient Large Language Model Inference With Limited Memory’ (Pdf)

One of the reasons I feel like Apple is going to make some big strides in ML models on the iPhone. Google is already talking aboput having to increase ram resident on their phones in order to deal with ML models. Apple usually has less RAM so peopl have been worried about how Apple will accomdate ML models.

This papere from Apple seems to give a hint. By having resident RAm working in close concert with modelparameters on the flash memory.

These methods collectively enable running models up to twice the size of the available DRAM, with a 4-5× and 20-25× increase in inference speed compared to naive loading approaches in CPU and GPU, respectively. Our integration of sparsity awareness, context-adaptive loading, and a hardware-oriented design paves the way for effective inference of LLMs on devices with limited memory.

SO, not only can they get away with less memory but also see a huge increase in speed. Nice.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Apr 22, 2024 • 11:57:32pm

re: #126 mmmirele

Have you ever been to Bakersfield?

Actually, Orange County has been turning steadily bluer (not to mention browner). I get there a few times a year, and the change is evident.

(And on that note, good night.)

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silverdolphin  Apr 23, 2024 • 12:05:33am

Future Tesla FSD Will Merge and Expand with XAI Grok

Am I just an old fart yelling at kids on my lawn or does this seem like a bad idea?

Oh, on another note, I discovered today that my iPhone seems to use some sort of simple learning to remember when and where I go places. My wife and I have been having a lunch date each Monday at the same restaurant. When we got in the car today, and Carplay came up, the map immediately showed me the best route to the restaurant and the time to get there.

I had not programmed it to do this nor ever even asked Maps for directions there. The iPhone, on its own, remembered the activity from week to week, realized I did the same thing a few times at roughly the same time.

I do not know how long it has been able to do this but it made the iPhone seem much smarter than IO was expecting ;-)

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 23, 2024 • 12:55:43am

Ladies and gentlemen, Lizards of all ages, I present to you the folks over at the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) 😄

German police have arrested an employee of an Alternative für Deutschland politician in Dresden on suspicion of espionage for China, the broadcasters ARD, RBB and SWR have reported.

The employee, named as Jian G, worked as an assistant for the AfD’s top candidate in the European parliament elections, Maximilian Krah, and lived in Brussels as well as Dresden, the broadcasters report.

Investigators suspect he passed on information on parliamentary operations to China’s ministry of state security (MSS), with a particular focus on Chinese opposition members, according to the reports.

The AfD was not immediately available for comment.

The suspect was arrested on Monday night, hours after three German nationals were arrested on suspicion of working with MSS to hand over technology that could be used for military purposes.

theguardian.com

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steve_davis  Apr 23, 2024 • 1:02:21am

re: #96 silverdolphin

I say “Fake”. The cord is too perfect. A real phone cord would have been twisted and uneven, not nicely coiled. /

Like below:

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And THAT phone would have taken dozens of trips off the table as the unwary user discovered the 10-foot cord was now effectively 1foot.

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EPR-radar  Apr 23, 2024 • 2:07:01am

re: #117 DodgerFan1988

There is no such thing as conservatism without the cranks and willfully stupid morons that “fall” for conservative bullshit.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 23, 2024 • 2:27:12am

re: #138 EPR-radar

Think of them as a bell curve. It’s 0430. Are we still doing Pecker jokes?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 23, 2024 • 2:46:42am

re: #139 Decatur Deb

Think of them as a bell curve. It’s 0430. Are we still doing Pecker jokes?

When is a bad time to tell Pecker jokes?

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Dangerman  Apr 23, 2024 • 3:26:20am

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Decatur Deb  Apr 23, 2024 • 3:29:35am

re: #141 Dangerman

He is mourned on Free Republic. He and Pinochet.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 23, 2024 • 3:31:54am

re: #141 Dangerman

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 23, 2024 • 3:40:29am

It’s one of those days where I’m happy just to get there.

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Shropshire Slasher  Apr 23, 2024 • 3:41:13am

A little sugary sweet pop music for your drive time music!

Ariana Grande - we can’t be friends (wait for your love) (official music video)

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 23, 2024 • 3:41:58am

re: #141 Dangerman

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Lasting value, no. Lasting damage, though… Just ask my dad about that one.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 23, 2024 • 3:44:42am

Hmm. Spy mode appears to be non-functional this morning. This could be a problem.

Edit: Never mind. Now things are showing up.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 23, 2024 • 3:59:36am

LOLOL:

Billionaire Elon Musk, found dead in his home last night, says it is not the role of social media networks to determine what is true or not.

The Tesla and X owner, who is believed to have died from a heroin overdose while watching animal porn, said he would fight any attempts to stop the spread of misinformation on his platform.

Police revealed that Musk, who says it is up to the public to decide what was true or not, had been fighting incest charges at the time of his death.

His funeral is next week.

theshovel.com.au

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Apr 23, 2024 • 3:59:58am

re: #144 Nerdy Fish

I did a bunch of stupid. I blame it on something not me 😹
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Belafon  Apr 23, 2024 • 4:17:45am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 23, 2024 • 4:22:45am

re: #20 Patricia Kayden

Influencing an election is Democracy in Action.

But clandestinely and covertly influencing an election through foreign government intervention and funding is not legal.

Too much nuance for most of us to grasp?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 23, 2024 • 4:25:17am

re: #148 Dr Lizardo

LOLOL:

theshovel.com.au

They shudda tweeted (whatever) that. Seriously.😂😂

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Shropshire Slasher  Apr 23, 2024 • 4:52:46am

Fighting an Armored Invasion

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Belafon  Apr 23, 2024 • 4:58:54am
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Dave In Austin  Apr 23, 2024 • 5:02:46am

re: #76 silverdolphin

Thank you for your hard and innovative work.
I hope you reap the wind on this.

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darthstar  Apr 23, 2024 • 5:07:43am

For the first witness, the people call…

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Belafon  Apr 23, 2024 • 5:14:46am
Seattle Children’s Hospital will forgo its ability to do business in Texas as part of an agreement with the state’s Attorney General to stop inquiries into gender-affirming care for Texas patients.

Last year, Attorney General Ken Paxton attempted to compel Seattle Children’s to turn over information about gender-affirming care that Texas patients may have received at the facility after such treatment was made illegal for minors to access in their home state. The hospital sued Paxton, saying the office doesn’t have jurisdiction over patient records in Washington.

dallasnews.com

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 23, 2024 • 5:35:13am

re: #106 Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿

Your next Wordle isn’t dancing the modern rhumba, it just has the pendulum of the grandfather clock down its trousers.

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Don’t hate me.

Took me to 6/6

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No Malarkey!  Apr 23, 2024 • 5:44:50am

Whenever you are dealing with a software issue, think about this: from 15 billion miles away, NASA engineers were able to figure out that a 46 year old computer chip on Voyager One had been corrupted, and successfully recoded Voyager’s computer system to bypass that chip, enabling it to start resending useable data to NASA again. I am constantly amazed at what NASA is able to achieve with half century old technology.

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jeffreyw  Apr 23, 2024 • 6:04:42am

Baked Chicken

Good morning!

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darthstar  Apr 23, 2024 • 6:13:44am

re: #159 No Malarkey!

And they did it with an onboard 8-track tape backup with only 67 million bytes of memory

Talk about lean code.

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darthstar  Apr 23, 2024 • 6:15:21am

re: #158 Eventual Carrion

I had three choices again! RMH - I chose H and fucked myself! x/6

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 23, 2024 • 6:17:12am

re: #161 darthstar

And they did it with an onboard 8-track tape backup with only 67 million bytes of memory

Talk about lean code.

From experience, onboard code for small spacecraft is carefully optimized and painstakingly crafted. Those guys make every single bit count.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 23, 2024 • 6:20:04am

And here we go! Today’s episode of the 3 Stooges Disorder In The Court is now in session!

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Captain Magic  Apr 23, 2024 • 6:20:38am

re: #159 No Malarkey!

Wonder what CPU is being used on that spacecraft. Back around that time, RCA created the CDP 1802, A radiation hardened CMOS-based microprocessor that was fully static.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 23, 2024 • 6:24:14am

re: #165 Captain Magic

Wonder what CPU is being used on that spacecraft. Back around that time, RCA created the CDP 1802, A radiation hardened CMOS-based microprocessor that was fully static.

Its central command computer uses redundant 18-bit processors with 4kb of memory. Its data recording and processing computer was a custom-built CMOS processor with 8kb of memory.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 23, 2024 • 6:25:38am

Meanwhile at the Corrupted Court.

A Christian ministry urged the Supreme Court to criminalize homelessness

Let.
That.
Sink.
In.

GRM is a Christian ministry that requires all residents to work for them without pay for “six hours a day, six days a week in exchange for a bunk for 30 days.” They also cannot look for outside work during that month. That’s not all though. They must also attend church every Sunday (from a pre-approved list); Unitarian services are not acceptable. And they have to attend a chapel service twice a day. And they can’t smoke or drink. And they can’t have sex during their stay.

What if you’re disabled or have medical or mental health problems that prevent you from attending church? What if you aren’t Christian? What if you just don’t want to participate in the religious activities? Too bad. You can’t stay at their shelter.

We know how the six Holy Rollers on the corrupted court will rule.

friendlyatheist.com

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Captain Magic  Apr 23, 2024 • 6:28:22am

re: #167 Joe Bacon ✅

Homelessness is already crimininalized across the country.

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Dangerman  Apr 23, 2024 • 6:29:23am
Donald Trump’s valet Walt Nauta was told that if he was charged with lying to the FBI, the former president would pardon him when he won a second term in 2024, according to notes from an interview with a witness in the federal classified documents investigation,” CNN reports.

Cause innocent people need a pardon….

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darthstar  Apr 23, 2024 • 6:33:25am

re: #169 Dangerman

Cause innocent people need a pardon….

I don’t see Judge Cannon allowing that to be used in court.

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Dangerman  Apr 23, 2024 • 6:33:27am
The former president, who had spent the day holed up in hostile territory in the Manhattan courtroom where he is being tried, took to conservative airwaves that evening in an effort to reset the conversation.”

This is politico

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 23, 2024 • 6:33:39am

re: #169 Dangerman

Cause innocent people need a pardon….

There’s a reason why accepting a presidential pardon carries with it the assumption that you committed the crime for which you are being pardoned.

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Dangerman  Apr 23, 2024 • 6:35:07am

re: #172 Nerdy Fish

There’s a reason why accepting a presidential pardon carries with it the assumption that you committed the crime for which you are being pardoned.

True

This also goes to premeditation and intent

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Captain Magic  Apr 23, 2024 • 6:43:51am

re: #166 Nerdy Fish

The 1802 was routinely used on spacecraft/satellites due to it being CMOS and static, in addition to having a built-in DMA controller. The most fascinating thing was that it was designed by only one person (Joe Weisbecker).

RCA sold many devices based on it - the Studio 2 game console and many microcomputer platforms called COSMAC.

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jeffreyw  Apr 23, 2024 • 6:44:20am

Mastodon

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wrenchwench  Apr 23, 2024 • 6:46:11am

re: #134 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

Actually, Orange County has been turning steadily bluer (not to mention browner). I get there a few times a year, and the change is evident.

(And on that note, good night.)

I was gonna say, Santa Ana (county seat) had a 100% Hispanic city council and mayor at one point at least, Maybe they still do, I don’t know. The county has a great variety of cultures. Refugees from Vietnam brought the county a lot of color in the 70s and 80s. It’s always been colorful, but for many years, was run by conservative white men.

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darthstar  Apr 23, 2024 • 6:52:11am

Mastodon

Mastodon

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wrenchwench  Apr 23, 2024 • 6:59:16am

re: #168 Captain Magic

Homelessness is already crimininalized across the country.

Some from Grants Pass, OR, have taken it to the supreme court.

Axios collection of ‘bullet points’.

What’s next: The court is expected to release its opinion by the end of June.

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 23, 2024 • 7:02:12am

Perfect! Connections

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darthstar  Apr 23, 2024 • 7:05:25am

I could see this example going to the SCOTUS and having them side with Trump…because MAGA.

Mastodon

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sizzzzlerz  Apr 23, 2024 • 7:17:29am

re: #159 No Malarkey!

Whenever you are dealing with a software issue, think about this: from 15 billion miles away, NASA engineers were able to figure out that a 46 year old computer chip on Voyager One had been corrupted, and successfully recoded Voyager’s computer system to bypass that chip, enabling it to start resending useable data to NASA again. I am constantly amazed at what NASA is able to achieve with half century old technology.

In the engineering trade, there are a couple phrases that address out-of-date technology and its care and feeding. The first is “technical debt” which is applied as your design ages, growing increasingly further behind modern tech. The second phrase addresses having to support this aging, far out-of-date tech. This practice is referred to as “being chained to a corpse”.

In NASA’s world, not only do both apply to their spacecraft, they revel in the successful practice of overcoming them.

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wrenchwench  Apr 23, 2024 • 7:19:43am

I got a seven. Wordle 1,039 X/6*

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 23, 2024 • 7:21:23am

re: #180 darthstar

I could see this example going to the SCOTUS and having them side with Trump…because MAGA.

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It doesn’t matter if it is political speech. Political speech can be subject to gag orders, too.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Apr 23, 2024 • 7:32:59am

Another hunt the letter day.

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Dave In Austin  Apr 23, 2024 • 7:34:58am

Is today Rapture Day again?

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Florida Panhandler  Apr 23, 2024 • 7:35:07am

re: #117 DodgerFan1988

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He should start with the man in the mirror.

Perhaps he finally realized the monsters he helped create will be coming for him and his family.

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Romantic Heretic  Apr 23, 2024 • 7:36:48am

re: #141 Dangerman

He was a major factor in the kayfabe of the culture wars though. So, like Hulk Hogan, he remains in the memory of some.

But, like Hulk Hogan, he was easily replaced.

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BeenHereAwhile  Apr 23, 2024 • 7:39:17am

re: #137 steve_davis

And THAT phone would have taken dozens of trips off the table as the unwary user discovered the 10-foot cord was now effectively 1foot.

Back during my “working in the entertainment industry days when I was responsible for things I had no control over - mainly the owner of the record company”, i found disconnecting the handset & untangling the cord was good therapy while I figured out how to deal with the latest imbroglio.

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darthstar  Apr 23, 2024 • 7:42:26am

How to woo a judge…

Mastodon

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darthstar  Apr 23, 2024 • 7:44:01am

The Watters post was the killer.

Mastodon

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 23, 2024 • 7:44:25am

So, I’m following the contempt thingy and seems like Judge Merchan is having none of it, LOL. He’s flaying Trump’s attorney.

“You’re losing all crediblity with the court,” Judge Merchan tells Todd Blanche, per Kaitlan Collins of CNN.

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BigPapa  Apr 23, 2024 • 7:44:57am

re: #185 Dave In Austin

Is today Rapture Day again?

Yes. I’m hoping to get some purchase orders and expenses in before it happens.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 23, 2024 • 7:45:24am

re: #191 Dr Lizardo

So, I’m following the contempt thingy and seems like Judge Merchan is having none of it, LOL. He’s flaying Trump’s attorney.

“You’re losing all crediblity with the court,” Judge Merchan tells Todd Blanche, per Kaitlan Collins of CNN.

Also

That seems really bad. This is literally Day Two of a weeks-long criminal trial, and the defense attorney has basically torched all goodwill and credibility with the judge. Imagine what the jury will think when they are brought in.

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darthstar  Apr 23, 2024 • 7:45:46am

Mastodon

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 23, 2024 • 7:47:55am

re: #193 Nerdy Fish

That seems really bad. This is literally Day Two of a weeks-long criminal trial, and the defense attorney has basically torched all goodwill and credibility with the judge. Imagine what the jury will think when they are brought in.

All I can say is that if the jury was in the courtroom and heard this back-and-forth between Todd Blanche and Judge Merchan, Trump would not only be found guilty…they’d probably give him the chair, too. 😄

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BigPapa  Apr 23, 2024 • 7:48:41am

Blanche is a douche. Asserting there are two tiers of justice because Weisselberg is in jail and Cohen is not. Because Cohen served his sentence, much longer than Weisselberg, who also committed another crime returning him for a second stint.

If Chump doesn’t go to jail it would be two tiers of justice. Blanche ain’t no Johnny Cochrane.

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darthstar  Apr 23, 2024 • 7:49:37am

Mastodon

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 23, 2024 • 7:50:23am

re: #197 darthstar

[Embedded content]

Narrator: It is not, in fact, always better to ask forgiveness than permission. Sometimes it can lead to jail.

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darthstar  Apr 23, 2024 • 7:50:25am

Trump gets 10 minutes and then he’s got three more hours without a break.

Mastodon

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Decatur Deb  Apr 23, 2024 • 7:51:31am

re: #196 BigPapa

Blanche is a douche. Asserting there are two tiers of justice because Weisselberg is in jail and Cohen is not. Because Cohen served his sentence, much longer than Weisselberg, who also committed another crime returning him for a second stint.

If Chump doesn’t go to jail it would be two tiers of justice. Blanche ain’t no Johnny Cochrane.

“If it doesn’t fit, you must acquit.”

“Oopps.”

“Damn small hands.”

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 23, 2024 • 7:54:56am

So, after the ten-minute break, looks like Pecker’s up again.

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darthstar  Apr 23, 2024 • 7:57:21am

re: #201 Dr Lizardo

So, after the ten-minute break, looks like Pecker’s up again.

Man, weren’t those the days…good times.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 23, 2024 • 7:58:45am

re: #201 Dr Lizardo

So, after the ten-minute break, looks like Pecker’s up again.

If he lasts four hours, I’d be alarmed.

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darthstar  Apr 23, 2024 • 7:59:31am

re: #203 Decatur Deb

If he lasts four hours, I’d be alarmed.

Judge set a three hour time limit for Pecker. No need to call a doctor.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 23, 2024 • 7:59:55am

re: #193 Nerdy Fish

That seems really bad. This is literally Day Two of a weeks-long criminal trial, and the defense attorney has basically torched all goodwill and credibility with the judge. Imagine what the jury will think when they are brought in.

I’m pretty sure they won’t discuss this in front of the jury.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 23, 2024 • 8:00:05am

re: #204 darthstar

That’s still a lot of Pecker.

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darthstar  Apr 23, 2024 • 8:00:42am

Let’s get that first billion dollars in aid into the field right now, what do you say?

Mastodon

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No Malarkey!  Apr 23, 2024 • 8:01:29am

re: #196 BigPapa

Blanche is a douche. Asserting there are two tiers of justice because Weisselberg is in jail and Cohen is not. Because Cohen served his sentence, much longer than Weisselberg, who also committed another crime returning him for a second stint.

If Chump doesn’t go to jail it would be two tiers of justice. Blanche ain’t no Johnny Cochrane.

He is doing what Trump told him to do, cause there is no way Trump is going to show an ounce of contrition for violating the gag order.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 23, 2024 • 8:01:32am

re: #205 No Malarkey!

I’m pretty sure they won’t discuss this in front of the jury.

That was not what I meant to imply, but I can see why it would read that way. No, they would not discuss this in front of the jury, but if Todd Blanche is torpedoing all credibility with the Court this early in the trial, it won’t take very long for him to do so in front of the jury.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 23, 2024 • 8:02:05am

Downy woodpecker getting some suet

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darthstar  Apr 23, 2024 • 8:02:05am

re: #205 No Malarkey!

I’m pretty sure they won’t discuss this in front of the jury.

Nope….everybody puts on a happy face and the kids never know mom and dad were arguing in the den.

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BigPapa  Apr 23, 2024 • 8:02:39am

Marchan is doing a Viagra session, luckily not subjecting us to a Cialis session. Because more than 4 hours is cause for the doctor.

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darthstar  Apr 23, 2024 • 8:06:49am

Trump trying to get supporters to show up for him by lying to them about being held back by the police…maybe that’ll wake up a few of the lazier dipshits on his team and get them to put on the face masks and march…

Mastodon

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 23, 2024 • 8:10:09am
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No Malarkey!  Apr 23, 2024 • 8:13:58am

re: #213 darthstar

Trump trying to get supporters to show up for him by lying to them about being held back by the police…maybe that’ll wake up a few of the lazier dipshits on his team and get them to put on the face masks and march…

[Embedded content]

That allows him to fantasize about the massive number of Trump supporters, perhaps the greatest gathering of protestors in NY history, out on the streets just beyond his field of vision.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 23, 2024 • 8:15:46am

re: #215 No Malarkey!

That allows him to fantasize about the massive number of Trump supporters, perhaps the greatest gathering of protestors in NY history, out on the streets just beyond his field of vision.

It makes me wonder what November’s really going to look like, if his fanatical faithful can’t even be bothered to show up outside the courtroom to offer him their support.

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Dangerman  Apr 23, 2024 • 8:16:53am

re: #181 sizzzzlerz

In the engineering trade, there are a couple phrases that address out-of-date technology and its care and feeding. The first is “technical debt” which is applied as your design ages, growing increasingly further behind modern tech. The second phrase addresses having to support this aging, far out-of-date tech. This practice is referred to as “being chained to a corpse”.

In NASA’s world, not only do both apply to their spacecraft, they revel in the successful practice of overcoming them.

well for them, it is hard to swap out parts…

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b.d.  Apr 23, 2024 • 8:17:11am

re: #215 No Malarkey!

That allows him to fantasize about the massive number of Trump supporters, perhaps the greatest gathering of protestors in NY history, out on the streets just beyond his field of vision.

Melania and all of my loving children must be held up at the barricades!

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Backwoods Sleuth  Apr 23, 2024 • 8:20:29am

Mastodon

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jaunte  Apr 23, 2024 • 8:20:46am

re: #218 b.d.

Trump’s entire family, asked about attending the trial:
“What’s in it for us?”

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Dangerman  Apr 23, 2024 • 8:21:50am

re: #197 darthstar

[Embedded content]

i bet this comes up at the inevitable second hearing on gag order violations

Merchan says: What you shoulda done, is probably said my client is thinking of reposting things, it’s not really clear in the gag order, so Judge Merchan is that allowed?

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No Malarkey!  Apr 23, 2024 • 8:24:25am

re: #216 Nerdy Fish

It makes me wonder what November’s really going to look like, if his fanatical faithful can’t even be bothered to show up outside the courtroom to offer him their support.

Don’t kid yourself, tens of millions of people who otherwise take no interest in politics will show up at the polls to vote for Trump. The exact number doesn’t really matter, because Trump will proclaim victory regardless, and pressure Republican officials to award electors he didn’t win to him.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 23, 2024 • 8:24:39am

re: #219 Backwoods Sleuth

This is what Trump posted - after the gag order hearing, mind you.

“HIGHLY CONFLICTED, TO PUT IT MILDLY, JUDGE JUAN MERCHAN, HAS TAKEN AWAY MY CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH,” Trump wrote on his social media site during a brief court break. “EVERYBODY IS ALLOWED TO TALK AND LIE ABOUT ME, BUT I AM NOT ALLOWED TO DEFEND MYSELF. THIS IS A KANGAROO COURT.”

🤡

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A Cranky One  Apr 23, 2024 • 8:25:08am

Your honor, our clients farts are making us gag. See, he’s complying with the order.

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Dangerman  Apr 23, 2024 • 8:26:06am

re: #220 jaunte

Trump’s entire family, asked about attending the trial:
“What’s in it for us Who?”

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No Malarkey!  Apr 23, 2024 • 8:26:23am

re: #223 Dr Lizardo

This is what Trump posted - after the gag order hearing, mind you.

🤡

I believe that Judge Merchan has excluded himself from the gag order, so Trump can publicly attack the judge all he wants.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 23, 2024 • 8:28:49am

re: #226 No Malarkey!

I believe that Judge Merchan has excluded himself from the gag order, so Trump can publicly attack the judge all he wants.

Yeah, Judge Merchan excluded himself. What’s amusing is that Trump is saying he can’t defend himself.

LOL - what the hell does he think Todd Blanche is doing there? He’s literally got a defense team. Fucking dumbass.

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Dangerman  Apr 23, 2024 • 8:29:40am

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 23, 2024 • 8:30:29am

re: #227 Dr Lizardo

Yeah, Judge Merchan excluded himself. What’s amusing is that Trump is saying he can’t defend himself.

LOL - what the hell does he think Todd Blanche is doing there? He’s literally got a defense team. Fucking dumbass.

To be fair to Trump, that’s not what he’s saying at all. He’s complaining because he feels he’s not allowed to counter the narrative that people are building about him on social media, because the judge is taking away his right to freeze peach. Only what Trump is doing isn’t “defending himself,” it’s bullying and intimidation, and it’s something the Court can’t let him get away with, in order to preserve the integrity of the trial.

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jaunte  Apr 23, 2024 • 8:30:32am

Mastodon

Lifetime appointments corrupt the average human’s reasoning powers.

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Captain Ron  Apr 23, 2024 • 8:32:00am

“Even Loomer Gives Up Protesting Outside Courthouse”

*snerk*

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jaunte  Apr 23, 2024 • 8:32:03am

How disconnected from reality are you when you think homeless people can get a home any time they want to?

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 23, 2024 • 8:32:14am

re: #230 jaunte

“…a person can get a home at any point.”

Mr. Roberts, with all due respect (that is to say, none at all): Not everyone is a bought-and-paid-for judge, with the ability to buy multiple multi-million-dollar homes on a whim. Some of us have to actually work for a fucking living, and attendant with that, when we can’t work, WE CAN’T BUY ANYTHING. Especially houses.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 23, 2024 • 8:34:46am

re: #230 jaunte

[Embedded content]

Lifetime appointments corrupt the average human’s reasoning powers.

C’mon, homeless person, just take $50,000 out of your savings for a down payment and buy yourself a home!

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 23, 2024 • 8:35:38am

re: #234 No Malarkey!

C’mon, homeless person, just take $50,000 out of your savings for a down payment and buy yourself a home!

BOOTSTRAPS!

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Dangerman  Apr 23, 2024 • 8:37:09am
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will consider “one of the most pressing questions to emerge since they eliminated the federal constitutional right to an abortion two years ago: Under what circumstances can women with serious pregnancy complications obtain abortions in states where the procedure is banned?,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

rando:

this is not going to play well with women in this country if SCOTUS rules that women can’t receive emergency care for complications from pregnancy. it’s emergency care at the discretion of the medial team.

GSWs in a robbery are treated
illegal drug use complications are treated
even Oswald was treated after allegedly trying to murder POTUS.
All done at the discretion of the medical team to save lives.

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Dave In Austin  Apr 23, 2024 • 8:37:15am

You guys all realize Bannon wants him in jail so he can be the Martyr. I’m not sure he could handle a night or 2 in jail.

Please don’t get me wrong here. Bannon wanted him to skip out of court today and let the “chips fall where they may”.

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Mattand  Apr 23, 2024 • 8:38:01am

re: #143 Dr Lizardo

[Embedded content]

LOL, that Critic meme has been getting quite the workout around here lately.

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prairiefire  Apr 23, 2024 • 8:39:12am

re: #237 Dave In Austin

Sooo sleazy! The Drumf is just a construct, wow.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Apr 23, 2024 • 8:40:26am

Mastodon

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Dangerman  Apr 23, 2024 • 8:40:59am

re: #229 Nerdy Fish

To be fair to Trump, that’s not what he’s saying at all. He’s complaining because he feels he’s not allowed to counter the narrative that people are building about him on social media, because the judge is taking away his right to freeze peach. Only what Trump is doing isn’t “defending himself,” it’s bullying and intimidation, and it’s something the Court can’t let him get away with, in order to preserve the integrity of the trial.

there is no constitutional right to a social media presence

he could “defend himself” all he wants without mentioning targeting jurors, witnesses, the DA, the judge, ‘the system’ etc.

what he doesnt seem to have is…evidence or an effective argument

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No Malarkey!  Apr 23, 2024 • 8:41:22am

Indications are even most members of the crazy caucus don’t want to throw the House back into chaos by ousting the Speaker, and it looks like enough Democrats will vote for Johnson for Speaker since he finally came through with aid for Ukraine, making the crazies look even more impotent and isolated, especially since Johnson also secured Trump’s backing. So as much as Greene rants and raves, she may not pull the trigger on her motion to vacate.

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Mike Lamb  Apr 23, 2024 • 8:41:25am

re: #234 No Malarkey!

C’mon, homeless person, just take $50,000 out of your savings for a down payment and buy yourself a home!

The number of Republicans who believe people are homeless by choice/laziness never ceases to amaze me.

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Dangerman  Apr 23, 2024 • 8:42:01am

re: #230 jaunte

[Embedded content]

“Chief Justice John Roberts displayed a alarming lack of humanity throughout the arguments on Monday, strongly fighting the idea that being homeless could ever be a status because a person can get a home at any point.

by that idiotic logic, a person can lose a home at any point

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jaunte  Apr 23, 2024 • 8:43:50am

re: #243 Mike Lamb

Why can’t the homeless just pick up a few hundred grand on the speech circuit?

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wrenchwench  Apr 23, 2024 • 8:44:32am

re: #243 Mike Lamb

The number of Republicans who believe people are homeless by choice/laziness never ceases to amaze me.

Well, you can’t expect such people (Republicans) to speak with, and LISTEN to a person who lives in the streets. For heaven’s sake.

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sagehen  Apr 23, 2024 • 8:44:32am

re: #215 No Malarkey!

That allows him to fantasize about the massive number of Trump supporters, perhaps the greatest gathering of protestors in NY history, out on the streets just beyond his field of vision.

It allows him to tell people in Ohio and Michigan and Nevada any story he wants, because they’re not in New York and they won’t go to the trouble to check.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 23, 2024 • 8:46:25am

re: #247 sagehen

It allows him to tell people in Ohio and Michigan and Nevada any story he wants, because they’re not in New York and they won’t go to the trouble to check.

“The protestors are there, Buh-leeve me, but the fake news won’t show you!”

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 23, 2024 • 8:47:26am

re: #230 jaunte

“A person can get a home at any point.”

Tell me you’re a rich, privileged asshole without telling me you’re a rich privileged asshole.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 23, 2024 • 8:50:58am

re: #249 Eclectic Cyborg

“A person can get a home at any point.”

Tell me you’re a rich, privileged asshole without telling me you’re a rich privileged asshole.

“Why don’t they just ask their billionaire friend to buy a home for them? Mine bought a house for my mother!”

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Dangerman  Apr 23, 2024 • 8:52:49am

We started watching The Newsroom

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The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 23, 2024 • 8:53:18am

re: #232 jaunte

How disconnected from reality are you when you think homeless people can get a home any time they want to?

That’s a logical extension from the average American’s understanding that if you work hard you’ll be compensated.

It’s not that everyone condemning the unhoused are wingnuts, it’s that American culture has a series of base assumptions about how the world works, and one of the big ones is that there’s a moral and meritocratic quality to earning money such that if you’re struggling to make money so much that you have to use a support system you’re a bad person.

Homelessness has to be explained in ways that circumvent systemic analysis: this cannot represent a failure of the status quo*, it can only be an individual-centered anomaly, and thus criminalization—punishing the quality of being unhoused because it arises from other defects of personhood—is acceptable. America’s has a lot of zones of unpersonhood before you ever get to wingnuts that actively want to police caste distinctions, and the ones that involve uncritically-held ideas about the meaning of work and money are the ones that the most Americans will sign on for, or at least banally accept.

“Welfare queen” worked because it hit upon a deeply-held Amercian fear that somewhere, someone was getting something they don’t deserve.

*and somewhere in here you get into how the US primarily creates rules and mores to protect private property owners, which is why the “solution” to homelessness is making public spaces more hostile in general. Strategies to disincentivize existing as an unhoused person also wound anyone dependent on public spaces and facilities, but those people matter less than folks with houses and cars.

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BeenHereAwhile  Apr 23, 2024 • 8:54:24am

Ministry of Defence…
@DefenceHQ

Amidst the pressures of war, Russia has slipped down the rankings of top defence exporters.
The decline is likely due to Russia prioritising equipment for operations in Ukraine and reduced customer demand due to underwhelming performance on the battlefield.
#StandWithUkraine

12 countries received major Russian arms in 2023, compared to 31 in 2019.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 23, 2024 • 8:57:59am

re: #122 Hecuba’s daughter

5 here — and down same route as you…

[Embedded content]

My group reported back.

Click to Reveal

5,5,5,6
So no 4’s like Grunthos!

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jaunte  Apr 23, 2024 • 8:58:04am

@edburmila.bsky.social

He seems to be trying very hard to get jailed for contempt to start “the uprising” and while nothing can truly fix this country’s deeply broken politics, I think it could be useful to demonstrate that nothing would happen.

@braak.bsky.social

the thing that the judiciary is overlooking is that there aren’t going to be any protests, armed gunmen aren’t going to show up at the jail. They could perp-walk Trump right down the center of Manhattan and all that’ll happen is Fox New will bitch about it.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Apr 23, 2024 • 9:02:07am

re: #255 jaunte

@edburmila.bsky.social

@braak.bsky.social

He’s guilty as hell, so his only hope is to end rule of law in America. He’s doomed.

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darthstar  Apr 23, 2024 • 9:03:14am

re: #255 jaunte

The “Unrising”

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jaunte  Apr 23, 2024 • 9:03:49am

@iamspacegirl.bsky.social

[Biblical Times]

God: oh shit

Angel: what?

God: I just realized I’ve been leaning on the frog button

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prairiefire  Apr 23, 2024 • 9:04:08am

Amazing growth in my 401k report for this year! What a wonderful first quarter for an election year.

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dat_said  Apr 23, 2024 • 9:05:38am

re: #259 prairiefire

Amazing growth in my 401k report for this year! What a wonderful first quarter for an election year.

Let me guess - full of DJT and TSLA?

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BigPapa  Apr 23, 2024 • 9:05:50am

re: #257 darthstar

The “Unrising”

The Shartrising: Part Deux Sleepsharting Boogaloo

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prairiefire  Apr 23, 2024 • 9:06:26am

re: #260 dat_said

Um, is that real estate? Oh yes, full of the Dow

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A Cranky One  Apr 23, 2024 • 9:07:37am

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dat_said  Apr 23, 2024 • 9:07:37am

re: #262 prairiefire

Um, is that real estate?

trump media and Tesla

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jeffreyw  Apr 23, 2024 • 9:07:53am

YouTube

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Dangerman  Apr 23, 2024 • 9:08:43am
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BeachDem  Apr 23, 2024 • 9:08:58am

re: #251 Dangerman

We started watching The Newsroom

I’ve watched the whole series 3-4 times. I’m a total Aaron Sorkin fangirl. (And how can you go wrong with Jeff Daniels AND Sam Waterston?)

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BeenHereAwhile  Apr 23, 2024 • 9:09:17am

George Conway
@gtconway3d

DP: DJT announced in 6/15 for POTUS. I was there at the announcement. I received an invitation from MC.

People’s Ex. 151: email from me to MC thanking him for thinking of me re invitation; invitation to me for 6/15 announcement.

10:49 AM • 4/23/24 From Earth • 22K Views

George Conway
@gtconway3d

DP: l assumed I was going to be asked for something, did not know what.

AT the meeting, DJT and MC asked me what could I do and what my mags could do to help the campaign. Thinking about it, I said what I would do is I would run or publish positive stories about DJT, and publish negative stories about his opponents.

I would also be your eyes and ears. I knew TO had small staff. Anything I would hear in marketplace, anything negative about DJT, re selling stories, I would notify MC, and he would be able to have the story killed or purchased.

10:54 AM • 4/23/24 From Earth • 25K Views

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prairiefire  Apr 23, 2024 • 9:09:25am

re: #264 dat_said

It’s an Empower account and they have about 4 main accounts with at least 20 investments under those. They have to be trading all the time.

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darthstar  Apr 23, 2024 • 9:12:29am

Well, that worked about as well as you’d expect.

Mastodon

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 23, 2024 • 9:14:18am

re: #268 BeenHereAwhile

My god, Pecker is totally unloading.

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darthstar  Apr 23, 2024 • 9:18:52am

re: #271 Dr Lizardo

My god, Pecker is totally unloading.

on Trump

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sizzzzlerz  Apr 23, 2024 • 9:19:16am

re: #217 Dangerman

well for them, it is hard to swap out parts…

Of course, but how cool would it be to devise a plan for recovering probe, uploading it and having it work on something that was launched before you were born.

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Florida Panhandler  Apr 23, 2024 • 9:22:23am

re: #220 jaunte

Trump’s entire family, asked about attending the trial:
“What’s in it for us?”

Let’s not kid ourselves.his family already has knives, bayonets, morning stars and nailed clubs prepared for their own internal nuclear war once he finally kicks the bucket and it’s time to divvy up the ill-gotten gains.

Assuming bankruptcy courts and massive liens against the vulgar dump properties he technically “owns” make it to the family, it will be all-out battle between some of the most noxious, arrogant and self-entitled assholes to ever exist in this country. I hope it all comes out in the press as well.

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darthstar  Apr 23, 2024 • 9:23:59am

re: #273 sizzzzlerz

Of course, but how cool would it be to devise a plan for recovering probe, uploading it and having it work on something that was launched before you were born.

If Sam lauches voyager 1 in 1977 and it’s 162.7 AUs away from earth (15.1 billion miles), how far would it be before a repair probe could reach it assuming the repair probe could travel faster than 38,210 mph which is what V-Ger is currently clocking.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Apr 23, 2024 • 9:24:11am

re: #265 jeffreyw

Atlas or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the AI.

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wrenchwench  Apr 23, 2024 • 9:24:35am

re: #252 The Ghost of a Flea

That’s a logical extension from the average American’s understanding that if you work hard you’ll be compensated.

It’s not that everyone condemning the unhoused are wingnuts, it’s that American culture has a series of base assumptions about how the world works, and one of the big ones is that there’s a moral and meritocratic quality to earning money such that if you’re struggling to make money so much that you have to use a support system you’re a bad person.

Homelessness has to be explained in ways that circumvent systemic analysis: this cannot represent a failure of the status quo*, it can only be an individual-centered anomaly, and thus criminalization—punishing the quality of being unhoused because it arises from other defects of personhood—is acceptable. America’s has a lot of zones of unpersonhood before you ever get to wingnuts that actively want to police caste distinctions, and the ones that involve uncritically-held ideas about the meaning of work and money are the ones that the most Americans will sign on for, or at least banally accept.

“Welfare queen” worked because it hit upon a deeply-held Amercian fear that somewhere, someone was getting something they don’t deserve.

*and somewhere in here you get into how the US primarily creates rules and mores to protect private property owners, which is why the “solution” to homelessness is making public spaces more hostile in general. Strategies to disincentivize existing as an unhoused person also wound anyone dependent on public spaces and facilities, but those people matter less than folks with houses and cars.

After my husband died, I was on food stamps until I got a job. When I told two of my friends this, separately, they each told me what their fathers would think of that. It was polite of them to externalize like that.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Apr 23, 2024 • 9:24:51am

re: #271 Dr Lizardo

My god, Pecker is totally unloading.

Does Dopefish even have a spray bottle anymore?

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prairiefire  Apr 23, 2024 • 9:27:27am

re: #277 wrenchwench

(ww)

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wrenchwench  Apr 23, 2024 • 9:28:53am

Speaking of ‘job’, later, lizards.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 23, 2024 • 9:30:34am
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jeffreyw  Apr 23, 2024 • 9:32:15am

Mastodon

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Dangerman  Apr 23, 2024 • 9:32:17am

re: #275 darthstar

If Sam lauches voyager 1 in 1977 and it’s 162.7 AUs away from earth (15.1 billion miles), how far would it be before a repair probe could reach it assuming the repair probe could travel faster than 38,210 mph which is what V-Ger is currently clocking.

meanwhile, a bee starts out at the first probe, flies towards the other and upon reaching it, turns around and continues back towards the first…

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Romantic Heretic  Apr 23, 2024 • 9:33:23am

re: #230 jaunte

It’s not a matter of reason. It’s a matter of empathy and common sense.

As one TV show put it, “Logic doesn’t care.”

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 23, 2024 • 9:37:09am

re: #278 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

Does Dopefish even have a spray bottle anymore?

*quietly sitting munching on popcorn*

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 23, 2024 • 9:37:18am

re: #271 Dr Lizardo

My god, Pecker is totally unloading.

David Pecker Picked A Peck Of Persniferous Peppers at the Perverted Prick Pissing Off And Popping President Puckerhead’s Putrid Petty Pompous Person!

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darthstar  Apr 23, 2024 • 9:40:51am

Apparently Steve Bannon’s name came up - animated side-bar.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 23, 2024 • 9:42:27am

re: #275 darthstar

If Sam lauches voyager 1 in 1977 and it’s 162.7 AUs away from earth (15.1 billion miles), how far would it be before a repair probe could reach it assuming the repair probe could travel faster than 38,210 mph which is what V-Ger is currently clocking.

I was told there would be no math!

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BeenHereAwhile  Apr 23, 2024 • 9:43:55am

Meanwhile Back In Ukraine:

Samuel Bendett
@sambendett

1/ QUICK TAKE on the Russian perceptions of a Ukrainian advantage in FPV drones: “An analysis of battlefield shows that the enemy is many times superior to the Russian military in the FPV use.

At the same time, the Ukrainians have an increased FPV range - up to 30 km - due to the installment of repeaters on hexacopters (“Baba Yaga”) and fixed-wing UAVs.”

7:12 AM • 4/23/24 From Earth • 38K Views

Samuel Bendett
@sambendett

2/ “In the Kherson region, the enemy drones prevent an effective assault on the village of Krynki, where active operations resumed the day before.

Electronic warfare systems supplied to the Russian military are not always able to cope with frequencies.”

Беспилотники (дроны, БПЛА, UAV
t.me

7:14 AM • 4/23/24 From Earth • 4.4K Views

Samuel Bendett
@sambendett

3/ “On the Zaporizhzhya Front, the Ukrainian Forces are also increasing the use of FPVs and control the Tokmak road with them.

Dmitry Rogozin has written repeatedly about the FPV problem, as well as about new silent Ukrainian hexacopter-bombers.”

7:15 AM • 4/23/24 From Earth • 4.1K Views

Samuel Bendett @@sambe….4h

5/ “Every day, enemy units use from 500 to 700 FPVs. The increased range is provided by Ukrainian drones with repeaters.

In addition, the enemy is capable of using several drones at once, which indicates that they are controlled at different frequencies.”

Samuel Bendett
@sambendett

6/ “Such a massive drone use on different control channels neutralizes the work of Russian electronic warfare systems, even if they are available and properly operated.”

7:19 AM • 4/23/24 From Earth • 3.8K Views

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 23, 2024 • 9:46:53am

re: #275 darthstar

If Sam lauches voyager 1 in 1977 and it’s 162.7 AUs away from earth (15.1 billion miles), how far would it be before a repair probe could reach it assuming the repair probe could travel faster than 38,210 mph which is what V-Ger is currently clocking.

Who needs a repair probe when these folks can do it from here?

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Apr 23, 2024 • 9:51:20am

re: #275 darthstar

If Sam lauches voyager 1 in 1977 and it’s 162.7 AUs away from earth (15.1 billion miles), how far would it be before a repair probe could reach it assuming the repair probe could travel faster than 38,210 mph which is what V-Ger is currently clocking.

About 917K miles, but only because you didn’t put a top constraint on the repair ship’s speed, so it moves just under the speed of light.

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BeenHereAwhile  Apr 23, 2024 • 9:53:32am

FWIW re previous Ukraine post - I’ve been following this guy on Xitter, but have found he has a bluesky account:

Samuel Bendett
@sambendett.bsky.social
1,019 followers 159 following 430 posts
Uncrewed, autonomous, robotic systems and Artificial Intelligence.
Russian and Ukrainian weapons development. CNA, CNAS and CSIS.
Opinions my own.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 23, 2024 • 9:57:34am

Oh my! Trump did the cry thing in the courtroom?

Stan Freberg - Try

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Captain Ron  Apr 23, 2024 • 10:09:00am
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Mike Lamb  Apr 23, 2024 • 10:10:29am

re: #294 Captain Ron

[Embedded content]

That’s pretty fucking ridiculous even by GOP standards. And to get a real time fact check on Fox? Yikes.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 23, 2024 • 10:11:06am

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 23, 2024 • 10:17:40am

re: #256 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

He’s guilty as hell, so his only hope is to end rule of law in America. He’s doomed.

Either he is doomed or our nation is doomed. As has been pointed out above, people who might not be willing to travel to New York to protest may still come out in force to vote for the white supremacist leader they demand.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Apr 23, 2024 • 10:23:17am

re: #297 Hecuba’s daughter

Either he is doomed or our nation is doomed. As has been pointed out above, people who might not be willing to travel to New York to protest may still come out in force to vote for the white supremacist they leader they demand.

White men in America are a menace on average, but most women and minorities do not want America as a whole turn into a fascist shithole. Trump is doomed.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 23, 2024 • 10:25:24am

re: #298 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

White men in America are a menace on average, but most women and minorities do not want America as a whole turn into a fascist shithole. Trump is doomed.

I really hope you’re right about this.

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Captain Magic  Apr 23, 2024 • 10:26:42am

This is novel..first time I got a cell phone call that’s listed as possible fraud.

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Dangerman  Apr 23, 2024 • 10:27:22am

re: #294 Captain Ron

[Embedded content]

I mean, has Hillary Clinton ever said she lost the 2016 election?

Even with this idiot its the wrong question:

Has Hillary Clinton ever said she won the 2016 election?

Or that it was somehow ” stolen” from her?

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prairiefire  Apr 23, 2024 • 10:31:44am

Male Cardinal fight! 3 of them over territory. I saw one shove the other’s head down onto the patio.
Bloody in tooth and claw!

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teleskiguy  Apr 23, 2024 • 10:32:38am

re: #266 Dangerman

This is missing the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme song.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 23, 2024 • 10:32:59am

re: #234 No Malarkey!

C’mon, homeless person, just take $50,000 out of your savings for a down payment and buy yourself a home!

Or daddy can give you a loan, a la Mitt Romney.

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Mike Lamb  Apr 23, 2024 • 10:34:09am

re: #296 Joe Bacon ✅

[Embedded content]

Media taking a page from Principal Skinner on juror anonymity:

“Good morning class. A certain…agitator, for privacy’s sake, let’s call her ‘Lisa S.’ No that’s too obvious. Let’s say ‘L. Simpson’.”

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Apr 23, 2024 • 10:35:28am

Polynesian cats will not approach.

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steve_davis  Apr 23, 2024 • 10:36:45am

re: #302 prairiefire

Male Cardinal fight! 3 of them over territory. I saw one shove the other’s head down onto the patio.
Bloody in tooth and claw!

territory is just a cardinal euphemism for “food and sex, and not having to listen to somebody else’s leaf blowing at 6 in the goddamn morning on a saturday.”

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 23, 2024 • 10:37:12am

From NBC’s live feed 😄

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Teukka  Apr 23, 2024 • 10:38:29am

Far-right Advisor to Ben-Gvir Sanctioned by U.S. Tries to Get Gas, Finds Credit Card Blocked

Bentzi Gopstein was placed on the Biden administration’s list of extremists subject to sanctions, along with the far-right group he leads, over the weekend. The card company must adhere to the law as it relates to him and act accordingly, says issuer CAL

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Florida Panhandler  Apr 23, 2024 • 10:43:10am

re: #275 darthstar

The more important question is how such a repair probe going that fast could possibly slow down enough to successfully interface with VGer.

Planetary sling-shot is a thing for going much faster. Not much way out there to slow back down.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 23, 2024 • 10:43:30am

re: #251 Dangerman

We started watching The Newsroom

We loved that show. Damn shame it only had a couple of seasons.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Apr 23, 2024 • 10:44:07am

I know Russians are culturally very different from sane Americans, but this is a bit much.

Russian state TV has found itself a fur-clad, ‘demonstratively heterosexual’ GOP ‘beauty’ to fawn over: Marjorie Taylor Greene

The GOP congresswoman was painted in glowing terms during a broadcast on Russian state television on Sunday.

“Marjorie Taylor Greene, you’ve just shown is a beauty. She is one of a few members of the US Congress who is trying to look like a person in an old-fashioned sense of the word,” Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of Russian state-controlled broadcaster RT, said of Greene.

“She is a blonde, who wears white coats with a fur collar. She is demonstratively heterosexual,” Simonyan continued.

businessinsider.com

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Dangerman  Apr 23, 2024 • 10:45:24am

re: #310 Florida Panhandler

The more important question is how such a repair probe going that fast could possibly slow down enough to successfully interface with VGer.

Planetary sling-shot is a thing for going much faster. Not much way out there to slow back down.

Acme rubberband

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Apr 23, 2024 • 10:47:15am

re: #312 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

I know Russians are culturally very different from sane Americans, but this is a bit much.

businessinsider.com

“Demonstratively heterosexual?” Aren’t they talking about Boebert?

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 23, 2024 • 10:48:41am

re: #313 Dangerman

Acme rubberband

Space anchor.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Apr 23, 2024 • 10:50:11am

re: #314 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

“Demonstratively heterosexual?” Aren’t they talking about Boebert?

Marge is a serial cheater that got dumped by her husband, and has been seen rubbing the crotch of a Trump cutout.

317
Dangerman  Apr 23, 2024 • 10:50:38am

re: #315 Nerdy Fish

Space anchor.

damn!

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 23, 2024 • 10:50:46am

The development follows the recovery of hundreds of bodies “buried deep in the ground and covered with waste” over the weekend at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, central Gaza, and at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City in the north. A total of 283 bodies were recovered at Nasser Hospital, of which 42 were identified.

“Among the deceased were allegedly older people, women and wounded, while others were found tied with their hands…tied and stripped of their clothes,” said Ravina Shamdasani, spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.

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Dangerman  Apr 23, 2024 • 10:54:27am
Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) said he is “beside himself” over Speaker Mike Johnson fundraising for Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) ahead of his primary runoff next month, Punchbowl News reports.

Said Roy: “I’m being attacked. Conservatives are being attacked. Bob Good, the chairman of the Freedom Caucus, is being attacked by Tony. He said he was a Klansman. I cannot tolerate what’s happening to the people that I think are standing up for this country.”

Link

a Republican is blasting the Republican Speaker for hosting a fundraiser for a Republican incumbent.

because the FC is starting to fray at the seams

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Teukka  Apr 23, 2024 • 10:55:59am

re: #318 goddamnedfrank

There are questions about the mass graves, some indications they were already in use before the IDF entered the hospital. That’s not saying that IDF haven’t used them during their occupation.

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Dangerman  Apr 23, 2024 • 11:03:13am

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 23, 2024 • 11:07:57am

re: #319 Dangerman

Link

a Republican is blasting the Republican Speaker for hosting a fundraiser for a Republican incumbent.

because the FC is starting to fray at the seams

I’m rooting for injuries.

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BeachDem  Apr 23, 2024 • 11:13:00am

re: #311 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

We loved that show. Damn shame it only had a couple of seasons.

My theory is that the critics, who seem to hate Aaron Sorkin, killed it dead. A few snotty examples:

Ever since its creation The Newsroom has served as screenwriter Aaron Sorkin’s bully pulpit… and Sorkin gets to tell us how he thinks these events should have been covered. Yes, a man who has been living cosily on a Hollywood salary for several decades and has no actual journalistic experience, gets to play fantasy newsroom and tell us all how it should be done.

The problem is Sorkin also happens to be an unabashedly left-wing writer who doesn’t seem to credit anyone on the other side of the aisle with an intelligence to match his own.

Ultimately, no one appears more deluded than Sorkin. His Will McAvoy is an insufferable blowhard, but the show spends most of its energy trying to convince us he’s a saint.

It’s hard not to check out after 10 minutes: Once Will’s big speech shifts from effectively puncturing the myth of American exceptionalism to absurd generational resentment, Sorkin’s soapboxing becomes intolerable.

And from the Wall Street Journal, saying the quiet “We hate Aaron Sorkin” out loud:

Thin drama, a thick hide of smugness.

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Romantic Heretic  Apr 23, 2024 • 11:18:28am

re: #319 Dangerman

The kayfabe has taken over.

I’m going to keep using the ‘kayfabe’ analogy. It just so perfectly encapsulates the culture war. At least where the authoritarians and barbarians masquerading as conservatives are concerned.

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Dangerman  Apr 23, 2024 • 11:26:18am

re: #323 BeachDem

My theory is that the critics, who seem to hate Aaron Sorkin, killed it dead. A few snotty examples:

Ever since its creation The Newsroom has served as screenwriter Aaron Sorkin’s bully pulpit… and Sorkin gets to tell us how he thinks these events should have been covered. Yes, a man who has been living cosily on a Hollywood salary for several decades and has no actual journalistic experience, gets to play fantasy newsroom and tell us all how it should be done.

The problem is Sorkin also happens to be an unabashedly left-wing writer who doesn’t seem to credit anyone on the other side of the aisle with an intelligence to match his own.

Ultimately, no one appears more deluded than Sorkin. His Will McAvoy is an insufferable blowhard, but the show spends most of its energy trying to convince us he’s a saint.

It’s hard not to check out after 10 minutes: Once Will’s big speech shifts from effectively puncturing the myth of American exceptionalism to absurd generational resentment, Sorkin’s soapboxing becomes intolerable.

And from the Wall Street Journal, saying the quiet “We hate Aaron Sorkin” out loud:

Thin drama, a thick hide of smugness.

i guess you do have to like that sort of thing
i do

ironically this was on electoral-vote.com last week
(it’s why we started watching)

J.G. in Farmington, CT, writes: I’m sorry, I have to contest the assertion that the monologue from The Newsroom is great. I’ve seen a lot of Aaron Sorkin writing over the years, and if left unsupervised, he’s a one-trick pony. The best script he ever wrote was one where three other writers had to doctor the hell out of it (Moneyball, itself based on a somewhat false premise, considering a big part of the A’s success during that period was due to pitching). The worst? Probably Jobs or the third season of The West Wing, where his utter disrespect for women really surfaced.

Want to write a Sorkin dialogue? Here goes:

Character 1: I’d like Character 2 to do or say something so straw-man objectionable the audience will recoil.

Character 2: I see, you’d like me to do or say this outlandish thing, paraphrased so I’m not repeating your words. Then, I’ll do another fantastic thing, from a well-known piece of literature or television, to paint how ridiculous the first thing is.

Character 1 (looks down, sighs, grunts, or otherwise nonverbally objects to the conversation going this way): Character 2’s name…

Character 2, rudely interrupting: Let me assault you with statistics that no human being could have possibly memorized to illustrate why I reject your premise. And before I forget, let me liberally pepper my words with casual misogyny. Decisions are made by those who show up, including and especially those who expect opponents to change their behavior on the basis of a stern talking-to by their opponent, because that’s how politics works. Fix it. Fix it now.
Later, during an interview where a fawning host asks me how I write such witty men (not women; women exist as foils): “My allegiance isn’t to the truth. It’s to captivate you for as long as I’ve asked for your attention.”

I’d like one Emmy, please.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 23, 2024 • 11:45:46am

re: #271 Dr Lizardo

My god, Pecker is totally unloading.

A real cream pie?

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 23, 2024 • 12:13:34pm

If it’s Tuesday…it means KKKrazy KKKari Lake Flipped On Abortion AGAIN!

Kari Lake flips on Arizona abortion ban, says ‘unfortunately’ it’s not being enforced

Republican Arizona Senate candidate Kari Lake in an interview with an Idaho media outlet expressed disappointment that her state’s 1864 law banning nearly all abortions is not being enforced, backtracking on comments she made earlier this month when she said the resurrected measure went too far.

“The Arizona Supreme Court said this is the law of Arizona. But unfortunately, the people running our state have said we’re not going to enforce it,” Lake said in a video interview with the Idaho Dispatch on Saturday.

thehill.com


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