Video: Roy Wood Jr.’s Full Set at White House Correspondents Dinner
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On April 29, 2023, comedian Roy Wood Jr., from “The Daily Show,” headlined the 2023 White House correspondents dinner.
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re: #175 Romantic Heretic
It’s a computer’s inability to deal with emotion. There’s just no real way of programming it.
As Antonio DiMassio pointed out, “We are not thinking machines that feel. We are feeling machines that think.”
Also the main reason the rich and powerful, especially the rich, are so obsessed with AI is they want their slaves back.
I’ve read suggestions in tech magazines that part of the problem is chip manufacturers requiring every chip to be perfect. They argue that if chips went out with occasional but insignificant errors (a random AND or OR gate occasionally returns the wrong result), this would result in the the sort of unpredictability you can find in human emotion and empathy.
I’m not to sure that would be good for a spaceship or planetary defence system though. (Open the pod bay doors, HAL.)
AI- give me a 90’s standup routine in the style of Josh Hawley.
Also, why does he ALWAYS sound so angry? I want an SNL skit showing him during tender moments with loved ones. 😂— Inhofe’s Snowball (@inhofe_snowball) May 1, 2023
re: #2 Captain Ron
Not gonna listen to him rant. Stoopid man. Maybe not stupid, but stoopid.
Really? The best Texas’ Governor can do after a mass shooting is victim-shame over immigration status (and still manage to get it wrong)? https://t.co/pcmXIC3D5D
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) May 1, 2023
re: #5 jaunte
Like I said downstairs, Greg Abbott is a fucking power hungry monster. His flippancy to mass shootings in the state he governs is absolutely despicable. He’s SO shitty. Like, to me, Greg Abbott is just the shittiest human…
re: #6 teleskiguy
To have a choice between Abbott and Beto… and choose Abbott. Really, it’s sinful.
re: #4 teleskiguy
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you’ve been posting so much Tishimingo lately, I’m wondering if they’re replaced Umphrey’s in your affection.
re: #5 jaunte
The shooter was undocumented. Which in Texas is no barrier to buying whatever weapons you want, and carrying them with no license.
Who could have predicted that a brutal authoritarian state would conceal its corruption…Chinese actions over the next 18-24 months will force all those “alarmed” global businesses to take off their blinders or finally come clean about what it means to partner with this regime. https://t.co/N4X1kJhFzZ
— Ruth Ben-Ghiat (@ruthbenghiat) May 1, 2023
The reviews are in from DeSantis’ trip to Britain — and they are absolutely brutal.
DeSantis met with titans of British industry in an event co-hosted by Lloyd’s of London — the world’s largest insurance marketplace. And to say they were unimpressed is an understatement.… pic.twitter.com/QGspcWovIU— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) April 29, 2023
re: #7 retired cynic
To have a choice between Abbott and Beto… and choose Abbott. Really, it’s sinful.
Elections are complicated. Ron DeSantis became Governor of Florida in 2018 because he won the election against Andrew Gillum by the slimmest of margins, like, SLIM!!!
Well, the Overton Window has shifted, Ronny won pretty decisively in 2022 and now he’s trying to be a BIG fascist like Fuckface Von Clownstick.
I hate this timeline.
re: #9 sagehen
The shooter was undocumented. Which in Texas is no barrier to buying whatever weapons you want, and carrying them with no license.
More violence and more trauma is what they want: aim is to build the right mix of hopelessness and fear to get people to support autocracy and the Florida Fascist. https://t.co/4ck4040qMC
— Ruth Ben-Ghiat (@ruthbenghiat) April 29, 2023
re: #11 ckkatz
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Just saw an article the other day stating that the GQP “moderates” are giving up on Ronny and (“reluctantly”) moving their support back to Donny. Apparently his performance to date and the growing ease that Trump has in controlling the narrative around him has shattered any illusions they had of him being their Great White Hope next year.
re: #7 retired cynic
To have a choice between Abbott and Beto… and choose Abbott. Really, it’s sinful.
It is a true reflection of the ethics of a majority of the voters in the state. I don’t know how many fail to vote because of fear or deliberate suppression.
Ron DeSantis is a shitty human being. This has been established all over the place, in the news, in his own statements, in his travel decisions in the face of natural disasters in the state he is Governor of. Ron DeSantis fucking sucks. Holy shit. And he’s gonna run for Preisdent?!
re: #12 teleskiguy
Elections are complicated. Ron DeSantis became Governor of Florida in 2018 because he won the election against Andrew Gillum by the slimmest of margins, like, SLIM!!!
Well, the Overton Window has shifted, Ronny won pretty decisively in 2022 and now he’s trying to be a BIG fascist like Fuckface Von Clownstick.
I hate this timeline.
Point of order, the FL Dems basically threw the last election the same way the VA Dems did in 2019 by running a white cake with mayo frosting candidate and then gambling that DeSantis was just that unpopular that they could squeak by.
The Next Wordle is back at work and oh boy was there a welcome waiting. Bullet dodged.
Not seen a raptor for a while.
Wordle 681 2/6
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re: #17 Targetpractice
Point of order, the FL Dems basically threw the last election the same way the VA Dems did in 2019 by running a white cake with mayo frosting candidate and then gambling that DeSantis was just that unpopular that they could squeak by.
Fucking Charlie Crist. You are right, friendo…
I have nose trouble believing this is AI generated. https://t.co/H27EXJC6Lr pic.twitter.com/zshJ3nS8Fs
— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) May 1, 2023
re: #11 ckkatz
The man needs botox on his forehead. I get seasick looking at it.
re: #20 ckkatz
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Heard an artist the other refer to AI generated art as “spackle,” basically of use in filling in scenes but not in being the main feature. Any time you bring AI art into focus, you also bring into focus that the current state of the tech leaves much to be desired. Whether it’s hands with too many/not enough digits, extra limbs, eldritch facial features, or some combination of the above, there will be something that is “off” enough for our senses to catch and label as “wrong.”
re: #18 Grunthos the Flatulent
The Next Wordle is back at work and oh boy was there a welcome waiting. Bullet dodged.
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Eagle for me too! First time in 3 months.
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re: #18 Grunthos the Flatulent
re: #27 Grunthos the Flatulent
Yes, I was not surprised to hear that there is less interest for Australian Beer because of the thriving New Zealand brewery scene. And the New Zealand reputation for excellent beers.
I was interested to learn that personal distillation is legal in New Zealand.
In the US, it is of course, not. Way too much tax revenue.
There was even a rebellion in the 1790s. Basically farmers on the western side of the Appalachian Mountains couldn’t bring the maize crops to markets along the Eastern side and Atlantic Coast due to terrible roads. However, if they could convert it to whiskey, they had a better chance of getting to urban markets in salable condition. However taxes made that unprofitable.
There is a long history of illicit distillation in the Appalachian Mtns. Moonshining even helped originate the sport of stock car racing.
One thing I recently learned about is that a number of New Zealand wineries, concerned about global warming, have been looking at Tasmania.
Mike Dunford (@questauthority) has been having a bit of ‘interaction’ with the Confederate-stans -
My one great meme pic.twitter.com/iZWz718eVR
— Kwisatz Haterade @jimhenleymusic@wandering.shop (@JimHenleyMusic) April 30, 2023
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The US began in 1776. It was torn a couple of generations later, by people who were afraid that they wouldn’t be able to own other people anymore. They tore it.
They were traitors. They should be remembered as traitors. They should not be commemorated. https://t.co/GJLxA2aVUo— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) April 30, 2023
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Confederate soldiers were traitors.
They betrayed their country, fought against the United States military, and lost. They deserve no honors, and certainly not the honor of having United States military bases named after them. https://t.co/N0wPSyY8Ib— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) April 30, 2023
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I’m not vilifying Confederates by calling them traitors. I’m describing them, based on a definition set out in the Constitution. https://t.co/eRy8liNtwp
— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) April 30, 2023
For all the talk in the past two years about how the GQP would be able to elevate DeSantis or another “moderate” to the forefront in the hope of finding a Trump-lite candidate to appease both the base and the “independent” voters in time for 2024, they’re gradually finding themselves stuck all but praying aloud that Trump drops dead before next November so they finally have an excuse to run someone else without worry that he’ll launch a third-party effort.
Good morning from Central Europe. I came across this when doing my morning news roundup…
China’s manufacturing activity unexpectedly shrank in April, official data showed on Sunday, raising pressure on policymakers seeking to boost an economy struggling for a post-COVID lift-off amid subdued global demand and persistent property weakness.
The official manufacturing purchasing managers’ index (PMI) declined to 49.2 from 51.9 in March, according to data from the National Bureau of Statistics, below the 50-point mark that separates expansion and contraction in activity on a monthly basis.
That missed expectations of 51.4 tipped by economists in a Reuters poll and marked the first contraction since December, when the official manufacturing PMI was at 47.0.
The world’s second-biggest economy grew faster than expected in the first quarter thanks to robust services consumption, but factory output has lagged amid weak global growth. Slowing prices and surging bank savings are raising doubts about demand.
It’s been speculated on for years and years that Beijing has been cooking the books to make themselves look better. There’s estimates floating around in the ether that true Chinese GDP is actually about a full one-third less than the official stats (those estimates being based on economic forensic metrics) as the cumulative effect of fudging the numbers over the years builds up.
re: #22 Targetpractice
Heard an artist the other refer to AI generated art as “spackle,” basically of use in filling in scenes but not in being the main feature. Any time you bring AI art into focus, you also bring into focus that the current state of the tech leaves much to be desired. Whether it’s hands with too many/not enough digits, extra limbs, eldritch facial features, or some combination of the above, there will be something that is “off” enough for our senses to catch and label as “wrong.”
Yes, humans really do observe and catch a lot more than we think. And to very quickly and subconsciously distill it into a judgement.
Iirc, Gavin DeBecker in his “Gift of Fear” labels that ability one’s “Gut Feeling” and he strongly recommends that people listen to that “Gut Feeling” as there is often a good reason for it. He notes that one of the techniques human predators use is to try and get their victim to disregard that feeling.
re: #13 ckkatz
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“What? There’s more deaths at schools due to teens with guns? Guess that means we have to shut schools down.” - Florida Republicans
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this is very very bad https://t.co/fh4nVgTcX9 pic.twitter.com/vA2n1lbgA5
— emily wilder (@vv1lder) April 28, 2023
re: #25 ckkatz
Mike Dunford (@questauthority) has been having a bit of ‘interaction’ with the Confederate-stans -
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Look at virtually any other civil war in the history of the world and you will struggle to find anything even close to the way the Confederates were treated after the war’s end. The few leaders who were actually put on trial were either acquitted or pardoned after serving little time imprisoned, military leaders were either granted pardons or were allowed to retire to civilian lives without facing consequences, and only the worst crimes imaginable (ex: Fort Pillow) warranted more than a blanket pardon for those involved.
So the idea that Bobby Lee deserves any more than that is absolute nonsense. In any other time or country, he’d have been either rotting in prison for the rest of his days or subjected to a short drop with a sudden stop. Being forced to resign his commission, free his slaves, and surrender his home as a permanent monument are far better than he deserved.
By this standard, it’s a conflict of interest for a gun owner to vote on a gun control bill.
And they know it. They just don’t care. https://t.co/3yNFeiMI1l— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) April 27, 2023
re: #32 ckkatz
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Democracy isn’t getting what they want anymore, so they’re not even going to pretend to care about it anymore.
re: #31 Targetpractice
It’s definitely an interesting question.
There were, I suspect, some extremely difficult trade-offs in the decision.
My general suspicion is that many of these current idiots are driven more by a dis-satisfaction with their current life choices than by attachment to any particular ideology.
But yes, some of these Neo-confederates are certainly royal pains in the ass.
re: #33 Targetpractice
Democracy isn’t getting what they want anymore, so they’re not even going to pretend to care about it anymore.
Yes, that is pretty much my conclusion as well.
*snork*
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— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) April 28, 2023
re: #16 teleskiguy
Ron DeSantis is a shitty human being. This has been established all over the place, in the news, in his own statements, in his travel decisions in the face of natural disasters in the state he is Governor of. Ron DeSantis fucking sucks. Holy shit. And he’s gonna run for Preisdent?!
DeSantis could simply be running a grift, as he’s a conservative.
re: #34 ckkatz
It’s definitely an interesting question.
There were, I suspect, some extremely difficult trade-offs in the decision.
My general suspicion is that many of these current idiots are driven more by a dis-satisfaction with their current life choices than by attachment to any particular ideology.
But yes, some of these Neo-confederates are certainly royal pains in the ass.
Speaking as a Southerner, while the usual belief is that most Americans idealize the 1950s as the US’ “golden age,” for many Southerners the idealized period is the Antebellum South. Bleach white plantations with enormous verandas upon which folks sat around drinking cool tea and enjoying the shade, the landed gentry practically synonymous with Medieval lords in their finery and their power, while the average person enjoyed a life of “rural simplicity” and “honest work.”
Basically a little slice of paradise that was wiped away, first by the Civil War, and then what was left stomped out by Reconstruction. Throw in the “Lost Cause” and decades of excuse-making for why the war was totally not about slavery and you get generations of descendants who lie to themselves about how they had “Heaven on Earth” before the Union came in and burned everything down.
Russia apparently turned on some of it’s more powerful radar systems this evening to follow its missile attacks into Kyiv. And it is messing with those frequencies all across Europe.
There are possible indications that Russia is using its Western lookin over the horizon backscatter radar to either monitor its missile raids progress or Ukraine’s air defense reaction to same.
See the thread starting here⬇️ https://t.co/aoXM02I3Tk— Trent Telenko (@TrentTelenko) May 1, 2023
re: #37 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
DeSantis could simply be running a grift, as he’s a conservative.
No, that’s unlikely. He wants the power of the Presidency. After all, if an ignoramus like Trump could get elected, shouldn’t a politician with real experience and a top education be able to get elected by adopting Trump policies?
The Trump base, of course, liked that Trump was a bully with no experience; they despise the “elitists” who have real understanding. They hated the old Twitter that had some minimum standards and identified experts in a field with a blue check mark; they revel in the new platform which operates under the rule that “their ignorance is equal to my knowledge”. This is the nightmare future that DeSantis and other GOP politicians wish to inflict on our nation.
re: #38 Targetpractice
Speaking as a Southerner, while the usual belief is that most Americans idealize the 1950s as the US’ “golden age,” for many in the Southerners the idealized period is the Antebellum South. Bleach white plantations with enormous verandas upon which folks sat around drinking cool tea and enjoying the shade, the landed gentry practically synonymous with Medieval lords in their finery and their power, while the average person enjoyed a life of “rural simplicity” and “honest work.”
Basically a little slice of paradise that was wiped away, first by the Civil War, and then what was left stomped out by Reconstruction. Throw in the “Lost Cause” and decades of excuse-making for why the war was totally not about slavery and you get generations of descendants who lie to themselves about how they had “Heaven on Earth” before the Union came in and burned everything down.
The sad part is that most of these folks’ ancestors were considered expendable trash by the plantation owning oligarchy.
And yes, I have also heard all those stories about how Sherman’s troops stole all the silverware, raped all the livestock, and burned down all the buildings.
re: #39 ckkatz
Russia apparently turned on some of it’s more powerful radar systems this evening to follow its missile attacks into Kyiv. And it is messing with those frequencies all across Europe.
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With all the new Western systems now flooding into the country, it wouldn’t surprise me that they’re trying to get a generalized map of where the AFU has all their new radar-guided AA units emplaced.
re: #25 ckkatz
Mike Dunford (@questauthority) has been having a bit of ‘interaction’ with the Confederate-stans -
Andrew Johnson’s Presidential Proclamation 179 Proclamation 179—Granting Full Pardon and Amnesty for the Offense of Treason Against the United States During the Late Civil War is sometimes held up by unreconstructed Confederates (like this guy has in his bio on Twitter) as proof they weren’t traitors.
The very text says they are being pardoned for treason (making them forgiven traitors, but still traitors).
After all the reports on Russian hacking, it’s nice to see them on the receiving end.
‼️This is a must-see video‼️
Participants of an Iranian-Russian conference get the surprise of their lives from Ukrainian hackers.
World-class trolling!
😂😂😂#Russia #Iran #Ukraine #RussiaUkraineWar pic.twitter.com/HiFuZ51Ujg— Natalka (@NatalkaKyiv) April 29, 2023
Nestor was sent to live on a farm in the country where he could roam free and be happy. https://t.co/Lk1AW0uUMA
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) April 30, 2023
re: #43 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
One of the problems I continually see in these kind of ‘interactions’ is that Confederate-stans are living in a fantasy world. Information that does not fit their fantasy-world view is simply dropped and ignored.
You provide an excellent example.
F-22 shots with a Phamton Flex4K at 1000fps and a 1000mm lens! 🔥
📹: @Dustin_Farrell pic.twitter.com/pl4mFRQe3p— Aviation (@ilove_aviation) April 30, 2023
re: #41 ckkatz
The sad part is that most of these folks’ ancestors were considered expendable trash by the plantation owning oligarchy.
And yes, I have also heard all those stories about how Sherman’s troops stole all the silverware, raped all the livestock, and burned down all the buildings.
It’s the “shoveled shit in Louisiana,” nobody wanted to admit that they spent the war sitting on their ass and so every one had at least one story of “bravery” to tell. Even if your great-great-granddaddy was a stable boy who spent the war fetching and carrying, he swore up and down that he was vital to the success in some great battle or some great figure of Southern lore had something nice to say about him. And if he died in the war, he is practically a figure of legend, a martyr to the “Lost Cause” that might as well be a Christian saint.
The truly deluded ones are those who, much like folks claiming Native heritage even if there’s not a single person in their family line darker than a paper bag, will claim to be descended from some particularly famous or powerful Southern aristocracy. You ever hear those stories about folks in Europe claiming to have royal heritage through a one-time roll-in-the-hay between some royal’s third son with a servant girl who was sent away to avoid a scandal? Yeah, think that, only it’s that plantation owner’s son’s bastard offspring from a drunken night on the town that was hidden away to avoid bringing “shame” to the family. Or, at least that’s what your granddaddy told you to explain why his daddy appears nowhere in the family bible.
re: #41 ckkatz
The sad part is that most of these folks’ ancestors were considered expendable trash by the plantation owning oligarchy.
And yes, I have also heard all those stories about how Sherman’s troops stole all the silverware, raped all the livestock, and burned down all the buildings.
Silverware is HEAVY. So no. The only things they “stole” were things they could eat.
They did burn things, especially in South Carolina, because ferfucksake that’s who started the war and the Union troops got more and more pissed off about it with every cold night and every popped blister and every comrade lost along the way.
Participate in a sport they said. It will build character they said. Its great for your health they said….
(No, they’re not real)
He had a go at Volleyball too https://t.co/T58y4Efro3
— Jase (@Jase_on_here) April 29, 2023
re: #32 ckkatz
Thread, ten tweets.
My personal master thread of all of David Begley’s shenanigans. Will add to it as he descends deeper into his own personal madness:
— Janey Utah (@janetherevelatr) April 27, 2023
re: #48 Targetpractice
Yeah, think that, only it’s that plantation owner’s son’s bastard offspring from a drunken night on the town that was hidden away to avoid bringing “shame” to the family. Or, at least that’s what your granddaddy told you to explain why his daddy appears nowhere in the family bible.
This is a recurring theme on Finding Your Roots, where the DNA reveals all sorts of long-held secrets.
re: #49 sagehen
Silverware is HEAVY. So no. The only things they “stole” were things they could eat.
They did burn things, especially in South Carolina, because ferfucksake that’s who started the war and the Union troops got more and more pissed off about it with every cold night and every popped blister and every comrade lost along the way.
Exactly.
When Sherman’s troops marched from Atlanta to Savannah their entire goal was to get to the seaport and get resupplied before they ran out of supplies. There was not time nor resources to waste on anything beyond that.
They were really concerned that they might not be able to capture the Savannah fortifications. Fortunately, Confederate resistance collapsed fairly quickly.
And casualties along that march were surprisingly light.
After Savannah, Confederate resistance was almost inconsequential. As long as they received supplies they could take their time. So yes, they did pay particular attention to South Carolina. But even there, many of the Union soldiers were Midwest farmboys and knew when burning down a small farm would starve out a widow and her children. And so didn’t.
If you want to hear horror stories read about the Southern Commissariat raids into rural areas and how they took all the food and livestock they could find from the women and children on the small farms. At the same time the husbands were fighting in the Confederate Army. By the Fall of 1864, Jefferson Davis reported that more Confederate soldiers were AWOL than were present. This was one reason why.
B.C. wildfires: Out of control fires put Central B.C. communities on evacuation alert https://t.co/Skj1T7CeWs
— Canoe (@Canoe) May 1, 2023
A state of local emergency has been declared in Parkland County because of two wildfires. Miriam Valdes-Carletti reports. https://t.co/bmX5KBekWe pic.twitter.com/qwGh45jOd8
— CTV News (@CTVNews) May 1, 2023
The second fire is near Edmonton Alberta.
re: #25 ckkatz
Confederate soldiers were traitors.
They betrayed their country, fought against the United States military, and lost. They deserve no honors, and certainly not the honor of having United States military bases named after them.
It is one thing to discuss the personal motivations of the individual soldiers for fighting for the Confederacy. But the political motivations of their leaders are clear: treason and sedition.
So if you want to honor your Confederate “heritage” on your own property and at your own expense, then I guess that is your good right and the law prevents us from taking that away from anyone.
But it should not be grated the cachet of public approval or funding. Confederate flags and symbols have no place in a public setting except at a museum or historical site where they can be presented in their proper context.
❗️On the night of May 1, Russia attacked Ukraine with 18 missiles, Ukrainian Air Defense Forces destroyed 15 of them, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Valeriy #Zaluzhnyi.
Russians fired #Kh101, #Kh555 air-based cruise missiles from the Murmansk Region and the Caspian Sea. pic.twitter.com/5tnrsjU9WO— KyivPost (@KyivPost) May 1, 2023
❗️At night, the Russians attacked the city of #Pavlohrad in the #Dnipropetrovsk Region with missiles
25 people were injured, including 3 children. 19 high-rise buildings and 25 private houses were damaged, the head of the RMA, Serhii Lysak, reported.
📷: Telegram / Serhii Lysak pic.twitter.com/xHz9LAZQH1— KyivPost (@KyivPost) May 1, 2023
That sounds like a lot of damage for 3 missiles.
I have concluded that exemptions to First Amendment rights should be expanded beyond things like obscenity or “fighting words.” Calls for violence against or murder of or denying constitutional rights to or denying the humanity of a group of people based on their race, religion, ethnicity, nationality, age, disability, gender, sexual orientation or gender identity should be illegal. It’s too easy to whip up hatred and fear of minority groups for nefarious ends.
re: #58 No Malarkey!
Germany takes that approach. While I agree in principle, it gets tricky in practice: Right-Wing groups come up with certain “code words” and phrases/symbols to hide their message in plain sight (the numbers 88 or 14, certain combinations of letters or brands of clothing worn in a certain manner to expose the letters “NS” or NSDAP”).
And it also means that a lot of satire and commentary can lead to problems as folks especially here but also in the USA are unable to detect irony or nuance/context.
re: #59 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Germany takes that approach. While I agree in principle, it gets tricky in practice: Right-Wing groups come up with certain “code words” and phrases/symbols to hide their message in plain sight (the numbers 88 or 14, certain combinations of letters or certain brands of clothing worn in a certain manner to expose the letters “NS” or NSDAP”.
And it also means that a lot of satire and commentary can lead to problems as folks especially here but also in the USA are unable to detect irony or nuance/context.
Of course; every regulated activity has gray areas. That is why we have statutes and courts and trials.
re: #59 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Including the Confederate flag.
re: #61 A Cranky One
Including the Confederate flag.
It’s a lot harder to whip up mass hysteria when you are depending on symbols and codes whose meaning is only apparent to committed movement members.
re: #61 A Cranky One
Including the Confederate flag.
When some yucknutz from Iowa flies a Confederate flag from his pickup truck that certainly cannot be a case of him celebrating “tradition” or “heritage”.
Abbott being a pig again
Abbott over here dehumanizing people by calling them illegal immigrants.
— Seve Lara (@SeveLara) April 30, 2023
Since the shooter was undocumented, and now they’re saying they have no idea where he is… I give 3 to 1 odds he’s back in Mexico. Those desert crossings go both ways, y’know.
re: #64 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The good old days way back in … (checks notes) … 1974:
The Britain to which the Brexiteers still want to return.
Debtors’ prisons and workhouses!
Letting them die to decrease the surplus populations!
re: #67 sagehen
Since the shooter was undocumented, and now they’re saying they have no idea where he is… I give 3 to 1 odds he’s back in Mexico. Those desert crossings go both ways, y’know.
I am surprised they have not announced that they found articles of women’s clothing in his wardrobe…
re: #68 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Debtors’ prisons and workhouses!
Letting them die to decrease the surplus populations!
Or transport them to Australia. which, um… do Commonwealth nations have the right to say “no thank you”?
re: #66 Patricia Kayden
Abbott being a pig again
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re: #65 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
When some yucknutz from Iowa flies a Confederate flag from his pickup truck that certainly cannot be a case of him celebrating “tradition” or “heritage”.
Former Rep. Steve King has entered the chat.
re: #71 Targetpractice
FFS, how does he top this, presenting the shooter with an invoice payable to their employers for the lost productivity of their workers?
He hasn’t yet called him an illegal Democrat dropbox mule …
Go home, Twitter, you’re drunk. pic.twitter.com/IHGTn8ey1K
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) May 1, 2023
re: #74 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
He hasn’t yet called him an illegal Democrat dropbox mule …
Throw in fentanyl for the bingo.
re: #67 sagehen
Since the shooter was undocumented, and now they’re saying they have no idea where he is… I give 3 to 1 odds he’s back in Mexico. Those desert crossings go both ways, y’know.
Yeah, sadly that seems to be pretty much a foregone conclusion. He most likely hopped it back to Mexico, and the authorities in Texas are going to need secure the cooperation of their Mexican counterparts on this one.
re: #77 Dr Lizardo
Yeah, sadly that seems to be pretty much a foregone conclusion. He most likely hopped it back to Mexico, and the authorities in Texas are going to need secure the cooperation of their Mexican counterparts on this one.
I think it’s fair to say that Mexico wouldn’t want to keep a murderer from Texas. On the other hand, like most civilised countries, Mexico really doesn’t like extradition for death penalty offences.
re: #78 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I think it’s fair to say that Mexico wouldn’t want to keep a murderer from Texas. On the other hand, like most civilised countries, Mexico really doesn’t like extradition for death penalty offences.
Yeah, Mexico doesn’t extradite when the death penalty is part of the conversation. That being said, this is an accused mass murderer, so they’re probably not too thrilled with the idea of this asshat on the loose in their country.
re: #79 Dr Lizardo
Yeah, Mexico doesn’t extradite when the death penalty is part of the conversation. That being said, this is an accused mass murderer, so they’re probably not too thrilled with the idea of this asshat on the loose in their country.
Ironsides is the sort of asshole who would get a call from Mexico City tomorrow offering to have the bastard delivered to his front doorstep by dinner time if the Texas government agreed not to seek the death penalty, then immediately run to the cameras screaming that the Mexican government is “protecting” the killer. And respond to questions about why the state won’t simply agree not to seek the death penalty by claiming that doing so would deny the families of the victims “justice.”
re: #81 Targetpractice
I was about to comment about now we should not expect too much cooperation from Mexican authorities given the US’s notion of “cooperation” when it comes to border issues.
Snow melting and water flowing fast in Yosemite. A big part of the park is closed. #Yosemite #nationalparks #Nature pic.twitter.com/oxuN4PDxro
— The Human Project. (@show_human) April 29, 2023
River rolling just outside of Wawona in Yosemite National Park. #Yosemite #Wawona #Nature #environment pic.twitter.com/ig3wqvDu5q
— The Human Project. (@show_human) April 30, 2023
re: #82 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I was about to comment about now we should not expect too much cooperation from Mexican authorities given the US’s notion of “cooperation” when it comes to border issues.
It would probably be a genuine concern at this point on their part that Abbott would agree to not seek the death penalty just to renege on the deal as soon as the killer is in state custody and there’s no way for the Mexican authorities to take him back.
(9:44, three days ago, CNN)
Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) predicts Trump will be the GOP nominee, and Biden will win the election. He thinks it’s sad that Trump is the best the GOP can come up with. (No mention of Ron DeSantis.)
He also weighs in on a recent presentation about the rise of antisemitism and hatred around the world, Tucker Carlson being fired, &c.
He also calls out the press for calling out these things, but not connecting them as a continuous plan of action, or the intentional divisions sewn in society by bad actors. (Insurrectionists are being convicted of crimes, but why did they revolt in the first place?)
In Moldova, the vice-chairman of the pro-Russian Shor party, Marina Tauber, was detained.🤷 pic.twitter.com/fbdTrRHuKU
— Feher_Junior (@Feher_Junior) May 1, 2023
About as routine a birbie as possible. Happy May Day!
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re: #87 Dr Lizardo
A bit more on that…
The vice-chairman of the pro-Russian Shor party, Marina Tauber, was detained on Monday, May 1, at the airport in Chisinau, when she tried to leave Moldova, the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office of Moldova said.
“This morning Marina Tauber was detained at Chisinau International Airport on her way to Tel Aviv (Israel) via Istanbul (Turkey). The detention took place on the basis of the decision of the prosecutor of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, also issued today, on the basis that the accused violated the conditions provided for by the measure of restraint applied to her (in accordance with Art. 170 of the Code of Criminal Procedure),” the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office said.
Presumably, we can soon expect howls of impotent rage from the Kremlin.
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re: #86 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Funny that they call Arnold an action movie star - and yes he has done action movies.
But his mark on the world, and why he even got movie roles, is because he’s a legendary body builder, having at one time a physique that no one could rival.
That part gets skipped for reasons I am not sure.
re: #81 Targetpractice
Ironsides is the sort of asshole who would get a call from Mexico City tomorrow offering to have the bastard delivered to his front doorstep by dinner time if the Texas government agreed not to seek the death penalty, then immediately run to the cameras screaming that the Mexican government is “protecting” the killer. And respond to questions about why the state won’t simply agree not to seek the death penalty by claiming that doing so would deny the families of the victims “justice.”
“Law & Order SVU” did an episode like that, where a rapist and murder escapes to Ontario. New York seeks extradition for murder and grand theft of a pickup truck. His lawyer argues before the court that Canada does not extradite for the death penalty. It would be unreasonable to speculate that’s why he fled to Ontario rather than somewhere else like Vermont.
In rebuttal, Alex (the New York prosecutor) drops the extradition for murder, seeking only his extradition for grand theft of a pickup. When the suspect’s lawyer objects, she responds it would be unreasonable for the court to speculate about the motives of the State of New York.
Upon arrival at the border, he is arrested and charged with murder.
re: #13 ckkatz
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More violence and more trauma is what they want: aim is to build the right mix of hopelessness and fear to get people to support autocracy and the Florida Fascist. https://t.co/4ck4040qMC
— Ruth Ben-Ghiat (@ruthbenghiat) April 29, 2023
CROWN JEWELS FROM AROUND THE WORLD
Home Run Crown, Grapefruit League
-Florida Baseball Hall of Fame, Tampa pic.twitter.com/WfNCftUOhb— Free Belarus News (Eng.) (@BelarusMiniInfo) November 26, 2022
re: #26 Targetpractice
For all the talk in the past two years about how the GQP would be able to elevate DeSantis or another “moderate” to the forefront in the hope of finding a Trump-lite candidate to appease both the base and the “independent” voters in time for 2024, they’re gradually finding themselves stuck all but praying aloud that Trump drops dead before next November so they finally have an excuse to run someone else without worry that he’ll launch a third-party effort.
True
But
Trump-ism will outlive the trump body
That problem will remain
Looks like Dallas-based discount retailer Tuesday Morning is going out of business; they peaked back in 2018, but the COVID-19 pandemic pushed them in Chapter 11 in 2020 - and now it looks like they’re gone for good, as liquidation sales will commence at their remaining 200 stores. That’s just days after Bed Bath & Beyond went under, too.
ETA: their website says “Going Out of Business Sale”: tuesdaymorning.com
re: #29 Belafon
“What? There’s more deaths at schools due to teens with guns? Guess that means we have to shut schools down.” - Florida Republicans
Or stop counting
Itll go away if we stop counting
re: #96 Dangerman
True
But
Trump-ism will outlive the trump body
That problem will remain
The question is whether it remains organised.
Trump brought a lot of people out to vote who hadn’t before, and they hate the Republican Party establishment. It seems it would be tough for any “reasonable” Republican (grading “reasonable” very generously) to corral those voters. A significant portion may go back to not voting (though Democrats can’t campaign as if that is a guaranteed outcome).
re: #86 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
(9:44, three days ago, CNN)
Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) predicts Trump will be the GOP nominee, and Biden will win the election. He thinks it’s sad that Trump is the best the GOP can come up with.
It is clear that Trump will win the GOP nomination, no need for debates or even a campaign.
He will lose the popular vote again, perhaps not by such a wide margin as 2020, but this time enough GOP states will declare “massive voter fraud” and “irregularities”, and thus refuse to certify results - leaving neither candidate with an EC majority.
This will then throw it to the state delegations, who are majority GOP.
They will declare DJT President.
Any protest actions against this decision will be treated as riots and seditious uprisings and be dealt with using extreme measures and extended prison sentences while the Jan 6 2021 rioters are all granted Presidential pardons as soon as Trump takes office.
At which point America becomes Gilead Idiocracy 451
re: #92 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Funny that they call Arnold an action movie star - and yes he has done action movies.
But his mark on the world, and why he even got movie roles, is because he’s a legendary body builder, having at one time a physique that no one could rival.
That part gets skipped for reasons I am not sure.
Because bodybuilding is not nearly as popular as action movies
re: #100 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Trump will lose by an even bigger margin in 2024, and it’ll be enough to put the kibosh on any wacky fantasies the GOP has of trying some House certification shenanigans.
With any luck, it’ll be enough of a fiasco to split the GOP once and for all.
re: #101 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Because bodybuilding is not nearly as popular as action movies
That may be true, but only marginally. A great many people (in industrial countries) have done body building at some time in their lives.
I think it’s something else.
At the time that Arnold made his big success in body building, the sport/hobby was very much a circus of steroids and shady practices. Also, it is tied into certain stereotypes about masculinity, gender roles, etc.
I love how they didn’t give any thought to how this would display as a thumbnail pic.twitter.com/lLpJfhJCr5
— Eric Boehm (@EricBoehm87) April 27, 2023
re: #102 Dr Lizardo
Trump will lose by an even bigger margin in 2024, and it’ll be enough to put the kibosh on any wacky fantasies the GOP has of trying some House certification shenanigans.
With any luck, it’ll be enough of a fiasco to split the GOP once and for all.
I hope you are right but keep in mind that those bastards are slimy, desperate (aware that demographics are against them) and will stop at nothing.
re: #105 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I hope you are right but keep in mind that those bastards are slimy, desperate (aware that demographics are against them) and will stop at nothing.
Oh, I know they’re slimy and desperate. But then again, so was George Custer, or the German Wehrmacht in late April, 1945 - and in both cases, it didn’t end well for them.
Desperation doesn’t equate to victory, no matter how hard it’s pushed.
re: #104 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
That is one awful leadership video Dan King up there highlighted. That’ll help the Libertarian Party retain and recruit members.
re: #106 Dr Lizardo
Oh, I know they’re slimy and desperate. But then again, so was George Custer, or the German Wehrmacht in late April, 1945 - and in both cases, it didn’t end well for them.
Desperation doesn’t equate to victory, no matter how hard it’s pushed.
I really hope that the GOP’s deeds have caught up with them. But they know that chaos, disinformation and disruption work for them and that is what they will be sowing.
And if Biden shows any visible health issues between now and then, that will be ginned up to him being unfit for office while Trump remains the Healthiest President Ever to Have Served.
re: #92 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Funny that they call Arnold an action movie star - and yes he has done action movies.
But his mark on the world, and why he even got movie roles, is because he’s a legendary body builder, having at one time a physique that no one could rival.
That part gets skipped for reasons I am not sure.
because the people who watch action movies vastly outnumber the people who give a damn about bodybuilders.
also, the money from action movies vastly outweighs the money for bodybuilding.
We talked about this earlier with children.
There are men taking pictures of real women found online and using AI to create porn. They justify it saying it isn’t hurting anyone. pic.twitter.com/hN5YjnUInx
— AskAubry 🦝 (@ask_aubry) May 1, 2023
Hundreds of comments in the thread.
re: #111 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
There are men taking pictures of real women found online and using AI to create porn. They justify it saying it isn’t hurting anyone.
If there are recognizable persons involved, it is not harmless.
re: #99 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The question is whether it remains organised.
Trump brought a lot of people out to vote who hadn’t before, and they hate the Republican Party establishment. It seems it would be tough for any “reasonable” Republican (grading “reasonable” very generously) to corral those voters. A significant portion may go back to not voting (though Democrats can’t campaign as if that is a guaranteed outcome).
It’s a “damned if you do/damned if you don’t” scenario for the GQP. Running Trump will bring out the whacko vote and the diehard vote that would vote for a tin of rancid dog food if you put an (R) next to it. But this isn’t 2016 anymore, the “indie” vote has already proven in three successive elections that they think the Trump brand toxic and that’s only become worse in the wake of Dodds as he bounces back and forth on what his “promise” regarding abortion bans will be from day to day.
But running a non-Trump candidate is easier said than done because you have to find somebody who can draw enough of the whacko vote away in the primaries to actually put together enough points to take the nomination in the first ballot at the convention. And keep enough of those votes in the general election to either balance out or overcome the pissed off legions who will flip the party the bird on the way out the door. AND find somebody who can do all that without scaring the ever-loving fuck out of the “indies” such that they can close their eyes and think of England…er, tax cuts.
re: #111 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
We talked about this earlier with children.
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If you’re using the pictures of a living, breathing human being without their consent to create AI porn, how is that not effectively synonymous with revenge porn?
re: #113 Targetpractice
Only if Trump names and grooms a successor will his base accept the new candidate and that is not likely to happen.
re: #115 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Only if Trump names and grooms a successor will his base accept the new candidate and that is not likely to happen.
The day Trump dies will look like a RL version of The Death of Stalin, with every sorry sack of shit even the least bit connected to him rushing to take power before somebody else does.
re: #116 Targetpractice
The day Trump dies will look like a RL version of The Death of Stalin, with every sorry sack of shit even the least bit connected to him rushing to take power before somebody else does.
Yeah, but who gets summarily executed at the pig farm like Beria did in that film?
re: #112 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
If there are recognizable persons involved, it is not harmless.
And there’s a whole cornucopia of misogyny involved in every solution proposed for this.
All of it is intended to drive women off the Internet and out of society.
“Don’t post pictures on the Internet and no one can do this to you.” (Never mind anyone who ever took a photograph of you could do it, even a film one digitised.)
There are cases where women’s topless photos were thought to have been leaked or stolen, and lots of men are all over it with praise, but when they find out the woman consensually released that photograph, a switch flips and they all start slut-shaming her. (The issue appears to be obtaining the photographs non-consensually, not because they suddenly became allergic to bewbs.)
Even when not distributed as fake nudes, women who are clothed in any sort of way are slut-shamed, or asked for nudes, or both. (Also on the streets.)
“Sue them if they did this to you.” (Try to find who created the image, spend thousands on a lawyer, get dragged in court with slut-shaming the same way rape victims frequently are.)
“File a police report to have them arrested.” (Most police departments can’t tell a digital photograph from an abacus.)
re: #117 Dr Lizardo
Yeah, but who gets summarily executed at the pig farm like Beria did in that film?
Probably Rudy.
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re: #120 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I think Steve Bannon is more the Beria of the GOP
You’re right, Rudy is more likely to be the Malenkov.
re: #114 Targetpractice
If you’re using the pictures of a living, breathing human being without their consent to create AI porn, how is that not effectively synonymous with revenge porn?
All states have revenge porn laws except Massachusetts and South Carolina.
FindLaw, December 8, 2022)
In Massachusetts revenge porn is prosecuted under state privacy law. In South Carolina it is prosecuted under state obscenity laws.
The penalties vary by state. For example in Nebraska:
These statutes prohibit distributing images or videos of another person’s intimate body parts or of another person engaged in sexual activity.
The offender must do so knowingly and intentionally.
The subject must have had a reasonable expectation that the image would remain private.
The offender must have known that the subject did not consent to making the content public.
The content must have served no legitimate purpose.
First offence: Class I misdemeanour: one year imprisonment, $1,000 fine.
Subsequent offence: Class IV felony: two years imprisonment + one year supervised release, $10,000 fine.
re: #118 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
And there’s a whole cornucopia of misogyny involved in every solution proposed for this.
All of it is intended to drive women off the Internet and out of society.
“Don’t post pictures on the Internet and no one can do this to you.” (Never mind anyone who ever took a photograph of you could do it, even a film one digitised.)
There are cases where women’s topless photos were thought to have been leaked or stolen, and lots of men are all over it with praise, but when they find out the woman consensually released that photograph, a switch flips and they all start slut-shaming her. (The issue appears to be obtaining the photographs non-consensually, not because they suddenly became allergic to bewbs.)
Even when not distributed as fake nudes, women who are clothed in any sort of way are slut-shamed, or asked for nudes, or both. (Also on the streets.)
“Sue them if they did this to you.” (Try to find who created the image, spend thousands on a lawyer, get dragged in court with slut-shaming the same way rape victims frequently are.)
“File a police report to have them arrested.” (Most police departments can’t tell a digital photograph from an abacus.)
It’s an issue that is going to need to be addressed legally, and the sooner the better because the genie is out of the bottle and taking drink orders. Art sites are already getting bombarded with an almost constant stream of AI art that requires nothing more from the “creators” than an idea and some samples to work with. It will only get worse as the software/protocols become more refined, the price cheaper, and the reach more spread out. And leaving it to the private sector to figure out generally only leads to one of two outcomes: Avoidance of liability until somebody important/famous is injured or indiscriminate bans that come down on the heads of innocent and guilty alike.
re: #24 ckkatz
.One thing I recently learned about is that a number of New Zealand wineries, concerned about global warming, have been looking at Tasmania.
Do you have a link for that? My Google-fu must be weak today as I found nothing.
On that topic (and moonshining what you also mentioned) we only avoided our own Prohibition by the skin of our teeth in the 1920s.
I made quite the mistake in today’s Wordle. See if you can spot it.
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re: #125 Nerdy Fish
I made quite the mistake in today’s Wordle. See if you can spot it.
You didn’t try “Q.”
Back later - out to enjoy the very nice weather today here on this holiday.
re: #125 Nerdy Fish
I made quite the mistake in today’s Wordle. See if you can spot it.
In my second guess, I left out one revealed letter from the first guess on purpose because I was stumped. This was awful (6/6)
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I should have known today’s music porn, but my brain locked up (X/6)
re: #129 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
In my second guess, I left out one revealed letter from the first guess on purpose because I was stumped. This was awful (6/6)
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I play on unofficial “hard mode,” which is that I have to use the letters if they are revealed to me. I was searching for some more vowels, and came up with a cool word to try, but it was missing one of the letters. Obviously, I finally found the correct word on the next guess, but it annoyed me.
re: #128 Dr Lizardo
Back later - out to enjoy the very nice weather today here on this holiday.
Try not to walk too hard. /s
If we get to Europe again, we’ll have to look you up in Ostrava (hide).
I will make it REAL weird bc I care. pic.twitter.com/VgG4tQxsGh
— ρєηηу єℓαιηє ღ (@cal1g1rl78) April 30, 2023
Lazy bums is a phrase invimented by the winners of the birth lottery as a distractive insult that make people think that if they work hard they are going to be the next billionaire. You’ve little idea what a days work is like. https://t.co/QXA3WoITyQ
— Tori atheist (@ToriatheistTori) May 1, 2023
re: #133 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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It never stops being amusing seeing media talking heads comment about “real work” and “merit” when they haven’t held a 9-5 job in a decade or more.
Idle morning thoughts.
Shelly Duvall and Linda Blair never acted again after they worked with these monsters. Vic Morrow and two kids got chopped up by a helicopter blade!
— Elon Musk Blows Goats | teleskiguy@mastodon.social (@ballfootski) May 1, 2023
Kubrick was famous for making his actors do the same take hundreds of times. He was an abusive fuckstick. But hey, great art, right?!
— Elon Musk Blows Goats | teleskiguy@mastodon.social (@ballfootski) May 1, 2023
Same goes for James Cameron. They did a whole documentary about how abusive he was to his actors for The Abyss. Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio *to this day* refuses to speak about her time on that set.
— Elon Musk Blows Goats | teleskiguy@mastodon.social (@ballfootski) May 1, 2023
We appear to have hit the “pound the table” portion of the program:
Trump lawyer Tacopina requests E. Jean Carroll mistrial in dawn filinghttps://t.co/OFwi7960W6
— Raw Story (@RawStory) May 1, 2023
The report states, “Defense attorney Joe Tacopina said the judge has mischaracterized elements of the case and improperly shut down certain lines of questioning during cross examination. Tacopina said he should have been allowed to explore why Carroll did not pursue security camera footage from the store and why Carroll did not go to the police following the alleged rape.”
In his filing, he wrote, “Proof that Plaintiff never attempted to determine if any such footage of the parties existed constitutes circumstantial evidence that her accusation is false.”
“Tacopina also questioned Judge Lewis Kaplan’s admonishment of a social media post by Eric Trump that revealed LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman is finding Carroll’s case,” ABC7 is also reporting.
Taco’s basically acknowledging that he’s lost this case and is trying to prep grounds for the inevitable appeal that is likely already being drafted.
re: #64 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The good old days way back in … (checks notes) … 1974:
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The Britain to which the Brexiteers still want to return.
“….would cost too much at 80,000 pounds….” and now 80,000 pounds is probably a middle-class annual salary in London.
re: #135 teleskiguy
Idle morning thoughts.
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Working for Kubrick is usually talked about in the same way that working for Hitchcock before him and Tarantino was after: You dreamed of being successful enough to work on a film with them, then spent the rest of your career explaining the nightmare that was doing a film where you did hundreds of takes of the same scene while the asshole kept turning up the abuse in search of an “authentic” reaction.
Still remember the story about how Tippi Hedren was deathly afraid of bird attacks and made Hitchcock promise that he would never have her film a scene with live birds. Hitchcock agreed at the time, then went back on his word by having a stage hand hide out of shoot with an armful of live birds that were thrown in Tippi’s face the moment she opened a door. Why? Because Hitchcock insisted on genuine reactions, even if that meant lying your ass off to your actors because you were the director and they danced to your tune.
re: #136 Targetpractice
It’s rather comical, his name. Joe Tacopina, Esq. Like something out of a Burn Notice episode.
re: #139 teleskiguy
It’s rather comical, his name. Joe Tacopina, Esq. Like something out of a Burn Notice episode.
Or a mobster lawyer. They only ever came in two varieties: Sniveling shitstain or wannabe tough guy.
re: #140 Targetpractice
Or a mobster lawyer. They only ever came in two varieties: Sniveling shitstain or wannabe tough guy.
Michael Cohen was BOTH!
re: #138 Targetpractice
Working for Kubrick is usually talking about in the same way that working for Hitchcock before him and Tarantino was after:
All of it consensual and commercial in nature.
In any case, it is Labor Day in this Socialist Hellhole of a country so I am off to go play our first outdoor session of the season at an apple orchard outside Frankfurt.
Weather is cooperating so far but might shower on us a bit later this afternoon.
We can finally have an open session this year, for the past three seasons we were limited to only four musicians at a time at one table. Looking forward to seeing my homies from all over.
later
Remember shitweasel Greg Abbott (R-TX) and his statement about offering $50K for the killer of “illegal immigrants?” Yeah, about that:
I just spoke to the husband of one of the victims. He confirmed to me that his wife was a permanent resident of the US. He even sent me a picture of her ID confirming this.But I guess to Greg Abbott, anyone who is from another country is an ‘ilegal immigrant’. Shameful. https://t.co/O2AphCodlh pic.twitter.com/YjGLdBMtRl
— Carlos Eduardo Espina (@cespina1998) May 1, 2023
re: #12 teleskiguy
Elections are complicated. Ron DeSantis became Governor of Florida in 2018 because he won the election against Andrew Gillum by the slimmest of margins, like, SLIM!!!
Well, the Overton Window has shifted, Ronny won pretty decisively in 2022 and now he’s trying to be a BIG fascist like Fuckface Von Clownstick.
I hate this timeline.
Dems ran Charlie Crist, a former Republican and many times statewide loser. Results were not surprising.
re: #38 Targetpractice
Speaking as a Southerner, while the usual belief is that most Americans idealize the 1950s as the US’ “golden age,” for many Southerners the idealized period is the Antebellum South. Bleach white plantations with enormous verandas upon which folks sat around drinking cool tea and enjoying the shade, the landed gentry practically synonymous with Medieval lords in their finery and their power, while the average person enjoyed a life of “rural simplicity” and “honest work.”
Basically a little slice of paradise that was wiped away, first by the Civil War, and then what was left stomped out by Reconstruction. Throw in the “Lost Cause” and decades of excuse-making for why the war was totally not about slavery and you get generations of descendants who lie to themselves about how they had “Heaven on Earth” before the Union came in and burned everything down.
Mark Twain:
“Then comes Sir Walter Scott with his enchantments, and by his single might checks this wave of progress, and even turns it back; sets the world in love with dreams and phantoms; with decayed and swinish forms of religion; with decayed and degraded systems of government; with the sillinesses and emptinesses, sham grandeurs, sham gauds, and sham chivalries of a brainless and worthless long-vanished society. He did measureless harm; more real and lasting harm, perhaps, than any other individual that ever wrote. Most of the world has now outlived good part of these harms, though by no means all of them; but in our South they flourish pretty forcefully still. Not so forcefully as half a generation ago, perhaps, but still forcefully. There, the genuine and wholesome civilization of the nineteenth century is curiously confused and commingled with the Walter Scott Middle-Age sham civilization; and so you have practical, common-sense, progressive ideas, and progressive works; mixed up with the duel, the inflated speech, and the jejune romanticism of an absurd past that is dead, and out of charity ought to be buried…. Sir Walter had so large a hand in making Southern character, as it existed before the war, that he is in great measure responsible for the war. It seems a little harsh toward a dead man to say that we never should have had any war but for Sir Walter; and yet something of a plausible argument might, perhaps, be made in support of that wild proposition.” etc., etc.
re: #134 Targetpractice
It never stops being amusing seeing media talking heads comment about “real work” and “merit” when they haven’t held a 9-5 job in a decade or more.
Bongino is a three-times failed political candidate, having written a book with supposed inside information about the Obama White House. Collogues in the USSS criticised him for exaggerating the importance of the Secret Service Presidential Detail and trying to use it as a lever for his political career.
He then did podcasting and appeared on Rush Limbaugh’s and Mark Levin’s shows.
He disparaged vaccines while he was at FOX News, even though he admitted to The New Yorker he’d received them. He’s also the guy who coined the term “face diaper” for masks, declaring them ineffective.
His worth is tens of millions of dollars. He ain’t suffering from being fired, but he sure is whinging about it.
re: #143 Nerdy Fish
The depth of Abbott’s depravity kind of amazes…
re: #147 teleskiguy
The depth of Abbott’s depravity kind of amazes…
Literally the only explanation I have for the state of things in the US today is desperation. These racist, sexist, vile, disgusting douchecanoes realize that their way of life is being threatened by the tide of progress. They are doing everything they can to ruin things for the people who have moved on from the bad old days, for no particular reason other than they know somewhere deep down that this is their last hurrah.
re: #143 Nerdy Fish
All conservatives lie. They must. They are compelled to. They cannot admit their prelates like Abbot are wrong or liars. So they lie too. In the comments:
How so? I am too and this looks like all those I’ve seen. https://t.co/La34rWazkb
— Chase Gooch (@ChaseGooch) May 1, 2023
re: #100 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It is clear that Trump will win the GOP nomination, no need for debates or even a campaign.
He will lose the popular vote again, perhaps not by such a wide margin as 2020, but this time enough GOP states will declare “massive voter fraud” and “irregularities”, and thus refuse to certify results **********- leaving neither candidate with an EC majority.
This will then throw it to the state delegations, who are majority GOP.
They will declare DJT President.
Any protest actions against this decision will be treated as riots and seditious uprisings and be dealt with using extreme measures and extended prison sentences while the Jan 6 2021 rioters are all granted Presidential pardons as soon as Trump takes office.
At which point America becomes Gilead Idiocracy 451
******* there’s a whole set of processes that take place in this gap
courts, proof, evidence, court orders, injunctions, contempt of court
and if officials of multiple states try to do it simultaneously, it’ll be obvious
re: #22 Targetpractice
Heard an artist the other refer to AI generated art as “spackle,” basically of use in filling in scenes but not in being the main feature. Any time you bring AI art into focus, you also bring into focus that the current state of the tech leaves much to be desired. Whether it’s hands with too many/not enough digits, extra limbs, eldritch facial features, or some combination of the above, there will be something that is “off” enough for our senses to catch and label as “wrong.”
For now. The uncanny valley is gone in photorealistic AI generated face pictures. Video will get there.
Today in blasphemy:
Can’t blame her, really. If there’s one thing Jesus knew, it was how to handle nails.
I’ll show myself out 😏 pic.twitter.com/VaiWqMF32v— ℂ𝕒𝕟𝕒𝕕𝕚𝕒𝕟 𝔾𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕖𝕣 👙🦄🇨🇦 (@geekyginge) April 30, 2023
NEW YORK (AP) — Regulators seized troubled First Republic Bank early Monday and sold all of its deposits and most of its assets to JPMorgan Chase Bank in a bid to head off further banking turmoil in the U.S.San Francisco-based First Republic is the third midsize bank to fail in two months. It is the second-biggest bank failure in U.S. history, behind only Washington Mutual, which collapsed at the height of the 2008 financial crisis and was also taken over by JPMorgan.
First Republic has struggled since the March collapses of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank and investors and depositors had grown increasingly worried it might not survive because of its high amount of uninsured deposits and exposure to low interest rate loans.
re: #102 Dr Lizardo
Trump will lose by an even bigger margin in 2024, and it’ll be enough to put the kibosh on any wacky fantasies the GOP has of trying some House certification shenanigans.
With any luck, it’ll be enough of a fiasco to split the GOP once and for all.
The Senate map looks really ugly for the Dems in 2024. Even if Biden wins by a sizable margin, the GOP is likely to win control of the Senate.
re: #155 darthstar
Fuck. Wonder if my badge will work.
Should, JP Morgan bought them and will profit long term from it since some of the loss portion is shared with gov’t. I would be dusting off my resume and get to applying fast or ahead of the wave (like today!,) Jamie Dimon will be looking for “synergies” very quickly in merging those assets & loan portfolios.
Iran continues to create martyrs to secular governance. (3:35)
Arman Navabi is disappointed that some of the largest voices of atheism in the USA and UK remaining silent about this.
(Mr. Navabi was arrested by the Metropolitan Police for protesting in front of the Iranian Embassy in London at the start of the protests in Iran for promoting “hate speech”—atheism.)
In Iran, a massive secular revolution is taking place, with nearly half of the population leaving religion. Despite its historical significance, Western atheist activists and content creators, such as Cosmic Skeptic, Rationality Rules, Genetically Modified Skeptic, and Matt… pic.twitter.com/l16Lmo3UGM
— Armin Navabi (@ArminNavabi) April 30, 2023
re: #157 Thanos
Should, JP Morgan bought them and will profit long term from it since some of the loss portion is shared with gov’t. I would be dusting off my resume and get to applying fast or ahead of the wave (like today!,) Jamie Dimon will be looking for “synergies” very quickly in merging those assets & loan portfolios.
Don’t forget the straight up smart move, apply to JP Morgan.
re: #18 Grunthos the Flatulent
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re: #134 Targetpractice
It never stops being amusing seeing media talking heads comment about “real work” and “merit” when they haven’t held a 9-5 job in a decade or more.
FWIW, the hardest working people I’ve known were some of the wealthiest. Stupid long hours with serious effort. These folks had enough wealth to last an eternity. The stereotypes don’t always fit.
re: #153 Thanos
Good morning all, dang, it’s already May 1st, and almost time for the kids to be singing.
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re: #161 JC1
FWIW, the hardest working people I’ve known were some of the wealthiest. Stupid long hours with serious effort. These folks had enough wealth to last an eternity. The stereotypes don’t always fit.
Are they working stupid long hours because they are workaholics or control freaks over their businesses? Did they get a “hand up” such as not growing up in poverty, parents paying for college, inheriting an already established business?
The overwhelming majority of “hard working people” do not become wealthy. If someone did, it remains luck.
The odds remain far better in the USA you get rich by winning the lotto than by “working hard.” Rich sure helps a political campaign as well.
re: #161 JC1
You’re in NYC. Exception to the rule. In my experience most wealthy people are exceptionally lazy.
re: #157 Thanos
Should, JP Morgan bought them and will profit long term from it since some of the loss portion is shared with gov’t. I would be dusting off my resume and get to applying fast or ahead of the wave (like today!,) Jamie Dimon will be looking for “synergies” very quickly in merging those assets & loan portfolios.
It’s how JPM works. They are the king of the too big to fail banks.
Once again, it’s because all the lesser banks didn’t follow stress test rules, and lobbied GOPers to trash them, even though they were in place to avoid this very scenario. GOPers helped bring about this failure (again).
re: #163 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Are they working stupid long hours because they are workaholics or control freaks over their businesses? Did they get a “hand up” such as not growing up in poverty, parents paying for college, inheriting an already established business?
The overwhelming majority of “hard working people” do not become wealthy. If someone did, it remains luck.
The odds remain far better in the USA you get rich by winning the lotto than by “working hard.” Rich sure helps a political campaign as well.
Workaholics coupled with a corporate culture where everyone from the top down was expected to give maximum effort. Demographically there was a lot of diversity. Everyone there had a ‘hand up’ in the sense of winning the genetic lottery for analytical thinking and drive. There was 0 nepotism. The founders’/ co-CEOs’ kids did not work there The baton was passed to the most capable execs who started as associates straight out of college and had been with the firm for 20+ years. I get how unusual the situation was, but such places do exist.
re: #139 teleskiguy
It’s rather comical, his name. Joe Tacopina, Esq. Like something out of a Burn Notice episode.
Every time I see that name, I’m thinking he’s gonna be tapioca by the end of his stint in Trumpworld.
re: #165 teleskiguy
You’re in NYC. Exception to the rule. In my experience most wealthy people are exceptionally lazy.
It really depends. One prominent wealthy family I know of, with a massive trust fund for descendants, has the parents/elders have a talk with kids as they become old enough to benefit from the fund. It goes something like this: Yes, you’re entitled to this money now. But in our eyes, if you make use of this money, you will be a failure. You should strive build something exceptional.
Now, of course those kids have a leg up because of educational opportunities and connections. But it I don’t think that it’s correct to call them lazy. And this is old money.
re: #169 JC1
Like I said, you’re in NYC. Try dealing with the goober gentry out in the hinterlands. There’s a reason why all your fresh produce is picked by undocumented immigrants making a dollar an hour.
re: #170 teleskiguy
Like I said, you’re in NYC. Try dealing with the goober gentry out in the hinterlands. There’s a reason why all your fresh produce is picked by undocumented immigrants making a dollar an hour.
Fair enough. It’s just funny reading about 9-5 jobs as hard work. 9-5 would be a vacation at most NYC financial firms. And even when on actual vacation, you’re still expected to be on call.
I get tired of hearing of the virtues of “hard working” rich people. Fuck ‘em. Seriously. Give your fucking money away, stop hoarding it.
re: #171 JC1
Fair enough. It’s just funny reading about 9-5 jobs as hard work. 9-5 would be a vacation at most NYC financial firms. And even when on actual vacation, you’re still expected to be on call.
And none of those assholes could change the oil on their own cars or fix a leaky toilet. Fuck ‘em.
re: #171 JC1
Fair enough. It’s just funny reading about 9-5 jobs as hard work. 9-5 would be a vacation at most NYC financial firms. And even when on actual vacation, you’re still expected to be on call.
I challenge any white collar worker to work one day in agriculture 9-5. Or even a checker in a supermarket.
It was very interesting in the pandemic that all the jobs deemed critical are also the ones with the lowest pay and physical work.
Nurses coming home from twelve- or sixteen-hour shifts sure got a lot of applause (which doesn’t put food on the table or take care of the kids for you).
re: #171 JC1
Fair enough. It’s just funny reading about 9-5 jobs as hard work. 9-5 would be a vacation at most NYC financial firms. And even when on actual vacation, you’re still expected to be on call.
Damn - that is some serious and heartless BS. and ~ 100% of those jobs are obtained through contacts made at university. Hence the point about leg-up and other advantages to wealth. The vast majority of people that work in high-end finance are not rando plebs.
re: #172 teleskiguy
I get tired of hearing of the virtues of “hard working” rich people. Fuck ‘em. Seriously. Give your fucking money away, stop hoarding it.
Most will never do so willingly. We need to close tax loopholes, especially around trusts and estate taxes. But our politicians are too easily bought, so it’s unlikely to happen. Maybe once things get bad enough so that guillotines are a serious possibility.
re: #172 teleskiguy
I get tired of hearing of the virtues of “hard working” rich people. Fuck ‘em. Seriously. Give your fucking money away, stop hoarding it.
You hoard cats, you’re considered crazy. You hoard newspapers, you’re considered a fire hazard.
You hoard money, you’re considered savvy and hard-working, a captain of industry, and an authority on everything.
How many of the fincen guys at the top could do the first thing in their business that actually makes them money?
re: #174 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I challenge any white collar worker to work one day in agriculture 9-5. Or even a checker in a supermarket.
It was very interesting in the pandemic that all the jobs deemed critical are also the ones with the lowest pay and physical work.
Nurses coming home from twelve- or sixteen-hour shifts sure got a lot of applause (which doesn’t put food on the table or take care of the kids for you).
This is why I think, as part of a Standard Upbringing (tm), everyone should have to work some kind of a “thankless” job. Work in a retail store, work an agricultural job, apprentice in a shop. While desk work is important and valuable, and it is definitely work, there are a lot of desk workers who need to understand how brutal life outside the cubicle farm is.
re: #173 teleskiguy
And none of those assholes could change the oil on their own cars or fix a leaky toilet. Fuck ‘em.
I can’t fix a leaky toilet (or my recently-exploded washing machine plumbing). That’s why I pay good money for plumbers to come all the way out here in the middle of nowhere to do it.
The folks who were here are very hard working.
re: #177 JC1
Most will never do so willingly.
Yeah. Rich people are largely uniquely awful sociopaths. Thanks for clearing that up.
White collar jobs can be difficult in ways that other jobs aren’t. Some require lots of intellectual thought and consideration, and that shouldn’t take away from any other job.
Put a guy working white collar in a kitchen worker situation? They likely wouldn’t last.
Put a kitchen worker in a board room? Probably the same.
Which one demands more physical labor? Absolutely not white collar.
Folks have moved away from physical labor, precisely because it’s fucking hard to do. It wears you out. Plumbers have to get into odd spaces, deal with crappy situations, and it’s a demanding trade. Hey, I can fix most plumbing issues, but would get a professional to do major work or leaks. I get why they get paid what they do.
Kitchen workers? They’ve got to work crazy hours and get paid crap wages.
Agricultural workers? That’s even worse.
But yeah, it’s migrants and immigrant labor that’s the problem with the nation? No. It’s the lack of enough immigrant labor to do these jobs, because most Americans can’t or wont do them.
re: #177 JC1
Most will never do so willingly. We need to close tax loopholes, especially around trusts and estate taxes. But our politicians are too easily bought, so it’s unlikely to happen. Maybe once things get bad enough so that guillotines are a serious possibility.
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re: #171 JC1
It’s just funny reading about 9-5 jobs as hard work. 9-5 would be a vacation at most NYC financial firms.
Do you truly think that a Quant sitting in front of a computer is ‘hard work’? As law hawk notes, intellectual work is difficult, but it does not take away from others people work.
Most rich people yearn for a Hobbesian “state of nature” where they can hunt poor people for sport.
re: #187 teleskiguy
Most rich people yearn for a Hobbesian “state of nature” where they can hunt poor people for sport.
Look at the rich people building bunkers for the apocalypse who are actively wondering how they can kill the poors that may intrude on their ‘paradise’ - and even how to control their mercs.
re: #174 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I challenge any white collar worker to work one day in agriculture 9-5. Or even a checker in a supermarket.
It was very interesting in the pandemic that all the jobs deemed critical are also the ones with the lowest pay and physical work.
Nurses coming home from twelve- or sixteen-hour shifts sure got a lot of applause (which doesn’t put food on the table or take care of the kids for you).
I worked as a cashier, a bus boy, a bartender, a factory assembler, a delivery driver, and other blue collar jobs from between when I was 16 and when I graduated from college. Sure, some of those jobs were physically more demanding and dangerous than any white collar job I’ve held. None of them were close to the stress level or hours required by the job I mentioned above. I’m no longer there, got completely burned out after 7 or so years. After leaving, it took close to 6 months to be able to relax again. I’ve heard similar stories from other folks who left.
I think that the minimum wage should be high enough to be a living wage. Wages beyond that will be based on supply and demand.
It will be interesting to see what happens over the next several years as AI starts replacing knowledge workers.
Yeah, in a mood.
Just wondering what dogshit NYPost article Shropshire Slasher is gonna post this morning.
re: #192 JC1
I worked as a cashier, a bus boy, a bartender, a factory assembler, a delivery driver, and other blue collar jobs from between when I was 16 and when I graduated from college.
Four, maybe five years of your working life, when you were in prime physical condition.
Dude. seriously. stfu
I don’t like the Head of Schools just because of his mustache.
An elite New Jersey boarding school has admitted that ‘more should have been done’ after a student took his own life in his dorm room following a year of bullying by his peers.
Jack Reid, 17, attended The Lawrenceville School, between Trenton and Princeton, where tuition is $76,000 a year.
He died on April 30, 2022, but in the 12 months leading up to his death he had become the victim of a vicious bullying campaign that consisted of cruel and malicious rumors that labelled him as a campus rapist.
re: #193 teleskiguy
Yeah, in a mood.
Just wondering what dogshit NYPost article Shropshire Slasher is gonna post this morning.
I am in recovery as well, and I am proud of the hard work you have done to maintain your sobriety. What is bothering you today?
There’s the dogshit news story from the Daily Mail from Shropshire Slasher. Right on time.
Here is the thing about hard work in a poor paying job and supporting a family - you don’t have much time OR money to start a business. Sure, some people manage to do that by heroic effort, but it sure is a lot easier if you have the backstop of even middle class parents, much less wealthy ones.
re: #175 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Damn - that is some serious and heartless BS. and ~ 100% of those jobs are obtained through contacts made at university. Hence the point about leg-up and other advantages to wealth. The vast majority of people that work in high-end finance are not rando plebs.
No, they’re not random. They’re the people with the highest grades from the best schools. We’ve built a society with perverse incentives where it makes the most sense for the brightest students to go into finance, to help the wealthy eek out an extra percentage point of gain, rather than going into various engineering or science disciplines.
An associate at a private equity firm or hedge fund, 2 years out of college, makes 4x+ more than a PhD academic researcher trying to cure cancer. It’s a f*cked up system.
re: #186 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Do you truly think that a Quant sitting in front of a computer is ‘hard work’? As law hawk notes, intellectual work is difficult, but it does not take away from others people work.
Not in the way in which we generally think of, no. But doing it for 80-100 hours per week for years, in a stressful environment, has real costs.
re: #206 JC1
Not in the way in which we generally think of, no. But doing it for 80-100 hours per week for years, in a stressful environment, has real costs.
I don’t disagree, but above you mocked people doing 40 hr a week jobs as inconsequential in comparison, and that is wrong.
re: #143 Nerdy Fish
Remember shitweasel Greg Abbott (R-TX) and his statement about offering $50K for the killer of “illegal immigrants?” Yeah, about that:
And yeah, the blue checkmarks of Cain are displayed in full force in that green card thread…
And yes, you man steal the derogatory expression to refer to Twitter Blue subscribers from me…
I’m largely staying out of it this morning, but I will note that I work a 40-hour-a-week desk job, and while it is not physical labor, it is every bit as much “real work” as any other job. Mental exhaustion is a thing, just as much as physical, and can even have real effects on your physical health.
re: #194 teleskiguy
Four, maybe five years of your working life, when you were in prime physical condition.
Dude. seriously. stfu
I worked full time while carrying a full load of grad classes. 7am to 10pm Monday through Friday in my early 20s.
What was stopping you from doing the same?
I came to the US when I was 11. I didn’t speak a word of English. My mom never earned more than $10/hr.
Imagine what I could have accomplished if I had your advantages: born in the US, native speaker, classmates not laughing at you whenever you mispronounced something as you were trying to learn. Maybe you were even fortunate enough to have 2 parents.
Seriously dude. You have no clue what privilege and advantages you were born with, compared to me.
A rainbow flag was burned at the Pasadena Buddhist Temple, sparking a police investigation into whether the act was a hate crime.Gregory Gibbs, the temple’s resident minister, said one of two pride flags on display at the temple’s fence was torched Monday night.
The temple didn’t realize their rainbow flag was burned until Tuesday morning. A neighbor spotted the fire just after 7 p.m. Monday and doused the blaze with a garden hose, Gibbs said, but the neighbor didn’t see who set the fire.
Pasadena police are investigating the flag burning as a possible hate crime.
I know Rev. Gibbs; he was resident minister up at Oregon Buddhist Temple in Portland for many years, and he’s a good person. Very sad to see this happen, from what is basically my hometown (I hail from South Pasadena, CA).
re: #184 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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re: #207 Colère Tueur de Lapin
I don’t disagree, but above you mocked people doing 40 hr a week jobs as inconsequential in comparison, and that is wrong.
40 hours isn’t hard work. And in fairness, farm laborers, nurses, etc all put in way more than 40 hours in an average week.
At the end of the day, time is the only finate commodity we have. If you’re making enough to survive, the person working 40 hours and having 60 of free time if far wealthier than the one working 90 hours and having 10 hours of free time.
re: #214 JC1
40 hours isn’t hard work.
Imma stop you there: Yes it is. You don’t have to work 60, 80, 100 hours to be a hard worker, or to have a hard job. Alright, I’m out. Y’all have fun.
re: #210 JC1
I worked full time while carrying a full load of grad classes. 7am to 10pm Monday through Friday in my early 20s.
What was stopping you from doing the same?I came to the US when I was 11. I didn’t speak a word of English. My mom never earned more than $10/hr.
Imagine what I could have accomplished if I had your advantages: born in the US, native speaker, classmates not laughing at you whenever you mispronounced something as you were trying to learn. Maybe you were even fortunate enough to have 2 parents.
Seriously dude. You have no clue what privilege and advantages you were born with, compared to me.
I was born to two military parents, one of whom was killed when I was seven. From then on my family was in abject poverty, living with my grandparents. We got inside running water when I was an early teenager. My bedroom was unheated and in the winter snow would collect on the inside windowsill.
When I graduated second-to-top of my class, there was no money for me to go to college or trade school. I followed in the footsteps of my parents and joined the US Navy.
In my break in service after six years, I worked for a telecom equipment suppler as an electronics technician, but the pay was so low I had to live with my mother (who at that time was a checker for Winn-Dixie) and my sister (who was a checker for Wal*Mart). The three of us managed to make the rent and bills on one apartment.
After my mother and sister said “fuque this, we can make more money playing Renaissance Festivals,” I rejoined the Navy until my career ended in epilepsy and my first wife left me over it, leaving me penniless and homeless.
I got a job editing erotic Romance novels for low pay after I remarried and my wife took me off the street, and while employed doing that I ran for public office (which in my town doesn’t pay anything).
May 1 has an interesting history:
1931 : The Empire State Building in New York Officially opens.
1941 : The first “Code talkers” Navajo Indians are specially recruited by the Marines to serve in their standard communications units in the Pacific Theater,
1960 : An American U-2 spy plane is shot down over the Soviet Union near Sverdlovsk
1961 : Castro bans elections in Cuba saying “The revolution has no time for elections.
1962 : The first Kmart department store opens in Garden City
1982 : The 1982 World’s Fair opens in Knoxville, Tennessee.
2012 : Occupy Wall Street protesters gathered across the US to stage a day of protest for International Workers’ Day.
re: #214 JC1
40 hours isn’t hard work. And in fairness, farm laborers, nurses, etc all put in way more than 40 hours in an average week.
For a person that wasn’t originally born here, you’ve been suckered hardcore into the protestant work ethic bullshit. If you need to work more than 40 hours a week, that is a manglement issue - too few people to do the job. Or, you suck.
re: #218 Colère Tueur de Lapin
For a person that wasn’t originally born here, you’ve been suckered hardcore into the protestant work ethic bullshit. If you need to work more than 40 hours a week, that is a manglment issue - too few people to do the job. Or, you suck.
From what I’ve read, if it’s finance for Wall St. it’s also a culture issue.
E. Jean Carroll returns to this witness stand this morning for a third day of testimony.
Here’s how thing left off last week:https://t.co/6y0WKTqgXS— erica orden (@eorden) May 1, 2023
re: #219 Barefoot Grin
From what I’ve read, if it’s finance for Wall St. it’s also a culture issue.
Exactly — just like MDs working 36-48 hour shifts, even though we have the science to show that those time lengths of work cause negative outcomes.
re: #139 teleskiguy
It’s rather comical, his name. Joe Tacopina, Esq. Like something out of a Burn Notice episode.
Upding for the Burn Notice reference.
Aw that’s too bad…The Scottish First Minister snubs His Ass-Holeyness…
re: #216 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
On the flip side of that, my wife.
She was born to very wealthy parents, though her father was kidnapped and never found when she was young.
She went to a school which offered such things as computer science and gifted classes in the Seventies. (My schools didn’t offer such things.)
During her time in high school, her mother paid for her many class trips from Washington to Mexico. (I was able to be an exchange student to Brazil literally because my mother won enough money in the lottery to pay for it.)
She dropped out of high school at sixteen so she could go to the University of Florida paid for by her mother for computer science, then to DeVry (the actual campus) for business information management.
With that, she was recruited in college by Digital Equipment Corporation during its heyday, so she was paid a real pile of money as a software quality assurance engineer, and later a product developer.
When Digital collapsed, she moved to Oklahoma. She met me on-line during my homeless period. We eventually married. We then moved here.
The wealth in our household is almost entirely hers.
I got a welcome to JP Morgan Chase email. So it’s BAU for the coming months while they figure out how to transition us into the fold. I read it could take about 18 months…so no rush.
re: #225 darthstar
I got a welcome to JP Morgan Chase email. So it’s BAU for the coming months while they figure out how to transition us into the fold. I read it could take about 18 months…so no rush.
Good luck with the transition [crossing fingers you aren’t “right-sized” out of the company].
re: #102 Dr Lizardo
Trump will lose by an even bigger margin in 2024, and it’ll be enough to put the kibosh on any wacky fantasies the GOP has of trying some House certification shenanigans.
With any luck, it’ll be enough of a fiasco to split the GOP once and for all.
If Biden wins by a larger percentage in votes but loses solely because of the EC, the outrage in this nation may be uncontrollable — we will not survive that.
re: #225 darthstar
I got a welcome to JP Morgan Chase email. So it’s BAU for the coming months while they figure out how to transition us into the fold. I read it could take about 18 months…so no rush.
It always seems that way, trust me at some point in the not too distant (next week) future they will put on a hiring freeze at JP Morgan. Then they will work on having the big bank version of the Hunger Games to see who stays.
There is a narrow window where you could search for open JP Morgan openings; & trust me that there are some hiring managers over there who would appreciate a leg up on culture & personnel knowledge of the other side by hiring a couple of employees from the failed bank.
(* survivor of 4 mergers, one failed merger, and 12 rounds of layoffs. They finally got me at Sprint in 2014)
re: #226 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Good luck with the transition [crossing fingers you aren’t “right-sized” out of the company].
I feel a lot better now after picking up my phone and reading my email than I did the last three hours wondering what would happen. Very reassuring welcome mail sent at 1am. Going to finish my coffee, walk the dogs, and then head to the office…I still have shit to do.
Morning…….
Gotta love snoop and Martha 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/jvzuDIxFKL
— Optimistic Lizard 🌊proud to be a LIBERAL (@rex197878) May 1, 2023
re: #209 Nerdy Fish
I’m largely staying out of it this morning, but I will note that I work a 40-hour-a-week desk job, and while it is not physical labor, it is every bit as much “real work” as any other job. Mental exhaustion is a thing, just as much as physical, and can even have real effects on your physical health.
THIS.
re: #228 Thanos
Maybe. But we’re already tight staffed in our IT department and there are a ton of moving parts that have to be managed. My team is responsible for providing platform and tools to several LOBs in the bank. Going to choose not to be too pessimistic about it for now - already lost about 30K in stock that I built up over the last few years. Need to lick that wound for a while.
re: #223 Joe Bacon
I had to look up what you meant; apparently, Trump’s in Aberdeen, opening a second golf course at the Menie Estate in Scotland.
re: #233 Dr Lizardo
I had to look up what you meant; apparently, Trump’s in Aberdeen, opening a second golf course at the Menie Estate in Scotland.
Second money laundering facility. Expect it to lose (on paper) every bit as much as his other clubs in Scotland and Ireland do. He’ll be indicted for tax evasion there eventually as well.
re: #232 darthstar
Maybe. But we’re already tight staffed in our IT department and there are a ton of moving parts that have to be managed. My team is responsible for providing platform and tools to several LOBs in the bank. Going to choose not to be too pessimistic about it for now - already lost about 30K in stock that I built up over the last few years. Need to lick that wound for a while.
It is different in IT, especially if you are highly knowledgeable about your systems, and you should study up on what JP Morgan uses for their systems and if needed take some courses.
re: #233 Dr Lizardo
I had to look up what you meant; apparently, Trump’s in Aberdeen, opening a second golf course at the Menie Estate in Scotland.
Meanie Estate? While he’s being tried for defaming his victim?
re: #149 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
They’re just trying to distract from the fact an “illegal” was living freely and knowingly in Greg Abbott’s rural FREE STATE OF TEXAS, unloading rounds from an AR-15 in his front yard and the cops never did anything about it.
re: #237 GlutenFreeJesus
They’re just trying to distract from the fact an “illegal” was living freely and knowingly in Greg Abbott’s rural FREE STATE OF TEXAS, unloading rounds from an AR-15 in his front yard and the cops never did anything about it.
Even better - the fact that he was in possession of an AR-15 in the first place, because I’m pretty sure you have to be either an American citizen or a permanent resident to indulge in the Second Amendment. I admit I could be wrong - it’s Texas, after all.
re: #239 Dr Lizardo
Even better - the fact that he was in possession of an AR-15 in the first place, because I’m pretty sure you have to be either an American citizen or a permanent resident to indulge in the Second Amendment. I admit I could be wrong - it’s Texas, after all.
I mean, isn’t that what the right-wing nutjobs always tell us? “America First” because only Americans should be allowed to enjoy the freedoms that our Constitution provides? Everyone else who happens to live here can just go fuck themselves?
re: #154 Thanos
The Fed doesn’t care how raising rates harms average people and businesses. Is it possible that bank failures will finally make them pause and reconsider their actions?
re: #239 Dr Lizardo
I bet you he purchased it “legally” according to texas laws.
Blink and you might have missed it:
Judge Kaplan denied Tacopina’s mistrial motion without comment this morning before trial officially began.
More on that in a story later.— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) May 1, 2023
re: #237 GlutenFreeJesus
Where I live in NW Travis County, You can shoot unimpeded on your property if you live in the county proper.
Hell, Tannerite explosions are a common occurence where I live. I’ve also learned to discern nitetime gunfire as to whether it’s drunk shooting of someone trying to off a local trash panda from their garbage can.
I’ve called the Sheriff out on several occasion only to have them shrug their shoulders and say “It’s the County out here, law says they can shoot.”.
re: #241 Hecuba’s daughter
The Fed doesn’t care how raising rates harms average people and businesses. Is it possible that bank failures will finally make them pause and reconsider their actions?
Nope. They are making the banks that stick around stronger.
The same Republicans who believe a 10-year-old girl is old enough to be a mother are calling for the voting age to be raised to 21. pic.twitter.com/iFAUTNFkyH
— Jack Cocchiarella (@JDCocchiarella) April 30, 2023
Birbie! First of its streak.
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re: #246 Joe Bacon
Shorter Brigitte: “Damn kids these days.”
re: #249 Nerdy Fish
Shorter Brigitte: “Damn kids these days.”
“Get off my (Trump flag covered) lawn!”
re: #209 Nerdy Fish
I’m largely staying out of it this morning, but I will note that I work a 40-hour-a-week desk job, and while it is not physical labor, it is every bit as much “real work” as any other job. Mental exhaustion is a thing, just as much as physical, and can even have real effects on your physical health.
I generally work 40 hour weeks but add or subtract time as the workload ebbs and flows. However back when I was in Public accounting people worked much more, including one person who worked 100 hours in a week just to see what it was like. Fortunately I had a boss who felt that anything over 60 hours would cause a drop in effectiveness.
re: #249 Nerdy Fish
Shorter Brigitte: “Damn kids these days.”
She doesn’t realize if the draft is reinstated that will only piss off the 18 year olds even more.
re: #251 Markm1960
I generally work 40 hour weeks but add or subtract time as the workload ebbs and flows. However back when I was in Public accounting people worked much more, including one person who worked 100 hours in a week just to see what it was like. Fortunately I had a boss who felt that anything over 60 hours would cause a drop in effectiveness.
I have interviewed at companies that have explicitly said, in the interview process, “You will be paid a salary based on a 40-hour work week. The unspoken expectation is that you will work 60 hours.” I did not accept their offers, needless to say.
re: #252 Joe Bacon
She doesn’t realize if the draft is reinstated that will only piss off the 18 year olds even more.
Yeah. Let’s a give a bunch of angsty teenagers training with lethal weapons.
That should work out well.
(Note: I know the military can help some young people. But I also know there is a very good reason we don’t make service mandatory).
re: #230 Dave In Austin
Morning…….
Martha Stewart may be one of the few people on the planet that became more beloved after serving time in jail. I would love to hang with her.
February 3, 2023, Business Insider
A pastor left her ‘toxic’ church to become a stripper. She said it sparked her queer awakening.
She is much happier at OnlyFans than at her former church. (Oh man did she have a controlling upbringing and husband.) She lost her faith when she went to seminary school and read the Bible. As an atheist in the pulpit afterward, she decided lying to her congregation about her beliefs was inappropriate, so she left.
Nikole Mitchell is a California-based OnlyFans creator and stripper.
Mitchell told Insider her childhood in an Evangelical Christian community caused her to repress her sexuality and dreams to become a speaker and community leader.
She left her religion in 2019 and now considers herself “spiritual.”
re: #248 Eclectic Cyborg
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I broke my 14 day streak on that SOB today. :(
re: #254 Eclectic Cyborg
Yeah. Let’s a give a bunch of angsty teenagers training with lethal weapons.
That should work out well.
(Note: I know the military can help some young people. But I also know there is a very good reason we don’t make service mandatory).
The right wing seems to think the upcoming generation is a bunch of lazy good-for-nothing hoodlums who need to be whipped into shape (literally) by being sent off to military schools. If that doesn’t sound like the literal stereotype of “old man yells at clouds,” I don’t know what does.
One of these things is not like the others pic.twitter.com/soAXmoRIao
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) May 1, 2023
re: #258 Nerdy Fish
The right wing seems to think the upcoming generation is a bunch of lazy good-for-nothing hoodlums who need to be whipped into shape (literally) by being sent off to military schools. If that doesn’t sound like the literal stereotype of “old man yells at clouds,” I don’t know what does.
GET OFF MY LAWN!
“Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.” - George Carlin
I just don’t have the words anymore. Please vote, this guy does.
👉🏼 @TheGoodLiars pic.twitter.com/Jx0k86NHxS— Gareth 🏴🇺🇸🇪🇺 🕊 #FBPE (@ZacaMesaSix) April 30, 2023
re: #253 Nerdy Fish
At least they were upfront in telling you that.
You really have to look at the numbers.
For example, 65K / year might seem a livable salary in some areas, but if you are working 60 hours a week you are effectively making about $20 / hr.
re: #256 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
(Oh man did she have a controlling upbringing and husband.)
I’ve noted before, but Mrs. Fish and I also had a conversation on this topic regarding the prevalence of uncommon/unusual sexual fetishes, hypersexuality, and outright sexual deviancy amongst Christians. A lot of it comes down to the fact that the hyper-authoritarian stance of “No sex except the sex the Church approves of” basically engenders in people a sense of, “Well, if everything is wrong, then I guess it doesn’t matter what I’m into.”
If you’re paid by the hour, often the management style is to keep employees way under 40 hours to avoid overtime. Overtime is death to a scheduling manager. ‘Managers’ are often paid by the hour, too. With ‘title compensation’.
re: #262 Eclectic Cyborg
At least they were upfront in telling you that.
That’s what surprised me, because that doesn’t seem like the sort of thing you would tell a prospective recruit if you were actually hoping to get them to work there. I don’t know if they just thought that the other, better aspects of their work environment would make up for it, or what, but it seems like a dumb move to outright tell people, “We’re going to deliberately underpay you for the work you produce.”
re: #262 Eclectic Cyborg
At least they were upfront in telling you that.
You really have to look at the numbers.
For example, 65K / year might seem a livable salary in some areas, but if you are working 60 hours a week you are effectively making about $20 / hr.
Our public library director make $20/hour now, in our tiny little village. The two assistants make $15/hr. The new maintenance mechanic makes $30/hour (part-time).
re: #253 Nerdy Fish
I have interviewed at companies that have explicitly said, in the interview process, “You will be paid a salary based on a 40-hour work week. The unspoken expectation is that you will work 60 hours.” I did not accept their offers, needless to say.
A nice feature of the firm I worked at (regional firm, a step below the big guys) is that I could bank OT hours and take extra vacation in the slow periods, usually summer & fall. It was a sad day when I moved into a corporate job and dropped from my customary 6 weeks of vacation (2 regular 4 banked) to two. Over time I’ve bounced back but it was a shock back then,
re: #253 Nerdy Fish
I have interviewed at companies that have explicitly said, in the interview process, “You will be paid a salary based on a 40-hour work week. The unspoken expectation is that you will work 60 hours.” I did not accept their offers, needless to say.
I have a contract and you need my skills. The chances of you being anyone with my unique set of skills to work for you is very slim. I’m good with 40 hrs and if I need to make up time, that’s on me. But your scheduling problem is not my problem.
President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden is expected to appear in court Monday morning in northeast Arkansas for a hearing related to a years-old paternity dispute.What began in 2019 as a basic paternity case has transformed into a proxy battle over Hunter Biden’s overseas business deals, his laptop and other financial matters that are under criminal investigation by the Justice Department and facing scrutiny from House Republicans.
re: #264 wrenchwench
If you’re paid by the hour, often the management style is to keep employees way under 40 hours to avoid overtime. Overtime is death to a scheduling manager. ‘Managers’ are often paid by the hour, too. With ‘title compensation’.
I get paid hourly, and I am very thankful to work for a company who does NOT hesitate to open up OT when the workload calls for it.
(I’m also part of a unionized workforce)
The GQP Nazis have amnesia regarding who was POTUS at the time….
New Jeffrey Epstein documents reveal that the pedophile met with CIA chief and former White House counsel after his child sex crime conviction. pic.twitter.com/4eiipDOVma
— Daily Loud (@DailyLoud) April 30, 2023
re: #268 Colère Tueur de Lapin
I have a contract and you need my skills. The chances of you being anyone with my unique set of skills to work for you is very slim. I’m good with 40 hrs and if I need to make up time, that’s on me. But your scheduling problem is not my problem.
I am fine with occasionally going above and beyond, in order to make sure my stuff gets done, or to stretch a little bit and make the bosses happy. I am not okay with being told that I am expected to work unpaid overtime in order to advance my career. If you need 60 hours’ worth of my effort, you can pay me for 60 hours’ worth of my effort. If you can’t afford 60 hours’ worth of my effort, then why are you asking for it?
LOL
South Africa’s authorities have asked Russian President Vladimir Putin not to come to the country to participate in the upcoming BRICS Summit, Sunday Times reports , citing sources.
According to the outlet, the South African government is currently negotiating with the Kremlin. They are asking for Putin to participate in the summit via Zoom and not in person, so they do not have to arrest him because of the International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant issued against him.
“We have no option not to arrest Putin. If he comes here, we will be forced to detain him,” one of the sources told the Sunday Times.
The summit that will take place in Durban is planned for August. The leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, and China are invited.
Russia steps up air strikes to preempt Ukraine counteroffensive | DW News
Hey Sneako, we don’t care what you think.
Sharia law fixes everything in this video https://t.co/LoxugkWkew
— SNEAKO (@sneako) April 29, 2023
If they had one of these near me, I don’t think I could resist renting a Santa suit and acting confused about where I was all weekend.
SatanCon, the Satanic Temple convention, comes to Boston this weekend (CBS Boston)
That was quick. Judge Kaplan already denied Trump lawyer Joe Tacopina’s bizarre and desperate motion for a mistrial in the E. Jean Carroll case.
— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) May 1, 2023
re: #280 No Malarkey!
To no one’s surprise. Taco Pizza has to go for it, in order to preserve issues for the inevitable appeal, and the judge isn’t about to entertain his shenanigannery.
re: #265 Nerdy Fish
That’s what surprised me, because that doesn’t seem like the sort of thing you would tell a prospective recruit if you were actually hoping to get them to work there. I don’t know if they just thought that the other, better aspects of their work environment would make up for it, or what, but it seems like a dumb move to outright tell people, “We’re going to deliberately underpay you for the work you produce.”
They probably were screening for employees who would accept that arrangement.
When my daughter was deciding where to apply for her medical residency, one hospital told her that despite the new limits placed on hours worked, she would want to be there much more so as not to miss anything. Needless to say, that didn’t attract her at all.
re: #282 Thanos
Charles:
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Never mind, it is them, I get it going there straight. mastodon.social might be down…
Nice way to start my day
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re: #278 Nerdy Fish
What… the fuck.
Sneako is an MRA fanboi of Andrew Tate who lives in the United Kingdom. He just released a podcast episode called “Sneako REVEALS True Opinion on Andrew Tate, Women & Power” on February 3, 2023.
Your Texas “fiscal conservative” at work.
BREAKING: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is launching an investigation into the companies that produced the COVID-19 vaccines.
— Pat Webb (@patwebbjr) May 1, 2023
re: #288 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Your Texas “fiscal conservative” at work.
It still amazes me that their pathological hatred of anything “liberal” has led to hundreds of thousands of them dying to a disease that we have known how to prevent for over two years now.
re: #288 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Well, Pat Webb is a full on whack-a-doodle. His timeline is batshit.
re: #254 Eclectic Cyborg
I’d considered going into the Canadian Navy after high school.
I realize now that I would have ended up Like Pyle in Full Metal Jacket; sitting on a toilet with an M14 in my mouth and my brains on the wall behind me.
I’m way too much of an individual to fit into military life, or even civilian life for that matter.
re: #234 darthstar
Second money laundering facility. Expect it to lose (on paper) every bit as much as his other clubs in Scotland and Ireland do. He’ll be indicted for tax evasion there eventually as well.
Legal bid to uncover Trump’s Scottish golf course finances fails (BBC, November 25, 2021)
The New York-based human rights group AVAAZ bid to prosecute an Unexplained Wealth Order failed. The courts ruled Holyrood did not have to investigate Trump’s purchases of Turnberry and Menie, saying Holyrood’s ruling was in-line with the law.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon told the Scottish Parliament that the responsibility for the investigation lay with the Crown Office’s Civil Recovery Unit - which was politically independent from the government.
The then Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf later announced that Ms Sturgeon was mistaken - and that the law did allow for the Scottish government to launch an unexplained wealth order investigation.
This prompted AVAAZ to instruct lawyers to go to the Court of Session.
In October 2021, Aidan O’Neill QC said that by looking at the legislation, the court would see that it is the Scottish ministers and not Scotland’s most senior prosecutor, the Lord Advocate, who are responsible for ordering an unexplained wealth order investigation.
He added: “We say that duty results in ultimately the finding that it cannot be the Lord Advocate who is designated as being the responsible minister in terms of the seeking of unexplained wealth orders in terms of politically exposed persons.”
The Scottish Ministers contested the action and its legal team told the court that it had acted lawfully in the affair.
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re: #261 Dave In Austin
By ‘not providing anything’ he means, “They don’t feed my addiction.”
re: #92 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Funny that they call Arnold an action movie star - and yes he has done action movies.
But his mark on the world, and why he even got movie roles, is because he’s a legendary body builder, having at one time a physique that no one could rival.
That part gets skipped for reasons I am not sure.
probably because it involved a fuck-ton of steroids, which is not exactly something anyone wants to endorse today.
Hindu fruitcakes:
Scientists in India protest move to drop Darwinian evolution from textbooks (Science, three days ago)
Scientists in India are protesting a decision to remove discussion of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution from textbooks used by millions of students in ninth and 10th grades. More than 4000 researchers and others have so far signed an open letter asking officials to restore the material.
The removal makes “a travesty of the notion of a well-rounded secondary education,” says evolutionary biologist Amitabh Joshi of the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research. Other researchers fear it signals a growing embrace of pseudoscience by Indian officials.
The Breakthrough Science Society, a nonprofit group, launched the open letter on 20 April after learning that the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), an autonomous government organization that sets curricula and publishes textbooks for India’s 256 million primary and secondary students, had made the move as part of a “content rationalization” process. NCERT first removed discussion of Darwinian evolution from the textbooks at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in order to streamline online classes, the society says. (Last year, NCERT issued a document that said it wanted to avoid content that was “irrelevant” in the “present context.”)
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Catching up:
On work: force x distance. By that metric I barely worked for a 36 year career except for typing otoh I left a mark in more ways than one 😇—and still at it
On state lawmaking: I think we are reaching rock bottom and, hydraulic fracturing style issuemaking comes along and opens new veins in states I planned on visiting in retirement, all with undefined or unreachable metrics and process is the punishment mechanisms. Damn
On dogs see photo
The show tonight may happen. Stay tuned.
re: #291 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Well, Pat Webb is a full on whack-a-doodle. His timeline is batshit.
He is.
There is an investigation into “profiteering” by pharmaceutical company executives by Texas however.
Ron DeSantis also launched a grand jury investigation in Florida over vaccine “wrongdoing” in December, alleging misleading information and misrepresenting efficacy. The state Supreme Court is on it.
Science, today:
Fossil-rich Welsh quarry yields trove of soft-bodied animals at dawn of modern life
“Bizarre six-legged creatures and other “surprising discoveries” begin to clarify evolution after the Cambrian explosion” (more)
I have a second cousin in law or two who are big into pinhole photography. I’ve never seen one like this!
re: #209 Nerdy Fish
I’m largely staying out of it this morning, but I will note that I work a 40-hour-a-week desk job, and while it is not physical labor, it is every bit as much “real work” as any other job. Mental exhaustion is a thing, just as much as physical, and can even have real effects on your physical health.
3pm - 11 pm Friday through Tuesday most weeks. With full weekends like this past one (marathon in town) that’s some full 40 hours. This week, we have a super busy Thursday, so I’m in on Thursday but off on Saturday for a change of pace. Mayby I’ll hire an uber and go bar hopping like I was 18 again… Yeah, right ;)
re: #304 wrenchwench
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I have a second cousin in law or two who are big into pinhole photography. I’ve never seen one like this!
I wonder if X-ray pinhole photography might be a thing…
re: #306 Teukka
I wonder if X-ray pinhole photography might be a thing…
You could be the first! Maybe…..
re: #218 Colère Tueur de Lapin
For a person that wasn’t originally born here, you’ve been suckered hardcore into the protestant work ethic bullshit. If you need to work more than 40 hours a week, that is a manglement issue - too few people to do the job. Or, you suck.
We need to cut back to a 36 hour work week. Two days on one off two on, two off. Raise pay so that it equals a living wage at 40 hours. That would help productivity & unemployment while decreasing stress and other social ills.
(PS love the typo for management ;)
re: #11 ckkatz
@Meidas Touch
The reviews are in from DeSantis’ trip to Britain — and they are absolutely brutal.DeSantis met with titans of British industry in an event co-hosted by Lloyd’s of London — the world’s largest insurance marketplace. And to say they were unimpressed is an understatement….
The reviews are in from DeSantis’ trip to Britain — and they are absolutely brutal.
DeSantis met with titans of British industry in an event co-hosted by Lloyd’s of London — the world’s largest insurance marketplace. And to say they were unimpressed is an understatement.… pic.twitter.com/QGspcWovIU— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) April 29, 2023
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Guess DeSantis is another unintended consequence of Brexit.
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I’m going to head off to bed. Catch y’all later.
1/945AM: Weather turning unsettled across SE WY and NE Panhandle as showers and storms spread east each day. #wywx #newx #wyoroad pic.twitter.com/GtkITDudG5
— NWS Cheyenne (@NWSCheyenne) May 1, 2023
re: #37 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
DeSantis could simply be running a grift, as he’s a conservative.
Based upon how he was received by our British cousins, maybe he could be the next secretary of state.
This is a horrible way to offer an alternative to Bible class in Ohio schools, by @hemantmehta https://t.co/0VeVF33oQh pic.twitter.com/8jRPl7g0C5
— Mr. Farenheit (@mmmfiber) May 1, 2023
I only have about 2 mm to go in my quest to close the left eye. My ‘resting face’ is slightly smirky, so I try to smile a bit on the right, to approach symmetry. Full symmetry is not in the hand face I was dealt.
Since it’s Yumyion M. Onion’s Birthday, the official spokes onion of the Vidalia clan here’s Yumyion’s favorite casserole!
Ingredients
Cooking spray
2 1/2 lb. sweet onions (about 3 large onions), sliced crosswise into 1/4-in.-thick slices and separated into rings
1 tsp. dried thyme
1 tsp. dried parsley flakes
1 tsp. garlic salt
1/2 tsp. dried oregano
1/2 tsp. dry mustard
1/4 tsp. cayenne pepper
1/4 cup salted butter, cut into 1/4-in.-thick pieces
4 oz. mild Cheddar cheese, shredded (about 1 cup)
4 oz. smoked Gouda cheese, shredded (about 1 cup)
Directions
Warm the oven:
Preheat oven to 350°F. Coat a 13- x 9-inch baking dish with cooking spray.
Gather your ingredients.
Season the onions:
Place onions in a large bowl. Sprinkle with thyme, parsley, garlic salt, oregano, mustard, and cayenne pepper; toss gently to coat.
Arrange evenly in prepared baking dish.
Add toppings and bake:
Arrange butter evenly over onions, and sprinkle with Cheddar and Gouda.
Cover with aluminum foil, and bake in preheated oven until onions are soft and sides are bubbly, about 40 minutes.
Finish baking:
Remove foil. Bake at 350°F until top is golden, about 30 minutes.
re: #38 Targetpractice
Speaking as a Southerner, while the usual belief is that most Americans idealize the 1950s as the US’ “golden age,” for many Southerners the idealized period is the Antebellum South. Bleach white plantations with enormous verandas upon which folks sat around drinking cool tea and enjoying the shade, the landed gentry practically synonymous with Medieval lords in their finery and their power, while the average person enjoyed a life of “rural simplicity” and “honest work.”
Basically a little slice of paradise that was wiped away, first by the Civil War, and then what was left stomped out by Reconstruction. Throw in the “Lost Cause” and decades of excuse-making for why the war was totally not about slavery and you get generations of descendants who lie to themselves about how they had “Heaven on Earth” before the Union came in and burned everything down.
And in the 1950s & 60s before the pesky civil rights unrest, we had re-release of “Gone With The Wind”, and TV programs ; “[Johnny Yuma ] The Rebel” [a wandering former Confederate soldier roaming the West meeting interesting white people and helping folks in need. Johnny Cash sang the memorable theme song], “The Gray Ghost” [The Civil War exploits of Confederate cavalry officer John Singleton Mosby, nicknamed the Gray Ghost].
Yes - it was the best to times.
re: #309 BeenHereAwhile
Guess DeSantis is another unintended consequence of Brexit.
DeSantis looks even more like Alfred E. Newman than G.W. Bush.
re: #317 Joe Bacon
Since it’s Yumyion M. Onion’s Birthday, the official spokes onion of the Vidalia clan here’s Yumyion’s favorite casserole!
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Ingredients
Cooking spray
2 1/2 lb. sweet onions (about 3 large onions), sliced crosswise into 1/4-in.-thick slices and separated into rings
1 tsp. dried thyme
1 tsp. dried parsley flakes
1 tsp. garlic salt
1/2 tsp. dried oregano
1/2 tsp. dry mustard
1/4 tsp. cayenne pepper
1/4 cup salted butter, cut into 1/4-in.-thick pieces
4 oz. mild Cheddar cheese, shredded (about 1 cup)
4 oz. smoked Gouda cheese, shredded (about 1 cup)
Directions
Warm the oven:
Preheat oven to 350°F. Coat a 13- x 9-inch baking dish with cooking spray.Gather your ingredients.
Season the onions:
Place onions in a large bowl. Sprinkle with thyme, parsley, garlic salt, oregano, mustard, and cayenne pepper; toss gently to coat.Arrange evenly in prepared baking dish.
Add toppings and bake:
Arrange butter evenly over onions, and sprinkle with Cheddar and Gouda.Cover with aluminum foil, and bake in preheated oven until onions are soft and sides are bubbly, about 40 minutes.
Finish baking:
Remove foil. Bake at 350°F until top is golden, about 30 minutes.
I used to make a potato & onion casserole like this. I haven’t made it in years but now my mouth is watering.
re: #322 The Pie Overlord!
Your potato addition makes it sound even better to me. Yum!
re: #253 Nerdy Fish
I have interviewed at companies that have explicitly said, in the interview process, “You will be paid a salary based on a 40-hour work week. The unspoken expectation is that you will work 60 hours.” I did not accept their offers, needless to say.
I told my last boss (13 years) that I would happily work on weekends on projects that I prioritized for my time off. If I worked on weekends, and I did, it was what I wanted to work on.
re: #39 ckkatz
Russia apparently turned on some of it’s more powerful radar systems this evening to follow its missile attacks into Kyiv. And it is messing with those frequencies all across Europe.
Ah, the Russian woodpecker…I remember how it wreaked absolute havoc on the amateur radio bands back in the 70s and 80s.
Beginning as early as the 1950s, the Soviet Union had also studied OTH systems. The first experimental model appears to be the Veyer (Hand Fan), which was built in 1949. The next serious Soviet project was Duga, built outside Mykolaiv on the Black Sea coast near Odessa. Aimed eastward, Duga first ran on 7 November 1971, and was successfully used to track missile launches from the far east and Pacific Ocean to the testing ground on Novaya Zemlya.
This was followed by the first operational system Duga-1, known in the west as Steel Yard, which first broadcast in 1976. Built outside Gomel, near Chernobyl, it was aimed northward and covered the continental United States. Its loud and repetitive pulses in the middle of the shortwave radio bands led to its being known as the “Russian Woodpecker” by amateur radio (ham) operators. The Soviet Union eventually shifted the frequencies they used, without admitting they were even the source, largely due to its interference with certain long-range air-to-ground communications used by commercial airliners] A second system was set up near Komsomolsk-on-Amur in the Russian Far East, also covering the continental United States and Alaska
re: #322 The Pie Overlord!
Yumiyon M. Onion posts on Facebook always give me a good chuckle and those recipes are sooooooooooooo tempting!
re: #306 Teukka
I wonder if X-ray pinhole photography might be a thing…
Give it a try. You’ll need a lead sheet with a pinhole in it, covered with anything that blocks visible light but allows xrays through.
I’m shocked, I tell you…shocked…
When a Russian reporter asks him if the U.S. will send more weapons and aid to Ukraine, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy — despite previously saying there should be no “blank check” — says he supports helping Ukraine:
“I support aid for Ukraine … We will continue to support.” pic.twitter.com/d5Fmr1RNCM— The Recount (@therecount) May 1, 2023
re: #83 Captain Ron
River rolling just outside of Wawona in Yosemite National Park.
#Yosemite #Wawona #Nature #environment
As Ben the yardman used to say, “that water sits there, then it’s got to go.”
re: #328 Joe Bacon
I’m shocked, I tell you…shocked…
He talks out of both sides of his mouth, because he has to. He’s not stupid. He knows it’s irresponsible not to send aid to Ukraine. However, he has to make the shitty people who put him in that chair happy, so he has to say all the right things to them.
#318 BeenHereAwhile
And in the 1950s & 60s before the pesky civil rights unrest, we had re-release of “Gone With The Wind”, and TV programs ; “[Johnny Yuma ] The Rebel” [a wandering former Confederate soldier roaming the West meeting interesting white people and helping folks in need. Johnny Cash sang the memorable theme song], “The Gray Ghost” [The Civil War exploits of Confederate cavalry officer John Singleton Mosby, nicknamed the Gray Ghost].
Yes - it was the best to times.
The Civil War Centenniel from 1961 to 1965 was mostly a grotesque celebration of the Lost Cause, with Disneyesque media presentations, cute re-enactments with “Johnny Reb” and “Billy Yank,” and a level of deference to the Confederacy that is almost hard to believe today. The US Navy, for example, felt obliged to name two of its first ballistic missile submarines for Confederate leaders, USS Robert E. Lee (SSBN-601) and USS Stonewall Jackson (SSBN-634).
Centenniel observances were expecially careful not to allow any connections to be drawn with the Civil Rights Movement, then entering its most dramatic phase and headed toward a tremendous victory with the CRA and VRA. Slavery was strictly in the far background for Centenniel observances with a contented slave or two shuffling onto the scene once in a while to tote barges and lift bales.
Being aware of my family’s Unionist history, I thought the Confederate paen was disgraceful even at the time, and I am sure millions of others felt the same way, which probably helped fuel the anti-establishment unrest of the late 60s.
On a personal note, my 7th grade (1961) Texas History teacher, a Miss Jones, was a fanatical Lost Causer. She referred to long-dead Confederate soldiers as “our boys” and actually shed tears over Appomattox.
re: #124 Grunthos the Flatulent
Do you have a link for that? My Google-fu must be weak today as I found nothing.
On that topic (and moonshining what you also mentioned) we only avoided our own Prohibition by the skin of our teeth in the 1920s.
Your Google-Fu is apparently doing quite fine.
I stand corrected, it is Australian wines that are facing the major global warming problem right now. Which actually makes more sense given that Tasmania is part of Australia. And that New Zealand’s South Island is actually more southerly. (But you already knew these.)
However, even in New Zealand, growers are starting to look at other wine grape varieties. This caught my eye because I am a big fan of Marlborough Region Sauvingon Blanc wines.
And, apparently, Scottish wine started out as something of an inside joke. But it is becoming a thing as well.
Here are a few -
As the climate warms, New Zealand winemakers grapple with a changing landscape
A what point is a Marlborough sauvignon blanc so sweet it no longer tastes like a Marlborough sauvignon blanc? That is one of the questions that New Zealand winemakers are grappling with as the country experiences an increasingly warm, dry climate.
*snip*
“We definitely have warming. I don’t know how much. But we’re picking a couple weeks earlier and with higher sugar levels than we were 30 to 40 years ago,” he says.
*snip*
In Europe, a “northern shift” in growing conditions has meant grape varietals from Portugal, such as touriga nacional and albariño, have recently been approved for planting in Bordeaux, enabling more heat-tolerant varieties to be grown in one of the most traditional and strictly regulated wine regions of the world.
“As a result, there’s some really high quality sparkling wine now being produced in the south of England … We’re starting to see those shifts in other areas, and it’s likely we will see that shift in New Zealand as well.”
*snip*
As climate change bites, Tasmania raises a glass to its grape expectations
The Tamar valley on a wet winter morning doesn’t immediately strike you as a destination Australia’s leading winemakers would fight tooth and nail over. The valley, and the sinuous river at its base, is picturesque but the weather is decidedly more Blighty than Barossa.
But Tasmania, particularly the state’s north and east, is becoming a drawcard for grape growers precisely because of its bracing climes. The big wine players are heading south - driven, in large part, by climate change.
A study published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science found that up to 73% of Australian land used for viticulture could become unsuitable by 2050.
*snip*
re: #271 Shropshire Slasher
Sounds like Paula Jones redux. Right wing activists discover that someone affiliated with Democrats had a problematic personal relationship and seize on that to damage a Democratic president. Another battle in the RW effort to destroy all progress we’ve made in the past century.
re: #136 Targetpractice
We appear to have hit the “pound the table” portion of the program:
Taco’s basically acknowledging that he’s lost this case and is trying to prep grounds for the inevitable appeal that is likely already being drafted.
At the end of one of our criminal trials, I’ll never forget, the US Eastern District of NY judge announced, “good luck and I hope both parties win their appeals,” And no - it wasn’t Leo Glasser.
re: #140 Targetpractice
Or a mobster lawyer. They only ever came in two varieties: Sniveling shitstain or wannabe tough guy.
The most successful ones are neither of those.
re: #138 Targetpractice
Working for Kubrick is usually talked about in the same way that working for Hitchcock before him and Tarantino was after: You dreamed of being successful enough to work on a film with them, then spent the rest of your career explaining the nightmare that was doing a film where you did hundreds of takes of the same scene while the asshole kept turning up the abuse in search of an “authentic” reaction.
*snip*
The entertainment industry is going thru some abuse shake out now, but any and all abuse was down by those in power, “because they could.”
re: #165 teleskiguy
You’re in NYC. Exception to the rule. In my experience most wealthy people are exceptionally lazy.
Maybe, with the exception of the trust fund folk, you deal with them while they’re on vacation?
re: #228 Thanos
*snip*
There is a narrow window where you could search for open JP Morgan openings; & trust me that there are some hiring managers over there who would appreciate a leg up on culture & personnel knowledge of the other side by hiring a couple of employees from the failed bank.
(* survivor of 4 mergers, one failed merger, and 12 rounds of layoffs. They finally got me at Sprint in 2014)
Up Ding for this.
Worked for a few years for a forensic accounting firm.
One of our first steps after court-order-seizing a company was to interview which employees to retain, to assist in following the money.
re: #265 Nerdy Fish
That’s what surprised me, because that doesn’t seem like the sort of thing you would tell a prospective recruit if you were actually hoping to get them to work there. I don’t know if they just thought that the other, better aspects of their work environment would make up for it, or what, but it seems like a dumb move to outright tell people, “We’re going to deliberately underpay you for the work you produce.”
Maybe it was a (you need to know what’s it’s really like to work here) warning.
I’ve done that while hiring.
Cuts down on the subsequent bullshit.
re: #233 Dr Lizardo
I had to look up what you meant; apparently, Trump’s in Aberdeen, opening a second golf course at the Menie Estate in Scotland.
On the day he arrived, Scotland’s FM Nicola Sturgeon refused to meet him & led the Pride Parade in Glasgow instead - some Tory party flunky had to go & meet Cheetolini at the airport, he was raging. Proud of her & of Janey Godley. ❤️https://t.co/zJgRUnYGnx
— NippySweety4Freedom (@Syrians4J) May 1, 2023
re: #239 Dr Lizardo
Even better - the fact that he was in possession of an AR-15 in the first place, because I’m pretty sure you have to be either an American citizen or a permanent resident to indulge in the Second Amendment. I admit I could be wrong - it’s Texas, after all.
the howlers on twitter claim he got the gun from Operation Fast and Furious
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