MARO - “Saudade, Saudade” (Live in Avinyó)

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“saudade, saudade”
Live at Església de Santa Eugènia de Relat, Avinyó


VIDEO
Joey Schultz

COLOR
Philip Carrel

SOUND
Aniol Bestit Collellmir

LOCATION
Santi Careta

GUITARS
Darío Barroso Miranda
Lucas Delgado
Pau Figueres
Pol Batlle

CHOIR
Eva Fernández
Judit Neddermann
Magalí Datzira
Magalí Sare
Rita Payés
Selma Bruna
Sílvia Pérez Cruz


LETRA
I’ve tried to write a million other songs but
Somehow I can’t move on, oh you’re gone
Takes time, alright & I know it’s no one’s fault but
Somehow I can’t move on, oh you’re gone

Saudade, saudade
Nothing more that I can say says it in a better way
Saudade, saudade
Nothing more that I can say says it in a better way

Tem tanto que trago comigo, foi sempre o meu porto de abrigo
E agora nada faz sentido, perdi o meu melhor amigo
E se não for demais, peço por sinais, resta uma só palavra
Peço por sinais, resta uma só palavra

Saudade, saudade
Nothing more that I can say says it in a better way
Saudade, saudade
Nothing more that I can say says it in a better way
Nothing more that I can say says it in a better way
(3x)

V3
I’ve tried, alright, but it’s killing me inside
Thought you’d be by my side always

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382 comments
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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 23, 2022 • 7:20:34pm

Thomas is still in the hospital with “flu-like symptoms”.

people.com

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 23, 2022 • 7:23:13pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 23, 2022 • 7:25:05pm

re: #2 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

In spy mode the picture starts to load but then doesn’t. Weird.

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Teukka  Mar 23, 2022 • 7:26:00pm

Youtube Video

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ipsos  Mar 23, 2022 • 7:32:13pm

If/when Biden gets to name Thomas’ replacement, I really hope he picks Childs, just to watch Graham twist himself in knots trying to explain why after pushing so hard for her, he suddenly can’t justify even giving her a hearing, much less a vote.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 23, 2022 • 7:33:10pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 23, 2022 • 7:37:36pm

re: #6 Patricia Kayden

Not any longer, because the replacement has to be made before the November election, when the GOP may regain control of the Senate.

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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 23, 2022 • 7:37:56pm
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Patricia Kayden  Mar 23, 2022 • 7:41:38pm
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Captain Ron  Mar 23, 2022 • 7:42:39pm
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The GOP is a racist terrorist organization  Mar 23, 2022 • 7:43:19pm

…

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jaunte  Mar 23, 2022 • 7:43:46pm
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Patricia Kayden  Mar 23, 2022 • 7:48:46pm
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Captain Ron  Mar 23, 2022 • 7:54:14pm

At first glance I thought it was battery acupuncture.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 23, 2022 • 7:56:02pm

re: #12 jaunte

Eric Adams is horrible. Democrats really should have put a better person forward to run for Mayor.

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A Mom Anon  Mar 23, 2022 • 7:56:19pm

re: #13 Patricia Kayden

She’s incredible. I loved that Cory Booker made her laugh and cry. One of the best moments was when he talked about not letting anyone steal his joy over her nomination.

I was so fucking disgusted with republicans after the last two days it’s hard to put into words. I thought they were awful going into these hearings, but they managed to be even more awful than usual. Democrats need to use this behavior against them. It needs to be amplified and they need to be made to defend it. While life goes on. While we move forward. When people show us who they are we have GOT to believe them.

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Captain Ron  Mar 23, 2022 • 8:01:40pm
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ipsos  Mar 23, 2022 • 8:10:51pm

re: #15 Patricia Kayden

Eric Adams is horrible. Democrats really should have put a better person forward to run for Mayor.

There were several much better Democrats in the primary.

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 23, 2022 • 8:13:22pm

re: #17 Dread Pirate Ron

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austin_blue  Mar 23, 2022 • 8:13:42pm

re: #18 ipsos

There were several much better Democrats in the primary.

And Yang.

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Captain Ron  Mar 23, 2022 • 8:15:25pm
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A Cranky One  Mar 23, 2022 • 8:17:00pm

For Robert Fripp fans.

Frippertronics Midnight Special in 1979.

Youtube Video

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austin_blue  Mar 23, 2022 • 8:21:08pm

re: #20 austin_blue

And Yang.

I guess I should have put sarc tags on that, but I figured I’d been here long enough to not need to do that.

If you think I fucked up, please go lick a dogs ass until it bleeds.

Yes, I am outraged at the questioning of an eminently qualified jurist by racist fuckmuppets in the US Senate. I get a little sweary when this happens.

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austin_blue  Mar 23, 2022 • 8:25:43pm

re: #22 A Cranky One

For Robert Fripp fans.

Frippertronics Midnight Special in 1979.

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Video

I continue to be pissed off that I cannot see these embeds on my iMac running Monterey 12.0.1

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Sherlock Hound  Mar 23, 2022 • 8:26:55pm

CL’d:
All the British TERFs have come out of the wainscoting in this thread. It seems to confirm that there is a kind of “toxic feminity” that belies the idea that only males can be “bad”. TERFs, particularly British TERFs, gladly “police” their feminity in the full American sense of the term. I wonder what British trans people think?

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Belafon  Mar 23, 2022 • 8:33:11pm

re: #25 Sherlock Hound

I like to say, based on driving habits here in the DFW area, that women and minorities aren’t necessarily better than white men, it’s just that the pool of possible candidates will be larger and therefore we’ll have a better chance of getting the right person in whatever position we need.

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Sherlock Hound  Mar 23, 2022 • 8:41:05pm

re: #26 Belafon

I like to say, based on driving habits here in the DFW area, that women and minorities aren’t necessarily better than white men, it’s just that the pool of possible candidates will be larger and therefore we’ll have a better chance of getting the right person in whatever position we need.

I absolutely endorse that!

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 23, 2022 • 8:43:34pm

re: #15 Patricia Kayden

Eric Adams is horrible. Democrats really should have put a better person forward to run for Mayor.

The Democratic primary had 13 candidates; he received 31% of the votes and then, under ranked voting, he ended up with a majority. There is almost always a problem when there are too many contenders for an office. Adams also had the best message, especially given the uptick in crime and his background as a police officer.

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A Three Hour Tour  Mar 23, 2022 • 8:49:00pm

re: #25 Sherlock Hound

CL’d:
All the British TERFs have come out of the wainscoting in this thread. It seems to confirm that there is a kind of “toxic feminity” that belies the idea that only males can be “bad”. TERFs, particularly British TERFs, gladly “police” their feminity in the full American sense of the term. I wonder what British trans people think?

Femininity. Five syllables.

Sorry, I just sat through an hour-long video essay on an old anime where the youtuber pronounced that word the way you wrote it, with only four syllables (and “chutzpah” pronounced with the “ch” in “chair” meshed with the short “u” of “Utz” brand potato chips) and I’m still wincing in pain over it.

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Sherlock Hound  Mar 23, 2022 • 8:57:24pm

re: #29 A Three Hour Tour

Femininity. Five syllables.

Sorry, I just sat through an hour-long video essay on an old anime where the youtuber pronounced that word the way you wrote it, with only four syllables (and “chutzpah” pronounced with the “ch” in “chair” meshed with the short “u” of “Utz” brand potato chips) and I’m still wincing in pain over it.

It is a hard word to say. Autocorrect doesn’t make it easier.
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Captain Ron  Mar 23, 2022 • 9:14:08pm

“Even though some parts of the immune response wane, we can now see that T cells recognizing the virus are quite stable over time. After more than a year, they were still roughly 10-fold higher than someone who had never been exposed to the spike protein through infection or vaccination,” said Dr. Juno.

While B cells are responsible for producing the antibodies that recognize SARS-CoV-2, T cells play a crucial role in supporting the development of the B cell response. Without T cell help, B cells are unable to produce high amounts of antibodies that can bind to the virus and stop infection.

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Captain Ron  Mar 23, 2022 • 9:33:13pm

From RS.

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Mar 23, 2022 • 9:35:02pm

re: #28 Hecuba’s daughter

The Democratic primary had 13 candidates; he received 31% of the votes and then, under ranked voting, he ended up with a majority. There is almost always a problem when there are too many contenders for an office. Adams also had the best message, especially given the uptick in crime and his background as a police officer.

I’ve yet to see any evidence in an uptick in crime that isn’t caused by playing games with statistics around the COVID shutdowns.

Not saying there isn’t, but the caterwauling about a spike in crime is generally coming from people who I wouldn’t trust if they told me the sky was blue. So I remain skeptical.

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Belafon  Mar 23, 2022 • 9:55:50pm

Improv probably makes you a good lawyer:

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Belafon  Mar 23, 2022 • 9:58:24pm
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wrenchwench  Mar 23, 2022 • 10:03:11pm

He tweets this every day. Faithfully.

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Captain Ron  Mar 23, 2022 • 10:14:36pm

re: #35 Belafon

Nobody could have imagined…

She’s so smrt.

YouTube

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JC1  Mar 23, 2022 • 10:20:22pm

re: #1 GlutenFreeJesus

Thomas is still in the hospital with “flu-like symptoms”.

people.com

Come-on covid, do your thing! I generally don’t wish ill on anyone; I make an exception for the GOP appointed, federalist society anointed, SCOTUS judges. May their time on earth be short and painful.

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JC1  Mar 23, 2022 • 10:23:32pm

re: #20 austin_blue

And Yang.

I think that he would have been a much better mayor than the trainwreck NYC ended up electing.

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Targetpractice  Mar 23, 2022 • 10:28:27pm

re: #35 Belafon

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Your daily reminder that in many parts of this country, all you need to hold federal office is a pulse and enough brain power to walk on two legs.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 23, 2022 • 10:28:33pm

Half-Staff Notice: Death of Madeleine Albright (goes to the right-hand column of LGF)

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JC1  Mar 23, 2022 • 10:32:20pm

4/6 again; my modal result.

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Targetpractice  Mar 23, 2022 • 10:32:43pm

re: #31 Dread Pirate Ron

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The more time passes, the stronger the case gets for vaccines over “natural immunity.” If you’re a member of the “I did my own research” club, the only way you can believe that the risks of vaccination outweigh the benefits…is if you choose to believe in conspiracy theories over science.

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sagehen  Mar 23, 2022 • 10:36:33pm

re: #39 JC1

I think that he would have been a much better mayor than the trainwreck NYC ended up electing.

Yang might have been a different kind of train wreck, but I have my doubts he’d be any better.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 23, 2022 • 10:40:35pm

Thursday, March 24 is World Tuberculosis Awareness Day.

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JC1  Mar 23, 2022 • 10:41:38pm

re: #44 sagehen

Yang might have been a different kind of train wreck, but I have my doubts he’d be any better.

That’s fair. He was out there for sure. I’m curious to see if he could have gotten a large scale basic income program going and what the effects would be. He probably could have attracted more high tech firms to NY.

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JC1  Mar 23, 2022 • 10:45:09pm

re: #45 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Thursday, March 24 is World Tuberculosis Awareness Day.

I went my entire freshman year in college without drinking any alcohol due to a (likely false positive) TB skin test. Spent the whole year taking INH, which would have wrecked my liver if mixed with alcohol. It was also the year in which I got the highest grades. Probably just a coincidence.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 23, 2022 • 10:55:39pm

re: #2 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Gotta love both incels and Christians.

Oh how I hate the bullshyte Christian apologetic “were you there.” Fundamentalists aren’t the only ones who use that. The obvious rejoinder is “where you there for the story of Genesis” and watch them fall into a morass of special pleading.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 23, 2022 • 11:00:23pm

re: #47 JC1

I went my entire freshman year in college without drinking any alcohol due to a (likely false positive) TB skin test. Spent the whole year taking INH, which would have wrecked my liver if mixed with alcohol. It was also the year in which I got the highest grades. Probably just a coincidence.

I contracted TB in 1987. I spent several weeks in quarantine away from my pregnant wife, and a year taking both INH and Rifampin.

When the CDC came out with risk factors for who should get the Covid-19 vaccine first, people with active and latent TB were mystified why TB wasn’t included as a risk factor, particularly since even asymptomatic Covid-19 can relaunch active TB.

cdc.gov

7,174 people were diagnosed with tuberculosis in the USA in 2020. An estimated 13,000,000 people have latent tuberculosis.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 23, 2022 • 11:03:06pm

Two minutes past midnight. My wife just said “Kiss your consumptive” and planted a big one on me.

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Moe Avattar  Mar 23, 2022 • 11:07:49pm

re: #36 wrenchwench

He’s not wrong.

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Captain Ron  Mar 23, 2022 • 11:16:11pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 23, 2022 • 11:17:14pm
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sagehen  Mar 23, 2022 • 11:20:28pm

So according to Sky News, the UK is having massive inflation and fall in living standards. Like, the worst in 30 years. I can’t wait to hear how the US wing nuts will manage to lay this at Biden’s feet. (our left, of course, is going to yell BREXIT!! It’s all ‘cause of Brexit!!)

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Captain Ron  Mar 23, 2022 • 11:34:21pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 23, 2022 • 11:47:33pm

re: #32 Dread Pirate Ron

From RS.

I’m not going to bash Sen. Blackburn for having a BA in Home Economics. I hate it when liberals drag educational achievements (that certainly adds anecdotes to the “liberal élite” narrative).

I absolutely would drag her for being a moran.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 23, 2022 • 11:52:58pm
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Captain Ron  Mar 23, 2022 • 11:59:24pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 24, 2022 • 12:02:45am

re: #56 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I’m not going to bash Sen. Blackburn for having a BA in Home Economics. I hate it when liberals drag educational achievements (that certainly adds anecdotes to the “liberal élite” narrative).

I absolutely would drag her for being a moran.

The same argument argues I should not run for the state legislature because I have a high school diploma.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 24, 2022 • 12:14:01am

Bill to increase food assistance for Nebraska drug offenders advances (Omaha World-Herald)

Nebraska law prohibits anyone convicted of a drug offence for life from receiving SNAP benefits (food stamps).

State Senator Megan Hunt’s bill LB-121 would eliminate that, provided the person convicted is complying with the terms of their release.

She has been trying to pass this bill since 2019, where it has been filibustered every year by Republicans.

Hunt argued that LB 121 was fundamental to changing the culture of the state, and would improve the quality of life for all Nebraskans by helping those in poverty. She said it makes no sense for young people who are convicted of a drug offense to not have access to food when they are older.

“I believe in second chances,” Hunt said.

Under current Nebraska law, people with three or more felony convictions for drug use or possession, or just one felony conviction for drug sale or distribution, are banned from receiving SNAP. People with one or two convictions for use or possession are eligible for SNAP only if they participate in an approved treatment program, according to the bill.

Meanwhile, other felons, including rapists, robbers and murderers, face no such bar to getting food assistance, Hunt said.

(more)

The bill has passed its first reading in the Unicameral.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 24, 2022 • 12:16:45am
Planned Parenthood North Central States, which includes Nebraska and Iowa, has received $20 million from MacKenzie Scott, part of the $275 million the philanthropist and author is giving to Planned Parenthood and its 21 affiliates.

The gift to Planned Parenthood North Central States, which also includes Minnesota, South Dakota and North Dakota, is the largest one-time donation in the affiliate’s history.

The donation will pay for sexual and reproductive health care, comprehensive sex education and advocacy in the five-state region.

Scott, the former wife of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, also announced this week that she was donating $11 million to Habitat for Humanity of Omaha. The donation is part of the $436 million that she is giving to Habitat for Humanity International and 84 of its U.S. affiliates.

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Planned Parenthood group covering Nebraska and Iowa gets $20 million gift (Omaha World-Herald)

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Captain Ron  Mar 24, 2022 • 12:29:50am

YouTube

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 24, 2022 • 12:52:20am
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wrenchwench  Mar 24, 2022 • 12:55:50am

Three more.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 24, 2022 • 1:03:53am

re: #38 JC1

Come-on covid, do your thing! I generally don’t wish ill on anyone; I make an exception for the GOP appointed, federalist society anointed, SCOTUS judges. May their time on earth be short and painful.

If Thomas dies now, Roe v. Wade may survive in a bastardized form because Roberts seems to want to preserve it based on the bedrock constitutional principle that in his personal opinion 15 weeks is enough time for a woman to decide if she wants an abortion or not. If Thomas survives, the five judges to the right of Roberts want to reverse Roe outright.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 24, 2022 • 1:08:52am

re: #52 Dread Pirate Ron

And Putin thinks he is going to conquer this country?

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 24, 2022 • 1:18:05am

re: #67 No Malarkey!

And Putin thinks he is going to conquer this country?

If he’s finally parted with his delusions of grandeur, it’d be smarter for him to focus on trying to take and hold the Donetsk Basin region, and leave the rest of Ukraine alone - try to create a fait accompli in the eastern part of Ukraine and then go to the negotiating table.

But now, after almost an entire month, he might be too deep into the sunk-cost fallacy trap and thus, unwilling (or unable) to rethink his longer-term strategic goals.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 24, 2022 • 1:39:17am
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No Malarkey!  Mar 24, 2022 • 1:47:47am

If Putin goes ahead with his plans to attend the G-20 meeting personally, might this be an opportunity to arrest him for war crimes? Indonesia, which is hosting this year, voted with most of the world in the UN to urge an immediate end to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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ericblair  Mar 24, 2022 • 2:05:32am

Russian propaganda is going downhill. They don’t make it like they used to.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 24, 2022 • 2:05:38am

Stephen Wilhite the inventor of the GIF, has died of Covid at age 74.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 24, 2022 • 2:09:02am

Russia still remembers the British (and other allies) sending troops and tanks over to help the Whites in the Civil War 100 years ago.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 24, 2022 • 2:15:21am
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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Mar 24, 2022 • 2:17:22am

re: #70 No Malarkey!

If Putin goes ahead with his plans to attend the G-20 meeting personally, might this be an opportunity to arrest him for war crimes? Indonesia, which is hosting this year, voted with most of the world in the UN to urge an immediate end to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

This sounds like an extraordinarily bad idea.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 24, 2022 • 2:25:33am

re: #29 A Three Hour Tour

Femininity. Five syllables.

Sorry, I just sat through an hour-long video essay on an old anime where the youtuber pronounced that word the way you wrote it, with only four syllables (and “chutzpah” pronounced with the “ch” in “chair” meshed with the short “u” of “Utz” brand potato chips) and I’m still wincing in pain over it.

You telling me Utz isn’t a result of My Cousin Vinnie? I iz dissapoint.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 24, 2022 • 2:26:18am

re: #75 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion

This sounds like an extraordinarily bad idea.

Arresting Putin? It might give more rational actors a chance to gain power in Russia.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 24, 2022 • 2:28:37am

re: #72 No Malarkey!

Stephen Wilhite the inventor of the GIF, has died of Covid at age 74.

We are grieving egregiously as we can only gratuitously guess as he goes to his grave how to correctly pronounce “GIF”.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 24, 2022 • 2:30:18am

re: #77 No Malarkey!

Arresting Putin? It might give more rational actors a chance to gain power in Russia.

Do we have any sense of who could or would gain power if Putin were deposed?

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Mar 24, 2022 • 2:34:10am

re: #77 No Malarkey!

Arresting Putin? It might give more rational actors a chance to gain power in Russia.

Unless this is setup and a 100% guarantee ahead of time, I wouldn’t count on it. Anyone seemingly not already Anti-Putin just keeps doubling down on the bullshit as this get’s worse.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 24, 2022 • 2:39:06am

re: #80 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion

Unless this is setup and a 100% guarantee ahead of time, I wouldn’t count on it. Anyone seemingly not already Anti-Putin just keeps doubling down on the bullshit as this get’s worse.

Since there doesn’t seem to be a single commander in charge of the Ukrainian invasion, I’d love to see what would happen if we decapitated the monster. If Russia became embroiled in a power struggle the Russian invasion of Ukraine would become even more leaderless and falter more.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 24, 2022 • 2:42:39am

The notion of Putin mingling with world leaders at the G-20 like he isn’t the worst criminal in the world is obscene. I hope Indonesia makes it clear he’s not invited even if China vetoes an effort to eject Russia from the G-20.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 24, 2022 • 2:49:36am

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ericblair  Mar 24, 2022 • 3:00:53am

re: #80 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion

Unless this is setup and a 100% guarantee ahead of time, I wouldn’t count on it. Anyone seemingly not already Anti-Putin just keeps doubling down on the bullshit as this get’s worse.

If at that time Putin doesn’t have a deputy that he considers completely reliable, he won’t leave the country. And a reliable deputy would consider arresting Putin to be an act of war perpetrated by the host country, which in this case is Indonesia, which is a military customer of Russia. So no.

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Ming5000  Mar 24, 2022 • 3:18:38am

Poland expels 45 Russian ‘spies pretending to be diplomats,’ in escalation over Ukraine invasion Wash Post

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 24, 2022 • 3:19:41am

This looks like a good documentary from Netflix; might have to check this one out.

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Of course, there were rumors about Savile’s predations as far back as the mid-1960s. Savile himself was interviewed under caution by the police in 2007 because of allegations of indecent assault and quite famously, John Lydon (Johnny Rotten) alluded to suppression of what was considered to be an open secret in the BBC of Savile’s pedophilia in a 1978 interview for BBC Radio. Needless to say, Lydon’s remark was edited out of the interview.

The truth about Savile didn’t come out until about a year after his death, with ITV’s Exposure program broadcasting “The Other Side of Jimmy Savile”. The BBC itself had prepared an episode for their Newsnight show that was supposed to be broadcast in December of 2011 (only a few weeks after Savile’s death in October 2011), but it was spiked at the last minute, leading to accusations of a BBC coverup.

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ericblair  Mar 24, 2022 • 3:24:23am

They’re really not even trying. We should be insulted.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 24, 2022 • 3:33:29am

Going into a meeting but…what flipping gall!

Lawyers for Trump and his two eldest children, Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr., want the appellate division of the state’s trial court to overturn Engoron’s Feb. 17 ruling and invalidate James’ subpoenas seeking their testimony.

They detailed their arguments in a 72-page joint brief Monday, rehashing prior claims that James, a Democrat, had a political vendetta against Trump, a Republican, and that forcing the Trumps to testify would violate their constitutional rights because answers could be used against them in a parallel criminal investigation.

The Trumps’ lawyers contend that Engoron was wrong to limit the scope of a two-hour hearing prior to his ruling and that he didn’t have all of the information necessary to make a proper ruling.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 24, 2022 • 3:35:25am

Oh, and someone downstairs said that Obama was robbed out of a SCOTUS selection.

Obama wasn’t robbed, America was.

This was the republican first volley at throwing out our constitutional system of governance.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 24, 2022 • 3:36:16am

re: #24 austin_blue

I continue to be pissed off that I cannot see these embeds on my iMac running Monterey 12.0.1

Or on my iPhone.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 24, 2022 • 3:44:15am

re: #34 Belafon

Improv probably makes you a good lawyer:

To be a good litigator, you have to be quick on your feet.

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Targetpractice  Mar 24, 2022 • 3:50:53am

re: #88 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Going into a meeting but…what flipping gall!

Yeah, basically their argument to the higher court is the same to the lower court: “DO YOU KNOW WHO WE ARE!?!”

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 24, 2022 • 4:02:11am

heh

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Ming5000  Mar 24, 2022 • 4:05:37am
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 24, 2022 • 4:17:17am

Conservatives are the snowiest of snowflakes. Accusing Home Depot of Wokeness. Home Freaking Depot. Christ.

Home Depot says Canadian worksheet on ‘unpacking privilege’ was unauthorized after conservatives accuse company of going ‘woke’

Home Depot addressed on Wednesday a worksheet defining privilege circulating on social media, noting that the material was an unauthorized document from the retailer’s Canadian division.

A day earlier, the “Libs of TikTok” account — an anonymous Twitter handle devoted to mocking liberals — tweeted out a picture of a Home Depot-branded worksheet about “unpacking privilege,” saying the home improvement company had “gone woke.”

And…you cannot have this! Under no circumstances.

The sniping at Home Depot earned a backlash of its own. Many commentators saw no issue with a company internally sharing guidelines around fostering tolerance and empathy in the workplace.

And…totally unsurprising to boot.

But a representative for the home improvement retailer told Insider that the printed material was not an official in-house training material. The worksheet came from the company’s Canadian division, according to the representative. They said it was never featured in any company-wide trainings, and did not receive approval from Home Depot’s department around corporate diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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Axolotl  Mar 24, 2022 • 4:20:44am

re: #38 Hecuba’s daughter

Based on the to-date disastrous performance of the Russian military in Ukraine, I’m rethinking my rethinking of my thinking on Romney’s 2012 characterization of Russia as being America’s “number one geopolitical foe”. He was roundly mocked: after all, Russia’s GDP was smaller than Texas. But then, during the Trump administration, where for a minor investment, Putin managed to select our President and undermine our position in the world, it seemed that Romney was amazingly prescient. Putin’s malice and goals were unlimited and it seems that despite the nation’s lack of financial resources, that he had contemporary tools that rendered our defenses obsolete. But now we observe the Russian invasion has stalled against a much smaller, less armed combatant. So maybe, in one sense, Putin is like the wizard of Oz — projecting awesome power that is all illusion. Russian is not China; it is North Korea with a nuclear arsenal and oil, but with little else of interest to the contemporary world. Its military strength is a mirage.

I am not rethinking my rethinking. I think russia has been at war with us at the very least since then. They have been using asymmetrical method$ to undermine our democracy.

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ericblair  Mar 24, 2022 • 4:21:01am

blub

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 24, 2022 • 4:26:51am

I screwed up on my second word. Again. I did it yesterday, too. 4/6

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 24, 2022 • 4:27:43am

re: #97 Axolotl

I am not rethinking my rethinking. I think russia has been at war with us at the very least since then. They have been using asymmetrical method$ to undermine our democracy.

THIS! ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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Shropshire Slasher  Mar 24, 2022 • 4:29:18am

re: #96 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Conservatives are the snowiest of snowflakes. Accusing Home Depot of Wokeness. Home Freaking Depot. Christ.

And…you cannot have this! Under no circumstances.

And…totally unsurprising to boot.

I already stopped shopping at Home Depot, but that was because of poor customer service.

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Shropshire Slasher  Mar 24, 2022 • 4:33:17am

re: #98 ericblair

blub

Pictures, videos, etcetera

dailymail.co.uk

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Decatur Deb  Mar 24, 2022 • 4:36:19am

re: #98 ericblair

blub

Loose lips sink ships. Whodd’a thought?

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Decatur Deb  Mar 24, 2022 • 4:38:07am

re: #101 Shropshire Slasher

I already stopped shopping at Home Depot, but that was because of poor customer service.

I quit because they’re avid union-busters.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 24, 2022 • 4:39:50am

re: #64 wrenchwench

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Shropshire Slasher  Mar 24, 2022 • 4:41:26am

The videos I have watched of the Ukraine conflict shows the Ukrainian forces destroying the last armored vehicle, that way the other’s in line don’t know that they are getting blown up!
Reminds me of the movie Sgt. York, like shooting turkeys.

Youtube Video

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Ming5000  Mar 24, 2022 • 4:43:03am

re: #98 ericblair

Russian TV was very proud to show off the Orsk a few days ago when it arrived in Berdyansk. They said it had supplies for troops.

Ukraine say they were tracking it for days, and that it had weapons and ammunition to continue the siege of Mariupol. And they’ve blown it up.

I wonder how much of the cargo was removed in three days. Since the Orsk, a 370ft Russian Alligator-class tank carrier, is built to haul tanks I assume that unloading is pretty quick. The article doesn’t say.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 24, 2022 • 4:45:51am

Why are there never consequences?

Infowars host Alex Jones failed to show up and testify under oath at a deposition Wednesday in a lawsuit filed by relatives of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, leading the families’ lawyer to call for Jones’ arrest if he doesn’t appear again Thursday.
…
Jones, whose attorney said he missed the deposition because of an appointment for undisclosed medical conditions, was scheduled to testify Wednesday and Thursday in Austin, Texas, where Infowars is based, in connection with the relatives’ defamation lawsuit against him for saying the 2012 school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, was a hoax.
…
She denied a request by the families’ lawyer, Christopher Mattei, to issue an arrest order to have Jones brought to the proceeding if he fails to attend again, but said Mattei could seek to subpoena Jones and request sanctions against him.

Mattei said he would seek a subpoena in Texas if the judge didn’t approve his request for an arrest order.
…
She denied a request by the families’ lawyer, Christopher Mattei, to issue an arrest order to have Jones brought to the proceeding if he fails to attend again, but said Mattei could seek to subpoena Jones and request sanctions against him.

Mattei said he would seek a subpoena in Texas if the judge didn’t approve his request for an arrest order.
…
Jones’ lawyer, Norman Pattis, filed new court documents late Wednesday afternoon that included letters from two doctors who said they advised Jones not to attend the deposition because of his medical conditions. Pattis also asked Bellis to postpone the deposition, but she denied the request.

In the court filing, Pattis wrote Jones’ doctor was “so alarmed” by his observations of Jones on Monday that he advised him to go to an emergency room or call 911. Jones refused and his doctor advised him to stay home, Pattis said.

On Tuesday, however, Jones broadcasted his daily website show at the Infowars studio in Austin, his lawyers said. He did not appear in person on the show Wednesday, but he provided commentary by phone including pre-recorded segments for portions of the program. He did not discuss the deposition or his medical conditions at the beginning of the show.

To sick to show up for court but not do his show - no matter where he did it from.

Throw the fucking book at him.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 24, 2022 • 4:46:26am

re: #104 Decatur Deb

I quit because they’re avid union-busters.

Exactly. That is why I stopped shopping there, as well. And the owner is a total dickhead.

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Dopamine Fish  Mar 24, 2022 • 4:46:28am

re: #108 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Why are there never consequences?

To sick to show up for court but not do his show - no matter where he did it from.

Throw the fucking book at him.

Funny you should ask:

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Ming5000  Mar 24, 2022 • 4:58:17am

Some things I didn’t get from Twit about the Manafort Dubai thing:

Federal authorities blocked former Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort from boarding a flight to Dubai from Miami over the weekend because he was trying to travel on a passport that was revoked after his 2017 arrest.

Manafort’s passport was revoked in October 2017 after his arrest. But it was physically returned to him by the FBI after Trump pardoned him.

Manafort is not legally prevented from leaving the country or from applying for a new passport to replace his old one. It was not clear why he had tried to travel on an invalid passport.

Dubai’s airport offers connections to multiple airports in Russia.

MSN

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Belafon  Mar 24, 2022 • 5:03:04am

re: #59 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The drag is watching Senator Blackburn decide she’s an intellectual equal to Judge Jackson without having put in any of the work.

My dad is one of the smartest people I know, and he didn’t finish high school. But my dad would never try to think he’s capable of going up against a recent college physics graduate on the subject of quantum mechanics just because he knows how to fix a car.

I was a professional software developer while I was getting my degree in computer science. And there were a number of people with degrees who didn’t know as much as I did. But I also worked with people, and the books I read were by people, who I couldn’t come close to until I had put in the hard work of getting my bachelor’s and master’s (? apostrophes).

So yes, when certain people, like Congresspeople, decided to throw their intellectual prowess around, their education level is fair game. Because if it isn’t, there’s no reason to favor a climate scientist over Ted Cruz.

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lawhawk  Mar 24, 2022 • 5:05:30am

re: #108 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Actively flaunting the court order. Actively ignoring the timeline set forth by the court. Callous disregard for law and order.

Throw the book at him? Yeah, hold him in contempt, and fine him and his lawyer for good measure.

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Belafon  Mar 24, 2022 • 5:07:35am

re: #78 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

We are grieving egregiously as we can only gratuitously guess as he goes to his grave how to correctly pronounce “GIF”.

Other than the fact that Wikipedia states how he wanted it pronounced: en.m.wikipedia.org

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William Lewis  Mar 24, 2022 • 5:12:12am

re: #113 Belafon

The drag is watching Senator Blackburn decide she’s an intellectual equal to Judge Jackson without having put in any of the work.

My dad is one of the smartest people I know, and he didn’t finish high school. But my dad would never try to think he’s capable of going up against a recent college physics graduate on the subject of quantum mechanics just because he knows how to fix a car.

I was a professional software developer while I was getting my degree in computer science. And there were a number of people with degrees who didn’t know as much as I did. But I also worked with people, and the books I read were by people, who I couldn’t come close to until I had put in the hard work of getting my bachelor’s and master’s (? apostrophes).

So yes, when certain people, like Congresspeople, decided to throw their intellectual prowess around, their education level is fair game. Because if it isn’t, there’s no reason to favor a climate scientist over Ted Cruz.

Agreed. I never finished my degree for various reasons (I’d love to go back and finish my undergraduate work in paleoanthropology with a minor in philosophy but I digress) and I’ll happily diss any of them who pretends to be the equal of, say the doctorate, my GF busted her ass to earn. I have more respect, honestly, for Palin going back several times to finish her degree than I do for someone like Blackburn.

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Ming5000  Mar 24, 2022 • 5:12:19am

re: #112 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Nice
I feel as though there is a new appetite to call out lying liars. This is a good thing.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 24, 2022 • 5:13:38am

re: #117 Ming5000

Nice
I feel as though there is a new appetite to call out lying liars. This is a good thing.

As long as it isn’t lying republican liars. Then, it’s a no go.

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Dopamine Fish  Mar 24, 2022 • 5:25:06am

I’m reading through the document linked in Mike Dunford’s tweet above concerning Alex Jones excusing himself from his deposition with a doctor’s note. The judge is very clearly unhappy with Jones and with his attorneys, who have zero good answers for the judge’s questions. Apparently, this doctor wrote a note that effectively says, “No, Alex Jones can’t show up to depositions this week, he should stay home.” As in, literally, a note excusing him from legal obligations and nothing else. The judge even notes that Jones went live at his studio the day before. His attorneys have no way to verify the note; they have the name of the doctor, but no information regarding the patient/physician relationship, whether the doctor is licensed to practice medicine at all, the states he may be licensed to practice in, nothing. They have testimony from an attorney who was unable to attend the hearing in person, who purportedly spoke to the doctor in question. It’s looking very sanctionable from this armchair not-a-lawyer’s perspective.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 24, 2022 • 5:30:35am

Thread, eleven tweets.

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jeffreyw  Mar 24, 2022 • 5:32:27am

Bickering Birds

Good morning!

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 24, 2022 • 5:32:44am

re: #119 Dopamine Fish

Maybe the doctor is Epstein’s mom.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 24, 2022 • 5:37:19am

re: #113 Belafon

On the issue of education (no reason favouring a climate scientist over Ted Cruz) there is a difference.

No politician at any level of governance can possibly know everything about every subject, no matter how much education they have amassed. Thus a politician should rely on experts in their fields to help guide political policy.

During my time on my village board, there were debates about taxes (I am not an economist), restoring buildings (I am not an architect), restoring our streets (I am not a civil engineer), refurbishing our city park (back to architect and civil engineer again), bringing the library into full compliance with the ADA (I am not a lawyer nor a library scientist, though I did have my wife to lean on over that).

A hack gets elected to ignore experts (unless the experts agree with them).

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Dangerman  Mar 24, 2022 • 5:39:34am

re: #13 Patricia Kayden

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she knew this from the start
as did kavanaugh

and she did it with grace - without the sordid background and the crying
women, black women…backwards, high heels, etc

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 24, 2022 • 5:41:35am

re: #119 Dopamine Fish

(1:00:01)

Youtube Video

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No Malarkey!  Mar 24, 2022 • 5:43:50am

New unemployment claims have dropped to 187,000, the lowest level since 1969 when the labor force was less than half the size it is now.

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Dangerman  Mar 24, 2022 • 5:44:55am

re: #19 Punish Domestic Terrorists

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further, the declaration of independence doesnt ‘grant’ anything
it, well, declares, that these truths are self evident - you know, intrinsic

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 24, 2022 • 5:47:55am

re: #127 Dangerman

further, the declaration of independence doesnt ‘grant’ anything
it, well, declares, that these truths are self evident - you know, intrinsic

XIV Amendment: Men can get abortions just as women can. /s

IX Amendment, come to the black courtesy phone please.

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Dopamine Fish  Mar 24, 2022 • 5:49:44am

I read through the end of the transcript of the Jones hearing. The judge denied the motion for a protective order, which apparently was the emergency motion filed to postpone or cancel the deposition. Further, the judge ordered the attorney to show cause why the letter he filed wasn’t filed with intent to mislead the court as to Jones’s whereabouts, as the plaintiffs’ attorneys demonstrated adequately to the court that Jones was broadcasting from his studio, a location that is not his home, as the alleged doctor’s letter stated he was supposed to stay at home. Jones’s attorney was advised that the deposition was proceeding - and that his physician could attend with him, if they felt it was medically necessary - and that’s the end of it.

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darthstar  Mar 24, 2022 • 5:52:19am

Good morning.
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HRH Stanley Sea  Mar 24, 2022 • 5:55:09am

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Dopamine Fish  Mar 24, 2022 • 5:56:15am

re: #129 Dopamine Fish

So, in summary: The judge did not buy any of the shenanigans. Jones and his attorneys are basically under advisement that they had better show up this morning, or they’re facing contempt of court. The court is basically giving him enough rope to hang himself, which is the way of courts; they try to assume good faith as much as possible, in the interests of avoiding appeals, but even the court’s patience has limits, and he is now officially at their end.

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Dr. Matt  Mar 24, 2022 • 6:03:40am

rawstory.com

Biden is the winningest POTUS in history.

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darthstar  Mar 24, 2022 • 6:05:26am

Full video of the two other ships getting the fuck out of dodge. One in the distance has its own plume of smoke rising.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Mar 24, 2022 • 6:05:33am

re: #102 Shropshire Slasher

Pictures, videos, etcetera

dailymail.co.uk

Yikes! This is a hell of a picture. I think we’re seeing the fire on the vehicle deck through the open (blown off?) bow doors of the Alligator.

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gocart mozart  Mar 24, 2022 • 6:06:23am

Too sick to appear at a deposition but not too sick to do his radio show?

DOCKET NO: UWYCV186046436S
LAFFERTY, ERICA Et Al
V.
JONES, ALEX EMRIC Et Al

SUPERIOR COURT
JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF WATERBURY
3/23/2022

ORDER
ORDER REGARDING:
03/23/2022 744.00 MOTION FOR PROTECTIVE ORDER

The foregoing, having been considered by the Court, is hereby:
ORDER: DENIED

Mr. Jones has by all accounts broadcast live from his studio on Monday and Tuesday, in disregard of Dr. Marble’s purported instructions to stay home and rest. Additionally, plaintiffs’ counsel alleges that even today, Mr. Jones called into his show, speaking on the war in Ukraine, although the court has no evidence to confirm that. While the court has no details regarding Dr. Offutt’s background or
qualifications, it appears both from Dr. Marble’s letter that the court reviewed yesterday in camera, and from Dr. Offutt’s letter today, that the medical issues, while potentially serious, are not currently serious enough to either require his hospitalization, or convince him to stop engaging in his broadcasts. Mr. Jones cannot unilaterally decide to continue to engage in his broadcasts, but refuse to participate in a deposition. The motion is denied. Of course, if, as Dr. Offutt indicates, he develops escalating symptoms such that he is hospitalized, that change in circumstance would excuse his attendance at the court ordered deposition. The court expects that the deposition, which will be videotaped, will proceed in a calm, orderly, and professional manner, as all depositions should proceed. The court will be available during the deposition should any issues arise related to this order.
Judicial Notice (JDNO) was sent regarding this order.

Judge: BARBARA N BELLIS

civilinquiry.jud.ct.gov

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darthstar  Mar 24, 2022 • 6:07:24am

re: #135 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

Yikes! This is a hell of a picture. I think we’re seeing the fire on the vehicle deck through the open (blown off?) bow doors of the Alligator.

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I just posted the video above. Look at it full screen and you can see fire from the hull as well as the deck of that ship. Someone punched a big hole in it.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 24, 2022 • 6:11:14am

re: #126 No Malarkey!

New unemployment claims have dropped to 187,000, the lowest level since 1969 when the labor force was less than half the size it is now.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 24, 2022 • 6:13:30am

re: #134 darthstar

Full video of the two other ships getting the fuck out of dodge. One in the distance has its own plume of smoke rising.

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I’d wager the crew of those other two ships were fearing they’d be next - and probably fearing a massive explosion from the other ship and the dock area.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 24, 2022 • 6:13:52am
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Dr Lizardo  Mar 24, 2022 • 6:15:05am

Off to work - BBL.

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Dopamine Fish  Mar 24, 2022 • 6:20:01am

re: #139 Dr Lizardo

I’d wager the crew of those other two ships were fearing they’d be next - and probably fearing a massive explosion from the other ship and the dock area.

“Holy shit, comrade! Did you see that?”
“Yeah, comrade. You want to be next?”
“Fuck no, let’s get the hell out of here!”
“But what about those guys?”
“Sink or swim, as the American navy says. I’m out!”

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lawhawk  Mar 24, 2022 • 6:20:58am

re: #134 darthstar

It looks like 3 ships total were hit - 1 totally wrecked and engulfed, a second steaming out with serious fires, and third ship (one in foreground) with fire being contained - white plumes forward.

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Dopamine Fish  Mar 24, 2022 • 6:21:36am

re: #143 lawhawk

It looks like 3 ships total were hit - 1 totally wrecked and engulfed, a second steaming out with serious fires, and third ship (one in foreground) with fire being contained - white plumes forward.

One wonders if there was collateral damage from the LST that was basically destroyed, depending on how close they were sailing.

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 24, 2022 • 6:23:05am

There was some reporting on Morning Joe that Ukraine only has about a week’s supply of anti-tank type weapons left. Hopefully, the mtg in Brussels will prioritize resupplying ASAP. Can’t allow Russia to retake anything.

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b.d  Mar 24, 2022 • 6:24:13am

re: #145 Barefoot Grin

There was some reporting on Morning Joe that Ukraine only has about a week’s supply of anti-tank type weapons left. Hopefully, the mtg in Brussels will prioritize resupplying ASAP. Can’t allow Russia to retake anything.

How many weeks of tanks does Russia have left?

//

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lawhawk  Mar 24, 2022 • 6:25:09am

re: #140 No Malarkey!

It’s been understood for decades that the US considers any NBC weapons use against US or our allies can result in the US responding with nukes. Chemical weapons use is a war crime.

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lawhawk  Mar 24, 2022 • 6:26:25am

re: #144 Dopamine Fish

All three were in port when the first ship was hit.

Think of it the same way as Pearl Harbor. All the ships were lined up at anchor - one gets hit and seriously damaged, secondary explosions cause fires and damage to the adjacent ships - both of them raise anchor and try to flee to avoid being caught in the maelstrom.

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lawhawk  Mar 24, 2022 • 6:26:31am
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lawhawk  Mar 24, 2022 • 6:29:10am

re: #146 b.d

Russia has thousands of tanks of varying quality and quantity. They have a few hundred Armata tanks (their top of the line), and around 1000 T-90s.

It’s one thing to have all those tanks. It’s quite another to be able to deliver them to the front where they can be used. The Russian supply lines are all fucked up inside Ukraine, and it’s not any better once you reach back into Russia. And it’s clear that Russia can’t keep the gear they do have in working condition anywhere - in the combat areas or outside. That’s going to slow resupply significantly too.

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darthstar  Mar 24, 2022 • 6:39:35am

re: #143 lawhawk

It looks like 3 ships total were hit - 1 totally wrecked and engulfed, a second steaming out with serious fires, and third ship (one in foreground) with fire being contained - white plumes forward.

Yep, and a couple of close splashes by that ship in the foreground.

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darthstar  Mar 24, 2022 • 6:42:04am

re: #148 lawhawk

All three were in port when the first ship was hit.

Think of it the same way as Pearl Harbor. All the ships were lined up at anchor - one gets hit and seriously damaged, secondary explosions cause fires and damage to the adjacent ships - both of them raise anchor and try to flee to avoid being caught in the maelstrom.

Nobody could have predicted there would be explosives on that boat.
//

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Dangerman  Mar 24, 2022 • 6:42:42am

re: #113 Belafon

The drag is watching Senator Blackburn decide she’s an intellectual equal to Judge Jackson without having put in any of the work.

My dad is one of the smartest people I know, and he didn’t finish high school. But my dad would never try to think he’s capable of going up against a recent college physics graduate on the subject of quantum mechanics just because he knows how to fix a car.

I was a professional software developer while I was getting my degree in computer science. And there were a number of people with degrees who didn’t know as much as I did. But I also worked with people, and the books I read were by people, who I couldn’t come close to until I had put in the hard work of getting my bachelor’s and master’s (? apostrophes).

So yes, when certain people, like Congresspeople, decided to throw their intellectual prowess around, their education level is fair game. Because if it isn’t, there’s no reason to favor a climate scientist over Ted Cruz.

they believe, because they managed to get elected, that they are in fact experts

it’s the idiots version of ‘if im good at something, i can be good at anything’
many successful, high powered people - doctors, lawyers, and other technical folks, think like that. it’s part ego and part understandable. but just cause you’re a great surgeon doesnt make you a great golfer, or chef. it just means you have drive and determination and maybe can master other stuff if you put in the time and effort.

winning an election doesn’t mean you know shit about anything.
maybe not even about winning an election
maybe it was your campaign manager and staff that won the election, not you.

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Dopamine Fish  Mar 24, 2022 • 6:47:42am

re: #153 Dangerman

they believe, because they managed to get elected, that they are in fact experts

it’s the idiots version of ‘if im good at something, i can be good at anything’
many successful, high powered people - doctors, lawyers, and other technical folks, think like that. it’s part ego and part understandable. but just cause you’re a great surgeon doesnt make you a great golfer, or chef. it just means you have drive and determination and maybe can master other stuff if you put in the time and effort.

winning an election doesn’t mean you know shit about anything.
maybe not even about winning an election
maybe it was your campaign manager and staff that won the election, not you.

Always be willing to learn, and admit you were wrong. Even if you are an expert in your field, it’s always possible for someone to come along who knows more than you in a specific area. My son and I were talking about this in games yesterday. I’m a good gamer. I have not played much of this specific game we’ve been playing lately. Therefore, I could stand to learn even from my almost-eleven-year-old boy, even as I have much to teach him about how to work in a team environment and how to play against high-difficulty enemies that he has little experience with playing alone.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 24, 2022 • 6:49:29am

re: #144 Dopamine Fish

One wonders if there was collateral damage from the LST that was basically destroyed, depending on how close they were sailing.

When I used to play the game Battleship, I would group my ships in a tight, square formation (except for the little two peg ship that was floating off in the far distance). People rarely thought that ships would be grouped that way and I often won.

Ships being close together in a game: good.

Ships being close together in war: not good.

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Dopamine Fish  Mar 24, 2022 • 6:50:12am

re: #155 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

When I used to play the game Battleship, I would group my ships in a tight, square formation (except for the little two peg ship that was floating off in the far distance). People rarely thought that ships would be grouped that way and I often won.

Ships being close together in a game: good.

Ships being close together in war: not good.

The brave sailors of the USS West Virginia were unavailable for comment.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 24, 2022 • 6:54:07am

re: #18 ipsos

Maya Wiley!!

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 24, 2022 • 6:54:20am

Thank you President Biden!!

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darthstar  Mar 24, 2022 • 6:55:36am

Ugh…going to the office today to help onboard a bunch of people to a new testing solution I bought last year. Now lots of teams are interested in it because ‘codeless testing’…
But I have to get up, walk the dogs, SHOWER…jesus…and then drive.

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steve_davis  Mar 24, 2022 • 6:58:14am

re: #159 darthstar

Ugh…going to the office today to help onboard a bunch of people to a new testing solution I bought last year. Now lots of teams are interested in it because ‘codeless testing’…
But I have to get up, walk the dogs, SHOWER…jesus…and then drive.

I showered yesterday, and I decided while I’m no longer employed on ground, I’m not wasting my time showering every damned day. If Jesse can stand it, we’re good.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 24, 2022 • 6:58:28am

re: #158 Patricia Kayden

Thank you President Biden!!

This Brandon chap seems to have finally gone somewhere…

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Dangerman  Mar 24, 2022 • 6:58:29am

Antiracist Baby is now a No. 1 bestseller on Amazon

Cruz railed against it yesterday during Judge Jackson’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing

Idiots

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 24, 2022 • 6:59:18am

re: #159 darthstar

Ugh…going to the office today to help onboard a bunch of people to a new testing solution I bought last year. Now lots of teams are interested in it because ‘codeless testing’…
But I have to get up, walk the dogs, SHOWER…jesus…and then drive.

We now onboard people via Teams. The office is open, but my team isn’t going in.
They just announced that masks are no longer required, and asked people not to ask others why they’re wearing masks, or to put a mask on, so I’m happy to not be part of that shitshow.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 24, 2022 • 6:59:55am

re: #160 steve_davis

I showered yesterday, and I decided while I’m no longer employed on ground, I’m not wasting my time showering every damned day. If Jesse can stand it, we’re good.

I shower when required: after strenuous physical exercise or twice a week. Frequency will pick up in the warmer months. I have taken to washing my hair only once a week and it helps a lot.

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Dangerman  Mar 24, 2022 • 6:59:57am

re: #161 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

This Brandon chap seems to have finally gone somewhere…

I would have changed it to “Americans are back to work”

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Dangerman  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:00:41am

re: #164 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I shower when required: after strenuous physical exercise or twice a week. Frequency will pick up in the warmer months. I have taken to washing my hair only once a week and it helps a lot.

Hair…alas.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:01:50am

re: #166 Dangerman

Hair…alas.

I am lucky to have retained as much as I have compared to other friends and acquaintances of my age.

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Ming5000  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:01:50am

Ditto and showering.
Also, my dental hygienist told me, “If you only brush once a day at least you do it before bed.” so, I have that going for me.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:02:26am

Outside testimony for the confirmation hearing today.

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:04:08am

re: #164 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I shower when required: after strenuous physical exercise or twice a week. Frequency will pick up in the warmer months. I have taken to washing my hair only once a week and it helps a lot.

I now shower when I can smell myself or feel greasy. With my hair at 3mm, I don’t need that daily shampoo, and my skin is less dry now.

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lawhawk  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:04:30am

re: #162 Dangerman

I have a copy of antiracist baby… and it’s entirely uncontroversial.

Racism is a learned behavior.
Babies don’t know what racism is. They learn racism from their parents and others.

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:05:34am

re: #168 Ming5000

Ditto and showering.
Also, my dental hygienist told me, “If you only brush once a day at least you do it before bed.” so, I have that going for me.

I now even floss daily thanks to COVID. I didn’t want to wind up in a dentist’s chair before the vaccines were released.

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Dopamine Fish  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:05:41am

re: #171 lawhawk

I have a copy of antiracist baby… and it’s entirely uncontroversial.

Racism is a learned behavior.
Babies don’t know what racism is. They learn racism from their parents and others.

It’s controversial to Republicans because they don’t want to admit they are racist. They would rather believe that racism is an inherent trait (which is a white supremacist belief, but when has that ever stopped them?), so that they can hold themselves blameless for the racism of up-and-coming generations.

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Belafon  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:07:56am

re: #173 Dopamine Fish

It’s controversial to Republicans because they don’t want to admit they are racist. They would rather believe that racism is an inherent trait (which is a white supremacist belief, but when has that ever stopped them?), so that they can hold themselves blameless for the racism of up-and-coming generations.

Except they want to also believe the opposite, as Cruz showed when going after Jackson.

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Dopamine Fish  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:08:43am

re: #174 Belafon

Except they want to also believe the opposite, as Cruz showed when going after Jackson.

Mental consistency is not exactly their forté.

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Dangerman  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:09:47am

re: #173 Dopamine Fish

It’s controversial to Republicans because they don’t want to admit they are racist. They would rather believe that racism is an inherent trait (which is a white supremacist belief, but when has that ever stopped them?), so that they can hold themselves blameless for the racism of up-and-coming generations.

Oh hell the title itself probably sets them off

That is besides if anyone actually read it.

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Dopamine Fish  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:10:29am

re: #176 Dangerman

Oh hell the title itself probably sets them off

That is besides if anyone actually read it.

ANTIRACIST BABIES?!?!? THEM DAMN WOKE LIBRULS ARE TRYING TO RAISE THE NEXT GENERATION TO KILL US ALL!!!1!111

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Dangerman  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:10:41am

re: #175 Dopamine Fish

Mental consistency is not exactly their forté.

Or their concern

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No Malarkey!  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:10:50am

Wasn’t cyberwarfare supposed to be a Russian strength? LOL

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:11:28am
An official from the American embassy in Russia checked on Griner “within the past couple hours,” U.S. Department of State spokesman Ned Price revealed on CNN on Wednesday morning. Price said the U.S. official found Griner to be in “good condition” but declined to provide further details about the visit.

Brittney Griner found to be in ‘good condition’ after US gains consular access to her (Yahoo Sports)

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:12:06am

I’ve been really impressed with AlJazeera coverage regarding the war. Thanks to my Firestick.

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:12:12am

re: #179 No Malarkey!

Wasn’t cyberwarfare supposed to be a Russian strength? LOL

Only because they’re so weak at everything else, and it’s cheap.

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b.d  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:12:36am

re: #179 No Malarkey!

Wasn’t cyberwarfare supposed to be a Russian strength? LOL

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Things have advanced a bit since Snowden was the know it all wonder boy.

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lawhawk  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:12:47am

re: #174 Belafon

Except they want to also believe the opposite, as Cruz showed when going after Jackson.

It’s clear that Cruz didn’t actually read antiracist baby, let alone understand it.

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Teukka  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:13:02am

re: #179 No Malarkey!

Wasn’t cyberwarfare supposed to be a Russian strength? LOL

It’s a think with some cybercriminal, they leave their own doors open, so if you attack the attacker, you can basically drive a tank into their network…

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Dopamine Fish  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:16:03am

re: #183 b.d

Things have advanced a bit since Snowden was the know it all wonder boy.

Well, and let’s be clear: Russia is good at offensive cyber warfare. Defending against cyber attack is a whole ‘nother kettle of fish. It requires a completely different skill set, with some overlap as far as being able to know and predict the vectors a cyber attacker will use to come at you. Anonymous is one of the oldest black hat organizations in the game, with some of the Internet’s best cyber warfare agents from the early days of the Internet.

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lizardofid  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:16:42am

re: #179 No Malarkey!

Wasn’t cyberwarfare supposed to be a Russian strength? LOL

I guess Fancy Bear doesn’t play defense.

//

Oh, good morning.

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Dangerman  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:17:17am
Madeleine Albright, just weeks before her death on Wednesday at the age of 84, predicted Russian President Vladimir Putin was “making a historic mistake” with what was then his planned military invasion of Ukraine.

“Should he invade, it will be a historic error,” Albright, the first woman to serve as U.S. secretary of state, warned in her final column for The New York Times published on Feb. 23.

Link

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:18:21am

re: #179 No Malarkey!

Wasn’t cyberwarfare supposed to be a Russian strength? LOL

Cyberwarriors have varying motivations: for some it might be patriotism, for others an ideology outside nationalism or just to watch the world burn, and for others, their loyalty is to the highest bidder

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:18:25am

A Southern Idaho good morning to the Lizard Nation.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:19:31am

re: #184 lawhawk

It’s clear that Cruz didn’t actually read antiracist baby, let alone understand it.

He looked on it as another form of liberal indoctrination along with teaching babies not to be homophobic or xenophobic.

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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:20:45am

Wordle stuff, keep scrolling.

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Rightwingconspirator  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:20:46am

re: #179 No Malarkey!

Wasn’t cyberwarfare supposed to be a Russian strength? LOL

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TBH offense has the advantage in cyberwarfare. Some new exploit is made or discovered and its zero day again.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:22:12am

re: #42 JC1

4/6 again; my modal result.

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It’s also my modal result but got it in 3 this time.

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:25:18am

Losing this is going to sting. Was it worth his war crimes in Ukraine?

In the legend of Tales From the Thousand and One Nights, Scheherazade is a beautiful virgin who escapes being murdered by the king by telling him stories at night.

Scheherazade is also President Vladimir Putin’s $700 million superyacht, according to Russian investigative journalists—and its ability to survive being seized by Western governments will require far more cunning than storytelling.

The yacht, currently moored in the Marina di Carrara on Italy’s Tuscany coast, is gargantuan, even by the outsize dimensions of Russian oligarchs’ superyachts. At about 459 feet long, it has six levels of decks, two helipads with a hidden helicopter hangar, a spa, huge living room and dining room, a swimming pool and three saunas, as well as an upper-level “owner’s area” that includes its own private spa.

How can a $700 million superyacht sitting in an Italian port ‘belong to no one’? Russian sleuths say it’s Putin’s (Fortune)

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:26:33am

re: #43 Targetpractice

The more time passes, the stronger the case gets for vaccines over “natural immunity.” If you’re a member of the “I did my own research” club, the only way you can believe that the risks of vaccination outweigh the benefits…is if you choose to believe in conspiracy theories over science.

Unfortunately, tens of millions of Americans do believe in Republican conspiracy theories.

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:28:17am

re: #193 Rightwingconspirator

TBH offense has the advantage in cyberwarfare. Some new exploit is made or discovered and its zero day again.

Defense has to keep reacting, but good defense also has an advantage. A business should be able to completely wipe their systems and restore from backup from before any attack. Making this the case for more businesses and utilities makes us far less vulnerable to any exploit.

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Jay C  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:28:33am

re: #185 Teukka

It’s a think with some cybercriminal, they leave their own doors open, so if you attack the attacker, you can basically have a Ukrainian farmer haul a tank into their network…

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:28:52am

re: #121 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Western good morning!

Early wisteria
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Shropshire Slasher  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:29:21am

Breaks my heart.

A Russian soldier drove over his colonel with a tank — while two other service members were caught venting about strongman Vladimir Putin’s “bulls—” invasion of Ukraine amid reports of heavy losses.

The Russian soldier who was behind the wheel of the tank “blamed the commander of the group, Col. Yury Medvedev, for the deaths of his friends,” Ukrainian journalist Roman Tsimbalyuk said on Facebook.

“Having waited for the right moment, during battle, he ran over the commander with a tank as he stood next to him, injuring both his legs,” he wrote, the Daily Beast reported.

“Now Col. Medvedev is in a hospital in Belarus, waiting for monetary compensation for combat wounds received during the ‘special military operation to protect the Donbass.’ Colonel Medvedev was awarded the Order of Courage,” he wrote.

nypost.com

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No Malarkey!  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:30:12am

re: #193 Rightwingconspirator

TBH offense has the advantage in cyberwarfare. Some new exploit is made or discovered and its zero day again.

And like the Russian Air Force, Russian offensive cyberwarfare has been mostly MIA in this war.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:32:03am

re: #59 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The same argument argues I should not run for the state legislature because I have a high school diploma.

Harry Truman did not have a college degree either.

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Teukka  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:33:08am
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:33:25am

re: #160 steve_davis

I showered yesterday, and I decided while I’m no longer employed on ground, I’m not wasting my time showering every damned day. If Jesse can stand it, we’re good.

Stand it? I don’t know about cats, but dogs love you more the stinkier you become.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:34:03am

re: #161 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

This Brandon chap seems to have finally gone somewhere…

When people told him Let’s Go Brandon, he went full throttle!

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:34:06am

re: #204 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Stand it? I don’t know about cats, but dogs love you more the stinkier you become.

Same with cats.

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Dopamine Fish  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:34:34am

re: #205 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

When people told him Let’s Go Brandon, he went full throttle!

“Let’s go? Let’s go where? Get in the Trans Am, mothafuckas, we’re going full speed ahead!”

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Belafon  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:36:27am

re: #179 No Malarkey!

Wasn’t cyberwarfare supposed to be a Russian strength? LOL

There’s always someone better than you.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:37:37am

re: #175 Dopamine Fish

Mental consistency capacity? ability? is not exactly their forté.

Fixed it…None of it is their forte.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:38:14am

re: #196 Hecuba’s daughter

Unfortunately, tens of millions of Americans do believe in Republican conspiracy theories.

And a lot of them are among the most vulnerable Americans to Covid; over fifty, overweight, with comorbidities, who trust rightwing “news” sources. The Republicans are killing their most loyal and reliable voters.

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Dopamine Fish  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:38:25am

re: #209 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Fixed it…None of it is their forte.

One brain cell shared between all of them.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:41:30am

re: #179 No Malarkey!

Wasn’t cyberwarfare supposed to be a Russian strength? LOL

Who says some of the Anonymous folks aren’t Russian?

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:42:56am

re: #210 No Malarkey!

And a lot of them are among the most vulnerable Americans to Covid; over fifty, overweight, with comorbidities, who trust rightwing “news” sources. The Republicans are killing their most loyal and reliable voters.

I looks like they’re locked in, because telling the yahoos to vaccinate just makes them mad, so that subculture will be sicker than the mainstream, and die younger than mainstream Americans. Unfortunately, they’ll probably offset it by having large families like the pre-vaccine days.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:45:11am

Small soap-box: So the NWS updated their web page for real time data from any given reporting station (both NWS and other sources.)

Used to have a column for air pressure in millibars.

In the new webpage arrangement one can choose how the page describes values - either in metric (usually SI) or in “standard” (which means American version of English units.)

Even in the old webpage, when one selected standard units the air pressure was given in three columns, one of which was in millibars.

Now the new page only gives inches of mercury (Hg.)

I have to switch the page to metric to get millibars, but then the temp is in C and I want F.

Sure, the new arrangement is more consistent, but not as useful to me.

Oh, and it’s not really consistent, because even in “standard” mode the solar radiance is given in Watts per square meters.

If one is going to use “standard” American values then the solar radiance should be in horsepower per square yards.

Maybe even the NWS boffins thought that might be going a bit too far in being “standard”??

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No Malarkey!  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:47:07am

re: #213 Punish Domestic Terrorists

I looks like they’re locked in, because telling the yahoos to vaccinate just makes them mad, so that subculture will be sicker than the mainstream, and die younger than mainstream Americans. Unfortunately, they’ll probably offset it by having large families like the pre-vaccine days.

However, I understand that one of the symptoms of Long Covid is limp dick.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:49:01am

re: #149 lawhawk

Afghan and especially Syrian refugees cannot be easily distinguished from Europeans by appearance. Let’s not get sloppy about explanations. (I would add that it’s early days. I will be pleasantly surprised if Ukrainian refugees don’t wear out their welcome pretty quickly.)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:50:20am

re: #210 No Malarkey!

And a lot of them are among the most vulnerable Americans to Covid; over fifty, overweight, with comorbidities, who trust rightwing “news” sources. The Republicans are killing their most loyal and reliable voters.

While the horrific death rate amongst conservatives probably won’t have much effect in locked-in red states, in state, county, or local elections a few votes can swing an election.

Aside from getting out to vote in the midterms for representatives and senators, this might also affect those local elections as well, where Democrats have lagged for some time. (I’m not angry at losing my last election by three votes, but it does show how close elections can be flipped.)

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No Malarkey!  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:50:21am

Russian Defense Minister sighting today.

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:51:08am

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:51:38am

re: #173 Dopamine Fish

I think they’re okay with being racists though. And they’re perfectly fine with their racist supporters.

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Shropshire Slasher  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:53:13am

re: #214 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Small soap-box: So the NWS updated their web page for real time data from any given reporting station (both NWS and other sources.)

Used to have a column for air pressure in millibars.

In the new webpage arrangement one can choose how the page describes values - either in metric (usually SI) or in “standard” (which means American version of English units.)

Even in the old webpage, when one selected standard units the air pressure was given in three columns, one of which was in millibars.

Now the new page only gives inches of mercury (Hg.)

I have to switch the page to metric to get millibars, but then the temp is in C and I want F.

Sure, the new arrangement is more consistent, but not as useful to me.

Oh, and it’s not really consistent, because even in “standard” mode the solar radiance is given in Watts per square meters.

If one is going to use “standard” American values then the solar radiance should be in horsepower per square yards.

Maybe even the NWS boffins thought that might be going a bit too far in being “standard”??

I used to only use NWS for the radar. With every update it got less user friendly for me and I no longer use it. I just assumed it was my lack of knowledge though.

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lizardofid  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:53:47am

re: #215 No Malarkey!

However, I understand that one of the symptoms of Long Covid is limp dick.

“You can pay me now, or pay me later”

Pfizer

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Belafon  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:54:33am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:55:31am

re: #220 Patricia Kayden

I think they’re okay with being racists though. And they’re perfectly fine with their racist supporters.

“The Death of a Euphemism” video at YouTube applies to what’s been going on since Trump came down his escalator.

You can only use euphemisms for so long until the racists demand more. Then the so-called moderates after the euphemisms are dropped are in the position of “who the hell else am I going to vote for” (because a Democrat is right out).

Hence Bill Barr claiming Trump was unsuited for the job, but he’ll vote for him again if he runs. He cannot conceive of voting for a Democrat and would rather have an incompetent Republican.

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Belafon  Mar 24, 2022 • 7:57:41am

Part of NATO’s discussion:

Estonia is calling for Nato to abandon its “tripwire” posture in eastern Europe and build up a permanent force in the region capable of stopping a Russian offensive.

Ahead of Thursday’s Nato summit, Jonatan Vseviov, the permanent secretary of the Estonian foreign ministry, said that Europe and the North Atlantic alliance could never return to the world it knew before the 24 February Russian invasion of Ukraine.

“We will be in a totally new security environment. There will be a new Ukraine. There will be a new Russia. There will be a new Europe. There is no going back to February 23,” Vseviov told the Guardian in an interview in Washington.

theguardian.com

And Poland is proposing a peacekeeping force be deployed into Ukraine.

reuters.com

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 24, 2022 • 8:00:17am

re: #223 Belafon

And the crazy of the Church of Conservatism is out in full display from the morans posting in that thread.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 24, 2022 • 8:00:29am

re: #221 Shropshire Slasher

I used to only use NWS for the radar. With every update it got less user friendly for me and I no longer use it. I just assumed it was my lack of knowledge though.

I find the Observations page worthwhile:
wrh.noaa.gov

And then by zooming in and showing all the stations I can get one or two close to me, to get the past 72 hours chart.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 24, 2022 • 8:01:59am

re: #105 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The first time I tried it in hard mode, got it in four.

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Geography porn wasn’t particularly hard, another in 1.

#Worldle #62 1/6 (100%)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉
worldle.teuteuf.fr

There is a fatal flaw in hard mode — with certain letter combinations, it may make it impossible to find the right solution except by a lucky guess.

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Belafon  Mar 24, 2022 • 8:02:14am

Thread:

Thread:

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No Malarkey!  Mar 24, 2022 • 8:03:05am

re: #225 Belafon

Part of NATO’s discussion:

theguardian.com

And Poland is proposing a peacekeeping force be deployed into Ukraine.

reuters.com

Obviously a peacekeeping force can’t be deployed in Ukraine until there is peace to keep.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 24, 2022 • 8:06:34am

re: #214 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Small soap-box: So the NWS updated their web page for real time data from any given reporting station (both NWS and other sources.)

Used to have a column for air pressure in millibars.

In the new webpage arrangement one can choose how the page describes values - either in metric (usually SI) or in “standard” (which means American version of English units.)

Even in the old webpage, when one selected standard units the air pressure was given in three columns, one of which was in millibars.

Now the new page only gives inches of mercury (Hg.)

I have to switch the page to metric to get millibars, but then the temp is in C and I want F.

Sure, the new arrangement is more consistent, but not as useful to me.

Oh, and it’s not really consistent, because even in “standard” mode the solar radiance is given in Watts per square meters.

If one is going to use “standard” American values then the solar radiance should be in horsepower per square yards.

Maybe even the NWS boffins thought that might be going a bit too far in being “standard”??

Either you’re looking at a different NWS Website than I am, or NWS Cheyenne hasn’t adopted this.

Air pressure on the local page is given in both in/Hg and mBars.
Temperatures are given in both Fahrenheit and Commie.
&c.

forecast.weather.gov

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Dangerman  Mar 24, 2022 • 8:07:51am

Morning lizards

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John Hughes  Mar 24, 2022 • 8:09:23am

re: #105 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Yup that was the easiest wordle ever. Turns out I can’t recognise the east coast, but western is pretty impossible to mistake.

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Belafon  Mar 24, 2022 • 8:11:35am

re: #232 Dangerman

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Morning lizards

That’s a really strange cat.

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Dopamine Fish  Mar 24, 2022 • 8:12:17am

re: #232 Dangerman

[Embedded content]

Morning lizards

OI! Who gave you permission to use my photograph?!

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Dopamine Fish  Mar 24, 2022 • 8:13:29am

Not gonna lie, my brain must be in slow-mo because it took a hot minute for me to realize why this was on Bad Legal Takes.

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jaunte  Mar 24, 2022 • 8:16:58am

re: #224 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

He cannot conceive of voting for a Democrat and would rather have an incompetent Republican.

The entire conservative project is about maintaining unearned privileges granted by an accident of birth; whatever tool they need to use, they’ll use.

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Dangerman  Mar 24, 2022 • 8:19:08am

re: #229 Belafon

Thread:

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targeting civilians
unnecessary
uncalled for
war crime

of course the entire escapade was unnecessary, uncalled for and is being run like a terrorist attack

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 24, 2022 • 8:21:32am

re: #236 Dopamine Fish

Not gonna lie, my brain must be in slow-mo because it took a hot minute for me to realize why this was on Bad Legal Takes.

The Senate is a unique form of gerrymandering in which rural, less populated states are proportionally over-represented.

There was a time when “rural state” did not necessarily mean “red state”, but with only a few exceptions, that is the case now, and this skewers both the Senate and the Electoral College and makes them less representative of the will of the voters.

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Belafon  Mar 24, 2022 • 8:21:41am

re: #236

It will always take a bit to realize that it’s voter suppression that affects senators.

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danarchy  Mar 24, 2022 • 8:23:06am

re: #224 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

You can only use euphemisms for so long until the racists demand more. Then the so-called moderates after the euphemisms are dropped are in the position of “who the hell else am I going to vote for” (because a Democrat is right out).

Hence Bill Barr claiming Trump was unsuited for the job, but he’ll vote for him again if he runs. He cannot conceive of voting for a Democrat and would rather have an incompetent Republican.

Gotta say I understand the impulse. I mean, would you vote for a Republican because the democrat is incompetent? Better someone incompetent than someone competently working against everything you stand for.

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lawhawk  Mar 24, 2022 • 8:24:29am
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 24, 2022 • 8:24:43am

re: #238 Dangerman

targeting civilians
unnecessary
uncalled for
war crime

of course the entire escapade was unnecessary, uncalled for and is being run like a terrorist attack

Pretty much what Aleppo looked like.

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mmmirele  Mar 24, 2022 • 8:24:53am

re: #49 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I contracted TB in 1987. I spent several weeks in quarantine away from my pregnant wife, and a year taking both INH and Rifampin.

When the CDC came out with risk factors for who should get the Covid-19 vaccine first, people with active and latent TB were mystified why TB wasn’t included as a risk factor, particularly since even asymptomatic Covid-19 can relaunch active TB.

cdc.gov

7,174 people were diagnosed with tuberculosis in the USA in 2020. An estimated 13,000,000 people have latent tuberculosis.

When I was about 8 or 9 years old (late 1960s), I wasn’t feeling well. I remember just lying around on a chaise longue in the back yard, soaking up the sun because I felt cold. My mother was alarmed by my actions and took me to the doctor, who sent me for a TB tine test. Which I tested positive for. The next step was a chest X-ray which showed…nothing. (I still remember the shirt I wore that day, it had a screenprint of a couple of deer with fantastical horns on them.) As far as the doctors were concerned, I didn’t have TB, thus didn’t need additional treatment. Over 50 years later, still wondering about that. Maybe the TB test was a false positive. I’ll never know.

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Shropshire Slasher  Mar 24, 2022 • 8:29:35am

re: #244 mmmirele

I hope you have been feeling better with your time off.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 24, 2022 • 8:30:39am

re: #238 Dangerman

targeting civilians
unnecessary
uncalled for
war crime

of course the entire escapade was unnecessary, uncalled for and is being run like a terrorist attack

The Russian state is certainly a terrorist organization.

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Dangerman  Mar 24, 2022 • 8:32:42am

re: #239 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The Senate is a unique form of gerrymandering in which rural, less populated states are proportionally over-represented.

There was a time when “rural state” did not necessarily mean “red state”, but with only a few exceptions, that is the case now, and this skewers both the Senate and the Electoral College and makes them less representative of the will of the voters.

the senate became this way more or less naturally or organically. people moved and or their political positions solidified. no state boundaries were changed or any rules manipulated or taken advantage of. though one could make arguments about how and when states were admitted so some sort of ‘balance’ was superficially maintained

congressional borders are redrawn not to fairly represent the census and changing polity, but are deliberately twisted into knots for political advantage only.

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Belafon  Mar 24, 2022 • 8:32:55am

re: #244 mmmirele

When I was about 8 or 9 years old (late 1960s), I wasn’t feeling well. I remember just lying around on a chaise longue in the back yard, soaking up the sun because I felt cold. My mother was alarmed by my actions and took me to the doctor, who sent me for a TB tine test. Which I tested positive for. The next step was a chest X-ray which showed…nothing. (I still remember the shirt I wore that day, it had a screenprint of a couple of deer with fantastical horns on them.) As far as the doctors were concerned, I didn’t have TB, thus didn’t need additional treatment. Over 50 years later, still wondering about that. Maybe the TB test was a false positive. I’ll never know.

I suspect, as bad as TB can be, that they would rather have false positives which would be verified by additional tests, than false negatives.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 24, 2022 • 8:35:33am

re: #236 Dopamine Fish

Not gonna lie, my brain must be in slow-mo because it took a hot minute for me to realize why this was on Bad Legal Takes.

There is a sense in which that is accurate though. A large proportion of the talent pool for the Senate is Representatives from gerrymandered districts, so when the people running for US Senate are a bunch of candidates who ran for Congress or the state legislature in blood red districts in which their only concern was to not let a primary challenger get to the right of them, it kind of is like the product of inbreeding.

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Dopamine Fish  Mar 24, 2022 • 8:37:08am

re: #247 Dangerman

the senate became this way more or less naturally or organically. people moved and or their political positions solidified. no state boundaries were changed or any rules manipulated or taken advantage of. though one could make arguments about how and when states were admitted so some sort of ‘balance’ was superficially maintained

congressional borders are redrawn not to fairly represent the census and changing polity, but are deliberately twisted into knots for political advantage only.

To some extent, I’m OK with the Senate being a vestigial body representing the land, as long as it no longer serves as an absolute check on the power of the majority to do anything. That’s my biggest problem with the way the Senate is today. Senate reform should take one of two forms:

1) Make it so that it is more representative of the people, rather than the land they live on; OR
2) Make it so that the majority of the people cannot be completely denied by the workings of the Senate.

I am perfectly okay with the minority having some power in this country. There will always be a time where the minority faction’s rights should be respected and defended by the government. What I am absolutely against is this complete obstructionism that the unspoken filibuster and other modern Senatorial inventions have brought about.

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garzooma  Mar 24, 2022 • 8:37:51am

re: #241 danarchy

Gotta say I understand the impulse. I mean, would you vote for a Republican because the democrat is incompetent? Better someone incompetent than someone competently working against everything you stand for.

But Barr didn’t just say that Trump was incompetent — he said Trump showed “detachment from reality”. How this isn’t a deal breaker for control of the nuclear arsenal is astonishing.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 24, 2022 • 8:39:43am

re: #250 Dopamine Fish

To some extent, I’m OK with the Senate being a vestigial body representing the land, as long as it no longer serves as an absolute check on the power of the majority to do anything. That’s my biggest problem with the way the Senate is today. Senate reform should take one of two forms:

1) Make it so that it is more representative of the people, rather than the land they live on; OR
2) Make it so that the majority of the people cannot be completely denied by the workings of the Senate.

I am perfectly okay with the minority having some power in this country. There will always be a time where the minority faction’s rights should be respected and defended by the government. What I am absolutely against is this complete obstructionism that the unspoken filibuster and other modern Senatorial inventions have brought about.

Yeah, when the minority is already overrepresented in the Senate, giving just 41% of them absolute power to block almost all legislation is nuts.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 24, 2022 • 8:43:51am

re: #252 No Malarkey!

Yeah, when the minority is already overrepresented in the Senate, giving just 41% of them absolute power to block almost all legislation is nuts.

This.

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Dopamine Fish  Mar 24, 2022 • 8:43:58am

re: #252 No Malarkey!

Yeah, when the minority is already overrepresented in the Senate, giving just 41% of them absolute power to block almost all legislation is nuts.

And yes, I am OK with this even if the GOP takes power in the Senate. I know that’s the immediate risk that everyone talks about, but if, by some abhorrent nightmare, the GOP wins control of both houses of Congress, yes, they probably cheated, but they also have the right to enact their agenda, as abhorrent as it may be. It is incumbent upon us to prevent that from happening.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 24, 2022 • 8:45:31am

Back to gerrymandering of congressional districts: Ohio is my favorite example.

Last election, the GOP got around 55% of the vote, the Dems 45%.

One would think that of the 16 congressional districts, the GOP would wind up in control of nine or ten.

But thanks to gerrymandering, the Republican control 12 seats. The Dems get 4 seats with 70-80% margins while the GOP get the rest with a lead of just a few points.

Germany, with a population of less than one-third of America, has a 600-seat Parliament. Half of the ministers are elected directly, the rest proportionally based on the share of the vote that their party receives.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 24, 2022 • 8:47:58am

re: #254 Dopamine Fish

And yes, I am OK with this even if the GOP takes power in the Senate. I know that’s the immediate risk that everyone talks about, but if, by some abhorrent nightmare, the GOP wins control of both houses of Congress, yes, they probably cheated, but they also have the right to enact their agenda, as abhorrent as it may be. It is incumbent upon us to prevent that from happening.

Elections should have consequences. When voting means nothing because the Senate exists solely to prevent legislation from being enacted, it breeds apathy and erodes faith in government. Why bother to vote if nothing is going to change anyway? That way leads to minority rule and authoritarianism.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 24, 2022 • 8:49:14am

re: #224 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

“The Death of a Euphemism” video at YouTube applies to what’s been going on since Trump came down his escalator.

You can only use euphemisms for so long until the racists demand more. Then the so-called moderates after the euphemisms are dropped are in the position of “who the hell else am I going to vote for” (because a Democrat is right out).

Hence Bill Barr claiming Trump was unsuited for the job, but he’ll vote for him again if he runs. He cannot conceive of voting for a Democrat and would rather have an incompetent treasonous Republican.

FTFY

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No Malarkey!  Mar 24, 2022 • 8:49:47am

re: #255 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Back to gerrymandering of congressional districts: Ohio is my favorite example.

Last election, the GOP got around 55% of the vote, the Dems 45%.

One would think that of the 16 congressional districts, the GOP would wind up in control of nine or ten…the Republican control 12 seats. The Dems get 4 seats with 70-80% margins while the GOP get the rest with a lead of just a few points.

Germany, with a population of less than one-third of America, has a 600-seat Parliament. Half of the ministers are elected directly, the rest proportionally based on the share of the vote that their party receives.

If we could get multimember districts with rank choice voting, we wouldn’t have to worry about gerrymandering anymore because everyone’s vote would matter no matter how you try to manipulate the districts.

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Dopamine Fish  Mar 24, 2022 • 8:52:00am

re: #256 No Malarkey!

Elections should have consequences. When voting means nothing because the Senate exists solely to prevent legislation from being enacted, it breeds apathy and erodes faith in government. Why bother to vote if nothing is going to change anyway? That way leads to minority rule and authoritarianism.

Hence the attitude of our younger generations of, “Both sides are the same, so who cares who I vote for?” Along with the fact that most of our representation is still the same old rich white men.

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William Lewis  Mar 24, 2022 • 8:53:17am

re: #203 Teukka

I really hope Ian at Forgotten Weapons and Othias at C&Arsenal see that tweet… They’ve done some really great work on the history and use of Maxims. I’m sure both would get a hoot out of red dots on a first-generation machine gun ;)

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Kilroy was here  Mar 24, 2022 • 8:57:33am

re: #260 William Lewis

I really hope Ian at Forgotten Weapons and Othias at C&Arsenal see that tweet… They’ve done some really great work on the history and use of Maxims. I’m sure both would get a hoot out of red dots on a first-generation machine gun ;)

He’d also point out if they fire them they will melt without water cans attached to cool their thin barrels.

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Dr. Matt  Mar 24, 2022 • 8:57:49am

‘She just confessed to the crime’: Dominion worker’s attorney nails Michelle Malkin in defamation testimony

Conservative activist and former Fox News contributor Michelle Malkin played a key role in launching conspiracy theories about Dominion Voting Systems into the mainstream, where they became the basis of Donald Trump’s “big lie” about his election loss, according to a new lawsuit.

This vile creature rears its ugly head again.

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Dopamine Fish  Mar 24, 2022 • 8:58:26am
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Dr Lizardo  Mar 24, 2022 • 8:59:58am

re: #263 Dopamine Fish

Proving the Dead Kennedys right yet again…..

Youtube Video

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Nojay UK  Mar 24, 2022 • 9:02:16am

re: #260 William Lewis

Jonathan Ferguson at the Royal Armouries has done a series of Youtube videos on various “cursed guns” as depicted in computer FPS games after player customisation. The sawn-off Mosin-Nagant with two laser sights and a 10x optic got him to say “ergonomic pistol grip” in a tone of voice only a museum curator of firearms could employ.

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Belafon  Mar 24, 2022 • 9:03:55am

Would you consider someone a true anime aficionado if they haven’t seen Akira?

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 24, 2022 • 9:06:11am

re: #266 Belafon

Would you consider someone a true anime aficionado if they haven’t seen Akira?

Akira may not be to everyone’s taste. I consider it one of the landmark anime films, and quite frankly, one of the greatest animated films ever made bar none. But taste in film is highly subjective.

I know anime fans who’ve never seen Akira, and I still consider them fans of the genre.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 24, 2022 • 9:06:55am

re: #252 No Malarkey!

Yeah, when the minority is already overrepresented in the Senate, giving just 41% of them absolute power to block almost all legislation is nuts.

And potentially, the 41% could represent just 11% of the population. Of course, there are large states (TX, FL) who are GOP, but technically they could represent only 11%. And if we reverted to the old rules where only 51 votes were needed, those 51 could be from states representing less than 20% of the population. Our Constitution has been broken since its inception.

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jaunte  Mar 24, 2022 • 9:09:29am

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William Lewis  Mar 24, 2022 • 9:09:44am

re: #266 Belafon

Would you consider someone a true anime aficionado if they haven’t seen Akira?

I’d say they should try it but who knows if they’d like it or not. I did but …

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 24, 2022 • 9:17:24am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 24, 2022 • 9:19:44am

re: #271 Backwoods_Sleuth

I assume the family name is Goodwyn…

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Belafon  Mar 24, 2022 • 9:19:52am

re: #271 Backwoods_Sleuth

And I like that there’s no apostrophe in the company name.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 24, 2022 • 9:19:52am

re: #266 Belafon

Would you consider someone a true anime aficionado if they haven’t seen Akira?

Sure. But if you haven’t seen Spirited Away, you’re a poser. :)))))

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 24, 2022 • 9:20:51am

re: #274 GlutenFreeJesus

Sure. But if you haven’t seen Spirited Away, you’re a poser. :)))))

Not a big Anime fan, but Studio Ghibli stuff is high cinematic art.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 24, 2022 • 9:21:12am

re: #271 Backwoods_Sleuth

Bloody hell. How does that even happen?

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mmmirele  Mar 24, 2022 • 9:22:13am

re: #245 Shropshire Slasher

I hope you have been feeling better with your time off.

Yeah, I’m doing better. I talked to the insurance company today and they’re extending my leave to April 9. I’m thinking that once I have six weeks of the new eating regimen under my belt, have the results of the biopsy and get clearance from my psych provider, I should be able to go back to work by April 11. I am definitely feeling a lot better this week, spending time studying Japanese and even getting into some Twitter controversies.

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Nojay UK  Mar 24, 2022 • 9:22:32am

re: #267 Dr Lizardo

I watched the first part of Akira and fell asleep. It’s groundbreaking and all that but it’s also incoherent story-wise. The Fatal Eight Words eventuated — “I don’t care what happens to these people” — and I stopped watching. Even trying to read the manga which the movie excerpted caused me to stop caring and I abandoned the effort. Same with Neon Genesis Evangelion but I have a hate on for doormat characters in anime and manga and no great love for giant mecha storylines, having been in the robotics biz for a time a while back.

Good news though for manga fans — Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou is finally (FINALLY!) getting a legal English-language release from Seven Seas, in five large-format tankos. Quite a few manga fans think it the best manga ever, myself included.

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Captain Magic  Mar 24, 2022 • 9:22:38am

re: #274 GlutenFreeJesus

Sure. But if you haven’t seen Spirited Away, you’re a poser. :)))))

On a shirt I saw at an anime convention I was at 20 (!) years ago said:

“Be sure to spay and neuter your cat bus!”

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 24, 2022 • 9:23:46am

re: #271 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 24, 2022 • 9:27:08am

re: #278 Nojay UK

Like I said, film is subjective. I loved There Will Be Blood, but a friend of mine, she didn’t like it one bit.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 24, 2022 • 9:27:49am

re: #279 Captain Magic

On a shirt I saw at an anime convention I was at 20 (!) years ago said:

“Be sure to spay and neuter your cat bus!”

I think the Cat Bus was in My Friend Totoro

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wrenchwench  Mar 24, 2022 • 9:27:50am

re: #271 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

We have lizards needing no-looky tags.

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Citizen K  Mar 24, 2022 • 9:34:35am

1) As pointed out in one of the replies the use of ‘game’ is telling.
2) Guess what, you ignominious fuckhat: the reason why the Supreme Court can and does end up making policy (a.k.a. ‘legislating from the bench’)?
a) A lot of it started with your goddamn conservative justices first, which you never called out
b) It’s not unique to the Supreme Court
c) The whole ‘change the law’ thing makes it sound like it’d be her unilateral choice
3) Go fuck yourself, Senator Graham.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 24, 2022 • 9:36:34am

re: #284 Citizen K

My version reads like this:

1. Go fuck yourself, Lindsey.
2. Go fuck yourself, Lindsey.
3. Go fuck yourself, Lindsey.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 24, 2022 • 9:36:48am
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Citizen K  Mar 24, 2022 • 9:39:30am

re: #285 Eclectic Cyborg

My version reads like this:

1. Go fuck yourself, Lindsey.
2. Go fuck yourself, Lindsey.
3. Go fuck yourself, Lindsey.

I’m old fashioned enough to need to build the argument on why one must fuck themselves first, I suppose, but hard to argue getting to the point either.

Oh, and also, Go fuck yourself, Lindsay.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 24, 2022 • 9:39:58am

re: #268 Hecuba’s daughter

And potentially, the 41% could represent just 11% of the population. Of course, there are large states (TX, FL) who are GOP, but technically they could represent only 11%. And if we reverted to the old rules where only 51 votes were needed, those 51 could be from states representing less than 20% of the population. Our Constitution has been broken since its inception.

It was designed to protect the slaveowners, so from their pov, it wasn’t broken.

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Dopamine Fish  Mar 24, 2022 • 9:41:20am

re: #287 Citizen K

I’m old fashioned enough to need to build the argument on why one must fuck themselves first, I suppose, but hard to argue getting to the point either.

Oh, and also, Go fuck yourself, Lindsay.

“And for the rest, I hold that Lindsey Graham should go fuck himself.”

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Dr. Matt  Mar 24, 2022 • 9:41:55am

re: #286 No Malarkey!

Fucking coward

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 24, 2022 • 9:46:16am

LOL - looks like Russia’s demand to only be paid for oil and gas in rubles didn’t last very long:

They realized virtually no one wants to trade in their dying currency no matter what the commodity in question is, so now they reckon they have to switch to decentralized currency to get fucking anybody to buy the only thing they have that can remotely prop up their over-inflated economy.

Personally, if they actually start doing that I’d be sweating if I had any Bitcoin. There would almost certainly be a cryptocurrency crackdown to stop them from circumventing sanctions.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 24, 2022 • 9:47:22am

re: #291 Dr Lizardo

Russia and oil is starting to look like the Confederacy and cotton…

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jaunte  Mar 24, 2022 • 9:48:43am

re: #284 Citizen K

“Game”
is how he sees it.

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 24, 2022 • 9:49:34am

Below is a translation of a youtube video made by a Chinese computer programmer living in Odessa. He started posting about the war, but since his experiences contradict what the government is telling the people about Russia in Ukraine, his accounts were all deleted. He relied on social media as a way to communicate with his parents. I hate what will happen to him if he returns to China.

chinafile.com

‘March 17: I’m still alive! Sorry, I’m used to standing upright and have forgotten how to kneel in front of you! And, on to the day when this war is won,’ a Video by Wang Jixian

March 17, 10:30 at night. This is Jixian. I’m in Odessa and I’m still alive. News about the war: The Defensive Forces are recovering lost territory, bit by bit. It feels as though we can make out the dawning light of victory.

Honestly, I really don’t know what you are so afraid of. Is my voice really that threatening to you?
Today, I went to buy some beef and pick up the AirPods that I’d sent to Kyiv to be repaired. If nothing else, it proved to me that despite the recent bombardment of Kyiv the fellow there was still at work and deliveries between Odessa and Kyiv were still being made. Of course, Odessa is also still a functioning city. I should add that they’re Apple AirPods, so I wasn’t charged, although it did take two weeks to get them back. Doesn’t that news unsettle you, as well?

Then, around 3:45 p.m. my time [9:45 p.m. Beijing time], I learned that my Chinese social media accounts had been cancelled in a single coordinated action; they weren’t “blocked,” they were “cancelled.” Everything is gone, including the means I have to let my family know that I’m safe. It’s also the only way my parents can contact me.

You’ve deleted all of it.

Here we can accept scenes of Russian soldiers laying down their butcher’s knives; why are you incapable of tolerating one of your own citizens, a lowly computer programmer? I’m not involved in the war, nor am I spy. I have no party affiliation either.

I don’t blame the underling who deleted my accounts, because I’d like to believe that the only reason they pressed the delete key was because their superiors ordered it. But right now, I want to know who gave that order. Who’s the person responsible for this? Don’t you have parents of your own? Children even? Would you have pressed “delete” if it were your child who was in a war zone? Would you have cut off the only way they had to stay in touch with you?

Now I have to rely on other people to pass on a message to my parents. That’s right, TO PASS ON—because I can no longer contact them directly. It’s the only way I can let them know that I’m still alive; that I’m determined to see this war won, a day that I believe will not be too far off.

You cowards. Who should be the true masters of the land on which you tread? The people, or you, who lord over it and exploit the people?

I’m Chinese, the citizen of a country with a constitution and the rule of law. Its ruling party also has a constitution of its own. If you think my actions are in breach of the law, then why haven’t I been tried? If you don’t want to deal with me legally, if you want to treat me as an enemy, well, isn’t this the kind of battle ground you’d prefer? Then why don’t you come here yourself? Why are you pressuring my parents instead?

The power that you have is the power vested in you by the people. What are your cannons and weapons for? To attack your own people? If you like repressing people so much, then come here and shoot at me yourselves! But you hesitate, you prefer to support the Russians who are murdering Ukrainians. In a previous video, I told you that if this were the Second World War and the invaders were Germans, I’d volunteer to be Jewish. Now, let me tell you: I volunteer to become a Ukrainian. Don’t you enjoy seeing Ukrainians being murdered?

You cowards!

Don’t think I don’t know what is going to happen to me now. It is, after all, what you people do. You excel at concocting lies, it’s the only real talent you have; and lies are the only kind of language you really know how to speak. So, from here on in, I know I’ll be the subject of even more outrageous rumors. Do you think I really care? Every day here I’m embroiled with Big Boss Putin and his nuclear threats. A few days ago, when they used a vacuum bomb, was that you? Why are you so scared of people knowing? The whole world knows what’s going on here; the whole world except for the people of two countries [Russia and China]. Why have you been so willing to get involved in Russia’s war on Ukraine? It’s not your fight. I’m a resident here; do you think I’m scared of your pressure? Do you honestly think that the way you treat me is more frightening than the missiles or the threat of nuclear weapons? Who should really be afraid? Just think about it.

Are you like Putin? Are you also afraid that if people know too much they’ll wake up to what’s going on and start thinking for themselves, that they’ll chose to ignore all of your lies?

Let me remind you, people nurtured by Chinese civilization know that the darkness will not always conquer the light. See what history tells us—through the ages, how did all the political forces and dynasties that tried to control people’s minds end up? You should know the answer better than anyone.

Normal everyday people just want to get on with their lives. Why do you try and force them? No matter who turns up, people will still have to pay their taxes and get on with their lives. So let me make a suggestion: give everyone a break; no one wants to force you.

Friends, when you can get in touch with my parents, my family, and my old friends on my behalf, I hope you’ll tell them that I’m here and that I’m still alive. Please, let them know what’s been going on. I only hope that, regardless of what happens to me, every time they mention my name in the future they’ll do so with a sense of pride, that they’ll know I did not bring shame on them.

If my motherland makes me choose between living on my knees or dying while standing upright, I hope you know what I’ll do. Sorry, I’m used to standing upright and I’ve forgotten how to kneel in front of you!

You can sue me, take me to court. You can formally declare that I am your enemy, but just remember one thing: I’ll never kneel before you, I’ll never bend. The only way you can convince me of anything is if you do it with reason; I will never submit to your violent ways.

Today my heart is heavy. This is Jixian. Goodnight.

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mmmirele  Mar 24, 2022 • 9:51:09am

re: #278 Nojay UK

I watched the first part of Akira and fell asleep. It’s groundbreaking and all that but it’s also incoherent story-wise. The Fatal Eight Words eventuated — “I don’t care what happens to these people” — and I stopped watching. Even trying to read the manga which the movie excerpted caused me to stop caring and I abandoned the effort. Same with Neon Genesis Evangelion but I have a hate on for doormat characters in anime and manga and no great love for giant mecha storylines, having been in the robotics biz for a time a while back.

Good news though for manga fans — Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou is finally (FINALLY!) getting a legal English-language release from Seven Seas, in five large-format tankos. Quite a few manga fans think it the best manga ever, myself included.

I’ve never watched Akira. I’ve watched all of NGE, End of Evangelion and the Rebuilds. I found the further you get in NGE and especially EoE, it’s a seriously rough go psychologically. I think the Rebuilds are for the most part very good and 3.0 + 1.0 went in directions I hardly anticipated. I thought the ending was pretty much “best of all possible worlds” and shows that Anno Hideaki has grown up. That said, my only real gripe was the amount of fanservice, but that’s always been a thing with the NGE franchise.

I was actually kind of stunned to see that Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou (YKK/Yokohama Shopping Trip) is coming out in English. It’s not like a typical manga, with lots of action—in fact, quite the opposite. I had been kicking around buying it in Japanese and struggling my way through it. Now I don’t have to. There are two OVA which you can find on YouTube with English subtitles. The first OVA is simply gorgeous. The second is OK, but not as much care was taken with it.

Youtube Video

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steve_davis  Mar 24, 2022 • 9:51:41am

lol! rewatching the Rockford Files for the fourth or fifth time: (answering machine) “Jim, it’s Norma at the Market. It bounced. Do you want us to tear it up, send it back, or put it with the others?”

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 24, 2022 • 9:55:40am

re: #282 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I think the Cat Bus was in My Friend Totoro

It is — one of the best movies ever.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 24, 2022 • 9:56:30am

re: #297 Colère Tueur de Lapin

It is — one of the best movies ever.

Anime or otherwise.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 24, 2022 • 9:57:53am

re: #295 mmmirele

Almost 20 years ago, a film was released that, while highly praised by critics, wasn’t really appreciated by audiences. It should have had a least one sequel, with the same stars, director, screenwriter and cinematographer.

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is, IMHO, an absolute masterpiece of cinema from Peter Weir that never really seized the popular imagination like the Lord of the Rings films. We got lots of Pirates of the Caribbean sequels…but nothing for this (though I understand a prequel may be in development).

Youtube Video

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Belafon  Mar 24, 2022 • 9:58:53am

re: #295 mmmirele

It’s not like a typical manga, with lots of action—in fact, quite the opposite.

You should go see the Manga section at a Barnes and Noble, especially the one at Firewheel Shopping Center in Garland, TX. I think amount of action mangas is at best the same percentage published as non-action ones.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:04:03am

re: #299 Dr Lizardo

I’ve always liked that movie.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:04:04am

re: #298 GlutenFreeJesus

Anime or otherwise.

Yes.

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Belafon  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:04:15am

re: #300 Belafon

I took this picture a while ago from that store:

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mmmirele  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:04:49am

re: #300 Belafon

You should go see the Manga section at a Barnes and Noble, especially the one at Firewheel Shopping Center in Garland, TX. I think amount of action mangas is at best the same percentage published as non-action ones.

Someone recommended Witch Hat Atelier as a replacement for Harry Potter. I’m looking into that.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:05:22am

re: #299 Dr Lizardo

Ditto: Master and Commander is one of those films you can watch time and time again and still enjoy.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:05:35am

re: #299 Dr Lizardo

Almost 20 years ago, a film was released that, while highly praised by critics, wasn’t really appreciated by audiences. It should have had a least one sequel, with the same stars, director, screenwriter and cinematographer.

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is, IMHO, an absolute masterpiece of cinema from Peter Weir that never really seized the popular imagination like the Lord of the Rings films. We got lots of Pirates of the Caribbean sequels…but nothing for this (though I understand a prequel may be in development).

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Video

All that sticks out was the Captain and the ship’s surgeon playing Corelli’s La Folia.

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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:06:46am
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:06:51am

re: #299 Dr Lizardo

Almost 20 years ago, a film was released that, while highly praised by critics, wasn’t really appreciated by audiences. It should have had a least one sequel, with the same stars, director, screenwriter and cinematographer.

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is, IMHO, an absolute masterpiece of cinema from Peter Weir that never really seized the popular imagination like the Lord of the Rings films. We got lots of Pirates of the Caribbean sequels…but nothing for this (though I understand a prequel may be in development).

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Video

Love that film
“We always choose the lesser of two weevils”

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Teukka  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:07:32am
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lawhawk  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:09:28am
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Dr Lizardo  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:09:51am

re: #301 Eclectic Cyborg

I’ve always liked that movie.

Fantastic film - Paul Bettany and Russell Crowe were perfectly cast and had a real and believable chemistry. Beautiful cinematography in the service of a fairly simple story (a cat and mouse chase) and one of the great historical epic films.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:10:03am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:10:10am

re: #307 The Pie Overlord!

They have to get the message across to their base that she is a pervert-coddling terrorist sympathizer.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:11:12am

re: #309 Teukka

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jaunte  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:11:44am

re: #311 Dr Lizardo

I wished that they had been able to fit in the first meeting of the main characters as it was written by Patrick O’Brian. That was a great scene.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:11:52am

re: #307 The Pie Overlord!

Already done by the ABA; none of the prosecutors who practiced before her considered her soft on crime in general, or child porn in particular.

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jaunte  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:12:51am
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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:14:12am

I’m already seeing Twitter bots not only accusing Judge Jackson as “pro child pornography” but claiming she actually is one!

(No I am not embedding those tweets here, already blocked them)

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Teukka  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:15:17am

Activists rename streets around Russian Embassy in Stockholm:
“Invasion Alley” (Genocide Block)
“War Crime Path” (Childkiller Block)
expressen.se
www-expressen-se.translate.goog (Google Xlate)

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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:16:33am
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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:16:39am

re: #288 No Malarkey!

It was designed to protect the slaveowners, so from their pov, it wasn’t broken.

I’ve explained too many times already why this is bunkum, so I’ll just say

BULLSHIT.

That is all.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:16:42am

re: #318 The Pie Overlord!

I’m already seeing Twitter bots not only accusing Judge Jackson as “pro child pornography” but claiming she actually is one!

(No I am not embedding those tweets here, already blocked them)

Of course. Thanks to Cruz and Hawley, Justice Jackson is going to need protection from the Q crazies.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:16:48am

re: #312 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

The modern GOP message is that we make up and determine our own reality and then use law and other governmental instruments to impose that reality on others who reality varies.

Tenets of GOP reality:

America is a Christian Nation and as such, Christianity deserves a special status as a religion.
There is no systematic racism in America: CRT is a leftist plot to sow dissent.
Abolishing government regulations and lowering taxes will generate new job
Unborn life has precedent over the rights and even the lives of the mothers (or rather “carriers”)
Homosexuality, transsexuality, pre- or extramarital sex are all sinful and cannot be tolerated.
Education should be privatized to the greatest possible extent.
Health Care should be privatized to the greatest possible extent
There should be no limits or restriction on citizens’ rights to arm themselves with as much ordinance as they can get their hands on.
America does not recognize any international rights, norms or jurisdiction.

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Teukka  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:16:54am
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Teukka  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:17:17am
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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:17:28am

re: #318 The Pie Overlord!

I’m already seeing Twitter bots not only accusing Judge Jackson as “pro child pornography” but claiming she actually is one!

(No I am not embedding those tweets here, already blocked them)

Republicans are sick people, and Senators are pandering to the sickest, most stupid voters. They’re pandering to the QAnon cult.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:19:29am

re: #325 Teukka

LOL so that Russian diplomat more-or-less confessed to the Vrbětice incident, something they’ve always publicly denied quite vehemently.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:19:58am

re: #320 The Pie Overlord!

There are two sets of rules in American government. One for Republicans, another for Democrats.

That is the reality. We still have to fight back, even with the deck stacked against us.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:24:06am
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lawhawk  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:24:57am

re: #320 The Pie Overlord!

That’s from a 2018 ruling. That court found that the corrections officer’s employer was not liable for the judgment ($6.7 million). They considered the rape outside the scope of employment by the county.

In other words, the court found that the deep pockets were not available to compensate the victim of a heinous rape.

The problem is that the entire reason that the officer was in the position to carry out the rape was because he was employed as a corrections officer, and he still engaged in abusive conduct despite training to the contrary. But for his employment, he would not have raped this woman.

The reasoning was designed to insulate the county from consequences of the crimes by its employees.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:25:09am

If this assessment is correct, then Putin is fully invested in a sunk-cost fallacy:

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:27:56am

re: #307 The Pie Overlord!

Bet it takes Madison Cauthon 30 seconds to write his signature.

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Dr. Matt  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:28:12am

re: #307 The Pie Overlord!

They demand to see the manager!

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Nojay UK  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:28:59am

re: #304 mmmirele

Someone recommended Witch Hat Atelier as a replacement for Harry Potter. I’m looking into that.

A manga that’s a fine palate-cleansing antidote to Harry Potter is Mahoutsukai no Yome by Yamazaki Kore. It’s published in English by Seven Seas as The Ancient Magus’ Bride. Totally excellent story with delicious artwork set (mostly) in England among the legends and magical creatures that live in the spaces between Reality with a very solid basis of magic and the price its users pay. The story has been in a Magical College arc for a while now.

There’s been an anime series which ended just before the Magical College arc started, with a couple of prequel and sidestory OVAs as extras.

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BeachDem  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:29:17am

re: #312 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

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First Jesus talks to her son from a closet and now this.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:30:27am

re: #331 Dr Lizardo

If this assessment is correct, then Putin is fully invested in a sunk-cost fallacy:

The equipment they are losing won’t be so easy to replace. I read that their main tank manufacturer had to shut down due to a lack of parts they import from the West. I don’t imagine the conscripts will much like being thrown in a meat grinder either.

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wrenchwench  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:31:15am

re: #321 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!

I’ve explained too many times already why this is bunkum, so I’ll just say

BULLSHIT.

That is all.

You could keep a handy link to one of them in your favorites…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:33:15am
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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:34:57am

re: #331 Dr Lizardo

If this assessment is correct, then Putin is fully invested in a sunk-cost fallacy:

How long before we see large-scape mutinies by troops being deployed to Ukraine?

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Dopamine Fish  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:36:34am

re: #339 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!

How long before we see large-scape mutinies by troops being deployed to Ukraine?

We already had the one guy who ran over his CO with a tank because he was upset that the CO sent his friends to their deaths.

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wrenchwench  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:43:31am

Whole thread of birbs, including flower birbs.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:47:17am

re: #339 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!

How long before we see large-scape mutinies by troops being deployed to Ukraine?

Only troops who have no families at home to face consequences. This is an authoritarian state we are dealing with.

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wrenchwench  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:47:29am

You ever feel like you’re in the middle of a sandwich?

Trending in Mexico
Canadá

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:47:33am

re: #339 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!

How long before we see large-scape mutinies by troops being deployed to Ukraine?

Hard to say, but the Russian army has done large-scale mutinies in the past - World War One is the prime example of that. So there’s historical precedent.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:49:31am

re: #339 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!

How long before we see large-scape mutinies by troops being deployed to Ukraine?

I think they are already happening.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:51:07am

Seizing an opportunity:
Electric Generator Depot

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:53:04am

re: #346 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

Celebrate and emulate Texan Freedom from the US power grid by becoming your very own one-man power grid!!!

348
ckkatz  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:55:20am

Come to think of it… it does seem like the Russian Troll farms have been kind of quiet recently:

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:57:25am

re: #348 ckkatz

Come to think of it… it does seem like the Russian Troll farms have been kind of quiet recently:

Yep. People didn’t suddenly see through her bullshit. It’s been transparent all along, and propped up by Russian bots.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:58:17am

Interesting thread on the decision by the Manhattan D.A. not to prosecute Trump.

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Dangerman  Mar 24, 2022 • 10:58:37am
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No Malarkey!  Mar 24, 2022 • 11:03:00am

re: #351 Dangerman

A real defender of freedumb there. Judges should just turn off their brains and do whatever prosecutors tell them to do, never mind the adversary system of justice.

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lawhawk  Mar 24, 2022 • 11:05:46am

re: #351 Dangerman

Throw the fucking book at them… rule of law and all…

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ckkatz  Mar 24, 2022 • 11:06:18am

Another case of the unilateral abrogation of treaties, contracts, and agreements by Putin:

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Captain Magic  Mar 24, 2022 • 11:06:43am
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Dangerman  Mar 24, 2022 • 11:06:50am
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Dangerman  Mar 24, 2022 • 11:08:18am

re: #354 ckkatz

Another case of the unilateral abrogation of treaties, contracts, and agreements by Putin:

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Is exactly what I’ve been saying

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Charles Johnson  Mar 24, 2022 • 11:08:50am
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Teddy's Person  Mar 24, 2022 • 11:09:12am

re: #320 The Pie Overlord!

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Under his eye.

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Teddy's Person  Mar 24, 2022 • 11:09:39am

re: #324 Teukka

[Embedded content]

Not all heroes wear capes

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ckkatz  Mar 24, 2022 • 11:09:49am

re: #339 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 24, 2022 • 11:10:23am

His co-conspirators did not know this was about complete losers killing themselves via cop.

Man in Gov. Whitmer kidnap plot: I wanted cops to kill me (AP via MSN)

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Dangerman  Mar 24, 2022 • 11:12:57am

re: #360 Teddy’s Person

Not all heroes wear capes

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 24, 2022 • 11:13:09am

re: #324 Teukka

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lawhawk  Mar 24, 2022 • 11:13:18am

re: #351 Dangerman

Moreover:

Prosecutors in the 1/6 cases have been issuing unduly light sentencing recommendations to the point that the judges have been questioning the sentencing, and imposing more harsh sentences (which are still unbelievably light considering the seditious conduct of those involved).

Prosecutors have been light on charging for the most part as well. That is the first in a series of decisions prosecutors have made in these cases that have resulted in slaps on the wrist for trying to overthrow the government, destruction of federal property, trespass in restricted areas, attempted kidnapping, and other charges that were not considered in every single case.

There’s a whole lot of white privilege floating around the charges in these cases, despite caterwauling from 1/6 insurrectionist enablers in Congress complaining about the conditions where those defendants are being held.

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(((Archangel1)))  Mar 24, 2022 • 11:13:51am

The average American would have been arrested by now for defying one court order, let alone two. Jones should have been dragged kicking and screaming to a jail cell by now.

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lawhawk  Mar 24, 2022 • 11:15:02am

re: #361 ckkatz

Harkens back to the bad old Russia/Soviet Union days where political officers would kill conscripts or regular army officers/soldiers who didn’t follow orders to march on to certain death. Putin’s trying to keep even his army in line with death squads to terrorize his own troops into committing atrocities.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 24, 2022 • 11:15:36am
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Captain Ron  Mar 24, 2022 • 11:15:50am

re: #361 ckkatz

Just like Stalingrad.

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Egregious Philbin  Mar 24, 2022 • 11:16:51am

re: #361 ckkatz

Yeah, less soldiers…that seems like it would work….

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ckkatz  Mar 24, 2022 • 11:17:21am

I find this tweet interesting because it attempts to identify the size of the Russian invasion force and relate the reported damage to that. Obviously we do not have verified figures on either total force or the actual casualties. But it seems to me a good faith first attempt.

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Dopamine Fish  Mar 24, 2022 • 11:19:23am

re: #358 Charles Johnson

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No Malarkey!  Mar 24, 2022 • 11:21:39am

re: #372 Dopamine Fish

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 24, 2022 • 11:23:04am

Criminal with more ambition than intelligence fucks himself up good.

Clearwater man survives 3-story fall in Sam Ash Music store burglary (Tampa Bay Times)

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ckkatz  Mar 24, 2022 • 11:25:21am

re: #367 lawhawk

Harkens back to the bad old Russia/Soviet Union days where political officers would kill conscripts or regular army officers/soldiers who didn’t follow orders to march on to certain death. Putin’s trying to keep even his army in line with death squads to terrorize his own troops into committing atrocities.

I seem to recall that there was a purported intercepted conversation between two Russian soldiers released by Ukraine yesterday. In it one Russian soldier said to the other that his commander had shot soldiers who refused orders and then put the deaths down as battlefield casualties.

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lawhawk  Mar 24, 2022 • 11:28:03am

re: #373 No Malarkey!

Alina Habba’s one of the lawyers on this?

The one Trump picked because she’s got a particular look (not necessarily set of skills, because she has no relevant experience around commercial real estate).

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steve_davis  Mar 24, 2022 • 11:28:35am

re: #315 jaunte

I wished that they had been able to fit in the first meeting of the main characters as it was written by Patrick O’Brian. That was a great scene.

my favorite scene from the books is when aubrey walks in on maturin dissecting one of the french spies that the two have been in conflict with since their encounter in America. as i recall, the fellow had died of natural causes, but stephen had that insatiable curiosity about the natural world.

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 24, 2022 • 11:47:12am

re: #35 Belafon

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Cause a lot of life shortages also before that.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 24, 2022 • 11:49:26am

re: #353 lawhawk

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Throw the fucking book at them… rule of law and all…

And what will that accomplish? Mark Meadows is still free and Garland has done nothing.

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 24, 2022 • 1:27:40pm

re: #64 wrenchwench

Threedle.

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Took me 4 earlier today.

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John Hughes  Mar 24, 2022 • 1:39:34pm

re: #168 Ming5000

Also, my dental hygienist told me, “If you only brush once a day at least you do it before bed.” so, I have that going for me.

My dental hygienist said “if you only brush your teath once a day do it before coming to see me.

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 24, 2022 • 3:04:15pm

re: #213 Punish Domestic Terrorists

I looks like they’re locked in, because telling the yahoos to vaccinate just makes them mad, so that subculture will be sicker than the mainstream, and die younger than mainstream Americans. Unfortunately, they’ll probably offset it by having large families like the pre-vaccine days.

IDIOCRACY Opening Scene (2006) Mike Judge


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