Fascinating Video: A History of Spam on the Internet

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From ARPANET to botnets, what is spam and where did it come from?

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HypnoToad  Nov 1, 2022 • 12:47:41pm

Dropped my mostly useless ballot into the ballot box this morning…because I voted for Democrats in California…

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lawhawk  Nov 1, 2022 • 12:48:31pm

I’m one degree of separation from that origin story. Check that, I’m probably part of the group that called out/was called spammer.

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 1, 2022 • 12:49:52pm

re: #1 HypnoToad

Dropped my mostly useless ballot into the ballot box this morning…because I voted for Democrats in California…

No one’s ballot is useless, or even mostly useless. I know, most races aren’t won or lost by a single solitary vote, but people thinking “my vote doesn’t count” are the single biggest reason this country is in the situation it’s in. We all need to vote, and talk about voting, like our vote IS the one single vote that wins our favored candidates the election - because if we don’t, pretty soon, it might just be.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 1, 2022 • 12:50:28pm

re: #1 HypnoToad

I voted against the gambling amendments. Probably the only things on the ballot that are going to be competitive.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 1, 2022 • 12:51:13pm

re: #3 Dopamine Fish

Concur. Simply the act of voting is one of the most important statements one can make in our society.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 1, 2022 • 12:52:53pm

538 is increasingly sure that the GOP is going to take the House of Representatives.

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HypnoToad  Nov 1, 2022 • 12:53:14pm

re: #3 Dopamine Fish

No one’s ballot is useless, or even mostly useless. I know, most races aren’t won or lost by a single solitary vote, but people thinking “my vote doesn’t count” are the single biggest reason this country is in the situation it’s in. We all need to vote, and talk about voting, like our vote IS the one single vote that wins our favored candidates the election - because if we don’t, pretty soon, it might just be.

True, but mine only cancels out my elderly parent’s ballot. Antivax trumper who thinks that only republicans can lower her taxes and stop those caravans of criminal, diseased, and job-stealing foreigners.

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 1, 2022 • 12:54:17pm

re: #6 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

538 is increasingly sure that the GOP is going to take the House of Representatives.

I’ve seen that GOP-favored pollsters have been flooding the zone lately. I’m not optimistic, but I’m not fully pessimistic, either.

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Charles Johnson  Nov 1, 2022 • 12:55:02pm
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No Malarkey!  Nov 1, 2022 • 12:57:04pm

re: #8 Dopamine Fish

I’ve seen that GOP-favored pollsters have been flooding the zone lately. I’m not optimistic, but I’m not fully pessimistic, either.

It would be very normal for the out party to win more seats in the midterms. But we have reasons for hope, such as the Kansas referendum and special elections in which Democrats over performed. All we can do is vote and hope that in these abnormal times the polls are missing unlikely voters.

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Crush White Nationalism  Nov 1, 2022 • 12:59:08pm
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lawhawk  Nov 1, 2022 • 12:59:11pm

re: #1 HypnoToad

Dropped my mostly useless ballot into the ballot box this morning…because I voted for Democrats in California…

There’s no useless vote. It helps guarantee that CA remains blue (and there are still millions of GOPers voting in CA - more GOPers live and vote in CA than live in a couple of states combined).

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 1, 2022 • 1:01:21pm

When I filled out my ballot with Mrs. Fish and we signed each other’s envelopes, I told my kids, “Voting is the single most important thing we do as adults.” I am not going to waste an opportunity to impress upon them the overwhelming need to participate in the political process. Absent running for office myself, there isn’t a lot I can do besides show up and vote, and I’ll be damned if I don’t try to ensure the same for the next generation.

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No Malarkey!  Nov 1, 2022 • 1:02:20pm

re: #12 lawhawk

There’s no useless vote. It helps guarantee that CA remains blue (and there are still millions of GOPers voting in CA - more GOPers live and vote in CA than live in a couple of states combined).

California is so much bigger than any other state, that Trump got more votes in California, over 6 million, than he did in any other state, even Texas, and he still lost California by a landslide.

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No Malarkey!  Nov 1, 2022 • 1:04:48pm

re: #13 Dopamine Fish

When I filled out my ballot with Mrs. Fish and we signed each other’s envelopes, I told my kids, “Voting is the single most important thing we do as adults.” I am not going to waste an opportunity to impress upon them the overwhelming need to participate in the political process. Absent running for office myself, there isn’t a lot I can do besides show up and vote, and I’ll be damned if I don’t try to ensure the same for the next generation.

I sat down with my daughter the other day and made sure that she filled out her absentee ballot correctly so that it actually counted. There are two envelopes to put your ballot in, each one of which has to be signed, or your vote doesn’t count.

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 1, 2022 • 1:07:06pm

re: #15 No Malarkey!

I sat down with my daughter the other day and made sure that she filled out her absentee ballot correctly so that it actually counted. There are two envelopes to put your ballot in, each one of which has to be signed, or your vote doesn’t count.

Oh, you have to double sign? We only have to sign one envelope, but it has to be signed by the voter and by a witness. The witness can be any registered Minnesota voter, so Mrs. Fish and I can sign for each other’s.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 1, 2022 • 1:09:29pm

re: #13 Dopamine Fish

Indeed. I get to cast my first ever vote as a bona fide American citizen next week and I’m excited.

My grandfather drilled into my head from a young age the importance of voting and making your voice heard. He was a WWII vet, so needless to say he felt pretty strongly about the subject.

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No Malarkey!  Nov 1, 2022 • 1:09:53pm

re: #16 Dopamine Fish

Oh, you have to double sign? We only have to sign one envelope, but it has to be signed by the voter and by a witness. The witness can be any registered Minnesota voter, so Mrs. Fish and I can sign for each other’s.

Yep. In Kentucky you only have to have witnesses sign if you “make your mark” in lieu of signing your name. On both envelopes.

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 1, 2022 • 1:13:43pm

re: #17 Eclectic Cyborg

Indeed. I get to cast my first ever vote as a bona fide American citizen next week and I’m excited.

My grandfather drilled into my head from a young age the importance of voting and making your voice heard. He was a WWII vet, so needless to say he felt pretty strongly about the subject.

That makes me indescribably happy.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 1, 2022 • 1:15:19pm

re: #19 Dopamine Fish

That makes me indescribably happy.

Thanks. Gramps would have turned 100 this month. Still miss him all the damn time.

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 1, 2022 • 1:16:27pm

re: #18 No Malarkey!

Yep. In Kentucky you only have to have witnesses sign if you “make your mark” in lieu of signing your name. On both envelopes.

Ah. In Minnesota, the secrecy envelope that you put your ballot into is a plain brown envelope that is not marked. Witnesses weren’t required on the signed envelope in 2020; I did it anyway, just to make doubly sure that the votes were counted. They are required again now, on the outer envelope, and then that whole shebang goes into the mailing envelope, which is pre-paid and addressed, so it can just go straight into the mailbox.

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ckkatz  Nov 1, 2022 • 1:16:49pm

re: #17 Eclectic Cyborg

Indeed. I get to cast my first ever vote as a bona fide American citizen next week and I’m excited.

My grandfather drilled into my head from a young age the importance of voting and making your voice heard. He was a WWII vet, so needless to say he felt pretty strongly about the subject.

Congratulations!

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ckkatz  Nov 1, 2022 • 1:19:49pm

I suspect that this was not among Russian pre-war objectives

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ckkatz  Nov 1, 2022 • 1:20:50pm
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No Malarkey!  Nov 1, 2022 • 1:21:37pm

re: #23 ckkatz

I suspect that this was not among Russian pre-war objectives

Putin remains a master strategist.

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Jay C  Nov 1, 2022 • 1:22:12pm

re: #16 Dopamine Fish

Oh, you have to double sign? We only have to sign one envelope, but it has to be signed by the voter and by a witness. The witness can be any registered Minnesota voter, so Mrs. Fish and I can sign for each other’s.

I mailed Mrs. Jay’s absentee ballot the other day: New York must trust its voters more than some other states: the ballot only required one signature (on the ballot envelope itself) no witnesses. And (the mark of a good progressive State), it was postpaid.

She is on the list for permanent mail-in voting (disability): I, of course, forgot to request one this year, so I will have to go vote in person. Fortunately, not too much of a trek.

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wrenchwench  Nov 1, 2022 • 1:23:18pm

re: #23 ckkatz

I suspect that this was not among Russian pre-war objectives

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Personal knowledge of what’s at stake seems to be an effective motivator.

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 1, 2022 • 1:23:43pm

Speaking of ballots, I just checked on our ballots and they were accepted, and will be counted on Election Day. Participating in the electoral process: SUCCESS.

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No Malarkey!  Nov 1, 2022 • 1:30:02pm

re: #27 wrenchwench

Personal knowledge of what’s at stake seems to be an effective motivator.

The Baltic states know that there is no better use of their defense budget than aiding Ukraine in its destruction of the Russian army.

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 1, 2022 • 1:30:22pm

re: #26 Jay C

I mailed Mrs. Jay’s absentee ballot the other day: New York must trust its voters more than some other states: the ballot only required one signature (on the ballot envelope itself) no witnesses. And (the mark of a good progressive State), it was postpaid.

She is on the list for permanent mail-in voting (disability): I, of course, forgot to request one this year, so I will have to go vote in person. Fortunately, not too much of a trek.

Our town is extremely small, and the polling place is City Hall, which I could literally walk to on a lunch break or before work if I wanted to vote in person. I just find it easier not to have to deal with people.

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ckkatz  Nov 1, 2022 • 1:30:47pm

re: #295 ckkatz

More on the Russian attack Monday on the Ukrainian tugboats and barge.

From the article -

1. The tugboats were in a port.
2. The port was not part of the grain agreement.
3. That port had been getting shelled by the Russians for a long period.
4. It is uncertain whether the attack on the tugboats was part of the usual shelling or directed at them due to the grain deal.
5. Damn! Those crewmen are brave, risking their lives like that on a daily basis.

Russian Forces Strike Two Tugboats at Ochakiv, Leaving Two Dead

Two civilian tugboats were hit by Russian fire at the port of Ochakiv, Ukraine on Monday, according to Ukrainian Operational Command South. The Russian strikes are the first hits on civilian vessels reported since the signing of the Black Sea Grain Initiative in late July. Russia withdrew its security guarantees and participation in the initiative over the weekend, citing the drone boat attack on Sevastopol on Friday night.

“The Russian forces continue their attacks on the port infrastructure on the Ochakiv front,” said a spokesman for Operational Command South on Monday. “As a result of an attack on two port civilian tugboats that were involved in the transportation of grain barges, a fire broke out, [and] control over the vessels was lost. Two crew members were killed, one more was rescued with injuries, the fate of another is unknown.”

It was not immediately clear whether the strikes on the tugboats were intentional or merely the result of indiscriminate artillery fire. Ochakiv is not covered by the terms of the Grain Initiative, and it has been attacked repeatedly over the course of the invasion. Though Russia is in possession of limited numbers of guided missiles and attack drones, it relies on imprecise artillery bombardment for most strikes along the front line, including past attacks on Ochakiv’s grain elevator and port area.

More at:
maritime-executive.com

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 1, 2022 • 1:31:16pm

re: #25 No Malarkey!

Putin remains a master strategist.

What are we up to now? 6D Chess?

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Charles Johnson  Nov 1, 2022 • 1:33:04pm
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JC1  Nov 1, 2022 • 1:33:27pm

And now for something completely different, courtesy of NASCAR:

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ckkatz  Nov 1, 2022 • 1:33:42pm

re: #32 Eclectic Cyborg

What are we up to now? 6D Chess?

Pigeons randomly walking on the chess board, shitting on it and knocking over pieces maybe?

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Crush White Nationalism  Nov 1, 2022 • 1:39:59pm
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ckkatz  Nov 1, 2022 • 1:46:29pm

re: #33 Charles Johnson

You are right-on here!

I also see trolls as parasites that want to use the original post for their own personal benefit. They don’t contribute anything useful to the thread. They hide the useful content in their massive amounts of generated bs. And they drive off a lot of folks who would otherwise have read the thread.

Blocking them cleans up the original thread. Which allows readers to actually see and consider the contents, ideas, and work presented by the original poster and folks who provide useful commentary on it.

I really do not understand the original posters who allow their threads to get drowned in drek, who allow their original ideas to be hidden by the malicious, and allow their followers to get chased away.

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Crush White Nationalism  Nov 1, 2022 • 1:47:24pm

My Ultrean air fryer bucket completely failed yesterday with the handle snapping off. I have a new one from Instant running on my patio now.

I wish they’d put the parts that require burn in in an oven at the factory rather than producing a bad smell at home for the purchaser to fix by running it for several cycles outside.

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Dr. Matt  Nov 1, 2022 • 1:48:12pm

re: #36 Crush White Nationalism

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I’m afraid to ask….but which mobile carrier is “woke”?

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aatharuv  Nov 1, 2022 • 1:48:50pm

re: #33 Charles Johnson

Or they want you to waste your energy continuously by seeming to be sincere while asking irrelevant questions about irrelevant comments, or completely the point when replying to you.

Blocking Sealions is good for your sanity level.

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 1, 2022 • 1:49:49pm

re: #39 Dr. Matt

I’m afraid to ask….but which mobile carrier is “woke”?

Patriot Mobile, billed as “America’s only Christian conservative wireless provider,” which is apparently supposed to be a selling point and not a giant red flag.

Edit: Whoops, that’s the non-“woke” carrier. I assume he means anything BUT that, probably.

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Dr. Matt  Nov 1, 2022 • 1:51:00pm

Lather.Rinse.Repeat

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Belafon  Nov 1, 2022 • 1:51:15pm

re: #36 Crush White Nationalism

We gotta find a way to harass TMobile for carrying them.

Edited: Started one thought, then responded to this.

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Crush White Nationalism  Nov 1, 2022 • 1:53:05pm

re: #39 Dr. Matt

I’m afraid to ask….but which mobile carrier is “woke”?

From the perspective of the theocratic, white nationalist right, all of them.

None of the woke providers even open meetings with a prayer, and they’ll sell their service to anyone, even non-Christians and people who are not white. Can you believe it?

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Jay C  Nov 1, 2022 • 1:53:58pm

re: #39 Dr. Matt

I’m afraid to ask….but which mobile carrier is “woke”?

Apparently (according to Kevin Sorbo), all of them. Except of course, Patriot Mobile….

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 1, 2022 • 1:54:24pm
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Jay C  Nov 1, 2022 • 1:57:10pm

From NYT:

Bolsonaro Administration Agrees to Accept Loss Two Days After Election
Breaking his silence, President Jair Bolsonaro did not clearly acknowledge his defeat in Sunday’s vote. But after he spoke, his chief of staff said the far-right leader had authorized the transition of power to move forward.

So IOW, “We won’t admit we lost, but we’ll be moving out anyway”.

Maybe it sounds better in Portuguese? Or in the original Dickish??

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calochortus  Nov 1, 2022 • 1:58:05pm

re: #47 Jay C

From NYT:

So IOW, “We won’t admit we lost, but we’ll be moving out anyway”.

Maybe it sounds better in Portuguese? Or in the original Dickish??

Does that mean the idiot truckers who have been blocking roads will pick themselves up and go home?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 1, 2022 • 2:07:33pm

re: #47 Jay C

So much for being “Tropical Trump”.

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Crush White Nationalism  Nov 1, 2022 • 2:12:54pm

re: #49 Eclectic Cyborg

So much for being “Tropical Trump”.

Trump left. We’ll now see if Bolsonaro lies about the election for years to come.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 1, 2022 • 2:13:14pm

Damn. Thought I had it on guess three:

Wordle 500 4/6

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🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 1, 2022 • 2:13:51pm

re: #50 Crush White Nationalism

Trump left. We’ll now see if Bolsonaro lies about the election for years to come.

Trump left after he had a bunch of his goons try to burn down Washington.

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jaunte  Nov 1, 2022 • 2:15:03pm

re: #40 aatharuv

“I’ll wait.”
“Okay, hang on just a minute, I’ll be right back.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 1, 2022 • 2:16:26pm

Summer Halloween!

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Barefoot Grin  Nov 1, 2022 • 2:27:29pm

Right in the middle of a virtual meeting I get a text from my wife linking to an article. I look and the title is “How nose-picking may be related to Alzheimers.” Fortunately my mic was muted because I said, “I’m so fucking screwed.”

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Barefoot Grin  Nov 1, 2022 • 2:30:47pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 1, 2022 • 2:32:43pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 1, 2022 • 2:33:01pm

re: #56 Barefoot Grin

As if I wasn’t already interested enough in visiting Japan.

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Dangerman  Nov 1, 2022 • 2:33:07pm

Instead we got crickets, a doubling down on insane conspiracies, outright mocking and feigned tots and pears.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 1, 2022 • 2:33:16pm
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Crush White Nationalism  Nov 1, 2022 • 2:36:17pm

re: #55 Barefoot Grin

Right in the middle of a virtual meeting I get a text from my wife linking to an article. I look and the title is “How nose-picking may be related to Alzheimers.” Fortunately my mic was muted because I said, “I’m so fucking screwed.”

Why is today’s news so nose-picking oriented?

This Lemur’s Creepily Long Finger Is Perfect for Nose-Picking (Scientific American)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 1, 2022 • 2:36:39pm
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Barefoot Grin  Nov 1, 2022 • 2:37:14pm

re: #58 Eclectic Cyborg

As if I wasn’t already interested enough in visiting Japan.

I’d love to go and I’ve only seen five or six Ghibli films. Let’s see:

Porko Rosso
Howl’s Moving Castle
Nausicaa
Spirited Away
Kiki’s Delivery Service
And my favorite: Totoro

Oh, and the Ghibli adjacent Grave of the Fireflies

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Charles Johnson  Nov 1, 2022 • 2:37:58pm

Another shoe drops…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 1, 2022 • 2:38:05pm
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Varek Raith  Nov 1, 2022 • 2:40:07pm

re: #32 Eclectic Cyborg

What are we up to now? 6D Chess?

Eleventy….D

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Crush White Nationalism  Nov 1, 2022 • 2:40:44pm

re: #62 Backwoods_Sleuth

Since I had that screencap handy.

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ckkatz  Nov 1, 2022 • 2:40:45pm

WashPost:

Candidate promises Republicans can take permanent control of Wisconsin

Hinting at his plans to overhaul how elections are run, the Republican running for governor of Wisconsin this week said his party would permanently control the state if he wins.

“Republicans will never lose another election in Wisconsin after I’m elected governor,” construction executive Tim Michels told supporters Monday at a campaign stop.

Michels is seeking to unseat Gov. Tony Evers (D), who over his four years vetoed a string of Republican-backed bills that would have changed voting rules in a battleground state that Donald Trump narrowly won in 2016 and narrowly lost in 2020.

washingtonpost.com

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Barefoot Grin  Nov 1, 2022 • 2:40:53pm

re: #61 Crush White Nationalism

Why is today’s news so nose-picking oriented?

This Lemur’s Creepily Long Finger Is Perfect for Nose-Picking (Scientific American)

I had seen that, too, and assumed that was what she was sending me. Instead it was about how constant nose-picking can damage the tissue that separates the sinuses from the brain making it easier for a suspected bacteria to travel past the barrier. The article began, “This comes with many caveats, but….”

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Crush White Nationalism  Nov 1, 2022 • 2:42:58pm

re: #64 Charles Johnson

Another shoe drops…

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I was part of IPG for a while after they bought the company I worked for. The changes were not good. I’m happy to have moved from advertising to healthcare.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 1, 2022 • 2:46:35pm
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bmoak  Nov 1, 2022 • 3:49:21pm

re: #63 Barefoot Grin

I’d love to go and I’ve only seen five or six Ghibli films. Let’s see:

Porko Rosso
Howl’s Moving Castle
Nausicaa
Spirited Away
Kiki’s Delivery Service
And my favorite: Totoro

Oh, and the Ghibli adjacent Grave of the Fireflies

Grave of the Fireflies is not “Ghibli adjacent”. It is a straight up Ghibli film. In fact, it was theatrically released as a double feature with My Neighbor Totoro. It wasn’t directed by Miyazaki, though.


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