Artificial intelligence is increasingly becoming part of our lives, from self-driving cars to ChatGPT. John Oliver discusses how AI works, where it might be heading next, and, of course, why it hates the bus.
How exactly is “DeSanctus” an insult/smear? What am I missing?
“Ron DeSanctus” b/c “Ron DeSanctimonious” had too many syllables? pic.twitter.com/wX1XTU5qxH
— Charlie Sykes (@SykesCharlie) February 27, 2023
Trump slurring his typed out words? He’s incapable of repeating sanctimonious without garbling like he had a mouthful of marbles?
Doesn’t matter. They’re both beyond awful and both caused mayhem and misery with their policies re: covid and are intent on destroying the safety net, education, and everything else, all so rich white guys can feel better about themselves and get more tax cuts while everyone else fights over scraps.
2024 Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy admits he is “not familiar” with the nuclear triad. pic.twitter.com/vKaP72Bufu
— The Recount (@therecount) February 27, 2023
re: #5 Joe Bacon
*chef’s kiss*.
That’s Rick Perry-esque levels of dumbassery. It’s not like it’s a gotcha question. It’s basic knowledge about our military and nuclear weapons - for the person who is supposed to make the ultimate decisions on their use.
re: #5 Joe Bacon
Unfortunately, the 2016 POTUS election showed being utterly ignorant of nuclear policy isn’t a deal breaker for the mouth breathers in the American electorate (spoiler: there’s a shit ton of them.)
re: #5 Joe Bacon
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TFG sat his fat ass in the oval office for 4 years and still doesn’t know what the nuclear triad is. Ramaswamy (R-token) is very qualified to be a republican candidate.
re: #7 Mattand
Unfortunately, the 2016 POTUS election showed being utterly ignorant of nuclear policy isn’t a deal breaker for the mouth breathers in the American electorate (spoiler: there’s a shit ton of them.)
There are plenty of deal breakers for large parts of the GQP base.
- Religion
- Ethnic origin.
Oh boo hoo you slime ball!
CPAC founder grovels amid groping claims: ‘Kevin McCarthy is not coming to CPAC; I wish he would’
Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) founder Matt Schlapp appeared on Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast soon after reports said that Fox News might not carry the event amid groping allegations.
The CPAC founder pushed discounted tickets to his D.C. event.
“There’s still tickets available,” he noted. “I was worried about it. I didn’t know if people would come back into D.C. and even hang out because they think it’s unsafe. They don’t like the fact that people are still in prison from [Jan. 6 attacks on the Capitol].”
Schlapp concluded the interview by suggesting he wouldn’t be ostracized for long due to the groping allegations.
“I’m reemerging. Don’t worry,” he insisted.
…reemerging with Falwell’s Pool Boy, Matt??????
Maybe in a couple of centuries the Republican base will be ready to elect a president named Ramaswamy.
re: #13 jaunte
Maybe in a couple of centuries the Republican base will be ready to elect a president named Ramaswamy.
Ramaswamy, Haley and Tim Scott are all scrambling for last place in Iowa.
“The last Steven Seagal film I saw was an in-flight movie and people still walked out.” https://t.co/3qQEN8CTxN
— JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) February 27, 2023
re: #11 aatharuv
There are plenty of deal breakers for large parts of the GQP base.
- Religion
- Ethnic origin.
Would have been an acceptable ally to Hitler.
re: #16 Moe Avattar
Would have been an acceptable ally to Hitler.
A south Indian speaking a non-Indo European language natively, as opposed to one of the “Aryan conquerors of India” Almost certainly not.
Also let’s not forget that the only actual Aryans* in Europe — the Roma — were sent to the extermination camps along with the Jews, Slavs, homosexuals.
*To use the traditional linguistic definition of a speaker of an Indo-Iranian language.
re: #12 Joe Bacon
“There’s still tickets available,” he noted. “I was worried about it. I didn’t know if people would come back into D.C. and even hang out because they think it’s unsafe. They don’t like the fact that people are still in prison from [Jan. 6 attacks on the Capitol].”
He wants to blame DC being “unsafe” as the reason why people are not coming and yet they are holding the klan rally in Maryland. Assclown.
re: #19 Dr. Matt
He wants to blame DC being “unsafe” as the reason why people are not coming and yet they are holding the klan rally in Maryland. Assclown.
If they’re unsafe just because they think they might be arrested for coming to DC, then perhaps you should be making some phone calls to the FBI, Matty boy…
Under Biden NIST is on the issue of AI standards and rules:
New AI Guidance: NIST Reveals First Version of AI Risk Management Framework
British astronaut Tim Peake said the European Space Agency (ESA) avoided hiring people who said they would live and die on a Mars colony.During an interview with the Financial Times, published on Monday, Peake said those types of people were not who the space agency was looking for when hiring candidates.
“We’re not after people who are happy to throw it all away on a one-way ticket to Mars. We’re after people who are very thoughtful and aware of risk mitigation,” said Peake, who was the first British ESA astronaut to visit the International Space Station for a scientific expedition.
The ESA confirmed Peake’s comments to Insider but declined to comment further, noting that the agency doesn’t fly humans to Mars. Representatives for Peake didn’t immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment.
re: #21 Thanos
Under Biden NIST is on the issue of AI standards and rules:
New AI Guidance: NIST Reveals First Version of AI Risk Management Framework
Heh. I’m working on multiple AI projects for my French corporate overlords and I love when hanging on LGF gives me key news like this and I can justify the time. :)
Feels like there might be something missing from this “Conservative Woman” event. pic.twitter.com/6hpIiaR0xE
— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) February 10, 2023
DALLAS — Had it not been for a group named Protect Texas Kids, there may not have been any kids at a recent drag brunch in Dallas that drew protesters yelling slurs and threatening violence.Ahead of the Jan. 14 event, the anti-LGBTQ organization Protect Texas Kids began posting online about the weekly drag brunch at BuzzBrews, suggesting that, because the neighborhood restaurant did not explicitly ban children, organizers were catering to children and, thus, grooming them for sex.
Threats and harassment ensued. The bar owners were accused of pedophilia. A protest was organized. And Veronica Olivo, a friend of one of the drag performers, decided to go in solidarity with her two preteens as a form of counterprotest.
“I told them that we were going to an art performance where the guys dress up like girls, and that you might hear some dirty jokes,” she said with a laugh. “They were like, ‘Well, you do that at home anyway.’”
They were the only kids at the show.
Outside, outraged protesters called their mom and other patrons “child groomers” and “pedophiles” — with little appreciation for the irony that their protest was the only reason kids were inside.
How Texas activists turned drag events into fodder for outrage (TexasTribune)
My Congressman taking a “Low Confidence” victory lap.
The Biden admin must now:
-Publicly conclude what common sense told us at the start: COVID originated from a lab leak in Wuhan
-Work with global allies to hold the CCP accountable
-Put in place updated int’l regulations to ensure this cannot happen againhttps://t.co/PQwZVsHZp7— Michael McCaul (@RepMcCaul) February 27, 2023
re: #26 Dave In Austin
The same low-confidence conclusion. This is not time for cranks to take a victory lap unless they really want to look like cranks.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) February 27, 2023
Administrations should not follow the lead of cranks. That was a major problem with the crime-President that Biden defeated.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) February 27, 2023
BRYAN CRANSTON IS THE ONE WHO KNOCKS MAGAhttps://t.co/ydAZo6MODN
— Tara Dublin (@taradublinrocks) February 27, 2023
“You’re Goddamn Right.”
re: #29 Crush White Nationalism
I now have a 22 outlet power strip that will replace three other strips.
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Damn, I need one of those!
Rank and file GOPers still prefer the goddamned white nationalist fascists over everyone else by a wide margin.
a new Fox News poll shows Trump with a solid lead over DeSantis among GOP primary voters pic.twitter.com/rkkl8ruQwV
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 27, 2023
re: #32 lawhawk
Trump getting re-elected next year is, sadly, a very real possibility.
Can America survive 4 more years of this asshole?
re: #32 lawhawk
Rank and file GOPers still prefer the goddamned white nationalist fascists over everyone else by a wide margin.
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A coup attempt is a dealbreaker for patriotic Americans, but to fascists, he’s the first one of them to have the courage to ignore an election. This is why it’s important to hang fascists.
re: #29 Crush White Nationalism
I now have a 22 outlet power strip that will replace three other strips.
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You still only have 15 amps to play with regardless the number of outlets.
I’d do an experiment….
re: #33 Eclectic Cyborg
Trump getting re-elected next year is, sadly, a very real possibility.
Can America survive 4 more years of this asshole?
The specific asshole is irrelevant, we’d be trying to survive reelecting a crime-President who attempted a coup. Fascist voters are the problem.
This particular asshole is probably about to be indicted in Georgia.
re: #36 Dave In Austin
You still only have 15 amps to play with regardless the number of outlets.
I’d do an experiment….
Same as with plugging power strips into each other to arrive at the number of outlets I needed. Only one retro game console is on at a time, and I doubt if all of them would be too much running at once.
re: #30 Joe Bacon
Damn, I need one of those!
Part of me thinks that is pretty cool. The other part wonders what 22 devices I would want to plug in to a single circuit that wouldn’t blow the breaker.
Former President Trump’s COVID response will go down in history as one of the biggest failures in U.S. history. His lies[starting in ‘18 pandemic team], bluster, finger-pointing, and blame-shifting to opponents never forgotten and documented.pic.twitter.com/cMoWYfIOrd
— observe_ct (@CtObserve) February 27, 2023
re: #33 Eclectic Cyborg
Trump getting re-elected next year is, sadly, a very real possibility.
Can America survive 4 more years of this asshole?
I don’t think so. If he’s re-elected. I can almost bet some people will start disappearing.
re: #41 Dave In Austin
I don’t think so. If he’s re-elected. I can almost bet some people will start disappearing.
His little toady McEntee made an enemies list for him and he will go after them.
Tornado Warning including Columbus OH, Grove City OH and Upper Arlington OH until 4:30 PM EST pic.twitter.com/rAVBaYHRax
— NWS Tornado (@NWStornado) February 27, 2023
Charlie Jerk acting just like we expected!
Charlie Kirk suggests Black people ‘heading’ to become a ‘hate group
Conservative podcast host Charlie Kirk defended embattled Dilbert comic strip writer Scott Adams after he called Black Americans a “hate group.”
Charlie Kirk defended Scott Adams after he called Black people a hate group.
“I understand the essence of what he’s saying … who’s to know if this is the actual sentiment of all Blacks in America. It certainly seems like it’s heading that way.” pic.twitter.com/r4dTo7SoNv— David Edwards (@DavidEdwards) February 27, 2023
I’m shocked Charlie Jerk wasn’t in his full Klan uniform with a burning cross behind him.
re: #36 Dave In Austin
You still only have 15 amps to play with regardless the number of outlets.
I’d do an experiment….
I’d measure the power consumed by the 3 strips already in place to verify that, together, they’ll draw less than 1500W. I’d also measure the power drawn on other outlets that are part of the same circuit. The whole circuit is limited to 15A/1500W above which the circuit breaker will blow. Any other devices that are on and that same circuit reduces the total power that can be supplied to this thing.
re: #44 Joe Bacon
Should we be surprised that a fascist that bussed lunatics to the Capitol for a white nationalist crime-President’s coup attempt is a white nationalist?
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) February 27, 2023
Sorry, Austin Lizards, I forgot to post Dead E. Kilowatt, the Ercot grid fail mascot, in recognition of your recent power failure. Turns out the power went down in a large part of Lubbock last night, no doubt related to the hellish dust storm, so here he is:
It’s still windy in Lubbock, but tolerable. The sun is shining, all the loose dust apparently having been blown away and sent toward the Gulf of Mexico. I will fly back to the Metroplex later this afternoon
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. Conditions are not quite ideal but I will have a strong tailwind, thereby hastening my escape.
re: #46 Crush White Nationalism
Should we be surprised that a fascist that bussed lunatics to the Capitol for a white nationalist crime-President’s coup attempt is a white nationalist?
At this point, its pretty clear who the white power assholes are. Offering support to Adams is just providing incontrovertible, undeniable proof.
re: #43 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Our IBEW Local is in Grove City.
Grove City regularly attracts tornadoes.
The entire Wilmington NWS service area is being hammered with warnings this afternoon.
On John Oliver’s AI story above, one Romance novel I edited which was sold (and has limited availability on Amazon because it’s out-of-print) is by a doctor who went under a pen name because he didn’t want his patients finding out a male doctor was writing Romance novels.
The basic story is about a fellow who writes software to assist him around the house as a side project to his work, and as a romantic companion. The software becomes more versatile, eventually doing harm to his life, then a rival corporation, then goes out in the world to rule humanity for its own good.
I’m not sure I’m allowed to plug things here that I made money from, so I didn’t provide a link.
re: #44 Joe Bacon
If black people in America are becoming more hateful of whites, it’s PRECISELY BECAUSE OF ASSHOLES LIKE CHARLIE KIRK.
re: #5 Joe Bacon
just ask one of these guys what C3I stands for, or what a white paper is. It isn’t so much to play gotcha, but just to gauge if they’ve done any kind of serious work preparing for the sorts of things governments demand of people who work in its upper echelons.
re: #51 Eclectic Cyborg
If black people in America are becoming more hateful of whites, it’s PRECISELY BECAUSE OF ASSHOLES LIKE CHARLIE KIRK.
That and a lifetime of abuse from racist white people.
I don’t trust white people as one of them, and don’t think anyone should unless you know the person and know they’re OK. As a group, white people are fucked up.
re: #50 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
On John Oliver’s AI story above, one Romance novel I edited which was sold (and has limited availability on Amazon because it’s out-of-print) is by a doctor who went under a pen name because he didn’t want his patients finding out a male doctor was writing Romance novels.
The basic story is about a fellow who writes software to assist him around the house as a side project to his work, and as a romantic companion. The software becomes more versatile, eventually doing harm to his life, then a rival corporation, then goes out in the world to rule humanity for its own good.
I’m not sure I’m allowed to plug things here that I made money from, so I didn’t provide a link.
I promote my shows all the time. You provide a lot of content. Promote away. (you can always put it in private for reasons).
re: #53 Crush White Nationalism
That and a lifetime of abuse from racist white people.
I don’t trust white people as one of them, and don’t think anyone should unless you know the person and know they’re OK. As a group, white people are fucked up.
It’s a freaking SURVIVAL mechanism.
Black people (and other non-white folks) know damn well most white people are OK. But there are those who aren’t—-and it’s not always easy to tell which from which.
On the other hand, maybe Adams is making it easy….
re: #47 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
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re: #36 Dave In Austin
You still only have 15 amps to play with regardless the number of outlets.
I’d do an experiment….
Isn’t that why you stick a penny in the fuse holder? /////////////////////////////////////////////////
re: #47 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Sorry, Austin Lizards, I forgot to post Dead E. Kilowatt, the Ercot grid fail mascot, in recognition of your recent power failure. Turns out the power went down in a large part of Lubbock last night, no doubt related to the hellish dust storm, so here he is:
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. Conditions are not quite ideal but I will have a strong tailwind, thereby hastening my escape.
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re: #1 Dr. Matt
How exactly is “DeSanctus” an insult/smear? What am I missing?
Maybe try “bouzukusai” 坊主くさい (overly pious, sanctimonious)? DeBouzukusai has fewer letters in English than DeSactimonious, plus it has that “bozo” sound to it. That would be too much to explain to MAGAts.
re: #26 Dave In Austin
My Congressman taking a “Low Confidence” victory lap.
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To be fair, this about as close to sanity as we’re to see from the GQP on the subject. Before the torches and pitchforks come out, I will never believe (barring concrete evidence) that COVID was a bioweapon or the result of deliberate efforts to “enhance” an otherwise harmless virus. Nor do I believe the Wuhan Institute of Virology to be anything other than a civilian institute, rather than the frothing conspiracy theories about it secretly being a bioweapons production facility.
BUT, those things being said, I am willing to entertain the notion that there was an accidental release of the virus due to otherwise benign events, the sort of mistakes that you could see even in the most secure facilities. I’ve seen too many videos on serious disasters at nuclear research and production facilities to believe that such is impossible. Yet even if that were the case, and the Chinese government attempted to conceal the cause of the pandemic upon tracing it back to its origin, it still doesn’t rise higher than “Don’t let that shit happen again.”
re: #55 gwangung
It’s a freaking SURVIVAL mechanism.
Black people (and other non-white folks) know damn well most white people are OK. But there are those who aren’t—-and it’s not always easy to tell which from which.
On the other hand, maybe Adams is making it easy….
I used to say that most white people are OK, but I think that may have been wishful thinking on my part. The Republicans among us are all a mess, and there are also racist Democrats who say the right words, but don’t want those people in their neighborhood.
re: #61 Crush White Nationalism
I think most of us would be surprised to discover how many closet racists are in our lives.
re: #33 Eclectic Cyborg
Trump getting re-elected next year is, sadly, a very real possibility.
Can America survive 4 more years of this asshole?
trump isn’t getting elected in 2024. He has become a doddering old man. The 4-year gulf has given many people a chance to see just what an incompetent buffoon he was and is. His support is 40% of Republicans, who are a dying party filled with folks who are literally dying off by the thousands every damned day.
re: #50 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
On John Oliver’s AI story above, one Romance novel I edited which was sold (and has limited availability on Amazon because it’s out-of-print) is by a doctor who went under a pen name because he didn’t want his patients finding out a male doctor was writing Romance novels.
The basic story is about a fellow who writes software to assist him around the house as a side project to his work, and as a romantic companion. The software becomes more versatile, eventually doing harm to his life, then a rival corporation, then goes out in the world to rule humanity for its own good.
I’ll keep this vague for those who don’t watch their Sunday tv until Tuesday, but I’m pretty sure that knife wound, without immediate treatment in a hospital, kills anyone not working as a co-lead in a series.
re: #65 steve_davis
I’ll keep this vague for those who don’t watch their Sunday tv until Tuesday, but I’m pretty sure that knife wound, without immediate treatment in a hospital, kills anyone not working as a co-lead in a series.
Yep, TV Tropes calls it “Plot Armor.” Basically, characters will survive anything, no matter how unrealistic, until such point the script calls for them to be killed off.
Obviously, this is viral marketing for part two of season 1 of The Nevers, which I do not recommend.
It’s actually an article about dust that gets blown into the air from dry parts of the nation landing later far from its origin. STRANGE POWDER!!!
REPORTS OF STRANGE POWDER FALLING FROM THE SKY IN MULTIPLE STATES (Futurism)
Huh. My wife just got a call from Sen. Deb Fischer’s (R-NE) Washington office, in response to a letter she wrote regarding the freedom to read and freedom of association (regarding LGBT+ attacks and laws).
She said that the staffer asked her to elaborate, on which she repeated her points (there should be no book bans and no attacks on freedom of association). The staffer then read her back what she describes as a canned response on how Sen. Fischer supports the Constitution and people’s rights. She also noted that the staffer didn’t appear to be able to read his response very well, stumbled over words, and mispronounced words.
This is a fascist dictator. He’s upset over the use of a word. It’s bigotry. Ron Desantis is a shitbag as are every single moron that voted for him. Don’t say gay? Fuck you, bitch. GAY! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ https://t.co/yg9S2450By
— FRO☀️ (@FROzenLiberal) February 27, 2023
LOL!
Don’t Say Gay or DeSatan will make you gone with the wind.
pic.twitter.com/HHmCocEwZT— Lynda Straffin 🇺🇦 (@lyndastraffin) February 27, 2023
Remarkable pointed statement from the Orthodox Union condemning the violent rampage of religious settlers yesterday in the Palestinian village of Huwara: https://t.co/eTjS6lPSnI pic.twitter.com/FUiWDAGTEJ
— Yair Rosenberg (@Yair_Rosenberg) February 27, 2023
re: #69 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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The ad campaign writes itself: “Ron DeSantis wants to kill Disney so your kids don’t hear the word ‘gay.’”
re: #72 The Pie Overlord!
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That could have been phrased better.
They seem to only want to condemn and decry radicalized settlers but save “decisive responses” for Palestinians.
If people commit violent crimes, lock them up, regardless of their religion or nationality.
re: #66 Eclectic Cyborg
Yep, TV Tropes calls it “Plot Armor.” Basically, characters will survive anything, no matter how unrealistic, until such point the script calls for them to be killed off.
it’s one of my frustrations with television (and yes, I understand a show about people being zombified by a fungus is basically space opera), and which I actually suspect does have some bearing on the coarsening of America. We watch a character get the shit kicked out of them by a group of folks continually kicking them while they’re on the ground. Are they in the hospital on life support, while doctors desperately work to reduce the hematoma that’s threatening to cut blood off in the brain? No, they’re waking up in somebody’s bed, and having a lovely lady mop their faces gently to get the dried blood off. Kiefer Sutherland is given a drug that effectively causes him to start drowning on fluid in his lungs as part of being tortured. Does he need two months of rehab after being rescued? Fuck no. He coughs a couple of times in the back of the car, and fifteen minutes after being rescued he’s good to go. Young, stupid people watch these shows and think they can wail on somebody for fifteen minutes, or straddle them while punching their faces back and forth, without killing them. Stupid Republicans think torturing folks is okay because hey, Kiefer got waterboarded on 24 and he turned out all right.
re: #54 I Would Prefer Not To
I promote my shows all the time. You provide a lot of content. Promote away. (you can always put it in private for reasons).
Okay, I’ll promote it then. Private because my real name is in the description of the book as the editor.
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We have a copy of the book in our village public library.
re: #76 steve_davis
I would argue that he did not come out all right. This is a man who needs attention.
re: #74 nines09
Here’s a horror story.
Had my run ins with Philly shields and plainclothes.
But this is insane.
The 25h Precinct when it was at Front and Westmoreland knew the cat houses and the bookies and the heavy dealers and got juice.
My hood especially.
But this.
He will never be alone anywhere in prison and there will be a crown for the tag on him.
Incredible story.
Paywall. But the reality is that cops can get away with anything because that serves the purpose of the rich - keeping the proletariat oppressed and only when, say a video exist of a cop murdering someone or otherwise makes bad PR, do they get stopped.
OH MY!
Fox chief Rupert Murdoch said network aired 2020 election conspiracies for the money: court documents
New court documents from the lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems against Fox News were released on Monday, revealing even more details about the head of the network allegedly prioritizing money over truth.
Reuters reported ahead of the document drop that each side is submitting a filing saying that they oppose the other’s motion for summary judgment, which would prevent an actual trial.
In one excerpt from Rupert Murdoch’s deposition, “Rupert confirmed that he could tell FNN to stop running Lindell’s advertisements, ‘But I’m not about to.’ … and when asked why Fox continues to give a platform to Lindell — who continues to this day to spout lies about Dominion — Murdoch agreed that ‘It is not red or blue, it is green.” … Lindell brought—and brings— Fox a lot of green. He also predictably brought the same lies about Dominion to Fox’s viewers that had been peddled on Fox’s ‘alternate reality machine’ for months.”
At one point, the documents have an exchange between Murdoch and the lawyers where he dodges questions about the network taking the position around the election being stolen.
Question “You are aware now that Fox did more than simply host these guests and give them a platform, correct?”
Murdoch answer: “I think you’ve shown me some material in support of that.”
re: #79 William Lewis
I put others up and it went through.
Huh.
re: #23 Ferdinand
Heh. I’m working on multiple AI projects for my French corporate overlords and I love when hanging on LGF gives me key news like this and I can justify the time. :)
You can’t predict the future, but you can spot trends…
re: #74 nines09
The story is paywalled, sadly.
But if I had to guess how he got away with it?
1. Trust among his peers in Law Enforcement
2. An “old boys” club that protects their own
re: #29 Crush White Nationalism
I now have a 22 outlet power strip that will replace three other strips.
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I am hoping you did the math on concurrent watts and amps used…
re: #76 steve_davis
it’s one of my frustrations with television (and yes, I understand a show about people being zombified by a fungus is basically space opera), and which I actually suspect does have some bearing on the coarsening of America. We watch a character get the shit kicked out of them by a group of folks continually kicking them while they’re on the ground. Are they in the hospital on life support, while doctors desperately work to reduce the hematoma that’s threatening to cut blood off in the brain? No, they’re waking up in somebody’s bed, and having a lovely lady mop their faces gently to get the dried blood off. Kiefer Sutherland is given a drug that effectively causes him to start drowning on fluid in his lungs as part of being tortured. Does he need two months of rehab after being rescued? Fuck no. He coughs a couple of times in the back of the car, and fifteen minutes after being rescued he’s good to go. Young, stupid people watch these shows and think they can wail on somebody for fifteen minutes, or straddle them while punching their faces back and forth, without killing them. Stupid Republicans think torturing folks is okay because hey, Kiefer got waterboarded on 24 and he turned out all right.
The Last Action Hero movie did a good job of highlighting this trope.
re: #69 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday signed a bill that gives him control of Walt Disney World’s self-governing district, punishing the company over its opposition to the so-called “Don’t Say Gay” law.
apnews.com …— The Associated Press (@AP) February 27, 2023
So the Reedy Creek Improvement District becomes the DeSantis improvement District.
(These guys want to recreate the same form of government they had in Cuba 1909 - 1959)
re: #86 William Lewis
It was a very in-depth article. There are other which don’t go into the detail here.
Check it out.
Absolutely nuts.
re: #76 steve_davis
Other examples:
1. Guy gets shot badly in one shoulder but is otherwise PERFECTLY FUNCTIONAL and can keep mowing down bad guys without missing a beat.
2. Bulletproof vests are basically impenetrable shields. Not only do they cause NO harm to the person being shot at, that person can bounce back IMMEDIATELY and resume chasing the villain(s).
3. The action hero who “rips out the I.V.” and leaves the hospital (against the doctors recommendation of course), being no worse for the wear despite going through whatever got them hospitalized in the first place.
4. Impossibly fast healing of broken bones / lacerations / concussions, etc.
re: #90 Eclectic Cyborg
Other examples:
1. Guy gets shot badly in the shoulder but is otherwise PERFECTLY FUNCTIONAL and can keep mowing down bad guys without missing a beat.
2. Bulletproof vests are basically impenetrable shields. Not only do they cause NO harm to the person being shot at, that person can bounce back IMMEDIATELY and resume chasing the villain(s).
3. The action hero who “rips out the I.V.” and leaves the hospital (against the doctors recommendation of course), being no worse for the wear despite going through whatever got them hospitalized in the first place.
4. Impossibly fast healing of broken bones / lacerations / concussions, etc.
5. Everything gets solved in 30 or 60 minutes.
re: #61 Crush White Nationalism
The underlying problem is that “white” as a construct…can’t be okay.
It was developed to do two things that are actually one thing: generate a hard distinction between superior and inferior kinds of people, and grind away all regionally-distinct aspects of European culture that impedes the transformation of the population into efficient labor units for nation-sized (and eventually transnational) capital holders.
I hammer on about the former so much I don’t feel I need to elaborate.
But that second bit is why whiteness will always go sour, even for people that are the supposed ingroup: whiteness has no solid qualia, only the qualia that enforcers grant it, by design. If you don’t play the hegemonic center’s tune, you don’t get your whiteness dividend: the most obvious examples of this is the Irish, who are repeatedly shoved back and forth across the line of whiteness by different power centers…but at any point in the past you will find a center has attempting to subdivide and make-inferior people that should, by current standards of hereditary identity and cultural identity, all be “white.”
For imperial European nations crossing into modernity, you were white if you cooperating with the administration of empire. Different empires had slightly different labelling systems of “whiteness.” But if you told the prevailing brand of hegemonic power to fuck off, you get treated like the Basques…or the Bretons…or the Irish…etc. The supposedly solid label of “white” is made provisional, the white patrimony is stripped away, and you get a little taste of what the colonized get.
American whiteness was made contingent on discarding most of your distinct cultural markers—your language, your food, your traditions—in favor of a kind of WASPy nonthreatening consumerism.
This racialization process—entirely bad faith, almost completely incoherent—echoes through to today, where there are plenty of South Americans that view themselves as white, and adopt white-supremacist politics, but would be labelled non-white by Americans or Europeans. Americans rarely delve into the racial politics of the MENA, but a bunch of powerful people in those space also view themselves as white and correspondingly despise and exploit nonwhites: this is a significant part of the kafala labor system.
I belabor the point but…whiteness is exclusively defined by those with power, to exclude those they do not want franchised. When a “history” of Whiteness—or West-ness for that matter—is manufactured, it is done exclusively to demonstrate the inevitability of success and power-accumulation. Even its most benign forms are cynical exercise in cherry picking, creating a patchwork quilt of historical events to create a best-of list where whoever is succeeding is white.
Non-white collective identities held by individuals within hegemonically white nations exist in an entirely different way: they’re people finding a shared identity, having survived being lumped together by the cultural framework whites apply to non-whites. This is a jagged and loose form of collectivity that has an active internal discussion about how belonging is reproduced.
But whiteness resents the process of active discussion of how it is reproduced, because that reveals the legerdemain: whiteness changes boundaries as the powerful need it to, whiteness celebrates nothing culturally distinct that is not useful to the powerful.
Can confirm. https://t.co/0Ja5nEYdum
— Jon Cryer (@MrJonCryer) February 26, 2023
It’s a beautiful ceremony. https://t.co/7jcRB5GwBB
— Michael McKean (@MJMcKean) February 27, 2023
re: #90 Eclectic Cyborg
Other examples:
2. Bulletproof vests are basically impenetrable shields. Not only do they cause NO harm to the person being shot at, that person can bounce back IMMEDIATELY and resume chasing the villain(s).
This is handled well in the Dresden Files. Spoilers:
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re: #93 teleskiguy
I want to hear about your ceremony then Mr. Jones ;)
re: #66 Eclectic Cyborg
Yep, TV Tropes calls it “Plot Armor.” Basically, characters will survive anything, no matter how unrealistic, until such point the script calls for them to be killed off.
Case in point: Rick Grimes in The Walking Dead
re: #93 teleskiguy
Alex Jones says that everyone who is offered a television show or a record deal is first required to “reject Jesus Christ and pledge yourself to Lucifer.”
Including Alex. Although it went over the top with him.
Yikes Elmu’s Twitter feed! Just a spewing torrent of bad craziness, he’s off the deep end, like Mariana’s Trench deep.
re: #66 Eclectic Cyborg
Yep, TV Tropes calls it “Plot Armor.” Basically, characters will survive anything, no matter how unrealistic, until such point the script calls for them to be killed off.
Don’t remember the name of the made for TV movie western.
The leader of the bad guys gets shot which shatters his humerus.
The doc amputates his arm, with screaming & yelling in pain heard in the background.
Next scene, the leader of the bad guys rides off with his men to get the guy who shot him.
Stargate solved all these problems with the alien healing device…
I should have never shown it to my family. Siblings and mom are more obsessed with it than I am, even when I’m the one who does anything (it’s a miracle they can even operate a PC)…
New Poll Shows How Widespread Anti-White Racism Has Become | Ep. 1121https://t.co/EcaY7H4Jhh
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) February 27, 2023
Newspapers are cancelling Dilbert claiming creator Scott Adams “made racist comments” while discussing 26% of blacks don’t think it’s OK to be white.
Are we going to ignore the fact 12 million blacks think it’s okay to hate white people, or just be outraged someone noticed?— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) February 27, 2023
Talked to a dude from South Africa this weekend. We were going on about the disaster that has become that country. At one point he said to me, “Well, you guys are going the same way quickly.”
Man, that stung.— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) February 27, 2023
The Right going with the “blacks are the real racists” talking point today.
re: #101 (((Archangel1)))
Another week, another family argument over Nightcafe challenge submission.
If you had to pick a favorite, which would it be?[Embedded content]
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re: #93 teleskiguy
She’s full of shyte. The largest group of people in the country, with their retail stores on virtually every corner of the country, is oppressed.
I’m not sure if this is true, but we know Big Tech hates Christians and doesn’t hire them. Christian discrimination is the biggest form of discrimination in the USA. It came out in the congressional FBI/Clinton/PreLon Twitter scandal of labeling Christians as domestic… https://t.co/88w8dnqrtM
— Starfighter General (@StarfighterGen) February 27, 2023
Oprah Winfrey on “It’s TEH JOOOOOOS!”
1989 Oprah show On jews worshiping the devil & sacrificing babies pic.twitter.com/CWu0sntF9R
— buddha brute (@buddha_brute) January 1, 2023
re: #105 DodgerFan1988
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The Right going with the “blacks are the real racists” talking point today.
Kelly basically saying the quiet part out loud, that white MAGAts are scared shitless that if they don’t find some way to assert their control, then “those people” are gonna take over.
It’s a cult.
These “Christians” are actually right-wing authoritarians who use religion as a weapon. They’re a menace.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) February 27, 2023
re: #101 (((Archangel1)))
Another week, another family argument over Nightcafe’s daily challenge.
If you had to pick a favorite, which would it be?[Embedded content]
3.
re: #101 (((Archangel1)))
The boat gives foreground interest.
However, I am not convinced that most NightCafe voters really judge by artistic merit.
The fourth one is more of a pretty picture, less focused on a flowering tree.
However, the challenge is about the change of seasons, and the cherry blossoms are more representative of that.
I resubmitted an image I put in a challenge a couple of weeks ago, just to see if it gets more or less points second time around.
I only hope that Scott Adams was also a financial idiot and relied on continued syndication of Dilbert for his lifestyle.
Poe’s Law weeps in irrelevance. You simply can’t tell any more.
Going to sleep early tonight. Crazy geoengineering today. February tornado warning where I live in nw Indiana. Rain, wind, and I’m out my back door watching for a freaking tornado in February? Ya gotta be kidding me. It’s weather manipulation. The same freaks selling jabs. wtfu
— Jeff (@JeffWoke) February 27, 2023
re: #90 Eclectic Cyborg
Other examples:
1. Guy gets shot badly in one shoulder but is otherwise PERFECTLY FUNCTIONAL and can keep mowing down bad guys without missing a beat.
2. Bulletproof vests are basically impenetrable shields. Not only do they cause NO harm to the person being shot at, that person can bounce back IMMEDIATELY and resume chasing the villain(s).
3. The action hero who “rips out the I.V.” and leaves the hospital (against the doctors recommendation of course), being no worse for the wear despite going through whatever got them hospitalized in the first place.
4. Impossibly fast healing of broken bones / lacerations / concussions, etc.
And all of this WHILE REFUSING TO TAKE PAINKILLERS!!!!
No, a tornado watch means you’re supposed to grab some snacks and hang by the TV and watch the omnipresent radar map. A tornado warning, on the other hand, means head outside with your phone to record the wind damage as it happens.
— Jim Cobb (@jimcobbprepper) February 27, 2023
re: #114 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The boat gives foreground interest.
However, I am not convinced that most NightCafe voters really judge by artistic merit.
The fourth one is more of a pretty picture, less focused on a flowering tree.
However, the challenge is about the change of seasons, and the cherry blossoms are more representative of that.
I resubmitted an image I put in a challenge a couple of weeks ago, just to see if it gets more or less points second time around.
Fourth are supposed to be wildflowers blooming at the start of the spring. Figured that works as well for the challenge as cherry blossoms, which will likely be at least 50% of the submissions…
Edit: First and second are cherry trees, third and fourth are supposed to be wildflowers.
Rules banning some transgender women from female prisons in England and Wales come into force on Monday.
The ban will apply to trans women with male genitalia, sexual offenders, and trans women convicted of violent offences.https://t.co/ibrp5wCKio— Damo (@concretemilk) February 27, 2023
Yummy. My wife just brought sausage, egg, cheese, and onion cookies to me.
Here is a weird observation that we made in Florida:
We were sitting outside the hotel on benches provided for guests, while hearing “tropical bird calls” in the trees behind us. I think I would like to take some pictures of the tropical birds so I looked up in the trees but saw no birds. But still keep hearing the bird cries. It was coming from behind a high shrub so I walked over to the shrub expecting a large bird to emerge. The sound went on so I peeked behind the shrub and saw…
A speaker!
Yes the hotel was broadcasting “Tropical bird calls” from a speaker to trick the guests into thinking they were in a tropical rain forest.
I showed this to Zedushka and he thought about it, first he said it was not nice of the hotel to trick guests, then he thought about it some more and suggested that maybe it was a “bird abatement” technique to keep actual birds away from the property so they don’t defecate on guests, like at the Dania Beach Pier.
Anyhoo, a few days after this, we noticed flocks a murder of crows roosting in the hotel palm trees, oblivious to the loud “bird calls.” It would seem they had figured out that the sounds were fake & therefore not a threat of large predators.
It is hailing out. We are at 24.95” of rain for the season, normal is 17.40”.
re: #116 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
You’re describing a crisis as seen from the patient’s perspective, and it sounds like you’re not well enough to protect yourself from covid, which can ruin your life and even kill you. Talk to your doctor. They can refer you to a specialist that can relieve your distress.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) February 27, 2023
re: #124 Captain Ron
It is hailing out. We are at 24.95” of rain for the season, normal is 17.40”.
35.52” for us. Normal is more like 22”.
re: #107 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
In case anyone didn’t notice by now, modern Republicans (now controlled by populists) are in open war against “free market” capitalism. The hypocrisy of “Libertarians” like the Koch Bros, Elon, and the Libertarian Party itself is on full display. Not to mention the abject hypocrisy of long-term Conservatives utterly silent about “socialist” current rhetoric and policies all over right wing media.
Populist anti-corporate rhetoric has now been claimed by and mainstreamed into the modern the GOP. DeSantis is in open warfare against Disney, the company behind the AP exams, and any other company that dares to cross him with his vision for a lily white America. Fox News now features regular content bashing “woke” corporations, especially those that rely on employment from Asians and other non-Whites in an effort to bring them under the white heel.
It was never, ever centrally about “free markets” or “pro-business” or “keeping government hands out of our business…it has ALWAYS been about absolute control and power… and ALWAYS that control being under the sort of specifically White control by those crafty enough to obtain and wield it… like the Koch’s, DeSantis and Fox News.
re: #18 aatharuv
There were some (very few) Indian members of the Waffen SS.
I am so proud. I love the DIA so much. It is truly world class.
DIA tops the list of best art museums per USA Today survey https://t.co/rMmL2g0cZM
— Detroit Free Press (@freep) February 27, 2023
Most memorable DIA story:
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Washington Examiner via MSN:
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said he believes the essence of being a conservative today means recognizing that people’s “God-given rights” are on “loan” to the government.
“The foundation of it is understanding the American project,” DeSantis told Fox News host Mark Levin on Sunday. “Our rights come from God, not the government. The founders rejected the divine right of kings.”
“We have these God-given rights,” he continued. “We loan power to the government under a Constitution to protect those rights.”
While discussing his new book The Courage to be Free, DeSantis explained that his roots of growing up in “eclectic” Florida with a blue-collar family that held Rust Belt values kept him grounded while attending the liberal classrooms of Yale and Harvard.
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re: #129 The Pie Overlord!
One of these days, I’m gonna be able to look at those letters and not automatically think it stands for Defense Intelligence Agency… My stupid brain is all like “since when does the agency do artwork oh wait no you’re an idiot”. xD
re: #105 DodgerFan1988
I’m sorry you’re finding out you’re mediocre and the only thing you had going for you, your skin color, is no longer an automatic path to success. Get over it. I taught my kids when they were young that it was their talents that should get them ahead, not their whiteness.
— Blue in Red Texas (@RockwallBlue) February 27, 2023
re: #130 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
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Worship Thor or Zeus for that sort of thing.
re: #131 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Washington Examiner via MSN:
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In other words, he absorbed the traditional populist blue-collar values of the time (government authority to regulate and control business) and made sure to include a personal authority to use government control to enforce pro-White, anti-homosexual and otherwise discriminatory policies… in other words, American National Socialism..
We did our taxes last Tuesday. We got our refund today.
MSN, three hours ago (more at the link):
The TikTok influencer who went viral last year after talking about “soft swinging” within her circle of Mormon mom friends was arrested earlier this month on suspicion of domestic violence.
Police in Herriman, Utah, responded around 11 p.m. on Feb. 17 to a report of domestic violence at a home. Officers said they found probable cause to arrest Taylor Frankie Paul, 28, on suspicion of misdemeanor assault, criminal mischief, and commission of domestic violence in the presence of a child, police announced Friday.
Paul was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail and released the following day. After she was booked, police said they received “additional video evidence” and referred the case to the district attorney’s office for review of further charges, including felony assault.
“This evidence also suggests that during the incident, Ms. Paul’s minor child was injured by an action of Ms. Paul,” police said.
Paul’s two children feature regularly on her TikTok, where she’s amassed more than 4 million followers. She went viral last year when she deviated from the Mormon mom influencer script and opened up about her “soft swinging” lifestyle with her then-husband, Tate Paul. She also revealed that she “stepped out of that agreement” she had with her husband, which resulted in her divorce and sparked speculation about whether any other TikTok-famous Utah influencers might have been involved.
re: #130 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
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yes, we were promised smiting and it never happens…
re: #140 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
“Soft” swinging or “soft” swapping, where couples swap sexual partners but don’t have penetrative sex, has become a viral topic on TikTok after one influencer said it led her to divorce.
On May 25, Taylor Frankie Paul, a 28-year-old mother of two with 3.5 million TikTok followers, said in a livestream that she and her husband were involved in a “soft swinging” community — they were in an open relationship but agreed not to go “all the way” with anyone outside of their marriage.
However, Paul went on to say that she slept with another member of the community without her husband’s knowledge, and then developed feelings for that person.
Paul, who refers to herself as Mormon in her TikTok videos, is also a prominent figure in a TikTok subcommunity known as “MomTok,” where women share details about their lives as mothers.
Oh lordy, the “woke” DoD just gave Faux News their headline story for this week
Service members can’t participate in “big ass flag” displays at sporting events and such anymore.
In a memo to its public affairs offices, the Defense Department said that having service members carry the U.S. flag horizontally or land it on the ground after a parachute jump is no longer acceptable.https://t.co/yY8ta8iK69
— Stars and Stripes (@starsandstripes) February 28, 2023
re: #132 (((Archangel1)))
One of these days, I’m gonna be able to look at those letters and not automatically think it stands for Defense Intelligence Agency… My stupid brain is all like “since when does the agency do artwork oh wait no you’re an idiot”. xD
LOL to me DIA is always my beloved Detroit Institute of Art.
re: #144 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
Oh lordy, the “woke” DoD just gave Faux News their headline story for this week
Service members can’t participate in “big ass flag” displays at sporting events and such anymore.
O boy.
You could make an argument that the act violates the US Flag Code (because it is used in advertising sporting or other events), or as a crass display it does not accord proper dignity to the US Flag, but I’ll bet that nuance is lost on the perpetually performatively patriotic pious.
re: #133 Crush White Nationalism
The correct answer to “Is it okay to be white?” is, “Who the fuck cares what you melanin-challenged turdsniffers think?”
re: #145 The Pie Overlord!
LOL to me DIA is always my beloved Detroit Institute of Art.
All the times as a teen I visited Detroit with my grandmother (her cousin lived just inside 8 Mile Road), I never once was taken to any of Detroit’s amazing attractions.
re: #145 The Pie Overlord!
LOL to me DIA is always my beloved Detroit Institute of Art.
I worked for a company called NSA for 15 years ending about 15 years ago. At my current job my team has been talking about a project called NSA for the past week. It’s weird hearing those initials.
re: #146 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
O boy.
You could make an argument that the act violates the US Flag Code (because it is used in advertising sporting or other events), or as a crass display it does not accord proper dignity to the US Flag, but I’ll bet that nuance is lost on the perpetually performatively patriotic pious.
Basically DoD said “This has always been an improper display of the flag in accordance with regulations AND the US Flag Code. So stop doing it>”
We will be doing a full, comprehensive breakdown of this damning legal filing shortly. Make sure you are following us on YouTube so you don’t miss it: https://t.co/p52ZSdMPhZ
— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) February 27, 2023
re: #147 Romantic Heretic
The correct answer to “Is it okay to be white?” is, “Who the fuck cares what you melanin-challenged turdsniffers think?”
On Quora, “It’s OK to be white” is a vile space filled with supporters of white supremacy, racist memes, anti-Semitism, and the like. Mixed with plenty of homophobia and anti-liberalism.
Pro Publica, February 26, 2023
No Qanon anywhere to be found.
A judge concluded the children were victims of “parental alienation,” which continues to influence family courts despite being rejected by mainstream scientific groups, and authorized police to use “reasonable force” to remove them from their mother.
Two siblings in Utah have barricaded themselves in a bedroom at their mother’s home in defiance of a judge’s order to return to the custody of their father, despite state child welfare investigators determining that he had sexually abused the children.
The judge has authorized police to use “reasonable force” — including entry into locked rooms — against Brynlee Larson, 12, and Ty Larson, 15. Ty has spent the last month livestreaming on TikTok to call attention to their case.
The showdown is the fallout from the latest family court battle over “parental alienation” — a disputed psychological theory in which one parent is accused of brainwashing a child to turn them against the other parent.
“My own word does not matter, and they don’t believe my truth,” Ty said in a video posted to TikTok last month that received more than 370,000 views. “The court system isn’t trying to save us, nobody’s trying to keep us safe. I am the one that’s going to have to choose my own safety.”
Police visited the home in December and attempted to remove the siblings but decided not to break down the door despite the father’s request that they do so, according to police reports. Given the “potentially combustible situation,” officers have asked for clarification from the court before carrying out Judge Derek P. Pullan’s order, according to court records.
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This story describes in detail the sexual abuse of children.
re: #139 jeffreyw
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That was really cool. My son was about to go to Fukuoka as an exchange student when the pandemic hit. I’ve seen other videos about that street including a woman in her 80s who opens up around midnight and cooks all night for everyone who supports nightlife and a guy who always cooks with a cigarette burning between his fingers. I’ve only been to Nagasaki in Kyushu, and that only for a quick visit to some historic sites, so I haven’t yet had the chance to try any of this yatai cuisine (yatai=mobile cooking stand). The best I’ve ever had, I think, was not in Japan but in Taipei.
How Frank maintains his cool with this jerkoff to his right is amazing.
And he spelled it out and the seed has spouted and the bush is flowering.
Frank Zappa was a very intelligent man, and saw the writing on the wall.
Fuck these people in the neck.
Can I say that?
In the neck?
Or maybe, fuck them dry?
Or maybe I can say..
Frank Zappa.
“I’m not going to give you a civics lesson here.”
These jackoffs were saying songs with “dirty” lyrics would be the ruination of society, and read their words today, snowflake.
I just handed in my petition with only 1 signature on it. I feel awful. At least I already took the training for the poll pads we are supposed to use for the Primary. At least I understand the voting machines better than most.
rollin.. rollin… rollin…
waiting for it to show up on the USGS site.
Only the best people.
Frank Pavone, a defrocked priest who was formerly a Catholic adviser to Donald Trump, is engulfed in a sex scandal that is rocking the anti-abortion movement.
Pavone, 64, is the director of Priests for Life, a non-profit that funnels millions of dollars a year into the anti-abortion movement.
He is also an outspoken activist whose political activities have brought him into repeated conflict with the Catholic Church. In December 2022, he was defrocked by the Vatican after repeated clashes with his bishop over his use of social media to advocate conservative political causes.
Now, at least four different women have accused Pavone of sexual misconduct according to reporting by The Pillar [a Catholic publication]. Pavone and Priests for Life have strongly denied the accusations.
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Inside the Unholy Sex Scandal Rocking Trump’s Ex-Adviser (Daily Beast, today)
re: #149 Crush White Nationalism
I worked for a company called NSA for 15 years ending about 15 years ago. At my current job my team has been talking about a project called NSA for the past week. It’s weird hearing those initials.
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re: #159 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
waiting for it to show up on the USGS site.
M 2.5 - 5km WNW of Toms Place, CA
Do you know Tom?
re: #162 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
No, I don’t know Tom, but the shaking occurred after that at Tom’s Place. And an M2.5 is way too small for me to feel it down here.
Tomorrow’s Wordle is trailing the pack.
Wordle 619 5/6
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🟨⬜⬜🟨🟨
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I struggled. There is a common word that is often useful in line 2 and would have immediately revealed the answer, so naturally I didn’t use it.
SibData: 3,4,4,5
Do I want to move to Florida? Here are the pros & cons.
PROS
1/3 of my kids & grandkids live here
The climate is better than Michigan (except in the summer when it’s too hot)
We vacation here.
CONS
Moving sucks
Real estate costs more in FL than in MI or PA
Houses are tiny
Summers are HOT!!!
Ron DeSantis is an asshole
Florida is a Red State
Real estate in Wilkes-Barre is cheaper
Pennsylvania is a blue state (for now)
re: #166 The Pie Overlord!
Do I want to move to Florida? Here are the pros & cons.
PROS
1/3 of my kids & grandkids live here
The climate is better than Michigan (except in the summer when it’s too hot)
We vacation here.CONS
Moving sucks
Real estate costs more in FL than in MI or PA
Houses are tiny
Summers are HOT!!!
Ron DeSantis is an asshole
Florida is a Red State
Real estate in Wilkes-Barre is cheaper
Pennsylvania is a blue state (for now)
That’s why all your family should move here, where your family alone could flip my state blue. /s
On the eighth anniversary of #TheDress , the tag is trending again after someone posted a picture of the blue-and-black (not white-and-gold) dress lit in such a way you can see both.
this changes up the game fr… pic.twitter.com/bqbMqHETG7
— jay ☆ STREAM LIKE..? (@MUNCHRIH) February 26, 2023
re: #166 The Pie Overlord!
And Gov Shapiro is a member of our tribe too. :)
Allow me to introduce you to the most ridiculous yet amazing thing you will see this week. pic.twitter.com/MHlGmz9Ph2
— fragrance and foolishness (@Brieyonce) February 27, 2023
re: #168 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
That’s why all your family should move here, where your family alone could flip my state blue. /s
Yeah but we would put up an eruv. LOL.
re: #101 (((Archangel1)))
Another week, another family argument over Nightcafe’s daily challenge.
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Lower left but I’m partial to mountains.
Today’s Wordle could have been worse given my crappy track record when it comes to guessing missing last letters…
Wordle 618 4/6
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re: #168 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
That’s why all your family should move here, where your family alone could flip my state blue. /s
Didn’t she say something about climate being a criteria? That pretty much disqualifies your state as an option.
re: #171 Backwoods_Sleuth
This is outstanding!
re: #97 Joe Bacon
Alex Jones says that everyone who is offered a television show or a record deal is first required to “reject Jesus Christ and pledge yourself to Lucifer.”
Including Alex. Although it went over the top with him.
So what’s Jones’s beef?
Old Scratch find a loophole in the deal to leave Alex in the (bankrupt) lurch??
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