GROVES - Buckethead (Music Video)
https://music.bucketheadpikes.com/album/the-moss-lands#buckethead #natternet #guitar
Groves by Buckethead, from Pike 249 ‘The Moss Lands’ released February 9th 2017.
Ah Buckethead. A new album about monthly. Dude just can’t stop shredding.
Yair Golan, former minister of Economy and former 2nd in command of the IDF, speaking to me on the Ayalon highway: “Trump and Netanyahu are pretty much the same.” pic.twitter.com/0vUbzdcm3T
— Josh Drill (@drill_josh) March 26, 2023
Florida MAGA rapper posts video burning Ron DeSantis flag. pic.twitter.com/wYf1Ghg5Q6
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) March 26, 2023
Now at Tel Aviv highway: Police is trying to disperse the protest @haaretzcompic.twitter.com/I1s2ll5VEc
— Noa Landau נעה לנדאו (@noa_landau) March 27, 2023
re: #3 gocart mozart
That guy’s a rapper? Why isn’t he performing at Trump’s rallies?
re: #3 gocart mozart
I’m starting to get the feeling these pinheads like Donald Trump.
PEOPLE have reportedly taken to social media to express their outrage over an interview with Kathy Schroeder, above, who says in a new Netflix docuseries—Waco: American Apocalypse—that “these weren’t underaged girls because you come of age at 12. All these girls were adults in our belief system.”
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(Barry Duke, the Angry Atheist, former poster at Patheos before they kicked out all the atheists)
Sometimes a Wordle 2 score is just luck, but this time my starting word gave me a position from which I could actually reason it out. The only luck was picking one of two options.
re: #11 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
re: #12 Charles Johnson
Sometimes a Wordle 2 score is just luck, but this time my starting word gave me a position from which I could actually reason it out. The only luck was picking one of two options.
First guess is always a guess
Second can be an educated guess depending on how many letters you get in the first…if you get zero, it’s also a guess
Third is almost always an educated guess
Fourth should be a choice between two or three possible words (it’s never a plural)
Fifth is because you chose wrong on 4
Sixth is because there were more than three choices for 4 and you panicked
X is because you said ‘Fuck it’
Artist on trial in Poland for offending religious feelings with abortion protest painting (Notes from Poland, March 23, 2023)
TL;DR: He was put on trial for Poland’s then-new blasphemy law after Poland’s Law and Justice Party instituted a near-total abortion ban. He was acquitted. The government appealed, and he was fined.
The case was brought by a Catholic organisation which seeks to stamp out all dissent against Christianity. Now a new case has been brought by them because he displayed his painting again.
The ruling government wishes to increase the penalty and has introduced legislation to make blaspheming Christianity punishable by two years imprisonment.
Three LGBT activists in Poland have been found not guilty of the crime of offending religious feelings for producing and distributing images of the Virgin Mary and Jesus with rainbow colours added to their halos https://t.co/driRhm4yEO
— Notes from Poland 🇵🇱 (@notesfrompoland) March 2, 2021
re: #20 Charles Johnson
Have always relied on a laser printer. Takes care of 99% of my needs and is, over the long run, cheaper.
It’s the other 1% that drives me crazy (needing color and oversize print). Sigh.
re: #20 Charles Johnson
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Cheap brother B&W lasers come with duplexer and network and wireless. Excellent printers. Last one I bought was ~$100.
When Elon Musk kills my blue badge, party at my house!https://t.co/PCyv3zHmpP
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 27, 2023
re: #20 Charles Johnson
I bought a Canon B&W laser printer 20+ years ago during my first marriage. Thing was a tank. 500+ pages per cartridge - $45 cartridge replacement. Have an Ink Jet now and the fuckin’ thing needs $75 in ink (from Costco) every six months even if I don’t use it much.
Nergal, the lead singer of @BehemothBand, will appear in court on charges of offending religious feelings, a crime in Poland that carries a prison sentence of up to two years.
He posted an image showing his foot stamping on a picture of the Virgin Mary https://t.co/jv7haxhQU0— Notes from Poland 🇵🇱 (@notesfrompoland) March 7, 2023
(4:07, caution for death metal)
re: #20 Charles Johnson
I prefer Brother printers. They work, and the company is good about supplying the necessary files to work on Linux.
re: #23 Charles Johnson
When Elon Musk kills my blue badge, party at my house!
I think it was here, but I was at some website on my phone. I went to click on a Twitter link and the app launched. It said since you are not on Twitter Blue, you need to turn off 2FA in order to proceed.
I deleted Twitter from my phone.
Nothing of value was lost.
re: #26 Belafon
I prefer Brother printers. They work, and the company is good about supplying the necessary files to work on Linux.
The rings I had to jump through to get my HP printer to work with Linux Mint…jesus…
re: #24 darthstar
That’s exactly what I’m talkin’ about. It’s a scam IMO. Hook the consumer on a super-cheap printer and then get them to pay insane prices for new ink cartridges on a regular basis, and block them from buying third party cartridges
The NightCafe Friday (24 March) challenge was “Elves”, and when I saw that was the topic I knew what most of the submissions would become.
So I voted, and voted, and voted… and voted…
Over and over, voting down the sexualized, eroticized, objectified, fantasies that I came across, voting up the few submissions that were attempts at originality.
Alas, it was in vain.
The winner is exactly one of those highly sexualized fantasies, as are the runners up and the top 5%: creator.nightcafe.studio
I calculate that there were about 78 votes per submission, and that is considerably higher than the 52-65 votes/submission that is typical.
I want to think part of the reason is my thousands of votes in my righteous crusade.
But I suspect that high vote total is mostly due to young guys wanting to salivate over all the lascivious images.
re: #29 Charles Johnson
That’s exactly what I’m talkin’ about. It’s a scam IMO. Hook the consumer on a super-cheap printer and then get them to pay insane prices for new ink cartridges on a regular basis, and block them from buying third party cartridges
I’m buying this fucker as soon as my inkjet shits the bed.
amazon.com
re: #24 darthstar
I bought a Canon B&W laser printer 20+ years ago during my first marriage. Thing was a tank. 500+ pages per cartridge - $45 cartridge replacement. Have an Ink Jet now and the fuckin’ thing needs $75 in ink (from Costco) every six months even if I don’t use it much.
That goes back to the post I made about two-tier or “razor” marketing. They sell the printer at (or even below) cost, knowing most people won’t throw out the printer when it needs ink. The ink is comparatively cheap to make, but they sell it at a price close to the cost of the printer, netting a huge profit.
Thank King Camp Gillette for inventing that marketing scheme which pervades capitalism now.
re: #30 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I don’t really want to get involved in that. (I do need to start looking into those that do code generation.) Someone needs to take William Gibsonia description of the Sprawl and see what gets generated.
re: #30 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The NightCafe Friday (24 March) challenge was “Elves”, and when I saw that was the topic I knew what most of the submissions would become.
So I voted, and voted, and voted… and voted…
Over and over, voting down the sexualized, eroticized, objectified, fantasies that I came across, voting up the few submissions that were attempts at originality.
Alas, it was in vain.
The winner is exactly one of those highly sexualized fantasies, as are the runners up and the top 5%: creator.nightcafe.studio
I calculate that there were about 78 votes per submission, and that is considerably higher than the 52-65 votes/submission that is typical.
I want to think part of the reason is my thousands of votes in my righteous crusade.
But I suspect that high vote total is mostly due to young guys wanting to salivate over all the lascivious images.
Pity. I wanted to see a group of “Elvis Elves” as an entry.
re: #20 Charles Johnson
I just went through this with my HP printer. Apparently they put expiration dates on ink cartridges now. I had a few that had been sitting around for a year or two and when I popped them in, the freaking printer software told me they were expired, like milk.
I managed to get one or two replacements from HP customer support but that was like pulling teeth. I’m in the same boat. I am getting a color laser printer moving forward. It’s way more economical; if you price printer ink by the gallon, it’s some insane number like $325 per.
re: #24 darthstar
Yup. I gave up on my Canon inkjet.
It was a fine printer.
But the cartridge cost got to be absurd, and the ink cartridges dry out which means even if you don’t use them you have to replace them.
re: #20 Charles Johnson
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I just got an Epson EcoTank printer on the recommendation of a coworker who used to manage an OfficeMax store. I like it so far.
re: #30 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The winner’s ears look like aircraft wings.
A lotta anti-gravity going on in those images as well.
re: #32 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Thank King Camp Gillette for inventing that marketing scheme which pervades capitalism now.
That reminds me…for over 20 years I shaved with the same single-blade Schick Injector razor I bought when I got facial hair at 18. Bought a 10 pack of replacement blades at Thrifty for $6.99…that would last me close to a year and I shave every day…best fuckin’ shave ever. One day they stopped selling blades, and Schick stopped too…I was pissed. Bought a Mach 3 and 4 pack of blades for about $20 (25 years ago)…Tried the cheap-shit compatible blades a few years back…they’re worthless. I miss my single blade injector.
re: #38 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The winner’s ears look like aircraft wings.
A lotta anti-gravity going on in those images as well.
It’s been interesting to see how anime elf ears migrated into other parts of the fantasy genre over the years and have to a degree become the standard now. World of Warcraft partially responsible for that I think.
re: #33 Belafon
re: #34 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
The entire AI image (I refuse to call it “art”) ecosystem is dominated by young guys wanting to imagine young women with impossibly large breasts.
Thing is, that eroticization spills over to other image generation, and I think the community as a whole is in denial of this.
Images of little children have them with facial expressions that are the “come hither” look once reserved for seduction.
Young girl characters all have bare midrifts.
Etc.
I am hardly a prude (am I repeating myself). But the effect of objectification (mostly of women but of men too) is so blatant.
Pity. I wanted to see a group of “Elvis Elves” as an entry.
There were many images of Elvis I came across, gave them all the highest vote possible.
It was in vain.
re: #35 Mattand
I just went through this with my HP printer. Apparently they put expiration dates on ink cartridges now. I had a few that had been sitting around for a year or two and when I popped them in, the freaking printer software told me they were expired, like milk.
I managed to get one or two replacements from HP customer support but that was like pulling teeth. I’m in the same boat. I am getting a color laser printer moving forward. It’s way more economical; if you price a printer ink by the gallon, it’s some insane number like $325 per.
That is by design, also part of “razor” marketing. More and more companies are putting technology in their devices which detects the “branded” replacement (coffee pod companies are becoming notorious for this).
The idea is you can only hold the patent on your razor blade or ink pot so long, then it expires and cheaper competitors come into the market. Since you’re already locked into the printer you bought, you’ll learn the hard way you can’t use someone else’s replacement.
Your periodic reminder that Apple dictation is astonishingly, astonishingly awful. Like, “Burn their fancy new spaceship headquarters to the ground” awful.
It’s now trying to put punctuation in your dictation based on your speech cadence. It’s as bad as you can imagine, possibly worse.
re: #42 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Time to buy and hold a few Mr. Coffees.
re: #39 darthstar
That reminds me…for over 20 years I shaved with the same single-blade Schick Injector razor I bought when I got facial hair at 18. Bought a 10 pack of replacement blades at Thrifty for $6.99…that would last me close to a year and I shave every day…best fuckin’ shave ever. One day they stopped selling blades, and Schick stopped too…I was pissed. Bought a Mach 3 and 4 pack of blades for about $20 (25 years ago)…Tried the cheap-shit compatible blades a few years back…they’re worthless. I miss my single blade injector.
That’s why before I stopped shaving (my gf really likes my santa beard) I got a nice German made Safety razor & bought cheap blades at the drug store.
re: #42 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
That is by design, also part of “razor” marketing. More and more companies are putting technology in their devices which detects the “branded” replacement (coffee pod companies are becoming notorious for this).
The idea is you can only hold the patent on your razor blade or ink pot so long, then it expires and cheaper competitors come into the market. Since you’re already locked into the printer you bought, you’ll learn the hard way you can’t use someone else’s replacement.
Yeah, I’m reminded of this every time I buy a new cartridge, even with the discounts I get from Costco. I have been threatening literally for decades to get a laser printer. This last go round, however, finally pushed me over the edge.
I may only need to print something out once every few months, but with ink jet printers the ink is designed to dry out and become useless if you don’t print very frequently, and then you need to “clean the printheads” to get it to print, and that empties your ink cartridges, and HEY! Suddenly you need to buy a new yellow and a new magenta cartridge! Only $75.00 on Amazon.
re: #39 darthstar
That reminds me…for over 20 years I shaved with the same single-blade Schick Injector razor I bought when I got facial hair at 18. Bought a 10 pack of replacement blades at Thrifty for $6.99…that would last me close to a year and I shave every day…best fuckin’ shave ever. One day they stopped selling blades, and Schick stopped too…I was pissed. Bought a Mach 3 and 4 pack of blades for about $20 (25 years ago)…Tried the cheap-shit compatible blades a few years back…they’re worthless. I miss my single blade injector.
When King Camp Gillette first marketed his safety razor, the cost was an appreciable fraction of a month’s wages, so it sold poorly.
He then hit on the idea of two-tiered marketing, offering the razor handles below cost and the cheap-to-produce replacement blades at a significant mark-up. That more than made up for the loss on the razor handles.
He marketed the razors as being safer (hence “safety razor”) but also more convenient and cheaper than straight razors (you don’t have to strop them, you just replace the blades).
Straight razors are making a comeback now, because of the cost of replacement blades.
I think printer/ink marketers (Hi hp!) vastly overestimated the need for household inkjet printing.
I had a Kodak color printer that worked great…until Kodak exited the inkjet business.
I then got a Canon printer that allegedly worked with Bluetooth although it NEVER worked with my Mac and it always had to be hardwired…and sure enough it wasn’t 5 days after the extended warranty ended that the printer refused to work at all.
I have an HP with Instant Ink and now they also provide paper as well and it’s been working fine for 5 years. Yeah I know it’s the King Gillette Marketing Strategy to sell the razor cheap and make a mint from the blades…
re: #47 Charles Johnson
I may only need to print something out once every few months, but with ink jet printers the ink is designed to dry out and become useless if you don’t print very frequently, and then you need to “clean the printheads” to get it to print, and that empties your ink cartridges, and HEY! Suddenly you need to buy a new yellow and a new magenta cartridge! Only $75.00 on Amazon.
That’s why I ended my string of HPs and got the Epson Ecotank. No cartridges, we’ll see about the drying out.
re: #42 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
That is by design, also part of “razor” marketing. More and more companies are putting technology in their devices which detects the “branded” replacement (coffee pod companies are becoming notorious for this).
The idea is you can only hold the patent on your razor blade or ink pot so long, then it expires and cheaper competitors come into the market. Since you’re already locked into the printer you bought, you’ll learn the hard way you can’t use someone else’s replacement.
I realized a while back that the amount of stuff I needed to print out was relatively small.* So the cheap (and awful) top feeding printer I had got tossed to free up space on my desk.
So I usually would put stuff on a USB drive and go to Staples or Office Max to print things out. And also now a bit of scanning since my scanner is currently loaned out to my brother. I got a lot of use out of the latter scanning all my parents slides, my printed photos, and also the contents of a number of moldering (literally) family scrapbooks.
One thing with the current apartment is that I have access to a PC with an attached small HP printer in the management office. So if I need to print out a few pages of material I can easily walk over there and do it.
* - Usually related to doing taxes with my accountant since she needs scans of stuff I have printed out and signed. We went to remote meetings during Covid and nowadays a 10-hour drive round trip for an under an hour meeting with my accountant is a bit more expensive than a Zoom meeting and me doing some scanning/printing and then sending an email or a piece of postage.
The issues with inkjets are why I have never moved forward on making and selling prints of my landscapes. Printers able to do B&W photos acceptably are well over a grand and a set of inks is $50 per cartridge. Oh and did i mention there are 10 cartridges in the printer?
The Ecotank thing would help but it’s not yet available for 17x22 (much less larger) prints.
Interesting bit of trivia.
The King Gilette Mansion in Malibu is now owned by the Soka Gakkai cult.
re: #53 William Lewis
The issues with inkjets are why I have never moved forward on making and selling prints of my landscapes. Printers able to do B&W photos acceptably are well over a grand and a set of inks is $50 per cartridge. Oh and did i mention there are 10 cartridges in the printer?
The Ecotank thing would help but it’s not yet available for 17x22 (much less larger) prints.
I presume finding someone with a good printer able to do that size is too costly to use?
re: #46 Mattand
Yeah, I’m reminded of this every time I buy a new cartridge, even with the discounts I get from Costco. I have been threatening literally for decades to get a laser printer. This last go round, however, finally pushed me over the edge.
My wife has a Samsung laser printer. We’ve had to replace the cartridge once over eight years. The cartridges aren’t cheap, but they are way less expensive than all the ink pots for an inkjet printer.
re: #20 Charles Johnson
When laser jet printers came on the market my agency decided to buy them from Apple and they were used by our visually-impaired employees. All was fine until Apple got out of the laser jet business and we had to go with the lowest bidder for cartridge replacements which was an unmitigated disaster because the cartridges leaked toner and ruined the printers.
re: #55 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
I presume finding someone with a good printer able to do that size is too costly to use?
Pretty much. If I can get a spot where I can sell them at “Art” prices, no problem. Otherwise the margins are killer.
re: #59 William Lewis
Pretty much. If I can get a spot where I can sell them at “Art” prices, no problem. Otherwise the margins are killer.
Figured as much. If you wanted a few printed and framed for yourself as decoration you’d quickly be into “Art” prices doing that.
Ah memories of Coleco’s ADAM computers with the daisy wheel printers that were so poorly made the spokes continually broke on the discs.
A poster at r/Atheism is laying out a prediction that so-called AI image generators will soon be used (if they’re not already) to generate all sorts of “photographs” to reveal things like angels, demons, spirits, and so on.
He predicts the potential for grifting the religious is too great not to.
Moreover, such images could also be used for religious oppression (your atheist neighbour is possessed by demons, see here’s the proof).
With people also working on AI audio, it probably won’t be long until that is abused in the same way goes his prediction.
re: #39 darthstar
That reminds me…for over 20 years I shaved with the same single-blade Schick Injector razor I bought when I got facial hair at 18. Bought a 10 pack of replacement blades at Thrifty for $6.99…that would last me close to a year and I shave every day…best fuckin’ shave ever. One day they stopped selling blades, and Schick stopped too…I was pissed. Bought a Mach 3 and 4 pack of blades for about $20 (25 years ago)…Tried the cheap-shit compatible blades a few years back…they’re worthless. I miss my single blade injector.
I recently quit shaving and went to a shadow beard.
Keep it to ~1/2” length.
I’d grown a full beard twice in the past, and shaved it off both times after a couple of months. Nope - full beard - not for me.
Bought a $21 Wahl clipper, 30 seconds - one minute trim every other day.
No fuss - no muss - I’m good to go.
re: #61 Joe Bacon
Ah memories of Coleco’s ADAM computers with the daisy wheel printers that were so poorly made the spokes continually broke on the discs.
I had a Brother daisy wheel printer for my Commodore 64. It worked great (but the ribbon cartridges were frightfully expensive).
re: #20 Charles Johnson
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Decent color laser printers can be bought for ~300 bucks. Way cheaper to operate in the long term than inkjets.
re: #62 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
A poster at r/Atheism is laying out a prediction that so-called AI image generators will soon be used (if they’re not already) to generate all sorts of “photographs” to reveal things like angels, demons, spirits, and so on.
He predicts the potential for grifting the religious is too great not to.
Moreover, such images could also be used for religious oppression (your atheist neighbour is possessed by demons, see here’s the proof).
With people also working on AI audio, it probably won’t be long until that is abused in the same way goes his prediction.
This may be less popular than CRT, but I think we should start in kindergarten with the information that pictures can be made up things. Fiction. False. Fake. Expand the vocabulary each grade.
re: #29 Charles Johnson
That’s exactly what I’m talkin’ about. It’s a scam IMO. Hook the consumer on a super-cheap printer and then get them to pay insane prices for new ink cartridges on a regular basis, and block them from buying third party cartridges
The Gillette business model: give away the razor at/below cost; make the money selling the blades/cartridges.
re: #39 darthstar
That reminds me…for over 20 years I shaved with the same single-blade Schick Injector razor I bought when I got facial hair at 18. Bought a 10 pack of replacement blades at Thrifty for $6.99…that would last me close to a year and I shave every day…best fuckin’ shave ever. One day they stopped selling blades, and Schick stopped too…I was pissed. Bought a Mach 3 and 4 pack of blades for about $20 (25 years ago)…Tried the cheap-shit compatible blades a few years back…they’re worthless. I miss my single blade injector.
Sounds like my experience: I’ve used the Mach 3 since forever- yeah, the blades are a ripoff these days (and getting harder to find), but a pack of 4 lasts me about at least 7-8 months, so I figure the expense, on an annual basis, isn’t too onerous.
Of course, a straight razor would probably last me for the rest of my life, but given my luck and experience with very sharp things, said period would probably be fairly short….
💀
re: #66 wrenchwench
5 year olds are just a few years past discovering object permanence.
And here you are, wanting them to believe objects don’t exist!
AI will be the end of us.
re: #71 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
5 year olds are just a few years past discovering object permanence.
And here you are, wanting them to believe objects don’t exist!
AI will be the end of us.
A few years for a five year old is half a life.
When they’re too old for peek-a-boo, they’re ready for reality to begin.
Heavenly singing and orchestration. Have no idea what they are singing though.
התזמורת הפילהרמונית יצאה למחות נגד ההפיכה המשטרית pic.twitter.com/zQimJ36Yv8
— Iris Boker (@BokerIris) March 26, 2023
An amateur historian believes she’s made the archeological find of the century: the forgotten resting place of King Richard III.
“The Lost King” is a funny, inspiring movie based on true events. Opening at the State on March 24.
🎟️ pic.twitter.com/M724fM34er— State Theatre (@statetheatrea2) March 19, 2023
“…In 2012, after having been lost for over 500 years, the remains of King Richard III were discovered beneath a carpark in Leicester. The search had been orchestrated by an amateur historian, Philippa Langley, whose unrelenting research had been met with incomprehension by her friends and family and with skepticism by experts and academics.” imdb.com
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From somewhere on democratic underground
A guy goes into a bar, there’s a robot bartender. The robot says, “What will you have?”
The guy says, “Martini.”
The robot brings back the best martini ever and says to the man, “What’s your IQ?”
The guy says, “168.”
The robot then proceeds to talk about physics, space exploration, and medical technology.
The guy leaves, but he is curious.
So he goes back into the bar.
The robot bartender says, “What will you have?”
The guy says, “Martini.”
Again, the robot makes a great martini, gives it to the man and says, “What’s your IQ?”
The guy says, “100.”
The robot then starts to talk about NASCAR, Budweiser, and John Deere tractors.
The guy leaves but finds it very interesting, so he thinks he will try it one more time.
He goes back into the bar.
The robot says, “What will you have?”
The guy says, “Martini,” and the robot brings him another great martini.
The robot then says, “What’s your IQ?”
The guy says, “Uh, about 50.”
The robot leans in real close and says,
“Isn’t it terrible the way Biden stole the election
re: #69 Jay C
Sounds like my experience: I’ve used the Mach 3 since forever- yeah, the blades are a ripoff these days (and getting harder to find), but a pack of 4 lasts me about at least 7-8 months, so I figure the expense, on an annual basis, isn’t too onerous.
Of course, a straight razor would probably last me for the rest of my life, but given my luck and experience with very sharp things, said period would probably be fairly short….
💀
Learning how to use my new straight razor, I only bled for a few months…
re: #37 wrenchwench
I just got an Epson EcoTank printer on the recommendation of a coworker who used to manage an OfficeMax store. I like it so far.
I have one, and if you don’t use it a lot, the ink dries in the little feeding tubes. If you use it a couple of times a week, I bet you will like it a lot.
re: #47 Charles Johnson
I may only need to print something out once every few months, but with ink jet printers the ink is designed to dry out and become useless if you don’t print very frequently, and then you need to “clean the printheads” to get it to print, and that empties your ink cartridges, and HEY! Suddenly you need to buy a new yellow and a new magenta cartridge! Only $75.00 on Amazon.
I own two printers, a black and white laser printer for 90% of our printing, and a color one with refillable wells. Both are brother. My b&w one is also a printer and scanner.
re: #42 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
That is by design, also part of “razor” marketing. More and more companies are putting technology in their devices which detects the “branded” replacement (coffee pod companies are becoming notorious for this).
Keurig gave up on that and their machines are compatible with refillable pods.
re: #80 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Keurig gave up on that and their machines are compatible with refillable pods.
Yeah, I feel like momentum is starting to swing the other way on this. It was incredibly popular for a number of years, but interoperability is starting to become a feature people pay for.
A notable example of the swing towards interoperability is in gaming. For a long time, Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony had an armed standoff amongst themselves, which basically locked players into buying the console the majority of their friends had. Now, consoles are able to connect to shared console servers, and players can play with each other across most platforms. Some games even have smartphone/tablet apps and can connect those players with teammates on consoles or PCs.
Sharing is caring.. 😊 pic.twitter.com/sxZ58Kix9T
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) March 26, 2023
re: #73 Patricia Kayden
Heavenly singing and orchestration. Have no idea what they are singing though.
Hatikvah, the Israel national anthem.
Definitely not a cult. 😳
— Travis DeCoster (@MyStupidTown) March 27, 2023
re: #29 Charles Johnson
Sounds like soda stream with their outrageously priced tiny CO2 cannisters. So, what I do is, buy cheap seltzer water, and the sodastream syrup. Couple of squirts of fake Red Bull into my can, and off I go.
re: #45 William Lewis
That’s why before I stopped shaving (my gf really likes my santa beard) I got a nice German made Safety razor & bought cheap blades at the drug store.
I switched to a safety razor more than 5 years ago from the multi-bladed razors. I admit that they did give me a very good shave but I just couldn’t see paying $2 to $3 per blade. A safety razor costs $10 and blades cost 10 cents each. They’re cheap enough that I swap in a new blade every week. The shaves i get are as good as the multiblade but greater care is required to keep from cutting myself.
re: #89 sizzzzlerz
I switched to a safety razor more than 5 years ago from the multi-bladed razors. I admit that they did give me a very good shave but I just couldn’t see paying $2 to $3 per blade. A safety razor costs $10 and blades cost 10 cents each. They’re cheap enough that I swap in a new blade every week. The shaves i get are as good as the multiblade but greater care is required to keep from cutting myself.
Yep, agree on all points. Even bought one of the old time styptic pencil things to deal with the learning curve ;)
The witch woke up to see a ghostly cat standing on her chest.
“All right,” she muttered. “Take me there.”
The ghost led her to the forest, where, under a shrub, she found the cat.
It was badly injured; eight ghosts of lost lives watched her heal it.
“Only one left, now.”
“Mrew.”— Micro SF/F stories (@MicroSFF) March 26, 2023
re: #90 William Lewis
Yep, agree on all points. Even bought one of the old time styptic pencil things to deal with the learning curve ;)
I haven’t bought razor blades since my wife bought me the straight razor for Valentine’s Day last year (except for disposable razors for trips). It should last longer than I do.
re: #90 William Lewis
Yep, agree on all points. Even bought one of the old time styptic pencil things to deal with the learning curve ;)
Slap on a little after shave and burn those tiny critters out.
Dusty and cold, sure – but Mars has a certain, raw beauty.
Dawn at the Red Planet, with high clouds floating by. Take time to look up.
Full image: https://t.co/lOIB0GBraf pic.twitter.com/bYreLdR2Fc— NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover (@NASAPersevere) March 23, 2023
It’s really messed up that a young person died a tragic and preventable death alone in a basement and the only coverage is that the public servants who responded had panic attacks and wasted a ton of public resources. This lie is so bad. Even after death we are mistreating people pic.twitter.com/53OpuFMmZV
— Ryan Marino, MD (@RyanMarino) March 25, 2023
…Italians mocking florida pic.twitter.com/iRBSryeMSp
— #RandyResistING Authoritarianism (@RandyResist) March 27, 2023
He PAID her to get near his smallness. 😆🤡 pic.twitter.com/yun49w1L2N
— TPBlue💔 (@TPBlue4) March 27, 2023
Warning note to all radio transmitter technicians and ham radio operators.
— Bad Medical Takes (@BadMedicalTakes) March 26, 2023
re: #95 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I just read the story. Not really sure why the doc who tweeted is getting worked up. I get that Americans will lapse into hysteria the moment they think a first responder (specifically a cop) is at the slightest risk, but this was a potential chemical hazmat situation. I mean, I guess the doctor is saying if there’s a white powder strewn about a crime scene with an OD victim, the 1st responders are supposed to take deep breaths of the stuff, lay on the ground, and make meth angels?
Christ, most of the story deals with the OD victim and his family. Am I missing something here?
I was going to point out for Anymouse that picking a reincarnation from among non-Tibetans has generally not worked out well. For example, Thubten Yeshe was a famous lama from Tibet, escaped to India and set up a number of teaching facilities around the world. He died in 1984, and his work has been carried on by his followers. In the late 1980s, his reincarnation was found—in Spain, name of Ösel Hita Torres, who has not really followed the path of a reincarnated lama. (More can be learned online.)
However, since the family of this child is Mongolian and practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism (not strange at all, Tibetan Buddhism has had a big presence in Mongolia for centuries), I suspect this situation may turn out better for all concerned. Certainly there’s a lot of wondering how to make sure that these reincarnated tulkus actually go on to becoming religious leaders as adults when they don’t live in a Tibetan environment. I’ve heard stories about monastery training and it’s not all good.
That said (and I only just bought the book yesterday), I was looking at a book called “Prisoners of Shangri-La” by Donald S. Lopez Jr. and read that there was a period in the 1960s-1970s when *no* reincarnations were announced by Tibetan leaders in exile. There was a thought that reincarnations would die out, but apparently when one was recognized, the floodgates opened. I need to dig into that further when I get into the book. (It was something like $2.99 on Kindle, I thought it would be worth reading in the future.)
Cross dressing US Army soldiers performing in Irving Berlin’s “This is the Army Mr. Jones” in 1942:
re: #98 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Warning note to all radio transmitter technicians and ham radio operators.
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“EM wave poisoning”? Yeah, no, that’s called “radiation poisoning” and pneumonia is not listed as one of the symptoms. “EM wave poisoning” sounds like something you make up to convince your friends that they need to give up their electronic devices to spend more time with you.
re: #98 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Warning note to all radio transmitter technicians and ham radio operators.
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Wait until she hears about cosmic background radiation.
re: #88 Egregious Philbin
Sounds like soda stream with their outrageously priced tiny CO2 cannisters. So, what I do is, buy cheap seltzer water, and the sodastream syrup. Couple of squirts of fake Red Bull into my can, and off I go.
I went with a Soda Stream mainly to cut down on the number of plastic bottles I was feeding into the recycling bin.* For water intake I want a bit of fizz and a touch of citrus flavor. Adding a touch of lemon juice does that just fine. And I avoid the cost of the syrups, which is $0.40 per liter flavored given the local prices. Overall, it’s only a minor economic saving and it’ll take a few months to break even on the initial buy-in costs.
* - Assuming, of course, that what goes in the recycling bins here actually has a chance of being recycled instead of simply ending up in a land-fill anyways.
— Bad Medical Takes (@BadMedicalTakes) March 26, 2023
Let me guess, they were secretly replaced with clones created from animal/plant hybrid cells using alien technology given to a secret government cabal with the intent of creating alien/human hybrids that would serve as a slave race after the aliens invaded back in 2012.
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re: #106 Targetpractice
Let me guess, they were secretly replaced with clones created from animal/plant hybrid cells using alien technology given to a secret government cabal with the intent of creating alien/human hybrids that would serve as a slave race after the aliens invaded back in 2012.
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Skagit Valley showed up to the party pic.twitter.com/SXpOyHSEQr
— Anne Helen Petersen (@annehelen) March 27, 2023
re: #108 teleskiguy
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I’ve ridden my bike there.
I have a link for you.
DIY workshop in Southern Oregon offers chance to build your own custom skis
re: #107 teleskiguy
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There are times I do miss that show. Then I remember how Chris Carter let it go so long that it became a joke and I sigh.
My brother from another mother! pic.twitter.com/jC6uVIzq7L
— 🕉🇺🇦Stevie Van Zandt☮️💙 (@StevieVanZandt) March 27, 2023
re: #110 Targetpractice
There are times I do miss that show. Then I remember how Chris Carter let it go so long that it became a joke and I sigh.
Like The Simpsons–another Fox mainstay that has long outlived its cultural usefulness–it was really great early on.
Stormy Daniels is not one to be trifled with. Strong woman, she don’t give a fuck.
True. He used a 3 inch one. https://t.co/X3YvAu6jID
— Stormy Daniels (@StormyDaniels) March 26, 2023
This is true. I am a big fan of both. https://t.co/pOsJmKjJWw
— Stormy Daniels (@StormyDaniels) March 27, 2023
Why did he invite me to his room, take off his clothes and corner me when I came out of the bathroom even though he knew he had a wife? https://t.co/SrTucgkKtm
— Stormy Daniels (@StormyDaniels) March 27, 2023
Literally my job description but I’d say “well fucked” imo https://t.co/wK2Jen6BVJ
— Stormy Daniels (@StormyDaniels) March 27, 2023
re: #110 Targetpractice
There are times I do miss that show. Then I remember how Chris Carter let it go so long that it became a joke and I sigh.
I still rewatch the earlier seasons sometimes.
re: #113 teleskiguy
Stormy Daniels is not one to be trifled with. Strong woman, she don’t give a fuck.
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These same asshats thinking they’re insulting her are also probably the ones who think Trump an “alpha male” because he can pay women to have sex with him.
re: #114 Eclectic Cyborg
I still rewatch the earlier seasons sometimes.
There’s some good episodes of the later seasons, but so much of it was just Carter visibly trying to keep fans interested for just one more season so he could keep collecting a paycheck.
My middle son has been doing fencing since his first year of college, with an interruption due to the pandemic. He’s really good for not having a coach or significant private lessons. He’s aggressive, which tends to throw off a lot of competitors, but it’s also very strategic, and the longer he has to fight a person, the more likely he will figure out their strategy and win. He’s been getting a lot of complements recently from some coaches that participate in tournaments. Once he gets a job he’s planning on finding a coach. He solely focuses on epee.
He had a tournament that stretched over two days this weekend. He finished about in the middle on Saturday, and high enough today that he earned points to qualify for nationals.
I learned something about the fencing world that is weird. A tournament consists of two parts: A prelim part where you play against a subset of the other contestants which will help, along with your rank, determine where you are in the bracket used in the second part. The second part is an elimination bracket, like any sport.
Now, when you fence, one of your goals is to get high enough to earn an actual rank. There are five fencing ranks, A-E, and unranked, which my son currently is. You earn the rank based on your standing, relative to those who win. Here’s where it gets weird. You know how we all cheer when the top rank teams get knocked out of the final four? If, for some reason, the top fencers were to get knocked out of the top eight (there were 41 epee’s at the tournament), then none of the remaining fencers would earn any points or ranks. In order for my son to get a rank, he would have to finish in the top eight, but there would also have to be some of the top ranked fencers at the tournament finishing in the top 8 as well. He finished 13th, his best outing so far, so it didn’t matter, but this rule just seems weird.
re: #106 Targetpractice
Let me guess, they were secretly replaced with clones created from animal/plant hybrid cells using alien technology given to a secret government cabal with the intent of creating alien/human hybrids that would serve as a slave race after the aliens invaded back in 2012.
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Don’t be silly. They’ve become goa’uld hosts.
No. I’m a homosexual weirdo. You, Ted, are a straight up nut job. https://t.co/oMiXUxRXF8
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) March 27, 2023
re: #106 Targetpractice
OK, Sharon.
Disclose your sources that tell you Fetterman and Feinstein are dead.
Hint—Alex Jones, Gateway Pundit and Stewpid Peters don’t count as reliable sources!
re: #120 Joe Bacon
OK, Sharon.
Disclose your sources that tell you Fetterman and Feinstein are dead.
Hint—Alex Jones, Gateway Pundit and Stewpid Peters don’t count as reliable sources!
You know, she heard it from a cousin whose friend is the brother of the assistant to the director of the department at the hospital who totally saw it happen.
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The open homophobia and transphobia prominent conservative leaders are touting these days is going to bite them in the ass very soon. Like, 2024 soon. People in the United States, by and large, are not homophobic and transphobic and in fact see all this panic as stupid and absurd.
Maybe my rosy view of the world comes from my recent experiences which have been admittedly primo when it comes to the human experience…
re: #122 teleskiguy
The open homophobia and transphobia prominent conservative leaders are touting these days is going to bite them in the ass very soon. Like, 2024 soon. People in the United States, by and large, are not homophobic and transphobic and in fact see all this panic as stupid and absurd.
It’ll continue to win votes on the state and local levels but nationally it’s becoming politically toxic. We say it virtually every election, but the GQP truly is in danger of becoming a regional party in a generation.
re: #124 Targetpractice
It’ll continue to win votes on the state and local levels but nationally it’s becoming politically toxic. We say it virtually every election, but the GQP truly is in danger of becoming a regional party in a generation.
You know it. Post Roe is already proving to be tragic for women dealing with states rights shit.
I mentioned here that my cousin is a librarian in Springfield, MO. Well, I asked her on Facebook how things were, she said:
My library district has been weirdly insulated from book challenges and drama. There are always book challenges here and there, but nothing out of the ordinary. But there is some scary stuff going on in the state legislature right now that could have a negative impact, and lots of Library districts in the state are dealing with some difficult challenges, including the one just south of here that I used to work at. I have a friend who is a library director in a district south of Kansas City that’s been fighting with his board for over a year to keep a particular book on the shelf. His board, county commissioners, and local paper are all fighting against it and he’s at risk of getting fired over it. And the book is literally just an educational book for kids and teens about puberty and adolescence.
This was on Wednesday.
I’m really hoping the pushback to the reactionary shit going down prevails in the coming years. We can’t regress to fucking camps and arbitrary firing squads. We just can’t.
re: #125 teleskiguy
You know it. Post Roe is already proving to be tragic for women dealing with states rights shit.
I mentioned here that my cousin is a librarian in Springfield, MO. Well, I asked her on Facebook how things were, she said:
This was on Wednesday.
I’m really hoping the pushback to the reactionary shit going down prevails in the coming years. We can’t regress to fucking camps and arbitrary firing squads. We just can’t.
The big issue facing the GQP is that Trump is refusing to follow the traditional script and the party has no real way to deal with it. The script goes that you lose an election, you concede gracefully, you spend your last days in office trying to pull the party’s ass out of the fire, and then you quietly leave when the new guy finishes the oath. You then spend your retirement years writing books, giving paid speeches, popping up at public events, and generally just trying to no give your SS detail a hard time.
Instead, Trump’s decided that the job he never wanted had too many perks that relate to criming and protection from the consequences of criming so it was his all along and it’s a crime against him personally that he no longer has it. Instead of stepping aside so somebody else can take the spotlight he’s intending to keep it upon himself until he drops dead and is dragging the party into an unstable orbit around his bloated orange carcass. Thus everybody in the party that wants to still have a job after the next election that isn’t trying to be as crazy as he is is instead trying to act even crazier.
re: #45 William Lewis
That’s why before I stopped shaving (my gf really likes my santa beard) I got a nice German made Safety razor & bought cheap blades at the drug store.
yeah, just rinse off the blades and (carefully) wipe them between shaves and they will last longer.
A few years back an audiophile known to his local audiophile community became more well known, as articles started to show up in audio publications about his work to build the ultimate music playback system.
The video documentary of him was done in 2019, I think, but he didn’t upload it to his
The documentary may have been uploaded here before ( I seem to recall) but for those who hadn’t seen it:
A local TV station then made a short news blurb about him in 2021:
..
I had not realized it but Ken Fritz passed away last April:
So while it took him 30 years to work on it and finally finish it, he had barely a couple of years to enjoy his completed project.
Still, I think for the audiophiles here (or anyone else) the lesson is to enjoy the journey in accomplishing whatever project one undertakes. It does not have to be about making the ultimate music playback system.
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WATCH: Tik Tok-ers point out that members of congress are telling on themselves by saying their tik tok feeds are filled with inappropriate videos of young people… 👀 pic.twitter.com/EUJBF8Caf8
— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) March 25, 2023
re: #129 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Maybe I should get a Tik Tok account?
If some Representative is concerned aboinappropriateite content then they should concentrate on Musk’s Twitter. Since he took over there has been an explosion in explicit content without warning labels.
re: #130 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Maybe I should get a Tik Tok account?
If some Representative is concerned aboinappropriateite content then they should concentrate on Musk’s Twitter. Since he took over there has been an explosion in explicit content without warning labels.
One of about the only semi-positive changes that came about since Musk took over is the axing of whatever code would let you read one or two tweets in a feed before demanding you sign up to go further.
The issue with Tik Tok is that it is Chinese and hence subject to the control of the CCP. Twitter is fine in the hands of a Western billionaire capitalist
re: #132 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The issue with Tik Tok is that it is Chinese and hence subject to the control of the CCP. Twitter is fine in the hands of a Western billionaire capitalist
Yeah, it’s magic how their desire to see Twitter brought under government control magically disappeared as soon as Phony Stark’s check cleared.
re: #133 Targetpractice
Yeah, it’s magic how their desire to see Twitter brought under government control magically disappeared as soon as Phony Stark’s check cleared.
I think there is cause to address the issue of the monopoly status enjoyed by the major Internet social and messaging platforms, but we must look on this as an anti-trust matter and not conflate it with the First Amendment.
re: #134 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There is the issue of the monopoly status enjoyed by the major Internet social and messaging platforms, but we must look on this as an anti-trust matter and not conflate it with the First Amendment.
The problem with going at these companies from the antitrust angle is that…well…they’re not charging anybody for their services. Other than Musk’s ongoing attempt to do so with Twitter, the biggest problem with the others is that they horde and sell user data. And the answer to that is the same as the antitrust problem: “Don’t use them.” As somebody who’s been on public message boards for much of my life, “You should be able to say whatever you want on the Internet” is a serious hard sell.
On the issue of naturopaths and Republicans trying to scare women about risks of oestrogen-containing hormonal contraceptives, Dr. Jennifer Gunter, MD (OB/GYN) has completed a 1.5 year investigation of the literature on the risks of those contraceptives, versus various other risks (lightning strikes, car accidents, gunshot deaths, &c), along with the risk of pregnancies for various age groups.
The risk is clear: People have something to sell you, and it isn’t contraceptives.
Putting Contraceptive Risk into Perspective (The Vajenda, March 23, 2023)
re: #132 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The issue with Tik Tok is that it is Chinese and hence subject to the control of the CCP. Twitter is fine in the hands of a Western billionaire capitalist
That is what Congress is looking into, but the two teenagers in the video are calling out the hypocrisy about them screeching about inappropriate child content in their feeds (note: they probably are only parroting conservative talking points because I doubt someone like Chuck Grassley or Jim Jordan uses TikTok), when what shows up in the feed is what you like or share to TikTok.
If inappropriate content is coming up in their feeds, it’s because their searching for it or liking it. (This is similar to the flapadoodle about Ted Cruz’s Twitter account sharing a clip of a Cory Chase cuckold video and being called out, then him throwing a staffer under the bus, then conservatives attacking Cory Chase for making the video rather than the Cruz account watching and sharing it.)
re: #136 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
On the issue of naturopaths and Republicans trying to scare women about risks of oestrogen-containing hormonal contraceptives, Dr. Jennifer Gunter, MD (OB/GYN) has completed a 1.5 year investigation of the literature on the risks of those contraceptives, versus various other risks (lightning strikes, car accidents, gunshot deaths, &c), along with the risk of pregnancies for various age groups.
The risk is clear: People have something to sell you, and it isn’t contraceptives.
Putting Contraceptive Risk into Perspective (The Vajenda, March 23, 2023)
“Doctor, I have an ear ache.”
2000 B.C. - “Here, eat this root.”
1000 B.C. - “That root is heathen, say this prayer.”
1850 A.D. - “That prayer is superstition, drink this potion.”
1940 A.D. - “That potion is snake oil, swallow this pill.”
1985 A.D. - “That pill is ineffective, take this antibiotic.”
2000 A.D. - “That antibiotic is artificial. Here, eat this root!”
How to get mortally dragged on Twitter with one lying meme.
What changed? pic.twitter.com/D2SEWI01xb
— 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞 🇺🇸 (@creation247) March 23, 2023
re: #135 Targetpractice
“You should be able to say whatever you want on the Internet” is a serious hard sell.
That aspect of it is fine, the question is whether you should be able to say whatever you want on any one specific Internet site, namely the major ones like Twitter and FB.
I can always start my own misogynistracistwhitesupremacistantivaxerpinappleonpizzalover.com and say whatever I want on it to all three people who stumble across it.
And although the sites don’t charge to post, they do charge to advertise. That is also what helps them maintain their monopoly position on the market.
re: #138 Targetpractice
Putting Contraceptive Risk into Perspective
“But if you die in childbirth then that’s God’s Will!”
re: #139 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
How to get mortally dragged on Twitter with one lying meme.
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What changed? Well, when the photo on the left was originally taken in 1985, there was still a good chance that teens/young adults that looked like that could clean up, interview for a job with a guy their dad knew from high school, and land a job that paid a decent enough wage that they could afford to marry their girlfriend and raise two kids (which this couple ended up doing).
Compare to the picture on the right in 2023, where a famous Youtube celebrity spent a decade working to become financially secure by working a career frequently criticized by many in the industry as soul-draining and horrendous to one’s health before considering have his first child at the age of 33. Yeah, Pewdiepie looks young, but he’s only 5 years younger than I am. That’s the reality of “counterculture” today, that you have to work until you’re pretty much middle-aged before you can even think of having kids.
re: #142 Targetpractice
You have to pay off your college debt before you can start saving for a house to raise a family in.
re: #140 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
That aspect of it is fine, the question is whether you should be able to say whatever you want on any one specific Internet site, namely the major ones like Twitter and FB.
I can always start my own misogynistracistwhitesupremacistantivaxerpinappleonpizzalover.com and say whatever I want on it to all three people who stumble across it.
And although the sites don’t charge to post, they do charge to advertise. That is also what helps them maintain their monopoly position on the market.
I clicked on that link and find my computer can’t find it. /s You want to register that, or should I ask my wife? /s
re: #143 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
You have to pay off your college debt before you can start saving for a house to raise a family in.
Yeah, that’s the other aspect to it, Pewdiepie is Swedish so college was free and his folks were wealthy enough to pay even if he did have to pay tuition. So dropping out didn’t leave him swamped with debt and allowed him to pursue first an apprenticeship that he fell short of winning and then becoming a major YT celeb. All of that combined makes portraying him as “counterculture” absolutely fucking hilarious.
But considering the dipshit responsible for the tweet couldn’t even get the date for the first pic right, I have no problem believing he just entered “couple with sonogram” into Google and grabbed the first pic that looked alright for his attempt at a “based” meme.
re: #140 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
That aspect of it is fine, the question is whether you should be able to say whatever you want on any one specific Internet site, namely the major ones like Twitter and FB.
I can always start my own misogynistracistwhitesupremacistantivaxerpinappleonpizzalover.com and say whatever I want on it to all three people who stumble across it.
And although the sites don’t charge to post, they do charge to advertise. That is also what helps them maintain their monopoly position on the market.
From a layman’s perspective, all that really changed in the past 20-25 years is the size of the audience and the reach of the behavior. Being a dickhead on a BBS with a population smaller than a Midwestern farm town doesn’t make a shitload of difference and so we’re cool with draconian Terms of Service agreements and heavy-handed moderation. But a politician with millions of followers suddenly finds a tweet censored and we’re ready to grab the torches and pitchforks. The “public square” always had gates and gatekeepers, all that’s changed is we’re now getting uptight because the gatekeepers are no longer worried about the atmosphere of the board and instead about the teeth of corporate attack lawyers.
re: #146 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Neez moar Fraktur.
re: #147 Targetpractice
From a layman’s perspective, all that really changed in the past 20-25 years is the size of the audience and the reach of the behavior. Being a dickhead on a BBS with a population smaller than a Midwestern farm town doesn’t make a shitload of difference and so we’re cool with draconian Terms of Service agreements and heavy-handed moderation. But a politician with millions of followers suddenly finds a tweet censored and we’re ready to grab the torches and pitchforks. The “public square” always had gates and gatekeepers, all that’s changed is we’re now getting uptight because the gatekeepers are no longer worried about the atmosphere of the board and instead about the teeth of corporate attack lawyers.
I’ll have you know my BBS had way more people than my village today.
Kind of like Knox County mayor @GlennJacobsTN - who shocked a man’s testicles in front of a large audience that included children: https://t.co/n8gWP6k6H8 https://t.co/NnikDbYU6X
— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) March 27, 2023
re: #147 Targetpractice
The “public square” always had gates and gatekeepers, all that’s changed is we’re now getting uptight because the gatekeepers are no longer worried about the atmosphere of the board and instead about the teeth of corporate attack lawyers.
I recall the discussion in the 70’s and 80’s when Main Street USA moved to the shopping malls, and protesters found themselves banned by the owners, as it was private property.
Ben Gvir threatens to topple coalition as PM said set to freeze judicial overhaul (Times of Israel, twelve minutes ago)
“Netanyahu to speak amid public anger over Gallant’s firing; trains to Jerusalem packed ahead of rally to be held at Knesset; PM’s lawyer threatens to quit”
The Times of Israel is liveblogging Monday’s events as they happen.
re: #74 jaunte
On Amazon Video, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Sky Store, Chili, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Rakuten TV
Will see!
re: #151 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I recall the discussion in the 70’s and 80’s when Main Street USA moved to the shopping malls, and protesters found themselves banned by the owners, as it was private property.
I’d say it’s sort of the difference between what people grew up thinking the “Wild West” was and the actual reality of the “Wild West,” the idea of drunken cowboys loaded for bear walking down the main strip and firing off shots into the air at all hours contrasting with the reality that many towns had strict local laws about carrying firearms and public drunkenness was discouraged. I’ve never been on a public forum that lasted very long without some form of moderation, even LGF in the “Wild West” era had ways of booting assholes if with less accuracy than possible today (think difference between killing a fly with a bazooka and killing one with a sniper rifle). I doubt Charles would have even bothered keeping this place open if he had no direct way of preventing the sort of titanic assholes that used to roll through the door from staying longer than it took to wear out their welcomes.
re: #154 Targetpractice
I’d say it’s sort of the difference between what people grew up thinking the “Wild West” was and the actual reality of the “Wild West,” the idea of drunken cowboys loaded for bear walking down the main strip and firing off shots into the air at all hours contrasting with the reality that many towns had strict local laws about carrying firearms and public drunkenness was discouraged.
and again, it is not a matter of “Free Speech”, you are Free to take your Speech elsewhere.
PS: snowing again here on the Rhine. Cray-zee.
Didn’t think the birbie try had a chance, until it did! Cinderella story now 5-under on his last 3 “holes.” Take that, Tiger!
Happy last week of March!
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re: #155 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
and again, it is not a matter of “Free Speech”, you are Free to take your Speech elsewhere.
PS: snowing again here on the Rhine. Cray-zee.
Hence why it’s not really an antitrust issue so much as a loss of trust in who’s running the show. Sort of like my reason for leaving the last board I was on was not because they’d started charging admission or selling ad space, but because the respected and even-handed owner/head moderator sold the place to one of the chief shit-stirrers who proceeded to let all his previously-banned buddies back in to wreck the place.
It’s not so much a lack of competition as it is a lack of competition of equal or greater size to the companies we’re on the outs with. We want a competitor to Twitter, but we want one that has the same audience, size, and reach as Twitter does…just without Musk in charge.
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I’d say Christian hate-preacher Greg Locke is in the clear after this “press conference” about the multiple lawsuits he’s facing.
Pitch perfect. No notes. pic.twitter.com/iYcG4YO6hz— Hemant Mehta (@hemantmehta) March 27, 2023
re: #158 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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Sounds like the Bible-flavored version of Alex Jones.
Thread, seven tweets.
It isn’t a decision to drop the overhaul. If Netanyahu reversed course, he’d lose his coalition 3 seconds later. It is a tactical move that relies on two things: a pledge from protesters that they will suspend protests too, and a bet that their momentum will dissipate as a result
— (((Michael Koplow))) (@mkoplow) March 26, 2023
re: #157 Targetpractice
It’s not so much a lack of competition as it is a lack of competition of equal or greater size to the companies we’re on the outs with. We want a competitor to Twitter, but we want one that has the same audience, size, and reach as Twitter does…just without Musk in charge.
This will not keep the GOP from whining about “conservative speech” being “censored” by by “big tech”.
re: #157 Targetpractice
Hence why it’s not really an antitrust issue so much as a loss of trust in who’s running the show. Sort of like my reason for leaving the last board I was on was not because they’d started charging admission or selling ad space, but because the respected and even-handed owner/head moderator sold the place to one of the chief shit-stirrers who proceeded to let all his previously-banned buddies back in to wreck the place.
It’s not so much a lack of competition as it is a lack of competition of equal or greater size to the companies we’re on the outs with. We want a competitor to Twitter, but we want one that has the same audience, size, and reach as Twitter does…just without Musk in charge.
Like you both said
There’s a difference between ‘the internet’ and having access to a subset audience that is one specific website/service. Which not only is private property, but the audiences there have presumably been carefully built and curated. That cost someone money and time and thus has value. Both past/inherent and future potential. They will be protected from threats and vandalism .
re: #163 Dangerman
Adding…
Unfortunate, some of the disrupters (tfg) are simultaneously money makers
There is no Right to Platform
re: #162 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
This will not keep the GOP from whining about “conservative speech” being “censored” by by “big tech”.
The GQP are perpetual victims. They whine about hearing “Happy Holidays.” They thought biting commentary was changing the cafeteria menus to “Freedom Fries” during the lead-up to a war that they now (to a man) insist they never supported.
re: #165 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There is no Right to Platform
Ezzacto.
You have the right to rant on a street corner.
Not necessarily a specific corner.
re: #167 Dangerman
Ezzacto.
You have the right to rant on a street corner.
Not necessarily a specific corner.
I called the corner of 12th and Atlantic and there’s no way I’m giving it up!
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re: #160 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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Yeah, we’ve seen this bit before: Respond to massive fuck-off protests by promising to “review” the legislation and “meet” with the opposition, then come back after the uproar has died down to ram the bill through while accusing the opposition of being “obstinate.”
re: #152 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Ben Gvir threatens to topple coalition as PM said set to freeze judicial overhaul (Times of Israel, twelve minutes ago)
“Netanyahu to speak amid public anger over Gallant’s firing; trains to Jerusalem packed ahead of rally to be held at Knesset; PM’s lawyer threatens to quit”
The Times of Israel is liveblogging Monday’s events as they happen.
from that liveblog:
McDonald’s announces it will join the strike against the judicial overhaul
“The McDonald’s chain in Israel announces that it is also joining the strike and closing its branches nationwide starting at noon.
The chain operates around 200 stores across Israel — both kosher and non-kosher — and is the largest burger franchise in the country.”
so… Air Force reserve pilots, all the universities, fast food.
But the trains and buses are still running, so people can get to the protests…
A few hours ago, Israeli universities announced they were calling off classes tomorrow.
Now this ⬇️⬇️ https://t.co/pIrFPNoP6S— Bill Grueskin (@BGrueskin) March 26, 2023
Ben gurion airport is closed too
re: #168 Targetpractice
I called the corner of 12th and Atlantic and there’s no way I’m giving it up!
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But I got there first.
Imagine that court case and the weighty legal principles involved:
Dibs vs possession is 9/10 of the law
I think at this point it’s a question of whether or not Bibi pushed things far enough that the protests are self-sustaining, that people will still show up even after he promises to put things on ice for a month while he conducts bad faith “talks” with the opposition and tinkers at the edges while leaving the bill itself largely intact.
re: #171 Dangerman
Ben gurion airport is closed too
with luck, this will not only sweep Netanyahu from gov’t, but also bring down that Heritage/ALEC equivalent that’s been operating in the shadows until they got dragged into the sunlight this week.
re: #172 Dangerman
But I got there first.
Imagine that court case and the weighty legal principles involved:
Dibs vs possession is 9/10 of the law
“Possession is 9/10th of the law!”
according to those who already possess 9/10th of everything.
re: #174 sagehen
with luck, this will not only sweep Netanyahu from gov’t, but also bring down that Heritage/ALEC equivalent that’s been operating in the shadows until they got dragged into the sunlight this week.
Jeez, I thought that opposing the policies of the Israeli government was tantamount to Anti-Semitism…
re: #168 Targetpractice
I called the corner of 12th and Atlantic and there’s no way I’m giving it up!
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Well, they tore down the apartment house I used to live on 12th Street behind the former Raven restaurant to build a parking lot, so I grant you permission to protest there.
re: #177 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Well, they tore down the apartment house I used to live on 12th Street behind the former Raven restaurant to build a parking lot, so I grant you permission to protest there.
My birthplace in Gary, Indiana is still standing and inhabited as far as I can tell from Google Street View, unlike many of the other houses on my street.
Video surveillance of polling places brings questions about cost, voter intimidation (KHGI-TV, ABC, Kearney, Nebr., March 22, 2023)
They’re just going to keep pushing their voter fraud conspiracy, no matter how much it costs the rest of us here.
Fortunately, all these bills might get out of committee, but will immediately run into the buzz saw which is Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh’s filibuster over the anti-trans hate bill. Plus, their anti-abortion law is on hold too, and they want that more.
The Republican state Secretary of State noted the state ran, as always, a clean election (before the state Attorney General insisted blue states didn’t and signed on to the Texas lawsuit to try to disenfranchise voters in other states with our tax money).
LINCOLN, Neb. — More bills that target Nebraska’s election laws are up for hearings today in the state legislature.
LB 457 from Bellevue Senator Rick Holdcroft would require video surveillance of voting and add anti-tampering and anti-counterfeiting requirements for paper ballots, vote scanning devices, and vote counting systems.
Meanwhile LB 193 from Hastings Senator Steve Halloran would require that all voting systems in Nebraska be made in the U.S.
Another measure from Halloran that’s up for a hearing would allow election commissioners and county clerks to count votes by hand for elections and recounts.
Supporters of the measures say it would improve election integrity as they make claims about voter fraud. Experts say voter fraud is rare in Nebraska with only two documented cases of people voting twice among millions of ballots cast in the last several elections.
The bills bring strong opposition from county election officials.
Hall County Election Commissioner Tracy Overstreet says the video surveillance proposal could cost hundreds of thousands of dollars for the county and more than $6 million for the 1,200 polling places in the state.
Overstreet says an individual paper ballot costs ten cents now but adding watermarks and homographs could add up to $2 per ballot.
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re: #179 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Hall County Election Commissioner Tracy Overstreet says the video surveillance proposal could cost hundreds of thousands of dollars for the county and more than $6 million for the 1,200 polling places in the state.
Overstreet says an individual paper ballot costs ten cents now but adding watermarks and homographs could add up to $2 per ballot.
well, then folks, how about instituting a Poll Tax to help pay for all this transparency and integrity?
AAAAAaaaaa …
EXCLUSIVE: The Texas Observer, the crusading liberal magazine founded in 1954, which Molly Ivins edited in the ’70s, is closing down and laying off its staff. The board voted on Wednesday, and again today, to proceed with the shutdown.https://t.co/q5d5QBxKyQ
— Sewell Chan (@sewellchan) March 27, 2023
Left-wing billionaires want to do “innovative” projects about The Future of News or whatever but their money would be far better spent just hiring 10 reporters each for the Village Voice, the Portland Mercury, etc.
— Michael Hobbes (@RottenInDenmark) March 27, 2023
re: #181 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
We had the sad duty this evening of informing @gabrielarana, the Observer’s editor in chief since April 2022, of the board’s decision. He told us: “This is the first I’m hearing of it, the board hasn’t communicated with me or the staff about this.”https://t.co/q5d5QBxKyQ
— Sewell Chan (@sewellchan) March 27, 2023
Everyone loses whenever fact-based journalism disappears. No matter what your political leaning, today is a sad day for Texas journalism. https://t.co/q5d5QBxKyQ
— Sewell Chan (@sewellchan) March 27, 2023
Last year, @naomiandu thoughtfully chronicled the turmoil at @TexasObserver. Sadly, her prediction of its collapse came true. https://t.co/IYpUMfj1nw
— Sewell Chan (@sewellchan) March 27, 2023
Via the DC Bureau of the Nebraska Examiner, March 26, 2023
Denver airport CEO withdraws as FAA nominee after attacks by U.S. Senate Republicans
Breaking government continues from the GOP.
Phil Washington, the chief executive of Denver International Airport and President Joe Biden’s pick to lead the Federal Aviation Administration, withdrew from consideration in the face of persistent Republican opposition, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg confirmed Saturday night.
Reuters first reported Washington’s withdrawal, and Buttigieg confirmed it in a late Saturday tweet. Republicans had attacked Washington as unqualified for months and — though Washington and his supporters maintained there was no substance to the attacks — Buttigieg implied those criticisms tanked the nomination.
“The FAA needs a confirmed Administrator, and Phil Washington’s transportation & military experience made him an excellent nominee,” Buttigieg wrote. “The partisan attacks and procedural obstruction he has faced are undeserved, but I respect his decision to withdraw and am grateful for his service.”
The FAA has been without a Senate-confirmed commissioner since Steven Dickson left office at the end of March 2022. Biden nominated Washington last July.
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Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank are more than a thousand miles from Kimball County’s FirsTier Bank, Points West Community Bank and Kimball State Bank, and their practices and depositors remain as distant as their location.But the question arises here and across the nation: Could the troubles at those distant banks spread elsewhere?
These two banks on both coasts have succumbed to financial failure recently; Silicon Valley Bank in California and Signature Bank in New York closed their doors on March 10 and March 12, respectively. These large banks are the first two to fail in 2023 but have created concern for the banking system due to their size, exposure and increasing interest rates.
A statement from Nebraska Bankers Association said, “The recent bank closures in California and New York appear to be outliers and not reflective of the norm for banks across America and Nebraska. The closed banks had significant exposure to volatile sectors, including cryptocurrency. Nebraska banks have limited exposure to these types of industries.”
Silicon Valley Bank was heavily into small tech, venture capital industries, and entrepreneurs, and Signature Bank was heavily into cryptocurrency, whereas Nebraska banks rely on agriculture, practice traditional and conservative values.
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Distant Bank Failures a Threat? (Western Nebraska Observer, Kimball, 23 March, 2023)
I suppose that’s good to hear, as Points West Community Bank owns Lisco State Bank, where my wife’s IRA and our savings account live.
Having spoken to the Lisco State Bank manager, she assures me the amount of assets of our bank invested in either cryptocurrency or venture capital firms remains zero. The bank does not trust this newfangled libertarian vapourware.
Our bank operates as a bygone era: Paper ledgers, passbook savings accounts (we have a real passbook where they handwrite our deposits in the book), &c.
Turd and Elon having a moment of ecstasy fantasizing about owning the libs. pic.twitter.com/4rLOosgtUK
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) March 27, 2023
Some local news. Local news stations have been running stories on past students of Doane Stuart School and the many happy memories they had attending.
The former Kenwood Convent was sold at auction for $100,000 just two days before it burned in a massive fire.
Standing in front of a smoldering pile of rubble Mayor Kathy Sheehan and other city officials gathered at the site Friday in the city’s South End to discuss the blaze that consumed the stately landmark that also once housed the Doane Stuart School. By sunrise, much of the building had crumbled, leaving fallen bricks and twisted steel piled above the foundation.
According to the Website of Platte Valley Bank (where our chequing account and the village’s accounts live), they also have no exposure to either Signature nor Silicon Valley Banks.
Their press release said the same thing as the Western Nebraska Observer article: They do not invest in things such as cryptocurrency or venture capital startup firms.
None of our banks issue credit cards (due to credit card companies charging customers to use a card in western Nebraska), so a fallout in the credit card markets should insulate our banks as well.
Assuming none of them are lying (and I know all the people who work at our banks), it would appear our money is safe.
re: #188 Backwoods_Sleuth
This has to be the most expensive shitposting operation in the history of shitposting.
As Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez noted, “behind every billionaire is a policy failure.”
re: #190 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Unfortunately, modern money is like a river, and when there is a breach in the dyke somewhere miles downstream, this can still lead to your waters being troubled.
re: #191 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
This has to be the most expensive shitposting operation in the history of shitposting.
As Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez noted, “behind every billionaire is a policy failure.”
Any business that is too big to fail is also too big not to be regulated.
re: #189 Shropshire Slasher
Some local news. Local news stations have been running stories on past students of Doane Stuart School and the many happy memories they had attending.
Man, if you were the purchaser, that’s gotta suck. Not to mention the memories of those who attended the school and now it’s ash.
re: #192 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Unfortunately, modern money is like a river, and when there is a breach in the dyke somewhere miles downstream, this can still lead to your waters being troubled.
For sure. If, as all the economic gurus claimed, contagion spread throughout the general banking sector, that would trigger severe stress on banks which weren’t considered exposed to the collapses of Signature and SVB. A bank run on stable banks would collapse them as well, and bank runs can be triggered by nothing more than rumours the bank is not solvent.
re: #194 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Man, if you were the purchaser, that’s gotta suck. Not to mention the memories of those who attended the school and now it’s ash.
Depends on the insurance situation. The purchaser maybe just acquired a vacant lot and saved himself the cost of a demolition….
re: #185 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Via the DC Bureau of the Nebraska Examiner, March 26, 2023
Denver airport CEO withdraws as FAA nominee after attacks by U.S. Senate Republicans
Breaking government continues from the GOP.
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And according to the Washington Post, Natasha Sinema stuck the shiv in him.
re: #195 Nerdy Fish
Wow. What a word.
My usual starting word helped. but my pattern was different than yours. (4/6)
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re: #196 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
… A bank run on stable banks would collapse them as well, and bank runs can be triggered by nothing more than rumours the bank is not solvent.
Let us not forget that our economic system is based on belief, just like religion.
In German, the word for creditor, Gläubiger, means “believer”, while the word for debt Schuld, is also the word for “guilt” or “fault”.
re: #197 sagehen
Depends on the insurance situation. The purchaser maybe just acquired a vacant lot and saved himself the cost of a demolition….
ahh… just read the article. Two paragraphs of note:
1)
On Friday afternoon, attorneys for the investment group that purchased the 74-acre property two days before the blaze asked a federal bankruptcy judge for an emergency status conference on a $2 million insurance policy that is set to expire on March 28. The policy was taken out the same day the previous owner declared bankruptcy in 2022.
and 2)
Historic preservationists had long hoped the building could be utilized in a redevelopment of the property. But the damage from the flames and heat doomed the main structure and it will be demolished, said Rick LaJoy, head of the city’s Department of Buildings and Regulatory Compliance.
Call me cynical, but I have serious doubts this fire was an accident.
Another one of our local conservative newspapers coming out against our state senator’s tax overhaul bills.
After explaining what inheritance and estate taxes are and do, and how they are assessed, and how they have changed over the years, the Alliance, Nebr. Times-Herald writes this at the end of the article on March 22, 2023:
Alliance is in the same Unicameral district as I am, so this is a shot over the bow of Senator Steve Erdman.
Nebraska is one of six states which collects a state inheritance tax.
The Revenue Committee of the Nebraska Legislature is considering advancing a constitutional amendment, LR23CA, to end inheritance tax. If approved, this would be on the ballot in the next general election for voters to decide.
If these two “death taxes” are ended, we must remember that the dollars collected from them must be made up with other taxes. This would be one more example of transferring tax obligations from the wealthy to those with no assets, again raising taxes on low-income households.
re: #202 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Around here, the principal sources of news for most people are newspapers and magazines.
While there is radio, it’s mostly music. There are several Christian radio stations (the one in the county seat has its broadcasting tower in my town because business building permits are only $25) but they don’t broadcast news. The only news stations in the entire Panhandle are KSID-AM (FOX, Sidney), KTNE-FM (NPR, Alliance), and KCNE-FM (NPR, Chadron). The only people with cable television live in the large towns, and satellite television and Internet service are far too expensive in the more-populated rural areas.
The demise of many national and internation print magazines and newspapers is a real problem for people who live in areas such as mine.
Our tiny village’s public library is fully accredited by the American Library Association (which requires a certain number of periodical or newspaper subscriptions based on size). As such, several people in the village donate subscriptions to the library to keep our accreditation.
I donate print subscriptions to the Council on Foreign Relations Foreign Affairs and The Economist to help with international political news and economics analysis. Others donate subscriptions to the Bridgeport News-Blade (the county paper), the Scottsbluff Star-Herald, and the Denver Post. The village board pays for Nebraska Life magazine. The uber-rich ranchers in the village pay for National Geographic. Our neighbours pay for Grit.
The periodicals in our library are some of the popular reading material. There is always someone reading them when the library is open.
I maintain this is much more important than getting news from Faceborg or Twattler.
re: #203 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The only people with cable television live in the large towns, and satellite television and Internet service are far too expensive in the more-populated rural areas.
Call me a communist, but I believe this is a problem the government should be intervening to solve. The ubiquity of the Internet in the modern age has essentially made it into a public utility, along the lines of telephone service. (And yes, I am well aware of telephone’s storied history as a not-quite-public utility.) The federal government of the United States has a vested interest in ensuring its rural citizens have access to the latest information and near-real-time communications with important government entities (among other things the Internet provides). We should be subsidizing provisioning of high-capacity data links to rural areas to get our country up to speed (pun intended) as a leader in the Information Age.
re: #204 Nerdy Fish
And yes, I am quite painfully aware of the logistical difficulties involved in provisioning any kind of large-scale rollout of services in a country that spans 2,300 miles from East to West and 1,600 miles from North to South, and with adversarial state governments that would adamantly oppose any federal intervention in their state, with or without a particularly good reason to do so.
I’m here to tell the coffee drinkers, the Timemore C2 manual coffee grinder is the absolute bee’s knees. I had been using what amounted to a bladed “spice/coffee/hobby supplies” grinder that has likely been with me since the Dream Time, and I’d always thought, “yeah, okay, that’s getting my coffee straightened out all right.” Then I read online about how blade cutters not only are notoriously bad at the one thing they’re being asked to do, but apparently they heat the coffee beans while cutting them, leaving the brew more bitter than it would otherwise be.
So I used the Amazon Prime one-day option where you place your order and then go stand outside for 10 seconds for the ACME truck to pull up with the box, and got the Timemore manual coffee burr grinder. Just brewed an excellent cup of coffee in a 10 dollar Mainstays 5-cup pot. The grounds were perfectly even in size. I filled the top of the grinder pretty much to the top with beans and got roughly 6 tablespoons’ worth of coffee out the bottom compartment. So in other words, if you have a significant O who also enjoys coffee, you’re likely going to be grinding for a couple of rounds before the brew, but I was impressed.
One miscellaneous note: I had it set for what I thought was a medium-coarse French press setting (and yes, I did read the directions first!) and wound up with something that was way too fine for press. So if you’re a French press drinker (which I would be exclusively if setting up wasn’t 10 minutes out of my morning that I don’t always want to spend), just realize you probably need to set further over on the “coarse” end than you might think you’d need to be. Of course, maybe you are a smart person who, unlike me, will run a test bit of coffee bean through the grinder to see how fine it’s grinding before stuffing the 25g of coffee in the top. I would drop a “share” link to the product off Amazon so Charles could make a buck or two here, but Amazon has apparently made the “share” button impossible to find for Mortal Man.
re: #204 Nerdy Fish
Call me a communist, but I believe this is a problem the government should be intervening to solve. The ubiquity of the Internet in the modern age has essentially made it into a public utility, along the lines of telephone service. (And yes, I am well aware of telephone’s storied history as a not-quite-public utility.) The federal government of the United States has a vested interest in ensuring its rural citizens have access to the latest information and near-real-time communications with important government entities (among other things the Internet provides). We should be subsidizing provisioning of high-capacity data links to rural areas to get our country up to speed (pun intended) as a leader in the Information Age.
I agree. I’m willing to pay the cost for Internet service because while I like living in a small village, I don’t like being cut off from the rest of the world (or even the rest of the state). The only places which have Internet service are my house, the village clerk’s office, the public library (and the computers there get a whole lot of use, thank you Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for donations of computers to my town), and the general store (which the proprietor uses primarily to order stock and watch Nebraska Husker’s games).
Our state is the only one where the entire electrical network is publically-owned (don’t tell the voters that is socialism though). Most towns resist the idea of privatising their water supplies. (Our uber-wingnut gunshop owner put the idea of putting our village water system to a privatisation scheme on a referendum, and it got exactly one vote.)
Internet service should be no different.
re: #156 TarHellion
Didn’t think the birbie try had a chance, until it did! Cinderella story now 5-under on his last 3 “holes.” Take that, Tiger!
Happy last week of March!
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re: #160 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
It’s also intended to give breathing space knowing that Pesach is almost here, and figures that his core supporters are busy with preparations, and he needs to keep them engaged too.
Double birbie!
This will give you the diabeatus.
Just another day in the life of a doting girl dad.
So when Dwayne Johnson’s youngest daughters, Jasmine, 7, and Tiana, 4, wanted to give their father a makeover, The Rock was game. The result? Think pink.
“No, I don’t need more makeup,” the Jungle Cruise actor captioned a March 24 Instagram video, showing the eldest of the two girls painting his entire head with bright pink lipstick. “I think I’m good. I really have the feeling I’m good.”
A black painted curly mustache, goatee and unibrow completed the Marvel’s Vision-like look.
Dwayne captioned the clip, “Daddy can we give you a makeover? No baby, daddy has a zoom meeting in 10min. PLEASE it’ll be quick! Ok, but make it quick but only do my nails and make me look handsome.”
re: #206 steve_davis
Yikes. That’s pretty expensive.
The grinder at the cheapest price there is more than my electric bill.
re: #206 steve_davis
I also used a bladed grinder for a while, until the Mrs. got me a Bazara grinder for my birthday.
Super easy to use. Easy to adjust grind to what you prefer. They warn you not to completely fill the receiving cup all the way as that could clog the unit, but other than that it works great. If you want to grind daily, there might be a better option as you’d want one that sets a precise amount to grind through.
I am old enough to remember the coffee grinders at the end of the checkout line at the A&P market, I think.
re: #213 lawhawk
I also used a bladed grinder for a while, until the Mrs. got me a Bazara grinder for my birthday.
Super easy to use. Easy to adjust grind to what you prefer. They warn you not to completely fill the receiving cup all the way as that could clog the unit, but other than that it works great. If you want to grind daily, there might be a better option as you’d want one that sets a precise amount to grind through.
My 22yo son is a foodie. That’s the one he got. He’s still living at home to save money while going to college, so this kind of expense makes me raise my eyebrows, but we’ve enjoyed using it.
re: #215 Barefoot Grin
It’s cheaper to grind and make your own coffee than to buy a cup from places like Starbucks or your local coffee house, so it’s a savings in the long run. /trying to justify my own consumption habit.
re: #210 Hecuba’s daughter
Double birbie!
Meanwhile for me, another miserable failure on music porn. I have no idea what the hell this is.
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re: #205 Nerdy Fish
And yes, I am quite painfully aware of the logistical difficulties involved in provisioning any kind of large-scale rollout of services in a country that spans 2,300 miles from East to West and 1,600 miles from North to South, and with adversarial state governments that would adamantly oppose any federal intervention in their state, with or without a particularly good reason to do so.
almost like…. Rural Electrification.
en.wikipedia.org
re: #216 lawhawk
It’s cheaper to grind and make your own coffee than to buy a cup from places like Starbucks or your local coffee house, so it’s a savings in the long run. /trying to justify my own consumption habit.
Starbucks is sixty miles from here. Gotta figure in the gasoline costs to buy coffee.
It’s also cheaper to buy coffee from Tim Horton’s over the Internet.
re: #214 Shropshire Slasher
I am old enough to remember the coffee grinders at the end of the checkout line at the A&P market, I think.
The superette in Oshkosh here has an A&P coffee grinder (and sells A&P coffee beans). Hiking off fifty miles for coffee beans is a bit extreme, though. We do buy A&P coffee there when we go grocery shopping in that store, though.
A drunk Oklahoma State Representative was filmed telling cops they couldn’t detain him while the state legislature was in session after being caught drinking outside a closed bar at 2.11am last Thursday.Republican Rep. Dean Davis, 50, had been drinking with friends at the bar in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, when police officers arrived. The police say he and his friends were refusing to leave the bar, which had closed, and were drinking on the outdoor patio.
Bodycam footage shows the officers putting a befuddled Davis in handcuffs while he protested and told them to call their supervisors. He told them they weren’t allowed to arrest him, claiming he was ‘privileged from arrest during the session of the Legislature’.
Growing up in Wheaton, Il in the 60s, I remember the local A&P had a coffee roaster in the store. Smells of my youth.
I be been roasting my own Java for 20 years now. I buy my green coffee beans on EBay.
Update on Amanda Bynes mental health struggles.
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re: #221 Shropshire Slasher
Another day, another Republican busted for criming.
It’s almost if they didn’t have low standards, they’d have no standards at all.
The sun is coming up, which is my cue to head off to bed. I’ll catch y’all later.
(3:36)
re: #222 Dave In Austin
Growing up in Wheaton, Il in the 60s, I remember the local A&P had a coffee roaster in the store. Smells of my youth.
I be been roasting my own Java for 20 years now. I buy my green coffee beans on EBay.
Yes I remember the trio of A&P Coffees and the grinder.
re: #222 Dave In Austin
Growing up in Wheaton, Il in the 60s, I remember the local A&P had a coffee roaster in the store. Smells of my youth.
I be been roasting my own Java for 20 years now. I buy my green coffee beans on EBay.
Red Grange!
Take five and read this
James Carville once famously said: “It’s the economy, stupid.” He was wrong. The driving force in American politics isn’t the economy or even educational levels. It’s racial resentment
re: #226 Barefoot Grin
Red Grange!
John Belushi……. He dated my older sister in HS and would give me rides on his BSA.
Dude had weird fingers as I recall.
re: #216 lawhawk
It’s cheaper to grind and make your own coffee than to buy a cup from places like Starbucks or your local coffee house, so it’s a saving in the long run. /trying to justify my own consumption habit.
We buy bags of beans at Costco or Smart & Final. Then grind once a week and French press the coffee. I have a bladed grinder, the darn thing sounds like one might imagine a robot being tortured. Tried another grinder that is a burr grinder but it quit after just a few months. Now shopping for another electric burr grinder.
re: #29 Charles Johnson
That’s exactly what I’m talkin’ about. It’s a scam IMO. Hook the consumer on a super-cheap printer and then get them to pay insane prices for new ink cartridges on a regular basis, and block them from buying third party cartridges
We got the ink tank one from Epson, it screwed all up in the first month, so we ditched it for a Canon ink tank, reasonably priced ink available in actual bottles at Costco and Sam’s, we are a year in and haven’t had to buy ink yet.
re: #230 Thanos
I’ve had a HP 8600 inkjet printer/copier combo and it’s worked pretty well. We do a lot of printing and photo printing too, and the ink is crazy expensive. I might look at one of the tank printers, but it’s still working out for us so far.
Good Morning to everyone! Except those that want to erase Black History in America. This is literally what we’ve been warning y’all about. Florida ain’t the “Free State.” Civil rights lecture at Florida college canceled due to student’s ‘discomfort’.
https://t.co/JAqv6umANC— State Rep. Angie Nixon (@AngieNixon) March 27, 2023
The paradox of freedom, Florida style, is that it’s really an assertion of control. People like us should be free to do what we want, and free to stop other people from doing what they want when we don’t approve.
HOW DID AMERICA’S WEIRDEST, MOST FREEDOM-OBSESSED STATE FALL FOR AN AUTHORITARIAN GOVERNOR?
re: #212 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Yikes. That’s pretty expensive.
The grinder at the cheapest price there is more than my electric bill.
Found this ‘un
amazon.com
20 bucks
re: #231 lawhawk
I’ve had a HP 8600 inkjet printer/copier combo and it’s worked pretty well. We do a lot of printing and photo printing too, and the ink is crazy expensive. I might look at one of the tank printers, but it’s still working out for us so far.
Don’t get me wrong, I would love an laserjet too…
re: #233 Dangerman
For the same reason that the GOP is now the party of white grievances. They’re white nationalist fascists who exploit the fact that poorer and uneducated white guys are hating fact that they don’t have as much power as they used to as others are now better educated, have better opportunities, and women aren’t merely broodmares.
GOP in office exploits the grievances and pumps out a never-ending stream of grievances that are more outrageous and outlandish, to keep the base engaged and enraged.
re: #212 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Yikes. That’s pretty expensive.
The grinder at the cheapest price there is more than my electric bill.
Amazon has a lot of knockoffs at $20 or less.
I’ve been using a Simpletaste ceramic burr grinder for 6 years.
$15 in 2017
re: #236 lawhawk
For the same reason that the GOP is now the party of white grievances. They’re white nationalist fascists who exploit the fact that poorer and uneducated white guys are hating fact that they don’t have as much power as they used to as others are now better educated, have better opportunities, and women aren’t merely broodmares.
GOP in office exploits the grievances and pumps out a never-ending stream of grievances that are more outrageous and outlandish, to keep the base engaged and enraged.
…while in office they never actually do anything concrete to make these people’s lives better
re: #139 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
How to get mortally dragged on Twitter with one lying meme.
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Why do the 1969 couple have 1980’s hair?
re: #176 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Jeez, I thought that opposing the policies of the Israeli government was tantamount to Anti-Semitism…
This particular Israeli government is anti-Semitic.
re: #139 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The punks are from 1985. At the right is how they looked in 2016. They have two kids together. Do some research before posting. pic.twitter.com/0dkXCF1vEq
— Thomas Ley (@thomas_ley) March 24, 2023
You find out that they’re divorced and share custody of their children.
re: #222 Dave In Austin
Growing up in Wheaton, Il in the 60s, I remember the local A&P had a coffee roaster in the store. Smells of my youth.
I be been roasting my own Java for 20 years now. I buy my green coffee beans on EBay.
Impressive. I thought I was so avant garde when I starting buying beans and grinding them myself. I guess to really become the coffee snob, I need to buy a farm in Africa and grow the beans.
Memories of being a kid and Dad’s go to coffee was A&P’s Bokar. Then the day Grandpa came from California with a can of Yuban…
He was cuter in his birth pictures pic.twitter.com/S8wzZi0j1C
— Saint Brian The Godless (@AWorldOutOfMind) March 26, 2023
re: #248 Crush White Nationalism
Poor cat needs more litter.
re: #248 Crush White Nationalism
Oh have mercy on that poor innocent kitty!
The U.S. Army has paused its advertising campaign featuring Jonathan Majors in response to the actor’s arrest Saturday for an alleged assault.The two “Be All You Can Be” commercials featuring Majors as an on-screen narrator were pulled Sunday. The U.S. Army plans to continue running other ads in the campaign, maintaining a digital presence as well as a prominent position in broadcasts of the NCAA March Madness tournament. Advertisements featuring Majors were still running during the NCAA broadcasts on Saturday evening.
“The U.S. Army is aware of the arrest of Jonathan Majors and we are deeply concerned by the allegations surrounding his arrest,” Army Enterprise Marketing Office public affairs chief Laura DeFrancisco confirmed in a statement. “We recently released two ads in which Mr. Majors appears. While Mr. Majors is innocent until proven guilty, prudence dictates that we pull our ads until the investigation into these allegations is complete.”
The multi-million dollar “Be All You Can Be” campaign was widely seen as a renewed effort for the U.S. Army to rebound after its worst recruiting year in recent history. In 2022, the organization enlisted roughly 45,000 individuals, falling 25% short of its goals.
Jonathan Majors U.S. Army Commercials Pulled After Actor’s Arrest for Alleged Assault (Variety)
re: #195 Nerdy Fish
Wow. What a word.
Yeah, I though I had the birbie with my line three, only to be crushed.
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re: #250 Joe Bacon
Oh have mercy on that poor innocent kitty!
After they grow up, parents are no longer responsible for their children.
Well look who dumped Trump for Il Duce!
The right-wing Claremont Institute has shifted away from Donald Trump to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
“They’re quite a few [at the Claremont Institute] who personally prefer DeSantis as the next candidate, and I would count myself among that group,” said Charles Kesler, a senior fellow at the think tank whom the governor appointed to execute a hostile takeover of the New College. “On a whole range of issues where wokeness is a threat he has risen to the occasion — rhetorically, but he’s also trying to do something about it legislatively. That combination is quite rare. I would expect DeSantis to be a much better, more realistic and more efficient chief executive than the former president.”
re: #212 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Yikes. That’s pretty expensive.
The grinder at the cheapest price there is more than my electric bill.
yeah, the only reason I was willing to spend 60 bucks was because it’s manual, which means I’ll be able to pass it on as an heirloom. They’ll find it in my cairn thousands of years from now, possibly, and the damned thing will still work. I wouldn’t spend 60 bucks on an electric that will die three days after it’s out of warranty.
Meanwhile in il Duce’s domain…
Florida abortion clinics hit with thousands of dollars in fines over GOP-backed 24-hour law
More than a dozen Florida abortion providers are facing fines under an eight year old law making “pregnant patients wait 24 hours before getting the procedure,” Politico reports.
This comes after, according to the New York Times, Florida GOP lawmakers proposed legislation “in the House and Senate that would further restrict the state’s abortion ban to six from 15 weeks of pregnancy.”
Abortion-rights advocates say providers were given little chance to prepare for the law, which requires patients to wait 24 hours between clinic visits. In some instances, clinics were not in compliance with the ‘24 hour’ law because of paperwork issues or computer problems.
Although the law was approved in 2015, according to Politico, it failed to move forward “after the American Civil Liberties Union challenged it,” but when a judge confirmed the law in April of 2022, the state “abortion regulator, the Agency for Health Care Administration, almost immediately began issuing fines.”
And the Whitewashing in Florida schools continues.
Florida School Removes ‘Ruby Bridges’ Movie From Classes After Parent Complaint
A school in Florida has stopped showing the movie Ruby Bridges during its Black History Month classes after a parent complained. The adult refused to allow their child to watch the 1998 Disney movie about a Black 6-year-old who integrated into New Orleans schools in the 1960s, arguing that the story isn’t appropriate for kids in second grade. The parent also formally challenged the film being shown at North Shore Elementary in St. Petersburg on the grounds that scenes showing Ruby being racially abused could teach students that white people hate Black people. School officials in Pinellas County subsequently decided to pull the movie until a review committee has assessed it.
God dog, Florida is going completely off the rails.
Internet in the fishbowl has officially been upgraded. Now in the process of ironing out the final details and decommissioning the old Internet service.
re: #234 Thanos
Found this ‘un
amazon.com20 bucks
This is my preferred way to avoid expensive grinders:
Taylors of Harrogate Yorkshire Red, 240 Teabags
Time for a cuppa… ;)
re: #258 Joe Bacon
The parent also formally challenged the film being shown at North Shore Elementary in St. Petersburg on the grounds that scenes showing Ruby being racially abused could teach students that white people hate Black people.
News flash: lots of them did and many of them still do
re: #233 Dangerman
The paradox of freedom, Florida style, is that it’s really an assertion of control. People like us should be free to do what we want, and free to stop other people from doing what they want when we don’t approve.
HOW DID AMERICA’S WEIRDEST, MOST FREEDOM-OBSESSED STATE FALL FOR AN AUTHORITARIAN GOVERNOR?
There is no state of the old Confederacy that has ever been “Freedom obsessed” except with the Freedom to stop minorities from having any rights.
re: #254 Joe Bacon
Well look who dumped Trump for Il Duce!
The right-wing Claremont Institute has shifted away from Donald Trump to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
“They’re quite a few [at the Claremont Institute] who personally prefer DeSantis as the next candidate, and I would count myself among that group,” said Charles Kesler, a senior fellow at the think tank whom the governor appointed to execute a hostile takeover of the New College. “On a whole range of issues where wokeness is a threat he has risen to the occasion — rhetorically, but he’s also trying to do something about it legislatively. That combination is quite rare. I would expect DeSantis to be a much better, more realistic and more efficient chief executive than the former president.”
1. define ‘woke’ and why this matters more than the economy, jobs, the deficit and the debt
2. where can i find an indepth discussion by desantos of his comprensive foreign policy vision?
now shoo
re: #264 Hecuba’s daughter
There is no state of the old Confederacy that has ever been “Freedom obsessed” except with the Freedom to stop minorities from having any rights.
well, that and the freedom to own and bear weapons (related to: see above)
re: #256 steve_davis
yeah, the only reason I was willing to spend 60 bucks was because it’s manual, which means I’ll be able to pass it on as an heirloom. They’ll find it in my cairn thousands of years from now, possibly, and the damned thing will still work. I wouldn’t spend 60 bucks on an electric that will die three days after it’s out of warranty.
and they’ll wonder what’s it for
re: #258 Joe Bacon
And the Whitewashing in Florida schools continues.
Florida School Removes ‘Ruby Bridges’ Movie From Classes After Parent Complaint
A school in Florida has stopped showing the movie Ruby Bridges during its Black History Month classes after a parent complained. The adult refused to allow their child to watch the 1998 Disney movie about a Black 6-year-old who integrated into New Orleans schools in the 1960s, arguing that the story isn’t appropriate for kids in second grade. The parent also formally challenged the film being shown at North Shore Elementary in St. Petersburg on the grounds that scenes showing Ruby being racially abused could teach students that white people hate Black people. School officials in Pinellas County subsequently decided to pull the movie until a review committee has assessed it.
one parent. one.
take your one kid out of the class and leave the other 30+ alone
Author and justice correspondent at The Nation Elie Mystal appeared on Sunday’s edition of The Mehdi Hasan Show and shared his distaste for the top two contenders for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination - Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (presumed though as-yet undeclared) and former President Donald Trump.
“I don’t like to pontificate on the GOP primary. You know, I don’t know which version they want their destroyer to come in, whether it’s an unreconstructed troglodyte or an orange marshmallow man. I don’t know. That’s for them to decide,” Mystal quipped.
“But what’s for the rest of us should be concerned about is how the media keeps normalizing and placating both of these fascists,” Mystal explained.
“Trump - and you saw there was a media piece this week, ‘oh, now he’s being more reasonable’ - he ain’t. He ain’t. Waco just proved that, right?” he noted, referring to Trump’s rally over the weekend near the site of the infamous Jonestown massacre.
“With DeSantis, we have the establishment Republicans, like, openly pining for him. The media normalizes the crazy people, and that is one of the reasons that we’re in this mess,” Mystal stressed. “The media has never faced accountability for how they created Trump in the first place and they’re in the process of doing it again.”
re: #265 Dangerman
Desantis has all the charisma of a curtain rod, is not a good public speaker and would get smoked in any Presidential debate.
He’s not gonna be the guy.
re: #258 Joe Bacon
And the Whitewashing in Florida schools continues.
Florida School Removes ‘Ruby Bridges’ Movie From Classes After Parent Complaint
A school in Florida has stopped showing the movie Ruby Bridges during its Black History Month classes after a parent complained. The adult refused to allow their child to watch the 1998 Disney movie about a Black 6-year-old who integrated into New Orleans schools in the 1960s, arguing that the story isn’t appropriate for kids in second grade. The parent also formally challenged the film being shown at North Shore Elementary in St. Petersburg on the grounds that scenes showing Ruby being racially abused could teach students that white people hate Black people. School officials in Pinellas County subsequently decided to pull the movie until a review committee has assessed it.
see re: #227 Dangerman
re: #254 Joe Bacon
The right-wing Claremont Institute has shifted away from Donald Trump to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
[…]
the think tank whom the governor appointed to execute a hostile takeover of the New College
Conflict of interest. Feature, not bug, for right wingers.
re: #259 Eclectic Cyborg
God dog, Florida is going completely off the rails.
The one thing parents in general aren’t very good at is educating their children.
re: #261 The Pie Overlord!
2 beagles and a birbie over three days is pretty darn good. Nice going!
re: #263 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
News flash: lots of them did and many of them still do
They didn’t need a class to know that.
Ugh. According to this thread, pro-Netanyahu rightwingers are protesting with some calling for a violent purge of “leftists.”
And while nobody is briefing anything anymore, it suddenly feels like Netanyahu may have chosen violence and civil war after all.
I hope not but tonight could be a terrible night for Israel.— Arieh Kovler (@ariehkovler) March 27, 2023
re: #277 gwangung
They didn’t need a class to know that.
They don’t need or want a class to remind them of it
How fucking stupid can Republicans get?
Rep. Tim Burchett on Newsmax claims foreign adversaries don’t take the US seriously anymore because there are “too many men in our military and our administration wearing dresses and doing crazy things” pic.twitter.com/07roPG0Tm4
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 27, 2023
re: #277 gwangung
They didn’t need a class to know that.
That’s a subject traditionally covered extensively in homeschooling.
re: #280 Joe Bacon
How fucking stupid can Republicans get?
A question that keeps getting answered daily - it’s a challenge they continually accept and reveal/revel in their dumbfuckery daily.
Totally try it.
Pizza Hut Japan unveiled a pie called “Pakuchi Sugite Kusa,” which translates to “Too Much Coriander Herb.”
The restaurant chain posted about the new menu offering on its Twitter page last week.
The brand claims the pizza contains three stalks of coriander, also known as cilantro — so much that it will shock even Gen Zers, according to Japan Today.
The peculiar selection, which sells for just over $19, is also topped with shrimp in tomato sauce and the sweet and spicy Korean sauce, yangnyeom.
The company posted a video advertising the unusual item on TikTok, featuring Pizza Hut Japan’s president, Shoichi Nakamura.
Coriander is a herb of dispute, which, as I understand is a genetic thing. To some people, it smells and tastes of soap. To me it is an indispensable ingredient in anything Mexican, Middle Eastern or Asian, which makes up the bulk of what I like to prepare.
re: #284 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Coriander is a herb of dispute, which, as I understand is a genetic thing. To some people, it smells and tastes of soap. To me it is an indispensable ingredient in anything Mexican, Middle Eastern or Asian, which makes up the bulk of what I like to prepare.
I am in the soap group. Really can’t stand it on anything I have ever tried with it involved. I worked with a Vietnamese man in the 80’s in Houston (he was a jungle fighter instructor with our troops in Vietnam, and was brought here with his family after the war). I went to his house for dinner a few times and his wife would use it extensively. I choked through it, but I would never order it in anything at a restaurant.
re: #280 Joe Bacon
re: #229 Rightwingconspirator
We buy bags of beans at Costco or Smart & Final. Then grind once a week and French press the coffee. I have a bladed grinder, the darn thing sounds like one might imagine a robot being tortured. Tried another grinder that is a burr grinder but it quit after just a few months. Now shopping for another electric burr grinder.
We bought this one 10 years ago and use it daily. It is the quietest grinder we have ever had.
amazon.com
Wow, watch the video.
A Kia Soul was launched 10 feet into the air while driving down a Los Angeles highway after a loose wheel from a pickup truck plowed into it.
The dramatic moment captured on dashcam video shows a Chevrolet Silverado driving down the road - just seconds before its front left wheel breaks free.
The loose wheel then rolled into the left lane, directly in front of the Kia, catapulting the car into the air and causing it to roll once before coming to a stop.
re: #278 Barefoot Grin
Ugh. According to this thread, pro-Netanyahu rightwingers are protesting with some calling for a violent purge of “leftists.”
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Israel is getting to experience what we are here. I suspect that Israeli right-wingers are going to find out their numbers aren’t as big as they think.
Alright, all the conversations with the Internet wizards have been completed. Now I just need to get through the long and painful afternoon meeting, and we’ll be golden.
re: #280 Joe Bacon
Foreign adversaries don’t take the US seriously anymore because they see so many Republican weathervanes.
re: #289 Shropshire Slasher
Wow, watch the video.
And the driver of the vehicle that flipped walked away UNINJURED. Vehicle safety tech has come a long way…although I’m sure some luck was involved.
re: #289 Shropshire Slasher
Wow, watch the video.
Hell of an advertisement for the Kia people and the safety of their car.
re: #294 Eclectic Cyborg
And the drive walked away UNINJURED. Vehicle safety tech has come a long way…although I’m sure some luck was involved.
But those crappy plastic cars just can’t stand up to that kind of violence like the old steel cars Back In My Day (tm).
/Never mind that steel cars killed more people than probably all the plastic cars combined
re: #296 Nerdy Fish
But those crappy plastic cars just can’t stand up to that kind of violence like the old steel cars Back In My Day (tm).
/Never mind that steel cars killed more people than probably all the plastic cars combined
Borb.
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re: #300 Nerdy Fish
Precisely my (sarcastic, if the / wasn’t clear) point.
I got it. It’s just a great video.
So, new conspiracy theory dropped:
Big Red Celt has good stuff on conspiracy theories, manipulation, extremism etc. Strongly Recommend checking his stuff out.
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re: #295 Eventual Carrion
Hell of an advertisement for the Kia people and the safety of their car.
I was hit by a Kia. Operator error. Can’t blame the car. I have intentionally not found out what model.
re: #301 Belafon
I got it. It’s just a great video.
It really is, though the destruction of those two beautiful Chevrolets does make me a little sad.
re: #298 Belafon
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re: #86 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
SPOT ON
— Tom Hutson🇺🇦 (@DTHutson) March 26, 2023
A scrap of fabric found in a Glen Affric peat bog in the Highlands is believed to have been created in about the 16th Century. Using high resolution digital microscopy, four initial colours of green, brown and possibly red and yellow were identified. https://t.co/fXloe9wCqM
— Ticia Verveer (@ticiaverveer) March 27, 2023
re: #289 Shropshire Slasher
Wow, watch the video.
and then to add insult to injury, the damned thing came back and hit the car again: “oh, you think I’m done with you. think again, bitch!”
I find it hilarious that Elon really thinks we’re going to pay to have the blue checkmarks. Hard pass. https://t.co/budZylEnWY
— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) March 27, 2023
I just realized something!
50 years ago there was a lot of discussion and planning going on for the bicentennial.
We’re 3 years away from the Semiquincentennial and I haven’t heard or seen anything about any planned celebrations!
re: #309 Backwoods_Sleuth
Elon keeps telling us that he’s a clown. I believe him.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) March 27, 2023
re: #262 William Lewis
This is my preferred way to avoid expensive grinders:
Taylors of Harrogate Yorkshire Red, 240 Teabags
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Time for a cuppa… ;)
Same tea I buy, only I buy the loose version
At least three people were killed and the gunman was reported dead after a shooting at a private Christian in Nashville on Monday.“An active shooter event has taken place at Covenant School, Covenant Presbyterian Church, on Burton Hills Dr,” Nashville Police said in a tweet.
“The shooter was engaged by MNPD and is dead. Student reunification with parents is at Woodmont Baptist Church.”
Hope Slappy T, Alito and the other 4 Assholes on the corrupted court are happy.
They provided more blood for the Tree Of Liberty to feast on.
School shooting in Nashville leaves at least three people dead
An active shooter event has taken place at Covenant School, Covenant Presbyterian Church, on Burton Hills Dr. The shooter was engaged by MNPD and is dead. Student reunification with parents is at Woodmont Baptist Church, 2100 Woodmont Blvd. pic.twitter.com/vO8p9cj3vx
— Metro Nashville PD (@MNPDNashville) March 27, 2023
re: #314 Joe Bacon
Hope Slappy T, Alito and the other 4 Assholes on the corrupted court are happy.
They provided more blood for the Tree Of Liberty to feast on.
School shooting in Nashville leaves at least three people dead
Blood for the Blood God, Skulls for the Skull Throne, etc., etc.
The “Khazarian Mafia” theory is overly complicated, but the core is that modern powerful Jewish families are “fake Jews” not descended from the ancient Hebrews. Folks like David Icke and a bunch of Q gurus are big fans. https://t.co/LfLMXZlQxO
— Mike Rothschild (no relation) (@rothschildmd) March 27, 2023
A reunification area has been established at 2100 Woodmont Blvd (Woodmont Baptist Church) for parents to meet their children who attend The Covenant School at 33 Burton Hills Blvd.
— Nashville Fire Dept (@NashvilleFD) March 27, 2023
Come find out if your little one survived Republican policies this time.
Two high school seniors who say they have proven Pythagoras’s theorem by using trigonometry – which academics for 2,000 years thought to be impossible – are being encouraged to submit their work to a peer-reviewed journal
https://t.co/ifEXJBRzm4— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) March 27, 2023
re: #313 Shropshire Slasher
Next up, republican governors to enact rules preventing the press from reporting on school shootings when shooter is identified as being white.
BREAKING: Biden White House issues executive order on commercial spyware.
Also confirms over 50+ USG personnel suspected targeted w/#Pegasus
Huge deal, let me break the new #SpywareEO down. 1/ pic.twitter.com/jOcYxnVMnd— John Scott-Railton (@jsrailton) March 27, 2023
3/ Biden’s #SpywareEO’s closes door for vendors if their spyware has:
❌Been used against USG
❌Has counterintelligence / foreign intel risks
-or-
❌ Abused for repression
❌Used on 🇺🇸Americans
❌Sold to govs that systematically do political repression. pic.twitter.com/MdJDgXxE2W— John Scott-Railton (@jsrailton) March 27, 2023
re: #296 Nerdy Fish
But those crappy plastic cars just can’t stand up to that kind of violence like the old steel cars Back In My Day (tm).
/Never mind that steel cars killed more people than probably all the plastic cars combined
Yeah, if a steel car did that, the paramedics would have been scooping out the driver with a spoon. but a steel car woulda been too heavy to flip like that
re: #310 Joe Bacon
I just realized something!
50 years ago there was a lot of discussion and planning going on for the bicentennial.
We’re 3 years away from the Semiquincentennial and I haven’t heard or seen anything about any planned celebrations!
People may be waiting to see if we still have a country after 2024 election.
re: #314 Joe Bacon
Hope Slappy T, Alito and the other 4 Assholes on the corrupted court are happy.
They provided more blood for the Tree Of Liberty to feast on.
School shooting in Nashville leaves at least three people dead
False flag!
re: #323 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Yeah, if a steel car did that, the paramedics would have been scooping out the driver with a spoon. but a steel car woulda been too heavy to flip like that
Someone was estimating that the two cars in the crash video I posted are roughly the same weight.
re: #304 Nerdy Fish
It really is, though the destruction of those two beautiful Chevrolets does make me a little sad.
One of the high school dreams in 1959, 2 door Chevy Impala, 348 w/3 - 2 barrel carbs ,4 speed w/ positraction. (In reality, the 348 was a good truck engine)
Israeli Airports Authority says flights out of main international airport have been grounded following strike call https://t.co/HbHRhgnY27
— Piyush Mittal 🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@piyushmittal) March 27, 2023
Bibi’s disastrous policies continue to be a disaster for Israel - with repercussions being that those opposed to those policies are fighting back with every tool at their disposal, including strikes, shutdowns, marches, rallies, and legal challenges.
re: #150 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Oh Jesus. It just suddenly occurred to me that these dimwits might want to ban Grand Sumo, the Japanese national sport, because the rikishi wrestle in mawashi (a wrapped loincloth) and nothing else. Too much naked! A 62 YO woman can’t possibly watch that, blah blah blah.
I suspect the Japanese national sport is more likely 野球 (yakyuu, baseball), but good God, don’t tell that to the traditionalists, even if Masaoka Shiki, one of haiku’s four great Japanese poets, also popularized baseball when it was first introduced to Japan.
So, Matt Binder Tweeted:
the nearly naked guy on the left of your screen who appeared multiple times like this on pro wrestling TV shows that your children watch now works for Turning Point USA and ostensibly wants to warn you about drag queens reading to your kids
⚠️ CW/TW: Very sexually Suggestive. Viewer discretion is strongly fucking advised. ⚠️
the nearly naked guy on the left of your screen who appeared multiple times like this on pro wrestling TV shows that your children watch now works for Turning Point USA and ostensibly wants to warn you about drag queens reading to your kids https://t.co/6y3vJPUrnB pic.twitter.com/UrL5qO3lOi
— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) March 27, 2023
re: #328 lawhawk
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Bibi’s disastrous policies continue to be a disaster for Israel - with repercussions being that those opposed to those policies are fighting back with every tool at their disposal, including strikes, shutdowns, marches, rallies, and legal challenges.
And the fucker STILL isn’t backing down.
re: #327 BeenHereAwhile
One of the high school dreams in 1959, 2 door Chevy Impala, 348 w/3 - 2 barrel carbs ,4 speed w/ positraction. (In reality, the 348 was a good truck engine)
I had a 2010 Malibu for a while, until Mrs. Fish flipped it late one night. Did a full-on, Talladega-style, end-over-end catapult when she dropped into a ditch and then hit a culvert at speed before she could recover. That car saved her life; she made it out with 3 fractured vertebrae in her neck, and a whole host of shoulder issues that she’s still working on 6 years later.
re: #331 Eclectic Cyborg
re: #328 lawhawk
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Bibi’s disastrous policies continue to be a disaster for Israel - with repercussions being that those opposed to those policies are fighting back with every tool at their disposal, including strikes, shutdowns, marches, rallies, and legal challenges.
And the fucker STILL isn’t backing down.
Actually, I read somewhere that he is now calling for his supporters to turn out to counter-protest/confront the anti-Bibi demonstrations.
Unlikely to turn out well, I think…
re: #327 BeenHereAwhile
One of the high school dreams in 1959, 2 door Chevy Impala, 348 w/3 - 2 barrel carbs ,4 speed w/ positraction. (In reality, the 348 was a good truck engine)
You can get a new Chevy full sized Pick-me-up truck with a 2.7 liter 4-banger with Horsepower/Torque: 310 hp/420 lb-ft.
re: #285 Eventual Carrion
I am in the soap group. Really can’t stand it on anything I have ever tried with it involved. I worked with a Vietnamese man in the 80’s in Houston (he was a jungle fighter instructor with our troops in Vietnam, and was brought here with his family after the war). I went to his house for dinner a few times and his wife would use it extensively. I choked through it, but I would never order it in anything at a restaurant.
Me too! Cannot stand it!
re: #314 Joe Bacon
Hope Slappy T, Alito and the other 4 Assholes on the corrupted court are happy.
They provided more blood for the Tree Of Liberty to feast on.
School shooting in Nashville leaves at least three people dead
i do not like this:
An active shooter event has taken place
re: #331 Eclectic Cyborg
And the fucker STILL isn’t backing down.
He is in so deep he can’t afford to. And arguably has little to lose. His party and coalition do, but so far are doing the stupid and continuing to back him.
If he does back down the coalition will lose a vote of confidence almost immediately. And then Likud get hammered in the required election as they find out what they get for backing Bibi doing whatever he can to avoid getting put on trial.
re: #20 Charles Johnson
In my experience you can’t go wrong with Brother laser printers. At a previous job we bought hundreds of them, from small desktop printers to giant multi-user workhorses. Just don’t try to feed them recycled toner carts. They don’t like that. If I had to buy a new printer today, a Brother would be my first choice.
That said, I currently have an HP M402n that has been trouble-free for years.
re: #310 Joe Bacon
I just realized something!
50 years ago there was a lot of discussion and planning going on for the bicentennial.
We’re 3 years away from the Semiquincentennial and I haven’t heard or seen anything about any planned celebrations!
My youngest sister’s name is Barbara. Well, once the Arba the Bicentennial eagle came out my friends and I started calling her Barba. Lasted the whole year. She was not amused.
re: #313 Shropshire Slasher
Now wasn’t bringing god back into the schools supposed to stop this sort of thing?
re: #330 Teukka
So, Matt Binder Tweeted:
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He probably calls himself “an alpha” as well.
re: #336 Dangerman
i do not like this:
The passive voice is how the media avoid placing blame on anybody for these kinds of incidents, so as to avoid upsetting the delicate snowflakes who like to shoot people at the slightest provocation (e.g. cops, insecure white Christian men).
re: #320 sizzzzlerz
Next up, republican governors to enact rules preventing the press from reporting on school shootings when shooter is identified as being white.
Next up, republican governors to enact rules requiring the press to report all school shooters as not white.
re: #314 Joe Bacon
Hope Slappy T, Alito and the other 4 Assholes on the corrupted court are happy.
They provided more blood for the Tree Of Liberty to feast on.
School shooting in Nashville leaves at least three people dead
🚨 NASHVILLE: 3 Children shot, shooter dead at The Covenant School https://t.co/7vP6AjWdvD
— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) March 27, 2023
Three children…sigh
re: #344 Backwoods_Sleuth
Three children…sigh
But it’s too soon to talk about sensible gun legislation. And then, when it ISN’T “too soon,” it won’t be appropriate to talk about it, because Tree of Liberty, blood of the innocent, SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED, etc. Repeat this song and dance every fucking month, because the good Christians in our Republican Party care more about unborn babies than they do about those souls already living.
Update on the video below:
The Arkansas cops seen in the video have been arrested and charged.
White, 32, and King, 27, were arrested Tuesday after they were indicted on one count each of deprivation of rights.pic.twitter.com/oGwjU0rKd7 01— Tomthunkit™ (@TomthunkitsMind) March 27, 2023
re: #344 Backwoods_Sleuth
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The school is a private Christian school in Nashville for PreSchool through 6th grade.
That means we’re talking 11-12 years old…at most.
Another Mass School Shooting, This Time in Nashville, Tennessee.
But…. Thank God the GOP is Dealing With TIkTok Instead.
Thoughts & Prayers ? pic.twitter.com/SD63HqCzsA— M-A.Stay’Legit ™️🇨🇦🇩🇪 (@BagdMilkSoWhat) March 27, 2023
So stupid.
In a reply to a Grimes fan account, the singer then explained that her daughter is now just named ‘Y’, pronounced ‘Why’.
“She’s Y now, or “Why?” or just “?” (But the government won’t recognize that),” Grimes wrote, “curiosity, the eternal question, .. and such.”
Grimes says she’s changed her and Elon Musk’s daughter’s name from Exa Dark Sideræl (NME)
re: #347 Eclectic Cyborg
That means we’re talking 11-12 years old…at most.
My son is that age. If the next time I saw him was in a body bag, and it was because of the useless know-nothing Republicans, well, the next time any of you would see me would probably be in a body bag, too.
re: #327 BeenHereAwhile
One of the high school dreams in 1959, 2 door Chevy Impala, 348 w/3 - 2 barrel carbs ,4 speed w/ positraction. (In reality, the 348 was a good truck engine)
The Chevy 1963 427 Mystery Motor Built By Smokey Yunick was the shoulda-woulda- coulda-Chevy engine that was designed to replace the 348/409, but subsequently withdrawn from production by corporate:
re: #342 Nerdy Fish
The passive voice is how the media avoid placing blame on anybody for these kinds of incidents, so as to avoid upsetting the delicate snowflakes who like to shoot people at the slightest provocation (e.g. cops, insecure white Christian men).
you are right
though you can passive voice without being pompous
an ‘event’? really?
re: #327 BeenHereAwhile
One of the high school dreams in 1959, 2 door Chevy Impala, 348 w/3 - 2 barrel carbs ,4 speed w/ positraction. (In reality, the 348 was a good truck engine)
Dreaming of cars… such an American thing to do.
Triumph Spitfire was always a dream of mine.
These days, when I’m feeling practical, the Kia Rio (probably the hatchback) is high on my list.
But if I ever get a big lotto… :D
re: #333 Jay C
Actually, I read somewhere that he is now calling for his supporters to turn out to counter-protest/confront the anti-Bibi demonstrations.
Unlikely to turn out well, I think…
Yesterday’s spur-of-the-moment opposition protests brought out over 600,000 people.
Bibi’s supporters have now brought a whopping ~9000.
As the locals say, זה לא כוחות - “these aren’t equal powers”. :D
re: #205 Nerdy Fish
And yes, I am quite painfully aware of the logistical difficulties involved in provisioning any kind of large-scale rollout of services in a country that spans 2,300 miles from East to West and 1,600 miles from North to South, and with adversarial state governments that would adamantly oppose any federal intervention in their state, with or without a particularly good reason to do so.
We were able to electrify farm country, we can roll cable or fiber Internet out there. My dad told me it was like 1940 before they got electric on the farm, and it was one wire run up from the road and it lit a few bulbs in the house. But it was a start. (That house is long gone now.)
#BREAKING Hungary’s parliament ratifies Finland’s NATO accession after months of delay pic.twitter.com/QiQTJ5xMSa
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) March 27, 2023
re: #348 Dr. Matt
At a private christian school no less.
re: #354 (((Archangel1)))
Yesterday’s spur-of-the-moment opposition protests brought out over 600,000 people.
Bibi’s supporters have now brought a whopping ~9000.As the locals say, זה לא כוחות - “these aren’t equal powers”. :D
That would be like … 20 MILLION in the streets here? Holy catfish batman!
re: #353 William Lewis
Dreaming of cars… such an American thing to do.
Triumph Spitfire was always a dream of mine.
These days, when I’m feeling practical, the Kia Rio (probably the hatchback) is high on my list.
But if I ever get a big lotto… :D
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re: #340 Eventual Carrion
Now wasn’t bringing god back into the schools supposed to stop this sort of thing?
“The lord works in mysterious ways.”
re: #360 Dangerman
‘74 tr-6 was my daily driver for 15 years
In nice weather, top back & radio on … that’s what I always dreamed of.
Former President Crazypants expected 50,000 cult members at his Waco Hate Festival.
2,000 showed up. 😆#Loser pic.twitter.com/EXUy4f0Nwg— Roshan Rinaldi (@Roshan_Rinaldi) March 26, 2023
They still had no tents for shade
AND
Ran out of water
Don’t you dare pray, @GovBillLee. My son’s on lockdown at the school where your wife & I taught your kids. God spared your child a gun death. You thanked him by putting a man who sold school shooting ammo on the State Board of Education. Go to the devil. https://t.co/Fc7b9KUx6d
— Anna Caudill (@AnnaCaudill4) March 27, 2023
re: #214 Shropshire Slasher
I am old enough to remember the coffee grinders at the end of the checkout line at the A&P market, I think.
Supermarkets here in AZ and when I lived in UT used to have grinders with the coffee. I was going to say “coffee aisle” but I have lived in areas over the last three decades where a significant chunk of the population does not drink coffee for religious reasons, so the selection was (in Utah) and now here in AZ in my part of town remains somewhat scant.
As for me, since last year when I was told to swear off coffee for my stomach’s sake, I only drink it when I go into the office and then make it using the single serve coffee pod machine. Which are provided everywhere in the building. But there’s coffee also for sale down in the cafeteria.
re: #362 William Lewis
In nice weather, top back & radio on … that’s what I always dreamed of.
Those days were the best
But
Winter and summer, rain, snow, anything.
I put a 100 watt amp and six speakers in that thing
I post this every time there is another school shooting because it is true. pic.twitter.com/NMYTHbBGHH
— Michelle Lamb (@Chell_Lam) March 27, 2023
Charges against Donziger arose from multibillion-dollar lawsuit against Chevron in Ecuador; Donziger was eventually convicted, sentenced to 6 months in prison. Justice Neil Gorsuch dissented from denial of review, joined by Justice Brett Kavanaugh. https://t.co/VuSJvZGHep
— Amy Howe (@AHoweBlogger) March 27, 2023
A female. Cue the foxtards blaming DEI in 5….4…3….2…..
BREAKING — POLICE: “The shooter was FEMALE…. Appears in her teens… 2 assault rifles and a handgun…”
Police killed her.— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) March 27, 2023
re: #366 Dangerman
Those days were the best
But
Winter and summer, rain, snow, anything.I put a 100 watt amp and six speakers in that thing
And was spared by Lucas - the Prince of Darkness.
re: #370 Dr. Matt
“Police killed her.” God fucking damn it. I know she was an active shooter and killed 3 little kids - apparently kids younger than her - but this is not a thing that should have to be said in America. Fuck.
re: #368 Shropshire Slasher
Female shooter.
That’s highly unusual. I can only think of Brenda Spencer as a female school shooting perp - and only because the song “I Don’t Like Mondays” by the Boomtown Rats was inspired by her actions.
The US Supreme Court on Monday declined a request be Kansas voters to review a state court decision regarding racial gerrymandering of congressional districts there.
The conservative SCOTUS seems to think that diluting minority votes is legal. https://t.co/mGnfKkuMAR— Victor Stoddard (@VicStoddard) March 27, 2023
7 dead, three adults, three kids, and 1 shooter.
re: #374 Backwoods_Sleuth
Well, yeah. Because they’re afraid of being part of the New Minority, so obviously they want to perpetuate the cycle of white Christians having outsize influence over the political process.
re: #371 BeenHereAwhile
And was spared by Lucas - the Prince of Darkness.
Oh we had words several times.
At least I did
Overall it was not horrible and I was a bit lucky I think
re: #363 Dangerman
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Once again, normal people ordered tickets his hate rally to give him hope, then leave the seats empty. If they charged $1 a ticket, that would mostly stop.
re: #378 Dangerman
Oh we had words several times.
At least I did
Overall it was not horrible and I was a bit lucky I think
I swear the cars were never as badly handled by Lucas as the motorcycles were. Had a ‘76 T140 Bonneville that I bought used and never did get running right. Finally sold it to a restorer and bought a Yamaha XS650 Bonneville clone instead. Rode the hell out of it.
I don’t know because it.re: #379 Crush White Nationalism
Once again, normal people ordered tickets his hate rally to give him hope, then leave the seats empty. If they charged $1 a ticket, that would mostly stop.
I’ll still pay $10 for ten tickets I’ll never use just to fuck with his stats.
Six total dead at that school, including the shooter. She also killed two adults.
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re: #374 Backwoods_Sleuth
That has been Roberts goal since day one on that court. With 5 other corrupt justices, it just makes him move all the faster towards restricting the vote to property owning white men.
Ron DeSantis is scheduled to hold a stop on his book tour at this suburban Atlanta gun store on Thursday … #gapol https://t.co/liwthVkJ59
— Greg Bluestein (@bluestein) March 27, 2023
re: #382 Colère Tueur de Lapin
I don’t know because it.
I’ll still pay $10 for ten tickets is never use just to fuck with his stats.
Use a temporary credit card number.
re: #370 Dr. Matt
A female. Cue the foxtards blaming DEI in 5….4…3….2…..
I believe one of the first highly reported high school shooting was a female also. Boomtown Rats did a song about it.
“When the officers got to the second level, they saw a shooter, a female who was firing… We know this shooter was a female. She appears to be in her teens. She was armed with two assault type rifles and a handgun” pic.twitter.com/QepkPJUtfh
— Acyn (@Acyn) March 27, 2023
re: #389 Eventual Carrion
I believe one of the first highly reported high school shooting was a female also. Boomtown Rats did a song about it.
Yep - see my #373. Brenda Ann Spencer, the 1979 Cleveland Elementary School shooting in San Diego - killed two, injured nine others.
re: #283 Shropshire Slasher
Totally try it.
blargh, the transliteration is stupid…it’s パクチー過ぎてこさ or pakuchii sugite kosa. This translates out as “too much coriander.”
Looks staged, his slip on shoes were still on. Graphic Photos.
Gruesome 2015 crime scene photos show Buster Murdaugh’s friend Stephen Smith lying in middle of road next to huge trail of blood as the case is reopened as a murder investigation
re: #387 Backwoods_Sleuth
Greg Bluestein
@bluestein
Ron DeSantis is scheduled to hold a stop on his book tour at this suburban Atlanta gun store on Thursday … #gapol
12:34 PM • Mar 27, 2023
Second amendment gun owners hate ATF beyond all understanding.
re: #394 mmmirele
blargh, the transliteration is stupid…it’s パクチー過ぎてこさ or pakuchii sugite kosa. This translates out as “too much coriander.”
As pictured, I wouldn’t even know how to eat it!
re: #395 Shropshire Slasher
Another giveaway, as per the article, no tire marks or glass fragments. That certainly strikes me as staged to look like an accidental death.
re: #387 Backwoods_Sleuth
Oh that’s going to have the fascists frothing since they hate BATF even more than LGBTIQA+.
re: #394 mmmirele
and I hope your recent dental problems are healing up and you are pain free.
I’m a single issue voter, and that issue is the Republican Party has lost its damn mind.
— Rachel Bitecofer 📈🔭🇺🇲🇺🇦 (@RachelBitecofer) March 27, 2023
re: #233 Dangerman
The paradox of freedom, Florida style, is that it’s really an assertion of control. People like us should be free to do what we want, and free to stop other people from doing what they want when we don’t approve.
HOW DID AMERICA’S WEIRDEST, MOST FREEDOM-OBSESSED STATE FALL FOR AN AUTHORITARIAN GOVERNOR?
The world has always had two visions of freedom: that of the plantation owner, and that of the enslaved. This has never been resolved, it’s been emulsified and distributed into every major decision about rights and liberties.
America started with a punt: freedom from kings for the bourgeois land holders, no freedom for the enslaved or colonized.
re: #289 Shropshire Slasher
Wow, watch the video.
One of the misconceptions to clear is that this was only due to the size of the car. Kia Souls weigh nearly two tons. The physics of this were just right. Had the car been going slower, or the wheel had come in at the wrong angle, it would have been totally different.
re: #373 Dr Lizardo
Laurie Dann in Winnetka IL late 80’s. Not a mass shooting, but still awful. She was also that rare case of a truly mentally Il shooter.
re: #399 William Lewis
Oh that’s going to have the fascists frothing since they hate BATF even more than LGBTIQA+.
Aren’t these guys always rabbiting on about they’ll shoot the federal agents if they show up on their doorsteps? So, uhh, guys, where’s all that bravado now?
So, a grade school was targeted
BREAKING: The violence occurred at The Covenant School, a Presbyterian school for about 200 students from preschool through sixth grade. https://t.co/eV6KDITn79 pic.twitter.com/swSx1HVXgf
— News4JAX (@wjxt4) March 27, 2023
If you’re dumb enough to pay $123,000 for an NFT, you’re easily dumb enough to destroy your ability to grift someone else with that worthless NFT.
re: #408 Crush White Nationalism
If you’re dumb enough to pay $123,000 for an NFT, you’re easily dumb enough to destroy your ability to grift someone else with that worthless NFT.
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THIS is last year’s Christmas card from Tennessee Rep. Andy Ogles, a Republican who represents the district that Covenant School is in in Nashville. #tnleg pic.twitter.com/IpkLzZs5m5
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) March 27, 2023
re: #389 Eventual Carrion
I believe one of the first highly reported high school shooting was a female also. Boomtown Rats did a song about it.
My wife was mentioning that the West Side school shooting (in Jonesboro, where my wife is from) was 25 years ago last friday. It was the first school shooting in the modern era, before Columbine. Note that there was no talk about it.
re: #386 BeenHereAwhile
Grae Hall
@HallGrae@mstdn.social
Musk 10 years ago: We’re going to mars in 10 years!Musk now: Please pay me to use a website that was free 10 years ago
Colinaut
@colinaut@dice.camp
@HallGrae @quinnanya “Welcome to Mars! Remember to top off your ElonBuck$ account to pay for your oxygen subscription!”
re: #307 Backwoods_Sleuth
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That’s not a “scrap” of fabric, that’s a LOT of fabric for something that’s 400 years old and found in a peat bog. It should be a Scottish national treasure. Most of the time, when fabric is found, it’s usually in little scraps. For example, these woven fragments from Peru are believed to be around 6,500 years old and the first known example of the use of indigo in dyeing. These are believed to predate the Egyptian use of indigo by 1500 years.
(Why yes, I missed my calling, I really should have done textile science and archaeology.)
re: #406 Nerdy Fish
Aren’t these guys always rabbiting on about they’ll shoot the federal agents if they show up on their doorsteps? So, uhh, guys, where’s all that bravado now?
Gun stores are a license to print money, the owners want the BATF mollified so they’ll go away and let them continue selling GUNZ to the idiots. Shootouts just get the survivors forever in Club Fed.
A mother in Nashville just took over a live stream on Fox News to call out Republicans’ opposition to gun reform.
THIS NEEDS TO GO VIRAL🔥🔥@HouseGOP @SenateGOP @MarshaBlackburn @BillLeeTN
pic.twitter.com/BVbCoUw2sQ— Skyleigh Heinen (@Sky_Lee_1) March 27, 2023
re: #139 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Two minutes on that account and: this is profoundly stupid. It’s very specific kind of preening dude stupidity; the facade of knowledge, a thin candy shell of classical erudition. What forty year old teenage boys and people who got into crypto think is cool.
Five Books on War & Strategy1. The Art of War - Sun Tzu2. The Prince - Machiavelli3. On War - Von Clausewitz 4. Thirty-Six Stratagems - Wang5. Book of 5 Rings - Miyamoto Musashi What would you add? pic.twitter.com/k9RQxCiEcH
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This is the most basic, “impress people at cocktail parties” list possible. Half those books are laughably bad—Clausewitz is a red herring, Sun Tzu basically a laundry list scraped from prior materials. Gorin no Sho is…minimally applicable advice for swordfighting that’s only revolutionary if you’re a Meiji samurai accustomed to peace and overhyped McDojo sword schools. Anyone that advocates “the Prince” but not the Discourses is a poseur, and it’s especially stupid in context that they don’t mention Machiavelli’s own military manual.
But all that’s beside the point, because what’s really being presented is resentment: we’re such clever boys, isn’t it sad that the world won’t let us be in charge and get what we want?
God I hate it when Lacan is right.
re: #416 The Ghost of a Flea
Two minutes on that account and: this is profoundly stupid. It’s very specific kind of preening dude stupidity; the facade of knowledge, a thin candy shell of classical erudition. What forty year old teenage boys and people who got into crypto think is cool.
But you repeat yourself.
re: #392 Crush White Nationalism
Wow. That’s a true crime deep cut.
re: #405 Markm1960
Laurie Dann in Winnetka IL late 80’s. Not a mass shooting, but still awful. She was also that rare case of a truly mentally Il shooter.
Yeah, forgot about her. Interestingly, Spencer was later discovered to have an injury to her temporal lobe, attributed to a bike accident in her youth. That little tidbit instantly reminded me of the British serial killer Fred West, who also suffered a temporal lobe injury as the result of a motorcycle accident in his teenage years.
re: #417 Nerdy Fish
But you repeat yourself.
Same guy that just…completely accurately panned crypto awhile back with “The Line Goes Up.”
His next video is just going to be him standing on a hill over Silicon Valley, holding out his arm, his fingers tensed but open like a claw, and with a horrific grating scream he will simply pull the tiny vestigial souls from the tech bros and allow them to finally rest in peace.
re: #412 BeenHereAwhile
Colinaut
@colinaut@dice.camp
@HallGrae @quinnanya “Welcome to Mars! Remember to top off your ElonBuck$ account to pay for your oxygen subscription!”
….The Musk fallout continues…
James
@ukuku@mstdn.social
@HallGrae Also ten years ago, “pay me $5K extra for hardware already installed in your car and it will drive itself by 2018.” Now, “Oops, sorry, we won’t update your cameras and hardware anymore, but thanks for the cash.”
re: #408 Crush White Nationalism
That 1980s pixel art is worth over 100 GRAND??
re: #422 Eclectic Cyborg
That 1980s pixel art is worth over 100 GRAND??
Nope, but that’s what a very stupid person paid for it.
re: #410 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
But they’re sending their thoughts and prayers!
re: #414 William Lewis
Gun stores are a license to print money, the owners want the BATF mollified so they’ll go away and let them continue selling GUNZ to the idiots. Shootouts just get the survivors forever in Club Fed.
BATF has more sweeping seizure powers than say the FBI.
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