The Bob Cesca Podcast: Crime Boy I Don’t Know

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Today’s program from our podcasting affiliate, The Bob Cesca Show:

Crime Boy I Don’t Know — [Explicit Language] The school shooting in Nashville, Tennessee. Banning assault rifles and ending the gun culture. Leaders telling us that violence is the answer to our grievances. Permitless open carry in Tennesee. The Mom who took over Fox News. Rep. Tim Burchett says there’s nothing that can be done. The Gunsplainer by Rocky Mountain Mike, Mary in Ann Arbor, and Richard Henzel. Trump and his Jan. 6 heroes. Trump threatened death and destruction. Trump’s cowardly defense on Hannity. Thank you very much have fun. Elon’s stupid new For You tab policy explained. Republicans are losing confidence in Ron DeSantis. With Buzz Burbank, music by Nick Lutsko, Matt Jaffe, and more!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 28, 2023 • 2:35:14pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 28, 2023 • 2:36:43pm
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jaunte  Mar 28, 2023 • 2:40:11pm
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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 28, 2023 • 2:41:57pm

re: #3 jaunte

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 28, 2023 • 2:42:59pm

re: #2 Backwoods_Sleuth

Heck even if your aim isn’t great, a shotgun will usually do the trick against an intruder.

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ckkatz  Mar 28, 2023 • 2:43:20pm

Subscribe to Twitter Blue to join these accounts-

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 28, 2023 • 2:44:36pm

re: #5 Eclectic Cyborg

Heck even if your aim isn’t great, a shotgun will usually do the trick against an intruder.

And you won’t wind up murdering your neighbors in their own homes like an idiot firing an assault rifle at intruders would.

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 28, 2023 • 2:47:13pm

re: #6 ckkatz

Subscribe to Twitter Blue to join these accounts-

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Mar 28, 2023 • 2:48:00pm
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Joe Bacon  Mar 28, 2023 • 2:49:19pm

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 28, 2023 • 2:49:32pm

re: #9 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

I had two guesses. One was right.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Mar 28, 2023 • 2:49:43pm

re: #6 ckkatz

This doesn’t actually democratize the platform—everybody clumping around popular accounts is democratic choice—it makes the platform into two-tier system where the paid tier really only provides benefits for people doing stuff that’s for-profit, but also advantaged by short, casual impressions. Which is mostly grifters of some type.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 28, 2023 • 2:49:45pm
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KGxvi  Mar 28, 2023 • 2:52:03pm

this might be my favorite recent gun related story…

Texas military man arrested at Canadian border #texas #canada #bordersecurity #dangertv

Guy apparently “forgot” that he had his gun in the car, you know, like all responsible gun owners do.

Granted, the border agents might have been a little too eager in their enforcement, but I can’t really say I feel bad for the guy either.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 28, 2023 • 2:53:27pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Mar 28, 2023 • 2:54:39pm
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KGxvi  Mar 28, 2023 • 2:55:39pm

re: #15 Backwoods_Sleuth

Question for Ryan: is it the fact that the person in the video is brandishing a weapon that is the reason you want the FBI to investigate, or is it because you’re assuming they are trans? Because if it is the whole brandishing of weapons and playing the “cold dead hands” game… um, yeah…

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 28, 2023 • 2:57:16pm

re: #15 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Romantic Heretic  Mar 28, 2023 • 2:59:26pm

re: #7 Crush White Nationalism

I remember watching a video recommending a P90 for ‘home defence’.

The rounds are designed to penetrate body armour for chrissakes! Who knows how many walls they’ll go through?

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 28, 2023 • 2:59:47pm

re: #19 Romantic Heretic

I remember watching a video recommending a P90 for ‘home defence’.

The rounds are designed to penetrate body armour for chrissakes! Who knows how many walls they’ll go through?

What in the EVER LOVING FUCK…

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Joe Bacon  Mar 28, 2023 • 3:01:43pm

re: #15 Backwoods_Sleuth

Of course Right Wing Ryan is all in with owning as many guns as possible…until it comes to those he considers “un-Xtian” like LGBTQs, Drag performers, Muslims, Jews, Colored folks, liberals, Democrats and so on…

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 28, 2023 • 3:03:09pm

re: #19 Romantic Heretic

I remember watching a video recommending a P90 for ‘home defence’.

The rounds are designed to penetrate body armour for chrissakes! Who knows how many walls they’ll go through?

Good enough to take out Goa’uld, good enough for home protection with a bit of collateral damage.

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William Lewis  Mar 28, 2023 • 3:05:23pm

From downstairs (blessings on you CL)

re: #225 wrenchwench

The suicide rate will climb.

That’s a feature not a bug, just like the anti-trans terrorism.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Mar 28, 2023 • 3:05:47pm

re: #19 Romantic Heretic

I remember watching a video recommending a P90 for ‘home defence’.

The rounds are designed to penetrate body armour for chrissakes! Who knows how many walls they’ll go through?

…..the P90 was designed as a compact but powerful firearm for vehicle crews, operators of crew-served weapons, support personnel, special forces, and counter-terrorist groups.

None of those living or working at my house, so I’ll stick with a shotgun. I actually don’t have a home defense weapon as such, that is, one loaded and ready at a second’s notice in the middle of the night. Nevertheless, I do have a shotgun and an M-1911 that can be accessed at need.
Btw, I have been urging the gun humpers to consider the various civilian flame throwers for home defense instead of firearms.

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William Lewis  Mar 28, 2023 • 3:08:47pm

re: #19 Romantic Heretic

I remember watching a video recommending a P90 for ‘home defence’.

The rounds are designed to penetrate body armour for chrissakes! Who knows how many walls they’ll go through?

Of course. The “Home Defense” they’re blathering about is against LEO’s in Body Armor. Not that most of them wouldn’t actually foul their pants if they actually had the cops come through the door but that’s their fantasy.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 28, 2023 • 3:12:46pm

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ckkatz  Mar 28, 2023 • 3:12:53pm

re: #19 Romantic Heretic

Of course, an even better idea might be to avoid getting into a gun battle with someone better armed and prepared than oneself. Of course, it seems to me to be a very good idea to avoid getting into gunbattles as a matter of principle.

And yes, the 5.7x28 “duty” round is designed to penetrate car doors and body armor. But that means that other downsides. No one human designed tool is perfect for all use cases.

Also, the ATF declaring the “duty” round armor piercing and fitting in a pistol. Thus banning sale of the “duty” rounds to civilians.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 28, 2023 • 3:16:33pm

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ckkatz  Mar 28, 2023 • 3:22:31pm

I remember a Texas cop online talking about a shooting he had to investigate.

Under private due to gruesome results.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 28, 2023 • 3:26:05pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 28, 2023 • 3:28:32pm

re: #30 Backwoods_Sleuth

These are the people who want to abolish the Department of Education.

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William Lewis  Mar 28, 2023 • 3:28:56pm

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darthstar  Mar 28, 2023 • 3:31:55pm

re: #18 Crush White Nationalism

Here’s a trans(national) with a gun.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Mar 28, 2023 • 3:33:02pm

re: #21 Joe Bacon

Of course Right Wing Ryan is all in with owning as many guns as possible…until it comes to those he considers “un-Xtian” like LGBTQs, Drag performers, Muslims, Jews, Colored folks, liberals, Democrats and so on…

Well, yeah. They don’t believe those people are real people, so to them they’re not acting in a contradictory manner. They’ve always wanted to restrict the 2nd Amendment…they were just going to do it by getting groups of people labelled threats to the family, or the neighborhood, or national security.

They’re about halfway to what they want.

You can technically be black and have a legal weapon that you carry, but the law and law enforcement have been bent such that this will get you killed and it is distinctly possible your killer will get away with it. You can technically be a left milita operating in the same “we’re a club, a protest group” ways that right wingers do…do this will get you investigated and imprisoned and shot because cops and feds happily work with right wingers to get left wingers locked up.

What they keep trying to slide in place is that certain kinds of people are a priori mentally disturbed and thus a threat to society: the groomer panic but for lethal threat. They will do this shamelessly and with no self reflection, because their always-unstated premise is that they are always entitled to violence, the world is only right when their violence is greeted with at minimum acceptance…but ideally praise.

They are so committed to this vision that they are willing to accept the price of dead children: that’s not their gun culture reaching it’s logical conclusion—that all harm should be met with “heroic” individual violence—it’s just a sign that they have to be more cruel, commit further to killing quickly and on slimmer pretexts.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 28, 2023 • 3:34:51pm

Mastodon

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 28, 2023 • 3:36:58pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 28, 2023 • 3:38:01pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 28, 2023 • 3:38:40pm
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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 28, 2023 • 3:41:56pm

I think I know what the #1 source of malware and network-based crime will soon be.

Amazon, however, makes devices and benefits from collecting all sorts of data. It could benefit from the IoT, even if the company’s not fully sure how at the moment. That’s at least partly why the company has built “Amazon Sidewalk, a secure, low-bandwidth, long-range network designed to connect the next billion devices,” according to a press release.

Sidewalk offers coverage to 90% of the United States population and the company has made free test kits available for developers “to validate the breadth of Sidewalk coverage for themselves as they build Sidewalk devices,” the company shared.

“Many types of connected devices have been limited by the range of Wi-Fi and the cost of cellular technology, which has hindered the ability to connect devices like environmental sensors, leak detectors, and smart locks. Sidewalk is designed to provide a secure, low-cost way to invent and connect a whole new range of devices, and we can’t wait to see what developers build,” said Amazon Devices Senior Vice President Dave Limp.

Amazon Sidewalk offers “a secure, persistent, and low-cost connection to the cloud,” the company added.

Amazon Just Quietly Solved a Huge Internet Problem (The Street via MSN)

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 28, 2023 • 3:44:59pm

re: #38 Backwoods_Sleuth

It’s pathetic how these White, straight Christian men are desperate to be victims.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 28, 2023 • 3:45:43pm

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Dangerman  Mar 28, 2023 • 3:47:07pm

re: #36 Backwoods_Sleuth

Republican Tennessee Rep. Tim Burchett says any legislation Congress could pass in the wake of the Nashville school shooting is “not going to accomplish anything.”

it WILL accomplish something.
what it won’t do is accomplish EVERYTHING

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Joe Bacon  Mar 28, 2023 • 3:48:40pm

re: #36 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Burchett needs to come out and admit that he sees nothing wrong with “those people” being slaughtered by assault weapons.

And we do know what he would mean by “those people”.

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Dangerman  Mar 28, 2023 • 3:49:32pm
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The Ghost of a Flea  Mar 28, 2023 • 3:50:41pm

re: #25 William Lewis

Of course. The “Home Defense” they’re blathering about is against LEO’s in Body Armor. Not that most of them wouldn’t actually foul their pants if they actually had the cops come through the door but that’s their fantasy.

Oh, I think it’s dumber than that.

Look at the same people buying trucks: they can’t differentiate between the sizzle of…big truck, more power…and practical needs, and I think they buy guns the same way. They’re not accurately assessing what they need for a task, they’re purchasing the fantasy that they’re more independent and more prepared than they actually are.

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Dangerman  Mar 28, 2023 • 3:54:52pm

mccarthy says ‘negotiate’?

this is why biden is president:

show your damned cards or stfu

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Joe Bacon  Mar 28, 2023 • 4:02:42pm

re: #46 Dangerman

I see Sleazy E hand-picked the ass de la holes to respond to Joe’s tweet.

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ckkatz  Mar 28, 2023 • 4:04:48pm

re: #42 Dangerman

As you point out, legislation would likely save lives and protect property.

My assumption is that it would not accomplish anything that he cares about.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 28, 2023 • 4:07:23pm
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Eventual Carrion  Mar 28, 2023 • 4:13:04pm

re: #17 KGxvi

Question for Ryan: is it the fact that the person in the video is brandishing a weapon that is the reason you want the FBI to investigate, or is it because you’re assuming they are trans? Because if it is the whole brandishing of weapons and playing the “cold dead hands” game… um, yeah…

And the whole rightwing nutjob excuse to own firearms is in case the government starts trying to take away their rights. But “those” people shouldn’t have guns even though their rights are actively being taken away by many state governments.

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William Lewis  Mar 28, 2023 • 4:14:44pm

re: #45 The Ghost of a Flea

Oh, I think it’s dumber than that.

Look at the same people buying trucks: they can’t differentiate between the sizzle of…big truck, more power…and I think they buy guns the same way. They’re not accurately assessing what they need for a task, they’re purchasing the fantasy that they’re more independent and more prepared than they actually are.

Yep. What I own I have with specific tasks in mind, and they are appropriate to them. Several rifles, each with different proficiencies, a semi-auto shotgun for chasing upland birds or ducks, a CC handgun and a full-size handgun for range use. I especially love my M1898 Kraig carbine :) but it’s not a military weapon anymore.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Mar 28, 2023 • 4:14:55pm

Style:
1932 Cadillac heron hood ornament:

Radiator badge just below:

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 28, 2023 • 4:17:07pm

I just went to the City of Philadelphia’s website and they have announced that the water will not be affected by the chemical spill. They also announce that this is the final update on the matter.
phila.gov

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Charles Johnson  Mar 28, 2023 • 4:21:06pm

Mastodon

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austin_blue  Mar 28, 2023 • 4:23:21pm

re: #16 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

This cheer sounds familiar…

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 28, 2023 • 4:24:49pm

re: #52 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

That is beautiful. Very Art-Deco.

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Belafon  Mar 28, 2023 • 4:25:50pm

Oh, I’m sure all of you could cite more, but I’m adding this one:

Mastodon

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 28, 2023 • 4:26:22pm

Mastodon

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Belafon  Mar 28, 2023 • 4:27:34pm
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ckkatz  Mar 28, 2023 • 4:27:40pm

Sounds like Moldova sees its chance and has decided to take it -

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 28, 2023 • 4:29:58pm

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Wile E. Wonka  Mar 28, 2023 • 4:30:37pm

re: #46 Dangerman

mccarthy says ‘negotiate’?

this is why biden is president:

show your damned cards or stfu

The “per my previous email” energy is strong with this one.

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ckkatz  Mar 28, 2023 • 4:32:59pm
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austin_blue  Mar 28, 2023 • 4:35:15pm

re: #19 Romantic Heretic

I remember watching a video recommending a P90 for ‘home defence’.

The rounds are designed to penetrate body armour for chrissakes! Who knows how many walls they’ll go through?

You want a home defense weapon?

Get a Winchester 870 Wingmaster pump. Load it with 2-shot (goose load). I guarantee that it’ll go through drywall between studs, and make anyone in front of it sit down and consider the error of their ways, but more than likely won’t pierce the exterior of the house cladding.

Also, it’s a great bird gun.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Mar 28, 2023 • 4:37:13pm

re: #64 austin_blue

You want a home defense weapon?

Get a Winchester 870 Wingmaster pump. Load it with 2-shot (goose load). I guarantee that it’ll go through drywall between studs, and make anyone in front of it sit down and consider the error of their ways, but more than likely won’t pierce the exterior of the house cladding.

Also, it’s a great bird gun.

Yeah but US gun culture is all about what the gun means not how it functions.

Like, NFTs had a market for reason.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 28, 2023 • 4:38:57pm

New from PBS Terra:

“it’s not always sunny or windy.”

Could we have MORE BLACKOUTS with a greener grid?

..

It’s a discussion of how we really need to invest in our electrical grid.

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Belafon  Mar 28, 2023 • 4:41:04pm
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austin_blue  Mar 28, 2023 • 4:42:03pm

re: #52 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

Style:
1932 Cadillac heron hood ornament:

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Sweetness!

Great design.

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Florida Panhandler  Mar 28, 2023 • 4:43:10pm

re: #64 austin_blue

You want a home defense weapon?

Get a Winchester 870 Wingmaster pump. Load it with 2-shot (goose load). I guarantee that it’ll go through drywall between studs, and make anyone in front of it sit down and consider the error of their ways, but more than likely won’t pierce the exterior of the house cladding.

Also, it’s a great bird gun.

There will be no gun control efforts in the US until liberals or minorities in general own a lot of guns and display them in public. Reagan was the prime example of this cowardice and naked pandering to white supremacists as Gov of California.

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ckkatz  Mar 28, 2023 • 4:43:52pm

Yes, refusal to enact sane gun laws is indeed a choice by GOP politicians and the people who vote for them.

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austin_blue  Mar 28, 2023 • 4:44:36pm

re: #65 The Ghost of a Flea

Yeah but US gun culture is all about what the gun means not how it functions.

Like, NFTs had a market for reason.

Too much money and not enough self-awareness of their mental limitations.

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Sherlock Hound  Mar 28, 2023 • 4:46:41pm

re: #63 ckkatz

I can’t go. I think about this all the time.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 28, 2023 • 4:47:41pm

HALF-STAFF NOTICE: Entire nation, until sunset, March 31, as a mark of respect for the victims of the mass-murder in Nashville.

whitehouse.gov

Half Staff Village Park
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ckkatz  Mar 28, 2023 • 4:52:29pm

re: #72 Sherlock Hound

I can’t go. I think about this all the time.

Yes, I also have absolutely no plans to leave the US.

However, I am always willing to move to a saner state, should that be required.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 28, 2023 • 4:52:33pm

re: #73 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

HALF-STAFF NOTICE: Entire nation, until sunset, March 31, as a mark of respect for the victims of the mass-murder in Nashville.

whitehouse.gov

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I hope you get some recognition and respect in the village for carrying out that duty.

And some budget money for properly replacing the flags when it needs to be done.

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ckkatz  Mar 28, 2023 • 4:53:32pm
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austin_blue  Mar 28, 2023 • 4:54:14pm

Hey, Dangerman, I saw this:

re: #57 Dangerman

I was on a federal jury once. Never drank local water again
Farmingdale, LI, NY

I’m assuming the trial was about how the Republic Aircraft Corporation built 21,000 P-47 Thunderbolts, F-84 Thunderflashes, and Thunderstreaks, and F-105s polluted ground water with chlorinated solvents and degreasers and resulted in significant health impacts to local residents.

It’s the same story wherever aircraft were built, and the majority of large military bases.

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austin_blue  Mar 28, 2023 • 4:58:23pm

And it’s Dinner and a new Finding Your Roots time! Yay! See you all in an hour or so.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 28, 2023 • 4:59:16pm

re: #78 austin_blue

Yes WHYY has Finding Your Roots on too.

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William Lewis  Mar 28, 2023 • 4:59:51pm

re: #63 ckkatz

Retirement? What’s that? For me it’s either winning the lotto and moving to Munich or moving into the old soldiers home when I can’t work anymore.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 28, 2023 • 5:01:08pm
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William Lewis  Mar 28, 2023 • 5:03:15pm

re: #77 austin_blue

Hey, Dangerman, I saw this:

I’m assuming the trial was about how the Republic Aircraft Corporation built 21,000 P-47 Thunderbolts, F-84 Thunderflashes, and Thunderstreaks, and F-105s polluted ground water with chlorinated solvents and degreasers and resulted in significant health impacts to local residents.

It’s the same story wherever aircraft were built, and the majority of large military bases.

Ammunition plants are worse. Far worse. But no one living near them needs Viagra!

Eau Claire Wi had a plant making .30-06 during WWII practically next door to the well field for the city. The water system for the whole city has been on reverse osmosis since the early 70’s via a very very expensive German system.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 28, 2023 • 5:05:09pm

re: #81 Backwoods_Sleuth

Michelangelo’s David is part of Western Civilization. Art plays a big part of civilization.

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darthstar  Mar 28, 2023 • 5:05:46pm

re: #54 Charles Johnson

Eventually you’ll get so used to the absence of trolls that you won’t even think about them.

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BeenHereAwhile  Mar 28, 2023 • 5:05:56pm

re: #64 austin_blue

You want a home defense weapon?

Get a Winchester 870 Wingmaster pump. Load it with 2-shot (goose load). I guarantee that it’ll go through drywall between studs, and make anyone in front of it sit down and consider the error of their ways, but more than likely won’t pierce the exterior of the house cladding.

Also, it’s a great bird gun.

And the sound of a shotgun shell being jacked and chambered stops everyone within hearing in their tracks.

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Belafon  Mar 28, 2023 • 5:06:54pm

A Spanish word for twin is gemelo. It took me a bit, but Gemini.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 28, 2023 • 5:09:02pm

oh dear…

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Charles Johnson  Mar 28, 2023 • 5:09:14pm

The true warrior can kill an intruder with a plastic spork.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 28, 2023 • 5:10:30pm
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Joe Bacon  Mar 28, 2023 • 5:12:06pm

Bill Lee should just come out and say that it’s more important to increase the profits of gun manufacturers that it is to shield kids from potential mass shootings.

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wrenchwench  Mar 28, 2023 • 5:14:10pm

re: #88 Charles Johnson

The true warrior can kill an intruder with a plastic spork.

I have a titanium spork. It’s all for show.

/poser

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Sherlock Hound  Mar 28, 2023 • 5:14:47pm

re: #86 Belafon

A Spanish word for twin is gemelo. It took me a bit, but Gemini.

If you look at that word sideways, you get jumelles, the French word for twins.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 28, 2023 • 5:14:48pm

I keep expecting the Twitter API to stop working any day without notice. If you see embedded tweets failing to load, that’s what happened. Duck and cover.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 28, 2023 • 5:19:00pm

re: #90 Joe Bacon

Bill Lee should just come out and say that it’s more important to increase the profits of gun manufacturers that it is to shield kids from potential mass shootings.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 28, 2023 • 5:19:35pm

I’ve been putting together a renderMastodonPost() function that gets the JSON post data from the API and builds the HTML to display it all fancy like.

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jaunte  Mar 28, 2023 • 5:20:20pm

re: #94 Backwoods_Sleuth

500 years. One hell of a body count.

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EPR-radar  Mar 28, 2023 • 5:23:11pm

re: #89 Backwoods_Sleuth

The way forward on this issue is the same as it is for every other issue — Republicans need to fuck off with their shit so that normal people can actually try to fix the shit that Republicans have spent decades fucking up.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 28, 2023 • 5:23:54pm
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Charles Johnson  Mar 28, 2023 • 5:25:07pm

You know what you are? You’re one of those little, uh fancy lads, aren’t ya?

sidewalk scene cabin boy

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mmmirele  Mar 28, 2023 • 5:26:57pm

I am cranky as fuck this afternoon.

That said, I did get my mother a bath today and washed her hair. She seems stronger than she was a couple of weeks ago. She was off her oxygen for well over 10 minutes when I gave her the bath, and her SpOx was first 89 percent and then 94 percent a few minutes later after she got dressed but before I put the cannula back on her.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 28, 2023 • 5:28:36pm

re: #87 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 28, 2023 • 5:30:46pm

good grief

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 28, 2023 • 5:34:28pm
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Charles Johnson  Mar 28, 2023 • 5:34:30pm

Mastodon

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 28, 2023 • 5:35:45pm

re: #102 Backwoods_Sleuth

In other countries, legislators passed anti-gun laws and largely solved the problem of gun violence. We could do the same but we won’t.

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EPR-radar  Mar 28, 2023 • 5:38:18pm

re: #102 Backwoods_Sleuth

This pissant is a member of Congress. If he thinks lawmaking is categorically useless, then he should go back to whatever hellhole spawned him, and let a normal human being have the job.

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Joe Bacon  Mar 28, 2023 • 5:39:41pm

REPORTER: “What else should be done to protect people like your little girl?”

BURCHETT: “Well, we homeschool her.”

Well what would Burchett do if someone with a couple assault weapons and body armor breaks into his home?

Lets see Jesus intervene in that situation…

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Mar 28, 2023 • 5:40:20pm

re: #96 jaunte

500 years. One hell of a body count.

Quite a record. For instance, a Beretta pistol, M-1934 serial # 606824, was used in the assassination of Mahatma Ghandi in 1948.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 28, 2023 • 5:42:26pm

Holy shit there’s a new Tiny Desk concert with THE BETHS.

The best literate post-punk alt-rock band from New Zealand ever.

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Joe Bacon  Mar 28, 2023 • 5:44:19pm
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Patricia Kayden  Mar 28, 2023 • 5:44:21pm

re: #107 Joe Bacon

REPORTER: “What else should be done to protect people like your little girl?”

BURCHETT: “Well, we homeschool her.”

Well what would Burchett do if someone with a couple assault weapons and body armor breaks into his home?

Lets see Jesus intervene in that situation…

He actually answered like that? WHAT THE HELL?!!

What is the sense of voting for cretins like this? Beyond useless.

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jaunte  Mar 28, 2023 • 5:46:43pm

Such an elementary isolationist dig, and she can’t even get that right.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Mar 28, 2023 • 5:46:55pm

re: #101 Patricia Kayden

[Embedded content]

I don’t know who all donated the 4 units of whole blood I received when I was shot in 1982, but I thank them every day.

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cat-tikvah  Mar 28, 2023 • 5:48:03pm

re: #111 Patricia Kayden

And they never leave the house, either?
Because mass shootings include:
Churches
Malls
Movie theaters
Musical concerts
Synagogues
Supermarkets
Walmart
Etc
Etc
Etc

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teleskiguy  Mar 28, 2023 • 5:48:51pm

The massacre at the Christian school in Nashville was indeed a targeted attack. The shooter killed the daughter of the head pastor and killed the head of the school.

theguardian.com

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 28, 2023 • 5:54:24pm

My first AI images. From Midjourney.

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ozharas  Mar 28, 2023 • 5:59:31pm

re: #70 ckkatz

Yes, refusal to enact sane gun laws is indeed a choice by GOP politicians and the people who vote for them.

For context, this doctor works at the largest hospital in Victoria, our 2nd biggest state.

And this quote tweet puts it in stark contrast.

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EPR-radar  Mar 28, 2023 • 6:00:30pm

re: #115 teleskiguy

The massacre at the Christian school in Nashville was indeed a targeted attack. The shooter killed the daughter of the head pastor and killed the head of the school.

theguardian.com

There’s no evidence for that conclusion at this time.

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austin_blue  Mar 28, 2023 • 6:00:59pm

re: #81 Backwoods_Sleuth

Well, that’s difference of the presentation of the Classic English Supper of meat and two veg.

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Belafon  Mar 28, 2023 • 6:04:18pm

re: #100 mmmirele

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teleskiguy  Mar 28, 2023 • 6:05:14pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 28, 2023 • 6:05:58pm

re: #116 Crush White Nationalism

Midjourney has gotten much better with their latest version.

But I used up my free credits a while ago, and I am too cheap to buy more.

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austin_blue  Mar 28, 2023 • 6:06:24pm

re: #88 Charles Johnson

The true warrior can kill an intruder with a plastic spork.

Well, you *can*, but it takes a lot of scraping. You also need to put down plastic sheeting or you will ruin the rugs.

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teleskiguy  Mar 28, 2023 • 6:06:49pm

re: #118 EPR-radar

We know who died. This wasn’t random.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 28, 2023 • 6:08:29pm

NightCafe’s challenge is “mythical creature portraits”.

I doubt my entry will get much love:

nightcafe challenge: Satan portrait in b&w
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jaunte  Mar 28, 2023 • 6:08:36pm

re: #121 teleskiguy

It’s especially weird in rural Texas.

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EPR-radar  Mar 28, 2023 • 6:11:01pm

re: #124 teleskiguy

We know who died. This wasn’t random.

The head pastor is not the head of the school, so there’s no link between the daughter of the head pastor and the head of the school.

One possible data point in 6 deaths is not evidence.

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jaunte  Mar 28, 2023 • 6:11:01pm
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teleskiguy  Mar 28, 2023 • 6:11:14pm

re: #125 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

OK, this made me guffaw.

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William Lewis  Mar 28, 2023 • 6:11:49pm

The thing is, a nation can still have a gun culture virtually indistinguishable from America while having serious gun regulations. The Czech Republic is my go-to example but Norway and Finland are also good examples. The Finns especially with a real existential threat on their doorstep unlike the fantasies of the American fascists.

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jaunte  Mar 28, 2023 • 6:11:53pm

re: #125 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

“…and his hair was perfect.”

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The Ghost of a Flea  Mar 28, 2023 • 6:12:47pm

re: #116 Crush White Nationalism

*peers at wee little cat fingers*

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teleskiguy  Mar 28, 2023 • 6:15:16pm

re: #127 EPR-radar

From the article at The Guardian:

Hallie Scruggs, nine, was a student in the third grade and the daughter of Chad Scruggs, the senior pastor of Covenant Presbyterian church, the school’s sponsor.

[…]

Katherine Koonce, 60, a native of Louisiana who held a doctorate in education, was the head of school since 2016.

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Belafon  Mar 28, 2023 • 6:16:36pm

re: #123 austin_blue

Well, you *can*, but it takes a lot of scraping. You also need to put down plastic sheeting or you will ruin the rugs.

That’s true but only if you are trying to get rid of the body.

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EPR-radar  Mar 28, 2023 • 6:18:17pm

re: #133 teleskiguy

And? I would be astonished if the shooter knew or cared who Hallie’s parents were.

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austin_blue  Mar 28, 2023 • 6:18:42pm

re: #113 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

I don’t know who all donated the 4 units of whole blood I received when I was shot in 1982, but I thank them every day.

Wait, what? Who shot your happy ass in ‘82? Didn’t you max out on perforations in the ‘Nam?

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jaunte  Mar 28, 2023 • 6:20:09pm

re: #133 teleskiguy

The Covenant school may have been the second choice target:

“…Investigators also found the shooter may have looked at targeting another location, Drake said, but gave up on the idea after doing a “threat assessment” because the site had “too much security.”
cnn.com

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teleskiguy  Mar 28, 2023 • 6:20:33pm

re: #136 austin_blue

Wait, what? Who shot your happy ass in ‘84? Didn’t you max out on perforations in the ‘Nam?

You haven’t heard the story? His buddy shot him in the leg near his front door.

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teleskiguy  Mar 28, 2023 • 6:23:49pm

re: #137 jaunte

Wasn’t the shooter a former student of Covenant?

Nonetheless. Just goes to show how fucking numb I am to these things, stupid idle speculation on the internet is what I’m doing.

I was 16 when Columbine happened 100 miles away from me.

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 28, 2023 • 6:24:40pm

re: #132 The Ghost of a Flea

*peers at wee little cat fingers*

Can’t hold cards with paws.

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teleskiguy  Mar 28, 2023 • 6:24:47pm

re: #138 teleskiguy

You haven’t heard the story? His buddy shot him in the leg near his front door.

IIRC the cops were able to recover the bullet and Shiplord still has it.

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austin_blue  Mar 28, 2023 • 6:27:30pm

re: #134 Belafon

That’s true but only if you are trying to get rid of the body.

Or want to keep your carpets. You know, just saying, you’ll never get that biological funk and burnt copper smell out of your rugs.

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austin_blue  Mar 28, 2023 • 6:28:26pm

re: #138 teleskiguy

You haven’t heard the story? His buddy shot him in the leg near his front door.

No! Dammit, somebody dish!

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Joe Bacon  Mar 28, 2023 • 6:29:03pm

OH NO HE DIDN’T!

OH YES HE DID!

Security footage exposes treatment plant worker peeing in city’s drinking water

rawstory.com

The citizens of Baton Rouge might have a bad taste in their mouths after learning that city official Michael Mastin was contaminating their drinking water, the Ascension Parish Sheriff’s inmate database states.

Inside Edition is sounding the alarm about a 57-year-old Louisiana man caught urinating in the city’s clean water supply at least twice.

Mastin is being charged with two felony counts of criminal damage to critical infrastructure and two felony counts of contaminating water supplies. He is currently out on a $25,000 bond.

“Mastin was allegedly seen in security footage leaving his office, turning the angle of the security camera, then urinating into the water supply, officials said in a statement shared with media alongside security footage,” the report explained.

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teleskiguy  Mar 28, 2023 • 6:31:04pm

re: #139 teleskiguy

I was 16 when Columbine happened 100 miles away from me.

Columbine was a failed bombing. Those assholes wanted to kill hundreds of kids. The guns were Plan B.

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retired cynic  Mar 28, 2023 • 6:31:21pm

The Shiplord posted that beautiful hood ornament from a 1932 Cadillac. I sent it to a friend who is a serious old car geek and he sent this right back: Gorgeous!

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austin_blue  Mar 28, 2023 • 6:33:28pm

re: #144 Joe Bacon

OH NO HE DIDN’T!

OH YES HE DID!

Security footage exposes treatment plant worker peeing in city’s drinking water

rawstory.com

The citizens of Baton Rouge might have a bad taste in their mouths after learning that city official Michael Mastin was contaminating their drinking water, the Ascension Parish Sheriff’s inmate database states.

Inside Edition is sounding the alarm about a 57-year-old Louisiana man caught urinating in the city’s clean water supply at least twice.

Mastin is being charged with two felony counts of criminal damage to critical infrastructure and two felony counts of contaminating water supplies. He is currently out on a $25,000 bond.

“Mastin was allegedly seen in security footage leaving his office, turning the angle of the security camera, then urinating into the water supply, officials said in a statement shared with media alongside security footage,” the report explained.

Well, the water certainly had a certain wang to it.

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teleskiguy  Mar 28, 2023 • 6:33:34pm
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teleskiguy  Mar 28, 2023 • 6:36:34pm

Dude, a lot of these fascists have issues, man…

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Joe Bacon  Mar 28, 2023 • 6:37:42pm

re: #149 teleskiguy

You can always count on Stewpid Peters to make an ass of himself.

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Cheechako  Mar 28, 2023 • 6:39:29pm

Here’s a commentary to help make your day better:

Slack Tide: Alaska vs. the Lower 48
On one hand, flavorful tomatoes. On the other hand, the PFD.

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teleskiguy  Mar 28, 2023 • 6:39:46pm
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Belafon  Mar 28, 2023 • 6:44:30pm

re: #149 teleskiguy

Elton didn’t write the lyrics. That was what Bernie did. Elton wrote the score afterwards.

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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 28, 2023 • 6:52:34pm

re: #152 teleskiguy

I see 4 men of color in that photo, but no women.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Mar 28, 2023 • 6:53:59pm
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Dangerman  Mar 28, 2023 • 6:54:48pm

re: #77 austin_blue

Hey, Dangerman, I saw this:

I’m assuming the trial was about how the Republic Aircraft Corporation built 21,000 P-47 Thunderbolts, F-84 Thunderflashes, and Thunderstreaks, and F-105s polluted ground water with chlorinated solvents and degreasers and resulted in significant health impacts to local residents.

It’s the same story wherever aircraft were built, and the majority of large military bases.

Bingo

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Teukka  Mar 28, 2023 • 6:55:34pm

re: #155 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

Another thing is that during times they’re allowed to be on social media, they may only speak English. Which is a problem for kids which are immigrant or immigrant descent. The plight of Finnish kids in Utah is making waves in Finnish media, and are likely to become a bigger thing once the election is over.

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Captain Ron  Mar 28, 2023 • 6:55:52pm

Searching for spring: Winnipeg likely to go through 1st March without a day above freezing since 1899.

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Dangerman  Mar 28, 2023 • 6:56:51pm

re: #87 Backwoods_Sleuth

oh dear…

[Embedded content]

The blood “knows”?

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Dangerman  Mar 28, 2023 • 6:58:42pm

re: #95 Charles Johnson

I’ve been putting together a renderMastodonPost() function that gets the JSON post data from the API and builds the HTML to display it all fancy like.

I used a crayon and drew a duckie

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Teukka  Mar 28, 2023 • 7:01:52pm
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austin_blue  Mar 28, 2023 • 7:03:07pm

re: #156 Dangerman

Bingo

There is not a major defense site where I sampled groundwater over twenty years in Texas that wasn’t filthy with chlorinated solvents. We passed it off to the Feds. At some sites, they may never get their groundwater back.

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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 28, 2023 • 7:06:27pm
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Dangerman  Mar 28, 2023 • 7:12:48pm
Donald Trump has tapped an operative to lead his 2024 efforts in New Hampshire. And for the role, he’s turned to a veteran of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s 2016 presidential bid, a campaign he mercilessly roasted,” Politico reports.

Ettd
No one will touch him

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teleskiguy  Mar 28, 2023 • 7:16:29pm
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The Ghost of a Flea  Mar 28, 2023 • 7:17:11pm

re: #130 William Lewis

problem with gun culture is…it’s culture

It’s built up over generations such that people within it can’t perceive that the base assumptions are social constructed…they’re just “true.”

If I were to look at US gun culture as an anthropologist, one of my first observations would be that it’s literally not about physical weapons, it’s about decades and decades of layering meaning onto ownership (emphasis: as opposed to handling, practice, or usage), and most of that meaning has to do with Americans being the most frightened people in the developed world. The guns are the end point of a long string of conclusions about the nature of people in general, the inevitability that certain kinds of people will become threats and thus self-protection must always be on hand, and a firm belief that all individuals are ultimately alone and that cooperation and mutual aid that aren’t forming an armed mob are degrading.

You are strapped because you’re one of the few heroes; everyone else will either become the enemy or pull you down with their weakness.

Deep in this is that Americans…mostly white ones…have a unique understanding of property and ownership that amounts “I am a little duke, and most other people are peasants that want what I have”…a belief I seriously think is the continuing ripple of building a country on people that were already there, with people you enslaved: the US promised many people the freedom of a plantation owner, and part of that “freedom” is using lethal force against all the caste of people that by all rights should kick your ass because you’re the source of their woe and basically been shit out by Echnida from their perspective. This is why this perfomativity shows strongest in white dudes—guns perform whiteness and man-ness very compactly—because they need to flip and reverse that they’re the volk living on the liebenstraum, beneficaries of a very bloody affirmative action.

This is some empire shit: everybody’s running west to claim their private fiefdom; settling in occupied land—a privatized invasion endorsed by the hegemons who will happily avenge your death and claim you stake; people solve labor problems by acquiring coerced labor—black, native, Hispanic, Chinese, people trapped in company towns, etc.You have guns to stay in control…of your empire…of people you’re trying to own…who by all rights should set you on fire and dance for joy. So you just flip and see yourself as the victim, and after generations it sticks.

It’s counterrevolutionary in nature, and has adopted the language of US reaction readily and kept apace with reaction in who it views as a legitimate gun-owner. Over the years as it’s gotten more explicit that both cultures are operating on the same platform: guns are for killing the wrong kinds of people, who are inherently dangerous and inherently in opposition to the various things that are Wholesome AmericannessTM.

Mass shootings can be characterized as honor killings, but they’re also an echo of colonialist violence and lynching: a defense of ownership, killing in an attempt to redeem a patrimony that they feel is owed. I kill you because of what I lack, what has been taken, and retribution for the insult. It’s a photocopy of a photocopy of picture of a pogrom.

None of this is helped by modern capitalism, which see the insecurity inherit in reactionary fears, and gets cartoon dollar-signs bulging out of its pupils: wthey’re stoking their own inferiority, doing half the work for us, and we can sell them simulacra of what they lack eternally, constantly moving the goalpost. Part of US gun culture is now, also, the conspicuous consumption: buying this shit is what you are, your character, the signal of your virtue. Which is a terrible thing to intersect with operating a tool designed to do lethal force: the message is that buying the gun makes you the hero, the actual duty of wielding it tends to be forgotten.

The signifier has been eaten by the signified, the rubes will pay for sizzle regardless of the steak…and that’s why all this shit is so fucking dumb even as it’s so dangerous.

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ckkatz  Mar 28, 2023 • 7:20:05pm

re: #151 Cheechako

Nice article!

Alaska certainly has hardcore fans.

Amused that the article mentioned the pfd without saying it was the pfd.

pfd - Permanent Fund Dividend

In the article -
“But the state of Alaska cuts you an annual check just for occupying space, and you know you won’t blow it all on waterparks and tomatoes.”

Which reminds me, I may try to order some pilot crackers. I have not found them in retail anywhere locally.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 28, 2023 • 7:21:30pm

re: #163 The Pie Overlord!

So Youngkin is obviously planning on running for President and God forbid he shows any decency to those who are not rabid white supremacists. Anyone who bought into the lie that he was moderate was naive. He’s just another Trumpster who cares only about the party base; and as I’ve said earlier there are few Republicans today who have any level of decency or devotion to our democracy. They have all jumped on the Trump bandwagon, even those who wish to replace Trump as party leader.

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Grunthos the Flatulent  Mar 28, 2023 • 7:22:16pm

Tomorrow’s Wordle found a dozen bottles of red it had forgotten about.

Click to Reveal

Beguanoed but unbowed, the statue returns to the fray.

Wordle 648 4/6

⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨
🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜
🟨🟩🟩⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

SibData: 3,4,4,5

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ckkatz  Mar 28, 2023 • 7:22:52pm

re: #163 The Pie Overlord!

I must say that Youngkin doesn’t have a lot of fans in my neck of the woods. (Northern Virginia.)

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jaunte  Mar 28, 2023 • 7:23:33pm
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Mar 28, 2023 • 7:32:09pm

re: #136 austin_blue

Wait, what? Who shot your happy ass in ‘82? Didn’t you max out on perforations in the ‘Nam?

Got through ‘Nam without a scratch, nothing worth a PH anyway. The ‘82 shooting was negiligence by a co-worker.
Here’s the story.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 28, 2023 • 7:35:07pm

re: #165 teleskiguy

“More laws won’t stop people from breaking them.” Such a uniquely American perspective. Everywhere else in the civilized world, when the government makes laws, THEY FOLLOW THEM. Because those people in other countries understand what it means to participate in society.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 28, 2023 • 7:38:16pm

re: #131 jaunte

“…and his hair was perfect.”

That was a werewolf, not Satan.

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Teukka  Mar 28, 2023 • 7:40:27pm
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Nerdy Fish  Mar 28, 2023 • 7:42:28pm

Mastodon

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calochortus  Mar 28, 2023 • 7:56:23pm

re: #113 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

I don’t know who all donated the 4 units of whole blood I received when I was shot in 1982, but I thank them every day.

Thanks for reminding me to make an appointment to donate. I try to do it 4 or 5 times a year since I have the world’s most boring blood (O-, CMV-) And boring is just what you want in blood.

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EPR-radar  Mar 28, 2023 • 8:01:16pm

re: #176 Nerdy Fish

IMO Ken White is making a category error here. No conservative “argument” is of the kind they discuss in law school (i.e., supposed to be based on reasoning about the facts etc.).

Conservative arguments are an expression of the lust conservatives have for ruling over others. Thus “owning the libs” is actually the closest thing they have to an honest expression of their views (except for the cutting edge types that are ahead of the times by calling explicitly for extermination of liberals).

This is also why I’m not a fan of satirizing conservative views — satire can’t work on people who are intrinsically bad faith (Republicans) or who are willfully stupid (the mushy middle).

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gwangung  Mar 28, 2023 • 8:05:04pm

re: #178 EPR-radar

This is also why I’m not a fan of satirizing conservative views — satire can’t work on people who are intrinsically bad faith (Republicans) or who are willfully stupid (the mushy middle).

That kind of tactic isn’t meant for those who strongly hold conservative views. It’s meant for those who “sorta” believe in them, haven’t thought about them very deeply or haven’t thought about them at all. (Though it is weakly useful for the hardcore believers as it denies them any toehold for them to think they have power over the liberal).

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 28, 2023 • 8:08:05pm
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calochortus  Mar 28, 2023 • 8:09:59pm

re: #180 Crush White Nationalism

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He looks awful. I almost wish I cared.

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teleskiguy  Mar 28, 2023 • 8:10:24pm

re: #173 Nerdy Fish

Yeah, man. I’m getting sick of this anti-government bullshit.

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Joe Bacon  Mar 28, 2023 • 8:10:48pm

re: #180 Crush White Nationalism

[Embedded content]

Yep. Crackhead Mike is hitting the pipe again.

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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 28, 2023 • 8:10:57pm

This is the sickest grift ever.

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Belafon  Mar 28, 2023 • 8:12:13pm

They reported on WFAA that the shooter purchased all the guns legally.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 28, 2023 • 8:13:21pm

re: #185 Belafon

They reported on WFAA that the shooter purchased all the guns legally.

Oh well. More laws won’t fix the problem, so the only thing we can do is… MOAR GUNZ!!!!

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Joe Bacon  Mar 28, 2023 • 8:14:26pm

re: #185 Belafon

They reported on WFAA that the shooter purchased all the guns legally.

Yeah it’s that “shall not be infringed” shit over and over again that lets people get the guns to kill to their heart’s content.

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EPR-radar  Mar 28, 2023 • 8:15:38pm

re: #184 The Pie Overlord!

This is straight up stochastic terrorism. The fuhrer of the deranged cult known as the Republican party is glorifying the knife attack by one of his supporters.

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ckkatz  Mar 28, 2023 • 8:17:06pm

Apparently President Biden made some comments regarding the situation in Israel-

(Both tweeters are associated with the Israeli HaAretz paper. Which is leftward on the political spectrum.)

Translation of tweet-

wow An excerpt from Biden’s words: “Like many supporters of Israel, I am very concerned. They can’t go on like this. I think I made that clear. I hope that the Prime Minister will act in such a way that he will try to reach a real compromise. But we will have to see that. They know my position, the position of America, and they know the position of the Jews in America.’

Response by Netanyahu

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Joe Bacon  Mar 28, 2023 • 8:17:53pm

Eastman Helpfully Explains Why A Fringe Legal Theory Before SCOTUS Is So Dangerous

He’s still allowed to continue pushing his seditious shit.

talkingpointsmemo.com

The Supreme Court, you’ll know from TPM, is currently considering a case in which Republican legislators from North Carolina argue that they, and no one else, have absolute authority over that state’s federal elections. The state courts don’t, the state governor doesn’t. Only the legislators do, they claim.

For this reason, the legislators argue, they can go ahead and gerrymander to their hearts’ content.

Their argument is a radical reading of the Constitution that has become increasingly in vogue on the right in recent years, known as the “independent state legislature theory,” or the ISLT. As TPM’s Kate Riga has noted, five of the Supreme Court’s six conservatives had expressed something that sounded like enthusiasm for the theory over the last several years. For that reason, when the Court took up the North Carolina case, Moore v. Harper, legal scholars began pounding the alarm.

A powerful profile of Trump lawyer John Eastman in Washington Monthly today helps make clear why. For some adherents of the ISLT (and Eastman is one), the theory isn’t just about gerrymandering. It’s about who gets to decide whether democracy gets to function — whether an election counts, or doesn’t. The theory was an animating force in the Trump election-theft effort, as Eastman makes plain in a conversation with the piece’s author, the legal scholar and journalist Garrett Epps.

“My view … is that when the election is conducted not according to the manner that it was directed by the legislature, it’s an invalid election,” he told Epps.

An invalid election.

Such invalid elections, the Trump lawyers argued in 2020 and early 2021, can simply be thrown out.

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Romantic Heretic  Mar 28, 2023 • 8:17:59pm

re: #83 PhillyPretzel

Michelangelo’s David is part of Western Civilization. Art plays a big part of civilization.

Which is why the barbarians masquerading as conservatives hate it so.

When barbarians see civilization they see victims, loot, and slaves. Nothing else.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 28, 2023 • 8:18:16pm

re: #189 ckkatz

Wow. Sounds like that relationship is… tense.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 28, 2023 • 8:19:11pm

Just going to drop this in here, in relation to the mass-murder in Nashville.

Church Accused of Covering for Molester (Courthouse News, October 24, 2013)

NASHVILLE (CN) - A Presbyterian church covered up for a “confessed child molester,” and “in cult-like fashion” put children in the molester’s so-called “safe house,” a family claims in court.

Austin Davis and his daughter Daisy sued the Covenant Presbyterian Church of Nashville and its parishioner Dale Lewelling, in Davidson County Court.

Lewelling is not the alleged molester. The Davises claim Lewelling “assaulted the plaintiffs in an open hallway filled with people” during a period of turmoil at the church.

Austin Davis said in an interview that the alleged assault in the hallway came after he attended a class as a former member of the church.

“I got separated from my daughter and they were telling me I was breaking the law,” Davis said. His daughter was a minor at the time.

In the lawsuit, Davis claims that on July 14, 2008, “the defendants quietly accept[ed] the resignation of the confessed child molester, John Perry, from the Covenant Diaconate, with Lewelling recorded in the board minutes as being present in the room.”

Perry is not a party to the lawsuit, which continues: “The defendants intentionally conceal[ed] knowledge of the confessed child molester from appropriate authorities, the majority of the members of the congregation, and the plaintiffs. …

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Romantic Heretic  Mar 28, 2023 • 8:19:13pm

re: #88 Charles Johnson

The true warrior can kill an intruder with a plastic spork.

It can be done but I prefer a pencil myself.

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jaunte  Mar 28, 2023 • 8:19:48pm

Somewhere there must be a communications major-to-Trump attorney pipeline.

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EPR-radar  Mar 28, 2023 • 8:22:37pm

re: #190 Joe Bacon

Eastman is a thug (R) with a will to power akin to that of Hitler or any other fascist.

Every argument he advances is axiomatically dishonest. E.g., the ISLT theory is not a theory to give state legislatures ultimate power, it is a theory to give Republican state legislatures ultimate power.

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ckkatz  Mar 28, 2023 • 8:24:10pm

re: #192 Nerdy Fish

Wow. Sounds like that relationship is… tense.

I suspect that Biden remembers how Netanyahu f*cked over Obama. There is no love betwixt the Administration and Netanyahu. However, it also sounds to me like Biden is trying to very carefully calibrate his pressure and keep things from getting completely out of control.

I remember what Shrub the Elder did to Shamir. It is also likely in our power to do that to Netanyahu if we are willing to break some stuff in the process.

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Joe Bacon  Mar 28, 2023 • 8:25:18pm

re: #193 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I see Covenant Presbyterian Church took its’ webpage offline. Checking to see what faction that church belonged to and it appears to be the Presbyterian Church in America which is the remnant of the Southern Presbyterians. So it’s in the same basket with Orthodox, Reformed and Covenanter Presbyterians.

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EPR-radar  Mar 28, 2023 • 8:26:04pm

re: #197 ckkatz

I suspect that Biden remembers how Netanyahu f*cked over Obama. There is no love betwixt the Administration and Netanyahu. However, it also sounds to me like Biden is trying to very carefully calibrate his pressure and keep things from getting completely out of control.

I remember what Shrub the Elder did to Shamir. It is also likely in our power to do that to Netanyahu if we are willing to break some stuff in the process.

The US ruining Netanyahu would appear to be in the long term best interest of both countries.

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ckkatz  Mar 28, 2023 • 8:29:34pm

re: #199 EPR-radar

The US ruining Netanyahu would appear to be in the long term best interest of both countries.

I suspect that it would be most effective if the Israelis decided who should govern them rather than an outside force. But yes, from a democratic point of view; And from a Western point of view; Netanyahu does not appear to be an optimum choice.

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teleskiguy  Mar 28, 2023 • 8:30:46pm

re: #189 ckkatz

Netanyahu and his weirdo fanatic coalition bit off more than they could chew.

This time.

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ckkatz  Mar 28, 2023 • 8:31:24pm

Ruth BenGhiat’s take on the Tennessee Representative Burchett’s statement -

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Romantic Heretic  Mar 28, 2023 • 8:32:36pm

re: #163 The Pie Overlord!

which the administration is considering on a case-by-case basis.

Throwing Paper into a trash can

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EPR-radar  Mar 28, 2023 • 8:33:50pm

re: #201 teleskiguy

Netanyahu and his weirdo fanatic coalition bit off more than they could chew.

This time.

Fascists like Bibi only have to win big once to cause endless destruction. Keeping them at bay requires eternal vigilance.

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Romantic Heretic  Mar 28, 2023 • 8:36:58pm

re: #173 Nerdy Fish

Too many Americans can’t differentiate between society and COMMUNISM!!1!!!1!

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EPR-radar  Mar 28, 2023 • 8:38:00pm

re: #200 ckkatz

I suspect that it would be most effective if the Israelis decided who should govern them rather than an outside force. But yes, from a democratic point of view; And from a Western point of view; Netanyahu does not appear to be an optimum choice.

Yes, I can’t approve of the US openly and officially working against Netanyahu (although he surely deserves it). But behind the scenes is a different story.

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ckkatz  Mar 28, 2023 • 8:41:27pm

re: #201 teleskiguy

Netanyahu and his weirdo fanatic coalition bit off more than they could chew.

This time.

That is certainly my hope. But I am not in close enough touch to guess the likely outcome.

My outside guess is that the issue has a lot of play in it. And much depends upon how much Netanyahu and and his allies are willing to escalate and to burn the country.

Generally there has been very specific limits on internal political violence. The Yitzhak Rabin assassination by a rightwing fanatic was a major violation of this. However, last night some rightwing gangs did attack pro-democracy protesters and appear to have injured some folks.

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ckkatz  Mar 28, 2023 • 8:52:55pm

That feeling of “Deja Vu. All over again” -

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 28, 2023 • 8:57:43pm

Today’s continuing effort in the Unicameral to gum up the works to stop anti-trans hate legislation. There’s more than a filibuster involved here.

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ckkatz  Mar 28, 2023 • 9:05:37pm

re: #209 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Those three ladies are not taking any nonsense. And I am applauding!

I hope that they can last out the session (39 days?) and not get worn down. I understand the the GOPers are trying to change the rules on them?

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ckkatz  Mar 28, 2023 • 9:07:29pm

Hmm, I hadn’t even considered the use of deepfake in person to person phone calls. But we may be approaching that point.

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jaunte  Mar 28, 2023 • 9:11:34pm
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jaunte  Mar 28, 2023 • 9:13:54pm
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darthstar  Mar 28, 2023 • 9:15:21pm

re: #113 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

I don’t know who all donated the 4 units of whole blood I received when I was shot in 1982, but I thank them every day.

Oh, hey…you owe me a pint.

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darthstar  Mar 28, 2023 • 9:26:12pm

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darthstar  Mar 28, 2023 • 9:28:50pm

Okay…bed time…so I leave you with this image. Serious props for the dedicated mullet, but dude…no.

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retired cynic  Mar 28, 2023 • 9:30:59pm

re: #216 darthstar

Okay…bed time…so I leave you with this image. Serious props for the dedicated mullet, but dude…no.

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OMFG

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darthstar  Mar 28, 2023 • 9:31:27pm

re: #216 darthstar

Okay…bed time…so I leave you with this image. Serious props for the dedicated mullet, but dude…no.

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Whenever I repost a picture like this I wonder if someone I know online will say, “Holy shit! That’s my youth pastor/neighbor/cousin/brother in law!” (in some states all possible combinations in the same person)

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darthstar  Mar 28, 2023 • 9:32:44pm

re: #217 retired cynic

OMFG

I know…and he looks like he’s 5’7” at the most. Poor bastard.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 28, 2023 • 9:37:57pm

re: #208 Eclectic Cyborg

How could they possibly expect to enforce this? Examine every vehicle leaving the state?

They don’t. This is to gin up their morans in their base.

Should this somehow become law, civil libertarian groups will fight the law in court. It isn’t the GOP’s money they would spend to defend it; it would be tax money.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Mar 28, 2023 • 9:44:57pm

London as I remember it.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 28, 2023 • 9:57:23pm

re: #5 Eclectic Cyborg

Heck even if your aim isn’t great, a shotgun will usually do the trick against an intruder.

That’s what I have. Plus it’s nice and loud when you snap the breech closed. The sound itself might be enough to get a putative intruder to flee.

Given any option though, I’d rather just retreat to someone else’s house and call the sheriff. I can be confident of my ability to use a shotgun just after awaking from an intruder, and still wind up on the losing end of a shoot-out.

There are only four ways out of town: US-26 E/W, NE-92 W, and the gravel road to Alliance sixty miles away. It’s not to hard to stop the traffic.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 28, 2023 • 10:01:36pm

re: #9 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

Where’d he get this?

When examining the car, officers found it had an illegal electronic license plate-flipping and concealing device installed on it.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 28, 2023 • 10:12:10pm

re: #15 Backwoods_Sleuth

Christian Oppression Olympics (tm)

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Targetpractice  Mar 28, 2023 • 10:15:30pm

The USA: Where the argument “I need to be armed so I can protect myself from all the other people who are armed!” is treated as a serious political argument and not a sign that you need to spend time in a padded cell.

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Belafon  Mar 28, 2023 • 10:18:16pm

re: #211 ckkatz

Hmm, I hadn’t even considered the use of deepfake in person to person phone calls. But we may be approaching that point.

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Human two-factor authentication.

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Belafon  Mar 28, 2023 • 10:25:43pm

re: #224 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

There are a whole bunch of 2nd amendment people realizing that this guy is advocating that the 2nd doesn’t apply to everyone and even they’re like “what the hell man?”

Beetlejuice?

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Belafon  Mar 28, 2023 • 10:28:40pm

Remember when Trump stopped these:

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Belafon  Mar 28, 2023 • 10:29:22pm
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Belafon  Mar 28, 2023 • 10:29:59pm
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A Three Hour Tour  Mar 28, 2023 • 10:30:25pm

re: #223 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Where’d he get this?

From Q at MI-6???

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Belafon  Mar 28, 2023 • 10:31:26pm

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Targetpractice  Mar 28, 2023 • 10:32:09pm

re: #227 Belafon

There are a whole bunch of 2nd amendment people realizing that this guy is advocating that the 2nd doesn’t apply to everyone and even they’re like “what the hell man?”

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Beetlejuice?

This is 60s-70s era “WE GOTTA ARM FOR THE COMING RACE WAR!!!” sort of hate, the idea that they’re being hunted and so must arm themselves if they want to live kinda craziness.

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Belafon  Mar 28, 2023 • 10:32:20pm

Remember this:

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 28, 2023 • 10:33:48pm

re: #24 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

None of those living or working at my house, so I’ll stick with a shotgun. I actually don’t have a home defense weapon as such, that is, one loaded and ready at a second’s notice in the middle of the night. Nevertheless, I do have a shotgun and an M-1911 that can be accessed at need.
Btw, I have been urging the gun humpers to consider the various civilian flame throwers for home defense instead of firearms.

That would be great: Set your own house on fire with a flamethrower.

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Targetpractice  Mar 28, 2023 • 10:33:57pm

re: #234 Belafon

Remember this:

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And here we have a great example of the 00s “ALL MASS SHOOTERS ARE SECRETLY MUSLIM CONVERTS!!!” stupidity.

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Belafon  Mar 28, 2023 • 10:47:44pm
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William Lewis  Mar 28, 2023 • 10:55:40pm

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William Lewis  Mar 28, 2023 • 10:55:53pm

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William Lewis  Mar 28, 2023 • 10:56:07pm

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 28, 2023 • 11:27:20pm

Well, it would appear that Mastadon doesn’t get rid of all the trolls, as they are also migrating over from Twitter.

Mastodon

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Targetpractice  Mar 28, 2023 • 11:27:59pm

Why do I gotta be the one to deal with all the drama BS? Guy just came down, telling me his girlfriend has all her stuff out in the hallway because apparently she and the other girl that were sharing a room had an argument and she said she’d just rent a room for herself and started moving everything before actually checking with the front desk if we had availability. So the white knight comes down to get the dates on the new reservation altered, only to find out we have no rooms available at this hour and the earliest is this afternoon.

Another semi-regular hotel pro-tip: When the guy at the front desk says “We’re sold out,” that is not secret code for “If you ask us the right way, we’ll give you access to the floor of rooms we hide away from the public.”

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A Three Hour Tour  Mar 28, 2023 • 11:32:29pm

re: #241 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Well, it would appear that Mastadon doesn’t get rid of all the trolls, as they are also migrating over from Twitter.

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Oh, my word, it’s Yadz. I remember him from rec.arts.drwho back in the nineties. Barely literate wingnut in Edmonton, Alberta.

We used to joke that when everyone had abandoned the internet, Yadz would still be there typing rightwing gibberish into the void.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 29, 2023 • 12:25:42am

In the category “there outta be a law”

My 6-Year-Old Son Died. Then the Anti-vaxxers Found Out. (The Atlantic, yesterday)

y 6-year-old boy died in January. We lost him after a household accident, one likely brought on by a rare cerebral-swelling condition. Paramedics got his heart beating, but it was too late to save his brain. I could hold his hand, look at the small birthmark on it, comb his hair, and call out for him, but if he could hear me or feel me, he gave no sign. He had been a child in perpetual motion, but now we couldn’t get him to wiggle a finger.

My grief is profound, ragged, desperate. I cannot imagine how anything could feel worse.

But vaccine opponents on the internet, who somehow assumed that a COVID shot was responsible for my son’s death, thought my family’s pain was funny. “Lol. Yay for the jab. Right? Right?” wrote one person on Twitter. “Your decision to vaccinate your son resulted in his death,” wrote another. “This is all on YOU.” “Murder in the first.”

(more)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 29, 2023 • 12:41:39am

re: #70 ckkatz

Yes, refusal to enact sane gun laws is indeed a choice by GOP politicians and the people who vote for them.

And that sad state results in this.

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Captain Ron  Mar 29, 2023 • 12:44:10am
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No Malarkey!  Mar 29, 2023 • 12:55:41am

re: #157 Teukka

Another thing is that during times they’re allowed to be on social media, they may only speak English. Which is a problem for kids which are immigrant or immigrant descent. The plight of Finnish kids in Utah is making waves in Finnish media, and are likely to become a bigger thing once the election is over.

That is blatantly unconstitutional.

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Captain Ron  Mar 29, 2023 • 12:56:34am
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No Malarkey!  Mar 29, 2023 • 12:59:26am

re: #163 The Pie Overlord!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 29, 2023 • 1:04:23am

re: #75 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

I hope you get some recognition and respect in the village for carrying out that duty.

And some budget money for properly replacing the flags when it needs to be done.

I don’t know about the respect part: I’m not looking for that.

I first inquired about the flag on the first Memorial Day and no one had lowered the flag. I asked if I could do it, a village board member said “sure.”

Later when the flag was faded, I had a spare given to me for a donation to the USO and I asked if I could replace it, and they said “sure.” After that, the very elderly lady who ran the flag committee asked the village board to put me on it.

As for a budget replacing flags, there is no specific budget, but the village will replace them when I ask. The village has an account now with ConServ Flag Company in Sidney (I did some pushback when they wanted me to order flags over the Internet, arguing ConServ is a local company which helps our local businesses).

After I ask the board to spend money and they approve, I just walk into ConServ and tell them what I need, they give it to me along with an invoice, and I drop it off at the village clerk’s office. The next board meeting the board approves the payment and sends them a cheque in the mail.

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Targetpractice  Mar 29, 2023 • 1:05:02am

re: #248 Captain Ron

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So now the excuse is [paraphrased] “Well, he was late with his budget, so we won’t have anything for a month but we still want to negotiate.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 29, 2023 • 1:13:52am

re: #87 Backwoods_Sleuth

oh dear…

And she misrepresented the study in a number of ways. It’s a small sample, and she conveniently omitted that the study investigated blood from pregnant women, giving a marginally worse outcome for both men and women.

When she went on the TERF train, I figured it wouldn’t be too long before she’d transfer to the “pureblood” fascist train. We’ll wait to see if she goes for eugenics next.

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Targetpractice  Mar 29, 2023 • 1:15:17am

re: #246 Captain Ron

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While the most obvious target is the neverending story that is the investigation into Trump and his co-conspirators, the long-term consequences are going to be that the GA GQP will now have a big blunt object to crack upside the heads of any prosecutors who don’t follow their “tough on crime” agenda.

You get elected on a platform of channeling your office’s resources towards actual crimes rather than dime bags and truancy? Sorry, you’re hurting the states numbers, get out.

You refuse to drag women to jail for having a miscarriage that the state thinks might have secretly been an attempt at abortion? You’re not tough enough, pack your bags.

You take a public stance against ridiculous and/or draconian laws against the “enemy” of the week? You’ve “politicized” your office, so hit the bricks.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 29, 2023 • 1:44:25am

re: #5 Eclectic Cyborg

Heck even if your aim isn’t great, a shotgun will usually do the trick against an intruder.

“But not against a mass home invasion from an armed Mau-Mau rape gang! And your defunded, demoralized police will not be able to help you!”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 29, 2023 • 1:46:44am

Conservatives lying:

a) Calls for firing Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs’s press secretary for retweeting someone with a still from a 1980 film showing a woman holding two pistols claiming “this is what we do to transphobes.”

b) A claim that TikTok is awash in videos saying all Christians should be killed. (If all non-Christians in the USA actually tried to do that, it would be short and bloody and the Christians wouldn’t be the losers in that.)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 29, 2023 • 1:46:55am

re: #15 Backwoods_Sleuth

Another transgender activist showing off their firearm in a threatening demeanor.

But the useless FBI won’t do a thing!

If it’s a states’ rights activist or a anti-vaccine activist or pro-trump/white power activist, then that’s just fine.

Just not one of those crazy people!

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TarHellion  Mar 29, 2023 • 1:48:36am

Par for the course. Will take it after only having 1 letter through guess 2.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 29, 2023 • 1:53:24am

re: #83 PhillyPretzel

Michelangelo’s David is part of Western Civilization. Art plays a big part of civilization.

Decadent Art is why Italy went from being a leading nation to a socialistic hellhole while America is (still) God’s Chosen Country!!!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 29, 2023 • 1:54:43am

re: #102 Backwoods_Sleuth

REPORTER: “What else should be done to protect people like your little girl?”

BURCHETT: “Well, we homeschool her.”

Part of their overall plan to dismantle public education in the USA

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 29, 2023 • 2:12:50am

re: #115 teleskiguy

The massacre at the Christian school in Nashville was indeed a targeted attack. The shooter killed the daughter of the head pastor and killed the head of the school.

theguardian.com

Nothing in the article says it’s targeted, and the police have not said that either. The pastor’s daughter and the headmistress might very well be “targets of opportunity.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 29, 2023 • 2:16:04am

re: #144 Joe Bacon

OH NO HE DIDN’T!

OH YES HE DID!

Security footage exposes treatment plant worker peeing in city’s drinking water

The lifeguard once caught me peeing in the public swimming pool.

It was such a shock that I almost fell in…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 29, 2023 • 2:18:01am

re: #149 teleskiguy

Bernie Taupin wrote the song [Tiny Dancer ] about his wife Maxine, who had been a ballet dancer growing up. She also sewed patches on Elton’s clothes. “Seamstress for the band.”

Text comprehension is not a big thing for a lot of people.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 29, 2023 • 2:20:03am

re: #166 The Ghost of a Flea

problem with gun culture is…it’s culture

It’s built up over generations such that people within it can’t perceive that the base assumptions are social constructed…they’re just “true.”

It is not just culture, it is a cult.

Guns are a totem, a magic symbol of freedom and self-sufficiency, and seen as the solution to any problem that the government creates for us.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 29, 2023 • 2:28:13am

re: #255 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Conservatives lying:

a) Calls for firing Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs’s press secretary for retweeting someone with a still from a 1980 film showing a woman holding two pistols claiming “this is what we do to transphobes.”

b) A claim that TikTok is awash in videos saying all Christians should be killed. (If all non-Christians in the USA actually tried to do that, it would be short and bloody and the Christians wouldn’t be the losers in that.)

The Conservatives have been waiting for this opening and have come out swinging: they are going to paint all trans activists as armed zealots whose agenda is to impose forced sex-change surgery on our innocent children at gunpoint, and are urging good Christian Patriots to pre-emptively stop them.

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Teukka  Mar 29, 2023 • 2:41:26am
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 29, 2023 • 2:44:57am

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Joaquín Rodrigo: Cuatro piezas para piano (FULL)



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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 29, 2023 • 3:02:45am

I’m not a Swede (nor do I play one on television), but this claim from the Mises Institute sounds like bullshyte.

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Teukka  Mar 29, 2023 • 3:03:11am
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Teukka  Mar 29, 2023 • 3:35:28am

re: #267 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I’m not a Swede (nor do I play one on television), but this claim from the Mises Institute sounds like bullshyte.


The same alliances also began phasing out rent control, meaning price levels have gone out of reach for many people.

There is an in joke in Sweden which goes like:
Q: “How do you spell market rent levels?”
A: “U-S-U-R-Y…”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 29, 2023 • 3:52:49am

re: #269 Teukka

This all leads back to the basic economic/political debate over “marketable commodity” vs “basic human need” (and can be applied to food, housing, medical care, education, etc…)

Our Free Market Fetishists want to make everything from food to even fresh water and breathable air a fully fungible economic commodity available to the highest bidder.

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steve_davis  Mar 29, 2023 • 4:06:35am

re: #189 ckkatz

Apparently President Biden made some comments regarding the situation in Israel-

(Both tweeters are associated with the Israeli HaAretz paper. Which is leftward on the political spectrum.)

Translation of tweet-

“reach a real compromise” being diplospeak for “stop doing what they’re trying to do.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 29, 2023 • 4:14:18am
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Targetpractice  Mar 29, 2023 • 4:31:03am

re: #270 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

This all leads back to the basic economic/political debate over “marketable commodity” vs “basic human need” (and can be applied to food, housing, medical care, education, etc…)

Our Free Market Fetishists want to make everything from food to even fresh water and breathable air a fully fungible economic commodity available to the highest bidder.

At which point it goes from “basic human commodity” to “investment opportunity,” i.e. hoarding but fancy.

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Teukka  Mar 29, 2023 • 4:33:34am

A bit OffT, but did a rant at a gatekeeper, you know those who claim something caters to child molesters when it actually is wholesomely and thoughfully written.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 29, 2023 • 4:34:39am

re: #273 Targetpractice

At which point it goes from “basic human commodity” to “investment opportunity,” i.e. hoarding but fancy.

Look at what happened to the London real estate market when the Russian oligarchs and Persian Gulf sheikhs descended on it.

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ckkatz  Mar 29, 2023 • 4:38:24am

re: #272 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Yup, that’s Fairfax County Virginia. Apparently a woman with a handgun sitting in an SUV along US 1 aka Richmond Highway. It is being characterized as a mental health issue. The woman may be the one reported missing by the Charles County, Md. Police.

The area has been blocked off since yesterday. It is a major commuter route and I suspect that there are concerns what it will do to an already badly congested rush hour.

if you are curious, the location is given as 7400 Richmond Highway. Between Boswell Ave and Lockheed Blvd. Google maps locates it in Alexandria Virginia.

A second woman, not connected, was reported missing by Laurel, Md police. But she has supposedly been found by Fairfax County police and is safe.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 29, 2023 • 4:42:05am

re: #274 Teukka

A bit OffT, but did a rant at a gatekeeper, you know those who claim something caters to child molesters when it actually is wholesomely and thoughfully written.

I appreciate the deep love that these gatekeepers have for their respective franchises, but I confess I lack a little bit of understanding as to why THEY get to be the appointed arbiters of what the franchise means. I mean, that seems to be up to whomever currently owns the rights to the franchise. So if Amazon, for example, wants to put Black Dwarves in the Lord of the Rings, well, that’s their right, and as long as whoever gave them those rights doesn’t have any objection, then who are we to disagree?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 29, 2023 • 4:47:28am

re: #277 Nerdy Fish

So if Amazon, for example, wants to put Black Dwarves in the Lord of the Rings, well, that’s their right, and as long as whoever gave them those rights doesn’t have any objection, then who are we to disagree?

That issue goes deeper, they resent Amazon for being “woke” by including minority actors and actresses in roles where they are seemingly not “called for”

They have a seething resentment against anything “woke”, starting with “strong female leads” spoiling their adolescent apocalyptic doomscape fantasy story lines or themes that are seen as taking an indirect swipe at contemporary racial/social issues.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 29, 2023 • 4:47:35am

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 29, 2023 • 4:49:31am

Well, if you were worried about a massive meteor strike wiping out life on Earth, here’s something new to worry about.

It would appear from this report by the Royal Astronomical Society that a radio galaxy forty times the size of the Milky Way has shifted its relativistic jets from the supermassive black hole at its centre. They now point directly at the Solar System.

A team of international astronomers have discovered a galaxy that has changed classification due to unique activity within its core. The galaxy, named PBC J2333.9-2343, was previously classified as a radio galaxy, but the new research has revealed otherwise. The work is published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

PBC J2333.9-2343, located 656 844 372 light years away, has now been classified as a giant radio galaxy that is 4 million light years across and happens to have a blazar in its core; a blazar is an active galactic nucleus (AGN) with a relativistic jet (a jet travelling close to the speed of light) directed towards an observer. Blazars are very high energy objects and are considered to be one of the most powerful phenomena in the Universe. The research has revealed that in PBC J2333.9-2343, the jet changed its direction drastically by an angle of up to 90 degrees, going from being in the plane of the sky, perpendicular to our line of sight, to pointing directly towards us.

A blazar jet is made of elemental charged particles like electrons or protons that move at velocities close to the speed of light. These move in circles around a strong magnetic field, causing the emission of radiation across the entire electromagnetic spectrum. In PBC J2333.9-2343, the jet is thought to originate from or close to the supermassive black hole in its centre.

With the jet pointing in our direction, the emission is strongly enhanced and can easily exceed that coming from the rest of the galaxy. This in turn drives high-intensity flares stronger than those coming from other radio galaxies, thus changing its categorisation.

(more)

Galaxy changes classification as jet changes direction (Royal Astronomical Society, eleven days ago).

The New York Post picked up on the story yesterday, creating a text-and-image moving graphic to explain (with maximum fear) how this will kill us all. Other news outlets are now picking up the New York Post story and simply repeating it (such as the St. Louis Post-Dispatch).

It took some digging to get to the actual Royal Astronomical Society report, because the Post didn’t directly name it so the other outlets haven’t either.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 29, 2023 • 4:49:51am

re: #278 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

That issue goes deeper, they resent Amazon being “woke” by including minority actors and actresses in roles where they are seemingly not “called for”

They have a seething resentment against anything “woke”, starting with “strong female leads” spoiling their adolescent apocalyptic doomscape fantasy story lines or themes that are seen as taking an indirect swipe at contemporary racial/social issues.

I know that, but I’m just addressing their facial arguments. Because supposedly, according to what they’re saying, their issue is that putting Black people in LOTR isn’t “true to the spirit of Tolkien.” But who made THEM the judge of what is “the spirit of Tolkien?” Wouldn’t that best be left to Christopher Tolkien, the inheritor of the estate, who has been curating most of this stuff since J. R. R. Tolkien himself has been dead for some time? If he doesn’t care, why should the weebs? I mean, I get why they are concerned, because of the reasons you stated; I’m just addressing their excuses.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 29, 2023 • 4:52:08am

re: #177 calochortus

Thanks for reminding me to make an appointment to donate. I try to do it 4 or 5 times a year since I have the world’s most boring blood (O-, CMV-) And boring is just what you want in blood.

O- is the universal doner - not boring at all. Additionally, you’re limited to only receiving O- blood.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 29, 2023 • 4:56:29am

re: #281 Nerdy Fish

for sake of devil’s advocacy, these people see Tolkien as re-imagining and re-telling lost Nordic folk tales. There is some evidence of that in his writings.

Now to the rest of us, these are just another set of folk tales among others, but to these fellows, their Nordic pedigree makes them somehow superior to the rest (need we explain why they think this way?)

In other words, the use of ethnic actors is tantamount to miscegenation of sacred mythology.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 29, 2023 • 4:57:05am

re: #280 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

On a lighter note, maybe we’ll get better Northern Lights here than we usually do. /s

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lawhawk  Mar 29, 2023 • 4:57:37am

re: #36 Backwoods_Sleuth

But they’re sure as fuck going to outlaw abortion, criminalize women who cross the state line, even if they’re not pregnant, harass and violate a woman’s privacy and agency over their bodies, limit their health care options, and otherwise treat them as second class citizens because they want to impose their theological belief that a human life begins at conception, which isn’t how other religions see things.

They want to impose their religion on everyone else, so fuck them.

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Targetpractice  Mar 29, 2023 • 4:57:40am

re: #278 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

That issue goes deeper, they resent Amazon being “woke” by including minority actors and actresses in roles where they are seemingly not “called for”

They have a seething resentment against anything “woke”, starting with “strong female leads” spoiling their adolescent apocalyptic doomscape fantasy story lines or themes that are seen as taking an indirect swipe at contemporary racial/social issues.

A strong, female lead who’s also black? Two major characters are men in a gay marriage? OH NO, STAR TREK’S GONE WOKE!!!!

….I’m sorry, what were we talking about?//

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Teukka  Mar 29, 2023 • 4:57:50am

re: #277 Nerdy Fish

I appreciate the deep love that these gatekeepers have for their respective franchises, but I confess I lack a little bit of understanding as to why THEY get to be the appointed arbiters of what the franchise means. I mean, that seems to be up to whomever currently owns the rights to the franchise. So if Amazon, for example, wants to put Black Dwarves in the Lord of the Rings, well, that’s their right, and as long as whoever gave them those rights doesn’t have any objection, then who are we to disagree?

re: #278 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

That issue goes deeper, they resent Amazon for being “woke” by including minority actors and actresses in roles where they are seemingly not “called for”

They have a seething resentment against anything “woke”, starting with “strong female leads” spoiling their adolescent apocalyptic doomscape fantasy story lines or themes that are seen as taking an indirect swipe at contemporary racial/social issues.

re: #281 Nerdy Fish

I know that, but I’m just addressing their facial arguments. Because supposedly, according to what they’re saying, their issue is that putting Black people in LOTR isn’t “true to the spirit of Tolkien.” But who made THEM the judge of what is “the spirit of Tolkien?” Wouldn’t that best be left to Christopher Tolkien, the inheritor of the estate, who has been curating most of this stuff since J. R. R. Tolkien himself has been dead for some time? If he doesn’t care, why should the weebs? I mean, I get why they are concerned, because of the reasons you stated; I’m just addressing their excuses.

Like, it’s not even people who watch much less read the stuff, but people who simply react to what they believe is catering to child molesters in the case of Mushoku Tensei or believe is “wokeism” in the Amazon adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkiens works. Like, I’ve seen the same people rant about the books “Rambling Rose”, “Skipped parts”, “The War Zone” and their adaptations, without knowing that what the books describe actually is rather realistic… Call me a freak, but I’ve actually read Nabokov’s “Lolita”, and it sure as hell does not cater to child molesters.

And yeah, where were these asshats when Anne Rice’s “Interview with a vampire” came out?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 29, 2023 • 4:58:14am

re: #280 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

PBC J2333.9-2343, located 656 844 372 light years away, has now been classified as a giant radio galaxy that is 4 million light years across and happens to have a blazar in its core; a blazar is an active galactic nucleus (AGN) with a relativistic jet (a jet travelling close to the speed of light) directed towards an observer. Blazars are very high energy objects and are considered to be one of the most powerful phenomena in the Universe.

How long until the blazar hits us then?

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Targetpractice  Mar 29, 2023 • 5:00:39am

re: #280 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Well, if you were worried about a massive meteor strike wiping out life on Earth, here’s something new to worry about.

It would appear from this report by the Royal Astronomical Society that a radio galaxy forty times the size of the Milky Way has shifted its relativistic jets from the supermassive black hole at its centre. They now point directly at the Solar System.

(more)

Galaxy changes classification as jet changes direction (Royal Astronomical Society, eleven days ago).

The New York Post picked up on the story yesterday, creating a text-and-image moving graphic to explain (with maximum fear) how this will kill us all. Other news outlets are now picking up the New York Post story and simply repeating it (such as the St. Louis Post-Dispatch).

It took some digging to get to the actual Royal Astronomical Society report, because the Post didn’t directly name it so the other outlets haven’t either.

Six pints of bitter. And quickly please, the world’s about to end.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 29, 2023 • 5:01:00am

re: #288 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

How long until the blazar hits us then?

Well, they say it’s aimed at us now, so I guess now. They can’t see anything until the emission actually gets here.

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Mike Lamb  Mar 29, 2023 • 5:01:51am

re: #224 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Christian Oppression Olympics (tm)

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This kind of like when the right wingers tried to re-define abortion to exclude procedures on a miscarry.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 29, 2023 • 5:03:37am

#AR-15 trending on Twitter.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 29, 2023 • 5:05:23am

re: #280 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

located 656 844 372 light years away,

No galaxy distance is known to 9 significant digits. Something must have gotten lost in translation.

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lawhawk  Mar 29, 2023 • 5:10:59am
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 29, 2023 • 5:12:28am

It’s going to rain, again.

And it’s going to be cold for another 10 days or so . This has been the coldest winter and early spring that I can remember here.

Then the models show that around the 7th of April … bam… all of a sudden it is spring summer with hot temps and sunny skies.

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lawhawk  Mar 29, 2023 • 5:14:14am

John Leguizamo goes to town on MTG and dumbass GOPers who think we can do nothing about mass shootings.

MTG Blames TN Shooting on Being Trans & Trump Says DeSantis Cried For Help | The Daily Show

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 29, 2023 • 5:18:59am

re: #292 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

If you want to ban AR-15s, you are an enemy of the Second Amendment.

That’s it. That’s the tweet.

He has a point: the Right to Bear Arms is in the Constitution, the Right to Bear Children isn’t…

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Thanos  Mar 29, 2023 • 5:19:51am

re: #288 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

How long until the blazar hits us then?

If it’s pointing at us the particles are already here if we see that fact, and if it’s pointing at us then the core of the galaxy will be moving away from us.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 29, 2023 • 5:21:12am

re: #294 lawhawk

Chris Christie, the disastrous NJ gov who went to work for the criminal Trump and nearly died because he was too weak to mask up in Trump’s presence during WH covid outbreak, thinks he’s going to run for GOP nomination for WH.

There was a time - long ago - when I somewhat admired him for a Republican: he ignored partisan rivalry and worked with Obama on Hurricane Sandy aid, and I once heard him really dress down critics of his choice to name a Muslim judge.

But that was long ago in a country far away.

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 29, 2023 • 5:22:46am

re: #169 Grunthos the Flatulent

Tomorrow’s Wordle found a dozen bottles of red it had forgotten about.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 29, 2023 • 5:27:55am

re: #293 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

No galaxy distance is known to 9 significant digits. Something must have gotten lost in translation.

According to Wikipedia, the sum of all human ken [citation needed], the width of the observable universe is 46.5 billion light years across.
en.wikipedia.org

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 29, 2023 • 5:29:47am

re: #301 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Also (Scientific American, April 11, 2022)

Astronomers Spot Most Distant Galaxy Yet, 13.5 Billion Light-Years from Earth

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 29, 2023 • 5:36:24am

In history:

Today is the 50th anniversary of the USA’s pullout from South Vietnam.

I feel old.

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Thanos  Mar 29, 2023 • 5:36:54am

re: #66 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

New from PBS Terra:

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..

It’s a discussion of how we really need to invest in our electrical grid.

I’ve thought we should have a fully protected underground power & optical fiber grid embedded in the rail pads of new high speed electric rail lines for a long time.

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TarHellion  Mar 29, 2023 • 5:37:49am

re: #298 Thanos

Pet peeve: When astronomy discoveries are put in the present tense. What we are “seeing” happened a long, long, long time ago. Hell, for all we know Betelgeuse went supernova 630 years ago. But it will be another 12 years before we realize it.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 29, 2023 • 5:40:53am

re: #305 TarHellion

Pet peeve: When astronomy discoveries are put in the present tense. What we are “seeing” happened a long, long, long time ago. Hell, for all we know Betelgeuse went supernova 630 years ago. But it will be another 12 years before we realize it.

We will never be able to engage in serious long-distance space travel until we figure out time travel as well.

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Thanos  Mar 29, 2023 • 5:41:07am

re: #305 TarHellion

Pet peeve: When astronomy discoveries are put in the present tense. What we are “seeing” happened a long, long, long time ago. Hell, for all we know Betelgeuse went supernova 630 years ago. But it will be another 12 years before we realize it.

Exactly.

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Dave In Austin  Mar 29, 2023 • 5:43:07am
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Nerdy Fish  Mar 29, 2023 • 5:44:10am

re: #308 Dave In Austin

Posed for photos with tourists, then went into his office.

The only thing Republicans are good for: Posing.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 29, 2023 • 5:45:07am

re: #301 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Corrected the diameter of the visible universe. I mistakenly listed the circumfrence. The correct figure is 46.5 billion light years.

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Thanos  Mar 29, 2023 • 5:48:12am

Holy cow, 2TB PCIe drives are down to $109.00.
amazon.com

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lawhawk  Mar 29, 2023 • 5:48:45am
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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 29, 2023 • 5:50:06am

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 29, 2023 • 5:57:39am

re: #308 Dave In Austin

There’s been a lot of deflection from the slaughter of children with bad-faith (if conservatives didn’t have bad faith, they’d have no faith at all) comments such as Whatabout the abortions?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 29, 2023 • 5:59:45am

re: #313 GlutenFreeJesus

Truckload of laughing emojis
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 29, 2023 • 6:01:12am
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Jay C  Mar 29, 2023 • 6:02:04am

re: #312 lawhawk

“Pita nixed”??

WTF??

Everything else is bad, but understandable- but 🫓???

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 29, 2023 • 6:03:22am

re: #306 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

We will never be able to engage in serious long-distance space travel until we figure out time travel as well.

Or they might both be one in the same.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 29, 2023 • 6:05:28am

re: #317 Jay C

“Pita nixed”??

WTF??

Everything else is bad, but understandable- but 🫓???

Can’t have that woke bread.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 29, 2023 • 6:06:06am

re: #102 Backwoods_Sleuth

good grief

I hate that fucking answer. Okay, great, you homeschool your kid. So the likelihood of her getting shot at school is practically nil. What about at malls, restaurants, concerts, sporting events, parades and all those other places that regularly get hit with mass shootings?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 29, 2023 • 6:07:34am

re: #314 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

There’s been a lot of deflection from the slaughter of children with bad-faith (if conservatives didn’t have bad faith, they’d have no faith at all) comments such as Whatabout the abortions?

“Guns are a Constitutional right. Abortions are not!”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 29, 2023 • 6:08:24am

re: #318 Eventual Carrion

Or they might both be one in the same.

That is kinda what I am getting at.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 29, 2023 • 6:08:56am

re: #320 Eclectic Cyborg

I hate that fucking answer. Okay, great, you homeschool your kid. So the likelihood of her getting shot at school is practically nil. What about at malls, restaurants, concerts, sporting events, parades and all those other places that regularly get hit with mass shootings?

Also, good for you, but for people who don’t have the time, money, and expertise to homeschool their kids, what are they going to do? Of course, you don’t care about Those People, for obvious reasons (namely, you don’t care about anyone but yourself).

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 29, 2023 • 6:09:33am

re: #320 Eclectic Cyborg

I hate that fucking answer. Okay, great, you homeschool your kid. So the likelihood of her getting shot at school is practically nil. What about at malls, restaurants, concerts, sporting events, parades and all those other places that regularly get hit with mass shootings?

eat at home. listen to spotify, use Zoom,watch parades on TV and build a twelve-foot wall around your house with concertina wire

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 29, 2023 • 6:10:08am

re: #320 Eclectic Cyborg

I hate that fucking answer. Okay, great, you homeschool your kid. So the likelihood of her getting shot at school is practically nil. What about at malls, restaurants, concerts, sporting events, parades and all those other places that regularly get hit with mass shootings?

I see that answer more as “I am able to do that. Sucks to be you that you can’t”. And I would also bet that the “homeschooling” is done by a paid tutor.

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Thanos  Mar 29, 2023 • 6:11:14am

Why it’s a crime to swim too close to Dolphins in HI:

apnews.com

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Thanos  Mar 29, 2023 • 6:13:48am

re: #324 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

eat at home. listen to spotify, use Zoom,watch parades on TV and build a twelve-foot wall around your house with concertina wire

In some not too distant future I picture new enclaves of religious right groups both emigrating from the U.S. and forming new separatist compounds and areas like the Amish in the Midwest.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 29, 2023 • 6:15:04am

re: #321 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

“Guns are a Constitutional right. Abortions are not!”

Benjamin Franklin gave instructions on at-home abortions in a book in the 1700s (NPR, May 18, 2022)

One of the more surprising areas Franklin wanted to demystify for the average American? At-home abortions.

Molly Farrell is an associate professor of English at the Ohio State University and studies early American literature. She authored a recent Slate article that suggests Franklin’s role in facilitating at-home abortions all started with a popular British math textbook.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 29, 2023 • 6:16:06am

Here we go again.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 29, 2023 • 6:16:33am

Mastodon

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 29, 2023 • 6:16:49am

The trailer for Wes Anderson’s new film, Asteroid City, just dropped, and honestly, it looks like the Wes Andersonest movie that Wes Anderson ever Wes Andersoned.

Can’t wait to see it.

Asteroid City - Official Trailer - Only In Theaters June 16

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 29, 2023 • 6:18:12am

re: #325 Eventual Carrion

I see that answer more as “I am able to do that. Sucks to be you that you can’t”. And I would also bet that the “homeschooling” is done by a paid tutor.

It’s more of a, “I homeschool my kids, and everybody should do the same, because why would you put your kid through ‘woke’ indoctrination?” Homeschoolers feel they are morally superior by virtue of the fact that they can precisely control the kinds of indoctrination their kids receive.

When I was a lad, I participated in a nationwide inter-church competition called Bible Quiz. Kids would memorize one or more books of the New Testament; in my prime, I had 11 of the 27 books of the New Testament memorized. (The gospels of Matthew and Luke; Romans; 1 and 2 Corinthians; James; Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, and Philemon. I also started memorizing some of the book of Acts, as an assistant coach, before college drew my attention away.) I was highly skilled at it, with excellent reflexes and picture-perfect recall of the pages I had memorized. This was considered extremely unusual, because I was publicly schooled; whereas almost all of my top competitors were homeschooled, and were drilled incessantly throughout the school day on the kinds of factoids and questions that would be posed in the competition.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 29, 2023 • 6:18:45am

re: #320 Eclectic Cyborg

I hate that fucking answer. Okay, great, you homeschool your kid. So the likelihood of her getting shot at school is practically nil. What about at malls, restaurants, concerts, sporting events, parades and all those other places that regularly get hit with mass shootings?

That is just a bullshit excuse deflecting answer because again they have to plan or intent to do anything about it

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Teukka  Mar 29, 2023 • 6:18:50am

YIKES.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 29, 2023 • 6:19:07am

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 29, 2023 • 6:19:40am

re: #327 Thanos

In some not too distant future I picture new enclaves of religious right groups both emigrating from the U.S. and forming new separatist compounds and areas like the Amish in the Midwest.

They want to dismantle public education to make things easier for communities like that to establish their own religious school districts

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 29, 2023 • 6:21:51am

Mastodon

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jeffreyw  Mar 29, 2023 • 6:22:22am

Good morning!

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 29, 2023 • 6:25:07am

FYI, today Jersey Mike’s is donating 100% of their sales to all the charities they support. Over 200 of them. A good day for a cheat meal.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 29, 2023 • 6:27:36am

Mastodon

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 29, 2023 • 6:29:20am

re: #332 Nerdy Fish

It’s more of a, “I homeschool my kids, and everybody should do the same, because why would you put your kid through ‘woke’ indoctrination?” Homeschoolers feel they are morally superior by virtue of the fact that they can precisely control the kinds of indoctrination their kids receive.

When I was a lad, I participated in a nationwide inter-church competition called Bible Quiz. Kids would memorize one or more books of the New Testament; in my prime, I had 11 of the 27 books of the New Testament memorized. (The gospels of Matthew and Luke; Romans; 1 and 2 Corinthians; James; Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, and Philemon. I also started memorizing some of the book of Acts, as an assistant coach, before college drew my attention away.) I was highly skilled at it, with excellent reflexes and picture-perfect recall of the pages I had memorized. This was considered extremely unusual, because I was publicly schooled; whereas almost all of my top competitors were homeschooled, and were drilled incessantly throughout the school day on the kinds of factoids and questions that would be posed in the competition.

Atheist counter-apologist Paulogia has complained about the homeschooling organisations in Alberta where he lives. He homeschools his child; he objects that most of the material available in the homeschooling groups is written as a Biblical homeschooling system (that is, not an education). When he brought it up in a conference there for homeschoolers, they threw him out of the organisation.

On a side note, a YouTube video he made recommended seeing the Royal Saskatchewan Museum. On that recommendation, my wife and I went there.

They ask where you heard of them. When my wife said “YouTube,” she got a facepalm from the receptionist. Apparently they get a lot of creationists who give them a whole lot of grief and proselytisation about how everything showing the evolution of plants and animals are all lies.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 29, 2023 • 6:32:25am

re: #341 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

At this point, I feel the only people who actually homeschool their children are the hardest of the hardcore Christian nationalists/Christofascists. Your counter-apologist was swimming in some rare waters. Basically, if someone says they were homeschooled, I automatically assume they were the same sort of pretentious Christofascist twat I grew up competing against, dealing with them looking down their noses at me and their parents looking down their noses at my “lowly” “working-class” parents. The quiver-full moms insulting my mother because she had her tubes tied after life-threatening complications during my delivery were a bitter cherry on top.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 29, 2023 • 6:39:49am

re: #342 Nerdy Fish

At this point, I feel the only people who actually homeschool their children are the hardest of the hardcore Christian nationalists/Christofascists. Your counter-apologist was swimming in some rare waters. Basically, if someone says they were homeschooled, I automatically assume they were the same sort of pretentious Christofascist twat I grew up competing against, dealing with them looking down their noses at me and their parents looking down their noses at my “lowly” “working-class” parents. The quiver-full moms insulting my mother because she had her tubes tied after life-threatening complications during my delivery were a bitter cherry on top.

There is a growing atheist homeschooling movement in the United States and Canada, as more public schools try to insert Christianity into biology, science, history, &c.

Homeschooling Without God (The Atlantic, March 30, 2016)

For a small segment of parents and kids who opt out of traditional public schooling, something is changing: They are also opting out of religion. Studies suggest that young Americans are more likely than their older peers not to identify with any religion. While about one in five of all Americans aren’t affiliated with a religious group, the same is true of roughly one in three people in their 20s and 30s. And while atheists and agnostics account for just a sliver of the country’s population, more than two-thirds of them are under 50. The number of those under 18 may also be growing. In recent years, advocacy groups have successfully launched a handful of secular clubs in high schools across the country. For some of today’s kids, being non-religious isn’t special; it’s normal.

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The space for material for homeschooling is dominated by Christians, who are more interested in proselytisation than education.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 29, 2023 • 6:41:40am

re: #340 Patricia Kayden

An Idaho bill will outlaw pregnant teens from leaving the state without parental consent. This law is likely a trial balloon for further GOP travel crackdowns. How will the next J6 jamboree fair without normal interstate travel?

They will settle for nothing less than a complete national abortion ban and mandatory checks for all childbearing-age women leaving the country.

I for one, welcome our new Gilead overlords.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 29, 2023 • 6:44:32am

re: #344 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It’s frightening. Democrats in power need to speak out more about what is happening to women and minorities in red states. Republicans pose a threat to everyone in this country including those living in safe blue states.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 29, 2023 • 6:49:34am

re: #344 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They will settle for nothing less than a complete national abortion ban and mandatory checks for all childbearing-age women leaving the country.

I for one, welcome our new Gilead overlords.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 29, 2023 • 6:50:47am

re: #252 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

And she misrepresented the study in a number of ways. It’s a small sample, and she conveniently omitted that the study investigated blood from pregnant women, giving a marginally worse outcome for both men and women.

When she went on the TERF train, I figured it wouldn’t be too long before she’d transfer to the “pureblood” fascist train. We’ll wait to see if she goes for eugenics next.

Over time, medical science eventually discovered issues related to blood transfusions — what matters and what can lead to worse outcomes. It would not be surprising if something related to gender could have an impact.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 29, 2023 • 6:54:53am

re: #257 TarHellion

Par for the course. Will take it after only having 1 letter through guess 2.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 29, 2023 • 6:54:55am

re: #347 Hecuba’s daughter

Over time, medical science eventually discovered issues related to blood transfusions — what matters and what can lead to worse outcomes. It would not be surprising if something related to gender could have an impact.

And one could/would expect that pregnant women might have something different going on in their blood (and body chemistry in general) given the condition they are in and how it by default is trying to bypass/adjust for some of the natural biological defense systems and allow provide additional capacities to fulfill increased needs.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 29, 2023 • 6:57:15am

re: #345 Patricia Kayden

It’s frightening. Democrats in power need to speak out more about what is happening to women and minorities in red states. Republicans pose a threat to everyone in this country including those living in safe blue states.

Our Democrats here in Nebraska are holding the line against the two anti-trans bills here. As long as that filibuster continues, the Republicans can’t get to their anti-abortion bill.

State senator Megan Hunt (D-district 8) filed a pile of amendments to every single bill to be discussed in the Unicameral, which allows for more debate and less legislation to pass. So far, the Unicameral has not passed a single bill in the session due to the Democratic filibuster, with 2/3 of the session over.

Out-of-state Democrats and the party itself need to help red-state Democrats who are holding the line against revocation of rights.

Planned Parenthood here notes that our state is getting a lot of refugees seeking their services (and not just for abortion) from the fascist-ruled states such as Texas and South Dakota. Our state is the oasis for the tier of states running from Canada to Mexico.

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coin operated  Mar 29, 2023 • 6:58:02am

re: #88 Charles Johnson

The true warrior can kill an intruder with a plastic spork.

Has “killed 3 men in a bar with a pencil” been mentioned yet?

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ipsos  Mar 29, 2023 • 7:00:43am

re: #351 coin operated

Has “killed 3 men in a bar with a pencil” been mentioned yet?

The one with the library book is still my favorite!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 29, 2023 • 7:02:22am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 29, 2023 • 7:06:47am

(0:38, caution for grooming)

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William Lewis  Mar 29, 2023 • 7:06:49am

re: #303 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

In history:

Today is the 50th anniversary of the USA’s pullout from South Vietnam.

I feel old.

As do I but it’s probably a different set of reasons.

April 30 will be the 48th anniversary of the fall of Saigon. We spent the 26th anniversary in Saigon waiting for the adoption ceremony a few days later. That night we were invited to the home of a young Vietnamese woman and her father. She was in college to learn Hotel Management. He worked as a Communist party bureaucrat during the day and was a land lord (he owned the apartment building they lived in and rented out the rest of it. ). I remember their ancestor altar with Grandma’s photo on it. She was wearing her VC uniform in the photo… ;) I hope life has treated them well.

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ckkatz  Mar 29, 2023 • 7:08:23am
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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 29, 2023 • 7:10:07am

re: #290 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Well, they say it’s aimed at us now, so I guess now. They can’t see anything until the emission actually gets here.

How is it aimed at us now? Wasn’t it aimed at us(?) 600 million years ago?

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ckkatz  Mar 29, 2023 • 7:10:46am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 29, 2023 • 7:10:53am

I’m going to stumble off to bed. It’s way past my bedtime (based on the sun being up).

3:00

Morgan Wallen - Sunrise (Lyric Video)

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ckkatz  Mar 29, 2023 • 7:15:04am
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ckkatz  Mar 29, 2023 • 7:20:45am
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Joe Bacon  Mar 29, 2023 • 7:21:28am

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 29, 2023 • 7:23:13am

re: #362 Joe Bacon

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 29, 2023 • 7:23:21am

re: #351 coin operated

Has “killed 3 men in a bar with a pencil” been mentioned yet?

I killed a man with this thumb “

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 29, 2023 • 7:24:54am

re: #353 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Why Christian Colleges Are Closing, and What We Can Do

Over the last few months, several long-established Christian schools announced cutbacks, budget crises, and major restructuring.

They raked in a shit-ton of money, stashed it all in private accounts, and now left a lot of people hanging and out of money with nothing to show for it but a substandard “education”

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 29, 2023 • 7:26:40am

re: #365 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Not universally true. I attended a properly accredited Christian college of some note, and my education was surprisingly well-rounded, and more importantly, effective in preparing me for the career that followed.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 29, 2023 • 7:34:01am

re: #366 Nerdy Fish

Not universally true. I attended a properly accredited Christian college of some note, and my education was surprisingly well-rounded, and more importantly, effective in preparing me for the career that followed.

There are a number of established ones with a history of solid education, but a lot of those that sprung up, especially in past decades, under the auspices of people like Betsy De Vos or Bob Jones are taking a lot of money to teach “Christian Leadership” (i.e. how to fleece a congregation to pay for your luxury home and support your mistresses/pool boys)

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 29, 2023 • 7:35:32am

re: #367 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

There are a number of solid ones with a history of solid education, but a lot of those that sprung up, especially in past decades, under the auspices of people like Betsy De Vos or Bob Jones are taking a lot of money to teach “Christian Leadership” (i.e. how to fleece a congregation to pay for your luxury home and support your mistresses/pool boys)

Yes, the recent trend of pop-up “Christian colleges” always struck me as the same sort of grift as “Trump University”; that is to stay, slapping a label on something just to get people to throw money at it, with no real long-term plan to actually DO anything.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 29, 2023 • 7:37:50am

re: #368 Nerdy Fish

Yes, the recent trend of pop-up “Christian colleges” always struck me as the same sort of grift as “Trump University”.

That’s because it is.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 29, 2023 • 7:38:31am

re: #369 Eclectic Cyborg

That’s because it is.

I believe that Trump U was also big on “leadership skills”

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teleskiguy  Mar 29, 2023 • 7:42:34am

Good morning.

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 29, 2023 • 7:42:44am

re: #293 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

No galaxy distance is known to 9 significant digits. Something must have gotten lost in translation.

It’s 656 844 372 light years away in that direction. It’s just over the horizon in the other.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 29, 2023 • 7:47:40am

re: #372 Barefoot Grin

It’s 656 844 372 light years away in that direction. It’s just over the horizon in the other.

what if the Universe is a “circle” and if you travel far enough in one direction you come back “home”? (If the Universe is endless, then at some point it is going to start repeating itself)

and what if you travel far enough in another direction, you come back to “home” but one that you haven’t left yet? Did you just travel in space or in time? And what difference would it make?

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darthstar  Mar 29, 2023 • 7:48:37am

re: #373 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The universe ins’t just endless, it’s beginningless.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 29, 2023 • 7:49:27am

re: #374 darthstar

The universe ins’t just endless, it’s beginningless.

yes, Infinity is a bitch to grasp

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 29, 2023 • 7:52:21am

re: #366 Nerdy Fish

Not universally true. I attended a properly accredited Christian college of some note, and my education was surprisingly well-rounded, and more importantly, effective in preparing me for the career that followed.

In Indiana I think Hanover and Taylor have pretty good reps. Lots of good Jesuit schools, too.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 29, 2023 • 7:53:04am

re: #376 Barefoot Grin

In Indiana I think Hanover and Taylor have pretty good reps. Lots of good Jesuit schools, too.

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 29, 2023 • 7:53:14am

re: #373 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

what if the Universe is a “circle” and if you travel far enough in one direction you come back “home”? (If the Universe is endless, then at some point it is going to start repeating itself)

and what if you travel far enough in another direction, you come back to “home” but one that you haven’t left yet? Did you just ravel in space or in time? And what difference would it make?

“I’m home and I brought the fried chicken you’re going to want.”

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 29, 2023 • 7:54:44am

re: #377 Nerdy Fish

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 29, 2023 • 7:57:22am
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Joe Bacon  Mar 29, 2023 • 7:59:43am
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Barefoot Grin  Mar 29, 2023 • 8:03:19am

re: #382 Joe Bacon

“rebels without a cause and rebels without a clue“—oh, Raskin’s a Replacements fan!

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Joe Bacon  Mar 29, 2023 • 8:07:43am

I love Jamie. He doesn’t take any ssshhhaaavvviiinnnggg cream from those asshole Republicants.

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lawhawk  Mar 29, 2023 • 8:10:56am
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Dangerman  Mar 29, 2023 • 8:13:10am

re: #385 lawhawk

if only jursiprudence was based on what ‘people are saying’

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 29, 2023 • 8:15:08am

re: #385 lawhawk

I’m bemused by the thought of grand jury proceedings occurring in full view of the putative defendant. It seems totally honest and aboveboard for a mob boss to know what details the criminal justice system has on him, and exactly what witnesses need to be “dealt with” prior to the actual trial.

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Dangerman  Mar 29, 2023 • 8:15:16am

A new Harvard Institute of Politics poll found that 63% of young Americans support stricter gun laws

vs

“North Carolina legislators repealed the state’s requirement that someone obtain a permit from a local sheriff before buying a pistol, as the Republican-controlled legislature on Wednesday successfully overrode one of Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s vetoes for the first time since 2018,” the AP reports.

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lawhawk  Mar 29, 2023 • 8:15:27am

re: #385 lawhawk

Grand jury is a secret process, so there’s no way he would know what testimony was provided so far, or what evidence was considered. It’s all bluster. He might have an inkling based on who was called to testify, such as Cohen. But he’s just baffling with bulkshit until a bill/no bill is returned.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 29, 2023 • 8:16:30am

re: #389 lawhawk

Grand jury is a secret process, so there’s no way he would know what testimony was provided so far, or what evidence was considered. It’s all bluster. He might have an inkling based on who was called to testify, such as Cohen. But he’s just baffling with bulkshit until a bill/no bill is returned.

He’s trying to extrapolate from “they haven’t charged me yet” - itself based on HIS OWN ASSERTION that he was going to be arrested a week ago yesterday - to, “This grand jury is obviously waffling because they’ve heard that I am INNOCENT and that this is a PARTISAN WITCH HUNT!”

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Joe Bacon  Mar 29, 2023 • 8:17:05am

Weather Channel says we’re getting a 1-2 punch here in Los Angeles and the 2nd punch tomorrow will be heavier…

Latest snapshot from the radar

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Dangerman  Mar 29, 2023 • 8:17:38am
The principal of a school in Florida resigned after she sent $100,000 of school money to a scammer posing as Elon Musk and promising to invest in her school, WESH reports.

NORTH floriduh woman

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Mar 29, 2023 • 8:19:15am

Enjoying a break in the weather.

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Dangerman  Mar 29, 2023 • 8:20:30am

re: #390 Nerdy Fish

He’s trying to extrapolate from “they haven’t charged me yet” - itself based on HIS OWN ASSERTION that he was going to be arrested a week ago yesterday - to, “This grand jury is obviously waffling because they’ve heard that I am INNOCENT and that this is a PARTISAN WITCH HUNT!”

more like he’s trying to distract from that he blew it so badly

he probably doesnt even know that the grand jury has other business / cases besides his.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 29, 2023 • 8:22:58am

Listen to a conservative Justice of yesteryear who would be called a communist for holding this view today.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 29, 2023 • 8:23:08am

re: #394 Dangerman

more like he’s trying to distract from that he blew it so badly

he probably doesnt even know that the grand jury has other business / cases besides his.

Fair point. If he keeps exhaling fecal matter in voluminous fashion, the rubes won’t remember all those times he was wrong, but that ONE TIME he happened to be right.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 29, 2023 • 8:26:41am

The linked article is great. The thing I took away from it is the difference between forum shopping and judge shopping; while the former is still Not Great, the latter - the behavior that Texas has been repeatedly engaging in by suing the federal government in Amarillo, specifically on those cases they want to get injunctions in as quickly as possible to throw red meat to their base - is positively destructive to the concept of an independent judiciary. And a federal judge should not be trolling random uninvolved people in a ruling that ultimately serves to underscore the point of the party he is ruling against.

Mastodon

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 29, 2023 • 8:28:32am

re: #392 Dangerman

NORTH floriduh woman

I would be curious why a school principal has access to $100K in discretionary funds without any oversight or process to review what it is going to be spent on before the check is even sent out.

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Joe Bacon  Mar 29, 2023 • 8:30:27am

re: #392 Dangerman

The principal of a school in Florida resigned after she sent $100,000 of school money to a scammer posing as Elon Musk and promising to invest in her school, WESH reports.

And you guessed it folks!

She ran a charter school!

The principal of a school in Florida resigned after she sent $100,000 of school money to a scammer posing as Elon Musk and promising to invest in her school, WESH reports.

wesh.com

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lawhawk  Mar 29, 2023 • 8:31:09am

re: #394 Dangerman

I think it’s that he wanted to control the narrative, and it doesn’t matter that he had no clue what the grand jury was working on or the schedule. He threw something against the wall, and his base believes whatever he says. Everything else is fluff.

The grand jury is still working. DA Bragg has indeed dragged his feet on multiple Trump-related investigations for far too long (a recurrent theme that includes the US DOJ investigations into Trump misconduct).

All the while, Trump gets to spew toxic crap about everything and everyone all the time, and can make the media cover his bulkshit every time he opens his trap door.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 29, 2023 • 8:32:27am

re: #400 lawhawk

The media are so addicted to the shitshow that is the former guy - that every time they cover him, clicks come flooding in from his loyal fans, and outrage from the majority who just want him to Go The Fuck Away - that they just can’t stay away like they should.

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Dangerman  Mar 29, 2023 • 8:32:41am

re: #396 Nerdy Fish

Fair point. If he keeps exhaling fecal matter in voluminous fashion, the rubes won’t remember all those times he was wrong, but that ONE TIME he happened to be right.

my question is how/why did he get it so wrong

probably the usual, didnt listen to anyone or understand what was happening.
just spewed capital letters as if that settles everything

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 29, 2023 • 8:32:49am

re: #398 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

I would be curious why a school principal has access to $100K in discretionary funds without any oversight or process to review what it is going to be spent on before the check is even sent out.

Frickin’ THIS. OMG.

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William Lewis  Mar 29, 2023 • 8:33:02am

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Dangerman  Mar 29, 2023 • 8:34:25am

re: #397 Nerdy Fish

The linked article is great. The thing I took away from it is the difference between forum shopping and judge shopping; while the former is still Not Great, the latter - the behavior that Texas has been repeatedly engaging in by suing the federal government in Amarillo, specifically on those cases they want to get injunctions in as quickly as possible to throw red meat to their base - is positively destructive to the concept of an independent judiciary. And a federal judge should not be trolling random uninvolved people in a ruling that ultimately serves to underscore the point of the party he is ruling against.

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that it works (ie that a judge is blatantly politically bent) is proof that the destruction is already done

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Dangerman  Mar 29, 2023 • 8:34:40am

re: #398 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

I would be curious why a school principal has access to $100K in discretionary funds without any oversight or process to review what it is going to be spent on before the check is even sent out.

down in one

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Dangerman  Mar 29, 2023 • 8:36:45am

re: #399 Joe Bacon

The principal of a school in Florida resigned after she sent $100,000 of school money to a scammer posing as Elon Musk and promising to invest in her school, WESH reports.
NORTH floriduh woman

And you guessed it folks!

She ran a charter school!

The principal of a school in Florida resigned after she sent $100,000 of school money to a scammer posing as Elon Musk and promising to invest in her school, WESH reports.

wesh.com

i audited charter schools for years.
some are run well. some are run horribly.

how they’re run is always about the ethics and vision of upper management and the board of directors.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 29, 2023 • 8:37:02am

re: #405 Dangerman

that it works (ie that a judge is blatantly politically bent) is proof that the destruction is already done

Also, that the judge can unilaterally shut down arguments that he’s being used for a political agenda seems like a problem.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 29, 2023 • 8:37:26am

re: #399 Joe Bacon

The principal of a school in Florida resigned after she sent $100,000 of school money to a scammer posing as Elon Musk and promising to invest in her school, WESH reports.
NORTH floriduh woman

And you guessed it folks!

She ran a charter school!

The principal of a school in Florida resigned after she sent $100,000 of school money to a scammer posing as Elon Musk and promising to invest in her school, WESH reports.

wesh.com

Ah. The story implies that the principal was warned it was a scam repeatedly by others. And states that the school’s business manager canceled the check before it was cashed. Yea, and all that would pretty much had destroyed whatever credibility that principal had with the staff there so a resignation was probably the best route for all involved at that point.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 29, 2023 • 8:40:18am

re: #340 Patricia Kayden

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 29, 2023 • 8:41:47am

re: #409 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Ah. The story implies that the principal was warned it was a scam repeatedly by others. And states that the school’s business manager canceled the check before it was cashed.

Well, as the old saying goes, thank heaven for small favors. At least someone there displayed some common sense and acted in prompt fashion.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 29, 2023 • 8:43:26am

re: #342 Nerdy Fish

At this point, I feel the only people who actually homeschool their children are the hardest of the hardcore Christian nationalists/Christofascists. Your counter-apologist was swimming in some rare waters. Basically, if someone says they were homeschooled, I automatically assume they were the same sort of pretentious Christofascist twat I grew up competing against, dealing with them looking down their noses at me and their parents looking down their noses at my “lowly” “working-class” parents. The quiver-full moms insulting my mother because she had her tubes tied after life-threatening complications during my delivery were a bitter cherry on top.

My husband’s step-sister (a grad of the elite private Francis Parker school in Chicago) lived in a small community in Maine; she felt strongly that the public education was inadequate and so she home schooled her daughters; in this case there was no religious issue with either the home schooling or the public schooling.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 29, 2023 • 8:46:24am

re: #411 Dr Lizardo

Well, as the old saying goes, thank heaven for small favors. At least someone there displayed some common sense and acted in prompt fashion.

And I hope they review their practices and limits on use of the various financial accounts. I figure there is a whopping big hole in there somewhere or else the principal was playing very loosely with the rules in some way.

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Egregious Philbin  Mar 29, 2023 • 8:52:56am

re: #391 Joe Bacon

Not sure if that will hit us in PHX, I hope so. All of our reservoirs are full around here, and they have been releasing excess water into the normally dry Rio Salado. But, in about 10 years, one of the dams will be increased vastly, and would be able to hold the last 2 weeks of water flow through the Rio Salado.

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Joe Bacon  Mar 29, 2023 • 8:55:51am

GOP Rep. Clay Higgins: ‘There is no such thing as gun violence’

Coming from a big recipient of Russian money laundered thru the NRA who worships the Iron Penis.

rawstory.com

At a House Oversight hearing on Wednesday, Higgins blasted his Democratic colleagues who blamed the shooting on guns.

“I’d like to address something that seems to be a repeated talking point of my Democrat colleagues now regarding gun violence and gun violence being the number one cause of death of children in America today,” he said. “You’ll hear that a lot. Let me correct both.”

“There’s no such thing as gun violence,” the lawmaker insisted. “There’s only human violence. It’s intellectually unsound to state otherwise.”

Higgins also connected the issue to legalized abortion.

“CDC numbers, 620,327 legally induced abortions in America in 2020,” he noted. “That same year, tragically, 4,357 children died from firearm accidental discharge, suicide, and homicides.”

“And I don’t appreciate my Democrat colleagues constantly lying to the American people, referring to gun violence as if it’s not driven by human violence, and ignoring the fact that America has allowed millions upon millions of children to be killed in the womb,” he said.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 29, 2023 • 8:58:43am

re: #415 Joe Bacon

Once again, the rights of the not-yet-born are more important than the rights of the living. Because Jesus.

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Joe Bacon  Mar 29, 2023 • 9:00:56am

re: #416 Nerdy Fish

And we know Clay Higgins doesn’t give a fuck what happens to a baby after it’s born.

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 29, 2023 • 9:01:19am

re: #416 Nerdy Fish

Once again, the rights of the not-yet-born are more important than the rights of the living. Because Jesus.

Because of the authoritarian cult that call themselves “Conservative,” and always need an enemy to attack.

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wrenchwench  Mar 29, 2023 • 9:01:19am

re: #407 Dangerman

i audited charter schools for years.
some are run well. some are run horribly.

how they’re run is always about the ethics and vision of upper management and the board of directors.

Were they public schools, filled by lottery?

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 29, 2023 • 9:01:43am

Pfft. Someone (or a group) are being extremely annoying today.

Bunch of swatting calls in Pittsburgh area claiming to be active shooter situations.

cbsnews.com

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 29, 2023 • 9:03:31am

re: #417 Joe Bacon

And we know Clay Higgins doesn’t give a fuck what happens to a baby after it’s born.

I mean, they’re out in the open about it, at this point. Your kids get shot in school? Tough cookies, that’s the price of Freedumb (tm). Gun rights are more important than people’s right to life. But more important than THAT is the right of a clump of cells to develop into a human being, that can then be killed at a moment’s notice without consequence to anyone but the person who did the killing.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 29, 2023 • 9:04:01am

I have to share this. This is an H&R Block commercial being shown up here. It absolutely cracks me up every time I see it! Enjoy!

notube.lbbonline.com

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Teukka  Mar 29, 2023 • 9:04:13am

re: #420 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Pfft. Someone (or a group) are being extremely annoying today.

Bunch of swatting calls in Pittsburgh area claiming to be active shooter situations.

cbsnews.com

Organized on the-chans-which-must-not-be-named, perhaps?

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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 29, 2023 • 9:04:27am
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Dr Lizardo  Mar 29, 2023 • 9:04:28am

re: #418 Crush White Nationalism

Because of the authoritarian cult that call themselves “Conservative,” and always need an enemy to attack.

Next thing you know, they’ll start wearing thigh-high boots and dressing in orange mankinis.

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lawhawk  Mar 29, 2023 • 9:09:28am
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Markm1960  Mar 29, 2023 • 9:14:55am

re: #426 lawhawk

I can picture the GOP plan to take care of this…they will loosen auto safety standards. Make seat belts optional, remove air bags and bring back the Pinto and Corvair. It won’t take long for auto deaths to reclaim top position and deal a death blow to the “guns are the leading cause of death among children” argument.\

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Mar 29, 2023 • 9:25:09am

Freshly stolen!

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 29, 2023 • 9:27:31am

First birb in a while
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wrenchwench  Mar 29, 2023 • 9:31:46am

First orb in a while.

Click to Reveal

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rhuarc  Mar 29, 2023 • 9:33:41am

Ahh, Twitter I hope you never change.

I get a vague threat from someone with 1488 in their name that I’ll find out soon. So then I asked what does soon mean. I made some rather crude guesses and ended with asking if soon meant he’d FAFO soon.

I’ll give you one guess who got timed out for threats.

So I went back and reported his tweet for threats. I’d bet that tweet remains up.

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 29, 2023 • 9:35:00am

re: #431 rhuarc

Ahh, Twitter I hope you never change.

I get a vague threat from someone with 1488 in their name that I’ll find out soon. So then I asked what does soon mean. I made some rather crude guesses and ended with asking if soon meant he’d FAFO soon.

I’ll give you one guess who got timed out for threats.

So I went back and reported his tweet for threats. I’d bet that tweet remains up.

Twitter’s gone. Its only use now is making fun of Elon Musk and the idiots who pay him to pretend to be verified users.

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Joe Bacon  Mar 29, 2023 • 9:35:56am

Lauren Boebert shot down by witness as she obsesses over ‘public urination’ in Washington, D.C.

Lauren Boebert obsesses over ‘public urination’ in Washington, D.C.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 29, 2023 • 9:42:21am

re: #433 Joe Bacon

Lauren Boebert shot down by witness as she obsesses over ‘public urination’ in Washington, D.C.

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Lady, two days ago, 3 kids and 3 adults were SHOT in a school in Tennessee. THIS is your fucking priority? What the duckfucking hell?

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Joe Bacon  Mar 29, 2023 • 9:43:49am

re: #434 Nerdy Fish

Lady, two days ago, 3 kids and 3 adults were SHOT in a school in Tennessee. THIS is your fucking priority? What the duckfucking hell?

yes it is Klannie Oakley’s priority. Anything to deflect from the damage caused by worshipping the Iron Penis.

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Wile E. Wonka  Mar 29, 2023 • 9:44:52am

re: #415 Joe Bacon

I love how all these nutjobs talk about “THE WOMB”, as if it’s some abstract collective incubation chamber rather than the bodies of living, breathing, (mostly)women each with their own lives, families, careers, hopes, dreams, and the will to make their own health decisions with the help of their doctors and loved ones.

It’s a huge, misogynistic tell, and I wish they’d get called on it more often.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 29, 2023 • 9:46:47am

re: #433 Joe Bacon

Is her staff intentionally giving her incorrect information or are they as stupid as she? That woman is the Peter Principle raised to the ballionth power.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 29, 2023 • 9:49:57am
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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 29, 2023 • 9:50:01am

re: #436 Wile E. Wonka

I love how all these nutjobs talk about “THE WOMB”, as if it’s some abstract collective incubation chamber rather than the bodies of living, breathing, (mostly)women each with their own lives, families, careers, hopes, dreams, and the will to make their own health decisions with the help of their doctors and loved ones.

It’s a huge, misogynistic tell, and I wish they’d get called on it more often.

Any archaic language is a tell that you’re dealing with someone who is so religious that they have no connection to the real world.

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wrenchwench  Mar 29, 2023 • 9:50:19am

re: #436 Wile E. Wonka

I love how all these nutjobs talk about “THE WOMB”, as if it’s some abstract collective incubation chamber rather than the bodies of living, breathing, (mostly)women each with their own lives, families, careers, hopes, dreams, and the will to make their own health decisions with the help of their doctors and loved ones.

It’s a huge, misogynistic tell, and I wish they’d get called on it more often.

While pretending that children live in there. And that what actually looks like menstrual blood is a child.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 29, 2023 • 9:54:21am
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Teukka  Mar 29, 2023 • 9:56:14am

Dunno if this got posted. 39 migrants died in a fire in a migrant facility, because they were locked inside:

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 29, 2023 • 9:58:12am

re: #237 Belafon

Isn’t Melissa Joan Hart a wingnut? One of those people who whines about how badly republicans are treated in Hollywood? Or ani thinking of someone else?

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Joe Bacon  Mar 29, 2023 • 9:58:16am

Your justice system in…(in)action…

Manhattan grand jury considering Trump’s hush money case will break for a month

politico.com

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wrenchwench  Mar 29, 2023 • 9:58:25am

re: #442 Teukka

Dunno if this got posted. 39 migrants died in a fire in a migrant facility, because they were locked inside:

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Needs the rerun. Got a C_L position yesterday.

littlegreenfootballs.com

Added: Just heard death toll at 40.

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 29, 2023 • 10:03:10am

re: #237 Belafon

Clarissa explains it all.

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sagehen  Mar 29, 2023 • 10:03:53am

re: #372 Barefoot Grin

It’s 656 844 372 light years away in that direction. It’s just over the horizon in the other.

Just follow Sepulveda to the end, then turn left.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 29, 2023 • 10:05:39am

Thread about events in Frankfort today, where the Kentucky legislature will override the Governor’s veto of the bill to deny minors gender affirming care, and includes other anti-trans provisions.

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Teukka  Mar 29, 2023 • 10:06:06am

Russian who served in Ukraine says female medics from her unit were used as sex slaves for high-ranking officers
Russian officers expected female medics to sexually please them, according to a new report.
Those who refused were punished, one woman who served in the Russian army said.
She said she was made to sleep outside for a month after she refused to sleep with a colonel.
[more at link]

This behavior is not limited to Ukrainian “enemies”. It is to any women. And they will bring the behavior back home with them.

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 29, 2023 • 10:07:25am

re: #449 Teukka

Russian who served in Ukraine says female medics from her unit were used as sex slaves for high-ranking officers
Russian officers expected female medics to sexually please them, according to a new report.
Those who refused were punished, one woman who served in the Russian army said.
She said she was made to sleep outside for a month after she refused to sleep with a colonel.
[more at link]

This behavior is not limited to Ukrainian “enemies”. It is to any women. And they will bring the behavior back home with them.

A medic should know how to kill an officer that behaves like an enemy.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 29, 2023 • 10:07:26am

re: #442 Teukka

Dunno if this got posted. 39 migrants died in a fire in a migrant facility, because they were locked inside:

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Damn, that hits.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 29, 2023 • 10:07:32am

re: #448 No Malarkey!

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wrenchwench  Mar 29, 2023 • 10:07:43am

re: #442 Teukka

Dunno if this got posted. 39 migrants died in a fire in a migrant facility, because they were locked inside:

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From your link:

A statement Tuesday from U.S. Customs and Border Protection said it was allowing those who were injured to be “transported via ambulance from Mexican to U.S. medical facilities for treatment.”

I knew that was the case. I was thinking that nobody was saying it because of wingnut backlash that always happens when kindness is extended across the border. Juarez is 5 times bigger than El Paso, but most available medical care is in El Paso.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 29, 2023 • 10:08:58am

re: #449 Teukka

In my video gaming experience, screwing your healers generally results in them refusing to heal you.

/

But seriously. This is the right’s vaunted “anti-‘woke’” military. This is what they want: A military in which women know their place, namely, in the general’s bunk.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 29, 2023 • 10:09:45am

re: #450 Crush White Nationalism

A medic should know how to kill an officer that behaves like an enemy.

That would be gutsy, since they would surely kill her for that.

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TedStriker  Mar 29, 2023 • 10:09:59am

re: #443 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Isn’t Melissa Joan Hart a wingnut? One of those people who whines about how badly republicans are treated in Hollywood? Or ani thinking of someone else?

She’s a Republican-turned-Libertarian, with a side of gun control support (which is painfully prescient, given her own experiences during/after the Covenant School massacre):

Hart and her family are Presbyterians.[61] In an interview, she stated that they attend church every Sunday and pray every night and before every meal.[62]

Hart has expressed her support for some Republican candidates, such as voting for Bob Dole during the 1996 election.[63] On November 5, 2012, the day before that year’s Election Day, she tweeted that she was endorsing Mitt Romney for president.[64][65][66] Hart has expressed support for increased gun control, marching in a Moms Demand Action demonstration in Brooklyn in May 2016.[67] On August 16, 2016, in the run-up to that year’s presidential election, she donated to Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson’s campaign.[68] On August 28, 2016, she joined Johnson’s campaign as its Connecticut chairperson.[69]

Until I saw the story about her involvement in helping to get kids to safety during/after the shooting, I had no idea she and her family lived here in town… the things you find out.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 29, 2023 • 10:12:29am

jackasses

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 29, 2023 • 10:13:04am

re: #455 No Malarkey!

That would be gutsy, since they would surely kill her for that.

Not if it looks like natural causes.

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William Lewis  Mar 29, 2023 • 10:14:11am

Lunch = left overs from a banquet at work. Sirloin tips, garlic mash and a popover.

Nom!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 29, 2023 • 10:15:09am
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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 29, 2023 • 10:15:22am

re: #454 Nerdy Fish

In my video gaming experience, screwing your healers generally results in them refusing to heal.

Not to take away from the horror of the original post, but this is a truism. Hell, I’ve had ones that take that ‘screwing’ to the point that:

* ‘you didn’t stand where I told you to stand, that’s why you died’.
* ‘But, I was only 2 m off’
* ‘you’re dead, right? So…..’
* nothing to retort. Waits for rez.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 29, 2023 • 10:16:16am

Senator Wise is chickenshit.

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TarHellion  Mar 29, 2023 • 10:17:15am

re: #460 Backwoods_Sleuth

He seemed A-OK when he was hanging out with Elmo at the Super Bowl.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 29, 2023 • 10:19:36am
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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 29, 2023 • 10:19:41am

re: #459 William Lewis

Looks very nom nom nom

Son is driving to CA with girlfriend to live for a yearish. Going away dinner: Beef Tagliata with Roquefort cheese and tomato pasta, green beans, and Caesar salad

Beef Tagliata over arugula and cherry tomatoes
Plated
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Nerdy Fish  Mar 29, 2023 • 10:20:08am

re: #461 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Not to take away from the horror of the original post, but this is a truism. He’ll, I’ve had ones that take that ‘screwing’ to the point that:

* ‘you didn’t stand where I told you to stand, that’s why you died’.
* ‘But, I was only 2 m off’
* ‘you’re dead, right? So…..’
* nothing to retort. Waits for rez.

As a support player, I have occasionally been tempted to do things like this. I very rarely follow through on that impulse, but I can’t say I never have.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 29, 2023 • 10:22:25am

re: #462 No Malarkey!

Senator Wise is chickenshit.

Senator Berg is giving the Republicans Hell, not that it will change the vote of a single one of them.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 29, 2023 • 10:22:26am
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William Lewis  Mar 29, 2023 • 10:22:41am

Oh, good fucking grief… Fucking Waukesha, a GOP hellhole.

MADISON, Wis. — Administrators at a Wisconsin elementary school stopped a first-grade class from performing a Miley Cyrus and Dolly Parton duet promoting LGBTQ acceptance because the song “could be perceived as controversial.”

Students at Heyer Elementary School in Waukesha had prepared a rendition of “Rainbowland” for their spring concert, but school officials struck the song from the lineup last week. Parents in the district say the decision was made because the song encourages LGBTQ acceptance and references rainbows.

Superintendent James Sebert, who did not immediately return a call on Monday, confirmed to Fox6 that administrators had removed “Rainbowland” from the first-grade concert because it might not be “appropriate for the age and maturity level of the students.” He also cited a school board policy against raising controversial issues in classrooms.

Wisconsin school bans Miley Cyrus-Dolly Parton duet from class concert

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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 29, 2023 • 10:23:59am

So the Pope in a puffy coat was fake, but obese Pope is real?

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 29, 2023 • 10:25:07am

re: #469 William Lewis

Oh, good fucking grief… Fucking Waukesha, a GOP hellhole.

Wisconsin school bans Miley Cyrus-Dolly Parton duet from class concert

“references rainbows”. So Wizard of Oz is off the table now also.

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Teukka  Mar 29, 2023 • 10:25:19am

re: #470 The Pie Overlord!

So the Pope in a puffy coat was fake, but obese Pope is real?

IIRC, Pope Francis lacks one of his lungs.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 29, 2023 • 10:28:31am

re: #469 William Lewis

How to raise milquetoast students.

He also cited a school board policy against raising controversial issues in classrooms.

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jeffreyw  Mar 29, 2023 • 10:29:36am

re: #459 William Lewis

Lunch = left overs from a banquet at work. Sirloin tips, garlic mash and a popover.

Nom!

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Blue Plate Special

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 29, 2023 • 10:30:01am

re: #469 William Lewis

Oh, good fucking grief… Fucking Waukesha, a GOP hellhole.

Wisconsin school bans Miley Cyrus-Dolly Parton duet from class concert

Rainbowland lyrics have nothing to do with LGBTQ

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 29, 2023 • 10:31:18am
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 29, 2023 • 10:31:47am

We never really left the Scopes Trial culture.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 29, 2023 • 10:31:55am
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William Lewis  Mar 29, 2023 • 10:32:26am

re: #473 Colère Tueur de Lapin

How to raise milquetoast students.

Waukesha county was always the last one to report votes for Scott Walker on election day so they could make sure to “find” enough to ensure he won. Can’t have kids who would recognize shenanigans and complain.

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 29, 2023 • 10:34:29am

re: #477 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

We never really left the Scopes Trial culture.

Religious extremists have learned nothing since that time, but they are a smaller segment of the population these days.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 29, 2023 • 10:36:47am

re: #480 Crush White Nationalism

Religious extremists have learned nothing since that time, but they are a smaller segment of the population these days.

Are they? Don’t they control the same southern states as before? As well as several others? SCOTUS has given them the clean bill of health to revert to the old time religion and white supremacy.

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aatharuv  Mar 29, 2023 • 10:37:43am

re: #442 Teukka

Dunno if this got posted. 39 migrants died in a fire in a migrant facility, because they were locked inside:

Ugh, this reminds me about what happened in Saudi Arabia, when a fire broke out at a girls school in Makkah and girls died because they were locked in because they weren’t covered enough.

When a deadly fire killed 15 school girls in Makkah — From the Arab News, an English language Saudi Newspaper.

Though the Saudi’s learned from that incident — make sure that girls schools are subject to the same supervision and regulation as boys schools (no substandard unsafe buildings for girls schools) and curtail the religious police.

When will we learn from our tragedies?

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Mar 29, 2023 • 10:37:44am

re: #469 William Lewis

They did it. They actually went and did it. They banned Dolly. Savages. Degenerates. There is truly no bottom to repug depravity.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 29, 2023 • 10:42:03am

re: #469 William Lewis

Oh, good fucking grief… Fucking Waukesha, a GOP hellhole.

Wisconsin school bans Miley Cyrus-Dolly Parton duet from class concert

What’s next? Parents boycotting “Woke” Lucky Charms?

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jeffreyw  Mar 29, 2023 • 11:02:09am

Macro Photography Captures the Delicate Dance of Mantises in Malaysia

mymodernmet.com

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dharmamark  Mar 29, 2023 • 11:19:50am

re: #459 William Lewis

That’s the one bad thing about WFH - if I want a fancy lunch, I’ve got to make it myself…

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 29, 2023 • 11:47:51am

re: #423 Teukka

Organized on the-chans-which-must-not-be-named, perhaps?

No idea. There was a big pile of bomb threats involving the Univ of Pittsburgh back in 2012 that eventually resulted in a couple of arrests.

It’s a bit unfortunate that the privacy protection things like remailers and some of the proxy services also serve quite readily as a method for asshole activity and terrorist threats.


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