Another Banger From Extreme: “Banshee”

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In Nuno’s latest mind-blowing solo, watch for the part where he switches from tapping to picking right in the middle of a 32nd-note run. That? Right there? That is the shit.

Extreme - “Banshee” (Official Video)
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Directed By: Nuno Bettencourt & Rene Rigal // ‘A Simplexity Creation’
Edited By: Nuno Bettencourt
Executive Producer: Atlantis Entertainment
Director of Photography: Thor Wixom

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teleskiguy  Apr 21, 2023 • 5:55:58pm

As if he hasn’t polluted Texas enough this week…

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He has flown between Brownsville and Austin like a dozen times this month.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 21, 2023 • 5:58:49pm

re: #1 teleskiguy

As if he hasn’t polluted Texas enough this week…

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He has flown between Brownsville and Austin like a dozen times this month.

What’s the approximate ground distance covered by that trip? It seems like that might be an ideal trip for him to be making in one of his highly touted Tesla EVs.

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Grunthos the Flatulent  Apr 21, 2023 • 5:59:39pm

Punted from the previous…

re: #240 ckkatz

By the way, I’ve been meaning to ask…

I seem to remember that you had mentioned you had attended the recent Strangler’s concert.

If so, how was it?

I posted a couple of pics but didn’t name the band, best I can recall, so well spotted. I enjoyed the gig. Went with my son, and now he’s keen to catch The Damned with me in June.

The Stranglers played for over an hour and a half, focussed very heavily on their Cornwell era albums, opening with “Toiler on the Sea”, and the most recent “Dark Matters”, with only “Lowlands” from “Giant” outside those parameters. They went through a very lengthy doldrums (JJ has said publicly he effectively lost interest during the Ellis/Roberts presence) but it feels like losing two of the founding members in the Covid and post Covid era has diminished neither their memory nor the band.

They returned for two encores, saving “And if you should see Dave” for the first pair of songs, and closing out the gig with a raucous “Go Buddy Go”.
Their new keyboardist nails Dave Greenfield’s technique and style, acknowledged in a tongue in cheek reference to reincarnation from Baz Warne.

The Wellington concert was at The Opera House, a seated venue, but there was a very enthusiastic (if somewhat slanted to the grey and balding) contingent that moved up to the front to dance, plus a few in the aisles.

Opener was Jon Toogood of Shihad (aka Pacifier - that’s a fun story.) His half hour set and stage presence - just him and his guitar - were an excellent warmup.

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ckkatz  Apr 21, 2023 • 6:06:49pm

Brought over from ‘downstairs’.
re: #301 Grunthos the Flatulent

I posted a couple of pics but didn’t name the band, best I can recall, so well spotted. I enjoyed the gig. Went with my son, and now he’s keen to catch The Damned with me in June.

The Stranglers played for over an hour and a half, focussed very heavily on their Cornwell era albums, opening with “Toiler on the Sea”, and the most recent “Dark Matters”, with only “Lowlands” from “Giant” outside those parameters. They went through a very lengthy doldrums (JJ has said publicly he effectively lost interest during the Ellis/Roberts presence) but it feels like losing two of the founding members in the Covid and post Covid era has diminished neither their memory nor the band.

They returned for two encores, saving “And if you should see Dave” for the first pair of songs, and closing out the gig with a raucous “Go Buddy Go”.

Their new keyboardist nails Dave Greenfield’s technique and style, acknowledged in a tongue in cheek reference to reincarnation from Baz Warne.

The Wellington concert was at The Opera House, a seated venue, but there was a very enthusiastic (if somewhat slanted to the grey and balding) contingent that moved up to the front to dance, plus a few in the aisles

Opener was Jon Toogood of Shihad (aka Pacifier - that’s a fun story.) His half hour set and stage presence - just him and his guitar - were an excellent warmup.

Sounds like a great concert! Good to hear that you are introducing a new generation.

And it sounds like the band maintained their reputation for ‘raucous’.

The audience may have had a touch of grey. But that just signifies age, experience and wisdom. Which, with a little treachery, can overcome youth , energy, and enthusiasm any day. ;)

By the way, I was a bit amused to find out that the Opera House is located on Manners Street.

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ckkatz  Apr 21, 2023 • 6:08:12pm

re: #3 Grunthos the Flatulent

Hah! I see that we both though highly enough of your post to bring it over to the new thread.

And, I think it is!

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Charles Johnson  Apr 21, 2023 • 6:08:43pm

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jaunte  Apr 21, 2023 • 6:09:44pm

Guilty of recording police actions.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 21, 2023 • 6:10:47pm

re: #7 jaunte

Guilty of recording police actions.

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Trespassing. In a public park. What the actual fuck. This cop-worshiping culture is so far out of hand, it’s disgusting.

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jaunte  Apr 21, 2023 • 6:13:01pm

re: #8 Nerdy Fish

This is going to continue as long as the solution for homelessness is to keep driving the homeless “somewhere else.”

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Jay C  Apr 21, 2023 • 6:13:10pm

re: #2 Nerdy Fish

What’s the approximate ground distance covered by that trip? It seems like that might be an ideal trip for him to be making in one of his highly touted Tesla EVs.

Brownsville to Austin is about 340 miles.
41 minutes flight time vs. c. 5 hours?
Even letting the Tesla drive itself, it’s an easy choice (IF you have a ✈️)…

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Charles Johnson  Apr 21, 2023 • 6:18:02pm

What I really love about this video - you can tell this band can really play all that shit. This is the mixed and mastered album version, but you can’t fake moving your fingers like that.

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ckkatz  Apr 21, 2023 • 6:20:14pm

re: #8 Nerdy Fish

Trespassing. In a public park. What the actual fuck. This cop-worshiping culture is so far out of hand, it’s disgusting.

I suspect that this kind of stuff happens all the time. And that we are only now beginning to hear about it. That includes murders and beatings as well as unwarranted arrests and convictions.

My father talked about how in the 1950’s some Northern, Urban reporters and photographers went into the Deep South and documented the horrific mistreatment and conditions of rural blacks. And that publicity coupled with a generation of activism was able to sway the US population, and therefore the government, at least a bit.

Those terrible conditions had been there since the US settlement of these areas. The change was the publicity and the National agreement that these conditions were immoral.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 21, 2023 • 6:25:08pm

re: #8 Nerdy Fish

Trespassing. In a public park. What the actual fuck. This cop-worshiping culture is so far out of hand, it’s disgusting.

They probably technically were trespassing since I bet the park closed at sunset or some hour not long after.

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sagehen  Apr 21, 2023 • 6:33:14pm

re: #12 ckkatz

My father talked about how in the 1950’s some Northern, Urban reporters and photographers went into the Deep South and documented the horrific mistreatment and conditions of rural blacks. And that publicity coupled with a generation of activism was able to sway the US population, and therefore the government, at least a bit.

Those terrible conditions had been there since the US settlement of these areas. The change was the publicity and the National agreement that these conditions were immoral.

Partly it’s that in the mid-to-late 1950’s television became a thing; there were so few channels, people in the big cities could get all 4 (smaller towns only got 1 or 2), and TV NEWS back then was 1/2 hour at dinnertime, another 1/2 hour at the end of the day, everyone in the country was seeing the same stories.

But also… middle-aged people then were mostly WWII vets, those too old or too young to have fought followed the war and the aftermath pretty closely in the media, so they’d seen with their own eyes what this kind of bigotry can lead to. It wasn’t a hypothetical possibility, it was a visceral memory. Today, not so much.

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jaunte  Apr 21, 2023 • 6:40:16pm
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teleskiguy  Apr 21, 2023 • 6:40:54pm

It’s been kind of fun watching this today. They really are big babies.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 21, 2023 • 6:41:23pm

re: #15 jaunte

They can have my voter registration when they pry it from my cold dead hands.

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teleskiguy  Apr 21, 2023 • 6:43:22pm

Foot of snow on Front Range cities by Tuesday/Wednesday.

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 21, 2023 • 6:43:48pm

re: #15 jaunte

re: #17 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Even though my late dad knew he was near the end his last thoughts were not about his voter registration. He was more concerned about family matters.

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jaunte  Apr 21, 2023 • 6:45:42pm

How do states ensure dead people’s ballots aren’t counted?
apnews.com

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Charles Johnson  Apr 21, 2023 • 6:46:53pm

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Charles Johnson  Apr 21, 2023 • 6:47:45pm

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 21, 2023 • 6:48:48pm

re: #18 teleskiguy

Foot of snow on Front Range cities by Tuesday/Wednesday.

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I remember once flying into Denver in early April to attend something up in Fort Collins. I came in a week early in order to go visit my brother-in-law who lived in Craig at the time. I beat a storm over the Front Range by a day or so.

And my brother-in-law was downright amused as Craig and Steamboat got a few inches of snow at most while east of the Front Range got hit by over a foot and sort of came to a stand still for a few days. I got the impression from that that the storms usually did the opposite in terms of where they dumped snow.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 21, 2023 • 6:49:05pm
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teleskiguy  Apr 21, 2023 • 6:54:00pm

re: #23 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

I remember once flying into Denver in early April to attend something up in Fort Collins. I came in a week early in order to go visit my brother-in-law who lived in Craig at the time. I beat a storm over the Front Range by a day or so.

And my brother-in-law was downright amused as Craig and Steamboat got a few inches of snow at most while east of the Front Range got hit by over a foot and sort of came to a stand still for a few days. I got the impression from that that the storms usually did the opposite in terms of where they dumped snow.

And you’d be correct in that impression. But about once, twice, sometimes more times a year a meteorological event called “upslope” happens on the Front Range where a fast moving mass of cold air coming out of the mountains to the west suddenly meet with an even faster and bigger mass of warm moist air that made its way up from the Gulf of Mexico. Blam. Denver’s biggest snowstorms have all been upslope events and yeah the urban areas get crippled for a stretch. Meanwhile 60 miles to the west up in the high mountains, a few inches of new snow at best. I’ve seen it happen many times in my life.

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teleskiguy  Apr 21, 2023 • 6:58:03pm

I was in Denver for an upslope storm, about 15 inches of snow fell in my yard *overnight.* The ski resort towns can handle that, an urban area not so much. I went cross country skiing in Washington Park after that, it was one of the more delightful memories of my living in Denver.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 21, 2023 • 6:59:02pm

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TarHellion  Apr 21, 2023 • 7:00:46pm

re: #20 jaunte

Here in Western North Carolina, the county election board receives data on deceased individuals during the early and same-day voting windows. If any early voter dies before election day, the ballot is identified and removed. Same with mail-in absentee ballots.

In 2016, a neighboring county had a daughter who forged her recently deceased mom’s ballot (the mom died after the ballot had arrived at her home). But because the vote was for FFVCS, the then-DA declined prosecute. Methinks it would have been different if the vote had been for Clinton and/or the person had a darker shade of skin.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 21, 2023 • 7:06:08pm
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jaunte  Apr 21, 2023 • 7:11:06pm

John Galt whining to Francisco D’Anconia that no one else has subcribed to his Substack, not even Dagny.

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Dangerman  Apr 21, 2023 • 7:13:32pm

re: #13 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

They probably technically were trespassing since I bet the park closed at sunset or some hour not long after.

I run at 6am most days.
Often through a closed park that opens at nine. It’s a horse trail. No gates. Probably going on 15 years.

I could get plucked anytime except I’m prettty sure no one’s awake yet.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 21, 2023 • 7:17:39pm

re: #31 Dangerman

I run at 6am most days.
Often through a closed park that opens at nine. It’s a horse trail. No gates. Probably going on 15 years.

I could get plucked anytime except I’m prettty sure no one’s awake yet.

And usually if the police cared they’d just tell you to leave and not arrest you unless they were having a very bad day or decided you were being disrespectful about leaving.

In this case it seems obvious the police arrested them since they were recording the police doing something they didn’t want recorded and reported on. And the trespass charge was the simple route to do that. That the judge found them guilty could well have been open and shut. (I did not go looking for specific details on this case to see if there was additional commentary associated with the case.)

I also did not see what the sentence was. Fine, probation, etc. Which would be indicative of things as well. And I’d hope that the newspaper or media station the reporters worked for paid any fine since they were doing their jobs.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 21, 2023 • 7:18:10pm

re: #23 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

I remember once flying into Denver in early April to attend something up in Fort Collins. I came in a week early in order to go visit my brother-in-law who lived in Craig at the time. I beat a storm over the Front Range by a day or so.

And my brother-in-law was downright amused as Craig and Steamboat got a few inches of snow at most while east of the Front Range got hit by over a foot and sort of came to a stand still for a few days. I got the impression from that that the storms usually did the opposite in terms of where they dumped snow.

The storm system which hit the Front Range and the Nebraska Panhandle in April was not a Pacific storm system. A cold front dropping down from Canada ran into a strong surge of tropical air from the Gulf of Mexico. The resultant clash was in eastern Colorado, western Kansas, and the Nebraska Panhandle.

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TarHellion  Apr 21, 2023 • 7:18:57pm

re: #26 teleskiguy

We are at about 3,000 feet on the east side of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Orographic lift is a phrase that is used for our heavy rains or heavy snows when the warm air comes up from the Gulf of Mexico. Basically, the warm rising air cools and dumps ample rain (or snow), while the western side of the mountains get squat. I have gone through incredibly heavy snow and rain - then get to the other side of the mountains and only a chilly drizzle.

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teleskiguy  Apr 21, 2023 • 7:19:28pm
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wrenchwench  Apr 21, 2023 • 7:20:49pm

re: #31 Dangerman

I run at 6am most days.
Often through a closed park that opens at nine. It’s a horse trail. No gates. Probably going on 15 years.

I could get plucked anytime except I’m prettty sure no one’s awake yet.

I’m still trying to adjust to the idea of doing that before coffee. I mean, it makes sense in several ways, but not in the one that counts. Wanna.

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teleskiguy  Apr 21, 2023 • 7:23:27pm
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teleskiguy  Apr 21, 2023 • 7:27:10pm

re: #34 TarHellion

We get orographic lift here in the winter a lot. I’m at 6’300” in a valley with many dozens of drainages that rise up to at its peak 14,000 ft. So we see a lot of bubbles of warm air make their way up these places and dump snow along the way. :)

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TarHellion  Apr 21, 2023 • 7:32:02pm

re: #38 teleskiguy

Ever experience thunder snow out that way? With the way the fronts can converge, I would imagine so. The only time I can recall it happening here was the 1993 Superstorm. And the one time our area ever went under a blizzard warning.

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teleskiguy  Apr 21, 2023 • 7:35:56pm

re: #39 TarHellion

Ever experience thunder snow out that way? With the way the fronts can converge, I would imagine so. The only time I can recall it happening here was the 1993 Superstorm. And the one time our area ever went under a blizzard warning.

It’s very very rare but YES I did witness thundersnow, I was skiing with my Dad on Vail Mountain, we were riding up Chair 2. After the lightning struck the lift stopped, for longer than usual. Eventually we got to the top and were told the mountain was now closed. I was 12 or 13. Only time I’ve ever seen that. Occurred in March that winter?

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TarHellion  Apr 21, 2023 • 7:45:39pm

re: #40 teleskiguy

Yeah, ours was in March. The barometric pressure drop was incredible. Looking back on the satellite images, we basically had a winter tropical storm/hurricane come up from Florida and meet extremely cold air. I remember driving the half-hour home and the temperature dropped 10 degrees. March 13-15.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 21, 2023 • 7:50:32pm

re: #39 TarHellion

Ever experience thunder snow out that way? With the way the fronts can converge, I would imagine so. The only time I can recall it happening here was the 1993 Superstorm. And the one time our area ever went under a blizzard warning.

I’ve seen thundersnow 2-3 times in PA or NY.

I described it to someone once as “being inside a flash cube when it was set off”.

Really low visibility due to being in a heavy snow squall walking on the sidewalk in Pittsburgh. And everything just lit up - bright diffuse light from every direction. Followed by the sound of thunder a few seconds later.

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JC1  Apr 21, 2023 • 7:54:45pm

The Diplomat, a new show on Netflix, is very good.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 21, 2023 • 7:55:07pm

Spoilers for anyone watching Picard who did not see episode 10

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Joe Bacon  Apr 21, 2023 • 7:58:02pm

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 21, 2023 • 8:07:11pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 21, 2023 • 8:09:23pm

re: #40 teleskiguy

It’s very very rare but YES I did witness thundersnow, I was skiing with my Dad on Vail Mountain, we were riding up Chair 2. After the lightning struck the lift stopped, for longer than usual. Eventually we got to the top and were told the mountain was now closed. I was 12 or 13. Only time I’ve ever seen that. Occurred in March that winter?

We get a round or two of it every year here. The extreme temperature differences in Autumn and Spring make for heavy thunderstorms with snow.

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teleskiguy  Apr 21, 2023 • 8:10:07pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 21, 2023 • 8:13:26pm

Some heroes write software.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 21, 2023 • 8:17:12pm

NSFW, child sexual exploitation by Christians (6:43, The David Pakman Show)

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The most disturbing Christian sex story of all time?

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jaunte  Apr 21, 2023 • 8:20:10pm
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William Lewis  Apr 21, 2023 • 8:21:07pm
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teleskiguy  Apr 21, 2023 • 8:30:51pm

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jaunte  Apr 21, 2023 • 8:32:13pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 21, 2023 • 8:50:52pm
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EPR-radar  Apr 21, 2023 • 8:55:22pm

re: #56 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Republicans and their centrist enablers love to pretend that the views of the most exasperated lefties are mainstream D views (they aren’t) while studiously ignoring the much closer convergence of views between the most rabid conservatives and GOP leaders/elected officials.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 21, 2023 • 8:55:46pm

re: #53 teleskiguy

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 21, 2023 • 9:04:12pm
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A Cranky One  Apr 21, 2023 • 9:10:00pm

One of the quilts Mrs Cranky just finished.

Like many of her quilts, it’s king size, so difficult to photograph.

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retired cynic  Apr 21, 2023 • 9:11:45pm

re: #60 A Cranky One

That is just flat GORGEOUS!

It sounds crazy, but I would love to do a jigsaw puzzle of that. It’s too big for my house, but I would love to look at it by the hour!

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piratedan  Apr 21, 2023 • 9:12:28pm

re: #56 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

well they’re a damn sight more likely to do so than the current court is to follow their own established precedents and rulings.

Alito can eat a bag of unsalted dicks…..

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ckkatz  Apr 21, 2023 • 9:13:04pm

re: #54 jaunte

Saw this on her timeline -

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 21, 2023 • 9:14:20pm

I’m going to trundle off for a nap.

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Targetpractice  Apr 21, 2023 • 9:16:40pm

So I’m playing catch-up with the day and I’m finding myself not the least bit surprised that Musk’s minions who thought he was gonna turn Twitter into a “freeze peach” paradise are all up-tight that their predictions that all the holders of legacy checkmarks would feel forced to pay for them have been proven as bunk and now the whole red-capped lot are getting upset because nobody wants to play with them.

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A Cranky One  Apr 21, 2023 • 9:16:56pm

re: #61 retired cynic

That is just flat GORGEOUS!

It sounds crazy, but I would love to do a jigsaw puzzle of that. It’s too big for my house, but I would love to look at it by the hour!

Thanks! I’ll let her know you said so. Her quilts are amazing. She gives them as gifts. But only to folks who use them rather than putting them away (which folks are tempted to do since they are works of art).

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gwangung  Apr 21, 2023 • 9:22:24pm

re: #65 Targetpractice

So I’m playing catch-up with the day and I’m finding myself not the least bit surprised that Musk’s minions who thought he was gonna turn Twitter into a “freeze peach” paradise are all up-tight that their predictions that all the holders of legacy checkmarks would feel forced to pay for them have been proven as bunk and now the whole red-capped lot are getting upset because nobody wants to play with them.

There’s something more to being a Cool Kid than getting a blue check.

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EPR-radar  Apr 21, 2023 • 9:23:10pm

re: #59 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

“Thou shalt shun anyone who votes for Republicans” is a much better proposition to use for this kind of social conditioning (if it were acceptable to do this social conditioning, which it isn’t).

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Captain Ron  Apr 21, 2023 • 9:23:24pm
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EPR-radar  Apr 21, 2023 • 9:24:27pm

re: #67 gwangung

There’s something more to being a Cool Kid than getting a blue check.

I honestly think Musk is too blinkered/stupid/up his own ass to realize this.

It really is astonishing for someone with that much power to be so pathetic.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 21, 2023 • 9:25:20pm

re: #66 A Cranky One

Thanks! I’ll let her know you said so. Her quilts are amazing. She gives them as gifts. But only to folks who use them rather than putting them away (which folks are tempted to do since they are works of art).

Cat Quilt

I was gifted a small quilt (about standard bed size) by a neighbor of my brother a few years back. Still use it on my bed. Sadly, the woman has since passed away. She was the one who made my niece her 6-foot-long squid plushie.

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ckkatz  Apr 21, 2023 • 9:28:15pm

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retired cynic  Apr 21, 2023 • 9:31:18pm

re: #71 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

I still use the quilts my maternal grandparents made (they were born in 1893) and both quilted. Only the last one is still holding together, after surviving their lives and my parents lives. They didn’t do fancy ones: just scrap quilts, made with what they had. Precious to me.

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Joe Bacon  Apr 21, 2023 • 9:31:37pm

Yes he did toss his thong in the ring. We’ll remind everyone of all the dirty laundry that came out when this ass thought he was going to be Governor of California!

apnews.com

Radio host Larry Elder announces 2024 GOP bid for president

Yeah all those “domestic disputes” with his significant other will be rehashed.

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Targetpractice  Apr 21, 2023 • 9:33:37pm

re: #70 EPR-radar

I honestly think Musk is too blinkered/stupid/up his own ass to realize this.

It really is astonishing for someone with that much power to be so pathetic.

It’s like finding out that the exclusive club that you would never be able to gain entrance to in your lifetime suddenly stripped all lifetime members of free entrance and instituted a $20 cover charge for entrance, only to find out within a month that all the former lifetime members went elsewhere and the only people now there are the assholes you could have met down at the local dive bar for free who paid the cover charge just to feel “elite” for a night before they trashed the place.

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retired cynic  Apr 21, 2023 • 9:36:32pm

re: #75 Targetpractice

Just the correct framing there!

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Jay C  Apr 21, 2023 • 9:36:56pm

re: #60 A Cranky One

One of the quilts Mrs Cranky just finished.

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Like many of her quilts, it’s king size, so difficult to photograph.

OMG!
Beautiful!

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piratedan  Apr 21, 2023 • 9:37:30pm

re: #66 A Cranky One

they are lovely, heck she could donate them as charitable prizes to causes that she cares about, she gets the pleasure of creating and the pleasure of helping those that she wishes….. Over at Balloon Juice, they did that for raising money for the animal shelters that they support and for funding help for feeding displaced Ukrainians…

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ckkatz  Apr 21, 2023 • 9:41:08pm

Thread -

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EPR-radar  Apr 21, 2023 • 9:45:28pm

re: #74 Joe Bacon

Yes he did toss his thong in the ring. We’ll remind everyone of all the dirty laundry that came out when this ass thought he was going to be Governor of California!

apnews.com

Radio host Larry Elder announces 2024 GOP bid for president

Yeah all those “domestic disputes” with his significant other will be rehashed.

This isn’t even a wet fart. Elder will be competing with Haley for votes from the few dozen remaining Republicans in the country who want stealth fascism instead of blatant fascism.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 21, 2023 • 9:52:19pm

re: #44 Hecuba’s daughter

Spoilers for anyone watching Picard who did not see episode 10

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A Cranky One  Apr 21, 2023 • 9:54:00pm

re: #78 piratedan

Great suggestion! I’ll pass that along.

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Targetpractice  Apr 21, 2023 • 9:58:29pm

re: #67 gwangung

There’s something more to being a Cool Kid than getting a blue check.

When Musk first proposed the whole “pay-check” business, the initial assumption seemed to be that the legacy checkmarks would stay in place and the only thing that would change is any new checkmarks handed out would be on a subscription plan. So the red-caps got it in their heads that this was their way into the “elite” ranks, that they’d finally get past the “librul” gatekeepers that had kept them from getting checkmarks.

Then Musk announced that legacy marks would be yanked and now it sounded shaky in some ways but better in others, that now the “libruls” who’d strutted around with their checkmarks would have to pay to keep them, it would wipe out the “elite” status of marks and of course the legacies would pay the price of admission because having one was so “elite” that they wouldn’t be caught without one. Even when major names and brands said they’d never pay the predictions were it was all hot air and of course they’d pay because they’d never be without their checkmarks.

Now the legacy marks are gone and instead of all those “libruls” breaking down and paying to be in the same club as the red-caps, they’re keeping to their word and even leaving Twitter altogether. So now, instead of the confident predictions that Musk is always right in the end and the house always wins, it’s the equiv of the hot springs at a couples retreat being reduced to a sausage-fest as the guys keep asking when the babes are gonna show up.

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William Lewis  Apr 21, 2023 • 10:06:44pm

Well, crap. Left the canadian bacon out of the fridge all day. That sucks. Toss time :(

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Targetpractice  Apr 21, 2023 • 10:26:17pm

Long and short of it is that the red-caps thought Phony Stark was gonna let them in the “exclusive” club for a pittance, only to find out that the only people willing to pay to be in the club are the sort of sorry SOBs who never could have gotten in there otherwise.

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Captain Ron  Apr 21, 2023 • 10:32:55pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 21, 2023 • 10:34:23pm

re: #83 Targetpractice

……

Now the legacy marks are gone and instead of all those “libruls” breaking down and paying to be in the same club as the red-caps, they’re keeping to their word and even leaving Twitter altogether. So now, instead of the confident predictions that Musk is always right in the end and the house always wins, it’s the equiv of the hot springs at a couples retreat being reduced to a sausage-fest as the guys keep asking when the babes are gonna show up.

What I don’t understand — is Musk really so stupid not to understand the essential difference between his “pay to play” marks and the legacy marks? I can understand why the typical MAGAt is so ignorant — but Musk??? This is an unbelievable level of stupidity… How could such an idiot amass such a great fortune?

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Belafon  Apr 21, 2023 • 10:34:34pm

I thought you all would enjoy this story about a kid who found his calling as a baseball game announcer:

wfaa.com

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Captain Ron  Apr 21, 2023 • 10:34:47pm
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teleskiguy  Apr 21, 2023 • 10:40:52pm

re: #84 William Lewis

Well, crap. Left the canadian bacon out of the fridge all day. That sucks. Toss time :(

Fry the fuck out of it in oil

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teleskiguy  Apr 21, 2023 • 10:45:43pm

Umphrey’s McGee - Out of Focus (UMBowl IX 11.12.22)

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Targetpractice  Apr 21, 2023 • 10:49:46pm

re: #87 Hecuba’s daughter

What I don’t understand — is Musk really so stupid not to understand the essential difference between his “pay to play” marks and the legacy marks? I can understand why the typical MAGAt is so ignorant — but Musk??? This is an unbelievable level of stupidity… How could such an idiot amass such a great fortune?

Winning the womb lottery, aka “born on third and thinking they hit a home run.” Daddy had the money to provide him a good upbringing as well as the seed money for his first business venture, from which he became one of those “Dot com billionaires” that we heard so much of during the early 2000s. He’s bounced from venture to venture, sticking around long enough to cash out before moving on. Every time he’s tried to be a CEO before SpaceX, he ended up getting booted for lack of experience and skill for somebody with both (Peter Thiel being one prominent name).

So yeah, he’s the sort of arrogant fuck with too much money who thinks that people crowding around him means he’s just that great a person rather than being like honey to gold-digging flies.

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Belafon  Apr 21, 2023 • 11:23:40pm
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teleskiguy  Apr 21, 2023 • 11:26:19pm

a while back…

Former KKK Leader DOES NOT Want to Talk About Cock and Ball Torture!

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Captain Ron  Apr 21, 2023 • 11:27:54pm

I had two days in a row it was warm enough to ride. I’m feeling spoiled. More warmth for a week so I’ll be abusing my muscles as I rebuild my strength. I’ve been climbing hills with low assistance and used lower gears and doing short mile long sprints at muscle burning speeds. I’m getting over my cabin fever.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 21, 2023 • 11:35:36pm

re: #90 teleskiguy

Fry the fuck out of it in oil

I wouldn’t recommend that. What causes food poisoning is the toxins bacteria excrete, not the bacteria themselves. Cooking it in oil won’t kill those toxins.

USDA:

Is if safe to consume perishable food (such as meat or poultry) that has been left out at room temperature?

f a perishable food (such as meat or poultry) has been left out at room temperature overnight (more than two hours) it may not be safe. Discard it, even though it may look and smell good. Never taste a food to see if it is spoiled. Use a food thermometer to verify temperatures. Never leave food in the Danger Zone over two hours; one hour if outside temperature is above 90 °F.

The Danger Zone is the temperature range between 40 °F and 140 °F in which bacteria can grow rapidly. To keep food out of the Danger Zone, keep cold food cold, at or below 40 °F, and hot food hot, at or above 140 °F.

It’s not the bacteria which are poisonous, but their toxins. Those aren’t destroyed by cooking.

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Belafon  Apr 21, 2023 • 11:36:22pm

re: #95 Captain Ron

This is Rockwall over the next few days:

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 21, 2023 • 11:39:13pm

Judge who suspended abortion pill failed to disclose interviews that discussed social issues (CNN, April 20, 2023)

In one interview, he described same-sex marriage as terrorism.

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Targetpractice  Apr 21, 2023 • 11:39:51pm

Reading through tweets from MAGAts about the whole “pay-check” business really tells you that it was never about elevating themselves, it was about dragging those that they hated down to their level. Elmo promised them “equality” by stripping the people who deserved recognition of such and granting it to anybody who’d pay him for it. And now they’re being driven bonkers by Musk’s stans out there trying to undo the stigma that comes with paying for a checkmark by convincing them that anybody who doesn’t is acting “too good” to pay $8/mth just to feel “elite.”

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Belafon  Apr 21, 2023 • 11:43:34pm

re: #99 Targetpractice

Reading through tweets from MAGAts about the whole “pay-check” business really tells you that it was never about elevating themselves, it was about dragging those that they hated down to their level. Elmo promised them “equality” by stripping the people who deserved recognition of such and granting it to anybody who’d pay him for it. And now they’re being driven bonkers by Musk’s stans out there trying to undo the stigma that comes with paying for a checkmark by convincing them that anybody who doesn’t is acting “too good” to pay $8/mth just to feel “elite.”

Which is complicated by Musk “paying for” people like LeBron James to have a check mark.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 21, 2023 • 11:45:57pm

In the category “Not a Drag Queen”

Judge stays on Catholic bankruptcy despite church donations (AP, yesterday)

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal judge refused Friday to recuse himself from the New Orleans Roman Catholic bankruptcy after an Associated Press report that he donated tens of thousands of dollars to archdiocese charities and consistently ruled in favor of the church in the contentious case involving nearly 500 clergy sex abuse victims.

U.S. District Judge Greg Guidry told attorneys in the high-profile case that a panel of federal judges he asked to review the possible conflict determined no “reasonable person” would question his impartiality despite his contributions and longstanding ties to the archdiocese.

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Targetpractice  Apr 22, 2023 • 12:03:21am

re: #100 Belafon

Which is complicated by Musk “paying for” people like LeBron James to have a check mark.

Which only makes the stigma worse because there are now people who have checkmarks who aren’t paying for them, have publicly stated they aren’t and done want them, yet Musk has gone out of his way to “gift” to them in the desperate hope they’ll thank him for the “honor.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 22, 2023 • 12:07:04am

The Fugitive Trans Act in Florida moves on to Gov. DeSantis for his signature.

Outrage as Florida Republicans pass ‘fascist’ bill to remove trans kids from parents’ custody (The Independent, by the way you didn’t need to put fascist in quotes, April 20, 2023)

Republican lawmakers in Florida have sparked outrage after passing a bill that LGBTQ advocates say will strip trans children from their parents’ custody.

SB254 — which one former lawmaker has called “fascist” legislation — would allow the state to rip children from their parents when they are “at risk” or “subjected” to gender-affirming health care. The bill is written so that even a child of Floridian parents living out of state could trigger the law.

“I can’t believe I’m writing this,” Carlos Guillermo Smith, a former House lawmaker, and the state’s first Latino LGTBQ representative, wrote on Twitter last month. “This is fascist.”

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EPR-radar  Apr 22, 2023 • 12:10:38am

re: #102 Targetpractice

Which only makes the stigma worse because there are now people who have checkmarks who aren’t paying for them, have publicly stated they aren’t and done want them, yet Musk has gone out of his way to “gift” to them in the desperate hope they’ll thank him for the “honor.”

There is one thing this mess makes perfectly clear — Musk isn’t listening to anyone worth listening to. He’s being a complete jackass with everything he’s done on Twitter so far.

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Targetpractice  Apr 22, 2023 • 12:11:53am

re: #103 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The Fugitive Trans Act in Florida moves on to Gov. DeSantis for his signature.

Outrage as Florida Republicans pass ‘fascist’ bill to remove trans kids from parents’ custody (The Independent, by the way you didn’t need to put fascist in quotes, April 20, 2023)

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What do they do with the children, follow the lead of their ideological predecessors and place them with “Good Ary…er, Christian families” who will teach them in the ways of Der Fuhrer and the state?

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Targetpractice  Apr 22, 2023 • 12:13:19am

re: #104 EPR-radar

There is one thing this mess makes perfectly clear — Musk isn’t listening to anyone worth listening to. He’s being a complete jackass with everything he’s done on Twitter so far.

Like all dictators throughout history, Musk is listening to the one person he trusts most: Himself. Anybody else he listens to is just there to confirm what he already knows/believes. Any who try to point out his follies don’t last long.

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EPR-radar  Apr 22, 2023 • 12:18:02am

re: #105 Targetpractice

What do they do with the children, follow the lead of their ideological predecessors and place them with “Good Ary…er, Christian families” who will teach them in the ways of Der Fuhrer and the state?

Extermination seems likeliest. Fascists always need people to kill.

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Captain Ron  Apr 22, 2023 • 12:18:16am

I know my wife loves me because she buys Mt Gay Eclipse rum. I just discovered a bottle in the liquor cabinet.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 22, 2023 • 12:20:17am

‘I Love Ray Charles’: White Pastor Slammed for Terrible Defense of Blackface Photos (Daily Beast, yesterday)

He also shared photographs of former President Barack Obama, comparing him to monkeys.

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Targetpractice  Apr 22, 2023 • 12:24:08am

re: #107 EPR-radar

Extermination seems likeliest. Fascists always need people to kill.

Depends upon the age. Only the teens may face that, the younger ones are still impressionable enough to be enrolled in “deprogramming” courses to teach them to pray the gay away and love “God.”

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Captain Ron  Apr 22, 2023 • 12:29:55am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 22, 2023 • 12:32:21am

Not a Drag Queen (Julie Roy’s blog, April 20, 2023)

IL Megachurch Pastor Who Resigned Amid Scandal Launches Online Ministry

An Illinois megachurch pastor, who resigned following allegations he covered up his son’s sexual misconduct, has started a new online preaching ministry.

Mike Baker, former pastor of Eastview Christian Church (ECC) in Bloomington/Normal, recently launched Song and Sword. In an open letter posted online yesterday, he said he did so because he’s a preacher “called to preach” but with nowhere to preach due to a “media firestorm.” He said he also needed a source of income because he didn’t trust his elders to care for his family financially.

ECC recently hired lawyer Kellye Fabian Story with Chicago-based Wagenmaker & Oberly to investigate allegations that Baker covered up clergy sexual abuse by his son, Caleb Baker, involving a church member in 2016. Caleb Baker left ECC at that time. And his father told his congregation that Caleb had left ECC voluntarily.

Meanwhile, Mike Baker helped Caleb get a fresh start and a new job at Arizona megachurch Central Christian Church (CCC). According to CCC Pastor Cal Jernigan, the elder Baker told him that someone had made an accusation against Caleb Baker, but that it was unfounded.

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Targetpractice  Apr 22, 2023 • 12:36:40am

re: #111 Captain Ron

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The Blair Witch Project scared the bejesus outta me when it came out, though admittedly I was 15 and still gullible enough to believe that shit was real. Oh, and strong enough of stomach to watch a “found footage” film in a theater without getting motion sickness.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 22, 2023 • 12:40:57am

re: #113 Targetpractice

The Blair Witch Project scared the bejesus outta me when it came out, though admittedly I was 15 and still gullible enough to believe that shit was real. Oh, and strong enough of stomach to watch a “found footage” film in a theater without getting motion sickness.

A friend dragged me to see The Blair Witch Project when that came out, and it was good. But I’d been exposed to the “found footage” genre having seen Cannibal Holocaust already, the granddaddy of that particular genre.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 22, 2023 • 12:41:24am

re: #111 Captain Ron

Clicking on the timestamp now takes me to Twitter’s “something’s wrong” page. It would appear I can no longer view tweets on their Website.

Or it’s a glitch. Who knows with Elno in charge?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 22, 2023 • 12:44:09am

re: #114 Dr Lizardo

A friend dragged me to see The Blair Witch Project when that came out, and it was good. But I’d been exposed to the “found footage” genre having seen Cannibal Holocaust already, the granddaddy of that particular genre.

I never heard of that movie. However, “Cannibal Holocaust” (Italy, 1980) has a 7:44 theatrical trailer on YouTube.

CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST (Official Movie Film Cinema Theatrical Teaser Trailer) | HD

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Captain Ron  Apr 22, 2023 • 12:44:40am

Strange, it still works for me. I tried Edge browser where I’m not logged in and it still works.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 22, 2023 • 12:46:09am

re: #116 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I never heard of that movie. However, “Cannibal Holocaust” (Italy, 1980) has a 7:44 theatrical trailer on YouTube.

It’s definitely a classic for fans of transgressive cinema.

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Captain Ron  Apr 22, 2023 • 12:51:46am

The grasses, weeds and wild flowers are growing at a ferocious rate and the pollen is so thick I have to dose up with 100 mg of Benadryl. It’s effective for the nose but after about 12 miles my eyes are stinging and itching from the pollen collecting on the surface.

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Targetpractice  Apr 22, 2023 • 12:56:43am

re: #114 Dr Lizardo

A friend dragged me to see The Blair Witch Project when that came out, and it was good. But I’d been exposed to the “found footage” genre having seen Cannibal Holocaust already, the granddaddy of that particular genre.

Yeah, I’ve been a fan of the genre off and on over the years, though these days I feel like they’re trying too hard to revive the spirit of the 90s when all you had to do to get people to buy your movie was “real” was make it look cheap as hell.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 22, 2023 • 12:59:15am

re: #120 Targetpractice

Yeah, I’ve been a fan of the genre off and on over the years, though these days I feel like they’re trying too hard to revive the spirit of the 90s when all you had to do to get people to buy your movie was “real” was make it look cheap as hell.

To pull off found footage successfully, you need the right actors who can really sell it. It’s not just all about the aesthetic, which is something film makers who dabble in that genre forget.

One of the best I’ve ever seen is a J-Horror film, Noroi - The Curse. That’s brilliant.

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Captain Ron  Apr 22, 2023 • 1:00:20am

My favorite found footage movies were the haunted abandoned insane asylum.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 22, 2023 • 1:02:48am

re: #117 Captain Ron

Strange, it still works for me. I tried Edge browser where I’m not logged in and it still works.

Maybe they don’t like Fireflox. Lemme try Microsoft Urge.

Yup, that works.

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Targetpractice  Apr 22, 2023 • 1:05:43am

re: #122 Captain Ron

My favorite found footage movies were the haunted abandoned insane asylum.

Grave Encounters? Yeah, those were good films.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 22, 2023 • 1:20:46am

State Senator Tom Brewer (District 43, Gordon, northeast of me). He claims he lives in a log cabin built inside a machine shed, which has never paid residential taxes. He lives two hundred miles southeast in Cass County, in violation of state law to serve in the Unicameral.

LB77 is the “guns everywhere and you can’t even keep them out of your private residence” bill. Sarah Slattery has been protesting him in person and on Facebook. In violation of the law, Sen. Brewer banned her from his Facebook page. He used the Nebraska State Patrol to remove her from the Unicameral gallery and had her banned from the state capitol grounds.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 22, 2023 • 1:27:09am

re: #125 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

When Sen. Brewer ran for the Unicameral from Gordon from his fictitious log cabin, he received exactly one political donation: $20,000 from a Texas oil company owner.

One might wonder why a Texas oil man would be interested in a Nebraska Panhandle state senate race.

As it turns out, there is a formation of shale called the Neo-Bakken which runs through the Sandhills. A big chunk of it is under Sheridan County (seat Gordon). He wants access to that (fuque the fragile environment of the Sandhills). So, he bought a Republican from Cass County to misrepresent himself as being from Sheridan County, so he could have a shill in the state legislature.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 22, 2023 • 1:31:11am
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ericblair  Apr 22, 2023 • 1:32:33am

Maybe we shouldn’t let racist edgelord conspiracy theorists have intelligence clearances.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 22, 2023 • 1:49:11am

re: #59 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

FFRF is readying a lawsuit to challenge this bill intended to force Texas schoolchildren from K-12 to read about why they shouldn’t commit adultery — such a major problem in our classrooms, after all — and other Bronze Age bible edicts.

2033: Texas Legislature passes bill to allow public stonings of women taken in adultery.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 22, 2023 • 1:51:00am

re: #81 Eclectic Cyborg

Spoilers for anyone watching Picard who did not see episode 10

Thank you, I haven’t watched this week’s episode yet…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 22, 2023 • 1:57:36am

YouTuber Shaun (a religion counter-apologist) goes after Dennis Prager lying about liberal positions “against” fatherhood.

(17:32)

PragerU & Fatherhood

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Targetpractice  Apr 22, 2023 • 2:03:35am

I do so love when the guy on the other side of the desk insists he’s not calling you a liar…when everything from his tone to his body language says he’s calling you a liar. Ain’t my damned fault that you don’t know how to read the fine print, asshole.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 22, 2023 • 2:08:50am

re: #133 Targetpractice

I do so love when the guy on the other side of the desk insists he’s not calling you a liar…when everything from his tone to his body language says he’s calling you a liar. Ain’t my damned fault that you don’t know how to read the fine print, asshole.

Like when the British say “With all due respect…” when they really mean “Now listen up you bastard!”

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Targetpractice  Apr 22, 2023 • 2:15:56am

re: #134 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Like when the British say “With all due respect…” when they really mean “Now listen up you bastard!”

I always thought “With all due respect…” was code for “Kiss my ass,” or perhaps that’s the American variation.

But yeah, this was one of the more common of my headaches on any given weekend, the asshat who made a reservation at the very last second and missed the part in the hotel policies section about how we need to be able to charge the card before they get here. Most guests either have their cards turned off or (if debit cards) don’t load the funds til they get here, but get upset with me when told that at 5am that their reservation was canceled hours ago because we couldn’t charge the card.

Tonight’s came with the added bonus of his passive-aggressively accusing me of having ignored calls from him and corporate (spoiler: I never got calls from either) where he could have been told we need to be able to charge his card for tonight in order to keep the reservation valid. My guess is they tried calling our sister location that has no desk staff after 11pm, got nobody on the phone, and he’d rather argue with me than admit his mistake.

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sagehen  Apr 22, 2023 • 2:22:02am

re: #135 Targetpractice

I always thought “With all due respect…” was code for “Kiss my ass,” or perhaps that’s the American variation.

The American Southern version is “bless your heart.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 22, 2023 • 2:27:14am

re: #135 Targetpractice

The practical notion is that a price is a price and one method of payment is as good as any other.

Real-life surprise. It ain’t.

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 22, 2023 • 2:28:47am

Good Morning. Right now I am trying different tablet and keyboard set-ups for the upcoming Primary. So far my iPad with the attached keyboard looks like the winner since I do not have to constantly check the Bluetooth to see if it is working.

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Moe Avattar  Apr 22, 2023 • 2:32:56am

re: #135 Targetpractice

I’m just glad I’ll never have occasion to stay at your hotel.

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EPR-radar  Apr 22, 2023 • 2:40:12am

re: #126 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

When Sen. Brewer ran for the Unicameral from Gordon from his fictitious log cabin, he received exactly one political donation: $20,000 from a Texas oil company owner.

One might wonder why a Texas oil man would be interested in a Nebraska Panhandle state senate race.

As it turns out, there is a formation of shale called the Neo-Bakken which runs through the Sandhills. A big chunk of it is under Sheridan County (seat Gordon). He wants access to that (fuque the fragile environment of the Sandhills). So, he bought a Republican from Cass County to misrepresent himself as being from Sheridan County, so he could have a shill in the state legislature.

I.e., “business as usual”.

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Targetpractice  Apr 22, 2023 • 2:42:14am

re: #138 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The practical notion is that a price is a price and one method of payment is as good as any other.

Real-life surprise. It ain’t.

The problem is the OTAs give the wrong impression of how the whole process works. Such as getting a call just ten minutes ago from Expedia asking me if the guy was going to get charged after I’d just told her that our system auto-cancelled the reservation for failure to charge the card. It really does feel like dealing with children at times, the need to pat their heads and assure them that their money is safe because they totally failed to pay us what we’re owed.

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Targetpractice  Apr 22, 2023 • 2:44:56am

re: #140 Moe Avattar

I’m just glad I’ll never have occasion to stay at your hotel.

The hotel itself is a fairly good place as far as hotels go, we’re a pretty homey and comfortable place to spend weeks or longer at if you need to. The problem is the clientele which went from asshole businessmen, government stiffs, and military families on the move to a whole lot of people for whom this hotel is the only thing keeping them from being rendered homeless. COVID has fucked this whole entire industry over a bramble patch.

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Dangerman  Apr 22, 2023 • 3:01:28am

re: #36 wrenchwench

I’m still trying to adjust to the idea of doing that before coffee. I mean, it makes sense in several ways, but not in the one that counts. Wanna.

Some people can drink coffee before they go.
I don’t want to wait around sort of relaxing. Just get up and go.
So it’s the first thing when I get back.
do it enough and its a habit

And now…I’m.off

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 22, 2023 • 3:04:51am

re: #144 Dangerman

I try to wait at least an hour between waking and my first cup of coffee, I will drink peppermint tea as a pick-me-up if I am really lagging or hurting.

But as I understand, caffeine doesn’t do you much good for the first 90 minutes or so after you awaken, all it does is make you feel wired.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 22, 2023 • 3:06:38am

Mancini channel put this out… but is the animation artist human or AI? That is what we need to ask ourselves these days:

Henry Mancini “Days of Wine and Roses” (Official Visualizer)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 22, 2023 • 3:17:56am

re: #146 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Mancini channel put this out… but is the animation artist human or AI? That is what we need to ask ourselves these days:

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Video

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Or human-guided CGI?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 22, 2023 • 3:24:02am

(24:16)

The metaphysical argument of why people get so angry when they are told something is just a “social construct.”

The video includes cars and platypi as metaphysical arguments.

Social Constructs | Philosophy Tube

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 22, 2023 • 3:28:11am

re: #148 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

(24:16)

The metaphysical argument of why people get so angry when they are told something is just a “social construct.”

The video includes cars and platypi as metaphysical arguments.

You mean everything they identify with and hold dear in life?

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No Malarkey!  Apr 22, 2023 • 3:43:02am

Well regulated Missouri militia strikes.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 22, 2023 • 3:54:43am

re: #150 No Malarkey!

Well regulated Missouri militia strikes.

A Missouri man threatened a grocery store worker with his gun because the meat department was closed and he wanted steak. He claims the gun use was meant to communicate: “I need you to help me to get a couple of these steaks. I’m not going to hurt you.”

Second Amendment bleeding over into the first, I see.

Guns to counter the tyranny of steaklessness.

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 22, 2023 • 3:55:55am

re: #150 No Malarkey!

Pardon me for asking but has this “person” ever heard of placing an order for steaks?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 22, 2023 • 3:56:51am

re: #152 PhillyPretzel

Pardon me for asking but has this “person” ever heard of placing an order for steaks?

“Placing orders” for stuff is tantamount to Socialism. Free Market is about the right to get anything anywhere at any time.

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EPR-radar  Apr 22, 2023 • 4:02:03am

re: #150 No Malarkey!

Brandishing a gun for no reason does count as communication, I suppose. It certainly is an announcement that one is not civilized.

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TarHellion  Apr 22, 2023 • 4:02:18am

Had a promising start, then nearly got swallowed by Wordle’s Circle of Hell. Heavy thunderstorm this morning but should clear out by 10 am. Sunday looks delightful. Got the car back from the body shop and looks great! Gonna get it inspected then order the new license plate sticker. Have a great weekend everyone!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 22, 2023 • 4:03:01am

re: #154 EPR-radar

Brandishing a gun for no reason does count as communication, I suppose. It certainly is an announcement that one is not civilized.

Public discourse has turned into such a shouting and posturing match that this is the next logical extension.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 22, 2023 • 4:30:22am

Australian comedy great Barry Humphries dies in hospital aged 89

RIP Dame Edna

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Targetpractice  Apr 22, 2023 • 4:36:48am

re: #150 No Malarkey!

Well regulated Missouri militia strikes.

[Embedded content]

They buried the lede on this one:

The employee said he received a call from the meat department about a man packing his own meat. The employee approached Gay and told him that he could not be there. Gay got upset and said he was going to keep doing what he was doing. The employee said he was not going to help him with the meat.

“Once he held the gun to my throat — pushed it into my throat — I decided to comply,” the employee told police.

IOW, this asshole was not only engaged in theft, he was also violating various food safety and workplace safety laws being in a place he wasn’t allowed touching food that wasn’t his with no clear explanation of how he intended to purchase it. But he’s old and white, so he’ll walk with little more than a fine, a stern word from the judge, and no worry at all that his guns will be taken from him.

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Dangerman  Apr 22, 2023 • 4:47:14am

re: #151 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

A Missouri man threatened a grocery store worker with his gun because the meat department was closed and he wanted steak. He claims the gun use was meant to communicate: “I need you to help me to get a couple of these steaks. I’m not going to hurt you.”

Second Amendment bleeding over into the first, I see.

Guns to counter the tyranny of steaklessness.

All a gun ever says is do what I want

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No Malarkey!  Apr 22, 2023 • 5:09:13am

re: #158 Targetpractice

They buried the lede on this one:

IOW, this asshole was not only engaged in theft, he was also violating various food safety and workplace safety laws being in a place he wasn’t allowed touching food that wasn’t his with no clear explanation of how he intended to purchase it. But he’s old and white, so he’ll walk with little more than a fine, a stern word from the judge, and no worry at all that his guns will be taken from him.

Hope you are wrong about that; he clearly deserves a felony conviction, prison time and loss of his right to own guns.

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Dangerman  Apr 22, 2023 • 5:47:35am

re: #160 No Malarkey!

Hope you are wrong about that; he clearly deserves a felony conviction, prison time and loss of his right to own guns.

Winner!
Control your weapon at all times.
Using it as a threat is not “control”.

You have demonstrated you are reckless and irresponsible

Lose your freedom, finances, and future

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No Malarkey!  Apr 22, 2023 • 5:53:32am

re: #161 Dangerman

Winner!
Control your weapon at all times.
Using it as a threat is not “control”.

You have demonstrated you are reckless and irresponsible

Lose your freedom, finances, and future

There are very few situations in which its legal to hold a gun to another person’s throat. The meat department being closed it not one of them.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 22, 2023 • 6:05:41am

Thread on what the fascists in America want.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 22, 2023 • 6:06:22am
Red-flag laws have languished in most statehouses across the U.S., despite bipartisan support and evidence that temporarily removing guns from people who pose an extreme risk of violence to themselves or others can help prevent mass shootings, suicides and domestic violence.

Lawmakers in 30 states have not passed — and in most cases are not likely to pass — red-flag laws, even as most of those states recently received millions in federal funding through the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act that aimed to help them create and implement the so-called extreme risk protection order programs.

Red-flag laws are already on the books in 19 states and Michigan’s legislature recently passed a red-flag law that is awaiting Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s signature.

Most states without a red-flag law either noted in their federal funding application that they don’t intend to pass one or top lawmakers there have previously stated their opposition.

In some cases, the states applied for and were approved for funding despite the fact that their Congressional delegations voted against the legislation that supplied the money.

(more)

States took millions to enact red-flag gun laws, but many still won’t pass them (Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald, this morning)

I can guess why in this bipartisan bill Republicans would vote for it even though they have no intention of passing a red-flag law. Free money they can put elsewhere, like tax cuts.

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jeffreyw  Apr 22, 2023 • 6:12:11am

Good morning!

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A Cranky One  Apr 22, 2023 • 6:14:31am

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 22, 2023 • 6:20:47am

Perusing the morning newspaper, it appears the woman who discovered the FCC’s county data for existing broadband being flawed, and conducting a statewide survey to provide evidence it was flawed so Nebraska could apply for money has borne fruit.

There will be four public hearings in the Nebraska Panhandle from state offices to develop plans to best deploy the money and improve rural Internet access here. Those will be in May in Scottsbluff, Sidney, Alliance, and Chadron.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 22, 2023 • 6:22:09am

re: #163 No Malarkey!

Thread on what the fascists in America want.

Also the Libertarian Party, which first developed the idea. They promoted it incessantly, which the GOP picked up through wingnuts like Marjorie Taylor-Greene to spread.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 22, 2023 • 6:27:37am
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No Malarkey!  Apr 22, 2023 • 6:27:55am
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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Apr 22, 2023 • 6:28:24am

re: #50 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Harsh

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 22, 2023 • 6:31:46am

The FCC defines the minimum of high speed Internet service as 25 Mbps download and 3 Mbps upload.

According to Google Fiber’s speed test (we don’t have Google Fiber anywhere close to us), my current download speed is 9.1Mbps, and my current upload speed is 800kbps.

Currently my Internet service is going through CenturyLink to the village of Harrison, NE (far NW corner of the Panhandle) through some company named Windbreak Cable, then to Cheyenne, Wyo.

The path might explain why I’ve stopped getting targetted adverts for Missouri businesses on YouTube and now I get Wyoming adverts.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 22, 2023 • 6:35:38am

re: #172 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Google’s speed test also informs me

Google Fiber isn’t available for this area

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TarHellion  Apr 22, 2023 • 6:39:18am

re: #167 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Good luck with that. My organization has written at least a half dozen grants for one of our small counties to get better internet. For one reason or another - usually because the grant involves significant private investment on the part of the ISP - the projects fall through.

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Dangerman  Apr 22, 2023 • 6:42:30am

re: #170 No Malarkey!

[Embedded content]

Remembering that its not about the economics, on the “$8 is nothing so pay it”..
imagine if Google started charging per search
Say something as ” insignificant ” as $0.0001 per search

Now you need a c/c on file with all your personal info
And the relationship has changed because now its based on monetary transactions.
Your rights and Google’s have changed, like who really owns your history, behavior, content, etc

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Thanos  Apr 22, 2023 • 6:47:12am

What the “D-Word” means in the world of Art Museums:

Yes, the Whitney is dabbling in deaccessioning, the institutional art world’s perennial bogeyman. Sell-offs have a tendency to evoke spite and bile among the art world’s old guard. But, for many, it is now just part of a natural progression.

“We want to grow the collection,” Jane Panetta, curator and director of the collection at the Whitney, told me over the phone last week. “This is part of hitting that goal, and it’s a goal we’ve had for a while, really since the museum moved to its current location in 2015.”

“The permanent-collection hang held following the Whitney’s move to the Meatpacking District in 2015, “America Is Hard to See,” was a catalyst that initiated the curators to look at the holdings anew, Panetta said.”

Panetta also framed deaccession as within Whitney’s founding principles, in particular its mission to show work by living American artists. Changing the collection is about acknowledging that the America of today is starkly different from what it was decades ago, much less a century ago.

artnews.com

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Dave In Austin  Apr 22, 2023 • 6:55:07am

re: #174 TarHellion

I live in NE Travis County 15 miles out of Austin.

My little community of Cherry Hollow has appx. 3000 low income folk that live here. We are surrounded by high end subdivisions that all have Spectrum or ATT high speed internet.

Cherry Hollow has NOTHING. ATT had 1st gen T1 lines back here but no more. I have a legacy line they would love to Demo as I’m calling in every time it rains and the line fails.

I just don’t get it.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Apr 22, 2023 • 6:56:23am

re: #70 EPR-radar

I honestly think Musk is too blinkered/stupid/up his own ass to realize this.

It really is astonishing for someone with that much power to be so pathetic.

Not to be subtle, but he’s a dumbfuck.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Apr 22, 2023 • 6:59:55am

re: #103 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Aren’t rethuglicans the one who constantly bitch-and-moan about CPS?

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jeffreyw  Apr 22, 2023 • 7:00:14am

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Florida Panhandler  Apr 22, 2023 • 7:03:28am

re: #163 No Malarkey!

Thread on what the fascists in America want.

Not to mention US right wing secessionists are also imperialistic and will threaten and try to invade liberal states violently. Power and control over all is their aim.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Apr 22, 2023 • 7:10:26am

re: #130 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Is a Poe, or not?

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 22, 2023 • 7:12:21am

re: #98 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Judge who suspended abortion pill failed to disclose interviews that discussed social issues (CNN, April 20, 2023)

In one interview, he described same-sex marriage as terrorism.

Unlike SCOTUS, other judges have rules that they must obey. Has this judge violated a sufficient number for his position to be in jeopardy?

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darthstar  Apr 22, 2023 • 7:13:15am

Soon you’ll only be able to get certified as an OB/GYN in 14 states.

Mastodon

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sizzzzlerz  Apr 22, 2023 • 7:14:34am

Either these are getting harder or my English wordings has been becoming no so good anymore but I’m been getting a bunch of 5’s and 6’s lately.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 22, 2023 • 7:21:25am

re: #150 No Malarkey!

Well regulated Missouri militia strikes.

Pointing a gun at someone over meat seriously raises the steaks.

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 22, 2023 • 7:23:28am

re: #186 Eclectic Cyborg

Mr Lodge would like to have a few words with you. /half

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 22, 2023 • 7:23:46am

re: #185 sizzzzlerz

Either these are getting harder or my English wordings has been becoming no so good anymore but I’m been getting a bunch of 5’s and 6’s lately.

Wordle 672 5/6

Me, too. And today I did what I haven’t done in a while, guess to burn letters. There were WAY too many options.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 22, 2023 • 7:25:28am

re: #174 TarHellion

Good luck with that. My organization has written at least a half dozen grants for one of our small counties to get better internet. For one reason or another - usually because the grant involves significant private investment on the part of the ISP - the projects fall through.

This is money from the infrastructure bill. The state is the applicant in this case.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Apr 22, 2023 • 7:25:44am

re: #132 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

This is a brilliant discussion. But, by definition, any Prager U. Video is shit.

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ericblair  Apr 22, 2023 • 7:26:04am

Because Russia and China are the real anti-imperialists here, amirite?

Also, I’m wondering about all those ex-Mongol territories; who ever made them real nations, anyways? Maybe all that land should go back to its rightful ruler.

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darthstar  Apr 22, 2023 • 7:29:23am

re: #185 sizzzzlerz

I got par so decided not to fix it.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 22, 2023 • 7:32:07am

re: #179 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Aren’t rethuglicans the one . who constantly bitch-and-moan about CPS?

Only when CPS is inconvenient to them.

Here, the state contracted with a Kansas Catholic organisation to provide temporary foster care because the Republicans didn’t want to invest in state structures (because they hate government programmes).

It turned out that the Catholic organisation, in addition to stealing money through cost overruns which were actually used to fund the Catholic Church rather than the foster care programme, they also “lost” children (that is, kidnapped them and took them out-of-state and adopted them out to good Catholic parents).

This is now tangled up in court, where the Catholic charity which the state contracted pulled the first move the Catholic Church always makes (declare bankruptcy to hide assets from the state). In the meantime, the diocese to which they belong (Topeka) claims they have no control over what they do, so the diocese can’t be held responsible.

That little dodge has been playing out here and in Kansas for a couple years. The problem there is Catholic judges are ruling in favour of the Catholic charity and diocese not on the merits of the various cases, but because they won’t rule against their own church.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 22, 2023 • 7:35:25am

re: #177 Dave In Austin

I live in NE Travis County 15 miles out of Austin.

My little community of Cherry Hollow has appx. 3000 low income folk that live here. We are surrounded by high end subdivisions that all have Spectrum or ATT high speed internet.

Cherry Hollow has NOTHING. ATT had 1st gen T1 lines back here but no more. I have a legacy line they would love to Demo as I’m calling in every time it rains and the line fails.

I just don’t get it.

Capitalism. It is not profitable to provide Internet service to the area, so they won’t. And you’re troublesome and cost them money, so they want to cut you off.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Apr 22, 2023 • 7:37:23am

re: #184 darthstar

We will become two disparate groups. The left and right coasts along with some blue cities — and then the rest of the desert of education.

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A Cranky One  Apr 22, 2023 • 7:39:32am

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Apr 22, 2023 • 7:40:02am

re: #194 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Capitalism. It is not profitable to provide Internet service to the area, so they won’t. And you’re troublesome and cost them money, so they want to cut you off.

These is a giant correlation to rural electrification. The government will make it happen, and capitalism will squelch it.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 22, 2023 • 7:42:43am

re: #185 sizzzzlerz

Either these are getting harder or my English wordings has been becoming no so good anymore but I’m been getting a bunch of 5’s and 6’s lately.

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5 for me too..

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 22, 2023 • 7:43:44am

re: #184 darthstar

Soon you’ll only be able to get certified as an OB/GYN in 14 states.

The article also points out a decline in residents working for an ER speciality, since emergency women’s care in the ER frequently requires abortion as well.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 22, 2023 • 7:45:51am

re: #197 Colère Tueur de Lapin

These is a giant correlation to rural electrification. The government will make it happen, and capitalism will squelch it.

Probably the best thing that happened in my state was the government prohibited privately-owned electric companies as electrification reached our state. We are the only state in the Union with no electric corporations.

Every time a Republican suggests spinning off the public power districts to the highest bidder, the bill gets defeated, followed by the senator in the next election.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 22, 2023 • 7:46:25am

Well, I’m going to retire (wait, I’m already retired). That is, it’s past my bedtime. Catch y’all later.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 22, 2023 • 7:46:26am

re: #160 No Malarkey!

Hope you are wrong about that; he clearly deserves a felony conviction, prison time and loss of his right to own guns.

In any civilized nation that is what he would get.

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darthstar  Apr 22, 2023 • 7:49:23am

re: #195 Colère Tueur de Lapin

We will become two disparate groups. The left and right coasts along with some blue cities — and then the rest of the desert of education.

It will take a little while for the shortage of OB/GYN in red states to be felt, at which time the same Republicans who passed the laws causing medical schools and hospitals to abandon the practice will pass new laws saying hospitals MUST provide forced birth services or lose funding.

They will not see the connection between criminalizing obstetrics and the loss of practicing professionals.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Apr 22, 2023 • 7:50:01am

re: #198 Hecuba’s daughter

Not sure if I posted today’s or not

Also a really bad
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 22, 2023 • 7:51:01am

re: #203 darthstar

It will take a little while for the shortage of OB/GYN in red states to be felt, at which time the same Republicans who passed the laws causing medical schools and hospitals to abandon the practice will pass new laws saying hospitals MUST provide forced birth services or lose funding.

They will not see the connection between criminalizing obstetrics and the loss of practicing professionals.

Remember Marjorie Taylor Greene proposing to deny voting rights for five years for people who “flee” Blue States?

How about denying medical care for people who flee Red States?

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No Malarkey!  Apr 22, 2023 • 7:54:46am

re: #183 Hecuba’s daughter

Unlike SCOTUS, other judges have rules that they must obey. Has this judge violated a sufficient number for his position to be in jeopardy?

No. There is nothing he can do short of being convicted of a felony that would induce 16 GQP Senators to vote to remove him.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 22, 2023 • 7:57:52am

re: #195 Colère Tueur de Lapin

We will become two disparate groups. The left and right coasts along with some blue cities — and then the rest of the desert of education.

Neal Stephenson described it as “Americastan”

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darthstar  Apr 22, 2023 • 8:00:49am

Still a bit blown by the quality of the reflection in this shot from yesterday.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 22, 2023 • 8:01:00am

re: #203 darthstar

It will take a little while for the shortage of OB/GYN in red states to be felt, at which time the same Republicans who passed the laws causing medical schools and hospitals to abandon the practice will pass new laws saying hospitals MUST provide forced birth services or lose funding.

They will not see the connection between criminalizing obstetrics and the loss of practicing professionals.

That is like ordering the tide not to rise. A hospital without an obstetrician can’t provide forced birth services, except to women coming into the ER in labor that they can’t transfer to another hospital in time.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 22, 2023 • 8:01:52am

re: #205 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Remember Marjorie Taylor Greene proposing to deny voting rights for five years for people who “flee” Blue States?

How about denying medical care for people who flee Red States?

Just as unconstitutional as Three Toes’ proposal.

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darthstar  Apr 22, 2023 • 8:02:42am

Speaking of the dogs, Milo’s up on the bed giving his mom the big paw treatment which means I need to take them out so she can enjoy her coffee.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Apr 22, 2023 • 8:08:41am

re: #208 darthstar

Your dog picts are awesome.

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Targetpractice  Apr 22, 2023 • 8:08:41am

re: #191 ericblair

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Because Russia and China are the real anti-imperialists here, amirite?

Also, I’m wondering about all those ex-Mongol territories; who ever made them real nations, anyways? Maybe all that land should go back to its rightful ruler.

China’s signing onto Russia’s line about Crimea in trade for Russia supporting China’s line about Taiwan. It’s gotta be eating at Xi every other day that Putin’s totally fucked up his annexation plans and is in very real danger of being tossed out of Ukraine entirely.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 22, 2023 • 8:12:36am

re: #213 Targetpractice

The scary part is still that China can invade Taiwan, lose 4-5 million troops for little or no gain and in doing so, still benefit from it by solving part of its demographic imbalance.

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wrenchwench  Apr 22, 2023 • 8:15:52am

A lucky borb with a woof.

Click to Reveal

Wordle 672 4/6*

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No Malarkey!  Apr 22, 2023 • 8:18:22am

re: #214 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The scary part is still that China can invade Taiwan, lose 4-5 million troops for little or no gain and in doing so, still benefit from it by solving part of its demographic imbalance.

The problem for China is that it is heavily dependent on freedom of the seas to meet its energy, food and industrial needs through imports, and those imports flow through easily closed choke points. If China invaded Taiwan, it would quickly be starved of food, energy and raw materials.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 22, 2023 • 8:20:17am

re: #216 No Malarkey!

The problem for China is that it is heavily dependent on freedom of the seas to meet its energy, food and industrial needs through imports, and those imports flow through easily closed choke points. If China invaded Taiwan, it would quickly be starved of food, energy and raw materials.

Unless they could get them overland via Russia

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No Malarkey!  Apr 22, 2023 • 8:24:11am

re: #217 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Unless they could get them overland via Russia

Good luck with that; Russia can’t meet its own industrial needs, much less China’s. Russia can barely keep its trains running because it can’t get western quality ball bearings; will it be able to maintain a rail network to feed China?

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Targetpractice  Apr 22, 2023 • 8:30:19am

re: #217 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Unless they could get them overland via Russia

About the only things that Russia has to offer China right now are fossil fuels and raw metals. Finished goods weren’t Russia’s forte before the war and trade embargoes has them strapping consumer grade GPS receivers and decades old French night vision scopes onto tanks that were new when Brezhnev was still an up-and-coming member of the Politburo.

The same Achilles heel exists for China as for Russia: Heavy dependence upon Western imports, though in China’s case it’s mostly food products and tech that they either can’t produce or could do so with great difficulty. Their large population isn’t all young men who are in or recently left military conscription periods, they’d be just like Russia in needing to do a massive call-up if they couldn’t take Taiping quickly.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 22, 2023 • 8:30:39am

Imma go out on a limb and guess there are a lot of combinations there.

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Florida Panhandler  Apr 22, 2023 • 8:32:10am

re: #218 No Malarkey!

Good luck with that; Russia can’t meet its own industrial needs, much less China’s. Russia can barely keep its trains running because it can’t get western quality ball bearings; will it be able to maintain a rail network to feed China?

China’s satisfaction of Russia’s imperialism of Crimea, Ukraine (and beyond) could easily be construed as satisfaction at the thought of a new Mongolian Empire comprising of territory now occupied by …Russia.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 22, 2023 • 8:37:41am

re: #221 Florida Panhandler

China’s satisfaction of Russia’s imperialism of Crimea, Ukraine (and beyond) could easily be construed as satisfaction at the thought of a new Mongolian Empire comprising of territory now occupied by …Russia.

Which is one reason that area has essentially been a heavily armed border since 1950. Russia and China had a short friendly period after China went communist. But Soviet communism and Chinese communism quickly became different enough that both sides have kept a good chunk of their military fairly close to that border in case something blows up.

Though I do wonder if either side could effectively support logistics in the region if things got serious beyond a short clash. The rail network is better than it was in 1939 when Russia and Japan tangled there, but I suspect it has not improved that much since then. And the rail network would be the obvious target for any sort of interdiction attacks.

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wrenchwench  Apr 22, 2023 • 8:37:46am

re: #220 Nerdy Fish

Imma go out on a limb and guess there are a lot of combinations there.

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That’s when a woof is handy, for letter elimination.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 22, 2023 • 8:38:45am

re: #221 Florida Panhandler

China’s satisfaction of Russia’s imperialism of Crimea, Ukraine (and beyond) could easily be construed as satisfaction at the thought of a new Mongolian Empire comprising of territory now occupied by …Russia.

And China will still have the problem of how to transport enough food from western Russia across the continent to feed itself with the sea lanes closed to it.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 22, 2023 • 8:41:36am

re: #224 No Malarkey!

And China will still have the problem of how to transport enough food from western Russia across the continent to feed itself with the sea lanes closed to it.

Plus who are they buying the food from who produces large export surpluses.

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mmmirele  Apr 22, 2023 • 8:42:29am

re: #59 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Look, if they are forbidden to force children to pledge the flag (per West Virginia State Board of Education v Barnette, 1945), then they’re going to have even more of a problem with trying to force kids to read the 10 commandments (which ones? they’re numbered differently depending on whose version) or to pray in school. (That’s another bill.) White Evangelical Protestants think they can run roughshod over everyone else; but this is not 100 years ago and people will *fight* over this. Way to bring the Wars of Religion to Texas classrooms, numbnuts.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 22, 2023 • 8:45:33am

Summer says the future’s so bright…

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 22, 2023 • 8:45:57am

re: #226 mmmirele

Look, if they are forbidden to force children to pledge the flag (per West Virginia State Board of Education v Barnette, 1945), then they’re going to have even more of a problem with trying to force kids to read the 10 commandments (which ones? they’re numbered differently depending on whose version) or to pray in school. (That’s another bill.) White Evangelical Protestants think they can run roughshod over everyone else; but this is not 100 years ago and people will *fight* over this. Way to bring the Wars of Religion to Texas classrooms, numbnuts.

Thing is, that’s what the religious bigots want. Their objective is to get the Calvinball Court to overturn W.V. Board v. Barnette, and rule that America was founded as a Christian nation and that “separation of church and state” does not apply to their religion. Will it happen, probably not, but that’s what their objective is. And let’s face it: With the Calvinball Court, “probably not” isn’t good enough. There is absolutely a world in which the Calvinball Court turns America into a (temporary) theocracy.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 22, 2023 • 8:46:59am

re: #223 wrenchwench

That’s when a woof is handy, for letter elimination.

Click to Reveal

I did that today but my word was not the best chosen — and didn’t eliminate enough options

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Belafon  Apr 22, 2023 • 8:49:10am

re: #203 darthstar

It will take a little while for the shortage of OB/GYN in red states to be felt, at which time the same Republicans who passed the laws causing medical schools and hospitals to abandon the practice will pass new laws saying hospitals MUST provide forced birth services or lose funding.

They will not see the connection between criminalizing obstetrics and the loss of practicing professionals.

And then the rest of the doctors will leave.

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Apr 22, 2023 • 8:51:05am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 22, 2023 • 8:51:38am
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Targetpractice  Apr 22, 2023 • 8:53:15am

I genuinely doubt Xi could give less of a fuck what ultimately happens to Crimea or to Ukraine as a whole. I think his only interest is in normalizing the idea that if a country can capture and hold onto territory long enough, then it’s in the best interests of the parties involved and their allies to cede that land in exchange for promises of “peace.”

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mmmirele  Apr 22, 2023 • 8:54:17am

re: #112 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Not a Drag Queen (Julie Roy’s blog, April 20, 2023)

IL Megachurch Pastor Who Resigned Amid Scandal Launches Online Ministry

(more)

The son named in this worked in the closest of the three megachurches within two miles of my house, Central Christian Church of the East Valley. Apparently CCCEV acted entirely appropriately in this matter—they were lied to, they found out he was having an extramarital relationship with another staffer, they canned his azz and the pastor (Cal Jernigan) was unhappy he was deceived. That said, CCCEV is still an organization with an enormous tax exempt piece of property on Lindsay Rd that does nothing for the larger community. *scowl*

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 22, 2023 • 8:56:46am

re: #233 Targetpractice

I genuinely doubt Xi could give less of a fuck what ultimately happens to Crimea or to Ukraine as a whole. I think his only interest is in normalizing the idea that if a country can capture and hold onto territory long enough, then it’s in the best interests of the parties involved and their allies to cede that land in exchange for promises of “peace.”

There’s a reason China hasn’t done much, beyond evading sanctions, to assist the Russians with their invasion. China has no direct interest in Ukraine, except, as you mentioned, normalizing the idea that if you make an invasion bloody enough, you get to keep some of what you take. It’s sort of like settling a lawsuit, but with guns.

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TarHellion  Apr 22, 2023 • 9:05:04am

re: #220 Nerdy Fish

The dreaded Wordle Circle of Hell

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 22, 2023 • 9:16:55am

re: #232 Backwoods_Sleuth

“The establishment” is another name for “the democratically elected officials working to enact the will of the people.”

And “The Deep State” is another name for “A group of experienced, skilled, hard-to-replace professionals whose ongoing task exceeds the term limits of any one administration and whose duty is first and foremost to the country and not to the administration currently in charge”.

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wrenchwench  Apr 22, 2023 • 9:21:11am

re: #229 Hecuba’s daughter

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Mine’s the luck of the draw. Different everyday. Today was ‘manic’.

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451_Montag  Apr 22, 2023 • 9:23:17am

re: #113 Targetpractice

The Last Broadcast appeared about about a year before the Blair Witch. Very similar style, but ended in a third person perspective at the end. Nobody seems to remember it, but I found it quite a good watch.

Youtube Video

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 22, 2023 • 9:27:01am

re: #239 451_Montag

The Last Broadcast appeared about about a year before the Blair Witch. Very similar style, but ended in a third person perspective at the end. Nobody seems to remember it, but I found it quite a good watch.

The Last Broadcast 📽️ HORROR MOVIE

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 22, 2023 • 9:31:59am

re: #227 Backwoods_Sleuth

Summer says the future’s so bright…

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Targetpractice  Apr 22, 2023 • 9:32:23am

re: #239 451_Montag

The Last Broadcast appeared about about a year before the Blair Witch. Very similar style, but ended in a third person perspective at the end. Nobody seems to remember it, but I found it quite a good watch.

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I remember watching it, it really feels a stretch to call it “found footage” despite that being the intentions of the creators. But that’s probably because most films of the genre fall are basically monster movies with the twist that you’re watching from the perspective of the victims.

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darthstar  Apr 22, 2023 • 9:33:30am

re: #211 darthstar

Speaking of the dogs, Milo’s up on the bed giving his mom the big paw treatment which means I need to take them out so she can enjoy her coffee.

Mission accomplished

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Captain Ron  Apr 22, 2023 • 9:42:57am
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William Lewis  Apr 22, 2023 • 9:48:59am

Found another old photo of my son. Walking home from the park one day when he was 4, he decided he was tired… ;) (summer 2006)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 22, 2023 • 9:54:32am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 22, 2023 • 10:05:27am
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darthstar  Apr 22, 2023 • 10:05:50am

Mastodon

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Thanos  Apr 22, 2023 • 10:08:09am

Mastodon

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Belafon  Apr 22, 2023 • 10:09:52am

re: #151 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

A Missouri man threatened a grocery store worker with his gun because the meat department was closed and he wanted steak. He claims the gun use was meant to communicate: “I need you to help me to get a couple of these steaks. I’m not going to hurt you.”

Second Amendment bleeding over into the first, I see.

Guns to counter the tyranny of steaklessness.

Do you know how many times I have waved my gun at Amazon over their shipping schedule? //

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darthstar  Apr 22, 2023 • 10:10:15am

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Florida Panhandler  Apr 22, 2023 • 10:12:17am

re: #244 Captain Ron

Elon is more than authoritarian-curious.

He is careful not to disparage any dictator/wannabe or authoritarian country that has actual track records of taking care of business in a ifyouknowwhatImean sort of way against state enemies.

Elon is more than satisfied basically shitting on Democracies and evidently feels safe doing so all within the safety of the actual borders on a still-a-democracy-barely United States. Elon is a coward pussy.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 22, 2023 • 10:12:22am

re: #246 Backwoods_Sleuth

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darthstar  Apr 22, 2023 • 10:16:31am

re: #253 No Malarkey!

They were guilty of being black in a white man’s driveway.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 22, 2023 • 10:18:23am

re: #247 Backwoods_Sleuth

“No Florida laws were broken.” The couple said their car was hit several times, so shooting someone else’s car is A-OK, as long as you feel threatened? Fuck Florida.

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wrenchwench  Apr 22, 2023 • 10:18:24am

re: #254 darthstar

They were guilty of being black in a white man’s driveway.

If they won’t let us have some gun control, we’ll just have to ban private property, if they can’t learn how to behave with it.

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JC1  Apr 22, 2023 • 10:20:08am

re: #252 Florida Panhandler

Elon is more than authoritarian-curious.

He is careful not to disparage any dictator/wannabe or authoritarian country that has actual track records of taking care of business in a ifyouknowwhatImean sort of way against state enemies.

Elon is more than satisfied basically shitting on Democracies and evidently feels safe doing so all within the safety of the actual borders on a still-a-democracy-barely United States. Elon is a coward pussy.

He’s mostly just China friendly because a shitton of Tesla’s business is tied up in China. China can cut his net worth to a fraction with the stroke of a pen.

He’s probably still personally pissed about the cold shoulder he got from the Biden administration early on.

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JC1  Apr 22, 2023 • 10:21:14am

re: #255 Nerdy Fish

“No Florida laws were broken.” The couple said their car was hit several times, so shooting someone else’s car is A-OK, as long as you feel threatened? Fuck Florida.

Sounds like the ‘detective’ was lying. That can’t be right, even in Florida.

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Captain Ron  Apr 22, 2023 • 10:21:42am
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The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 22, 2023 • 10:22:05am

re: #151 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

A Missouri man threatened a grocery store worker with his gun because the meat department was closed and he wanted steak. He claims the gun use was meant to communicate: “I need you to help me to get a couple of these steaks. I’m not going to hurt you.”

Second Amendment bleeding over into the first, I see.

Guns to counter the tyranny of steaklessness.

See, all this behavior just reinforces for me that American freedom is really the freedom to be a small European noble. As a direct consequence, every single transactional relationship is a chance to replicate feudal power dynamics.

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Belafon  Apr 22, 2023 • 10:26:05am

re: #247 Backwoods_Sleuth

I think a number of people need to build a concrete wall around his house.

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wrenchwench  Apr 22, 2023 • 10:26:12am

re: #259 Captain Ron

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‘…a network of student activists’. They’re organizing.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 22, 2023 • 10:27:09am

re: #258 JC1

Sounds like the ‘detective’ was lying. That can’t be right, even in Florida.

That’s the thing: If you shoot and kill someone, even in self-defense, you still broke the law; all the things like Stand Your Ground provide defenses that get you out of consequences for breaking the law. There’s no way a law wasn’t broken here, it’s just that the police department doesn’t want to pursue it - either because they’re scared they’ll get shot at, or because they’re on the side of the gun owner and agree with shooting at random people (especially Black people) who may or may not pose a threat.

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Joe Bacon  Apr 22, 2023 • 10:27:47am

When relatives post this and say that Trump is already the 2024 GOP nominee.

Hmmmmm…I didn’t realize that 2024 primaries have already been held…

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Joe Bacon  Apr 22, 2023 • 10:30:37am

re: #246 Backwoods_Sleuth

I have relatives who would get down on their knees before Trump and beg for that slice like they were a dog wanting table scraps.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 22, 2023 • 10:31:01am

re: #265 Joe Bacon

I have relatives who would get down on their knees before Trump and beg for that slice like they were a dog wanting table scraps.

But it’s not a cult./

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Joe Bacon  Apr 22, 2023 • 10:33:29am
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 22, 2023 • 10:35:08am

re: #264 Joe Bacon

When relatives post this and say that Trump is already the 2024 GOP nominee.

Hmmmmm…I didn’t realize that 2024 primaries have already been held…

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GOP are under 10% of the pop in Massachusetts. Trump +41% there seems to be an indication that it’s mostly the MAGA-nuts making up that 450,000.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 22, 2023 • 10:36:53am

re: #268 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

GOP are under 10% of the pop in Massachusetts. Trump +41% there seems to be an indication that it’s mostly the MAGA-nuts making up that 450,000.

Demographics are also 34% Catholic and 34% unaffiliated by the religious polling.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 22, 2023 • 10:40:00am

re: #247 Backwoods_Sleuth

AGAIN: A couple in Broward County said they were shot at after they went to the wrong address to deliver Instacart groceries. The couple said police told them there would be no repercussions for the shooter because no Florida laws were broken.

So you can get killed while trying to do your job and the killer will face no consequences?

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Joe Bacon  Apr 22, 2023 • 10:44:13am

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

AGAIN: A couple in Broward County said they were shot at after they went to the wrong address to deliver Instacart groceries. The couple said police told them there would be no repercussions for the shooter because no Florida laws were broken.

So you can get killed while trying to do your job and the killer will face no consequences?

Another reason why my agency can’t fill vacancies in Florida offices no matter what incentives they provide. People are quitting in droves and getting the fuck out of that insane asylum.

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Markm1960  Apr 22, 2023 • 11:38:22am

re: #265 Joe Bacon

I have relatives who would get down on their knees before Trump and beg for that slice like they were a dog wanting table scraps.

I live in a small town where a guy is semi famous for…pulling out of the garbage a sandwich that Nixon half ate. Do I have zero doubt that a trump fanatic would take that half eaten slice and build a shrine around it.

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steve_davis  Apr 22, 2023 • 11:46:51am

re: #122 Captain Ron

My favorite found footage movies were the haunted abandoned insane asylum.

the one where at the end one of the characters has been lobotomized by the ghost of the insane doctor? yeah, that one was creepy.


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