New Music From Meshell Ndegeocello: “Georgia Ave”

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Here’s an excellent new piece by the great Meshell Ndegeocello, that sounds almost like something Miles Davis might have written, except funkier.

Georgia Ave by Meshell Ndegeocello
Purchase the new album: “The Omnichord Real Book”: meshellndegeocello.lnk.to
Written by Meshell Ndegeocello
Meshell Ndegeocello: Vocals, Omnichord, Keyboards, Bass
Jebin Bruni: Keyboards, B3 Organ, Vocals
Abe Rounds: Percussion, Vocals
Josh Johnson: Saxophone, Vocals
Justin Hicks: Vocals
Kenita Miller: Vocals
Chris Bruce: Acoustic Guitar, Vocals
Director: Sam Zarrin @samzarrin
Producers: Alison Riley, Sam Zarrin, and Nikki Mahoney @heylookitsnikki.90
DP & A Cam Op: Samuel Ott @ottpotato
B Cam Op: Brandan Haskell @brandan_haskell
Production Sound Mixer: Danny Maurer @dannymaurersound
Editor: Sam Zarrin
Color: Alexia Salingaros @alexia_films

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Music video by Meshell Ndegeocello performing Georgia Ave. Blue Note Records; © 2023 UMG Recordings, Inc.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Jul 29, 2023 • 4:00:00pm

Gonna pull this post over here:

Now that Barbie is back in the news, I want to suggest a different Barbie movie Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story. Saw it back when the Biograph still existed in DC and there was a great place to watch art flix. Fuck, I can’t belive it’s been that long — 1996. Yikes, again.

Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story is a 1987 American experimental short biographical film that portrays the last 17 years of singer Karen Carpenter’s life, as she struggled with anorexia. Directed by Todd Haynes, the film uses Barbie dolls as actors, as well as documentaries and artistic footage. Superstar was co-written and co-produced by Haynes and Cynthia Schneider, with an unauthorized soundtrack consisting mostly of the hit songs of The Carpenters. It was filmed over a ten-day period at Bard College in the summer of 1985. Barry Ellsworth collaborated on the film and was the cinematographer for the Barbie themed interior segments of the film.

ETA - Barbie gets abused with (a razor blade?) to show Karen’s anorexia profession

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 29, 2023 • 4:09:10pm

Following up from something that got mentioned downstairs:

“Nobody wants to work be taken advantage of anymore.”

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Jul 29, 2023 • 4:13:46pm

re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg

“Nobody wants to work be taken advantage of anymore.”

This is the disconnect that I am not sure the bootstraps people will ever understand.

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Ace Rothstein  Jul 29, 2023 • 4:15:11pm

You never know who will end up at your table when playing poker.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Jul 29, 2023 • 4:18:03pm

re: #4 Ace Rothstein

Online? That person is evil with that PFP

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BeenHereAwhile  Jul 29, 2023 • 4:18:30pm

re: #109 Eclectic Cyborg

UGH.

Technically, it’s true. The human body can adapt to heat…to a point.

But every tolerance has a limit and once the limit is surpassed…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 29, 2023 • 4:22:55pm

re: #139 Unabogie

Trump is charged with multiple felonies in multiple places, and was found liable for raping a woman. Exactly what actions of his are “good?”

All of it. Christianity is not a religion of peace, regardless of its modern historical revisionists.

It was forced to be peaceful by the secular Enlightenment, and they have resented it ever since.

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Teukka  Jul 29, 2023 • 4:23:42pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 29, 2023 • 4:23:47pm

re: #3 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

This is the disconnect that I am not sure the bootstraps people will ever understand.

They understand it. They want their slaves back.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 29, 2023 • 4:25:39pm

re: #6 BeenHereAwhile

I have nieces who are 4 and 5. I really wonder what kind of planet they’ll have to deal with when they get older.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Jul 29, 2023 • 4:27:10pm

re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg

Following up from something that got mentioned downstairs:

“Nobody wants to work be taken advantage of anymore.”

This is especially tough for cheap labor centers like Lubbock. The Chamber of Commerce and other boosters have openly cited the attraction of cheap labor in their business oriented advertising for decades. There are whole gentry dynasties that specialized in exploiting cheap labor. One
of them, a family owned temp service that supplied bodies to all kinds of sweatshops, was notable for plastering their office with religious posters, keeping Bibles on every desk, and printing Bible verses on their measly paychecks. They probably never used Ephesians 6:1 (“Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ.”) but they probably wanted to.
This garbage is a big part of the reason I adopted “Lubbock” as a curse word.

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Belafon  Jul 29, 2023 • 4:27:53pm

“You’re so white you probably think we’re the good guys in Sar Wars.”

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Jul 29, 2023 • 4:28:41pm

re: #6 BeenHereAwhile

Yeah, that chart shows that while we can adapt, us hairless apes are limited by our evaporative chilling system.

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BeenHereAwhile  Jul 29, 2023 • 4:30:34pm

re: #10 Eclectic Cyborg

I have nieces who are 4 and 5. I really wonder what kind of planet they’ll have to deal with when they get older.

In terms of climate, it will depend on where they live.

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jaunte  Jul 29, 2023 • 4:33:36pm

re: #11 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

“…Lubbock’s cost of doing business continues to rank as one of the lowest in the nation. As a pro-business community, Lubbock also has some of the most competitive wage rates, affordable land, cost of living, property taxes and other business-related costs in the state.”
lubbockeda.org

I see they also include the ‘under 15’ group in their labor force breakdown.

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austin_blue  Jul 29, 2023 • 4:33:50pm

re: #10 Eclectic Cyborg

I have nieces who are 4 and 5. I really wonder what kind of planet they’ll have to deal with when they get older.

Hot, brutal, and deadly.

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jaunte  Jul 29, 2023 • 4:35:55pm

A pro-business community. Unlike the presumably “anti-business” communities in 5th largest worldwide economy California and other states where Democrats are in power.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 29, 2023 • 4:53:03pm

re: #1 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

Gonna pull this post over here:

Now that Barbie is back in the news, I want to suggest a different Barbie movie Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story. Saw it back when the Biograph still existed in DC and there was a great place to watch art flix. Fuck, I can’t belive it’s been that long — 1996. Yikes, again.

ETA - Barbie gets abused with (a razor blade?) to show Karen’s anorexia profession

I remember how Richard Carpenter put the hammer down and killed that film from being shown. Even when it pos up on You Tube Carpenter gets it taken down. It doesn’t surprise me a bit since he’s a very reactionary right winger.

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goddamnedfrank  Jul 29, 2023 • 4:59:01pm

bsky.app

The real issue is that consuming content produced by an AI is conducive to connecting people with the rest of humanity in the same way fucking a RealDoll is conducive to becoming a better lover. It’s just mental masturbation with an insentient simulacrum of a person while getting excited about it.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 29, 2023 • 5:00:04pm

NightCafe contest is desert sunset… I took it another direction. Won’t get a lot of love but I prefer monochromatic images:

desert landscape by SDXL 1.0

SDXL does better at larger images and puts in better detail, but it’s still really stupid. Many things are just not right. It is tuned for human portraiture though, so all the young guys who want to fantasize about perfect women with overly large body parts are having fun.

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Dave In Austin  Jul 29, 2023 • 5:01:23pm

re: #16 austin_blue

Hot, brutal, and deadly.

I was back in the back end is Lake Travis this morning. It’s becoming a bit concerning.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 29, 2023 • 5:02:50pm

Coming to a United States near you. (Wait, we already have these, though not as widely spread or well-organised)

Freethinker (UK, July 28, 2023)

Protecting atheists in Nigeria: the role of ‘safe houses’

“The founder of the Humanist Mutual Aid Network reports on its establishment of ‘safe houses’ for non-believers in Nigeria, and their residents’ achievements so far.”

Fundamentalists of any religion are a danger to all societies. Usually the first people they go after are the tolerant within their own religions.

The article goes in depth about Islamic fundamentalists, but then shifts to Christian fundamentalists.

The Humanist Mutual Aid Network (previously known as the Humanist Global Charity, and before that, as the Brighter Brains Institute) is not solely dedicated to providing safe houses in Nigeria. It also supports its mutual aid partners in Chad, Zambia, Uganda, India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar, the Philippines and the USA (Appalachia). Many of these efforts are collaborations with other groups like Atheist Republic, Burmese Atheists and the Humanist Alliance Philippines, International.

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Belafon  Jul 29, 2023 • 5:02:51pm

re: #20 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Take your landscape and have the generator insert a giant oare of breasts as mountains in the background. Make it really obvious, not just shadows. And call it something like “Babescape of the Desert Mind.”

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 29, 2023 • 5:03:12pm

re: #19 goddamnedfrank

Hah!

The generative “AI” today is not, as many have pointed out, really “AI”. There is no intelligence with which to interact .

However, I still maintain that the weaknesses of ChatGPT are not unique to LLMs, that we humans are often more prone to error than ChatGPT.

Youtube comment section on technical videos give excellent examples of poorly educated people trying to use technically specific nouns and verbs in ways that do not make sense.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Jul 29, 2023 • 5:04:08pm

re: #18 Joe Bacon ✅

Trying to dig up some thoughts…wasn’t he a major contributor to her anorexia? If that is true, I can see why he’d use his influence to try to squelch it.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 29, 2023 • 5:04:28pm

re: #23 Belafon

Online StableDiffusion sites tend to censor prompts.

And while I’m often tempted to go full Ed Weston with those things, I think it would not be appreciated by the masses voting in the contest.

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BeenHereAwhile  Jul 29, 2023 • 5:05:30pm

How could they protect themselves from A.I.?

That was the question that Mike Masnick found himself fielding this summer in a WhatsApp chat with about 100 directors, actors and screenwriters. The group, including marquee talent, was worried about a grim possible future in which deepfake versions of actors perform screenplays written by ChatGPT.

Mr. Masnick, a professional tech wonk, told his Hollywood listeners to work with what they had: Publicly shame projects that replace human labor with artificial intelligence, use state publicity laws against any unauthorized deepfakes and fight hard for contractual protections. (The fight is on: A.I. is one reason for the writers’ and actors’ strikes that have paralyzed the film and television industry.)

But he also suggested that they capitalize on the technology. Convinced that “A.I. plus human” is the future, he pointed to the singer Grimes. She invited people to use A.I.-generated versions of her voice, trained on music that she had done in the past, in exchange for half of any royalties. One GrimesAI song is closing in on a million listens on Spotify.

*snip*

Interesting guy, in the heads of tech CEOs and the Streisand Effect.

Also a good follow: mmasnick@mastodon.social

No Paywall

nytimes.com

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Belafon  Jul 29, 2023 • 5:05:42pm

re: #24 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Hah!

The generative “AI” today is not, as many have pointed out, really “AI”. There is no intelligence with which to interact .

However, I still maintain that the weaknesses of ChatGPT are not unique to LLMs, that we humans are often more prone to error than ChatGPT.

Youtube comment section on technical videos give excellent examples of poorly educated people trying to use technically specific nouns and verbs in ways that do not make sense.

I think we’re finding out that a whole bunch of people show no signs of actual intelligence. Things that we thought were intelligent require no more than the correct few neurons firing, not the use of the abstract mental structure built on the neurons.

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Belafon  Jul 29, 2023 • 5:07:29pm

re: #26 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Online StableDiffusion sites tend to censor prompts.

And while I’m often tempted to go full Ed Weston with those things, I think it would not be appreciated by the masses voting in the contest.

How about something like “a healthy woman lying on her back, viewed from her feet, with her skin like a desert at sunset”?

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 29, 2023 • 5:08:57pm

re: #28 Belafon

Current highly-connected users want to be seen, heard, read. I get that. So do I.

But it’s really depressing to see so many comments on a Youtube physics video where the commenters are just rambling off words that have meanings completely different than how they are attempting to use the words.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 29, 2023 • 5:11:20pm

We need to accept this hard truth: writing was only recently (in regards to human evolution) invented and the entire concept of written communication is difficult for many people.

So I don’t like to pick on people when I see them struggling with reading and writing.

Many people were just robbed of the opportunity to develop their skills when their brain plasticity was high.

What gets me going, though, are the malicious conspiracists. They dupe the slow of mind into doing all sorts of dumb things.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 29, 2023 • 5:14:49pm

re: #25 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

Trying to dig up some thoughts…wasn’t he a major contributor to her anorexia? If that is true, I can see why he’d use his influence to try to squelch it.

The film paints Richard and his parents in a nasty light. All 3 were endlessly subjecting Karen to verbal abuse.

Let me see if it’s up on You Tube.

Found it on You Tube but don’t know for how long.

Superstar - The Karen Carpenter Story (1988)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 29, 2023 • 5:17:13pm

re: #29 Belafon

How about something like “a healthy woman lying on her back, viewed from her feet, with her skin like a desert at sunset”?

Entry by WikiFeet. /s

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wrenchwench  Jul 29, 2023 • 5:17:56pm

re: #31 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

We need to accept this hard truth: writing was only recently (in regards to human evolution) invented and the entire concept of written communication is difficult for many people.

So I don’t like to pick on people when I see them struggling with reading and writing.

Many people were just robbed of the opportunity to develop their skills when their brain plasticity was high.

What gets me going, though, are the malicious conspiracists. They dupe the slow of mind into doing all sorts of dumb things.

I think I read that Socrates was against writing because people would forget how to remember. It was more verbose than that. I can’t remember it all, of course.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 29, 2023 • 5:20:10pm

The lawsuits over AI plagiarism haven’t even started yet. But I predict some of these companies are gonna regret jumping in with both feet so soon.

The eagerness is easy to understand, though. The suits who run film studios and newsrooms and large internet content mills have long dreamed of having a faster, easier, more malleable, and less expensive means of generating content than us messy, fucked up humans.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 29, 2023 • 5:21:01pm

re: #29 Belafon

How about something like “a healthy woman lying on her back, viewed from her feet, with her skin like a desert at sunset”?

That will pass the auto-censor, but resultant images may not pass the human censors in the contests.

SDXL tried:

(hidden because of size, not nekkedness)

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

One of the images was flagged in creation and the auto-censor caught it.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 29, 2023 • 5:22:36pm

re: #35 Charles Johnson

Yeah, imagine a streaming company that could submit a bunch of prompts to a computer and bingo - Feature film ready to go.

No cast or crew to pay, just instant product.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 29, 2023 • 5:23:03pm

re: #36 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

That will pass the auto-censor, but resultant images may not pass the human censors in the contests.

SDXL tried:

(hidden because of size, not nekkedness.

One of the images was flagged in creation and the auto-censor caught it.

Her feet look really weird.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 29, 2023 • 5:25:18pm

re: #35 Charles Johnson

I’m skeptical the lawsuits will be successful.

The problem is there is really no way to stop someone from copying a style. It only becomes a matter of law if someone is trying to pass off the work as being done by someone else.

I could spend all month cranking out variations on a Warhol famous image… and while it will hardly qualify as “art” there is nothing that is illegal with it unless I try to sell it as Warhol.

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jaunte  Jul 29, 2023 • 5:25:24pm

re: #38 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

There will probably have to be a couple of more jumps in processing power for images to get rendered from the bones up, for accurate anatomy.

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dat_said  Jul 29, 2023 • 5:25:35pm

re: #145 wrenchwench

You want some yarn and a crochet hook?

I’d hurt myself.

I have a teenage daughter who crochets and cross-stitches. Mostly Pokémon. Probably thinks a walleye is too easy.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 29, 2023 • 5:25:53pm

re: #38 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Her feet look really weird.

Even the latest version of SD (SDXL 1.0) is still pretty bad with anatomy.

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wrenchwench  Jul 29, 2023 • 5:27:06pm

Mastodon

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goddamnedfrank  Jul 29, 2023 • 5:27:21pm

re: #35 Charles Johnson

Whenever the subject of AI “art” comes up my immediate first thought is of Miyazaki’s reaction when some colossal dipshits showed him some because they thought he’d be into it.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 29, 2023 • 5:28:01pm

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wrenchwench  Jul 29, 2023 • 5:28:18pm

re: #41 dat_said

I’d hurt myself.

I have a teenage daughter who crochets and cross-stitches. Mostly Pokémon. Probably thinks a walleye is too easy.

If she knew Dad would like one…

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Rightwingconspirator  Jul 29, 2023 • 5:30:46pm

re: #35 Charles Johnson

The lawsuits over AI plagiarism haven’t even started yet. But I predict some of these companies are gonna regret jumping in with both feet so soon.

The eagerness is easy to understand, though. The suits who run film studios and newsrooms and large internet content mills have long dreamed of having a faster, easier, more malleable, and less expensive means of generating content than us messy, fucked up humans.

To me, it’s like fresh strawberries vs artificial strawberry flavor. The company making jam might think I want it but I really, really do not.

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TarHellion  Jul 29, 2023 • 5:32:55pm

re: #33 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Has this thread become a Tarantino movie?

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retired cynic  Jul 29, 2023 • 5:34:09pm

I’m still listening to Sinead O’Connor, and just found this one:

The Foggy Dew - Sinéad O’Connor & The Chieftains, 1995

John Scalzi wrote:

Well, this hurts a lot. She was troubled and erratic and brilliant and one of the indelible voices of my generation, and she was fucking right about the Catholic Church, for all the good it did her in this life. Genius doesn’t make for an easy life, but genius she was, and I’m glad that for a time she got to express her particular strain of genius in this world. May she rest well.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 29, 2023 • 5:40:27pm

re: #48 TarHellion

Has this thread become a Tarantino movie?

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dat_said  Jul 29, 2023 • 5:41:17pm

re: #46 wrenchwench

If she knew Dad would like one…

She does. I’ll likely end up getting a Magikarp instead.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 29, 2023 • 5:42:48pm

re: #29 Belafon

SDXL can still put out some rather humorously odd images no matter how much of an improvement over SD1.5 it is supposed to be.

Here is a result of your prompt (with the Spielberg style added). I have no idea what SDXL intended to be here:

SDXL almost a woman on sand
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goddamnedfrank  Jul 29, 2023 • 5:45:24pm

I mean Jesus Fuck! Just imagine getting the opportunity to meet Miyazaki, showing him what you’ve been working on, and having him immediately get so goddamned horrified and depressed by your shit he says it means the end is upon us.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 29, 2023 • 5:49:40pm

re: #52 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Does that woman have feet for hands??

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dat_said  Jul 29, 2023 • 5:50:08pm

Tensions flare as California GOP gives Trump a boost by overhauling state primary rules

Tensions flared as the California GOP’s executive committee approved the plan, with some pro-Trump demonstrators denouncing the move, police getting called and two factions nearly coming to fisticuffs.

Although demonstrators argued that the state party leadership was trying to undermine the former president, the decision by the California GOP’s executive committee reflects a concerted effort by the Trump campaign to mold state party rules across the country to benefit his candidacy.

Tensions were between two pro-Trump factions for reasons.
Let them fight.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 29, 2023 • 5:52:25pm

re: #54 Eclectic Cyborg

Does that woman have feet for hands??

She doesn’t even have a human face. Or am I misinterpreting her features?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 29, 2023 • 5:52:30pm

re: #55 dat_said

If only they could both lose.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 29, 2023 • 5:52:56pm

re: #56 Hecuba’s daughter

She doesn’t even have a human face. Or am I misinterpreting her features?

No. The chin is highly suspect.

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wrenchwench  Jul 29, 2023 • 5:53:59pm

re: #57 Eclectic Cyborg

If only they could both lose.

That’s the plan.

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jaunte  Jul 29, 2023 • 5:54:40pm

re: #56 Hecuba’s daughter

Bird/human mutant

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 29, 2023 • 5:55:03pm

re: #58 Eclectic Cyborg

No. The chin is highly suspect.

For some reason it seems like the open beak of a baby bird when it hopes to be fed.

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wrenchwench  Jul 29, 2023 • 6:10:34pm

What she said.

Mastodon

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 29, 2023 • 6:14:30pm

re: #44 goddamnedfrank

Whenever the subject of AI “art” comes up my immediate first thought is of Miyazaki’s reaction when some colossal dipshits showed him some because they thought he’d be into it.

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I’m going to Japan again for the first time since the pandemic with some students. To prepare I’m both watching youtube videos on recent Japanese slang and also going back to the a textbook I used in the 1990s in grad school (my own research has to do with communications and commoner education in medieval and Tokugawa Japan, so the language used isn’t always helpful in modern contexts). I am writing by hand all of the officially approved Kanji—or trying—before I go. There was a time when my wife would actually ask me how to write characters, but I haven’t been in the habit in the last 4 or 5 years, so my confidence is shaken. It’s amazing how quickly she forgot and then I forgot. I think that is part of what Miyazaki’s railing against. We learn through our work with our hands. We need to keep writing and drawing even in the age of AI.

ETA: I’ll never forget an interview maybe 20 years ago with Miyazaki where he said “Japan is doomed.” He used the exact words that a Natsume Soseki character said to a young man on a train from rural Japan to Tokyo said in the aftermath of the Russo-Japanese War: Japan is doomed. There’s this strange undercurrent among Japanese artists like this. I think Miyazaki’s Nausica explores this in how human intervention in nature alienates humans from their interaction with our environment.

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dat_said  Jul 29, 2023 • 6:17:39pm

re: #26 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Tried to find your desert sunrise entry to give you a five but I gave up after about 70 entries. I think there were two that I sort of kind of liked.

I don’t think I enter more than a couple of times a month now. I usually end up just outside the top 20% when I do as I hardly ever do femme aux grand tetons or steam punk caravans. I actually had one sneak into the top 20% this week: creator.nightcafe.studio. Nothing special but I can see how artists that supply hotel decoration art might get nervous about these tools.

ETA: does that link actually work if you’re not logged in?

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darthstar  Jul 29, 2023 • 6:21:27pm

Mastodon

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teleskiguy  Jul 29, 2023 • 6:25:21pm

re: #65 darthstar

In Praise of Bacchus

Peter Steele was a foreboding dude who put a lot of dark thoughts to music, he was ace at that shit. I miss him.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 29, 2023 • 6:29:26pm

The Guardian, July 30, 2023

ADF has 108 evangelical chaplains with each representing just 15 members

“Critics say it is time to stop rise within Australian defence force of ‘not just the fundamentalist chaplains but chaplains in general’”

In the 2021 Australian census, 38.9% of the populace selected “no religion,” up nine points from the 2016 census.

Australians tend to be very suspicious of religion being intertwined with politics. Critic and commentator Robert Hughes stated “Any Australian political candidate who declared their God was on their side would be laughed off the podium as an idiot or a wowser (prude, intrusive bluenose).”

Critics argue ADF members shouldn’t be forced to receive care from someone with views that may differ vastly from their own - particularly when 80% of new recruits say they aren’t religious.

Documents provided to the Senate show there are 13 Australian Christian Churches (ACC) chaplains in the ADF even though there are only 13 serving members who self-identify as ACC.

ACC was formerly the Assemblies of God (AOG) which is still listed as a religious grouping by the ADF. It has eight chaplains for 65 serving members.

Overall, there are 312 chaplains serving 30,743 regular and reserve ADF members who are religious.

In total, there are 108 pentecostal or evangelical chaplains representing 1,607 members. That means one in three chaplains in the ADF are pentecostal or evangelical while only 5% of members identify as followers.

(more)

Further down in the article, they note the Royal Australian Navy is about eighty percent atheists. The Navy is studying veteran suicides, noting that the Navy is being groomed to accept only Christian counselling in crisis instead of proven sources such as psychiatry or psychology.

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teleskiguy  Jul 29, 2023 • 6:32:21pm

If you want heavy goth Beatles-esque tunes with a twisted sense of humor with smatterings of thrash thrown in here and there with some truly dark beautiful passages of heavy music this album is your ticket.

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teleskiguy  Jul 29, 2023 • 6:33:58pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 29, 2023 • 6:38:55pm

re: #69 teleskiguy

Both of those fools (along with most of the commentary at r/Libertarian) is featured for regular mockery by r/NotHowGirlsWork at Reddit.

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 29, 2023 • 6:48:59pm

Oops. Responded to the wrong thing in the wrong place.

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Captain Ron  Jul 29, 2023 • 6:50:25pm
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Captain Ron  Jul 29, 2023 • 7:00:10pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 29, 2023 • 7:03:58pm

re: #54 Eclectic Cyborg

She just has feet and legs. So if you are a “leg man” she’s for you!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 29, 2023 • 7:04:33pm

(1:54, Ryan K. Hudson with a song on how to avoid becoming a widow, one hour ago)

Ryan K. Hudson // Marry Me and Leave Me

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 29, 2023 • 7:06:18pm

re: #64 dat_said

Thanks, but with over five thousand entrants it is hard to get to any specific person’s.

And yes, like pretty much all of the contests, the entries are pretty lame.

I look for art, or at least an attempt to prompt something that is attempting to do more than just be what the descriptor in the NightCafe blurb says the contest is about.

I like your “blue” entry. If it had come up for me I would have rated it highly.

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steve_davis  Jul 29, 2023 • 7:07:35pm

re: #54 Eclectic Cyborg

Does that woman have feet for hands??

“how come our feet are the same as our hands?”
“You are freakin’ me out, Lenny!”

Sorry, it’s actually a really decent fruit water commercial.

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jaunte  Jul 29, 2023 • 7:12:22pm

re: #74 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I’m just a hat and feet…

Hat and Feet

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 29, 2023 • 7:19:31pm

re: #8 Teukka

What the hell? DeathSantis needs to stop running for president and address the health crisis in his state. What a mess. Another reason to boycott Florida.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 29, 2023 • 7:20:02pm

Barbie soundtrack breaks music records with three songs taking over UK singles chart (The Independent, yesterday)

The Barbie movie is continuing to shatter records, with its accompanying soundtrack becoming the first of its kind to simultaneously land three top-five songs on the UK singles charts.

Greta Gerwig’s latest comedy, about the Mattel doll, has already smashed several box office records. Its debut weekend earned $162m (£125m) at the global box office.

Now, a week after the film’s release, its complementary soundtrack, Barbie: The Album, is breaking previous UK singles charts records, the Official Charts Company has said.

Billie Eilish’s contemplative “What Was I Made For?” managed to reach number three this week, followed by the album’s lead single, Dua Lipa’s disco pop track “Dance the Night” at number four.

Taking the fifth position is the reworking of Aqua’s “Barbie World” by rappers Nicki Minaj and Ice Spice.

(more)

Wingnuts: The film is a flop.

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 29, 2023 • 7:24:58pm

re: #62 wrenchwench

Why does this even have to be said? I thought Republicans and Conservatives were against snowflakes. Teaching history has nothing to do with feelings or guilt.

In any case, White guilt has nothing to do with DeSantis. From what I understand, his ancestry is Italian so his folk weren’t Southern slave owners. He’s just a run-of-the-mill racist bigot.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 29, 2023 • 7:25:22pm

On the Billboard Hot 100, for the week ending July 29:

1. “Seven”—Jung Kook featuring Latto
(new on the chart)
2. “Try That in a Small Town”—Jason Aldean
(new on the chart)
3. “Last Night”—Morgan Wallen
(last week #1)
4. “Fast Car”—Luke Combs
(last week #2)
5. “Calm Down”—Rema & Selema Gomez
(last week #4)

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jeffreyw  Jul 29, 2023 • 7:26:27pm

re: #36 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

That will pass the auto-censor, but resultant images may not pass the human censors in the contests.

SDXL tried:

(hidden because of size, not nekkedness)

[Embedded content]

One of the images was flagged in creation and the auto-censor caught it.

b0QrSlczK2FlS2IrTFR5Y29hUTdwRm9wL2ppL3AyM244SEpieFY3WWZZS1ZlLzNoWWxMV0NEWGkvUDNWeHZFaXBZdlI1S3VUazVXOHgvcEFRc0t5a01Bc0d2WmdQd1ZxdUEzYXZBTlpjL3dXL2g4MlBnOU92UHZ0MDF0VFA4TnM2SjZsMXdaSFpWTDA5Ynl0TUdsaWFVeUoyM2lHbWNWamxDU1ZsejZXUFpScTJKVEdhSUxKRXhXRlQrWWdmY0NhZGszRFc4MnZlTTVERXNzWm9hamQ5M1JtSXdvbjVRWmM2c1RTYzhSb3ZLaz06OrTJB2nK+YIkQu0G1kIPb9M=

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 29, 2023 • 7:31:26pm

re: #83 jeffreyw

That’s -uh- very specific.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 29, 2023 • 7:32:40pm

This is, uh, strange.

Spartan Barbie (goes to Reddit’s r/ATBGE)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 29, 2023 • 7:34:22pm

MY COMPUTER JUST RAPLHED (THAT@S WHY EVERYTHING IS ALL CAPS AND MY WHOLE SCREEN IS LIT UP WEIRDLY AND NO TABS WILL CLOSE AND I THINK I NEED TO SHUT DOWN AND RESTART)

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I Would Prefer Not To  Jul 29, 2023 • 7:36:11pm

I can’t say I learned anything new today, but I can confirm that Ben Shapiro is a fucking idiot. The Barbie movie was well made and very funny. Loved it.

an no, no one dragged me to see it.

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Florida Panhandler  Jul 29, 2023 • 7:36:45pm

re: #16 austin_blue

Hot, brutal, and deadly.

…and with right wing that is actively discouraging and even punishing higher education, actual science and real world history.

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jaunte  Jul 29, 2023 • 7:36:54pm

Mastodon

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jeffreyw  Jul 29, 2023 • 7:38:08pm

re: #84 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

That’s -uh- very specific.

I calls ‘em like I sees’em.

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wrenchwench  Jul 29, 2023 • 7:42:22pm

re: #81 Patricia Kayden

Why does this even have to be said? I thought Republicans and Conservatives were against snowflakes. Teaching history has nothing to do with feelings or guilt.

In any case, White guilt has nothing to do with DeSantis. From what I understand, his ancestry is Italian so his folk weren’t Southern slave owners. He’s just a run-of-the-mill racist bigot.

Christopher Columbus guilt?

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dat_said  Jul 29, 2023 • 7:43:00pm

re: #87 I Would Prefer Not To

Spoilers, maybe.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 29, 2023 • 7:46:10pm

re: #84 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

That’s -uh- very specific.

There is something very wrong with her left foot — and the shadow is not anything she would be casting.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 29, 2023 • 8:07:29pm

re: #86 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Okay this is freaky. I tried to use the microwave and it wouldn’t operate. I had to get my wife to do it.

I then tested out my “killing electronics” theory by using our bidet (it has an electronic entry pad). Nothing. Wife sits on it and it works fine. I try again and nothing. I tried unplugging it and plugging it back in, nothing. Still works for her.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 29, 2023 • 8:11:09pm

Not that impressed with SDXL implementations online. One site just does not work for me. NightCafe is fine but expensive (I’ve used my free points for SDXL).

Playground’s implementation is barely better than SD1.5. If all you want is a female portrait (one third torso or closer) then it is ok but still generates many images with anatomical problems.

I find it works best with animation filters. E.g.:

SDXL healthy woman animation illustration

So if you want something like that then it’s pretty straightforward.

But that limits its usefulness to me.

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jeffreyw  Jul 29, 2023 • 8:12:07pm

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 29, 2023 • 8:14:06pm

re: #79 Patricia Kayden

What the hell? DeathSantis needs to stop running for president and address the health crisis in his state. What a mess. Another reason to boycott Florida.

Ummm, he doesn’t have a great record of caring about health crises in his state.

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 29, 2023 • 8:14:51pm

re: #91 wrenchwench

Hmmmm. Perhaps that. But again, guilt and comfort have nothing to do with teaching history. Just reveal the facts. Stop covering up bad stuff and making up ish.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 29, 2023 • 8:18:07pm

This page shaming single mothers has 36k followers on twitter/x (Reddit’s r/NotHowGirlsWork)

The Twitter page is “Single Moms Posting Their Ls”

Majority of the page is just made up scenarios to shame single mothers being written by a unemployed [c word—the Reddit page is run by Brits snarking on American Christians and Libertarians so that word is okay to use there]. Also most of the idiotic memes don’t even correlate to “single moms taking L’s”?? all of their posts has over 100 likes. I wonder why he’s not shaming single fathers or DEADBEATS the same way?

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Jul 29, 2023 • 8:18:49pm

Catching up:

On “Try that in a Small Town”: one of my objections is the notion conveyed in the song that the righteous small towners will stir to action based only on hugely egregious conduct from the city slickers. Wrong. The threshold for a beat down in a small town can be MUCH lower: eating a meal, dressing in the wrong clothes, pumping gas, looking at angry yokel the wrong way, etc

On tourism: it’s way up. Fun fact: I often get mistaken for a German tourist as I wander around my city. I do love adidas but wtf?!? This happens year after year.

On goofy ass Ames, Iowa College Frat Boys from early 20th Century: see photo

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Eventual Carrion  Jul 29, 2023 • 8:24:10pm

re: #34 wrenchwench

I think I read that Socrates was against writing because people would forget how to remember. It was more verbose than that. I can’t remember it all, of course.

It’s probably written down somewhere :-)

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goddamnedfrank  Jul 29, 2023 • 8:25:27pm

Imagine blasting a billion goddamned lumens at the apartment building next door full of people trying to sleep ‘cuz you can’t stand not being the center of attention for one fucking second.

bsky.app

For no reason I’m just thinking about that story Musk’s Dad told about the time Musk was in school and made fun of a kid because that kid’s Dad had committed suicide and that kid threw him down a staircase which sent him to the hospital and almost killed him and his Dad was like hey he deserved it 🤷🏼

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jul 29, 2023 • 8:37:09pm

re: #101 Eventual Carrion

It’s probably written down somewhere :-)

In the Phaedrus.

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Jul 29, 2023 • 8:37:22pm

re: #102 goddamnedfrank

What a bunch of ego driven crap. Is he trying for some bizarro world hookup with Fox Mulder? Wtf Mr. Musk! Hey why not move to Las Vegas and open a theme casino-restaurant ?

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BigPapa  Jul 29, 2023 • 8:39:22pm

Geezus H Croissant

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 29, 2023 • 8:47:08pm

re: #105 BigPapa

Geezus H Croissant

[Embedded content]

Pitchbot doing its thing!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 29, 2023 • 8:51:26pm

Christian YouTuber Hannah Pearl Davis (aims her content to her very young millions of followers on YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram by the account name PearlyThings), also known as the “female Andrew Tate” since she is a self-described libertarian, racist, believes women should have no rights, non-Christianity should be banned, all abortion and contraception should be illegal, &c.

Anti-feminist YouTuber Pearl deleted a tweet calling 16-year-old girls ‘hotter’ than 26-year-olds after even her fans objected to it (Business Insider, July 27, 2023)

She is twenty-six herself. The photograph is of her on the Piers Morgan Show.

Anti-feminist creator Pearl Davis deleted a tweet where she said 16-year-old girls are “hotter” than 26-year-old women after getting a strong backlash from the left and the right.

Davis, who has 1.6 million subscribers on YouTube, rose to fame this year when Andrew Tate was incarcerated in Romania, racking up followers with content similar to his championing what she called a male point of view.

Some of her clips included arguing that it’s a woman’s fault if her male partner cheats, that men should be able to hit women back, and that women don’t deserve a man “who makes 6 figures” if they are obese.

(more)

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Targetpractice  Jul 29, 2023 • 8:52:10pm

re: #102 goddamnedfrank

Imagine blasting a billion goddamned lumens at the apartment building next door full of people trying to sleep ‘cuz you can’t stand not being the center of attention for one fucking second.

[Embedded content]

bsky.app

Musk is pretty much Trump 2.0, down to slapping his “brand” on everything in a constant effort to steal recognition and fame from others.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 29, 2023 • 8:54:18pm

re: #104 So Cal Greek Hippie

What a bunch of ego driven crap. Is he trying for some bizarro world hookup with Fox Mulder? Wtf Mr. Musk! Hey why not move to Las Vegas and open a theme casino-restaurant ?

Also deliberately trying to trigger seizures in everyone with epilepsy.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 29, 2023 • 8:58:09pm

re: #100 So Cal Greek Hippie

Which fraternity was that?

I was never a fraternity type.

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teleskiguy  Jul 29, 2023 • 8:58:22pm

re: #102 goddamnedfrank

I don’t know what the end game is and there is no precedent for one human being able to do the things Elon can do. Howard Hughes comes to mind but this is futile and minute. Sure, Howie was weird, but Elon is uncharted territory. We may see even more debased shit that we can’t even think of. It’s scary.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 29, 2023 • 8:59:29pm

Dear SDXL:

WTF were you thinking?

SDXL woman stain-glass hybrid?

I did not ask for a stained glass.

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Jul 29, 2023 • 9:00:57pm

re: #110 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Unknown. I found photo from
Wife’s grandfather j was never a joiner but my mom was a chi omega.

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Jul 29, 2023 • 9:01:38pm

re: #109 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Truth. And potentially cause traffic accidents too

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 29, 2023 • 9:02:03pm

re: #113 So Cal Greek Hippie

It’s a shame people don’t properly curate their family photos. Much history is lost simply because people don’t write down a few simple facts.

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Targetpractice  Jul 29, 2023 • 9:02:22pm

So a minor update from yesterday, in the category of “FUCK COX!!!” After the power got restored from a jackass slamming into a pole, the wifi failed to come back with it and after an hour I gave a call to our IT support like to ask “WTF?” Much like last time there was a prolonged outage, they did some minor trouble-shooting then rang up Cox to get told “routine maintenance, back by 4am.” 4am came and went, so I made another call to IT and was told “Yeah, they’re still working on it, have moved ETA to 7:15am.” I passed on the ticket # and situation to my coworkers and left for the day. Now, almost a full day later, wifi is still down and a call to IT gets the true answer: “Yeah, we’ve been calling all day, but they say something is fucked in their server and they’ve no idea when it’ll be fixed but are hoping for tomorrow morning.”

FFS.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 29, 2023 • 9:02:38pm

re: #108 Targetpractice

Musk is pretty much Trump 2.0, down to slapping his “brand” on everything in a constant effort to steal recognition and fame from others.

Two big differences: Musk is not eligible to run for President(thank goodness) AND he is a real billionaire, indeed the wealthiest person on the planet.

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jaunte  Jul 29, 2023 • 9:04:50pm

@golikehellmachine.bsky.social

pretty sure this is musk’s way of saying that their landlord is going to start the eviction process

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Jul 29, 2023 • 9:05:40pm

re: #115 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I found this, and 51 WWI tank photo, plus genealogy data in a trash pile, when my father in law died, put there by brother in law. So quick to throw away history 😑

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sagehen  Jul 29, 2023 • 9:10:39pm

re: #111 teleskiguy

I don’t know what the end game is and there is no precedent for one human being able to do the things Elon can do. Howard Hughes comes to mind but this is futile and minute. Sure, Howie was weird, but Elon is uncharted territory. We may see even more debased shit that we can’t even think of. It’s scary.

He’s going to play games with Starlink in service of his own personal foreign policy.

Can we eminent domain the company?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 29, 2023 • 9:31:11pm

re: #112 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Dear SDXL:

WTF were you thinking?

I did not ask for a stained glass.

You selected the “Gotye” filter. (4:04)

Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know (feat. Kimbra) - official music video

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Targetpractice  Jul 29, 2023 • 9:32:50pm

re: #117 Hecuba’s daughter

Two big differences: Musk is not eligible to run for President(thank goodness) AND he is a real billionaire, indeed the wealthiest person on the planet.

Oh, Trump is a billionaire, at least based upon the best estimates. But the fortunes of both men are the same as most of those on the “wealthiest” lists: Invested in hard assets like property and businesses or floating around the world in stock markets and bonds. And both became rich men in much the same way: They used daddy’s money to make some investments that paid off, took that money to make more investments, and have been living off the fame of being “geniuses” ever since.

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Dragonomics  Jul 29, 2023 • 9:42:53pm

re: #1 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

Superstar is a terrific film. Ten minutes in and you forget you’re watching Barbie dolls. Impressive. It’s too bad it never got a legitimate release.

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Belafon  Jul 29, 2023 • 9:57:00pm

re: #82 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The remake of “Fast Car” is interesting because it takes you a second to realize it’s not Tracy Chapman. The music is also exactly the same, and his voice is close enough to hers that you don’t start out realizing it’s not her.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 29, 2023 • 9:58:52pm

Soundtrack of an odd movie:

Christmas That Almost Wasn’t Soundtrack 1966


..

You can watch the movie on PlutoTV:

pluto.tv

And if you complain that it is summer… it’s an issue raised in the movie.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 29, 2023 • 9:59:46pm

re: #125 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

“Why can’t everyday be Christmas” is name of a song at 6:21 in that soundtrack.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 29, 2023 • 10:01:45pm

re: #125 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Soundtrack of an odd movie:

[Embedded content]

And if you complain that it is summer… it’s an issue raised in the movie.

MST3K goofed on it.

windstream.net

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 29, 2023 • 10:03:59pm

Liberal Rebecca Larson on TikTok pointing out to “hawt” conservative women that they’re really just being used until the leopard eats their faces. (2:27)
tiktok.com

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 29, 2023 • 10:04:28pm

re: #127 Joe Bacon ✅

The antagonist is described as a “multi-zillionaire” who doesn’t like children.

Thought it might apply to Mr. 𝕏 .

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terraincognita  Jul 29, 2023 • 10:18:00pm

re: #102 goddamnedfrank

I can’t help but think that this Musk monstrosity of a sign and building belongs in the opening sequence of the movie Blade Runner. The overwhelming and brutal dystopian light pervades every expanse apart from its source, a lodestar of crudeness and tribulation. It appears that was Musk’s intention.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 29, 2023 • 10:50:42pm

re: #117 Hecuba’s daughter

Two big differences: Musk is not eligible to run for President(thank goodness) AND he is a real billionaire, indeed the wealthiest person on the planet.

Actually, not anymore. The Twitter fiasco and drop offs in Tesla stock value has knocked him down to #2. French businessman Bernard Arnault is currently the richest man in the world.

EDIT: Nevermind, the bird fucker apparently took the title back a few weeks ago.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 29, 2023 • 10:57:45pm

re: #131 Eclectic Cyborg

Actually, not anymore. The Twitter fiasco and drop offs in Tesla stock value has knocked him down to #2. French businessman Bernard Arnault is currently the richest man in the world.

And that’s with France’s progressive tax rate of 0% to 45%, with a 3% surcharge on all income above €250,000; and a 9.2% surcharge for social service on employment income, interest, capital gains, and rental income.

It’s almost like our libertarian captains of industry have been lying all along about Ronald Reagan and taxes making it impossible to grow a business or wealth.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 29, 2023 • 11:06:17pm

Dark Matter 2525, a religion counter-apologist, has been off YouTube for a while. It turns out his house was struck by lightning. The bolt was so powerful it actually split the circuit breakers in his panel in half. The lightning bolt went directly through his child’s bedroom (the child was not there at the time).

He notes in his video that all of his neighbours are Christians, and their electricity was blown out by the lightning bolt which hit his house. They all had fires and tons of water damage from the fire department putting them out.

When all the fires were out, the fire chief told him “God must be looking out for you.”

Unlike the atheist mother who’s home was destroyed by a tornado in Moore, Oklahoma where Wolf Blitzer asked her if she prayed to God and she answered “no I’m an atheist” followed by a deluge of Christians claiming that was a setup, he said he didn’t say anything to the fire chief other than nod to him.

He’s trying to raise money to help his Christian neighbours from his Patreon supporters to help them with damage and bills over their homes.

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teleskiguy  Jul 29, 2023 • 11:24:01pm

Mastodon

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 29, 2023 • 11:44:01pm
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Targetpractice  Jul 30, 2023 • 12:13:23am

So after Cox telling us that it’s a “routine maintenance” and then “extended maintenance,” now we’re on to the “they swear everything’s cool, it’s gotta be something on your end” act of the play. Next up: “Oh, yeah, we’ve had ongoing issues that have affected dozens of customers, but we swear it’s fixed…this time.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 30, 2023 • 12:18:06am

Political columns in this week’s county paper are from State senator Steve Erdman (R-District 47) railing that the group seeking signatures for a ballot initiative must be professionals and not a grass-roots group because they spent $300,000 for signature gatherers. (This is normal in Nebraska.)

US Senator Deb Fischer (R-Cypher) has a long column on “Biden’s failed economy.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 30, 2023 • 12:20:20am

re: #136 Targetpractice

So after Cox telling us that it’s a “routine maintenance” and then “extended maintenance,” now we’re on to the “they swear everything’s cool, it’s gotta be something on your end” act of the play. Next up: “Oh, yeah, we’ve had ongoing issues that have affected dozens of customers, but we swear it’s fixed…this time.”

Are all these companies using the same IT guys that CenturyLink uses? That sounds like the excuses I get.

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Targetpractice  Jul 30, 2023 • 12:26:36am

re: #138 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Are all these companies using the same IT guys that CenturyLink uses? That sounds like the excuses I get.

It does, doesn’t it? I’m expecting a call back in the next hour where the IT guy for our wifi service tells us that Cox swears their servers are working alright and there’s no way it can be a problem on their end, so obviously the power outage must have fried the modem and they’re gonna send a tech out sometime *checks sundial* tomorrow evening to troubleshoot the problem and replace the modem.

What’s telling is when I called at the beginning of my shift the tech I got told me that they’d been contacting Cox all day and getting told that it was a fuck-up on their end that they had no ETA but were guessing perhaps sometime around 1am. Now the tech that just talked to me says Cox labels the issue as “fixed” at 1:35pm yesterday and are reporting all their services as being up.

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sagehen  Jul 30, 2023 • 12:39:03am

re: #133 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

He’s trying to raise money to help his Christian neighbours from his Patreon supporters to help them with damage and bills over their homes.

God can’t help, he’s just really busy choosing which high school football team to assist.

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Captain Ron  Jul 30, 2023 • 12:55:49am

YouTube

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mmmirele  Jul 30, 2023 • 12:58:50am

re: #136 Targetpractice

So after Cox telling us that it’s a “routine maintenance” and then “extended maintenance,” now we’re on to the “they swear everything’s cool, it’s gotta be something on your end” act of the play. Next up: “Oh, yeah, we’ve had ongoing issues that have affected dozens of customers, but we swear it’s fixed…this time.”

A month or two ago, something happened with Cox in the Southwest and

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Targetpractice  Jul 30, 2023 • 1:43:49am

re: #142 mmmirele

A month or two ago, something happened with Cox in the Southwest and

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 30, 2023 • 1:47:17am

If you have some time to look behind the Dumpster fire which is YouTube’s “alt-right” (Nazis), libertarians, and conservatives, YouTuber Jamie French dives in with “the weird rise of fake podcasts.”

Too long; didn’t view: A whole bunch of right-wing/libertarian/fascist YouTube shorts are made to appear as if they are a clip from a longer podcast. The podcast format (such as interviewing a guest) is deemed credible because you’re getting that person’s opinion on one or more subjects.

What’s actually happening is the YouTuber is actually making a fake podcast clip to look credible.

(26:50)

The Weird Rise of Fake Podcasts

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 30, 2023 • 1:54:15am

re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg

Following up from something that got mentioned downstairs:

“Nobody wants to work be taken advantage of anymore.”

Funny, when the Invisible Hand Free of the Market starts tipping to the advantage of employees over employers, then it is the “lazy workers” who are t fault and not the “greedy employers” who will not let The Hand adjust wages upwards.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 30, 2023 • 1:58:09am

re: #144 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Deception is one of those things that we see throughout the tree of life. It’s convergent evolution on high.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 30, 2023 • 1:59:25am

re: #62 wrenchwench

This impulse to cover up and distort the history of slavery reeks of shame. It’s, frankly, weird. Nobody has perfect ancestors, what sort of crisis of identity leads one to lie about the past.

My family did not even arrive in America until the turn of the 20th century. For that, I recall there were many racists among them and my brother is a full-on Fox Conservative who even wuit the Episcopalian CHurch because he found it too “woke”.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 30, 2023 • 1:59:26am

Lovely singing, bad lip-syncing:

天使のパン／幸田浩子



..

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William Lewis  Jul 30, 2023 • 2:05:45am

God save me from Expedia. Guest was here for 6 days and thought they’d prepaid. Nope. Expedia sez, screw you suckers! Hours later, they’ll get a refund of their over $1000 … in a week or so… but they have to pay us in the meantime. Fortunately for them they can but how many have the extra $800 (what we actually charge for that time frame without their extra soak)?

Hotel Clerk Advice of the Night: Avoid Expedia, Priceline, hotels.com and any other 3rd party reservation “service”. They will make you pay for their service, one way or another. Find the phone number for where you want to stay and call them directly. You’ll be better off in the long run.

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 30, 2023 • 2:18:57am

re: #149 William Lewis

I’ve used Expedia several times and not had any problems. The only thing I notice is that hotels still charge an additional fee when you check in. But I’ll take your suggestion under consideration.

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Semper Fi  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:09:59am

re: #149 William Lewis

God save me from Expedia. Guest was here for 6 days and thought they’d prepaid. Nope. Expedia sez, screw you suckers! Hours later, they’ll get a refund of their over $1000 … in a week or so… but they have to pay us in the meantime. Fortunately for them they can but how many have the extra $800 (what we actually charge for that time frame without their extra soak)?

Hotel Clerk Advice of the Night: Avoid Expedia, Priceline, hotels.com and any other 3rd party reservation “service”. They will make you pay for their service, one way or another. Find the phone number for where you want to stay and call them directly. You’ll be better off in the long run.

Timely advice as I’m planning to drive cross-country this summer. Thanks.

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:31:11am

re: #149 William Lewis

God save me from Expedia. Guest was here for 6 days and thought they’d prepaid. Nope. Expedia sez, screw you suckers! Hours later, they’ll get a refund of their over $1000 … in a week or so… but they have to pay us in the meantime. Fortunately for them they can but how many have the extra $800 (what we actually charge for that time frame without their extra soak)?

Hotel Clerk Advice of the Night: Avoid Expedia, Priceline, hotels.com and any other 3rd party reservation “service”. They will make you pay for their service, one way or another. Find the phone number for where you want to stay and call them directly. You’ll be better off in the long run.

I’ve learned this. I had arranged two nights through a third party (Priceline, I think) when my son’s soccer team was playing in a tournament in Vermont. For reasons that I won’t get into, the coach withdrew the team and so I had to cancel. I didn’t understand how things worked and had a heated exchange with the inn manager. He finally got me to understand that I had to cancel through Priceline and even then I lost a $50 fee.

Also, an acquaintance who is a pilot for Jet Blue told me that the third-party sites aren’t always good in their algorithms at calculating enough time for connecting flights and that it’s better to arrange through airline sites as well.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:31:47am

New Jersey woman posed as a doctor for more than a year and wrote prescriptions, prosecutors say (NBC News, July 29, 2023)

A New Jersey woman who posed as a doctor, treated patients and prescribed medications has been arrested, prosecutors in Ocean County said Thursday.

Toms River resident Maria F. Macburnie, 62, also known as Marife L. Macburnie, was charged with practicing medicine without a license, forgery, health care fraud, and distributing a dangerous substance, the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement.

Prosecutors allege Macburnie assumed the identity of a relative who they said is licensed to practice. The relative could not not be reached for comment, as online information about her appears to lead to a medical office authorities said Macburnie used.

“The office is permanently closed,” the automated phone greeting for Shore Medical Associates states.

Prosecutors said Macburnie had been using the relative’s name from March 2022 to June 2023.

(more)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:34:46am

re: #150 Patricia Kayden

I’ve used Expedia several times and not had any problems. The only thing I notice is that hotels still charge an additional fee when you check in. But I’ll take your suggestion under consideration.

My wife will schedule things through Hotels dot com. However, she doesn’t assume that what’s displayed by them is what’s actually available. She will call in advance to ensure there is actually a room.

Other times she’s used the listings there to get the address and telephone number of a hotel or motel, then call them directly.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:38:45am

re: #153 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

New Jersey woman posed as a doctor for more than a year and wrote prescriptions, prosecutors say (NBC News, July 29, 2023)

Libertarians would hve no problem with this; the Market will sort out such matters.

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Nojay UK  Jul 30, 2023 • 3:58:40am

re: #139 Targetpractice

Sometimes the tech support people on the phone aren’t informed of particular outages, especially the consumer-brand customer-level contact droids.

We had a five-day outage on our Internet a while back. We went through the usual router testing etc., nothing. After three days we finally got some factual information from customer service on what had happened. It turned out to be a severe case of backhoe fade. The lines to our exchange were good so all the router tests to the DSLAM worked out fine but the fibre uplink between the exchange and the backbone switches had been accidentally dug up and needed repairing and splicing. The customer service guys didn’t know this to begin with so they couldn’t tell us what had actually happened or give us a time estimate to when our service would be restored.

I’ve done phone customer service in the past. A lot of my time was just sitting there listening to someone rant about a service failure which I personally couldn’t do much about other than pass a message up the chain. For them it’s personal and inconveniencing, for me it’s another hour and a half until I can take my headset off and go home.

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 30, 2023 • 4:10:56am

re: #154 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

“Other times she’s used the listings there to get the address and telephone number of a hotel or motel, then call them directly.“

That makes sense. I always assume that Expedia gets lower prices than what the hotels are offering but may be wrong about that.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 30, 2023 • 4:14:13am

re: #118 jaunte

@golikehellmachine.bsky.social

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People secure in themselves don’t need to do this kind of pathetic performative nonsense

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Jul 30, 2023 • 4:18:08am

re: #44 goddamnedfrank

When a good speaks to us mortals, we should listen.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 30, 2023 • 4:19:59am

Colorado Springs, Colo. Still full of Christian fruitcakes in politics.

Co Springs Mayor Speaks at ‘Fire and Glory’ Tent Revival (Colorado Times-Recorder, July 28, 2023)

Mayor Yemi Yobolade is an independent, the first non-Republican elected in the history of Colorado Springs. He won in the May 16, 2023 runoff election and was sworn in June 6, 2023. The Democratic Party put up no candidate. All other candidates in the five-way election were Republicans (though the election is officially non-partisan).

Interestingly, Mayor Yoboldade is an Nigerian immigrant and the first Black person elected mayor of Colorado Springs. He eared a Master of Divinity degree from Simpson University (a private Christian college in Redding, Calif.). His father was an executive for ExxonMobil in Nigeria, but moved the family here.

MAGA pastors Mario Murillo, who gained media attention for calling Big Bird “demonic,” and Lance Wallnau, one of the most vocal proponents of the “Seven Mountain Mandate,” which posits that the Christian church should control the seven spheres of influence in society, came to Colorado Springs this month to host the “Fire and Glory” tent revival. Murillo’s “Living Proof” tour came through Colorado Springs last year, but this year it included Wallnau and Christian authors Bill Federer and Floyd Brown, who claimed that meeting Ronald Reagan in a Masonic Temple in 1976 got him into politics and went on to introduce the infamously racist “Willie Horton” campaign ad in 1988. There was also a surprise guest — Colorado Springs Mayor Yemi Mobolade.

Mobolade was introduced by Church For All Nations Pastor Mark Cowart, who hosted the event with Radiant Church Pastor Todd Hudnall. Cowart described his first meeting with the mayor, “[Colorado Springs] had our mayor’s election and [Pastor Calvin Johnson had] been friends with Mayor Yemi for years now, and so he got a hold of him and asked if we could pray with him on a Saturday before the Tuesday swearing in.”

Cowart’s Church For All Nations regularly hosts political events, such as candidate forums and town halls for legislators like Rep. Scott Bottoms (R-CO Springs) and the former U.S. Representative from Iowa, Steve King, who is best known for his controversial comments that have echoed white supremacist rhetoric and even included support for rape and incest. In May, Church For All Nations was ordered to pay attorney fees and court costs totaling $86,699 incurred by a defendant the church sued over an airplane hangar two years ago. Last year, Johnson, who Cowart described as “friends with Mayor Yemi for years now,” told a Church For All Nations audience, “your sexual orientation is a choice” during a panel discussion with Advocates For D20 Kids organizer and Uncle Tom Talks podcast host Derrick Wilburn. Hudnall took part in the May, 2022 Hold the Line event featuring controversial conservative worship leader Sean Feucht, conservative author and election denier Eric Metaxas, U.S. Representatives Doug Lamborn (R-CO) and Lauren Boebert (R-CO), El Paso County Commissioner Stan VanderWerf, and Colorado Springs City Councilor Dave Donelson.

Mobolade addressed the tent revival audience on July 16, the first day of the four-day event.

(more, including his speech at the tent revival before the laying on of hands by the assembled Christians to bless his work as the mayor of a major city).

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 30, 2023 • 4:25:49am

re: #149 William Lewis

Hotel Clerk Advice of the Night: Avoid Expedia, Priceline, hotels.com and any other 3rd party reservation “service”. They will make you pay for their service, one way or another. Find the phone number for where you want to stay and call them directly. You’ll be better off in the long run.

Always always always
Search using any site to check for general availability. It’s usually but not always accurate.

Then book direct.
Flights, hotels, cars, etc.
Always book with who’s providing the service

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 30, 2023 • 4:26:53am

re: #155 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Libertarians would hve no problem with this; the Market will sort out such matters.

Your estate can sue

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 30, 2023 • 4:30:44am

re: #162 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

Your estate can sue

but it’s a purely civil matter.

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Florida Panhandler  Jul 30, 2023 • 4:32:31am

re: #130 terraincognita

I can’t help but think that this Musk monstrosity of a sign and building belongs in the opening sequence of the movie Blade Runner. The overwhelming and brutal dystopian light pervades every expanse apart from its source, a lodestar of crudeness and tribulation. It appears that was Musk’s intention.

Musk is behaving exactly like an abusive husband after a breakup, sending demeaning and threats to the former partner, now physical harassment of 3rd party residents of his ire.

San Francisco, Musk’s exemplification of Liberalism itself, is under attack from Elon. The edgelord 4-Chan crowd pleasing antics, the constant invective bile emanating from his social media, and now the physical harassment of residents using lights and likely hugely loud sounds from the eventual loudspeakers (you know it’s coming) are an example of what I’ve been warning about… Liberal areas will be under constant threat and harassment from Red States and individuals living in their own private security world.

Musk is one thing trying to be King of the Edgelords, but freak creeps like Gov Abbott of Texas and DeSantis will think nothing of escalating this sort of thing to actual paramilitary action using Wagner-style squads. The idea will be a propaganda and eventually violent effort of making Liberal cities intolerable to live in. They already attack those inside their own states and use military grade assets as propaganda right now. Imagine how they would act with no more Federal Government to keep them in check.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 30, 2023 • 4:36:03am

On AI:

For me in 2023, art, music etc is art, music etc because a human(s) conceived an idea and executed it.

A lot of movie nostalgia is in knowing what they had to come up with to make stuff work.

There’s a creativity and cleverness Vs just cgi

Of course there is a place for both.
Today Disney et al makes great animated stuff. But for me it’s fundamentally different than when they did it cel by cel.

Ok, I’m a Libra

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 30, 2023 • 4:40:18am

More on that church’s creep toward Christian fascism in Colorado politics: Go for the school boards. (Elections for school boards are in off-years: Statewide elections for school boards in Colorado are this year.)

The church is directly politicking to elect conservatives to take over the school boards. (The paragraphs above this talk about Democrats being demons and trying to bring in the “trans agenda” to brainwash your children and turn them away from God.)

One of Harris’ goals was educating, motivating, and mobilizing the body of Christ for conservative candidates in the upcoming school board elections in Colorado. “This is a school board election year in Colorado,” he announced. “It’s an off year so there are 174 school districts in this state, all of which are having elections this year, including many critical school boards located right here in Colorado Springs. Two years ago truth and Liberty published nonpartisan, 501(c)(3)-compliant voter guides on school board candidates, and we covered only 15 districts at that time with 174 candidates. I want you to know that just getting that information into the hands of believers caused Christians all over those districts to rise up and vote for conservative candidates, and we flipped a majority of those districts to conservative control. This year we are doubling that and we are covering 30 key districts.”

Murillo was more direct in outlining his political vision. “I’ve come to the realization that, along with a strategic plan to register voters and activate battleground cities, we need to break the demonic power of the left in Jesus name,” he said. “The threat is a demonic system that overrules a free election for the enemy, and the threat is a concerted, well-funded, multi-layer media event to brainwash the next generation away from God. The answer is an outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the streets of America.”

(more)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 30, 2023 • 4:41:28am

re: #165 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

uber’s ultimate goal is a fully automated system with no human drivers or even dispatchers.

The film studios are already working towards the day that they can dispense with live talent and make movies using CGI characters and AI scripts.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 30, 2023 • 4:44:25am

re: #167 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

uber’s ultimate goal is a fully automated system with no human drivers or even dispatchers.

The film studios are already working towards the day that they can dispense with live talent and make movies using CGI characters and AI scripts.

No human driver cars are much easier to sabotage.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 30, 2023 • 4:54:24am

re: #167 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

uber’s ultimate goal is a fully automated system with no human drivers or even dispatchers.

The film studios are already working towards the day that they can dispense with live talent and make movies using CGI characters and AI scripts.

I thought Uber’s goal was to fleece investors whilst strip-mining taxicab services in cities with unlicensed cabs. Uber has never made money on its own, but is able to convince tech bros and less-than-thorough investment banks to throw billions at them.

Expect them to collapse and leave taxpayers holding the sack.

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:20:14am

re: #149 William Lewis

God save me from Expedia. Guest was here for 6 days and thought they’d prepaid. Nope. Expedia sez, screw you suckers! Hours later, they’ll get a refund of their over $1000 … in a week or so… but they have to pay us in the meantime. Fortunately for them they can but how many have the extra $800 (what we actually charge for that time frame without their extra soak)?

Hotel Clerk Advice of the Night: Avoid Expedia, Priceline, hotels.com and any other 3rd party reservation “service”. They will make you pay for their service, one way or another. Find the phone number for where you want to stay and call them directly. You’ll be better off in the long run.

When I make reservations I always find the direct number for the front desk at the place where I want to stay. It also helps to get the name of the person I spoke with. And they know me already because I’ve stayed there several times. Holiday Inn Express along the I-80 & Best Western in Wilkes-Barre.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:23:45am

re: #167 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

uber’s ultimate goal is a fully automated system with no human drivers or even dispatchers.

The film studios are already working towards the day that they can dispense with live talent and make movies using CGI characters and AI scripts.

And when/if that comes to pass the question will be whether that sells

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:52:12am
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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:53:26am

re: #171 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

And when/if that comes to pass the question will be whether that sells

And until self-driven cars are viable…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 30, 2023 • 5:59:01am

re: #171 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

And when/if that comes to pass the question will be whether that sells

It will be cheap enough for major studios (who will be big enough to invest in the technology) when they no longer have to negotiate with stars over long-term contracts or recalitrant unions over salaries and royalties. they will be able to churn it out en masse at minimum expense

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 30, 2023 • 6:01:17am

re: #173 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

And until self-driven cars are viable…

the technology is close to being realized, the delay will not be so much in technological imperfections but rather in implementing the legal framework and liability issues.

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TarHellion  Jul 30, 2023 • 6:04:39am

re: #172 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

But Birbies are! (And screw you, Elmo!)

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jeffreyw  Jul 30, 2023 • 6:05:15am

Mustard Onion Pickle

Good morning!

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Vicious Babushka  Jul 30, 2023 • 6:10:34am

Birbie, but it was ALMOST A BEAGLE!!!!

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Jul 30, 2023 • 6:19:34am

Par and a meh.
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HRH Stanley Sea  Jul 30, 2023 • 6:30:06am

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Eventual Carrion  Jul 30, 2023 • 6:30:34am

re: #179 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

Par and a meh.
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No Malarkey!  Jul 30, 2023 • 6:32:28am

re: #172 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 30, 2023 • 6:35:51am

re: #182 No Malarkey!

The Twitter app on my phone is still a blue bird, though probably not for much longer; it momentarily switched to an X before switching back.

as if the phone is trying to save its own soul and moral integrity…

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 30, 2023 • 6:36:57am

re: #172 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 30, 2023 • 6:39:41am

re: #167 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

uber’s ultimate goal is a fully automated system with no human drivers or even dispatchers.

The film studios are already working towards the day that they can dispense with live talent and make movies using CGI characters and AI scripts.

Henry Ford recognized that, at base, workers needed to earn enough to afford his products. What are all of these workerless business going to do? They’ll have to pay people to consume, I guess.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 30, 2023 • 6:41:01am

re: #174 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It will be cheap enough for major studios (who will be big enough to invest in the technology) when they no longer have to negotiate with stars over long-term contracts or recalitrant unions over salaries and royalties. they will be able to churn it out en masse at minimum expense

True. They can produce all they want.
I was talking from the demand side

The consuming public knows what a movie is
They know there’s people behind animation, anime, cgi.
Will they want to watch stuff “conceived” by machines?

Will AI generated fiction be compelling to read?

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 30, 2023 • 6:41:03am
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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Jul 30, 2023 • 6:41:51am

re: #185 Barefoot Grin

Henry Ford recognized that, at base, workers needed to earn enough to afford his products. What are all of these workerless business going to do? They’ll have to pay people to consume, I guess.

Hence why I and others use the phrase ‘end-stage capitalism’ the beast will eat it’s golden goose.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 30, 2023 • 6:42:16am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 30, 2023 • 6:42:59am

re: #185 Barefoot Grin

Henry Ford recognized that, at base, workers needed to earn enough to afford his products. What are all of these workerless business going to do? They’ll have to pay people to consume, I guess.

Just look at what sort of drivel makes up most of broadcast TV. They won’t be able to turn it out fast enough.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Jul 30, 2023 • 6:44:04am

re: #186 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

True. They can produce all they want.
I was talking from the demand side

The consuming public knows what a movie is
They know there’s people behind animation, anime, cgi.
Will they want to watch stuff “conceived” by machines?

Will AI generated fiction be compelling to read?

No, because it will all be derivative. And yes recognize that pretty much everything is derivative, but the human makes derivative compelling. The AI trend is pablum.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 30, 2023 • 6:44:50am

re: #188 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

Hence why I and others use the phrase ‘end-stage capitalism’ the beast will eat it’s golden goose.

Again, the model will be “Loan us all your money and we will use it to buy everything you own and lease it back to you!”

Actually, I personally don’t care if I don’t own anything as long as I have access to the things I need and a few simply luxuries.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 30, 2023 • 6:44:57am

re: #191 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

No, because it will all be derivative. And yes m I recognize that pretty much everything is derivative, but the human makes derivative compelling. The AI trend is pablum.

Agree

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 30, 2023 • 6:55:30am

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 30, 2023 • 6:56:39am

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No Malarkey!  Jul 30, 2023 • 6:58:19am
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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jul 30, 2023 • 6:58:59am

re: #194 Joe Bacon ✅

That was sort of funny. It sounds too much like my kid sister who would want someone to wash her hands for her.

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William Lewis  Jul 30, 2023 • 7:07:10am

Argh. Google booted me out of my account saying there was “suspicious activity” on my PC from some “malware” or “app” on it. Needless to say there is no malware on said PC (ran various wares to be sure, but no surprises). But lots of hoop jumping, security codes via my android phone and multiple password changes before I can get back into my gmail account. All for their security theater. Feh.

I suppose it works as panem et circenses for those who don’t know better.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Jul 30, 2023 • 7:21:59am

re: #176 TarHellion

But Birbies are! (And screw you, Elmo!)

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jeffreyw  Jul 30, 2023 • 7:27:11am

Hedgehogs!
Why can’t they just share the hedge?

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jul 30, 2023 • 7:29:02am

re: #200 jeffreyw

It is not in their nature. (I know it is a dad joke.)

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Jul 30, 2023 • 7:31:18am

re: #198 William Lewis

Argh. Google booted me out of my account saying there was “suspicious activity” on my PC from some “malware” or “app” on it. Needless to say there is no malware on said PC (ran various wares to be sure, but no surprises). But lots of hoop jumping, security codes via my android phone and multiple password changes before I can get back into my gmail account. All for their security theater. Feh.

I suppose it works as panem et circenses for those who don’t know better.

Pablum for the masses. I feel for you. I hate that shit.

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wrenchwench  Jul 30, 2023 • 7:42:38am

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 30, 2023 • 7:44:19am

Tfg sez

… it was time for Gov. Ron DeSantis and others he dismissed as “clowns” to clear the field, accusing them of “wasting hundreds of millions of dollars that Republicans should be using to build a massive vote-gathering operation” to take on Biden in November.

Also true for the $40m+ in legal fees you’re burning through

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jul 30, 2023 • 7:47:36am
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Vicious Babushka  Jul 30, 2023 • 7:48:18am

Mastodon

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jul 30, 2023 • 7:49:34am

re: #205 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

Pot meet Kettle.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jul 30, 2023 • 7:50:54am

Yippee. I finished my laundry for the week.

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 30, 2023 • 7:51:05am

re: #166 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

And this is why Democrats need to vote in EVERY election. We have fascists literally plotting to take over. We have to be proactive and push back or lose our democracy.

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 30, 2023 • 7:52:17am

re: #196 No Malarkey!

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jul 30, 2023 • 7:52:43am

re: #209 Patricia Kayden

So true. One has to fight to keep democracy.

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 30, 2023 • 7:57:26am

I’ve been listening to Jon Lovett interview Chris Christie on Pod Save America while doing errands this morning. Every time Christie is about to seem reasonable Lovett will bring up the past—like when Christie on Hannity in 2020 said that he gives Trump an A for his policies. Confronted, he says “policies; not for his accomplishments.” So I guess CC is all in on building a wall, offsetting tax cuts for the rich with gradual tax raises on the lower and middle classes, chaotic foreign policy, etc. I guess if CC were elected it at least wouldn’t be the disaster a Trump or DeSantis presidency would be, but it wouldn’t be much better.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Jul 30, 2023 • 7:57:42am

The concensus seems to be that it is possible but very difficult. Personally I don’t think it is worth the effort unless the victim is your own child (ALWAYS go to the mat for your kids). Otherwise, prison, contagious disease and life failures in general will eliminate most of them as threats. They will cling to their delusions no matter what since conspiraliars will always tell them that something other their own choices is responsible for the disasters they are experiencing. Something like half a million antivaxxers died of Covid and it did not faze the survivors.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 30, 2023 • 8:02:18am

re: #205 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

Trump: We have a guy who is a dumb son of a bitch

Who is this dumb son of a bitch referring to as a “dumb son of a bitch”?

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Dr. Matt  Jul 30, 2023 • 8:07:51am

re: #205 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

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A Cranky One  Jul 30, 2023 • 8:10:29am

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darthstar  Jul 30, 2023 • 8:11:52am

re: #213 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

Some of the people who survived hydroxychloroquine and then a few weeks on a ventilator seemed to be a bit more open minded, but there’s no data on if that stuck.

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Ace Rothstein  Jul 30, 2023 • 8:12:13am

re: #205 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

Yeah you, you PA bitch.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 30, 2023 • 8:12:22am

re: #180 HRH Stanley Sea

Pretty quick for once

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A Cranky One  Jul 30, 2023 • 8:19:55am

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wrenchwench  Jul 30, 2023 • 8:22:13am

Mastodon

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Eventual Carrion  Jul 30, 2023 • 8:22:58am

re: #208 PhillyPretzel ✅

Yippee. I finished my laundry for the week.

Don’t remind me. I haven’t even started mine. I have been doing work stuff all morning on stuff that needs done on a Sunday. Almost done with it tho’.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 30, 2023 • 8:25:42am

re: #191 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

No, because it will all be derivative. And yes recognize that pretty much everything is derivative, but the human makes derivative compelling. The AI trend is pablum.

Except most people enjoy the same predictable storyline — over and over again. Romance novels or movies, detective stories, etc. They want their happy ending, the criminal captured, the lovers reunite.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 30, 2023 • 8:27:26am

re: #223 Hecuba’s daughter

Except most people enjoy the same predictable storyline — over and over again. Romance novels or movies, detective stories, etc. They want their happy ending, the criminal captured, the lovers reunite.

There will always be a demand for and interest in new, creative material with unexpected plots and story twists.

But there is a nearly inexhaustible market for predictable, derivitave drivel.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 30, 2023 • 8:30:18am

re: #221 wrenchwench

If we are teaching slavery as anything other than the serial, organized theft of the fruits of slaves’ labor, separation of families and rape of slave women, we are taching it wrong.

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A Cranky One  Jul 30, 2023 • 8:30:20am

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jul 30, 2023 • 8:30:37am

re: #222 Eventual Carrion

And I have my weekly trash all wrapped up so it can be collected on Tuesday.

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BlueSpotinAL ✅  Jul 30, 2023 • 8:35:13am

Good morning!

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Acemarilllion (yes, three 'l's)  Jul 30, 2023 • 8:41:55am

re: #43 wrenchwench

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 30, 2023 • 8:43:09am

re: #205 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

My brainwashed relatives chant Praise Jay-Zuss when he gets vulgar.

Which is why I gave up on them.

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A Cranky One  Jul 30, 2023 • 8:44:57am

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retired cynic  Jul 30, 2023 • 8:48:37am

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

Apparently Joe Biden gave an informal talk at a campaign event in a private home in Maine that covered, really, his philosophy of governing and the events of the world. Richardson covers that talk in some detail. I liked it very much.

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wrenchwench  Jul 30, 2023 • 8:55:52am

Look at the nic on this one:

Mastodon

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jul 30, 2023 • 8:59:11am

re: #224 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

There will always be a demand for and interest in new, creative material with unexpected plots and story twists.

But there is a nearly inexhaustible market for predictable, derivitave drivel.

Which is already being generated by humans and not AI software. In a sense the market will not change, simply the sourcing of the drivel-ly electrons.

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Belafon  Jul 30, 2023 • 9:08:34am

re: #226 A Cranky One

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A Cranky One  Jul 30, 2023 • 9:13:12am

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 30, 2023 • 9:19:58am

re: #212 Barefoot Grin

I’ve been listening to Jon Lovett interview Chris Christie on Pod Save America while doing errands this morning. Every time Christie is about to seem reasonable Lovett will bring up the past—like when Christie on Hannity in 2020 said that he gives Trump an A for his policies. Confronted, he says “policies; not for his accomplishments.” So I guess CC is all in on building a wall, offsetting tax cuts for the rich with gradual tax raises on the lower and middle classes, chaotic foreign policy, etc. I guess if CC were elected it at least wouldn’t be the disaster a Trump or DeSantis presidency would be, but it wouldn’t be much better.

My guess is that Christie would have a “sane” foreign policy, maybe not one we would prefer, but more in line with Bush 43. He would also have sane policies for dealing with health crises. Doubt he would be a fan of building the wall. But taxes will be traditional Republican narrative: raise them on anyone who isn’t wealthy and reduce for those who are rich

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jul 30, 2023 • 9:22:28am

re: #236 A Cranky One

That goat looks like he is up to something.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 30, 2023 • 9:25:13am

re: #213 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

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No different from how repeated mass shootings or the death of a family member due to child’s access to a gun doesn’t change the view of 2nd Amendment absolutists.

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TarHellion  Jul 30, 2023 • 9:25:14am

re: #238 PhillyPretzel ✅

It’s the brother of Black Phillip from The VVitch! Run, run for your lives!

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ericblair  Jul 30, 2023 • 9:26:58am

The press wants a recession and a market crash sooooo fucking bad. A significant number of people and organizations are doing stupid financial shit because of their own gooper politics, not any deep understanding of the economy.

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 30, 2023 • 9:29:47am

re: #241 ericblair

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The press wants a recession and a market crash sooooo fucking bad. A significant number of people and organizations are doing stupid financial shit because of their own gooper politics, not any deep understanding of the economy.

They know that in a fair election, absent any disastrous economic news, Biden will absolutely smoke Trump in 2024. They desperately need this recession so that they can have their horse race, and if they get lucky, Trump will win and then they’ll have all the controversy they could ever ask for. They’ll have “the good old days” back, that halcyon time when their headlines literally wrote themselves and people doom-scrolled for hours on their shitty propaganda rags. Sure, America will be finished as a democracy and we’ll be under the rule of jackbooted authoritarian thugs, but who cares? The media will have a nice time!

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 30, 2023 • 9:30:48am

re: #221 wrenchwench

As I have said before, John Brown was a devout evangelical Christian who used violence to try to overthrow slavery. He would have nothing in common with Trump Christians or those who want to distort the teaching of our history.

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Jay C  Jul 30, 2023 • 9:34:23am

re: #232 retired cynic

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

Apparently Joe Biden gave an informal talk at a campaign event in a private home in Maine that covered, really, his philosophy of governing and the events of the world. Richardson covers that talk in some detail. I liked it very much.

Yes: an amazingly concise and coherent (and admirable) explication of his Administration’s policy goals.
Which, unfortunately, will probably go unnoticed and unmentioned by the larger media (and not just because it was a private talk) - way more important, if less *interesting* than “Hunter’s laptop” or “vicious dog” bullshit - so we KNOW what they are more likely to cover…

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TarHellion  Jul 30, 2023 • 9:37:19am

re: #241 ericblair

At some point a recession becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy (let alone part of the natural business cycle). What has marked more recent downturns are longer U-shaped recoveries, as opposed to the V-shaped ones that typified recoveries during the 1950s-1980s. The GQP’s demand for fiscal restraint only exacerbated the depth and length of the Great Recession.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 30, 2023 • 9:40:06am
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ericblair  Jul 30, 2023 • 9:40:45am

re: #242 Nerdy Fish

They know that in a fair election, absent any disastrous economic news, Biden will absolutely smoke Trump in 2024. They desperately need this recession so that they can have their horse race, and if they get lucky, Trump will win and then they’ll have all the controversy they could ever ask for.

Yes, and I think there’s a really persistent mindset that us Democrats are a bunch of wooly-headed naive kids who, they may admit, are trying to help people, but of course it’s all wrong and will just end in disaster. The goopers are the grownups, who are clear-eyed and ready to make the hard choices that America needs to survive.

These “hard choices” are always cruelties inflicted on the vulnerable and different, and make sure the historic unfair hierarchy is preserved at all costs and the money keeps coming in for the elite, but hey, it’s all just a big coincidence.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 30, 2023 • 9:41:31am

re: #246 Backwoods Sleuth

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jul 30, 2023 • 9:42:06am

re: #246 Backwoods Sleuth

I am no expert in this but that sounds like a major building code violation.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 30, 2023 • 9:43:48am
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Nerdy Fish  Jul 30, 2023 • 9:44:29am

re: #249 PhillyPretzel ✅

I am no expert in this but that sounds like a major building code violation.

There’s a reason why the City of San Francisco is taking this so seriously. What he’s doing here isn’t just stupid, it’s dangerous.

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TarHellion  Jul 30, 2023 • 9:44:42am

Watching the Senior Open Championship in brutally windy and occasionally rainy conditions. 3-over par is leading the tournament that is being played along the coast of Wales. The only thing more challenging would be making these guys play the entire round without peeing.

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 30, 2023 • 9:49:10am

re: #237 Hecuba’s daughter

My guess is that Christie would have a “sane” foreign policy, maybe not one we would prefer, but more in line with Bush 43. He would also have sane policies for dealing with health crises. Doubt he would be a fan of building the wall. But taxes will be traditional Republican narrative: raise them on anyone who isn’t wealthy and reduce for those who are rich

He said when asked if he agreed with DeSantis that “wokeness” was a danger to America that he saw that as actually a big gov’t response because it interferes with private matters and explained further to a prompt about trans issues that he thinks that is a matter for families and their doctors. So that was encouraging.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Jul 30, 2023 • 9:50:43am

re: #249 PhillyPretzel ✅

I am no expert in this but that sounds like a major building code violation.

He knows it is. That thing is just a publicity stunt that he knows will have to be taken down. I would lay odds he didn’t have a permit to install it, let alone permission from the buildings owner to install it. That being the probable case, want some breakfast?

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 30, 2023 • 9:50:49am
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Florida Panhandler  Jul 30, 2023 • 9:51:57am

re: #213 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

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The concensus seems to be that it is possible but very difficult. Personally I don’t think it is worth the effort unless the victim is your own child (ALWAYS go to the mat for your kids). Otherwise, prison, contagious disease and life failures in general will eliminate most of them as threats. They will cling to their delusions no matter what since conspiraliars will always tell them that something other their own choices is responsible for the disasters they are experiencing. Something like half a million antivaxxers died of Covid and it did not faze the survivors.

Extraction from a cult or radical belief system is a function of age. Past a certain age the difficulty heads straight up in an exponential curve. Probably around age 26 or so is the break even point when youth and questions finally give way to lifelong rigid belief. From there it curves up quickly and past age 50 there is no return. Barring some sort of life-event like a horrible car crash, loss of family or other trauma the average MAGA is well beyond redemption.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Jul 30, 2023 • 9:54:00am

re: #254 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

You are probably correct and I just finished lunch. Thanks.

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JC1  Jul 30, 2023 • 9:54:16am

re: #155 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Libertarians would hve no problem with this; the Market will sort out such matters.

Flip side is that far too many substances require a prescription.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 30, 2023 • 9:56:38am

re: #234 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Which is already being generated by humans and not AI software. In a sense the market will not change, simply the sourcing of the drivel-ly electrons.

and taking humans out of the equation is alwas better on the bottom line, at least over the short term

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JC1  Jul 30, 2023 • 9:58:21am

re: #241 ericblair

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The press wants a recession and a market crash sooooo fucking bad. A significant number of people and organizations are doing stupid financial shit because of their own gooper politics, not any deep understanding of the economy.

Valuations are absurd in several sectors, and they will correct at some point. It’s worse in many ways than the .com bubble.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 30, 2023 • 9:58:33am

re: #243 Hecuba’s daughter

As I have said before, John Brown was a devout evangelical Christian who used violence to try to overthrow slavery. He would have nothing in common with Trump Christians or those who want to distort the teaching of our history.

He was the terrorist threat that convinced Southerners that they had to expand slavery at all costs in order to preserve it.

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wrenchwench  Jul 30, 2023 • 9:59:50am

Mastodon

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William Lewis  Jul 30, 2023 • 10:00:04am

re: #261 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

He was the terrorist threat that convinced Southerners that they had to expand slavery at all costs in order to preserve it.

Which lead, directly, to their downfall… irony, eh?

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William Lewis  Jul 30, 2023 • 10:02:04am

This song goes a whole lot further for me nowadays with my GF living in Memphis ;) ‘

John Hiatt & The Goners - Memphis In The Meantime

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Jul 30, 2023 • 10:02:10am

OceanGate co-founder wants to send 1,000 people to a floating colony on Venus by 2050

The co-founder of OceanGate Expeditions doesn’t appear to be deterred by the Titan submersible tragedy, and is pushing the limits of extreme travel with ambitions to send 1,000 humans to live in a floating colony on Venus by 2050.

Taking up where his late partner left off. In the unlikely event they actually get to Venus, this group of marks can be flash-fried as well as crushed to atoms.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jul 30, 2023 • 10:06:33am
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TarHellion  Jul 30, 2023 • 10:09:35am

re: #265 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

As with missions - let alone colonies - on Mars, this is a ridiculously silly endeavor. Space is utterly inhospitable to humans. We remain a long way away from sending humans beyond the Moon.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Jul 30, 2023 • 10:13:21am

re: #265 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

It’s dangerous enough just to roam around the surface of the Earth and the low atmosphere but those together are just a paper thin sphere of human friendly habitability in a gigantic universe of complete hostility.
I think these adventure sports promoters forget that sometimes. Mount Everest and the far reaches of the Amazon are hazardous, but the deep ocean is orders of magnitude more hostile and outer space a few more orders of magnitude beyond that.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 30, 2023 • 10:15:13am

The more I think about it the more I believe Tuberville is blocking the military appointments so Trump can fill them with his sympathizers.

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retired cynic  Jul 30, 2023 • 10:16:12am

re: #269 Joe Bacon ✅

Why not? We know they don’t THINK.

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William Lewis  Jul 30, 2023 • 10:17:38am

re: #267 TarHellion

As with missions - let alone colonies - on Mars, this is a ridiculously silly endeavor. Space is utterly inhospitable to humans. We remain a long way away from sending humans beyond the Moon.

That’s why the Artemis Project is so important - far more so than SpaceX. The practical experience in Lunar operations is critical as is the Lunar orbital base if we’re to get anywhere else. We need that and the VASIMR (Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket) drive so that we can get anywhere else in a semi-sane amount of time before we can get all these eggs out of this hand basket to hell.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 30, 2023 • 10:17:57am

re: #261 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

He was the terrorist threat that convinced Southerners that they had to expand slavery at all costs in order to preserve it.

John Brown was the epitome of woke.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 30, 2023 • 10:18:30am

re: #269 Joe Bacon ✅

The more I think about it the more I believe Tuberville is blocking the military appointments so Trump can fill them with his sympathizers.

I think he’s just a religious dick who wants to own the Libs.

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 30, 2023 • 10:20:50am

re: #267 TarHellion

As with missions - let alone colonies - on Mars, this is a ridiculously silly endeavor. Space is utterly inhospitable to humans. We remain a long way away from sending humans beyond the Moon.

It’s a long 3 months to Mars. 3 days to the Moon is bad enough, and we’ve already had near-fatal difficulties just doing that. Mars, at least, has the benefit of being relatively well known to us; Venus we know next to nothing about, except that it is a hell-planet with an atmosphere made of literal battery acid. Anyone who thinks we’re colonizing either planet in the next 20-30 years is delusional.

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mmmirele  Jul 30, 2023 • 10:21:08am

Apparently Sean Feucht, the former Bethel Church Redding hanger-on who found a better grift with his “Let Us Prey Pray” meetings at the height of COVID is coming to have a rally called “Kingdom to the Capitol” in Boise tonight.

This is one response, from local satanists, free thinkers and people who just like to party in the face of fascists:

Also, the Idaho Statesman’s editorial board has some pretty harsh words for Feucht and his enterprise:

Keep your religion out of our government. Dangerous activists coming to Idaho Capitol | Opinion By The Editorial Board July 29, 2023 4:00 AM

A group of religious activists who want to inject their brand of Christianity into government are planning a rally at the Idaho State Capitol on Sunday.

Sean Feucht and his group Hold the Line, along with Turning Point USA Faith, are holding rallies at the state Capitol buildings in all 50 states. This week, they’re descending on the buildings in Boise, Olympia, Washington, and Salem, Oregon, as part of their so-called Kingdom to the Capitol Tour.

“One of the reasons why satanists are infuriated is that we’re bringing worship to the state capitols,” Feucht is quoted as saying in The Washington Times. “We’ve experienced some resistance before, but it’s on a whole different scale now. We’re bringing worship to places where abortion decrees are made and where perversion laws (proposed and passed) enable them to get to our kids.” F

eucht and his group are playing on the same, tired, worn-out, BS, far-right “fears” that evildoers on the Left are coming for your children, through the schools, through the libraries, at Pride festivals and drag shows.

They frame the issue as a fight between good and evil, light vs. dark. Predictably, they clutch their pearls at transgender apparel at Target or popular music videos.

Anyone who opposes their dangerous Christian nationalism are satanists and evildoers.

Are pastors and rabbis satanists, too?

More at the link with the names of religious leaders in the Northwest who oppose Feucht and the rest of this garbage.

idahostatesman.com

Gotta keep pushing back against these fascists whenever, wherever and however.

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Teukka  Jul 30, 2023 • 10:21:23am

re: #267 TarHellion

As with missions - let alone colonies - on Mars, this is a ridiculously silly endeavor. Space is utterly inhospitable to humans. We remain a long way away from sending humans beyond the Moon.

re: #268 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

It’s dangerous enough just to roam around the surface of the Earth and the low atmosphere but those together are just a paper thin sphere of human friendly habitability in a gigantic universe of complete hostility.
I think these adventure sports promoters forget that sometimes. Mount Everest and the far reaches of the Amazon are hazardous, but the deep ocean is orders of magnitude more hostile and outer space a few more orders of magnitude beyond that.

re: #271 William Lewis

That’s why the Artemis Project is so important - far more so than SpaceX. The practical experience in Lunar operations is critical as is the Lunar orbital base if we’re to get anywhere else. We need that and the VASIMR (Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket) drive so that we can get anywhere else in a semi-sane amount of time before we can get all these eggs out of this hand basket to hell.

I may have said this here before, but I more and more believe that billionaires are wanting to go into space because they know that guillotines need gravity to operate…

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mmmirele  Jul 30, 2023 • 10:21:53am

re: #267 TarHellion

As with missions - let alone colonies - on Mars, this is a ridiculously silly endeavor. Space is utterly inhospitable to humans. We remain a long way away from sending humans beyond the Moon.

The Moon is fucking inhospitable. One air leak and *poof*.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 30, 2023 • 10:23:34am

re: #263 William Lewis

Which lead, directly, to their downfall… irony, eh?

Slavery is an inhuman and unnatural state which cannot endure no matter how one rationalizes its existence.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 30, 2023 • 10:24:12am

re: #269 Joe Bacon ✅

The more I think about it the more I believe Tuberville is blocking the military appointments so Trump can fill them with his sympathizers.

That is his long game. Right now he is just being a dick about “abortion vacations”.

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retired cynic  Jul 30, 2023 • 10:24:14am

My road trip with Sinéad O’Connor
It was a bumpy ride, but spending time with the complicated genius in 2020 was also a profound and touching experience
wapo.st (gift link)

This was an amazing piece, and it includes a 3 minute demo of a song that she recorded with a toy guitar and when she was sick with bronchitis, and sent it to the author privately. It made my hair stand on end.

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Florida Panhandler  Jul 30, 2023 • 10:24:50am

re: #266 Backwoods Sleuth

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…where Kanye can possibly announce his opening up of a “MAGA Job Training Center” on his Montana ranch land. A center that resembles good ol’ Antebellum days except everyone wears white jumpsuits and white sneakers.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jul 30, 2023 • 10:27:35am

re: #281 Florida Panhandler

…where Kanye can possibly announce his opening up of a “MAGA Job Training Center” on his Montana ranch land. A center that resembles good ol’ Antebellum days except everyone wears white jumpsuits and white sneakers.

They got to wear Yeezy jumpsuits and sneakers!

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BeenHereAwhile  Jul 30, 2023 • 10:29:53am

“The Day After Trinity,” available without a subscription until August on Criterion Channel.
New York Times
Sunday July 30, 2023

(Link to documentary below)

One morning in the 1950s, Jon H. Else’s father pointed toward Nevada from their home in Sacramento. “There was this orange glow that suddenly rose up in the sky, and then shrank back down,” Else recalled.

It was, hundreds of miles away, an atomic weapon test: a symbol of the world that was created when a team of Americans led by the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer exploded the first nuclear bomb a decade earlier on July 16, 1945.

Growing up in the nuclear age left an impression on Else, now 78.

He was later a series producer of the award-winning “Eyes on the Prize,” a program on the civil rights movement, and directed documentaries about the Great Depression and Wagner’s “Ring” cycle. But before all that, in 1981, he made a documentary about Oppenheimer, the scientist whose bony visage graced the covers of midcentury magazines, and the bomb. It was called “The Day After Trinity,” a reference to that inaugural detonation.

[…]

Decades later, viewers are flocking to Else’s film, a nominee for the Academy Award for best documentary feature, as a companion to Christopher Nolan’s biopic “Oppenheimer,” which grossed more than $100 million domestically in its opening week this month.

criterionchannel.com

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Mattand  Jul 30, 2023 • 10:30:18am

re: #237 Hecuba’s daughter

My guess is that Christie would have a “sane” foreign policy, maybe not one we would prefer, but more in line with Bush 43. He would also have sane policies for dealing with health crises. Doubt he would be a fan of building the wall. But taxes will be traditional Republican narrative: raise them on anyone who isn’t wealthy and reduce for those who are rich

There would be a guaranteed national war on teachers’ unions, and by extension, teachers themselves. We had eight years of that shit here in NJ; I really don’t want to see that on a nation-wide level. Teachers are under enough threat as it is, particularly in the MAGAt states.

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William Lewis  Jul 30, 2023 • 10:31:09am

Hadn’t run into a live version of this before. From Austin City Limits, it’s John Lee Pettimore 😉

Copperhead Road (Steve Earle) Austin City Limits 2019

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Jul 30, 2023 • 10:32:15am

RE my # 254. Called it.

San Francisco Inspectors Still Can’t Get On Roof To Inspect Elon Musk’s New ‘X’ Sign

*snip*

Fast forward to Friday, when a large black X was erected on the roof of the building, prompting a notice of violation filed with the city for work done without a permit.

*snip*

According to the department’s complaint page after a “notice of violation” was filed, the inspector assigned to the case on Friday “spoke with Tweeter [sic] representatives and Building maintenance engineer representatives. I explained BID’s complaint investigation process and requested access to roof area. Tweeter [sic] representative decline to provide access but did explain that the structure is a temporary lighted sign for an event.

I can only hope they slap ego with a massive fine, but if applicable, criminal charges as well.

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mmmirele  Jul 30, 2023 • 10:33:21am

re: #279 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

That is his long game. Right now he is just being a dick about “abortion vacations”.

When I read about asshats talking about “abortion vacations,” I want to scream. I never had an abortion, but I thought I was pregnant, twice. Just the *thought* of an unwanted, unexpected pregnancy sent me into a tailspin. These asshats have no fucking idea what it means to be a girl or a woman in a society that has laws against our bodily autonomy because we’re just supposed to be property. FUCK.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 30, 2023 • 10:35:30am

re: #287 mmmirele

It reminds us that they are never going to be satisfied with a “states’ rights” solution, they want to institute a nation-wide ban, to be accompanied by medical inspiections of all childbearing-age women leaving and re-entering the country.

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 30, 2023 • 10:36:28am

re: #286 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

“…a temporary lighted sign for an event.” Bullshit. It’s an eyesore and a nuisance, and I hope the city throws the book at him.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Jul 30, 2023 • 10:36:41am

re: #276 Teukka

I may have said this here before, but I more and more believe that billionaires are wanting to go into space because they know that guillotines need gravity to operate…

Springs. How do they work? *Insert evil laugh here*

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 30, 2023 • 10:38:37am

re: #289 Nerdy Fish

“…a temporary lighted sign for an event.” Bullshit. It’s an eyesore and a nuisance, and I hope the city throws the book at him.

even such things need a permit for chrissakes

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 30, 2023 • 10:39:31am

re: #276 Teukka

I may have said this here before, but I more and more believe that billionaires are wanting to go into space because they know that guillotines need gravity to operate…

Except that one is generally never far from an airlock…

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 30, 2023 • 10:41:33am

re: #284 Mattand

There would be a guaranteed national war on teachers’ unions, and by extension, teachers themselves. We had eight years of that shit here in NJ; I really don’t want to see that on a nation-wide level. Teachers are under enough threat as it is, particularly in the MAGAt states.

This would be true for any GOP nominee — they are uniformly hostile to unions, except for police and firefighters. However, given the GOP candidates who announced for President, Christie may be the best of a bad lot (though my Trumpster brother does like Will Hurd, who also has some real credentials). Christie does understand policy and government; he’s a bully like Trump but not a theocrat or ideologue.

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William Lewis  Jul 30, 2023 • 10:42:17am

re: #287 mmmirele

When I read about asshats talking about “abortion vacations,” I want to scream. I never had an abortion, but I thought I was pregnant, twice. Just the *thought* of an unwanted, unexpected pregnancy sent me into a tailspin. These asshats have no fucking idea what it means to be a girl or a woman in a society that has laws against our bodily autonomy because we’re just supposed to be property. FUCK.

I have been the (all too often sole) support for several women in that position (never having been the boy responsible. They were never to be found. I hate them even more than the politicians… ) so my respect for what you suffered.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Jul 30, 2023 • 10:43:49am

re: #290 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Springs. How do they work? *Insert evil laugh here*

Linear motor, accelerate the blade to about 3000 ft./sec.

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William Lewis  Jul 30, 2023 • 10:45:05am

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

It reminds us that they are never going to be satisfied with a “states’ rights” solution, they want to institute a nation-wide ban, to be accompanied by medical inspiections of all childbearing-age women leaving and re-entering the country.

It reminds me why I tell democrats that we need to arm ourselves. I do believe it will come to that. Sooner rather than later given the corrupt 6 of SCOTUS. Get a rifle (an AK is a good choice) and learn how to use it now before it’s too late.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 30, 2023 • 10:47:15am

re: #289 Nerdy Fish

“…a temporary lighted sign for an event.” Bullshit. It’s an eyesore and a nuisance, and I hope the city throws the book at him.

Can’t the city send “jack-booted” thugs to remove this sign at once? I am tired of wealthy individuals acting as though they are beyond the law. If the police can invade an innocent poor person’s home and wreck the place without having to recompense them, then why can’t they take action against a rich person explicitly ignoring the law.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 30, 2023 • 10:48:55am
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Jul 30, 2023 • 10:50:38am

re: #290 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Springs. How do they work? *Insert evil laugh here*

re: #295 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

Linear motor, accelerate the blade to about 3000 ft./sec.

Just like modern industry to take a simple, user-friendly machine and complicate it to hell and gone, witness the Instant Pot pressure cooker gizmo and the various electrodynamical can opening apparatus.

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darthstar  Jul 30, 2023 • 10:50:49am

re: #297 Hecuba’s daughter

Can’t the city send “jack-booted” thugs to remove this sign at once? I am tired of wealthy individuals acting as though they are beyond the law. If the police can invade an innocent poor person’s home and wreck the place without having to recompense them, then why can’t they take action against a rich person explicitly ignoring the law.

The fire department should be able to access the roof due to public safety concerns.

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Mattand  Jul 30, 2023 • 10:51:29am

re: #293 Hecuba’s daughter

This would be true for any GOP nominee — they are uniformly hostile to unions, except for police and firefighters. However, given the GOP candidates who announced for President, Christie may be the best of a bad lot (thought my Trumpster brother does like Will Hurd, who also has some real credentials). Christie does understand policy and government; he’s a bully like Trump but not a theocrat or ideologue.

I didn’t bookmark the video, but Christie had a state trooper drag a teacher who was heckling Christ on stage in order to berate the guy. Maybe the guy shouldn’t have been heckling, but Christie forced the guy up there essentially at gunpoint in order to humiliate him.

I’m not trying to be mean, but this is why my hackles raise with the whole “Christie is a ‘normal’ Republican.” It’s like saying the Riddler is less of a threat than the Joker, because the Riddler doesn’t murder as many innocent civilians.

And, yeah, Christie may not present as a theocrat or ideologue on first contact, but look how quickly he submitted to Trump once it was clear which way the wind was blowing.

Christie may not openly call for things like trans banning or imprisoning librarians now, but if it means he needs to stay in power, he’ll do it without thinking twice. The only reason he didn’t do it here is because enough idiot independents would have sided with the Dems and toss him out on his ass.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Jul 30, 2023 • 10:54:56am

The Minneapolis Police: A Criminal Organization

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Nerdy Fish  Jul 30, 2023 • 11:00:44am

re: #302 The Ghost of a Flea

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The lone black spot in our fair city, the MPD has long been known as a bunch of corrupt fuckboys who have grown used to doing what they want without consequences.

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BeenHereAwhile  Jul 30, 2023 • 11:01:12am

re: #293 Hecuba’s daughter

This would be true for any GOP nominee — they are uniformly hostile to unions, except for police and firefighters. However, given the GOP candidates who announced for President, Christie may be the best of a bad lot (thought my Trumpster brother does like Will Hurd, who also has some real credentials). Christie does understand policy and government; he’s a bully like Trump but not a theocrat or ideologue.

You left out federal and state correction guard unions.

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darthstar  Jul 30, 2023 • 11:02:04am

re: #298 Dr Lizardo

I’m really looking forward to Ukraine breaking through the Russian defenses in two or more areas. Once they do that the Russians won’t be able to put up a unified defense anywhere and Ukraine can send in their elite forces with western tanks and put a serious dent in the Russian psyche.

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darthstar  Jul 30, 2023 • 11:02:32am

re: #302 The Ghost of a Flea

Robocop is a documentary.

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William Lewis  Jul 30, 2023 • 11:05:25am

re: #305 darthstar

I’m really looking forward to Ukraine breaking through the Russian defenses in two or more areas. Once they do that the Russians won’t be able to put up a unified defense anywhere and Ukraine can send in their elite forces with western tanks and put a serious dent in the Russian psyche.

As a former American tanker, it would give me nothing but pleasure to see a handful of Leopards crack the back of the Soviet Russian tanks in Ukraine. I know they can if they are used right and I believe the Ukrainians have absorbed the lessons well enough that if the opportunity presents itself the Russians are FUBAR…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 30, 2023 • 11:07:27am

re: #297 Hecuba’s daughter

Can’t the city send “jack-booted” thugs to remove this sign at once? I am tired of wealthy individuals acting as though they are beyond the law. If the police can invade an innocent poor person’s home and wreck the place without having to recompense them, then why can’t they take action against a rich person explicitly ignoring the law.

Remember his faux “love letter” to San Francisco? That was a coy passive-assholegressive reminder to civic authorities not to tinker with his plans

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darthstar  Jul 30, 2023 • 11:08:09am

So we went up to Monte Rio for their annual variety show (raises money for the fire dept and local Catholic church), and on the way we stopped at Bodega Bay Oyster Co on the road from Petaluma through Valley Ford toward the coast. I always like to pick up a couple of dozen oysters to shuck and have as part of the appetizer offering the first night. I got a dozen small Miyagis and a dozen small Kumamotos. Three got consumed while I was shucking, but looking back at the pic I took of the plate, I don’t think they counted out their dozen correctly. I see at least 35 oysters here. I thought I was doing a lot of shucking.

That’s Gus - friend’s dog they rescued on the highway a few years back.

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 30, 2023 • 11:09:45am

re: #272 Hecuba’s daughter

John Brown was the epitome of woke.

His body lies a-molderin’ in the grave, but his soul goes marching on.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 30, 2023 • 11:10:38am

re: #310 Barefoot Grin

His body lies a-molderin’ in the grave, but his soul goes marching on.

The man had no respect for the sanctity of Private Property!

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darthstar  Jul 30, 2023 • 11:12:11am

re: #307 William Lewis

As a former American tanker, it would give me nothing but pleasure to see a handful of Leopards crack the back of the Soviet Russian tanks in Ukraine. I know they can if they are used right and I believe the Ukrainians have absorbed the lessons well enough that if the opportunity presents itself the Russians are FUBAR…

Ukraine is decimating Russian artillery right now along the defenses. Average of 22 artillery units a day over the last week.

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William Lewis  Jul 30, 2023 • 11:14:02am

re: #309 darthstar

So we went up to Monte Rio for their annual variety show (raises money for the fire dept and local Catholic church), and on the way we stopped at Bodega Bay Oyster Co on the road from Petaluma through Valley Ford toward the coast. I always like to pick up a couple of dozen oysters to shuck and have as part of the appetizer offering the first night. I got a dozen small Miyagis and a dozen small Kumamotos. Three got consumed while I was shucking, but looking back at the pic I took of the plate, I don’t think they counted out their dozen correctly. I see at least 35 oysters here. I thought I was doing a lot of shucking.

That’s Gus - friend’s dog they rescued on the highway a few years back.

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Never been much of a fan of oysters (always preferred clams and scallops or, better yet, calamari 😀) but that’s a cool plate. Enjoy!

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jul 30, 2023 • 12:11:23pm

re: #259 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

and taking humans out of the equation is alwas better on the bottom line, at least over the short term

Some of the current dreck will be out soon at a higher price with a “Written by an actual human!” blurb attached.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jul 30, 2023 • 12:19:17pm

re: #286 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

RE my # 254. Called it.

San Francisco Inspectors Still Can’t Get On Roof To Inspect Elon Musk’s New ‘X’ Sign

*snip*

Fast forward to Friday, when a large black X was erected on the roof of the building, prompting a notice of violation filed with the city for work done without a permit.

*snip*

According to the department’s complaint page after a “notice of violation” was filed, the inspector assigned to the case on Friday “spoke with Tweeter [sic] representatives and Building maintenance engineer representatives. I explained BID’s complaint investigation process and requested access to roof area. Tweeter [sic] representative decline to provide access but did explain that the structure is a temporary lighted sign for an event.

I can only hope they slap ego with a massive fine, but if applicable, criminal charges as well.

Ego can just throw money at a fine. Assuming there is not already someone else to blame it on. And the others who actually carried out the work can be fired.

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silverdolphin  Jul 30, 2023 • 12:28:18pm

re: #174 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It will be cheap enough for major studios (who will be big enough to invest in the technology) when they no longer have to negotiate with stars over long-term contracts or recalitrant unions over salaries and royalties. they will be able to churn it out en masse at minimum expense

Not sure this is a path to success. Studios have tried quantity over quality and it almost always fails. The studios’ business model requires at least 1 or maybe 2 huge bloackbusters a year. Large studios that have tried lots of cheap movies have not been very successful.

And, I would be surprised that any of these approaches produced the originality of a movie like Barbie. They would likely regurgitate old stuff and not provide original material.

And finally, these studios are not going to be able to charge $18 a ticket for IMAX when we all know they paid hardly any money to make the movie. They can make it cheaper but the savings had better be passed onto the customer.

This will never happen.


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