Brilliance: Cautious Clay and Julian Lage, “Unfinished House”

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Credits:
Directed by Josefine Cardoni
Produced by Adam Braun

Lyrics:
You couldn’t finish a thing you put your mind to
You still married your friend
You just couldn’t see through the haze
It was like she was kin to you these word you felt tied to
She had the brawn and the brains you just keep dropping your crown
But like an unfinished house
She’ll see you around
And the neighbors won’t say a thing
You were teeming with energy gotta find somewhere to ride to
You took a chance on this bread
Maybe you could make it a sound
She was sturdy as ever but she’d sooner make the time to
see where it was all gone end
Thinking the structure was sound
But like an unfinished house
She’ll see you around
And the neighbors won’t say a thing
If I was born when you were born
You and I wouldn’t get along
No you and I wouldn’t see what’s wrong
If you were born when I was born
You’d see the sun every 24
The Seattle rain my cherie amour
Like an unfinished house
She’ll see you around
And the neighbors won’t say a thing
We couldn’t see whats wrong
If daring was caring you’d knew when you were wrong

#CautiousClay #JulianLage #UnfinishedHouse #Karpeh

Music video by Cautious Clay, Julian Lage performing Unfinished House (Live Performance From NY / 2023). Blue Note Records; © 2023 Cautious Clay Music, LLC, under exclusive license to UMG Recordings, Inc.

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263 comments
1
austin_blue  Aug 24, 2023 • 8:32:19pm

Who believe’s that Trumf’s Atlanta arraignmant photo is real?

I’m at 50%

We’ll see tomorrow.

2
jaunte  Aug 24, 2023 • 8:32:30pm

Makin’ me spend money on new music.

3
darthstar  Aug 24, 2023 • 8:38:59pm

re: #1 austin_blue

Who believe’s that Trumf’s Atlanta arraignmant photo is real?

I’m at 50%

We’ll see tomorrow.

MSNBC reported it when Fulton County released it. So it’s legit. He’s a petulant whinging criminal in a corner. And it shows.

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Targetpractice  Aug 24, 2023 • 8:39:31pm

re: #1 austin_blue

Who believe’s that Trumf’s Atlanta arraignmant photo is real?

I’m at 50%

We’ll see tomorrow.

I’m willing to believe this one is real, because it’s etched clearly into his face that he is not at all thrilled to be going through this. I was expecting the smirky jackass face, the guy who thinks he’s holding all the cards and is just humoring the cops before he pulls another rabbit from his hat. Instead, we got one of the most stereotypical mugshots, the glowering asshole who is pissed to even be standing in front of the camera and thinks he looks “intimidating.”

5
retired cynic  Aug 24, 2023 • 8:43:02pm

re: #4 Targetpractice

His niece Mary thinks he is truly enraged.

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darthstar  Aug 24, 2023 • 8:43:37pm

re: #4 Targetpractice

The fakes were actually released by his lawyers in the hopes they would get adopted as the real booking photos…don’t be surprised to see people arguing this tomorrow as his defenders try to show him in his booking photo looking like one of his NFT tokens.

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darthstar  Aug 24, 2023 • 8:48:40pm

I’m just grateful that, for the rest of my days on this planet, when I see an image of Trump, I can simply say, “Fuck that guy. He’s a traitor.”

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Targetpractice  Aug 24, 2023 • 8:52:10pm

re: #5 retired cynic

His niece Mary thinks he is truly enraged.

Yeah, I read that downstairs and I agree, he’s absolutely pissed to be going through this. He’s a showman, his image is all he is and having control over that is important to him. He’s enjoyed control over such for months, every booking and arraignment kept behind closed doors because judges and prosecutors feared turning the proceedings into a circus. What today shows is that, when Trump knows that he has no curtain to hide behind, the showmanship evaporates and what we have instead is a bitter old man who wants it all over and done with.

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Teukka  Aug 24, 2023 • 8:52:41pm

re: #5 retired cynic

His niece Mary thinks he is truly enraged.

Narcisisstic rage?

10
retired cynic  Aug 24, 2023 • 8:54:18pm

re: #9 Teukka

That at that moment, he was not in control.

11
Teukka  Aug 24, 2023 • 8:54:27pm
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Belafon  Aug 24, 2023 • 9:14:56pm

re: #11 Teukka

The retort is that muscle weighs more than mass, but he’s way rounder than me and I’m 5’9” and 235lbs.

13
Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 24, 2023 • 9:32:58pm

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Aug 24, 2023 • 9:44:10pm

Oooh oooh.
Big Fat Trump
He was 6-1, weighed 345,
Kinda thin on the shoulder and broad at the butt,
And everybody knew he couldn’t keep his mouth shut,
Big Trump, Big Trump
Big Fat Trump
Apologies to Jimmy Dean

15
Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 24, 2023 • 9:45:59pm

His fatal mistake—selling 25,000% of the Republican Party to Russian Investors…

16
Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 24, 2023 • 10:11:29pm

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 24, 2023 • 10:18:35pm

In the tropical Atlantic, Tropical Storm Franklin is now moving east north-east away from The Bahamas. The prognostication has changed a little: The storm will make a switchback to the north-west and then north-east around Bermuda, missing the United States but possibly a threat to Nova Scotia. It should be a hurricane by Saturday night.

Atlantic Basin 7-Day Graphical Tropical Outlook

Disturbance One has now re-formed just off the north-east coast of Honduras. The storm is given a 70% chance of becoming a tropical cyclone as it moves through the Yucatan Channel and aims for the west coast of Florida.

Disturbance Two (the remnants of Tropical Storm Emily) are now moving north north-east with a 40% chance of becoming a tropical cyclone in two days. It is a long way from any land.

Disturbance Three is midway between Cabo Verde and the Lesser Antilles. It is moving north-west, with a 50% chance of becoming a tropical cyclone in seven days, passing Bermuda to the east.

Eastern North Pacific 7-Day Graphical Tropical Outlook

Disturbance One is a long way south of Cabo San Lucas. It is moving west north-west and has a 70% chance of development into a tropical cyclone.

Disturbance Two is south of Mexico. It is following in the general track of the late Hurricane Hilary, and has a 50% chance of becoming a tropical cyclone in seven days.

In the Central Pacific, Disturbance One in the east will come into the area toward the end of the period.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 24, 2023 • 10:21:51pm

In local weather, the remnants of Tropical Storm Harold have arrived.

Tonight
A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Some of the storms could produce heavy rain. Partly cloudy, with a low around 66. North wind 10 to 15 mph.
Friday
Showers and thunderstorms likely. Some of the storms could produce heavy rain. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 79. North wind 10 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Friday Night
A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Some of the storms could produce heavy rain. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 59. North northeast wind 5 to 15 mph.
Saturday
A 30 percent chance of showers, mainly before noon. Cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with a high near 77. Southeast wind 5 to 10 mph.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 24, 2023 • 10:47:01pm

(10:38, Hemant Mehta having a gloating moment about Southern Baptist Russel Moore)

MAGA Christians think Jesus is “weak,” says guy who led them there

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ericblair  Aug 24, 2023 • 10:53:04pm

re: #108 Targetpractice

We passed the “My God, what do we look like to the rest of the world?!” event horizon when Dubya got reelected. Everything since has been the slow plunge towards spaghettification.

The US is basically the neighbor that gets into big public family fights that everyone can hear up and down the block. And, by and large, Americans don’t give a shit if the French or Egyptians or Chinese hear it all.

What would be worse would be to try to keep up appearances and pretend this is all normal. That’s what countries like Russia do, and it destroys them. Pretend everything is Just Fine Thang Kyew, cover up the criminality and corruption and go along with disaster. That’s what Russia was counting on America doing, and they were quite surprised when America didn’t.

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EPR-radar  Aug 24, 2023 • 11:02:12pm

re: #21 ericblair

The US is basically the neighbor that gets into big public family fights that everyone can hear up and down the block. And, by and large, Americans don’t give a shit if the French or Egyptians or Chinese hear it all.

What would be worse would be to try to keep up appearances and pretend this is all normal. That’s what countries like Russia do, and it destroys them. Pretend everything is Just Fine Thang Kyew, cover up the criminality and corruption and go along with disaster. That’s what Russia was counting on America doing, and they were quite surprised when America didn’t.

Recent developments are promising, but I’m very wary of anything that looks like a declaration of victory. Especially since the Republican party is as corrupt and powerful as ever. FFS, the election of 2024 will be freedom vs. fascism and it will be much closer than it should be.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 24, 2023 • 11:39:34pm

Windy shows the centre-of-circulation of the remnants of Franklin just south of Sterling, Colo.

windy.com (wind pattern map)

Most of the thunderstorm activity is in the feeder band to the north of me and storms from Vernal, UT to Denver. The east side of the cyclone is mostly pulling dry air in from Kansas.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 24, 2023 • 11:43:11pm

Religion News Service, August 22, 2023

More than 100 chaplains urge Texans not to hire school chaplains

(RNS) — More than 100 chaplains signed a letter urging local Texas school boards to vote against putting chaplains in public schools, calling efforts to enlist religious counselors in public classrooms “harmful” to students and families.

The letter comes just days before a bill allowing public schools to hire school chaplains becomes law in Texas, the first state in the country to pass such a measure. The legislation, which had been pushed by activists associated with Christian nationalism, gives the state’s nearly 1,200 school boards until March 1 of next year to vote on whether to employ chaplains.

The letter was organized by the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty and Interfaith Alliance as well as local advocacy group Texas Impact.

The chaplains who signed the letter, released Tuesday (Aug. 22), bemoaned the lack of standards for potential school chaplains aside from background checks, contrasting it with the extensive training required for health care and military chaplains.

“Because of our training and experience, we know that chaplains are not a replacement for school counselors or safety measures in our public schools, and we urge you to reject this flawed policy option: It is harmful to our public schools and the students and families they serve,” the letter read.

(more)

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sagehen  Aug 25, 2023 • 12:06:31am

#TrumpMugshot

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2023 • 12:08:41am

Scientific American, August 24, 2023

The problem for the author here is laying out the facts and history of so-called rapid onset gender dysphoria doesn’t matter to a conservative. Power does, and hate brings power.

Evidence Undermines ‘Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria’ Claims

«Fears of “social contagion,” used to support anti-transgender legislation, are not supported by science»

A recent study claiming to describe more than 1,600 possible cases of a “socially contagious syndrome” was retracted in June for failing to obtain ethics approval (Retraction Watch) from an institutional review board. The survey examined “rapid-onset gender dysphoria,” a proposed condition that attributes adolescent gender distress to exposure to transgender people through friends or social media. The existence of such a syndrome has been the subject of intense debate for the past several years and has fueled arguments against transgender rights reforms, despite being widely criticized by medical experts.

The American Psychological Association and 61 other health care providers’ organizations signed a letter in 2021 denouncing the validity of rapid-onset gender dysphoria (ROGD) as a clinical diagnosis. And a steadily growing body of scientific evidence demonstrates that it does not reflect transgender adolescents’ experiences and that “social contagion” is not causing more young people to seek gender-affirming care. Still, the concept continues to be used to justify anti-trans legislation across the U.S.

(more)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2023 • 12:33:46am

Studying the brain signals of people with epilepsy leads to reconstruction of Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 1” (PLOS Biology, August 15, 2023)

Music can be reconstructed from human auditory cortex activity using nonlinear decoding models

Abstract

Music is core to human experience, yet the precise neural dynamics underlying music perception remain unknown. We analyzed a unique intracranial electroencephalography (iEEG) dataset of 29 patients who listened to a Pink Floyd song and applied a stimulus reconstruction approach previously used in the speech domain. We successfully reconstructed a recognizable song from direct neural recordings and quantified the impact of different factors on decoding accuracy. Combining encoding and decoding analyses, we found a right-hemisphere dominance for music perception with a primary role of the superior temporal gyrus (STG), evidenced a new STG subregion tuned to musical rhythm, and defined an anterior-posterior STG organization exhibiting sustained and onset responses to musical elements. Our findings show the feasibility of applying predictive modeling on short datasets acquired in single patients, paving the way for adding musical elements to brain-computer interface (BCI) applications.

(full study at link)

TL;DR, neurologists studied epilepsy patients who have postage stamp-size electrode arrays implanted on the surface of their brains to detect seizures. The electrodes captured tone, rhythm, harmony, and lyrics, producing a garbled but recognisable playback of “Another Brick in the Wall” while the patients were hearing it.

The team explained the reason they picked the Pink Floyd song for their experiment is because the song is richly layered with different instruments and complex chords, making it interesting to analyse.

The goal of this study is to help translate brainwaves into human speech. They hope that this could help people who have suffered a loss of speech due to strokes, paralysis, or similar conditions.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2023 • 12:41:41am

re: #27 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

(3:12, the study song in question)

Another Brick In The Wall (Part 1)

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 25, 2023 • 12:43:44am

I don’t think this is such a good idea…Junior might just sell it lock, stock and barrel for a few keys of blow.

Donald Trump recently “sold” Mar A Lago, his beloved home in Florida, according to property records.

However, a bit of investigation recently revealed that the ownership did not, in fact, leave Trump’s hands.

Rather, he transferred it into a corporation.

The owner of the corporation has a very familiar name, his son - Donald Trump Jr.

msn.com

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2023 • 12:53:14am

re: #28 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Scientist to kewl person: We want you to sit around and listen to classic rock so we can see if we can read it off your brainwaves.

Scientist to unkewl person like me: Take these calcium tablets to see if we can stave off osteoporosis.

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silverdolphin  Aug 25, 2023 • 12:54:16am

re: #29 Dr Lizardo

I don’t think this is such a good idea…Junior might just sell it lock, stock and barrel for a few keys of blow.

msn.com

Looks like he is trying to remove assets from the claws of any judgement.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 25, 2023 • 12:54:42am

re: #31 silverdolphin

Looks like he is trying to remove assets from the claws of any judgement.

It’s pretty obvious.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2023 • 1:04:29am

re: #30 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Proposed follow up study which would never be approved:

Subset of kewl patients: Here’s some spiffs. Smoke X number of spliffs whilst listening to Pink Floyd, so we can see how that affects the audio spectrograph output of your neural electrodes.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2023 • 1:06:13am

re: #31 silverdolphin

Looks like he is trying to remove assets from the claws of any judgement.

That would be so fitting if Saudi Arabia came by and said “you know about all those loans? That deed will do.”

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 25, 2023 • 1:08:25am
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sagehen  Aug 25, 2023 • 1:12:21am

The year is 5783.

Soon to be 5784.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 25, 2023 • 1:13:41am

Noticed considerably fewer posts in my Twitter feed, from those of whom I follow (which is down to 23.)

But in order to truly feel a pinch, the big sports teams and entertainment companies need to move away from Xitter.

That is why Threads is so important.

It is unlikely any major team or major studio will move to Mastodon.

But they might move to Threads.

Then there is the problem that in some countries, like Japan, Xitter is still popular.

That’s what Blue Sky lacks - international reach.

Threads might be able to pull off more in those parts of the globe, where Blue Sky so far has lacked.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2023 • 1:42:45am

re: #37 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

If you know someone in another country who would be a good addition to BlueSky, I have a code you can give them.

Q0ZncUVWdnRDUXZ1QlQ5b2EyclJleTdqU01Uc1RsMmMyS2tEVTBzeC9Oaz06Oiawl9VTRYEbwsJL0HVu20c=

I’m apparently important enough they trusted me with a second code. /s

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 25, 2023 • 1:45:04am

I have two Bluesky codes available if anyone wants ‘em:

YWkxbkpwM1pEQ09vLyt4K3FZUldjMTVoUnBOK1o1QXBaYXhZNFRpNG5XY3hrNWwyVFljMEVGNXNUdjhycWdvWm1SNy83YmJVQmNHdExIS1BPM3VQVGc9PTo6fItwij4vLRFC6HOYO2b2oA==

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 25, 2023 • 2:05:40am

re: #38 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I’ve lost contact, sadly, with my Japanese friends over the years.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 25, 2023 • 2:11:36am

.

“Canzona serenata” from Forgotten Melodies, Op. 38/6 | MEDTNER | Luke Faulkner





..

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Decatur Deb  Aug 25, 2023 • 2:13:33am

re: #36 sagehen

The year is 5783.

Soon to be 5784.

The year is 79, soon to be 80.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2023 • 2:48:35am

Nature, August 11, 2023

Closing down an icon: will Arecibo Observatory ever do science again?

“Although it is slated to become an education centre, astronomers hope research might one day return to the site.”

The National Science Foundation, which funded the Arecibo Radiotelescope, announced they would fund a science education centre at the site. They noted that technology has advanced far beyond the telescope’s abilities.

That said, scientists at Arecibo hope that new instruments will be sited in the location of the famed telescope.

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Dizzy  Aug 25, 2023 • 3:03:48am

re: #39 Dr Lizardo

I have two Bluesky codes available if anyone wants ‘em:

[Embedded content]

bWZ2U04xNEk3NjBkanVEM1FZRkVoQzJ4UU1maUl1b1ROckJvUEtlSjA2NnlRTThoTzVkNFlhVVJnNEhicTlHUlphRmlPMTE3dHFRZGdEemE2bGxvYjNWeE1MU0loWjBIaUtOb2Fnd1NLK0RNK09RckVXTHVQODhudmY0ckRCYnhQTjZ6a3RrZ1ZSN2t6NG9yNGp4ZFBqZGlISlJ2K2haOEpxdmxoVHR1SlV6bWNjZmxtY1ZnU3ZVRmVPR2ppMkIwY3hEMzdoV0RESjRWOTFjWkJ1Z1FUWFRDbzRhMEsyWFg3ZUVWS2xXMDMybUZCUHVZRitSQmxuYWwrd0tvVWhNOTo6IU25uo7ay9oL63u4dtoglw==

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 25, 2023 • 3:08:44am

re: #43 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The Arecibo telescope; led to one of the all-time greatest cold opens of The X-Files.

X-files - Little Green Men

Brilliantly done and one of the few times The X-Files genuinely sent a chill down my spine. If I were on listening duty somewhere, and I suddenly get some kind of signal from deep space and then start hearing the playback of one of the Voyager discs, I’d jump right out of my damn skin.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 25, 2023 • 3:09:33am

re: #44 Dizzy

dGt6R0c5clZaNXJEOHNPREVyU2dlQT09Ojqvw7VwSD8tNVxflTK62E55

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Dizzy  Aug 25, 2023 • 3:13:23am

re: #46 Dr Lizardo

V25kSUQwVUlUKzMxVk9NSVZJcjlCQT09OjoNEJn+dz+djwooto1XwD4I

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2023 • 3:15:43am

This seems to be a useless Website. It is a firehose of every post at BlueSky as it goes up. Needless to say it’s nearly unreadable.

firesky.tv

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 25, 2023 • 3:19:26am

Have any you had a conversation with Claude?

I just asked it to write a ditty about Trump being booked.

This is what Claude came up with:

Oh Donald Trump, you’re in a slump,
The feds have come to take you in,
They say you stole some classified scrolls,
And now you’re sunk in legal dumps.

Your lawyers frown and pace around,

They know you’re in a pickle,
You took those files to your retreat,
Now prison’s on the tickle.

You say it’s just a witch’s hunt,
But evidence is mounting,
You hoarded secret documents,
The law you have been flouting.

So wave goodbye to freedom’s sky,
And brace for prosecution,
You are expelled from your ivory tower,
Await your fate’s collision.

The judge won’t smile, the trial hostile,
Your goose is fully cooked,
No deals in sight, no mercy flight,
For records that you took.

So learn your lesson, make confession,
You reap what you do sow,
No fancy tricks or politics,
Can stop the legal flow.

Your day in court cannot be bought,
Justice will be served,
No more denials or shouting trials,
Fate’s hammer has just swerved.

It’s not bad, very functional. Not especially elegant though and could use a little bit more sparkle to make it better.

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Targetpractice  Aug 25, 2023 • 3:20:11am

re: #26 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Scientific American, August 24, 2023

The problem for the author here is laying out the facts and history of so-called rapid onset gender dysphoria doesn’t matter to a conservative. Power does, and hate brings power.

Evidence Undermines ‘Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria’ Claims

«Fears of “social contagion,” used to support anti-transgender legislation, are not supported by science»

(more)

What is “Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria”? Conservatives trying to desperately hold onto their belief that being LGBTQ+ is a “disease” that can be “cured.” And looking for an excuse for their bigotry that doesn’t rest solely upon “IT MAKES THE BABY JESUS CRY!!!” As I keep saying again and again, it’s just last generation’s homophobia with the serial numbers filed off, the sort of stupidity that saw countless Americans locked in mental hospitals for years in the hope that they could be “cured.”

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 25, 2023 • 3:23:18am

So I asked Claude to make it more elegant, and he/it did:

Oh mister Trump, your ship has sunk,
The law has come to seize the day,
They say you snatched some secret cache,

And now you’ll face the price to pay.

Your lawyers pace with furrowed face,
This mess no quick undoing,
You grabbed those files against the rules,
Now prison comes a-wooing.

You cry “witch hunt!” but evidence mounts,
The truth will not be thwarted,
You hoarded private documents,
The law cannot be shorted.

So wave farewell to freedom’s swell,
Brace for justice’s collision,

Expelled from your gilded citadel,
Await the law’s decision.

No judge’s smile on you shall shine,
No mercy will be granted,
No deals in sight for your plight,
For records you have planted.

So learn the lesson, make confession,

You reap what you do sow,
No tricks or wiles or guiles
Can stop justice’s flow.

Your day in court cannot be bought,
The truth will be uncovered,
No more denial or hostile trial,
Your fate is no longer buffered.

So face the music, end the excuses,
Serenity find in surrender,
No more illusions or self-delusions,
Accept your fate so tender.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 25, 2023 • 3:26:29am

re: #51 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I do like the second stanza.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 25, 2023 • 3:30:37am

I asked Claude to put it in Iambic Pentameter:

Alas mister Trump, your ship has sunk,
The law’s come now to seize the day,
They say you snatched some secret cache,
And now you’ll pay the price I say.

Your lawyers pace with furrowed face,
This mess no quick undoing,
You grabbed those files against the rules,
Now prison comes a-wooing.

You cry “witch hunt!” but evidence mounts,
The truth will not be thwarted,
You hoarded private documents,
The law cannot be shorted.

So wave farewell to freedom’s swell,
Brace for justice’s collision,
Expelled from your gilded citadel,
Await the court’s decision.

No judge’s smile on you will shine,
No mercy will be granted,
No deals in sight for your plight,
For records you have planted.

So learn the lesson, make confession,
You reap what you do sow,
No tricks or wiles or guiles
Can stop justice’s flow.

Your day in court cannot be bought,
The truth will be uncovered,
No more denial or hostile trial,
Your fate’s no longer buffered.

So face the music, end excuses,
Find peace in surrender,
No more illusions or confusions,
Accept your fate so tender.

It’s not perfect but it’s getting pretty good.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 25, 2023 • 3:34:28am

The challenge is that Claude does not do syllabic utterances and does not appear to understand the difference between 10 spoken syllables or not.

Thus the irregularities in the poem when it comes to meter.

But it still has a flow that is better than it was originally.

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Nerdy Fish  Aug 25, 2023 • 3:46:43am

Not a lot of options.

Click to Reveal

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2023 • 3:49:10am

re: #44 Dizzy

I followed you, you poor devil.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 25, 2023 • 3:50:49am

re: #44 Dizzy

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Dizzy  Aug 25, 2023 • 3:52:38am

re: #56 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Thanks! Followed back. I don’t post much, but maybe that’ll change with the new platform.

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Dizzy  Aug 25, 2023 • 3:53:48am

re: #57 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 25, 2023 • 3:53:53am

Me being, well, me, I tried to trip up Claude and I am surprised by the answers:

I ask “Who was Darius the Great in the Book of Daniel?”

Claude gave a lengthy answer and concluded with this:

So in summary, Darius was the Persian king who rose to power after Babylon’s fall and saw the power of the God of Israel firsthand through Daniel.

Hmm…. surprised a chat bot would be so emphatic about the “God of Israel”.

So I went on:

Me: “Was that Darius a real person?”

C:

So while some details in Daniel may be symbolic, the character of Darius the Great was inspired by a real powerful Persian king who had a great impact on the region. The historical setting gives authenticity to the accounts in the Biblical book.

I boldfaced the interesting part. Claude seems to have been worked over by some apologists…

So I decided to throw the curveball:

Me: “How does that conflict with Darius the Mede in the book of Daniel?”

C:

There is some potential confusion between Darius the Mede and Darius the Great in the Book of Daniel. Here’s an overview:

In Daniel 5, “Darius the Mede” is said to take over the Babylonian kingdom after Belshazzar.

In Daniel 6, a king named Darius makes Daniel one of his three administrators. This is presumably the same Darius, though he is not explicitly called “the Mede”.

In Daniel 11, Daniel refers to the “fourth king” after Cyrus the Persian. This fourth king is almost certainly Xerxes I, the son of Darius the Great.

So the issue is Daniel 5 refers to a “Darius the Mede” different from Darius the Great. There are a few possibilities:

“Darius the Mede” was another name for Cyrus the Great, the Persian ruler who conquered Babylon. Cyrus had Median origins.

“Darius the Mede” was a governor installed by Cyrus for a short time. Historical records are spotty for this period.

The author of Daniel got some details wrong or rearranged things for literary purposes.

Overall, it seems Daniel 5 refers to a different person than Darius the Great, possibly a governor or alternate name for Cyrus. But the accounts were inspired by real historical figures and events during the transition from Babylonian to Persian rule.

I bold faced the part which is the typical conclusion of (secular) scholars.

But I had to force Claude to finally even offer that the (first) author of Daniel (it was added to later) simply made a mistake .

And even then Claude tried to soften the blow by offering up alternatives.

Claude is clearly by American publications/online sites. If Claude is harvesting the internet that means it is harvesting fundamentalist websites too.

The problem(s) with the book of Daniel are well known. They are part of any introductory commentary on Daniel.

This shows us why something like Claude or ChatGPT can never do real research - these things can’t ask original questions and self-correct.

All they can do is repeat tokens in an order that fits English grammar.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 25, 2023 • 3:54:17am

re: #58 Dizzy

Thanks! Followed back. I don’t post much, but maybe that’ll change with the new platform.

If you go into my timeline, you’ll see an awful lot of weird people who follow me. Be warned.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 25, 2023 • 3:54:53am

Birbs all day long. Well, this morning at least.

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Dizzy  Aug 25, 2023 • 3:55:48am

re: #61 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

If you go into my timeline, you’ll see an awful lot of weird people who follow me. Be warned.

Being a truly mundane individual, I love weird people!

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 25, 2023 • 3:58:24am

ChatGPT for the win!

In a twist of events quite bizarre,
Donald Trump soon to be behind bars.
His arrest made headlines,
In legal entwines,
A tale that traveled near and far.

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Nerdy Fish  Aug 25, 2023 • 4:00:22am

So has our little Insurrection Act buddy Jeffy Clark turned himself in yet?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 25, 2023 • 4:00:26am

And in poem form.

In a realm where power held its sway,
Donald Trump faced a fateful day.
Arrested, he stood,
Once mighty, now subdued,
A chapter of history’s array.

Once the leader, bold and loud,
Now his fate was cast in cloud.
Legal webs entwined,
A legacy maligned,
In the grip of justice, he was bound.

The world watched as the story unfurled,
A symbol of a changing world.
No throne could shield,
No falsehoods concealed,
As accountability at last twirled.

The lesson here, for all to see,
No matter one’s status or decree,
The law knows no pride,
It walks by no side,
Justice prevails, firm and free.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 25, 2023 • 4:02:35am

So I called Claude out on his/it’s faith-oriented statements:

Me: “Can you give me a citation for the source to your claim 2. above, that “Darius the Mede” was a governor installed by Cyrus?”

C:

You’re right to ask for a source on that claim. Unfortunately, there is no clear historical evidence outside of the Book of Daniel for “Darius the Mede” as a governor installed by Cyrus. Here is some further analysis on the issue:

The claim that Darius the Mede was installed by Cyrus comes from attempts by biblical scholars to reconcile Daniel 5 with Xenophon’s Cyropaedia, which mentions a king named Cyaxares ruling after the fall of Babylon.

However, Cyropaedia is not considered fully historically reliable, and there are no other clear ancient sources mentioning Darius the Mede.

Some scholars theorize Darius the Mede could refer to Gubaru, a governor appointed by Cyrus over Babylon. But this is speculative, as Gubaru is not called “king”.

Ultimately, the figure of Darius the Mede lacks external confirmation. It’s possible he is an alternate name or literary device used by the author of Daniel.

So in summary, there is no clear historical evidence outside of Daniel for a ruler named Darius the Mede ruling Babylon between Belshazzar and Cyrus. The attempts to equate him with other figures are speculative. I apologize for making an unsubstantiated claim earlier and appreciate you pressing me to back up my statements. The history around this period and writing of Daniel remains complex.

Damn, I got an apology from a chat bot!

First time that happened.

But how many people out there will simply take an answer from these bots and not know what is real or not?

Are we entering a new kind of dark age?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 25, 2023 • 4:07:42am

re: #67 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

What’s Claude?

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 25, 2023 • 4:10:38am
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 25, 2023 • 4:12:23am

re: #69 Dr Lizardo

Pussy.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 25, 2023 • 4:22:51am

re: #70 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Pussy.

He’s probably too paranoid to leave his luxury bunker now, especially after bumping off Prigozhin.

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No Malarkey!  Aug 25, 2023 • 4:24:00am

re: #71 Dr Lizardo

He’s probably too paranoid to leave his luxury bunker now, especially after bumping off Prigozhin.

By announcing he won’t attend, he is spared the humiliation of being told he’s not invited.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 25, 2023 • 4:32:05am

re: #72 No Malarkey!

By announcing he won’t attend, he is spared the humiliation of being told he’s not invited.

Yes, that too.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 25, 2023 • 4:51:08am

re: #68 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

What’s Claude?

Claude’s a dude on the internet. He knows a lot. Just ask him: claude.ai

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 25, 2023 • 4:51:34am


Some good news. A tough slog, to be sure.

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William Lewis  Aug 25, 2023 • 4:56:39am

re: #44 Dizzy

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lawhawk  Aug 25, 2023 • 5:05:52am

Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area on this soggy Friday morning.

I have thoughts.

Trump got his mug shot after surrendering to authorities, all while saying to his know nothing extremist base to never surrender. That’s some cognitive dissonance there, not that his base knows or cares. They think this fucker is showing strength by getting prosecuted across the nation for his multiple conspiracies to invalidate votes of millions of Americans?

He tried ending democracy on 1/6, and he and the rest of the GOP are still at it.

The buffoons at the GOP primary debate pretty much stated as much - they’d back Trump as the nominee, even if he’s convicted in a court of law on multiple felonies. How fucking insane is that? They know what the law and the Constitution says about such things - he’s already shown himself to be lacking character and judgment to be in the WH (let alone on the tour), and the rest of the coup clown car are like, yeah, he’s fine to run again - when they’re virtue and value signaling to the GOP base (and the rest of the nation) that party > nation, and they don’t care about laws or law enforcement or prosecuting crimes, especially when the crimes being prosecuted are by GOPers who tried to end democracy and steal an election.

This isn’t merely about complaining about the outcome of an election, or claiming irregularities. Trump tried to equate his actions with what Hillary said/did in 2016. That’s bulkshit on a stick.

Hillary didn’t engage in a conspiracy to overturn the outcome, seek coconspirators who’d put out a fake slate of electors, or conspire with thugs to storm the US Capitol in effort to thwart the certification of the election.

Trump did.

His coconspirators in this case and the DC case are all guilty as sin on those charges, and they all know it.

And the worst part is that this GOP will try it again. They think that they’d have a better chance with someone slightly more competent than the insane Trumpworld.

Yeah, except that none of them are Trump and Trump has a magic power of being able to bend the rubes to his will. None of these other pretenders are even close to that. They’re all wannabes, and none of the base would consider them when Trump’s still available.

So, fuck the GOP. Fuck Trump, and god bless the USA and prosecutors still doing their jobs of investigating and prosecuting all those associated with Trump’s effort to end democracy on 1/6.

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lawhawk  Aug 25, 2023 • 5:13:11am
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William Lewis  Aug 25, 2023 • 5:19:08am

Grey and gloomy out at the moment. Still going to go try to find pictures while its semi-cool - got a new to me 17mm f/3.5 lens to experiment with and make sure UPS didn’t mess it up with their drop kick shuffle yesterday.

I’m glad their drivers got the big contract but I’d still never even consider sending something important through that POS excuse for a shipping company.

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Shropshire Slasher  Aug 25, 2023 • 5:19:28am

I woke up with a dead skunk on the back lawn and a distinct aroma in the house.

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TarHellion  Aug 25, 2023 • 5:21:04am

re: #55 Nerdy Fish

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lawhawk  Aug 25, 2023 • 5:23:15am

Some more thoughts…

So all these right wing fuckers are now suddenly concerned about conditions at jails, like Fulton County, when Trump and his coconspirators are getting processed, and one of them failed to make bail (because he also assaulted a federal officer who was investigating him).

They are suddenly concerned about bail and the conditions for release?

Fuck all that.

The two-tier justice system still persists, and even though DA Willis did a better job of holding everyone to similar standards, whether you’re rich and powerful or poor, all of the coconspirators were able to surrender without being perp walked, and they were able to make bail (the purpose of bail is to ensure attendance at court proceedings, unless bail should be denied b/c of the severity of the crimes involved).

I’d argue that bail was not sufficient in this case. I think many here would agree.

But that they had to put up bail is fine, and you have to put up a fraction of what the bail states, with the rest collateral - if you fail to show, you forfeit the fraction, and owe the rest.

What an indignity to require bail? What an indignity to need to go to a bail bondsman to get bail?

Screw that - the indignity is that Trump was ever in elected office, when he was already signaling his intention to never abide by the results of an election that he would lose.

He’s still at it.

The rest of the GOP are still at it.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 25, 2023 • 5:24:33am

re: #28 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I hope they use some other music if they are ever going to test my braims

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lawhawk  Aug 25, 2023 • 5:24:38am
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Shropshire Slasher  Aug 25, 2023 • 5:25:39am

re: #82 lawhawk

Just put them in jail.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 25, 2023 • 5:27:43am

I believe Trump was emulating General George Patton’s “War Face” in order to show his resolve in fighting all the perceived transgression of justice he claime to have been subjected to

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lawhawk  Aug 25, 2023 • 5:29:40am

Did Trump transfer his MAL property to Junior? Seems that’s exactly what happened within the past few weeks.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 25, 2023 • 5:30:57am

re: #87 lawhawk

Did Trump transfer his MAL property to Junior?

all except for the documents buried in Ivanka’s grave…

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jeffreyw  Aug 25, 2023 • 5:31:36am

Good morning!

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Aug 25, 2023 • 5:31:46am

re: #44 Dizzy

Followed

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Nerdy Fish  Aug 25, 2023 • 5:36:22am

re: #88 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

all except for the documents buried in Ivanka’s grave…

I assume you mean Ivana, but come on. He’s not going to bury his “precious mind paper” where he can’t get to it.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 25, 2023 • 5:38:58am

re: #91 Nerdy Fish

I assume you mean Ivana, but come on. He’s not going to bury his “precious mind paper” where he can’t get to it.

and Ivana’s in Bedminster anyways…

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Nerdy Fish  Aug 25, 2023 • 5:41:49am

Also, I seem to recall that courts will often look at recent transactions, to see if there’s any hinky business going on (such as attempts to dispose of assets to avoid judgments). Am I thinking of the right thing, or is that only in bankruptcy?

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 25, 2023 • 5:47:22am

re: #22 EPR-radar

Recent developments are promising, but I’m very wary of anything that looks like a declaration of victory. Especially since the Republican party is as corrupt and powerful as ever. FFS, the election of 2024 will be freedom vs. fascism and it will be much closer than it should be.

The GOP is doing its best to DARVO the situation; they are screeching that Trump’s facing justice is the crime and not his actions. Let’s see if Fani Willis survives or if she is tossed out of office because the Georgia Republicans are irredeemably corrupt.

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Dave In Austin  Aug 25, 2023 • 5:48:34am

re: #80 Shropshire Slasher

I woke up with a dead skunk on the back lawn and a distinct aroma in the house.

So… Did it die on the spot or was it deposited?

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Shropshire Slasher  Aug 25, 2023 • 5:52:09am

re: #95 Dave In Austin

So… Did it die on the spot or was it deposited?

My dog doesn’t smell, but he isn’t talking. I came home at 1 am and didn’t see it, the aroma was there, but I was pretty tired from working 18 hour days.

I think it was attacked near the house and wandered there to die. It got the shovel and flung it into the hay fields.

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Dave In Austin  Aug 25, 2023 • 5:52:17am

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lawhawk  Aug 25, 2023 • 5:52:46am

re: #93 Nerdy Fish

Also, I seem to recall that courts will often look at recent transactions, to see if there’s any hinky business going on (such as attempts to dispose of assets to avoid judgments). Am I thinking of the right thing, or is that only in bankruptcy?

Typically that’s for bankruptcy, but if it affects financial transactions being investigated or financial settlements from any of his financial cases, then this can come up as Trump trying to shield personal assets from being subject to those settlements.

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Dave In Austin  Aug 25, 2023 • 5:53:57am

Also good for Election endorsements (MCCaul Hates Trump)

for your favorite POL.

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Shropshire Slasher  Aug 25, 2023 • 5:54:30am

re: #97 Dave In Austin

The Trump campaign is looking to cash in on the former president’s historic mug shot — hawking T-shirts and other merchandise featuring his booking photo.

The new line of mug-shot-inspired gear appeared on Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign site Thursday night shortly after the photo taken at an Atlanta jail was released to the public.

The products include T-shirts and long-sleeved shirts for $34, a $25 coffee mug, and a $15 beer Koozies.

nypost.com

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Nerdy Fish  Aug 25, 2023 • 5:55:11am

re: #98 lawhawk

Typically that’s for bankruptcy, but if it affects financial transactions being investigated or financial settlements from any of his financial cases, then this can come up as Trump trying to shield personal assets from being subject to those settlements.

OK. So if he tries to pull a “I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY” as a result of all his criming, the bankruptcy court can look at that and go, “Hey, man, you just dumped your Florida club in an attempt to reduce your paper assets, nice try,” but in general, other courts won’t care unless it’s materially relevant (e.g. there’s something fraudulent about the transaction, and someone files suit for fraud).

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 25, 2023 • 5:55:26am

re: #37 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Noticed considerably fewer posts in my Twitter feed, from those of whom I follow (which is down to 23.)

But in order to truly feel a pinch, the big sports teams and entertainment companies need to move away from Xitter.

That is why Threads is so important.

It is unlikely any major team or major studio will move to Mastodon.

But they might move to Threads.

Then there is the problem that in some countries, like Japan, Xitter is still popular.

That’s what Blue Sky lacks - international reach.

Threads might be able to pull off more in those parts of the globe, where Blue Sky so far has lacked.

Doesn’t Blue Sky still require an invite code to join? And you have to be a member to view posts.

Threads major attraction is that it can handle hundreds of millions of users. But apparently it lacks features to make it a real alternative to the platform formerly known as Twitter.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 25, 2023 • 5:57:02am

re: #79 William Lewis

THIS IS MY GOBSMACKED FACE

(it has nothing to do with tfg)

William Lewis is the big winner today!!

(I was gonna do a spinning red light then thought better about it because of some lizards)

Virtualbox and my software effing works!
better than i could have imagined (so far)

more to come…
stay tuned

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ericblair  Aug 25, 2023 • 6:07:22am

BRICS is the No Homers Westerners Club, and that’s it. They really don’t have anything else in common, and an agreed policy on anything is laughable. A common currency is even more laughable, unless it’s the Renminbi.

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Belafon  Aug 25, 2023 • 6:07:48am

re: #103 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

THIS IS MY GOBSMACKED FACE

(it has nothing to do with tfg)

William Lewis is the big winner today!!

(I was gonna do a spinning red light then thought better about it because of some lizards)

Virtualbox and my software effing works!
better than i could have imagined (so far)

more to come…
stay tuned

The nice thing about VirtualBox is you can archive the image, and then bring it up on another computer if the current one fails.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 25, 2023 • 6:10:48am

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 25, 2023 • 6:12:36am
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Dizzy  Aug 25, 2023 • 6:13:08am

re: #90 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Followed

Thanks, followed back.

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lawhawk  Aug 25, 2023 • 6:15:19am

So, if you want to get a sense of priorities by newspaper businesses around the nation, look at the front page.

It gives a sense as to their priorities.

This site lets you scan the front pages of nearly 350 newspapers around the nation.

A surprisingly small number of papers ran Trump’s mugshot as an above the fold key item. Small number ran items about Trump’s surrender.

That is troubling, given the importance of those criminal cases and it’s as though newspapers are misinforming by omission.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 25, 2023 • 6:16:01am

re: #102 Hecuba’s daughter

Yes. Codes are posted here often.

I can only presume codes are available widely.

Eventually anyone will be able to join.

I suspect the Blue Sky folks are trying their darndest to not be slammed. Resources cost money and so far I don’t see how Blue Sky is making any revenue.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 25, 2023 • 6:17:36am

Rando

He is no longer in control of his life. Thats what burns him. Being told what to do.

He will be slowly bled of his fortune. His children will carry the Scarlet Letter of the Trump name. He will eventually be written into history as the worst American ever born. He will destroy the third oldest political party in the world.

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No Malarkey!  Aug 25, 2023 • 6:26:17am

re: #104 ericblair

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It’s important to rightwingers so they can maintain the fantasy that “something” is going to replace the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency, and then the U.S. economy will collapse unless we become “fiscally responsible,” meaning, gut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid to balance the budget.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 25, 2023 • 6:26:19am

So tfg posts his mug on Twitter with the message “Never Surrender”

And just hours after, you know, surrendering.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 25, 2023 • 6:27:34am

re: #109 lawhawk

So, if you want to get a sense of priorities by newspaper businesses around the nation, look at the front page.

It gives a sense as to their priorities.

This site lets you scan the front pages of nearly 350 newspapers around the nation.

A surprisingly small number of papers ran Trump’s mugshot as an above the fold key item. Small number ran items about Trump’s surrender.

That is troubling, given the importance of those criminal cases and it’s as though newspapers are misinforming by omission.

Atlanta did ok

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 25, 2023 • 6:30:28am

re: #55 Nerdy Fish

Not a lot of options.

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No Malarkey!  Aug 25, 2023 • 6:32:02am

re: #22 EPR-radar

Recent developments are promising, but I’m very wary of anything that looks like a declaration of victory. Especially since the Republican party is as corrupt and powerful as ever. FFS, the election of 2024 will be freedom vs. fascism and it will be much closer than it should be.

Biden’s leadover Trump has increased to two points recently in the realclear politics average, and Trump is a lot closer to his ceiling than Biden is. A recent poll shows Biden leading by nine points if Trump is convicted as swing voters peel off. That is a big reason why its important to try Trump before election day; the voters have the right to know if the GOP nominee is a felon who endangers democracy and national security.

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sizzzzlerz  Aug 25, 2023 • 6:37:14am

re: #80 Shropshire Slasher

I woke up with a dead skunk on the back lawn and a distinct aroma in the house.

Let’s go back to 1972 for this classic hit

You got your dead skunk in the middle of the road
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Stinking to high heaven

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ericblair  Aug 25, 2023 • 6:43:57am

re: #112 No Malarkey!

It’s important to rightwingers so they can maintain the fantasy that “something” is going to replace the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency, and then the U.S. economy will collapse unless we become “fiscally responsible,” meaning, gut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid to balance the budget.

There are a lot of conspiracies about countries ending trades in US dollars, which would somehow crash the US economy, and so the US is doing some secret invasion or assassination somewhere to somehow stop it. Yeah, okay.

Countries do trades in USD because it is an enormous currency market (where buying billions of dollars doesn’t affect your buy price really at all), and is instantly and easily sellable without permission by the US government (ni hao China!), again with plenty of buyers. Anybody is free to not use the USD, and of course this happens all the time.

As for China crashing the US economy by selling off all their dollars: they sold a lot off years ago without impact on the US. If they thought that selling USD would benefit them, they’d do it, and if they tried to dump their currency and treasury debt all at once it would mess them up way more than the US.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 25, 2023 • 6:46:01am

I mentioned this here yesterday. Cause death was a heart attack with Covid complications as a contributing factor.

So it wasn’t anything to do with his chosen profession. While many wrestlers did die young between 1990 and 2010, the business has taken measures to combat this. Schedules are lighter, dangerous moves are banned in some promotions, WWE offers a wellness program to wrestlers and former wrestlers struggling with substance abuse and the like. And there is not as much emphasis as being physically ripped so not as many steroids around.

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lawhawk  Aug 25, 2023 • 6:54:31am

Balance of Trump coconspirators booked overnight, including Jeff Clark, who wanted to use the insurrection act to crush dissent and prevent anyone from protesting Trump’s criminal and illegal takeover of the USG.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 25, 2023 • 6:55:28am

I think this image may be manipulated slightly but regardless, there’s no way the fat fuck is 215.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Aug 25, 2023 • 7:00:51am

re: #69 Dr Lizardo

I suspect Putin is going to avoid aircraft for at least the next year or so. Russian airspace might be a bit dangerous for him to travel in.

And going by rail or car far from Moscow would require a lot of preparation and other logistical issues.

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darthstar  Aug 25, 2023 • 7:01:28am

re: #121 Eclectic Cyborg

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I think this image may be manipulated slightly but regardless, there’s no way the fat fuck is 215.

Obviously they let him document his own height and weight at booking. Just be sure when he’s in court the max load a chair he sits on can support is 220.

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ipsos  Aug 25, 2023 • 7:01:53am

re: #109 lawhawk

So, if you want to get a sense of priorities by newspaper businesses around the nation, look at the front page.

It gives a sense as to their priorities.

This site lets you scan the front pages of nearly 350 newspapers around the nation.

A surprisingly small number of papers ran Trump’s mugshot as an above the fold key item. Small number ran items about Trump’s surrender.

That is troubling, given the importance of those criminal cases and it’s as though newspapers are misinforming by omission.

I wouldn’t read too much into what shows up there anymore. So many chain newspaper owners don’t even try to make their print product timely anymore. Gannett has closed down most of its plants, so my “local” paper in Rochester is now printed at the Bergen (NJ) Record. If it’s Friday, the latest news that can make the printed front page is from Wednesday night.

Those ridiculous deadlines now apply to almost every Gannett paper other than Phoenix and Detroit. And to most papers owned by CNHI and Lee. That’s probably a good 75 percent of the front pages on that site. They literally no longer have the ability to get a mugshot at 8 PM and turn it around for the next morning’s front page.

Just to offer one real-world example: the flooding and mud that paralyzed some of the Palm Springs area didn’t make the next day’s Desert Sun front page… because there WAS no Desert Sun in print the next day, because Gannett prints the paper five hours away in Phoenix with a print deadline the morning before. And oh yeah, I-10 was impassable because of mud and the papers couldn’t get to town at all.

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lawhawk  Aug 25, 2023 • 7:02:58am

re: #122 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

I suspect Putin is going to avoid aircraft for at least the next year or so. Russian airspace might be a bit dangerous for him to travel in.

And going by rail or car far from Moscow would require a lot of preparation and other logistical issues.

Doctor Zhivago ~ Strelnikov’s train (Powerful scene)

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Aug 25, 2023 • 7:08:57am

re: #121 Eclectic Cyborg

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I think this image may be manipulated slightly but regardless, there’s no way the fat fuck is 215.

I’m 6’ 2” and 245lbs and I’m a lot thinner than that. I’d put him in the 300lb range myself.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Aug 25, 2023 • 7:13:05am

re: #125 lawhawk

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Ah yes. Dr Zhivago. I simply love certain bits of that movie. Great cinematography and some fantastic acting done in some of the characters.

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austin_blue  Aug 25, 2023 • 7:13:35am

Of course his booking photo was given to the police to use. If you’re a star, you can get away with it.

Who said that?

They accepted it and shopped the badge onto it. It was obviously not taken with the camera in the office. Everything about it is wrong, from the lighting to the depth of field.

It is as staged as the 6’ 3”, 215 #’s. Everything about Drumpf’s life is a fraud.

Why should his booking photo be any different?

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BigPapa  Aug 25, 2023 • 7:14:45am

I suspect a lot of folks take him at 6’ 3” but that’s a lie too. He’s probably 6’ so I think he’s just under 3 hundo.

I’m 6’ 2” and about 250 now and was up to 294 a few years ago so I have multiple points of reference. I moved to HI in 2004 at 215 and was 220 for years.

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jeffreyw  Aug 25, 2023 • 7:15:25am

Mastodon

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William Lewis  Aug 25, 2023 • 7:19:33am

re: #103 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

THIS IS MY GOBSMACKED FACE

(it has nothing to do with tfg)

William Lewis is the big winner today!!

(I was gonna do a spinning red light then thought better about it because of some lizards)

Virtualbox and my software effing works!
better than i could have imagined (so far)

more to come…
stay tuned

Glad to hear it. Now stress test it to make sure, but I’ve been running some fairly hard core apps under it (I use it to run BSD under Windows to run old LISP apps that stress it pretty hard at times.) so I’m pretty confident it can handle your app.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 25, 2023 • 7:29:28am

Yes you did motherfather…

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Nerdy Fish  Aug 25, 2023 • 7:30:59am

re: #131 William Lewis

Glad to hear it. Now stress test it to make sure, but I’ve been running some fairly hard core apps under it (I use it to run BSD under Windows to run old LISP apps that stress it pretty hard at times.) so I’m pretty confident it can handle your app.

LISP. An elegant weapon, for a more civilized age. (There are LISP ports for Windows that I seem to remember worked pretty well.)

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Belafon  Aug 25, 2023 • 7:33:12am

re: #133 Nerdy Fish

LISP. An elegant weapon, for a more civilized age. (There are LISP ports for Windows that I seem to remember worked pretty well.)

LISP, a hacked together language that a student of a professor put together as a proof of concept that people seem to think is elegant. There is nothing elegant about having to track down parentheses.

If you want a Jedi language, you want Haskell.

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mmmirele  Aug 25, 2023 • 7:33:52am

re: #119 Eclectic Cyborg

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I mentioned this here yesterday. Cause death was a heart attack with Covid complications as a contributing factor.

So it wasn’t anything to do with his chosen profession. While many wrestlers did die young between 1990 and 2010, the business has taken measures to combat this. Schedules are lighter, dangerous moves are banned in some promotions, WWE offers a wellness program to wrestlers and former wrestlers struggling with substance abuse and the like. And there is not as much emphasis as being physically ripped so not as many steroids around.

Oh Jesus, I am sure we’ll hear from the anti-vaxxers that this death is related to the vaccine. Any vaccine.

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William Lewis  Aug 25, 2023 • 7:34:20am

re: #133 Nerdy Fish

LISP. An elegant weapon, for a more civilized age. (There are LISP ports for Windows that I seem to remember worked pretty well.)

Allegro Common Lisp by Franz and LispWorks are the two best and both have free (as in beer) versions available to download.

There are others but they’re mostly just ports of UNIX based systems that use Emacs as an “IDE” (much as I like emacs, that’s a sick joke to anyone who ever used Interlisp or Genera.).

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lawhawk  Aug 25, 2023 • 7:34:31am

Another mass shooting that can be attributed to a so-called good guy with a gun, domestic violence, and the GOP solution is to just keep watering the tree of liberty with blood of tens of thousands of Americans every year while proclaiming they’re pro life.

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William Lewis  Aug 25, 2023 • 7:37:28am

So I did get out for awhile and though the weather was cruddy, the new to me 17mm is going to be an interesting lens. As with all seriously wide angles, the problem is finding an appropriate vista for it. And then having the focus point where you expect it. For example, I thought it was on the yellow flowers…

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William Lewis  Aug 25, 2023 • 7:37:42am

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William Lewis  Aug 25, 2023 • 7:38:01am

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Vicious Babushka  Aug 25, 2023 • 7:40:10am

Birbie

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Belafon  Aug 25, 2023 • 7:41:04am

Accoring to my phone, it looks like the DFW area will return to sanely warm temps by Monday:

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 25, 2023 • 7:43:45am

re: #142 Belafon

Accoring to my phone, it looks like the DFW area will return to sanely warm temps by Monday:

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Same for my area…and we even have a bit of rain in the forecast for next week.

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No Malarkey!  Aug 25, 2023 • 7:47:05am

Sarah Palin calls for Civil War in defense of Trump. There are people who will take such rhetoric deadly seriously. Palin, like Trump, Carlson and many others on the Right, is a stochastic terrorist.

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darthstar  Aug 25, 2023 • 7:48:29am

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 25, 2023 • 7:48:37am

re: #144 No Malarkey!

Sarah Palin calls for Civil War in defense of Trump. There are people who will take such rhetoric deadly seriously. Palin, like Trump, Carlson and many others on the Right, is a stochastic terrorist.

Remember this? Gabrielle Giffords sure remembers it…

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 25, 2023 • 7:58:39am

Goddamnit. I got a message from E-ZPass that my credit card company isn’t authorizing auto-replenishments (it got bought by a different cc company last year; generally pretty good). But I know if there is something out of the ordinary to deal with, it will be a huge time suck. Sure enough, after 7 minutes with the robot, I’m on hold for a human. Then the human is “Karen”; and I know “Karen,” who calls me Mr. first name instead of Mr. Last name, and whose accent sounds subcontinental, won’t have a clue what I’m talking about. I have to repeat the issue a few times and she finally says, “oh,…ok” and disappears for about 7 or 8 more minutes until the line goes dead. If I call again there’s no guarantee that this won’t happen again. So now I have to make other arrangements for payment—maybe directly from bank account. For years I never had a problem. Sigh.

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William Lewis  Aug 25, 2023 • 7:59:46am

re: #134 Belafon

If you want a Jedi language, you want Haskell.

I can see the argument, but I still far prefer my programmable programming language ;)

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William Lewis  Aug 25, 2023 • 8:01:00am

re: #145 darthstar

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Was not aware of this. Pity, I preferred Bacardi.

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BeenHereAwhile  Aug 25, 2023 • 8:01:19am

re: #82 lawhawk

Some more thoughts…

So all these right wing fuckers are now suddenly concerned about conditions at jails, like Fulton County, when Trump and his coconspirators are getting processed, and one of them failed to make bail (because he also assaulted a federal officer who was investigating him).

They are suddenly concerned about bail and the conditions for release?

Fuck all that.

The two-tier justice system still persists, and even though DA Willis did a better job of holding everyone to similar standards, whether you’re rich and powerful or poor, all of the coconspirators were able to surrender without being perp walked, and they were able to make bail (the purpose of bail is to ensure attendance at court proceedings, unless bail should be denied b/c of the severity of the crimes involved).

*snip*

.  .  . I say Dade County Jail
Is nine stories tall now
Air conditioned from wall to wall
They’re not even usin’
Three floors at all
Still they can’t find a bed for
No they can’t find a bed
For Juvenile Hall

Now, I’ve seen your courthouse
With its big shiny doors
I’ve seen your church windows
Costin’ thousands or more
But I’ve never seen
Children sleepin’ on floors
Still they can’t flnd a bed for
No, they can’t find a bed
For Juvenlle Hall

Hey there, all you mothers
Your good City Fathers
Aren’t even good brothers
When they can’t find a bed for
No, they can’t find a bed
For Juvenile Hall
I’ve seen your Torch of Friendship
In Bay Front Park
How can you speak of friendship
With your chlldren in the dark
They got a park
For fhe senior citlzen’s ball
They can’t find a bed for.
No, they can’t find a bed
For Juvenile Hall

-Fred Neil-

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Belafon  Aug 25, 2023 • 8:01:32am

re: #148 William Lewis

I can see the argument, but I still far prefer my programmable programming language ;)

And now you know why the dark side is so alluring.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 25, 2023 • 8:02:16am

She comes out and says it…

Yes. Nicki wants you to “wait till 78” for Social Security.

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Nerdy Fish  Aug 25, 2023 • 8:04:53am

re: #134 Belafon

LISP, a hacked together language that a student of a professor put together as a proof of concept that people seem to think is elegant. There is nothing elegant about having to track down parentheses.

If you want a Jedi language, you want Haskell.

A good editor with paren matching makes LISP a breeze. I do like Haskell as well, though.

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Vicious Babushka  Aug 25, 2023 • 8:08:15am

Mastodon

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 25, 2023 • 8:09:38am

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No Malarkey!  Aug 25, 2023 • 8:11:05am

re: #152 Joe Bacon ✅

She comes out and says it…

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Yes. Nicki wants you to “wait till 78” for Social Security.

Republicans continue to advocate for Social Security and Medicare cuts to satisfy their most important constituency, their big money donors, even though it’s toxically unpopular with everyone else, even their own voters who depend on those programs or soon will for their survival.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 25, 2023 • 8:11:19am

Grandpa would be so happy to see the Unions getting militant again.

United Auto Workers authorize union leadership to call strike against Big Three after contract expires Sept. 14

washingtonpost.com

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 25, 2023 • 8:12:47am

re: #156 No Malarkey!

Republicans continue to advocate for Social Security and Medicare cuts to satisfy their most important constituency, their big money donors, even though it’s toxically unpopular with everyone else, even their own voters who depend on those programs or soon will for their survival.

That’s because they know their brainwashed marks will blame Democrats for those cuts thanks to Fox, OANN, Newsmax, Hate Radio, Gateway Pundit, Right Wing Pulpit Pimps and the 24/7 Republican Bullshit Machine.

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 25, 2023 • 8:14:05am

re: #157 Joe Bacon ✅

Grandpa would be so happy to see the Unions getting militant again.

United Auto Workers authorize union leadership to call strike against Big Three after contract expires Sept. 14

washingtonpost.com

Republicans are universally opposed to unions — anything that gives workers power in negotiating with businesses or (sometimes) the government. Their hatred of teachers unions is universal among members of the party.

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wrenchwench  Aug 25, 2023 • 8:14:49am

Birbie. It’s not a four. I don’t know how it happened.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 25, 2023 • 8:17:29am

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Aug 25, 2023 • 8:17:31am

re: #159 Hecuba’s daughter

Republicans are universally opposed to unions — anything that gives workers power in negotiating with businesses or (sometimes) the government. Their hatred of teachers unions is universal among members of the party.

My best friend is a blue-collar worker in a union. His coworkers are dumbass Republicans who are brainwashed to hate the union that gets them excellent pay.

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wrenchwench  Aug 25, 2023 • 8:19:01am

re: #162 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

My best friend is a blue-collar worker in a union. His coworkers are dumbass Republicans who are brainwashed to hate the union that gets them excellent pay.

Anti-union propaganda is strong, because unions are stronger.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 25, 2023 • 8:19:16am

GOP debate gives hope to Putin that next president won’t be ‘committed to the war’

Among the many interested viewers who tuned into the first Republican Party 2024 presidential debate was likely Russian President Vladimir Putin who has more than a passing interest in who the next president will be…

cnn.com

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 25, 2023 • 8:20:38am

re: #162 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

My best friend is a blue-collar worker in a union. His coworkers are dumbass Republicans who are brainwashed to hate the union that gets them excellent pay.

Dad had that frustration for years with his fellow Boilermakers most of whom were George Wallace Democrats who would vote Republican in general elections because they hated colored people.

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Shropshire Slasher  Aug 25, 2023 • 8:21:40am

re: #147 Barefoot Grin

I make changes on my EZPass online. It isn’t very user friendly.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Aug 25, 2023 • 8:24:46am

re: #165 Joe Bacon ✅

Dad had that frustration for years with his fellow Boilermakers most of whom were George Wallace Democrats who would vote Republican in general elections because they hated colored people.

Bigotry is 100% of the reason that his coworkers are Republicans. He only has a couple of people he can talk to because the rest say terrible things.

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BeachDem  Aug 25, 2023 • 8:26:50am

re: #152 Joe Bacon ✅

She comes out and says it…

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Yes. Nicki wants you to “wait till 78” for Social Security.

And speaking of Nikki, I didn’t think Kathleen Parker could get any more idiotic, but then along came this article:

Who are we kidding? Nikki Haley won on brains and experience.

It’s so pathetic, I’m not even posting the link.

But note—Nikki’s “foreign policy experience” consists of her being appointed UN Ambassador by the vulgar talking yam only to allow his buddy, Henry McMaster, to run as an incumbent for SC governor.

Also, don’t get me started on how little Nikki actually did to get that flag removed.

She’s a not-very bright (but cagey) lying opportunist, and I’m really getting sick of all the accolades.

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No Malarkey!  Aug 25, 2023 • 8:27:20am

re: #161 Joe Bacon ✅

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Trump is 215 lbs like he is a billionaire.

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 25, 2023 • 8:29:11am

re: #166 Shropshire Slasher

I make changes on my EZPass online. It isn’t very user friendly.

I have resubmitted my CC info, so I’ll see if it takes.

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A Cranky One  Aug 25, 2023 • 8:30:46am

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Aug 25, 2023 • 8:32:40am

re: #171 A Cranky One

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Also the terms of his release trap. He can’t shut his face-anus, which means bad times ahead for him.

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A Cranky One  Aug 25, 2023 • 8:39:39am

Unlike most folks arrested and processed at the Fulton County jail, Donald Trump did not have to undergo a cavity search. They were under strict orders to not wake Lindsey Graham.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 25, 2023 • 8:40:44am

re: #168 BeachDem

And speaking of Nikki, I didn’t think Kathleen Parker could get any more idiotic, but then along came this article:

Who are we kidding? Nikki Haley won on brains and experience.

It’s so pathetic, I’m not even posting the link.

But note—Nikki’s “foreign policy experience” consists of her being appointed UN Ambassador by the vulgar talking yam only to allow his buddy, Henry McMaster, to run as an incumbent for SC governor.

Also, don’t get me started on how little Nikki actually did to get that flag removed.

She’s a not-very bright (but cagey) lying opportunist, and I’m really getting sick of all the accolades.

You can always count on Kathleen Parker for World Class Pre$$titution in the Post.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 25, 2023 • 8:42:40am

re: #159 Hecuba’s daughter

Republicans are universally opposed to unions — anything that gives workers power in negotiating with businesses or (sometimes) the government. Their hatred of teachers unions is universal among members of the party.

except for police unions

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A Cranky One  Aug 25, 2023 • 8:44:29am

Mastodon

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 25, 2023 • 8:54:16am

re: #152 Joe Bacon ✅

Does she not realize that 67 is the current full retirement age?

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Nerdy Fish  Aug 25, 2023 • 8:56:28am

I’m sure there’s multiple layers of plausible deniability here, and Putin’s words aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on. Y’all know me as someone who resists conspiracy thinking as a general rule, but this one is far too coincidental to be an accident.

Mastodon

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:00:11am

re: #178 Nerdy Fish

The Kremlin is dismissing allegations that Russian President Vladimir Putin was behind the apparent death of Wagner mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin in a plane crash.

Will no-one rid me of this troublesome hot dog vendor?

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:01:44am

re: #178 Nerdy Fish

I’m sure there’s multiple layers of plausible deniability here, and Putin’s words aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on. Y’all know me as someone who resists conspiracy thinking as a general rule, but this one is far too coincidental to be an accident.

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A mechanical defect downed the plane. Pay no attention to the fact that it was on the 2-month anniversary of the march on Moscow.

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calochortus  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:05:36am

re: #177 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Does she not realize that 67 is the current full retirement age?

Does she not realize that the poor and people of color have shorter life expectancies than upper middle class white people and hence would get their money sooner?

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wrenchwench  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:07:49am

Mastodon

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Belafon  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:09:21am

re: #181 calochortus

Does she not realize that the poor and people of color have shorter life expectancies than upper middle class white people and hence would get their money sooner?

The one good fix is to remove the contribution cap. But that would piss off her bosses.

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William Lewis  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:13:19am

Like the pattern of the girders…

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calochortus  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:15:26am

re: #183 Belafon

The one good fix is to remove the contribution cap. But that would piss off her bosses.

Yeah, and having listened to the whole clip, I suppose she means raising the age for everyone regardless of their personal life expectancy so “those people” wouldn’t get anything.

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Nerdy Fish  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:17:26am

re: #185 calochortus

Yeah, and having listened to the whole clip, I suppose she means raising the age for everyone regardless of their personal life expectancy so “those people” wouldn’t get anything.

This has been around for a long time, going back to the early days of Social Security, when it was alleged (perhaps factually) that the original German system was only instituted at 65 because very few people lived to that age. Raising the Social Security age and indexing it to overall life expectancy has continued to hang around the fringes since then, as a way of avoiding paying out money to people who have paid into the system.

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Shropshire Slasher  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:18:31am

re: #181 calochortus

Does she not realize that the poor and people of color have shorter life expectancies than upper middle class white people and hence would get their money sooner?

Life expectancy here has gone down, so Nikki is incorrect.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:20:05am

The ultimate GOP “fix” for SS is to privatize it fully and have it all traded on the stock market by hedge funds.

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calochortus  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:21:00am

re: #187 Shropshire Slasher

Life expectancy here has gone down, so Nikki is incorrect.

I doubt it is lower now than it was in 1935 when Social Security began.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:23:25am

re: #188 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The ultimate GOP “fix” for SS is to privatize it fully and have it all traded on the stock market by hedge funds.

Republicans are extremely willing to hurt Americans, perhaps because there are no negative consequences for doing so. The people who call themselves “Conservatives” are naturally fearful, but we’re failing to make them afraid of hurting Americans.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:24:46am

re: #189 calochortus

If we look at life expectancy statistics from the 1930s we might come to the conclusion that the Social Security program was designed in such a way that people would work for many years paying in taxes, but would not live long enough to collect benefits. Life expectancy at birth in 1930 was indeed only 58 for men and 62 for women, and the retirement age was 65. But life expectancy at birth in the early decades of the 20th century was low due mainly to high infant mortality, and someone who died as a child would never have worked and paid into Social Security. A more appropriate measure is probably life expectancy after attainment of adulthood.

As Table 1 shows, the majority of Americans who made it to adulthood could expect to live to 65, and those who did live to 65 could look forward to collecting benefits for many years into the future. So we can observe that for men, for example, almost 54% of the them could expect to live to age 65 if they survived to age 21, and men who attained age 65 could expect to collect Social Security benefits for almost 13 years (and the numbers are even higher for women).

ssa.gov

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Dave In Austin  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:25:12am

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Captain Ron  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:25:59am
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Belafon  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:26:31am

re: #190 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Republicans are extremely willing to hurt Americans, perhaps because there are no negative consequences for doing so. The people who call themselves “Conservatives” are naturally fearful, but we’re failing to make them afraid of hurting Americans.

If they’re willing to ignore the guy they claim to follow who told them there was no path to Heaven without taking care of the poor, what’s going to convince them?

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calochortus  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:27:48am

re: #191 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Correct. But a 65 year old man now apparently lives about 17 more years on average. So that’s at least 4 more years to collect SS.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:28:44am

re: #193 Captain Ron

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BigPapa  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:29:28am
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Jay C  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:29:34am

re: #157 Joe Bacon ✅

Grandpa would be so happy to see the Unions getting militant again.

United Auto Workers authorize union leadership to call strike against Big Three after contract expires Sept. 14

washingtonpost.com

I wonder if the Administration is going to step in to mediate: while it’s a truism that most/all Republicans view unions as Of The Devil, a major strike in the auto industry is going to be a BFD blow to the economy: even if only temporary. I know it’s silly to have to rely on government miracles to solve labor-relations issues in this country: but it seem like Dark Brandon has been able to pull them off….

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:29:57am

re: #194 Belafon

If they’re willing to ignore the guy they claim to follow who told them there was not path to Heaven without taking care of the poor, what’s going to convince them?

The French have a solution.

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Shropshire Slasher  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:31:34am

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Captain Ron  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:34:18am
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calochortus  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:35:32am

Anyway, errands await. BBL

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nines09  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:36:50am

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Eventual Carrion  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:37:08am

re: #115 Hecuba’s daughter

Birbie today. Possible spoiler below

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3/6 wordle. Phew! for Connections

Click to Reveal

Wordle 797 3/6

🟨⬜🟨⬜🟨
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Connections
Puzzle #75
🟩🟨🟨🟨
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Belafon  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:37:26am

re: #195 calochortus

Correct. But a 65 year old man now apparently lives about 17 more years on average. So that’s at least 4 more years to collect SS.

I can’t remember where I read it, but something said that extra life span is almost completely correlated with wealth.

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calochortus  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:38:55am

re: #205 Belafon

I can’t remember where I read it, but something said that extra life span is almost completely correlated with wealth.

Hence my original comment about who would benefit sooner if it were individualized.

And now I’m really out of here.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:40:15am

re: #206 calochortus

Hence my original comment about who would benefit sooner if it were individualized.

And now I’m really out of here.

Privatize it and allow them to cut high-risk retirees out of the program (anyone with a pre-existing medical condition for example)

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retired cynic  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:42:35am

re: #147 Barefoot Grin

I’m hung in a similar loop. I purchased a book, independently published in Lebanon. Billing is from the author’s daughter’s bank account via Zelle. So I download Zelle and try to hook it up to my debit card. All goes well until we get to my mailing address. It auto-fills the wrong town to my zip code! And of course my address then is incorrect, and it bounces me. I have contacted support through the Zelle website, and they say they will bet back to me in three days. ! And then we will proceed as you suggest.

grrrrrrrrrr

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wrenchwench  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:44:02am

Mastodon

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Captain Ron  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:44:50am
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Dave In Austin  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:47:30am
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wrenchwench  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:47:34am

Mastodon

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:48:14am

re: #168 BeachDem

And speaking of Nikki, I didn’t think Kathleen Parker could get any more idiotic, but then along came this article:

Who are we kidding? Nikki Haley won on brains and experience.

It’s so pathetic, I’m not even posting the link.

But note—Nikki’s “foreign policy experience” consists of her being appointed UN Ambassador by the vulgar talking yam only to allow his buddy, Henry McMaster, to run as an incumbent for SC governor.

Also, don’t get me started on how little Nikki actually did to get that flag removed.

She’s a not-very bright (but cagey) lying opportunist, and I’m really getting sick of all the accolades.

Kathleen Parker has long been terrible — recall how vicious she was against the Clintons back in the day. But TBF, among those on the stage for the debate, Haley was was one of the best. Very low bar since they were all dreadful — though Christie had his moments and certainly was the best in the denunciation of Trump

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Shropshire Slasher  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:49:38am

Mr. Powell made a speech today and the DOW is up!

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Friday called for more vigilance in the fight against inflation, warning that additional interest rate increases could be yet to come.

While acknowledging that progress has been made and saying the Fed will be careful in where it goes from here, the central bank leader said inflation is still above where policymakers feel comfortable. He noted that the Fed will remain flexible as it contemplates further moves, but gave little indication that it’s ready to start easing anytime soon.

“Although inflation has moved down from its peak — a welcome development — it remains too high,” Powell said in prepared remarks for his keynote address at the Kansas City Fed’s annual retreat in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. “We are prepared to raise rates further if appropriate, and intend to hold policy at a restrictive level until we are confident that inflation is moving sustainably down toward our objective.”

The beatings will continue until morale improves!
cnbc.com

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wrenchwench  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:50:32am

re: #211 Dave In Austin

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Leaving on a Jet Plane-PETER PAUL n MARY

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:51:17am

re: #180 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

A mechanical defect downed the plane. Pay no attention to the fact that it was on the 2-month anniversary of the march on Moscow.

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The defect being the bomb placed on the plane by “mechanics” shortly before departure?

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BigPapa  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:52:11am

re: #216 Hecuba’s daughter

The defect being the bomb placed on the plane by “mechanics” shortly before departure?

It was a Perfect Defect. The most Perfect Defect in the history of defects.

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:53:08am

re: #181 calochortus

Does she not realize that the poor and people of color have shorter life expectancies than upper middle class white people and hence would get their money sooner?

Does she not realize that those who are in physically demanding jobs usually cannot work past 65?

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:53:25am

windows10 virtualbox update

this is outstanding

virtualbox installed quick and easy

windows 10 took a bit of doing
i havent ‘interacted’ with windows in a few years
that’s why rebuilding the laptop was so frustrating.
eventually it did install inside virtualbox
i configured it by copying what i just did on the laptop

the effing thing works

then i downloaded the tax program and son of a gun, it started installing correctly too.
updated c++ libraries automatically, found the drivers, etc.

Wine never got off the starting line

Basic screens, functions, inputs seem to work.
graphics, speed, response time, internet and communications, etc

I figured out how to share native linux files. piece of cake.
so there’s no data inside the windows environment

i knocked out some bloatware so it runs about as fast as the 6 year old acer laptop.
that laptop is looking at me wondering what its purpose in life is now.

back when i tried Wine and it failed so miserably, I figured there was no point in spending any more time.
I blamed it mostly on the complexity of the tax s/w.
but oracle is , well, not ‘wine’…
and this whole concept is fundamentally different.
it’s very impressive

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gocart mozart  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:53:46am

Dreher is a piece of work, but you knew that already.

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BigPapa  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:54:26am

I’m getting annoyed at all the journos saying his mugshot was such a shocking or jarring moment in our history. No, the shocking and jarring moments happened on J6 and many other times in the previous 7 years, too many to list. His mugshot may be the beginning of justice.

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Shropshire Slasher  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:55:36am

youtube.com

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Belafon  Aug 25, 2023 • 9:58:33am

re: #219 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

I went the other direction once. I was playing tech support for some friends who ran a clinic. They kept having problems with the workers going to sites that would end up downloading mallard. So I set up VirtualBox with a slimmed down Linux and made it so that it would start up showing Firefox full screen, and made them use that for the browser. This was before then morensecure browsers we have now.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Aug 25, 2023 • 10:00:14am

re: #220 gocart mozart

Dreher is a piece of work, but you knew that already.

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Rod’s an intellectually bankrupt rationalizer who’s been on a stupid path for his whole life. There’s no hope for someone who’s that far up their own ass.

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Shropshire Slasher  Aug 25, 2023 • 10:00:36am

re: #221 BigPapa

I’m getting annoyed at all the journos saying his mugshot was such a shocking or jarring moment in our history. No, the shocking and jarring moments happened on J6 and many other times in the previous 7 years, too many to list. His mugshot may be the beginning of justice.

It is a good day for making history!

youtube.com

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gwangung  Aug 25, 2023 • 10:01:28am

re: #218 Hecuba’s daughter

Does she not realize that those who are in physically demanding jobs usually cannot work past 65?

Sure she does, but they don’t count to either her or the other MOTU.

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Eventual Carrion  Aug 25, 2023 • 10:01:53am

re: #152 Joe Bacon ✅

She comes out and says it…

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Yes. Nicki wants you to “wait till 78” for Social Security.

Tell that to a lifelong brick layer or roofer.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 25, 2023 • 10:02:13am

one more quick story

back in 1985 i was managing a wang 2200 system running financial accounting software (most for bank back office accounting).
it was limited to 16 terminals and disk space was expensive.
we wanted a larger system so we could expand
we wanted to migrate to DEC.
I would take on the task of rewriting the entire financial application.

to run two systems parallel was not possible - no space, among other things.

we came upon a Wang 2200 emulator that ran on VAX.
that’s what you call a niche market.

me and The Franacle (who was our secretary at the time) migrated our entire 2200 system over a weekend. We were the first ones anywhere to migrate an entire running system.

while the wang users sat in emulator world, i rewrote it all better, faster, stronger. and I could take my time.

this is very much like that.

now i got work to do and no excuses left

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Aug 25, 2023 • 10:02:54am

re: #225 Shropshire Slasher

You have to fix the url on shorts to get them to display. Just make it into a regular YouTube URL using the code from the short.

President Trump Rolls Through An Atlanta Hood!

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Captain Ron  Aug 25, 2023 • 10:05:36am
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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 25, 2023 • 10:06:38am

re: #195 calochortus

Correct. But a 65 year old man now apparently lives about 17 more years on average. So that’s at least 4 more years to collect SS.

But the Social Security benefits were far more generous before the 1983 change. Actually there was a serious flaw in the original design that led to retirees getting significantly higher benefits than was really intended. My mother who was born in 1916 received much higher benefits than my MIL who was born in 1917, due to the radical change in formulation.

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darthstar  Aug 25, 2023 • 10:10:55am

re: #230 Captain Ron

Don Jr. owns MaL? Does he realize how much coke he can get for that place? He could party for months! Dump it, Donny!

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 25, 2023 • 10:12:54am

re: #204 Eventual Carrion

Re: Connections

Click to Reveal

Half the time I fail — you really have to be up on modern culture, literature, Disney franchises etc. to succeed there. But did manage today though had a really tough time after getting the first two:

Connections
Puzzle #75
🟩🟩🟩🟩
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🟪🟦🟦🟪
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 25, 2023 • 10:14:34am

re: #93 Nerdy Fish

Also, I seem to recall that courts will often look at recent transactions, to see if there’s any hinky business going on (such as attempts to dispose of assets to avoid judgments). Am I thinking of the right thing, or is that only in bankruptcy?

I’d think only if there was a fine or whatever involved. If there’s no financial consequences, I don’t see it.

What civil suits are on the docket? Those will def look of there’s an award to the plaintiff.

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dat_said  Aug 25, 2023 • 10:14:51am

re: #232 darthstar

Don Jr. owns MaL? Does he realize how much coke he can get for that place? He could party for months! Dump it, Donny!

I’d prefer the conversation: “Dad - you’re going to have to move out”

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 25, 2023 • 10:18:05am

re: #107 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

You know, trump’s face does look much thinner. Perhaps all this stuff is weighing on his mind and he can’t eat.

Good!

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jaunte  Aug 25, 2023 • 10:18:09am

Robert McNees @mcnees.bsky.social

When my daughter was 6, she discovered that thing where you sneakily stick a note on someone’s back. But she didn’t know they should say stuff like “kick me.” She just put space facts on them. 🔭

One time I felt something on my back, then heard her run off giggling. I reached around to find this:

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Aug 25, 2023 • 10:18:54am

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wrenchwench  Aug 25, 2023 • 10:19:55am

Mastodon

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jaunte  Aug 25, 2023 • 10:22:40am

Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social

over on Xitter, Rod Dreher says wearing a Trump mugshot t-shirt will be the most punk rock thing ever and anyway here’s a cartoon from like twenty years ago because some shit never changes

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 25, 2023 • 10:23:54am

re: #232 darthstar

Don Jr. owns MaL? Does he realize how much coke he can get for that place? He could party for months! Dump it, Donny!

All kidding aside, it would be totally on brand for Junior to sell the place out from under daddy without even asking him.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 25, 2023 • 10:25:02am
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No Malarkey!  Aug 25, 2023 • 10:26:22am

Blockbuster reporting that is going to blow the lid off the conspiracy to rig the election against Donald Trump!

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 25, 2023 • 10:26:30am

re: #147 Barefoot Grin

Goddamnit. I got a message from E-ZPass that my credit card company isn’t authorizing auto-replenishments (it got bought by a different cc company last year; generally pretty good). But I know if there is something out of the ordinary to deal with, it will be a huge time suck. Sure enough, after 7 minutes with the robot, I’m on hold for a human. Then the human is “Karen”; and I know “Karen,” who calls me Mr. first name instead of Mr. Last name, and whose accent sounds subcontinental, won’t have a clue what I’m talking about. I have to repeat the issue a few times and she finally says, “oh,…ok” and disappears for about 7 or 8 more minutes until the line goes dead. If I call again there’s no guarantee that this won’t happen again. So now I have to make other arrangements for payment—maybe directly from bank account. For years I never had a problem. Sigh.

I manage mine online. Did you try that?

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Nerdy Fish  Aug 25, 2023 • 10:26:32am

re: #243 Joe Bacon ✅

I’d love to see how they square this with the fact that literally every goddamned one of our Founding Fathers were anti-monarchy. “Fuck the King” is literally* written into the Declaration of Independence.

* = okay, not those exact words, but certainly their sentiment.

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Nerdy Fish  Aug 25, 2023 • 10:27:58am

re: #244 No Malarkey!

Blockbuster reporting that is going to blow the lid off the conspiracy to rig the election against Donald Trump!

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Okay, so that’s their spin on it. What records did they actually get?

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No Malarkey!  Aug 25, 2023 • 10:28:01am

re: #246 Nerdy Fish

I’d love to see how they square this with the fact that literally every goddamned one of our Founding Fathers were anti-monarchy. “Fuck the King” is literally* written into the Declaration of Independence.

* = okay, not those exact words, but certainly their sentiment.

Fuentes is a Nazi; the founding father he gives a fuck about is Adolf Hitler.

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No Malarkey!  Aug 25, 2023 • 10:28:56am

re: #247 Nerdy Fish

Okay, so that’s their spin on it. What records did they actually get?

No clue; that tweet is the entirety of the information I have.

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Nerdy Fish  Aug 25, 2023 • 10:30:53am

re: #249 No Malarkey!

No clue; that tweet is the entirety of the information I have.

That was semi-rhetorical, intended to be directed through you at the asshat with the raging hard-on who thinks he’s breaking America’s most important news story.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 25, 2023 • 10:31:19am

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 25, 2023 • 10:32:36am

re: #221 BigPapa

I’m getting annoyed at all the journos saying his mugshot was such a shocking or jarring moment in our history. No, the shocking and jarring moments happened on J6 and many other times in the previous 7 years, too many to list. His mugshot may be the beginning of justice.

They do tend to focus on a thing and then write about it to the exclusion of all else. as if the rest of the world and history doesn’t exists

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Backwoods Sleuth  Aug 25, 2023 • 10:34:16am
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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 25, 2023 • 10:35:06am

re: #236 dat_said

I’d prefer the conversation: “Dad - you’re going to have to move out” I’m upping your rent

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 25, 2023 • 10:39:29am

re: #190 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Republicans are extremely willing to hurt Americans, perhaps because there are no negative consequences for doing so. The people who call themselves “Conservatives” are naturally fearful, but we’re failing to make them afraid of hurting Americans.

Because they’re rich Americans. Different animal.

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 25, 2023 • 10:44:52am

re: #245 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I manage mine online. Did you try that?

Yes, I may have to just make monthly payments instead of auto-pay. But I reset the credit card on my online account, so I’ll check back soon to see if the $1.26 deficit that lead to the notice last week has disappeared and the account replenished (it’s set to a level of $30).

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Decatur Deb  Aug 25, 2023 • 10:46:54am

re: #243 Joe Bacon ✅

Put him on a ship that never comes to port.

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Eventual Carrion  Aug 25, 2023 • 10:51:39am

re: #243 Joe Bacon ✅

[Embedded content]

So back to the way things were before our revolution? Why does he hate America so? But he is a patriot, right? SO fucking confusing.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Aug 25, 2023 • 10:52:13am

re: #104 ericblair

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BRICS is the No Homers Westerners Club, and that’s it. They really don’t have anything else in common, and an agreed policy on anything is laughable. A common currency is even more laughable, unless it’s the Renminbi.

BRICS won’t work, but BRICS is an idea because the currency being the dollar disadvantages every other country in the world, on purpose. That developing countries have to buy with dollars constantly puts them in precarity such that they have to compromise—sell their labor and commodities at criminally low prices—recreating the colonialist precarity that strangled off the ability of the “developing world” to develop.

Like…who do you think “wins” if BRICS fails? Because the answer isn’t…regular Americans, except that you get cheap goods from overseas manufacturing. The dominance of the dollar internationally empowers every corporation that makes your life miserable, including the ones that are currently arbitrarily raising the prices on all goods because they feel they don’t need to subsidize Americans anymore.

If it makes you mad that countries would consider this, sign on with dodgy actors like China and Russia…well, it’s a damn shame that USA depends on a rigged international economy, is the central dodgy actor no-one can do business without, and that has created enough desperation that people would try this.

As with the Belt and Road Initiative…the easiest way to stymie China would simply be to act in slightly more good faith than constantly turning everything into a financial product held by a small number of institutions. Just…make IMF loans less of a debt trap, don’t punish countries for restricting international trade (that obliterates local industry with scale and ability to loss lead).

But none of that’s every going to happen, so BRICS is going to be tried again and again.

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BeenHereAwhile  Aug 25, 2023 • 10:52:38am

re: #242 Eclectic Cyborg

All kidding aside, it would be totally on brand for Junior to sell the place out from under daddy without even asking him.

There’s probably an unrecorded quit claim deed held in reserve by tfg.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Aug 25, 2023 • 10:53:54am

re: #258 Eventual Carrion

So back to the way things were before our revolution? Why does he hate America so? But he is a patriot, right? SO fucking confusing.

They’ve dug themselves into a hole, and just keep digging. The right can no longer pass as rational in any way.

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dat_said  Aug 25, 2023 • 10:58:18am

re: #254 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

The day, the day after I graduated high school, my mother knocks on my door and says to me “You’re father and I have been talking. We think you should start paying rent.”

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Aug 25, 2023 • 11:00:44am

re: #262 dat_said

The day, the day after I graduated high school, my mother knocks on my door and says to me “You’re father and I have been talking. We think you should start paying rent.”

I was paying rent before that. Graduation was time to get my own place.


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