A Blind Date Goes Horribly Wrong: “Buzzkill”

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I have a feeling some of you might get mad at me for posting this one, so I’m just gonna warn y’all up front: this one has some very cringeworthy moments. But it’s an extremely inventive and well-executed animated horror film, too. If you’re a horror fan like me, I think you’ll love it.

So now you’ve been warned. Don’t get mad at me, you have only yourself to blame. Full speed ahead.

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“Buzzkill” by Peter Ahern

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More About “Buzzkill”:
After hitting it off on a blind date, Rick and Becky decide they’re ready to go steady. But as the night heats up, an unexpected discovery reveals first impressions can be deceiving.

“Buzzkill” Credits:
Written, Directed & Animated by: Peter Ahern
Produced by: Peter Ahern & Arjun G. Sheth
Starring: Kelly McCormack & Peter Ahern
Background Design & Painting by: Stephen Andolino
Special FX Compositing by: Mike Healey
Sound Design & Mix by: Arjun G. Sheth
Voice Recording by: Matt Drake
Original Score by: Maxwell Sorensen
Original Song by: Nat Brower

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 27, 2023 • 5:16:10pm

Edited version of what I entered below, cleaner and better:

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re: #247 The Ghost of a Flea

It’s a very specific group of people with obvious material interests who aren’t interested in diversity of solving climate change

Hmm… I think I disagree with you.

Of late your writings have focused on the wrongdoings of the elite, of some small group at the top who coralle masses to do their bidding.

I do not disagree that a society (as we know it today) is hierarchical, nor do I disagree that those on the top exploit those below them.

But I believe the masses do have agency.

They are not mindless.

They still make choices.

And climate change is a great example.

Almost everything in life that is the result of industrialization is affecting the atmosphere, and a great many things also affect the land surface.

Simply living your life as an American is going to lead to massive climate change.

And here’s the kicker: very few Americans are willing to give up an American style of life.

And most of the world wishes to live an American style of life, at least in the sense of material wealth. Even if most of the world does not want to be culturally American and decry American hegemony in media and entertainment, the appeal of the luxury goods the average American enjoys is powerful.

And that is why climate change is an intractable problem with the current way of life most people desire.

And if you say foragers have no problems in this regard, because a human is physically limited in how much stuff one can carry, please note that we gave up the forager way of life long, long ago.

Agency is not the same thing as free will as some philosopher may wish to define the latter. Perhaps free will does not exist. Yet each person still has agency in that each person makes choices from our human perspective.

Climate change is only resolvable via 1) major changes in what human society entails, and 2) a scale of innovation similar to the transformation the industrial revolution brought.

Again, we humans have been making hierarchical societies for a very long time. It is now part of us.

It’s who we are.

If we are interested in making a better society, and a better future for our successors, that is the model in which we must work.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 27, 2023 • 5:20:21pm

Here’s a chilling episode of Boris Karloff’s THRILLER with William Shatner, Russell Johnson and Donna Douglas in THE HUNGRY GLASS

Boris Karloff’s Thriller (1960–1962) - The Hungry Glass

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Unabogie  Aug 27, 2023 • 5:32:37pm

re: #1 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Climate change is only resolvable via 1) major changes in what human society entails, and 2) a scale of innovation similar to the transformation the industrial revolution brought.

And I am also going to disagree. According to the IPCC Report, our diets have a larger effect on the climate than how we power transportation, and changes in diet do not require a vast scale of innovation. These are choices we can make today.

ipcc.ch

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Captain Ron  Aug 27, 2023 • 5:44:42pm
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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 27, 2023 • 5:46:02pm

ilDuce is getting the rather “warm” reception he so clearly deserves!

Gov. DeSantis booed at Jacksonville prayer vigil for victims of mass shooting

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Decatur Deb  Aug 27, 2023 • 5:46:07pm

re: #3 Unabogie

And I am also going to disagree. According to the IPCC Report, our diets have a larger effect on the climate than how we power transportation, and changes in diet do not require a vast scale of innovation. These are choices we can make today.

ipcc.ch

If two-thirds of us were to eat the other third, it would greatly reduce emissions. (That’s assuming, of course, that we didn’t use charcoal.)

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 27, 2023 • 5:46:16pm

re: #3 Unabogie

Diet changes to something more sustainable will reduced carbon footprint.

But said footprint will still be well above zero.

The invention of agriculture was the first major human activity to change the surface of this planet, with subsequent changes in climate.

Possibly before agriculture we caused long term changes too, in helping to bring about extinction of various animals.

But agriculture is big.

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nines09  Aug 27, 2023 • 5:46:50pm

Buenas noches lagartos, sean buenos unos con otros y con ustedes mismos.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 27, 2023 • 5:51:09pm

re: #7 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Diet changes to something more sustainable will reduced carbon footprint.

But said footprint will still be well above zero.

The invention of agriculture was the first major human activity to change the surface of this planet, with subsequent changes in climate.

Possibly before agriculture we caused long term changes too, in helping to bring about extinction of various animals.

But agriculture is big.

I blame Homo Erectus.
en.wikipedia.org

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Jay C  Aug 27, 2023 • 5:51:50pm

So how far do we think the disgraceful clownshow that is our House of Representatives is going to get with their (now officially Trump-endorsed) impeachment effort circus?

I know that impeachment is supposed to be based on the principle of “high crimes and misdemeanors”, and not just “we don’t like you”, but then again, these are House Republicans we’re talking about….

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 27, 2023 • 5:52:04pm
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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 27, 2023 • 5:56:04pm

Break out your Jiffy Pop kids! It’s a GOP Krystle/Alexis fight!

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Unabogie  Aug 27, 2023 • 6:00:38pm

re: #7 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Diet changes to something more sustainable will reduced carbon footprint.

But said footprint will still be well above zero.

The invention of agriculture was the first major human activity to change the surface of this planet, with subsequent changes in climate.

Possibly before agriculture we caused long term changes too, in helping to bring about extinction of various animals.

But agriculture is big.

All of it is big, but agriculture is something that we can change today without buying an EV or revolutionizing the energy grid.

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Unabogie  Aug 27, 2023 • 6:01:54pm

re: #5 Joe Bacon ✅

ilDuce is getting the rather “warm” reception he so clearly deserves!

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There’s a reason he always speaks to friendly interviewers in front of friendly crowds. He’s an asshole and people don’t like him. He’s almost less likeable than Ted Cruz, and that’s saying something.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 27, 2023 • 6:04:46pm
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wrenchwench  Aug 27, 2023 • 6:04:51pm

2020 Silver City Blues Festival SET 4 CW Ayon HD

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 27, 2023 • 6:08:27pm

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 27, 2023 • 6:09:17pm

re: #17 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

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Charles Johnson  Aug 27, 2023 • 6:09:44pm

Chris Matthews had a real crush on Nikki Haley.

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wrenchwench  Aug 27, 2023 • 6:10:14pm

re: #15 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

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I think a single example doesn’t even qualify as anecdata, but here’s my one example:

A Black person has been elected president, and re elected. A woman has not.

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A Cranky One  Aug 27, 2023 • 6:11:32pm

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Charles Johnson  Aug 27, 2023 • 6:12:50pm

there i go remembering shit again

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BeenHereAwhile  Aug 27, 2023 • 6:15:03pm

Avi Loeb is probably not real popular with The Call Girls:

On Oct. 19, 2017, a telescope in Maui detected something that had entered our solar system from elsewhere in the galaxy. Astronomers named it Oumuamua, Hawaiian for “scout” or “messenger,” because it was the first interstellar object they had ever recorded — the only known traveler to have crossed the vast distance between another star system and our own.

[…]

The more that scientists studied Oumuamua, the weirder it seemed. Analysis of its trajectory showed that, in the weeks before its detection, Oumuamua sped up as it approached the sun, and its acceleration couldn’t be explained by the sun’s gravity alone. That extra kick would be normal for a comet. Comets are rocky snowballs, and when they get close to the sun, ice within them turns to vapor, releasing gas and giving them a boost. But Oumuamua lacked a comet’s signature tail, and none of the telescopes that observed it detected water vapor, carbon monoxide or other telltale signs of sublimating ice.

(No paywall)

nytimes.com

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 27, 2023 • 6:17:06pm

re: #15 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

Isn’t it so nice to see Darling Nikki take her hood and bedsheets off before shooting her mouth off about how much she hates Kamala Harris?

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BeenHereAwhile  Aug 27, 2023 • 6:18:09pm

re: #6 Decatur Deb

If two-thirds of us were to eat the other third, it would greatly reduce emissions. (That’s assuming, of course, that we didn’t use charcoal.)

That’s a modest proposal.

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silverdolphin  Aug 27, 2023 • 6:19:07pm

re: #3 Unabogie

And I am also going to disagree. According to the IPCC Report, our diets have a larger effect on the climate than how we power transportation, and changes in diet do not require a vast scale of innovation. These are choices we can make today.

ipcc.ch

I remember reading a report stating that moving away from cattle as a meat source and using all that energy to raise chickens, not only would we have a big effect on the amount of greenhose gases emitted, we would be able to produce enough protein from chickens to feed everyone on the planet.

Just a lot of chicken shot to deal with.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 27, 2023 • 6:19:54pm

The aliens aboard the U.S.S. Oumuamua intercepted broadcasts of Keeping Up With The Kardashians and decided they needed to get the hell out of our Solar System.

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Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿  Aug 27, 2023 • 6:26:56pm

re: #6 Decatur Deb

If two-thirds of us were to eat the other third, it would greatly reduce emissions. (That’s assuming, of course, that we didn’t use charcoal.)

Hang on. Charcoal is made from wood so as long as it’s ethically sourced and not augmented with, e.g. coal, it should be net carbon neutral.

Plant a tree and you’ll be sweet. Or your kids will.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 27, 2023 • 6:31:06pm

I just hope I never have to use a tweezers to yank a large insect out of my eye by one of its legs. Is that too much to ask?

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Sherlock Hound  Aug 27, 2023 • 6:32:01pm

re: #24 Joe Bacon ✅

Isn’t it so nice to see Darling Nikki take her hood and bedsheets off before shooting her mouth off about how much she hates Kamala Harris?

She looks terrible. Marjorie Three Names terrible. Lauren E. Coli Boebert terrible.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 27, 2023 • 6:33:38pm

re: #27 Joe Bacon ✅

The aliens aboard the U.S.S. Oumuamua intercepted broadcasts of Keeping Up With The Kardashians and decided they needed to get the hell out of our Solar System.

“Take the next exit”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 27, 2023 • 6:34:43pm

Why does The Atlantic keep trying to push narratives like “If the Democratic Party was a more right-wing party, they would win the hearts and minds of Americans” when it’s pretty damn obvious Democrats are trouncing Republicans where they are now?

Where Donald Trump Meets Bernie Sanders (August 27, 2023)

The future of progressive politics in America just might revolve around whether someone like Chris Murphy, a U.S. senator from a prosperous New England state, can find common ground culturally and politically with a man like Oliver Anthony. Earlier this month, Anthony, a young country singer, dropped his song “Rich Men North of Richmond” into the nation’s political-cultural stew pot. A red-bearded high-school dropout, former factory hand, and virtual unknown, he strummed a guitar in the Virginia woods and sang with an urgent twang about the despair of working-class life:

Mr. Anthony specifically stated his song is to mock conservatives.

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jaunte  Aug 27, 2023 • 6:35:25pm

“Download the file to print your own miniature version of this interstellar object [Oumuamua] on any 3D printer”
news.nau.edu

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 27, 2023 • 6:38:16pm

re: #7 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Diet changes to something more sustainable will reduced carbon footprint.

But said footprint will still be well above zero.

The invention of agriculture was the first major human activity to change the surface of this planet, with subsequent changes in climate.

Possibly before agriculture we caused long term changes too, in helping to bring about extinction of various animals.

But agriculture is big.

The biggest change in climate with a biological cause was by single-cell algae.

That said, it doesn’t take much of a climate change now to kill most of us off now.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 27, 2023 • 6:38:21pm

re: #32 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Why does The Atlantic keep trying to push narratives like “If the Democratic Party was a more right-wing party, they would win the hearts and minds of Americans” when it’s pretty damn obvious Democrats are trouncing Republicans where they are now?

Where Donald Trump Meets Bernie Sanders (August 27, 2023)

It’s because The Atlantic has always been a middle of the road magazine.

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Vicious Babushka  Aug 27, 2023 • 6:38:58pm

CL’ed
re: #101 Charles Johnson

Ross Perot. Now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a very long time.

I thought about voting for him. I don’t remember exactly what did it, but at some point I realized he was a crackpot who shouldn’t be anywhere near the presidency.

In 1992 I was an EDS employee. I would have never considered voting for Ross Perot in a million years.

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jaunte  Aug 27, 2023 • 6:39:07pm

Ian Boudreau @iboudreau.bsky.social

The burn rate on tech fads is speeding up pretty quickly, like AI is already cratering and it hasn’t been an “it thing” for even a year. Eventually we’ll get to the point where they’ll just be known as “having a bad idea” again

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Belafon  Aug 27, 2023 • 6:44:31pm

re: #32 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Why does The Atlantic keep trying to push narratives like “If the Democratic Party was a more right-wing party, they would win the hearts and minds of Americans” when it’s pretty damn obvious Democrats are trouncing Republicans where they are now?

Where Donald Trump Meets Bernie Sanders (August 27, 2023)

Mr. Anthony specifically stated his song is to mock conservatives.

It was to mock the wealthy and politicians. Which I agree with. It was the mocking of those on welfare I disagreed with.

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BeenHereAwhile  Aug 27, 2023 • 6:48:01pm

Comment in NYTimes:

Rick
CA
Aug. 26
If the cases are severed and some do, in fact, go to trial early, Trump will undoubtedly be called as a witness in each trial

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 27, 2023 • 6:52:22pm

We’re surrounded. Soon RIP to my Internet service.

windy.com

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 27, 2023 • 6:54:18pm

re: #36 Vicious Babushka

CL’ed

In 1992 I was an EDS employee. I would have never considered voting for Ross Perot in a million years.

Ross Perot of EDS and Ken Olsen of DEC would have been an unbeatable ticket! /s

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 27, 2023 • 7:00:02pm

re: #10 Jay C

So how far do we think the disgraceful clownshow that is our House of Representatives is going to get with their (now officially Trump-endorsed) impeachment effort circus?

I know that impeachment is supposed to be based on the principle of “high crimes and misdemeanors”, and not just “we don’t like you”, but then again, these are House Republicans we’re talking about….

25 years ago Republicans impeached a president for being less than truthful about a consensual relationship with an adult woman. So impeachment for nothing is totally on brand for them. Why again was Clinton forced to testify under oath in the first place? Why wasn’t the lawsuit delayed until he left office? Why wasn’t Trump subject to similar proceeding in our court system while he was President?

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silverdolphin  Aug 27, 2023 • 7:05:41pm

re: #1 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Edited version of what I entered below, cleaner and better:

———

Hmm… I think I disagree with you.

Of late your writings have focused on the wrongdoings of the elite, of some small group at the top who coralle masses to do their bidding.

I do not disagree that a society (as we know it today) is hierarchical, nor do I disagree that those on the top exploit those below them.

But I believe the masses do have agency.

They are not mindless.

They still make choices.

And climate change is a great example.

Almost everything in life that is the result of industrialization is affecting the atmosphere, and a great many things also affect the land surface.

Simply living your life as an American is going to lead to massive climate change.

And here’s the kicker: very few Americans are willing to give up an American style of life.

And most of the world wishes to live an American style of life, at least in the sense of material wealth. Even if most of the world does not want to be culturally American and decry American hegemony in media and entertainment, the appeal of the luxury goods the average American enjoys is powerful.

And that is why climate change is an intractable problem with the current way of life most people desire.

And if you say foragers have no problems in this regard, because a human is physically limited in how much stuff one can carry, please note that we gave up the forager way of life long, long ago.

Agency is not the same thing as free will as some philosopher may wish to define the latter. Perhaps free will does not exist. Yet each person still has agency in that each person makes choices from our human perspective.

Climate change is only resolvable via 1) major changes in what human society entails, and 2) a scale of innovation similar to the transformation the industrial revolution brought.

Again, we humans have been making hierarchical societies for a very long time. It is now part of us.

It’s who we are.

If we are interested in making a better society, and a better future for our successors, that is the model in which we must work.

Wow. We are having some great discussions., Maybe we will solve it all ;-)

I come from a biological viewpoint. Agriculture selected for a hierarchical model based on the zero-sum aspect of property. If I can hold your property, I can grow more and you grow less. I can maintain a larger population with a larger birth rate. Hierarchy allows more rapid decision-making, as well as the processes needed to maintain the agricultural society (ie math, accounting, war) so those communities had a selective advantage. Property has been the driving force for 10,000 years, determining how we organize society. But in the last 400 years or so, more power being pushed to democratic processes has allowed more complex societies to succeed and dominate.

To my mind, this is because they can move information around faster, creating the knowledge that allows decisions to be made and the wisdom that allows understanding, much more rapidly than those cultures based on the decisions of a solitary elite.

What is selective now is not how much land you can have and how many resources you can extract but whether you can identify useful data and turn it into the knowledge needed to make winning decisions, to gain understanding that allows for wise decisions. Hierarchy derived from agricultural societies cannot deal with the zettabytes of data being generated. (I suspect that useful AI will be needed to work with us to analyze and synthesize all this data, And that is outside of hierarchy))

This relies on the diverse, democratic social networks we produce. These are able to deal with a large amount of data and have multiple, redundant pathways to move this around. It rapidly. allows us to deal with more complex models to understand the natural world around us. And this WILL get us to the point where we have substantial effects on climate.

Toffler’s Third Wave goes a long way towards describing this process. We are on the cusp of the greatest tranformation of human society in 10,000 years. It will not be easy but I think it may be quick.

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jaunte  Aug 27, 2023 • 7:14:25pm

re: #43 silverdolphin

they can move information around faster

The people who focused on controlling property have added a new property to their portfolio: information, driven by ever faster and more powerful computing.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 27, 2023 • 7:14:27pm

re: #40 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

What’s behind the local storms is way worse. A line of thunderstorms stretching from Hot Springs, SD to Fort Collins, CO. If that holds together we’ll probably lose our electricity.

windy.com (wider view, although many areas here are not covered by weather radar at all)

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retired cynic  Aug 27, 2023 • 7:14:39pm

re: #36 Vicious Babushka

CL’ed

In 1992 I was an EDS employee. I would have never considered voting for Ross Perot in a million years.

That’s what my brother said!

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 27, 2023 • 7:20:59pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 27, 2023 • 7:24:28pm

re: #15 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

Nikki Haley: “The truth is: A vote for Joe Biden is a vote for President Kamala Harris.”

LOLOL. During 2020 — maybe even after the election? — our Trumpster brother was claiming that Biden was going to resign by March or so in 2021 and Harris was going to take office because of his clear mental impairment. Some things never change.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 27, 2023 • 7:30:21pm

Things are deteriorating in the Gulf of Mexico.

SUMMARY OF WATCHES AND WARNINGS IN EFFECT:

A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for…
* Yucatan Peninsula from Tulum to Rio Lagartos, including Cozumel
* Pinar del Rio Cuba

A Storm Surge Watch is in effect for…
* Chokoloskee to Indian Pass Florida, including Tampa Bay

A Hurricane Watch is in effect for…
* Englewood to Indian Pass Florida, including Tampa Bay

A Tropical Storm Watch is in effect for…
* Isle of Youth Cuba
* South of Englewood to Chokoloskee Florida
* Dry Tortugas Florida

The latest predicted track has the storm raking the full length of the South Carolina coast and most of the North Carolina coast.
nhc.noaa.gov

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DodgerFan1988  Aug 27, 2023 • 7:33:59pm


Bad Company

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silverdolphin  Aug 27, 2023 • 7:35:09pm

re: #44 jaunte

The people who focused on controlling property have added a new property to their portfolio: information, driven by ever faster and more powerful computing.

Many of those trying to control the flow of information (ie movie studios, book publishers, music companies) are, in many ways, having a hard time. Markets have been flattened and it is easier for the creator to connect to the fan. They used to act as gatekeepers, determining beforehand what the users got to see, and using that power to control the finances. Now this sort of process happens after publication , with algorithms helping users find the talent. I have been using Apple’s DIscovery Station on iTubnes which uses an AI to find bands I might like. It has founf over 10 of them in the last month, bands I give money to. Or look at Barbie and Oppenheimer, which were both produced by the creative talent involved in the movie, not by a studio. I suspect that Margot Robbie is now one of the richest actors in Hollywood.

I was radicalized by two books - The Cathedral and the Bazaar, and the Cluetrain Manifesto, as well as Brand’s Whole Earth Catalogue (“Information wants to be free.”) Reality shows these are simplifications but they are useful ones, wrt information and its power. IMHO..

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Belafon  Aug 27, 2023 • 7:40:57pm

re: #51 silverdolphin

Information wants to be free, but, generally, so do people. And freedom, right now, costs money. And until we can all host our own internet, someone else will have access to that information. And look at Republicans closing libraries.

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William Lewis  Aug 27, 2023 • 7:43:06pm

re: #51 silverdolphin

Many of those trying to control the flow of information (ie movie studios, book publishers, music companies) are, in many ways, having a hard time. Markets have been flattened and it is easier for the creator to connect to the fan. They used to act as gatekeepers, determining beforehand what the users got to see, and using that power to control the finances. Now this sort of process happens after publication , with algorithms helping users find the talent. I have been using Apple’s DIscovery Station on iTubnes which uses an AI to find bands I might like. It has founf over 10 of them in the last month, bands I give money to. Or look at Barbie and Oppenheimer, which were both produced by the creative talent involved in the movie, not by a studio. I suspect that Margot Robbie is now one of the richest actors in Hollywood.

I was radicalized by two books - The Cathedral and the Bazaar, and the Cluetrain Manifesto, as well as Brand’s Whole Earth Catalogue (“Information wants to be free.”) Reality shows these are simplifications but they are useful ones, wrt information and its power. IMHO..

Ah Raymond. Classic Libertarian idjit. I got more of value from Mike Harrington’s works on Socialism, David Brin’s “The Transparent Society” and Paul Graham (though he can be quite the twit too).

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Aug 27, 2023 • 7:48:31pm

re: #53 William Lewis

Ah Raymond. Classic Libertarian idjit. I got more of value from Mike Harrington’s works on Socialism, David Brin’s “The Transparent Society” and Paul Graham (though he can be quite the twit too).

One of my personal encounters with Raymond was one of the two times I’ve heard “Don’t you know who I am?” uttered with sincerity by a human being. I think the third person sitting at the table was simply taking it all in for personal amusement. I managed at the time to not say something very rude as I was very tempted to.

And after that I generally steered clear of him since I did not want to deal with the ego.

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The GOP is a Terrorist Organization  Aug 27, 2023 • 7:55:59pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 27, 2023 • 8:04:13pm

re: #55 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization

The Epoch Times: Exactly where I’d go for climate science.

Wingnuts will always cut off the source in their screen captures so you can’t tell immediately that it is a batshyte source which constantly lies. Just type in the exact headline into a search engine and that will lead you to the particular liar a conservative cites.

If conservatives weren’t lying, they wouldn’t need to hide their source.

By the way, multiple fact-check organisations already debunked The Epoch Times article and the letter.

Conservatives can never be original either, since this exact headline and article appeared August 31, 2022.

1,100 Scientists and Professionals Declare: ‘There Is No Climate Emergency’

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Captain Ron  Aug 27, 2023 • 8:10:21pm
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silverdolphin  Aug 27, 2023 • 8:12:39pm

re: #52 Belafon

Information wants to be free, but, generally, so do people. And freedom, right now, costs money. And until we can all host our own internet, someone else will have access to that information. And look at Republicans closing libraries.

re: #53 William Lewis

Ah Raymond. Classic Libertarian idjit. I got more of value from Mike Harrington’s works on Socialism, David Brin’s “The Transparent Society” and Paul Graham (though he can be quite the twit too).

Okay, Raymond is a nutball and an ass but he had a few points here, I beleive (bottom-up vs top-down, working in the public). Because I was working at a biotech company that was embodying many of these principles so I saw the universal aspects of some of it. But not the revolution he thought he was going to lead.

And how could I forget the Transparent Society. That probably had a greater effect than the others. As long as we have most of the same tools as the elite, we can maintain our freedom.

Thus, for example, they want access to end-to-end encryption.

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silverdolphin  Aug 27, 2023 • 8:17:09pm

re: #54 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

One of my personal encounters with Raymond was one of the two times I’ve heard “Don’t you know who I am?” uttered with sincerity by a human being. I think the third person sitting at the table was simply taking it all in for personal amusement. I managed at the time to not say something very rude as I was very tempted to.

And after that I generally steered clear of him since I did not want to deal with the ego.

I have heard the same comment. It is so very rare for someone with interesting ideas to actually not be a narcissist. Perhaps that is why their phenotype has been maintained. There muyst be a postive purpose or we would have killed them all a long time ago.

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Belafon  Aug 27, 2023 • 8:17:46pm

re: #58 silverdolphin

Your graph earlier showed computer usage at around 70%, IIRC. There’s a whole lot of information on the internet that doesn’t need to be encrypted, it just needs to be available. But if you’re not on the internet, because of cost, which includes having internet access in your area, that information is unobtainable. And there will always be barriers in our current situation.

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jaunte  Aug 27, 2023 • 8:18:11pm

Mastodon

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Captain Ron  Aug 27, 2023 • 8:19:00pm

YouTube

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 27, 2023 • 8:23:17pm

re: #55 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization

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Even if it were true, science doesn’t gaf who signed a letter or what’s popular, or “everyone believes”?

Eta: whoever posted earlier today ” biology, physics, chemistry ” has it spot on

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Targetpractice  Aug 27, 2023 • 8:26:51pm

Saw something just now that was so Southern that I had to laugh. If you’ve ever lived in the South, you’re familiar with “waterbugs” and how they seem to be everywhere in the summer due to the heat and humidity. Yes, even if you spray and put down all sorts of traps and poisons, they’ll still manage to find their way into your house at least once a year. This seems to be a phenomenon totally unheard of to people from the North, as I’ve lost track of the number of tourists who freaked out when they saw “giant roaches” skittering around outside or in the building and don’t believe me when I tell them that’s normal for this time of year.

Well, I just had a elderly couple show up to check in with their family/friends who are already here and as they were passing me the second time, a “waterbug” went skittering across the lobby floor. Anybody from north of the Mason-Dixon line would have immediately started screaming, pointing at it like they’d just sighted a monster from the Id, and then begun talking about leaving the hotel because they couldn’t deal with an “infestation.” Instead, the couple saw the bug, pointed it out, and stomped it dead without hesitation before moving off to their room.

Brings a tear to me eye, it does.

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darthstar  Aug 27, 2023 • 8:28:04pm

re: #5 Joe Bacon ✅

ilDuce is getting the rather “warm” reception he so clearly deserves!

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Did he get mad and pull out the high school attendance records of the three victims and say they weren’t angels?

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jaunte  Aug 27, 2023 • 8:28:22pm

Mastodon

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gwangung  Aug 27, 2023 • 8:29:27pm

re: #63 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

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Even if it were true, science doesn’t gaf who signed a letter or what’s popular, or “everyone believes”?

Eta: whoever posted earlier today ” biology, physics, chemistry ” has it spot on

Science isn’t scientists saying a thing.

Science is DATA saying a thing.

Show me your data.

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silverdolphin  Aug 27, 2023 • 8:29:30pm

re: #55 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization

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Just read about the Nobel Laureate Iver Giaever the first name.. He admitted he learned everything ne knew about climate change by iusing Google for half an hour. He demonstares in what he says his ignorance.

First he doe snot believe it is possiblke to determine the averaghe temperature of the Earth. Wrong. And that a 0.8 degree increase was inconsequential ( by using absolute temperature so the Earth nicreased from 288 to 288.8 degrees.

And check out all the peer rfeviewed papers he has written to chow climate change is a hoax. Yes, there are none.

Just another narcissist without the humility to realize what he does not know.

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Targetpractice  Aug 27, 2023 • 8:30:07pm

re: #63 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

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Even if it were true, science doesn’t gaf who signed a letter or what’s popular, or “everyone believes”?

Eta: whoever posted earlier today ” biology, physics, chemistry ” has it spot on

Homeopathy, as viewed in the future

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Captain Ron  Aug 27, 2023 • 8:34:03pm

re: #64 Targetpractice

Are those the the same as the water boatman I see in pools now and then in California?

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Captain Ron  Aug 27, 2023 • 8:35:00pm

re: #70 Captain Ron

We called them oar bugs when we were kids.

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Targetpractice  Aug 27, 2023 • 8:36:06pm

re: #70 Captain Ron

Are those the the same as the water boatman I see in pools now and then in California?

Unfortunately not, “waterbug” (and it’s cousin “Palmetto bug”) are slang in the South for our friend the cockroach. I believe the term “waterbug” came about due to their proclivity for showing up wherever there’s standing water and their habit of coming up through drain pipes into bathrooms.

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jaunte  Aug 27, 2023 • 8:36:36pm

re: #72 Targetpractice

Texas has five kinds:
cockroachfacts.com

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silverdolphin  Aug 27, 2023 • 8:39:40pm

re: #60 Belafon

Your graph earlier showed computer usage at around 70%, IIRC. There’s a whole lot of information on the internet that doesn’t need to be encrypted, it just needs to be available. But if you’re not on the internet, because of cost, which includes having internet access in your area, that information is unobtainable. And there will always be barriers in our current situation.

As Gibson said, the future is here , it is just not fully dispersed. Internet access will soon, I am sure, be as ubiquitous as access to power. It will be removed from the free market, just as the telephone and power companies were, in order to more properly provide access as a utility. Legislation passed by the democrats is already working on gettiug access to areas the commercial market have ignored.

And there are programs for people in many low income groups (like on SNAP) to get low cost or free phones with internet access. O beleive our current situation will change, especially after the GOP is destroyed.

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William Lewis  Aug 27, 2023 • 8:41:54pm

re: #72 Targetpractice

Unfortunately not, “waterbug” (and it’s cousin “Palmetto bug”) are slang in the South for our friend the cockroach. I believe the term “waterbug” came about due to their proclivity for showing up wherever there’s standing water and their habit of coming up through drain pipes into bathrooms.

I remember them from Ft Benning (now Ft Moore!) and am quite glad that we don’t have that around here. Lots of other bugs though. Serious cricket problem this year - people can have a really hard time sleeping with those things making their racket.

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Belafon  Aug 27, 2023 • 8:42:37pm

re: #72 Targetpractice

Unfortunately not, “waterbug” (and it’s cousin “Palmetto bug”) are slang in the South for our friend the cockroach. I believe the term “waterbug” came about due to their proclivity for showing up wherever there’s standing water and their habit of coming up through drain pipes into bathrooms.

They are different than roaches: familyhandyman.com. Most of the time we do deal with cockroaches, but I have actually dealt with waterbugs around outside places like the water cutoff valve location.

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silverdolphin  Aug 27, 2023 • 8:43:01pm

re: #67 gwangung

Science isn’t scientists saying a thing.

Science is DATA saying a thing.

Show me your data.

And science is about the display of data and the information garnered from it in a public setting for all to see. Peer-review happens in pubic. Much of what these people do is alchemy, not science.

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Belafon  Aug 27, 2023 • 8:43:55pm

Now that Targetpractice has made me read up on waterbugs, I did find out that they are predators, and can eat fish and other animals up to 50 times their size. They will bite humans, one article said between the toes, and inject a venom.

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silverdolphin  Aug 27, 2023 • 8:46:22pm

re: #78 Belafon

Now that Targetpractice has made me read up on waterbugs, I did find out that they are predators, and can eat fish and other animals up to 50 times their size. They will bite humans, one article said between the toes, and inject a venom.

WHat a great idea for a movie. Now I’m going to have nightmares the next time I visit a Texas pond ;-)

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darthstar  Aug 27, 2023 • 8:51:07pm

Is there anything like a Ukrainian woman in a lavender dress beating the shit out of a Putin mannequin? Beautiful.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 27, 2023 • 8:51:57pm

Speaking of access to information: I see that tonight Youtube has graced us with the return of the “oldest” sort option for a channel’s videos.

When they got rid of sorting videos by date, some months ago, it was a terrible blow to those of us who want to browse through channels which have many videos over many years.

Perhaps enough people whined that Youtube actually listened?

Watching old videos doesn’t do much for Youtube. Such videos don’t have embedded advertisement, the channel owners of channels from years ago may not have updated their channel in years, etc.

Since Youtube wants to sell advertising time it makes sense for them to push only the hottest channels and the videos that are just the right length.

Many older videos simply do not meet those requirements.

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mmmirele  Aug 27, 2023 • 8:53:36pm

My nephew, his wife and their son have come to visit for a few days.

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Mattand  Aug 27, 2023 • 8:59:49pm

re: #50 DodgerFan1988

OJ Simpson says he really likes Vivek Ramaswamy but he’s still supporting Trump, for now.

Because of course

I hate this fucking timeline.

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darthstar  Aug 27, 2023 • 9:00:32pm

I just pilled my cat…by myself…on the second try. I AM LEGION!!

Now I have to do it again in the morning two hours before I take her in for her mani-pedi ( nail trim) This will be a monthly exercise though I’m thinking about trying out some medical grade CBD oil on her as I just have to get that on her fur and let her dose herself…plus I can get stoned myself so I don’t feel so nervous taking her in.

This is what happens when your wife buys a Herman Miller Eames chair and you have a cat that likes leather.

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jaunte  Aug 27, 2023 • 9:00:52pm

re: #78 Belafon

They’re both possum and skunk.

A water bug can feign death when approached by a larger predator and ooze an odorous liquid from its anus as a defense mechanism.

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retired cynic  Aug 27, 2023 • 9:06:18pm

re: #72 Targetpractice

Unfortunately not, “waterbug” (and it’s cousin “Palmetto bug”) are slang in the South for our friend the cockroach. I believe the term “waterbug” came about due to their proclivity for showing up wherever there’s standing water and their habit of coming up through drain pipes into bathrooms.

They freaked me out my first trip to Florida. Up here, if you have cockroaches, it’s because your are unclean or if you brought in something from someone who is unclean. It’s a big deal.

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retired cynic  Aug 27, 2023 • 9:21:18pm

re: #86 retired cynic

I see later that I may have responded too soon (story of my life) and that what we call a cockroach up here is a different breed of cat from what you are talking about.

Up here, a waterbug is a delightful little critter that skitters about on ponds or big puddles. They don’t come inside.

So I may have offended some folks by shooting from the hip. If so, I apologize for being too quick with my keyboard.

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BeenHereAwhile  Aug 27, 2023 • 9:22:34pm

Charles, is this what you and Shoq have been working on?

If so - looks good.

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William Lewis  Aug 27, 2023 • 9:25:48pm

re: #88 BeenHereAwhile

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I would like that for my photo posts. Honestly, right now I’m only doing bluesky because it’s easier to use.

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Captain Ron  Aug 27, 2023 • 9:29:03pm

re: #87 retired cynic

Water Striders? We called them water skaters as kids.

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Targetpractice  Aug 27, 2023 • 9:29:38pm

re: #66 jaunte

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I agree with the article, but would offer that what is driving this worry over “civility” and causing so many to lament it’s “death” is the dawning reality that the bullies in our society are feeling increasingly isolated. And those who are lamenting the loudest are not the bullies themselves but their toadies who now worry that their relationships with the bullies is harming their social status. They don’t want the bullies to change their behavior and join the rest of society as friends, they want the rest of us to stop being so mean to the bullies and go back to the old status quo of letting their bullshit slide in order to maintain “friendships.”

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retired cynic  Aug 27, 2023 • 9:30:34pm

re: #90 Captain Ron

Water Striders? We called them water skaters as kids.

Yeah, that’s it. We used to enjoy watching them skate. But we just called them waterbugs.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 27, 2023 • 9:49:06pm

Speeding up the trial could be ‘a tactic’ to ‘put pressure on Donald Trump’

Speeding up the trial could be ‘a tactic’ to ‘put pressure on Trump’: Political analyst

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Targetpractice  Aug 27, 2023 • 9:49:40pm

I don’t think I hate so much when people lie to me as when they do so in a way that is obviously insulting my intelligence. Tonight’s example is the guest who came down at midnight to ask for three sets of clean linens (2 beds & sleep sofa) with blankets for her room. Since current policy is to do exchanges only, I told her I needed the dirty stuff before I could hand over any clean replacements. Instead of agreeing to go get it without argument, she first acts as if I’m being unreasonable, then requests a rolling bin (can’t spare one) or a large garbage bag. I gave her the bag and 10 minutes later she’s dragging it back to the desk with an obviously heavy load of soiled linens.

The insult? In response to me pointing out that she would have just dumped all this out in the hallway to sit until tomorrow morning when housekeeping came by, she insisted that she would asked for the bag after I gave her the clean linen and brought down the used linen tonight. As though I’m supposed to be stupid enough to believe somebody who had to be prompted to bring it down in the first place would have done it without asking if given what they requested at the beginning.

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BeenHereAwhile  Aug 27, 2023 • 10:01:10pm

re: #88 BeenHereAwhile

Charles, is this what you and Shoq have been working on?

If so - looks good.

.  .  . first test of cross-posting tool.  .  .

Well drat.

I can see the test cross post on mastodon, but not on Bluesky mobile or desktop.

Hope the feedback helps.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 27, 2023 • 10:05:37pm

re: #88 BeenHereAwhile

10 years?

No.

If the transition from Xitter is happening now, then it will be no more than 24-36 months before it is greatly accomplished.

And I will not be surprised if it’s sooner.

Threads finally got a browser version done. Now they have to add some functionality. Once that is done, all that is left is for Meta to convince the major movers (mostly sports teams and entertainment franchises) to make Threads/Instagram their default social media presence.

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teleskiguy  Aug 27, 2023 • 10:09:07pm

Mastodon

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 27, 2023 • 10:17:14pm

Prompted by Anymouse, I checked how many people on BlueSky are blocking me: 55.

That’s more people than who is blocking Charles.

I must be scary.

Or…. people see “token” in my handle and think I’m a crypto scammer.

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William Lewis  Aug 27, 2023 • 10:18:41pm

re: #98 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Prompted by Anymouse, I checked how many people on BlueSky are blocking me: 55.

That’s more people than who is blocking Charles.

I must be scary.

Or…. people see “token” in my handle and think I’m a crypto scammer.

How does one check this?

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teleskiguy  Aug 27, 2023 • 10:20:28pm

re: #99 William Lewis

How does one check this?

bsky.thieflord.dev

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William Lewis  Aug 27, 2023 • 10:30:01pm

re: #100 teleskiguy

bsky.thieflord.dev

Thank you. Got one that I don’t recognize. < shrug >

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retired cynic  Aug 27, 2023 • 10:32:30pm

re: #100 teleskiguy

bsky.thieflord.dev

Nobody. Gotta zip. I must be pretty bland in my posts and re-posts.

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 27, 2023 • 10:37:44pm

re: #102 retired cynic

Nobody. Gotta zip. I must be pretty bland in my posts and re-posts.

Same for me, but then I have practically no posts.

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 27, 2023 • 10:46:34pm

re: #96 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

10 years?

No.

If the transition from Xitter is happening now, then it will be no more than 24-36 months before it is greatly accomplished.

And I will not be surprised if it’s sooner.

Threads finally got a browser version done. Now they have to add some functionality. Once that is done, all that is left is for Meta to convince the major movers (mostly sports teams and entertainment franchises) to make Threads/Instagram their default social media presence.

Am not fond of the notion that Zuckerberg would own all major social media sites — but as bad as he is, he’s not Musk. He has a very low key personal social media presence.

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Captain Ron  Aug 27, 2023 • 10:55:08pm
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Targetpractice  Aug 27, 2023 • 11:41:10pm

re: #108 Captain Ron

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I swear, I cannot look at the ass-end of that rocket and not think of the Soviet N-1 from their failed Moon program.

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William Lewis  Aug 27, 2023 • 11:50:12pm

re: #109 Targetpractice

I swear, I cannot look at the ass-end of that rocket and not think of the Soviet N-1 from their failed Moon program.

I know. There has got to be a better way to do that.

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ericblair  Aug 28, 2023 • 12:50:10am

This needs to get visibility. Sweatshops are sweatshops, be it for clothes or AI.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 28, 2023 • 12:54:25am

re: #111 ericblair

This needs to get visibility. Sweatshops are sweatshops, be it for clothes or AI.

The benefits of globalism.

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Targetpractice  Aug 28, 2023 • 1:08:44am

re: #111 ericblair

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This needs to get visibility. Sweatshops are sweatshops, be it for clothes or AI.

The Digital Age version of “training your replacements.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 28, 2023 • 1:19:35am

To main objectives of global companies:

1) gather as much iconsumer and market information as possible
2) prevent the dissemination of information about your own company

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William Lewis  Aug 28, 2023 • 1:21:23am

After the discussion of bluesky blocks earlier it’s ironic that I have blocked one now. There is a repost in my feed if you follow me. The profile of that Nazi speaks for itself - please block and report the account.

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silverdolphin  Aug 28, 2023 • 1:34:04am

re: #114 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

To main objectives of global companies:

1) gather as much iconsumer and market nformation as possible
2) prevent the dissemination of information about your own company

This is, in my mind, more like rent-seeking behavior than actual capitalism. Capitalism actually makes things. These guys steal data from others without paying, manipulate the socail system to create money for themselves but not really any real wealth.

Companies ready to be successful in the coming years care about their customers and their employees. They focus on all stakeholders, not just shareholders. Of course, the MAGAs call this woke and are against them. Which tells us they are what we should fight for.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 28, 2023 • 1:35:23am

re: #116 silverdolphin

This is, in my mind, more like rent-seeking behavior than actual capitalism. Capitalism actually makes things. These guys steal data from others without paying, manipulate the socail system to create money for themselves but not really any real wealth.

Companies ready to be successful in the coming years care about their customers and their employees. They focus on all stakeholders, not just shareholders. Of course, the MAGAs call this woke and are against them. Which tells us they are what we should fight for.

Woke capitalism is broke capitalism!

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silverdolphin  Aug 28, 2023 • 2:04:57am

re: #117 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Woke capitalism is broke capitalism!

I wish the MAGAs would really show us the list of broke companies that were once woke. Dick’s is still around even though it stopped selling guns. Apple is still around and it has a gay man as CEO.. So is Disney. Costco is doing well. And remember that comapnay that decided to pay everyone at least $70,000 a year? It did not go broke either.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 28, 2023 • 2:12:58am

re: #118 silverdolphin

I wish the MAGAs would really show us the list of broke companies that were once woke. Dick’s is still around even though it stopped selling guns. Apple is still around and it has a gay man as CEO.. So is Disney. Costco is doing well. And remember that comapnay that decided to pay everyone at least $70,000 a year? It did not go broke either.

When Free Market Jesus comes again he will punish them by casting them forever into the lake of negative liquidity.

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ericblair  Aug 28, 2023 • 2:18:51am

re: #118 silverdolphin

I wish the MAGAs would really show us the list of broke companies that were once woke. Dick’s is still around even though it stopped selling guns. Apple is still around and it has a gay man as CEO.. So is Disney. Costco is doing well. And remember that comapnay that decided to pay everyone at least $70,000 a year? It did not go broke either.

Bigotry as a luxury good. A number of people and organizations will pay, monetarily or otherwise, for the sweet dopamine hit. We’ve got a whole political party dedicated to selling it. And when shit goes to hell, some people will give it up, and some people will pay for that last hit with their last breath.

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Targetpractice  Aug 28, 2023 • 2:19:01am

re: #118 silverdolphin

I wish the MAGAs would really show us the list of broke companies that were once woke. Dick’s is still around even though it stopped selling guns. Apple is still around and it has a gay man as CEO.. So is Disney. Costco is doing well. And remember that comapnay that decided to pay everyone at least $70,000 a year? It did not go broke either.

About the only company I can think of that went “broke” recently is Anheuser Busch for the high crime of trying to market their pisswater to somebody other than rednecks and fratboys.

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William Lewis  Aug 28, 2023 • 2:28:09am

re: #121 Targetpractice

About the only company I can think of that went “broke” recently is Anheuser Busch for the high crime of trying to market their pisswater to somebody other than rednecks and fratboys.

And even then, one of the “leaders” of the rucus (Kid unable to Rock) was spotted still drinking the swill.

I’ll drink Michelob Ultra if I want a lite beer and I’m someplace without better options. But guess what? It’s got 95 calories but for 12 oz and a 16 can of Guiness is like 125. Much better beer and almost as “light”.

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 28, 2023 • 2:32:52am

re: #115 William Lewis

After the discussion of bluesky blocks earlier it’s ironic that I have blocked one now. There is a repost in my feed if you follow me. The profile of that Nazi speaks for itself - please block and report the account.

The link shows people I have blocked but I can’t figure out how to see how many are blocking me (I don’t really care). I’m blocking 9 generic accounts.

Btw, I think you and Targetpractice should do a co-written book of short stories on your experiences with humanity at your jobs (including corporate).

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William Lewis  Aug 28, 2023 • 2:40:56am

Anyone want to buy $300 worth of my photos in full size downloads? No? Didn’t think so! LOL!

Saw an exquisite old 1950’s Zeiss Contax IIa on Ebay for cheap because “issues” that I think are probably an easy fix. But Mr. Wallet sez GTFOOH! So hopefully the “issues” will scare away others until my 9/15 payday :)

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 28, 2023 • 3:08:51am

re: #84 darthstar

I just pilled my cat…by myself…on the second try. I AM LEGION!!

Now I have to do it again in the morning two hours before I take her in for her mani-pedi ( nail trim) This will be a monthly exercise though I’m thinking about trying out some medical grade CBD oil on her as I just have to get that on her fur and let her dose herself…plus I can get stoned myself so I don’t feel so nervous taking her in.

This is what happens when your wife buys a Herman Miller Eames chair and you have a cat that likes leather.

When once I suggested fashioning cat booties out of duct tape I was stared down mercilessly by three sets of eyes. Two feline, one human

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 28, 2023 • 3:20:18am

Off to break in a new pair of merrells

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 28, 2023 • 3:23:20am

re: #126 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

Off to break in a new pair of merrells

Carol and her sister?

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 28, 2023 • 3:24:51am

re: #126 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

Off to break in a new pair of merrells

I like the look, but too narrow for me. I have to go get a new pair of Oboz shoes. I left my last pair of three years in the trash can in Japan to make room in my luggage for souvenirs.

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dharmamark  Aug 28, 2023 • 3:33:49am

I’ve got a Bluesky code, if anyone’s interested.

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Targetpractice  Aug 28, 2023 • 4:04:36am

re: #122 William Lewis

And even then, one of the “leaders” of the rucus (Kid unable to Rock) was spotted still drinking the swill.

I’ll drink Michelob Ultra if I want a lite beer and I’m someplace without better options. But guess what? It’s got 95 calories but for 12 oz and a 16 can of Guiness is like 125. Much better beer and almost as “light”.

It probably doesn’t help AB that that’s the general theme of the response to the boycott, that “libruls” saw the MAGAts freaking out over a single can given to a TikTok influencer and responded with:

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nowherenorth2  Aug 28, 2023 • 4:09:17am

So my friend and I are huge wrestling fans. Him more now, with aew, and me watching more classic matches on wwe. He just pointed out something:
A wrestler named Bob Harris was on impact wrestling, coming out in a tank top with the nazi SS logo. No one batter an eye.

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Eventual Carrion  Aug 28, 2023 • 4:14:38am

re: #6 Decatur Deb

If two-thirds of us were to eat the other third, it would greatly reduce emissions. (That’s assuming, of course, that we didn’t use charcoal.)

DangNabbit, now I’m hungry.

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Jay C  Aug 28, 2023 • 4:18:18am

re: #121 Targetpractice

About the only company I can think of that went “broke” recently is Anheuser Busch for the high crime of trying to market their pisswater to somebody other than rednecks and fratboys.

And Busch is part of a huge international mega-corp: it was noted immediately that the bulkshit MAGA “boycott” of Bud Lite served mainly to redirect beer sales primarily to other brands owned by the same parent.

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Jay C  Aug 28, 2023 • 4:19:06am

re: #132 Eventual Carrion

DangNabbit, now I’m hungry.

Swift’s Irish Stew?

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Nerdy Fish  Aug 28, 2023 • 4:22:02am

re: #121 Targetpractice

About the only company I can think of that went “broke” recently is Anheuser Busch for the high crime of trying to market their pisswater to somebody other than rednecks and fratboys.

Target also reported a notable dip in revenue due to the boycotts led by the rabid right wing after the faux outrage over their Pride displays. That hasn’t stopped them, though.

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Nerdy Fish  Aug 28, 2023 • 4:25:30am

Continuing the trend.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 28, 2023 • 4:32:04am

re: #127 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Carol and her sister?

you just dated yourself

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 28, 2023 • 4:41:54am

re: #128 Barefoot Grin

I like the look, but too narrow for me. I have to go get a new pair of Oboz shoes. I left my last pair of three years in the trash can in Japan to make room in my luggage for souvenirs.

the vapor gloves fit my little feet.
also the tsla’s, from amazon

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 28, 2023 • 4:50:32am

and thus endeth today’s lesson

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Eventual Carrion  Aug 28, 2023 • 4:53:55am

re: #72 Targetpractice

Unfortunately not, “waterbug” (and it’s cousin “Palmetto bug”) are slang in the South for our friend the cockroach. I believe the term “waterbug” came about due to their proclivity for showing up wherever there’s standing water and their habit of coming up through drain pipes into bathrooms.

Yes, when I was living in Mississippi I always heard them referred to as Palmetto bugs. And they have no problem flying straight at you for some reason. They would get into my apartment every once in a while.

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William Lewis  Aug 28, 2023 • 4:58:02am

re: #140 Eventual Carrion

Yes, when I was living in Mississippi I always heard them referred to as Palmetto bugs. And they have no problem flying straight at you for some reason. They would get into my apartment every once in a while.

That is one of the reasons I find it highly ironic that one of the big makers of cheap crap AR and AK type rifles is called Palmetto State Armory. Yes, it’s in South Carolina and yes, it’s from that nickname but I think of cockroaches every time I think of them…

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Teukka  Aug 28, 2023 • 4:58:34am
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Teukka  Aug 28, 2023 • 4:58:54am

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 28, 2023 • 5:02:52am

Ah Marky Mark Meadows has a court date today!

‘Meadows could win the battle and still lose the war’ in crucial Monday court appearance

All eyes will be on a federal courtroom on Monday where U.S. District Judge Steve C. Jones will hear arguments from lawyers representing former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, who is attempting to get his trial on racketeering charges moved from a state court to a federal courtroom where he believes he will stand a better chance of avoiding jail time.

How Jones eventually rules could decide the fate of more than a handful of the 19 co-conspirators indicted by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, which also includes Donald Trump, who will undoubtedly be keeping an eye on the proceedings.

At issue is Meadows’ assertion that he was serving in his capacity as a federal official when he assisted the former president in contesting the 2020 presidential election results which Willis contends was part of a far-reaching conspiracy.

As the Washington Post is reporting, “That would create an unusual scenario in which Meadows would be prosecuted by Willis’s office under state law but in front of a federal judge. If convicted, he would not be eligible for a pardon by the president, as he would be if convicted under federal law, experts said.”

washingtonpost.com

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Eventual Carrion  Aug 28, 2023 • 5:05:42am

re: #85 jaunte

They’re both possum and skunk.
A water bug can feign death when approached by a larger predator and ooze an odorous liquid from its anus as a defense mechanism.

Hey I can do that too

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darthstar  Aug 28, 2023 • 5:08:51am

Gotta love the fact that Ukraine took out five Russian jets with a volley of freakin’ paper airplanes. Talk about return on investiment…

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Nerdy Fish  Aug 28, 2023 • 5:09:05am

re: #144 Joe Bacon ✅

In addition, Trump’s having a hearing in DC to set (or at least make oral arguments for setting) his trial date in the 1/6 case there. Both are things to keep an eye on; the Georgia hearing will set precedent for several of the Georgia 19, and is an early portent of how that whole process will play out. Prediction: Judge Jones tells Meadows to get bent, as there is ample evidence that he knew or should have known that the actions he took were illegal or went beyond the scope of his job duties as a federal official (IIRC, that’s the legal bar for “color of law” that would permit removal to federal court). As far as the trial date for Trump’s 1/6 charges, I think January 2, 2024 (the date selected by special counsel Jack Smith) is unreasonable, but I’d predict that Judge Chutkan puts it well before the November election. That decision likely won’t come today, though.

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Thanos  Aug 28, 2023 • 5:09:45am

re: #43 silverdolphin

So do we measure a civilization through its ability to use energy (Kardashev scale,) its knowledge (Kaku, et al.,) or its ability to hold dirt?
Maybe all three?

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Thanos  Aug 28, 2023 • 5:12:44am

re: #146 darthstar

Gotta love the fact that Ukraine took out five Russian jets with a volley of freakin’ paper airplanes. Talk about return on investiment…

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The easier and cheaper it is to make destructive drones the scarier it gets.

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Thanos  Aug 28, 2023 • 5:18:04am

re: #139 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

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and thus endeth today’s lesson

Reminds me of that time in the early ‘70’s when I was walking by Hamilton Acres Baptist church and the little kids started throwing rocks at me and shouting “You’re the DEVIL!” Get out of here Satan!”
I suspect it was because my hair was long and I was smoking a cigarette.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 28, 2023 • 5:21:55am

re: #149 Thanos

The easier and cheaper it is to make destructive drones the scarier it gets.

Only a matter of time before Radical Xtians use cardboard drones to attack Planned Parenthood offices.

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Florida Panhandler  Aug 28, 2023 • 5:24:14am

re: #17 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

Florida guy here… 2 blocks from where I live a large meth camp was just busted off in the woods out of view from anyone. They got busted because a wastoid meth head parked his car on the side of the road near the camp and started stumbling around the street and someone called the cops about a drunk driver.

The massive homeless and meth/fentanyl problem is everywhere here…. Just hidden out of view in forests, trailer parks, vacant properties and low rent apartments. Fox News never reports on these for a reason. A very specific reason.

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Teukka  Aug 28, 2023 • 5:24:23am

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Shropshire Slasher  Aug 28, 2023 • 5:29:21am

Pretty neat.

Huge explosions as Ukrainian forces destroy Russian mines in Zaporizhzhia

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Decatur Deb  Aug 28, 2023 • 5:32:44am

re: #155 Shropshire Slasher

Pretty neat.

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en.wikipedia.org

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 28, 2023 • 5:34:35am

DeSantis canceled campaign events this week cause of the storm and the shooting in Jacksonville

or maybe it was cause of his reception in jacksonville

either way, watch his ratings go up because he’s not talking to anyone

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Shropshire Slasher  Aug 28, 2023 • 5:35:01am

re: #156 Decatur Deb

MICLIC
en.wikipedia.org

Thank you, I am glad to see you are posting more often.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 28, 2023 • 5:37:29am

re: #151 Thanos

Reminds me of that time in the early ‘70’s when I was walking by Hamilton Acres Baptist church and the little kids started throwing rocks at me and shouting “You’re the DEVIL!” Get out of here Satan!”
I suspect it was because my hair was long and I was smoking a cigarette.

Memories of the time I made the fatal mistake of bringing a can of V8 juice to drink in grade school and Catholic Kids started the blood libel with me. Did you think my 3rd grade teacher would stop them from saying that out loud?

Nope.

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lawhawk  Aug 28, 2023 • 5:42:04am

re: #144 Joe Bacon ✅

The venue is irrelevant as to the charges and the law that must be applied. State law governs those charges, but FRE would govern the evidence used. It’s not the win that Meadows thinks it could be.

Besides, Meadows has already sabotaged his own effort, by admitting that he’s violated the Hatch Act.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 28, 2023 • 5:42:28am

The Wanker Of The House is going to go ahead with the impeachment inquiry.

House Republicans may skip past a full vote on an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, but many GOP lawmakers doubt that process will go anywhere.

Multiple GOP sources confirmed to CNN that House speaker Kevin McCarthy has been privately telling his caucus that he plans to pursue an impeachment inquiry by the end of September, but leadership realizes Republicans don’t have the 218 votes needed to open the inquiry — so they may get the ball rolling without forcing vulnerable and moderate members to formally vote on it.

“I don’t believe that a vote of the House is required to open an impeachment inquiry,” said pro-impeachment Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL).

There is no constitutional requirement to hold a floor vote to formally authorize an inquiry, but they would need money to continue their investigations into the Biden administration — which McCarthy has said would be cut off if the government shuts down at the end of next month in a budget dispute.

“There’s no evidence that Joe Biden got money, or that Joe Biden, you know, agreed to do something so that Hunter could get money,” said one GOP lawmaker who was granted anonymity to speak candidly. “There’s just no evidence of that, and they can’t impeach without that evidence — and I don’t I don’t think the evidence exists.” BUT you can count on this spineless chickenshit Republican to support impeachment anyway because Chairman Mao ZeTrump demands it.

cnn.com

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 28, 2023 • 5:43:23am

re: #134 Jay C

Swift’s Irish Stew?

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Decatur Deb  Aug 28, 2023 • 5:43:54am

re: #158 Shropshire Slasher

Thank you, I am glad to see you are posting more often.

Comcast would not connect me for 6 months—specifically LGF.

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Nerdy Fish  Aug 28, 2023 • 5:44:12am

re: #160 lawhawk

The venue is irrelevant as to the charges and the law that must be applied. State law governs those charges, but FRE would govern the evidence used. It’s not the win that Meadows thinks it could be.

Besides, Meadows has already sabotaged his own effort, by admitting that he’s violated the Hatch Act.

I think he’s hoping to get a die-hard Trumper from the larger federal area on the jury, instead of the jury pool being restricted only to Fulton County, which is predominantly Black and Democratic. That’s a really long shot, though, as even the surrounding areas that are part of the federal court’s jurisdiction aren’t exactly the Trumpiest.

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Teukka  Aug 28, 2023 • 5:48:28am

re: #151 Thanos

Reminds me of that time in the early ‘70’s when I was walking by Hamilton Acres Baptist church and the little kids started throwing rocks at me and shouting “You’re the DEVIL!” Get out of here Satan!”
I suspect it was because my hair was long and I was smoking a cigarette.

re: #159 Joe Bacon ✅

Memories of the time I made the fatal mistake of bringing a can of V8 juice to drink in grade school and Catholic Kids started the blood libel with me. Did you think my 3rd grade teacher would stop them from saying that out loud?

Nope.

JFC… Some people simply reject reality and substitute their own…. Not you two, but the [redacted] [redacted].

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 28, 2023 • 5:50:08am

US Supreme Court justices ‘facilitated’ racially motivated Florida shooting: law professor

Mehdi Hasan Show: NYU law professor Melissa Murray on Jacksonville shooting

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Nerdy Fish  Aug 28, 2023 • 5:51:54am

re: #161 Joe Bacon ✅

Imma stop you at that last part. I don’t think McCarthy is going ahead with impeachment because Trump wants it. I think McCarthy is going ahead with it because the Freedumb Caucus wants it - because right now, he’s clinging to the last vestiges of power (and his sanity) by being beholden to those idiots. He knows that if he makes another deal with Democrats, the Freedumb Caucus will move to vacate the chair, and then all pretense of normality will end; it’ll be a complete shitfest, even worse than the first. I think he’s saving that for the government budget, because while Kevin “Qevin” McCarthy is many things, a complete fool is not one of them, and he recognizes that a government shutdown will correctly be blamed on himself and the Republicans (outside their infobubble, that is), regardless of the messaging. In the meantime, he’s sending abundant signals that he knows this impeachment inquiry is a farce, and will do the bare minimum to keep Matt “Gaspedal” Gaetz and his brain-dead cohort quiet whilst cutting them off as quickly as is feasible.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 28, 2023 • 5:52:34am

BULLETIN
Tropical Storm Idalia Intermediate Advisory Number 7A
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL AL102023
700 AM CDT Mon Aug 28 2023

…IDALIA FORECAST TO BECOME A HURRICANE WHEN IT NEARS WESTERN
CUBA LATER TODAY…
…LIFE-THREATENING STORM SURGE AND DANGEROUS WINDS BECOMING
INCREASINGLY LIKELY FOR PORTIONS OF FLORIDA…

SUMMARY OF 700 AM CDT…1200 UTC…INFORMATION
———————————————————————
LOCATION…20.6N 85.2W
ABOUT 90 MI…150 KM S OF THE WESTERN TIP OF CUBA
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS…65 MPH…100 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT…N OR 360 DEGREES AT 8 MPH…13 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE…989 MB…29.21 INCHES

The National Hurricane Center predicting Tropical Storm Idalia will become a major hurricane before it hits Florida. It will still be a hurricane when it crosses into Georgia.

Predicted Track Tropical Storm Idalia (NHC)

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lawhawk  Aug 28, 2023 • 5:52:44am
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lawhawk  Aug 28, 2023 • 5:55:02am

re: #168 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

It will likely undergo bombogenesis because the waters in the Gulf are quite warm. It’s at the upper end of the monthly average temp for August, and August is almost over. That warm temperature feeds tropical storms and allows them to intensify astonishingly fast (the bombogenesis).

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lawhawk  Aug 28, 2023 • 5:56:41am

re: #164 Nerdy Fish

Yeah, I posted the demographics on Friday, and it drops the D/R ratio somewhat, but not enough to likely make a difference.

And I don’t think the federal courts will remove the case to federal court.

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Nerdy Fish  Aug 28, 2023 • 5:58:41am

re: #171 lawhawk

Yeah, I posted the demographics on Friday, and it drops the D/R ratio somewhat, but not enough to likely make a difference.

And I don’t think the federal courts will remove the case to federal court.

I agree. I am not a lawyer, as I frequently disclaim, but from the analyses I’ve read, his case is pretty weak. His essentially admitting he violated the Hatch Act basically torpedoes what little shot he had at selling his best defense (“I thought I was acting within the scope of my job duties, and here’s why”).

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 28, 2023 • 6:03:01am

re: #170 lawhawk

It will likely undergo bombogenesis because the waters in the Gulf are quite warm. It’s at the upper end of the monthly average temp for August, and August is almost over. That warm temperature feeds tropical storms and allows them to intensify astonishingly fast (the bombogenesis).

FOX News was wishing the storm would hit Cuba so it knocked down its intensity.

Fuque all those people in Cuba: FOX.

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Thanos  Aug 28, 2023 • 6:04:15am

re: #165 Teukka

JFC… Some people simply reject reality and substitute their own…. Not you two, but the [redacted] [redacted].

The good news was that my friend and I were both high and both busted out laughing, which probably heightened the kid’s belief that we were devils.

*** also in the kid’s defense, with my long hair, ‘stache, and goatee I did look like a crazy cross between Bill Murray and Charles Manson.

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rhuarc  Aug 28, 2023 • 6:10:51am

re: #175 lawhawk

My backyard! Drove over that bridge for many years every day going to and from work. Such a nightmare of a bridge. Built for early 20th century car traffic and not usable for modern volume of traffic

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 28, 2023 • 6:13:16am

If you can’t get medical people to follow pandemic protocols, how the heck to you get others to?

Phlebotomist extremely bitchy about being asked to pull up her fucking mask, is extremely annoyed at how many tests my doctor ordered. So fucking sorry I’m asking you to do your fucking job, lady

bsky.app

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 28, 2023 • 6:13:58am

LIEberman will not stop sticking shivs into Joe.

No Labels to hold nominating convention in April, Joe Lieberman says

politico.com

Former Sen. Joe Lieberman said Sunday the No Labels group intends to select a presidential ticket in April in Dallas.

Speaking on “Fox News Sunday,” Lieberman told host Shannon Bream: “We already have scheduled a bipartisan convention. Think about it. We haven’t seen that ever in recent history. A bipartisan nominating convention for Dallas, Texas, in April of next year.”

Lieberman is the founding chair of No Labels. He said the centrist group’s top priority is qualifying for the ballot in every state. putting Trump back in the White House…

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sizzzzlerz  Aug 28, 2023 • 6:14:56am

It’s been awhile since my last eagle

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Teukka  Aug 28, 2023 • 6:20:12am
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GlutenFreeJesus  Aug 28, 2023 • 6:23:08am

re: #146 darthstar

Metallica 1986: Disposable Heroes

Australia 2023: Expendable Drones

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 28, 2023 • 6:26:03am

re: #167 Nerdy Fish

Imma stop you at that last part. I don’t think McCarthy is going ahead with impeachment because Trump wants it. I think McCarthy is going ahead with it because the Freedumb Caucus wants it - because right now, he’s clinging to the last vestiges of power (and his sanity) by being beholden to those idiots. He knows that if he makes another deal with Democrats, the Freedumb Caucus will move to vacate the chair, and then all pretense of normality will end; it’ll be a complete shitfest, even worse than the first. I think he’s saving that for the government budget, because while Kevin “Qevin” McCarthy is many things, a complete fool is not one of them, and he recognizes that a government shutdown will correctly be blamed on himself and the Republicans (outside their infobubble, that is), regardless of the messaging. In the meantime, he’s sending abundant signals that he knows this impeachment inquiry is a farce, and will do the bare minimum to keep Matt “Gaspedal” Gaetz and his brain-dead cohort quiet whilst cutting them off as quickly as is feasible.

You may be right
Still , this is pretty loud

Donald Trump issued an ultimatum to House Republicans, angry that their talk of an impeachment inquiry against President Biden has not yet amounted to meaningful action.

Said Trump: “Biden is a Stone Cold Crook-You don’t need a long INQUIRY to prove it, it’s already proven.”

He added: “These lowlifes Impeached me TWICE (I WON!), and Indicted me FOUR TIMES - For NOTHING! Either IMPEACH the BUM, or fade into OBLIVION. THEY DID IT TO US!”

Link

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 28, 2023 • 6:29:29am

re: #173 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

FOX News was wishing the storm would hit Cuba so it knocked down its intensity.

Fuque all those people in Cuba: FOX.

One of the nastier aspects of hurricanes is having to think “I don’t care where it hits as long as its not here”.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 28, 2023 • 6:31:36am

Eastman is going down.

Eastman’s defense is shattered in state bar proceeding

washingtonpost.com

John Eastman, the lawyer allegedly at the center of the unprecedented and outrageous scheme to overthrow the 2020 election, faces criminal prosecution in Georgia and has been identified as an unindicted co-conspirator in special counsel Jack Smith’s federal case. And Eastman must defend a bar complaint in California that threatens to revoke his law license.

At a critical hearing last week in the California bar proceedings, designated legal expert Matthew A. Seligman submitted a 91-page report, which I have obtained from the state bar, that strips away any colorable defense that Eastman was acting in good faith in rendering advice to the now four-times indicted former president Donald Trump.
This report has serious ramifications for Eastman’s professional licensure and his defense in Georgia. Moreover, his co-defendant and co-counsel in the alleged legal scheme, Kenneth Chesebro, who has employed many of the same excuses as Eastman, might be in serious jeopardy in his Oct. 23 trial. (Another lawyer, Sidney Powell, also requested a speedy trial.)

In his report, Seligman addressed whether “the legal positions advanced by Dr. John Eastman in relation to the counting of electoral votes for the 2020 presidential election” were reasonable. Specifically, he assessed whether, as Eastman, Chesebro and others posited, former vice president Mike Pence had “unilateral authority to resolve disputes about electoral votes or to take other unilateral actions with respect to the electoral count” or could “delay the electoral count for a state legislature to take action with respect to a state’s electoral votes and whether a state legislature may lawfully appoint electors after the electoral count commences.” Seligman emphatically found that “no reasonable lawyer exercising diligence appropriate to the circumstances would adopt Dr. Eastman’s legal positions on either issue.”

Seligman reviewed the 12th Amendment, the Electoral Count Act of 1887 and “centuries-long practice by Congress,” to find that the Eastman positions were so devoid of support that “no reasonable attorney exercising appropriate diligence in the circumstances would adopt them.” In essence, Seligman strips away the pretense that Eastman (and, by extension, Chesebro) engaged in routine legal work.

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Nerdy Fish  Aug 28, 2023 • 6:32:18am

re: #183 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

You may be right
Still , this is pretty loud

Link

Yes, he is very loud, but threatening to withhold his endorsement is a two-edged sword. Republicans are currently in a “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” of their own making. If they suck up to Trump and do his bidding, they win easy Republican primaries, and then get rolled in general elections (in all but the most safely gerrymandered R districts). If they don’t suck up to Trump, they get primaried, and then those candidates get rolled in general elections. His noise is also largely directed at prosecutors and judges these days, so he is getting easier to ignore as judgment day approaches.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Aug 28, 2023 • 6:36:49am

re: #183 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

“Already proven!!! Just search my feeeeeelings.”

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Teukka  Aug 28, 2023 • 6:38:08am
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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 28, 2023 • 6:44:18am

re: #186 Nerdy Fish

Yes, he is very loud, but threatening to withhold his endorsement is a two-edged sword. Republicans are currently in a “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” of their own making. If they suck up to Trump and do his bidding, they win easy Republican primaries, and then get rolled in general elections (in all but the most safely gerrymandered R districts). If they don’t suck up to Trump, they get primaried, and then those candidates get rolled in general elections. His noise is also largely directed at prosecutors and judges these days, so he is getting easier to ignore as judgment day approaches.

Yup

Overall McCarthy has got to hate getting up in the morning.
This is not how I wanted the job to be…//

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 28, 2023 • 6:46:55am

Tropical Storm Erin restrenghened over land in 2007

So this happened when I lived in Oklahoma (I was in the path of the storm). Several people died and there was a lot of destruction over northern Oklahoma.

This is Tropical Storm Erin, a minimal storm when it hit the south Texas coast. It switched back over Texas and moved NE over Oklahoma and Missouri.

It is an example of the “brown ocean effect.” The storm rapidly intensified over northern Oklahoma. The effect is caused by saturated ground from rainstorms before a dying tropical system reaches the area. Sun heats up the water in the ground to more than the minimum necessary to sustain a tropical cyclone, and when a dying cyclone hits, it rapidly intensifies.

I suspect this will become more common with global warming, and might explain why we were hit with the remnants of Tropical Storm Harold after it turned NE from west Texas.

This might also become a problem in Florida and Georgia with the approaching Idalia. There has been a lot of rain in the area, and the National Hurricane Center has issued inland hurricane watches.

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gwangung  Aug 28, 2023 • 6:47:56am

re: #149 Thanos

The easier and cheaper it is to make destructive drones the scarier it gets.

Bet the Pentagon is not paying attention to these tactics…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 28, 2023 • 6:48:57am

re: #184 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

One of the nastier aspects of hurricanes is having to think “I don’t care where it hits as long as its not here”.

When I was stationed at NAS Oceana in Virginia Beach and we were in the strike path of Hurricane Hugo: Pat Robertson publicly prayed that the storm would miss Virginia Beach.

I’m sure the fine people of South Carolina were appreciative of his intercessory prayer.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 28, 2023 • 6:51:32am

re: #186 Nerdy Fish

Yes, he is very loud, but threatening to withhold his endorsement is a two-edged sword. Republicans are currently in a “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” of their own making. If they suck up to Trump and do his bidding, they win easy Republican primaries, and then get rolled in general elections (in all but the most safely gerrymandered R districts). If they don’t suck up to Trump, they get primaried, and then those candidates get rolled in general elections. His noise is also largely directed at prosecutors and judges these days, so he is getting easier to ignore as judgment day approaches.

Yup. In regular and special elections where he’s endorsed candidates, his track record of wins has been dismal.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Aug 28, 2023 • 6:52:40am

re: #149 Thanos

Problem I foresee is some asshole like the Jacksonville prick will use drones instead of putting themselves in direct danger.

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jeffreyw  Aug 28, 2023 • 7:05:37am

Good morning!

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lawhawk  Aug 28, 2023 • 7:07:38am
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Nerdy Fish  Aug 28, 2023 • 7:09:01am

re: #196 lawhawk

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I don’t think that surprises anybody.

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lawhawk  Aug 28, 2023 • 7:10:29am

Trump’s about to be in the FO part of #FAFO.

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darthstar  Aug 28, 2023 • 7:13:12am

re: #198 lawhawk

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Trump’s about to be in the FO part of #FAFO.

I’m starting to get a little crush on Judge Chutkan. I like the way she keeps evrything by the book.

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lawhawk  Aug 28, 2023 • 7:18:21am

re: #198 lawhawk

Judge Chutkan is ripping Trump’s lawyers a new one for their nonsense, including the “paper” demands for evidence, when everything is done electronically, and they can search through millions of docs within minutes using search terms and doc review software.

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 28, 2023 • 7:20:26am

re: #136 Nerdy Fish

Continuing the trend.

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Scored a rare eagle today

Click to Reveal

Wordle 800 2/6

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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Group: 2,3,3

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William Lewis  Aug 28, 2023 • 7:23:51am

re: #195 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

I remember getting some really crappy wine and even worse beer at various McD’s in Europe.

Now the boxed red that the French soldiers got in their rations? That stuff was worth trading for! They didn’t think so but it was actually pretty decent table wine. Scout platoons always managed to find hull down positions within, say 20 meters, of the back door of a gasthaus and hence schnitzel, pomme fritz and hefeweizen with a couple of bottles of spezi handy in case the wrong officers came calling (and extra bottles of weizen for the good ones 😉) Ah, the best days of the cold war on a tank…

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darthstar  Aug 28, 2023 • 7:25:57am

re: #200 lawhawk

Judge Chutkan is ripping Trump’s lawyers a new one for their nonsense, including the “paper” demands for evidence, when everything is done electronically, and they can search through millions of docs within minutes using search terms and doc review software.

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If Trump wants hard copies, he can print them out.

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lawhawk  Aug 28, 2023 • 7:30:03am

Trump’s lawyer is starting to pitch a fit, because he knows this isn’t going to end well.

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Nerdy Fish  Aug 28, 2023 • 7:34:05am

re: #204 lawhawk

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UH-OH. Calling it a “show trial” in front of the judge is… not smart. No federal judge is going to take that well; even the most dim-witted ones like Judge Loose Cannon down in Florida demand to be taken seriously.

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lawhawk  Aug 28, 2023 • 7:34:27am

It’s never a good idea to talk over the judge. Just saying.

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mmmirele  Aug 28, 2023 • 7:34:30am

re: #98 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Prompted by Anymouse, I checked how many people on BlueSky are blocking me: 55.

That’s more people than who is blocking Charles.

I must be scary.

Or…. people see “token” in my handle and think I’m a crypto scammer.

Speaking of crypto scammers, one of the top blockers on Bluesky is a journalist friend of mine who writes VERY critically about crypto scams. So yeah, I could see why he has so many people blocked.

I have one person blocking me and I have no idea who that is.

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Florida Panhandler  Aug 28, 2023 • 7:35:43am

re: #205 Nerdy Fish

UH-OH. Calling it a “show trial” in front of the judge is… not smart. No federal judge is going to take that well; even the most dim-witted ones like Judge Loose Cannon down in Florida demand to be taken seriously.

Sanctions on Trump lawyers incoming…

…No suprise when your client gives you specific orders to misbehave just as he plans on misbehavior as a matter of course in and out of court.

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William Lewis  Aug 28, 2023 • 7:36:22am

I was today years old when I learned that in April 1945 there was an air raid by B-29’s on propeller manufacturer called Japan Music and Japan Musical instrument or “Nippon Gakki” which is now called Yamaha.The raid on the Yamaha factory scored no hits and hence caused no damage to the factory. This became important to Yamaha after the war because they moved their metal casting and machining tools to the countryside for safe keeping in case the occupation forces wanted to confiscate them. In 1953 they received permission to use them again and chose motorcycle manufacturing which began in late 1954.

Though the one I once owned was red, that reality gave me a lot of fun as a younger man…

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 28, 2023 • 7:36:38am

re: #208 Florida Panhandler

Sanctions on Trump lawyers incoming…

…No suprise when your client gives you specific orders to misbehave just as he plans on misbehavior as a matter of course in and out of court.

…but His Ass-Holeyness only hires the best people…😏

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Nerdy Fish  Aug 28, 2023 • 7:37:45am

re: #208 Florida Panhandler

Sanctions on Trump lawyers incoming…

…No suprise when your client gives you specific orders to misbehave just as he plans on misbehavior as a matter of course in and out of court.

Sanctions, probably not, but pissing off the judge who is presiding over your client’s fate is never a good idea. It bears repeating: Federal judges generally operate their courtrooms like miniature fiefdoms. You do not want to be on their bad side. You will not enjoy the experience, and your client will be very mad at you.

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 28, 2023 • 7:40:06am

re: #167 Nerdy Fish

…..while Kevin “Qevin” McCarthy is many things, a complete fool is not one of them, and he recognizes that a government shutdown will correctly be blamed on himself and the Republicans (outside their infobubble, that is), regardless of the messaging. In the meantime, he’s sending abundant signals that he knows this impeachment inquiry is a farce, and will do the bare minimum to keep Matt “Gaspedal” Gaetz and his brain-dead cohort quiet whilst cutting them off as quickly as is feasible.

Maybe he isn’t a complete fool, but I’m not sure that he wouldn’t be willing to shut down the government if it bought him another few days in power. He doesn’t care about the country — only securing his position. I often have a feeling of dread that some MAGAt would find their way into assassinating Biden and Kamala — leaving our nation with this weasel at its head.

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Nerdy Fish  Aug 28, 2023 • 7:46:52am

re: #212 Hecuba’s daughter

Maybe he isn’t a complete fool, but I’m not sure that he wouldn’t be willing to shut down the government if it bought him another few days in power. He doesn’t care about the country — only securing his position.

You’re not wrong about the latter, but he knows that shutting down the government is going to start a fight that ends with him and the entire Republican party getting flushed down the Xitter. This is exactly the wrong time for political brinksmanship with the country’s finances, and he knows that. It all comes down to if he thinks he can survive until the 2024 elections by forcing a government shutdown, or if he realizes (correctly) that he’s boned either way and that nothing is gained by a shutdown.

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lawhawk  Aug 28, 2023 • 7:47:04am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 28, 2023 • 7:50:14am

Florida: These damn woke insurance companies are leaving our state because they don’t like FREEDOM!!

Insurance companies:

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lawhawk  Aug 28, 2023 • 7:50:55am
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Thanos  Aug 28, 2023 • 7:52:22am

In case you were wondering who TF that guy infesting the lower sidebar with “one to watch” music posts is, here’s the wiki page.
** he’s also figured out that this is a good site to up SEO clout with.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 28, 2023 • 7:57:30am

re: #209 William Lewis

Casio started with this little doodad in 1946:

which was a huge hit in postwar Japan. Tadao Kashio and his brothers used the money they made from that product and in 1954, introduced Japan’s first electro-mechanical calculator and then in 1957, they formed the Casio Computer Co, Ltd., introduced the first all-electric compact calculator (the Model 14-A) that same year, and the rest is history.

All from that little cigarette holder.

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lawhawk  Aug 28, 2023 • 8:00:37am

Trump’s going to claim this is selective prosecution and that he’s got immunity.

The first is straight up bulkshit and will be dismissed. The second is slightly more plausible, and it’s still bulkshit.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 28, 2023 • 8:01:17am

Momleft (blog, Kelly Weill, August 27, 2023)

They’re Not With Us

‘The right wants to cast itself as the “party of parents.” Its vision of parenthood is objectively unpopular.’

A speaker at the 2023 Moms for Liberty summit described his audience as part of a movement of reluctantly aggrieved normal people.

They were the “pissed off moms and dads,” the speaker said; the angry “mama bears” who were spurred into conservative activism by the repeated injuries and usurpations of public schools. He recommended the audience learn more about their plight in the book Militant Normals: How Regular Americans Are Rebelling Against the Elite to Reclaim Our Democracy.

The book’s author, Kurt Schlichter, is a right-wing columnist and the author of multiple wildly ill-composed novels salivating over a protagonist who “lay[s] waste to leftists” in a balkanized America that has split into feuding liberal and conservative nations, so he might not be the best arbiter of “normalcy.”

But Militant Normals’ central argument—that a core population of True Americans with “family” values is rising to “reclaim” the country from the left—is an enduring conservative coping mechanism. It frames a right-wing program as natural and apolitical, and its adherents as salt-of-the-earth citizens who disdain politics but will step to action to thwart an insurgent liberal agenda (implicitly unnatural, deviant). It’s Donald Trump’s invocation of a “silent majority” of suburbanites who supported his policies, a vision of a minivan herrenvolk, an invisible but omnipresent army supposedly girding extreme-right groups like Moms for Liberty which, despite their impressive funding and political connections, have murky membership numbers.

So how normal is the conservative American conception of parenthood?

Not normal at all. It’s quantifiably weird as shit.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Aug 28, 2023 • 8:06:52am

re: #167 Nerdy Fish

And Kevin moves deeper into the corner he painted himself into. Since signaling that he knows impeachment of Biden is a farce and then allowing it to go forward anyways is back in the disqualifying section of power since he’s wasting the people’s time with silly partisan crap just to please a section of his caucus.

GOP leadership still seems to lack any serious adults.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 28, 2023 • 8:08:36am

re: #209 William Lewis

I was today years old when I learned that in April 1945 there was an air raid by B-29’s on propeller manufacturer called Japan Music and Japan Musical instrument or “Nippon Gakki” which is now called Yamaha.The raid on the Yamaha factory scored no hits and hence caused no damage to the factory. This became important to Yamaha after the war because they moved their metal casting and machining tools to the countryside for safe keeping in case the occupation forces wanted to confiscate them. In 1953 they received permission to use them again and chose motorcycle manufacturing which began in late 1954.

Though the one I once owned was red, that reality gave me a lot of fun as a younger man…

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Danger’s first bike. Yamaha R5 350

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Aug 28, 2023 • 8:13:46am

re: #191 gwangung

Bet the Pentagon is not paying attention to these tactics…

I posted that picture in another forum along with a remark that soon every insurgency would have them. A few acquaintances there are in the employ of the US Army and I half-expect an interesting response from one or more of them since I commented there that better jamming and detection of things like this would probably be a priority.

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lawhawk  Aug 28, 2023 • 8:17:29am

In an adjacent courtroom, Mark Meadows is on the stand testifying towards his motion to remove the case to federal court.

This is not going to go well for him.

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lawhawk  Aug 28, 2023 • 8:18:25am
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Decatur Deb  Aug 28, 2023 • 8:21:35am

re: #222 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

Danger’s first bike. Yamaha R5 350

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My current SR500, sadly gathering dust again.

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lawhawk  Aug 28, 2023 • 8:24:40am

March 4, 2024. Mark it down in your calendars.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 28, 2023 • 8:25:34am

re: #227 lawhawk

March 4, 2024. Mark it down in your calendars.

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Ah She hit him with the Dookey Stick!

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lawhawk  Aug 28, 2023 • 8:26:02am
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Aug 28, 2023 • 8:26:10am

re: #227 lawhawk

March 4, 2024. Mark it down in your calendars.

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What odds the next Trump screed with include “show trial” as well as “witch hunt”?

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Nerdy Fish  Aug 28, 2023 • 8:26:16am

re: #227 lawhawk

March 4, 2024. Mark it down in your calendars.

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She delayed the special prosecutor by a whopping two months. Oh no, my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 28, 2023 • 8:27:59am

re: #226 Decatur Deb

My current SR500, sadly gathering dust again.

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im sure you mentioned it back before your ISP imposed banishment.

single cylinder thumper, right?

this is my envy face.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 28, 2023 • 8:30:02am

re: #232 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

im sure you mentioned it back before your ISP imposed banishment.

single cylinder thumper, right?

this is my envy face.

Yup, definitely a musical instrument. It’s kick-start only, though, and I daren’t kick.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 28, 2023 • 8:30:08am

re: #231 Nerdy Fish

She delayed the special prosecutor by a whopping two months. Oh no, my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.

!

a lot of people just got a wake up call.

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lawhawk  Aug 28, 2023 • 8:33:07am

There’s a reason most lawyers said Meadows wouldn’t take the stand - because it opens the door to cross, and Meadows would be compelled to answer, and can’t take the 5th under those circumstances because he’s putting forth the matter being asserted.

It’s a huge risk to take the stand like this, and yeah, defense lawyers need to hit a home run with that testimony, but the problem is that the risks are even greater.

The defense is counting on prosecutors not being ready for cross.

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Nojay UK  Aug 28, 2023 • 8:34:02am

re: #233 Decatur Deb

Yup definitely a musical instrument. It’s kick-start only, though, and I daren’t kick.

Should have a handlebar-mounted decompressor to make it easier to kick over. I learned to ride on my dad’s Velocette 350 and I always lusted after an SR 500 when they were being made. Kicking over a big single is genetic for me.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 28, 2023 • 8:42:24am

re: #236 Nojay UK

Should have a handlebar-mounted decompressor to make it easier to kick over. I learned to ride on my dad’s Velocette 350 and I always lusted after an SR 500 when they were being made. Kicking over a big single is genetic for me.

Without using the compression relief, I can just about stand on it. It kicks back every couple years though, and that would be the end of my ankle or hip hardware. I just let the insurance and registration lapse a couple days ago.

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Captain Ron  Aug 28, 2023 • 8:42:44am
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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 28, 2023 • 8:48:08am

re: #237 Decatur Deb

Without using the compression relief, I can just about stand on it. It kicks back every couple years though, and that would be the end of my ankle or hip hardware. I just let the insurance and registration lapse a couple days ago.

sold my harley a couple of months back.
it just kept sitting, rusting and, well you know.
finally realized my priorities had moved on.

i bought that R5 above in 1981.
first time since then that i’ve been bikeless.

neighbor bought the electraglide.
i can still visit it while he’s rebuilding it to sell along with his.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 28, 2023 • 8:49:39am

re: #238 Captain Ron

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wait for this:

with so much polar ice melting doesnt that mean more water to fight fires? i mean isn’t that a net positive?

//

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Aug 28, 2023 • 8:51:50am

re: #233 Decatur Deb

Yup, definitely a musical instrument. It’s kick-start only, though, and I daren’t kick.

I failed my first test with a poorly-tuned kick-start bike that kept dying at low speed. I went back to the DMV with a borrowed bike and breezed through. I still have a Class M license, but haven’t ridden in years.

I was a little tempted by some bikes as I look for a replacement for the car Comcast wrecked, but that’s not a good idea in Chicagoland.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 28, 2023 • 8:52:30am

The car dealer in Sidney just called.

The used Smart we want to buy is repaired and ready to go. He’ll have all the paperwork ready by tomorrow at 2pm.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Aug 28, 2023 • 8:52:45am

re: #240 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

wait for this:

with so much polar ice melting doesnt that mean more water to fight fires? i mean isn’t that a net positive?

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How dry is the Eurasian taiga getting?

I presume they have different weather/rain systems than western North America. However, given report that the grasslands in Mongolia are in drought conditions I suspect further north is drier as well. And thus presumably when Siberia catches fire it will be pretty devastating since there is even less infrastructure and preparedness there to fight any widespread fires that get started.

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Dizzy  Aug 28, 2023 • 8:53:01am
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Aug 28, 2023 • 8:53:38am

re: #242 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The car dealer in Sidney just called.

The used Smart we want to buy is repaired and ready to go. He’ll have all the paperwork ready by tomorrow at 2pm.

Are you getting a custom “AGNT 99” plate for it?

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Decatur Deb  Aug 28, 2023 • 8:54:34am

re: #241 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

I failed my first test with a poorly-tuned kick-start bike that kept dying at low speed. I went back to the DMV with a borrowed bike and breezed through. I still have a Class M license, but haven’t ridden in years.

I was a little tempted by some bikes as I look for a replacement for the car Comcast wrecked, but that’s not a good idea in Chicagoland.

Not in January, certainly.

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No Malarkey!  Aug 28, 2023 • 8:55:21am

re: #231 Nerdy Fish

She delayed the special prosecutor by a whopping two months. Oh no, my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.

This is fantastic. Not only will there be a verdict before election day, but it will come too late for GOP voters to reconsider whether they want Trump to be their nominee. He, of course, will not step aside if he is convicted, because winning the presidency will be his only hope of avoiding prison.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 28, 2023 • 8:57:44am

re: #245 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Are you getting a custom “AGNT 99” plate for it?

We’re going to get a custom plate which reads “GET”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 28, 2023 • 9:01:06am

re: #248 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

We’re going to get a custom plate which reads “GET”

Great Elders Theocracy?

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jaunte  Aug 28, 2023 • 9:05:53am

Smith is scary.

Mastodon

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 28, 2023 • 9:06:00am

Joe The Not Plumber went down the drain.

msn.com

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jaunte  Aug 28, 2023 • 9:07:35am

Mastodon

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 28, 2023 • 9:10:40am

re: #220 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

From her first post on August 20, 2023 (one reason to stay the hell away from Threads):

Hours after I announced the birth of my second child, my Facebook feed changed.

Until that moment, Mark Zuckerberg’s data-harvesting site had populated my feed with an eclectic mix of auto-play videos: unlikely animal friendships, standup comedy sound bites, monstrous recipe “hacks” designed to inspire rage rather than hunger. It had been a clickbait buffet, an unfocused, anything-goes attempt to make me actually watch a Facebook Reel.

MomLeft is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

But as my baby napped, and I scrolled my feed in a postpartum fugue state, I noticed a change. Gone were the cat clips, the internet comics, the viral food videos. In their place was a deluge of content from conservative parenting influencers. There were anti-choice videos and tradwife agitprop and looping, overproduced footage of evangelicals evangelizing large, patriarchal families. A firehose of fundamentalist content that, even after a year, has only dwindled somewhat, replaced at times with Reels about how you know it’s time to have a third baby, and why to ignore the medically recommended 18-month waiting period between births.

It was as if the black box of Facebook’s recommendation algorithm had run the numbers on my biographical data and crunched it into some boolean if-then statement about my politics: “if married with two kids at 28, then likely conservative.”

(more)

This is Mom Left

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dat_said  Aug 28, 2023 • 9:12:05am

Robots Are Taking Over The Bathrooms!

Apparently, the company hasn’t tested this yet on real US public bathrooms as I don’t see how it handles wet paper towels in the sinks or on the floor much less the other, uh, stuff found in the stalls. But at least operating costs (quoting from around 50 seconds into the video) are:

roughly $5.68 an hour, sneaking comfortably in under the horrifying $7.25 federal minimum wage

Oh, wait, it doesn’t take out the trash and put in a new plastic bag, add or replace toilet paper, paper towels or seat covers, add hand soap, disinfect door handles, or any of the other myriad things a custodian does, so maybe you still need to keep extra custodians on head. Somebody had a poorly conceived idea that they poorly executed and, yet, they got funded.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 28, 2023 • 9:12:50am

re: #252 jaunte

LOL Trump’s attorney are gonna argue their client right into the slammer.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Aug 28, 2023 • 9:16:10am

hi.
To my pleasant surprise I just got a large (over $3 K) refund from my old home owners insurance. Since I am disabled at the moment I think the best thing to do is deposit it into my savings account. I am completely floored by this check.

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Jay C  Aug 28, 2023 • 9:20:58am

re: #255 Dr Lizardo

LOL Trump’s attorney are gonna argue their client right into the slammer.

Hopefully after their retainer checks clear….

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 28, 2023 • 9:21:27am

Boogie on Reggae Woman

that is all

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darthstar  Aug 28, 2023 • 9:24:03am

Okay - so March 4th it is for the DC trial. Chutkan gave Trump a whole 60 day reprieve from Jack Smith’s Jan 2 request. That should feel like an eternity and while the trial is scheduled to start the day before Super Tuesday I don’t suspect it will make a difference in the primary results. The next president will still win all of those state - Joe Biden. Nobody really gives a shit about the GOP contenders.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 28, 2023 • 9:25:14am

I had no love for Joe the Plumber but pancreatic cancer fucking sucks no matter who you are.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 28, 2023 • 9:25:32am

Has anyone checked in with Kat Kerr to see if she’s praying the hurricane away?

Kat Kerr vs Hurricane Irma

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 28, 2023 • 9:25:56am

re: #255 Dr Lizardo

LOL Trump’s attorney are gonna argue their client right into the slammer.

We should hope to be that lucky.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 28, 2023 • 9:27:48am

re: #261 Joe Bacon ✅

Has anyone checked in with Kat Kerr to see if she’s praying the hurricane away?

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if they were any good, they’d be able to break it up, not just move it

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Vicious Babushka  Aug 28, 2023 • 9:29:36am

re: #94 Targetpractice

The insult? In response to me pointing out that she would have just dumped all this out in the hallway to sit until tomorrow morning when housekeeping came by, she insisted that she would asked for the bag after I gave her the clean linen and brought down the used linen tonight. As though I’m supposed to be stupid enough to believe somebody who had to be prompted to bring it down in the first place would have done it without asking if given what they requested at the beginning.

Oh the old “you didn’t ask nicely” excuse for being an asshole.

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wrenchwench  Aug 28, 2023 • 9:29:57am

re: #228 Joe Bacon ✅

Ah She hit him with the Dookey Stick!

george duke dukey stick

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 28, 2023 • 9:41:14am

re: #209 William Lewis

I was today years old when I learned that in April 1945 there was an air raid by B-29’s on propeller manufacturer called Japan Music and Japan Musical instrument or “Nippon Gakki” which is now called Yamaha.The raid on the Yamaha factory scored no hits and hence caused no damage to the factory. This became important to Yamaha after the war because they moved their metal casting and machining tools to the countryside for safe keeping in case the occupation forces wanted to confiscate them. In 1953 they received permission to use them again and chose motorcycle manufacturing which began in late 1954.

Though the one I once owned was red, that reality gave me a lot of fun as a younger man…

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Did not know that. This must be why their symbol is tuning forks.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 28, 2023 • 9:44:14am

re: #266 Barefoot Grin

Did not know that. This must be why their symbol is tuning forks.

Yes, and they still make musical instruments and equipment.

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 28, 2023 • 9:46:02am

re: #267 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Yes, and they still make musical instruments and equipment.

Really good pianos! I used a Yamaha guitar amp for awhile. It was only ok.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Aug 28, 2023 • 9:49:27am

re: #246 Decatur Deb

Not in January, certainly.

That time of year is the problem, but I could get a bike and take Ubers in the winter.
The car that got wrecked had been parked waiting for me to renew its registration, something I’d failed to get to for months because I have so little need for a car.

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BeenHereAwhile  Aug 28, 2023 • 9:52:11am

re: #211 Nerdy Fish

Sanctions, probably not, but pissing off the judge who is presiding over your client’s fate is never a good idea. It bears repeating: Federal judges generally operate their courtrooms like miniature fiefdoms. You do not want to be on their bad side. You will not enjoy the experience, and your client will be very mad at you.

And the judge can subsequently make corrections to the record to hinder defense appeals.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 28, 2023 • 9:54:56am

re: #268 Barefoot Grin

Really good pianos! I used a Yamaha guitar amp for awhile. It was only ok.

Yamaha guitars are entirely playable and moderately priced.

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BeenHereAwhile  Aug 28, 2023 • 9:58:24am

re: #222 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

Danger’s first bike. Yamaha R5 350

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That was the first pocket rocket.

Albeit with mediocre brakes and suspension, but that added to the fun.

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BeenHereAwhile  Aug 28, 2023 • 10:04:58am

re: #226 Decatur Deb

My current SR500, sadly gathering dust again.

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Nice bike with much improved brakes and suspension.

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Romantic Heretic  Aug 28, 2023 • 10:07:48am

re: #146 darthstar

Damn!

If only we humans could use our imaginations for something positive.

Too bad destruction is so much easier.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 28, 2023 • 10:12:10am

re: #272 BeenHereAwhile

That was the first pocket rocket.

Albeit with mediocre brakes and suspension, but that added to the fun.

‘manually adjustable shocks’ iirc

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Aug 28, 2023 • 10:12:54am

Speaking of Yamaha I found this in a drawer. She might be on her side but that is how I took the photo. Yamaha Doll:

She is right side up.

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BeenHereAwhile  Aug 28, 2023 • 10:17:11am

re: #236 Nojay UK

Should have a handlebar-mounted decompressor to make it easier to kick over. I learned to ride on my dad’s Velocette 350 and I always lusted after an SR 500 when they were being made. Kicking over a big single is genetic for me.

Or ease the piston up to TDC on the compression stroke, then kick it thru.

Having survived my kamikaze days, and having grand children to raise, I’ve given up all bicycle and motorcycle activity.

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William Lewis  Aug 28, 2023 • 10:17:14am

re: #268 Barefoot Grin

Really good pianos! I used a Yamaha guitar amp for awhile. It was only ok.

Damn good guitars too actually. Strat clones but well made.

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lawhawk  Aug 28, 2023 • 10:18:21am
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Joe Bacon ✅  Aug 28, 2023 • 10:19:53am

Kari Lake sends an SOS to the Red Hats.

Kari Lake wants ‘a street fight, a fist fight’ after judge set Trump’s trial date for March 2024

rawstory.com

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retired cynic  Aug 28, 2023 • 10:21:21am

Not sure if posted, but so good! :

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Ace Rothstein  Aug 28, 2023 • 10:23:22am

All these black women driving Trump to an incapacitating stroke, so little time.

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lawhawk  Aug 28, 2023 • 10:24:12am

It’s never a good sign when you think your best argument to change venue (remove to federal court) is to essentially admit all of the charges against you are true.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 28, 2023 • 10:28:39am

re: #277 BeenHereAwhile

Or ease the piston up to TDC on the compression stroke, then kick it thru.

Having survived my kamikaze days, and having grand children to raise, I’ve given up all bicycle and motorcycle activity.

My first Harley had a kicker and an electric start
If folks were far enough away i could make it look like i was kicking as i confidently pressed the start button

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Aug 28, 2023 • 10:31:11am

re: #282 Ace Rothstein

All these black women driving Trump to an incapacitating stroke, so little time.

Think they organized a pool amongst themselves?

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BeenHereAwhile  Aug 28, 2023 • 10:32:30am

re: #271 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Yamaha guitars are entirely playable and moderately priced.

Had a Yamaha 12 string which had great bass to treble response.

A nephew took up guitar and got good at it, gifted the 12 string to him as potlatch.

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BeenHereAwhile  Aug 28, 2023 • 10:45:03am

re: #284 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

My first Harley had a kicker and an electric start
If folks were far enough away i could make it look like i was kicking as i confidently pressed the start button

You did a Bronson.

As you well know the kick start sportsters with the OEM magnetos didn’t (ever) start on the first or second kick. The die-hards upgraded to Joe Hunt magnetos and Mukuni carburetors. In the TV series, Bronson kicked and pushed the electric start button at the same time.

en.wikipedia.org

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 28, 2023 • 11:06:07am

re: #286 BeenHereAwhile

Had a Yamaha 12 string which had great bass to treble response.

A nephew took up guitar and got good at it, gifted the 12 string to him as potlatch.

I love a good 12-string if someone else is doing the maintenance.

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Florida Panhandler  Aug 28, 2023 • 11:08:44am

re: #251 Joe Bacon ✅

Joe The Not Plumber went down the drain.

msn.com

…And now his family is sadly now saddled with $500,000 or more in medical bills as a result of his cancer, something that really no other major Western country allows to happen.

It’s about Freedom, or something.


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