A Strange Night at the Tiki Bar: “O.I.”

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Barry has a unique problem. He came up with a truly original idea. And sharing it has consequences.

More About O.I.: Chris revisits the Tiki bar where he made his first ever deal. He wants to celebrate the biggest deal he’s ever made by drinking down memory lane. It is early morning and there is only one other customer, Barry, and the Barman.

Barry is drinking to forget and is in no mood to celebrate anything. Only Chris’ offer of free drinks for a week if he can’t solve Barry’s problems makes Barry change his mind. Barry has a unique problem. He came up with a truly original idea. And he is the only one immune to it. Chris doesn’t believe a word of it and is determined to prove Barry a liar and win the bet.

Written & Directed by N’cee van Heerden
Producer: Victoria Burkhart
Producer Karen Wong
Director of Photography: Byron Kopman
Production Designer: Tony Durke
Editor: C.A. van Aswegen S.A.G.E
Music by: Max Aruj
VFX Supervisor: Keegen Douglas
Costume Designer: Katie Goold

CAST:
BARRY: Ben Cotton
CHRIS: Kett Turton
BARMAN: Toby Hargrave
MICHELLE: Jennnifer Nicole Stang
DETECTIVE DIRK: Paul McGillion

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1
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 27, 2023 • 5:45:01pm

A bunch of wingnuts in the Senate have filed a resolution requiring a sixty-seven vote threshold to change the dress code.

That is the most important thing the Senate has to do, obsessing over John Fetterman.

It does not address women. It requires “business attire” which shall include coat, tie, and long pants.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 27, 2023 • 5:47:11pm

Meanwhile at the hellsite (Daily Beast), September 27, 2023

Elon Musk Axes Half of X’s Election Integrity Team: Report

He previously promised to expand the team.

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Ace Rothstein  Sep 27, 2023 • 5:48:36pm

re: #1 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Does the resolution cover Kyrsten Sinema’s attire?

4
Nerdy Fish  Sep 27, 2023 • 5:49:23pm

re: #3 Ace Rothstein

Does the resolution cover Kyrsten Sinema’s attire?

No.

5
Ace Rothstein  Sep 27, 2023 • 5:50:13pm

If Sen. Menendez does not resign and runs for re-election, he could face a primary opponent, correct?

6
PhillyPretzel ✅  Sep 27, 2023 • 5:50:18pm

re: #3 Ace Rothstein

It does not cover the women. John Fetterman only.

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Ace Rothstein  Sep 27, 2023 • 5:51:04pm

re: #6 PhillyPretzel ✅

There’s more important things for them to be worried about, right?

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Joe Bacon ✅  Sep 27, 2023 • 5:51:16pm

re: #3 Ace Rothstein

Does the resolution cover Kyrsten Sinema’s attire?

Now you know Republicans would never do that to their beloved Natasha Sinema especially when she dresses like this!

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piratedan  Sep 27, 2023 • 5:52:59pm

re: #5 Ace Rothstein

If Sen. Menendez does not resign and runs for re-election, he can face a primary opponent, correct?

yes, as far as I know Congressman Andy Kim has already declared and supposedly Congresswoman Sherill may as well. Also a rumor has been floated that the current NJ Governor’s spouse may also declare… so yes, they’ll likely be a contested primary.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 27, 2023 • 5:54:05pm

re: #6 PhillyPretzel ✅

It does not cover the women. John Fetterman only.

The Originalists will insist on full-skirted knee-length coat, knee breeches, a vest or long waistcoat, a linen shirt with frills and linen underdrawers.
historicalmenswear.com

11
So Cal Greek Hippie  Sep 27, 2023 • 5:54:43pm

2023: Morning Cloud Ventura, California

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Ace Rothstein  Sep 27, 2023 • 5:56:36pm

re: #9 piratedan

yes, as far as I know Congressman Andy Kim has already declared and supposedly Congresswoman Sherill may as well. Also a rumor has been floated that the current NJ Governor’s spouse may also declare… so yes, they’ll likely be a contested primary.

Good.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 27, 2023 • 5:56:37pm

Are the Republicans doing their ghost dance about now?

14
Eventual Carrion  Sep 27, 2023 • 5:57:14pm

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Joe Bacon ✅  Sep 27, 2023 • 5:58:09pm

re: #13 Decatur Deb

Are the Republicans doing their ghost dance about now?

I say let’s take a peep at the GOP Shindig!

(-!-) Village Of The Giants / Dance clip

16
William Lewis  Sep 27, 2023 • 5:58:32pm

I see the Weaker of the House is desperately trying to deflect from his incompetence to the evergreen racist “migrants” issue. I wonder if the granny starvers will go along with that long enough for Quevin to pretend he won something?

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 27, 2023 • 6:01:33pm

re: #7 Ace Rothstein

There’s more important things for them to be worried about, right?

It’s not that the proposal is going anywhere. Maybe it’s time that Schumer tells the Senate they are meeting 16 hours per day 7 days a week until the military appointments are all approved.

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piratedan  Sep 27, 2023 • 6:02:03pm

re: #15 Joe Bacon ✅

another MST3K fave with Billy Mumy and Tommy Kirk!

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Joe Bacon ✅  Sep 27, 2023 • 6:03:21pm

re: #18 piratedan

another MST3K fave with Billy Mumy and Tommy Kirk!

Village Of The Giants didn’t have Billy Mumy but it did have Ronny Howard!

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Charles Johnson  Sep 27, 2023 • 6:05:51pm

re: #15 Joe Bacon ✅

this is a very bad movie joe

22
Lancelot Link Returns!  Sep 27, 2023 • 6:05:52pm

re: #19 Joe Bacon ✅

And giant Beau Bridges dancing there

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steve_davis  Sep 27, 2023 • 6:06:48pm

re: #15 Joe Bacon ✅

I say let’s take a peep at the GOP Shindig!

[Embedded content]

An impossibly young beau bridges. Wow.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Sep 27, 2023 • 6:07:20pm

re: #21 Charles Johnson

this is a very bad movie joe

Charles I have the Blu-Ray in my RAZZIES Holy of Holies Box!

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Charles Johnson  Sep 27, 2023 • 6:08:13pm

i love very bad movies

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sagehen  Sep 27, 2023 • 6:08:32pm

re: #5 Ace Rothstein

If Sen. Menendez does not resign and runs for re-election, he could face a primary opponent, correct?

He already has one.

Andy Kim

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Charles Johnson  Sep 27, 2023 • 6:09:25pm

There’s very bad, and then there’s “Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace.”

Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace - Episode 01 (Full Episode) - Once Upon A Beginning

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 27, 2023 • 6:09:55pm

This time Tuberville is going after President Biden’s pick to be Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

‘Jaw-dropping’: Tommy Tuberville slammed for ‘open’ talk about ‘white supremacy’ (Raw Story)

He explicitly lied about the military not being an “equal opportunity employer,” seeming to imply President Biden picked Air Force General Charles Brown because he’s Black and not because he’s qualified.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 27, 2023 • 6:10:06pm

re: #3 Ace Rothstein

Does the resolution cover Kyrsten Sinema’s attire?

No

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sagehen  Sep 27, 2023 • 6:10:10pm

re: #10 Decatur Deb

The Originalists will insist on full-skirted knee-length coat, knee breeches, a vest or long waistcoat, a linen shirt with frills and linen underdrawers.
historicalmenswear.com

Don’t forget the powdered wigs.

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piratedan  Sep 27, 2023 • 6:10:39pm

re: #19 Joe Bacon ✅

mea culpa got my precocious 60’s youngsters mixed up.

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William Lewis  Sep 27, 2023 • 6:11:07pm

re: #26 sagehen

He already has one.

Andy Kim

I’ve already gotten fundraising emails for him. I’d mind less if I actually had the finances … O_o

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The Ghost of a Flea  Sep 27, 2023 • 6:11:07pm

re: #27 Charles Johnson

There’s very bad, and then there’s “Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace.”

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I’ve known writers that use subtext, and they’re all cowards.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Sep 27, 2023 • 6:15:56pm

re: #31 piratedan

mea culpa got my precocious 60’s youngsters mixed up.

The kicker—Ronny Howard played the same exact role in an episode of Land Of The Giants!

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 27, 2023 • 6:16:13pm

Fox wants my email to watch the show… but I’m not going to give it.

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piratedan  Sep 27, 2023 • 6:16:40pm

re: #25 Charles Johnson

have the MST3K channel on my FUBO lineup, so last night I fell asleep to Santo in the Treasure of Dracula, where the silver masked wrestler is ALSO a scientist. Awesomely bad.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 27, 2023 • 6:17:40pm

Reagan Foundation will let me stream.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 27, 2023 • 6:18:28pm

re: #28 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

This time Tuberville is going after President Biden’s pick to be Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

‘Jaw-dropping’: Tommy Tuberville slammed for ‘open’ talk about ‘white supremacy’ (Raw Story)

He explicitly lied about the military not being an “equal opportunity employer,” seeming to imply President Biden picked Air Force General Charles Brown because he’s Black and not because he’s qualified.

Tuberville thinks that dropping enough racist crap will make us think he’s a real Alabamian.

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Charmingly Persistent  Sep 27, 2023 • 6:18:49pm

Just saw this on Bluesky. I have the awful feeling the ADA is about to be kneecapped.

bsky.app

The Supreme Court is hearing a case next week about who can enforce the Americans with Disabilities Act

It’s been flying under the radar, and I think that’s a big mistake

ballsandstrikes.org…

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 27, 2023 • 6:19:00pm

Want lower childcare?

CUT TAXES!

Yes, that is what Scott claims.

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Vicious Babushka  Sep 27, 2023 • 6:19:25pm

re: #1 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

A bunch of wingnuts in the Senate have filed a resolution requiring a sixty-seven vote threshold to change the dress code.

That is the most important thing the Senate has to do, obsessing over John Fetterman.

It does not address women. It requires “business attire” which shall include coat, tie, and long pants.

I got called out by HR in 2011 for “inappropriate footwear” (OK I was wearing crocs. They were right to complain). I went to the mall across the street, went to the Rockport store and bought a pair of wingtips. HR negged those but I appealed to my boss’s boss & he said they were perfectly fine.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 27, 2023 • 6:20:35pm

Burgum is desperate to talk.

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Captain Ron  Sep 27, 2023 • 6:24:48pm

On a side note I got the new bike, assembled it, set the suspension, charged the battery a bit and took it around the blocks. It was a wonderful ride, will be even more fun when I figure out how to take it out of street legal mode.

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Jay C  Sep 27, 2023 • 6:25:50pm

re: #42 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Burgum is desperate to talk.

Not easy to build a Presidential campaign when the principal slogan seems to be “Doug WHO???”

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Charmingly Persistent  Sep 27, 2023 • 6:26:51pm

re: #10 Decatur Deb

The Originalists will insist on full-skirted knee-length coat, knee breeches, a vest or long waistcoat, a linen shirt with frills and linen underdrawers.
historicalmenswear.com

Powdered hair!

Edited to add: sage hen scooped me

47
Dangerman  Sep 27, 2023 • 6:28:55pm
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PhillyPretzel ✅  Sep 27, 2023 • 6:30:16pm

re: #47 Dangerman

He does not realize these motors are sealed.

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darthstar  Sep 27, 2023 • 6:30:54pm

re: #42 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Burgum is desperate to talk.

Taking the night off on watching the debate. Will wait for the out-takes tomorrow. Last time I put the GOP debate on I only managed to make myself ill and piss my wife off by subjecting her to it as well.

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Dangerman  Sep 27, 2023 • 6:31:49pm

re: #48 PhillyPretzel ✅

He does not realize these motors are sealed.

And diesel motors don’t generate any electricity//

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darthstar  Sep 27, 2023 • 6:32:59pm

re: #48 PhillyPretzel ✅

He does not realize these motors are sealed.

Saw this e-boat a while back when walking the boys. Everyone got electrocuted.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 27, 2023 • 6:33:12pm

Kragar posted one of these Darkplace videos on Bluesky and I may never forgive him.

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darthstar  Sep 27, 2023 • 6:34:19pm

re: #51 darthstar

Saw this e-boat a while back when walking the boys. Everyone got electrocuted.

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And by everybody, I mean that it’s actually a drone that has instrumentation to map the sea floor of the harbor and channel out to open water.

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piratedan  Sep 27, 2023 • 6:35:01pm

re: #47 Dangerman

he is one stupid sonofabitch, and it makes so much sense how many other stupid people adore and respect him.

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William Lewis  Sep 27, 2023 • 6:38:04pm

I don’t think this is really a spoiler but just in case, it’s behind the tag. Still, it’s an utterly glorious sequence from the most recent episode of Ashoka. When it is at it’s best, it is prime Star Wars and this is exactly that…

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Joe Bacon ✅  Sep 27, 2023 • 6:39:49pm

re: #47 Dangerman

Trump may have a point about sinking boats…

‘Several boats did sink’ during Lake Travis Trump boat parade, Travis County officials say

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Sep 27, 2023 • 6:40:43pm

My theatre date on Sunday was cancelled (covid), and since it was one of five shows cancelled and they’re going crazy trying to reschedule, I grabbed the first available replacement, tonight. So I’ll miss the Great Repug clown show debate tonight .

Too bad, so sad.

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wrenchwench  Sep 27, 2023 • 6:44:14pm

re: #1 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

A bunch of wingnuts in the Senate have filed a resolution requiring a sixty-seven vote threshold to change the dress code.

That is the most important thing the Senate has to do, obsessing over John Fetterman.

It does not address women. It requires “business attire” which shall include coat, tie, and long pants.

I think most of the obsession with ‘proper’ dress is an east-of-the-Rockies thing.
This is from John Day, Oregon.

From left, John Day City Councilors Ron Phillips and Sherrie Rininger, Mayor Heather Rookstool, and Councilors Dave Holland and Chris Labhart listen to comment from the public at a special meeting of John Day City Council on Monday, July 31, 2023.

As a local-level elected person, you may have a glimmer of interest in the article.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Sep 27, 2023 • 6:50:07pm

re: #47 Dangerman

[Embedded content]

Turboelectric Drive in American Capital Ships

Between 1913 and 1919 the United States Navy designed battleships with a unique propulsion system to meet its operational demands for great range and survivability. This highly successful system, turboelectric drive, has gained an undeservedly checkered reputation in recent years and many of its benefits have been forgotten.

Of course, ALL non nuclear submarines have used electric drive for over a century.

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wrenchwench  Sep 27, 2023 • 6:51:13pm

re: #44 Captain Ron

It was a wonderful ride, will be even more fun when I figure out how to take it out of street legal mode.

How will that change it?

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A Three Hour Tour  Sep 27, 2023 • 6:51:25pm

re: #1 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

A bunch of wingnuts in the Senate have filed a resolution requiring a sixty-seven vote threshold to change the dress code.

That is the most important thing the Senate has to do, obsessing over John Fetterman.

It does not address women. It requires “business attire” which shall include coat, tie, and long pants.

Good thing Gym Jordan isn’t in the Senate. How many times have you seen him wearing a suit in committee hearings?

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A Three Hour Tour  Sep 27, 2023 • 6:53:10pm

re: #10 Decatur Deb

The Originalists will insist on full-skirted knee-length coat, knee breeches, a vest or long waistcoat, a linen shirt with frills and linen underdrawers.
historicalmenswear.com

Count me with the originalists, then.
My growing bald spot also insists upon the return of powdered wigs.

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The GOP is a Terrorist Organization  Sep 27, 2023 • 6:59:17pm
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Joe Bacon ✅  Sep 27, 2023 • 7:02:44pm

Busted: Media network paid by GOP groups is behind deluge of election records requests

In North Carolina, Local Labs wanted obscure voter records that would take weeks, or even months, to prepare. In Georgia, the company requested a copy of every envelope voters used to mail in their ballots. And in dozens of counties across the U.S., Local Labs asked for the address of every midterm voter.

Local election offices across the country are struggling to manage a sharp rise in the number of public records requests, and extensive requests coming from Local Labs in at least five states have stymied election officials, according to a Votebeat review of hundreds of records requests, as well as interviews. The requests are broad and unclear, and the purpose for obtaining the records is often not fully explained, leaving officials wondering in some cases whether they can legally release the records.

Local Labs is known for a massive network of websites that rely mainly on aggregation and automation, blasting out conservative-leaning hyper-local news under names such as the Old North News, in North Carolina, and Peach Tree Times, in Georgia.

Local Labs CEO Brian Timpone told Votebeat the company is using records requests in an attempt to expose election fraud that he is sure exists. The company is sometimes getting paid by GOP-backed clients to do so, Timpone acknowledged, characterizing the work simultaneously as both political research and journalism.

“We’re just trying to push for more free speech and more transparency,” Timpone said. “And no one else is doing it.”

Veteran journalists and those who study journalism ethics say he’s wrong. Arizona State University journalism professor Julia Wallace — previously the editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution — said doing reporting and paid-for work at the same time is not ethical. “That’s not independent, so that’s not journalism,” she said.

Timpone is no stranger to journalism controversies: Among his previous companies was one that sold cheap content to local news organizations and was ultimately closed after a series of ethics scandals, including plagiarism.

To be sure, public records laws exist because the public has the right to know what the government is doing, and ensuring access to records is a critical window into that. Election offices, open records advocates say, should consider proactively and publicly sharing more election records so there’s no request needed.

But election officials have questions.

It’s unclear from the requests when the company is doing the work for a third party or for their news websites, or both, and if the election offices can legally provide the records.

One recent Local Labs project offers a clue of what might be to come.

After the midterm election, Local Labs was paid by America First Policy Institute (AFPI), a national think tank that pushes former President Donald Trump’s agenda, to send public records requests to 100 counties in the U.S. asking for a record of each voter who voted, along with their address and other information. AFPI published the first results of that work in June, in a misleading report that insinuated that thousands of fraudulent ballots were cast in Arizona’s midterm election.

“Voter Discrepancies Found in the Arizona 2022 General Election,” the AFPI headline read. But most, perhaps all, of the more than 8,000 discrepancies found were because Local Labs had compared two sets of voter lists from different time periods and including different voters.

Yavapai County officials, for example, showed Votebeat emails in which an elections official tried to convince Local Labs not to publish the broad findings because they were misleading, taking time over days to explain the source of the discrepancies. The warnings went ignored.

“They just put the information out, and we are left defending ourselves,” Yavapai County Recorder Michelle Burchill said. “Then we are being harassed,” she said, because people believe it.

alternet.org

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Vicious Babushka  Sep 27, 2023 • 7:03:24pm

Who is watching the GOP Debate or TFG in Michigan? Anything worth talking about?

I didn’t think so.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Sep 27, 2023 • 7:05:22pm

re: #65 Vicious Babushka

Who is watching the GOP Debate or TFG in Michigan? Anything worth talking about?

I didn’t think so.

I’m on Lichess playing against a lady from Latvia. She neutralized my Benko Gambit!

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Jay C  Sep 27, 2023 • 7:10:13pm

re: #66 Joe Bacon ✅

I’m on Lichess playing against a lady from Latvia. She neutralized my Benko Gambit!

Sounds dire: hope it didn’t hurt!

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Dave In Austin  Sep 27, 2023 • 7:11:11pm
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Semper Fi  Sep 27, 2023 • 7:12:09pm

re: #47 Dangerman

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It seems to me Trump has been woefully shortchanged on practical knowledge.

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Dave In Austin  Sep 27, 2023 • 7:12:24pm
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sagehen  Sep 27, 2023 • 7:13:13pm

The late-night shows will be back THIS MONDAY!!

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William Lewis  Sep 27, 2023 • 7:14:46pm

re: #67 Jay C

Sounds dire: hope it didn’t hurt!

Now I’m going to have to look that up and expose my utter lack of Chess knowledge 🤣

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Cheechako  Sep 27, 2023 • 7:16:28pm

Planning ahead:

FEMA delays $2.8 billion in disaster aid to keep from running out of money

(A novel idea!)

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William Lewis  Sep 27, 2023 • 7:17:58pm

re: #71 sagehen

The late-night shows will be back THIS MONDAY!!

$$$$$

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 27, 2023 • 7:19:01pm

re: #58 wrenchwench

I think most of the obsession with ‘proper’ dress is an east-of-the-Rockies thing.
This is from John Day, Oregon.

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As a local-level elected person, you may have a glimmer of interest in the article.

We don’t have a dress code here except “come dressed.”

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Vicious Babushka  Sep 27, 2023 • 7:23:37pm

re: #66 Joe Bacon ✅

I’m on Lichess playing against a lady from Latvia. She neutralized my Benko Gambit!

Here’s a story you might like.

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 27, 2023 • 7:23:53pm

re: #58 wrenchwench

I think most of the obsession with ‘proper’ dress is an east-of-the-Rockies thing.
This is from John Day, Oregon.

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As a local-level elected person, you may have a glimmer of interest in the article.

My sister and I have had a heated argument about the Fetterman attire issue. She was a high school teacher back in the 70’s and favored a dress standard for both faculty and students at the very time that rules were dramatically changed; her attitude continued through her post-teaching careers. I think she believes that somehow more formal attire contributes to more civil behavior. She attributed much of the decline in student classroom behavior to the decline in dress.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 27, 2023 • 7:25:57pm

re: #68 Dave In Austin

I’m sure Sen. Scott would like to go back to slavery times when there was no Great Society programme then.

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wrenchwench  Sep 27, 2023 • 7:31:54pm

Mastodon

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Patricia Kayden  Sep 27, 2023 • 7:34:19pm

re: #79 wrenchwench

Sure you did. Go to sleep now, Donnie. You’re exactly where you need to be.

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A Three Hour Tour  Sep 27, 2023 • 7:34:54pm

re: #78 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I’m sure Sen. Scott would like to go back to slavery times when there was no Great Society programme then.

Senator Scott probably thinks that he would be working in the master’s house rather than busting his ass and breaking his back in the fields.

Given the type of person Senator Scott is, he might not be wrong in that assumption.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 27, 2023 • 7:35:34pm

So disappointed that they haven’t broken out into a fist-fight by now.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 27, 2023 • 7:37:32pm

These people arguing how best to pollute their country and planet.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 27, 2023 • 7:38:19pm

Desperate fools.

No, not the ones on stage.

The ones cheering on in the audience.

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cat-tikvah  Sep 27, 2023 • 7:38:47pm

re: #78 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I’m sure Sen. Scott would like to go back to slavery times when there was no Great Society programme then.

Full employment and lifetime job security!

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Markm1960  Sep 27, 2023 • 7:40:13pm

re: #85 cat-tikvah

Full employment and lifetime job security!

And learning useful skills!

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 27, 2023 • 7:40:59pm

Scott want’s full employment by coal mining!

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cat-tikvah  Sep 27, 2023 • 7:41:31pm

re: #87 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Scott want’s full employment by coal mining!

Early retirement program: die of black lung!

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 27, 2023 • 7:44:07pm

“Mass casualties” in North Dakota?

What is Bergum claiming?

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 27, 2023 • 7:46:49pm

DeSantis trying to out-Jesus Trump.

And invoking the Reagans by name.

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wrenchwench  Sep 27, 2023 • 7:48:50pm

Mastodon

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William Lewis  Sep 27, 2023 • 7:50:19pm

Just because :)

HUSKER DU - Love is all around (Mary Tyler Moore Theme)

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Dangerman  Sep 27, 2023 • 7:51:24pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 27, 2023 • 7:51:30pm

The preppers for Haley and Scott must have both told their candidates that they have to speak over each other.

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Belafon  Sep 27, 2023 • 7:51:40pm

re: #39 Charmingly Persistent

Just saw this on Bluesky. I have the awful feeling the ADA is about to be kneecapped.

bsky.app

The Supreme Court is hearing a case next week about who can enforce the Americans with Disabilities Act

It’s been flying under the radar, and I think that’s a big mistake

ballsandstrikes.org…

Isn’t it the population that helps enforce the anti-abortion law here in Texas?

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Dangerman  Sep 27, 2023 • 7:52:16pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 27, 2023 • 7:52:39pm

Fox knows its audience.

They know the drooling masses want cat fights.

So that is what they are getting.

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darthstar  Sep 27, 2023 • 7:53:15pm

Just saw a clip of the new Biden ad that targets Trump. First 10 seconds is a fat, sweaty Trump in a golf cart and lumbering around clumsily on the green. Killer visual.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 27, 2023 • 7:57:30pm

“voted off the island” - as I wrote earlier, Fox knows its audience.

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Dave In Austin  Sep 27, 2023 • 7:58:06pm
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sizzzzlerz  Sep 27, 2023 • 7:59:27pm

re: #35 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Fox wants my email to watch the show… but I’m not going to give it.

Give them a made up one or create a throw-away email on gmail or any of the other email providers

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jaunte  Sep 27, 2023 • 7:59:55pm

@thielman.bsky.social

Tim Scott and Nikki Haley fighting over who will never be president the most

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 27, 2023 • 8:00:48pm

re: #101 sizzzzlerz

The Reagan center let me stream live.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 27, 2023 • 8:01:16pm

Smarmy so wants to be Trump’s running mate.

But the polls of late show his support collapsing.

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sizzzzlerz  Sep 27, 2023 • 8:02:23pm

re: #47 Dangerman

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what the ever-living fuck did we do to merit this orange shit-for-brains?

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Lancelot Link Returns!  Sep 27, 2023 • 8:02:44pm

Ronald Reagan would be a better. president than those schmoes - even today.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 27, 2023 • 8:09:18pm

re: #106 Lancelot Link Returns!

Ronald Reagan is the reason the candidates on that stage are running for President.

Reagan’s legacy is the elevation of atavistic demagoguery as standard GOP talking points.

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piratedan  Sep 27, 2023 • 8:14:33pm

re: #104 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

kind of have to admit that after continued opportunities to come clean and their absolute refusal to do so, that the GOP is on their way to irrelevance. Sure they have the money and the media but essentially they got nothing. They’re incredibly wrong on everything and I mean everything.

Gun Control
Women’s rights
Ukraine
immigration
Climate change

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Joe Bacon ✅  Sep 27, 2023 • 8:15:32pm

Watching NSNBC now and Joy Reid is on fire.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 27, 2023 • 8:20:40pm

re: #108 piratedan

kind of have to admit that after continued opportunities to come clean and their absolute refusal to do so, that the GOP is on their way to irrelevance. Sure they have the money and the media but essentially they got nothing. They’re incredibly wrong on everything and I mean everything.

Gun Control
Women’s rights
Ukraine
immigration
Climate change

That’s why they have to end our democracy and incorporate permanent one-party minority rule.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 27, 2023 • 8:23:23pm

Lock down your Web pages.

ChatGPT can now search the web in real time (The Verge, seven hours ago)

OpenAI posted today that ChatGPT can once more trawl the web for current information, offering answers taken directly from “current and authoritative” sources, which it cites in its responses. The feature, called Browse with Bing, is only open to those with Plus and Enterprise subscriptions for now, but the company says it will roll it out “to all users soon.”

Microsoft’s Bing Chat on Windows, in the Edge browser, and in third-party browser plugins could already return live information from the web, and so can Google’s Bard in Chrome and other browsers. Both also offer links when searching, as ChatGPT’s Browse with Bing feature now does. Meta just announced at Meta Connect that it will also use Bing to power real-time web results in the Meta AI Assistant it’s adding to WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger.

(more)

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Dangerman  Sep 27, 2023 • 8:29:13pm

re: #108 piratedan

kind of have to admit that after continued opportunities to come clean and their absolute refusal to do so, that the GOP is on their way to irrelevance. Sure they have the money and the media but essentially they got nothing. They’re incredibly wrong on everything and I mean everything.

Gun Control
Women’s rights
Ukraine
immigration
Climate change

The economy
Foreign policy

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 27, 2023 • 8:30:13pm

Now being discussed at BlueSky: When ChatGPT discovers an archived version of “Hamster Dance” it will decide we all need to be eliminated.

(0:25)

The Hampster Dance website in 1999 in Netscape Navigator 4.04

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sagehen  Sep 27, 2023 • 8:30:45pm

re: #108 piratedan

Gun Control
Women’s rights
Ukraine
immigration
Climate change

the accurate teaching of history
voting rights
gay/trans rights
real religious freedom, not just for one denomination of one religion
science!! respect for expertise.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Sep 27, 2023 • 8:31:29pm

re: #113 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Now being discussed at BlueSky: When ChatGPT discovers an archived version of “Hamster Dance” it will decide we all need to be eliminated.

(0:25)

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Video

Dad LOVED that site. He’d play it over the phone when he talked to me and he wouldn’t stop laughing!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 27, 2023 • 8:31:31pm

re: #112 Dangerman

The economy
Foreign policy

Historical revisionism
Threatening voting rights
Killing their own voters with antivax nonsense

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Dangerman  Sep 27, 2023 • 8:31:31pm

re: #112 Dangerman

The economy
Foreign policy

The social Contract
The social safety net
Human rights
Unions
Taxes
Education
Medicine
The military
…

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Dangerman  Sep 27, 2023 • 8:34:05pm
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BeenHereAwhile  Sep 27, 2023 • 8:37:44pm

re: #83 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

These people arguing how best to pollute their country and planet.

Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social

Not watching the debate but I’m going to guess it’s deeply depressing and raises questions about self governance.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 27, 2023 • 8:42:45pm

Tropical Storm Philippe is approaching the northern end of the Leeward Islands. It is expected to degenerate into a post-tropical depression as it approaches Puerto Rico.

nhc.noaa.gov

Behind it, Disturbance One is given a 90% chance of becoming a tropical cyclone within two days. It is predicted to move north-west in the open Atlantic.

nhc.noaa.gov

In the eastern Pacific, Disturbance One is given a 30% chance of becoming a tropical cyclone as it moves west toward the central Pacific.

nhc.noaa.gov

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William Lewis  Sep 27, 2023 • 8:44:21pm

re: #111 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Lock down your Web pages.

ChatGPT can now search the web in real time (The Verge, seven hours ago)

(more)

If you think THAT’s bad, Google Microsoft Copilot. The next version of WinDog 11 will be infested with AI everything.

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BeenHereAwhile  Sep 27, 2023 • 8:45:18pm

How to use a domain as your Bluesky handle.

reddit.com

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William Lewis  Sep 27, 2023 • 8:45:59pm

re: #118 Dangerman

She’s right but the saddest part is she’d also be right if she were saying it to a mirror.

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Markm1960  Sep 27, 2023 • 8:47:43pm

re: #117 Dangerman

The social Contract
The social safety net
Human rights
Unions
Taxes
Education
Medicine
The military
…

In summary pretty much everything within our borders and everything outside our borders.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 27, 2023 • 8:49:32pm

re: #121 William Lewis

If you think THAT’s bad, Google Microsoft Copilot. The next version of WinDog 11 will be infested with AI everything.

It’s available now.

microsoft.com

It looks like you have to actually download this monstrosity to use it.

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BeenHereAwhile  Sep 27, 2023 • 8:50:51pm

David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈
@whysharksmatter.bsky.social

I haven’t been able to get this box we saw behind the scenes at the Alabama Museum of Natural History out of my head

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BeachDem  Sep 27, 2023 • 8:51:02pm

re: #118 Dangerman

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So will we now measure Nikki’s IQ with negative numbers?

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wrenchwench  Sep 27, 2023 • 8:52:03pm

re: #124 Markm1960

In summary pretty much everything within our borders and everything outside our borders.

Also: The borders.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Sep 27, 2023 • 8:53:52pm

So Trump has just announced that…he won’t be at the next GOP debate either…

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BeenHereAwhile  Sep 27, 2023 • 8:55:04pm

re: #126 BeenHereAwhile

David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈
@whysharksmatter.bsky.social

I haven’t been able to get this box we saw behind the scenes at the Alabama Museum of Natural History out of my head

[Embedded content]

Dr Dana Ehret
@drdanaehret.bsky.social

I did that… seriously. It had a small plastic turtle inside when I left

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wrenchwench  Sep 27, 2023 • 8:56:14pm

Mastodon

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 27, 2023 • 8:58:20pm

Someone tell me — Why are there all these commercials on MSNBC supporting menthol and claiming that if we ban it that somehow it will benefit the Mexican cartels? What is going on?

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William Lewis  Sep 27, 2023 • 8:58:30pm

re: #125 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

It’s available now.

microsoft.com

It looks like you have to actually download this monstrosity to use it.

I only got the notice from MS yesterday. Took a short look and was glad my desktop is on W10 & my laptop is on Linux Mint. Nope nope nope.

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wrenchwench  Sep 27, 2023 • 9:02:34pm

Timely.

Click to Reveal

One of my sisters.

This evening.
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 27, 2023 • 9:06:06pm

re: #77 Hecuba’s daughter

My sister and I have had a heated argument about the Fetterman attire issue. She was a high school teacher back in the 70’s and favored a dress standard for both faculty and students at the very time that rules were dramatically changed; her attitude continued through her post-teaching careers. I think she believes that somehow more formal attire contributes to more civil behavior. She attributed much of the decline in student classroom behavior to the decline in dress.

The “decline in student behaviour” seems like a “kids these days” argument. Every generation has complained about the decline in children’s behaviour (and their clothes).

All you have to do is look in a Catholic high school with boys in slacks and collared shirts and girls in “appropriate” knee-length or longer skirts to see how far clothing goes to moderate children’s behaviour.

Couldn’t be the adult’s fault who raise the children. Nope.

“The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.”—Socrates

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retired cynic  Sep 27, 2023 • 9:14:00pm

re: #118 Dangerman

Perhaps she is a bit dumber. Takes one to know one?

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wrenchwench  Sep 27, 2023 • 9:14:45pm

re: #132 Hecuba’s daughter

Someone tell me — Why are there all these commercials on MSNBC supporting menthol and claiming that if we ban it that somehow it will benefit the Mexican cartels? What is going on?

I have a guess, based on this (and speculation.)

At the end of April, the Food and Drug Administration announced its plans to ban menthol cigarettes, the last form of flavored cigarette allowed in the United States. This step will likely go into effect next year. […]

And when just plain cigarettes remain, there will likely be fewer of them smoked overall. When Rose and her colleagues asked 18- to 34-year-old smokers what they would do if menthol cigarettes became unavailable, nearly a quarter said they’d quit. Some of the predicted results of the U.S. ban played out in Canada when the federal government prohibited menthol sales in October of 2017. In 2018, research showed that over 20 percent of surveyed menthol smokers had quit smoking as a whole, or were at least cutting the habit down to once a month.

Speculation:

Tobacco dealers don’t want menthol banned because of the damage to their income, so they threaten that if they can’t deal the drug here at home, those worse drug dealers on the next street will take over the neighborhood.

I haven’t seen the ads.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 27, 2023 • 9:15:10pm

re: #132 Hecuba’s daughter

Someone tell me — Why are there all these commercials on MSNBC supporting menthol and claiming that if we ban it that somehow it will benefit the Mexican cartels? What is going on?

There is a move to ban menthol cigarettes (they are banned in Canada). That argument goes menthol makes cigarettes more flavourful to smoke, and banning menthol cigarettes would take that small incentive away.

The FDA is considering a rule to ban menthol cigarettes. As such, the Senate responded with concern it would embolden Mexican cartels to smuggle cigarettes in from Mexico.

Four Republican senators sent a letter to the FDA arguing of all the fearful things Mexican cartels do, like smuggle fentanyl and other drugs. The senators argue given the opportunity, cartels would smuggle cigarettes as well. (I suspect not, as cigarettes take up much more volume than drugs. A lot of this is scary brown-people fear mongering and War on Drugs crap.)

Tobacco Letter, PDF, four pages, July 24, 2023

FDA says it will finalize ban on menthol tobacco products ‘in coming months’ (CNN, September 1, 2023)

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The Ghost of a Flea  Sep 27, 2023 • 9:18:40pm

Guys, the best indicator that IQ and intelligence talk is a terrible idea generally and bad comedy specifically is that the lamest fucking conservatives use it instead of an argument.

Like, it’s not even a good or interesting dunk. Nikki Haley is dropping it precisely because she’s an older generation of disingenuous liar who hasn’t really caught up with the slick new nihilism embodied by Vivek Ramaswamy and thus has to lean into meritocratic gesturing as opposed to just chumming the waters with shamelessness and sadism.

They’re all ghouls and they’re arguing about the relative merits of their preferred forms of feasting upon corpses, with the major divide being between those that believe that act should be given the kind of furtiveness associated with eating ortolans and those that want an audience decked out like the front row of a Gallagher concert. Both are going to beat you with a rock until your brain leaks out and view it as proof that they’re understand the world better than you, though Nikki Haley would probably be more talkative during the process because she’s not anatomically equipped to fuck a corpse to show dominance and thus has to fall back on narrative clarity.

Like, if the coprophages think it’s a good idea it’s an idea that will attract exclusively people that eat shit for pleasure or for profit…I’m not sure which one the Krassensteins are because perhaps their career really is pursuit of a personal passion. If we’re going to do petty catharsis, could we hold ourselves to a minimal Hunter S Thompson standard of creativity?

If the best we can manage is photocopies of jokes from a Mike Judge movie that accidentally endorses eugenics then I’m just going to crawl south until I hit a motel in Panama City and develop a hard meth and panda meat habit.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Sep 27, 2023 • 9:19:05pm

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 27, 2023 • 9:25:37pm

re: #139 The Ghost of a Flea

I missed something. Is Nikki Haley arguing about IQ on the stage?

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wrenchwench  Sep 27, 2023 • 9:27:47pm

Mastodon

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 27, 2023 • 9:28:43pm

What a satisfying morning read here in Europe. A fine way to start the day.

On the heels of yesterday’s critical court ruling ordering the death of the fabled Trump Organization, lawyers for Donald Trump appeared in court on Wednesday to pick up the pieces and make sense of how this can possibly get any worse for the former president.

Huge sections of the Trump family’s real estate empire are having their business licenses revoked, and the Trumps are losing control of their companies to a court-appointed official. The trial set to start next week threatens to empty their bank accounts too.

Half a day after Justice Arthur F. Engoron’s Tuesday ruling, it’s evident the real estate tycoon and his lawyers still aren’t sure what will happen to Trump’s Monopoly board collection of buildings in Manhattan and elsewhere.

“Certain of the entities own physical assets, like 40 Wall Street and Trump Tower. Are those assets now going to be sold? Or managed under direction of the monitor?” Trump defense lawyer Christopher Kise asked the judge in court.

thedailybeast.com

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 27, 2023 • 9:30:28pm

Here’s How to Actually Keep Kids and Teens Safe Online (Scientific American, September 18, 2023)

“Controversial policy proposals such as the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) are making headway across the country, but there are other ways to help protect young people in the digital world”

The Internet can be a risky place. There are endless feeds filled with posts that contain graphic sexual and violent content, glamorize eating disorders, encourage self-harm or promote discriminatory and offensive diatribes. People often share too much personal information with a too-public audience that includes cyberbullies and strangers with ill intent. And they also risk losing time: by spending hours online, they might miss out on experiences and growth opportunities that can be found elsewhere. These problems are particularly acute for children and teenagers, and new laws that attempt to protect youth from the Internet’s negative effects have their own serious downsides. Scientific American spoke with experts about the best evidence-backed ways to actually keep kids safe online.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Sep 27, 2023 • 9:30:33pm

re: #141 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I missed something. Is Nikki Haley arguing about IQ on the stage?

No, she’s just doing the “you made me stupid because I listened to you” bit and I’m pointing out that it’s awful comedy and there’s no need to do the same bit.

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wrenchwench  Sep 27, 2023 • 9:34:32pm

The Science Is Clear: Marijuana Is Safer Than Tobacco

[…]

That said, exposure to combustive toxins can be significantly reduced by using a vaporizer. In laboratory studies, herbal cannabis vaporizers have been determined to be an “effective and apparently safe vehicle for THC delivery … [that] do not result in exposure to combustion gasses.”

Cannabis compounds can also be infused in a multitude of products that don’t require smoking, including food products and drinks.

[…]

Menthol. I hear there will be some available.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 27, 2023 • 9:38:15pm

Have two Blue Sky codes for the brave:

cFRGUTN3SXJEcnlzT29ja0U5VUExRFlZOHZSZWQrZlBQb1hXZEhML0F0UHdEVzBZSWI5Y0RxeEg1UnJWZVd5ZGU2cHBUN2c4a0lZRFhnaUVScTh5YTV5dmsrcTNvT215THUyT2JsSHJ3S2M9Ojqx09rsvVTyDP8pKbWp2q4/

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Joe Bacon ✅  Sep 27, 2023 • 9:40:12pm

re: #141 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I missed something. Is Nikki Haley arguing about IQ on the stage?

Nikki Haley rips Ramaswamy at debate: ‘Every time I hear you, I feel a little bit dumber’

“This is infuriating, because TikTok is one of the most dangerous social media apps that we could have,” she said. “Honestly, every time I hear you, I feel a little bit dumber for what you say, because I can’t believe they hear you’ve got a TikTok situation.”

rawstory.com

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 27, 2023 • 9:57:01pm

Looks like another Chinese real estate developer is in deep doodoo…

Chinese developer CIFI Holdings Group Co.’s shares plunged by a record after trading resumed upon the release of its earnings, which underscored the hit from a prolonged property downturn.

The stock fell as much as 55% in Hong Kong, the biggest drag on a Bloomberg gauge of Chinese builder shares. The index, headed for a third day of losses, is close to erasing all gains notched during last year’s reopening rally.

The slide comes after the builder reported a net loss of almost 9 billion yuan ($1.2 billion) in the first half of the year. Trading of its shares had been halted since end-March as the firm failed to release earnings on time, adding to a wave of suspensions by fellow troubled developers.

yahoo.com

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Joe Bacon ✅  Sep 27, 2023 • 10:07:12pm

re: #67 Jay C

Sounds dire: hope it didn’t hurt!

Wound up as a drawn game after 49 moves…

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 27, 2023 • 10:15:25pm

Very strange year for weather, this September has not felt like September at all, which traditionally is the hottest month around here.

Instead, September has felt more like May or June.

Anyway, it’s too cool around the county:

RECORD EVENT REPORT…PRELIMINARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA
442 PM PDT WED SEP 27 2023

…LOWEST MINIMUM TEMPERATURE RECORD TIED ON SEP 27 2023 …

LOCATION NEW RECORD OLD RECORD PERIOD OF RECORD

RAMONA 41 TIED 41 IN 2013 1974

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retired cynic  Sep 27, 2023 • 10:17:13pm

re: #151 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

same here: drier and cooler

we’re really into a fairly severe drought

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The Ghost of a Flea  Sep 27, 2023 • 10:17:39pm

re: #148 Joe Bacon ✅

Nikki Haley rips Ramaswamy at debate: ‘Every time I hear you, I feel a little bit dumber’

“This is infuriating, because TikTok is one of the most dangerous social media apps that we could have,” she said. “Honestly, every time I hear you, I feel a little bit dumber for what you say, because I can’t believe they hear you’ve got a TikTok situation.”

rawstory.com

TikTok panic among Republicans is hilarious because they’re primarly expressing it on Fox News, a channel set up to be a spiraling content loop for puckered assholes that can only feel whole if they’re constantly told the rest of the world is their inferior, or on Twitter, which is just a fucking Skinner Box designed to constantly demand reaction to distressing toenails-clippings of “content.”

The same panopticism built to increase shareholder value is just fucking dandy. A social credit score generated by a private institution that allowed you to pay for privileges would render them incapacitated for month from sheer orgasmic paroxysm.

What enrages them is that the Chinese panopticon won’t select for their preferred distinctions and thought-crimes.

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wrenchwench  Sep 27, 2023 • 10:18:34pm

re: #150 Joe Bacon ✅

Wound up as a drawn game after 49 moves…

Sounds like my grandparents’ marriage (mom’s side). They separated after 49 years.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 27, 2023 • 10:23:09pm

New car troubles.

Click to Reveal

I called the used car dealer today to ask where my title is. My transit tag expires tomorrow.

They said they would call back.

When they did, they said the second owner of the car had failed to get a Utah title for the car (apparently they’d bought it in California and sold it in Utah). That person is getting the title now. It will be sent by next day air when they get it so I can transfer the car to me.

However, the transit tag cannot be renewed (Nebraska state law). State law says you have thirty days to pay the sales tax before penalties accrue. So off tomorrow to the county seat to pay the sales taxes on the car. (I was under the impression you already had to have the title to do that.)

My wife says she ran into this problem once buying a car, and though it’s aggravating, it’s not hard to fix.

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Belafon  Sep 27, 2023 • 10:23:28pm

Someone pulled out in front of my middle son earlier today, kid with no driver’s license or insurance. He is ok. This was in Dallas during rush hour. It took me over and hour to get from work to him. It took the cops even longer. By then, the kid had gotten towed and left, though my son did get the license plate and phone number and gave his number to the kid. The police were going file a report and tell the kid that they were going to file a hit and run but woukd clear it if they come up with the cost of repairs. We’ll see how that goes.

The annoying thing is that my son had gotten his own insurance last week and I dropped him from mine on Monday. The problem on the insurance side is that it’s hard to tell of he chose some of the parts that woukd be most helpful in this situation, even though we were pressing him on coverage. And he just got an apartment with a roommate. He cannot afford a car payment right now, and I can’t afford to help him repair this one.

We detached the bumper by removing the one bolt still holding on, and I drove it home later. The passenger fender is bent, and so that light doesn’t point right, but I drove the car home without any problems.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 27, 2023 • 10:26:09pm

re: #147 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Have two Blue Sky codes for the brave:

If no one here wants to take them, you can donate them to the scientist and medicine list.

docs.google.com

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 27, 2023 • 10:30:21pm

Hadn’t checked out Blogginheads in years… many years ago when they started I thought they were on to something with their discussions, but now they all seem so… unreal.

It’s a problem for their little circle of high-rise, high-salary closed off world.

They have to have a both-sides tactic to everything.

It’s part of their religion.

Literally, part of Robert Wright’s view of the world. He so wants to be religious but he can’t be a fundamentalist so he’s the ultimate non-comittalist.

And he keeps Mickey Kaus around even though the latter continues his slide into an old-codger xenophobe.

For some reason that gang are so enamoured with their own alleged highly educated self-enlightenment that they can’t flow with what is really happening in life and the big picture.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 27, 2023 • 10:32:02pm

re: #151 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Cheyenne just broke its record for the longest streak of days above 40°F (143).

weather.gov

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 27, 2023 • 10:32:44pm

re: #157 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I tried that. One of the codes I posted I sent to him last week, but he’s not used it.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 27, 2023 • 10:38:06pm

Head of Safety Systems for Open AI.

Wholly shyte, don’t do this.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 27, 2023 • 10:42:52pm

re: #160 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I tried that. One of the codes I posted I sent to him last week, but he’s not used it.

Sometimes it takes a few days. All three codes I sent were used (by a physician, an astrophysicist, and a PharmaD).

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 27, 2023 • 10:44:37pm

re: #161 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Head of Safety Systems for Open AI.

Wholly shyte, don’t do this.

Already we’ve had an eating disorder hotline try to replace telephone operators with a chatbot, and that wound up with the chatbot giving dieting tips to people with anorexia.

Instead of hiring people back, they shut down the help line. (It could be from the blistering attention they got over that stupidity.)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 27, 2023 • 10:46:23pm

re: #161 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Open AI’s chair and cofounder is amplifying this message.

Are all techbros evil?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 27, 2023 • 10:48:07pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 27, 2023 • 10:49:56pm

From Harvard:

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 27, 2023 • 10:52:15pm

Ms. Weng is getting dragged across Twitter. From the Electronic Privacy Information Center:

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 27, 2023 • 10:53:21pm

re: #164 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Are all techbros evil?

They all end up in the Bad Place (to use a description from the series The Good Place.)

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 27, 2023 • 11:01:38pm

re: #167 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

There are some parallels here with my criticism of Blogginheads.

Language is important to us. It is central to our being. Our conscious self is a language machine.

So we like to talk, and for those of us who can write, we like to write.

Whether it is a past-his-prime academic on Blogginheads or a chatbot run by a computer, we just want to converse. We not only want to talk but we want to talk to something.

We are monkeys, chattering away.

Con-men have their confidence jobs because they talk confidence. C.f. Trump and Smarmy.

Psychotherapy usually involves talking. A lot of talking.

Does it matter if the therapist is a computer? I guess that is the debate. Whether it should be a debate is yet another debate.

When a Catholic goes to confession, it is the sinner who does the talking, or most of it, I am led to believe (not been there myself.)

Is the sinner unburdened by the body across the partition who is simply there listening? Or is it the act of talking by the sinner that unburdens the latter?

Back to Blogginheads: you could have two chatbots bouncing off each other, and the conversations would be no less impactful, and maybe more impactful (and for sure more eloquent and succinct) than two old white guys lamenting the world is changing.

Welcome to the future.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 27, 2023 • 11:07:21pm

Well, this is going to be a surprise for the thief.

Philadelphia Inquirer, eleven hours ago

Philly thief steals a shop-vac filled with hundreds of giant hornets

“Well, this is going to be extremely unpleasant for somebody.”

Don Shump, owner of Philadelphia Bee Co., stared at the empty bed of his pickup truck last Friday morning: His portable shop vac, an essential appliance for any bee removal specialist, had gone missing. But then, Shump, 46, of Frankford, remembered what had been inside the vacuum: hundreds of large hornets, giant queens, and yellowjackets he had left swarming in the machine overnight.

A thief had unsuspectingly stolen a hornet’s nest.

And not just any hornets, but European hornets, the only true hornet species in North America. These buzzing bugs, identifiable by their burnt orange wings and bodies as big as wine cork, are the largest social stinging insects in the eastern United States. Cranky creatures and stubbornly defensive of their colonies, European hornets are known to sting repeatedly, and without warning.

There were probably four hundred of them, Shump figured, including a hundred feisty queens, and a thousand yellowjackets, to boot. All part of a removal he had performed the day before, now trapped in the purloined vacuum. Desperate. Furious. Ready to swarm.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 27, 2023 • 11:17:32pm

Catch y’all later. Off to bed. I’m tired after a long drive home today.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 27, 2023 • 11:41:22pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 27, 2023 • 11:44:02pm

A Legacy of Poison: Notes on Rupert Murdoch’s Retirement

Jared Sexton Yates at Substack. September 21, 2023

“One of the most destructive men of the modern era is walking away. Let us never forget what he’s done.”

This morning 92 year old Rupert Murdoch announced his intention to transition to “Chairman Emeritus” at Fox Corporation and News Corp, the behemoths that control large swathes of what passes for “news” and “entertainment.” After announcing his son Lachlan would succeed him, Murdoch continued with his patented brand of knowingly peddling conspiracy theories and misinformation for his own benefit, leveling a finger at “the media” in “cahoots” with elites and “peddling narratives rather than pursuing the truth.”

“Chairman Emeritus” (aside from the pomposity) seems like Mr. Murdoch isn’t actually letting his son Lachlan off the leash just yet.

Rupert Murdoch strikes me as the sort of man who will grasp at the headboard of his bed to resist keeping the Grim Reaper from finally taking his due.

We should expect nothing less from Murdoch. In his seven decades of cooking, twisting, and ultimately mortally wounding the truth, he has pioneered a new era of projection and weaponized lying. Fox News (one of the most destructive and consequential innovations of the 20th century) was hatched in 1996 with the expressed and intended purpose of working in cahoots with elites within the billionaire class and the Republican Party. Peddling political narratives was the strategy.

But that is Murdoch’s legacy. A final push to cannibalize the last remnants of local and objective journalism in order to construct the type of hulking apparatus for propaganda purposes that only George Orwell could have dreamed of. All of it in order to present a bastardize version of reality that better suited Murdoch and his allies in the wealth class’s bottom lines.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 27, 2023 • 11:44:51pm

re: #172 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Somalia. /s

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 28, 2023 • 12:31:33am

I WON THE LOTTO YESTERDAY!

(Two free Pick 5 tickets)

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 28, 2023 • 12:42:16am

I like Henry Cavill, and this upcoming flick has a great cast, so I might have to check this one out.

Argylle. Directed by Matthew Vaughn, opens 2 February 2024.

Argylle | Official Trailer

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 28, 2023 • 12:42:25am

A delivery of Maypo and Wheatena arrived in the US Mail yesterday. (My sweetie likes Wheatena for both breakfast and as a baking additive.)

My wife ordered a bunch of Maypo when she saw I was running out. Got here just in time.

We used to be able to buy it at the Commissary but they discontinued it.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 28, 2023 • 12:55:11am

More woes for beleaguered Chinese real-estate giant Evergrande.

Embattled Chinese property giant Evergrande has suspended share trading on the Hong Kong stock exchange only a month after it resumed trading after a 17-month suspension.

Trading in its two other units - the property services and electric vehicle groups - also stopped at 9am on Thursday, according to notices posted by the stock exchange.

The halt in trading comes a day after reports that the chair of Evergrande had been put under police surveillance. Hui Ka Yan, who founded Evergrande in 1996, was taken away earlier this month and is being monitored at a designated location, according to Bloomberg.

theguardian.com

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 28, 2023 • 1:09:31am

re: #178 Dr Lizardo

The halt in trading comes a day after reports that the chair of Evergrande had been put under police surveillance. Hui Ka Yan, who founded Evergrande in 1996, was taken away earlier this month and is being monitored at a designated location, according to Bloomberg.

Would that this happed to a few of our nation’s corporate overlords.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 28, 2023 • 1:13:49am

re: #1 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

A bunch of wingnuts in the Senate have filed a resolution requiring a sixty-seven vote threshold to change the dress code.

That is the most important thing the Senate has to do, obsessing over John Fetterman.

It does not address women. It requires “business attire” which shall include coat, tie, and long pants.

Reinstate the Toga. With a sheath for knives.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 28, 2023 • 1:17:02am

re: #47 Dangerman

Trump says electric motors in boats won’t work because if it sinks everyone will get electrocuted.

we should be grateful to hve such a stable genius as a Presidential candidate

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 28, 2023 • 1:19:54am

re: #71 sagehen

The late-night shows will be back THIS MONDAY!!

I miss Colbert

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 28, 2023 • 1:21:20am

What seems like a “just-so” story from the Plains Hotel in Cheyenne.

They have a new historical plaque in the elevator. The elevator only will hold about three people if they are really friendly with each other.

When the hotel opened in 1911, one night’s stay was $1 for a smaller room. Livery service for a horse in Cheyenne at the time was $2.

As the story goes on the plaque, people would sneak horses up to their rooms to save money on livery service.

To counter that, the hotel ripped out their old elevator and put in the super-tiny one they have now. The idea was to keep people from bringing horses up to their rooms.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 28, 2023 • 1:21:48am

re: #87 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Scott want’s full employment by coal mining!

all we have to do is abolish all those pesky and intrusive government environemental and safety regulations and those well paid jobs will come roaring back without any need for unions.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 28, 2023 • 1:23:08am

re: #96 Dangerman

Donald Trump is the clear winner of this debate. It might be the worst I’ve ever seen. Everyone on this stage has lost ground in the presidential debate. Absolutely pathetic.

These debates simply drove home the inevitability that if DJT runs, he will win the GOP nomination hands-down.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 28, 2023 • 1:23:44am

re: #184 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

all we have to do is abolish all those pesky and intrusive government environemental and safety regulations and those well paid jobs will come roaring back without any need for unions.

Lots of coal-mining jobs here in Nebraska just waiting to be had. /s

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 28, 2023 • 1:24:17am

re: #107 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Ronald Reagan is the reason the candidates on that stage are running for President.

Reagan’s legacy is the elevation of atavistic demagoguery as standard GOP talking points.

and dismantling public education in America.

An idiot like DJT can thrive only with the support of even bigger idiots.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 28, 2023 • 1:30:28am

re: #186 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Lots of coal-mining jobs here in Nebraska just waiting to be had. /s

My granddad was a coal miner in Iowa.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 28, 2023 • 1:45:17am

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

My granddad was a coal miner in Iowa.

There are thin coal beds that are found in about two thirds of that state. Low quality, but in some parts of the state the overlaying sediments have been eroded to expose the coal, and shallow mines were done.

In the central part of the country there are extensive coal deposits, but again they are not very thick and hence not too productive.

Plus the farmland on top is too valuable to give up.

Still, the GOP wants coal so hey, dig up the farms.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 28, 2023 • 1:47:31am

File under You Learn Something New Everyday:

After owning my iMac for 16 years, I discovered (by watching a Youtube video about something else) that using the shift+option keys in combination with the illumination buttons (top row, the “function” keys) lets me change the illumination in fractions of steps.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 28, 2023 • 2:04:42am

re: #189 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

There are thin coal beds that are found in about two thirds of [Iowa]. Low quality, but in some parts of the state the overlaying sediments have been eroded to expose the coal, and shallow mines were done.

My granddad worked at what is now the abandoned site of Durfee, Iowa, East of Bussey in Marion County, which is where my dad was born.

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ericblair  Sep 28, 2023 • 2:43:01am

Apparently the Ukrainians are in danger of getting bonked on the head by empty tin cans, if the Russian artillery piece doesn’t explode.

Meanwhile, Russia is hauling out 1950s-era tanks, which may have issues with 2020s-era antitank weapons.

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darthstar  Sep 28, 2023 • 3:01:47am

re: #192 ericblair

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Apparently the Ukrainians are in danger of getting bonked on the head by empty tin cans, if the Russian artillery piece doesn’t explode.

Meanwhile, Russia is hauling out 1950s-era tanks, which may have issues with 2020s-era antitank weapons.

You’d think the gunners would notice how the rounds feel lighter than normal.
“Ilya, are you getting stronger?”
“I find carrying four rounds at a time saves me some walking.”

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TarHellion  Sep 28, 2023 • 3:10:35am

Birbie-man. Birbie-man. Does whatever a Birbie can. Soars along in the sky. Poops on crooks - my oh my. Hey, there! There goes the Birbie-man.

Click to Reveal

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jeffreyw  Sep 28, 2023 • 3:15:12am

Mastodon

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 28, 2023 • 3:18:06am

re: #191 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

My granddad worked at what is now the abandoned site of Durfee, Iowa, East of Bussey in Marion County, which is where my dad was born.

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darthstar  Sep 28, 2023 • 3:23:38am

re: #164 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Open AI’s chair and cofounder is amplifying this message.

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Are all techbros evil?

Dear god, using a chatbot as a therapist? I get freaked out when I ask Alexa the weather and it follows up with, “By the way, I can start your day with a summary of the news and a funny joke…would you like that? Just say…”
“NO!”

That shit isn’t between her and the device in her living room…it’s getting stored on a server somewhere…multi-somewheres per the chatbot’s DR policy.

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Nerdy Fish  Sep 28, 2023 • 3:36:18am

So you’re telling me there’s a chance.

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Teukka  Sep 28, 2023 • 3:45:41am
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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Sep 28, 2023 • 4:25:54am

Another par

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Sep 28, 2023 • 4:27:10am

Birb… But it easily coulda been a part. Whew.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 28, 2023 • 4:29:14am

re: #193 darthstar

You’d think the gunners would notice how the rounds feel lighter than normal.
“Ilya, are you getting stronger?”
“I find carrying four rounds at a time saves me some walking.”

The weight of the explosive filler is not a large part of the weight of the completed round. Steel vs silly putty.

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Thanos  Sep 28, 2023 • 4:33:44am

Apple Users:

IOS 17.02 is out now, I recommend update.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 28, 2023 • 4:54:17am

Well-known actor Sir Michael Gambon has died at the age of 82.

news.sky.com

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lawhawk  Sep 28, 2023 • 5:01:53am

re: #205 Dr Lizardo

Gambon’s most notable role was that of Harry Potter’s Albus Dumbledore. He also had notable roles on shows like Doctor Who and movies like Gosford Park.

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Belafon  Sep 28, 2023 • 5:12:19am

re: #206 lawhawk

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Gambon’s most notable role was that of Harry Potter’s Albus Dumbledore. He also had notable roles on shows like Doctor Who and movies like Gosford Park.

He was the uncle in Toys with Robin Williams.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 28, 2023 • 5:17:36am

No one won the PowerBall jackpot so it moves on closer to real money.

I played the power ball ❼ as the power ball three times… and had all of the five white ball numbers… but not on the same line… sigh.

$10 is better than a kick in the rear, I suppose.

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Dangerman  Sep 28, 2023 • 5:26:14am

didnt watch the “debate” and don’t really care

unless someone pulled a gun or there was an actual fistfight.

no?

pffft.
the whole ‘race’ is a manufactured bit of stupid amateur theatrics

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 28, 2023 • 5:27:10am

Professor Miano (ancient history prof) takes on some Elon derp:

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lawhawk  Sep 28, 2023 • 5:30:30am

I’ve seen a whole lot of crap about Trump’s MAL property valuation and the NYS fraud case against the Trump org. Let’s clear the BS from the facts.

The Palm Beach County assessor is the one who valued the property at between $17 and $27.6 million. There were limitations on what Trump Org can do with the property to retain its historic designation, and certain things Trump Org was required to do in order to keep the valuation unconscionably low - as compared to what Trump claims the value to be.

The rationale for the assessor’s low valuations are something tax authorities do all the time - they reduce valuations that directly affect the tax obligation (ratables, and if you value the property at $1 million, you multiply by the assessment ratio to get the taxes due). If the property was actually worth say $450 million and assessed accordingly, then Palm Beach would be due at least 16 times more in taxes than the $500k paid on the property.

But the problem isn’t the assessed valuation. It’s that Trump asserted the property was worth $450 million or even billions of dollars - with absolutely nothing but a feeling to support it.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 28, 2023 • 5:33:49am

re: #210 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Professor Miano (ancient history prof) takes on some Elon derp:

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He sings of arms, and a man persued by fate…

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lawhawk  Sep 28, 2023 • 5:34:10am
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 28, 2023 • 5:34:17am

Blatant Xitter racist won’t accept reality:

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 28, 2023 • 5:35:01am

re: #210 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Rome never “started”. The Capitoline Hill has been inhabited since time immemorial and those ancient settlements ultimately coalesced and became what history knows as Rome.

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lawhawk  Sep 28, 2023 • 5:41:55am

re: #211 lawhawk

Extending the comments:

Trump has repeatedly sought to reduce the already unconscionably low assessed value on which taxes on the property are drawn from. He considered the assessed value of $27.6 million to be too high, even as he’s claiming the value of the property to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars, or even billions of dollars so as to entice investors, creditors, and potential members to join the golf club.

It’s a sham, and it all flows from Trump’s tax avoidance strategies and trying to maximize value to encourage investors in properties that are not worth anywhere near what he claims them to be.

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Nerdy Fish  Sep 28, 2023 • 5:48:11am

re: #216 lawhawk

The judge boiled it down to its essence: Trump got away with decades of paying less in interest and insurance payments than he should have, based on artificially inflated values for his properties in financial statements that he signed. That the assessed values are probably quite a bit lower than what the fair market price might be is irrelevant; the fact at issue is that he made up his numbers from whole cloth. His tax dodging is, as they say, a whole ‘nother kettle of fish. In this trial, AG James focused on his misrepresentations of actual market value in order to inflate his self-worth and procure favorable loans and insurance rates. Think about how many lenders might not have been quite as willing to gamble on him if they knew how little his properties were actually worth!

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lawhawk  Sep 28, 2023 • 5:48:22am
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lawhawk  Sep 28, 2023 • 5:51:35am

re: #217 Nerdy Fish

Indeed.

It’s like if any of us here were seeking a home mortgage, and instead of a credit report that pulled your actual bank account and credit card history, and the requirement to show your real property holdings and valuations to give the bank a baseline on what they would be willing to lend, you simply tell them that you’re worth $1.5 billion. Take my word for it.

Deutsche Bank did just that. They ignored all the red flags. They lent to him, and continued lending, because once they were eyeballs deep in the mess, they had no choice but to continue because otherwise they’d run afoul of all kinds of problems and take a huge hit on loss because if they had a squeeze like the 2009 banking crisis, there wouldn’t be enough value in Trump businesses to cover the loans.

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gocart mozart  Sep 28, 2023 • 5:52:10am
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Dr Lizardo  Sep 28, 2023 • 5:58:22am

re: #219 lawhawk

Indeed.

It’s like if any of us here were seeking a home mortgage, and instead of a credit report that pulled your actual bank account and credit card history, and the requirement to show your real property holdings and valuations to give the bank a baseline on what they would be willing to lend, you simply tell them that you’re worth $1.5 billion. Take my word for it.

Deutsche Bank did just that. They ignored all the red flags. They lent to him, and continued lending, because once they were eyeballs deep in the mess, they had no choice but to continue because otherwise they’d run afoul of all kinds of problems and take a huge hit on loss because if they had a squeeze like the 2009 banking crisis, there wouldn’t be enough value in Trump businesses to cover the loans.

Yep. That’d be like me walking into a local bank and announcing, “My apartment is worth €1.5 million and I make €12 million a year. Trust me, bro.” And the bank saying, “Okey-dokey, how much would you like to borrow? €3 million? No problemo.”

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Sep 28, 2023 • 6:01:10am

Texas county that borders New Mexico is the latest to consider an abortion travel ban

A rural Texas county that borders New Mexico is expected to consider a proposal Thursday that would make it illegal to travel on its roads seeking an abortion.

The proposed blockade in Cochran County, home to about 2,500 people, is the latest example of a Texas county attempting to restrict access to its highways to certain people — a move abortion-rights activists and legal scholars say is unconstitutional and meant to stoke fear.

*snip*

While it is a small county that is about 60 miles west of Lubbock, its location could be crucial for pregnant people traveling through. There are three state highways that cross through Cochran County — highways 114, 214 and 125.

This effort is being orchestrated by Right to Life East Texas, headed by one Mark Lee Dickson. They are spending massive amounts lobbying for these local ordinances all over the state. State Senator Charles Perry (Redneck-Lubbock) is also an advocate of these laws and was probably the immediate instigator of the one in Cochran County. Dickson travels constantly and is treated like a rock star when he shows up in rural houses of superstition, er churches, to preach his message of control and intimidation.

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Nerdy Fish  Sep 28, 2023 • 6:03:34am

re: #219 lawhawk

I get that billionaires with lots of diversified assets would be difficult for a bank to assess for risk, but I don’t think it would be impossible. They’d just have to invest in staff to actually do the job.

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lawhawk  Sep 28, 2023 • 6:06:24am

re: #223 Nerdy Fish

I get that billionaires with lots of diversified assets would be difficult for a bank to assess for risk, but I don’t think it would be impossible. They’d just have to invest in staff to actually do the job.

Banks have entire departments meant to assess and address valuations and credit risks. They have sophisticated formulas and computations and algorithms that help suss out whether someone’s a credit risk, and if the information they’re providing is sufficient to determine credit worthiness for extending credit.

The banks are also supposed to flag suspicious activity, and Deutsche Bank got all kinds of red flags, and then promptly ignored them.

Transactions in 2016 and 2017 triggered automated controls at Deutsche Bank meant to catch illicit activity, and compliance workers then prepared what’s known as suspicious activity reports that they believed should be sent to the Treasury, according to the Times, which cited five current and former bank employees. But the reports were never filed with the government, the article states.

The red flags raised by employees don’t mean the transactions were improper, the Times said. The newspaper said it couldn’t determine the exact nature of the transactions, but that some of them involved funds flowing overseas, which typically brings greater scrutiny.

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Jay C  Sep 28, 2023 • 6:07:05am

re: #216 lawhawk

Extending the comments:

Trump has repeatedly sought to reduce the already unconscionably low assessed value on which taxes on the property are drawn from. He considered the assessed value of $27.6 million to be too high, even as he’s claiming the value of the property to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars, or even billions of dollars so as to entice investors, creditors, and potential members to join the golf club.

It’s a sham, and it all flows from Trump’s tax avoidance strategies and trying to maximize value to encourage investors in properties that are not worth anywhere near what he claims them to be.

Not that we don’t appreciate your commentary, ‘hawk: but you could have just stopped with the bolded part, and we’d have the career of Donald J. Trump in a nutshell.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 28, 2023 • 6:12:00am

re: #225 Jay C

Trump’s greatest fear is being seen as a loser. Now, he’s been exposed as a fraud, and from there, it’s only a few steps away to loser status. Granted, his cultists will continue to worship him - but it could well be that those cultists will become less passionate and ultimately, less numerous.

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lawhawk  Sep 28, 2023 • 6:13:44am

re: #226 Dr Lizardo

They’re pivoting to claim that Trump was a genius for getting away with it for as long as he did. They’re completely ignoring the fraud, and the criminal conduct, to believe that if they were able to con and scam people, they too could get one over on the libs.

That’s what Trump sells. He sells himself as the master scammer, and the base loves it.

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Shropshire Slasher  Sep 28, 2023 • 6:17:34am

Looks like a good day to pluck nose hairs.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 28, 2023 • 6:20:47am

Just got the official “We think the government will shut down in a couple of days, here is the contingency plan…” email from my employer.

(Our company deals with several government agencies)

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ipsos  Sep 28, 2023 • 6:22:19am

Good morning from Laredo, Texas!

(Why? Because I flew down early for a conference in San Antonio and had never been to Laredo. Do I need a better reason?)

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Eventual Carrion  Sep 28, 2023 • 6:23:34am

re: #169 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

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When a Catholic goes to confession, it is the sinner who does the talking, or most of it, I am led to believe (not been there myself.)

[snip]

A priest is sitting in his side of a confessional waiting for a parishioner to come in for confession. He heard the door to the confessional open and close. He waits a bit for the opening lines of the confessor but nothing is said. So he taps on the partition of the confessional and hears a voice from the other side saying, “Can’t help ya bud, no paper over here either”.

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lawhawk  Sep 28, 2023 • 6:23:59am

Figures…

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darthstar  Sep 28, 2023 • 6:26:06am

Happy impeachment day everyone. Be nice if the media didn’t even mention the hearing today.

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Shropshire Slasher  Sep 28, 2023 • 6:28:57am

re: #233 darthstar

Happy impeachment day everyone. Be nice if the media didn’t even mention the hearing today.

I would have forgotten about it if it wasn’t for you and those damn kids!

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Sep 28, 2023 • 6:29:33am

re: #211 lawhawk

My first house cost $44,000. They assessed taxes on $12,000. Since then, every property I’ve owned had been valued similarly. Assessed value, in my experience, is never the actual value.

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sagehen  Sep 28, 2023 • 6:30:52am

re: #215 Dr Lizardo

Rome never “started”. The Capitoline Hill has been inhabited since time immemorial and those ancient settlements ultimately coalesced and became what history knows as Rome.

nuh-uh. There were wolves. They adopted a pair of twin orphans. I have an ancient book that says so.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Sep 28, 2023 • 6:31:55am

re: #227 lawhawk

They’re pivoting to claim that Trump was a genius for getting away with it for as long as he did. They’re completely ignoring the fraud, and the criminal conduct, to believe that if they were able to con and scam people, they too could get one over on the libs.

That’s what Trump sells. He sells himself as the master scammer, and the base loves it.

Will be curious to see what the half-life of a cultist’s interest is if Trump is incarcerated and denied media access. Presumably stuff will leak to the media in his name via visiting cronies. But I think after a few months of a strangled supply interest will start to run down. Though OAN and maybe even Fox will run a “Trump Held Hostage: Day XX” thing just to be jerks.

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Dave In Austin  Sep 28, 2023 • 6:33:06am

re: #230 ipsos

Good morning from Laredo, Texas!

(Why? Because I flew down early for a conference in San Antonio and had never been to Laredo. Do I need a better reason?)

Make sure to check out the Streets…..

And eat well.

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Shropshire Slasher  Sep 28, 2023 • 6:38:22am

You need a good name to be a great band.

Mannequin Pussy - “I Got Heaven”

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Joe Bacon ✅  Sep 28, 2023 • 6:41:58am

Well I get a paycheck tomorrow. after that it will probabaly be half a paycheck in 2 weeks and then nothing thanks to the fucking Wanker Of The House and the Radical Republicans…

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Decatur Deb  Sep 28, 2023 • 6:43:33am

re: #236 sagehen

nuh-uh. There were wolves. They adopted a pair of twin orphans. I have an ancient book that says so.

The manhole covers in Rome are still marked “SPQR”.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 28, 2023 • 6:46:18am

re: #161 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Head of Safety Systems for Open AI.

Wholly shyte, don’t do this.

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jeffreyw  Sep 28, 2023 • 6:48:45am

This was the best supermarket tomato ever

Good morning!

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sagehen  Sep 28, 2023 • 6:53:47am

re: #223 Nerdy Fish

I get that billionaires with lots of diversified assets would be difficult for a bank to assess for risk, but I don’t think it would be impossible. They’d just have to invest in staff to actually do the job.

The way the bank knows what my apartment is worth, is they sent an appraiser to look at it. The appraiser then compared my apartment to similar apartments of the same size in the same neighborhood. Voilá. They come up with a number.

When they wanted to know what my income is, they asked to see a copy of my 1040. Again, voilá.

It’s really not that difficult.

If you want to know how much Jeff Bezos is worth, ask how many shares he owns in each of his companies. What’s it trading at this week? Plus his homes, his yacht, his newspaper, his spaceship. Voilá again. I’m very proud I remembered how to put the accent over the a in voila.

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dat_said  Sep 28, 2023 • 6:55:09am

re: #152 retired cynic

same here: drier and cooler

we’re really into a fairly severe drought

We finally had some rain this last week. My neighborhood had about 3 1/2 inches while 4 miles west of me had just over 2” and parts of the Twin Cities 10 miles west of me had nearly 7”.

Scattered showers indeed.

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sagehen  Sep 28, 2023 • 6:57:09am

re: #230 ipsos

Good morning from Laredo, Texas!

(Why? Because I flew down early for a conference in San Antonio and had never been to Laredo. Do I need a better reason?)

Did you walk down the streets of Laredo? Did you meet a cowboy who told you his sad story?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 28, 2023 • 7:02:47am

re: #196 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

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lawhawk  Sep 28, 2023 • 7:03:59am

Didn’t watch the GOP debate last night. Did anyone get asked about Menendez and whether he should resign and/or not run again next year?

Because that would have been *the* question to ask these motherfuckers.

If you say Menendez shouldn’t resign and run again, then they’re showing that they’re all fine with Trump running despite being in a far more serious position with 4 indictments and 91 charges.

If you say Menendez should resign and/or not run again because of his criminal liability, then you can’t say Trump’s fine to run again despite being in the worse position without being a complete and utter hypocrite.

I guess that’s why the question wasn’t likely to get asked of any of these GOP poseurs.

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sagehen  Sep 28, 2023 • 7:10:20am

re: #248 lawhawk

I guess that’s why the question wasn’t likely to get asked of any of these GOP poseurs.

They also didn’t get asked whether they agree with Trump that Milley should be executed.

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lawhawk  Sep 28, 2023 • 7:16:32am

What if the GOP holds an impeachment and no one fucking cares because there’s nothing to any of it?

That’s exactly what’s happening. The GOP knows it’s all bulkshit, and yet they’re going through the motions, because that’s what Trump expects them to do. It has nothing to do with wrongdoing or even criminality. They have no evidence of any of it.

The so called smoking gun of a payment that gets tied to Joe’s home address is BS because Hunter was living with Joe at that time and therefore the address was Hunter’s address.

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Eventual Carrion  Sep 28, 2023 • 7:17:03am

re: #194 TarHellion

Birbie-man. Birbie-man. Does whatever a Birbie can. Soars along in the sky. Poops on crooks - my oh my. Hey, there! There goes the Birbie-man.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Sep 28, 2023 • 7:19:16am

re: #250 lawhawk

What if the GOP holds an impeachment and no one fucking cares because there’s nothing to any of it?

That’s exactly what’s happening. The GOP knows it’s all bulkshit, and yet they’re going through the motions, because that’s what Trump expects them to do. It has nothing to do with wrongdoing or even criminality. They have no evidence of any of it.

The so called smoking gun of a payment that gets tied to Joe’s home address is BS because Hunter was living with Joe at that time and therefore the address was Hunter’s address.

What galls me is hearing Turley go all in for Joe’s impeachment. The same fucking Turkey who gave Trump pass after pass.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 28, 2023 • 7:21:11am

My part of the country has been exceptionally dry for the last couple of months.

Normally at this time of year we have tropical systems coming through dumping rain on us but this year most of those systems are staying out in the open ocean or hitting land well east of us.

It’s been so long since we’ve had a stretch of rainy days I honestly couldn’t tell you when it was.

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Dangerman  Sep 28, 2023 • 7:22:15am

re: #223 Nerdy Fish

I get that billionaires with lots of diversified assets would be difficult for a bank to assess for risk, but I don’t think it would be impossible. They’d just have to invest in staff to actually do the job.

Its the banking equivalent of yesterdays discussion about mitigating shrinkage

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Thanos  Sep 28, 2023 • 7:22:38am

re: #243 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

That’s a lot of Peppah!

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Shropshire Slasher  Sep 28, 2023 • 7:23:04am

What the hell did Justin Trudeau do to piss off India?!

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Eventual Carrion  Sep 28, 2023 • 7:23:31am

re: #215 Dr Lizardo

Rome never “started”. The Capitoline Hill has been inhabited since time immemorial and those ancient settlements ultimately coalesced and became what history knows as Rome.

Not wolf raised children? Who’s delusional now?

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Dangerman  Sep 28, 2023 • 7:23:51am

re: #226 Dr Lizardo

Trump’s greatest fear is being seen as a loser. Now, he’s been exposed as a fraud, and from there, it’s only a few steps away to loser status. Granted, his cultists will continue to worship him - but it could well be that those cultists will become less passionate and ultimately, less numerous.

A guy who can only win by cheating is a loser

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Dangerman  Sep 28, 2023 • 7:24:31am

re: #227 lawhawk

They’re pivoting to claim that Trump was a genius for getting away with it for as long as he did. They’re completely ignoring the fraud, and the criminal conduct, to believe that if they were able to con and scam people, they too could get one over on the libs.

That’s what Trump sells. He sells himself as the master scammer, and the base loves it.

Every serial criminal gets away with it
Until they don’t

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Thanos  Sep 28, 2023 • 7:25:52am

re: #250 lawhawk

What if the GOP holds an impeachment and no one fucking cares because there’s nothing to any of it?

That’s exactly what’s happening. The GOP knows it’s all bulkshit, and yet they’re going through the motions, because that’s what Trump expects them to do. It has nothing to do with wrongdoing or even criminality. They have no evidence of any of it.

The so called smoking gun of a payment that gets tied to Joe’s home address is BS because Hunter was living with Joe at that time and therefore the address was Hunter’s address.

If they can impeach Joe for what Hunter did while living there then it follows that Trump could be impeached for every criminal act anyone ever committed in Trump Tower or Mar A Lago.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 28, 2023 • 7:26:31am

Deutsche Bank had their own mini-Trump, a Jürgen Schneider in the 1990’s, who routinely overvalued his properties in Frankfurt. In one case, he declared the eintire square footage of a shopping mall he owned as commericial space when in reality, the retail floor space made up only 40% of the total area.

The joke was that these properties were all within walking distance of Deutsche Bank headquarters but nobody bothered to go check on their lunch break because they were too busy boning their secretaries.

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lawhawk  Sep 28, 2023 • 7:27:56am

re: #253 Eclectic Cyborg

And if you’re in the greater NOLA area in Louisiana, you’re facing a crisis situation where the entire potable water supply is threatened because the water flow on the Mississippi River (your source for fresh water) is so low due to drought conditions upstream, that salt water infiltration is close to the intakes for the city’s water supply.

If salt water gets into the water intakes, it means the city loses its water - and everyone living there would need bottled water or tanked in water.

The ACE is trying to build underwater dikes to keep salt water from going upstream.

You’ve got entire ecosystems and communities upended because climate change is causing more extreme weather - more droughts and more extreme droughts, along with more extreme wetness and rainfall events.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 28, 2023 • 7:29:11am

“The climate change right now is called autumn!”

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Dangerman  Sep 28, 2023 • 7:30:37am

re: #244 sagehen

The way the bank knows what my apartment is worth, is they sent an appraiser to look at it. The appraiser then compared my apartment to similar apartments of the same size in the same neighborhood. Voilá. They come up with a number.

When they wanted to know what my income is, they asked to see a copy of my 1040. Again, voilá.

It’s really not that difficult.

If you want to know how much Jeff Bezos is worth, ask how many shares he owns in each of his companies. What’s it trading at this week? Plus his homes, his yacht, his newspaper, his spaceship. Voilá again. I’m very proud I remembered how to put the accent over the a in voila.

At least you didn’t spell it “wah-lah”

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Sep 28, 2023 • 7:32:31am

re: #256 Shropshire Slasher

What the hell did Justin Trudeau do to piss off India?!

cfr.org

A Sikh separatist was murdered in Canada and there are allegations that the Indian government had a hand in it.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 28, 2023 • 7:34:53am

re: #265 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

cfr.org

A Sihk separatist was murdered in Canada and there are allegations that the Indian government had a hand in it.

Nothing like some extraterritorial justice!

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sizzzzlerz  Sep 28, 2023 • 7:41:13am

re: #262 lawhawk

And if you’re in the greater NOLA area in Louisiana, you’re facing a crisis situation where the entire potable water supply is threatened because the water flow on the Mississippi River (your source for fresh water) is so low due to drought conditions upstream, that salt water infiltration is close to the intakes for the city’s water supply.

Of course, the entire contingent of LA GOP congress critters are denying GW is real but are more than happy to have the rest of the country pay to mitigate the effects.

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mmmirele  Sep 28, 2023 • 7:41:29am

re: #176 Dr Lizardo

I like Henry Cavill, and this upcoming flick has a great cast, so I might have to check this one out.

Argylle. Directed by Matthew Vaughn, opens 2 February 2024.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Sep 28, 2023 • 7:42:31am

re: #206 lawhawk

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Gambon’s most notable role was that of Harry Potter’s Albus Dumbledore. He also had notable roles on shows like Doctor Who and movies like Gosford Park.

A shoutout to The Singing Detective, which I would add to the “most notable” list.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Sep 28, 2023 • 7:44:46am

re: #210 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Professor Miano (ancient history prof) takes on some Elon derp:

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And Musk puts that out as if it’s something he thought up All By Himself, and not the plot of the Aeneid.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 28, 2023 • 7:47:06am

re: #268 mmmirele

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 28, 2023 • 7:47:20am

re: #262 lawhawk

No, I’m a ways east of NOLA, but have been following that story.

This area is just not usually a drought spot. This is the driest stretch I can remember since I moved here 15 years ago.

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darthstar  Sep 28, 2023 • 7:48:14am

re: #235 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

My first house cost $44,000. They assessed taxes on $12,000. Since then, every property I’ve owned had been valued similarly. Assessed value, in my experience, is never the actual value.

When we bought this house in 2011 we paid 725K for it - San Mateo county assessed it at 750 and set our property tax on that. Granted, it’s gone up in value (1.4-1.5 now) so I understand the concept of equity a little better.

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jeffreyw  Sep 28, 2023 • 7:50:25am

re: #255 Thanos

That’s a lot of Peppah!

Just about the correct amount, another grind or two would not hurt.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Sep 28, 2023 • 7:52:35am

Holy shit he had a change of heart.

GOP’s own witness pours cold water on Biden impeachment: ‘I do not believe the evidence meets the standard’

Lawyer Jonathan Turley was ridiculed as “shameless” after he was announced as a Republican witness willing to speak out at the House Oversight hearing that would advocate for the impeachment of President Joe Biden.

But, as the hearing started Thursday, he was pouring cold water on the GOP’s plan.

In a statement, the George Washington University Law School professor declared: “I do not believe that the evidence currently meets the standard of a high crime and misdemeanor needed for an article of impeachment.”

Instead, Turley intends to use his time on the stand to attack the past impeachment of former President Donald Trump. (of course)

“The purpose of my testimony today is to discuss how past inquiries pursued evidence of potentially impeachable conduct,” the statement continues.

“Four years ago, I appeared as an expert witness in the only impeachment hearing held in the first impeachment of former president Donald J. Trump,” Turley says. “While opposing many of the proposed articles of impeachment, I testified that two possible articles presented viable impeachable conduct, if proven. However, I maintained that the House needed to create a full record to support those articles. (Those two articles were the articles later adopted by the House).”

rawstory.com

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sizzzzlerz  Sep 28, 2023 • 7:54:12am

re: #274 jeffreyw

Just about the correct amount, another grind or two would not hurt.

Alton Brown’s got you covered

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lawhawk  Sep 28, 2023 • 7:55:57am

re: #275 Joe Bacon ✅

So, what he’s saying is that GOP needs to keep digging and find evidence. This impeachment will move forward in effort to find the evidence needed to impeach.

Got it. /

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darthstar  Sep 28, 2023 • 7:56:20am

Russians sound a lot like MAGA Republicans…

Mastodon

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Markm1960  Sep 28, 2023 • 7:56:20am

re: #223 Nerdy Fish

I get that billionaires with lots of diversified assets would be difficult for a bank to assess for risk, but I don’t think it would be impossible. They’d just have to invest in staff to actually do the job.

Large publicly traded companies with diversified asset portfolios worth billions manage to do it. In fact they do it monthly and report the numbers in detailed fashion. Granted they pay a lot to in house accountants and outside consultants to gather, calculate and record the information, then pay independent accountants to verify the info.

Thats part of trumps problem is that he probably didn’t want to pay for experts, and probably would stiff them on the bills anyway. And trumps not publicly traded so he’s treated differently. But you would think that for someone who is highly leveraged the banks would have wanted more assurance than just compiled financial statements. Bankers dropped the ball by not requiring audited financials.

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mmmirele  Sep 28, 2023 • 7:56:40am

re: #222 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Texas county that borders New Mexico is the latest to consider an abortion travel ban

*snip*

This effort is being orchestrated by Right to Life East Texas, headed by one Mark Lee Dickson. They are spending massive amounts lobbying for these local ordinances all over the state. State Senator Charles Perry (Redneck-Lubbock) is also an advocate of these laws and was probably the immediate instigator of the one in Cochran County. Dickson travels constantly and is treated like a rock star when he shows up in rural houses of superstition, er churches, to preach his message of control and intimidation.

I see a charge of kidnapping in his future, as a 37 YO mother of three is driving back to Arizona or Colorado from Texas, some nitwit thinks she’s going for an abortion in New Mexico and she’s arrested. *shakes head* You know it’s gonna happen.

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jeffreyw  Sep 28, 2023 • 7:58:25am

re: #276 sizzzzlerz

Alton Brown’s got you covered

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Unicorn has me covered: unicornmills.org

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darthstar  Sep 28, 2023 • 8:01:24am

re: #281 jeffreyw

Unicorn has me covered: unicornmills.org

Friend has one of those in his kitchen…nice mill.

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sagehen  Sep 28, 2023 • 8:01:31am

re: #272 Eclectic Cyborg

No, I’m a ways east of NOLA, but have been following that story.

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This area is just not usually a drought spot. This is the driest stretch I can remember since I moved here 15 years ago.

ooooh! Look at how non-droughty California is on that map!

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sizzzzlerz  Sep 28, 2023 • 8:02:34am

re: #281 jeffreyw

Unicorn has me covered: unicornmills.org

Yeah, but can you also use it to drill holes or drive screws?

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Vicious Babushka  Sep 28, 2023 • 8:05:43am

re: #139 The Ghost of a Flea

Damn, Flea, your talent is wasted here. Please start a Patreon or a Substack and maybe get some money for your exquisite writing.

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darthstar  Sep 28, 2023 • 8:05:58am

Funny caption.

Mastodon

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darthstar  Sep 28, 2023 • 8:07:35am

re: #139 The Ghost of a Flea

I just realized the above post is a good illustration of the GOP debate. Well said.

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Thanos  Sep 28, 2023 • 8:10:21am

re: #262 lawhawk

And if you’re in the greater NOLA area in Louisiana, you’re facing a crisis situation where the entire potable water supply is threatened because the water flow on the Mississippi River (your source for fresh water) is so low due to drought conditions upstream, that salt water infiltration is close to the intakes for the city’s water supply.

If salt water gets into the water intakes, it means the city loses its water - and everyone living there would need bottled water or tanked in water.

The ACE is trying to build underwater dikes to keep salt water from going upstream.

You’ve got entire ecosystems and communities upended because climate change is causing more extreme weather - more droughts and more extreme droughts, along with more extreme wetness and rainfall events.

With climate change the inland sea that used to stretch to my backyard near Kansas City is trying to return.

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jeffreyw  Sep 28, 2023 • 8:11:09am

re: #284 sizzzzlerz

Yeah, but can you also use it to drill holes or drive screws?

I have something for that in a nice box in my dungeon tool room

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Thanos  Sep 28, 2023 • 8:11:17am

re: #274 jeffreyw

Just about the correct amount, another grind or two would not hurt.

Your tummy lining is better than mine.

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Dangerman  Sep 28, 2023 • 8:11:32am

further on assessed vs market values of residential property

generally when you buy a house, the market and assessed values are close. because the assessor has a new benchmark— what you paid for it. that’s by definition usually market value.

in many places the tax assessor is limited as to how much your tax based value can go up each year. florida (broward county) it’s 3% over last year’s value. thats so you cant get taxed out of your home.

and that’s no matter how high the market value goes.

when you go to re-fi, the bank is generally working off market values.
they’ll do an appraisal, with comparative properties, to get a feel how real your market value is. and they’ll lend based on a percent of that.

if market is higher, they generally dont care what the assessed value is

the point in all this is you dont get to tell the bank what the market value is (i mean you can, but they’ll tell you where to go). though you can try to submit your own independent appraisal.

another thing that florida has is ‘portability’. under certain conditions, if you’re eligible, you can move your savings from one property to the next. otherwise you could never upsize or downsize…

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lawhawk  Sep 28, 2023 • 8:16:42am

Court to SBF - no release for you during trial.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 28, 2023 • 8:17:56am

re: #256 Shropshire Slasher

What the hell did Justin Trudeau do to piss off India?!

A Sikh cleric was assassinated in British Columbia. Justin Trudeau called the Indian ambassador on the carpet. He made a public announcement that the RCMP and CSIS had information saying it was Indian agents who assassinated the man on Canadian soil.

India is indignant.

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Dave In Austin  Sep 28, 2023 • 8:19:02am

re: #280 mmmirele

Abortion exiting the state and weed coming into the state.

!!PROFIT!!

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lawhawk  Sep 28, 2023 • 8:19:31am

NY AG James issues the witness list in the civil fraud case.

All the usual suspects are on it, including Trump himself, Michael Cohen, Ivanka, Eric, Junior, Garten, and Weisselberg. The latter two are key Trump Org officials.

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wrenchwench  Sep 28, 2023 • 8:20:12am

Not a four. It’s a four plus! Wordle 831 5/6*

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 28, 2023 • 8:20:52am

re: #272 Eclectic Cyborg

No, I’m a ways east of NOLA, but have been following that story.

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This area is just not usually a drought spot. This is the driest stretch I can remember since I moved here 15 years ago.

I’m guessing all the water releases from the dams on the North Platte in Wyoming and Nebraska aren’t going to help out the Mississippi much.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Sep 28, 2023 • 8:21:34am

*Spoilers*

I’ve seen this movie. We’re doomed.

Scientists just opened the lid to NASA’s asteroid sample canister

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sizzzzlerz  Sep 28, 2023 • 8:21:51am

re: #283 sagehen

ooooh! Look at how non-droughty California is on that map!

Snow in the mountains in July, streams and creeks still running in the fall, and reservoirs brimming full during the spring and early summer! It’s been awhile since we’ve had that.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Sep 28, 2023 • 8:23:03am

re: #270 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

And Musk puts that out as if it’s something he thought up All By Himself, and not the plot of the Aeneid.

Ah yes, the Aeneid, exactly as much as reliable historical source as the part at the end of MacBeth where the plot stops to just declare how awesome King James is.

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Thanos  Sep 28, 2023 • 8:25:16am

re: #288 Thanos

With climate change the inland sea that used to stretch to my backyard near Kansas City is trying to return.

Some ammonoids and crinoids from that ancient seabed in my backyard:

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Thanos  Sep 28, 2023 • 8:27:47am

re: #204 Thanos

Apple Users:

IOS 17.02 is out now, I recommend update.

Repeating for later arrivals.

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lawhawk  Sep 28, 2023 • 8:28:44am

re: #298 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Lifeforce (1985) - Trailer HD 1080p

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 28, 2023 • 8:29:35am

re: #185 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

These debates simply drove home the inevitability that if DJT runs, he will win the GOP nomination hands-down.

If Trump actually appeared and had to engage with the other candidates, he would appear significantly reduced in presence. Christie might have been able to eviscerate him successfully if he were there live.

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Dave In Austin  Sep 28, 2023 • 8:31:36am

LOLOL!
Such unprepared Dweebs.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Sep 28, 2023 • 8:33:23am

The Aeneid,

one of the earliest examples of taping two torn photos together so you can pretend your high school crush was your prom date.

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 28, 2023 • 8:34:34am

re: #198 Nerdy Fish

So you’re telling me there’s a chance.

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Axolotl  Sep 28, 2023 • 8:41:22am

re: #11 So Cal Greek Hippie

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Luck dragon, damn.

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Dave In Austin  Sep 28, 2023 • 8:42:14am
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Barefoot Grin  Sep 28, 2023 • 8:48:57am

Just got the double vax. Only down side was the guy giving it to me had a nagging cough and sniffle. I know people have seasonal allergies in autumn, but it didn’t inspire confidence (and I wasn’t masked nor was he). Anyway, I’m sure it will be fine.

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BeenHereAwhile  Sep 28, 2023 • 8:49:39am

re: #160 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I tried that. One of the codes I posted I sent to him last week, but he’s not used it.

It’s been my experience that it can take 2-3 weeks for your donated password to be used by the scientist list.

I’m cool with that.

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Thanos  Sep 28, 2023 • 8:51:37am

MLB playoff picture shaping up to be different that the recent normal - no BoSox, no Yankees, No Cards.

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Dangerman  Sep 28, 2023 • 8:52:14am

re: #285 Vicious Babushka

Damn, Flea, your talent is wasted here. Please start a Patreon or a Substack and maybe get some money for your exquisite writing.

the proof is how many of those words i had to look up ;-)

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Dave In Austin  Sep 28, 2023 • 8:52:26am

I may have to turn CSpan on…

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Dangerman  Sep 28, 2023 • 8:53:40am

re: #293 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

A Sikh cleric was assassinated in British Columbia. Justin Trudeau called the Indian ambassador on the carpet. He made a public announcement that the RCMP and CSIS had information saying it was Indian agents who assassinated the man on Canadian soil.

India is indignant.

but not denying it?

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lawhawk  Sep 28, 2023 • 8:55:07am

re: #312 Thanos

First time in 20+ years that none of those three teams are in the playoffs. Changing of the guard, or a mere hiccup.

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Thanos  Sep 28, 2023 • 8:57:08am

re: #316 lawhawk

First time in 20+ years that none of those three teams are in the playoffs. Changing of the guard, or a mere hiccup.

I attribute it to the rule changes — those scrappy teams that eke out runs one by one anyway they can seem to be coming to the top. This is the way the old national league teams all played, so it’s no surprise that Houston is still in it.

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Thanos  Sep 28, 2023 • 8:58:38am

re: #316 lawhawk

First time in 20+ years that none of those three teams are in the playoffs. Changing of the guard, or a mere hiccup.

I think it’s thirty years, this according to ESPN, just looked

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William Lewis  Sep 28, 2023 • 8:58:49am

Friend at a different place asked for this last night, Since I’m going to be 60 on Saturday, I though I’d share this selfie here:

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BeenHereAwhile  Sep 28, 2023 • 8:59:34am

re: #153 The Ghost of a Flea

TikTok panic among Republicans is hilarious because they’re primarly expressing it on Fox News, a channel set up to be a spiraling content loop for puckered assholes that can only feel whole if they’re constantly told the rest of the world is their inferior, or on Twitter, which is just a fucking Skinner Box designed to constantly demand reaction to distressing toenails-clippings of “content.”

The same panopticism built to increase shareholder value is just fucking dandy. A social credit score generated by a private institution that allowed you to pay for privileges would render them incapacitated for month from sheer orgasmic paroxysm.

What enrages them is that the Chinese panopticon won’t select for their preferred distinctions and thought-crimes.

Someone should ask those concerned about Tik Tok - do you know what is your
“persistent identifier”?

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Dangerman  Sep 28, 2023 • 9:01:01am

re: #319 William Lewis

Friend at a different place asked for this last night, Since I’m going to be 60 on Saturday, I though I’d share this selfie here:

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obligatory: i thought you were taller ;-)

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retired cynic  Sep 28, 2023 • 9:01:48am

Stunning Footage of Neurons Forming Inside a Chick Embryo Wins Nikon’s Small World in Motion
thisiscolossal.com

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 28, 2023 • 9:02:06am

re: #252 Joe Bacon ✅

What galls me is hearing Turley go all in for Joe’s impeachment. The same fucking Turkey who gave Trump pass after pass.

At least Turley is concerned about the free press implications of Trump’s threats:

However the MAGAts responding to that post don’t share his perspective. They really do want the press to speak in one voice, praising Trump.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 28, 2023 • 9:07:44am

re: #323 Hecuba’s daughter

So they want the government out of their lives but also want state run media that sucks their leaders dick all day long?

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Florida Panhandler  Sep 28, 2023 • 9:11:36am

re: #324 Eclectic Cyborg

So they want the government out of their lives but also want state run media that sucks their leaders dick all day long?

Anything for White Entitlement and Christian male supremacy.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Sep 28, 2023 • 9:12:39am

re: #325 Florida Panhandler

Anything for White Entitlement and Christian male supremacy.

The Party demands total obedience to the commands of Chairman Mao ZeTrump.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Sep 28, 2023 • 9:13:21am

re: #149 Dr Lizardo

Looks like another Chinese real estate developer is in deep doodoo…

yahoo.com

It beggars belief that China is still nominally a communist country.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Sep 28, 2023 • 9:17:35am

Here he goes again.

rawstory.com

Trump lawyers try to revive ‘frivolous’ lawsuit against Hillary Clinton

Donald Trump’s lawyers have asked a federal appeals court to step into his ongoing legal battle against Hillary Clinton.

U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks had refused for a second time to step aside from the former president’s racketeering suit against his 2016 presidential rival - and fined them nearly $1 million in sanctions for what he called a “frivolous” lawsuit.

But the former lawyers filed a notice of appeal Wednesday to that ruling, reported Law & Crime.

“On Sept. 15, Judge Middlebrooks, a Bill Clinton appointee who has said he’s ‘never met or spoken with Bill or Hillary Clinton’ and has never had ‘any relationship with the Clintons,’ wrote that Trump brought the appeal to the 11th Circuit back in February, divesting the district court and Middlebrooks of ‘control over those aspects of the case involved in the appeal,’” the website reported.

Middlebrooks said that even if he had jurisdiction over the request to remove himself, he would have denied it, saying the case against was brought in “bad faith.”

“The case before me was frivolous, its purpose was improper and part of a pattern of behavior harmful to the Rule of Law,” the judge wrote. “Article III judges have an obligation to protect the administration of justice from abuse.”

The lawsuit names Clinton and her top advisers and involves the investigation into whether Trump’s campaign had worked with Russia to influence the outcome.

Trump’s lawyers filed a motion in July arguing that the report by special counsel John Durham looking at Russian interference in the 2016 election “seismically alters the legal landscape of this case,” but Middlebrooks accused them of “cherry-picking” portions of the report to support a false narrative and said that’s the type of behavior for which he had already sanctioned them.

“I imposed nearly $1 million in sanctions on Movants for filing, and doubling down on, a shotgun pleading that functioned as an abusive litigation tactic and was designed to further a political narrative,” Middlebrooks wrote. “In doing so, I relied on three Eleventh Circuit decisions, with conduct less problematic than here, that affirmed an imposition of sanctions because of shotgun pleadings. I explained that cases like this are harmful to the rule of law, portray judges as partisans, and divert resources that should be directed to real harms and legitimate legal claims.”

Trump’s attorneys told the court they planned to appeal both denials, along with other dismissals and sanctions, and appear likely to argue again the Durham report was enough to justify the RICO lawsuit’s revival.

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darthstar  Sep 28, 2023 • 9:20:02am

Mastodon

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darthstar  Sep 28, 2023 • 9:21:20am

re: #329 darthstar

Don Jr and Eric could lose their residences… probably part of the Trump Org LLC

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Sep 28, 2023 • 9:22:15am

Thought this might be interesting for military tech buffs.

USS Mississippi launching a Sopwith Camel in 1919
Self-same USS Mississippi launching a Terrier missile in 1955.

The Camel took off from a wooden platform on one of the ship’s 14 inch gun turrets. Much later, the Mississippi saw heavy action in World War II and was kept on as a training and test ship until 1956.

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darthstar  Sep 28, 2023 • 9:24:38am

Dumbledore is dead.

Mastodon

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gocart mozart  Sep 28, 2023 • 9:24:41am
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Dave In Austin  Sep 28, 2023 • 9:30:36am
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Joe Bacon ✅  Sep 28, 2023 • 9:35:11am

re: #334 Dave In Austin

The Peter Principle in action.

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BeenHereAwhile  Sep 28, 2023 • 9:35:34am

re: #183 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

What seems like a “just-so” story from the Plains Hotel in Cheyenne.

They have a new historical plaque in the elevator. The elevator only will hold about three people if they are really friendly with each other.

When the hotel opened in 1911, one night’s stay was $1 for a smaller room. Livery service for a horse in Cheyenne at the time was $2.

As the story goes on the plaque, people would sneak horses up to their rooms to save money on livery service.

To counter that, the hotel ripped out their old elevator and put in the super-tiny one they have now. The idea was to keep people from bringing horses up to their rooms.

There’s a circa 1970s Nashville Music Row anecdote about some guests being caught trying to bring a Shetland pony up to their room at the Spence Manor hotel on Music row. Parking at the Spence is at ground level with elevator access and the lobby is on the 2nd floor.

Equine discovery was made when the elevator opened to the lobby and front desk, as it did during late hours, and hilarity ensued.

There’s also some Spence Manor Johnny Cash stories. Music folk love to gossip.

It was great hotel, really late night kitchen service, bathrooms had a phone extension and showers that could hold several people. The Spence has since been converted to apartments.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Sep 28, 2023 • 9:36:27am

re: #256 Shropshire Slasher

What the hell did Justin Trudeau do to piss off India?!

He called them out for having an elected Canadian official killed. A minister in BC was murdered after saying something India didn’t like.

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jeffreyw  Sep 28, 2023 • 9:36:53am

re: #332 darthstar

Dumbledore is dead.

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.. but, but, I just saw him in #319 above! He looked good OK.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Sep 28, 2023 • 9:37:23am

re: #265 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

cfr.org

A Sikh separatist was murdered in Canada and there are allegations that the Indian government had a hand in it.

An elected Canadian Sikh separatist.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Sep 28, 2023 • 9:38:18am

re: #271 Dr Lizardo

Whomever… It looks awesome!

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Sep 28, 2023 • 9:41:05am

re: #310 Barefoot Grin

Just got the double vax. Only down side was the guy giving it to me had a nagging cough and sniffle. I know people have seasonal allergies in autumn, but it didn’t inspire confidence (and I wasn’t masked nor was he). Anyway, I’m sure it will be fine.

I expect to get that sort of reaction at the doctor’s office tomorrow. My most serious allergic reaction is ragweed pollen and it’s still large and in charge around here. A bit of rain recently has cut the pollen counts, but the week plus of real nice autumn weather* we had was still miserable for me due to the pollen.

And, if anything, I react less to it than I did in my younger days. Now it’s generally a lot of mucus and feeling stuffed up. In my younger days it was fairly nasty sinus infections that would have me taking antibiotics and other drugs simply to try to partially alleviate the symptoms.

* - Autumn and spring seem to be the times that generate a few stretches of nice weather here in western PA between the wet and dreary and the hot and steamy. (Around Philly it was similar but generally 4-5 degrees warmer. Plus those lovely nor’easters.)

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Backwoods Sleuth  Sep 28, 2023 • 9:41:46am

Mastodon

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Dangerman  Sep 28, 2023 • 9:42:40am

re: #329 darthstar

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the problematic part:

at the end of the New York Civil fraud trial against Donald Trump and his criminal family.

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DodgerFan1988  Sep 28, 2023 • 9:43:48am


Jilted Lovers

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Florida Panhandler  Sep 28, 2023 • 9:45:34am

re: #333 gocart mozart

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Probably not play football but certainly attempt the same seemingly successful Wingnut Welfare scam currently infecting the school system under DeSantis here in Fl.

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Shropshire Slasher  Sep 28, 2023 • 9:46:08am

re: #310 Barefoot Grin

Just got the double vax. Only down side was the guy giving it to me had a nagging cough and sniffle. I know people have seasonal allergies in autumn, but it didn’t inspire confidence (and I wasn’t masked nor was he). Anyway, I’m sure it will be fine.

Chances are you are going to feel like shit tomorrow but I am glad you did the right thing.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Sep 28, 2023 • 9:46:41am
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Sep 28, 2023 • 9:47:16am

re: #319 William Lewis

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Backwoods Sleuth  Sep 28, 2023 • 9:48:02am
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Backwoods Sleuth  Sep 28, 2023 • 9:49:58am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 28, 2023 • 9:51:41am

re: #342 Backwoods Sleuth

LARGO, Fla. (AP) — A shooting at a Florida auto shop that killed two men was triggered by a former customer’s dissatisfaction with work done on his car two years ago, police said Thursday.

Dude waited two years to make an issue of this?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Sep 28, 2023 • 9:52:50am

re: #310 Barefoot Grin

Just got the double vax. Only down side was the guy giving it to me had a nagging cough and sniffle. I know people have seasonal allergies in autumn, but it didn’t inspire confidence (and I wasn’t masked nor was he). Anyway, I’m sure it will be fine.

I did a triple; COVID, RSV and flu in Sunday. Was nauseous for a few days and my one arm (that got two shots) hurt like hell. That’s it.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Sep 28, 2023 • 9:53:42am

Mastodon

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Sep 28, 2023 • 9:54:04am

Billionaires do not have better judgement than the rest of us have, and are just as likely to put their lives in the hands of incompetent people.

Pilot error led to Alaska crash killing billionaire Petr Kellner, NTSB says (Reuters)

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Florida Panhandler  Sep 28, 2023 • 9:54:16am

re: #351 Eclectic Cyborg

LARGO, Fla. (AP) — A shooting at a Florida auto shop that killed two men was triggered by a former customer’s dissatisfaction with work done on his car two years ago, police said Thursday.

Dude waited two years to make an issue of this?

Don’t you know that a “good guy with a gun” can carry a grudge for as long as he wants here in good ol’ 2nd Amendment America?

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Sep 28, 2023 • 9:54:24am

re: #353 Backwoods Sleuth

Half-stars for the half-wits.
/

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Backwoods Sleuth  Sep 28, 2023 • 9:55:31am

Mastodon

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Vicious Babushka  Sep 28, 2023 • 9:56:18am

re: #319 William Lewis

Friend at a different place asked for this last night, Since I’m going to be 60 on Saturday, I though I’d share this selfie here:

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 28, 2023 • 9:57:01am

re: #349 Backwoods Sleuth

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I’m a fan of “Call me Raja” and have contributed to his campaign — but really think that sometimes witnesses should be able to complete their sentences or explain the technicalities of their position. Issues are often more complex than a simple yes or no.

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William Lewis  Sep 28, 2023 • 9:58:35am

re: #348 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 28, 2023 • 9:59:47am

re: #342 Backwoods Sleuth

So, much like the donut shop scene in Boogie Nights then?

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 28, 2023 • 10:00:09am

re: #352 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I did a triple; COVID, RSV and flu in Sunday. Was nauseous for a few days and my one arm (that got two shots) hurt like hell. That’s it.

Got Covid shot on Tuesday and had no reactions whatsoever; had the flu shot last Friday, again with no reactions. Haven’t decided yet about RSV.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 28, 2023 • 10:01:30am

re: #354 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Billionaires do not have better judgement than the rest of us have, and are just as likely to put their lives in the hands of incompetent people.

Pilot error led to Alaska crash killing billionaire Petr Kellner, NTSB says (Reuters)

Yeah, that story has definitely been a top news story today here.

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William Lewis  Sep 28, 2023 • 10:02:53am

re: #358 Vicious Babushka

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lawhawk  Sep 28, 2023 • 10:03:48am
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PhillyPretzel ✅  Sep 28, 2023 • 10:05:48am

re: #365 lawhawk

Joe and his people are using what the R’s say to make a great case to re-elect Joe.

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jaunte  Sep 28, 2023 • 10:09:34am

re: #230 ipsos

Good morning from Laredo, Texas!

(Why? Because I flew down early for a conference in San Antonio and had never been to Laredo. Do I need a better reason?)

Now you’re an expert on Border Policy!

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lawhawk  Sep 28, 2023 • 10:10:17am

There were two winners and a whole shit ton of losers in that debate last night based on what reaction I’ve seen.

Winners:
Trump, by not showing up to the clown car act, mostly because he’s 40 points ahead and there’s no one who appears willing or capable of closing that gap. Everyone is playing for second place, and failing miserably.

Biden, by not being a GOPer. He’s the president, and Dark Brandon is the best Brandon to be. Everything the GOP says can and will be used against them to great effect. Attack Trump for running up the debt? Joe cuts an ad for that. Trump wrecking the economy? Joe cuts an ad for that? Saying that you’ll wreck reproductive health care options? Yeah, Joe’s going to cut an ad for that too. There’s a gold mine of ads that can be run about the extremists in the GOP and that Trump isn’t just the figurehead, but example of everything that is wrong with the corrupt and criminal GOP.

Losers:
Everyone on that debate stage. Not ready for prime time doesn’t begin to cut it. Debate prep for someone like DeSantis is - appear human. Ramaswamy? Be less of a know it all douchebro.

Did any of them succeed? Nope. Not a chance. They all reverted to type, and it was all bad.

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 28, 2023 • 10:10:37am

re: #354 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Billionaires do not have better judgement than the rest of us have, and are just as likely to put their lives in the hands of incompetent people.

Pilot error led to Alaska crash killing billionaire Petr Kellner, NTSB says (Reuters)

That was certainly proved with the recent Titan submersible disaster: 2 of those killed were billionaires.

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sizzzzlerz  Sep 28, 2023 • 10:15:52am

re: #357 Backwoods Sleuth

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BeachDem  Sep 28, 2023 • 10:16:32am

re: #368 lawhawk

There were two winners and a whole shit ton of losers in that debate last night based on what reaction I’ve seen.

Winners:
Trump, by not showing up to the clown car act, mostly because he’s 40 points ahead and there’s no one who appears willing or capable of closing that gap. Everyone is playing for second place, and failing miserably.

Biden, by not being a GOPer. He’s the president, and Dark Brandon is the best Brandon to be. Everything the GOP says can and will be used against them to great effect. Attack Trump for running up the debt? Joe cuts an ad for that. Trump wrecking the economy? Joe cuts an ad for that? Saying that you’ll wreck reproductive health care options? Yeah, Joe’s going to cut an ad for that too. There’s a gold mine of ads that can be run about the extremists in the GOP and that Trump isn’t just the figurehead, but example of everything that is wrong with the corrupt and criminal GOP.

Losers:
Everyone on that debate stage. Not ready for prime time doesn’t begin to cut it. Debate prep for someone like DeSantis is - appear human. Ramaswamy? Be less of a know it all douchebro.

Did any of them succeed? Nope. Not a chance. They all reverted to type, and it was all bad.

Per Jeff Tiedrich:

a bunch of total fucking losers had a debate

in the middle of an incoherent rant about TikTok, she said to Vivek, “honestly, every time I hear you, I feel a little bit dumber.” of course, that little zinger could apply to every single person on the stage, Nikki included.

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sizzzzlerz  Sep 28, 2023 • 10:18:04am

re: #355 Florida Panhandler

Don’t you know that a “good guy with a gun” can carry a grudge for as long as he wants here in good ol’ 2nd Amendment America?

well, revenge is a dish best served cold, you know.

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dat_said  Sep 28, 2023 • 10:22:07am

Really only of interest to me:

I’ve done some work with the Alfred Mann Foundation over the years. They’re changing their name to humannitymedtec.org. My warped mind is immediately reminded of the Hindenburg Disaster: Hindenburg Disaster Video in Color (HD) - “Oh The Humanity”

Al Mann is someone who had a little success - founded Pacesetter (cardiac pacemakers) which is now part of the cardiac division of Abbott, founded MiniMed (diabetic insulin pump) which is now part of Medtronic, and founded Advanced Bionics (spinal cord stimulation, deep brain stimulation, others) which is now part of Boston Scientific. Each one was a billion+ deal.

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 28, 2023 • 10:28:03am

re: #368 lawhawk

There were two winners and a whole shit ton of losers in that debate last night based on what reaction I’ve seen.

Winners:
Trump, by not showing up to the clown car act, mostly because he’s 40 points ahead and there’s no one who appears willing or capable of closing that gap. Everyone is playing for second place, and failing miserably.

Biden, by not being a GOPer. He’s the president, and Dark Brandon is the best Brandon to be. Everything the GOP says can and will be used against them to great effect.
…….

TBF: Christie is not playing for 2nd place. The others, yes, but not him… He’s playing only to bring Trump down.

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Dangerman  Sep 28, 2023 • 10:32:51am

re: #371 BeachDem

Per Jeff Tiedrich:

a bunch of total fucking losers had a debate

in the middle of an incoherent rant about TikTok, she said to Vivek, “honestly, every time I hear you, I feel a little bit dumber.” of course, that little zinger could apply to every single person on the stage, Nikki included.

the take at electoral-vote.com

In any event, it was just… awful. Torturous. Worse than spending 2 hours in the dentist’s chair. Let us count the ways…

and

In short, it was not entertaining, it was not enlightening, it was not interesting, it was not inspiring. We have been following politics long enough to know that you have to go into these things with very modest expectations. But even then, it was just lousy.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 28, 2023 • 10:33:18am
Two people were killed by a lone gunman who opened fire and started fires in a hospital and an apartment in the Dutch city of Rotterdam on Thursday, the city’s police chief said.

The shooter, a 32-year-old student from Rotterdam, wore a bulletproof vest as he shot and killed a 39-year-old woman and seriously injured her 14-year-old daughter, Police Chief Fred Westerbeke said.

The shooter then went to the nearby Erasmus Medical Center where he shot and killed a 46-year-old man, a teacher at the academic hospital.

The suspect’s identity was not released.

No motive was announced.

apnews.com

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Dangerman  Sep 28, 2023 • 10:34:00am

re: #374 Hecuba’s daughter

TBF: Christie is not playing for 2nd place. The others, yes, but not him… He’s playing only to bring Trump down.

and doing a lousy job of it in the two debates

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 28, 2023 • 10:34:19am

re: #376 Dr Lizardo

I hope this wasn’t a hate crime.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 28, 2023 • 10:49:21am

.. moved by me ..

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 28, 2023 • 10:51:17am

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