Ze Franks’s True Facts: Incredible Crab Stories

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Thanks to:
Dr Elodie Camprasse, Deakin University
Dr Jason Spadaro, Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium
Dr Tanya Detto, Christmas Island National Park
Dr Rise Ohashi, Dept. of Biosphere-Geosphere Science, Okayama
Dr Mark E. Laidre, Dartmouth College
Dr Patricia Backwell, Australian National University

Chris Bray, youtube.com
Anna & Ned DeLoach, youtube.com
charlesleflamand, youtube.com
Dr Adrian Smith, youtube.com
CINP
San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance
Mystic Aquarium, youtube.com
Anchorage Museum, youtube.com
SCDNR, dnr.sc.gov
nrdc.org
Jono Freedrix,
Ninad Bhosale,
Kelvin Perrie
NOAA
Ark Media

Citations

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Harada K, Hayashi N, Kagaya K. Individual behavioral type captured by a Bayesian model comparison of cap making by sponge crabs. PeerJ. 2020 May 14;8:e9036. doi: 10.7717/peerj.9036.

Inoue, Tadanobu, Shin-ichiro Oka, Toru Hara, Three-dimensional microstructure of robust claw of coconut crab, one of the largest terrestrial crustaceans, Materials & Design, Volume 206, 2021, 109765, ISSN 0264-1275, doi.org.

Inoue T, Oka S-i, Nakazato K, Hara T. Columnar Structure of Claw Denticles in the Coconut Crab, Birgus latro. Minerals. 2022; 12(2):274. doi.org

Krieger J, Drew MM, Hansson BS, Harzsch S. Notes on the Foraging Strategies of the Giant Robber Crab Birgus latro (Anomala) on Christmas Island: Evidence for Active Predation on Red Crabs Gecarcoidea natalis (Brachyura). Zool Stud. 2016 Apr 6;55:e6. doi: 10.6620/ZS.2016.55-06.

Laidre ME. Architectural modification of shells by terrestrial hermit crabs alters social dynamics in later generations. Ecology. 2019 Sep;100(9):e02767. doi: 10.1002/ecy.2767.

Laidre ME. Private parts for private property: evolution of penis size with more valuable, easily stolen shells. R Soc Open Sci. 2019 Jan 16;6(1):181760. doi: 10.1098/rsos.181760.

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 29, 2023 • 10:56:49am

Mastodon

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gocart mozart  Oct 29, 2023 • 10:56:51am
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jaunte  Oct 29, 2023 • 11:05:25am

re: #2 gocart mozart

Like a good 2nd Amendment revisionist, he only reads part of the sentence.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Oct 29, 2023 • 11:05:48am
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Backwoods Sleuth  Oct 29, 2023 • 11:07:17am

re: #4 Backwoods Sleuth

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Oct 29, 2023 • 11:08:26am

re: #4 Backwoods Sleuth

And I just finished watching Repairing The World: Stories from the Tree of Life.

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Captain Ron  Oct 29, 2023 • 11:09:18am

re: #4 Backwoods Sleuth

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 29, 2023 • 11:12:24am

re: #5 Backwoods Sleuth

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Borat In Real Life…🤬

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 29, 2023 • 11:36:27am

It fucking infuriates me antisemitism is continually getting WORSE.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 29, 2023 • 11:40:22am

re: #9 Eclectic Cyborg

It fucking infuriates that antisemitism is continually getting WORSE.

Everything was worse than today 80+ years ago. It’s just that society improved so much until Obama and then hatred started on the march again, vastly accelerated by the victory of Trump in 2016, courtesy of our EC.

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Unabogie  Oct 29, 2023 • 11:42:33am

re: #9 Eclectic Cyborg

It fucking infuriates me antisemitism is continually getting WORSE.

And, it’s next to impossible to find reliable allies. A lot of people I meet on “my side” will launch into anti-semitic tropes at the drop of a hat. I once did the job of set sculpture on Starship Troopers alongside a frankly brilliant Black artist. We got along great. One day, however, he told me the only reason I was doing set construction and not in the boardroom, in spite of my Jewishness, was because I wasn’t an observant Jew, and observant Jews give each other jobs and hoard opportunities.

I was kind of floored. The other white-trashy carpenters threw out “don’t Jew me down comments” without batting an eye, but this one stung.

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Dangerman  Oct 29, 2023 • 11:42:59am

Johnson to Hannity

“

Here’s the reality, Sean. We have a four-seat majority in the House. It is possible that that number may be reduced even more in the coming weeks and months, and so we will have what may be the most razor-thin majority in the history of the Congress. We have no margin for error. And so George Santos is due due process. We have to allow due process to play itself out. That’s what our system of justice is for. If we’re going to expel people from Congress just because they’re accused, that’s a problem.”

If Rs had a comfortable majority would that still be your position?

Of course not. If we had a comfortable majority it wouldn’t *need* to be our position.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 29, 2023 • 11:45:33am

re: #2 gocart mozart

He was second in his class at West Point, a member of the army’s elite corp of engineers, West Point superintendent, and offered a significant command of the US army in 1861 was the commanding general. Hardly mediocre.

Not mediocre, but clearly on the Wrong Side of History. And it isn’t as if he wasn’t offered a clear choice.

It is also fully fitting that his Arlington estate was turned into a cemetery for Civil War dead.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 29, 2023 • 11:46:57am

re: #9 Eclectic Cyborg

It fucking infuriates me antisemitism is continually getting WORSE.

They just need some sort of an excuse. Used to be the plague or a bad harvest…

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A Cranky One  Oct 29, 2023 • 11:47:44am

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Dangerman  Oct 29, 2023 • 11:50:11am

re: #14 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They just need some sort of an excuse. Used to be the plague or a bad harvest…

Or an eclipse, or Tuesday or…

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Belafon  Oct 29, 2023 • 11:53:32am

re: #2 gocart mozart

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He never competed against women, blacks, or other minorities.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 29, 2023 • 11:57:40am

re: #16 Dangerman

Or an eclipse, or Tuesday or…

the fact that they have money and we don’t

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 29, 2023 • 11:58:32am

re: #9 Eclectic Cyborg

It fucking infuriates me antisemitism is continually getting WORSE.

Graffiti hit another congregation here…

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Oct 29, 2023 • 11:59:02am

re: #15 A Cranky One

Sounds like he’s going in for a colonoscopy. :-)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 29, 2023 • 12:00:05pm

re: #17 Belafon

He never competed against women, blacks, or other minorities.

Robert E. Lee was a generally admirable and upstanding guy. He was technically gentry but his father had left the family farily impoverished but he worked hard and was lucky enough to marry into wealth.

But again, he had a chance to lead Union forces in 1861 but turned it down to defend Virginia and slavery.

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A Cranky One  Oct 29, 2023 • 12:02:56pm

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Unabogie  Oct 29, 2023 • 12:04:07pm

Did you all know that Idi Amin rose from a lowly cook to a highly respected officer in the military? I don’t know why I’m bringing that up but I think we should erect some Amin statues in Louisiana.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 29, 2023 • 12:04:15pm

I needed Louise’s Trattoria Chopped Salad today!

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Charles Johnson  Oct 29, 2023 • 12:04:57pm

When I was growing up, phrases like “don’t Jew me down” were very common. Everybody used it. I didn’t even realize it was a slur until one day when I said it without even thinking, and somebody read me the riot act about it.

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wrenchwench  Oct 29, 2023 • 12:05:15pm

re: #22 A Cranky One

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 29, 2023 • 12:08:53pm

re: #22 A Cranky One

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Can give him these.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 29, 2023 • 12:12:11pm

re: #22 A Cranky One

Here kid! Take a whole box of Snickers!!!!

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 29, 2023 • 12:12:42pm

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A Cranky One  Oct 29, 2023 • 12:14:23pm

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 29, 2023 • 12:16:06pm

re: #30 A Cranky One

Super Savior

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jaunte  Oct 29, 2023 • 12:16:28pm

re: #4 Backwoods Sleuth

@stephanekenech.com

An airport stormed in Dagestan (republic of Russia) following the announcement of the arrival of a flight from Israel.

Little coverage by media, but an exodus of radical Muslims from Russia to Syria and Iraq from 2012 to 2017 helped stabilize a turbulent situation in the North Caucasus.
newlinesinstitute.org

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A Cranky One  Oct 29, 2023 • 12:24:27pm

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GlutenFreeJesus  Oct 29, 2023 • 12:27:36pm

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Backwoods Sleuth  Oct 29, 2023 • 12:27:54pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 29, 2023 • 12:29:12pm

re: #35 Backwoods Sleuth

Why the fuck did the plane land there to begin with?

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 29, 2023 • 12:30:16pm

re: #33 A Cranky One

Years ago my husband and I were at cousins’ who lived nearby. Their Rottweiler insisted on bringing me her ball so I could throw it to her — over and over again!

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Belafon  Oct 29, 2023 • 12:31:49pm

My son in The Bronx is doing some Google Street view of some of the places he passes while we Zoom with the sons, and showed is this place he passes:

Must be a Republican church.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Oct 29, 2023 • 12:31:54pm

re: #21 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

He was also a brutal man when it came to treating his slaves.

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ericblair  Oct 29, 2023 • 12:35:23pm

Shit’s happening in the hotels in Dagestan too, and the cops are doing nothing.

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Teukka  Oct 29, 2023 • 12:36:52pm
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Backwoods Sleuth  Oct 29, 2023 • 12:47:20pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 29, 2023 • 12:48:31pm

re: #40 ericblair

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Shit’s happening in the hotels in Dagestan too, and the cops are doing nothing.

My personal belief is that these protests were organized by the government. It’s not as though Russia is a hotbed of protests organized by locals. Yes, there were a few directed against the government, but they didn’t last long. Putin has such demonstrations under his control.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Oct 29, 2023 • 12:48:33pm
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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 29, 2023 • 12:48:45pm

And Sleazy E continues to pour gasoline on the fire

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A Cranky One  Oct 29, 2023 • 12:50:26pm

Off topic:

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 29, 2023 • 12:53:25pm

Israel has claimed there were no Israeli citizens or nationals on the Russian plane.

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retired cynic  Oct 29, 2023 • 1:00:23pm

Guaranteed income? 14th grade? Before AI, tech fears drove bold ideas.
wapo.st (gift link)

Three-quarters of a century before our collective angst over the exponential growth of artificial intelligence, rapid advances in another form of new technology took the country by surprise and prompted panic about mass unemployment — and calls for policymakers to do something about it.
Automation was to the post-World War II era what AI is to our time. It wasn’t always well understood, but it was widely feared. Leaders of labor and industry warned that “electronic brains” would soon take over the jobs of office clerks, accountants and other white-collar workers, and a 1946 Fortune cover story predicted the factory worker would soon be obsolete.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Oct 29, 2023 • 1:00:38pm

re: #47 Eclectic Cyborg

Israel has claimed there were no Israeli citizens or nationals on the Russian plane.

A government orchestrated anti-Semitic riot does fit their playbook and messaging quite well.

1. Internal. Easing into blame of the Jews, international Zionism, etc. for the various internal failings and faltering war against Ukraine.

2. External. A back-handed support for the Arab World without saying so outright. I think there is also a sort of wish this can turn into increased Arab support of Russia and perhaps a further wish to see if this can get OPEC to squeeze oil and natural gas prices further as pressure on the Western nations and possibly improved market for Russian exports.

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sizzzzlerz  Oct 29, 2023 • 1:08:29pm

After much prayer and deliberation, I got a birdie!

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Decatur Deb  Oct 29, 2023 • 1:11:36pm

re: #25 Charles Johnson

When I was growing up, phrases like “don’t Jew me down” were very common. Everybody used it. I didn’t even realize it was a slur until one day when I said it without even thinking, and somebody read me the riot act about it.

Until I was 18, talking to my Jewish cousin, I thought it was spelled “joo”.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Oct 29, 2023 • 1:12:34pm

LOL

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A Cranky One  Oct 29, 2023 • 1:14:59pm

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 29, 2023 • 1:15:25pm

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 29, 2023 • 1:19:30pm

re: #54 Joe Bacon ✅

Say you want to own slaves without saying you want to own slaves.

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dat_said  Oct 29, 2023 • 1:19:59pm

re: #51 Decatur Deb

Until I was 18, talking to my Jewish cousin, I thought it was spelled “joo”.

I always thought it was “chew” because of my mother’s accent.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 29, 2023 • 1:24:27pm

re: #54 Joe Bacon ✅

Driving 80,000 anti-democratic Loyalists into Canada was an 18th Cent. value.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 29, 2023 • 1:28:31pm

re: #54 Joe Bacon ✅

Always when I’ve written that the atavists want to go back to the18th century, I never imagined that a US politician would say that in public.

I was wrong.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 29, 2023 • 1:30:00pm

When Republicans say they want to take us back to the 18th Century…BELIEVE THEM!!!!

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 29, 2023 • 1:31:22pm

re: #55 Eclectic Cyborg

Say you want to own slaves without saying you want to own slaves.

Say you want non-whites counted as 3/5 of a person…but you will make an exception for Slappy Thomas…

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jaunte  Oct 29, 2023 • 1:32:24pm

re: #54 Joe Bacon ✅

He’ll keep pretending that’s a good idea until someone challenges him to a duel.

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Jay C  Oct 29, 2023 • 1:34:58pm

No biggie today: par again…

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 29, 2023 • 1:37:42pm

re: #54 Joe Bacon ✅

Like slavery? What are 18th century values?

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 29, 2023 • 1:38:12pm

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Decatur Deb  Oct 29, 2023 • 1:39:24pm

re: #63 Patricia Kayden

Like slavery? What are 18th century values?

He has two daughters. He’s just in it for the bride price.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 29, 2023 • 1:39:46pm

re: #63 Patricia Kayden

Like slavery? What are 18th century values?

Common Punishments.

The Ducking Stool.
Whipping.
Pillory
Stockade

More Severe Punishments.
A hot awl was sometimes used to pierce the tongues of those who spoke against the Puritan faith.
Execution.
And The Grand Finale of Burned At The Stake.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Oct 29, 2023 • 1:40:44pm

re: #64 Patricia Kayden

So true.

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mmmirele  Oct 29, 2023 • 1:45:29pm

Mike Bickle, founder of the International House of Prayer Kansas City has been accused of sexual misconduct.

amp.kansascity.com

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Decatur Deb  Oct 29, 2023 • 1:47:51pm

re: #68 mmmirele

Mike Bickle, founder of the International House of Prayer Kansas City has been accused of sexual misconduct.

amp.kansascity.com

Did he misunderstand Hoppy Hour?
ihop.com

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 29, 2023 • 1:48:20pm

re: #68 mmmirele

Mike Bickle, founder of the International House of Prayer Kansas City has been accused of sexual misconduct.

amp.kansascity.com

Waiting for his Jimmy “AH HAVE SINNED AGAINST YOU MY LORD” Swaggart Thing.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Oct 29, 2023 • 1:48:51pm

re: #56 dat_said

Robin Hood: Men In Tights - Blinkin meets Ahchoo

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Decatur Deb  Oct 29, 2023 • 1:49:14pm

re: #70 Joe Bacon ✅

IIRC, their thing is to go at it 24/7.

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calochortus  Oct 29, 2023 • 1:50:15pm

re: #65 Decatur Deb

He has two daughters. He’s just in it for the bride price.

Sorry, our society does dowries, not bride prices. Those daughters are a liability.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 29, 2023 • 1:51:05pm

re: #73 calochortus

They’re from Louisiana, Code Napoleon.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Oct 29, 2023 • 1:51:12pm

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BigPapa  Oct 29, 2023 • 1:51:17pm

re: #25 Charles Johnson

When I was growing up, phrases like “don’t Jew me down” were very common. Everybody used it. I didn’t even realize it was a slur until one day when I said it without even thinking, and somebody read me the riot act about it.

Me too. Back around 2010 or so when I started my biz I had a small project. Went to an older guy’s house, he complained he couldn’t hear the speech from his TV. I noticed a mezuzah at his front door. I didn’t know it was other than I thought it was a Jewish thing as I had a client with some before. We were talking after business and he let me know he had a contractor come by for a consult. He mentioned the guy said something about ‘being Jew’d down’ and it turned him off. I didn’t sense anger, but it bothered him. I never really understood that kind of pain until that moment.

My wife used the term ‘gyped’ a few months later and I told her that was a slur against Gypsies. She was shocked, she never knew. We said that shit because we were taught it as kids. But we learn.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Oct 29, 2023 • 1:52:17pm

re: #64 Patricia Kayden

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The energy density of solar is wrong for cars. You can use solar to charge an electric car, but those panels will be attached to a house, garage, or carport, taking a lot more square feet than you have available on a car. Using solar to raise dinosaurs and huge plants, then refining that product after millions of years gets you to the energy density a car needs.

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 29, 2023 • 1:54:02pm

Mastodon

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wrenchwench  Oct 29, 2023 • 1:57:24pm

Like most things, there’s a right way and a wrong way to use it.

Mastodon

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calochortus  Oct 29, 2023 • 1:57:58pm

re: #74 Decatur Deb

They’re from Louisiana, Code Napoleon.

I’m not sure they didn’t still have dowries. I know they had a form of community property and women could own property in their own right, although husbands controlled real property no matter who owned it.

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dat_said  Oct 29, 2023 • 2:04:00pm

re: #77 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

The energy density of solar is wrong for cars. You can use solar to charge an electric car, but those panels will be attached to a house, garage, or carport, taking a lot more square feet than you have available on a car. Using solar to raise dinosaurs and huge plants, then refining that product after millions of years gets you to the energy density a car needs.

I know, a long ways if ever to practicality, but there are solar car racing teams: umnsvp.org. The American Solar Callenge race is 1400 miles in 8 days (in 2022 anyway). Would be a fun project if I was an undergraduate.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 29, 2023 • 2:04:14pm

??? silverdolphin’s last post came up in my Master Spy, but not in this thread??

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wrenchwench  Oct 29, 2023 • 2:05:45pm

re: #82 Decatur Deb

??? silverdolphin’s last post came up in my Master Spy, but not in this thread??

Previous thread.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 29, 2023 • 2:06:23pm

re: #83 wrenchwench

Previous thread.

Never Mind

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wrenchwench  Oct 29, 2023 • 2:07:04pm

re: #82 Decatur Deb

You’re gonna have to get used to being ahead of most people.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 29, 2023 • 2:08:29pm

re: #85 wrenchwench

Still haven’t recovered the LGF-fu lost over the disconnection.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Oct 29, 2023 • 2:08:48pm

I just got an e-mail from Shop PBS saying that it is Nat’l Cat Day. Of they are trying to sell all of their cat themed items. So to all of the cat lovers and owners Happy Nat’l Cat Day.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 29, 2023 • 2:10:08pm

re: #84 Decatur Deb

Never Mind

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wrenchwench  Oct 29, 2023 • 2:13:58pm

Mastodon

Mastodon

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wrenchwench  Oct 29, 2023 • 2:20:29pm

re: #89 wrenchwench

I think that sums up high school and then college.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 29, 2023 • 2:24:14pm

re: #89 wrenchwench

“It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win. Even though you can’t expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That’s morality, that’s religion. That’s art. That’s life.”
― Phil Ochs

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wrenchwench  Oct 29, 2023 • 2:28:38pm

re: #91 Decatur Deb

“It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win. Even though you can’t expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That’s morality, that’s religion. That’s art. That’s life.”
― Phil Ochs

Post graduate work. Or dropout, those are the best.

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silverdolphin  Oct 29, 2023 • 2:29:34pm

re: #21 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Robert E. Lee was a generally admirable and upstanding guy. He was technically gentry but his father had left the family farily impoverished but he worked hard and was lucky enough to marry into wealth.

But again, he had a chance to lead Union forces in 1861 but turned it down to defend Virginia and slavery.

And one of the big reasons he was successful leading the Army of Northern Virginia was that the Northern generals would not fight. There are lots of reasonable reasons why Meade did not run down Lee’s retreat from Gettyburg but the fact he waited infuriated Lincoln and resulted in Meade having to appear before Congress to explain himself.

Then Lincoln found Grant and it was pretty much all over as the Union just ground down the South.

(And because I am all about disruptive technologies, the Union’s use of the telegraph completely changed how war was conducted. Lincoln just about lived in the Telegraph office in DC, getting all the reports and sending orders in real time. For the first time a leader could direct their army while sitting hundreds of miles away. He was goading on Meade from July 4th on. The South never was able to take advantage of this for many reasons. One being that since they were a Confederation not a Federation, the indiviudal states controlled any telegraph lines that crossed their borders. So military lines were slow to be built. Davis could not force the private companies to help. Lincoln just said it would happen and it did. He asked the private companies ‘nicely’ and they responded heading to DC and helping out. Not only patriotically but because they knew he could likely take them over.)

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 29, 2023 • 2:33:30pm

Just saw a TV ad for Rexulti — and given the list of side effects, it does not seem like a really good idea…. especially since its target patient is someone with Alzheimers.

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jeffreyw  Oct 29, 2023 • 2:33:47pm

re: #75 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

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jeffreyw  Oct 29, 2023 • 2:42:41pm

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 29, 2023 • 2:42:55pm

re: #94 Hecuba’s daughter

Just saw a TV ad for Rexulti — and given the list of side effects, it does not seem like a really good idea…. especially since its target patient is someone with Alzheimers.

The typical RX TV ad. the end of the commercial has a motormouth reciting all the side effects and what you need to tell your doctor about what conditions you have that may preclude Dr from RXing it to you.

We banned cigarette ads from TV in 1970. We need to ban RX ads from the Tub ASAP!

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silverdolphin  Oct 29, 2023 • 2:46:12pm

Taking the 5th won’t save Trump family members in Judge Engoron’s courtroom

They can take the Fifth if they want to. But since it is a civil trial, the judge can assume that if they answered the question they would incriminate themselves.

In a criminal case, the judge would inform the jury they cannot infer anything if the witness takes the fifth. Not so in a civil.

So they either answer the question or take the fifth and have the judge assume the worst.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 29, 2023 • 2:46:45pm

re: #97 Joe Bacon ✅

Media/social media medical information is just as valid as fake medical degrees. Ask the surviving Invermectin enthusiasts.

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sagehen  Oct 29, 2023 • 2:48:04pm

re: #87 PhillyPretzel ✅

I just got an e-mail from Shop PBS saying that it is Nat’l Cat Day. Of they are trying to sell all of their cat themed items. So to all of the cat lovers and owners Happy Nat’l Cat Day.

Being that it’s PBS, their cats are Pumas, Leopards, Lions, Tigers (saber-toothed and otherwise), Cougars, Cheetahs and so forth.

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silverdolphin  Oct 29, 2023 • 2:49:30pm

Biden’s Bet on Auto Workers Pays Off

“The pieces are lining up for President Joe Biden to lay claim to a victory for his pro-union stance as the second of Detroit’s Big Three car companies reached a tentative agreement with the United Auto Workers, President Shawn Fain confirmed Saturday evening,” Politico reports.

Best Labor President in decades. The UAW will remember who showed up in support.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Oct 29, 2023 • 2:49:59pm

re: #100 sagehen

Actually the ad I got in my e-mail showed domestic cats. Most of them were cute.

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Captain Magic  Oct 29, 2023 • 3:06:32pm

re: #94 Hecuba’s daughter

Brexpiprazole (Rexulti) isn’t just an anti-Alzhimers drug, but its an atypical antipsychotic.

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 29, 2023 • 3:11:25pm

Exactly.

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Vicious Babushka  Oct 29, 2023 • 3:13:58pm

OH HAI LGF

I am in Florida.

106
Decatur Deb  Oct 29, 2023 • 3:14:43pm

re: #105 Vicious Babushka

OH HAI LGF

I am in Florida.

Follow the drinking gourd, you’ll get out.

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jeffreyw  Oct 29, 2023 • 3:14:59pm

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darthstar  Oct 29, 2023 • 3:17:15pm

re: #107 jeffreyw

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Mr Mittens FTW

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silverdolphin  Oct 29, 2023 • 3:17:19pm

Texas GOP chair stays silent on allies’ connections to antisemitic extremists

The civil war amongst Texas GOP continues. First the impeachment. Now the debate over embracing bigotry and anti-semitism. expect this to spread muchg further afield into many other GOP campaigns. Because many htink their only route to power requires the embrace of bigots.

110
ericblair  Oct 29, 2023 • 3:23:54pm

This is your basic unexpected political blowback.

If this was planned by the Kremlin, the cops would be rounding up Jews for bullshit reasons, and not letting mobs overrun an airport and hotels. The Russian government likes to keep its monopoly on violence domestically. Cops standing down means cops are unreliable to the government.

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Vicious Babushka  Oct 29, 2023 • 3:24:00pm

Mastodon

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BeachDem  Oct 29, 2023 • 3:25:30pm

re: #106 Decatur Deb

Follow the drinking gourd, you’ll get out.

One of my favorite old albums (wish I still had it)]

Joe & Eddie - The Drinking Guord

113
Dave In Austin  Oct 29, 2023 • 3:27:23pm

1st burn of the year……

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Decatur Deb  Oct 29, 2023 • 3:28:37pm

re: #113 Dave In Austin

1st burn of the year……

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Roaring fire and a jug of ‘shine.

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Dave In Austin  Oct 29, 2023 • 3:30:01pm

re: #114 Decatur Deb

Roaring fire and a jug of ‘shine.

No shine here…..

Coffee on the other hand…

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 29, 2023 • 3:32:38pm

re: #112 BeachDem

Thanks for posting that. Beautiful song. Sounds like folk music although I assume it’s a Negro Spiritual given the words.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 29, 2023 • 3:33:36pm

re: #116 Patricia Kayden

Thanks for posting that. Beautiful song. Sounds like folk music although I assume it’s a Negro Spiritual given the words.

followthedrinkinggourd.org

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 29, 2023 • 3:35:02pm

re: #117 Decatur Deb

Thanks. So it is a folk song. Beautiful.

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Captain Magic  Oct 29, 2023 • 3:39:27pm

re: #97 Joe Bacon ✅

Decades ago it was illegal to advertise prescription drugs. Then somewhere along the way it became legal - and now ad budgets now exceed R&D budgets…

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 29, 2023 • 3:42:20pm

re: #119 Captain Magic

Decades ago it was illegal to advertise prescription drugs. Then somewhere along the way it became legal - and now ad budgets now exceed R&D budgets…

And people either bankrupt themselves trying to afford their medicine or go without and risk their lives.

121
Patricia Kayden  Oct 29, 2023 • 3:49:01pm

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Dangerman  Oct 29, 2023 • 3:50:55pm
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BeachDem  Oct 29, 2023 • 3:51:18pm

re: #116 Patricia Kayden

Thanks for posting that. Beautiful song. Sounds like folk music although I assume it’s a Negro Spiritual given the words.

Yep—they were usually classified as gospel folk. That Joe and Eddie album has some other great songs (as do many of their albums.) I have always loved their voices and the harmonies they did. Found them when I was in junior high school and always thought they were amazing.

Sadly, Joe died in a car accident in 1966, but they were a mighty duo.

en.wikipedia.org

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Joe Bacon ✅  Oct 29, 2023 • 3:54:39pm

The famous TALES OF TOMORROW episode with Lon Chaney as Frankenstein.

Tales of Tomorrow - Season 1 - Episode 16 - Frankenstein | Lon Chaney Jr

Arthur Rankin Jr was the Associate Producer of this live ABC show. Chaney showed up drunk and thought it was a rehearsal. The production crew was in panic mode all thru the broadcast.

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 29, 2023 • 3:55:22pm

re: #122 Dangerman

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He doesn’t even know where he is, why should he know where anything else is.

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Charmingly Persistent  Oct 29, 2023 • 3:55:28pm

re: #76 BigPapa

My wife used the term ‘gyped’ a few months later and I told her that was a slur against Gypsies. She was shocked, she never knew. We said that shit because we were taught it as kids. But we learn.

My daughter had to ding me on that one. I had no clue. But yes, we learn

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Belafon  Oct 29, 2023 • 3:56:59pm

re: #94 Hecuba’s daughter

Just saw a TV ad for Rexulti — and given the list of side effects, it does not seem like a really good idea…. especially since its target patient is someone with Alzheimers.

If you want to give people an example of how medicine naming works, I saw an ad for an RSV vaccine called Arexvy. Say it out loud.

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Belafon  Oct 29, 2023 • 3:57:49pm

re: #126 Charmingly Persistent

My daughter had to ding me on that one. I had no clue. But yes, we learn

Now I say I was screwed.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Oct 29, 2023 • 3:59:27pm

re: #126 Charmingly Persistent

We all learn every day.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 29, 2023 • 4:00:24pm

re: #129 PhillyPretzel ✅

We all learn every day.

Oh, I so wish.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 29, 2023 • 4:05:02pm

Seen in the parking lot of a grocery store just now.

Somebody’s got jokes. 🙄

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Nerdy Fish  Oct 29, 2023 • 4:06:53pm

re: #131 Eclectic Cyborg

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Seen in the parking lot of a grocery store just now.

Somebody’s got jokes. 🙄

I saw one of those around here, accompanied by a Trump bumper sticker, of course.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Oct 29, 2023 • 4:09:16pm

re: #131 Eclectic Cyborg

en.wikipedia.org
It has a square like shape.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 29, 2023 • 4:16:34pm

re: #112 BeachDem

One of my favorite old albums (wish I still had it)]

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We learned that song from our fourth-grade music teacher.

It is a song about the Underground Railway…the Drinking Gourd was the Big Dipper, leading the way North

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William Lewis  Oct 29, 2023 • 4:20:00pm

re: #76 BigPapa

My wife used the term ‘gyped’ a few months later and I told her that was a slur against Gypsies. She was shocked, she never knew. We said that shit because we were taught it as kids. But we learn.

Having Welsh ancestry made me notice that common slur in relation to betting.

Also common in the upper Midwest were slurs against eastern European ethnicities, especially the Polish.

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William Lewis  Oct 29, 2023 • 4:20:45pm

re: #129 PhillyPretzel ✅

We all learn every day.

Some of us try to.


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