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1
Belafon  Nov 28, 2023 • 10:47:36am

Most white women, like most of us white men, aren’t even near the most obnoxious of us, but there are enough of each group that the rest of us need to own that we can suck.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Nov 28, 2023 • 10:50:03am

From downstairs…

Hey all, Hulu is offering one year for $.99 a month, if anyone is interested. Offer expires today.

(That’s the second huge deal I’ve signed up for this week. Imagine the sheer number of shows I have to not watch!)

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jaunte  Nov 28, 2023 • 10:51:29am

@tcarmody.bsky.social

Listen, people; for your own sakes, stop naming shit Q

Amazon announces Q, an AI chatbot for businesses

“…The tool can automatically make changes to source code so developers have less work to do, Selipsky said. The service will be able to connect to more than 40 enterprise systems, he said. As a result, with Q, people can discuss information that’s stored in Microsoft 365, Dropbox, Salesforce and Zendesk, along with AWS’ S3 data-storage service. People will also be able to upload and ask questions about documents while interacting with Q.”

Participating enterprise customers will reassign idle developers to ‘crisis management.’

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Vicious Babushka  Nov 28, 2023 • 10:53:05am

re: #3 jaunte

@tcarmody.bsky.social

Amazon announces Q, an AI chatbot for businesses

Participating enterprise customers will reassign idle developers to ‘crisis management.’

Learn coding, they said. You will have a job forever, they said.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 28, 2023 • 10:54:18am
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Dave In Austin  Nov 28, 2023 • 10:54:42am

House Republicans are chewing on each others ankles today.

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steve_davis  Nov 28, 2023 • 10:54:55am

re: #2 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

From downstairs…

Hey all, Hulu is offering one year for $.99 a month, if anyone is interested. Offer expires today.

(That’s the second huge deal I’ve signed up for this week. Imagine the sheer number of shows I have to not watch!)

Steam is also having a pretty decent sale. i picked up Civ VI for 6 bucks and it looks like Anno 1800 is roughly 15 bucks or so. I haven’t quite decided on that. I like strategy games, but if they’re overly complex and time-consuming in administration, it detracts a bit from the enjoyment.

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Dave In Austin  Nov 28, 2023 • 10:57:35am

re: #5 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

W……
T……..
F……..

was that?

OVER!!!!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 28, 2023 • 10:58:28am

re: #8 Dave In Austin

W……
T……..
F……..

was that?

OVER!!!!

From Bo Burham’s Covid special, Inside

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jaunte  Nov 28, 2023 • 10:58:50am

re: #5 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

“Some random quote from Lord of the Rings
Incorrectly attributed to Martin Luther King.”

Well, that’s just the internet!

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Alephnaught  Nov 28, 2023 • 11:01:00am

From previous thread:

re: #10 Belafon

So who is Mike Carr?

Brother of Wayne?

Chris Morris interviews 2 Unlimited as Wayne Carr

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dat_said  Nov 28, 2023 • 11:02:16am

re: #3 jaunte

bsky.app

Listen, people; for your own sakes, stop naming shit Q

The only letter worse right now would be X. I’d go with “G” - a nice unassuming letter brimming of geewillikers.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 28, 2023 • 11:06:58am

re: #3 jaunte

Wait until this thing “automatically” makes some changes to code that get people hurt or killed.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Nov 28, 2023 • 11:07:01am

re: #4 Vicious Babushka

Learn coding, they said. You will have a job forever, they said.

That was true for you, wasn’t it?
I may need to transition to something else for the last seven years of my career.

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Belafon  Nov 28, 2023 • 11:08:20am

re: #4 Vicious Babushka

Learn coding, they said. You will have a job forever, they said.

I suspect that this will cause code to get bigger and slower. To reduce repeated code and to raise the level of abstraction that developers had to think at, we tended to write libraries, or in extreme cases, new programming languages. Now, someone can just ask these algorithms to write the code for us.

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Dangerman  Nov 28, 2023 • 11:10:37am

re: #4 Vicious Babushka

Learn coding assembler, they said. You will have a job forever, they said.

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Belafon  Nov 28, 2023 • 11:13:50am
In recent days, a number of prominent media brands have not only paused their paid marketing campaigns on the embattled Elon Musk-owned social platform, but have ceased posting on it altogether, going silent on the once essential site that sought to be the world’s “digital town square.”

The flagship accounts belonging to Disney, Paramount, Lionsgate, Sony Pictures, Universal, and Warner Bros. Discovery (CNN’s parent company) have not posted on the platform in roughly 10 days, following Musk’s disturbing endorsement of an antisemitic conspiracy theory, which he still has not apologized for.

None of the studios commented on the record when CNN reached out for comment. But people familiar with the social media strategies of Paramount and WBD confirmed under the condition of anonymity that it’s no coincidence: the companies have made the active decision to stop posting under certain handles on X due to concerns, including brand safety.

The blackout on X extends beyond these companies’ corporate accounts, in some cases. For instance, the most high profile accounts affiliated with Disney have gone dark on X, such as @StarWars, @Pixar, and @MarvelStudios, which were previously posting multiple times a day on the platform to their millions of followers. Instead, these brands have switched over to the Meta-owned rival Threads, where they have started actively posting.

wsiltv.com

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Dangerman  Nov 28, 2023 • 11:15:28am

re: #15 Belafon

I suspect that this will cause code to get bigger and slower. To reduce repeated code and to raise the level of abstraction that developers had to think at, we tended to write libraries, or in extreme cases, new programming languages. Now, someone can just ask these algorithms to write the code for us.

Im certain a monkey sitting at a typewriter or computer has already written Shakespeare.
Ok, all the letters are in a different order…

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Eventual Carrion  Nov 28, 2023 • 11:16:08am

re: #17 Belafon

wsiltv.com

People just don’t want to come over to your house if you keep letting your pets shit all over the place.

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mmmirele  Nov 28, 2023 • 11:16:34am

re: #3 jaunte

@tcarmody.bsky.social

Amazon announces Q, an AI chatbot for businesses

Participating enterprise customers will reassign idle developers to ‘crisis management.’

*snort* That’s what I do, and I can tell you that generally idle developers are in no position to handle “crisis management.” I spend WAY more time than I have to trying to convince developers and their managers that we GOTTA FIX X problem NOW. These people are delusional.

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Vicious Babushka  Nov 28, 2023 • 11:17:33am
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Charles Johnson  Nov 28, 2023 • 11:20:11am

O’Connor is a far right loon. This is bad.

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Belafon  Nov 28, 2023 • 11:20:20am

re: #21 Vicious Babushka

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Which probably means we’ll get a “Take it somewhere relevant” ruling.

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lawhawk  Nov 28, 2023 • 11:22:56am
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dat_said  Nov 28, 2023 • 11:29:13am

KEVN Fox (Rapid City, SD): ‘Freedom’ not enough to fill South Dakota jobs: Local business leaders say there are hurdles with campaign

It’s difficult to get folks to move to the Dakotas so, I guess credit for trying even if the message is reddish. Unfortunately, at least half of the people who move to SD are not workers but retirees looking for low taxes and MAGA land.

This particular effort is more for promoting Gov Noem (and sending ad money out to OH and TN ad agencies) and, as a result, isn’t the most transparent or well-run. It’s also led to uncoordinated each-town-is-on-their-own extra expenses trying to ferret out actual interest.

“Before I made my way through the data, I wanted to know exactly what the Department of Labor did or what filtration they used,” said Clifton. “I got a bunch of gobbledygook that basically said, ‘We can’t tell you what we did, but we did all we could do.’ I’m a little suspicious about that because I’ve been involved in a lot of marketing campaigns that were very specific about impressions. There’s going to be a lot of heavy lifting on the back end to get this into a net result of who actually makes the move and takes a job.”

I did laugh at the final paragraphs:

“My dream would be to build a Forgotten Fifteen compound and the front of it would look just like the entrance to Mount Rushmore,” said Armstrong. Asked if it would be built in South Dakota, he said it was more likely to be built in the state where most of his fellow Marines currently reside.

“That would be California,” he said.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Nov 28, 2023 • 11:30:57am

Rupert Murdoch to be deposed as part of Smartmatic suit against Fox News

Oh to be a fly on the wall.

thehill.com

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lawhawk  Nov 28, 2023 • 11:33:01am

re: #26 Joe Bacon ✅

Rupert Murdoch to be deposed as part of Smartmatic suit against Fox News

Oh to be a fly on the wall.

thehill.com

One question that should get further exploration - knowing that Maria Bartiromo was spreading known lies and misinformation, why did Fox continue to give her airtime? Even as she exposed Fox to multibillion dollar defamation suits where Fox could lose on the facts, and paid out $850m to Dominion to settle before court, Fox allowed her to keep spewing nonsense. Why.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Nov 28, 2023 • 11:34:54am

re: #7 steve_davis

Steam is also having a pretty decent sale. i picked up Civ VI for 6 bucks and it looks like Anno 1800 is roughly 15 bucks or so. I haven’t quite decided on that. I like strategy games, but if they’re overly complex and time-consuming in administration, it detracts a bit from the enjoyment.

If I didn’t already have a hundred or so games in the queue, I might be over there now.

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EPR-radar  Nov 28, 2023 • 11:35:22am

re: #27 lawhawk

One question that should get further exploration - knowing that Maria Bartiromo was spreading known lies and misinformation, why did Fox continue to give her airtime? Even as she exposed Fox to multibillion dollar defamation suits where Fox could lose on the facts, and paid out $850m to Dominion to settle before court, Fox allowed her to keep spewing nonsense. Why.

We all know the answer to that question — at Faux News, spewing right wing propaganda 24/7 is the mission, and business considerations are secondary.

The issue is proving it in court.

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Mattand  Nov 28, 2023 • 11:43:10am

re: #6 Dave In Austin

House Republicans are chewing on each others ankles today.

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Christ, talk about Poe’s Law…

I have no idea whether that meme is supposed to be a joke or not. Because there is probably a disturbing number of Republicans in Congress who think you can impeach non-office holding private citizens as a form of punishment (looks at MTG and Bobert).

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lawhawk  Nov 28, 2023 • 11:45:28am

RIP Joss Ackland, whose diplomatic immunity was revoked in Lethal Weapon 2.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Nov 28, 2023 • 11:47:41am

re: #31 lawhawk

Wasn’t he in The Hunt for Red October? One of the diplomats if I recall.

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Belafon  Nov 28, 2023 • 11:48:49am

re: #31 lawhawk

Reminds me of a commenter here:

Ackland is survived by his seven children, 34 grandchildren and 30 great grandchildren.

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Belafon  Nov 28, 2023 • 11:49:06am

re: #32 PhillyPretzel ✅

Wasn’t he in The Hunt for Red October? One of the diplomats if I recall.

Yep, he was the Russian diplomat.

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lawhawk  Nov 28, 2023 • 11:51:44am

re: #32 PhillyPretzel ✅

Wasn’t he in The Hunt for Red October? One of the diplomats if I recall.

Yes, and yes, he did lose another submarine.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Nov 28, 2023 • 11:52:23am

re: #35 lawhawk

Yes I remember that part at the end.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Nov 28, 2023 • 11:55:14am

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sizzzzlerz  Nov 28, 2023 • 11:55:43am

re: #18 Dangerman

Im certain a monkey sitting at a typewriter or computer has already written Shakespeare.
Ok, all the letters are in a different order…

Simpsons did it!

it was the best of times it was the blurst of times

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sizzzzlerz  Nov 28, 2023 • 11:56:47am

re: #16 Dangerman

Learn coding assembler, they said. You will have a job forever, they sa

Learn COBOL. You probably will.

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Eventual Carrion  Nov 28, 2023 • 12:01:51pm

re: #37 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

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Let’s eat grandpa

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Eventual Carrion  Nov 28, 2023 • 12:03:42pm

re: #39 sizzzzlerz

Learn COBOL. You probably will.

Ain’t that the truth. I haven’t touched COBOL since the 80’s and I still get a headhunter email me asking for it every once in a while.

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Mattand  Nov 28, 2023 • 12:04:06pm

re: #25 dat_said

KEVN Fox (Rapid City, SD): ‘Freedom’ not enough to fill South Dakota jobs: Local business leaders say there are hurdles with campaign

It’s difficult to get folks to move to the Dakotas so, I guess credit for trying even if the message is reddish. Unfortunately, at least half of the people who move to SD are not workers but retirees looking for low taxes and MAGA land.

My company had a job opening in SE Iowa a few years ago. Our boss half-jokingly asked if anyone was interested. No takers.

While we were talking about it, I jumped on Wikipedia to look up where the plant was. The town it is in is also the county seat, population 9,000+. County population: 20,000+ over 437 sq mi.

My development is 10,000+ in 3 sq mi. Just the housing development, not the town I live in. Our county is over half a million in 227 sq mi.

I bring this up because I was having a conversation about benefits with the HR person who lives out there, and she off-handedly mentioned the distances she has to drive to get medical attention.

I know people here live in those types of areas and more power to you; I’m not passing judgement or anything. But given the medical issues both my partner and I have had over the last five years, the thought of adding multi hour one-way drives on a regular basis to the other stress is like… ugh, no thank you. I always joke about trying to get away from humanity, but then stuff like that hits me in the face.

Knowing that one of their senators was Joni Ernst, and the recent IA school board who tried to use AI to ban books doesn’t help either.

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sizzzzlerz  Nov 28, 2023 • 12:04:40pm

re: #31 lawhawk

RIP Joss Ackland, whose diplomatic immunity was revoked in Lethal Weapon 2.

There was a video on the linked page listed celebrities that have died this year. On it was David McCallum. The subtitle stated that his best known role was on NCIS. To which, I cry BS. He’ll always be Ilya Kuryakin to me.

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sizzzzlerz  Nov 28, 2023 • 12:05:27pm

re: #41 Eventual Carrion

Ain’t that the truth. I haven’t touched COBOL since the 80’s and I still get a headhunter email me asking for it every once in a while.

COBOL is like Keith Richards. Both will be around at the end of time.

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Charles Johnson  Nov 28, 2023 • 12:05:51pm

The Washington Post is pulling its ads from XTwitter.

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lawhawk  Nov 28, 2023 • 12:05:54pm

re: #43 sizzzzlerz

Cry uncle at the fact that he was probably seen by more people as Ducky than as The Man From UNCLE.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Nov 28, 2023 • 12:06:40pm

re: #45 Charles Johnson

They finally caught on to Musk.

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TedStriker  Nov 28, 2023 • 12:09:06pm

re: #43 sizzzzlerz

There was a video on the linked page listed celebrities that have died this year. On it was David McCallum. The subtitle stated that his best known role was on NCIS. To which, I cry BS. He’ll always be Ilya Kuryakin to me.

Best known to modern audiences, mainly because NCIS has been in production for twenty years now; hell, he outlasted series lead Mark Harmon, who bailed two seasons ago, and was the only regular that was there in the first season left.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Nov 28, 2023 • 12:10:01pm

re: #43 sizzzzlerz

There was a video on the linked page listed celebrities that have died this year. On it was David McCallum. The subtitle stated that his best known role was on NCIS. To which, I cry BS. He’ll always be Ilya Kuryakin to me.

To us, sure. Not to overstimulated younger people who do not have the attention span for The Man From UNCLE, even if they were to discover it.

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 28, 2023 • 12:10:29pm

re: #2 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

From downstairs…

Hey all, Hulu is offering one year for $.99 a month, if anyone is interested. Offer expires today.

(That’s the second huge deal I’ve signed up for this week. Imagine the sheer number of shows I have to not watch!)

You can also add Disney Plus for a year with an additional $2 per month (I think).

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wrenchwench  Nov 28, 2023 • 12:10:43pm

Best video I’ve seen this year.

Mastodon

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Shropshire Slasher  Nov 28, 2023 • 12:10:52pm

Doing the worm on the streets on NYC…

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Eventual Carrion  Nov 28, 2023 • 12:12:32pm

re: #50 Hecuba’s daughter

You can also add Disney Plus for a year with an additional $2 per month (I think).

I have a package deal with Disney+, HULU and ESPN+

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sizzzzlerz  Nov 28, 2023 • 12:13:29pm

re: #48 TedStriker

Best known to modern audiences, mainly because NCIS has been in production for twenty years now; hell, he outlasted series lead Mark Harmon, who bailed two seasons ago, and was the only NCIS regular that was there in season one left.

You should know we boomers cannot be wrong, especially when it comes to pop culture. 😡

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dat_said  Nov 28, 2023 • 12:13:37pm

re: #42 Mattand

I had always thought I’d move back to ND but that’s not likely anymore. Fargo, Bismarck, and Grand Forks all have decent to ok hospitals and clinics, but Mayo in Rochester MN is the de facto “real” hospital for most North Dakotans if things really go south. I’ve known many people over the years who have made frequent 500-mile one-way trips from Bismarck to Mayo.

For the most part, I’m ok with driving an hour or two to get somewhere but the hospital/clinic thing plus the lack of variety at grocery stores and restaurants will be keeping me from moving back.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Nov 28, 2023 • 12:14:08pm

re: #51 wrenchwench

Yes. That was good.

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TedStriker  Nov 28, 2023 • 12:15:21pm

re: #54 sizzzzlerz

You should know we boomers cannot be wrong, especially when it comes to pop culture. 😡

Hey, McCallum still lasted twice as long on NCIS versus how long he was married to Jill Ireland before Charles Bronson made good on his Great Escape boast that he’d take her from him, but I digress.

(I kid, I kid…)

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Targetpractice  Nov 28, 2023 • 12:15:41pm

re: #6 Dave In Austin

House Republicans are chewing on each others ankles today.

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They lied to themselves that they had Hunter in a bind, that if he refused to show up then they’d get even more mileage out of their “investigation” by spending months dragging him through the courts for “contempt.” But now Lowell has Comer cornered, showing not only that Hunter has offered twice in the past to publicly testify, but Comer can’t claim a legislative purpose for the subpoena unless he also subpoenas Jared, and he can’t claim it’s part of a legit impeachment investigation without a full vote of the House which (based upon quotes Lowell provided) would fall at least six votes short.

Watching the party tear chunks out of each other over whether the stage value of questioning Hunter publicly has more value than “leaking” bits and pieces of a closed-door deposition is just icing on the cake.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Nov 28, 2023 • 12:16:07pm

just got this delivered:

amazon.com

got some Yorkshire pud batter mixed and resting…gonna fill the baked puds with leftover turkey and gravy

looking forward to those 3-1/2 inch as opposed to the regular 2-3/4 inch ones

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GlutenFreeJesus  Nov 28, 2023 • 12:19:18pm

Wasn’t Eloon supposed to visit Netanyahoo in Israel sometime soon!

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Dave In Austin  Nov 28, 2023 • 12:20:11pm

re: #60 GlutenFreeJesus

Yesterday I think

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Belafon  Nov 28, 2023 • 12:20:15pm

re: #60 GlutenFreeJesus

Wasn’t Eloon supposed to visit Netanyahoo in Israel sometime soon!

Yesterday.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Nov 28, 2023 • 12:21:19pm
Timothy Olyphant is returning to his old stomping grounds at FX, but he’s going to be a long way from Harlan County. The Justified star has signed on to play a major role in Noah Hawley’s new Alien prequel series. Deadline reports that Olyphant will star in the upcoming series as Kirsh, a synthetic — much like Ian Holm’s Ash in Alien, or Lance Henriksen’s Bishop in Aliens. He will be a mentor to Wendy (Sydney Chandler, Pistol), a meta-human hybrid who has the mind of a child and the body of an adult.

‘Alien’ Series Casts ‘Justified’s Timothy Olyphant (Collider)

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dat_said  Nov 28, 2023 • 12:24:22pm

re: #55 dat_said

Actually, I should hedge that a little. I’d probably move back but the family isn’t that fond of the idea.

I was there this summer with my youngest daughter and got all nostalgic stopping off at Long Lake to see thousands of waterfowl and upland birds, heading down to Graner Bottoms (Sugarloaf) and Huff Hills just to stretch the legs, heading over to Theodore Roosevelt to see bison and elk and wild horses, stopping at some graveyards to walk among the iron crosses on relatives’ graves, and picking up some kuchen at Model Bakery in Linton really made me wistful. My daughter was a little less than thrilled about some stuff but she was a trooper and really liked the outdoors and the kuchen.

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Jay C  Nov 28, 2023 • 12:27:38pm

re: #60 GlutenFreeJesus

Wasn’t Eloon supposed to visit Netanyahoo in Israel sometime soon!

Been there, done that, trying to be forgotten already…..

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Axolotl  Nov 28, 2023 • 12:28:34pm

re: #31 lawhawk

RIP Joss Ackland, whose diplomatic immunity was revoked in Lethal Weapon 2.

Wow, I didn’t know he was still alive. Great villian. RIP

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Axolotl  Nov 28, 2023 • 12:29:55pm

re: #41 Eventual Carrion

Ain’t that the truth. I haven’t touched COBOL since the 80’s and I still get a headhunter email me asking for it every once in a while.

I told my nieces and nephews that is a ticket to an instant job in the banking sector.

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Captain Ron  Nov 28, 2023 • 12:32:20pm
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Targetpractice  Nov 28, 2023 • 12:33:13pm

re: #25 dat_said

KEVN Fox (Rapid City, SD): ‘Freedom’ not enough to fill South Dakota jobs: Local business leaders say there are hurdles with campaign

It’s difficult to get folks to move to the Dakotas so, I guess credit for trying even if the message is reddish. Unfortunately, at least half of the people who move to SD are not workers but retirees looking for low taxes and MAGA land.

This particular effort is more for promoting Gov Noem (and sending ad money out to OH and TN ad agencies) and, as a result, isn’t the most transparent or well-run. It’s also led to uncoordinated each-town-is-on-their-own extra expenses trying to ferret out actual interest.

I did laugh at the final paragraphs:

The bolded is why red states are only going to continue to be net importers of federal dollars: They’re saddled with rapidly aging populations which are only growing due to an influx of retirees attracted by a low tax environment, they’re largely dependent upon industries that are either subject to fluctuation (tourism) or are slowly declining (fossil fuel extraction), and decades of budget-cutting to appease the far-right have left them poorly equipped to appeal to businesses looking for room to expand. About the only outlier is Texas, and that’s only because they’re being propped up by a constant influx of cheap labor from Central and South America.

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Belafon  Nov 28, 2023 • 12:37:46pm

re: #69 Targetpractice

About the only outlier is Texas, and that’s only because they’re being propped up by a constant influx of cheap labor from Central and South America.

The state is mainly propped up by 3 giant metropolitan areas that are more liberal than not and make the money.

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Vicious Babushka  Nov 28, 2023 • 12:38:12pm

Fediverse instance didn’t embed.

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jaunte  Nov 28, 2023 • 12:38:51pm

Population pyramids of every state
Look through annual data to see how population and demographics have changed in every state and the nation as a whole.
usafacts.org

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jaunte  Nov 28, 2023 • 12:40:05pm

The five states with the largest increase in the share of 65+ residents

Vermont
New Hampshire
Maine
Delaware
New Mexico
usafacts.org

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ipsos  Nov 28, 2023 • 12:42:15pm

re: #73 jaunte

The five states with the largest increase in the share of 65+ residents

Vermont
New Hampshire
Maine
Delaware
New Mexico
usafacts.org

Blue
Purple
Blue
Blue
Blue

Just sayin’…

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jaunte  Nov 28, 2023 • 12:44:25pm

re: #74 ipsos

Wikipedia’s list by median age looks a little different:
en.wikipedia.org

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Targetpractice  Nov 28, 2023 • 12:44:48pm

I remember reading an article awhile back about how SD is slowly returning to its natural state as a ghost town masquerading as a state, as the “oil boom” of the ’10s has petered out and all the rig workers have moved on while the oil companies are capping wells left and right. That the “boom towns” we were once told were set to become major centers of commerce in the 21st century gold rush are now struggling to stay afloat as all the workers left and took what money they had with them.

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jaunte  Nov 28, 2023 • 12:45:12pm

Move to American Samoa and feel young again.

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dat_said  Nov 28, 2023 • 12:47:46pm

re: #76 Targetpractice

I remember reading an article awhile back about how SD is slowly returning to its natural state as a ghost town masquerading as a state, as the “oil boom” of the ’10s has petered out and all the rig workers have moved on while the oil companies are capping wells left and right. That the “boom towns” we were once told were set to become major centers of commerce in the 21st century gold rush are now struggling to stay afloat as all the workers left and took what money they had with them.

Not much oil in SD. More likely the article was about ND and to say returning to ghost town is a bit exaggerated. Man camps are gone but the “boom” towns of Williston, Tioga, and Dickinson are holding up ok.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Nov 28, 2023 • 12:48:12pm

She gets a well deserved smackdown

Susan Sarandon And The Erasure Of Jewish History

thebanter.substack.com

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Targetpractice  Nov 28, 2023 • 12:49:53pm

re: #78 dat_said

Not much oil in SD. More likely the article was about ND and to say returning to ghost town is a bit exaggerated. Man camps are gone but the “boom” towns of Williston, Tioga, and Dickinson are holding up ok.

Yeah, you’re probably right. My memory isn’t what it used to be at the ripe old age of…*counts*…39? That can’t be right.

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Jay C  Nov 28, 2023 • 12:50:55pm

re: #69 Targetpractice

About the only outlier is Texas, and that’s only because they’re being propped up by a constant influx of cheap labor from Central and South America.

Gonna kind/sorta disagree. Whatever its other flaws (which, IMO, are mainly cultural, not economic) Texas, at least, has made/is making an effort to try to diversify the state’s economy into something more resembling a diversified, technology-driven “21st-Century” model, vs. the pure extractionism it had grown up on; one in which the “influx of cheap labor” is (like California) a peripheral bonus, not a core driver.
Though, then again, those “cultural” factors (not least the political power-structure which more resembles North Korea than the USA) are likely to impede/retard development as much as they advance it…

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Nov 28, 2023 • 12:54:51pm

re: #50 Hecuba’s daughter

You can also add Disney Plus for a year with an additional $2 per month (I think).

Yes, that and some others, like Showtime. I already have Disney+, and I’m going to keep it separate for now, since who knows whether I’ll want to stay with Hulu after the $12 year.

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dat_said  Nov 28, 2023 • 12:57:11pm

re: #72 jaunte

Population pyramids of every state
Look through annual data to see how population and demographics have changed in every state and the nation as a whole.
usafacts.org

Interesting to see the shapes side-by-side for ND and MN. Too be honest, I’m surprised by the bulge of college-, and post-college-age folks in ND (ages 20 to 34 are the longest on the graphs). The 20-24 age group can be explained by Minnesotans coming to NDSU and UND on the border but enough must be sticking around Fargo and Grand Forks and enough stayed around out west after the oil boom to explain the continued bulge from 25 to 34. MN population is much more consistent among the age groups.

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retired cynic  Nov 28, 2023 • 1:05:23pm

re: #50 Hecuba’s daughter

You can also add Disney Plus for a year with an additional $2 per month (I think).

That’s right. I did it. But darned if I can see a lot on there I would want to watch.

Good grief.

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Captain Magic  Nov 28, 2023 • 1:07:19pm

re: #39 sizzzzlerz

I learned COBOL before I learned to drive at 15,

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Nov 28, 2023 • 1:08:52pm

re: #84 retired cynic

That’s right. I did it. But darned if I can see a lot on there I would want to watch.

Good grief.

They have all the classic animated movies from their golden age, also Dr. Who starting now (backlist not there, unfortunately). Superheroes if you’re in to that, also pixar.

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Shropshire Slasher  Nov 28, 2023 • 1:09:12pm
Indian rescuers on Tuesday (November 28) pulled out all 41 construction workers trapped inside a collapsed tunnel in the Himalayas for 17 days, hours after drilling through the debris of rock, concrete and earth to reach them

India tunnel collapse: First trapped worker rescued from Himalaya tunnel

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 28, 2023 • 1:10:22pm

re: #79 Joe Bacon ✅

She gets a well deserved smackdown

Susan Sarandon And The Erasure Of Jewish History

thebanter.substack.com

Susan Sarandon was at the heart of progressive groups whose sole purpose was damaging Democratic candidates in the 21st century so that Republicans took office and followed policies that have unleashed irreparable harm on our nation and the world. She should have been ostracized years ago.

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Jay C  Nov 28, 2023 • 1:12:21pm

re: #88 Hecuba’s daughter

Susan Sarandon was at the heart of progressive groups whose sole purpose was damaging Democratic candidates in the 21st century so that Republicans took office and followed policies that have unleashed irreparable harm on our nation and the world. She should have been ostracized years ago.

Yeah: she did her best to “heighten the contradictions”, then scuttled away when the contradictions won big…..

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Backwoods Sleuth  Nov 28, 2023 • 1:16:37pm

Mysterious and fatal dog respiratory illness now reported in 14 states: See the map.

What states have the mysterious respiratory dog disease been confirmed in?
As of Monday the illness had been reported in the following states:

California
Colorado
Florida
Georgia
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Maryland
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Oregon
Rhode Island
Vermont
Washington

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Backwoods Sleuth  Nov 28, 2023 • 1:18:01pm
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BlueSpotinAL ✅  Nov 28, 2023 • 1:18:01pm

This should keep Vicious Babushka busy for 50 days:

50pies50states.com

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Backwoods Sleuth  Nov 28, 2023 • 1:20:09pm
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Charles Johnson  Nov 28, 2023 • 1:22:50pm

This was apparently the final straw for the Washington Post.

Musk boosts Pizzagate meme in latest controversial tweet on X - The Washington Post

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Jay C  Nov 28, 2023 • 1:23:11pm

re: #87 Shropshire Slasher

[Embedded content]

Fascinating story: when the tunnel excavation collapsed, the mechanical digging machinery apparently ran into problems, so they had to get expert miners to dig the last however-many meters of rescue tunnel by hand: obviously, whatever kobolds Indian miners acknowledge* seem to have been placated: ALL 41 trapped men were rescued.

*well, the kobolds, and some timely drilling to get them food and water: still: a worthy effort.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Nov 28, 2023 • 1:24:11pm
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mmmirele  Nov 28, 2023 • 1:26:04pm

re: #45 Charles Johnson

The Washington Post is pulling its ads from XTwitter.

Spell it “Xitter”, pronounced “Shitter.”

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Nov 28, 2023 • 1:26:28pm

re: #94 Charles Johnson

This was apparently the final straw for the Washington Post.

Musk boosts Pizzagate meme in latest controversial tweet on X - The Washington Post

The wealthiest man in the world is an imbecile who doesn’t care what’s real. I’m pretty sure that says something terrible about us all.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Nov 28, 2023 • 1:27:32pm

re: #97 mmmirele

Spell it “Xitter”, pronounced “Shitter.”

And Xits, the messages sent on Xitter, can be “Zits” or “Shits.”

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Patricia Kayden  Nov 28, 2023 • 1:31:34pm

re: #2 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

From downstairs…

Hey all, Hulu is offering one year for $.99 a month, if anyone is interested. Offer expires today.

(That’s the second huge deal I’ve signed up for this week. Imagine the sheer number of shows I have to not watch!)

Thanks. I have signed up.

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Patricia Kayden  Nov 28, 2023 • 1:33:01pm

re: #90 Backwoods Sleuth

I believe my dog is suffering from that mystery virus. She’s on antibiotics but still has a rattling cough. Huge sigh.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Nov 28, 2023 • 1:35:36pm
Sytch was a popular WWE wrestler who went by the name Sunny. Her WWE bio says that she “will forever be remembered as the person who redefined the role of women in WWE.” During her career, she won two Slammy Awards and was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame Class of 2011.

Now she’s the old drunk that killed a man. Life will ruin you before it kills you if you’re not careful.

Former WWE wrestler Tamara Sytch sentenced to 17 years in prison over fatal DUI crash (NBC News)

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Patricia Kayden  Nov 28, 2023 • 1:35:37pm

re: #79 Joe Bacon ✅

After what she pulled in 2016 by pushing Jill “Kremlin Putin Buddy” Stein and deriding Secretary Clinton, no Democrat should be paying attention to anything she has to say. It was purists like her who gave us Trump. She can take several seats and shut the hell up.

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Charles Johnson  Nov 28, 2023 • 1:35:54pm

Pizzagate is a perfect example of a conspiracy theory that is impervious to facts, reality, or even simple fucking common sense. It’s a nightmarish eruption from the degraded, perverse right wing id, and debunking cannot stop it.

Like Birtherism, Pizzagate never went away. It’s been circulating in the right wing sewers of the internet for years.

Donald Trump, the conman president, used the Birther conspiracy theory to build his political support, long after most of the media had proclaimed it defunct.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Nov 28, 2023 • 1:37:46pm

re: #104 Charles Johnson

Pizzagate is a perfect example of a conspiracy theory that is impervious to facts, reality, or even simple fucking common sense. It’s a nightmarish eruption from the degraded, perverse right wing id, and debunking cannot stop it.

Like Birtherism, Pizzagate never went away. It’s been circulating in the right wing sewers of the internet for years.

Donald Trump, the conman president, used the Birther conspiracy theory to build his political support, long after most of the media had proclaimed it defunct.

Bannon’s bottom-third strategy exploits the dumbest third of Americans. Not the least successful. The dumbest.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Nov 28, 2023 • 1:38:45pm

re: #101 Patricia Kayden

I believe my dog is suffering from that mystery virus. She’s on antibiotics but still has a rattling cough. Huge sigh.

Fingers, toes, arms, legs and eyes crossed that she’ll be ok!

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Dangerman  Nov 28, 2023 • 1:41:30pm

re: #58 Targetpractice

They lied to themselves that they had Hunter in a bind, that if he refused to show up then they’d get even more mileage out of their “investigation” by spending months dragging him through the courts for “contempt.” But now Lowell has Comer cornered, showing not only that Hunter has offered twice in the past to publicly testify, but Comer can’t claim a legislative purpose for the subpoena unless he also subpoenas Jared, and he can’t claim it’s part of a legit impeachment investigation without a full vote of the House which (based upon quotes Lowell provided) would fall at least six votes short.

Watching the party tear chunks out of each other over whether the stage value of questioning Hunter publicly has more value than “leaking” bits and pieces of a closed-door deposition is just icing on the cake.

there’s a word for this situation
it’s one of my favorite two words
and it’s not spatchcock
it’s zugzwang

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Dangerman  Nov 28, 2023 • 1:45:07pm

re: #85 Captain Magic

I learned COBOL before I learned to drive at 15,

cobol was a prerequisite to driving in my school too!

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Dangerman  Nov 28, 2023 • 1:48:56pm

re: #105 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Bannon’s bottom-third strategy exploits the dumbest third of Americans. Not the least successful. The dumbest.

you dont have to be smart to be ‘successful’.
just smarter than the people you’re trying to exploit

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Dangerman  Nov 28, 2023 • 1:55:02pm

re: #98 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

The wealthiest man in the world is an imbecile who doesn’t care what’s real. I’m pretty sure that says something terrible about us all.

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Patricia Kayden  Nov 28, 2023 • 2:06:24pm

re: #106 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Fingers, toes, arms, legs and eyes crossed that she’ll be ok!

Thanks

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sagehen  Nov 28, 2023 • 2:43:02pm

re: #103 Patricia Kayden

After what she pulled in 2016 by pushing Jill “Kremlin Putin Buddy” Stein and deriding Secretary Clinton, no Democrat should be paying attention to anything she has to say. It was purists like her who gave us Trump. She can take several seats and shut the hell up.

her sins go back farther than that. In 2000, she pushed hard for Nader in Florida (because “Gore wasn’t liberal enough, Democrats needed to be taught a lesson.”)


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