John Oliver Dissects the Topic of Organ & Body Donations
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Germany have very strict rules about organ donations. You cannot just check off a box on your driver’s license or the like, you have to register and obtain an organ donor card.
I did not think about that at all until I was called to interpret for an interview with a German citizen who received a donated organ from an American GI.
About that PlayStation/Discovery thing - Apparently Sony has some language in their T&Cs that does not obligate them to offer refunds:
Nor is there any suggestion in PlayStation’s announcement that you might expect any refunds for the content licenses you bought but are about to lose. This is because the PlayStation Store and PlayStation Network’s massive set of terms and conditions include riders such as condition 15.5.1 of PlayStation Store rules, which states: “You can use a Product in the ways described in the licence, but do not own the product.”And there may also be more specific phrases included in the T&Cs you have to agree to when you buy a specific title.
Of course, few if any typical consumers take the time to read an online service’s full terms and conditions, and so instead merely assume the usual rules of consumerism apply: As in, if you’ve bought rather than rented something, you own it. Until, at least, you yourself decide you no longer want it. But this just isn’t the case - or, at least, cannot be taken for granted - with content purchased digitally.
I am assuming someone (perhaps multiple someones) will try to go after Sony in court for this.
It will be interesting to see what happens.
re: #1 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Germany have very strict rules about organ donations. You cannot just check off a box on your driver’s license or the like, you have to register and obtain an organ donor card.
I did not think about that at all until I was called to interpret for an interview with a German citizen who received a donated organ from an American GI.
My organ donation only occurs after I die, so I won’t be thinking much about it.
re: #135 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
But end the charade of clling them “student athletes”, they should be regarded for that they are: paid athletes who also study as a sideline…
Allyson Felix managed it
Old North Dakota joke -
Before Mt Rushmore was carved, it’s beauty was unpresidented.
I always thought the eventual answer would be be biological. But obviously, I had never considered the “qubit”.
Quantum computing on 60 Minutes.
First reported by @Lawfare and confirmed by @TheMessenger, the names of the three federal judges who will hear oral arguments on Dec. 15 are Chief Judge William H. Pryor Jr. (Bush), Judge Robin Rosenbaum (Obama), and Judge Nancy Abudu (Biden).
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“You Can Smell Petrol in the Air”
“…Even as the United Arab Emirates (UAE) government works to burnish its image as a global climate leader in the lead up to COP28, the United Nations climate conference to be held in Dubai in late 2023, the country’s vast fossil fuel production and use spew toxic pollutants into the air and contribute to climate change.
The UAE has dangerously high air pollution levels, creating major health risks for its citizens and residents. According to the latest World Bank data, the mean annual exposure to PM2.5 in the UAE is more than eight times higher than what the World Health Organization (WHO) considers safe for human health. Based on WHO estimates, approximately 1,872 people die every year from outdoor air pollution in the UAE.”
“You Can Smell Petrol in the Air”
UAE Fossil Fuels Feed Toxic Pollution
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Montana U.S. Senate candidate Tim Sheehy (R) “said earlier this year that he wants to privatize the U.S. healthcare system,” Semafor reports.“The comments, made at an August meet-and-greet in Glasgow, Mont., were captured on an audio recording obtained by Semafor. Speaking to a group of attendees, Sheehy argued that the Affordable Care Act’s subsidies for insurance coverage and other federal health programs had inflated the cost of medical treatment.”
Said Sheehy: “Our hospitals have been built around federal healthcare subsidies. In my opinion we need to return healthcare to pure privatization.”
“I mean, healthcare worked before health insurance existed. Each town had a doctor that would drive to your house, take care of you and you’d pay him,” Sheehy said. “And guess what? It worked. It worked when you actually paid a doctor for services provided.”
This is Looney tunes
re: #13 Vicious Babushka
Pay the doctor with a chicken!
OK…a chicken for a home visit. Can I ask what’s the going rate for a triple-bypass?
re: #7 lizardofid
I always thought the eventual answer would be be biological. But obviously, I had never considered the “qubit”.
Quantum computing on 60 Minutes.
If it would take a super computer millions of years to figure out a problem Quantum computer can do in minutes, how do you know the Quantum computer is correct?
I didn’t know such huge problems existed!!
re: #14 coin operated
OK…a chicken for a home visit. Can I ask what’s the going rate for a triple-bypass?
A cherry pie.
re: #12 Dangerman
It’s cute how he just assumes anyone and everyone could easily afford to pay a doctor.
re: #14 coin operated
OK…a chicken for a home visit. Can I ask what’s the going rate for a triple-bypass?
Four chickens, two cows, and one goat.
re: #12 Dangerman
This is Looney tunes
You get cancer:
- You die.
No chemotherapy for you.
No radiation for you.
No fancy MRI machines for you.
No PET scanners for you.
No ultrasound for you.
No biologics for you.
No gene therapy for you.
No … for you.
re: #20 aatharuv
You get cancer:
- You die.No chemotherapy for you.
No radiation for you.
No fancy MRI machines for you.
No PET scanners for you.
No ultrasound for you.
No biologics for you.
No gene therapy for you.
No … for you.
No pallative care as well. Can’t have you dying of cancer pain-free now, can we?
re: #12 Dangerman
Montana GOP Senate candidate keeps his CEO job — but his company won’t say how he avoids conflicts
Tim Sheehy’s Bridger Aerospace, a major federal contractor, is all over his campaign ads as he simultaneously serves as CEO. Democrats have raised ethical concerns.
“…Bridger Aerospace, which Sheehy founded in 2014, is featured prominently in his ads, with the company’s planes appearing in several shots. And Bridger’s board of directors has blessed the Republican’s campaign, wishing him “the best of luck” in a June statement that confirmed Sheehy would remain as CEO during his bid to oust Democratic Sen. Jon Tester of Montana.
But the company, which issues publicly traded stock, also has explicit rules about political contributions and activities. Employees are not permitted to engage in politics while on company time, according to the company’s Code of Business Conduct and Ethics. There are also rules requiring legal reviews and approval before company funds can be spent on behalf of candidates or campaigns.”
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re: #17 Eclectic Cyborg
It’s cute how he just assumes anyone and everyone could easily afford to pay a doctor.
You should’ve thought of that before you got sick.//
re: #15 Shropshire Slasher
If it would take a super computer millions of years to figure out a problem Quantum computer can do in minutes, how do you know the Quantum computer is correct?
I didn’t know such huge problems existed!!
To greatly simplify things:
For many problems, an answer itself can quickly be verified (e.g. Do these numbers, when multiplied together make N), even if getting the answer takes long time.
Of course, for other types of problems, like “is this the fastest/most efficient way to do this”, it’s much harder than that.
Please factor in fog of war context when considering this post as things may change
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re: #12 Dangerman
This is Looney tunes
Yeah. That really worked when Grandma Bacon needed surgery in 1935 and Grandpa had to ask for help from his Union pals to come up with the $200 needed.
Luckily for him Grandma’s temple stepped up and said they would match anything the SWOC raised and then some to get to that $200.
During this time the AMA was actively campaigning against the establishment of Blue Cross claiming it was…you guessed it!…”Socialized Medicine”
re: #12 Dangerman
This is Looney tunes
as I understand it, health insurance was invented around WWII because wage controls limited companies from trying to outbid each other for workers… so the unions came up with this health insurance idea instead.
re: #9 jaunte
UAE is 88 percent migrant workers, and the kafala system leaves them with almost no way complain about their conditions.
I’m gonna be a dick and point out this these two things are one thing—maximize profits, externalize costs—and that this is all necessary context for Cop28: a lot of folks attending are doing accountancy not on the basis of what helps the world, but trying to bargain that the status quo can be maintained just a little more because the consequences will happen to people that don’t matter and in places that aren’t important.
Of course, when things gets serious they’ll snap into action…but they are deciders of when “serious” starts.
re: #17 Eclectic Cyborg
It’s cute how he just assumes anyone and everyone could easily afford to pay a doctor.
The people he’s representing will be able to.
re: #17 Eclectic Cyborg
It’s cute how he just assumes anyone and everyone could easily afford to pay a doctor.
Dad used to say that in the 30’s steak was 10 cents a pound, if you had a dime.
“They can take away my congressional office, pin, and healthcare, but they can’t take away my Cameo account!!!”
—George Santos https://t.co/7HzydfDM3z— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) December 4, 2023
re: #12 Dangerman
This is Looney tunes
And remember when the good doctor arrived in the middle of the night, driving his horse and buggy, pulled out his bag, and went in your house to treat your wife for breach birth. Oh, the white sheets and hot water we fetched. My, my.
Good times.
re: #26 No Malarkey!
It appears the Israelis struck the hiding place where many senior Hamas political officials and others were located, including Awadallah and a-Zahar, and it caused the major security cordon at al-Nasr Hospital in Khan Younis, where police even used gunfire to keep the crowds back
Aren’t senior Hamas leaders hiding in plain sight in Qatar and other nations in the Middle East? So you can kill as many lower level commanders as you please because those at the top are living in luxury and insulated from harm.
re: #17 Eclectic Cyborg
It’s cute how he just assumes anyone and everyone could easily afford to pay a doctor.
Oh, I don’t think he assumes that.
I think he assumes that anyone that couldn’t pay should have died because money measures both moral worth and intellectual-slash-genetic superiority.
re: #14 coin operated
OK…a chicken for a home visit. Can I ask what’s the going rate for a triple-bypass?
I had a horse vet with a portable x-ray.
can’t imagine every country doc dragging an MRI around
re: #17 Eclectic Cyborg
It’s cute how he just assumes anyone and everyone could easily afford to pay a doctor.
He can, so he figures…
re: #36 The Ghost of a Flea
Oh, I don’t think he assumes that.
I think he assumes that anyone that couldn’t pay should have died because money measures both moral worth and inherent, fixed superiority.
No— he probably doesn’t care about moral worth or ethics or decency. Like most Republicans, he cares only about money and maximizing his wealth. That is the sole measure that interests him and nothing else matters.
re: #28 sagehen
as I understand it, health insurance was invented around WWII because wage controls limited companies from trying to outbid each other for workers… so the unions came up with this health insurance idea instead.
I seem to remember improved benefits were a negotiation point in the UAW during the period of Nixon wage and price freezes.
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re: #36 The Ghost of a Flea
Oh, I don’t think he assumes that.
I think he assumes that anyone that couldn’t pay should have died because money measures both moral worth and intellectual-slash-genetic superiority.
Ding!
My friend who caught covid in the 1st US wave still has very little sense of smell. It seems to be a permanent condition.
re: #45 Dr Lizardo
♩♫ On the eighth day of treatment
My patient gave to me…♬♪
Grandma got run over by a reindeer,
Couldn’t afford a doctor Christmas Eve.
You might say she should have used her COBRA,
But it looks like she’ll just lay here and bleed.
re: #46 Eclectic Cyborg
Grandma got run over by a reindeer,
Couldn’t afford a doctor Christmas Eve.
You might say she should have used her COBRA,
But it looks like she’ll just lay here and bleed.
That’s good - darkly hilarious.
re: #18 Dr Lizardo
That reminds me of “Two game wardens, seven hunters, and a cow.”
re: #48 Captain Magic
That reminds me of “Two game wardens, seven hunters, and a cow.”
But it was a pure-bred Jersey cow. Maybe you got a lollipop extra after the doc sewed you back together?
re: #40 Hecuba’s daughter
No— he probably doesn’t care about moral worth or ethics or decency. Like most Republicans, he cares only about money and maximizing his wealth. That is the sole measure that interests him and nothing else matters.
I disagree. I’m responding specifically to the framing “this person doesn’t understand” and I think they do, because conservatives care tremendously about moral and ethics…for the definitions of those things they accept.
I write how I write because I’m not interested in the discourse of whether or not they’re bad people on an individual basis…it doesn’t matter, their internal lives are unknowable. I think the important part is that there’s a consistent framework that these people operate within…it’s present in all their culture and texts…and that this has both more explanatory and predictive power than again saying “well, clearly they didn’t understand the situation.”
If conservatives were ignorant then their positions would be more inconsistent, scattered, but conservatives have a very compact, consistent way of being “wrong” or “stupid” such that there is an worldview, an ideology, that does not function the way that they describe it to function, but also is not a pure dysfunction—an absence of care or intellect—as liberals like to characterize it.
They are cruel first; they want to sort and judge people. When they speak or assess it is most economically to assume that this informs their thoughts.
re: #44 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
My friend who caught covid in the 1st US wave still has very little sense of smell. It seems to be a permanent condition.
A girl friend thinks she was “poisoned” last week because she lost her sense of smell due to a recent case of COVID. She took fish from her refrigerator and became very ill the next day; she is certain now the fish was spoiled but she couldn’t detect the odor.
re: #36 The Ghost of a Flea
Oh, I don’t think he assumes that.
I think he assumes that anyone that couldn’t pay should have died because money measures both moral worth and inherent, fixed superiority.
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re: #27 Joe Bacon ✅
Yeah. That really worked when Grandma Bacon needed surgery in 1935 and Grandpa had to ask for help from his Union pals to come up with the $200 needed.
Luckily for him Grandma’s temple stepped up and said they would match anything the SWOC raised and then some to get to that $200.
During this time the AMA was actively campaigning against the establishment of Blue Cross claiming it was…you guessed it!…”Socialized Medicine”
That is exactly how Republicans think the poor should get healthcare; through charitable donations.
re: #52 goddamnedfrank
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re: #57 Joe Bacon ✅
I think that’s only the people who performed live.
re: #57 Joe Bacon ✅
It goes to show who really has taste and culture and who does not.
re: #60 Joe Bacon ✅
I will take the “other” guy any day.
Doug Burgum must be the first presidential candidate in history to campaign for 6 months and still have a name recognition of 0
Dec 4, 2023 at 10:59 AM
Poor Doug.
How ‘bout that NDSU/Montana St football game in Bozeman this weekend? Crazy, huh? Blocked extra point in overtime in the playoffs. Wild. MT State should have tried for two instead.
re: #62 dat_said
Tim Scott, we hardly knew ye.
The number of has beens that never were is growing. And none of them have bothered to go after Trump - the frontrunner. They spent more time trying to knock each other off for a far distant 2d or 3d.
re: #63 lawhawk
Tim Scott, we hardly knew ye.
The number of has beens that never were is growing. And none of them have bothered to go after Trump - the frontrunner. They spent more time trying to knock each other off for a far distant 2d or 3d.
In all seriousness, at this point how could you tell which ones are sincerely campaigned as opposing to using campaigning as a ad for whatever cross-platform sales funnel they have going?
At this point I think Haley is the only one that actually wants the job…which should never be given to her because she’s a well-mannered ghoul and it’s actually better if the ghouls in office are messy eaters.
re: #64 The Ghost of a Flea
In all seriousness, at this point how could you tell which ones are sincerely campaigned as opposing to using campaigning as a ad for whatever cross-platform sales funnel they have going?
At this point I think Haley is the only one that actually wants the job…which should never be given to her because she’s a well-mannered ghoul and it’s actually better if the ghouls in office are messy eaters.
She’s a well financed ghoul that will do the bidding of her rich overlords, and is seen as more palatable and controllable for them. She’s refused to take the fight to Trump, which means she’s also angling for a VP slot (and she already was his ambassador to the UN).
Most of those running are doing so for name recognition, although given how badly they’ve done at getting name recognition up, they’ve burned millions to do what precisely?
re: #57 Joe Bacon ✅
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No, the title of the image clearly stated “Music”.
re: #67 Mattand
No, the title of the image clearly stated “Music”.
Ted Nugent released a very popular song in 1977 before he retired from music to focus on promoting fascism.
re: #12 Dangerman
This is Looney tunes
Of course it is. Don’t these free market folks realize that their fee for service just like the Good Old Days plan will kill medical research in its tracks? That it will make getting good medical care for themselves way more inconvenient?
No one is going to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on developing new drugs, procedures, or even doing basic research to understand the cause of various conditions and illnesses if there isn’t a return on investment. If that’s not there, the work won’t be done and you won’t be able to get treatment no matter how rich or privileged you are.
Having an MRI machine at your local hospital depends on lots of people using it to defray the cost. If most of those people can’t afford to do that, there will be only as many MRI machines as can be kept busy by those who can afford them. It may require considerable travel to get to one.
These people are idiots.
re: #66 lawhawk
She’s a well financed ghoul that will do the bidding of her rich overlords, and is seen as more palatable and controllable for them. She’s refused to take the fight to Trump, which means she’s also angling for a VP slot (and she already was his ambassador to the UN).
Most of those running are doing so for name recognition, although given how badly they’ve done at getting name recognition up, they’ve burned millions to do what precisely?
I’ll say it again—the only reason she was made UN ambassador is because Trump’s buddy, Henry McMaster wanted to be governor and then run as the incumbent, so he had to get Nikki out of the way. Trump didn’t know Nikki from a hill of beans, nor did he care if she was qualified for the job (she wasn’t.)
re: #135 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
But end the charade of clling them “student athletes”, they should be regarded for that they are: paid athletes who also study as a sideline…
North Dakota State has at least 3 football players being offered six-figure deals to enter the transfer portal (opens today). Football season hasn’t even ended (NDSU is in the Division I FCS playoffs). The deals revolve around “Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL)”.
While I would argue that there are still a lot of actual student athletes, shit like this doesn’t help my argument.
re: #70 calochortus
Of course it is. Don’t these free market folks realize that their fee for service just like the Good Old Days plan will kill medical research in its tracks? That it will make getting good medical care for themselves will become way more inconvenient?
No one is going to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on developing new drugs, procedures, or even doing basic research to understand the cause of various conditions and illnesses if there isn’t a return on investment. If that’s not there, the work won’t be done and you won’t be able to get treatment no matter how rich or privileged you are.
Having an MRI machine at your local hospital depends on lots of people using it to defray the cost. If most of those people can’t afford to do that, there will be only as many MRI machines as can be kept busy by those who can afford them. It may require considerable travel to get to one.
These people are idiots.
The entire plot of Elysium.
re: #66 lawhawk
Most of those running are doing so for name recognition, although given how badly they’ve done at getting name recognition up, they’ve burned millions to do what precisely?
I feel like the answer is gaming the reactionary attention economy, but I also don’t think it will necessarily work.
Like…running for pres as a hype thing (which I’d argue is…Andrew Yang…a man we’d otherwise care very little for the political analysis of) can be leveraged: if you want clout, of you want money, if you want connections, all those things can be extruded from the process and…at least in theory…the costs will be borne by donors. But there’s some weird shit trying to figure out the power/money interior of conservatism, because sometimes it’s not about popular appeal but about getting one truly large patron to like you enough to just subsidize you (this is the career of Rod Dreher), though, that makes it really easy to spin out on wilder and wilder visions of how they’re building their funnel.
Probably the KISS version is what conventional to all politics: never end the campaign, do speaking gigs, write books, and perhaps set up a think tank or charity. But this is US conservatism, so it’s entirely feasible that the sales funnel could include quack medicine or buckets of survival food. But there’s also the angle that this is cultivation of a personal brand in a way that functions more like an influencer than a Blob politician.
Whether it will work for any of these people is whole other question, because I feel most aren’t reading the room correctly.
re: #69 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
Ted Nugent released a very popular song in 1977 before he retired from music to focus on promoting fascism.
it may have been popular (with a certain subset) but it wasn’t music.
re: #72 dat_said
North Dakota State has at least 3 football players being offered six-figure deals to enter the transfer portal (opens today). Football season hasn’t even ended (NDSU is in the Division I FCS playoffs). The deals revolve around “Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL)”.
While I would argue that there are still a lot of actual student athletes, shit like this doesn’t help my argument.
It’s not just players that are looking to move.
🚨BREAKING: Ohio State Mascot Brutus the Buckeye has entered the NCAA Transfer Portal, per @SportsAndChup pic.twitter.com/ZgiSahZGBD
— Sports Jim III (@SportsAndChup) December 4, 2023
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re: #75 Backwoods Sleuth
it may have been popular (with a certain subset) but it wasn’t music.
Hey, what subset?
Sometimes I think the US could really use a good exorcist.
I’ll state my unpopular opinion that I’d much rather have Nikki Haley than Trump, and it’s not close. I don’t think she’d have different policies, but I think the Republic could survive her and she’d leave office if she lost re-election.
I have never voted for a Republican, and would never support her, but I can still differentiate between them and Trump is an order of magnitude worse.
re: #79 Unabogie
I’ll state my unpopular opinion that I’d much rather have Nikki Haley than Trump, and it’s not close. I don’t think she’d have different policies, but I think the Republic could survive her and she’d leave office if she lost re-election.
I have never voted for a Republican, and would never support her, but I can still differentiate between them and Trump is an order of magnitude worse.
If she got the nom, the never trumpers* would flock towards her, and the only-Trumpers…. some of them would sit out or go Third Party but most of them would probably vote for her. It still seems like it would probably be a net benefit for Biden.
Edit: * Except maybe for those Never Trumpers who want to burn the Republican party down, exorcise it, and rebuild from scratch.
re: #79 Unabogie
I’ll state my unpopular opinion that I’d much rather have Nikki Haley than Trump, and it’s not close. I don’t think she’d have different policies, but I think the Republic could survive her and she’d leave office if she lost re-election.
I have never voted for a Republican, and would never support her, but I can still differentiate between them and Trump is an order of magnitude worse.
I have to agree. She would be terrible in a normal, establishment GOP way, but she wouldn’t be a fascist dictator, and she wouldn’t stoke violence to try to win the presidency.
re: #81 No Malarkey!
I have to agree. She would be terrible in a normal, establishment GOP way, but she wouldn’t be a fascist dictator, and she wouldn’t stoke violence to try to win the presidency.
And this is why I support the efforts to bar Trump from the ballot based on the 14th Amendment. Trump will incite violence to try to win the election and avoid prison, which is why he shouldn’t be allowed on the ballot in the first place.
re: #81 No Malarkey!
I have to agree. She would be terrible in a normal, establishment GOP way, but she wouldn’t be a fascist dictator, and she wouldn’t stoke violence to try to win the presidency.
My view:
She becomes nominee, wins because she is younger, and she governs like a traditional Republican, which means a terrible Supreme Court that will make even worse rulings than now, with no hope of escape. Abortion will be outlawed nationwide IF her win is accompanied by a GOP House and Senate, as is likely. She succeeds in eliminating the ACA and does the fascist thing, as she proposed, of imposing 5 year limit on civil servants. Her foreign policy will be traditional Republican and not owned by Putin. But her rule will destroy our democracy, even though she will leave office when her term is up.
Any Republican win will lead to a destruction of our democracy.
re: #81 No Malarkey!
I have to agree. She would be terrible in a normal, establishment GOP way, but she wouldn’t be a fascist dictator, and she wouldn’t stoke violence to try to win the presidency.
But the normal establishment way of being GOP is to constantly build towards an illiberal system in which democracy is a technicality, and the violence of the state can be normalized as merely maintenance of disorder. Like, people will be arrested and die, it will just be done at a continuous rate by people who have been granted license to kill. It’s not even a distinction without a difference, it’s a brief vacation in one kind of state terror before the inadequacies of conservative policy require scapegoating and escalation.
You can’t right conservatism because conservatism isn’t yawing: it’s positions are built on things that don’t work, their core beliefs are pre-undermined by the emphasis on unanswerable authority, and at every step where pulling back would have mattered they have instead proceeded towards reaction. The real danger of Haley is that she speaks the language of the Blob—the centrists and the unaligned power-holders convinced they know better when they view politics as a game of rhetoric and a horse-race than as a thing with existential implications—such that…much like with the War on Terror….she’d actually be the better candidate to end democracy.
re: #84 Hecuba’s daughter
I.e., Trump would be a dictatorship centered on Trump. Any other Republican as president would trend toward a dictatorship of The Party.
re: #86 The Ghost of a Flea
To put it crudely, the only difference between Trump and never-Trump Republicans is in the details of exactly how they want to end democracy. Trump would do it immediately, and any other Republican would do it less immediately.
Growth in the number of medically assisted deaths in Canada continues in 2022.In 2022, there were 13,241 MAID provisions reported in Canada, accounting for 4.1% of all deaths in Canada.
The number of cases of MAID in 2022 represents a growth rate of 31.2% over 2021. All provinces except Manitoba and the Yukon continue to experience a steady year-over-year growth in 2022.
When all data sources are considered, the total number of medically assisted deaths reported in Canada since the introduction of federal MAID legislation in 2016 is 44,958.
Although not very nutritious, crabs can eat bread: watch this one using its claws to slowly enjoying a slice.pic.twitter.com/3VnZW7TzjM
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) December 4, 2023
re: #3 Belafon
My organ donation only occurs after I die, so I won’t be thinking much about it.
You have to actively approve of it before you shuffle off your mortal coil and join the choir invisible.
re: #6 jeffreyw
Better stock up on Cocoa while you can…
More bad news for Biden: “I had to spend $90 for a chocolate Easter bunny!”
re: #12 Dangerman
“I mean, healthcare worked before health insurance existed. Each town had a doctor that would drive to your house, take care of you and you’d pay him,” Sheehy said. “And guess what? It worked. It worked when you actually paid a doctor for services provided.”
Bring out your chickens or bring out your dead!
re: #41 lizardofid
I seem to remember improved benefits were a negotiation point in the UAW during the period of Nixon wage and price freezes.
Ah yes, Republicans and Free Enterprise.
re: #90 EPR-radar
To put it crudely, the only difference between Trump and never-Trump Republicans is in the details of exactly how they want to end democracy. Trump would do it immediately, and any other Republican would do it less immediately.
Except after much thought, we don’t live in a democracy — and not exactly for the reasons that the GOP screeches that it’s a republic not a democracy. We live in a tyranny of the minority thanks to:
1. Electoral College which can allow the winner of 70% of the vote to lose the election.
2. The structure of the Senate, where 51 votes can represent less than 18% of the population and 67 votes represent less than a third of the population. (Of course two of the three largest states are Republican)
3. Gerrymandering which controls the representation of the House.
Nothing democratic about any of that.
re: #90 EPR-radar
To put it crudely, the only difference between Trump and never-Trump Republicans is in the details of exactly how they want to end democracy. Trump would do it immediately (by fiat), and any other Republican would do it less immediately (by pretending to use the accepted levers of power) .
re: #95 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Bring out your chickens or bring out your dead!
if you’re still alive past 45
re: #69 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
Ted Nugent released a very popular song in 1977 before he retired from music to focus on promoting fascism.
Storm Troopin’?
re: #78 Charles Johnson
Sometimes I think the US could really use a good exorcist.
We have not had experience with a true authoritarian/totalitarian takeover, and although I hope it is not the case, we might just need to go through it and hope we come out of it having learned something.
re: #93 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
You have to actively approve of it before you shuffle off your mortal coil and join the choir invisible.
also, depending on location, it just takes one immediate family member to disagree with the organ donation, no matter what is checked on your driver’s license
re: #96 Dangerman
the michelin man shits marshmallows
who knew?
Hey! That’s the Sta-Puft Marshmallow Man!
Fun fact:
The last day of 2023 will be this one
(yeah, date format mm/dd/yy). pic.twitter.com/6WE7fzuhWP— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) December 4, 2023
re: #103 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
We have not had experience with a true authoritarian/totalitarian takeover, and although I hope it is not the case, we might just need to go through it and hope we come out of it having learned something.
And how would we come out of it? Germany came out after it started a war that left tens of millions dead worldwide— but there is no America to ride to our rescue. The Civil War which was an effort to create an authoritarian white supremacist dictatorship left about 600,000 Americans dead. Again there would be no American government to rescue us. It would be the end of us, period.
re: #106 gocart mozart
waltzing into 2024.
I cannot wait to resurrect the one from a few years back from the Ramones at midnight on December 30th:
2024 24 hours to go, I wanna be sedated!
re: #78 Charles Johnson
Sometimes I think the US could really use a good exorcist.
yeah that movie always ends well
re: #107 Hecuba’s daughter
And how would we come out of it? Germany came out after it started a war that left tens of millions dead worldwide— but there is no America to ride to our rescue. The Civil War which was an effort to create an authoritarian white supremacist dictatorship left about 600,000 Americans dead. Again there would be no American government to rescue us. It would be the end of us, period.
Yes, that is my major concern. No Marshall Plan or Reconstruction…just GIlead Idiocracy 451
re: #105 Joe Bacon ✅
Hey! That’s the Sta-Puft Marshmallow Man!
yeah, i was going for something less gruesome than him being grated to bits
re: #108 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
waltzing into 2024.
I cannot wait to resurrect the one from a few years back from the Ramones at midnight on December 30th:
2024 24 hours to go, I wanna be sedated!
GMTA
oh my god pic.twitter.com/XxFye3EbQw
— Shehan Jeyarajah (@ShehanJeyarajah) December 4, 2023
My favorite thing today is the first reply.
“Florida State can still make the CFP if Mike Pence has the courage to do what is right”
re: #88 Joe Bacon ✅
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re: #117 Belafon
This is the only Big 5 I know of:
en.wikipedia.org
re: #117 Belafon
What is a Power Five team?
One of the big conferences. Florida State is in the ACC.
Cybertruck reviews coming in, probably fanboys.
The Cybertruck accelerates from 0 to 60 miles per hour in a reported 2.7 seconds - faster than the latest Ferarri 296 GTB’s rated 2.9 seconds for the same sprint.
Its factory-rated 845 horsepower rockets the Cybertruck through a quarter mile in 11 seconds flat.
If you want that kind of power, though, you’ll need to open your wallet. The triple-motor Cybertruck starts at about $100,000.
‘Expect somewhere around $75,000, $85,000 for the dual-motor version,’ Brownlee said, ‘and then the single-motor will be further down the road.’
The dual-motor Cybertruck will be no slouch, though, at a reported 600-plus horsepower.
And after the launch event last week, Tesla announced the Cybertruck will start at $60,000, so it’s safe to say that is the price tag for the single-motor version.
For all of the models, the bed can carry 2,500 pounds, and the towing capacity is 11,000 pounds.
re: #120 lizardofid
One of the big conferences. Florida State is in the ACC.
So there are five conferences and four playoff spots. If my math works correctly, at least one conference is always left out.
re: #119 PhillyPretzel ✅
This is the only Big 5 I know of:
en.wikipedia.org
Wow! That’s a real inside baseball basketball reference! ; )
re: #122 Belafon
So there are five conferences and four playoff spots. If my math works correctly, at least one conference is always left out.
I believe the key here is the “undefeated” aspect.
WaPo ping: US has set a grim record in mass shootings for one year. Something we already knew.
re: #125 lizardofid
I believe the key here is the “undefeated” aspect.
I went back and reread trump’s tweet. He left out the “undefeated” part.
re: #121 Shropshire Slasher
I’m really confused about why you’d want sports-car fast acceleration in a thing with a open loading bed.
I already know the answer…that bed’s never going to get used and the accleration isn’t there to be practical…but I refuse to acknowledge that level of empty consumer fetishism, my brain just won’t let it in.
re: #126 PhillyPretzel ✅
WaPo ping: US has set a grim record in mass shootings for one year. Something we already knew.
Just wait until the Democrats steal another election…
Honestly, it sounds to me like, much like oversize trucks, this thing is going to take normal car accidents and turn them into fatalities.
It’s not built to be on the road with other things or people, it’s focused is solely to make the driver feel armored in high-spec features.
The number of college playoff teams is increasing next year, so maybe there will be less of this fuckery in the future.
re: #132 Eclectic Cyborg
The number of college playoffs teams is increasing next year, so maybe there will be less of this fuckery in the future.
yeah, going from 4 to 12. And conference realignment means more good teams having to play other good teams during the season. The next fuckery will kind of look like the old fuckery though when you end up with two really good teams not in the Power 5 (or I guess Power 4 next season since the Pac-12 will go on hiatus)
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They need a serrated guillotine. Surely Frito Lay has such a thing.
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re: #110 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Yes, that is my major concern. No Marshall Plan or Reconstruction…just GIlead Idiocracy 451
China and Russia salting the earth in the ruins of the US would not help.
re: #134 Captain Magic
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re: #128 The Ghost of a Flea
I’m really confused about why you’d want sports-car fast acceleration in a thing with a open loading bed.
I already know the answer…that bed’s never going to get used and the accleration isn’t there to be practical…but I refuse to acknowledge that level of empty consumer fetishism, my brain just won’t let it in.
The market for the cyber truck is simple to describe, but impossible to explain. Just like any other sexual fetish.
re: #134 Captain Magic
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re: #131 The Ghost of a Flea
Honestly, it sounds to me like, much like oversize trucks, this thing is going to take normal car accidents and turn them into fatalities.
It’s not built to be on the road with other things or people, it’s focused is solely to make the driver feel armored in high-spec features.
The fatalities will presumably be “other people fatalities”. And thus, according to conservatism, categorically not a problem. But insurers won’t see it that way.
re: #134 Captain Magic
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re: #138 EPR-radar
China and Russia salting the earth in the ruins of the US would not help.
They will be too busy collapsing themselves and they are both a lot closer to each other.
re: #144 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They will be too busy collapsing themselves and they are both a lot closer to each other.
Since when do failing states/empires stop meddling in the internal affairs of their competition? That only ends when they actually fall (it would be grimly amusing to date the ends of historical empires using only this rule — my guess is that it would be pretty damn accurate).
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re: #137 Vicious Babushka
You mean a mandoline.
I recall when you posted about your injury from that evil device!
re: #134 Captain Magic
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re: #145 EPR-radar
Since when do failing states/empires stop meddling in the internal affairs of their competition? That only ends when they actually fall (it would be grimly amusing to date the ends of historical empires using only this rule — my guess is that it would be pretty damn accurate).
Not that they wouldn’t be meddling, but they will likely be a lot more involved with themselves and each other.
Russia is on its last legs and China is staving off the inevitable economic collapse, billion/trillions in artificially inflated real estate values are about to go down the Yangtse without a paddle very soon.
And those two share a physical border, which the USA does not with either.
re: #128 The Ghost of a Flea
I’m really confused about why you’d want sports-car fast acceleration in a thing with a open loading bed.
I already know the answer…that bed’s never going to get used and the accleration isn’t there to be practical…but I refuse to acknowledge that level of empty consumer fetishism, my brain just won’t let it in.
when I see a maserati or Lamborghini stuck in dead stopped traffic I smile.
also you dont need to spend 250k to bust the speed limit. most any car can these days. //
re: #147 Hecuba’s daughter
I recall when you posted about your injury from that evil device!
The worst injury that I ever sustained from a kitchen tool was when I attempted to peel a raw butternut squash, and the peeler took off the tip of my thumb. I live-blogged about that here at LGF so that’s probably what you remember.
I have always feared & respected the evil mandoline & use it rarely, always geared up with cutproof gloves.
Forty-one bowl games, including the Duke’s Mayo Bowl, the Pop Tarts Bowl, the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl and the Myrtle Beach Bowl (which is played in Conway, not Myrtle Beach.)
If nothing else, the bowl lineups are good for a laugh (Poor Oregon has to play Liberty U, but not in the Liberty Bowl, which has Iowa State and Memphis.)
Armed Forces Network in Germany regulary broadcasts public service announcements reminding GI’s that although American cars might have the muscle power to drive on the speed limit-free stretches of Autobahn, their steering and suspension is not engineered for such high speeds.
In other words, if you wanna go 110 mph on the Autobahn, do it in a BMW, Mercedes or Audi…
re: #157 BeachDem
Forty-one bowl games, including the Duke’s Mayo Bowl, the Pop Tarts Bowl, the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl and the Myrtle Beach Bowl (which is played in Conway, not Myrtle Beach.)
If nothing else, the bowl lineups are good for a laugh (Poor Oregon has to play Liberty U, but not in the Liberty Bowl, which has Iowa State and Memphis.)
Coastal Carolina gets to go to Hawaii so there’s that!!
re: #156 Vicious Babushka
The worst injury that I ever sustained from a kitchen tool was when I attempted to peel a raw butternut squash, and the peeler took off the tip of my thumb. I live-blogged about that here at LGF so that’s probably what you remember.
I have always feared & respected the evil mandoline & use it rarely, always geared up with cutproof gloves.
raw butternut squash is a fighter
cooked, it’s warm and cuddly
re: #157 BeachDem
Forty-one bowl games, including the Duke’s Mayo Bowl, the Pop Tarts Bowl, the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl and the Myrtle Beach Bowl (which is played in Conway, not Myrtle Beach.)
If nothing else, the bowl lineups are good for a laugh (Poor Oregon has to play Liberty U, but not in the Liberty Bowl, which has Iowa State and Memphis.)
So who’s playing in The Toilet Bowl? 😏
re: #121 Shropshire Slasher
Cybertruck reviews coming in, probably fanboys.
I think it’s awesome that 7,000 lbs can fly that fast on residential streets and nothing bad can ever come of that.
re: #159 HRH Stanley Sea
Coastal Carolina gets to go to Hawaii so there’s that!!
True that! I love the WaPo rankings of the games. The Myrtle Beach Bowl is ranked 41st (out of 41) with the suggestion—pass.
Recipe time!
Achilles Bake
The mythological Achilles was considered to be the greatest warrior to ever live, the best of the best. The Achilles Bake is not so predisposed to violence, but it is the best of the best! Each savory chicken breast is coated in tangy, zesty, Mediterranean flavors and then stuffed with garden-fresh veggies and lemon slices, allowing all the flavors to fuse together beautifully. Topped with an armor of melty cheese, the Achilles Bake is going to be a legend for your taste buds!
Ingredients
4 chicken breasts, boneless and skinless
salt, to taste
pepper, to taste
3 tablespoons olive oil
2 tablespoons lemon juice
4 cloves garlic, minced
1 tablespoon fresh oregano, chopped, can substitute 1 teaspoon dried oregano
1 zucchini, sliced
2 tomatoes, sliced
1 red onion, sliced
2 lemons, sliced thin
2 cups mozzarella, grated
Directions
Step 1 -
Preheat an oven to 400 degrees F.
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Grease a 9x13-inch casserole dish.
Step 3 -
Make about six slits in each of the chicken breasts, being careful not to cut all the way through.
Step 4 -
Season the chicken with the salt and the pepper.
Step 5 -
Place the chicken into the prepared casserole dish.
Step 6 -
Stir together the olive oil, the lemon juice, the garlic, and the oregano in a bowl.
Step 7 -
Brush the oil mixture onto the chicken, making sure it gets into the slits.
Step 8 -
Stuff the chicken slits with the zucchini, the tomatoes, the onion, and the lemon slices, placing the remaining vegetables and lemon slices around the chicken in the dish.
Step 9 -
Sprinkle the chicken with the mozzarella and the feta.
Step 10 -
Bake until the chicken is cooked through with the meat reaching an internal temperature of 165 degrees F, about 25-30 minutes.
Step 11 -
Serve.
re: #162 Unabogie
“Do you know how fast you were going?”
“No, I would have to be looking down and to the right for that.”
I thought my ethically-challenged colleague @BobMenendezNJ could use some encouragement given his substantial legal problems.
So, I approached a seasoned expert on the matter to give ‘Bobby from Jersey’ some advice. pic.twitter.com/y8iX55EyNi— John Fetterman (@JohnFetterman) December 4, 2023
re: #166 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization
Leave it to John.
Afternoon Lizards. A small Holiday tip for dealing with porch pirates.
Use an Amazon box for kitty litter.
When its full just tape it shut and put it on your porch
so someone can steal it— jim rose circus (@jimrosecircus1) December 4, 2021
re: #133 KGxvi
yeah, going from 4 to 12. And conference realignment means more good teams having to play other good teams during the season. The next fuckery will kind of look like the old fuckery though when you end up with two really good teams not in the Power 5 (or I guess Power 4 next season since the Pac-12 will go on hiatus)
I’m curious about your stating the Pac-12 will be going on “hiatus”. As far as I know, it will be dead, dead, dead. The greedy schools gone to other conferences to reap their share of the millions and millions of dollars being thrown off by football. They’re going to need it in order to pay the hugely increased travel costs required for schools to transit the entire country to play their new foes. It won’t just be the football and basketball teams but all the non-revenue sports as well. Personally, as a fan of the conference for many years, I hope they choke on it but they aren’t going to put the band back together ever again
re: #134 Captain Magic
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re: #132 Eclectic Cyborg
The number of college playoff teams is increasing next year, so maybe there will be less of this fuckery in the future.
The FCS of NCAA Division I football currently invites 24, 10 automatic bids. They’ve shown it’s possible to have a 32 team playoff, so I expect the FBS will expand to 24 or 32 teams sometime in the next five years. Too much money to be made over the current bowl system.
re: #172 jaunte
If Elon is not on something, he should be.
7.8 million views.
I’m sure they laughed and laughed and then pulled their skin suits off and flew away.
re: #12 Dangerman
One of my uncles is a lawyer. He was one before we had public healthcare up here in Canada.
At least once a week a doctor would come in with a huge stack of unpaid bills asking, “What can I do about this?”
His answer was always, “Hire a collection agency.” There was nothing a lawyer could do.
Doctors no longer have that problem. Although, thanks to ‘conservative’ provincial governments, fewer and fewer things are covered under our healthcare.
re: #134 Captain Magic
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re: #169 sizzzzlerz
I’m curious about your stating the Pac-12 will be going on “hiatus”. As far as I know, it will be dead, dead, dead. The greedy schools gone to other conferences to reap their share of the millions and millions of dollars being thrown off by football. They’re going to need it in order to pay the hugely increased travel costs required for schools to transit the entire country to play their new foes. It won’t just be the football and basketball teams but all the non-revenue sports as well. Personally, as a fan of the conference for many years, I hope they choke on it but they aren’t going to put the band back together ever again
Recently ruling from a Washington state court is essentially handing control to Oregon State and Washington State. It depends on how things play out from here, but it’s likely those two schools are going to be able to retain control of the name. They’re also already working with the Mountain West on a scheduling deal, and indications are that there will be a merger in a year or two when the Mountain West’s media rights deals are up.
re: #163 BeachDem
True that! I love the WaPo rankings of the games. The Myrtle Beach Bowl is ranked 41st (out of 41) with the suggestion—pass.
Back in the day, when the bowl games were between the winners of rival conferences and the Rose Bowl was eagerly anticipated along with the pomp and pageantry of the Rose parade, I would refer to all the other bowl games a “junk” bowls, usually broadcast on non-network TV stations during December. However, since ESPN appeared and there became a need to feed its voracious maw of broadcast time with their resulting commercials, all the games are on prime channels, whether or not they’re of any interest to anyone besides fans of the two schools, became available. And the BCS, of course, totally destroyed the fun of the major bowls.
re: #172 jaunte
Elmo has managed to port his weird attempted sense of humor into AI.
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re: #57 Joe Bacon ✅
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Kid Rock and Ted Nugent missing on the right side…
Both wearing hats indoors. Tacky redneck shitheads.
re: #134 Captain Magic
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re: #126 PhillyPretzel ✅
WaPo ping: US has set a grim record in mass shootings for one year. Something we already knew.
Thoughts and prayers.
re: #164 Joe Bacon ✅
Do you have the link?
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re: #179 KGxvi
Recently ruling from a Washington state court is essentially handing control to Oregon State and Washington State. It depends on how things play out from here, but it’s likely those two schools are going to be able to retain control of the name. They’re also already working with the Mountain West on a scheduling deal, and indications are that there will be a merger in a year or two when the Mountain West’s media rights deals are up.
While I’m sure Nevada and New Mexico are fine schools, their stature simply cannot compare to USC, UCLA, Stanford, or Washington. To attempt to use the rights to the conference name on a collection of smaller schools just because two of the former conference’s schools who couldn’t find a new conference to join is a pathetic joke. You can’t reanimate a corpse.
re: #124 Shropshire Slasher
Propane tanker truck accident in Vermont, scary, and pretty.
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re: #134 Captain Magic
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re: #134 Captain Magic
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re: #158 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Armed Forces Network in Germany regulary broadcasts public service announcements reminding GI’s that although American cars might have the muscle power to drive on the speed limit-free stretches of Autobahn, their steering and suspension is not engineered for such high speeds.
Here, hold mah beer!
re: #156 Vicious Babushka
The worst injury that I ever sustained from a kitchen tool was when I attempted to peel a raw butternut squash, and the peeler took off the tip of my thumb. I live-blogged about that here at LGF so that’s probably what you remember.
I have always feared & respected the evil mandoline & use it rarely, always geared up with cutproof gloves.
We had roasted squash tonight:
Here’s a tutorial on peeling one from Serious Eats:
re: #187 Captain Magic
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re: #187 Captain Magic
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re: #178 darthstar
Grifters always have another grift at the ready.
re: #79 Unabogie
I’ll state my unpopular opinion that I’d much rather have Nikki Haley than Trump, and it’s not close. I don’t think she’d have different policies, but I think the Republic could survive her and she’d leave office if she lost re-election.
I have never voted for a Republican, and would never support her, but I can still differentiate between them and Trump is an order of magnitude worse.
Haley would be only slightly less awful than Trump - ie she won’t spearhead an attempt to overturn the election if she loses (she’ll leave it to Trump’s remaining goon squad).
The only we she can win the nomination is if she goes after Trump the way Liz Cheney went after him. Gloves off! That would bring back most of the Never Trumpers, it seems to me. But in response, Trump will go full scorched earth on her. He would likely run as an independent and he might even attack her worse than he attacks Biden.
This would hand the election to Biden on a silver platter because the MAGA’s will either vote for Trump or stay home.
The GOP might just considering ceding the election to Biden enough of a price to finally be rid of Trump.
re: #199 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization
…
The GOP might just considering ceding the election to Biden enough of a price to finally be rid of Trump.
Your own user name confirms that you know this will never happen.
re: #158 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Armed Forces Network in Germany regulary broadcasts public service announcements reminding GI’s that although American cars might have the muscle power to drive on the speed limit-free stretches of Autobahn, their steering and suspension is not engineered for such high speeds.
In other words, if you wanna go 110 mph on the Autobahn, do it in a BMW, Mercedes or Audi…
Nürburgring lap: 2014 Camaro Z28 7:37:47
re: #199 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization
Haley would be only slightly less awful than Trump
SNIP
I bolded the part that’s most important (to me at least.) I wish everyone would stop trying to normalize Nikki and present her as this thoughtful, moderate person. She is a slimy snake with no convictions who goes the way the wind blows as long as it carries her along.
Guess I need to organize all my Nikki notes and do a page of “pre-governor, governor, post-governor” horror stories. There are MANY.
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re: #202 BeachDem
I bolded the part that’s most important (to me at least.) I wish everyone would stop trying to normalize Nikki and present her as this thoughtful, moderate person. She is a slimy snake with no convictions who goes the way the wind blows as long as it carries her along.
Guess I need to organize all my Nikki notes and do a page of “pre-governor, governor, post-governor” horror stories. There are MANY.
Nobody with any ethics or sense is trying to present Haley as a moderate, sensible person. Those lies are coming from the GOP-enabling mainstream media, desperate to pretend that there is something in the GOP that isn’t rancid shit on a stick.
re: #187 Captain Magic
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re: #204 EPR-radar
Nobody with any ethics or sense is trying to present Haley as a moderate, sensible person. Those lies are coming from the GOP-enabling mainstream media, desperate to pretend that there is something in the GOP that isn’t rancid shit on a stick.
I guess that explains Jamie Dimon trying to convince Dems to support Nikki (he has no ethics or sense, so…)
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon has a message for some of the world’s wealthiest corporate leaders: help Nikki Haley’s presidential campaign.
“Even if you’re a very liberal Democrat, I urge you, help Nikki Haley, too.”
UGH
Got out and skied Vail Mountain today, the sun came out after a big storm dumped two feet on the mountain. Today was a lot of fun. Also, afterwards I went to the weed store to get some cannabis concentrate, just a gram, no biggie. I get rung up, I leave, I get home, and find that I got four grams, actually. $50 worth of shatter for $18. Win win.
re: #134 Captain Magic
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re: #201 BeenHereAwhile
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I may be a fat little old lady, but I was always a Camaro gal. My first one was great, and my second, poor thing, had been ridden hard and put away wet. But we pulled and rebuilt the motor in the kitchen one winter, and I enjoyed the feeling, even if it was a bit too much for me to truly control. Floated off a wet highway on a curve. Never had an actual wreck. But it raised my blood pressure with that engine roar, bless it. It was scarlet, with gold trim, and a T-top. All I needed was to have been 25 years younger, and I probably would have killed myself in it!
Well sh*t, had a whole thing, tried to edit a correction and cut it all unintentionally a split-second before hitting save changes. Boo. xD
I vaguely recall putting this in my saved eBay searches three years ago because if I remember correctly at f/1.9 it’s the fastest lens that covers 4x5 ever made.
But $2100, with no shutter?
Man, what exactly is the use case for this shit?
Collodion process? I mean I know some weird people still get into that but wow is it dangerous.
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re: #209 retired cynic
I may be a fat little old lady, but I was always a Camaro gal. My first one was great, and my second, poor thing, had been ridden hard and put away wet. But we pulled and rebuilt the motor in the kitchen one winter, and I enjoyed the feeling, even if it was a bit too much for me to truly control. Floated off a wet highway on a curve. Never had an actual wreck. But it raised my blood pressure with that engine roar, bless it. It was scarlet, with gold trim, and a T-top. All I needed was to have been 25 years younger, and I probably would have killed myself in it!
Also a long-time Camaro girl. Had:
‘78—got totalled in front of my apartment (dark green metallic)
‘80—got totalled in a parking lot (navy blue metallic)
‘82—the year they changed the body style (dark gray)
‘85 Iroc—got stolen while I was in Indianapolis; stripped of tires and wheels.
Got it fixed, got it home to Ohio; one night, during an ice-storm, got stripped
outside my apartment—again tires and wheels taken—car left on cinder blocks.
Sad as I was to say goodbye, I figured that as soon as I got it back, somebody would be by to steal the tires and rims again (black with red trim)
Then I got a Beretta, which I was pretty sure NOBODY would ever want to steal.
re: #212 goddamnedfrank
I vaguely remember putting this in my saved eBay searches three years ago because if I remember correctly at f/1.9 it’s the fastest lens that covers 4x5 ever made.
But $2100, with no shutter?
Man, what exactly is the use case for this shit?
Collodion process? I mean I know people still do that but wow is it dangerous.
Nowhere near the expert some in my extended family are with camera lens, but maybe it’s a rare collector’s item now due to some circumstances that have transpired since then?
re: #214 BeachDem
Also a long-time Camaro girl. Had:
‘78—got totalled in front of my apartment (dark green metallic)
‘80—got totalled in a parking lot (navy blue metallic)
‘82—the year they changed the body style (dark gray)
‘85 Iroc—got stolen while I was in Indianapolis; stripped of tires and wheels.
Got it fixed, got it home to Ohio; one night, during an ice-storm, got stripped
outside my apartment—again tires and wheels taken—car left on cinder blocks.
Sad as I was to say goodbye, I figured that as soon as I got it back, somebody would be by to steal the tires and rims again (black with red trim)
Then I got a Beretta, which I was pretty sure NOBODY would ever want to steal.
My first was a ‘76. White, plain Jane. Still a wonderful car. The second was an ‘85 IROC, like you! That motor growl was just so sexy!
re: #181 sizzzzlerz
Back in the day, when the bowl games were between the winners of rival conferences and the Rose Bowl was eagerly anticipated along with the pomp and pageantry of the Rose parade, I would refer to all the other bowl games a “junk” bowls, usually broadcast on non-network TV stations during December. However, since ESPN appeared and there became a need to feed its voracious maw of broadcast time with their resulting commercials, all the games are on prime channels, whether or not they’re of any interest to anyone besides fans of the two schools, became available. And the BCS, of course, totally destroyed the fun of the major bowls.
Yup, they’re all junk bowls now. I don’t watch any of them any more. I check the final scores in case a guest asks but that’s it.
re: #216 retired cynic
My first was a ‘76. White, plain Jane. Still a wonderful car. The second was an ‘85 IROC, like you! That motor growl was just so sexy!
Sucked in the winter, though. I bought a beater Honda to drive in the snow. The IROC idled at many, many RPMs for Ohio winter.
re: #209 retired cynic
I may be a fat little old lady, but I was always a Camaro gal. My first one was great, and my second, poor thing, had been ridden hard and put away wet. But we pulled and rebuilt the motor in the kitchen one winter, and I enjoyed the feeling, even if it was a bit too much for me to truly control. Floated off a wet highway on a curve. Never had an actual wreck. But it raised my blood pressure with that engine roar, bless it. It was scarlet, with gold trim, and a T-top. All I needed was to have been 25 years younger, and I probably would have killed myself in it!
Never owned a Camero, but appreciated them starting with the initial Yenko Z28 of the late 1960s.
The 2014 Z28 Camero was special, stock from the factory with dry sump rat motor, 6 speed trans, trick adjustable suspension from drivers seat, carbon Brembo brakes, Recaro seats, and - topped off by good sounds and happy motor at 6500 RPM.
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