The Rainiest Place on Earth (Or, How a Rainfall Simulator Saves Millions of Lives)

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Huge thanks to Okouchi-San and Dr. Sakai and everyone at NIED and the Large Scale Rainfall Simulator for their time, expertise and access to this amazing facility.

A big thank you to Prof. Olga Mavrouli and Prof. Bill Schulz for their invaluable expertise on the mechanisms of landslides.

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Van Boxel, J. H. (1997, November). Numerical model for the fall speed of rain drops in a rain fall simulator. In Workshop on wind and water erosion (Vol. 5, pp. 77-85). – ve42.co

Canuti, P., Focardi, P., & Garzonio, C. (1985). Correlation between rainfall and landslides. Bulletin of Engineering Geology & the Environment, 32(1).

Tsaparas, I., Rahardjo, H., Toll, D. G., & Leong, E. C. (2002). Controlling parameters for rainfall-induced landslides. Computers and geotechnics, 29(1), 1-27. – ve42.co

Nakamura, H., & Oosawa, M. (2021, March). Effects of the underground discharge channel/reservoir for small urban rivers in the Tokyo area. In IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science (Vol. 703, No. 1, p. 012029). IOP Publishing. – ve42.co

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Jan 26, 2024 • 5:43:38pm

The corporation must have pressed McMahon to resign, but if he chose to stay he probably could have, but I bet the insiders have even more dirt on him:

Major news. Vince McMahon resigned from all roles with TKO.

The following was sent to some staff pic.twitter.com/kTZbpooTu7

— Sean Ross Sapp of fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) January 27, 2024

Charles Johnson Jan 26, 2024 • 5:45:30pm

I just have to say that Chris Hayes’ interview with E. Jean Carroll attorney Shawn Crowley was riveting, and I don’t usually feel that way about cable news.

Rachel Maddow interviews E .Jean Carroll on Monday.

Unabogie Jan 26, 2024 • 5:45:50pm

re: #206 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I didn’t. ‘splain it to me?

Red shift | Astrophysics | Physics | FuseSchool

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Jan 26, 2024 • 5:46:23pm

When it rains it pours:

McMahon has many other NDAs over the years, at least one for twice the amount of payout as the one that broke the story yesterday.

And his fellow executives knew and let him get away with it. One even participated.

Same with Trump. Once this damn breaks there will be a lot of stuff that floats to the surface.

Eclectic Cyborg Jan 26, 2024 • 5:47:13pm

re: #2 Charles Johnson

I just have to say that Chris Hayes’ interview with E. Jean Carroll attorney Shawn Crowley was riveting, and I don’t usually feel that way about cable news.

Rachel Maddow interviews E .Jean Carroll on Monday.

Oh, TFG is going to love that.

Dangerman Jan 26, 2024 • 5:49:30pm

A bipartisan group of more than two dozen House lawmakers plans to send a letter to President Biden on Friday arguing that he must seek authorization from Congress before launching additional strikes against the Houthis in Yemen,” the Washington Post reports.

So is the prez immune or not?
Make up your minds

[deleted] Jan 26, 2024 • 5:49:51pm

Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 26, 2024 • 5:50:51pm

re: #1 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The corporation must have pressed McMahon to resign, but if he chose to stay he probably could have, but I bet the insiders have even more dirt on him:

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Good. I NEVER will forgive that prick for what he did to Superstar Billy Graham leaving Billy an invalid. OR what he allowed to happen to Owen Hart.

Dangerman Jan 26, 2024 • 5:50:59pm

re: #5 Eclectic Cyborg

Oh, TFG is going to love that.

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Here’s my fantasy

She never mentions his name.
He sues her for defamation anyway
In deposition: what makes you think it’s you…

Nerdy Fish Jan 26, 2024 • 5:51:02pm

re: #6 Dangerman

So is the prez immune or not?
Make up your minds

Get bent, fascist blowhards. The United States Armed Forces has the right to fire back when fired upon. That is a generally understood universal principle; “don’t start something you don’t want finished.”

Belafon Jan 26, 2024 • 5:51:12pm

We’re watching the end of the Fellowship of the Ring. We brought up the info. You know how they list the major actors in the info? In this case they listed Elijah Wood and Everard Proudfoot:

He had like 18 seconds of screen time at the beginning of the movie.

🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 Jan 26, 2024 • 5:52:56pm

re: #7 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

This is why powerful men often get away with their stuff:

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Today’s the day you’re getting banned from the Hellsite!

Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 26, 2024 • 5:53:13pm

And the Tangerine Twit takes another hit today!

teleskiguy Jan 26, 2024 • 5:53:53pm

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$500 worth of gear on my head. Skiing ain’t cheap!

Dangerman Jan 26, 2024 • 5:56:10pm

re: #14 teleskiguy

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$500 worth of gear on my head. Skiing ain’t cheap!

like a good motorcycle helmet
your head is irreplaceable

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Jan 26, 2024 • 5:57:16pm

Marks will be marks:

McMahon has DECADES of known, admitted creepiness. He has *many* NDAs out there, acknowledged by the company. He removed the independent board members of WWE who pushed him out in 2022 just so he could get back in.

Get a clue.

— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) January 27, 2024

This is why Trump will easily win the primaries, even if he later can’t run.

Charles Johnson Jan 26, 2024 • 5:58:37pm

re: #14 teleskiguy

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$500 worth of gear on my head. Skiing ain’t cheap!

A top of the line cycling helmet/glasses setup will be about the same price.

teleskiguy Jan 26, 2024 • 6:02:10pm

Finally replaced the kids helmet with Angry Birds on it that I’ve been using for almost 10 years. People loved the Angry Birds.

Graduated to something more adult. Better get some stickers!

Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 26, 2024 • 6:02:31pm

“all he understands is money”

‘All he understands is money’: E. Jean Carroll lawyer puts Trump on notice about a new law

Charles Johnson Jan 26, 2024 • 6:02:54pm

I was extremely glad I sprang for the high-priced cycling helmet that one time when I crashed and fell backward and the back of my helmet cracked right up the middle. That helmet may have saved my life.

Eclectic Cyborg Jan 26, 2024 • 6:05:39pm

re: #14 teleskiguy

🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 Jan 26, 2024 • 6:07:17pm

re: #20 Charles Johnson

I was extremely glad I sprang for the high-priced cycling helmet that one time when I crashed and fell backward and the back of my helmet cracked right up the middle. That helmet may have saved my life.

In the alternate universe where you were a skinflint, there is no LGF today.

wrenchwench Jan 26, 2024 • 6:07:54pm

re: #14 teleskiguy

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$500 worth of gear on my head. Skiing ain’t cheap!

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BeenHereAwhile Jan 26, 2024 • 6:08:20pm

re: #1 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The corporation must have pressed McMahon to resign, but if he chose to stay he probably could have, but I bet the insiders have even more dirt on him:

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Ari did not want Vince as part of his entourage.

teleskiguy Jan 26, 2024 • 6:10:45pm

re: #21 Eclectic Cyborg

One of the greatest lines delivered ever in cinema.

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Eclectic Cyborg Jan 26, 2024 • 6:12:22pm

re: #25 teleskiguy

One of the greatest lines delivered ever in cinema.

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And the shot to the balls that precedes is fantastic.

teleskiguy Jan 26, 2024 • 6:15:52pm

Rode this chair this afternoon. The top of the chair is at 12,840 feet, the highest chairlift in North America.

Nerdy Fish Jan 26, 2024 • 6:18:51pm

re: #27 teleskiguy

Rode this chair this afternoon. The top of the chair is at 12,840 feet, the highest chairlift in North America.

That’s a long way up, my dude.

teleskiguy Jan 26, 2024 • 6:21:38pm

re: #28 Nerdy Fish

That’s a long way up, my dude.

Before I rode that chair, I had to ride this T-bar.

Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 26, 2024 • 6:22:11pm

re: #20 Charles Johnson

I was extremely glad I sprang for the high-priced cycling helmet that one time when I crashed and fell backward and the back of my helmet cracked right up the middle. That helmet may have saved my life.

I am so glad you had the helmet on!

I’ve dealt too many times with folks who didn’t wear a helmet when they were injured on a motorcycle or bike. It’s depressing reviewing the medical documentation!

BeenHereAwhile Jan 26, 2024 • 6:22:47pm

re: #6 Dangerman

A bipartisan group of more than two dozen House lawmakers plans to send a letter to President Biden on Friday arguing that he must seek authorization from Congress before launching additional strikes against the Houthis in Yemen,” the Washington Post reports.

So is the prez immune or not?
Make up your minds

Any Democratic reps who sign this letter may think they’e being players, but they’re being played and providing some substance to the impeach Joe Biden movement.

Rightwingconspirator Jan 26, 2024 • 6:29:08pm

re: #27 teleskiguy

Rode this chair this afternoon. The top of the chair is at 12,840 feet, the highest chairlift in North America.

Whoa. If that was an airplane, O2 bottles would be needed.

teleskiguy Jan 26, 2024 • 6:32:51pm

re: #32 Rightwingconspirator

I could breathe just fine! In fact I had to ski a fairly difficult pitch (basically right under the chair) with very flat light (think skiing by Braille). Heavy breathing.

teleskiguy Jan 26, 2024 • 6:40:04pm

Flat light. That’s a term skiers use to describe the fact that out in open ski runs you can’t see anything (terrain variation, pitch, slope, NOTHING!) because of fog or total cloudiness. A child in a ski school class I was teaching told me that “It’s like skiing inside of a ping pong ball!”

That child told me that in 2004, he was 6 or 7 years old. Hope he’s doing well!

Belafon Jan 26, 2024 • 6:49:37pm

The downtown Dallas Greyhound station is closing for the worst reason of all: a company has decided the property is worth more putting something else there:

Twenty Lake Holdings, a subsidiary of investment firm Alden Global Capital, purchased 33 Greyhound stations across the US from UK-based First Group in late 2022 for $140 million. Since then, terminals in major hubs like Philadelphia and Cincinnati have shuttered while their properties have been put on the market.

The lease for the downtown Dallas terminal will not be renewed, but a new location has not yet been identified, a spokesperson for Greyhound confirmed in an email Wednesday. The 26,000-square-foot property at 205 S. Lamar St. is worth $2.8 million, according to the Dallas Central Appraisal District.

dallasnews.com

jaunte Jan 26, 2024 • 6:52:09pm

re: #35 Belafon

Even now after the work-from-home evolution? Maybe they’re going to turn it into townhouses.

Belafon Jan 26, 2024 • 6:58:05pm

Elon Musk warned Tesla workers to prepare for a challenging production ramp-up as he previewed plans to build a mass-market vehicle.
The Tesla CEO said on the company’s Wednesday earnings call that building Tesla’s next-generation EV, set to enter production in 2025, will require Tesla workers to live and sleep on the manufacturing line at the company’s Texas factory.

Not the first time he’s done that to his employees.

businessinsider.com

wrenchwench Jan 26, 2024 • 6:58:48pm

Forward thinking little birb.

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steve_davis Jan 26, 2024 • 7:05:31pm

re: #20 Charles Johnson

I was extremely glad I sprang for the high-priced cycling helmet that one time when I crashed and fell backward and the back of my helmet cracked right up the middle. That helmet may have saved my life.

yes, I kind of stupidly rode a mountain bike a little too vertically and flipped right onto my back off the bike. amazingly, it didn’t actually hurt remotely, and I remember thinking when I heard the sound of dirt hitting helmet, “okay, that was a good call.”

teleskiguy Jan 26, 2024 • 7:13:58pm

re: #1 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Foreshadowing of Trump, Ullr willing…

FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips Jan 26, 2024 • 7:21:29pm

re: #37 Belafon

Shares of Tesla plummeted more than 10% in afternoon trading on Thursday, less than 24 hours after the company reported earnings that fell short of expectations. https://t.co/BcQwEfHMaq

— ABC News (@ABC) January 27, 2024

wrenchwench Jan 26, 2024 • 7:25:59pm

re: #14 teleskiguy

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$500 worth of gear on my head. Skiing ain’t cheap!

Here’s my line, every time I sold a helmet: Always wear it and never use it.

Jay C Jan 26, 2024 • 7:29:50pm

Got in under par today:

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GlutenFreeJesus Jan 26, 2024 • 7:30:50pm

If my Model 3 didn’t come with free unlimited supercharging and premium connectivity, I would have dumped it by now. But I’m going to drive that thing into the ground until it refuses to move anymore.

Dangerman Jan 26, 2024 • 7:34:47pm

re: #42 wrenchwench

Here’s my line, every time I sold a helmet: Always wear it and never use it.

We used to say if you have a ten dollar head, but a ten dollar helmet …

Dangerman Jan 26, 2024 • 7:39:40pm

So MAGA Mike — America or Trump? https://t.co/xFFSz1VWpJ

— Jo (@JoJoFromJerz) January 27, 2024

This is why you want a 50 year political veteran at the helm. Not a CEO. Not a football coach. Not a self made billionaire. A savvy politician.

President Joe Biden on Friday urged Congress to pass a bipartisan bill to address the immigration crisis at the nation’s southern border, while vowing to shut down the border the day he signs it into law,” Politico reports.

Said Biden: “What’s been negotiated would — if passed into law — be the toughest and fairest set of reforms to secure the border we’ve ever had in our country. It would give me, as President, a new emergency authority to shut down the border when it becomes overwhelmed. And if given that authority, I would use it the day I sign the bill into law.”

Let the Rs keep saying no.

Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿 Jan 26, 2024 • 7:40:22pm

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Yellows ready to drop. It’s a long way down.

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sizzzzlerz Jan 26, 2024 • 7:43:51pm

re: #15 Dangerman

like a good motorcycle helmet
your head is irreplaceable

I rode a motorcycle daily for 25 years. I always wore a helmet, gloves, and leather jacket. In all that time, I was in 2 accidents, neither serious. The first one happened when I hit a spot on the side of the road that was always wet from an old, leaking water pipe so it was slick with moss. I hit it at about 25 mph, skidded the back wheel, throwing me to the pavement where I rolled for maybe 20 feet before coming to a stop. I must have hit my head on the ground 4 or 5 times. Protected by the helmet, I suffered no head injuries at all. Had I not been wearing it, I’d be dead or a vegetable.

I’ve never understood why some riders refuse to wear one in places where its legal to not to do so. As the saying goes, there are two kinds of riders: Ones that have been in an accident and the other, ones that will be. A helmet, regardless of cost, is cheap health insurance.

Dangerman Jan 26, 2024 • 7:44:42pm

re: #46 Dangerman

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This is why you want a 50 year political veteran at the helm. Not a CEO. Not a football coach. Not a self made billionaire. A savvy politician.

Let the Rs keep saying no.

And as a bonus he pretty much neutered Abbott and the Texas trash-talk/insurrection/civil war BS.

Belafon Jan 26, 2024 • 7:52:09pm

re: #46 Dangerman

What happened to all of the Senate Republicans doing Trump’s bidding?

Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 26, 2024 • 7:56:20pm

Shower Cap’s latest post and it is DEFINITELY…

N to the S to the F to the W!

showercapblog.com

Hecuba's daughter Jan 26, 2024 • 8:12:49pm

re: #38 wrenchwench

Forward thinking little birb.

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I’m having problems with certain comments, like this one, not rendering on my computer:

If I hover over it, it displays the message “essjax.com took too long to respond”.

wrenchwench Jan 26, 2024 • 8:13:44pm

re: #47 Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿

Your Next Wordle found me staring into the abyss.

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Nice one!

wrenchwench Jan 26, 2024 • 8:15:51pm

re: #52 Hecuba’s daughter

I’m having problems with certain comments, like this one, not rendering on my computer:

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If I hover over it, it displays the message “essjax.com took too long to respond”.

It’s a Mastodon post. Is this one any better?

Mastodon

sagehen Jan 26, 2024 • 8:17:06pm

re: #50 Belafon

What happened to all of the Senate Republicans doing Trump’s bidding?

$83,300,000.

Captain Ron Jan 26, 2024 • 8:17:27pm

This is of course most reminiscent to the stand-off between Andrew Jackson and John C. Calhoun during the Nullification Crisis. Or Little Rock. Then as now, it’s going to require face saving negotiation to retrieve the Governor from his own over-heated rhetoric.

— Matthew DeLaMater (@MatthewDeLaMat1) January 27, 2024

Hecuba's daughter Jan 26, 2024 • 8:20:43pm

re: #54 wrenchwench

It’s a Mastodon post. Is this one any better?

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No.

I’ve not had this problem with Mastodon posts before. But this evening, there were several with the same display. OTOH #14 above from Teleskiguy is fine.

Eclectic Cyborg Jan 26, 2024 • 8:24:59pm

re: #57 Hecuba’s daughter

More reasons why I’m not a huge fan of Mastodon.

Captain Ron Jan 26, 2024 • 8:25:16pm

NEWS: US appeals court revives Mexico’s case against US gun manufacturers — biggest challenge to their immunity shield ever. Companies are likely to appeal…https://t.co/oS0eZdyEGf

— Glenn Thrush (@GlennThrush) January 23, 2024

Jay C Jan 26, 2024 • 8:34:25pm

re: #49 Dangerman

And as a bonus he pretty much neutered Abbott and the Texas trash-talk/insurrection/civil war BS.

I think we’ll have to wait a bit to see on this point, but it’s still a Good Thing that President Biden has thrown down the challenge on the Republicans’ “border crisis” bullshit, and made it a “put up or shut up” moment for the House GOP (tho it’s obvious they really want to do neither)

EPR-radar Jan 26, 2024 • 8:47:20pm

re: #60 Jay C

I think we’ll have to wait a bit to see on this point, but it’s still a Good Thing that President Biden has thrown down the challenge on the Republicans’ “border crisis” bullshit, and made it a “put up or shut up” moment for the House GOP (tho it’s obvious they really want to do neither)

I suspect the border deal is full of way too much centrist/rightwing bullshit, but I can’t imagine the House Republicans actually agreeing to anything, so there may be no damage from this proposal.

I sure hope the long term plan is to use the failure of this deal (assuming it falls through) as a PR weapon vs. Abbott prior to taking steps vs. his nullification.

Hecuba's daughter Jan 26, 2024 • 8:48:53pm

I did not view much of the coverage of either E. Jean Carroll trial. Is it correct that the infamous Access Hollywood tape was shown to at least one of the juries? After all, the tape does show Trump boasting of exactly the type of assault that he committed against her.

jaunte Jan 26, 2024 • 8:52:27pm

Joyce Vance just emailed.

Here’s a sample:

Alina Habba’s behavior at trial was disgraceful. I would not be surprised to see the Judge refer her to the Bar Association for disciplinary action. It wasn’t her novice mistakes that were the issue, although they caused a lot of comments. It was her flagrant disregard of the Judge’s decisions about arguments that could and could not be made to the jury. She trod on those rulings despite repeated warnings from the Judge.

If you think a judge has made an erroneous ruling at trial, you can take it up with the court of appeals. Alina Habba’s repeated strategy was to fight with the Judge. Tell her she couldn’t do something, and she jumped right in anyhow, repeatedly insinuating that Trump didn’t assault Carroll. The Judge would be well within his rights to let the Bar sort her out. Her lack of respect for the rule of law, which mirrors her client’s, is unacceptable in a lawyer.
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Trump has only himself to blame for the award of punitive damages

In closing, Kaplan referred to the posts and comments about Carroll that Trump continued to make during the trial, noting that Trump made his “most reprehensible statement of all last Thursday.” Trump tore into Carroll after saying these words: “I’ll say it again, a thousand times.”

Oops. This rang louder than Trump’s three minutes of testimony from the witness stand. The out-of-court statement was a confession that he would continue to defame Carroll. He left the jury with little choice other than to award damages, in an amount like $83.3 million, designed to get Trump’s attention. Absent this kind of behavior, damages might have looked more like they did in the first case, where Trump was ordered to pay Carroll $5 million.

It’s this kind of promise by a defendant that can convince a jury to smack him with punitive damages.

Kaplan told the jurors that Trump’s comments meant he’d continue to harm Carroll “unless you make it stop.” That message seems to have found its target.

wrenchwench Jan 26, 2024 • 8:53:40pm

What if I post one of his;

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coin operated Jan 26, 2024 • 8:58:16pm

re: #64 wrenchwench

Fucking Ceylon…

I kid…I kid!!!

DodgerFan1988 Jan 26, 2024 • 9:14:09pm

Trump supporters: Him raping a woman makes me want to vote for him even more. pic.twitter.com/SRMWOevS20

— Ryan Shead (@RyanShead) January 27, 2024

Hecuba's daughter Jan 26, 2024 • 9:14:58pm

re: #64 wrenchwench

What if I post one of his;

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Yep — that worked for me.

Targetpractice Jan 26, 2024 • 9:21:24pm

re: #64 wrenchwench

What if I post one of his;

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Hecuba's daughter Jan 26, 2024 • 9:24:39pm

re: #64 wrenchwench

What if I post one of his;

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Well — all the mastodon posts are now rendering. Went back downstairs — and the pictures were all there. Returned here, and everything is fine now.

BeenHereAwhile Jan 26, 2024 • 9:25:42pm

re: #55 sagehen

$83,300,000.

And a potential $400,000,000 judgement added on next week in NY state court.

wrenchwench Jan 26, 2024 • 9:27:33pm

re: #69 Hecuba’s daughter

Well — all the mastodon posts are now rendering. Went back downstairs — and the pictures were all there. Returned here, and everything is fine now.

Whatayaknow, teleskiguy fixed everything.

EstebanTornado1963 Jan 26, 2024 • 9:55:26pm

MAGA getting ready for “civil war”.

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— Dittie (@DittiePE) January 26, 2024

Hecuba's daughter Jan 26, 2024 • 10:00:00pm

Bee news…

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Total surprise — but managed to get them all. Spent forever tracking down certain words but then insight suddenly came. Of course, I do use the Grid to assist.

Targetpractice Jan 26, 2024 • 10:06:08pm

re: #72 EstebanTornado1963

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Odie Hugh Manatee Jan 26, 2024 • 10:27:51pm

re: #74 Targetpractice

The moment that stood out in time for me during that whole stupid thing wasn’t Blue Tarp Man getting drilled for being a stupid gun grabber but when someone shipped them a 55 gallon drum of personal lubricant.

I wonder what happened to it. Maybe Ammon took it home with him…lol

Targetpractice Jan 26, 2024 • 10:37:26pm

re: #75 Odie Hugh Manatee

The moment that stood out in time for me during that whole stupid thing wasn’t Blue Tarp Man getting drilled for being a stupid gun grabber but when someone shipped them a 55 gallon drum of personal lubricant.

I wonder what happened to it. Maybe Ammon took it home with him…lol

Yeah, the whole thing was a disorganized mess that was fueled purely by far-right power fantasies about how a handful of them would just declare themselves in rebellion and millions of like-minded gun-humpers would rush to join them. Meanwhile, the reality was that the millions sent “support” on their Facebook pages or dropped a few bucks in the tip jar, but were either unable or unwilling to join in the rebellion. So instead of a “Second American Civil War,” we got asshats like Rafael Cruz on Fox moaning about how Obama was such a “tyrant” for not letting a couple of asshole ranchers off the hook for setting federal land ablaze.

teleskiguy Jan 26, 2024 • 10:54:56pm

OK. I bit. For, like, 30 seconds.

Apologies. Twitter post.

This is the most embarrassing fucking excuse for hip hop that there ever was. The fact that you and Ben think it’s “da bomb” proves how much you’re all a bunch of fucking soulless freaks who’ll never know beauty and joy.

— Elon Musk Blows Goats | @teleskiguy.bsky.social (@ballfootski) January 27, 2024

Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jan 26, 2024 • 11:27:49pm

That went better than I expected. Par.

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Dr Lizardo Jan 26, 2024 • 11:58:38pm

So, waking up here in Europe to see that Trump’s big mouth cost him $83 million. And likely next week, he’s gonna be out some more dinero in the NY fraud case - and that could be a whopper of a penalty he’s gonna have to shell out, not to mention possibly losing his business licenses in NY state.

Nice way to start the weekend.

Targetpractice Jan 27, 2024 • 12:56:42am

re: #80 Dr Lizardo

So, waking up here in Europe to see that Trump’s big mouth cost him $83 million. And likely next week, he’s gonna be out some more dinero in the NY fraud case - and that could be a whopper of a penalty he’s gonna have to shell out, not to mention possibly losing his business licenses in NY state.

Nice way to start the weekend.

And both of these cases sit in the shadow of the looming ruling from the DC Appellate Court, who are probably working on finding airtight words for their “The fuck you mean “total immunity,” you knob?!” ruling.

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 27, 2024 • 1:19:36am

Again, even if DJT appeals, he has to put the settlement sum up as a bond pending appeal. Is he liquid enough to make that nut without having to sell off some assets?

Dr Lizardo Jan 27, 2024 • 1:23:34am

re: #82 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Again, even if DJT appeals, he has to put the settlement sum up as a bond pending appeal. Is he liquid enough to make that nut without having to sell off some assets?

IIRC, he said he had about $400 million cash on hand, but bear in mind, this is Trump saying that - so he probably has about $40 and some pocket lint.

Targetpractice Jan 27, 2024 • 1:27:33am

re: #82 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Again, even if DJT appeals, he has to put the settlement sum up as a bond pending appeal. Is he liquid enough to make that nut without having to sell off some assets?

I think we all know he’s gonna call Ronna and order the party to pony up the cash for the bond on the threat of making a massive stink if they refuse and the (empty) promise that he’ll repay the “loan”after the election.

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 27, 2024 • 1:34:01am

re: #83 Dr Lizardo

IIRC, he said he had about $400 million cash on hand, but bear in mind, this is Trump saying that - so he probably has about $40 and some pocket lint.

Also this is only the E. Jean Carrol settlement, the NYC fraud case ruling should be along this week.

Dr Lizardo Jan 27, 2024 • 1:35:19am

re: #84 Targetpractice

I think we all know he’s gonna call Ronna and order the party to pony up the cash for the bond on the threat of making a massive stink if they refuse and the (empty) promise that he’ll repay the “loan”after the election.

I think the GOP might balk at the idea of loaning out close to half a billion simoleons to a notorious deadbeat in an election year.

Dr Lizardo Jan 27, 2024 • 1:36:38am

re: #85 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Also this is only the E. Jean Carrol settlement, the NYC fraud case ruling should be along this week.

Yep…all told, I figure it’s all gonna total up to close to $500 million dollars.

silverdolphin Jan 27, 2024 • 1:42:25am

Dungeons & Dragons turns 50 this year, and there’s a lot planned for it

I played my first game at Caltech in 1975. The rules were copies - can’t remember if mimeographed or some early xerography. We played every Friday. One of the players wrote up each session as if it was something from Lord of the Rings for the campus newspaper. We designed our own dungeons and had to special order the weird dice which were of such poor quaility that the 20 sided dies quickly lost their edges to become balls.

My best character was a cleric that I leveled pretty quickly. He was one of the few sources of resurrection for players killed during a game. I think I started with being able to do one resurrection a week. I know I increased that but can’t remember how many.

This was mportant because my cleric took cash for a resurrection. So I became one of the wealthiest players without really having to do much. Perfect rent-seeking behavior.

So D&D taught me a lot about the real world.

ericblair Jan 27, 2024 • 1:48:42am

🇪🇺EU leaders are ready to strip #Hungary of voting rights if the country’s authorities block approval of €50 billion in financial aid to Ukraine at the February 1 summit, as reported by Politico. pic.twitter.com/zCaPr1kOGN

— KyivPost (@KyivPost) January 26, 2024

This is typical. Orban makes a lot of noise to try to get bought off (again), and then backs down when the rest of the EU or NATO get pissed enough at him to threaten his ongoing agricultural company subsidy racket.

Targetpractice Jan 27, 2024 • 1:53:25am

re: #86 Dr Lizardo

I think the GOP might balk at the idea of loaning out close to half a billion simoleons to a notorious deadbeat in an election year.

At this point, I’m not sure they have much choice. “Republican Nominee Donald Trump Files For Chap 11 Bankruptcy” is not exactly the campaign headline that most of them want to wake up to.

Dr Lizardo Jan 27, 2024 • 1:55:21am

re: #90 Targetpractice

At this point, I’m not sure they have much choice. “Republican Nominee Donald Trump Files For Chap 11 Bankruptcy” is not exactly the campaign headline that most of them want to wake up to.

Fair enough. Also, Trump saying, “Gimme the money or I’ll tell my supporters to sit out this election or I’ll start the MAGA Party.”

Targetpractice Jan 27, 2024 • 2:03:54am

What will probably happen is he’ll work to secure a bond and get the RNC to post the cash and/or provide collateral while covering the taxes and fees out of his PAC like he’s done with his legal expenses. The RNC may be responsible for the collateral simply because most of what he has in NYC is currently tied up in the fraud case and might not be his to hock if the court orders said assets to be liquidated to cover whatever penalty Judge Engoron bench slaps him with.

William Lewis Jan 27, 2024 • 2:04:41am

re: #88 silverdolphin

Dungeons & Dragons turns 50 this year, and there’s a lot planned for it

I played my first game at Caltech in 1975. The rules were copies - can’t remember if mimeographed or some early xerography. We played every Friday. One of the players wrote up each session as if it was something from Lord of the Rings for the campus newspaper. We designed our own dungeons and had to special order the weird dice which were of such poor quaility that the 20 sided dies quickly lost their edges to become balls.

My best character was a cleric that I leveled pretty quickly. He was one of the few sources of resurrection for players killed during a game. I think I started with being able to do one resurrection a week. I know I increased that but can’t remember how many.

This was mportant because my cleric took cash for a resurrection. So I became one of the wealthiest players without really having to do much. Perfect rent-seeking behavior.

So D&D taught me a lot about the real world.

I really didn’t get into roleplaying till Traveller’s 3 little black books dropped in 1977 following Star Wars. That hooked me hard (still play it). D&D came along after and I started with AD&D in 79, usually as a thief or “rogue” as they like to call ‘em these days 🤣 I’m currently doing a 11th level light domain Cleric/5th arcane Rogue in the 5E campaign I’m in. Magic Missile, Knock, Fire ball, heal & raise dead. Nice combo. NG alignment too. 😎

ericblair Jan 27, 2024 • 2:05:38am

re: #90 Targetpractice

At this point, I’m not sure they have much choice. “Republican Nominee Donald Trump Files For Chap 11 Bankruptcy” is not exactly the campaign headline that most of them want to wake up to.

“He’ll run America like he runs his businesses!”

Targetpractice Jan 27, 2024 • 2:06:31am

re: #88 silverdolphin

Dungeons & Dragons turns 50 this year, and there’s a lot planned for it

I played my first game at Caltech in 1975. The rules were copies - can’t remember if mimeographed or some early xerography. We played every Friday. One of the players wrote up each session as if it was something from Lord of the Rings for the campus newspaper. We designed our own dungeons and had to special order the weird dice which were of such poor quaility that the 20 sided dies quickly lost their edges to become balls.

My best character was a cleric that I leveled pretty quickly. He was one of the few sources of resurrection for players killed during a game. I think I started with being able to do one resurrection a week. I know I increased that but can’t remember how many.

This was mportant because my cleric took cash for a resurrection. So I became one of the wealthiest players without really having to do much. Perfect rent-seeking behavior.

So D&D taught me a lot about the real world.

This XKCD cartoon after the announcement of Gary Gygax’s passing will never not be funny:

William Lewis Jan 27, 2024 • 2:08:03am

re: #95 Targetpractice

Hah! Yeah, that was one of his best ones.

No Malarkey! Jan 27, 2024 • 2:11:06am

re: #90 Targetpractice

At this point, I’m not sure they have much choice. “Republican Nominee Donald Trump Files For Chap 11 Bankruptcy” is not exactly the campaign headline that most of them want to wake up to.

Trump is going to be making terrible headlines all year, and the GOP deserves every bit of it.

silverdolphin Jan 27, 2024 • 2:12:28am

re: #95 Targetpractice

This XKCD cartoon after the announcement of Gary Gygax’s passing will never not be funny:

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I swear I met Gary out in LA sometime when I was at Caltech, likely at a Con of some sort. But I can’t find any evidence he was ever out there in the 1974-1978 time period I was. And I only played D&D intermittently since. But he had a huge impact on me because of the open nature of the game.

We had played a lot of war games based on specific WW2 battles. Or Gettysburg. Not too open-ended. But D&D became our own world.

My mid 20s son plays 2 different games a week with different friends. As does his wife. And I think it has had a huge impact on how those Millennials view the world.

silverdolphin Jan 27, 2024 • 2:17:15am

re: #93 William Lewis

I really didn’t get into roleplaying till Traveller’s 3 little black books dropped in 1977 following Star Wars. That hooked me hard (still play it). D&D came along after and I started with AD&D in 79, usually as a thief or “rogue” as they like to call ‘em these days 🤣 I’m currently doing a 11th level light domain Cleric/5th arcane Rogue in the 5E campaign I’m in. Magic Missile, Knock, Fire ball, heal & raise dead. Nice combo. NG alignment too. 😎

I played only internationally since 1978. But my son and his wife play 2 different games each week with different friends (I got hem each 2 different hardwood crypts for their dice for Christmas). He hooked me up with Baldur’s Gate III for the M2 Mac laptop and I have regained a lot of my joy of the game. And also spent 130 hours of my tme and I am only just getting to the climax of Act 2. I am and always have been a packrat that has to check every single chest/vase/dead body for loot all while checking out every single path on the map.

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William Lewis Jan 27, 2024 • 2:19:17am

re: #98 silverdolphin

I swear I met Gary out in LA sometime when I was at Caltech, likely at a Con of some sort. But I can’t find any evidence he was ever out there in the 1974-1978 time period I was. And I only played D&D intermittently since. But he had a huge impact on me because of the open nature of the game.

We had played a lot of war games based on specific WW2 battles. Or Gettysburg. Not too open-ended. But D&D became our own world.

My mid 20s son plays 2 different games a week with different friends. As does his wife. And I think it has had a huge impact on how those Millennials view the world.

When my son had to spend a year doing in-patient therapy (more like prison than not) I sent all my D&D & Traveller books with him. GM-ing those and playing MtG helped him get through it a lot.

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silverdolphin Jan 27, 2024 • 2:20:16am

re: #97 No Malarkey!

Trump is going to be making terrible headlines all year, and the GOP deserves every bit of it.

Yep. I think his losses in court in the civil cases are going to have a large impact on popularity. And we just found out he has been lying to the special master in the fraud case. That wll come back to haunt him.

Everyone has been focussed on the criminal cases (rightly so but they present problems as we see). But everyone can understand a monetary loss of millions from a jury verdict. And the E. Jean Carroll case is so full of misogyny tha it will not play well with suburban women that the GOP counts on.

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Targetpractice Jan 27, 2024 • 2:21:11am

What I consider telling is most of the commentary in the wake of today’s ruling is not “Oh, he’s gonna appeal and get this ruling overturned!” but instead “Oh, well he can probably get this ruling reduced on appeal.” The only people who genuinely seem to believe that he’s gonna beat the system and walk away without paying a cent…are the same sort of people who think fluoride in drinking water is a government conspiracy to make you susceptible to mind control.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 27, 2024 • 2:23:12am

re: #102 Targetpractice

He is going to win the 2024 election and declare the rulings invalid by Executive Order.

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Dr Lizardo Jan 27, 2024 • 2:24:06am

re: #102 Targetpractice

What I consider telling is most of the commentary in the wake of today’s ruling is not “Oh, he’s gonna appeal and get this ruling overturned!” but instead “Oh, well he can probably get this ruling reduced on appeal.” The only people who genuinely seem to believe that he’s gonna beat the system and walk away without paying a cent…are the same sort of people who think fluoride in drinking water is a government conspiracy to make you susceptible to mind control.

Dr. Strangelove (4/8) Movie CLIP - Water and Commies (1964) HD

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Jan 27, 2024 • 2:26:34am

re: #35 Belafon

The downtown Dallas Greyhound station is closing for the worst reason of all: a company has decided the property is worth more putting something else there:

dallasnews.com

So basically screwing over the common people so that someone makes a buck.

No chance the new station goes into a location that is actually useful for people traveling on a low budget I bet.

I recall the Philadelphia location since I walked past it a few times. “Old Town” part of the city and from there you could get to places like the Convention Center, hotels, and buses or the subway. The Pittsburgh Greyhound station is sort of tucked into a triangular-shaped corner on one edge of downtown right next to the Amtrak station.

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William Lewis Jan 27, 2024 • 2:37:25am

Crappy video quality and they’re still frigging kids, but a wonderful cover of one of the best songs from a great band from the Minneapple - Husker Du. Miss you Grant, over 6 years already…

Green Day - Don’t Want To Know If You Are Lonely

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silverdolphin Jan 27, 2024 • 2:40:27am

re: #105 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

So basically screwing over the common people so that someone makes a buck.

No chance the new station goes into a location that is actually useful for people traveling on a low budget I bet.

I recall the Philadelphia location since I walked past it a few times. “Old Town” part of the city and from there you could get to places like the Convention Center, hotels, and buses or the subway. The Pittsburgh Greyhound station is sort of tucked into a triangular-shaped corner on one edge of downtown right next to the Amtrak station.

Molbak’s, the garden store of the Seattle area, located in downtown Woodinville is closing for a similar reason. The land is worth more for apartments than for business. Such a shame that a local icon will soon become ugly apartments.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ Jan 27, 2024 • 2:41:57am

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No Malarkey! Jan 27, 2024 • 2:50:59am

An update on Trump’s many civil and criminal cases. Of note: since the D.C. trial is likely to be delayed due to the stay imposed while Trump appeals the denial of absolute presidential immunity, his trial in Manhattan slated for March 25 for falsifying business records may be the first of Trump’s four criminal cases to go to trial. While many consider it to be the weakest criminal case against Trump, he has already suffered several losses in New York civil trial as judges and juries have not been finding his defenses credible in the least. The only thing going for Trump is the state will have a higher burden of proof in a criminal trial than the civil trials.

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Targetpractice Jan 27, 2024 • 3:00:52am

There are days that I think nature secretly tests our biases. Case in point, I just got a call like 10 mins ago from one of our long-term stays, a white woman who is in a biracial marriage. The reason that’s important to the story is because she called me to tell me she’s cowering in fear in her truck because there’s a group of young people on the stairs next to the building entranceway and she’s afraid to pass them in order to access the elevator up to her room. And instead of asking her for descriptions or what scared her about them, I just agreed to check it out and assumed it was yet another case of “white fright,” that I’d find a few black teens or young adults scaring the white folk by just sitting there in plain view. But instead, when I got there, it was a trio of college age white kids who I sheepishly had to ask to move the conversation somewhere else to keep the stairs clear for other guests.

Now I would have handled the situation the same either way, but I can’t help but feel my own racial bias played a part in automatically jumping to “white woman scared of black ‘yutes’” instead of thinking that she might possibly be afraid of people she didn’t know sitting along the path to her room.

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William Lewis Jan 27, 2024 • 3:05:34am

re: #110 Targetpractice

Yup. I’ve had a few moments like that. During his last visit, my son and I got into a discussion about our personal biases and what they were in particular. I admitted to mine as well as surprising him with some areas that weren’t and he talked about ones he has. It was useful for him to be aware of for when he moves later this year to this larger community and I, hopefully, get him into higher education.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 27, 2024 • 3:12:08am

I was a bookish nerdy kid in a minority white community. My mother was a widow and we simply could not afford to join the white flight to the suburbs. I got picked on a bit but there were other black kids who stood up for me.

Around Hunior High, we moved to a working-class white neighborhood where the kids picked on me mercilessly for being a brainiac and nobody stood up for me.

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Shropshire Slasher Jan 27, 2024 • 3:38:42am

Good morning! A little drive time music, I hope you enjoy!

J Mascis - Can’t Believe We’re Here (Official Video)

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Targetpractice Jan 27, 2024 • 3:39:17am

re: #112 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I was a bookish nerdy kid in a minority white community. My mother was a widow and we simply could not afford to join the white flight to the suburbs. I got picked on a bit but there were other black kids who stood up for me.

Around Hunior High, we moved to a working-class white neighborhood where the kids picked on me mercilessly for being a brainiac and nobody stood up for me.

I grew up a Navy brat moving between three different cities (or really two cities and one town) that were largely Navy folk and their families so I never really was isolated from kids of other races and backgrounds. Most of my social isolation was self-imposed by just wanting to be the smart kid who sat in the back of class and read whatever he could get his hands on.

Probably why I realized that my grandmother is a closeted racist the first time she opined aloud that, despite it being the mid-90s by this point, she still hated Dr King and (yes) labeled him a “troublemaker.”

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Dangerman Jan 27, 2024 • 3:41:12am

re: #61 EPR-radar

I suspect the border deal is full of way too much centrist/rightwing bullshit, but I can’t imagine the House Republicans actually agreeing to anything, so there may be no damage from this proposal.

I sure hope the long term plan is to use the failure of this deal (assuming it falls through) as a PR weapon vs. Abbott prior to taking steps vs. his nullification.

That the Rs don’t want a deal/solution and just a perpetual campaign issue is gaining speed and attention

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Eventual Carrion Jan 27, 2024 • 3:42:05am

re: #43 Jay C

Got in under par today:

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3/6 here this morning also

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Dangerman Jan 27, 2024 • 3:44:47am

re: #73 Hecuba’s daughter

Bee news…

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I manage genius without the grid or Google. I usually need it to get those last reluctant few to queen bee

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Dangerman Jan 27, 2024 • 3:46:31am

re: #80 Dr Lizardo

So, waking up here in Europe to see that Trump’s big mouth cost him $83 million. And likely next week, he’s gonna be out some more dinero in the NY fraud case - and that could be a whopper of a penalty he’s gonna have to shell out, not to mention possibly losing his business licenses in NY state.

Nice way to start the weekend.

$83.3m

I love the .3 part

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Dangerman Jan 27, 2024 • 3:50:29am

re: #86 Dr Lizardo

I think the GOP might balk at the idea of loaning out close to half a billion simoleons to a notorious deadbeat in an election year.

Giving up nearly 1/3 of their cash (estimate) would devastate their campaign season. It would be ludicrous

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Targetpractice Jan 27, 2024 • 3:53:37am

re: #115 Dangerman

That the Rs don’t want a deal/solution and just a perpetual campaign issue is gaining speed and attention

Biden’s message about the deal should be simple and direct: Trump can’t get you a better deal. Think back to all those deals that Trump promised you if you elected him the first time. How many did he deliver? And he had a Repub Congress for two years, so he can’t blame Dems for not getting those deals. If you think he can do better the second time because he can just order Congress to do his bidding, that’s a load of malarkey and I’ve got a bridge to sell you for cheap.

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Shropshire Slasher Jan 27, 2024 • 3:54:26am

Jeffrey’s Toys, San Francisco’s oldest toy store, is permanently closing.
Business has declined during the pandemic, and the store posted on Facebook this week that it would shutter “in a couple weeks.” Items are 30% off.

“After 75 years of gratefully serving the San Francisco community, the store will be closing next month. The store has been struggling for a number of years, due to the perils and violence of the downtown environment, inflation, the decrease in consumer spending and the demise of retail across the world. The family is saddened it has come to this and we’ve explored all other options to try and keep the business going. The leadership of the City of San Francisco and the Downtown Association have their work cut out for them on how to revitalize what was once a vibrant and fun downtown experience,” said Ken Sterling of Sterling Venture Law, attorney for the family. “We are working through this complex situation with the landlords and creditors and at this time, I’ve advised my clients to not be interviewed by the press.”

sfchronicle.com

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Dangerman Jan 27, 2024 • 3:56:04am

re: #103 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

He is going to win the 2024 election and declare the rulings invalid by Executive Order.

When the president has immunity you can do that

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Dr Lizardo Jan 27, 2024 • 3:56:52am

re: #119 Dangerman

Giving up nearly 1/3 of their cash (estimate) would devastate their campaign season. It would be ludicrous

Of course it’d be ludicrous, but after all, this is Trump’s GOP now. Logically, they’d tell him to go kick rocks…but logic has nothing do with the situation they find themselves in now, essentially beholden to Trump because of his supporters - without whom, they simply cannot win elections.

Quite the pickle they’ve put themselves in. 😄

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Dangerman Jan 27, 2024 • 3:58:26am

re: #109 No Malarkey!

An update on Trump’s many civil and criminal cases. Of note: since the D.C. trial is likely to be delayed due to the stay imposed while Trump appeals the denial of absolute presidential immunity, his trial in Manhattan slated for March 25 for falsifying business records may be the first of Trump’s four criminal cases to go to trial. While many consider it to be the weakest criminal case against Trump, he has already suffered several losses in New York civil trial as judges and juries have not been finding his defenses credible in the least. The only thing going for Trump is the state will have a higher burden of proof in a criminal trial than the civil trials.

How this doesn’t sink a candidate is bizzaro

Not one.
Four.

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Dangerman Jan 27, 2024 • 4:02:19am

re: #123 Dr Lizardo

Of course it’d be ludicrous, but after all, this is Trump’s GOP now. Logically, they’d tell him to go kick rocks…but logic has nothing do with the situation they find themselves in now, essentially beholden to Trump because of his supporters - without whom, they simply cannot win elections.

Quite the pickle they’ve put themselves in. 😄

I don’t think a “candidate” having to liquidate assets or declare bankruptcy makes things any worse than 4 criminal indictments (especially these specific four)

I think they say, you’re a billionaire….

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Shropshire Slasher Jan 27, 2024 • 4:08:44am

re: #119 Dangerman

Giving up nearly 1/3 of their cash (estimate) would devastate their campaign season. It would be ludicrous

I have been reading about Trump’s reelection campaign here all this week with his civil trial. He also have a few other upcoming trials giving him front page coverage, why does he need to spend his money?

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darthstar Jan 27, 2024 • 4:17:38am

re: #119 Dangerman

Giving up nearly 1/3 of their cash (estimate) would devastate their campaign season. It would be ludicrous

I say go for it…what’s the worst that could happen?
/

I want Trump to bleed the RNC dry.

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darthstar Jan 27, 2024 • 4:21:35am

What the actual fuck?

m.ai6yr.org

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darthstar Jan 27, 2024 • 4:22:10am

re: #128 darthstar

What the actual fuck?

m.ai6yr.org

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Eventual Carrion Jan 27, 2024 • 4:31:56am

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William Lewis Jan 27, 2024 • 4:43:23am

re: #129 darthstar

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Dangerman Jan 27, 2024 • 4:50:52am

visitor while i was rowing this AM

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Dangerman Jan 27, 2024 • 4:52:32am

re: #225 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

How about Gil Scott?

in the end, Gil Scott has won.

Congratulations.
You can pick up your toaster in the lobby on your way out

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Nerdy Fish Jan 27, 2024 • 5:22:23am

Not exactly how I wanted to start my weekend, but here we are.

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Eventual Carrion Jan 27, 2024 • 5:24:19am

re: #134 Nerdy Fish

Not exactly how I wanted to start my weekend, but here we are.

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Nerdy Fish Jan 27, 2024 • 5:24:35am

re: #135 Eventual Carrion

Damn, you cycled through pretty much all the possible words.

Yep, that was a pretty big fat L on my part.

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steve_davis Jan 27, 2024 • 5:47:46am

re: #48 sizzzzlerz

I rode a motorcycle daily for 25 years. I always wore a helmet, gloves, and leather jacket. In all that time, I was in 2 accidents, neither serious. The first one happened when I hit a spot on the side of the road that was always wet from an old, leaking water pipe so it was slick with moss. I hit it at about 25 mph, skidded the back wheel, throwing me to the pavement where I rolled for maybe 20 feet before coming to a stop. I must have hit my head on the ground 4 or 5 times. Protected by the helmet, I suffered no head injuries at all. Had I not been wearing it, I’d be dead or a vegetable.

I’ve never understood why some riders refuse to wear one in places where its legal to not to do so. As the saying goes, there are two kinds of riders: Ones that have been in an accident and the other, ones that will be. A helmet, regardless of cost, is cheap health insurance.

i always chuckled a bit when sons of anarchy would go rolling off on their drug deals. they were drug-dealing, gun-toting anarchists, but California demands helmets, and so they wore the little ‘beanie” helmets. Anarchic, but fashionable.

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jeffreyw Jan 27, 2024 • 6:05:37am

Toby

Good morning!

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS Jan 27, 2024 • 6:18:35am

re: #47 Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿

Your Next Wordle found me staring into the abyss.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 27, 2024 • 6:20:16am

After hosting a Christian radio program called “Truth For Life” for the past 12 years, preacher and host Alistair Begg has lost his job all because he urged Christians to show love toward family members who are seen as sinners.

Begg is by no means liberal. He’s been the senior pastor at the anti-LGBTQ Parkside Church in Ohio for the past 40 years, written dozens of books (affiliate link), and speaks at the sort of conferences that only have male presenters.

But back in September, during an episode of his show, Begg was speaking about the importance of compassion as a way to lead people to his God. He specifically raised a hypothetical about attending the marriage of someone who’s transgender:

Pastor Alistair Begg says Christians should attend gay weddings and even buy the couple a gift, lest they come across as ‘judgmental’ or ‘critical’.

And because he said that he was kicked off the air because Xtian radicals found those remarks blasphemous.

friendlyatheist.com

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Dangerman Jan 27, 2024 • 6:23:09am

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Dangerman Jan 27, 2024 • 6:24:08am

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Dangerman Jan 27, 2024 • 6:24:56am

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 27, 2024 • 6:27:38am

re: #143 Dangerman

Just wait for Fart Of The Deal Part 3 because we know President Poopy Pants will slander E. Jean again.

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sizzzzlerz Jan 27, 2024 • 6:31:23am

re: #137 steve_davis

i always chuckled a bit when sons of anarchy would go rolling off on their drug deals. they were drug-dealing, gun-toting anarchists, but California demands helmets, and so they wore the little ‘beanie” helmets. Anarchic, but fashionable.

There were so many things about that show that were totally insane and highly unrealistic. One that I can’t get over is that, here is this small northern California town which has a murder rate that probably exceeds most large cities yet somehow, they’re able to fly under radar of the state and national law enforcement community.

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Dangerman Jan 27, 2024 • 6:35:37am

Trump faces ‘new potential legal problem’ in Giuliani bankruptcy case
The same day Donald Trump was hit with a massive defamation verdict in E. Jean Carroll’s defamation case, it was reported that the ex-president could be sued on behalf of Rudy Giuliani in connection with the former mayor’s bankruptcy.
A bankruptcy court filing dated Friday shows that “possible claim for unpaid legal fees against Donald J. Trump” was written when the form specific information on contingent claims.

So follow this

Tfg-rapist still owes rudy the fees for the “legal” work he did defaming Freeman and Moss for tfgs benefit.

Anything collected will go to …Freeman and moss.

Which they can use to sue tfg-rapist directly for defaming them.

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Dangerman Jan 27, 2024 • 6:36:37am

re: #145 sizzzzlerz

There were so many things about that show that were totally insane and highly unrealistic. One that I can’t get over is that, here is this small northern California town which has a murder rate that probably exceeds most large cities yet somehow, they’re able to fly under radar of the state and national law enforcement community.

Cabot Cove West

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sizzzzlerz Jan 27, 2024 • 6:40:00am

A most lucky boidie today. Could have been real nasty. Lots of possible words.

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Dangerman Jan 27, 2024 • 6:43:26am

Yesterday tfg-rapist demonstrated that he can lose to a 80-year old.

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course) Jan 27, 2024 • 6:43:39am

re: #20 Charles Johnson

I was extremely glad I sprang for the high-priced cycling helmet that one time when I crashed and fell backward and the back of my helmet cracked right up the middle. That helmet may have saved my life.

I got Andrew Sullivan to change his mind about bicycle helmets! :)

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Belafon Jan 27, 2024 • 6:47:31am

bsky.app

That was such a pain in the butt getting it here.

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Belafon Jan 27, 2024 • 6:50:14am

bsky.app

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Ace Rothstein Jan 27, 2024 • 6:50:25am

re: #88 silverdolphin

Back in the early 80s, my religious and now super-MAGA uncle told me D&D was satanic. Bar codes were also some kind of government plan to track you. Or something.

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Dangerman Jan 27, 2024 • 6:53:53am

re: #153 Ace Rothstein

Back in the early 80s, my religious and now super-MAGA uncle told me D&D was satanic. Bar codes were also some kind of government plan to track you. Or something.

i took a while but they figured out how to shrink em down and put em in a vaccine.

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Belafon Jan 27, 2024 • 6:54:10am

bsky.app

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Ace Rothstein Jan 27, 2024 • 6:55:40am

re: #119 Dangerman

Giving up nearly 1/3 of their cash (estimate) would devastate their campaign season. It would be ludicrous

Yes. Which means they’ll do it.

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Dangerman Jan 27, 2024 • 6:56:24am

know who’s having a bad morning?

Habba

all her good looks and yes mr trump ass kissing that got her this far wont do a damn thing to help today

and the obligatory “this isnt over we will appeal’ schtick has no teeth because he’s still got to front the money and i dont think she’s got it to lend to him.

nowhere to hide honey.
this is on you.

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Dr Lizardo Jan 27, 2024 • 6:56:58am

re: #156 Ace Rothstein

Yes. Which means they’ll do it.

Look at the financial condition of some of the state-Republican parties. They’re a mess, to say the very least.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS Jan 27, 2024 • 6:59:10am

Some of the trees around here think it’s still autumn.

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Nerdy Fish Jan 27, 2024 • 6:59:13am

re: #157 Dangerman

Even better: The judge was absolutely incensed with her behavior during the trial, to the point where he threatened to throw her in the slammer for contempt during her own closing arguments. There are probably sanctions coming for her, when all is said and done.

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Belafon Jan 27, 2024 • 6:59:43am

bsky.app.

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Ace Rothstein Jan 27, 2024 • 7:01:09am

re: #160 Nerdy Fish

I was wondering that myself yesterday. I imagine the judge will contact the NY Bar about her.

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Belafon Jan 27, 2024 • 7:03:49am

I’m normally an underdog kind of guy, but:

bsky.app

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Ace Rothstein Jan 27, 2024 • 7:05:05am

re: #163 Belafon

I’m normally an underdog kind of guy, but:

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bsky.app

Wait a minute, Fucker has an out. “Validate the attention” is subjective, is it not?

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sizzzzlerz Jan 27, 2024 • 7:07:10am

re: #163 Belafon

I’m normally an underdog kind of guy, but:

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bsky.app

I’m still waiting for Sean Hannity to be waterboarded. I wouldn’t hold my breath on this one.

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Belafon Jan 27, 2024 • 7:08:19am

re: #164 Ace Rothstein

Wait a minute, Fucker has an out. “Validate the attention” is subjective, is it not?

Oh there will always be an out. “Taylor defiled the Lord’s day, Sunday.”

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sizzzzlerz Jan 27, 2024 • 7:10:52am

re: #163 Belafon

I’m normally an underdog kind of guy, but:

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You know, Carlson and the rest of the RW mosh pit sewer rats ought to be charging Taylor rent, given how she’s pretty much moved into their heads

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Oblongatis Jan 27, 2024 • 7:13:25am

re: #161 Belafon

Except if you were a captured Russian soldier in which case you were sent to Siberia. Soldiers surrending to the Nazi’s was viewed by Stalin as a coward and a traitor to the Mother Russia.

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sizzzzlerz Jan 27, 2024 • 7:18:23am

re: #168 Oblongatis

Except if you were a captured Russian soldier in which case you were sent to Siberia. Surrounding to the Nazi’s was viewed by Stalin as a coward and a traitor to the Mother Russia.

Sounds much like the Donald Trump (Rapist) statement that soldier who died in war were suckers and losers.

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Nojay UK Jan 27, 2024 • 7:22:14am

re: #165 sizzzzlerz

I’m still waiting for Sean Hannity to be waterboarded. I wouldn’t hold my breath on this one.

I saw what you did there. I almost spewed tea out my nose laughing.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ Jan 27, 2024 • 7:23:47am

re: #141 Dangerman

I want pie.

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steve_davis Jan 27, 2024 • 7:24:22am

re: #168 Oblongatis

Except if you were a captured Russian soldier in which case you were sent to Siberia. Soldiers surrending to the Nazi’s was viewed by Stalin as a coward and a traitor to the Mother Russia.

as i recall from solzhenitsyn, it was even more insidious than that. it was that lots of those russian soldiers got housed a fence division away from American troops, and they got to see that the Americans, who had signed onto the geneva accords, actually got food and red cross packages which the Russians didn’t get, because Russian had refused to sign on. So the Germans and the Americans treated each other’s POW’s with relatively decent conditions, while the Russians were treated atrociously.

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William Lewis Jan 27, 2024 • 7:36:41am

An abandoned old folks home that could be used as a set for a horror movie… heck it was thought to be haunted when we’d go there as kids for halloween when it was actually still open. Creepy as all f**k even then…

Ghostie sez “Boo!” Fits the gloomy weather.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 27, 2024 • 7:37:42am

re: #114 Targetpractice

Probably why I realized that my grandmother is a closeted racist the first time she opined aloud that, despite it being the mid-90s by this point, she still hated Dr King and (yes) labeled him a “troublemaker.”

I remember going back to visit NW Indiana after having lived in Arizona for some time. The Film Gandhi had recently come out and I was talking bout it with a Hoosier, who was telling me how much she admired him.

I mentioned that Dr. Martin Luther King based a lot of his philosophy on Gandhi, to which she repled “Martin Luther King? That rabble-rouser?”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 27, 2024 • 7:38:17am

re: #119 Dangerman

Giving up nearly 1/3 of their cash (estimate) would devastate their campaign season. It would be ludicrous

They will claim that it is all a political maneuver to interfere with the election.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 27, 2024 • 7:39:44am

re: #133 Dangerman

in the end, Gil Scott has won.

Congratulations.
You can pick up your toaster in the lobby on your way out

Everyone is invited to my house for Eggo waffles!!!

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Ace Rothstein Jan 27, 2024 • 7:41:38am

re: #114 Targetpractice

Of courser King was a troublemaker! He was a communist!!!
//

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 27, 2024 • 7:43:26am

re: #152 Belafon

True, our boomer generation remembers the heroic Israel of Exodus and Cast a Giant Shadow, the Seven-Day War and Yom Kippur War..not the goat rodeo that Bibi has made Israeli policy into.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 27, 2024 • 7:44:06am

re: #153 Ace Rothstein

Back in the early 80s, my religious and now super-MAGA uncle told me D&D was satanic. Bar codes were also some kind of government plan to track you. Or something.

Remember the Procter & Gamble Satanic Logo scare? That was long before the Internets.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 27, 2024 • 7:46:43am

Am I the only one who experienced a LGF outage this afternoon? They seem to happen with some regularity at my end.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 27, 2024 • 7:48:37am

re: #177 Ace Rothstein

Of courser King was a troublemaker! He was a communist!!!
//

I was told that he was actually a Republican…

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Randall Gross Jan 27, 2024 • 7:49:56am

re: #176 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Everyone is invited to my house for Eggo waffles!!!

This is a knockoff of a cuisinart design, and a great investment. Makes two belgian waffles at once.
amazon.com

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Randall Gross Jan 27, 2024 • 7:50:36am

re: #180 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Am I the only one who experienced a LGF outage this afternoon? They seem to happen with some regularity at my end.

If there was an outage I did not notice

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Randall Gross Jan 27, 2024 • 7:53:47am

“Torswats” going to serve not enough time in prison
wired.com

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Hecuba's daughter Jan 27, 2024 • 7:53:59am

re: #78 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

That went better than I expected. Par.

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Belafon Jan 27, 2024 • 7:59:00am

re: #178 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

True, our boomer generation remembers the heroic Israel of Exodus and Cast a Giant Shadow, the Seven-Day War and Yom Kippur War..not the goat rodeo that Bibi has made Israeli policy into.

I don’t think Gen Z is being exposed to enough news about Gaza and Hamas, but Netanyahu has earned all the ire against him.

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Hecuba's daughter Jan 27, 2024 • 8:00:24am

re: #90 Targetpractice

At this point, I’m not sure they have much choice. “Republican Nominee Donald Trump Files For Chap 11 Bankruptcy” is not exactly the campaign headline that most of them want to wake up to.

But Jared does have 2 billion. Can he lend such a small fraction to his FIL?

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Randall Gross Jan 27, 2024 • 8:03:58am

More on Russia’s latest cyber warfare attacks from Microsoft : Midnight blizzard

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Belafon Jan 27, 2024 • 8:04:18am

TIL I learned that there is a Marvel Comics in the Marvel comics and it tells stories about Spider-man and others. It is being sold to Roxxon, and the Thor in the comics will be a “defender of big business and the sanctity of shareholder value.”.

gamesradar.com

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Belafon Jan 27, 2024 • 8:05:35am

re: #187 Hecuba’s daughter

But Jared does have 2 billion. Can he lend such a small fraction to his FIL?

Then we can ask about the terms of repayment.

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Ace Rothstein Jan 27, 2024 • 8:07:48am

re: #187 Hecuba’s daughter

But Jared does have 2 billion. Can he lend such a small fraction to his FIL?

Lend? LOL.

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A Cranky One Jan 27, 2024 • 8:09:08am

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 27, 2024 • 8:11:27am

re: #191 Ace Rothstein

Lend? LOL.

Only against collateral…

Coming soon: Jar-a-Logo!!!

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 Jan 27, 2024 • 8:13:27am

Natasha Lyonne recently reminisced about working with actor James Woods—and the Poker Face star did not mince words while discussing his alleged creepy behavior.
During her appearance this week on Conan O’Brien’s podcast, Conan Needs a Friend, she said, “I fucking think James Woods is a great actor despite the fact that he’s a Republican psychopath who, I don’t know, was hitting on me as a teenager in full monster makeup.”

Lyonne and Woods shared a scene together in 2001’s Scary Movie 2, in which they parodied The Exorcist, with Lyonne playing the iconic Linda Blair character and Woods playing the aptly named priest Father McFeely.

According to Lyonne, while they were filming the scene, “[Woods] was like, ‘I can tell even with the makeup, you’re a spinner, right?’” prompting shocked reactions from O’Brien and his co-hosts. (Lyonne was 22 years old when Scary Movie 2 premiered, though it is unclear how old she was when she filmed the movie.)

Lyonne’s account of Woods’ creepy on-set behavior is just the latest call-out against the Once Upon a Time in America actor. Back in 2017, actress Amber Tamblyn accused Woods of hitting on her when she was 16 years old.

Natasha Lyonne Joins Chorus of Women Calling Out James Woods (The Daily Beast)

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Randall Gross Jan 27, 2024 • 8:14:20am

re: #189 Belafon

TIL I learned that there is a Marvel Comics in the Marvel comics and it tells stories about Spider-man and others. It is being sold to Roxxon, and the Thor in the comics will be a “defender of big business and the sanctity of shareholder value.”.

gamesradar.com

That’s going to be really interesting.

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wrenchwench Jan 27, 2024 • 8:19:48am

Par. Wordle 952 4/6*

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darthstar Jan 27, 2024 • 8:20:58am

re: #187 Hecuba’s daughter

But Jared does have 2 billion. Can he lend such a small fraction to his FIL?

He should consider it an investment.

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Belafon Jan 27, 2024 • 8:21:19am

re: #195 Randall Gross

That’s going to be really interesting.

I wonder how a Deadpool comic would work from inside that Marvel comics:

Deadpool: 4th wall break inside a 4th wall break

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sizzzzlerz Jan 27, 2024 • 8:25:34am

re: #179 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Remember the Procter & Gamble Satanic Logo scare? That was long before the Internets.

Even before both of those was the Ouija Board scare from Hell. We were communicating satan himself when we played with that. That was in the 60s. I suspect the board was older.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jan 27, 2024 • 8:27:18am

re: #92 Targetpractice

What will probably happen is he’ll work to secure a bond and get the RNC to post the cash and/or provide collateral while covering the taxes and fees out of his PAC like he’s done with his legal expenses. The RNC may be responsible for the collateral simply because most of what he has in NYC is currently tied up in the fraud case and might not be his to hock if the court orders said assets to be liquidated to cover whatever penalty Judge Engoron bench slaps him with.

If trump bankrupts the RNC, I’d call that a huge win for democracy.

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Dr Lizardo Jan 27, 2024 • 8:28:07am

re: #199 sizzzzlerz

The Ouija Board was patented in 1890, so that’s been around for a long, long time.

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Randall Gross Jan 27, 2024 • 8:29:52am

Mastodon

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Randall Gross Jan 27, 2024 • 8:31:01am

bsky.app

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 27, 2024 • 8:31:08am

re: #153 Ace Rothstein

Back in the early 80s, my religious and now super-MAGA uncle told me D&D was satanic. Bar codes were also some kind of government plan to track you. Or something.

Yes I remember my Jesusbot oldest sister and her husband ranting about “demonic” D&D.

Oh yes they also joined a boycott of Procter & Gamble products because of the lie about the mark of the devil on P&G products.

And they led the boycott of Scorecese’s “The Last Temptation Of Christ”

Why?

Because they endlessly watched Pulpit Pimp Pat’s 700 Club and whatever Pat Robertson said they would do.

If Pulpit Pimp Pat told them to take a dump on their front lawn for Jesus they would have done it. That’s how dumbed-down they got thanks to that Pulpit Pimp and Right-Wing Je$u$.

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Jay C Jan 27, 2024 • 8:31:26am

re: #201 Dr Lizardo

The Ouija Board was patented in 1890, so that’s been around for a long, long time.

Cool:today’s TIL!
I had thought it was a product of the 1920s

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sizzzzlerz Jan 27, 2024 • 8:31:46am

re: #202 Randall Gross

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The Ouija Board: Stealing children’s souls for Satan since 1890

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Oblongatis Jan 27, 2024 • 8:33:25am

re: #172 steve_davis

While true I was referring to the “liberated” Russian prisoners.

The Red Cross thing was part of the reason for the different treatment, but it was more driven by the Nazi view of Slavs being subhumans.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 27, 2024 • 8:33:48am

re: #199 sizzzzlerz

Even before both of those was the Ouija Board scare from Hell. We were communicating satan himself when we played with that. That was in the 60s. I suspect the board was older.

Well remember that someone who had the phone number to JC’s Hot Line got inspired to create this!

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Hecuba's daughter Jan 27, 2024 • 8:37:23am

re: #142 Dangerman

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sizzzzlerz Jan 27, 2024 • 8:37:44am

re: #208 Joe Bacon ✅

Well remember that someone who had the phone number to JC’s Hot Line got inspired to create this!

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Brilliant marketing by the devil. Make the mooks believe it’s a godly toy, all-the-while, re-routing the messaging to his soul-stealing boiler room shop.

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Dr Lizardo Jan 27, 2024 • 8:43:30am

re: #205 Jay C

Cool:today’s TIL!
I had
thought it was a product of the 1920s

It was pretty much considered a parlor game until the post-WWI era, when popularity of the Ouija Board skyrocketed as a divining tool.

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jeffreyw Jan 27, 2024 • 8:45:44am

Mastodon

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Jan 27, 2024 • 8:46:19am

re: #124 Dangerman

How this doesn’t sink a candidate is bizzaro

Not one.
Four.

It’s the epitome of IOKIYAR.

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A Cranky One Jan 27, 2024 • 8:48:44am

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BlueSpotinAL ✅ Jan 27, 2024 • 8:51:03am

re: #182 Randall Gross

This is a knockoff of a cuisinart design, and a great investment. Makes two belgian waffles at once.
amazon.com

I have the Aldi knockoff of the Black and Decker knockoff of Cuisinart. It works great.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 27, 2024 • 8:52:58am

re: #213 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

It’s the epitome of IOKIYAR.

It is what happens when a large share of our population occupies a parallel reality.

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darthstar Jan 27, 2024 • 8:55:52am

Granted, the Houthis didn’t know they were attacking Russian oil, so they still need to get spanked, but if they had to hit something…

Mastodon

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Jay C Jan 27, 2024 • 8:56:27am

re: #216 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It is what happens when a large share of our population occupies a parallel reality.

Not sure what can be done about that, though.
Not in the 21st-Century media environment.

I guess the best thing to do is just try to keep that “share” as low as possible…

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Hecuba's daughter Jan 27, 2024 • 8:56:42am

re: #213 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

It’s the epitome of IOKIYAR.

In this case, it’s because normal rules don’t apply to Trump. Any other Republican would have been expelled by now for this litany of criminal behavior.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 27, 2024 • 8:57:13am

re: #218 Jay C

Not sure what can be done about that, though.
Not in the 21st-Century media environment.

I guess the best thing to do is just try to keep that “share” as low as possible…

and limit the damage they can do to our electoral process and democracy in general

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 27, 2024 • 8:57:45am

re: #216 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It is what happens when a large share of our population occupies a parallel reality.

Frank Zappa warned us back in the 70s.

I’m The Slime - Frank Zappa (With lyrics / subtitles)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 27, 2024 • 8:57:59am

re: #219 Hecuba’s daughter

In this case, it’s because normal rules don’t apply to Trump. Any other Republican would have been expelled by now for this litany of criminal behavior.

He is all about leverage, and his name still has enough weight to leverage the support of his party.

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darthstar Jan 27, 2024 • 8:59:23am

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Belafon Jan 27, 2024 • 8:59:24am

re: #217 darthstar

Granted, the Houthis didn’t know they were attacking Russian oil, so they still need to get spanked, but if they had to hit something…

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The carrier still needs to be sanctioned by the EU and US in addition to losing a ship.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 27, 2024 • 9:05:55am

Republicans Are Starting to Worry That They Suck at Governing

…uh just now they’re starting to worry??? Oh silly me I forgot just how stupid those clowns are!!!

GOP lawmakers have started to grumble about their lack of legislative accomplishments. They should take a good long look in the mirror…

…oops the mirror keeps cracking when they look at it…

It appears that we’re all going to pretend to have a GOP primary a little longer. Eight days after his decisive win in the Iowa caucus winnowed the field to two, Donald Trump comfortably beat Nikki Haley in the New Hampshire primary. The former South Carolina governor is soldiering on, apparently on the grounds that hers was but a minor shellacking and not a campaign-killing blowout. But the end will arrive soon enough—perhaps in her home state next month.

With Trump all but officially the nominee, though, Republican politicians are now turning to the question of how he can win over non-MAGA voters—and there is a scent of uneasiness in the air. In something of a plot twist, GOP lawmakers have grown discontented with the way their party’s rickety platform offers few selling points for the party, with some members “very publicly complaining about [its] lack of accomplishments,” according to reports.

NBC News’s Sahil Kapur reported that there is a “dynamic that looms over Republican lawmakers,” in which they’ve “passed little substantive legislation since winning the majority” and are struggling with “the basics of governing” and beset by internal “fractiousness and chaos”—all of which is apparently complicated by the fact that Trump’s policy platform is mainly about “retribution” and spreading “fabricated claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him.”

…no shit, Sherlock…

Last November, we got our first inkling of this strange insecurity when Texas Representative Chip Roy went to the floor of the House to have a nervous breakdown about the deficiencies he saw in his own party. “One thing. I want my Republican colleagues to give me one thing. One. That I can go campaign on and say we did,” Roy ranted. “One!” (Apparently taking credit for the infrastructure bill that most of them voted against doesn’t quite cut it.)

This is a lot like a Girl Scout expressing outrage over the organization’s commitment to cookies. Nearly all of Roy’s disgruntlement can be chalked up to the simple fact that he’s a member of the Republican Party, which hasn’t really been trying to accomplish anything for a long while. Three years ago, TNR contributor Katelyn Burns took stock of the GOP and found that it had all but abandoned meaningful policymaking in favor of “entrenching itself in the distant patriarchal mythology of America’s past” and waging culture war against liberals. A Republican adviser to former Senator Rob Portman summed it up: “If you want to spend all your time going on Fox and be[ing] an asshole, there’s never been a better time to serve. But if you want to spend all your time being thoughtful and getting shit done, there’s never been a worse time to serve.”

It is deeply funny that Roy has emerged as one of his party’s foremost critics in this regard. In a profile last year, TNR’s Pablo Manríquez described Roy as a “viral bomb thrower” with scant history of bipartisan accomplishment and a tireless critic of the debt ceiling and funding deals that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy had to make to keep things running. While Roy came out against the motion to vacate that began the process of ousting McCarthy, his replacement pick, Jim Jordan, was even less suited to accomplishing anything—unless his quixotic efforts to invent some sort of reality-based foundation for the party’s incessant culture warring counts as a “thing.”

In his public remarks, Roy seems to understand that the primary impediment to Republican accomplishments is the fact that Democrats control the Senate and Joe Biden occupies the White House, and that getting things done requires Republicans to engage Democrats and forge deals. From what I can discern from his rantings, though, he has no real plans to do this, preferring instead to shout loudly and indiscriminately at the situation while assailing other members of his party for their lack of magical thinking.

This is where Roy stands out, even among his caucus: He seems to hate some of his Republican peers at least as much as Democrats. At one point during a recent floor speech, Roy professed outrage over the fact that passing a border deal might require Republicans to have to talk to Senator Mitt Romney and other Republican senators to convince them to support the effort. “So what?” he declaimed about his House colleagues’ plans to pass a border security bill out of the House. “Are you going to pass that bill and walk over [to the Senate] and convince that great stalwart of defense of our border, Mitt Romney, that he should vote for it? Are you going to convince any of the 12 who just voted to redefine marriage and stomp all over religious liberty … are you going to convince any one of them to vote for a strong border security bill?”

It’s notable that Romney features here, as Romney is perhaps the last prominent Republican to rise up through the ranks on the back of a famous policy accomplishment. But over the years, the Commonwealth Care health care reform he enacted in Massachusetts has gone from being an acclaimed example of GOP problem-solving to forbidden knowledge of which none must ever speak.

newrepublic.com

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A Cranky One Jan 27, 2024 • 9:05:59am

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Hecuba's daughter Jan 27, 2024 • 9:06:35am

re: #222 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

He is all about leverage, and his name still has enough weight to leverage the support of his party.

Because he has a cult following — other vile Republicans, such as DeSantis, may have supporters but they don’t think of them as a Messiah. If they shot someone on 5th Avenue, they would definitely lose voters.

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wrenchwench Jan 27, 2024 • 9:09:10am

Mastodon

Boys may not be more susceptible; girls cover more effectively, or just aren’t being looked at.

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Jay C Jan 27, 2024 • 9:12:00am

re: #225 Joe Bacon ✅

Republicans Are Starting to Worry That They Suck at Governing

The problem in brief:

Democrats want to *govern*.
Republicans want to *rule*.

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wrenchwench Jan 27, 2024 • 9:15:39am

Mastodon

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 27, 2024 • 9:18:09am

re: #227 Hecuba’s daughter

Because he has a cult following — other vile Republicans, such as DeSantis, may have supporters but they don’t think of them as a Messiah. If they shot someone on 5th Avenue, they would definitely lose voters.

The GOP knows that without his base, they can never achieve a majority. In 2016 they were successful because that base got out to vote and they managed to suppress or dissuade enough of the middle from voting Democrat.

And they found that indifference and apathy are great forms of voter suppression. Followed by misinformataion and innuendo.

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Eclectic Cyborg Jan 27, 2024 • 9:19:04am

I see TFG hasn’t defamed E Jean Carroll again yet…I wonder how long he can hold out?

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sagehen Jan 27, 2024 • 9:20:49am

re: #201 Dr Lizardo

The Ouija Board was patented in 1890, so that’s been around for a long, long time.

I seem to remember fake spiritualists in the Sherlock Holmes stories using ouija boards. Some iron in the placket, a strong magnet under the table…

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 27, 2024 • 9:21:23am

re: #232 Eclectic Cyborg

I see TFG hasn’t defamed E Jean Carroll again yet…I wonder how long he can hold out?

It’s gotta be eating him alive that Karma stung his sleazy ass. But rest assured that asshole can’t help himself and he’s gonna release another fart on his platform that smears her…and E Jean’s attorney will butt-bongo him again.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 27, 2024 • 9:30:05am

If you thought Trump can’t handle the fact that two white women got their revenge on him…wait till you see him melt down when Tish humiliates him with that coming $300 million+ loss.

He’s gonna lose it and melt down…having a black woman humiliate him in public…

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Jan 27, 2024 • 9:30:11am

re: #228 wrenchwench

We need to step back and discuss how we have been trained to look at ourselves (humans.)

Creationism still taints the thinking of academics and lay people.

There is this creationist concept that humans are all alike, all created “perfect”.

That there is a single thing that is called a “normal human”.

But we know we as a species are a polyglot of evolutionary swerves, of out-breeding with our closest cousins in the genus Homo.

As a population we can be sorted into groups but those sortings are no more definitive than the next architecture of sortings, or the next, or the next.

I’m thinking psychiatry and psychology are slowly making their way out of the fog of our creationist past, and acknowledging that “human” is a collection of traits that extend on spectrums.

And this gets me to autism. What if an autism diagnosis is simply the recognition that we humans have a variety of psychological traits that contribute to how we learn and communicate?

So much of psychology is about drawing lines on a spectrum, to diagnose an alleged disorder from whatever an average (whatever that means) human experiences.

I myself was diagnosed with an anxiety disorder long ago. Who is to say that one person’s anxiousness is another person’s anxiety disorder?

This also relates to the current drug shortages to treat ADHD. Turns out there is an uptick in diagnoses of ADHD, so the demand for Adderall has picked up. But all that means is that prior non-diagnosed cases of ADHD in adults were simply ignored.

Again, I think as a society, and the entire health care industry and professions, are coming to terms about the reality of Homo sapiens, that we all have differing traits on spectrums.

And so it will not surprise me if there are are many girls/women who might have some level of autism, but use the human-evolved capability of masking to cover it, or adapt within their social context. I suspect years from now it will be accepted that many humans have traits that could be classified as minimal autism.

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sagehen Jan 27, 2024 • 9:32:49am

re: #224 Belafon

The carrier still needs to be sanctioned by the EU and US in addition to losing a ship.

insurance isn’t going to cover that, is it?

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wrenchwench Jan 27, 2024 • 9:36:21am

Mastodon

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 27, 2024 • 9:38:14am

re: #237 sagehen

#224 Belafon

The carrier still needs to be sanctioned by the EU and US in addition to losing a ship.
insurance isn’t going to cover that, is it?

Lloyds of London ain’t gonna ring their bell because of that.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Jan 27, 2024 • 9:42:59am

In which Nahre goes K-POP:

Writing Classical Music for K-POP Vocals (Jung Kook)?!!

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Hecuba's daughter Jan 27, 2024 • 9:44:54am

re: #232 Eclectic Cyborg

I see TFG hasn’t defamed E Jean Carroll again yet…I wonder how long he can hold out?

He’s quite capable of controlling himself when he has to — when it finally dawned on him that real money is involved.

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sagehen Jan 27, 2024 • 9:51:28am

George Conway Explains How He Introduced E. Jean Carroll to Her Lawyer

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Dr Lizardo Jan 27, 2024 • 9:51:35am

re: #233 sagehen

I seem to remember fake spiritualists in the Sherlock Holmes stories using ouija boards. Some iron in the placket, a strong magnet under the table…

Spirit boards used by so-called mediums were around in many varieties before the board itself - as we know it today - was patented.

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sagehen Jan 27, 2024 • 10:02:13am

re: #236 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

And so it will not surprise me if there are are many girls/women who might have some level of autism, but use the human-evolved capability of masking to cover it, or adapt within their social context. I suspect years from now it will be accepted that many humans have traits that could be classified as minimal autism.

Anybody whose resume includes the words “detail-oriented”…

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Randall Gross Jan 27, 2024 • 10:12:22am

re: #215 BlueSpotinAL ✅

I have the Aldi knockoff of the Black and Decker knockoff of Cuisinart. It works great.

I know! I love ours, the other day I made a lemon ricotta batter…

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Florida Panhandler Jan 27, 2024 • 10:15:47am

re: #37 Belafon

Not the first time he’s done that to his employees.

businessinsider.com

Just a preview of a typical Texas factory after any secession. All safety and health regulations gone, company towns, overtime pay reduced or reduced to normal wages, Texans will grow up thinking it’s normal in a modern industrialized country to have virtually no life outside the workplace and to be a virtual slave to a billionaire.

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Belafon Jan 27, 2024 • 10:19:27am

re: #236 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

And this gets me to autism. What if an autism diagnosis is simply the recognition that we humans have a variety of psychological traits that contribute to how we learn and communicate?

So much of psychology is about drawing lines on a spectrum, to diagnose an alleged disorder from whatever an average (whatever that means) human experiences.

We had my son tested for Autism and ADHD by his best friend’s mom who does testing for adults; she also tested her daughter. While her daughter didn’t show any signs of autism, she did show ADHD. My son showed signs of both.

Her test involves an intelligence test as well as tests on recognition and communication of information, as well as tests on how quickly information is processed and how long it is retained. The IQ test is used to set a baseline on the scores, that way an “average” score would be considered low in someone with a high IQ because it’s something that has to be worked around.

As a neuropsychologist, she’s quick to make sure to understand that autism is not a disease or really a disorder. It’s a description of how people fit on a range of skills compared to everyone else. The problem, as I have come to understand it myself, is that our society has not only been set up to glorify people who only fit a particular definition of those values - highly social tends to beat out highly intelligent, among other things - but it just doesn’t properly utilize those that don’t quite fit the definition.

I’m really sure I’m on the spectrum, and I have generally compensated because I’m really good at processing what people’s faces say and pay a whole lot of attention on what’s going on around me (a mother prone to anger tends to train you that way). But I can easily see where I don’t fit the way a lot of things are set up. I went into the Navy, and I came close to killing myself because there was no way for me to know how to come down from the very stressful situation I was under. For some of us, some things have to be explained that other people take for granted (while at the same time, there are things I totally get automatically that other people just never grasp).

A good portion of the problem with autism right now is that any testing is generally either self selected or recommended only in extreme situations. But we also aren’t really set up to use that information. Back to the military. I could see a lot of people who are on the spectrum serving wonderfully in the miliary, but they aren’t set up to deal with people who respond to stressful situations much better when someone isn’t yelling at them, and need to be handled differently than “because I said so.”

As for this:

I myself was diagnosed with an anxiety disorder long ago. Who is to say that one person’s anxiousness is another person’s anxiety disorder?

This is similar to being depressed for a while because your dog died, vs being depressed and you can’t get out of it. Anxiousness over an upcoming test or business proposal is not the same thing as remembering that time you were a jerk in the 7th grade and deciding that’s the reason you shouldn’t try for that position you are qualified for. (Yes, that is a very non-clinical way of looking at it.)

(Note: I need to write more so that long things like this sound more coherent.)

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 27, 2024 • 10:19:29am

re: #241 Hecuba’s daughter

He’s quite capable of controlling himself when he has to — when it finally dawned on him that real money is involved.

Mark my words he’s gonna turn his wrath on Ruby and Shaye and I hope they will go after him and make him suffer for what he did to them.

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Dangerman Jan 27, 2024 • 10:21:07am

Still indicted?

Still owes 83.3m and counting?

Ok I can start the day.

Oh and Limbaugh is still dead
And Carlson’s still fired

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sizzzzlerz Jan 27, 2024 • 10:21:31am

re: #228 wrenchwench

Boys may not be more susceptible; girls cover more effectively, or just aren’t being looked at.

I saw that picture and the only thing I could think of was…

Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality

Pardon the interruption. Please continue with thw serious conversation

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Ace Rothstein Jan 27, 2024 • 10:21:40am

re: #249 Dangerman

Roger Ailes is still dead too.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 27, 2024 • 10:23:14am

re: #246 Florida Panhandler

Just a preview of a typical Texas factory after any secession. All safety and health regulations gone, company towns, overtime pay reduced or reduced to normal wages, Texans will grow up thinking it’s normal in a modern industrialized country to have virtually no life outside the workplace and to be a virtual slave to a billionaire.

Add in no public schools so employers can force those kids to work in factories and harvest the crops.

Texas will be one big Galt’s Gulch where the billionaires rule with an iron hand.

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Eclectic Cyborg Jan 27, 2024 • 10:23:58am

re: #249 Dangerman

At first, I read that as “Carlson is still dead”.

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ericblair Jan 27, 2024 • 10:25:55am

A New York judge has ruled that Fox Corp. must face Smartmatic’s $2.7 billion defamation suit — denying a motion to dismiss defamation claims against Fox News’ parent company.

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 27, 2024

Bankrupt the fuckers. Most of them got into the MAGA business for the money, so it’s only fitting it should ruin them.

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Hecuba's daughter Jan 27, 2024 • 10:26:09am

re: #249 Dangerman

Still indicted?

Still owes 83.3m and counting?

Ok I can start the day.

Oh and Limbaugh is still dead
And Carlson’s still fired

And Alex Jones still hasn’t paid his judgement but is able to continue broadcasting. What kind of settlement is that? Why does he continue to be given a voice for his lies and evil instead of having his megaphone taken from him?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Jan 27, 2024 • 10:32:47am

re: #251 Ace Rothstein

Roger Ailes is still dead too.

And Henry Kissinger

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course) Jan 27, 2024 • 10:33:56am

re: #256 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

And Henry Kissinger

Equal time for Phyllis Schlafly, please.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 27, 2024 • 10:35:15am

Elise Stefanik caught deleting statement calling for January 6 rioters to be prosecuted

alternet.org

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-New York) — who is thought of as a leading candidate to be former President Donald Trump’s 2024 running mate — recently deleted a 2021 statement from her website calling for the prosecution of January 6 participants.

Stefanik apparently deleted the statement after former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyoming) linked to it on Saturday. On her official X/Twittr account, Cheney called the statement a “rare moment of honesty” from the woman who replaced her as House Republican Conference chair, adding that “she will have to explain how and why she morphed into a total crackpot.”

Cheney noted in a subsequent tweet that Stefanik deleted the statement from her website without explanation. However, she included a screenshot of the statement in the post, telling her 644,000-plus followers to “feel free to share.”

“This is a tragic day for America. I fully condemn the dangerous violence and destruction that occurred today at the United States Capitol,” Stefanik said in the now-deleted statement. “Americans have a Constitutional right to protest and freedom of speech, but violence in any form is absolutely unacceptable and ant-American.”

“The perpetrators of this un-American violence and destruction must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” she added. “Thank you to the United States Capitol Police, all law enforcement, the National Guard and the bipartisan professional staff of the United States Capitol for protecting the People’s House and the American people.”

The New York Republican has since changed her tune on January 6 defendants, whom she now refers to as “hostages.” That concerned fellow New York lawmaker Rep. Dan Goldman (D-New York) so much that he filed a censure resolution against Stefanik, calling it “the culmination of a rhetoric that has gone too far.”

Stefanik may have deleted the statement in order to ingratiate herself with Trump, as his commanding wins in the Iowa caucus and New Hampshire primary move him closer to the Republican presidential nomination and the selection of a running mate. Trump has not only used the “hostages” label for January 6 rioters, but has promised to pardon the vast bulk of them if elected to a second term. More than 1,200 arrests have been made in connection to the insurrection, and the Department of Justice has secured guilty pleas and convictions from roughly 800 of those charged.

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A Cranky One Jan 27, 2024 • 10:49:16am

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Dangerman Jan 27, 2024 • 10:56:43am

re: #253 Eclectic Cyborg

At first, I read that as “Carlson is still dead”.

I had to hold back

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