Veritasium: Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED

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Well, the thoroughly corrupt Supreme Court Republicans are doing exactly what we knew they would. People who predicted a better result were fooling themselves. But there’s nothing we can do, so let’s learn something instead.

The blue LED was supposed to be impossible—until a young engineer proposed a moonshot idea. Head to brilliant.org to start your free 30-day trial, and the first 200 people get 20% off an annual premium subscription.

If you’re looking for a molecular modeling kit, try Snatoms, a kit I invented where the atoms snap together magnetically - ve42.co

Huge thanks to the UC Santa Barbara Materials Dept for taking us around, and to Álvaro Bermejillo Seco for reviewing the science. These sources were also especially helpful:
Nobel Prize Biography - Shuji Nakamura - ve42.co
Johnstone, B. (2015). Brilliant!. Prometheus Books. - ve42.co
Nakamura, S., Pearton, S., & Fasol, G. (2010). The Blue Laser Diode: The Complete Story. Springer. - ve42.co

References:

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Touchstone, L. A. (2022). Nick Holonyak Jr. University of Illinois. - ve42.co
Perry, T. S. (1995). The Unsung Inventor. IEEE Spectrum. - ve42.co
Chabay, R. & Sherwood, B. (2011). Matter & interactions (4th ed.), S2: Semiconductors. Wiley. - ve42.co
How MOCVD Works via Aixtron - ve42.co
Vangala, S. R., et al. (2019). Epitaxial growth of ZnSe on GaAs. Journal of Crystal Growth. - ve42.co
Nakamura, S. (1991). GaN Growth Using GaN Buffer Layer. JJAP. - ve42.co
Amano, H., et al. (1989). P-Type Conduction in Mg-Doped GaN w/ LEEBI. JJAP. - ve42.co
Huang, M., et al. (2021). Defects in Mg–H‐Codoped GaN. Physica Status Solidi. - ve42.co
Schubert, E. F. (2006). Light Emitting Diodes, Ch 4: LED basics. Cambridge University Press. - ve42.co
Kitada, C. (2001). Blue About Japan. Japan Inc. - ve42.co
Whitaker, T. (2002). Nakamura loses Nichia patent battle. optics.org. - ve42.co
Pirates Osaka. (2014). Nakamura awarded Nobel Prize in Physics. Hatena Blog. - ve42.co
Growth Bozu via Twitter. - ve42.co
Rose, J. (2014). Blue LEDs – Filling the world with new light. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. - ve42.co
Pattison, P. M., et al. (2017). LED lighting efficacy. Comptes Rendus Physique. - ve42.co
Electricity pricing via EIA - ve42.co
Lane, K., et al. (2023). Lighting. IEA. - ve42.co
LED Footprint via The Climate Group - ve42.co
Nichia’s History via Nichia - ve42.co
Shuji Nakamura via Wikipedia - ve42.co

Images & Video:
Lighting the World via UCTVInsight on YouTube - ve42.co & ve42.co
Palo Alto Times 1971 Article via newspapers.com - ve42.co
Nick Holonyak, Jr. and the LED via UIUC on YouTube - ve42.co
The Original Blue LED via Science History Institute on YouTube - ve42.co
Maxfield, M. (2022). Compound Semiconductors. EE Journal. - ve42.co
M. Stutzmann, et al. (2001). Playing with Polarity. pss (b). - ve42.co
Isamu Akasaki in 1995 via Andrey Nikolaev on YouTube - ve42.co
Pioneer TX-610 Stereo Tuner via Ian Marino on YouTube - ve42.co
Shuji Nakamura via EPO on YouTube - ve42.co
Nichia Campus via Nichia on LinkedIn - ve42.co
Nichia via TDElektronik on YouTube - ve42.co
Violeds Sterilization of COVID-19 via Seoul Viosys - ve42.co

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170 comments

William Lewis Feb 8, 2024 • 11:07:38am

From downstairs:
There is a really cool & really good German guy that does aviation history. He just dropped a video on one of the most insane of all the German desperation weapons of WWII - the HE-162 aka The Volksjager. It couldn’t have won but thankfully it was too late to kill too many …

I’m going to be watching it now 😎

He 162 - Germany’s Desperation Fighter

If you like that kind of stuff? Follow that link. It’s _good_.

PhillyPretzel ✅ Feb 8, 2024 • 11:12:44am

My Ring Basic Plan is going up by $10. Ugh.

Belafon Feb 8, 2024 • 11:16:25am

We have houses that will do only blue LEDs for Christmas lighting. That blue, in such large quantities, is very hard to stare at.

Dangerman Feb 8, 2024 • 11:17:09am

$5k a day on security

Who is he protecting himself from? Not from Democrats. Romney isn’t worried that some woke Karen is going to get up in his grill. He’s worried about Republicans. He’s worried that he is not physically safe from the people who voted for him.”

“And yet Romney still caucuses as a Republican.”

Link

jeffreyw Feb 8, 2024 • 11:21:34am

Mastodon

sizzzzlerz Feb 8, 2024 • 11:25:37am

So yesterday, I was asking for help in getting the NYT Wordle site to allow me to login. I tried suggestions I found on the web plus one or two suggestions from here. Nothing worked. Today, I had a message from my laptop manufacturer saying a new BIOS was available and do I want to install it. I clicked yes. The new bios was installed and my laptop rebooted. For shits and giggles, I thought I try the login once more. Surprise, surprise, surprise! It let me in. New bios or the reboot? I’m inclined to think it was rebooting, for whatever reason.

My partner told me “Forget about it, sizzzzlerz. It’s Windows-town”.

danarchy Feb 8, 2024 • 11:26:53am

re: #4 Dangerman

$5k a day on security

Link

Why is it that some links, (like this one) take over the existing tab when I click on them when most just pop open a new tab? Worse when it does take over the tab and I click back to go back to LGF it takes me back to the previous thread.

Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines Feb 8, 2024 • 11:29:00am

LeVar Burton addresses book flagged by Alabama library because author’s last name is ‘Gay’

Burton spoofed the popular children’s television show “Reading Rainbow” with a segment titled, “Why Did They Ban This Book?”

He showed a group of children several books, including “Read Me a Story, Stella,” a picture book about two siblings building a doghouse.

al.com reported in October that Huntsville-Madison County Public librarians had mistakenly added the title to a list of potentially “sexually explicit” books to be moved from the children section because the author’s name is Marie-Louise Gay.

“What!” one of the children exclaimed, placing her hands on her face when Burton explained the reasoning. “Are you dead serious?” another child asked. Multiple children replied at once, “Because of the last name?”

World War II historians have encountered this style of idiocy with the name of the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Enola Gay. This was named for the pilot’s mother, Enola Gay Tibbets (1890-1966)..

US newspaper claims Hiroshima bombing caused by ‘homosexual’ plane

Whereas the plane that dropped the bomb was actually named the Enola Gay, The Observer Chronicle has decided to rename the vehicle - as the “Enola Homosexual”

The article reads: “U.S. bomber, the Enola Homosexual, dropped the primary atomic weapon ever for use in wartime on Hiroshima at 8:15 a.m. on Aug. 6, 1945.

“The bombing, along side one other atomic assault on the town of Nagasaki two days later, are extensively credited with bringing the struggle within the Pacific to a swift conclusion.”

It is unclear whether the paper purposefully made the change, or if it was a mistake made by the reporter when writing the article.

William Lewis Feb 8, 2024 • 11:29:48am

re: #5 jeffreyw

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Easy peasy I grew up raising chickens - grab them by their legs, swing hard, pluck, gut, cook, have lunch. The only real question is the sides. Rice is never bad but tater tots are good too.

PhillyPretzel ✅ Feb 8, 2024 • 11:30:58am

re: #8 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

I know they are serious but one really has to ask, “Are you kidding?”

Belafon Feb 8, 2024 • 11:31:03am

re: #6 sizzzzlerz

The reboot.

Browsers these days, once you start them, or on startup depending on what you’ve allowed, don’t actually shut down when you close the windows. That way they respond faster the next time you open it. But that can mean that, if they get in a weird state, they won’t get out of it until you force it to completely shut down.

Eclectic Cyborg Feb 8, 2024 • 11:33:40am

re: #8 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Sprinter Tyson Gay was also referred to as “Tyson Homosexual” in an article some years back, apparently because the site in question was using a filter that changed all instances of Gay to “homosexual”.

wrenchwench Feb 8, 2024 • 11:34:26am

re: #11 Belafon

The reboot.

Browsers these days, once you start them, or on startup depending on what you’ve allowed, don’t actually shut down when you close the windows. That way they respond faster the next time you open it. But that can mean that, if they get in a weird state, they won’t get out of it until you force it to completely shut down.

Mine got in a weird state where the laptop would not shut down. I fixed it with a restart, which must have forced a shutdown that was stuck somewhere. Pardon my technical lingo.

PhillyPretzel ✅ Feb 8, 2024 • 11:36:12am

re: #8 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

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danarchy Feb 8, 2024 • 11:36:31am

re: #9 William Lewis

Easy peasy I grew up raising chickens - grab them by their legs, swing hard, pluck, gut, cook, have lunch. The only real question is the sides. Rice is never bad but tater tots are good too.

That was my thought too. One of those you end up seriously injured or dead once a year, and the other you get a whole bunch of free chicken dinners.

Although now I am wondering if it meant the orangutan had the sword or you had a sword? Either way, I am picking the chicken.

William Lewis Feb 8, 2024 • 11:37:17am

Stupid discovery of the day:

A fitbit will register you playing air guitar as steps.

BUT

It will not register you pushing you grocery cart at the grocery store.

I’m presuming it has something to do with the motion of your arm. Funny how that works.

FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Feb 8, 2024 • 11:37:57am

re: #13 wrenchwench

Mine got in a weird state where the laptop would not shut down. I fixed it with a restart, which must have forced a shutdown that was stuck somewhere. Pardon my technical lingo.

A lot of browsers tend to leave orphan processes or handles on your computer. Or a memory leak. So you probably want to reboot your computer periodically to clean this up. My virus/performance checker notes this every time it runs. And Win11 is doing it by default since it’s running Edge in the background.

Belafon Feb 8, 2024 • 11:38:02am

re: #16 William Lewis

Stupid discovery of the day:

A fitbit will register you playing air guitar as steps.

BUT

It will not register you pushing you grocery cart at the grocery store.

I’m presuming it has something to do with the motion of your arm. Funny how that works.

Wear it on your ankle.

Jay C Feb 8, 2024 • 11:38:02am

re: #6 sizzzzlerz

My partner told me “Forget about it, sizzzzlerz. It’s Windows-town”.

Good advice.
Enjoy Wordling….

sagehen Feb 8, 2024 • 11:39:57am

re: #5 jeffreyw

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Is this question from the same people who brought us “one horse-sized duck or a hundred duck-sized horses”?

jaunte Feb 8, 2024 • 11:40:55am

Tim-berrrrr.

A crew is here clearing the power line; they freelanced a little on their lunch break, helping me with a dead Siberian Elm.

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silverdolphin Feb 8, 2024 • 11:41:16am

Trump’s ‘Knock on the Door’

He will federalize National Guard troops in Red States and send them into Blue state cities to round up anyone who looks Hispanic. I wonder how many US citizens will be rounded up? How would you prove you are a citizen? Does not sound like any due process. Just rounded up and sent to camps.

Wonder when Hispanic Republicans will realize they belong to the leopard face-eating party which will love eating their faces?

sagehen Feb 8, 2024 • 11:42:44am

re: #8 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

LeVar Burton addresses book flagged by Alabama library because author’s last name is ‘Gay’

World War II historians have encountered this style of idiocy with the name of the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Enola Gay. This was named for the pilot’s mother, Enola Gay Tibbets (1890-1966)..

US newspaper claims Hiroshima bombing caused by ‘homosexual’ plane

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Enola Gay (Official Music Video)

Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines Feb 8, 2024 • 11:43:44am

re: #12 Eclectic Cyborg

Sprinter Tyson Gay was also referred to as “Tyson Homosexual” in an article some years back, apparently because the site in question was using a filter that changed all instances of Gay to “homosexual”.

That was the infamous OneNewsNow, the official propaganda outlet of the American Family Association.

The website reported: “‘It means a lot to me,’ the 25-year-old Homosexual said. ‘I’m glad my body could do it, because now I know I have it in me.’”

It continued: “Wearing a royal blue uniform with red and white diagonal stripes across the front, along with matching shoes, all in a tribute to 1936 Olympic star Jesse Owens, Homosexual dominated the competition.

“In Saturday’s opening heat, Homosexual pulled way up, way too soon, and nearly was caught by the field, before accelerating again and lunging in for fourth place.”

And it was not the only blunder the website made. American basketball player Rudy Gay also got the auto filter treatment with a story saying: “Memphis Grizzlies backers hit the hay hoping that Kevin Love would open things up for Rudy Homosexual in the frontcourt.”

No Malarkey! Feb 8, 2024 • 11:44:26am

re: #22 silverdolphin

Trump’s ‘Knock on the Door’

He will federalize National Guard troops in Red States and send them into Blue state cities to round up anyone who looks Hispanic. I wonder how many US citizens will be rounded up? How would you prove you are a citizen? Does not sound like any due process. Just rounded up and sent to camps.

Wonder when Hispanic Republicans will realize they belong to the leopard face-eating party which will love eating their faces?

Indeed, part of the Trump plan is to deny birthright citizenship to people born here if both of their parents were undocumented immigrants when they were born. I would not assume that they only intend to apply that rule proactively.

William Lewis Feb 8, 2024 • 11:44:49am

re: #22 silverdolphin

Trump’s ‘Knock on the Door’

He will federalize National Guard troops in Red States and send them into Blue state cities to round up anyone who looks Hispanic. I wonder how many US citizens will be rounded up? How would you prove you are a citizen? Does not sound like any due process. Just rounded up and sent to camps.

Wonder when Hispanic Republicans will realize they belong to the leopard face-eating party which will love eating their faces?

I wonder how many troopers will remember their classes on refusing to obey illegal orders? I also wonder how many other armed veterans will defend those Hispanic citizens, as I will if necessary? I always wonder how much they think these ideas through…

jaunte Feb 8, 2024 • 11:46:09am

anyone who looks ~~Hispanic~~ Indio.

William Lewis Feb 8, 2024 • 11:46:12am

re: #23 sagehen

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My most recent mix cd for my truck has that song on it. I was BLASTING on the way home today. The little kids at the bus stop were confused but mom had a smile… 😎

Jay C Feb 8, 2024 • 11:51:05am

re: #21 jaunte

Tim-berrrrr.

A crew is here clearing the power line; they freelanced a little on their lunch break, helping me with a dead Siberian Elm.

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Nice load of wood: you have a fireplace? Must be 2-3 cords there easy.

Joe Bacon ✅ Feb 8, 2024 • 11:51:59am

The Klanned Karenhood Logo

jaunte Feb 8, 2024 • 11:52:09am

re: #29 Jay C

I may be splitting some wood soon.

PhillyPretzel ✅ Feb 8, 2024 • 11:53:29am

re: #30 Joe Bacon ✅

And do not show me a dictionary. /

jeffreyw Feb 8, 2024 • 11:53:51am

KingKenrod Feb 8, 2024 • 11:55:58am

re: #33 jeffreyw

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Hah! One of my favorites. I can’t see the word “lookout” anymore without thinking about it.

Dave In Austin Feb 8, 2024 • 11:56:06am

re: #21 jaunte

Tim-berrrrr.

A crew is here clearing the power line; they freelanced a little on their lunch break, helping me with a dead Siberian Elm.

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Dave In Austin Feb 8, 2024 • 11:57:48am

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Florida Panhandler Feb 8, 2024 • 11:58:08am

re: #22 silverdolphin

Trump’s ‘Knock on the Door’

He will federalize National Guard troops in Red States and send them into Blue state cities to round up anyone who looks Hispanic. I wonder how many US citizens will be rounded up? How would you prove you are a citizen? Does not sound like any due process. Just rounded up and sent to camps.

Wonder when Hispanic Republicans will realize they belong to the leopard face-eating party which will love eating their faces?

Mexicans (the default brown-skinned amongst white racists) are just the start. Just wait until Black America realizes they weren’t kidding with the whole “ship then back to Africa” thing. Those Black men playing around with misogyny and social ladder games are about to find out the hard way leopards eat faces.

dat_said Feb 8, 2024 • 11:59:08am

re: #16 William Lewis

Stupid discovery of the day:
A fitbit will register you playing air guitar as steps.
BUT
It will not register you pushing you grocery cart at the grocery store.
I’m presuming it has something to do with the motion of your arm. Funny how that works.

Not quite related but my years in pacemaker design made me keenly aware that making the wrong assumptions from what the accelerometer is reporting can lead to confusing outcomes. Only had a 1-d XL in the cans back then (most now have 3D)

One time, engineers and myself fashioned a wearable vest festooned with different types of XLs positioned in different locations in a number of cans to help determine the “best” for our needs. I put on the vest and got on a treadmill. I must walk heavy because all the XLs clearly showed each step while walking but once the pace picked up and I could go from a slow trot to a nice steady run, some of the XLs nearly flatlined on activity because I had a sweet, beautiful stride back then.

Walking, running, bicycling, swimming, all have different activity signatures. Which is why, if you have a rate-responsive device, the clinician tries to tune the response to what you do. Best ones in rate-response use blend activity (XL) and respiration data (derived from change in impedance from the tip of the pacing lead to the can as this sensing vector partially crosses the lungs). Often times, clinicians don’t do any tuning to the individual as (1) it takes time, (2) “old” people are happy with any rate response pacing (not my belief - I think everyone benefits from proper programming though I can see that if you were getting tuckered out just walking to the mailbox and basic rate response “fixed” that you’d be thrilled and another 10 or 20% improvement isn’t as remarkable).

PhillyPretzel ✅ Feb 8, 2024 • 11:59:12am

re: #36 Dave In Austin

Yep. That is what it looks like.

Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines Feb 8, 2024 • 12:00:13pm

re: #26 William Lewis

I wonder how many troopers will remember their classes on refusing to obey illegal orders? I also wonder how many other armed veterans will defend those Hispanic citizens, as I will if necessary? I always wonder how much they think these ideas through…

The Texas National Guard is 24% Hispanic. This could get interesting. Abbott’s own official militia, the unpaid and usually unarmed Texas State Guard, is mostly non-Hispanic. If the Guard refused orders, Trump and Abbott would see it as an opportunity to deputize fascist militias, probably in the form of church-based assistance groups

jeffreyw Feb 8, 2024 • 12:03:01pm

re: #21 jaunte

Tim-berrrrr.

A crew is here clearing the power line; they freelanced a little on their lunch break, helping me with a dead Siberian Elm.

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lawhawk Feb 8, 2024 • 12:10:27pm

I haven’t seen this commented upon, but what if someone goes on the ballot who is not an American citizen and is not 35 years of age. Who gets to toss that person from the ballot? Is that not self executing?

That’s the dumbfuckery around the 14A too. It’s self evident that it’s self-executing, or else there’d be no way to enforce the provision.

But Calvinball fascists will deliver the result they want and Trump will be appeased.

Fuck constitutional law, because this court is throwing all of it in an industrial shredder and nothing fucking matters except the outcomes. We lie to ourselves when we are taught that there are higher principles and theories involved in outcomes. It’s partisan bulkshit, and this Court keeps outdoing Taney.

William Lewis Feb 8, 2024 • 12:13:06pm

re: #40 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

The Texas National Guard is 24% Hispanic. This could get interesting. Abbott’s own official militia, the unpaid and usually unarmed Texas State Guard, is mostly non-Hispanic. If the Guard refused orders, Trump and Abbott would see it as an opportunity to deputize fascist militias, probably in the form of church-based assistance groups

I have mentioned before that when I was in Intel school at Ft Huachuca back during Gulf 1, there were lots of rumors that went unconfirmed (but very not put down by) the people who would have known that there were division sized battles outside of Beijing prior to the Tienanmen crackdown. They had to kill the PLA regulars in their way first…

It would be very much like that and there would be no keeping off of the internet. I really don’t think Hot Wheels really understands what he’s gotten himself into.

The best thing that could happen for the people of Texas would be for Dark Brandon to tell the CIA to rendition Hot Wheels to The Hague via one of their various black sites. Let that bastard die in a Euro prison even if isn’t officially a “life” sentence.

dat_said Feb 8, 2024 • 12:13:21pm

The Hill: GOP committee chair announces retirement from House

House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) announced Thursday she will not run for reelection.

PhillyPretzel ✅ Feb 8, 2024 • 12:13:49pm

re: #42 lawhawk

Hmm. In Philadelphia it would be City Commissioners working with the Municipal Judges. Possibly even State Judges.

sagehen Feb 8, 2024 • 12:14:20pm

re: #42 lawhawk

Fuck constitutional law, because this court is throwing all of it in an industrial shredder and nothing fucking matters except the outcomes. We lie to ourselves when we are taught that there are higher principles and theories involved in outcomes. It’s partisan bulkshit, and this Court keeps outdoing Taney.

Almost makes you want to do a Pelican Brief, right?

Joe Bacon ✅ Feb 8, 2024 • 12:14:27pm

re: #44 dat_said

The Hill: GOP committee chair announces retirement from House

Another one bites the dust.

silverdolphin Feb 8, 2024 • 12:15:21pm

re: #26 William Lewis

I wonder how many troopers will remember their classes on refusing to obey illegal orders? I also wonder how many other armed veterans will defend those Hispanic citizens, as I will if necessary? I always wonder how much they think these ideas through…

I would imagine that the Calvinball court will call those armed people insurrectionists, allowing Trap to call out the military, an exception to the Posse Comitatus Act. Heck, he may not even wait for the Court. He would likely cal them all traitors and have them shot.

This will turn into outright civil war very fast. This is why we have to win at al costs in November.

Randall Gross Feb 8, 2024 • 12:15:25pm

re: #2 PhillyPretzel ✅

My Ring Basic Plan is going up by $10. Ugh.

I’m curious how you like it, and can you see who’s at your door on your TV ? Since they dropped the “we help the cops victimize minorities in your neighborhood” apps I”m considering getting one.

PhillyPretzel ✅ Feb 8, 2024 • 12:16:21pm

re: #49 Randall Gross

I see someone from my cell phone. It is pretty good.

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Nerdy Fish Feb 8, 2024 • 12:19:14pm

re: #50 PhillyPretzel ✅

I see someone from my cell phone. It is pretty good.

Yeah, same here. You can also talk to them through it, though I have only rarely used that feature. It’s also pretty accurate; I haven’t had it pick up the cat in quite a while. The only downside for me is that winters are so cold here, the doorbell cam can’t stay charged in the bitterest January freeze.

PhillyPretzel ✅ Feb 8, 2024 • 12:21:03pm

re: #53 Nerdy Fish

They have mini solar panels as well as a little frame of solar cells that goes around the top of the doorbell. You can find them on amazon.

gwangung Feb 8, 2024 • 12:22:15pm

re: #48 silverdolphin

This will turn into outright civil war very fast. This is why we have to win at al costs in November.

Just prepare yourself. It’s not a one-and-done. They’ll keep on coming back. We better be ready to keep winning.

Florida Panhandler Feb 8, 2024 • 12:22:41pm

re: #42 lawhawk

This ruling upends the Constitution in so many ways it isn’t even clear at this point. basically,

the 10th Amendment is now written out by SCOTUS edict or simply relegated to purely political interpretation at will.

14A Sec3 is unenforceable due to the Vagueness doctrine and it is now Constitutionally gone, when applied towards Republicans and Trump at least.

We will definitely see more violence enacted against the Federal Government should Democrats and Biden will this upcoming elections enabled by this ruling. Whether or not anyone can be held accountable without an explicit Federal law and actual enforcement or further amendment remains to be seen.

Randall Gross Feb 8, 2024 • 12:23:09pm

re: #50 PhillyPretzel ✅

I see someone from my cell phone. It is pretty good.

I was wondering if you can put the app on smart TV’s … to me that would be the best use of picture in picture since it was developed, but of course the tech’s probably not there yet.

lawhawk Feb 8, 2024 • 12:23:45pm

Slate’s floating the possibility of a “grand bargain” between the justices on the two Trump cases - the first being that they knock down the CO disqualification by relying on Justice Jackson’s concerns that it’s a national election so we shouldn’t have individual states hodgepodge picking and choosing who to disqualify. The justices would also find no immunity claims, allowing the criminal cases against Trump to proceed.

I’m not entirely buying into that, because on the merits and the law Trump should lose both outright.

If this is the bargain, I’ll take it though (choking it down). The criminal cases are essential, and it blows all of the ancillary claims of privilege/immunity that glom on to Trump’s immunity claims out of the water too - he wasn’t acting in an official capacity, but trying to subvert democracy by disenfranchising millions of voters despite clearly losing the election.

William Lewis Feb 8, 2024 • 12:23:58pm

Listening to a mix of music on youtube. “Take a chance on me” by ABBA comes on. Classic song.

Hilarious comment: “I lied to my kid. I told her that the girls are the real life Anna and Elsa. Not only did I create a 3 year old ABBA fan, I might be free of the Frozen Soundtrack forever! The ends truly justified the means.”

PhillyPretzel ✅ Feb 8, 2024 • 12:24:41pm

re: #57 Randall Gross

I think you can with Alexa.

dat_said Feb 8, 2024 • 12:29:04pm

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BeachDem Feb 8, 2024 • 12:29:06pm

re: #44 dat_said

The Hill: GOP committee chair announces retirement from House

What’s that old saying, “Good riddance to bad rubbish.”

lawhawk Feb 8, 2024 • 12:29:31pm

On topic: Shuji Nakamura ushered in a revolution in lighting, energy efficiency, and industry with his groundbreaking discoveries and manufacturing techniques.

We use his invention everywhere.

EPR-radar Feb 8, 2024 • 12:30:19pm

re: #42 lawhawk

There’s also a basic federalism issue here. It would undoubtedly be constitutional for CO to pass a law canceling their presidential elections this cycle and taking the power to appoint electors back into the direct hands of the state legislature. Direct appointment of presidential electors by state legislatures was the norm for a significant fraction of US history.

Given that background, what Federal issue could possibly preclude Trump getting disqualified from the CO ballot via the ordinary operation of CO state law (also a creation of the state legislature)?

Randall Gross Feb 8, 2024 • 12:31:20pm

What the world needs now is Aang sweet Aang,
He’s the only thing that’s there’s just too little of…

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Mike Lamb Feb 8, 2024 • 12:32:27pm

Don’t know if it was mentioned in the last thread, but the special counsel report on Biden’s handling of classified documents has been released. At least per the screaming leads, CNN says the report concludes Biden willfully kept and disclosed classified information. CNN also states the report made reference to Biden’s memory.

Randall Gross Feb 8, 2024 • 12:32:45pm

re: #61 dat_said

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Nerdy Fish Feb 8, 2024 • 12:35:24pm

re: #54 PhillyPretzel ✅

They have mini solar panels as well as a little frame of solar cells that goes around the top of the doorbell. You can find them on amazon.

Oh, neat! That must be newer. I wonder if they’ll work with my older doorbell. The straight camera I have on the back door has the mini solar panel on it, and it has never had a problem.

William Lewis Feb 8, 2024 • 12:36:35pm

re: #65 Randall Gross

What the world needs now is Aang sweet Aang,
He’s the only thing that’s there’s just too little of…

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I’d like to believe they’ll get it right but if you’ll pardon me, I’ll doubt until the very last absolute episode drops.

TV can not be trusted.

It really is that simple.

Eclectic Cyborg Feb 8, 2024 • 12:37:37pm

re: #16 William Lewis

Stupid discovery of the day:

A fitbit will register you playing air guitar as steps.

BUT

It will not register you pushing you grocery cart at the grocery store.

I’m presuming it has something to do with the motion of your arm. Funny how that works.

I have a step counter app. It absolutely counts when pushing a shopping cart.

lawhawk Feb 8, 2024 • 12:37:52pm

re: #66 Mike Lamb

Don’t know if it was mentioned in the last thread, but the special counsel report on Biden’s handling of classified documents has been released. At least per the screaming leads, CNN says the report concludes Biden willfully kept and disclosed classified information. CNN also states the report made reference to Biden’s memory.

Since no one in the public has actually read the report, I’m going to bet that they took this out of context. I’m also going to point out that the Special Prosecutor didn’t find sufficient evidence to charge - which is the tell. They lacked evidence supporting a prosecution, and Biden did cooperate with the DOJ and investigators once the documents were discovered. They were inadvertently taken, not purposeful.

That’s the difference between what Biden did and what Trump did.

Patricia Kayden Feb 8, 2024 • 12:38:59pm

dat_said Feb 8, 2024 • 12:40:13pm

re: #67 Randall Gross

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Mike Lamb Feb 8, 2024 • 12:42:17pm

re: #71 lawhawk

Since no one in the public has actually read the report, I’m going to bet that they took this out of context. I’m also going to point out that the Special Prosecutor didn’t find sufficient evidence to charge - which is the tell. They lacked evidence supporting a prosecution, and Biden did cooperate with the DOJ and investigators once the documents were discovered. They were inadvertently taken, not purposeful.

That’s the difference between what Biden did and what Trump did.

Largely agree.

jaunte Feb 8, 2024 • 12:43:00pm

@mitchellepner.bsky.social

1/ Justice Engoron has responded to yesterday’s submission by Clifford Robert, counsel to Donald Jr. & Eric Trump, in the NYAG v. Trump civil fraud trial. Justice Engoron is not amused: “… your misleading response grossly mischaracterizes the letter that I wrote, & I feel compelled to respond.”

2/2 “”You and your co-counsel have been questioning my impartiality since the early days of this case, presumably because I sometimes rule against your clients. That whole approach is getting old.”

I do not think that Donald Trump and his co-defendants will like the opinion Justice Engoron enters.

iapps.courts.state.ny.us

BeachDem Feb 8, 2024 • 12:43:10pm

Alexandra Petri explains ALL the Taylor Swift conspiracy theories in her Alexandra Petri way! Enjoy (gift link)

Look at Taylor Swift’s lyrics. The conspiracies are in plain sight.

Indeed, you’re hard pressed to find a line from her discography where she isn’t admitting to something! Consider the following lyrics and song titles — quickly! — before she gets to the Super Bowl and brings all her diabolical plans to fruition.

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Mike Lamb Feb 8, 2024 • 12:43:11pm

re: #71 lawhawk

Since no one in the public has actually read the report, I’m going to bet that they took this out of context. I’m also going to point out that the Special Prosecutor didn’t find sufficient evidence to charge - which is the tell. They lacked evidence supporting a prosecution, and Biden did cooperate with the DOJ and investigators once the documents were discovered. They were inadvertently taken, not purposeful.

That’s the difference between what Biden did and what Trump did.

And the timing of the headline is rather, uh, convenient, given all the recent shit news for Trump (even if the SCOTUS is going his way today).

Belafon Feb 8, 2024 • 12:43:31pm

re: #66 Mike Lamb

Don’t know if it was mentioned in the last thread, but the special counsel report on Biden’s handling of classified documents has been released. At least per the screaming leads, CNN says the report concludes Biden willfully kept and disclosed classified information. CNN also states the report made reference to Biden’s memory.

How do you willfully keep and disclose something that you didn’t know about until it was discovered?

jaunte Feb 8, 2024 • 12:45:04pm

re: #78 Belafon

Special Counsel editorializing.

jaunte Feb 8, 2024 • 12:46:38pm

@mtsw.bsky.social

Wow shocked that appointing a Federalist Society guy to investigate Biden’s document handling turned out embarrassingly for the Biden administration rather than winning fairness brownie points that all the DOJ protocols were being followed or whatever.

No Malarkey! Feb 8, 2024 • 12:48:11pm

re: #66 Mike Lamb

Don’t know if it was mentioned in the last thread, but the special counsel report on Biden’s handling of classified documents has been released. At least per the screaming leads, CNN says the report concludes Biden willfully kept and disclosed classified information. CNN also states the report made reference to Biden’s memory.

That is what the media will focus on; the smears. The bottom line is that there is insufficient evidence of a crime to prosecute.

steve_davis Feb 8, 2024 • 12:51:08pm

re: #12 Eclectic Cyborg

Sprinter Tyson Gay was also referred to as “Tyson Homosexual” in an article some years back, apparently because the site in question was using a filter that changed all instances of Gay to “homosexual”.

then there was gaylord perry, who was referred to as Commodore Queer Jesus Christ in the NYTimes stylebook for a period of time in the late 70’s.

steve_davis Feb 8, 2024 • 12:54:09pm

re: #15 danarchy

That was my thought too. One of those you end up seriously injured or dead once a year, and the other you get a whole bunch of free chicken dinners.

Although now I am wondering if it meant the orangutan had the sword or you had a sword? Either way, I am picking the chicken.

you have the sword, but the orangutan comes dressed like this:

William Lewis Feb 8, 2024 • 12:55:04pm

Listening to a mix of music on youtube. “Take a chance on me” by ABBA comes on. Classic song.

Dangerman Feb 8, 2024 • 12:56:35pm

re: #42 lawhawk

I haven’t seen this commented upon, but what if someone goes on the ballot who is not an American citizen and is not 35 years of age. Who gets to toss that person from the ballot? Is that not self executing?

That’s the dumbfuckery around the 14A too. It’s self evident that it’s self-executing, or else there’d be no way to enforce the provision.

But Calvinball fascists will deliver the result they want and Trump will be appeased.

Fuck constitutional law, because this court is throwing all of it in an industrial shredder and nothing fucking matters except the outcomes. We lie to ourselves when we are taught that there are higher principles and theories involved in outcomes. It’s partisan bulkshit, and this Court keeps outdoing Taney.

as i’ve said, they wouldnt give a damn if it wasnt someone who could possibly win

Vicious Babushka Feb 8, 2024 • 12:58:10pm

Mastodon

lawhawk Feb 8, 2024 • 12:58:37pm

That settles it:

Sliwa believed man attacked by Guardian Angels was migrant because he ‘spoke Spanish’

Guardians Angels boss Curtis Sliwa issued what amounted to a defiant apology Thursday for saying he thought a man roughed up by his crew on national TV in Times Square was a migrant because the man spoke Spanish

NYC has a population of over 8 million, and a significant portion speak Spanish. In fact, it’s 25% of all NYC residents speak Spanish at home. 51% of NYC residents speak English. 49% speak another language at home. Of that 49%, 50% speak Spanish = 25% Spanish speaking at home. That means roughly 2 million New York City residents speak Spanish, so Sliwa is a fucking lunatic to think that he could tell someone was a migrant just on hearing them speak Spanish.

But that’s where the fascist GOP is heading, where they’ll round up anyone who doesn’t conform to their white Christian ideal.

Joe Bacon ✅ Feb 8, 2024 • 12:58:40pm

re: #69 William Lewis

I’d like to believe they’ll get it right but if you’ll pardon me, I’ll doubt until the very last absolute episode drops.

TV can not be trusted.

It really is that simple.

Oh the time that Russel Peters came to the RAZZIES and goofed on that awful movie version which we referred to as THE LAST FARTBENDER…

Russell Peters Takes a RAZZIE® for M Night Shyamalan

GlutenFreeJesus Feb 8, 2024 • 12:59:17pm

re: #72 Patricia Kayden

That only applies to Hillary at the time. He didn’t think it would apply to him a few years later. 😂

William Lewis Feb 8, 2024 • 12:59:32pm

re: #86 Vicious Babushka

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Oh, damn, I’m hungry… :D Thank you for posting that.

Vicious Babushka Feb 8, 2024 • 1:01:11pm

re: #90 William Lewis

Oh, damn, I’m hungry… :D Thank you for posting that.

I had a cleaning crew here today. I gave them all slices because they had to work while smelling it.

dat_said Feb 8, 2024 • 1:01:14pm

Finally, some press that puts Neuralink into perspective: (Business Insider) Neuralink is less advanced than these 4 brain-computer devices. See Elon Musk’s competition.

For now, all implanted BCIs are a way for people with severe forms of paralysis to regain independence, using their thoughts to control devices and access the internet. A couple of people with Blackrock implants can use their BCI to drive a car.

Promising stuff. Worried about it all being tainted by a guy too enamored by the “move fast and break things” mentality.

William Lewis Feb 8, 2024 • 1:04:04pm

re: #91 Vicious Babushka

I had a cleaning crew here today. I gave them all slices because they had to work while smelling it.

Good for you :)

Dangerman Feb 8, 2024 • 1:05:18pm

re: #86 Vicious Babushka

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because of the recent comments here, i bought some ripe bananas waiting for them to get to banana bread stage

there’s a jar of macadamias standing by

the hope is the bananas are ready before we’ve eaten all the macs

William Lewis Feb 8, 2024 • 1:05:58pm

re: #92 dat_said

Finally, some press that puts Neuralink into perspective: (Business Insider) Neuralink is less advanced than these 4 brain-computer devices. See Elon Musk’s competition.

Promising stuff. Worried about it all being tainted by a guy too enamored by the “move fast and break things” mentality.

Anything Elmo the Boi Nazi promotes is not going to be important.

Dangerman Feb 8, 2024 • 1:08:53pm

re: #78 Belafon

How do you willfully keep and disclose something that you didn’t know about until it was discovered?

they’ll blame it on ‘memory’ problems

Joe Bacon ✅ Feb 8, 2024 • 1:08:58pm

re: #86 Vicious Babushka

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Vicious Babushka Feb 8, 2024 • 1:11:33pm

re: #94 Dangerman

because of the recent comments here, i bought some ripe bananas waiting for them to get to banana bread stage

there’s a jar of macadamias standing by

the hope is the bananas are ready before we’ve eaten all the macs

I didn’t have any macadamia nuts so I used walnuts.

steve_davis Feb 8, 2024 • 1:11:42pm

re: #58 lawhawk

Slate’s floating the possibility of a “grand bargain” between the justices on the two Trump cases - the first being that they knock down the CO disqualification by relying on Justice Jackson’s concerns that it’s a national election so we shouldn’t have individual states hodgepodge picking and choosing who to disqualify. The justices would also find no immunity claims, allowing the criminal cases against Trump to proceed.

I’m not entirely buying into that, because on the merits and the law Trump should lose both outright.

If this is the bargain, I’ll take it though (choking it down). The criminal cases are essential, and it blows all of the ancillary claims of privilege/immunity that glom on to Trump’s immunity claims out of the water too - he wasn’t acting in an official capacity, but trying to subvert democracy by disenfranchising millions of voters despite clearly losing the election.

that is how it will have to be. I would probably have been tempted to suggest that to the court if I were arguing there. “The problem for this court will be that if you determine Trump is free to run, you are then compelled to find he doesn’t have immunity, as otherwise, you are greenlighting not only the insurrection, but his complete lack of any consequences for it.”

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Eclectic Cyborg Feb 8, 2024 • 1:13:29pm

He ain’t Winston Churchill, but he gets his point across in his own way. pic.twitter.com/lrhGy35ovB

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) February 8, 2024

We need more Fetterman types in Congress.

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Dangerman Feb 8, 2024 • 1:16:49pm

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Dangerman Feb 8, 2024 • 1:20:28pm

hasnt even aged yet

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Dangerman Feb 8, 2024 • 1:21:09pm

re: #102 Dangerman

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Feb 8, 2024 • 1:21:30pm

re: #98 Vicious Babushka

I didn’t have any macadamia nuts so I used walnuts.

It’s that Gomer’s recipe?

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Belafon Feb 8, 2024 • 1:21:48pm

re: #101 Dangerman

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My view is that if you write or think that’s something worth posting, you haven’t lost sight. The people who don’t realize this weren’t paying attention in the first place.

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sizzzzlerz Feb 8, 2024 • 1:22:12pm

200-foot antenna stolen from Alabama AM radio station. Transmitter and all other equipment also missing.

Link

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Belafon Feb 8, 2024 • 1:22:50pm

re: #106 sizzzzlerz

“…or are you happy to see me?”

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jaunte Feb 8, 2024 • 1:24:41pm

German air defense frigate Hessen deploys to the Red Sea

“…The ship’s official destination is the Mediterranean Sea for now, as the crew awaits national and European Union mandates that would task the commander with pushing for the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, where Yemen’s Houthi rebels have been attacking merchant vessels with drones and missiles for months.”

“…The commander of British Royal Navy destroyer HMS Diamond, one of the first on the scene in December as part of the U.S.-led Operation Prosperity Guardian, described the situation in the Red Sea as “fraught,” according to a BBC report. “Ships in the force are firing on a daily basis,” Cmdr. Pete Evans said Feb. 6.”

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sizzzzlerz Feb 8, 2024 • 1:27:15pm

A Journey fan after my heart

Click to Reveal

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines Feb 8, 2024 • 1:27:21pm

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Eclectic Cyborg Feb 8, 2024 • 1:32:47pm

re: #106 sizzzzlerz

200-foot antenna stolen from Alabama AM radio station. Transmitter and all other equipment also missing.

Link

Seems there are some criminals in Alabama…that are about to get a little static.

YEAHHHHHHHH!

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Feb 8, 2024 • 1:41:19pm

re: #100 Eclectic Cyborg

PA’s own and we are darn proud of him too.

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Vicious Babushka Feb 8, 2024 • 1:43:40pm

re: #104 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

It’s that Gomer’s recipe?

I used the America’s Test Kitchen recipe.

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Feb 8, 2024 • 1:46:40pm

re: #113 Vicious Babushka

And it looks great. I am sure it tastes and smells as good as it looks.

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sagehen Feb 8, 2024 • 1:46:57pm

re: #87 lawhawk

51% of NYC residents speak English. 49% speak another language at home. Of that 49%, 50% speak Spanish = 25% Spanish speaking at home. That means roughly 2 million New York City residents speak Spanish, so Sliwa is a fucking lunatic to think that he could tell someone was a migrant just on hearing them speak Spanish.

Puerto Ricans mostly speak Spanish as their first language, English is their second language. Many of them with an accent. All of them are native-born American citizens. Dominicans, Panamanians and Venezuelans are mostly naturalized citizens, though some are still green-card holders.

Our undocumented in this city are mostly Asian, with a smattering of Russian and British.

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Eclectic Cyborg Feb 8, 2024 • 1:56:54pm

re: #106 sizzzzlerz

200-foot antenna stolen from Alabama AM radio station. Transmitter and all other equipment also missing.

Link

On the shitty side, the article notes the radio station does not have insurance, so they won’t be able to make a claim on the thefts.

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KGxvi Feb 8, 2024 • 1:59:17pm

re: #87 lawhawk

really hoping the Manhattan DA (or whomever has jurisdiction) prosecutes these assholes and treats them as a gang.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Feb 8, 2024 • 1:59:41pm

re: #106 sizzzzlerz

200-foot antenna stolen from Alabama AM radio station. Transmitter and all other equipment also missing.

Link

WAIT!

How the hell does someone steal a 200 foot antenna without SOMEBODY noticing????

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KGxvi Feb 8, 2024 • 2:00:30pm

re: #118 Joe Bacon ✅

WAIT!

How the hell does someone steal a 200 foot antenna without SOMEBODY noticing????

as Johnny Cash once said, “one piece at a time…”

Johnny Cash - One Piece at a Time (Live In Las Vegas, 1979)

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Decatur Deb Feb 8, 2024 • 2:01:44pm

re: #112 PhillyPretzel ✅

PA’s own and we are darn proud of him too.

Wife wondered why we were sending money to a PA campaign.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Feb 8, 2024 • 2:08:52pm

Pay up, Trump!

The judge in the E. Jean Carroll defamation case has taken a step that puts former President Donald Trump on a timer to post bond for the damages, reported MSNBC legal commentator Lisa Rubin on Thursday.

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Jay C Feb 8, 2024 • 2:12:18pm

re: #117 KGxvi

really hoping the Manhattan DA (or whomever has jurisdiction) prosecutes these assholes and treats them as a gang.

Naaah, disgustingly, Curt Sliwa is still viewed as some sort of folk hero in NY: and people here (over-sensitively, but somewhat understandably) get freaked out by “crime” issues, so - egregious as it was - I wouldn’t expect much *official* action taken.
Civil action, OTOH? If I were the guy they tackled, I would have been on to sharkiest lawyer I could get off a bus-stop bench ASAP. And the fact that there was live video of the incident could only boost his case…

PS: the NYT report on this said that the victim reportedly had some apparently shoplifted items in his backpack, so you know the tabloids will be all over that trying to excuse the vigilantism: doubtful that it will be of much relevance, though….

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Nerdy Fish Feb 8, 2024 • 2:13:44pm

re: #122 Jay C

The last I saw, NYPD had slapped the guy with a disorderly conduct charge, and “had no comment” on whether charges would be pressed against Sliwa and his goons.

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Jay C Feb 8, 2024 • 2:14:17pm

re: #123 Nerdy Fish

The last I saw, NYPD had slapped the guy with a disorderly conduct charge, and “had no comment” on whether charges would be pressed against Sliwa and his goons.

Typical.

ADD: also, according to the piece I read, the victim had been (seemingly) heckling Sliwa and his crew when he saw the cameras, so not just some passing rando, but still no excuse.

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ipsos Feb 8, 2024 • 2:14:48pm

re: #118 Joe Bacon ✅

WAIT!

How the hell does someone steal a 200 foot antenna without SOMEBODY noticing????

There’s much more to this story that’s missing from the MSM reports. The AM signal has been off the air for at least six years, which isn’t legal at all. The guy calling himself the owner of the station… isn’t.

I won’t be surprised to find that this ends with the station losing its license entirely for massive noncompliance with FCC rules.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Feb 8, 2024 • 2:17:14pm

Will Rebekkah Mercer still pay his bills?

More Apologies And Libel Bills For Human Beer Fart James O’Keefe

wonkette.com

O’Keefe and his former “nonprofit” Project Veritas (which he allegedly looted) just settled a libel lawsuit brought by Robert Weisenbach, a postmaster from Erie, Pennsylvania. O’Keefe, whose active fantasy life and sticky fingers ALLEGEDLY got him ousted from Veritas last year, accused Weisenbach of doing the “ballot harvesting” and the vote fraud during the 2020 presidential election.

O’Keefe’s greatest hits include having to pay ACORN $100k for libelslandering its employees — that one, you’ll remember, was broken by this very website, Wonkette! — buying Ashley Biden’s stolen diary (an ongoing saga), pretending to be a telephone repairman to break into a US senator’s office, and paying a woman to pretend to be a child sex abuse victim of Senate candidate Roy Moore in order to double bankshot gotcha a reporter from the Washington Post, who did not bite.

His latest magnum fictus was based on the claim that a postal worker named Richard Hopkins had overheard the “Anti-Trump” postmaster demanding that employees backdate mail-in ballots that arrived too late at the Erie General Mail Facility.

On November 6, two days after the election, O’Keefe posted an interview with Hopkins as a pixelated “whistleblower,” swearing that “Rob the postmaster” was telling workers to separate ballots, and showing a picture of a smiling Weisenbach that looks to have been ripped from a Facebook page. “The fraud is happening as we speak … they are going to be collecting and backdating ballots in Pennsylvania tomorrow according to our whistleblower,” O’Keefe heaved.

A frothing mob of suckers sicc’ed themselves on the mailman, who was put on leave from his job as he and his family were assailed with death threats, eventually forced to flee their home after one particularly rabid Trump fan had to be subdued by police in the driveway.

And lest you think O’Keefe ruins people’s lives for free, the intrepid “journalist” also set up multiple fundraising accounts, netting more than $350,000.

This is O’Keefe’s game, and he played it well enough that Project Veritas raked in $22 million in 2020, which is a lot of suckers. But because he’s a walking criminal liability, and possibly because he abused employees, or maybe because he spent ridiculous amounts on limos and musical theater, James himself was separated from his own nonprofit in 2023. Sad! Unfortunately the dollar amount won by the postmaster is undisclosed, but we can leave you with the apology:

“Mr. Hopkins has since come to learn that he was wrong — neither Mr. Weisenbach nor any other USPS employee in Erie, Pennsylvania engaged in election fraud or any other wrongdoing related to mail-in ballots. With this update, Project Veritas is aware of no evidence or other allegation that election fraud occurred in the Erie Post Office during the 2020 Presidential Election.”

Well, that’s nice to know.

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Dangerman Feb 8, 2024 • 2:28:19pm

Donald Trump told Fox News that “deranged” Special Counsel Jack Smith needs to “immediately” drop all charges against him in his classified records case following the decision not to bring charges against President Biden for his retention of sensitive national security documents.

Trump also claimed that Biden’s case is “100 times more severe.”

why do we keep having to take this asshole seriously?

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Decatur Deb Feb 8, 2024 • 2:28:55pm

re: #125 ipsos

There’s much more to this story that’s missing from the MSM reports. The AM signal has been off the air for at least six years, which isn’t legal at all. The guy calling himself the owner of the station… isn’t.

I won’t be surprised to find that this ends with the station losing its license entirely for massive noncompliance with FCC rules.

He’s in compliance with the confederate FCC standards from Richmond.

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Vicious Babushka Feb 8, 2024 • 2:30:16pm

I hate Illinois nazis.

Mastodon

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Nerdy Fish Feb 8, 2024 • 2:41:07pm

re: #127 Dangerman

why do we keep having to take this asshole seriously?

Because there’s a nonzero chance he could be the next (and last) President of the United States.

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BeachDem Feb 8, 2024 • 2:46:25pm

re: #130 Nerdy Fish

Because there’s a nonzero chance he could be the next (and last) President of the United States.

And right now, here in south by dog carolina, Nikki is running a bazillion dollars worth of TV ads (I only see them during Jeopardy, because that’s mainly the only thing I watch on regular TV.) I keep my mute button handy so I don’t have to listen to them, but damn, there are a lot. And now, Donald J. Trump is doing robocalls. I don’t aswer, but the whole idiotic message goes to voicemail, and it’s from Donald J. Trump—just in case I might confuse him with another.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Feb 8, 2024 • 2:47:37pm

re: #130 Nerdy Fish

Because there’s a nonzero chance he could be the next (and last) President of the United States.

Ugh.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs Feb 8, 2024 • 2:55:53pm

re: #131 BeachDem

Political season is THE WORST.

In Canada it’s supposed to be 6 weeks (which it officially is, but there’s the “meet this conservative asshole! See? He’s just like you! NARRATOR: he’s more like trump actually, and those ads are ongoing now but at least not to the exclusion of every other shitty commercial.) but of course, cons skirt that. At least it’s not overwhelming.

The US channels? Every. Single. Commercial break is negative ad after negative ad. Most are lies (republicans know no other way to live, so ~~I’d~~ of course they are). I’m thankful when elections are over.

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Feb 8, 2024 • 2:56:42pm

re: #133 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

You are not the only one.

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nines09 Feb 8, 2024 • 2:57:05pm

re: #53 Nerdy Fish

If you have wiring from an existing door bell, you can wire it just as easily. Then they give you thing that goes into the gong on the wall.
Look for Ring Wired Doorbell.

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Decatur Deb Feb 8, 2024 • 3:01:51pm

Russia really need to get a handle on careless smoking.

Powerful explosion occurs in Izhevsk, Russia. VIDEO
uanews.net

newsweek.com

This was a plant that makes strategic and tactical rockets. (Wiki has already changed the description to “was”.)

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silverdolphin Feb 8, 2024 • 3:02:27pm

re: #134 PhillyPretzel ✅

You are not the only one.

Interestingly, when I watch something on a streaming channel like Peacock, they show commercials. But so far NONE of them have been political. All just consumer stuff. Hope that stays. If they start showing poliitcal ads, that is the time to move to the ad-free version until political season is over. Hope they do not figure that out.

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silverdolphin Feb 8, 2024 • 3:03:56pm

re: #135 nines09

If you have wiring from an existing door bell, you can wire it just as easily. Then they give you thing that goes into the gong on the wall.
Look for Ring Wired Doorbell.

This is the one I have and it has worked great for 3 years. I’ve thought about getting ring cameras for the property but worry about the added costs vs. usefulness/security.

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Feb 8, 2024 • 3:04:12pm

re: #137 silverdolphin

I watch PBS. The only commercial I have seen that is related to the elections was PBS promoting themselves for Election Day information.

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Nerdy Fish Feb 8, 2024 • 3:04:16pm

re: #135 nines09

If you have wiring from an existing door bell, you can wire it just as easily. Then they give you thing that goes into the gong on the wall.
Look for Ring Wired Doorbell.

I wired it up to my existing doorbell, but it gets so cold here that the charge level coming in is unable to overpower the battery’s reduced chemical activity.

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Romantic Heretic Feb 8, 2024 • 3:04:30pm

re: #5 jeffreyw

Question: Is the orangutang the one with the sword?

I still pick X because I don’t own a car.

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KGxvi Feb 8, 2024 • 3:08:57pm

re: #137 silverdolphin

Interestingly, when I watch something on a streaming channel like Peacock, they show commercials. But so far NONE of them have been political. All just consumer stuff. Hope that stays. If they start showing poliitcal ads, that is the time to move to the ad-free version until political season is over. Hope they do not figure that out.

I don’t think any campaign has figured out yet that there’s an audience of voters on the streaming services. I’m willing to bet, though, somebody is going to figure it out by the next midterms.

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Nerdy Fish Feb 8, 2024 • 3:10:29pm

re: #140 Nerdy Fish

I also just looked, and Ring doorbells apparently turn the trickle charging off when the temperature drops below freezing, to prevent damage due to the reduced chemical activity. It’s below freezing for months here, so it’s fairly common for me to lose my doorbell cam for some time in the winter (unless I pull the battery, bring it in, and charge it).

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nines09 Feb 8, 2024 • 3:12:18pm

re: #138 silverdolphin

WE did the Ring because we just wanted to see who came when we were gone.
If I was to get nanny cams or all weather cams, I would not use Ring. I suspect I would be charged another fee.
You can just buy cameras and use with a phone app. No contract with Ring.
Ring may raise rates again…..like everyone else
Gouging The American public.
As American As Apple Pie!

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Romantic Heretic Feb 8, 2024 • 3:12:35pm

re: #20 sagehen

There were horse sized ducks. Fortunately they are extinct.

I thought of this as I’ve hear of them referred to a ‘terror ducks’.

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silverdolphin Feb 8, 2024 • 3:14:07pm

re: #142 KGxvi

I don’t think any campaign has figured out yet that there’s an audience of voters on the streaming services. I’m willing to bet, though, somebody is going to figure it out by the next midterms.

And the streaming services will then discover how to use the presence of those ads to drive ad-free levels. Would you pay $2.99 a month more NOT to get poliitcal ads? At least for the 6-8 months needed? Depending on the service, that is a yes.

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silverdolphin Feb 8, 2024 • 3:15:27pm

re: #144 nines09

WE did the Ring because we just wanted to see who came when we were gone.
If I was to get nanny cams or all weather cams, I would not use Ring. I suspect I would be charged another fee.
You can just buy cameras and use with a phone app. No contract with Ring.
Ring may raise rates again…..like everyone else
Gouging The American public.
As American As Apple Pie!

Pretty much my thoughts also. More and more I want things that work well with my iPhone and with HomeKit.

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Romantic Heretic Feb 8, 2024 • 3:16:08pm

re: #26 William Lewis

I wonder how many troopers will remember their classes on refusing to obey illegal orders? I also wonder how many other armed veterans will defend those Hispanic citizens, as I will if necessary? I always wonder how much they think these ideas through…

Trump and his ilk are counting on violence because they believe their victory is inevitable.

Like the fascists in The Axis the last time this happened they believe their opponents are ‘weak, cowardly, and unable to fight’.

I ask them, “Where is the Axis now?”

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Vicious Babushka Feb 8, 2024 • 3:18:27pm

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Vicious Babushka Feb 8, 2024 • 3:20:03pm

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Vicious Babushka Feb 8, 2024 • 3:21:42pm

Mastodon

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nines09 Feb 8, 2024 • 3:21:43pm

re: #147 silverdolphin

Pretty much my thoughts also. More and more I want things that work well with my iPhone and with HomeKit.

The simpler the better. So many apps and devices have so much on them that you would never use, and they do not interact with others at all.

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silverdolphin Feb 8, 2024 • 3:22:45pm

I’ve been mistaken for a chatbot

Something I am glad I no longer have to deal during the peer review process - having a paper rejected because my writing sounds too much like a Chatbot wrote it. Getting a paper rejected is tough enough. Being accused of fraud is horrible. How does one prove that it was written in collaboration with several authors?

Read the article. Fascinating to see how the scientific publication process is being distorted.

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BigPapa Feb 8, 2024 • 3:24:01pm

I wrote this more than 12 years ago. Cringe.
littlegreenfootballs.com

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines Feb 8, 2024 • 3:29:24pm

re: #126 Joe Bacon ✅

It occurred to me that O’Creep might be an ideal candidate for a Trumpite false flag operation. He is still popular with the marks, so they would be outraged at his unscheduled departure, while the grift leaders know that he is a loose cannon and a liability. They would therefore be glad to be rid of him. They could then deploy their anti-social media mob to accuse elite BLM/Antifa hit squads of the evil deed. Once again, the marks would bite.

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nines09 Feb 8, 2024 • 3:30:17pm

re: #143 Nerdy Fish

I just discovered all ring doorbells have a battery. Did not know that.
So in a Frozen Tundra area, it really is coming up short.
Ah. New day, new knowledge.
So I figure THAT has a life and then you can buy another battery….
on and on and on and on

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Joe Bacon ✅ Feb 8, 2024 • 3:31:44pm

re: #155 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

It occurred to me that O’Creep might be an ideal candidate for a Trumpite false flag operation. He is still popular with the marks, so they would be outraged at his unscheduled departure, while the grift leaders know that he is a loose cannon and a liability. They would therefore be glad to be rid of him. They could then deploy their anti-social media mob to accuse elite BLM/Antifa hit squads of the evil deed. Once again, the marks would bite.

Criswell Bacon believes that you are on to something…

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GlutenFreeJesus Feb 8, 2024 • 3:37:01pm

I have a wired Eufy doorbell. It has an SD card so no need to pay a monthly cloud storage fee like with Ring. I don’t get tons of people coming up to my door, so I consider it money saved.

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Semper Fi Feb 8, 2024 • 3:43:40pm

re: #151 Vicious Babushka

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austin_blue Feb 8, 2024 • 3:43:50pm

re: #8 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

LeVar Burton addresses book flagged by Alabama library because author’s last name is ‘Gay’

World War II historians have encountered this style of idiocy with the name of the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Enola Gay. This was named for the pilot’s mother, Enola Gay Tibbets (1890-1966)..

US newspaper claims Hiroshima bombing caused by ‘homosexual’ plane

So I am reminded of the theme song to the Flintstone’s theme song:

The Flintstones Opening and Closing Theme 1960 1966

So we need to change the lyrics to “have a yabba-dabba-doo time, a dabba-doo time, we’ll have a homosexual old time”?

Seems a bit extreme!

So are Barney and Fred pedo’s too? Do Betty and Wilma know that Pebbles and Bam-bam are routinely being taken down to the DinoBronto Pizza Parlors basement for abuse and Adrenochrome scavenging?

My Dog, my childhood has been forever damaged…

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Vicious Babushka Feb 8, 2024 • 3:47:13pm

re: #159 Semper Fi

………………………

I tried to post a Mastodon link when I realized it had a big old typo, so I edited the post but when I reposted it here the typo still came up. I’m not trying to send a message in Morse Code.

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nines09 Feb 8, 2024 • 3:47:49pm

One thing that has stood out and shown me just how stupid some folks have become;
They turned into the very people they hated as a child.
They said to themselves they would never be that.
Whoops. Better pull that map out, I think you lost your way.

gots ta goes
later Lizards

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So Cal Greek Hippie Feb 8, 2024 • 3:54:42pm

2024: Cemetery Park, Ventura, California

City park that was once a pioneer burial site that fell into disrepair and the city took it over back in late 1960’s

A lot of descendants get butthurt over dogs and frisbees but that’s a big shrug 🤷 from everyone else. I personally would rather have happiness than reverence at my relatives burial site, but just an opinion

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BigPapa Feb 8, 2024 • 3:56:49pm

Those doggos are so handsome and cute.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 Feb 8, 2024 • 4:00:36pm

re: #163 So Cal Greek Hippie

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A lot of descendants get butthurt over dogs and frisbees but that’s a big shrug 🤷 from everyone else. I personally would rather have happiness than reverence at my relatives burial site, but just an opinion

Usually, it’s real trouble when your dogs find a body.

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Orange Impostor Feb 8, 2024 • 4:05:05pm

re: #163 So Cal Greek Hippie

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A lot of descendants get butthurt over dogs and frisbees but that’s a big shrug 🤷 from everyone else. I personally would rather have happiness than reverence at my relatives burial site, but just an opinion

Check out that gravestone -
“Mary J High”?

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So Cal Greek Hippie Feb 8, 2024 • 4:06:47pm

re: #166 Orange Impostor

Why I took the photo 😎
Good observations

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So Cal Greek Hippie Feb 8, 2024 • 4:07:31pm

re: #165 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

City took it over bitd when bodies flowed into Main Street after heavy rains 😑

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So Cal Greek Hippie Feb 8, 2024 • 4:08:11pm

re: #164 BigPapa

Thanks. Love them so much

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austin_blue Feb 8, 2024 • 4:08:12pm

re: #106 sizzzzlerz

200-foot antenna stolen from Alabama AM radio station. Transmitter and all other equipment also missing.

Link

Did they have insurance? No they did not.

I hope they have two cousins named “Vinnie” because if they don’t, they’re screwed.

And that’s not a reference to “My Cousin Vinnie”. They are going to need committed Gumbas to get that equipment back. It’s already headed out of country to serve in a smuggling op, I suppose.

Spy Auto

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Veritasium: Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED

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