Some More News: The Ben Shapiro Cinematic Universe / Part One: Conservatives vs. Hollywood

Time for some low-hanging fruit

Hi. Ben Shapiro and The Daily Wire are producing a whole lot of original films and TV shows lately. What’s with that?

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00:00 - Intro
01:09 - The Daily Wire Gets Into The Non-Woke Content Business
11:49 - Isn’t This Stuff Supposed To Be “Non-Political”?
14:09 - Chip Chilla
17:03 - Conservatives Can Make Good Movies. The Daily Wire Can’t.
22:57 - Why Is The Daily Wire Doing This?
31:30 - Ben Shapiro, Cinema Expert
41:55 - Ben Doesn’t Get Nuance
46:36 - The Rise of Grievance Media
50:48 - Hey, why is everyone at The Daily Wire a failed actor or writer?
53:07 - Next week… The Lady Ballers Review

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168 comments

Dangerman Mar 13, 2024 • 10:43:36am

A new Civiqs/DailyKos poll finds that 63% of Republican voters say either that they want the RNC to cover Trump’s legal bills, or that they don’t care if it does.
Just 26% of Republican voters oppose using the national party’s funds to cover the cost of Trump’s legal tab.

As a dem, I 100% approve of this

Dr. Matt Mar 13, 2024 • 10:46:06am

Speaking of the Child of the Corn:

Ben Shapiro: “No one in the United States should be retiring at 65 years old”
Shapiro: “Frankly, I think retirement itself is a stupid idea unless you have some sort of health problem”

Dave In Austin Mar 13, 2024 • 10:52:05am

A fly swatter in this case:

Relatable.

pic.twitter.com/7N6SCICnot

— Allen Weisselberger (@weisselbergers) March 13, 2024

Dr Lizardo Mar 13, 2024 • 10:55:04am

re: #1 Dangerman

As a dem, I 100% approve of this

The 63% of the GOP right now:

SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!

Eventual Carrion Mar 13, 2024 • 10:56:53am

re: #1 Dangerman

As a dem, I 100% approve of this

Same here, drain the swamp money.

Eventual Carrion Mar 13, 2024 • 10:59:19am

re: #2 Dr. Matt

Speaking of the Child of the Corn:

Ben Shapiro: “No one in the United States should be retiring at 65 years old”
Shapiro: “Frankly, I think retirement itself is a stupid idea unless you have some sort of health problem”

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Sure thing Ben. You hump shingles up a ladder for 8 to 10 hours a day for 45 years. Fucking little wimp whom I would bet has never done a hard days work in your whole miserable life.

Targetpractice Mar 13, 2024 • 10:59:56am

re: #2 Dr. Matt

Speaking of the Child of the Corn:

Ben Shapiro: “No one in the United States should be retiring at 65 years old”
Shapiro: “Frankly, I think retirement itself is a stupid idea unless you have some sort of health problem”

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Ben’s 40 years old and he comes from an upper-middle class family that put him through law school. He’s made most of his money on the Wingnut Welfare Circuit, basically getting paid to pretend that modern conservatism has plenty of young recruits to carry the tiki torch into the future. No wonder he thinks people should “work” past 65, because getting in and out of his car is probably the most “work” he does on any given day.

Teddy's Person Mar 13, 2024 • 11:05:16am

My reaction every time I’m reminded of Ben Shapiro’s existence.

Belafon Mar 13, 2024 • 11:05:50am

re: #1 Dangerman

As a dem, I 100% approve of this

“See, I told you all of these lawsuits exist to influence the election.” - Trump

Jay C Mar 13, 2024 • 11:06:52am

Thought which just occurred to me while I was getting dressed:

What’s going on with the much-touted Mayorkas impeachment?

Last I heard, the Senate was still sitting on it, and not scheduling the formal “trial” - and the usual Internet rumors that a lot of them, D and R, would be just as happy to procedurally kill it outright, but can’t get around the MAGA bloc who - waste of time as it will surely be - want to use a trial to try to embarrass the Biden Admin someway, somehow…

Dr. Matt Mar 13, 2024 • 11:07:42am

re: #1 Dangerman

Just 26% of Republican voters oppose using the national party’s funds to cover the cost of Trump’s legal tab.

And those 26% can help Biden stay in the White House.

Yeah Sure WhatEVs Mar 13, 2024 • 11:08:41am

re: #3 Dave In Austin

A fly swatter in this case:

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Awww. You’re mean. Give me your dogs. I’ll spoil them better! (Plus they’re really really cute!)

Dangerman Mar 13, 2024 • 11:12:08am

re: #2 Dr. Matt

Speaking of the Child of the Corn:

Ben Shapiro: “No one in the United States should be retiring at 65 years old”
Shapiro: “Frankly, I think retirement itself is a stupid idea unless you have some sort of health problem”

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I fail to see how a country in which our entire leadership class is 80 plus is telling you that we should have a retirement age of 65. It makes no sense at all.

Its not retirement age.

It’s, more or less, eligible for ss benefits age. And its not 65.

Some industries make you actually retire. Most dont.

Eclectic Cyborg Mar 13, 2024 • 11:16:31am

re: #13 Dangerman

I just like the idea of not spending my whole damn life working for the man.

wrenchwench Mar 13, 2024 • 11:21:16am

This little light of mine….

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Targetpractice Mar 13, 2024 • 11:22:20am

Ben’s the sort of douche that opines at length in public about how the working class plebes should be expected to work until the day they die, but privately has told his wife he expects to retire by the time he’s 50 so he can spend his retirement years “traveling the world” or “spending time with the kids/grandkids.”

The Ghost of a Flea Mar 13, 2024 • 11:24:23am

re: #7 Targetpractice

Ben’s 40 years old and he comes from an upper-middle class family that put him through law school. He’s made most of his money on the Wingnut Welfare Circuit, basically getting paid to pretend that modern conservatism has plenty of young recruits to carry the tiki torch into the future. No wonder he thinks people should “work” past 65, because getting in and out of his car is probably the most “work” he does on any given day.

Ben’s just creating a new rhetoric that fits the zeitgeist, at a moment where Republicans are beginning to push the Overton Window on Social Security and Medicare.

This is just a specific manifestation of the general conservative idea that most people must earn life by appeasing their betters, and if they can’t they should just die, and nobody should view their just-dying as anything but normal and inevitable.

It’s the same position they have on refugees, climate change, health care, and a dozen other subjects. They want to solve all problems with militarization and punitive measures because the real problem is anyone suggesting that people have a right to live independent of their functionality to capital.

Dr. Matt Mar 13, 2024 • 11:25:35am

LGBTQ+ Identification in U.S. Now at 7.6%

WASHINGTON, D.C. — LGBTQ+ identification in the U.S. continues to grow, with 7.6% of U.S. adults now identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or some other sexual orientation besides heterosexual. The current figure is up from 5.6% four years ago and 3.5% in 2012, Gallup’s first year of measuring sexual orientation and transgender identity.

Amazon is currently running short of fainting couches.

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Mar 13, 2024 • 11:27:08am

At this rate, America will be totally LGBTQ by 2083…

Dr. Matt Mar 13, 2024 • 11:28:09am

re: #19 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

At this rate, America will be totally LGBTQ by 2083…

That’s MAGA!

Targetpractice Mar 13, 2024 • 11:30:43am

re: #19 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

At this rate, America will be totally LGBTQ by 2083…

Which will come as a surprise to the Vulcans.

Dangerman Mar 13, 2024 • 11:32:39am

Dangerman Mar 13, 2024 • 11:37:40am

Last month at Mar-a-Lago, former President Donald Trump was dining on the outdoor patio, engaging in his regular habit of stopping by the tables of club members and talking about whatever issue was top of mind,” NBC News reports.
On this day, the GOP’s challenges on the issue of abortion became the focus when a member brought up the midterm elections and the hit Republicans took over reproductive rights. According to a source who was present, the member told Trump to pick a running mate who isn’t too hard-line on the issue. Trump then began making the rounds polling his dinner guests about abortion and the veepstakes.”

“In particular, he asked the diners — who included his campaign aides and club members — what they thought of the vocal anti-abortion-rights views of Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina. Would they turn off voters?”

A) What if I chose a black guy?
B) Because asking rich random diners that are mostly MAGA morons who pay you to be in ” the club” is the best way to pick a VP?
C) Where da classified documents at?

darthstar Mar 13, 2024 • 11:39:45am

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sizzzzlerz Mar 13, 2024 • 11:40:05am

I retired 2 years ago. Fuck you, MFing smegma stain

darthstar Mar 13, 2024 • 11:41:09am

re: #24 darthstar

Interesting…the original post was from 1/8/21 - just after the attempted coup.

darthstar Mar 13, 2024 • 11:44:54am

It’s tough to be an oil exec in Russia these days…not only do you have to worry about drones hitting your refineries…you gotta worry about being found dead.

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Nerdy Fish Mar 13, 2024 • 11:44:58am

re: #26 darthstar

Interesting…the original post was from 1/8/21 - just after the attempted coup.

That was definitely a week with a lot of quality doom.

darthstar Mar 13, 2024 • 11:45:31am

re: #28 Nerdy Fish

That was definitely a week with a lot of quality doom.

And a fair share of sparkling terror.

Eventual Carrion Mar 13, 2024 • 11:47:02am

re: #25 sizzzzlerz

I retired 2 years ago. Fuck you, MFing smegma stain

I hope to in the next couple years, and I’ll only be 64 or so. And I have been working basically since I was 12 years old (farm work, cutting lawns, shoveling snow, delivering papers and many other jobs before I started into this whole computer career, which has lasted 39 years so far). So after 52 years of working I think I deserve a break.

Nerdy Fish Mar 13, 2024 • 11:47:22am

re: #29 darthstar

And a fair share of sparkling terror.

I guess, for the purposes of the meme, we could probably equate Mar-a-Lago with Mount Doom. I mean, they’re both festering shitholes with an evil tyrant in the middle.

Dangerman Mar 13, 2024 • 11:48:35am

“I was a little uncomfortable with the fact that our presumptive nominee for President was facing 91 felony charges. Now that he’s only facing 85, I feel so much better!”
—Republican voter

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Mar 13, 2024 • 11:48:41am

re: #22 Dangerman

“If men could get pregnant, Abortion would be a Sacrament”
-Gloria Steinem

The Ghost of a Flea Mar 13, 2024 • 11:49:00am

re: #16 Targetpractice

Ben’s the sort of douche that opines at length in public about how the working class plebes should be expected to work until the day they die, but privately has told his wife he expects to retire by the time he’s 50 so he can spend his retirement years “traveling the world” or “spending time with the kids/grandkids.”

I think it’s actually darker than that.

Ben Shapiro, like a lot of US conservatives, is thinking not just in terms of inherent hierarchy but in that mash of eugenics and individualism that’s the common parlance of Americans for a hundred years: money is a measure of superiority, and superiority is a function of either inherited characteristics or personal virtue…but neither money nor superiority is a product of material conditions.

Lots of conservatives will happily work until they’re 80…at jobs where they’re well-compensated and have control of their time, and where their earning mean that they’re never working just to keep up with their precarity. But since they will not acknowledge material condtions as a factor in why anyone does anything, they will demand the same diligence of people in low-paying, exploitative, physically destructive jobs, and feel that nothing has gone wrong when those people suffer.

Externalities created by that suffering—sickness, addiction, mental health issues, familial problems, social ill like community breakdown and crime—are therefore never a product of circumstances and always contain a failure of virtue…but how virtue is determined is itself hierarchical: better kinds of people (read: mostly rich people) already have proved virtue and therefore their grace is cheaper; for many kinds of people there is no grace and their privation and death is a net good.

Conservatism is hierarchical such that insiders are granted grace and nuance, but even on the inside there are limits: poor conservatives are left to go die pretty quickly, with more effort being put into explaining why they were cut away than is spent helping. Since it is good and natural for all resources to go to the superior, deserving types, there is not contradiction within their ideology when they discard insiders on an individual or collective basis.

Again…this isn’t just laziness, it’s half a step from eugenics and barely one step from eliminationism.

silverdolphin Mar 13, 2024 • 11:49:08am

re: #19 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

At this rate, America will be totally LGBTQ by 2083…

After talking with a lot of people about what queer means, I’ve mainly come to the conclusion that queer is really a way to say “Fuck you. It’s fucking none of your fucking business who I fucking want to fuck, for fuck’s sack. Fuck you sideways.” or something similar. Making me queer. Thus my explanation for the increase in numbers ;-)

jaunte Mar 13, 2024 • 11:50:18am

I encourage more conservatives to invest heavily in Daily Wire “entertainment” projects.
It’s as productive as contributing to the ~~DNC~~ Trump Defense Fund.

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Mar 13, 2024 • 11:50:49am

re: #35 silverdolphin

After talking with a lot of people about what queer means, I’ve mainly come to the conclusion that queer is really a way to say “Fuck you. It’s fucking none of your fucking business who I fucking want to fuck, for fuck’s sack. Fuck you sideways.” or something similar. Making me queer. Thus my explanation for the increase in numbers ;-)

It is totally irrelevant in almost every case. Unless I am interested in dating that person, for example.

Dangerman Mar 13, 2024 • 11:51:34am

re: #35 silverdolphin

After talking with a lot of people about what queer means, I’ve mainly come to the conclusion that queer is really a way to say “Fuck you. It’s fucking none of your fucking business who I fucking want to fuck, for fuck’s sack. Fuck you sideways.” or something similar. Making me queer. Thus my explanation for the increase in numbers ;-)

We are (almost) all Spartacus

Nerdy Fish Mar 13, 2024 • 11:52:33am

re: #37 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It is totally irrelevant in almost every case. Unless I am interested in dating that person, for example.

Butbutbut Republicans tell me that their very existence means that their marriages are threatened, their kids’ lives are ruined, and that all will be converted to Teh Ghey Agenda (tm) unless they are hunted to extinction. How can you be so glib about this very real existential threat?

A Cranky One Mar 13, 2024 • 11:53:16am

re: #38 Dangerman

We are (almost) all Spartacus

I’m his cousin, Prone-to-cuss.

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Mar 13, 2024 • 11:53:44am

re: #39 Nerdy Fish

Butbutbut Republicans tell me that their very existence means that their marriages are threatened, their kids’ lives are ruined, and that all will be converted to Teh Ghey Agenda (tm) unless they are hunted to extinction. How can you be so glib about this very real existential threat?

The very existence of Teh Ghey is an affront to God and an invitation to open up a Jehosophat-size Can o’ Divine Asswhup.

The Ghost of a Flea Mar 13, 2024 • 11:53:55am

re: #35 silverdolphin

After talking with a lot of people about what queer means, I’ve mainly come to the conclusion that queer is really a way to say “Fuck you. It’s fucking none of your fucking business who I fucking want to fuck, for fuck’s sack. Fuck you sideways.” or something similar. Making me queer. Thus my explanation for the increase in numbers ;-)

Queer can also mean “hey, these constructs don’t make sense and seem to be enforced through coercion rather than genuinely attempt to define what’s possible, and therefore I’m opting out.”

Nerdy Fish Mar 13, 2024 • 11:54:08am

For real, though, I’m sure we all recognize that the increasing numbers of LGBTQ people are because, in many places in the US, it is safe for them to identify as what they are. I would also posit that we would see those numbers level off after a time, as it’s not that the population is becoming more queer over time, merely that the percentage of the queer population that is willing to say so is going up.

Vicious Babushka Mar 13, 2024 • 11:55:16am

re: #2 Dr. Matt

Speaking of the Child of the Corn:

Ben Shapiro: “No one in the United States should be retiring at 65 years old”
Shapiro: “Frankly, I think retirement itself is a stupid idea unless you have some sort of health problem”

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Fuck Ben Shapiro. I would love to see him apply for a job in IT as a 65 year old woman. Or a 65 year old man.

Nerdy Fish Mar 13, 2024 • 11:55:24am

re: #41 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The very existence of Teh Ghey is an affront to God and an invitation to open up a Jehosophat-size Can o’ Divine Asswhup.

You know, I’m surprised I didn’t hear more of the “COVID was divine retribution for allowing gay people to exist” back in 2020, since we’re all reminiscing on things that happened four years ago. I know there was some of it, but not nearly as much as I would’ve expected.

The Ghost of a Flea Mar 13, 2024 • 11:56:52am

re: #45 Nerdy Fish

You know, I’m surprised I didn’t hear more of the “COVID was divine retribution for allowing gay people to exist” back in 2020, since we’re all reminiscing on things that happened four years ago. I know there was some of it, but not nearly as much as I would’ve expected.

What I did hear early on in COVID was that it would be a disease that hit poor minorities and would thus be A Good Thing.

silverdolphin Mar 13, 2024 • 11:57:29am

re: #38 Dangerman

We are (almost) all Spartacus

Man, that is on point in so many ways, particularly the slave Antonius (Tony Curtis) being the one who starts the “I’m Spartacus” chant, recalling what Crassus did to/with Antonius.

I’m Spartacus - Spartacus (8/10) Movie CLIP (1960) HD

silverdolphin Mar 13, 2024 • 11:59:13am

re: #42 The Ghost of a Flea

Queer can also mean “hey, these constructs don’t make sense and seem to be enforced through coercion rather than genuinely attempt to define what’s possible, and therefore I’m opting out.”

Yours is, of course, the correct, polite way to phrase it. Mine was simply a coarse distillation of the term.

Nerdy Fish Mar 13, 2024 • 11:59:32am

re: #46 The Ghost of a Flea

What I did hear early on in COVID was that it would be a disease that hit poor minorities and would thus be A Good Thing.

Oh, God, I remember that. I was infuriated by that talking point. Of course, by then, the former guy was openly courting the racist sexist shitheads.

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Mar 13, 2024 • 12:03:35pm

re: #48 silverdolphin

Yours is, of course, the correct, polite way to phrase it. Mine was simly a coarse distillation of the term.

I was widely regarded as gay in High School, because I was not into ball sports or muscle cars or vacuous blonde cheerleaders with big tits. I was one of those weirdos who watched Kung Fu for the philosophy, not the fighting.

And although I was terribly interested in women, I was just too socially hapless to do much about it until I got to college.

I was not surprised to find out that a lot of the folks I hung out with in High School and also later in college eventually came out: we got on together because they were interesting people who were interested in creativity, history art and music beyond Top 40, and we were all social outcasts who did not fit into any other group.

teleskiguy Mar 13, 2024 • 12:05:09pm

The whole Don Lemon/Elon Musk horseshit seems like kayfabe to me.

Joe Bacon ✅ Mar 13, 2024 • 12:06:16pm

re: #44 Vicious Babushka

Fuck Ben Shapiro. I would love to see him apply for a job in IT as a 65 year old woman.

May Karma sting him and force him to work at an Arby’s until he’s 90 and he backs into a slicer and gets a little behind in his work…

silverdolphin Mar 13, 2024 • 12:06:40pm

re: #43 Nerdy Fish

For real, though, I’m sure we all recognize that the increasing numbers of LGBTQ people are because, in many places in the US, it is safe for them to identify as what they are. I would also posit that we would see those numbers level off after a time, as it’s not that the population is becoming more queer over time, merely that the percentage of the queer population that is willing to say so is going up.

I remember watching a classic porn movie in the 70s called The Story of Joanna, a pretty good ripoff of the Story of O (ie 50 Shades of Gray). Light bondage but in a mainstream way. Anyway, Jamie Gillis, as the dominant, has just had a sexy session with his sub and asks for a nice relaxing massage from his male butler. Who proceeds to give Gillis a blowjob! First and only time I ever saw homosexual male behavior is a mainstream porno.

But, what it actually showed was this guy got pleasure in whatever way he wanted. He had no boundaries. And I realized that if given the chance, most people would fuck anyway they could. Society imposes boundaries. Nature does not.

Dangerman Mar 13, 2024 • 12:10:02pm

re: #44 Vicious Babushka

Fuck Ben Shapiro. I would love to see him apply for a job in IT as a 65 year old woman. Or a 65 year old man.

With your looks and figure, you could drive and ice wagon or shine shoes.
Block hats.
Sell pencils.
Dig ditches.
Or go back into vaudeville…

Fit as a fiddle and ready for love…

Belafon Mar 13, 2024 • 12:13:38pm

re: #53 silverdolphin

If your significant other didn’t get jealous, and there weren’t actually consequences, such as unwanted pregnancies or disease, maybe more would. But most wouldn’t just because it would be a lot of work.

KGxvi Mar 13, 2024 • 12:13:56pm

re: #34 The Ghost of a Flea

I think it’s not so much a conservative/liberal thing on retirement. I think it’s generational. A lot of Boomers have their identity wrapped up in their work, and thus refuse to retire. That mentality seems to have seeped into the conservative Gen X and Millennial world view along with the Boomer view of “if you just work hard enough you’ll be rewarded by the system.”

jaunte Mar 13, 2024 • 12:14:36pm

re: #44 Vicious Babushka

Fuck Ben Shapiro. I would love to see him apply for a job in IT as a 65 year old woman.

The hiring company would wonder why he ran his voice at 78rpm.

Belafon Mar 13, 2024 • 12:14:40pm

re: #45 Nerdy Fish

You know, I’m surprised I didn’t hear more of the “COVID was divine retribution for allowing gay people to exist” back in 2020, since we’re all reminiscing on things that happened four years ago. I know there was some of it, but not nearly as much as I would’ve expected.

Unlike AIDS, it killed white straight men way too quickly for that to take traction.

KGxvi Mar 13, 2024 • 12:16:50pm

re: #45 Nerdy Fish

You know, I’m surprised I didn’t hear more of the “COVID was divine retribution for allowing gay people to exist” back in 2020, since we’re all reminiscing on things that happened four years ago. I know there was some of it, but not nearly as much as I would’ve expected.

Pat Robertson tried. But I think by then, we had all mostly stopped listening to him.

wrenchwench Mar 13, 2024 • 12:24:28pm

re: #55 Belafon

If your significant other didn’t get jealous, and there weren’t actually consequences, such as unwanted pregnancies or disease, maybe more would. But most wouldn’t just because it would be a lot of work.

Opting out completely has become a more acceptable choice, particularly for women.

sizzzzlerz Mar 13, 2024 • 12:25:57pm

re: #44 Vicious Babushka

Fuck Ben Shapiro. I would love to see him apply for a job in IT as a 65 year old woman. Or a 65 year old man.

as if a 45+ is ever going to be considered for a hi_tech job

Romantic Heretic Mar 13, 2024 • 12:26:04pm

We are occupying, deporting, and settling.

And you think our Religious Right is scary.

jaunte Mar 13, 2024 • 12:28:10pm

Emptywheel:

How alleged geezer Joe Biden caught Rob Hur and Mark Krckbaum trying to sandbag him.

“…as Hur was spending hours (fewer than the combined length of his Biden interview, though) defending calling Biden an old geezer, people were reading the transcript and seeing that he misrepresented Biden’s acuity.

The transcript is more important, however, for the way it shows that Hur — and even more so, another former Trump US Attorney, Mark Krickbaum — came into that interview with a theory of Biden’s criminal wrong-doing, repeatedly tried to sandbag the President into admitting culpability, only to have the old geezer point out their logical flaws.”

darthstar Mar 13, 2024 • 12:28:57pm

re: #31 Nerdy Fish

I guess, for the purposes of the meme, we could probably equate Mar-a-Lago with Mount Doom. I mean, they’re both festering shitholes with an evil tyrant in the middle.

The difference is a lot of people would like to visit Mount Doom. I know I would…the views are apparently amazing.

Belafon Mar 13, 2024 • 12:29:03pm

re: #62 Romantic Heretic

We are occupying, deporting, and settling.

And you think our Religious Right is scary.

We did most of that in the name of god in the 19th and 20th centuries. Hence Oklahoma.

darthstar Mar 13, 2024 • 12:32:24pm

re: #61 sizzzzlerz

as if a 45+ is ever going to be considered for a hi_tech job

Turning 60 here in two weeks and quite possibly needing to find another hi tech job to carry me for a few more years in a few months. They are available, and there is something to be said for experience…especially in management roles…but it is an event I’m not looking forward to in the slightest.

Romantic Heretic Mar 13, 2024 • 12:38:22pm

re: #56 KGxvi

“if you just work hard enough you’ll be rewarded by the system.”

A belief that I discovered very early is a lie.

The proper uniform is more important than effort.

jaunte Mar 13, 2024 • 12:39:48pm

@nytimes.com

Breaking News: Don Lemon’s agreement for a new talk show on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, was canceled days before his show was set to debut. The former news anchor said the deal blew up after he interviewed Elon Musk

Romantic Heretic Mar 13, 2024 • 12:42:44pm

re: #65 Belafon

The similarities between the Israeli settler movement and America’s drive westward complete with ethnic cleansing is striking.

I’ve also noticed a fair number of the settlers are Americans. I wonder if their attitude is simply a continuation?

Joe Bacon ✅ Mar 13, 2024 • 12:43:51pm

This is why I decided to retire on 6/30.

I’m afraid that Fuckface Von Poopydiaper will steal his way back in and start the purges.

wrenchwench Mar 13, 2024 • 12:45:34pm

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gwangung Mar 13, 2024 • 12:47:41pm

re: #24 darthstar

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Guys, you MUST include Latveria In this. The Doctor insists.

Dave In Austin Mar 13, 2024 • 12:48:35pm

re: #66 darthstar

I got invited back into the Data Center at 67. I’ll be 70 this year and they still like me. Works easy and the pay is suitable. What the hell else am I gonna do (besides fish)…

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Mar 13, 2024 • 12:49:33pm

re: #62 Romantic Heretic

One of the uglier scenarios for our world’s future is when religious extremists drive the fragile democracies into ruin, and we return to religion-on-religion justification for war.

War is almost always over gaining land or resources on/under said land.

wrenchwench Mar 13, 2024 • 1:01:51pm

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re: #14 Eclectic Cyborg

I just like the idea of not spending my whole damn life working for the man.

It’s a carrot to make you go along with the system, but many people do not live to retirement age. That haunts me after losing several coworkers.

Belafon Mar 13, 2024 • 1:08:48pm

re: #75 wrenchwench

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Yes, but if CarbonCapture shut down tomorrow, it wouldn’t change our oil usage.

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Mar 13, 2024 • 1:09:20pm

re: #75 wrenchwench

Carbon capture proposals are considered by many experts on climate change to simply be a delaying tactic by big oil.

Still, the masses want their oil, so CC is always a topic that will hang around.

coin operated Mar 13, 2024 • 1:09:46pm

re: #66 darthstar
re: #61 sizzzzlerz

as if a 45+ is ever going to be considered for a hi_tech job

I’m a year shy of the 6-0 and was hired on to the job 2 years ago. I’m mostly remote (go into datacenter maybe once a quarter) driving a keyboard and making sure all the data storage equipment is running. There is a lot of turnover still happening in tech…so they’re always hiring…

my $.02

Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!) Mar 13, 2024 • 1:12:06pm

An antidote to our national case of amnesia:

x.com

wrenchwench Mar 13, 2024 • 1:13:42pm

re: #78 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Carbon capture proposals are considered by many experts on climate change to simply be a delaying tactic by big oil.

Still, the masses want their oil, so CC is always a topic that will hang around.

Can we tax the masses into submission? Not just the oil. We need to do more.

Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!) Mar 13, 2024 • 1:14:01pm

Dang. Tweet didn’t render, prolly because Musk.

Sorry. Here’s a screengrab, for your amusement & criticism

Even I forget how shitty things were back in 2020 under Trump

dat_said Mar 13, 2024 • 1:14:57pm

Clinical safety and feasibility of a novel implantable neuroimmune modulation device for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis: initial results from the randomized, double-blind, sham-controlled RESET-RA study

I’m watching for the final results from this study. SetPoint has been working towards this for nearly twenty years now. Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) is one of those therapies that is a hammer and everything looks like a nail. VNS has FDA approval for epilepsy and depression and an add-on for stroke rehab and has been studied as a treatment for heart failure, obesity, headache, inflammatory bowel disease, kidney disease, and more. The vagus nerves innervate all the organs (vagus is derived from Latin word for wanderer) and is a big part of the fight-or-flight response - stress causes increased HR, increased blood pressure, increased inflammatory response. All of those increases are normally good for short-term things but become very detrimental chronically. VNS, if applied “properly” can tamp down that chronic inflammation and stress.

What I find intriguing about SetPoint’s approach to VNS for RA (and Crohn’s disease and other inflammatory diseases) is how little they stimulate: “Once the optimal setting was determined at each visit, the patient’s device parameters were set to deliver the assigned treatment stimulations for one minute once per day.” In comparison, typical stimulation for epilepsy is 30 seconds every 5 minutes and for some heart failure studies it was 10 seconds every minute.

dat_said Mar 13, 2024 • 1:17:15pm

re: #82 Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)

March 10: “It will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away” - DJT
March 11: Stores report shortages of bottled water and toilet paper.

PhillyPretzel ✅ Mar 13, 2024 • 1:19:51pm

re: #82 Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)

re: #84 dat_said

And I had a doctor’s appointment today. I was the only person in that office that was wearing a mask.

Nerdy Fish Mar 13, 2024 • 1:21:20pm

re: #79 coin operated

I was once in a position to influence hiring decisions in a big tech company; going through resumes, sitting for interviews, advising the hiring manager, etc. I recommended we hire an older man because his skill set was impeccable for the job and he seemed agreeable enough to fit in with the team at the interview. It can be done, but that doesn’t mean it should. There is still a very real ageism bias in the IT industry, but more to the point, we as workers shouldn’t blind ourselves to the idea that our availability will inevitably decrease as our age increases. It’s simple mortality.

ericblair Mar 13, 2024 • 1:21:28pm

BREAKING:

Elon Musk being investigated by SEC for Securities Fraud, per new legal filing in SEC vs Musk: pic.twitter.com/i0Y7YpVuGO

— Gabe Hoffman (@GabeHoff) March 13, 2024

Looks like Elmo may be in a bit of hot water. Whatta surprise.

Belafon Mar 13, 2024 • 1:24:41pm

re: #87 ericblair

Suddenly Trump gets a $400M donation.

Dr. Matt Mar 13, 2024 • 1:25:11pm

Charles Mar 13, 2024 • 1:25:24pm

ffs not this “civility” shit again.

I’d say the exact opposite is needed, now more than ever. People need to TURN UP the temperature, speak and act out loudly against the takeover of the government by the religious right. These people are not “operating in good faith.” WTF, Sotomayor.

Eclectic Cyborg Mar 13, 2024 • 1:25:49pm

re: #84 dat_said

March 10: “It will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away” - DJT
March 11: Stores report shortages of bottled water and toilet paper.

It wasn’t just water and toilet paper. I remember going to a local Wal-Mart around 3/16/20 and many of the shelves were picked clean.

About eight days after the pandemic declaration, Ms. Cyborg and I had to go to a small market 45 mins away to find, of all things, ground beef…and lucky for us the store had three one pound packs left.

For reference we have 7 grocery stores less than 10 miles from us and a couple of local butcher shops within that same radius.

Finding beef is usually not a problem.

In the early days I was as fearful of everyone losing their fucking minds as I was of the virus itself.

Charles Mar 13, 2024 • 1:27:22pm

The “liberals” on the Supreme Court are scared of their own shadows while the right wing majority lays waste to the constitution and strips away long-standing rights and protections to serve right wing billionaires.

Vicious Babushka Mar 13, 2024 • 1:28:47pm

Non-Zeddo family dispute

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Dr. Matt Mar 13, 2024 • 1:29:45pm

re: #43 Nerdy Fish

For real, though, I’m sure we all recognize that the increasing numbers of LGBTQ people are because, in many places in the US, it is safe for them to identify as what they are. I would also posit that we would see those numbers level off after a time, as it’s not that the population is becoming more queer over time, merely that the percentage of the queer population that is willing to say so is going up.

Alex Jones/Glenn Beck/Tuckkker/Zombie Breitbart: The COVID vax is making us queer!

Decatur Deb Mar 13, 2024 • 1:32:08pm

re: #93 Vicious Babushka

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Mar 13, 2024 • 1:34:28pm

The temperature is the same outside my house and inside my house.

Belafon Mar 13, 2024 • 1:36:16pm

re: #91 Eclectic Cyborg

It wasn’t just water and toilet paper. I remember going to a local Wal-Mart around 3/16/20 and many of the shelves were picked clean.

About eight days after the pandemic declaration, Ms. Cyborg and I had to go to a small market 45 mins away to find, of all things, ground beef…and lucky for us the store had three one pound packs left.

For reference we have 7 grocery stores less than 10 miles from us and a couple of local butcher shops within that same radius.

Finding beef is usually not a problem.

In the early days I was as fearful of everyone losing their fucking minds as I was of the virus itself.

My first story here, littlegreenfootballs.com, published 4 years ago tomorrow, is pictures from the walmart near me of the food aisles nearly picked clean.

wrenchwench Mar 13, 2024 • 1:37:07pm

re: #92 Charles

The “liberals” on the Supreme Court are scared of their own shadows while the right wing majority lays waste to the constitution and strips away long-standing rights and protections to serve right wing billionaires.

I get the feeling from a lot of the left that when they elected Obama, they scared the shit out of America, so they’re going to back off now. Fuck that. It was just a beginning. Biden is a continuance, but we need to go a little further left. Or a lot.

jaunte Mar 13, 2024 • 1:37:23pm

re: #90 Charles

@david.noll.org

Three days before this person accepted a nomination to the Supreme Court, the incumbent president—from whom she accepted her nomination—refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power.

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darthstar Mar 13, 2024 • 1:38:59pm

Mastodon

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Hecuba's daughter Mar 13, 2024 • 1:40:07pm

re: #93 Vicious Babushka

Non-Zeddo family dispute

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Belafon Mar 13, 2024 • 1:41:07pm

re: #100 darthstar

Republicans: We only like laws if they help us restrict people’s rights.

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Nerdy Fish Mar 13, 2024 • 1:41:39pm

re: #91 Eclectic Cyborg

I was out on a date to a crowded theater with Mrs. Fish when the NBA shut down. At the intermission, everybody pulled out their phones and was checking their socials, and the news hit. We left the theater in an orderly fashion, but I wasn’t sure what was going to happen. I went to work normally Friday; the mandate to send us home came down at the end of the day. Monday, I went in, made sure my setup was ready to connect remotely, and left the office.

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Nerdy Fish Mar 13, 2024 • 1:43:04pm

re: #103 Nerdy Fish

On my way home from the office on Monday, I stopped by a local store to pick up a small pack of toilet paper, since news was already spreading of people hoarding it. It was sparse, but I was able to get some. There were people, even out in bumfuck middle of nowhere, with carts full of it. I knew a woman who had over 600 rolls of it stockpiled. I don’t know whatever happened to it; she died last year, and I’ll never know if she ever used the last roll.

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Eclectic Cyborg Mar 13, 2024 • 1:43:30pm

re: #103 Nerdy Fish

Took my company a week or so to switch us all to remote because they had to get all the requisite approvals from corporate and our union and the IT department, etc.

The whole month of March 2020 was just nuts.

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retired cynic Mar 13, 2024 • 1:44:55pm

re: #85 PhillyPretzel ✅

And I had a doctor’s appointment today. I was the only person in that office that was wearing a mask.

ditto here yesterday, and in the stores

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Mar 13, 2024 • 1:45:34pm

re: #81 wrenchwench

Can we tax the masses into submission? Not just the oil. We need to do more.

I am not one of the pro-doomer folk.

The pro-doomers are the ones cheering the extinction of humans. Yes, there are some people out there like that.

I guess I am still a “humanist”. Which makes me a “speciesist” in the eyes of the pro-doomers.

Having written that, I do think that our efforts now have to be in multi-generational adaptation strategies.

While we can continue to develop non-fossil-fuel methods of getting productive work done, it is clear to me that our global society have put in place several more decades of fossil fuel use.

We are not going to be able to avoid another 1C of surface temperature rise, before 2100. Unless some global cataclysm happens (like a really big super-eruption from one of the big calderas) that sets back our civilization to 19th century levels of industrialization.

With just one more degree (C) of temperature rise we will have set in motion the melting of the ice in West Antarctica and Greenland.

The melting of Greenland also may bring about the end of the AMOC. (Though I am not a near-term AMOC doomer.)

All the above will drive a race to survival over the next century and especially the one after that.

The US is now 248 years old.

My ancestors in Norway brought the Protestant reformation to Norway just over 4 centuries ago.

The printing press was invented about 580 years ago.

Looking forward that many years:
580 years - just too far to predict.
400 years - the nations of the world will be greatly reorganized.
248 years from now - the US and other nations will be attempting to not starve because of agriculture collapse.

If we hope to have a world in which democracy is still a thing, where individual rights are universal, etc., we need to prepare.

IMO the US should take our spending on the defense budget and build fewer jets and aircraft carriers and rebuild our cities to rely on energy from non-fossil resources.

Trillions of dollars need to be spent on cities that are more than 10 meters above sea level.

Continental-scale water works are needed to irrigate future desert creep in the middle of this country (TX, OK, KS, CO, and even NE.)

And we damn well accept that hundreds of millions of people will be migrating over the next 50 years and unless we want to be remembered as monsters we need to find a way to accomodate said humans.

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darthstar Mar 13, 2024 • 1:45:41pm

Documentation updated, User issues resolved, meetings completed…time to find something to watch that isn’t people obsessing about Trump. Watched Damsel on Monday - kind of fun dragon/chick flick - Think I’ll find some foreign language film and give that a watch.

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Nerdy Fish Mar 13, 2024 • 1:45:50pm

re: #105 Eclectic Cyborg

Took my company a week or so to switch us all to remote because they had to get all the requisite approvals from corporate and our union and the IT department, etc.

The whole month of March 2020 was just nuts.

We started recording and broadcasting our worship services at church, using our previously established band rehearsal time on Thursday night. They would practice the set, when they felt good, we’d turn on the cameras and do it for real. We’d record the pastor preaching to an empty room, then our tech director stitched it all together and uploaded it to our streaming service to be “broadcast live”.

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Eclectic Cyborg Mar 13, 2024 • 1:46:03pm

re: #104 Nerdy Fish

I bought two big ass packs of TP in late February (as, thanks mostly to LGF, I knew what was coming).

That lasted our three person household until May by which point it was possible (but not easy) to find TP again. I am happy to say I never ran out of TP at any point in 2020.

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Nerdy Fish Mar 13, 2024 • 1:47:30pm

re: #110 Eclectic Cyborg

I bought two big ass packs of TP in late February (as, thanks mostly to LGF, I knew what was coming).

That lasted our three person household until May by which point it was possible (but not easy) to find TP again. I am happy to say I never ran out of TP at any point in 2020.

I started up a Subscribe and Save on Amazon for my family. I bought two packs to send to my sister and my parents back home later in the month. I only needed the one small pack to make do until my first Subscribe and Save order came through. I was proud of how I didn’t over-react to the toilet paper fiasco.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Mar 13, 2024 • 1:47:37pm

re: #107 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I should be clear: we already have set in motion the melting of Greenland and the WAIS.

1C more of temp rise will hasten such melt to where it will be felt in this century.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Mar 13, 2024 • 1:47:58pm

re: #93 Vicious Babushka

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ Mar 13, 2024 • 1:50:22pm

It wasn’t just water and toilet paper. I remember going to a local Wal-Mart around 3/16/20 and many of the shelves were picked clean.

Cast food was in extremely short supply. The REALLY important things. Don’t want to wake up with a cat eating my face because the cruch bowl is empty.

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Decatur Deb Mar 13, 2024 • 1:51:32pm

re: #107 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Smart money is on “remembered as monsters”.

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Vicious Babushka Mar 13, 2024 • 1:56:23pm

re: #101 Hecuba’s daughter

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Hecuba's daughter Mar 13, 2024 • 1:59:36pm

re: #116 Vicious Babushka

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nines09 Mar 13, 2024 • 1:59:41pm

re: #108 darthstar

Nexflix.
The Diplomat.
Nicely done.

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Decatur Deb Mar 13, 2024 • 2:01:44pm

re: #116 Vicious Babushka

You had children living in Birmingham. Alabama isn’t fun, but it’s workable.

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Hecuba's daughter Mar 13, 2024 • 2:05:01pm

re: #116 Vicious Babushka

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 Mar 13, 2024 • 2:07:17pm

re: #61 sizzzzlerz

as if a 45+ is ever going to be considered for a hi_tech job

I was almost that age (44) when I landed my current job with fantastic benefits.
There are tons of older people in IT, and they do not have a bias against other people their age.

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wrenchwench Mar 13, 2024 • 2:08:18pm

This song is 31 years old.

The Wreck Of The Barbie Ferrari

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danarchy Mar 13, 2024 • 2:13:00pm

re: #104 Nerdy Fish

On my way home from the office on Monday, I stopped by a local store to pick up a small pack of toilet paper, since news was already spreading of people hoarding it. It was sparse, but I was able to get some. There were people, even out in bumfuck middle of nowhere, with carts full of it. I knew a woman who had over 600 rolls of it stockpiled. I don’t know whatever happened to it; she died last year, and I’ll never know if she ever used the last roll.

I am literally on my last package of covid TP just now. I ended up with 2 giant boxes of toilet paper one from amazon and one from walmart because my parents and brother asked me to pick some up for them if I could find any. Of course after I found them in stock and ordered both of them informed me they managed to find some. So as a single guy living alone I can say it takes about 4 years to go through 96 rolls of toilet paper.

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darthstar Mar 13, 2024 • 2:15:54pm

re: #108 darthstar

Settled on a cheap B movie about aliens that looks like it was filmed on someone’s sheep ranch in New Mexico. And yes, it includes a sparsely armed Quonset hut.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS Mar 13, 2024 • 2:17:10pm

re: #64 darthstar

The difference is a lot of people would like to visit Mount Doom. I know I would…the views are apparently amazing.

In the Fourth Age, the Ferengi will discover middle earth and get the tourist monopoly for Mordor and other memorable tourist sites of prior ages.

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darthstar Mar 13, 2024 • 2:22:43pm

re: #124 darthstar

Settled on a cheap B movie about aliens that looks like it was filmed on someone’s sheep ranch in New Mexico. And yes, it includes a sparsely armed Quonset hut.

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Gah…I can suspend disbelief but this was worse than watching soft porn actors trying to break into daytime TV. I lasted 15 minutes.

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darthstar Mar 13, 2024 • 2:25:47pm

Mastodon

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Mar 13, 2024 • 2:27:49pm

Toilet paper is a 20th century luxury.

The doomers never speak of the extinction of toilet paper, perhaps because it would scare off the masses.

More on doom: the current fashion in doomer circles is to predict the collapse of the AMOC. Soon. Like even as early as 2025.

In real physics the ocean is not so neat.

The IPCC still lists the shutting down of the AMOC as unlikely in the 20th century.

So between the doomers and the IPCC, somewhere in the gray mists of uncertainty, I lay.

One thing is certain: the records (from ice cores and sediment cores) shows that ocean circulation can change in the matter of years. As in just a few years, not centuries.

The global ocean circulation (by which we mean the upper part of the ocean - the abyssal areas are another story) is why your local climate is what it is.

Change the global ocean circulation and your local climate will change.

The Earth is a water planet. People tend to forget that.

Doomers are attracted to the AMOC near-term collapse, and they love to point out that the UK becomes desolate, Scandinavia (and Iceland) are almost uninhabitable (sort of like northern Canada), the eastern seaboard of the US gets several meters of sea level rise very quickly (because the AMOC transfers water away from the east coast of North America.)

It is a disaster scenario fit for a movie. (Oh look, Roland Emmerich already did that.)

Anyway, I find near-term AMOC collapse to not be a very convincing argument.

That it might happen before 2100, though, is just a wishy-washy unlikely.

We have an even more immediate problem with warfare in breadbaskets - like Ukraine.

We have near term problems with fossil fuels outside of climate change.

Fossil fuel prices will continue to go up as the world demand grows and resources exhaust (because we use them.)

The war in Ukraine is also about oil.

Somehow that never makes the headlines.

Perhaps because the public wants nice simple answers, such as Putin=evil.

Well, Putin is the bad guy here.

But how many news stories dive into exactly why Putin is doing what he’s doing.

News stories just want to make Putin into Emperor Palpatine… because that apparently is all the public can understand.

The Petro-States (and that includes Russia and the US) are pushing the buttons of the world, as global wars heat up over resources and land.

Climate change hastens and multiplies the threat.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Mar 13, 2024 • 2:31:53pm

Imagine what would happen if some leader with a big pulpit, like Biden, comes out and says “There will be no more toilet paper after April 2024”.

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Nerdy Fish Mar 13, 2024 • 2:32:23pm

re: #129 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Imagine what would happen if some leader with a big pulpit, like Biden, comes out and says “There will be no more toilet paper after April 2024”.

“We’re introducing this system with three seashells instead.”

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Teukka Mar 13, 2024 • 2:33:10pm

re: #127 darthstar

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wrenchwench Mar 13, 2024 • 2:37:27pm

Mastodon

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Teukka Mar 13, 2024 • 2:38:59pm

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Belafon Mar 13, 2024 • 2:40:05pm

re: #133 Teukka

Naaah, yours sat on the front porch and yelled at others to do it.

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Belafon Mar 13, 2024 • 2:40:50pm

re: #130 Nerdy Fish

“We’re introducing this system with three seashells instead.”

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The bidet tax break.

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Nerdy Fish Mar 13, 2024 • 2:45:09pm

re: #135 Belafon

The bidet tax break.

*WHACK!*

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 Mar 13, 2024 • 2:46:31pm

re: #123 danarchy

I am literally on my last package of covid TP just now. I ended up with 2 giant boxes of toilet paper one from amazon and one from walmart because my parents and brother asked me to pick some up for them if I could find any. Of course after I found them in stock and ordered both of them informed me they managed to find some. So as a single guy living alone I can say it takes about 4 years to go through 96 rolls of toilet paper.

The only reason I got by during early covid was a forgotten case of TP in my storage closet.

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Vicious Babushka Mar 13, 2024 • 2:52:37pm

LOL let them fight

Mastodon

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Romantic Heretic Mar 13, 2024 • 2:54:25pm

re: #93 Vicious Babushka

Non-Zeddo family dispute

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Can’t seem to use private mode.

I’d say see about getting his addiction treated. Ben Shapiro is one of the Right’s major drug dealers, and that your son revert immediately to anger when challenged shows, to me, that he had an anger addiction problem.

Of course like all addicts he’ll have to admit he has a problem, which addicts are loath to do.

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ericblair Mar 13, 2024 • 2:55:00pm

re: #127 darthstar

In the Mar-a-Lago classified #documents case, Donald #Trump’s lawyers double down on their request for a special court hearing about his super secret “Q” security clearance.

Yeah, mkay. A Q clearance is simply the Department of Energy’s equivalent to a Top Secret clearance. No matter whether he somehow got granted a Q clearance after leaving government, storing classified documents with no clear need-to-know in his fucking toilet is a pretty enormous violation of document handling regulations.

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Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!) Mar 13, 2024 • 3:03:49pm

re: #137 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

The only reason I got by during early covid was a forgotten case of TP in my storage closet.

That whole year was just weird. The paper & cleaning products aisles at the local markets always looked like a war zone. Just stuff lying around.

I wonder how many chest freezers stuffed with expired meat are buzzing away in the finished basements of middle America?

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piratedan Mar 13, 2024 • 3:04:03pm

re: #108 darthstar

if you liked the Guy Ritchie films of the last 15 years, the Netflix series The Gentlemen takes the theme of the last movie and tweaks it into an 8 episode series. Pretty well done, with enough light sprinkles of weirdness to keep it completely plausible.

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BlueSpotinAL ✅ Mar 13, 2024 • 3:04:24pm

re: #135 Belafon

The bidet tax break.

Bidet-nomics.

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Nerdy Fish Mar 13, 2024 • 3:06:07pm

re: #141 Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)

That whole year was just weird. The paper & cleaning products aisles at the local markets always looked like a war zone. Just stuff lying around.

I wonder how many chest freezers stuffed with expired meat are buzzing away in the finished basements of middle America?

It seemed like every month, there was a new thing that was going to cause a sudden doom-and-gloom shortage. Also, murder hornets? Anyone remember the murder hornets?

I will credit that time period for one thing, though. Gig delivery services exploded in popularity here by 2021. We finally had service through Instacart, Shipt, Doordash, and Grubhub, among others.

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Eclectic Cyborg Mar 13, 2024 • 3:10:12pm

Not every Christian is a religious nutjob.

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Vicious Babushka Mar 13, 2024 • 3:10:56pm

WTAF (forget it, Jack, it’s NaziXTown)

Mastodon

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Mar 13, 2024 • 3:11:21pm

Why mitigation proposals always fail:

N.L. premier asks Trudeau to halt carbon tax increase | Power & Politics

Simple politics. Any leader trying to implement what will be needed will be swamped by those who will go for the short term political win.

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No Malarkey! Mar 13, 2024 • 3:14:07pm

Don’t Say Gay is effectively dead in Florida!

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ Mar 13, 2024 • 3:16:17pm

re: #142 piratedan

if you liked the Guy Ritchie films of the last 15 years, the Netflix series The Gentlemen takes the theme of the last movie and tweaks it into an 8 episode series. Pretty well done, with enough light sprinkles of weirdness to keep it completely plausible.

Awesome show. We just finished binging it. Recommend.

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Nerdy Fish Mar 13, 2024 • 3:16:19pm

re: #148 No Malarkey!

Don’t Say Gay is effectively dead in Florida!

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Still not happy about the prohibition on classroom instruction from a First Amendment standpoint, but because public school teachers are state employees, they can be constrained to curricula the state deems acceptable. So it’s about as much as I could ask for.

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mmmirele Mar 13, 2024 • 3:19:27pm

There is absolutely nothing like stepping out of the shower and my phone is going completely berserk because I’m being paged in for an incident.

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Now I’m going to take a nap and reboot my brain.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire Mar 13, 2024 • 3:19:55pm

re: #141 Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)

That whole year was just weird. The paper & cleaning products aisles at the local markets always looked like a war zone. Just stuff lying around.

I wonder how many chest freezers stuffed with expired meat are buzzing away in the finished basements of middle America?

My sister and I just finished off the last package of 2020 pork loin chops the other night. Rebecca (PBUH) and I vacuum packed them right after we got home from the store and popped them into the freezer. Proper packaging for freezing is the key to long term storage.

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Nojay UK Mar 13, 2024 • 3:21:57pm

re: #144 Nerdy Fish

Gig delivery services exploded in popularity here by 2021. We finally had service through Instacart, Shipt, Doordash, and Grubhub, among others.

My thought, when the COVID lockdowns started in March 2020 was that the people who owned Zoom were going to feast like kings.

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mmmirele Mar 13, 2024 • 3:21:59pm

re: #13 Dangerman

Its not retirement age.

It’s, more or less, eligible for ss benefits age. And its not 65.

Some industries make you actually retire. Most dont.

For me, “full” Social Security benefits do not kick in until I am fully 67 years old. That was part of some Social Security change made years ago. If I can tough it out until 70, I will get significantly more money. After today, not sure about that.

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Hecuba's daughter Mar 13, 2024 • 3:33:43pm

re: #154 mmmirele

For me, “full” Social Security benefits do not kick in until I am fully 67 years old. That was part of some Social Security change made years ago. If I can tough it out until 70, I will get significantly more money. After today, not sure about that.

I was able to tough it out till 70 and didn’t actually retire till 71 1/2 — but most of us aren’t able to do that. I would have been driven out years earlier if I had to support, unaided, the calculation of “cash refund annuities” prior to then. But that was my breaking point.

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sagehen Mar 13, 2024 • 3:34:09pm

re: #85 PhillyPretzel ✅

And I had a doctor’s appointment today. I was the only person in that office that was wearing a mask.

I had a dentist appointment; mask not feasible when they’re working in my mouth. But the dentist and hygienist were both double-masked.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Mar 13, 2024 • 3:35:03pm

Bad AI will soon be overtaken by higher performing AI. Meanwhile, here’s a recent post of bad AI:

What is climate change adaptation? Adaptation and Mitigation | climate wisconsin

..

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Vicious Babushka Mar 13, 2024 • 3:38:34pm

re: #155 Hecuba’s daughter

I was able to tough it out till 70 and didn’t actually retire till 71 1/2 — but most of us aren’t able to do that. I would have been driven out years earlier if I had to support, unaided, the calculation of “cash refund annuities” prior to then. But that was my breaking point.

I started Social Security when I turned 70, but I effectively retired in 2018 when my last contract at Ford ended. Then I remained unemployed until I turned 70 when I went from “unemployed” to “retired”

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CleverToad Mar 13, 2024 • 3:39:02pm

For those of us following the Alex Jones saga through Juanita’s Jean’s site, these updates posted yesterday and today. The documentary “The Truth vs. Alex Jones” premiered at SXSW, and is coming to HBO.

juanitajean.com

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gocart mozart Mar 13, 2024 • 3:41:55pm

BREAKING: An unknown source has reportedly sent a Rudy Giuliani sex tape to all the major news outlets.

— The Halfway Post (@HalfwayPost) March 13, 2024

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Vicious Babushka Mar 13, 2024 • 3:42:40pm

re: #160 gocart mozart

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You made me throw up in my mouth.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ Mar 13, 2024 • 3:43:28pm

re: #160 gocart mozart

🤢🤮

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire Mar 13, 2024 • 3:45:07pm

re: #152 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

My sister and I just finished off the last package of 2020 pork loin chops the other night. Rebecca (PBUH) and I vacuum packed them right after we got home from the store and popped them into the freezer. Proper packaging for freezing is the key to long term storage.

Case in point. Tonight’s dinner. If these legs had been left in their original packaging or put into a “zip-lock” freezer bag they would probably NOT be edible due to freezer burn. But because I vacuum packed them, they are as fresh as the day I put the in the freezer. Notice the blood? Just as clear and red as the day they were bought 4 months ago.

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The Ghost of a Flea Mar 13, 2024 • 3:46:33pm

re: #160 gocart mozart

Fair warning: “Satire” Twitter and Medium site.

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CleverToad Mar 13, 2024 • 4:00:16pm

On the subject of “Four Years Ago this week”
We had three life changes hit within days of each other. Husband and I were already retired, starting to readjust and make plans for life after caregiving, thinking about applying for another job. And then…
— Son started as a clerk at Safeway, his first non-work-study job.
— On March 8 we acquired an 18-year-old cat after my cousin passed away, so we were getting stocked up and letting her adjust, trying to coax her slowly out of the various lurking places she found.
— Then the world shut down. Son’s job quickly morphed into doing the ‘Drive Up and Go’ service when no one who could help it went into the store itself. Homemade masks till the store could get more stocked; stripping off the outer clothes and shoes to go shower as soon as he got in the door. Hand sanitizer in his apron pocket all the time. Getting called ‘essential’ at work. Online classes along with professors who weren’t familiar with zoom yet while everyone frantically tried to adjust.

The next few months are blurry in retrospect. Having the furry little creature around to pet and talk to was helpful for all of us, I think, and she too spoiled pretty well her last two years. Have to go back to old emails and Christmas newsletters to try to remember what happened when.

Never ran out of food or toilet paper, but there were sure some weird brands in there bridging the supply chain gaps. I think we’ve finally used it all!

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BeenHereAwhile Mar 13, 2024 • 4:35:03pm

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ckkatz Mar 13, 2024 • 4:59:41pm

Moved upstairs

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Backwoods Sleuth Mar 13, 2024 • 5:33:27pm

re: #123 danarchy

I am literally on my last package of covid TP just now. I ended up with 2 giant boxes of toilet paper one from amazon and one from walmart because my parents and brother asked me to pick some up for them if I could find any. Of course after I found them in stock and ordered both of them informed me they managed to find some. So as a single guy living alone I can say it takes about 4 years to go through 96 rolls of toilet paper.

The Best Covid TP story so far!

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