The Lemon Twigs Live on the Tonight Show: “My Golden Years”
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re: #1 Backwoods Sleuth
I love Robert Di Nero.
Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social :
New FOIA documents reveal raw hostility inside FBI after Trump search
“…Rumors have long swirled that FBI agents at various field offices had been sympathetic to Trump even as the bureau launched investigations into his campaign and his business dealings. The claims were always attributed to anonymous sources. An email I obtained last year after a separate FOIA lawsuit related to the Jan. 6 Capital riots backs up those assertions.
“There’s no good way to say it,” read the email to deputy director Abbate. “So I’ll just be direct: from my first-hand and second-hand information from conversations since January 6th there is, at best, a sizable percentage of the employee population that felt sympathetic to the group that stormed the Capitol and said it was no different than the BLM protests of last summer,” the person wrote a week after the riots.
The FBI agent went on to summarize his view of the climate at FBI offices based on his conversations with his colleagues. Agents, especially those who work counterterrorism cases, he said, sympathized with the insurrectionists’ “frustration” and chalked it up to “everyone having been quarantined at home for months” due to COVID, losing their jobs and “fake news,” for example.
“A senior analyst from my first unit who retired less than 2 years ago has a Facebook page full of #StoptheSteal content. These are not one-off events - they are representative of a larger group within” the FBI, the agent wrote.”
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re: #193 HRH Stanley Sea
This is a BFD. His internal polling must be shit. Nikki et al are standing by.
It’s getting more and more clear that the current GOP is on a death watch.
As Trump moves more and more of his people into areas of the RNC, to control the national money flow of the party, the local Republicans who don’t like Trump will either have to bend the knee or go their own way.
I can’t predict future, at least not well (see my Lottery winnings), but I think it’s pretty clear that Trump is not going to have an easy win in November.
As long as Biden is still healthy in November, and there is no great scandal, I think Biden has a decent chance of winning.
The question that is big is how the GOP will do in the US Senate elections. That’s going to be important to our future more than anything else, I think.
We can only hope that Trump’s enhanced corruption of the GOP will cause them to lose elections other than the Presidency.
re: #5 A Cranky One
I was trying to click on it for the song…
I’m pretty sure this means Republicans are suing to shut it down:
San Antonio experimented with giving people $5,108, no strings attached. They spent it on housing and school supplies for their kids.
God wanted us to have conceal carry, or she wouldn’t have given us a butt crack.
re: #6 Backwoods Sleuth
LOL! I have a sekrit superpower!
I’ve been listening to bluegrass most of the day - still listening to it now. Loves me some spooky banjo music.
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re: #15 Shropshire Slasher
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From the thumbnail, I’ve seen a shattered piston like that. That’s what happens when you put too much turbo on too little motor. Physics says all that air gotta go somewhere.
For the country’s sake, @kathleenparker should go soak her head. pic.twitter.com/5YNivIfGNl
— Kat 4 Obama (@Kat4Obama) March 15, 2024
re: #17 Backwoods Sleuth
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What in the ever-loving FUCK? Like, no joke: WHY. What could her reasoning POSSIBLY be aside from, “Black woman bad, we need a safe white man to be the backup in case Biden dies in office.”
re: #17 Backwoods Sleuth
Ms Parker had better not come to Philly. We have a woman as Mayor and she is a Person of Color.
re: #13 darthstar
I’ve been listening to bluegrass most of the day - still listening to it now. Loves me some spooky banjo music.
Banjo pickin’ lessons was my 50th birthday pressie to myself.
The highlight was one morning I was sitting on the front porch here at the head of the holler picking and had a hummingbird sit on my shoulder whist I picked.
From downstairs.
re: #192 (((Archangel1)))
It’s progress. They’re against it, in any form.
Also, we can’t have hungry people being fed. Sinners deserve to be punished.
re: #5 A Cranky One
Could be worse. Could be bagpipes.
re: #18 Nerdy Fish
What in the ever-loving FUCK? Like, no joke: WHY. What could her reasoning POSSIBLY be aside from, “Black woman bad, we need a safe white man to be the backup in case Biden dies in office.”
Well, I held my nose and read Parker’s BS screed: “white man backup” wasn’t part of it,
But the rest was just a sour grump centered around “identity politics”, and mumping about Madame VP’s supposedly dismal popularity (raking up ancient gripes and 2020 primary-campaign crap). The TL;DR version: crock of shit.
re: #17 Backwoods Sleuth
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There’s a certain kind of person for whom the Republican party really resonates. Kathleen Parker is one of them.
Work news…
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re: #24 sizzzzlerz
Fear the banjo!
When I was learning mandolin I found out there were all kinds of banjo jokes out there:
What’s the difference between a banjo and a vacuum cleaner?
You can pull the dirtbag off the vacuum cleaner.
What’s the difference between a banjo player and a dead skunk?
Dead skunk was probably on his way to a paying gig.
Good fun…you can insert bass player there too.
re: #25 Jay C
Well, I held my nose and read Parker’s BS screed: “white man backup” wasn’t part of it,
But the rest was just a sour grump centered around “identity politics”, and mumping about Madame VP’s supposedly dismal popularity (raking up ancient gripes and 2020 primary-campaign crap). The TL;DR version: crock of shit.
Thanks for taking one for the team.
re: #25 Jay C
Well, I held my nose and read Parker’s BS screed: “white man backup” wasn’t part of it,
But the rest was just a sour grump centered around “identity politics”,
That actually means “white man backup”.
re: #25 Jay C
Well, I held my nose and read Parker’s BS screed: “white man backup” wasn’t part of it,
But the rest was just a sour grump centered around “identity politics”, and mumping about Madame VP’s supposedly dismal popularity (raking up ancient gripes and 2020 primary-campaign crap). The TL;DR version: crock of crap.
I mean, it amounts to “white man backup,” just without explicitly saying so.
re: #30 gwangung
DAMMIT
re: #23 Romantic Heretic
I love the bagpipes.
re: #31 Nerdy Fish
I mean, the dog whistle was so DAMN LOUD.
re: #27 darthstar
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re: #33 gwangung
I mean, the dog whistle was so DAMN LOUD.
It was so loud, I heard it without even reading the damn article. I mean, how could it be anything else?
This video showed up in a Mediaite post on Threads. I found the OG source, posted the tweet to a Mastodon post.
re: #28 darthstar
When I was learning mandolin I found out there were all kinds of banjo jokes out there:
What’s the difference between a banjo and a vacuum cleaner?
You can pull the dirtbag off the vacuum cleaner.What’s the difference between a banjo player and a dead skunk?
Dead skunk was probably on his way to a paying gig.Good fun…you can insert bass player there too.
Drummers, too.
What do you call a drummer who lost his girlfriend?
Homeless.
What’s the difference between a drummer and a savings bond?
One will mature and make money.
re: #36 teleskiguy
some of us are no longer human
This thinking will make it easier for him to kill vaccinated people, or whoever he decides is vaccinated.
re: #27 darthstar
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oh wow Threads has an Edit Button. You get five minutes, they have a little timer and everything.
props where it’s due
Sorry, but I just can’t get on board with all this praise for Mike Pence. Anyone who thinks this will turn voters away from Trump is dreaming.
re: #23 Romantic Heretic
Could be worse. Could be bagpipes.
Makes me remember the biggest DnD fail of all time: The Bagpipes of Invisibility. You were only invisible while playing … 🤣
re: #42 Charles
Sorry, but I just can’t get on board with all this praise for Mike Pence. Anyone who thinks this will turn voters away from Trump is dreaming.
He made a fucking cut-and-dry rational decision. He wasn’t going to endorse a guy who sicced a bloodthirsty mob on his pasty white ass.
How long has the Edit Button been a thing around here? 10 years?
re: #42 Charles
No Republican will change their mind. Less involved independents and wishy washy liberals? Maybe…
re: #43 William Lewis
Makes me remember the biggest DnD fail of all time: The Bagpipes of Invisibility. You were only invisible while playing … 🤣
In our long-running campaign, Mrs. Fish wanted to get a set of bagpipes for her bard, so I arranged for her to win them from another bard in a contest. The next morning, I asked the party how they woke up in the morning. She said she was practicing on her new bagpipes. So I did what any self-respecting DM would do: I went to YouTube and called up “Scotland the Brave” on the TV in the room and played it at maximum volume. After a moment, one of the other players said: “Alright, what do I have to roll to stab the bagpipes?”
zre: #34 Unabogie
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re: #39 jaunte
This thinking will make it easier for him to kill vaccinated people, or whoever he decides is vaccinated.
I bet dude owns several guns. And is behind on child support.
re: #17 Backwoods Sleuth
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re: #45 teleskiguy
How long has the Edit Button been a thing around here? 10 years?
More than that. I don’t remember exactly when I added that feature but it was several eons ago.
Bluesky/ATProto has an API call for editing posts, but it hasn’t been implemented yet. I believe it’s on their roadmap.
re: #56 Charles
More than that. I don’t remember exactly when I added that feature but it was several eons ago.
The best idea for social media. You could’ve sold out to Twitter, I bet, and there could’ve been an Edit Button on Twitter back in 2012 or some shit. But noooo! You had to focus on this here site about little green footballs.
re: #17 Backwoods Sleuth
Parker should just come out and admit her racism.
Kamala is a GREAT VP!!!!!!!!!
My wife’s girlfriend suggested beavercam but I said she should save that for OnlyFans
Netanyahu may have finally gone too far even for Chuck Schumer.
are: #60 darthstar
Those of us in Texas don’t want ottercam to be blocked by Ken Paxton.
I liked airplanes better when parts weren’t falling off them mid-flight.
Sharpen your skills, folks:
After 20 years of development, the open source GnuCOBOL “has reached an industrial maturity and can compete with proprietary offers in all environments,” said OCamlPro founder and GnuCOBOL contributor Fabrice Le Fessant, in a FOSDEM talk about the technology.
GnuCOBOL turns COBOL source code into executable applications. It is very cross-platform, running Linux, BSD, many proprietary Unixes, macOS, and Windows, even Android. And the latest version, v.32, is being used in many commercial settings.
re: #64 Charles
I liked airplanes better when parts weren’t falling off them mid-flight.
If it’s Boeing, I’m NOT going.
I’m watching Spaceman on Netflix. I was 28 minutes in before I realized the astronaut was Adam Sandler. This is the first drama I’ve seen him in. He can do more than silly comedy.
re: #70 Captain Ron
I’m watching Spaceman on Netflix. I was 28 minutes in before I realized the astronaut was Adam Sandler. This is the first drama I’ve seen him in. He can do more than silly comedy.
Click was ok. That wasn’t a stupid Sandler comedy.
Yeah it’s crazy right?? Not like they tried to hang him outside the capitol or anything… https://t.co/8bYoASt6KE
— Nalin Haley (@Nalin_Haley) March 15, 2024
Mike Pence: “I will not be endorsing Donald Trump this year.”
pic.twitter.com/O92AQ0kxh9— TheBlaze (@theblaze) March 15, 2024
re: #64 Charles
Those are my favorite kinds of planes, the ones with pieces staying on. Crazy I know…
re: #70 Captain Ron
I’m watching Spaceman on Netflix. I was 28 minutes in before I realized the astronaut was Adam Sandler. This is the first drama I’ve seen him in. He can do more than silly comedy.
re: #71 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Click was ok. That wasn’t a stupid Sandler comedy.
Sandler also did some great drama in Uncut Gems.
re: #72 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
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Pence declined to say how he would vote in November, save to rule out the current president.
“I’m gonna keep my vote to myself,” he said. “I would never vote for Joe Biden.”
Once an asshole, always an asshole.
Just watched Condoleezza Rice doing her bit on the Stanford CISAC YouTube channel.
It’s the same old story.
CISAC has a strong bent towards American empire building, and Rice is part of that.
Some of what she said makes sense, but other things are clearly just old time (pre-Trumpian) Bush-era thinking.
The host, speaking for CISAC, is pretty lame.
We were discussing earlier the problems with institutional lethargy, and this CISAC video illustrates that quite well.
Maybe I’ll link to it later, as there is a brief mention of climate change and that mention was mind numbing.
My takeaway is that Rice and her colleagues at Stanford are just locked away from the reality we are facing in America.
They still want to think we’re in the 1990s, pre-Trump.
The inability to take not just climate change but global demographic change seriously is a critical blind spot for these right-wing academics.
re: #64 Charles
I liked airplanes better when parts weren’t falling off them mid-flight.
The photo in the last thread showed that the damaged panel was removable for access. So this may have been a maintainance issue rather than a design one. Someone maybe didn’t check that all of the CamLocks (or similar fasteners) were secure before sign-off and return to service.
Wealthy people think their wealth will insulate them from the effects of climate change.
It won’t. But their privilege will let them keep fighting against mitigation efforts until it’s too late for everyone.
re: #79 Charles
Wealthy people think their wealth will insulate them from the effects of climate change.
It won’t.
The wealthy own most of coastal Earth.
re: #79 Charles
It’s not just climate change. They think their money will keep them safe from demagogues like Trump. They also think they are safe from the problems of poor people.
re: #79 Charles
While acknowledging the existence of climate change, Rice very clearly stated that the US must not stop its exploitation of hydrocarbon resources.
The cognitive dissonance is great.
Rice takes that position because the real problem with leaving coal and oil and natural gas in the ground is that the rich people who own these resources cannot get more rich if we make them leave it in the ground.
re: #81 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
It’s not just climate change. They think their money will keep them safe from demagogues like Trump. They also think they are safe from the problems of poor people.
I thought it was just liberal academics in ivory towers… talk about “old guard”.
re: #80 teleskiguy
The wealthy own most of coastal Earth.
I should amend this.
The wealthy own most of NICE coastal Earth.
re: #84 prairiefire
I thought it was just liberal academics in ivory towers… talk about “old guard”.
Stanford is home to the (allegedly) “smart” conservatives, such as Rice and VDH.
Watching Wonka, and I’m enjoying it so far. The fact that Jim Carter, Mr. Carson from Downton Abby, is not only in there but singing, is great.
re: #86 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I’m old and it’s seems like a very old way of thinking.
Keep an eye on the kids, they keep getting smarter and smarter.
It will be like a big wave. I have a lot of faith in them.
re: #85 teleskiguy
I should amend this.
The wealthy own most of NICE coastal Earth.
If they’re lucky, they’ll wind up on an island. Unlikely. The hey can watch their mega mansions fall into the sea.
Oh well.
I’m getting three corned beefs (on sale!) tomorrow and if I’m really lucky, Irish soda bread.
re: #79 Charles
Wealthy people think their wealth will insulate them from the effects of climate change.
It won’t. But their privilege will let them keep fighting against mitigation efforts until it’s too late for everyone.
They’ll get a bit of a delay is all
Andy Biggs hired this thug.
House GOPers Teamed With Conspiracist Who Called Migrants ‘Apes’ And ‘Congo Cannibals’
As Republicans in Congress have attacked President Biden’s handling of the southern border, some of them have turned to a far-right media figure with a decidedly extreme perspective. Online, Michael Yon has dubbed himself “just a simple war correspondent and cannibal hunter.” The latter part of his job description refers to his work tracking migrants and his fears they are part of “a planet of the apes style invasion” that is targeting the white race for “genocide and cannibalism.” This shockingly racist paranoia — including referring to migrants as “apes” and “Congo-Cannibals” — has not stopped Yon from collaborating with multiple Republican members of Congress who have turned to him to participate in inflammatory documentaries and junkets to Latin America.
After receiving a request for comment on this story, Yon posted the message on his social media rather than responding. TPM engaged in an extensive back and forth with Yon over email to obtain comment from him for the story. As of publication, he had not provided a response.
Yon, a Special Forces veteran, gained notoriety as an independent blogger who spent extensive time on the front during the Iraq War. A 2008 profile in the New York Times said Yon spent three years in Iraq where he wrote reader-funded dispatches while “racking up more time embedded with combat units than any other journalist, according to the United States military.” The newspaper noted Yon had “an agenda” and described him as firmly believing the American mission in that country was “succeeding and must continue.” Since then, Yon has turned his attention to immigration — and his agenda has become far more strident and extreme.
In September 2022, Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) put together an approximately 30-minute video called “Alien Invasion” that he dubbed “a documentary on the Biden border crisis.” The video coincided with Bigg’s push to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. It premiered at the Heritage Foundation and is still, as of this writing, featured on Biggs’ website. According to the credits, “Alien Invasion” was “presented by” Biggs, who served as a narrator and produced by two of his staffers. It features an interview with Yon about the conditions in the Darien Gap, a treacherous, dense jungle between Panama and Colombia that is traversed by immigrants who attempt to make the journey by land from South America to the United States. Yon, who was billed as a guest star of the documentary, has spent time in the region and was credited by Biggs’ team with providing some of the footage used for the “documentary.”
Tip o’ the hat to Josh and the TPM Team for uncovering this trash!
re: #19 PhillyPretzel ✅
Ms Parker had better not come to Philly. We have a woman as Mayor and she is a Person of Color.
same for Boston and Los Angeles.
re: #85 teleskiguy
I should amend this.
The wealthy own most of NICE coastal Earth.
I drove past a house for sale
Its on a large retention pond. Not quite a lake
Couple of hundred feed across
backyard is all grass to the waters edge
“Beachfront” the sign said
re: #96 Dangerman
I drove past a house for sale
Its on a large retention pond. Not quite a lake
Couple of hundred feed across
backyard is all grass to the waters edge
“Beachfront” the sign said
Well… technically. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
re: #43 William Lewis
Invisible maybe, but certainly not inaudible.
re: #79 Charles
Wealthy people think their wealth will insulate them from the effects of climate change.
It won’t. But their privilege will let them keep fighting against mitigation efforts until it’s too late for everyone.
re: #83 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
While acknowledging the existence of climate change, Rice very clearly stated that the US must not stop its exploitation of hydrocarbon resources.
The cognitive dissonance is great.
Rice takes that position because the real problem with leaving coal and oil and natural gas in the ground is that the rich people who own these resources cannot get more rich if we make them leave it in the ground.
The quiet assumption is that people that don’t matter will experience death and disruption first, just like in the last century famine was a thing that -just happened- in poor areas and not related to where the food and money flowed to because of market structures.
Somewhere along the way a high abstraction will be swapped in to justify the death: “civilization”/”humanity” (in the form of the metropoles that fed upon the periphery) will continue, for definitions of “humanity” that involve no searching questions why no mitigation was done until the crisis.
History as told by vampires.
re: #93 Joe Bacon ✅
Andy Biggs hired this thug.
House GOPers Teamed With Conspiracist Who Called Migrants ‘Apes’ And ‘Congo Cannibals’
As Republicans in Congress have attacked President Biden’s handling of the southern border, some of them have turned to a far-right media figure with a decidedly extreme perspective. Online, Michael Yon has dubbed himself “just a simple war correspondent and cannibal hunter.” The latter part of his job description refers to his work tracking migrants and his fears they are part of “a planet of the apes style invasion” that is targeting the white race for “genocide and cannibalism.” This shockingly racist paranoia — including referring to migrants as “apes” and “Congo-Cannibals” — has not stopped Yon from collaborating with multiple Republican members of Congress who have turned to him to participate in inflammatory documentaries and junkets to Latin America.
After receiving a request for comment on this story, Yon posted the message on his social media rather than responding. TPM engaged in an extensive back and forth with Yon over email to obtain comment from him for the story. As of publication, he had not provided a response.
Yon, a Special Forces veteran, gained notoriety as an independent blogger who spent extensive time on the front during the Iraq War. A 2008 profile in the New York Times said Yon spent three years in Iraq where he wrote reader-funded dispatches while “racking up more time embedded with combat units than any other journalist, according to the United States military.” The newspaper noted Yon had “an agenda” and described him as firmly believing the American mission in that country was “succeeding and must continue.” Since then, Yon has turned his attention to immigration — and his agenda has become far more strident and extreme.
In September 2022, Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) put together an approximately 30-minute video called “Alien Invasion” that he dubbed “a documentary on the Biden border crisis.” The video coincided with Bigg’s push to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. It premiered at the Heritage Foundation and is still, as of this writing, featured on Biggs’ website. According to the credits, “Alien Invasion” was “presented by” Biggs, who served as a narrator and produced by two of his staffers. It features an interview with Yon about the conditions in the Darien Gap, a treacherous, dense jungle between Panama and Colombia that is traversed by immigrants who attempt to make the journey by land from South America to the United States. Yon, who was billed as a guest star of the documentary, has spent time in the region and was credited by Biggs’ team with providing some of the footage used for the “documentary.”
Tip o’ the hat to Josh and the TPM Team for uncovering this trash!
Michael Yon, now there’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time.
Now, if I could only remember exactly which bloggers and commenters used to regularly link to his Iraq “reporting” in the bad old days.
re: #96 Dangerman
Florida. Par for the course.
That’s the thing with the libs .. they only want to talk about “the bad stuff”
Did you know that John Wayne Gacy used to dress up as a clown ?
But the libs only want to talk about the gruesome murders https://t.co/BkGtqnfelw— The Velvet Hammer Skynet (@skynet47397425) March 12, 2024
re: #96 Dangerman
I drove past a house for sale
Its on a large retention pond. Not quite a lake
Couple of hundred feed across
backyard is all grass to the waters edge
“Beachfront” the sign said
There ain’t no sand
I’d settle for waterfront
A while back one of YouTube’s changes was to no longer put the “channels” page on a channel’s info.
I used to use that to find new channels that interest me.
Now it’s becoming harder to find channels. Search requests are always problematic because YouTube will give you the most popular videos first.
Speaking of aviation safety. These planes lost lots of parts and one crew bailed out, yet both landed more or less safely.
1940 Brocklesby mid-air collision
On 29 September 1940, a mid-air collision occurred over Brocklesby, New South Wales, Australia. The accident was unusual in that the aircraft involved, two Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Avro Ansons of No. 2 Service Flying Training School, remained locked together after colliding, and then landed safely.
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The lower plane’s crew bailed out but its engines kept running. The upper plane lost its engines but the pilot, Leading Aircraftman Leonard Graham Fuller, found that he could control the ungainly combination well enough to make an emergency landing.
re: #100 A Three Hour Tour
Michael Yon, now there’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time.
Now, if I could only remember exactly which bloggers and commenters used to regularly link to his Iraq “reporting” in the bad old days.
Unfortunately, I am one of those. But he wasn’t openly racist back then. Like a lot of “conservative” bloggers, he tried to conceal his real motivations until he felt safe to come out as a racist piece of shit.
re: #90 prairiefire
That is what I cling to at the moment. My experience is anecdotal, but my son and his friends, mostly between the ages of 25-35, are PISSED about working hard for little money and benefits, the price of rent alone keeps many of them at home or living in less than decent housing, the whole abortion/birth control/womens health bullshit, how expensive it is to go to any post high school level of education, and on and on. They are inheriting a shitshow and the people who could do the most good to derail the shitshow now don’t give a flying fuck. Every one of the younger people my son knows are working at least one full time job, some are working 60 hours a week. I was born in 1960 and I honestly get more annoyed with the asshats my age and older than I do with those darned kids. They are going to vote, at least the couple of dozen I know are, and it is not for right wing sadists, idiots and assholes.
re: #106 Charles
Unfortunately, I am one of those. But he wasn’t openly racist back then. Like a lot of “conservative” bloggers, he tried to conceal his real motivations until he felt safe to come out as a racist piece of shit.
I mean, there’s a reason why there was a whole public “Why I parted ways with the right” kerfuffle. They did a damn good job of fooling us all for a pretty long time.
Good news: the data migration to my awesome new iMac was surprisingly easy! Until Unabogie told me right here this time last week, I had no idea such a thing was even possible. The only “pain points” as Charles put it were related going from an ancient version of iTunes to Apple Music. Even there it was nothing major, just annoying.
Since crowdsourcing useful knowledge was so successful on LGF last week, I have two further queries for anyone who might be willing or able to weigh in:
1) Is there a a viable alternative to Substack at this point? i would like to find the right online platform for my writing (largely related to German soccer), but would prefer one that is less willing to do business with nazis.
2) Anyone had a good experience with a midrange 3-in-1 home office printer in the last year? I am anxious to keep it under $200 and avoid the subscription model, which seems to be typical with modern HP printers.
re: #43 William Lewis
Makes me remember the biggest DnD fail of all time: The Bagpipes of Invisibility. You were only invisible while playing … 🤣
Give it to the cleric with the Silence spell.
If there’s one good thing that ever came from Birtherism, it’s that it exposed, with a pretty high success rate, who were the racist shitheads and who were the rational human beings. Like a gom jabbar for politics, almost.
re: #106 Charles
Unfortunately, I am one of those. But he wasn’t openly racist back then. Like a lot of “conservative” bloggers, he tried to conceal his real motivations until he felt safe to come out as a racist piece of shit.
The thing is, you weren’t the only one who boosted Yon, but you recovered like I did.
ISTR Insty boosted Yon too, and last I checked a couple of months back to see if he was still a going concern, he has gone pretty far off the deep end.
re: #109 bratwurst
Since crowdsourcing useful knowledge was so successful on LGF last week, I have two further queries for anyone who might be willing or able to weigh in:
1) Is there a a viable alternative to Substack at this point? i would like to find the right online platform for my writing (largely related to German soccer), but would prefer one that is less willing to do business with nazis.
Enshitification has undone a great swath of the internet.
I purposefully limit my social media interactions. Most of my writing is here on LGF. Then there are YouTube comments. Some Apple/Mac forums.
But Substack, Reddit, etc. are things I avoid. As I do now with Xitter. Just wish BlueSky was farther along.
Wish I could give a useful answer… but I know of no online site to help.
re: #109 bratwurst
Good news: the data migration to my awesome new iMac was surprisingly easy! Until Unabogie told me right here this time last week, I had no idea such a thing was even possible. The only “pain points” as Charles put it were related going from an ancient version of iTunes to Apple Music. Even there it was nothing major, just annoying.
Since crowdsourcing useful knowledge was so successful on LGF last week, I have two further queries for anyone who might be willing or able to weigh in:
1) Is there a a viable alternative to Substack at this point? i would like to find the right online platform for my writing (largely related to German soccer), but would prefer one that is less willing to do business with nazis.
2) Anyone had a good experience with a midrange 3-in-1 home office printer in the last year? I am anxious to keep it under $200 and avoid the subscription model, which seems to be typical with modern HP printers.
The apps people seem to be moving to from Substack are Ghost and Buttondown. I don’t have experience with either so I can’t make a recommendation, but check them out.
If you don’t need color printing, an inexpensive laser printer is a much better option than ink-jet. Toner cartridges last MUCH longer than ink, and don’t go bad if you don’t print something every day.
re: #113 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Enshitification has undone a great swath of the internet.
I purposefully limit my social media interactions. Most of my writing is here on LGF. Then there are YouTube comments. Some Apple/Mac forums.
But Substack, Reddit, etc. are things I avoid. As I do now with Xitter. Just wish BlueSky was farther along.
Wish I could give a useful answer… but I know of no online site to help.
Yeah, this is where I’m at as well. With only a few exceptions like this site, being online means rubbing shoulders with terrible people. I like BlueSky, but share your frustration that it hasn’t picked up any momentum recently at all.
re: #109 bratwurst
Good news: the data migration to my awesome new iMac was surprisingly easy! Until Unabogie told me right here this time last week, I had no idea such a thing was even possible. The only “pain points” as Charles put it were related going from an ancient version of iTunes to Apple Music. Even there it was nothing major, just annoying.
Since crowdsourcing useful knowledge was so successful on LGF last week, I have two further queries for anyone who might be willing or able to weigh in:
1) Is there a a viable alternative to Substack at this point? i would like to find the right online platform for my writing (largely related to German soccer), but would prefer one that is less willing to do business with nazis.
2) Anyone had a good experience with a midrange 3-in-1 home office printer in the last year? I am anxious to keep it under $200 and avoid the subscription model, which seems to be typical with modern HP printers.
In my second tax year running windows only tax software in virtualbox on linux mint.
William Lewis made that call.
I haven’t opened that old win8 laptop since
re: #109 bratwurst
Epson Workforce printers have served me well.
re: #25 Jay C
After reading the article, I think that you were way too courteous, kind, and quite understated to Ms Parker when you labeled it a “crock of shit”. It certainly deserves that and far worse censure.
I have to admit that I approached Ms Parker’s article as a piece of serious journalism. Within the first paragraph I realized that I had been mistaken.
As you point out, it is one big whine of racism and misogyny.
The article complains. About what Harris said during the 2020 Democratic primary, the 2020 Presidential Campaign. About what Harris said as Vice President. And, of course, that Harris has been too silent
Then she says that Biden is too elderly, with “diminishing faculties”. So Harris should step down and allow her betters to take over.
Happily the comments did not disappoint. With the ones I skimmed calling for Parker to step down for the good of the country.
re: #118 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅
Epson Workforce printers have served me well.
I have an Epson Workforce 320 that’s like 10 years old at this point. It’s still going. Pretty impressive for a cheap POS inkjet printer.
re: #119 ckkatz
After reading the article, I think that you were way too courteous, kind, and quite understated to Ms Parker when you labeled it a “crock of shit”. It certainly deserves that and far worse censure.
I have to admit that I approached Ms Parker’s article as a piece of serious journalism. Within the first paragraph I realized that I had been mistaken.
As you point out, it is one big whine of racism and misogyny.
The article complains. About what Harris said during the 2020 Democratic primary, the 2020 Presidential Campaign. About what Harris said as Vice President. And, of course, that Harris has been too silent
Then she says that Biden is too elderly, with “diminishing faculties”. So Harris should step down and allow her betters to take over.
Happily the comments did not disappoint. With the ones I skimmed calling for Parker to step down for the good of the country.
Right wrong or otherwise, changing the ticket now would be a disaster.
*No one* could recover and win in November.
Earworm from downstairs:
re: #194 Backwoods Sleuth
just to be clear…pornography is in the eye of the beholder.
I know what *I* consider pornography…but I also know what those fake christian nationalists consider porn..
“All books can be indecent books, though recent books are bolder /
For filth, I’m glad to say, is in the mind of the beholder. /
When correctly viewed, everything is rude…”
h/t Tom Lehrer of course
re: #102 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
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Fucked up thing is that this is a natural continuation of how whig history is already justified: isn’t it important to acknowledge the progress and not focus on the weird gory parts?
re: #121 Dangerman
Right wrong or otherwise, changing the ticket now would be a disaster.
*No one* could recover and win in November.
Not to mention the whole throwing out every single primary vote thing…and the reality that the giant Biden/Harris war chest is not going to automatically transfer over to a candidate Kathleen Parker would prefer, no matter how much she hates the Vice President.
Aside from that, Parker is an all-around nitwit and the type of right of center “thought leader” who helped the GOP reach the awful spot where it resides today.
re: #124 bratwurst
Not to mention the whole throwing out every single primary vote thing…and the reality that the giant Biden/Harris war chest is not going to automatically transfer over to a candidate Kathleen Parker would prefer, no matter how much she hates the Vice President.
Aside from that, Parker is an all around nitwit and the type of right of center “thought leader” who helped the GOP reach the awful spot where it resides today.
Fwiw, if a winning sized majority of dems already preferred and all agreed to someone else -the same someone else - then we’d all know who that was
So Seth Abramson blocked me on Twitter. He had a long thread about Elon’s apparent lack of intelligence in scrutinizing sources and using motivated reasoning. I agree with that. I pointed out that most people do that, like when Seth fell hook, line, and sinker for a UFO crank’s story.
Apparently he didn’t take my criticism constructively 😆.
re: #127 JC1
So Seth Abramson blocked me on Twitter. He had a long thread about Elon’s apparent lack of intelligence in scrutinizing sources and using motivated reasoning. I agree with that. I pointed out that most people do that, like when Seth fell hook, line, and sinker for a UFO crank’s story.
Apparently he didn’t take my criticism constructively 😆.
Never been a fan of this clout-chaser.
re: #114 Charles
Charles makes the excellent point that laser printers and toner are less expensive than using ink-jet printers. And that remaining black-and-white laser printing rather than going full color can also save. I have seen some references that some of the Brother laser printers are less expensive per page. But have not seen any backing data.
The random and completely unverified cost per page statistics that I remember having seen online are 5-8 cents per black and white laser and 12-15 cents per color page. With some Brother models dropping that to 3 cents per black and white laser page.
For ink-jet, my rule of thumb is around 200-250 pages for a 10 ml black ink cartridge although for my printer HP claims twice that.
I have not looked at the bottled ink printers at this point.
US senator just doesn’t get the constitution
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) “had a stark warning for the approximately 100 Utah GOP delegates who crowded into a warehouse to hear him speak on Friday afternoon: Malevolent supernatural forces are working to undermine America,” the Salt Lake Tribune reports.
Said Tuberville: “I’ve traveled all over the country — all 50 states — I’ve been in good places and bad places. The one thing I saw, we are losing our kids to a satanic cult.”
He added: “We’ve lost our moral values across the country. We’ve got to get back to the Constitution, and we have got to get back to the Bible. We’ve got to get God back in our country. There’s not one Democrat that can tell you they stand up for God.”
Alabama must be proud
Sure explains a lot though
re: #130 ckkatz
Charles makes the excellent point that laser printers and toner are less expensive than using ink-jet printers. And that remaining black-and-white laser printing rather than going full color can also save. I have seen some references that some of the Brother laser printers are less expensive per page. But have not seen any backing data.
The random and completely unverified cost per page statistics that I remember having seen online are 5-8 cents per black and white laser and 12-15 cents per color page. With some Brother models dropping that to 3 cents per black and white laser page.
For ink-jet, my rule of thumb is around 200-250 pages for a 10 ml black ink cartridge although for my printer HP claims twice that.
I have not looked at the bottled ink printers at this point.
Laser is also better/cheaper for color unless you’re printing photos. If you just need color presentations or documents laser is fine. Inkjets will do a better job of printing photos, at a price.
The Getty just released 88,000 images under CC0 (open image licenses)!creativecommons.org
In addition to the images, key information about each object is available under CC0 and easily searchable, including artist name, title, date, culture, medium, dimensions, object type, and more.
getty.edu
re: #131 Dangerman
US senator just doesn’t get the constitution
Alabama must be proud
Sure explains a lot though
He’s the personification of this picture:
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Some of you will not get this. #IYKYK 😁😁😁 pic.twitter.com/RLSPEALEWZ
— SonarVermin™🎧⚓️🇵🇭🇺🇸 (@Sonar706) March 16, 2024
I think we should all, every day, post info on this fuckwit Neo-Nazi Cartoonist named Hans Kristian Graebener, aka Stonetoss, from Spring, Texas so that food service workers can make appropriate modifications to his food orders to address his offenses to polite society.
re: #131 Dangerman
US senator just doesn’t get the constitution
Alabama must be proud
Sure explains a lot though
I keep asking these superstitious charlatans when they repealed the ninth commandment. You know, the one that says, “”Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.” False witness, against gays, trans, immigrants, Democrats, Jews and, now, scientists, seems to be all these fuckwits have.
re: #126 Rightwingconspirator
I’m loving your shots. Are those silos?
Single silo - the opening for where the silage was put in and taken out makes it kind of look like two in this light.
re: #130 ckkatz
Charles makes the excellent point that laser printers and toner are less expensive than using ink-jet printers. And that remaining black-and-white laser printing rather than going full color can also save. I have seen some references that some of the Brother laser printers are less expensive per page. But have not seen any backing data.
The random and completely unverified cost per page statistics that I remember having seen online are 5-8 cents per black and white laser and 12-15 cents per color page. With some Brother models dropping that to 3 cents per black and white laser page.
For ink-jet, my rule of thumb is around 200-250 pages for a 10 ml black ink cartridge although for my printer HP claims twice that.
I have not looked at the bottled ink printers at this point.
Used to have one of the low end Brother lasers. Excellent quality and reliability. Far better than any ink jet. Getting it to work with CUPS was an … interesting exercise but it finally worked both with networking and the built in duplex-er for $125 IIRC.
Moms For Liberty members, Tom Gurski and Jennifer Tapley are trying to get Florida librarians arrested. Why? There are library books they don’t like. https://t.co/c6YF8WdgNd
— No Right Turn In Education (@protect_public) November 6, 2023
re: #138 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
I keep asking these superstitious charlatans when they repealed the ninth commandment. You know, the one that says, “”Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.” False witness, against gays, trans, immigrants, Democrats, Jews and, now, scientists, seems to be all these fuckwits have.
You forgot the womenses and any non-Jew non-Christianises. You know, 70% of the world’s population.
Doesn’t really matter, of course, the response will always be a squint and a “whah?”.
These wet-brained feebs and mouth breathers are incapable of independent thought, they just parrot the propaganda they are fed on Faux News.
Getting back to Rice, Stanford, climate change, fossil fuels, etc.:
One of the mind-numbing things that comes up when these oh-so-cautious self-declared conservatives is how they just propagate the idea that the Earth is just big bag full of gooey oil, just waiting for us to puncture it and enjoy the riches.
There is just no acknowledgment of how resources get depleted.
The problem with the 2006-2008 Peak Oil movement was too many of them were infected with the end-is-near mindset.
The smarter ones realized that the peak was going to be a broad plateau that would last decades.
Well, we are into those decades. Petroleum, real petroleum not carbon that is not-quite fluid, has pretty much plateaued.
For all those like Rice who hold the founding of the US as some sort of magical high point in history, our country is only 248 years old.
If you think we are going to last another 248 years just doing what we’ve done the past 100 years then you’ve missed some very important facts.
Now, I’m old enough to be mostly concerned about keeping demagogues like Trump away from Social Security and my retirement.
But for any youngsters out there who still have most of their life ahead of them, I hope you can find a way to move your society forward. Your life will depend upon developing sustainable energy use.
Gene Dornink (Minnesota State Senate R)
“I’m a Minneapolis based pilot for Delta airlines.”
“Tell me what a typical workweek is like for you as a stewardess.” pic.twitter.com/ty7fWeNTYH— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) March 14, 2024
Johnson noted that the House “didn’t want to interrupt the Senate in their floor time and their deliberation on appropriations” — adding that articles of impeachment have “a short window within which to process them” https://t.co/5gaeQu85JD
— Cami Mondeaux (@cami_mondeaux) March 14, 2024
News: House Judiciary just sent a subpoena to Secretary Mayorkas for immigration enforcement records, the third time Jim Jordan has used one against DHS this Congresshttps://t.co/VnNWXOZ7iU
— Ellen M. Gilmer (@ellengilmer) March 13, 2024
This is truly one of the world’s lamest assholes. Good luck trying to figure out why Istanbul (or anything else) is trending on his septic tank of a website.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 16, 2024
re: #130 ckkatz
Charles makes the excellent point that laser printers and toner are less expensive than using ink-jet printers. And that remaining black-and-white laser printing rather than going full color can also save. I have seen some references that some of the Brother laser printers are less expensive per page. But have not seen any backing data.
The random and completely unverified cost per page statistics that I remember having seen online are 5-8 cents per black and white laser and 12-15 cents per color page. With some Brother models dropping that to 3 cents per black and white laser page.
For ink-jet, my rule of thumb is around 200-250 pages for a 10 ml black ink cartridge although for my printer HP claims twice that.
I have not looked at the bottled ink printers at this point.
I have an ancient (like 15-20 year old) Brother b/w laser printer. I’ve used off brand ink cartridges that they say get 2500 sheets per, but I think I get about 5,000.
Never had a problem.
re: #136 austin_blue
I think we should all, every day, post info on this fuckwit Neo-Nazi Cartoonist named Hans Kristian Graebener, aka Stonetoss, from Spring, Texas so that food service workers can make appropriate modifications to his food orders to address his offenses to polite society.
I’m still wondering if this guy graduated from my high school, also located in Spring, Texas, but not Spring High School.
By retiring now, Rep. Ken Buck makes it harder for Lauren Boebert to replace him in Colorado’s 4th congressional district. But Boebert has her own plan to make it much harder for each of her male challengers.
— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) March 15, 2024
re: #153 Joe Bacon ✅
Actually, that would be the Bible.
NEW: The DNC is building its first-ever team to counter third-party candidates, hiring @Lis_Smith and @mattcorridoni.
Meanwhile, outside groups are preparing for open war with third party candidates like never before. https://t.co/PO8rdh5tdm— Alex Seitz-Wald (@aseitzwald) March 14, 2024
Broke two ribs in a bike crash 15 years ago and it still fucks me up if I bend the wrong way.
re: #144 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Getting back to Rice, Stanford, climate change, fossil fuels, etc.:
One of the mind-numbing things that comes up when these oh-so-cautious self-declared conservatives is how they just propagate the idea that the Earth is just big bag full of gooey oil, just waiting for us to puncture it and enjoy the riches.
There is just no acknowledgment of how resources get depleted.
The problem with the 2006-2008 Peak Oil movement was too many of them were infected with the end-is-near mindset.
The smarter ones realized that the peak was going to be a broad plateau that would last decades.
Well, we are into those decades. Petroleum, real petroleum not carbon that is not-quite fluid, has pretty much plateaued.
For all those like Rice who hold the founding of the US as some sort of magical high point in history, our country is only 248 years old.
If you think we are going to last another 248 years just doing what we’ve done the past 100 years then you’ve missed some very important facts.
Now, I’m old enough to be mostly concerned about keeping demagogues like Trump away from Social Security and my retirement.
But for any youngsters out there who still have most of their life ahead of them, I hope you can find a way to move your society forward. Your life will depend upon developing sustainable energy use.
<<< Example: Lighting. From time immemorial, we had candles. Beeswax. Expensive. Used in churches, castles, and rich peoples houses. Revolution: Whaling. Suddenly we had a new source of illumination oil. We built large whaling fleets based on sail power. Intense whale hunting lasted until the the 1940’s. Why? Petroleum oil. Countries who discovered petroleum oil shuttered their whaling fleets PDQ. They certainly did not replace their sail-powered whaling ships with modern steel boats. No, the countries that did that were the Japanese, Iceland, Norway, and a few others who had not discovered any petroleum resources of their own, had a long-time cultural love of eating whale meat. Revolution: Power Generation from Fossil Fuels. Electricity generation and Transportation is what has fucked our world. And it has made our modern world possible. It has also made our world unsustainable But the sunk costs of that revolution means that without a huge government outlay to replace old tech with existing new tech, we will heat our planet and force billions of people to move to where they may or may not have the resources to survive. You think Gaza is bad (it is, it’s horrible)? Just wait until that is the normal human condition.
re: #150 mmmirele
I’m still wondering if this guy graduated from my high school, also located in Spring, Texas, but not Spring High School.
I’m thinking he adopted a new name.
And I’m going to toddle off to bed.
Will TFG attack Pence? Of course he will.
Oh, and because of scheduling conflicts, we will be in Edinburgh, Scotland during the Total Eclipse of the Sun, a once a lifetime event.
Except for me, I’ve already seen an annular and a total, so I’m good.
Peter Navarro begs SCOTUS for Get Out Of Jail Free card: court records
Navarro, former President Donald Trump’s onetime trade adviser, filed Friday an emergency application to stay his four-month sentence on misdemeanor criminal contempt of Congress charges he hopes to appeal.
A similar request to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals was slapped down Thursday, prompting Navarro’s last ditch efforts before the nation’s highest court.
Should he fail in this final plea, Navarro, 74, will become Tuesday the first of Trump’s senior aides to serve time over his role in challenging the 2020 presidential election, the New York Times reported Thursday.
re: #45 teleskiguy
How long has the Edit Button been a thing around here? 10 years?
FB has had an Edit option for as long as I’ve used it, though with no time limit— not surprising that they would port a similar option to Threads. Having a time limit makes sense for such a platform.
re: #95 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Continuing the earlier discussion about the USSC and Sotomayor road-tripping with Barrett, we should keep in mind that courts can shift over time.
Mr. Beat today uploaded a video in which a USSC case showed when one Justice decided to switch teams:
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Let’s not forget that Justices can switch positions over time; lifetime appointment with no voters to answer to. Blackmun and Berger were originally christened the Minnesota Twins but Blackmun eventually altered his views to join the liberal group. It is certainly possible that the liberal women are courting Barrett and that she may gradually abandon some of her more extreme outlook.
re: #161 ckkatz
I really liked that one. Kept me rocking in my seat to that beat.
re: #165 retired cynic
I really liked that one. Kept me rocking in my seat to that beat.
I very glad that you enjoyed it! I have been posting music from various popular forms of Latin Music just to show how varied it is. It may not be earth shaking, but there are many charms.
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