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oh brother. Yale kid: “I just give all credit to my lord and savior, Jesus Christ.” Hey, newsflash, kid. Your lord and savior doesn’t give a shit about you defeating Auburn. I very much enjoyed it though, so next time just give all credit to me, ‘cause I DID have a rooting interest.
From below where I helped kill the thread:
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re: #107 Nerdy Fish
Also, it’s a virtual certainty that if Trump liquidates a metric fuck-ton (an industry standard term, or so I’m told) of his new shares to pay his judgment, it’s going to cause the whole stock to implode. So, I guess we wait and see what Monday holds. Does he sell? Does a bank take possession of a significant portion of his shares in exchange for a loan? Does Letitia James gift the State of New York a bunch of shiny new properties? Next time, on ‘Fucked Around, Finding Out’!
The stock will drop unless it is propped up by someone. I expect the Saudis would not mind paying to keep the stock propped up. As does Jared. So they buy up all the stock at a high price, Trump gets the cash, then Jared-Saudis are the ones who dump the stock and take a hit that they can write off. I do not expect much of Trump’s shares to ever really get to the free market
re: #2 silverdolphin
From below where I helped kill the thread:
_____The stock will drop unless it is propped up by someone. I expect the Saudis would not mind paying to keep the stock propped up. As does Jared. So they buy up all the stock at a high price, Trump gets the cash, then Jared-Saudis are the ones who dump the stock and take a hit that they can write off. I do not expect much of Trump’s shares to ever really get to the free market
I’m pretty sure every bit of what you just described is illegal. While it may happen on a fairly regular basis on Wall Street, it’s similar to the situation Trump is currently in: He was playing the same game as everyone, he just made too much noise, and the AG finally had to shut him down. If they do this, the SEC will be paying attention.
well, I’m in for some fun. Fronter has completely handed off my email service to Yahoo. So it is nice that I do not need to keep any Frontier service grandfathered in to keep my email.
And I already had my email programs set up for Yahoo. So you would think thinks are great. But my email account on my Mac stopped getting mail about 10 this morning while my email account on my cellphone works great. :-( And if I ry to log in on my web browser, I am told to set up a new password. But will that propagate to all my other accounts? Or will I have to go into each one, delete an account and create a new one? So I expect to be doing some dancing before everything settles down.
From downstairs: re: #135 retired cynic
This might be my favorite photo of yours, ever!!
Thank you, though I was pondering cropping the bottom. You don’t find it cluttered by the fence and plants?
To answer questions from the last thread about whether trump can cash out before 6 months:
Digital World could waive the lock-up agreement before the deal closes. Or, in what some legal experts say could be a more likely path, the new company’s board could decide to alter the lock-up agreement after the deal closes…
WHO WILL BE ON THIS COMPANY’S BOARD?
Mostly people put forth by TMTG, including the former president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., if all goes as expected. Former Republican Rep. Devin Nunes would be a director and the company’s CEO.
Also on the board would be Robert Lighthizer, who served as Trump’s U.S. trade representative, and Linda McMahon, who ran the Small Business Administration under Trump.
So with those upstanding folks on the board, hmmm wonder what they’ll decide.
re: #3 Nerdy Fish
I’m pretty sure every bit of what you just described is illegal. While it may happen on a fairly regular basis on Wall Street, it’s similar to the situation Trump is currently in: He was playing the same game as everyone, he just made too much noise, and the AG finally had to shut him down. If they do this, the SEC will be paying attention.
I agree that it is probably illegal but I am sure it happens all the time with Market Makers setting up the manipulation. I mean if the Saudis put in a buy order at $40 (it is like $35 now), is that illegal? I’d expect that sort of collusion would not be allowed for money laundering reasons. Maybe it would get the SEC attention but I’d imagine that after a few years the only thing done would be a fine, which would just be the cost of doing business (ie took at Paxton’s deal).
Yes, I am pretty cynical for such an optimistic guy. We shall see next week.
re: #4 darthstar
It would be nice if some of those groups actually played Vivaldi’s Four Seasons.
re: #6 William Lewis
From downstairs:
Thank you, though I was pondering cropping the bottom. You don’t find it cluttered by the fence and plants?
If I may add something here, I would crop up from the bottom right corner where it looks like part of the road is showing. I think it would clean it up nicely.
re: #9 PhillyPretzel ✅
It would be nice if some of those groups actually played Vivaldi’s Four Seasons.
There was a comedy sketch on British TV a long time back where people in the call centre played tunes like Four Seasons live as string quartets pausing only to interject “Your call is important to us, please hold” occasionally.
Cancer existed before the covid19 vaccine. Weird. pic.twitter.com/x4lZrXYZN0
— 💀DeathMetalViking💀 (@DeathMetalV) March 22, 2024
Good grief, this New York Times article on Merrick Garland. It’s time for even the die-hards to stop making excuses for this dithering institutionalist.
Inside Merrick Garland’s Effort to Prosecute Trump Over Jan. 6
Mr. Garland, 71, a former federal judge and prosecutor, proceeded with characteristic by-the-book caution, pressure-testing every significant legal maneuver, demanding that prosecutors take no shortcuts and declaring the inquiry would “take as long as it takes.”
As a result, prosecutors and the F.B.I. spent months sticking to their traditional playbook. They started with smaller players and worked upward — despite the transparent, well-documented steps taken by Mr. Trump himself, in public and behind the scenes, to retain power after voters rejected his bid for another term.
In trying to avoid even the smallest mistakes, Mr. Garland might have made one big one: not recognizing that he could end up racing the clock. Like much of the political world and official Washington, he and his team did not count on Mr. Trump’s political resurrection after Jan. 6, and his fast victory in the 2024 Republican presidential primary, which has complicated the prosecution and given the former president leverage in court.
I find it VERY HARD to believe all these people were truly that naive about Trump. This piece got me even more pissed off at that do-nothing Trump-enabler.
If Trump ends up getting elected again, Garland will bear at least part of the blame.
re: #6 William Lewis
Yes, I think I do. Maybe eliminating manmade object as much as possible and making it horizontal will emphasize the structure of the tree itself.
Joe gets reelected I hope he makes Katie Porter Attorney General
re: #15 Joe Bacon ✅
Joe gets reelected I hope he makes Katie Porter Attorney General
Wouldn’t turn my back on Torquemada.
Moscow Terror
A Chronology that Might Help Predict
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by Timothy Snyder
Short and quite to the point.
Is it believable that Garland and everyone on his team were so incredibly naïve they didn’t foresee the way Trump would behave? This is the Department of Justice, right? They just… forgot his entire well-documented history?
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MTG’s motion isn’t going anywhere. Matt Gaetz already dismissed it out of hand, saying it would wind up putting Jeffries in as Speaker, and she needs him to have a chance at sounding relevant.
re: #19 darthstar
MTG’s motion isn’t going anywhere. Matt Gaetz already dismissed it out of hand, saying it would wind up putting Jeffries in as Speaker, and she needs him to have a chance at sounding relevant.
Matt Gaetz doesn’t have a say in the matter. If MTG really wants it to happen, only one member needs to press the issue in order to vacate the chair. He’s full of bluster, and he knows it.
re: #19 darthstar
As best I can tell, the Senate has more than 3 hours to pass the appropriations bills. No pressure.
re: #10 Ace Rothstein
If I may add something here, I would crop up from the bottom right corner where it looks like part of the road is showing. I think it would clean it up nicely.
That was one thing I was thinking of, so I’m glad to hear that actually.
Is it just me or is the name for our local softball game between police and firefighters slightly gross?
Guns and Hoses
BREAKING: Chaos, Disunity, & Disarray in House GOP is Fault of Democrats. pic.twitter.com/JAIwZg9HNU
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) March 22, 2024
re: #24 BeachDem
Is it just me or is the name for our local softball game between police and firefighters slightly gross?
Guns and Hoses
Nah. Our Habitat once did a build day with police volunteers and our long-term work release crew—Cops and Robbers.
I’m over here wondering how Truth Social, one of the worst cheap-ass social media knock-off sites I’ve ever seen, packed with scams and extremism, could possibly be valued at $5 billion. The fuck. Talk about fraud.
re: #18 Charles
Actually, I think that they all watched Trump do like Nixon, and we’re on the same schedule because our justice system moves at a certain speed. Let’s talk about why even the good judges won’t move fast.
re: #26 SerialUpDinger
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In my humble opinion, if you are dining on pizza with pineapple slices, you are may be well served with a glass or two of this….
That’s wine for people who don’t know how to drink.
re: #18 Charles
It helps to remember that US criminal trials are literally descended from trial by combat, and state prosecutors are in general pitifully inexperienced at taking on anyone with the resources to fight back.
In other words, the King’s Champion gets a lot more cautious if they might actually bleed in the trial.
That said, I think Garland is a slow-moving ditherer over and above a rational level of caution vs. a defendant that can actually fight back.
Again, right out in the open. https://t.co/16dctZn67w pic.twitter.com/CvFx8cqhMx
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) March 22, 2024
re: #34 darthstar
It really ties the room together.
re: #35 Decatur Deb
It really ties the room together.
Those leather chairs went up to the groove pit at the new place. But we did get the cat a new chair which she almost never leaves…and yes, my tequila is getting low…good thing I’m flying to Mexico tomorrow.
re: #37 darthstar
Ha. I was about to offer you a good deal on a Plycraft Eames knockoff.
re: #38 Decatur Deb
Ha. I was about to offer you a good deal on a Plycraft Eames knockoff.
We did save about three grand by buying our Eames at a consignment store in Marin.
re: #36 Charles
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I didn’t know what a dime bag was until college…where I grew up it was $6 a gram or $15 an 1/8th in high school. Reagan years saw a lot of inflation - $20, $25, $30, $40 an eighth…hard times on a student budget…and now I can go to a dispensary and get it for $45 an eighth…and it hasn’t been pinched.
re: #41 darthstar
I didn’t know what a dime bag was until college…where I grew up it was $6 a gram or $15 an 1/8th in high school. Reagan years saw a lot of inflation - $20, $25, $30, $40 an eighth…hard times on a student budget…and now I can go to a dispensary and get it for $45 an eighth…and it hasn’t been pinched.
When I was growing up a “dime bag” wasn’t weed, it was heroin.
re: #45 teleskiguy
When I was growing up Dimebag was the guitarist for Pantera.
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One of the weird factors people rarely discuss about great musicians is that a lot of the greatest ones did their greatest work high on heroin. An uncomfortable fact that is nonetheless true.
FDA Grants EUA for PEMGARDA, new COVID PrEP
Today, March 22, 2024, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced it has granted Emergency Use Authorization to Invivyd, Inc., a Massachusetts based biopharma company, for PEMGARDA, for the pre-exposure prophylaxis of coronavirus.
This is the first PrEP against covid available for immunocompromised Americans since EvuSheld was pulled by FDA (after something of a fight) for lack of efficacy in January of 2023.
In its EUA letter, FDA lays out the following:
PEMGARDA is a recombinant human monoclonal IgG1 antibody that targets the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein receptor binding domain, thereby inhibiting virus attachment to the human ACE2 receptor on host cells. (cont.d)
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I hear the skiing’s gonna be pretty wicked fun in New England this weekend, if you can get to the skiing.
re: #49 teleskiguy
I hear the skiing’s gonna be pretty wicked fun in New England this weekend, if you can get to the skiing.
We’re going to get a fair amount of that up here, too, though I know the mountains for mountain sport are hard to come by out here on the Great Plains.
re: #47 Charles
One of the weird factors people rarely discuss about great musicians is that a lot of the greatest ones did their greatest work high on heroin. An uncomfortable fact that is nonetheless true.
Bradley Nowell wrote a song about this. He died of a heroin overdose.
re: #50 Nerdy Fish
We’re going to get a fair amount of that up here, too, though I know the mountains for mountain sport are hard to come by out here on the Great Plains.
re: #47 Charles
One of the weird factors people rarely discuss about great musicians is that a lot of the greatest ones did their greatest work high on heroin. An uncomfortable fact that is nonetheless true.
The only people I’ve known that used, friends of a friend, were musicians.
My friends that messed themselves up did so with alcohol.
Gene Krupa straightens his tie, does a wrist stretch.
In September it’ll be 10 years since one of my best friends - the dude who took me to my first Umphrey’s McGee show - died of a heroin overdose.
This was before fentanyl turned into a huge problem.
I had another friend who overdosed on prescription opioids. Botched back surgery, got addicted, his daughter was 18 when he died.
Opioid addiction is terrible.
Cory Dedering. David Shannon. The names of the deceased I speak of, lest I forget.
re: #58 teleskiguy
Cory Dedering. David Shannon. The names of the deceased I speak of, lest I forget.
Never forget.
The best way to prove there was no Russian collusion in 2016 is to rehire Manafort, the felon you fired for Russian collusion in the summer of 2016. https://t.co/w2a2xuEkaH
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) March 18, 2024
re: #47 Charles
One of the weird factors people rarely discuss about great musicians is that a lot of the greatest ones did their greatest work high on heroin. An uncomfortable fact that is nonetheless true.
I can’t imagine trying to draw while completely fucked up. Saw plenty of ‘testimonials’ in art school of people who claimed to do their best work while high and it was like “Hooooookay, sure..”
Also, if you want to be really unpopular in art school, don’t do drugs. You can actually hear the sonic boom from all the “open” minds shutting down in nanoseconds.
Of course I feel for the victims..
When you deploy your security apparatus to follow people bringing flowers to a memorial to an opposition leader, you may miss something regarding actual terrorists.
And Russia probably killed more innocents in Ukraine today than Moscow lost.
re: #47 Charles
One of the weird factors people rarely discuss about great musicians is that a lot of the greatest ones did their greatest work high on heroin. An uncomfortable fact that is nonetheless true.
“Heroin problem, I don’t have a heroin problem.
I can afford it.”
Duane Allman
“Gaza’s waterfront property could be very valuable … if people would focus on building up livelihoods” — Jared Kushner https://t.co/RkDjUKHh51
— Josh Kovensky (@JoshKovensky) March 19, 2024
re: #59 darthstar
Never forget.
Cory was my roommate. David was my boss when I was a Pizza Hut delivery driver at the base of Beaver Creek when I was 18.
I got Dad’s memory in the genetics to a large degree. I can’t forget.
About that DOJ lawsuit against Apple:
The U.S. Department of Justice’s lawsuit against Apple filed on Thursday cites the iPhone maker’s battle against Beeper, the app that aimed to bring iMessage to Android users. Beeper gave up on its mission after Apple blocked the app’s efforts late last year. The DOJ referenced the dispute in its lawsuit as an example of Apple controlling “the behavior and innovation of third parties in order to insulate itself from competition.”
It’s 10PM Eastern. Do you know where your appropriation bill is?
re: #66 teleskiguy
One of my best friends died unexpectedly in 2018 a couple of weeks after a painful injury.
Unfortunately, we’ll never know what happened for sure, but an accidental overdose is a strong possibility.
Guy was like a brother to me. I miss him all the fucking time.
This is me and him playing laser tag many years ago:
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Lee was the guy who arranged the first in person meeting between me and Ms. Cyborg and the first one of my friends to predict the two of us would get married.
That was 18 years ago this month and she and I are still happily together.
Everyone needs a friend like him.
re: #70 Decatur Deb
It’s 10PM Eastern. Do you know where your appropriation bill is?
Buried somewhere up Mike Johnson’s unmentionables, I would assume.
re: #73 Nerdy Fish
Buried somewhere up Mike Johnson’s unmentionables, I would assume.
No, he shit and split. It’s in the Senate, where Rand Paul will fuck it until his mother calls him.
re: #47 Charles
One of the weird factors people rarely discuss about great musicians is that a lot of the greatest ones did their greatest work high on heroin. An uncomfortable fact that is nonetheless true.
Exiles on Main Street was Keef up for days on end, presumably alternating between heroin and cocaine.
re: #71 Eclectic Cyborg
One of my best friends died unexpectedly in 2018 a couple of weeks after a painful injury.
Unfortunately, we’ll never know what happened for sure, but an accidental overdose is a strong possibility.
Guy was like a brother to me. I miss him all the fucking time.
This is me and him playing laser tag many years ago:
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Lee was the guy who arranged the first in person meeting between me and Ms. Cyborg and the first one of my friends to predict the two of us to get married.
That was 18 years ago this month and she and I are still happily together.
Everyone needs a friend like him.
I thought you were both taller
Truth is I wished I had a Lee.
I had to attract mrsdm all on my own
After 4 years of dating in college it took a 28 year hiatus for her to come around
re: #74 Decatur Deb
No, he shit and split. It’s in the Senate, where Rand Paul will fuck it until his mother calls him.
Oh. Well, now I know who to blame when everything goes to hell in the morning.
Didn’t know till just now that Riley Strain had been found dead, floating in the river. I expected that but it’s sad to see confirmation.
Body of missing University of Missouri student Riley Strain found in river in West Nashville
re: #79 A Cranky One
I love my old school hi-fi system I got for 100 bucks…no turntable as I don’t have vinyl and don’t need the extra addiction…but I hooked it up via optical audio to the TV and now watching movies with Philips 476 10” woofers boosting out the bass notes is awesome…the sound fills the room and it’s as good if not better than Dolby surround…
I feel the same about @RepMTG . She was a key player in the insurrection—yet here she is, stirring up sh!t daily. What a disfunctional mess the #GOP has turned into. pic.twitter.com/L2RBqiAM7E
— enrich12 (@enrich1212) March 22, 2024
re: #82 Captain Ron
Are the other commentators on MSNBC required to pretend she isn’t an insurrectionist traitor?
re: #83 jaunte
Are the other commentators on MSNBC required to pretend she isn’t an insurrectionist traitor?
Looking forward to Rachel welcoming her to the team with no hard feelings. Then you’ll know they’re contractually obligated.
I thought I should dust this off for some of y’all… 🤦🏾♂️ https://t.co/DSRxCmd9vi
— Jaime Harrison (@harrisonjaime) March 22, 2024
re: #2 silverdolphin
From below where I helped kill the thread:
_____The stock will drop unless it is propped up by someone. I expect the Saudis would not mind paying to keep the stock propped up. As does Jared. So they buy up all the stock at a high price, Trump gets the cash, then Jared-Saudis are the ones who dump the stock and take a hit that they can write off. I do not expect much of Trump’s shares to ever really get to the free market
Maybe so, but TFG can’t sell a share for six months (late September) and by then I expect the share cost to be down around zero because the venture hasn’t come close to making money since it’s inception and never will.
re: #80 A Cranky One
my favorite version of this Neil Young classic….
re: #86 Joe Bacon ✅
This is what right wing Xtianity has become.
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Charlie has a 1/4 face on a 1.5 sized head.
His brain doesn’t fill available space.
Y’all send good juju my dad’s way.
He’s 71 and has been struggling with mental health issues since my stepmom passed in early 2021.
I’ve been out to visit him a couple of times since and I’m going again later this year.
My grandparents are gone and I have a shit relationship with my mom, so dad is the only real parental figure I have left.
He’s tough, but every man has his struggles sometimes. 🩷
re: #88 austin_blue
Maybe so, but TFG can’t sell a share for six months (late September) and by then I expect the share cost to be down around zero because the venture hasn’t come close to making money since it’s inception and never will.
Nope. He could sell them next week if the Board gives him a waiver. And his cronies run the board. The stock only goes down if no one wants to buy them. But there are some who might.The Saudis or Kushner’s fund could then buy the shares at a price to keep the stock up until Trump gets rid of $500 million or so. They would likely have to have favorable market makers behind this but the NASDAQ allows MM to play all sorts of games. I am not even sure there would be a lot of penalties as long as Trump filled out the proper paperwork.
Things are not improving in the North Atlantic. The new records being set every day are crushing the previous highs set just last year.
For example, yesterday the North Atlantic SST was 20.41°C, beating last year’s record 19.94°C by almost 0.5°C. pic.twitter.com/msCwu85BDk— Prof. Eliot Jacobson (@EliotJacobson) March 22, 2024
This scares the shit out of me. Northern Hemisphere weather will see some real changes with this much heat. This is not evem a slow change.
re: #91 Eclectic Cyborg
Y’all send good juju my dad’s way.
He’s 71 and has been struggling with mental health issues since my stepmom passed in early 2021.
I’ve been out to visit him a couple of times since and I’m going again later this year.
My grandparents are gone and I have a shit relationship with my mom, so dad is the only real parental figure I have left.
He’s tough, but every man has his struggles sometimes. 🩷
Sounds like your dad is living alone with step mom gone. That’s gotta be tough.
re: #93 silverdolphin
Last year at this time El Nino was about to begin.
Currently El Nino is fading and the Pacific will be in a neutral phase in summer.
Global temperatures are typically warmer on the back end of an El Nino than the front end.
That said, the inevitable rise upwards is going to eventually draw the attention of even the die hard know-nothing politicians.
How much Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha’apai volcano affected last year and this year is debated.
If that volcanic warming (from water in the Stratosphere) is large then over the rest of the decade that will fade.
In that case, expect to hear in 2030 a lot of deniers shouting about how global warming has stopped, because after a big jump in temps in 2023 and 2024, the rest of the decade will see temps level off.
It’s sad but true, but just like creationists, AGW deniers are easy to predict.
re: #93 silverdolphin
Last year and this year do give us an indication of what will be typical in the early 2030s.
What we think of now as abnormally warm will be typical in a decade in a half.
And by 2070 the year 2024 will be seen as a cool year.
I do not see the world order coping with this stuff much past 2050.
Once it becomes too deadly to work outside in the summer even in the US, Americans will finally consider that we’ve messed up.
re: #93 silverdolphin
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This scares the shit out of me. Northern Hemisphere weather will see some real changes with this much heat. This is not evem a slow change.
Could this shut down the Gulf Stream?
Maybe. We’ll know in two years.
Adios, m’dears.
Be well and be nice to each other.
re: #97 austin_blue
Could this shut down the Gulf Stream?
Maybe. We’ll know in two years.
My sense is that the AMOC scare has been overplayed… for now.
The IPCC sees the AMOC shut down as an unlikely event this century.
Recent research suggests that is too conservative, but pushing the problem up to 2025 is too aggressive.
It takes time to melt Greenland.
re: #95 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
re: #97 austin_blue
Could this shut down the Gulf Stream?
Maybe. We’ll know in two years.
Adios, m’dears.
Be well and be nice to each other.
We might see a return to the trend, as Child suggests. But we might see so much heating in this 2 year period that a tipping point is reached and we enter a weather regime that remains very warm. We will certainly see since nothing can stop this in the next few years.
Nice something I posted in 2015 puts me in Facebook jail and Marky Mark won’t show what it is…
The fix sure looks like it is in. The largest institutional investor in the Truth Social company is a company run by a huge GOP funder who also is a major investor in TikTok. Now maybe we know why Trump now supports TikTok. Susquehanna International Group LLP run by Jeffrey Yass, the largest Republican donor this cycle with a net worth of almost $30 billion, $21 billion coming from his investiment in TikTok. So he could lose a lot of money if TikTok is banned. And he is perfectly able to supply the money to buy Trump’s shares.
Making sure Trump gets his money may see a quid pro quo if Trump gets elected.
re: #91 Eclectic Cyborg
Y’all send good juju my dad’s way.
He’s 71 and has been struggling with mental health issues since my stepmom passed in early 2021.
I’ve been out to visit him a couple of times since and I’m going again later this year.
My grandparents are gone and I have a shit relationship with my mom, so dad is the only real parental figure I have left.
He’s tough, but every man has his struggles sometimes. 🩷
{{{EC & Dad}}}
re: #99 silverdolphin
We will need to watch the methane concentration in the atmosphere and see how it is changing. If it starts to spike upwards then that is likely due to rapid warming in the northern latitudes.
YoY CO2 changes at Hawaii are quite large right now, but that may be due to having to move the sensor away from the erupting volcano.
The global average CO2 YoY is larger than average but not out of expectation. If it too starts to increase as in Hawaii then we know that ocean warming has slowed the uptake of CO2 emissions by the ocean.
Well, apparently, the Village’s Code Enforcement Division thinks we own, harbor or maintain an unlicensed and unvaccinated dog.
Apparently, we were found to be in violation of Village code on these matters on March 19th. I found the notice in my mail this evening.
Of course, we do not own a dog (or a cat, either), nor do we harbor or maintain one. My wife is allergic to dogs and cats.
If Code Enforcement spotted an unlicensed animal on my property, it was present without my knowledge, and was probably wandering through the neighborhood.
re: #103 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
We will need to watch the methane concentration in the atmosphere and see how it is changing. If it starts to spike upwards then that is likely due to rapid warming in the northern latitudes.
YoY CO2 changes at Hawaii are quite large right now, but that may be due to having to move the sensor away from the erupting volcano.
The global average CO2 YoY is larger than average but not out of expectation. If it too starts to increase as in Hawaii then we know that ocean warming has slowed the uptake of CO2 emissions by the ocean.
The methane released from 2020 to 2022 were the 3 largest amounts ever. So it is something to worry about.
re: #49 teleskiguy
I hear the skiing’s gonna be pretty wicked fun in New England this weekend, if you can get to the skiing.
Current pic from the Berkshires…
re: #100 Joe Bacon ✅
Nice something I posted in 2015 puts me in Facebook jail and Marky Mark won’t show what it is…
I can no longer access our FB conversation. It appears to have vanished.
Mystery of Siberia’s giant exploding craters may finally be solved
Permafrost on the Yamal and Gydan peninsulas varies widely in its thickness, ranging from a few hundred feet to 1,600 feet (500 m). The soil likely froze solid more than 40,000 years ago, imprisoning ancient marine sediments rich in methane that gradually transformed into vast natural gas reserves. These reserves produce heat that melts the permafrost from below, leaving pockets of gas at its base.
Permafrost in Russia and elsewhere is also thawing at the surface due to climate change. In places where it is already thin on the Yamal and Gydan peninsulas, melting from both ends and the pressure from the gas may eventually cause the remaining permafrost to collapse, triggering an explosion.
re: #109 A Cranky One
The most dangerous IT gig ever?
re: #104 A Three Hour Tour
Our HOA once accused us of not mowing our grass, and sent us a picture of our neighbor’s yard.
re: #101 silverdolphin
That’s why the judge told Trump he has to supply where his money came from.
So, with Islamic State - Khorasan claiming responsibility for yesterday’s attack near Moscow, it seems to me that Russia’s security services dropped the ball in horrific fashion.
They’re so hyper-fixated on Ukraine, and I’d imagine on the hunt for “Ukrainian saboteurs”, that they missed a threat coming at them from an unanticipated direction - and despite the fact that their American intel counterparts warned them that their (relatively specific) SIGINT revealed that some kind of atrocity was being planned for concerts in and around the Moscow area. Recall that we warned them of this a couple of weeks back, and indeed, issued a public notice for Americans travelling in Russia to be wary of this - something Putin himself contemptuously dismissed.
re: #112 Belafon
Our HOA once accused us of not mowing our grass, and sent us a picture of our neighbor’s yard.
We don’t live in a neighborhood with an HOA.
I shot off a civilly worded email to the contact for Code Enforcement on the notices.
The first set of 131-m-long onshore wind turbine blades, the longest in the world, has been successfully produced in China’s Inner Mongolia, said local authorities. They will be installed in large megawatt wind turbine units, boosting wind power generation capacity & efficiency. pic.twitter.com/wkl4xu9rrh
— People’s Daily, China (@PDChina) March 22, 2024
re: #107 Hecuba’s daughter
I can no longer access our FB conversation. It appears to have vanished.
I got another warning when I posted that and they took it off.
re: #116 Captain Ron
An aircraft to deliver wind turbine blades to dirt runways.
World’s largest aircraft to be built by US energy start-up@radiaenergy #aviation #plane #aircraft #windturbines #windenergy https://t.co/j8C1sPfOH2
— Travel Tomorrow (@TravelTomorrowX) March 21, 2024
re: #113 Belafon
That’s why the judge told Trump he has to supply where his money came from.
Being cynical aboaut financial markets, I wonder if selling the stock using the help of a a market maker puts enough distance to make it hard for the master to get that info. The SEC might but it could take some time. And I am not convinced it would necessarily be illegal.
But I do think it would take some time to accomplish Trump unwinding his investment. Time he does not have.
re: #120 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
yeah, the Dems caused Santos to lie about who he is and his finances… all an Democratic op…
Yeah, all of the votes that McCarthy conjured with his exceptional bipartisanship and the Dems betrayed him by forcing Gaetz to submit his no confidence motion and now Johnson, when faced with the realities of prior promises and the needs of the nation are nothing more than Democratic craven politics unlike those true nations of governing purity on the the GOP side, who’ve impeached Mayorkis for what exactly? Also I’m sure that there was no partisanship involved for the Biden investigation.
yeah Charlie, you’ve got this sussed out, well spotted!
re: #120 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
Commissar of Toilet Paper America has some thoughts on Democratic skulduggery:
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Yeah, Charlie, it is called “politics.” It is how pluralistic, lawfully run societies work. A Dominionist stooge like you wouldn’t know that though.
Yes, right. It was Dems all the way down.
They’re the ones who forced Qev to accept the rule change to allow vacate motions to be brought by a single member and then conned Gas Pedal to file said motion in revenge for an ethics investigation involving banging under-aged prostitutes.
They held St. Santos down and forced him to run as a total fraud and then lie his ass off to cover for hundreds of thousands in campaign fraud.
And Zod, can you believe how they systemically crushed Ken Buck’s morale to the point that he decided that leaving Congress to be a political commentator was better than dealing with the pack of dysfunctional brats that make up the new power bloc in the GQP?
Just diabolical how the Dems totally ruined the House GQP caucus with their total cooperation.///////
Gift Link Wapo: Senate passes $1.2 trillion spending bill, averting government shutdown
The Senate approved a $1.2 trillion spending bill in the wee hours of Saturday morning to prevent a brief partial government shutdown, sending the bill to President Biden to sign into law.
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Passage came after a 12:01 a.m. deadline, meaning some federal funding technically expired, but the White House budget office said it would not declare a shutdown because the vote was imminent, and Biden will sign the bill later Saturday.
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That foreshadowed unrest in the Senate later in the day and night. A group of Republican senators demanded amendment votes to the legislation on politically thorny issues, including immigration, Iran sanctions and government spending. But altering the bill in any way would have assured a shutdown; the legislation would have had to be approved again by the House, which had already adjourned for a recess slated to go longer than two weeks.
That kept the Senate in session into early Saturday morning as Schumer and the Republicans haggled over a deal. An agreement emerged just as the deadline arrived, allowing weary lawmakers to finally vote.
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re: #114 Dr Lizardo
So, with Islamic State - Khorasan claiming responsibility for yesterday’s attack near Moscow, it seems to me that Russia’s security services dropped the ball in horrific fashion.
They’re so hyper-fixated on Ukraine, and I’d imagine on the hunt for “Ukrainian saboteurs”, that they missed a threat coming at them from an unanticipated direction - and despite the fact that their American intel counterparts warned them that their (relatively specific) SIGINT revealed that some kind of atrocity was being planned for concerts in and around the Moscow area. Recall that we warned them of this a couple of weeks back, and indeed, issued a public notice for Americans travelling in Russia to be wary of this - something Putin himself contemptuously dismissed.
Yep, this is totally believable when security services get taken over by political witch hunts and fixed ideas. They were so busy chasing Ukrainians, gays, and Navalny supporters that an actual threat fell through the cracks.
In a bit of irony, I suppose, the W maladministration in 2001 was so fixated on Russia as a threat that a bunch of Saudis with very suspicious learning objectives and their own warnings from US intelligence got tossed in the trash.
It seems like a bunch of Ukrainian sources were calling this a false flag operation by Russian security, which made absolutely no sense to me whatever happened in the 1999 apartment bombings. A high profile target in Moscow being destroyed and the terrorists getting away with the country already in total war makes Putin look pretty bad, and I can’t think of what sort of political objective this helps in any way.
re: #124 ericblair
A high profile target in Moscow being destroyed and the terrorists getting away with the country already in total war makes Putin look pretty bad, and I can’t think of what sort of political objective this helps in any way.
Scanning through local and international media here, and the attackers are still on the lam. They’re actively being sought (to the surprise of no one) but so far, the authorities aren’t having much luck.
I think that when all is said and done, it’ll be revealed that the Russian intel services royally fucked up on this one and heads will roll (or better to say, there will be an inexplicable epidemic of defenestration and dodgy tea).
re: #125 Dr Lizardo
Scanning through local and international media here, and the attackers are still on the lam. They’re actively being sought (to the surprise of no one) but so far, the authorities aren’t having much luck.
I think that when all is said and done, it’ll be revealed that the Russian intel services royally fucked up on this one and heads will roll (or better to say, there will be an inexplicable epidemic of defenestration and dodgy tea).
There is some report of people being arrested in a car, but who the hell knows at this point and of course the incentive is just to arrest anybody convenient and pin it on them.
The social contract between Putin and Russia has recently been reduced to: the dictator will keep you safe. Well, all the security services are now tied up in a stupid imperial war and they are all so full of political brain worms they can’t do that anymore.
re: #125 Dr Lizardo
Scanning through local and international media here, and the attackers are still on the lam. They’re actively being sought (to the surprise of no one) but so far, the authorities aren’t having much luck.
I think that when all is said and done, it’ll be revealed that the Russian intel services royally fucked up on this one and heads will roll (or better to say, there will be an inexplicable epidemic of defenestration and dodgy tea).
Some fat fuck over at the FSB is suddenly going to get taken into a small room with a tiny window and cinder block walls and asked some very uncomfortable questions about how someone on a state salary can afford to send his children to college in Zurich and still have money left over for a new luxury dacha alongside a picturesque lake in the back country.
re: #127 Targetpractice
Some fat fuck over at the FSB is suddenly going to get taken into a small room with a tiny window and cinder block walls and asked some very uncomfortable questions about how someone on a state salary can afford to send his children to college in Zurich and still have money left over for a new luxury dacha alongside a picturesque lake in the back country.
Of course, the bitterest irony for the unfortunate … “usual suspect” being questioned is that the interrogator probably has the same truths about himself in Putivania …
re: #128 William Lewis
Of course, the bitterest irony for the unfortunate … “usual suspect” being questioned is that the interrogator probably has the same truths about himself in Putivania …
It will be the same as it’s always been: The immediate question will be “Who did this?,” but the question that always follows is “Who let this happen?” The people at the bottom will point up the chain, saying they sounded the alarms and their superiors ignored them. And the people at the top will be desperate to find a scapegoat to excuse their interest in their own looting of the state. Eventually they’ll find some middle-manager who profited off the inattention of those above him and exploited those below him to line his pockets, drag him into a dimly-lit room to put his nuts in a vice, and tighten until eventually he “confesses” and begs Comrade Putin for leniency. If he’s lucky, he’ll just be forced to retire in disgrace and lose his cushy life. If he’s not, he’ll end up in a government prison for a very long time. Either way, the people will be satisfied that the person “responsible” has been punished and that the state is now “safe” again.
re: #129 Targetpractice
It will be the same as it’s always been: The immediate question will be “Who did this?,” but the question that always follows is “Who let this happen?” The people at the bottom will point up the chain, saying they sounded the alarms and their superiors ignored them. And the people at the top will be desperate to find a scapegoat to excuse their interest in their own looting of the state. Eventually they’ll find some middle-manager who profited off the inattention of those above him and exploited those below him to line his pockets, drag him into a dimly-lit room to put his nuts in a vice, and tighten until eventually he “confesses” and begs Comrade Putin for leniency. If he’s lucky, he’ll just be forced to retire in disgrace and lose his cushy life. If he’s not, he’ll end up in a government prison for a very long time. Either way, the people will be satisfied that the person “responsible” has been punished and that the state is now “safe” again.
In some fairness, over the past weeks, the FSB have announced like five or six counterterrorism operations arresting or killing ISIS operatives inside Russia. For instance, this here: reuters.com
They absolutely knew about the threat and were doing what they could to prevent it (in their own hamfisted way) but in this case, they were obviously unsuccessful.
And as the saying goes, intel/security agencies have to get lucky every single time to prevent some massacre or another. Terrorists only need to get lucky once.
re: #120 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
Charlie Kirk has no cards to play. Since he was in puberty he’s been nothing but a stooge for the most manipulative, heartless GOP operatives.
He doesn’t even qualify as an “empty suit” because he can’t really wear a suit with authority.
He’s a good example of how bereft of substance the Republican party has become.
re: #130 Dr Lizardo
In some fairness, over the past weeks, the FSB have announced like five or six counterterrorism operations arresting or killing ISIS operatives inside Russia. For instance, this here: reuters.com
They absolutely knew about the threat and were doing what they could to prevent it (in their own hamfisted way) but in this case, they were obviously unsuccessful.
And as the saying goes, intel/security agencies have to get lucky every single time to prevent some massacre or another. Terrorists only need to get lucky once.
Unfortunately for whichever poor sod ends up with jumper leads on his balls, the state is he lives in is a authoritarian kleptocracy whose strongman leader was just “reelected” this past week on a platform of “Only I can protect you!” And since Dear Leader cannot be seen as anything less than an omniscient, omnipotent demigod who is aware of everything and able to control everything, somebody has to take the fall…out a plate glass window onto a box of bullets.
re: #132 Targetpractice
Unfortunately for whichever poor sod ends up with jumper leads on his balls, the state is he lives in is a authoritarian kleptocracy whose strongman leader was just “reelected” this past week on a platform of “Only I can protect you!” And since Dear Leader cannot be seen as anything less than an omniscient, omnipotent demigod who is aware of everything and able to control everything, somebody has to take the fall…out a plate glass window onto a box of bullets.
Yeah, someone’s for it. If nothing else, this attack - and the fact that as of this writing, the perpetrators are still running around somewhere in Russia - shatters the illusion of security that Putin promises.
If these nutjobs can somehow stage another successful attack in the next few days….oh, boy.
re: #133 Dr Lizardo
Maybe I spoke too soon - I just saw this:
Russian state-owned media is reporting that some people have been detained in connection with the attack, although this is unconfirmed.
RIA has posted to its Telegram channel, citing the Kremlin, saying that “The head of the FSB reported to Putin about the detention of 11 people, including all 4 terrorists directly involved in the terrorist attack in Crocus.”
Earlier, citing a Telegram message from Duma lawmaker Alexander Khinshtein, Russian media reported that two people had been detained in Russia’s Bryansk region after a car chase.
More details soon …
re: #133 Dr Lizardo
Yeah, someone’s for it. If nothing else, this attack - and the fact that as of this writing, the perpetrators are still running around somewhere in Russia - shatters the illusion of security that Putin promises.
If these nutjobs can somehow stage another successful attack in the next few days….oh, boy.
The “Oh fuck” part of it, the part that is really going to rankle a lot of hairlines in the Politburo, is that it happened in Moscow. I still remember when the vatniks in the Russian press and milblogs were shitting themselves over the idea that Prigozhin might press his “rebellion” all the way to Moscow and lay siege to the city. Now, ISIS apparently managed to either sneak weapons and materiel into the city or acquire them within such, assemble them and the men necessary, and carry out a massive terrorist attack without anyone being the wiser.
There’s no way that this is all resolved without somebody’s head ending up on a pike outside the Kremlin.
re: #135 Targetpractice
Czech media is reporting that four involved in yesterday’s attack have been arrested. They’re from Tajikistan.
re: #130 Dr Lizardo
In some fairness, over the past weeks, the FSB have announced like five or six counterterrorism operations arresting or killing ISIS operatives inside Russia. For instance, this here: reuters.com
They absolutely knew about the threat and were doing what they could to prevent it (in their own hamfisted way) but in this case, they were obviously unsuccessful.
And as the saying goes, intel/security agencies have to get lucky every single time to prevent some massacre or another. Terrorists only need to get lucky once.
Unfortunately for Putin, there’s this.
re: #137 ericblair
Realistically, that should come back to bite him in the ass in the hardest way possible. However, this is Russia we’re talking about, so I imagine that’s gonna disappear down the memory hole sometime early this afternoon.
re: #138 Dr Lizardo
Realistically, that should come back to bite him in the ass in the hardest way possible. However, this is Russia we’re talking about, so I imagine that’s gonna disappear down the memory hole sometime early this afternoon.
It’s almost noon in Moscow, so the lunchtime press is going to be all about the arrests and announcements that there will be a “statement” from “President” Putin sometime between now and dinner time to assure the people that those responsible have been captured and will face swift “justice.” And while ISIS claims responsibility, they are sure Ukraine or the West is somehow involved in this attack and will be investigating thoroughly any such leads.
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re: #3 Nerdy Fish
I’m pretty sure every bit of what you just described is illegal. While it may happen on a fairly regular basis on Wall Street, it’s similar to the situation Trump is currently in: He was playing the same game as everyone, he just made too much noise, and the AG finally had to shut him down. If they do this, the SEC will be paying attention.
and this is the grain of truth behind his “political witch hunt” claims: Had he stayed out of politics, he would probably still be getting away with all this sort of nonsense. But he took the escalator down into the Pit of Hell and this is what happens when you bask in millions/billions of dollars worth of free publicity.
re: #12 DodgerFan1988
Do the Royals eat kippers for breakfast?
Odd, as if kippers are carcinogenic…
re: #41 darthstar
I didn’t know what a dime bag was until college…where I grew up it was $6 a gram or $15 an 1/8th in high school. Reagan years saw a lot of inflation - $20, $25, $30, $40 an eighth…hard times on a student budget…and now I can go to a dispensary and get it for $45 an eighth…and it hasn’t been pinched.
Mexican weed used to go for $20 an ounce when I was in High School, so a dime bag was a decent amount for a weekend of partying.
re: #47 Charles
One of the weird factors people rarely discuss about great musicians is that a lot of the greatest ones did their greatest work high on heroin. An uncomfortable fact that is nonetheless true.
re: #138 Dr Lizardo
Realistically, that should come back to bite him in the ass in the hardest way possible. However, this is Russia we’re talking about, so I imagine that’s gonna disappear down the memory hole sometime early this afternoon.
Yes and no. There are people who actually believe, and forget what they’re supposed to forget. Then there are a lot of people, especially insiders, who know that the official line is partially or mostly bullshit, but it’s all part of rooting for the home team like a good citizen.
Even if you’re a superfan, though, if the team results are fuckup after fuckup, well, they’ll still fans but maybe a few lineup changes are in order…
Russia can no longer pretend that it is involved a Special Military Operation of limited scope.
Russia is at war with itself and with its former Soviet-era satellite states.
Tiny little cell just passed over our house…felt like a flood of water coming down…that’s nice…I won’t have to worry about the garden while I’m gone.
re: #148 darthstar
Tiny little cell just passed over our house…felt like a flood of water coming down…that’s nice…I won’t have to worry about the garden while I’m gone.
We just had a passing shower of fine hailstones. But Easter Weekend should see temps in upper 60°s, just in time to fire up the BBQ grill.
re: #147 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Russia can no longer pretend that it is involved a Special Military Operation of limited scope.
Russia is at war with itself and with its former Soviet-era satellite states.
Two days ago they officially declared it a war.
It’s about fuckin’ time this happened…
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re: #150 darthstar
Two days ago they officially declared it a war.
I saw that, the folks at the Putinversteher site were really revelling in it. And blaming the escalation on the West and Zionist Fascist Capitalist puppets everywhere…
So no more pussyfootin’ around like the USA did in Vietnam: time to roll up those sleeves, bust out the napalm and Agent Orange and start levelling whole cities and depopulting entire landscapes!!!
Who here believes any ISIS that just kill over 100 Russian citizens would ever allow themselves to be arrested. In Russia.
I’m not saying ISIS didn’t do it. I’m saying they pulled whoever they think could pass for foreigners” off the street to pin this on. “Look. We’re doing stuff!”.
re: #121 piratedan
yeah, the Dems caused Santos to lie about who he is and his finances… all an Democratic op…
Yeah, all of the votes that McCarthy conjured with his exceptional bipartisanship and the Dems betrayed him by forcing Gaetz to submit his no confidence motion and now Johnson, when faced with the realities of prior promises and the needs of the nation are nothing more than Democratic craven politics unlike those true nations of governing purity on the the GOP side, who’ve impeached Mayorkis for what exactly? Also I’m sure that there was no partisanship involved for the Biden investigation.
yeah Charlie, you’ve got this sussed out, well spotted!
Even Charlie thinks the GOP is the Party of No Agency.
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I’ve been reading about Project 2025. This thread on Bluesky explains it well I think:
Some quotes:
Too strong a focus on Trump’s erratic nature and the rivalries within the Right also obscures the fact that reactionaries are actually united by their desire to punish enemies, “take back” the country, and restore the “natural order” of unquestioned white Christian patriarchal rule
The Right was not ready in 2017. They didn’t have any plans or strategies, Trump world didn’t have a clue how government worked, the extremists didn’t have the personnel to bend the state to their will and harness its powers. This will not hinder them the next time.
Other countries have gone from democracy to right wing authoritarianism. It isn’t pleasant or easy to come back from.
re: #158 Charmingly Persistent
I’ve been reading about Project 2025. This thread on Bluesky explains it well I think:
Some quotes:
Other countries have gone from democracy to right wing authoritarianism. It isn’t pleasant or easy to come back from.
Once a coup or assassination to shift to authoritarianism is carried out it sits there as a precedent from then on. Plus whatever traditions for peaceful transfer of power, rule of law, etc. have been trashed and pretty much have to be rebuilt from scratch. Which is one reason why foreign policy attempts at nation-building often fail. (In addition to the fact that what is being attempted is not true nation-building but instead the building of complacent economic puppets to be exploited.)
re: #158 Charmingly Persistent
If we hope to recover if they win, it will require a new constitution.
re: #158 Charmingly Persistent
Other countries have gone from democracy to right wing authoritarianism. It isn’t pleasant or easy to come back from.
It will already take decades to work its way through our Judicial branch and legal system.
Republicans, having realized the massive mistake voters made putting them in charge are now determined to retire in as many numbers as possible to rectify the mistake and put Jeffries in charge.
— LadyGrey 🇦🇲🇺🇦🇺🇸 (@TWLadyGrey) March 22, 2024
I wish the average person could understand that Republicans are such a disaster at being in charge of anything that their House Members are resigning in mass because they hate each other so much.
They are begging people not to put them in charge of things anymore. https://t.co/UJzYTNDCVk— That Well-Adjusted Biden Guy (@What46HasDone) March 22, 2024
And who, pray tell, taught the Freedom Caucus that they could burn down the House to get whatever they want? Whomst, Newton Leroy? https://t.co/ihMVYxyS6n
— Eric Michael Garcia (@EricMGarcia) March 23, 2024
Incorrect assemblage at the factory, always read the instructions
— Momodog (@Dougalpop1) March 22, 2024
This made my day. Lol pic.twitter.com/mdGS8Ni0cK
— Juice (@DjWalt_) March 22, 2024
re: #114 Dr Lizardo
So, with Islamic State - Khorasan claiming responsibility for yesterday’s attack near Moscow, it seems to me that Russia’s security services dropped the ball in horrific fashion.
They’re so hyper-fixated on Ukraine, and I’d imagine on the hunt for “Ukrainian saboteurs”, that they missed a threat coming at them from an unanticipated direction - and despite the fact that their American intel counterparts warned them that their (relatively specific) SIGINT revealed that some kind of atrocity was being planned for concerts in and around the Moscow area. Recall that we warned them of this a couple of weeks back, and indeed, issued a public notice for Americans travelling in Russia to be wary of this - something Putin himself contemptuously dismissed.
Real reality will smack you upside the head while you’re busy focusing on your i-have-to-be-right-because-i-am-righteous self manufactured reality
A newly discovered vulnerability baked into Apple’s M-series of chips allows attackers to extract secret keys from Macs when they perform widely used cryptographic operations, academic researchers have revealed in a paper published Thursday.The flaw—a side channel allowing end-to-end key extractions when Apple chips run implementations of widely used cryptographic protocols—can’t be patched directly because it stems from the microarchitectural design of the silicon itself. Instead, it can only be mitigated by building defenses into third-party cryptographic software that could drastically degrade M-series performance when executing cryptographic operations, particularly on the earlier M1 and M2 generations. The vulnerability can be exploited when the targeted cryptographic operation and the malicious application with normal user system privileges run on the same CPU cluster
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re: #166 Nerdy Fish
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re: #166 Nerdy Fish
There’s no freaking way this happened.
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re: #174 sizzzzlerz
How in the heck???
Reading the Reddit thread, it more than likely indicates a cat with XXY chromosomes.
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re: #178 sizzzzlerz
Someone referenced tortoiseshell cats, and when I looked the term up, I found this cat:
re: #182 Belafon
Someone referenced tortoiseshell cats, and when I looked the term up, I found this cat:
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re: #117 Joe Bacon ✅
I got another warning when I posted that and they took it off.
So their algorithm objected when you referred to their removal of an old post???? Seems like Big Brother there — trying to silence someone when they mention FB effort to silence them??
Praise Cthulhu because this is the LAST CENSORED TIME I have to deal with the Republican Shutdown ssshhhaaavvviiinnnggg cream!
Until I retire on 6/30/24 I don’t have to worry about being forced to work and not get paid!
re: #184 Hecuba’s daughter
So their algorithm objected when you referred to their removal of an old post???? Seems like Big Brother there — trying to silence someone when they mention FB effort to silence them??
Yes and I was warned that a third strike would ban me from Marky Mark Land.
I know we don’t normally talk about disgraced, felonious family vloggers here, but the evidence in the Ruby Franke / Jody Hildebrandt child abuse came out a month after their sentencing and it was so much worse than I expected.
Franke and her husband, Kevin, ran a YouTube channel called “8 Passengers.” They lived in Utah County (Provo) where Kevin taught at Brigham Young University. The content was generally very tame family vlogger stuff, but with an element of meanness. Prior to August 2023, Ruby had been known for punishing her oldest son by making him sleep on a bean bag chair for seven months after pranking his younger brother “we’re going to Disneyland!”. Oh, and refusing to bring a lunch to school for her then first-grade daughter, who forgot to make one for herself.
But over time, the 8 Passengers channel started fading out and the action began moving over towards the “Moms of Truth” YouTube channel featuring Jody Hildebrandt, a family friend and licensed psychologist in Utah. The two started a business, Connexions, where Jody was doing counseling and Ruby was helping out or something. Too long to go into here, but basically, Jody was running a cult and Ruby was one of her subordinates. Their cult was based on “deception” and “truth” and the children were accused of being in deception and were basically possessed by Satan, thus necessitating torturous punishment.
On August 30, 2023, the Frankes’ youngest son, R, aged 12, escaped Hildebrandt’s home in Ivins, Utah (way southern, by St. George) and ran to a neighbor for help. At the time, there were no pictures, so all we had to go on was a 911 call of the elderly male neighbor breaking down upon describing that the boy was skin and bones and had duct tape around his wrists and ankles.
It was so much worse than that. It came out that Jody and Ruby were torturing him and his younger sister (aged 10). R had open wounds under the duct tape, and the wounds came from being bound with rope, and he was emaciated. Oh, and when Jody dressed R’s wounds, she was covering them in honey and cayenne pepper. When the police raided Hildebrandt’s house, they found the sister, E, in a bathroom closet. She was first mistaken for a boy because her hair had been buzzed off. The girl was brought food, but hesitated for a couple of minutes before eating, and then it took officers nearly four hours to talk her out of the closet.
It also came out that Kevin Franke had not seen his children since July 2022. He’d had to move out of the house in Utah county, and “work on himself,” basically to make himself compliant to the cult leader, Jody. He bears some blame for what happened here, because he went along with Ruby’s hard-ass parenting style even before she got involved with Jody Hildebrandt. But he had no idea what kind of torture the younger children were experiencing. I believe he’s still trying to get custody of the four minor-aged children, but does not now have legal custody.
I listened to an interview he had with the cops and it was *bizarre* to say the least. There was a point (2021?) where Jody Hildebrandt had moved into his Utah County house and “strange things” (you know, kind of like poltergeist things) started happening as a result. Kevin was there to give priesthood blessings to Hildebrandt, who was demonically oppressed (? nobody stated it publicly). Then he got kicked out of the house, and not allowed to see his children, then Ruby wanted to know if he’d just sign paperwork for her to buy some property (which turned out to be a wish to buy an isolated “ranch” here in Arizona).
There’s also a part about $85,000 in a bag which has since disappeared, which apparently was for the “ranch.” (Based on my job, they might have thought they were being sneaky about it, but if they were withdrawing that much money in cash, it wouldn’t surprise me to learn that the transaction had been flagged in the banking system.) It appears from Ruby’s journal that Jody was in AZ looking for property, and that they were going to move here. Given the condition of the boy, R, I’m not sure he would have made it, because the wounds around his wrists and ankles were festering and stinking.
Ruby Franke and Jody Hildebrandt pled guilty to four felony charges each of child abuse a month ago. They were sentenced to one to 15 years on those counts, to be served consecutively. So, theoretically, the Utah parole board could let them out after four years (not including time served). The first parole hearing is coming up soon; the oldest sister did not give testimony at the sentencing, saying she was waiting to talk to the parole board. And then the evidence came out yesterday.
TV news story with pictures (discretion SERIOUSLY advised)
fox13now.com
Religious background of the case:
‘I will not feed a demon’: YouTuber Ruby Franke’s child abuse case rooted in religious extremism
If you want to do a deep dive, the r/8passengerssnark Reddit has much of the data, including Ruby’s journals (at least the pages that weren’t redacted). Again, this is a horrible case, so much worse than I thought in the beginning, and no, four years is NOT enough time for these women.
re: #187 mmmirele
Sick, sick people. They should be locked up for life and throw the key away.
And I thought my oldest sister and her asshole Jesusbot husband were obsessed with their beating their kids for the slightest offense because Jesus told them to follow Dobson and Those Perverts the Pearls…
re: #140 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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re: #187 mmmirele
I’ve been following this case because it’s a disturbing intersection of several conservative trends:
1. the assertion that children being noncompliant is both a psychological and spiritual sickness. This doubles down on stuff like the Pearls’ vision of corporal punishment, but incorporates a supernatural component that really emphasizes that the child should not be perceived as a person just a receptacle of ideology.
2. The creation of a para-therapeutic industry that caters to conservative beliefs that focus on using professional authority to coerce people into their expected social position…usually a subordinate one with obvious drawbacks. Hildebrant’s not a lone nut but part of a whole industry that promises compliant children that’s using methodologies that are basically rendition.
(1) is notable because it tracks with the general “no, really, your body is not your own” trend that defines conservatism in general, but also point to how their internal understanding of belonging involves brutalization: this is how they treat their own, because the in-group is not a fixed set but a constantly-moving goalpost of either suffering to show compliance or inflicting suffering to show solidarity.
(2) is just the right-wing vision of everything—ideas and methodologies cannot ever be pried away from compliance, knowledge and truth exist only relative to pre-declared outcomes. People that otherwise despise psychology…when it creates options or permits vulnerability…are perfectly happy with psychological manipulations that they believe will create their preferred ends. Every idea a conservative screeches is invalid they will immediately scrape back when they find a way to make the methodology a means of delivering their rhetoric.
Together we get a picture of what something I feel gets neglected in discourse: conservatism simply accepts spillage of human beings in ways that don’t fit into conventionally-taboo bigotries and chauvinism. They absolutely will destroy some of their kids to get the kind of compliant perfect-copies that they want. Any future these people plan, even their most utopian vision of paleoconservative perfection where there’s no outsiders and everyone knows their place, incorporates a Moloch.
re: #191 The Ghost of a Flea
Together we get a picture of what something I feel gets neglected in discourse: conservatism simply accepts spillage of human beings in ways that don’t fit into conventionally-taboo bigotries and chauvinism. They absolutely will destroy some of their kids to get the kind of compliant perfect-copies that they want. Any future these people plan, even their most utopian vision of paleoconservative perfection where there’s no outsiders and everyone knows their place, incorporates a Moloch.
Because individual humans are subjugated to an ideology, a Higher Truth that is seen as more important to any individual’s needs or interests.
Just read Adolf Hitler’s last Will and Testament: the German people in his view deserved to be exterminated because they had proved themselves unable to implement his Master Race ideology.
re: #191 The Ghost of a Flea
Ghost you can use as evidence what my oldest sister and her asshole husband did to their kids.
The youngest one drank herself to death at the age of 42 😪
The others are all dysfunctional but their parents succeeded in making them hard core right wing MAGATS who worship the ground Trump walks on. 🤬
re: #194 Joe Bacon ✅
My ex-wife was raised under the British Ideology of building strong character to maintain and expand the Empire: complete obedience and subservience to authority and to one’s “betters”, the ability to endure hardship and discomfort even when it is not absolutely necesssary and, of course, adherence to an Edwardian-era set of social mores and norms. A morality based on guilt, fear, shame, self-deprecation and self-loathing.
re: #194 Joe Bacon ✅
Ghost you can use as evidence what my oldest sister and her asshole husband did to their kids.
The youngest one drank herself to death at the age of 42 😪
The others are all dysfunctional but their parents succeeded in making them hard core right wing MAGATS who worship the ground Trump walks on. 🤬
So it worked, then?
re: #195 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Fella since I never had visitation rights with my son and his mother used every trick in the book to keep me away from him I don’t know if she did the Dobson and Pearls shit with him. But I do know she had him in “christian” academies until he graduated because she stuck me with those tuition bills. When he graduated he went straight into the Marine Corps to kill for Jesus.
Unfortunately he wound up being killed so THE DICK could turn the oil spigot off in Iraq to raise the price of a barrel of crude. Oh and she boasted that our son died for Jesus…
On the almost appropriations bills:
Tuberville and Bernie voted against.
Fetterman and Joni Ernst voted for.
re: #201 GlutenFreeJesus
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Away we go.
That’s almost a worse admission. It’s one thing to be blindsided by one of a dozen small nutgroups. Saying you failed to prevent an attack by an active belligerent reveals incompetence.
re: #186 Joe Bacon ✅
Yes and I was warned that a third strike would ban me from Marky Mark Land.
This is what happens when you don’t have any humans involved because they cost money. Welcome to the world of AI! It never ends well for humanity.
re: #203 Decatur Deb
That’s almost a worse admission. It’s one thing to be blindsided by one of a dozen small nutgroups. Saying you failed to prevent an attack by an active belligerent reveals incompetence.
And being caught in a blatant lie compounds it. If memory serves me right, Ukrainian forces (at least the regular ones) have by and large tried to avoid causing collateral casualties in the Russo-Ukrainian conflict, no?
The Crocus City Hall attackers were explicitly targeting protected people in a protected place as per international law.
re: #204 Hecuba’s daughter
This is what happens when you don’t have any humans involved because they cost money. Welcome to the world of AI! It never ends well for humanity.
That’s why I’ve cut way back on Facebook. I have no doubt one of my Jesusbot relatives sent the alert about one of the numerous anti-Trump posts from 9 years ago.
re: #205 Teukka
Ukraine is led by Zionist Nazi Soros/NATO Capitalist puppets remember?
re: #207 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Ukraine is led by Zionist Nazi Soros/NATO Capitalist puppets remember?
You’d think those two things in conjunction would be enough to make them think about what they’re saying, but no.
re: #208 Nerdy Fish
You’d think those two things in conjunction would be enough to make them think about what they’re saying, but no.
There is no logic involved.
re: #187 mmmirele
I know we don’t normally talk about disgraced, felonious family vloggers here…[…]
The Trumps almost qualify. Just stretching it on the ‘vloggers’.
re: #209 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There is no logic involved.
Indeed, the anathema to logic is involved…
re: #206 Joe Bacon ✅
That’s why I’ve cut way back on Facebook. I have no doubt one of my Jesusbot relatives sent the alert about one of the numerous anti-Trump posts from 9 years ago.
Probably —- but I also know that a few years ago FB censored a totally benign post of mine linking to a math type wordle (not sure if it was mathler or nerdle) for reasons unknown to me. So it could just be that FB unleashed some new algorithm or AI that searched previous years and then, based on faulty coding, started attacking old posts.
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— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) March 23, 2024
Clueless that the house elected this November certifies the election
Your first six points are completely false and your next four are part of the Trump agenda.
— Ed Mix (@EdMix13) March 22, 2024
re: #208 Nerdy Fish
You’d think those two things in conjunction would be enough to make them think about what they’re saying, but no.
Russia defines Nazis as being anti-Russia. They don’t care about the anti-Jewishness (and, in fact, kind approved of it).
re: #213 Dangerman
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Clueless that the house elected this November certifies the election
Oh so now it’s not just the evil “demonrats” , it’s a “multi-party cabal.”
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MTG and her ilk would never think for a moment that this is happening is because her guy is so fucking toxic that more and more people (including conservatives) want ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with him.
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