Cory Wong Brings the Funk to the DHL Supply Chain Warehouse: “Delivered”

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I never realized how funky a supply chain warehouse could be.

DHL Supply Chain asked me to write a song that demonstrates the idea of ‘supply chain’ and to exemplify different sections/teams working together to make one thing. Then we went in to the warehouse for a day to entertain and hang. Needless to say, it was a little tough to tame the sound of the room; but these de-verb plugins are insane nowadays.

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Guitar - Cory Wong
Bass - Yohannes Tona
Keys - Kevin Gastongauy
Drums - Petar Janjic

Tenor Sax - Sam Greenfield
Bari Sax - Dan White
Trumpet - Jay Webb
Trombone - Michael Nelson

Violin 1 - Devin Copfer, Liz Fisher
Violin 2 - Anita Chiu
Viola - Julian Tugaoen
Cello - Sam Johnson, Mary Davis

Engineered by - Miles Hanson
Mixed and Produced by - Cory Wong

VIDEO
Directors - Michael Bowden, Aaron VanMaanen
Editor - Michael Bowden
Camera - Michael Bowden, Adam Davis, Carter Brice
Colorist - Neal Johnson

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278 comments
1
teleskiguy  Apr 3, 2024 • 5:34:14pm

Elmo’s giving back blue checks on Xitter. So thirsty…

2
Vicious Babushka  Apr 3, 2024 • 5:34:28pm

The Pro-Hamas QAnon was outnumbered at their anti-ZAKA rally in Teaneck.

Mastodon

3
Vicious Babushka  Apr 3, 2024 • 5:38:53pm

People are just weird. Behind a tag because gross “food”

Click to Reveal

Mastodon

4
teleskiguy  Apr 3, 2024 • 5:43:40pm

@drandrewthaler.bsky.social

It’s 1925, politicians want to ban teaching evolution in public schools.
It’s 1967, politicians want to ban teaching evolution in public schools.
It’s 2005, politicians want to ban teaching evolution in public schools.
It’s 2024, politicians want to ban teaching evolution in public schools.

bsky.app

5
Charles  Apr 3, 2024 • 5:44:49pm

re: #4 teleskiguy

Goes back earlier than that, tbh.

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(((Archangel1)))  Apr 3, 2024 • 5:50:24pm

re: #3 Vicious Babushka

People are just weird. Behind a tag because gross “food”

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Maybe it’s just me but it doesn’t seem to be showing anything…

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Charles  Apr 3, 2024 • 5:52:07pm

When I was young and naïve I thought creationism was a discredited anti-rational relic of the past. Boy, was I ever wrong.

It’s back again.

9
Belafon  Apr 3, 2024 • 5:52:24pm

re: #6 teleskiguy

New Law Allowing Religion into Science Classrooms Is Dangerous for Everyone | Scientific American

For today’s science experiment, we are going to test if God is real. Here I have set up a pyre. Pray to God and see if it lights.

10
darthstar  Apr 3, 2024 • 5:54:40pm

re: #28 jaunte

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com
*
16m
Now *this* one seems like a violation of the gag order

[Embedded content]

Come on! That doesn’t count…he wasn’t ready yet.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 3, 2024 • 5:54:46pm

re: #8 Charles

When I was young and naïve I thought creationism was a discredited anti-rational relic of the past. Boy, was I ever wrong.

It’s back again.

As long as there’s believers there will be a demand by them for creationism to be the only true word and science allowed.

12
Dangerman  Apr 3, 2024 • 5:56:33pm

re: #8 Charles

When I was young and naïve I thought creationism was a discredited anti-rational relic of the past. Boy, was I ever wrong.

It’s back again.

It never left

13
Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 3, 2024 • 6:05:16pm

Trump secretly held talks with Saudi crown prince

Inquiring minds really want to know what they talked about…

rawstory.com

14
steve_davis  Apr 3, 2024 • 6:07:32pm

re: #12 Dangerman

It never left

which presumably means it’s always right!

(actually that does remind me of a great car trip that I took to a party with a German girl riding along beside me who needed me for directions. “Do I take a left here?” she asked. “Right.” (She starts to take the right.) “No, wait. I forgot who I was talking to! I meant ‘correct’”!

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Dave In Austin  Apr 3, 2024 • 6:07:54pm

re: #8 Charles

When I was young and naïve I thought creationism was a discredited anti-rational relic of the past. Boy, was I ever wrong.

It’s back again.

I’m convinced religion came about with human reasoning because the lightning scared the shit out of them. Hence the secret placement of Faraday Cages in every automobile today…..

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🥸

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DodgerFan1988  Apr 3, 2024 • 6:15:19pm


Where’s the “violent crime?”

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BadgerB  Apr 3, 2024 • 6:17:27pm

re: #14 steve_davis
(actually that does remind me of a great car trip that I took to a party with a German girl riding along beside me who needed me for directions. “Do I take a left here?” she asked. “Right.” (She starts to take the right.) “No, wait. I forgot who I was talking to! I meant ‘correct’”!

Growing up my family always used “Check” for this.

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darthstar  Apr 3, 2024 • 6:19:54pm

re: #16 DodgerFan1988

[Embedded content]

Where’s the “violent crime?”

Well, they should just stay in whatever hole they live in if they can’t handle people selling fruit on the street.

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darthstar  Apr 3, 2024 • 6:30:32pm

Rrrrrrowwwlll…

Mastodon

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darthstar  Apr 3, 2024 • 6:33:15pm

Mastodon

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darthstar  Apr 3, 2024 • 6:39:08pm

Prince Bone Saw is Trump’s new campaign manager.

Mastodon

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wrenchwench  Apr 3, 2024 • 6:39:12pm

Mastodon

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Dave In Austin  Apr 3, 2024 • 6:48:04pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 3, 2024 • 6:52:14pm

re: #23 Dave In Austin

I love the smell of desperation in the morning.

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Belafon  Apr 3, 2024 • 6:53:41pm

re: #23 Dave In Austin

I dont think that’s her account. Notice that the one in black is missing the period.

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Broad With Sass  Apr 3, 2024 • 6:54:03pm

re: #22 wrenchwench

lol..I know the context

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Apr 3, 2024 • 6:54:31pm

Logical progression:

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A Three Hour Tour  Apr 3, 2024 • 6:54:35pm

re: #22 wrenchwench

Short Treks: “The Trouble With Edward”

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wrenchwench  Apr 3, 2024 • 7:02:33pm

re: #26 Broad With Sass

re: #28 A Three Hour Tour

I haven’t seen it. I watch whatever Pluto puts on, except the original series, usually. Right now they’re showing Voyager, Next Generation, and Deep Space Nine.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 3, 2024 • 7:04:45pm

re: #25 Belafon

I dont think that’s her account. Notice that the one in black is missing the period.

Same handle. And that determines who owns the account.

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silverdolphin  Apr 3, 2024 • 7:08:22pm

Grocery inflation is at 1%. Why don’t more people know it?

People are so stupid wrt math.

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JC1  Apr 3, 2024 • 7:12:14pm

re: #31 silverdolphin

Grocery inflation is at 1%. Why don’t more people know it?

People are so stupid wrt math.

Also, unless we have serious (and damaging) food cost deflation, it’ll take a while for people to get used to the current prices being normal.

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silverdolphin  Apr 3, 2024 • 7:15:05pm

From the Economist, looking at the net approval for the last 2 Presidents compared to Biden:

Net Biden Approval

Not too bad. Polls may be off but trends are likely closer to reality.

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Cheechako  Apr 3, 2024 • 7:15:26pm

When you have lots of free time…

New York inmates are suing to be allowed to see the solar eclipse

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Apr 3, 2024 • 7:32:19pm

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Rightwingconspirator  Apr 3, 2024 • 7:40:35pm

re: #33 silverdolphin

Imagine how popular that might show if not for the drag from Bibi trying to starve out Gaza.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Apr 3, 2024 • 7:41:52pm

Pony Boy is home.

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silverdolphin  Apr 3, 2024 • 7:43:34pm

re: #36 Rightwingconspirator

Imagine how popular that might show if not for the drag from Bibi trying to starve out Gaza.

Watching the reactions of some of Bibi’s Ministers shows me they are very worried about Biden and America here. I do not think BIden has forgotten Bibi’s insult to Preisident Obama. Keep an eye on the opposition.

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Rightwingconspirator  Apr 3, 2024 • 7:55:18pm

re: #38 silverdolphin

Btw, the nascent F-15 deal? The delivery date is years away.

Even if the deal were to be signed off fully this week, the aircraft wouldn’t start to be delivered until 2029, one official said. Another U.S. official told CNN that there are “no plans to expedite delivery of the jets to Israel.”

twz.com

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darthstar  Apr 3, 2024 • 7:57:31pm

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coin operated  Apr 3, 2024 • 8:03:21pm

re: #6 teleskiguy

re: #8 Charles

I followed the Dover trial with some interest back in the day. I thought that after that ruling, that creationism and intelligent design were religious principals that had no purpose in secular classrooms, they’d come up with a new playbook. Nope…they’re just going to keep trying to brute force this shit into our education system by any means possible.

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danarchy  Apr 3, 2024 • 8:08:18pm

re: #31 silverdolphin

Grocery inflation is at 1%. Why don’t more people know it?

People are so stupid wrt math.

Because of the 20% inflation in the previous couple years. Until wage growth catches up people are gonna be pissed. I mean I am pretty well off finanacially and I wince everytime I get to the checkout at the grocery store, I can’t imagine how much it must suck for someone living closer to the edge. Pointing at math and statistics isn’t going to convince anybody of anything if their personal budget is a disaster.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 3, 2024 • 8:08:19pm

Not a single match on my single play…

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William Lewis  Apr 3, 2024 • 8:12:45pm

re: #40 darthstar

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Someone should send that to Rick Beato for one of his videos … 🤣

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Apr 3, 2024 • 8:15:32pm

re: #40 darthstar

What bro country sounds like to people who don’t like bro country

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silverdolphin  Apr 3, 2024 • 8:19:09pm

re: #42 danarchy

Because of the 20% inflation in the previous couple years. Until wage growth catches up people are gonna be pissed. I mean I am pretty well off finanacially and I wince everytime I get to the checkout at the grocery store, I can’t imagine how much it must suck for someone living closer to the edge. Pointing at math and statistics isn’t going to convince anybody of anything if their personal budget is a disaster.

Well, wages grew faster than inflation, 23% to 20%. Someone needs to have seen their wages grow faster than inflation but you never hear from them.

The people I’ve talked with seem to think that unless the cost of groceries drops, then inflation is still bad. That is not how math or ecoomics works. No inflation means the price does not go up. For it to go down, we need deflation.

Yet they blame Biden for the prices not coming down.

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Skip Intro  Apr 3, 2024 • 8:25:50pm

This is a followup to a post I made a few threads ago regarding the failure of the company posting Trump’s bond to provide a financial statement. Most people assumed the financial statement needed to be Trump’s. I said that was wrong and gave my reasoning.

Finally, the media has caught on to that. This is from Lisa Rubin.

“Today, I learned that the court filing reflecting Trump’s bond in the civil fraud case was “returned for correction” and specifically, for the inclusion of a current financial statement and power of attorney. But all is not what it seems. 1/

The financial statement that is missing does not seem to be Trump’s. Rather, the court appears to be demanding these documents from Knight Specialty Insurance Co. to ensure that company is sufficiently capitalized and authorized to post the bond. 2/

As of tonight, those documents do not appear on the docket. 3/

Meanwhile, we still don’t know what fee Trump paid for the bond or exactly what collateral he pledged, especially as Don Hanley gave slightly different accounts to various media outlets. 4/

But you know who likely DOES have all of those details? Retired federal judge Barbara Jones, the court-appointed monitor in the case. Under a 3/21/24 order, the Trump Org must give her advanced notice of their efforts to secure surety bonds. 5/

The information she is entitled to includes “any financial disclosures requested or required, any information provided in response to such requests, any representations made by the Trump Org. in connection with acquiring such bonds…” 6/

“…any personal guarantees made by any of the defendants, & any obligations of the Trump Organization required by the surety.” 7/

And I can think of a courtroom full of journalists, as well as a bunch of lawyers in the New York Attorney General’s office, who would love to know what Barbara Jones presumably knows right now. FIN”

The other issue here is, since no bond has been accepted by the court at this time, there is also nothing preventing the AG from taking steps to collect the judgment.

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ckkatz  Apr 3, 2024 • 8:25:59pm

I think that we are at the “6 months of GOP obstruction” mark about now.

Dennis Xitter post

Bloomberg Article from the post: US House’s Ukraine War Aid Vote Is Likely Weeks or More Away

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Belafon  Apr 3, 2024 • 8:26:56pm

re: #43 Joe Bacon ✅

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Not a single match on my single play…

Ditto

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ckkatz  Apr 3, 2024 • 8:39:01pm

re: #49 Belafon

I didn’t invest in the recent draw due to other distractions. But that has pretty much has been my experience as well.

Whatever talents I might have, purchasing winning lotto/powerball/megamillion tickets is most certainly _not_ among them.

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silverdolphin  Apr 3, 2024 • 8:42:53pm

re: #40 darthstar

[Embedded content]

I was thinking the one for a progressive song would be:

0-1:30: Meltotron and Theremin Intro, in common and 6/8 time
1:30-3: Acoustic Guitar and Mandolin in 5/8 time
3-7: lyrics about sun, moon, pain, Giant Hogweed, roundabouts, and flying whales that make no logical sense but are in 9/12 time
7-9: Keyboard solo using at least 3 different types of keyboards operated by different hands, with sound ping-pongs amongst speakers, in 7/18, 12/13 and 17/24 time
9-11: Classic orchestra, heavy in strings counterpoint with the melodious sound of breaking glass, in common and 5/4 time
11-14: lyrics about money, machines, celestial bodies, lost love and Equestrian Statues, in 3/4 time
14-19: outro involving one member of the band playing, in order, a grand piano; reed and pipe organ; glockenspiel; bass guitar; double speed guitar; two slightly distorted guitars; mandolin! Spanish guitar, and introducing acoustic guitar, plus… triangle

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ckkatz  Apr 3, 2024 • 8:47:02pm

re: #23 Dave In Austin

Apparently there’s a severe outbreak:

Nichols Xitter post

Wellman Xitter post

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ckkatz  Apr 3, 2024 • 9:00:20pm

“Jim, the Thread is dead!”
“Bones, you get the tricorder, and I’ll get the wallet.”

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 3, 2024 • 9:29:51pm

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The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 3, 2024 • 9:35:12pm

re: #54 goddamnedfrank

The Great and Powerful Black Box.

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CleverToad  Apr 3, 2024 • 9:43:22pm

re: #31 silverdolphin

Grocery inflation is at 1%. Why don’t more people know it?

People are so stupid wrt math.

re: #32 JC1

Also, unless we have serious (and damaging) food cost deflation, it’ll take a while for people to get used to the current prices being normal.

re: #42 danarchy

Because of the 20% inflation in the previous couple years. Until wage growth catches up people are gonna be pissed. I mean I am pretty well off finanacially and I wince everytime I get to the checkout at the grocery store, I can’t imagine how much it must suck for someone living closer to the edge. Pointing at math and statistics isn’t going to convince anybody of anything if their personal budget is a disaster.

What danarchy said.
I may be stupid about math and I don’t know what counts as damaging deflation, but I can do arithmetic. And I can definitely tell my fixed-income grocery budget has taken a major hit. The new ‘normal’ prices have soared way past my Social Security COLA — if they’re not coming down, that’s inflation that bites me every day.

I blame the big corporations rather than Biden, but I sure sympathize with the worried consumers out there.

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IngisKahn  Apr 3, 2024 • 9:46:36pm

re: #52 ckkatz

Apparently there’s a severe outbreak:

[Embedded content]

Wellman Xitter post

Or, ya know, get the fuck off twitter.

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Egregious Philbin  Apr 3, 2024 • 9:49:16pm

So, UConn booked a charter on the horrifically bad Eastern Airlines, (not the one you remember, this is a really shitty charter with the same name). But, Eastern’s crew was timed out because they flew too much and were 6 hours late, so they had to book, last minute on the equally horrific Allegiant Airlines. Eastern does military charters, on Monday, they flew the plane, and crew from Poznan, Poland to Shannon, Ireland, then to Fort Bliss, then on Tuesday to Kansas City, then to Hartford today, all with the same crew, and violated their time out rule and can’t fly to Phoenix because their 33 year old plane broke down, as it does, often. They are gonna land around 2 am or so. This is why you never ever ever ever fly shitty charter airlines!!!

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The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 3, 2024 • 9:52:00pm

More seriously, AI has no fidelity so its function as an intelligence tool is simply pattern recognition: generate the big spreadsheet of correlated traits.

That’s…alarming…on it’s own because correlation doesn’t necessarily signify anything significant, but it’s especially bad when if the method of achieving those correlations is opaque, which is often the case with large algorithms. It’s collective guilt presented as a spread sheet.

But if this opaqueness is simply added on top of the woo-woo opaqueness of the intelligence processes already in place, what this amounts to is a lethal Mechanical Turk: the machine inputs are controlled by actors with intentions and perspectives, and the correct Garbage In can create the desired “no, take the shot” Garbage Out, with the mediating step of the algorithm less of a proof than a ritual to make the killing impersonal and thus acceptable.

I mean, we’re already doing this…that drone strikes kill civilians is simply accepted practice, and there is a standard language that explains away that death…but AI “intelligence” provides the opportunity to infinitely expand culpability and thus achieve through mystification what the Russian Army simply achieves through shamelessness: if the target was hit they were a viable target.

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Belafon  Apr 3, 2024 • 9:59:06pm

re: #54 goddamnedfrank

Prior to the 2000’s, if he wants to put a mark there, we just said Air Force pilots did it, or army soldiers, not actual people.

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Belafon  Apr 3, 2024 • 10:04:50pm
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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 3, 2024 • 10:06:24pm

Nobody
won
the
Powerball
Jackpot…

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 3, 2024 • 10:10:54pm

re: #56 CleverToad

And I can definitely tell my fixed-income grocery budget has taken a major hit. The new ‘normal’ prices have soared way past my Social Security COLA — if they’re not coming down, that’s inflation that bites me every day.

And therein lay the problem with the concept of “COLA”.

The BLS has a formula that looks at the general expenses of the average American.

But different population groups will have different life choices that don’t meet a particular definition of average.

For someone living on SS as their primary means of income, that person is likely spending most of their monthly income on rent and food, and not on the other things which go into the COLA formula.

Here in the coastal counties of California the primary problem are rents, not food prices. (E.g. I can get Mexican avocados for 50¢.)

Rents here are so damn high because the land is continually bid up and up by those doing land banking.

But a national COLA does not take that into account. There are no locality COLAs.

So in San Diego last year rents go up by 10% even though the COLA was just a bit over 3%.

This is a long term problem that is going to really turn some elections before long.

Our senior population continues to grow, and affordability issues is going to drive them to vote their wallet.

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Belafon  Apr 3, 2024 • 10:15:23pm

re: #54 goddamnedfrank

Let’s at least try English. What appeals to the powers-that-be is that it removes humans from the decision making process. They can argue that the algorithm is unbiased, unlike humans. Except we all know that the algorithm has the biases the training data introduces, but people aren’t going to find those biases easily.

Now, modern ML techniques can actually find out what a network used to make its decision, as in which parts of the input were used and which were ignored.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 3, 2024 • 10:18:02pm

PBS is putting this on YouTube, evidently for those who don’t have access to PBS:

Beyond the Now | Full Episode 1 | A Brief History of the Future | PBS


..

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nines09  Apr 3, 2024 • 10:46:30pm

I’ve heard a lot of Joe Bonamassa, but today I discovered this.

Joe Bonamassa Official - “Black Winter/Django” - British Blues Explosion Live

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 3, 2024 • 10:54:31pm

QAnon believer who crashed SUV into FBI building wrote ‘I love you’ to Trump

Earlier this week, Navy veteran Ervin Lee Bolling rammed his SUV into a barrier outside the FBI headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. The alleged perpetrator of the attack’s motivation have not yet been publicly revealed, but a deep dive into his social media history suggests he was a strong believer in numerous far-right fringe conspiracy theories.

On Wednesday, tech publication Wired reported that, according to research conducted by nonprofit organization Advance Democracy, Bolling was a believer the QAnon conspiracy theory. Adherents of QAnon believe that an anonymous official within former President Donald Trump’s administration named “Q” was routinely sharing updates about the ex-president’s secret battle against a cabal of pedophiles entrenched in the highest levels of government and elite society.

Advance Democracy found a Facebook account believed to be Bolling’s, along with an account on X (formerly Twitter) with the handle @alohatiger11. While the X account is locked, Advance Democracy was able to see multiple posts from the account when running it through the internet archive’s Wayback Machine. The “tiger” is a reference to the Clemson University Tigers, which Bolling publicly supported on his Facebook page. The avatar on the X account is reportedly similar to the profile photo on the Facebook account in question. Similar handles were also found on Telegram and Cash App.

Researchers found that those social media accounts repeatedly amplified QAnon-related content, with one posting the phrase “release the Kraken.” The “Kraken” phrase is famously attributed to former Trump attorney Sidney Powell, who first uttered it in response to supposed evidence that Georgia’s presidential election was rigged (she has yet to produce any evidence backing up her claims).

The Facebook profile that appears to be Bolling’s shared anti-Covid vaccine memes on multiple occasions. And in one Twitter reply under a December 2020 post by Trump (prior to his suspension from the platform after the January 6 attack on the US Capitol) baselessly alleging the presidential election was illegitimate, the account believed to be Bolling’s wrote, “I love you.”

alternet.org

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Captain Ron  Apr 3, 2024 • 11:20:04pm

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IngisKahn  Apr 3, 2024 • 11:27:28pm

re: #59 The Ghost of a Flea

More seriously, AI has no fidelity so its function as an intelligence tool is simply pattern recognition: generate the big spreadsheet of correlated traits.

That’s…alarming…on it’s own because correlation doesn’t necessarily signify anything significant, but it’s especially bad when if the method of achieving those correlations is opaque, which is often the case with large algorithms. It’s collective guilt presented as a spread sheet.

But if this opaqueness is simply added on top of the woo-woo opaqueness of the intelligence processes already in place, what this amounts to is a lethal Mechanical Turk: the machine inputs are controlled by actors with intentions and perspectives, and the correct Garbage In can create the desired “no, take the shot” Garbage Out, with the mediating step of the algorithm less of a proof than a ritual to make the killing impersonal and thus acceptable.

I mean, we’re already doing this…that drone strikes kill civilians is simply accepted practice, and there is a standard language that explains away that death…but AI “intelligence” provides the opportunity to infinitely expand culpability and thus achieve through mystification what the Russian Army simply achieves through shamelessness: if the target was hit they were a viable target.

I just want Roko’s basilisk to like me.

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ericblair  Apr 4, 2024 • 12:34:12am

re: #64 Belafon

Let’s at least try English. What appeals to the powers-that-be is that it removes humans from the decision making process. They can argue that the algorithm is unbiased, unlike humans. Except we all know that the algorithm has the biases the training data introduces, but people aren’t going to find those biases easily.

Now, modern ML techniques can actually find out what a network used to make its decision, as in which parts of the input were used and which were ignored.

There are two different concepts here that get muddled together: AI/machine learning, and autonomy. One is not necessarily the other: one one hand an AI analysis tool may develop conclusions to inform a commander, but has no ability to actually do anything more than that, so no autonomy. On the other had, you can argue that a landmine is autonomous as no individual actor is knowingly triggering its detonation, but is certainly not AI.

As far as I’m aware, the only functionally autonomous systems that the US uses are the close-in weapons systems on Navy ships, to automatically target things that look like missiles coming towards the ship within a certain range, as a human decision would be too slow. In the very near future, the military will need to worry about swarms of loitering munitions that are too numerous for individuals to target individually and things like that. But, as people are saying here, how do you ensure that that’s what is actually happening and you’re not targetting your own assets or civilians.

The question of attribution, who is responsible for what action to what degree, has gotten a lot of attention in the last few years, mostly due to cyberattacks where the actual decision makers may be significantly removed from the attackers themselves. There’s a scale of attribution running from “this was caused by attackers in this country, but the country’s government has been actively hunting them and trying to stop them” to “let it happen on purpose” to “this was caused by attackers directly commanded by the country’s government to do this.”

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No Malarkey!  Apr 4, 2024 • 12:42:19am

re: #6 teleskiguy

New Law Allowing Religion into Science Classrooms Is Dangerous for Everyone | Scientific American

The “cdesign proponentsiests”* rearing their ugly heads again.

*A word which appeared in the draft of an “intelligent design” textbook which was a barely disguised “creation science” textbook.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 4, 2024 • 12:50:39am

re: #8 Charles

When I was young and naïve I thought creationism was a discredited anti-rational relic of the past. Boy, was I ever wrong.

It’s back again.

One of the reasons I stuck around here at first (ca 2007) is that you people did not have the time of day for anyone promoting Creationism in any form.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 4, 2024 • 12:51:14am

re: #13 Joe Bacon ✅

Trump secretly held talks with Saudi crown prince

Inquiring minds really want to know what they talked about…

Creationism vs Evolution?

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No Malarkey!  Apr 4, 2024 • 12:58:34am

re: #41 coin operated

I followed the Dover trial with some interest back in the day. I thought that after that ruling, that creationism and intelligent design were religious principals that had no purpose in secular classrooms, they’d come up with a new playbook. Nope…they’re just going to keep trying to brute force this shit into our education system by any means possible.

They think the current SCOTUS will give “intelligent design” its blessing as a “scientific” theory that can be taught in public school science classrooms, and they are probably right.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 4, 2024 • 1:16:27am

re: #75 No Malarkey!

They think the current SCOTUS will give “intelligent design” its blessing as a “scientific” theory that can be taught in public school science classrooms, and they are probably right.

…in which a minimum of scientific window dressing will be employed to couch the message that “The Christian God Created the Heavens and Earth in Seven Days”

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No Malarkey!  Apr 4, 2024 • 2:17:00am

re: #76 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

…in which a minimum of scientific window dressing will be employed to couch the message that “The Christian God Created the Heavens and Earth in Seven Days”

The important thing to know about the ‘intelligent design” movement is that it is a grift to divert taxpayer dollars away from science instruction in the vast public school educational system into the pockets of people who produce shoddy pseudoscience for the home school market.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 4, 2024 • 2:19:05am

re: #77 No Malarkey!

The important thing to know about the ‘intelligent design” movement is that it is a grift to divert taxpayer dollars away from science instruction in the vast public school educational system into the pockets of people who produce shoddy pseudoscience for the home school market.

Calling Prager U!!!

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No Malarkey!  Apr 4, 2024 • 2:36:51am

Trump’s last hope to get another stay of his Manhattan criminal trial set to begin in eleven days is to try to obtain a stay from SCOTUS while it considers his claim for presidential immunity. Needless to say it would be very unusual for SCOTUS to stay a state court criminal proceeding based on a novel and fairly preposterous legal theory.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 4, 2024 • 2:44:41am

re: #79 No Malarkey!

Trump’s last hope to get another stay of his Manhattan criminal trial set to begin in eleven days is to try to obtain a stay from SCOTUS while it considers his claim for presidential immunity. Needless to say it would be very unusual for SCOTUS to stay a state court criminal proceeding based on a novel and fairly preposterous legal theory.

Which is why there’s a fair-to-middlin chance this SCOTUS will do it.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 4, 2024 • 2:49:54am

Nike doubled the offer of Adidas to become the official supplier of the German Football Association, and Germans are outraged. Adidas is still reeling from the hit it took when Kanye West went full Nazi, leaving it with $1.3 billion in unsold Yeezy product.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 4, 2024 • 2:54:10am

re: #81 No Malarkey!

Nike doubled the offer of Adidas to become the official supplier of the German Football Association, and Germans are outraged. Adidas is still reeling from the hit it took when Kanye West went full Nazi, leaving it with $1.3 billion in unsold Yeezy product.

This is a bigger hit than when Anheuser-Busch outbid Bitburger to be the official beer supplier to the 2006 World Soccer Cup (held in Germany)

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Targetpractice  Apr 4, 2024 • 2:56:47am

re: #80 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Which is why there’s a fair-to-middlin chance this SCOTUS will do it.

At this point, I can’t argue with that anymore. I’m totally willing to believe that they are just that far up his ass that they could justify reaching into NYC and yanking on the brake lever in the name of judicial absolutism. That all lesser courts must stand and be silent as they ruminate like a cow on so much cud about how there is a dire need for their opinion to be heard when Trump demands it but not when it would be expedient to his prosecution.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 4, 2024 • 3:08:31am

The Alabama legislature tried to tamp down the effect of its personhood-at-conception brainfart. It failed, and lawyer-shy IVF providers in the state are still bailing out.

Hospital in south Alabama to end IVF treatment for good

“In order to assist families in Alabama and along the Gulf Coast who have initiated the process of IVF therapy in the hopes of starting a family, Mobile Infirmary has temporarily resumed IVF treatments at the hospital,” said an email statement from Infirmary Health spokeswoman Hannah Peterson. “However, in light of litigation concerns surrounding IVF therapy, Mobile Infirmary will no longer be able to offer this service to families after December 31, 2024.”

al.com

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Targetpractice  Apr 4, 2024 • 3:13:31am

re: #77 No Malarkey!

The important thing to know about the ‘intelligent design” movement is that it is a grift to divert taxpayer dollars away from science instruction in the vast public school educational system into the pockets of people who produce shoddy pseudoscience for the home school market.

That’s the long and short of it, getting “intelligent design’s” foot in the door to open up the lucrative educational materiel market and by doing so forcing other states to at least put their BS in front of students in the name of tight public school budgets limiting their choices for textbooks. Of course, you’d never see religious institutions reciprocate by putting “heathen” scientific texts in front of their rubes. The exchange is meant to be entirely one-way and only to one side’s financial benefit.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 4, 2024 • 3:39:49am

re: #85 Targetpractice

That’s the long and short of it, getting “intelligent design’s” foot in the door to open up the lucrative educational materiel market and by doing so forcing other states to at least put their BS in front of students in the name of tight public school budgets limiting their choices for textbooks. Of course, you’d never see religious institutions reciprocate by putting “heathen” scientific texts in front of their rubes. The exchange is meant to be entirely one-way and only to one side’s financial benefit.

and it will be entirely Christian/-based Inelligent Designe content, certainly nothing relating to Native American, Shamanistic or FSM heathenology.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 4, 2024 • 3:41:12am

re: #86 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

and it will be entirely Christian/-based Inelligent Designe content, certainly nothing relating to Native American, Shamanistic or FSM heathenology.

Well, of course not, because Christianity is right and all of those other religions are wrong./

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 4, 2024 • 3:42:40am

re: #87 Nerdy Fish

Well, of course not, because Christianity is right and all of those other religions are wrong./

Protestant Fundamentalist Christianinty.

Especially since the Pope has stated that he sees no inherent conflict between Creation and Evolution.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 4, 2024 • 3:43:43am

re: #88 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Protestant Fundamentalist Christianinty.

Especially since the Pope has stated that he sees no inherent conflict between Creation and Evolution.

White American Jesus fundamentalist Christianity. I’m not ready yet to surrender all of Protestantism to the fuckwads.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Apr 4, 2024 • 3:44:50am

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Decatur Deb  Apr 4, 2024 • 3:46:51am

re: #89 Nerdy Fish

White American Jesus fundamentalist Christianity. I’m not ready yet to surrender all of Protestantism to the fuckwads.

Twilight of the WASPs.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 4, 2024 • 3:48:02am

re: #89 Nerdy Fish

White American Jesus fundamentalist Christianity. I’m not ready yet to surrender all of Protestantism to the fuckwads.

There are plenty of reasonable and rational Protestants, one example being the former Anglican Bishop Shelby Spong, whose Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism: A Bishop Rethinks the Meaning of Scripture rejects the fundamentalist literalist approach that has tuned American Fundie Christianity into such a self-serving shit show.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 4, 2024 • 3:48:08am

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 4, 2024 • 4:08:23am

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 4, 2024 • 4:10:52am

re: #94 Patricia Kayden

“A well regulated militia” being an incomprehensible concept to us, we simply focus on the unrestricted right to bear as many arms as we can afford!!

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Teukka  Apr 4, 2024 • 4:14:21am

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Randall Gross  Apr 4, 2024 • 4:15:48am

re: #71 ericblair

Here is the CRS take on Lethal Automated Weapons Systems (LAWS):

Role of human operator. DODD 3000.09 requires that all
systems, including LAWS, be designed to “allow
commanders and operators to exercise appropriate levels of
human judgment over the use of force.” As noted in an
August 2018 U.S. government white paper, “‘appropriate’
is a flexible term that reflects the fact that there is not a
fixed, one-size-fits-all level of human judgment that should
be applied to every context. What is ‘appropriate’ can differ
across weapon systems, domains of warfare, types of
warfare, operational contexts, and even across different
functions in a weapon system.”
Furthermore, “human judgment over the use of force” does
not require manual human “control” of the weapon system,
as is often reported, but rather broader human involvement
in decisions about how, when, where, and why the weapon
will be employed. This includes a human determination that
the weapon will be used “with appropriate care and in
accordance with the law of war, applicable treaties, weapon
system safety rules, and applicable rules of engagement.”
To aid this determination, DODD 3000.09 requires that
“[a]dequate training, [tactics, techniques, and procedures],
and doctrine are available, periodically reviewed, and used
by system operators and commanders to understand the
functioning, capabilities, and limitations of the system’s
autonomy in realistic operational conditions.” The directive
also requires that the weapon’s human-machine interface be
“readily understandable to trained operators” so they can
make informed decisions regarding the weapon’s use.

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 4, 2024 • 4:16:41am

re: #95 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It’s a ridiculous interpretation but one adopted by SCOTUS. Huge sigh.

I wonder why we haven’t seen any legal challenges to book bans before SCOTUS. Our side should be challenging them as unconstitutional (violation of First Amendment rights).

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 4, 2024 • 4:17:05am

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 4, 2024 • 4:18:59am

This topic comes up in Harari’s Sapiens: a Brief History

that in evolutionary terms, we only recently ascended to the apex of the food chain.

Lions and Tigers and the like have had a lot of time to learn to be calm and fearless as they are big and powerful and were on top for a lot longer.

We, on the other hand, are relatively small and weak and are still always looking for threats to the point of making them up in our heads when none really exist.

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Randall Gross  Apr 4, 2024 • 4:19:06am

re: #97 Randall Gross

If you think about it, even simple devices such as a trap loaded claymore mine is a “LAWS”, and that is where the rub lies. While humans determine how, when, and where to deploy those, they don’t determine who the victim might be.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 4, 2024 • 4:20:17am

re: #99 Patricia Kayden

The “leave it to the states” is just a stopgap for the Religious Right. They will not rest until we have a nationwide ban to be followed by mandatory medical examinations of all childbering-age women leaving or re-entering the country.

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Randall Gross  Apr 4, 2024 • 4:22:16am

Here’s some more from the 2023 declaration / announcement
defense.gov

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 4, 2024 • 4:24:52am

re: #90 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

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Randall Gross  Apr 4, 2024 • 4:39:03am

Speaking of automation, from NPR

No more ‘just walk out’ at Amazon grocery stores. The new bet is smart shopping carts

Link

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Randall Gross  Apr 4, 2024 • 4:40:16am


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Dr Lizardo  Apr 4, 2024 • 5:05:50am

Meanwhile, here in Europe….

Police on Thursday arrested more than 20 suspects in Italy, Austria, Romania and Slovakia as part of a major investigation into massive fraud linked to the EU’s post-pandemic recovery fund.

At the request of EU prosecutors, 150 officers from fraud and financial police units detained eight people, while another 14 were placed under house arrest following a cross-border probe into an alleged criminal organization suspected of defrauding €600 million from the EU’s Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) for Italy.

Police also raided homes and businesses seizing and freezing assets including apartments and villas, cryptocurrency, Rolex watches, gold and jewelry, as well as a Lamborghini, a Porsche and an Audi Q8.

politico.eu

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Mike Lamb  Apr 4, 2024 • 5:09:03am

re: #83 Targetpractice

At this point, I can’t argue with that anymore. I’m totally willing to believe that they are just that far up his ass that they could justify reaching into NYC and yanking on the brake lever in the name of judicial absolutism. That all lesser courts must stand and be silent as they ruminate like a cow on so much cud about how there is a dire need for their opinion to be heard when Trump demands it but not when it would be expedient to his prosecution.

I hear you and atbthe same time, taking up a state criminal court case based on acts that occurred when Trump wasn’t president based on claims of presidential immunity would be so breathtakingly corrupt.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 4, 2024 • 5:10:11am

re: #108 Mike Lamb

I hear you and atbthe same time, taking up a state criminal court case based on acts that occurred when Trump wasn’t president based on claims of presidential immunity would be so breathtakingly corrupt.

They have to at least make it look like they still possess some shreds of integrity.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 4, 2024 • 5:10:41am

re: #108 Mike Lamb

I hear you and atbthe same time, taking up a state criminal court case based on acts that occurred when Trump wasn’t president based on claims of presidential immunity would be so breathtakingly corrupt.

The real problem here is that the Calvinball Court is so breathtakingly corrupt that this scenario is legitimately plausible on its face.

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lawhawk  Apr 4, 2024 • 5:30:23am

Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area a day after a major storm came through dropping 2-3 inches of rain. Lots of folks are without power across NYC metro, especially with winds that were in excess of 50-60 mph in multiple locations.

We managed with no issues, even though the lights flickered a couple of times throughout the evening last night.

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jeffreyw  Apr 4, 2024 • 5:34:44am

Good morning!

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Dave In Austin  Apr 4, 2024 • 5:39:24am

Fair winds and following Chemtrails….. and a good Thursday Morning to you all.

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Dave In Austin  Apr 4, 2024 • 5:40:22am

ChemTrails seem to be all the rage recently…..

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Belafon  Apr 4, 2024 • 5:40:44am

They were talking about the Idaho college murder case on GMA, and the lawyer they have make a point that applies to a lot of cases: the right to a speedy trial belongs to the defendant. If they want to make it slow down, the system is set up to accommodate that.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Apr 4, 2024 • 5:44:08am

re: #113 Dave In Austin

Obviously these folks who believe in “chemtrails” think Nova is science fiction instead of science fact.

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lawhawk  Apr 4, 2024 • 5:51:44am

You know Trump’s desperate for attention and media coverage of his deranged fascist fantasies, when he’s insisting on Biden debate him.

Yeah, Trump who famously refused to debate anyone in the GOP primary now thinks he is owed a debate by Biden.

Let’s not forget that Trump also famously tried to kill Biden and his family with covid in the 2020 debate. Trump knew he had covid at the time of the debate, and didn’t disclose that. Trump ultimately got hospitalized and received advanced care. Christie was hospitalized and nearly died. Others in Trumpworld got sick. Trump was a superspreader and actively took steps to make covid pandemic worse.

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Dangerman  Apr 4, 2024 • 5:57:13am

re: #55 The Ghost of a Flea

back in the 80’s i had a poster on my wall of computer science ‘laws’.
murphy and all that

i cant remember the exact quote:

due to the cost, time and effort to create a massive system, any results coming out of it are a priori accurate and valid.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 4, 2024 • 6:00:21am

re: #117 lawhawk

You know Trump’s desperate for attention and media coverage of his deranged fascist fantasies, when he’s insisting on Biden debate him.

Yeah, Trump who famously refused to debate anyone in the GOP primary now thinks he is owed a debate by Biden.

Let’s not forget that Trump also famously tried to kill Biden and his family with covid in the 2020 debate. Trump knew he had covid at the time of the debate, and didn’t disclose that. Trump ultimately got hospitalized and received advanced care. Christie was hospitalized and nearly died. Others in Trumpworld got sick. Trump was a superspreader and actively took steps to make covid pandemic worse.

Biden should debate Trump. It would give the country the chance to see just how far gone Trump is.

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DodgerFan1988  Apr 4, 2024 • 6:02:26am
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Dangerman  Apr 4, 2024 • 6:05:29am
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Nerdy Fish  Apr 4, 2024 • 6:07:56am

re: #119 No Malarkey!

Biden should debate Trump. It would give the country the chance to see just how far gone Trump is.

Trump (or more likely, someone close to him) won’t let that happen. He talks a big game from behind his little bubble on Twoof Social, but his handlers aren’t nearly that stupid, and they know what a train wreck that debate would be.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Apr 4, 2024 • 6:11:37am

re: #119 No Malarkey!

Mango Musolini will never do it.

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 4, 2024 • 6:12:12am

re: #87 Nerdy Fish

Well, of course not, because Christianity is right and all of those other religions are wrong./

Yeah, I always liked the phrase “All religions can’t be right, but they all could be wrong”.

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Dangerman  Apr 4, 2024 • 6:14:17am

re: #122 Nerdy Fish

Trump (or more likely, someone close to him) won’t let that happen. He talks a big game from behind his little bubble on Twoof Social, but his handlers aren’t nearly that stupid, and they know what a train wreck that debate would be.

There is no circumstance in which a “presidential” debate would ever take place.

one of them is prone to act like a child
He does not shut up
He lies without compunction

no amount of microphone cutoff, question followup etc could be crafted.

Or agreed to by the man-baby.

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steve_davis  Apr 4, 2024 • 6:14:56am

re: #117 lawhawk

You know Trump’s desperate for attention and media coverage of his deranged fascist fantasies, when he’s insisting on Biden debate him.

Yeah, Trump who famously refused to debate anyone in the GOP primary now thinks he is owed a debate by Biden.

Let’s not forget that Trump also famously tried to kill Biden and his family with covid in the 2020 debate. Trump knew he had covid at the time of the debate, and didn’t disclose that. Trump ultimately got hospitalized and received advanced care. Christie was hospitalized and nearly died. Others in Trumpworld got sick. Trump was a superspreader and actively took steps to make covid pandemic worse.

that black guy who showed up at a trump rally and did die from covid that he did catch at the rally. can’t remember who that was. Not Carson, ‘cause he still walks the earth. The 9 9 9 guy, maybe?

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 4, 2024 • 6:15:25am

re: #126 steve_davis

that black guy who showed up at a trump rally and did die from covid that he did catch at the rally. can’t remember who that was. Not Carson, ‘cause he still walks the earth. The 9 9 9 guy, maybe?

Herman Cain.

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steve_davis  Apr 4, 2024 • 6:16:47am

re: #127 Nerdy Fish

Herman Cain.

yeah, finally broke down and googled it. it was gonna drive me nuts.

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darthstar  Apr 4, 2024 • 6:17:03am

re: #119 No Malarkey!

Biden should debate Trump. It would give the country the chance to see just how far gone Trump is.

President Biden should ignore Trump’s pleas for a debate. When asked about it by the press, say, “Shouldn’t he debate other Republicans in the primary?” or “It’s way to early for that…we can talk about it when we get closer to the general.”

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darthstar  Apr 4, 2024 • 6:18:50am

Mastodon

Mastodon

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darthstar  Apr 4, 2024 • 6:20:19am

re: #130 darthstar

Mastodon

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Dangerman  Apr 4, 2024 • 6:20:30am

re: #129 darthstar

President Biden should ignore Trump’s pleas for a debate. When asked about it by the press, say, “Shouldn’t he debate other Republicans in the primary?” or “It’s way to early for that…we can talk about it when we get closer to the general.”

biden:

why debate? we already know his positions on everything. he’s proud of reversing Roe. he doesnt know china from taiwan. He thinks a mexican immigrant is gonna take his job…

should be easy to write quips of threes

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lawhawk  Apr 4, 2024 • 6:22:44am

re: #119 No Malarkey!

Biden should debate Trump. It would give the country the chance to see just how far gone Trump is.

Biden, through intermediaries, should respond with total snark and command.

Biden will debate you, but you’re currently in so many criminal trials and civil trials, that to find a date that works is hard. Let me know when you have the day/time to debate.

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Dangerman  Apr 4, 2024 • 6:24:53am

DJT Is the Most Shorted Stock in the Country

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No Malarkey!  Apr 4, 2024 • 6:25:23am

re: #129 darthstar

President Biden should ignore Trump’s pleas for a debate. When asked about it by the press, say, “Shouldn’t he debate other Republicans in the primary?” or “It’s way to early for that…we can talk about it when we get closer to the general.”

No reason to debate Trump now, I agree. Debates should be scheduled in the Fall. I wouldn’t be surprised if Trump made unreasonable demands then blamed Biden for debates not happening.

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darthstar  Apr 4, 2024 • 6:25:51am

Mastodon

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Dangerman  Apr 4, 2024 • 6:26:55am

re: #1 teleskiguy

Elmo’s giving back blue checks on Xitter. So thirsty…

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darthstar  Apr 4, 2024 • 6:28:43am

re: #133 lawhawk

Biden, through intermediaries, should respond with total snark and command.

Biden will debate you, but you’re currently in so many criminal trials and civil trials, that to find a date that works is hard. Let me know when you have the day/time to debate.

The President of the United States does not get involved in the criminal prosecutions of individuals, and having a debate would undoubtedly raise the possibility that the defendant’s criminal behavior would be discussed.

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 4, 2024 • 6:29:25am

re: #90 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 4, 2024 • 6:35:21am

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 4, 2024 • 6:36:00am

They will say anything…and the radical Xtians will believe them…

Donald Trump Jr. Says The Bank Is Tracking Your Bible Purchases For The FBI, Is That True?

wonkette.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 4, 2024 • 6:38:19am

re: #135 No Malarkey!

No reason to debate Trump now, I agree. Debates should be scheduled in the Fall. I wouldn’t be surprised if Trump made unreasonable demands then blamed Biden for debates not happening.

Just make it clear that DJT cannot be trusted to appear and act in good faith; that his behavior on Jan 6th, his ongoing denial of election results and the repeated delaying tactics used in his trials are indictions of that.

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jeffreyw  Apr 4, 2024 • 6:38:26am

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 4, 2024 • 6:40:11am

re: #144 jeffreyw

Look like Egyptian geese, which have become such an invasive species here on the Rhine that they can be hunted without license.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 4, 2024 • 6:42:16am

re: #119 No Malarkey!

Biden should debate Trump. It would give the country the chance to see just how far gone Trump is.

The media will spin any results or performances as a win for Trump and a loss for Biden. They are not interested in giving a fair and accurate commentary based on the political needs of the country. They are interested in generating a political circus for their own profit.

How far Trump has gone is there for anyone in the country to see right now. Tune into Fox News for 10-15 minutes.

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William Lewis  Apr 4, 2024 • 6:43:34am

re: #145 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Look like Egyptian geese, which have become such an invasive species here on the Rhine that they can be hunted without license.

That’s pretty bad. Are they good eating like Canadian Geese?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 4, 2024 • 6:45:20am

re: #122 Nerdy Fish

Trump (or more likely, someone close to him) won’t let that happen. He talks a big game from behind his little bubble on Twoof Social, but his handlers aren’t nearly that stupid, and they know what a train wreck that debate would be.

But the Biden goading would be glorious. He might even goad trump into a debate because trump cannot stand when people tell the truth about him.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 4, 2024 • 6:45:48am

re: #145 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Look like Egyptian geese, which have become such an invasive species here on the Rhine that they can be hunted without license.

Invasive species or climate refugees?

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jeffreyw  Apr 4, 2024 • 6:46:41am

re: #145 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Look like Egyptian geese, which have become such an invasive species here on the Rhine that they can be hunted without license.

The photo poster over at bluesky says this one was taken in S Cal. He says they were goofing on the atypical wet grass much as they would a surprise snow. I was reposting the photo more for the interesting bike than the activity.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 4, 2024 • 6:47:20am

re: #129 darthstar

President Biden should ignore Trump’s pleas for a debate. When asked about it by the press, say, “Shouldn’t he debate other Republicans in the primary?” or “It’s way to early for that…we can talk about it when we get closer to the general.”

Disagree 1000%. Biden should keep the pressure on the already addled trump brain. Always. Every day. Every hour of every day.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 4, 2024 • 6:49:37am

re: #150 jeffreyw

The photo poster over at bluesky says this one was taken in S Cal. He says they were goofing on the atypical wet grass much as they would a surprise snow. I was reposting the photo more for the interesting bike than the activity.

Beach tires*, or an equivalent I assume. And probably requires a particular frame and associated parts to fit them.

* - Or something for soft ground and the bike having a low and broad ground pressure. Not that efficient on hard surfaces.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Apr 4, 2024 • 6:49:55am

re: #151 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Keep the pressure on DT. And keep the cameras running to catch any mistake.

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(((Archangel1)))  Apr 4, 2024 • 6:54:26am

re: #153 PhillyPretzel ✅

And keep the cameras running to catch any the inevitable flood of mistakes.

Fixed.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 4, 2024 • 6:55:12am

re: #146 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

The media will spin any results or performances as a win for Trump and a loss for Biden. They are not interested in giving a fair and accurate commentary based on the political needs of the country. They are interested in generating a political circus for their own profit.

How far Trump has gone is there for anyone in the country to see right now. Tune into Fox News for 10-15 minutes.

Far more Americans will tune into a presidential debate than watch Fox News, and even Fox News will have a hard time spinning “Trump won” when he begins spouting gibberish. The more Americans hear from Trump, the more they dislike him.

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darthstar  Apr 4, 2024 • 6:56:26am

re: #148 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

But the Biden goading would be glorious. He might even goad trump into a debate because trump cannot stand when people tell the truth about him.

If Trump promises not to say the election was stolen Biden promises not to mention the fact that he’s under criminal indictment for trying to overthrow it.

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darthstar  Apr 4, 2024 • 6:56:56am

A debate at this time would taint the jury pool.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 4, 2024 • 6:58:01am

re: #157 darthstar

A debate at this time would taint the jury pool.

Debates should be in the Fall, once Trump is already a convicted felon (fingers crossed; jury selection in 11 days!).

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mmmirele  Apr 4, 2024 • 6:58:04am

re: #88 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Protestant Fundamentalist Christianinty.

Especially since the Pope has stated that he sees no inherent conflict between Creation and Evolution.

My ex-boyfriend, who was, at the time, a fairly devout Catholic, inadvertently got a program run by Charles Colson’s Prison Fellowship kicked out of Arizona prisons…and I helped!

Prison Fellowship did its dog and pony show at his parish to find mentors for kids whose parents were in the AZ prison system. (this was at the beginning of the ’00s) M signed up to at least start the process. He got some paperwork, and the paperwork included signing a statement saying he agreed with young earth creationism. M was *pissed*. He called me and said, “I told the woman [coordinator in the parish] ‘the pope says evolution does not conflict with the Catholic faith and why are we signing this?’” She had told him to ignore it and go ahead and sign, but he just couldn’t bring himself to do that. So that ended. But he’d told me about it.

Weeks, maybe months passed, I had this tiny bit of information stored in the back of my head and I read somewhere on the (even then) vast Internets that an org like Americans United or FFRF (I can’t remember, it was over 20 years ago) was suing the state of Arizona for allowing Prison Fellowship to operate within the prisons for this very program. The penny dropped for me and I dropped a dime to whichever org was involved. I refused to give them M’s name, but I did say, you know, you can just ask in discovery for the paperwork people had to sign. M was kinda pissy at me, but I said, I didn’t tell them, and they can get the paperwork.

The upshot was that Prison Fellowship got the left foot of fellowship out of the AZ prison system over its insistence that its volunteers, even if not Evangelical Protestant, had to sign a statement of faith including young earth creationism. I still have mixed emotions about that, because kids whose parents are serving time need mentors, but ones that believe in creationism? I dunno.

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Semper Fi  Apr 4, 2024 • 7:03:40am

re: #119 No Malarkey!

Biden should debate Trump. It would give the country the chance to see just how far gone Trump is.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 4, 2024 • 7:07:39am

re: #70 ckkatz

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Vanderbrouk Xitter post

Referenced Article - Atlantic: A Study in Senate Cowardice

I have no doubt that McConnell assured everyone there was no need to convict Trump, that he was done, but convicting him would damage Republicans running for re-election. But the fact remains, that our nation may be destroyed because of the cowardice of these legislators who failed us all.

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TarHellion  Apr 4, 2024 • 7:14:32am

Article on how it’s damn near impossible to make money shorting FFVC’s stock. And how there is the real potential for a short squeeze that could cause the stock to surge.

finance.yahoo.com

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 4, 2024 • 7:22:51am

re: #159 mmmirele

Back in the 70s the Campus Crusade For Christ was pushing Prison Fellowship at the Pitt Campus and they brought that shyster Chuck Colson to the campus to speak about it. I knew what a sleaze ball Colson was and his involvement in Watergate. We picketed that liar and called him out on his phony “confession” that he “saw the error of his ways”.

Prison Fellowship was just another scam run by that liar for the Republican Party.

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darthstar  Apr 4, 2024 • 7:26:11am

Even Fox’s goon squad is getting worn out by the idiot caucus…
threads.net

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 4, 2024 • 7:27:53am

re: #90 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

Yikes. All green.

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darthstar  Apr 4, 2024 • 7:31:13am

re: #164 darthstar

Even Fox’s goon squad is getting worn out by the idiot caucus…
threads.net

Fuckin’ threads…I wish it wasn’t federated into Mastodon…I’ll have to watch for that in the future. Anyway, it was Aaron Rupar - Fox viewer - with a shot of Bartiromo interviewing Mace who was calling McCarthy the ‘disgraced former speaker.’

Speaking of disgraced, let’s see how Mr. Clark is getting along…

Mastodon

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steve_davis  Apr 4, 2024 • 7:31:33am

re: #141 Eventual Carrion

A friend of mine has a pet guinea pig. He loves and spoils that thing.

they’re terrible pets. they will just fucking up and die on you on a dime. though admittedly when they’re cooing as you hold them against your chest, after they’ve stopped panic-whistling from the assumption they’re about to become a mcpig meal, they do have a very tribblish quality to them.

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darthstar  Apr 4, 2024 • 7:31:45am

re: #165 Hecuba’s daughter

Birdie as well, though yesterday’s was an all green 6 for me.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 4, 2024 • 7:39:04am

re: #146 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

The media will spin any results or performances as a win for Trump and a loss for Biden. They are not interested in giving a fair and accurate commentary based on the political needs of the country. They are interested in generating a political circus for their own profit.

How far Trump has gone is there for anyone in the country to see right now. Tune into Fox News for 10-15 minutes.

in addition to DJT not being a good faith actor, we can write off the media

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 4, 2024 • 7:39:49am

re: #147 William Lewis

That’s pretty bad. Are they good eating like Canadian Geese?

I had smoked Egyptian goose breast a while back, locally hunted. Never had Canada gesse so I cannot compare but it was certainly good.

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gocart mozart  Apr 4, 2024 • 7:40:05am

re: #137 Dangerman

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 4, 2024 • 7:40:27am

re: #149 Decatur Deb

Invasive species or climate refugees?

Invasive as far as I can tell, escaped from domestic stock but adapting just fine due to climate change

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darthstar  Apr 4, 2024 • 7:43:21am

re: #171 gocart mozart

Even though he’s forced the mark of the beast on me, I’ll continue to help drive revenue to his site for racists and Nazis because it also benefits me financially.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 4, 2024 • 7:44:34am

oh my!

Is Russia’s New U.S. Propaganda Star Wanted on Child Porn Charges in Rhode Island?

The “former American soldier” who starred in a new pro-war video praising Russia’s “mission” in Ukraine is reportedly a wanted fugitive.

Kremlin-controlled media lit up this week with news that an American veteran had signed a contract with the Russian military in a bold act of defiance against U.S. support for Ukraine.

According to reports in Russia and back home in Massachusetts, the new American in Ukraine may be none other than Wilmer Puello-Mota, a former city councilor in Holyoke, Massachusetts, who prosecutors say fled the country to evade child porn charges.

A Russian government insider, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said he believed the Defense Ministry was well aware of the charges against Puello in the U.S. “They all are aware. They know who he is and whatnot,” he told The Daily Beast.

thedailybeast.com

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Unabogie  Apr 4, 2024 • 7:46:39am

re: #173 darthstar

Even though he’s forced the mark of the beast on me, I’ll continue to help drive revenue to his site for racists and Nazis because it also benefits me financially.

This right here. The way to make Elon Musk suffer is for the biggest Twitter “stars” to just stop posting there. It will be as dead as Troth Sential.

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darthstar  Apr 4, 2024 • 7:46:46am

Mastodon

Mastodon

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Romantic Heretic  Apr 4, 2024 • 7:49:40am

re: #116 PhillyPretzel ✅

We’re too smart for science!!!11!!!

The war cry of the modern barbarian.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 4, 2024 • 7:52:36am

re: #174 Joe Bacon ✅

They’re probably watching him like a hawk, given the nature of the charges against him.

And should he prove inconvenient to them, or more trouble than he’s worth, he’ll find himself deployed to the front as a human mine sweeper.

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Sherlock Hound  Apr 4, 2024 • 7:55:53am

re: #174 Joe Bacon ✅

May he return home to my state. In a bag. In pieces.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 4, 2024 • 8:03:42am

re: #119 No Malarkey!

Biden should debate Trump. It would give the country the chance to see just how far gone Trump is.

Any debates will be after the coronations at the respective conventions. After all, Trump did not participate in most of the intraparty debates in 2016 but he did in the traditional election debates.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Apr 4, 2024 • 8:08:59am

Interesting conversation going on over at 1A about the repurchase of the Key bridge collapse in Bawlimore.

Longshoremen losing income, crew of the ships trapped on the shops because no visas (~150ish), long term repurcussion due to changing ports of entry, etc.

I expect the audio / transcript should be up later.

Is baaaad news all around.

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darthstar  Apr 4, 2024 • 8:09:18am

Mastodon

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wrenchwench  Apr 4, 2024 • 8:11:21am

I got a bogus albatross. Wordle 1,020 1/6*

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After my actual partridge was done, they wanted to make me log in to share it. Took me a while to retrieve an old password, and when I got in, they gave me the puzzle again. Due to issues, I couldn’t remember the answer, but then I was able to see it on the original tab I played in.

Warning. SPOILER.

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screen shot was the only way I could post it.

The L I’ve always wanted!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 4, 2024 • 8:11:54am

re: #182 darthstar

Old Bling Dogs

‘The Cruel Sister’ ~ Old Blind Dogs

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Apr 4, 2024 • 8:12:47am

re: #113 Dave In Austin

Fair winds and following Chemtrails….. and a good Thursday Morning to you all.

There are amusing threads over on faceplant from god botherers that think that looking at the eclipe is OK because dog would never make anything like that damaging to your eyes. Lots of people with ‘I would never listen to them about inherent dangers of starting at the sun.

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darthstar  Apr 4, 2024 • 8:16:39am

Have I said how much I love President Biden today?

Mastodon

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 4, 2024 • 8:18:49am

‘All my money’: Mike Lindell suggests he’s blown $20M on election crusade

And how much has he blown on crack?

rawstory.com

“I had spent all my money on this country with elections up to August, so what we were very fortunate and blessed that we had a very high inventory that was built up over time,” Lindell added.

“And we’re praying we’re coming out the other end now, finally, and it was the help of all your people out there supporting us and getting us through.”

Yeah, Crackhead Mike! It’s gonna come out of…THE OTHER END for you…

rawstory.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 4, 2024 • 8:20:04am

re: #186 darthstar

President Biden wants companies that use American airspace for rocket launches to start paying taxes into a federal fund that finances the work of air traffic controllers.”

“If the Government can tax space, pretty soon they will be taxing the air we breathe!”

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Randall Gross  Apr 4, 2024 • 8:24:02am

Karl Bode on the new net neutrality rules

bsky.app
direct link
techdirt.com

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Randall Gross  Apr 4, 2024 • 8:34:43am

re: #159 mmmirele

It was AU
au.org

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wrenchwench  Apr 4, 2024 • 8:39:27am

Now it lets me post it the normal way. Wordle 1,020 4/6*

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 4, 2024 • 8:44:03am

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 4, 2024 • 8:44:09am

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 4, 2024 • 8:53:16am

So we know Trumps NY trial begins on 4/15, but there’s no way that the trial and all the appeals could be done by Election Day…is there?

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 4, 2024 • 8:57:36am

re: #194 Eclectic Cyborg

So we know Trumps NY trial begins on 4/15, but there’s no way that the trial and all the appeals could be done by Election Day…is there?

Frankly, it shouldn’t take that long. It should be done by sometime in June at the latest, at least that’s what various legal experts claim.

I suppose it’d all depend on how much defendant Donnie tries to drag it out.

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lawhawk  Apr 4, 2024 • 9:01:45am

re: #194 Eclectic Cyborg

So we know Trumps NY trial begins on 4/15, but there’s no way that the trial and all the appeals could be done by Election Day…is there?

Trial and verdict can be done by June. Appeals? That’ll drag on, but no clear timeline exists. In any event, he’s likely to be found convicted for the crimes he’s indicted for so that by the time majority of non-connected non-online folks start focusing on politics, they’ll know that Trump is a convicted felon who is appealing the verdicts in one or more criminal cases.

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lawhawk  Apr 4, 2024 • 9:03:22am

re: #195 Dr Lizardo

Voir dire is probably a week to 10 days (2 weeks). 4 weeks trial. Deliberations and verdict thereafter. That means that we are in June when the verdict is handed down. There’s really no additional delays Trump can insert into this case.

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dat_said  Apr 4, 2024 • 9:09:59am

Work-related rant - just ignore my venting

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 4, 2024 • 9:12:25am

re: #196 lawhawk

by the time majority of non-connected non-online folks start focusing on politics, they’ll know that Trump is a convicted felon who is appealing the verdicts in one or more criminal cases.

Yep. And all just in time for the GOP convention in July. It’ll be interesting to see them downplay that on live TV.

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KGxvi  Apr 4, 2024 • 9:17:00am

re: #199 Dr Lizardo

Yep. And all just in time for the GOP convention in July. It’ll be interesting to see them downplay that on live TV.

I suspect there will be a not small portion of his advisors suggesting they lean into it and quintuple down on the “they’re going after me so they can go after you” bullshit. I also suspect that the GOP convention is going to just be 5 days of whining, bitching, and moaning of various degrees. Which will probably turn off a lot of voters.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Apr 4, 2024 • 9:17:30am

threads.net

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 4, 2024 • 9:22:08am

re: #201 Backwoods Sleuth

Remember they don want to “get rid of it”, they just want to “replace it with something better”.

Which is exactly what my ex-GF did to me…

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 4, 2024 • 9:22:34am

The most infuriating thing about this article is how the case prosecutor and judge are doing everything they can to enable the obvious frame job and intend to take it all the way to a jury verdict. Like, the Judge just straight up says he thinks he hears the cop break the seal before pouring out the bottle and tossing it in the back of the car, but he intends to let a jury decide. It’s insane.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 4, 2024 • 9:24:32am

re: #201 Backwoods Sleuth

Roe was settled law for years and they took that away. Don’t ever believe they won’t kill the ACA.

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 4, 2024 • 9:25:37am

re: #203 goddamnedfrank

It’s insane.

And it happens all the fucking time, the degree to which our institutions of “justice” just openly collaborate to flagrantly, criminally violate minority civil rights.

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KGxvi  Apr 4, 2024 • 9:25:43am

re: #203 goddamnedfrank

The most infuriating thing about this article is how the case prosecutor and judge are doing everything they can to enable the obvious frame job and intend to take it all the way to a jury verdict. Like, the Judge just straight up says he thinks he hears the cop break the seal before pouring out the bottle and tossing it in the back of the car, but he intends to let a jury decide. It’s insane.

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a lot of prosecutors are just cops who got better grades and thus were able to go to college and then law school. a lot of judges used to be prosecutors.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 4, 2024 • 9:26:00am

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 4, 2024 • 9:26:31am

re: #204 Eclectic Cyborg

Roe was settled law for years and they took that away. Don’t ever believe they won’t kill the ACA.

Only reason they didn’t under DJT was sheer incompetence.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 4, 2024 • 9:28:16am

re: #207 Joe Bacon ✅

“baby blood drinking”

Roseanne forgot the part about using it to bake matzohs…or is that supposed to be dog-whistled?

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Dangerman  Apr 4, 2024 • 9:28:18am

re: #200 KGxvi

I suspect there will be a not small portion of his advisors suggesting they lean into it and quintuple down on the “they’re going after me so they can go after you” bullshit. I also suspect that the GOP convention is going to just be 5 days of whining, bitching, and moaning of various degrees. Which will probably turn off a lot of voters.

Because everyone pays off porn stars to hide an adulterous dalliance that could tank their presidential campaign, then has their lawyer facilitate the payments to hide them and then deducts the payments as a business expense

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 4, 2024 • 9:28:53am

re: #207 Joe Bacon ✅

Looking back it’s depressing to see that all the sitcoms Carsey-Werner produced had basket cases as the leads

Cosby, Blowsanne, Brett Butler & Jackie Mason.

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Dangerman  Apr 4, 2024 • 9:30:58am

Pairing devices, doesn’t.

Separately, how long do I have to watch “restarting” go round and round before I determine it’s not doing anything?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 4, 2024 • 9:31:18am

re: #210 Dangerman

Because everyone pays off porn stars to hide an adulterous dalliance that could tank their presidential campaign, then has their lawyer facilitate the payments to hide them and then deducts the payments as a business expense

again, that is not even what he is being tried for, it is the way he went about financing the payoff money from election campaign funds.

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wrenchwench  Apr 4, 2024 • 9:31:20am

Mastodon

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 4, 2024 • 9:32:04am

re: #206 KGxvi

a lot of prosecutors are just cops who got better grades and thus were able to go to college and then law school. a lot of judges used to be prosecutors.

Hopefully the DOJ CR division is preparing an 18, U.S.C., Section 242 case against everyone involved.

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Dangerman  Apr 4, 2024 • 9:32:30am

re: #210 Dangerman

Because everyone pays off porn stars to hide an adulterous dalliance that could tank their presidential campaign, then has their lawyer facilitate the payments to hide them and then deducts the payments as a business expense

Ps who says this case is hard to understand? I did it in one sentence.

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Dangerman  Apr 4, 2024 • 9:35:17am

re: #213 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

again, that is not even what he is being tried for, it is the way he went about financing the payoff money from election campaign funds.

Backwards I think.

The indictment is falsifying NYS business records.
The support is it was in furtherance of a federal crime

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 4, 2024 • 9:35:27am

re: #212 Dangerman

Pairing devices, doesn’t.

Separately, how long do I have to watch “restarting” go round and round before I determine it’s not doing anything?

Just keep watching, your request is important to it .

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 4, 2024 • 9:36:05am

re: #214 wrenchwench

The MLK post reminded me of this hideous meme:

“minimum contribution to the workplace” is the bit that gets me.

We saw what happened to the economy when these people could not show up to work…

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Joe Bacon ✅  Apr 4, 2024 • 9:37:37am

re: #219 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Memes like that only reenforce my belief that it’s time to impose a Maximum Net Income.

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wrenchwench  Apr 4, 2024 • 9:38:02am

Mastodon

Birbie butt!

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KGxvi  Apr 4, 2024 • 9:38:14am

re: #206 KGxvi

there’s a very clear career path/pipeline in law. If you want to become a judge, your best bet is to go to work for the DA’s office. From there, depending on how your state chooses judges, you’ve got a pretty good chance to either be appointed or elected. Same thing happens with federal judgeships - former federal prosecutors make up the largest share of federal judges (Cato Institute study from 2021, not sure what effect Biden’s appointments have had on this).

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 4, 2024 • 9:42:22am

re: #208 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Only reason they didn’t under DJT was sheer incompetence.

And John McCain being a fucking boss.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 4, 2024 • 9:42:28am

re: #220 Joe Bacon ✅

Memes like that only reenforce my belief that it’s time to impose a Maximum Net Income.

Or a relative maximum income: CEO’s can only earn X times as much as the average company salary.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 4, 2024 • 9:43:38am

re: #222 KGxvi

There was a big kerfuffle when Ketanji Brown Jackson, a former public defender, was nominated to be on the Supreme Court. Republicans tried to make it into a full-blown scandal. That’s how widespread the mindset of “prosecutors should become judges” is.

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EstebanTornado1963  Apr 4, 2024 • 9:44:33am

re: #162 TarHellion

Article on how it’s damn near impossible to make money shorting FFVC’s stock. And how there is the real potential for a short squeeze that could cause the stock to surge.

finance.yahoo.com

This is what I posted last week. Never get near anything trump.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 4, 2024 • 9:44:58am

re: #225 Nerdy Fish

Not to mention our current VP’s former job…

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lawhawk  Apr 4, 2024 • 9:46:10am

re: #222 KGxvi

Additional path to judgeships come from clerking for judges.

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jeffreyw  Apr 4, 2024 • 9:51:35am

Mastodon

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Apr 4, 2024 • 9:52:25am

re: #229 jeffreyw

Yes. That is a dad joke.

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wrenchwench  Apr 4, 2024 • 9:52:40am

re: #228 lawhawk

Additional path to judgeships come from clerking for judges.

Is that a lawyers-only job?

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 4, 2024 • 9:54:00am

New Bond docs up in the Trump NY case.

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wrenchwench  Apr 4, 2024 • 9:57:37am

Shakedown

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Orange Impostor  Apr 4, 2024 • 9:59:16am

re: #232 goddamnedfrank

New Bond docs up in the Trump NY case.

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Were the court-ordered financial statement requirements for Trump’s assets or for the bondholder’s?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 4, 2024 • 10:00:35am

re: #234 Orange Impostor

Were the court-ordered financial statement requirements for Trump’s assets or for the bondholder’s?

Bondholder

Untel recently knows as the Craig’s List…

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Decatur Deb  Apr 4, 2024 • 10:04:10am

re: #207 Joe Bacon ✅

“devil worshipping, baby blood drinking”

Impressive double-major.

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 4, 2024 • 10:06:15am

Just an extremely normal country going on here:

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retired cynic  Apr 4, 2024 • 10:07:51am

The 1922 Eclipse Adventure That Sought to Confirm the Theory of Relativity
It took 35 tons of equipment and a lengthy voyage to remote Western Australia.
atlasobscura.com

Wonderful article, terrific historical photos, ending with a great totality photo.

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 4, 2024 • 10:08:34am

re: #234 Orange Impostor

Were the court-ordered financial statement requirements for Trump’s assets or for the bondholder’s?

For the two Knight Insurance companies, parent and subsidiary.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 4, 2024 • 10:08:39am

re: #237 goddamnedfrank

Just an extremely normal country going on here:

“A well-fed militia being necessary to the security of a free state…”

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 4, 2024 • 10:10:08am

re: #236 Decatur Deb

Impressive double-major.

The graduation parties are WILD!

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Decatur Deb  Apr 4, 2024 • 10:11:00am

re: #241 Eventual Carrion

The graduation parties are WILD!

But you have to sign your diploma in blood.

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 4, 2024 • 10:12:31am

re: #242 Decatur Deb

But you have to sign your diploma in blood.

Mine or someone else’s?

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 4, 2024 • 10:14:36am

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Decatur Deb  Apr 4, 2024 • 10:18:17am

re: #243 Eventual Carrion

Mine or someone else’s?

Virgin blood, but ‘Bama has a waiver.

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darthstar  Apr 4, 2024 • 10:18:33am

Sounds like Judge McAfee gave Trump his daily dose of womp.

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Dangerman  Apr 4, 2024 • 10:25:03am

re: #240 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

“A well-fed militia being necessary to the security of a free state…”

Gun license if any revoked
Guns taken
Sue his ass…doesnt matter no one was hurt

Man cannot control his weapon. And his temper.
No more guns for him ever.
And jail . lots of jail

A danger can dream

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Axolotl  Apr 4, 2024 • 10:28:19am

re: #207 Joe Bacon ✅

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Its times like this I am convinced there is something in the water or something in the food or environment that is slowly driving certain people insane.

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Dangerman  Apr 4, 2024 • 10:29:26am

re: #246 darthstar

Sounds like Judge McAfee gave Trump his daily dose of womp.

“McAfee, however, found “the Defendants’ expressions and speech are alleged to have been made in furtherance of criminal activity and constitute false statements knowingly and willfully made in matters within a government agency’s jurisdiction which threaten to deceive and harm the government.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 4, 2024 • 10:29:29am

re: #248 Axolotl

Its times like this I am convinced there is something in the water or something in the food or environment that is slowly driving certain people insane.

It is something in the air, or rather the ether…

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KingKenrod  Apr 4, 2024 • 10:30:55am

re: #237 goddamnedfrank

Just an extremely normal country going on here:

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SMRS - Sudden MAGA Rage Syndrome. The NYTimes should do a story about that.

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Jay C  Apr 4, 2024 • 10:36:49am

re: #251 KingKenrod

SMRS - Sudden MAGA Rage Syndrome. The NYTimes should do a story about that.

But it would most likely focus on how it’s bad for Joe Biden and Democrats….

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wrenchwench  Apr 4, 2024 • 10:40:34am

Mastodon

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 4, 2024 • 10:42:37am

Queen to Knight 4:

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aatharuv  Apr 4, 2024 • 10:43:36am

re: #254 goddamnedfrank

Queen to Knight 4:

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So they’re challenging the validity of the bond. hardball is good.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 4, 2024 • 10:47:02am

re: #209 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Roseanne forgot the part about using it to bake matzohs…or is that supposed to be dog-whistled?

Roseanne Barr is Jewish.

She’s also a severe alcoholic that largely lives in the sphere of people like Alex Jones; there’s a deeply depressing interview between the two about two years ago where she leans into beliefs that are QAnon adjacent. She’s not signaling she’s an antisemite, she’s signaling, like Jones, that a White Terror is justified by…as always…The Bad People are doing things to kids.

Modern conspiracism relies on syncretism, and thus (in the Christian/European cultural sphere and the English-speaking world) will inevitably find it’s way back to the original Christian conspiracy theories that justified supersession and the building of ghettos, but the intent isn’t necessarily to signal a secret antisemtism rather to use the same successful accusations to inspire contempt and rage sufficient to justify violence. Cannibalism, weird sex, and messing with kids are the three favorite accusations of people about to do a purge: Sunnis accused the Shia of all three for most of history; the overrun of the world by Europeans was accompanied by penny-dreadful accounts of eating people and weird fucking.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 4, 2024 • 10:49:02am

re: #248 Axolotl

Its times like this I am convinced there is something in the water or something in the food or environment that is slowly driving certain people insane.

The X-Files explained it.

X Files Blood Job Search

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Dangerman  Apr 4, 2024 • 10:50:14am

Maybe I spoke too soon earlier

tfg won’t say whether he’ll vote for the abortion amendment in fla.
Won t say what his stance is on abortion. Is not embracing that *he* overturned roe.

And now was asked twice by Hugh Hewitt if he’s “100% with Israel” and Trump twice would not answer directly.

So maybe we don’t know his positions on the hot buttons of this campaign
But they’re gonna come out

The fact that he doesn’t know is beside the point

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Apr 4, 2024 • 10:50:31am

I bolted a spare cat tree deck to a high shelf next to their cat tree. Mork occupied it immediately.

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wrenchwench  Apr 4, 2024 • 10:54:50am

re: #258 Dangerman

The fact that he doesn’t know is beside the point

I think the fact that he doesn’t know is the point. He doesn’t have ideals or principles. He has advisors who tell him which position will benefit him the most at this moment.

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Dangerman  Apr 4, 2024 • 10:54:53am

Clay higgins: loon

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Dangerman  Apr 4, 2024 • 10:56:45am

re: #260 wrenchwench

I think the fact that he doesn’t know is the point. He doesn’t have ideals or principles. He has advisors who tell him which position will benefit him the most at this moment.

In a sane world yes.
That the campaign doesn’t have anything specific they can say yet is…telling

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Axolotl  Apr 4, 2024 • 10:59:55am

re: #257 Dr Lizardo

The X-Files explained it.

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Video

A yes, the media. I left that off.

I am not trying to spin a conspiracy here but what is happening to a certain segment of our society is inexplicable to me.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Apr 4, 2024 • 11:02:30am

re: #263 Axolotl

A yes, the media. I left that off.

I am not trying to spin a conspiracy here but what is happening to a certain segment of our society is inexplicable to me.

Racist white people feel threatened that they’ll be treated like they treat minorities. They became unhinged when Obama was President, and few of them will ever pass as civilized Americans again.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 4, 2024 • 11:03:04am

re: #263 Axolotl

what is happening to a certain segment of our society is inexplicable to me.

There is a rich, white patriarchy that dominates our culture.

They maintain their power by demonizing others as frequently and effectively as possible.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 4, 2024 • 11:03:19am

re: #263 Axolotl

A yes, the media. I left that off.

I am not trying to spin a conspiracy here but what is happening to a certain segment of our society is inexplicable to me.

Mass psychosis.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 4, 2024 • 11:07:48am

re: #256 The Ghost of a Flea

Roseanne Barr is Jewish.

… She’s not signaling she’s an antisemite, she’s signaling, like Jones, that a White Terror is justified by…as always…The Bad People are doing things to kids.

which makes it even weirder that she is using Blood Libel rhetoric

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 4, 2024 • 11:09:49am

One real problem for all generative AI models is that they’re running out of non-AI generated data to scrape.

Someone, I can’t remember who, once described this data as the low-background steel that makes generative AI possible. It’s an apt analogy in a world that is becoming more and more informationally contaminated, iow the stuff that keeps AIs from going “mad cow” by training on their own hallucinatory outputs is getting harder and harder to find. And it will only get worse as our institutions rely more on AI while humanity’s collective imagination withers because actual creativity isn’t being flexed or developed.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 4, 2024 • 11:11:18am

re: #263 Axolotl

A yes, the media. I left that off.

I am not trying to spin a conspiracy here but what is happening to a certain segment of our society is inexplicable to me.

Civilization is effortful, so every once in a while we relax towards our inner ape.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 4, 2024 • 11:12:03am

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No Malarkey!  Apr 4, 2024 • 11:14:04am

re: #194 Eclectic Cyborg

So we know Trumps NY trial begins on 4/15, but there’s no way that the trial and all the appeals could be done by Election Day…is there?

The trial will be done in June, but the appeals will likely go into 2026.

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lawhawk  Apr 4, 2024 • 11:14:34am

re: #271 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

In space.. no one can hear you scream… as we airlock the fuckers who brought about the latest wave of fascism.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 4, 2024 • 11:16:15am

re: #272 No Malarkey!

The trial will be done in June, but the appeals will likely go into 2026.

Trump will still be deep in appeals when the last double cheeseburger finally chokes off his heart. He’ll think of that as a win.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 4, 2024 • 11:44:20am

re: #140 Eventual Carrion

Great! Connections

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And still have 1 word to find for Bee. But may abandon that quest.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Apr 4, 2024 • 11:51:54am

re: #245 Decatur Deb

Virgin blood, but ‘Bama has a waiver.

there certainly should be an abundance of incel virgins!

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 4, 2024 • 12:18:15pm

re: #175 Unabogie

This right here. The way to make Elon Musk suffer is for the biggest Twitter “stars” to just stop posting there. It will be as dead as Troth Sential.

For that to happen, there has to be a single site destination that is as simple to use as Twitter that can accommodate 100’s of millions of users. As of now, neither Mastodon nor Bluesky have anywhere near that capability. Threads certainly can handle that volume but I don’t know its features. We can’t keep on demanding people leave when they don’t have a place to go.

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TedStriker  Apr 4, 2024 • 1:27:58pm

re: #61 Belafon

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