Straight Up Jazz From the North Sea Jazz Archive: Pat Metheny Trio, "Question and Answer" (North Sea Jazz 1999)

Straight Up Jazz From the North Sea Jazz Archive: Pat Metheny Trio, “Question and Answer” (North Sea Jazz 1999)

‘Question and Answer’ is a track from the Garmmy Award winning album ‘Like Minds’, a 1998 jazz album by the vibraphonist Gary Burton with pianist Chick Corea, guitarist Pat Metheny, drummer Roy Haynes, and double bass player Dave Holland. In 1999, the album won a Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Individual or Group. Recordings took place in the Avatar Sound Studio in New York City.

Pat Metheny Trio - North Sea Jazz Festival 1999
Date & Location: SUNDAY 11 JULY 1999 • STATENHAL • 16:00 - 17:15, Congress Centre, The Hague, The Netherlands

Line Up:
Pat Metheny, guitar
Larry Grenadier, bass
Bill Stewart drums

Patrick Bruce Metheny (born August 12, 1954) is an American jazz guitarist and composer. He was the leader of the Pat Metheny Group (1977–2010) and continues to work in various small-combo, duet, and solo settings, as well as other side projects. His style incorporates elements of progressive and contemporary jazz, latin jazz, and jazz fusion. He has three gold albums and 20 Grammy Awards, and is the only person to have won Grammys in 10 categories.

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248 comments

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus May 19, 2024 • 6:09:46pm

re: #171 Dangerman

All they have is denying reality.

That’s why I equate them to creationists, which many happen to be.

silverdolphin May 19, 2024 • 6:10:12pm

RFK Jr. Lists Voting Address That’s In Foreclosure

The brain worm must have damaged some really important parts of his brain. Like where he lives. None of the neighbors have ever seen him at a house that public records show he does not own,

Charles Johnson May 19, 2024 • 6:11:35pm

re: #2 silverdolphin

RFK Jr. Lists Voting Address That’s In Foreclosure

The brain worm must have damaged some really important parts of his brain. Like where he lives. None of the neighbors have ever seen him at a house that public records show he does not own,

It’s really almost funny.

Charles Johnson May 19, 2024 • 6:12:23pm

He’s a Kennedy. If he’s gonna go down in flames, it’s gonna be on TV.

jaunte May 19, 2024 • 6:12:40pm

@adamserwer.bsky.social
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This is deeply pathetic.
@chrisgeidner.bsky.social
has evidence Alito was participating in the bud light anti trans boycott
lawdork.com

“…Participating in a boycott is undeniably a political statement. And there are pending cases for which participation in an anti-trans beer boycott could be seen as his having a finger on the scale of justice on the side of the anti-trans advocates supporting — and in some cases, defending — these laws such that recusal could be required.

Under federal law, Alito is directed to recuse himself from cases in which his “impartiality might reasonably be questioned.” Another provision directs recusal where a judge “has a personal bias or prejudice concerning a party” in a case.”

Joe Bacon ✅ May 19, 2024 • 6:13:22pm

re: #3 Charles Johnson

He and Cheryl were living in Malibu. They put that estate up for sale in 2017.

mansionglobal.com

silverdolphin May 19, 2024 • 6:15:31pm

Trump’s Wildwood Mirage

Wildwood officials who were the source for the Associated Press’s reporting that former President Trump drew between 80,000 to 100,000 to a beach front weekend rally now say it was not the number on the beach at the rally per se, but rather it was the number of people “in our town.”

So, anyone stating the huge crowd for Trump is lying, based upon misstatements and misunderstandings apparently.

What a surprise! The AP needs to correct its story.

Charles Johnson May 19, 2024 • 6:16:37pm

RFK Jr. has lived his whole life in that weird media bubble, and he’s probably at least partly aware of that somewhere in the part of his brain the worm didn’t get to eat.

silverdolphin May 19, 2024 • 6:19:56pm

re: #6 Joe Bacon ✅

He and Cheryl were living in Malibu. They put that estate up for sale in 2017.

mansionglobal.com

But where has he been voting from? He lists his voting address as a residence where he no longer lives in another state. Did he ever vote in Westchester County after he no longer lived there? Inquiring minds want to know.

Decatur Deb May 19, 2024 • 6:27:08pm

Josef Goebbels’ Jazz Band

en.wikipedia.org

Tubi is carrying a documentary film on them.

tubitv.com

Eclectic Cyborg May 19, 2024 • 6:34:14pm

re: #5 jaunte

Alito ain’t gonna recuse himself from shit.

We all know that.

Nerdy Fish May 19, 2024 • 6:38:34pm

re: #11 Eclectic Cyborg

Alito ain’t gonna recuse himself from shit.

We all know that.

Rules are for people who aren’t at war with the forces of evil and darkness.

mmmirele May 19, 2024 • 6:54:59pm

If anyone’s interested, the third Mexican presidential debate is at 20:00 Central Time (behind the button).

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The candidates are:
* Claudia Sheinbaum, Morena, former mayor of Mexico City
* Xóchitl Gálvez, Fuerza y Corazón por México (PAN, PRI, PRD), former mayor of Miguel Hidalgo
* Jorge Álvarez Máynez, Movimiento Ciudadano, former .mx congressional representative.

Both Gálvez and former president Vicente Fox (PAN) have urged Máynez to drop out of the race in favor of Gálvez. Even if that happened, polling (yeah, I know in the USA, not so accurate, hard to say in Mexico) still shows a significant (12%) difference between Sheinbaum and Gálvez even if Gálvez got Máynez’s 10%.

The election is two weeks from today, on Sunday, June 2. The newly elected president takes office on October 1.

Decatur Deb May 19, 2024 • 6:59:19pm

re: #7 silverdolphin

Trump’s Wildwood Mirage

So, anyone stating the huge crowd for Trump is lying, based upon misstatements and misunderstandings apparently.

What a surprise! The AP needs to correct its story.

If anyone wants to bother, algorithms exist to determine crowd size from commercial satellite imagery. This year, it might be worth the Dem’s investment.

AUTOMATIC CROWD ANALYSIS FROM VERY HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE
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Charles Johnson May 19, 2024 • 7:01:55pm

re: #11 Eclectic Cyborg

Alito ain’t gonna recuse himself from shit.

We all know that.

Nobody’s even trying to hold him accountable.

Patricia Kayden May 19, 2024 • 7:06:55pm

re: #11 Eclectic Cyborg

Alito ain’t gonna recuse himself from shit.

We all know that.

Exactly, it’s good that Alito and Thomas are being exposed as partisan hacks but they face zero consequences for their outrageous conduct. Iokiyar writ large.

Vicious Babushka May 19, 2024 • 7:07:29pm

Mastodon

Romantic Heretic May 19, 2024 • 7:14:32pm

re: #12 Nerdy Fish

Yeah. Heroes are special.

Rightwingconspirator May 19, 2024 • 7:26:04pm

The cruelty is the point.

Former US Army sergeant released from prison after Gov. Abbott pardons him for 2020 fatal Black Lives Matter protest shooting

Daniel Perry, a former US Army sergeant who was convicted of murdering a protester at a Black Lives Matter rally in 2020, was released from prison Thursday after he was pardoned by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.

Abbott’s decision comes after the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles voted unanimously Thursday to recommend a full pardon and the restoration of firearm rights for Perry, who was sentenced last year to 25 years in prison. Shortly after he was pardoned, Perry was released from Texas Department of Criminal Justice custody, a spokesperson for the agency told CNN.

sizzzzlerz May 19, 2024 • 7:28:53pm

re: #16 Patricia Kayden

Exactly, it’s good that Alito and Thomas are being exposed as partisan hacks but they face zero consequences for their outrageous conduct. Iokiyar writ large.

Accountability is for the little people, the ones that aren’t propped up by the rich and powerful.

Eclectic Cyborg May 19, 2024 • 7:31:40pm

re: #20 sizzzzlerz

Accountability is for the little people, the ones that aren’t propped up by the rich and powerful.

Nor the rich and powerful themselves (with a few exceptions here and there).

darthstar May 19, 2024 • 7:44:01pm

One of most shameful moments was when I met Pat Metheny…

He was playing at the Civic Auditorium in Redding, CA, and staying at the Red Lion where I was bussing tables in the coffee shop. Well, he was at one of my tables and my buddies were all, ‘That’s Pat Metheny!’ and I went up to him and said, “I like punk rock!” He was kind enough to say good for you and I felt like an asshole…and I was…at 17.

(((Archangel1))) May 19, 2024 • 7:51:53pm

Embed didn’t quite work. Was sent this with the title “This is the most I’ve laughed in a really long time”. Fortunately found the video on YT. Maybe I’m childish, but I absolutely lost it by the end.

Youtube Video

teleskiguy May 19, 2024 • 7:54:19pm

Needs more cowbell…

#NowPlaying Widespread Panic > Street Dogs > Stevens Cat youtu.be/xCNEgG0m0nI

— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness The Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy.bsky.social) 2024-05-20T02:53:27.813Z

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus May 19, 2024 • 8:00:16pm

Is anyone else having a hard time getting YouTube to load?

Vicious Babushka May 19, 2024 • 8:10:09pm

re: #25 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Is anyone else having a hard time getting YouTube to load?

Loads fast for me. Firefox & uBlock Origin.

BeachDem May 19, 2024 • 8:11:26pm

re: #3 Charles Johnson

It’s really almost funny.

The NY Post article lists another address he’s supposedly used in foxboro, ma (except it’s Foxborough, and the address is an office park, so I’m not sure the reporting is all that trustworthy.)

prairiefire May 19, 2024 • 8:15:03pm

Woot! 5 more weeks till my fibula heals!

Folks, if it’s posted “not safe to walk”, it’s not safe to walk.

jaunte May 19, 2024 • 8:20:44pm

Trump is apparently setting up his excuse to back out of the scheduled debates by “scheduling” and announcing additional debates that the Biden campaign will not be attending.

Trump Makes POSTS TO HIMSELF Showing He’s NOT OK

(((Archangel1))) May 19, 2024 • 8:20:58pm

In breaking (not-at-all-surprising) news: They Dead

CNN: “No survivors found at Iranian helicopter site”

“No survivors” have been found at the crash site of the helicopter carrying Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi, according to Iranian state news channel IRINN and semi-official news agency Mehr News.

silverdolphin May 19, 2024 • 8:22:53pm

While on the cruise to spread my friend’s ashes, I got into a discussion with one of his former students who is working at a biotech company here in Seattle. Turns out he is doing exactly what I got my PhD for 40 years ago and hoped to accomplish when I got a job - real protein engineering. Make the proteins do what we wanted them to.

Solving the proterin folding problem was the big hurdle when I started - figuring out how a protein folded into a 3D structure based on the linear order of amino acids. COuld not really engineer a protein without knowing what it looked like.

Well, AI has pretty much solved that. Programs like AlphaFold , RoseTTAFold and others can take a sequence of amino acids and determine a protein structure. And research has shown they are very, very good.

Most of this work has been pioneered by University of Washington researcher David Baker. And it is now being used to create proteins that never existed in nature to accomplish the activities we want.

Using new diffusion models they can modify an “image’” of a protein to create a totally novel on, one that could have a very different and useful activity.

These new proteins can be quickly created and tested to see if they do what we want., Then they can be mutated further to do it better.

Pretty cool use of AI for healthcare and other work. And it will soon be possible to be a real protein engineer rather than play at one like I did.

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus May 19, 2024 • 8:24:18pm

re: #26 Vicious Babushka

Loads fast for me. Firefox & uBlock Origin.

Thanks.

I seem to be having problems with my new (used) iMac. I think I should not have use Migration Assistant as I probably brought over a bunch of stuff that is flakey in the newer versions of macOC.

Restarting the iMac made everything work again.

prairiefire May 19, 2024 • 8:25:17pm

re: #31 silverdolphin

Was it interesting when prions were discovered?

mmmirele May 19, 2024 • 8:25:53pm

re: #25 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Is anyone else having a hard time getting YouTube to load?

Yeah. I did. On Windows, Linux and Mac. Some searching and it seemed like the best option was to remove all adblocks except for uBlock Origin from Firefox. That has worked on all boxes.

YouTube needs to understand that people get PISSY about commercials every couple of minutes. I’m one of them. I will use an adblock because most of the commercials on YT are scams.

silverdolphin May 19, 2024 • 8:33:26pm

re: #33 prairiefire

Was it interesting when prions were discovered?

I was actually recruited by Stanley Pruisner to try and express the prions for study. I turned it down because I did not think simply producing a protein in E. coli was what I wanted my post doc to be about. My life would have been quite different if I had chosen differently.

sizzzzlerz May 19, 2024 • 8:33:36pm

re: #28 prairiefire

Woot! 5 more weeks till my fibula heals!

Folks, if it’s posted “not safe to walk”, it’s not safe to walk.

No sign is going to be the boss of me!

Belafon May 19, 2024 • 8:37:54pm

re: #31 silverdolphin

A problem that neural nets are solving in physics is being the solution to a differential equation, allowing the input to be passed in and generating the output that would be returned either through the solution if one was available or through numerical integration.

prairiefire May 19, 2024 • 8:38:49pm

re: #35 silverdolphin

Wow. I had a semester of school in England in ‘82, so I’ve always been interested in “mad cow disease”. I’ll never forget the article in the New Yorker explaining that breakthrough.

Captain Ron May 19, 2024 • 8:43:06pm

x.com

Captain Ron May 19, 2024 • 8:44:21pm

silverdolphin May 19, 2024 • 8:44:43pm

re: #38 prairiefire

Wow. I had a semester of school in England in ‘82, so I’ve always been interested in “mad cow disease”. I’ll never forget the article in the New Yorker explaining that breakthrough.

Yep, it would have been a really nice post-doc, working for a future Nobel Prize winner, but I was focused on protein engineering in a commercial setting rather than academic research (got one doing molecular biology in the lab that developed DNA synthesis chemistry that is still used, Marv Caruthers. I’m likely one of the few molecular biologists who has made oligonucleotides by hand. So I did alright). But it is nice to have been close to a great paradigm shifter ;-)

prairiefire May 19, 2024 • 8:47:26pm

I hope to see a lot of great new discoveries before I shuffle off this mortal coil.

Stephen Hawking was particularly excited about the mapping of the human genome.

Belafon May 19, 2024 • 8:48:10pm

re: #40 Captain Ron

It would be interesting to know why they prefer stiff sides. Also a marketing opportunity, a padded plastic container.

silverdolphin May 19, 2024 • 8:51:10pm

re: #42 prairiefire

I hope to see a lot of great new discoveries before I shuffle off this mortal coil.

Stephen Hawking was particularly excited about the mapping of the human genome.

I think that it is entirely possible that virtually all cancers will be reduced to long term illnesses rather than death sentences well before 2050. Of course, the therapies will cost $2-3 million a year unless we change how Big Pharma is run.

Lancelot Link Returns! May 19, 2024 • 8:59:42pm

Condolences to the people of Iran.

Belafon May 19, 2024 • 9:01:23pm

Results from a groundbreaking clinical trial of CRISPR gene editing in 14 individuals with a form of inherited blindness show that the treatment is safe and led to measurable improvements in 11 of the participants treated. The phase 1/2 trial called BRILLIANCE, was led by principal investigator Eric Pierce, MD, PhD, of Mass Eye and Ear, a member of the Mass General Brigham healthcare system, and sponsored by Editas Medicine, Inc. Findings are reported on May 6th in The New England Journal of Medicine

Way more details are given in the full article: scitechdaily.com

teleskiguy May 19, 2024 • 9:05:19pm

re: #42 prairiefire

I hope to see a lot of great new discoveries before I shuffle off this mortal coil.

Stephen Hawking was particularly excited about the mapping of the human genome.

Just off the top of my head… My Dad saw the Moon Landing, July 1969. On television.

silverdolphin May 19, 2024 • 9:07:03pm

re: #46 Belafon

Way more details are given in the full article: scitechdaily.com

And CRISPR holds out some real possibilities for cures of many genetic diseases. I expect we will see it used in utero soon. Of course, it might also be used for trivial reasons like hair color, etc. Nothing is perfect.

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus May 19, 2024 • 9:08:52pm

More grooviness:

Enoch Light - Bésame Mucho

Belafon May 19, 2024 • 9:10:24pm

re: #48 silverdolphin

And CRISPR holds out some real possibilities for cures of many genetic diseases. I expect we will see it used in utero soon. Of course, it might also be used for trivial reasons like hair color, etc. Nothing is perfect.

It’s a tool, and all tools can be abused.

Targetpractice May 19, 2024 • 9:12:53pm

re: #29 jaunte

Trump is apparently setting up his excuse to back out of the scheduled debates by “scheduling” and announcing additional debates that the Biden campaign will not be attending.

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Which is the whole point. He’s desperate to take back the “BIDEN WON’T DEBATE ME!” whine, so he’s going to “agree” to 2-3 debates that take place after early-voting has started, then announce (as noted) that “scheduling conflicts” conveniently mean he can’t attend the two debates he’d already agree to. So that when the Biden campaign tells him to pound sand, he’ll pretend that Biden is refusing to debate him and Beltway will dutifully announce that Biden is the one “backing out” of debating Trump.

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus May 19, 2024 • 9:15:25pm

Speaking of abuses, “AI” is such a current wasteland marketing term.

I wanted to know if Opera’s built in “VPN” is suspect or not. So I googled that question, and here is the summary the Google AI gave me at the top of the search results:

google AI-powered search result about Opera VPN

Three paragraphs, three different answers.

Lancelot Link Returns! May 19, 2024 • 9:16:30pm

re: #49 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Back in my scratch DJ days. I was dubbed “DJ Command” for my love for this label

DodgerFan1988 May 19, 2024 • 9:21:22pm

Look, I have some bad news: They will do this. Yes, groceries will cost more if they deport most of our farm labor. A lot more. Trumpers don’t care. They’ll blame Jews. Or women. Or students. Or wokeness. Fascists always find a scapegoat. Do not count on their self-interest. https://t.co/Ss5zkjiqUm

— Brandon Friedman (@BFriedmanDC) May 20, 2024

Targetpractice May 19, 2024 • 9:24:06pm

re: #48 silverdolphin

And CRISPR holds out some real possibilities for cures of many genetic diseases. I expect we will see it used in utero soon. Of course, it might also be used for trivial reasons like hair color, etc. Nothing is perfect.

It will be, because a doctor or a lab with access to the necessary equipment will set up offer up services to wealthy patrons for “designer babies.” It will start as “While you’re treating his congenital heart defect, do you think you can lighten his hair color?,” then turn into “We’re afraid he’ll be bullied if he has brown hair, can you change it to blond?,” and finally land at “Since we’re making improvements, do you think you could give him arm strength like a gorilla? We’d like him to be the star of the high school football team when he’s older.”

Joe Bacon ✅ May 19, 2024 • 9:27:26pm

re: #54 DodgerFan1988

Brandon needs to remember what Christopher Rufo has said. Rufo wants all child labor laws repealed so that children will replace the “illegal” workers Trump and ReichFührer Miller want to round up and deport.

Joe Bacon ✅ May 19, 2024 • 9:29:26pm

re: #48 silverdolphin

And CRISPR holds out some real possibilities for cures of many genetic diseases. I expect we will see it used in utero soon. Of course, it might also be used for trivial reasons like hair color, etc. Nothing is perfect.

Hmmmm. Will a 77 year old indicted presidential candidate want a CRISPR treatment that gives him a bigger wee wee so folks will stop making mushroom jokes about him?

Targetpractice May 19, 2024 • 9:30:05pm

re: #54 DodgerFan1988

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The reality is it’s going to be more than the farms and these asshats have no clue how bad it’s really going to be. Farmers will find nobody available to plant or harvest their crops, meat-packers are going to struggle without the necessary workforce, vital links in the transportation system between those two businesses and distribution warehouses are going to break down, and grocery stores are going to find themselves without enough manpower to both serve customers and maintain the stores simultaneously. And that’s just the “farm to table” chain, now imagine that the next time the same asshole goes on a business trip he can’t find a room at the end of his drive because the hotels can’t keep rooms clean, while back at home his lawn has gone to pot because the landscaping company lost the bulk of their manpower.

William Lewis May 19, 2024 • 9:50:33pm

Camera battery was dead on the way to work this morning so I couldn’t take any images of this new statue I wanted to capture. So instead I stopped on the way to work tonight …

William Lewis May 19, 2024 • 9:50:53pm

William Lewis May 19, 2024 • 9:51:13pm

BigPapa May 19, 2024 • 9:51:54pm

re: #56 Joe Bacon ✅

Brandon needs to remember what Christopher Rufo has said. Rufo wants all child labor laws repealed so that children will replace the “illegal” workers Trump and ReichFührer Miller want to round up and deport.

Which children will that be? (queue dramatic sitcom drama music)

JC1 May 19, 2024 • 9:53:01pm

re: #16 Patricia Kayden

Exactly, it’s good that Alito and Thomas are being exposed as partisan hacks but they face zero consequences for their outrageous conduct. Iokiyar writ large.

Why isn’t the DOJ or IRS looking into Thomas’s taxes? Did he report income on all those gifts he didn’t disclose? If not, let’s Al Capone his ass.

piratedan May 19, 2024 • 9:53:14pm

for those following along at home, here’s a current snapshot on how it’s going for the GOP in the Grand Canyon State. money numbers within.

blogforarizona.net

JC1 May 19, 2024 • 10:01:25pm

re: #55 Targetpractice

It will be, because a doctor or a lab with access to the necessary equipment will set up offer up services to wealthy patrons for “designer babies.” It will start as “While you’re treating his congenital heart defect, do you think you can lighten his hair color?,” then turn into “We’re afraid he’ll be bullied if he has brown hair, can you change it to blond?,” and finally land at “Since we’re making improvements, do you think you could give him arm strength like a gorilla? We’d like him to be the star of the high school football team when he’s older.”

Gattaca. One of my all time favorites.

Targetpractice May 19, 2024 • 10:01:32pm

re: #64 piratedan

for those following along at home, here’s a current snapshot on how it’s going for the GOP in the Grand Canyon State. money numbers within.

blogforarizona.net

Doesn’t seem like a day goes by anymore without us hearing that yet another state GQP operation is going broke while saddled with Trumpanista candidates.

Romantic Heretic May 19, 2024 • 10:04:59pm

re: #48 silverdolphin

People will be looking to add ‘cool things’ like horns, fangs, claws, and scales.

They’ll also look for reasons to use those things because, ya know, human.

piratedan May 19, 2024 • 10:07:52pm

re: #66 Targetpractice

we could not even talk about what Trump is on trial for and just stick to the issues….

Trump

anti-gun control
anti-climate change
anti-abortion
anti-Democracy

and that’s a meal of infinite sadness for us all, without even drawing breath on all of his baggage.

A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS May 19, 2024 • 10:23:51pm

re: #45 Lancelot Link Returns!

Condolences to the people of Iran.

Except the regions that are shooting off fireworks in celebration, of course (according to La Reppublica).

silverdolphin May 19, 2024 • 10:24:36pm

re: #65 JC1

Gattaca. One of my all time favorites.

The current problem is human genetics are much more complex than that. We are now looking at single site defects now like sickle cell. A lot of these other traits are complex mixtures of different gene products - changing one thing changes many others, or perhaps none at all.

And then there is also the nurture part - ie expression levels may well be dependent on environmental exposures. Epigenetic processes look to have a major impact.

I do not think it will be quite as simple as some think. It may still be possible but will likely be very labor intensive without knowing if complete success is achievable.

Targetpractice May 19, 2024 • 10:25:17pm

So, have the MAGAts decided yet on whether Biden is to blame for killing Iran’s president or to blame for not doing it?

gwangung May 19, 2024 • 10:31:16pm

re: #70 silverdolphin

The current problem is human genetics are much more complex than that. We are now looking at single site defects now like sickle cell. A lot of these other traits are complex mixtures of different gene products - changing one thing changes many others, or perhaps none at all.

And then there is also the nurture part - ie expression levels may well be dependent on environmental exposures. Epigenetic processes look to have a major impact.

I do not think it will be quite as simple as some think. It may still be possible but will likely be very labor intensive without knowing if complete success is achievable.

But that goes against the mindset that underlies so much of the right wing. There’s an unspoken, unshakeable belief that there are “good genes” that dictate outcomes—and they have them, poor people don’t and any attempt to deal with poverty is going against nature, and is ultimately futile and wasteful.

Targetpractice May 19, 2024 • 10:40:01pm

re: #70 silverdolphin

The current problem is human genetics are much more complex than that. We are now looking at single site defects now like sickle cell. A lot of these other traits are complex mixtures of different gene products - changing one thing changes many others, or perhaps none at all.

And then there is also the nurture part - ie expression levels may well be dependent on environmental exposures. Epigenetic processes look to have a major impact.

I do not think it will be quite as simple as some think. It may still be possible but will likely be very labor intensive without knowing if complete success is achievable.

That’s probably why Gattaca sort of side-stepped the difficulties with actually making genetic engineering a common practice by instead focusing on the dangers of eugenics in a world where we’ve not only mapped the human genome in its entirety, but we’ve reduced the population down to their genetic profiles and assigned labels to those with “undesirable” traits as a form of futuristic segregation.

Captain Ron May 19, 2024 • 10:44:20pm

I downloaded Stellarium for Android and it is amazing. When you point it to a place in the night sky it shows the constellations and planets. Zoomed in it shows all the satellites, there are many Starlinks overhead at one time. I love the direction and angle detectors controlling the view.

silverdolphin May 19, 2024 • 10:46:04pm

re: #72 gwangung

But that goes against the mindset that underlies so much of the right wing. There’s an unspoken, unshakeable belief that there are “good genes” that dictate outcomes—and they have them, poor people don’t and any attempt to deal with poverty is going against nature, and is ultimately futile and wasteful.

One of the hallmarks of current conservative thought is the inability to understand the complexity of the cultural environment they inhabit. So they make simplifications that, well, have little connection to reality. I guess genetics will be no exception.

William Lewis May 19, 2024 • 10:49:40pm

re: #72 gwangung

But that goes against the mindset that underlies so much of the right wing. There’s an unspoken, unshakeable belief that there are “good genes” that dictate outcomes—and they have them, poor people don’t and any attempt to deal with poverty is going against nature, and is ultimately futile and wasteful.

And of course these genetic “realties” are simply the way the real world expresses how their idea of god hates poor people as well. < spit >

silverdolphin May 19, 2024 • 10:55:49pm

re: #73 Targetpractice

That’s probably why Gattaca sort of side-stepped the difficulties with actually making genetic engineering a common practice by instead focusing on the dangers of eugenics in a world where we’ve not only mapped the human genome in its entirety, but we’ve reduced the population down to their genetic profiles and assigned labels to those with “undesirable” traits as a form of futuristic segregation.

Yep, so many of our genetics are also time-dependent - expression has to happen at a specific time during development in order to be useful. So the profile is not everything. Time-dependent gene expression makes a huge difference.

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 19, 2024 • 11:02:20pm

(49:56) Tuberculosis has killed more than homicide and war. Disease kills 90% of humans. Yet it gets little review in high school or university history classes. We know how to cure it, yet 1.5 million people die from it every year.

The Deadliest Infectious Disease of All Time | Crash Course Lecture

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus May 19, 2024 • 11:07:08pm

So I’m trying out ProtonVPN, as it seems to be highly recommended by self-declared security experts.

The freebee service appears to be ok… T-mobile is not restricting it like they did PIA (whose software was causing my iMac problems, I think.)

Checking out websites that discuss online security… and now I’m swamped with thinking about “threat profiles” of my “enemies”…

Still, with Trump possibly being re-elected, we need to have in place privacy apparatus.

No Malarkey! May 19, 2024 • 11:18:08pm

re: #58 Targetpractice

The reality is it’s going to be more than the farms and these asshats have no clue how bad it’s really going to be. Farmers will find nobody available to plant or harvest their crops, meat-packers are going to struggle without the necessary workforce, vital links in the transportation system between those two businesses and distribution warehouses are going to break down, and grocery stores are going to find themselves without enough manpower to both serve customers and maintain the stores simultaneously. And that’s just the “farm to table” chain, now imagine that the next time the same asshole goes on a business trip he can’t find a room at the end of his drive because the hotels can’t keep rooms clean, while back at home his lawn has gone to pot because the landscaping company lost the bulk of their manpower.

Not to mention new home construction will plummet because guess who is on most work sites providing the labor.

Targetpractice May 19, 2024 • 11:35:31pm

re: #80 No Malarkey!

Not to mention new home construction will plummet because guess who is on most work sites providing the labor.

New construction and general contracting prices are gonna skyrocket as the cost of labor explodes due to a manpower shortage and the “native” workers who step up demanding higher wages for the increased workload. Cue the union bosses grinning ear to ear as they exercise their much increased leverage to put the hurt on all those companies that have happily exploited “illegals” for cheap labor for decades.

Captain Ron May 19, 2024 • 11:49:36pm

The footage shows the transfer of the bodies of the martyrs by the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) and army rangers pic.twitter.com/oJtEiEc0U6

— IRNA News Agency (@IrnaEnglish) May 20, 2024

#Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian and a group of officials accompanying them were martyred in a helicopter crash in northwestern Iran.

— IRNA News Agency (@IrnaEnglish) May 20, 2024

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 20, 2024 • 12:20:22am

re: #66 Targetpractice

Doesn’t seem like a day goes by anymore without us hearing that yet another state GQP operation is going broke while saddled with Trumpanista candidates.

The host says in the clip “[Kari] Lake could get beat by the Communist.”

Even when they see a problem (Lake is a lunatic), they still can’t break out of the thinking that makes the rest of them sound like lunatics.

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 20, 2024 • 12:21:41am

re: #63 JC1

Why isn’t the DOJ or IRS looking into Thomas’s taxes? Did he report income on all those gifts he didn’t disclose? If not, let’s Al Capone his ass.

They may be. They usually don’t announce investigations or audits whilst they’re going on.

Targetpractice May 20, 2024 • 12:24:48am

re: #83 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The host says in the clip “[Kari] Lake could get beat by the Communist.”

Even when they see a problem (Lake is a lunatic), they still can’t break out of the thinking that makes the rest of them sound like lunatics.

And to think, George Orwell figured it would take an oppressive authoritarian government to implement that sort of groupthink amongst the masses.

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 20, 2024 • 12:32:10am

The numbers are in: The fastest economic growth of any county over 500,000 people in the USA is Douglas County, Nebr., at 9.2%. Suck it, Austin.

Omaha has never scored in the top fifty since this metric was measured starting in 1982.

Oklahoma County, Okla. had the largest decrease at 5.3%.

Gross Domestic Product by County and Metropolitan Area, Bureau of Economic Analysis (PDF, fifty-four pages, list of all counties).

My county declined 2.8%, and 40.9% the previous year.

In general (there are exceptions), the more liberal/Democratic a county is, the better they did.

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 20, 2024 • 12:37:43am

Flint, Mich. got a lot of press when former Gov. Snyder (R) destroyed their water system.

The Santee Sioux Nation in northeast Nebraska gets almost no press.

After 5 years without drinkable water, Santee asks: When will our tap water be safe? (Goes to the Flatwater Free Press, May 17, 2024)

The Santee Sioux Nation reservation in northeast Nebraska has been under a no-drink order since 2019. Leaders hope a new state law could jumpstart funding needed to fix the problem.

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 20, 2024 • 12:51:26am

nbcnews.com (from 2020)

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 20, 2024 • 12:52:08am

re: #88 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Oops, constructed the link incorrectly. The title is “Dark money and PAC’s coordinated ‘reopen’ push are behind doctors’ viral hydroxychloroquine video”

Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 20, 2024 • 1:07:27am

Social Security evaluates disability claims based on a list of jobs last updated in 1977. Many of the jobs on the list (dowel inspector, nut sorter, &c) are long obsolete.

I was in high school when the list was last updated.

Social Security denies disability benefits based on list with jobs from 1977 (Washington Post, December 27 2022)

The article lists examples of obsolete jobs that will get you denied, judges who agree people are disabled then deny them benefits based on those jobs, &c.

Yeah Sure WhatEVs May 20, 2024 • 1:10:21am

re: #59 William Lewis

Camera battery was dead on the way to work this morning so I couldn’t take any images of this new statue I wanted to capture. So instead I stopped on the way to work tonight …

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What is that? Looks like a girl and her alien.

William Lewis May 20, 2024 • 1:19:08am

re: #91 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

What is that? Looks like a girl and her alien.

Called “Reeds” so plants I would presume 😀

Depending on when it’s sunny next (raining at the moment) I plan to try again in the sunlight. Last night was mainly to get my daily photo covered.

Yeah Sure WhatEVs May 20, 2024 • 1:19:38am

Well this was unexpected. I’ll take a deuce any day.

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Well, today’s the day I’ve been working for and stressing over.

11 am cannot come soon enough.

DodgerFan1988 May 20, 2024 • 1:24:02am

Raisi served as the prosecutor general of Tehran between 1989 and 1994, when he earned the nickname “Butcher of Tehran.” He participated in a so-called death commission that ordered the executions of thousands of political prisoners in 1988.
An evil person wiped off this earth… https://t.co/hAx8ZusoAI

— Mana Yegani (@Law_Mana) May 20, 2024

Dangerman May 20, 2024 • 2:50:48am

re: #29 jaunte

Trump is apparently setting up his excuse to back out of the scheduled debates by “scheduling” and announcing additional debates that the Biden campaign will not be attending.

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The two teams discussed and agreed on two debates.

The rest of this nonsense he’s doing in his own addled brain, alone.

Dangerman May 20, 2024 • 3:02:43am

re: #85 Targetpractice

And to think, George Orwell figured it would take an oppressive authoritarian government to implement that sort of groupthink amongst the masses.

He probably first thought red hats and diapers? Nah. no one would believe that.

Dangerman May 20, 2024 • 3:06:20am

re: #86 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
………….. ^^^^^^^

Seems like old times

Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ May 20, 2024 • 3:25:20am

Bah. Should’nt have gone for the less common words.
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Nerdy Fish May 20, 2024 • 3:54:04am

re: #95 Dangerman

The two teams discussed and agreed on two debates.

The rest of this nonsense he’s doing in his own addled brain, alone.

I mean, he’s a dictator, so he naturally thinks he should be able to dictate terms to everybody else and they just do what he says, right?

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Nerdy Fish May 20, 2024 • 4:00:00am

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 20, 2024 • 4:10:23am

re: #8 Charles Johnson

RFK Jr. has lived his whole life in that weird media bubble, and he’s probably at least partly aware of that somewhere in the part of his brain the worm didn’t get to eat.

The point is that he found it an entirely justifiable and viable reason to plead in order to pay reduced alimony to his ex-wife but not as any sort of hindrance to holding the highest elected office in the land.

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Randall Gross May 20, 2024 • 4:12:44am

This turns off the AI garbage in Google by making your default browser search default to google’s “Web only” search

I did the same in the search engine settings page for chrome, and it works just fine.
Here’s the long article if you are wondering how it works
tedium.co

bsky.app

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steve_davis May 20, 2024 • 5:09:02am

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lawhawk May 20, 2024 • 5:09:42am

re: #7 silverdolphin

There was never any way that 80-100k people were at Trump’s rally in Wildwood. That’s the kind of figure you get on a hot summer day at the beach, not one of Trump’s rallies.

If that kind of number was even remotely accurate, it would have likely exceeded Trump’s inaugural (which was his largest event).

But everyone is reporting it as fact, even though it was likely a fraction of that tally.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 20, 2024 • 5:15:09am

re: #104 steve_davis

works for me most of the time…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 20, 2024 • 5:16:47am

re: #105 lawhawk

There was never any way that 80-100k people were at Trump’s rally in Wildwood. That’s the kind of figure you get on a hot summer day at the beach, not one of Trump’s rallies.

If that kind of number was even remotely accurate, it would have likely exceeded Trump’s inaugural (which was his largest event).

But everyone is reporting it as fact, even though it was likely a fraction of that tally.

Welcome to the New Media Reality.

It will grow even more extreme in the next election cycle, when it will be even more difficult to distinguish AI deep fakes from reality.

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Targetpractice May 20, 2024 • 5:17:51am

re: #104 steve_davis

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Hey, I resemble that remark!

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Florida Panhandler May 20, 2024 • 5:21:05am

re: #5 jaunte

We have direct evidence that now several Supreme Court justices are ethically and morally compromised if not utterly corrupt.

It is therefore incumbent for a would-be President Biden to pack this fucking Court to the rafters immediately if a Democratic Congress is also a reality. There is no other Constitutional remedy for this situation. Yet another abject failure of this “God-inspired original document”.

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lawhawk May 20, 2024 • 5:27:30am

re: #109 Florida Panhandler

We have direct evidence that now several Supreme Court justices are ethically and morally compromised if not utterly corrupt.

It is therefore incumbent for a would-be President Biden to pack this fucking Court to the rafters immediately if a Democratic Congress is also a reality. There is no other Constitutional remedy for this situation. Yet another abject failure of this “God-inspired original document”.

Packing the court? It requires Congress to go along with any effort to do so. That means overcoming filibuster in the Senate, plus having control of the House. Eliminate the filibuster, and the path gets easier.

I’d go a lot further than just packing SCOTUS.

I’d revisit the entire circuit map, and carve out new circuits in the 5th and 9th circuits. And then match the number of justices to the number of circuits.

I’d also direct that any decisions reached by SCOTUS cannot be issued by the “emergency docket aka shadow docket” route without a written opinion. This is the means by which SCOTUS can issue consequential rulings without even hearing oral arguments, and can simply rule without providing any reasoning behind the decision.

Having additional justices on the court should also tamper down the shadow docket, because they can hear more arguments and take up more cases.

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Nerdy Fish May 20, 2024 • 5:31:23am

re: #110 lawhawk

You want to talk about packing the Court, how’s this for an option: Rather than 1 justice per circuit, make it 3. Cases are heard by panels, with appropriate restrictions to prevent any sort of panel-packing shenanigans, with the option of an en banc review that would select one of the 3 justices from each circuit.

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jeffreyw May 20, 2024 • 5:35:15am

Good morning!

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William Lewis May 20, 2024 • 5:39:11am

re: #112 jeffreyw

saved that images for tuesday nights game 😈

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 20, 2024 • 5:40:23am

re: #89 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Oops, constructed the link incorrectly. The title is “Dark money and PAC’s coordinated ‘reopen’ push are behind doctors’ viral hydroxychloroquine video”

Had hydroxychloroquine turned out to be even the slightest bit effective against Covid, DJT would have been prasied as Savior and Avatar who knew better than all those eleitist pharamoncologists and acandemic epidemonologists, and he would still be President now.

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Shropshire Slasher May 20, 2024 • 5:57:05am

A little drive time music, must be because the CIA was busy over the weekend.

AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (Live At River Plate, December 2009)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 20, 2024 • 6:10:57am

A road sign in Canada…

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darthstar May 20, 2024 • 6:19:34am

Has the criminal defendant blamed President Biden for the helicopter crash in Iran yet?

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PhillyPretzel ✅ May 20, 2024 • 6:20:45am

re: #117 darthstar

I have not heard anything but give it some time and I am sure someone will blame it on Joe.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 20, 2024 • 6:21:02am

re: #117 darthstar

Has the criminal defendant blamed President Biden for the helicopter crash in Iran yet?

Blame him for not having killed the Iranian President already. Had he not stolen the election, DJT would have taken him out long ago…

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jeffreyw May 20, 2024 • 6:22:23am

Dad joke for today.

— e.g., talltalestogo or maybe David (@talltalestogo.bsky.social) 2024-05-20T01:10:36.532Z

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 20, 2024 • 6:23:32am

re: #120 jeffreyw

certainly not for vampires…

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darthstar May 20, 2024 • 6:24:30am

It was only a matter of time before she stepped on her own dick (as the saying goes)…

Aileen Cannon has frothed up the usual suspects with her latest order, in which she suggests that Jack Smith is being inconsistent about his approach to grand jury secrecy.

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A Cranky One May 20, 2024 • 6:28:48am

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Dr Lizardo May 20, 2024 • 6:39:03am

re: #115 Shropshire Slasher

I’ve seen AC/DC live a couple of times. They’re phenomenal.

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darthstar May 20, 2024 • 6:39:57am

re: #124 Dr Lizardo

I’ve seen AC/DC live a couple of times. They’re phenomenal.

I got to see them once…good, fun show.

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Joe Bacon ✅ May 20, 2024 • 6:40:01am

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A Cranky One May 20, 2024 • 6:44:01am

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Dr Lizardo May 20, 2024 • 6:44:37am

re: #125 darthstar

I got to see them once…good, fun show.

Oh, yeah. Great energy at their concerts.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs May 20, 2024 • 6:47:16am

re: #103 Randall Gross

This turns off the AI garbage in Google by making your default browser search default to google’s “Web only” search

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I did the same in the search engine settings page for chrome, and it works just fine.
Here’s the long article if you are wondering how it works
tedium.co

bsky.app

So you’re saying Duck Duck Go then? 😆

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darthstar May 20, 2024 • 6:56:48am

re: #129 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

So you’re saying Duck Duck Go then? 😆

When I was setting up my web only googs I noticed another search engine that I think I’ll support: Ecosia

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Shropshire Slasher May 20, 2024 • 6:56:58am

The International Criminal Court announced Monday that it is seeking arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar on war crime charges.
The charges are tied to the deadly Oct. 7 terror attacks on Israel and the subsequent war in Gaza, the court’s chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, said in a statement on Monday.

Warrants are also being sought for Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and two top Hamas leaders.
The charges against the Hamas terror chiefs include extermination, murder, torture, rape and taking hostages, all as war crimes and crimes against humanity.

nypost.com

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS May 20, 2024 • 6:59:31am

re: #93 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Well this was unexpected. I’ll take a deuce any day.

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Well, today’s the day I’ve been working for and stressing over.

11 am cannot come soon enough.

Partridge for me. Missed the potential endless search.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 20, 2024 • 7:03:19am

re: #131 Shropshire Slasher

The International Criminal Court announced Monday that it is seeking arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar on war crime charges.

I appreciate the sentiment and intent of bringing leaders of both sides to justice over events in Gaza/Israel, but unfortunately this remains mostly a symbolic gesture.

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darthstar May 20, 2024 • 7:05:34am

Mastodon

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Shropshire Slasher May 20, 2024 • 7:05:42am

Should put a roundabout in there instead.

Oakland has removed the traffic lights from one intersection and replaced them with 4-way stop signs due to people stealing copper and then tampering with an electrical box.

It’s a sight that has made drivers do a double take: a stop sign hanging overhead where a traffic light would normally be, located above the intersection of E. 12th Street and 16th Avenue in Oakland.

Neighbors said city workers removed the all the traffic lights in the last week and replaced them with four-way stop signs. The installation came after months of people stealing copper wires and tampering with the city electrical boxes that supply power to the traffic lights.

“It’s just telling us that the city is giving up on us,” said Tam Le, owner of Le’s Auto Body & Engine Repair, located at the corner of the intersection.

Neighbors said the lights that were there before hadn’t worked in months, either blinking red or being completely out.

cbsnews.com

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS May 20, 2024 • 7:10:23am

Happy Monday!

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PhillyPretzel ✅ May 20, 2024 • 7:11:16am

re: #136 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

Beautiful irises.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) May 20, 2024 • 7:13:06am

re: #135 Shropshire Slasher

Should put a roundabout in there instead.

cbsnews.com

In most locales the traffic regulations are that an intersection with a broken or inoperable traffic light is to be treated by all drivers as a all-way stop as a default.

Of course, my experience with seeing lights inoperable after a power outage is that the drivers on the road that is the one with the normal right-of-way seem to treat the intersection as a never-ending green light. As a result I’ve seen locations put up temporary stop signs to make the situation clear to the ignorant.

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wrenchwench May 20, 2024 • 7:13:54am

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mmmirele May 20, 2024 • 7:14:18am

re: #64 piratedan

for those following along at home, here’s a current snapshot on how it’s going for the GOP in the Grand Canyon State. money numbers within.

blogforarizona.net

Just to remind everyone: the AZ GOP bought office space in a building around June 2023, and ended up selling it in March 2024.

axios.com

This is not a party doing well. I mean, it’s possible they could get their act together, but if the party leader is going to be Konspiracy Kari Lake, they’re going to have a problem. And that’s not me, that’s political observers. politico.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 20, 2024 • 7:15:53am

I learned how to drive in roundabouts in the UK, if you are on a two-lane road, you should keep to the middle lane unless you mean to take the very first exit. Then the lane is free for people wanting to take subsequent exits.

Germans have trouble with that concept as for them, the middle (for them left) land is only for passing.

And I really did see a guy here on a large roundabout near Frankfurt miss his exit, hit the brakes, stop and back up…

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Dr Lizardo May 20, 2024 • 7:17:01am

re: #135 Shropshire Slasher

A roundabout would make traffic flow easier, but that’s gonna be way more expensive to put that in than just plunking down four stop signs.

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mmmirele May 20, 2024 • 7:18:07am

re: #78 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

(49:56) Tuberculosis has killed more than homicide and war. Disease kills 90% of humans. Yet it gets little review in high school or university history classes. We know how to cure it, yet 1.5 million people die from it every year.

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And yet there are idiots who insist on drinking raw (unpasteurized) milk. Now because they think it will protect them from H5N1 flu.

livescience.com

*headdesk*

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darthstar May 20, 2024 • 7:19:27am

Cohen has zero fucks to give. Admitting he stole from a criminal organization isn’t going to make a difference in this case.

Mastodon

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Belafon May 20, 2024 • 7:23:19am

For those of you who wonder over at Balloon Juice, Betty Cracker has an aggressive form of cancer, the kind, she says, that has a median life expectancy of two years.

balloon-juice.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 20, 2024 • 7:24:43am

re: #143 mmmirele

And yet there are idiots who insist on drinking raw (unpasteurized) milk. Now because they think it will protect them from H5N1 flu.

livescience.com

*headdesk*

If I had a cow tied up out back, I would drink unpasteurized milk.

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mmmirele May 20, 2024 • 7:29:31am

re: #104 steve_davis

Please don’t promote stuff from the Babylon Bee, *PLEASE*. They’re *mean* to so many people.

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darthstar May 20, 2024 • 7:29:33am

re: #146 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

If I had a cow tied up out back, I would drink unpasteurized milk.

We lived on a farm for a while while my parents were building a house. We had fresh cow’s milk - it didn’t suck.

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darthstar May 20, 2024 • 7:30:55am

re: #147 mmmirele

Please don’t promote stuff from the Babylon Bee, *PLEASE*. They’re *mean* to so many people.

They also probably stole that joke from an old Onion post.

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GlutenFreeJesus May 20, 2024 • 7:31:08am

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dat_said May 20, 2024 • 7:32:39am

re: #142 Dr Lizardo

A roundabout would make traffic flow easier, but that’s gonna be way more expensive to put that in than just plunking down four stop signs.

That may be true, but roundabouts are cheaper to maintain than traffic lights. Also, according to the Mayor of Carmel IN, a single traffic light costs $400,000, cost $8000 to $10000 per year per light for electricity, you have to have specialized staff knowledge to service and maintain timing, and the lights have to be replaced every 20 years for another $400,000.
Construction costs for a well-designed traffic intersection with lights (they work best and most efficiently if there are dedicated turn lanes) aren’t that much different than a well-designed single lane roundabout. Then there are benefits to improved safety - slower speeds means fewer accidents and less damage than you get from someone running a red light or stop sign and it’s a lot safer for pedestrians.

Video on Carmel IN - the leader in US and the world in number of roundabouts: Roundabouts Are Safer. So Why Does The U.S. Have So Few Of Them?

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Randall Gross May 20, 2024 • 7:32:45am

From the Onion

theonion.com

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Randall Gross May 20, 2024 • 7:36:00am

re: #147 mmmirele

Please don’t promote stuff from the Babylon Bee, *PLEASE*. They’re *mean* to so many people.

It’s a screenshot, not a direct link, so I can live with it.

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Unabogie May 20, 2024 • 7:37:51am

re: #144 darthstar

Cohen has zero fucks to give. Admitting he stole from a criminal organization isn’t going to make a difference in this case.

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Poor Donald. It’s not his fault that he surrounds himself with lying criminals!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 20, 2024 • 7:41:07am

re: #152 Randall Gross

new florida-law requires all women to produce 3 healthy male sons

that is a bit over the top, but they will be introducing mandatory medical inspections for all chidbearing-age women leaving or re-entering the state

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darthstar May 20, 2024 • 7:41:38am

re: #152 Randall Gross

Now that’s one the Babylon Bee won’t steal.

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Randall Gross May 20, 2024 • 7:42:44am

The International Criminal Court is seeking arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, and three leaders of Hamas, on the grounds of war crimes and crimes against humanity, the prosecutor’s office has announced.

— Megan O’Toole (@meganotoole.bsky.social) 2024-05-20T13:27:25.442Z

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darthstar May 20, 2024 • 7:43:17am

re: #155 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

that is a bit over the top, but they will be introducing mandatory medical inspections for all chidbearing-age women leaving or re-entering the state

The magnatrons at the airports are getting retrofitted to include an ultrasound device.

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lawhawk May 20, 2024 • 7:50:52am

re: #158 darthstar

Transvaginal ultrasounds… your proposal isn’t extreme or intrusive enough. /half

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lawhawk May 20, 2024 • 7:53:43am

x.com

So, guys who were pardoned by Trump, excused his criminality, and otherwise are telling Trump what he wants to hear, are there in the courtroom with him.

Eric Trump continues to float in and out of the courtroom depending on the day, trying to butter up his dad to make sure that he gets his inheritance /half

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darthstar May 20, 2024 • 7:56:46am

re: #160 lawhawk

Maybe they’re there to return the favor…Don’t worry, Don! We’ll pardon you!

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Randall Gross May 20, 2024 • 7:59:38am

Ooooh! This one’s easy — if BLM had been at the capitol on 1/6 then Trump would have had the National Guard shooting people before the first window was broken.
Biden: what would Trump have done if the Capitol riots had been led by Black Americans?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti…

— Randall Gross (@randallgross.bsky.social) 2024-05-20T14:54:09.691Z

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

re: #162 Randall Gross

I think that is what totally scuppered the GOP planning on Jan 6: they had counted on BLM and Antifa being present so they would have an excuse to send forces to move on the “hostile, violent mob” outside, leaving the MAGA “peaceful, harmless sightseers” to run rampant through the Capitol, disupting vote certification.

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lawhawk May 20, 2024 • 8:05:38am

re: #162 Randall Gross

We know from history what happens when persons of colors with guns show up with their constitutional rights - the GOP flips the script and suddenly goes all in on gun control (as we saw with California under Reagan as Governor after Black Panthers showed up with their long guns to protest for their rights).

We know what happens when persons of color demonstrate and protest to protect and insist on their rights. They’re assaulted and attacked by law enforcement, to preserve the status quo, which innately protects white male supremacy.

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calochortus May 20, 2024 • 8:06:25am

re: #151 dat_said

That may be true, but roundabouts are cheaper to maintain than traffic lights. Also, according to the Mayor of Carmel IN, a single traffic light costs $400,000, cost $8000 to $10000 per year per light for electricity, you have to have specialized staff knowledge to service and maintain timing, and the lights have to be replaced every 20 years for another $400,000.
Construction costs for a well-designed traffic intersection with lights (they work best and most efficiently if there are dedicated turn lanes) aren’t that much different than a well-designed single lane roundabout. Then there are benefits to improved safety - slower speeds means fewer accidents and less damage than you get from someone running a red light or stop sign and it’s a lot safer for pedestrians.

Video on Carmel IN - the leader in US and the world in number of roundabouts: [Embedded content]

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There’s a relatively new turbo roundabout between Gilroy and Hollister in CA. It was previously a dangerous intersection between two state highways where people didn’t pay as much attention to the traffic lights as they might have. Apparently there have been no serious injuries or deaths in the months since it was opened, but there are 3 times as many accidents.
The problem is fairly heavy traffic, and the fact that you have to cut straight across lanes of traffic in the roundabout to get to the appropriate lane because you can’t change lanes within the roundabout. I can’t imagine how this is a good idea. Yes, it slows you down (fewer serious accidents) but at the cost of chaos in getting to your lane (3 times the number of accidents.)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 20, 2024 • 8:08:18am

re: #164 lawhawk

We know from history what happens when persons of colors with guns show up with their constitutional rights

Or when black USAF officer Roger FortsonLink opened his own front door with a gun in hand when police came to the wrong address…

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lawhawk May 20, 2024 • 8:09:43am

From the Xts coming from the courtroom, Blanche isn’t doing a great job dirtying up Cohen on cross. We know Cohen was out trying to capitalize on his relationship with Trump. That’s what everyone was doing in Trumpworld. It doesn’t change the underlying facts of the case, or that the evidence all points to Trump knowing the plot to lie on the business records was intended to keep news of the affairs out of the news until after the election.

Trump knew.
The timing is established.
The parties to the events know and establish that timeline.
There’s corroborating evidence of the timeline.
Trump isn’t disrupting the chain of evidence or the timeline.

He’s just trying to bloody Cohen on the stand, but prosecutors get redirect after this, and then we go to closing arguments and jury instructions (though I also expect Blanche to insist on a mistrial or directed verdict, which will be denied).

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 20, 2024 • 8:10:37am

re: #165 calochortus

The problem is fairly heavy traffic, and the fact that you have to cut straight across lanes of traffic in the roundabout to get to the appropriate lane because you can’t change lanes within the roundabout. I can’t imagine how this is a good idea. Yes, it slows you down (fewer serious accidents) but at the cost of chaos in getting to your lane (3 times the number of accidents.)

again, because we don’t know how to use roundabouts. Enter the right lane only if you plan to take the first exit. That then frees up the lane for others to get over who need to get out at subsequent exits.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS May 20, 2024 • 8:12:17am

New Randy Rainbow parody just dropped.

FORTY-FIVE! - A Randy Rainbow Song Parody

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) May 20, 2024 • 8:14:26am

re: #168 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

again, because we don’t know how to use roundabouts. Enter the right lane only if you plan to take the first exit. That then frees up the lane for others to get over who need to get out at subsequent exits.

Isn’t the other rule of roundabouts that a car *in* the roundabout has right-of-way over any car trying to enter it?

I know of a few pseudo-roundabouts in NJ where the highway entering the roundabout has the right-of-way over the roundabout itself. Thus why I don’t consider them true roundabouts as compared to a regular road intersection that is just shaped differently than the usual 4-way cross.

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calochortus May 20, 2024 • 8:16:02am

re: #168 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

again, because we don’t know how to use roundabouts. Enter the right lane only if you plan to take the first exit. That then frees up the lane for others to get over who need to get out at subsequent exits.

So, with significant traffic in the 2 lanes closest to the outside, how do you get across one or 2 of those lanes to get into lane 2 or 3? With a turbo roundabout, someone wanting to go straight or turn left has to have a gap in both lane 1 and 2 at the same time because you shouldn’t stop, and have to get into your lane at the time you enter the roundabout.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) May 20, 2024 • 8:17:05am

re: #168 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

again, because we don’t know how to use roundabouts. Enter the right lane only if you plan to take the first exit. That then frees up the lane for others to get over who need to get out at subsequent exits.

Something else to beware of is that drivers get used to traffic patterns and then start making assumptions.

The car I was driving in France once almost gotten taken out by a semi-truck who started into a roundabout assuming I was jumping off the first exit like all the other cars. (Was not a multi-lane roundabout.)

I also use signals in roundabouts to indicate which exit I am taking.

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calochortus May 20, 2024 • 8:18:29am

re: #171 calochortus

So, with significant traffic in the 2 lanes closest to the outside, how do you get across one or 2 of those lanes to get into lane 2 or 3? With a turbo roundabout, someone wanting to go straight or turn left has to have a gap in both lane 1 and 2 at the same time because you shouldn’t stop, and have to get into your lane at the time you enter the roundabout.

I’ve seen the how-to video on this, and they show a few cars in the roundabout, nicely spaced. In real life, there weren’t decent spaces to work with.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 20, 2024 • 8:18:35am

re: #170 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Isn’t the other rule of roundabouts that a car *in* the roundabout has right-of-way over any car trying to enter it?

In Russia, cars entering rondabout have the right of way.

(i.e., In Russia, roundabout enter you)

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calochortus May 20, 2024 • 8:19:10am

re: #172 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

I also use signals in roundabouts to indicate which exit I am taking.

Which makes you a minority.

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lawhawk May 20, 2024 • 8:28:11am

re: #175 calochortus

We have some roundabouts in NJ and plenty of jughandles, and I always use signal for any lane change, because that’s how my dad taught me - always signal your intentions, even if no one else is on the road, because there might be someone else on the road that you don’t see (like in blind spots). It’s served me well, and I was taught roundabouts have the right of way, and that vehicles entering the roundabout have to yield to traffic already in the roundabout. My sense is they work better at lower speeds than higher speeds, and that single lane roundabouts are easier to figure that multilane ones.

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Joe Bacon ✅ May 20, 2024 • 8:28:38am

Uh oh Stewpid Peters in trouble…

Lawsuit Exposes Internal Feuds And Inner Workings Of Stew Peters’ Extremist Media Empire

A dispute raging inside the “Stew Peters Network” ended up in a federal court in Florida last month. The ongoing case has exposed drama between a group of far right media personalities, complete with alleged text messages and emails that show the inner workings of a company that has peddled conspiracy theories, anti-gay hate speech, racism, and antisemitism, while still maintaining connections with more mainstream Republicans.

In many ways, the trouble began — as so many things have in the modern far right — with the coronavirus pandemic.

talkingpointsmemo.com

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs May 20, 2024 • 8:30:03am

re: #141 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I learned how to drive in roundabouts in the UK, if you are on a two-lane road, you should keep to the middle lane unless you mean to take the very first exit. Then the lane is free for people wanting to take subsequent exits.

Germans have trouble with that concept as for them, the middle (for them left) land is only for passing.

And I really did see a guy here on a large roundabout near Frankfurt miss his exit, hit the brakes, stop and back up…

We have a new one here and I like going that way just to drive in it. (Yes, I’m both easily amused and have too much time on my hands). I also like to see how many people have not gotten the hang of driving through one by how much rubber is on the apron (I think that’s what its called - the edge of the center).

So, yeah… I’m both easily amused and have too much time on my hands.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs May 20, 2024 • 8:31:16am

re: #143 mmmirele

And yet there are idiots who insist on drinking raw (unpasteurized) milk. Now because they think it will protect them from H5N1 flu.

livescience.com

*headdesk*

If you are trying to stop evolution from happening, forget about it. Survival of the fittest. Buh bye morons.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs May 20, 2024 • 8:33:21am

re: #144 darthstar

Cohen has zero fucks to give. Admitting he stole from a criminal organization isn’t going to make a difference in this case.

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What was Blanche trying to get at there? That Cohen is a crook? Ok. That’s a given. Was there some other point?

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Nerdy Fish May 20, 2024 • 8:34:53am

re: #180 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

What was Blanche trying to get at there? That Cohen is a crook? Ok. That’s a given. Was there some other point?

They are trying to impeach his credibility to the jury, which is actually not a bad strategy. Making him out to be a crook and a liar introduces reasonable doubt. The thing is, he’s still more believable than the idiot defendant - and they know it.

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Charmingly Persistent May 20, 2024 • 8:35:38am

re: #164 lawhawk

We know from history what happens when persons of colors with guns show up with their constitutional rights - the GOP flips the script and suddenly goes all in on gun control (as we saw with California under Reagan as Governor after Black Panthers showed up with their long guns to protest for their rights).

That was the good old days. Now they would just kill them

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lawhawk May 20, 2024 • 8:36:55am

re: #180 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

What was Blanche trying to get at there? That Cohen is a crook? Ok. That’s a given. Was there some other point?

It’s about trying to plant the seed of doubt that Trump wasn’t the driver of this whole scheme to engage in business fraud, cook the books, and create documents and payments to cover up the payments to Daniels.

It’s not particularly successful, because Cohen is a convicted felon and repeatedly lied/perjured himself in prior venues - to cover for Trump and his criminal schemes. Redirect will once again shine a light on this, although prosecutors might consider that Blanche didn’t do anything to warrant a significant redirect.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 20, 2024 • 8:38:58am

re: #180 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

What was Blanche trying to get at there? That Cohen is a crook? Ok. That’s a given. Was there some other point?

It is just a move to tarnish his testimony in the jury’s eyes.

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BeenHereAwhile May 20, 2024 • 8:39:08am

re: #146 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

If I had a cow tied up out back, I would drink unpasteurized milk.

We were raised on raw milk, & home made butter & cottage cheese, but we had our own cow. And had a veterinarian test the cow for pathogens every year.

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wrenchwench May 20, 2024 • 8:39:56am

re: #179 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

If you are trying to stop evolution from happening, forget about it. Survival of the fittest. Buh bye morons.

Skepticism is not inheritable, so far as we know.

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Dangerman May 20, 2024 • 8:42:33am

re: #183 lawhawk

It’s about trying to plant the seed of doubt that Trump wasn’t the driver of this whole scheme to engage in business fraud, cook the books, and create documents and payments to cover up the payments to Daniels.

It’s not particularly successful, because Cohen is a convicted felon and repeatedly lied/perjured himself in prior venues - to cover for Trump and his criminal schemes. Redirect will once again shine a light on this, although prosecutors might consider that Blanche didn’t do anything to warrant a significant redirect.

It also doesn’t make sense that Cohen would have to hatch a scheme that involved manipulating tfg’s financial records AND that tfg, wesselberg, et al just went along with a shrug and an ‘ok’. There was no extra benefit to cohen how the expenses were recorded at trump, inc.

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Dangerman May 20, 2024 • 8:43:51am

re: #186 wrenchwench

Skepticism is not inheritable, so far as we know.

Its recessive

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dat_said May 20, 2024 • 8:43:59am

re: #143 mmmirele

And yet there are idiots who insist on drinking raw (unpasteurized) milk. Now because they think it will protect them from H5N1 flu.

livescience.com

*headdesk*

This Douglas Adams quote bears more repeating:

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calochortus May 20, 2024 • 8:46:33am

Housework awaits (oh joy.) BBL

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Captain Ron May 20, 2024 • 8:50:53am

RFK Voted From NY Address While Living In California https://t.co/Pca9w7tH69 pic.twitter.com/5kSlzmmEuW

— JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) May 20, 2024

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Nojay UK May 20, 2024 • 8:50:58am

re: #185 BeenHereAwhile

We were raised on raw milk, & home made butter & cottage cheese, but we had our own cow. And had a veterinarian test the cow for pathogens every year.

Back before pasteurisation was made the law of the land people got sick from drinking infected milk and some of them died but that was normal. Nowadays we have the idea that food should not contain dangerous pathogens and present a risk to health and life and pasteurisation, a simple process removes that risk almost entirely when it comes to milk.

If you can ensure a single source like the farm’s milk cow and that cow doesn’t spend time grazing with other cows and its milk isn’t mixed in with milk from a hundred other cows in the tanker taking it to the creamery then unpasteurised milk is safe(ish). Otherwise, nope.

Because treated milk is so very very safe today some idiots think that untreated milk will be just as safe hence my somewhat sarcastic comment “Tastes great, not many dead.”

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darthstar May 20, 2024 • 8:53:50am

re: #167 lawhawk

From the Xts coming from the courtroom, Blanche isn’t doing a great job dirtying up Cohen on cross. We know Cohen was out trying to capitalize on his relationship with Trump. That’s what everyone was doing in Trumpworld. It doesn’t change the underlying facts of the case, or that the evidence all points to Trump knowing the plot to lie on the business records was intended to keep news of the affairs out of the news until after the election.

Trump knew.
The timing is established.
The parties to the events know and establish that timeline.
There’s corroborating evidence of the timeline.
Trump isn’t disrupting the chain of evidence or the timeline.

He’s just trying to bloody Cohen on the stand, but prosecutors get redirect after this, and then we go to closing arguments and jury instructions (though I also expect Blanche to insist on a mistrial or directed verdict, which will be denied).

Blanche is on day 3 of cross - which is probably two days more than he should have taken. Trump must have told him to keep Cohen on the stand until he loses his shit, and the jury is apparently yawning and rolling its eyes at the repetitive line of questioning.

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PhillyPretzel ✅ May 20, 2024 • 8:54:36am

re: #192 Nojay UK

That is one of the reasons why the USNA had its own cows. I do not believe they still do that.

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JC1 May 20, 2024 • 8:57:26am

re: #70 silverdolphin

The current problem is human genetics are much more complex than that. We are now looking at single site defects now like sickle cell. A lot of these other traits are complex mixtures of different gene products - changing one thing changes many others, or perhaps none at all.

And then there is also the nurture part - ie expression levels may well be dependent on environmental exposures. Epigenetic processes look to have a major impact.

I do not think it will be quite as simple as some think. It may still be possible but will likely be very labor intensive without knowing if complete success is achievable.

I agree that it won’t be simple/easy. Twin studies strongly suggest that it’s mostly nature.

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BigPapa May 20, 2024 • 9:00:06am

The greatest crime is getting caught stealing from the King Thief.

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Dangerman May 20, 2024 • 9:02:13am

re: #192 Nojay UK

Back before pasteurisation was made the law of the land people got sick from drinking infected milk and some of them died but that was normal. Nowadays we have the idea that food should not contain dangerous pathogens and present a risk to health and life and pasteurisation, a simple process removes that risk almost entirely when it comes to milk.

If you can ensure a single source like the farm’s milk cow and that cow doesn’t spend time grazing with other cows and its milk isn’t mixed in with milk from a hundred other cows in the tanker taking it to the creamery then unpasteurised milk is safe(ish). Otherwise, nope.

Because treated milk is so very very safe today some idiots think that untreated milk will be just as safe hence my somewhat sarcastic comment “Tastes great, not many dead.”

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Decatur Deb May 20, 2024 • 9:05:07am

Our HS kept a few cows for our own use, but even then we had a small pasturizing plant. It was run (badly) by the kids. Mmmm burned milk.

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lawhawk May 20, 2024 • 9:13:56am

Mercifully, Blanche’s cross of Cohen is over. We’ll take a lunch break, and they we get a possible redirect from prosecutors. And then the fun begins with closing arguments and jury instructions… followed by deliberations and verdict. All of that could happen this week.

Maybe.

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BigPapa May 20, 2024 • 9:14:57am

re: #199 lawhawk

I’m prepared to be extremely disappointed but hopeful for a just outcome.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 20, 2024 • 9:16:15am

re: #200 BigPapa

I’m prepared to be extremely disappointed but hopeful for a just outcome.

Unless it is an acqittal, then it will be appealed.

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Randall Gross May 20, 2024 • 9:16:23am

In and around the lake, Marmots come out of the sky and they stand there….*

Roundabout (2008 Remastered Version)

*marmots instead of mountains is a very specific joke enjoyed by a group of stoners in Alaska circa 1974

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Hecuba's daughter May 20, 2024 • 9:18:11am

re: #93 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Well this was unexpected. I’ll take a deuce any day.

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Hecuba's daughter May 20, 2024 • 9:20:04am

re: #95 Dangerman

The two teams discussed and agreed on two debates.

The rest of this nonsense he’s doing in his own addled brain, alone.

No — it’s part of his standard scheme to rile his base and keep them engaged. He knows what works.

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Romantic Heretic May 20, 2024 • 9:20:43am

re: #82 Captain Ron

It appears that Iran has created a meaning for the word ‘martyr’ that I has not considered before.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) May 20, 2024 • 9:25:51am

re: #205 Romantic Heretic

It appears that Iran has created a meaning for the word ‘martyr’ that I has not considered before.

They gave their lives in service of the Islamic state, therefore martyrs.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 20, 2024 • 9:27:31am

re: #205 Romantic Heretic

It appears that Iran has created a meaning for the word ‘martyr’ that I has not considered before.

“Holy Martyr” is used for anyone that one wants to praise posthumously, like the daughter of Russian Nationalist philosopher Alexandr Dugin when she was accidentally killed in his place by a car bomb.

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Decatur Deb May 20, 2024 • 9:30:34am

re: #206 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

They gave their lives in service of the Islamic state, therefore martyrs.

They went there in a dicey bird in dicey weather to cut the ribbon on a new dam. Dumbasses.

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Hecuba's daughter May 20, 2024 • 9:34:00am

re: #111 Nerdy Fish

You want to talk about packing the Court, how’s this for an option: Rather than 1 justice per circuit, make it 3. Cases are heard by panels, with appropriate restrictions to prevent any sort of panel-packing shenanigans, with the option of an en banc review that would select one of the 3 justices from each circuit.

Packing the Court? That’s what Trump will do if he gets in and has a GOP trifecta and there will be no coming back. The only real solution is one that was proposed that involves limiting the time a judge can serve on SCOTUS, and I am skeptical that is possible without a Constitutional amendment.

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darthstar May 20, 2024 • 9:34:10am

It’s prejudicial to remind the jury that the defendant is the guy sleeping at the defendant’s table.

Mastodon

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Dave In Austin May 20, 2024 • 9:35:57am

re: #202 Randall Gross

In and around the lake, Marmots come out of the sky and they stand there….*

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*marmots instead of mountains is a very specific joke enjoyed by a group of stoners in Alaska circa 1974

Excellent!

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Nerdy Fish May 20, 2024 • 9:37:48am

re: #209 Hecuba’s daughter

Packing the Court? That’s what Trump will do if he gets in and has a GOP trifecta and there will be no coming back. The only real solution is one that was proposed that involves limiting the time a judge can serve on SCOTUS, and I am skeptical that is possible without a Constitutional amendment.

Here’s the thing: The more justices there are, the less damage any one president can do. If we greatly expand the Court now - even if it entails an agreement that we expand the Court in stages, so as to avoid the obvious (and accurate) accusations of attempting to lock in political bias - then the impact of any one justice being an Alito or a Thomas is virtually nullified. And while yes, that cuts both ways in that the impact of an RBG would be similarly nullified, reality tends to have a liberal bias, so overall, it would be a healthier judicial ecosystem than the extremely gerrymandered shit we have right now.

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jeffreyw May 20, 2024 • 9:39:04am

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Hecuba's daughter May 20, 2024 • 9:39:31am

re: #142 Dr Lizardo

A roundabout would make traffic flow easier, but that’s gonna be way more expensive to put that in than just plunking down four stop signs.

And far more disruptive because of the time it would take to construct.

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austin_blue May 20, 2024 • 9:41:38am

Well, the President of Iran encountered cumulo-granite in the fog with his helicopter and the cumulo-granite emerged victorious.

No surprise there, eh?

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Vicious Babushka May 20, 2024 • 9:49:06am

re: #215 austin_blue

Well, the President of Iran encountered cumulo-granite in the fog with his helicopter and the cumulo-granite emerged victorious.

No surprise there, eh?

Rock > Paper (heli fuselage) & Scissors (heli blades)

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Shropshire Slasher May 20, 2024 • 9:52:55am

The prosecution’s ‘star witness’ Michael Cohen is back on the stand for a third day, as the court waits with bated breath to find out whether former President Donald Trump could testify himself.
He finally admitted under oath that he stole $60,000 from the Trump Organization by ‘grossing up’ payments for tax. Donald Trump was seen shaking his head as his former ‘fixer’ made the revelation, confirming he’s a common thief.

Cohen also dramatically revealed that he dealt with an apparent photo ‘extortion’ blackmail attempt involving the ex-president’s daughter, Tiffany.

dailymail.co.uk

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Eventual Carrion May 20, 2024 • 10:01:24am

re: #101 Nerdy Fish

Not gonna lie, I just started throwing letters together after guess 2. There were a lot of possibilities.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 May 20, 2024 • 10:01:24am

re: #179 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

If you are trying to stop evolution from happening, forget about it. Survival of the fittest. Buh bye morons.

The only problem is said morons spread such infectious diseases to other people.

Interestingly, about 10% of people who get TB completely clear the disease without treatment. No one has yet figured out why that is.

It’s estimated about 2/5 of the world has been exposed to it (or had it and were treated), and all it takes is something which weakens immunity to activate it (as tragically shown by HIV).

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus May 20, 2024 • 10:03:45am

re: #217 Shropshire Slasher

I’m still thinking it’ll be a hung jury.

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Axolotl May 20, 2024 • 10:07:10am

re: #14 Decatur Deb

If anyone wants to bother, algorithms exist to determine crowd size from commercial satellite imagery. This year, it might be worth the Dem’s investment.

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I don’t need to know if they were wrong. I was concerned that 100,000 people showed up and I am glad that was not the case.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS May 20, 2024 • 10:08:28am

re: #216 Vicious Babushka

Rock > Paper (heli fuselage) & Scissors (heli blades)

Actually, paper covers rock… only not in the real world.

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austin_blue May 20, 2024 • 10:09:36am

re: #216 Vicious Babushka

Rock > Paper (heli fuselage) & Scissors (heli blades)

Indeed!

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Vicious Babushka May 20, 2024 • 10:12:31am

Mastodon

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Hecuba's daughter May 20, 2024 • 10:16:34am

re: #212 Nerdy Fish

Here’s the thing: The more justices there are, the less damage any one president can do. If we greatly expand the Court now - even if it entails an agreement that we expand the Court in stages, so as to avoid the obvious (and accurate) accusations of attempting to lock in political bias - then the impact of any one justice being an Alito or a Thomas is virtually nullified. And while yes, that cuts both ways in that the impact of an RBG would be similarly nullified, reality tends to have a liberal bias, so overall, it would be a healthier judicial ecosystem than the extremely gerrymandered shit we have right now.

It won’t be expanded in stages. The initial appointments to the newly expanded Court will be from the President that approved this change, and that means decades of decisions from Federalist Alito judges, who will all be in their 40’s at the time of their appointment. It is hard to feel optimistic about the future of our nation and our world.

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Dr Lizardo May 20, 2024 • 10:18:05am

re: #214 Hecuba’s daughter

And far more disruptive because of the time it would take to construct.

Yeah, construction of a roundabout to replace a major intersection would take some time. But, it would make traffic flow easier, so it’s a matter of deciding on a long-term outcome and whether or not it’s worth doing it, both financially and in terms of traffic jams that’d be created.

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Dizzy May 20, 2024 • 10:21:09am

Hi @UN , just checking you’re holding a minutes silence for the guy who has been credited with the killing of 1200 school girls?

There’s an organisation who write some fairly damning reports about him, they’re called the @UN , you should check them out. https://t.co/Xv4YbQikqE

— Harry Von Redpigs (@HRedpigs) May 20, 2024

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The Ghost of a Flea May 20, 2024 • 10:22:25am

re: #179 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

If you are trying to stop evolution from happening, forget about it. Survival of the fittest. Buh bye morons.

That’s not how selection works with a communicable disease. Flu is communicated through droplets, so someone consuming it through milk will then just proceed pass it on to everyone else. But also most people who are going to die from flu have already reproduced…because flu in adults tends to kill old people. The only possible selection will be dead children…the other group likely to die from flu…because that’s people dying before they’re old enough reproduce, but it’s only inheritance-relevant if the survivors are resistant via an novel immune reaction that’s heritable.

(the immune system’s antibodies are not heritable, they are acquired through exposure; usually in infants they receive antibodies from breast milk, effectively getting an innoculation)

With rapid spreading diseases it’s pretty much a random walk on who survives and just because people die doesn’t mean the living have some communicable trait, it can just be that they didn’t hit a critical level of exposure or had non-genetic factors like superior nutrition or less stress or better air quality.

Raw milk as manifestation of obsession over body purity as health—crunchiness is capitalist consumption patterns presented as virtue, and is thus a kind of centrist reaction where you solve problems of health not through collective uplift but by being a “smart” person able to understand the gnosis of food, and “good” person who buys the products that signify healthiness and purity—and the most likely consequence is just children getting diseases that will fuck them for their lifetime…brucellosis and tuberculosis not necessarily killing outright, but fucking with your bones so that you’re crippled until you die young.

There’s nothing to cheer, this is neither natural nor just. There’s no up side, there’s no meaning to who will die, and this is just another case of consumer fetishism destroying the analytical basis of medicine in ways that make life generally worse.

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austin_blue May 20, 2024 • 10:24:36am

re: #226 Dr Lizardo

Yeah, construction of a roundabout to replace a major intersection would take some time. But, it would make traffic flow easier, so it’s a matter of deciding on a long-term outcome and whether or not it’s worth doing it, both financially and in terms of traffic jams that’d be created.

Ooh! Ooh! Roundabouts! Here’s one in Hemel Hempstead which contains six small ones in one big one.

It’s terrifying.

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austin_blue May 20, 2024 • 10:26:21am

re: #229 austin_blue

Ooh! Ooh! Roundabouts! Here’s one in Hemel Hempstead which contains six small ones in one big one.

It’s terrifying.

google.com

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Dr Lizardo May 20, 2024 • 10:27:02am

re: #229 austin_blue

Ooh! Ooh! Roundabouts! Here’s one in Hemel Hempstead which contains six small ones in one big one.

It’s terrifying.

LOL, yeah just looked it up. That’s….bizarre to say the least.

en.wikipedia.org

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) May 20, 2024 • 10:31:31am

re: #229 austin_blue

Ooh! Ooh! Roundabouts! Here’s one in Hemel Hempstead which contains six small ones in one big one.

It’s terrifying.

We grazed the outside of Swindon’s infamous Magic Roundabout without getting caught up in it.

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darthstar May 20, 2024 • 10:33:59am

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darthstar May 20, 2024 • 10:35:44am

re: #232 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

We grazed the outside of Swindon’s infamous Magic Roundabout without getting caught up in it.

I’ve driven it - it’s not so weird. I’ve also driven the 8 lane roundabout around Arch de Triumph…that’s a fun one.

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Vicious Babushka May 20, 2024 • 10:36:41am

The roundabout right as you get off the Holland Tunnel is hella confusing, but I have driven it enough times to know to take Canal Street to the Manhattan Bridge.

When Zeddo was in the rehab center I had to drive through two roundabouts to get there (three if you count the mini circle to the rehab entrance). Cars were whizzing through at 45-50mph. Roundabouts are supposed to be “traffic calming” but instead they are “traffic stressing”

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DodgerFan1988 May 20, 2024 • 10:41:16am

Elon Musk is now following Geert Wilders (@geertwilderspvv) pic.twitter.com/vIPXAvYCrn

— ELON ALERTS (@elon_alerts) May 19, 2024

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darthstar May 20, 2024 • 10:46:16am

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jaunte May 20, 2024 • 10:47:59am

I drove through this roundabout in Houston for about 20 years to and from work; it’s probably the ideal size/traffic load.

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Nerdy Fish May 20, 2024 • 10:50:56am

We have a roundabout just about a mile or so outside of town, on both sides. The one to the west is very light traffic and was built as a one-lane roundabout, so it works well. The one to the east has had increasing traffic as they add houses and now shops to the area surrounding the intersection, and was originally built as a weirdly over-complicated “let’s go to 2 lanes in a roundabout that is the intersection of two 1-lane roads” that resulted in people cutting across the lanes of the roundabout and/or trying to use one lane or the other to pass someone in the roundabout. They fixed that by making the second lane a turn-off-the-highway-only lane, though the traffic level can get pretty high in the mornings and evenings.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus May 20, 2024 • 10:51:19am

re: #236 DodgerFan1988

Musk has always been a fan of the extreme right.

And that is why I am convinced that Musk’s longtermism really should be called the Fourth Reich.

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aatharuv May 20, 2024 • 10:51:23am

re: #236 DodgerFan1988

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To be fair, he might be the Netherland’s next Prime Minister, unless they erect a “cordon-sanitaire” to keep him out of the government. European countries used to do create coalitions of every other party just to keep the far right out, but they’ve stopped doing this.

Edit: Actually, he has agreed to not formally be the next prime minister, but his party will still dominate, which means, he’ll be calling the start.

apnews.com

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jeffreyw May 20, 2024 • 10:59:34am

doctor: i’m afraid we lost your father

me: *tearing up* oh no

doctor: don’t worry we’ll find him

me: omg i thought -

doctor: now if i were a dead body, where would i be?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs May 20, 2024 • 11:02:58am

Should have just let them all kill themselves. I’m tired of whining conservatives pissed about churches not running things, how their state managed the pandemic and all the other BS cons constantly whine about.

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Seriously, just fuck you and your constant talk of this or that county succeeding. We should have just said Fuck it. If you want to kill yourself, just die already. Just stop fucking whining already.

One concern: what would happen to Halcom’s pay if eastern Oregon joined Idaho? While the minimum wage in Crook County is $13.20 per hour, it’s $7.25 an hour in Idaho.

The nearest Walmart to Prineville is 30 miles away, and political concerns are usually more focused on whether a new dollar store fits into the community, and if nonprofit cleanup groups should get free access to the county dump.

Generally, Crook County has more in common with Idaho than most of its own state: The county is overall less racially diverse than Oregon as a whole and the entire United States and people living there earn less money than Oregon’s average.

Crook County’s median family income is about $75,000, while it’s about $70,000 in Idaho and almost $87,000 for Oregon statewide

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Axolotl May 20, 2024 • 11:03:26am

re: #176 lawhawk

We have some roundabouts in NJ and plenty of jughandles, and I always use signal for any lane change, because that’s how my dad taught me - always signal your intentions, even if no one else is on the road, because there might be someone else on the road that you don’t see (like in blind spots). It’s served me well, and I was taught roundabouts have the right of way, and that vehicles entering the roundabout have to yield to traffic already in the roundabout. My sense is they work better at lower speeds than higher speeds, and that single lane roundabouts are easier to figure that multilane ones.

In DC there is two overlapping traffic circles with a traffic light designating the right of way. Every just pretends that that is ok.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs May 20, 2024 • 11:06:57am

re: #228 The Ghost of a Flea

Yeah yeah. I know. I’m just crabby af right now.

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Decatur Deb May 20, 2024 • 11:08:49am

re: #244 Axolotl

In DC there is two overlapping traffic circles with a traffic light designating the right of way. Every just pretends that that is ok.

There was a 3-lane circle near our installation in Italy. Cars entering had the right-of-way. A soldier was a qualified in-country driver when he could get out of it on the first circuit.

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cat-tikvah May 20, 2024 • 11:24:38am

re: #215 austin_blue

Well, the President of Iran encountered cumulo-granite in the fog with his helicopter and the cumulo-granite emerged victorious.

No surprise there, eh?

“Uncontrolled descent into terrain” as the lingo goes

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines May 20, 2024 • 11:37:57am

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