FROST* - “Island Life”
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Progressive rock at its best.
From the album “Day And Age” released on 14th May 2021 on Inside Out Music. https://frost-band.lnk.to/DayAndAge
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Found some time to make a short comedy recording this weekend after pondering the question: What if the Empire from Star Wars ran call centers?
How far can a person legally go to antagonize the proud boys at a protest? Is there some kind of org that would have that info?
re: #2 Amory Blaine
How far can a person legally go to antagonize the proud boys at a protest? Is there some kind of org that would have that info?
Westboro Baptist knows. Look at what they do to rile people then play victim. Take the same approach, but for a good cause. You can win a nice settlement when they attack you.
re: #3 Crush White Nationalism
Meh I’m talking about more direct antagonism.
re: #4 Amory Blaine
Meh I’m talking about more direct antagonism.
I would say limit yourself to verbal dragging and a protest sign. Getting physical is where problems can arise.
Like could a person square up right in their armed face and say something like ” put your fat fucking finger and pull the trigger” something to that effect.
I’m curious because the RNC is coming here and I’m sure some people would like to be prepared.
re: #6 Amory Blaine
Like could a person square up right in their armed face and say something like ” put your fat fucking finger and pull the trigger” something to that effect.
Legally, or safely?
Legal only. At that point the person is already abandoning safety.
re: #9 Amory Blaine
Legal only. At that point the person is already abandoning safety.
IANAL, so I just deleted a paragraph of speculation and bullshit.
Sounds like something a civil rights attorney may know?
Ron DeSantis is furious Greg Abbott stole his idea — Abbott is raging DeSantis kidnapped the immigrants he wanted to deporthttps://t.co/vMnYqLUf9D
— Raw Story (@RawStory) September 26, 2022
re: #6 Amory Blaine
Like could a person square up right in their armed face and say something like ” put your fat fucking finger and pull the trigger” something to that effect.
No, I would not recommend that, because in some states, that could be considered assault. I would stand across the street and verbally mock their manhood.
re: #14 mmmirele
No, I would not recommend that, because in some states, that could be considered assault. I would stand across the street and verbally mock their manhood.
I thought of you before a lawyer.
Exit polls show that the first avowed fascist since Mussolini will be the next prime minister of Italy; the apparent victory of Giorgia Meloni, 45, is sending shockwaves across Europe tonight (NYT photo) pic.twitter.com/H94sYPmbG4
— West Wing Reports (by Paul Brandus) (@WestWingReport) September 25, 2022
Man, you know, it’s a damn good thing that Americans don’t know how to make any drugs, you know, domestically.
All you have to do is build a big wall across Mexico and voila! No more drugs! No more drugs. So simple. https://t.co/fIVHjoKs6x— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) September 26, 2022
Leader of Simpleton.
Abbott is a fucking asshole, I don’t give a shit what I said.
And/Or, If/then….still ain’t gonna watch any more Stars War crap.
re: #22 jaunte
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Leader of Simpleton.
Government provided heroin that’s been tested and certified safe?
re: #23 Ace Rothstein
Abbott is a fucking asshole, I don’t give a shit what I said.
I don’t see any downdings. Impeding him seems like a service to humanity…
re: #25 Captain Ron
Government provided heroin that’s been tested and certified safe?
They’ll have to figure out how to put walls around all the abused prescription drugs.
re: #13 Captain Ron
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Imagine the campaign ad from Abbott: While I wanted to send those illegals back to Mexico, DeSantis sent them off to a better life in Massachusetts.
— Arch (Space Laser Vaccination Supervisor) (@Arch_LGF) September 26, 2022
From the President of the Heritage Foundation: classic fascist formula, presenting a conflict between the true volk vs. the globalist elite. pic.twitter.com/vOWZ4sTLO9
— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn) September 26, 2022
re: #30 (((Archangel1)))
Inject that shit right into my veins.
re: #32 jaunte
“Globalist Elite” = “The Jews”
Let’s be clear about that.— Dee *I support transgender people* Holmes🇺🇦🌻 (@mmmirele) September 26, 2022
Happy New Year to all the people Republicans want everyone to be scared of whenever they mention George Soros!
— You can still register to vote in all 50 states (@LOLGOP) September 26, 2022
re: #30 (((Archangel1)))
BREAKING: Donald Trump rips into MAGA Gov. Ron DeSantis as “fat” “phony” and “whiny” even though he has called him a “great friend” in the past — clearly worried that DeSantis will run in 2024. RT IF YOU WOULD NEVER VOTE FOR EITHER OF THEM!
— Occupy Democrats (@OccupyDemocrats) September 26, 2022
re: #36 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
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Just yesterday this piece of shit traitor Alexei Zhuravko declared Ukraine in Kherson is finished. And last night Ukraine finished him off. In Kherson. #StandWithUkraine #UkraineWillWin pic.twitter.com/7OqwspjtTu
— olexander scherba🇺🇦 (@olex_scherba) September 25, 2022
re: #22 jaunte
McCarthy promises that, if the GOP regains control of the House, he’ll make sure your kids won’t be afraid to buy heroin https://t.co/fSPMYizVDK
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) September 26, 2022
re: #38 Belafon
Saw your reply on the bonk stick down thread… yes… except grandma won’t ask permission.
Evening model consensus now shows Hurricane #Ian making a direct hit on Tampa Bay, likely at a Category 3 strength.
This is a near-worst case scenario for one of the most storm-surge flood vulnerable cities in the world. pic.twitter.com/2Bud7MZjAI— Eric Holthaus (@EricHolthaus) September 26, 2022
This would probably be scary:
MAKE WAY FOR BISON: These bison stayed in their lane, avoiding oncoming traffic, as they made their way across a bridge over the Yellowstone River in Wyoming. https://t.co/y2X4M9ia0o pic.twitter.com/PkeMwSz3lb
— ABC News (@ABC) September 26, 2022
Bull 1, Jackass 0.
Why do we allow animals to be treated like this?
I certainly understand rooting for the bull. https://t.co/DgjqRsfKiP— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) September 26, 2022
re: #14 mmmirele
No, I would not recommend that, because in some states, that could be considered assault. I would stand across the street and verbally mock their manhood.
“Let’s see your gun! Drop your pants!”
That’s my go-to when I see these people. No /.
re: #32 jaunte
Conservatives, don’t forget the parens when you say “(((Globalists)))”!
re: #42 Belafon
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People should turn off their headlights. They look blinded when they’re directly in front of the vehicle.
This is making me LOL
So then this is, like, a really good deal https://t.co/E1wjLGUBU7
— Conceptual Adam (@ned_zeppelin_iv) September 26, 2022
I wonder what is the bison rating of that bridge?
re: #48 Captain Ron
I wonder what is the bison rating of that bridge?
Forty feral hogs or 15 giraffes, whichever is wider.
Marianna Mamonova, an Azovstal combat medic, has given birth to a child, just days after being freed from Russian captivity.
It’s a girl!
The child has been born free. pic.twitter.com/umWccBAxaY— Illia Ponomarenko🇺🇦 (@IAPonomarenko) September 25, 2022
We now have NASAMS
— Illia Ponomarenko🇺🇦 (@IAPonomarenko) September 25, 2022
AIR DEFENSE DOMINANCE: Jason Jay Smart @officejjsmart reports that UKR Pres. Vladimir Zelensky has confirmed that Ukraine has deployed NASAMS air defense systems. These Norwegian/ US air surface to air missile complexes will further blunt RU frontal aviation. https://t.co/8uaZPWoNPO pic.twitter.com/iEqCGJnIW1
— Chuck Pfarrer | Indications & Warnings | (@ChuckPfarrer) September 25, 2022
Now the decoys story makes sense. https://t.co/5gvocezltk
— Jim Panou 🇺🇦 (@jpanimages) September 25, 2022
re: #47 BigPapa
The ad says “600DB” not 600dB.
So the ad states 600 DecaBels, not deciBels.
So the value 60,000dB.
So yes, the energy from that horn is up there in the supernova level.
re: #55 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The ad says “600DB” not 600dB.
So the ad states 600 DecaBels, not deciBels.
So the value 60,000dB.
So yes, the energy from that horn is up there in the supernova level.
All with 12v. Supernova Efficiency!
re: #56 BigPapa
All with 12v. Supernova Efficiency!
Each electron is screaming at the top of its lungs.
Aside from not having a clue what he’s talking about, there’s a lot going on here, especially while the super-masculine, un-woke Russian military is getting its ass kicked. https://t.co/F79O9jCPTR
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) September 26, 2022
re: #59 DodgerFan1988
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re: #59 DodgerFan1988
This thread goes all the way back to 1886 of articles decrying how men are becoming more feminine and women are becoming more masculine:
A Brief History of Men Today Are Too Feminine and Women Too Masculine
🧵— Paul Fairie (@paulisci) September 21, 2022
re: #18 DodgerFan1988
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We are on the same trajectory if something doesn’t change
This month, Sweden voted for a right-wing government.
Now, Italy voted for a strong right-wing government.
The entire world is beginning to understand that the Woke Left does nothing but destroy.
Nov 8 is coming soon & the USA will fix our House and Senate! Let freedom reign!— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) September 25, 2022
re: #59 DodgerFan1988
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This made my weekend. Watch: https://t.co/fYDfwo8Hgk
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) September 26, 2022
spoiler: they melted down a Russian tank they’d destroyed, made coins with a US flag, gave them to the Senators and Congressmen who come visit… then she talked about which US weapons she personally uses, and BTW we really need a bunch more.
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The shooter has been arrested.
He introduced himself as 25-year-old unemployed Ruslan Zinin. pic.twitter.com/CoLMjyxh6Y— Drolly — ї 🌻🕊 (@DrollySvea) September 26, 2022
re: #62 EstebanTornado1963
It’s Boebert. We should assume that she is ignorant of what she writes.
For example, while the recent Swedish election is summarized as right-leaning parties winning, it is a coalition victory that has yet to seat a PM.
The coalition is a majority in Parliament but it is a small margin.
And the resultant changes in Swedish policies are still going to be such that people like Boebert will decry them as leftists.
The thing that did happen, from what I can tell, that might attract Boebert and her ilk is that some of the people in various parties of the coalition do stupid things like Boebert, MTG, and the usual bottom-feeders of American politics.
The guy who online sources suggest will be the new PM, Ulf Kristersson, is head of the self declared “Moderate Party”. It’s policies include the usual lower-the-taxes, free enterprise stuff. But it also supports gay rights, which I doubt Boebert knows. That party is also “green” in that it is anti-oil, something that Beobert also does not know.
The bottom line is this: Boebert wants to bandwagon about “conservative” parties but doesn’t know about that which she tweets.
And of course we know that the new Italian leader has a fascist-bent. In that Boebert will find her kin, even while she is ignorant of what it means.
Tonight, John Oliver was about the upcoming election in Brazil. The right winger may lose and surprise, surprise claim that the election was rigged against him.
re: #66 I Would Prefer Not To
Tonight, John Oliver was about the upcoming election in Brazil. The right winger may lose and surprise, surprise claim that the election was rigged against him.
Like Trump, Bolsonaro has a devout following but he also has the support of the military. If he loses — and in a just world, he would — the unrest will be far more violent than what we have experienced to date.
re: #65 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
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And of course we know that the new Italian leader has a fascist-bent. In that Boebert will find her kin, even while she is ignorant of what it means.
We should keep in mind that the new Italian Leader (Giorgia Meloni) appears to have about 26% of the vote (coalition government). Too much, but maybe not as bad as you were thinking (and I believe Israel has survived similarly rightist coalitions).
Former GOP Rep. Denver Riggleman says there is “irrefutable” proof of a plot to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
Sep 25, 2022 Former January 6 committee senior staffer Denver Riggleman analyzed thousands of text messages provided to the committee by Mark Meadows.
It is very dangerous to brush the stairs without a helmet.#bikedownhill #downhill #bikeoffroad #electricbike #electricbikes #ebike #ebikes #smabike #bike #bikelover #bikedownstair #downstairs pic.twitter.com/j3FbDUcsom
— Robert Hou (@HouRobert) September 26, 2022
Good morning.
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Models are showing Ian hitting Florida but there is still a spread of where the eyewall will land.
However, I noticed that the GFS slows down the storm progress quite a bit as it approaches Florida. Ian could linger off the coast for a couple of days, and if it does that then the rain amount will be quite high.
The European model stalls Ian just off shore of Tampa Bay before heading north.
The hurricane-specific HWRF model has Ian going past Tampa and stalling off of the panhandle.
All these models are expecting the the storm to stall because of the dynamics of larger systems that are steering it.
People on the west side of Florida should be prepared for a lot of rain.
re: #75 Nyet
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re: #61 Belafon
This thread goes all the way back to 1886 of articles decrying how men are becoming more feminine and women are becoming more masculine:
Men wearing powdered wigs, high heels and frilly shirts! How could such people possibly found a great nation?
re: #74 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Total rainfall, from the European model:
St. Petersburg falls just inside the 24” region.
Bloody metric Europeans. With a system in which 1 liter of water weighs one kilo and so a cubic meter of water weighs a ton.
Meaning that one liter spread over a square meter is 1mm deep, so you have identical results with rainfall: liters per m² or mm per m². This lets you know at a glance both the volume and the depth of the precipitation if it were to collect.
Let’s run through the calculations involved in converting inches of rainfall to volume per square foot.
Let’s see, three barleycorns divided by the length of the King’s left foot times the diameter of the trunk of the Royal Oak’s in 1439 divided by the number of stoats in Shropshire minus the square root of a barrel of Watney’s Red Ale…
re: #65 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
re: #68 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS
This is the main downside to a European-style parliamentary system. It obviates the need for anything like a filibuster - since multiple minority parties usually must come together to form a coalition government - but it makes the results less clear as far as the direction a given country is going, since “the majority party” generally has a much smaller share of the vote than in an American two-party election.
re: #81 Dopamine Fish
Germany is about to reach Weimar conditions, the two fringe parties, the populist Allianz für Deutschland and the leftist Die Linken have a majority of votes between them in several states, which means that one of them has to be a part of any coalition that the other parties form.
Up to now, the AfD and die Linken have been taboo at the national level.
re: #79 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Looks like south Florida is in the clear
I don’t wish a hurricane on anyone.
I’m glad it’s not gonna be us.
re: #62 EstebanTornado1963
2 is not the “whole world”
This month, Sweden voted for a right-wing government.
Now, Italy voted for a strong right-wing government.
The entire world is beginning to understand that the Woke Left does nothing but destroy.
Nov 8 is coming soon & the USA will fix our House and Senate! Let freedom reign!— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) September 25, 2022
re: #42 Belafon
This would probably be scary:
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Around here ducks look both ways before crossing roads. Experience is a good teacher.
MAKE WAY FOR BISON: These bison stayed in their lane, avoiding oncoming traffic, as they made their way across a bridge over the Yellowstone River in Wyoming. https://t.co/y2X4M9ia0o pic.twitter.com/PkeMwSz3lb
— ABC News (@ABC) September 26, 2022
re: #78 TarHellion
Do you know the birbie man, the birbie man, the birbie man? Do you know the birbie man, starting out his day! Have a wonderful day/evening all.
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4/6 par on the word thing.
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re: #86 Dangerman
2 [countries voting for right-wing governments] is not the “whole world”
In addition, the European concept of “far right” is still well to the left of most current GOP policy.
re: #83 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Germany is about to reach Weimar conditions, the two fringe parties, the populist Allianz für Deutschland and the leftist Die Linken have a majority of votes between them in several states, which means that one of them has to be a part of any coalition that the other parties form.
Up to now, the AfD and die Linken have been taboo at the national level.
Alternative, not Allianz.
I can confirm that mothballs do not keep mice away, as a matter of fact, they built their nest right on top of the mothballs.
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Our Halloween store should be opening soon here. It is fun to walk around and see what is new for this year. Usually don’t buy anything since it is just me and my wife at home anymore. But still fun to peruse.
These passages from Maggie Haberman’s upcoming Trump book are the ones that will get the most attention from the Department of Justice. https://t.co/Z5VdmvLmwT
— Axios (@axios) September 26, 2022
“You were able to take those with you?” Haberman asked.
He kept talking, seeming to have registered my surprise, and said, “No, I think that’s in the archives, but … Most of it is in the archives, but the Kim Jong-un letters … We have incredible things.”
In fact, Trump did not return the letters — which were included in boxes he had brought to Mar-a-Lago — to the National Archives until months later.
Ah, fall. When instead of lawn mowers, the early morning is peppered with the sound of gunfire.
Kinda crappy that Corporate KFC can limit what they can sell, I hope they make out ok.
A bid to sell a historic restaurant and mansion once owned by Colonel Sanders and his wife has struggled to take flight — partly because the deal is ruffling the feathers of KFC’s corporate owner, The Post has learned.
The Claudia Sanders Dinner House — a 63-year-old eatery in Shelbyville, Ky. that draws locals and tourists alike with its fried chicken, cole slaw and homemade pies — was put up for sale in June. Some interested buyers say they want to franchise it and expand its footprint outside the town for the first time.
But the prospect of a rival fried-chicken chain that uses the Sanders name has attracted the attention of KFC’s parent YUM! Brands, whose legal team promptly submitted a filing to the US Patent & Trademark Office days after the properties were put up for sale.
I didn’t know this:
Even international tourists, especially from Japan - where KFC is a staple of Christmas dinners - have posted images of themselves roaming the vast parking lot between the dinner house and Blackwood Hall.
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— Mark Cuban (@mcuban) September 25, 2022
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Jonathan Pie on Trussonomics, while the British Pound gets ever closer to parity with the US Dollar:
“Fred West’s Lady-Killing Jamboree” 😄
Mike Lee supports rightwing terrorism. This is why it would be nice if Utah replaced him with Evan McMullin. Yes, he is also a Republican, but at least he isn’t a stochastic terrorist.
re: #92 Nyet
very Slavic/Russian, like black humor but without the humor, just blackness…
Unfortunately for me I think it will be overcast tonight, but I will still look.
Jupiter will appear at its biggest and brightest in decades this evening, as it makes its closest approach to Earth in 59 years.
It will still be some 367 million miles away from us, but not since October 1963 have stargazers had such a great opportunity to spot it in the night sky.
The gas giant came closest to Earth in almost 60 years yesterday, and today it will reach opposition, meaning the planet will appear opposite the sun to those on Earth. Jupiter will rise in the east while the sun sets in the west.
re: #96 Shropshire Slasher
Kinda crappy that Corporate KFC can limit what they can sell, I hope they make out ok.
I didn’t know this:
I have eaten there many times, pre-pandemic. They had a pretty good buffet!
.@chucktodd: You asked a GOP member of Congress if they will vote to impeach President Biden when he has committed ZERO impeachable offenses. She says ‘maybe’ and you still don’t bother to ask what she would support impeaching him for. You are not a journalist. You’re a disgrace. pic.twitter.com/T6cPObS8I8
— Andrew Wortman 🏳️🌈🇺🇸 (@AmoneyResists) September 25, 2022
re: #81 Dopamine Fish
This is the main downside to a European-style parliamentary system. It obviates the need for anything like a filibuster - since multiple minority parties usually must come together to form a coalition government - but it makes the results less clear as far as the direction a given country is going, since “the majority party” generally has a much smaller share of the vote than in an American two-party election.
It is impossible to create a fool proof system of government, since fools are so creative.
re: #94 dat_said
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Holy shit…..
The first sterling-to-dollar parity calls come in -
Nomura sees the pound falling to $0.9750 by the year end, and to $0.95 in Q1 next year.
“This is a fundamental balance of payments crisis, with politicians hoping it will eventually just calm down. Hope is not a strategy.”— Jamie McGeever (@ReutersJamie) September 26, 2022
re: #110 Dr Lizardo
Reminds me of politicians here who just kept “hoping” Covid would go away.
re: #111 Eclectic Cyborg
Reminds me of politicians here who just kept “hoping” Covid would go away.
Another similarity is the staggering amount of money the conservative MPs made off of this. What’s a little insider trading between friends?
re: #96 Shropshire Slasher
Kinda crappy that Corporate KFC can limit what they can sell, I hope they make out ok.
I didn’t know this:
This reminds me of corporate lawyer stunts like Leonardo DiCaprio trying to close down an Italian Café of that name of of Bill Wyman of the Rolling Stones (whose real name is William George Perks Jr.) sending a cease-and-desist order to an Ohio music journalist who was actually born with the name Bill Wyman.
re: #111 Eclectic Cyborg
Reminds me of politicians here who just kept “hoping” Covid would go away.
In fairness to the Bank of England, they’re in a bit of a pickle themselves. The BoE might be reluctant to intervene, because memories of Black Wednesday, when the BoE intervened to prop up the Pound (and failed spectacularly, with the £ forced out of the ERM) are probably still quite painful to them.
Books aimed at encouraging tween girls to code appear to have been removed from classrooms in Pennsylvania’s Central York School District.The “banned” books are the first four in the Girls Who Code Series: The Friendship Code; Team BFF: Race to the Finish!; Girls Who Code, Lights, Music, Code!; and Spotlight on Coding Club!.
The four tomes come from nonprofit organization Girls Who Code, which bills itself as working to close the technology industry’s gender gap and change the image of “what a programmer looks like and does.”
The group works toward its goal with its books, summer camps, immersion programs, after school coding clubs, and more.
The Girls Who Code series is a mashup of The Babysitters Club and Computer Science 101. A group of four or five (depending which book in the series you are on) diverse tween girls navigate friendship, life, coding and hackathons while the authors drop some code fragments into the storyline.
It’s the type of stuff parents buy their kids in hopes of making IT seem cool.
But apparently not everyone found it aspirational. The four books ended up on freedom of expression advocacy group PEN America’s Index of School Book Bans, which states the series was “banned in the classroom” sometime between July 1, 2021 and June 20, 2022.
Girls Who Code’s founder, Reshma Saujani, has pinned the ban on a group called “Moms for Liberty”, which advocates for parental rights in schools and oversight of educational material.
Girls Who Code book series banned in some US classrooms (The Register)
re: #99 sagehen
Is the cat pissed off at you?
that is a cat’s standard look. they have resting cat face.
re: #114 Dr Lizardo
In fairness to the Bank of England, they’re in a bit of a pickle themselves. The BoE might be reluctant to intervene, because memories of Black Wednesday, when the BoE intervened to prop up the Pound (and failed spectacularly, with the £ forced out of the ERM) are probably still quite painful to them.
This is the reckoning finally and undeniably hitting them in the face: Covid and Brexit double-whammy.
Well, almost entirely Covid, of course…in the mean time they will point out how a weak Pound favours British exports.
Latest: The pound has regained its overnight losses, nudging above $1.08, stabilised perhaps by expectation of a @bankofengland statement (h/t @EdConwaySky) and market expectation that interest rates will rise 2% by November pic.twitter.com/ql365HfpRv
— Paul Kelso (@pkelso) September 26, 2022
re: #115 Crush White Nationalism
Girls Who Code book series banned in some US classrooms (The Register)
pinned the ban on a group called “Moms for Liberty”, which advocates for parental rights in schools and oversight of educational material.
A group that thinks their “parental rights” override others parental rights. And their “oversight” is the only oversight that matters or should be acknowledged.
The pursuit of knowledge based on evidence, facts, and peer-reviewed science is dangerous to Conservatives. Never let this truth confuse anyone regarding their obsessive need to weaken and eventually shut down secular public education.
re: #119 Eventual Carrion
A group that thinks their “parental rights” override others parental rights. And their “oversight” is the only oversight that matters or should be acknowledged.
I’m looking through my Bible to try and find where Jesus said it’s bad for women to learn things and so far I’m not seeing it.
/
Early day for me…got a new hire starting…but still time for a cup of coffee.
30 people getting coffee.
Sprawl vs. urbanism pic.twitter.com/W5QRE7ugkB— 21st Century City (@urbanthoughts11) September 25, 2022
re: #120 Florida Panhandler
The pursuit of knowledge based on evidence, facts, and peer-reviewed science is dangerous to Conservatives. Never let this truth confuse anyone regarding their obsessive need to weaken and eventually shut down secular public education.
Education should become just another commodity to be sold to the highest bidder, like food, medical care, police protection, clean water and breathable air…
re: #121 Eclectic Cyborg
I’m looking through my Bible to try and find where Jesus said it’s bad for women to learn things and so far I’m not seeing it.
/
It’s not that, it’s that encouraging girls to violate traditional gender norms by encouraging them to pursue a career in a male-dominated field is wrong, and bad, and can’t we all just go back to the 1950’s when women knew their place (in the kitchen or in the bedroom)?
re: #122 darthstar
Early day for me…got a new hire starting…but still time for a cup of coffee.
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re: #124 Dopamine Fish
It’s not that, it’s that encouraging girls to violate traditional gender norms by encouraging them to pursue a career in a male-dominated field is wrong, and bad, and can’t we all just go back to the 1950’s when women knew their place (in the kitchen or in the bedroom)?
So girls don’t need to take math or science classes, right?
re: #126 Dangerman
So girls don’t need to take math or science classes, right?
Considering that they want to abolish the Department of Education entirely and throw everything back to forced home-schooling, I’m sure that’s crossed their minds. And I say that unironically.
re: #126 Dangerman
Or Political Science for that matter. I hate to say it but I have “broken” all of their rules.
re: #128 PhillyPretzel
Or Political Science for that matter. I hate to say it but I have “broken” all of their rules.
Two of the best programmers I know - one the valedictorian of my college class - were women. If one of them called me tomorrow and wanted to do a joint project, I’d say yes without a moment’s hesitation.
re: #129 Dopamine Fish
Two of the best programmers I know - one the valedictorian of my college class - were women. If one of them called me tomorrow and wanted to do a joint project, I’d say yes without a moment’s hesitation.
But they probably still don’t get paid as much as men with equivalent skills, I bet.
Purty, but meh.
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That’s it, rollback today. #Artemis #Artemis1 #NASASocial @NASASocial
Amy’s on her way in to KSC to do her part in the disconnect. More things to do on the leadup to Ian, living here on the Space Coast. https://t.co/EHOdP4beBO— Anne Barela (@anne_engineer) September 26, 2022
re: #111 Eclectic Cyborg
Reminds me of politicians here who just kept “hoping” Covid would go away.
This, of course, is just a strategy to make UK exports more competitive in foreign markets and British vacations inexpensive for flocks of tourists!
re: #115 Crush White Nationalism
Girls Who Code book series banned in some US classrooms (The Register)
I expect Serena Joy’s book advocating the creation of Gilead to soon be required reading in some school districts./half
hi
It’s noon here in Newfoundland. Fiona has dissipated over the Labrador Sea, and the ferry service is running again. The winds are down, and the sun is trying to peek out. We leave for Labrador in the morning.
re: #135 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
yay. That is good to hear. I heard your car was damaged? Can you still drive it?
re: #121 Eclectic Cyborg
I’m looking through my Bible to try and find where Jesus said it’s bad for women to learn things and so far I’m not seeing it.
/
If they learn things, they get uppity, and some may rebel against their God ordained roles as wives and mothers. Better they never learn to read to begin with. Under His Eye.
re: #115 Crush White Nationalism
Girls Who Code book series banned in some US classrooms (The Register)
While it might seem like the coding is the issue, it’s probably the diversity of the cast.
re: #122 darthstar
Early day for me…got a new hire starting…but still time for a cup of coffee.
The difference in those pictures being that the people in the cars are heading to work, as compared to sitting around a bit before possibly going to work.
re: #124 Dopamine Fish
It’s not that, it’s that encouraging girls to violate traditional gender norms by encouraging them to pursue a career in a male-dominated field is wrong, and bad, and can’t we all just go back to the 1950’s when women knew their place (in the kitchen or in the bedroom)?
Or as computers, which is where we got the name from for the automatic computing devices.
More interesting news from across the pond:
The British royal family has given broadcasters in the UK a deadline of today to pick just one hour of footage they would like to keep for future use from the Queen’s funeral and the King’s proclamation ceremony, despite the fact that millions of people already saw it all livestreamed on several platforms, according to a new report from the Guardian. And since the UK lacks any constitutional protections for free speech equivalent to the First Amendment, broadcasters like the BBC, Sky News, and ITV seemingly have no choice but to comply.
The United Kingdom recently observed a full ten days of official mourning for Queen Elizabeth II, who died on September 8 at the age of 96. But British broadcasters are being told to compile just one hour from their non-stop coverage for any future broadcasts and submit that hour to the royal family for approval. Any use of footage beyond that one-hour would also need to be cleared with Buckingham Palace in the future.
Where does that leave online coverage, something you’d assume could live on the web forever? The royal family already had at least five short clips from the Queen’s memorial and funeral services at Westminster Abbey and Windsor Castle purged from UK media websites, according to the Guardian, though longer streams still survive for those who know where to look. The BBC’s digital video repository, iPlayer, has just a few weeks left before those longer streams are purged.
News organizations that used the broadcast feed of the official ceremonies had to promise any social media clips would be “solemn and dignified,” as the Guardian phrases it, though it’s not clear what kind of written arrangements may exist with U.S. news outlets. Staff for the royal family even maintained a WhatsApp group with executives at British media outlets, letting the news organizations know in real time what clips were permissible for re-publishing during the Queen’s memorial service, according to the Guardian.
Apparently the Royals weren’t too thrilled with that clip of King Charles III demanding one of his servants remove a pen from a table he was at, among other things, going viral.
This is a doozy of a story. It has everything: secret state store list of which outlets were going to get the best bottles, secret Facebook groups, people refilling bottles of prime hooch with rotgut, criminal charges, etc. Worth a read.
An unusual criminal case shows how far thirsty fans are going as sought-after whiskeys become increasingly scarce https://t.co/zQ7IzH2QQ7
— Truth in Advertising (@TruthinAd) September 26, 2022
“Ah, you think bipartisanship is your ally? You merely adopted compromise. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn’t see party until I was already a congresswoman, by then it was nothing to me but blinding!” https://t.co/IOaMnjd5fk
— chatham harrison is tending his garden (@chathamharrison) September 23, 2022
There’s a reason Biden is asking for two:
If you give me two more Democratic senators, and Democrats keep the House, I promise you we will codify Roe v. Wade.
We will once again make Roe the law of the land.
We will once again protect a woman’s right to choose.— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) September 23, 2022
re: #139 Belafon
The difference in those pictures being that the people in the cars are heading to work, as compared to sitting around a bit before possibly going to work.
or taking a break from work. That would have been me last Saturday afternoon at the Italian café in Oberwesel between tours
re: #141 Eclectic Cyborg
More interesting news from across the pond:
The British royal family has given broadcasters in the UK a deadline of today to pick just one hour of footage they would like to keep for future use from the Queen’s funeral and the King’s proclamation ceremony, despite the fact that millions of people already saw it all livestreamed on several platforms, according to a new report from the Guardian. And since the UK lacks any constitutional protections for free speech equivalent to the First Amendment, broadcasters like the BBC, Sky News, and ITV seemingly have no choice but to comply.
The United Kingdom recently observed a full ten days of official mourning for Queen Elizabeth II, who died on September 8 at the age of 96. But British broadcasters are being told to compile just one hour from their non-stop coverage for any future broadcasts and submit that hour to the royal family for approval. Any use of footage beyond that one-hour would also need to be cleared with Buckingham Palace in the future.
Where does that leave online coverage, something you’d assume could live on the web forever? The royal family already had at least five short clips from the Queen’s memorial and funeral services at Westminster Abbey and Windsor Castle purged from UK media websites, according to the Guardian, though longer streams still survive for those who know where to look. The BBC’s digital video repository, iPlayer, has just a few weeks left before those longer streams are purged.
News organizations that used the broadcast feed of the official ceremonies had to promise any social media clips would be “solemn and dignified,” as the Guardian phrases it, though it’s not clear what kind of written arrangements may exist with U.S. news outlets. Staff for the royal family even maintained a WhatsApp group with executives at British media outlets, letting the news organizations know in real time what clips were permissible for re-publishing during the Queen’s memorial service, according to the Guardian.
Apparently the Royals weren’t too thrilled with that clip of King Charles III demanding one of his servants remove a pen from a table he was at, among other things, going viral.
Good luck to them trying to drop that down the memory hole.
re: #143 Belafon
If the Democrats hold the House and get at least two more Senators, then we will find out how many other Democratic Senators quietly support the filibuster but let Sinema and Manchin take all the heat for defending it.
re: #145 No Malarkey!
Good luck to them trying to drop that down the memory hole.
Charles and Camilla are prime candidates for the memory hole themselves, or at least obscurity.
re: #147 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Charles and Camilla are prime candidates for the memory hole themselves, or at least obscurity.
Its possible that, just as Elizabeth’s reign saw the end of the Empire, Charles’ reign will be noted for the end of the United Kingdom.
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re: #148 No Malarkey!
Its possible that, just as Elizabeth’s reign saw the end of the Empire, Charles’ reign will be noted for the end of the United Kingdom.
It really would be the perfect time to phase out the Monarchy as a civic institution. Abd yes, we can expect to see Scotland, Northern Ireland and even Wales bailing on Brexitannia.
re: #146 No Malarkey!
If the Democrats hold the House and get at least two more Senators, then we will find out how many other Democratic Senators quietly support the filibuster but let Sinema and Manchin take all the heat for defending it.
Get 4 more Senators and enough Republicans will be spooked that you’ll get to 60 and won’t need to end the filibuster.
re: #146 No Malarkey!
If the Democrats hold the House and get at least two more Senators, then we will find out how many other Democratic Senators quietly support the filibuster but let Sinema and Manchin take all the heat for defending it.
True, but during voting rights and abortion, every Democratic senator, and the two Independents, except those two came out and said they would abolish the filibuster to pass that legislation.
re: #152 Belafon
True, but during voting rights and abortion, every Democratic senator, and the two Independents, except those two came out and said they would abolish the filibuster to pass that legislation.
Saying it when it can’t happen and doing it when it can are two very different things. When Obama was President, the GOP easily passed a bill repealing the ACA, because they knew it would be vetoed. The difference, of course, is that a law codifying Roe would be very popular, while repealing Obamacare and replacing it with nothing was toxically unpopular.
re: #151 garzooma
Get 4 more Senators and enough Republicans will be spooked that you’ll get to 60 and won’t need to end the filibuster.
I can’t imagine any GOP Senators but Murkowski and Collins voting to codify Roe v. Wade.
It’s hard to pinpoint when exactly the questions started coming in. Angelyn Nichols, an administrator for Virginia Beach City Public Schools, thinks it was sometime in early 2021.What she does know is that no one really expected them in the first place, and no one expected them to keep coming - week after week, and now, year after year.
That’s because the questions involved a decades-old teaching concept many educators thought was settled, uncontroversial territory: the idea that, in order to learn, students need to know how to manage themselves and get along with others.
“Principals were being asked, ‘Can you talk to me about how you use social-emotional learning in your school? Are there connections to critical race theory?” says Nichols, who coordinates professional learning for the district. “Families were asking at a PTA meeting. Parents were asking their child’s classroom teacher.”
But one of the most visible places these concerns emerged was at the school board meetings.
“Our school board meetings have been tense and they’ve gotten heated,” says Natalie Allen, the district’s chief communications and community engagement officer. “We saw multiple terms being linked to critical race theory. Social-emotional learning just seems like the latest.”
Virginia Beach is not an anomaly.
Although its core concepts have been around nearly as long as public education itself, social-emotional learning is emerging as the latest lightning rod in the battles over what gets taught in schools nationwide.
How social-emotional learning became a frontline in the battle against CRT (NPR)
re: #155 Crush White Nationalism
How social-emotional learning became a frontline in the battle against CRT (NPR)
A town on the NH/MA border has a rabid Mothers for Liberty chapter that has kept up pressure on the school board (and apparently at one point was offering bounties on teachers who seemed to be teaching CRT). You can see in their website that SEL is very purposefully connected to CRT in their propaganda.
re: #155 Crush White Nationalism
kids should attend school for one purpose: to do well on standardized testing so their school districts receive more money.
Oh, and to take advantage of state-funded babysitting so bother parents have time to go to work.
re: #146 No Malarkey!
If the Democrats hold the House and get at least two more Senators, then we will find out how many other Democratic Senators quietly support the filibuster but let Sinema and Manchin take all the heat for defending it.
if there’s any closeted filibuster lovers, my guess is they’d stay quiet.
not a lot, if any, would pick up that baton and run with it.
the optics alone would be crushing
One of the most menacing parts of the Star Wars villain Darth Vader is his deep voice, thanks to his voice actor, James Earl Jones.The 91-year-old actor has voiced Vader for almost half a century in many different projects, but recently, he decided to step back from the role.
The franchise has plans for the character to (hopefully) sound the same in the future, but instead of Jones doing all the work, the voice will be created with A.I.
‘Star Wars’ to Use A.I. In Place of Original Cast Member (Parade)
re: #149 sizzzzlerz
Nice going! Always great to go where eagles dare!
re: #154 No Malarkey!
I can’t imagine any GOP Senators but Murkowski and Collins voting to codify Roe v. Wade.
After a bloodbath where they lose 4 seats, I can imagine it.
re: #162 garzooma
After a bloodbath where they lose 4 seats, I can imagine it.
The problem with that is that, while it would obviously be popular with the majority of Americans, it would be unpopular with the majority of voters in GOP primaries. Opposition to Roe v. Wade has been the foundation that the GOP has been built on for decades, so the only GOP Senators who would reverse their position would be those few in blue or purple states who could survive a primary challenge from a forced birther.
Hypocritical fuckers, every last one of them.
Shortly after ridiculing John Fetterman for his tattoos, Tucker flew to CA this weekend to attend the funeral of Hells Angels founder Sonny Barger. Probably didn’t say anything to these guys about theirs. pic.twitter.com/PcXnboVqQ3
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) September 26, 2022
Statement from the Bank of England: bankofengland.co.uk
TL;DR - looks like no emergency raise of interest rates. And Pound is heading down again after a brief bump up.
The pound dips back to $1.06 after the Bank of England does not deliver any emergency action today. Sterling still 1.5% down against the dollar today pic.twitter.com/igNdahjQ3S
— Mehreen Khan (@MehreenKhn) September 26, 2022
re: #164 Eclectic Cyborg
Hypocritical fuckers, every last one of them.
And absolutely shameless. They know they are hypocrites, and they and their voters don’t care.
re: #163 No Malarkey!
The problem with that is that, while it would obviously be popular with the majority of Americans, it would be unpopular with the majority of voters in GOP primaries. Opposition to Roe v. Wade has been the foundation that the GOP has been built on for decades, so the only GOP Senators who would reverse their position would be those few in blue or purple states who could survive a primary challenge from a forced birther.
I remind you that Kansas’ abortion restriction proposal lost everywhere in the state, not just the more “liberal” areas. Don’t give up before ee know what the post-Roe country looks like.
I see they’ve finally found “sunlit Brexit uplands” where unicorns fart out Skittles whilst flying o’er rainbow-bedecked pasturelands. 😄
💥 Market turmoil forces Halifax, UK’s largest mortgage lender, to temporarily withdraw all mortgage products that come with a fee.”As a result of significant changes in the cost of funding, we’re making some changes to our product range.”
— Andy Bruce (@BruceReuters) September 26, 2022
This album will turn 49 next month: Youtube Video
The @NASAKennedy Crawler-Transporter 2 is a massive beast. Upgraded to safely carry the increased weight of @NASA_SLS for #Artemis. It’s the right call to protect the vehicle given the latest forecasts. The Mobile Launcher is being disconnected and first motion is 11 p.m. local. pic.twitter.com/ksQSasgJPM
— Anne Barela (@anne_engineer) September 26, 2022
Who ordered an international incident for today’s bingo ?
BREAKING - Russian FSB security service says it has detained Japanese Consul in Vladivostok - RIA - Reuters News
— Phil Stewart (@phildstewart) September 26, 2022
re: #168 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS
I remind you that Kansas’ abortion restriction proposal lost everywhere in the state, not just the more “liberal” areas. Don’t give up before ee know what the post-Roe country looks like.
Though I no longer have the map handy, I believe the proposal won in most of the rural counties of west Kansas, but more narrowly than expected. Just remember, most GOP voters don’t vote in GOP primaries, just the most committed voters, who tend to be fascists and theocrats.
re: #117 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
This is the reckoning finally and undeniably hitting them in the face: Covid and Brexit double-whammy.
Well, almost entirely Covid, of course…in the mean time they will point out how a weak Pound favours British exports.
The pound was at $1.31 in March. My dollar will go much farther this spring in the UK.
re: #172 Teukka
Who ordered an international incident for today’s bingo ?
And picking a fight with the Japanese isn’t going to go over very well, since the US has been awful defensive of them since, y’know, we nuked the ever-loving shit out of them over 70 years ago.
re: #175 austin_blue
The pound was at $1.31 in March. My dollar will go much farther this spring in the UK.
A win for Brexit; more tourists taking advantage of bargains!
re: #172 Teukka
Who ordered an international incident for today’s bingo ?
What the hell? Russian FSB has detained the consul of #Japan in Vladivostok accusing him of spying for the CIA!
— NOËL 🇺🇦 (@NOELreports) September 26, 2022
re: #160 Crush White Nationalism
James Earl Jones did voices for the automated announcements for Bell Atlantic and later Verizon. Back when I had a Bell Atlantic calling card, I loved using it just to hear Darth Vader say “Welcome to Bell Atlantic!”
re: #179 Sherlock Hound
I have to admit I liked him in The Hunt for Red October.
re: #178 Teukka
Probably retaliation for Japan cutting off chemical exports to Russia.
The Japanese government has banned the export of materials that could be used for chemical weapons production to 21 Russian organizations, including science laboratories, Associated Press reported on Sept. 26, citing Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno.
BREAKING - PUTIN GRANTS FORMER NSA CONTRACTOR EDWARD SNOWDEN RUSSIAN CITIZENSHIP -PRESIDENTIAL DECREE
— Phil Stewart (@phildstewart) September 26, 2022
re: #177 No Malarkey!
A win for Brexit; more tourists taking advantage of bargains!
Actually, prices for flights to London are pretty high right now.
re: #182 Teukka
Wow. How much did the US have to pay Russia to actually keep that fucker?///////
re: #181 Dr Lizardo
Probably retaliation for Japan cutting off chemical exports to Russia.
It’s like the Kremlin boys don’t realize that actions, even in the form of words, always have consequences…
KET has invited both Charles and Rand to a US Senate Debate on Oct 3. Unsurprisingly, Rand has declined. Rand Paul is afraid to reveal his plan for the people of this nation, because he simply doesn’t have one..
— Team Booker (@TeamBooker2022) September 26, 2022
re: #184 Dopamine Fish
Wow. How much did the US have to pay Russia to actually keep that fucker?///////
They got a new recruit for the army for free.
meanwhile in Canada:
Lol. Firefighters are members of our Federation so I couldn’t resist posting this thread. Great message Fireman Brad! (I particularly like the one where he explains what he’ll do to dudes who say people who wear masks are sheep or are weak & sacred). Lol. https://t.co/TlUvZ50kZR
— Gil McGowan (@gilmcgowan) September 26, 2022
re: #187 jeffreyw
They got a new recruit for the army for free.
Yep. Time to fight for your country, moi paren. Grab a rusty rifle and we’ll get you to the front.
This is Frankly. He overheard someone start talking about crypto. Would like to be airlifted out of this conversation immediately. 13/10 pic.twitter.com/SmwGIq6soB
— WeRateDogs® (@dog_rates) September 26, 2022
re: #189 ericblair
Yep. Time to fight for your country, moi paren. Grab a rusty rifle and we’ll get you to the front.
Best news: If Ukraine captures him, they’d probably send him back for free, too.
Would be an incredible achievement to be elected leader of your party, become Prime Minister, kill the queen, tank the pound and get fired all within one menstrual cycle. Unreal girlbossing. https://t.co/acVwIh8UPl
— Sister Birkin (@judeinlondon2) September 26, 2022
re: #182 Teukka
Cool, now he can join the military.
re: #192 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
It’s not quite a Scaramucci, but dayum, girl.
I admire talented street art performers pic.twitter.com/l5ldZjq9ZV
— Vala Afshar (@ValaAfshar) September 25, 2022
Anyone heading on over to Old Blighty soon might wanna hold off a bit. Who knows? Maybe by next summer, $1 USD = £2 GBP. 😄
UK govt bond yields just spiked even higher.
10 year now up to 4.24%
This is NOT the reaction HMT & BoE would have wanted to their statements.
Still early doors. Let’s see what happens next…
Chart shows you the 10yr’s movements so far today pic.twitter.com/ZJGd2K8RPU— Ed Conway (@EdConwaySky) September 26, 2022
re: #192 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Damn, there were some storylines on Game of Thrones that were LESS fucked up.
re: #192 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
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Would be an incredible achievement to be elected leader of your party, become Prime Minister, kill the queen, tank the pound and get fired all within one menstrual cycle. Unreal girlbossing. https://t.co/acVwIh8UPl
— Sister Birkin (@judeinlondon2) September 26, 2022
Skipton Building Society & Virgin Money have now withdrawn mortgage products for new customers. This chaos isn’t sustainable. https://t.co/EL5qapa6iA
— Martin Finch 🇺🇦 (@martin_finch) September 26, 2022
People keep asking why the BoE doesn’t raise interest rates (at least right now): this Tweet may well explain why that is -
Probably because 18% of every domestic mortgage renews between now and next December. And no one will be able to afford their home. Could see enormous defaults in the UK. Approximately that’s is 18% of about £1.65 trillion which could default
— Dan Fell 💭🏏💻 (@TheKidLewis) September 26, 2022
NASA’s DART Spacecraft to Crash Into Asteroid Tonight in Planetary Defense Test
Here’s how and when to watch the collision between the spacecraft and the distant space rock called DimorphosThe mission aims to test technology that could defend Earth against potential asteroid threats.
An uncrewed spacecraft is on track to smash into and deflect a distant asteroid on Monday, the dramatic climax of a National Aeronautics and Space Administration mission to test whether the technique could one day be used to protect Earth.“For the first time ever we will measurably change the orbit of a celestial body in the universe,” said Bobby Braun, head of the space exploration sector at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md. The research center built the Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission spacecraft and is responsible for its operation at the direction of NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office.
NASA’s DART Spacecraft to Crash Into Asteroid Tonight in Planetary Defense Test (WSJ)
No limits to Sen. Blackheart’s hypocrisy and malice.
Women in America should be able to choose what they want to do with their own bodies without the fear of being killed for it.
— Arch (Space Laser Vaccination Supervisor) (@Arch_LGF) September 26, 2022
Auf Wiedersehen, asshole:
⚡ Stefan Schaller, the manager of the German energy company EWF Energie Waldeck-Frankenberg GmbH, was fired.
“This was a reaction to his work as an “observer” on the illegal Russian fictitious “referendums” in Ukraine,” says a statement.
👉 Follow @Flash_news_ua— FLASH (@Flash_news_ua) September 26, 2022
Like I have been saying…. Maggie Haberman’s reputation needs to be a smoldering ruin when this is all over.
That hack knew. She knew it all. https://t.co/DDNI2eRrW3— Hungry and Hopeful In DFW (@Kennymack1971) September 26, 2022
The competition to create ever smaller, ever better robots is a fierce one, and Cornell University is out front now with a set of bots small enough to sit on a human hair but that can move on their own using nothing but light as a power source.Now, you may remember a similarly small machine from a few months ago, sitting proudly on the rim of a penny. Small, yes — but calling it a robot isn’t quite accurate. It was a tiny machine, for sure, but it operated through being repeatedly heated and cooled, leading it to expand and contract its legs.
The Antbots, as the lab led by Michael Reynolds calls them, are actually about the size of an ant to an ant — even smaller than the penny-perching crab one. And it also is much closer to what we would consider a robot, or at least a mobile electronic machine. Yet unlike almost any previous systems, there’s no wire necessary.
These autonomous, wireless robots could dance on a human hair (Techcrunch)
re: #205 Crush White Nationalism
Here come the militarized nanobots.
Can folks generally open an Open Office word file as readily as a Microsoft Word file? I need to email a page to a business and a newspaper.
WaPo ping: Not a surprise to anyone here at LGF, Edward Snowden has been granted citizenship by Putin.
washingtonpost.com
re: #207 wrenchwench
Can folks generally open an Open Office word file as readily as a Microsoft Word file? I need to email a page to a business and a newspaper.
I would check the export function in OOo, e.g. PDF (most have ability to open). I dunno if MS Word is among the formats it can save as.
re: #209 Teukka
I would check the export function in OOo, e.g. PDF (most have ability to open). I dunno if MS Word is among the formats it can save as.
One place I want to send it specifically said no pdfs. They’re screwing me up.
re: #208 PhillyPretzel
WaPo ping: Not a surprise to anyone here at LGF, Edward Snowden has been granted citizenship by Putin.
washingtonpost.com
Has he been conscripted yet?
re: #211 Barefoot Grin
We will find out soon enough.
re: #174 No Malarkey!
Though I no longer have the map handy, I believe the proposal won in most of the rural counties of west Kansas, but more narrowly than expected. Just remember, most GOP voters don’t vote in GOP primaries, just the most committed voters, who tend to be fascists and theocrats.
It lost in all the rural and urban counties of Kansas, east and west, according to the latest accounts I read.
Polls are now showing that the number of voters intending to vote in this primary is vastly higher than the ordinary, significantly higher than it was even in 2018.
We’ve had endless lizard predictions of doom before every election since DT was elected and every one of them has been wrong. If you (not you personally) can’t bring yourselves to imagine that something good might come out of an election, can you at least, on the basis of your terrible record of predictions in the last several years, just keep the gloom and doom to yourselves? Some of us have elections work to do, and this is not helping.
re: #207 wrenchwench
Can folks generally open an Open Office word file as readily as a Microsoft Word file? I need to email a page to a business and a newspaper.
If it has been saved in MS word format they should have no problem opening it.
re: #207 wrenchwench
Can folks generally open an Open Office word file as readily as a Microsoft Word file? I need to email a page to a business and a newspaper.
I do it regularly.
re: #210 wrenchwench
One place I want to send it specifically said no pdfs. They’re screwing me up.
Bloody hell, it’s 2022. Who isn’t using PDFs these days??
re: #214 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
If it has been saved in MS word format they should have no problem opening it.
It’s not MS, but it looks like Word. I just saved it as a .pdf also. I think I’ll be OK.
re: #216 Eclectic Cyborg
Bloody hell, it’s 2022. Who isn’t using PDFs these days??
A web-only news site in New Mexico, run by a woman older than me. She runs obits for free, and has the most likely place it will be seen.
re: #219 Eclectic Cyborg
Wordle 464 4/6
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Oh, yeah, I have other business to take care of…
Great, another know nothing moron to wade into political punditry
mediaite.com
Some of us have known this for years, dude. That some of YOU are only just now coming to grips with this says more about you than it does about us.
It’s time for us to come to grips with the fact that the Snowden, Greenwald, Assange ops were all part of a years-long Russia-supported effort to upend the West.
— Dave Troy (@davetroy) September 26, 2022
re: #222 EstebanTornado1963
Great, another know nothing moron to wade into political punditry
mediaite.com
“There’s no compromise on Capitol Hill”—it doesn’t take a podcast to get to the bottom of this one.
re: #210 wrenchwench
One place I want to send it specifically said no pdfs. They’re screwing me up.
Checking out LibreOffice (which I’m using), it does seem to have the ability to save in some M$ formats, Word 2007-2019 (.docx) would seem to fit the bill?
File ⇒ Save As, pick appropriate format in file picker?
This wasn’t an accident. It’s what my Administration has been building toward.
Companies at home and abroad are making more things in America – not just because it’s better for their supply chains. But because we’re building an economy that makes their investment worthwhile. https://t.co/vKjUYRuoLd— President Biden (@POTUS) September 26, 2022
re: #216 Eclectic Cyborg
Bloody hell, it’s 2022. Who isn’t using PDFs these days??
The ones with fax #s still in their addresses
re: #225 Teukka
Checking out LibreOffice (which I’m using), it does seem to have the ability to save in some M$ formats, Word 2007-2019 (.docx) would seem to fit the bill?
File ⇒ Save As, pick appropriate format in file picker?
TYVM. Found and done. I now have 3 versions saved.
re: #186 Backwoods_Sleuth
Awesome. I’m very happy to hear that.
Now Snowden can be conscripted and shipped off to die in Ukraine like anyone else.
Wouldn’t that be grand?
re: #206 jaunte
Here come the militarized nanobots.
I for one welcome our new nanobot overlords. Or microlords. Whatever. Just don’t google gray goo.
re: #207 wrenchwench
Can folks generally open an Open Office word file as readily as a Microsoft Word file? I need to email a page to a business and a newspaper.
When in doubt, I’ll save and send docs in .rtf format. It doesn’t have as many bells & whistles as docx, but it can be opened by all the majors…
Along with his citizenship papers Snowden will be given a rusted out AK-47 and orders to head to the front. https://t.co/CIyPytWD79
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 26, 2022
re: #231 coin operated
When in doubt, I’ll save and send docs in .rtf format. It doesn’t have as many bells & whistles as docx, but it can be opened by all the majors…
.txt is always a suitable last resort, too
The Republican Party is doing their usual fake outrage whine dance because Hillary called them Nazis, but it doesn’t seem to have much traction this time around. Maybe because their fascist agenda has become so fucking obvious.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 26, 2022
re: #229 RoJo Must Go!
Awesome. I’m very happy to hear that.
Now Snowden can be conscripted and shipped off to die in Ukraine like anyone else.
Wouldn’t that be grand?
Well he had better hope he dies (if conscripted and sent). The Ukrainians will ship his dumb ass directly back to the U.S. as a thank you for all the help you have given us gift.
Spot the dog*
*yes I know that’s a dog’s name pic.twitter.com/cftd88OUez— Moose Allain Ꙭ (@MooseAllain) September 25, 2022
re: #231 coin operated
When in doubt, I’ll save and send docs in .rtf format. It doesn’t have as many bells & whistles as docx, but it can be opened by all the majors…
The format I came across now and then that I hated was the MS tin-o-crap word processor program that came (still comes?) by default with Windows. I’ve added an Office license for the past two laptops and thus have never had to deal with it in a few decades or more. All I know is that back then it essentially was not compatible with MS Office; e.g. it could not open a Word file and Word couldn’t open it’s saved files.
Just hilarious stuff right here. Let’s try running the United States without ever being able to confirm a cabinet secretary or a judge again. https://t.co/aBmqYrZxMB
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) September 26, 2022
🔥PRIVACY SCOOP: How ANYONE can track your car using only your license plate: a thread! 🧵👇 #osint #privacy (1/X) pic.twitter.com/YQGzbq6RCT
— Inti De Ceukelaire (@intidc) September 26, 2022
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) says she’s not only against abolishing the filibuster, she’s for strengthening it: “The best thing you can do for your child is to not give them everything they want… We should restore the 60-vote threshold for areas in which it has been eliminated.” pic.twitter.com/OR53ymuE4x
— Heartland Signal (@HeartlandSignal) September 26, 2022
ok wow childish nutjob thinks we’re all sassy children.
Kyrsten Sinema is in Louisville today giving a lecture on bipartisanship with Mitch McConnell.
She still hasn’t held a town hall in Arizona since taking office 3 years ago. pic.twitter.com/aNeAyQKPdz— Sawyer Hackett (@SawyerHackett) September 26, 2022
re: #242 Backwoods_Sleuth
I have the distinct impression her political career is pretty much one and done.
re: #241 ericblair
ok wow childish nutjob thinks we’re all sassy children.
She’s in favor of strengthening the filibuster because, once Democrats seat two new Senators, it’s the only hope of being powerful she has.
re: #241 ericblair
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ok wow childish nutjob thinks we’re all sassy children.
Allofasudden she looks like an Italian fascist.
re: #238 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
The format I came across now and then that I hated was the MS tin-o-crap word processor program that came (still comes?) by default with Windows. I’ve added an Office license for the past two laptops and thus have never had to deal with it in a few decades or more. All I know is that back then it essentially was not compatible with MS Office; e.g. it could not open a Word file and Word couldn’t open it’s saved files.
I remember that pile of shit. Think they quit shipping it shortly after XP. IIRC, that’s how I ended up moving to Google Docs for all my personal stuff. Aside from some occasional formatting goofs when saving as docx, it’s does the job.
re: #182 Teukka
BREAKING - PUTIN GRANTS FORMER NSA CONTRACTOR EDWARD SNOWDEN RUSSIAN CITIZENSHIP -PRESIDENTIAL DECREE
Next comes the conscription letter. Enjoy the front as you fight for mother russia you fucking traitor.
Good riddance.
re: #195 Backwoods_Sleuth
I need to know how that was done. That was amazing.
re: #250 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
it’s a frame that supports him… under his clothes and connects to the shovel
re: #213 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS
It lost in all the rural and urban counties of Kansas, east and west, according to the latest accounts I read.
Polls are now showing that the number of voters intending to vote in this primary is vastly higher than the ordinary, significantly higher than it was even in 2018.
We’ve had endless lizard predictions of doom before every election since DT was elected and every one of them has been wrong. If you (not you personally) can’t bring yourselves to imagine that something good might come out of an election, can you at least, on the basis of your terrible record of predictions in the last several years, just keep the gloom and doom to yourselves? Some of us have elections work to do, and this is not helping.
I’m actually optimistic about the election; I just don’t expect to see much difference in how Republican office holders react, which is why we need to replace as many of them as possible with Democrats.
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