ULFPECK /// Love is a Beautiful Thing
buy on bandcamp → http://vuuulf.com/bandcampMonica Martin — vocals
Theo Katzman — vocals, guitar, composer
Joe Dart — fender bass
Woody Goss — celeste, wurlitzer
Jack Stratton — drums, mixing
Joey Dosik — alto sax
Cory Wong — baritone guitar
Pete Min — engineer
Ryan Lerman — steadicam
Devin Kerr — mastering
Steve Bannon says the Brazil election was stolen from Bolsonaro. Shocker. pic.twitter.com/1dby7YgaE7
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) October 30, 2022
re: #1 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Soros will be found to have been very busy leading up to Bolsonaros’ loss.
Treating it all like a $44 billion joke.
This is fake – I did *not* tweet out a link to The New York Times! pic.twitter.com/d6V6m5ATW2
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 31, 2022
lol, look who is taking credit for Lula’s win:
Finally, for imbeciles claiming I’m crying or angry with the result, the reason Lula went from prisoner in 2018 to valid and then winning candidate in 2022 is because our reporting - based on our brave source - is what proved his conviction corrupt and freed him to run this year. pic.twitter.com/MtJ5YXKZNy
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) October 30, 2022
Way on brand. Losers. Lol. https://t.co/z2MESoahDL
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) October 31, 2022
The weirdest, most unbalanced thing about this Twitter deal is that the lives of hundreds of millions of Twitter users were not even a teensy tiny bit of anybody’s concern. People who spent years building audiences, promoting and supporting businesses, doing activism for important causes - none of it mattered in the slightest.
— Meanwhile in Canada (@MeanwhileinCana) October 31, 2022
re: #9 Charles Johnson
The weirdest, most unbalanced thing about this Twitter deal is that the lives of hundreds of millions of Twitter users were not even a teensy tiny bit of anybody’s concern. People who spent years building audiences, promoting and supporting businesses, doing activism for important causes - none of it mattered in the slightest.
You’re right, it wasn’t a concern, because we’re the product. We, the Twitter user base - we’re what Musk paid that $44B for. Literally the whole point of buying Twitter was to have a captive audience of hundreds of millions of people that he could influence with his right-wing woo. No one involved in the transaction cares one whit about any of the actual people involved, except for the value we bring as users of the platform.
Maybe social media users need to form a union, because I guarantee that none of these motherf*ckers give a single shit about us as they pull down billions of dollars.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 31, 2022
re: #3 Eclectic Cyborg
Yep, done by the same team that works on Death Note. Great homage.
SimpsonWorld was great.
There is no cat in this video. pic.twitter.com/Z1QxhGCojQ
— There is no cat in this image (@Thereisnocat_) October 30, 2022
re: #9 Charles Johnson
That’s on par for the disabled community. We’re used to being an afterthought, when we’re thought of at all.
re: #12 Charles Johnson
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True , social media doesn’t work well unless a lot of people are on the same app/in the same place
This is why you drive Twitter into the ground and let it die a stupid death
Building another one, now, is a good deal easier than the first time
(Unless someone comes up with a brilliant new architecture)
wait. wut? https://t.co/bEwItaC2WB
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 31, 2022
re: #17 Charles Johnson
Actually dying over here.
Since I see right wing trolls throwing my website at Dan Rather again, a retweet… https://t.co/FQYAyiJ2b0
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 31, 2022
Isn’t one of the definitions of a sociopath that they see other people merely as a means to an end, rather than as a fellow human deserving of empathy?
We are a commodity in the world of melon.
re: #17 Charles Johnson
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Imagine printing out source code at any company you worked at.
The organizer of Trump’s DC rally on J6 has thoughts on Brazil. pic.twitter.com/kd7SV751Pk
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) October 31, 2022
Wait, huh? Now it’s $20 a month?
Yeah, no. https://t.co/qze1kIsuTM— Charkenstein’s Monsterson (@Green_Footballs) October 31, 2022
Bye bye Tropical Trump 🌴
— Olivia Julianna 🗳 (@0liviajulianna) October 30, 2022
re: #24 Charles Johnson
They’re absolutely planning to shake down media outlets, politicians, etc over this. https://t.co/cp8z6LpEl5
— Downtown Brandi Frown 😾 (@ItsTheBrandi) October 31, 2022
re: #1 Backwoods_Sleuth
So glad you hear that Bolsonaro lost!! 👍🏿
Sherrod texted this photo earlier today. In my heart, this is a love note.#breathe
Photo by @SenSherrodBrown pic.twitter.com/UfP4u4ii6o— Connie Schultz (@ConnieSchultz) October 31, 2022
niterz, lizardz!
re: #24 Charles Johnson
I also think Musk would love people to drop their verification so it becomes harder to differentiate an expert in a field from the egg conspiracy theorist with 10 followers. Both become just a tweet that should be considered equally.
— Mike Blair (@realmikeblair) October 31, 2022
Who the fuck wants to spend almost $250 a year just to have a blue checkmark on Twitter?
re: #31 Eclectic Cyborg
Who the fuck wants to spend almost $250 a year just to have a blue checkmark on Twitter?
the people who would never earn one any other way.
re: #30 Patricia Kayden
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Stop thinking that Twitter is the best/only way for “experts” to communicate/interact/engage with the public
re: #35 Dangerman
This’ll be a transitional phase
re: #35 Dangerman
Stop thinking that Twitter is the best/only way for “experts” to communicate/interact/engage with the public
The problem is that the media has basically internalized the idea that Twitter is where to get news. Therefore, having a Twitter account has become essential for anyone who intends to generate news, or to communicate in media spaces. The Musk takeover might change that mindset, but it’s going to take a looooooong time, if it does.
This is true. Same with all European leaders moving fast to do the same. Leave no space for any ideas https://t.co/JBmIcmvnqj
— Nuno Felix (@Felix_Nuno) October 31, 2022
re: #31 Eclectic Cyborg
Who the fuck wants to spend almost $250 a year just to have a blue checkmark on Twitter?
Not me! They can fuck off with their checkmark.
The bad thing about this Twitter deal is that the lives of millions of users were not even a tiny bit of anybody’s concern. People who spent years building audiences, promoting and supporting businesses, doing activism for important causes - none of it mattered.
— Charkenstein’s Monsterson (@Green_Footballs) October 31, 2022
re: #41 Charles Johnson
Encourage, once again, people to go watch Sabine’s recent video on Long-termism.
A key part of the ideology, which Musk definitely embraces, is that the current suffering of people is not a concern in light of the long term.
So yes, Musk has no concern for those millions of users. Their loss is nothing in the long-term.
Longterm-ism (still figuring out how to hyphenate it) is an euphemism for apathetic amorality.
re: #35 Dangerman
Stop thinking that Twitter is the best/only way for “experts” to communicate/interact/engage with the public
Remember how experts have had to show up on Twitter to correct perceptions about science, history, and medicine?
I did not at all like the idea of Musk buying Twitter, but I honestly didn’t imagine that I would start thinking about abandoning the platform within 72 hours of him taking over,
re: #11 Dopamine Fish
You’re right, it wasn’t a concern, because we’re the product. We, the Twitter user base - we’re what Musk paid that $44B for. Literally the whole point of buying Twitter was to have a captive audience of hundreds of millions of people that he could influence with his right-wing woo. No one involved in the transaction cares one whit about any of the actual people involved, except for the value we bring as users of the platform.
I support a couple of guys on Patreon who do very cute (and instructive!) little animations with snippets of Japanese conversations. The conversations are in Japanese, rendered with romaji, regular Japanese and English translation. They made a mistake on Instagram, a dumb mistake (ok, it was an animation of an onigiri quizzing a hamburger and using a bomb as a timer—the bomb was the mistake) and now Insta has heavily restricted their account. So they’re trying to figure out where to go from here, and as a result, they’re pushing their YouTube channel more. I guess I’ll advise them to stay away from Twitter. Here’s an example:
Really honking cool paleoanthropology paper has dropped. I’ve got some reading to do tonight!!!
Have you ever wondered what skeletal evidence we *actually* have for hominins like Homo habilis or the various australopiths? If so, check out our new paper!@ashleyshammond 👇https://t.co/34nrIYXWv6 pic.twitter.com/LnniJeoao8
— Carrie Mongle (@CarrieMongle) October 30, 2022
Just received a request from twitter to confirm my email address.
I’ve been on twitter since 2009.
Wonder how many twitter users used a throw away email account to join twitter and don’t remember that user ID or password.
FWIW, I read twitter with Echofon, so no ads, so that remains to be seen how long that will last.
Currently Twitter for me is how to get NightCafe credits. I’m not so concerned with making a name for myself in any special interest discussion.
I’ll probably continue to use Twitter as such, simply as a means of getting some benefit for myself.
It’s an economic calculus - what do I get out of it (Twitter) for what I put into it.
Nine seconds that gave me both terrifying flashbacks and visions of the future.
Bolsonaristas are crying and praying away their loss to Lula. pic.twitter.com/D8F0wUNwna
— David Adler (@davidrkadler) October 30, 2022
re: #50 mmmirele
For several decades Brazil has been target by Evangelicals, especially Pentecostalists, and that has made itself known in the politics of the country.
When I speak of worldview collapse this is the kind of effects we will see, in ever increasing drama.
The death-of-god problem should not be underestimated.
re: #43 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Longterm-ism (still figuring out how to hyphenate it) is an euphemism for apathetic amorality.
Or you’re in suspended animation on a trip to Mars.
How evangelical Christianity came to embrace authoritarianism, fascism, and the like is something that needs more public discussion.
I do not expect Democratic leaders to do so in this country. Any politician like Biden who broaches problems with religion is signing their career away.
Wait a minute
You’ll include a second one?
And all I have to do is pay a “separate fee”?
Oh, you mean i have to pay for it
Wow
re: #44 Belafon
Remember how experts have had to show up on Twitter to correct perceptions about science, history, and medicine?
Been showing up since the 70s
Has it helped?
re: #42 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Encourage, once again, people to go watch Sabine’s recent video on Long-termism.
A key part of the ideology, which Musk definitely embraces, is that the current suffering of people is not a concern in light of the long term.
So yes, Musk has no concern for those millions of users. Their loss is nothing in the long-term.
Remember, this is just a toy for Elon. He doesn’t even care about the “long term” if it exceeds his own life time.
I don’t think he even cares about his offspring, little ! and ^~
but if they’re successful they get two good leads - the glengarry leads https://t.co/Nd0ksrGama
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) October 31, 2022
Warning: Musk doesn’t care about free speech, especially not that which criticises Musk pic.twitter.com/ETHG2Q75C6
— Brian (@VK2AAF) October 31, 2022
re: #53 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
How evangelical Christianity came to embrace authoritarianism, fascism, and the like is something that needs more public discussion.
When you convince yourselves that you are, and should be, the ultimate arbiter of morality, then it necessarily follows that you will find yourself resorting to increasingly authoritarian measures as people resist your demands that they fly right “or else”.
re: #48 BeenHereAwhile
Just received a request from twitter to confirm my email address.
I’ve been on twitter since 2009.
Wonder how many twitter users used a throw away email account to join twitter and don’t remember that user ID or password.
FWIW, I read twitter with Echofon, so no ads, so that remains to be seen how long that will last.
My entire Twitter experience is from What i read on lgf and politicalwire
Delete Twitter.
Delete Twitter from your Bookmarks.
Delete the Twitter App.
Fuck verification.
Fuck the blue check mark.
There will be plenty of other options. Other social media, and soon,
And also, the radical idea of actually stepping outside and into the open air and talking to people in real life.
Gefilte fish 😅
— Liddle Cherry Pie 🌻🌈🍒🥧 (@Pie_Overlord) October 31, 2022
Musk is turning twitter into Lord of the Flies.
He is JK but who TF even knows?
Scoop: Twitter is requiring verified journalists to retweet at least two Elon Musk posts each day, and write one original tweet each week discussing a quality of Elon’s they admire
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 31, 2022
Ohhhkay then, its not just for verified users, If you signed up for Twitter Blue at $5/mo, Elmo is planning to quadruple the cost. Cool. https://t.co/iUWp3uZmqM
— Charkenstein’s Monsterson (@Green_Footballs) October 31, 2022
There are about 300k verified Twitter accounts. If every single account opted to pay this fee, this would bring in about $18m in revenue yearly. That’s enough to pay off the $44B purchance price in slightly less than 2500 years. https://t.co/9SQElZNGoD
— Emily GPU prices (@EmilyGorcenski) October 30, 2022
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If every account followed by @verified subscribes b/c of this shakedown, that’s $26M/year.
Musk owes $1B/year in interest.
Not sure this is the magical solution.
(And the risk of chasing verified users off the platform and confusing everyone seems…. not worth $26M/year.) https://t.co/QcXF0zG5jo pic.twitter.com/vRrIn5iGS4— Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan) October 31, 2022
re: #60 Dangerman
My entire Twitter experience is from hat i read on lgf and politicalwire
Now that you mention it, since my twitter account has been locked down from the beginning, the only Trump or other batshit crazy tweets I see are via lgf.
re: #51 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
One of my favorite evangelical traditions is evangelicals traveling to historically Catholic countries to tell them about Jesus because they don’t consider Catholics to be real Christians. https://t.co/qcDwdhejQR
— Zack Hunt (@ZaackHunt) October 29, 2022
re: #60 Dangerman
My entire Twitter experience is from What i read on lgf and politicalwire
I use it to respond to stuff that gets posted here, and less frequently other political sites.
I don’t spend time on Twitter looking at my timeline, or have any Twitter apps on my phone or tablets. If it just stopped existing, I don’t think I’d really care.
re: #21 Belafon
Imagine printing out source code at any company you worked at.
I actually did that — it was sometimes easier to look at the printed copy for a section than viewing on the screen.
The text message exchange is amusing:
so the political text spammers DO read your responses pic.twitter.com/e6ynALaT1u
— Adam Steinbaugh (@adamsteinbaugh) October 30, 2022
re: #53 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
How evangelical Christianity came to embrace authoritarianism, fascism, and the like is something that needs more public discussion.
I do not expect Democratic leaders to do so in this country. Any politician like Biden who broaches problems with religion is signing their career away.
Embrace? It’s *always been there* since well before the founding of the most prominent Evangelical sect, the Southern Baptist Convention, which was started in 1845 because the then-existing Baptist organization would not call an enslaver as a missionary. The authoritarianism has always been built in. White men were on top, and everyone else was expected to sort out their places underneath, but always to remain subservient. The churches were there to emphasize the nature of the relationships. And of course the leaders were part and parcel of the local and state politics, particularly when it came to enforcing Jim Crow, particularly
In many evangelical churches, the pastor is the leader, the authority. Many Southern Baptist churches were originally on a congregational model, where the congregation voted on the pastor, but have since moved over to a pastor/elder model as part of the Calvinista takeover. Calvary Chapel uses the Moses model, which is essentially the same thing. Most non-denominational churches are also set up on a similar model of authoritarianism.
And then, do I really have to mention that there is a strong stream of authoritarianism within Catholicism? For centuries?
re: #53 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
How evangelical Christianity came to embrace authoritarianism, fascism, and the like is something that needs more public discussion.
I do not expect Democratic leaders to do so in this country. Any politician like Biden who broaches problems with religion is signing their career away.
John Brown was an evangelical who rejected authoritarianism and fascism BUT he did not reject violence because he believed that was the only way to confront the white supremacy state that reigned in the South. He finally abandoned the possibility of a peaceful resolution to the evil at the heart of our nation. It is a very chilling prospect if you cannot defeat evil by words and reason but only by the sword.
re: #67 ckkatz
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Then why 4.99? What’s the point? It isn’t enough to have any kind of actual effect or do any weeding out
It won’t “do” anything
This video of kittens wreaking havoc overnight is 100 times more worthy than anything Elon is crying about.https://t.co/oInjbRqM3u
— James William Garrett (@JamesWGarrett1) October 31, 2022
re: #68 Crush White Nationalism
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Is that what the sink meant?
Wow, I didn’t get it at all
re: #73 Hecuba’s daughter
I actually did that — it was sometimes easier to look at the printed copy for a section than viewing on the screen.
We had punch cards….
re: #61 Florida Panhandler
Delete Twitter.
Delete Twitter from your Bookmarks.
Delete the Twitter App.
Fuck verification.
Fuck the blue check mark.
There will be plenty of other options. Other social media, and soon,
And also, the radical idea of actually stepping outside and into the open air and talking to people in real life.
But the real people in my sphere are not legal experts like Michael Dunford. It is great to have one-stop shopping to access expertise on a wide range of issues.
re: #78 Dangerman
Then why 4.99? What’s the point? It isn’t enough to have any kind of actual effect or do any weeding out
It won’t “do” anything
About the only thing that I can think of is that it will unsettle and alienate even more people and drive them off twitter.
It’s almost like that is the intended goal…
re: #84 ckkatz
Libertarian billionaires love chaos.
re: #85 jaunte
Libertarian billionaires love chaos.
Wasn’t melon part of the group that prided themselves on being ‘disruptors’?
NEW: Kanye West endorsed Herschel Walker, touting his “pro-life” position.
You can’t make this sh*t up.— Republicans against Trumpism (@RpsAgainstTrump) October 31, 2022
“Why Early Results on Election Night May Be Misleading”
Stop this nonsense.
Elections are no longer a one day and done affair
The only total that matters is after all the legally cast votes are accurately counted and recounted, if necessary
Intermediate totals are meaningless.
The order of counting is meaningless.
There is no election night “horserace” ffs
Stop the insanity
re: #86 ckkatz
Wasn’t melon part of the group that prided themselves on being ‘disruptors’?
All of his peers think that. Move Fast And Break Things.
Right?
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re: #86 ckkatz
Yes. Here’s some PR about how much of a genius disruptor he is:
ediweekly.com
re: #88 Dangerman
Élections usually haven’t been one day and done for most of our history.
Look who’s shitTweeting like a common elonshitgoblin.
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re: #92 The Pie Overlord!
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re: #90 jaunte
Yes. Here’s some PR about how much of a genius disruptor he is:
ediweekly.com
Compare that kneel-to-the-great-man hagiography with Musk’s actual performance in public.
This is how small, brittle little men without shame, values, or character triage a colossal public fuck-up. https://t.co/xnW9HBn5iO
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) October 31, 2022
It really feels like Musk watched Trump take a luxury brand and flush it down toilet and thought he could top him.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) October 31, 2022
re: #46 mmmirele
I support a couple of guys on Patreon who do very cute (and instructive!) little animations with snippets of Japanese conversations. The conversations are in Japanese, rendered with romaji, regular Japanese and English translation. They made a mistake on Instagram, a dumb mistake (ok, it was an animation of an onigiri quizzing a hamburger and using a bomb as a timer—the bomb was the mistake) and now Insta has heavily restricted their account. So they’re trying to figure out where to go from here, and as a result, they’re pushing their YouTube channel more. I guess I’ll advise them to stay away from Twitter. Here’s an example:
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I don’t think there is such a thing as casual keigo.
This thread also explains how any bonkers conspiracy theory gains and keeps traction on the right, whether it’s 2020 Election, Covid Denialism, Q-Anon, etc.
1. By week’s end, a sizable percentage of the GOP base will believe an absurd conspiracy theory positing that Paul Pelosi was assaulted by his leftist gay lover.
Allow me to explain.— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) October 30, 2022
Wow. “ship in a week”? I mean, this is just a recipe for a cluster****.
— Dee *I support transgender people* Holmes🇺🇦🌻 (@mmmirele) October 31, 2022
OK, while I am NOT a developer, I do have a LOT of experience with pushing for and pushing out fixes for key deliverables. These are usually bugs discovered after implementation but either were not found in testing because there were no test cases or the development and test environments could not be ramped up to production volumes, or, frankly, they didn’t think that including X thing would be a problem (and it was).
What Elon is wants is not an “implement one thing” type of deal and in my opinion if the Twitter devs push this out in a week, it is going to be fucked up. Again, Just My Personal Opinion.
re: #98 mmmirele
“…Elon Musk not only strives to hire the best but also ensures he retains high-performing and highly talented people. This is important because he acknowledges the fact that he will have to depend on their skills, expertise, and inspiration to attain success. “Praise onto others, not blame,” says Elon Musk.”
ediweekly.com
Mike Dunford’s (questauthority) take on the verification charge:
This will make some money, I suspect. Corporations that need a public-facing presence, in particular, are either going to have to pay for the Blue Check or risk incurring more than the cost in additional brand protection expenses.
But overall the ranks of the verified will drop. https://t.co/2WYD0KVR6i— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) October 31, 2022
“You can ask $20 a month for verification, but if you insist, you can’t have our advertising.”
re: #98 mmmirele
I’m thinking that he is planning on having the user base do the beta testing. And, yup, it would likely be very fucked up. Particularly if he is bringing in a new group of programmers to do the coding.
Half-sun at Giza Pyramids today. This only happens every 5 years. pic.twitter.com/c53AboF3kM
— Anyextee (@Anyextee) October 30, 2022
re: #96 Barefoot Grin
I don’t think there is such a thing as casual keigo.
What I think they’re reporting on is something that is happening in Osaka, which is where they have been/are based. I have a hard time just remembering the general keigo, I am sure as heck not gonna get fancy.
Renegade general and the Radical Right, 1961: pic.twitter.com/PYx3oDrZhh
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) October 31, 2022
re: #96 Barefoot Grin
I don’t think there is such a thing as casual keigo.
Ok, that’s not exactly right. There are various levels of keigo. But the addition of っすhas been seen as youthful slang for awhile. I haven’t been back for four years, but I haven’t heard this in the tv dramas I watch where corporate speech is still the careful interplay of keigo and kenjōgo. But thank you for posting. I’ll see if I can catch it. Language is ever changing.
Wanna know something interesting?
You can still see the divide between east and west Berlin from space!
East Berlin uses sodium vapor lamps, producing an orange color. The west on the other hand uses florescent lamps, which produce a more neutral white light.
(📸Credit: ESA) pic.twitter.com/stsrNZ0GtK— Dylan Spookrau (@SemrauDylan) October 30, 2022
As you have probably heard, Russia pulled out of the agreement to provide Ukrainian grain exports a safe travel corridor.
It sounds like the Turks, UN and Ukraine are going to run another convoy tomorrow anyway.
BREAKING:
Ukraine, Turkey & the UN have notified Russia that they have decided on organizing a convoy of 14 cargo ships with grain to set sails from Ukraine tomorrow despite Russia’s renewed naval blockade in the Black Sea.
Will Russia attack the ships carrying Ukrainian grain?— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 30, 2022
By the way:
“Unreasonably breach contracts and use your position of strength to force counterparties to settle for far less than was bargained-for” is a classic Donald Trump business strategy. We literally talked about it in my contracts class years before Trump entered politics. https://t.co/pp7uAbUm9W— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) October 30, 2022
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The downside is that it’s a strategy that’s not great in the long term. Makes people more reluctant to contract with you at all, and those who will deal with you either price your mendacious tendencies into the deal, or are so desperate at the start that their quality suffers.
— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) October 30, 2022
🇲🇩 Rallies in #Moldova: A crowd of protesters in #Chisinau is moving towards the central square of the city
Demonstrators shout slogans calling for the resignation of President #Sandu and the normalization of relations with #Russia.
The police have blocked the street. pic.twitter.com/f67jTDSPsX— The informant (@theinformantofc) October 30, 2022
Whatever you think is going to happen will be wrong. pic.twitter.com/8u5IIr9363
— Gavin Shoebridge (@KiwiEV) October 29, 2022
re: #111 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
>”Whatever you think is going to happen will be wrong.”
That would be a yes.
re: #113 ckkatz
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“Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allen Poe.”
And thanks for the light.
Ooh…is that a packet of ketchup I see back there?
— Sean (@sean_s_mc) October 31, 2022
re: #111 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
Seatbelts matter.
This guy is retweeting, with translation, a bunch of these “mundane Halloween” costumes from Japan. I really felt the first one.
“Person who tried to cut their own bangs, failed, and now claims it’s the latest fashion”https://t.co/9QGuTSAA9D
— Nick Kapur (@nick_kapur) October 31, 2022
Sounds like Ken White was having the same train of thought as our esteemed host.
“It’s a private platform, they can do what they want” cuts both ways. It’s perfectly sensible that Twitter can go in a wildly different direction when ownership changes. It’s the owner’s speech and association. Never get too attached to one private platform.
— BelovedAnonymousHat (@Popehat) October 28, 2022
re: #111 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
Also…
Hold on loosely, but don’t let go…
Thanks for the earworm.
re: #111 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
Not so much ArmorAll on the vinyl seats next time.
re: #118 ckkatz
Sounds like Ken White was having the same train of thought as our esteemed host.
If Musk manages to make Twitter a non-entity he will have done the world a great service.
I just hope he doesn’t take down America’s democratic institution in the process.
re: #103 jaunte
I would drop the word “only.” That the eclipse happens every five years so this shot can be taken is pretty cool.
re: #123 Belafon
It’s probably why they chose that spot for the pyramids.
re: #121 jaunte
Not so much ArmorAll on the vinyl seats next time.
LOL when I was 15 I took my dad’s 1965 Buick Skylark for a joyride and he loved to ArmorAll the bench seats. I took a 15 MPH left corner at about 35 and the next thing I knew I was driving from the passenger seat.
re: #125 Captain Ron
LOL when I was 15 I took my dad’s 1965 Buick Skylark for a joyride and he loved to ArmorAll the bench seats. I took a 15 MPH left corner at about 35 and the next thing I knew I was driving from the passenger seat.
Back in the days before seatbelts.
The beautiful moment in Buenos Aires when @coldplay invited @Golshifteh to join them to sing Shervin Hajipour’s ‘Baraye’, the anthem of #IranRevolution2022. The whole world wants liberty for the people of Iran.#MahsaAmini #زن_زندگی_آزادی_مرد_میهن_آبادی #مهسا_امینی pic.twitter.com/hmfOmMDRKC
— Roham Alvandi رهام الوندی (@DrRohamAlvandi) October 29, 2022
It most certainly is the point.
A central rightwing principle is that there’s no such thing as expertise or credibility — “you’re a respected epidemiologist? Well, I’m an antivaxx crystal healer and I say you’re fake news!”
They want to level the playing field for the dumb. https://t.co/YwnTgGCE8Q— Roy Edroso (@edroso) October 31, 2022
re: #127 ckkatz
Coldplay? I used to hunt for Cold Blood MP3s back in the day and I came across hundreds of their songs. I don’t care for them.
re: #124 jaunte
It’s probably why they chose that spot for the pyramids.
It could also be a coincidence…like Stonehenge.
The next generation of AI image generators will really challenge the idea of artistry.
Googles Imagen will likely be the stepping stone, should Google execs green-light making it available to the public.
Even if Google does not let it out to the public, they will be able to use it in-house.
Dinesh D’Souza probably on his way to Brazil to make a documentary called 2000 Capybaras
— 💀DeathMetalViking💀 (@DeathMetalV) October 31, 2022
If you think this dude is going to save the world, remember that he couldn’t even cure the tsarevich’s hemophilia. pic.twitter.com/TBrXNjf9yl
— Benjamin Dreyer (@BCDreyer) October 31, 2022
re: #130 Captain Ron
Coldplay? I used to hunt for Cold Blood MP3s back in the day and I came across hundreds of their songs. I don’t care for them.
De gustibus non est disputandum
Although in this case the singers are Iranian and singing an Iranian song in Farsi. (About the current protests.)
re: #132 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The next generation of AI image generators will really challenge the idea of artistry.
Googles Imagen will likely be the stepping stone, should Google execs green-light making it available to the public.
Even if Google does not let it out to the public, they will be able to use it in-house.
The art, as always, will be in the hands of the tool user not the tool. It will be an interesting tool; I’ll grant you that.
re: #136 William Lewis
I was thinking more about reality and deep fakery.
It is already a challenge to identify falsified photos, if the deceiver is using all the tricks. Usually when one finds on Twitter the calling out of fakes the bottom line is the context - the fakery is defeated by people having access to the truth.
Without that access to the truth, falsehoods via images will become the norm, I worry.
re: #103 jaunte
??? Awful photoshop. Foreground shadows show the sun off to the left out of frame. Also solar eclipses don’t recur at the same spot and orientation at five year (or other even intervals)
Moon’s also the wrong phase today; approaching first quarter.
Or is this just an example of the crap to be found on twitter now?
Making an AI look like a real photograph is a challenge as the AI images usually have one or two things that give them away. In other instances the AI generated image is simply too good (see those portraits upstream.)
Here is one from DALL-E where I’m trying to invoke a certain look by a real photographer:
I bet I could fool some people with it, especially people unaware of where AI imaging is today.
Just saw an old friend from Moscow who is now a political refugee in Europe. As long as I’ve known him, he’s been obsessed with American culture. I asked him if he was going to try to move to the US. “You know, looking at American politics, I think I’ll stay in Europe,” he said.
— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) October 30, 2022
re: #141 jaunte
This photo is fake…
BUT in less than 5 years from now (August 02, 2027), a total solar eclipse WILL occur about 50 miles South of Giza (over 95% partial from Giza itself)…
The eclipse will be total in Luxor and will last more than 6 minutes!!!— Thomas Miller (@thomasomatic) October 31, 2022
The OP claims to be an “esoteric researcher”.
re: #144 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Erich Von Daniken’s love child.
re: #144 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The OP claims to be an “esoteric researcher”.
In other words, a “professional pitcher of woowoo”.
re: #143 ckkatz
G’night and sweet lizard dreams!
In place of the regularly scheduled Dad joke… Here is a… Dad joke:
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Before my brain got the joke, it temporarily reached the horror conclusion. And then proceeded to bring up the world’s shortest horror story:
“The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.”
re: #148 Targetpractice
pshaw! The woman next door wanted to borrow a cup of sugar.
The eye problem of these AI machines is noticeable but about 20% of the images are close enough that some people could be fooled.
Here is one where only the iris differences keep it from looking like a real but overly-airbrushed photo:
In the following the eye differences are small enough to be within normal human range, and the shadow helps:
Only a close observer can find flaws.
re: #150 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Someone good in Photoshop could probably fix the eye problem. Once done, it will fool people.
re: #151 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
You could fool me now, seriously. Most people I know have slight differences in their eyes. I feel rather like an idiot.
re: #151 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Someone good in Photoshop could probably fix the eye problem. Once done, it will fool people.
So, after the VA ophthalmologist last year put eye drops in my eyes which have turned my irises into concentric rings of blue outside going to dark brown near the pupils (they were just dark brown before), I could hire someone who knows how to use Photoshop to fix my eyes? The ophthalmologist says he has no idea what happened to my eyes.
re: #154 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
That is funky enough for Nate Smith and Cory Wong!
re: #113 ckkatz
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Quoth the Raven:
“COUGH HACK COUGH WHEEZE hoc-TWO-EE COUGH ugh, Christ almighty, I need to cut down to half a pack a day…”
re: #133 DodgerFan1988
Dinesh D’Souza probably on his way to Brazil to make a documentary called 2000 Capybaras
LOL’d IRL at that one.
re: #155 retired cynic
That is funky enough for Nate Smith and Cory Wong!
The doc did say they were using a different brand of eye drops last year. He made a note in my medical record not to use that brand again.
My eyes now look like I am wearing some funky contact lenses. When I am close to someone they make me feel self-conscious about my appearance now (it didn’t help when I was visiting my cousin in Michigan during my trip and everyone noted my eyes look weird).
re: #154 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
So, after the VA ophthalmologist last year put eye drops in my eyes which have turned my irises into concentric rings of blue outside going to dark brown near the pupils (they were just dark brown before), I could hire someone who knows how to use Photoshop to fix my eyes? The ophthalmologist says he has no idea what happened to my eyes.
Funky. Almost as good as the Army sniper friend of mine who had his spleen taken out, had his white blood count drop to an impossible 0 (as in NO white blood cells detectable in the lab) and then his spleen grew back (!). The docs are still shrugging about that.
re: #159 William Lewis
Funky. Almost as good as the Army sniper friend of mine who had his spleen taken out, had his white blood count drop to an impossible 0 (as in NO white blood cells detectable in the lab) and then his spleen grew back (!). The docs are still shrugging about that.
Wolverine confirmed.
And with that, I’m off to work. Be back later.
re: #159 William Lewis
Funky. Almost as good as the Army sniper friend of mine who had his spleen taken out, had his white blood count drop to an impossible 0 (as in NO white blood cells detectable in the lab) and then his spleen grew back (!). The docs are still shrugging about that.
Is his name Logan, is he from Canada, and do metal claws occasionally pop out of his knuckles?
re: #160 Dr Lizardo
Wolverine confirmed.
And with that, I’m off to work. Be back later.
Beat me by 12 seconds. Well played, bub.
Heh. Nope, just another leftist veteran living in San Francisco.
re: #159 William Lewis
Funky. Almost as good as the Army sniper friend of mine who had his spleen taken out, had his white blood count drop to an impossible 0 (as in NO white blood cells detectable in the lab) and then his spleen grew back (!). The docs are still shrugging about that.
From webmd.com:
Unlike some other organs, like the liver, the spleen does not grow back (regenerate) after it is removed.
Up to 30% of people have a second spleen (called an accessory spleen). These are usually very small, but may grow and function when the main spleen is removed. Rarely, a piece of the spleen may break off with trauma, such as after a car accident. If the spleen is removed, this piece can grow and function.
re: #148 Targetpractice
Before my brain got the joke, it temporarily reached the horror conclusion. And then proceeded to bring up the world’s shortest horror story:
“The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.”
That’s not a horror story. It’s the meet-cute of a male/female rom-com.
re: #159 William Lewis
Funky. Almost as good as the Army sniper friend of mine who had his spleen taken out, had his white blood count drop to an impossible 0 (as in NO white blood cells detectable in the lab) and then his spleen grew back (!). The docs are still shrugging about that.
Return of a normal functioning spleen after traumatic splenectomy (Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine via NIH)
Spleen can regenerate through various mechanisms. Autotransplantation of splenic tissue after traumatic disruption of the splenic capsule is well recognized.1 Splenic tissue can lodge anywhere in the peritoneal cavity following traumatic disruption and regenerates under favourable conditions.2 The incidence of splenic regeneration correlates with the severity of splenic injury:3 patients requiring a splenectomy for trauma tend to be those with greatest splenic damage and dissipation of splenic tissue, which favours autotransplantation. These splenic implants, called splenosis, can be found anywhere in the peritoneal cavity. They are supplied by newly formed arteries that penetrate the capsule.4
Accessory spleens, on the other hand, are common prevalence 10-31% in autopsy series.5 They result from incomplete fusion of separated fetal spleen tissue originating from the dorsal mesogastrium.6 In healthy individuals, accessory spleens usually measure only a few millimetres in diameter5 and may be undetectable on routine imaging. These accessory spleens can enlarge following splenectomy and be the source of recurrent symptoms in those operated on for blood disorders. An accessory spleen derives its blood supply from branches of the splenic artery.4
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TL;DR: Spleens can grow back.
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re: #164 Hecuba’s daughter
You beat me to it by a few seconds. You went through WebMD and I went through NIH.
re: #166 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Return of a normal functioning spleen after traumatic splenectomy (Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine via NIH)
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TL;DR: Spleens can grow back.
A more detailed discussion than the one provided in webmd!
re: #161 Mattand
Is his name Logan, is he from Canada, and do metal claws occasionally pop out of his knuckles?
Nah, his name’s Wade and he never knows when to shut the f&ck up.
re: #168 Hecuba’s daughter
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re: #172 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I know too many five-letter words.
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My wordle was the Monday one — yours is Sunday!
re: #173 Hecuba’s daughter
My wordle was the Monday one — yours is Sunday!
That’s because I live in Mythical Time Zone.
As usual, @PragerU is lying to the most gullible people on the internet.
Generally speaking, our federal prisons are not filled with atheists. Here’s actual data to back that up: https://t.co/D63BxqXmRc https://t.co/1DaFm3IjmS— Hemant Mehta (@hemantmehta) October 31, 2022
There’s a lot to be said for a simple butter croissant.
Meet the new boss.
“He (Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky) wanted war. He would have negotiated a little more if he didn’t want war. That’s how it is. I criticized (Russian President Vladimir) Putin when I was in Mexico City, saying it was a mistake to invade. But I don’t think anyone is contributing to peace. People are stimulating hatred against Putin. That is not going to solve it. You have to stimulate an agreement, but there is an encouragement (to confrontation)!”
“Sometimes I see the president of Ukraine on TV as if he’s celebrating, being given a standing ovation by all the parliaments, you know? That guy is as responsible as Putin. He’s as responsible as Putin.”
“Biden could say, ‘Let’s talk some more. We don’t want Ukraine in NATO, period. It’s not a concession.’”
Well, it would be too good if the average modern socialist thought otherwise.
re: #176 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
There’s a lot to be said for a simple butter croissant.
I learned how to bake butter croissants. They are a pain in the patootie to make from scratch, but they are oh so good. (Auto-corrupt wants to change “patootie” to “patriotic.”)
re: #179 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
It’s a simple but good breakfast:
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re: #178 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I learned how to bake butter croissants. They are a pain in the patootie to make from scratch, but they are oh so good. (Auto-corrupt wants to change “patootie” to “patriotic.”)
I’m reminded learning how to make angel food cake (major pain slowly folding the whipped egg whites into the batter). I eventually won a champion ribbon for my angel food cake at the county fair (I was in 4H) but it took a long time and lots of tries to get it right. Good thing angel food makes great strawberry shortcake!
This is an interesting take. World Socialist Website is attacking the Democratic Socialists of America for being warmongers because the DSA is supporting Ukraine defending their territory from invasion.
The decision by the entire Congressional slate of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) members and DSA-backed representatives to rescind a letter to Joe Biden calling for peace talks with Russia increases the likelihood of direct conflict between the US and Russia and raises the risk of nuclear war.
The DSA’s endorsement of US imperialism’s war against Russia in Ukraine is not a break with the DSA’s history. On the contrary, it is the latest (and most dangerous) iteration of the organization’s pro-imperialist political essence.
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As long as I’ve been a member of the DSA, I have yet to find a “pro-imperialist” bent to the organisation.
Is our Esteemed Host Mr. Johnson going to start charging $20 per month for a verified Lizard badge for members here? /s
re: #183 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
This is an interesting take. World Socialist Website is attacking the Democratic Socialists of America for being warmongers because the DSA is supporting Ukraine defending their territory from invasion.
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As long as I’ve been a member of the DSA, I have yet to find a “pro-imperialist” bent to the organisation.
Agreed. I’ve had many a moment where I disagreed with them on foreign policy issues. As a supporter of NAFO, I’m glad they’re on the correct side on this. These twits can bugger themselves ;)
The Democratic Socialists of America extend their congratulations to @LulaOficial, @ptbrasil & their electoral coalition on their resounding victory against neofascism and ecocide. This is a victory for the dignity of the working class! This is a victory for the planet!
— DSA 🌹 (@DemSocialists) October 30, 2022
Despite the blockades carried out by the highway police, democracy has won in Brazil tonight. We call on President Biden to condemn all attempts by Bolsonaro to subvert the democratic will of the Brazilian people & ensure the results of tonight’s election are immediately upheld.
— DSA 🌹 (@DemSocialists) October 30, 2022
re: #185 William Lewis
Agreed. I’ve had many a moment where I disagreed with them on foreign policy issues. As a supporter of NAFO, I’m glad they’re on the correct side on this. These twits can bugger themselves ;)
I had to look up NAFO, as I’d not heard of that.
NAFO (group) (goes to Wikipedia, that fount of all human ken)
The North Atlantic Fellas Organization (NAFO; a play on NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization) is an Internet meme and social media movement dedicated to countering Russian propaganda and disinformation about the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
In addition to posting irreverent commentary about the war and memes promoting Ukraine or mocking the Russian war effort and strategy (“shitposting”), the group also raises funds for the Ukrainian military and other pro-Ukrainian causes. The representation of a NAFO “Fella” is a Shiba Inu dog, often used as an avatar and sometimes described as a “cartoon dog” or a “group of Shiba Inu soldiers. According to The Economist, “NAFO’s flippancy obscures its role as a remarkably successful form of information warfare.”
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re: #187 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Yup. We have fun fucking over the Russian propagandists :D
Obscure labels/singers - America has had many.
Here is one from Soultrack Records, for whom Discogs only lists 18 records (though more must have been made.)
Singer is “DD James”. I don’t think he is the singer currently up in northern California but I could be wrong:
re: #189 William Lewis
Yup. We have fun fucking over the Russian propagandists :D
More from that Wikipedia article:
Russia has deployed troll farms effectively in the past; its confused reactions to NAFO may stem from its “turgid ideological propaganda about Ukraine.” According to the cyber warfare unit of the U.S. Army, the 780th Military Intelligence Brigade, “For an online community like NAFO, hostile mention from an official propaganda outlet of its target is evidence its ridicule is achieving the desired effect.”
On 28 August 2022, the official Twitter account of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine tweeted its appreciation of NAFO, with an image of missiles being fired and a “Fella” dressed in a combat uniform, hands on face, in a posture of appreciation.
OMG pic.twitter.com/IvavVkpwOw
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) October 30, 2022
The leader of a nation that has been invaded, its cities occupied, its people brutalized, its resources plundered, and its infrastructure repeatedly ruined is at fault because he chooses to continue a successful campaign to remove the offending party from his nation rather than allow them to keep what they took via unlawful action.
Yes, he truly is a monster, isn’t he?//////////
re: #187 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I had to look up NAFO, as I’d not heard of that.
NAFO (group) (goes to Wikipedia, that fount of all human ken)
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It may be NATO sending missiles and tanks to Ukraine, but on social media an information war is being fought by a rowdy band of online comrades called NAFO. Meet the fellas https://t.co/D2cWi2OHdY
— Sky News (@SkyNews) October 30, 2022
re: #195 Targetpractice
The leader of a nation that has been invaded, its cities occupied, its people brutalized, its resources plundered, and its infrastructure repeatedly ruined is at fault because he chooses to continue a successful campaign to remove the offending party from his nation rather than allow them to keep what they took via unlawful action.
Yes, he truly is a monster, isn’t he?//////////
Yep, that’s basically Lula’s stance. He is an improvement over Bolsonaro, but I’m wary.
re: #194 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
re: #198 Nyet
Yep, that’s basically Lula’s stance. He is an improvement over Bolsonaro, but I’m wary.
We work for better never perfect…
Starmer seems to have his head on his shoulders though.
During the 2021-2022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis, Starmer held a meeting with NATO General Secretary Jens Stoltenberg and said in an interview with the BBC that his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn was “wrong” to be a critic of NATO and that the Labour Party’s commitment to the alliance was “unshakeable”. He elaborated on this point that he felt it was “important for me to make clear that we stand united in the UK … Whatever challenges we have with the [Boris Johnson’s] government, when it comes to Russian aggression we stand together.”[250] He said Russia should be hit with “widespread and hard-hitting” economic sanctions.[251] He also criticised the Stop the War Coalition in an opinion piece for The Guardian arguing that they were “not benign voices for peace” but rather “[a]t best they are naive, at worst they actively give succour to authoritarian leaders” such as Vladimir Putin “who directly threaten democracies.”[252]
re: #148 Targetpractice
Before my brain got the joke, it temporarily reached the horror conclusion. And then proceeded to bring up the world’s shortest horror story:
“The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.”
Please explain the joke to me. I went where you did (horror) but can’t see past that.
re: #201 Nyet
I remember when I was still at Twitter, the average Corbynite there was very toxic.
Stop the War Coalition statement on Ukraine crisis
On 18 February 2022, in the week before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Corbyn alongside 11 Labour MPs cosigned a statement from the Stop the War Coalition opposing any war in Ukraine.[315] The statement said that “the crisis should be settled on a basis which recognises the right of the Ukrainian people to self-determination and addresses Russia’s security concerns”, that NATO “should call a halt to its eastward expansion”, and that the British government’s sending of arms to Ukraine and troops to eastern Europe served “no purpose other than inflaming tensions and indicating disdain for Russian concerns”.[316] The statement’s authors also said that they “refute [sic] the idea that NATO is a defensive alliance”.[316]On the evening of 24 February, the first day of the invasion, Labour chief whip Alan Campbell wrote to all 11 Labour MPs who had signed the statement, requesting that they withdraw their signatures.[315][317] All 11 agreed to do so the same evening.[315][317] Corbyn and fellow former Labour independent MP Claudia Webbe did not withdraw their signatures from the statement, though Labour shadow foreign secretary David Lammy urged Corbyn to do so.[318]
re: #202 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Please explain the joke to me. I went where you did (horror) but can’t see past that.
The “tap” felt on the shoulder is the water tap or spout.
re: #148 Targetpractice
Before my brain got the joke, it temporarily reached the horror conclusion. And then proceeded to bring up the world’s shortest horror story:
“The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.”
Pretty sure this was the intent, which makes this dad joke great.
re: #205 Targetpractice
The “tap” felt on the shoulder is the water tap or spout.
Thank you!
And GROAN!
YouTuber Genetically Modified Skeptic, a religion counter-apologist, worked with a Christian historian to put together a video on the Soviet Union’s propaganda in favour of state atheism. Specifically, they looked at the absurd amount of propaganda art put out by the Soviet League of the Militant Godless (that sounds like an evil comic book crime syndicate). The League, sanctioned by the Bolsheviks, had an absurd plan to eliminate religion within five years within the Soviet Union, called the Godless Five Year Plan.
He was quite appalled at the amount of propaganda and violence rained down on religious leaders. (While many atheists think society would be better off without religious ideology influencing government and institutions, the overwhelming majority support freedom of religion in the USA.)
That five-year plan didn’t work so well: He covers the period from Lenin through Gorbachev.
As I understand it, the Bolsheviks viewed any religion (Christianity, Islam, others) as a potential political opposition, so the goal was to eliminate religious belief through violence (killing or jailing priests and imams, destroying houses of worship, &c). Aside from making martyrs out of those people, the Soviets did not achieve their goal.
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re: #203 Nyet
I remember when I was still at Twitter, the average Corbynite there was very toxic.
I love the bit about “the right of the Ukrainian people to self-determination,” mostly because Putinistas are also the people who will tell you that Euromaidan, the Revolution of Dignity, and all other pro-EU/pro-NATO movements in Ukraine are the work of Western intel agencies and evidence to the contrary is propaganda.
re: #107 ckkatzthe last place on earth to not replace them all with LEDs?
re: #172 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Well that and Ethiopia gave me a coupe of big wins.
re: #213 John Hughes
the last place on earth to not replace them all with LEDs?
In my area they were all replaced in 2012.
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re: #1 Backwoods_Sleuth
Steve Bannon says the Brazil election was stolen from Bolsonaro. Shocker.
Waiting for D’Souza’s Duas Mil Mulas to come out
re: #23 Backwoods_Sleuth
Did they not want to have the US National Guard seize voting machines in 2020?
re: #71 ckkatz
One of my favorite evangelical traditions is evangelicals traveling to historically Catholic countries to tell them about Jesus because they don’t consider Catholics to be real Christians.
Mormons don’t show up in my village here in Germany, I guess they decided that winemaking villages on the Rhine are not likely to be receptive to their message.
But we still get the occasional Jehovah’s Witness.
re: #88 Dangerman
“Why Early Results on Election Night May Be Misleading”
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Stop the insanity
This is part of GOP strategy: expect them to be in the lead on Election Night but change overnight: they are already planning endless outrage at mysterious “ballot dumps” and tens of thousands of mules, etc.
And our media will start in with “There are so many allegations, there must be something to at least some of them….”
re: #88 Dangerman
“Why Early Results on Election Night May Be Misleading”
Stop this nonsense.
Elections are no longer a one day and done affair
The only total that matters is after all the legally cast votes are accurately counted and recounted, if necessary
Intermediate totals are meaningless.
The order of counting is meaningless.
There is no election night “horserace” ffsStop the insanity
The Rethugs won’t get it, despite this helpful explanation from the NYT.
In Brazil we see the same phenomenon as in so many other places recently: extremely close election results where the two sides are almost the opposites of each other. Like, a 50/50 division of various countries. I wonder why.
re: #58 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
I saw this one coming, and know we ain’t seen nuthin’ yet…
re: #223 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And our media will start in with “There are so many allegations, there must be something to at least some of them….”
Millions of people can be, and often are, wrong about a lot of things. Nobody can be 100% right about everything, and when there are so many possibilities, there’s bound to be significant overlap among the uneducated about which wrong thing they believe.
re: #38 ckkatz
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re: #223 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
This is part of GOP strategy: expect them to be in the lead on Election Night but change overnight: they are already planning endless outrage at mysterious “ballot dumps” and tens of thousands of mules, etc.
And our media will start in with “There are so many allegations, there must be something to at least some of them….”
Iirc, that did not happen last time. Most of the media called out the R lies and patiently explained what was wrong with their trick-arguments (I don’t include the explicitly wingnut outlets here. Though even Fox News wasn’t as terrible as usual on this point.)
re: #230 Nyet
Particularly CNN went all-in against Trump, with the headlines that did not leave any doubt about where they stood. Checked it out almost daily.
A Groundhog Day moment results in a birbie. Drive into the trees on Guess 1 (using same word as yesterday), excellent recovery on Guess 2 (using same word as yesterday), then making the 20-footer (not using the same word).
Today is our Halloween party at the office. My group is doing Snow White. I am doing a modern interpretation of Dopey - complete with sunglasses, a bag of Cheetos and Visine. “Hiiiiiiiiiiighhhhhh-ho, man….”
Have a great day/evening Ghost and Goblin Lizardz!
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Already there are reports that truckers - a group whose support Bolsonaro has worked hard to secure - are shutting down roads in several states.Today could be a long day…https://t.co/vpttR9NqK6
— David Biller (@DLBiller) October 31, 2022
I see some folks on Twitter showing sympathy to the mobilized. Here’s a simple reason it is misplaced in most cases: the chance of dying in a Russian prison is much smaller than dying in Ukraine. Those who chose the greater probability of saying “Hi!” to the god of war should neither complain nor receive too much sympathy.
re: #233 No Malarkey!
If anything like that has happens, I hope to see his **** on a ***** at the end of the day. These folks should learn the hard way.
re: #236 Nyet
If anything like that has happens, I hope to see his **** on a ***** at the end of the day. These folks should learn the hard way.
I suspect Bolsonaro has been talking to the generals to see if he has military support for a coup.
re: #231 Nyet
Particularly CNN went all-in against Trump, with the headlines that did not leave any doubt about where they stood. Checked it out almost daily.
CNN is under new management. Past performance is no indicator of future performance.
re: #237 No Malarkey!
I suspect Bolsonaro has been talking to the generals to see if he has military support for a coup.
I’ve read that the military sources said they wouldn’t intervene. Of course, anything could happen nevertheless.
re: #108 ckkatz
As you have probably heard, Russia pulled out of the agreement to provide Ukrainian grain exports a safe travel corridor.
It sounds like the Turks, UN and Ukraine are going to run another convoy tomorrow anyway.
This is starting to sound like Fort Sumter…
re: #112 ckkatz
>”Whatever you think is going to happen will be wrong.”
That would be a yes.
The ejector seat words!
re: #237 No Malarkey!
I suspect Bolsonaro has been talking to the generals to see if he has military support for a coup.
If reports of trucks blocking routes to polls and other suppression tactics are true, then Lula probably by even more (would have).
oh
Fans attending the Saudi golf tour event at Trump’s course this weekend said they liked it better than a PGA Tour event because, “It’s about the vibe & attitude. You can be outlandish & in-your-face without being considered ‘disrespectful’ or a bad person.”https://t.co/u23mvmzWLP
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) October 31, 2022
re: #239 Nyet
I’ve read that the military sources said they wouldn’t intervene. Of course, anything could happen nevertheless.
That is good news. I can’t see a coup succeeding without it. Steve Bannon certainly isn’t going to air drop into Brazil and save Bolsonaro.
re: #118 ckkatz
“It’s a private platform, they can do what they want” cuts both ways. It’s perfectly sensible that Twitter can go in a wildly different direction when ownership changes. It’s the owner’s speech and association. Never get too attached to one private platform.
While others insist it is the Public Square.
We had a similar issue with protesters in shopping malls when they became all the rage in the 1970’s
re: #244 No Malarkey!
That is good news. I can’t see a coup succeeding without it. Steve Bannon certainly isn’t going to air drop into Brazil and save Bolsonaro.
He should do it anyway, without the parachute.
re: #16 Dangerman
Again
There hasn’t been an alternative to Twitter because it wasnt “necessary” ..there was no compelling need. And certainly not one with profit potential. It worked “well enough.”
And cracking the everyone has to be in one place /on the same app architecture is an issue
There’s and awful lot of clever people out there. I think elmo has created an opportunity
re: #129 jaunte
A central rightwing principle is that there’s no such thing as expertise or credibility — “you’re a respected epidemiologist? Well, I’m an antivaxx crystal healer and I say you’re fake news!”
They want to level the playing field for the dumb.
As John Oliver pointed out, if there are 97 scientists who say one thing and three who say the opposite, our media still present one scientist from each side of the issue instead of 32 from one side and one from the other
The right-wing snowflakes are easily triggered by fake news. Do you think Bolsonaro doesn’t read Bannon (even if indirectly)? He’s liable to latch onto the Benford’s law nonsense without even understanding it. That’s how they tick.
re: #147 Dr Lizardo
In other words, a “professional pitcher of woowoo”.
I remember Erich von Däniken explaining that his books are not science, “But rather what we call in German Sachbücher” (non-fiction literature)
“This is what we call in America Büllshit”
The headlines from the past hour have been in the vein of “Bolsonaro still to concede”.
That said, Trump never conceded. As long as the state clockwork is in a sufficiently good shape, a concession is just a flourish.
re: #183 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Ukraine is another horseshoe issue in which extreme right and leftists find common ground in supporting Russia.
re: #195 Targetpractice
The leader of a nation that has been invaded, its cities occupied, its people brutalized, its resources plundered, and its infrastructure repeatedly ruined is at fault because he chooses to continue a successful campaign to remove the offending party from his nation rather than allow them to keep what they took via unlawful action.
Yes, he truly is a monster, isn’t he?//////////
Don’t forget to mention that Ukraine is a Fascist/Zionist/Soros-puppet regime
re: #202 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Please explain the joke to me. I went where you did (horror) but can’t see past that.
who could be knocking at the door?
re: #243 Backwoods_Sleuth
You can be outlandish & in-your-face without being considered ‘disrespectful’ or a bad person.
Saying the quiet part out loud. The thing they liked about Trump was that he made it OK to be an absolute shitbag of a person. Mrs. Fish and I have been watching Westworld recently; she started in Season 1, but didn’t catch any of the later seasons, so I watched Season 1 with her to get caught up and now we’re both on new material. But the reason I bring it up is that the premise of Trumpistan is the same as that of the parks; it’s a place where you can unleash your inner asshole and not only not be judged harshly, but be judged favorably - people applaud your being a complete douchecanoe. That’s what they want, to turn America into a population of walking assholes.
re: #254 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
who could be knocking at the door?
An android.
re: #254 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
who could be knocking at the door?
His high school crush.
“I know I said ‘not if you were the last man on Earth, but… I’ve reconsidered’.”
Thread, in which “esteemed” Trump legal counsel John Eastman beclowns himself yet again in court proceedings, ends up turning over the crime-fraud excepted emails to the 1/6 Committee, and attempts to claw them back in an emergency appeal to the Ninth Circuit in a move that can only be described as amateurish:
Look, I know it’s about six hours after Eastman deposited this particular offering in the Ninth Circuit’s punch bowl, but since none of the usual suspects have pointed out how amazingly batshit it is, I will do the honors.https://t.co/AWd177uxSW
— Liz Dye (@5DollarFeminist) October 31, 2022
The money shot:
In fact, the J6C did not think it would be fun to pretend Eastman’s request was a court order, and they read the emails.Which put our Johnny in a bind, since the entire premise of his emergency motion is that once those things were disclosed, he’d be irreparably harmed.
— Liz Dye (@5DollarFeminist) October 31, 2022
But there’s one teeny problem with that, and it is that he is LYING. The House downloaded the emails when Eastman posted them — 4 min past the court ordered deadline. He didn’t file his appeal until four hours later, at which point it was too late. pic.twitter.com/B4SdfwzjaH
— Liz Dye (@5DollarFeminist) October 31, 2022
re: #209 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
As I understand it, the Bolsheviks viewed any religion (Christianity, Islam, others) as a potential political opposition, so the goal was to eliminate religious belief through violence (killing or jailing priests and imams, destroying houses of worship, &c). Aside from making martyrs out of those people, the Soviets did not achieve their goal.
First and Foremost they saw an opponent in the Russian Orthodox Church, which was one of the pillars of Tsarism.
And they were against any ideology that promised a better afterlife for those willing to suffer and submit in this life.
re: #254 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
who could be knocking at the door?
Why would anything not an earth human knock on the door?
re: #258 sagehen
His high school crush.
“I know I said ‘not if you were the last man on Earth, but… I’ve reconsidered’.”
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re: #230 Nyet
Iirc, that did not happen last time. Most of the media called out the R lies and patiently explained what was wrong with their trick-arguments (I don’t include the explicitly wingnut outlets here. Though even Fox News wasn’t as terrible as usual on this point.)
The only thing that wrecked the GOP plans was the record high turnout and votes for Biden, and a handful of GOP state election officials who still had some integrity and decency not to go along with the charade.
It did not stop Trump, Mile Lindell, Maricopa County, AZ or dozens of other prominent GOP politicians from claiming wrongdoing (and continuing to do until this day)
re: #265 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Yes, that’s all clear but doesn’t support your thesis about the media’s behavior.
My god, Chuck is such an incorrigible idiot. After all this time he still couldn’t get that the temporary block applied to the URL shortener, not to the messenger/app.
PUTIN’S PROBLEM: After an official Russian announcement that the gov’t was shutting the messaging app Telegram, Yehuda Amzallagh @YAmzallagh reports that RU’s ban appears to have been lifted. Some RU accounts are using VPNs, so the bad news will certainly continue for Mr. Putin. https://t.co/E1kckJaffQ pic.twitter.com/y5ioK9gjuc
— Chuck Pfarrer | Indications & Warnings | (@ChuckPfarrer) October 30, 2022
re: #266 Nyet
Yes, that’s all clear but doesn’t support your thesis about the media’s behavior.
It might have skewed differently if the race had been any closer or if enough GOP state officials had gone along.
Ultimately Bolsanaro’s good policies, like censoring and jailing shitlibs, could not outweigh his bad policies, like trying to jail and censor me.
—Glenn Greenwald— BelovedAnonymousHat (@Popehat) October 31, 2022
Russian propagandists scream about alleged transgender ops for kids in the West while ignoring, or probably even admiring, the rampant FGM in Russia.
Saboteurs and obstructionists.
Cruz wants to defund the police, military, and all other govt agencies.
These people are saboteurs and seditionists who don’t want a functioning govt. They just want their millionaire backers to make even more money and shift the burdens on everyone else. https://t.co/DsmDfcqTTx— lawhawk #vaxxedforfamilyandcommunity (@lawhawk) October 31, 2022
GOP intends to defund govt. Dismantling the IRS defunds the federal government, which disburses hundreds and hundreds of billions - more than a trillion dollars each year.
They don’t care about the consequences, and Cruz is among the worst of the worst. He’s also busy yapping about how DOJ is politicized under Biden.
The blinders are definitely on, and it’s all because they do nothing but spew bulkshit with a firehose. They’re totally rewriting history by ignoring that Trump absolutely and unequivocally politicized the DOJ and FBI - covering up Trump crimes every step of the way all the way up to Barr and Whitaker. Those two actively interfered in ongoing investigations into Trump with purpose to cover up Trump crimes.
These people are fucking certifiable.
Donald Trump Jr, folks. What a guy. pic.twitter.com/xvABO7kavS
— The Recount (@therecount) October 31, 2022
re: #271 lawhawk
Saboteurs and obstructionists.
GOP intends to defund govt. Dismantling the IRS defunds the federal government, which disburses hundreds and hundreds of billions - more than a trillion dollars each year.
Ted knows that nobody loves the IRS
It’s a populist position.
GMA is reporting that Russia launched a bunch of missiles at Kyiv.
re: #275 Belafon
GMA is reporting that Russia launched a bunch of missiles at Kyiv.
Allegedly 44/50 intercepted.
re: #276 Nyet
Allegedly 44/50 intercepted.
In the abstract, that’s a pretty good percentage of interceptions. At the individual level, it sucks for whoever was around the 6 that got through.
re: #258 sagehen
His high school crush.
“I know I said ‘not if you were the last man on Earth, but… I’ve reconsidered’.”
Timmy Turner arranged for him and his crush to be the last two people on earth, and when an alien showed up, she fell for the alien. When he wished for them to be the last two sentient beings, she turned psycho.
re: #246 Nyet
He should do it anyway, without the parachute.
I will be glad to fly him there. I’ve flown in Brazil so I would know plenty of good drop off points.
re: #277 Dopamine Fish
In the abstract, that’s a pretty good percentage of interceptions. At the individual level, it sucks for whoever was around the 6 that got through.
The thinking is that the Russian forces want Ukraine to use a lot of expensive missiles to shoot down relatively cheap drones. I believe Ukraine is hauling out old anti-aircraft guns as a result, since the Iranian drones are slow and easy to track.
re: #280 ericblair
The thinking is that the Russian forces want Ukraine to use a lot of expensive missiles to shoot down relatively cheap drones. I believe Ukraine is hauling out old anti-aircraft guns as a result, since the Iranian drones are slow and easy to track.
I’d say give ‘em some old Krupps 88’s - the old-school flak gun. Those were something.
re: #242 Barefoot Grin
If reports of trucks blocking routes to polls and other suppression tactics are true, then Lula probably by even more (would have).
Bolsonaro’s side only needs to make the election close enough to where they can start sewing doubt about the result.
Weird, but replace Trump with Clinton and every news network, especially Fox would be running this as the only headline and story of the day.
Fact is that Trumpworld is a crime syndicate. All he did was engage in crimes.— lawhawk #vaxxedforfamilyandcommunity (@lawhawk) October 31, 2022
it’s only strange if you haven’t updated your priors in the last two decades https://t.co/hyMHrvrr2q
— 🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 (@golikehellmachi) October 30, 2022
True both-siderism:
An unexpected consensus has emerged: Democrats are effectively telling voters, “Republicans intend to destabilize the economy on purpose.”
And many Republicans are effectively responding, “Yes, that really is our plan.” (via @MaddowBlog) https://t.co/w8O8xgJV0x— MSNBC (@MSNBC) October 29, 2022
What a great thought. Why didn’t they ever think of that before? https://t.co/tIre6KUduf pic.twitter.com/hDe4C8QFlF
— Centrism Fan Acct 🔹 (@Wilson__Valdez) October 29, 2022
re: #288 Belafon
Lula’s been congratulated by everyone from Biden to Putin to Modi to Xi Jinping. All of which is good, as any stupid shit by Bolsanaro would make him look like a desperate sore loser.
re: #288 Belafon
You know damned well that Trump would have pulled out all the stops to make sure that the coup was successful (but still failed).
re: #292 lawhawk
You know damned well that Trump would have pulled out all the stops to make sure that the coup was successful (but still failed).
And given that in much of South America, the “finding out” phase of “FAFO” is rather, shall we say, less lenient than in the United States, the consequences for that failure might have resulted in a few less Trump-humpers for us to deal with here at home.
Welp, another neighbor has started a roofing job. Looks like once again, we’re the trend-setters. I wonder if any of them are getting siding and windows done like we did. The neighbors have all universally complimented our new look, however.
re: #296 Nyet
Trump would have egged on Bolsonaro to remain.
I’m pretty sure he’s doing so now, it just doesn’t carry the same weight since he’s not actually the President of the United States. I still idly wonder if, somewhere in his addled brain, he actually believes that he’s the President…
I suspect we will know what happened.
A MAGA-engaged/enraged extremist tried to kidnap and murder Speaker Pelosi. She wasn’t home, and instead attacked and nearly killer her husband.
This is on the GOP. All of it.— lawhawk #vaxxedforfamilyandcommunity (@lawhawk) October 31, 2022
Just wait til the investigation fleshes out what happened and all of it points at the GOP and MAGA set. These same fuckers will then complain that the police were politicized to determine that outcome, rather than following the facts.
It’s conspiracies all the way down with the GOP. All of them.
re: #284 GlutenFreeJesus
Bolsonaro’s side only needs to make the election close enough to where they can start sewing doubt about the result.
again, the only thing that stymied GOP plans for the 2020 election was the record turnout for the Democrats. They could not get it “close” enough to make their claims stick in the public mind outside their radical cult base.
re: #298 lawhawk
Just wait til the investigation fleshes out what happened and all of it points at the GOP and MAGA set. These same fuckers will then complain that the police were politicized to determine that outcome, rather than following the facts.
It’s conspiracies all the way down with the GOP. All of them.
I saw a tweet from overnight debunking the “weapon of convenience” story that’s being floated about, namely, that the attacker brought the hammer, tape, and zip ties that he was caught with.
re: #300 Dopamine Fish
GMA this morning reported the part about the attacker bringing zip ties and tape.
re: #301 Belafon
GMA this morning reported the part about the attacker bringing zip ties and tape.
Yeah, I think that was the linked story in the tweet. It said the hammer was also brought in.
re: #301 Belafon
GMA this morning reported the part about the attacker bringing zip ties and tape.
I am surprised David DePape hasn’t woken up dead in his jail cell yet.
There is a tiny possibility that Elon Musk will be caught buggering a dwarf giraffe in the middle of the Washington Mall. Probably nothing to bet but still not zero.
— Lord Piltdown (@jimreynolds54) October 30, 2022
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Just wait til the investigation fleshes out what happened and all of it points at the GOP and MAGA set. These same fuckers will then complain that the police were politicized to determine that outcome, rather than following the facts.
It’s conspiracies all the way down with the GOP. All of them.
Brought to you be the same white trash hicks that claimed libruls were responsible the events on Jan 6 because they did not want Joe Biden to be certified as POTUS.
re: #302 Dopamine Fish
Yeah, I think that was the linked story in the tweet. It said the hammer was also brought in.
I just read a good thread by Matt Gertz of MMFA outlining how the vast majority of the GOP will believe the “gay lovers’ quarrel” conspiracy theory by weeks end. The bad news? His thread has already been overrun by nuts who believe the “gay lovers’ quarrel” conspiracy theory.
1. By week’s end, a sizable percentage of the GOP base will believe an absurd conspiracy theory positing that Paul Pelosi was assaulted by his leftist gay lover.
Allow me to explain.— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) October 30, 2022
According to the Ukrainians, a part of the success was the IRIS-T system.
re: #303 Shropshire Slasher
I’m not sure why that would be a thing. Unlike the case of the Rubio canvasser who got the ever-loving shit beaten out of him, an attack on a high-profile individual such as Paul Pelosi is generally harder to pull off with a conspiracy. Yes, I know, yada yada Secret Service and all that jazz, but it’s a lot more likely with a highly public figure that the guy was just a nutter who was radicalized by the ongoing violent rhetoric from the right. And even in the Rubio case, while I posited that there could be a conspiracy at the beginning, it’s pretty clear to me now that there was no ‘there’ there after all. Stuff like that just doesn’t happen all that often, and it’s pretty hard to pull off without somebody spilling the beans or getting found out before the fact. See, e.g., the Governor Whitmer kidnapping case.
re: #307 Barefoot Grin
I just read a good thread by Matt Gertz of MMFA outlining how the vast majority of the GOP will believe the “gay lovers’ quarrel” conspiracy theory by weeks end. The bad news? His thread has already been overrun by nuts who believe the “gay lovers’ quarrel” conspiracy theory.
It is obvious from the photo that it took time to break that bullet resistant glass.
For you Lizard sleuths, I’m seeing that in regard to the 2017 Delphi Murders, Richard Allen has been indicted on two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Liberty German and Abigail Williams.
re: #311 Dr Lizardo
Also, a trial date has apparently already been set and no bond for the accused.
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The same mouth breathing GQPers that are pretending they can’t afford feeding their children because of “inflation”, will gladly cough up $20 month for Lord Elon.
The day everything changed was when I was sent this Nazi threat in the mail.
I spoke with the FBI & local police. I was not the only one to receive it. It was sent out to numerous “well-known Jewish resisters” from Twitter. It’s disgraceful.
Nazis shouldn’t be comfortable, EVER pic.twitter.com/nTmDvGvDt4— The Jewish Ginger Resister (@JewishResister) October 31, 2022
This is the reason I don’t share my name on here anymore. I admire those that do, but when people threaten my family, it’s not fair to them.
That’s the story of how I became the Jewish Ginger Resister 😂— The Jewish Ginger Resister (@JewishResister) October 31, 2022
I hope this is as big a disaster as it looks to be.
Raise your hand if ‘Twitter verified’ is something you have on your LinkedIn profile. https://t.co/5E9Sbatdxk
— Sean (@sean_s_mc) October 31, 2022
re: #318 darthstar
I liked what Stephen King had to say about that idea…..
$20 a month to keep my blue check? Fuck that, they should pay me. If that gets instituted, I’m gone like Enron.
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) October 31, 2022
Just look at this mess!!
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re: #318 darthstar
I hope this is as big a disaster as it looks to be.
It’s the same old classic story: The Big Boss (tm) gives a directive without consulting the engineers at all. The engineers scramble to shape a pile of hot garbage into a vaguely spec-compliant product by the deadline. Three weeks later, a zero-day exploit either takes down the whole system, or exposes a metric fuck-ton of customer data. Legal gets involved.
re: #311 Dr Lizardo
For you Lizard sleuths, I’m seeing that in regard to the 2017 Delphi Murders, Richard Allen has been indicted on two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Liberty German and Abigail Williams.
Amazing that his family didn’t recognize the cap.
re: #322 HRH Stanley Sea
Amazing that his family didn’t recognize the cap.
Could well be the case that maybe they just didn’t want to.
re: #268 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It might have skewed differently if the race had been any closer or if enough GOP state officials had gone along.
If they had gone along, our nation would not exist today. Why anyone thinks that Democrats would have accepted this change peacefully is beyond my understanding. Of course, Republicans always believe they are the only ones with weapons. Putin would certainly have been rejoicing in the street. And he may still have the opportunity to do so since the GOP is determined to destroy our nation to get power.
re: #321 Dopamine Fish
It’s the same old classic story: The Big Boss (tm) gives a directive without consulting the engineers at all. The engineers scramble to shape a pile of hot garbage into a vaguely spec-compliant product by the deadline. Three weeks later, a zero-day exploit either takes down the whole system, or exposes a metric fuck-ton of customer data. Legal gets involved.
re: #279 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
I will be glad to fly him there. I’ve flown in Brazil so I would know plenty of good drop off points.
Given he surrendered his passport, he might not be able to take you up on your kind offer.
re: #319 Dr Lizardo
I liked what Stephen King had to say about that idea…..
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The GQPers are raging at him now.
Ugh. I keep seeing right-wing trolls hammering home the “Paul Pelosi was in his underwear” aspect of the conspiracy theory. Jesus H. Christ, people, it’s not hard to figure out: IF - and I stress this, IF (because the Fox affiliate that reported it later quietly retracted it, in small print) - he was in his underwear, it might just be because HE WAS ATTACKED IN HIS OWN HOME AT TWO FUCKING THIRTY IN THE GODDAMN MORNING. I don’t know about you, but I don’t know a lot of people who go to bed wearing a full suit and tie.
‘I will bring freedom of speech back to Twitter’ declares dog fucker Elon Musk https://t.co/KPX5TQXJeI
re: #330 Dopamine Fish
I thought the conspiracy was that the attacker was in his underwear, proving he was a crazy hippy liberal and not an outstanding conservative citizen doing his patriotic duty. Shows I can’t keep up.with all of them.
re: #329 lawhawk
For media types who need social media, they’ll pay.
For everyone else? Meh.
Money talks and bullshit walks.
re: #329 lawhawk
For media types who need social media, they’ll pay.
For everyone else? Meh.
The only people I could see paying are politicians/political types and of course, the media folks.
Celebrities? I’d bet more than a few would follow Stephen King’s lead and say, “Fuck this noise” and quit.
re: #321 Dopamine Fish
It’s the same old classic story: The Big Boss (tm) gives a directive without consulting the engineers at all. The engineers scramble to shape a pile of hot garbage into a vaguely spec-compliant product by the deadline. Three weeks later, a zero-day exploit either takes down the whole system, or exposes a metric fuck-ton of customer data. Legal gets involved.
“Which of the laws of time and space do you want us to break?”
re: #333 Belafon
Putting the “deplore” in deplorable. https://t.co/31o2rVejIt
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) October 30, 2022
re: #336 Dangerman
“Which of the laws of time and space do you want us to break?”
Fast, good, cheap: Pick two.
re: #329 lawhawk
For media types who need social media, they’ll pay.
For everyone else? Meh.
And if nobody’s listening?
re: #337 Dopamine Fish
To be perfectly fair, the right-wing bullshit machine is incredibly good at rapidly changing stories, so as to flood the zone with micro-evolutions of bullshit that are impossible to refute in a timely fashion, thus giving the general perception to the vast unwashed that “there must be something to it.”
Capitol rioter asks court to delay jail sentence so he can spend the holidays with family https://t.co/yF3JCbUC8r
— Raw Story (@RawStory) October 31, 2022
On Monday, CBS News’ Scott MacFarlane, a key journalist covering the Capitol riot cases, reported that one of the convicted rioters is asking the court to push back the start of his jail sentence — in large part because he wants to spend that time celebrating the holidays with his family instead.
The rioter, Anthony Mazzio, is also complaining that the facility where he is scheduled to be incarcerated is too far a drive from his family in Alabama.
Talk about taking entitlement to a whole new level…..
“But there are GOP lawmakers and conservative figures who have posted or retweeted some truly horrendous comments about what’s looking more like a potential assassination attempt aimed at Pelosi.”
Say it ain’t so
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re: #333 Belafon
I thought the conspiracy was that the attacker was in his underwear, proving he was a crazy hippy liberal and not an outstanding conservative citizen doing his patriotic duty. Shows I can’t keep up.with all of them.
You are right — that was the initial story. And then the “reporter” who “broke” that story basically retracted it.
re: #342 Dr. Matt
But bail reform is the real threat to society…
Fuck ‘em. Don’t do the crime unless you’re willing to do the time.
And once again, NYPD claims that bail reform caused higher crime on news reports, but when testifying to the state legislature NYPD commissioner Shea indicated that it was a vanishingly small number that didn’t make a difference to the crime stats.
re: #335 Dr Lizardo
The only people I could see paying are politicians/political types and of course, the media folks.
Celebrities? I’d bet more than a few would follow Stephen King’s lead and say, “Fuck this noise” and quit.
corporate PR departments. Fast food, soft drinks, candy bars, etc.
Hopefully twitter dies a faster death than MySpace, Yahoo! dating, and Tumblr.
re: #338 Dopamine Fish
Fast, good, cheap: Pick two.
But sometimes it’s impossible to do “fast”. It’s like assuming that you can have a baby in one month by having 9 woman being pregnant. If this is Musk’s order, he is truly an imbecile. Wait — he really is an imbecile, even before this! It’s one thing to change a process by increasing an existing charge — It’s usually a no-brainer to update existing software for raising a price. Adding a totally different charging mechanism is a very different story.
re: #261 Dangerman
Why would anything not an earth human knock on the door?
a downy woodpecker has been known to knock on our kitchen door and drive the furry kids nutz.
re: #348 Hecuba’s daughter
But sometimes it’s impossible to do “fast”. It’s like assuming that you can have a baby in one month by having 9 woman being pregnant. If this is Musk’s order, he is truly an imbecile. Wait — he really is an imbecile, even before this! It’s one thing to change a process by increasing an existing charge — It’s usually a no-brainer to update existing software for raising a price. Adding a totally different charging mechanism is a very different story.
I’m well aware of that. Elon seems to labor under the misapprehension that in software, anyone can do anything in any arbitrarily determined timeframe just by throwing enough bodies at it. Spoilers: The Law of Diminishing Returns bites especially hard in software development. There are so many bottlenecks to parallel development, especially if everyone is working on one feature in one specific area, that “more manpower” simply means you’re paying people to do nothing but twiddle their thumbs and wait for blockers to be cleared.
How tragic — death toll in India bridge collapse rises to 141 with many still missing.
Crying https://t.co/nTfx4XJXjN pic.twitter.com/nqJndylyat
— kieran (@Iasagnacat) October 30, 2022
re: #229 Dopamine Fish
Threedle today. The jump from 2 to 3 took quite a while.
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re: #348 Hecuba’s daughter
But sometimes it’s impossible to do “fast”. It’s like assuming that you can have a baby in one month by having 9 woman being pregnant. If this is Musk’s order, he is truly an imbecile. Wait — he really is an imbecile, even before this! It’s one thing to change a process by increasing an existing charge — It’s usually a no-brainer to update existing software for raising a price. Adding a totally different charging mechanism is a very different story.
Which is a well-known IT thing. The “mythical man-month” goes back to IBM development in the 1960s. And it was taught in IT classes in the 1980s* as part of the education on project design and management. Of course, that doesn’t prevent management from again and again repeating those errors.
* - Brook’s _The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering_ was part of the reading list for one of my classes.
re: #353 Eventual Carrion
Same here, except the jump from 2 to 3 was the only other word that I could figure would fit what was already showing.
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When the impossible is eliminated, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
re: #350 Dopamine Fish
I’m well aware of that. Elon seems to labor under the misapprehension that in software, anyone can do anything in any arbitrarily determined timeframe just by throwing enough bodies at it. Spoilers: The Law of Diminishing Returns bites especially hard in software development. There are so many bottlenecks to parallel development, especially if everyone is working on one feature in one specific area, that “more manpower” simply means you’re paying people to do nothing but twiddle their thumbs and wait for blockers to be cleared.
Or makes it worse since you have to spend project resources bringing your new manpower up to speed on the project.
re: #350 Dopamine Fish
I’m well aware of that. Elon seems to labor under the misapprehension that in software, anyone can do anything in any arbitrarily determined timeframe just by throwing enough bodies at it. Spoilers: The Law of Diminishing Returns bites especially hard in software development. There are so many bottlenecks to parallel development, especially if everyone is working on one feature in one specific area, that “more manpower” simply means you’re paying people to do nothing but twiddle their thumbs and wait for blockers to be cleared.
Yet early in his career, he actually programmed a system. He should know better. He reminds me of an actuary in my firm who promised his client a special system modification for only $1000; the member of the team I was on who was assigned the project took several months and a real cost of probably $10,000 to complete it. Elon is a terrible, irresponsible person.
re: #358 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Or makes it worse since you have to spend project resources bringing your new manpower up to speed on the project.
Oh God, yes. One of my college professors, way back in the day, promoted a book called The Mythical Man-Month. It touched on that concept, as well as others, that should be essential for software development managers to know.
re: #350 Dopamine Fish
I’m well aware of that. Elon seems to labor under the misapprehension that in software, anyone can do anything in any arbitrarily determined timeframe just by throwing enough bodies at it. Spoilers: The Law of Diminishing Returns bites especially hard in software development. There are so many bottlenecks to parallel development, especially if everyone is working on one feature in one specific area, that “more manpower” simply means you’re paying people to do nothing but twiddle their thumbs and wait for blockers to be cleared.
Nothing says leadership than stating: “You have one week to deliver or you’re fired.”
Halloween spooky science news:
After collapsing into pieces in December 2020, the mighty Arecibo Observatory has a final parting gift for humanity — and it’s a doozy.
Using data collected by Arecibo between December 2017 and December 2019, scientists have released the largest radar-based report on near-Earth asteroids ever published. The report, published Sept. 22 in The Planetary Science Journal, includes detailed observations of 191 near-Earth asteroids, including nearly 70 that are deemed “potentially hazardous” — that is, large asteroids with orbits that bring them within 4.65 million miles (7.5 million kilometers) of Earth, or roughly 20 times the average distance between Earth and the moon.
Fortunately, none of these newly described asteroids pose an immediate threat to Earth; according to NASA, our planet is safe from deadly asteroid impacts for at least the next 100 years. However, scientists still pay close attention to near-Earth objects like these in case their trajectories happen to shift by some fluke of nature — say, a bump from another asteroid — thereby putting them on a collision course with Earth.
Collapsed Arecibo telescope offers near-Earth asteroid warning from beyond the grave (LiveScience)
re: #359 Hecuba’s daughter
Yet early in his career, he actually programmed a system. He should know better. He reminds me of an actuary in my firm who promised his client a special system modification for only $1000; the member of the team I was on who was assigned the project took several months and a real cost of probably $10,000 to complete it. Elon is a terrible, irresponsible person.
I have seen a fair number of respectable coders who are unable to wrap their heads around the process of managing a software development team. I have even personally struggled with it, though I feel my employers were rather unjust in terminating me with cause. Their being unable to retain a replacement in my position for more than a month speaks to that, I think.
“Take Kiev in 3 days or you’ll be fired. The cannon is ready.”
re: #362 Dr. Matt
Nothing says leadership than stating: “You have one week to deliver or you’re fired.”
Although maybe the story about the timetable isn’t true? Just a rumor?
re: #366 Hecuba’s daughter
Although maybe the story about the timetable isn’t true? Just a rumor?
We’re talking about Elon Musk here. It’s probably true.
re: #356 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Which is a well-known IT thing. The “mythical man-month” goes back to IBM development in the 1960s. And it was taught in IT classes in the 1980s* as part of the education on project design and management. Of course, that doesn’t prevent management from again and again repeating those errors.
* - Brook’s _The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering_ was part of the reading list for one of my classes.
Musk is a coder, not a software engineer. He has solved problems with code, but has never really studied the concept, along with its limitations. Pretty sure the knapsack problem would put him in a rage.
re: #362 Dr. Matt
Nothing says leadership than stating: “You have one week to deliver or you’re fired.”
Which means:
Amount of hours in that week devoted to delivering said product: 10
Amount of hours devoted to updating resume and shopping it to competitors: 50
Trump Blames Pelosi Attack On “Democrat-Run Cities” - https://t.co/nhBjgPTI7o pic.twitter.com/gZz8jjmLzt
— JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) October 31, 2022
re: #370 Belafon
Musk is a coder, not a software engineer. He has solved problems with code, but has never really studied the concept, along with its limitations. Pretty sure the knapsack problem would put him in a rage.
Something I noted during my IT career is that there were some really basic differences between programmers and analysts I worked with that generally sourced to their educations.
A bunch had a sort of combination Business-IT degree. Really good with financial systems and some of the corporate support applications since the business side of their education gave them a good understanding of the processes they supported and a common “language” to speak with the users.
My degree was straight-forward Computer Science. I had learned a broader array of languages to use. I also had a much broader instruction in the principles of computer design itself, logic, and things such as databases and project management.
There were also a number of self-taught IT personnel who’d come into the field via associate degrees, non-IT degrees, military service, etc. A really mixed-bag of expertise and experiences.
In a department with a mix of all three types things were pretty flexible and could handle a wide array of support issues and development quite well. But for some areas involving design, like database layouts, the full-out education I had on the subject just led to better results.
re: #372 The Pie Overlord!
His combover is looking more frazzled than usual today.
Chump’s hair looks ridiculous. The vanity of your brand being anchored by a hair style hard to maintain in his golden bronze years.
re: #360 Dopamine Fish
Oh God, yes. One of my college professors, way back in the day, promoted a book called The Mythical Man-Month. It touched on that concept, as well as others, that should be essential for software development managers to know.
“Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.” — Brooks
Google “Red State Murder Rate.” Republicans LOSE on the crime issue, period. https://t.co/S8zeQ1iA2l
— Crooks and Liars (@crooksandliars) October 31, 2022
Long term goal achieved. Two cats in my lap. Each arrived voluntarily. Only one purr so far, from the first one, who was first to leave. Then the second one purred.
re: #379 wrenchwench
Cat herding is one of the hardest skills.
I have no doubt at all that if Paul Pelosi died or Nancy herself did the trash-ass people being horrible would be doing the same exact thing they are doing right now. Because they are horrible people.
Russia fired at civilian tugboats transporting a barge with grain near Ochakiv. Two crew members were killed, and one with injuries was rescued. The fate of another one is not yet known, the Operational Command “South” reports - Hromadske
— Faytuks News Δ (@Faytuks) October 31, 2022
re: #380 BigPapa
Cat herding is one of the hardest skills.
Generation Z is in close second in difficulty.
re: #326 Hecuba’s daughter
Given he surrendered his passport, he might not be able to take you up on your kind offer.
I don’t think a passport is required for this, er, type of entry.
re: #378 Captain Ron
Red states have higher per capita gun death rates.
Red states have higher per capita covid death rates.
Red states have lower life expectancy.
Red states have higher crime rates.
GOPers aren’t pro life. They’re a fucking cult of dumbfuckery and burden shifting from the rich to everyone else, and use racism and misogyny to steal wealth from everyone else.
When GOPers talk about how people are struggling and need two jobs, ask when the last time the GOP supported a minimum wage hike. Ask when GOP supported health coverage for all Americans. Ask when GOP supported treatment coverage for drug dependency/addiction? Because the GOP opposes wage hikes, unionization, or anything that would otherwise cut into profits of the rich, and refuses to help Americans struggling to make ends meet or who have health challenges.
Merry Candy Day.
Happy Halloween To All The Ex-Witches And Satanists Who Found Jesus/’The 700 Club’ (Wonkette)
One of the things I think we all look forward to every Halloween, apart from the traditional warnings about how evil people are spending thousands of dollars on drugs to get your kids high, is the sheer number of “Ex-Witch Finds Jesus” stories Christian outlets pump out — especially the ones where the former witch or Satanic high priest warns parents not to let their good Christian children go trick-or-treating.
One of the most outspoken “ex-witches” these days is Jenny Weaver, who says she became a full-on witch after watching The Craft in high school. But unlike literally every other teen girl who got into Wicca after watching The Craft (I think we can all fairly admit that was a thing), she actually gained magic powers … over drawers.
. “Things were happening. I was moving things,” says Jenny. “I would go up to a drawer to open a drawer and before my hand would even touch it, the drawer would go ‘shhew’ and open.”
. “Lights would bust and break when we would start talking about the demonic realm, glass fall all over us,” says Jenny.
These don’t seem like very good powers. Also it is unclear what she was doing talking about the demonic realm, given that that’s not actually a thing in Wicca. Was she literally trying to contact the fictional god Manon from the movie?
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re: #387 lawhawk
Red states have higher per capita gun death rates.
Red states have higher per capita covid death rates.
Red states have lower life expectancy.
Red states have higher crime rates.
Higher rates of obesity
Higher rates of heart disease
Higher rates of tobacco smoking
Higher death rates of most cancers
Lower rates of college education
Higher rates of fetal death
Higher rates of poverty
All that to pwn the Libs.
re: #388 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Merry Candy Day.
Happy Halloween To All The Ex-Witches And Satanists Who Found Jesus/’The 700 Club’ (Wonkette)
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They don’t ever talk about all the Christians who un-found Jesus.
re: #390 Dopamine Fish
They don’t ever talk about all the Christians who un-found Jesus.
That would be a sort of anti-marketing campaign.
I am not notable enough to have a blue check but would, I gather, be notable enough if I paid $20 per month. Someone should tell them being a fool in America is not notable.
— BelovedAnonymousHat (@Popehat) October 31, 2022
re: #330 Dopamine Fish
Ugh. I keep seeing right-wing trolls hammering home the “Paul Pelosi was in his underwear” aspect of the conspiracy theory. Jesus H. Christ, people, it’s not hard to figure out: IF - and I stress this, IF (because the Fox affiliate that reported it later quietly retracted it, in small print) - he was in his underwear, it might just be because HE WAS ATTACKED IN HIS OWN HOME AT TWO FUCKING THIRTY IN THE GODDAMN MORNING. I don’t know about you, but I don’t know a lot of people who go to bed wearing a full suit and tie.
If someone broke into my home at 2:30 am, I’d be in bed stark fucking naked because that’s how I sleep and have most of my life.
I hate stuff around my neck. I can’t wear turtleneck anything and pajamas of any kind always wind up wrapped around my neck. Even a standard neckline if I’m laying back in the recliner gets too close to my neck and it becomes very claustrophobic to me.
I’m not sure what these idiots expect in the middle of the night.
re: #391 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
That would be a sort of anti-marketing campaign.
Yes, but there are a lot more of those than the ones going the other direction. Obviously - since we’ve had this conversation before - I’m a Christian, and I wish that wasn’t the case. But that’s reality, because modern day evangelical Christianity, at least as preached in the United States, is a crazy-ass death cult.
Bigot weighs in, in the gubernatorial debate in South Carolina.
Gov. Henry McMaster (R-SC): “Gay marriage in our constitution it is not allowed, and under our state law it is not allowed. I would follow state law … Maybe I’m old fashioned, but I think marriage ought to be between a man and a woman.” pic.twitter.com/a6H6IJ3yoU
— The Recount (@therecount) October 27, 2022
Wow. Ken Peters talks about his old worship leaders in Moses Lake and how they left the faith because of their LGBTQ+ child.
— LvilleClinicEscorts (@LouClinicEscort) October 31, 2022
“We want to make Tennessee so conservative that they don’t want to live here because they can’t do their stuff around here. They can go to a blue state.” - Ken Peters.
— LvilleClinicEscorts (@LouClinicEscort) October 31, 2022
This statement right here is so telling. “We have to love Jesus more than our kids…” - Ken Peters. This is how families get ripped apart.
— LvilleClinicEscorts (@LouClinicEscort) October 31, 2022
“I’m not going to invite them into my home. I won’t invite them to holiday meals. I love them but I won’t have them around my kids. I’m not going to normalize it.” - Ken Peters.
— LvilleClinicEscorts (@LouClinicEscort) October 31, 2022
Its so ridiculous, how do you even push back? Saying “obviously, this is a lie and no I do not. A “post-birth abortion” is by law a murder.” Also they conflate this with infant hospice all the time and its so gross and so wrong and….no pushback.
— LvilleClinicEscorts (@LouClinicEscort) October 31, 2022
re: #394 Dopamine Fish
Yes, but there are a lot more of those than the ones going the other direction. Obviously - since we’ve had this conversation before - I’m a Christian, and I wish that wasn’t the case. But that’s reality, because modern day evangelical Christianity, at least as preached in the United States, is a crazy-ass death cult.
It would be hard to count (maybe impossible), but it would seem there have always been non-believers in the USA (just as there were in the Middle Ages).
Like LGBT+, it is safer to say so (in some parts of the USA) now. The same goes for the rise and levelling off of the divorce rate (it would have happened anyway but conservative laws making divorce difficult or impossible prevented people from divorce).
Francisco has a goofy little face
_∴ .. ∴_
^^>ᵂ<^^ pic.twitter.com/FuEY0oJgUs— invertebrate (@crevicedwelling) October 31, 2022
I fail to see a snoot but wish you luck
— invertebrate (@crevicedwelling) October 31, 2022
re: #388 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Pretty much all the Churches around here do a “Fall Festival” this time of year. It’s basically a “Trunk-or-treat” with all the trappings of Halloween (Candy, games, costumes) but without actually being called Halloween because, you know, actual Halloween is demonic or something.
re: #397 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
It would be hard to count (maybe impossible), but it would seem there have always been non-believers in the USA (just as there were in the Middle Ages).
Like LGBT+, it is safer to say so (in some parts of the USA) now. The same goes for the rise and levelling off of the divorce rate (it would have happened anyway but conservative laws making divorce difficult or impossible prevented people from divorce).
And of course, as in the latter, the Christian nationalists use this as evidence of the declining morality in the United States. No, this is the way things have always been; it’s just that the harmful effect of keeping LGBTQ+ closeted / keeping would-be divorced partners together was kept under wraps at the time, to avoid arousing suspicion.
re: #396 Backwoods_Sleuth
“I’m not going to hell for my kids. I love them but I’m staying in the faith.” - Ken Peters.
“I’m not going to invite them into my home. I won’t invite them to holiday meals. I love them but I won’t have them around my kids. I’m not going to normalize it.” - Ken Peters.
Is this guy a member of my family? Except for my mother and one cousin, they all hold the same attitude toward me. Maybe I should become a drag queen. /s
re: #399 Eclectic Cyborg
Pretty much all the Churches around here do a “Fall Festival” this time of year. It’s basically a “Trunk-or-treat” with all the trappings of Halloween (Candy, games, costumes) but without actually being called Halloween because, you know, actual Halloween is demonic or something.
like an omniscient being wouldnt see through that phoniness //
re: #402 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Is this guy a member of my family? Except for my mother and one cousin, they all hold the same attitude toward me. Maybe I should become a drag queen. /s
are drag queens allowed to wear trilbys, or would that clash with the rest of the outfit?
re: #396 Backwoods_Sleuth
I love them but I won’t have them around my kids.
psst: you dont love them
even if you changed the ‘but’ to ‘and’
you still dont love them
re: #347 Dr. Matt
Hopefully twitter dies a faster death than MySpace, Yahoo! dating, and Tumblr.
Tumblr is still here.
re: #347 Dr. Matt
Hopefully twitter dies a faster death than MySpace, Yahoo! dating, and Tumblr.
Watch the $20 blue-check become worthless overnight as everyone starts to realize that blue check mark means jack squat as to which are suspected frauds or not.. other resources can point to actual verified accounts.
I know it’s not feasible everywhere, but banning or curbing car usage every Halloween would mean that dozens more kids live to next Halloween. https://t.co/HS7CqIS6Pl pic.twitter.com/Nb6TOTllRE
— Bradford Pearson (@BradfordPearson) October 31, 2022
Kentucky shenanigans:
ACLU questions Jefferson County clerk after anti-abortion amendment left off Kentucky ballot https://t.co/uDYTzhJTIF via @courierjournal @d_yetter
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) October 31, 2022
re: #389 Dr. Matt
Higher rates of obesity
Higher rates of heart disease
Higher rates of tobacco smoking
Higher death rates of most cancers
Lower rates of college education
Higher rates of fetal death
Higher rates of povertyAll that to pwn the Libs.
Higher rates of maternal death.
Lower education rates/success.
Lower health outcomes.
Higher rates of claiming to be religious (especially the Jesus-y) variety.
Lower rates of actually adhering to teachings of Jesus (or any other actual religion that practices helping those less fortunate than yourself, etc.)
re: #399 Eclectic Cyborg
Pretty much all the Churches around here do a “Fall Festival” this time of year. It’s basically a “Trunk-or-treat” with all the trappings of Halloween (Candy, games, costumes) but without actually being called Halloween because, you know, actual Halloween is demonic or something.
I always thought “Halloween” was “All Hallows Eve” the night before All Saints Day which is a Christian festival.
But what do I know I am teh Juice & we don’t do Halloween because we have Purim.
re: #403 Dangerman
like an omniscient being wouldnt see through that phoniness //
I raised that exact question when I was a kid, and was treated to a rare moment of shocked silence from my parents.
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
The leader of the group that has people sitting on voting drop boxes in AZ is complaining on Bannon this morning that they are being harassed by the media and people on twitter. pic.twitter.com/WtgYKhG2qx
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) October 31, 2022
re: #413 Backwoods_Sleuth
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
How dare they harass people that are there to harass people!
re: #408 wrenchwench
We should have Halloween every day to combat Halloween deaths.
Elon Musk bought this app to make people ‘stop being mean’ to him, and here we are, only a few days in and #ChiefTwat is trending at his expense.
Good work Twitter.
Good work.
😂😂— Jo 🌻 (@JoJoFromJerz) October 31, 2022
re: #411 The Pie Overlord!
I always thought “Halloween” was “All Hallows Eve” the night before All Saints Day which is a Christian festival.
But what do I know I am teh Juice & we don’t do Halloween because we have Purim.
And Purim is even better since once you’re an adult, you’re required to get drunk enough to not be able to tell the difference between Haman and Mordechai. /half.
Today I am requesting the Committee on Foreign Investment — which reviews acquisitions of U.S. businesses by foreign buyers — to conduct an investigation into the national security implications of Saudi Arabia’s purchase of Twitter.https://t.co/IDwnKGaxt7
— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) October 31, 2022
We should be concerned that the Saudis, who have a clear interest in repressing political speech and impacting U.S. politics, are now the second-largest owner of a major social media platform.
There is a clear national security issue at stake and CFIUS should do a review.— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) October 31, 2022
If this deal goes through, two of the most important U.S. social media platforms will be owned, in whole or in part, by China (TikTok) and Saudi Arabia (Twitter).
This is a dangerous trend, and we don’t have to accept it.— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) October 31, 2022
re: #389 Dr. Matt
Higher rates of obesity
Higher rates of heart disease
Higher rates of tobacco smoking
Higher death rates of most cancers
Lower rates of college education
Higher rates of fetal death
Higher rates of povertyAll that to pwn the Libs.
Echoing Tate Reeves: ‘just means they get to be with their lord and savior sooner.’
re: #415 BigPapa
We should have Halloween every day to combat Halloween deaths.
If only this got right wing extremists to think about drug dependencies and overdoses more seriously instead of pushing the same drug dealers are peddling fentanyl to kids and they’re going to die nonsense.
re: #418 Charles Johnson
Isn’t it a done deal? Wouldn’t the review have to have been done before he closed with the Twitter execs and started making changes?
2 min
Stop what you’re doing and watch this complete takedown of @HerschelWalker by pastor @jamalhbryant. #WeDontNeedAWalker pic.twitter.com/TOGnFxliLe
— Quentin James (@QJames) October 30, 2022
Love this! pic.twitter.com/vDblrGtyJH
— Counts My CannaBlessings⁴²⁰ (@IntoTheShitter) October 31, 2022
The New York Young Republican Club, which will be hosting radical right figures Marjorie Taylor Greene and Jack Posobiec at their annual Gala in December, has melted down over Bolsonaro losing and is now begging for military rule of Brazil. pic.twitter.com/GPFBxIDpkz
— Michael Edison Hayden (@MichaelEHayden) October 31, 2022
re: #407 Florida Panhandler
Watch the $20 blue-check become worthless overnight as everyone starts to realize that blue check mark means jack squat as to which are suspected frauds or not.. other resources can point to actual verified accounts.
You said better what I said.
If youre just buying it, its meaningless
After losing the election last night, Jair Bolsonaro apparently isolated himself in the presidential palace, refused to speak with his ministers, and went to bed. We haven’t heard from him since.
— Vincent Bevins (@Vinncent) October 31, 2022
Apparently Carlos Bolsonaro is to blame. He often controls his father’s account and got in a fight with his step-mother, according to Metrópoles. Stay tuned for more information on this important story https://t.co/GoSjk4zGhL
— Vincent Bevins (@Vinncent) October 31, 2022
re: #424 Backwoods_Sleuth
Explicitly stating what we’ve all surmised internally - any election “they” lose is illegitimate; any election “they” win is unimpeachable and beyond reproach.
re: #412 Dopamine Fish
I raised that exact question when I was a kid, and was treated to a rare moment of shocked silence from my parents.
Or see through the insincerity of a Pascal’s wager
re: #415 BigPapa
We should have Halloween every day to combat Halloween deaths.
someone once suggested, seriously, to remove the front and rear cars from commuter trains (specifically the LIRR)
because when trains collided, that’s where most of the injuries were
re: #430 Dangerman
someone once suggested, seriously, to remove the front and rear cars from commuter trains (specifically the LIRR)
because when trains collided, that’s where most of the injuries were
The survivorship bias fallacy.
re: #421 Dopamine Fish
Isn’t it a done deal? Wouldn’t the review have to have been done before he closed with the Twitter execs and started making changes?
Chris Murphy doesn’t seem to think so.
re: #430 Dangerman
someone once suggested, seriously, to remove the front and rear cars from commuter trains (specifically the LIRR)
because when trains collided, that’s where most of the injuries were
Removing them is nuts, of course, but putting crumple-cars at the front and back designed to take and dissipate the impact would probably save lives. It would also cost energy, which considering the ratio of safe rides to collisions is probably not cost effective.
The donation is the largest single contribution in the Urban League of Lexington-Fayette County’s 54-year history. https://t.co/ke4WKb5iNt
— Lexington Herald-Leader (@heraldleader) October 31, 2022
The Urban League of Lexingon-Fayette County has been given a $1 million donation from philanthropist and author MacKenzie Scott, the organization announced Monday. The group is a chapter of the National Urban League. The Lexington chapter was created in 1968 and it addresses issues surrounding racial inequality in Central Kentucky. The donation is the Lexington urban league’s largest single contribution in the affiliate’s 54-year history. President and CEO of the league P.G. Peeples said the money will be put towards the expansion of programs and resources already in place. They will also explore some new some opportunities, Peeples said.
Read more at: kentucky.com
Some bittersweet personal news. Actually, mostly sweet and herby.
So the Spooky Pumpkin Face Ratatouille was a failure. The face was not spooky at all. But it tasted amazing so not a total failure. Not pictured is the roasted peppers, tomato, garlic, onion that was the base sauce. pic.twitter.com/AwVJZfIfAH
— Antifa Tech Support (@kronocide1) October 31, 2022
re: #418 Charles Johnson
Don’t Saudi’s have a fair size portion of Fox?
re: #434 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs
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The Urban League of Lexingon-Fayette County has been given a $1 million donation from philanthropist and author MacKenzie Scott, the organization announced Monday. The group is a chapter of the National Urban League. The Lexington chapter was created in 1968 and it addresses issues surrounding racial inequality in Central Kentucky. The donation is the Lexington urban league’s largest single contribution in the affiliate’s 54-year history. President and CEO of the league P.G. Peeples said the money will be put towards the expansion of programs and resources already in place. They will also explore some new some opportunities, Peeples said.
Read more at: kentucky.com
She also gave a shitload of money, no conditions attached (“spend it however you believe will best serve your students and your mission”) to a couple of HBCUs. Again, the largest contribution ever in those schools’ history.
Obviously, black issues and black institutions are something she pays attention to and wants to help. I’m sure there’s some kind of backstory there.
re: #329 lawhawk
For media types who need social media, they’ll pay.
If they can get it on expenses.
All journalists know that the only good lunch is a free lunch.
re: #356 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
* - Brook’s _The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering_ was part of the reading list for one of my classes.
I still have my copy.
re: #363 Crush White Nationalism
That Arecibo was allowed to decay and fall is a fucking outrage.
re: #389 Dr. Matt
Higher rates of under age pregnancy.
Higher rates of abortion.
Higher rates of divorce.
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