Mark Lettieri - “Delicate Day” (Feat. Jason “JT” Thomas & Wes Stephenson)

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“Delicate Day,” from the GroundUP Music release Fly Through It. Recorded live at January Sound Studios, Farmers Branch, TX on Dec. 2, 2021.

Mark Lettieri: guitar
Jason “JT” Thomas: drums
Wes Stephenson: bass

Written and produced by Mark Lettieri
Recorded and mixed by Joey Lomas
Mastered by Dave McNair
Filmed and edited by Tyler Ellison

© 2022 Mark Lettieri, GroundUP Music

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Captain Ron  Nov 29, 2022 • 8:29:57pm

YouTube

HT Crooks and Liars

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A Cranky One  Nov 29, 2022 • 8:54:28pm

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I Would Prefer Not To  Nov 29, 2022 • 9:01:30pm

don’t like to brag, but……,

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A Cranky One  Nov 29, 2022 • 9:10:52pm

So we’ll be watching a granddog for a while.

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austin_blue  Nov 29, 2022 • 9:16:49pm

Well, we hit 84 degrees today, which tied a record. We’ll be at 44 tomorrow morning.

Texas weather.

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Belafon  Nov 29, 2022 • 9:17:10pm

My wife was telling me about this:

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Belafon  Nov 29, 2022 • 9:18:15pm
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austin_blue  Nov 29, 2022 • 9:22:18pm

And, adios, it’s bed time, sweet dreams.

If your skin feels scaly, either buy lotions to smooth it, or do nothing and embrace the new Overlords.

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Belafon  Nov 29, 2022 • 9:28:03pm

re: #5 austin_blue

This morning, in Rockwall, it was 63. We hit 81, one shy of the record. Tomorrow morning, it will be around 36, with a high later of 50. This will last two days, and then we’ll be back in the 70s for one day and the 60s afterwards.

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wrenchwench  Nov 29, 2022 • 9:32:44pm

The forecast low tonight and high tomorrow are the same: 44 degrees F. Except then they say it’s 41 right now. Would it be cheating to revise the forecast?

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teleskiguy  Nov 29, 2022 • 9:36:38pm

CW: nudity

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Captain Ron  Nov 29, 2022 • 9:36:47pm
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Captain Ron  Nov 29, 2022 • 9:42:47pm

In the eastern most east bay hills it’s getting down into the low 30s at night, highs around 60.

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Belafon  Nov 29, 2022 • 9:50:32pm

re: #12 Captain Ron

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Captain Ron  Nov 29, 2022 • 9:52:34pm

I gave up on running tubeless tires. I never got the second bead to seat. Gas station pumps don’t have air tanks on them these days. So I put new tires on and fresh tubes in and added 8 oz of orange sealant to each. Hopefully I can get a ride in tomorrow.

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teleskiguy  Nov 29, 2022 • 9:55:34pm

9° F currently. I’ll burn through 30 lbs. of pellets in the pellet stove tonight, probably.

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sagehen  Nov 29, 2022 • 9:58:37pm

Trevor Moore: High in Church - “Gays Got Married”

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Nov 29, 2022 • 9:59:04pm

re: #12 Captain Ron

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Belafon  Nov 29, 2022 • 10:02:29pm

Reading through the replies, some people just don’t seem to be getting the significance of the federal government finally codifying interracial and same-sex marriage.

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retired cynic  Nov 29, 2022 • 10:06:01pm

re: #19 Belafon

Surely the people who would be affected by SCOTUS taking a hack saw to their marriage rights are paying attention. Although a bunch may have just figured, like so many did with Roe (and are doing about contraception), “Aw, nothing is going to change. We’re safe.”

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William Lewis  Nov 29, 2022 • 10:06:46pm

Current mood:

Keith Jarrett- My Song 1978

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Belafon  Nov 29, 2022 • 10:07:28pm

re: #16 teleskiguy

9° F currently. I’ll burn through 30 lbs. of pellets in the pellet stove tonight, probably.

Not that cold, but it is 43F.

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 29, 2022 • 10:13:36pm

re: #20 retired cynic

Surely the people who would be affected by SCOTUS taking a hack saw to their marriage rights are paying attention. Although a bunch may have just figured, like so many did with Roe (and are doing about contraception), “Aw, nothing is going to change. We’re safe.”

Too bad the law will not protect marriages against this rogue SCOTUS, which can decide that marriage is a state issue and not a federal issue. There is no outrage that this court would not support. Roberts — if you want to know why the Court merits so little respect, look in the mirror.

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 29, 2022 • 10:15:15pm

3 for Wednesday’s wordle.

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Wordle 529 3/6

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Oops. Was originally off a day. Edited to change from Tuesday.

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A Cranky One  Nov 29, 2022 • 10:24:29pm

Say hello to my little friend

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Belafon  Nov 29, 2022 • 10:25:47pm

re: #23 Hecuba’s daughter

If they decide that marriage is only a state issue, that will also require everyone to get married in every state they move to, would require recertification of wills every time someone moves, end SS benefits for spouses.

It would take a constitutional amendment to force states to perform interracial and gay marriages that SCOTUS couldn’t overturn, but it does codify those marriages as federal contracts where federal law does apply.

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wrenchwench  Nov 29, 2022 • 10:32:33pm

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sagehen  Nov 29, 2022 • 10:50:39pm

Trump Dinner Guest Nick Fuentes Vs. Fox News | The Daily Show

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Captain Ron  Nov 29, 2022 • 11:40:37pm
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William Lewis  Nov 29, 2022 • 11:52:45pm

re: #29 Captain Ron

He’s childish enough that I could easily believe he ignored the 30% till it was ready to bite him in the ass.

And as I said downstairs, even Elmo doesn’t have the coin to fight a company with a 2.25 TRILLION-dollar capitalization ;)

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JC1  Nov 30, 2022 • 12:27:57am

re: #30 William Lewis

He’s childish enough that I could easily believe he ignored the 30% till it was ready to bite him in the ass.

And as I said downstairs, even Elmo doesn’t have the coin to fight a company with a 2.25 TRILLION-dollar capitalization ;)

Not only the market cap, but a ridiculous amount of cash. Apple has around 50 billion in cash and cash equivalents, and is making so much more that they have a hard time figuring out what to do with it. Apple’s earbud business is likely more profitable than all of Elon’s businesses combined.

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Captain Ron  Nov 30, 2022 • 12:31:31am
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Captain Ron  Nov 30, 2022 • 12:46:06am

Mars is really high in the sky. An azimuth of 77 degrees from the horizon. The center is straight up.

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Captain Ron  Nov 30, 2022 • 12:55:54am

The new Willow series is up on Disney.

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William Lewis  Nov 30, 2022 • 1:16:42am

re: #34 Captain Ron

The new Willow series is up on Disney.

Can you say how it compares?

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Captain Ron  Nov 30, 2022 • 1:25:22am

20 minutes in and they are just setting up the characters around the baby grown up. Willow hasn’t shown up yet. Demons are showing up…

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Captain Ron  Nov 30, 2022 • 1:36:08am

I’d say it’s holding up well and I’m only 33 minutes in.

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William Lewis  Nov 30, 2022 • 1:41:13am

Holy crap it’s late. Don’t know when I’ll go to bed but it’s freaking late ;)

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Captain Ron  Nov 30, 2022 • 1:55:38am

I finished episode 1 of Willow. It’s looking great.

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Captain Ron  Nov 30, 2022 • 2:03:36am

Brrrrr, it’s 35 outside now. It will only be 55 at noon tomorrow so I might as well watch episode 2 and sleep in.

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William Lewis  Nov 30, 2022 • 2:09:26am

re: #40 Captain Ron

Brrrrr, it’s 35 outside now. It will only be 55 at noon tomorrow so I might as well watch episode 2 and sleep in.

It’ll be around 20 degrees F here. I’d love to have your temps.

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TarHellion  Nov 30, 2022 • 2:15:51am

Missed a good beagle guess but happy to get the birbie. Messy, messy morning shaping up. 48 and already nearly an inch of rain overnight. Now over 58 inches for the year. The “normal” used to be 50. But we’ve been above 60 for the past 4 years. Enjoy the day/evening everyone!

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Wordle 529 3/6*

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Nov 30, 2022 • 2:18:49am

re: #39 Captain Ron

I finished episode 1 of Willow. It’s looking great.

Kinda hard not to with Ron Howard and George Lucas being involved, no?

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 30, 2022 • 2:27:26am

Temp is 47F here… cold for me.

It’s been a cool November and December will start cold.

I could never live in Florida but I can definitely appreciate tropical climes.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 30, 2022 • 2:31:27am

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darthstar  Nov 30, 2022 • 3:04:55am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 30, 2022 • 3:13:04am

re: #41 William Lewis

It’ll be around 20 degrees F here. I’d love to have your temps.

It’s 2°F here. I’d love to have your temps.

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Thanos  Nov 30, 2022 • 3:13:09am
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Thanos  Nov 30, 2022 • 3:13:57am

21 Degrees here in KC, -13 where I used to live.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 30, 2022 • 3:22:09am

Long thread from Nebraska state senator Adam Morfeld (D) on the critical role legislative assistants play in the Unicameral. I assume there are similar problems in other states, especially those run by Republicans. There’s even less reason for it here, since the state is in the black and is not a so-called taker red state.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 30, 2022 • 3:30:29am
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Dr Lizardo  Nov 30, 2022 • 3:31:35am

In other good news, the European Commission has apparently had enough of Viktor Orbán’s bullshit.

The European Commission (EC) proposed on Wednesday to block the payment of 7.5 billion euros to Hungary from the structural funds of the European Union due to persistent shortcomings in the fight against corruption and in the control of public contracts.

Source, in Czech: novinky.cz

Everyone reckons that Orbán would quickly squander that 7.5 billion on corrupt projects for his cronies.

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 30, 2022 • 3:33:36am

re: #49 Thanos

21 Degrees here in KC, -13 where I used to live.

18 °F (-7.8 C) here currently, but that belies the strong wind gusts over 20 mph that are driving the wind chill below 0 °F. I am annoyed with the city this morning; the snow stopped well before 4:00 yesterday afternoon, but the snowplows ran twice: Once at around 2:00 PM in the afternoon, and once at 4:00 AM this morning… leaving me to clean up their mess, not once, but TWICE. It’s so stupid.

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darthstar  Nov 30, 2022 • 3:35:46am

re: #47 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

It’s 2°F here. I’d love to have your temps.

39 here at 3:30 in the morning. Thought that air coming through the bedroom window felt colder than usual. I’m all good with my temps.

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Thanos  Nov 30, 2022 • 3:39:36am

re: #53 Dopamine Fish

18 °F (-7.8 C) here currently, but that belies the strong wind gusts over 20 mph that are driving the wind chill below 0 °F. I am annoyed with the city this morning; the snow stopped well before 4:00 yesterday afternoon, but the snowplows ran twice: Once at around 2:00 PM in the afternoon, and once at 4:00 AM this morning… leaving me to clean up their mess, not once, but TWICE. It’s so stupid.

In Fairbanks where I grew up the snowplows had a side blade attached to the main plow that they would drop down when passing a driveway to prevent that end of drive pile up, wish they had them here.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 30, 2022 • 3:40:14am

Via ANSA (the Italian News Agency, in Italian, lede translated to English, November 28, 2022)

The pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need reports that two priests serving in the city of Berdyansk, in south-eastern Ukraine, occupied by Russia since February 2022, were arrested. The Redemptorist Fathers, detained by Russian militias, provided pastoral assistance to Greek-Catholic and Latin-rite Catholic parishes and are among the few remaining in the occupied territories. According to Msgr. Stepan Meniok, bishop of the Exarchate of Donetsk, the detention is “unfounded and illegal”.

Father Ivan Levitskyi, parish priest of the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary in the city of Berdyansk, and Father Bohdan Heleta, chaplain of the same church, were reportedly imprisoned in a pre-trial detention center in Berdyansk by the Russian administration on charges of “preparing an act of terrorism”. The press release denounces that the accusation of possession of weapons and explosives by the priests “is false” and adds that it was “a maneuver organized for propaganda purposes”.

Ucraina, arrestati due sacerdoti cattolici a Donetsk

La fondazione pontificia Aiuto alla Chiesa che Soffre riferisce che sono stati arrestati due sacerdoti che prestavano servizio nella città di Berdyansk, nel sud-est dell’Ucraina, occupata dalla Russia dal febbraio 2022. I Padri redentoristi, detenuti dalle milizie russe, prestavano assistenza pastorale alle parrocchie greco-cattoliche e cattoliche di rito latino e sono tra i pochi rimasti nei territori occupati. Secondo mons. Stepan Meniok, vescovo dell’Esarcato di Donetsk, la detenzione è “infondata e illegale”.

Padre Ivan Levitskyi, parroco della chiesa della Natività della Vergine Maria nella città di Berdyansk, e Padre Bohdan Heleta, cappellano della stessa chiesa, sarebbero stati incarcerati in un centro di custodia cautelare a Berdyansk dall’amministrazione russa con l’accusa di “aver preparato un atto terroristico”. Il comunicato denuncia che l’accusa di possesso di armi ed esplosivi da parte dei sacerdoti “è falsa” ed aggiunge che si è trattato di “una manovra organizzata per fini propagandistici”.

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Thanos  Nov 30, 2022 • 3:41:22am
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Dopamine Fish  Nov 30, 2022 • 3:43:38am

re: #55 Thanos

In Fairbanks where I grew up the snowplows had a side blade attached to the main plow that they would drop down when passing a driveway to prevent that end of drive pile up, wish they had them here.

Because of the way our storm drains are shaped, that is rather difficult here. It’s not that I don’t understand the city leaving deposits in the driveways, it’s the frustration of having to deal with it more than once. if they’d run the plows at, say, 4:00 yesterday afternoon, and been done with it, I wouldn’t have had a problem.

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Thanos  Nov 30, 2022 • 3:46:59am

Also ICYMI

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 30, 2022 • 3:57:03am

RE: Stewart Rhodes and his lackeys on being convicted of plotting an insurrection, the right-wing talking point we can expect to flood the zone today is, “DC juries are unfairly biased against Republicans, these trials are rigged!!!”

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Thanos  Nov 30, 2022 • 3:58:19am

In this Winter of our discontent, coal consumption is rising in several places.
app.electricitymaps.com

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jaunte  Nov 30, 2022 • 4:09:23am

re: #59 Thanos

Sam Alito thinking “shut up, Nick.”

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sagehen  Nov 30, 2022 • 4:10:27am

re: #60 Dopamine Fish

RE: Stewart Rhodes and his lackeys on being convicted of plotting an insurrection, the right-wing talking point we can expect to flood the zone today is, “DC juries are unfairly biased against Republicans, these trials are rigged!!!”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 30, 2022 • 4:10:58am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 30, 2022 • 4:11:31am

Nick Fuentes knows how to gain attention by getting a rise out of liberals and throwing red meat to the base. And that is Fox News and the GOP approach in a nutshell.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 30, 2022 • 4:12:49am

re: #64 Backwoods_Sleuth

says a man who has mailed in his votes in previous elections

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 30, 2022 • 4:12:50am

re: #64 Backwoods_Sleuth

Can never have free and fair elections with mail-in ballots, except of course Republican-run states where they are mandatory such as Nebraska and Utah. Those mail-in ballots are just fine.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 30, 2022 • 4:15:12am

re: #67 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Can never have free and fair elections with mail-in ballots, except of course Republican-run states where they are mandatory such as Nebraska and Utah. Those mail-in ballots are just fine.

It’s all talking points and positioning. He has not abandoned the strategy of declaring victory on Election Night and then having all mail-in votes disqualified.

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 30, 2022 • 4:15:50am

In Orbán-related news….

Hungary is performing worse in terms of inflation than the war-torn country of Ukraine. The economic crisis affects life so much in the country that it is almost impossible to save money anymore. Although Hungarians buy less and still have to spend more, this is true for the whole continent. Despite the terrible situation on the whole continent, Hungary still stands out with its 25 percent inflation rate.

According to the newest analysis of Nielsen IQ, Hungary had a 25 percent inflation rate in the third quarter of the year, reports Euronews. The data from Eurostat shows that food prices have risen by 45 percent in the past year. Other than countries with hyperinflation like Turkey or Kazakhstan, Hungary’s performance is the worst in Europe. Even in the war-torn country of Ukraine, the situation is still better, at least in terms of inflation.

dailynewshungary.com

Looks like the star of CPAC is increasingly in deep shit.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 30, 2022 • 4:19:03am

Russian propagandist confused by a NAFO meme repurposing an article which appeared in The Onion in 2014

Original article:

FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States

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Dangerman  Nov 30, 2022 • 4:22:17am

re: #29 Captain Ron

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Goes back to May at least

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 30, 2022 • 4:22:37am

re: #69 Dr Lizardo

In Orbán-related news….

dailynewshungary.com

Looks like the star of CPAC is increasingly in deep shit.

Perhaps he’s trying to break the world record of inflation set by Hungarian pengő (Wikipedia)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 30, 2022 • 4:22:50am

re: #69 Dr Lizardo

In Orbán-related news….

dailynewshungary.com

Looks like the star of CPAC is increasingly in deep shit.

Orbangutan has positioned himself as an Orthodox nationalist xenophobe while quietly installing his own oligarchy in politics and business. Featuring some of the lowest wages and highest energy costs in all of the EU.

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 30, 2022 • 4:27:09am

re: #72 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Perhaps he’s trying to break the world record of inflation set by Hungarian pengő (Wikipedia)

As much as I despise the Orbángutan (thanks for that one, Wendell Z.), a hyperinflation crisis like the pengő debacle would be a nightmare I wouldn’t wish on anyone (even the Russians).

Nonetheless, looks like Orbánomics is headed into some rough seas.

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 30, 2022 • 4:27:59am

re: #73 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Orbangutan

Perfect. 😄

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Thanos  Nov 30, 2022 • 4:34:13am
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Dr Lizardo  Nov 30, 2022 • 4:35:28am

OK, back later.

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Barefoot Grin  Nov 30, 2022 • 4:38:01am

Maybe the Dems should have run some “Orban fills his administration with loyalist toadies who use their positions to enrich themselves while the Hungarian people suffer [cut to CPAC conference in Hungary/Tucker licking Orban’s balls]: this is what Republicans want for America….”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 30, 2022 • 4:43:03am

re: #78 Barefoot Grin

Maybe the Dems should have run some “Orban fills his administration with loyalist toadies who use their positions to enrich themselves while the Hungarian people suffer [cut to CPAC conference in Hungary/Tucker licking Orban’s balls]: this is what Republicans want for America….”

“Orban keeps foreigners out and promotes Family Values”

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Targetpractice  Nov 30, 2022 • 4:45:54am

re: #76 Thanos

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The typical “Rural Americans fear change and progress” article that’s supposed to make you feel bad that the whole country isn’t the Norman Rockwell fantasy that the Beltway Press likes to pretend exists outside of the “corrupt, evil, crime-blighted” cities that they insist upon living in.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 30, 2022 • 4:47:59am

re: #80 Targetpractice

The typical “Rural Americans fear change and progress” article that’s supposed to make you feel bad that the whole country isn’t the Norman Rockwell fantasy that the Beltway Press likes to pretend exists outside of the “corrupt, evil, crime-blighted” cities that they insist upon living in.

There are still people who want Norman Rockwell even if they never really lived it outside of his Saturday Evening Post covers.

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 30, 2022 • 4:50:25am

re: #81 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

There are still people who want Norman Rockwell even if they never really lived it outside of his Saturday Evening Post covers.

To put it simply, people want to live in comfort and safety. That’s fine. The problem is, white people see ANY EXISTENCE of “others” living in comfort and safety as a threat to their own comfort and safety. They just cannot be happy unless they have someone to look down upon and be like, “Haha, I’m doing better than you.” Because that’s their definition of “comfort and safety”: Continuing to exist at the top of society, as they have done for hundreds of years.

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Targetpractice  Nov 30, 2022 • 4:53:06am

The small town my mother hails from is “crime-free” in the sense that the sheriff for years was a gloryhound who spent more time hunting down patches of marijuana grown out in the forest (using a helicopter bought with federal funds) than he did actually enforcing the law in the town’s boundaries. And he ended up being assassinated not by cartel hitman to cover up their nefarious schemes, but instead was shot dead at a fish fry by a junkie who was paid by a local (white) drug dealer who didn’t like that the sheriff couldn’t be paid to look the other way while he kept peddling Oxy tablets out of his trailer.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 30, 2022 • 5:10:49am

and of course, the very existence of gays in our society is seen by some as an affront unto the Lord, a threat to marriage and family, and a harbinger of the collapse of civilization

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 30, 2022 • 5:12:22am

re: #80 Targetpractice

The death-of-god problem is going to spur a lot of problems across this country. It already has.

Notice how in the article the fearful farmland fellow paints his world as “good versus evil”. It’s not about “politics” he claims.

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 30, 2022 • 5:14:35am

re: #84 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

and of course, the very existence of gays in our society is seen by some as an affront unto the Lord, a threat to marriage and family and a harbinger of the collapse of civilization

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Belafon  Nov 30, 2022 • 5:16:52am
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Dangerman  Nov 30, 2022 • 5:25:16am

re: #83 Targetpractice

The small town my mother hails from is “crime-free” in the sense that the sheriff for years was a gloryhound who spent more time hunting down patches of marijuana grown out in the forest (using a helicopter bought with federal funds) than he did actually enforcing the law in the town’s boundaries. And he ended up being assassinated not by cartel hitman to cover up their nefarious schemes, but instead was shot dead at a fish fry by a junkie who was paid by a local (white) drug dealer who didn’t like that the sheriff couldn’t be paid to look the other way while he kept peddling Oxy tablets out of his trailer.

like an episode of Justified or Ozark

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 30, 2022 • 5:25:20am

Actually, no, northern Idaho is more left-leaning than NE-3. No one seems to get how bugfuque insane some people are here.

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Targetpractice  Nov 30, 2022 • 5:28:04am

re: #85 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The death-of-god problem is going to spur a lot of problems across this country. It already has.

Notice how in the article the fearful farmland fellow paints his world as “good versus evil”. It’s not about “politics” he claims.

It’s “not about politics” because their views are political poison, even in the dirt-burgs of rural America. Every year, fewer and fewer youts stick around after graduation to work at the family store or join the crew at the farm. And the ones who are staying are buying computers and tablets and hooking them up to broadband internet so they have access to a world bigger than the boundaries of the small world their parents grew up in.

The days of rural isolation where you live and die never venturing more than a few miles outside the limits of your birthplace are going away, only this time there was no war that drug millions of farmers sons off to mingle with city boys who gave them ideas about a life outside of livestock and general stores.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 30, 2022 • 5:31:47am

re: #80 Targetpractice

The typical “Rural Americans fear change and progress” article that’s supposed to make you feel bad that the whole country isn’t the Norman Rockwell fantasy that the Beltway Press likes to pretend exists outside of the “corrupt, evil, crime-blighted” cities that they insist upon living in.

When our wingnuts in the Unicameral were on the “Democrats want to defund the police” nonsense and tried to pass a bill to (somehow) make that illegal, state senator Megan Hunt brought in the statistics showing 90% of Nebraska’s cities and villages have no police whatsoever, never did, and somehow there isn’t a hellscape of crime roaring across the High Plains. (My village is unusual in we actually have a “police force,” the town marshal. Only one town in my county has a formal police force. In the whole Panhandle, the only police aside from county sheriffs are in Scottsbluff, Gering, Sidney, Alliance, Chadron, Bayard, and Broadwater.)

The bill went down in flaming defeat, with most of the Republicans voting against it.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Nov 30, 2022 • 5:36:45am

re: #84 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

and of course, the very existence of gays in our society is seen by some as an affront unto the Lord, a threat to marriage and family, and a harbinger of the collapse of civilization

Which was a very convenient other to start in on in the early 80s as it finally started to sink in that the Civil Rights Era had made it much harder to obviously rail on blacks* and interracial marriage as the threat overtly without drawing some negative media attention. So the rhetoric against them ramped up, even though it’d always been there since for a long time given the various sub-cultures. And I’m pretty sure the various churches (especially the Catholics) were already aware of their internal issues in this regard.

* - And the anti-black rhetoric did not go away. It went into the various dog whistles and code words that are still around.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 30, 2022 • 5:40:11am

re: #81 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

There are still people who want Norman Rockwell even if they never really lived it outside of his Saturday Evening Post covers.

My mother recounted a story recently when she was busking at O’Hare Airport where a listener stated he was from a small town. She asked him how small and he said two hundred thousand.

He simply could not imagine small when she told him she was from a town with less than two hundred people.

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Dangerman  Nov 30, 2022 • 5:43:31am
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Dopamine Fish  Nov 30, 2022 • 5:44:04am

re: #94 Dangerman

Heh. Regarding that:

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 30, 2022 • 5:44:31am

re: #90 Targetpractice

It’s “not about politics” because their views are political poison, even in the dirt-burgs of rural America. Every year, fewer and fewer youts stick around after graduation to work at the family store or join the crew at the farm. And the ones who are staying are buying computers and tablets and hooking them up to broadband internet so they have access to a world bigger than the boundaries of the small world their parents grew up in. [rest clipped]

Every year the Republicans here in the Unicameral decry the extremely high property tax rate in this state that drives youth out of the state. They will not admit it is their toxic policies rather than property taxes.

No doubt they are going to try again to ban abortion in the upcoming session next year, while again trying to claim it’s really property taxes that drives young people out.

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 30, 2022 • 5:45:10am

This seems like a problem. Though telling the media about the crime you just committed is a very Trumpian thing to do.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Nov 30, 2022 • 5:45:40am

re: #93 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

My mother recounted a story recently when she was busking at O’Hare Airport where a listener stated he was from a small town. She asked him how small and he said two hundred thousand.

He simply could not imagine small when she told him she was from a town with less than two hundred people.

I went to high school in the late 70s in a small industrial village with people of whom some had never been more than 50 miles from where they had been born. This morning hopping around on Discord I’ve been in text chats with people from three continents and about 8-10 different countries.

And my sole conclusion is that teen-to-mid-20s males still talk the same crap at each other. The slang and tech changes slightly. The underlying behavior patterns are the same.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 30, 2022 • 5:47:21am

re: #95 Dopamine Fish

Heh. Regarding that:

In the thread:

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 30, 2022 • 5:48:27am

re: #98 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

I went to high school in the late 70s in a small industrial village with people of whom some had never been more than 50 miles from where they had been born. This morning hopping around on Discord I’ve been in text chats with people from three continents and about 8-10 different countries.

Exposure to foreign affairs is multiculturalism, the Right’s last big bugaboo before “woke” became a thing. I guess the Kari Lakes these days would refer to that as “globalism”. I still say, to this day, the single best thing I ever did was go to college and get exposed to alternate social, political, and religious viewpoints. I keep meaning to reach out to the liberal Christian friend who most shaped my current theology and find an alternate platform besides Facebook to keep tabs with him.

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Eventual Carrion  Nov 30, 2022 • 5:52:32am

re: #22 Belafon

Not that cold, but it is 43F.

Rainy but 50F here in NW PA. I’ll take that temp this time of year.

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Dangerman  Nov 30, 2022 • 5:53:03am

re: #76 Thanos

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 30, 2022 • 5:54:15am

re: #98 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

I went to high school in the late 70s in a small industrial village with people of whom some had never been more than 50 miles from where they had been born. This morning hopping around on Discord I’ve been in text chats with people from three continents and about 8-10 different countries.

And my sole conclusion is that teen-to-mid-20s males still talk the same crap at each other. The slang and tech changes slightly. The underlying behavior patterns are the same.

Same with me, though a smaller village than yours. The only people who ever travelled out-of-the-country was my mother and me.

In my own village now, when my wife and I returned from Poland and went to the town party the same week, people here were amazed at our “bravery”: Several people commented they could never have travelled to Poland like we did because they were afraid Islamic State was going to invade it.

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Targetpractice  Nov 30, 2022 • 5:54:18am

re: #94 Dangerman

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What I find hilarious is they keep referring to Apple’s control of its own App Store as a “monopoly” and suggesting that the FTC should launch an investigation into such. Meanwhile, I’m sitting here browsing through the Play Store on my Galaxy S22 to check and see if any of my apps need updating.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 30, 2022 • 5:56:34am

re: #101 Eventual Carrion

Rainy but 50F here in NW PA. I’ll take that temp this time of year.

Currently here it’s partly cloudy and -5°F (-20°Commie). The sun is up and for some reason I am too.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Nov 30, 2022 • 5:58:50am

re: #100 Dopamine Fish

Exposure to foreign affairs is multiculturalism, the Right’s last big bugaboo before “woke” became a thing. I guess the Kari Lakes these days would refer to that as “globalism”. I still say, to this day, the single best thing I ever did was go to college and get exposed to alternate social, political, and religious viewpoints. I keep meaning to reach out to the liberal Christian friend who most shaped my current theology and find an alternate platform besides Facebook to keep tabs with him.

Yep. Because once you see that the “other” is a person much like you with a lot of similar desires, characteristics, and motivations a lot of the nationalistic and religious exceptionalism is shown to be pretty much BS. And you can also see how many people put up those “But I have a black friend.” walls to try to allow both thought processes to exist at once in their heads.

Why should one be surprised by semi-fanatic resistance against interlopers in a foreign country when they’d expect to behave in a similar manner if someone else invaded/occupied the USA?

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Dangerman  Nov 30, 2022 • 5:59:53am

re: #97 Dopamine Fish

This seems like a problem. Though telling the media about the crime you just committed is a very Trumpian thing to do.

could almost ask the question “which election?”

this kind of nonsense will eventually catch up to mass shootings.
soon, we’ll not be surprised at yet another story about another one.
we’ll just yawn at it and move on because we’ve been desensitized by the number of reports

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Targetpractice  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:00:33am

Welcome to the 21st century, where the descendants of men who marched hundreds of miles on-foot to fight for their freedom to speak their minds without fear of reprisal or punishment from government officials…now want to use the threat of government reprisal to force a private company to do as they demand because changing phones is apparently a bridge too far.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:00:58am

re: #102 Dangerman

Whoever said that these people would be happy living under a freeway overpass cooking rat if they knew the minority/other under the next overpass did not have any rat pretty much hit this on the head.

And the class war trying to disguise itself as a race and/or religious war continues.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:03:44am

re: #100 Dopamine Fish

Exposure to foreign affairs is multiculturalism, the Right’s last big bugaboo before “woke” became a thing. I guess the Kari Lakes these days would refer to that as “globalism”. I still say, to this day, the single best thing I ever did was go to college and get exposed to alternate social, political, and religious viewpoints. I keep meaning to reach out to the liberal Christian friend who most shaped my current theology and find an alternate platform besides Facebook to keep tabs with him.

My exposure to the wider world began with trips to Canada from Michigan as a child, then to Brazil as a high school exchange student during the military dictatorship there from 1976 to 1977 (with a side trip to Paraguay whilst I was there). Since then, thanks to Haze Grey Cruise Lines, I’ve been to every continent except Australia and Antarctica.

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:03:49am

re: #104 Targetpractice

What I find hilarious is they keep referring to Apple’s control of its own App Store as a “monopoly” and suggesting that the FTC should launch an investigation into such. Meanwhile, I’m sitting here browsing through the Play Store on my Galaxy S22 to check and see if any of my apps need updating.

There are legal arguments to be made about app store models and exclusivity, to be honest. It’s a rather hotly contested legal area right now, as game companies such as Microsoft, Sony, Valve, and Epic Games are all running their own services with their own unique lock-ins. So far, it seems that courts have upheld the app store model, but there are valid arguments about the need to allow alternative app stores on individual platforms. It’s a big legal clown fiesta.

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lawhawk  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:04:45am

re: #89 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

We’ve seen jury nullification from the Kyle Rittenhouse jury and in the Zimmerman murder trial too. It happens everywhere.

That’s the justice system. It’s based on where the crimes occurred, and the jury pool is from that community. Voir dire allows both sides to vet the jury pool and excuse those who they think are prejudicial to their case.

Rhodes was guilty as fuck, and the DOJ continues its streak of winning seditious conspiracy cases against 1/6 treasonweasels.

I only wish that they went up the chain from the Oath Keepers to Stone and then on to Trump, Meadows, and others in the White House, because that’s where all of this ultimately leads.

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:08:08am

re: #112 lawhawk

We’ve seen jury nullification from the Kyle Rittenhouse jury and in the Zimmerman murder trial too. It happens everywhere.

That’s the justice system. It’s based on where the crimes occurred, and the jury pool is from that community. Voir dire allows both sides to vet the jury pool and excuse those who they think are prejudicial to their case.

Rhodes was guilty as fuck, and the DOJ continues its streak of winning seditious conspiracy cases against 1/6 treasonweasels.

I only wish that they went up the chain from the Oath Keepers to Stone and then on to Trump, Meadows, and others in the White House, because that’s where all of this ultimately leads.

I saw some legal analysts on Twitter (I know, I know) who said that getting Trump on seditious conspiracy would be a dicey proposition at best. I think there’s a good argument to be made against whomever Rhodes was immediately collaborating with on 1/6 (Stone, maybe Meadows), though. It seems like it has to be the people who were directly involved in the actual on-the-ground communications and coordination of the plot, and I’ve yet to see direct evidence that Trump himself was in the trenches exchanging messages directly with the Oaf Keepers.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:08:14am

For the last two weeks my milkhouse heater in the cyclone cellar has been running to keep my kitchen pipes from freezing (so far successfully).

RIP to my electric bill.

On the other hand, my socialist electric bill will be far lower than if I had Florida Plunder and Loot or Plunder Greed and Extortion as an electric company. Bonus: All electricity generated in my state is green. No fossil fuel plants anymore.

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Dangerman  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:09:48am

re: #98 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

I went to high school in the late 70s in a small industrial village with people of whom some had never been more than 50 miles from where they had been born. This morning hopping around on Discord I’ve been in text chats with people from three continents and about 8-10 different countries.

And my sole conclusion is that teen-to-mid-20s males still talk the same crap at each other. The slang and tech changes slightly. The underlying behavior patterns are the same.

my niece, 28 was born in NY, grew up in FLA, is now living in her third country. she’s a citizen of two.

meanwhile i grew up on long island. dad was from nyc. his business was there. his parents lived in nyc. so to us going to nyc from a very young age was ‘normal’. hop on a train or drive, it was ez. when we got older and started to cut loose, none of my friends gave it much thought.

fast forward to first year at suny stony brook. not really all that far from home. i met someone my age, raised near huntington - 18 miles east, 10 miles north of my house -who had never been to nyc. a totally ‘frightened of the big city’ mentality while living so close to it.

i could not wrap my head around that.

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Dangerman  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:11:20am

re: #99 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

In the thread:

“The motive is monetary, not moral.”

why must it be exclusively one or the other?

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Nyet  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:12:22am

re: #95 Dopamine Fish

Using “redpilled” is giving them the satisfaction of having appropriated a positive term. Nope. Brownpilled.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:14:36am

re: #71 Dangerman

The number of fanbois in that thread saying ‘yup, musty is buying apple’ is hysterical. So many people are completely innumerate.

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:15:53am

re: #118 Colère Tueur de Lapin

The number of fanbois in that thread saying ‘yup, musty is buying apple’ is hysterical. So many people are completely innumerate.

It’s the same underlying problem behind COVID denial; people don’t have a good sense of scale. Extremely small and extremely big numbers don’t process well in our heads.

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Targetpractice  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:16:06am

re: #111 Dopamine Fish

There are legal arguments to be made about app store models and exclusivity, to be honest. It’s a rather hotly contested legal area right now, as game companies such as Microsoft, Sony, Valve, and Epic Games are all running their own services with their own unique lock-ins. So far, it seems that courts have upheld the app store model, but there are valid arguments about the need to allow alternative app stores on individual platforms. It’s a big legal clown fiesta.

I’ll be honest, not a lick of that makes sense to me, the bolded in particular. After decades of arguments of “If you don’t like it, go somewhere else,” the idea that Microsoft should be required to allow somebody like Valve or Epic to set up shop on my XBox and sell their wares without Microsoft having any say in the matter is ridiculous.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:16:17am

re: #117 Nyet

Using “redpilled” is giving them the satisfaction of having appropriated a positive term. Nope. Brownpilled.

—==000==-

A term used by conservative internet users to favourably describe their own sociopolitical viewpoints; at its most basic level, it means to have been made aware of something obscure or forbidden.

It originates from 1999 film “The Matrix,” ironically written and directed by two transgender women, in a scene where the protagonist is offered a choice between a literal blue pill to “wake up…and believe whatever he wants to believe” and a red pill to “stay in Wonderland, …be shown deep the rabbit hole goes,” and join a rebellion against the simulated reality he lives in. The red pill itself is believed to have been been modeled after red Premarin-brand tablets, popular as estrogen-boosting medication for transgender women in the 1990s.

Has exactly the same denotation and exactly the opposite connotation as “woke.”

urbandictionary.com

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Eventual Carrion  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:19:03am

re: #42 TarHellion

Missed a good beagle guess but happy to get the birbie. Messy, messy morning shaping up. 48 and already nearly an inch of rain overnight. Now over 58 inches for the year. The “normal” used to be 50. But we’ve been above 60 for the past 4 years. Enjoy the day/evening everyone!

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:19:47am

re: #120 Targetpractice

I’ll be honest, not a lick of that makes sense to me, the bolded in particular. After decades of arguments of “If you don’t like it, go somewhere else,” the idea that Microsoft should be required to allow somebody like Valve or Epic to set up shop on my XBox and sell their wares without Microsoft having any say in the matter is ridiculous.

I think the main question at issue is if people are forced to go to a specific app store to get a certain vendor’s products. This is the core of Sony’s dispute of Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision-Blizzard; the Call of Duty franchise has been an immensely popular (and thus financially profitable) one for the PlayStation platform, and Sony is (rightfully) worried that this acquisition will lead to Microsoft excluding them from getting access.

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lawhawk  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:20:12am

re: #121 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Premarin is an estrogen booster, which helps menopausal women address some of the issues they endure and to help avoid osteoporosis in women. Characterizing it as a drug for transgenders ignores the biggest and most common group using that medication.

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jeffreyw  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:22:37am

Breakfast Pr0n

Good morning!

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Targetpractice  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:25:13am

re: #123 Dopamine Fish

I think the main question at issue is if people are forced to go to a specific app store to get a certain vendor’s products. This is the core of Sony’s dispute of Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision-Blizzard; the Call of Duty franchise has been an immensely popular (and thus financially profitable) one for the PlayStation platform, and Sony is (rightfully) worried that this acquisition will lead to Microsoft excluding them from getting access.

Even there, I’d argue that Sony is on shaky ground at best. The idea of “exclusivity,” of console makers barring certain game franchises from appearing on competitor systems, has been around for decades. If Sony is now worried that Microsoft is going to make CoD exclusive to the XBox going forward, they’re gonna have to explain to a judge why there is a literal stack of game franchises that you can only play on a Playstation.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:26:10am
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Dopamine Fish  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:29:34am

re: #126 Targetpractice

Even there, I’d argue that Sony is on shaky ground at best. The idea of “exclusivity,” of console makers barring certain game franchises from appearing on competitor systems, has been around for decades. If Sony is now worried that Microsoft is going to make CoD exclusive to the XBox going forward, they’re gonna have to explain to a judge why there is a literal stack of game franchises that you can only play on a Playstation.

Believe it or not, I actually favor the opposite approach. The vast majority of games these days are being made to play on most or all available platforms, and to enable you to play with friends who play on any console. While I agree that there is a considerable amount of precedent to the contrary, I feel that this precedent was incorrect, and that the correct path is to open things up more and to get rid of the exclusive model altogether. I might be influenced somewhat by the fact that I play many games across platforms with friends who use Xboxes, or my son, who plays some of them on our gaming PC downstairs. The main argument I see favoring vendor lock-in on app stores is related to ensuring that applications meet platform requirements, such as, for example, disallowing cheating software that could be introduced by allowing unrestricted third-party apps through a third-party app store.

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Targetpractice  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:29:47am

re: #127 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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“Centrist” is synonymous with “independent” these days, both words generally translating as “Conservative in denial.” The country club set who are fascist or fascist-adjacent, but want to maintain the fantasy that they’re not sharing the same political space as the brain-dead goobers marching around in white sheets so as not to find their country club memberships suddenly revoked.

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No Malarkey!  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:30:46am

re: #89 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Actually, no, northern Idaho is more left-leaning than NE-3. No one seems to get how bugfuque insane some people are here.

I saw that in the Idaho governors race, the GOP candidate got 60% of the vote, and Ammon Bundy nearly tied the Democratic candidate.

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lawhawk  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:31:39am
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Dopamine Fish  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:32:51am

re: #128 Dopamine Fish

One thing I didn’t consider here is that in the example of Call of Duty, that is an existing franchise that is already available on multiple competing platforms. I do not think Microsoft has the right to buy it and take it away from competitors. If they want to make a new game and not make it available to competitors, that is their right as the game publisher.

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Smith25's Liberal Thighs  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:45:05am

re: #129 Targetpractice

“Centrist” is synonymous with “independent” these days, both words generally translating as “Conservative in denial.” The country club set who are fascist or fascist-adjacent, but want to maintain the fantasy that they’re not sharing the same political space as the brain-dead goobers marching around in white sheets so as not to find their country club memberships suddenly revoked.

I always tell my classes that “…the Center is not in the Middle, and the Middle is not at the Center.”, when it comes to politics in America. Saying you are a centrist is a tell. Saying you are in the Middle tells me you are ignorant.

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The Pie Overlord!  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:49:09am

Got the birbie.

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Targetpractice  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:49:41am

re: #128 Dopamine Fish

Believe it or not, I actually favor the opposite approach. The vast majority of games these days are being made to play on most or all available platforms, and to enable you to play with friends who play on any console. While I agree that there is a considerable amount of precedent to the contrary, I feel that this precedent was incorrect, and that the correct path is to open things up more and to get rid of the exclusive model altogether. I might be influenced somewhat by the fact that I play many games across platforms with friends who use Xboxes, or my son, who plays some of them on our gaming PC downstairs. The main argument I see favoring vendor lock-in on app stores is related to ensuring that applications meet platform requirements, such as, for example, disallowing cheating software that could be introduced by allowing unrestricted third-party apps through a third-party app store.

Yes and no. Video game companies will spend time making “ports” of their games to play on different platforms, but that’s not the same as saying “They’re selling the same game on different consoles.” And this can become even more of a headache if you’re trying to get a game written from a previous generation console to work on the newest hardware and software. To put it in context of computers, it would be the same as trying to install the MacOS version of CoD on your home PC. They may be the “same” game, but there’s no way you’re ever going to be able to run that game unless you’ve got a dual-boot system that can run Windows alongside MacOS.

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Dangerman  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:49:58am
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Targetpractice  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:51:04am

re: #131 lawhawk

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:51:30am

re: #133 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs

I always tell my classes that “…the Center is not in the Middle, and the Middle is not at the Center.”, when it comes to politics in America. Saying you are a centrist is a tell. Saying you are in the Middle tells me you are ignorant.

As the Overton Window shifts further right, the centre shifts with it, to maintain an illusion of “balance.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:51:39am
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Targetpractice  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:52:46am

re: #139 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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Mattand  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:55:18am

re: #129 Targetpractice

“Centrist” is synonymous with “independent” these days, both words generally translating as “Conservative in denial.”

THIS. Everything wrong with the American electorate in one concise sentence.

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Dangerman  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:55:54am

re: #109 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Whoever said that these people would be happy living under a freeway overpass cooking rat if they knew the minority/other under the next overpass did not have any rat pretty much hit this on the head.

And the class war trying to disguise itself as a race and/or religious war continues.

Lbj I think

Note autocorrect wanted to change lbj to ibm. Hmmmm

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Mattand  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:56:40am

re: #131 lawhawk

Disney Groomer-gate?

Do I even want to know what MAGAt fever dream that is?

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:58:04am

re: #143 Mattand

Disney Groomer-gate?

Do I even want to know what MAGAt fever dream that is?

Disney is woke and supporting groomers by putting teh ghey in their movies.

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The Pie Overlord!  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:58:35am

re: #143 Mattand

Disney Groomer-gate?

Do I even want to know what MAGAt fever dream that is?

Little Black Mermaid
Sassy Gay Sidekick (in Beauty and the Beast)

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Targetpractice  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:59:23am

re: #143 Mattand

Disney Groomer-gate?

Do I even want to know what MAGAt fever dream that is?

That was where Disney came out (after much public prodding) as opposed to DeathSantis’ “Don’t Say Gay” bill, to which he and the FL GQP responded by accusing Disney of being supportive of “grooming” because they expected all companies in-state to either support their fascism or just keep quiet.

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Dangerman  Nov 30, 2022 • 6:59:44am

re: #118 Colère Tueur de Lapin

The number of fanbois in that thread saying ‘yup, musty is buying apple’ is hysterical. So many people are completely innumerate.

Innumeracy. John Allen paulos

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Wile E. Wonka  Nov 30, 2022 • 7:02:05am

re: #143 Mattand

What, you mean you don’t remember DeSantis threatening to deplatform Disney World over Disney’s rejection of the “Don’t Say Gay” mandate?

Bear in mind, Republicans are still concertedly trying to rebrand simple respect for sexual and gender diversity in society as “pedophilia,” and rebrand actual right-wing pedophiles as “victims of wokist defamation.”

Cf. “anti-racism is the real racism,” etc. ad nauseam.

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The Pie Overlord!  Nov 30, 2022 • 7:02:59am
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Dangerman  Nov 30, 2022 • 7:03:36am

re: #124 lawhawk

Premarin is an estrogen booster, which helps menopausal women address some of the issues they endure and to help avoid osteoporosis in women. Characterizing it as a drug for transgenders ignores the biggest and most common group using that medication.

Dangermom is most definitely not trans

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Targetpractice  Nov 30, 2022 • 7:06:15am

re: #148 Wile E. Wonka

What, you mean you don’t remember DeSantis threatening to deplatform Disney World over Disney’s rejection of the “Don’t Say Gay” mandate?

Bear in mind, Republicans are still concertedly trying to rebrand simple respect for sexual and gender diversity in society as “pedophilia,” and rebrand actual right-wing pedophiles as “victims of wokist defamation.”

Cf. “anti-racism is the real racism,” etc. ad nauseam.

Yep, respect is “paedophilia,” while acknowledging that a child is LGTBQ+ is “grooming” because the proper response to a child expressing either interest in members of the same sex or discomfort with their own gender is turning them over to their parents for “correction.”

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Mattand  Nov 30, 2022 • 7:08:10am

re: #93 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

My mother recounted a story recently when she was busking at O’Hare Airport where a listener stated he was from a small town. She asked him how small and he said two hundred thousand.

He simply could not imagine small when she told him she was from a town with less than two hundred people.

I can imagine it, but it still amazes me. I live in a planned community of probably about 1,500 plus people. There are three twelve story apartment complexes across the highway from me, so that’s maybe another 1000. There’s another complex a quarter mile from that with 200, 300 maybe? The whole town is 76,000 total.

And I can be in a city of 1.5 million people in 25 minutes.

I don’t know if I would have a hard time living in a tiny town of 200, but it would take some getting used to.

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Belafon  Nov 30, 2022 • 7:10:06am

re: #131 lawhawk

Especially since it works in the browser.

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Mattand  Nov 30, 2022 • 7:11:01am

re: #144 Dopamine Fish

re: #145 The Pie Overlord!

re: #148 Wile E. Wonka

What, you mean you don’t remember DeSantis threatening to deplatform Disney World over Disney’s rejection of the “Don’t Say Gay” mandate?

Yup. I had completely forgotten about most of that, because my brain was like “Oh, for fuck’s sake” and deleted that info in favor of learning more guitar parts and teaching the dog how to cheat at Parcheesi.

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sagehen  Nov 30, 2022 • 7:11:01am

re: #112 lawhawk

Rhodes was guilty as fuck, and the DOJ continues its streak of winning seditious conspiracy cases against 1/6 treasonweasels.

I only wish that they went up the chain from the Oath Keepers to Stone and then on to Trump, Meadows, and others in the White House, because that’s where all of this ultimately leads.

They still can. Maybe that’s why Rhodes and Meggs don’t yet have a sentencing date…

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Wile E. Wonka  Nov 30, 2022 • 7:14:51am

re: #150 Dangerman

But in the context of the movie, as a metaphor for the “code” that can strip away the indoctrinated illusion of the “inevitable” world and reveal your true self, the relationship of that scene to the experience of a trans woman writing a screenplay and thinking about starting HRT is pretty obvious.

I also find it amusing that Viagra was approved by the FDA and first marketed for sale just as filming on The Matrix was beginning. I suspect the “other pill” in the script was already blue by then, but it’s a heck of a coincidence.

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Eventual Carrion  Nov 30, 2022 • 7:16:54am

re: #94 Dangerman

Fuck them, they can bake their own cake.

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Belafon  Nov 30, 2022 • 7:17:39am

re: #136 Dangerman

When racism truly bites you in the butt. “We’re gonna attract the black voters we don’t want by running Walker.”

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Wile E. Wonka  Nov 30, 2022 • 7:17:46am

re: #154 Mattand

Yup. I had completely forgotten about most of that, because my brain was like “Oh, for fuck’s sake” and deleted that info in favor of learning more guitar parts and teaching the dog how to cheat at Parcheesi.

More guitar parts is definitely a better use of brain pieces. ;)

If the dog starts to fleece you, just get your money back at cribbage. Dogs can’t count to 15.

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Mattand  Nov 30, 2022 • 7:19:06am

re: #159 Wile E. Wonka

More guitar parts is definitely a better use of brain pieces. ;)

If the dog starts to fleece you, just get your money back at cribbage. Dogs can’t count to 15.

I tried that with Blackjack, but the little bastard had the Labradoodle up the street counting cards for him.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 30, 2022 • 7:24:25am

re: #160 Mattand

I tried that with Blackjack, but the little bastard had the Labradoodle up the street counting cards for him.

Whatever, you do, don’t play poker with them. They’re pretty good at it.

/

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The Pie Overlord!  Nov 30, 2022 • 7:32:06am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 30, 2022 • 7:44:01am

The grift is endless…

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JC1  Nov 30, 2022 • 7:46:32am

re: #103 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Same with me, though a smaller village than yours. The only people who ever travelled out-of-the-country was my mother and me.

In my own village now, when my wife and I returned from Poland and went to the town party the same week, people here were amazed at our “bravery”: Several people commented they could never have travelled to Poland like we did because they were afraid Islamic State was going to invade it.

What was the train of ‘thought’ that led them to believe this?

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Dr. Matt  Nov 30, 2022 • 7:47:43am
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JC1  Nov 30, 2022 • 7:47:56am

re: #104 Targetpractice

What I find hilarious is they keep referring to Apple’s control of its own App Store as a “monopoly” and suggesting that the FTC should launch an investigation into such. Meanwhile, I’m sitting here browsing through the Play Store on my Galaxy S22 to check and see if any of my apps need updating.

That’s why it’s never going to fly. If Apple were a monopoly, then Musk would have a solid case. But Apple doesn’t even own 50% of the market (counting units, not profits).

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 30, 2022 • 7:48:40am

re: #42 TarHellion

Missed a good beagle guess but happy to get the birbie. Messy, messy morning shaping up. 48 and already nearly an inch of rain overnight. Now over 58 inches for the year. The “normal” used to be 50. But we’ve been above 60 for the past 4 years. Enjoy the day/evening everyone!

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Click to Reveal

There are at least 5 common words that start with those 3 letters; easy to get trapped

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Jay C  Nov 30, 2022 • 7:53:12am

re: #164 JC1

What was the train of ‘thought’ that led them to believe this?

Probably the Fox News reports of the tensions on the Polish-Syrian border…

(Joking about the border: serious about FN)

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Eventual Carrion  Nov 30, 2022 • 7:57:24am

re: #139 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Fuck you Elon. You’re just lucky it isn’t repubs sending their hoard to kill you. Do you see the difference between voicing an opinion of you vs calling for your death?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 30, 2022 • 7:58:26am

re: #86 Dopamine Fish

Hey “Christians”: No one is telling you you can’t say homosexuality is a sin. They’re just saying the state can’t discriminate against them. If that goes against your religion, maybe you need to rethink your religion.

They don’t have to see them as married in the eyes of God, they just have to accept that they are married in the eyes of the Law and grant them the same rights as any other couples who hold a marriage license

But you see, even that is going too far for a lot of serious Fundamentalists and Dominionists: we owe our status as God’s Chosen People to the fact that we shape our laws and society according to (their interpretation of) God’s Divine Will.

And allowing such an abdomination unto his eyes as gay marriage or adoption is just tempting God to re-evaluate our status in (he has been eyeing Russia for a while now lately) and just asking him to dump a mighty fistful of Righteous Smiting down on us for good measure.

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Joe Bacon  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:00:35am

re: #142 Dangerman

Lbj I think

Note autocorrect wanted to change lbj to ibm. Hmmmm

Yeah and for some reason when I capitalize LBJ the autocorrect doesn’t kick in.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:04:23am

re: #94 Dangerman

For the record, the First Amendment does not permit Congress to order Apple to distribute a product that it does not wish to distribute because it finds the content produced by that product offensive.

The issue of Apple and Twitter being de facto monopolies is one we might want to address on its own, but do not conflate it with First Amendment issues

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Florida Panhandler  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:04:30am

re: #169 Eventual Carrion

Fuck you Elon. You’re just lucky it isn’t repubs sending their hoard to kill you. Do you see the difference between voicing an opinion of you vs calling for your death?

What’s really funny in a hypocritical way is that Tesla does not feature Apple CarPlay in their vehicles. Now Elon to force Apple to not only pay to advertise on Twitter but to eliminate the 30% Apple Store fee.

All the whining and moaning in the world by Elon doesn’t change the fact he is a typical Conservative- wants everything his way and not willing to consider anyone else. Ever.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:06:41am

re: #172 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Is Apple really a de facto monopoly though? Google does most of the same shit that Apple does and Samsung is also a major player in the mobile phone market.

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Mike Lamb  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:06:48am

re: #165 Dr. Matt

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I was unaware those fuzzy meth heads ever slept.

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A Cranky One  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:07:07am

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:07:36am

re: #135 Targetpractice

Case-in-point. The Horizon franchise (kill robo-dinos; play awesome woman) was ported to PC. It still doesn’t run like it does on the PS4, let alone the PS5 for forbidden west.

ETA: getting the different systems to act in concert in multi-player play is even trickier. Yes, you can bootstrap techniques to make game talk on servers, but lag due to conversion in protocols will kill any serious gamers.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:10:10am

re: #174 Eclectic Cyborg

Is Apple really a de facto monopoly though? Google does most of the same shit that Apple does and Samsung is also a major player in the mobile phone market.

The point is that DeSantis wants us to treat Twitter as part of the Public Square (because it serves his interests to do so)

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The Pie Overlord!  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:11:51am

LOL

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:13:12am

re: #177 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Case-in-point. The Horizon franchise (kill robo-dinos; play awesome woman) was ported to PC. It still doesn’t run like it does on the PS4, let alone the PS5 for forbidden west.

ETA: getting the different systems to act in concert in multi-player play is even trickier. Yes, you can bootstrap techniques to make game talk on servers, but lag due to conversion in protocols will kill any serious gamers.

Most games that take their PvP scene seriously (or co-op PvE) seem to have figured it out. Now voice comms, that’s an entirely different story, but Discord is looking to break that barrier here soon. Xbox already has the ability to join a Discord voice call seamlessly; PlayStation expects to get that capability in March 2023, due to a firmware limitation that Sony is currently working on.

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:14:22am
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Targetpractice  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:16:01am

re: #178 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The point is that DeSantis wants us to treat Twitter as part of the Public Square (because it serves his interests to do so)

The comedy portion of this being that when Twitter was owned by Jack and then by shareholders, the same crowd pointed to competing apps either being barred from listing or removed after major controversy as “proof” that Apple was running a “monopoly.” Now that Twitter has become the hive of scum and villainy, suddenly the rumor that Apple may remove it is a “monopoly.”

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Dr. Matt  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:17:32am

re: #179 The Pie Overlord!

LOL

The GQP autopsy should start with divorcing themselves from such idiots like the former crackhead and current pillow salesperson who believes they are now an expert in cybersecurity of elections.

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Dr. Matt  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:21:41am

🙋🏻‍♂️🙋🏻‍♂️🙋🏻‍♂️🙋🏻‍♂️

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Targetpractice  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:21:48am

re: #183 Dr. Matt

The GQP autopsy should start with divorcing themselves from such idiots like the former crackhead and current pillow salesperson who believes they are now an expert in cybersecurity of elections.

The latest “autopsy” is packed full of Trumpers, there’s no chance at all they’re gonna disassociate themselves with the Cokeheads of the party. They’re gonna argue with straight faces that what lost the party was not loyalty to Mango Mussolini, but instead insufficient loyalty to him.

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Crush White Nationalism  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:22:16am

The New Wordle Editor Is Ruining Wordle (Slate)

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:23:30am

re: #180 Dopamine Fish

Most games that take their PvP scene seriously (or co-op PvE) seem to have figured it out. Now voice comms, that’s an entirely different story, but Discord is looking to break that barrier here soon. Xbox already has the ability to join a Discord voice call seamlessly; PlayStation expects to get that capability in March 2023, due to a firmware limitation that Sony is currently working on.

This is true, but not the point I was trying (and obviously failing) to make. I meant running two different instances, for example, CoD on different systems. The protocols that the console or PC use to communicate with the server, or even a hosted game, are different. That is the lag I was speaking to; or, are you saying that my PvP on PS and XBox are going to run with nominal lag? Whose servers are they running on, etc? I’m curious

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:26:23am

re: #181 Dopamine Fish

Fuck. Yeah.

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Joe Bacon  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:26:31am

Is he on his way to Hardees again?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:26:47am

re: #184 Dr. Matt

Me supporting the U.S. Men’s Soccer Team after literally not watching a single second of soccer for the past 8 years

I used to follow the footies every two years (World Cup and EU Cup) and made it a point to socialize and view games at the village hall or on the big screen downtown or whatever, but this year I am full Fuq cKatar and ignoring it

(Unless by some miracle, team USA makes it into the quarter-finals)

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:27:26am

re: #187 Colère Tueur de Lapin

This is true, but not the point I was trying (and obviously failing) to make. I meant running two different instances, for example, CoD on different systems. The protocols that the console or PC use to communicate with the server, or even a hosted game, are different. That is the lag I was speaking to; or,are you saying that my PvP on PS and XBox are going to run with nominal lag? Whose servers are they running on, etc? I’m curious

I play a lot of Overwatch. I’ve played cross-platform with friends on Xbox, and mixed between PS4 and PS5. They run a dedicated “all-console pool” of servers that seem to be able to communicate with both, and my latency is not noticeably different than when playing with only PlayStation players and ostensibly playing in the PlayStation-only pool. What difference it makes at the lower level, I don’t know, but I’d presume the high-level communication protocol that the games use to communicate is the same; the difference is probably in how the code is written to accommodate different hardware architecture and software development libraries.

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Dr. Matt  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:27:50am

re: #186 Crush White Nationalism

The New Wordle Editor Is Ruining Wordle (Slate)

Today is a perfect example. Too many possibilities if you only get the first three letters:

Y2h5blY3aHcyNkk1ZjNMcHVBVGpoWWlTT3hQYm9ITXlIa1d2UjlCdUxReWJ3NXBZa1RhZmI5cUxwUjRDUGVqNlVaeEpFU2ZBRnhJNVVMelhETzlYZnZKWStrT1dKZDUxNnUzSFFycHllUGtWU1M2MlV3RnUyWGd6MUNLdHA1K0tZOVlGKzhmeUtFaGVlYmNJSElYOXhSVjRXZUxqMmFvcytsN1p1bHh3NEh6NnF0Y3FGL1FIZG1meFhNZktlT0RSdzV1T3RON0JiYm9xLzZ3SllmdTJwQmxUQlVUZUxKNjhIcUh1NjZQMmNuYVJabjFxQUw3dUxSMDFIZkZJVmU1NG12TzkxTGtoUjFiaE9laUp1WFM0K0E9PTo6iuqfIYKjTr1LZXf9WkLkpA==

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:32:51am

re: #191 Dopamine Fish

Excellent. I didn’t know. Overwatch became too toxic for me very quickly — maybe it’s less so now that the skill levels have gone to their respective place? The last place I was serious about PvP was Destiny II, but then they killed off Cayde-6 and turned it into an MMO. With seasons. I had a sad.

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IngisKahn  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:33:42am

re: #192 Dr. Matt

That’s on you. Assuming you’re playing hard mode, don’t put yourself in that hole. You really have to think about all the possible solutions at each step to avoid it. If it’s not hard mode, it’s super easy to avoid.

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Belafon  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:34:00am

re: #174 Eclectic Cyborg

Is Apple really a de facto monopoly though? Google does most of the same shit that Apple does and Samsung is also a major player in the mobile phone market.

It depends on where you want to divide it. There are multiple phone companies, and three major OS’s for phones, IOS, Android, and Windows. But, inside a particular phone, you are limited to where you can get apps.

Imagine if the car company could limit which grocery stores you could go to. We actually had to pass a law to stop car companies from requiring repairs to be done at dealerships.

But don’t take the car analogy too far. Phones are different.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:34:04am

re: #192 Dr. Matt

I see what you mean.

Wordle 529 5/6

🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Joe Bacon  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:34:19am

re: #192 Dr. Matt

I’ve never had the desire to try Wordle. Just busy playing chess, bridge or Go on the internet

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JC1  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:35:10am

re: #174 Eclectic Cyborg

Is Apple really a de facto monopoly though? Google does most of the same shit that Apple does and Samsung is also a major player in the mobile phone market.

Apple is in no way a monopoly in the cell phone space.

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Eventual Carrion  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:35:21am

re: #176 A Cranky One

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This stuffing has a bit of wang to it!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:36:01am

re: #197 Joe Bacon

I’ve never had the desire to try Wordle. Just busy playing chess, bridge or Go on the internet

Ditto. Spider solitaire man myself.

And let me note here again how much I appreciate the folks who hide their results.

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Dangerman  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:38:44am

re: #178 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The point is that DeSantis wants us to treat Twitter as part of the Public Square (because it serves his interests to do so)

and where was ‘the public square’?
no one’s private property was ever considered the public square

ffs that’s why it’s called…, oh why do i bother??

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Dangerman  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:39:54am

re: #183 Dr. Matt

The GQP autopsy should start with divorcing themselves from such idiots like the former crackhead and current pillow salesperson who believes they are now an expert in cybersecurity of elections.

no no no i want him to run for rnc chair

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Joe Bacon  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:40:35am

re: #183 Dr. Matt

The GQP autopsy should start with divorcing themselves from such idiots like the former crackhead and current pillow salesperson who believes they are now an expert in cybersecurity of elections.

Imagine Crackhead Mike running the RNC…off the cliff and into a ditch…Please Cthulhu make it so! 😈

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:41:15am

re: #201 Dangerman

and where was ‘the public square’?
no one’s private property was ever considered the public square

ffs that’s why it’s called…, oh why do i bother??

I remember when that discussion cropped up after Main Street America relocated to the local Shopping Mall and courts quickly determined that mall owners and operators had every right to restrict what sort of speech and expression took place on their property.

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:42:20am

re: #193 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Excellent. I didn’t know. Overwatch became too toxic for me very quickly — maybe it’s less so now that the skill levels have gone to their respective place? The last place I was serious about PvP was Destiny II, but then they killed off Cayde-6 and turned it into an MMO. With seasons. I had a sad.

Yeah. The major cross-platform games such as Destiny, Overwatch, Call of Duty, Borderlands, they all have figured out how to unify their netcode (as much as is physically possible, anyway) to be able to run shared servers for cross-platform play. Voice communications are very poor quality when run in-game, but we make it work for now, until Discord can come through next year.

As for PvP games, I’ve never been a big PvPer, myself. I play a lot of Destiny, but very very rarely participate in PvP. Overwatch is really the only PvP game I play, and yes, there is still a lot of toxicity, but I mostly just turn off chat and focus on playing my game and enjoying playing with friends. It helps that I’m actually halfway decent at it, and I know that, so even if I am being flamed, I can brush it off, since I am rarely the problem (though I do have bad games).

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Joe Bacon  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:42:27am

re: #204 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I remember when that discussion cropped up after Main Street America relocated to the local Shopping Mall and courts quickly determined that mall owners and operators had every right to restrict what sort of speech and expression took place on their property.

Yes sure do remember when the Beaver Valley Mall didn’t let the Moonies and Hare Krishna push their product…

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:44:10am

re: #107 Dangerman

could almost ask the question “which election?”

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this kind of nonsense will eventually catch up to mass shootings.
soon, we’ll not be surprised at yet another story about another one.
we’ll just yawn at it and move on because we’ve been desensitized by the number of reports

Trying to make it a “non-partisan” policy to disenfranchise millions of voters; here, they’re trying to disenfranchise Republicans to justify their next plan to disenfranchise “those people”. They were already trying that in 2020; this is their new big push.

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Dangerman  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:45:41am

re: #195 Belafon

It depends on where you want to divide it. There are multiple phone companies, and three major OS’s for phones, IOS, Android, and Windows. But, inside a particular phone, you are limited to where you can get apps.

Imagine if the car company could limit which grocery stores you could go to. We actually had to pass a law to stop car companies from requiring repairs to be done at dealerships.

But don’t take the car analogy too far. Phones are different.

fwiw, i have several amazon kindle fires
they dont come with any google apps, for obvious competitive reasons

the workaround is quick:

add google and chrome to an amazon fire tablet

once you have access to the google store you can download, chrome, gmail, gcalendar, gdrive, and the rest of the store

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Dr. Matt  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:48:38am

re: #202 Dangerman

no no no i want him to run for rnc chair

re: #203 Joe Bacon

Imagine Crackhead Mike running the RNC…off the cliff and into a ditch…Please Cthulhu make it so! 😈

I actually surprised that his ego hasn’t driven him to actually run for an elected office.

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Dangerman  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:48:55am

re: #204 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I remember when that discussion cropped up after Main Street America relocated to the local Shopping Mall and courts quickly determined that mall owners and operators had every right to restrict what sort of speech and expression took place on their property.

like we keep saying
the public square is still right there, where it always was
usually in front of the courthouse or the mayors office or wherever
or almost any street corner if you prefer

the problem for them is that’s not where the audience is and they think they have a right to the audience

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I Would Prefer Not To  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:49:52am

I wrote a twitter. I need to do more of this if I want to establish my brand as a comic who does political stuff. Show it some love if you can.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:50:20am

re: #210 Dangerman

the problem for them is that’s not where the audience is and they think they have a right to the audience

Yes, I recall how “de-platforming” and “de-monetizing” became hot-button issues for conservative politicians

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:51:20am

re: #211 I Would Prefer Not To

Herschel Walker’s residency should not be determined by where he lives, but rather by where he has fathered the most children.

…or how about where he has paid for the most abortions?

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Joe Bacon  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:51:29am

re: #211 I Would Prefer Not To

I wrote a twitter. I need to do more of this if I want to establish my brand as a comic who does political stuff. Show it some love if you can.

23 and Me’s DNA databank overloads trying to provide the answer…

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The Pie Overlord!  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:54:12am

Dogwhistle Tornado Siren

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:55:23am

re: #215 The Pie Overlord!

Kari Lake says she is on a mission from God to save us from the globalists.

and their space lasers

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wrenchwench  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:55:40am

I often try to start with a whiff. This was my biggest fail ever, at that.

Click to Reveal

Wordle 529 2/6*

🟨🟨🟨🟨🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I laughed.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:55:55am

re: #205 Dopamine Fish

I do miss my Destiny clan - I was playing Destiny I, before Bungie implemented a clan system, when I met a bunch of people through a third-party app that connected people looking for raids and missions. That became the core. It also started to collect toxic people. We had been very strict about keeping our clan…pleasant. After that influx of people who were less agreeable, I started PvPing seriously. Got fairly decent. But don’t gave those twitch reflexes that you need to be really good.

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Dr. Matt  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:56:39am

re: #205 Dopamine Fish

Yeah. The major cross-platform games such as Destiny, Overwatch, Call of Duty, Borderlands, they all have figured out how to unify their netcode (as much as is physically possible, anyway) to be able to run shared servers for cross-platform play. Voice communications are very poor quality when run in-game, but we make it work for now, until Discord can come through next year.

I have no hard data to support my observations, but for me it seems like a much different gaming experience in COD multiple player modes for cross-platform lobbies vs. Xbox only lobbies. In cross-platform lobbies, I am getting waxed. I feel like a noob playing pro-players. In Xbox only lobbies I am actually having fun, racking up killstreaks, and getting solid K/Ds. Again, just my observation.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:57:00am

re: #209 Dr. Matt

I actually surprised that his ego hasn’t driven him to actually run for an elected office.

Give it time. And then we really need to bring out the mega-bags of popcorn.

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A Cranky One  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:57:48am

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:58:32am

re: #210 Dangerman

like we keep saying
the public square is still right there, where it always was
usually in front of the courthouse or the mayors office or wherever
or almost any street corner if you prefer

the problem for them is that’s not where the audience is and they think they have a right to the audience

Isn’t that what mhemmingway was mocking, the fact that the citizens of the DMV use the public square, a lot?

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Nov 30, 2022 • 8:59:13am

re: #211 I Would Prefer Not To

Sent you a heart.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:01:34am

re: #219 Dr. Matt

So,your anecdotal evidence says PS players are better? Or is it PC players with mouse aiming?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:02:10am

We were talking upthread about Orbán decay:

EU Commission calls for freeze on €13bn funding for Hungary

“Hungary’s leaders have been repeatedly accused of democratic backsliding and “state capture” since Mr Orban’s Fidesz party returned to power in 2010.

Under a new 2011 constitution, the electoral system was altered to cement the party’s power, and the Constitutional Court was transformed into a largely tame and ineffective body. …

The €4-5bn received by Hungary each year from the European Union often found its way to business circles close to the governing party, including relatives of the prime minister…”

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:02:16am

re: #218 Colère Tueur de Lapin

I do miss my Destiny clan - I was playing Destiny I, before Bungie implemented a clan system, when I met a bunch of people through a third-party app that connected people looking for raids and missions. That became the core. It also started to collect toxic people. We had been very strict about keeping our clan…pleasant. After that influx of people who were less agreeable, I started PvPing seriously. Got fairly decent. But don’t gave those twitch reflexes that you need to be really good.

This is why Mrs. Fish and I eventually quit playing World of Warcraft, and why we will never come back. Sometimes the allure of the game calls to us - I see they just dropped a new expansion two days ago - but none of our old guild is still around. We built a strong core of players in our 10 years in the game, and made a lot of friends, and now that they’re gone, we wouldn’t want to try to go back and repeat that whole process over again.

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lawhawk  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:03:31am

In contrast, the GOP has no clue who’ll lead the party and GOPers are split between the MAGA nuts and the MAGA curious and the MAGA enablers. McCarthy is likely to be speaker, but who knows as the GOP has completely gone off the rails in extremism and conspiracies and sedition, but especially the sedition.

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Dr. Matt  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:06:26am

re: #224 Colère Tueur de Lapin

So,your anecdotal evidence says PS players are better? Or is it PC players with mouse aiming?

I don’t really know. Certainly mouse and keyboard players have advantages in movement/reaction speed. PC does have advantages in FOV settings. Again, my only metric is the fun factor and I don’t have fun in the cross-platform lobbies.

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danarchy  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:08:44am

re: #195 Belafon

It depends on where you want to divide it. There are multiple phone companies, and three major OS’s for phones, IOS, Android, and Windows. But, inside a particular phone, you are limited to where you can get apps.
.

I am not sure you could call windows a major OS for phones. Are there even any windows phones currently being made?

The problem with Apple is you can only install apps from the Apple store. They call this a feature not a problem. With android you can grab an APK file from anywhere and after accepting the risk can install whatever the hell you want.

With iOS, unless you have paid a ridiculous amount for a developer license, you can’t even create your own app and run it on your own phone much less sell it anywhere else.

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Dangerman  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:12:22am

re: #215 The Pie Overlord!

Dogwhistle Tornado Siren

name 10 of them

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:12:40am

re: #229 danarchy

I am not sure you could call windows a major OS for phones. Are there even any windows phones currently being made?

No. MS stopped making Windows phones in 2017.

The most viable mobile device they have these days is the Surface Tablet.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:14:53am
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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:15:04am

re: #136 Dangerman

A brutal, and not uncommon GOP assessment of the state of the Senate runoff in Georgia. “We nominated the only guy who could possibly lose this race. I don’t fault Herschel for being who he is. Or, in this case, who he isn’t.”

Warnock defeated a white opponent last time around. Of course, Trump was discouraging people from voting then. Or are they assuming that any white candidate could have defeated Warnock? What about Warnock makes them think he is so weak? The fact that he is a black Democrat? Can some Georgia lizard explain that attitude?

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Joe Bacon  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:17:25am

re: #233 Hecuba’s daughter

My brainwashed relatives in Georgia post that they are voting for Walker because they want to stop the Democrats from issuing subpoenas.

They also just come right out and say that Walker won’t even take a whizz without getting permission from McConnell. They say he will do whatever McConnell says and that’s what they want.

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Dr. Matt  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:18:50am

re: #230 Dangerman

name 10 of them

Kkkari: “He [God] doesn’t make mistakes.”

And that’s why there wasn’t a red wave and the election deniers lost overwhelmingly?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:19:52am

re: #227 lawhawk

In contrast, the GOP has no clue who’ll lead the party and GOPers are split between the MAGA nuts and the MAGA curious and the MAGA enablers. .

“Dems in Disarray as they Veer Hard Left”

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sizzzzlerz  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:20:58am

re: #192 Dr. Matt

Today is a perfect example. Too many possibilities if you only get the first three letters:

[Embedded content]

Wordle 529 6/6

⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛
🟩🟩⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Seems to be a common theme today. In fact, there were 8 words sharing those same 3 letters. Nasty.

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:21:18am

re: #163 Eclectic Cyborg

The grift is endless…

[Embedded content]

Both parties are guilty of this. I am receiving pleas for money from candidates who won their races, sometimes including the added incentive that they are splitting the donation 50/50 with Warnock. There is something very wrong with a system that requires politicians to spend all their time raising funds for the next contest or paying off debts from the previous one.

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Joe Bacon  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:21:59am

Is that all???? She only gets $200K a month from KKKanye?

West is also required to pay his ex-wife $200,000 a month in child support, as well as any educational and security expenses the children might accrue in the future. The money is required to be deposited in Kardashian’s account on the first day of each month.

The pair’s assets, of central concern as the trial loomed, will be divided according to their prenuptial agreement. Kardashian, who will revert to her maiden name, will be given ownership of the family’s primary residence in Hidden Hills, California, and another property at a ritzy celebrity-favorite golf club in Idaho, according to the court documents—as well as a five-bedroom property West bought next door to his ex-wife’s home in an apparent bid to be closer to the children following the pair’s split.

Kardashian is expected to tear the building down, according to The Daily Mail—which reported that the property had fallen into disrepair and is in need of multiple renovations.

thedailybeast.com

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Dangerman  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:23:49am

re: #233 Hecuba’s daughter

Warnock defeated a white opponent last time around. Of course, Trump was discouraging people from voting then. Or are they assuming that any white candidate could have defeated Warnock? What about Warnock makes them think he is so weak? The fact that he is a black Democrat? Can some Georgia lizard explain that attitude?

maybe they mean a less dumb black guy.
maybe they mean a less dumb guy
maybe they mean less dumb

they decided walker was their best bet.
of all the people
literally all the people because clearly residency wasnt a concern

they not only thought this was a good idea, they thought he would win.

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Belafon  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:24:49am
More disturbingly, however, a number of prominent left-wing activist accounts have been suspended without explanation—but the reasons for the bans are more than apparent in Musk’s own exchanges with pseudo-journalist Andy Ngo, who essentially identified all of the accounts that were eventually suspended by name, as Robert Mackey and Micah Lee report at The Intercept:

Los Angeles activist Chad Loder, a cyber-security expert who identifies as an antifascist researcher, one whose work has led to the arrest of at least one of the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrectionists. At the time their account was suspended, Loder had been reporting on a data breach in Europe affecting millions of users that Twitter had been covering up.

Video journalist Vishal Pratap Singh, a member of the Daily Kos community who has reported on far-right protests in Southern California at his VPS Reports channel. Singh, who survived violent attacks by far-right anti-vaccine protesters in 2021, was described as “Antifa” and falsely accused by Ngo of “calling for deadly violence again”—as he has done previously.

The Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club, an antifascist group that made headlines recently by providing armed security for an LGBTQ+ event in North Texas, one that had been threatened by Proud Boys and self-described “Christian fascists.” The group’s alternative account, however, remains active.

CrimethInc, an anarchist collective that publishes “news, analysis, books, journals, posters, videos, podcasts, and a wide range of other resources — all copyright free,” as its website says. Its Twitter account has never in 14 years on the site violated Twitter policies and has never been suspended. Ngo, however, urged Musk to suspend its account by lying: he falsely labeled Crimethinc an “Antifa collective,” saying the group had “claimed a number of attacks” (it has not). The account was suspended only hours later.

dailykos.com

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Dr. Matt  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:25:15am

re: #239 Joe Bacon

It’s nearly impossible to take care of children today on $200K a month. Her poor children will suffer.

///////

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:27:01am

cry mohr…

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Joe Bacon  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:28:04am

re: #243 Backwoods_Sleuth

What? Little Hot Wheels actually showed up to “work”?

I’m shocked, I tell you, shocked!

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:28:35am

re: #226 Dopamine Fish

This is why Mrs. Fish and I eventually quit playing World of Warcraft, and why we will never come back. Sometimes the allure of the game calls to us - I see they just dropped a new expansion two days ago - but none of our old guild is still around. We built a strong core of players in our 10 years in the game, and made a lot of friends, and now that they’re gone, we wouldn’t want to try to go back and repeat that whole process over again.

Son #2 keeps returning to WoW after each expansion, then vows never to play again. He says his friends are planning on migrating to FF XIV - I left WoW (after about 10 yes, too; started on launch day in 2004) and thought I had found a new home in FF XIV Aand I found it fun until I stared raiding. Then it for too time intensive and each expansion made the rush to up your crafting skills onerous and so I quit it, too

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Dr. Matt  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:29:57am

re: #243 Backwoods_Sleuth

cry mohr…

Meanwhile he worships a defeated former potus who wears orange makeup and dyes his hair mustard blonde. Well played, idiot.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:30:12am

re: #227 lawhawk

In contrast, the GOP has no clue who’ll lead the party and GOPers are split between the MAGA nuts and the MAGA curious and the MAGA enablers. McCarthy is likely to be speaker, but who knows as the GOP has completely gone off the rails in extremism and conspiracies and sedition, but especially the sedition.

Is like to think that the confusion and stupid will cause some type of permanent error, but I am unhopeful that my wish will happen.

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Dangerman  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:30:40am

re: #237 sizzzzlerz

Seems to be a common theme today. In fact, there were 8 words sharing those same 3 letters. Nasty.

i find the wordle commentary interesting
mrsdm plays. i assist, when needed.

maybe it’s obvious.
you all arrive at the same word if you succeed.
with different starting words, strategies, thought processes, and lexicons, (and maybe a bit of luck) each player takes quite different paths to get there.

so the experience as to whether one day was particularly difficult or easy may not be the same as everyone else’s.

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sizzzzlerz  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:31:11am

re: #240 Dangerman

maybe they mean a less dumb black guy.
maybe they mean a less dumb guy
maybe they mean less dumb

they decided walker was their best bet.
of all the people
literally all the people because clearly residency wasnt a concern

they not only thought this was a good idea, they thought he would win.

Not only residency, but the ability for express themselves in a clear and coherent manner.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:31:27am

re: #228 Dr. Matt

I don’t really know. Certainly mouse and keyboard players have advantages in movement/reaction speed. PC does have advantages in FOV settings. Again, my only metric is the fun factor and I don’t have fun in the cross-platform lobbies.

That makes a lot of sense. I play for fun, now, too. Makes my life Happier.

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No Malarkey!  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:31:32am

Ten year old rape victims must give birth. Blessed be the fruit.

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Joe Bacon  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:32:03am

Well look who joined the KKKanye posse!

Yeah, Sneako…

A racist YouTuber—who achieved internet infamy by urging people to say the N-word—has joined the ranks of Kanye West’s expanding, informal 2024 presidential campaign.

Nico Kenn De Balinthazy, better known as “Sneako,” said on Monday night that he’s taking a hiatus from live-streaming to focus on his new role with the antisemitic rapper.

“I met Ye, and then I ended up working with Ye,” the provocative YouTuber said while calling West his “childhood hero.”

The controversial streamer added he’s been working for West behind the scenes and producing videos for the rapper’s Twitter page. “I feel like this is the last opportunity America has,” De Balinthazy continued, indirectly speaking to West’s presidential candidacy.

thedailybeast.com

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:32:22am

re: #245 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Son #2 keeps returning to WoW after each expansion, then vows never to play again. He says his friends are planning on migrating to FF XIV - I left WoW (after about 10 yes,too; started on lazing day in 2004) and thought I had found a new home in FF XIV Aand I found it fun until I stared raiding. Then it for too time intensive and each expansion made the rush to up your crafting skills onerous and so I quit it, too

I remember the days of “WoW killers”, and how some of my less stable guildmates would always flock to the latest “WoW killer”, set up a guild/clan there, get to end game, promptly start whining about how crappy the game is, and then come back to raid with us in WoW. It never got old.

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A Cranky One  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:33:04am

My brother: they look like their latest album dropped.

My son: Wheezer?

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Dangerman  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:33:07am

re: #238 Hecuba’s daughter

Both parties are guilty of this. I am receiving pleas for money from candidates who won their races, sometimes including the added incentive that they are splitting the donation 50/50 with Warnock. There is something very wrong with a system that requires politicians to spend all their time raising funds for the next contest or paying off debts from the previous one.

contrast your comment with re: #234 Joe Bacon

They also just come right out and say that Walker won’t even take a whizz without getting permission from McConnell. They say he will do whatever McConnell says and that’s what they want.

do you see walker sitting on the phone for hours doing fundraising calls?
i dont.
meeting with constituents?
reading a bill?
he’d be a completely managed puppet, starting with who picks the ‘staff’ to manage him.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:33:51am

re: #239 Joe Bacon

Is that all???? She only gets $200K a month from KKKanye?

I mean, she’s not exactly hurting for money regardless of what Kanye might give her.

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:34:10am

re: #250 Colère Tueur de Lapin

That makes a lot of sense. I play for fun, now, too. Makes my life Happier.

I still get heated sometimes in Overwatch, if we’re having a bad night, but most of the time, I’m able to keep it in and just enjoy hanging out with my friends. And we play well enough as a group that, as long as we’re not constantly getting matched against the sweatiest of sweaty tryhards, we can win games and not get frustrated with one-sided losses.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:34:55am

re: #254 A Cranky One

The Robert Mueller Four.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:35:16am

re: #240 Dangerman

maybe they mean a less dumb black guy.
maybe they mean a less dumb guy
maybe they mean less dumb

they decided walker was their best bet.
of all the people
literally all the people because clearly residency wasnt a concern

they not only thought this was a good idea, they thought he would win.

They musta figured that the fairly-famous-football-player aspect was going to put it over for them.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:35:29am
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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:35:32am

re: #192 Dr. Matt

Today is a perfect example. Too many possibilities if you only get the first three letters:

[Embedded content]

That’s not unusual; there have been other situations like words ending in “ight” or “atch” or “aste”.

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darthstar  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:36:53am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:36:58am

re: #243 Backwoods_Sleuth

Outgoing Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) rants on the House floor about men being taught to be a “soft metrosexual”:

“Will you reclaim your masculinity? Will you become a man to be feared, to be respected … or will you let this nation’s next generation be its final generation?”

Rampant meterosexuality is the final coffin nail in America’s claim to be God’s Chosen Nation.

Because meterosexuals are the ultimate groomers.

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Dangerman  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:37:09am

re: #259 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They musta figured that the fairly-famous-football-player aspect was going to put it over for them.

and would outweigh him opening his mouth at all

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:37:45am

re: #243 Backwoods_Sleuth

It is quite sad that there are young men out there who listen and believe this drivel.

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darthstar  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:39:11am

re: #192 Dr. Matt

Today is a perfect example. Too many possibilities if you only get the first three letters:

[Embedded content]

My start word used to be BEACH but I changed to SOLID a few weeks ago. Today it payed off.
Wordle 529 3/6

🟩⬜⬜⬜🟨
🟩⬜⬜🟩⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Dangerman  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:40:06am

re: #262 darthstar

it’s a weird world where walker did, and may again, get a higher % of the vote than Oz

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Captain Magic  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:42:54am

re: #231 Eclectic Cyborg

Microsoft stopped providing their phone software a few years back.

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darthstar  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:43:13am

re: #267 Dangerman

it’s a weird world where walker did, and may again, get a higher % of the vote than Oz

I’m just going to appreciate the schadenfreude that Oz is providing.

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sizzzzlerz  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:43:25am

re: #261 Hecuba’s daughter

That’s not unusual; there have been other situations like words ending in “ight” or “atch” or “aste”.

[Embedded content]

Not unusual but when solving gets down to purely guessing, the difficulty becomes inversely proportional to the remaining number of words that match the pattern.

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Dangerman  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:46:07am

re: #269 darthstar

I’m just going to appreciate the schadenfreude that Oz is providing.

stick your feet up and have a crudite

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lawhawk  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:47:11am

This study confirms what we’ve been seeing all along - GOPers are dying to pwn the libs.

The excess death rate among GOPers is 10 points higher than Democrats - attributed to covid.

When the researchers looked at excess deaths before and after the pandemic, the results were sobering. Tragically, but not surprisingly, both Republicans and Democrats experienced a sudden uptick in mortality during the first year of the pandemic. While excess death rates were slightly higher among Republicans than Democrats, “both are dying at really high rates over this period,” Goldsmith-Pinkham says.

The fates of Republicans and Democrats began to diverge markedly after the introduction of vaccines in April of 2021. Between March 2020 and March 2021, excess death rates for Republicans were 1.6 percentage points higher than for Democrats. After April 2021, the gap widened to 10.6 percentage points.

Dumbassery, Trump, and GOP know nothings are to blame for GOPers decimating their own.

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Dangerman  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:48:38am

smack down the idiot question

REPORTER: A lot of people will be wondering: Are you two meeting just because you’re similar in age and have got a lot of common stuff there — when you got into politics and stuff — or can Kiwis actually expect to see more deals between our two countries down the line?

ARDERN: My first question is I wonder whether or not anyone every asked Barack Obama and John Key if they met because they were of a similar age? We of course have a higher proportion of men in politics, it’s reality. Because two women meet, it’s not simply because of their gender.

MARIN: We are meeting because we are prime ministers, of course.

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Jay C  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:49:52am

re: #227 lawhawk

A unanimous vote? OMG! Dems In Array!!!!

Though this should hardly come as a surprise: I have been reading/seeing/hearing speculation (for a couple of years) about who will succeed Nancy Pelosi as House Democratic Leader, and somehow all the specs seem to end up at “Hakeem Jeffries”… funny, that.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:50:23am

re: #272 lawhawk

This study confirms what we’ve been seeing all along - GOPers are dying to pwn the libs.
The excess death rate among GOPers is 10 points higher than Democrats - attributed to covid.

“This just proves that Covid was a Democrat hoax, er, I mean plot!!!”

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:51:00am

re: #252 Joe Bacon

Nico Kenn De Balinthazy, better known as “Sneako,” said on Monday night that he’s taking a hiatus from live-streaming to focus on his new role with the antisemitic rapper

Taking names from Matt Groenig’s Disenchanted — shame, do not take Elf names in vain.

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Joe Bacon  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:52:03am

re: #273 Dangerman

I love how both of those Prime Ministers smacked down the presstitute.

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TarHellion  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:53:04am

re: #217 wrenchwench

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No Malarkey!  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:54:27am
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Dangerman  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:56:55am

re: #252 Joe Bacon

…said on Monday night that he’s taking a hiatus from live-streaming to focus on his new role with the antisemitic rapper

translation: i might have a new sponsor sugar daddy here. maybe i wont have to work so hard.

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:57:05am

re: #279 No Malarkey!

Ah, yes, a writ of man-dumbass, although in this case, it’s actually properly called for.

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:58:49am

re: #255 Dangerman

contrast your comment with

do you see walker sitting on the phone for hours doing fundraising calls?
i dont.
meeting with constituents?
reading a bill?
he’d be a completely managed puppet, starting with who picks the ‘staff’ to manage him.

It’s not the candidate who is overwhelming my emails and texts with these pleas; it’s people working on their behalf. That said, pre-midterms I received phone calls from a few candidates pleading for support — but since I seldom answer the phone from numbers I don’t know, the calls go to VM.

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 30, 2022 • 9:59:59am

re: #259 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They musta figured that the fairly-famous-football-player from Georgia aspect was going to put it over for them.

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 30, 2022 • 10:02:20am

re: #259 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They musta figured that the fairly-famous-football-player aspect was going to put it over for them.

It worked in Alabama with Tommy Tuberville.

/Yes, he’s white
//Yes, he’s even more famous than Walker - even I knew who he was

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 30, 2022 • 10:03:01am

re: #270 sizzzzlerz

Not unusual but when solving gets down to purely guessing, the difficulty becomes inversely proportional to the remaining number of words that match the pattern.

That’s why I never use “hard” mode and am always “burning” words to eliminate possibilities.

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Eventual Carrion  Nov 30, 2022 • 10:03:14am

re: #266 darthstar

My start word used to be BEACH but I changed to SOLID a few weeks ago. Today it payed off.
Wordle 529 3/6

🟩⬜⬜⬜🟨
🟩⬜⬜🟩⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I had been using AUDIO as my start word for a while but changed up a week or so ago. I may go back to it.

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lawhawk  Nov 30, 2022 • 10:03:54am

re: #284 Dopamine Fish

The only reason Walker was named in the first place is that Trump knew who he was from when Walker was on the USFL Generals - Trump’s team.

That’s it. That’s the qualifications Trump sought. Someone who’d do what Trump wanted.

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 30, 2022 • 10:06:20am

re: #287 lawhawk

The only reason Walker was named in the first place is that Trump knew who he was from when Walker was on the USFL Generals - Trump’s team.

That’s it. That’s the qualifications Trump sought. Someone who’d do what Trump wanted.

And he’s Black. They needed a token Black man to dodge the inevitable criticism of the Republicans as a party of old fat white men.

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Dangerman  Nov 30, 2022 • 10:09:27am

re: #282 Hecuba’s daughter

It’s not the candidate who is overwhelming my emails and texts with these pleas; it’s people working on their behalf. That said, pre-midterms I received phone calls from a few candidates pleading for support — but since I seldom answer the phone from numbers I don’t know, the calls go to VM.

i was thinking more along these lines

he’s not gonna spend 4 hours every day doing this.

someone else would obviously be running that seat.

he’d be a seat warmer in almost the literal sense

bought and paid for and under total control of other people

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Dangerman  Nov 30, 2022 • 10:10:10am

re: #287 lawhawk

The only reason Walker was named in the first place is that Trump knew who he was from when Walker was on the USFL Generals - Trump’s team.

That’s it. That’s the qualifications Trump sought. Someone who’d do what Trump wanted.

winner

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lawhawk  Nov 30, 2022 • 10:10:18am

re: #288 Dopamine Fish

And he’s Black. They needed a token Black man to dodge the inevitable criticism of the Republicans as a party of old fat white men.

The new Congress will again see Democrats with a huge caucus of persons of color.

GOPers have enough to fit on one hand - still among the smallest percentage in their caucus in 100+ years. Why? Because the GOP is an overtly white nationalist misogynistic party, and the share of women in the GOP in Congress is also at a low point (though may have dead cat bounced here in 2022).

The GOP is and remains an old white guy party intent on preserving power in rich white guys and burden shifting to everyone else by blaming nonwhites for all that ails America.

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Dangerman  Nov 30, 2022 • 10:11:15am

re: #288 Dopamine Fish

And he’s Black. They needed a token Black man to dodge the inevitable criticism of the Republicans as a party of old fat white men.

while true, i submit a semi-literate white georgia football player might have worked too

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 30, 2022 • 10:12:13am

re: #292 Dangerman

while true, i submit a semi-literate white georgia football player might have worked too

Probably better, because undoubtedly there are a fair number of Georgia racists who wouldn’t vote for either Black man. But they felt they had to slip a Black man in somewhere, and Georgia seemed like their best bet, and Trump said he was okay with that one.

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Dangerman  Nov 30, 2022 • 10:15:07am
“The Supreme Court legal counsel said there is no evidence that Justice Samuel Alito violated ethics standards, according to a letter on Monday in response to questions from congressional Democrats about allegations that Alito revealed the outcome of a 2014 decision before it was released,” CNN reports.

forget the “we investigated ourselves and we found nothing wrong” part

once again stick with it doesnt at all say he didnt do it.

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Crush White Nationalism  Nov 30, 2022 • 10:16:55am

A lunatic may be filling in while my regular delivery person is on vacation.
This is how my Amazon Fresh order arrived. No insulated inner-bag, and the outer bag not only isn’t taped, but it’s also shredded. I’m just glad that I can get a refund on the destroyed items and zero out the tip when this happens.

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Wile E. Wonka  Nov 30, 2022 • 10:20:35am

re: #263 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Rampant meterosexuality is the final coffin nail in America’s claim to be God’s Chosen Nation.

Because meterosexuals are the ultimate groomers.

I see what you did there, and I hate it. ////

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TarHellion  Nov 30, 2022 • 10:22:00am

re: #291 lawhawk

SNL spoof ad from 1988 makes a still salient point.

Click to Reveal

Republican Ad: Typical Democrats - Saturday Night Live

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Crush White Nationalism  Nov 30, 2022 • 10:23:19am

re: #243 Backwoods_Sleuth

cry mohr…

People who are feared are not respected. That idiot is completely lost, and would be considered a useless eater if fascists got their way.

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 30, 2022 • 10:24:52am

re: #289 Dangerman

i was thinking more along these lines

he’s not gonna spend 4 hours every day doing this.

someone else would obviously be running that seat.

he’d be a seat warmer in almost the literal sense

bought and paid for and under total control of other people

BTW: My original comments on this topic were not in response to the Georgia election but about Finchem re: #163 Eclectic Cyborg

The grift is endless…

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Belafon  Nov 30, 2022 • 10:24:58am

re: #272 lawhawk

This study confirms what we’ve been seeing all along - GOPers are dying to pwn the libs.

The excess death rate among GOPers is 10 points higher than Democrats - attributed to covid.

Dumbassery, Trump, and GOP know nothings are to blame for GOPers decimating their own.

And it would be much higher if Democrats didn’t live in those areas.

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Belafon  Nov 30, 2022 • 10:26:54am

re: #279 No Malarkey!

A Republican in Democrat’s clothing?

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mmmirele  Nov 30, 2022 • 10:31:02am

re: #103 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Same with me, though a smaller village than yours. The only people who ever travelled out-of-the-country was my mother and me.

In my own village now, when my wife and I returned from Poland and went to the town party the same week, people here were amazed at our “bravery”: Several people commented they could never have travelled to Poland like we did because they were afraid Islamic State was going to invade it.

Some people at work thinking me traveling to Tokyo by myself on vacation is somehow daring. I tell them I’ve been there twice already, I have a feel for the place, I did my reasearch before going by myself, I was prepared, and Japan generally is quite safe.

TBH because I lack a similar familiarity with Poland, I doubt I’d go by myself the first time. But I think that’s the situation for most places I’ve gone to.

303
Belafon  Nov 30, 2022 • 10:31:49am

re: #131 lawhawk

Another things about this is that this person is confusing his use of Twitter with the general population. Most people don’t use it. Out of the 7 people I know of how they use their cell phones, I use Twitter frequently, and one other uses it occasionally. That’s it. The amount of people that would react to twitter not being available will be small.

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A Cranky One  Nov 30, 2022 • 10:32:21am

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Joe Bacon  Nov 30, 2022 • 10:33:31am

re: #295 Crush White Nationalism

I tried Amazon Fresh 3 times and each time they did not deliver what I ordered but they loaded up the bag with items I did not order.

The first two times I got a complete credit for the order but the third time they balked so I canceled them. They’re absolutely incompetent when it comes to groceries.

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lawhawk  Nov 30, 2022 • 10:35:25am

re: #305 Joe Bacon

My guess is that they’re so damned overwhelmed with orders that they can’t keep people on staff and turnover means that they’re constantly training people and failing to do a good job. Rushing to get orders out the door means ripped bags and damaged goods.

If they paid better and didn’t treat workers like robots, they might get better performance and customers might get a better experience.

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Wile E. Wonka  Nov 30, 2022 • 10:35:44am

re: #298 Crush White Nationalism

People who are feared are not respected. That idiot is completely lost, and would be considered a useless eater if fascists got their way.

Every time I hear a yutz like Cawthorn (or Tucker, or Sorbo, or Crowder, or any of Jordan Peterson’s flying monkeys) hold forth on the Wussification of Our Menfolk, it just makes me think of those “Missing the Point by Idolizing Them Starter Pack” memes.

You know — the ones with collages of Tyler Durden, the Joker, Khan, Gordon Gekko, the guy from American Psycho, Cartman, Walter White, The Punisher, Rorschach…

Haven’t seen one yet that included Archie Bunker, more’s the pity.

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Crush White Nationalism  Nov 30, 2022 • 10:52:39am

re: #305 Joe Bacon

I tried Amazon Fresh 3 times and each time they did not deliver what I ordered but they loaded up the bag with items I did not order.

The first two times I got a complete credit for the order but the third time they balked so I canceled them. They’re absolutely incompetent when it comes to groceries.

They’re usually reliable here, but sometimes a bag will be missing or there will be an extra bag. I’d say that they’re at about 90%. If I’d had your experience, I would have ditched them.


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