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Itās not every day you see the subtropical jet stream dip almost down to the equator! š¬ pic.twitter.com/WdxivbeA0i
ā Dr. Jennifer Francis (@JFrancisClimate) February 24, 2023
Notice the moisture in the Alaska panhandle. Last night we received about 14ā of snow with a very low moisture content which unusual for us.
Bringing Children Into This Dying Planet Is Unethical. Hereās Why I Gave Birth to a Solar Panel Instead: https://t.co/uOvpYXTvsv pic.twitter.com/9IDjkf8XvT
ā Reductress (@Reductress) February 23, 2023
These appear to be telemark ski bindings. Can someone knowledgeable weigh in on this?
48! Salud! pic.twitter.com/F0571AN0Wp
ā Chelsea Handler (@chelseahandler) February 25, 2023
Now, @latimes joins list of publications dropping āDilbertā following cartoonist Scott Adamsā racist comments pic.twitter.com/pTbl8L2Bwg
ā Lisa Fung (@lfung) February 25, 2023
In three parts -
Part 1
As far as I can tell, the article is by a Conservative writer seeking to find a wedge issue by accusing āProgressiveā males who disagree with TERF females, of being mysogynists and more dangerous to society than Andrew Tateās many misdeeds.
The WHATTABOUT Olympics has been decisively won, stand down. āForget actual traffickers and rapists, letās talk about men who support trans people.ā https://t.co/9Ayx9AbuxY
ā Priyamvada Gopal (@PriyamvadaGopal) January 29, 2023
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Part 2
Apparently this tweet breached my requirement toāabide by social media guidelinesā and āThis is a serious matter.ā https://t.co/7T26KRoKY2
ā James Wong (@Botanygeek) February 24, 2023
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Part 3
Just to say, I have resigned from my column at The Observer.Thanks everyone for reading over the years. š±
ā James Wong (@Botanygeek) February 24, 2023
LOL! Last of Us, episode 3. I gather that thing that came out of the hole was the level boss. These have all been really good so far. Like typical HBO, they manage to tell an action story while having a parallel human element in as well. The two gay guys finding each other in episode 2 was really touching.
āā¦This is the type of footage the left does not want you to see.ā
Fuck yeah, I want you to see it. Thatās why I am retweeting this.
I want you to see what happens to the dumb shits who watch Fox News and become traitors.
Tucker Carlson will get you idiots killed. https://t.co/1iPCaD4zMSā Secret Agent Number Six. (@DesignationSix) February 25, 2023
re: #7 steve_davis
LOL! Last of Us, episode 3. I gather that thing that came out of the hole was the level boss. These have all been really good so far. Like typical HBO, they manage to tell an action story while having a parallel human element in as well. The two gay guys finding each other in episode 2 was really touching.
I think you mean episode 4, the one with Kathleen? It sets up episode 5, a real gut-wrencher.
CLād down belowā¦
Hey Lizardiaā¦
Is anyone from Alabama on at the moment? The newspapers in Huntsville, Birmingham, Mobile and in Gulfport MS all print their last issues on Sunday morning, and as a collector of last issues of newspapers Iām trying to get my hands on copies.
If you can help, DM me! Youāll be rewarded for your troublesā¦
More discussion on Child Labor -
āTwelve-year-old roofers in Florida and Tennessee.ā
āUnderage slaughterhouse workers in Delaware, Mississippi & North Carolina.ā
āChildren sawing planks of wood on overnight shifts in South Dakota.ā
To tell this gutting story, @hannahdreier spoke to >100 children in 20 states https://t.co/OWYRap61j3ā Ken Armstrong (@bykenarmstrong) February 25, 2023
Greetings from the Las Vegas Strip. Itās raining outside. It rained the last time I visited Vegas almost seven years ago.
Next up, the lawsuits for violation of the I Amendment.
With āchaos,ā threat that canceled classes, Saucon Valley bars After School Satan Club
An extracurricular club in the Saucon Valley School District calling itself The Satanic Temple After School Satan Club has been barred from using school district facilities.
Saucon Valley schools Superintendent Jaime Vlasaty shared the announcement Friday night that she had rescinded approval for the club to use the facilities, due to violating district policy. She informed the clubās local community advisers and its campaign director of her decision, she said.
In a statement about the clubās alleged failure to meet the district requirements to use district facilities, as laid out in School Board Policy 707, Vlasaty cited an anonymous threatening voicemail left with the district that forced the shutdown of all district campuses and after-school activities Tuesday evening and cancellation of classes and activities all day Wednesday.
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The Good News Club in the school in Lehigh Valley gets to stay.
The school is blaming the After School Satan Club for the school being threatened with bomb and shooting threats from Christians.
The Satanic Temple promotes freedom, science, justice and even compassion, June Everett, national campaign director of the After School Satan Club, said this week. It does not promote devil worshipping or a supernatural Satan, just the āidealsā that Satan stood for, which include opposition to tyranny and individual rights, Everett said.
āWe are disappointed and are considering our options,ā Everett said in a statement to lehighvalleylive.com in response to the superintendentās decision.
Oh, just shut the fuck up, he said to someone he had already blocked. pic.twitter.com/FHI1ncetad
ā Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) February 26, 2023
re: #10 ipsos
Three thoughts -
Maybe try private messaging Decatur Deb, who I believe is in Alabama? It should generate an email to him. If you include your email in the message, it also might speed things up.
I donāt know where Eclectic Cyborg is located in MS. Nor whether he is actually in state at the moment. But he may have some ideas.
You might want to contact al.com. They may have some ideas as well.
Going to myaccount.al.com and then to the āContact Usā pull down menu in the header will give you email and phone numbers for all their newspapers.
OH HAI GOOD WEEK EVERYONE!
National Punch A Nazi In The Face Day passed with no nazis showing their faces anywhere in south Florida.
re: #4 Anymouse š¹š”š·
Okayā¦ Since nobody else did it, I guess that Iāll post the obligatory āguyā responseā¦
Skis? I went back and rewatched it several times, and still didnāt see any skis. //////
(Actual thoughts from this geezer were āThat looks way too cold to be much funā)
re: #16 The Pie Overlord!
OH HAI GOOD WEEK EVERYONE!
National Punch A Nazi In The Face Day passed with no nazis showing their faces anywhere in south Florida.
Shavua Tov!
Still hearing about lots of power outages in Michigan. But I may be behind the times.
Funny how that happens. https://t.co/3q6dEKQ3W0
ā Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) February 26, 2023
re: #19 Charles Johnson
What reputation did Scott Adams have left to destroy?
re: #18 ckkatz
Shavua Tov!
Still hearing about lots of power outages in Michigan. But I may be behind the times.
There were no power outages on my block, but other neighborhoods close by were hit hard. I just check the DTE site, those neighborhoods are back on now.
Our flight has been rescheduled for tomorrow night, so we got an extra 4 days of vacation and got to spend Shabbat with our youngest son. Itās been great.
A snail was sad everyone thought he was slow, so he decided to get a sports car with a big S on the side so people would shout āHey, look at that S car go!ā
I watched Rick Beatoās interview with Keith Jarrett, and it was so sad to see him like that, but so amazing to look back on his incredible music. Beato got him to open up more than Iāve ever seen.
re: #20 Joe Bacon
What reputation did Scott Adams have left to destroy?
He still had a lot of news outlets syndicating his strip - thatās serious money. This is gonna hurt him.
re: #24 Charles Johnson
I watched Rick Beatoās interview with Keith Jarrett, and it was so sad to see him like that, but so amazing to look back on his incredible music. Beato got him to open up more than Iāve ever seen.
Rick did an amazing job. He did an interview with Sting awhile back and that one was amazing too.
re: #19 Charles Johnson
Welcome to the 1st Amendment, Scott.
Low pressure system is slowly becoming more detached from jet stream:
The low slowed way down to what was expected. Itās located over Santa Barbara now, will move eastward tomorrow.
You can also see the hint of the next storm in the upper left of the image. More rain is coming, though not as much.
Speaking of precipitation, Fontana and Rialto got an inch of snow each.
For those who donāt know, thatās unusual. These towns are west of San Bernardino, and the elevation of Rialto is only 1400 feet. This part of the āinland empireā just doesnāt get snow in winter, at least a normal winter.
re: #15 ckkatz
I am on the Gulf Coast. And for the record, The Mississippi Press is about to stop publishing, but we have a local daily (The Sun Herald) that still serves the area.
re: #12 teleskiguy
Greetings from the Las Vegas Strip. Itās raining outside. It rained the last time I visited Vegas almost seven years ago.
Coincidence? I think not.
re: #29 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I fear some serious damage back in the Orchid houses. New roots spring out at this time, but this cold may kill those new roots. Cold and wet at the same time in the shade houseā¦ Not good. We prepped as best as we could so we shall see. This week we got almost eight inches of rain. And itās only 39 degrees already. Most recent rain under an hour ago.
re: #32 Rightwingconspirator
33 in NE Philly.
forecast.weather.gov
Reading the responses it appears pedants have also migrated over to the Fediverse.
re: #33 PhillyPretzel
33 in NE Philly.
forecast.weather.gov
34 in the Nebraska Panhandle.
forecast.weather.gov
It will get much colder tonight. For the first time in weeks we were able to shut off the water running in the sinks and bathtub (at least for the day).
re: #28 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Low pressure system is slowly becoming more detached from jet stream:
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The low slowed way down to what was expected. Itās located over Santa Barbara now, will move eastward tomorrow.
You can also see the hint of the next storm in the upper left of the image. More rain is coming, though not as much.
That storm will be arriving here Wednesday night to dump snow on us.
re: #36 Anymouse š¹š”š·
I understand that one.
re: #19 Charles Johnson
Kind of hard to say youāre being taken out of context when itās you saying it on the video.
Poor you. Having to be responsible for you.
Sniffā¦
re: #28 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Oh Boyā¦
And when do the mudslides hit?
re: #32 Rightwingconspirator
If you have Cymbidiums they should be ok.
Other orchids - not so much. I use to grow many Cattleyas out in the colder part of the San Diego metropolitan area and some winters would be harsh enough to claim one or two victims.
To be clear this is a member of one of the most famous vocally anti-abortion familiesā¦ā¦admitting she got an abortionā¦ā¦ https://t.co/ia3WrqMZj1
ā josie duffy rice (@jduffyrice) February 26, 2023
Thatās not fair Brian, Iām reliably assured by no less an authority than the Chief Justice that thereās no such thing as ātrump judgesā or āObama judges.ā
ā John (@Anklyodad) February 25, 2023
Newspaper-syndicated cartooning is a fading industry, but the prospects for self-pitying grievance are bright as Broadway
ā David Frum (@davidfrum) February 25, 2023
One theory as to why the MAGA pro-Putin cheering section is denying that there is a war -
My daughter has a spaniel who likes to jump on beds. Sometimes he misjudges the distance and bounces off. She consoles him: āDonāt worry; no one saw.ā Thatās what Putinās Twitter super fans are now telling him about his defeat. āThereās no video, no one saw.ā Except everyone did.
ā David Frum (@davidfrum) February 26, 2023
re: #42 ckkatz
They spelled out D&C so people like you wouldnāt realize she had one.
ā Blue in Red Texas (@RockwallBlue) February 26, 2023
You spelled āI want apartheid backā wrong.
ā Jim Stewartson, Antifascistšŗšø, Mike Flynn is Q (@jimstewartson) February 25, 2023
re: #47 Belafon
Problem with this thread is that if it really was a miscarriage, the use of a D&C afterwards is standard medical procedure, and it is not an abortion. Itās necessity for other than abortions is why there is a fight to prevent the procedure from being banned.
re: #41 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
If you have Cymbidiums they should be ok.
Other orchids - not so much. I use to grow many Cattleyas out in the colder part of the San Diego metropolitan area and some winters would be harsh enough to claim one or two victims.
We have both, plus mounted ones from Andyās Orchids, roughly a neighbor of yours. Various species and lots of hybrids. Of course thatās why we have two greenhouses-isolate the plants from the weather too far from their natural ācultureā.
re: #52 jeffreyw
I was looking for the THC content.
re: #52 jeffreyw
Coupon appliers take their entertainment where they find it.
re: #47 Belafon
Conservative lying instantly called out in that thread.
if you donāt think d&cās are abortions then they should be free and legal for all women everywhere
glad you agree!
hope youāll call your senators and get them to lift the bans on all d&cās in your state and strongly oppose their proposed national banā a business model (@hotforduck) February 26, 2023
A very interesting essay on science and colonialism in the 21st century.
One Tuesday in early November 2004, a man carefully packed a small, human-looking skull into a suitcase, descended a staircase, and exited a research center in Jakarta, Indonesia. News of the event quickly spread beyond the archipelago, provoking an international controversy. The skull, along with other bones that had been packed away with it, was arguably the most surprising discovery in the science of human evolution in the previous half century.
Headlines around the world attacked the man, Indonesian paleoanthropologist Professor Teuku Jacob. Western scientists accused him of theft, calling his actions a ātragedyā for science that was āsickening.ā Jacob, in turn, hurled allegations at his accusers, labeling them as misinformed and āarrogant,ā igniting a heated exchange that the press branded a fossil ātug of war.ā
The bones in the middle of the dispute belonged to a purportedly new species of extinct hominin that had been revealed to the world just a few days earlier. An international team of archaeologists had discovered the individual, called Liang Bua 1 (LB1) after the cave in which it was found, during excavations on the island of Flores. They assigned it the species name Homo floresiensis and nicknamed it āHobbit,ā referring to the skeletonās remarkably small size.
Standing just over one meter tall, Homo floresiensis possessed a blend of human-like and ancestral traits, from a tiny brain to evidence of stone tool use. Its mosaic of features potentially challenged many ideas at the core of the human evolutionary story. But other scientists were less confident in such extravagant claims.
Why did a scientist āstealā such important bones? And how could researchers adopt such contradictory positions regarding whether this skeleton represented a new human species or not?
re: #30 Eclectic Cyborg
If thereās any way you can get your hands on the final Mississippi Press in the morning, I can make it worth your while!
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And here goes SMOTI with the newest set of lies attacking Big John.
Shock Report: Sen. Fetterman Was Hospitalized Because He Was Unable to Take Care of Himself https://t.co/2kvDxlC3Qw
ā The Gateway Pundit (@gatewaypundit) February 25, 2023
and now relatives are posting tweets alleging Giselle is filing for divorce. Theyāre also posting petitions to expel Big John from the Senate and replace him with THE OZHOLE.
re: #57 ipsos
I was just thinking about how, 40 - 50 years ago, there had been specialty newstands that had carried significant number of the various regional papers. And how they had disappeared around the turn of this century.
Best wishes to you in your search. Let us know if you have success.
And I hope that your contact in Birmingham remains employed at the paper.
JUST SAY IT#ScottAdams calls Black people a āhate group.ā #RonDeSantis hates Black history.
All this rhetorical circumlocution to avoid just admitting āwe hate Black people.ā Their #MAGA policies are a full confession.
This is so beneath what America could be. https://t.co/hCKS2rKYgOā Rev. & Prof. Cornell William Brooks (@CornellWBrooks) February 25, 2023
ā Kar Ma (@getthrutheday) February 25, 2023
re: #26 William Lewis
Rick did an amazing job. He did an interview with Sting awhile back and that one was amazing too.
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Just to chime in, Rick also did a magnificent interview of jazz guitarist Al Di Meola last year that, to my mind, was the best Iād seen.
re: #27 Belafon
Welcome to the 1st Amendment, Scott.
Not only that, welcome to the world where actions have real consequences.
Itās interesting that Neo-Nazis are celebrating Putinās genocide in Ukraine when Putin claims he invaded the country to rid it of Nazis. Itās almost as though real Nazis think that was total bullshit. Nice comrades you picked there, @GOP enablers. https://t.co/N68M7gyv0q
ā Lisa Senecal (@lcsenecal) February 25, 2023
re: #49 William Lewis
Problem with this thread is that if it really was a miscarriage, the use of a D&C afterwards is standard medical procedure, and it is not an abortion. Itās necessity for other than abortions is why there is a fight to prevent the procedure from being banned.
The American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology describes one of its uses is as an abortion. (Why is a D&C done? tab)
The procedure is used for other things, but blanket bans on the procedure by fascist states would prohibit its use for those reasons as well.
re: #39 nines09
Kind of hard to say youāre being taken out of context when itās you saying it on the video.
Poor you. Having to be responsible for you.
Sniffā¦
Reminds me of a non sequiter from BBer/broadcaster Charles Barkley who made the claim that he was misquoted in his autobiography.
When you have a gerrrymandered minority government in your state legislature:
University of North Carolina moves to ban ādiversity, equity and inclusionā statements in anti-woke backlash (FOX News Channel, yesterday)
UNC voted to ban DEI statements and compelled speech from admission, hiring, promotion and tenure (more)
And the lack of anything like veteranās services back home will have an impact on Russian social stability over time. (Whether toward more fascism or reform, I donāt know, but you canāt send that many wounded men home and ignore them without consequences.) https://t.co/YLpwchhCZH
ā Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) February 26, 2023
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Youāre talking about a country that doesnāt even have functioning hospitals for civilians in a lot of places. The American VA has its problems, but Russian servicemen would think itās royal treatment compared to the shafting they get. https://t.co/UGz00O1AOH
ā Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) February 26, 2023
Even Conservatives can see that Fox is ridiculous.
This is the dumbest thing I have ever heard anyone say on Fox, and thatās no small feat.
Sheās asking why Greta Thunberg and celebs concerned about man-made climate change arenāt at the site of a (checks notes) train derailment?ā A.J. Delgado (@AJDelgado13) February 25, 2023
This is why I tell students not to use the passive voice. What he means is āI destroyed my careerā https://t.co/5HUdxHktcP
ā Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) February 26, 2023
re: #73 ckkatz
He stepped on his dick and then shot it through his foot.
re: #75 Ace Rothstein
Girls playoffs hoops fun for the Houston Chronicle.
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Good work. Sports photography is a hard branch to do successfully.
re: #79 ckkatz
Yes! They are indeed great! Thank you for sharing them with us.
Sounds like it was a great game to be at.
These were actually two games. The first one was Tuesday night; the last two were today.
I shoot a lot of pro sports, but I will gladly shoot high school for the rest of my life for the very simple reason of access. I can do whatever I want.
Asshat weighs in.
Too bad youāre a rhino, you would be considered a worthy prospect, but as a liberal hack, you get the sour cream of the crop! Enjoy what youāve earned! Partisan Hack
ā Rodney James (@RodneyJ68) February 25, 2023
re: #75 Ace Rothstein
The absolute joy there is healing.
This is fried cauliflower. pic.twitter.com/U93CzB33OK
ā Natalie Allison (@natalie_allison) February 24, 2023
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@ChickfilA is testing out these in a few markets, one of which my hometown is in š¤·āāļø
ā Natalie Allison (@natalie_allison) February 24, 2023
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It was fine! I donāt really get the point in it, but it tasted fine
ā Natalie Allison (@natalie_allison) February 24, 2023
re: #88 ckkatz
I look forward to the ritual scarfing of 72 oz. tomahawk steaks in response from the usual suspects.
re: #88 ckkatz
And right on cue there are right wing Xtians protesting Chick Fil-A going āwokeā
re: #89 jaunte
I look forward to the ritual scarfing of 72 oz. tomahawk steaks in response from the usual suspects.
Reminds me of the Trail Dust in Dallas and their 4lb āBullShipperā steak. Iirc, any steak of theirs below about 2lbs had some vaguely insulting name. And of course, the cut-off neckties nailed to the wall.
Re: Scott Adams
Man who set house on fire ādevastatedā over losing his belongings.
re: #90 Joe Bacon
And right on cue there are right wing Xtians protesting Chick Fil-A going āwokeā
I understand that āwokeā and ācritical race theoryā are now used to mean whatever the right wingers want it to mean but that is ridiculous.
re: #93 Ace Rothstein
I understand that āwokeā and ācritical race theoryā are now used to mean whatever the right wingers want it to mean but that is ridiculous.
Ace they passed thru the event horizon and are fused into the singularity of stupidity which passes for right wing idiotology.
re: #13 Anymouse š¹š”š·
Next up, the lawsuits for violation of the I Amendment.
With āchaos,ā threat that canceled classes, Saucon Valley bars After School Satan Club
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The Good News Club in the school in Lehigh Valley gets to stay.
The school is blaming the After School Satan Club for the school being threatened with bomb and shooting threats from Christians.
Yep. You canāt have a Good News Club if you wonāt allow an After School Satan club. The school district is going to pay a lot of money to defend this position.
re: #90 Joe Bacon
And right on cue there are right wing Xtians protesting Chick Fil-A going āwokeā
I suddenly realized that it was over 10 years ago that all the wingnuts ran to CFA to āown the libsā.
Good to see that this new group of wingnuts is even dumber than that last one.
re: #90 Joe Bacon
We must protest this insult to our manly chicken and mayonnaise sandwich.
Real heads know it wasnāt āantifaā that brought the convoy down but instead getting defeated by the Beltway and conflict among fellow members! Being duped by the promise of a singular 100-foot-long Subway sandwich didnāt help morale either!
ā Zachary Petrizzo (@ZTPetrizzo) February 25, 2023
re: #97 jaunte
We must protest this insult to our manly chicken and mayonnaise sandwich.
These losers line up 50 deep all day long to wait an hour for their lunch to own the libs. (Thereās a CFA two blocks from me, and I am not lying when I say that both lanes are 50 deep into the other parking lots all day long)
My message to #JogHallway:
You are a chicken-shit coward and a disgrace!#HawlinAss #RunJoshRun pic.twitter.com/nBg4BxYh0lā Hal Perry šŗš²šŗš¦ (@halperry) February 26, 2023
re: #97 jaunte
We must protest this insult to our manly chicken and mayonnaise sandwich.
You forgot the spiceless part. Maybe the mayo covers that; CFA is possibly the blandest food Iāve ever consumed ā onky once, mind you.
re: #100 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization
You can support Ukraine and continued freedom in Europe as well as the people in Ohio both at the same time.
re: #101 ColĆØre Tueur de Lapin
You forgot the spiceless part. Maybe the mayo covers that; CFA is possibly the blandest food Iāve ever consumed ā onky once, mind you.
The McChicken is basically McDās clone of it. Very plain, mayo, lettuce and chicken sandwich that has one redeeming virtue - itās stupid cheap.
Hmm, mercenary, war criminal, deserter, and now, whatever this is. Sounds like he has some issues.
ā”ļøEx-Wagner Group commander arrested in Norway for attacking police.
Andrei Medvedev, who sought asylum in Norway in January, reportedly fought outside a bar in Oslo on Feb. 22. He allegedly resisted arrest and ākicked one or more officers,ā according to the court files.ā The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) February 25, 2023
re: #104 ckkatz
Hmm, mercenary, war criminal, deserter, and now, whatever this is. Sounds like he has some issues.
Could be PTSD. Alcohol does not help those problemsā¦
re: #82 Ace Rothstein
I shoot a lot of pro sports, but I will gladly shoot high school for the rest of my life for the very simple reason of access. I can do whatever I want.
One of my friends shoots college wrestling up in the Northeast US and the reason he does it is because of access.
Oh, and by the way, those pictures are nice. Good to see the young women getting some recognition. /remembering the days of half-court girlsā high school basketball.
re: #103 William Lewis
A few years back Churchās Fried Chicken came out with a competing chicken sandwich. Supposedly it was pretty good. However, they kept running out. Then the local franchise shut down. So I never got around to trying that one.
A lot of time and money has gone into maintaining the peace in Europe post-World War II. If Putinās deranged fantasies of wanting to return Russia to the times of Peter the Great come true, how the hell will cynical assholes like Hawley and Cruz (who of course know better) explain it? Theyāll blame Biden of course!
re: #96 ckkatz
I suddenly realized that it was over 10 years ago that all the wingnuts ran to CFA to āown the libsā.
Good to see that this new group of wingnuts is even dumber than that last one.
My sister was one of those people and I was completely disgusted. That one episode epitomizes why we donāt talk.
re: #108 Ace Rothstein
Hereās one observerās take on Cruz (and by extension, Hawley). It makes similar points to yours.
There is no point in arguing anything with people like Cruz; they live in a world of bad-faith arguments meant only to rile up the primary voters who keep them in office. Cruz knows very well whatās at stake in Ukraine, but nothing is more important to him than Ted Cruz. https://t.co/SGuRlzINR5
ā Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) February 25, 2023
re: #109 mmmirele
My sister was one of those people and I was completely disgusted. That one episode epitomizes why we donāt talk.
I remember one woman swing dancer that I knew at the time, who mentioned to me that she had deliberately gone to CFA just to own the liberals and that the food tasted particularly good because of it.
I almost said that I was a liberal, I liked CFA too, and I didnāt feel particularly owned.
However, the song started at that point and I decided to just meet my obligation to dance with her. I did not seek her out after that.
re: #110 ckkatz
Hereās one observerās take on Cruz (and by extension, Hawley). It makes similar points to yours.
Ted Cruz is a Chameleon pretending to be a Conservative while he continually changes shapes and colors.
In fact, he has no real morals, no real positions, and no real core.
He is the perfect modern Conservative Senator.
There is no there, there. He is perfectly vacuous.
Go ahead, look for Legislation he has championed, hard policy decisions he has staked his career on.
What? You canāt find any?
Huh!
re: #112 austin_blue
Ted Cruz is a Chameleon pretending to be a Conservative while he continually changes shapes and colors.
In fact, he has no real morals, no real positions, and no real core.
He is the perfect modern Conservative Senator.
There is no there, there. He is perfectly vacuous.
Go ahead, look for Legislation he has championed, hard policy decisions he has staked his career on!
What? You canāt find any?
Huh!
Rack time for me. Sweet scaly dreams. Please be kind to one another. Hugs to all.
Big DeSantis donor retreat happening this weekend. It will be interesting to see how long it takes the Trump crowd to herd these waywards back.
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NEW: DeSantis donor retreat this weekend is drawing some longtime Trump backers
among those spotted: Ron Johnson, Jim Lamon (both of whom played roles in efforts to overturn the ā20 election), former trump finance chair Roy Baileyhttps://t.co/sd8ITMfiTfā Alex Isenstadt (@politicoalex) February 25, 2023
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(Another thread)
DeSantis big retreat includesā¦
- Sens. Tom Cotton, Ron Johnson (who spoke on covid panel with Joseph Ladapo)
- Govs. Reynolds, Lee, Stitt
- Reps. Roy, Massey
- Media figures/influencers: Chaya Raichik of Libs of TikTok, Benny Johnson, Chris Rufo, Josh Hammer, Dan Senor &more https://t.co/T6MPgedmDtā Hannah Knowles (@KnowlesHannah) February 25, 2023
Iāve heard of āThomas Kellerās caramelized roast zuchiniā and I thought no way. So Iām testig the hypothesis. Split in half, scored about 1/4ā deep, a little salt rubbed on into the scores, left on a rack. A good 2-3 tablespoons has come off already. Pat dried and put in the fridge to further dry out.
Wow. This could be the first thread killed by zucchini. Ever.
re: #115 BigPapa
Iāve heard of āThomas Kellerās caramelized roast zuchiniā and I thought no way. So Iām testig the hypothesis. Split in half, scored about 1/4ā deep, a little salt rubbed on into the scores, left on a rack. A good 2-3 tablespoons has come off already. Pat dried and put in the fridge to further dry out.
Sounds like a good use for it. That would make three things I like with zuchini - bread & confit byaldi being the other two.
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What if Han and Leah had twins, and one of them, rather than having jedi powers, was just a good pilot, so he took a job transporting people to other planets and the movie 65 is in the Star Wars universe?
What if the Vulture in the Spider-man movies is what happens to the Bruce Wayne in that universe when he doesnāt grow up in a rich family?
Are we going to get Cocaine Bear the video game?
Crowd source Q&A time: My wifeās iPhone makes her change her pin every few months which gets to be a little annoying over time. Is there a simple way to get it to stop fucking doing that?
re: #123 darthstar
I have used them forever, and the only time I have ever changed PIN is when I get a new phone.
re: #123 darthstar
weird My iPhone PIN has been the same for 17 years.
re: #125 Captain Ron
weird My iPhone PIN has been the same for 17 years.
Maybe itās the phone carrier?
re: #119 Anymouse š¹š”š·
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I think what drives my generation nuts is not that our parents and grandparents jealously guard the wealth they accumulated like a dragon guarding its hoard, but that weāre told that our failure to achieve the same levels that they did in their early lives due to laws and government acts that chiefly benefit them is entirely our fault. That the generations that could get a job right out of high school that allowed them to buy a home, raise a family, and save for retirement think that those of us who can barely afford simple luxuries like āavocado toastā or Netflix are useless spendthrifts who need to live off sawdust and brackish water if we ever want to amount to anything.
Groff v DeJoy (Supreme Court docket, 110 pages)
Iāve been following this case seeking Christian privilege (similar to the Washington high school coach and his enforced prayer on the football field) since it first entered the court system.
This is the case of a Christian postal worker in Pennsylvania who says that the Post Office is violating his religious freedom by requiring him to work on Sunday. He cites the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and subsequent adjudication of Title VII.
The statute defines āreligionā to include āall aspects of religious observance and practice, as well as belief, unless an employer demonstrates that he is unable to reasonably accommodate to an employeeās or prospective employeeās religious observance or practice without undue hardship on the conduct of the employerās business.ā
As found in Trans World Airlines v Hardison (1977) religious accommodation cannot impose more than a de minimus cost on a business.
The petitioner seeks to overturn the 1977 case by answering two questions:
a) Should the court simply disallow the 1977 de minimus test.
b) Should an employer be allowed show āundue hardshipā by the extra burden the accommodation imposes on other employees (which the case argues is not the business).
On page twenty-five, the petitioner laughably claims the decision harms minority religions (such as the famously minority Christianity).
The objection arose out of the Post Office requiring him to work on Sundays a few days out of the year during the Christmas season (when they are the busiest). He refused, citing his religious belief, then took the previous Postmaster General to court (case carried over to the current Postmaster General).
Each federal court (district and appellate) has found in favour of the Post Office, which argues the religious accommodation he seeks puts an undue burden on the other employees where he works. His argument is that the TWA case doesnāt mention employees, only the business itself.
re: #128 Anymouse š¹š”š·
Although this case took a long time to reach the Third Circuit, it took no time at all for the Fundamentalist Six on the Supreme Court to schedule the case (the Third Circuit decided the case in May 2022).
re: #127 Targetpractice
I think what drives my generation nuts is not that our parents and grandparents jealously guard the wealth they accumulated like a dragon guarding its hoard, but that weāre told that our failure to achieve the same levels that they did in their early lives due to laws and government acts that chiefly benefit them is entirely our fault. That the generations that could get a job right out of high school that allowed them to buy a home, raise a family, and save for retirement think that those of us who can barely afford simple luxuries like āavocado toastā or Netflix are useless spendthrifts who need to live off sawdust and brackish water if we ever want to amount to anything.
All the commentary on the video claims the creatorsā premises are wrong (ITāS THE BILLIONAIRES AND POLITICIANS, who are they again?) or the trope āthe younger generations are lazy,ā or the trope āitās the socialism they teach in schools LOLWUT.ā
The main premise is the Baby Boomer generation (the largest voting cohort through the Seventies) voted for themselves all sorts of politicians delivering things like low-cost college education, strong union memberships to negotiate favourable contracts, &c. When they became older, the voting patterns shifted to politicians who would protect their wealth like Smaug protected his hoard in āThe Hobbit.ā
Not all Baby Boomers benefited from this scheme (raises hand). The Silent Generation which came before (such as my mother) lived through at least part of the Depression and WW2, and supported children in getting to college or accumulating wealth. They also supported the New Deal programmes which benefited their children.
He makes an interesting observation: Home ownership is often treated as an investment, but it is an investment which produces nothing for the economy (like Bitcoin without the scammers). Investing in a manufacturer (stocks or bonds) helps the manufacturer expand their markets or products, or improve their business. Investing in a house produces nothing. Moreover, when landlords own an additional house and make enough money, that money isnāt usually used to purchase things on the economy which improve manufacturing or services, it is usually used to buy another house (which also produces nothing).
re: #129 Anymouse š¹š”š·
Although this case took a long time to reach the Third Circuit, it took no time at all for the Fundamentalist Six on the Supreme Court to schedule the case (the Third Circuit decided the case in May 2022).
We know how the six assholes on the corrupted court will rule. And they will only carve out a rule for Christians. As for Jews on the Sabbathā¦the sleazy six will flip us The Bird.
re: #131 Joe Bacon
We know how the six assholes on the corrupted court will rule. And they will only carve out a rule for Christians. As for Jews on the Sabbathā¦the sleazy six will flip us The Bird.
Plus atheists would get no such accommodations at all (no religious observances or holidays). The 7% or so of us would bear more of the burden.
re: #134 Joe Bacon
Looks like weāre at the tail end of this system but another pulse is going to hit tomorrow night.
Now itās our turn.
Sunday will be mostly sunny with highs from 44 to 53 degrees east of I-25, and 37 to 46 west of I-25. Partly cloudy and windy Monday with highs 36 to 49 east of I-25, and 30 to 35 west of I-25. Tuesday will be mostly cloudy and windy with mountain snow showers. #newx #wywx pic.twitter.com/JH0TdWjqE0
ā NWS Cheyenne (@NWSCheyenne) February 25, 2023
re: #131 Joe Bacon
We know how the six assholes on the corrupted court will rule. And they will only carve out a rule for Christians. As for Jews on the Sabbathā¦the sleazy six will flip us The Bird.
Since Christianity is far-and-away the majority religion in the USA, whatās to stop all Christians in the Post Office (or anywhere) to simply claim their employer is encroaching on their free exercise of religious faith, and all demand to have Sunday off?
How do you run a hospital, fire department, or a police department on Chik-fil-Aās schedule (closed Sundays)?
āYouāve reached General Hosptalās Emergency Department. Weāre sorry, the department is closed today. Please come in Monday at 6AM if you still have an emergency. Leave a message at the toneā¦ . BEEP.ā
Winter Storm Warning from 9 AM Sunday to 5 PM Tuesday for the Snowy and Sierra Madre Ranges. 12 to 18 inches for the Sierra Madre Range, with 10 to 16 inches for the Snowy Range. Winds gusting up to 60 mph producing blowing snow and reduced visibility. #newx #wywx pic.twitter.com/0IkZcJMBbU
ā NWS Cheyenne (@NWSCheyenne) February 26, 2023
re: #130 Anymouse š¹š”š·
All the commentary on the video claims the creatorsā premises are wrong (ITāS THE BILLIONAIRES AND POLITICIANS, who are they again?) or the trope āthe younger generations are lazy,ā or the trope āitās the socialism they teach in schools LOLWUT.ā
The main premise is the Baby Boomer generation (the largest voting cohort through the Seventies) voted for themselves all sorts of politicians delivering things like low-cost college education, strong union memberships to negotiate favourable contracts, &c. When they became older, the voting patterns shifted to politicians who would protect their wealth like Smaug protected his hoard in āThe Hobbit.ā
Not all Baby Boomers benefited from this scheme (raises hand). The Silent Generation which came before (such as my mother) lived through at least part of the Depression and WW2, and supported children in getting to college or accumulating wealth. They also supported the New Deal programmes which benefited their children.
He makes an interesting observation: Home ownership is often treated as an investment, but it is an investment which produces nothing for the economy (like Bitcoin without the scammers). Investing in a manufacturer (stocks or bonds) helps the manufacturer expand their markets or products, or improve their business. Investing in a house produces nothing. Moreover, when landlords own an additional house and make enough money, that money isnāt usually used to purchase things on the economy which improve manufacturing or services, it is usually used to buy another house (which also produces nothing).
Houses as āinvestmentsā was something plausible when, as the video points out, it was possible to pay off a mortgage in a reasonable measure of time. If you could pay off your first house with just your annual salary in 5 years or less, then it could be seen as an āinvestmentā towards a larger house when you were more financially secure and had designs on raising a larger family or more room for (as St. Carlin would say) āmore stuff.ā But if youāre either far enough along in life that youāre never gonna pay off that mortgage or youāre making so little that youāre barely able to make the payments, then itās not an āinvestmentā itās a prison sentence. Hence why newer generations rent more than own, because we simply cannot afford to āinvestā in a mortgage that will take half our lives to pay off.
By the way, anything expensive these days is sold as an āinvestmentā because the seller gets the immediate benefit of cash in hand and the āinvestorā gets the problem of profiting from their āinvestment.ā You see everything from classic cars to gems being sold as āinvestmentsā because the people paying for them have excess cash and little understanding of what it would actually take to profit from their āinvestment.ā
re: #139 Targetpractice
ā¦.By the way, anything expensive these days is sold as an āinvestmentā because the seller gets the immediate benefit of cash in hand and the āinvestorā gets the problem of profiting from their āinvestment.ā You see everything from classic cars to gems being sold as āinvestmentsā because the people paying for them have excess cash and little understanding of what it would actually take to profit from their āinvestment.ā
If you will excuse the expression: AMEN.
re: #140 retired cynic
If you will excuse the expression: AMEN.
LOL
I donāt look at my house as an investment. (We did pay cash for it.)
I suppose that has something to do with not having a place to live at all for so many years. I view my house as a necessity.
Not a big fan of property value creep (since that drives up my property taxes). I donāt see why āproperty valueā should be a consideration for my property taxes, since we arenāt going to sell the place unless we win the Lotto (then weāll be paying a lot more in taxes).
re: #139 Targetpractice
If you could pay off your first house with just your annual salary in 5 years or less, then it could be seen as an āinvestmentā towards a larger house when you were more financially secure and had designs on raising a larger family or more room for (as St. Carlin would say) āmore stuff.ā But if youāre either far enough along in life that youāre never gonna pay off that mortgage or youāre making so little that youāre barely able to make the payments, then itās not an āinvestmentā itās a prison sentence.
It took my parents closer to 30 years to pay off the house. Just sayinā.
Adult vaccination schedules (CDC), something to think about with all the plague rats at the so-called spontaneous revival in Kentucky people flew from all over the world to attend (for varying values of āspontaneousā).
Includes catching up childhood vaccinations if the person never had them or their status is unknown.
re: #142 Moe Avattar
It took my parents closer to 30 years to pay off the house. Just sayinā.
If you donāt mind me asking, when did they buy it?
What buying and paying off a house means for a lot of us is that it means weāre not paying for a house when we retire.
re: #145 Belafon
What buying and paying off a house means for a lot of us is that it means weāre not paying for a house when we retire.
Right, a house is only an āinvestmentā if youāre planning to sell it. Though Iām sure there are many who tell themselves that their current houses qualify because they expect their kids to sell them later.
Kentucky has confirmed another case of measles linked to the so-called spontaneous revival, on Friday. Due to privacy concerns, they will only say it is an unvaccinated person in Jessamene County.
They also issued a warning meant to be promulgated nationwide:
Anyone with symptoms [should] not to show up at hospitals, clinics or emergency rooms without advance notice so health care workers can take precautions to protect themselves and others.
If they ignored warnings to get vaccinated in the first place, are they going to follow this one? (I suspect āno.ā)
When I came down with mumps in 2012, I called ahead (because Iām not an asshat). The VA said āhell, no, stay far away. Weāll send a nurse to monitor you.ā
The same goes when I came down with scarlet fever in 2007. I called ahead, and the VA arranged for a civilian physician to come round to check me out (and quarantine me to one bedroom).
We bought our house in 1994 for $190k on a 40 year loan and refinanced it twice taking $60k out in equity and paid it all off in 28 years. We made payments about 25% over the minimum and made sure the extra was applied to the principle.
re: #147 Moe Avattar
1970 or so
I imagine most people starting out now would be laughed out of a bank trying to get a home loan. Even in the 1970ās it was tough (1:00, Crocker Bank commercial aimed at getting young people to take out home mortgages. The campaign failed because most didnāt qualify. You may recognise the tune, which was turned into a hit single later.)
re: #142 Moe Avattar
It took my parents closer to 30 years to pay off the house. Just sayinā.
My parents bough their home with the WW2 VA home loan program in 1946. In 1976 they āburned the mortgageā after making 360 monthly payments. They lived in that house until my Dad died and my Mom could no longer maintain it.
Lots of good memories in that home.
LOL the Mandelbrot Set, the atheistās worst nightmare (Answers in Genesis, 38:24).
God created numbers and algebra, apparently. Numbers have a secret code according to AIG, and that code can be used to created a Mandelbrot Set. I would say they are trolling, but they are serious.
The video starts by defining a set of numbers (because we need to start with third-grade arithmetic).
zāĀ²+c=zāāā is in the Bible somepleace, Iām sure of it. /s
re: #151 Cheechako
My parents bough their home with the WW2 VA home loan program in 1946. In 1976 they āburned the mortgageā after making 360 monthly payments. They lived in that house until my Dad died and my Mom could no longer maintain it.
Lots of good memories in that home.
My mother only owned one home, a small cottage she bought in Crystal, Michigan in the Seventies using a VA loan. She was unable to keep up on the taxes (something war widows couldnāt get employment), and I rescued it from a Montcalm County tax sale in the Eighties by a few days with the understanding she would sell it and pay me the taxes back (she sold it and never paid me back).
The home I grew up in after we fled segregation in Maryland was my grandparentsā home in Michigan. They bought it for almost nothing. When my grandmother died in 2005, she willed it to my eldest first cousin. My cousin still lives there now. For a village of about 100, it has a stupidly high property assessment, for which she could never sell it.
re: #152 Anymouse š¹š”š·
LOL the Mandelbrot Set, the atheistās worst nightmare (Answers in Genesis, 38:24).
God created numbers and algebra, apparently. Numbers have a secret code according to AIG, and that code can be used to created a Mandelbrot Set. I would say they are trolling, but they are serious.
The video starts by defining a set of numbers (because we need to start with third-grade arithmetic).
zāĀ²+c=zāāā is in the Bible somepleace, Iām sure of it. /s
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Read Carl Saganās Contact ages ago and besides Fosterās character actually being one of a group of people who make the trip instead of going by herself, the aliens are also a bit more chatty about the general idea that the universe as we know it is actually the construct of even higher order beings who left their mark in basic concepts of reality that can be found if we dig deep enough. And instead of the film just ending with her going back to the VLA installation to keep looking for signals, she instead tasks several huge 1970s-era computers to run various mathematical calculations looking for anything that might turn up. And after months of nothing, the one calculating out pi finally starts spitting out 1s and 0s that the computer interprets as a programā¦to draw a perfect circle.
re: #152 Anymouse š¹š”š·
The longer I watch this the stupider I get.
re: #155 Captain Ron
The longer I watch this the stupider I get.
All in all, I think I preferred such BS when the worst you had to sit through was being told that jet fuel canāt melt steel.
re: #19 Charles Johnson
āDilbertā creator says his reputation is ādestroyedā after racist rant
Nowhere does the First Amendment guarantee the integrity of oneās reputation after exercising oneās right to Free Speech.
re: #155 Captain Ron
The longer I watch this the stupider I get.
When you get to 36:20, you get to the statement āthere is no answer from the bankrupt evolutionary atheistic camp.ā
LOLWUT?
Evolution is not atheism, and has less than nothing to do with Mandelbrot Sets.
re: #63 Captain Ron
He barely knew the railroads because they were not his type
Has DJT ever even ridden a train? Seems like they are not exclusive or sexy enough for him.
re: #158 Anymouse š¹š”š·
Moreover, I could make a counter-apologetic off the cuff: Since Mandlebrot Sets are infinite by their nature, and Christians frequently argue that God is infinite, God is a Mandelbrot Set.
re: #67 ckkatz
Itās interesting that Neo-Nazis are celebrating Putinās genocide in Ukraine when Putin claims he invaded the country to rid it of Nazis. Itās almost as though real Nazis think that was total bullshit. Nice comrades you picked there, GOP enablers.
Zionist-Soros-Capitalist-Puppet Nazis, not real Aryan Nazis.
Please learn to make these key distinctions.
re: #157 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
āDilbertā creator says his reputation is ādestroyedā after racist rant
Nowhere does the First Amendment guarantee the integrity of oneās reputation after exercising oneās right to Free Speech.
When he says āreputation,ā just substitute in āmarketability.ā As in heās set to lose a shitload of money as more and more publications drop his toxic ass. But worry not, heāll soon be making the rounds on the wingnut welfare circuit, followed by a brief surge in profits as MAGAts rush out to buy Dilbert books because they think it will make liberals cry.
re: #127 Targetpractice
I think what drives my generation nuts is not that our parents and grandparents jealously guard the wealth they accumulated like a dragon guarding its hoard
A generation that could afford to graduate from college without crippling debt, a generation that could put money in the bank and see it grow and not be eaten by inflation. A generation that did not have to worry about going bankrupt over health care costs.
Iād lay any amount of money that guy wants to bet that I will not have nightmares over Mandelbrot Sets.
re: #136 Anymouse š¹š”š·
Since Christianity is far-and-away the majority religion in the USA, whatās to stop all Christians in the Post Office (or anywhere) to simply claim their employer is encroaching on their free exercise of religious faith, and all demand to have Sunday off?
Itās a horseshit argument, the nature of the work in the Post Office necessitates working on weekends and holidays, unlike a Chick-Fil-A
For that, I read that Thomas āStonewallā Jackson would never mail a letter that would still be underway on a Sunday as he did not want to contribute to others violating the Lordās Day.
Florida Republicans continue doubling down on stupid genocide by disease.
Local News
Florida county Republican Party votes to ban the COVID-19 vaccine
miamiBy CBS Miami Team
February 23, 2023 / 6:25 AM / CBS News
MIAMI - The āBan the jabā resolution passed with a majority vote in the Lee County Republican Party and will now head to Governor Ron DeSantisā desk.
This comes after a member of the Lee County Republican Party wrote a resolution for the executive committee to consider. Joe Sansone argued the risks of the COVID vaccine are not worth it.
Sansone so far as to label the vaccine a bioweapon.
āThe Lee County Republican Party is going to be on the vanguard of this campaign to stop the genocide because we have foreign non governmental entities that are unleashing biological weapons on the American people,ā he said.
Because the Republican Party of Lee County has no power per so [sic], DeSantis can just ignore it if he chooses.
Iām sure Ron DeSantis wonāt ignore it.
Florida county Republican Party votes to ban the COVID-19 vaccine (CBS Miami)
Iāve no doubt that if I check the usual MAGAt hangouts, thereās threads about newspaper cancellations over Adams being dropped and/or pledges to do so if their local paper should announce such. Perhaps a few engaged in lurid fantasies about how the frantic ālibā on the phone panicked when told about the reason their subscription was being cancelled and begged them to reconsider only to receive babbling about āFREEZE PEACH!!!ā and cancel culture.
re: #165 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Itās a horseshit argument, the of the work in the Post Office necessitates working on weekends and holidays, unlike a Chick-Fil-A
For that, I read that Thomas āStonewallā Jackson would never mail a letter that would still be underway on a Sunday as he did not want to contribute to others violating the Lordās Day.
Itās a horseshit argument Iām sure the Fundamentalist Six would be happy to implement.
re: #150 Anymouse š¹š”š·
I imagine most people starting out now would be laughed out of a bank trying to get a home loan. Even in the 1970ās it was tough (1:00, Crocker Bank commercial aimed at getting young people to take out home mortgages. The campaign failed because most didnāt qualify. You may recognise the tune, which was turned into a hit single later.)
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I had that song as a 45 Single by the Carpentersā¦or was it For All we Know? white people music all sound the same after a whileā¦
re: #151 Cheechako
My parents bough their home with the WW2 VA home loan program in 1946. In 1976 they āburned the mortgageā after making 360 monthly payments. They lived in that house until my Dad died and my Mom could no longer maintain it.
Lots of good memories in that home.
that was the idea, a retirement investment so pensioners did not have to pay rent.
Back to the Lizards, I have caught up and it is time for Sunday brunch.
re: #169 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I had that song as a 45 Single by the Carpentersā¦or was it For All we Know? white people music all sound the same after a whileā¦
The song was originally sung for the bank commercial by Richard Williams. Richard Carpenter guessed correctly it was Williams, and on the lot of A&M Records asked him if there was a complete version of the song. Mr. Williams said yes and later delivered the complete version.
Recording the song for the album Close to You, Carpenters reached #1 on the Cashbox singles chart and #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
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re: #171 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Back to the Lizards, I have caught up and it is time for Sunday brunch.
Sunday brunch? Itās 2:30AM!
re: #173 Anymouse š¹š”š·
Sunday brunch? Itās 2:30AM!
Good way to beat the crowds at the buffet table
re: #166 Anymouse š¹š”š·
Florida Republicans continue doubling down on stupid genocide by disease.
Iām sure Ron DeSantis wonāt ignore it.
Florida county Republican Party votes to ban the COVID-19 vaccine (CBS Miami)
This is the bit that just boggles my mind:
āThe Lee County Republican Party is going to be on the vanguard of this campaign to stop the genocide because we have foreign non governmental entities that are unleashing biological weapons on the American people,ā he said.
Because given how crazy these fuckers are, you canāt be sure if theyāre talking about COVID or the vaccines.
re: #149 Captain Ron
We bought our house in 1994 for $190k on a 40 year loan and refinanced it twice taking $60k out in equity and paid it all off in 28 years. We made payments about 25% over the minimum and made sure the extra was applied to the principle.
We accumulated the cash to buy a house in Valentine while we lived in Oklahoma.
We travelled to Valentine to look at the house, then researched impediments to the property. (Oh, man, the wife had a $50,000 lien on it for unpaid child support, the hub was in Colorado married to a second woman in a bigamous marriage, and when we tried to back out the Realtor tried to keep our earnest money. My wife called the Nebraska real estate commissioner on Christmas Eve, and because he had nothing to do, he checked out some info on the guy. He had a rap sheet as long as my arm, his wife was suing him in state district court [claims must be in excess of $50,000]).
He called the Realtor in Valentine and told her āyou will refund their money or weāll take your license.ā
She called us in Oklahoma all pissy asking how did we find out about all this court action and the bigamy (Google Fu).
With all the money meant to buy the house in Valentine in our chequing account in Oklahoma, my wife found the one weāre in now through Internet searches. It was poorly advertised and was on its second Realtor (an auction house) because the first Realtor sat on it for years and never tried to sell it.
We drove up to Nebraska again to look at this house, said āsold,ā and signed the paperwork to buy the house at a table in the general store. When we got back to Oklahoma, we had the bank fax a copy of our bank statement showing we had the full amount in our chequing account.
On closure day, we handed over a personal cheque to the title company; it was the only time we met the original owner of the house, an elderly lady who had moved into an assisted-living centre in the county seat years before. We also made an offer on her furniture, but she declined, saying she was giving it to her children.
We then spent two months moving our things from Oklahoma to Nebraska. It helped not needing a storage company since we owned two homes.
The only problem was selling our home in Oklahoma. It was during the property crash. We put it up for auction and only got a bit over $7,000.
The house we bought here had an interesting price point (we agreed to what the previous owner asked for without haggling). In 1914 when this house was built, it sold for 20 twenty-dollar gold pieces ($400) according to the written abstract. We sold a total of 20 twenty-dollar gold pieces for the money we used to buy the house. (Net inflation: none.)
re: #175 Targetpractice
This is the bit that just boggles my mind:
Because given how crazy these fuckers are, you canāt be sure if theyāre talking about COVID or the vaccines.
It is one thing to refuse to take the vaccine for personal reasons, but banning its use for others is bugnutz, weapons-grade stupid.
And it shows that the GOP is a bottomless pit of conservative grandstanding.
re: #177 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It is one thing to refuse to take the vaccine for personal reasons, but banning its use for others is bugnutz, weapons-grade stupid.
And it shows that the GOP is a bottomless pit of conservative grandstanding.
Itās the sort of thing that would make amazingly effective campaign ads in a sane universe, that the party of āpersonal freedomā says you canāt get a vaccine because the nutters that make up their leadership think itās more dangerous than the disease.
Do you know the Birbie-man, the Birbie-man, the Birbie-man? Do you know the Birbie-man who lives on Drury Lane? Amazing some of the images coming from SoCal. Bet some of those folks had never seen a snowflake. In Western NC, we had two-thirds of a inch of chilly rain, pushing us close to 10 inches of precipitation for the year. Still early, of course, but on pace for another 60-inch-plus annual rainfall total.
Took MrsTarH to the department store yesterday, and she was able to find some new tops and a blue jean jacket. And most items were marked down 50-60 percent. Just so proud of her for getting back out and about! Hope everyone has/had a great Sunday!
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re: #177 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It is one thing to refuse to take the vaccine for personal reasons, but banning its use for others is bugnutz, weapons-grade stupid.
And it shows that the GOP is a bottomless pit of conservative grandstanding.
When conservatives gain power, they engage in genocide. Genocide is the ultimate exercise of power: The power of life and death.
She is taking a break from Social Media so no one can accuse her of having an abortion
ā Hober in Tn š šŗš¦ ā®ļø (@HoborMallow) February 26, 2023
Libertarian Stew Peters couldnāt resist adding homophobic slurs to his antivaxxer nonsense (nineteen hours ago).
Terry Register of Thomasville, NC, #diedsuddenly
He died in his sleep.
He was 49, and healthy.
He leaves behind two young adopted sons he adopted with his sodomite life partner. pic.twitter.com/fdwRZmKnDbā Stew Peters (@realstewpeters) February 25, 2023
re: #178 Targetpractice
Itās the sort of thing that would make amazingly effective campaign ads in a sane universe, that the party of āpersonal freedomā says you canāt get a vaccine because the nutters that make up their leadership think itās more dangerous than the disease.
because it is part of a ZIonist-Communist-Soros-Gates-Deep State laser-guided conspiracy to enslave us with 5G mind control and and alter our genome through mRNA technology.
re: #184 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
because it is part of a ZIonist-Communist-Soros-Gates-Deep State laser-guided conspiracy to enslave us with 5G mind control and and alter our genome through mRNA technology.
You sound like youāre ready to start grifting from conservatives. /s
Iām off to bed. Iāll catch yāall later.
re: #185 Anymouse š¹š”š·
You sound like youāre ready to start grifting from conservatives. /s
Iām off to bed. Iāll catch yāall later.
I am familiar with the terminology and the polemic devices, and, although I admit that I do engage in the occasional diplomatic or even self-serving lie, I could never live my whole life as a series of lies or base my entire livelihood from spreading them.
re: #184 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
because it is part of a ZIonist-Communist-Soros-Gates-Deep State laser-guided conspiracy to enslave us with 5G mind control and and alter our genome through mRNA technology.
Yep, better to gamble that horse paste and anti-malarials will magically fix you up instead.
re: #187 Targetpractice
Yep, better to gamble that horse paste and anti-malarials will magically fix you up instead.
Those are trusted, down-home, tried-and-true country doctor remedies, not some elietist left-coast big-Pharma concoction that uses all sorts of Jewish science
re: #188 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Those are trusted, down-home, tried-and-true country doctor remedies, not some elietist left-coast big-Pharma concoction that uses all sorts of Jewish science
I honestly canāt help at times like these but think of the crotchety old doc from Doc Hollywood, telling his redneck patient to mix together chimney soot, flour, and lard to put on an open wound until he can look at it on Monday.
re: #189 Targetpractice
re: #157 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
āDilbertā creator says his reputation is ādestroyedā after racist rant
Nowhere does the First Amendment guarantee the integrity of oneās reputation after exercising oneās right to Free Speech.
If only someone couldāve stopped Scotty boy there from opening his mouth and spewing stupid shit.
LOLOL
Tulsi Gabbard says Biden cabinet based on āgeneticist principles embodied by Hitlerā https://t.co/rd8dXLxzvt
ā Raw Story (@RawStory) February 26, 2023
In a segment attacking President Bidenās cabinet, as The Daily Beast reported, Gabbard, a Fox News contributor, suggested he was āproudā to be āhiring people, selecting peopleā¦based on genetics, race, based on your blood, your genes. And where do we see that connection? Well, these are the very same geneticist core principles embodied by Nazism and Adolf Hitler.ā
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Gabbard shared with Fox News host Jesse Watters her theory that āwhat weāre seeing here is [Democratsā] philosophy, identity politics. And this is one of the main reasons why I left the Democratic Party because you seeing how their agenda of identity politics is directly undermining the traditional Democratic values that were expressed so beautifully and clearly, by Dr. Martin Luther King, that we should judge each other not based on the color of our skin, but based on our character.ā
AKA the only words spoken by Dr. King that white people and their apologists feel comfortable ever quoting because it allows them to fantasize that the privilege they enjoy is because of their character and not their skin.
The municipality of Frankfurt announced on Friday that it is canceling the upcoming show of former Pink Floyd singer Roger Waters, citing his alleged status as āone of the worldās most well-known antisemitesā as the reason.The performance was supposed to take place on May 28 at the āFesthalleā complex in the German city. In the statement of the city council that announced the cancellation, it was noted that the location was also used for the detention of 3,000 Jewish men who were arrested after Kristallnacht, between November 9-10, 1938, in which Nazis attacked Jews and destroyed their property. The men were abused and later deported to concentration camps.
Since 60% of the āFesthalleā shares belonged to the municipality, the city council was able to cancel the performance. They had submitted their decision to a judge to cancel Watersās appearance beforehand.
re: #192 Targetpractice
This is an expansion on the old āyou are the one talking about race so that makes you the racist!ā gambit
re: #193 Dr Lizardo
The municipality of Frankfurt announced on Friday that it is canceling the upcoming show of former Pink Floyd singer Roger Waters, citing his alleged status as āone of the worldās most well-known antisemitesā as the reason.
Since 60% of the āFesthalleā shares belonged to the municipality, the city council was able to cancel the performance. They had submitted their decision to a judge to cancel Watersās appearance beforehand.
Waters can still play at a private venue. Chick Corea is also banned from any publicly owned venue in Germany because of his association with Scientology.
re: #193 Dr Lizardo
I saw shows at the Festhalle back in the dark ages. The 80sā¦
re: #195 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Waters can still play at a private venue. Chick Corea is also banned from any publicly owned venue in Germany because of his association with Scientology.
I didnāt know that about Corea - not the Scientology bit, but that he was banned from publicly-owned venues.
re: #196 dharmamark
I saw shows at the Festhalle back in the dark ages. The 80sā¦
Saw the Grateful Dead there ca 1990.
Anyways, this is the flip side of Kulturpolitik: it is grand that the state promotes music and culture and theater and opera, etc., but since they own or finance the venues, they feel compelled to intervene whenever they feel the political message is not in line with their own values and agenda.
re: #198 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Without digging through old ticket-stubs, the only one I remember for sure is Queen in 1982. It was right after Under Pressure came out. We had ourselves convinced that Bowie would make a cameo appearance. Turns out that he never did sing that song with Freddie Mercury live.
re: #197 Dr Lizardo
I didnāt know that about Corea - not the Scientology bit, but that he was banned from publicly-owned venues.
Anything to do with Scientology is banned from using public venues, although I donāt know how they see a piano concert as promoting a (pseudo)religion.
Ministsrs of Foreign Affairs of the EU recorded a video where they described Ukraine in one word.
Thank you for support!
How would you describe Ukraine in one word? pic.twitter.com/RQjrllgroHā Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) February 24, 2023
re: #195 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Waters can still play at a private venue. Chick Corea is also banned from any publicly owned venue in Germany because of his association with Scientology.
Sadly, Chick Corea is no longer with us, so not really a problem for him anymore. Other scientologists howeverā¦
Cannot make this up. Jim Jordan, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert and other Republicans just sent a letter to Pete Buttigieg attacking him for the train derailment without knowing that the train oversight boardā¦ isnāt part of his department. pic.twitter.com/ZU9UeygeUh
ā No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) February 24, 2023
re: #204 Dangerman
Cannot make this up. Jim Jordan, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert and other Republicans just sent a letter to Pete Buttigieg attacking him for the train derailment without knowing that the train oversight boardā¦ isnāt part of his department.
Rick Perry did not know that the US Nuclear Arsenal was within the purview of the Department of Energy when he assumed his post as Secretary.
re: #49 William Lewis
Problem with this thread is that if it really was a miscarriage, the use of a D&C afterwards is standard medical procedure, and it is not an abortion. Itās necessity for other than abortions is why there is a fight to prevent the procedure from being banned.
Just like thereās other uses for certain drugs.
Or medical devices/instruments.
They want to ban anything that ācould be used for.ā..
Morning Lizards. And Iām sure these are on a banned list somewhere as well.
ā Odin (@Odin68057362) February 26, 2023
re: #206 Dangerman
Just like thereās other uses for certain drugs.
Or medical devices/instruments.They want to ban anything that ācould be used for.ā..
Like the issue with birth control pills and other contraceptives/abortifacients.
Iām actually mad because I was 100% sure I had the birbie today.
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WOW: āWhat Are They Complaining About?ā Elon Musk Reply to Scott Adams Tweet About Newspapers Dumping āDilbertā for Adams openly racist comments. https://t.co/QyboyvMErv via @mediaite
ā (((DeanObeidallah))) (@DeanObeidallah) February 26, 2023
re: #212 DodgerFan1988
I hate that what this stupid, self-righteous schmuck thinks about anything and everything has to be relevant, on account of his owning what was formerly known as one of the most significant social media networks.
re: #213 Dopamine Fish
I hate that what this stupid, self-righteous schmuck thinks about anything and everything has to be relevant, on account of his owning what was formerly known as one of the most significant social media networks.
Now @elonmusk is in my mentions liking the Dilbert guyās attempts to defend his racist rant.
The tweet he liked suggests there was a valid āreasonā for Scott Adams to say āthe best advice I would give to White people is to get the hell away from Black people.ā pic.twitter.com/kmG6G584eUā Hunter Walker (@hunterw) February 26, 2023
a bunch of newspapers dropped dilbert after scott adams released a video saying Black people are a hate group. elon musk is defending his racist buddyhttps://t.co/iO5mE0u2g5 pic.twitter.com/4u9wKZ3T7W
ā Get Your Bivalent Booster (@pearltheposter) February 26, 2023
Heās canāt stop himself.
Adamsā comments were ostensibly predicated on the results of a Rasmussen poll that asked respondents whether theyād agree with the statement āitās okay to be White.ā
What the fuck kind of statement is that other than race-baiting?
It sounds to me like it is meant to incense people by implying something like āCRT/woke ideology teaches us that itās no longer okay to be White.ā
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Feels like the right week to remind everyone that the best Dilbert comic ever was actually created by me pic.twitter.com/0njW6sjdQC
ā Zach Weinersmith (@ZachWeiner) February 25, 2023
Scott Adams: Black people actually commit all the crime.
Elon Musk: Looking into this.ā evan (@esjesjesj) February 24, 2023
re: #215 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Adamsā comments were ostensibly predicated on the results of a Rasmussen poll that asked respondents whether theyād agree with the statement āitās okay to be White.ā
What the fuck kind of statement is that? What it is other than race-baiting?
It sounds to me like it is meant to incense people implying something like āCRT/woke ideology teaches us that itās no longer okay to be White.ā
It comes straight out of 4chanās /pol/ board, which has been a haven for white supremacist recruiting for the past decade or so, and neo-nazis use it extensively in their propaganda.
re: #220 Orange Impostor
It comes straight out of 4chanās /pol/ board, which has been a haven for white supremacist recruiting for the past decade or so, and neo-nazis use it extensively in their propaganda.
4chan in general has been a wretched hive of scum and villainy for as long as I can remember knowing of its existence. Itās one of the places in the ancient Internet that even I have never been.
So āItās okay to be whiteā is another dog whistle slogan like āwhite lives/blue lives matterā
One of our more intellectual conservative friends published a survey on peopleās opinions on āPolitical Correctnessā (I think it was from The Atlantic)
Two things I noticed: the cover photo was a group of Antifa protestors and in the article describing the survey, they did not clearly define what āpolitical correctnessā means, in fact it was pretty much up to each participant to determine what they found to be PC.
In other words, a complete horseshit survey published as an excuse to let selected people vent about whatever they dislike while putting up a photo implying that Antifa are some sort of PC-enforcing thugs.
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re: #128 Anymouse š¹š”š·
1. Iām a Christian and Iāve worked tons of Sundays when necessary.
2. Nowhere does the Bible state the Sabbath is supposed to be observed on a Sunday or can only be observed on a Sunday.
re: #123 darthstar
Crowd source Q&A time: My wifeās iPhone makes her change her pin every few months which gets to be a little annoying over time. Is there a simple way to get it to stop fucking doing that?
The only time I change PINs on my iPhone is when I get a new or replacement phone. If itās not the carrier doing it might be an app or a virus causing it. Maybe the Genius desk can resolve that.
re: #224 Eclectic Cyborg
1. Iām a Christian and Iāve worked tons of Sundays when necessary.
2. Nowhere does the Bible state the Sabbath is supposed to be observed on a Sunday or can only be observed on a Sunday.
3. Some jobs involve regular Sunday work: basic services (emergency medical, energy, utilities, communications - including postal services, travel and tourism, etc.) That is the nature of the job which the applicant should be aware of.
Even in Germany, which has strict laws against office or retail work on Sundays/holidays, they certainly carve out large exceptions for places that can be open on Sundays/holidays.
re: #7 steve_davis
LOL! Last of Us, episode 3. I gather that thing that came out of the hole was the level boss. These have all been really good so far. Like typical HBO, they manage to tell an action story while having a parallel human element in as well. The two gay guys finding each other in episode 2 was really touching.
by the way, I have no idea why I thought that was episodes 3 and 2. Iāve been binge-watching multiple series. who knows.
re: #226 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
3. Some jobs involve regular Sunday work: basic services (emergency medical, energy, utilities, communications - including postal services, travel and tourism, etc.) That is the nature of the job which the applicant should be aware of.
Even in Germany, which has strict laws against office or retail work on Sundays/holidays, they certainly carve out large exceptions for places that can be open on Sundays/holidays.
I work in hotels. I work every Sunday & stopped attending as a result.
re: #123 darthstar
The phone tries to detect easily-hackable PINs like ā1234ā or ā1111ā, etc. and in that case will pester the user to change it. Not sure if this helps your specific case, but *ZeFrank voice* this is how the iPhone do..
re: #229 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
The phone tries to detect easily-hackable PINs like ā1234ā or ā1111ā, etc. and in that case will pester the user to change it. Not sure if this helps your specific case, but *ZeFrank voice* this is how the iPhone do..
One possible solution: Add 1s or 0s to the start and end of your PIN.
For example, 034430 or 134431 instead of just 3443
Geschichte wiederholt sich.
History repeats.#Friedensdemo #Friedensbewegung #b2502 #Russland #Faschismus pic.twitter.com/GQrumhDhLxā (((Tendar))) (@Tendar) February 25, 2023
re: #9 Charles Johnson
I think you mean episode 4, the one with Kathleen? It sets up episode 5, a real gut-wrencher.
re: #61 ckkatz
I was just thinking about how, 40 - 50 years ago, there had been specialty newstands that had carried significant number of the various regional papers. And how they had disappeared around the turn of this century.
Best wishes to you in your search. Let us know if you have success.
And I hope that your contact in Birmingham remains employed at the paper.
i keep having to remind myself what āturn of this centuryā actually means now.
re: #230 Joe Bacon
Itās actually the last standalone restaurant. There are a couple of other locations still in existence.
Scott Adams; āI smeared shit all over Twitter.ā
Elon Musk: āNice.ā
re: #228 William Lewis
I work in hotels. I work every Sunday & stopped attending as a result.
Which is why many churches hold weekday services
re: #234 Eclectic Cyborg
We have Captain Dās around here. My city also had one of the few remaining Long John Silverās in the area before it closed up a couple of years ago.
re: #234 Eclectic Cyborg
Itās actually the last standalone restaurant. There are a couple of other locations still in existence.
Not anymore:
Published: Feb. 24, 2023, 10:18 a.m.
GARFIELD HEIGHTS, Ohio - Just in time for the Lenten season, the Arthur Treacherās Fish & Chips in Garfield Heights has reopened.
The eatery, at 12585 Rockside Road, had closed in 2021, leaving the one on State Road in Cuyahoga Falls as the sole Arthur Treacherās remaining in the United States.
The fast-food eatery has been clinging to life years after its heyday. It was founded in Columbus in 1969 and named for the British actor of the same name. Treacherās credits include the 1964 movie, āMary Poppins,ā as well as playing the butler Jeeves in a pair of 1930s movies.
Arthur Treacherās Fish & Chips reopens in Garfield Heights
I had to check. Thereās still a Wienerschnitzel fast food joint in my hometown. It was Der Wienerschnitzel when I was growing up.
re: #150 Anymouse š¹š”š·
I imagine most people starting out now would be laughed out of a bank trying to get a home loan. Even in the 1970ās it was tough (1:00, Crocker Bank commercial aimed at getting young people to take out home mortgages. The campaign failed because most didnāt qualify. You may recognise the tune, which was turned into a hit single later.)
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my parents bought the house I grew up in in 1962. It was a federally-subsidized FHA mortgage (red-lined, whites only) at below prime interest, you didnāt need any credit history to qualify.
Even so, the loan officer at the bank told them 1 yearās income is how much of a mortgage theyād qualify for. Most homebuyers today (not counting the āweāll pay cashā types) ā are spending 3 times that much.
Apropos of nothing: Fuck those assholes who scam senior citizens into Reverse Mortgages.
re: #204 Dangerman
The first rule of Performative BS Club is that facts donāt matter.
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re: #241 sagehen
my parents bought the house I grew up in in 1962. It was a federally-subsidized FHA mortgage (red-lined, whites only) at below prime interest, you didnāt need any credit history to qualify.
Even so, the loan officer at the bank told them 1 yearās income is how much of a mortgage theyād qualify for. Most homebuyers today (not counting the āweāll pay cashā types) ā are spending 3 times that much.
Sounds like the same story, my folks bought their home in 1959 for $16,000, which was about what my dad was earning as as a roller in a steel mill.
re: #246 A Cranky One
What is the difference between a band and a bull?
-A bull has the horns up front and the asshole in the rear!
re: #235 nines09
Scott Adams; āI smeared shit all over Twitter.ā
Elon Musk: āNice.ā
Iām starting to wonder if Elonās master strategy to keep people engaged with Twitter so the site doesnāt die altogether is by elevating the most vile people in society for shock value.
re: #249 darthstar
Iām starting to wonder if Elonās master strategy to keep people engaged with Twitter so the site doesnāt die altogether is by elevating the most vile people in society for shock value.
āEngagedā or āenragedā?
Sadly, works either way.
re: #250 Jay C
āEngagedā or āenragedā?
Sadly, works either way.
Though by the time you see the third or fourth dumpster fire itās simply not attractive or exotic enough to show much interest.
Same challenge as Performative BS Club - it has to get more and more outrageous to attract sufficient attention.
And Elon seems to be getting hooked on his own product.
re: #250 Jay C
āEngagedā or āenragedā?
Sadly, works either way.
Itās becoming a predictable cycle. He gets a little bit of attention for praising Putinā¦a few weeks go by and people are just happy not to think about him anymore and then he finds another morally reprehensible person to defend. Nobody gives a shit about Dilbert. It was a tired comic in 2002. Scott Adams is a racist who deserves to be shunned by society. Now weāll spend a week talking about how Elon thinks heās the beeās knees.
re: #249 darthstar
Iām starting to wonder if Elonās master strategy to keep people engaged with Twitter so the site doesnāt die altogether is by elevating the most vile people in society for shock value.
I donāt know that he has any other strategies left at this point.
re: #251 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Though by the time you see the third or fourth dumpster fire itās simply not attractive or exotic enough to show much interest.
Same challenge as Performative BS Club - it has to get more and more outrageous to attract sufficient attention.
And Elon seems to be getting hooked on his own product.
How about a mashup of Sharknado in which polar bears get caught up in the Polar Vortex and distributed all over the Midwest?
GRIZZLARD
re: #249 darthstar
Iām starting to wonder if Elonās master strategy to keep people engaged with Twitter so the site doesnāt die altogether is by elevating the most vile people in society for shock value.
That and making Twitter a howler monkey shit flinging fascist mouthpiece.
Itās like swimming in polluted water. Turds are floating by, but people want to be on Twitter, so Elon makes sure there are plenty of turds floating by.
Iām waiting for some rich oligarch or piece of shit like Mercer to buy it and declare it a site for truth and discourse with no moderation.
I understand the usefulness of it.
But it is poisoned and will poison others.
Elon is no genius, he made people think he was a genius, but heās just a hollow shell of a apartheid shit stain.
re: #224 Eclectic Cyborg
1. Iām a Christian and Iāve worked tons of Sundays when necessary.
2. Nowhere does the Bible state the Sabbath is supposed to be observed on a Sunday or can only be observed on a Sunday.
Every job Iāve ever had in my life, Iāve always volunteered to cover holiday shifts for those who celebrate/observe. To me, those have always been just another day (plus holiday pay!)
re: #179 TarHellion
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re: #260 Eclectic Cyborg
Three years ago today we got this infamous bullshit from TFG:
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That was when a lot of people started pulling up the drawbridge. He knew Covid was about to start burning across the country. I began wearing a mask on public transit right about then while I went to the office for almost two more weeks.
re: #261 darthstar
I went out that weekend to load up on TP and sanitizer (you could still get them most places at that point).
This shiz is all over the fried bird hellscape.
Um, you got Katie Hobbs mixed up with Genaro Garcia Luna, a former Mexican government official convicted last week in NYC of taking million$ in bribes from the Sinaloa Cartel. You people are *delusional*. https://t.co/fUovRgngKN
ā ćć¼ć *I am completely DONE* ćć¼ć ćŗššŗš¦ (@mmmirele) February 26, 2023
re: #116 BigPapa
Wow. This could be the first thread killed by zucchini. Ever.
Zucchini is an Italian plot.
re: #238 William Lewis
Not anymore:
Arthur Treacherās Fish & Chips reopens in Garfield Heights
Out West they still have a few of Haddon Saltās Fish nā Chips chain still in operation.
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re: #197 Dr Lizardo
I didnāt know that about Corea - not the Scientology bit, but that he was banned from publicly-owned venues.
Yeah, this has been in place since the 1990s. At the time, Scientology was seen as a threat to the German state up there with neo-Nazis and anarchists of the bomb-throwing type. While Clinton was president, the State Department chewed out Germany on a yearly basis in its religious freedom report for its actions against Scientologists and this was due to lobbying by Scientology. That hasnāt been the case in the last two decades, though.
It has been several years since I checked on how Germany views the Scientologists now. Itās possible that the restrictions remain in place even though Scientology is greatly diminished.
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ā MissyLunasea (@mtlunasea) February 26, 2023
Eleven years ago, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was pursued, shot, and killed by an armed vigilante while walking home from a Florida convenience store. Trayvonās family will never receive justiceāin part, due to Floridaās Shoot First law, which essentially makes murder legal. pic.twitter.com/jDjBIY5ibc
ā Moms Demand Action (@MomsDemand) February 26, 2023
The conservatives replies in this thread is raw sewage.
re: #270 DodgerFan1988
Just as George Zimmerman begins to fade into obscurityā¦
re: #268 mmmirele
Germans really had a bug up their butt about Scientology, my feeling is that they are worried it would just be too appealing to the mass populace if they let if function like church.
Ostensibly it is because of the way they use the church as a front to cover a financial enterprise. The Vatican Bank and the Bishop of Limburg* were unavailable for comment
*involved in a massive financial scandal that came to light in 2013 involving redirecting church funds to build himself a 31-million-euro luxury residence.
re: #270 DodgerFan1988
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The conservatives replies in this thread is raw sewage.
There are these spiders that just sit in a corner of their webs waiting for something gun related to hit the web so that they can scramble to gum it all up before any rational discussion can take place. But add race to the mix and holy shit.
re: #237 TarHellion
We have Captain Dās around here. My city also had one of the few remaining Long John Silverās in the area before it closed up a couple of years ago.
We still have one about 12 miles from me. I havenāt gone there in years since I quit going into the office and work from home. I would hit it maybe once a month for lunch when I was going into the office since it was just a couple miles away.
If your final answer to Republicans who want to mess with your Social Security and Medicare benefits is HELL NO, I suggest you follow us at @ReallyAmerican1 so you donāt miss a chance to resist the GOPās efforts to eliminate what weāve contributed to our entire working lives.
ā BrooklynDad_Defiant!ā®ļø (@mmpadellan) February 26, 2023
re: #273 Barefoot Grin
There are these spiders that just sit in a corner of their webs waiting for something gun related to hit the web so that they can scramble to gum it all up before any rational discussion can take place. But add race to the mix and holy shit.
Another āBig Lieā the Right keep saying for years to justify the murder of Trayvon Martin, was George Zimmermanās head getting bashed into the cement when he ādefendedā himself. But crime scene photos from that shooting (very easy to find on Google image) shows Trayonās dead body in the middle of a grassy lawn, yards away from any pavement.
re: #278 DodgerFan1988
The point was, the state of SYG laws (and a co-operative police force) destroyed any chain of evidence that could have been used to convict Zimmermann.
re: #278 DodgerFan1988
Another āBig Lieā the Right keep saying for years to justify the murder of Trayvon Martin, was George Zimmermanās head getting bashed into the cement when he ādefendedā himself. But crime scene photos from that shooting (very easy to find on Google image) shows Trayonās dead body in the middle of a grassy lawn, yards away from any pavement.
Except we choose to ignore that Georgie chased after Trayvon. With a gun. No one seems to think that Trayvon had a right to stand his ground and fight for his life.
ā Jai (@wolf_3595) February 26, 2023
re: #100 The GOP is a Terrorist Organization
Jog Hallway.
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re: #237 TarHellion
A new Long John Silverās just opened in Fredericksburg VA recently.
Musk Praises Woody Harrelsonās āBasedā Anti-Vax Rant - https://t.co/iwEs72oG1W pic.twitter.com/tV0jH1sd5h
ā JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) February 26, 2023
re: #283 dharmamark
LJS had more than 1,100 locations as recently as 2015. Now itās around 630, according to Wikipedia. I remember a few years ago LJS had the most annoying commercial that played constantly during the NCAA menās basketball tournament. We also had a joke at the newspaper that if you were feeling a bit irregular, a trip to LJS would solve it.
re: #285 TarHellion
First I remember H. Salt opening Fish & Chips stores. Grandma had stock in KFC and said that John Y Brown who ran KFC was going to use the same expansion plan with H Salt that he did with KFC.
Then Arthur Treacherās came along and H Salt stores were closing all over the place.
Then Long Johns Silvers came along and expanded like crazy and next thing I see a lot of closed Arthur Treacherās places.
The last H. Salt I remember was at Hollywood/Vermont in Los Angeles and that closed a couple years ago.
We still have an H. Salt Esquire in the Bay Area, but it is a 90 minute round trip. I havenāt had their fish and chips in 50 years.
re: #283 dharmamark
A new Long John Silverās just opened in Fredericksburg VA recently.
I ate at one of those once in the 80s when I heard the hush puppies were good when you were stoned. They werenāt.
Fish n Chips for me is a comfort food when I am in the mood.
Also serves as a bit of a default backup restaurant order if nothing else on the menu grabs my attention and I donāt feel like experimenting. Something that I often get as an average result. Rarely truly excellent. But also something most places will not completely mess up.
Probably the best fish n chips I have gotten in recent times was at a little place in Astoria, OR while visiting the PNW back in 2018.
re: #289 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Probably the best fish n chips I have gotten in recent times was at a little place in Astoria, OR while visiting the PNW back in 2018.
Fort William, west coast of Scotland. Fresh off the boat.
Catching up:
On fast food fish: I recall Skippers. in early days workers wore yellow rain gear and they had small paper American flags with a toothpick mast planted in jello cup that I jammed into dash of my 1973 MonteCarlo Useful for driving thru Texas and Oklahoma when you are a hippy. Oh yeah they served fish
On Dilbert: maybe he could move to the other side of Mr Wilson on Dennis the Menace and hang out with that old codger and leave the rest of us alone while conservative theater masquerading as news blares out the hoodlum children outside
On weather: Sunny but blustery
re: #289 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Fish n Chips for me is a comfort food when I am in the mood.
Thereās a good local food restaurant that serves a lot of fresh fish and sometime I get the fish n chips. But I use chili peppa water instead of vinegar. Puts me in my happy place.
AVS Forum thread:
I built a home last year and wired everythingā¦. 3 Cat 6 to TVs , networking, Went Overboard.
A year later Iām running almost everything off Wifi Except Speakers.
1.5 Gig Fibre wifi has been more solid / faster than my wired network.
Just thinking out loud but If I ever build again I would focus on rock solid wireless network / access points and be done with it!
Planning on building another home next year and that is the route Iām taking.
There are some DIYers and hobbyists that really dig into the knowledge and sometimes can share something even pros find useful. Then thereās everybody else. Sorta like Twitter.
re: #210 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
The Raymond Scott Quintette had six members, but Scott was a very prudish man who refused to use the word āsextetā.
*cleans weapon-like device connected to a backpack by a hose*
Donāt mind me, Iām just here cleaning my flamethrowerā¦
If it walks like a Nazi, looks like a Nazi, and talks like a Nazi, it almost invariably is a Nazi.
And we all know what Nazis are good for.#NeverAgain #NeverAgainIsNow https://t.co/B3PYAr2nGCā Teo š·š§¼āļøš”š¤¬š (@Teukka1972) February 26, 2023
These are the flyers theyāre handing out with the literal SS logo on it pic.twitter.com/IExeunwUo9
ā Talia Escobedo (@taliaescbdo) February 22, 2023
Hawaii food factoid incoming.
I am growing herbs and peppers in my office. I bought a Hawaiian Chili pepper plant and a Tabasco plant because thatās all Home Depot had. I started reading up on care for each speciesā¦ only to find itās the same species. They look the same and I guess taste the same.
Absolutely disgusting. The owner of Twitter is a right wing racist piece of shit.
I wonāt be participating on this fascist enablerās site any more. Find me on Mastodon. pic.twitter.com/bmekEDXy39ā Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) February 26, 2023
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re: #282 Patricia Kayden
Jog Hallway.
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I cracked up the first time I saw that on Twitter, which was the day the January 6th Committee showed that video for the first time. And the laughter in the otherwise quiet and solemn hearing room when it was shown was awesome as well.
re: #300 jeffreyw
Nice! I have Dadās wok but only a glass top where I live now. I used to bust it out on the Weber but itās been a minute. It will return to duty in the future. Stir fry is a really unique way to cook.
My Dad got good at using an electric stove: he got railroad ties and left them on the burner so the wok would tilt over and made better contact. Iād listen to him chop for 45 minutes, then silence for 15ā¦ then SSSSSSHHHHH! the violence, metal spatula smacking the wok, then quiet.. then SSSSHHHH! for the veggies, the beating of the wok with the spatula, then silence.
Then āDinner!ā
re: #111 ckkatz
I remember one woman swing dancer that I knew at the time, who mentioned to me that she had deliberately gone to CFA just to own the liberals and that the food tasted particularly good because of it.
I almost said that I was a liberal, I liked CFA too, and I didnāt feel particularly owned.
However, the song started at that point and I decided to just meet my obligation to dance with her. I did not seek her out after that.
Fellow swing dancer here! Have you watched any videos of Nils and Bianca dancing? They are so playful and inventive and at times goofy. Definitely worth a gander.
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