Video: Asking the GOP: When Was America Last Great?
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Throwback to when the TDS News Team hit the streets of the 2016 RNC looking for an answer to one simple question: When was America last great? #TDSThrowback
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From downstairs.
re: #161 Nerdy Fish
He’s not stupid. A majority of Americans worry about his mental fitness, but as far as I’ve been able to observe, he’s been sharp-witted and very aware of the gravity of the situations he’s faced. I trust him.
This 1000%. His speech impediment often makes people think he is slow but watch him when he shows emotion (either anger or sorrow) and he still connects. I actually think that Kamala Harris’ huge increase in her speaking rhetoric is due to help from him (see the Yennessee Three speech).
The fund raising message of “This link works” shows he also has a crew around him that knows how to use social media.
My $12 Wendy’s combo yesterday agrees with this.
Greedflation. Stealing from the working class to reward executives and investors. https://t.co/FJh0IBnAkX— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) May 25, 2023
Matt Walsh is a performative idiot #38723 -
This is a man who has never fished. No line on the two new rods. Zero chance the dude knows how to spool a reel. I also like the bass rod and bass lure… but with a can of worms too.
Dude, just go buy some trout. https://t.co/jTKv2nF4ii— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) May 25, 2023
From about 12 hours ago -
London’s Whitehall closed by police after car crashes into Downing Street gates https://t.co/rNLV2xExfb
— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) May 25, 2023
I’m glad she got off with the fine and reprimand since radical Jesusbots wanted her put to death.
Indiana disciplines doctor in 10-year-old rape victim’s abortion
Indiana’s medical licensing board decided late Thursday night to discipline a doctor who made headlines last year for performing an abortion for a 10-year-old Ohio rape victim. The board gave the doctor a letter of reprimand and ordered her to pay a $3,000 fine for violating ethical standards and state reporting laws by discussing the case with a reporter.
Indiana’s Republican Attorney General Todd Rokita for nearly a year pursued punishment for Caitlin Bernard, an OB/GYN and an assistant professor at the Indiana University School of Medicine who performed the abortion in June 2022, less than a week after Roe v. Wade was struck down, enacting trigger laws.
Bernard broke patient privacy laws by telling an Indianapolis Star reporter about the patient’s care, the board decided Thursday night. Bernard’s lawyers argued she properly reported the incident to an IU Health social worker and did not run afoul of privacy laws when she discussed the patient’s case in a general and de-identified manner that is typical for doctors.
Records obtained by The Washington Post last year show that Bernard reported the girl’s abortion to the relevant state agencies ahead of the legally mandated deadline, which the board agreed with Thursday night.
re: #6 Joe Bacon ✅
Yup, they couldn’t screw her royally this time. But they will try again. She would be wise to move out of Indiana. As likely would most Ob-Gyn’s.
Still unsettled legal question: is LARPing as a group of high level intel officers on imageboards a crime? According to these newly released documents, the New York field office of the FBI wasn’t very aggressive in investigating the possibility that “Q” committed a crime. https://t.co/z5PvMVyGTj
— Travis View (@travis_view) May 25, 2023
re: #3 ckkatz
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Meanwhile, if you’re a talking head on any of the “business” shows, then you’re still telling folks about how inflation is due to all those working class folks getting a bit more in their paychecks and how a recession is coming “any day now” to “correct” that situation.
Well that was interesting.
I just stepped out to pick up the mail from my mailbox.
While standing at the mailbox, I heard a very quiet ‘woof’ repeated several times. So I look over and about 30 feet away across the street is one of the adult foxes living under my porch. It apparently wanted to warn me that it was there.
So I talked to it for a couple of seconds. Then turned and went back inside my house. Once I proceeded towards my front door, it continued on its path to my backyard.
And now I am hearing the kits giving their “Where are you?” vocalization.
“Mom… Mom… Mom… Mom…”
Probably wanting to know when dinner is.
re: #9 Targetpractice
Meanwhile, if you’re a talking head on any of the “business” shows, then you’re still telling folks about how inflation is due to all those working class folks getting a bit more in their paychecks and how a recession is coming “any day now” to “correct” that situation.
Yup, not surprised that the paid flacks, hacks, minions and mooks are lying to us again.
From what I understand-
The economy is doing okay for us working stiffs.
However, the investments the rich use are not doing as well as they do under Republicans. So to them it is a recession. Remember the post on how few mega-yachts were at the Mediterranean vacation spot.
Since its so quiet right now, some happy news.
SPAC - Special Purpose Acquisition Company
(A SPAC raises capital through an initial public offering (IPO) for the purpose of acquiring an existing operating company. In this case for the purchase of Truth Social/Trump Media & Technology Group. The financial term that comes to mind for this proposed transaction is “fleecing marks”.)
Everything Trump Touches Dies…Nasdaq threatens to delist the Trump SPAC from the stock market | CNN Business https://t.co/qV8wattGqq
— Joe Trippi (@JoeTrippi) May 25, 2023
re: #2 silverdolphin
From downstairs.
This 1000%. His speech impediment often makes people think he is slow but watch him when he shows emotion (either anger or sorrow) and he still connects. I actually think that Kamala Harris’ huge increase in her speaking rhetoric is due to help from him (see the Yennessee Three speech).
The fund raising message of “This link works” shows he also has a crew around him that knows how to use social media.
I’ve often thought of Biden as the modern LBJ, someone who’s been around long enough that he knows where all the levers are and which ones to pull to get the effects he wants. Which is why, unlike Obama in 2011, the GQP and their pet media hacks have struggled (based upon recent polls) to convince enough Americans that Biden is to blame for an impending debt default.
GOP Polling Memo Finds Big Swing to Democrats
politicalwire.com
A Republican polling memo obtained by Roll Call finds “the generic ballot has shifted toward Democrats, with Republicans losing ground among independents on the abortion issue.”
The memo found “a 6 point swing in the last year on the Generic Senate ballot from R+3 to D+3” led overwhelmingly “by independent and new voters that identify abortion as one of their top issues.”
The poll had similar findings on the House side with “a 10 point swing in the last year on the Generic House Ballot from R+6 to D+4.”
Interesting. Don’t know if peace is at hand. But there are now things on the table that might reward peace seekers. Which might reduce the number of folks who think that they benefit from continued war.
Good news from the Caucasus.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have recognized each others borders. Peace is close.
This tragedy between those two nations was only in one’s interest and that was the Kremlin. Putin’s face speaks volumes.#Armenia #Azerbaijan pic.twitter.com/h8uHcmlPEz— (((Tendar))) (@Tendar) May 25, 2023
re: #3 ckkatz
I don’t understand why this would necessarily considered a “fringe” notion. To me at least, it seems fairly obvious that corporations worldwide were engaging in profiteering and using the COVID pandemic, and right after that, the Russo-Ukrainian War, to ramp up prices as much as the market would bear. They figured that after the initial shock, consumers would simply adjust to these new, wildly inflated prices.
re: #14 retired cynic
GOP Polling Memo Finds Big Swing to Democrats
politicalwire.com
I’m thinking November 2024 is still a long way away. And it is critical we still work to convince as many Americans as possible. But, maybe, there is hope.
re: #16 Dr Lizardo
I don’t understand why this would necessarily considered a “fringe” notion. To me at least, it seems fairly obvious that corporations worldwide were engaging in profiteering and using the COVID pandemic, and right after that, the Russo-Ukrainian War, to ramp up prices as much as the market would bear. They figured that after the initial shock, consumers would simply adjust to these new, wildly inflated prices.
I assume that most economists and tv talking heads study money/gold. And thus follow the golden rule. “Those with the most gold, rule.”
And it takes a while before the mass gets enough courage to cautiously tiptoe over to ,and mill around the right conclusion.
re: #14 retired cynic
GOP Polling Memo Finds Big Swing to Democrats
politicalwire.com
A 10% shift in the House could see us pick us pick uo 21 seats in the House, giving us 244. Anda 6% shift would see us. pick up 6 in the Senate. Let;s keep it up.
re: #17 ckkatz
I’m thinking November 2024 is still a long way away. And it is critical we still work to convince as many Americans as possible. But, maybe, there is hope.
I also remember how pessimistic this site was last October.
Lordy. https://t.co/WOYswBl2Ai
— William Gibson (@GreatDismal) May 26, 2023
re: #17 ckkatz
I’m thinking November 2024 is still a long way away. And it is critical we still work to convince as many Americans as possible. But, maybe, there is hope.
There is a lot of hope. We have so much to work with and for - abortion, climate change, environmental issues. wealth inequality, human rights, fascism, book burnings, just to name some off the top of my head. There will be more that the GOP hands us in the next 18 months.
Fight. That is how we win.
Bobo the Clown (Rep. Lauren Boebert) has something to say, and it’s a self-own. But as you would expect, she’s not smart enough to see it.
President Joe Biden announced a new plan on Thursday to fight hate, bias and violence against Jewish people and combat an alarming rise in antisemitism — and Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) is taking it very personally.
The president’s plan outlines more than 100 steps the administration and its partners can take to combat antisemitism, according to The Associated Press. Biden said it sends a “clear and forceful message” that “in America, evil will not win, hate will not prevail” and “the venom and violence of antisemitism will not be the story of our time.”
If you thought combating hate is something most Americans could support even in polarizing times, guess again: It seems Boebert assumed that targeting hate groups actually meant targeting conservatives.
“When they say stuff like this, they mean they want to go after conservatives,” she tweeted. “Their tactics are straight out of the USSR’s playbook.”
Eyes emoji.#NYTXW pic.twitter.com/KbODGxhsIh
— Hemant Mehta (@hemantmehta) May 26, 2023
Not a Signal guy. But according to this thread, the Russians are very effective at jamming their own drones.
Interesting.
This Russian report places the Ukrainians as ahead of the Russians in the commercial drone jamming game by switching their drones to medium and high frequency.
1/3 https://t.co/bS3wsobH6X— Trent Telenko (@TrentTelenko) May 25, 2023
In Texas & other states, she could soon be arrested, forced to register as a sex offender, serve time or be sued for this crotch grab if there are minors present. Think it’s just for drag? In an attempt to make hate constitutional, Texas expanded the legislation to everyone. https://t.co/AKoJQJbdfF
— A. H. (@a_h_reaume) May 26, 2023
This is one reason why all performers and all fans need to stand in solidarity with drag performers. The most important reason is because drag performers are amazing and don’t deserve this though.
But spread it widely — this is no longer just targeting drag.— A. H. (@a_h_reaume) May 26, 2023
re: #26 Belafon
And this remains legal.
If Ron DeSantis Cares So Much About ‘Grooming’ Children, Why is Florida the Capital of Child Beauty Pageants? https://t.co/g95sa0Q8Nv
re: #27 jaunte
The old pervs in the GOP need something to rub one out to, after all. That’s why it’s still legal.
BBC, today.
Scientists have used artificial intelligence (AI) to discover a new antibiotic that can kill a deadly species of superbug.
The AI helped narrow down thousands of potential chemicals to a handful that could be tested in the laboratory.
The result was a potent, experimental antibiotic called abaucin, which will need further tests before being used.
The researchers in Canada and the US say AI has the power to massively accelerate the discovery of new drugs.
It is the latest example of how the tools of artificial intelligence can be a revolutionary force in science and medicine.
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And this is why a Republican-led committee in Texas finally decided in March to secretly commission an investigation into Ken Paxton, after years of covering for him.
Because he was about to force their Committee to be complicit in a cover up that the Feds are now investigating. https://t.co/OZKhMP09Y0— ClearingTheFog (@clearing_fog) May 26, 2023
Space Karen’s minions have finally reinstated me.
Recently the Russian propaganda outlet “RIA Novosti” denied the Soviet responsibility for Katyn once again, by relying on a debunked coerced testimony by a German who claimed that Katyn was in … Poland. I discuss this case in “Novaya Gazeta. Evropa.” https://t.co/RhZW5hSHkR
— Confronting Denial (@AgainstDenial) May 25, 2023
re: #30 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
BBC, today.
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AI can be a magnificent tool for accomplishing things that right now take humans too long or are too complicated. The problem is that AI is also an excellent tool for people who want to squeeze even more blood from the stone by rendering employees as “redundant” and further cutting “labor costs.”
re: #31 jaunte
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It’s hard not to be so cynical at this point as to believe that Paxton will again find some way to avoid accountability. This is Texas, I’ll be surprised if there are enough of his fellow Republicans willing to go further than just discussing impeachment.
re: #13 Targetpractice
I’ve often thought of Biden as the modern LBJ, someone who’s been around long enough that he knows where all the levers are and which ones to pull to get the effects he wants. Which is why, unlike Obama in 2011, the GQP and their pet media hacks have struggled (based upon recent polls) to convince enough Americans that Biden is to blame for an impending debt default.
Don’t jinx Biden! After all, LBJ was forced to abandon his race for a second term, because while he was a brilliant domestic policy expert, his foreign policy ignorance doomed him. Biden doesn’t have that weakness but I don’t want to consider the possibility that Biden cannot run and Harris becomes the candidate. I do like her but it’s not clear that she can win against the double whammy of racism and misogyny that she would face.
OT: another par for Friday
Wordle 706 4/6
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re: #9 Targetpractice
Meanwhile, if you’re a talking head on any of the “business” shows, then you’re still telling folks about how inflation is due to all those working class folks getting a bit more in their paychecks and how a recession is coming “any day now” to “correct” that situation.
Sadly, recession is likely coming. Inflation was mostly due to supply chain issues and price gouging.
re: #16 Dr Lizardo
I don’t understand why this would necessarily considered a “fringe” notion. To me at least, it seems fairly obvious that corporations worldwide were engaging in profiteering and using the COVID pandemic, and right after that, the Russo-Ukrainian War, to ramp up prices as much as the market would bear. They figured that after the initial shock, consumers would simply adjust to these new, wildly inflated prices.
The thinking was that companies generally didn’t have the pricing power to do that. Inflation was very low for a very long time. Why didn’t companies jack up prices pre-covid?
Supply chain disruptions provided legitimate shortages for a time. Once those were rectified the companies didn’t lower prices. And they won’t until consumers stop overpaying.
re: #19 silverdolphin
A 10% shift in the House could see us pick us pick uo 21 seats in the House, giving us 244. Anda 6% shift would see us. pick up 6 in the Senate. Let;s keep it up.
How are you calculating those Senate numbers? The map in 2024 is horrible for the Dems.
re: #33 Targetpractice
AI can be a magnificent tool for accomplishing things that right now take humans too long or are too complicated. The problem is that AI is also an excellent tool for people who want to squeeze even more blood from the stone by rendering employees as “redundant” and further cutting “labor costs.”
The conclusion will hopefully be a tax on AI and a universal basic income. It will be a better world where work is a choice. Getting there will be bumpy.
re: #37 JC1
The thinking was that companies generally didn’t have the pricing power to do that. Inflation was very low for a very long time. Why didn’t companies jack up prices pre-covid?
Supply chain disruptions provided legitimate shortages for a time. Once those were rectified the companies didn’t lower prices. And they won’t until consumers stop overpaying.
I’m not sure how you get “consumers stop overpaying.”
I can see that on things which are not necessary (restaurants, movies, basically fun things).
Necessary thing are a different story. Say there are six companies which sell beans in tins. There are four major brands, one regional brand, and one house brand (which is really an inferior quality major brand). None of them lower their price.
So you forego beans. You switch to carrots. There are three major brands of carrots and one house brand. None of them lowered their price either.
So you say “fuque this” and decide tinned vegetables are off your shopping list and you go for fresh vegetables. Well, fresh vegetables are more expensive to begin with, those prices also went up.
The same goes for just about any other product. Coffee? All brands went up. Tea? The same. Beef? LOL unless you live in an over-producing area like I do you need a home equity loan to buy porterhouse or New York strip steaks.
re: #39 JC1
The conclusion will hopefully be a tax on AI and a universal basic income. It will be a better world where work is a choice. Getting there will be bumpy.
Forties science-fiction: Automation will bring far more leisure time to everyone.
XXI Century reality: Automation leads to longer work hours and low pay (and children working in bars and coal mines).
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No, Gene Bailey, when Thomas Jefferson wrote of “building a wall of separation between Church & State,” he did not mean that “the church should infect the state.” pic.twitter.com/5xXmdmw4yx
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) May 25, 2023
Libertarians will try to sell anything (part ten million three). BBC, nine hours ago.
Google has removed a highly controversial game called Slavery Simulator from its app store, after it caused outrage in Brazil.
The app, which allowed players to “buy and sell” black characters, was launched by Magnus Games on 20 April.
The game was downloaded more than 1,000 times before it was removed on Wednesday, local media reported.
Brazil is a country still coming to terms with its legacy of slavery, which was only abolished in 1888.
In a description of the game, the developer boasted that users could “exchange, buy and sell slaves”. It also allowed players to inflict various forms of torture on black characters.
According to images of the game, users were offered a choice to either liberate the enslaved characters or “use slaves for your own enrichment. Prevent the abolition of slavery and accumulate wealth”.
At the time of its removal, the game had a rating of four out of five stars, with one review reading: “Great game to pass the time. But I think it lacked more torture options.”
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Google removes ‘Slavery Simulator’ game amid outrage in Brazil
re: #38 JC1
How are you calculating those Senate numbers? The map in 2024 is horrible for the Dems.
I meant to link to the info on 2024 Senate elections About a quarter of.the way down, it has a section called Predictions, The table shows what the percentage win was in the last election. Hit the arrow at the right of column called Last Election. This puts all the Republicans together. Then look at ones where a 6% shift to Dems would change.
So, for instance, Cruz won by about 1 %. So a 6% Blue shift gives us his seat. The Flips would be Scott, Braun (retiring), Cruz Hawley and possibly Blackburn . Perhaps Cramer if he is primareid by a real nutball.
All handwaving ( the 6% is against a genral ballot and specific states could be quite different) but does show that the maps may not be as dismal as we suspect. The 6% shift would easily re-elect Manchin. And a Democrat in Arizona. And Tester.
Is this all likely? Maybe not bt it is a reasonable scenario if we keep up the work.
re: #44 silverdolphin
To repeat myself from last night: national averages do not tell what local or state elections will do.
An average national D+6 shift may show up as, for example, a D+10 shift in some states and an R+3 shift in other states.
And even within a state we should remember that all politics is local.
In regards to the coming Presidential election, Biden is lucky that the leading Republicans are such unlikeable people.
If the GOP could ever nominate someone who is an affable person then I expect such a nominee to win.
I thought that today as I was speaking with someone who was complaining about how expensive everything has become. Inflation is a way for the GOP to get rid of Biden, but I suspect the “grassroot” Republicans are so trained to hate after decades of the hate-machine that all they can do is nominate the really ugly.
“Many voters” is a hell of a substitute for lazy political journalists. https://t.co/TJWdqNOFXL
— Hemant Mehta (@hemantmehta) May 25, 2023
re: #47 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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“Many voters” are fence-sitting chickenshits who don’t want to admit that they avoid politics like the plague and their understanding of “extreme” is based purely upon what hack journalists like those employed at the New York Times tell them is “extreme.”
Lloyd’s Register has told India’s Gatik Ship Management, which has become a major carrier of Russian oil since the Ukraine war, that it will withdraw certification of 21 of its vessels by June 3, the maritime services company told Reuters.It is the latest setback for Gatik, which was also been forced to find new flags for 36 of its ships after they were deflagged by the St. Kitts & Nevis International Ship Registry.
“Lloyd’s Register is committed to facilitating compliance with sanctions regulations on the trading of Russian oil,” it said in an email to Reuters. “Where supported by evidence, we withdraw class and services from any vessels found by the relevant authorities to be breaching international sanctions.”
re: #46 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
To repeat myself from last night: national averages do not tell what local or state elections will do.
An average national D+6 shift may show up as, for example, a D+10 shift in some states and an R+3 shift in other states.
And even within a state we should remember that all politics is local.
In regards to the coming Presidential election, Biden is lucky that the leading Republicans are such unlikeable people.
If the GOP could ever nominate someone who is an affable person then I expect such a nominee to win.
I thought that today as I was speaking with someone who was complaining about how expensive everything has become. Inflation is a way for the GOP to get rid of Biden, but I suspect the “grassroot” Republicans are so trained to hate after decades of the hate-machine that all they can do is nominate the really ugly.
I never meant my thought experiment to be anything more than a back of the napkin look. (I do think it is better than the most famous back of the naplin model - the Laffer Curve). And I know generic ballot polls have problems connecting to reality. All your points are true. But I’d rather see an average 6% Blue shift than the opposite. I think that hard work can drive the GOP numbers down even further.
I believe the worry about the Senate going Red may be overblown and will get more so as time goes on. We are going to put a lot of hard work into this. The people under 40, women and minorities are going to have a huge effect.
Biden lost Florida by 3.4%. A 6% or greater shift gives us that state. Doable? I think that by next year it may well will be debatable we could win. COuld we take Cruz’ seat? I think that is doable.
We are not in normal times. We are well into the formation of a new politcal party system, just as we have done 6 times before. Both parties will be reorganized to deal with tomorow’s problems not yesterday’s. The GOP does stupid things because it is not organized to deal with today’s complex world. Just as Japan and Germany did stupid things, or the South or the British. They simply cannot move data and information around fast enough to get the right data to the right person at the right time to make a good decision.
You are absolutely right about the statistics here. But all I am doing is showing that the numbers are not only favorably in our direction but have the potential to make real changes. It still requires us to do the heavy liftibng to break the fascist hold on our system. (And I do not think it is possible to have an affable fascist ;-)
Meanwhile, in China:
China’s recently announced x86 Domestic CPUs by Powerstar are nothing more than rebadged Intel 10 Gen chips.
The company hosted a big event, inviting press from various parts of the country & turns out, the chip was nothing more than a rebadged Intel 10th Gen CPU. A Geekbench 5 listing of the PowerLeader DP1UI-2 workstation reveals that the PL 1st Gen PSTAR P3-01105 PCU is nothing more than a Core i3-10105 CPU which is derived from the 10th Gen Intel Comet Lake family.
Based on this finding, it looks like those future generation chips might also be rebadged Intel parts and it should be interesting to see how Intel responds to their official retail CPUs being used by a different company in such a manner.
re: #48 Targetpractice
“Many voters” are fence-sitting chickenshits who don’t want to admit that they avoid politics like the plague and their understanding of “extreme” is based purely upon what hack journalists like those employed at the New York Times tell them is “extreme.”
Historically, most independents were Repunlicans who did not people to know. They almost always broke to the GOP. But demograpically things have been changing. 2/3rds of eligible voters participated in 2020. Those under 40 vote for Democrats 2:1 over Republicans and will be the largest voting block in 2024, represewnting over 44% of the eligible voters.
Many of the under-40 appear to identify as independents (54%). But the reasons are different. Many are very progressive on social issues and do not like the Third Way democrats so often in charge of the DNC the last 20 years. They will likely break for the candidate who does something about climate change, protects LBTGQ communities, deals with student loans and housing issues. Only one party will do any of that for them.
re: #40 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I’m not sure how you get “consumers stop overpaying.”
I can see that on things which are not necessary (restaurants, movies, basically fun things).
Necessary thing are a different story. Say there are six companies which sell beans in tins. There are four major brands, one regional brand, and one house brand (which is really an inferior quality major brand). None of them lower their price.
So you forego beans. You switch to carrots. There are three major brands of carrots and one house brand. None of them lowered their price either.
So you say “fuque this” and decide tinned vegetables are off your shopping list and you go for fresh vegetables. Well, fresh vegetables are more expensive to begin with, those prices also went up.
The same goes for just about any other product. Coffee? All brands went up. Tea? The same. Beef? LOL unless you live in an over-producing area like I do you need a home equity loan to buy porterhouse or New York strip steaks.
For products that don’t have substitutes and are necessities, we’re pretty much screwed until someone new enters the market. But most products don’t fall into those categories.
re: #41 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Forties science-fiction: Automation will bring far more leisure time to everyone.
XXI Century reality: Automation leads to longer work hours and low pay (and children working in bars and coal mines).
Low pay is more the result of globalization and decline of labor unions than of automation. Wages kept up with productivity gains until the 1980s.
re: #50 silverdolphin
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You are absolutely right about the statistics here. But all I am doing is showing that the numbers are not only favorably in our direction but have the potential to make real changes. It still requires us to do the heavy liftibng to break the fascist hold on our system. (And I do not think it is possible to have an affable fascist ;-)
We are moving into the election season, when anything positive you have to say will be subject to a blizzard of doom and gloom. (You’ve been lurking enough that you’re probably aware of the pessimist effect here.) One year it got so bad that I had to take a two month vacation from all the negativity (since I was spending a lot of spare time working on the election). That was 2018 — the year we took back the House in a great blue wave).
So be prepared. The pessimists have only begun to despair.
And on that note, it’s past my bedtime. Good night!
re: #50 silverdolphin
I am wary of what I now call the 538-effect.
That is, approaching elections as statistical models.
We hoomans are funny - we tend to move in groups even when we declare we are independent thinkers.
There is still plenty of time before the 2024 elections.
Who knows how the group dynamics will work out by election day.
re: #52 silverdolphin
Historically, most independents were Repunlicans who did not people to know. They almost always broke to the GOP. But demograpically things have been changing. 2/3rds of eligible voters participated in 2020. Those under 40 vote for Democrats 2:1 over Republicans and will be the largest voting block in 2024, represewnting over 44% of the eligible voters.
Many of the under-40 appear to identify as independents (54%). But the reasons are different. Many are very progressive on social issues and do not like the Third Way democrats so often in charge of the DNC the last 20 years. They will likely break for the candidate who does something about climate change, protects LBTGQ communities, deals with student loans and housing issues. Only one party will do any of that for them.
I like to be realistic when I can, and realistically the only thing that saved our asses last November…was abortion. Dobbs was the wake-up call, it was the shot across the bow to everybody Gen-X and younger that the years of assuming that rulings like Roe were basically set in stone no court would be stupid enough to reach down and grab that third rail were now over. That without Dobbs and the subsequent dumb-ass moves the GQP made to capitalize on what they saw as the vindication of their decades of work to alter the make-up of the SCOTUS bench, the Dems would have lost bad at the polls and we’d be talking not whether Biden can avoid a debt default but just how big a cave he was going to have to make just to avoid one.
re: #56 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS
Yeah, a lot of our fellow are of a somewhat pessimistic nature.
For me, it’s this:
“Dr. Lizardo, what is best in life?”
“To crush conservatives, to see them driven before you and to hear the lamentations of their women.”
re: #59 Dr Lizardo
Yeah, a lot of our fellow are of a somewhat pessimistic nature.
For me, it’s this:
“Dr. Lizardo, what is best in life?”
“To crush conservatives, to see them driven before you and to hear the lamentations of their women.”
“That is good! That is good.”
This seems to be related to the Russian warship which the Ukrainians claim to have hit the other day:
That is a lot of activity around an undamaged vessel.#Moskva #IvanKhurs #SlavaUkraini https://t.co/7wpD07ARRx
— Scott Elaurant (@ElaurantScott) May 26, 2023
New: Tennessee Republicans have appointed a woman to write the state’s social studies standards who said 9/11 was an “inside job,” the 2020 election was stolen from Trump, January 6 insurrectionists were “Antifa,” and Obama created “tornadoes.” (@JuddLegum)https://t.co/2F2YdWbpJu
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) May 25, 2023
King County, Washington.
A Russian woman living in the U.S. wrote “Bakhmut is ours, thank you Wagner” on her garage in order to upset the Ukrainian neighbors that live on the same street as her.
The Ukrainians tell her “how can you write that after so many children killed?” pic.twitter.com/8oZBHcz3YK— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) May 25, 2023
re: #56 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS
We are moving into the election season, when anything positive you have to say will be subject to a blizzard of doom and gloom. (You’ve been lurking enough that you’re probably aware of the pessimist effect here.) One year it got so bad that I had to take a two month vacation from all the negativity (since I was spending a lot of spare time working on the election). That was 2018 — the year we took back the House in a great blue wave).
So be prepared. The pessimists have only begun to despair.
And on that note, it’s past my bedtime. Good night!
Thank you for your advice. And the doom and gloom Democrat is present everywhere. Because we have had to deal with disappointment for most of the last 40 years. Much like the supporters of the Cleveland Indians in Major League it has been hard to be positive.
But economic trends are in our favor, demographic trends are in our favor and historical trends are in our favor. IMHO, we are just as assured of eventual victory as the Allies were or the North was. We are simply organized to survive and thrive in the new cultural envronment driven by the disruptive change of the Internet. They are organized to survive and thrive in the old cultural envronment driven by the disruptive change of mass production. An old cultural environment that no longer exists.
What happens to a community that fails to adapt to a new cultual environment? Ask the Aztecs.Or the South. Or the Axis. The GOP is on the losing side of history and they realize the existential threat they are under. Which is why they are trying so hard, not realizing that that is exactly what is driving many people away from their party.
We will win but we still have a lot of work left. The Battle of Midway decided the outcome of the Pacific War but it still took 3 years of hard fighting to win.
We must destroy the Republican Party and then remake what is left to create two new parties,: one that is made up of centrist/Third Way Democrats, Wall Street/Main Street conservatives and anti-Trumpers/neoconservatives, and a liberal party made up of Progessives, working class whites/rural and minorities. The social conservatives and hypocritical fundamentalists will not have any home in eother party. I hope.
So bring on the doom and gloom. I may not know exactly how we will win but our victory is assured IMHO. My main worry is how many people will die needlessly because of the GOP idiocy.We have already seen hundreds of thousands die due to COVID> I really hope there are not many more.
re: #16 Dr Lizardo
I don’t understand why this would necessarily considered a “fringe” notion. To me at least, it seems fairly obvious that corporations worldwide were engaging in profiteering and using the COVID pandemic, and right after that, the Russo-Ukrainian War, to ramp up prices as much as the market would bear. They figured that after the initial shock, consumers would simply adjust to these new, wildly inflated prices.
We were taught that tight competition in the Free Market helps keep prices low.
We are also taught that as a minimum-wage employee, you are a fully replaceable cog in the machine but as a CEO you are worth 400 times as much.
re: #65 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
We were taught that tight competition in the Free Market helps keep prices low.
We are also taught that as a minimum-wage employee, you are a fully replaceable cog in the machine but as a CEO you are worth 400 times as much.
I was taught that unregulated free enterprise leads to monopolies. At least, that’s what my dad always told me.
re: #32 Nyet
Recently the Russian propaganda outlet “RIA Novosti” denied the Soviet responsibility for Katyn once again, by relying on a debunked coerced testimony by a German who claimed that Katyn was in … Poland. I discuss this case in “Novaya Gazeta. Evropa.
I understand that this was an important issue during WW2 and the Cold War, but nowadays it is not unlike a couple of crackheads who broke into a house and murdered the entire family arguing about which one of them strangled grandma.
re: #41 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Forties science-fiction: Automation will bring far more leisure time to everyone.
XXI Century reality: Automation leads to longer work hours and low pay (and children working in bars and coal mines).
If we had functioning unions and an economic system that represented the interests of workers over employers, that could certainly be the case.
re: #66 Dr Lizardo
I was taught that unregulated free enterprise leads to monopolies. At least, that’s my dad always told me.
your dad was a radical!
re: #69 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
your dad was a radical!
My dad was a bit like a real-life Archie Bunker in some regards, but I chalk that up to him being of the WW2 generation. It was a different time in the USA.
But…he certainly had a surprisingly “woke” streak.
re: #64 silverdolphin
The thing about comparisons to the Civil War or WWII is that you’re looking at it from a context of decades or more after the dust settled. All the “doom and gloom”? A lot of that came in early to mid last year, in the aftermath of the VA gubernatorial election and during the worst inflation spikes as the fighting began in Ukraine. A lot of folks have been so drunk on the elation after last November to forget that this time last year, we were getting poll after poll predicting an absolute bloodbath. Generic polls showed Dems marching off to slaughter and there was no real reason to think the political winds would shift enough to prevent that. No offense, but anybody in May of last year saying that there would be no “Red Wave” sounded a lot like the people across history who’ve predicted with confidence that “the boys will be home by Christmas!”
re: #63 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
King County, Washington.
A Russian woman living in the U.S. wrote “Bakhmut is ours, thank you Wagner” on her garage in order to upset the Ukrainian neighbors that live on the same street as her.
The Ukrainians tell her “how can you write that after so many children killed?” pic.twitter.com/8oZBHcz3YK— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) May 25, 2023
This is how humanity wins. By individuals standing up not just for themselves, but for others in the world yearning for something better. We use metaphors to tell us how ro live in the cultural environment we inhabit. The metaphor of the rugged individual no longer predicts success.The world is too complex today for a single mind at the top of the ladder to make wise decisions. Dirty Harry may have been a succesful metaphor 50 years ago, but today you need a connected group bringing all their diverse skills to solving complex problems.I beleive this is why Harry Potter resonated so strongly. The Battle of Hogwarts is going on right now.
We are moving into a world where diverse, collaborative communities have a selective advantage over hierarchical authoritarian ones. Harry Potter or the Avengers won BECAUSE they were not led by a single person at the top but by a adaptive, diverse group working together.
So the doom sayers can say all the doom they want. I am convinced we will not only win and succeed in remaking America but will create a period of prosperity that lasts 20-30 years. We have done it before and we will do it again.
re: #70 Dr Lizardo
My dad was a bit like a real-life Archie Bunker in some regards, but I chalk that up to him being of the WW2 generation. It was a different time in the USA.
But…he certainly had a surprisingly “woke” streak.
The same generation that experienced the Great Depression because of laissez faire capitalism and elected FDR to four terms as President.
re: #73 No Malarkey!
The same generation that experienced the Great Depression because of laissez faire capitalism and elected FDR to four terms as President.
But also the same generation that totally lost their shit when LBJ announced the Great Society laws that would see all the benefits of the New Deal equally distributed to all Americans.
re: #73 No Malarkey!
The same generation that experienced the Great Depression because of laissez faire capitalism and elected FDR to four terms as President.
Exactly.
re: #70 Dr Lizardo
My dad was a bit like a real-life Archie Bunker in some regards, but I chalk that up to him being of the WW2 generation. It was a different time in the USA.
But…he certainly had a surprisingly “woke” streak.
My dad as well, he enjoyed the Golden Age of the American worker: as a steel mill roller with a high school degree, he could afford a modest house, a mid-range car and to send his kids to (state) universities.
re: #74 Targetpractice
But also the same generation that totally lost their shit when LBJ announced the Great Society laws that would see all the benefits of the New Deal equally distributed to all Americans.
Yes, racism is the big reason the US doesn’t have a robust social safety net like our wealthy allies; the capitalist class is able to pit workers against each other by skin color, whereas workers in Europe knew who their real enemies were.
re: #68 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
If we had functioning unions and an economic system that represented the interests of workers over employers, that could certainly be the case.
I firmly believe we are moving towards just such a world. We are already seeing some companies (the supposed woke ones) making decisons not based purely on profit but on the wishes of their employees.
We have had 6 poliitcal party systems in our history and each one of them fundamentally changed our economics.
1. Revolution - capitalism
2. Jacksonian Revoluton - War with the Bank of the United States
3. Civil War - slavery
4. Gilded/Golden Age - bimetallism and monpolistic trusts
5. epression/WW2 - mixed, Keynsian economy.
6, Reagan Revoluton - supply side economics
The plight of the worker has been bettered during the odd numbered systems and hurt during the even numbered. We are ready for a new odd numbered political and economic system that helps labor.
What would the new system be? My bet is something like Modern Money Theory coupled with a universal income.
When I was a kid, we went out to the Little Bighorn battlefield site. There, not only did I learn that “Custer got exactly what he comin’ to him”, but that in my dad’s opinion, the site should be a memorial to the Native American tribes that stood up to a genocidal policy and prevented what almost certainly would’ve been a massacre. This would’ve been back in 1978.
If that’s not “woke”, then I don’t know what is. I can only imagine DeSantis and his ilk would have a stroke at the mere suggestion of such a thing. 😄
re: #79 Dr Lizardo
When I was a kid, we went out to the Little Bighorn battlefiled site. There, not only did I learn that “Custer got exactly what he comin’ to him”, but that in my dad’s opinion, the site should be a memorial to the Native American tribes that stood up to a genocidal policy and prevented what almost certainly would’ve been a massacre. This would’ve been back in 1978.
If that’s not “woke”, then I don’t know what is. I can only imagine DeSantis and his ilk would have a stroke at the mere suggestion of such a thing. 😄
Outside of the Civil War Battlefields, the Little Bighorn is the most awe-inspiring. The stupidity of Custer (dividing his forces, not scouting properly) And the stunning assault by the tribes. The world would be very different today if they had been able to maintain that huge coalition. But they could not and each group was picked off by a tremendusly angry Union.
You can see today almost exactly what they saw in 1876.
Major League Baseball has been surprisingly egalitarian this year, as two of the lowest payroll teams, Tampa Bay and Baltimore, have been dominating in a division with big payroll teams NY Yankees and Toronto, and Pittsburgh has a winning record so far. The big exception is the lowest paid team, the Oakland A’s, who are exceptionally bad; they are on a pace to lose a MLB record 131 games. I’m guessing the A’s dumped all the payroll they could while preparing to move to Las Vegas, the city Oakland also lost their NFL team to.
re: #79 Dr Lizardo
When I was a kid, we went out to the Little Bighorn battlefiled site. There, not only did I learn that “Custer got exactly what he comin’ to him”, but that in my dad’s opinion, the site should be a memorial to the Native American tribes that stood up to a genocidal policy and prevented what almost certainly would’ve been a massacre. This would’ve been back in 1978.
If that’s not “woke”, then I don’t know what is. I can only imagine DeSantis and his ilk would have a stroke at the mere suggestion of such a thing. 😄
Custer was a vain idiot, that’s what got him killed. He rejected the offer of additional men, left a brace of Gatling guns behind, and then split the troops he had the day of the battle which allowed them to be isolated and wiped out quicker than one large group together. Throw in the US Army’s cost-cutting decision to adopt copper cases for their bullets that led to many rifles being rendered useless by ejection failures and their users vulnerable as they tried to pry the offending cases out of the breaches and you’ve a recipe for a massacre.
Russia is a clown show.
Translation: “Avian influenza outbreaks in Russia are of concern in connection with the experiments that were carried out in the Askania-Nova nature reserve in Kherson, commissioned by the United States. This was stated by the head of the RKhBZ troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant-General Igor Kirillov.
He drew attention to the fact of the mass death of birds on the territory of the reserve in the Kherson region in 2021. The Ukrainian side offered the employees of the institution a large monetary reward for the removal or destruction of the results of studies of avian influenza strains conducted there. Kirillov stressed that Washington is the customer for such projects.”
Russia blames the US and Ukraine for mass bird flue outbreak in Russia due to ‘experiments’ carried out in a nature reserve in the Kherson region. pic.twitter.com/2t5bVMgmcm
— NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@NOELreports) May 26, 2023
Biological laboratories.
Next: plague bats
re: #71 Targetpractice
The thing about comparisons to the Civil War or WWII is that you’re looking at it from a context of decades or more after the dust settled. All the “doom and gloom”? A lot of that came in early to mid last year, in the aftermath of the VA gubernatorial election and during the worst inflation spikes as the fighting began in Ukraine. A lot of folks have been so drunk on the elation after last November to forget that this time last year, we were getting poll after poll predicting an absolute bloodbath. Generic polls showed Dems marching off to slaughter and there was no real reason to think the political winds would shift enough to prevent that. No offense, but anybody in May of last year saying that there would be no “Red Wave” sounded a lot like the people across history who’ve predicted with confidence that “the boys will be home by Christmas!”
I agree we are a long way from election day and so much can happen. But I would rather be where we are now than not. Still lots of hard work. However, I think we are nearer the end than the beginning.
But I know we will eventually win. Simply because we are organized better to deal with the complexity of the cultural environment we inhabit (Jesus , just look at how well the people like AOC and now even Biden, use new technology ro get their message out vs Trump/ DeSantis. ) Just as an animal well adapted to a natural environment has a selective advantage, so do we in the new cultural environment we are adapting to.
Well, looks like Elon is going to have a great weekend between this and the DeSantis DeBacle on Twitter Spaces the other day. Coming Twitter shitstorm!
A German news outlet sifted through over 23,000 of Tesla’s internal files and found a disturbing trend of brushing off customers complaining about dangerous Autopilot glitches while covering the company’s ass.
The publication Handelsblatt got its hands on the data through an unnamed informant. Handelsblatt confirmed the data’s authenticity with Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology, which found no evidence of doctoring or fabrication in the files. Tesla attempted to stop the publication from using this data in its reporting and even threatened legal action against Handelsblatt. The publication, however, decided this was one of the extraordinary circumstances when reporting on such a data breach would be legal under European Union law.
What happens when a desperate 17-year-old can’t find care and decides to self-manage her abortion? She is criminally punished and now faces jail time. This is the march toward personhood, folks, and it is terrifying.https://t.co/8rlTz6bSJH pic.twitter.com/HYbFcrLwXJ
— Abortion Access Front (@AbortionFront) May 25, 2023
re: #87 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
We all knew the forced birthers were lying when they said “of course we don’t want to send women to prison for getting abortions, they are victims of abortions too.” It didn’t take them long to change their tune.
As conservative as they come, but drummed out of the GOP for not at least condoning a fascist coup attempt.
Any candidate who says they will pardon Jan. 6 defendants is not qualified to be President.
— Liz Cheney (@Liz_Cheney) May 25, 2023
re: #88 No Malarkey!
We all knew the forced birthers were lying when they said “of course we don’t want to send women to prison for getting abortions, they are victims of abortions too.” It didn’t take them long to change their tune.
This crime occurred before the overturning of Roe v Wade.
MADISON COUNTY, Neb. —
An 18-year-old woman accused of illegally terminating a pregnancy and concealing a fetus accepted a plea deal Monday.
Celeste Burgess pleaded guilty to one count of removing, concealing, or abandoning a dead body as part of a plea agreement Monday morning in Madison County District Court.
According to the clerk of the District Court, prosecutors dropped two other charges against Burgess in exchange for the plea. The other charges were misdemeanors.
Investigators obtained Facebook messages between Celeste and her mother, 41-year-old Jessica Burgess.
In them, the two talked about using medication to induce an abortion and then made plans to burn the fetus after.
Celeste was 17 and 24 weeks pregnant at the time.
In one message, Jessica Burgess tells her daughter she obtained the pills and gave her instructions on how to end her pregnancy.
Celeste Burgess will be sentenced on July 20. She faces up to two years in prison.
Jessica Burgess is also facing a number of charges in the case, including removing, concealing, or abandoning a dead body and concealing the death of another person.
Jessica Burgess has a pretrial hearing on her case scheduled for July.
(KETV, Omaha, May 22, 2023)
Many of the activists who spearheaded the Texas chaplains bill were January 6-ers.https://t.co/EulyJyj7yc via @RNS
— FFRF (@FFRF) May 25, 2023
re: #88 No Malarkey!
We all knew the forced birthers were lying when they said “of course we don’t want to send women to prison for getting abortions, they are victims of abortions too.” It didn’t take them long to change their tune.
It is all about making examples of them as a deterrent measure
re: #92 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It is all about making examples of them
The eighteen year-old pleaded guilty to misdemeanours in her plea agreement to drop the charge of a twenty-three week abortion (illegal here under the old law). Her mother is charged with felonies.
re: #94 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
It’s full of that cold-war era action and misogyny.
re: #85 silverdolphin
I agree we are a long way from election day and so much can happen. But I would rather be where we are now than not. Still lots of hard work. However, I think we are nearer the end than the beginning.
But I know we will eventually win. Simply because we are organized better to deal with the complexity of the cultural environment we inhabit (Jesus , just look at how well the people like AOC and now even Biden, use new technology ro get their message out vs Trump/ DeSantis. ) Just as an animal well adapted to a natural environment has a selective advantage, so do we in the new cultural environment we are adapting to.
I’d say my argument is more that we shouldn’t count on fortuitous events to carry the day every time. To keep things in a historical context, Dobbs was the recovery of Special Order 191 or codebreakers deducing that “AF” in Japanese naval dispatches stood for Midway Island, it was that key moment that totally altered the sequence of events that otherwise might have seen ruin and damnation for our side. We really had nothing to run on last year that carried the raw anger and revulsion that was the public’s reaction to the GQP gleefully screaming “ABORTION BANS NOW! ABORTION BANS TOMORROW!! ABORTION BANS FOREVER!!”
re: #96 Targetpractice
People are aware that the GOP is not only for banning abortion nationwide, but for banning contraception - and for mandatory inspections of all childbearing-age women leaving the country.
And I don’t think that the transphobic culture wars and anti-woke wars are gaining them much traction outside of their established base.
And people are fed up with mass shootings and ready to accept the notion of reasonable gun control legislation.
re: #97 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
People are aware that the GOP is not only for banning abortion nationwide, but for banning contraception - and for mandatory inspections of all childbearing-age women leaving the country.
And I don’t think that the transphobic culture wars and anti-woke wars are gaining them much traction outside of their established base.
And people are fed up with mass shootings and ready to accept the notion of reasonable gun control legislation.
The thing is that all of this was true last year as well, but Dobbs made it real for them. Without it, we were just howling in the wind about how Repubs want to ban abortions, ban contraception, and play out all the worst chapters of The Handmaid’s Tale.
We’ve been fighting against anti-LGBTQ+ legislation and legislators for literal decades and all we heard from voters was “Yeah, but they’re offering me lower taxes.”
And It’s been said again and again that once people decided that two dozen dead kids at Newtown was the “price” to pay for “freedom,” the debate was pretty much over because nothing was ever going to move the needle.
Yet you turned on the TV before Dobbs and the stories weren’t about all of that, they were about how people didn’t feel “safe” in their lily-white neighborhoods because they’d seen a black kid walking down the street, or that they were spending hundreds on milk for their dozen kids because of “skyrocketing prices,” or in a state of hysteria about how Biden was dragging us into “WORLD WAR III!!!” by providing aid to Ukraine instead of talking them into another Crimean-style “peace deal.”
Someone earlier posted a video about the critical flaw in brake lights on EVs, a video which illustrates well how easy it is for engineers to be presumptuous about how a product is used.
Anyway, long before the current EV trend, long before the current fascination with self-driving cars, from 56 years ago the dream of a self-driving car was strong:
re: #67 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I understand that this was an important issue during WW2 and the Cold War, but nowadays it is not unlike a couple of crackheads who broke into a house and murdered the entire family arguing about which one of them strangled grandma.
You write the same canned response every time I post about it. If you insist on commenting, then at least come up with something not so obviously false and inconsiderate.
re: #98 Targetpractice
The thing is that all of this was true last year as well, but Dobbs made it real for them. Without it, we were just howling in the wind about how Repubs want to ban abortions, ban contraception, and play out all the worst chapters of The Handmaid’s Tale.
Even DJT is complaining that they are too overt in their “no exceptions” messaging. But they cannot help but to revel in their triumph. The dog has caught the car and now has a mouth full of hot exhaust pipe…
re: #100 Nyet
You write the same canned response every time I post about it. If you insist on commenting, then at least come up with something not so obviously false and inconsiderate.
Sorry to bore you with my boilerplate.
I grew up in Gary, Indiana, where the local Polish population spent a lot of time holding forums and public discussions on the history of Katyn.
The most recent statements by the Russian government indicate that they are not about to distance or disassociate themselves from the USSR and the Red Army and its “accomplishments” in Eastern Europe.
With the resurgence of vinyl records, shouldn’t you be buying them and playing them backwards to find the hidden Satanic messages?
— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) May 26, 2023
Back on the birbie bus. Working from home for a half a day, then easing into a 3-day weekend. Hope everyone has/had a good one!
Wordle 706 3/6*
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Wordle read the news today, oh boy.
Well this came out of the blue.
Wordle 706 2/6
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I’m not going to make “iggle” happen, am I?
SibData: 2,3,4,5,5
CPAC…. bwahahahahaha, an organization who loves neo-fascists everywhere is hardly who anyone should follow.
The organization behind CPAC had its own treasurer resign because of how dodgy it is:https://t.co/ndqtIeMbId— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) May 26, 2023
re: #104 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
We took a stroll with Sarah P Perry through a Target store to see the extent of their “pride” merchandise.
What we found is that Target is very much in the business of promoting gender confusion and grooming children.
The verdict: avoid shopping at Target.
Cancel Culture?
In any case, a commercial boycott is a fine and accepted form of protest, but for a lot of people, it is not enough; they resort to harassment of Target employees and threats of physical violence.
This whole Target thing is just re-warmed Satanic-Panic from the 1970’s/1980’s.
Remember the Procter and Gamble Logo scandal?
re: #110 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
This whole Target thing is just re-warmed Satanic-Panic from the 1970’s/1980’s.
re: #106 Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿
Beagle just makes you want to howl to the world in joy. Iggle is already claimed by Philly fans.
Someday this dude is going to discover that his words are going to come back to bite him. Hard.
This is crazy – lives are on the line!
The woke mind virus is a parasite that kills its host. It must be eliminated.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 25, 2023
re: #114 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The woke mind virus is a parasite that kills its host. It must be eliminated.
wasn’t there some fellow in Germany who used to go on about Jews being a form of parasite that kills its host?
re: #115 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Elon is straight up channeling Hitler and the right wing idiots are lapping it up.
re: #116 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Elon is straight up channeling Hitler and the right wing idiots are lapping it up.
Because he allows them to have their cake and eat it, too. He provides just enough distance to assure deniability.
Right now there are 33 of us online, one for each year of Jesus’ life…let us meditate on that.
re: #118 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Right now there are 33 of us online, one for each year of Jesus’ life…let us meditate on that.
I’m logging out now for bed as the bird alarm just went off outside.
Catch y’all later.
re: #118 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Right now there are 33 of us online, one for each year of Jesus’ life…let us meditate on that.
Heh…. Nope.
Still nothing. I need a refill though. The Taco lady starts the grill at 7, sooooo..
Fish and chips tonight, Friday tradition
re: #114 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Someday this dude is going to discover that his words are going to come back to bite him. Hard.
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I know you don’t want to find this out, Elon, but holding workers hostage actually is called slavery, and it’s wrong.
Twitter engineering chief leaves one day after DeSadist disaster.
re: #104 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I would suggest that you read the sign above your head rather than the one at the other end of the building.
— Blue in Red Texas (@RockwallBlue) May 26, 2023
Michael’s only 17. His immigrant family is on public assistance, so he can use a 45-minute discount on Citi Bike. He was re-docking to restart the clock to get a new discount to get home. Then Comrie showed up.@thejournalista actually talked to Michael.https://t.co/sgNCH79BQF
— Aura Bogado (@aurabogado) May 25, 2023
Things to watch for today:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two members of the Oath Keepers who stormed the U.S. Capitol in a military-style formation will be sentenced Friday, a day after the far-right extremist group’s founder received an 18-year prison term for seditious conspiracy and other charges in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack.
U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta will sentence Army veterans Jessica Watkins and Kenneth Harrelson after handing Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes the longest prison sentence so far in more than 1,000 criminal cases brought in the Jan. 6 riot.
Two things you don’t want to see together “Elon Musk” and “Human Trials”
re: #123 TarHellion
Twitter engineering chief leaves one day after DeSadist disaster.
Somebody had to take the fall for Musk firing so much vital staff.
re: #30 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Aaarrggghhh…
It’s not AI that found this or is speeding research. It’s an algorithmic search of compounds and identifying those with specific receptors that can do it. Instead of manually searching or accidentally finding something that works, which is how this has been done in the past, the computer systems are now fast and have sufficient databases at their disposal to compute their way to solutions.
It’s easy to call this AI, but it is nothing of the sort. It’s just brute force searches.
re: #123 TarHellion
Twitter engineering chief leaves one day after DeSadist disaster.
So, the solution for a major fail of a Twitter service is to keep firing engineers.
re: #30 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
BBC, today.
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That’s not AI it’s computer modeling. Process data and perform calculations using a large sample set and spit out a result.
If it was AI created the antibiotic would also see no reason to protect the host.
re: #130 darthstar
That’s not AI it’s computer modeling. Process data and perform calculations using a large sample set and spit out a result.
If it was AI created the antibiotic would also see no reason to protect the host.
The difference is in how the data is analyzed. Do you know the model? Then yes, it’s just analyzing the data. Do you need to learn the model as well as the the result? Then that’s where the machine learning comes in.
re: #130 darthstar
That’s not AI it’s computer modeling. Process data and perform calculations using a large sample set and spit out a result.
If it was AI created the antibiotic would also see no reason to protect the host.
Yep, using “AI” as the description for this is pretty much completely and utterly wrong. It’s computational use of big data sets and doing searches (with the available processing power) that older systems would simply take too long doing.
re: #133 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Yep, using “AI” as the description for this is pretty much completely and utterly wrong. It’s computational use of big data sets and doing searches (with the available processing power) that older systems would simply take too long doing.
The term AI has been rapidly adopted and misapplied. One software vendor I use has AI assisted self healing. Basically applying multi-tags to objects. But it does detect changes in page structure and update an object properties so it can proceed and that does reduce maintenance for engineers.
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Get three or four of those sub-service drones into a harbor full of russian ships and they’re going to be looking to leave the Black Sea altogether.
re: #62 No Malarkey!
I was all on board until the “Obama created tornadoes” part. That’s just crazy talk. He only manipulated them. Everyone knows that.
/s
re: #63 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
King County, Washington.
I’d decorate the street in front of her house with some things….
re: #104 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
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We took a stroll with @SarahPPerry through a Target store to see the extent of their “pride” merchandise.
What we found is that @Target is very much in the business of promoting gender confusion and grooming children.
“grooming” yeah right
“Children” tend not to be shoppers
If anyone’s buying this merch, it’s adults. You know, parents
re: #136 darthstar
It’s a torpedo. Make no mistake, but it’s a torpedo that is semi autonomous that allows it to identify and target a ship. It doesn’t appear to be a missile either, given that it’s got ducted props.
I’m all for the Ukrainians puffing up their tech to claim capabilities in excess of what they’re able to deliver, but it seems to be a smallish torpedo (there are larger versions in the works).
By way of comparison, US ADCAP torpedoes are in the same range as the TLK-1000. Mk 54 torpedoes are around the size of the TLK-150/400.
Perhaps one of the best jokes that flew over everyone’s heads.
jeff bridges asking what game is the last of us based on had me laugh out loud, this interview is so wholesome😭😭 pic.twitter.com/jrvilewpPs
— maria • smutlord era (@DISCOROBAK) May 24, 2023
re: #82 Targetpractice
Custer was a vain idiot, that’s what got him killed. He rejected the offer of additional men, left a brace of Gatling guns behind, and then split the troops he had the day of the battle which allowed them to be isolated and wiped out quicker than one large group together. Throw in the US Army’s cost-cutting decision to adopt copper cases for their bullets that led to many rifles being rendered useless by ejection failures and their users vulnerable as they tried to pry the offending cases out of the breaches and you’ve a recipe for a massacre.
After a fire swept through the area some years ago, the ejected cases were found and forensically examined. Individual troopers were tracked as they successively fell back and began to group together instinctively by their discarded shell cases.
re: #143 lawhawk
It’s a torpedo. Make no mistake, but it’s a torpedo that is semi autonomous that allows it to identify and target a ship. It doesn’t appear to be a missile either, given that it’s got ducted props.
I’m all for the Ukrainians puffing up their tech to claim capabilities in excess of what they’re able to deliver, but it seems to be a smallish torpedo (there are larger versions in the works).
By way of comparison, US ADCAP torpedoes are in the same range as the TLK-1000. Mk 54 torpedoes are around the size of the TLK-150/400.
Not really a torpedo. It’s a drone that happens to be underwater. somewhat impressive range if the data is accurate.
As an epileptic, FUCK these fucking people https://t.co/TXeH3ZvpaK
— indie kitty (@bigbadpanda) May 26, 2023
Republican presidents have accepted the canard that the DOJ and FBI are ‘independent.’ They are not independent agencies.”
— Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), quoted by CNN.
Nope not a “canard”. Get a dictionary.
Also, read a freaking org chart.
The FBI is part of the Doj. It does investigations.
if R presidents didn’t understand this, then they were ignorant idiots, probably not qualified to be prez
The Ukrainian Military Intelligence Service has released an intercept of a phone call between a Russian soldier and his grandmother in which he claims his unit massacred around 400 men, women and children in the Ukrainian city of Kreminna.
The unidentified soldier describes being given the order to capture the city, which was carried out in his own words by “f**king [killing] everybody including civilians, just everybody” in a massacre that lasted “from night to morning.”
He adds: “Grandma, I’m telling you, we f**ked up [killed] not less than 400 people tonight.”
What did Eric Idle say or do to earn this abuse?
re: #151 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Not Eric. Eric was mocking DeSaster.
re: #152 Scottish Dragon
Not Eric. Eric was mocking DeSaster.
DeSantis has become good at mocking himself at this point.
“Never disrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake!”
-Napoleon
My God
The 11 year old kid called 911. Of course the cop promptly shot him
Burn it all down. This broke something deep inside of me pic.twitter.com/YP1fbJQX56
— Dumpling Queen 🥢 (@Not_CharLatte) May 25, 2023
re: #141 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)
“grooming” yeah right
“Children” tend not to be shoppers
If anyone’s buying this merch, it’s adults. You know, parents
woke parents are the worst groomers. they need to have their children confiscated and sent off to live with good Christian families
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re: #154 Scottish Dragon
My God
The 11 year old kid called 911. Of course the cop promptly shot him
and if you wonder where calls for “defund the police” come from
re: #154 Scottish Dragon
My God
The 11 year old kid called 911. Of course the cop promptly shot him
i WaS aFRaId fOr mY liFe
re: #154 Scottish Dragon
My God
The 11 year old kid called 911. Of course the cop promptly shot him
Every single person in that boy’s life needs to reassure him now. Jesus, that’s awful.
Way up high in the mountains in my county a while back.
View of the dilapidated mill building of the Treasure Vault mine on Treasure Vault Mountain in Eagle County, Colorado. (1920-1940?) https://t.co/LMreuGiBVl pic.twitter.com/xymgsXMBeZ
— Old Colorado Photos (@colohistory) May 26, 2023
Not looking forward to the local headlines this weekend. Epic snowmelt +holiday weekend means crowds of people picnicking by cold rivers.
re: #161 darthstar
Not looking forward to the local headlines this weekend. Epic snowmelt +holiday weekend means crowds of people picnicking by cold rivers.
That sounds like a recipe for disaster.
re: #150 gocart mozart
The Good Python
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— Eric Idle (@EricIdle) May 26, 2023
Lake Powell has been rising by over a foot a day in the last couple weeks. When all is said and done the reservoir will have risen by 50+ feet when the runoff ends.
It’s peak snowmelt runoff right now in Colorado. The rivers are raging. A raging river killed my friend on Sunday.
Well, fuck. Payroll all screwed up today. Several days got missed. Plus the pay period ends one day earlier at the new place than at the old place so 8 hours I thought would be on this check will be on the next check. Yeah, same company but different properties have different pay-periods. 🤣 Payroll person is working on it and I’ll get an additional hard-copy check later today that I’ll then have to upload to the bank via my bank app. Sigh. It’s never simple 🤣
re: #88 No Malarkey!
We all knew the forced birthers were lying when they said “of course we don’t want to send women to prison for getting abortions, they are victims of abortions too.” It didn’t take them long to change their tune.
I knew that a long time ago. Remember, that church in my neighborhood where they’re very clear that they want to execute women who obtain abortions? Yeah, that’s who these people are at the heart. Vindictive, hateful, murderous.
re: #165 teleskiguy
It’s peak snowmelt runoff right now in Colorado. The rivers are raging. A raging river killed my friend on Sunday.
I remember seeing your messages about that. I forgot to respond how sorry I am for your loss.
re: #146 Scottish Dragon
Not really a torpedo. It’s a drone that happens to be underwater. somewhat impressive range if the data is accurate.
Is a hot dog a sandwich? Or is a taco? :) /////////
re: #168 Nerdy Fish
I remember seeing your messages about that. I forgot to respond how sorry I am for your loss.
Memorial service is today at noon at the Betty Ford Alpine Gardens in Vail, he was the curator of plants for the gardens.
re: #170 teleskiguy
Memorial service is today at noon at the Betty Ford Alpine Gardens in Vail, he was the curator of plants for the gardens.
I hope you and the others can enjoy sharing fond memories of your friend.
In the “Just because they’re famous doesn’t mean they aren’t idiots”, Season 40, Episode 6, I present…Roger Waters!
re: #154 Scottish Dragon
My God
The 11 year old kid called 911. Of course the cop promptly shot him
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I suppose I can probably guess what color the kids skin is?
re: #171 Nerdy Fish
I hope you and the others can enjoy sharing fond memories of your friend.
This one hurts. Nick was a genuinely good person with a big heart and an ever-curious mind for alpine botany. He endured a number of personal tragedies over the last few years, the deaths of his best friend and his girlfriend to backcountry skiing/snowboarding accidents among them. Then he drowns in the Colorado River.
Heath Mayo
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Oh, and it probably shouldn’t go unnoticed by @ColinAllredTX that @TedCruz just hired as his Chief of Staff Paxton’s longtime number two who was well-aware of all this conduct and said nothing and defended Paxton until as recently as last week.What say you, Ted?
It’s a confederacy of crooks.
I know what you did, and you know what I did.
re: #162 Nerdy Fish
That sounds like a recipe for disaster.
There have already been several drownings in the Kern river…Feather, American, Sacramento will join the chat most likely.
re: #164 teleskiguy
Lake Powell has been rising by over a foot a day in the last couple weeks. When all is said and done the reservoir will have risen by 50+ feet when the runoff ends.
Which means they can go on ignoring the Colorado Basin water deficit for a few more decades
Another Oathkeeper, Jessica Watkins, being sentenced today. Likely another decade+ sentence.
Judge Amit Mehta says Oath Keeper defendant Jessica Watkins should get a three-level terrorism enhancement, like Kelly Meggs did yesterday. Less of an uptick than Stewart Rhodes, who got a six-level enhancement.
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) May 26, 2023
This. Is. Reality.
Conservatives on school shootings:
Nothing we can do.
Conservatives on rainbows in stores:
SAVE THE CHILDREN! HARASS EMPLOYEES! HOLD THE LINE! THIS IS HARMING OUR KIDS AND WE WILL STOP AT NOTHING TO FIGHT BACK!— April Ajoy (@aprilajoyr) May 26, 2023
re: #177 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Which means they can go on ignoring the Colorado Basin water deficit for a few more decades
nope
re: #178 No Malarkey!
Another Oathkeeper, Jessica Watkins, being sentenced today. Likely another decade+ sentence.
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Two more Oath Keepers are set to be sentenced today: Jessica Watkins, of Ohio, and Kenneth Harrelson, of Florida. Unlike both defendants sentenced yesterday, Watkins and Harrelson were acquitted of seditious conspiracy. https://t.co/B8y4DHw3M5
— Jordan Fischer (@JordanOnRecord) May 26, 2023
re: #35 Hecuba’s daughter
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Wordle 706 3/6
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re: #179 teleskiguy
This. Is. Reality.
Ergo: The right to bear arms is more important the the right to determine your personal identity.
re: #180 teleskiguy
nope
I really hope they will get around to re-regulating water usage from the Colorado to more reasonable and sustainable levels. But I also know how we deal with long-term crises like this.
re: #178 No Malarkey!
Another Oathkeeper, Jessica Watkins, being sentenced today. Likely another decade+ sentence.
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re: #184 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Ergo: The right to bear arms is more important the the right to determine your personal identity.
Unless your personal identity is wannabe Yosemite Sam, pew pew.
re: #187 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
Unless your personal identity is wannabe Yosemite Sam, pew pew.
He is just Standing His Ground against a Perceived Threat
re: #177 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Which means they can go on ignoring the Colorado Basin water deficit for a few more decades
California, Arizona, and Nevada already agreed on a conservation plan for water. They’re not going to just let developers enjoy a 10 year building spike unmolested.
Just to chime in about the earlier discussion regarding the +6 poll results. I stopped giving polls credibility since 2016. The polling methods used tend to overcount old folks with land lines. I look at polls as the opinion of Ma & Pa kettle.
Hence the polls are better for the left than they look.
My kid and his friends as well as my friends’ kids in the 18-25 age group are pissed about Dobbs. This demographic are generally no show at polls but the GOP gave them a reason to care. These are also the demographic the polls almost totally miss.
I have guarded faith for the future.
re: #169 William Lewis
Is a hot dog a sandwich? Or is a taco? :) /////////
A torpedo has pretty limited range and limited guidance capability. They are also quite fast. It’s closer to an artillery shell in terms of ordnance. This thing here has significant range, can hunt for targets and moreover, can break off an engagement. Also relatively slow.
Definitions get blurry at times (is the Shahed a really slow cruise missile or is a suicide drone?) but I’m going with the “drone” side on this.
re: #173 Eclectic Cyborg
I suppose I can probably guess what color the kids skin is?
Both the cop and kid are black. I keep reminding ppl at the Wash Post that there are decades of research showing black cops tend to treat black citizens about the same as white cops.
re: #125 Belafon
I made the mistake of reading the comments. The defining feature of conservatism is gross denial of empathy. These people are relishing the chance to call it a “parenting failure” and describe this child as a “thug” who “scammed Citi Bike” for doing what Trump says “makes him smart” when comes to taxes.
They see rules as bendable for themselves, but sacrosanct for immigrants and people of color, and they love that it infuriates people to demonstrate their own lack of accountability while demanding obedience from others.
re: #191 Oblongatis
Just to chime in about the earlier discussion regarding the +6 poll results. I stopped giving polls credibility since 2016. The polling methods used tend to overcount old folks with land lines. I look at polls as the opinion of Ma & Pa kettle.
Hence the polls are better for the left than they look.My kid and his friends as well as my friends’ kids in the 18-25 age group are pissed about Dobbs. This demographic are generally no show at polls but the GOP gave them a reason to care. These are also the demographic the polls almost totally miss.
I have guarded faith for the future.
Old people with landlines, and the people who answer unknown callers on their cellphone. That leaves out so many people.
Come celebrate Juneteenth with White Folk in SC!
South Carolina is going to put raisins in the potato salad for Juneteenth. pic.twitter.com/ocZfDMXSB8
— Sgt Joker (@TheSGTJoker) May 26, 2023
re: #197 Dave In Austin
Come celebrate Juneteenth with White Folk in SC!
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— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 26, 2023
re: #197 Dave In Austin
Come celebrate Juneteenth with White Folk in SC!
“Hey, come celebrate Juneteenth in SC with descendants of the white folks who made emancipation necessary by being slavers in the first place!”
re: #200 Mattand
“Hey, come celebrate Juneteenth in SC with descendants of the white folks who made emancipation necessary by being slavers in the first place!”
Not necessarily. A lot of our ancestors arrived here after slavery ended. I have no idea what percentage that is, though.
re: #199 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
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The “QAnon Shaman” just got out of prison and released a statement saying, “I have forgiven my captors” and now want to “spread the truth” h/t @RonFilipkowski pic.twitter.com/TI6kH0Fbw8
— Christian Nightmares (@ChristnNitemare) May 26, 2023
re: #203 Dave In Austin
“Spread the truth” as in, GET ME SOME OF THAT MAGA GRIFTER $$$
re: #49 Dr Lizardo
Lloyd’s Register has told India’s Gatik Ship Management, which has become a major carrier of Russian oil since the Ukraine war, that it will withdraw certification of 21 of its vessels by June 3, the maritime services company told Reuters.
(snip)
There’s gonna be some scrambling going on.
re: #203 Dave In Austin
The audacity.
re: #200 Mattand
“Hey, come celebrate Juneteenth in SC with descendants of the white folks who made emancipation necessary by being slavers in the first place!”
Nothing wrong with white folks participating in Juneteenth in some other form than assault and harassment
re: #203 Dave In Austin
A too-large subset of American Christians have made the religion into an exercise in narcissism, justifying every stupid impulse they fail to control.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 26, 2023
re: #203 Dave In Austin
so magnanimous of him to forgive them of their wrongdoings…
(what a sick fuck)
“What happens when I pull this handle?”
Passenger opens emergency exit door 700 feet in the air in South Korea 👀 pic.twitter.com/c1CREV4VF0
— Daily Loud (@DailyLoud) May 26, 2023
re: #201 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
Not necessarily. A lot of our ancestors arrived here after slavery ended. I have no idea what percentage that is, though.
ChatGPT says that most of us have ancestors that arrived before slavery ended, but didn’t attempt to put a percentage on it.
— Lars🌻🇳🇴 🫶🏼 (@Norwegian_Lars) May 25, 2023
re: #211 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
ChatGPT says that most of us have ancestors that arrived before slavery ended, but didn’t attempt to put a percentage on it.
Because we should totally trust ChatGPT as a source of reliable truth.
re: #210 Dr. Matt
“What happens when I pull this handle?”
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JFC. Those people are lucky this happened only 700 feet up.
re: #210 Dr. Matt
“What happens when I pull this handle?”
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Probably too low for air-pressure to hold it shut while in the air, which usually stops lunatics from opening a door on a plane.
re: #213 Nerdy Fish
Because we should totally trust ChatGPT as a source of reliable truth.
I did try Google first.
It admitted that it couldn’t put a number on it, which is nice.
re: #212 Dave In Austin
My cat will just stare at a bowl of tuna but she goes nuts for pulled pork BBQ, She’s like an animated Disney southern cartoon character come to life.
re: #203 Dave In Austin
OFFS.
He’s forgiven his captors? He went to fucking prison for being involved in the armed insurrection to overthrow the government and interfere in the election certification.
This is why all these sentences were far too lenient. Their entire rationale for entering the building was to interfere in the election certification. That should have been one of the felonies charged.
You entered with purpose and forethought to enter the building? You didn’t accidentally end up there. You knowingly did those things. You knew they were wrong and you broke into or entered the Capitol after others broke into it to do those things.
His supporters will elevate and laud this fucker for his conduct.
Kissinger is a war criminal.
He belongs in prison…https://t.co/nuD7eRahpY pic.twitter.com/N0T5g07tyY— Hugh G Merriman MD (@merriman_md) May 26, 2023
re: #74 Targetpractice
But also the same generation that totally lost their shit when LBJ announced the Great Society laws that would see all the benefits of the New Deal equally distributed to all Americans.
To quote in part a previous posting by The Ghost Of A Flea:
…They crave socialism, but exclusively for chosen groups that need to be maintained in their hegemony; society must be made unequal to be just.
They’re not doing it because they scored bad on a Stanford-Binet exam or had a low SAT score, they’re voting their class interest.”
re: #219 gocart mozart
There’s no fucking justice in the universe when Kissinger lives to be 100 and Betty fucking White doesn’t.
re: #126 Thanos
Roger Waters at it again
I got rid of all the Pink Floyd audio recordings. Yesterday I found 3 VCR tapes of Floyd performances. I think I’ll give them to the guy who bought the rest.
Roger Waters is not a happy person. He should quit spreading it around. He was flipping off the German state with those antics, they don’t take kindly to Nazi displays. What an antisemitic bit of filth he has become, or always has been and is showing it off more.
re: #211 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
ChatGPT says that most of us have ancestors that arrived before slavery ended, but didn’t attempt to put a percentage on it.
My ancestors did not arrive until around 1900, but that was still before the Voting Rights or the Civil Rights Act.
They got to enjoy all the privileges of being White People in America
re: #223 🔧-wench
I got rid of all the Pink Floyd audio recordings. Yesterday I found 3 VCR tapes of Floyd performances. I think I’ll give them to the guy who bought the rest.
Roger Waters is not a happy person. He should quit spreading it around. He was flipping off the German state with those antics, they don’t take kindly to Nazi displays. What an antisemitic bit of filth he has become, or always has been and is showing it off more.
The rest of the band has publicly excoriated him over his stunts.
re: #223 🔧-wench
Roger Waters is not a happy person. He should quit spreading it around. He was flipping off the German state with those antics, they don’t take kindly to Nazi displays. What an antisemitic bit of filth he has become, or always has been and is showing it off more.
I knew he was vehemently anti-Israel, when did that turn to full-on anti-Semitism?
T-Dogg wins teh interweb:
Quotes the Bible then Ghandi…
Real Rex Kwon-do vibes. pic.twitter.com/jWGH1074Y0— T-Dogg (@MitchCo22794971) May 26, 2023
re: #96 Targetpractice
I’d say my argument is more that we shouldn’t count on fortuitous events to carry the day every time. To keep things in a historical context, Dobbs was the recovery of Special Order 191 or codebreakers deducing that “AF” in Japanese naval dispatches stood for Midway Island, it was that key moment that totally altered the sequence of events that otherwise might have seen ruin and damnation for our side. We really had nothing to run on last year that carried the raw anger and revulsion that was the public’s reaction to the GQP gleefully screaming “ABORTION BANS NOW! ABORTION BANS TOMORROW!! ABORTION BANS FOREVER!!”
TL:DR
Fortuna Eruditis Favet. Fortune favors the prepared mind. One side seems to just be more fortunate than the other. I beleive this is because one side is organized better to deal with the increased information flow of truly disruptive technology, allowing it to make better andwiser decisions.. Thus its success in inevitable, even while individual acts seem to happen by chance.
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You are right about individual incidents seemingly based on chance. But I would suggest, as has been said by many, that chance favors the prepared mind. One side just seems to make better decisions overall, while the other seems to make stupid ones. Eventually it catches up with them. I believe this is a fundamental aspect of how each side is organized to deal with rapid change and adapt, how it moves information around.
WW2 has so many examples. A single group of about 20 sharpshooters created a bottleneck that stopped a critical German advance for 16 hours in the initial hours of the Battle of the Bulge, likely spelling failure for the entire operation. And the ability of the US to use the Red Ball Express to move fuel dumps during this time also doomed the German advance. And the ability of Patton and his staff to figure out the logistics of moving the necessary disance so rapidly to relieve Bastogne.
Over the last 250 years or so, during specific times of transition (the creator of the Tchno-economic Theory, Carlota Perez has identified 5 of these since 1770), as we shift from one set of organizational paradigms to another (driven by the huge economic disruption of technology that speeds up the rate of information flow), the side which has more democratic principles, and fewer authoritarin, that has pushed power more to the edges, usually ends up winning. We have again been in such a time of transition for at least a decade (I personally start it from the housing debacle in 2007). One side is able to mobilize the power of the internet much better than the other.
The abortion issue did not happen alone. It happened on top of the horrendous COVID policies of the GOP, which happened on top of the Supreme Court debacle cause by the death of scalia.it is being followed by the destruction of the EPA, the termination of regulations from the Executive Branch, etc. They continue to do things that will piss off the much larger group of Americans that do not believe in those things.
The youngsters generally want a collaborative, distributed, diverse society because they have learned that, in an IT-driven economy, that promises much greater success than the older hierarchical processes promulgated by fossil-fuel driven economies. They are the most socially liberal cohort of any, likely because of that. They will eventually prevail as the hierarchical Boomers die off. We are seeing that now.
Essentially, the asteroid has already hit but it is inevitable that the dinosaurs will die off and the mammals take over. Only instead of a natural environment providing that selecive pessure, it is a cultural environment, diven by disruptive technologies, that provides the selective pressure.
I expect we will see many setbacks. It is never easy sailing but I am as confident of success as ever. I just hpe to live long enough to see it.
Have a great day everyone! https://t.co/oqcnhf8V9q pic.twitter.com/MvE9tOdV1P
— Christian Nightmares (@ChristnNitemare) May 26, 2023
re: #176 darthstar
There have already been several drownings in the Kern river…Feather, American, Sacramento will join the chat most likely.
Include in that list the Merced and Kings. I saw some video from Yosemite and the river is just booming. Vernal and Nevada falls have more more going over them than I can ever recall and Yosemite falls is just spectacular. The problem is many people simply don’t realize how fast that water is flowing along with the fact that it is ice cold. One saving grace is that the road in Kings Canyon down to Cedar Grove is closed so nobody can get down there only to drown in that high water.
re: #228 silverdolphin
The youngsters generally want a collaborative, distributed, diverse society because they have learned that, in an IT-driven economy, that promises much greater success than the older hierarchical processes promulgated by fossil-fuel driven economies. They are the most socially liberal cohort of any, likely because of that. They will eventually prevail as the hierarchical Boomers die off. We are seeing that now.
They have figured out that true wealth is not measured solely in how many resources we consume, which is still the prevailing standard.
It is about the quality of life we create with those resources. And the younger generation is learning to favor quality of life over quantity of material possessions
re: #226 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I knew he was vehemently anti-Israel, when did that turn to full-on anti-Semitism?
It’s often just under the skin of the ‘anti-Israel’ folks. On top of the skin when they’re ‘vehement’
re: #67 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I understand that this was an important issue during WW2 and the Cold War, but nowadays it is not unlike a couple of crackheads who broke into a house and murdered the entire family arguing about which one of them strangled grandma.
It is relevant still because the current leader of Russia is basically a chip off Stalin’s block. So committing war crimes and blaming the other side is part of the traditional Soviet playbook — and the fact there is no Soviet Union does not mean that they have abandoned this playbook.
This is so rage-inducing. pic.twitter.com/3GV1hexik9
— AskAubry 🦝 (@ask_aubry) May 26, 2023
re: #234 Hecuba’s daughter
It is relevant still because the current leader of Russia is basically a chip off Stalin’s block. So committing war crimes and blaming the other side is part of the traditional Soviet playbook — and the fact there is no Soviet Union does not mean that they have abandoned this playbook.
Yes, they have done nothing to distance themselves from the USSR and Red Army in terms of what they did to Eastern Europe.
seriousness of conduct & need to deter it.
this is never easy. particularly hard in your case.
judgement of the court:
102 MONTHS
[THAT IS, 8.5 YEARS ]
/111— Roger Parloff (@rparloff) May 26, 2023
re: #96 Targetpractice
I’d say my argument is more that we shouldn’t count on fortuitous events to carry the day every time. To keep things in a historical context, Dobbs was the recovery of Special Order 191 or codebreakers deducing that “AF” in Japanese naval dispatches stood for Midway Island, it was that key moment that totally altered the sequence of events that otherwise might have seen ruin and damnation for our side. We really had nothing to run on last year that carried the raw anger and revulsion that was the public’s reaction to the GQP gleefully screaming “ABORTION BANS NOW! ABORTION BANS TOMORROW!! ABORTION BANS FOREVER!!”
Yep. And ABORTION BANS FOREVER remains the GOP slogan for 2024. The Democrats have to run nationwide ads attacking their abortion extremism, their attempt to turn us back to the old days of child labor instead of child education, and their attempts to return to the glory days of the 1950’s when Jim Crow ruled supreme and women had no rights except the right to vote.
re: #201 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
Not necessarily. A lot of our ancestors arrived here after slavery ended. I have no idea what percentage that is, though.
in South Carolina, it’s a lower percentage than in a lot to other places.
Thankfully Payroll got it all fixed before the long weekend. Had to have paper checks cut but with modern phone apps for banks that’s not as harsh as it used to be. Rent is paid and I had enough left to order an old Nikon AF 50/1.4 lens too. Whew :)
re: #211 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
ChatGPT says that most of us have ancestors that arrived before slavery ended, but didn’t attempt to put a percentage on it.
not the Jews.
Our immigrant forebears mostly got here between 1890 and 1920.
And we didn’t go to South Carolina. We’re a very New York-y kind of people.
re: #238 Hecuba’s daughter
This. Running ads all over the country. Make them simple. Look at demographics to find the right people to tell the story.
1. Abortion
2. Child labor
3. White wash slavery, black history
4. Putting LGBTQ back in the closet
5. Voting rights
6. Fiscal mismanagement
Pound away at it like never before.
re: #217 Scottish Dragon
My cat will just stare at a bowl of tuna but she goes nuts for pulled pork BBQ, She’s like an animated Disney southern cartoon character come to life.
Mork & Mindy go berserk for tuna. It’s clearly a level above the cat treats they also get very excited for, but not tuna excited.
Bear captured, euthanized after attacking man who shot it twice
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) - A bear was captured and euthanized after it attacked a man Wednesday morning in a recreation area near La Grande, according to the Union County Sheriff’s Office.
Around 7:37 a.m., officials responded to Owsley Canyon Road in the Mount Emily Recreation Area, where they found Craig Lankford and brought him to a local hospital.
Lankford told authorities he had shot the bear the night before because the bear harassed his chickens. On Wednesday morning, he said he searched for the bear, found it near his property and shot it again before the bear attacked him.
The sheriff’s office closed nearby roads and searched for the injured bear with the Oregon State Police and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. Around 10:44 a.m., they found a bear that matched Lankford’s description.
After shooting the bear, officials say a necropsy confirmed that Lankford’s bullet fragments were found inside the animal.
Authorities say Lankford received treatment for injuries to his arms and head and is expected to recover.
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re: #228 silverdolphin
TL:DR
Fortuna Eruditis Favet. Fortune favors the prepared mind. One side seems to just be more fortunate than the other. I beleive this is because one side is organized better to deal with the increased information flow of truly disruptive technology, allowing it to make better andwiser decisions.. Thus its success in inevitable, even while individual acts seem to happen by chance.
_______________________WW2 has so many examples. A single group of about 20 sharpshooters created a bottleneck that stopped a critical German advance for 16 hours in the initial hours of the Battle of the Bulge, likely spelling failure for the entire operation. And the ability of the US to use the Red Ball Express to move fuel dumps during this time also doomed the German advance. And the ability of Patton and his staff to figure out the logistics of moving the necessary disance so rapidly to relieve Bastogne.
At Thermopolyae, 300 Thebans held off 10,000 invading Persians for more than a week.
They all died in the end, but not before reducing the Persian force by almost half, the survivors of whom hadn’t eaten for days, and it gave the folks at the back lines times to reinforce another line of defenses.
The city was saved.
(also, the Theban force consisted entirely of gay couples. But that’s a story for another day.)
re: #137 darthstar
Get three or four of those sub-service drones into a harbor full of russian ships and they’re going to be looking to leave the Black Sea altogether.
Certain 2nd world countries are going, Hmmm…
Blue water Navies are going, Hmmm…
re: #248 BeenHereAwhile
Certain 2nd world countries are going, Hmmm…
Blue water Navies are going, Hmmm…
You’ll see a return to WW1 tech like old fashioned torpedo nets for ships at anchor, similar to using chicken wire etc over artillery positions to stop suicide drones.
re: #241 sagehen
not the Jews.
Our immigrant forebears mostly got here between 1890 and 1920.
And we didn’t go to South Carolina. We’re a very New York-y kind of people.
Ummm….
Generally correct overall, but not exactly…..
But yeah, the largest wave of Jewish immigration into the US was from the (former) Russian Empire post-1881 pogroms, and generally settled in urban areas (like NY). But of course, not all: like the family I heard about from a tour guide at Ellis Island once: they were supposed to have gone to live with some relatives who lived on Houston Street in Manhattan — but always wondered for years why they were sent to Texas….
re: #133 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Yep, using “AI” as the description for this is pretty much completely and utterly wrong. It’s computational use of big data sets and doing searches (with the available processing power) that older systems would simply take too long doing.
Sci-Fi AI does not exist, but it’s being used as a marketing term to sell plagiarism tools.
re: #196 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
Old people with landlines, and the people who answer unknown callers on their cellphone. That leaves out so many people.
I get requests to do surveys via text.
In Italy, it’s life without parole for the bear.
re: #241 sagehen
not the Jews.
Our immigrant forebears mostly got here between 1890 and 1920.
And we didn’t go to South Carolina. We’re a very New York-y kind of people.
can confirm
re: #251 Jay C
Ummm….
Generally correct overall, but not exactly…..But yeah, the largest Jewish immigration into the US was from the (former) Russian Empire post-1881 pogroms, and generally settled in urban areas (like NY). But of course, not all: like the family I heard about from a tour guide at Ellis Island once: they were supposed to have gone to live with some relatives who lived on Houston Street in Manhattan — but always wondered for years why they were sent to Texas….
early 1900’s there was an organized effort to settle jews in Galveston
re: #223 🔧-wench
I got rid of all the Pink Floyd audio recordings. Yesterday I found 3 VCR tapes of Floyd performances. I think I’ll give them to the guy who bought the rest.
Roger Waters is not a happy person. He should quit spreading it around. He was flipping off the German state with those antics, they don’t take kindly to Nazi displays. What an antisemitic bit of filth he has become, or always has been and is showing it off more.
I’ve been talking with a good friend of mine, who’s a big Floyd fan, about a lot of this lately. You can tell he’s really struggling to defend Waters, despite all of the evidence that Waters has just become a really shitty person lately.
I don’t bring it up, but my friend’s Jewish, and I’m not sure how he’s coming to terms with Waters’s obvious antisemitism of late.
re: #87 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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This was while R v W was still the law of the land, wasn’t it?
It’s one thing to support Israel’s right to self defense,
This kind of insane Wild West op in broad daylight in the middle of shoppers is unconscionable, and that’s even before you get the teenage delivery driver shot in the back and killed, and the execution shot to the head of a downed suspected militant.
Shreim found his balance and continued to run, video shows. As he turned a corner, another barrage of gunfire followed. Israeli forces fired at least five times after he was first hit, video shows. His body visibly convulsed with the additional fire.
The officers then retreated back toward their vehicle. Two — one holding a handgun, the other a rifle — crouched down next to Khazem’s body and shot him in the head at point-blank range.
The Post blurred sections of the video because of its graphic nature.
re: #259 Mattand
I’ve been talking with a good friend of mine, who’s a big Floyd fan, about a lot of this lately. You can tell he’s really struggling to defend Waters, despite all of the evidence that Waters has just become a really shitty person lately.
I don’t bring it up, but my friend’s Jewish, and I’m not sure how he’s coming to terms with Waters’s obvious antisemitism of late.
I have it easy. I liked Pink Floyd in high school, when all I knew was Dark Side of the Moon, but I’ve never been a Roger Waters fan. My husband was a big fan, and it was his stuff I unloaded after he passed.
re: #114 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Someday this dude is going to discover that his words are going to come back to bite him. Hard.
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They already are. Tesla brand favorability ratings took a nosedive since Elon bought Twitter.
re: #185 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I really hope they will get around to re-regulating water usage from the Colorado to more reasonable and sustainable levels. But I also know how we deal with long-term crises like this.
I’m sure SCOTUS will have a say — maybe another 5-4 decision to wreak havoc.
re: #263 darthstar
Time to go drop a test tweet.
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Let’s see how long it lasts:
https://t.co/rPcrvCLkFu
Whistleblowers are celebrated on this platform so I’m back to drop a test tweet.— Sean (@sean_s_mc) May 26, 2023
re: #115 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
wasn’t there some fellow in Germany who used to go on about Jews being a form of parasite that kills its host?
And it’s 14 words. How apropos.
re: #260 JC1
This was while R v W was still the law of the land, wasn’t it?
State laws involved. From the article:
At the time of the incident, abortion was banned after 20 weeks post fertilization in Nebraska (or 22 weeks after the last menstrual period), though that law applies to licensed abortion providers, not people self-managing their own terminations.
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Self-managed abortion is only explicitly illegal in two states (Nevada and South Carolina), but, as this story shows, prosecutors can and do charge people for other crimes related to abortion, miscarriage, or stillbirth.
re: #263 darthstar
Twitter is a free speech platform
“CONGRESS shall pass no law restricting… freedom of speech…”
Nothing about what platforms can restrict
Please stop conflating private platforms with 1A rights.
re: #199 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
It could be an attempt to say that everyone, regardless of ethnicity, should be celebrating this day. That it was good for our nation and our future.
re: #262 🔧-wench
I still love Pink Floyd. I’ll never buy any of Waters’ solo stuff. There’s a weird strain of anti Semitism in English progressive circles I’ve never understood.
re: #271 Scottish Dragon
I still love Pink Floyd. I’ll never buy any of Waters’ solo stuff. There’s a weird strain of anti Semitism in English progressive circles I’ve never understood.
Do you have a VCR? Want some videos?
re: #66 Dr Lizardo
I was taught that unregulated free enterprise leads to monopolies. At least, that’s what my dad always told me.
Memories of the Milton Friedman disciples in the Pitt Econ department preaching that monopolies were a good thing…
re: #262 🔧-wench
I have it easy. I liked Pink Floyd in high school, when all I knew was Dark Side of the Moon, but I’ve never been a Roger Waters fan. My husband was a big fan, and it was his stuff I unloaded after he passed.
LOL, I hate getting old. I was in middle school when The Wall dropped; 12 going on 13. The damn album was everywhere; you couldn’t get away from it.
I was never the biggest Floyd fan; much like Yes, I just didn’t get what they were doing until I was much older. My bud really admires Waters’s solo stuff as well as the Floyd stuff. I find the solo stuff to be uninteresting at best, and completely pompous at worst.
Then when you add the Ukraine-is-as-bad-as-Russia/antisemitism cherry on top of his egocentrism, I’m like “Nah, dog, I don’t wish you were here.”
FWIW, I ditched all of my Dilbert collected paperbacks a few weeks ago. Pretty much the same mindset: I try my best to separate the art from the artist, but when said artist clumsily calls for the US to resegregate, fuck that noise. I’ve already spent my money on the books (or got them as gifts) but I don’t need to see Scott Adams’s name on my bookshelf, reminding me of what a terrible racist he is.
re: #130 darthstar
That’s not AI it’s computer modeling. Process data and perform calculations using a large sample set and spit out a result.
If it was AI created the antibiotic would also see no reason to protect the host.
AI/ML fields are broad. The process described in the article could be considered AI or not, depending on whether or not the system was actually trained or programed.
re: #269 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
CONGRESS shall pass not law restricting freedom of speech
Nothing about what platforms can restrict
Please stop conflating private platforms with 1A rights.
I’m not conflating anything - that’s what Elmo calls his platform so the original mastodon poster was likely just being ironic. Of course he has the right to delete tweets that make him look bad. It’s his hellsite.
Non-surprising @NRO Review of The Little Mermaid is basically this: “That girl’s too Black”. https://t.co/0hEH1K2mpp
— Soledad O’Brien (@soledadobrien) May 26, 2023
re: #275 JC1
AI/ML fields are broad. The process described in the article could be considered AI or not, depending on whether or not the system was actually trained or programed.
Trained: Please go find a new antibiotic using whatever online resources you choose.
Programmed: Process this data using the following acceptance criteria…
What’s the big deal? Mercedes-Benz. Luxury apt? My friend Harlan Crow hands these out every day.
— Arnie (@pgh_law) May 26, 2023
re: #274 Mattand
LOL, I hate getting old. I was in middle school when The Wall dropped; 12 going on 13. The damn album was everywhere; you couldn’t get away from it.
I was never the biggest Floyd fan; much like Yes, I just didn’t get what they were doing until I was much older. My bud really admires Waters’s solo stuff as well as the Floyd stuff. I find the solo stuff to be uninteresting at best, and completely pompous at worst.
Then when you add the Ukraine-is-as-bad-as-Russia/antisemitism cherry on top of his egocentrism, I’m like “Nah, dog, I don’t wish you were here.”
FWIW, I ditched all of my Dilbert collected paperbacks a few weeks ago. Pretty much the same mindset: I try my best to separate the art from the artist, but when said artist clumsily calls for the US to resegregate, fuck that noise. I’ve already spent my money on the books (or got them as gifts) but I don’t need to see Scott Adams’s name on my bookshelf, reminding me of what a terrible racist he is.
Lalo Alcaraz spewed some transphobic stuff that I can hardly remember, and my weak search abilities can’t find what he said, or any evidence of a changing/growing heart, but it’s really easy to leave an old calendar in a box. I don’t let it get too close to the old LGF calendar I found in there.
re: #271 Scottish Dragon
I still love Pink Floyd. I’ll never buy any of Waters’ solo stuff. There’s a weird strain of anti Semitism in English progressive circles I’ve never understood.
I remember a scene in the movie Denial (about the libel case against historian Deborah Lipstadt by Holocaust-denier David Irving) in which some members of the English Jewish community urged her to settle and move on because of the general pervading air of anti-semitism in England—basically, please don’t call attention to us.
re: #269 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
CONGRESS shall pass not law restricting freedom of speech
Nothing about what platforms can restrict
Please stop conflating private platforms with 1A rights.
But it’s just pointing out Elon’s hypocrisy.
re: #282 JC1
But it’s just pointing out Elon’s hypocrisy.
Congress shall make no law restricting the mocking of Elon, but Florida did pass one saying people couldn’t sue SpaceX for falling debris from explodey rockets.
re: #278 darthstar
Trained: Please go find a new antibiotic using whatever online resources you choose.
Programmed: Process this data using the following acceptance criteria…
Trained: look at these 1000 pictures of dogs to learn what dogs are.
Programmed: long sequence of spaghetti code about features that make a dog and how to detect them.
You’re conflating AGI with AI/ML.
Headline writers like to use ‘AI’ because it has three fewer letters than ‘cyber.’
A judge blocked South Carolina’s new 6 week abortion ban until the S.C. Supreme Court rules on it. The Court will reverse its ruling that women have a privacy right to abortion, because the author of its previous ruling retired and was replaced by a Justice who is almost certainly a forced birther, since he was selected by the GOP controlled legislature. Once abortion is banned in S.C., women in the South will have no legal venues to obtain an abortion other than to travel hundreds, if not thousands of miles. This makes the illegal shipment by mail of safe and effective abortion drugs by groups such as aidaccess.org more important than ever. I also make a monthly donation to Chicago Abortion Fund, which assists low income women who need to travel to Illinois for an abortion.
re: #277 DodgerFan1988
Because everyone knows that mythological half-fish half-human creatures have white skin.///
Anyone here have thoughts on electric vehicles? Mr. C and I are considering getting one, but there was yesterday’s video on Kia/Hyundai lack of brake lights, Tesla is, well, Tesla, and other brands are apparently not as reliable. I don’t really know where to begin.
re: #289 No Malarkey!
Because everyone knows that mythological half-fish half-human creatures have white skin.///
re: #271 Scottish Dragon
I still love Pink Floyd. I’ll never buy any of Waters’ solo stuff. There’s a weird strain of anti Semitism in English progressive circles I’ve never understood.
Yeah: just check the last British election results: I read a poll back then where they polled British Jews on their attitudes about (then-)Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn’s handling of antisemitic issues within the Party, and 89% of them disapproved. My own feeling was if something could get 89% of Jews to agree on anything, it was bad news for Corbyn. And, as it turned out, it was.*
* There were many factors in the lopsided Tory victory of 2019, the antisemitism thing was only one.
re: #289 No Malarkey!
Because everyone knows that mythological half-fish half-human creatures have white skin.///
Everyone knows that marine animals are pale from lack of sunlight. {/derp}
re: #290 calochortus
Anyone here have thoughts on electric vehicles? Mr. C and I are considering getting one, but there was yesterday’s video on Kia/Hyundai lack of brake lights, Tesla is, well, Tesla, and other brands are apparently not as reliable. I don’t really know where to begin.
Uhhh…?
“Lack of brake lights???”
re: #294 Jay C
Uhhh…?
“Lack of brake lights???”
When you decelerate in “single pedal mode” your brake lights don’t come on unless you take your foot all the way off the accelerator, even though you may be slowing quite significantly.
— John Sipher (@john_sipher) May 26, 2023
re: #290 calochortus
Anyone here have thoughts on electric vehicles? Mr. C and I are considering getting one, but there was yesterday’s video on Kia/Hyundai lack of brake lights, Tesla is, well, Tesla, and other brands are apparently not as reliable. I don’t really know where to begin.
I have no real experience, but my friend has a Chevy Bolt that he kind of loves. They are releasing an EV Equinox that I wasthinking of taking a look at.
re: #295 calochortus
When you decelerate in “single pedal mode” your brake lights don’t come on unless you take your foot all the way off the accelerator, even though you may be slowing quite significantly.
Engine braking doesn’t turn on the brake lights in any vehicle.
Don’t bogart that wordle, my friend, pass it over to me.
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re: #292 Jay C
Yeah: just check the last British election results: I read a poll back then where they polled British Jews on their attitudes about (then-)Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn’s handling of antisemitic issues within the Party, and 89% of them disapproved. My own feeling was if something could get 89% of Jews to agree on anything, it was bad news for Corbyn. And, as it turned out, it was.*
* There were many factors in the lopsided Tory victory of 2019, the antisemitism thing was only one.
Bingo. That’s why I’ve never been a Corbyn fan. You can be a critic of IDF excesses and the current PM, but i feel like British leftists dip right into Palestinian terrorism apologia and that’s a pretty damned bright line for me.
re: #297 danarchy
Thanks, I think the Equinox is an SUV? We don’t need anything that big.
re: #301 calochortus
Thanks, I think the Equinox is an SUV? We don’t need anything that big.
A bicycle is a vehicle. Too small?
This will be helpful in those awkward dating and interview situations./
DIY GPT-Powered Monocle Will Tell You What to Say in Every Conversation
Chiang created a GPT-powered monocle that people can wear and when someone asks the wearer a question, the glasses will project a caption that the wearer can read out loud. The effect is something like a DIY version of Google Glass.
re: #298 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
Engine braking doesn’t turn on the brake lights in any vehicle.
Yeah, and it’s not great (apparently adaptive cruise control braking doesn’t engage brake lights either,) but single pedal mode means means that most of your serious deceleration won’t give you brake lights most of the time. Seems like a bad idea.
re: #289 No Malarkey!
Because everyone knows that mythological half-fish half-human creatures have white skin.///
Maybe the folks at NRO would’ve been happier with a more scientifically accurate mermaid…
re: #303 jaunte
This will be helpful in those awkward dating and interview situations./
DIY GPT-Powered Monocle Will Tell You What to Say in Every Conversation
That was already a Black Mirror episode
Well, yeah, but those were church sanctioned.
— Xavier Ray (@xrayca) May 26, 2023
re: #290 calochortus
Anyone here have thoughts on electric vehicles? Mr. C and I are considering getting one, but there was yesterday’s video on Kia/Hyundai lack of brake lights, Tesla is, well, Tesla, and other brands are apparently not as reliable. I don’t really know where to begin.
I’ve been driving a 2017 Chevy Bolt since, well, 2017, LOL, and it’s been great. Unfortunately, GM just discontinued them. That said, they may be supported for a while. The one ding against them is that their fast charging blows compared to other EVs, due to them being an older platform.
Which lead to this: Chevy has a new line of EVs, including the Equinox, slated for late this year and next. I was leaning towards that as a possible next car until GM announced they were ditching Apple CarPlay (as well as Android Auto) for smart phone connections. That’s a deal breaker for me.
I hear good things about the VW ID4 and the EV6. Take these recommendations with a grain of salt, as I haven’t researched them. I’d look for an estimated range of at least 250 miles on a full battery.
I test drove a BZ4 from Toyota a few weeks ago. It was okay, but I wasn’t thrilled.
For comparison, my Bolt has 66 kWh battery that is rated for 259 mi. In the winter that drops to about 225 or so when you run the heat, and about 275 in the summer, since it’s warmer.
re: #304 calochortus
Yeah, and it’s not great (apparently adaptive cruise control braking doesn’t engage brake lights either,) but single pedal mode means means that most of your serious deceleration won’t give you brake lights most of the time. Seems like a bad idea.
The switch on the brake pedal could be augmented with an inertial sensor to turn on the lights whenever the vehicle decelerates for any reason on both ICE and electric, but the government would probably have to force manufacturers to add that feature.
re: #284 JC1
Trained: look at these 1000 pictures of dogs to learn what dogs are.
Programmed: long sequence of spaghetti code about features that make a dog and how to detect them.You’re conflating AGI with AI/ML.
I know Adjusted Gross Income when I see it
re: #297 danarchy
I have no real experience, but my friend has a Chevy Bolt that he kind of loves. They are releasing an EV Equinox that I wasthinking of taking a look at.
I have a friend who bought a Bolt earlier this year and loves it but GM decided to do the GM thing and stop its manufacture. American auto companies are the most short-sighted businesses on the planet.
re: #308 Captain Ron
You’re bad at looking at things from a larger perspective. They’re mocking an organization that rapes kids, covers it up, and sells a product that does not exist. It doesn’t looks so good from the outside as it looks from your defensive perspective.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 26, 2023
re: #271 Scottish Dragon
I still love Pink Floyd. I’ll never buy any of Waters’ solo stuff. There’s a weird strain of anti Semitism in English progressive circles I’ve never understood.
We were big fans of any British band that was still relatively obscure in the USA, so we were big into Echoes and Ummagumma and Atom Heart Mother.
Then by 1974, every dorm room in America was blaring Dark Side of the Moon from behind a towel-stuffed door.
re: #290 calochortus
Anyone here have thoughts on electric vehicles? Mr. C and I are considering getting one, but there was yesterday’s video on Kia/Hyundai lack of brake lights, Tesla is, well, Tesla, and other brands are apparently not as reliable. I don’t really know where to begin.
I would go Toyota at this point - they have been doing electric a long while.
re: #309 Mattand
Thanks. I am irrationally worried about the reliability of VWs. Not based on experience as Mr. C had a Jetta that lasted 20 years-apparently the only one of that model year (‘91?) that did. Anyway, we can certainly look into them.
I just want there to be an obvious choice, and unsurprisingly there doesn’t seem to be one.
Be careful with your intolerance.
The Sisters are not raping kids, or promising people an impossible reward after they die. Why should we tolerate the Catholic Church if Catholics think we should abandon tolerance?— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 26, 2023
re: #289 No Malarkey!
Because everyone knows that mythological half-fish half-human creatures have white skin.///
Because the story is Danish, they want to claim it as part of Nordic Kulturgut
re: #310 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
The switch on the brake pedal could be augmented with an inertial sensor to turn on the lights whenever the vehicle decelerates for any reason on both ICE and electric, but the government would probably have to force manufacturers to add that feature.
Musk would have to hire new people to implement it…
re: #303 jaunte
This will be helpful in those awkward dating and interview situations./
DIY GPT-Powered Monocle Will Tell You What to Say in Every Conversation
“Say goodbye to awkward dates and job interviews,”
While wearing a monocle??
re: #311 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)
I know Adjusted Gross Income when I see it
Tax joke gets 5 votes. Yesss!
At this point, and someone who is a lawyer can correct me if I’m wrong, but Paxton needs his own counsel. Hilton stepping into this is almost emblematic of a huge chunk of the articles of impeachment.
He’s an employee of the state. This is inappropriate.— Txnewsprincess (@txnewsprincess) May 26, 2023
re: #323 calochortus
I thought they made very, very few EVs, but are planning more in a few years.
Their appeal is that they have a range : hybrid, fuel cell electric, and just electric. You might check them out.
re: #314 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
We were big fans of any British band that was still relatively obscure in the USA, so we were big into Echoes and Ummagumma and Atom Heart Mother.
Then by 1974, every dorm room in America was blaring Dark Side of the Moon from behind a towel-stuffed door.
By ‘76 no one bother with towels
re: #322 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)
“Say goodbye to awkward dates and job interviews,”
While wearing a monocle??
It’s good enough for Mr. Peanut.
re: #326 Thanos
Their appeal is that they have a range : hybrid, fuel cell electric, and just electric. You might check them out.
Yeah, I have looked into the plug in hybrids, but in the past the EV range hasn’t been very good, although you obviously get the advantage of being able to switch to internal combustion, and we’ve been happy with our not-plug-in Prius.
re: #320 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Because the story is Danish, they want to claim it as part of Nordic Kulturgut
But apparently the changes Disney made from the original story to give their kids movie a happy ending doesn’t bother them; the only change they don’t like is the one that would, coincidentally I’m sure, bother racists.
re: #224 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
My ancestors did not arrive until around 1900, but that was still before the Voting Rights or the Civil Rights Act.
They got to enjoy all the privileges of being White People in America
I get to enjoy the privileges of white people in America.
re: #330 calochortus
Yeah, I have looked into the plug in hybrids, but in the past the EV range hasn’t been very good, although you obviously get the advantage of being able to switch to internal combustion, and we’ve been happy with our not-plug-in Prius.
You are right — they only have two real full electric cars the SUV is the bZ4X and the sedan is the Prius, while the fuel cell car is the Mirai.
re: #320 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Because the story is Danish, they want to claim it as part of Nordic Kulturgut
Who gets to own Carmen? The French or the Spanish?
And what would they do with Carmen Jones?
Black 1940s north Carolina iirc
re: #328 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
It’s good enough for Mr. Peanut.
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He has the confidence to pull it off
He doesn’t need prompts
re: #290 calochortus
Anyone here have thoughts on electric vehicles? Mr. C and I are considering getting one, but there was yesterday’s video on Kia/Hyundai lack of brake lights, Tesla is, well, Tesla, and other brands are apparently not as reliable. I don’t really know where to begin.
Right now I’m on a bus powered by fuel cells. Amazed at how quiet it is!
re: #290 calochortus
Anyone here have thoughts on electric vehicles? Mr. C and I are considering getting one, but there was yesterday’s video on Kia/Hyundai lack of brake lights, Tesla is, well, Tesla, and other brands are apparently not as reliable. I don’t really know where to begin.
FWIW, I currently drive a hybrid.
Since I occasionally drive ~350 miles, from Nashville to Charlotte to visit family, if I were to purchase another vehicle, it’d be a plug-in hybrid.
re: #338 BeenHereAwhile
FWIW, I currently drive a hybrid.
Since I occasionally drive ~350 miles, from Nashville to Charlotte to visit family, if I were to purchase another vehicle, it’d be a plug-in hybrid.
I occasionally drive ~1 mile in my Prius. The pandemic almost entirely removed my need to drive.
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