Video: 'A Deadly Serious Pattern': Five State Capitols Evacuated After a Series of Bomb Threats

Video: ‘A Deadly Serious Pattern’: Five State Capitols Evacuated After a Series of Bomb Threats

US NewsJanuary 2024 • Views: 10,792

Pete Strzok, former FBI Counterintelligence Agent, Tim Heaphy, Former Lead Investigator for the January 6th Select Committee and Mary McCord former Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security at the Department of Justice join Alicia Menendez in for Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House to discuss a series of bomb threats sent to multiple state capitols across the country, and the threat it poses as the United States heads into another Presidential election cycle in 2024.

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William Lewis Jan 3, 2024 • 3:05:26pm

So, I saw downstairs that Nicolas Wirth passed. :(

He changed computing for the better.

I am not a big fan of Pascal, but but the universe is a much better place for it’s existence. And that deserves a huge “THANK YOU” from every fucking one of one of one of us who uses a computer. With out him - one of the vast the “rest of them” we would not be here today. So I give great thanks and blessings to Mr. Nicholas Wirth.

He was, truly, one of the fathers of home computing.

Thank you sir.

You are one of the rare reasons I do pray for a heaven for you are one of the few who have earned their place there. May the light bless you and guide you, sir.

Backwoods Sleuth Jan 3, 2024 • 3:08:47pm

Pfizer

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aatharuv Jan 3, 2024 • 3:19:39pm

re: #1 William Lewis

So, I saw downstairs that Nicolas Wirth passed. :(

He changed computing for the better.

I am not a big fan of Pascal, but but the universe is a much better place for it’s existence. And that deserves a huge “THANK YOU” from every fucking one of one of one of us who uses a computer. With out him - one of the vast the “rest of them” we would not be here today. So I give great thanks and blessings to Mr. Nicholas Wirth.

He was, truly, one of the fathers of home computing.

Thank you sir.

You are one of the rare reasons I do pray for a heaven for you are one of the few who have earned their place there. May the light bless you and guide you, sir.

Pascal was the first programming language I semi-seriously learned (in high school). RIP, Niklaus Wirth.

Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿 Jan 3, 2024 • 3:20:15pm

Tomorrow’s Wordle has me wondering if there’s another “rule” to consider.

Click to Reveal

Not going to mention it now (spoilers!) but a quick test in a private tab seems to confirm my hypothesis.

Six birdies in a row.

Wordle 929 3/6

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SibData, two pair: 3,3,4,4,5

Following the big quake in Japan, we are getting reminded to ensure we have stored water for a week - 10 litres per person per day.

Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ Jan 3, 2024 • 3:24:33pm

re: #4 Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿

I pretty much have 25 gallons (RODI water for my fish tank) at all times. That number is going to go up when I get around to installing a better system than 5 gallon bottles.

William Lewis Jan 3, 2024 • 3:30:18pm

re: #3 aatharuv

Pascal was the first programming language I semi-seriously learned (in high school). RIP, Niklaus Wirth.

Basic, but always kept an eye on pascal because of it’s sane complaints about basic. Never really _learned_ it. Could write in it if I had to, but I don’t know it the same way I know BASIC or LISP or C or even FORTRAN or (God forbid) COBOL.

Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿 Jan 3, 2024 • 3:30:37pm

re: #3 aatharuv

Pascal was the first programming language I semi-seriously learned (in high school). RIP, Niklaus Wirth.

Pascal was the first high level language I learned (at Uni) and the last language I wrote any compiled code in - many years later, and many more have passed since.

brick.exe would run on a VAX/VMS server at real-time priority just below the OS to impose an arbitrary load in increments of 10%. No, it wasn’t sophisticated.

I still have … somewhere … a copy of Borland Turbo Pascal for DOS on 5.25” floppy.

Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 3, 2024 • 3:39:33pm

re: #3 aatharuv

Pascal was the first programming language I semi-seriously learned (in high school). RIP, Niklaus Wirth.

COBOL in Summer School
FORTRAN with WATFOR and WATFIV in college

Oh and then there was my first HP programmable calculator with RPN…

William Lewis Jan 3, 2024 • 3:40:46pm

re: #7 Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿

Pascal was the first high level language I learned (at Uni) and the last language I wrote any compiled code in - many years later, and many more have passed since.

brick.exe would run on a VAX/VMS server at real-time priority just below the OS to impose an arbitrary load in increments of 10%. No, it wasn’t sophisticated.

I still have … somewhere … a copy of Borland Turbo Pascal for DOS on 5.25” floppy.

The people who own it have released the DOS versions Turbo Pascal for free. It’s Fun? Interesting? Entertaining? All of the above? Yeah, that! to play with now.

Vicious Babushka Jan 3, 2024 • 3:43:38pm

re: #6 William Lewis

Basic, but always kept an eye on pascal because of it’s sane complaints about basic. Never really _learned_ it. Could write in it if I had to, but I don’t know it the same way I know BASIC or LISP or C or even FORTRAN or (God forbid) COBOL.

I learned FORTRAN and Pascal in college, programmed first using FORTRAN then switched to Pascal. Professionally I never used Pascal, I programmed in FORTRAN, PL/1, Visual Basic (Uccch!!) then classic ASP and VBScript then asp.net and C#.

Now I can’t even remember the command in VBScript to force declaration of variables. LOL good thing I am retired!

Vicious Babushka Jan 3, 2024 • 3:44:23pm

WTAF

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Charles Johnson Jan 3, 2024 • 3:45:15pm

Been nailing the threes lately.

Wordle 928 3/6*

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 3, 2024 • 3:45:54pm

Memories of the 100 instruction limit in the HP-65 and learning tricks to write programs on multiple cards…

Charles Johnson Jan 3, 2024 • 3:46:06pm

When You’re Ugly - Louis Cole

Mattand Jan 3, 2024 • 3:50:13pm

re: #11 Vicious Babushka

WTAF

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That’s actually a good reminder that:

1) The WaPo is not a liberal newspaper
2) Scratch the surface of a ‘normal’ Republican like George Will and you find them repeating the same stupid shit Trump does, despite their alleged disgust with them.

Belafon Jan 3, 2024 • 3:51:46pm

Rolling Stone has a list of the 150 best sci-fi movies of all time. As with any list like this, it’s subjective, bit it would definitely be interesting to watch them all.

rollingstone.com

Charles Johnson Jan 3, 2024 • 3:52:12pm

re: #11 Vicious Babushka

A take so bad it’s physically painful.

silverdolphin Jan 3, 2024 • 3:52:21pm

re: #11 Vicious Babushka

WTAF

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I just canceled my WaPo subscription. I had been worried about the drift of their work. This is the last straw. Using the hack George Will to say there is no difference between Biden and Trump, that we already have an authoritarian so Trump won’t be a problem.

Treason to my mind. Helping the enemies of America is not the proper purpose of a newspaper.

PhillyPretzel ✅ Jan 3, 2024 • 3:53:30pm

re: #18 silverdolphin

True.

Vicious Babushka Jan 3, 2024 • 3:55:49pm

re: #17 Charles Johnson

A take so bad it’s physically painful.

Wait. There’s more.

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sizzzzlerz Jan 3, 2024 • 4:00:51pm

re: #16 Belafon

Rolling Stone has a list of the 150 best sci-fi movies of all time. As with any list like this, it’s subjective, bit it would definitely be interesting to watch them all.

rollingstone.com

TL;DR

I really don’t care about those outside of the top 5 and, except for #2, which I haven’t seen (nor heard of), I’m satisfied with their choices. Putting 2001 as #1 would be my choice as well. 3, 4, and 5 could be in any order afterwards.

JC1 Jan 3, 2024 • 4:02:55pm

re: #21 sizzzzlerz

TL;DR

I really don’t care about those outside of the top 5 and, except for #2, which I haven’t seen (nor heard of), I’m satisfied with their choices. Putting 2001 as #1 would be my choice as well. 3, 4, and 5 could be in any order afterwards.

It’s like they created the list just to get people arguing over it.

sizzzzlerz Jan 3, 2024 • 4:04:17pm

re: #22 JC1

It’s like they created the list just to get people arguing over it.

Ya think? They saw how much coverage their top 250 guitarists generated and knew they could make bank on movies as well.

Vicious Babushka Jan 3, 2024 • 4:05:37pm

Mastodon

PhillyPretzel ✅ Jan 3, 2024 • 4:07:02pm

re: #24 Vicious Babushka

Mmm. That looks good.

silverdolphin Jan 3, 2024 • 4:09:04pm

re: #16 Belafon

Rolling Stone has a list of the 150 best sci-fi movies of all time. As with any list like this, it’s subjective, bit it would definitely be interesting to watch them all.

rollingstone.com

Only ones I’ve missed were a couple of the more obscure, foreign ones. The order is very subjective (Stalker at #2 and Star Wars at #9?) Not too many left out (Did I miss Children of the Damned?), and I would put the War of the Worlds from the 50s over Spielberg’s version.

Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅ Jan 3, 2024 • 4:09:05pm

re: #10 Vicious Babushka

I learned FORTRAN and Pascal in college, programmed first using FORTRAN then switched to Pascal. Professionally I never used Pascal, I programmed in FORTRAN, PL/1, Visual Basic (Uccch!!) then classic ASP and VBScript then asp.net and C#.

Now I can’t even remember the command in VBScript to force declaration of variables. LOL good thing I am retired!

VB anything seems appropriate.

Jay C Jan 3, 2024 • 4:15:51pm

re: #11 Vicious Babushka

WTAF

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WTAF indeed!
Something like 5900+ comments on this piece, and after 15 minutes of scrolling, I have yet to find more than a handful supportive of Will’s idiot thesis…
Some hope left, I guess…

Hecuba's daughter Jan 3, 2024 • 4:17:20pm

re: #21 sizzzzlerz

TL;DR

I really don’t care about those outside of the top 5 and, except for #2, which I haven’t seen (nor heard of), I’m satisfied with their choices. Putting 2001 as #1 would be my choice as well. 3, 4, and 5 could be in any order afterwards.

Of the top 20, I haven’t seen(or heard of) Stalker or Under the Skin nor seen Solaris or Metropolis but have seen the rest. Have never been a fan of Matrix and would rank it much lower on the list. Arrival is one of my favorites.

Charles Johnson Jan 3, 2024 • 4:17:43pm

Whitest Kids U’ Know: Sniper Business

nines09 Jan 3, 2024 • 4:18:30pm

re: #11 Vicious Babushka

George Will. Long time brain dead asshole still asshole.

A Cranky One Jan 3, 2024 • 4:21:13pm

I was taking graduate comp sci classes to meet a job requirement.

The professor was a retired manager from Bell Labs (where I was working). She taught using Pascal as the examples, but told us if we didn’t know Pascal we could write and compile the assignments in whatever language we were familiar with.

She graded one of my exams and took of points for a couple of lines because they weren’t valid Pascal (I was doing most of my programming in C and what I did was valid using C). I went to complain since the course requirements didn’t specify knowledge of Pascal.

She refused to change the grade (a 97%) because it wasn’t valid Pascal.

When our major assignment was due, I wrote it in C (we just had to provide the source code and compiled output). Actually, it was C but the most obscure and convoluted C I could create (and it created the desired output quickly). But if you weren’t an expert in C, what I wrote would be incomprehensible. Have you ever seen 20 conditionals in one statement (LOL).

She couldn’t understand my code and so approached the other instructors for advice. They, of course, immediately recognized what I had done and openly laughed at the professor after looking at the code.

Got a A and the instructor ending up resigning because the other instructors so enjoyed the joke.

So Cal Greek Hippie Jan 3, 2024 • 4:22:39pm

2024: New Years Day, Ventura, California

silverdolphin Jan 3, 2024 • 4:23:47pm

re: #28 Jay C

WTAF indeed!
Something like 5900+ comments on this piece, and after 15 minutes of scrolling, I have yet to find more than a handful supportive of Will’s idiot thesis…
Some hope left, I guess…

Yeah, the whole article is essentialy about how Biden made a nominee an “acting” head of a department since the Senate did not act. No mention that Trump did this more than any other President. So the WaPo gets no more of my money.

Nerdy Fish Jan 3, 2024 • 4:24:19pm

re: #32 A Cranky One

We had a “codefuscation” competition where entrants were challenged to create the shortest, tersest, most incomprehensible - but runnable - solution to a particular problem. I think one year my friend won it with a single line of Perl that was several hundred characters long.

Vicious Babushka Jan 3, 2024 • 4:33:19pm

re: #10 Vicious Babushka

I learned FORTRAN and Pascal in college, programmed first using FORTRAN then switched to Pascal. Professionally I never used Pascal, I programmed in FORTRAN, PL/1, Visual Basic (Uccch!!) then classic ASP and VBScript then asp.net and C#.

Now I can’t even remember the command in VBScript to force declaration of variables. LOL good thing I am retired!

OPTION EXPLICIT. LOL I Googled it.

Charles Johnson Jan 3, 2024 • 4:33:53pm

Absolute genius.

Michael Brecker and Joey Calderazzo - My One And Only love

Captain Ron Jan 3, 2024 • 4:36:14pm

Documents linked to associates of Jeffrey Epstein made public https://t.co/iyw2neCSZK pic.twitter.com/l07RYFqCoF

— Guardian World (@guardianworld) January 4, 2024

A Cranky One Jan 3, 2024 • 4:39:08pm

re: #35 Nerdy Fish

There was an obscure C contest for many years in the industry. Some of the entries required deep knowledge of compilers and assemblers for C. And most were very short.

My officemate wrote the most elegant, concise and effective code I’ve ever seen. I used to take examples of his code and walk up and down the aisles at the office, where every person had at least a Masters in Comp Sci. The vast majority couldn’t figure it out without serious study. (Side note: his wife holds the patent for caller ID).

Of course, he also wrote at least 4 trouble reports on the compilers, all of which were fixed.

His code was amazing but we argued regularly about concise elegant code versus maintainable code.

Final note: both he and his wife were scary smart. Having said that, they build a large telecom computer in their living room from discarded parts, just for fun. And when they had to move, it wouldn’t fit through the doors.

nines09 Jan 3, 2024 • 4:40:10pm

re: #33 So Cal Greek Hippie

Good news. Didn’t fall into the sea.

Hecuba's daughter Jan 3, 2024 • 4:40:27pm

re: #36 Vicious Babushka

OPTION EXPLICIT. LOL I Googled it.

I learned Fortran in college, then used APL in my first job, COBOL in my second, PL/I and then Visual Basic in my final job which I retired from when not only did I have to program the calculations for Cash Refund Annuities but I had to figure the mathematics since there was no one left in the company to provide any guidance. However, I was already 71 so it was clearly not early retirement.

So Cal Greek Hippie Jan 3, 2024 • 4:44:11pm

re: #40 nines09

Thanks!!
But the beaches are still closed with an angry ocean lurking

FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Jan 3, 2024 • 4:44:30pm

re: #1 William Lewis

So, I saw downstairs that Nicolas Wirth passed. :(

He changed computing for the better.

I am not a big fan of Pascal, but but the universe is a much better place for it’s existence. And that deserves a huge “THANK YOU” from every fucking one of one of one of us who uses a computer. With out him - one of the vast the “rest of them” we would not be here today. So I give great thanks and blessings to Mr. Nicholas Wirth.

He was, truly, one of the fathers of home computing.

Thank you sir.

You are one of the rare reasons I do pray for a heaven for you are one of the few who have earned their place there. May the light bless you and guide you, sir.

Initial program course at Pitt in the Engineering School was FORTRAN. (With cards in 1981 when took it.)

Intro computer language in the Computer Science School was Pascal in 1983. By 1985 it was switching over to C.

It was also pretty much a sea change in the industry as the PC revolution swept in. Plus better memory and processor chips were making relational database structures a reality instead of something discussed in class as a theoretical thing you could do.

By 1986 project class submissions were essentially a group designing small scale PC apps. I last saw a hierarchal database in an industry around 1989 or so. I also actually helped program an industrial app written in Pascal in 1990 as well.

Industry conventions like DECUS (DEC Users Society) had presentations about what they expected the network future to be in 1991-92 that were pretty spot on.

William Lewis Jan 3, 2024 • 4:44:33pm

re: #39 A Cranky One

There was an obscure C contest for many years in the industry. Some of the entries required deep knowledge of compilers and assemblers for C. And most were very short.

My officemate wrote the most elegant, concise and effective code I’ve ever seen. I used to take examples of his code and walk up and down the aisles at the office, where every person had at least a Masters in Comp Sci. The vast majority couldn’t figure it out without serious study. (Side note: his wife holds the patent for caller ID).

Of course, he also wrote at least 4 trouble reports on the compilers, all of which were fixed.

His code was amazing but we argued regularly about concise elegant code versus maintainable code.

Final note: both he and his wife were scary smart. Having said that, they build a large telecom computer in their living room from discarded parts, just for fun. And when they had to move, it wouldn’t fit through the doors.

There is a reason I call C “portable assembler”. The Obscure C Contest was the first time I meant it for real 😉

Belafon Jan 3, 2024 • 4:44:45pm

re: #35 Nerdy Fish

We had a “codefuscation” competition where entrants were challenged to create the shortest, tersest, most incomprehensible - but runnable - solution to a particular problem. I think one year my friend won it with a single line of Perl that was several hundred characters long.

My most famous one was a five line sort in C++ that was entirely written using operators from the standard library back before the language had partial template specialization. A coworker would show it to developers in other groups to see if they could figure it out.

Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 3, 2024 • 4:45:03pm

The Post is in competition with the Times to see which paper can suck up more to Trump.

A Cranky One Jan 3, 2024 • 4:45:54pm

Being lazy, I wrote a lot of tools for any task requiring repetition. These were shell scripts with some awk and sed along with some functions in C.

A number of the tools became very popular and that was gratifying.

Then I discovered that folks would approach me years later asking for help with modifications. I was the tech support, even though I had left that assignment years ago.

So being lazy, I stopped sharing a lot of the tools. ;-)

Belafon Jan 3, 2024 • 4:46:38pm

re: #39 A Cranky One

There was an obscure C contest for many years in the industry. Some of the entries required deep knowledge of compilers and assemblers for C. And most were very short.

My officemate wrote the most elegant, concise and effective code I’ve ever seen. I used to take examples of his code and walk up and down the aisles at the office, where every person had at least a Masters in Comp Sci. The vast majority couldn’t figure it out without serious study. (Side note: his wife holds the patent for caller ID).

Of course, he also wrote at least 4 trouble reports on the compilers, all of which were fixed.

His code was amazing but we argued regularly about concise elegant code versus maintainable code.

Final note: both he and his wife were scary smart. Having said that, they build a large telecom computer in their living room from discarded parts, just for fun. And when they had to move, it wouldn’t fit through the doors.

I always start at maintainable and then rewrite critical parts if needed.

Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 3, 2024 • 4:47:07pm

re: #38 Captain Ron

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OK I see they already are endlessly BSing about Bill Clinton on that list

Charles Johnson Jan 3, 2024 • 4:51:02pm

re: #37 Charles Johnson

At 6:00, the lick.

FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Jan 3, 2024 • 4:52:01pm

re: #6 William Lewis

Basic, but always kept an eye on pascal because of it’s sane complaints about basic. Never really _learned_ it. Could write in it if I had to, but I don’t know it the same way I know BASIC or LISP or C or even FORTRAN or (God forbid) COBOL.

I don’t hack on COBOL since it paid my rent for a decade or so. I took the class in 1986 as a senior without getting credits for it to simply learn another language along with FORTRAN, Pascal, and LISP. C was just coming into prominence.

Knowing COBOL, database basics, and experience with DEC/VAX OS stuff made me employable as a contractor and then being hired by a plastics company based in Pittsburgh. Turns out my resume was an exact fit for a set of their applications. To the point that the manager that interviewed me openly asked me if the contracting company had tweaked the resume they submitted.

I slowly shifted from COBOL stuff into database support and logistics applications that were written in other languages. But for a few years I was their best COBOL person and was a reference for the other programmers there when they were trying to something a bit exotic with the language. (And the DEC/VAX version of it had some differences from programming it on an IBM mainframe.) Stuff I wrote in the early 90s survived until the early 2000s at one plant when the company retired their last DEC machine.

darthstar Jan 3, 2024 • 4:52:17pm

nines09 Jan 3, 2024 • 4:53:09pm

re: #42 So Cal Greek Hippie

The ocean will kill you if you give it half a chance. Every time I go to the shore I am entertained by oblivious goofs who just walk into the wash and then turn around to the shore to wave and get slammed by a wave. Buried.
Or there is a slight rip tide and they get further and further away and are wondering why the lifeguards are standing screaming waving their arms.
I watched stupid get close to the Steel Pier piers…..One knock in the head buddy. Just one.
Lifeguards in Atlantic City have Ocean Runners and they get there to scream at them fast.

Charles Johnson Jan 3, 2024 • 4:55:56pm

the lick with just 92 instruments 🎻

Ace Rothstein Jan 3, 2024 • 4:56:04pm

re: #31 nines09

George Will. Long time brain dead asshole still asshole.

His daughter is an excellent photographer.

nines09 Jan 3, 2024 • 4:57:40pm

re: #55 Ace Rothstein

I’m happy for her. He can walk off a roof.

sizzzzlerz Jan 3, 2024 • 5:07:50pm

re: #35 Nerdy Fish

We had a “codefuscation” competition where entrants were challenged to create the shortest, tersest, most incomprehensible - but runnable - solution to a particular problem. I think one year my friend won it with a single line of Perl that was several hundred characters long.

Ah, Perl. The classic example of a write-only programming language.

Hecuba's daughter Jan 3, 2024 • 5:08:40pm

re: #55 Ace Rothstein

His daughter is an excellent photographer.

Is George just reverting to his normal GOP worship and desire to keep Republicans in control?

I have friends years younger than George who have either been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s or who have exhibited serious signs of cognitive impairment. Could Will actually be in cognitive decline and find it more comfortable to revert to old arguments instead of thinking through issues that apply today?

I know, he’s a conservative and all conservatives do is lie.

steve_davis Jan 3, 2024 • 5:09:33pm

re: #11 Vicious Babushka

WTAF

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it’s george will, not WaPo. Newspapers have suffered tremendously since they lost the ability to show an editorial page and an op-ed page. It means even Will’s bullshit looks like it has Wapo’s imprimatur on it, when really they’re just providing bread for the unleavened masses, and a circus for the clown to ride his little unicycle in.

Hecuba's daughter Jan 3, 2024 • 5:11:21pm

re: #59 steve_davis

it’s george will, not WaPo. Newspapers have suffered tremendously since they lost the ability to show an editorial page and an op-ed page. It means even Will’s bullshit looks like it has Wapo’s imprimatur on it, when really they’re just providing bread for the unleavened masses, and a circus for the clown to ride his little unicycle in.

But why is Will still working and Sargent gone?

BlueSpotinAL ✅ Jan 3, 2024 • 5:17:26pm

Passing through a Buc-ees on the way home.

Charles Johnson Jan 3, 2024 • 5:19:49pm

re: #60 Hecuba’s daughter

But why is Will still working and Sargent gone?

The Washington Post is perceptibly tacking to the right. Not as much as the NY Times, maybe, but noticeable. It’s why I canceled my subscription a while ago; I hate to see the Washington Post groveling for right wing clicks, but so it goes.

FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Jan 3, 2024 • 5:20:39pm

re: #22 JC1

It’s like they created the list just to get people arguing over it.

Which is what I expect from any Rolling Stone “best of” list. No apparent rhyme or reason to it. Like they took ten different people’s lists based on different criteria, wrote them on file cards and then riffed the decks together a few times.

Vicious Babushka Jan 3, 2024 • 5:23:04pm

Today would have been my mom’s 100th birthday if she hadn’t passed away in 2017.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Jan 3, 2024 • 5:33:39pm

re: #62 Charles Johnson

And Amazon Prime is promoting right-wing propaganda videos.

The race for the last penny is a race downhill.

William Lewis Jan 3, 2024 • 5:34:24pm

re: #16 Belafon

Rolling Stone has a list of the 150 best sci-fi movies of all time. As with any list like this, it’s subjective, bit it would definitely be interesting to watch them all.

rollingstone.com

Regarding #4, I still maintain that the studio was right and that the voice over added to the story was a good thing. The later versions without it suffered from the lack, I felt. YMMY.

But what do I know? “It’s too bad she won’t live. But then again, who does?”

darthstar Jan 3, 2024 • 5:35:01pm

I only have five but so far it’s true…

Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Jan 3, 2024 • 5:36:11pm

While I am all for not giving these outlets $$ as they chase the hate-right audience, I think we all need to try to be as visible as possible.

Cloistering ourselves into intellectual ghettos will only let the ugliest voices remain to program the next generation of youngsters.

That’s why I liberally leave comments on YouTube videos, and why I occasionally (though not much lately) respond to tweets or Facebook posts.

Charles Johnson Jan 3, 2024 • 5:38:24pm

The choices of the Washington Post.

George Will: lifetime job writing the same awful right wing takes over and over ad infinitum.

@gregsargent.bsky.social: offered a buyout and accepts it, probably for good reason.

Need I say more?

Belafon Jan 3, 2024 • 5:45:06pm

re: #62 Charles Johnson

The Washington Post is perceptibly tacking to the right. Not as much as the NY Times, maybe, but noticeable. It’s why I canceled my subscription a while ago; I hate to see the Washington Post groveling for right wing clicks, but so it goes.

I do worry that all of us canceling only helps move it right. But I don’t think we can really help that ownership.

On the other hand, I think we should all (as in all Democrats) donate to NPR. If we did that, and then started complaining about how our money is being spent, I think we could fix that place.

Vicious Babushka Jan 3, 2024 • 5:48:05pm

As LGF’s Bubbie, I have to keep my NYT and WashPost subscriptions because who else will give you gift articles?

Captain Ron Jan 3, 2024 • 5:49:44pm

Deobra Redden was set to be sentenced for an attempted battery charge, but instead, he jumped over the bench screaming, “f*ck that, b*tch!”

— Law&Crime Network (@LawCrimeNetwork) January 3, 2024

Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿 Jan 3, 2024 • 5:53:03pm

re: #16 Belafon

Rolling Stone has a list of the 150 best sci-fi movies of all time. As with any list like this, it’s subjective, bit it would definitely be interesting to watch them all.

rollingstone.com

Lost me right here with Time Bandits at #122.

a final, terrifyingly surrealistic battle with the Supreme Being (Sir Ralph Richardson at his most menacing).

The battle is with Evil, played by David Warner (at his most menacing, possibly.) Richardson’s Supreme Being is an affable, slightly distracted gent.

Honestly, you’d think they hadn’t seen the bloody film. Which I love.

TedStriker Jan 3, 2024 • 5:55:32pm

re: #62 Charles Johnson

The Washington Post is perceptibly tacking to the right. Not as much as the NY Times, maybe, but noticeable. It’s why I canceled my subscription a while ago; I hate to see the Washington Post groveling for right wing clicks, but so it goes.

“Democracy dies in darkness”

WaPo needs to just take that off the masthead, because they’re getting just as bad as the Moonie Times and the rest of the American MSM in trying to drag said democracy into a pitch-black alley for a .22 behind the ear.

WaPo, the call is from inside the house…

Vicious Babushka Jan 3, 2024 • 5:59:19pm

Welp it looks like my Toot went viral. I guess people really want to hear miscarriage horror stories.

Mastodon

Decatur Deb Jan 3, 2024 • 5:59:25pm

re: #73 Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿

Someone burned the Sunday joint.

Eclectic Cyborg Jan 3, 2024 • 6:00:04pm

re: #73 Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿

Yeah, I was stunned they put Edge of Tomorrow in the Top 20.

Hecuba's daughter Jan 3, 2024 • 6:02:15pm

re: #77 Eclectic Cyborg

Yeah, I was stunned they put Edge of Tomorrow in the Top 20.

Another movie I love, despite my distaste for Tom Cruise.

Vicious Babushka Jan 3, 2024 • 6:02:31pm

Even after that little episode I still considered myself “pro-life” since I would not go and have an abortion because I personally did not want to be pregnant, but it did not bother me if other women made that decision.

It took Savita Halappanavar’s horrific death to convince me that I was “pro-choice” all along.

HypnoToad Jan 3, 2024 • 6:04:06pm

re: #73 Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿

I was surprised that ‘Forbidden Planet’ was ranked as low as it was. I would have reversed it with ‘Close encounters of the Third Kind’ which IMHO had very little to do with science, and recycled several hoary UFO incidents.

Vicious Babushka Jan 3, 2024 • 6:04:47pm

If a woman is BLEEDING OUT right in front of your very eyes, THE “BABY” IS ALREADY DEAD.

Belafon Jan 3, 2024 • 6:10:56pm

re: #78 Hecuba’s daughter

Another movie I love, despite my distaste for Tom Cruise.

As annoying as he is, there are only a few actors that can actually go from whiny man-child to warrior the way he did in the movie.

Vicious Babushka Jan 3, 2024 • 6:11:53pm

I just changed my default browser from Chrome to Firefox, since Chrome and Edge are using “AI” to “enhance” your search results…. to direct you to sites where you can BUY STUFF.

Yeah well, that algorithm doesn’t even work. Yesterday I used Chrome to search for items that I actually want to buy. Yeah that algorithm sucks. So I ditched Chrome.

(((Archangel1))) Jan 3, 2024 • 6:15:36pm

re: #83 Vicious Babushka

I just changed my default browser from Chrome to Firefox, since Chrome and Edge are using “AI” to “enhance” your search results…. to direct you to sites where you can BUY STUFF.

Yeah well, that algorithm doesn’t even work. Yesterday I used Chrome to search for items that I want to buy. Yeah that algorithm sucks. So I ditched Chrome.

With each passing day over the course of the past few years I find myself reassured that I absolutely made the right choice sticking to Firefox this entire time.

Seeing how it developed from it, I consider it the continued superiority of Netscape Navigator.

So Cal Greek Hippie Jan 3, 2024 • 6:15:44pm

re: #79 Vicious Babushka

Very hard to acknowledge something like that and then express it so concisely and well for the rest of us

Belafon Jan 3, 2024 • 6:16:02pm

re: #77 Eclectic Cyborg

Yeah, I was stunned they put Edge of Tomorrow in the Top 20.

Personally, I consider the order irrelevant. I just thought the list was interesting.

teleskiguy Jan 3, 2024 • 6:16:04pm

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Jay C Jan 3, 2024 • 6:19:48pm

re: #72 Captain Ron

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1. I initially read the defendant’s name as “Deborah”, so moderately confused.

2. I guess the charge of “attempted battery” is going to be upgraded….
(And I hope the judge will be OK)

Vicious Babushka Jan 3, 2024 • 6:20:34pm

re: #85 So Cal Greek Hippie

Very hard to acknowledge something like that and then express it so concisely and well for the rest of us

I have 3 daughters and all of them are pro-choice.

My oldest daughter because she is a healthcare professional.
My middle daughter because she lives in a country with the most liberal abortion laws in the world.
My youngest daughter because she lives in Florida.

darthstar Jan 3, 2024 • 6:21:52pm

re: #75 Vicious Babushka

Welp it looks like my Toot went viral. I guess people really want to hear miscarriage horror stories.

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I was at Kaiser ER with my first wife (she had ailments that often required six hours of waiting around in the ER before getting told to take Tylenol and get some rest) one time and there was a young hispanic girl - probably 16 or 17 - with her mother. She looked like she was preggers to this 30 year old guy and she was writing in pain(labor) in her chair. At some point she broke her water and I went up and told the triage nurse as much. Triage nurse said, “No, she’s having severe stomach cramps. She said she wasn’t pregnant.” They put her on a gurney and took her into the ER halls.

An hour later my wife got seen. While she was getting seen by the ER docs I saw the girl lying on a gurney in the hall scratching paint off the wall with one hand as she heaved her hips into the air. I walked into the room where they were treating my wife and said, “There’s a girl giving birth out here.” The docs said, “She says she’s not pregnant.” I said, “Well, tell it to the fuckin’ baby coming out of her uterus in the hall because I thought Kaiser was good at natal care.” That got their attention and a nurse walked out and then shouted for assistance.

That made my wife wait another hour to get her tylenol.

William Lewis Jan 3, 2024 • 6:24:04pm

re: #83 Vicious Babushka

I just changed my default browser from Chrome to Firefox, since Chrome and Edge are using “AI” to “enhance” your search results…. to direct you to sites where you can BUY STUFF.

Yeah well, that algorithm doesn’t even work. Yesterday I used Chrome to search for items that I want to buy. Yeah that algorithm sucks. So I ditched Chrome.

I really really really dislike Firefucked. It’s just that it’s the least bad of the current alternatives, so yeah, it’s my default right now too :(

Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿 Jan 3, 2024 • 6:25:32pm

re: #76 Decatur Deb

Did you notice that the final battle with Evil was mirrored in the toys strewn around Kevin’s bedroom floor when he’s rescued from the burning house? Lego plates and blocks, the cowboys, the space fighter, etc. Not the hack “it was all a dream” but a sly “was it all a dream?”

Then his parents exploded.

Vicious Babushka Jan 3, 2024 • 6:31:29pm

I think I can claim to be more of an expert on “Being Pregnant” and “Giving Birth” than anyone else on LGF.

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teleskiguy Jan 3, 2024 • 6:38:01pm

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coin operated Jan 3, 2024 • 6:41:09pm

re: #94 teleskiguy

had to adjust my snark meter on that one…he sounded like authentic MAGA for most of the vid…

Vicious Babushka Jan 3, 2024 • 6:46:18pm

When is the last time you heard of a woman dying in childbirth?

The last time I heard of this happening was a young woman, about my age at the time, who hemorrhaged after giving birth to her first child. This was in 1979. Then it happened to me 3 times, in 1980 which I already described, and after the births of my #7 and last child, where I hemorrhaged in the hospital because they removed the pitocin IV too soon even though I told them to leave it in.

Giving birth is a dangerous experience like having a heart attack. The only difference is that if you succeed you have a cute little baby and if you fail you are dead or disabled.

HRH Stanley Sea Jan 3, 2024 • 6:50:21pm

re: #61 BlueSpotinAL ✅

I have 2 packs of habanaro on my counter. My brother forgot to pack.

teleskiguy Jan 3, 2024 • 6:52:37pm

re: #95 coin operated

Brent Terhune’s been doing this schtick for years. He’s good!

“Green Day’s been Dookie for years…”

Watch it again.

HRH Stanley Sea Jan 3, 2024 • 6:53:04pm

re: #64 Vicious Babushka

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Charmingly Persistent Jan 3, 2024 • 7:02:40pm

re: #16 Belafon

Rolling Stone has a list of the 150 best sci-fi movies of all time. As with any list like this, it’s subjective, bit it would definitely be interesting to watch them all.

rollingstone.com

Thanks for that! I read pretty much the whole thing. The order made no sense to me - it felt like someone took all 150 movies, shook them up in a bag, and scattered them on the table for the order. But most of my favorites were in there somewhere.

I have to say that the author made the same mistake regarding Logan’s Run that I often see - Logan was not 29. The evil AI overlord took away some of his time to force him to investigate the problem it was seeing. And it doesn’t promise to give his time back when he finishes. Logan is now primed to not trust the AI and to see the constraints and unfairness he was completely blind to before.

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Romantic Heretic Jan 3, 2024 • 7:04:30pm

re: #2 Backwoods Sleuth

Isn’t it odd that the people who hate Marx the most work so hard to prove he was right.

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BeachDem Jan 3, 2024 • 7:09:14pm

Dionne Warwick has denied that she’s going to rfk jr’s birthday fundraiser, but is Martin Sheen really a Jr supporter? Say it ain’t so, PLEASE
thehill.com

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Unabogie Jan 3, 2024 • 7:11:55pm

This is kind of wild. Way back in the 1990s I was in a band with a guy named

Click to Reveal

Derek Broes

He was a pathological liar about the weirdest things. He said he was a dancer at the Olympics. He said he had all these music contacts who would mysteriously cancel every meeting just as we were set to meet. At one point, he insisted that his neighbor was a master sculptor and was creating a sculpture “for the band.” But if you asked to see it, the guy was always out of town. Needless to say, no one ever saw anything like it. He was just always making up the weirdest shit.

(Strangely, he was, in fact, friends with

Click to Reveal

Cuba Gooding Jr

and we hung out when he was reading for Boyz in Da Hood and was just an unknown aspiring actor)

Anyway, he was a guy who seemed to thrive on making stuff up.

Flash forward to now, and he’s popping up in news articles as a master purveyor of misinformation and conspiracy theories. Getting hundreds of thousands of views. Seems like he was born to be a grifter.

taskandpurpose.com

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Romantic Heretic Jan 3, 2024 • 7:17:33pm

re: #39 A Cranky One

With me I’ll come down on the ‘maintainable code’ side of that argument every time.

I started, and finished, my career as a coder in maintenance. Not having letters after my name meant I couldn’t get work otherwise. Lord, I hated, positively hated some of the code I had to fix. More than a few programs I just shot in the head and rewrote from scratch.

A world designed by and for geniuses is not a pleasant world.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus Jan 3, 2024 • 7:21:20pm

re: #104 Romantic Heretic

It’s a curse of the digital world: programs written without enough documentation.

I always hated when I looked at a contractor’s code and each line was not commented liberally.

If I could have I would have required in the contracts that not one line of executable code was written until the entire program design was put into comments in the project software first.

And C coding (and its descendants) are the worst, as the gestalt of C and programmers who live in it like to use the most opaque variable and function names.

Ada died a hard death, but it was intended to help solve project management problems.

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Romantic Heretic Jan 3, 2024 • 7:24:20pm

re: #62 Charles Johnson

They looked at the drug dealing business that Fox et al. runs and thought “I want some of that!”

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Belafon Jan 3, 2024 • 7:28:53pm

re: #105 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

// i is initialized to zero
int i = 0;

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 3, 2024 • 7:38:53pm

re: #31 nines09

George Will. Long time brain dead asshole still asshole.

Never will forget how that prick got a hold of Carter’s 1980 debate prep book and he gave it to Pruneface Reagan.

And did he face any repercussions?

Nope.

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Romantic Heretic Jan 3, 2024 • 7:39:54pm

re: #105 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

It’s why I referred to C/Unix as the Latin of the computing world.

As in the Catholic Church Latin isn’t used to enable communication but to inhibit it. It also keeps the power inside the system. You talk to the priest, the priest talks to God and give you the answer.

My opinion is based on a fait bit of bitterness though. I loved programming. I really enjoyed creating programs that people found useful and easy to understand. Many of my ‘colleagues’ found my attitude distasteful and heretical. They rarely missed a chance to let me know it.

This contributed greatly to my mental health problems. Being quite neuro-diverse I had difficulty understanding their attitude and dealing with the abuse.

Having to leave something I loved really, really hurt.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 3, 2024 • 7:45:53pm

Well the UK Guardian posted all the stuff released about Epstein. 943 pages

theguardian.com

Yeah the usual suspects, Clinton, Prince Andrew, Captain Underpants Dershowitz

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Captain Ron Jan 3, 2024 • 7:49:00pm

Happy birthday to Jonathan the tortoise, who was born in the same decade that John Brown first conceived of what would become the raid at Harper’s Ferry pic.twitter.com/CBDIUGiwQC

— Jeff Stein (@JStein_WaPo) January 3, 2024

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Vicious Babushka Jan 3, 2024 • 7:52:06pm

re: #105 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

It’s a curse of the digital world: programs written without enough documentation.

I always hated when I looked at a contractor’s code and each line was not commented liberally.

If I could have I would have required in the contracts that not one line of executable code was written until the entire program design was put into comments in the project software first.

And C coding (and its descendants) are the worst, as the gestalt of C and programmers who live in it like to use the most opaque variable and function names.

Ada died a hard death, but it was intended to help solve project management problems.

I was a contractor for almost my entire career, and I developed a habit of voluminous documenting of all the code I created. Especially during the late 1980’s when Y2K was just around the corner, and I was compelled to write code for BASF to “convert” 2-digit year fields by bit-flipping. Good times.

Nothing would have happened, just dates would get messed up, but everyone was freaked out by the Bhopal disaster. Yeah that would have sucked since BASF had all those chemicals stored on campus, but it did not happen on my watch.

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Vicious Babushka Jan 3, 2024 • 7:53:34pm

re: #110 Joe Bacon ✅

Well the UK Guardian posted all the stuff released about Epstein. 943 pages

theguardian.com

Yeah the usual suspects, Clinton, Prince Andrew, Captain Underpants Dershowitz

TL;DR just give us the Big Names!

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Vicious Babushka Jan 3, 2024 • 7:58:14pm

re: #105 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Ada died a hard death, but it was intended to help solve project management problems.

I learned Ada in university, it was complicated & more difficult to learn than Pascal so we all learned Pascal.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Jan 3, 2024 • 7:59:50pm

re: #112 Vicious Babushka

I was a contractor for almost my entire career, and I developed a habit of voluminous documenting of all the code I created. Especially during the late 1980’s when Y2K was just around the corner, and I was compelled to write code to “convert” 2-digit year fields by bit-flipping. Good times.

Company I worked for did a Y2K conversion where they built a subroutine program that did a calendar offset to went to a year where the days of the week fell on the same calendar day, etc. as 1999, 2000, and so forth. The conversion project was then working out everywhere a few major applications used dates and then inserting a call to the subroutine to do a conversion, allow the date manipulation or display in the program to its thing and then convert back.

Half the applications I worked with had been developed in 1992-94 and I’d won an argument during the design phase to have full date fields and that the application was going to last more than six years. Contrary to the media doom-saying in the late 1990s many IT departments were thinking about the Y2K issue a decade before it became a reality.

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Vicious Babushka Jan 3, 2024 • 8:01:03pm

The last thing I did at my last job was AGILE. I realized the entire purpose of that tool was “fire people” and “load remainers with more work.”

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No Malarkey! Jan 3, 2024 • 8:03:35pm

More: pic.twitter.com/qJYYb61qVf

— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) January 4, 2024

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Joe Bacon ✅ Jan 3, 2024 • 8:03:57pm

re: #113 Vicious Babushka

TL;DR just give us the Big Names!

I downloaded the file and so far I see:

Trump
Bill Clinton
Michael Jackson
David Copperfield
Bruce Willis
Leonardo DiCaprio
Prince Andrew
Glenn Dubin
Les Wexner
Captain Underpants Dershowitz
Bill Richardson

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Vicious Babushka Jan 3, 2024 • 8:05:45pm

re: #115 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Company I worked for did a Y2K conversion where they built a subroutine program that did a calendar offset to went to a year where the days of the week fell on the same calendar day, etc. as 1999, 2000, and so forth. The conversion project was then working out everywhere a few major applications used dates and then inserting a call to the subroutine to do a conversion, allow the date manipulation or display in the program to its thing and then convert back.

Half the applications I worked with had been developed in 1992-94 and I’d won an argument during the design phase to have full date fields and that the application was going to last more than six years. Contrary to the media doom-saying in the late 1990s many IT departments were thinking about the Y2K issue a decade before it became a reality.

When I was working on the DB at BASF I suggested a 4-digit date field and my asshole boss told me I was “impertinent” gave me a bad review & suggested that I should resign before I was fired.

I resigned after I got another job at GM, oh and I reported my boss AND HIS SUPERIOR for antisemitic harassment. I don’t know what happened to them, probably nothing since I was a minority woman and they were standard white men.

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Dangerman Jan 3, 2024 • 8:06:27pm

re: #118 Joe Bacon ✅

I downloaded the file and so far I see:

Trump
Bill Clinton
Michael Jackson
David Copperfield
Bruce Willis
Leonardo DiCaprio
Prince Andrew
Glenn Dubin
Les Wexner
Captain Underpants Dershowitz
Bill Richardson

I swear I saw it as Les Nessman

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darthstar Jan 3, 2024 • 8:08:59pm

Just watched a movie - The Black Book - filmed on location in Nigeria with a largely Nigerian cast…about a priest who has a past as a not a priest and takes on a group of corrupt cops after they frame and murder his son.

Seriously well made film. Good actors, nice plot development, and nothing over the top unbelievable. Definitely worth giving it a watch - apparently there was a version in 2006 but the 2023 version I watched is good.

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Vicious Babushka Jan 3, 2024 • 8:09:50pm

Mastodon

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darthstar Jan 3, 2024 • 8:10:24pm

re: #120 Dangerman

I swear I saw it as Les Nessman

BREAKING: Thanksgiving turkeys can’t fly.

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No Malarkey! Jan 3, 2024 • 8:11:29pm

The percentage who say we are in a recession or depression, 46%, is the same percentage as voted for Trump. Basically they are just asking if you approve of the President.

When it comes to the economy, do you think we are in…

Recession 30%
Economic recovery 29%
Stagnation 21%
Depression 16%

.@Suffolk_U/@USATODAY, 1,000 LV, 12/26-29https://t.co/nOtWJFkkvA

— Political Polls (@Politics_Polls) January 4, 2024

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Jan 3, 2024 • 8:14:04pm

re: #116 Vicious Babushka

The last thing I did at my last job was AGILE. I realized the entire purpose of that tool was “fire people” and “load remainers with more work.”

Friend of mine in IT supporting a health network is working in what is supposedly an AGILE set-up. What seems to happen during “sprints” is that his manager likes changing the goal set mid week which I told him seems to not really being following the spirit of the method at all.

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piratedan Jan 3, 2024 • 8:44:28pm

re: #26 silverdolphin

yeah, they puffed up a couple of the foriegn films and for some reason, a whole lotta cinephiles adore Tartovsky. Was kind of surprised to see some of my sentimental favorites in the big list (Dark City, Buckaroo Banzaii) but others like A Boy and His Dog were left off. It’s supposed to be a conversation starter and that’s totally cool by me.

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wrenchwench Jan 3, 2024 • 8:55:29pm

re: #126 piratedan

yeah, they puffed up a couple of the foriegn films and for some reason, a whole lotta cinephiles adore Tartovsky. Was kind of surprised to see some of my sentimental favorites in the big list (Dark City, Buckaroo Banzaii) but others like A Boy and His Dog were left off. It’s supposed to be a conversation starter and that’s totally cool by me.

I was happy to see Dark Star, Silent Running, and Andromeda Strain on the list.

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