The Bob Cesca Interview: Cliff Schecter Day

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Today’s program from our podcasting affiliate, The Bob Cesca Show:

Cliff Schecter Day — The great Cliff Schecter stopped by to talk about Republicans in disarray, Trump’s gag order, Ronna McDaniel and the cynicism of MSNBC, and more! You might know Cliff from his popular YouTube channel or from the Stephanie Miller Show or from his regular appearances here. This was one of my favorite talks with Cliff so stick around. Meantime, don’t forget to support this podcast by subscribing us on Patreon – patreon.com/bobcescashow. Music by Freekbass.

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teleskiguy  Mar 27, 2024 • 3:16:17pm

Joe Lieberman was a stupid and bad person. RIP

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BeenHereAwhile  Mar 27, 2024 • 3:18:00pm

Jesse Berney @jessebe… • 22m
I’m not one of those people who think you shouldn’t speak ill of the dead.
But I do think it’s important to remember the good things Joe Lieberman accomplished in his life.
Like not being Henry Kissinger.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 27, 2024 • 3:19:49pm

From downstairs:

re: #138 Joe Bacon ✅

They say you have to speak good of the dead.

Nah, fam, fuck that shit. Venerating the dead is a terrible practice that whitewashes terrible people under the blood of Jesus. Joe Lieberman was a bad actor in American politics and made all our lives worse. I won’t say I’m glad he’s dead; it takes a lot for me to get to that point, and that list is very short. But I’m not going to shed any tears tonight.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Mar 27, 2024 • 3:20:49pm

re: #3 Nerdy Fish

So true.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 27, 2024 • 3:21:15pm

re: #2 BeenHereAwhile

Jesse Berney @jessebe… • 22m
I’m not one of those people who think you shouldn’t speak ill of the dead.
But I do think it’s important to remember the good things Joe Lieberman accomplished in his life.
Like not being Henry Kissinger.

Speaking of Kissinger remember his new “assignment”…he fit right into it…

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Mar 27, 2024 • 3:23:52pm

Person behind him looks like Dana Carvey in character.

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jaunte  Mar 27, 2024 • 3:24:01pm

This is a good time to repeat one of the simple maxims my late wife Jot delivered almost daily to our four kids:

“Don’t fall down.”

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 27, 2024 • 3:24:31pm

re: #7 jaunte

This is a good time to repeat one the simple maxims my late wife Jot delivered almost daily to our four kids:

“Don’t fall down.”

Sage advice from a wise lady.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Mar 27, 2024 • 3:25:18pm

re: #6 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

She dresses like a “handmaid” except without the headgear.

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piratedan  Mar 27, 2024 • 3:25:28pm

Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social
*
now
The family of Joe Lieberman request that in lieu of healthcare, please send flowers.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 27, 2024 • 3:25:34pm

re: #6 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Person behind him looks like Dana Carvey in character.

[Embedded content]

6 to 23 months for destroying 3 kids…I’m already worked up over LIEberman going offline and now this…

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 27, 2024 • 3:26:33pm

re: #10 piratedan

Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social
*
now
The family of Joe Lieberman request that in lieu of healthcare, please send flowers.

Oh no. When it comes to that rat bastard “Thoughts and Prayers” will suffice…and now I got a reason to PARTY MY ASS OFF TONIGHT!!!!!!

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William Lewis  Mar 27, 2024 • 3:28:47pm

re: #3 Nerdy Fish

From downstairs:

Nah, fam, fuck that shit. Venerating the dead is a terrible practice that whitewashes terrible people under the blood of Jesus. Joe Lieberman was a bad actor in American politics and made all our lives worse. I won’t say I’m glad he’s dead; it takes a lot for me to get to that point, and that list is very short. But I’m not going to shed any tears tonight.

Excellent way to phrase it.

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EPR-radar  Mar 27, 2024 • 3:33:13pm

re: #3 Nerdy Fish

From downstairs:

Nah, fam, fuck that shit. Venerating the dead is a terrible practice that whitewashes terrible people under the blood of Jesus. Joe Lieberman was a bad actor in American politics and made all our lives worse. I won’t say I’m glad he’s dead; it takes a lot for me to get to that point, and that list is very short. But I’m not going to shed any tears tonight.

When Trump does us all a favor and finally dies, I will have to find a way to party to properly celebrate. And I never party.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 27, 2024 • 3:33:50pm

re: #14 EPR-radar

When Trump does us all a favor and finally dies, I will have to find a way to party to properly celebrate. And I never party.

He’s at the top of the very short list. In fact, of people still alive, he is the list right now.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 27, 2024 • 3:35:35pm

I guess that’s not strictly true. I can think of maybe 2 other living assholes I’d put on that very short list of people I’d legitimately be glad to see dead. Trump is definitely at the top of that list, though.

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wrenchwench  Mar 27, 2024 • 3:38:27pm

re: #14 EPR-radar

When Trump does us all a favor and finally dies, I will have to find a way to party to properly celebrate. And I never party.

Takes practice. I’d start right away. Start slow, then ease up a bit.

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silverdolphin  Mar 27, 2024 • 3:38:34pm

re: #16 Nerdy Fish

I guess that’s not strictly true. I can think of maybe 2 other living assholes I’d put on that very short list of people I’d legitimately be glad to see dead. Trump is definitely at the top of that list, though.

I’m hoping his funeral is something like this.

Martha & The Vandellas “Dancing in the Streets”

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prairiefire  Mar 27, 2024 • 3:40:48pm

re: #13 William Lewis

Hi, I’ve got an old camera of my grandfather’s from the mid 1930sI’ll post a pic when I find it.
From the photos, he was trying for indoor shots of the fam, but they are still quite dark without a flash.

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calochortus  Mar 27, 2024 • 3:41:28pm

re: #7 jaunte

This is a good time to repeat one of the simple maxims my late wife Jot delivered almost daily to our four kids:

“Don’t fall down.”

How do you know if you’re old?
Fall down. If people laugh, you’re young. If they panic, you’re old.

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JC1  Mar 27, 2024 • 3:41:56pm

So we’ve been rewatching Justified for the first time since it first aired. Still holds up well; darn good show.

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Ace Rothstein  Mar 27, 2024 • 3:41:57pm

re: #3 Nerdy Fish

I’ll be very happy when Trump assumes room temperature, and I don’t feel bad about saying it one bit.

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Teukka  Mar 27, 2024 • 3:42:03pm

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Mar 27, 2024 • 3:42:56pm

re: #23 Teukka

Catchy. That is one way to GOTV for Joe.

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silverdolphin  Mar 27, 2024 • 3:43:40pm

re: #20 calochortus

How do you know if you’re old?
Fall down. If people laugh, you’re young. If they panic, you’re old.

What I am amazed at is how much harder a fall feels when over 60 vs 21. It is like gravity has increased ten-fold. LIke I’m living on Jupiter now rather than Earth.

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calochortus  Mar 27, 2024 • 3:44:28pm

re: #25 silverdolphin

What I am amazed at is how much harder a fall feels when over 60 vs 21. It is like gravity has increased ten-fold. LIke I’m living on Jupiter now rather than Earth.

We are. It explains why we get tired more easily. We’re fighting far more gravity.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Mar 27, 2024 • 3:44:43pm
Senate Democrats Drop the Public Option to Woo Lieberman, and Liberals Howl

December 15, 2009 — Democratic senators traveled to the White House on Tuesday for a meeting with President Obama aimed at building a united front on health care, and Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman said he’d likely join with them in backing a measure that dropped a government-sponsored insurance program.

But a firm 60 votes to limit debate remained elusive as the clock ticked down toward the Christmas recess and senators still awaited a new score from the Congressional Budget Office. Protestors gathered at both ends of the city, with liberals upset by the lack of a public option rallying at Lafayette Park facing the White House and conservatives chanting “Kill the Bill!” massed across the street from the Senate.

commonwealthfund.org

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Teukka  Mar 27, 2024 • 3:46:09pm

re: #24 PhillyPretzel ✅

Catchy. That is one way to GOTV for Joe.

I know right? It’s why I honestly stole it.

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EPR-radar  Mar 27, 2024 • 3:47:09pm

re: #25 silverdolphin

What I am amazed at is how much harder a fall feels when over 60 vs 21. It is like gravity has increased ten-fold. LIke I’m living on Jupiter now rather than Earth.

I managed to break a hip in a fall in second grade. So I’ve never had that feeling of youthful invulnerability.

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Dangerman  Mar 27, 2024 • 3:47:34pm

re: #7 jaunte

This is a good time to repeat one of the simple maxims my late wife Jot delivered almost daily to our four kids:

“Don’t fall down.”

I keep telling dangermom why she needs to be oh so careful at 95.

Her doctor has been clear with her: if you fall you will go to the hospital and you’ll die there.

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silverdolphin  Mar 27, 2024 • 3:51:10pm

re: #26 calochortus

We are. It explains why we get tired more easily. We’re fighting far more gravity.

Ooh. you bring up an interesting research project. Maybe the weakening of our muscle fibers as we get older diminish their ability to slow our falls. I wonder if anyone has measured whether old people ‘crumble like a wall’ because their muscles cannot slow their falls. Do old people fall from a stumble at 1 g while younger people use thier miscles to slow the apparent acceleration to maybe 0.5 g?

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calochortus  Mar 27, 2024 • 3:53:42pm

re: #31 silverdolphin

Ooh. you bring up an interesting research project. Maybe the weakening of our muscle fibers as we get older diminish their ability to slow our falls. I wonder if anyone has measured whether old people ‘crumble like a wall’ because their muscles cannot slow their falls. Do old people fall from a stumble at 1 g while younger people use thier miscles to slow the apparent acceleration to maybe 0.5 g?

Good question. I, for one, do not have the muscles at 70 that I did at 50. And I have to work on my balance, which I never, ever needed to do until I was at least 60.

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calochortus  Mar 27, 2024 • 3:54:39pm

Anyway, I have stuff I need to take care of. Slowly. With attention to not falling over.

BBL

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HypnoToad  Mar 27, 2024 • 3:54:59pm

re: #30 Dangerman

I keep telling dangermom why she needs to be oh so careful at 95.

Her doctor has been clear with her: if you fall you will go to the hospital and you’ll die there.

Fourteen months ago, my mother fell, severely dislocated, and cracked her hip. She died four days later a few weeks shy of her ninety-eighth. (Weak heart + hip replacement surgery) At the time of the accident, lying on the floor when I arrived, she calmly told me to not call the paramedics and put her hip back in joint so she could continue to work on her taxes. Ultimate denial.

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A Cranky One  Mar 27, 2024 • 3:55:00pm

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Unabogie  Mar 27, 2024 • 3:55:40pm

Sounds like the JOEMENTUM! is strong heading straight to hell.

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wrenchwench  Mar 27, 2024 • 3:58:03pm

re: #31 silverdolphin

Ooh. you bring up an interesting research project. Maybe the weakening of our muscle fibers as we get older diminish their ability to slow our falls. I wonder if anyone has measured whether old people ‘crumble like a wall’ because their muscles cannot slow their falls. Do old people fall from a stumble at 1 g while younger people use thier miscles to slow the apparent acceleration to maybe 0.5 g?

You can build muscle at any age. Takes longer for a smaller result, but almost everyone has room for improvement. My PT after I got hit was always focused on building the fall-prevention muscles. He’d ‘joke’ about working with old people, how you could just tap on them to push them over before he trained with them.

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DodgerFan1988  Mar 27, 2024 • 3:58:39pm
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silverdolphin  Mar 27, 2024 • 4:00:37pm

re: #32 calochortus

Good question. I, for one, do not have the muscles at 70 that I did at 50. And I have to work on my balance, which I never, ever needed to do until I was at least 60.

Yeah, looked at some research. Lost of fast twitch muscle fibers means we cannot quickly recover from a slip and prevent it. Young people slip as often as old but catch themselves before they fall with strong quads. Also upper body arm motion has a big effect on recovery before falling, which older people are slower to make.

SO, in effect, the young can use their leg muscles to beat gravity and arrest the fall before hitting a surface For the old, we just fall over at 1g.

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Dangerman  Mar 27, 2024 • 4:03:05pm

re: #32 calochortus

Good question. I, for one, do not have the muscles at 70 that I did at 50. And I have to work on my balance, which I never, ever needed to do until I was at least 60.

i can still run pretty good for 66-67.
flat running is mostly the same motion over and over in only the one forward direction. so the stresses are repetitive and predictable.

while i was doing PT for my foot last December they had me doing balance drills. It was…embarrassing.

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darthstar  Mar 27, 2024 • 4:03:49pm

Joe Lieberman passed after a fall in New York. Peace to his family. He stopped being relevant to US politics 24 years ago so there’s nothing more to say about him.

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silverdolphin  Mar 27, 2024 • 4:04:26pm

re: #37 wrenchwench

You can build muscle at any age. Takes longer for a smaller result, but almost everyone has room for improvement. My PT after I got hit was always focused on building the fall-prevention muscles. He’d ‘joke’ about working with old people, how you could just tap on them to push them over before he trained with them.

Yep. We lose fast twitch muscle as we age unless we fight that loss and those are what are really needed to arrest a fall. And also move our body during a fall to take the forces in a better fashion.

Taking karate classes in college I was trained how to fall in a way to less overall forces on one spot. But it requires a subtlety and speed of motion I find lacking today.

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jaunte  Mar 27, 2024 • 4:06:35pm

re: #42 silverdolphin

I’ve had to use early karate falling experience several times since moving to the country, hitting the ground multiple times while out cutting brush. Luckily the soft sand and clay here goes down hundreds of feet.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Mar 27, 2024 • 4:07:22pm

re: #18 silverdolphin

I’m hoping his funeral is something like this.

[Embedded content]

Video

“Summer’s here and the time is right for FIGHTING in the streets…”

Street Fighting Man


(I like this cover better than the Stones’ original)

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wrenchwench  Mar 27, 2024 • 4:07:27pm

re: #40 Dangerman

i can still run pretty good for 66-67.
flat running is mostly the same motion over and over in only the one forward direction. so the stresses are repetitive and predictable.

while i was doing PT for my foot last December they had me doing balance drills. It was…embarrassing.

People who share my vestibular deficiency tend to have fewer fall injuries as they age than the gen. pop. They started working on it earlier.

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Dangerman  Mar 27, 2024 • 4:08:33pm

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darthstar  Mar 27, 2024 • 4:11:13pm

re: #37 wrenchwench

You can build muscle at any age. Takes longer for a smaller result, but almost everyone has room for improvement. My PT after I got hit was always focused on building the fall-prevention muscles. He’d ‘joke’ about working with old people, how you could just tap on them to push them over before he trained with them.

Saw a couple of tatted middle aged dudes walking their dogs this morning and they were all cut and shit and looked like the images from those facebook ads for daily exercise routines to look like you spend 23 hours a day in the gym at different ages.

Almost comical…the older you get, the more cut you get.

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  Mar 27, 2024 • 4:12:48pm

At 76 I still have remarkable balance and agility. My brother and I were semi-vaudevillians who performed as an acrobat team in the 1950s. We were, as one big b&w glossy poster put it, “National Network TV Stars.”

I still know how to fall but no longer have any backup muscular strength. AND, a fall now affects more strongly my entire musculoskeletal system. An injury on my right shoulder might once have been just that, but now it works itself down my right side in several places over time as pieces each react.

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Dangerman  Mar 27, 2024 • 4:14:02pm
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KGxvi  Mar 27, 2024 • 4:14:14pm

California State Bar Court recommends disbarring Eastman.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Mar 27, 2024 • 4:14:57pm

re: #17 wrenchwench

Takes practice. I’d start right away. Start slow, then ease up a bit.

and it always helps to party with trusted friends

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KGxvi  Mar 27, 2024 • 4:16:47pm

Order includes $10k in monetary sanctions. State Bar Court decisions go to the Supreme Court for final disposition. It’s fairly rare for the Supreme Court to not go along with the recommended discipline.

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wrenchwench  Mar 27, 2024 • 4:17:01pm

re: #51 Backwoods Sleuth

and it always helps to party with trusted friends

Almost a prerequisite. Especially for a newb.

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TedStriker  Mar 27, 2024 • 4:22:24pm

re: #3 Nerdy Fish

From downstairs:

Nah, fam, fuck that shit. Venerating the dead is a terrible practice that whitewashes terrible people under the blood of Jesus. Joe Lieberman was a bad actor in American politics and made all our lives worse. I won’t say I’m glad he’s dead; it takes a lot for me to get to that point, and that list is very short. But I’m not going to shed any tears tonight.

As Clarence Darrow said (and the paraphrasing of which is often misattributed to Mark Twain):

“All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.”

snopes.com

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 27, 2024 • 4:28:39pm

re: #52 KGxvi

Order includes $10k in monetary sanctions. State Bar Court decisions go to the Supreme Court for final disposition. It’s fairly rare for the Supreme Court to not go along with the recommended discipline.

The Finding Out is upon him.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 27, 2024 • 4:33:11pm

Just in

EASTMAN TO BE DISBARRED

And it’s only Wednesday…

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Dangerman  Mar 27, 2024 • 4:46:00pm

re: #56 Joe Bacon ✅

Just in

EASTMAN TO BE DISBARRED

And it’s only Wednesday…

Now do Jeffrey clark

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Belafon  Mar 27, 2024 • 4:46:28pm

re: #57 Dangerman

Now do Jeffrey clark

Can’t we celebrate Eastman first?

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Charles  Mar 27, 2024 • 4:47:09pm

You’ve Got Another Thing Coming

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Cheechako  Mar 27, 2024 • 4:48:11pm

At my age, falling over is very easy. Just gravity at work. It’s the getting back up that’s very hard.

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Dangerman  Mar 27, 2024 • 4:48:22pm

re: #56 Joe Bacon ✅

Just in

EASTMAN TO BE DISBARRED

And it’s only Wednesday…

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 27, 2024 • 4:49:25pm

re: #60 Cheechako

At my age, falling over is very easy. Just gravity at work. It’s the getting back up that’s very hard.

As we always say about falls from great heights, “It’s not the fall that kills you. It’s the sudden stop at the end.”

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Dangerman  Mar 27, 2024 • 4:50:06pm

re: #60 Cheechako

At my age, falling over is very easy. Just gravity at work. It’s the getting back up that’s very hard.

I’m at the stage where if I need to get on my knees, (no jokes) first I formulate an exit plan

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Dangerman  Mar 27, 2024 • 4:51:47pm
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Nerdy Fish  Mar 27, 2024 • 4:52:43pm

re: #64 Dangerman

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His disbarment isn’t formal yet. The California Supreme Court still needs to sign off on the punishment, but my understanding from Legalsky is that this is more or less a rubber stamp.

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Dangerman  Mar 27, 2024 • 4:53:25pm

Lotta hot takes tonite

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Cheechako  Mar 27, 2024 • 4:55:47pm

re: #63 Dangerman

I’m at the stage where if I need to get on my knees, (no jokes) first I formulate an exit plan

Same here. I have those grabber devices stashed all over the house. Saves getting down or bending over.

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Dangerman  Mar 27, 2024 • 5:00:03pm

Times like this it would be good to have a Twitter account

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Dangerman  Mar 27, 2024 • 5:06:15pm

That comer is some kind of genius

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 27, 2024 • 5:07:54pm

re: #1 teleskiguy

Joe Lieberman was a stupid and bad person. RIP

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No Malarkey!  Mar 27, 2024 • 5:08:57pm

re: #66 Dangerman

Lotta hot takes tonite

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Dangerman  Mar 27, 2024 • 5:09:16pm

Joe has found his label.

Too soon?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 27, 2024 • 5:09:50pm

re: #69 Dangerman

That comer is some kind of genius

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Narrator: There was, in fact, not a fucking shred of evidence.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 27, 2024 • 5:10:47pm

re: #70 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Yeah, Gore fucked up by going with him IMO.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 27, 2024 • 5:16:25pm

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Belafon  Mar 27, 2024 • 5:17:30pm
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jaunte  Mar 27, 2024 • 5:18:33pm

re: #76 Belafon

So few bloody car crashes in this White House.

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Captain Ron  Mar 27, 2024 • 5:18:56pm
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Charles  Mar 27, 2024 • 5:20:10pm

re: #76 Belafon

Biden doesn’t provide them with juicy clickbait scoops and stories. Trump is good for the media across the board. It’s a big reason why a monster like Trump ever got into the White House.

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nines09  Mar 27, 2024 • 5:20:57pm

re: #76 Belafon

Best book deals are the chuckleheads who worked under or for Trump and witnessed his crimes, but said and did nothing.
Didn’t want to ruin that tell all book deal.
Just like the people who film somebody being beaten and do nothing.
“How did the house burn down?”
Well, everybody filmed it and………………………..

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Captain Ron  Mar 27, 2024 • 5:22:32pm
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Belafon  Mar 27, 2024 • 5:26:30pm
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Belafon  Mar 27, 2024 • 5:27:34pm
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Charles  Mar 27, 2024 • 5:30:30pm

Ever noticed how you can append -ass to almost any word and turn it into an insult?

Prepending also works. Ass-clown. Ass-hat. Et cetera-ass.

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prairiefire  Mar 27, 2024 • 5:32:22pm

re: #63 Dangerman

Needs must.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 27, 2024 • 5:34:33pm

re: #83 Belafon

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Jesus H. Fucking Christ, the NYT is thirsty for more of that sweet Trump chaos.

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jaunte  Mar 27, 2024 • 5:35:04pm

Asschaplain.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 27, 2024 • 5:35:34pm

And if that’s not enough for today…The Steven Crowder Divorce Trial is going on too!

The Steven Crowder divorce drama is exploding on right-wing Twitter today, where we’ve learned that the court record features a threatening yam sent to Crowder

I Yam What I Yam

What a day! Celebrating with a diet Cherry Coke and a Bag of Fritos!

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Unabogie  Mar 27, 2024 • 5:35:34pm

re: #86 Nerdy Fish

Jesus H. Fucking Christ, the NYT is thirsty for more of that sweet Trump chaos.

Their reporters got rich writing books with information they withheld from the public. I’m no fancy journalist, but that seems bad.

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jaunte  Mar 27, 2024 • 5:36:11pm

@kilgoretrout.bsky.social

they should do a reality show where they share a one bedroom apartment

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 27, 2024 • 5:37:12pm

re: #90 jaunte

@kilgoretrout.bsky.social

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Soon to share the same cell in Leavenworth…

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steve_davis  Mar 27, 2024 • 5:42:05pm

re: #3 Nerdy Fish

From downstairs:

Nah, fam, fuck that shit. Venerating the dead is a terrible practice that whitewashes terrible people under the blood of Jesus. Joe Lieberman was a bad actor in American politics and made all our lives worse. I won’t say I’m glad he’s dead; it takes a lot for me to get to that point, and that list is very short. But I’m not going to shed any tears tonight.

Joe Lieberman—literally the single reason there is no public option for national health care.

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A Cranky One  Mar 27, 2024 • 5:42:10pm

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Charles  Mar 27, 2024 • 5:42:27pm

re: #90 jaunte

@kilgoretrout.bsky.social

[Embedded content]

We could set it in a federal prison.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 27, 2024 • 5:44:18pm

re: #92 steve_davis

Joe Lieberman—literally the single reason there is no public option for national health care.

That doesn’t change the equation. Bad, yes. Killed people indirectly, almost certainly. Kissinger-level, probably not, in the final analysis.

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Belafon  Mar 27, 2024 • 5:47:08pm
In a new groundbreaking development, researchers at Aston University have achieved a internet’s data transmission speed that is a staggering 4.5 million times faster than the average home broadband. This unprecedented rate is the fastest ever recorded, achieved by utilizing specific new wavelength bands that have not been previously used in fiber optic systems.

As part of an international collaboration, the team transferred data at a rate of 301 terabits per second, or 301,000,000 megabits per second, using a single, standard optical fiber. To put this into perspective, Ofcom’s UK home broadband performance report published in September 2023 stated that the average broadband speed is just 69.4 Mbit/s.

…

Dr. Phillips led the development of a management device, or optical processor, at Aston University. He explained, “Broadly speaking, data was sent via an optical fiber like a home or office internet connection. However, alongside the commercially available C and L-bands, we used two additional spectral bands called E-band and S-band. Such bands traditionally haven’t been required because the C- and L-bands could deliver the required capacity to meet consumer needs.”

“Over the last few years Aston University has been developing optical amplifiers that operate in the E-band, which sits adjacent to the C-band in the electromagnetic spectrum but is about three times wider. Before the development of our device, no one had been able to properly emulate the E-band channels in a controlled way,” Phillips added.

interestingengineering.com

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retired cynic  Mar 27, 2024 • 5:47:16pm

re: #93 A Cranky One

Gag me.

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jaunte  Mar 27, 2024 • 5:48:59pm

re: #96 Belafon

Imagine how much denser Truth Social posts can get.

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Belafon  Mar 27, 2024 • 5:49:16pm

re: #92 steve_davis

Joe Lieberman—literally the single reason there is no public option for national health care.

From what I remember, it was three Democrats and the Republican party. The three Democrats were Lieberman, Nelson, and Landrieu.

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teleskiguy  Mar 27, 2024 • 5:50:08pm

re: #70 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Mar 27, 2024 • 5:50:55pm

re: #84 Charles

Ever noticed how you can append -ass to almost any word and turn it into an insult?

Prepending also works. Ass-clown. Ass-hat. Et cetera-ass.

“Ass-MAGAt” is my favorite. Coined it myself, though I’m sure it has occurred to many (millions?) of others.

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Mike Lamb  Mar 27, 2024 • 5:52:30pm

re: #49 Dangerman

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They don’t seem to realize that McDaniel being a normal Republican is 100% the problem.

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Charles  Mar 27, 2024 • 5:52:56pm

I’ve always been skeptical about presidential election polls, but the current political climate has rendered them basically worthless.

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teleskiguy  Mar 27, 2024 • 5:53:27pm

re: #79 Charles

Michelle Wolf told a lot of them right to their faces at Nerd Prom in 2018, basically “You ❤️ Trump because he makes you money.” She’s been kind of blackballed by the entertainment industry ever since.

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Cheechako  Mar 27, 2024 • 5:54:53pm

re: #96 Belafon

So, does data get to the receiving device before you send it?

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Charles  Mar 27, 2024 • 5:56:08pm

re: #104 teleskiguy

They’re the court jesters, and Michelle Wolf called them out. Court jesters hate being called out.

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steve_davis  Mar 27, 2024 • 5:57:27pm

re: #48 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)

At 76 I still have remarkable balance and agility. My brother and I were semi-vaudevillians who performed as an acrobat team in the 1950s. We were, as one big b&w glossy poster put it, “National Network TV Stars.”

I still know how to fall but no longer have any backup muscular strength. AND, a fall now affects more strongly my entire musculoskeletal system. An injury on my right shoulder might once have been just that, but now it works itself down my right side in several places over time as pieces each react.

not only that, but because, like me, your body probably mostly stopped producing testosterone around the time it decided you needed to pee two or three times a night, it means injuries you take don’t get recovered from in a day or two. I remember throwing my back out at a restaurant job in high-school and walking three miles home. I throw my back out the same way now and I may be crawling to the bathroom for a couple of days and bringing the pee jug to bed with me.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Mar 27, 2024 • 6:01:29pm

Janey Godley has deleted her twitter account

bbc.co.uk

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prairiefire  Mar 27, 2024 • 6:02:26pm

re: #108 Backwoods Sleuth

Awwwe

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Backwoods Sleuth  Mar 27, 2024 • 6:04:42pm

re: #109 prairiefire

Awwwe

she’s still on FB
facebook.com

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Backwoods Sleuth  Mar 27, 2024 • 6:07:03pm

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 27, 2024 • 6:07:13pm

What the Fuck is going on in Oklahoma?

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A Mom Anon  Mar 27, 2024 • 6:07:17pm

re: #84 Charles

Ass Beret.
Hi Everyone!

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 27, 2024 • 6:08:14pm

re: #112 Joe Bacon ✅

What the Fuck is going on in Oklahoma?

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Wait, what in the actual fuck?

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 27, 2024 • 6:11:57pm

According to a post on Wonkette:

Waiting for more info, but…over at the Oklahoma State Department of Education today, Ryan Walters had the doors to the building locked by tying them with an extension cord, thus locking out our volunteers and those of other organizations, during business hours. As one of them pointed out, this also locked his own people IN, creating a hazard.

And he has a “hearing” going on in the building with lots of right wing preachers and Xtian groups. Parents who want to speak are being locked out.

Stay Tuned…

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 27, 2024 • 6:13:16pm

re: #115 Joe Bacon ✅

And he has a “hearing” going on in the building with lots of right wing preachers and Xtian groups. Parents who want to speak are being locked out.

This is what I was looking for. So it’s a transgender student witch hunt, and parents aren’t invited. Count on it.

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teleskiguy  Mar 27, 2024 • 6:13:16pm

One of the weirder Steve Miller Band tunes.

Hot Chili

Same album, this one is actually a banger. Written by Miller and Boz Scaggs.

Going To Mexico

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jaunte  Mar 27, 2024 • 6:13:58pm

re: #112 Joe Bacon ✅

State Superintendent diverting public funds to promote his personal political opinions.

“…Last year, News 4 reported OSDE paid Precision Outreach $22.5k in taxpayer dollars to produce 30 minutes of videos for the department.

One of those videos included a “public awareness campaign” with clips of people speaking at events for national education and teachers’ groups, while ominous music played in the background. It also featured clips of interviews State Superintendent Ryan Walters gave to national media outlets in which he criticizes teachers’ unions.
kfor.com

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 27, 2024 • 6:16:15pm

Ryan Walters is a grade A asshole. One of the notices he put up references a statute that prohibits people from blocking sidewalks and doorways.

Which apparently the protesters are doing by…just fucking standing there.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Mar 27, 2024 • 6:18:24pm

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Backwoods Sleuth  Mar 27, 2024 • 6:20:36pm

re: #108 Backwoods Sleuth

Janey Godley has deleted her twitter account

bbc.co.uk

For you

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 27, 2024 • 6:22:13pm

re: #116 Nerdy Fish

This is what I was looking for. So it’s a transgender student witch hunt, and parents aren’t invited. Count on it.

A State “Bored” of Education Meeting where only radical Xtians are being allowed to participate.

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steve_davis  Mar 27, 2024 • 6:22:22pm

re: #99 Belafon

From what I remember, it was three Democrats and the Republican party. The three Democrats were Lieberman, Nelson, and Landrieu.

oh, yeah, you’re right. For some reason I’d urban legended that whole thing down to Lieberman not going for it, for some reason.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Mar 27, 2024 • 6:25:49pm

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 27, 2024 • 6:25:52pm

re: #123 steve_davis

oh, yeah, you’re right. For some reason I’d urban legended that whole thing down to Lieberman not going for it, for some reason.

It’s a common hot take today, because people really want a bogeyman to pin all their problems on.

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Orange Impostor  Mar 27, 2024 • 6:26:49pm

The anti-woman right wing considers this a positive outcome:

Former Kansas City Chiefs Cheerleader Dies of Sepsis After Stillbirth

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teleskiguy  Mar 27, 2024 • 6:28:30pm

I’ve got Twitter (teleskiguy’s burner account, used sparingly), Bluesky, Threads, and I’m on the mastodon•social instance. I’ve noticed Biden’s campaign is all over Twitter and Threads with effective stuff, not so much on the other two. His social media team needs to get on Bluesky stat. That place and Mastodon (if you can get around how seemingly opaque it is) have the most engagement and action, AFAIC.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 27, 2024 • 6:30:00pm

re: #126 Orange Impostor

The anti-woman right wing considers this a positive outcome:

Former Kansas City Chiefs Cheerleader Dies of Sepsis After Stillbirth

Damn. That must be brutal for her husband. 😢

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Ace Rothstein  Mar 27, 2024 • 6:35:53pm

re: #81 Captain Ron

I follow that guy on Instagram. He’s the University of Montana athletic photographer, and he’s real good.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 27, 2024 • 6:39:27pm

My main food is going up in price….

Why the cost of chocolate keeps rising | FT #shorts

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Dangerman  Mar 27, 2024 • 6:40:02pm
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Ace Rothstein  Mar 27, 2024 • 6:41:25pm

re: #131 Dangerman

That fat fuck can’t even walk to the green. He literally drives the fucking cart ONTO THE GREEN.

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Unabogie  Mar 27, 2024 • 6:41:52pm

Matt Schlapp paid off his victim and then lied about it. This is my shocked face.

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Belafon  Mar 27, 2024 • 6:42:36pm

re: #126 Orange Impostor

The anti-woman right wing considers this a positive outcome:

Former Kansas City Chiefs Cheerleader Dies of Sepsis After Stillbirth

While working as an engineer at Oracle Health, Anderson was awarded a patent for developing software that assesses the risk of postpartum hemorrhage.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 27, 2024 • 6:43:48pm

re: #132 Ace Rothstein

That fat fuck can’t even walk to the green. He literally drives the fucking cart ONTO THE GREEN.

And yet deluded Jesusbot relatives of mine insist he is a muscular macho ripped bodybuilder that they lust for in Ben Garrison cartoons.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Mar 27, 2024 • 6:44:00pm

I couldn’t bring myself to read the article

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Mar 27, 2024 • 6:45:29pm

re: #135 Joe Bacon ✅

And yet deluded Jesusbot relatives of mine insist he is a muscular macho ripped bodybuilder that they lust for in Ben Garrison cartoons.

President Trump is a powerful man. Don’t believe what the deep state media show you.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 27, 2024 • 6:47:05pm

re: #137 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

President Trump is a powerful man. Don’t believe what the deep state media show you.

I can’t shake them from believing this

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Ace Rothstein  Mar 27, 2024 • 6:48:15pm

re: #138 Joe Bacon ✅

His cock is God?

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Decatur Deb  Mar 27, 2024 • 6:49:16pm

re: #139 Ace Rothstein

His cock is God?

Don’t kink-shame.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 27, 2024 • 6:49:44pm

re: #139 Ace Rothstein

His cock is God?

Ace now you know why I gave up on them.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 27, 2024 • 6:53:32pm

Mark Robinson is out past the Oort Cloud.

Trump-endorsed candidate says Beyoncé is teaching women ‘how to be hyper-sexual’

North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson had yet another group of extremist comments unveiled — this time about legendary singer Beyoncé Knowles-Carter.

According to The Root, “During a series of rants spanning multiple years, Robinson —who is Black —insulted Beyoncé’s singing abilities, called her a ‘skank,’ and said she was teaching ‘young women how to be hyper-sexual w——s.’”

For example, in 2017, Robinson posted to Facebook, “Person; Beyoncé is a role model!” Me; “The only person that butt shakin’, devil worshipping, skank is a role model to is people who want a fast track to Hell.” This is on top of previous reporting that he referred to her music as sounding like “Satanic chants.”

These revelations come at a moment when Beyoncé herself has found herself at the center of some national controversy, having written a country music inspired album known as Cowboy Carter, and some country radio stations refusing to play singles off of it because of her race.

Robinson, who is challenging Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein for the governorship of North Carolina, has been put under the spotlight for a number of bizarre and offensive comments throughout the years.

theroot.com

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BeenHereAwhile  Mar 27, 2024 • 6:55:27pm

re: #123 steve_davis

oh, yeah, you’re right. For some reason I’d urban legended that whole thing down to Lieberman not going for it, for some reason.

IIRC, Lieberman was the last Dem Senator to vote against Single Payer - Thus sealing the No Deal.

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teleskiguy  Mar 27, 2024 • 6:55:55pm

re: #131 Dangerman

This is what I allude to in my 127 comment. He’s got a pretty crack social media/rapid response team. And the man is on board to go pretty hard in those spaces from now until Election Day.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Mar 27, 2024 • 6:55:55pm
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jaunte  Mar 27, 2024 • 6:55:58pm

re: #142 Joe Bacon ✅

Trump-endorsed candidate says Beyoncé is teaching women ‘how to be hyper-sexual’

In a brief study of Ben Shapiro and a few others, I think this kind of thing is frowned on by conservative men.

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A Mom Anon  Mar 27, 2024 • 6:57:40pm

I swear, one of these days I will actually get to do shit I want to do vs. what I have to do. I have never had to solve so many problems in such a short time in my life. I have a sick GSD who has pretty much zero thyroid function after a pretty bad UTI, along with compromised liver and kidney function and a specialized diet that is insanely expensive and made from crap that I will have to fight with the vet over. 110 lbs of German Shepherd, a 17lb bag of dog food is nearly 100 dollars, at 4 cups a day, well, no, that is not an option after the first bag til I could figure out what to cook for her. We go back to the vet Friday for more blood tests to see how her kidneys, liver and thyroid are doing.

I am going to have to deep dive to see what’s been happening with everyone here, I hope everyone is doing ok, at the very least. The world is just, OMGAREYOUKIDDINGMEWHATTHEFUCK all the time here, lol, and time passes and yipes. I do come here and read sometimes when I can chill in bed with the laptop and not fall asleep, but I miss this place, I truly do. Hugs and warm cookies to everyone.

Her Majesty Cleopatra
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 27, 2024 • 6:58:37pm

re: #137 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

President Trump is a powerful man. Don’t believe what the deep state media show you.

Or your own lyin’ eyes.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 27, 2024 • 6:59:23pm

re: #139 Ace Rothstein

His cock is God?

At least it’s tiny so that’s right.

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jaunte  Mar 27, 2024 • 7:01:41pm

Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social

the New York Times is now running op-eds insisting Joe Biden is unpopular in *another country.* (The only current polling the op-ed cites in support of its core premise shows Irish people prefer Biden to Trump by a 50-14 margin.)

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Mar 27, 2024 • 7:02:20pm

Horrifying that your brain can just break one day, and then the human race looks something like this, but in constant motion.

‘It’s like staring at demons’: Meet a man who lives with a disturbing condition

For 59-year-old Victor Sharrah, the terrifying symptoms began on a winter day in Nashville.

“I just woke up and was sitting on the couch watching TV when my roommate came into the room, and (looking at him) I’m like, ‘What am I seeing?’ Then his girlfriend walked in and her face was the same,” Sharrah told CNN.

Each of the once-familiar faces had a grotesque grimace, elongated eyes and deeply etched scars. When turned to the side, pointy ears suddenly appeared, he said, much like those of Spock, the Vulcan first officer on the USS Enterprise in Star Trek.

“I tried to explain to my roommate what I was seeing, and he thought I was nuts. Then I went outside and all of the faces of people I saw were distorted and still are,” Sharrah said.

cnn.com

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sizzzzlerz  Mar 27, 2024 • 7:06:38pm

re: #21 JC1

So we’ve been rewatching Justified for the first time since it first aired. Still holds up well; darn good show.

Don’t bother with the Justified: City Primeval that came out last year. Total snooze fest. They took an Elmore Leonard story that didn’t involve Rayland and made him the main character. Very disappointing in comparison to the series. They had some gratuitous Boyd Crowder at the end but it was pretty lame.

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Rightwingconspirator  Mar 27, 2024 • 7:08:31pm

re: #93 A Cranky One

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1960’s meets 1990’s kinda awful vibe there.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Mar 27, 2024 • 7:14:35pm

re: #38 Dr. Matt

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 27, 2024 • 7:18:45pm

A PSA for your planet:

Natural Gas Is Scamming America | Climate Town


…

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Charles  Mar 27, 2024 • 7:19:48pm

Watching “The Truth vs. Alex Jones” on Max. Wow. The sheer depravity of this man and his followers.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 27, 2024 • 7:20:20pm

re: #156 Charles

Watching “The Truth vs. Alex Jones” on Max. Wow. The sheer depravity of this man and his followers.

That short list of people I’ll be happy to see dead. He’s on it.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈  Mar 27, 2024 • 7:20:31pm

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 27, 2024 • 7:23:30pm

re: #151 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

I wonder if such phenomena played a role in the early development of religions.

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prairiefire  Mar 27, 2024 • 7:25:24pm

re: #159 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Fever dreams certainly did.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Mar 27, 2024 • 7:29:35pm

Gat Brothers in Jerusalem

The Gat Brothers Showcasing their Guitar Talent in “Apache” by The Shadows

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 27, 2024 • 7:33:31pm

Urban planners like the idea of denser cities, including in San Diego:

With ‘Blueprint SD,’ San Diego aims for faster response to housing, climate crises

..

Problem which I’ve ranted about before: unless the transportation is tackled first, increasing housing density simply means more traffic jams.

And by “tackling” I mean mass transport.

Problem: while San Diego has a trolley system, and I use it (for instance to go to jury duty, as the courthouse is an actual stop for the train), it is woefully under installed and underfunded.

But adding new track is almost impossible for less than billions and billions of dollars.

Public transportation is considered shameful is much of the US.

By that I mean it is looked down upon, scoffed at, derided, and all around othered to the point where it is damn near un-American to take a bus.

I think San Diego is a classic case of the problem we face: we can’t afford to make the changes today for a better life 50 years from new.

Land is just too expensive to build out rail.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 27, 2024 • 7:33:34pm

Invincible Season 2 on Prime has also continued with new episodes every Thursday 3AM ET. 8 episodes total, so 2 remaining for the season.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 27, 2024 • 7:37:04pm

re: #162 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Here in the wild north country, we have a light rail system. It’s actually really nice for moving around the Twin Cities; I’ve used it to go from the west side of Minneapolis to downtown St. Paul, a roughly 10-mile haul that nominally takes 15-20 minutes by car and takes up a valuable parking space. But the system has been widely castigated, not because it isn’t good, but because people have been conditioned to hate mass public transportation. “Homeless people” ride the light rail, don’t ya know. It’s so stupid. It’s a valuable public utility for people that live or work in the Cities.

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mmmirele  Mar 27, 2024 • 7:39:18pm

re: #119 Eclectic Cyborg

Ryan Walters is a grade A asshole. One of the notices he put up references a statute that prohibits people from blocking sidewalks and doorways.

Which apparently the protesters are doing by…just fucking standing there.

Just to be clear, a lot of places have that kind of statute. I have lots of experience walking around in circles, or, at a particular intersection in LA, moving from one corner to another. I don’t think it’s a First Amendment violation to have a statute that prohibits people from just standing there. Start moving! Have chants ready. Wave your signs. And since you’re already moving, you’ve got a head start when the Fire Marshal (hopefully) comes along and removes that extension cord.

Damn, Oklahoma is going down the tubes fast, innit?

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teleskiguy  Mar 27, 2024 • 7:40:25pm

I gotta work this weekend.

At this.

I’m a part of Bishop.

I went last year and fucking loved it. I was absolutely surrounded by my people, dedicated telemark skiers. I loved this guy! Drove nine hours from around Stevens Pass, WA to be there.

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Belafon  Mar 27, 2024 • 7:42:41pm

re: #162 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Public transportation around here in Texas is paid for by bond proposals voted on and paid for by the local population via property taxes, by people who think that voting against it will keep people from moving out to where they are.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 27, 2024 • 7:44:04pm

re: #164 Nerdy Fish

But the system has been widely castigated, not because it isn’t good, but because people have been conditioned to hate mass public transportation. “Homeless people” ride the light rail, don’t ya know.

This is a kind of sociopathy that is low-level and thus not called out in the medical community, but there it’s still there: a low-level disdain for our fellow humans.

Americans are especially bad at this usually-silent form of hatred.

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jaunte  Mar 27, 2024 • 7:44:31pm

Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social

Sharing as a gift the WaPo article about the immigrants who were on the Baltimore Key Bridge working as contractors when it collapsed.

To honor their memory and as push back against xenophobic racist Republicans.


Six presumed dead in bridge collapse were immigrants, soccer fans, family men
Maynor Suazo Sandoval, from Honduras, was about to turn 39. Miguel Luna, from El Salvador, was a father of three. Both were members of the immigrant organization Casa. Both loved soccer. Alejandro Hernandez Fuentes, 35, from Mexico, and Dorlian Ronial Castillo Cabrera, 26, from Guatemala, were found together, inside the pickup truck. As of Wednesday afternoon, the two other victims had not been publicly identified, and authorities said additional vehicles in the water around the bridge are probably surrounded by rubble from the collapse.
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 27, 2024 • 7:45:01pm

re: #167 Belafon

Public transportation around here in Texas is paid for by bond proposals voted on and paid for by the local population via property taxes, by people who think that voting against it will keep people from moving out to where they are.

The wrong kind of people.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 27, 2024 • 7:47:14pm

re: #168 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

This is a kind of sociopathy that is low-level and thus not called out in the medical community, but there it’s still there: a low-level disdain for our fellow humans.

Americans are especially bad at this usually-silent form of hatred.

It literally never made sense to me until the votes were broken down along party lines. The reason why we have a light rail system at all is because Democrats (the majority here in our safely blue state) voted for it, and Republicans voted against it. The whole reason we can’t have nice things in this country as a whole is because regressive Republicans don’t understand them, or because they don’t want to spend their money to help Others (tm).

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Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿  Mar 27, 2024 • 7:47:28pm

re: #20 calochortus

How do you know if you’re old?
Fall down. If people laugh, you’re young. If they panic, you’re old.

Young people fall over. Old people have a fall.

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Belafon  Mar 27, 2024 • 7:49:24pm

re: #164 Nerdy Fish

Here in the wild north country, we have a light rail system. It’s actually really nice for moving around the Twin Cities; I’ve used it to go from the west side of Minneapolis to downtown St. Paul, a roughly 10-mile haul that nominally takes 15-20 minutes by car and takes up a valuable parking space. But the system has been widely castigated, not because it isn’t good, but because people have been conditioned to hate mass public transportation. “Homeless people” ride the light rail, don’t ya know. It’s so stupid. It’s a valuable public utility for people that live or work in the Cities.

“And the train’s will bring crime to our town.” Summarizing a thread on next door about bring mass transit to Rockwall to connect to the rest of the metroplex.

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Belafon  Mar 27, 2024 • 7:49:59pm

re: #172 Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿

Young people fall over. Old people have a fall.

So every Spanish speaker is old?

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teleskiguy  Mar 27, 2024 • 7:52:40pm

re: #169 jaunte

human. fucken. beings. Trying and succeeding in many instances - to star trek this whole shit because it’s very good - to live long and prosper. Lost to a horrific accident.

Any rational human watching the now (in)famous video of the moment of the collision knows they’ve watched some of the most horrific life shit that has happened. Nightmare fuel.

And it was an accident. But you wouldn’t think that browsing Elon’s Nazi Bar.

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wrenchwench  Mar 27, 2024 • 7:56:17pm

re: #174 Belafon

So every Spanish speaker is old?

It’s an old language.

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prairiefire  Mar 27, 2024 • 7:57:09pm

re: #162 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Don’t you think you’ll have to give up at least a 1/6 of the land to the west? How are your sewer systems?

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Belafon  Mar 27, 2024 • 7:59:15pm

re: #170 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The wrong kind of people.

Which in this case happens to be every kind of people. They don’t want more houses, they don’t want apartments. They want their towns small and untouched by the 21st century.

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Belafon  Mar 27, 2024 • 8:09:01pm

We’ve talked here about how hard it would be to make Neuromancer into a movie, but I wonder why Noone is trying some of Pat Cadigan’s books, such as Synners.

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William Lewis  Mar 27, 2024 • 8:12:23pm

re: #164 Nerdy Fish

Here in the wild north country, we have a light rail system. It’s actually really nice for moving around the Twin Cities; I’ve used it to go from the west side of Minneapolis to downtown St. Paul, a roughly 10-mile haul that nominally takes 15-20 minutes by car and takes up a valuable parking space. But the system has been widely castigated, not because it isn’t good, but because people have been conditioned to hate mass public transportation. “Homeless people” ride the light rail, don’t ya know. It’s so stupid. It’s a valuable public utility for people that live or work in the Cities.

And don’t forget it lets the Poors and the Blaaahs get out into the suburbs. That’s the real crime of light rail.

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prairiefire  Mar 27, 2024 • 8:15:04pm

re: #180 William Lewis

Hello! I’ve got an old 1930s camera from my grandad. I’ll post a photo when I find it.

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William Lewis  Mar 27, 2024 • 8:16:13pm

re: #181 prairiefire

Hello! I’ve got an old 1930s camera from my grandad. I’ll post a photo when I find it.

Be glad to help identify it 😎

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 27, 2024 • 8:17:28pm

Ever since I’ve lived in Los Angeles I’ve been dependent on public transportation because I could not afford a car and the quotes for auto insurance made it unaffordable. Federal Civil Service salaries are significantly below comparable private industry jobs. I kept looking for a job in private industry but the door was completely shut on me when I turned 35. Continually being told I was too old to work in private industry. So I had no choice but to stay in Civil Service. And I had to work a second job writing game code to keep the child support payments paid on time. Never had time to go on vacations except when Mom and Dad died and I went back home to see Western PA outside of Pittsburgh economically die.

Metro Rail has made it easier to get around certain parts of the city. Initially the RTD Bus System took you forever to get anywhere. When I lived with my grandma in South Gate it would take me at least 90 minutes to go from her home to work in Mid-WIlshire. Had to take 3 busses to and from work and then RTD drivers loved to go on strike so I would have to carpool. I vowed to move within walking distance of my office and for 11 years it was a 15 minute walk from my apartment to the office. Then the office moved but Metro Rail had opened in 1998 and it was initially a 20-30 minute ride on the Purple and Blue lines to the new office.

Metro has unveiled a master rail plan thru 2055. It expands the system to more places but I doubt I will be around to see it.

Realizing that 41 years have gone by since I started at the Los Angeles TSC and it’s coming to an end. I’m still here…thinking of the Facebook page of my 50th high school reunion and how few of the 365 who graduated are left…now just around 55 and dwindling…

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prairiefire  Mar 27, 2024 • 8:18:57pm

re: #182 William Lewis

Typical new dad, my mom was born in 1936. Judging from the photos he took inside the house, he still could have been helped by a flash.

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Vicious Babushka  Mar 27, 2024 • 8:27:10pm

re: #25 silverdolphin

What I am amazed at is how much harder a fall feels when over 60 vs 21. It is like gravity has increased ten-fold. LIke I’m living on Jupiter now rather than Earth.

At 74 years old, my biggest problem is trying to not step on my tits.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 27, 2024 • 8:29:55pm

Single shot—got 2 numbers…

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 27, 2024 • 8:30:43pm

re: #16 Nerdy Fish

I guess that’s not strictly true. I can think of maybe 2 other living assholes I’d put on that very short list of people I’d legitimately be glad to see dead. Trump is definitely at the top of that list, though.

Saw the Mooch speak at our synagogue tonight and it was well worth the time. He was extremely entertaining and has a great origin story. He spoke for maybe 20 minutes and then took audience questions for well over an hour. Very clever and interesting and obviously not someone who shares our views on many issues — except for his absolute opposition to Trump being re-elected. He is not a complete fan of Biden — calls the race between One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Weekend at Biden’s but said that he is team Biden when it comes to the election between these two elderly men. He also said that the most evil person he ever met was Bannon — that Bannon is brilliant and knowledgeable and pure evil BUT fortunately for us all his physical presence is very unappealing which prevents any success in his running for office.

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prairiefire  Mar 27, 2024 • 8:40:25pm

re: #185 Vicious Babushka

*fireworks* 💥 tell the youngsters!

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Belafon  Mar 27, 2024 • 8:40:59pm

re: #186 Joe Bacon ✅

Single shot—got 2 numbers…

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People might have gotten something with the year of their birth, but month and day would have been useless.

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines  Mar 27, 2024 • 8:42:41pm

re: #136 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

I couldn’t bring myself to read the article

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Bet it’s cheap to feed and easy to clean up after.

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William Lewis  Mar 27, 2024 • 8:42:56pm

re: #185 Vicious Babushka

At 74 years old, my biggest problem is trying to not step on my tits.

Good thing my son isn’t visiting. I’d have to explain why I was laughing so hard and at an innocent 22 that would embarrass him badly 🤣

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William Lewis  Mar 27, 2024 • 8:46:00pm

re: #186 Joe Bacon ✅

Single shot—got 2 numbers…

[Embedded content]

That’s one of the reasons I do quick pick - it’ll do higher numbers like those. All of the ones on my ticket were 19 & up. Got two but no powerball so not even the price of admission back.

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BeenHereAwhile  Mar 27, 2024 • 8:48:44pm

re: #185 Vicious Babushka

At 74 years old, my biggest problem is trying to not step on my tits.

That sounds like something my mother would say. Graduate RN who was as adept at animal husbandry as she was with human medicine. She and my father were great parents to all of us five children.

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retired cynic  Mar 27, 2024 • 8:50:35pm

re: #185 Vicious Babushka

At 74 years old, my biggest problem is trying to not step on my tits.

I resemble that remark.

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Targetpractice  Mar 27, 2024 • 8:51:15pm

re: #179 Belafon

We’ve talked here about how hard it would be to make Neuromancer into a movie, but I wonder why Noone is trying some of Pat Cadigan’s books, such as Synners.

Personally, I’d rather see them adapt Snow Crash, though I suppose I could get much the same effect by just playing Cyberpunk 2077. And that’s sort of the problem of adapting Neuromancer or really any of the 80s cyberpunk genre: It’s been done. Not in the sense that they’ve already been put to film, but that other works came along and either did the same stories or so altered the genre from its roots that making movies/shows out of the early works would feel like those efforts in the 90s/00s to make movies out of TV shows from the 60s.

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prairiefire  Mar 27, 2024 • 8:51:24pm

re: #194 retired cynic

😂

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BigPapa  Mar 27, 2024 • 8:55:00pm

We went from Calm Yer Tits to Protect Yer Tits. Progress? Maybe.

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William Lewis  Mar 27, 2024 • 8:55:07pm

re: #195 Targetpractice

Personally, I’d rather see them adapt Snow Crash, though I suppose I could get much the same effect by just playing Cyberpunk 2077. And that’s sort of the problem of adapting Neuromancer or really any of the 80s cyberpunk genre: It’s been done. Not in the sense that they’ve already been put to film, but that other works came along and either did the same stories or so altered the genre from its roots that making movies/shows out of the early works would feel like those efforts in the 90s/00s to make movies out of TV shows from the 60s.

THAT’S why I’m having such a hard time getting into Cyberpunk 77. It’s not a bad game but it’s almost nostalgia in a way.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 27, 2024 • 8:55:19pm

re: #177 prairiefire

Don’t you think you’ll have to give up at least a 1/6 of the land to the west? How are your sewer systems?

For what scenario are we inquiring?

For the San Diego city planners, they are looking at a few decades. In that period mostly the problem is simply the cost to densify neighborhoods.

As for sewage: we dump it into the Pacific.

Ok, it is treated first but the end destination is out in the great California current.

San Diego is a port city, the originally one on the west coast of the US, though it was not economically important until the late 19th century.

Spanish explorers touched California down in San Diego bay - there is a statue there to commemorate it.

Eventually that statue will be underwater.

We don’t know when but it will be long after I am gone.

Most of the county’s shoreline is steep so a little sea level rise is not going to be the end of the communities.

But down at San Diego bay, the airports (civil, military) are only a couple of meters above current sea level, and Coronado Island will be back to being a real island. Currently there is a “silver strand” of a road and beach that connects it to the rest of the county down near the border. That’ll be gone with 2 meters of sea level rise but that’s probably ok because at 3 meters Coronado is no longer a viable piece of land.

This part of the world will always be valuable because of its location and while future sea level will force dramatic changes, the millions of people (including Tijuana) are likely to cling to life here for a long time.

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BigPapa  Mar 27, 2024 • 8:58:05pm

re: #199 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Hey yo, I finally connected with some loquat. A subcontractor we’re using has a tree so he’s been bringing my some stash.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 27, 2024 • 8:59:49pm

re: #200 BigPapa

You are ahead of us for loquat season.

The tree in back of me has been dropping fruit but they aren’t ripe yet. I don’t know if the birds are trimming the tree defensively or not. The better loquats around here will not be read for a few more weeks.

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prairiefire  Mar 27, 2024 • 9:00:10pm

re: #199 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I think the land around the ship bays and above will deteriorate by quite a bit.

Our west coast is the best defense against the east, so, yes, it’ll always be valuable.
Omg, loquats, still plentiful?

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 27, 2024 • 9:01:47pm

“Social Contagion Dynamics” - that’s the phrase to remember when the usual crowd gets all flustered when we worry about the problems with XTwitter and similar outlets.

And with Trumpism.

Indeed, Trump is a class case of such contagion dynamic.

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Targetpractice  Mar 27, 2024 • 9:03:45pm

re: #198 William Lewis

THAT’S why I’m having such a hard time getting into Cyberpunk 77. It’s not a bad game but it’s almost nostalgia in a way.

Yeah, I’d been about to write that the problem with adapting Neuromancer isn’t technical, it’s that the Soviet Union collapsed without a WWIII. It’d be like the remake of Red Dawn, where the only country in the world as powerful as the Soviet Union was thought to be in 1984 is China…who’s our biggest trade partner.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 27, 2024 • 9:04:30pm

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prairiefire  Mar 27, 2024 • 9:05:38pm

re: #204 Targetpractice

You both were correct about the smell left after vape pens. It’d be horrible with the flavored vapes.

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William Lewis  Mar 27, 2024 • 9:12:11pm

re: #206 prairiefire

You both were correct about the smell left after vape pens. It’d be horrible with the flavored vapes.

I had a friend the other day offer me some Delta-9 vape canisters. Meant well but I had to remind him I’m uninterested in vaping, especially being an ex-smoker. I don’t even want to imagine how those would stink to me.

Now, if he’d offered to expand my Gummy supply 😈

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teleskiguy  Mar 27, 2024 • 9:20:52pm

re: #185 Vicious Babushka

At 74 years old, my biggest problem is trying to not step on my tits.

My Mom would love this. I’ll get her to see this, somehow!

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prairiefire  Mar 27, 2024 • 9:35:03pm

re: #207 William Lewis

I can’t leave the couch after a gummie🤷‍♀️

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CleverToad  Mar 27, 2024 • 9:36:52pm

re: #185 Vicious Babushka

At 74 years old, my biggest problem is trying to not step on my tits.

re: #194 retired cynic

I resemble that remark.

Me too
It’s the old joke about what an 80-year-old has between her breasts that a 20-year old doesn’t.

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jeffreyw  Mar 28, 2024 • 6:56:57am

re: #179 Belafon

We’ve talked here about how hard it would be to make Neuromancer into a movie, but I wonder why Noone is trying some of Pat Cadigan’s books, such as Synners.

The Kindle edition of Synners is only $1.99 right now.


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