Here’s an old style open thread as we surge forth, relentlessly, into yet another trip around the Sun.
Happy New Year to everyone reading, and especially the LGF community that continues to amaze me. May 2023 surprise everyone by being awesome.
INSIDE THE NEW RIGHT, WHERE PETER THIEL IS PLACING HIS BIGGEST BETS
They’re not MAGA. They’re not QAnon. Curtis Yarvin and the rising right are crafting a different strain of conservative politics.
vanityfair.com
This is from last spring, but I didn’t read it at the time, and hoo boy, these guys are off the wall. The problem is all the money behind them.
Well I was hoping that the rain would kick in and stop the guns and fireworks. Nope. They both started here in Koreatown at 610PM…
When it rains, do they call off the fireworks?
Asking hopefully for a furry friend.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 1, 2023
The snow water equivalent at Palisades Tahoe is 25 inches right now. The ski area surpassed 200 inches of snow tonight, by like, three feet. Lots of snow.
re: #3 Charles Johnson
It’s barely past 8:30PM here and my jackass neighbors are already setting off fireworks. My poor dog is visibly nervous but keeping a stiff upper lip for the moment.
This one might actually be accurate 😩
— PettyBetty2006 (@P3ttyB3tty88) January 1, 2023
re: #3 Charles Johnson
Horny walrus does the trick.
A Walrus getting lost, ending up in Scarborough and then masturbating IN PUBLIC then having a sleep and then Scarborough Council cancelling the NYE fireworks display in case it woke him is the denouement of 2022. pic.twitter.com/LzCXZnasiy
— Pastor Alex (@PastorAlexLove) December 31, 2022
Pretty freaky that we’re entering 2023 with one of the world’s primary social networks in charge of a dumbass right wing shit-poster.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 1, 2023
It bruised up bigly today. Big bruise. Big big bruise. As I predicted a few seconds after my hip hit that rock. No skiing today. I did shovel snow.
re: #9 teleskiguy
Big, beautiful bruise. Many people are saying a perfect bruise, just like the phone call, just like the letter.
re: #9 teleskiguy
It bruised up bigly today. Big bruise. Big big bruise. As I predicted a few seconds after my hip hit that rock. No skiing today. I did shovel snow.
The worst bruises take a couple of days to get really ugly.
re: #9 teleskiguy
It bruised up bigly today. Big bruise. Big big bruise. As I predicted a few seconds after my hip hit that rock. No skiing today. I did shovel snow.
sorry fella. rest and take care.
re: #11 Charles Johnson
This sucker’s like 12” length 3” width. Ow!
That said, it is all soft tissue stuff. I fortunately didn’t land directly on my pelvis. I know a dude who did that, he didn’t ski again for two years.
Aw gee that’s too bad!
Trump’s New Year’s Eve ‘media availability’ was a nothing-burger that no cable news stations carried
re: #14 teleskiguy
This sucker’s like 12” length 3” width. Ow!
That said, it is all soft tissue stuff. I fortunately didn’t land directly on my pelvis. I know a dude who did that, he didn’t ski again for two years.
At least you don’t get road rash from a skiing crash, usually. That’s the fucking worst. I have scars.
re: #14 teleskiguy
This sucker’s like 12” length 3” width. Ow!
That said, it is all soft tissue stuff. I fortunately didn’t land directly on my pelvis. I know a dude who did that, he didn’t ski again for two years.
re: #16 Charles Johnson
At least you don’t get road rash from a skiing crash, usually. That’s the fucking worst. I have scars.
When I rode, I had Kevlar reinforced riding jeans and shirt to avoid that. Didn’t help when one night I was tired and tried to kickstart it while it was in first gear. Crunch!
There is a proper way to fall if you happen to lose balance on skis or a snowboard. You want to make sure whatever’s attached to your feet end up downhill and to self-arrest, lean into the mountain, stop yourself!
That’s what I did on Thursday. And I’m just nursing a bruise as opposed to any number of crazy things that can happen. I’m shooting for Monday at Arapahoe Basin. 🤞
re: #16 Charles Johnson
At least you don’t get road rash from a skiing crash, usually. That’s the fucking worst. I have scars.
Totally fair! Oof!
I rode my rode bike up to the top of Mount Evans at a quite weird time, 16 August 2020. Road Closed in the middle of the summer because of a pandemic emergency. Open to bikes, though. I saw more mountain goats than people that day. And NO CARS!!! It was quite remarkable.
re: #14 teleskiguy
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We’re finally get rain here in the bay area like we used to get before the drought took hold. Not terribly heavy but consistent and lasting for 3 or 4 days before it clears up for a couple of days when another storm moves in. And the bonus is that it is dumping deep, wet snow in the Sierra from Shasta/Lassen down to Mammoth and further south. I-80 is closed across the summit in both directions due to the number of spin-outs. Although it’s hard to predict whether this pattern will hold for the rest of the winter, at least it’s encouraging.
Rain is starting to slack off here. We’ve gotten 5.4” in the last 30 hours. Tomorrow should be sunny, and then it will be back to rain for most of the coming week, and perhaps beyond.
We’re hosting a wedding reception dinner/dance tonight. Lots of leftovers from the catering our restaurant did - beef tips, chicken parmesan, garlic mash & mixed zucchini and other veggies. Made a big to-go box but rather than take it home, I’m going to pop it into the employee fridge for tomorrow evening. Should be a marvelous dinner then ;)
re: #22 goddamnedfrank
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re: #26 teleskiguy
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I broke two ribs in a bicycle crash years ago and it still aches like hell when the moon is full.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 1, 2023
re: #21 teleskiguy
I had the summit of Mt. Evans all to myself that day, on a Sunday in the middle of August. Like I said, remarkable.
Happy new year, all. There is zero chance that I will be awake at midnight.
Maybe 2023 won’t be a shit year. But I don’t believe that.
re: #27 goddamnedfrank
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re: #29 teleskiguy
I looked that up. 14,000 feet you can drive up to. Long ways up… Cars must run like crap that high. I’ve driven up to 11,000 and I was moving pretty slow what with the camera gear. 14,000? Must be about as high as you can just drive up to anywhere in the US.
People have been popping off fireworks for hours here. My cat is nearby. I don’t think she’s very happy.
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re: #33 Rightwingconspirator
It’s the highest paved road in North America. I started my ride at Echo Lake, which is at 10,600 ft. on the northeast flank of the summit.
re: #38 teleskiguy
Thank you. I am reincarnated, not “new” though. Nice name for a niece!
I have posted a page looking back on 2022, the year that was.
2022 The Year That Was https://t.co/cKo17bhgBq
— Slava Ukrayini! (@aagcobb1) January 1, 2023
Catching up:
On injury: when it rains every major accident from last 60 years pops up: left hand basketball injury at 26, shoulder and ankle running mishap at 37,
Softball injury at 46 and auto accidents at 55 and 59 all conspire to hurt all at once. Hydrate and keep flexible
On rain: it just started coming down pretty hard and steady here. My courtyard drain is clear but flooded
On animals: see photo
Happy New Years to all
!
re: #40 Lilah
Thank you. I am reincarnated, not “new” though. Nice name for a niece!
You’re still on the hook for bringing the drinks, though.///
re: #7 No Malarkey!
Horny walrus does the trick.
Well at least someonething had a happy ending to 2022.
re: #46 BigPapa
A Gus sock puppet named Lilah? I mean, shit, judging by what Gus has posted on Twitter lately I wouldn’t put something like that past Gus.
Know your fonts.
Left: seraph.
Right: sans seraph. pic.twitter.com/hdXBj0YcNd— New-Cleckit Dominie (@ncdominie) December 30, 2022
Whoa, whoa, I’m not Gus, whoever that is/was. I used to be carefulnow, and after that Delilah, and I just re-registered after a long time away. I come in peace!
re: #51 Lilah
Why aren’t you carefulnow -or- Delilah anymore? Sorry to give you the third degree but, well, you’re sus dude…
Hatchling who comes in and says “I was *this person* then *this person* now I’m *this person.* Happy New Year!”
That’s a first for me.
re: #54 teleskiguy
I used to lurk here about 20 years ago. Then I took a break, and my sign-in didn’t work. I think there may have been a big shift in the folks who used to frequent here. Then I dipped in about ten years ago, and I figured since another decade had gone by, I’d pop in again to say hello. It’s an open thread and all.
Who’s Gus?
re: #56 teleskiguy
Okay, maybe what’s stinks is your gatekeeping. I dunno. If Gus is a sore subject, I’ll retract the question.
Meanwhile, it’s rainy here in Southern California and I am looking for a warm place to hang out for a while.
re: #56 teleskiguy
I’m tellin’ ya… Somethin’ stinks like yesterday’s diapers.
i dunno
Why are you worried?
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re: #59 Lilah
You’re damn right we gatekeep around here. There’s a lot of shitheads who wish this community real world harm out there.
Ohhhh, boy. Put the knives down, everybody. I don’t doubt that anyone suspicious will be dealt with by the boss in due time. In the meantime, maybe we keep the troll barbecue cool until someone presents their gamey buttocks?
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re: #56 teleskiguy
I’m tellin’ ya… Somethin’ stinks like yesterday’s diapers.
i dunno
C’mon, dude: give the newbie a break!
Plenty of time to harass a troll away, if warranted.
Just so she doesn’t come down on the wrong side of the pineapple/pizza fight…..
😉
People out here in the boonies blowing up big loud things, and Lucy is hollering back at every blast that she’ll rip their guts out.
re: #63 teleskiguy
Didn’t know that. That’s too bad, really.
But you can relax because I am carefulnow from long ago, lurker mostly, who forgot my password and haven’t been around for a while.
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re: #63 teleskiguy
You’re damn right we gatekeep around here. There’s a lot of shitheads who wish this community real world harm out there.
I think you should back down off this. I mean, no one needs to log in to see what we say on this site. And we can take care of ourselves.
re: #67 jaunte
People out here in the boonies blowing up big loud things, and Lucy is hollering back at every blast that she’ll rip their guts out.
We had a few shots go off earlier, but not much. Thankfully, outdoor kitten is a veteran of several years, so I’ve no doubt she’s hunkered down in a snow bunker somewhere, waiting it out until sunrise.
Mom is making pinakbet and it smells goooood. I like how she makes it: fast cook on veggies so they don’t get stewed. She doesn’t like ginger to be too strong so she puts in big slices that she and Wifey don’t eat: which I get!
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re: #66 Jay C
Haha! I have never had pineapple on a pizza. Am I in or out?
re: #78 BigPapa
YOU BETTER KEEP IT THAT WAY.
Just for you, I am ordering a ham and pineapple pizza on the next order in the New Year.
re: #72 Belafon
Hey, thanks. Let’s all be friends, and to hell with Gus.
re: #77 Lilah
Haha! I have never had pineapple on a pizza. Am I in or out?
I just duck when the pineapple starts flying.
re: #81 retired cynic
I just duck when the pineapple starts flying.
Two men walk into a bar. The third one ducks.
re: #77 Lilah
Haha! I have never had pineapple on a pizza. Am I in or out?
You don’t know what you’re missing.
A ham and pineapple pizza, or bacon and pineapple, with the exact perfect balance of sweet and salty, crunchy and squishy…
It’s the best.
Jaysis! It’s a war zone out there right now! I mean, seriously, what is it about this New Year’s Eve that makes it sound like the opening salvo in a Second American Civil War? I can’t even put in ear plugs because I’m on call…
re: #85 sagehen
You don’t know what you’re missing.
A ham and pineapple pizza, or bacon and pineapple, with the exact perfect balance of sweet and salty, crunchy and squishy…
It’s the best.
Oooh, bacon and pineapple, that might be a good combination to try. That sounds heavenly.
re: #85 sagehen
A ham and pineapple pizza, or bacon and pineapple, with the exact perfect balance of sweet and salty, crunchy and squishy…
It’s the superhighway to Soggyville. You don’t want to go full Soggyville.
re: #77 Lilah
Haha! I have never had pineapple on a pizza. Am I in or out?
As a determined neutral in the Great Pineapple War, I am quite happy to admit that it’s not up to me….
Fun fact: Mrs. Fish is allergic to pineapple… except, as it seems, when it is presented on pizza, when it has been cooked. Something about the cooking process alters the dynamic so that she is able to handle it. That said, we still don’t have pineapple pizza very often here.
I was hoping against hope. Rain is getting heavy but that is only stopping the fireworks. Idiots are still out shooting guns in the rain…
re: #91 Dopamine Fish
Fun fact: Mrs. Fish is allergic to pineapple… except, as it seems, when it is presented on pizza, when it has been cooked. Something about the cooking process alters the dynamic so that she is able to handle it. That said, we still don’t have pineapple pizza very often here.
She should stay away from Elon Musk (yes, I watched Glass Onion yesterday).
The lead singer of Fitz and the Tantrums pulled off a pink suit pretty well.
re: #90 Jay C
As a determined neutral in the Great Pineapple War, I am quite happy to admit that it’s not up to me….
I’m pro-choice on the topic myself.
re: #85 sagehen
Yeah, I’ve never had an occasion that called for that, although I am not afraid to try it if someone else is buyin’.
Hey man, I only want the best lives of all the LGF community. It’s a collection of a bunch of good people. I worry about folks like Michele and Sherlock Hound, who are in communities actively being oppressed and silenced in today’s U.S. and A. Real. World. Harm. Murder, and such. And it’s being organized online. I’ll scrutinize the fuck out of Hatchlings because yes, there are shitheads out there who wish the people of this community REAL WORLD HARM and subterfuge into communities is *the best* way to harm and destroy communities.
I never dreaded New Years in the past. It wasn’t until 2001 going into 2002 that it brought to mind fresh horrors awaiting. It wasn’t that bad for awhile and then 2016 happened and since then I want time to come to a screeching halt. 2022 didn’t help any. I want to be optimistic, but reality gets in the way. But I’m still going to say it. Happy New Year’s All! May fortune bless every lizard.
re: #97 teleskiguy
I accept your explanation. Please accept mine.
Greetings from the front lines in the Battle of Virginia Beach. While reports continue of sustained shelling towards the Oceanfront, sporadic firefights are being reported across the whole of the city. Local wildlife are reported to be scared witless, while medical services are dealing with more than a few self-inflicted injuries.
re: #99 Lilah
You’ve been reading LGF for 20 years and you don’t know who Gus is.
Call me skeptical.
I’ve been at LGF off-and-on since ‘03 and I don’t remember even half the assholes who were here when I joined.
I miss Iceweasel and Jimmah. And Obdicut. I hope they’re all well.
Mom just hit the pinakbet with the fish sauce. Oh boy.
re: #101 teleskiguy
Not exactly, I used to hang out about 21 years ago, then took a long break, dipped back in briefly, then haven’t been around for a while. I have no idea who Gus is. Scouts honor.
(Really, man. I don’t know what happened but you need to leave me alone now.)
re: #102 Targetpractice
I’ve been at LGF off-and-on since ‘03 and I don’t remember even half the assholes who were here when I joined.
like any blog community…. some come and go, some embarass themselves and skulk away and return with a new name hoping to be better or be different. Heck, I’ve stepped on toes myself, been educated, taken my lumps when outta line and I’ve seen others do the same.
The idea is to trust until that trust is broken, good faith mistakes, bad days and misunderstandings happen, only so much that words, emoji’s can do, you can STILL screw up w/o understanding context and background and experiences of other posters, but in a way, that’s why we’re here. stretching our boundaries, trying to get along and help each other on our journey… communities like this tend to be rare imho, built on accepting our mistakes and building from there.
Radar telling me y’all up in LA are getting some heavy rain about now.
All we’ve had down here is some spitting drizzle.
re: #106 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Much needed, steady rain all evening. It’s really nice.
re: #106 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Radar telling me y’all up in LA are getting some heavy rain about now.
All we’ve had down here is some spitting drizzle.
Yes and it’s heavy right now. And the idiots are STILL firing off their guns…
re: #104 Lilah
you need to leave me alone now
Why should I? I still think you’re shady af. But as you may have noticed, I haven’t downdinged anything you’ve said. Time will tell and I may be totally wrong about you.
re: #55 Lilah
I used to lurk here about 20 years ago. Then I took a break, and my sign-in didn’t work. I think there may have been a big shift in the folks who used to frequent here. Then I dipped in about ten years ago, and I figured since another decade had gone by, I’d pop in again to say hello. It’s an open thread and all.
Who’s Gus?
Welcome Lilah! I’ve been here only 6 years so your previous time was way before me!
OI! Play nice! Don’t make me turn this blog around!
Sportsball update. Georgia comes back to beat Ohio State 42-41 after OS blows last second FG attempt.
re: #111 Hecuba’s daughter
Thanks! I found refuge here after 9-11. Then one day, I left. Couldn’t get back in, and now I can’t remember why. There was a time of a great flouncing off. I wasn’t one of those, but for whatever reason, I couldn’t come back. I took it as a sign. Then, like I said, I came back as Delilah. Is there another Delilah? (Please don’t throw things at me if Delilah is bad, too!)
So with this latest batch of Kona beans I’ve been getting into cold brew. This is a dark roast and it tastes pretty good but a high-quality medium is probably the best for cold brew. I just about have the ratios right. The first batch was 4 cups water to 1 cup of coarse French Press grind. Boy was I flying all day. I’m good with two cups and about a 1/3rd cup of grind. A few granules of sugar if any of all.
re: #114 Eclectic Cyborg
Sportsball update. Georgia comes back to beat Ohio State 42-41 after OS blows last second FG attempt.
My Michigan nephew and his eldest daughter (my 9 year old grandniece) who are likely in despair right now after the loss they witnessed first hand are probably somewhat assuaged by this “good” news.
So we’re almost 15 minutes into 2023 and I’m surprised none of the guests have called to ask me to get the people setting off fireworks to tone it down because they’re trying to sleep.
re: #116 Lilah
Someone who knows a rather detailed cursory history of LGF, pretty specialized knowledge of the internet, and doesn’t know who Gus is.
Just the facts, ma’am.
I lurked for around ten years before joining. I mostly stayed out of the comments back then as they could be nightmarish to my gentle bleeding heart sensibilities. But Charles did expose some real shit, and I didn’t want to hide from the truth in a liberal bubble as I saw George W. existed in a bubble of his own, and I needed to take care to be nothing like that shitbird.
re: #120 teleskiguy
Someone who knows a rather detailed cursory history of LGF, pretty specialized knowledge of the internet, and doesn’t know who Gus is.
Just the facts, ma’am.
That’s like asking a newbie who “Gordon” is. I doubt half the people here would know without Googling.
re: #122 Targetpractice
I’m probably being a total asshole (Likely). It’s just weird on my end. And a LibsOfTikTok true believer in our ranks would be bad. Now I’m being paranoid. Oy.
re: #120 teleskiguy
Someone who knows a rather detailed cursory history of LGF, pretty specialized knowledge of the internet, and doesn’t know who Gus is.
Just the facts, ma’am.
I believe they explained why they don’t know the recent history.
It’s time for you to back off.
re: #123 teleskiguy
I’m probably being a total asshole (Likely). It’s just weird on my end. And a LibsOfTikTok true believer in our ranks would be bad. Now I’m being paranoid. Oy.
Don’t make me bop you on the nose with the rolled newspaper.
re: #124 Belafon
Time will tell. I’ve seen weirder things. And we need to be skeptical and protect our own from harm.
Any idea on what the active user population of LGF is? I know I upding, check out the various links, music and images provided way more than I weigh in on anything. Heck I even consider myself a very active member because I visit the page everyday.
In any case Happy New Year everyone from rain soaked California!
I never sign out, really, but some days I have to skip whole threads because of other things IRL. I upding a lot. Don’t make a lot of posts. Except sometimes. LOL
re: #128 SerialUpDinger
Any idea on what the active user population of LGF is? I know I upding, check out the various links, music and images provided way more than I weigh in on anything. Heck I even consider myself a very active member because I visit the page everyday.
In any case Happy New Year everyone from rain soaked California!
It sounds like Natures trying to catch up in one week.
Today in “art is in the eye of the beholder” -
I didn’t think this was my finest effort by a long shot (used the site AI to try and modify/improve a prior mediocre low-res work of mine I uploaded; hate what the upscaling did to the sails). But with less than two minutes left and the clock ticking, I decided “eh, f*ck it”, and submitted it anyway to the site’s daily challenge for Friday.
I just found out it made 14th place out of 5,475 submissions (and places 9-14 tied with the same score), so what the hell do I know… xD
re: #87 mmmirele
Jaysis! It’s a war zone out there right now! I mean, seriously, what is it about this New Year’s Eve that makes it sound like the opening salvo in a Second American Civil War? I can’t even put in ear plugs because I’m on call…
If you’re talking about foam earplugs, cutting off about half of each one and using the rest will deaden the sound of the airplane exploding whatever while leaving you still able to hear the phone or pager.
re: #116 Lilah
Thanks! I found refuge here after 9-11. Then one day, I left. Couldn’t get back in, and now I can’t remember why. There was a time of a great flouncing off. I wasn’t one of those, but for whatever reason, I couldn’t come back. I took it as a sign. Then, like I said, I came back as Delilah. Is there another Delilah? (Please don’t throw things at me if Delilah is bad, too!)
Have a Happy New Year! I’m heading to bed before New Years officially arrives here in 35 minutes. Normally I’m up way too late but am crashing tonight.
re: #77 Lilah
Haha! I have never had pineapple on a pizza. Am I in or out?
Hi, Lilah! Have some pineapple on pizza!
Bad faith actors online will be a defining issue in the 2024 U.S. General Election.
My wife’s ex-hub is calling from the future.
re: #134 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
At least it won’t be soggy.
I’m not so much active here as held captive, as Charles draws sustenance from my suffering.
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re: #140 BigPapa
At least it won’t be soggy.
We’re hoping for some of that California rain to hit here and melt our snow from before Christmas. We’d really like to get our car out.
re: #97 teleskiguy
I can be the judge of that. I’m not speaking for Michelle, but the disabled community is, in my experience, fiercely proud to a fault. We’ve had years of people either putting us on pedestals, or lecturing us on being disabled in the “wrong” way.
Not to worry. I’ve been online and I can sniff out trolls as easily as anyone.
We put up with DF, and Gus himself, for a long time. They can’t hurt me.
re: #128 SerialUpDinger
Any idea on what the active user population of LGF is? I know I upding, check out the various links, music and images provided way more than I weigh in on anything. Heck I even consider myself a very active member because I visit the page everyday.
In any case Happy New Year everyone from rain soaked California!
Total or at one time?
Checking the “Show Users” button at the bottom usually shows anywhere from 50 to 80 Lizards present.
Though I’m sure that’s not the whole roster (lurkers not included)
re: #135 teleskiguy
You know, Bad Faith Actors would make a solid band name.
re: #146 Eclectic Cyborg
You know, Bad Faith Actors would make a solid band name.
Bad Company cover band?
re: #117 BigPapa
So with this latest batch of Kona beans I’ve been getting into cold brew. This is a dark roast and it tastes pretty good but a high-quality medium is probably the best for cold brew. I just about have the ratios right. The first batch was 4 cups water to 1 cup of coarse French Press grind. Boy was I flying all day. I’m good with two cups and about a 1/3rd cup of grind. A few granules of sugar if any of all.
BigPapa I love pure Kona. Been getting it from San Francisco Bay Coffee Co. I try to stock up on it along with Jamaican Blue Mountain and Puerto Rico Peaberry.
Good night and happy near year, fellow lizards!
May 2023 prove better and brighter than its predecessor, and may it be full of opportunities, adventures, and triumphs for us all (also MAGA indictments and sentences)!
Something I tweeted almost 90 minutes ago and is probably not true.
I am a better person going into 2023 than I was in 2022. I believe this about myself.
— Elon Musk Blows Goats (@ballfootski) January 1, 2023
re: #151 teleskiguy
Oh, I think it is. It is always a series of steps in the right direction, for every one of good will.
re: #128 SerialUpDinger
Any idea on what the active user population of LGF is? I know I upding, check out the various links, music and images provided way more than I weigh in on anything. Heck I even consider myself a very active member because I visit the page everyday.
In any case Happy New Year everyone from rain soaked California!
The population is at least six.
Dinner tonight will be porterhouse steak (no pineapple) and potatoes. Good way to chew in the New Year.
idiots just set off a bunch of bottle rockets. How the hell are they getting them lit in this rain???????
Weather report here upgraded to a Winter Storm Warning. Happy New Year.
…WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 5 PM SUNDAY TO 11 PM MST
MONDAY…
* WHAT…Heavy snow expected. Total snow accumulations of 6 to 12
inches.
* WHERE…Nebraska Panhandle. Highest accumulations are
expected along the Pine Ridge.
* WHEN…From 5 PM Sunday to 11 PM MST Monday.
* IMPACTS…Dangerous travel conditions due to icy, snow packed
roads and significantly reduced visibilities in falling and
blowing snow.
It’s supposed to rain tomorrow before going over to snow. I’ll make another attempt to free my car tomorrow.
Via Reddit’s r/ReligiousFruitcake, Christians around the world are praying for the deliverance of Andrew Tate. They are comparing his “persecution” to that of Jesus.
Truth of the matter is I think I’m a shithead, I suck as a human being, I’m socially inept, I have no friends. I think this, truly.
None of this is true.
This is called Depression.
They did drones at Reunion Tower to flip from 2022 to 2023.
re: #122 Targetpractice
That’s like asking a newbie who “Gordon” is. I doubt half the people here would know without Googling.
Hell, I lurked off and on from 2002-2009 before reading every day from 2009 onward, only registering and delurking in 2019 and I don’t remember who Gordon is/was.
Iron Fist, Walter, Killgore, Albusteve, Buck, Mandy, SFZ, Dark Falcon, sure. Gordon, no, doesn’t ring a bell.
Not that it means anything, I do have a memory of someone using the handle “Delilah” about a decade back but can’t remember the tenor of the posts. Unless I’m having a false memory, she wasn’t on my radar the way Steve, Mandy, and Buck were as people to keep a watchful eye on.
I don’t think this is our redpilled ex-Lizard.
re: #161 teleskiguy
Knowing it is not true is step one. The holidays are an especially bad time for that sort of self-delusion. Man, that bruise was bad timing. If you had skied today, it would have been better!
re: #164 retired cynic
This has been going on my entire adult life. I’ve been treated for years and not treated for years and it’s all the same. I know what it is (a mood disorder, scientifically studied) and I’ve been treated with several kinds of therapy. I take a very mild SSRI today, and yet… AND YET…
re: #161 teleskiguy
Truth of the matter is I think I’m a shithead, I suck as a human being, I’m socially inept, I have no friends. I think this, truly.
None of this is true.
This is called Depression.
I’m willing to trade the huge-ass butt bruise for the cold my sister gave me. I’ll even throw in the gallons of nose mucus at no extra cost.
//
re: #163 A Three Hour Tour
I’m not. I’m exactly who I said I am. Delilah is my cat. We call her Lilah for short.
re: #166 Targetpractice
NO PICTURES! The injury is too close to (Forrest Gump voice) the buttocks.
re: #167 Lilah
I’m not. I’m exactly who I said I am. Delilah is my cat. We call her Lilah for short.
Ours are Cleo (originally Leo until vet revealed he was actually a she) and Abby (actually Abbot to go with her brother Costello). Or, at we’ve dubbed them, “The Four-Legged Garbage Disposals.”
As far as my whole skiing life is concerned what happened to me last Thursday was really really stupid and sort of surreal. Literally, *the last turn* of the day on my skis and I bash my hip into a rock. Ugly and beautiful, in my weirdo mind…
re: #160 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Via Reddit’s r/ReligiousFruitcake, Christians around the world are praying for the deliverance of Andrew Tate. They are comparing his “persecution” to that of Jesus.
I don’t remember Jesus being a pimp (I know it’s not quite the same as what Tate is doing, but it’s the closest old business).
re: #170 teleskiguy
As far as my whole skiing life is concerned what happened to me last Thursday was really really stupid and sort of surreal. Literally, *the last turn* of the day on my skis and I bash my hip into a rock. Ugly and beautiful, in my weirdo mind…
Well of course it was the last turn of the day, I doubt you were looking to add a bruise on the other side for a matching set.
//
Speaking of religious fruitcakes, you can join this person in Twitter Spaces, who is agitating for the Taliban to help “free” Andrew Tate.
Earlier, the Taliban (now back on Twitter thanks to libertarian free speech) said they were concerned for his safety and want him released from jail.
— Sameera Khan #FreeTopG (@SameeraKhan) January 1, 2023
re: #173 Targetpractice
Well of course it was the last turn of the day
OF COURSE! And add insult to injury, I had to walk out of there. The fact I was able to indicated a non-life threatening injury.
re: #160 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Via Reddit’s r/ReligiousFruitcake, Christians around the world are praying for the deliverance of Andrew Tate. They are comparing his “persecution” to that of Jesus.
And they wonder why the pews are empty and the collection plate is bare.
Sure enough. I just looked at my big butt bruise in the mirror and it got bigger.
re: #178 teleskiguy
Sure enough. I just looked at my big butt bruise in the mirror and it got bigger.
When it starts looking like Jesus, call the Vatican.
//
re: #179 Targetpractice
When it starts looking like Jesus, call the Vatican.
//
Or the Weekly World News.
Just a reminder that Andrew Tate converted to Islam…
Andrew Tate has now confirmed himself that he is now a Muslim pic.twitter.com/7FjRT2oOzp
— Waasim (@waasim_) October 24, 2022
re: #179 Targetpractice
When it starts looking like Jesus, call the Vatican.
Eh? Not sure I want to do that seeing as how I have a German last name and the last Holy See (emeritus) who was from Germany and participated in German stuff from 1933-1945 just died.
re: #183 teleskiguy
Eh? Not sure I want to do that seeing as how I have a German last name and the last Holy See (emeritus) who was from Germany and participated in German stuff from 1933-1945 just died.
See, they got a job opening that just came available.
/
Nebraska’s top five political stories in a tumultuous 2022 (Nebraska Examiner)
TL;DR:
1) US Representative Jeff Fortenberry convicted of taking foreign campaign money in a literal brown paper bag.
2) Special Election confusion for Fortenberry’s seat (NE-1) due to redistricting. Fortenberry won by 20 points, his replacement won by 7 points.
3) Most expensive gubernatorial primary in state history, which included nine candidates and allegations of sexual assault from eight women (including a sitting Republican state senator) during the primary. The alleged assaulter won the primary (a conservative value) and will be our next governor.
4) Fascists took over the state GOP and ousted the Ricketts machine Republicans.
5) US Senator Ben Sasse resigns his Senate seat to become president of the University of Florida. The incoming accused sexual assaulting governor will appoint Gov. Ricketts to fill out his remaining term. Nebraska will have two Senate seats up for election in 2024.
re: #14 teleskiguy
This sucker’s like 12” length 3” width. Ow!
That said, it is all soft tissue stuff. I fortunately didn’t land directly on my pelvis. I know a dude who did that, he didn’t ski again for two years.
At first I though you were commenting on the walrus.
re: #14 teleskiguy
This sucker’s like 12” length 3” width. Ow!
That said, it is all soft tissue stuff. I fortunately didn’t land directly on my pelvis. I know a dude who did that, he didn’t ski again for two years.
Are we talking about your bruise or the Walrus dick? I get confused sometimes late in the evening.
A belated Happy New Year from the swamps of Fairfax County, Virginia. The fireworks seemed pathetic this year. Just a few weak booms apparently done out of habit and duty.
Nothing like the massive barrages of incoming I heard over the phone whilst talking to my brother in the Tampa Bay, Florida area.
Fortunately, I only heard the fire department once. Probably heading to pick up some unfortunate soul who managed to involve themselves in a car accident. I am fine with the unusual lack of sirens.
And finally, some kind wishes for the coming year. Better written by Neil Gaiman. But describing my sentiments as well.
re: #182 Joe Bacon
Just a reminder that Andrew Tate converted to Islam…
So what?
I converted to agnosticism. Does that make me a child rapist and sex trafficker?
Asking for a friend.
Happy New Year to those of us in Mythical Time Zone!
23 years ago tonight in Vail, CO me and a dozen of my friends got drunk on stolen liquor and pretty much started a riot. New Year’s Eve in Vail, CO in 1999 was VERY INTERESTING because of me and my friends and a lot of other teenagers hanging out.
re: #194 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Happy New Year to those of us in Mythical Time Zone!
Happy New Year!
And I hope that there will be many many more for you and your lady!
The City of Austin just finished blowing up lots of shit in the skies over Town Lake. It was really loud. Dogs went batshit. Cats were like, “whatever”.
A lovely New Year to you all, and days of auld lang syne.
re: #191 nines09
That was a popular song in the West Coast Swing community around 2000 or so. Still hear it played occasionally even nowadays. With most of the swing dancers not even born at the time of the song’s release.
re: #196 ckkatz
Happy New Year!
And I hope that there will be many many more for you and your lady!
Thank you.
(1:04)
re: #197 austin_blue
The City of Austin just finished blowing up lots of shit in the skies over Town Lake. It was really loud. Dogs went batshit. Cats were like, “whatever”.
A lovely New Year to you all, and days of auld lang syne.
I was just thinking that when I grew up in Pittsburgh in the 1960s and 1970s, I don’t remember any fireworks for New Years. Probably because of the crappy cold and wet weather. And us Pittsburghers being really boring folks.
re: #200 ckkatz
I was just thinking that when I grew up in Pittsburgh in the 1960s and 1970s, I don’t remember any fireworks for New Years. Probably because of the crappy cold and wet weather. And us Pittsburghers being really boring folks.
The fireworks here will be around dawn, when a whole bunch of hunters open fire up in the Sandhills.
re: #200 ckkatz
I was just thinking that when I grew up in Pittsburgh in the 1960s and 1970s, I don’t remember any fireworks for New Years. Probably because of the crappy cold and wet weather. And us Pittsburghers being really boring folks.
Yah, but you poured Iron City down your necks, didn’t ya, at every opportunity?
And it was cat piss, wasn’t it?
re: #204 austin_blue
Yah, but you poured Iron City down your necks, didn’t ya, at every opportunity?
And it was cat piss, wasn’t it?
Not so much cat piss as Mon water. (Mon - Monongehela River)
Although to be honest, I can’t claim any particular expertise as to the taste of cat piss. And will have to defer to those with real life experience.
So aside from bringing blessed relief from these years of drought, the rain seems to have squelched any idea of incendiaries around here. Which means I can go to bed now and actually get some sleep.
Happy New Year, everyone!
re: #175 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Speaking of religious fruitcakes, you can join this person in Twitter Spaces, who is agitating for the Taliban to help “free” Andrew Tate.
Earlier, the Taliban (now back on Twitter thanks to libertarian free speech) said they were concerned for his safety and want him released from jail.
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I thought Twitter Spaces was shut down completely a couple of weeks ago.
re: #206 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS
So aside from bringing blessed relief from these years of drought, the rain seems to have squelched any idea of incendiaries around here. Which means I can go to bed now and actually get some sleep.
Happy New Year, everyone!
Well, it’s Texas show off your guns night.
Bang bang, boom boom.
It’s good to have a metal roof.
And I start the year with a par 4/6.
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Happy New Year Lizards.
The Battle for the Mendenhall Valley has been substantially postponed this year. Some firing for effect rounds and scattered small arms fire. Must be the 38F temps with a light rain. Looks like we have to have our valley wars in the warm weather around the fourth of July.
Since Big Papa and I will be the last of the 2022 holdouts, I’ll shut lights off up here and Big Papa can do the same for Hawaii.
re: #201 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
I have concerns about Baby New Year…
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Sean Connery has been dead for two years. No concern there.
re: #200 ckkatz
I was just thinking that when I grew up in Pittsburgh in the 1960s and 1970s, I don’t remember any fireworks for New Years. Probably because of the crappy cold and wet weather. And us Pittsburghers being really boring folks.
Last New Year’s Eve in Pittsburgh for me was 1981. We would hear the mill whistles sound right at midnight.
First New Year’s Eve I spent in South Gate California 1982—Good lord it sounded like mortar fire…
And here we go welcoming 2023 in…and the explosions thunder and crack as if I am in the control room of Irwin Allen’s Time Tunnel…
Well 2022 is over and done with…
Good Night, Happy New Year, and Best Wishes for the coming year to all!
To quote more of Neil Gaiman :
“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re doing something.”
—Neil Gaiman
re: #215 Joe Bacon
Firecrackers all over this neighborhood.
Never understood, but I guess it was exported by the Chinese a long time ago and now people just think it’s the right thing to do.
KPTV, Portland, Ore., December 29, 2022
Woman arrested after pushing 3-year-old onto MAX tracks in NE Portland
PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - A woman has been arraigned after pushing a three-year-old child onto MAX tracks in NE Portland Wednesday.
According to the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office, on Wednesday evening a mother and her child were waiting for the MAX train when Brianna Lace Workman, 32, allegedly shoved the child off of the platform and onto the MAX train tracks without provocation.
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But now begins the last full year I will work for Social Security. And next year countdown to retirement on 6/30/24…
And just as expected the car alarms are joining in with the explosions…
Why am I not surprised -
I suppose we were always inevitably going to get the point in George Santos saga where we learn that he doesn’t even go by George Santoshttps://t.co/Ul9BLnQE90 pic.twitter.com/qEGCoXLia1
— Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) December 31, 2022
Michele Bachmann: I spent Christmas telling my grandchildren that ‘eternal fires’ of hell await them (Deadstate, December 31, 2022)
Gotta threaten ‘em to keep ‘em in line.
During an appearance on the Lions & Generals show this Monday, Michele Bachman talked about how she spent Christmas warning her grandchildren that if they don’t follow the teachings of Christ, they will most certainly burn in hell.
“I was with two of my grandchildren this weekend, a two-year-old and a six-year-old, and I was just compelled to talk to them about, when we die, it’s judgement,” Bachmann said.
Bachmann said that she told the children that at the moment of death, “a decision is made — you’re either going to heaven or you’re going to hell.”
“We talked about what heaven is, and we talked about what hell is,” she said. “That hell is just as real as heaven. And in hell, there’s eternal fires and damnation and it’s a real place, we do not want to go there, that’s where the wicked will go. And then I explained how they don’t go — that they receive Christ and confess their sins … [Jesus] cleanses them and then because of his righteousness, they go to heaven.”
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Also, there is a new peer-reviewed psychology study out. There have been many studies about religious people’s attitudes toward atheists, but the authors could find no comparable study of atheists toward religious people in the USA.
Their new study shows that people of all religions studied concerning hatred of out-groups (Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, Jews, other religious groups too small to be significant in the study) were significantly greater than atheists toward any religious group. All religious groups show a marked increase in their desire to discriminate against atheists and exclude them from society. Notably, the religious groups did not show increased animosity toward each other.
In Christian denominations it did not matter whether the denomination was nominally “liberal” or “conservative.”
This adds to the study ten years ago where atheists were the least-trusted group in America, less trusted than paedophiles.
Did Twitter just die? All I see is their logo on a tweet on the Website.
Did Elon Musk fire the guy who was supposed to change the calendar to the new year?
re: #225 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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Short skirmish around midnight here in the Mendenhall Valley. Very little damage. Too cold and wet to stay outside very long.
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— Lon Harris (@Lons) January 1, 2023
re: #222 ckkatz
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At this rate we’re going to learn that “George Santos” is a GRU agent…and the MAGAts will still insist he be seated.
re: #222 ckkatz
Why am I not surprised -
Holy shit. Not only did George Santos lie about his mother dying in 9/11, but he appears to have turned her funeral into a grift pic.twitter.com/yBCSM494V8
— Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) December 31, 2022
re: #228 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
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Radar tells me the west side of the San Diego County mountains are getting a lot of rain.
We’ve had almost a half an inch since midnight, the heavy rain not starting until around 1am.
Croatia rings in New Year as fully integrated EU member, joining Eurozone, Schengen Area (CTV News, January 1, 2023)
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At the stroke of midnight on Saturday, Croatia switched to the shared European currency, the euro, and removed dozens of border checkpoints to join the world’s largest passport-free travel area.
It marked a fresh start for the small Balkan nation of 4 million people that captured international attention three decades ago as the site of a brutal war that left nearly a quarter of its economy in ruins.
Joining Europe’s ID-check-free Schengen zone means Croats will now be among almost 420 million people who are free to roam its 27 member countries without passports for work or leisure.
Adopting the euro will likewise offer Croatia the benefits stemming from deeper financial ties with the currency’s 19 other users and with the European Central Bank. It will also make traveling and doing business easier, removing the hassle of currency exchange for Croats going abroad and for tens of thousands of tourists who visit their country each year for work or to enjoy its stunning Adriatic coastline.
As revelers around Croatia took to the streets to ring in the New Year, the country’s interior minister, Davor Bozinovic, was at the Bregana border crossing with Slovenia to wish the best of luck to the last travellers to have their passports checked there.
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Did ok in Thursday’s no-theme challenge at NightCafe:
But only ok, top 20%. I continue to try and get something that I can call “art” out of these AI image programs. I do not think just any image, especially one created by a mindless machine, qualifies as “art”, in the narrow sense of that word.
However, it has become common to call any picture by the word “art”. Those house-flipper shows use “art” in this manner all the time. Anything they put on the wall is called “art”.
In the general sense, “art” simply means something made by humans. There is an art to blogging, an art to writing software, an art in cooking pancakes.
But the narrow sense of “art” is more meaningful to me, and the AI-tool pushers want to sell their machine out as “art” in the narrow sense when at best it can be called “art” in only the general sense.
Yet even that is doubtful in my mind, because the AI tools are not human and for someone to label the output of such as “art” and try to sell it as such is misguided at best, deceitful at worst.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is now officially President of Brazil. Jair Bolsonaro is holed up at Mar-a-Lago.
President da Silva will give his inauguration speech at 3PM Brasília time (-3 GMT, one time zone east of Atlantic Time, two east of Eastern Time).
Back-end of rain band is producing the heaviest rain yet. Rain will end shortly, but this last half hour has see us get some of the most rain in a year.
re: #222 ckkatz
Why am I not surprised -
That may be, but we’ve reached the point where he doesn’t get the the benefit of the doubt. At all. On anything.
— Michael Rapoport (@rapoportmike) January 1, 2023
re: #237 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is now officially President of Brazil. Jair Bolsonaro is holed up at Mar-a-Lago.
Birds… feathers… flocking.
🚨 One of the wettest days in Bay Area history 🚨
San Francisco has recorded 5.46” of rain today, making it the 2nd wettest day ever recorded since records began in 1849. pic.twitter.com/fTrg4saXj5— Colin McCarthy (@US_Stormwatch) January 1, 2023
re: #231 Targetpractice
At this rate we’re going to learn that “George Santos” is a GRU agent…and the MAGAts will still insist he be seated.
Qevin McCarthy needs his vote for Speaker.
‘No, seriously, she told him he had a micro peen then he got busted for trafficking after showing pizza boxes during a diss video. It was wild.’
Nobody:
Me and my friends telling jokes: pic.twitter.com/wqI7wLpYOi— 𝓓𝓮𝓵𝓲𝓵𝓪𝓱 (@xen4yo) December 31, 2022
Highest confidence for snow totals remains in the mtns where multiple feet of snow are possible. High confidence in 6+ inch snow amounts for the plains. Circled area indicates where heavier snow bands may setup. Here, locally higher amounts of 12+ inches are possible. #WYwx #NEwx pic.twitter.com/XVGZM5nJcD
— NWS Cheyenne (@NWSCheyenne) January 1, 2023
Happy New Year! Sorry for being a bit of a downer, but we hope you don’t upload that shaky video you’ve taken of the neighborhood fireworks. About 3-5% of people with #epilepsy can be neurologically triggered by lights and patterns. #EpilepsyAwareness pic.twitter.com/7JwcWJlSbv
— Brain Ablaze (@BrainAblaze) January 1, 2023
re: #241 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
We just had over a quarter inch of rain over about 20 minutes - that’s a lot of us.
Now the rain has passed. One and a quarter inches since midnight.
Just a couple of Nazi Christians weighing in tonight.
YES, but it’s complicated.
CONTEMPORARY #ATHEISM is a sect of Protestantism, The Last Reformation, reforming all religion out of Judeo Xianity.
But this is not the only atheism that has existed. Atheism existed already at least in Ancient Greek and is recorder well enough.— ✠︎🖤 Trad Retail Investor 🖤✠︎ (@avgjaneexp2) January 1, 2023
We ended up with a bit over seven and half inches of rain for calendar year 2022, about two inches below normal.
But five inches of that rain had fallen since 1 Oct. And most of that in the past couple of weeks.
2022 started off very dry.
The current rain year (starts 1 Oct) is off to a good start but that has happen a few times in recent decade. Oct-Dec being wet, the rest of the year being very dry.
re: #249 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
We ended up with a bit over seven and half inches of rain for calendar year 2022, about two inches below normal.
But five inches of that rain had fallen since 1 Oct. And most of that in the past couple of weeks.
2022 started off very dry.
The current rain year (starts 1 Oct) is off to a good start but that has happen a few times in recent decade. Oct-Dec being wet, the rest of the year being very dry.
I don’t know how to pull up climate records for my area. NWS Cheyenne’s page has always been fubar.
Atheism is a sect of Christianity in the exact same way that Christianity is a sect of Carnivory.
— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) January 1, 2023
re: #250 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I don’t know how to pull up climate records for my area. NWS Cheyenne’s page has always been fubar.
NWS local home pages are always hit and miss.
re: #252 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
NWS local home pages are always hit and miss.
I did get something from the state climatologist.
Average rainfall (or snow equivalent) closest to us are all points sixty miles away. In Alliance, the average is 15”, this year was 12.75”. In Sidney, the average is 16”, this year was 6.19”. In Scottsbluff, the average is 15.75”, this year they got 9.83”. We are sandwiched equidistantly between these cities.
Stable Diffusion is supposed to give on the identical image when all the parameters are set identically.
But as I’ve pointed out before, different instantions of Stable Diffusion give different results.
Here is the output from two different instantiations, but I’ve set all the parameters (that are available to me) the same, yet the pictures, while similar, are hardly identical:
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“As a proud Scottish-American New Years always reminds me of that time I wrote Auld Lang Syne” - George (whatever my name is) Santos
If McCarthy isn’t elected Speaker on the first ballot on Tuesday, it will be the first time in exactly a century that multiple ballots will be needed. Matt Gaetz intends to hold out all Winter.
re: #256 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Been thinking about a fantasy-scifi-futurism story set in about 3900 years, when modernity has collapsed and in North America the dominant religion has melded Buddhism (from a giant influx of Asian immigrants over a millennium) with high-church Christianity.
Sort of like A Canticle for Leibowitz, but more distant and not so centered on an nuclear apocalypse.
The new temples/cathedrals play a central role in holding together civilization, but unlike Miller’s novel the religion is not so much ascetic but more into bling:
Experiment to see if a “let her rip” Covid policy would’ve kept the economy humming in 2020 surprisingly demonstrates that no, everyone getting sick at once isn’t conducive to economic growth.
re: #258 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Unlike Leibowitz, I’d rather a story not get stuck on a cyclical view of history.
Leibowitz was written at a time when it was hard for Americans to think of post-Christianity.
I’d rather imagine a future where syncretism has worked to significantly alter the dominant religious ideas.
That takes a long time, so setting it around 5900CE should give enough of that time for cultural evolution to work.
Once the current American Theology dies off, and with it everything from Manifest Destiny to the gun culture.
Even what is now Texas will give up the gun-god once 70 or 80 million people live there.
Instead, survival by social cooperation will dominate, though caste systems will arise. We humans will still be creatures who want hierarchy in our groups.
Yet disease will be rampant without modern medicine.
Throw in some genetic editing of humans (from say 2050-2500CE) bringing about some interesting variations in Homo sapiens (contra the radioactive mutations of Leibowitz), North America could be a very interesting place in 5900CE (for those who have survived.)
re: #258 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
It already exists, at least in Kyoto:
re: #262 Dr Lizardo
It’s elegant, but lacks the cathedral-quality.
And the bling. Definitely needs more bling.
Those of you who’ve had COVID, how is it going?
I was VERY SICK for about three days, then I was very suddenly not sick.
However, almost 3 weeks later I still have a persistent cough. Is this my life now?
For what it’s worth, I’ve had all the shots they will give me.
re: #214 JC1
Happy New Year everyone!
3/6. Good start.
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Hope everyone here is doing/feeling much better.
BBC rolls out an oldie but goodie, from Mock The Week:
re: #268 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
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Shot in the dark snags an unexpected birbie to kick off the new year. All the best to everyone in 2023!
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Welcome to 2023 everyone. May it bring reason to those who lead us, peace to the planet, and joy to your lives.
Me: ” I fixed the bathroom scale this morning.”
MsRedState was thrilled with the news.
Happy New Years!
re: #253 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
We finished off 2022 in Western NC with another .40 of an inch to end the year with 62.75 inches. This is more than 25 percent above normal for the fourth straight year.
We’ve lived in our house since 2012 and “normal” summers would mean I could go 2 weeks without having to mow the front yard due to lack of rain. But it’s like we’ve entered into a more tropical climate, where multiple thunderstorms a day in the summer have become common. Just been weird having a lush, green yard in August these past 4 years.
re: #273 TarHellion
Long term climate predictions are for the SE and NE of the US to have increased precipitation.
idiots didn’t stop with the M80s, fireworks, bottle rockets and guns until just past 3AM…and plenty of sirens sounding…yeah blood sugar right now is thru the roof…
re: #265 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
Those of you who’ve had COVID, how is it going?
I was VERY SICK for about three days, then I was very suddenly not sick.
However, almost 3 weeks later I still have a persistent cough. Is this my life now?
For what it’s worth, I’ve had all the shots they will give me.
I had the equivalent of a head cold in May, and have fully recovered.
re: #153 BigPapa
If you want it straight from the source.
I’m a home roaster. Thx. I used to get it from a guy who lived way back in the hills above Kona. Way back in. I think he grew other things as well. He had won coffee awards in the past. I with I could find his card.
Green coffee from Hawaii is a tricky business for the amateur. It’s expensive and some growers won’t sell small lots like 5 or 10 lbs.
I’ve gotten to the point where my favorites are African and Mexican varietals.
re: #182 Joe Bacon
Just a reminder that Andrew Tate converted to Islam…
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re: #265 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
Those of you who’ve had COVID, how is it going?
I was VERY SICK for about three days, then I was very suddenly not sick.
However, almost 3 weeks later I still have a persistent cough. Is this my life now?
For what it’s worth, I’ve had all the shots they will give me.
From reports I’ve read, it’s been all over the spectrum of symptoms, no case is quite like the other… My personal either seasonal cold or Crowned Bastard™ visitation was one day with mild to moderate muscle and joint aches, then respiratory symptoms set in (nose, throat), gradually going away except the throat which is still a little so-so.
Four-jabbed lizard here, BTW.
EPA finalizes regulation expanding definition of “waters of the United States” protected from pollution by regulation rolled back by Trump. SCOTUS may change the definition yet again.
re: #279 Dave In Austin
I’m a home roaster. Thx. I used to get it from a guy who lived way back in the hills above Kona. Way back in. I think he grew other things as well. He had won coffee awards in the past. I with I could find his card.
Green coffee from Hawaii is a tricky business for the amateur. It’s expensive and some growers won’t sell small lots like 5 or 10 lbs.
I’ve gotten to the point where my favorites are African and Mexican varietals.
Grandpa Bacon was blacklisted for being a member of the Socialist Party so he opened his grocery store instead and gladly gave credit to millworkers to compete against the corporate company store. One of the incentives he used was roasting his own coffee blends. Grandpa would chuckle when mill supervisors would come to the back door to buy his freshly roasted coffee. Grandpa kept the grocery business going until the Wagner Act was passed and with the help of the CIO he was one of the field marshalls organizing the Steelworkers Union.
good morning and happy New Year. Woke up, checked twitter, saw and ad for body armor (actual body armor) and laughed then realized how sad that was.
HAPPY NEW YEAR LIZARDIA. For me it is Second New Year, just like Second Birthday. We already had New Year in September.
Is it too late to wish people Happy New Year on the Happy New Year thread? Asking for a barely tolerated acquaintence.
re: #283 Joe Bacon
I love Grandpa Bacon stories.
re: #283 Joe Bacon
When I was a kid in the 50’s and 60’s, the local grocery stores did all their own roasting. A&P had a big gas roaster in the deli area. You could smell that sucker all over town.
re: #248 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Just a couple of Nazi Christians weighing in tonight.
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Then there’s no reason for them to get in our faces about their religion.
re: #274 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Long term climate predictions are for the SE and NE of the US to have increased precipitation.
And the Midwest will head towards more desert like conditions. It’s all good.
New Year, Same Problems For Biden, Democrats
— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) December 31, 2022
re: #265 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
Those of you who’ve had COVID, how is it going?
I was VERY SICK for about three days, then I was very suddenly not sick.
However, almost 3 weeks later I still have a persistent cough. Is this my life now?
For what it’s worth, I’ve had all the shots they will give me.
What you have is similar to what I went through in July. If it wasn’t for the fact we’re in a pandemic, I would have thought I had that summer cold I get every five years of so.
I was fine after about two weeks. It hits everyone different, but if you’re following my path, you should be okay soon. Hang in there and Happy New Year.
re: #289 Belafon
Then there’s no reason for them to get in our faces about their religion.
Sigh. The old shtick that atgeism is a religion because //reasons// is moronic. Let us tell them that that are the maroons and not debate.
re: #201 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
I have concerns about Baby New Year…
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Who knew the outfit that I wear to funerals would be the height of fashion this year?
A good small batch hot air roaster (<1cup)is hard as hell to find today. I-Roast was discontinued, I have 2 of them to make a complete unit.
You can get these on Amazon but the batch size is too small for me.
Fresh Roast SR800 a.co
I got home from work at about 10 last night. I have to go back this morning. It is my penultimate day at this job.
re: #293 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Sigh. The old shtick that atgeism is a religion because //reasons// is moronic. Let us tell them that that are the maroons and not debate.
I’ve been an a-philatelist my whole life
Tell me I’m some kind of stamp collector anyway
re: #289 Belafon
The bottom line to all and any religion in my small pea brain.
Everyone is scared of the dark. Since the beginning of rational thought. Homo Saipan’s are fear based creatures and are afraid of the dark.
“Who will lead us from this darkness!!??”.
The lament since they could kindle fire.
That’s my opinion and I’m sticking with it.
On Friday the Arizona Court of Appeals ruled that doctors could not be imprisoned pursuant to an 1864 law banning abortion. The recently enacted 15 week ban with exceptions only for medical emergencies is in effect.
Happy New Year everyone! As predicted, I passed out well before any celebrations were in full swing here in the US. All are well and safe in the house of GFJ. I hope the same for everyone else!
re: #302 Dave In Austin
The bottom like to all and any religion in my small pea brain.
Everyone is scared of the dark. Since the beginning of rational thought. Homo Saipan’s are fear based creatures and are afraid of the dark.
“Who will lead us from this darkness!!??”.The lament since they could kindle fire.
That’s my opinion and I’m sticking with it.
My favorite professor from college is from Japan. All my fellow freshmen were unsure why such a smart guy from another culture was a Christian. One of them asked him about it in a class. The professor said, ‘We each need something to tell us we’re OK.’ Since then, I leave people alone about their religion.
It’s not too far from your opinion, and I would not want to change it.
This is an actual thing that is happening. 🫠 https://t.co/M4lnmDvfql pic.twitter.com/pO4ECs6wf1
— Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta (@malcolmkenyatta) December 30, 2022
The lighter it gets, the better you can see the fog.
It started as a looking-out-the-window commentary, and turned into a life philosophy.
Btw has Bolsonaro been seen at Mar-a-Lago yet?
White collar crime does damage to other people. They should be in prison.
— Blue in Red Texas (@RockwallBlue) January 1, 2023
re: #302 Dave In Austin
The bottom like to all and any religion in my small pea brain.
Everyone is scared of the dark. Since the beginning of rational thought. Homo Saipan’s are fear based creatures and are afraid of the dark.
“Who will lead us from this darkness!!??”.The lament since they could kindle fire.
That’s my opinion and I’m sticking with it.
IMHO, which is probably wrong, hunter gatherers told stories about their hunting and other exploits around the campfire, which got embellished over time as people venerated their ancestors and prayed to them for success in the hunt and other matters. The ancestors evolved over time into Gods as religious and political elites found it useful to formalize religious practices, but it all started with some guy bragging that you should’ve seen the size of the Cave Bear he killed.
re: #310 No Malarkey!
I have no idea how all this religion business got started, but part of me likes to think that Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick got it right….
I’m scheduled for 8 AM, but the boss (who will not be there today) said it’s OK if I show up at 9. Wordle or work, wordle or work…
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re: #266 Colère Tueur de Lapin
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Well the cannon fire woke us at midnight. We got up and watched from the back porch. It was pretty. Pretty damned loud. This morning, we had a murder of crows screaming up a storm outside the house.
She Who Must Be Obeyed got a picture of the source of the ruckus:
I believe this bird is a harbinger of the New Year, an Omen Pigeon, if you will.
I went to sleep at 11:00 last night and did not hear any of the outdoors clatter, thanks to the miracle of ambien.
re: #110 teleskiguy
Why should I? I still think you’re shady af. But as you may have noticed, I haven’t downdinged anything you’ve said. Time will tell and I may be totally wrong about you.
I do believe I remember this User Name. It seems familiar to me.
Maybe some space is in order here.
re: #310 No Malarkey!
I think it’s more that we were able to kill and cut down a tree, and, as pattern seekers, we attributed things like rain and the abundance or lack of food to something else making decisions like we did.
re: #321 Eclectic Cyborg
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On January 12th, it will be 25 years since I was discharged from the Navy.
re: #320 darthstar
Of course Elmo set himself up on mastodon. Insecure asshole wants to know what everyone is saying about him.
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What’s that he’s wearing in his avatar pic? Armor?
Looks like something out of the old Flash Gordon serials….
“Elon of Mars”??
re: #324 Jay C
What’s that he’s wearing in his avatar pic? Armor?
Looks like something out of the old Flash Gordon serials….
“Elon of Mars”??
That’s his specially made Devil’s Champion costume.
re: #320 darthstar
He’s going to try to buy Mastodon too. 😂😂😂
There were no fireworks nor any gunfire hereabouts last night, I stayed up ‘til nearly 2am binge watching 2d season of Umbrella Academy. Mrs J bit the dust not long after supper:
I have a pot of pinto beans simmering down with pork neck bones this morning, getting ready to make a skillet of corn bread to go with. It’s 53 degrees here mid-morning. We will view the week’s captures on several trail cams later. It takes an hour or two to go through the lot. Had to replace a dead camera, it’s CMOS battery had been dead for a while so we had to reset the date and time with every battery change. It will be nice not to have to do that for a while.
re: #322 Belafon
I think it’s more that we were able to kill and cut down a tree, and, as pattern seekers, we attributed things like rain and the abundance or lack of food to something else making decisions like we did.
And my totally unscientific hypothesis is that something was the spirits of the glorious ancestors protecting the clan.
re: #327 GlutenFreeJesus
He’s going to try to buy Mastodon too. 😂😂😂
Everyone keep inventing new SoC media platforms and bankrupt this clown.
Guess what this is going to become?
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re: #294 Lilah
Hello and Happy New Year from Cinnamon
re: #331 BlueSpotinAL
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Biden has yet to hold a solo press conference in 2023
— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) January 1, 2023
Miley Cyrus und Dolly Parton singen „Wrecking Ball“ und „I Will Always Love You“ bei Miley‘s New Year‘s Eve Party
pic.twitter.com/Sd8VI0DPTZ— Miley Cyrus Germany🇩🇪 (@MCyrusDE) January 1, 2023
This election was won by *persuasion.* Americans were *persuaded* that they needed to defend democracy. That argument was a tremendous success. But apparently, once you steer away from a tree, the tree instantly becomes an absurd myth, & evasive action a grievous overreaction. https://t.co/B9XGrhsLfA
— chatham harrison is tending his garden (@chathamharrison) December 31, 2022
I think it can be both true that people are ultimately responsible for their decisions, and one of the more important jobs of politics is to create a structure which makes people more likely to do good things and less likely to do bad things.
— Checkless Starfish Who Can Change His Name (@IRHotTakes) December 31, 2022
re: #286 Mattand
Is it too late to wish people Happy New Year on the Happy New Year thread? Asking for a barely tolerated acquaintence.
No.
And Happy New Year to you!
(And all Lizards!!)
re: #97 teleskiguy
Thank you.
re: #177 Targetpractice
And they wonder why the pews are empty and the collection plate is bare.
Unfortunately the Church of Trump remains a thriving operation, even if Vance was his only disciple to win. But look at Arizona where the D’s got a clean sweep by the barest of margins. Way too close for comfort. Only 80% D wins will provide some level of relief.
re: #193 austin_blue
So what?
I converted to agnosticism. Does that make me a child rapist and sex trafficker?
Asking for a friend.
But it does explain the Taliban’s support for him.
re: #160 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Via Reddit’s r/ReligiousFruitcake, Christians around the world are praying for the deliverance of Andrew Tate. They are comparing his “persecution” to that of Jesus.
re: #332 Rightwingconspirator
Hello and Happy New Year from Cinnamon
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She does not look like she’s wishing me well. She looks… threatening.
His name is Reek.
— Jo 🌻 (@JoJoFromJerz) January 1, 2023
re: #340 BlueSpotinAL
Is it too late to post this?
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Yes.
It always was.
Anything that makes you grab your nose and run screaming from the room should never have been posted in the first place!
“i asked my husband to dispose of the tree and noticed it was taking a REALLY long time”
(jukin media) pic.twitter.com/58Q8ISmjOY— theworldofdog (@theworldofdog) December 31, 2022
re: #342 Hecuba’s daughter
But it does explain the Taliban’s support for him.
Misogynists know they are twisted and seek validation from other misogynists.
It’s not really religion, or lack thereof, is it?
welp
Man carrying explosive device and knife arrested at inauguration of Brazil’s new president https://t.co/839U6xFwjn
— Sky News (@SkyNews) January 1, 2023
Morning Lizardim from the slightly warm wild north country. Happy New Year to all; may 2023 be better for us all than any of the other 2020’s. This is shaping up to be a royal train wreck of a decade, judging by the way it started. Today was a threedle, though I did it on my phone so I can’t directly share the result. (I guess I could recreate it, if asked.) How go things among the lizardfolk on this cloudy, foggy, pre-snowstorm day?
Wife and I are currently watching “White Noise” with Adam Driver on Netflix.
We’re not liking it much so far.
For the photographers here, a thought from my favorite photoblogger, Mike Johnston:
Photography is a curious and quixotic pastime, but remember that every lens will give you its gifts if you let it. Aim high and fail often and the successes will inevitably arrive. Let’s all go out and get some great ones in the coming year, and, above all, have some fun. Thanks for everything.
Good light and good pictures,
Mike
It’s gonna get worse before it gets better.
Terminal brain worms. https://t.co/HmNj6QSq5o
— David Roberts (@drvolts) January 1, 2023
From the extinct Mammut:
Kim Reece
@kimreece@mathstodon.xyz
It has been passed on to me, that I shall pass on this wish:
>> Happy Fibonacci Day! 1 1 23
and I find this an excellent way to begin.
Meanwhile on the other side of the Atlantic. 76 degrees Fahrenheit at a latitude around Vermont, Oregon, Wyoming, Michigan. https://t.co/cfVn6JzYaF
— Cody Townsend (@codytownsend) January 1, 2023
Well dang…
BREAKING: Modest Mouse founding drummer Jeremiah Green has died at the age of 45 following a brief battle with cancer. https://t.co/0c6qHb78Um pic.twitter.com/vgNMYijBmU
— CONSEQUENCE (@consequence) January 1, 2023
re: #356 teleskiguy
It’s gonna get worse before it gets better.
Does this moran realise he’s calling the Republicans who voted for Geo. Santos “stupid woke Americans?” Do those voters realise it?
Next county west of mine.
Warm weather this week made ALOT of progress melting the snow but these monster drifts are gonna be here a long, long time. Banner Cnty Nebraska 12/31/22. @RRNStormCenter @NWSCheyenne @dayweather #newx pic.twitter.com/3WmH1kaDC5
— Dan Fitts (@Dan_Fitts) January 1, 2023
The forecast for tomorrow into Tuesday is up to 12” now. This is going to be a SERIOUS blizzard coming our way.
re: #363 Dopamine Fish
The forecast for tomorrow into Tuesday is up to 12” now. This is going to be a SERIOUS blizzard coming our way.
We get ice storm now added to heavy snow.
…WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 5 PM THIS
AFTERNOON TO 11 PM MST MONDAY…
* WHAT…Freezing drizzle expected, followed by heavy snow. Total
snow accumulations of 4 to 8 inches. Ice accumulations up to one
tenth of an inch possible.
* WHERE…Kimball, Morrill, and Cheyenne counties in the southern
Nebraska Panhandle. This includes but is not limited to Kimball,
Bridgeport, and Sidney. The worst icing due to freezing drizzle
is expected over Cheyenne County.
* WHEN…5 PM MST this evening until 11 PM MST Monday. The most
likely time period for freezing drizzle will be overnight
through mid-day Monday.
Having the Breakfast of Marky’s (Maypo). Yum.
re: #363 Dopamine Fish
The forecast for tomorrow into Tuesday is up to 12” now. This is going to be a SERIOUS blizzard coming our way.
3 to 6 here but big chance of ice. I’d rather have the foot of snow and no ice.
re: #367 William Lewis
3 to 6 here but big chance of ice. I’d rather have the foot of snow and no ice.
I 100% agree. All of you out there who are getting ice in this winter storm, be safe.
re: #368 Dopamine Fish
I 100% agree. All of you out there who are getting ice in this winter storm, be safe.
I have a small time this afternoon where rain will hopefully free my car from the before-Christmas blizzard, before it changes to freezing rain. Fingers crossed.
So, the “keep government off the backs of business” party is trying to blame Pete Buttigieg for the incompetence of Southwest Airlines?
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) January 1, 2023
No more coal for naughty orcs…
Ukrainian Mig-29 pilot in Santa costume firing missiles at Russian targets.#Ukraine #UkraineRussianWar pic.twitter.com/umRSyT1fV8
— Ukraine - Combat Footage Archive 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 (@Bodbe6) January 1, 2023
re: #353 Eclectic Cyborg
I loved this movie so freaking much, but I realize it’s not everyone’s cup of tea. I loved the cast. Much of it was just an experience more than a story. I think it’s kind of Terry Gilliam meets David Lynch.
Just perfect.
re: #209 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
And I start the year with a par 4/6.
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Got a birbie.
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re: #372 Unabogie
I can understand why some people would like it, it just wasn’t for me.
re: #373 Hecuba’s daughter
Got a birbie.
Really bad luck on the three letters I got. My first word whiffed entirely. I know too many words with those letters in those positions, and my choices were all wrong.
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re: #374 Eclectic Cyborg
I can understand why some people would like it, it just wasn’t for me.
Oh, for sure. It was a weird freaking movie.
re: #110 teleskiguy
You cannot imagine how hostile LGF can feel to “hatchlings”. To stick around takes a real act of courage.
re: #259 No Malarkey!
Experiment to see if a “let her rip” Covid policy would’ve kept the economy humming in 2020 surprisingly demonstrates that no, everyone getting sick at once isn’t conducive to economic growth.
It can be a disaster in the short run — but let’s see where they are in 3 months. Of course, we don’t know what the outcome on variants will be — whether some arise that are far more dangerous. In this case, the Chinese are succumbing to omicron; back in 2020 it was either the original strain or alpha, and the results could have been very different.
re: #351 Dopamine Fish
Morning Lizardim from the slightly warm wild north country. Happy New Year to all; may 2023 be better for us all than any of the other 2020’s. This is shaping up to be a royal train wreck of a decade, judging by the way it started. Today was a threedle, though I did it on my phone so I can’t directly share the result. (I guess I could recreate it, if asked.) How go things among the lizardfolk on this cloudy, foggy, pre-snowstorm day?
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re: #380 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Thank you. She’s a senior cat of indeterminant age. 15 maybe? She picked me at the shelter and may just be my last cat.
re: #349 austin_blue
Misogynists know they are twisted and seek validation from other misogynists.
It’s not really religion, or lack thereof, is it?
The patriarchies are deciding that the other patriarchies should be their natural allies when it comes to situations like these.
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