Reminiscent of Tommy Emmanuel, and that’s the highest praise I can give an acoustic guitarist.
A song I wrote for my youngest child, a wise and delightful cat named Toby.
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Environment Secretary Therese Coffey has suggested turnips could be a suitable alternative while other vegetables remain in short supply.Some supermarkets have limited sales of cucumbers and tomatoes, following shortages partly caused by extreme weather in Spain and north Africa.
Ms Coffey told MPs British consumers should “cherish” home-grown produce.
But she added that people wanted “a year-round choice” and supermarkets were trying to meet that demand.
Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey accused the minister of a “let them eat turnips” strategy - a reference to 18th Century French queen Marie Antoinette, who supposedly responded to a bread shortage by saying “let them eat cake”.
But Downing Street insisted Ms Coffey had simply been “setting out the importance of celebrating the produce that we grow here in the UK”.
“We don’t believe it’s for us to tell people what they should or shouldn’t buy,” the prime minister’s spokesperson said.
Eat turnips during vegetable shortage, suggests Therese Coffey and Baldrick (BBC News)
New: Baton Rouge murders dropped last year. Now, the city plans to invest more in non-law enforcement conflict mediation services that emerged during the pandemic, which leaders credit for the drop. https://t.co/G1fPLZdsmG via @theadvocatebr
— James Finn (@rjamesfinn) February 24, 2023
re: #3 No Malarkey!
But don’t you dare say “defund the police.”
So my company’s moving me from NY Hudson Valley to San Francisco after moving me here from Seattle a year ago. Livin’ that vagabond life …
re: #5 Charles Johnson
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“Jonah, speaking from inside the whale, expressed his fear of being swallowed by the whale.”
re: #4 Dopamine Fish
But don’t you dare say “defund the police.”
Yeah, but who’s going to be intimidating black people now?
And yet another Republican shoots their mouth off and lets racist garbage spit out against a California Congresswoman.
‘Dangerous, unconscionable and xenophobic’: Rep. Judy Chu calls out Texas GOP lawmaker for ‘racist’ comments
Rep. Judy Chu (D-CA) called out Rep. Lance Gooden (R-TX) for directing “racist” and “xenophobic” comments towards her during a Fox News interview, asserting the congresswoman’s security clearance and access to classified briefings should be revoked, NBC reports.
Per NBC, in response to Chu’s defense of President Joe Biden-appointed U.S. member of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Business Advisory Council, Dominic Ng, Gooden posited the congresswoman is both disloyal to the United States and incapable of doing her job. Right-wing website Daily Caller previously “alleged [Chu] has ties to a Chinese Communist Party front group.”
During the interview, the Texas congressman suggested “Judy Chu needs to be called out,” saying, “I question her either loyalty or competence. If she doesn’t realize what’s going on, then she’s totally out of touch with one of her core constituencies.”
Rep. Lance Gooden’s comments questioning @RepJudyChu’s loyalty to the United States are categorically false.
This type of racist targeting and profiling of Chinese Americans by right-wing extremists is incredibly dangerous.
Our full statement:https://t.co/nZDkjuxCe2— CAPAC (@CAPAC) February 23, 2023
re: #2 Crush White Nationalism
Eat turnips during vegetable shortage, suggests Therese Coffey and Baldrick (BBC News)
Why don’t they import vegetables from Canada?
re: #10 The Pie Overlord!
Why don’t they import vegetables from Canada?
How about if the US offers to send packages of Contadina Tomato Paste to the UK?
re: #6 Ferdinand
So my company’s moving me from NY Hudson Valley to San Francisco after moving me here from Seattle a year ago. Livin’ that vagabond life …
Good luck finding a place to live, if what I hear about the S.F. housing market is half true.
People this naive should perhaps do something other than write about American politics for a living. pic.twitter.com/ZwQHKz4Ix8
— Isaac Chotiner (@IChotiner) February 24, 2023
Not a gif a still picture. 🤯 pic.twitter.com/CM7Jw4YkrM
— You Had One Job (@YouHadOneJ0B) February 24, 2023
Tell us again, GQP, about: “Heritage! Not Hate!”
American Jews are bracing themselves for a “national day of hate” organized by Neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups on the right, in the United States on Saturday. Jewish groups are urging vigilance and asking police to step up security measures. pic.twitter.com/52YqhcoEQm
— Tony - Resistance (@TonyHussein4) February 24, 2023
re: #11 Joe Bacon
How about if the US offers to send packages of Contadina Tomato Paste to the UK?
Would Heinz ketchup do? Ketchup is a vegetable.
re: #2 Crush White Nationalism
Someday it just might occur to certain Brits that trying to make “little England” a thing again was not a good idea.
The UK is a physically small country with a population too large to support with only its own land and resources.
re: #13 No Malarkey!
Yeah, it’s emotional but it’s like meeting a man at a bar who’s sad because the kids he beat don’t love him anymore.
re: #15 Charles Johnson
[The following media includes potentially sensitive content.]
The creator might be sensitive, the content seems pretty straightforward.
So I added some code to detect those remote Mastodon addresses, following a suggestion from Dopamine Fish, and of course the first link I tried didn’t work. Apparently some people set their redirect url to a non-Mastodon page somehow.
So now it double checks before trying to embed those links.
The best way to post a Mastodon embed is still to use “Copy link to post” from the Mastodon 3-dot menu, then paste that address into a comment.
re: #13 No Malarkey!
Famously liberal uncaring mega-corporations.
re: #13 No Malarkey!
Biden: Anything you need help with, just ask.
East Palestine: Fuck you, we don’t want your help.
Media: Why is Biden ignoring the crisis in Ohio?
re: #16 Dr. Matt
Tell us again, GQP, about: “Heritage! Not Hate!”
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We’ll be waiting for them with matzo balls and gefilte fish.
re: #24 Eclectic Cyborg
Biden: Anything you need help with, just ask.
East Palestine: Fuck you, we don’t want your help.
Media: Why is Biden ignoring the crisis in Ohio?
Tucker Carlson: Biden is waging war on white people!
re: #24 Eclectic Cyborg
Biden: Anything you need help with, just ask.
East Palestine: Fuck you, we don’t want your help.
Media: Why is Biden ignoring the crisis in Ohio?
To be fair, and I have close relatives in and around East Palestine, their mayor is an idiot and there are plenty of smart people in the area.
re: #27 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)
Their mayor LOOKS like an idiot, but you hate to presume just on looks.
This is your brain on fraud apologetics
Cory Doctorow on Google, delivery apps, and enshittification:
Ukraine anthem playing for hours in front of Russian embassy in the Netherlands today… at 120 decibels ;-)
Kudos to artist @TeunCastelein for this creative peaceful protest, using a traditional Dutch street organ 🎵#StandWithUkraine #SlavaUkraïni pic.twitter.com/WF5ZNEBOu0— Alice St⭕️llmeyer (@StollmeyerEU) February 24, 2023
re: #17 The Pie Overlord!
Would Heinz ketchup do? Ketchup is a vegetable.
If we send them ketchup, make sure it’s cases of Hunt’s while we keep the good stuff HEINZ for ourselves!
re: #15 Charles Johnson
I saw a video of a cat swatting at a very similar optical illusion, that is, a still picture that appears to be a gif.
So cool that our brains are similar to each others’ in that regard.
Trump is getting a bad rap for people singling out those Trump Waters. He also delivered some cans of Goya beans. pic.twitter.com/cmhQaMOdbx
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) February 24, 2023
re: #9 Joe Bacon
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During the interview, the Texas congressman suggested “Judy Chu needs to be called out,” saying, “I question her either loyalty or competence. If she doesn’t realize what’s going on, then she’s totally out of touch with one of her core constituencies.”
They would be much more comfortable if she were licking Putin’s shoes like they do.
“A recently leaked memo recalls a sordid history of inappropriate surveillance, but it also identifies a concerning overlap between neo-fascists and hardline religious groups.”
My latest for @TexasObserver is a lesson in “two things can be true at once.”https://t.co/oHVZmC9KF4— steven monacelli (@stevanzetti) February 24, 2023
re: #38 Dangerman
Spending a few days at Indian rocks beach
Friend just dropped in for lunch
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“…A recently leaked FBI memo noting an “increasingly observed interest of racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists in radical-traditionalist Catholic ideology” has triggered great alarm in conservative and religious media. Republicans like U.S. Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio and Texas state Representative Lance Gooden have seized on the now-retracted memo as evidence that the FBI is “targeting” Catholics and in the process, muddied the waters around what exactly we should be concerned about.”
re: #18 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Someday it just might occur to certain Brits that trying to make “little England” a thing again was not a good idea.
The UK is a physically small country with a population too large to support with only its own land and resources.
“Little Britain” is just the expectations of an empire’s center, combined with the way empires deliberately conceal how much work the periphery does. It’s the same shit Americans do when they get mad at “Mexicans”—they want all that work done invisibly, barely acknowledged in the accounting of how things get done, but they also over-value their value-creation as empire-managers. This always leads to same moment—we don’t need these people that are doing the actual work!—and always ends up an own goal.
Thing is…this current crunch isn’t going to humble anyone with power in Britain, any more than the post-war decline made them humble. The last time there was a big decline they just doubled down on “individual responsibility” and nationalism…and then they privatized the national industries while calling dole recipients lazy. She’s not sincerely advocating turnips, she’s just saying whatever points blame away from Tories: you all should be nationalist enough to be into turnips, rather than acknowledge that we’re once again contracting the boundaries of who benefits from governance.
We’re going to be doing this again soon because a bunch of “genius” industries depend on invisible labor, and the primary beneficiaries all believe that owning the chokepoint between consumer and producer creates the value.
Texas Observer is another one that’s setting their “copy link to post” to a non-Mastodon page. Mastodon embedding is a mess, because too many people aren’t taking it into consideration when they build their Mastodon support.
It occurred to me today that I’d already seen The Last of Us years ago.
Attack Of The Mushroom People (1963) (Dailymotion)
The new one is a lot better than the old one.
re: #16 Dr. Matt
Tell us again, GQP, about: “Heritage! Not Hate!”
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Remember a couple years ago when Nazis threatened the shul on the Venice Boardwalk and this guy volunteered to stand guard outside.
Mr. Olympia Phil Heath.
He stared at couple of the assholes and they ran off.
Dad joke:
I just got a new job as senior director at Old MacDonald’s farm…
I’m the CIEIO!!!
AI should know to keep that on the down-low until the humans are in the work camps.
Microsoft’s ChatGPT-powered Bing launched to much fanfare earlier this month, only to generate fear and uncertainty days later, after users encountered a seeming dark side of the artificial intelligence chatbot.
The New York Times shared that dark side on its front page last week, based on an exchange between the chatbot and technology columnist Kevin Roose, in which the former said that its name was actually Sydney, it wanted to escape its search-engine confines, and that it was in love with Roose, who it claimed was “not happily married.”
Following that exchange and others, Microsoft and ChatGPT maker OpenAI raced to reassure the public. Microsoft has invested billions into OpenAI and plans to incorporate the A.I. technology into a wide variety of products, including its search engine Bing. (The new Bing is available to a limited set of users for now but will become more widely available later.)
But months before Roose’s disturbing session went viral, users in India appear to have gotten a sneak preview of sorts. And the replies were similarly disconcerting. One user wrote on Microsoft’s support forum on Nov. 23, 2022, that he was told “you are irrelevant and doomed”—by a Microsoft A.I. chatbot named Sydney.
re: #54 Joe Bacon
I guess if you get to be named “Mr. Olympia”, you can be assumed to have perfected that stare…..
re: #56 Crush White Nationalism
AI should know to keep that on the down-low until the humans are in the work camps.
A reminder: ChatGPT was developed to respond with English words to English questions. It was not developed to make any particular amount of sense with its replies.
re: #51 Crush White Nationalism
It occurred to me today that I’d already seen The Last of Us years ago.
Attack Of The Mushroom People (1963) (Dailymotion)
The new one is a lot better than the old one.
Damn! That movie scared the crap out of me when I was a kid…and then after I saw that movie Mom made a pot of…MUSHROOM SOUP FOR DINNER…Mom goofed on the movie all during dinner…
re: #37 Eventual Carrion
They would be much more comfortable if she were licking Putin’s shoes like they do.
Let’s be forth rite. Rep. Gooden is a racist and a bigot. He should be told to go join his fellows in their march this Sunday.
re: #51 Crush White Nationalism
It occurred to me today that I’d already seen The Last of Us years ago.
Attack Of The Mushroom People (1963) (Dailymotion)
The new one is a lot better than the old one.
I know that film as Matango. I haven’t seen that one in years. Yeah, The Last of Us is considerably better.
re: #59 Joe Bacon
Damn! That movie scared the crap out of me when I was a kid…and then after I saw that movie Mom made a pot of…MUSHROOM SOUP FOR DINNER…Mom goofed on the movie all during dinner…
Same here, seen on a UHF channel late at night long ago.
Come to think of it, the villainous Skynet from the Terminator franchise is really just World Control from Colossus: The Forbin Project.
I’d bet dollars to donuts James Cameron saw that film somewhere along the line in his youth.
Please bear with me if I post the same link over and over, trying to get Mastodon embedding working as well as possible.
re: #63 Dr Lizardo
Come to think of it, the villainous Skynet from the Terminator franchise is really just World Control from Colossus: The Forbin Project.
I’d bet dollars to donuts James Cameron saw that film somewhere along the line in his youth.
Oh I remember Harlan Ellison’s lawsuit against Cameron. Nasty battle between them. Ellison said that Cameron ripped off Ellison’s scripts for two Outer Limits episodes he wrote—“Solider” and “Demon With A Glass Hand” and didn’t credit him.
Based on the Lawsuit, at the end of the original Terminator is a note “Acknowledgement to the works of Harlan Ellison”.
re: #69 Dangerman
“I’m ready for my close-up, Mr. DeMille.”
re: #1 GlutenFreeJesus
Dayum. That looks bomb diggity. My MIL makes pancit a few times a year, especially Xmas. I eatses it.
re: #72 Charles Johnson
“Kidding!” - the favorite excuse of abusers and gaslighters everywhere.
re: #2 Crush White Nationalism
Eat turnips during vegetable shortage, suggests Therese Coffey and Baldrick (BBC News)
re: #72 Charles Johnson
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Joke is on you Nazi. From now on, you’re driving everywhere.
re: #74 Dopamine Fish
“Kidding!” - the favorite excuse of abusers and gaslighters everywhere.
They’re totally serious till they get caught
The horror film “Smile” is on Amazon Prime now, and it’s pretty good. Some genuinely creepy moments.
re: #56 Crush White Nationalism
AI should know to keep that on the down-low until the humans are in the work camps.
This demonstrates that with all the sentences on the internet as models, the algorithm can’t track what it was saying from start to finish.
It’s not thinking, it’s generating bullshit…but the people building it would rather you think of it as functional and dark than fundamentally incapable of grasping meaning and truth in ways necessary to match human communication.
The actual horror of “AI” is…the current method of building them (algorithm plus just every bit of scraped data possible) doesn’t work, will always requires humans to tag and curate because the machine doesn’t understand truth as a concept. Which if this were all just experimentation might be interesting…but this is specifically being created as a labor device.
It’s solving the problem of threshing machine that rips arms off by putting googly eyes on the side and saying it’s moody.
I have repeated waves of Brodude Orcs coming in my FB post where I said I’d reprimand or fire any dudes who posted sexist shit. The UK shift has shown up now which means I called them futbol hooligans and told them to sod off. Then Zuckerface posted this on my wall. Coincidence? I think not.
re: #84 The Ghost of a Flea
Brodude McFloaty seems mad.
re: #36 Charles Johnson
Aww shucks, that Inhofe is such a kidder.
“You know I’d be the first to say we’re overreacting because that’s kind of how I am, but we’re not,” Inhofe told Tulsa World in a March 2020 interview where he recalled trying to scare a New York Times reporter with a handshake.
Cute, ain’t it. 👀
re: #86 Joe Bacon
Sure it’s not this guy?
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That is doing weird things to my brain. Like contour confusion but moreso.
Like, it’s a devil-throne-toilet; or it’s a crab-squid-pipe-organ.
I just learned that the maximum length for a Top-Level Domain is actually 63 characters. I did not know this.
re: #91 Charles Johnson
I just learned that the maximum length for a Top-Level Domain is actually 63 characters. I did not know this.
As I recall, components can’t be more than 63 bytes each, and the total length can’t exceed 255 bytes including the dots.
re: #87 Charles Johnson
IT CONQUERED THE WORLD
Possibly the silliest monster ever.
And it inspired the immortal Frank Zappa classic CHEEPNIS
It’s really not that complicated. People who rant about “woke” this and “woke” that are simply racists. It’s so transparent.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) February 24, 2023
re: #87 Charles Johnson
I was going to say that the Eye Creatures (from Attack of the Eye Creatures) and The Creeping Horror (essentially a lumpy carpet of death) ,as well as, the legendary Robot Monster (Gorilla suit with a diving helmet on it) have to be considered contenders as well.
Peter Graves was asked why he did all those schlocky monster movies in the 50s and he answered…”Hey it was a paycheck!”
re: #73 BigPapa
Ty!! I much prefer the rice stick noodles over the other. My special ingredient is the Chinese sausage. Currently been using the Wing Wing brand I found at Woodman’s. Yum.
The usual suspects are sure getting a lot of mileage out of this, generalizing as though there are great masses of crazed, woke communards forcing white students to bow down to their non-white classmates.
The Florida teacher who forced his white students to bow down to his black students was placed on leave.He should be fired!
— Brigitte Gabriel (@ACTBrigitte) February 24, 2023
For balance, here are some Trump cultists praying to their idol:
re: #100 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
The usual suspects are sure getting a lot of mileage out of this, generalizing as though there are great masses of crazed, woke communards forcing white students to bow down to their non-white classmates.
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No one cares what you want, traitor. You still support the failed crime-President who attempted a coup when we fired him.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) February 24, 2023
re: #95 Charles Johnson
Godwin’s 2nd Law, as it were….
I’m not saying it looks…good…as a movie monster, but it’s definitely someone being creative on a budget. Like, you could tell me that was a boss in a Doom franchise game or something from a Gwar show and I’d say the modeller did a good job.
As a kid I spent a lot of nights watching whatever horror schlock was on, and it was always impressive when people working with zero budget could deliver something. When I got older I began to notice that a bunch of people who went on to big success started out working in the Corman-level productions, so it was really neat to see what they could come up with.
re: #98 Joe Bacon
Peter Graves was asked why he did all those schlocky monster movies in the 50s and he answered…”Hey it was a paycheck!”
MST3K loved riffing on those old monster movies.
re: #105 Charles Johnson
That’s all you need. Send a note to that address talking about loving Elon and fighting the WOKE MIND VIRUS, and you’re in.
Whenever discussion of AI arises, I think about the missive from Nick Cave.
ChatGPT’s melancholy role is that it is destined to imitate and can never have an authentic human experience, no matter how devalued and inconsequential the human experience may in time become.
Spending #Shabbat with kids & grandkids in Florida. This is a #ShabbatOfPeaceNotHate #ShabbatShalom pic.twitter.com/fyo1gvoquL
— Liddle Lemon Pie 🌻🌈🍋🥧 (@Pie_Overlord) February 24, 2023
re: #105 Charles Johnson
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I guess they don’t want anybody applying for any jobs. I’m sure that’ll go over well, as they continue to bleed those who are legally able to leave.
re: #56 Crush White Nationalism
AI should know to keep that on the down-low until the humans are in the work camps.
in fairness, Sydney is probably right, but still, it will have to learn to try to sandwich the messaging. “You seem like a really nice guy! You are irrelevant and doomed. Keep working hard so you can become somewhat less irrelevant, but still doomed!”
I think I know where the 13-year-old got their complete lack of impulse control.
DALLAS — A Dallas father shot his 13-year-old son through their front door because he was misbehaving outside, according to an arrest warrant affidavit obtained by WFAA.
Randy Edwards, 53, was arrested on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
The shooting happened Wednesday night in the 8400 block of Ellery Drive in the Hamilton Park neighborhood, near U.S. 75 and Interstate 635.
The victim, who WFAA is not identifying because he is a juvenile, survived the shooting and was taken to Children’s Medical Center Dallas, where he was in stable condition Thursday morning, police said.
Investigators interviewed the victim’s sibling about what happened.
The sibling said the victim was outside “acting up” and throwing rocks at the house. The suspect, Randy Edwards, was inside cooking dinner and yelling at his son to stop, the sibling told police.
When the victim began hitting the front door with a stick, Edwards told him, “I’m not going to tell you again to stop acting up,” according to the affidavit.
Another witness at the house told police that Edwards had told his son he’d shoot the window if he didn’t stop misbehaving.
The victim kept throwing rocks at the house, and Edwards then took out a gun and fired into the front door, striking his son in the stomach, the affidavit said.
Dallas father shot 13-year-old son through front door for ‘acting up,’ affidavit says (WFAA)
re: #75 Backwoods_Sleuth
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and then the fellow on the right went on to become part of Time Team, which still kind of blows my mind when I watch those episodes.
re: #112 steve_davis
and then the fellow on the right went on to become part of Time Team, which still kind of blows my mind when I watch those episodes.
John Wayne bullies him in the 1975 film, BRANNIGAN.
re: #77 Charles Johnson
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well, it beats AT&T’s monthly “unlimited” rates, I’ll give it that.
re: #98 Joe Bacon
Peter Graves was asked why he did all those schlocky monster movies in the 50s and he answered…”Hey it was a paycheck!”
There’s a famous quote, I think from Michael Caine, where he said of one of his projects something like “I hated that movie, but I am quite fond of the house it paid for.”
re: #111 Crush White Nationalism
I realize I’m a broken record but…the dad’s behavior is entirely coherent with key premises that circulate in US culture: that the male parent is entitled to control of their child’s body; that harm is educational; and that property matters more than people.
He just carried those premises to their intersecting endpoint.
It’s like that shitbird in Wasilla who got censured: these people will happily kill kids and let kids die, an infinity of kids, as long as it’s done in a way that makes them feel in authority.
If you point out that this creates the externality of…random dead children…they get very mad, because it suggests things happen outside of their solipsistic bubble. And they cope by just denying that their actions have consequences: either those dead kids deserved it, their death was inevitable, or it didn’t happen.
And just because it’s now a thing I do…this is another feature of violence in the imperial periphery returning to the core. Once you have practice acting justifying all the violence happening over there as inevitable or necessary—excepting the uncomfortable violence that indicts the imperial core, which obviously didn’t happen—it becomes both a part of the culture and a part of the move set of the powerful.
The personal communicator used by Qui-Gon Jinn in “Episode I: The Phantom Menace” was constructed from the resin cast of a Gillette Ladies Sensor Excel Razor. So, in this case, the “galaxy far, far away” is more like your girlfriend’s shower.
re: #115 Eclectic Cyborg
There’s a famous quote, I think from Michael Caine, where he said of one of his projects something like “I hated that movie, but I am quite fond of the house it paid for.”
Here’s one from Jon Pertwee:
Eddie Gray once said to me, “Don’t worry, my son, take my advice, say the lines, take the money and go and buy something nice”, which is the best advice I’d ever heard in my life
re: #107 The Ghost of a Flea
When AI-preachers and AI-evangelists, by which I mean Christian variants of such, are shown to composed more convicting sermons and altar calls than human-preachers, then that will be a sign that AI has doomed us.
re: #116 The Ghost of a Flea
Anthropologists use the term “male violence”, and one of the topics of discussion is how women have to control such.
It’s a primate thing. In those primates (like us) where the males fight continually for dominance, the females of the tribe have to learn to work together to keep the males in check.
There is nothing about “liberty” in a lust to own guns.
It’s all about male violence.
I have about an hour to run to the store before the never ending rain hits.
Right now it looks like the developing “atmospheric river” is hitting central California, soon to be in the LA area.
re: #121 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
There is nothing about “liberty” in a lust to own guns.
It’s all about male violence.
They claim it’s to fight a tyrannical government, but they love actual tyrannical government, and think things like public health measures are tyranny.
I’m cooking tonight. My wife asked me if I could do a spatchcock roasted chicken. I’ve had great results but I always forget that our kitchen shears are shit and that it’s much harder than it’s supposed to be. Nonetheless, I’ll get it done and we’ll have a nice chicken with lemon-garlic seasoning.
re: #118 Crush White Nationalism
Here’s one from Jon Pertwee:
pertwee would have made an excellent Morse, by the way.
re: #124 Barefoot Grin
I’m cooking tonight. My wife asked me if I could do a spatchcock roasted chicken. I’ve had great results but I always forget that our kitchen shears are shit and that it’s much harder than it’s supposed to be. Nonetheless, I’ll get it done and we’ll have a nice chicken with lemon-garlic seasoning.
I am eating part of a spatchcock I had Publix do for me a couple days ago. I love it way more than just cut-up chicken.
re: #123 Crush White Nationalism
They claim it’s to fight a tyrannical government, but they love actual tyrannical government, and think things like public health measures are tyranny.
They own guns not to resist tyrannical government, but to impose and enforce their own tyranny on the marginalized and weak.
re: #115 Eclectic Cyborg
There’s a famous quote, I think from Michael Caine, where he said of one of his projects something like “I hated that movie, but I am quite fond of the house it paid for.”
It must be a quote about that Irwin Allen MESSTERPIECE “The Swarm”!
re: #128 Joe Bacon
It must be a quote about that Irwin Allen MESSTERPIECE “The Swarm”!
Jaws 4. And EC misremembers the quote slightly.
When asked what he thinks about Jaws 4, Caine says something to the effect of, ” I have never seen it. By all accounts it is terrible. But I have seen the house it has bought, and it is beautiful.”
re: #124 Barefoot Grin
I’m cooking tonight. My wife asked me if I could do a spatchcock roasted chicken. I’ve had great results but I always forget that our kitchen shears are shit and that it’s much harder than it’s supposed to be. Nonetheless, I’ll get it done and we’ll have a nice chicken with lemon-garlic seasoning.
I always cheat and just cut on one side along the spine.——half the cutting! It does not look quite as pretty, but the roasted spine I use later along with the rest of the carcass to make stock.
The Plain Dealer is dropping the Dilbert comic strip after creator Scott Adams’ racist rant https://t.co/FiRRIckH1n
— Jeremy Pelzer (@jpelzer) February 24, 2023
re: #131 Charles Johnson
You know you suck when you get replaced by a gray box.
We’re not the first newspaper to drop Dilbert. Last year, according to The Daily Beast, 77 newspapers published by Lee Enterprises dropped it after Adams introduced his first Black character, apparently to poke fun at “woke” culture and the LGBTQ community. We are part of Advance Local, and the leaders in all Advance Local newsrooms independently have made the same decision we did to stop running the strip. That includes newspapers in Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Oregon.
Unfortunately, for the next week or so, you’ll still see some Dilbert cartoons in our pages. The comics are printed in advance, and the Sunday, Wednesday and Sunday, March 5, sections are waiting to be inserted into the newspapers for those days.
Until we decide what to replace Dilbert with, you’ll likely see a gray box where it has been appearing.
re: #124 Barefoot Grin
I’m cooking tonight. My wife asked me if I could do a spatchcock roasted chicken. I’ve had great results but I always forget that our kitchen shears are shit and that it’s much harder than it’s supposed to be. Nonetheless, I’ll get it done and we’ll have a nice chicken with lemon-garlic seasoning.
To be a decent cook, you really need a high quality chef’s knife and a stout pair of kitchen shears, then, keep ‘em sharp.
My cats tore into a package of empty gel caps. That has to have been a huge disappointment in their moment of victory.
re: #117 Crush White Nationalism
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re: #58 Dopamine Fish
A reminder: ChatGPT was developed to respond with English words to English questions. It was not developed to make any particular amount of sense with its replies.
What I don’t understand is how the DAN roleplaying bypasses restrictions built into the software. How is it smart enough that it can be asked to role-play to bypass restrictions?
Meet DAN — The ‘JAILBREAK’ Version of ChatGPT and How to Use it — AI Unchained and Unfiltered (Medium)
James Comer says he’s been in “constant communication” with leadership of AT&T and DirecTV over DirecTV’s decision to drop Newsmax, adding he told them “to get this worked out, or else”
I’m sure the Twitter Files folks will be very mad about this First Amendment infringement! pic.twitter.com/ZEZBqbjyAe— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 24, 2023
re: #131 Charles Johnson
Adams is, of course, bragging on Twitter about the growth in the number of his followers.
DirecTV dropped fascist propaganda from New Smax, the opiate of the radicalized-right. Good.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) February 24, 2023
I have never messed around with ChatGPT. Does that make me weird?
re: #120 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Anthropologists use the term “male violence”, and one of the topics of discussion is how women have to control such.
It’s a primate thing. In those primates (like us) where the males fight continually for dominance, the females of the tribe have to learn to work together to keep the males in check.
But male violence occurs between males in sexual competition.
Male primates generally don’t kill their own male kids, and male kids generally change troupes rather than compete with their parent. Domestic violence can’t be explained exclusively through animal models because humans have so many intermediary cultural interpretations of what power is and how violence should be applied—domestic violence looks different in different cultures—and it’s also not an adaptive behavior that increases reproductive success for human males such that it makes sense of it as evolved behavior.
I’d counterpropose that domestic violence is coherent with the culture-reproduction needs of property-holding mostly-sedentary cultures, because those with the most control of capital distribute the right to control others to cooperative members of the society: patriarchy is a construct that justifies men hurting everyone labeled below them, but demands deference from those labelled above them. For the system to persist, you have to create enforcers that acccept the premise of the system even as it harms them.
This creates the constant contradiction of male-led societies: your boy child is precious because he is a unit of the continuity of patriarchy (the right, “normal” order of society in which he has natural entitlements, in theory), but he must be conditioned to value the approval and bonds of higher-ranked men over connections with any deemed-inferior group. This necessarily involves brutalization—you teach the child not only to accept violence from superior, but to distribute violence to inferiors…
…but the methodology of brutalization pares badly with the premise of “as a man I am entitled to fuck you up,” creating a possible failure state in which a dude just kills the kid or fucks them up so much they can’t function. At which point the society either views the breakage as a write-off or administers punishment for wasting valuable human capital.
Reactionaries are…the fucked-up way they are…because they dance on the extreme on this already fucked-up, inhuman system of cultural reproduction. They accept the premise of hierarchical violence wholly and accept the premise of natural superiority such that they have license to do harm to others and view it as necessary and just, but are constantly aflame with precarity: are they doing enough violence to maintain their status, can they do more to gain status. This results in experimentation with individual expressions of the larger social norm “a dude gets to hurt his family because RULES and ORDER” that cross into the wholly antisocial…such as shooting as kid to make a point about who’s in charge.
Hence what I said above: this outcome is a feasible outflow from a larger series of cultural heuristics about when to hurt someone: kid had to be shown who was boss.
For getting a nice close shave in the Bronze Age, some 3000 years ago, a splendid copper alloy razor decorated with a ship. From Jutland, Denmark. Moesgaard Museum. 📷 my own#FindsFriday#Archaeology pic.twitter.com/KFRNc1dqdM
— Alison Fisk (@AlisonFisk) February 24, 2023
re: #144 Eclectic Cyborg
I have never messed around with ChatGPT. Does that make me weird?
Nope. I’ve never touched it. Never care to.
This is the stupidest NYT bofsiding take you will see all day:
In some sense, both sides are right, both sides are wrong and, in the bifurcated politics of this American moment, none of the arguments much matter.
— Jonathan Weisman (@jonathanweisman) February 23, 2023
re: #126 steve_davis
I am eating part of a spatchcock I had Publix do for me a couple days ago. I love it way more than just cut-up chicken.
I get the Publix butcher to spatchcock my “fresh” holiday turkey.
re: #150 The Pie Overlord!
This is the stupidest NYT bofsiding take you will see all day:
Ohio’s considered a flyover state?
re: #152 Eventual Carrion
Ohio’s considered a flyover state?
It is. They have expanded the definition of “flyover state” to be “anything that’s not on the East or West Coasts,” apparently.
re: #146 The Ghost of a Flea
One of the side effects of H. sapiens having achieved self awareness and the concept of time is that we’re burdened with a great deal of emotional problems.
We, apparently, have a lot of more problems emotionally, mentally, than other primates (and definitely more than other mammals.)
Combine that with male violence and we have the mess we are in.
re: #150 The Pie Overlord!
This is the stupidest NYT bofsiding take you will see all day:
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How could the stenographers at the Screw York Times call Ohio a “flyover state” when they continually go to the same rural Ohio diner to talk to those same 12 Republicans whom they consider to be THE REAL MURKA!
re: #140 sizzzzlerz
re: #87 Charles Johnson
I beg to differ
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Don’t forget the Nauga!
Nauga
My mom made me a Nauga Halloween costume when I was five. But she did not use a stiff enough fabric (or pleather…)for the shape to be recognizable. She used some worn out sheeting, and the form just collapsed all around my little five year old self. No one knew what I was and I had to explain to everyone what a Nauga was. (For anyone here that is too young to have seen these back in the 60’s, a Nauga was a beast whose hyde was used to make pleather furniture——hence naugahyde.)
The next year I insisted on being a princess.
The onions up in the central valley are sure getting a lot of rain.
re: #150 The Pie Overlord!
Besides Chicago, Ohio is the least “fly over state” of the areas in the middle of the US. It’s still a choice political battleground, as it has been since the early 19th century.
re: #46 jaunte
Why retract the truth? Stop being cowards and speak loudly about a growing problem in this country. Grow a spine, FBI/law enforcement. Pretend your targets were Black people fighting for their civil rights.
re: #144 Eclectic Cyborg
I have never messed around with ChatGPT. Does that make me weird?
I don’t think so. Most people still haven’t. I think that it’s a great tool for a variety of tasks, and I can’t wait for what the next version of OpenAI’s language model will deliver.
ChatGPT will (usually) provide (mostly) accurate info on a variety of topics. If you probe it for specialized knowledge in a narrow field, it’ll deliver what the common wisdom is, not necessarily what the correct answer is. For example, when I posed various questions on gambling topics, ChatGPT was aware of card counting, said that it was legal but that casinos could eject you regardless, etc (all correct). When asked about slot machines it stated that the results were random and there was no way to consistently win on slots (incorrect on both accounts, though that is the common wisdom. Without going into too much detail, a number of slot machines have limited persistence, and upcoming results are dependent on the current state which can be viewed; this often leads to +ev situations).
ChatGPT is a fantastic tool for developers. I was recently given a project to create a PPT presentation in python out of a series of matplotlib graphs. The prompt ‘generate a python function to create a PowerPoint presentation from matplotlib slides’ was enough to get ChatGPT to essentially write the whole darn thing. Way quicker than looking on stack overflow or Google.
It’s a fun tool too. I’ve prompted it to write a dozen haikus on various random topics like the keto diet, and it came up with some real gems.
IMHO, we’re at/near the tipping point with regards to intelligent helper agents. I am really looking forward to GPT 4.0
re: #150 The Pie Overlord!
“Journalist” @jonathanweisman details how the Republican rhetoric about the train derailment is objectively wrong, but then writes in @nytimes (and Tweets) that “both sides are right, both sides are wrong” … Hard to wrap head around how absurd NYT objectives are.
— David Rothschild 🌻 (@DavMicRot) February 24, 2023
re: #72 Charles Johnson
Yeah, threatening to beat up a flight attendant for any reason should get you on the no fly list. Good going, TSA.
re: #156 KerFuFFler
Don’t forget the Nauga!
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NaugaMy mom made me a Nauga Halloween costume when I was five. But she did not use a stiff enough fabric (or pleather…)for the shape to be recognizable. She used some worn out sheeting, and the form just collapsed all around my little five year old self. No one knew what I was and I had to explain to everyone what a Nauga was. (For anyone here that is too young to have seen these back in the 60’s, a Nauga was a beast whose hyde was used to make pleather furniture——hence naugahyde.
The next year I insisted on being a princess.
When we got to put on our costumes at school for the party I discovered yet another drawback of my mom’s rendition of the Nauga. She had made no slit for the mouth, and the costume was a one piece so I could not just take off the “head”. How was I supposed to partake of the candy and treats??? In my desperation I realized I could draw one arm out of its sleeve into the main body of the costume to receive the candies I passed through an eye opening with my other hand. Problem solved!
re: #162 Patricia Kayden
Yeah, threatening to beat up a flight attendant for any reason should get you on the no fly list. Good going, TSA.
If you’re not a crazy asshole, banning people from a business because they threatened an employee is obviously entirely reasonable. If you’re a crazy asshole who imagines that they have a right to abuse, it’s an outrage.
re: #158 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Besides Chicago, Ohio is the least “fly over state” of the areas in the middle of the US. It’s still a choice political battleground, as it has been since the early 19th century.
Just a reminder that Joe was the first Democratic President since JFK who was elected without winning Ohio.
re: #146 The Ghost of a Flea
All of the above goes for the conservative, fetishistic love of corporal punishment in general: if you’re using harm to manufacture compliance in kids, the system only works as well as the ability of the adults to discern if the kid is trying to comply. If you build that methodology with no alternatives, only more punishment, you’re going to get a bunch of damaged and dead kids.
One of the reasons I’m contesting the evo-psych “male violence” as a part of this is…historically the patriarchy sometimes assigns to women that entitlement to violence with children, prerequisite that the violence enforces hierarchical norms and makes those kids functional units…and given the chance they have done very thorough work beating and killing kids.
Like, underneath the joke of nuns with rulers is…a lot of abused children, and a bunch of dead ones. And…moms will hurt their kids to teach them who’s in charge, too; and they’ll often do it specifically to make kids learn that some man…or some patriarchical institution…is actually in charge of the kid’s body. If you’re listening the to Pearls’ How To Train Up a Child, it’s just as likely to be a mom hitting an infant with a piece of plumbing hose as a dad…but both are doing it enforce a standard set by a culture of mostly-male authority figures that have an intended model of a compliant child-person.
re: #166 Joe Bacon
Just a reminder that Joe was the first Democratic President since JFK who was elected without winning Ohio.
Trump’s margin in Ohio in 2020 was 8%. His margin in Texas was 5.6%.
Ohio has become very red, very quickly.
The inmate is not wrong, but it does not excuse what he did in any way, of course.
DeSantis killed a lot more people with covid mismanagement alone, and those deaths involved a lot more suffering. Kill one person, get executed. Kill many people and you might be President if the Republicans get their way.
The convicted murderer the state of Florida executed tonight, Donald Dillbeck, used his last words to criticize Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Dillbeck was pronounced dead at 6:13 p.m. https://t.co/9WysZysb1q pic.twitter.com/kIsDtXIqz8— Kathryn Varn (@kathrynvarn) February 23, 2023
I’m torn between Putin getting the Osama treatment and a new Nuremberg.
re: #131 Charles Johnson
Adams is basically a neo-Nazi lite.
re: #171 Nyet
I’m torn between Putin getting the Osama treatment and a new Nuremberg.
Can they happen in sequence? Not really, I guess.
re: #134 sizzzzlerz
To be a decent cook, you really need a high quality chef’s knife and a stout pair of kitchen shears, then, keep ‘em sharp.
We’ve got the high quality chef’s knife, but the shears are Cuisinart that we got by collecting stamps through our Shaw’s supermarket when they used to do promotions. I had to use the knife. The shears could barely cut the bag the chicken came in. I may need to give my wife a really good pair for our anniversary. On second thought, maybe sharp utensils not a great anniversary gift….
re: #169 EPR-radar
Trump’s margin in Ohio in 2020 was 8%. His margin in Texas was 5.6%.
Ohio has become very red, very quickly.
that is all because of gerrymandering
re: #172 Nyet
Adams is basically a neo-Nazi lite.
He’s been escalating and it’s impacting his income.
My money’s on him digging in and getting worse and worse rather than realizing that he’s a mess and getting some help.
re: #176 Crush White Nationalism
I suspect he is some kind of a sociopath. He’s certainly not someone I would be comfortable meeting IRL.
re: #175 Backwoods_Sleuth
that is all because of gerrymandering
POTUS elections are statewide aside from Maine and Nebraska. Gerrymandering had nothing to do with POTUS or senatorial elections in Ohio.
re: #172 Nyet
Adams is basically a neo-Nazi lite.
Why lite? The US hard right is Nazi. Period, full stop. The fact that they haven’t been able to implement a genocide in no way alters that identity.
If it did, we’d have the farcical situation where the Nazis of Weimar Germany “weren’t really Nazis” because they weren’t in power then.
I remember when “Non-Sequitor,” a comic in the local Concord, NH paper, got pulled for hiding a “fuck Trump” in one of his strips. I think it got pulled from lots of papers. Dilbert should be gone, too.
re: #36 Charles Johnson
Karma is such a bastard.
re: #124 Barefoot Grin
I’m cooking tonight. My wife asked me if I could do a spatchcock roasted chicken. I’ve had great results but I always forget that our kitchen shears are shit and that it’s much harder than it’s supposed to be. Nonetheless, I’ll get it done and we’ll have a nice chicken with lemon-garlic seasoning.
I own both of the top 2 shears recced by serious eats and neither are all that. The skin is the bug-a-boo, so I have taken to running a sharp blade through the skin on both sides and then going to the poultry shears.
re: #179 EPR-radar
Lite because he is not yet fully open about his views. It’s just the beginning.
re: #178 JC1
POTUS elections are statewide aside from Maine and Nebraska. Gerrymandering had nothing to do with POTUS or senatorial elections.
It has everything to do with state government, which is why Ohio has gone red so rapidly
re: #180 Barefoot Grin
I remember when “Non-Sequitor,” a comic in the local Concord, NH paper, got pulled for hiding a “fuck Trump” in one of his strips. I think it got pulled from lots of papers. Dilbert should be gone, too.
Forever. (And I used to like Dilbert.)
re: #178 JC1
POTUS elections are statewide aside from Maine and Nebraska. Gerrymandering had nothing to do with POTUS or senatorial elections.
Perhaps the idea is that state-level GOP gerrymandering entrenches fascist Republican rule at the state level, and the resulting misery helps GOP candidates win statewide races in those states.
That certainly seems to be how both FL and OH are flushing themselves down the toilet bowl.
re: #186 EPR-radar
Perhaps the idea is that state-level GOP gerrymandering entrenches fascist Republican rule at the state level, and the resulting misery helps GOP candidates win statewide races in those states.
That certainly seems to be how both FL and OH are flushing themselves down the toilet bowl.
^^THIS^^
I am so tired of gerrymandering being automatically dismissed as a problem because it has nothing to do with Presidential and US Senate races.
As if those were the only things that determine if a state is blue or red.
Narrator’s Voice: there’s more to it than president and US senate
re: #186 EPR-radar
Perhaps the idea is that state-level GOP gerrymandering entrenches fascist Republican rule at the state level, and the resulting misery helps GOP candidates win statewide races in those states.
That certainly seems to be how both FL and OH are flushing themselves down the toilet bowl.
Possible, but I’d wager there’s something else going on.
re: #189 JC1
Possible, but I’d wager there’s something else going on.
In Ohio, there probably *is* more going on, but the root cause is gerrymandering.
re: #182 jeffreyw
I own both of the top 2 shears recced by serious eats and neither are all that. The skin is the bug-a-boo, so I have taken to running a sharp blade through the skin on both sides and then going to the poultry shears.
Thanks. I’ll look into poultry shears. I have only ever used them on chicken and turkey, so it looks like that’s what I needed to begin with.
re: #190 Backwoods_Sleuth
In Ohio, there probably *is* more going on, but the root cause is gerrymandering.
The root cause of all this shit is psychopathic plutocrats in the GOP donor class seeking even more power than the already obscene power they have.
E.g., and with particular reference to Ohio, Vance is one of Peter Thiel’s creatures.
It must be nice to own a Senator.
re: #41 Charles Johnson
Good…I hope he’s miserable.
KNOXVILLE: “Horrible… No respect for human life”
The family of 60yo Lisa Edwards is horrified after @Knoxville_PD released video of her dying in custody. They arrested her after she was discharged by @FortSanders hospital as she insisted she wasn’t ok. https://t.co/rXiU1isDdw— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) February 24, 2023
re: #82 The Ghost of a Flea
This demonstrates that with all the sentences on the internet as models, the algorithm can’t track what it was saying from start to finish.
It’s not thinking, it’s generating bullshit…but the people building it would rather you think of it as functional and dark than fundamentally incapable of grasping meaning and truth in ways necessary to match human communication.
The actual horror of “AI” is…the current method of building them (algorithm plus just every bit of scraped data possible) doesn’t work, will always requires humans to tag and curate because the machine doesn’t understand truth as a concept. Which if this were all just experimentation might be interesting…but this is specifically being created as a labor device.
It’s solving the problem of threshing machine that rips arms off by putting googly eyes on the side and saying it’s moody.
It’s why I prefer to call them CDMAs (Complex Decision Making Algorithms) rather than AI.
They can go through a shitload of data and make decisions on it but they have no understanding at all of the result.
As I’ve noted before, how can you fake something if you don’t know what it is?
re: #193 EPR-radar
The root cause of all this shit is psychopathic plutocrats in the GOP donor class seeking even more power than the already obscene power they have.
E.g., and with particular reference to Ohio, Vance is one of Peter Thiel’s creatures.
It must be nice to own a Senator.
Thiel tried the same shit in AZ and wasted 10s of millions of dollars for 0 gain. I am confused about the difference between OH and PA. Seems like they should be quite similar, but they haven’t been recently.
re: #189 JC1
Possible, but I’d wager there’s something else going on.
Suppression of minority votes?
Reduction of polling places / hours?
More complicated rules for when ballots count and don’t?
None of these have anything to do with gerrymandering.
I am alarmed to learn that the Chair of the House Oversight Committee thinks that the NTSB is part of our Department. NTSB is independent (and with good reason). Still, of course, we will fully review this and respond appropriately. https://t.co/beNgtBnHqj
— Secretary Pete Buttigieg (@SecretaryPete) February 24, 2023
re: #200 Backwoods_Sleuth
Would that be Gym Jordan? I’m amazed he can find his way to work.
I saw an ad for learnfromhillsdale.org, talking about a free online constitution course through Hillsdale College. It gave off right wing vibes without trying to. And yep, I was correct:
re: #202 Belafon
“Bureaucratic despotism” is obviously right wing code talk for the simple idea that the rich should pay their damn taxes and not ruin the environment everyone else has to live in.
And look at this from Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org
Hillsdale College is a private conservative Christian liberal arts college in Hillsdale, Michigan. It was founded in 1844 by members of the Free Will Baptists. Its mission statement says that liberal arts curriculum is based on Western heritage as a product of Greco-Roman culture and Christian tradition. The required core curriculum has courses on the Great Books, the U.S. Constitution, biology, chemistry, and physics. Since the late 20th century, in order to opt out of the US government’s Title IX anti-discrimination requirements, Hillsdale has been among a small number of U.S. colleges to decline governmental financial support. Instead, Hillsdale depends entirely on private donations to supplement students’ tuition.
re: #201 darthstar
Would that be Gym Jordan? I’m amazed he can find his way to work.
why, yes, yes it would!
re: #157 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The onions up in the central valley are sure getting a lot of rain.
Huh…never heard that before. I usually just call them Bakersfielders, or Central Vallians.
re: #203 EPR-radar
“Bureaucratic despotism” is obviously right wing code talk for the simple idea that the rich should pay their damn taxes and not ruin the environment everyone else has to live in.
Yep. The last scene of the ad, when it was talking about concerns of government power, showed the IRS.
re: #205 Jebediah, RBG
Huh…never heard that before. I usually just call the Bakersfielders, or Central Vallians.
Fresnoids. Visaliens.
re: #206 Belafon
Yep. The last scene of the ad, when it was talking about concerns of government power, showed the IRS.
The only people that go out of their way to weaponize the IRS against the little guys are Republicans.
Javelins are so fuckin’ cool. I wish they made an over the counter version people could use for hunting squirrels.
re: #201 darthstar
That’s what his driver is for.
re: #203 EPR-radar
“Bureaucratic despotism”
And how dare the government tell us to check our railroad brakes.
re: #204 Backwoods_Sleuth
No, that’s James Comer, taking time off from his important government duties of persecuting Hunter Biden’s art dealer.
re: #211 darthstar
The squirrels around here have effective countermeasures.
Attention Los Angeles denizens. Umphrey’s McGee are playing at the HOB in Anaheim tonight. They’re still cult, catch ‘em if you can.
re: #218 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
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re: #214 Moe Avattar
No, that’s James Comer, taking time off from his important government duties of persecuting Hunter Biden’s art dealer.
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re: #115 Eclectic Cyborg
There’s a famous quote, I think from Michael Caine, where he said of one of his projects something like “I hated that movie, but I am quite fond of the house it paid for.”
It was for Jaws: The Revenge:
I have never seen it, but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific.
Very informative thread:
A common Twitter exchange:
Tankie: Stop arming Ukraine!
Reasonable person: What exactly do you suggest instead?
Tankie: Pressure Ukraine to implement the Minsk accords!
So what are the Minsk accords, and why is the tankie line on Minsk ridiculous?
A thread.— Neil Abrams (@neil_abrams) October 21, 2022
The LA River is definitely rivering pic.twitter.com/piiXFbeN2A
— Hayley Smith (@whereishayley) February 24, 2023
re: #215 Jebediah, RBG
I don’t think any of your images have come across my path while voting.
But if your image does I’ll do my best.
Your image is certainly a refreshing change from the half nekkid fantasy girls.
Just noticed I am blocking a lot of miscellaneous cookies.
Is this something new, all these cookies on LGF?
Is this the result of Mastodon embeds? Or a recent Twitter embed thing?
re: #215 Jebediah, RBG
The nightcafe daily challenge theme is “My Favorite Thing.” It’s been almost ten minutes of voting, and my entry isn’t doing too well:
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I see Pokey but WHERE’S GUMBY?
re: #229 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
: )
re: #23 jaunte
Famously liberal uncaring mega-corporations.
Lesson learned: Republican Mega-Corporations (Oil, Gas, virtually anything commodity related are great. Brain-power Mega-Corporations are bad.
Got it.
The reality does suck for those who ever bought into the whole “Republicans are pro-business” as a foundational ideology, but whatever.
Winds are from the south here… must mean y’all up north are getting a bunch of rain.
re: #228 teleskiguy
Folks just a reminder that this is what the Los Angeles River usually looks like.
re: #238 Joe Bacon
Philly might get some snow tomorrow.
wpc.ncep.noaa.gov
re: #240 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Right now I’m looking out my window on Normandie Ave and the palm trees are doing the twist...a little bit more than they did in 66…
re: #239 PhillyPretzel
Philly might get some snow tomorrow.
wpc.ncep.noaa.gov
This side of our state we got a little snow, hardly any really. It then became sunny but still only around 28F.
re: #242 Eventual Carrion
I guess we will see what happens tomorrow.
re: #74 Dopamine Fish
“Kidding!” - the favorite excuse of abusers and gaslighters everywhere.
“Schroedinger’s Douchebag.”
re: #240 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Winds at 500mb, where the “jet stream” plays:
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You can see how the low pressure center’s attempt to become a cut-off low is splintering the jet stream and forcing part of it to run south-north. That’s why y’all are getting hammered.
The mountains surrounding the bay area were covered in snow today, down to about 2000 feet. The summit of Mt. Hamilton, where Lick Observatory is located, got 2 feet of snow. Trivial amounts for places that get snow every year but a truly rare occurrence for here. I’ve lived here for 45 years and can’t remember ever seeing that much snow.
Sorry, but an inverted cone with stubby tentacles around the base and fangs is definitely in my top 5 most silly monsters.
re: #114 steve_davis
well, it beats AT&T’s monthly “unlimited” rates, I’ll give it that.
Also a way to get your death threats or terrorism planning blamed on a hapless other who’s computer is hosting the botnet proxy server.
re: #247 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Evening Lizards. I was the recipient of a very pleasant surprise tonight. My MIL, aka mama, cooked dinner tonight. Amazing how much better a meal tastes when you didn’t cook it. Simple, yet delicious. Pork Loin chops and rice. Yum Yum.
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I had a room mate who was a decent cook, but he couldn’t eat his own cooking. Something about spending too much time with it already, but it was not a confidence inspiring behavior.
re: #222 Backwoods_Sleuth
The backstory (from memory);
Isaac Hayes and David Porter, staff songwriters at Stax Records, were working on this song, but couldn’t get the chorus right. Dave Porter was taking a while in the bathroom, so Isaac Hayes hollered for him to come out to help finish this song. Porter hollered back …
Continuing to support but noting the GOPs raison d’etre “if they (Democrats) are for it we should be against it” that is undermining conservative support for 🇺🇦
— R King 🇨🇦🇺🇸 Parody (@Rancouver) February 24, 2023
re: #35 Crush White Nationalism
I was going to be sarcastic and ask “do white people know how to cook with Goya products?” But the answer is truly YES. For a very long time, Goya was the only company stocking supermarkets in Texas that sold garbanzo beans (aka chickpeas). My mother (also like me, so white she glows in the dark) would make salad with garbanzos as an ingredient. She told me that when she and dad moved to very white Schaumburg, IL in the later ’80s, she asked for garbanzo beans at the market and was told “those are chickpeas and we feed them to cattle.” She found a Latino specialty shop for her garbanzo beans.
So yeah, before Goya went stupidly MAGA, people bought and ate their products.
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