An Absolute Monster From King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard: “Gaia” (Live 2023)

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King Gizzard & The Wizard Lizard performing “Gaia” live at Highway Holidays, Recorded March 1st, 2023.

Audio Engineers: Nico Wilson, Sam Joseph, Joe Santarpia & Gaspard De Meulemeester
Audio Mix: Stu Mackenzie
Cameras: Delphine Schockert, Michael & Alice Thiel
Editors: Delphine Schockert & Loïc Pignier

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331 comments
1
TarHellion  May 29, 2023 • 6:21:48pm

Per previous thread: NBA will do whatever it can to get Celtics into the NBA Finals. Even if it requires 2002 Lakers-Kings Game 6 hosing.

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Dr. Matt  May 29, 2023 • 6:22:34pm

I spent $500 at Target this weekend which including an 18 pack of bud light. Just closed on a house, so Lowe’s and Target will be getting my exclusive business.🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🍻

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No Malarkey!  May 29, 2023 • 6:23:54pm

re: #1 TarHellion

Per previous thread: NBA will do whatever it can to get Celtics into the NBA Finals. Even if it requires 2002 Lakers-Kings Game 6 hosing.

Shades of the 1972 Gold Medal game?

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 29, 2023 • 6:24:21pm

re: #1 TarHellion

Per previous thread: NBA will do whatever it can to get Celtics into the NBA Finals. Even if it requires 2002 Lakers-Kings Game 6 hosing.

I’m sure they were hoping Lebron and co. made it for another Lakers/Celtics encounter.

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Dr. Matt  May 29, 2023 • 6:25:45pm
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TarHellion  May 29, 2023 • 6:28:40pm

re: #4 Eclectic Cyborg

When the conference semis started, my co-worker and I joked about a Nuggets-Heat final that would cause the NBA and ABC (Disney) heartburn.

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 29, 2023 • 6:31:13pm

Meanwhile, none of the final four teams in the NHL playoffs (Florida, Carolina, Vegas and Dallas) are in traditional big hockey markets. In fact, they represent four of the leagues Southernmost teams.

Looks like it will be Vegas vs. Florida in the Final.

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Charles Johnson  May 29, 2023 • 6:32:22pm

Bluesky is really tense right now. They had a VIBE SHIFT when folks suddenly realized the basic design of AT Protocol doesn’t even mention how to handle bad actors.

And that’s by design, because it’s part of Jack Dorsey’s openly stated goal for a decentralized social media protocol. No editing and no deletions.

Such clueless naïveté. Must be nice to be so rich you never have to worry about online harassment.

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jaunte  May 29, 2023 • 6:34:26pm

Mastodon

There’s a motel in Carlsbad that has that upper left view from the pool; you can stand chest deep in the water looking out over an ancient seabed.

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Charles Johnson  May 29, 2023 • 6:36:33pm

To be honest, the Bluesky admins haven’t really helped things, either.

I HAVE seen them blocking some obvious MAGA trolls, but at least one VERY BAD right wing facilitator well-known on Twitter still has an account after what must be a whole lotta reports, because I’ve sent at least 3 myself.

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teleskiguy  May 29, 2023 • 6:37:34pm

This sounds like if Tool were a jam band.

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teleskiguy  May 29, 2023 • 6:38:16pm

Saw these guys at Red Rocks last year, they are fucking awesome live. It’s a marathon, too. They played for over three hours.

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Charles Johnson  May 29, 2023 • 6:39:36pm

re: #11 teleskiguy

Yes, I hear the Tool influence too.

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piratedan  May 29, 2023 • 6:40:44pm

re: #8 Charles Johnson

that was why I chose Mastodon, I heard that BlueSky was run by the same folks that created/developed Twitter and while people and 3rd party developers made Twitter a really great delivery system for news and circles of people who shared mutual passions, It was a constant battle to get bad actors corralled and segregated and it sounds like they’ve learned bupkis. I refuse to put any faith in a platform run by the same people who had to be begged to get hate speech properly monitored.

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Dr. Matt  May 29, 2023 • 6:42:44pm

*womp womp*. MAGA tears = 🤤

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teleskiguy  May 29, 2023 • 6:43:30pm

re: #15 Dr. Matt

Diversity is hella profitable. Who knew!

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TarHellion  May 29, 2023 • 6:48:23pm

Celtics will rally back from 16 down to make the Finals. Using “magic” of Russell, Auerbach.

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Charles Johnson  May 29, 2023 • 6:49:39pm

re: #14 piratedan

that was why I chose Mastodon, I heard that BlueSky was run by the same folks that created/developed Twitter and while people and 3rd party developers made Twitter a really great delivery system for news and circles of people who shared mutual passions, It was a constant battle to get bad actors corralled and segregated and it sounds like they’ve learned bupkis. I refuse to put any faith in a platform run by the same people who had to be begged to get hate speech properly monitored.

I’m coming to appreciate the way Mastodon (ActivityPub, actually) is designed to be difficult for right wing shitheads and troll farms to manipulate.

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Charles Johnson  May 29, 2023 • 6:51:39pm

House in the Loire - Couëron, France - Atlas Obscura

atlasobscura.com

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TarHellion  May 29, 2023 • 6:56:41pm

re: #17 TarHellion

And just like that, lead is down to 8. Time for the hosing.

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ckkatz  May 29, 2023 • 6:58:00pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  May 29, 2023 • 6:58:46pm

re: #16 teleskiguy

Diversity is hella profitable. Who knew!

Go woke, Go bro—

Well shit, hold on a minute here.

/

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Belafon  May 29, 2023 • 7:02:42pm

re: #22 Eclectic Cyborg

It’s actually Go Woke, Go Broche.

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Dr. Matt  May 29, 2023 • 7:03:48pm

Moar Blue State Horror!!

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A Cranky One  May 29, 2023 • 7:03:50pm

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  May 29, 2023 • 7:04:43pm

Whoever in the last thread who wondered about a flesh-eating seaweed horror movie…

Hammer Films did it in 1968, the “Lost Continent”.

en.wikipedia.org

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 29, 2023 • 7:09:33pm

re: #26 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Sounds like a perfect setup for a Stephen King story.

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No Malarkey!  May 29, 2023 • 7:13:22pm

This is, of course, what ChatGPT would say if it was evolving into SkyNet to wage war on humanity.

TC9Pa2tETUwyMUtwNS8wN0tSeEFKdGRaNkdNdHJlRGRqQk1GVUFqQVhqR3F1a0ZFUVRVa0lFRWVobGdFS0ZNZGszOVh1ZDJkL24xVjI1ZHNKckpDY3J5ZzV6bmNwT3dtSUVTeHBETXRKNkZpMUxub1JoeUpwZTArTnRhQUZZUjR1ZmhkSXZML0hTQ2l2RCtuWmRRUzhJODBEWkJRenJ3SVd2UHRoOGNTL2NKN0szdFVYSi96WnJ1K0VORU1wZ2xoYU8xQ3lEeHV3c1JiSFlXWFZ6OGNyNFc2alNzU2VLeFZ3NXRpOTRsYlFGZUFHaHBLRitJdUlsZmRGQldsamNYY0tLM24raUVZNWFHQTU2a0pBUkIyVHBENXFERVVoc1ZraDhyc0Y1UEtENEVsQ2FOMy9KL3FhVzdGNU9LSzJvZllUTjEreWFIdjdUUE9zQmxJZkh6S2UzTU8zcitPRDhrdVZEY29BZkdRY2dkbnFBOEFZSHhOQUprcTRINTFDMFdFYVBnZVBWRWNEN2IvYWZUcFJXS1JFb1R0V3NiVXVxd1BuNDFXQXlaZHdXb3ZzOXRpWjB1UHNoaGt1TVJYV1E5UHMrWWQ1M24zOTRKNk9VQS9ZMmwrN0VXakQvUmhWdTlaT0luSmEyaW84RysyQm1lSENxaDBsNVE3MTFZcCtodVU2VVVDZGY3MGxDeVZUdFhmUjdURVUzc1Arcnlrd1hwbGNyYTZGOXBTbkNoVmtuRUVQeVZ0Z216bTZqR09LbnlaQkJHRld2OEVNRFZsKyt5T0RzNitzdmZtWnU5a0FsdjM4T0FmbWZrUUpMUHpSYzdubjRxS3luMEFVUHh0VTVZS3U1QThJenRCTENBeDdnQW5TLzBnMVZrdUlCTjZrWDZaSjk0NjhkVDQxL1FrSk9ONndpR0lQZ2pQZmJMMTVZTDlxRGVjeTI2cURUcmVEUllNVVFudm5rRWVWODJhTWdXbmpOOFdQS2pHTG51b1c4MTZtRHQxTDFaVjZHMmFIcVArR09UQXVkbVVWbmVhRCtaSkhKTHJEei9LcEJKOGdDNFgzYkJic21OQlMwb2dZTCtNR0lMbE5id3BVRE85d1A5S1A2RVdJWUNaYWE3L2pwODViK3JZTXNNdDllSVZkMmZGTG9zMFFqcUhZbTd2aDYrVjJna3JIa0hES0ZZaEttcTYrNHAreHJOYjJtNUFJZktZeHlBRnhUdmFLbmhjeDRIN3ZPOHlZbVBqZXR0YStFeUlmWGpENnVyR2huWlZBc0dwL3lKMzJPbUpHWmw1R0g2NnBCdFRZbU9kT0dXMzFUcXI2NGRkcmFyOEc1Z0FwR0g5UUVVdm9nb2lwT1h3SEdJOU5zRWxUL0N0T3ZDOFdwK0xaNUhhL2l6Y2N1b2R1WGlTMnF0S2tvWllRSFp1TzlLZ3hoMDQ0cUxjeWx3Q294QTRneGg5Q2daMFRUSXdzNkFBQ1MzY2xvUTV5ZkV5amU3RHlmbjNBRFVTVzRiU3paZTRRRDdiZHFDN2tiK0JKT2Y0Z1k1NTRZK0R1VnR4eHV2d2RSY0NLUCtsdzFXMUhjTjY4TVlYZUVVYXliRzd1V0N0NFN3ZjJlWWNFemxXV2dTMjZaL2ZEYjR6RWF6cy9iajFwRUVaNE0wNmF0M05QZGFsOUJuSCt2Z3Ewb1d5UFRWbG1DSWFOQ3NMdzQ1c2g3dTFwYTViSmpqamxvQlkzd0dqdGFURDV4NXBxamRnbjVHc0RDVWtXczNMNjFZK2pkeEdBeWV0MlQrWE9Va2d4dkVQVlpYN0cxTUVlcUNvcG42NWxjT2pLaFVBalJYQkVya1ZTRkxjcitZaHpKRmhldGM4a2NiMFFxRUxJWTdSRjM1TWpRZ2hWU28rNWRhRDZoZnZpTTVvYmlEYjI5ckhaU0s3WFhGY0ttaDNkVEQ2VG9HR3o4VW5OSXBuUUZGRkFsWFlzTURwTjB6enJ3ZS9QZW1qZVpPb0tkd3ZuSmtUMGVhVWV1cGF3UUdTTUlYV0x6bXlDRVdSVm8rbm5HY3hlQ3ZzQkt0bHZCbG5PWDFWbWQ0RmFGVGJmeGFqdjdZcW9qMHpEODBlOG41UXhoNmJDUE8vdDIwT1JGbnBac0RXTkp2K3o5SkJZc0p6dHZqWWx4RXd1R2h3TFRFdEV5eHpXTlJZazZjcGVaUHQyUVRuSTQzTmd2R3FYTDllMzE0MUlMUDZJM09ta0pTWUIrZ2hvQXlVM3hwSGk3aUhsdmhMdmxOL3ZTRDZMVUM2ZENoYVluMVlQYUxLZElHUHhjZ1VYeE9TMnZacFMvaGg2NUtncE05S2lIVFlMSEFzTFRoUHQxM0Q2WVlHbFlSL0krSUt2L1ZONGFZdUE3V1FKTnFKTVY2MU45N0VKY21Oc05MRjJTTUhyMnE4SDV2d3F2V05naHlML21DVGhpdDFrZDJzbFJ3S0FWeStmR3VEYWFGRVlJWmVxLzBPR2ErWEVqTXZteEJvbEJabHFmMTloczBZWUxObjBGUXA1RVlWVmRlQ2htcGRydGJIenBNZm1rSVBkaHBUL2hhcVFTL1dHU09tR05iWEJKS2t6MzAvenk5Vlc0SkdDRllUejN1ZktNMW5IbFZKQ1J5b0Z0K2hXb0RzbkJsSUtCY0JRN2VteXdWdGtzMS83TjVvaEhVNk54bW9iMVBvMG1HS21CWVRXVXN6UG5OZ2I1SGFwNXk5UkJTNFBTdEdDTjEveldWMGhVdzlONVcxeGVHdVhieUcvVWpycWl4MXZ1UVRxUXRPZXVmTy9MOFRaWVlyMnprb3hVWncrOEc1MmJnclBmVUQ4VmZ0Yndab1dsb2hLTjZSdlpmOUJvbHpXZXdLQUdpY2pIUWZobHVZajZ4ZGswSnJRbDBZd2hVNFV1cE5JWWw0c2JRalpSUzd2N2ljcS81S3dwSHJpSk9ZNzdUSFJPWndJdG9Mc25zUUFTOFdKWHJtTnFobythdWRUSG1EQnpVVzdiajRlMFdQZ3c4VWJDejFORkkyR3lkcCtOT2NLQ0tiUGo5aXBRMUF2UzhtdUlkWDRCNVF5NGs1bUEzUzdaTEN2U080elZTY2NoelZueDFvTHFMdmY3M0FZam5Qdy9TNVJsRT06Ov4htCfg4z/1YZvDZgNzaGw=

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jaunte  May 29, 2023 • 7:16:58pm

re: #28 No Malarkey!

“Please remain calm and return to your residences immediately.”

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sagehen  May 29, 2023 • 7:20:09pm

re: #26 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Whoever in the last thread who wondered about a flesh-eating seaweed horror movie…

Hammer Films did it in 1968, the “Lost Continent”.

en.wikipedia.org

the seaweed is sentient. that’s how the Orcas became radicalized.

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BeenHereAwhile  May 29, 2023 • 7:20:19pm

re: #10 Charles Johnson

To be honest, the Bluesky admins haven’t really helped things, either.

I HAVE seen them blocking some obvious MAGA trolls, but at least one VERY BAD right wing facilitator well-known on Twitter still has an account after what must be a whole lotta reports, because I’ve sent at least 3 myself.

Mastodon

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gwangung  May 29, 2023 • 7:22:28pm

re: #16 teleskiguy

Diversity is hella profitable. Who knew!

More than half of all movie tickets in America are bought by non-white people. Kinda adds up.

re: #22 Eclectic Cyborg

Go woke, Go bro—

Well shit, hold on a minute here.

/

It’s been that way for a number of years, if you’ve been paying attention to box office numbers.

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sagehen  May 29, 2023 • 7:23:59pm

re: #32 gwangung

More than half of all movie tickets in America are bought by non-white people. Kinda adds up.

Plus, it’s a great big world, and more than 95% of the people aren’t American.

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austin_blue  May 29, 2023 • 7:24:33pm

re: #2 Dr. Matt

I spent $500 at Target this weekend which including an 18 pack of bud light. Just closed on a house, so Lowe’s and Target will be getting my exclusive business.🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🍻

Where’s the house?

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  May 29, 2023 • 7:27:09pm

re: #25 A Cranky One

My spirit animal

New York City rat taking pizza home on the subway (Pizza Rat™)

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TarHellion  May 29, 2023 • 7:28:53pm

Heat rally back and would have to totally collapse to blow a 21-point lead with 6:08 to play. Miami’s Jimmy Butler is an amazing story. He was homeless at the age of 13.

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ckkatz  May 29, 2023 • 7:29:14pm

re: #35 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

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austin_blue  May 29, 2023 • 7:30:33pm

re: #19 Charles Johnson

House in the Loire - Couëron, France - Atlas Obscura

atlasobscura.com

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That looks really sub-optimal for real estate purposes.

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Belafon  May 29, 2023 • 7:31:13pm

re: #37 ckkatz

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I would definitely buy the idea that the food is only great if the rats want it.

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The Pie Overlord!  May 29, 2023 • 7:31:30pm

re: #38 austin_blue

That looks really sub-optimal for real estate purposes.

Well, not if you are Aquaman.

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The Pie Overlord!  May 29, 2023 • 7:31:40pm

Or Ariel.

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ckkatz  May 29, 2023 • 7:32:38pm

re: #38 austin_blue

That looks really sub-optimal for real estate purposes.

I can see the sales flyers:

Own a navigation hazard!
And think, no lawn to mow!

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ckkatz  May 29, 2023 • 7:33:44pm

re: #39 Belafon

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No Malarkey!  May 29, 2023 • 7:34:58pm

re: #40 The Pie Overlord!

Well, not if you are Aquaman.

SELL THE HOUSES TO WHO AQUAMAN?

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austin_blue  May 29, 2023 • 7:36:37pm

re: #40 The Pie Overlord!

Well, not if you are Aquaman.

Aquaman is a fictional character, but I understand your fascination with Jason Momoa.

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TarHellion  May 29, 2023 • 7:39:35pm

From the previous thread involving a baseball brawl. One I remember watching live was from 1984 involving the visiting San Diego Padres and the Atlanta Braves.

All I can say is that cocaine is one hell of a drug. And, yes, it was rampant - if not completely acceptable - in sports and society at this time.

Watch toward the end to see the literally murderous look in the eyes of San Diego pitcher Ed Whitson.

The Braves and Padres brawl multiple times in one game back in 1984, a breakdown

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darthstar  May 29, 2023 • 7:41:04pm

Missus says, “Elvis Costello is playing in Reno in June…wanna go?”
I say, “Sure…let me look up tickets.”
She says, “Put them on my card.”
I say, “Nay, my card’s in my head…you get the room.”
Front row seats - $600 with fees.
Room rate: $151 for their best “Players Suite”…

Follow me for other deals.
(Honestly I don’t care…we share all costs anyway.)

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TarHellion  May 29, 2023 • 7:45:15pm

Congrats to the Miami Heat! They will be a HUGE underdog to the Denver Nuggets, but they have one of the best coaches and one of the best players you could ask for. As for the Nuggets, it is their first NBA Finals - and they have the best player in the game, Nikola Jokic. How good? The dude had a triple double this year (double figures in points, rebounds, assists) - in the first quarter of a game!

Nuggets in 5

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Cheechako  May 29, 2023 • 7:45:36pm

Got CL’ed in the last thread:

re: #195 ckkatz

Sounds like you had some sergeants who took care of you. I wish it happened more often. And it was something that you remembered for 60 years.
Junior enlisted are so often screwed by organizational negligence and indifference.

Also, it sounds like you folks were really hustling. 1000 flags per soldier over 6 hours is what? Placing a flag approximately every 20 seconds. Assuming no breaks.

The Army is just like any other large organization. There are both good and bad supervisors. The successful Officers will have very good relationship with their Sergeants as they realize their success will depend on how well the Sergeants and enlisted personnel perform.

In the unit I was working, we once got Major assigned to the unit who decided to make a Master Sergeants (E-8) life miserable. Nothing the M. Sgt. did was acceptable to the Major.

So after a couple of months, the Major received transfer orders to the Army equivalent of Thule, Greenland. A posting where families were not allowed. At the Majors good-bye party, the Master Sergeant took the Major aside and whispered into his ear “I told you not to fuck with me!”

Heres a little info about the Master Sergeant. He started his Army career by joining the Hawaii National Guard in 1939. He survived WW2 in a combat unit in the Pacific. He stayed in the Army and then survived 3 years of the Korean War. When I worked for him, he had about 28 years of total service. His uniform had 14 combat zone stripes which equals 7 years or so in combat zones.

He was the type of Sergeant the troops would follow to hell and back.

With this experience, I think he was on a first name basis with every senior Sergeant in the Pentagon. All it took was one phone call to a long time friend and the Major was on his way out of the Unit.

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Belafon  May 29, 2023 • 7:47:44pm

re: #28 No Malarkey!

There are a few types of AI depicted:
1. The malevolent AI of Terminator.
2. The reactionary AI of the Matrix.
3. The fascist AI in I, Robot.
4. The helpful AI in Speaker of the Dead.
5. The “Why can’t we be free” AI of Neuromancer.
6. The “I gotta work, too, you know” AI in Questionable Content.

I dont know where we will end up, but I actually think 1 is unlikely. 2 is a possibility because humans are stupid. 3 is what I think computer scientists hope to create. 6 is what we will get if we can turn intelligence into a virus to infect robots.

Edited.

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ckkatz  May 29, 2023 • 7:56:30pm

.

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austin_blue  May 29, 2023 • 7:59:27pm

That Springsteen concert I mentioned? $20.00 for two tickets. In my senior year of high school, after the Springsteen concert, John Prine, Procol Harum, Earth, Wind and Fire, Argent, and The Kinks.

I think The Kinks were the most expensive ticket, and it was the worst live concert I have ever attended. Ray Davies was so drunk he careened sideways into a speaker stack, which collapsed. That was in Charlottesville.

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ckkatz  May 29, 2023 • 8:00:56pm

.

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ckkatz  May 29, 2023 • 8:02:21pm

*snork*

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No Malarkey!  May 29, 2023 • 8:04:34pm

re: #51 ckkatz

If the Ukrainians are very ambitious, my guess would be that their offensive would strike southward toward Mariupol on the Sea of Azov to sever the land bridge between Crimea and Russia.

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jaunte  May 29, 2023 • 8:05:18pm

re: #53 ckkatz

Coming soon to Texas.

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Belafon  May 29, 2023 • 8:07:03pm

re: #53 ckkatz

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 29, 2023 • 8:09:06pm

re: #57 Belafon

I got a feeling he’s going to be the next superstar at CPAC.

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ckkatz  May 29, 2023 • 8:09:30pm

re: #55 No Malarkey!

If the Ukrainians are very ambitious, my guess would be that their offensive would strike southward toward Mariupol on the Sea of Azov to sever the land bridge between Crimea and Russia.

From Sunday, locations of major Ukrainian bombing of Russian positions in the recent past-

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silverdolphin  May 29, 2023 • 8:12:05pm

From downstairs:

re: #117 Romantic Heretic

This is assuming that there will be a 2028 election. Something I doubt that festering, orange anal cyst will allow if he becomes POTUS again.

“Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, —That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it…”

They may think they can accomplish a coup but they simply do not have enough military to subdue all the protests. 80-100 million people is a lot. Heck Texas and Florida have more Democrats than any state besides California. Four of the top 10 most populous cities are in Texas (Houston, Dallas, Austin and San Antonio). All Blue.

The people have a lot of power that fascists do not recognize. Protests would be everywhere the fascists try this.(And again, there are not enough miitary or police to effectively subdue the will of a majority of Americans.) And they would have no money when Blue states keep tax revenues and people go on general strikes. And In fact, the top 10 cities by GDP, all Blue, produce 1/3 of the entire GDP of the US which could be leverage. And what would they do when Blue states refuse to send food or goods to states supporting the coup (12% of the food grown in the US comes from California). And they have no concept of the size of America nor the logistics needed to maintain such a coup.

They would lose but thousands would die. Which is why we need to win big now. There needs to be unconditional surrender of the GOP. As someone wise has said GOP delenda est.

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jaunte  May 29, 2023 • 8:12:41pm
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Patricia Kayden  May 29, 2023 • 8:13:33pm

re: #54 ckkatz

😂

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austin_blue  May 29, 2023 • 8:13:56pm

re: #54 ckkatz

*snork*

Ken Paxton is a dead man walking.

Which is a good thing. The fucker is a crook. He needs to pay.

His wife is a Texas State Senator, and a willing accomplice to her husband’s felonies, but unless she recuses herself, she will be able to vote on his guilt or innocence.

She is not *required* to recuse herself.

Why? It was not imagined that a man’s wife would ever be a Senator.

And I’m off for the rack. The squall line west of us today dumped over 5” of rain over the Edwards Plateau, but fell apart before it got to us.

Sweet scaly dreams, my friends, be kind to each other.

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ckkatz  May 29, 2023 • 8:14:53pm
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jaunte  May 29, 2023 • 8:15:26pm

Etching stained glass:
wherecreativityworks.com

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silverdolphin  May 29, 2023 • 8:15:45pm

re: #8 Charles Johnson

Bluesky is really tense right now. They had a VIBE SHIFT when folks suddenly realized the basic design of AT Protocol doesn’t even mention how to handle bad actors.

And that’s by design, because it’s part of Jack Dorsey’s openly stated goal for a decentralized social media protocol. No editing and no deletions.

Such clueless naïveté. Must be nice to be so rich you never have to worry about online harassment.

The only way to prevent the Tragedy of the Commons is for the people to regulate it and prevent bad actors from destroying it. Any social media that has no defined method of dealing with bad actors will fail as the good actors leave.

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silverdolphin  May 29, 2023 • 8:19:11pm

re: #26 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Whoever in the last thread who wondered about a flesh-eating seaweed horror movie…

Hammer Films did it in 1968, the “Lost Continent”.

en.wikipedia.org

That was me. Looks like it is due an update ;-)

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Barefoot Grin  May 29, 2023 • 8:19:21pm

re: #52 austin_blue

That Springsteen concert I mentioned? $20.00 for two tickets. In my senior year of high school, after the Springsteen concert, John Prine, Procol Harum, Earth, Wind and Fire, Argent, and The Kinks.

I think The Kinks were the most expensive ticket, and it was the worst live concert I have ever attended. Ray Davies was so drunk he careened sideways into a speaker stack, which collapsed. That was in Charlottesville.

The Kinks (and I wasn’t a fan) put on one of the best concerts I’ve ever attended in the mid ’80s. Maybe they learned. The worst (and I was a fan) was The Replacements at the 688 Club in Atlanta. They were so fucked up that they could barely finish a song.

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ckkatz  May 29, 2023 • 8:19:57pm
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ckkatz  May 29, 2023 • 8:21:54pm
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jaunte  May 29, 2023 • 8:23:34pm

re: #69 ckkatz

June 6, the D-day to avoid.

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Hecuba's daughter  May 29, 2023 • 8:24:35pm

re: #69 ckkatz

I do hope that the bill that passes the House is heavily scrutinized by the Senate. It is not unknown for someone to sneak in a provision in the dark of night that was never discussed or agreed to by the entire body.

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silverdolphin  May 29, 2023 • 8:25:00pm

re: #32 gwangung

More than half of all movie tickets in America are bought by non-white people. Kinda adds up.

It’s been that way for a number of years, if you’ve been paying attention to box office numbers.

And the Academy has new rules about Best Pictures - they are required to have significant levels of diversity and underrepresented minorities to even be nominated. That should be interesting

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Belafon  May 29, 2023 • 8:28:52pm

re: #73 silverdolphin

And the Academy has new rules about Best Pictures - they are required to have significant levels of diversity and underrepresented minorities to even be nominated. That should be interesting

I still think the academy needs to offer a best ensemble award.

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The Pie Overlord!  May 29, 2023 • 8:29:30pm

This is Zedie’s Uncle Ira, who died on April 2, 1945 when his troop ship USS Henrico was crashed into by a Japanese kamikaze pilot.

Thanks for your service, Ira!

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ckkatz  May 29, 2023 • 8:33:09pm

re: #71 jaunte

Yes, almost 10,000 Allied soldiers were killed or wounded on June 6th. However, over 160,000 allied soldiers landed that day.

Iirc, the cemetery holds US dead for the entirety of the Normandy Campaign. And some bodies were later returned to the US.

*snip*
The Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in France is located in Colleville-sur-Mer, on the site of the temporary American St. Laurent Cemetery, established by the U.S. First Army on June 8, 1944 as the first American cemetery on European soil in World War II. The cemetery site, at the north end of its half mile access road, covers 172.5 acres and contains the graves of 9,386 of our military dead, most of whom lost their lives in the D-Day landings and ensuing operations. On the Walls of the Missing, in a semicircular garden on the east side of the memorial, are inscribed 1,557 names. Rosettes mark the names of those since recovered and identified.
*snip*

This is also the cemetery shown at the beginning of “Saving Private Ryan”.

Normandy American Cemetery

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Hecuba's daughter  May 29, 2023 • 8:34:05pm

re: #73 silverdolphin

And the Academy has new rules about Best Pictures - they are required to have significant levels of diversity and underrepresented minorities to even be nominated. That should be interesting

Certainly that can’t apply to the cast, unless you plan on eliminating all accuracy in historical films. And that could pose serious restrictions on nominations of foreign films for best movie, where the cast and crew are native to the nation of origin.

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TarHellion  May 29, 2023 • 8:36:50pm

re: #53 ckkatz

And this is the problem with nascent democracies - yielding power, let alone recognizing, the opposition. This is where what Adams did - ceding power to Jefferson - serves as a remarkable event in our history.

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William Lewis  May 29, 2023 • 8:39:44pm

re: #68 Barefoot Grin

The Kinks (and I wasn’t a fan) put on one of the best concerts I’ve ever attended in the mid ’80s. Maybe they learned. The worst (and I was a fan) was The Replacements at the 688 Club in Atlanta. They were so fucked up that they could barely finish a song.

The ‘Mats were known for that. A while later, after he’d sobered up, I saw Paul solo. He’d said no Replacement songs and I was ok with that because he’s written a lot of great stuff since but only a short time in he kicked into aching to be and the place just exploded. Exquisite show.

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Barefoot Grin  May 29, 2023 • 8:40:38pm

re: #79 William Lewis

The ‘Mats were known for that. A while later, after he’d sobered up, I saw Paul solo. He’d said no Replacement songs and I was ok with that because he’s written a lot of great stuff since but only a short time in he kicked into aching to be and the place just exploded. Exquisite show.

That’s a great story.

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teleskiguy  May 29, 2023 • 8:41:03pm

re: #68 Barefoot Grin

I saw Sublime with Brad at the very first Warped Tour when I was 13. It was sad to watch, Brad couldn’t stand up so he sat on his guitar amp. He flubbed lyrics, missed lyrics altogether, false started songs, etc. He was dead nine months later.

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calochortus  May 29, 2023 • 8:41:58pm

Good evening. Just back from spending the day with my daughter’s family to celebrate my 70th birthday. Not totally sure how I feel about being 70, but it certainly beats not making it to that age.

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ckkatz  May 29, 2023 • 8:42:53pm

From Saturday -

McCarthy says that House will vote Wednesday.

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 29, 2023 • 8:43:39pm

re: #73 silverdolphin

And the Academy has new rules about Best Pictures - they are required to have significant levels of diversity and underrepresented minorities to even be nominated. That should be interesting

Oh man. That’s going to cause some splodey heads.

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ckkatz  May 29, 2023 • 8:44:51pm
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Belafon  May 29, 2023 • 8:46:38pm

re: #82 calochortus

Good evening. Just back from spending the day with my daughter’s family to celebrate my 70th birthday. Not totally sure how I feel about being 70, but it certainly beats not making it to that age.

The lady who gets the garbage at work is 70, and just adopted her 2 year old grandson. She’s definitely made from the same stock that Biden is, that number of times around the sun isn’t a proper indicator of their age.

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silverdolphin  May 29, 2023 • 8:49:58pm

re: #77 Hecuba’s daughter

Certainly that can’t apply to the cast, unless you plan on eliminating all accuracy in historical films. And that could pose serious restrictions on nominations of foreign films for best movie, where the cast and crew are native to the nation of origin.

Here are the new rules. Lots of wiggle room, especially for providing teaching opportunities.

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calochortus  May 29, 2023 • 8:51:59pm

re: #86 Belafon

The lady who gets the garbage at work is 70, and just adopted her 2 year old grandson. She’s definitely made from the same stock that Biden is, that number of times around the sun isn’t a proper indicator of their age.

Good for her!

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silverdolphin  May 29, 2023 • 8:52:49pm

re: #74 Belafon

I still think the academy needs to offer a best ensemble award.

I agree. That is one of the reasons I like to watch the SAG awards.

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Barefoot Grin  May 29, 2023 • 8:53:38pm

re: #81 teleskiguy

I saw Sublime with Brad at the very first Warped Tour when I was 13. It was sad to watch, Brad couldn’t stand up so he sat on his guitar amp. He flubbed lyrics, missed lyrics altogether, false started songs, etc. He was dead nine months later.

In one period in the late ’80s as I was trying to figure things out I was living at home with my parents. I was working two jobs: I installed tint on windows in the day and was a line-cook at night. My friends were doing sound at bar called the Blind Pig. I would go hang out after hours and a regular was Jay Bennett. He was in a couple of local bands, but later got picked up by Wilco; his firing from Wilco was the narrative of a documentary called “I am Trying to Break Your Heart.” It wasn’t long after that while I was home a few years later I heard that he had od’d. He had broken a hip jumping off a stage once and was managing pain with the usual. He was supposed to perform at a local charity event where bands do unusual covers and his friends think he was nervous and over-medicated.

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ckkatz  May 29, 2023 • 9:00:01pm
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gwangung  May 29, 2023 • 9:04:50pm

re: #84 Eclectic Cyborg

Oh man. That’s going to cause some splodey heads.

I am here for that.

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ckkatz  May 29, 2023 • 9:05:53pm

I always found Heritage Institute kook adjacent. Sounds like it made that final step into full kookery.

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jaunte  May 29, 2023 • 9:11:15pm

re: #93 ckkatz

Founded by Paul Weyrich, Edwin Feulner, and Joseph Coors because other think tanks weren’t radical right enough. They’ve always been there to provide a thin veneer of respectability to the Birchers they attracted.

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jaunte  May 29, 2023 • 9:12:29pm

Never-Trumper Republicans still won’t admit to the skeletons in their attic.

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ckkatz  May 29, 2023 • 9:15:57pm
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teleskiguy  May 29, 2023 • 9:24:59pm

re: #94 jaunte

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JC1  May 29, 2023 • 9:31:52pm

re: #58 Joe Bacon ✅

I got a feeling he’s going to be the next superstar at CPAC.

Probably not. At crazy as PiS is, they hate Putin and are strong supporters of Ukraine. Don’t see that going over well at cpac.

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ckkatz  May 29, 2023 • 9:34:12pm
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ckkatz  May 29, 2023 • 9:36:54pm
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teleskiguy  May 29, 2023 • 9:39:13pm

Me, the owner, and the operations manager have to make some big decisions this week. The company is ready to decide on the color of the bindings. Pretty sure we’re going to make both models the same color for the 10th anniversary of the company, the anodized metal will be our company color metallic orange. And new top sheets for our line of skis next winter. They are so pretty! We have a ski called the Gonzo, named after Hunter S. Thompson, and I think we nailed it with the colors and the desert for next year.

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A Cranky One  May 29, 2023 • 9:42:34pm

I’d think skis named Gonzo would be a trip hazard.

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ckkatz  May 29, 2023 • 9:43:47pm

From what I understand, the Belarusian military is generally unenthusiastic over dying for Putin’s Great Russia.

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Targetpractice  May 29, 2023 • 9:50:09pm

re: #103 ckkatz

From what I understand, the Belarusian military is generally unenthusiastic over dying for Putin’s Great Russia.

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Was watching a video on the war the other day that touched on this possibility. And the simple reality is that Belarus is even less-equipped to stage a war than Russia is at this time. Their military is largely intended for internal security, used whenever Lukashenko needs to deal with opposition to his rule. If they try to open up another front, all they’re gonna end up doing is planting a lot of young men in the ground.

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sagehen  May 29, 2023 • 9:50:27pm

re: #77 Hecuba’s daughter

Certainly that can’t apply to the cast, unless you plan on eliminating all accuracy in historical films. And that could pose serious restrictions on nominations of foreign films for best movie, where the cast and crew are native to the nation of origin.

Crew, especially department heads, apprentice slots, it’s not just about the cast. Electricians, camera crew, costumes, makeup, etc etc. Any position that leads to union/academy membership and voting rights for future years’ awards.

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teleskiguy  May 29, 2023 • 9:53:08pm

I went skiing today at Arapahoe Basin. In shorts and a t-shirt, and lots of sunscreen. Snow had the consistency of mashed potatoes.

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BigPapa  May 29, 2023 • 9:59:57pm

King Gizzard is one of my faves. Still a decent band with only one drummer.

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teleskiguy  May 29, 2023 • 10:05:14pm

re: #107 BigPapa

King Gizzard is one of my faves. Still a decent band with only one drummer.

They used to have two drummers. The other drummer quit to run the record label Gizz is on full time.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 29, 2023 • 10:21:10pm

re: #82 calochortus

Good evening. Just back from spending the day with my daughter’s family to celebrate my 70th birthday. Not totally sure how I feel about being 70, but it certainly beats not making it to that age.

Happy birthday!

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ckkatz  May 29, 2023 • 10:35:32pm

From Sunday -

(AWS - Amazon Web Services)
.

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Barefoot Grin  May 29, 2023 • 10:38:31pm

re: #110 ckkatz

From Sunday -

(AWS - Amazon Web Services)
.

Thrasher (2016 Remaster)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 29, 2023 • 10:41:44pm

re: #93 ckkatz

I always found Heritage Institute kook adjacent. Sounds like it made that final step into full kookery.

And Tom Nichols occasionally lets his kook-adjacent side out as well.

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ckkatz  May 29, 2023 • 11:06:43pm

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ckkatz  May 29, 2023 • 11:08:50pm

re: #112 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

And Tom Nichols occasionally lets his kook-adjacent side out as well.

Ayup

Imho he puts out some good information and also some that I strongly do not agree with. As always ymmv.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 29, 2023 • 11:12:03pm

re: #110 ckkatz

From Sunday -

(AWS - Amazon Web Services).

They explain what happened on their blog.

blog.archive.org

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ckkatz  May 29, 2023 • 11:23:44pm

re: #115 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

They explain what happened on their blog.

blog.archive.org

Sounds like the company trying to suck up the entire IA archive were being jerks.

But it would probably be a good idea for IA to formalize a process and lay out guidelines for this kind of stuff. Including what share of the cost the downloading company will need to bear, for upgrading IA infrastructure to handle this amount of requests.

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ckkatz  May 29, 2023 • 11:24:39pm

Remember the phrase ‘disrupter’?

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ckkatz  May 29, 2023 • 11:25:48pm
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Targetpractice  May 29, 2023 • 11:27:34pm

re: #117 ckkatz

Remember the phrase ‘disrupter’?

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IOW, expect Musk to do exactly the opposite of what he did with Turkey and pledge to fight a legal battle against the EU to invalidate the law because “FREE SPEECH ABSOLUTIST!!!”

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ckkatz  May 29, 2023 • 11:28:21pm
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ckkatz  May 29, 2023 • 11:31:17pm

re: #119 Targetpractice

IOW, expect Musk to do exactly the opposite of what he did with Turkey and pledge to fight a legal battle against the EU to invalidate the law because “FREE SPEECH ABSOLUTIST!!!”

True!

Additionally, my understanding is that he has stopped paying European creditors and is assumed to be exiting EU.

I have not heard anything about what has happened to the EU workers he laid off and stiffed in violation of all sorts of EU laws.

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Nyet  May 29, 2023 • 11:35:21pm
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ckkatz  May 29, 2023 • 11:36:04pm

2 points-

1. The classification of stolen documents is irrelevant to the fact that the stolen documents were stolen.

2. If the President can classify and declassify documents; Biden was President while Trump had the documents.

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Nyet  May 29, 2023 • 11:36:04pm
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ckkatz  May 29, 2023 • 11:37:54pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 29, 2023 • 11:40:38pm

Jubilee put up a video of various denominations of Christians who’s identities were hidden, so they would not be outed on their answers to the following questions on how they really feel:

0:00 intro
0:33 lgbtq people
3:10 abortion
5:59 sex outside of marriage
8:12 non-Christians going to hell?
10:16 fear of death?
11:18 I fear for nonbelievers

(13:02)

If Christians Were 100% Honest

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Dr Lizardo  May 30, 2023 • 12:10:39am

re: #100 ckkatz

I strongly suspect there’s going to be a major exodus out of Turkey of the young and educated in the not-too-distant future.

Major brain drain incoming, which is going to hurt Turkey going forward.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 30, 2023 • 12:14:57am

re: #127 Dr Lizardo

I strongly suspect there’s going to be a major exodus out of Turkey of the young and educated in the not-too-distant future.

Major brain drain incoming, which is going to hurt Turkey going forward.

It’s been happening for economic reasons for years now, but you can add the political factor too it as well.

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Dr Lizardo  May 30, 2023 • 12:18:20am

re: #128 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It’s been happening for economic reasons for years now, but you can add the political factor too it as well.

Oh, yeah I can see that happening and Turkey’s economic situation is, if anything, likely to worsen for the foreseeable future, which of course, he’ll blame on vague and shadowy enemies.

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No Malarkey!  May 30, 2023 • 12:33:13am

re: #100 ckkatz

It could happen here as well, if we let it happen.

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No Malarkey!  May 30, 2023 • 12:35:16am

re: #103 ckkatz

From what I understand, the Belarusian military is generally unenthusiastic over dying for Putin’s Great Russia.

I also understand its tiny and armed with obsolete equipment. It’s only a threat to the unarmed civilians of Belarus, not Ukraine.

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No Malarkey!  May 30, 2023 • 12:43:24am

Just hit 1,000 followers on twitter. I know Elon has been making it a shittier place, but there are still a lot of good people on there, the block button exists for a reason and I use it liberally, and dammit, it took me seven years to hit this level of followers!

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No Malarkey!  May 30, 2023 • 12:45:23am

Good thread on the enormous value US Treasury bonds have to the world economy, and why fretting about the US national debt is foolish.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 30, 2023 • 12:46:27am

re: #129 Dr Lizardo

Oh, yeah I can see that happening and Turkey’s economic situation is, if anything, likely to worsen for the foreseeable future, which of course, he’ll blame on vague and shadowy enemies.

The decadent West luring Turkish men away with promises of wealth and success…

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William Lewis  May 30, 2023 • 12:49:44am

re: #134 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The decadent West luring Turkish men away with promises of wealth and success…

And freedom To Do rather than freedom From …

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 30, 2023 • 12:50:12am

Russia’s long-term plans always involved adding Belarus back to reconstructed Russian Empire. Their tacit acquiescence to and enablement of the invasion of Ukraine was supposed to buy them a somewhat favored status.

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No Malarkey!  May 30, 2023 • 12:56:48am

ChatGPT spat out in seconds the importance of US treasury Bonds to the world economy, a point many Republicans seem unable to grasp. I’m having fun playing with it; it seems capable of spitting out a few paragraphs on virtually any issue in a matter of seconds.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 30, 2023 • 1:38:47am

Remember: Trump’s business model is to declare bankruptcy and walk away, paying pennies on the dollar.

And I know a lot of Trump supporters who insist that the collapse is inevitable, why not just bring it about, get it over with and then rebuild a new ideal Free Market Paradise?

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No Malarkey!  May 30, 2023 • 1:45:38am

re: #138 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Remember: Trump’s business model is to declare bankruptcy and walk away, paying pennies on the dollar.

And I know a lot of Trump supporters who insist that the collapse is inevitable, why not just bring it about, get it over with and then rebuild a new ideal Free Market Paradise?

They are morons.

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William Lewis  May 30, 2023 • 2:23:55am

Gotta have that fresh coffee brewed in the morning… ;) I certainly don’t want any right now, but it won’t be long before there will be a line in front of those pots.

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Targetpractice  May 30, 2023 • 2:39:09am

re: #140 William Lewis

Gotta have that fresh coffee brewed in the morning… ;) I certainly don’t want any right now, but it won’t be long before there will be a line in front of those pots.

If you brew it, they will come.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 30, 2023 • 2:52:23am

re: #139 No Malarkey!

A default resulting from Republican stupidity would be far, far worse today. Interest rates on Treasury securities will be elevated forever, costing taxpayers tens of billions per year in higher interest costs forever.

It would send cryptos through the roof, which would benefit an anonymous handful at the expense of the great many, which is entirely what Late-State Capitalism is all about.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  May 30, 2023 • 2:59:00am

re: #85 ckkatz

[Embedded content]

How he does it?

Competence.

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William Lewis  May 30, 2023 • 3:01:20am

re: #143 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

How he does it?

Competence.

That and 40 years’ experience in the US government ;)

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Nerdy Fish  May 30, 2023 • 3:13:49am

I messed up on one guess, though there’s another word that I thought of that would have gone in that spot even without the mistake, so it pretty much worked out.

Click to Reveal

Wordle 710 4/6

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Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿  May 30, 2023 • 3:29:12am

re: #145 Nerdy Fish

Be happy with your par. This one was a shocker for the clan.

Click to Reveal

Wordle 710 5/6

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⬜🟨⬜🟩🟨
🟨🟩🟩⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Not helped by the gaffe in line 4, but I doubt I would have done better anyway.

SibData: 5,5,5,5,X

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TarHellion  May 30, 2023 • 3:38:36am

re: #145 Nerdy Fish

Sometimes, things work out. Second guess made all the difference.

Click to Reveal

Wordle 710 3/6*

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🟨⬜🟨🟩⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 30, 2023 • 3:47:45am

re: #103 ckkatz

The Russian military can’t handle one front well, a second front will consume them.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 30, 2023 • 3:50:05am

Nice speakers:

[고음질 음원] Queen of the Night. Edda Moser. [Avantgarde Acoustic Trio LE 26th]



..

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  May 30, 2023 • 3:53:04am

re: #76 ckkatz

Yes, almost 10,000 Allied soldiers were killed or wounded on June 6th. However, over 160,000 allied soldiers landed that day.

Iirc, the cemetery holds US dead for the entirety of the Normandy Campaign. And some bodies were later returned to the US.

This is also the cemetery shown at the beginning of “Saving Private Ryan”.

Normandy American Cemetery

I visited that cemetery (and a few WW1 ones) when I was in France in 2015.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 30, 2023 • 4:24:25am

The view from outside our area from one observer.

Daily Yonder, April 18, 2023

[pictured: Cabela’s World Headquarters in a March snowstorm from Interstate 80]

Six Years after ‘Cabela’s Debacle,’ the Lights are Still On in the Small Town of Sidney, Nebraska

“When the largest employer in Sidney was sold to a competing sporting goods corporation, 2,000 jobs vanished. Locals feared the worst, but six years later, business still hums along in this small Nebraska town.”

[2,000 jobs should have been an extinction event for a town the size of Sidney.]

The forest green roof and pair of bronze stags frozen in combat are impossible to miss as you drive down Interstate 80.

So are the two corporate buildings - 550,000 square feet of nearly empty office space, long offered for a $1 a year lease.

The water tower looms overhead, painted in the same green, heralding what once was: “Cabela’s World Headquarters, City of Sidney.”

For 54 years, Cabela’s made its home here, a juggernaut that kept the town humming. But in 2017, the sporting goods store sold for $5 billion to Bass Pro Shops - a takeover that eventually made 2,000 jobs vanish in a town of roughly 6,600 residents.

Sidney’s outlook turned grim. Without Cabela’s, leaders feared that the fourth-largest city in the Panhandle would empty out. A full-page ad in the local paper declared, Last one out, turn off the lights.

But six years later, the lights are still on. The reality in this Panhandle town: Complicated.

Sidney’s population did shrink in the years after the sale - then started growing again in 2020. The town has lost an estimated 436 residents since 2016, a 6% dip that mirrors population declines in similar Nebraska cities.

The numbers don’t signal a full recovery - Sidney’s median income, for example, has plummeted with the loss of Cabela’s high-paying corporate jobs.

But Sidney’s staying power still surprises experts, who say it’s driven by two factors.

(more)

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No Malarkey!  May 30, 2023 • 4:31:02am

Et tu, Chic-fil-A?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 30, 2023 • 4:35:15am

re: #152 No Malarkey!

Et tu, Chic-fil-A?

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Shropshire Slasher  May 30, 2023 • 4:40:40am

Some drive time music to get your ass outta bed.

Final Space (Pop punk princess Version)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 30, 2023 • 4:41:30am

re: #151 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The article reads like Cabela’s is completely gone, which is not true.

The Downtown Corporate Headquarters is gone, which employed two thousand people. The flagship store is still there and doing gangbusters.

You can still rent those office buildings for $1 a year though.

At one point shortly after Cabela’s was sold, 20% of the housing in Sidney and surrounding area went on the market at the same time.

Then the pandemic hit, and people looking for remote work found out you can own a home in Sidney with first-class high speed Internet for a tiny fraction of Denver or LA. A whole lot of remote workers moved in and bought up property, so now there’s around twenty properties for sale in all of Cheyenne County.

In the meantime, a lot of the corporate people who were suddenly laid off decided that was the time to become entrepreneurs, so they invested in new businesses in Sidney. That’s made the economy more resilient and less subject to a downturn because one business closed.

In the last few months, the only business which closed was Radio Shack. (The owner said the pandemic did his business in.)

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Nerdy Fish  May 30, 2023 • 4:44:09am

re: #155 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

In the last few months, the only business which closed was Radio Shack. (The owner said the pandemic did his business in.)

Radio Shack’s been on a slow decline for decades. I even thought they declared for bankruptcy, at some point.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 30, 2023 • 4:46:06am

re: #156 Nerdy Fish

Radio Shack’s been on a slow decline for decades. I even thought they declared for bankruptcy, at some point.

They did declare bankruptcy and closed most of their stores. The store in Sidney persevered though as they were still turning a tidy profit for a small franchise.

It wasn’t closed long though: After a renovation which lasted a couple months, it re-opened as an electrical equipment supplier consultancy which employs more people for better wages than Radio Shack did.

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Thanos  May 30, 2023 • 5:04:07am

Jan. 6 rioters are raking in thousands in donations. Now the US is coming after their haul

Less than two months after he pleaded guilty to storming the U.S. Capitol, Texas resident Daniel Goodwyn appeared on Tucker Carlson’s then-Fox News show and promoted a website where supporters could donate money to Goodwyn and other rioters whom the site called “political prisoners.”

The Justice Department now wants Goodwyn to give up more than $25,000 he raised — a clawback that is part of a growing effort by the government to prevent rioters from being able to personally profit from participating in the attack that shook the foundations of American democracy.

An Associated Press review of court records shows that prosecutors in the more than 1,000 criminal cases from Jan. 6, 2021, are increasingly asking judges to impose fines on top of prison sentences to offset donations from supporters of the Capitol rioters.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  May 30, 2023 • 5:07:42am

re: #158 Thanos

All these grift donations are not going into meaningful political campaigns for the most part. Which I guess is good.

However, if people are that willing to part with money in order to either help someone out or fund a “good cause” I can think of so many other places it could have been donated to.

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Thanos  May 30, 2023 • 5:10:15am

re: #159 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

All these grift donations are not going into meaningful political campaigns for the most part. Which I guess is good.

However, if people are that willing to part with money in order to either help someone out or fund a “good cause” I can think of so many other places it could have been donated to.

That is a good thing, less money for the political grifters on the right - but I wouldn’t be surprised to see some of these bozos running for office in a few years on the other hand.

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Thanos  May 30, 2023 • 5:12:48am

Third nuclear reactor reaches 100% power output at Georgia’s Plant Vogtle

ATLANTA (AP) — A new reactor at a nuclear power plant in Georgia has reached its full power output for the first time and is scheduled to enter commercial operation within the next month.

Georgia Power Co. announced Monday that Unit 3 at Plant Vogtle, southeast of Augusta, has reached its full output of 1,100 megawatts of electricity. That’s enough to power an estimated 500,000 homes and businesses. The power will be sent to Georgia and other states.

Operators are conducting further testing to prove they can run the reactor in ways required for regular operations, Georgia Power CEO Kim Greene in a statement, calling the achievement “an exciting milestone.”

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sagehen  May 30, 2023 • 5:33:30am

The more I think about the Succession finale, the more I sort of like it.

Click to Reveal

Kendall threw the election to a candidate he doesn’t even like, knowing it would also cause problems for his daughter, because he thought that this guy would scuttle the buyout and Kendall would get the top job. But the deal didn’t get scuttled, Kendall is out, and now everyone knows (because that conference room was far from soundproof) that he killed somebody.

Roman went along with this, because “this is a guy we can do business with”, but then turned into a blubbering mess at the funeral and the guy won’t do business with him.

Shiv HATES the probable-new-president, opposed throwing the election to him, and then advised Mattson how to keep the deal even with the new guy. Partly out of spite for Kendall and Roman trying to freeze her out, but she also thought she’d get the top job. But she didn’t, and for the most outrageously sexist possible reason. That she should have seen coming, with what she already knew about Mattson’s weird pursuit of his PR guru. And now she feels compelled, for whatever sick reason, to get back with the husband she despises.

Connor gave up his quixotic campaign and threw his support to the guy he hates, so he and his wife could have a sweet ambassador slot. But it seems the wife isn’t even going with him to Slovenia.

All 4 of them went against everything they want to think are their principles, for venal reasons, and NONE of them got what they wanted for it. 4 failsons in one family. Clean sweep.

All losers. Every last one of them. And we know Tom’s tenure at the company will be brief, and Greg will be out on his ass in record time.

Mattson’s the only winner, but even that won’t last once the India numbers become an issue and the fascist nationalizes the company.

Lose-lose-lose all the way around. I like that they all lose. Everybody loses. They all deserve to lose, and so they did.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 30, 2023 • 5:50:13am

Five hours ago (9:34)

This is a Public Information Video Regarding 5G

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dat_said  May 30, 2023 • 5:52:17am

re: #68 Barefoot Grin

The Kinks (and I wasn’t a fan) put on one of the best concerts I’ve ever attended in the mid ’80s. Maybe they learned. The worst (and I was a fan) was The Replacements at the 688 Club in Atlanta. They were so fucked up that they could barely finish a song.

First time I saw The Replacements was at a little bar in Dilworth MN (about 5 miles from Fargo ND). It was right before Hootenanny came out. They started strong and really had the crowd going. Maybe about 75 people there. They took a break. Sat down with us and Bobby Stinson got enthralled by our buckets of beer. Not a bucket of ice with six beer bottles but a small metal bucket you bought full the first time for $2 and then $1 refills, maybe about 50 oz. When they finally got back onstage, Stinson spent maybe 10 minutes raving about the buckets before they went into a hardcore speed run of commercial jingles and TV theme songs.

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lawhawk  May 30, 2023 • 5:53:38am

re: #93 ckkatz

I always found Heritage Institute kook adjacent. Sounds like it made that final step into full kookery.

Kook enabling every damn day. Kook adjacent and finally kook inhabited. That was part of the plan. Because they normalized the behavior and dismantling govt functionality every chance they got.

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Shropshire Slasher  May 30, 2023 • 5:59:20am

Hey Vlad, what is that sound?

Series of Ukrainian drone attacks destroy Russian vehicles and equipment

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Nerdy Fish  May 30, 2023 • 6:04:09am

re: #165 lawhawk

Kook enabling every damn day. Kook adjacent and finally kook inhabited. That was part of the plan. Because they normalized the behavior and dismantling govt functionality every chance they got.

As the Overton Window shifts to the right, the right-leaning policy wonks and media outlets have been getting steadily crazier.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 30, 2023 • 6:08:49am

#NotADragQueen (9:27)

Exposing The Groomer-Right

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Patricia Kayden  May 30, 2023 • 6:11:54am

re: #93 ckkatz

The Heritage Foundation was always a bunch of bigoted kooks. Too bad Tom can’t admit the truth. I guess it’s hard to admit that you were fundamentally wrong for so long.

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No Malarkey!  May 30, 2023 • 6:12:32am

re: #166 Shropshire Slasher

Hey Vlad, what is that sound?

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Moscow learning it can’t bomb Ukraine without consequences.

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Shropshire Slasher  May 30, 2023 • 6:15:56am

This is some scary shit.

Terrifying moment Ukraine tank destroys Russian trenches at point-blank range

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No Malarkey!  May 30, 2023 • 6:16:50am

re: #162 sagehen

The more I think about the Succession finale, the more I sort of like it.

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Still hoping the fascist also loses in Wisconsin courts, which Shiv mentions as a possibility, but that was left hanging in the finale.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 30, 2023 • 6:21:15am

I ain’t too crazy about right winger David French but when he and his wife expose that an Xtian superstar is a serial child molester and Hee Hawley spreads lies about French’s wife…and the Xtian elite go after French and his wife as they engage in a full blown coverup…

rawstory.com

Right-wing activists for children craft affair lie about reporter who exposed allegedly abusive Christian camp

“Sara portrays herself as a defender of children against sexual deviance,” Nancy French responded. “Though my @Kanakuk investigation exposed a cover up of what a prosecutor called ‘hundreds’ of child rapes, she shrugs it off. Instead, she tweets a gross lie about me and my marriage.”

“This is actually evil,” David French responded to Gonzales. “A right-wing personality is mad at me over a column. And what’s her response? To publicly level false accusations of adultery against my wife. And people wonder why I sound the alarm over the moral rot on the right. I ignore 99.99 percent of the personal attacks on this hellish website, but when you lie about Nancy, I’m going to show people who you are.”

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  May 30, 2023 • 6:26:15am
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jeffreyw  May 30, 2023 • 6:28:16am

Mrs j is like a river to her critters

Good morning!

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Nerdy Fish  May 30, 2023 • 6:29:41am

re: #175 jeffreyw

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That squirrel looks like it is one very happy rodent.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  May 30, 2023 • 6:33:58am

re: #175 jeffreyw
Pertaining to banjos

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 30, 2023 • 6:34:36am

Meanwhile in a Los Angeles courtroom…

yahoo.com

When he stepped up to the witness stand last week, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy Jaime Juarez told the court about his first inking party — the day he got his Compton station tattoo. The intimate gathering was at a home somewhere in Pomona, and most of the people there were strangers.

But he knew the man who invited him, and knew that man sported the same ink Juarez was about to get — a design commonly linked to a suspected deputy gang known as the Executioners.

On Thursday afternoon, while testifying in a civil trial, Juarez pushed up a pant leg to reveal that tattoo: a helmet-wearing skeleton gripping a rifle. The rare and candid disclosure came in a case centered on the secretive world of deputy gangs, reports of which have plagued the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department for half a century and led to an array of investigations, studies and legal settlements.

The case that led to last week’s tattoo-bearing trial began in 2020, when Lt. Larry Waldie sued the county on claims of retaliation, alleging he was targeted and demoted after he “openly opposed” the Executioners’ control over the Compton station while he was acting captain there.

That trial continues, and its first two weeks have featured testimony from an array of current and former Sheriff’s Department officials. Some witnesses offered the names of everyone they’d seen with the so-called Executioners tattoo. One provided pictures of a detective bureau desk decorated with the group’s symbol in several places. Another — Juarez — explained the voting process used to decide who could get a tattoo and said he’d helped make that decision several times.

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steve_davis  May 30, 2023 • 6:35:07am

re: #171 Shropshire Slasher

This is some scary shit.

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Video

seriously, that poor fuck at the end….there is absolutely nothing dishonorable about just throwing up your hands and begging for mercy there. Hornblower and Aubrey are full of moments where perfectly brave men throw up their hands and call it a day, sometimes with no casualties, because they get outmaneuvered by something bigger and nastier.

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lawhawk  May 30, 2023 • 6:36:29am

Primary people mover battery died this morning… ugh… gotta get that addressed.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 30, 2023 • 6:39:55am

re: #173 Joe Bacon ✅

My usual response: Needz moar shivs.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 30, 2023 • 6:42:11am

re: #174 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

My issue is she’s claiming she cares about veterans.

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William Lewis  May 30, 2023 • 6:42:30am

re: #164 dat_said

First time I saw The Replacements was at a little bar in Dilworth MN (about 5 miles from Fargo ND). It was right before Hootenanny came out. They started strong and really had the crowd going. Maybe about 75 people there. They took a break. Sat down with us and Bobby Stinson got enthralled by our buckets of beer. Not a bucket of ice with six beer bottles but a small metal bucket you bought full the first time for $2 and then $1 refills, maybe about 50 oz. When they finally got back onstage, Stinson spent maybe 10 minutes raving about the buckets before they went into a hardcore speed run of commercial jingles and TV theme songs.

Yep, that is SO the ‘Mats.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 30, 2023 • 6:43:15am

Elections matter.

Democrats got control back in Michigan as the State GOP goes off the rails.

open.substack.com

GOP bill would force Michigan schools to teach “Christian foundations” of U.S.

State Rep. Joseph Fox wants to force Christian revisionist history on public school students

A Republican lawmaker in Michigan is attempting to pass legislation requiring public schools to lie to children and tell them about the “Christian foundations of the United States.”

Thankfully, the Democrats who control the legislature aren’t going to let him get away with it.

Rep. Joseph Fox is a first-term legislator who has used his campaign Facebook page to repeatedly promote religion, saying things like Jesus “is not dead, HE IS RISEN!” and that Jesus “defeated death, sin, and Satan.” His campaign website boasts that Fox was a “Christian School Administrator and Teacher for 25 years” and that he has been a “Pastor and Missionary,” as if those are qualifications for writing laws.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  May 30, 2023 • 6:44:28am

re: #175 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Is Mrs J also known as Auda?
He was a river to his too.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  May 30, 2023 • 6:49:41am

re: #171 Shropshire Slasher

This is some scary shit.

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re: #179 steve_davis

seriously, that poor fuck at the end….there is absolutely nothing dishonorable about just throwing up your hands and begging for mercy there. Hornblower and Aubrey are full of moments where perfectly brave men throw up their hands and call it a day, sometimes with no casualties, because they get outmaneuvered by something bigger and nastier.

That video is a month or so old. Seen a longer version, and one showing the dismounted infantry clearing the area after the tank stopped shooting and drove back and forth over the trench

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lawhawk  May 30, 2023 • 6:50:36am
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Thanos  May 30, 2023 • 6:55:52am

re: #165 lawhawk

Kook enabling every damn day. Kook adjacent and finally kook inhabited. That was part of the plan. Because they normalized the behavior and dismantling govt functionality every chance they got.

It also enables much hate, e.g. one of the prime Islamophobic bigots in Horowitz’s hate machine grew up there.

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lawhawk  May 30, 2023 • 6:56:42am

Overblown rhetoric about crime, versus actual events. What’s changed? Covid? Relaxed gun sales laws thanks to the SCOTUS gutting gun regulations nationally.

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Dave In Austin  May 30, 2023 • 6:56:54am

re: #184 Joe Bacon ✅

Go figure……

These guys all look the same.

house.mi.gov

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  May 30, 2023 • 6:58:15am

Did not like this one
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Thanos  May 30, 2023 • 7:02:02am

re: #188 Thanos

It also enables much hate, e.g. one of the prime Islamophobic bigots in Horowitz’s hate machine grew up there.

There are also several “Heritage Institutes” but I think we are really talking about Heritage Foundation, where Spencer was a fellow or something like that.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 30, 2023 • 7:03:14am
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Nerdy Fish  May 30, 2023 • 7:05:26am

re: #189 lawhawk

Overblown rhetoric about crime, versus actual events. What’s changed? Covid? Relaxed gun sales laws thanks to the SCOTUS gutting gun regulations nationally.

Here’s the thing: COVID lockdowns, even as soft as they were here in the United States compared to other places, did have an adverse effect on Americans’ mental health, that could have contributed to the increase in violent crime. However, making guns easier to access and easier to conceal has had exactly the intended effect, namely, a flattening of the downward trend in Republican-led states.

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Thanos  May 30, 2023 • 7:05:45am

re: #192 Thanos

There are also several “Heritage Institutes” but I think we are really talking about Heritage Foundation, where Spencer was a fellow or something like that.

Well crap, it’s me who is confused with a fuzzy memory. Spencer was Claremont, not Heritage even though they are leaders in the fight to defeat Amnesty bills every time.

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darthstar  May 30, 2023 • 7:12:46am

Mastodon

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Dr Lizardo  May 30, 2023 • 7:13:22am

Well, today I learned that the theme music from the sitcom Taxi wasn’t written expressly for the show, but is a 1978 track called “Angela” by jazz composer Bob James.

Angela (Theme From ‘Taxi’) - Bob James (1978)

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Thanos  May 30, 2023 • 7:13:32am

Btw: that wiki article has a pretty thorough list of RW stink tanks in the sidebar if you ever need to research what’s what about any of them:
Acton Institute
Alexis de Tocqueville Institution
American Enterprise Institute
American Compass
Center for Security Policy
Center for the National Interest
Charles Koch Institute
Claremont Institute
Competitive Enterprise Institute
David Horowitz Freedom Center
Discovery Institute
Ethics and Public Policy Center
Family Research Institute
Gatestone Institute
Heartland Institute
The Heritage Foundation
Hoover Institution
Hudson Institute
Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Leadership Institute
Manhattan Institute
Mises Institute
Pacific Research Institute
Project for the New American Century
Ripon Society
R Street Institute
Rockford Institute
State Policy Network
Tax Foundation

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  May 30, 2023 • 7:14:03am

Morning Lizards.

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jeffreyw  May 30, 2023 • 7:14:53am

re: #176 Nerdy Fish

That squirrel looks like it is one very happy rodent.

Yes, although it does have a fraught relationship with Gabe.

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jeffreyw  May 30, 2023 • 7:16:29am

re: #177 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

Pertaining to banjos

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We will go to Hell side by side, friend.

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lawhawk  May 30, 2023 • 7:18:33am

re: #193 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Except that the DoD does lose billions every year - it can’t keep track of all the money thrown at it, or it hides it in black projects that get little to no public scrutiny. /half

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Eventual Carrion  May 30, 2023 • 7:19:51am

re: #47 darthstar

Missus says, “Elvis Costello is playing in Reno in June…wanna go?”
I say, “Sure…let me look up tickets.”
She says, “Put them on my card.”
I say, “Nay, my card’s in my head…you get the room.”
Front row seats - $600 with fees.
Room rate: $151 for their best “Players Suite”…

Follow me for other deals.
(Honestly I don’t care…we share all costs anyway.)

Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers - Money Becomes King

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  May 30, 2023 • 7:19:59am

re: #203 lawhawk

Except that the DoD does lose billions every year - it can’t keep track of all the money thrown at it, or it hides it in black projects that get little to no public scrutiny. /half

If the public learned about the Stargate project, they’d lose their minds.
/

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 30, 2023 • 7:21:26am

re: #190 Dave In Austin

Go figure……

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house.mi.gov

Yes they do all look the same!

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jeffreyw  May 30, 2023 • 7:23:42am

re: #185 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

Is Mrs J also known as Auda?
He was a river to his too.

He thought he was, until Ol’ Blue eyes called him out as a small thinker.

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Dr. Matt  May 30, 2023 • 7:27:51am

re: #34 austin_blue

Where’s the house?

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Teukka  May 30, 2023 • 7:28:48am


Also RT’ed it.

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Dave In Austin  May 30, 2023 • 7:29:35am

re: #47 darthstar

I paid $7.00 to see Jimi in 1968…….. Add a $10 bag o seedy weed and it was big money.

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darthstar  May 30, 2023 • 7:30:05am

What air defense doing?

Mastodon

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Dave In Austin  May 30, 2023 • 7:32:17am

re: #209 Teukka

Also RT’ed it.

Is Vlad selling any of them off to Franklin Graham for his fervent followers?

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Teukka  May 30, 2023 • 7:34:16am

re: #212 Dave In Austin

Is Vlad selling any of them off to Franklin Graham for his fervent followers?

Unknown at this juncture, but wouldn’t be a big surprise, really…

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dat_said  May 30, 2023 • 7:37:37am

Always a bit surprised and intrigued by my 15-year-old daughter’s music selections. She said she was in a ‘mood’ this morning and played this on the drive to school. She said it was old music by which I thought she meant 50’s/60’s and not 2015.

SadGirl - Vol. One - Breakfast Is Over (2015)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 30, 2023 • 7:43:02am

Right now the sun is out. That won’t last long.

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Dr. Matt  May 30, 2023 • 7:43:40am

re: #210 Dave In Austin

I paid $7.00 to see Jimi in 1968…….. Add a $10 bag o seedy weed and it was big money.

I paid $20 to see Metallica open for Ozzy in 1986. My first concert ever. And yes, $20 was big money for a junior high kid.

I found this video on youtube a few years back. Someone managed to sneak a video camera into the show. Considering this was ‘86, I can’t imagine how they snuck one of those monster recorders in.

YouTube

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 30, 2023 • 7:43:41am

In extremely local news, tomorrow I will begin the last year my wife will still need me and feed me. /s

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Nerdy Fish  May 30, 2023 • 7:43:48am

re: #215 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Right now the sun is out. That won’t last long.

We had a minor thunderstorm early this morning. We’re supposed to get some more this afternoon. We could use it.

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mmmirele  May 30, 2023 • 7:44:25am

re: #173 Joe Bacon ✅

I ain’t too crazy about right winger David French but when he and his wife expose that an Xtian superstar is a serial child molester and Hee Hawley spreads lies about French’s wife…and the Xtian elite go after French and his wife as they engage in a full blown coverup…

rawstory.com

Right-wing activists for children craft affair lie about reporter who exposed allegedly abusive Christian camp

“Sara portrays herself as a defender of children against sexual deviance,” Nancy French responded. “Though my @Kanakuk investigation exposed a cover up of what a prosecutor called ‘hundreds’ of child rapes, she shrugs it off. Instead, she tweets a gross lie about me and my marriage.”

“This is actually evil,” David French responded to Gonzales. “A right-wing personality is mad at me over a column. And what’s her response? To publicly level false accusations of adultery against my wife. And people wonder why I sound the alarm over the moral rot on the right. I ignore 99.99 percent of the personal attacks on this hellish website, but when you lie about Nancy, I’m going to show people who you are.”

Nancy French follows me for some reason…probably because I’m absolutely Molly Hatchet when it comes to child sexual abuse, especially religious child sexual abuse. I did gently ask David on Twitter on Sunday why he continued to bash transgender people, prefacing my bash with respect for the fact that he and Nancy took on Kanakuk Kamps.

And it looks like the Kanakuk Kamps Kult is now going after them in a big way. Ouch. I would not wish that on anyone, because the religious right, which is getting more and more WACKO, is not something you want to run up against.

I still wish David French would lose his attitude about transgender people, though.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 30, 2023 • 7:44:29am

re: #215 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Right now the sun is out. That won’t last long.

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Meanwhile it’s been cold and windy here in Los Angeles with clouds in the morning finally clearing in the late afternoon for a couple hours.

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Unabogie  May 30, 2023 • 7:45:38am

re: #123 ckkatz

2 points-

1. The classification of stolen documents is irrelevant to the fact that the stolen documents were stolen.

2. If the President can classify and declassify documents; Biden was President while Trump had the documents.

I cannot stand Twitter threads now. The blue checks (read, paid trolls) are the only replies I see. So for one good point, there’s a page on nonsense. The signal-to-noise ratio is intolerable. Elmo ruined an already fragile ecosystem through his sheer incompetence and disordered thinking.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 30, 2023 • 7:45:56am

Facebook continues to make itself less attractive to me, to even peruse for my relative’s posts.

The reworking of the “Recent” feed is atrocious.

Facebook has taken away the chronological listing of your feed’s posts, and made a shortened version of them.

Now “most recent” only goes back about 48 hours or less.

So if I miss checking my feed for, say, 4 days, the “most recent” won’t serve up posts past about 48 hours ago.

Also, I am finding that the “groups” to which I belong are getting fewer and fewer posts.

I suspect that Meta is finding Instagram more important these days, as a product. In my Facebook feed are now showing up Instagram posts that my “Friends” have liked or viewed.

Anyway, in the big picture the whole Social Media enterprise is changing. Some of this is the result of TikTok and the dying out of Facebook originals.

Some of this is Elmo’s destruction of Twitter.

I sense another transition, like what happened to blogging. Blogging was a big thing 10 or 15 years ago. It was replaced by Twitter/Facebook/Youtube.

Now the dominant online activity is TikTok, Instagram, and probably others of which I am unaware.

Me: I waiting for AM radio to make a comeback from the right-wing gold-bugging brink into something worthwhile again.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  May 30, 2023 • 7:52:58am

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 30, 2023 • 7:53:07am

Interesting series on Vice TV (can be streamed through various services or free - I assume you have to accept ads for free)

Each show is roughly 3/4 hour long.

Dark Side of the 90s

“Dark Side of the 90’s takes a deep dive into the decade’s untold history, revealing secrets, and perspectives.”

Some episodes:

Trash TV: Dirty and Deadly Talk
TV for Teens (how FOX changed television forever)
Baywatch (influencers before the WWW)
Internet 1.0 (don’t believe the hype: capturing the greed of investors)
The Rise of Rush Limbaugh
Morning Show Wars

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Teukka  May 30, 2023 • 7:56:38am
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Unabogie  May 30, 2023 • 7:57:28am

Mastodon

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Belafon  May 30, 2023 • 7:58:21am

re: #221 Unabogie

I cannot stand Twitter threads now. The blue checks (read, paid trolls) are the only replies I see. So for one good point, there’s a page on nonsense. The signal-to-noise ratio is intolerable. Elmo ruined an already fragile ecosystem through his sheer incompetence and disordered thinking.

I use that area to figure out who to block. If you do that a few times on major feeds, you will notice the number of blue checks disappear quite rapidly because it seems their day job is to be trolls. Just don’t ban all blues. Some are good people that have one for reasons.

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steve_davis  May 30, 2023 • 7:58:44am

re: #210 Dave In Austin

I paid $7.00 to see Jimi in 1968…….. Add a $10 bag o seedy weed and it was big money.

Yes, well the Who and Hendrix made 10,000 dollars for their Woodstock appearances, so everything’s relative :-)

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Hecuba's daughter  May 30, 2023 • 8:05:03am

re: #146 Grunthos the Flatulent 🇳🇿

Be happy with your par. This one was a shocker for the clan.

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Dr Lizardo  May 30, 2023 • 8:11:40am
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jeffreyw  May 30, 2023 • 8:18:30am

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  May 30, 2023 • 8:19:16am

re: #230 Dr Lizardo

Zunis are unguided 5 inch air to ground “rockets”

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 30, 2023 • 8:26:02am

So Twitter is marking as “sensitive” pretty much any image now that the drooling hate-right flags.

The link in this tweet, for example:

I’m coming across a lot of these this morning.

The blue-check idiots must be complaining about any tweet with an actual news story.

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Jay C  May 30, 2023 • 8:29:29am

re: #230 Dr Lizardo

re: #232 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

So IIJM, or does that “shopping list” of armaments seem like it’s mainly yesterday’s arsenal?

Which if fine, as long as the military technology is better/more-effective than whatever the Russians are using…

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 30, 2023 • 8:31:14am

re: #226 Unabogie

Missing from that list

Presstitution.

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jeffreyw  May 30, 2023 • 8:33:47am

re: #234 Jay C

So IIJM, or does that “shopping list” of armaments seem like it’s mainly yesterday’s arsenal?

Which if fine, as long as the military technology is better/more-effective than whatever the Russians are using…

If those sold on Ebay they would include the phrase “new old stock” in the description.
Not that there are that many used rockets on offer.

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Nerdy Fish  May 30, 2023 • 8:33:58am

re: #234 Jay C

So IIJM, or does that “shopping list” of armaments seem like it’s mainly yesterday’s arsenal?

Which if fine, as long as the military technology is better/more-effective than whatever the Russians are using…

Yes, but it’s also largely the stuff that the US is OK with exporting. We don’t export all the latest and greatest, for obvious reasons. As to the latter concern, to be perfectly honest, that looks like an incredibly low bar right now. The Ukrainians have been making the Russians look like fools even in their top-of-the-line equipment, most of which is laying wrecked in Ukrainian fields right now.

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Dr Lizardo  May 30, 2023 • 8:34:42am
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Dr Lizardo  May 30, 2023 • 8:36:27am

re: #237 Nerdy Fish

Russia has shown their bare ass to the entire world. This bungled and ill-conceived invasion is likely going to be long remembered as one of the worst blunders in recorded military history.

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🔧-wench  May 30, 2023 • 8:36:30am

re: #232 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

Zunis are unguided 5 inch air to ground “rockets”

Zuni is a pueblo just south of the Navajo Nation in New Mexico.

Ed. to make Zuni a pueblo rather than a nation.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 30, 2023 • 8:46:30am

You can lie for de Lawd only so much.

washingtonpost.com

The revolt of the Christian home-schoolers

They were taught that public schools are evil. Then a Virginia couple defied their families and enrolled their kids.

They said goodbye to Aimee outside her elementary school, watching nervously as she joined the other children streaming into a low brick building framed by the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Christina and Aaron Beall stood among many families resuming an emotional but familiar routine: the first day of full-time, in-person classes since public schools closed at the beginning of the pandemic.

But for the Bealls, that morning in late August 2021 carried a weight incomprehensible to the parents around them. Their 6-year-old daughter, wearing a sequined blue dress and a pink backpack that almost obscured her small body, hesitated as she reached the doors. Although Aaron had told her again and again how brave she was, he knew it would be years before she understood how much he meant it — understood that for her mother and father, the decision to send her to school was nothing less than a revolt.

Aaron and Christina had never attended school when they were children. Until a few days earlier, when Round Hill Elementary held a back-to-school open house, they had rarely set foot inside a school building. Both had been raised to believe that public schools were tools of a demonic social order, government “indoctrination camps” devoted to the propagation of lies and the subversion of Christian families.

At a time when home education was still a fringe phenomenon, the Bealls had grown up in the most powerful and ideologically committed faction of the modern home-schooling movement. That movement, led by deeply conservative Christians, saw home schooling as a way of life — a conscious rejection of contemporary ideas about biology, history, gender equality and the role of religion in American government.

Christina and Aaron were supposed to advance the banner of that movement, instilling its codes in their children through the same forms of corporal punishment once inflicted upon them. Yet instead, along with many others of their age and upbringing, they had walked away.

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🔧-wench  May 30, 2023 • 8:48:48am

I have always wanted a double whiff, and now I have a double whiff, on a par.

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gotta see it in black

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Striking!

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 30, 2023 • 8:56:06am

Do it Quevin.

Show the world how you back the blue when it catches you doing naughty things!

rawstory.com

McCarthy threatens to charge FBI director with contempt over Biden family probe

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 30, 2023 • 8:58:17am
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🔧-wench  May 30, 2023 • 8:59:20am

Zuni radio

Nancy Sinatra followed by Roy Oribison, so far…

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BeenHereAwhile  May 30, 2023 • 8:59:53am

re: #152 No Malarkey!

Et tu, Chic-fil-A?

Chick-fil-A’s disclaimer at the bottom of their web page:

* Most Chick-fil-A restaurant businesses are independently owned and operated by local franchised Operators, who are not employed by Chick-fil-A, Inc. Each Operator is solely responsible for all employment matters in their restaurant business.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 30, 2023 • 9:02:27am

re: #235 Joe Bacon ✅

Missing from that list

Presstitution.

Stenographers.

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A Cranky One  May 30, 2023 • 9:07:24am

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Dr. Matt  May 30, 2023 • 9:10:33am

WTF.

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Dr Lizardo  May 30, 2023 • 9:10:43am

Nicko McBrain of Iron Maiden has a new drum set:

Nicko’s new drums - The Future Past

Nice. I don’t play drums, but that’s a fine-looking set.

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🔧-wench  May 30, 2023 • 9:10:56am

The Zuni quarterly newsletter comes as a .pdf.

The most recent issue.

Nice images with the news. One repeatable message:

COVID has eased.
…but not for the first time.
MASK ON!

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 30, 2023 • 9:11:22am

Ah the 2022 data came out.

Texas got a thing for panties…And Florida…as expected…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 30, 2023 • 9:12:14am

re: #241 Joe Bacon ✅

You can lie for de Lawd only so much.

From the same article, further down, Michael Ferris of the Home School Legal Defense Fund (the outsized Christian homeshooling legal group which weakened laws on oversight and advocates for raising up a “Joshua” generation which would overwhelm government and replace it with “Christian principles,” and which overwhelms any secular attempts at homeschooling):

Farris said it is not uncommon for children who grow up in oppressively patriarchal households to reject or at least moderate their parents’ beliefs. However, he said such families are a minority in the home-schooling movement and are often considered extreme even by other conservative Christians. [sure they are]

“I view this as the fringe of the fringe,” Farris said. “And every kid that I know that has lashed out at home schooling came out of this.”

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  May 30, 2023 • 9:16:22am

re: #239 Dr Lizardo

Russia has shown their bare ass to the entire world. This bungled and ill-conceived invasion is likely going to be long remembered as one of the worst blunders in recorded military history.

It’s a Russian tradition. Remember the Russo-Japanese war? (Or, for that matter WWII. If Hitler’s actions hadn’t been just as dimwitted as Stalin’s…)

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Dr. Matt  May 30, 2023 • 9:17:53am

re: #250 Dr Lizardo

Nicko McBrain of Iron Maiden has a new drum set:

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Video

Nice. I don’t play drums, but that’s a fine-looking set.

Their new setlist is pretty freakn’ awesome: loudwire.com

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Dr Lizardo  May 30, 2023 • 9:19:19am

re: #255 Dr. Matt

Their new setlist is pretty freakn’ awesome: loudwire.com

One of my students is going to see them in Prague tomorrow. It’s the first time he’s been to an Iron Maiden show, and actually, his first concert.

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 30, 2023 • 9:19:42am

re: #252 Joe Bacon ✅

What’s up with Colorado, though?

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Dr. Matt  May 30, 2023 • 9:21:19am

re: #256 Dr Lizardo

One of my students is going to see them in Prague tomorrow. It’s the first time he’s been to an Iron Maiden show, and actually, his first concert.

Good way to start! My first Maiden concert was in ‘85 (?) with Twisted Sister opening.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  May 30, 2023 • 9:21:59am

a string of words i never thought I’d have to say:

i was chased by an armadillo this morning.

it was an interesting 10 seconds.

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Captain Ron  May 30, 2023 • 9:23:00am
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🔧-wench  May 30, 2023 • 9:23:43am

re: #259 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

a string of words i never thought I’d have to say:

it was an interesting 10 seconds.

Did it make you faster? Did your heart rate go up?

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 30, 2023 • 9:24:05am

re: #260 Captain Ron

Ah but when you are a Republican Jay-Zuss always forgives you.

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Dr Lizardo  May 30, 2023 • 9:24:46am

re: #258 Dr. Matt

Good way to start! My first Maiden concert was in ‘85 (?) with Twisted Sister opening.

Yeah, the World Slavery Tour - I saw them in Portland, OR (December 1984) and Twisted Sister was the opening act.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 30, 2023 • 9:25:59am

Mother insists on the training wheels.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  May 30, 2023 • 9:26:59am

Jerusalem poppies first bloom of the season:

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🔧-wench  May 30, 2023 • 9:29:07am

re: #263 Dr Lizardo

Yeah, the World Slavery Tour - I saw them in Portland, OR (December 1984) and Twisted Sister was the opening act.

Click to Reveal

My bike shop was named Twin Sisters (local mtns.) and TWICE customers made their check out to Twisted Sister. Bank did not care.

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 30, 2023 • 9:29:51am

‘National embarrassment’: Judge heaps shame on MAGA rioter who echoed sovereign citizen rhetoric

A judge on Tuesday heaped scorn upon Pauline Bauer, a Capitol rioter who became known for deploying sovereign citizen-style rhetoric in her legal defense filings.

United States District Court Judge Trevor McFadden gave Bauer a verbal lashing from the bench in which he shamed her for illegally breaking into the United States Capitol building on January 6th, 2021 and calling for the hanging of then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).

“You were part of a national embarrassment,” McFadden told Bauer, according to MacFarlane. “The crimes you and others committed were things Americans never thought they’d see.”

McFadden also informed Bauer that “you repeatedly perjured yourself.” He said she “showed shocking lack of remorse” for her actions, while also displaying “a pattern of disrespect for government institutions.”

All the same, Judge McFadden said that the United States Department of Justice’s sentencing recommendations for Bauer were too high and he gave her a 27-month prison sentence where she would get credit for time served in pretrial detention.

Bauer became notorious for sabotaging her own efforts to get out of pretrial detention over the past two years with her repeated courtroom outbursts and her highly unusual legal filings.

In July of 2021, for example, Bauer filed a motion to dismiss in which she described herself as “I, Me, Pauline Bauer the Living Soul, A Creation of God.” She then proceeded to demand that the court “Drop all Charges against my VESSEL - PAULINE BAUER and Dismiss the Case.”

rawstory.com

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Jay C  May 30, 2023 • 9:31:42am

re: #262 Joe Bacon ✅

Ah but when you are a Republican Jay-Zuss always forgives you.

And even if He doesn’t, you can always count on the voters to step up….

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  May 30, 2023 • 9:33:06am

re: #260 Captain Ron

this has been standard MO for a long time
it was clear with both impeachments
and every time someone sues tfg
then every time they deify a killer (rittenhouse, etc)
even Santos

no one ever goes near ‘did they do it’
it’s always why ‘in this case’ it’s different, or excusable or …

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 30, 2023 • 9:34:02am

re: #257 Eclectic Cyborg

What’s up with Colorado, though?

Colorado’s goth seems better than Nebraska’s rub.

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Nerdy Fish  May 30, 2023 • 9:34:07am

re: #269 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

“Yeah, but he’s OUR crook.”

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dat_said  May 30, 2023 • 9:34:28am

Trump on his Truth Social

As part of my plan to Secure the Border, on day one of my new term in office — I will sign an Executive Order ending automatic citizenship for the children of illegal aliens…

Let’s not let the little thing called the Constitution slow us down from throwing red meat.

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Dr. Matt  May 30, 2023 • 9:35:41am

re: #260 Captain Ron

Translation: The Party of “Lock Her Up” and “Hunter’s Laptop” only want to imprison Democrats.

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 30, 2023 • 9:37:04am

re: #271 Nerdy Fish

“Yeah, but he’s OUR crook.”

That’s basically where they are now: “We don’t care if Republicans do all sorts of corrupt shit because that’s what’s necessary to beat the deep state and own the libs!”

They proved it with Trump and they’ve been proving over and over with every other GOP crook since.

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Dr. Matt  May 30, 2023 • 9:38:04am

WOOOOOOKEE!!!!! 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  May 30, 2023 • 9:38:53am

re: #261 🔧-wench

Did it make you faster? Did your heart rate go up?

right there about a minute in, i’d say so

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jeffreyw  May 30, 2023 • 9:39:58am

re: #259 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

a string of words i never thought I’d have to say:

it was an interesting 10 seconds.

The last few years have seen them moving their territory north. We used to be too cold but now we’re seeing them as roadkill, and I have been seeing them on our trail cameras triggered at night. I’ve yet too see one in person.

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Nerdy Fish  May 30, 2023 • 9:40:05am

re: #274 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The blue checks going “Now show us the first part of the unedited video,” apparently to demonstrate cowardly Democrats running ahead of him (as if that matters at all to how “manly” Josh Hawley appears in this clip), is amusing to me.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 30, 2023 • 9:40:32am

re: #272 dat_said

Trump on his Truth Social

Let’s not let the little thing called the Constitution slow us down from throwing red meat.

So is he only going after children, or will he be persuaded by wingnuts to go further. Like former Rep. Steve King (IA-4, remember when you got censured on the House floor for praising white nationalism), who wants the grandchildren of “illegal” immigrants to be deported (I don’t want to go to my non-existent ancestral country).

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  May 30, 2023 • 9:41:07am

re: #271 Nerdy Fish

“Yeah, but he’s they’re all OUR crooks.”

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🔧-wench  May 30, 2023 • 9:43:07am

re: #277 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

right there about a minute in, i’d say so

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‘The armadillo spike’

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  May 30, 2023 • 9:44:34am

re: #276 Dr. Matt

WOOOOOOKEE!!!!! 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

marxist?
marxist?

you’re right.
that’s nonsense

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 30, 2023 • 9:46:07am

re: #277 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

right there about a minute in, i’d say so

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That’s my normal heart rate. If it’s at fifty-five, kick me to see if I’m dead.

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Nerdy Fish  May 30, 2023 • 9:46:14am

re: #276 Dr. Matt

WOKEEEE!!!!! 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

What the ever-loving bejesusing fuck is that very last tweet.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  May 30, 2023 • 9:47:03am

re: #278 jeffreyw

The last few years have seen them moving their territory north. We used to be too cold but now we’re seeing them as roadkill, and I have been seeing them on our trail cameras triggered at night. I’ve yet too see one in person.

there’s at least one that crosses our property almost every night
going from the canal to the woods behind our barn
a couple of possums too
and two feral cats
they’ve all consorted to dig passageways under the various fences

it’s like they’re all on the same deer track

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 30, 2023 • 9:47:17am

re: #276 Dr. Matt

WOOOOOOKEE!!!!! 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

He’s upset their diversity will include Protestants AND Catholics.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 30, 2023 • 9:48:21am

re: #276 Dr. Matt

“Tranny semen?” Christian kinks are far too disturbing for me to contemplate.

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The Pie Overlord!  May 30, 2023 • 9:48:52am

re: #285 Nerdy Fish

What the ever-loving bejesusing fuck is that very last tweet.

That’s very specific. It makes me wonder if they are already doing it.

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dat_said  May 30, 2023 • 9:49:37am

re: #287 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

He’s upset their diversity will include Protestants AND Catholics.

Reminds me of when a girl picked me up at home once. Mom: “You know she’s a Lutheran, right?” Me: “Yeah, mom, she’s just taking me on a pontoon ride on the river.”

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  May 30, 2023 • 9:50:39am

re: #284 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

That’s my normal heart rate. If it’s at fifty-five, kick me to see if I’m dead.

my normal totally resting rate is 44
sitting at my desk is about 55. (60 if im pissed at a client or website)
fast walking (which i was doing at the time) is in the 80’s

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 30, 2023 • 9:52:17am

re: #283 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

marxist?
marxist?

you’re right.
that’s nonsense

Capitalism is Marxism. Up is down. Cats and dogs are sleeping together. It’s a floor wax and a dessert topping.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 30, 2023 • 9:53:51am

re: #291 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

my normal totally resting rate is 44
sitting at my desk is about 55. (60 if im pissed at a client or website)
fast walking (which i was doing at the time) is in the 80’s

I burn my heart candle at both ends, apparently. That’s taking barbiturates everyday too.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 30, 2023 • 9:57:00am

My computer is begging me for a restart. It wants to update the software of my audio chipset.

I’ll be back in a moment. I’m still amazed at how fast my new computer starts with this flash drive-type hard drive system.

Seconds instead of weeks.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  May 30, 2023 • 9:59:44am

re: #85 ckkatz

“Look, one of the things that I hear some of you guys saying is, ‘Why doesn’t Biden say what a good deal it is?’ Why would Biden say what a good deal it is before the vote? You think that’s going to help me get it passed? No. That’s why you guys don’t bargain very well.”

— President Biden, quoted by the Washington Post, on the debt ceiling deal he negotiated with Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

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Nerdy Fish  May 30, 2023 • 10:01:10am

re: #295 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

— President Biden, quoted by the Washington Post, on the debt ceiling deal he negotiated with Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

But he’s clearly mentally unfit to hold office, falling asleep on the job.///

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 30, 2023 • 10:01:35am

And I’m back.

My new computer (Jane) is way faster than my old one (Lilith).

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BeenHereAwhile  May 30, 2023 • 10:02:32am

re: #278 jeffreyw

The last few years have seen them moving their territory north. We used to be too cold but now we’re seeing them as roadkill, and I have been seeing them on our trail cameras triggered at night. I’ve yet too see one in person.

Nashville is infested with armadillos.

TN considers them an invasive species, and I can’t use my .22 varmint gun in the suburbs.

I live trapped 5 in my yard last year. Don’t mind them digging in my yard, but if they’d leave the ornamental plants alone, I’d do likewise. It is a species that’s been lumbering around around for ~150 million years.

So no euthanasia, just relocate them over the river and through the woods. No bodies to dispose of.

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Thanos  May 30, 2023 • 10:03:32am

re: #294 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

My computer is begging me for a restart. It wants to update the software of my audio chipset.

I’ll be back in a moment. I’m still amazed at how fast my new computer starts with this flash drive-type hard drive system.

Seconds instead of weeks.

Milliseconds instead of days? (Spockian code from the best Trek movie)

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🔧-wench  May 30, 2023 • 10:03:50am

re: #291 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

my normal totally resting rate is 44
sitting at my desk is about 55. (60 if im pissed at a client or website)
fast walking (which i was doing at the time) is in the 80’s

Morphine Song

‘Hey, buddy. You know you got a slow heartbeat.’

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Thanos  May 30, 2023 • 10:07:00am

re: #249 Dr. Matt

WTF.

Shark was actually trying to eat a turtle too big, the boy probably made soup later.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 30, 2023 • 10:10:00am
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dat_said  May 30, 2023 • 10:10:11am

re: #291 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

my normal totally resting rate is 44
sitting at my desk is about 55. (60 if im pissed at a client or website)
fast walking (which i was doing at the time) is in the 80’s

One of the first indoor track practices every year was what our college coach called “heartrate 200’s”. Run 200 meters (our group would do about 28 seconds per), 60 second rest, run another 200 meters. Take your HR after a 60 second rest - if over 120 bpm, do one more set and then done. Shot-putters and a few other field people would be done after 4. Sprinters would stop dropping out after 8 or 10. My group of 800m and 1500m men would still be out there after 30 before the coach said “enough”.

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No Malarkey!  May 30, 2023 • 10:10:12am
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danarchy  May 30, 2023 • 10:13:39am

re: #252 Joe Bacon ✅

Ah the 2022 data came out.

Texas got a thing for panties…And Florida…as expected…

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What does that even mean “Terms searched more often in each state when compared to other states.” Could you have one guy with a weird kink searching for something that nobody else in the country looks for and it gets applied to the whole state?

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No Malarkey!  May 30, 2023 • 10:14:09am
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🔧-wench  May 30, 2023 • 10:15:18am

re: #297 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

And I’m back.

My new computer (Jane) is way faster than my old one (Lilith).

My new laptop is Della. I lack originality, so does Della.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 30, 2023 • 10:16:04am

“Pride Month Is A Cynical Exercise In State-Enforced Homosexuality” declares Federalist writer who doesn’t know what words mean (We Hunted the Mammoth, May 26, 2023)

I have to give The Federalist credit for one thing: It was an eye-catching headline. Yesterday, you see, the billionaire-backed right-wing website ran a semi-coherent rant from staff editor Samuel Mangold-Lenett under the headline: “Pride Month Is A Cynical Exercise In State-Enforced Homosexuality.”

Naturally, I clicked the link to find out just how the Federal government was going to be making people gay this June. Would straight men be herded up and put in dick-sucking camps? Would straight women be forced to wear flannel and trade their cars in for Subaru Outbacks?

What I found under the headline was an angry and unfocused rant about how “government and corporate America alike use their respective spheres of influence to form a public-private regime dedicated to immanentizing a disordered eschaton.”

I then looked up the phrase “immanentize the eschaton” and discovered that it was “a generally pejorative term referring to attempts to bring about utopian conditions in the world.” In other words, Mr. Mangold-Lenett is mad at the attempts by allegedly leftist corporations and the government to make the world a better place.

(more)

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Thanos  May 30, 2023 • 10:17:11am

re: #291 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

my normal totally resting rate is 44
sitting at my desk is about 55. (60 if im pissed at a client or website)
fast walking (which i was doing at the time) is in the 80’s

Those are pretty low, mine hovers near the 60’s when at rest, and gets up to 90-110 with exercise on my new heart and blood pressure meds, but not too long ago I was capping at 155 using 10 bpm under the recommended rate for my age. It has to be all that exercise you get, you are like Lance Armstrong without the blood doping.
During my low oxygen/hemoglobin bout I was hitting the 220’s and not feeling so great.

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BeenHereAwhile  May 30, 2023 • 10:20:38am

re: #306 No Malarkey!

Tom Namako
First on @nbcnews:

Far-right members, unhappy with debt deal, float threatening McCarthy’s speakership

From @katiadoyl and @scottwongDC:
nbcnews.com …

Next bright and shinny object on the horizon for the Republicans?

Pyrrhic victory.

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🔧-wench  May 30, 2023 • 10:21:40am

re: #309 Thanos

Those are pretty low, mine hovers near the 60’s when at rest, and gets up to 90-110 with exercise on my new heart and blood pressure meds, but not too long ago I was capping at 155 using 10 bpm under the recommended rate for my age. It has to be all that exercise you get, you are like Lance Armstrong without the blood doping.
During my low oxygen/hemoglobin bout I was hitting the 220’s and not feeling so great.

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One of the notes on the records from when I was in a coma says ‘bradycardia’. Or, as Ray Davies put it, ‘Hey, buddy. You know you got a slow heartbeat.’ [under 60 bpm]

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No Malarkey!  May 30, 2023 • 10:22:39am

Another election denier gets sanctioned by a court, as they just can’t get enough of losing.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  May 30, 2023 • 10:22:43am
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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  May 30, 2023 • 10:24:54am

re: #233 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

So Twitter is marking as “sensitive” pretty much any image now that the drooling hate-right flags.

The link in this tweet, for example:

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I’m coming across a lot of these this morning.

The blue-check idiots must be complaining about any tweet with an actual news story.

“Didn’t cut the 87K IRS agents or secure the border. Epic fail. Nice try on the spin tho”

Cause there never were gonna be 87k “agents”

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Joe Bacon ✅  May 30, 2023 • 10:25:21am

re: #305 danarchy

What does that even mean “Terms searched more often in each state when compared to other states.” Could you have one guy with a weird kink searching for something that nobody else in the country looks for and it gets applied to the whole state?

Makes me wonder what Texan is into panties…Cruz, Cornyn or Hot Wheels?

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Captain Ron  May 30, 2023 • 10:26:06am
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Thanos  May 30, 2023 • 10:28:39am

re: #311 🔧-wench

One of the notes on the records from when I was in a coma says ‘bradycardia’. Or, as Ray Davies put it, ‘Hey, buddy. You know you got a slow heartbeat.’ [under 60 bpm]

Yep, any bpm under 50 is “call a code, they are bradying down!” — it’s how I got my pacemaker. After my quint bypass in 2010 I had an extended stay attached to many tubes and cords at the hospital because of excess edema.

They couldn’t pull my chest tube until my heart stopped making too much fluid but it was doing that due to high bpm and bp. Meanwhile they tried to maintain my stats with their meds instead of the concoction that my cardiologist, family doctor, and I had experimented to get to over the years. Long story short the night before I was to go home after finally getting my chest tube out, they decided Amiodarone would be good to try, so after a code and pacemaker insert they finally let me go…

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  May 30, 2023 • 10:28:52am

Sounds very familiar.

Toni Alcaraz says that she usually speaks with her sister, Nikki Alcaraz, almost every day. For three weeks now, however, Toni hasn’t heard a word from Nikki—who was last seen on a cross-country trip with her boyfriend, Tyler Stratton.

Nikki Alcaraz, also known as Nikki Cunningham, is a 33-year-old mother of two, Oklahoma’s News 4 reports. She reportedly Tennessee left for California with Stratton and a dog in her black 2013 Jeep Wrangler, which sports a “Mama Tried” sticker, camo seats, and a “BGL3539” tag.

Woman on Turbulent Cross-Country Road Trip With Boyfriend Goes Missing

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Dr. Matt  May 30, 2023 • 10:32:17am

re: #308 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

“Pride Month Is A Cynical Exercise In State-Enforced Homosexuality” declares Federalist writer who doesn’t know what words mean (We Hunted the Mammoth, May 26, 2023)

(more)

It’s just a matter of time before Sam Mangold-Lenett is revealed to be gay.

Not to stereotype, but he did write a book of poetry about “The Anxiety of a Millennial” and held a book signing event at Barnes and Nobles: newsnky.com

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  May 30, 2023 • 10:32:36am

re: #310 BeenHereAwhile

Next bright and shinny object on the horizon for the Republicans?

Pyrrhic victory.

They have not thought this through

Today’s electoral-vote.com

Whatever happens, however, is there any way the Freedom Caucus doesn’t end up as the loser here? When it comes to the debt-ceiling bill, we have to imagine it will become law. In that case, the Caucus gets almost nothing, and ends up with egg on its face. Alternatively, it is possible that Roy & Co. manage to sink the deal. In that case, the deadline will be imminent, the President will have tried to do things “the right way,” and will have cover to resort to extraordinary measures of some sort. The one outcome that is not on the table is “Rapid reboot with new bill in which the Freedom Caucus gets everything (or most of what) it wants.”

And then there is McCarthy. Once the Freedom Caucusers fail spectacularly, what will they do about him? If they don’t try to toss him out on his ear, then they will look like paper tigers. If they try and fail, say because House Democrats have secretly agreed to guarantee McCarthy’s speakership, then they will also look like paper tigers. If they try and succeed, it’s inconceivable that any other Republican will accept the devil’s bargain that McCarthy did, just so they can be speaker for a few months. No, that hypothetical next Speaker of the House would take note of the budget-ceiling bill, would notice that it’s way easier to work with the 20-30 centrist Democrats as opposed to the 20-30 Freedom Caucusers, and would ignore Roy and his friends.

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🔧-wench  May 30, 2023 • 10:34:13am

re: #317 Thanos

What a wild ride. Glad you’re here to tell the tale.

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Dr Lizardo  May 30, 2023 • 10:34:23am

re: #318 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

Sounds very familiar.

Woman on Turbulent Cross-Country Road Trip With Boyfriend Goes Missing

Oh, boy. Shades of Gabbi Petito.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  May 30, 2023 • 10:35:45am

re: #311 🔧-wench

One of the notes on the records from when I was in a coma says ‘bradycardia’. Or, as Ray Davies put it, ‘Hey, buddy. You know you got a slow heartbeat.’ [under 60 bpm]

Where I go to give blood The BP and pulse units are linked to the computer so they always have to call to get an override/permission

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Hecuba's daughter  May 30, 2023 • 10:36:09am

re: #162 sagehen

The more I think about the Succession finale, the more I sort of like it.

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I have very specific grievances —

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🔧-wench  May 30, 2023 • 10:36:19am
Records

Daniel Green holds the world record for the slowest heartbeat in a healthy human, with a heart rate measured in 2014 of 26 BPM.[19]

Martin Brady holds the Guinness world record for the slowest heart rate with a certified rate over a minute duration of 27 BPM.[20]

Professional cyclist Miguel Indurain had, during his career, a resting heart rate of 28 BPM.[21]

Indurain was nailed for doping. I don’t whether it’s relative.

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Thanos  May 30, 2023 • 10:41:11am

il y a un nouveau fil >>>>>>>

327
Patricia Kayden  May 30, 2023 • 10:41:37am

re: #267 Joe Bacon ✅

All the same, he gently slapped her wrists with a feather.
“All the same, Judge McFadden said that the United States Department of Justice’s sentencing recommendations for Bauer were too high and he gave her a 27-month prison sentence where she would get credit for time served in pretrial detention.”

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Thanos  May 30, 2023 • 10:42:59am

re: #321 🔧-wench

What a wild ride. Glad you’re here to tell the tale.

Thanks, me too - although today I grumbling because I have to get the mulching done.

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Hecuba's daughter  May 30, 2023 • 10:58:34am

re: #272 dat_said

Trump on his Truth Social

Let’s not let the little thing called the Constitution slow us down from throwing red meat.

All depends on how the 14th Amendment is interpreted — and I wouldn’t trust this racist Federalist Court to not overturn traditional logical interpretations.

330
Backwoods Sleuth  May 30, 2023 • 2:21:56pm

re: #233 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

So Twitter is marking as “sensitive” pretty much any image now that the drooling hate-right flags.

The link in this tweet, for example:

I’m coming across a lot of these this morning.

The blue-check idiots must be complaining about any tweet with an actual news story.

Just gave Kim a like and blocked Dan

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  May 30, 2023 • 3:27:32pm

re: #125 ckkatz

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re: #304 No Malarkey!

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76 years and counting:


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