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Merriam-Webster does new words.
I always thought TFW meant âtoo fucking weirdâ though. Iâll be spending the rest of the day trying to zhuzh up.
Interesting result, because this had been up in the air (heh) for a while. I think this result was expected, and not some anti-gravity reaction, otherwise you could have gotten some really bizarre behavior.
âTheyâre already putting this plan into actionâ: The chilling truth about Project 2025âs radical agenda
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If/when the House GOP shuts down the government, remember that it is the extremist GOP that did this. Theyâre the ones defunding law enforcement and DHS and CBP.
Know who says this? Noted flaming progressive liberal Mitch McConnell (R-KY/Hellmouth)
Sen. Min. Leader McConnell sends pointed message to House Speaker McCarthy:
âA vote against a standard short-term funding measure is a vote against paying over $1 billion in salary for Border Patrol and ICE agents working to track down lethal fentanyl and tame our open borders.â pic.twitter.com/dz36nxHzlSâ The Recount (@therecount) September 27, 2023
Although she had told Musk sheâd take the job that morning, Yaccarino had little idea that Musk would make any sort of public announcement, the FT reported, adding that she not yet arranged her departure from NBC and had told Musk she needed several weeks to do so.
The then-chairman of global advertising then dashed out of rehearsals and speak to Comcast president Michael Cavanagh to explain the situation, according to unnamed sources cited by the Financial Times.
Musk - always doing the thoughtful thing
re: #5 dat_said
Musk - always doing the thoughtful thing
The guy does manage to stay on brand, Iâll give him that.
re: #7 Backwoods Sleuth
I had one of those that was recalled, but it took MONTHS to replace it because the list of machines was so long.
Is there supposed to be a link attached to the image in the header?
When I click on it doesnât connect to anywhere.
Iowa Was a Wind Energy LeaderâThen Memes Slowed Its Clean Energy Transition
After years of growth, Iowaâs wind industry is facing local opposition fueled by misinformation.
by Molly Taft
distilled.earth
⌠some of the most significant changes at the local level in one of the countryâs most wind-heavy states are happening free of any obvious or direct dark money influence. In Iowa, grassroots activists are using the power of social media to help organize to pass policies that will significantly slow the transition to clean energy.
How is it even possible nobody went with the headline: âNew York Judge to Trump: YOUâRE FIRED!â
Like, what even is the point of print anymore?â Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) September 27, 2023
re: #311 lawhawk
Blaming shrinkage is a longstanding way that companies distract and deflect from structural issues with corporate decisions that havenât worked out, and key on media focus on crime.
basically a way of saying â not my fault â
For the results
While conveniently ignoring whose job loss prevention is
re: #2 ericblair
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Interesting result, because this had been up in the air (heh) for a while. I think this result was expected, and not some anti-gravity reaction, otherwise you could have gotten some really bizarre behavior.
But, to quote David Wooderson, âit would be a whole lot cooler if you didâ.
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re: #13 Backwoods Sleuth
It makes no sense to me why ANYONE would take a Republican at their word these days.
re: #15 Eclectic Cyborg
It makes no sense to me why ANYONE would take a Republican at their word these days.
Ah but those PRESSTITUTES treat the lies Republicans tell them as the Gospel Truth.
SWARTZ CREEK, Mich. (WNEM) - Five picketing United Auto Workers (UAW) members are recovering after being hit by a car around 4 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 26.
âThese people are just making a living and want a little bigger piece of the pie and this happens. Itâs very disturbing,â UAW Region 1D Director Steve Dawes said.
The incident happened near the General Motors Flint Processing Center in Swartz Creek.
âThree people in either a dark blue or a black HHR or possibly PT Cruiser came out of the building, out 70 yards and was driving at a high rate of speed, hit their brake real quick and kept going,â Dawes said. âRan over five people and sent two to the hospital and three with other injuries.â
Employees from the plant were trying to leave and picketers were blocking the driveway, according to Metro Police Chief Matt Bades. UAW leadership said that was not the case and believed the driver intentionally struck their members.
Bades added the driver fled the area and police are in the process of identifying the driver.
From emptywheel.net:
Engoran went one by one, describing the properties that Tish James had demonstrated Trump Organization had overvalued:
Trump Tower Triplex: 200% inflation of the square footage of Trumpâs own residence
Seven Springs Estate: value inflated by 400%
Trump Park Avenue: 64 to 700% inflation
40 Wall Street: $200 million overvaluation
Mar-a-Lago: at least 2,300% overvaluation on Palm Beachâs assessment
Aberdeen: overvaluation by ÂŁ164,196
TNGC Briarcliff: 300% inflation
TTNGLA: 200% inflation
Looks like I should be able to get a home equity loan at favorable rates based on my $800,000 to $11,500,000 how-Iâm-feeling-today estimated home value.
re: #17 Backwoods Sleuth
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The same shit that Pinkertons, scabs and strikebreakers did to Grandma, Great Grandpa and Grandpa Bacon during the CIO organizing drives in the 1930s. They were beaten, blacklisted, threatened and harassed because they dared follow John L Lewis to organize steel, electrical and auto workers into the USW, UE and UAW with a mighty assist from the United Mineworkers.
re: #21 Eclectic Cyborg
But this would be legal in Florida, right?
Half /
Not only that. Right Wing Jesus would give his Heavenly Assent as well!
re: #19 dat_said
From emptywheel.net:
Looks like I should be able to get a home equity loan at favorable rates based on my $800,000 to $11,500,000 how-Iâm-feeling-today estimated home value.
âI got $18000 in my bank account, you donât have to worry!â
(I have only 18 bucks in my bank account)
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Someone needs remedial headline writing:
Trump to visit Macomb County in bid to win over union workers amid auto strike
Former president to speak at non-unionized facility Wednesday
re: #25 Joe Bacon â
I certainly hope so.
re: #25 Joe Bacon â
When Tish James gets done with the Trumps they wonât even be able to get a mortgage on thisâŚ
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Sure they can. When the door is closed you can see the large gilded aluminum âTRUMPâ sign.
re: #25 Joe Bacon â
When Tish James gets done with the Trumps they wonât even be able to get a mortgage on thisâŚ
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My farm cousins (9 of them) had a two-seater version.
They were thrilled when my uncle finally installed indoor plumbing around â71. They didnât care that the toilet and shower were in the basement and that my uncle didnât include interior walls around either one - âyou kids can just yell before going down the stairsâ.
re: #13 Backwoods Sleuth
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Meanwhile, in the world outside the Beltway, Qev just came out today and announced that he wonât bring the Senate CR that has (according to a test vote) a 77 vote bipartisan majority to a vote in the House. That he still intends to force the House to vote on the âFreedumb Caucusâ bills that include a plethora of poison pills so then he can spend the next few weeks telling the press every day that if Biden would just comply with the ransom note then everybody would go back to work.
See, in past shutdowns, Qev might be in a better (relatively speaking) position because the Senate would either be just as divided as the House or would be locked down by Senate Repubs refusing to entertain any bills other than ones that came from the loonies in the House. But not only is the Senate running, the Senate Repubs have broken with their House counterparts to acknowledge that a government shutdown is a bad idea and there needs to be a short-term CR at current funding levels until the asshats in the House dunk their heads and come around to abiding by the May agreement.
Thus the Beltway find themselves in a dilemma: How do you âBoth Sidesâ a looming shutdown when itâs not âBoth Sidesâ but instead a small pack of asshats and the Speaker that is doing their bidding to save his own ass? The simple answer appears to be just pumping out the same BS that theyâd publish in any other shutdown and hope nobody asks why the House canât just pass the Senate bill to keep things running.
Patagonia is like the Southern hemisphereâs version of Siberia.
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re: #32 Vicious Babushka
Patagonia is like the Southern hemisphereâs version of Siberia.
Islam Channel fined ÂŁ40,000 over âantisemiticâ conspiracy theory documentary
I keep forgetting which Mastodon instances allow embeds and which donât.
re: #32 Vicious Babushka
Patagonia is like the Southern hemisphereâs version of Siberia.
mastodon.social
not at all.
PBS and BBC nature programs do a lot of Patagonia episodes. Itâs stunningly beautiful, varied topography, and awesome wildlife.
re: #17 Backwoods Sleuth
Pre Trump rally festivities I suppose. He brings destruction wherever he goes.
re: #7 Backwoods Sleuth
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But the companies will police themselves to protect us, right? No need for those annoying government regulations and inspections.
re: #25 Joe Bacon â
When Tish James gets done with the Trumps they wonât even be able to get a mortgage on thisâŚ
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They probably already have got it mortgaged: for $20 millionâŚ.
re: #34 sagehen
Eco-tourism is a growing area/industry. One can make a few dollars in that area.
re: #13 Backwoods Sleuth
In May, they cut a deal on spending levels to keep the #GOP from pushing us into default, Republicans are now refusing to honor that deal and reporters rarely mention that key fact. And now theyâre telling us that voters want the parties to cut a deal. Fuckinng Hell.
Youâll note that this is the exact same shit the Russian shills spout about Ukraine. The Russians/GOP agreed to a deal, then broke it, then the BOFF SIDES bad faith chorus shoved it down the memory hole and demanded a new deal now starting where the compromise was in the last one. And over and over.
Then when their own mountain of lies is about to collapse on top of their heads, the Very Serious People decide that itâs the good guys who have to give the bad guys a face-saving way out. No thanks. They took the easy way out every time and made a deal with the Devil for power, and we all told them that. Consequences are a bitch.
re: #166 Teukka
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re: #25 Joe Bacon â
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re: #39 ericblair
Youâll note that this is the exact same shit the Russian shills spout about Ukraine. The Russians/GOP agreed to a deal, then broke it, then the BOFF SIDES bad faith chorus shoved it down the memory hole and demanded a new deal now starting where the compromise was in the last one. And over and over.
Then when their own mountain of lies is about to collapse on top of their heads, the Very Serious People decide that itâs the good guys who have to give the bad guys a face-saving way out. No thanks. They took the easy way out every time and made a deal with the Devil for power, and we all told them that. Consequences are a bitch.
The âparty without agencyâ still has a lot of agency.
If The Speaker wonât bring a passable CR to a vote because of reasons associated with the party extremists nothing prevents one of the non-extremists from pulling the trigger on a vote to remove McCarthy. McCarthy is part of the problem for the GOP since he is clearly now putting his grasp on the gavel ahead of the party itself. No one is going to buy the âBiden is to blameâ BS.
re: #33 Vicious Babushka
I keep forgetting which Mastodon instances allow embeds and which donât.
In Mastodonâs 3-dot menu, click âEmbed.â If it comes up with a preview of the embedded post, it will work. If it shows an error or nothing, it wonât.
You know, I agree with Mitch here. Why the House Republicans would want to defund Border Patrol is beyond me. https://t.co/qJrJQUYG9o
â Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) September 27, 2023
re: #43 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
The âparty without agencyâ still has a lot of agency.
If The Speaker wonât bring a passable CR to a vote because of reasons associated with the party extremists nothing prevents one of the non-extremists from pulling the trigger on a vote to remove McCarthy. McCarthy is part of the problem for the GOP since he is clearly now putting his grasp on the gavel ahead of the party itself. No one is going to buy the âBiden is to blameâ BS.
All of these assholes are waiting for someone else to save them. The crazies have always had power without responsibility and never been punished: they canât even understand the concept of responsibility and donât understand why someone isnât magically fixing this for them like every other time in their coddled little lives.
re: #31 Backwoods Sleuth
jeebus
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Makes perfect sense if you accept that most of âwellnessâ and the conspiracies to connect to it are manifestations of hyperindividualism, and all word choices are bent by a base assumption that the world exists to confirm and buoy the self exclusively.
âPeaceâ is therefore exclusively inner peace achieved through personal consumptionâŚof ideas, of products, of places and peopleâŚbecause interconnection doesnât exist and the suffering of others is theirs in the way a debt or a genetic condition is theirs.
Naomi Wolf, like a lot of Paisley QAnon types, are essentially mystical neoliberalsâthere is no society and thus no collective path with which to heal or make whole the self, and suffering must be dealt with through personal initiative, entrepeneurially finding the killer app that makes the malaise go away. Every mystical tradition and cultural practice they consume they convert into the same ab-contextual slurry of personal enrichmentâŚand as as direct result they experience very limited benefit. As a consequence they delve further into self-involvement and becoming fixated on notions of purity and orthorexic personal regimes which make them even more disconnected.
Eventually they achieve a level of solipsism where the only thing that remains is conspiracy, the notion that their pursuit of self cannot fail on its own terms but must be derailed by Bad PeopleâŚnot systems, and especially not the perverse incentives inherent to âhealthâ and âwellnessâ as commercial products internally driven by profit.
Of course sheâs just uninterested in the actuality of Belfast in the 70s, or even today: the place only exists to the extent it services her needs moment to moment.
re: #47 darthstar
Embed gives me the angry lizard..copy link gives me thisâŚ
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No, I didnât mean you should use the Mastodon embed code. But clicking their Embed option will show a preview, and you can use that to know if it can be embedded here by posting the link.
re: #45 Dave In Austin
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New business Trump Dump. The Trump brand name on the door is worth millions, if not billions. I can see this out performing Trump University.
re: #33 Vicious Babushka
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I keep forgetting which Mastodon instances allow embeds and which donât.
Just another stumbling block to Mastodon being what it could be.
re: #51 Markm1960
New business Trump Dump. The Trump brand name on the door is worth millions, if not billions. I can see this out performing Trump University.
The ad pitch - âDonât just take a dump. Take a Trump.â
re: #51 Markm1960
New business Trump Dump. The Trump brand name on the door is worth millions, if not billions. I can see this out performing Trump University.
You saying this made me remember that the judge stated Trump assigned certain of his golf clubs a 15-30% increase in value based on the âgoodwillâ associated with the âTrump brand.â Iâm no expert here, but Iâm pretty sure that right now, that âgoodwillâ is so far in the, well, outhouse that heâd probably have been more accurate assessing a 15-30% DECREASE in value.
re: #31 Backwoods Sleuth
jeebus
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Thereâs a lot of Naomi Wolfe at Goodwill. I left it there.
re: #43 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
The âparty without agencyâ still has a lot of agency.
If The Speaker wonât bring a passable CR to a vote because of reasons associated with the party extremists nothing prevents one of the non-extremists from pulling the trigger on a vote to remove McCarthy. McCarthy is part of the problem for the GOP since he is clearly now putting his grasp on the gavel ahead of the party itself. No one is going to buy the âBiden is to blameâ BS.
The Beltway remain infatuated with the fantasy they dreamed up of how Ron and Tip were really buddy-buddy behind closed doors and could hash out any political disagreements over some bourbon and cigars, that everything that went on in front of the cameras was purely for their partyâs consumption. And it crops up every time thereâs a divided government in the post-Newt era, the idea that if the Dem in the WH would just invite over the Repub leader(s) to the WH for drinks then they could have this whole mess worked out in an evening and achieve that long sought-after âbipartisan compromise.â And the follow-on argument is if the Dem wonât do that, then heâs at fault because heâs unwilling to ânegotiate.â
re: #54 Nerdy Fish
You saying this made me remember that the judge stated Trump assigned certain of his golf clubs a 15-30% increase in value based on the âgoodwillâ associated with the âTrump brand.â Iâm no expert here, but Iâm pretty sure that right now, that âgoodwillâ is so far in the, well, outhouse that heâd probably have been more accurate assessing a 15-30% DECREASE in value.
Yeah, well Iâm sure the âTrump brandâ might spur sales of -something - to certain segments of the populace, but even the sum-total of all the red hats and gaudy flags arenât going to even approach the values heâs assigned invented for his RE investmentsâŚ.
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I was the bike mechanic for a guy in New Mexico who did a lot of touring. (I had several customers like that, but this oneâŚ)
He moved to Portland and wrote some books about his touring. I suspect a bit of fiction when I read about him fixing his flat tires. I used to do that for him. Last weekend, at 2 garage sales and one thrift store, I saw his first book.
re: #31 Backwoods Sleuth
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This is why science literacy matters. pic.twitter.com/eHAAiuZ000
â Dr. Jonathan N. Stea (@jonathanstea) September 27, 2023
re: #54 Nerdy Fish
You saying this made me remember that the judge stated Trump assigned certain of his golf clubs a 15-30% increase in value based on the âgoodwillâ associated with the âTrump brand.â Iâm no expert here, but Iâm pretty sure that right now, that âgoodwillâ is so far in the, well, outhouse that heâd probably have been more accurate assessing a 15-30% DECREASE in value.
Thereâs a row of co-ops near me, on Riverside Drive, that used to be Trump-branded. The Trump organization had retained about 30% of the units in each building as rentals, that theyâd have voting rights for at the co-op board. In 2017, the other owners in each building banded together in an overwhelming majority to vote to fire the Trump building management, change the names of the buildings and remove the big silver letters off the front.
re: #59 aatharuv
On a tangential note, I just learned the other day that I had been conflating Naomi Wolf and Naomi Klein, from an interview with the latter on my local NPR affiliate, about her new book, âDoppelgangerâ.
I still have to double check whether itâs the sane one or the other weirdo.
whatâs more important than funding the government?
this, apparently:
Are we really doing this? https://t.co/zATAJp7s6v
â Secretary Pete Buttigieg (@SecretaryPete) September 27, 2023
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re: #59 aatharuv
On a tangential note, I just learned the other day that I had been conflating Naomi Wolf and Naomi Klein, from an interview with the latter on my local NPR affiliate, about her new book, âDoppelgangerâ.
Kleinâs doing the rounds right now. Sheâs got a lot of very interesting things to say.
re: #65 Backwoods Sleuth
whatâs more important than funding the government?
this, apparently:tps://twitter.com
I live in her district 𤎠and farmers here recognize that the traditional seasons, and thus the growing seasons, are all fâd up. A couple of years ago several friends didnât finish harvesting till mid-December. Thatâs not normal.
re: #65 Backwoods Sleuth
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re: #56 Targetpractice
The Beltway remain infatuated with the fantasy they dreamed up of how Ron and Tip were really buddy-buddy behind closed doors and could hash out any political disagreements over some bourbon and cigars, that everything that went on in front of the cameras was purely for their partyâs consumption. And it crops up every time thereâs a divided government in the post-Newt era, the idea that if the Dem in the WH would just invite over the Repub leader(s) to the WH for drinks then they could have this whole mess worked out in an evening and achieve that long sought-after âbipartisan compromise.â And the follow-on argument is if the Dem wonât do that, then heâs at fault because heâs unwilling to ânegotiate.â
And also, in the post-Newt era, â bipartisan compromiseâ has come to mean âDemocrats unilaterally agree to anything and everything Republicans demandâ, and that any other desired outcome is seen as âpartisan intransigenceâ, usually blamed on âwoke radicalsâ, or whatever other boogeyman-of-the-week the GOP feels like floggingâŚ
re: #68 Markm1960
I live in her district 𤎠and farmers here recognize that the traditional seasons, and thus the growing seasons, are all fâd up. A couple of years ago several friends didnât finish harvesting till mid-December. Thatâs not normal.
I was a farmer and agriculture reporter for 19 years in Illinois.
She is full of shit, and not the fertile kind.
Hate speech is being read into the congressional record. No time to talk budget. Plenty of time for bigotry. https://t.co/84cWRtEPMM
â scott linnen (@ScottLinnen) September 27, 2023
Hunters are also well aware of the reality of climate change; ducks and geese pass by at the wrong time, snowshoe hares arenât where they used to be, deer have gotten skinnierâŚ
re: #54 Nerdy Fish
You saying this made me remember that the judge stated Trump assigned certain of his golf clubs a 15-30% increase in value based on the âgoodwillâ associated with the âTrump brand.â Iâm no expert here, but Iâm pretty sure that right now, that âgoodwillâ is so far in the, well, outhouse that heâd probably have been more accurate assessing a 15-30% DECREASE in value.
The value of Trumpâs âgoodwillâ is gonna disappear like âgoodwillâ did in the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s.
It seems daily I run across some young leftie on Bluesky saying things like âif you believe in double-genocide youâre a holocaust denier and a nazi sympathizer.â I learned that âdouble-genocideâ is the non-controversial fact that people in Ukraine suffered unspeakable horror from both the Nazis and the Soviets.
re: #76 Barefoot Grin
It seems daily I run across some young leftie on Bluesky saying things like âif you believe in double-genocide youâre a holocaust denier and a nazi sympathizer.â I learned that âdouble-genocideâ is the non-controversial fact that people in Ukraine suffered unspeakable horror from both the Nazis and the Soviets.
Iâd never heard of the term, but after you explained it, it seems obvious on its face. Both the Nazis and the Soviets were among the dregs of humanity; Stalin probably had even more blood on his hands than Hitler did, Hitler was just a little bit less circumspect about it.
And then there are some servers that do support embedding but donât include the code that sets the height of the embedded post.
re: #79 Charles Johnson
And then there are some servers that do support embedding but donât include the code that sets the height of the embedded post.
But they work in the Master Spy. Extra mastery goin on in there?
Since the Trump family & Ted Cruz want to lie about the judgeâs ruling, here is the relevant part. The judge did not rule that MAL is worth $18 million. The judge just noted that Trump claim it is worth $1.5B is preposterous, and noted itâs assessed value for taxes was $18-27M. pic.twitter.com/lHtRaXttC4
â Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) September 27, 2023
re: #33 Vicious Babushka
Islam Channel fined ÂŁ40,000 over âantisemiticâ conspiracy theory documentary
I keep forgetting which Mastodon instances allow embeds and which donât.
Somebody read a Michael Chabon novel and riffed on it
re: #82 Backwoods Sleuth
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This is the downside of legal rulings. Judge Engoron was brilliant and issued an exhaustive (and scathing) takedown of all of Team Trumpâs attempted defenses, but very few people will actually read it because they think itâs beyond them. And while there is legalese in there that us non-lawyers probably wonât get, judges have a way of putting the cookies on the lower shelf for us laypeople to get at.
re: #46 Backwoods Sleuth
Biden: âYou know, I agree with Mitch here. Why the House Republicans would want to defund Border Patrol is beyond me.â
Rope âem and brand âem, Brandon!
re: #61 Teukka
Do their husbandâs balls swell up?
Another tankie being oh so gracious to vote Democratic. Do you want a trophy or should I kiss your shoes, Ms. Gollum?
Heâs right. The pro-life movement has money on its side. Now that Roe is gone, youâd think theyâd be opening maternity homes, pushing local legislation, and rallying like thereâs no tomorrow. Why arenât they doing that? https://t.co/VD9hz9WoN7
â MWA (@RtrnSanity) September 27, 2023
re: #78 Nerdy Fish
Iâd never heard of the term, but after you explained it, it seems obvious on its face. Both the Nazis and the Soviets were among the dregs of humanity; Stalin probably had even more blood on his hands than Hitler did, Hitler was just a little bit less circumspect about it.
To recap:
The Holodomor was a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine from ~1931 to 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians. It was part of the wider Soviet famine of 1930-1933 which affected the major grain-producing areas of the Soviet Union.
The Holocaust in Ukraine was the systematic mass murder of 850,000 - 1,600,00 Jews between 1941 and 1945 during German military occupation.
re: #76 Barefoot Grin
It seems daily I run across some young leftie on Bluesky saying things like âif you believe in double-genocide youâre a holocaust denier and a nazi sympathizer.â I learned that âdouble-genocideâ is the non-controversial fact that people in Ukraine suffered unspeakable horror from both the Nazis and the Soviets.
Which is what I meant about the notion of foreigners joining the Waffen-SS is a highly nuanced issue. Those people chose one Evil over another. Because they had little else to choose from.
re: #88 DodgerFan1988
Is it me or is Trump completely incoherent in this clip?
re: #93 Charles Johnson
Is it me or is Trump completely incoherent in this clip?
heâs been like that a LOT lately
âalternate cohernecyâ
re: #91 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Which is what I meant about the notion of foreigners joining the Waffen-SS is a highly nuanced issue. Those people chose one Evil over another. Because they had little else to choose from.
There will be no explaining any of this. If I do Iâm a communist-hating shitlib or lib-centrist. I just observe and move on. VB found one who will deign to vote D, but most I run across are just going to stand on the sidelines and laugh. Oh well. I donât think they represent meaningful numbers, and Iâve heard that they were some of the first to sign up for the platform, so thereâs also kind of a defensive posture against perceived outsiders.
re: #93 Charles Johnson
Is it me or is Trump completely incoherent in this clip?
Heâs apparently so incoherent he stumbled his way into saying something true (when stripped of context): âI donât know whatâs going on.â
But Iâm sure as hell not going to listen to the actual clip.
re: #91 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Which is what I meant about the notion of foreigners joining the Waffen-SS is a highly nuanced issue. Those people chose one Evil over another. Because they had little else to choose from.
Thereâs blood on the hands of the Ukrainians who, after the holodomor, welcomed the Nazi invasion as means to free their country from Russian occupation.
âEverything is illuminatedâ is a well done movie on the subject:
re: #91 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Which is what I meant about the notion of foreigners joining the Waffen-SS is a highly nuanced issue. Those people chose one Evil over another. Because they had little else to choose from.
One of the major Nazi strategic blunders was to invade on the eastern front with maximum brutality.
Will Fani move to indict Gym Neighbors for Obstruction Of Justice?
Jordan told Willis that sheâs only reinforcing âthe Committeeâs concern that your prosecutorial conduct is geared more toward advancing a political cause and your own notoriety than toward promoting the fair and just administration of the law.â
âCongress in general, and this Committee in particular, have a strong legislative interest in ensuring that popularly elected local prosecutors do not misuse their law-enforcement authority to target federal officials for political reasons,â Jordan claimed. âWe can only conclude from your hostile response to the Committeeâs oversight that you are actively and aggressively engaged in such a scheme.â
So-called fake elector wants case thrown out after Michigan attorney general calls him âbrainwashedâ
One of the so-called fake electors wants criminal charges thrown out over Michigan Attorney General Dane Nesselâs comments on the case.
Nessel told a left-leaning groupâs Sept. 18 virtual event that she believed the 16 Republicans had been âbrainwashedâ and âgenuinelyâ believed Donald Trump had won Michiganâs presidential election, and an attorney for one of the fake electors filed a motion to dismiss the charges, reported the Associated Press.
âThey legit believe that,â Nessel told the group.
Kevin Kijewski, an attorney for the defendant Clifford Frost, filed the motion to dismiss Tuesday, arguing that Nesselâs comments were an âexplicit and clear admissionâ that the phony electors hadnât intended to defraud anyone, and an attorney for co-defendant Mari-Ann Henry filed a similar motion Tuesday asking the court to ânullify the governmentâs entire case.â
A third defendantâs attorney was evaluating whether to file a motion to dismiss, and the Republican assistant attorney general who Nessel defeated in 2018 said her remarks could play a key role in the case.
âI donât think thereâs any argument that the action was there,â said Tom Leonard, a former Michigan assistant attorney general and the GOP nominee against Nessel. âThe question is: What did these defendants intend to do when they showed up and signed those documents? Nessel, the stateâs chief law enforcement officer who put that pen to paper charging these defendants, has now openly said that the intent was not there.â
he is so much for the working manâŚ
Trump on the auto industry: âLet it go bankruptâ pic.twitter.com/MD4GUSU9LE
â Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) September 27, 2023
re: #100 EPR-radar
One of the major Nazi strategic blunders was to invade on the eastern front with maximum brutality.
German Dilomat Hans Herwarth writes that Hitler could have recruited up to ten divisionsâ worth of soldiers from Ukraine, Belarus and other parts of the Western USSR, but that would have meant they would have expected some rewards upon victory, and all that land was already reserved as Lebensraum for Germans to settle
When the GOPers with any sort of survival instinct start to bail out, thereâs going to be a pile of them crushed at the door.
Heâs right. The pro-life movement has money on its side. Now that Roe is gone, youâd think theyâd be opening maternity homes, pushing local legislation, and rallying like thereâs no tomorrow. Why arenât they doing that? https://t.co/VD9hz9WoN7
â MWA (@RtrnSanity) September 27, 2023
âDamn you other grifters for messing with my grift!â
re: #104 Backwoods Sleuth
Trump on the auto industry: âLet it go bankruptâ
Which we could have done in the late 70âs but nobody was about to face the political and social consequences of letting the Invisible Hand of the unregulated Free Market work its wonders.
re: #106 Decatur Deb
When the GOPers with any sort of survival instinct start to bail out, thereâs going to be a pile of them crushed at the door.
I hope nobody starts shooting.
re: #87 Vicious Babushka
Another tankie being oh so gracious to vote Democratic. Do you want a trophy or should I kiss your shoes, Ms. Gollum?
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As someone who has voted Libertarian on more than one occasion, I can sympathize with those who are much further left than the Democratic mainstream. As Iâve said before, our system isnât really built well to represent a nation of 340 million people spread across a continent.
re: #110 KGxvi
As someone who has voted Libertarian on more than one occasion, I can sympathize with those who are much further left than the Democratic mainstream. As Iâve said before, our system isnât really built well to represent a nation of 340 million people spread across a continent.
Yeah, the lack of viable third parties in American politics has always irked me.
re: #111 wrenchwench
At time-and-a-half and double time on Sundays, thatâs going to be some sweet overtime.
Just a reminderâmy Great Grandpa Bacon passing out the Steel Labor Union Newspaper by the entrance of the J&L Steel Plant in Aliquippa PA
Grandpa Bacon with fellow CIO organizers in front of their Aliquippa PA HQ and heâs the one in the dark hat.
Both of them would be proud that Joe Biden walked on the picket line with striking workers!
re: #61 Teukka
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She forgot to mention that they also get them when not seated next to vaccinated women or in hotels where they slept.
(Just how do you know the person sitting next to you is vaccinated?)
re: #112 Eclectic Cyborg
Yeah, the lack of viable third parties in American politics has always irked me.
we really should have something like 6-8 parties, I think. But the electoral college and the artificial limit on the House (and state legislatures for that matter), make it nearly impossible.
re: #115 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS
She forgot to mention that they also get them when not seated next to vaccinated women or in hotels where they slept.
(Just how do you know the person sitting next to you is vaccinated?)
Well, in America, at least, itâs pretty easy. If theyâre reading Mein Kampf, theyâre not vaccinated.
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re: #115 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS
She forgot to mention that they also get them when not seated next to vaccinated women or in hotels where they slept.
(Just how do you know the person sitting next to you is vaccinated?)
Donât sift the crazy.
hi
Weâre back from Cheyenne. The eye docâs drops deepened and widened the blue ring around my iris, so my eyes are now more blue than brown.
Other than that, my eyes are fine.
The base exchange was dead today (too close to payday), so in and out to buy a new microwave.
re: #121 Anymouse đšđĄđˇ
I am happy to hear you got good news.
re: #112 Eclectic Cyborg
Yeah, the lack of viable third parties in American politics has always irked me.
Once upon a time (around 100 years ago) there was a third party called the Socialist Party which actually elected mayors, city councilors, county commissioners, state legislators and congressmen. Their Presidential Candidates came close to getting a million votes nationwide in several elections.
Then A. Mitchell Palmer and his protege J Edgar Hoover cracked down on themâŚ
re: #122 PhillyPretzel â
I am happy to hear you got good news.
I got more good news. The eye doc also explained why my eyes are turning blue.
This is an elder (ugh) condition called arcus senilis. In some older (ugh) people, fat deposits build up around the edge of the cornea. They appear blue. The eye drops in question make them stand out.
The condition itself does not require treatment, it just looks weird.
On the way home, we stopped at the optician in the county seat, where they extracted about $500 from my wife for a new pair of glasses.
PROGRAMMING NOTE: The image at the top of the article is a jpeg, not a video.
What happened to the video? I had saved this because I had yard work, now it doesnât appear to be thereâŚ
re: #124 Anymouse đšđĄđˇ
Read my #58 and you will understand what is going on with me.
re: #9 The Ghost of a Flea
Is there supposed to be a link attached to the image in the header?
When I click on it doesnât connect to anywhere.
As heard earlier, by me anywayâŚ
re: #74 sagehen
Hunters are also well aware of the reality of climate change; ducks and geese pass by at the wrong time, snowshoe hares arenât where they used to be, deer have gotten skinnierâŚ
We now have pelicans on the nearby lake. They stay year round because the lake does not freeze over anymore.
re: #7 Backwoods Sleuth
Your medical system on capitalism.
Profits to the bean-counters were far more important than piddlinâ compliance with FDA regulations for reporting.
re: #13 Backwoods Sleuth
Whatâs the âbudget compromiseâ? Do what Republicans say or the government (and millions of Americans) get it.
re: #34 sagehen
not at all.
PBS and BBC nature programs do a lot of Patagonia episodes. Itâs stunningly beautiful, varied topography, and awesome wildlife.
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And they make a superb line of outdoor wear.
re: #103 wrenchwench
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How did that wagon not turn into dust while being buried for 4000 years?
re: #135 sizzzzlerz
How did that wagon not turn into dust while being buried for 4000 years?
(Very) extended warranty.
re: #102 Joe Bacon â
So-called fake elector wants case thrown out after Michigan attorney general calls him âbrainwashedâ
One of the so-called fake electors wants criminal charges thrown out over Michigan Attorney General Dane Nesselâs comments on the case.
Nessel told a left-leaning groupâs Sept. 18 virtual event that she believed the 16 Republicans had been âbrainwashedâ and âgenuinelyâ believed Donald Trump had won Michiganâs presidential election, and an attorney for one of the fake electors filed a motion to dismiss the charges, reported the Associated Press.
âThey legit believe that,â Nessel told the group.
Kevin Kijewski, an attorney for the defendant Clifford Frost, filed the motion to dismiss Tuesday, arguing that Nesselâs comments were an âexplicit and clear admissionâ that the phony electors hadnât intended to defraud anyone, and an attorney for co-defendant Mari-Ann Henry filed a similar motion Tuesday asking the court to ânullify the governmentâs entire case.â
A third defendantâs attorney was evaluating whether to file a motion to dismiss, and the Republican assistant attorney general who Nessel defeated in 2018 said her remarks could play a key role in the case.
âI donât think thereâs any argument that the action was there,â said Tom Leonard, a former Michigan assistant attorney general and the GOP nominee against Nessel. âThe question is: What did these defendants intend to do when they showed up and signed those documents? Nessel, the stateâs chief law enforcement officer who put that pen to paper charging these defendants, has now openly said that the intent was not there.â
I legitimately believe that the Hope Diamond is mine to take. It is my legitimate property that has been stolen from me somehow. Now, off to claim my rightful propertyâŚ
re: #132 Backwoods Sleuth
Remember that when investors pool their resources to strengthen their bargaining position, that is a corporation and are praised as the very heart and soul of modern Capitalism.
When employees pool their resources to improve their bargaining position and form a union, they are seen as socialist rabble-rousers who are seen as the very antithesis of Capitalism and destroyers of personal initiative.
âIndividual Freedomâ in our modern definition means the right of individuals to bargain one-on-one with multi-billion-dollar corporations for terms of employment, insurance coverage or financial services.
re: #114 Joe Bacon â
Grandpa Bacon gets all the updings!
re: #138 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Remember that when investors pool their resources to strengthen their bargaining position, that is a corporation and are praised as the very heart and soul of modern Capitalism.
When employees pool their resources to improve their bargaining position and form a union, they are seen as socialist rabble-rousers who are seen as the very antithesis of Capitalism and destroyers of personal initiative.
âIndividual Freedomâ in our modern definition means the right of individuals to bargain one-on-one with multi-billion-dollar corporations for terms of employment, insurance coverage or financial services.
+1
re: #100 EPR-radar
One of the major Nazi strategic blunders was to invade on the eastern front with maximum brutality.
The pro-soviet Ukrainians exploited German brutality into an insurgency complete with assassinations of German officers that disrupted cooperation between the anti-soviet Ukrainians and German occupation. It was ugly, but itâs what the Russians are very good at.
re: #2 ericblair
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Interesting result, because this had been up in the air (heh) for a while. I think this result was expected, and not some anti-gravity reaction, otherwise you could have gotten some really bizarre behavior.
The idea that anti-matter would react oppositely to gravity was frankly absurd. The only way this would have made any sense at all is if particles that are their own antiparticle, like photons, didnât react to gravity at all as the two effects canceled out. Light wouldnât bend around stars and black holes if this were true.
And letâs not forget about the Katyn massacreeâŚ
re: #144 goddamnedfrank
The idea that anti-matter would react oppositely to gravity was frankly absurd. The only way this would have made any sense at all is if particles that are their own antiparticle, like photons, didnât react to gravity at all as the two effects canceled out. Light wouldnât bend around stars and black holes if this were true.
The explicit verification that antimatter falls down has its value, even if the result is completely as expected.
After all, quantum mechanics itself is absurd, and it was forced on physicists by the absurd results that came up from various atomic physics experiments.
Edited to add: the centennial of quantum mechanics is roughly 2025
Antimatter should create antigravity.
re: #146 Backwoods Sleuth
Hereâs a question for the stupidest of the Trump spawn â if the Florida pesthole is worth well more than $1 billion, why isnât it being taxed with that value?
Judge Chutkan denies Trumpâs request for her to recuse herself.
re: #149 EPR-radar
Hereâs a question for the stupidest of the Trump spawn â if the Florida pesthole is worth well more than $1 billion, why isnât it being taxed with that value?
Taxable value < 10 million.
re: #148 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Antimatter should create antigravity.
Not really, according to current views. Anything that has mass (and/or energy) distorts spacetime in the way we call gravity. Antimatter has mass and/or energy just like matter does, so its role in creating gravity should be the same. Thatâs why the opposite result from this experiment would have been a BFD for physics.
Edited to add: that last part about the experiment is sloppy â the experiment showed antimatter falls as expected in a gravitational field generated by normal matter. It is theory that tells us there is no reason to believe thereâs a difference between gravity generated by normal matter and gravity generated by antimatter.
A direct experimental test of gravity created by antimatter is impossible, and would be ludicrously dangerous if it were possible.
re: #150 darthstar
Judge Chutkan denies Trumpâs request for her to recuse herself.
Itâs a pity that the judge canât include in her ruling an earnest desire to see Trump and his counsel disappear up their own rectums.
re: #152 EPR-radar
The discovery/confirmation that gravity propagates at the speed of light was a big win for the experimenters a while back (the first primitive grav wave observatories correlating signals with, IIRC, regular electromagnetic observations of colliding black holes). Until then it was generally believed that gravity did in fact propagate at the speed of light but proving it was another matter.
re: #152 EPR-radar
Not really, according to current views. Anything that has mass (and/or energy) distorts spacetime in the way we call gravity. Antimatter has mass and/or energy just like matter does, so its role in creating gravity should be the same. Thatâs why the opposite result from this experiment would have been a BFD for physics.
Antimatter is subject to Einstein Relativistic Physics like any other matter. There is theoretical âExotic Matterâ that could potentially âfall upâ a gravity well and among other things be the required fuel for an Alcubierre FTL Drive, but sadly no tests have to been successful in detecting any of this âExotic Matterâ
re: #148 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Antimatter should create antigravity.
Assumes gravitons exist and also arenât their own antiparticle. Otherwise the closest weâre going to get is dark energy accelerating expansion of the universe.
re: #157 goddamnedfrank
It is funny that terms like dark matter and dark energy exist (for good reason) without us having the foggiest idea of what they are.
re: #149 EPR-radar
Hereâs a question for the stupidest of the Trump spawn â if the Florida pesthole is worth well more than $1 billion, why isnât it being taxed with that value?
Someone within the Trump organization is telling spawn to STFU about publicly bragging what the Palm Beach property is worth.
Palm Beach Countyâs tax assessor would love an excuse to increase the property tax on that 14 acres between Lake Worth and the Atlantic Ocean.
And there are plenty of old money residents who would like nothing better than to see the Trumps forced to leave Palm Beach. I suspect the Trump family is PNG at the Everglades Club.
re: #46 Backwoods Sleuth
They want to defund the Border Patrol to make the border crisis worse.
Then they can win the election by blaming Biden for it.
4D chess!
re: #56 Targetpractice
The Beltway remain infatuated with the fantasy they dreamed up of how Ron and Tip were really buddy-buddy behind closed doors and could hash out any political disagreements over some bourbon and cigars, that everything that went on in front of the cameras was purely for their partyâs consumption. And it crops up every time thereâs a divided government in the post-Newt era, the idea that if the Dem in the WH would just invite over the Repub leader(s) to the WH for drinks then they could have this whole mess worked out in an evening and achieve that long sought-after âbipartisan compromise.â And the follow-on argument is if the Dem wonât do that, then heâs at fault because heâs unwilling to ânegotiate.â
Which, of course, flies in the face of the fact that the GOP has broken every deal they have negotiated with the Democrats in the past thirty years.
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