Video: John Oliver on the UFO Invasion

John Oliver explains why we need honest inquiry into UFO sightings, and why those inquiries should be data-driven, fact-based, and – crucially – boring as fuck.

UPDATE at 4/25/24 12:00:17 pm by Charles Johnson

I agree with John Oliver’s basic point about needing more honest inquiry into UFO sightings because the government has lied about them many times.

But… I wish he had also pointed out that it’s extremely unlikely these are alien spacecraft.

It’s never aliens.

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lawhawk Apr 25, 2024 • 10:43:11am

Didn’t Trump promise to get to the bottom of all this and he failed?

Why are we giving Trump an opportunity to fail on this most crucial issue again?

darthstar Apr 25, 2024 • 10:44:33am

re: #1 lawhawk

Didn’t Trump promise to get to the bottom of all this and he failed?

Why are we giving Trump an opportunity to fail on this most crucial issue again?

He got distracted by Infrastructure Week.

Backwoods Sleuth Apr 25, 2024 • 10:44:48am

Mastodon

darthstar Apr 25, 2024 • 10:47:55am

Engoron says no to Donald.

Mastodon

Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines Apr 25, 2024 • 10:50:12am

Last string.
re: #284 Joe Bacon ✅

Sotomayor: If the president decides that his rival is a corrupt person and he orders the military to assasinate him, is that within his official acts to which he has immunity?

“That could well be an official act,” Trump lawyer John Sauer says

And that motherfather actually said that…

Dark Brandon and his crew should be plotting and planning like Michael Corleone and his henchmen before the mass hit on the Five Families—— just in case SCOTUS rules in favor of immunity. //

Backwoods Sleuth Apr 25, 2024 • 10:50:36am

Mastodon

Eclectic Cyborg Apr 25, 2024 • 10:52:57am

re: #6 Backwoods Sleuth

As if we re-elect said lawless POTUS, he’s gonna get one or two MORE justices on that court.

Nerdy Fish Apr 25, 2024 • 10:53:17am

It beggars belief that some of the richest and most powerful people in this country are so desperate for this specific dipshit to inhabit the White House - not another one who would be similarly inclined to their interests, but with less criminal baggage; this specific one - that they are willing to literally make him immune to all criminal prosecutions for eternity after leaving office just to make it happen.

Shropshire Slasher Apr 25, 2024 • 10:53:26am

American Airlines and Southwest Airlines both lost money in the first quarter, and Southwest said Thursday it will limit hiring and close operations at four airports.
Southwest expects to end this year with 2,000 fewer employees than it had at the start of the year.

Airlines are dealing with higher labor costs and delays in getting new planes from Boeing, which is limiting their ability to add more flights at a time of high demand for travel.

nypost.com

jeffreyw Apr 25, 2024 • 10:53:41am

Mastodon

🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 Apr 25, 2024 • 10:54:10am

This UFO nonsense makes me feel like we’ve looped back to the goofy 70s.

Backwoods Sleuth Apr 25, 2024 • 10:54:50am

Mastodon

🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 Apr 25, 2024 • 10:56:07am

re: #12 Backwoods Sleuth

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They’d rather have a racist white king than a white President who isn’t racist.

darthstar Apr 25, 2024 • 10:59:49am

Don’t look under the rug.
threads.net

Fuck…threads. It’s Trump’s hair blowing around

sagehen Apr 25, 2024 • 11:00:45am

re: #10 jeffreyw

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someone who can read music needs to translate that picture into sound.

Dangerman Apr 25, 2024 • 11:01:17am

re: #10 jeffreyw

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“Lets get with it, Cruickshank”

danarchy Apr 25, 2024 • 11:01:50am

re: #4 darthstar

Engoron says no to Donald.

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I think that case was Judge Kaplan

darthstar Apr 25, 2024 • 11:02:05am

MP4 Video

Dangerman Apr 25, 2024 • 11:02:16am

re: #11 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

This UFO nonsense makes me feel like we’ve looped back to the goofy 70s.

There are unidentified flying objects
There are no unidentifiable ones

wrenchwench Apr 25, 2024 • 11:03:00am

re: #14 darthstar

Don’t look under the rug.
threads.net

Fuck…threads. It’s Trump’s hair blowing around

That ledge over the ‘part’ has been getting bigger. I didn’t think how it would catch the wind. Apparently, neither did he.

darthstar Apr 25, 2024 • 11:03:10am

Cool. If there’s a video on Mastodon in a threads post, just view the video in a new tab to get the mastodon link then paste here as I did above.

darthstar Apr 25, 2024 • 11:04:20am

re: #17 danarchy

I think that case was Judge Kaplan

Right, Kaplan…I get all these judges mixed up…hard to keep them straight.

wrenchwench Apr 25, 2024 • 11:04:34am

re: #21 darthstar

Cool. If there’s a video on Mastodon in a threads post, just view the video in a new tab to get the mastodon link then paste here as I did above.

Now send it to Trump’s phone. All day.

🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 Apr 25, 2024 • 11:06:58am

re: #19 Dangerman

There are unidentified flying objects
There are no unidentifiable ones

An alien spaceship would be identifiable once we saw it and knew aliens were present.
Same for a supernatural vessel full of demons, which isn’t much less likely than aliens, since the lightspeed limit and lack of an actual supernatural are probably equally difficult hurdles to overcome.

Mike Lamb Apr 25, 2024 • 11:09:06am

re: #8 Nerdy Fish

It beggars belief that some of the richest and most powerful people in this country are so desperate for this specific dipshit to inhabit the White House - not another one who would be similarly inclined to their interests, but with less criminal baggage; this specific one - that they are willing to literally make him immune to all criminal prosecutions for eternity after leaving office just to make it happen.

I’ve always found that crazy as well. You’re talking about someone with absolutely zero redeeming features. It was like gun nuts latching on to George Zimmerman. Pick a better avatar.

Backwoods Sleuth Apr 25, 2024 • 11:10:54am

Mastodon

goddamnedfrank Apr 25, 2024 • 11:11:55am

apparently it’s NOT anti-Semitic to say that “anti-Israel protests are a secret conspiracy funded by Jewish billionaires?”

— Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 (@chimeracoder.bsky.social) 2024-04-25T15:35:46.288Z

Eclectic Cyborg Apr 25, 2024 • 11:12:16am

re: #8 Nerdy Fish

It’s because this specific dipshit is the only Republican who has a strong enough following right now to get these people anywhere near the White House.

This is why I really want to see Trump lose and watch all the big $$$$ GOP folks run away from him when he does.

Dizzy Apr 25, 2024 • 11:14:07am

Not knowing much about U.S. law or political procedure, can someone with more knowledge in these areas inform me if there is any recourse that sane people can take if the corrupt supreme court rules that yes, in fact, presidents are immune to prosecution?

Asking for a terrified friend.

🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 Apr 25, 2024 • 11:14:34am

I don’t think Arcane is as good as Fallout is, but I did enjoy it, despite having no interest at all in the game it was based on.

‘Fallout’ Isn’t the First Video Game Adaptation Ella Purnell Made Better

When it comes to rising stars who completely elevate any project they’re a part of, few are doing it as successfully as Ella Purnell. This actress has been working nonstop for more than a decade, taking on wildly different performances and imbuing each with a versatile depth for which she’s quickly becoming known.

The most recent of these is her role in Fallout, created by Graham Wagner and Geneva Robertson-Dworet, a video game adaptation that broke all expectations due in large part to her performance as main character Lucy. This live-action version of the groundbreaking game featured exceptional performances from everyone involved, but it was Purnell who gave this story of mayhem in a radiation-drenched dystopia the dreadful gravitas needed. Her acting makes the entire project immensely better — and, funnily enough, this isn’t the first time she’s done this with a show based on a video game.

While Fallout uses real people to stress the levity of its premise, the animated series Arcane, created by Christian Linke and Alex Yee, does the same through animation, using beautiful images, heartwrenching storylines, and, most of all, Purnell’s amazing voice acting to turn its digital story into something anyone can relate to.

collider.com

Eclectic Cyborg Apr 25, 2024 • 11:15:56am

re: #29 Dizzy

The only one I can think of involves a large enough group of people hitting the streets to do what is necessary.

I’ll let you fill in the rest.

Dizzy Apr 25, 2024 • 11:16:38am

re: #31 Eclectic Cyborg

The only one I can think of involves a large enough group of people hitting the streets to do what is necessary.

I’ll let you fill in the rest.

That’s not what I wanted to hear.

Nerdy Fish Apr 25, 2024 • 11:17:27am

re: #28 Eclectic Cyborg

It’s because this specific dipshit is the only Republican who has a strong enough following right now to get these people anywhere near the White House.

That sounds like a them problem, to me. They had plenty of time to get someone into the national conversation. Their deliberate decision not to do so should not constitute precipitating multiple full-on constitutional emergencies.

lawhawk Apr 25, 2024 • 11:19:33am

re: #29 Dizzy

Not knowing much about U.S. law or political procedure, can someone with more knowledge in these areas inform me if there is any recourse that sane people can take if the corrupt supreme court rules that yes, in fact, presidents are immune to prosecution?

Asking for a terrified friend.

There are no good outcomes here thanks to the radicalized extremist court that has thrown precedent and common sense out the window, all while ignoring the facts and law before them in this case. They want an outcome, and will bend the facts and reality to their whims.

Even the delay is purposeful and with malice towards the rule of law.

silverdolphin Apr 25, 2024 • 11:21:38am

That clip from the last thread about the West Wing episode where the President goes after the nicely educated, religious nutjob, who just happens to be female and totally unable to defend her position, has always kinda bugged me. Not that his rant was not on target. But because of the entire reason he started it in the first place.

He did not go after her because of her religous beliefs. He went after her because she did not stand up (in a way that itself could be declared disrespectful). He was pissed he was not shown respect by her and even ended his jeremiad by saying that in the White House, when the President stands, everyone stands.

Sorkin wrote her as an idiot, not able to debate with the likes of the President. But I always felt it was kind of bullying since he went after her because she did not stand, not the he was actually having a religious debate.

I was a debater in high school and often loved winning by taking the contrary. I love this scene but Sorkin did not allow her to debate her position, simply showing her being bullied into standing up, which is what he really wanted. It was so easy to write and make the President the smartest person in the room. I could so easily see someone pushing back on the standing aspect.

We supposedly fought a war so we do not have to bow to kings. Is standing in the presence of the President, and not sitting until they do, not a similar unnecessary requirement? As an American, is it not my 1st Amendment right sit in the presence of the President if I disagree with them? What is the legal penalty for refusing to stand for the President in the White House, as he seems to think there is a real rule? Is it not similar to kneeling for the Anthem? (see I can use the rhetorical tool of just asking questions ;-)

I would have liked to see Sorkin write responses to those questions. Because I have some of them also ;-)

As for his rant about why some things in the Bible are enforced and not others. While I agree with that, and find his argument strong, it can also be answered with the analogy that there exists such a thing as prosecutorial discretion - there is no way to enforce ALL the laws ALL the time. So we try to enforce the ones we think are most important.

Whether that answer is a strong enough reply is something I would have liked to see Sorkin deal with.

Charles Johnson Apr 25, 2024 • 11:24:20am

I agree with John Oliver’s basic point about needing more honest inquiry into UFO sightings, BUT… I wish he had also pointed out the extreme unlikelihood that these are alien spacecraft.

It’s never aliens.

🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 Apr 25, 2024 • 11:24:30am

re: #35 silverdolphin

As an American, is it not my 1st Amendment right sit in the presence of the President if I disagree with them?

We bully people into respecting the system. I’m not sure that’s wrong, having seen how people who do not respect the system behave.

The Ghost of a Flea Apr 25, 2024 • 11:25:49am

re: #8 Nerdy Fish

It beggars belief that some of the richest and most powerful people in this country are so desperate for this specific dipshit to inhabit the White House - not another one who would be similarly inclined to their interests, but with less criminal baggage; this specific one - that they are willing to literally make him immune to all criminal prosecutions for eternity after leaving office just to make it happen.

The Forgotten History of Hitler’s Establishment Enablers

How many of them think he’s pliable such that he can be steered, and how many admire him because he has a lack of shame and purity of impulse that they aspire to?

Switching to a different candidate requires compromises; sticking with Trump guarantees un-democratic outcomes that advance whatever they want. The genuine social engineers need license, and Trump will grant unlimited license because he’s at heart a cruel, controlling person; the thieves desire opportunity and pretext, and Trump will grant both because he’s a thief first.

For decades conservatives have eroded the power of the state that uplifts and empowers people in keeping with a universal dignity of human beings. At whatever level of government they control, they write their preferred hierarchical distinctions into the law. Within their own circles there are only arguments about which exact configuration of hierarchy is best…but what is consistent is that the coercive power of the state must be used to enfranchise only the superior. This has been so successful that a bunch of guaranteed rights are now larded with exceptions that diminish civil liberty, and now they’re working on laws that include subjective interpretations that assign more power to reactionary agents at the cost of autonomy for normal people.

All our rich people have some version of viewing themselves as better kind of person, whether that’s hyperindividual, racist, sexist, classist, and many hold more than one of these positions. The appeal of Donald Trump is that as long as he’s fed the correct attention he will rubber stamp all of their preferred social configurations.

re: #25 Mike Lamb

I’ve always found that crazy as well. You’re talking about someone with absolutely zero redeeming features. It was like gun nuts latching on to George Zimmerman. Pick a better avatar.

But the point isn’t to seem credible—they don’t care about what other people think. The point is to elevate a person that exemplifies as much license as possible for them exclusively.

George Zimmerman was their choice because he pushed the window of feasibility in the direction they wanted: towards stalking and summarily killing people who “feel” threatening and getting away with it.

In the same way, Donald Trump represents exactly what they want: to be personally grotesque and domineering and rewarded for it, and as a state actor to be openly vindictive and self-serving.

They don’t want a king because they genuinely like kings, they want a king because then they can be dukes. And Trump is plausibly the kind of mush-headed ruler that could be jerked around by a counselor.

danarchy Apr 25, 2024 • 11:26:27am

re: #29 Dizzy

Not knowing much about U.S. law or political procedure, can someone with more knowledge in these areas inform me if there is any recourse that sane people can take if the corrupt supreme court rules that yes, in fact, presidents are immune to prosecution?

Asking for a terrified friend.

Well, even Trump’s lawyers admit that after an impeachment and senate conviction then prosecution is on the table, so hopefully those institutions aren’t so abased that they would accept presidential hit squads.

Other than that, constitutional amendments, which these days are nigh impossible to imagine with the division between the parties and the states, but maybe if a president was trying to become an emperor they may be able to do something.

From what I heard this morning and my expert opinion as not a lawyer, I bet the court splits the baby. Says yes the president has immunity for all oficial acts, but no not all acts performed as president are official and they will send it back down to the lower courts to adjudicate which acts were official and which were not, which will then also be appealed and so on extending this trial so it might end sometime in the next 5 years.

Dizzy Apr 25, 2024 • 11:29:06am

re: #39 danarchy

Well, even Trump’s lawyers admit that after an impeachment and senate conviction then prosecution is on the table, so hopefully those institutions aren’t so abased that they would accept presidential hit squads.

Other than that, constitutional amendments, which these days are nigh impossible to imagine with the division between the parties and the states, but maybe if a president was trying to become an emperor they may be able to do something.

From what I heard this morning and my expert opinion as not a lawyer, I bet the court splits the baby. Says yes the president has immunity for all oficial acts, but no not all acts performed as president are official and they will send it back down to the lower courts to adjudicate which acts were official and which were not, which will then also be appealed and so on extending this trial so it might end sometime in the next 5 years.

I can’t believe how FUBAR and stupid this whole thing is.
I think historians will refer to the era we’re living in as the age of stupidity.

Joe Bacon ✅ Apr 25, 2024 • 11:36:18am

A Cranky One Apr 25, 2024 • 11:36:36am

Joe Bacon ✅ Apr 25, 2024 • 11:38:34am

wrenchwench Apr 25, 2024 • 11:47:20am

The college radio station did an hour on Roger Miller. Now they’re playing John Denver. What year is it?

PhillyPretzel ✅ Apr 25, 2024 • 11:48:41am

re: #44 wrenchwench

Well this is 2024. Maybe they are trying to people calm by playing older music.

A Cranky One Apr 25, 2024 • 11:49:05am

re: #44 wrenchwench

It’s the year of the drag on, and on, and on..,

Joe Bacon ✅ Apr 25, 2024 • 11:51:05am

re: #44 wrenchwench

The college radio station did an hour on Roger Miller. Now they’re playing John Denver. What year is it?

Wait till they start playing Guy Lombardo and Lawrence Welk.

wrenchwench Apr 25, 2024 • 11:51:41am

re: #45 PhillyPretzel ✅

Well this is 2024. Maybe they are trying to people calm by playing older music.

On a daily basis. I like it, but I wonder…

A Cranky One Apr 25, 2024 • 11:53:56am

Had to explain to my granddaughter that we’re supposed to color in the lines.

wrenchwench Apr 25, 2024 • 11:55:00am

re: #49 A Cranky One

Had to explain to my granddaughter that we’re supposed to color in the lines.

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Good eye protection.

The Ghost of a Flea Apr 25, 2024 • 11:56:26am

Y’all.

America abandoned one king for the Lockean vision of a bunch of little kings…each surrounded by slaves and indentured servants and women that had no franchise, mostly on land taken from natives that (as Locke argued) had no ownership rights because they didn’t use it right.

The definition of “freedom” that permitted all of the above has always sat in tension with definitions of “freedom” that grant freedom from that kind of asshole. We’ve had a bunch of internal conflicts where the freedom to people tried to set up system where you couldn’t be free from their intervention. Trumpism, and the people that support Trump, are the latest version of plantation-owner “freedom,” where the system exists to liberate their asses exclusively, but also to do the dirty work keeping everyone else unliberated.

This takes the form of returning to the homeland all the fuckery done overseas to make poor countries stay terminally the losing end of free trade, and the elevation of Trump can be seen as simply a manifestation of that larger trend. America needs a banana dictator because banana dictators exist to shovel money and power to cadre of patrons and friends while just shamelessly never acknowledging how that wealth transfer is being achieved while posturing as a patriot and a man of the people.

That such dictators rapidly spin out of control in very predictable ways just doesn’t concern these people, because they have so much to gain.

A Cranky One Apr 25, 2024 • 11:57:28am

re: #49 A Cranky One

She attended a Holi festival.

sagehen Apr 25, 2024 • 12:00:10pm

re: #49 A Cranky One

Had to explain to my granddaughter that we’re supposed to color in the lines.

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Did she recently attend a Holi celebration?

A Cranky One Apr 25, 2024 • 12:02:24pm

re: #53 sagehen

Yes. I’d have included pictures of my daughters but they’d kill me.

Mike Lamb Apr 25, 2024 • 12:02:25pm

re: #38 The Ghost of a Flea

The Forgotten History of Hitler’s Establishment Enablers

How many of them think he’s pliable such that he can be steered, and how many admire him because he has a lack of shame and purity of impulse that they aspire to?

Switching to a different candidate requires compromises; sticking with Trump guarantees un-democratic outcomes that advance whatever they want. The genuine social engineers need license, and Trump will grant unlimited license because he’s at heart a cruel, controlling person; the thieves desire opportunity and pretext, and Trump will grant both because he’s a thief first.

For decades conservatives have eroded the power of the state that uplifts and empowers people in keeping with a universal dignity of human beings. At whatever level of government they control, they write their preferred hierarchical distinctions into the law. Within their own circles there are only arguments about which exact configuration of hierarchy is best…but what is consistent is that the coercive power of the state must be used to enfranchise only the superior. This has been so successful that a bunch of guaranteed rights are now larded with exceptions that diminish civil liberty, and now they’re working on laws that include subjective interpretations that assign more power to reactionary agents at the cost of autonomy for normal people.

All our rich people have some version of viewing themselves as better kind of person, whether that’s hyperindividual, racist, sexist, classist, and many hold more than one of these positions. The appeal of Donald Trump is that as long as he’s fed the correct attention he will rubber stamp all of their preferred social configurations.

But the point isn’t to seem credible—they don’t care about what other people think. The point is to elevate a person that exemplifies as much license as possible for them exclusively.

George Zimmerman was their choice because he pushed the window of feasibility in the direction they wanted: towards stalking and summarily killing people who “feel” threatening and getting away with it.

In the same way, Donald Trump represents exactly what they want: to be personally grotesque and domineering and rewarded for it, and as a state actor to be openly vindictive and self-serving.

They don’t want a king because they genuinely like kings, they want a king because then they can be dukes. And Trump is plausibly the kind of mush-headed ruler that could be jerked around by a counselor.

Still seems to me that they can get what they want without going all in on such grotesque individuals.

GlutenFreeJesus Apr 25, 2024 • 12:08:00pm

Biden should be in front of the camera telling the world how he’d love if the SC votes in favor of immunity. All the things he could get done bypassing Congress etc. all for the good of the country and all. See how that sits with those fuckers on the SC then.

PhillyPretzel ✅ Apr 25, 2024 • 12:10:38pm

re: #56 GlutenFreeJesus

Give Joe a little bit of time. He might come up with something better that would really get to the SC. For example if DT has immunity then Joe would have it too and so would Obama and Clinton.

Joe Bacon ✅ Apr 25, 2024 • 12:11:25pm

Awww. Why only subpoenas and not a custard pie?????

The Ghost of a Flea Apr 25, 2024 • 12:12:48pm

re: #55 Mike Lamb

Still seems to me that they can get what they want without going all in on such grotesque individuals.

But what they want is to be grotesque without judgement or pushback. It’s not enough to have the power, it’s the aspiration that the power can be wielded without apology or explanation.

If it was enough to just be thieves and god-botherers they could just sing along with Mitch McConnell and get most of what they wanted. But Trump is the full package—no moderating language, no stepping around taboos about creepy coercive sex or kicking people when they’re down. It’s been awhile, but the impulse I’m describing is basically what De Sade describes in Philosophy in the Bedroom—why would anyone sympathize with the suffering when sympathizing with the inflicters of suffering is more fun?

They’re not DeSadian—he at least lived his nihilistic convictions without hiding behind unanswerable authority—because they’re still concocting justifications…God, Social Darwinism, Herrenvolk politics…but ultimately they find what Trump implies more exciting than just using conventional conservative power structures.

Patricia Kayden Apr 25, 2024 • 12:14:47pm

re: #6 Backwoods Sleuth

The Ghost of a Flea Apr 25, 2024 • 12:15:11pm

GlutenFreeJesus Apr 25, 2024 • 12:15:13pm

re: #57 PhillyPretzel ✅

Arrest Alito/Thomas/Roberts/Gorsuch/Barrett/Kavanaugh. See how they think about immunity then. 😂

nines09 Apr 25, 2024 • 12:19:52pm

In other news, the FCC restored Net Neutrality today with the passing opposed by Republicans and supported by Democrats 3-2.
Votes matter.

Quote;
The move effectively reinstates a net neutrality order the commission first issued in 2015 during the Obama administration; under then-President Donald Trump, the FCC subsequently repealed those rules in 2017.
Snip.

Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines Apr 25, 2024 • 12:31:16pm

Lieutenant Jimmy Carter as executive officer of the submarine USS K-1 (later named Barracuda), 1951.

Barracuda served until 1973 and was sold for scrap the following year, so it did not miss Carter’s presidency by much.

EPR-radar Apr 25, 2024 • 12:31:37pm

re: #55 Mike Lamb

Still seems to me that they can get what they want without going all in on such grotesque individuals.

Republicans will try to make fascist lemonade out of Trump’s shit because Trump is the only possible way they can win in 2024, and winning isn’t everything to Republicans, it’s the only thing.

The degeneration of the GOP has gone far enough that all future GOP candidates for president will be grotesque freaks, suitable for Batman’s rogues gallery. That’s why the party needs to be destroyed before they wreck things for everyone.

Charles Johnson Apr 25, 2024 • 12:33:10pm

A great new song from a great songwriter.

THURSDAY ONE SONG CONCERT - Across the Street from Brokenhearted

🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 Apr 25, 2024 • 12:36:05pm

re: #66 Charles Johnson

A great new song from a great songwriter.

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Video

A one song concert usually means the band got really mad about something.

Mike Lamb Apr 25, 2024 • 12:37:10pm

re: #65 EPR-radar

Republicans will try to make fascist lemonade out of Trump’s shit because Trump is the only possible way they can win in 2024, and winning isn’t everything to Republicans, it’s the only thing.

The degeneration of the GOP has gone far enough that all future GOP candidates for president will be grotesque freaks, suitable for Batman’s rogues gallery. That’s why the party needs to be destroyed before they wreck things for everyone.

I understand that is the case at this current juncture. It’s still odd to me that they coalesced around him in the first instance.

wrenchwench Apr 25, 2024 • 12:39:15pm

Local writer makes it into the Washington Post, and gives a link, on a topic from the deadthread.

Mastodon

No Malarkey! Apr 25, 2024 • 12:39:45pm

re: #68 Mike Lamb

I understand that is the case at this current juncture. It’s still odd to me that they coalesced around him in the first instance.

Once he won the GOP nomination for President, they didn’t really have a choice. Their preference was Jeb!, but nothing about him justified that exclamation point for voters.

Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines Apr 25, 2024 • 12:40:18pm

Too Soon? ////

wrenchwench Apr 25, 2024 • 12:43:00pm

re: #71 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Too Soon? ////

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This one is too soon: Lead is a familial hazard.

Joe Bacon ✅ Apr 25, 2024 • 12:49:09pm

jaunte Apr 25, 2024 • 12:50:08pm

re: #68 Mike Lamb

I understand that is the case at this current juncture. It’s still odd to me that they coalesced around him in the first instance.

Remember those “debates” with the whole lineup on stage. Trump wasn’t a part of the club, so he was free to be the biggest asshole to everyone else up there. He had nothing to lose.
So to the simple-minded he looked tough.

Eclectic Cyborg Apr 25, 2024 • 12:58:00pm

No wonder why he hates wind. His transplants can’t get weaved enough to cover everything. https://t.co/OM4K1ovzzv

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) April 25, 2024

Joe Bacon ✅ Apr 25, 2024 • 12:58:57pm

re: #75 Eclectic Cyborg

Looks like that pancake makeup missed part of that waffle face!

wrenchwench Apr 25, 2024 • 12:59:30pm

Mastodon

Number 3 is my favorite.

wrenchwench Apr 25, 2024 • 1:00:50pm

re: #76 Joe Bacon ✅

Looks like that pancake makeup missed part of that waffle face!

More butter and syrup might fix it.

jaunte Apr 25, 2024 • 1:01:15pm

re: #77 wrenchwench

Lol.

wrenchwench Apr 25, 2024 • 1:02:30pm

re: #79 jaunte

Lol.

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I couldn’t copy it, save it, or post it. What’s the trick?

jaunte Apr 25, 2024 • 1:03:10pm

re: #80 wrenchwench

I just took a screen shot.

wrenchwench Apr 25, 2024 • 1:03:57pm

re: #81 jaunte

I just took a screen shot.

I’ll work on my skill set. Thanks!

Romantic Heretic Apr 25, 2024 • 1:04:32pm

re: #42 A Cranky One

Nah. They’ll be using us for fuel. In a Horizon Zero Dawn manner, not a Matrix manner.

PhillyPretzel ✅ Apr 25, 2024 • 1:06:29pm

re: #80 wrenchwench

Go to the upper right hand corner of the picture. Click on the 3 lines and choose saving to image library.

jaunte Apr 25, 2024 • 1:07:35pm

Mary Trump reporting on yet another ongoing crime:

NEW: Donald’s PAC has been caught moving $8,000,000 to an intermediary for unreported “legal fees?”
marytrump.substack.com

If misappropriation is discovered
As soon as a misappropriation is discovered, the political committee must notify law enforcement. The committee also must notify the FEC and file amended reports to correct any reporting errors due to the misappropriation.

🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 Apr 25, 2024 • 1:07:42pm

re: #84 PhillyPretzel ✅

Go to the upper right hand corner of the picture. Click on the 3 lines and choose saving to image library.

She meant on the source site.

wrenchwench Apr 25, 2024 • 1:08:17pm

re: #84 PhillyPretzel ✅

Go to the upper right hand corner of the picture. Click on the 3 lines and choose saving to image library.

I can do that here, but not where it was originally posted. Protection of copyright, I’m sure.

PhillyPretzel ✅ Apr 25, 2024 • 1:08:21pm

re: #86 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

Sorry. I only know how to do it in the thread.

wrenchwench Apr 25, 2024 • 1:09:46pm

re: #88 PhillyPretzel ✅

Sorry. I only know how to do it in the thread.

Jaunte will save us all.

jaunte Apr 25, 2024 • 1:11:12pm

re: #89 wrenchwench

As long as the roots are not severed, all is well. And all will be well in the garden.

🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 Apr 25, 2024 • 1:11:38pm

re: #88 PhillyPretzel ✅

Sorry. I only know how to do it in the thread.

Screencap is the answer on websites that disable the right-click download option.
I use the free tool Greenshot on PC.

Hecuba's daughter Apr 25, 2024 • 1:12:50pm

re: #8 Nerdy Fish

It beggars belief that some of the richest and most powerful people in this country are so desperate for this specific dipshit to inhabit the White House - not another one who would be similarly inclined to their interests, but with less criminal baggage; this specific one - that they are willing to literally make him immune to all criminal prosecutions for eternity after leaving office just to make it happen.

Except they want the ruling to apply to all similarly inclined GOP Presidents.

wrenchwench Apr 25, 2024 • 1:15:00pm

Mastodon

The Ghost of a Flea Apr 25, 2024 • 1:15:48pm

re: #74 jaunte

Remember those “debates” with the whole lineup on stage. Trump wasn’t a part of the club, so he was free to be the biggest asshole to everyone else up there. He had nothing to lose.
So to the simple-minded he looked tough.

I disagree.

Trump brought unmoderated cruelty to a room full of people trained to speak in institutional euphemisms about their cruelty. His supporters weren’t stupid and fully understood what was happening, they enjoyed that he made a spectacle of kicking down and invited them to behave the same.

That’s still the difference between pro- and anti- Trump conservatives: how politely do you enforce your hierarchical distinctions. Anti-Trump conservatives like operating within existing norms, where you apply a sheen of rationalism and moralism to your ultimately self-serving policy. But to an audience of people who jive with Rush Limbaugh and like music about glassing Baghdad, and are accustomed to enclosed culture loop of crass racism and sneering contempt for “elites,” conventional erudition is weak.

Trump is performatively cruel and his audience admires this: they already believe that they are more moral and more intelligent than everyone else, and see no reason that they should be constrained by social norms they see as forced on them by inferiors. They do think of Trump as tough…they think of themselves as tough, too…because his and their ugliness and bigotries are, in their minds, the products of clear-eyed realism that Bad Kinds Of People are inherently inferior, and thus should both have correspondingly fewer rights and be treated badly.

For thirty years conservatives have assumed a stance of victimization: they are the reasonable, smart people beset by nagging, weak hordes of sub-people that keep them from enjoying themselves, disrupt smoothly-functioning meritocratic systems, and force the world out of it’s natural order. When they’re in power, they speak of it as a restoration: now, things will be logical and moral again. When they’re out of power, the suffering of not getting what they want is characterized as crime, a spiritual and material wrongness, and much energy is spent visualizing the punishment they will inflict.

Trump by disposition thinks this way already…he’s a solitary narcissist speaking to the appetites of a collective narcissism instilled by centuries of myth-making and propaganda. And this crowd, his crowd, are down for the world he promises, one where sadism against inferiors is both a virtue and backed by the power of the state.

No Malarkey! Apr 25, 2024 • 1:17:20pm

It seems the GOP majority in SCOTUS will rule that the Founding Fathers overthrew a constitutional monarch, then decided to replace him with an absolute monarch who answers to no-one. Dog help us all.

steve_davis Apr 25, 2024 • 1:17:28pm

re: #11 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

This UFO nonsense makes me feel like we’ve looped back to the goofy 70s.

Natural Thing (Live)

Joe Bacon ✅ Apr 25, 2024 • 1:22:51pm

re: #95 No Malarkey!

It seems the GOP majority in SCOTUS will rule that the Founding Fathers overthrow a constitutional monarch, then decided to replace him with an absolute monarch who answers to no-one. Dog help us all.

of course they will rule that only applies to Trump…and Republican Presidents…

Nerdy Fish Apr 25, 2024 • 1:25:36pm

re: #92 Hecuba’s daughter

Except they want the ruling to apply to all similarly inclined GOP Presidents.

My point was, if they went with anyone else, they wouldn’t have to. We all know Republicans want to be above the law, but they wouldn’t have to drag that out in the open if they weren’t so fixated on putting a criminal into the office.

jeffreyw Apr 25, 2024 • 1:30:07pm

Can anybody ID this birdie?

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Charmingly Persistent Apr 25, 2024 • 1:34:05pm

re: #29 Dizzy

Not knowing much about U.S. law or political procedure, can someone with more knowledge in these areas inform me if there is any recourse that sane people can take if the corrupt supreme court rules that yes, in fact, presidents are immune to prosecution?

Asking for a terrified friend.

Impeachment. Hasn’t happened for a long time on the Supreme Court but it has happened. Once.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Apr 25, 2024 • 1:34:39pm

David Pecker believed he was killing unflattering stories about Trump ‘for the campaign’

alternet.org

I wonder why the CCCP is ignoring that it was Ronan Farrow who uncovered this sordid mess…

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steve_davis Apr 25, 2024 • 1:35:14pm

re: #57 PhillyPretzel ✅

Give Joe a little bit of time. He might come up with something better that would really get to the SC. For example if DT has immunity then Joe would have it too and so would Obama and Clinton.

“so they’re telling me that I could, hypothetically, have half-a-dozen supreme court justices executed on the supreme court steps, and I’m immune from prosecution? Well…..definitely gives me something to think about.”

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Mattand Apr 25, 2024 • 1:36:16pm

re: #99 jeffreyw

Can anybody ID this birdie?

Yeah, his name is Connor and the little bastard still owes me the 200 bucks he “needed” to pay his bills until his next paycheck.

I SAW YOU AT XFINITY LIVE AFTER THE PHILLIES GAME ON THURSDAY, CONNOR!! PAY THE FUCK UP!!!!

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est) Apr 25, 2024 • 1:36:42pm

re: #99 jeffreyw

Can anybody ID this birdie?

[Embedded content]

Off the top of my head is it perhaps a nightjar of some sort.

audubon.org

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No Malarkey! Apr 25, 2024 • 1:37:02pm

re: #100 Charmingly Persistent

Impeachment. Hasn’t happened for a long time on the Supreme Court but it has happened. Once.

Likelihood of getting 67 US Senators to remove a GOP Justice are zero.

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Dangerman Apr 25, 2024 • 1:40:09pm

re: #33 Nerdy Fish

That sounds like a them problem, to me. They had plenty of time to get someone into the national conversation. Their deliberate decision not to do so should not constitute precipitating multiple full-on constitutional emergencies.

they are lazy
and saw/see him as their best shot

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Eclectic Cyborg Apr 25, 2024 • 1:41:05pm

Me all day today, basically.

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Backwoods Sleuth Apr 25, 2024 • 1:41:53pm

re: #99 jeffreyw

Can anybody ID this birdie?

[Embedded content]

looks like a female red winged blackbird

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darthstar Apr 25, 2024 • 1:43:14pm

re: #99 jeffreyw

Can anybody ID this birdie?

[Embedded content]

That’s Karen. Apparently she’d like to talk to the manager.

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Charmingly Persistent Apr 25, 2024 • 1:44:22pm

re: #82 wrenchwench

I’ll work on my skill set. Thanks!

Do you have a Mac? shift-flower-4 and draw the crosshairs over what you want to screenshot.

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Dangerman Apr 25, 2024 • 1:45:36pm

re: #65 EPR-radar

Republicans will try to make fascist lemonade out of Trump’s shit because Trump is the only possible way they can win in 2024, and winning isn’t everything to Republicans, it’s the only thing.

The degeneration of the GOP has gone far enough that all future GOP candidates for president will be grotesque freaks, suitable for Batman’s rogues gallery. That’s why the party needs to be destroyed before they wreck things for everyone.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Apr 25, 2024 • 1:45:38pm

re: #110 Charmingly Persistent

Do you have a Mac? shift-flower-4 and draw the crosshairs over what you want to screenshot.

That’s a nice key sequence trick!

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darthstar Apr 25, 2024 • 1:45:39pm

Suffering from Trump overload again. Glad I heard the SCOTUS args in real time but fuck if I want to listen to all the legal experts give a thousand alternative interpretations to keep me awake all night.

Going to make a bechemel sauce and prep a chicken and artichoke lasagna for dinner.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Apr 25, 2024 • 1:47:44pm

Let me know when Trump climbs to the top of the Empire State Building clutching Princess Ivanka!

‘They killed King Kong’: Jesse Watters schooled by Fox colleagues after Trump comparison

The Five Courtroom Drama The Incarceration of King Kong 2024 04 25

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darthstar Apr 25, 2024 • 1:47:47pm

Cool. Rebel Moon Part 2. Part 1 was meh but good enough background noise. Let’s hope they don’t fuck up the sequel.

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nines09 Apr 25, 2024 • 1:48:27pm

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Dangerman Apr 25, 2024 • 1:48:54pm

re: #85 jaunte

Mary Trump reporting on yet another ongoing crime:

NEW: Donald’s PAC has been caught moving $8,000,000 to an intermediary for unreported “legal fees?”
marytrump.substack.com

If misappropriation is discovered
As soon as a misappropriation is discovered, the political committee must notify law enforcement. The committee also must notify the FEC and file amended reports to correct any reporting errors due to the misappropriation.

yeah, i;ll hold my breath on this one

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GlutenFreeJesus Apr 25, 2024 • 1:50:43pm

re: #115 darthstar

I couldn’t get through 5 minutes of it. 😅😅😅

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Dangerman Apr 25, 2024 • 1:51:21pm

re: #98 Nerdy Fish

My point was, if they went with anyone else, they wouldn’t have to. We all know Republicans want to be above the law, but they wouldn’t have to drag that out in the open if they weren’t so fixated on putting a criminal into the office.

they dont care any more
essentially: who’s gonna stop ‘em?

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Joe Bacon ✅ Apr 25, 2024 • 1:52:42pm

re: #116 nines09

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jeffreyw Apr 25, 2024 • 1:52:56pm

re: #108 Backwoods Sleuth

Female RW Blackbird is the closest so far. Wish I could see the belly.

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Vicious Babushka Apr 25, 2024 • 1:54:50pm

“From the River to the Sea Palestine will be free!”

Mastodon

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Dangerman Apr 25, 2024 • 1:55:37pm

i have to help mrsdm with her outlook 365

i have never used outlook and have no idea how it works
(i know how it should work but that’s for another day)

every microsoft pacifier - %complete, etc, every one

is a damn liar

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Dave In Austin Apr 25, 2024 • 1:56:46pm

re: #121 jeffreyw

Female RW Blackbird is the closest so far. Wish I could see the belly.

Females are tough to ID from any distance.

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Joe Bacon ✅ Apr 25, 2024 • 1:57:04pm

Meanwhile Gaseous Clay continues to fart in the courtroom.

The farts are so powerful that flies coming near to him die…

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Backwoods Sleuth Apr 25, 2024 • 1:57:12pm

Atlanta:

Mastodon

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wrenchwench Apr 25, 2024 • 1:57:21pm

re: #110 Charmingly Persistent

Do you have a Mac? shift-flower-4 and draw the crosshairs over what you want to screenshot.

Nope. And it wasn’t letting me make a selection. That site had protections. I have done a screenshot or 2 recently.

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nines09 Apr 25, 2024 • 1:57:38pm

re: #75 Eclectic Cyborg

Evaporating hair and blown out face.
Aging gracelessly.

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Charles Johnson Apr 25, 2024 • 1:58:53pm

Good freaking grief. Could they possibly look any more vengeful and thin-skinned?

— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-04-25T20:57:50.000Z

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Backwoods Sleuth Apr 25, 2024 • 1:58:54pm

re: #121 jeffreyw

Female RW Blackbird is the closest so far. Wish I could see the belly.

yep, that was closest guess I had given all we can really see is the back and a partial sideview of the head

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nines09 Apr 25, 2024 • 1:59:49pm

re: #126 Backwoods Sleuth

If you understood why half the people who wish to parade around with body armor, a shield and weapons and they get to do this without consequence are cops….
Get it?

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Mattand Apr 25, 2024 • 2:00:45pm

re: #110 Charmingly Persistent

Do you have a Mac? shift-flower-4 and draw the crosshairs over what you want to screenshot.

re: #112 Joe Bacon ✅

That’s a nice key sequence trick!

If you hit the space bar after invoking those keys, the cursor will turn into a camera and you can take a picture of a specific window, even ones that are hidden in the background.

Command Shift 5 allows you to actually record your screen as a movie.

Also: I’ve never head the Command key referred to the as the Flower key before. I like it.

IIRC, the symbol for the Command/Flower key comes from icon for campgrounds on Swedish maps. Don’t quote me on that, though.

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wrenchwench Apr 25, 2024 • 2:02:21pm

re: #121 jeffreyw

Female RW Blackbird is the closest so far. Wish I could see the belly.

Install some mirrors around the suet. They will help.

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Belafon Apr 25, 2024 • 2:03:50pm

re: #138 sizzzzlerz

How many years have you set aside to pursue this extremely ambitious effort? Thinking back to my undergrad days in EE, taking 2 heavy math/engineering/science class per quarter was about all I could manage, especially when labs were involved. Trying to tackle some of the advanced topics you list, when doing it as self-study, would be a killer. And that is not considering time spent away from studies to do the eating/sleeping/relationship/child rearing stuff. You should also decide how deep a dive you want to take for each topic. In-depth, down the rabbit hole or cursory survey. That will massively impact how much time will be spent. Also, you should consider that the labs associated with topics studied at school are often more important to understanding something than simply reading it out of a book. How will you compensate for skipping those? Learning is a noble goal but it needs to be grounded in what’s realistic. As the founder of Faber College said, ‘Knowledge is good”.

As long as it takes, but easily ten years.

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Mattand Apr 25, 2024 • 2:04:46pm

re: #126 Backwoods Sleuth

I really wonder if this push to arrest/torture tuition-paying students is the result of decades of university leadership being harassed by conservatives.

Like when CNN tripped over its own dick trying to appeal to the Fox News mouth breathers by hiring conservative commentators and beefing up the both-sides coverage.

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Backwoods Sleuth Apr 25, 2024 • 2:07:53pm

Mastodon

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Teddy's Person Apr 25, 2024 • 2:08:17pm

re: #116 nines09

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Backwoods Sleuth Apr 25, 2024 • 2:09:06pm

Mastodon

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EPR-radar Apr 25, 2024 • 2:09:26pm

re: #135 Mattand

I really wonder if this push to arrest/torture tuition-paying students is the result of decades of university leadership being harassed by conservatives.

Like when CNN tripped over its own dick trying to appeal to the Fox News mouth breathers by hiring conservative commentators and beefing up the both-sides coverage.

University administrators are often gutless wonders. I’m still irritated by Stanford caving to GOP war on drugs crap back in the 1990s, as opposed to standing up for one of its instructors.

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nines09 Apr 25, 2024 • 2:11:13pm

re: #137 Teddy’s Person

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Markm1960 Apr 25, 2024 • 2:12:34pm

re: #96 steve_davis

[Embedded content]

Great, fun album.

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Backwoods Sleuth Apr 25, 2024 • 2:12:35pm

Mastodon

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wrenchwench Apr 25, 2024 • 2:16:09pm

re: #136 Backwoods Sleuth

[Embedded content]

A number of students could gather off campus for a little diploma burning ceremony.

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steve_davis Apr 25, 2024 • 2:18:22pm

re: #141 Markm1960

Great, fun album.

I would argue possibly in top-10 best live albums of all time, though I know it would face perfectly reasonable competition. The sound quality is excellent. vocals are in top form as is schenker. The longer bits, like Lights Out, manage to really never be dull in spots, like so many live long bits are (here’s looking at you, Space Truckin’ or The Mule.)

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TedStriker Apr 25, 2024 • 2:20:40pm

re: #8 Nerdy Fish

It beggars belief that some of the richest and most powerful people in this country are so desperate for this specific dipshit to inhabit the White House - not another one who would be similarly inclined to their interests, but with less criminal baggage; this specific one - that they are willing to literally make him immune to all criminal prosecutions for eternity after leaving office just to make it happen.

Because everyone know Trump is compromised and vain and, therefore, vulnerable to suggestion…

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nines09 Apr 25, 2024 • 2:23:19pm

15 years old and waking up slowly….

The Music Machine - Talk Talk (1966)

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(((Archangel1))) Apr 25, 2024 • 2:23:23pm

Past couple of days, pressing on the “New Comments” button leads to it turning gray and the “spinning” icon spinning endlessly with nothing chancing until pressing F5. Anyone else seeing this or is it just on my end?

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Backwoods Sleuth Apr 25, 2024 • 2:24:36pm

Mastodon

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The Ghost of a Flea Apr 25, 2024 • 2:25:18pm

re: #145 TedStriker

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS Apr 25, 2024 • 2:26:15pm

re: #147 (((Archangel1)))

Past couple of days, pressing on the “New Comments” button leads to it turning gray and the “spinning” icon spinning endlessly with nothing chancing until pressing F5. Anyone else seeing this or is it just on my end?

[Embedded content]

Try restarting. Your device, not the browser. Worked for me, with a similar problem.

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Eclectic Cyborg Apr 25, 2024 • 2:27:32pm

re: #138 Backwoods Sleuth

I really hope Merchan doesn’t let TFG do his Nazi rallies but I feel like he will.

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Rightwingconspirator Apr 25, 2024 • 2:28:18pm

re: #36 Charles Johnson

I agree with John Oliver’s basic point about needing more honest inquiry into UFO sightings, BUT… I wish he had also pointed out the extreme unlikelihood that these are alien spacecraft.

It’s never aliens.

We have been flying for nearly 120 years, launched spacecraft for 60 years and people still want to think aliens instead of us?

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PhillyPretzel ✅ Apr 25, 2024 • 2:29:18pm

Looks like it is going to be cold tonight.
weather.gov

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Captain Ron Apr 25, 2024 • 2:31:15pm

re: #147 (((Archangel1)))

Past couple of days, pressing on the “New Comments” button leads to it turning gray and the “spinning” icon spinning endlessly with nothing chancing until pressing F5. Anyone else seeing this or is it just on my end?

[Embedded content]

If you’re using Firefox and there is a blue shield next to the URL, click that and turn off enhanced tracking protection.

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Odie Hugh Manatee Apr 25, 2024 • 2:31:46pm

re: #87 wrenchwench

On sites like those I just use Alt-PrtSc (print screen) to capture the window with the image in it. Then open Paint and ctrl-v to paste it into the window. Then I crop the image out with the cutting tool, then ctrl-a and then Delete key to clear the window. Then ctrl-v to paste the image back, resize the image window (drag lower right corner up to image and then ctrl-s to save it.

There are programs to do it but I’ve done this so much that it only takes me a few seconds to grab locked images or even pages.

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Lancelot Link Returns! Apr 25, 2024 • 2:34:19pm

re: #135 Mattand

I really wonder if this push to arrest/torture tuition-paying students is the result of decades of university leadership being harassed by conservatives.

Like when CNN tripped over its own dick trying to appeal to the Fox News mouth breathers by hiring conservative commentators and beefing up the both-sides coverage.

Look at what happened to Claudine Gay when she didn’t crack down on the protesters.

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IngisKahn Apr 25, 2024 • 2:34:25pm

re: #155 Odie Hugh Manatee

Windows+Shift+S lets you crop straight from the screen.

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wrenchwench Apr 25, 2024 • 2:34:34pm

re: #155 Odie Hugh Manatee

On sites like those I just use Alt-PrtSc (print screen) to capture the window with the image in it. Then open Paint and ctrl-v to paste it into the window. Then I crop the image out with the cutting tool, then ctrl-a and then Delete key to clear the window. Then ctrl-v to paste the image back, resize the image window (drag lower right corner up to image and then ctrl-s to save it.

There are programs to do it but I’ve done this so much that it only takes me a few seconds to grab locked images or even pages.

I favorited that one to my exo-memory.

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wrenchwench Apr 25, 2024 • 2:35:29pm

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sagehen Apr 25, 2024 • 2:37:23pm

re: #136 Backwoods Sleuth

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so this year’s college graduates are the same kids whose HS graduation was cancelled during the Covid lockdown.

Sucks to be them.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 Apr 25, 2024 • 2:38:04pm

re: #157 IngisKahn

Windows+Shift+S lets you crop straight from the screen.

I thought for a moment that I might not need Greenshot, but that lacks a save dialog to choose the destination of the image.

With greenshot, you hit printscreen, select your area, then send it where you want it.

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Nerdy Fish Apr 25, 2024 • 2:39:07pm

re: #161 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

Greenshot is fantastic. For anyone who does screen grabs on the regular, I highly recommend it.

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(((Archangel1))) Apr 25, 2024 • 2:42:32pm

re: #150 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

It’s on my PC, which I’ve restarted several times since this first started happening a couple of days ago. No difference.

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TedStriker Apr 25, 2024 • 2:45:43pm

re: #162 Nerdy Fish

Greenshot is fantastic. For anyone who does screen grabs on the regular, I highly recommend it.

And, if you’re on Windows 10 or 11, Snipping Tool is built-in and works reasonably well.

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TedStriker Apr 25, 2024 • 2:48:16pm

re: #161 🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈

I thought for a moment that I might not need Greenshot, but that lacks a save dialog to choose the destination of the image.

With greenshot, you hit printscreen, select your area, then send it where you want it.

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The built-in Windows Snipping Tool generally saves to your \Pictures\Screenshots folder by default.

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Nerdy Fish Apr 25, 2024 • 2:52:03pm

re: #164 TedStriker

And, if you’re on Windows 10 or 11, Snipping Tool is built-in and works reasonably well.

The thing I like about Greenshot is that I can grab an area of the screen, open it directly into an image editor, add whatever highlights I need, and send it to an image or even to my clipboard, all in the same flow. Windows Snipping Tool is a big upgrade as a built-in tool, but I still like Greenshot better.

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Charles Johnson Apr 25, 2024 • 2:52:39pm

Things may get a little weird for a short time - I’m trying to debug/optimize the database again.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 Apr 25, 2024 • 2:54:27pm

re: #166 Nerdy Fish

The thing I like about Greenshot is that I can grab an area of the screen, open it directly into an image editor, add whatever highlights I need, and send it to an image or even to my clipboard, all in the same flow. Windows Snipping Tool is a big upgrade as a built-in tool, but I still like Greenshot better.

I go from choosing the area to capture to having the image posted here in a couple of seconds.

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 Apr 25, 2024 • 2:54:43pm

re: #167 Charles Johnson

Things may get a little weird for a short time - I’m trying to debug/optimize the database again.

Things have been weird for a long time now.

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danarchy Apr 25, 2024 • 2:54:43pm

re: #155 Odie Hugh Manatee

On sites like those I just use Alt-PrtSc (print screen) to capture the window with the image in it. Then open Paint and ctrl-v to paste it into the window. Then I crop the image out with the cutting tool, then ctrl-a and then Delete key to clear the window. Then ctrl-v to paste the image back, resize the image window (drag lower right corner up to image and then ctrl-s to save it.

There are programs to do it but I’ve done this so much that it only takes me a few seconds to grab locked images or even pages.

Edit:And I should read ahead because someone already said this

if you are using any modernish version of windows the snipping tool is included and saves a few steps. Just click your start menu and start typing the word snip and it should pop up.

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Backwoods Sleuth Apr 25, 2024 • 2:57:17pm

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Charmingly Persistent Apr 25, 2024 • 2:58:00pm

re: #105 No Malarkey!

Likelihood of getting 67 US Senators to remove a GOP Justice are zero.

Certainly not as things stand. But things that can’t continue forever don’t. The Progressive Era changed things massively in quite a short period.

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wrenchwench Apr 25, 2024 • 2:59:00pm

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Dangerman Apr 25, 2024 • 2:59:31pm

i think i have finally, finally convinced mrsdm to abandon Outlook

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Charmingly Persistent Apr 25, 2024 • 3:04:01pm

Oh noes! “Yielding” means allowing students to have peaceful protests like students have always done. Sometimes not so peaceful, but these all sound well within reasonable standards. Just fucking “yield” until people start getting hurt (from protestors, not from police)
— Charming Primaries (@charming.bsky.social) Apr 25, 2024 at 3:46 PM

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Backwoods Sleuth Apr 25, 2024 • 3:05:31pm

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 Apr 25, 2024 • 3:06:52pm

re: #173 wrenchwench

All the places he’s been, and it’s South Carolina that gets him.

I wonder if the sun was straight in front of the driver or off to the side. Straight in front, and he may not have been able to see the bike at all.

According to a report in The State by Noah Feit, on Monday, April 22, around 7:30 p.m. Christensen was cycling west on Highway 34, about three miles southeast of Ridgeway, near Autumn Drive. The sun would set a little after 8 p.m. that night.

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Backwoods Sleuth Apr 25, 2024 • 3:12:52pm

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transportation.gov

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Nerdy Fish Apr 25, 2024 • 3:14:07pm

re: #178 Backwoods Sleuth

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transportation.gov

Until a Texas-based airline (paging RyanAir?) sues them and Matty K., who feels he does not have to follow the same rules the rest of the federal court system does, issues an injunction to shut down the rule.

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Romantic Heretic Apr 25, 2024 • 3:15:13pm

re: #178 Backwoods Sleuth

Communism!!1!!!1

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈 Apr 25, 2024 • 3:15:43pm

Emma Stone Says It Would Be ‘Nice’ If People Would ‘Just Call Me’ By Her Real Name
Emma Stone would like everyone to finally address her as Emmanuella Gertrude Stonebreaker III, already.

Just kidding! That is by no means her real name — but neither is Emma.

During a joint interview for The Hollywood Reporter with her “The Curse” co-star Nathan Fielder published Wednesday, Fielder told the outlet he was going to refer to Stone as “Emily” instead of “Emma.”

Stone has explained in the past that although her birth name is Emily Stone, she had to change it while earning her Screen Actors Guild card because there was already an actor named Emily Stone in the union.

huffpost.com

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Mattand Apr 25, 2024 • 3:18:40pm

re: #180 Romantic Heretic

Communism!!1!!!1

LOL, if Communism means “forcing giant corporations to do right by the customers after decades of fucking them over”, well, slap my hammer and sickle and call me “Lenin”!

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GlutenFreeJesus Apr 25, 2024 • 3:22:30pm

re: #167 Charles Johnson

What is this place. Austin?!

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austin_blue Apr 25, 2024 • 4:46:44pm

re: #183 GlutenFreeJesus

What is this place. Austin?!

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We are all in South Austin, nowadays.

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