New Music From Crowded House: “Whatever You Want” (Live From Home)

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Crowded House perform “Whatever You Want” live from home.
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Crowded House is Neil Finn, Nick Seymour, Mitchell Froom, Liam Finn and Elroy Finn.
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LYRICS:
Some people will tell you
Whatever you want
Whatever you want
You got em well trained now

People will tell you
Whatever you want
Whatever you want
They dare not complain

Every night and every day
Some will fall upon their swords
In order that
They might serve the greater good
But don’t believe a word of it

People will tell you
Whatever you want
Whatever you want
You got em well trained now
Some people will tell you
Whatever you want
Whatever you want
They dare not complain
As crazy as a king
As bent as a snake
There are some things they will never ever say
And people will tell you whatever you want
Whatever you want
To keep you in your place

Hear the lying every day
I see the same expressions on them
How they long to speak their mind
But something always stops them dead
Should be shouting from the mountain
At their top of their voice
This is not right, this man is a fake
But they will follow him down to the edge of the cliff
And if he tells them to jump,
They will jump right in

Some people will tell you
Whatever you want
Whatever you want
You got em well trained now
Whatever you want

You raise your hand
And they respond
And they will tell you
Whatever you want

#CrowdedHouse #WhateverYouWant

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 26, 2020 • 8:42:53pm

This HAD to be repeated. From downstairs.

re: #187 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Republicans are lying again and here is the proof. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that the GOP cult’s membership is up in arms over the alleged inclusion of foreign aid grants, among other “pork,” in the new Corona Virus bill.
This link is the entire 5000+ page text of the “Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021” of which the Corona Virus relief bill is a part.
Specifically, the Corona relief acts are DIVISION M—CORONAVIRUS RESPONSE AND RELIEF SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS ACT, and Division N, 2021 DIVISION N—ADDITIONAL CORONAVIRUS RESPONSE AND RELIEF. This starts on page 1815.
The Foreign Aid appropriations are under DIVISION K—DEPARTMENT OF STATE, FOREIGN OPERATIONS, AND RELATED PROGRAMS APPROPRIATIONS ACT. This starts on page 1252. There is no mention of Pakistan, Somalia, Nepal, etc. in sections M and N. These sections ARE the Corona Relief Act. This is searchable.
Challenge your Republican friends, if any, to find foreign aid in Divisions M or N.

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Patricia Kayden  Dec 26, 2020 • 8:43:36pm

👍🏿

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Dec 26, 2020 • 8:46:39pm

CRAZY
18 second mark

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Dec 26, 2020 • 8:50:24pm
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 26, 2020 • 8:50:50pm

re: #3 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

CRAZY
18 second mark

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No shit. Could have broken that guys neck.

HELL of a throw. Who won?

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Patricia Kayden  Dec 26, 2020 • 8:54:00pm

re: #4 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Trump lies about stupid things too so perhaps this is a Republican trait.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Dec 26, 2020 • 8:54:28pm

re: #5 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

No shit. Could have broken that guys neck.

HELL of a throw. Who won?

Dolphins. Roughing the passer penalty yardage was added after the gain from the pass, and they kicked a field goal

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 26, 2020 • 8:54:56pm

re: #6 Patricia Kayden

Trump lies about stupid things too so perhaps this is a Republican trait.

Well, they lie about everything big and small so there’s that.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 26, 2020 • 8:58:36pm

re: #145 Belafon

In the same way that this is a musician blog?

Their tagline is “a mommyblog, recipe hub, and dick joke emporium.”

They frequently have articles about food and recipes, Rebecca Shoenkopf has been posting pictures of her daughter ever since she was born, and the rest is definitely NSFW.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Dec 26, 2020 • 8:59:20pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 26, 2020 • 9:05:20pm

re: #148 Florida Panhandler

The mainstream press will not be happy until they have their fascist government in place to make their jobs easy.

More fascism = less hard work to do. Just take marching orders from the predominate opinion ordered by top-down edict and go with that and cash your paycheck. easy peasy.

Mainstream press is about the money. The worldwide trend is towards the easiest avenues towards riches and fascism is the zeitgeist of today,

Historically newspapers have supported authoritarian attempts at taking power, because if you are on the wrong side of that (opposing authoritarianism), your newspaper will be seized and your staff, you, and your family will be arrested.

On the flip side, if you support authoritarianism and democratic governance defeats authoritarians, you will not be arrested.

The New York Times has yet to retract their endorsement of Adolph Hitler.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Dec 26, 2020 • 9:06:12pm

It’s a fucking national disgrace

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 26, 2020 • 9:07:01pm

re: #4 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Dec 26, 2020 • 9:09:03pm

HOLY SHIT
That’s so much worse than I thought.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 26, 2020 • 9:14:10pm
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Dec 26, 2020 • 9:14:48pm

Local TV
FBI agents investigating if 5G paranoia was behind Nashville bombing

News4 Investigates has confirmed FBI agents spent Saturday speaking with a top Nashville real estate agent, who contacted them after fearing the subcontractor who worked for him may be the same man whose home they were searching.

Other federal agents spent much of the day searching the Antioch home of Anthony Warner.

Realtor Steve Fridrich contacted the FBI after reading Warner’s name, as for several years, a man by the name of Tony Warner had worked for him for several years doing information technology work.

Fridrich confirms that agents asked him whether or not Warner had paranoia about 5G technology.
Fridrich told the agents that Warner had never spoken to him about that.

But a source close to the federal investigation said that among several different tips and angles, agents are investigating whether or not Warner had paranoia that 5G technology was being used to spy on Americans.

A spokeswoman for the FBI said they could not comment because of the pending investigation.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 26, 2020 • 9:17:03pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 26, 2020 • 9:17:30pm

re: #161 A Mom Anon

So, if Trump is sent to state prison, where would he likely end up? And how would Secret Service protection work? Should he even be allowed to receive any perks of post presidency, like his predecessors?

In the (still unknown) event he is convicted of a crime which could draw incarceration, I imagine he would be confined to his home rather than a jail. That would be much easier on the Secret Service than a jail.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 26, 2020 • 9:21:45pm

re: #11 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Just curious - why do some people spell Hitler’s first name as “Adolph”? Is that an English-language thing or something else? I’ve always seen it as “Adolf”, at least in Europe.

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Semper Fi  Dec 26, 2020 • 9:21:51pm

re: #18 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

In the (still unknown) event he is convicted of a crime which could draw incarceration, I imagine he would be confined to his home rather than a jail. That would be much easier on the Secret Service than a jail.

Plus, the Secret Service Agents wouldn’t have adjoining cells.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Dec 26, 2020 • 9:24:20pm

re: #17 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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Conspira-liars are yelling “fire” in a crowded theater. They must be held to account.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Dec 26, 2020 • 9:26:43pm

re: #14 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

HOLY SHIT
That’s so much worse than I thought.

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Google Map street view, collapsed building (before)
google.com

This appears to the position the angled pictures are taken from
google.com

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 26, 2020 • 9:29:34pm

Poor kraken.

Only the best.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 26, 2020 • 9:31:06pm

Carried over from the last thread:

Hi, I’m a rifle in the hands of a wingnut roommate.
Hi, I’m a mob of Christians in Virginia Beach threatening an atheist and his infant at home.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Dec 26, 2020 • 9:36:36pm
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DodgerFan1988  Dec 26, 2020 • 9:38:21pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Dec 26, 2020 • 9:41:50pm
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Dread Pirate Ron  Dec 26, 2020 • 9:51:44pm
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 26, 2020 • 9:55:58pm

Michael Musto jokes.

Kimberly Guilfoyle’s ex assistant just got paid $4 million dollars because Kimmy was showing Donny Junior’s dick pics around the office. That’s $2 million an inch.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 26, 2020 • 10:03:07pm

re: #28 Dread Pirate Ron

Less than a decade. China’s economic rise to pre-eminence is quite something, to say the least. If that forecast bears out, then within my lifetime, China will have gone from the insane excesses of Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution to sitting on top of the world.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 26, 2020 • 10:06:04pm

re: #30 Dr Lizardo

Less than a decade. China’s economic rise to pre-eminence is quite something, to say the least. If that forecast bears out, then within my lifetime, China will have gone from the insane excesses of Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution to sitting on top of the world.

We watched a whole new world order change in four years.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Dec 26, 2020 • 10:08:16pm
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Jack Burton  Dec 26, 2020 • 10:15:44pm

re: #31 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

We watched a whole new world order change in four years.

Twice.

1989-1992 Fall of the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc.

2016-2020 Fall of the United States due an fucking childish moron.

Dear World, the US was far from perfect, but having the “Super Power” being an authoritarian surveillance state with a horrific human rights record that’s actively running a genocide of a big portion of it’s population (enthusiastically) is not going to be fun.

When Europe has to actually pay for it’s own defense. That’s going to be a hoot.

Don’t say I didn’t warn you. It will be Cyberpunk, or Snow Crash, or Shadowrun (minus the magic) for real.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 26, 2020 • 10:16:57pm

re: #32 Dread Pirate Ron

Maybe it’s Invanka’s side hustle?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 26, 2020 • 10:19:33pm

On the woman just appointed to Omaha’s city council to fill the remaining term of one councillor who left.

She is a Republican … she claims her posts are “satirical.”

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Jay C  Dec 26, 2020 • 10:21:08pm

re: #30 Dr Lizardo

Less than a decade. China’s economic rise to pre-eminence is quite something, to say the least. If that forecast bears out, then within my lifetime, China will have gone from the insane excesses of Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution to sitting on top of the world.

And amazingly, Trump’s obsessive trade war and rhetorical villain- mongering seems not to have retarded their growth curve in the least. Funny, that.*

* of course, not really “funny”

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 26, 2020 • 10:28:51pm

re: #36 Jay C

And amazingly, Trump’s obsessive trade war and rhetorical villain- mongering seems not to have retarded their growth curve in the least. Funny, that.*

* of course, not really “funny”

If you look at this chart of GDP as measured by Purchasing Power Parity (PPP), China overtook the US a few years ago.

en.wikipedia.org

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 26, 2020 • 10:31:28pm

re: #33 Jack Burton

Dear World, the US was far from perfect, but having the “Super Power” being an authoritarian surveillance state with a horrific human rights record that’s actively running a genocide of a big portion of it’s population (enthusiastically) is not going to be fun.

I don’t know, These days, the U.S. certainly seems to be an authoritarian surveillance state with a shitty human rights record that’s currently running a genocide against a sizable portion of its population that some in power are rather enthusiastic about…

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Dec 26, 2020 • 11:02:49pm

This is pretty interesting, Morale and Motivations: Slavery and white supremacism in the wikipedia article on the Confederate Army.

[O]nly 20 percent of the sample of 429 Southern soldiers explicitly voiced proslavery convictions in their letters or diaries. As one might expect, a much higher percentage of soldiers from slaveholding families than from nonslaveholding families expressed such a purpose: 33 percent, compared with 12 percent. Ironically, the proportion of Union soldiers who wrote about the slavery question was greater, as the next chapter will show. There is a ready explanation for this apparent paradox. Emancipation was a salient issue for Union soldiers because it was controversial. Slavery was less salient for most Confederate soldiers because it was not controversial. They took slavery for granted as one of the Southern ‘rights’ and institutions for which they fought, and did not feel compelled to discuss it.

— James M. McPherson, For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War (1997), pp. 109-110, emphasis added.

Continuing, McPherson also stated that of the hundreds of Confederate soldiers’ letters he had examined, none of them contained any anti-slavery sentiment whatsoever:

Although only 20 percent of the soldiers avowed explicit proslavery purposes in their letters and diaries, none at all dissented from that view.

— James M. McPherson, For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War (1997), p. 110, emphasis in original.

Much more at link, including specific examples of racist and pro-slavery comments by Confederate soldiers in their private letters.

To be fair, most Union soldiers were also racist but they vehemently opposed slavery and saw its eradication as the focus of the war.

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 26, 2020 • 11:08:23pm

re: #30 Dr Lizardo

Less than a decade. China’s economic rise to pre-eminence is quite something, to say the least. If that forecast bears out, then within my lifetime, China will have gone from the insane excesses of Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution to sitting on top of the world.

We are not particularly good at predicting what is going to happen in 2 years, let alone 8 years. I recall the certainty of many in the late 1980’s that Japan was in the ascendancy — their stock market was skyrocketing — and then suddenly it crashed and has not yet returned to its high water mark of 1989, indeed it’s still only about 2/3 of that height. Yes, China, which has a dynamic economy and the largest population, may indeed dominate the world in 8 years — or unforeseeable events could lead to a very different outcome.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 26, 2020 • 11:26:38pm

re: #40 Hecuba’s daughter

We are not particularly good at predicting what is going to happen in 2 years, let alone 8 years. I recall the certainty of many in the late 1980’s that Japan was in the ascendancy — their stock market was skyrocketing — and then suddenly it crashed and has not yet returned to its high water mark of 1989, indeed it’s still only about 2/3 of that height. Yes, China, which has a dynamic economy and the largest population, may indeed dominate the world in 8 years — or unforeseeable events could lead to a very different outcome.

That’s a good point. Hell, China’s economy could crash and burn owing to a black swan event that no one ever sees coming.

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Jack Burton  Dec 26, 2020 • 11:59:10pm

re: #41 Dr Lizardo

That’s a good point. Hell, China’s economy could crash and burn owing to a black swan event that no one ever sees coming.

I’ve heard there’s evidence of China being a much bigger house of cards than anyone thinks or the US could ever imagine being. So we shall see. In the meantime, I’m not going to pretend that the alternative is good for the world.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 27, 2020 • 12:46:46am

It’s 0245. Good morning from Alabama, where stupidity is no bar to office.

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Amory Blaine  Dec 27, 2020 • 1:01:56am

On Christmas, our friends came over with a beef wellington to cook. Nom nom

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ericblair  Dec 27, 2020 • 1:15:41am

re: #41 Dr Lizardo

That’s a good point. Hell, China’s economy could crash and burn owing to a black swan event that no one ever sees coming.

Who needs a black swan? China is sitting on a huge pile of bad debt to state-related companies after over a decade of massive malinvestment (think ghost cities). The government thinks it needs a 6% annual economic growth rate to maintain some sort of social order. And Xi, by declaring himself essentially President-for-Life, broke the mechanism China used to allow for course corrections, so it’s going to be more of the same until it’s impossible to continue. I think Wile E Coyote’s been running on air for a while, but, as they say, countries have a lot of ruin in them.

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BigPapa  Dec 27, 2020 • 1:20:21am

re: #44 Amory Blaine

I’m going to do my first Beef Wellington next week.

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Nyet  Dec 27, 2020 • 1:20:43am
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Dr Lizardo  Dec 27, 2020 • 1:23:29am

re: #45 ericblair

A few years back, Robert Peston had a documentary about it….How China Fooled the World. It discussed the Mauna Loa-sized mountain of debt China’s sitting on and how it could blow up right underneath them and have serious repercussions, not only for China but the entire global economy.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Dec 27, 2020 • 1:58:13am

I received a wireless video doorbell for Christmas and installed it today. I watched the walkway for hours waiting for somebody to come up to the door, of course when I stepped out in the backyard the doorbell rang and I totally missed the event. The infrared light at night significantly increases battery usage. Considering how long I’ve had the camera active and with infrared, this thing will last a long time in normal usage and maybe 24 hours with constant streaming.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 27, 2020 • 2:13:36am

re: #49 Dread Pirate Ron

I received a wireless video doorbell for Christmas and installed it today. I watched the walkway for hours waiting for somebody to come up to the door, of course when I stepped out in the backyard the doorbell rang and I totally missed the event. The infrared light at night significantly increases battery usage. Considering how long I’ve had the camera active and with infrared, this thing will last a long time in normal usage and maybe 24 hours with constant streaming.

Might be less hassle to use a low-wattage led porch light to illuminate it at night. Our light is motion-triggered.

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Dave In Austin  Dec 27, 2020 • 2:34:03am
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Dread Pirate Ron  Dec 27, 2020 • 2:39:33am

re: #50 Decatur Deb

Might be less hassle to use a low-wattage led porch light to illuminate it at night. Our light is motion-triggered.

After this testing it won’t be streaming constantly, only when the motion sensor is triggered and then it records and alerts my phone.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Dec 27, 2020 • 2:41:56am

re: #51 Dave In Austin

Emirates?

Freudian slip?

Inquiring minds want to know.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 27, 2020 • 2:44:43am

hbomberguy with a new video, “The War on Christmas” (53:57)

The War on Christmas: A Measured Response

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Dave In Austin  Dec 27, 2020 • 3:07:11am

re: #53 Dread Pirate Ron

I hate my phone sometimes

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Nyet  Dec 27, 2020 • 3:29:46am
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thedopefishlives  Dec 27, 2020 • 3:50:45am

re: #49 Dread Pirate Ron

I received a wireless video doorbell for Christmas and installed it today. I watched the walkway for hours waiting for somebody to come up to the door, of course when I stepped out in the backyard the doorbell rang and I totally missed the event. The infrared light at night significantly increases battery usage. Considering how long I’ve had the camera active and with infrared, this thing will last a long time in normal usage and maybe 24 hours with constant streaming.

That’s not bad. Mine was able to connect to the doorbell transformer to automatically recharge the battery; did yours have that option?

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ericblair  Dec 27, 2020 • 4:04:21am

re: #56 Nyet

For all the vile shitheads that Trump has pardoned, what will their thought processes be now:

a. That was a close one, and I lucked out. After January, I probably won’t be pardoned again, so I’d better keep my nose clean from now on.

or

b. That sure triggered the libs! I’m invincible, and can do whatever I want with no repercussions.

So, it’s a good idea to keep an eye on these fucks going forward, because I’m pretty sure it’ll be b.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 27, 2020 • 4:22:23am

re: #19 Dr Lizardo

Just curious - why do some people spell Hitler’s first name as “Adolph”? Is that an English-language thing or something else? I’ve always seen it as “Adolf”, at least in Europe.

Adolph is the meat tenderizer guy, Adolf is the one with the Holocaust…

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William Lewis  Dec 27, 2020 • 4:29:46am

HA!

Kids playing with their toys on Christmas Morning

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 27, 2020 • 4:43:08am

re: #19 Dr Lizardo

Just curious - why do some people spell Hitler’s first name as “Adolph”? Is that an English-language thing or something else? I’ve always seen it as “Adolf”, at least in Europe.

Because I misspelt it. Wendell up there is correct.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 27, 2020 • 4:51:08am

re: #61 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Because I misspelt it. Wendell up there is correct.

OK. Just wondering.

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Dangerman  Dec 27, 2020 • 5:00:29am

He says this will not end on 1/20/21

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Decatur Deb  Dec 27, 2020 • 5:34:36am

re: #63 Dangerman; Not a Dr. & don’t play one on TV

He says this will not end on 1/20/21

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Yeah. What if the problem isn’t 2020, it’s The Retching ’20s?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 27, 2020 • 5:52:13am

Interesting, as are the responses.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Dec 27, 2020 • 5:52:51am

re: #57 thedopefishlives

That’s not bad. Mine was able to connect to the doorbell transformer to automatically recharge the battery; did yours have that option?

In my case, the old doorbell leads are so short I would have to solder on extension wires and then use shrink-wrap to cover up the soldered joint.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 27, 2020 • 6:00:03am

re: #65 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Interesting, as are the responses.

Education-shaming again.

The biggest participation trophy in our nation is the Dixie Swastika. Millions of people proudly display it from their homes or cars.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 27, 2020 • 6:01:20am
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jeffreyw  Dec 27, 2020 • 6:04:23am

Good morning!

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 27, 2020 • 6:06:46am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 27, 2020 • 6:11:50am

re: #65 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Interesting, as are the responses.

The literal participation trophy, an actual trophy (or maybe a certificate or a ribbon) for showing up and doing your best in some event or endeavour is not the sudden downfall of society. They have existed for a very long time. Conservatives have most often associated it with Millenials, but such things have existed as long as there have been people.

A good example from my military service is the National Defense Service Medal. I was awarded that when I was in the Navy during the Gulf War. (At the time, I was stationed in Pittsfield, Massachusetts as a Navy Recruiter. I was never in danger from combat, just protestors.)

Regardless of whether you were a person stationed in Saudi Arabia poised to launch the counter-attack to take Kuwait back from Iraq, floating in the sea, or flying aircraft, you were in far more danger than I ever was, but we all got the same medal for that action. A National Defense Service Medal is very much a participation medal.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 27, 2020 • 6:13:43am

One of the hardest things to do in life is to accept one’s own failings.

But an even harder thing to do is to accept the failings of your parents and those you love.

Because the imaginary perfect world in which they supposedly live vanishes.

Rothkopf - and he will not be the last - is trying to figure out what went wrong with America… when nothing “went” anywhere. The America that elected Trump is the America that was the prior generation, and the prior generation, etc.

MAGAville is not a latter-day invention. It’s just repackaged old America.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 27, 2020 • 6:22:59am

re: #70 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

All the politicians wringing their hands over the removal of Confederate statues erected during Jim Crow, nearly every one of them has a college degree. Yet they are whinging over having their participation trophies removed from public land.

They are complaining about renaming bases after the participants who lost a war. Complaining renaming streets or buildings or parks named after the same second-place participants.

If that’s what college teaches you, I’m glad I didn’t go.

Except… these reality deniers are mostly those without college degrees, which is where these bunk theories became popular. How do we explain that?

I think social media is more to blame. The ability for nonsense to pose as vetted truth.—Hugh Howey

Hey Hugh, can I call you Dick? Okay it’s like this Dick. Bunk theories didn’t spring into existence because of social media. Everything from phrenology to eugenics to anti-vaxxers to every religion which ever existed have been promoted long before social media existed. None of that has anything to do with participation trophies, and everything to do with the desire to define an “other” so they are not in the “in” group.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 27, 2020 • 6:29:54am

Rothkopf is very indicative of what is a problem with the Democratic party elite.

Sure, Rothkopf’s family suffered in WWII, and his life pretty much tells the story of a child of the survivors.

Yet… he is very detached from the everyday life of the average American, to write the things he does. He is rich, very well paid (and had to register as an agent of a foreign government, a government who paid him well for this connections), and knows everyone one is supposed to know to be a somebody.

That, however, doesn’t mean he knows what he is talking about, especially when he wades outside his area of expertise (see Nate Silver.)

And as a professor he is almost to that point of turning emeritus. And as I’ve warned on numerous occasions, be wary of the emeriti.

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A Mom Anon  Dec 27, 2020 • 6:30:28am

re: #72 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

It’s not just repackaged, it’s also more visible than ever due to amazing technology. And for some, more inviting. I still believe much of this madness has an appeal because we have no sense of community as a country. The “rugged individual” myth started this, but if you look at how we design new neighborhoods, many with no sidewalks or ways to even see your neighbors that often, what we find “entertaining” on tv(reality competition shows that encourage being shitty to others to win, etc), how prevalent bullying is that doesn’t even require in person contact, etc , none of it encourages working together to make things better and it sure as hell doesn’t encourage problem solving. This is a blanket cultural statement, there are always good people who try to help, but without a supportive culture, the problems and needs continue to grow.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 27, 2020 • 6:32:29am

re: #75 A Mom Anon

It’s not just repackaged, it’s also more visible than ever due to amazing technology.

Sort of like the industry of baked goods (breads, cookies, etc.) Once they figured out how to replace opaque paper with clear cellophane, the product became more visible.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 27, 2020 • 6:41:38am

We Hunted the Mammoth disassembles a horrible Washington Free Beacon article so you don’t have to go to the Free Beacon to read it.

The Washington Free Beacon declares Kyle Rittenhouse, killer of 2, “Man of the Year”

The Washington Free Beacon has declared accused double murderer Kyle Rittenhouse one of its Men of the Year for 2020. Describing him as a “patriot” and a “righteous [man] of action,” the editors of the right-wing rag wrote that

[t]he good people of Kenosha can sleep easier because among us are the likes of 2020 Washington Free Beacon Man of the Year Kyle Rittenhouse.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 27, 2020 • 6:42:32am

re: #76 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Sort of like the industry of baked goods (breads, cookies, etc.) Once they figured out how to replace opaque paper with clear cellophane, the product became more visible.

Plastic wrap as a participation trophy for all bread, whether it was perfect or not. /s

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A Mom Anon  Dec 27, 2020 • 6:43:34am

re: #76 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

That’s a pretty good comparison. So you have people feeling disconnected and that they don’t belong. Which isn’t new, but more amplified as communication methods have gone from phone and mail to online in all its forms. I mean being an online “influencer” can make the right person into a millionaire. Lives that are often an online illusion, not happy, not perfect.

I don’t know how to fix that. Or if it’s even fixable. But it’s not helpful. Expanded communication as both a blessing and a series of curses.

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 27, 2020 • 6:43:41am

re: #24 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Carried over from the last thread:

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Hi, I’m a rifle in the hands of a wingnut roommate.
Hi, I’m a mob of Christians in Virginia Beach threatening an atheist and his infant at home.

Hi there, I am Postpartum Hemorrhage! I kill more women after childbirth than legal abortion!

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A Mom Anon  Dec 27, 2020 • 6:46:33am

re: #80 The Pie Overlord!

I had one of those after I had my daughter. Spent a week in the hospital, even though she was perfectly healthy (9lbs 6 oz), and could have gone home. Scary as hell.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Dec 27, 2020 • 6:50:05am
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 27, 2020 • 6:53:04am

re: #77 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

We Hunted the Mammoth disassembles a horrible Washington Free Beacon article so you don’t have to go to the Free Beacon to read it.

The Washington Free Beacon declares Kyle Rittenhouse, killer of 2, “Man of the Year”

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That’s absolutely fucking disgusting.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 27, 2020 • 6:57:41am

re: #79 A Mom Anon

That’s a pretty good comparison. So you have people feeling disconnected and that they don’t belong. Which isn’t new, but more amplified as communication methods have gone from phone and mail to online in all its forms. I mean being an online “influencer” can make the right person into a millionaire. Lives that are often an online illusion, not happy, not perfect.

I don’t know how to fix that. Or if it’s even fixable. But it’s not helpful. Expanded communication as both a blessing and a series of curses.

And out comes the Millenials take on participation trophies.

It’s not like we didn’t have people throwing money at musicians as long as there have been musicians, people throwing money at television stars, or before that radio stars, or before that silent movie actors, or before that live theatre (to this day, look at all those entitled people who expected a performance out of “Hamilton” actors in the theatre who wouldn’t perform unless they were paid), or sports as long as there has been professional sports, &c.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 27, 2020 • 6:59:58am

re: #80 The Pie Overlord!

Hi there, I am Postpartum Hemorrhage! I kill more women after childbirth than legal abortion!

My ex-wife had the same difficulty when our son was born. It was the assistance of the skilled nurse-midwife who immediately recognised the problem and was able to correct it on the spot which likely saved her life.

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mmmirele  Dec 27, 2020 • 7:10:38am

re: #48 Dr Lizardo

A few years back, Robert Peston had a documentary about it….How China Fooled the World. It discussed the Mauna Loa-sized mountain of debt China’s sitting on and how it could blow up right underneath them and have serious repercussions, not only for China but the entire global economy.

I keep thinking about those virtually empty cities that China has built…ghost cities. That said, I believe China could fill out those cities, but they can’t just keep building more to prop up the GDP and that is likely what is happening.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 27, 2020 • 7:11:30am

re: #83 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

That’s absolutely fucking disgusting.

It gets worse.

Kyle Rittenhouse’s Mom Hoping To Reel In The Murder Groupies With ‘Free Kyle’ Bikinis (goes to Wonkette, includes photographs of his mother’s merchandise)

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Teukka  Dec 27, 2020 • 7:11:43am

Imagine being so deep into conspiracy theory that you unironically post this:

[Sauce]
Just out of curiosity, where is the line drawn between delusions and psychosis?
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mmmirele  Dec 27, 2020 • 7:17:28am

re: #80 The Pie Overlord!

Hi there, I am Postpartum Hemorrhage! I kill more women after childbirth than legal abortion!

Hello, I am Bay Leaf! Someone at the co-op didn’t fish it out of the spaghetti sauce and I slurped that sucker down and it lodged right at the top of my wind pipe. After a minute (probably less) of gesturing at someone to HALP HALP, I did a self-Heimlich maneuver and out popped this “just the right size to cover a windpipe” piece of bay leaf. That really put me off eating in general for that day, and spaghetti in particular for a while after that.

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jaunte  Dec 27, 2020 • 7:19:21am

re: #88 Teukka

German A7V cell phone jammer at Roye on 21 March 1918.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 27, 2020 • 7:20:40am

re: #88 Teukka

Imagine being so deep into conspiracy theory that you unironically post this:

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Just out of curiosity, where is the line drawn between delusions and psychosis?

This is the original photograph at the Library of Congress.

loc.gov

The picture is of Red Cross workers in St. Louis, Missouri, and in the unblurred, not-yellow photograph, the post in question is a lamppost, not any sort of radio tower.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 27, 2020 • 7:21:07am

re: #75 A Mom Anon

… but if you look at how we design new neighborhoods, many with no sidewalks or ways to even see your neighbors that often, …

So I watch House Hunters, to see how reality (fake) TV is packaging the real estate business these days.

Now the show, as a reality show, is really about the drama the couples experience under pressure - that is why people watch the show.

But if one listens carefully to the sales pitches, then scrutinizes the product (house) being pushed, it is clear that (like other HGTV shows), little attention is paid to the really important things. At best you get couples bickering over commute time versus price.

It’s the usual game, of real estate sales people pushing naive clients through the process. In one recent episode a young couple, who could not agree with each other and didn’t want to compromise, was finally convinced by the sales person to see a new construction (which was a compromise for both and probably the best choice for their marriage).

When it came on screen some things popped out to me, as so typical of new-construction cheapness and things the sales person will not of course mention. However, the builder did put in sidewalks (was it required by the municipality?):

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 27, 2020 • 7:21:15am

re: #88 Teukka

Imagine being so deep into conspiracy theory that you unironically post this:

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Just out of curiosity, where is the line drawn between delusions and psychosis?

Silly people. That’s the eruv.

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Teukka  Dec 27, 2020 • 7:24:14am

re: #90 jaunte

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German A7V cell phone jammer at Roye on 21 March 1918.

Iframe

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BigPapa  Dec 27, 2020 • 7:26:34am

re: #83 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

That’s absolutely fucking disgusting.

PragerU sez hold my keg of beer:
‘Why should we keep statues of Robert E Lee? Because Reasons.’

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mmmirele  Dec 27, 2020 • 7:27:43am

re: #93 The Pie Overlord!

Silly people. That’s the eruv.

I was going to ask you if there was a list of eruvim, but then thought, no, I’ll just use my Google-Fu and found a website for a very large eruv in Scottsdale/Phoenix, with the northern boundary being a canal that brings water from northern Arizona. I am impressed.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 27, 2020 • 7:28:45am

The Original Plandemic: Unmasking the Eerily Familiar Conspiracy Theories Behind the Russian Flu of 1889 (Forbes)

It doesn’t take Dr. Fauci to know that conspiracy theories have always been a predictable symptom of pandemics. More than a century ago, the truthers of the day tried to blame a deadly influenza outbreak on a similar technological innovation.

On January 31, 1890, the European edition of the New York Herald ran an item suggesting that the electric light was somehow responsible for a global influenza outbreak. After all, “the disease has raged chiefly in towns where the electric light is in common use,” the article noted, and went on to note that the disease “has everywhere attacked telegraph employees.”

The illness in question was the first modern influenza pandemic, known as the Russian flu or “La Grippe.” The disease likely emerged somewhere in the Russian Empire in 1889 and quickly spread around the world in successive waves. It took only four months to hit every part of the globe, with the United States seeing its peak in January 1890. More than a million people (of the 1.5 billion on earth) were killed worldwide in that first wave.

The Russian flu was in part a consequence of a newly globalized world. Railroads and transoceanic steamships were perfect conduits for the disease, accelerating its growth across countries and continents. As with Covid-19, the earlier pandemic also caused a spread of misinformation, conspiracies and countless dubious therapies. Instead of the internet, these ideas were promulgated by newspaper and telegraph—but the impact was similar.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 27, 2020 • 7:29:43am

Why the hell is a bowling alley open?

3 dead, 3 wounded, suspect in custody following shooting rampage at Illinois bowling alley, authorities say

news.yahoo.com

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Belafon  Dec 27, 2020 • 7:31:50am

re: #65 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Interesting, as are the responses.

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It must always be someone else’s fault, whatever “it” is, and they will make up any excuse to justify that reasoning. And that allows them to justify doing anything to maintain power.

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🌹UOJB!  Dec 27, 2020 • 7:32:54am

re: #65 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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Belafon  Dec 27, 2020 • 7:34:48am

re: #71 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I got a similar one for joining the Navy in 1992. We were technically still in the first Gulf War, even though operations were essentially over, so I never saw any time in the Gulf.

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Belafon  Dec 27, 2020 • 7:38:17am

re: #84 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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PhillyPretzel  Dec 27, 2020 • 7:43:14am

OT It has been over a month since I worked the polls on Election Day and I finally got paid. It was a little more than what I was told I would get. The only problem is that now I have a check that must be deposited into my account. I will try to contact my credit union sometime today or tomorrow morning. In April of 2021 I will ask if they can go for direct deposit. It will much easier during this time of COVID-19.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Dec 27, 2020 • 7:45:03am

re: #57 thedopefishlives

That’s not bad. Mine was able to connect to the doorbell transformer to automatically recharge the battery; did yours have that option?

My ring does that, too. Very handy.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 27, 2020 • 7:48:08am

re: #100 🌹UOJB!

A lot of people are taking issue with what he said. I have to agree. If you’re talking about making a ton of money, I think his advice is sound. You’re unlikely to become the next NFL/NBA star, multi-platinum singer or Tiger Woods. And his comment about tax accountants was spot on.

I’m not saying take a job you hate. Be the best you can at whatever you choose, but be realistic about what you want and how you’ll get it.

I watched a show a few months ago about a boy from I believe Nashville who wanted to become an actor. The family supported him and Mom and son moved to Los Angeles. For months he went on audition after audition, worked with an acting coach, all that. After a year they went back home. So, lots of passion but fruitless nonetheless.

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retired cynic  Dec 27, 2020 • 7:51:16am

re: #97 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The Original Plandemic: Unmasking the Eerily Familiar Conspiracy Theories Behind the Russian Flu of 1889 (Forbes)

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That must have been the pandemic that killed the spouses of my maternal grandfather’s parents. Each was married with children, and lost their spouse and many of their children. They married, and had a second family of four, one of which was Gramps.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Dec 27, 2020 • 7:56:32am

re: #66 Eric The Fruit Bat

In my case, the old doorbell leads are so short I would have to solder on extension wires and then use shrink-wrap to cover up the soldered joint.

The ring came with little extension wires and caps for that very reason.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Dec 27, 2020 • 8:01:24am

re: #71 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

One of my first awards (right after I started at FDA) was an office-wide $100 award that could be translated as “plays well with others”.

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jeffreyw  Dec 27, 2020 • 8:03:08am

re: #103 PhillyPretzel

OT It has been over a month since I worked the polls on Election Day and I finally got paid. It was a little more than what I was told I would get. The only problem is that now I have a check that must be deposited into my account. I will try to contact my credit union sometime today or tomorrow morning. In April of 2021 I will ask if they can go for direct deposit. It will much easier during this time of COVID-19.

We get the occasional check that needs depositing, our credit union app lets us take a picture of the check and they will credit the account for the amount of the check. Not instantly, but generally in one or two business days. The paper check does not change hands, I have several in a desk drawer.

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PhillyPretzel  Dec 27, 2020 • 8:03:35am

re: #49 Dread Pirate Ron

Ring has a solar charger for their doorbell. Check out either amazon or the Ring website.

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A hollow voice says,1st round on points. Onward!  Dec 27, 2020 • 8:04:46am

re: #69 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Western good morning!

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 27, 2020 • 8:04:57am

re: #105 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

…. After a year they went back home. So, lots of passion but fruitless nonetheless.

From my perspective, such an experience is not fruitless.

Failure, so called, is part of life. Trying something and not achieving what one originally hoped is part of life.

Not only is there nothing wrong with that, I’d rather live with someone who tried something and had to change directions, than with someone who never tried anything.

What Galloway is missing in his rant is that people need meaning and purpose in their lives. What that means is up for each person to decide. Galloway is just ranting like an old curmudgeon. He might as well be complaining that the kids get off his lawn.

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PhillyPretzel  Dec 27, 2020 • 8:05:08am

re: #109 jeffreyw

I will call them on Monday morning. The after hours number is a call center. This is one of the few actual checks that I get.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 27, 2020 • 8:06:02am

re: #90 jaunte

Original 5G structures and data centers, Giza Plateau, cca 2480 BCE:

WE’RE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS, PEOPLE!!

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Mattand  Dec 27, 2020 • 8:10:10am

re: #103 PhillyPretzel

OT It has been over a month since I worked the polls on Election Day and I finally got paid. It was a little more than what I was told I would get. The only problem is that now I have a check that must be deposited into my account. I will try to contact my credit union sometime today or tomorrow morning. In April of 2021 I will ask if they can go for direct deposit. It will much easier during this time of COVID-19.

I’m guessing the credit union doesn’t have a phone app? I know very little about them in general.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Dec 27, 2020 • 8:11:37am
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Mattand  Dec 27, 2020 • 8:11:41am

re: #114 Dr Lizardo

Original 5G structures and data centers, Giza Plateau, cca 2480 BCE:

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WE’RE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS, PEOPLE!!

The speed are fantastic with those, but all you get is texts from the Illuminati and antics websites.

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 27, 2020 • 8:16:42am

re: #116 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

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Michelle Obama has been on the cover of Vogue three times.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 27, 2020 • 8:18:23am

re: #112 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

From my perspective, such an experience is not fruitless.

Failure, so called, is part of life. Trying something and not achieving what one originally hoped is part of life.

Not only is there nothing wrong with that, I’d rather live with someone who tried something and had to change directions, than with someone who never tried anything.

I agree. I meant fruitless in terms of achieving the goal.

What Galloway is missing in his rant is that people need meaning and purpose in their lives. What that means is up for each person to decide. Galloway is just ranting like an old curmudgeon. He might as well be complaining that the kids get off his lawn.

On this I disagree. He’s taking about becoming wealthy, not just “living”. There’s a difference.

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PhillyPretzel  Dec 27, 2020 • 8:18:48am

re: #115 Mattand

They are online and have app for the iPad and iPhone. As I said I will call them on Monday morning.

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calochortus  Dec 27, 2020 • 8:19:06am

re: #112 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

From my perspective, such an experience is not fruitless.

Failure, so called, is part of life. Trying something and not achieving what one originally hoped is part of life.

Not only is there nothing wrong with that, I’d rather live with someone who tried something and had to change directions, than with someone who never tried anything.

What Galloway is missing in his rant is that people need meaning and purpose in their lives. What that means is up for each person to decide. Galloway is just ranting like an old curmudgeon. He might as well be complaining that the kids get off his lawn.

No, not fruitless, but not productive of the kind of success intended.
Galloway did not, as far as I can see, suggest you shouldn’t have a passion in life. He mentioned pursuing such things on the weekend. The point he was making was that the frequently stated “follow your passion, success will follow” (assuming success means money and/or fame) is simply not a life plan. I know people with passions who are really good at that passion, but there is no market for it. Therefore, they have day-jobs.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 27, 2020 • 8:19:40am

re: #118 The Pie Overlord!

Michelle Obama has been on the cover of Vogue three times.

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And her titties miraculously stayed hidden.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 27, 2020 • 8:20:03am

re: #118 The Pie Overlord!

Don’t know what Trump’s bitching about….I’m sure Melania was featured in Screw magazine at least once.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 27, 2020 • 8:20:23am

re: #120 PhillyPretzel

They are online and have app for the iPad and iPhone. As I said I will call them on Monday morning.

They have an app without picture deposits? That’s wild.

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 27, 2020 • 8:21:48am

re: #123 Dr Lizardo

Don’t know what Trump’s bitching about….I’m sure Melania was featured in Screw magazine at least once.

She’s been on the cover of GQ and I think Maxim.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Dec 27, 2020 • 8:21:52am

re: #92 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Real shutters aren’t a thing, anymore really; maybe hurricane prone areas?

McMansion Hell

Hello everyone. Originally, this post was supposed to be devoted to the year 1978, however something came up, and by something, I mean this 2.2 million-dollar, 5,420 sq ft 4 bed/4.5 bath house in Colt’s Neck, NJ.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 27, 2020 • 8:22:11am

re: #103 PhillyPretzel

OT It has been over a month since I worked the polls on Election Day and I finally got paid. It was a little more than what I was told I would get. The only problem is that now I have a check that must be deposited into my account. I will try to contact my credit union sometime today or tomorrow morning. In April of 2021 I will ask if they can go for direct deposit. It will much easier during this time of COVID-19.

When we get a cheque, it gets dropped in the night deposit box at the bank with a deposit slip.

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Belafon  Dec 27, 2020 • 8:22:16am

re: #124 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

They have an app without picture deposits? That’s wild.

Even my regional bank allows you to deposit via picture.

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PhillyPretzel  Dec 27, 2020 • 8:22:22am

re: #124 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I do not know if they do that. That is why I will call them to find out if they do.

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PhillyPretzel  Dec 27, 2020 • 8:25:03am

I am sure my credit union has something along those lines but I have to find out what it is and follow their procedures.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 27, 2020 • 8:25:32am

re: #129 PhillyPretzel

I do not know if they do that. That is why I will call them to find out if they do.

Check the menu on the app. Chase calls it Quick Deposit. I’m sure they all have their own name.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 27, 2020 • 8:25:43am

re: #128 Belafon

Even my regional bank allows you to deposit via picture.

Our two banks do not. Neither has a way to do on-line banking. The closest we can get to that is the ATM.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 27, 2020 • 8:25:50am

re: #100 🌹UOJB!

Another thing about Galloway - he’s a marketing prof.

As near as I can tell, his rant is just product differentiation for the Galloway brand (he constantly sells himself on TV.)

And while he’s a professed Trump despiser, he’s one of those who think the Dems are too concerned with PC and not enough with the so-called working class:

Of course promoting one of those NYT pieces that wants to blame the Democratic party for Trump finding a few bigots here and there to rally to him.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Dec 27, 2020 • 8:27:00am

re: #115 Mattand

Just about every small to medium sized credit union’s app has a deposit-by-phone function - just go ahead and download the app to your phone (I never tried it on a tablet) and look for something called ‘remote deposit’.

Heck, even a lot of super-regional banks buy the software from a 3rd party and then hook it into their own banking app.

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jeffreyw  Dec 27, 2020 • 8:32:15am

re: #113 PhillyPretzel

Does the CU have a web site? If so they prob have an app for mobile users. My CU web site doesn’t have the deposit feature, it’s only on the app.

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PhillyPretzel  Dec 27, 2020 • 8:32:47am

re: #131 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

re: #134 Eric The Fruit Bat

re: #115 Mattand

Thanks for all of your suggestions but right now I am in the middle of cooking something and I have a few dollars in my wallet. It is not absolutely urgent that I cash any check. As I said I will take care of it in the morning.

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PhillyPretzel  Dec 27, 2020 • 8:33:13am

re: #135 jeffreyw

Please read #136.

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ericblair  Dec 27, 2020 • 8:34:16am

re: #121 calochortus

No, not fruitless, but not productive of the kind of success intended.
Galloway did not, as far as I can see, suggest you shouldn’t have a passion in life. He mentioned pursuing such things on the weekend. The point he was making was that the frequently stated “follow your passion, success will follow” (assuming success means money and/or fame) is simply not a life plan. I know people with passions who are really good at that passion, but there is no market for it. Therefore, they have day-jobs.

The real problem with this is survivorship bias. You’re talking to people who have succeeded, giving advise to people who have yet to succeed. You never, ever see the people who haven’t succeeded; they’re uninteresting, see. The advise you get from the success stories could very well be useless, since it never accounts for the people who could have done all of this and fallen on their faces.

Imagine a coin-flipping contest, and inviting the winner of the contest to a talk. He flipped ten heads in a row! He can talk all he wants about motivation, how he practiced flipping coins every day, and how he visualized heads whenever he flipped a coin. But because the winner was invited after he succeeded, without regard to those who didn’t, what he tells you doesn’t help you flip a coin heads at all.

(And no, if you’re talking to a stage magician teaching you a trick, that’s a totally different story. Very clever.)

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🌹UOJB!  Dec 27, 2020 • 8:34:24am

re: #118 The Pie Overlord!

Michelle Obama has been on the cover of Vogue three times.

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And I remember the Pulpit Pimps flipping out over Michelle’s “neck-ed” arms…

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Citizen K  Dec 27, 2020 • 8:34:38am

re: #133 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Another thing about Galloway - he’s a marketing prof.

As near as I can tell, his rant is just product differentiation for the Galloway brand (he constantly sells himself on TV.)

And while he’s a professed Trump despiser, he’s one of those who think the Dems are too concerned with PC and not enough with the so-called working class:

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Of course promoting one of those NYT pieces that wants to blame the Democratic party for Trump finding a few bigots here and there to rally to him.

Because again, it’s only ever ‘identity politics’ and the like when it goes one way, in giving folks whose identity necessarily informs their politics a voice b/c of their marginalization. When it’s “White Working Class” and whose who with them to stand against extending the franchise to those marginalized if it personally aggrieves them in any way, it’s never ‘Identity politics’. It’s ‘economic anxiety’ or some such dumb shit like that.

Same thing with “PC”. It’s never considered “PC” when people scream about using “Merry Christmas” over “Happy Holidays” or scream about their own sort of language policing. It’s only ever “PC” when it’s about avoiding language that harms people tangibly, because that language is so dear to their ‘culture’ apparently that avoiding it is the real racism and prejudice, not misgendering, not ableism, not scrabbling and demanding to use slurs against other populations, etc.

The country is hellbent on the most exclusionary vision of itself that it can manage, and those allying with Republicans and conservatives on this will be on the firing line eventually once they run out of ‘others’ to raze, because they’ll never be ‘American’ enough to those who are convinced that they’re the only ‘Real Americans’ and the rest of us are just visiting under the supervision of their good graces.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Dec 27, 2020 • 8:36:53am

re: #114 Dr Lizardo

Original 5G structures and data centers, Giza Plateau, cca 2480 BCE:

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WE’RE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS, PEOPLE!!

Y’all need to move into the 21st Century. It’s way more devious than you thought. The Impossible Burger was just the start.

or is it really this?

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BigPapa  Dec 27, 2020 • 8:38:46am

Judd brings the receipts on Mighty Greenwald and I’m here for it.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 27, 2020 • 8:40:26am

Rothkopf and Galloway are typical of what I consider the intellectual failure of modern self-aggrandizing self-declared leaders associated with what many will think of as liberal intelligentsia: they are afraid to tackle the real problem.

Which is, specifically, that America is having a religious melt-down.

Trump is nothing more, and nothing less, than a profiteer of America’s worldview collapse.

Rothkop and Galloway don’t address the real problem of Christian fundamentalism in this country.

re: #140 Citizen K

Bingo. These older white establishment liberal males have yet to accept that they have plastered over their own biases.

And the plaster is cracking.

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calochortus  Dec 27, 2020 • 8:41:42am

re: #140 Citizen K

Because again, it’s only ever ‘identity politics’ and the like when it goes one way, in giving folks whose identity necessarily informs their politics a voice b/c of their marginalization. When it’s “White Working Class” and whose who with them to stand against extending the franchise to those marginalized if it personally aggrieves them in any way, it’s never ‘Identity politics’. It’s ‘economic anxiety’ or some such dumb shit like that.

Same thing with “PC”. It’s never considered “PC” when people scream about using “Merry Christmas” over “Happy Holidays” or scream about their own sort of language policing. It’s only ever “PC” when it’s about avoiding language that harms people tangibly, because that language is so dear to their ‘culture’ apparently that avoiding it is the real racism and prejudice, not misgendering, not ableism, not scrabbling and demanding to use slurs against other populations, etc.

The country is hellbent on the most exclusionary vision of itself that it can manage, and those allying with Republicans and conservatives on this will be on the firing line eventually once they run out of ‘others’ to raze, because they’ll never be ‘American’ enough to those who are convinced that they’re the only ‘Real Americans’ and the rest of us are just visiting under the supervision of their good graces.

Of course we’ve made some progress in getting to the point where people kick and scream about having to be “inclusive” because a few decades ago it was considered natural that “those people” (whoever they might be at a given moment) were not our equals and didn’t deserve the same rights.

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Citizen K  Dec 27, 2020 • 8:43:59am

re: #144 calochortus

Of course we’ve made some progress in getting to the point where people kick and scream about having to be “inclusive” because a few decades ago it was considered natural that “those people” (whoever they might be at a given moment) were not our equals and didn’t deserve the same rights.

Unfortunately we seem to be backsliding pretty significantly on all those ends and not sure how long it’ll take to reverse that backslide.

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sagehen  Dec 27, 2020 • 8:47:14am

re: #105 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I watched a show a few months ago about a boy from I believe Nashville who wanted to become an actor. The family supported him and Mom and son moved to Los Angeles. For months he went on audition after audition, worked with an acting coach, all that. After a year they went back home. So, lots of passion but fruitless nonetheless.

Then there’s Taylor Swift; her family moved from Pennsylvania to Nashville to support her music ambitions. It’s worked out pretty well for them.

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calochortus  Dec 27, 2020 • 8:49:45am

re: #145 Citizen K

Unfortunately we seem to be backsliding pretty significantly on all those ends and not sure how long it’ll take to reverse that backslide.

We do seem to be. The path of progress is never smooth, but I’m inclined to think it will continue if for no other reason than the increasing rates of intermarriage. It would be nice if the idiots would give up now and move on, but I don’t suppose they will.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 27, 2020 • 8:51:06am

Getting back to House Hunters… another recent episode is of a (very) young couple who decided to move to San Diego because they like it here. Now they want to buy a place.

Their budget is $300k.

For those not in the know, that is barely enough to buy one a garage here, much less an actual house.

So the real estate pusher is showing then condos.

But those condos are old, not well kept, and one of them I think is a rental that was turned into a condo long ago.

Now young people are by nature naive - not a sin, not unexpected, and totally expected so I don’t condemn them for it - but the reality is a real estate person ought to tell such a young couple, who moved here from a location where housing is much cheaper, to find more money before they shop.

Anyway, the truth is that young couple has a problem not of their own making.

They were born too late to be a first time buyer in coastal California.

If they had been born 50 years earlier, coming to San Diego in 1970 was doable for a young couple looking to buy their first place.

But in 2020, either the couple has to be both professionals pulling down six figures each, or they need parents willing to kick in a few hundred thousand dollars.

And this is something that the supposed truth tellers - Prof. Galloway comes to mind - aren’t so eager to say, because they can’t make money by saying it: sometimes one is just out of luck.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 27, 2020 • 8:52:30am
150
Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 27, 2020 • 8:54:19am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 27, 2020 • 8:54:51am

re: #61 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Because I misspelt it. Wendell up there is correct.

You like tender meat…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 27, 2020 • 8:56:38am

re: #67 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The biggest participation trophy in our nation is the Dixie Swastika. Millions of people proudly display it from their homes or cars.

Heck you even see people from places like Wisconsin and Idaho flying it proudly and defiantly. Sick fuckers, all.

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jeffreyw  Dec 27, 2020 • 8:56:58am

re: #137 PhillyPretzel

Please read #136.

Someone is procrastinating on the internet.

154
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 27, 2020 • 8:58:02am

re: #81 A Mom Anon

I had one of those after I had my daughter. Spent a week in the hospital, even though she was perfectly healthy (9lbs 6 oz), and could have gone home. Scary as hell.

That happened to my ex-wife after her first and second births.

155
A hollow voice says,1st round on points. Onward!  Dec 27, 2020 • 9:00:38am

A few days late, but still current:

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Dec 27, 2020 • 9:02:45am

re: #152 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Heck you even see people from places like Wisconsin and Idaho flying it proudly and defiantly. Sick fuckers, all.

Yep. Ass wipe two houses down has one of those 50% U.S. 50% traitor flags proudly hanging from his porch. Strangely enough, my partner finds it to be more offensive than the actual full traitor flag. I’ve had to strongly discourage her from setting it on fire at worst or just tearing it down at best.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 27, 2020 • 9:03:14am

re: #133 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Of course promoting one of those NYT pieces that wants to blame the Democratic party for Trump finding a few bigots here and there to rally to him.

Democrats in disarray again?

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Dec 27, 2020 • 9:04:40am

Stonekettle is now live on faceplant.

facebook.com

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 27, 2020 • 9:06:05am

re: #140 Citizen K

Because again, it’s only ever ‘identity politics’ and the like when it goes one way, in giving folks whose identity necessarily informs their politics a voice b/c of their marginalization. When it’s “White Working Class” and whose who with them to stand against extending the franchise to those marginalized if it personally aggrieves them in any way, it’s never ‘Identity politics’. It’s ‘economic anxiety’ or some such dumb shit like that.

Same thing with “PC”. It’s never considered “PC” when people scream about using “Merry Christmas” over “Happy Holidays” or scream about their own sort of language policing. It’s only ever “PC” when it’s about avoiding language that harms people tangibly, because that language is so dear to their ‘culture’ apparently that avoiding it is the real racism and prejudice, not misgendering, not ableism, not scrabbling and demanding to use slurs against other populations, etc.

The country is hellbent on the most exclusionary vision of itself that it can manage, and those allying with Republicans and conservatives on this will be on the firing line eventually once they run out of ‘others’ to raze, because they’ll never be ‘American’ enough to those who are convinced that they’re the only ‘Real Americans’ and the rest of us are just visiting under the supervision of their good graces.

This is a start of a series on the alt-right, which the presenter notes there is no difference between conservatism and the alt-right.

The rules of “when they go low, we go high” will not work with conservatives, and such complaints as “PC” are simply tools to get what they want. They are not focused on the process (compromise, debate) but the results (a conservative utopia).

This series started during Mitch McConnell’s blocking of Merrick Garland for the Supreme Court, and continues into this week. Amongst other things, he accurately predicted how Donald Trump would behave and how he would be treated.

(12:16)

The Alt-Right Playbook: Introduction

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ericblair  Dec 27, 2020 • 9:10:41am

re: #157 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Democrats in disarray again?

When Democrats lose, our intellectual betters analyze how the Dems fucked up and are ultimately doomed. When Democrats win, our intellectual betters analyze how the Dems fucked up and are ultimately doomed.

Seems like the Republicans losing the suburbs and exurbs and relying on a demographically shrinking increasingly crazy minority would be flagged as a bit of a problem for them, but apparently not.

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Rightwingconspirator  Dec 27, 2020 • 9:12:26am

re: #160 ericblair

It pays to not ever let your critics define anything about you or the task at hand.

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 27, 2020 • 9:15:09am

re: #148 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Getting back to House Hunters… another recent episode is of a (very) young couple who decided to move to San Diego because they like it here. Now they want to buy a place.

Their budget is $300k.

For those not in the know, that is barely enough to buy one a garage here, much less an actual house.
…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 27, 2020 • 9:16:39am

re: #160 ericblair

It is also a form of Identity Politics to just assume that Latino/black=Democrat and any Latinos and blacks who vote otherwise are a symptom of DiD Syndrome.

Sad part is that the GOP could appeal to a lot of Latinos especially, they tend to be socially conservative, family and religiously oriented and believe in hard work and the American Dream of a better life for one’s children.

But they also favor strong communities and strong public institutions like good schools and reliable health care, etc., all of which cost tax money. And the GOP only pays lip service to “family values” and are racist as fuck.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 27, 2020 • 9:18:46am

Thought I’d share this - there are so many of these here in Ostrava (and throughout the former Eastern Bloc)….

Khrushchyovka - UGLIEST Old Soviet Apartment Building?

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ericblair  Dec 27, 2020 • 9:21:05am

Some polling on the GA runoffs. This sort of differential polling referencing a recent election should reduce a lot of systemic errors, but we shall see. I donated more to Fair Fight and intend to keep donating between elections, when they need the money the most.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 27, 2020 • 9:28:12am

I’m going to head out to bed. Catch y’all later.

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🌹UOJB!  Dec 27, 2020 • 9:29:12am

Disgusting

Bad enough the Washington Free Beacon names Kyle Rittenhouse it’s Man Of The Year and cheers that he killed people in cold blood…

wehuntedthemammoth.com

His mother is selling “Free Kyle” merchandise INCLUDING “Free Kyle” bikinis…

wonkette.com

Now why hasn’t a court stepped in and shut this shit down?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 27, 2020 • 9:29:39am

Good morning from Kevin!

*photo taken moments before he tried to use my leg as a scratching post.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Dec 27, 2020 • 9:33:38am

re: #153 jeffreyw

Someone is procrastinating on the internet.

This could have been my tweet…

Yup, sounds about right.
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Dec 27, 2020 • 9:35:02am

re: #39 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

In part the Union soldiers viewed slavery as the division point leading to the split in the country - which was the official reason for the war from the Union side; that secession was illegal.

Part of what makes the Lost Cause apologetics laughable is that if you had been able to ask the participants why there was a war/rebellion was going on pretty much all of them would have been saying slavery was the root cause, not the silly justifications like tariffs and such.

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jeffreyw  Dec 27, 2020 • 9:35:53am

re: #168 Eclectic Cyborg

Good morning from Kevin!

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*photo taken moments before he tried to use my leg as a scratching post.

Plaid pants! That is a kitty turn on. This is known.

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 27, 2020 • 9:37:09am

re: #164 Dr Lizardo

Thought I’d share this - there are so many of these here in Ostrava (and throughout the former Eastern Bloc)….

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Video

Interesting. They built similar utilitarian structures in Japan (according to Japanese needs) called “danchi” in the aftermath of the war with the pressing need for mass housing. Some still exist, but they’ve mostly been torn down.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 27, 2020 • 9:50:09am

re: #172 Barefoot Grin

Interesting. They built similar utilitarian structures in Japan (according to Japanese needs) called “danchi” in the aftermath of the war with the pressing need for mass housing. Some still exist, but they’ve mostly been torn down.

Frankfurt (which was 90% destroyed in WW2) is filled with entire neighborhoods of hideous post-war housing blocks like that.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 27, 2020 • 9:50:42am

re: #162 The Pie Overlord!

Every time I see Canadian prices I have to remind myself that the Canadian dollar is much less than the US dollar.

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🌹UOJB!  Dec 27, 2020 • 9:52:22am

UPDATE

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i(m)p(each)sos  Dec 27, 2020 • 9:53:28am

re: #175 🌹UOJB!

UPDATE

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 27, 2020 • 9:55:33am

re: #172 Barefoot Grin

Interesting. They built similar utilitarian structures in Japan (according to Japanese needs) called “danchi” in the aftermath of the war with the pressing need for mass housing. Some still exist, but they’ve mostly been torn down.

I myself live in a “věžák”, a tower block - started seeing those here around the Brezhnev Era, though there are examples (for instance, in Kladno*) the predate that time. If they’re renovated and subsequently maintained, they’re not bad at all. Very utilitarian, but comfortable enough.

* they were built between 1954 to 1958 for a housing project that was never completed.

Here’s a photogallery of the six Kladno tower blocks: idnes.cz

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Decatur Deb  Dec 27, 2020 • 9:56:54am

re: #172 Barefoot Grin

Interesting. They built similar utilitarian structures in Japan (according to Japanese needs) called “danchi” in the aftermath of the war with the pressing need for mass housing. Some still exist, but they’ve mostly been torn down.

Up through the 80s, there were large developments of them along the Han River, in Seoul. (Seoul had been essentially leveled by 1951.) Those areas, like Gangnam, are fashionable today.

179
Belafon  Dec 27, 2020 • 9:58:23am

BBC is Doctor Who the whole week. The current episode, the invasion of the tiny cubes, came out in 2012. And to show how much Twitter was back then what it is now, Kate Lethbridge-Stewart stated “And within 3 hours of their arrival, the cubes had over a thousand Twitter accounts.”

180
🌹UOJB!  Dec 27, 2020 • 9:58:46am

By the way is President Fat Ass golfing again?

181
FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Dec 27, 2020 • 9:59:18am

re: #92 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

So I watch House Hunters, to see how reality (fake) TV is packaging the real estate business these days.

Now the show, as a reality show, is really about the drama the couples experience under pressure - that is why people watch the show.

But if one listens carefully to the sales pitches, then scrutinizes the product (house) being pushed, it is clear that (like other HGTV shows), little attention is paid to the really important things. At best you get couples bickering over commute time versus price.

It’s the usual game, of real estate sales people pushing naive clients through the process. In one recent episode a young couple, who could not agree with each other and didn’t want to compromise, was finally convinced by the sales person to see a new construction (which was a compromise for both and probably the best choice for their marriage).

When it came on screen some things popped out to me, as so typical of new-construction cheapness and things the sales person will not of course mention. However, the builder did put in sidewalks (was it required by the municipality?):

[Embedded content]

Ick, un-yard.

The fake shutters thing is not new. Parent’s house back in the 1970’s was a wood-frame, vinyl siding house and it had the fake shutters. At least the lot sizes were bigger back then since we had at least 3x the space between the houses if not more.

182
Decatur Deb  Dec 27, 2020 • 10:04:00am

re: #181 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Ick, un-yard.

The fake shutters thing is not new. Parent’s house back in the 1970’s was a wood-frame, vinyl siding house and it had the fake shutters. At least the lot sizes were bigger back then since we had at least 3x the space between the houses if not more.

All of our affiliate’s Habitat plans include the vinyl shutter-mimics pegged through the siding. It’s about an afternoon’s work for a couple volunteers. That’s seen as a grace note for a housing solution constrained to “simple, affordable”.

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Nojay UK  Dec 27, 2020 • 10:05:26am

re: #177 Dr Lizardo

I myself live in a “věžák”, a tower block

I live in a tenement flat in Edinburgh, built in the 60s — the 1860s, that is. The rooms in this flat all have three-metre high ceilings. I put this down to the ridiculously tall hats Victorians of the period habitually wore.

184
Belafon  Dec 27, 2020 • 10:05:32am
185
FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Dec 27, 2020 • 10:05:44am

re: #103 PhillyPretzel

OT It has been over a month since I worked the polls on Election Day and I finally got paid. It was a little more than what I was told I would get. The only problem is that now I have a check that must be deposited into my account. I will try to contact my credit union sometime today or tomorrow morning. In April of 2021 I will ask if they can go for direct deposit. It will much easier during this time of COVID-19.

Does your credit union have an (convenient to reach) ATM that can take deposits?

My local bank branch is closed, but their ATM is available and I was able to deposit a few checks there a couple of months back.

186
Belafon  Dec 27, 2020 • 10:05:53am
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 27, 2020 • 10:07:21am

re: #181 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Ick, un-yard.

The fake shutters thing is not new. Parent’s house back in the 1970’s was a wood-frame, vinyl siding house and it had the fake shutters. At least the lot sizes were bigger back then since we had at least 3x the space between the houses if not more.

Yeah, out here the lots in the 1970’s were often still over 6000 sq ft. The house I bought had a quarter acre, though some of it was hillside, which wasn’t really usable but meant at least I had greenery in back compared to another house.

So much construction starting especially in the 1990’s really crammed in the structures on small lots. So much of the new construction, even houses above a million dollars, now sit on lots bare larger than the McMansion sized house.

But that goes along with the society eschewing living things, like plants. Flippers hate plants - they usually destroy them, even trees. Even new construction often has no planting.

The excuse is saving water.

Which is a lie, because the close the houses means more houses per acre, and each house will consume water internally.

Oh, and any backyard is totally dedicated to a pool.

So no, there is no water saving by giving up on plants.

It’s all an excuse for a society of people who have no connection to the actual life that sustains us.

Anyway, the hard part of changing our lifestyle is convincing people that what matters is not the “investment” but life.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 27, 2020 • 10:07:38am

re: #183 Nojay UK

I have three meter high ceilings as well. I think it was done to add to the feeling of spaciousness in what’s otherwise a rather small space. But I’m fine with it.

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PhillyPretzel  Dec 27, 2020 • 10:08:28am

re: #185 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Yes they do. And I said in # 136 I have cash on hand. The check will be taken care of tomorrow. It is not absolutely necessary to cash it immediately. Thanks for your suggestion.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 27, 2020 • 10:11:12am

re: #187 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Anyway, the hard part of changing our lifestyle is convincing people that what matters is not the “investment” but life.

There was a famous quote about how a German builds a house and imagines his grandchildren inheriting and moving into it, while an American builds a house and imagines how he is going to sell it to build or buy a bigger one…

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TedStriker  Dec 27, 2020 • 10:24:49am

re: #103 PhillyPretzel

OT It has been over a month since I worked the polls on Election Day and I finally got paid. It was a little more than what I was told I would get. The only problem is that now I have a check that must be deposited into my account. I will try to contact my credit union sometime today or tomorrow morning. In April of 2021 I will ask if they can go for direct deposit. It will much easier during this time of COVID-19.

re: #185 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Does your credit union have an (convenient to reach) ATM that can take deposits?

My local bank branch is closed, but their ATM is available and I was able to deposit a few checks there a couple of months back.

A tip for those who bank with a credit union: if your CU is a CO-OP Network member, you have access to branch banking at participating CUs and to no-fee ATMs nationwide.

co-opfs.org

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Dave In Austin  Dec 27, 2020 • 10:27:11am

re: #114 Dr Lizardo

Original 5G structures and data centers, Giza Plateau, cca 2480 BCE:

[Embedded content]

WE’RE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS, PEOPLE!!

And Grain Silos

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Dec 27, 2020 • 10:43:50am

re: #188 Dr Lizardo

I have three meter high ceilings as well. I think it was done to add to the feeling of spaciousness in what’s otherwise a rather small space. But I’m fine with it.

My old apartment in an 1925-built office building had very tall ceilings. I think it was done to support the very tall windows and allow more light (and presumably air in a pre A/C environment) into the rooms.

Made for a nice place to grow window box plants given my south and west exposure. Was a bit of a bear to heat and cool though.


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