Ze Frank’s True Facts: The Incredible Tardigrade, Nature’s Weirdest Animal

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CREDITS:

This video was made in collaboration with Benedikt Pleyer, who is a gifted microscopist and has a wonderful contagious passion for discovering the incredible worlds that exist all around us. He has introduced me to all sorts of new creatures and I am fortunate to have met him.
http://www.instagram.com/nomadic_nostoc

Kita Williams reached out to me almost a year ago with her amazing Tardigrade footage, and I am so happy that she did. She has a knack for capturing these animals in way that gives them so much personality!
http://www.twitter.com/SeaSpongeCake

Bob Goldstein runs a lab at UNC Chapel Hill and has done incredible work on the Tardigrade (and much more.) He was kind enough to review my work to make sure I didn’t screw the science up too much! I wish I could have included more of his work on the evolution of Tardigrades - but I hope to do that in a future episode on arthropods.
https://goldsteinlab.weebly.com/

Thank you to the following for publishing their images
under the CC license, it is a huge contribution to
science communication.

Water bear (tardigrade), Hypsibius dujardini,
scanning electron micrograph by
Bob Goldstein and Vicky Madden.
Scanning electron micrograph of active hydrated
Echiniscoides sigismundi by Thomas L. Sørensen-Hygum,
Robyn M. Stuart, Aslak Jørgensen & Nadja Møbjerg.
New Echiniscidae (Heterotardigrada) from Amber
Mountain (Northern Madagascar) by Gąsiorek P, Vončina K (2019)

Thank you to all of my Patreon patrons for the
patience, support and feedback

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Kevin MacLeod
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110 comments
1
PhillyPretzel  Feb 7, 2021 • 12:38:52pm

Ahhh. The smell of a new thread. :)

2
O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Feb 7, 2021 • 12:40:30pm

Working furnace, fresh thread, Superb Owl with Domino’s pizza… Ahh. It’s finally turning around.

3
Belafon  Feb 7, 2021 • 12:51:12pm

You can google for your favorite source, but you can get the “This is fine” dog as a Funko pop.

topatoco.com

4
BigPapa  Feb 7, 2021 • 12:51:25pm

I’ve been checking the stats and maths and I’m going to make a prediction: the team with the most points at the end of regulation has a 100% chance of winning the Superb Owl. I said what I said.

5
steve_davis  Feb 7, 2021 • 12:55:04pm

well, the girl downstairs who hasn’t seen Jesse in awhile said, upon her appearance through the balcony slats “looks like she’s put on some weight!” so I guess my cat is living right. I definitely try not to overfeed her, so I hope it’s just domesticated weight from no longer having to live rough.

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Barefoot Grin  Feb 7, 2021 • 1:02:37pm

re: #4 BigPapa

I’ve been checking the stats and maths and I’m going to make a prediction: the team with the most points at the end of regulation has a 100% chance of winning the Superb Owl. I said what I said.

Whichever team wins—we’ll know it was rigged! //

7
🌹UOJB!  Feb 7, 2021 • 1:02:59pm

When a QAsshole posted on my Facebook page defending MTG, I replied…

8
Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Feb 7, 2021 • 1:03:10pm

Just a little while ago, a M3.3 quake in southeast Texas:

earthquake.usgs.gov

Not really much of a history of anything in the area.

One thing though - this region southeast of Austin and San Antonio has seen a lot of recent high-tech production of fossil fuels. When I first noticed it on night-time satellite images I was surprised at how well lit this entire part of the state appeared on satellite, looking more like an urban area. Turns out each little drilling/pump pad has lights on at night, making for a lot of light pollution.

I wonder if the drilling/extraction/injection is starting to cause quakes in this part of Texas?

9
Patricia Kayden  Feb 7, 2021 • 1:04:47pm
10
Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Feb 7, 2021 • 1:09:40pm

The gold star in the middle is the location of the quake. Depth about 5 kilometers.

All those little white squares? Most of those are pads for drilling or for pumps:

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 7, 2021 • 1:09:56pm

Party of Family Values!!

12
The Pie Overlord!  Feb 7, 2021 • 1:10:51pm
13
A Mom Anon  Feb 7, 2021 • 1:13:53pm

re: #8 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I grew up in southeastern and central Ohio. They never had earthquakes or tremors until after fracking began at the outer edges of Appalachia after I left. And of course bringing that up to people who live there(it’s very red state America) provokes jobs and how good they pay talk, and so a lot gets ignored. Like toxic drinking water and crumbling infrastructure. Or lots of babies in certain places dying or getting sick or an uptick in miscarriages, or water that doesn’t run clear out of the tap. Sigh. So yes, it’s really likely that fracking will eventually effect everything around it.

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BigPapa  Feb 7, 2021 • 1:14:11pm

re: #12 The Pie Overlord!

I gotta go have a smoke. So sexy.

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🌹UOJB!  Feb 7, 2021 • 1:15:34pm

re: #12 The Pie Overlord!

[Embedded content]

Oh my.
First Smoti,
Second Wayne Allan got Rooted
and now Atlas Juggs gets canned.

Who’s Next?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 7, 2021 • 1:15:48pm

re: #3 Belafon

You can google for your favorite source, but you can get the “This is fine” dog as a Funko pop.

topatoco.com

Speaking of Funkos, I got this one yesterday:

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 7, 2021 • 1:16:20pm

re: #15 🌹UOJB!

Upding for Atlas Juggs.

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BigPapa  Feb 7, 2021 • 1:17:29pm

re: #17 Eclectic Cyborg

Between Atlas Juggs and Freddie Funkos I’m in a special place now.

19
🌹UOJB!  Feb 7, 2021 • 1:19:58pm

Criswell Bacon predicts that Candace Owens is the next to get the boot from @jerk, er @jack…

20
Charles Johnson  Feb 7, 2021 • 1:23:10pm
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A Mom Anon  Feb 7, 2021 • 1:23:20pm

re: #16 Eclectic Cyborg

My husband lost his mind since around Christmas and we have maybe 60 Funko Pops now. Mostly music, but I just got a Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the mail on Monday, lol. I have Metallica, Queen, Slayer, Guns and Roses, Ozzy, and quite a few more. I love them, but we’re running out of display room, lol.

22
Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 7, 2021 • 1:25:22pm
23
O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Feb 7, 2021 • 1:25:57pm

re: #22 Backwoods_Sleuth

Two weeks later: “Uh guys, I have COVID.”

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lawhawk  Feb 7, 2021 • 1:26:49pm

The caterwauling of the right wing lunasphere is going to be off the charts on Fox this week. They’ll be kvetching over the banning thanks to ongoing TOS violations and how they can’t speak to their supporters is a violation of their free speech rights, even as they spew this crap on Fox to millions of misinformed viewers.

SS/DD

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🌹UOJB!  Feb 7, 2021 • 1:26:55pm

re: #21 A Mom Anon

My husband lost his mind since around Christmas and we have maybe 60 Funko Pops now. Mostly music, but I just got a Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the mail on Monday, lol. I have Metallica, Queen, Slayer, Guns and Roses, Ozzy, and quite a few more. I love them, but we’re running out of display room, lol.

I only have one and it’s autographed by Joel Hodgson. Will NEVER part with it!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 7, 2021 • 1:27:57pm

re: #23 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

Two weeks later: “Uh guys, I have COVID.”

Naomi is a menace and all-round horrible person

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Feb 7, 2021 • 1:28:57pm

re: #26 Backwoods_Sleuth

Naomi is a menace and all-round horrible person

What a disgusting excuse for a human being.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Feb 7, 2021 • 1:31:48pm

re: #13 A Mom Anon

In the part of SE Texas I include on that map there has been over the past 4 years or so several earthquakes, most smaller than the one just a short while ago.

You can see from the platform locations that the drilling is following where hydrocarbons will be slowly working their way upward - presumably some sort of boundary between rock types. (We have a geologist lurking about around here somewhere… maybe he’ll add more to this story later.)

So yes, quakes indicate faults… faults are probably highly useful to hydrocarbons wanting to move.

The question is whether the drilling and/or injection is causing an increase in possible quakes.

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A Mom Anon  Feb 7, 2021 • 1:32:03pm

re: #25 🌹UOJB!

Husband found two Kirk Hammett(guitar player for Metallica) ones that were rare enough that he managed to pay for almost all of the ones he’s bought when he sold them. Some of those things become very valuable after they stop making them for a short time. But we are going to have to build huge shelves or something for these things if he doesn’t stop, lol. And here I am trying to downsize….

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Charles Johnson  Feb 7, 2021 • 1:32:21pm

re: #24 lawhawk

The caterwauling of the right wing lunasphere is going to be off the charts on Fox this week. They’ll be kvetching over the banning thanks to ongoing TOS violations and how they can’t speak to their supporters is a violation of their free speech rights, even as they spew this crap on Fox to millions of misinformed viewers.

SS/DD

This all seems to be related to the Big Lie. All these people were booted out because they promoted Trump’s lies about election fraud.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Feb 7, 2021 • 1:33:20pm

re: #20 Charles Johnson

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🌹UOJB!  Feb 7, 2021 • 1:36:41pm

Now I wonder if this is the reason why Lady G was blocking Merrick Garland!

Michael Cohen urges Biden DOJ to investigate SDNY prosecutors for not indicting Trump and Don Jr

MSNBC 02 07 2021 13 34 24

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Feb 7, 2021 • 1:38:19pm

re: #26 Backwoods_Sleuth

Wolf has gone whole-hog with concern over COVID-19 restrictions, vaccines, etc.

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PhillyPretzel  Feb 7, 2021 • 1:38:31pm

re: #32 🌹UOJB!

Story Daniels? Isn’t that supposed to be Stormy?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 7, 2021 • 1:38:37pm

I’m dying

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🌹UOJB!  Feb 7, 2021 • 1:39:51pm

re: #34 PhillyPretzel

Story Daniels? Isn’t that supposed to be Stormy?

Yep. Even MSNBC has problems with them captions…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 7, 2021 • 1:42:10pm

re: #35 Backwoods_Sleuth

I’m dying

part 2

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b.d. (America is Great Again)  Feb 7, 2021 • 1:42:43pm

re: #15 🌹UOJB!

Oh my.
First Smoti,
Second Wayne Allan got Rooted
and now Atlas Juggs gets canned.

Who’s Next?

First they came for Hoft and I said ‘bout f*cking time
Then they came for Root who I forgot was alive
Then they came for Pamela and I said Hell yeah, don’t stop now!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 7, 2021 • 1:43:43pm
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nines09  Feb 7, 2021 • 1:45:21pm

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 7, 2021 • 1:46:09pm
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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Feb 7, 2021 • 1:48:37pm

re: #38 b.d. (previous comments are forgivable old news)

First they came for Hoft and I said ‘bout f*cking time
Then they came for Root who I forgot was alive
Then they came for Pamela and I said Hell yeah, don’t stop now!

First they came for the fascists, and I did not speak out, because that’s what’s SUPPOSED to fucking happen, doy.

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jaunte  Feb 7, 2021 • 1:50:40pm

re: #41 Backwoods_Sleuth

Chuck Todd uncomfortably interjecting curt agreement.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 7, 2021 • 1:52:24pm

rudy should get the banhammer next

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 7, 2021 • 1:54:16pm
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gwangung  Feb 7, 2021 • 1:54:41pm

re: #44 Backwoods_Sleuth

rudy should get the banhammer next

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Awfully….white….crowd for BLM.

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b.d. (America is Great Again)  Feb 7, 2021 • 1:55:07pm

re: #44 Backwoods_Sleuth

rudy should get the banhammernext

[Embedded content]

he’ll quit himself once he raises that $2.7 billion he’ll be needing.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 7, 2021 • 1:59:00pm
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Belafon  Feb 7, 2021 • 1:59:31pm
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Charles Johnson  Feb 7, 2021 • 2:00:05pm
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PhillyPretzel  Feb 7, 2021 • 2:01:42pm

re: #50 Charles Johnson

I think so.

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nines09  Feb 7, 2021 • 2:01:45pm

re: #50 Charles Johnson

Footsteps……

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Feb 7, 2021 • 2:04:29pm

re: #51 PhillyPretzel

I think so.

I concur. Twitter doesn’t want to be named as an accessory for not having taken action against these idjits. Section 230 protects them from liability over user-contributed content, but that doesn’t mean an enterprising lawyer wouldn’t find a way to sue them for major moolah if it can be demonstrated that a company was so negligent in enforcing its policies that it caused actual damages.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 7, 2021 • 2:04:50pm

(6 Nations is an international rugby union competition )

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darthstar  Feb 7, 2021 • 2:06:16pm

re: #50 Charles Johnson

Someone should have sued three years ago.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 7, 2021 • 2:06:47pm
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Nyet  Feb 7, 2021 • 2:08:18pm

They came for me first, so I’m just enjoying the show.

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A Mom Anon  Feb 7, 2021 • 2:08:21pm

re: #50 Charles Johnson

I going with yes. The awful people they have banned have never been LESS awful, that’s for damned sure. They could have done this at any time at all, but chose not to because there are no consequences, hell it was good for business. Until it wasn’t. It’s too bad we, the public, can’t sue the social media companies for the damage they have caused.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Feb 7, 2021 • 2:10:39pm
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lawhawk  Feb 7, 2021 • 2:10:50pm

re: #32 🌹UOJB!

SDNY is currently being run by an appointed prosecutor after Trump’s last choice resigned; but before doing so, Berman and Trump interfered in the investigations via Barr and that means that every last decision on investigating and indicting Trumpworld figures is suspect because of the interference from Barr and Trump.

Trump was an unindicted coconspirator in the Cohen felony case. Trump was the named coconspirator with Cohen. Cohen was charged and prosecuted for conspiracy.

There’s no conspiracy of one. It takes two or more people, and in Cohen’s case, the second person was Donald Trump.

That’s why this stinks to hell and back.

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nines09  Feb 7, 2021 • 2:10:54pm

re: #55 darthstar

Chuck Todd thought about it….

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lawhawk  Feb 7, 2021 • 2:12:50pm

re: #50 Charles Johnson

You betcha.

It’s amazing what a few multibillion dollar lawsuits targeting key insurrectionists, conspiracy nuts, and the propagandists spewing this crap will do to a company’s efforts to police their policies and apply the ban hammer to violators.

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The Pie Overlord!  Feb 7, 2021 • 2:13:56pm

WTFITS

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lawhawk  Feb 7, 2021 • 2:14:43pm
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Nyet  Feb 7, 2021 • 2:15:34pm

re: #63 The Pie Overlord!

Is she talking about China or something?

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Feb 7, 2021 • 2:16:16pm

re: #65 Nyet

Is she talking about China or something?

I think she’s complaining about some of her friends getting banned from Twitter, but I can’t be sure. I’m not as fluent in Stupid as I was a few years ago.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Feb 7, 2021 • 2:16:53pm
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PhillyPretzel  Feb 7, 2021 • 2:17:42pm

re: #63 The Pie Overlord!

It sounds like she is channeling DT or tweeting what he would say.

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Nyet  Feb 7, 2021 • 2:17:43pm

re: #66 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

In context of business/America first I took it to possibly mean Chinese production; I mean, what does twitter have to do with the topic otherwise?

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Feb 7, 2021 • 2:18:36pm

re: #69 Nyet

In context of business/America first I took it to possibly mean Chinese production; I mean, what does twitter have to do with the topic otherwise?

I was focusing on the “free speech” part at the beginning. I don’t know, like I said, either she’s speaking a different dialect, or I’m losing my touch.

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Nojay UK  Feb 7, 2021 • 2:19:53pm

re: #54 Backwoods_Sleuth

Miracles happen — Scotland beat England at Twickenham yesterday. It was the first time England had lost to Scotland playing at home since 1983.

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darthstar  Feb 7, 2021 • 2:20:08pm

re: #63 The Pie Overlord!

WTFITS

Low hanging fruit for mocking.

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Nyet  Feb 7, 2021 • 2:20:39pm

re: #70 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

I was focusing on the “free speech” part at the beginning. I don’t know, like I said, either she’s speaking a different dialect, or I’m losing my touch.

Safer bet is her neurons misfiring.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 7, 2021 • 2:21:21pm

re: #63 The Pie Overlord!

WTFITS

“Driving prices low, quality and service high.”

I see a flaw in the plan here.

/

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Dangerman  Feb 7, 2021 • 2:22:02pm

re: #20 Charles Johnson

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I wonder if twitter waited till after the election to first see how it would go

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Belafon  Feb 7, 2021 • 2:22:39pm

re: #74 Eclectic Cyborg

“Driving prices low, quality and service high.”

I see a flaw in the plan here.

/

You only get to choose two.

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The Pie Overlord!  Feb 7, 2021 • 2:22:56pm

re: #65 Nyet

Is she talking about China or something?

She’s using a bunch of buzzwords to say stuff that “sounds” profound but is mainly gibberish, like Ivanka’s Tweets written by her staff of unpaid interns.

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Dangerman  Feb 7, 2021 • 2:23:01pm

re: #22 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I drove without a seat belt and no one hit me…..today

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 7, 2021 • 2:23:23pm

re: #66 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

I think she’s complaining about some of her friends getting banned from Twitter, but I can’t be sure. I’m not as fluent in Stupid as I was a few years ago.

she haz a sad because the GOP made her say publicly sorry/not sorry for the Q shit and she still lost her committee assignments.

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The Pie Overlord!  Feb 7, 2021 • 2:24:33pm

re: #68 PhillyPretzel

It sounds like she is channeling DT or tweeting what he would say.

I think she is trying to sound like Ivanka, or maybe Alexa.

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darthstar  Feb 7, 2021 • 2:25:40pm

chttps://twitter.com

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lawhawk  Feb 7, 2021 • 2:26:42pm

re: #78 Dangerman

I drove without a seat belt and no one hit me…..today

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I drove drunk and didn’t get into an accident. I’m a great driver, and I’ll keep doing this obscene behavior. Hey, it’s not like I can’t die slipping and falling in my own driveway.

/////////

Refusing to mask and lying about the efficacy of masking and social distancing is akin to ignoring the risks of drunk driving and proceeding to drive under the influence.

You’re not only risking your own life, but your passengers, and anyone in any other vehicle or pedestrians. It’s the same with covid. You could get sick. You could sicken your friends/family or neighbors or complete strangers, like those restaurant workers who have been among the hardest hit groups by the pandemic both in terms of the costs and the health consequences of dumbfuckers refusing to properly mask/social distance.

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Dangerman  Feb 7, 2021 • 2:28:06pm

re: #44 Backwoods_Sleuth

rudy should get the banhammer next

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or baker acted

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Dangerman  Feb 7, 2021 • 2:29:59pm

re: #54 Backwoods_Sleuth

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(6 Nations is an international rugby union competition )

maybe they both hate the fence

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 7, 2021 • 2:30:11pm
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lawhawk  Feb 7, 2021 • 2:30:52pm

No friends or family over. It’s just the Mrs. and I. I made a turkey “chili” stew with the slow cooker, and a no knead cran-walnut bread is in the oven.

Blue Moon and Guinness are available.

And we’ll probably end up watching B5 instead of the Super Bowl. It’s not like I follow the league any longer, and I haven’t missed it. It’s an excuse to get together and see friends or family. That’s about it. But not this year. Don’t have to worry about drunk drivers either.

Or the snow (we got about 6 inches in all).

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 7, 2021 • 2:31:23pm
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lawhawk  Feb 7, 2021 • 2:33:14pm
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Nyet  Feb 7, 2021 • 2:34:50pm

re: #85 Backwoods_Sleuth

There are various theories regarding the origin of the term “pound sterling”. The Oxford English Dictionary states that the “most plausible” etymology is derivation from the Old English steorra for “star” with the added diminutive suffix “-ling”, to mean “little star” and to refer to a silver penny of the English Normans.[10][11][12]

Another argument that the Hanseatic League was the origin for both the origin of its definition and manufacture, and in its name is that the German name for the Baltic is “Ostsee”, or “East Sea”, and from this the Baltic merchants were called “Osterlings”, or “Easterlings”.[13][14] In 1260, Henry III granted them a charter of protection and land for their Kontor, the Steelyard of London, which by the 1340s was also called “Easterlings Hall”, or Esterlingeshalle.[15] Because the League’s money was not frequently debased like that of England, English traders stipulated to be paid in pounds of the “Easterlings”, which was contracted to “‘sterling”.[16]

Encyclopedia Britannica states the (pre-Norman) Anglo-Saxon kingdoms had silver coins called ‘sterlings’ and that the compound noun ‘pound sterling’ was derived from a pound (weight) of these sterlings.[17]

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plansbandc  Feb 7, 2021 • 2:37:54pm

re: #25 🌹UOJB!

I only have one (so far) and it is Nikola Jokić of the Denver Nuggets.

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Nyet  Feb 7, 2021 • 2:38:00pm

wtf is this whine

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🌹UOJB!  Feb 7, 2021 • 2:43:02pm

re: #85 Backwoods_Sleuth

Hmmm I was taught in economics class that the Pound Sterling originally was defined as equal to 240 silver pence and equivalent to one pound weight of sterling silver. Stars had nothing to do with it…

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nines09  Feb 7, 2021 • 2:43:33pm

Quite a while back I spoke of working out of Lewiston NY hauling cars.
Anchor Motor Freight. GMC contract. All gone.
Lordstown Ohio was the last of it.
Moving a few things today. Found this.
Bump hat from back in the late 70’s.
Official Sticker Too!

Less scars on my head
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plansbandc  Feb 7, 2021 • 2:44:32pm

re: #58 A Mom Anon

It is too bad. I’m thinking of all the families torn apart by the QAnon bullshit.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Feb 7, 2021 • 2:44:58pm
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🌹UOJB!  Feb 7, 2021 • 2:46:59pm

re: #94 plansbandc

It is too bad. I’m thinking of all the families torn apart by the QAnon bullshit.

I know that all too well. I still have brainwashed relatives who insist that Trump is still president and he will be sworn in for his second term on March 4th—as the 19th President following Grant who surrendered the US to control of the British Rothschilds with the enactment of the DC Corporate Charter act of 1871…

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Nyet  Feb 7, 2021 • 2:48:00pm

Scaramouch, Scaramouch, will you do the Fandango?

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gwangung  Feb 7, 2021 • 2:51:25pm

re: #97 Nyet

Scaramouch, Scaramouch, will you do the Fandango?

He may be a typical right wing henchman, but he’s fairly tolerable as one, given his self awareness.

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🌹UOJB!  Feb 7, 2021 • 2:54:32pm

Criswell Bacon predicts that this year’s Super Bowl winners will meet with Joe later this year. Joe will actually invite them to have a real dinner with no fast food…

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Jay C  Feb 7, 2021 • 2:55:06pm

re: #92 🌹UOJB!

Hmmm I was taught in economics class that the Pound Sterling originally was defined as equal to 240 silver pence and equivalent to one pound weight of sterling silver. Stars had nothing to do with it…

Except, I think, that “sterling silver” (I.e., .925 fine) is a later designation.

Though I believe the original “pound”, variously defined was indeed a specific weight of (pure) silver, and that the Anglo-Saxon sceatta, or silver penny, was meant to be about 1/240th of it. Depending, of course, on how capable (and/or honest) the coiners were….

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PhillyPretzel  Feb 7, 2021 • 2:55:32pm

re: #99 🌹UOJB!

As it should be. Joe is a mensch. :)

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Dangerman  Feb 7, 2021 • 2:56:13pm

re: #91 Nyet

wtf is this whine

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put on a mask
watch it all instantly disappear

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🌹UOJB!  Feb 7, 2021 • 2:57:45pm

re: #100 Jay C

Except, I think, that “sterling silver” (I.e., .925 fine) is a later designation.

Though I believe the original “pound”, variously defined was indeed a specific weight of (pure) silver, and that the Anglo-Saxon sceatta, or silver penny, was meant to be about 1/240th of it. Depending, of course, on how capable (and/or honest) the coiners were….

The professor that taught monetary theory was a disciple of Murray Rothbard and preached the gospel of Anarcho-Capitalism based on the gold standard supplemented by silver coins. He also wanted nickels and pennies made from silver…

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Jay C  Feb 7, 2021 • 2:58:44pm

re: #99 🌹UOJB!

Criswell Bacon predicts that this year’s Super Bowl winners will meet with Joe later this year. Joe will actually invite them to have a real dinner with no fast food…

When you said “Joe” here, I thought you were referring to yourself, and thought “Man, that’s a generous offer…”
😉

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Charles Johnson  Feb 7, 2021 • 2:59:03pm
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Dangerman  Feb 7, 2021 • 3:00:41pm

hours, sometimes days go by and we dont talk about minute by minute ‘politics’

everyone knows there’s competence at the helm

“Two in 3 Americans approve of President Biden’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a poll by ABC News-Ipsos, with widespread support for his efforts to pass a relief bill.”

“Biden’s 67% approval on handling the coronavirus contrasts sharply with how Americans felt President Donald Trump handled the pandemic. In October, 61% said they disapproved of Trump’s response to the coronavirus.”

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b.d. (America is Great Again)  Feb 7, 2021 • 3:00:51pm

re: #15 🌹UOJB!

Oh my.
First Smoti,
Second Wayne Allan got Rooted
and now Atlas Juggs gets canned.

Who’s Next?

Give them 1 month to be happier lol

I wish many more hate spewing wingnuts happiness in their near future.

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Dangerman  Feb 7, 2021 • 3:03:34pm

re: #107 b.d. (America is Great Again)

Give them 1 month to be happier lol

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I wish many more hate spewing wingnuts happiness in their near future.

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steve_davis  Feb 7, 2021 • 3:56:52pm

re: #87 Backwoods_Sleuth

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baldrick would go on to host time team, by the way, which is incredibly enjoyable.

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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Feb 7, 2021 • 5:06:21pm

made some Caprese stuffed chicken breasts with a balsamic sauce along with some penne tossed with pesto sauce and some fresh steamed broccoli for dinner!


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