Simply Stunning: Esperanza Spalding, “Formwela 1”

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formwela 1: designed for memorizing, then hearing internally (via audiation) as an aide to self-soothe during an acute moment of stress in the home.

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Directed by Matthew W. Hayes III
Art Directed by Rob Lewis

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Lyrics
sink into the ground wide and steady while the burning
flickers to a glow out the temple of your ear
while the levy of our predicament’s unyielding -
love come flood through here

in and round the walls of your heavy-minded palace
suddenly the air goes miraculously clear
un-cupping your brim of the never-ending chalice
in rushes love’s atmosphere

body, you’re the bell sounding through the heavy pulling
ringing out a calm from the belly of your sway
all there is to do now is really re-remember
that love is and tune its way

body is your bell sounding through the heavy pulling
ringing out a calm from the belly of your sway
all there is to do now is really re-remember
that love is and tune its way


Film Credits Continued:
Film Editor: Matthew W. Hayes III
Director of Photography: Matthew W. Hayes III
Lead Producer & Art Department: Eben Hoffer
Producer: Héloïse Darcq

Camera Assistant: Megan Clark
Gaffer: Joe Bowden / Desert Island Studios
Grip: Eirinn Gragson
Makeup/Hair: Abibat Durosimi
Stylist: Shani Storey
Movement Director: Intisar Abioto
Ceramics Artist: Sinda Karklina / Sissy Moon Ceramics
Colorist: Jasmine Vazquez

Produced with support from the Dean’s Competitive Fund for Promising Scholarship at Harvard University
Filmed at Block 52, Portland, OR
A Special Thank You to Koerner Camera Systems
Copyright (2021) esperanza spalding Productions, LLC

Music & Lyrics by esperanza spalding (Due Hope Music/ Kobalt (ASCAP))

Song Credits:
Producer, Arranger: esperanza spalding
Producer: PHOELIX
Producer: Raphael Saadiq
Engineers: Eben Hoffer, Hotae Alexander Jang, Bryan Matheson
Mix Engineer: Fernando Lodeiro
Mastering: Oscar Zambrano

esperanza spalding: Upright Bass, Piano, Vocals
PHOELIX: Rhodes, Vocals
Thrive Choir: Vocals

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1
🌹UOJB!  Apr 12, 2021 • 6:01:47pm

Screwpert Murdoch gave his blessing and Fucker Carlson doubles down on the racism tonight…for starters…and then…

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 12, 2021 • 6:07:43pm

re: #1 🌹UOJB!

Screwpert Murdoch gave his blessing and Fucker Carlson doubles down on the racism tonight…

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No Malarkey!  Apr 12, 2021 • 6:10:15pm

re: #2 The Pie Overlord!

Right, Tucker is only saying that whites are losing their voting rights because scary brown people are being imported by Jews to vote. It’s not the white replacement theory at all.//

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 12, 2021 • 6:14:05pm

Today I went to bridal/prom stores to find a new dress to wear to my granddaughter’s wedding. I attended my grandson’s wedding on Zoom because Z & I were getting our 2nd Pfizer shots that day!

Anyway, the good news: I found a nice dress at the second store I visited. This happens to be the same store where I bought the dress that I wore to my youngest son’s wedding in 2008.

The bad news: It needs a shitload of alterations because I am about the size and shape of a fire hydrant!

The worse news: I need “foundation undergarments” or what they used to call back in my great-grandma’s day, “a corset.”

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Charles Johnson  Apr 12, 2021 • 6:15:52pm
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Apr 12, 2021 • 6:20:15pm

One of my favorite Trump memes. Sadly still relevant since his evil cult is still very much with us.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 12, 2021 • 6:20:34pm

re: #5 Charles Johnson

Trump has another incoherent rant posted today that we can ignore. I’m looking forward to him being indicted in Manhattan.

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jaunte  Apr 12, 2021 • 6:24:59pm
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No Malarkey!  Apr 12, 2021 • 6:31:43pm

Found an article on mRNA vaccines and therapeutics and their safety. medpagetoday.com

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 12, 2021 • 6:39:44pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 12, 2021 • 6:42:35pm

re: #9 No Malarkey!

Isn’t that the story Bill Gates paid to get published???

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teleskiguy  Apr 12, 2021 • 6:44:38pm
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DesertDenizen  Apr 12, 2021 • 6:46:35pm

re: #12 teleskiguy

Not the number one concern in Douglas, Arizona, 0.0 feet from the border. There is concern about refugees being placed here without adequate resources, but I’m sure that’s not the worry of the people of Wyoming.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 12, 2021 • 6:47:44pm

America is racist.

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austin_blue  Apr 12, 2021 • 6:48:52pm

re: #1 🌹UOJB!

Screwpert Murdoch gave his blessing and Fucker Carlson doubles down on the racism tonight…for starters…and then…

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re: #2 The Pie Overlord!

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I will just note in passing that, going by your family, Jews have no need to import minorities. Your family could repopulate a small planet tout de suite!

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No Malarkey!  Apr 12, 2021 • 6:49:07pm

re: #11 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Isn’t that the story Bill Gates paid to get published???

I have no idea, and I don’t know if you are kidding or not!

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jaunte  Apr 12, 2021 • 6:50:35pm
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plansbandc  Apr 12, 2021 • 6:55:01pm
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plansbandc  Apr 12, 2021 • 7:00:11pm
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jaunte  Apr 12, 2021 • 7:03:28pm
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🌹UOJB!  Apr 12, 2021 • 7:08:51pm

re: #10 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Ayers is a professor at Grove City College which is a Right Wing Xtian institution so I’m not surprised that asshole posted that tweet.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 12, 2021 • 7:09:14pm

Speaking of vaccines, this MedCram video from three weeks ago, which I missed when it came out, seems to be full of interesting information:

COVID Variants vs. Coronavirus Vaccines (AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson) + Immunity

..

(Someone else may have posted it here at that time… it seems like someone posted something along these lines.)

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 12, 2021 • 7:10:04pm

re: #21 🌹UOJB!

His account says it was registered just this month.

Which makes me suspicious… if he had another account that got suspended.

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austin_blue  Apr 12, 2021 • 7:12:23pm

re: #19 plansbandc

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That is just so terribly, terribly sad.

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 12, 2021 • 7:15:28pm

My best friend from college lives in Grove City, PA and yes it is redder than Mississippi!

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plansbandc  Apr 12, 2021 • 7:20:36pm

re: #24 austin_blue

I honestly can’t handle it.

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 12, 2021 • 7:23:00pm

Meanwhile Crackhead Mike now vows to take on Amazon with Mein Laden, er, My Store…

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retired cynic  Apr 12, 2021 • 7:23:44pm

re: #27 🌹UOJB!

hahahahahaha!

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jaunte  Apr 12, 2021 • 7:24:10pm
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TedStriker  Apr 12, 2021 • 7:25:15pm

re: #27 🌹UOJB!

Meanwhile Crackhead Mike now vows to take on Amazon with Mein Laden, er, My Store…

Amazon has a lot of very real problems, but is it wrong for me to hope that they fucking bury Lindell’s “MyStore” (if he even goes through with launching it)?

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Belafon  Apr 12, 2021 • 7:27:37pm

re: #30 TedStriker

Amazon has a lot of very real problems, but is it wrong for me to hope that they fucking bury Lindell’s “MyStore” (if he even goes through with launching it)?

Maybe he’s trying to go broke before Dominion gets to him.

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William Lewis  Apr 12, 2021 • 7:33:09pm

re: #29 jaunte

Because our police have been about suppression of the poor and minorities, not about the “ADAM-12” fantasy/propaganda of “protect and serve”?

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jaunte  Apr 12, 2021 • 7:36:30pm
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austin_blue  Apr 12, 2021 • 7:40:19pm

re: #26 plansbandc

I honestly can’t handle it.

I understand completely. Our treatment of black people is inhuman. Has been, still is.

We need to do a total reset on our relationship with minorities in this country. “Equal rights under the law” is just that.

If we aren’t living up to it, people need to go to prison.

That will stop the abuse fast. Fuck with peoples’ rights, got to the greybar motel for ten years and concentrate on and repent your sins.

If you do it again, it’s life and a day.

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jaunte  Apr 12, 2021 • 7:41:02pm
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plansbandc  Apr 12, 2021 • 7:42:00pm

re: #29 jaunte

Because cops enjoy killing black people.

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jaunte  Apr 12, 2021 • 7:48:31pm
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Dread Pirate Ron  Apr 12, 2021 • 7:51:59pm

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No Malarkey!  Apr 12, 2021 • 8:02:51pm

Norway sees the US as a third world country.

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Dangerman  Apr 12, 2021 • 8:04:13pm
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austin_blue  Apr 12, 2021 • 8:23:41pm

re: #36 plansbandc

Because cops enjoy killing black people.

Because some cops became cops because they are sociopaths and enjoy killing people: black, white, yellow, brown. Some just focus in on black people.

Why do bank robbers rob banks? That’s where the money is.

Why do pedophiles hang around the Brownies and Cub Scouts, Vacation Bible Schools and Youth Religion retreats? That’s where the kids are.

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ckkatz  Apr 12, 2021 • 8:26:16pm

Exactly!

Looking at the body cam footage, I see a situation that was completely under control until the third officer walked up and intervened.

The driver appears completely compliant until the third officer physically intervenes. At which point the driver attempts and succeeds in breaking free of the original officer.

Then the third officer basically steps between the original officer and the driver, draws a pistol and fires, killing the driver.

The third officer interfered with an apparently uneventful stop and unilaterally ensured that it went completely off the rails within seconds.

re: #107 austin_blue

Two male cops walk up to the car, one on each side. Cop on the driver’s side is black, trailed by a white female (?, hard to say, but that’s what I’m hearing) cop, shooter. Cop on the other side is a white.

Black cop has the kid outside the car and is trying to lace him up. Seems to be having trouble getting the cuffs on. Kid is still docile. Shooter walks up and reaches for the kid’s right arm, which he is using to grip his left arm behind his back.

As the shooter touches him, he pulls his arms apart and gets into the car. Black cop tries to pull him back out. They struggle. Shooter pulls a gun and tries to get a clean shot on the kid. Black cop pulls back as the kid puts the car in gear. Shooter fires at him at least once, hitting him in the torso as the car rolls forward. Shot distance, maybe ten feet.

Kid struggles at :43, shooter pulls gun at :47, fires at :52.

Both of the other cops look at the shooter with a “What did you just do?” look. Neither of them has drawn a weapon.

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plansbandc  Apr 12, 2021 • 8:31:58pm

re: #42 ckkatz

JFC

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nines09  Apr 12, 2021 • 8:40:26pm

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danarchy  Apr 12, 2021 • 8:45:41pm

re: #42 ckkatz

Exactly!

Looking at the body cam footage, I see a situation that was completely under control until the third officer walked up and intervened.

The driver appears completely compliant until the third officer physically intervenes. At which point the driver attempts and succeeds in breaking free of the original officer.

Didn’t quite see it that way. Before the female officer tries to grab him the arresting officer is already having trouble getting the cuffs on and Daunte tenses and moves toward the drivers door at which point the first officers stops trying to cuff him and moves his body around to half block him from moving and gives him a verbal warning he says “Don’t…don’t do it, don’t do it” That happens before the other officer tries to grab his arm.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Apr 12, 2021 • 8:46:19pm

BCA identifies officer in Daunte Wright shooting
Kim Potter. Doesn’t give an age, but….

Potter has worked for the department for nearly 25 years and is president of the Brooklyn Center Police Officer’s Association. In that role, she has represented other officers involved in deadly shootings.

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austin_blue  Apr 12, 2021 • 8:58:41pm

re: #45 danarchy

Didn’t quite see it that way. Before the female officer tries to grab him the arresting officer is already having trouble getting the cuffs on and Daunte tenses and moves toward the drivers door at which point the first officers stops trying to cuff him and moves his body around to half block him from moving and gives him a verbal warning he says “Don’t…don’t do it, don’t do it” That happens before the other officer tries to grab his arm.

How do you not know how to cuff a detainee?

Isn’t that cop 101? If it isn’t, isn’t that a good reason not to be certified as a cop?

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William Lewis  Apr 12, 2021 • 9:01:49pm

re: #46 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

BCA identifies officer in Daunte Wright shooting
Kim Potter. Doesn’t give an age, but….

Ah, that explains why they came out so fast with the “accident” story line. Sorry officer, but that still shows an utter disregard for human life that rates as 2nd degree murder to me.

My guess is they’ll wait to see the outcome of the Chauvin trial; if he’s found guilty, she’ll be indicted but if he walks, they’ll find an excuse to avoid an indictment.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Apr 12, 2021 • 9:02:20pm
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EPR-radar  Apr 12, 2021 • 9:06:53pm

re: #50 Dread Pirate Ron

Republicans are Republicans because they hate everyone except themselves and the donor class they have made into their demigods.

It’s perfectly clear.

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ckkatz  Apr 12, 2021 • 9:14:20pm

For those from Pittsburgh, my brother just sent a link to an article about a “massive snake” in Frick Park.

Frick Park is one of the Pittsburgh City Parks. A place where, at least back when I was growing up, the only things I ever saw there, that were even close to wildlife, were rats and the occasional squirrel or pigeon.

cracked.com

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austin_blue  Apr 12, 2021 • 9:17:46pm

re: #46 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

BCA identifies officer in Daunte Wright shooting
Kim Potter. Doesn’t give an age, but….

Oh, dear, a 25-year veteran?

Seems like after 25 years on the force, you would know that the service gun is on the strong hand, and the Taser is on the weak hand.

Getting confused after being a police officer for 25 years about where your lethal and non-lethal weapons are on your belt seems like a really stupid defense.

If I was an attorney, I would play the body camera footage and fuck the cops.

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Ace-o-aces  Apr 12, 2021 • 9:18:38pm

I’m not dissing the discipline of philosophy, I’m just saying the job market sucks.

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BlueSpotinAL  Apr 12, 2021 • 9:21:55pm

I was away a couple of days, so I do not know if anybody posted this. A police cruised up to a friend of my daughter, and asked if she had seen a monkey in her back yard. At first she though the policeman was joking.

cincinnati.com

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danarchy  Apr 12, 2021 • 9:23:35pm

re: #54 austin_blue

Oh, dear, a 25-year veteran?

Seems like after 25 years on the force, you would know that the service gun is on the strong hand, and the Taser is on the weak hand.

Getting confused after being a police officer for 25 years about where your lethal and non-lethal weapons are on your belt seems like a really stupid defense.

If I was an attorney, I would play the body camera footage and fuck the cops.

Do you really think she warned of tasing twice and then yelled taser taser taser! as a cover because she really intended to murder someone and knew she would need it for plausible deniability?

It may be stupid but it is pretty clearly what happened. It doesn’t remove her culpability, but it certainly isn’t intentional murder.

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sagehen  Apr 12, 2021 • 9:28:30pm

re: #57 danarchy

Do you really think she warned of tasing twice and then yelled taser taser taser! as a cover because she really intended to murder someone and knew she would need it for plausible deniability?

It may be stupid but it is pretty clearly what happened. It doesn’t remove her culpability, but it certainly isn’t intentional murder.

The cop who shot Walter Scott in the back while Scott was running away… yelled into his radio “OMG he took my taser”. And then walked over to the body and put his taser in Scott’s cold dead hand.

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William Lewis  Apr 12, 2021 • 9:29:28pm

re: #54 austin_blue

Oh, dear, a 25-year veteran?

Seems like after 25 years on the force, you would know that the service gun is on the strong hand, and the Taser is on the weak hand.

Getting confused after being a police officer for 25 years about where your lethal and non-lethal weapons are on your belt seems like a really stupid defense.

If I was an attorney, I would play the body camera footage and fuck the cops.

Honestly, once the Taser was deployed, lethal weapons should have been required to be kept in a locked box in the squad car trunk unless orders from above said they can use them. It is very rare to run into a situation that can not be handled with less lethal weapons like the taser. I knew a cop in Madison who the only time he pulled his firearm, he used it as a blackjack and damaged the revolver in the process. They actually issued him a cosh to use after that and he never pulled his firearm again in a 30 year career - through the 60’s & 70’s I might add. He remains one of the best cops I’ve ever known.

A lethal firearm on every hip combined with the unconstitutional idea of qualified immunity is why we have the problems with police that we do.

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 12, 2021 • 9:36:19pm

My Spidey sense is telling me that there are several things that just don’t fit.

Among them

The City Council just fired the City Manager and gave the Mayor control of the police force.

The Mayor hasn’t fired the police chief who insists that the officer must go thru the internal review process.

What did the victim’s girlfriend do? Did she use her phone? Was she threatened?

Why was the body cam footage immediately released?

Was that officer involved in other shootings? Did she pull the same stunt before without a body cam?

Why does a 25 year police veteran mistake her pistol for a taser?

Was she called onto the scene after the other two officers?

Was this deliberately done to trigger a mistrial or hung jury in the Chauvin trial?

There’s something here that’s just not right that we’re precluded from seeing!

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austin_blue  Apr 12, 2021 • 9:37:56pm

Oh, dear, I’m glad I have retired from my life’s work.

I would be happy to be a consultant on drilling oil and gas wells. I’m really good at it, but quite frankly, I’m happy to be done with it and sit on the shore.

I would much rather be a consultant on Emergency Response work, which was the last fifteen years of my working life.

But again, I’m happy to be done with it, unless someone gets their ass in a crack.

Then, if you want me to work for you, you need to make me very happy with a very good day rate. I’ve got the medical covered, but you need to make it rain on my house.

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A Cranky One  Apr 12, 2021 • 9:40:40pm

re: #59 William Lewis

I also believe the “warrior” training a lot of police receive is partially responsible. The main tenant seems to be kill before you get killed, leading to cops treating every citizen as a deadly threat.

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plansbandc  Apr 12, 2021 • 9:41:28pm

So my team, the Nuggets, have been flirting with possibly winning the NBA championship this year.

Not anymore. Their second best player blew out his knee with a minute remaining in the game tonight. So he’s done, and the Nuggets are done for this year and next year.

Done.

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 12, 2021 • 9:43:14pm

NOT

ANOTHER

ONE

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plansbandc  Apr 12, 2021 • 9:45:49pm

re: #63 plansbandc

Actually done for my lifetime. Their best player’s contract is up after 2 years. And there’s no way he’ll stay with the Nuggets. So yep, all of it is over.

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teleskiguy  Apr 12, 2021 • 9:48:38pm
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Belafon  Apr 12, 2021 • 9:52:15pm

As a consequence of the Supreme Court Majority requiring religious exemptions that match secular ones, some governor should state that since it’s requiring everyone to wear masks, it’s also requiring churchgoers to handle snakes.

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 12, 2021 • 9:56:11pm

re: #67 Belafon

As a consequence of the Supreme Court Majority requiring religious exemptions that match secular ones, some governor shoukd stat that since it’s requiring everyone to wear masks, it’s also requiring churchgoers to handle snakes.

Memories of the Pentecost Holiness churches in West Virginia where the members handled snakes and the preachers drank strychnine…and dropped dead…

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Belafon  Apr 12, 2021 • 10:01:01pm

Apple Studios is moving the production of a movie, Emancipation, out of Georgia.

m.dailykos.com

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teleskiguy  Apr 12, 2021 • 10:04:18pm
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Dread Pirate Ron  Apr 13, 2021 • 12:20:13am

I disappeared into fat tire e-bike videos tonight. My wife has poor balance but they make tricycle e-bikes. Maybe I can sell her on one of those.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 13, 2021 • 12:27:56am

Not your typical 1950’s pop album:

portrait of leda (1958) leda annest phil moore strange space age pop



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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 13, 2021 • 12:31:43am

re: #72 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The closest comparison of which I can think are some Yma Sumac albums.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Apr 13, 2021 • 12:36:25am

New Bike Inventions That Are At Another Level ▶5

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 13, 2021 • 12:43:35am

hi

On the subject of police officers and the use of weapons only when the officer or others are in imminent danger, we have that in the Nebraska Panhandle tonight.

Authorities investigating Alliance police-officer involved shooting (Scottsbluff Star-Herald)

According to a press release from Alliance Police Chief Philip Lukens, an officer with the Alliance Police Department attempted a traffic stop on a vehicle on Saturday, April 10 at approximately midnight. The driver of the vehicle fled the city and the officer pursued, however, due to extreme driving, the officer discontinued the pursuit.

A short time later, an officer was dispatched to a report of an attempted carjacking at knifepoint. While this was occurring, another officer who was bringing a prisoner into the jail on an arrest observed a vehicle drive into the police department parking lot at a high rate of speed. The driver was screaming for help, while the driver in the vehicle involved in the earlier pursuit was chasing and ramming the driver. An altercation occurred and the officer discharged their firearm.

The suspect fled. Additional officers were called and an officer observed a fight in progress at Third and Box Butte where the same suspect was allegedly attempting to carjack the driver of another car at knifepoint. The suspect was apprehended without incident.

Box Butte County Attorney Terry Curtiss was notified and his office took over the officer-involved shooting investigation, Lukens said. They requested the assistance of the Nebraska State Patrol to investigate the shooting incident. There is body cam footage of the incident, which will be released from the police department as soon as the county attorney deems appropriate.

(more)

Car-jackings at knifepoint and ramming cars in the police department parking lot seems like an imminent threat.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 13, 2021 • 1:00:58am

Looking at some vaccine videos on Youtube, lots of the usual stupid anti-vaxx talking points show up in the comments.

Anyway, here’s Marlin (and Jim) attempting to dispel some myths:

Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom | Myths and Superstitions

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 13, 2021 • 1:08:10am

re: #37 jaunte

Here’s a radical thought:

Maybe Police Officers who KILL unarmed people SHOULD LOSE THEIR JOBS.

Even if she can sell the “I tasered him by mistake” story that is grounds for negligent homicide, she is experienced enough to know the difference between the two and cannot be counted on to know it in the future.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 13, 2021 • 1:09:39am

Vaccine updates for our area:

The B 1.1.7 variant of the virus has arrived here. Two teenagers and a woman in her thirties have tested positive for that variant. (It was only a matter of time as it was spreading next door in Wyoming.) They and their families have been placed in quarantine.

COVID Variant Identified in Panhandle (Alliance, Nebr. Times-Herald)

The Panhandle Public Health District says that persons aged 18+ are now able to get the vaccine. Moreover, pharmacies in Wal*Mart and Safeway are now able to administer the vaccine under the federal distribution programme, as well as some physicians.

Additionally, the Pfizer vaccine will be available here soon, as refrigeration capacity for the vaccine has been installed here. Currently the Moderna and Johnson+Johnson versions are the only ones available.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 13, 2021 • 1:10:22am

re: #55 Ace-o-aces

I’m not dissing the discipline of philosophy, I’m just saying the job market sucks.

which is why I never considered it (or anthropology, my second choice, as a major)

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Dread Pirate Ron  Apr 13, 2021 • 1:13:03am

re: #78 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

…and you could probably figure less than 1% of infections get tested for variant type.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Apr 13, 2021 • 1:15:32am

No boners for Republicans who refuse vaccination, bummer.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 13, 2021 • 1:16:59am

re: #76 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Looking at some vaccine videos on Youtube, lots of the usual stupid anti-vaxx talking points show up in the comments.

Anyway, here’s Marlin (and Jim) attempting to dispel some myths:..

The show which went through countless Jims.

“And here’s Jim wrestling the huge anaconda in the river, while we tell you about the dangers of getting in the water with one. The anaconda can reach a length of … Jim? Jim?

“Well, it appears that Jim has disappeared in the river, so let’s take a break while our sponsor Mutual of Omaha has just the right insurance plan for you.”

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Dread Pirate Ron  Apr 13, 2021 • 1:18:32am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 13, 2021 • 1:22:42am

re: #81 Dread Pirate Ron

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Dread Pirate Ron  Apr 13, 2021 • 1:22:52am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 13, 2021 • 1:35:34am

Three have been captured, two escaped. The motel is owned by a county commissioner.

Victim, suspects identified in ‘convoluted’ Rapid City motel homicide, kidnapping (Rapid City, SD Journal)

WTF with the criming around here. Scottsbluff, Alliance, Chadron, Rapid City. Did someone turn on the anti-Bat Signal?

Five suspects have been identified in relation to a Friday Rapid City homicide but none are charged with murder and four are accused of assaulting and kidnapping the fifth defendant.

The homicide involves a shooting inside a motel room, a group that fled in two vehicles, a standoff with people from one of those cars, two at-large suspects, kidnapping and possibly meth distribution, according to the Rapid City Police Department.

Paramedics also found a holster and magazine but no gun on the fifth defendant who was kidnapped and assaulted, according to his police report.

This case is “very convoluted” and “very, very far from being wrapped up,” police spokesman Brendyn Medina said Monday.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 13, 2021 • 1:45:20am

Panhandle Public Health District Dashboard

Infection risk in the Panhandle has increased (possibly due to the B 1.1.7 variant arriving here).

Positivity rate has increased to 10.4%.
Highest age groups are 20-29 and 40-49.
Women are still two-thirds of cases.
Only three people are in hospital.
One-third of Panhandle residents are now vaccinated.

Only one town is at high risk (Sidney). Thirteen are at moderate risk, and seven are at low risk. Three remain at no risk (including mine).

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 13, 2021 • 1:50:20am

OMG an anti-Cletus safari article in our regional newspaper.

Biden Republicans? Some in GOP open to president’s agenda (Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald)

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Jay Copan doesn’t hide his disregard for the modern Republican Party.

A solid Republican voter for the past four decades, the 69-year-old quickly regretted casting his 2016 ballot for Donald Trump. When Trump was up for reelection last year, Copan appeared on roadside billboards across North Carolina, urging other Republicans to back Democratic rival Joe Biden.

Nearly three months into the new administration, Copan considers himself a “Biden Republican,” relieved by the new president’s calmer leadership style and coronavirus vaccine distribution efforts. Copan is the type of voter Biden is counting on as he pushes an agenda that’s almost universally opposed by Republicans in Washington.

(more)

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Dread Pirate Ron  Apr 13, 2021 • 1:56:22am

re: #87 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Our county data, population 1.15 million.

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DodgerFan1988  Apr 13, 2021 • 2:05:13am

No race baiting here, folks. Move along.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Apr 13, 2021 • 2:07:16am

The state as a whole saw an 17% rise over recent lows.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 13, 2021 • 2:08:23am

re: #89 Dread Pirate Ron

Our county data, population 1.15 million.

It does look like your county is doing far better than our whole Panhandle, though we are hampered by limited infrastructure and such (as noted above, we just got the proper equipment here to refrigerate the Pfizer vaccine).

When my wife went for her first dose of the Moderna vaccine a couple weeks ago in Bridgeport, they were quite busy with people coming in when called by PPHD for their appointments.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Apr 13, 2021 • 2:11:01am

re: #92 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Next Monday my wife and I get our second shot of Moderna. My wife had pain in her arm and we both got very sleepy after our first shot and took a long nap.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 13, 2021 • 2:13:55am

re: #90 DodgerFan1988

The media’s Daunte Wright as opposed to the real Daunte Right.

He meant to photograph himself with his Taser but pulled out the wrong weapon

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 13, 2021 • 2:15:29am

re: #90 DodgerFan1988

No race baiting here, folks. Move along.

He needs more of his own photos of guns thrown back in his face, or Lauren Bobbert’s.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Apr 13, 2021 • 2:16:33am

I broke 700 million points on Folding@Home.I hope it helped with Covid-19 solutions.

..all but 3 million points have been since the pandemic. Modern computers ftw.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Apr 13, 2021 • 2:26:48am

The CPU clock is actually 4.6 Ghz.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 13, 2021 • 2:28:40am

re: #96 Dread Pirate Ron

I broke 700 million points on Folding@Home.I hope it helped with Covid-19 solutions.

..all but 3 million points have been since the pandemic. Modern computers ftw.

We do our computing via BOINC. The Cynics for a Better Tomorrow Team has three whole members (old Navy buddy in Texas is the third).

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 13, 2021 • 2:31:58am

re: #98 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

My profile at Rosetta @ home:

I am a bodice-ripper Romance editor and disabled Navy vet of seventeen years service, a former Aviation Electronics Technician First Class. I became a councilman in our village government on Dec 3, 2012. I was re-elected in 2014 to a four-year term. I still have a desire to do things which are a bit more technical than that.

However, since I now cannot do those technical things, I have turned over spare computer time on my laptop to BOINC so that others who are far better educated than me can get things done I only wish I could do.

And with a new laptop for a holiday gift from my sweetie, I can now BOINC at ten time the speed of my old one with its keys that are falling off.

So it (and I) sit in our sleepy village of one hundred people and half a million cows, doing our part for the betterment of humankind (and maybe cowdom, if Rosetta were to come up with a solution to BSE).

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Dread Pirate Ron  Apr 13, 2021 • 2:33:35am

re: #98 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I’ve probably paid $500 extra to PG&E this year for all the power this computer uses 24/365 to fold proteins.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 13, 2021 • 2:34:47am

re: #100 Dread Pirate Ron

I’ve probably paid $500 extra to PG&E this year for all the power this computer uses 24/365 to fold proteins.

you could’ve been mining bitcoins with that usage…

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Dread Pirate Ron  Apr 13, 2021 • 2:39:35am

re: #101 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

you could’ve been mining bitcoins with that usage…

…and I’d still not have gained 10% of one bitcoin. To mine bitcoin you really need a rack of GPUs using 10 KW an hour in a low electric price area.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 13, 2021 • 2:41:17am

re: #100 Dread Pirate Ron

I’ve probably paid $500 extra to PG&E this year for all the power this computer uses 24/365 to fold proteins.

Wholly crap. We don’t pay $500 in four months, and that includes us running electric space heaters now because of our dead furnace.

World Community Grid 779,210 7 Mar 2009
Moo! Wrapper 255,944 28 Nov 2014
Rosetta@home 728,598 12 Mar 2009
climateprediction.net 1,705,105 7 Mar 2009
SETI@home 908,076 30 Jan 2009

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Dread Pirate Ron  Apr 13, 2021 • 2:52:47am

re: #103 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Your electric company doesn’t set your state on fire. California pays a fortune for their power. We are paying about $85 a month for gas and $215 a month for electric. We have a tankless water heater to save energy and gas furnace and oven. For electric we have all LED lighting, no TV but 3 modern box computers that run all day and an electric dryer. We also have central air but it doesn’t run in the day unless it’s over 95F outside, after 11 PM it runs if it is over 76F inside.

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Apr 13, 2021 • 3:00:21am

re: #104 Dread Pirate Ron

Your electric company doesn’t set your state on fire. California pays a fortune for their power. We are paying about $85 a month for gas and $215 a month for electric. We have a tankless water heater to save energy and gas furnace and oven. For electric we have all LED lighting, no TV but 3 modern box computers that run all day and an electric dryer. We also have central air but it doesn’t run in the day unless it’s over 95F outside, after 11 PM it runs if it is over 76F inside.

That’s cute. So Cal here, and combined gas and electric bill is cheapest this time of year, March-April, and it’s still over $600 a month.

Most expensive bills are September and October. Those are between $900-$1100.

When the governor pulled that EO mandating all new cars in the state to be electric in 15 years I almost had a stroke. I don’t see anything being done to A. Make the grid handle that in 15 years, and B. Make it not cost me over 2 grand a month assuming I can even afford one then.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 13, 2021 • 3:02:59am

re: #104 Dread Pirate Ron

Your electric company doesn’t set your state on fire. California pays a fortune for their power. We are paying about $85 a month for gas and $215 a month for electric. We have a tankless water heater to save energy and gas furnace and oven. For electric we have all LED lighting, no TV but 3 modern box computers that run all day and an electric dryer. We also have central air but it doesn’t run in the day unless it’s over 95F outside, after 11 PM it runs if it is over 76F inside.

Crap, for some reason I got bumped off-line.

We have a state-owned electric company (socialism for the win).

We have an electric water heater, and replaced our electric range with a gas one a few years ago (that’s helping now in the Days of No Furnace).

Lighting is a mix of incandescent and florescent. Incandescent lamps are mostly 60W or 75W, the exceptions being two 4W lamps in the ceiling fan (that’s usually the only lighting we use in our front room), a 15W front porch lamp (that’s really all you need), 2x150W flood lamps for the back porch (usually turned off), and a 300W lamp in the cellar (to keep our pipes from freezing).

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Chrysicat  Apr 13, 2021 • 3:04:00am

LONG thread of mine, comparing life in the late 90s to today (and largely not having to CONTRAST). Not going to embed beyond the first of my replies, though.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Apr 13, 2021 • 3:16:30am

re: #105 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David

That’s cute. So Cal here, and combined gas and electric bill is cheapest this time of year, March-April, and it’s still over $600 a month.

Most expensive bills are September and October. Those are between $900-$1100.

When the governor pulled that EO mandating all new cars in the state to be electric in 15 years I almost had a stroke. I don’t see anything being done to A. Make the grid handle that in 15 years, and B. Make it not cost me over 2 grand a month assuming I can even afford one then.

yeah I calculated I’d need a a 50 KW solar panel array and the ability to store about half of what it generated to power me through the night. The cost has to come down. I’m still waiting on panel power densitiy/cost ratio to get near a usable level. It’s like the PC waiting for the Internet to give it enough of a purpose that compensates for the cost.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 13, 2021 • 3:18:06am

re: #106 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Meanwhile, in the “boo capitalism” category

I renewed my driver’s license on-line today. The state, however, outsourced its services to a private corporation, which charges $4 for its service and $1 for a “security fee” (whatever that is).

I could avoid those if I could hit the county DMV, open two hours twice a month.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 13, 2021 • 3:19:02am

re: #108 Dread Pirate Ron

yeah I calculated I’d need a a 50 KW solar panel array and the ability to store about half of what it generated to power me through the night. The cost has to come down. I’m still waiting on panel power densitiy/cost ratio to get near a usable level. It’s like the PC waiting for the Internet to give it enough of a purpose that compensates for the cost.

We’ve considered solar panels, but considering how the hail here causes us to replace our roof about every year, I’m not sure they would survive.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 13, 2021 • 3:19:47am

I live alone and pay around €62 (around $74) per month in electricity.

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Chrysicat  Apr 13, 2021 • 3:20:45am

Ugh. There may have been a better setup for getting World Series tickets in ‘07 (which was a disastrous example of one of the first times that they were available online) in Denver than to get a vaccine appointment.

You’d think they could just set up a wait list for the appointments themselves rather than just sending out the invites and then expecting people to be able to predict the time the schedules for the week get released, and then be online within 30 minutes of that.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 13, 2021 • 3:22:25am

re: #105 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David

That’s cute. So Cal here, and combined gas and electric bill is cheapest this time of year, March-April, and it’s still over $600 a month.

Most expensive bills are September and October. Those are between $900-$1100.

When the governor pulled that EO mandating all new cars in the state to be electric in 15 years I almost had a stroke. I don’t see anything being done to A. Make the grid handle that in 15 years, and B. Make it not cost me over 2 grand a month assuming I can even afford one then.

That is completely foreign to me. Here in the upper Midwest, my electric bill ranges between $100-$200/month for a single-family home with 4 people; I have an electric oven, all LED light bulbs, and a family that is very intensive on their electronic devices. My dryer is gas, as is my water heater and furnace. This causes my gas bill to fluctuate between $20/mo in the summer, when my only gas usage is the occasional laundry run and keeping the water warm, and $150/mo in the dead of winter when the furnace runs constantly. All told, the worst combined utility bill I’ve ever paid has been $400 in one month, and that was with an extra $100 on the electric bill when my heat was out for a week and I was using electric space heaters to keep my house warm in the bitter below-0-°F-daytime cold.

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Chrysicat  Apr 13, 2021 • 3:24:39am

Watch as this one is my second viral:

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 13, 2021 • 3:25:01am

re: #112 Chrysicat

Ugh. There may have been a better setup for getting World Series tickets in ‘07 (which was a disastrous example of one of the first times that they were available online) in Denver than to get a vaccine appointment.

You’d think they could just set up a wait list for the appointments themselves rather than just sending out the invites and then expecting people to be able to predict the time the schedules for the week get released, and then be online within 30 minutes of that.

That’s what Nebraska did; the public health districts started wait lists (sorted by priorities of age, essential workers [which caused teachers to threaten to strike when Gov. Ricketts refused to include “government schools”], and certain conditions). Those wait lists were then incorporated into a statewide system.

The public health districts telephone, E-mail, or come visit you at home to tell you when your appointment time is.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 13, 2021 • 3:25:07am

re: #112 Chrysicat

Ugh. There may have been a better setup for getting World Series tickets in ‘07 (which was a disastrous example of one of the first times that they were available online) in Denver than to get a vaccine appointment.

You’d think they could just set up a wait list for the appointments themselves rather than just sending out the invites and then expecting people to be able to predict the time the schedules for the week get released, and then be online within 30 minutes of that.

Minnesota’s mass vaccination invite system does this. You get an invite, you log on, and they give you a list of the available appointment times. You might have to have a go a few times to get a time slot, with how many people are using it, but you don’t have to rush to try and get an appointment by logging on at 5 in the morning or whatever time.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 13, 2021 • 3:27:47am

re: #114 Chrysicat

Watch as this one is my second viral:

I am too old. I don’t know what “oldmeme” (an older meme?) or “Zennie” mean.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Apr 13, 2021 • 3:29:24am

re: #112 Chrysicat

We have Kaiser Permanente medical and once the vaccine was available to our age/health group they sent an email to make appointments online. My wife and I made them separate and got an appointment 2 weekdays plus the weekend out. No fuss at all. I don’t know how the county and state or pharmacy plans worked out for others.

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Chrysicat  Apr 13, 2021 • 3:29:32am

re: #116 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

Minnesota’s mass vaccination invite system does this. You get an invite, you log on, and they give you a list of the available appointment times. You might have to have a go a few times to get a time slot, with how many people are using it, but you don’t have to rush to try and get an appointment by logging on at 5 in the morning or whatever time.

I think my particular provider network’s system is more like your state’s than not, but the problem is, I’ve tried on 10 different days to see time slots and the response is always “at the very least, any facility you wouldn’t need to borrow your family’s ski condo the next day due to the distance are booked solid”.

And then I called their phone side this morning and leaned that:

-there are appointments only on some subset of “Wednesday through Sunday”; NO location sets Monday or Tuesday appointments.

-the locations set their available windows up only 1 or 2 days in advance, and only for a week at a time.

-Centura releases the slot schedules as soon as it receives them, rather than batching them all out.

All of which add up to:

For any particular facility, there’s an unpredictable 30-to-60 minute window each week when there are open appointment slots.

Note, however, that I did just say “particular provider network”. There isn’t one master state clearinghouse in Colorado for all providers. And considering that too many of our insurers are exclusive-provider orgs or HMOs, I can sort of understand why they’re trying to parcel appointments out by provider rather than configuring and collating at the government level.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 13, 2021 • 3:33:22am

re: #114 Chrysicat

Watch as this one is my second viral:

Quantum Link main screen
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Chrysicat  Apr 13, 2021 • 3:33:45am

re: #119 Chrysicat

Added a clarification on how disastrous the Centura setup really is.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 13, 2021 • 3:36:43am

re: #121 Chrysicat

Added a clarification on how disastrous the Centura setup really is.

Perhaps you need to lease a Post Office box in Kimball, Nebraska and elbow your way into our state system.

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Chrysicat  Apr 13, 2021 • 3:37:12am

re: #117 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I am too old. I don’t know what “oldmeme” (an older meme?) or “Zennie” mean.

You basically got “oldmeme” entirely correct, with the mild issue that it carries a connotation of “and the use thereof therefore to be avoided”.

“Zennie” would be “Zennial”—the gen after the Millennials, who are now the occupants of most undergrad-and-below student positions.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 13, 2021 • 3:38:54am

re: #119 Chrysicat

That’s a nightmare. To give you the complete picture, here are the ways the state officially says you can get a vaccine in Minnesota:

1) Work with your primary care provider, they’ll tell you when you’re eligible (we all are now, this was from the beginning) and help you get an appointment.
2) Register with the state. They send an email with links to the CDC Vaccine Finder and to a MN-specific map. The map is more like the lottery system; you give it your location and eligibility, it scans the map and finds available appointments at all pharmacies near you. It’s only pharmacies, though; private care providers aren’t listed.
3) Once you’re registered with the state, you’re added to a waiting list (they call it a random selection, but I assume it’s a weighted pool). When you’re selected, you can choose from a list of available appointments at mass vaccination sites run by the state. This was the option I wound up going with, and Mrs. Fish will probably end up with.

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Chrysicat  Apr 13, 2021 • 3:44:52am

re: #124 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

That’s a nightmare. To give you the complete picture, here are the ways the state officially says you can get a vaccine in Minnesota:

1) Work with your primary care provider, they’ll tell you when you’re eligible (we all are now, this was from the beginning) and help you get an appointment.
2) Register with the state. They send an email with links to the CDC Vaccine Finder and to a MN-specific map. The map is more like the lottery system; you give it your location and eligibility, it scans the map and finds available appointments at all pharmacies near you. It’s only pharmacies, though; private care providers aren’t listed.
3) Once you’re registered with the state, you’re added to a waiting list (they call it a random selection, but I assume it’s a weighted pool). When you’re selected, you can choose from a list of available appointments at mass vaccination sites run by the state. This was the option I wound up going with, and Mrs. Fish will probably end up with.

Now imagine how it is for Centura, at least, patients who aren’t under 50.

I remain completely mystified by how my technophobic father got his vaccine appointment; my mother seems to think that it’s something she will not avoid if ordered, but won’t even try to seek out an appointment to.

(I would not be surprised at all if my sister the schoolteacher either got assistance from her union to set her appointment, or full-on was the one coordinating said assistance since I think she’s in the officers’ ranks for her district’s NEA chapter).

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 13, 2021 • 3:51:19am

re: #125 Chrysicat

Now imagine how it is for Centura, at least, patients who aren’t under 50.

I remain completely mystified by how my technophobic father got his vaccine appointment; my mother seems to think that it’s something she will not avoid if ordered, but won’t even try to seek out an appointment to.

(I would not be surprised at all if my sister the schoolteacher either got assistance from her union to set her appointment, or full-on was the one coordinating said assistance since I think she’s in the officers’ ranks for her district’s NEA chapter).

My mother is in Chicago. Aside from how messed up the system in Illinois is, I’m trying to work her around vaccine hesitancy issues (she’s not sure whether the vaccine has been vetted enough, and this is a woman who had polio before there was a vaccine).

She knows I’ve been completely vaccinated since February, though she is not aware my wife had her first shot already.

I’ll try to take another stab at this tomorrow with her. Hundreds of millions of doses of the various vaccines have been administered around the world, with virtually no issue (there has been concern over the AstraZenica vaccine, but I do not have sufficient knowledge to know whether the blood clot issue with it is a real concern or a spurious correlation).

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 13, 2021 • 4:09:11am

In other news, it looks like there was a little damage and looting overnight, but nothing on the scale of the destruction that resulted from George Floyd’s death. It looks like the city and state have learned their lessons from the riots that torched the shores of the Mississippi River last summer. City police say 40 arrests were made on a wide variety of charges.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Apr 13, 2021 • 4:16:26am

re: #125 Chrysicat

Now imagine how it is for Centura, at least, patients who aren’t under 50.

I remain completely mystified by how my technophobic father got his vaccine appointment; my mother seems to think that it’s something she will not avoid if ordered, but won’t even try to seek out an appointment to.

(I would not be surprised at all if my sister the schoolteacher either got assistance from her union to set her appointment, or full-on was the one coordinating said assistance since I think she’s in the officers’ ranks for her district’s NEA chapter).

My daughter is working on her masters in biology and her teaching certificate, and is a student teacher. She qualified early for a vaccination because she is considered a teacher.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Apr 13, 2021 • 4:19:01am
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Dangerman  Apr 13, 2021 • 4:21:50am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 13, 2021 • 4:24:09am

Moran weighs in:

The number of vaccines given is easy to measure (1, 2, 3, &c). Measuring immunity against a virus requires testing for titers for that antibody, which takes blood draws, labs, technicians, time, &c.

Rep. Massie went to an elite school, though (the Massachusetts Institute of Technology), whereas I only graduated from high school.

Must be those “liberal elite” schools turn you into morans.

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Chrysicat  Apr 13, 2021 • 4:28:59am

I will never understand the junction between tankies and “abandon the middle east to theocrats” types.

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steve_davis  Apr 13, 2021 • 4:30:51am

re: #29 jaunte

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Because social workers weed out assholes during the time it takes to gain the license to practice. Cops weed in the assholes, hiring burned-out former military police and other various ego-tripping jarheads.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 13, 2021 • 4:33:56am

Person is being trolled in the comment thread and doesn’t even realise it. She seems to think she made some kind of “libs owned” point.

🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 13, 2021 • 4:34:26am

re: #134 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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A Mom Anon  Apr 13, 2021 • 4:36:38am

John Boehner is an insufferable asshole. That will always be true, no matter how much he hates Ted Cruz. Democrat Party. Both sides do it. Morning Joe gave him at least 10 minutes to run his mouth.

I love it when people in power only expose shitty behavior or confront it when they no longer have anything to lose politically. How Brave.

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 13, 2021 • 4:44:55am

re: #136 A Mom Anon

John Boehner is an insufferable asshole. That will always be true, no matter how much he hates Ted Cruz. Democrat Party. Both sides do it. Morning Joe gave him at least 10 minutes to run his mouth.

I love it when people in power only expose shitty behavior or confront it when they no longer have anything to lose politically. How Brave.

see also: Nikki Haley

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Chrysicat  Apr 13, 2021 • 4:48:25am

re: #137 Barefoot Grin

see also: Nikki Haley

Speaking of whom, she’s the latest to announce that if Trump runs for president he’s going to run unopposed in-party.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 13, 2021 • 4:49:12am

re: #129 Dread Pirate Ron

Well, it’s a good thing I got mine in and didn’t have any serious side effects.

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Chrysicat  Apr 13, 2021 • 4:50:35am

re: #139 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

Well, it’s a good thing I got mine in and didn’t have any serious side effects.

Don’t you almost have to be under 40 and either XX or androgen-insensitive to be prone to the side effects?

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 13, 2021 • 4:51:11am

re: #135 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Tell ya what - if I can kill you with my vaccine, you have a valid point. However, in this case, the opposite is actually closer to your analogy: You, the unlicensed gun owner carrying concealed, represent a valid threat to me because I don’t know if you are armed and your weapon can kill me without any fault of my own. You should have to present a card that says you are not carrying a gun to be allowed to function as a member of public society.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 13, 2021 • 4:53:14am

re: #140 Chrysicat

Don’t you almost have to be under 40 and either XX or androgen-insensitive to be prone to the side effects?

I see that, now, reading the article. 6 blood clots out of nearly 7M doses. I am glad that the government is taking side effects seriously and not wanting to endanger us, but with that low of an incidence rate, it seems ludicrous.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 13, 2021 • 4:58:00am

Private businesses are still doing this in 2021.

Wedding venue refuses gay couple because of what “God says in the Bible” (LGBTQ Nation)

The venue says it’s the real victim of religious discrimination because they were “respectful and kind” about their anti-LGBTQ policy.

(They are respectful and kind bigot and lawbreaker Christians. And they’re the real victims.)

The estate has since stood by its decision, claiming that while they’re happy to serve or “welcome” vendors, guests and employees of all orientations, they “believe in the sanctity of marriage.”

“Highgrove has always welcomed vendors, guests and employees of all orientations and we do not discriminate against a people or group,” their statement read. “We believe in the sanctity of marriage as God says in the Bible that marriage is between a man and a woman and we choose to honor Him above what the world decides what marriage should be.”

And between a man and several women, and between a man and the girls he captured in combat, and a man and all the women and all their concubines, and the woman he raped, &c &c &c but sure, your book is the paragon of marriage morals.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 13, 2021 • 5:06:06am

Video, 1:25

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 13, 2021 • 5:12:30am

re: #135 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Everyone should have to carry a gun to protect me and others. We need gun passports and people that refuse to carry a gun shouldn’t be allowed in movies, concerts, restaurants, etc.. if you can’t carry a gun to protect your fellow citizens, you shouldn’t be allowed in society.

Number murders using a mask in America since Covid-19: 0

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 13, 2021 • 5:16:13am

re: #145 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Number murders using a mask in America since Covid-19: 0

One of the Twitterati here could post that.

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Chrysicat  Apr 13, 2021 • 5:17:05am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 13, 2021 • 5:26:42am

re: #142 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

I see that, now, reading the article. 6 blood clots out of nearly 7M doses. I am glad that the government is taking side effects seriously and not wanting to endanger us, but with that low of an incidence rate, it seems ludicrous.

Just the fuel antivaxxers need though.

That incidence seems far below nearly any medication. If that sort of tight control was required, aspirin would be off the market.

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lawhawk  Apr 13, 2021 • 5:27:10am

re: #12 teleskiguy

The further away from the border and more the demographics lean towards 100% white, the more concerned you are about “border security” or “immigration”.

Trump’s immigration policy was a white nationalist wet dream. That’s GOP policy. They’re a white nationalist party and their voter suppression efforts intend to keep it that way - and to impose their regressive know nothing worldview on everyone.

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Dave In Austin  Apr 13, 2021 • 5:29:45am

Morning Sunshines.

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Chrysicat  Apr 13, 2021 • 5:30:53am
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Dangerman  Apr 13, 2021 • 5:32:45am

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Teukka  Apr 13, 2021 • 5:34:48am

re: #129 Dread Pirate Ron

Side note on the blood clot and bleeding side effect of some CoViD-19 vaccines:
I recently saw an article about an article published in a prestigious medical journal, where Norwegian researchers noted that those who get this side effect have sky high numbers of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in their blood stream.

Which is consonant with both the hypothesis among some researchers that when giving the vaccine, the intramuscular needle nicks a blood vessel and deposits some of the vaccine in the blood stream, as well as the hypothesis that some individuals immune systems react much more strongly to the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

In the first case, researchers are looking into whether aspirating when giving the intramuscular injection to confirm that a blood vessel hasn’t been nicked will put a dent in the number of occurences of this side effect combo.

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lawhawk  Apr 13, 2021 • 5:36:36am

re: #151 Chrysicat

It will depend on how many doses were administered to the populations involved. You have to look at total doses administered, doses administered by gender, race, and age. Given that we’ve only started dropping age requirements to 16/18 in parts of the country, that means that the number of vaccinations in below 40 population could be quite limited. Identify the issue and get ahead of it before it becomes more serious - or realize that it was a correlation not causation situation and that these people had conditions that influenced the outcomes seen. Or statistical fluke (like coin flipping heads 5 times in a row). Either way, we want to be careful.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 13, 2021 • 5:37:42am

re: #130 Dangerman

LOL, I’ll bet they got the brass bowl at a Pier One closeout sale.

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jeffreyw  Apr 13, 2021 • 6:01:54am

Good morning!

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lawhawk  Apr 13, 2021 • 6:04:56am
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lawhawk  Apr 13, 2021 • 6:09:47am
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Dangerman  Apr 13, 2021 • 6:31:05am

Watching Boehner trash whoever for the last week …especially Cruz, was fun

in the end, all we need to know about the creep (Boehner not Cruz)

“I voted for Donald Trump. I thought that his policies, by and large, mirrored the policies that I believed in. I thought the choices for the Supreme Court were top notch. At the end of the day, who gets nominated to the federal courts is really the most important thing a President does

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Dangerman  Apr 13, 2021 • 6:42:29am

Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley on Monday said she would back her onetime boss, former President Donald Trump, if he decides to run for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination again in 2024 and not mount a bid against him, CNN reports.

Also Nikki Haley (January 2021, less than 3 months ago):

“We need to acknowledge he let us down,” Haley told Politico less than a week after the attack. “He went down a path he shouldn’t have, and we shouldn’t have followed him, and we shouldn’t have listened to him. And we can’t let that ever happen again.”

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 13, 2021 • 6:43:29am

re: #159 Dangerman

Watching Boehner trash whoever for the last week …especially Cruz, was fun

in the end, all we need to know about the creep (Boehner not Cruz)

Mr. Fondle The Grape is just another apparatchik who loves seeing the Supreme Court locked in with a fascist majority for the foreseeable future.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 13, 2021 • 6:43:54am

re: #146 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

One of the Twitterati here could post that.

feel free

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 13, 2021 • 6:45:12am

re: #160 Dangerman

Also Nikki Haley (January 2021, less than 3 months ago):

Amazing to see these Republicans act just exactly like Chinese Communists.

All must follow and worship Chairman Trump. No deviation from the Party Line.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 13, 2021 • 6:45:41am

re: #149 lawhawk

Trump’s immigration policy was a white nationalist wet dream. That’s GOP policy. They’re a white nationalist party and their voter suppression efforts intend to keep it that way.

I disagreed with their policy of deterrence although I guess it was tolerable - when directed at adults. But when children began to be victims of those policies, then it became unconscionably inhumane.

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 13, 2021 • 6:47:43am

Jordan Peterson doing the usual Right Wing shit…making money off of Ta-Nehisi Coates Captain America comic that exposed him for the asshole that he really is!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 13, 2021 • 6:48:19am

re: #163 🌹UOJB!

Amazing to see these Republicans act just exactly like Chinese Communists.

All must follow and worship Chairman Trump. No deviation from the Party Line.

They know that he is their ticket. Without their Great Helmsman they stand no real chance of victory.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Apr 13, 2021 • 7:02:48am

re: #143 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I bet the owners of that place think they should be able to enter a masks-only business without following their rules.

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Thanos  Apr 13, 2021 • 7:03:15am

re: #165 🌹UOJB!

Jordan Peterson doing the usual Right Wing shit…making money off of Ta-Nehisi Coates Captain America comic that exposed him for the asshole that he really is!

Yeah, when merch comes in Nazi party colors, you should know better.

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Belafon  Apr 13, 2021 • 7:04:49am

Or you could just give the Pfizer one.

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 13, 2021 • 7:06:21am

If you doubted Peterson was doing this shit for the money…

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steve_davis  Apr 13, 2021 • 7:07:59am

re: #104 Dread Pirate Ron

Your electric company doesn’t set your state on fire. California pays a fortune for their power. We are paying about $85 a month for gas and $215 a month for electric. We have a tankless water heater to save energy and gas furnace and oven. For electric we have all LED lighting, no TV but 3 modern box computers that run all day and an electric dryer. We also have central air but it doesn’t run in the day unless it’s over 95F outside, after 11 PM it runs if it is over 76F inside.

i guess there are some advantages to living in south mogadishu. Duke charged me 35 bucks last month for power.

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darthstar  Apr 13, 2021 • 7:09:32am

Mornin’ gang.

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darthstar  Apr 13, 2021 • 7:12:38am

re: #104 Dread Pirate Ron

Your electric company doesn’t set your state on fire. California pays a fortune for their power. We are paying about $85 a month for gas and $215 a month for electric. We have a tankless water heater to save energy and gas furnace and oven. For electric we have all LED lighting, no TV but 3 modern box computers that run all day and an electric dryer. We also have central air but it doesn’t run in the day unless it’s over 95F outside, after 11 PM it runs if it is over 76F inside.

I just got used to my PG&E bill. It wasn’t until a solar salesman showed me that my rates in 2011 when I bought the house were 13 cents and today I pay 24 cents that I realized it really has doubled in just over a decade. So we’re getting solar with battery backup.

We’ll still have about $75/mo in gas for stove and heat…though we tend to run the house cool most of the time.

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Thanos  Apr 13, 2021 • 7:12:39am

My WTF Facebook moment today:

Click to Reveal

My Dad died recently of stage IV NSCL cancer; during his last two weeks his only social interaction was through facebook because he’s extremely hard of hearing & tech challenged. His leather crafting group, his friends, his family were his normal FB interactions. At the end he was severely depressed, approaching suicidal, and refused to eat most days (we kept him alive by making smoothies with muscle milk & frozen fruits at the bitter end, he just would not eat.) When ever he went to facebook, instead of getting encouraging posts from his family and friends, FB topped his feed with plane crash, shipwreck, riot, and other disaster videos. That was what he watched his final two weeks. Strange thing now: My FB is now infested with plane crash vids.

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Mattand  Apr 13, 2021 • 7:13:34am

Hey, all:

Shot Numero Dos in the books as of 4:15PM EST yesterday. Other than the same slightly sore arm I got from Shot #1, so far, so good.

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JC1  Apr 13, 2021 • 7:14:29am

re: #102 Dread Pirate Ron

…and I’d still not have gained 10% of one bitcoin. To mine bitcoin you really need a rack of GPUs using 10 KW an hour in a low electric price area.

For bitcoin you need custom ASIC rigs. Some other coins can only be mined with GPUs or CPUs.

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darthstar  Apr 13, 2021 • 7:14:39am

re: #174 Thanos

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Belafon  Apr 13, 2021 • 7:15:27am

Who coulda guessed:

I’m gonna have to agree with this, the CDC head needs to pay attention to political realities in Michigan:

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Dangerman  Apr 13, 2021 • 7:15:47am

re: #172 darthstar

Mornin’ gang.

[Embedded content]
Let me assure you, I have not yet begun to fight for the country I love and for the nation that I know benefits from America First principles

The above part is true
I can’t find anything he’s actually accomplished while in Congress

He’s just collecting a paycheck while not producing anything

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darthstar  Apr 13, 2021 • 7:17:17am

re: #102 Dread Pirate Ron

…and I’d still not have gained 10% of one bitcoin. To mine bitcoin you really need a rack of GPUs using 10 KW an hour in a low electric price area.

A friend of mine has an apartment in the Presidio. Her electric bill is small because it’s a former military housing and all on one grid, so they average the bill across all of the apartments in the area. She said she could mine bitcoin and probably not see her bill go up significantly.

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Dangerman  Apr 13, 2021 • 7:17:52am

re: #175 Mattand

Hey, all:

Shot Numero Dos in the books as of 4:15PM EST yesterday. Other than the same slightly sore arm I got from Shot #1, so far, so good.

You seem…taller

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Thanos  Apr 13, 2021 • 7:18:00am

re: #175 Mattand

Hey, all:

Shot Numero Dos in the books as of 4:15PM EST yesterday. Other than the same slightly sore arm I got from Shot #1, so far, so good.

Good news, I just had sore arms for mine.

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Mattand  Apr 13, 2021 • 7:18:29am

re: #173 darthstar

I just got used to my PG&E bill. It wasn’t until a solar salesman showed me that my rates in 2011 when I bought the house were 13 cents and today I pay 24 cents that I realized it really has doubled in just over a decade. So we’re getting solar with battery backup.

We’ll still have about $75/mo in gas for stove and heat…though we tend to run the house cool most of the time.

We went solar 2.5 years ago. It’s amazing; NJ has a really good solar credit program and our panels face due south on the back of the house. The solar credits pay for like 90% of the loan and our electric bill from March to October is $5.

We got an extra 2kw added to the system for having an electric car, so our numbers are padded a bit, but even without that, we’d still be doing great.

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Mattand  Apr 13, 2021 • 7:19:34am

re: #174 Thanos

My WTF Facebook moment today:

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Condolences. So sorry to hear that.

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Belafon  Apr 13, 2021 • 7:20:25am
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Mattand  Apr 13, 2021 • 7:21:19am

re: #181 Dangerman

You seem…taller

I was hoping for a Super Soldier transformation, but after watching Falcon and the Winter Soldier, I’m reconsdiering.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 13, 2021 • 7:21:42am

re: #174 Thanos

jNXCbQq3/gnAvQ8AxInCP8ymNBPDCb4HoLudK2nb6i14MNbUYOUqB6jgiQREa9ITkJm+AL+CDYShYf1BKv0ohA+xLo+lLpBDrdHPoFn/dzmeXTGGD4rineTb1Wmim5KC7atojq3/0N4GqT30jm9Lpg==

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 13, 2021 • 7:22:45am

I am glad I finally cut Facebook out of my life; while I still struggle with the asshats we talk about here, it is much more helpful to have them in context, and to have separation from my parents’ wingnut-ism, and I’ll even say I’ve been happier since then. I still struggle with depression, but that’s just a never-ending constant in my life, and it’s not anywhere near as bad as it’s been at my low points before then.

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lawhawk  Apr 13, 2021 • 7:23:02am

re: #185 Belafon

See also: McConnell, Boehner, and their ilk.

They put party over nation time and again. They voted and supported Trump, even after the first impeachment. They will back him again after the second should he run again in 2024.

It is insanity.

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Mattand  Apr 13, 2021 • 7:25:00am

re: #185 Belafon

All the people who think there was some noble, credible US conservatism that has “fallen,” or been “taken over” by Trumpism, tell me: why was it so weak? Why did it offer so little resistance? Why did it devolve so *easily* into reactionary madness? Doesn’t it make you wonder?

LOL, no, because I know exactly why it ‘fell’: a rich guy saw his opening to take over the GQP by exploiting the racism the party has been encouraging in its adherents for 50 years.

I still encounter these “Trump happened in a vacuum” proponents from time-to-time. It’s equal parts frustrating and pathetic.

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Thanos  Apr 13, 2021 • 7:26:02am

re: #184 Mattand

Thanks friend.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 13, 2021 • 7:27:36am

re: #178 Belafon

The CDC probably just blew any chance we had of achieving herd immunity by giving the anti-vaccers ammunition to argue the vaccines are dangerous over a less than one in a million side effect. Get you and your loved ones vaccinated asap, and get the boosters when they come out, because Covid is never going away.

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 13, 2021 • 7:28:15am

re: #190 Mattand

LOL, no, because I know exactly why it ‘fell’: a rich guy saw his opening to take over the GQP by exploiting the racism the party has been encouraging in its adherents for 50 years.

I still encounter these “Trump happened in a vacuum” proponents from time-to-time. It’s equal parts frustrating and pathetic.

I watched Watergate hearings as a child, though I didn’t really understand, but came of age during Reagan. This “madness” has been in the GOP DNA since at least that time, that I’m aware of.

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Thanos  Apr 13, 2021 • 7:30:00am

re: #187 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

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re: #187 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

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makeitstop  Apr 13, 2021 • 7:31:01am

Guitar Geek Matt Gaetz humor…

Explanation behind the button.

Click to Reveal

The chord being played is a B Minor.

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Dangerman  Apr 13, 2021 • 7:32:50am

re: #183 Mattand

We went solar 2.5 years ago. It’s amazing; NJ has a really good solar credit program and our panels face due south on the back of the house. The solar credits pay for like 90% of the loan and our electric bill from March to October is $5.

We got an extra 2kw added to the system for having an electric car, so our numbers are padded a bit, but even without that, we’d still be doing great.

#thegreatpoolpondconversion pumps are solar powered
all 200 watts of them
;-)

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No Malarkey!  Apr 13, 2021 • 7:33:25am

re: #185 Belafon

Conservatism was long since corrupted by the unlimited corporate money they courted from people who want nothing from government except tax cuts and defense contracts. That leaves the GOP with no policy agenda to appeal to voters except culture wars, cultivating a paranoid, racist base of voters, ripe to be exploited by a grifter like Trump.

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SerialUpDinger  Apr 13, 2021 • 7:33:50am

Diving Head First Into Life

Calochortus splendens (Splendid Mariposa Lily)
This bee is providing a view that many find cute (bee butts area thing of cuteness?) This plant attracts bees and beetles and there is something about the flower that causes visitors to linger.

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Belafon  Apr 13, 2021 • 7:35:21am

re: #195 makeitstop

Guitar Geek Matt Gaetz humor…

[Embedded content]

Thanks for the explanation. I only do arpeggios.

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Thanos  Apr 13, 2021 • 7:36:31am

re: #195 makeitstop

I am stealing that.

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lawhawk  Apr 13, 2021 • 7:38:09am
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Eventual Carrion  Apr 13, 2021 • 7:42:32am

re: #25 🌹UOJB!

My best friend from college lives in Grove City, PA and yes it is redder than Mississippi!

That I can attest to. I live about 25 miles northwest of there.

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Belafon  Apr 13, 2021 • 7:45:08am

re: #202 lawhawk

[Embedded content]

My predictions on the defense strategy:
1. Floyd was black and therefore dangerous.
2. Have you ever been a cop? Do you know how dangerous that is?
3. Aren’t you being racist towards whites?

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 13, 2021 • 7:46:27am

Before I started teleworking at home my electric bill from the Los Angeles DWP was $70/month. But now it’s averaged $195 since last March because of the heating & air conditioning. When the air conditioner starts up in my main room the power meter goes into overdrive even when I set it to 85 degrees.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Apr 13, 2021 • 7:49:40am

re: #174 Thanos

Sorry Thanos.

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Chrysicat  Apr 13, 2021 • 7:49:59am
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🌹UOJB!  Apr 13, 2021 • 7:52:38am

Mississippi governor secretly signs ‘Confederate Heritage Month’ proclamation.

Gee, I wonder why he did that in secret???????

alternet.org

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nines09  Apr 13, 2021 • 7:54:18am

re: #174 Thanos

So sorry to hear that Thanos.

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ericblair  Apr 13, 2021 • 7:54:39am

re: #169 Belafon

As #China defends the efficacy of its homegrown vaccines, 100 subjects are being recruited in #HongKong to see whether mixing the #Sinovac and #Pfizer-#BioNTech vaccines would be more effective and more safe.

Sinovac must be seriously bad if they’re actually admitting this. The director of the Chinese CDC said a couple of days ago that the Chinese vaccines don’t have very high protection rates, before somewhat walking it back.

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Belafon  Apr 13, 2021 • 7:58:31am

re: #210 ericblair

Sinovac must be seriously bad if they’re actually admitting this. The director of the Chinese CDC said a couple of days ago that the Chinese vaccines don’t have very high protection rates, before somewhat walking it back.

I read that it was somewhere around 57%. Which, if it were the only vaccine on the planet, I’d be like “get it in me.” Compared to the rest of them, though, It’s really low.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 13, 2021 • 8:04:39am

LOL

Dream Job

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 13, 2021 • 8:07:20am

I really hate my Governor.

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nines09  Apr 13, 2021 • 8:09:48am

Context

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Kilroy was here  Apr 13, 2021 • 8:12:55am

Vaccine Wars!

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Thanos  Apr 13, 2021 • 8:14:28am

re: #205 🌹UOJB!

Before I started teleworking at home my electric bill from the Los Angeles DWP was $70/month. But now it’s averaged $195 since last March because of the heating & air conditioning. When the air conditioner starts up in my main room the power meter goes into overdrive even when I set it to 85 degrees.

It sounds very likely that you could use better insulation, if you own you should look into subsidy programs at the local electric company. If you rent, try someplace else?

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Belafon  Apr 13, 2021 • 8:14:56am

re: #213 Eclectic Cyborg

I really hate my Governor.

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Wait, who’s president and who’s been getting vaccines to your state, Governor?

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jeffreyw  Apr 13, 2021 • 8:15:25am

re: #198 SerialUpDinger

[Embedded content]

Calochortus splendens (Splendid Mariposa Lily)
This bee is providing a view that many find cute (bee butts area thing of cuteness?) This plant attracts bees and beetles and there is something about the flower that causes visitors to linger.

Staggering home with a load on
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Thanos  Apr 13, 2021 • 8:16:23am

re: #209 nines09

Thanks friend

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Thanos  Apr 13, 2021 • 8:17:39am

re: #206 HRH Stanley Sea

Thanks friend

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Thanos  Apr 13, 2021 • 8:23:04am

interesting features in the new version of Wordpress:

From HTTP to HTTPS in a single click
Starting now, switching a site from HTTP to HTTPS is a one-click move. WordPress will automatically update database URLs when you make the switch. No more hunting and guessing!

New Robots API
The new Robots API lets you include the filter directives in the robots meta tag, and the API includes the max-image-preview: large directive by default. That means search engines can show bigger image previews, which can boost your traffic (unless the site is marked not-public).

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 13, 2021 • 8:23:26am

re: #216 Thanos

It sounds very likely that you could use better insulation, if you own you should look into subsidy programs at the local electric company. If you rent, try someplace else?

Try looking for an apartment in Los Angeles.

Right now my rent is $1150/month for a single.

Single apartments in my area that are vacant—the rent starts at $1950/month unfurnished. Utilities not included.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 13, 2021 • 8:26:16am

re: #217 Belafon

Wait, who’s president and who’s been getting vaccines to your state, Governor?

Not to mention Mississippi is not a huge tourist destination so we’re at less risk from the variants and we have far more temperate winters down here so it’s a hell of a lot easier to spend time outdoors and keep distance from people. Our afternoon highs have been at least 60 for the last few weeks.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 13, 2021 • 8:26:36am

re: #222 🌹UOJB!

Try looking for an apartment in Los Angeles.

Right now my rent is $1150/month for a single.

Single apartments in my area that are vacant—the rent starts at $1950/month for a single.

Jesus H. Fucking Christ. You pay as much in rent as I do to own!

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Thanos  Apr 13, 2021 • 8:29:35am

re: #222 🌹UOJB!

Try looking for an apartment in Los Angeles.

Right now my rent is $1150/month for a single.

Single apartments in my area that are vacant—the rent starts at $1950/month unfurnished. Utilities not included.

I was afraid that was the case. Can you work from anywhere? Because you can get a lot more home for your dollar here.

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 13, 2021 • 8:30:58am

re: #225 Thanos

I was afraid that was the case. Can you work from anywhere? Because you can get a lot more home for your dollar here.

65 years old and still working. Unable to transfer. And if I retire I do not get enough in a pension to make ends meet.

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Dangerman  Apr 13, 2021 • 8:31:16am

re: #205 🌹UOJB!

Before I started teleworking at home my electric bill from the Los Angeles DWP was $70/month. But now it’s averaged $195 since last March because of the heating & air conditioning. When the air conditioner starts up in my main room the power meter goes into overdrive even when I set it to 85 degrees.

with the necessity of work-from-home, it’s become apparent that it is not simply sitting people in a different chair. a whole lot of incidental and semi-hidden costs have fallen on workers that used to be paid by their employers

dedicated space to work, electric, heat/ac, supplies, computers and adequate broadband, telephones and on and on

meanwhile a lot of those costs have gone down at the office. sure rent is stuck for now, and some electric, though i’d guess less. but supplies, phone, and a host of other things have dropped to near zero for those at home employees. (eta - i.e. that those companies used to pay for when people came to ‘the office’)

i cant say how many employers have seen this and picked up the ball by either increasing salaries or reimbursing those expenses.

for those who aren’t, well, you just got a pay cut that’s going right to the corporate bottom line

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Thanos  Apr 13, 2021 • 8:32:22am

re: #226 🌹UOJB!

Yikes!

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Thanos  Apr 13, 2021 • 8:35:35am

re: #226 🌹UOJB!

Hrmm. You should consider moving to the midwest still. Unemployment in my area is ~4% or less, lots of WFH jobs, housing cheap, you could retire, start SS, & pension, move, get a new job here since you are working anyway.

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Belafon  Apr 13, 2021 • 8:38:16am

re: #229 Thanos

Hrmm. You should consider moving to the midwest still. Unemployment in my area is ~4% or less, lots of WFH jobs, housing cheap, you could retire, start SS, & pension, move, get a new job here since you are working anyway.

And where Anymouse lives could use a few more non-conservatives. :)

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Thanos  Apr 13, 2021 • 8:38:41am

re: #227 Dangerman

with the necessity of work-from-home, it’s become apparent that it is not simply sitting people in a different chair. a whole lot of incidental and semi-hidden costs have fallen on workers that used to be paid by their employers

dedicated space to work, electric, heat/ac, supplies, computers and adequate broadband, telephones and on and on

meanwhile a lot of those costs have gone down at the office. sure rent is stuck for now, and some electric, though i’d guess less. but supplies, phone, and a host of other things have dropped to near zero for those at home employees. (eta - i.e. that those companies used to pay for when people came to ‘the office’)

i cant say how many employers have seen this and picked up the ball by either increasing salaries or reimbursing those expenses.

for those who aren’t, well, you just got a pay cut that’s going right to the corporate bottom line

It’s a pay cut but also a raise. There aren’t any commute or clothing costs now.

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Thanos  Apr 13, 2021 • 8:40:34am

re: #230 Belafon

Where I live could use a few more progressives! (Red state, purple district)

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 13, 2021 • 8:41:41am

re: #229 Thanos

Hrmm. You should consider moving to the midwest still. Unemployment in my area is ~4% or less, lots of WFH jobs, housing cheap, you could retire, start SS, & pension, move, get a new job here since you are working anyway.

I have rheumatoid arthritis. Unable to handle cold or humid weather.

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 13, 2021 • 8:42:45am

re: #231 Thanos

It’s a pay cut but also a raise. There aren’t any commute or clothing costs now.

Hey I can’t get away with teleworking in my underpants! 😉

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Thanos  Apr 13, 2021 • 8:42:49am

re: #233 🌹UOJB!

Well that changes things, sorry.

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lawhawk  Apr 13, 2021 • 8:43:21am
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No Malarkey!  Apr 13, 2021 • 8:44:54am

re: #174 Thanos

My WTF Facebook moment today:

[Embedded content]

Very sorry for your loss.

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Thanos  Apr 13, 2021 • 8:45:21am

re: #234 🌹UOJB!

I had a dress shirt / sweater that I would pull over for video calls when I was still WFH. Seriously there are places with mild climate that are cheap and not even that far. (e.g. Bisbee AZ comes to mind.)

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Thanos  Apr 13, 2021 • 8:45:40am

re: #237 No Malarkey!

thanks friend

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 13, 2021 • 8:46:57am

re: #7 No Malarkey!

Trump has another incoherent rant posted today that we can ignore. I’m looking forward to him being indicted in Manhattan.

When I stated that I’m ignoring him, I was scolded by people saying that it’s silly to ignore someone with so much power. 🤷🏽‍♀️ I’m ignoring him because whatever power he has is with the deplorables who aren’t the majority in this country.

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DesertDenizen  Apr 13, 2021 • 8:50:15am

re: #238 Thanos

I had a dress shirt / sweater that I would pull over for video calls when I was still WFH. Seriously there are places with mild climate that are cheap and not even that far. (e.g. Bisbee AZ comes to mind.)

Hahahahahaha. I have lived in Bisbee for 15 years. It’s not as cheap as it used to be, the broadband sucks, jobs are scarce, and monsoon season is slowly fading.

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SerialUpDinger  Apr 13, 2021 • 8:50:53am

re: #218 jeffreyw

it really is amazing how much pollen these bees can “load” on….

Bee Departing Bush Mallow
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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 13, 2021 • 8:51:24am

re: #227 Dangerman

with the necessity of work-from-home, it’s become apparent that it is not simply sitting people in a different chair. a whole lot of incidental and semi-hidden costs have fallen on workers that used to be paid by their employers

dedicated space to work, electric, heat/ac, supplies, computers and adequate broadband, telephones and on and on

meanwhile a lot of those costs have gone down at the office. sure rent is stuck for now, and some electric, though i’d guess less. but supplies, phone, and a host of other things have dropped to near zero for those at home employees. (eta - i.e. that those companies used to pay for when people came to ‘the office’)

i cant say how many employers have seen this and picked up the ball by either increasing salaries or reimbursing those expenses.

I’m gonna go with “not many”. Most companies love offloading expenses to employees when they can. ‘Murica.

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Belafon  Apr 13, 2021 • 8:54:52am

re: #243 Eclectic Cyborg

I’m gonna go with “not many”. Most companies love offloading expenses to employees when they can. ‘Murica.

My wife works from home from her company. They supply a work computer and phone, and they provide remote tech support and updates for both. That’s pretty much it.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 13, 2021 • 8:55:35am

re: #244 Belafon

My wife works from home from her company. They supply a work computer and phone, and they provide remote tech support and updates for both. That’s pretty much it.

I am in pretty much exactly the same boat.

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Dangerman  Apr 13, 2021 • 8:57:06am

re: #231 Thanos

It’s a pay cut but also a raise. There aren’t any commute or clothing costs now.

that’s true, it may be a wash numerically.
but they are not equivalent expenses by the nature of who controls them

the first set are employer costs now being paid by the employee.
these are somewhat hidden and so i’d argue arent getting enough attention

the second always were personal costs
you can often choose how to get to work and how much you’re willing to pay for convenience vs time.
they are generally not part of a salary negotiation.
if i can and do switch from car to bus or bicycle my employer doesnt care and likely wont pay me differently.
no different than if i move closer to work and can now walk, or move to the ‘burbs and choose to drive and pay tolls.

its a small thing, mostly unnoticed
it’s what i do
the irs tightened the home office deduction a few years ago
sure most people wouldnt qualify anyway
so there’s not even a tax deduction/advantage

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Dangerman  Apr 13, 2021 • 8:58:14am

re: #236 lawhawk

[Embedded content]

right, because he’s such a science and health expert

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Dangerman  Apr 13, 2021 • 9:00:02am

re: #236 lawhawk

[Embedded content]

so this didnt take long
former guy gets booted off twitter
we have a few months of calm and quiet

now ‘the press’ has decided to publish and amplify every ‘statement’ someone writes on his behalf.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 13, 2021 • 9:02:58am

Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead trailer just dropped. Looks pretty interesting, and a bit of a different take on the zombie genre.

Army of the Dead | Official Trailer | Netflix

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Apr 13, 2021 • 9:07:17am

re: #247 Dangerman

right, because he’s such a science and health expert

That WaPo article linked above suggests that ~13% of the US population thinks he is an expert. Time for a culling.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Apr 13, 2021 • 9:11:54am

re: #156 jeffreyw

[Embedded content]

Good morning!

Western good morning!

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jaunte  Apr 13, 2021 • 9:16:14am
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sagehen  Apr 13, 2021 • 9:16:27am

re: #227 Dangerman

with the necessity of work-from-home, it’s become apparent that it is not simply sitting people in a different chair. a whole lot of incidental and semi-hidden costs have fallen on workers that used to be paid by their employers

dedicated space to work, electric, heat/ac, supplies, computers and adequate broadband, telephones and on and on

meanwhile a lot of those costs have gone down at the office. sure rent is stuck for now, and some electric, though i’d guess less. but supplies, phone, and a host of other things have dropped to near zero for those at home employees. (eta - i.e. that those companies used to pay for when people came to ‘the office’)

i cant say how many employers have seen this and picked up the ball by either increasing salaries or reimbursing those expenses.

for those who aren’t, well, you just got a pay cut that’s going right to the corporate bottom line

For people whose commute was an hour or more each way, plus gas/parking or monthly transit pass, it’s a wash.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 13, 2021 • 9:31:45am

re: #174 Thanos

My WTF Facebook moment today:

[Embedded content]

My sympathies on your loss.

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retired cynic  Apr 13, 2021 • 9:32:29am

re: #153 Teukka

Side note on the blood clot and bleeding side effect of some CoViD-19 vaccines:
I recently saw an article about an article published in a prestigious medical journal, where Norwegian researchers noted that those who get this side effect have sky high numbers of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in their blood stream.

Which is consonant with both the hypothesis among some researchers that when giving the vaccine, the intramuscular needle nicks a blood vessel and deposits some of the vaccine in the blood stream, as well as the hypothesis that some individuals immune systems react much more strongly to the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

In the first case, researchers are looking into whether aspirating when giving the intramuscular injection to confirm that a blood vessel hasn’t been nicked will put a dent in the number of occurences of this side effect combo.

OMG. We raised horses, and gave LOTS of IM shots. We ALWAYS drew back to make sure we weren’t hitting a vessel. Every time, it was automatic. You mean they don’t do that with PEOPLE??

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ckkatz  Apr 13, 2021 • 9:32:52am

re: #174 Thanos

YijrUqTSKyCr5e5+3KgO7JExqD0hzd2bodUsSNMb2mG4HmmRy58prekiB2xT7m/+21y2/bDFuewYB5yiUlUwyd+NZhG/wQKyAn19f/pWJcJF8DKp0M7sgObSlZsSnUinfoz3fFN18VVwTwmCqcqYwXWf1/+7GTzlU5Mozuqp0D9WZboYblMEhQ==

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Teukka  Apr 13, 2021 • 9:36:54am

re: #255 retired cynic

OMG. We raised horses, and gave LOTS of IM shots. We ALWAYS drew back to make sure we weren’t hitting a vessel. Every time, it was automatic. You mean they don’t do that with PEOPLE??

Apparently not, at least not under time pressure.

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John Hughes  Apr 13, 2021 • 9:39:43am

re: #255 retired cynic

OMG. We raised horses, and gave LOTS of IM shots. We ALWAYS drew back to make sure we weren’t hitting a vessel. Every time, it was automatic. You mean they don’t do that with PEOPLE??

I’ve seen reports that the instructions were to not do that as people complain it hurts and it can leave a bruise.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 13, 2021 • 9:48:08am

re: #258 John Hughes

I’ve seen reports that the instructions were to not do that as people complain it hurts and it can leave a bruise.

And a bit of pain and a bruise is worse than getting a blood clot that could cause serious health risks?

/

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DesertDenizen  Apr 13, 2021 • 9:49:53am

re: #259 Eclectic Cyborg

People are short sighted and have terrible risk/reward assessment skills.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 13, 2021 • 9:50:04am

Thanos, I’m so sorry for your loss.

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Belafon  Apr 13, 2021 • 9:57:00am

re: #255 retired cynic

OMG. We raised horses, and gave LOTS of IM shots. We ALWAYS drew back to make sure we weren’t hitting a vessel. Every time, it was automatic. You mean they don’t do that with PEOPLE??

What exactly do you mean by “drew back”? Pulled the needle out?

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DesertDenizen  Apr 13, 2021 • 9:59:28am

re: #262 Belafon

You pull the plunger back slightly. If blood pours in you’ve hit a vein and need to repoke.

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Dangerman  Apr 13, 2021 • 9:59:28am

oops

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 13, 2021 • 10:00:45am

re: #262 Belafon

What exactly do you mean by “drew back”? Pulled the needle out?

No. Do the stick and then pull the plunger back a bit just to make sure you don’t see blood. I used to give myself allergy shots. It was natural; stick, pull, plunge.

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Dangerman  Apr 13, 2021 • 10:02:15am

thegreatpoolpondconversion - 210411 edition ———————->
“subtitle”

Here’s an index of all the postings in #thegreatpoolpondconversion

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A Cranky One  Apr 13, 2021 • 10:03:13am

re: #258 John Hughes

I’ve seen reports that the instructions were to not do that as people complain it hurts and it can leave a bruise.

I have no problems with needles (been stuck too many times due to other health issues) and so always watch the “stick”. Didn’t see the person check to verify that a vein wasn’t hit. I didn’t have any issues (J&J). But I’m not in the group that’s had problems.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 13, 2021 • 10:03:23am

Just Brian Johnson of AC/DC and Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits hanging out and reminiscing.

Dire Straits’ Mark Knopfler meets AC/DC’s Brian Johnson at the Spanish City in Whitley Bay

My jaw would be on the floor if I came across these two while I was out for a walk, LOL

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Apr 13, 2021 • 10:03:38am

I just got this email:

“Hurry up ! your rewards has been arrived!”

Yeah. I can’t wait to give them whatever information they want.

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Thanos  Apr 13, 2021 • 10:07:07am

re: #261 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Thanks friend

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Thanos  Apr 13, 2021 • 10:08:11am

re: #256 ckkatz

re: #256 ckkatz

FaJbDG4t6U0ynQ2TiNca8et/KnYpL4+3

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Thanos  Apr 13, 2021 • 10:08:36am

re: #254 Hecuba’s daughter

Thanks friend

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No Malarkey!  Apr 13, 2021 • 10:09:04am

We are pulling out of Afghanistan. We should have very liberal standards for Afghans who want to move to the US, because when the Taliban take over, it’s going to be really bad for those left behind.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Apr 13, 2021 • 10:09:10am

OT and apropos of something, which I’ll get to: If you’re a T-Mobile/Sprint customer, make sure you check out their rewards app, T-Mobile Tuesdays. Today’s special is 90 days of Grubhub+, for free. That means free delivery for anyone who can get Grubhub… which we couldn’t, until apparently very recently, as I signed up for it after getting the notification and suddenly saw a huge list of things we could order, where previously, it was just a sad empty page with a “check back later” message. On that topic, barbecue is on the menu for tonight.

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Belafon  Apr 13, 2021 • 10:10:02am

It might be interesting, then, to collect data on adverse reactions to when and where people are getting vaccinated.

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plansbandc  Apr 13, 2021 • 10:10:19am

re: #174 Thanos

I’m so sorry for your loss.

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Teukka  Apr 13, 2021 • 10:13:49am

re: #263 DesertDenizen

You pull the plunger back slightly. If blood pours in you’ve hit a vein and need to repoke.

a.k.a. “aspirating”.

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Thanos  Apr 13, 2021 • 10:14:25am

re: #246 Dangerman

that’s true, it may be a wash numerically.
but they are not equivalent expenses by the nature of who controls them

the first set are employer costs now being paid by the employee.
these are somewhat hidden and so i’d argue arent getting enough attention

the second always were personal costs
you can often choose how to get to work and how much you’re willing to pay for convenience vs time.
they are generally not part of a salary negotiation.
if i can and do switch from car to bus or bicycle my employer doesnt care and likely wont pay me differently.
no different than if i move closer to work and can now walk, or move to the ‘burbs and choose to drive and pay tolls.

its a small thing, mostly unnoticed
it’s what i do
the irs tightened the home office deduction a few years ago
sure most people wouldnt qualify anyway
so there’s not even a tax deduction/advantage

You are correct that the real estate management div of every fortune 500 company is loving every minute of this pandemic.

279
Hecuba's daughter  Apr 13, 2021 • 10:14:27am

As Targetpractice said last evening, there can be complications related to vaccines or medications rushed to market, although the circumstances can justify the policy. There is another issue; trials have perhaps tens of thousands of participants. When dealing with extremely rare occurrences, as in this case where the reaction is 1 in a million, trials are not likely to detect such a problem. In any case, the medical community has to weigh risk vs benefit. For a potentially lethal disease like coronavirus that also has long-term serious effects, the benefit of protection can be well worth this risk.

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William Lewis  Apr 13, 2021 • 10:14:35am

re: #268 Dr Lizardo

Just Brian Johnson of AC/DC and Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits hanging out and reminiscing.

[Embedded content]

Video

My jaw would be on the floor if I came across these two while I was out for a walk, LOL

I dearly love the Making Movies album and especially “Tunnel of Love”. I had a story like that once in my life so it always brings her face forward in my memory. It’s good to see his lyrics there like that :)

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DesertDenizen  Apr 13, 2021 • 10:14:39am

re: #277 Teukka

a.k.a. “aspirating”.

I didn’t know the technical term. I learned it when the vet taught me to give shots to my lizards.

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Belafon  Apr 13, 2021 • 10:15:03am

re: #277 Teukka

a.k.a. “aspirating”.

Yeah, I’d have to know what that word means.

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🌹UOJB!  Apr 13, 2021 • 10:15:43am

re: #174 Thanos

I’m so sorry to hear of your loss. As for Zuckerberg, CENSORED him…

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plansbandc  Apr 13, 2021 • 10:17:28am

re: #268 Dr Lizardo

Fabulous!

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Teukka  Apr 13, 2021 • 10:18:37am

re: #281 DesertDenizen

I didn’t know the technical term. I learned it when the vet taught me to give shots to my lizards.

I learnt it because at a certain point in my life, I was indirectly exposed to a lot of healthcare concepts. So much so that I am an “edge patient” when it comes to my own medical issues, and sometimes get asked by healthcare professionals if I’m a colleague (I’m not, I’m an electronics & computers guy).

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 13, 2021 • 10:19:47am

re: #283 🌹UOJB!

I’m so sorry to hear of your loss. As for Zuckerberg, CENSORED him…

For FB, this is what happens when there are mindless algorithms dictating content. In my case, there was a period when the most common suggestions were Rottweiler sites that had heartwarming pictures/videos. They were welcome but I never knew why Rottweilers.

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plansbandc  Apr 13, 2021 • 10:20:15am

re: #280 William Lewis

Making Movies is such a great album. I was in love with a beautiful girl when that came out, so Romeo and Juliet was huge to me and has always been huge to me.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 13, 2021 • 10:22:02am

re: #183 Mattand

We went solar 2.5 years ago. It’s amazing; NJ has a really good solar credit program and our panels face due south on the back of the house. The solar credits pay for like 90% of the loan and our electric bill from March to October is $5.

We got an extra 2kw added to the system for having an electric car, so our numbers are padded a bit, but even without that, we’d still be doing great.

My brother got solar installed a few years back in western NY. Panels are south facing and on the back side of the garage. His monthly electric bill is $5 or less. Since he generally heats the house with a wood stove and uses well water he is to a large degree semi-independent. City water has come out along the road, but he’d have to pay for the connection (trench and 2” pipe) from the road to his house - which is not a short distance away. He’d consider it simply due to the cost/effort to keep himself in the treatment supplies for the well water.

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Dangerman  Apr 13, 2021 • 10:36:23am

re: #278 Thanos

You are correct that the real estate management div of every fortune 500 company is loving every minute of this pandemic.

Ezzacto

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BlueSpotinAL  Apr 13, 2021 • 10:50:38am

re: #241 DesertDenizen

Hahahahahaha. I have lived in Bisbee for 15 years. It’s not as cheap as it used to be, the broadband sucks, jobs are scarce, and monsoon season is slowly fading.

At least you can have a cold brew at Tombstone. I know the brewer there, he’s really good.

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Ferdinand  Apr 13, 2021 • 11:19:58am

re: #268 Dr Lizardo

It must be a series; YouTube recommended for me Johnson walking around a British town with Robert Plant. Gotta check these out thanks!

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Nojay UK  Apr 13, 2021 • 11:20:57am

re: #246 Dangerman

Dead thread but anyway — unless your employer pays you from the moment you step out of your front door in the morning to the time you close it behind you after you get home, a 1-hour commute each way to the office or workplace is effectively ten hours of unpaid labour each week they get free from you. On top of that it’s ten hours of your life you’ll never get back when compared to working from home.

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Ming5000  Apr 13, 2021 • 5:38:10pm

re: #249 Dr Lizardo

I don’t know about the talkie, but the trailer is dope!


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