“Slow” from our album “Cavalcade” out 28/05/2021, Directed by Gustaf Holtenas
preorder: blackmidi.ffm.to Warning: This video contains Gore
You can also watch our 2021 KEXP at home session here YouTubeVideo Credits:
Director/main animator: Gustaf Holtenäs
Actress: Aila Esko
Additional 2D-animation: Joel Widerberg.
Additional 3D-animation: Ludvig Holtenäs and Martin Onassis.
Photo assistant: Kajsa Lorentzon
“…In a Victorian terraced house in south London, black midi are getting ready to jam. Drummer Morgan Simpson hits record on his iPhone, and otherworldly noise floods the scrappy practice room. Nobody seems to start—by the time it’s begun, they are already going, tumbling into some ancient earthly current. Under the horror-movie shrieks of Matt Kwasniewski-Kelvin’s pedals, frontman Geordie Greep’s guitar blurts out syncopated squeals. Simpson slips a cymbal triplet between the first and second beats, as bassist Cameron Picton tunes into his bandmate’s movements. An old popcorn kernel trembles on the coffee table.
The band has won acclaim with riotous shows, but these are only part of the puzzle: More than blitzing force, what gets them going is improvisation. Both Greep and Simpson learned how to improvise in church bands—Greep in north London, Simpson in the quieter county of Hertfordshire, where his session-musician parents enlisted him as parish drummer when he was 5. During the jam session, there’s a clear confluence in the pair’s expertise: As Simpson leads the band to a climax, alternating between stretches of silence and unruly bursts of squall, Greep, in an orbit of his own, hunches intently over the guitar neck, scarcely looking up at all.
Once things die down, Picton unstraps his bass. “Guys, it’s been 40 minutes,” he says, hitting stop on the recording. The music drifts on, though, and nobody seems to have heard him.”
pitchfork.com
Dear Americans,
You have to vote in *all* elections, not just presidential elections, if you wish to block the rising tide of authoritarian rule. The fascists are organized and they vote. If we don’t match them, we’re done. https://t.co/CwudV1hFXS— Dr. Alex Wild (@Myrmecos) May 2, 2021
Right now hungry for some of the original Chex Mix my sister would make when I was a kid…
re: #5 🌹UOJB!
My mom makes something close to that. The recipe was in a fifties magazine. Main difference is pecans instead of peanuts.
re: #6 plansbandc
My mom makes something close to that. The recipe was in a fifties magazine. Main difference is pecans instead of peanuts.
My sister would use mixed nuts and do the 5 cups of Chex as 2 Wheat, 2 Rice, 1 Corn.
re: #4 jaunte
I agree with him but there aren’t enough Democrats in Lubbock to win anything.
Chex mix was all three -1 wheat 2 rice 2 corn, pretzels and peanuts and - in the fall & winter after we had gathered dried and shucked the black walnuts from the trees at the farm we’d have home grown walnut in it.
The black walnut trees were a cool thing to me growing up. My great grandfather brought a couple of seedlings up from Iowa and was told it was too cold up here in Wisconsin. They’d be killed by the winters. But the main house was on a hill top facing south and those first walnut trees were planted along side the drive up to the house. with the protection of the hill and the warmth of south winds and sun they flourished and our wood is full of trees that the squirrels planted over the past 125 years or so.
I have been mistaken a lot today. So my snarky comment downstairs about the Democratic members of the Postal Service Board of Governors was in error: the 2 incumbent Democratic members, both appointed by Trump and fans of DeJoy, are indeed legitimate Democrats.
re: #1 Charles Johnson
This video is really… something.
Pointless, masturbatory, and completely without any internal logic? Yup. Something.
Most of the time, amateurs make amateurish videos that look flash, but, quite frankly, suck ass.
re: #11 austin_blue
Pointless, masturbatory, and completely without any internal logic? Yup. Something.
Most of the time, amateurs make amateurish videos that look flash, but, quite frankly, suck ass.
I mean, really, just tell me a story.
And, ooh, it’s near the witching hour, CST. My chair will soon turn into vegetation.
I have sadz for Olympia Dukakis’s passing. She was great in Moonlight and Tales
From The City and a tremendous character actress.
Also, the passing of Paul Kellogg, the founder and backbone of the Glimmerglass Festival.
A dear friend of ours is the principal percussionist at the gig.
Goddammit, I have, for the first time, actually killed a thread.
(pulls forelock)
Because you want to see CIA Otter. pic.twitter.com/9ORbkjzjnV
— Danny Deraney (@DannyDeraney) May 2, 2021
We went out tonight for a birthday party at a friend’s house. Everybody was vaccinated. We haven’t seen our friends for 16 months. It was nice to see them all. There was one couple who didn’t attend, Trump voters who refuse to get vaccinated. Sucks to be them.
Breezy northerly winds will be developing tomorrow and will continuing into early next week. This will bring critical fire weather conditions and a Red Flag Warning has been issued for much of the area. Practice fire safety! #CAwx pic.twitter.com/FbSPhDxUBY
— NWS Sacramento (@NWSSacramento) May 1, 2021
It was a record dry month of April for Downtown Sacramento with no precipitation recorded (0.00). This was the driest April since official record keeping began in 1877 for the California Capitol city. #cawx pic.twitter.com/sVipqgzl8w
— NWS Sacramento (@NWSSacramento) May 2, 2021
Hell on earth season has started.
Report from my sis in NSW: cases are so rare and typically travel related that there are no controls and nobody has to wear masks. Schools kids have to get COVID tests if they’re sick. If a case is caught outside of a hotel the contact tracing is so fast and aggressive that everybody in contact with a case is immediately quarantined, stores/locations where the case went are shut down for 3 days, and announcements on social media are made.
They are just approaching 1000 deaths for the entire pandemic. A country of 26m people.
From couple days ago, but Bernie is showing he’s still stuck in white-people mode:
Whatever he thinks, that’s what he’s going to think, now & in perpetuity, because he’s incapable &/or unwilling to learn that anything he’s believed never was or at least no longer is correct. https://t.co/mSECPR0oix
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) April 30, 2021
Excellent point. When people push the economic insecurity bullshit I start from the assumption they really just mean white people, but it’s important to explicitly pull out that implication from what they’re saying https://t.co/aQO86D6YWK
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) April 30, 2021
If being poor makes people racist, why are white people cornering the market on hate crimes? https://t.co/H1rSHH3dms
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) April 30, 2021
All true, & more profound than what he says. But he has a fairly rigid mind. His policies are rooted in a sincere desire to help the non-wealthy. He has sympathy for others. But I’ve never noticed much empathy, & to understand others in that way you’d need a capacity for empathy
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) April 30, 2021
From balloon-juice.com
re: #23 Belafon
From couple days ago, but Bernie is showing he’s still stuck in white-people mode:
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How he doesn’t understand that many who are educated and relatively affluent are MAGAts and QAnon. Where does Bernie place theocrats who make up a large portion of the MAGAt base?
re: #23 Belafon
From couple days ago, but Bernie is showing he’s still stuck in white-people mode:
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“Income equality” is always gonna be an easier sell to white brogressives than “racial equality” or “gender equality.” To sell them simple “solutions” that don’t force them to confront and address problems like white fragility and toxic masculinity. That way they can pat themselves on the back, convinced that by demanding things like higher wages and “free” healthcare, they will be combating all society’s ills and thus are morally superior for it.
re: #25 Targetpractice
“Income equality” is always gonna be an easier sell to white brogressives than “racial equality” or “gender equality.” To sell them simple “solutions” that don’t force them to confront and address problems like white fragility and toxic masculinity. That way they can pat themselves on the back, convinced that by demanding things like higher wages and “free” healthcare, they will be combating all society’s ills and thus are morally superior for it.
Too bad that MAGAts don’t want racial equality, gender equality, or any kind of income support; they don’t want to face America’s true record on race; they want children to be taught the myth and not the reality and they want white supremacy, which they deny exists, to reign supreme. It is Tucker Carlson who guides them. And the world of alternative facts that they find pleasing.
So the Post, the Times, and NBC retracted stories about Giuliani being notified about being a target of a Russian influence operation. Sigh.
I am feeling really down about this. In one sense what’s happening politically in the U.S. reminds me of Scalia’s death in 2016. I recall being ecstatic then that Obama would get to appoint a justice, that for the first time in almost 45 years SCOTUS would be run by justices appointed by Democrats and the future was looking brighter. As we all know, this hope was dashed by McConnell. I keep fearing that, unless the For the People Act is passed, the Biden election will turn out to be a temporary bright spot to be replaced by a Republican resurgence that will immerse us into a bleak future for decades to come.
So my long standing soap box against (alleged) “science fiction” and time travel has been begging for me to stand upon it yet again… and I’ve got two rants early this morning:
The first is The Tomorrow War, the Chris Pratt movie that has been picked up by Amazon to be released 2 July. The teaser trailer just came out a few days ago, and Amazon is really pushing it (via IMDB and elsewhere.)
Apparently there is a debate among the fandom industry as to why the producers decided to sell it to Amazon instead of releasing it to theaters (as originally intended.) Some blame the pandemic (which did delay it), others blame Pratt’s social image (he goes to a large and famous evangelical church and that made some twitter blowback over LGBTQ issues), etc. Other commentators say the producers moved it to Amazon simply because there is not enough buzz.
My suspicion is that it is simply not that good and the producers know it will flop at the theaters so they took the largest amount of money up front.
My more directed criticism, as a wanna-be art critic, is that The Tomorrow War is just another war-lust movie for war-addicted Americans. Americans love to believe that they are the saviors (intentional word choice) of the world, and the method of salvation is warfare.
Anyway, the premise of the story is that aliens (it’s always aliens) attack Earth in 2051, so human time travelers come to 2021 from 2051 to recruit help in fighting the war.
Time travel in the service of glorifying war.
The problem with the premise, as others have pointed out, is if people in 2051 can time travel (back and apparently forward), why recruit soldiers from 2021 to just take them back to 2051 to die, when you could come back to 2021 (or any date) and simply warn the Earth to start preparing?
Well, if that was done then one wouldn’t have ammo-sexual scenes with Chris Pratt shooting off his gun.
The trailer did not attract me to want to watch the show when it comes out. I’m also betting that it will get mixed reviews at best.
My other gut reaction is that this is yet another time-travelers-come-back-to-save-the-future show. We’ve had so many of these now the past few years, mostly on failed TV series.
There is always a problem with time-travel stories. The writers almost to a person can’t seem to handle paradoxes and time loops etc. I’ve seen very few shows which have made serious attempts at tackling these problems.
And this brings up The Orville.
As a show I watched season 1, it was ok but not really my thing. The incel trekkies who lamented ST:D because of its “wokeness” gravitated to The Orville, which I thought ironic given The Orville is more proactively progressive than even ST:D.
Regardless of all of that, since season 1 left me a bit unmoved I didn’t watch season 2, until Hulu recently gave me another freebie month (they send me an offer-I-can’t-refuse about once a year). Having just finished watching the last two episodes of season 2, my time-travel soap box begged for my standing upon it.
Short discussion: The Orville ends season 2 by resolving a time-travel problem they created… but the writers didn’t work through the logic. What they ended up doing (though this is not part of the show but my extrapolation of their events) is putting the cast of The Orville into an infinite loop, though I am sure that when season 3 finally comes around all that will be ignored.
The fundamental problem at which all of these kinds of stories fail: writers don’t want the past to be the past. This was a particularly bad problem in Timeless , but the Orville suffers from it too.
When the writers pull a character from the past and put them with the character in the present, the past is already done. That is, simply the event of pulling a person from the past sets up consequences that have already happened. Now, this is the basis of the Orville season 2 story, wherein changing the past creates a different present. The writer’s problem in the Orville though is that they send the character back into their past again (from which they were pulled), and wipe her memory so she will stick to her original actions (and not the altered actions which are problematic.)
The plot hole here is that the writers don’t address what caused the problem to begin with: the pulling of the character from the past. So the event of pulling her from the past will re-occur, which means the whole story (problematic changes in the course of history) happens again. And then they will send her back again… and then the event of pulling her forward will happen again… and again… and again.
This is the problem of loops in time travel. If one doesn’t want to change the present, and that present includes pulling someone from the past (and this pulling changes the present), then leaving the present alone means the person will be pulled from the past… and so on.
These kind of problems are why time travel should be forbidden for stories. Any writer who wants to write a time travel story has to be especially well disciplined. And most writers (for scripts or short stories) don’t have such discipline.
re: #28 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
These kind of problems are why time travel should be forbidden for stories. Any writer who wants to write a time travel story has to be especially well disciplined. And most writers (for scripts or short stories) don’t have such discipline.
I am growing less and less interested in checking out Orville.
ST Discovery is a bit “woke” but I simply put that down to marketing and not necessarily to social activists spreading any sort of agenda.
And we forget how progressive the original ST was in its day, showing men and women of different races and cultures all working together as equals for the common good.
re: #27 Hecuba’s daughter
I keep fearing that, unless the For the People Act is passed, the Biden election will turn out to be a temporary bright spot to be replaced by a Republican resurgence that will immerse us into a bleak future for decades to come.
Yes, we cannot forget that
a) Trump still got more votes in 2020 than in 2016 and
b) despite a record Democratic voter turnout, the election was still a very close-run thing and the outcome of the electoral process was not 100% certain until the very end.
We are not out of the woods yet.
re: #22 BigPapa
Open travel (no quarantine or isolation requirements) between Australia and New Zealand has resumed.
re: #28 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
There’s ways to avoid a temporal paradox in stories like The Tomorrow War, but you have to be willing to spend more than a short burst of exposition on them. Such as limiting “recruitment” to those persons who history recorded as MIA/KIA. You avoid the biggest issue with the timeline, which is the removal of person(s) whose absence will upset the course of events.
As for The Orville and its season finale, the problem I have with it is the same problem I have with any on-going series whose premise does not revolve around exploring an alternate history: There’s going to eventually be a mashing of the Almighty “Reset Button” and a reversion to the status quo. Since showing a universe where everything is good and wonderful for the characters would lead the viewer to wonder why they’d want to change things back to “normal,” the result is always a “dark” timeline where the drive is to “fix what went wrong” before the end of the episode(s).
re: #34 Dr Lizardo
Deaths peak after infection rate peaks, so the worst for India is going to be the next few weeks.
All the attention now focused on India will have a positive effect, but for many will be too late.
There are so many lessons to be learned from this pandemic, but from the US (Trump) to Brazil (Bolsonaro) to Mexico to now India (especially Modi) the one thing that stands out is that negligent or malicious leaders directly hurt their population.
re: #35 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Deaths peak after infection rate peaks, so the worst for India is going to be the next few weeks.
and remember, the statistics are only the tip of the iceberg in a place where so many illnesses and deaths go unreported.
Define “Advancements”? I can’t think of any at all.
The only “Nutshell” is #FatDonny.— And The Wind Cries: “Ted Cruz will never be Pres.” (@DaveoutofAustin) May 2, 2021
re: #37 Dave In Austin
Message is clear; in a nutshell, “don’t mess up the advancements former President Trump made with North Korea”
Message is clear; Trump is still hoping to leave some sort of “legacy” from his Presidency beyond the Space Force, scandal and insurrection.
I have my wife’s permission to start looking at buying a fat tire electric bike. I’m going up to Grass Valley to check out a rather boring looking hard-tail bike with impressive specs. I’m pretty much limited to a bike in the $2500 range, with about $1000 in add-ons and taxes, and I really would like that to include a second battery (~$500).
re: #38 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Message is clear; in a nutshell, “don’t mess up the advancements former President Trump made with North Korea”
Message is clear; Trump is still hoping to leave some sort of “legacy” from his Presidency beyond the Space Force, scandal and insurrection.
How can you discount his legacy of failure? No other president has failed so bad, ever.
re: #40 Dread Pirate Ron
How can you discount his legacy of failure? No other president has failed so bad, ever.
a positive legacy
re: #39 Dread Pirate Ron
I just figured out what this bike remind me of, WWII Army motorcycles.
re: #42 Dread Pirate Ron
I just figured out what this bike remind me of, WWII Army motorcycles.
was about to say, Nazi motorcyclists from Indiana Jones
re: #34 Dr Lizardo
JFC, this is like something straight-up out of apocalyptic horror film:
I’ve seen print articles about the situation there.
I can’t play this video (requires a YouTube account and I don’t have one). That said, I don’t think I need to see it.
One of the regular non-commentators over at Wonkette had an employee go over to India due to a death in the family; now she’s trapped there because of Modi’s Apocalypse. His company has failed to secure passage for her to return to California.
re: #44 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I’ve seen print articles about the situation there.
I can’t play this video (requires a YouTube account and I don’t have one). That said, I don’t think I need to see it.
One of the regular non-commentators over at Wonkette had an employee go over to India due to a death in the family; now she’s trapped there because of Modi’s Apocalypse. His company has failed to secure passage for her to return to California.
Modi - and the people around him - have really fucked this up and it’s almost certainly going to have global repercussions. I’m sure the actual death toll in India is undoubtedly much higher than the official numbers reflect. Similar to Russia, which recorded 400,000 excess deaths from last April to March of this year - and I’d wager that a great big chunk of those excess deaths was COVID-19.
US man detained after private jet lands in Sicily with guns and drugs (BBC)
Florida Man goes international. He’s in jail and the jet is impounded while the police investigate. He had three firearms, ammunition, and a kilogramme of maryjane.
re: #45 Dr Lizardo
Modi - and the people around him - have really fucked this up and it’s almost certainly going to have global repercussions. I’m sure the actual death toll in India is undoubtedly much higher than the official numbers reflect. Similar to Russia, which recorded 400,000 excess deaths from last April to March of this year - and I’d wager that a great big chunk of those excess deaths was COVID-19.
It seems that around the world conservative governments are doing poorly with this, whether national governments like Brazil, India, and until Trump was ousted the USA, or regional governments like Ontario, Florida, or Michigan.
The bond between the oldest democracy🇺🇸 & the largest one🇮🇳 keeps getting fortified.
Appreciate the USA for extending help in the form of oxygen cylinders, equipment and other medical supplies to fight #COVID19 @PMOIndia @MoHFW_INDIA #Unite2FightCorona pic.twitter.com/UB6i9UhOVc— Dr Harsh Vardhan (@drharshvardhan) April 30, 2021
re: #47 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Yeah, it’s definitely noticeable. I was about to point out that the current Czech government is populist center-left, but then I realized that actually, they’d be considered socially conservative. The most socially conservative party here is the far-left Communist Party (KSČM), followed by the Party of Direct Democracy (SPD) which is far-right.
Pedro Sánchez is Spain’s Socialist Party prime minister. He has dropped out to run in Madrid’s regional election.
The Popular Party (conservatives) have run Madrid for twenty-six years, but are unable to form a government. Rumour says they will join with the far-right Vox party to form a government.
The campaign has included death threats including mailing rifle cartridges to left-of-centre candidates. Vox refuses to condemn the action, and its leader call those claims lies.
Isabel Díaz Ayuso is the leader of the Popular Party in Madrid, and the regional president. She claims the left parties are divided enough she can form a minority government without Vox.
Democracia o fascismo.
4 de mayo.— Pablo Iglesias 🔻 (@PabloIglesias) April 25, 2021
Reminder, Justin Amash is still a race-baiting idiot.
If you like statism, you’re going to love racially motivated nanny statism.
End the drug war. https://t.co/WI9UGdlxFt— Justin Amash (@justinamash) April 29, 2021
She is running for city council.
Unblock us and answer @dcrponline, you cowards.
— Seeing Red Nebraska (@SeeingRedNE) April 30, 2021
re: #37 Dave In Austin
Sean Hannity and Greg Jarrett are both lying. South Korean President Moon criticised Donald Trump over his visit. Trump released a statement criticising President Moon.
All conservatives lie.
Fauci Recommends Lockdown for India (Voice of America)
India set a record Saturday, for the first time surpassing 400,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.
The new infections count for the previous 24-hour period was a record 401,993 cases, according to India’s health ministry. Public health officials believe the actual count may be at least five times higher.
“This virus has shown us that if left to its own devices, it will explode in society,” top U.S. infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci said in an interview with Indian Express newspaper. “If you don’t respect its ability to cause serious damage, you are going to get into trouble.”
Fauci recommended a lockdown for India.
“Literally, lock down so that you wind up having less spread. No one likes to lock down the country. … But if you do it just for a few weeks, you could have a significant impact on the dynamics of the outbreak.”
Overall, India has 19,164,969 coronavirus infections and 211,853 deaths, the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center said Saturday. The U.S. has the most cases in the world, with more than 32 million, according to Johns Hopkins. There are more than 151 million global infections.
In New Delhi, 12 patients died Saturday when their hospital ran out of oxygen for 80 minutes.
(more)
Africa’s CDC is concerned about the outbreak in India, both from vaccine export controls imposed by Narenda Modi, and the greater difficulty of distributing vaccines in many of Africa’s countries.
One unexpected donor to the WHO COVAX scheme is the Democratic Republic of Congo. They are returning 1.3 million doses so they can be distributed in other countries, as the DRC is unable to distribute them.
Africa has roughly the same population as India.
From April 30, I missed this dragging.
“How about a ‘National Honesty Day’ tweet? That’ll make us look good, right?”
“Brilliant! There definitely aren’t countless examples of blatant, embarrassing dishonesty by the police that will make us look like the least self-aware people in the nation.”
“Omg can you imagine?”— Jay Schweikert (@jay_schweikert) April 30, 2021
re: #28 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
So my long standing soap box against (alleged) “science fiction” and time travel has been begging for me to stand upon it yet again… and I’ve got two rants early this morning:
…
These kind of problems are why time travel should be forbidden for stories. Any writer who wants to write a time travel story has to be especially well disciplined. And most writers (for scripts or short stories) don’t have such discipline.
ianasfttl (i am not a science fiction time travel lawyer) or expert in the genre.
i’ve always seen two major problems with the concept
often the person/people traveling though time presumably still age as if they werent traveling - based on where and when they came from originally.
in some stories like 11/22/63 the time travel does have physical effects.
my little brain cant wrap itself around the concept of time being a representation of a sequence of events becoming something different depending on whose perspective is looking at it.
as a god-like outside observer as it’s occurring, or looking back from the ubiquitous deathbed scene as these stories are sometimes told, your life timeline is always linear. experiences happened in sequence to you, even as you bounced around the timeline of everyone else. your body had an inherent age limit and it progresses regardless of where and when you are (presumably - i mean unless you want to change that rule too).
second, it seems to be always one person or group bouncing around a single timeline that contain everyone else with neat entry and exit points of time/space/place. even if one is chasing another through time - ie traveling separately but arriving at the same point and place in time, using the same portal or gate or closet door or whatever. a sort of ‘everything else is exactly the same except this one thing’ makes it neat and simple as a concept to explain.
if you started adding multiple travelers from multiple sources/places/gates and chronologies, imo the concept would become untenable. and that’s before exploring the multiplicity of effects each one wants to do to the past to change or correct the outcome in the future they’re after.
i guess if you go into the every one of us has “infinite time lines multiplied by infinite time line travelers so given infinity to the infinity power nothing is impossible” it could work.
it makes my head hurt.
like you though, i’m more than willing to suspend disbelief and still like a story that is more or less reasonably, inherently explainable
He mentored decades of Army Rangers. At 94, he’ll receive the Medal of Honor. Stars & Stripes
WASHINGTON — Shivering in freezing temperatures, about 50 U.S. soldiers braced for the worst. Hundreds of Chinese soldiers were about to launch a series of bloody attacks on the hill the Americans had just taken under fire, and no reinforcements were within a mile.
The clash that then-1st Lt. Ralph Puckett and his soldiers experienced that night on “Hill 205” came at the outset of the Battle of the Chongchon River, a pivotal moment in which senior U.S. commanders were surprised by China’s full-scale entry into the Korean War.
Thousands of U.S. soldiers died in following days as they withdrew hundreds of miles back into South Korea in what the Army now describes as the longest retreat in U.S. military history.
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CNN’s Jim Acosta Calls Fox News ‘The Bulls**t Factory’ (Forbes)
CNN anchor Jim Acosta on Saturday described Fox News as a “bulls**t factory” in a segment on “another mind-boggling week in disinformation.” Acosta aired clips of Fox News hosts telling viewers that President Biden intended to force Americans to cut back on—or give up—eating meat. “Say goodbye to your burgers if you want to sign up for the Biden climate agenda,” said Fox News anchor John Roberts.
Noting that the story had been debunked—and that Fox News has issued a correction—Acosta said “that didn’t matter to some on the far-right, the same bad-faith actors who are always peddling the bogus red meat.”
Turning to another bogus story—that migrant children at the U.S.-Mexico border were being given copies of a children’s book written by Vice President Kamala Harris as part of their welcome kits—Acosta said even thought it was baseless “the damage was done, pumped out over the airwaves by the bulls**t factory, Fox News.”
“Remember, lies—big lies—can have terrible consequences,” Acosta said. “They travel at the speed of light and spread so much darkness.”
“The lies these days are moving at the speed of light while spreading so much darkness. Take, for example, the uproar over this New York Post story that claimed that copies of a children’s book written by Vice President Kamala Harris were being given to migrant kids in their welcome kits. That tale from the border didn’t just border on B.S., this was USDA, grade A bullshit. And the reporter who wrote this story resigned, claiming she was forced to make it up, but the damage was done, pumped out over the airwaves at the bullshit factory known as Fox News.”
— Jim Acosta, on CNN.
Sen. Mitt Romney was lustily booed and called a traitor by the more than 2,100 Republican delegates for the party’s state convention, the Salt Lake Tribune reports.The cacophony of disapproval only ended after outgoing party chair Derek Brown scolded delegates to “show respect” for Romney.
Romney replied: “You can boo all you like. I’ve been a Republican all of my life. My dad was the governor of Michigan and I was the Republican nominee for president in 2012.”
the party romney is talking about is gone.
the current Rs have left romney and his type behind
Thread, three tweets.
I wish people talking about FARA would stop calling it a “lobbying” statute. It’s not just lobbying (the Lobbying Disclosure Act addresses lobbying specifically). FARA is about foreign influence on public opinion, laws, and policy. It was created in 1938 to combat Nazi propaganda
— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) May 1, 2021
re: #61 Dangerman
Romney replied: “You can boo all you like. I’ve been a Republican all of my life. My dad was the governor of Michigan and I was the Republican nominee for president in 2012.”
the party romney is talking about is gone.
the current Rs have left romney and his type behind
to add
In other words, 47% of Utah Republican delegates voted to censure their 2012 presidential nominee for voting to convict a man who incited an insurrection against America. What a party!
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) May 2, 2021
The stock market is not meant for little people, part seven thousand.
I wrote a long story about Robinhood, the app’s design and its business model, and about the tragic suicide of a young trader who thought he’d lost $730K on the app. I hope you’ll read it. /1 https://t.co/Y0SkMlOqQQ
— Hannah Levintova (@H_Lev) April 29, 2021
(thread, ten tweets, how giant Wall Street traders leverage information inequity to ensure little traders like those on Robinhood or retirement nest eggs lose money)
Areal photograph of Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, showing the covidiots who showed up for a scrimmage of the college Huskers football team.
“I think it’s fantastic that we finally get in there and actually cheer them on because I think this year is Scott Frost’s turnaround season.”
Get more from fans at the #Huskers spring game from @Abby_Barmore: https://t.co/C247G1bqxD— Omaha World-Herald (@OWHnews) May 2, 2021
(with video, 0:54)
NEW YORK (WCBS) - A Sikh immigrant from India who was hit in the head with a hammer while on his way to work believes the suspect may have targeted him because of his skin color and religious attire. New York community leaders are calling on police to investigate the attack as a hate crime.
Surveillance video taken Monday shows 32-year-old Sumit Ahluwalia enter the lobby of the Brooklyn hotel where he works after being confronted by an unknown man outside. The man then appears to hit Ahluwalia in the head with a hammer before running away.
“He pulled out the hammer from his bucket and bang on my head with such intensity,” Ahluwalia said.
The victim says right before the attack, the suspect told him he didn’t like him because of the color of his skin and also spit in his face three times.
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Sikh man struck in head with hammer on way to work in NYC (NBC Scottsbluff)
re: #68 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
My cousin that lives in Atlanta is married to an awesome man who is also Sikh. I worry about their family all the time. He’s such a genuinely nice dude, a great dad and really smart. With all the shootings on the highways here, it’s scary as hell.
At my son’s former high school (Robert E. Lee in Jacksonville, Fla.), where they are going through hearings regarding a name change, many alumni have been coming out in support of retaining the traitor general’s name for the school.
In this 0:26 video clip, a man defends the name by citing slavery in the Bible and noting Jesus never came out against that.
re: #71 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Yeah, Jesus was all about the enslavement, rape and beatings slaves endured. Not to mention lynchings and torture. I’m sure all that nonsense about caring for your fellow humans and loving thy neighbor was just cover for adoring slavery.
Nononoonnononononnononono……..
Basically, Florida is the Republicans’ Argentina. https://t.co/QAoWtuv5nH
— The Rude Pundit (@rudepundit) May 1, 2021
Good Morning Lizardia!
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re: #72 A Mom Anon
Yeah, Jesus was all about the enslavement, rape and beatings slaves endured. Not to mention lynchings and torture. I’m sure all that nonsense about caring for your fellow humans and loving thy neighbor was just cover for adoring slavery.
Every Confederate state used the Bible in its justifications of slavery when seceding from the Union.
Dragging the Bible into a civic meeting about a school name shouldn’t really happen, but the man is correct. Jesus did tell slaves to obey their masters, rather than say “slavery is bad, yo. Quit it.”
The idea that the racism and bigotry of modern evangelicals is somehow, well, modern, is ahistorical. The Bible was used by all of Europe’s empires to justify slavery.
re: #71 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
At my son’s former high school (Robert E. Lee in Jacksonville, Fla.), where they are going through hearings regarding a name change, many alumni have been coming out in support of retaining the traitor general’s name for the school.
In this 0:26 video clip, a man defends the name by citing slavery in the Bible and noting Jesus never came out against that.
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To be fair, his time was cut short.
He didnt have a chance to address everything directly.
Otoh love thy neighbor as thyself does pretty well cover it
re: #76 Dangerman
To be fair, his time was cut short.
He didnt have a chance to address everything directly.Otoh love thy neighbor as thyself does pretty well cover it
Thy neighbour holds slaves too. Slaves were property, not neighbours.
re: #76 Dangerman
Otoh love thy neighbor as thyself does pretty well cover it
I see nothing in American or Christian values that is at all consistent with the form of slavery that was practiced in the American South.
Robert E. Lee was clearly pro-slavery.
I admire him as a general and a gentleman, but do not find it proper to honor his cause by using his name for a public school or any other facility. I could say the same thing about Erwin Rommel. Nobody would think of naming a school after him.
Someone at Science News deserves a raise pic.twitter.com/i4q4c48rf2
— Maggie Downs (@downsanddirty) April 30, 2021
re: #74 The Pie Overlord!
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re: #78 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I see nothing in American or Christian values that is at all consistent with the form of slavery that was practiced in the American South.
Robert E. Lee was clearly pro-slavery.
I admire him as a general and a gentleman, but do not find it proper to honor his cause by using his name for a public school or any other facility. I could say the same thing about Erwin Rommel. Nobody would think of naming a school after him.
Slavery was quintessential values of the USA. It was enshrined in the Constitution.
The Old Testament contains rules on who you can enslave, for how long, when you can beat them, how to trick a man into becoming your slave forever, his children are also your property, &c. The New Testament does not cancel any of that; Jesus did not come to abolish the Law, but to fulfill it.
My son has been keeping me abreast of the developments in this, as the renaming question has inflamed many of the alumni, and most are dragging either heritage or religious arguments into the hearings on why the name of a traitor should remain on a public high school.
re: #77 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Thy neighbour holds slaves too. Slaves were property, not neighbours.
So jesus, son of god and all creation was cool with people and sub-people?
Say it aint so
re: #81 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Slavery was quintessential values of the USA. It was enshrined in the Constitution.
I know that you are being rhetorical or paraphrasing some people’s thoughts/positions.
The point is that that slavery was but no longer is part of the USA and its values. And that is an ongoing aspect of the “woke/cancel/PC” discussion: just because something was accepted back then does not make it acceptable now.
Worldwide, the number of new coronavirus cases has more than doubled in two months.
👉 India now accounts for more than 40 percent of the world’s new cases.
👉 Six countries in South America rank among the top 20 for Covid deaths per capita. https://t.co/CgOqD1B0ze— The New York Times (@nytimes) May 1, 2021
Sounds like a previous president here:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Covid-19 task force didn’t meet for months. His health minister assured the public in March that India had reached the pandemic’s “endgame.”
Now, a second wave has made India the worst-hit country in the world. https://t.co/brIMBXZAwh— The New York Times (@nytimes) May 1, 2021
It’s so weird how our COVID response went from a global disgrace to the envy of nations in late January, I wonder what changed.
— Tentin Quarantino (@agraybee) April 30, 2021
Russia recorded almost 30,000 excess deaths during February, the country’s statistics agency announced Friday—a figure which takes Russia’s total excess fatality count since the start of the coronavirus pandemic above 422,000.https://t.co/1SkR9DSjHX
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) May 1, 2021
Just spoke to maybe the top ICU doc in Tampa Bay about which patients are still dying (50-70 a day) in FL and he said “it’s mostly 50 year olds who are not vaccinated.”
“People who are vaccinated don’t die.”
Direct quote.— Evan Axelbank Fox13 (@EvanAxelbank) April 30, 2021
Colorado sees rapid spread of #coronavirus among middle and high school students. Those under the age of 19 made up more than a quarter of all cases in the state last week https://t.co/w5tvztXV39
— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) May 1, 2021
“Edison or New Jersey shouldn’t become another India.” A friend in New Jersey shared this alarmist post that is making the rounds, telling people to avoid Indians so as to avoid the Covid-19 variant. She is extremely worried for the safety of the community. pic.twitter.com/wOe7QHYYef
— Arun Venugopal (@arunNYC) May 1, 2021
re: #83 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I know that you are being rhetorical or paraphrasing some people’s thoughts/positions.
The point is that that slavery was but no longer is part of the USA and its values. And that is an ongoing aspect of the “woke/cancel/PC” discussion: just because something was accepted back then does not make it acceptable now.
I’m not being rhetorical, though I am paraphrasing some positions.
As for not acceptable now, there is a large portion of the country which never gave up on the idea of slavery not being acceptable. Sharecropping was just a legal way around the prohibition of slavery. Company stores worked the same way. In a sense, health insurance tied to employment is as well.
Moreover, versions of sharecropping are returning in the modern day to the USA.
re: #84 Belafon
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This is the equivalent of gwb’s status in the world pre and post trump
It’s so weird how our COVID response went from a global disgrace to the envy of nations in late January, I wonder what changed.
— Tentin Quarantino (@agraybee) April 30, 2021
re: #87 Belafon
The grammar is pretty bad in that post.
SHOT LINE POETRY
04 pic.twitter.com/38iFby1NFG— Tomthunkit™ (@TomthunkitsMind) May 2, 2021
I’m going to head off to bed. It’s been real. Real what remains to be seen. /s
re: #91 The Pie Overlord!
When I got my shot on Friday (at one or the FEMA/National Guard sites which are all closing in a couple of weeks), there were only three cars in front of me. The first shot I ended up in line for over an hour. I really hope that people got their second shot at a local pharmacy, store or doctors office. This is Georgia though, so I am not hopeful. Sigh.
re: #88 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I’m not being rhetorical, though I am paraphrasing some positions.
As for not acceptable now, there is a large portion of the country which never gave up on the idea of slavery not being acceptable…
That is true but we fought a war to abolish it, amended the Constitution to outlaw it and passed a Civil Rights Act and a Voting Rights Act to rectify some of the negative aspects of its ongoing legacy.
re: #77 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Thy neighbour holds slaves too. Slaves were property, not neighbours.
I’m always fascinated by how far you will take yourself in these discussions. It reminds me of a time when I argued with my parents over the police overreacting to black teens at a pool. My mom was so desperate to defend her position that the cops were correct in their reaction that she hypothesized that the kids could have thrown shivs around the area in advance that the police needed to worry about.
Yes, religion has been used to justify slavery. But I see atheists (I am one) justify racism and sexism because “science.” Of the atheists I know locally, most of them voted for Trump, and at least one of them thinks the virus is no big deal and he doesn’t need the vaccine. So it’s not the religion or lack thereof that’s the issue.
So it’s about time to stop attacking the religion, especially since many of those here observe it and other religions that had similar practices thousands of years ago. It’s more than ok to point out the flaws in some of the parts of them, just like it’s valid to criticize the older parts of our constitution that allowed slavery and prevented women from voting.
re: #40 Dread Pirate Ron
How can you discount his legacy of failure? No other president has failed so bad, ever.
As much as Trump was horrible, I will grant him that he was the first President in decades not to get us involved in a new war. I think that largely because of that, GWB was overall far worse than Trump.
re: #66 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Areal photograph of Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, showing the covidiots who showed up for a scrimmage of the college Huskers football team.
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I would be completely comfortable there. You are outside. It’s warm. Air is constantly circulating. I’d be masked because I’d be surrounded by screaming morons, but I’d be comfortable. I’d be a little nervous in the bathrooms, but again, I’d be masked up so not really worried.
re: #51 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Reminder, Justin Amash is still a race-baiting idiot.
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He’s not wrong though. I hate nicotine/cigarettes/cigars, and I think that they should be banned in public places and places of business. But you should be able to smoke at home if you want. People should be allowed to self destruct if they so chose.
re: #96 JC1
As much as Trump was horrible, I will grant him that he was the first President in decades not to get us involved in a new war. I think that largely because of that, GWB was overall far worse than Trump.
Where did something pop up that he could have gotten us involved in? He may not have gotten us involved, but he quadrupled our use of drones, authorized attacking targets no matter the civilian cost and hid the counts from the public, dropped the MOAB in Afghanistan for no reason, removed our support for the Kurds, and stopped training with South Korea.
re: #99 So Cal Greek Hippie
And a very happy Easter to you too.
re: #98 JC1
He’s not wrong though. I hate nicotine/cigarettes/cigars, and I think that they should be banned in public places and places of business. But you should be able to smoke at home if you want. People should be allowed to self destruct if they so chose.
As long as no one else has to pay for your lung cancer.
re: #74 The Pie Overlord!
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re: #74 The Pie Overlord!
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re: #102 Belafon
As long as no one else has to pay for your lung cancer.
By that logic we should go back to the prohibition and ban alcohol, since alcohol is the drug responsible for more deaths than all other drugs combined, and since it gives cigarettes a run for the title of cancer causing champ. How well did those prohibition times work out?
re: #101 PhillyPretzel
re: #99 So Cal Greek Hippie
And a very happy Easter to you too.
Sentiments I will second!
But a question: why is Greek Easter (this year, anyway) celebrated a full four weeks after “Western” Easter?
I know the Greek (and other Orthodox) Churches follow a different calendar for liturgical purposes, but an entire month’s difference seems odd.
re: #96 JC1
As much as Trump was horrible, I will grant him that he was the first President in decades not to get us involved in a new war. I think that largely because of that, GWB was overall far worse than Trump.
Although the main reason is that he knew it would too damn much work to be a wartime President.
re: #94 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
That is true but we fought a war to abolish it, amended the Constitution to [ almost ]outlaw it
“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”
My emphasis.
re: #108 Jay C
Sentiments I will second!
But a question: why is Greek Easter (this year, anyway) celebrated a full four weeks after “Western” Easter?
I know the Greek (and other Orthodox) Churches follow a different calendar for liturgical purposes, but an entire month’s difference seems odd.
I assume it has to do with the way it is calculated involving the Sunday following the first Full moon after the Spring Solstice. Non-Orthodox Easter came relatively early this year.
re: #100 Belafon
Where did something pop up that he could have gotten us involved in? He may not have gotten us involved, but he quadrupled our use of drones, authorized attacking targets no matter the civilian cost and hid the counts from the public, dropped the MOAB in Afghanistan for no reason, removed our support for the Kurds, and stopped training with South Korea.
He didn’t surge troops anywhere. He didn’t invade a country for a made up BS reason. He certainly could have stepped up the number of troops in Syria and tried to start shit with Iran. GWB’s Iraq adventure cost trillions of dollars, thousands of US and probably 1M+ Iraqi lives, made us less safe, distracted from the real terrorism fight in Afghanistan, etc. It’s hard to imagine a bigger/longer f*ck up. We took an unfriendly secular dictatorship and turned it into a theocracy aligned with regional adversaries.
re: #112 JC1
We took an unfriendly secular dictatorship and turned it into a theocracy aligned with regional adversaries.
We did that with Iraq and Libya. There was no Al-Qaida in Iraq until they moved in to take advantage of the power vacuum we created.
re: #109 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Although the main reason is that he knew it would too damn much work to be a wartime President.
Oh for sure. Trump liked the idea of being president, but not any of the actual work that goes into it. Reality TV at its best/worst. Still, give credit where credit is due.
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re: #107 JC1
By that logic we should go back to the prohibition and ban alcohol, since alcohol is the drug responsible for more deaths than all other drugs combined, and since it gives cigarettes a run for the title of cancer causing champ. How well did those prohibition times work out?
By my logic, it would by like the government banning 151 or the assault rifle.
re: #113 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
We did that with Iraq and Libya. There was no Al-Qaida in Iraq until they moved in to take advantage of the power vacuum we created.
Yep. IMHO, Obama’s biggest foreign policy blunder was regime change in Libya. HRC was the strongest supporter of that policy and took a glib victory lap when Gaddafi was executed by a mob. Biden was reportedly against getting involved but lost the argument. Gaddafi was a dick, but he was coming in from the cold. He gave up his WMDs and his security services were cooperating with the CIA in the war against terror.
re: #95 Belafon
You said it better than I did.
I’ve mentioned before that I am estranged from my family over religion and the politics that go with it. I was a dumb kid, 10th grade, when I got busted at school for selling drugs. That is STILL being held against me. I turned 61 today. That’s also when the hard push to make me a “real” Christian began. When I rebelled against that, because one of the boys in my stupid rapture ready Bible study tried to rape me and I fought him off, it was my fault, not his. No one believed me when I told them anyway. 18 months later I came home from school on a Friday and most of my stuff was thrown into the driveway because I hadn’t met all their mostly unspoken requirements . I was barely 17. I remained homeless for almost two years and somehow managed to graduate high school.
Over the years I tried and tried to connect and try to heal the rift. And every fucking time I got tossed aside for being offensive to their religion. By having books they didn’t like. Because I fucking curse too much. Because I wouldn’t subject my son to being forced to sit still and behave during services and Sunday school. For just not being Jesus-y enough. They have a grandson they barely know. They can’t tell you his birthday.The final straw was choosing to spend all their holidays with a cousin and her husband, because something. While ignoring us, no gifts, no nothing, even though we always sent or hand delivered something every year, up until two years ago and during prior estrangements, one lasting almost a decade. So yeah I am no fan of organized religion, it took dysfunction that was already there and made it a lot worse than it already was.
BUT, I also don’t feel like this shit is something every Christian is responsible for, nor do I feel like they’re supporting an awful and destructive belief system. Unless of course they condone the hateful mess that some people have made their religion into. The basic teachings of Jesus point to kindness, empathy, and working to make the world better. It was also written before the world had science, medicine and halfway decent education based on facts and established methods that work. So of course some of the old ways of thinking were in writing. That doesn’t erase that Jesus didn’t want money grubbing assholes running churches, didn’t want us killing each other for sport and all the other shit that hypocrites ignore. I believe that if you don’t operate from a place of kindness and empathy, you need to keep Jesus’ name out of your mouth.
re: #108 Jay C
First Sunday after the first Full Moon after Vernal Equinox
Formula variance involves completion of Passover vs Passover in progress.
Usually Orthodox Easter is 1 week later but sometimes a complete moon cycle passes like this time
re: #119 So Cal Greek Hippie
First Sunday after the first Full Moon after Vernal Equinox
Formula variance involves completion of Passover vs Passover in progress.
Usually Orthodox Easter is 1 week later but sometimes a complete moon cycle passes like this time
Soo the Moon Referee ruled Incomplete Passover?
Good morning
I bet everything smells like Coca Cola now…
— Best Videos 🎬🍿 (@30SECVlDEOS) May 2, 2021
re: #120 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
All I know is I had a childhood of discounted Easter candy 😎
re: #122 So Cal Greek Hippie
All I know is I had a childhood of discounted Easter candy 😎
I was in Moscow in January of 1993 and it was full of Christmas candy imported from Germany…
When I’m joining a call at work, I usually announce myself with a “Howdy!” After seeing this yesterday at Mark Driscoll’s Circus of “Where’s Jesus?” I don’t think I’m ever going to be able to say “Howdy!” again. @wartwatch @watchkeep @ThouArtTheMan @wthrockmorton pic.twitter.com/jq7QlLSKdk
— Dee *Professional Cat Herder* Holmes (@mmmirele) May 2, 2021
Seriously, I was incredibly creeped out.
re: #114 JC1
Oh for sure. Trump liked the idea of being president, but not any of the actual work that goes into it. Reality TV at its best/worst. Still, give credit where credit is due.
I remember some reporting that when Trump asked a prospective VP take the job he told the prospect that he would run the country while Trump did all the ceremonial stuff. I’m wanting to say it was John Kasich.
re: #124 mmmirele
Seriously, I was incredibly creeped out.
I remember all those “Honk if you love Jesus” that were popular in the late 70’s. Somebody brought a lot of laughs by bringing out his “Hon if you’re Jesus” bumper stickers, which elicited the same response from the enthusiastically clueless…
re: #121 nines09
That is an experiment that one should do in the kitchen sink.
re: #120 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Soo the Moon Referee ruled Incomplete Passover?
That’s lunacy!
re: #116 Belafon
By my logic, it would by like the government banning 151 or the assault rifle.
Let’s also ban all fried food, since obesity kills. I’m just opposed in general to governments trying to legislate private behavior of adults in their homes.
re: #128 Jay C
Original Joke went over my head until just now.
That’s funny, and a testament to caffeinated life that it took a full cup of morning Java for me to get it
re: #129 JC1
Let’s also ban all fried food, since obesity kills. I’m just opposed in general to governments trying to legislate private behavior of adults in their homes.
My company charges an extra $5000 per year on insurance for those who smoke. They pay for smoking cessation programs.
If if we’re up to me, short of banning, I would require that cigarettes taste like mud.
I changed my mind. This combat-ready Suzuki Omni Battle Van is my World War Z vehicle pic.twitter.com/jUglvxbWnh
— Scott Kerr (@scott_kerr) May 2, 2021
re: #108 Jay C
Sentiments I will second!
But a question: why is Greek Easter (this year, anyway) celebrated a full four weeks after “Western” Easter?
I know the Greek (and other Orthodox) Churches follow a different calendar for liturgical purposes, but an entire month’s difference seems odd.
But a question: why is Western Easter (this year, anyway) celebrated a full four weeks before greek Easter?
Its all perspective
re: #57 Dangerman
ianasfttl (i am not a science fiction time travel lawyer) or expert in the genre.
i’ve always seen two major problems with the concept……
as a god-like outside observer as it’s occurring, or looking back from the ubiquitous deathbed scene as these stories are sometimes told, your life timeline is always linear. experiences happened in sequence to you, even as you bounced around the timeline of everyone else. your body had an inherent age limit and it progresses regardless of where and when you are (presumably - i mean unless you want to change that rule too).second, it seems to be always one person or group bouncing around a single timeline that contain everyone else with neat entry and exit points of time/space/place. even if one is chasing another through time - ie traveling separately but arriving at the same point and place in time, using the same portal or gate or closet door or whatever. a sort of ‘everything else is exactly the same except this one thing’ makes it neat and simple as a concept to explain.
if you started adding multiple travelers from multiple sources/places/gates and chronologies, imo the concept would become untenable. and that’s before exploring the multiplicity of effects each one wants to do to the past to change or correct the outcome in the future they’re after.
i guess if you go into the every one of us has “infinite time lines multiplied by infinite time line travelers so given infinity to the infinity power nothing is impossible” it could work.
it makes my head hurt.
like you though, i’m more than willing to suspend disbelief and still like a story that is more or less reasonably, inherently explainable
Molly Brown’s “Women on the Brink of a Cataclysm” may entertain you. Spoilers below:
The premise is that a character has invented a time machine and asks a friend to test it out; if you go forward, then everything continues in the same timeline. However, as is soon revealed, if you travel to the past even by a millisecond, you enter a different timeline and no apparent way to find your original timeline.
re: #124 mmmirele
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re: #127 PhillyPretzel
That is an experiment that one should do in the kitchen sink.
Either a dare or an experiment that went horribly wrong?
re: #132 jaunte
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Seems a little top heavy to me, but otherwise it looks like something from Dawn of the Dead, which was referenced in the Marshalls vs. The Machines.
They did a segment on “cancel culture” on CBS Sunday Morning, and a poll showed that around 2/3 of Americans believe that they will be the target of it in some way.
re: #138 PhillyPretzel
Mento mint. In soda it’s a fountain. Try it. Faygo Fountain Of Foam.
re: #140 nines09
Thanks. I will stick with my Altoids.
re: #124 mmmirele
Trump forever ruined thumbs up for me.
re: #142 nines09
Same here. I have had several people give me the thumbs up and now I respond, “Please do not do that I find it offensive.”
re: #139 Belafon
They did a segment on “cancel culture” on CBS Sunday Morning, and a poll showed that around 2/3 of Americans believe that they will be the target of it in some way.
2/3rds of Americans believe they will be called out for offensive or inappropriate statements?
re: #142 nines09
Trump forever ruined thumbs up for me.
Good thing enough voters gave him a thumbs down.
re: #65 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The stock market is not meant for little people, part seven thousand.
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Except, of course, those of us who are doing well enough from our investments (there are several of us on this very site).
This thread about the Robinhood app, not about the great eebil wallstreet conspiracy to steal all your money.
re: #146 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
I wish I understood all this better. We have zero retirement after the crash in 2008 and would like to invest in something to make money towards that, but I also can’t afford to lose a lot. I can run a household and handle those finances, but anything beyond that is over my head.
re: #75 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
No. Jesus did not. Someone writing in Paul’s name did about a century after Paul’s death.
re: #144 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
2/3rds of Americans believe they will be called out for offensive or inappropriate statements?
We’re getting a lot of stories about people being fired for their behavior. The problem is going to be is that that is all people are going to have to judge the situation. They don’t see that 99% of all interactions every day result in people being nice to each other and nothing bad happens.
re: #150 Belafon
We’re getting a lot of stories about people being fired for their behavior. The problem is going to be is that that is all people are going to have to judge the situation. They don’t see that 99% of all interactions every day result in people being nice to each other and nothing bad happens.
The fact that the Internet has greatly blurred the distinction between the public and private sphere has also made things a lot trickier. There are lots of things I say in private to people who know me and understand my sometimes wry, dry and ironic sense of humor that I would simply not consider posting on social media.
re: #139 Belafon
They did a segment on “cancel culture” on CBS Sunday Morning, and a poll showed that around 2/3 of Americans believe that they will be the target of it in some way.
Justifies why I stopped watching any “news” from the Conservative Bull Shit Network.
“Looking back, do you have any regrets about your actions, and any concern that they contributed to misinformation about the election?” https://t.co/PMqnJskwZY
— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) May 2, 2021
They’re not going to stop lying.
Aside from the obvious legal processes still playing out, you can’t say, “We’re just so ready to move on” when the guy who is inexplicably still calling the shots is talking at length about overturning the election at the Mar-a-Lago dinner show every evening. https://t.co/STst3sAP24
— Schooley (@Rschooley) May 2, 2021
re: #154 jaunte
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re: #153 jaunte
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They’re not going to stop lying.
And our Corporate Controlled Conservative Press will continue to let the QAnon Party lie any lie they desire.
Why?
Because the CCCP is a key component in the Republican 24/7 Bullshit Brainwashing Machine!
re: #81 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Slavery was quintessential values of the USA. It was enshrined in the Constitution.
Bullshit. The only mention of slavery in the Constitution as ratified is the ban on importing humans after Jan. 1808.
(They also made the compromise of allowing slave states to partially count their slaves to bulk up their population).
re: #87 Belafon
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re: #152 🌹UOJB!
Justifies why I stopped watching any “news” from the Conservative Bull Shit Network.
A rather intellectual conservative friend of our published a study on attitudes toward Political Correctness. I even read through it and they offered no objective definition of “political correctness” beyond whatever that particular interviewer found to be “politically correct”.
The title page showed a group of Antifa protesters in case anybody had any question about who they were appealing to.
Same goes for “woke” or “Cancel Culture”.
Nobody wants to admit that Confederate monuments themselves represent Cancel Culture: trying to cancel slavery, sedition and armed uprising.
re: #100 Belafon
Where did something pop up that he could have gotten us involved in? He may not have gotten us involved, but he quadrupled our use of drones, authorized attacking targets no matter the civilian cost and hid the counts from the public, dropped the MOAB in Afghanistan for no reason, removed our support for the Kurds, and stopped training with South Korea.
Also too, what new war did Obama involve us in?
re: #102 Belafon
As long as no one else has to pay for your lung cancer.
That is a slippery slope. Most of us have a few unhealthy habits — should our claims not be allowed because we did something that might be blamed in part for our illness?
Oh today is National Lemonade Day, founded by a Texas (Where else?) Libertarian to teach children about the “glory of the Free Market”…
re: #161 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
That is a slippery slope. Most of us have a few unhealthy habits — should our claims not be allowed because we did something that might be blamed in part for our illness?
That’s what “sin taxes” are supposed to help cover.
re: #124 mmmirele
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Attack of the Giant Pool Noodles. With smileys.
re: #162 🌹UOJB!
Oh today is National Lemonade Day, founded by a Texas (Where else?) Libertarian to teach children about the “glory of the Free Market”…
A Surprisingly Disgusting History of Lemonade Stands
Kids’ lemonade stands have long been a symbol of adolescent capitalism. And though contracting a paralyzing viral infection seems a heavy price to pay for patronizing one, as it turns out, these refreshment pop-ups have a long and sordid history. For many, they’ve been a downright dirty business.
re: #148 A Mom Anon
I wish I understood all this better. We have zero retirement after the crash in 2008 and would like to invest in something to make money towards that, but I also can’t afford to lose a lot. I can run a household and handle those finances, but anything beyond that is over my head.
People recommend index funds for those who don’t know much about investing and don’t want to. There are also squeaky-clean bond funds (funds that invest in squeaky-clean bonds) that are pretty safe — as the stock market is not, at least in the short run. It’s overall record is positive, but you can get caught by a downturn at the wrong moment.
ETA: Oh, and happy birthday!
re: #169 wrenchwench
Yes, thanks. I am officially an old lady now, lol.
Lots of people have been damaged by toxic religion. I just think it’s a bad point to judge people over. It’s more about what you do than what you believe. I don’t care if you worship coconuts or chocolate cake, as long as you’re a good hearted human. If religion helps that, good deal.
re: #171 A Mom Anon
Yes, thanks. I am officially an old lady now, lol.
Lots of people have been damaged by toxic religion. I just think it’s a bad point to judge people over. It’s more about what you do than what you believe. I don’t care if you worship coconuts or chocolate cake, as long as you’re a good hearted human. If religion helps that, good deal.
The ‘kids’ I work with at the Starbucks kiosk have officially deemed me a ‘cute little old lady’. It is my first experience with ‘cute’.
Chocolate does it for me. Recently, the purveyors of ‘chai’ have been making inroads.
re: #172 wrenchwench
As someone who has been called cute all my life I am not happy to hear it. As someone who is approaching 60 I tell people I am “offended” by it. I accept it but I am not happy about it.
re: #171 A Mom Anon
Missed that today was your birthday. So Happy Birthday.
re: #171 A Mom Anon
Yes, thanks. I am officially an old lady now, lol.
Lots of people have been damaged by toxic religion. I just think it’s a bad point to judge people over. It’s more about what you do than what you believe. I don’t care if you worship coconuts or chocolate cake, as long as you’re a good hearted human. If religion helps that, good deal.
Happy Birthday!
re: #173 PhillyPretzel
As someone who has been called cute all my life I am not happy to hear it. As someone who is approaching 60 I tell people I am “offended” by it. I accept it but I am not happy about it.
There is a diminutional —oops, not a owrd—there is something smallifying about being called ‘cute’. I am not very big, so I take no offense, but every once in a while, I say something ‘big’.
re: #175 A Cranky One
Lol. If I’m gonna get old, there have to be perks, that’s not too much to ask, lol.
He will say anything that the Party demands.
Tim Scott is just another apparatchik in the Communist Republican Party
Tim Scott says he realized the ‘beauty’ of cops after being pulled over 18 times for ‘driving while Black’
Tim won’t tell us how many times Lindsay Graham was pulled over for “driving while white”…
re: #174 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Missed that today was your birthday. So Happy Birthday.
She kinda buried it in there.
Mitt Romney getting called a “communist.” Funniest god damned thing I’ve heard in quite a while.
First service at Driscoll’s Circus of “Where’s Jesus?” is over. Came home to make new signs based on the nerves I hit.@wartwatch @watchkeep @wthrockmorton @ThouArtTheMan pic.twitter.com/1D71XPemQK
— Dee *Professional Cat Herder* Holmes (@mmmirele) May 2, 2021
I am having entirely too much fun.
This is the problem with people accusing the 1619 Project of revisionist history. The history we’ve been taught, in school books, in museums, is revisionist. It seeks to hide the truth of the past because it was shameful. How can you get upset with a museum for being accurate?
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) May 2, 2021
re: #181 mmmirele
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Good trouble is almost always fun.
re: #178 🌹UOJB!
I’m sure you saw this, but it’s worth reposting:
Lordy…she nailed it🔥#TimScott #SouthCarolina pic.twitter.com/vVKeZefja6
— Christopher 🇺🇸 Proud Dem (@cwebbonline) May 1, 2021
re: #184 Belafon
I’m sure you saw this, but it’s worth reposting:
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Sure did see it and SERIOUS props to that lady for hitting the bulls-eye on Asshole Tim.
It’s funny, but I stopped paying attention to my birthdays a long while ago. So don’t think about my age much.
However, sometimes it just slaps you in the face. For instance, it was traumatic when my youngest kid hit 30; realizing all my kids were in their 30s made me feel old. I think in part it’s because in my head I’m still that suave 20 year old. ;-)
re: #186 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
I blame it on not enough coffee.
Let’s have more.
re: #184 Belafon
Tiffany Cross also waylaid, slayed, and flambayed Scott’s speech.
re: #29 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Haven’t watched any of the new Treks.
If you want excellent SF ‘The Expanse’ can’t be beat.
re: #182 Belafon
Because it hurts conservatives and racist’s feelings. I’m getting tired of hearing whining about telling the truth. We should have come to
terms with this shit a century ago. The main reason we haven’t is asshole white people who want justification for it. I did learn some of this in high school, we had an entire history course on Manifest Destiny that was required for graduation. And another about the fight over civil rights, the Vietnam war and the social unrest during that time. Guess who removed all that from the curriculum? Ohio wingnuts. By the time my siblings were in high school, none of that was there anymore.
Cool but still gun nut stuff so behind the tags.
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re: #192 William Lewis
About $10 a round? Ouch.
re: #192 William Lewis
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I made major plans for my 65th birthday that I would ride Amtrak’s Coast Starlight from Los Angeles to Seattle, stay a weekend in Seattle and then come back home on the train.
BUT
Covid threw a monkey wrench on that when the train schedule was reduced and the hotel cancelled my reservation and kept the deposit.
Then I planned to have my birthday dinner at Musso & Frank…Covid shut them down
Then I changed my plan to the Pacific Dining Car but they went out of business.
Then I changed my plan to Rao’s and their dining room was closed…but they delivered a nice meal of peas & prosciutto with their famous Lemon Chicken.
On the other hand it’s May 2nd and Joe is still President despite what this asshole predicted.
By the way has Mark Taylor been put in a psychiatric ward yet?
re: #195 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Sounds like a good idea. I’ll take a double shot please.
I’ll get you one when I get to work in a few hours. At home, it’s instant. Heck, even Starbucks makes instant now! And they make decaf, but I’ve yet to see instant decaf from them.
re: #190 Romantic Heretic
Haven’t watched any of the new Treks.
If you want excellent SF ‘The Expanse’ can’t be beat.
Picard is excellent.
Discovery is average. The most recent season was far better than the previous 2.
Lower Decks is a hoot.
Coming up:
I am looking forward to Prodigy (alien kids find an abandoned Star Fleet ship and an “Emergency Training Hologram” based on Captain Janeway)
Strange New Worlds has some promise - the Enterprise under Captain Pike, First Officer Number One and Science Officer Spock.
I really want Section 31 to die without ever coming on TV.
That said, The Expanse is the best SF on TV right now bar none.
re: #27 Hecuba’s daughter
Democrats should be putting pressure on Manchin and Sinema then. That’s our only hope.
re: #194 PhillyPretzel
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re: #196 🌹UOJB!
There’s not enough beds in mental health hospitals. Not to handle the overload of issues we’re having. I’m having trouble finding a therapist that doesn’t have a 6 month waiting list. Not to mention finding one that accepts my crapola insurance. If we tried to hospitalize or get all these people into therapy, the system would crash entirely. I also realize I am being too serious.
re: #202 William Lewis
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re: #197 wrenchwench
I’ll get you one when I get to work in a few hours. At home, it’s instant. Heck, even Starbucks makes instant now! And they make decaf, but I’ve yet to see instant decaf from them.
Thanks. Cold Brew at home. Lets me moderate how fast I get the caffeine jitters.
re: #81 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
My son has been keeping me abreast of the developments in this, as the renaming question has inflamed many of the alumni, and most are dragging either heritage or religious arguments into the hearings on why the name of a traitor should remain on a public high school.
Shall we have a Benedict Arnold High School? Or is his name more properly affixed to an elementary school?
re: #205 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Thanks. Cold Brew at home. Lets me moderate how fast I get the caffeine jitters.
They make it concentrated at work—-and add water. I leave out the water. I add half and half to coffee at every opportunity.
re: #206 sagehen
Shall we have a Benedict Arnold High School? Or is his name more properly affixed to an elementary school?
New Mexico has a Pancho Villa State Park.
re: #199 William Lewis
I’m curious. What have you got against Section 31?
re: #206 sagehen
Shall we have a Benedict Arnold High School? Or is his name more properly affixed to an elementary school?
Adolf Hitler Vocational Institute.
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re: #208 wrenchwench
They make it concentrated at work—-and add water. I leave out the water. I add half and half to coffee at every opportunity.
That’ll get you wired fast. :-)
re: #213 DesertDenizen
Shouldn’t it be an Art School?
Stop picking the thoughts out of my head. The next crop is a long way off.
Mitch’s Rubber Stamp goes back to her usual MO of “being concerned”
Republican Sen. Susan Collins says that she was “appalled” by the Utah GOP booing and attempting to censure Sen. Mitt Romney. “We are not a party that is led by just one person.” #CNNSOTU https://t.co/KE6cvsT64I pic.twitter.com/KPXkUgWhcX
— State of the Union (@CNNSotu) May 2, 2021
re: #187 A Cranky One
It’s funny, but I stopped paying attention to my birthdays a long while ago. So don’t think about my age much.
However, sometimes it just slaps you in the face. For instance, it was traumatic when my youngest kid hit 30; realizing all my kids were in their 30s made me feel old. I think in part it’s because in my head I’m still that suave 20 year old. ;-)
That still holds true when all your kids are in their 60’s. It really does.
re: #218 Semper Fi
That still holds true when all your kids are in their 60’s. It really does.
My oldest kid is about to finish her grad degree and will be taken on by the company she is interning with. The others are still teenagers but the clock is ticking.
re: #218 Semper Fi
I keep having to remind myself that I am not young anymore. Well, until I go to do something physical and the shit hurts, then it becomes obvious. I am way too young to be this old.
I am about to be 40. My dad is 68. He still refuses to admit he’s old.
re: #222 Eclectic Cyborg
I am about to be 40. My dad is 68. He still refuses to admit he’s old.
You won’t be old when you’re his age, either.
re: #218 Semper Fi
That still holds true when all your kids are in their 60’s. It really does.
When I made that comment to my mom, that was her exact response: she laughed and said wait until your kids are in their 60s.
re: #210 Eclectic Cyborg
I’m curious. What have you got against Section 31?
I just find the concept of the agency silly and have never liked any of the episodes that have made use of it. Combined with the way OTT use of the mirror universe by Discovery just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. As usual, YMWillV.
re: #218 Semper Fi
That still holds true when all your kids are in their 60’s. It really does.
Not in my case…since that was rudely interrupted by right wing religion and Dumbya.
re: #219 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
My oldest kid is about to finish her grad degree and will be taken on by the company she is interning with. The others are still teenagers but the clock is ticking.
Good on her and wishing continued success. Also, teenagers are especially good as they keep the parent perkin’ and learning right along with them.
re: #177 A Mom Anon
Lol. If I’m gonna get old, there have to be perks, that’s not too much to ask, lol.
It’s called Medicare. /
re: #227 Semper Fi
Good on her and wishing continued success. Also, teenagers are especially good as they keep the parent perkin’ and learning right along with them.
that is true, I am keeping up on popular music, there are a number of bands that are not necessarily my taste but I must commend them for solid songwriting, musicianship and performance.
re: #160 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
Also too, what new war did Obama involve us in?
Libya.
re: #221 A Mom Anon
I keep having to remind myself that I am not young anymore. Well, until I go to do something physical and the shit hurts, then it becomes obvious. I am way too young to be this old.
Similar to me and probably most people. Too often we don’t heed those little reminders and the resultant hurting is not nice.
re: #231 sagehen
Libya.
Don’t you remember when he was sending advisors into Uganda and GOP Rep. Michelle Bachmann (the MTG of her day) commented “First he got us into Libya, now he’s getting us into Africa!”
(I can only guess that she had Lebanon and Libya confused or thought that Libya, being Muslim must be somewhere in the Middle East)
re: #228 retired cynic
It’s called Medicare. /
Dad was able to retire at 63 with his full union pension and Social Security which gave him and Mom around 90% of the income he made working as a boilermaker.
The latest retirement calculation I ran indicates I have to work to 72 to get 80% of my current salary.
Using inflation-based indexing I’m only earning around 2/3 of what my Dad made and he was able to buy a house, car and Mom didn’t have to work outside the home.
Can’t afford any of those...unless I match six lotto numbers…
re: #221 A Mom Anon
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re: #190 Romantic Heretic
Haven’t watched any of the new Treks.
If you want excellent SF ‘The Expanse’ can’t be beat.
I prefer my SF fluffy. Stargate Atlantis is my jam.
re: #226 🌹UOJB!
Not in my case…since that was rudely interrupted by right wing religion and Dumbya.
I wish it had been different (without loss) for you and so many others.
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