Seth takes a closer look at Rudy Giuliani claiming that the FBI raids of his home and office are part of a Biden administration conspiracy to target him.
Repost from upstairs, as a PSA:
re: #157 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Hubby swears the Raw Story uses your computer to mine Bitcoin. If you go to RS, look at your computers activity… It’s off the charts. Always.
If you use Google Chrome or Chromium-based Microsoft Edge, NoScript is your friend; it also helps with media sites that nag and/or block articles because you’re running adblockers, such as the NYT and WaPo.
Jeff Bezos’ heirs would have to pay tens of billions of additional taxes on his ~$180B untaxed capital gain at death if Biden’s tax plan becomes law https://t.co/wOS2VTl7pa
— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) May 4, 2021
No
They
Wouldnt
They wouldnt pay a dime.
The estate would.
They would merely inherit a bit less
re: #2 Dangerman
No
They
WouldntThey wouldnt pay a dime.
The estate would.They would merely inherit a bit less
Am I wrong thinking that the fact that Bezo’s heirs would have to fork over billions as being a positive selling point?
The Washington Post is helping Josh Hawley and all Republicans erase their history as Big Liars who promoted damaging lies like this every day for months to brainwash millions of people with misinformation and they won’t face a single consequence for it https://t.co/qP7PNCE7fq
— Matt Negrin, HOST OF HARDBALL AT 7PM ON MSNBC (@MattNegrin) May 4, 2021
Dozens of billions “ripped” from hundred-billionaires.
re: #2 Dangerman
No
They
WouldntThey wouldnt pay a dime.
The estate would.They would merely inherit a bit less
After taxes, these people will still inherit more money than possibly over half of the world’s countries entire Annual GDP.
re: #3 b.d. (Stay Angry Wingnuts!)
Am I wrong thinking that the fact that Bezo’s heirs would have to fork over billions as being a positive selling point?
If they could just hand off shares, it would be fine.
If they had to sell their shares, ordinary stock holders (including employees) would get hurt hard by the drop in stock performance, and probably be worse off relatively than the Bezos would be.
re: #3 b.d. (Stay Angry Wingnuts!)
Am I wrong thinking that the fact that Bezo’s heirs would have to fork over billions as being a positive selling point?
of course not
re: #7 aatharuv
If they could just hand off shares, it would be fine.
If they had to sell their shares, ordinary stock holders (including employees) would get hurt hard by the drop in stock performance, and probably be worse off relatively than the Bezos would be.
this is why you do estate tax planning while you’re alive
so you dont essentially fuck your heirs or your estate
insurance to cover some of the taxes
liquidity so you dont have to sell all those shares and tank the price
trusts
and on and on
most anyone even a tad over the estate exclusion has done these things
re: #1 TedStriker
And some more helpful info:
re: #182 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Lot of more recent negative reviews at the chrome store link you provided. Seems newer versions working well with Firefox, not so much with Chrome or Chromium
re: #185 TedStriker
Just a cursory look at some of those negative reviews leans towards quite a bit of user error; a long time ago, I used to run NoScript all the time in Firefox and Chrome, but, unlike with many adblockers, NoScript has always taken some proper care and feeding to work right, so it’s blocking what you want to block, but not blocking what you want to see or completely breaking websites. NoScript’s default OOB behavior is to block ALL scripts, so you can’t just install it and forget it, you have to tweak it.
That’s one reason I stopped running NoScript before, I got tired of twiddling with it all the time, especially once I started using PiHole on a RPi4 working with my OPNsense router PC, then moved to using AdGuard Home installed as a plugin in OPNsense; for blocking most ads and other unwanted web crud, it was “good enough”. Here lately, though, I’ve had the occasion to be specifically blocking scripts again, so I installed the latest NoScript version from the Chrome Store and all seems to be working OK, the aforementioned tweaking notwithstanding.
Old and busted: trying to be cautious and safe as the pandemic still rages.
New hotness: time to party! What’s wrong with these killjoy liberals still wearing masks?— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 4, 2021
But seriously, it’s incredibly twisted and patronizing to accuse “liberals” of loving lockdowns so much they don’t want them to end, just because some of us are still trying to be careful after HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS DEAD.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 4, 2021
It’s bizarre to see so many journalists co-signing this insulting BS. Talk about living in a bubble.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 4, 2021
re: #7 aatharuv
If they could just hand off shares, it would be fine.
If they had to sell their shares, ordinary stock holders (including employees) would get hurt hard by the drop in stock performance, and probably be worse off relatively than the Bezos would be.
So, they’ve rigged the system so that they can keep getting richer because it might hurt the little people otherwise.
Jen Psaki shoots down Sen. Tom Cotton’s lies about the CDC being influenced by the American Federation of Teachers and then explains to Sen. Cotton, and Republicans in general, how the CDC works. pic.twitter.com/O1GnaDJPic
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) May 4, 2021
re: #12 Charles Johnson
Name me one authoritative U.S. government body or international health organization that has said the Pandemic is over.
Can’t do it?
Then shut the FUCK up about me still wearing a mask.
re: #14 jaunte
And the entire time she’s thinking: “Motherfucker, I don’t get paid enough for this.”
Let’s hear it for stinky evangelists! https://t.co/nymZA9pMVF
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 4, 2021
re: #14 jaunte
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Imagining the meltdown at FAUX if she said Tom Cotton is an asshole.
re: #4 Backwoods_Sleuth
Meanwhile, on CNN, Jim Acosta refers to Faux Noise as the “Bullshit Factory”:
Saving this pic.twitter.com/YHIVcvcUG0
— Acyn (@Acyn) May 1, 2021
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re: #17 Charles Johnson
I don’t think Joel Osteen even has pores.
re: #17 Charles Johnson
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Considering all of the bullshit that comes out of the mouths of these Pulpit Pimps.
And they are STILL agitating for insurrection. They want a civil war because they get off on seeing blood in the streets.
re: #15 Eclectic Cyborg
Name me one authoritative U.S. government body or international health organization that has said the Pandemic is over.
Can’t do it?
Then shut the FUCK up about me still wearing a mask.
Even desantis stupid declaration doesn’t kick in till july
re: #14 jaunte
Usually it’s just guys who draw the short straw and have to ask the stupid questions about conspiracies from people like Tom Cotton.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) May 4, 2021
re: #4 Backwoods_Sleuth
I ended my NYT subscription after Tom Cotton’s op-ed.
Time to drop WaPo.
I’m ambivalent but this is inexcusable.
re: #19 Teukka
Meanwhile, on CNN, Jim Acosta refers to Faux Noise as the “Bullshit Factory”:
narrowly avoiding plagiarizing Jon Stewart, who calls them Bullshit Mountain.
Ted Cruz plays to idiots.
Apparently your understanding of what the CIA does is based on fictional movie characters. And you are a US Senator?
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) May 4, 2021
re: #157 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Hubby swears the Raw Story uses your computer to mine Bitcoin. If you go to RS, look at your computers activity… It’s off the charts. Always.
I thought of that too but I have a Bitcoin mining list for Adblock Plus and the CPU activity is still heavy.
re: #7 aatharuv
If they could just hand off shares, it would be fine.
If they had to sell their shares, ordinary stock holders (including employees) would get hurt hard by the drop in stock performance, and probably be worse off relatively than the Bezos would be.
Pretty sure the drop in Amazon stock price would be temporary, since the fundamentals wouldn’t be changing, and it would give other people a chance to invest in the company.
re: #29 Dread Pirate Ron
I thought of that too but I have a Bitcoin mining list for Adblock Plus and the CPU activity is still heavy.
No one is mining Bitcoin with a PC. It’s the fringier worthless-coins that are wasting energy on PCs.
oh
In Waukon, Iowa, Sen. Grassley tells constituents he’s confident Sen. Manchin will hold out against supporting Dems’ sweeping ethics/voting rights reform
“We think we’ve got him nailed down” pic.twitter.com/1It0X0rViP— Burgess Everett (@burgessev) May 4, 2021
Effective May 31, we are lifting COVID mitigation orders.
The masking order will be lifted when 70% of Pennsylvania adults are fully vaccinated.
Help us lift the masking order sooner. Find a vaccine appointment near you: https://t.co/4UeI1Bx6rO. pic.twitter.com/o2vebK3lot— Governor Tom Wolf (@GovernorTomWolf) May 4, 2021
re: #32 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I’m sure there’s a lot of “We’ll come into your state and campaign against you” going on.
It was less nutty than the bleach thing, but precisely because it wasn’t nutty — the treatment was real, just not genuinely available — I bet a lot of people believed it and acted accordingly.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) May 4, 2021
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SpaceX Falcon 9 B1049-9 <—ninth flight! with the Starlink L25 launch from the famous KSC 39A.
We have our cameras there live: https://t.co/Pctuq8CkY5 pic.twitter.com/dJOvk9y8uQ— Chris B - NSF (@NASASpaceflight) May 4, 2021
re: #33 Backwoods_Sleuth
I know Wolf is a democrat, but this still seems too soon to me.
The only true evangelists are evangelists who reek and drool and scream incoherently. It’s not me saying this. It’s an evangelist.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 4, 2021
re: #24 darthstar
Merle’s second encounter with cows.
“So this is how it’s going to be, okay? You all stay on your side of the fence and you can follow me until the end of the pasture…then you stay. I don’t have time or desire to round you all up. Thank you for listening.”
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THOSE ARE VERY BIG DOGS
re: #32 Backwoods_Sleuth
oh
Keep bragging, Grassley. Manchin likes nothing more than being told he’s “under control”…
NEW: NYC Public Schools will have remote learning instead of snow days next school year, the NYC Dept. of Education announced.
— Ana Cabrera (@AnaCabrera) May 4, 2021
re: #41 Backwoods_Sleuth
That just sucks all the childhood joy out of snow.
re: #41 Backwoods_Sleuth
We all knew this was coming. SAVE THE SNOW DAYS!
Black Bear pool party.. 😅 pic.twitter.com/MgWm1fLor1
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden_) May 4, 2021
The Republican Party 2021. Sickening… https://t.co/TsOVSl3TRa
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) May 4, 2021
u are leaving the party? https://t.co/LdzvwHPfMu
— darth™ (@darth) May 4, 2021
re: #7 aatharuv
If they could just hand off shares, it would be fine.
If they had to sell their shares, ordinary stock holders (including employees) would get hurt hard by the drop in stock performance, and probably be worse off relatively than the Bezos would be.
They’d have to sell some, probably, to scrape up a few billion to offset the tens of billions they just inherited. I don’t disagree with what you’re saying, but we can’t be held hostage to this sort of wealth concentration. If a stock is that vulnerable to shock because so much of it is concentrated into a few private hands, that risk probably should reflect it in the valuation.
And employer contributions of their own stock to employee retirement funds should be illegal. Period. There is no reason that qualified plans should expose employees to that much risk. If the company takes a shit, you can lose your job and your retirement in one go: think Enron.
It just goes back to the fact that this level of wealth concentration is objectively bad, not even looking at the morality of it. It hoovers up resources to a few fairly random people who have no clue how they could productively use it, and while they could do good work with it (hi Bill G), they could also, say, pump tons of money to corrupt politicians to kill the planet.
If claiming to be an adviser to a hopelessly corrupt failed President who attacks our democracy parted these morons and their money, I’m not entirely against it.
Feds Say Accused Swindler Lied About It All: Money, Trump, and Cancer (The Daily Beast)
More info on the Charismatic Christian proselytizer who faked being an Orthodox Jew. According to this article, Rick Joyner’s Morningstar Ministries was backing this “Michael Elkohen” faker. Joyner is most recently known for saying there is going to be another Civil War in the USA. Also, he has five children who absolutely disagree with him.
I am completely unsurprised by all of this.
This is wild: An ultra-Orthodox rabbi in Jerusalem is accused of being an undercover Christian missionary who emigrated to Israel using forged documents and with help from evangelist Rick Joyner’s US-based missions organization. https://t.co/QKgdCSZ3Tx
— Ruth Graham (@publicroad) May 3, 2021
re: #45 Backwoods_Sleuth
A Republican spouting lies from the pit of Hell. Just another day ending in y.
re: #46 Backwoods_Sleuth
u are leaving the party?
Right. Romney and other tut-tutters can start caucusing with the Dems or shut up.
re: #38 Charles Johnson
A real evangalist will be so frothy that they’ll be locked in inpatient facilities. A free person who reeks and drools is a poor substitute.
re: #28 No Malarkey!
Ted Cruz plays to idiots.
If I was an Iranian Mullah, and saw that CIA agents have “generalized anxiety disorder”, I’d think Carrie Mathison and be scared shitless. Her disability turned out to be super-useful as an analyst, and later a field agent.
re: #53 sagehen
If I was an Iranian Mullah, and saw that CIA agents have “generalized anxiety disorder”, I’d think Carrie Mathison and be scared shitless. Her disability turned out to be super-useful as an analyst, and later a field agent.
Claire Danes is good in that role, but not good enough to be on Iranian TV.
Meanwhile, more active-duty police officers died of COVID-19 in 2020 than all other causes combined. https://t.co/b1y5yK2a4Y https://t.co/mIClnOYneO
— Nick Wing (@nickpwing) May 4, 2021
Add in the concerning rise in deaths by suicide among police officers and this is even more true.
— Nick Wing (@nickpwing) May 4, 2021
re: #49 mmmirele
Damn, that whole article is wild.
re: #42 No Malarkey!
That just sucks all the childhood joy out of snow.
Grew up in NYC during the 1970s and 1980s. We had … 2-3 snow days in that time. Most of that was associated with the Blizzard of 1977. It was a running joke about snow days in NYC because outlying communities would have snow days, but NYC would still keep the schools open no matter what.
re: #53 sagehen
If I was an Iranian Mullah, and saw that CIA agents have “generalized anxiety disorder”, I’d think Carrie Mathison and be scared shitless. Her disability turned out to be super-useful as an analyst, and later a field agent.
Yep. With a lot of anxiety disorders you tend to have three effects that will scare an enemy shitless of you are in the intel community on the opposite side:
o You respond quickly to certain stimuli, often significantly before others.
o You have thought of “impossible” scenarios beforehand and have at least an outline to handle them.
o You have learned to override some anxiety-inducing stimuli, so tactics that depends on the shock effect may be rendered ineffective.
re: #35 No Malarkey!
It’s now genuinely available; so available that Regeneron is running TV ads. “Ask your doctor if monoclonal antibodies is right for you!”
re: #49 mmmirele
So that’s where Jiu Jitsu got its name…
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re: #45 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Not that it makes this Republican bozo’s BS remarks in the least bit less loathsome, but if the “three-fifths compromise” was indeed meant to “end slavery”, it had to be one of the biggest legislative FAILS in our history: since in 1860 (72 years after the adoption of the Constitution), human chattel slavery was still legal in 15 out of the then 33 states.
And somewhat stronger measures had to be taken to end it….
re: #52 Punish Domestic Terrorists
A real evangalist will be so frothy that they’ll be locked in inpatient facilities. A free person who reeks and drools is a poor substitute.
Yeah.
Real Pulpit Pimps like these!
re: #41 Backwoods_Sleuth
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This basically happened in Colorado already. The number of “professional development days” jumped to the point where they “had” to have remote learning in lieu of snow days in order to meet class time requirements.
I am a huge proponent of public education and would only send my kid to a private school if he had special needs or the nearest public school was unsafe. That said, I am having trouble digesting the amount of development days. I’d bet that my son (7 years old, first grade) has not had more than 3-4 full weeks of school since January as a result of holidays and development days. They had a development day the Friday before Spring Break, and have had 1-2 per month every month since January, with May being the lone holdout. Makes it challenging to have to juggle supervision with that much time off.
re: #36 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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.@POTUS gives an update on the vaccination program, and charts a course for how we can return to normal — a feat achieved if everyone gets the shot when they can. pic.twitter.com/fySsAKEHgP
— Meghan Hays (@MegHays46) May 4, 2021
re: #65 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
And SpaceX stream 1 minute
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Max-Q
Vroom no boom
re: #26 cat-tikvah
I ended my NYT subscription after Tom Cotton’s op-ed.
Time to drop WaPo.
I’m ambivalent but this is inexcusable.
So what’s left? Fox News?
We need a nuanced understanding of “who” stormed the US Capitol on Jan 6, 2021 in order to know who we are dealing with and create viable solutions for the future. Accordingly, CPOST has conducted a systematic analysis of the complete set of individuals arrested by the FBI and Washington DC police for offenses related to the storming of the US Capitol, numbering 235 as of January 28 2021, and expected to grow.
This analysis uses official court documents and media sources of the primary demographics, socio-economic characteristics, militant group affiliations, over 1,500 documents. (Updates at link)
Specifically, all three studies find statistically significant evidence that the “Great Replacement” - the idea that minorities will have more rights than whites - is a key driver.
re: #65 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
“May the force be with us.”
re: #68 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
Philadelphia Inquirer
And this place
Unlike other cities that have passed these unconstitutional ordinances, there is an abortion clinic in Lubbock. The next closest one is a five hour drive away.
— Stacey Burns (@WentRogue) May 2, 2021
re: #23 gocart mozart
I guess that I’m a geezer. Apparently 5 string bass guitars are now a thing.
Saul Goodman would never let this happen
/s/— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) May 4, 2021
Treasonweasels are coming out of the woodwork to remind everyone that the GOP doesn’t tolerate facts, logic, or the rule of law.
Trump lost in 2020, but GOP will never forget that they lost, lying about how they failed to steal it from Biden-projecting *GOP’s* crimes on Biden— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) May 4, 2021
I put my address in the NYT’s “Do You Live in a Political Bubble” thingy.
Here are my unsurprising results: You live in a Democratic bubble. Only 14 percent of your neighbors are Republicans.
Refugees are not “illegal migrants.” They are approved to move to the US after an extensive vetting process (https://t.co/QGWcXOGOFD).
DesJarlais’ office hasn’t yet responded to my attempts today to ask them about this tweet. pic.twitter.com/Bwr7sH6kQu— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) May 4, 2021
re: #76 Teddy’s Person
I put my address in the NYT’s “Do You Live in a Political Bubble” thingy.
Here are my unsurprising results: You live in a Democratic bubble. Only 14 percent of your neighbors are Republicans.
Reminds me of the lyrics to the old Luther Ingram song… If [this] is wrong, I don’t wanna be right…
re: #74 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
A Texas lawyer known as the “DWI Dude” has been sentenced to more than 15 years in federal prison for falsely promising Colombian drug traffickers he’d get their charges reduced in exchange for cash.
This would seem to be a rather high risk hobby. I would pick a bunch of marks with less of a body count.
Republicans are stupid and corrupt, which is why Jim Jordan holds office after looking the other way while kids were molested. It’s a party of monsters that’s currently trying to end our democracy. We made our choice, scumbag.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 4, 2021
re: #76 Teddy’s Person
I put my address in the NYT’s “Do You Live in a Political Bubble” thingy.
Here are my unsurprising results: You live in a Democratic bubble. Only 14 percent of your neighbors are Republicans.
my results are very surprising. It says 71% of my neighbors are Democrats (I’d have expected it to be higher).
“Your zip code as a whole, however, has a roughly equal mix of Democrats and Republicans.”
Again, really surprising. I’d have guessed 75% D.
We have become mediocre: our minimum wage is #15 in the world, our infrastructure #13, our students rank #11 in science and #30 in math.
But we do lead in some areas: we have the highest rates of incarceration, civilian gun ownership, and gun violence. https://t.co/QiwrFXFu1p— Max Boot (@MaxBoot) May 4, 2021
re: #78 ckkatz
Reminds me of the lyrics to the old Luther Ingram song… If [this] is wrong, I don’t wanna be right…
NYT’s Bubble Thingy: Here’s where you can find more Republicans nearby.
Me: No thank you.
re: #80 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Republicans are committing to trying to kill us all, by reopening while the vaccination effort is still in progress - before their faithful followers have to make a hard choice to either get vaccinated or get left out of society. I’m seeing the strategy now. They’re pushing reopening now, of all times, and suppressing the vaccine passport idea because they want their fellow idiots not to have to be uncomfortable. They want Republicans to continue to protect them from reality.
re: #76 Teddy’s Person
I put my address in the NYT’s “Do You Live in a Political Bubble” thingy.
Here are my unsurprising results: You live in a Democratic bubble. Only 14 percent of your neighbors are Republicans.
In my neighborhood, it’s 43 percent R, 46 percent D and 11 percent Independent. My neighborhood is solidly middle class, moving towards majority minority status. The Mormons who originally moved here in the 1970s and 1980s sfter the farms and orange groves were ripped out, their children and grandchildren have moved out to Chandler and Gilbert.
What’s interesting is the polarization. There aren’t too many people in the Independent bucket.
Well according to the times my bubble has only 10% Republicans.
Looks like the Times isn’t counting 3rd parties because there are a number of Libertarians, Greens and Decline To State voters in my area!
re: #81 sagehen
my results are very surprising. It says 71% of my neighbors are Democrats (I’d have expected it to be higher).
“Your zip code as a whole, however, has a roughly equal mix of Democrats and Republicans.”
Again, really surprising. I’d have guessed 75% D.
I could probably hit close to 100% Democrat if I moved to Seattle proper instead of sticking to one of the eastside suburbs.
re: #83 Teddy’s Person
NYT’s Bubble Thingy: Here’s where you can find more Republicans nearby.
Me: No thank you.
It’s more NYT doing what it does - push ‘diversity’, which means that liberals should listen to Republicans more. The New York Times basically exists to scold liberals for not revering Republicans enough.
I was talking to a neighbor (while playing with her 5 month old Cocker Spaniel puppy) yesterday. We both were excited to be vaccinated but going to continue masking and distancing. She said that her brother refused to wear a mask because it took away his identity. I responded that, if his identity was that fragile, wearing a mask was the least of his problems.
re: #89 Renaissance_Man
It’s more NYT doing what it does - push bothsiderism, which means that liberals should listen to Republicans more. The New York Times basically exists to scold liberals for not revering Republicans enough.
“You live in a Democratic bubble. Only 5% of your neighbors are Republicans.”
Bubble? I think of it as a cordon sanitaire.
re: #91 Renaissance_Man
The only point they might have is that right-wing authoritarians don’t hear from sensible people so they stay radicalized, but the cult programming will mean they’re likely to call any sensible person “Libtard” and to stay loyal to the delusions that propagandists feed them.
re: #81 sagehen
my results are very surprising. It says 71% of my neighbors are Democrats (I’d have expected it to be higher).
“Your zip code as a whole, however, has a roughly equal mix of Democrats and Republicans.”
Again, really surprising. I’d have guessed 75% D.
I’m kind of surprised. I would have predicted 65-70% Republican, but it’s actually 50% Dem/46% GOP/4% independent. I guess the Republicans are just noisier.
re: #95 Barefoot Grin
I’m kind of surprised. I would have predicted 65-70% Republican, but it’s actually 50% Dem/46% GOP/4% independent. I guess the Republicans are just noisier.
Of course they are. The idea that a loutish party was a silent majority was always obvious nonsense. Louts do not stay quiet. They tell you what they “think.”
re: #96 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Of course they are. The idea that a loutish party was a silent majority was always obvious nonsense. Louts do not stay quiet. They tell you what they “think.”
They also come out to vote in my town more than Dems, unfortunately.
Day four of canine diarrhea is exhausting
re: #53 sagehen
If I was an Iranian Mullah, and saw that CIA agents have “generalized anxiety disorder”, I’d think Carrie Mathison and be scared shitless. Her disability turned out to be super-useful as an analyst, and later a field agent.
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re: #99 Dangerman
Spoilers!
I’ve liked Claire Danes since My So Called Life, but I stopped watching Homeland for the same reason I stopped watching 24. I prefer regular porn over torture porn.
re: #100 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Spoilers!
I’ve liked Claire Danes since My So Called Life, but I stopped watching Homeland for the same reason I stopped watching 24. I prefer regular porn over torture porn.
sorry - went back and hid it
i figured by now it was common knowledge
re: #76 Teddy’s Person
I put my address in the NYT’s “Do You Live in a Political Bubble” thingy.
Here are my unsurprising results: You live in a Democratic bubble. Only 14 percent of your neighbors are Republicans.
“You live in a Republican bubble. Only 3 percent of your neighbors are Democrats.”
re: #98 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Day four of canine diarrhea is exhausting
My sympathies. We dealt with that for awhile. Vet couldn’t figure it out, so we kept giving her pumpkin from can, soft rice, etc. It eventually worked out, but there were a couple of 3 and 4am frantic visits to our bed to be taken outside (and a few misses, of course). Hope it clears up soon.
re: #95 Barefoot Grin
I’m kind of surprised. I would have predicted 65-70% Republican, but it’s actually 50% Dem/46% GOP/4% independent. I guess the Republicans are just noisier.
Mine is a bubble; only 21% are Republicans but a zip code 6 miles away has equal D and R. No, thank you. I already know too many devout R’s, who favor the new Jim Crow laws in other states.
re: #101 Dangerman
sorry - went back and hid it
i figured by now it was common knowledge
I think people have had enough time to watch the show if they want to, but have removed it from my reply as well.
re: #105 Hecuba’s daughter
Mine is a bubble; only 21% are Republicans but a zip code 6 miles away has equal D and R. No, thank you. I already know too many devout R’s, who favor the new Jim Crow laws in other states.
We have previously lived in smaller cities dominated by universities (Indiana, Virginia, and Kentucky). In all cases we were the blue island in the red state. It’s pretty cool to watch VA trend blue. Anyway, tbh, I liked living in those bubbles—good schools, for one thing.
re: #106 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I think people have had enough time to watch the show if they want to, but have removed it from my reply as well.
I’ve watched most of it; but I’ve been holding off on the last two episodes because I suspected (spoiler).
Judge orders release of DOJ memo justifying not prosecuting Trump
“U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson blasts former Attorney General William Barr’s spin on the Mueller report as “disingenuous.”
U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson issued that ruling in a withering opinion that accused Barr of being “disingenuous” when describing Mueller’s findings and found that the Justice Department was not candid with the court about the purpose and role of the 2019 memo prepared by Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel.
re: #81 sagehen
my results are very surprising. It says 71% of my neighbors are Democrats (I’d have expected it to be higher).
“Your zip code as a whole, however, has a roughly equal mix of Democrats and Republicans.”
Again, really surprising. I’d have guessed 75% D.
This is my old ‘hood in Lubbock:
Surprised? This is the Tech Terrace neighborhood, practically a liberal enclave since it is close to the Texas Tech campus and has a high percentage of faculty and professional staff. Lubbock itself is about 70% Republican.
Watching a series on Watergate. Republicans are and have always been scumbags.
re: #112 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Watching a series on Watergate. Republicans are and have always been scumbags.
True, but it is somehow also true that Republicans are rapidly getting worse and have been doing that for at least 70 years.
IMO the last time the GOP was a decent political party was when Teddy Roosevelt was president. Ike was an aberration because he was significantly more decent than his party.
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re: #113 EPR-radar
True, but it is somehow also true that Republicans are rapidly getting worse and have been doing that for at least 70 years.
They’re not getting worse. They’re just not hiding who they are anymore.
re: #104 Barefoot Grin
My sympathies. We dealt with that for awhile. Vet couldn’t figure it out, so we kept giving her pumpkin from can, soft rice, etc. It eventually worked out, but there were a couple of 3 and 4am frantic visits to our bed to be taken outside (and a few misses, of course). Hope it clears up soon.
I’ve literally lost count of the number of trips taken outside since I walked both dogs at 10AM this morning. Haven’t slept longer than two - two and a half hours at a time since Saturday morning. Eventually I’m going to need to bite the bullet and chance enough unobserved time to take a shower, and then again to go to the store since I’ve failed to maintain my stock of canned pumpkin and rice.
Been waiting on a return call from her oncologist for several hours too.
I really haven’t read any of articles, but it really feels like these “Bezos’s inheritors will have to pay billions in taxes” articles are being written to make people believe this is an injustice they should somehow be angry about.
re: #108 Punish Domestic Terrorists
A federal judge ordered the DOJ to release a memo that Bill Barr used to clear Trump of obstruction of justice, saying ‘it is time for the public to see’ it (Business Insider)
re: #110 Dangerman
23 seconds!
well played
re: #81 sagehen
my results are very surprising. It says 71% of my neighbors are Democrats (I’d have expected it to be higher).
“Your zip code as a whole, however, has a roughly equal mix of Democrats and Republicans.”
Again, really surprising. I’d have guessed 75% D.
Mine said 60% Democrats, which is amazing, considering this is a RED part of a RED county in RED South Carolina. But my little precinct actually went Dem (by a few votes, but still) the last few elections, so I guess it makes sense.)
re: #115 Eclectic Cyborg
They’re not getting worse. They’re just not hiding who they are anymore.
Votes on the civil rights laws of the 1960s disprove that thesis IMO. There really was a party realignment resulting from that, and it made Republicans significantly worse.
re: #108 Punish Domestic Terrorists
A federal judge ordered the DOJ to release a memo that Bill Barr used to clear Trump of obstruction of justice, saying ‘it is time for the public to see’ it (Business Insider)
re: #110 Dangerman
Judge orders release of DOJ memo justifying not prosecuting Trump
“U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson blasts former Attorney General William Barr’s spin on the Mueller report as “disingenuous.”
I’m being cynical, but I just see this shit and go “So what?”
It’s not like Trump or anyone on that level will see any substantial punishment.
I’m not even sure it’s a fucking deterrent. Just in the course of the day, I’ve read the following:
• Josh Hawley, a major instigator of the insurrection, was given the spotlight by the Washington Post, in which he actually accused the Washington Post of trying to silence him.
• The Proud Boys, who have made no secret of their love for Trump, received sizable donations from Chinese Americans in December from a fundraiser. This group supports a guy who has helped ignite a wave of violence against Asian Americans, and these folks were like, “Yeah, as long as they claim to fight Commies, we’re good.”
• Republicans in the Louisiana legislature are literally, publicly insisting there was a good side to slavery. One fuck nut apparently defended the 3/5ths Compromise.
• At lest three states are enacting voter suppression laws that a conservative supreme court will probably not shoot down
• Liz Cheney, currently being hailed as fucking Wonder Woman for stepping over the low, low bar of going “Yeah, maybe trying to thwart a presidential election by killing Congress people and Senators is bad” may be kicked out of the party
• Matt Gaetz still has a job.
I’m all for any and all documentation proving what a fucking criminal Trump was, and is, being brought into the light of the day,. but unless he and his crew are fitted for orange jumpsuits, it. Don’t. Mean. Shit.
Trump kicked open the door for American facisism and a huge swath of this country was like, “Yeah, a white supremacist dictatorship is what Washington would have wanted.”
I really feel like it’s a matter of “when” anymore.
re: #119 BeachDem
Mine said 60% Democrats, which is amazing, considering this is a RED part of a RED county in RED South Carolina. But my little precinct actually went Dem (by a few votes, but still) the last few elections, so I guess it makes sense.)
67% Democrats. I live in an integrated suburb of the capital of Kentucky, where Democrats dominated state government for decades until the last few years.
re: #114 nines09
Hey, different subject:
Were you talking about the old Electric Factory at 21st and Arch in Philly the other day? The one with the coffins along the walls?
re: #117 Mattand
I really haven’t read any of articles, but it really feels like these “Bezos’s inheritors will have to pay billions in taxes” articles are being written to make people believe this is an injustice they should somehow be angry about.
yup
like i said above
Bezos’s inheritors will NOT have to pay “billions in taxes”
they will in fact pay exactly zero dollars in tax
estate tax effectively shrinks the size of the inherited estate
nothing more
re: #121 Mattand
I’m being cynical, but I just see this shit and go “So what?”
It’s not like Trump or anyone on that level will see any substantial punishment.
I’m not even sure it’s a fucking deterrent…
im for anything that shines light in the right places
re: #124 Dangerman
yup
like i said above
Bezos’s inheritors will NOT have to pay “billions in taxes”
they will in fact pay exactly zero dollars in taxestate tax effectively shrinks the size of the inherited estate
nothing more
Even if they are paying billions in taxes, why should my middle class self give a rat’s ass that a billionaire is paying taxes? They want sympathy from me? Boo fucking hoo.
Can’t stop thinking that while most of us are laughing about Trump’s fake Twitter blog, people like Kevin McCarthy and the other GOP fraidy cats are actually scared he’s going to blog something mean about them. https://t.co/T5ZVWiFPhQ
— Kaili Joy Gray (@KailiJoy) May 4, 2021
re: #119 BeachDem
Mine is 70 percent Republican. Nothing new there. In the southern part of the county, it almost flips to the opposite numbers. Because that’s where the largest concentration of POC in the county is, it’s also where Jose Andres’ WCK went and served food and drinks to people waiting over 8 hours to vote in 2020. Meanwhile up where I am, I have one dude who has been flying a blue lives matter flag on his front porch, along with a blue porch light. And Trump 2020 signs annnd a Get on the Trump Train! sign. Today. And for the last 5 years. There’s also another one down the road who has a Don’t Tread On Me flag, a Come and Take It sign. He also has a sign saying he has Duck Eggs for Sale at 5 bucks a dozen. Georgia is fucking annoying and weird.
re: #126 DesertDenizen
Even if they are paying billions in taxes, why should my middle class self give a rat’s ass that a billionaire is paying taxes? They want sympathy from me? Boo fucking hoo.
Any day now when the Liberals and the illegals stop holding you down, you’ll be rich too, so you should support a system that creates people so wealthy they might as well be royalty.
I live in a bubble, it’s called reality.
Exactly as I expected, TFG is teasing that he is running in 2024. There is no way his ego or his greed will allow him not to run, if he is able. Plus, he may need to pardon himself.
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re: #133 🌹UOJB!
QAsshole goes on Newsmax…
Mike Lindell might just be the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Trumpists on addictive mind-destroying drugs.
re: #135 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Mike Lindell might just be the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Trumpists on addictive mind-destroying drugs.
The drug my brainwashed relatives are hooked on is Jay-Zuss.
re: #136 🌹UOJB!
The drug my brainwashed relatives are hooked on is Jay-Zuss.
Their Jay-Zuss doesn’t sound very Christ-like, but I’m a atheist, so what do I know?
re: #131 I Would Prefer Not To
I live in a bubble, it’s called reality.
The science podcast I regularly listen to is always harping on the Principle of Charity, or the basic idea that you should try to engage someone whenever they say or do something you disagree with.
Regular readers might be able to see where this is going, LOL…
They were doing a piece on the last show about generalizations Dems and Repubs make about one another. One of the items was that Dems supposedly believe almost no Repubs want gun control, but it’s like 50%, 60% of those polled, or something.
I forget what the reverse was, but my memory was it was kinda dancing on the false equivalence edge, like Repubs thinkDems don’t believe in free speech or some bullshit like that.
I’m a big fan of the show and learn a lot from it, but fuck their Principle of Charity bullshit. Standard “Maybe I’m wrong” crap here, but I’ve fucking had it wit this “You need to reach out to a January 6th insurrectionist and put yourself in his shoes” or “Talk to your barely educated cousin and ask him why he thinks Trump secretly won the election.”
The podcast is always admonishing listeners to get their news from other sources and not stay in a bubble. I keep using a variation of what you said: “I do live in a bubble, and it’s the one where people are horrified that Trump set up child concentration camps on our souther border, and that he tried to murder his VP with a mob to stay in office.”
This fucking “both sides” shit is worse when it comes from educated people who are supposedly always going on about valuing evidence and thinking critically.
re: #136 🌹UOJB!
The drug my brainwashed relatives are hooked on is Jay-Zuss.
That’s a really bad one if it’s not the peace and love variant.
It is inadvisable to do this to the vaccine. https://t.co/wUimxfWbut
— B’more City Health (@BMore_Healthy) May 4, 2021
re: #140 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
They call him Hiram the needle, but he’s mostly not skinny.
re: #140 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
A guy whose username implies that they sell concentrated oxygen wants people not to wear masks.
re: #2 Dangerman
No
They
WouldntThey wouldnt pay a dime.
The estate would.They would merely inherit a bit less
Perfect incentive for Jeff Bezos to fund biological immortality research.
re: #126 DesertDenizen
Even if they are paying billions in taxes, why should my middle class self give a rat’s ass that a billionaire is paying taxes? They want sympathy from me? Boo fucking hoo.
oh you shouldnt and im not suggesting otherwise
we pay higher taxes than we otherwise couldn/might because theirs are so low
re: #63 Mike Lamb
This basically happened in Colorado already. The number of “professional development days” jumped to the point where they “had” to have remote learning in lieu of snow days in order to meet class time requirements.
I am a huge proponent of public education and would only send my kid to a private school if he had special needs or the nearest public school was unsafe. That said, I am having trouble digesting the amount of development days. I’d bet that my son (7 years old, first grade) has not had more than 3-4 full weeks of school since January as a result of holidays and development days. They had a development day the Friday before Spring Break, and have had 1-2 per month every month since January, with May being the lone holdout. Makes it challenging to have to juggle supervision with that much time off.
My grandchildren are doing summer school in Cincinnati. I bet the teachers are tired.
re: #144 JC1
Perfect incentive for Jeff Bezos to fund biological immortality research.
There was a Cory Doctorow story about the real reason for the Glass Donut in Cupertino, to house a semi-alive lump of meat combined with a transcendent AI that (together) claimed to be the living Steve Jobs. They spent billions in lawyers each year to keep this entity legally recognised as what it claimed to be. Hilarity ensued.
re: #145 Dangerman
oh you shouldnt and im not suggesting otherwise
we pay higher taxes than we otherwise couldn/might because theirs are so low
I’m not implying you are saying that, but Republicans certainly are.
BREAKING: Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has failed to form a new coalition government by a midnight deadline, putting his political future in question. https://t.co/0n5eXwPsGS
— The Associated Press (@AP) May 4, 2021
re: #149 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Well, damn. Does this mean there will be yet ANOTHER election?
So I did the political bubble thingy - 40% of my neighbors are democrats. That is a pleasant, but not pleasant enough, surprise.
Used my neighbor’s address, it came back with a communist libtard lives next door. //
re: #144 JC1
Perfect incentive for Jeff Bezos to fund biological immortality research.
That’s a dystopian sci-fi scenario. Can you imagine if the wealthy people in charge lived forever? It wouldn’t be much better than dealing with actual vampires.
re: #127 jaunte
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Ha! On the “communications platform” - basically just a blog - are options to share the content by Trump on Facebook and Twitter. 😅😅😅 https://t.co/4GuDiuMg5O pic.twitter.com/MU5tQeyISg
— Maina (@FQanini) May 4, 2021
re: #150 Eclectic Cyborg
Well, damn. Does this mean there will be yet ANOTHER election?
4th time is the charm?
/s/
re: #153 Dangerman
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oh and of course it does
Trump’s new “blog” is all about the money. It even has the recurring donation box conveniently checked for you already. pic.twitter.com/nZGNNhMTAK
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) May 4, 2021
re: #152 Punish Domestic Terrorists
That’s a dystopian sci-fi scenario. Can you imagine if the wealthy people in charge lived forever? It wouldn’t be much better than dealing with actual vampires.
I prefer the San Junipero solution :)
This decision seems very, very significant. Judge Jackson is an incredibly careful jurist. This is a big deal.
Judge orders release of DOJ memo justifying not prosecuting Trump https://t.co/RdUVpHYSra— Neal Katyal (@neal_katyal) May 4, 2021
“…U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson issued that ruling in a withering opinion that accused Barr of being “disingenuous” when describing Mueller’s findings and found that the Justice Department was not candid with the court about the purpose and role of the 2019 memo prepared by Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel.
………..“Not only was the Attorney General being disingenuous then, but DOJ has been disingenuous to this Court with respect to the existence of a decision-making process that should be shielded by the deliberative process privilege,” she wrote. “The agency’s redactions and incomplete explanations obfuscate the true purpose of the memorandum, and the excised portions belie the notion that it fell to the Attorney General to make a prosecution decision or that any such decision was on the table at any time.”
Justice Department attorneys also argued that the memo is covered by attorney-client privilege, but Jackson said much of it didn’t seem to contain legal advice or conclusions. “The Court is not persuaded that the agency has met its burden to demonstrate that the memorandum was transmitted for the purpose of providing legal advice, as opposed to the strategic and policy advice that falls outside the scope of the privilege,” the judge wrote.”
re: #152 Punish Domestic Terrorists
That’s a dystopian sci-fi scenario. Can you imagine if the wealthy people in charge lived forever? It wouldn’t be much better than dealing with actual vampires.
It didn’t directly deal with the wealthy, but Steel Beach talked about a future where people were immortal, and how depressing it was.
The only thing remarkable about the new blog site TFG created to yell at the world and grift the rubes…
…is that it somehow took him more than three months to launch it.
These people are not competent.
Inverting reality completely is very Trumpy, lying cult lady.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 4, 2021
“A group of major companies and business organizations came out Tuesday against a Texas voting bill, after debating how aggressively they should be involved in state legislation,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Nearly 50 companies, including Microsoft, Unilever PLC, and American Airlines Group, signed a letter opposing ‘any changes that would restrict eligible voters’ access to the ballot’ in Texas, days ahead of an expected vote in the state legislature on a voting bill.
re: #150 Eclectic Cyborg
Well, damn. Does this mean there will be yet ANOTHER election?
I think it means the other side gets a chance to form a government. Will Bibi’s criminal trial never start?
re: #68 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
But I hear you.
Giving a platform to someone who helped incite an insurrection is unforgivable.
Does one bad move outweigh all the other features? Ordinarily I’d be inclined to let it go. But the Post is abetting the Big Lie solely by showcasing Hawley. He should be a pariah, unless he acknowledges his support for overturning a free and fair election, giving added legitimacy to the Lie, and changing his behavior.
The Post is getting lots of negative comments. Cancelling is one of the few, if not the only, means of pressure I can exert.
When I ended my NYT subscription I wrote a long explanation and promised to re-subscribe if their behavior changed. Same here.
re: #152 Punish Domestic Terrorists
That’s a dystopian sci-fi scenario. Can you imagine if the wealthy people in charge lived forever? It wouldn’t be much better than dealing with actual vampires.
That’s the series “Altered Carbon.” On Netflix.
re: #164 No Malarkey!
That’s the series “Altered Carbon.” On Netflix.
I had forgotten about that one, even though I read it a couple of years ago.
re: #155 Dangerman
And, it took them four months to come up with a ‘blog’
I bet I could have one up and running in a week, and I’m literally ‘web design illiterate’
re: #156 William Lewis
I prefer the San Junipero solution :)
I haven’t seen that episode, but I have talked about creating our own life after death with mind uploads to accomplish what religion failed to deliver.
Some people imagine that VR will evolve into the fantasy version in movies and animation that connects to your nervous system, and I tell them upload right before death is much more likely, because the brain is not going to make it through the process of being wired for VR, but you don’t need that brain anymore if we learn to scan and upload.
re: #138 Mattand
……
The podcast is always admonishing listeners to get their news from other sources and not stay in a bubble. I keep using a variation of what you said: “I do live in a bubble, and it’s the one where people are horrified that Trump set up child concentration camps on our souther border, and that he tried to murder his VP with a mob to stay in office.”This fucking “both sides” shit is worse when it comes from educated people who are supposedly always going on about valuing evidence and thinking critically.
It’s like telling someone who believes in evolution to listen to a creationist’s argument. The only time there may be some value is to learn the lies that the other side is being told. The trouble of course is that some proponents of the other side can be very effective in brainwashing people to join their cult.
re: #167 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I haven’t seen that episode, but I have talked about creating our own life after death with mind uploads to accomplish what religion failed to deliver.
Some people imagine that VR will evolve into the fantasy version in movies and animation that connects to your nervous system, and I tell them upload right before death is much more likely, because the brain is not going to make it through the process of being wired for VR, but you don’t need that brain anymore if we learn to scan and upload.
Still, until we understand the mind more and have the ability to create real AI, this will never happen, and even when it does will likely be just a bunch of code that’s a copy of you that thinks it’s you.
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re: #152 Punish Domestic Terrorists
That’s a dystopian sci-fi scenario. Can you imagine if the wealthy people in charge lived forever? It wouldn’t be much better than dealing with actual vampires.
I’m sure I’ve seen a SF movie where they can upload their minds into the body of whatever good-looking 22-year-old they’ve kidnapped for the purpose…
re: #169 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David
Still, until we understand the mind more and have the ability to create real AI, this will never happen, and even when it does will likely be just a bunch of code that’s a copy of you that thinks it’s you.
If we create real AI, it’s probably the end of humanity, so the continuity of consciousness problem won’t be an issue. We’ll just be replaced.
re: #172 sagehen
I’m sure I’ve seen a SF movie where they can upload their minds into the body of whatever good-looking 22-year-old they’ve kidnapped for the purpose…
Netflix, Altered Carbon
re: #170 darthstar
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makes you think about putting them on an iceberg to float out to sea…
(did the Inuit ever actually do that? or is it a colonizer fable?)
re: #172 sagehen
I’m sure I’ve seen a SF movie where they can upload their minds into the body of whatever good-looking 22-year-old they’ve kidnapped for the purpose…
They clone their bodies, and call them “sleeves”
re: #175 sagehen
makes you think about putting them on an iceberg to float out to sea…
(did the Inuit ever actually do that? or is it a colonizer fable?)
re: #173 Punish Domestic Terrorists
If we create real AI, it’s probably the end of humanity, so the continuity of consciousness problem won’t be an issue. We’ll just be replaced.
Uploading of consciousness and having it actually stay “consciousness” and not just a really complex computer program will very likely require the same tech for sentient AI.
So don’t hold your breath for either.
re: #178 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David
Uploading of consciousness and having it actually stay “consciousness” and not just a really complex computer program will very likely require the same tech for sentient AI.
So don’t hold your breath for either.
Time for the metaphysical question. If you upload your consciousness into a computer is that really you? Or just a copy that will replace you? Same thing with Star Trek style transporters.
The Bad Batch episode 1 is live on Disney+.
re: #170 darthstar
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re: #178 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David
Uploading of consciousness and having it actually stay “consciousness” and not just a really complex computer program will very likely require the same tech for sentient AI.
So don’t hold your breath for either.
if i were AI i wouldnt need to breathe would i?
re: #178 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David
Uploading of consciousness and having it actually stay “consciousness” and not just a really complex computer program will very likely require the same tech for sentient AI.
So don’t hold your breath for either.
I’ve given up on immortality myself, but even a read-only version of dead loved ones that could only remember and reminisce would be very popular.
re: #178 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David
Pft. We just need to build a big enough Lisp Machine.
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re: #138 Mattand
The thing is that after spending enough time gathering and weighing evidence, it is judgement time. And my conclusion for Republicans is this:
1) The Republican party is utterly worthless. It has no fixed principles other than lower taxes on the rich and less business regulations, both of which are beyond superfluous in the kind of corporate dominated plutocracy the US currently is.
2) Realizing that getting votes for their real agenda is difficult, Republicans have embarked on a decades-long propaganda campaign to transform the party into moral monsters, where sociopaths at the top lead the seething resentful masses of the GOP base via the most perfect propaganda operation in history.
3) Trump is properly understood as the inevitable consequence of the GOP’s ongoing degeneration into a reactionary fascist death cult.
re: #152 Punish Domestic Terrorists
That’s a dystopian sci-fi scenario. Can you imagine if the wealthy people in charge lived forever? It wouldn’t be much better than dealing with actual vampires.
That’s why I view any real progress in longevity research as a civilization ender.
re: #172 sagehen
I’m sure I’ve seen a SF movie where they can upload their minds into the body of whatever good-looking 22-year-old they’ve kidnapped for the purpose…
The Atomic Brain (as seen on MST3K)
re: #176 Thanos
They clone their bodies, and call them “sleeves”
There is a movie about body snatching starring Emilio Estevez and Mick Jagger as well.
re: #168 Hecuba’s daughter
It’s like telling someone who believes in evolution to listen to a creationist’s argument. The only time there may be some value is to learn the lies that the other side is being told. The trouble of course is that some proponents of the other side can be very effective in brainwashing people to join their cult.
It’s a little more nuanced than that, and there was a lot kvetching on my part. They are basically science education proponents. They have listened to the creationists, and routinely dump on them. The podcast regularly denounces cranks of all stripes: creationists, flat earthers, psychics, etc.
The Principle of Charity thing is to go in at least willing to hear someone out and not being a massive jacksass from the get-go. If the other participant is still saying that cupping is a legit physical therapy, or that Bigfoot is absolutely real despite no hard evidence, well, have at it.
My issue is that when it comes to politics, I personally feel that there’s a lot of both-sides bullshit being embraced so as not to offend anyone. I get the fact that a majority of your garden variety conservatives love their kids, work hard, and try to be good to their neighbors. My thing is that while all that is well and good, at some point the elephant (pun intended) in the room needs to be addressed: they support a party that is pretty much is all in on “Yeah, if we need to go fascist to get back in power and stay there, we’ll permanently live up Trump’s ass.”
Again, my opinion but the podcast panel tend to handwave away how fucked up the GOP is until it’s unavoidable; for example, they’ve actually criticized Trump for fucking up the COVID response and the global warming denial.
Ugh, sorry. Been in a mood today. I’m just sick of hearing how I need to Kumbaya it out with people who support a guy who turned a mob loose on Congress to overturn a free election.
re: #191 No Malarkey!
There is a movie about body snatching starring Emilio Estevez and Mick Jagger as well.
That was on broadcast tv here the other day. haha
re: #159 ipsos
The only thing remarkable about the new blog site TFG created to yell at the world and grift the rubes…
…is that it somehow took him more than three months to launch it.
These people are not competent.
Does “TGF” stand for “The Forever Grift”?
re: #161 Dangerman
It would be lovely if American, United and Southwest (#’s 1, 3, and 4 nationwide), all based in Texas, moved their HQ’s elsewhere over this and cut off service to the State.
“Governor” Abbot (R-Mars) (and “Wheels” to his, ummm…, friends) would call a special session in 12 minutes.
re: #172 sagehen
I’m sure I’ve seen a SF movie where they can upload their minds into the body of whatever good-looking 22-year-old they’ve kidnapped for the purpose…
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