Simple Beauty: Rhiannon Giddens, “Waterbound” (With Francesco Turrisi)

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Rhiannon Giddens performs “Waterbound” with Francesco Turrisi, from their album ‘They’re Calling Me Home,’ out now on Nonesuch Records: smarturl.it

Directed by Rhiannon Giddens and Laura Sheeran
Guitar: Niwel Tsumbu
Producer: Rhiannon Giddens
Director of Photography / Editor: Laura Sheeran
Filmed in Co. Dublin and Co. Wicklow, Ireland

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Sep 25, 2021 • 10:52:54am

bumped:
re: #265 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Oh dear!

Texas Longhorns (2-1) leading the Texas Tech Red Rioters (3-0) 42-14 AT THE HALF.

In the meantime, Lubbock authorities continue to ignore my quite reasonable suggestion to control post-game vandalism and mayhem by providing free marijuana to the student body, by emergency airdrop if necessary.
The local cops could leave their guns, teargas, and tasers in the car and arm themselves with big sacks of Oreos and Doritos.
“Here, kid, have a cookie and go sit on the curb.”
“Cool! Thanks man!”

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Charles Johnson  Sep 25, 2021 • 10:56:11am
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PhillyPretzel  Sep 25, 2021 • 10:56:45am

re: #1 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

The cops do not like that because it does not allow them to act like big and tough guys. Of course some of them do but that is another story.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 25, 2021 • 10:56:47am
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Targetpractice  Sep 25, 2021 • 10:59:00am

re: #4 Charles Johnson

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Tiger Beat on the Potomac trying so desperately to make it look like Elder was a legitimate candidate who enjoyed real support, rather than just the Trump-approved alternative to the state GQP’s chosen candidate.

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Florida Panhandler  Sep 25, 2021 • 11:03:42am

re: #4 Charles Johnson

The sick irony is that with this new sad, sick proposal from a real creep weirdo like Elder actually rewarding slavery many will be coming out of the woodwork proudly claiming their ancestors owned slaves.

These very same types of people just a short time ago went to great lengths to try to distance themselves from any connection to slavery.

Sick creeps one and all.

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Dangerman  Sep 25, 2021 • 11:04:01am

re: #2 Charles Johnson

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Abbott folded in 8 hours

Made Lindsey look like a piker

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Targetpractice  Sep 25, 2021 • 11:10:40am

re: #2 Charles Johnson

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Trump’s demand actually folds right into Gov. Ironside’s agenda, namely justifying abusively ridiculous voter suppression laws by looking for evidence of “fraud” in the system. This audit has nothing to do with changing the results of the election and everything to do with perpetuating the myth that there was widespread “fraud” afoot last November and the only way to ensure “election integrity” is to make it impossible for all but those that the state GQP approve of to vote.

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ckkatz  Sep 25, 2021 • 11:11:12am

Sid Meier wrote a memior:

Sid Meier and the Meaning of “Civilization”
How one video game tells the story of an industry.

Sid Meier is famous for creating the video game Civilization. He’s also known for having his name on the box. Meier released Civilization thirty years ago this month, after developing it with Bruce Shelley, a veteran board-game designer. The pair were inspired by the illustrated history books you might find on a middle-school library shelf, and by titles like Seven Cities of Gold (1984), a video game of Spanish conquest created by the designer Danielle Berry. In Civilization, you start with a covered wagon on a map that is largely obscured. You found a city. You learn metalwork, horse riding, feudalism, democracy, and diplomatic relations. Eventually, the rest of the world is revealed—a patchwork of nations. You can dominate your neighbors or strive to outshine them. History rolls on.

Civilization didn’t mark the first time Meier’s name appeared on a box. In 1987, we got Sid Meier’s Pirates!, in which you sail your way across the Caribbean, evolving from a winsome privateer to a peg-legged Blackbeard. In 1990, Meier’s earlier collaboration with Shelley resulted in Sid Meier’s Railroad Tycoon, a construction simulator that spawned a slew of copycats. And then, in 1991, with little marketing fanfare, Civilization appeared. Players realized that they had found a gem. The Sid Meier stamp exploded, popping up on Sid Meier’s Gettysburg!, Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri, and Sid Meier’s SimGolf. There were sequels to Civilization, which Meier had little to do with. We’re now on Sid Meier’s Civilization VI. His name is still on the box.

The latest rectangle to bear his name is not a game but a book: “Sid Meier’s Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games” (W. W. Norton). It provides a whistle-stop tour of the video-game industry as it evolved across Meier’s four-decade career. Today, we swim through a digital soup made by machines that were developed, in large part, to play games. Graphics processors designed in the nineteen-nineties for first-person shooters became useful, a decade later, to the developers of the neural nets that power our social-media platforms. Many of the people who helped create our virtual environments cut their teeth by making and playing video games. “I’ve been playing Civilization since middle school,” the Facebook C.E.O., Mark Zuckerberg, wrote in a post on his Web site. “It’s my favorite strategy game and one of the reasons I got into engineering.”

…More at link below…

newyorker.com

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Targetpractice  Sep 25, 2021 • 11:17:39am

Realistically, what we’ve been seeing with the GQP and their voter suppression laws is nothing new, we see the same thing virtually every time they lose an election, the call for new laws under the guise of “election integrity” or “vote security” or whatever Orwellian phrase they come up with to disguise their efforts to keep all but their very white base from voting.

All that’s really changed this go-around is that the candidate that they’d normally pay lip service to while they went about their business has instead inserted himself into the process by screaming that he was “robbed” of his rightful place as El President For Life and that the party has to do “something” to reverse that result. And that runs the very real risk of canceling out what would normally be the very real advantage the opposition enjoys in midterm elections.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Sep 25, 2021 • 11:22:02am

re: #8 Targetpractice

Trump’s demand actually folds right into Gov. Ironside’s agenda, namely justifying abusively ridiculous voter suppression laws by looking for evidence of “fraud” in the system. This audit has nothing to do with changing the results of the election and everything to do with perpetuating the myth that there was widespread “fraud” afoot last November and the only way to ensure “election integrity” is to make it impossible for all but those that the state GQP approve of to vote.

The irony in that (fully intended) is that the ones they approve of, are committing the fraud on their behalf.

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sagehen  Sep 25, 2021 • 11:22:17am

re: #1 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

bumped:

In the meantime, Lubbock authorities continue to ignore my quite reasonable suggestion to control post-game vandalism and mayhem by providing free marijuana to the student body, by emergency airdrop if necessary.
The local cops could leave their guns, teargas, and tasers in the car and arm themselves with big sacks of Oreos and Doritos.
“Here, kid, have a cookie and go sit on the curb.”
“Cool! Thanks man!”

That’s a winning platform should you run for City Council. Good way to register more young voters while you’re at it.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Sep 25, 2021 • 11:23:40am
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Sep 25, 2021 • 11:25:26am
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Targetpractice  Sep 25, 2021 • 11:29:43am

re: #9 ckkatz

Sid Meier wrote a memior:

Sid Meier and the Meaning of “Civilization”
How one video game tells the story of an industry.

newyorker.com

I got into the Civ franchise with Civ III, but I will always have a special place in my heart for Civ IV, if only for this:

Christopher Tin - Baba Yetu (Official Video) feat. Soweto Gospel Choir

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Dread Pirate Ron  Sep 25, 2021 • 11:31:00am
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ckkatz  Sep 25, 2021 • 11:33:52am

I’m at the “I can’t even” stage with Abbot and DeSantis But I am not a resident of Florida or Texas.

I am curious to hear from our lizard colleagues of Florida and Texas.

What are their thoughts?
How they coping with this?
Has any of this directly affected them? Negatively?
Are they concerned about the state leadership doing something which might force them from the state?

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Targetpractice  Sep 25, 2021 • 11:34:16am

re: #16 Dread Pirate Ron

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Anti-vaxxers keep perpetuating shit like this while insisting that the reason people are “hesitant” is because scientists at the very beginning of the outbreak made questionable calls based upon incomplete data.

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ckkatz  Sep 25, 2021 • 11:35:35am

re: #15 Targetpractice

Wow! Lots of memories of way too many hours on Civ. Thanks!

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Decatur Deb  Sep 25, 2021 • 11:35:38am

re: #9 ckkatz

I’m still playing Civ 4 for the mental and physical exercise. (I only allow myself to feed my addiction if I play in front of a big screen while riding the hamster bike. It has saved my mind and my life.) I won’t move on to Civ5 or Civ6 until I have won one Civ4 game at Deity level.

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Belafon  Sep 25, 2021 • 11:37:42am

re: #17 ckkatz

I’m at the “I can’t even” stage with Abbot and DeSantis But I am not a resident of Florida or Texas.

I am curious to hear from our lizard colleagues of Florida and Texas.

What are their thoughts?
How they coping with this?
Has any of this directly affected them? Negatively?
Are they concerned about the state leadership doing something which might force them from the state?

They’re both running for president, and if you’re going to run in 2024, you will have to out-Trump Trump. “Look, I killed 80,000 people in my state.” “Ha, I killed 100,000. Think of what I can do to the whole country.”

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 25, 2021 • 11:40:25am

re: #18 Targetpractice

Anti-vaxxers keep perpetuating shit like this while insisting that the reason people are “hesitant” is because scientists at the very beginning of the outbreak made questionable calls based upon incomplete data.

Here’s the latest FB tirade from a pro-Trump anti-vaxxer with no medical credentials, posted just this morning:

It’s time for the Biden administration to stop lying about the available treatments for Covid.
Instead of blaming unvaccinated people, start telling Americans about the oral and IV therapeutics to treat early infection.
If treated early, people get cured.
What the Biden administration is doing is medical malpractice.
In medicine there is no such thing as one size fits all.
Other countries around the world have figured out that vaccines for some, treatment for all who are infected actually works.
It’s time to stop politicizing Covid and start telling the truth!

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ckkatz  Sep 25, 2021 • 11:41:17am

re: #20 Decatur Deb

Like you, I am staying at Civ4. I didn’t like the design decisions for Civ5. And if I was interested in the Civ6 system, I would probably just go with the WarHammer/TotalWar system. And I may do that at some point.

Good luck with the Deity win! You could set up the cheats and play Deity and probably still get an interesting game.

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Ming5000  Sep 25, 2021 • 11:43:47am

The religion aspect of Civ 6 was too overwhelming, IMHO. I couldn’t enjoy it.
I am stuck on Civ 5

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Rightwingconspirator  Sep 25, 2021 • 11:44:06am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 25, 2021 • 11:44:24am

re: #17 ckkatz

I’m not in Florida but I am in the Deep South and I can tell you most GOP governors around here aren’t much better than Abbott.

Our Governor, Tate Reeves went on national TV recently and said people from our state aren’t as afraid of dying from Covid because it means we get to go to Heaven.

Not to mention he has REFUSED to outright support vaccines (despite being vaccinated himself).

🙄

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Sep 25, 2021 • 11:44:58am

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Decatur Deb  Sep 25, 2021 • 11:46:29am

re: #23 ckkatz

Like you, I am staying at Civ4. I didn’t like the design decisions for Civ5. And if I was interested in the Civ6 system, I would probably just go with the WarHammer/TotalWar system. And I may do that at some point.

Good luck with the Deity win! You could set up the cheats and play Deity and probably still get an interesting game.

Using any cheats would make it pointless. I’m stuck at Emperor for the last several years. The conditions for a win are pretty obvious now, and if they aren’t present I abandon a game at the end of an hour on the bike. It sounds like I would skip Civ5 too, they’ll probably be touting Civ10 by the time I luck through. It’s a good game if I make it to gunpowder tech.

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Tahitinho  Sep 25, 2021 • 11:47:33am

re: #17 ckkatz

As a high-school teacher in FL, the direct effect to me is that my school can not mandate that kids wear masks, as the district, with its Repub superintendent, follows DeSantis’s lead. I’m hoping most of the 60% or so who don’t wear masks are vaccinated, but we are not allowed to ask.

Last year, everyone wore masks and ~40% of students were online. I had 3 students that I know of who tested positive all year, out of ~150.

This year, I have had over a dozen already. Hard to say for certain, as we are not always notified, but when a kid is out for 2 weeks straight, you can guess. So, that’s about 10% of my students catching Covid already, and it’s only September (we’ve been in school for about 6 weeks). Most likely, most caught it outside of school.

So far, all recovered pretty quickly, although one student has lingering symptoms (fatigue, difficulty concentrating, etc.).

Me, I’m Pfizer’d up and wear a double mask, hoping for the best.

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 25, 2021 • 11:47:37am

re: #27 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

That is a good one.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 25, 2021 • 11:49:16am

re: #31 Tahitinho

A teacher shouldn’t have to take the Death Commando oath.

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JC1  Sep 25, 2021 • 11:49:20am

re: #20 Decatur Deb

I’m still playing Civ 4 for the mental and physical exercise. (I only allow myself to feed my addiction if I play in front of a big screen while riding the hamster bike. It has saved my mind and my life.) I won’t move on to Civ5 or Civ6 until I have won one Civ4 game at Deity level.

Civ5 was my favorite of the bunch. Civ6 didn’t draw me in for some reason. I still remember beating civ 1 on deity (or whatever the highest difficulty was back then).

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ckkatz  Sep 25, 2021 • 11:51:00am

re: #31 Tahitinho

As a high-school teacher in FL, the direct effect to me is that my school can not mandate that kids wear masks, as the district, with its Repub superintendent, follows DeSantis’s lead. I’m hoping most of the 60% or so who don’t wear masks are vaccinated, but we are not allowed to ask.

Last year, everyone wore masks and ~40% of students were online. I had 3 students that I know of who tested positive all year, out of ~150.

This year, I have had over a dozen already. Hard to say for certain, as we are not always notified, but when a kid is out for 2 weeks straight, you can guess. So, that’s about 10% of my students catching Covid already, and it’s only September (we’ve been in school for about 6 weeks). Most likely, most caught it outside of school.

So far, all recovered pretty quickly, although one student has lingering symptoms (fatigue, difficulty concentrating, etc.).

Me, I’m Pfizer’d up and wear a double mask, hoping for the best.

I am so sorry to hear about your students getting sick and for the risk you have been enduring. Glad to hear that you have been able to adopt every protective measure and dodge the risk.

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JC1  Sep 25, 2021 • 11:51:50am

re: #29 Decatur Deb

Using any cheats would make it pointless. I’m stuck at Emperor for the last several years. The conditions for a win are pretty obvious now, and if they aren’t present I abandon a game at the end of an hour on the bike. It sounds like I would skip Civ5 too, they’ll probably be touting Civ10 by the time I luck through. It’s a good game if I make it to gunpowder tech.

Civ 5 is great, IMHO. With civ 4 playing on diety, you have to hope to find a settler in a hut early on and essentially start with 2 cities. It’s been like a decade since I’ve played 4 though.

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JOE 🥓  Sep 25, 2021 • 11:52:46am
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Decatur Deb  Sep 25, 2021 • 11:55:25am

re: #36 JC1

Civ 5 is great, IMHO. With civ 4 playing on diety, you have to hope to find a settler in a hut early on and essentially start with 2 cities. It’s been like a decade since I’ve played 4 though.

From reading, I think I’d miss the religion aspect—it fits well with my Anthro schooling. It looks like Civ6 variants let you dial it back in.

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Targetpractice  Sep 25, 2021 • 11:56:28am

re: #22 Hecuba’s daughter

Here’s the latest FB tirade from a pro-Trump anti-vaxxer with no medical credentials, posted just this morning:

The operative words in that whole rant as “If treated early.” As we saw in FL when they first opened up the monoclonal antibody treatment centers, most of these assholes are so in denial that they wait until they are literally passing out from low O2 stats before they seek actual treatment. By that point, the damage has been done and any mitigation efforts are pointless. Before that point, they keep lying to themselves that that persistent cough is just the flu/cold/allergies and there’s no need to see a doctor. And then they follow up that stupidity by downing horse paste and nebulizing hydrogen peroxide, doing further damage based upon either faulty science or absolute lies.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 25, 2021 • 11:59:14am

re: #37 JOE 🥓

Hydrogen peroxide, when diluted with water, makes a great mouthwash. Helps if you’ve got a dental abscess, too.

I’ve never thought about inhaling it, though.

Probably because I’m not batshit insane.

And with that, good night Lizards and stay healthy.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 25, 2021 • 12:02:10pm

re: #39 Targetpractice

The operative words in that whole rant as “If treated early.” …

Wife’s symptoms were so mild she didn’t get tested until I went hot. (At that, the first Alabama doc shop wouldn’t test her even after they saw I was positive.) Because she was several days from onset, the clinic wouldn’t schedule her for the monoclonal. Turning out OK, though. Getting tested early is the key, and that depends on your locality and perhaps on your economics.

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darthstar  Sep 25, 2021 • 12:04:04pm

re: #37 JOE 🥓

Dr. Facebook said it would work though.

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Targetpractice  Sep 25, 2021 • 12:06:32pm

re: #41 Decatur Deb

Wife’s symptoms were so mild she didn’t get tested until I went hot. (At that, the first Alabama doc shop wouldn’t test her even after they saw I was positive.) Because she was several days from onset, the clinic wouldn’t schedule her for the monoclonal. Turning out OK, though. Getting tested early is the key, and that depends on your locality and perhaps on your economics.

And that’s what is making this anti-vaxxer position such a fucking joke, that they’ve spent so much time and effort promoting the idea that the pandemic is a “hoax” that most people don’t realize they’re infected until they’re so far along the progression curve that “mitigation” is a moot point. If they wanted to prove that their snake oil worked, they’d be banging the drums for frequent testing (even for those who are not visibly sick) and immediate treatment of those who pop positive. Instead, they promote ignorance and “hesitancy” until Average Joe Sixpack is coughing up his lungs, and then scream that throwing HCQ and zinc at them will “cure” them.

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JOE 🥓  Sep 25, 2021 • 12:06:34pm

re: #42 darthstar

Dr. Facebook said it would work though.

Fine. Believe Dr. Facebook you stupid assholes. When you wind up taking the dirt nap remember you made that choice to be stupid!

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darthstar  Sep 25, 2021 • 12:06:52pm

Looking forward to the next miracle cure Dr. Facebook provides.

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Tahitinho  Sep 25, 2021 • 12:06:58pm

Driving home yesterday, I saw a sticker on a car’s back window, promoting a website which I will not name here (a modern-day cousin of 911Truth, but for Covid). Out of morbid curiosity, I looked.

There was a video that claimed if I watched it, in less than 20 minutes I would be immune from viruses for ever. So, okay, I did. The video claimed to debunk the “discredited Germ Theory of Disease.” The claim was that scientists (that foolish lot who can so easily be shown up by anyone with an internet connection) looked in their microscopes, saw cells dying and falling into pieces, and mistakenly identified the cellular debris as “viruses.” Some of the dead cell pieces were round, so scientists called them “corona viruses”, you see. All this was presented as established fact, something that really happened.

There is no such thing as a “virus”, the video proudly stated. It’s all so-called scientists being stupid when the truth is clear to see, and then refusing to admit their obvious mistake. Diseases, you see, are not transmissible. There is no such thing as a contagious disease. It’s all toxins, or bad nutrition, or something. The video was not too clear on that.

But I’m immune from Covid and other diseases because there are no viruses, according to this website. See, I did my research!

To top it all off, on the side of the screen, there were links to other videos. One was titled, “Chemtrails prove Flat Earth.”

Sigh…

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Sep 25, 2021 • 12:10:49pm

re: #40 Dr Lizardo

Hydrogen peroxide, when diluted with water, makes a great mouthwash. Helps if you’ve got a dental abscess, too.

I’ve never thought about inhaling it, though.

Probably because I’m not batshit insane.

And with that, good night Lizards and stay healthy.

I remember people would use it to dye their hair blonde in the summer. But yeah inhaling it. Not on my list just like the deworming. I will be going for my Pfizer booster soon tho. Guess that makes me a sheep but I’d rather be a honest sheep than a sheep who thinks he’s a wolf.

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JOE 🥓  Sep 25, 2021 • 12:10:50pm

re: #45 darthstar

Looking forward to the next miracle cure Dr. Facebook provides.

Praying to Trump…

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Sep 25, 2021 • 12:11:57pm

re: #45 darthstar

Looking forward to the next miracle cure Dr. Facebook provides.

Antifreeze. “Your dog likes the smell, so shove it up your butt to prevent Covid.”

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Targetpractice  Sep 25, 2021 • 12:12:20pm

Most of the studies involving drugs like HCQ and Ivermectin that even suggest that it has the potential to be useful tend to emphasize that it could shorten the duration of mild symptoms or that it could reduce the risk of fatality in persons with severe symptoms. But there is no “cure” and the suggestion that there is a protocol involving any of these drugs or other treatments that is sufficient to obviate the usefulness of vaccines is absolute batshit craziness. Even monoclonal antibodies and Regeneron (which is still only available under FDA EUA) are recommended for mild to moderate cases caught early, not at the point when you’re jamming tubes down people’s windpipes.

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teleskiguy  Sep 25, 2021 • 12:15:01pm

re: #46 Tahitinho

We’re up against forces of ignorance and stupidity that bloody well should scare thinking people everywhere. I cannot imagine the daily slog that is living in a very conservative area right now, what with all the little moments that make you want to go headdesk. Keep on keepin’ on, keep us updated, and come around for moral support. We’re all mad as fucking hell and highly cognizant of the fucked up-ness of things.

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A Mom Anon  Sep 25, 2021 • 12:16:10pm

I can’t with these idiots and nebulizing peroxide now. Honest to fucking god, what the actual fuck is wrong with these people? This is like some mass delusion with no end in sight.

I mean, this will definitely rid the world of a LOT of selfish and stupid humans, but a lot of good people trying hard to do the right things are going to get taken down with them and that pisses me off to no end.

They act like we actually love all this lockdowns and masking and keeping everyone at a distance. Fuck no. I want to be able to hug the two ladies at the Kroger where I shop that I’ve known for 20 years, or my son’s friends who we consider family, or just to offer support when I see a fellow human struggling when I am out and about. Or to be able to just get out safely again and see shows and go on a little road trip or something. But because of selfish and dumb and dug in humans, I can’t do any of that. I’m over it and pissed and have nowhere to put that anger.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 25, 2021 • 12:18:57pm

re: #37 JOE 🥓

And we mocked Trump for wanting to inject bleach into veins.

re: #40 Dr Lizardo

My dentist sort of cringes when I told him I was using an H2O2 solution (1.5%, half diluting the store-bought 3%) for a mouthwash while I had an open cavity.

I think the problem with hydrogen peroxide as a mouthwash is that it alters the biome in a way that can be harmful. I least that is my guess, given my dentist’s dislike of it.

Tooth whitening products are often just hydrogen peroxide, in some sort of gel.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 25, 2021 • 12:19:11pm

For the fourth day this week, I’m well enough to get back on the exercise bike. Ah. that fresh new “Settler” smell. BBIAH.

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JOE 🥓  Sep 25, 2021 • 12:31:43pm

re: #52 A Mom Anon

I can’t with these idiots and nebulizing peroxide now. Honest to fucking god, what the actual fuck is wrong with these people? This is like some mass delusion with no end in sight.

I mean, this will definitely rid the world of a LOT of selfish and stupid humans, but a lot of good people trying hard to do the right things are going to get taken down with them and that pisses me off to no end.

They act like we actually love all this lockdowns and masking and keeping everyone at a distance. Fuck no. I want to be able to hug the two ladies at the Kroger where I shop that I’ve known for 20 years, or my son’s friends who we consider family, or just to offer support when I see a fellow human struggling when I am out and about. Or to be able to just get out safely again and see shows and go on a little road trip or something. But because of selfish and dumb and dug in humans, I can’t do any of that. I’m over it and pissed and have nowhere to put that anger.

They have been brainwashed over the past 50 years by the 24/7 Republican Bullshit Machine.

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teleskiguy  Sep 25, 2021 • 12:35:18pm
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A Mom Anon  Sep 25, 2021 • 12:35:53pm

re: #55 JOE 🥓

Yeah but you’d think selfish assholes would be a little more about self preservation, ya know?

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Sep 25, 2021 • 12:36:38pm

Texas 70, Texas Tech 35

I wonder if Abbott will authorize a recount?

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JOE 🥓  Sep 25, 2021 • 12:36:38pm

It’s Flynn and his pals who are behind the peroxide shit!

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Targetpractice  Sep 25, 2021 • 12:37:47pm

re: #52 A Mom Anon

I can’t with these idiots and nebulizing peroxide now. Honest to fucking god, what the actual fuck is wrong with these people? This is like some mass delusion with no end in sight.

I mean, this will definitely rid the world of a LOT of selfish and stupid humans, but a lot of good people trying hard to do the right things are going to get taken down with them and that pisses me off to no end.

They act like we actually love all this lockdowns and masking and keeping everyone at a distance. Fuck no. I want to be able to hug the two ladies at the Kroger where I shop that I’ve known for 20 years, or my son’s friends who we consider family, or just to offer support when I see a fellow human struggling when I am out and about. Or to be able to just get out safely again and see shows and go on a little road trip or something. But because of selfish and dumb and dug in humans, I can’t do any of that. I’m over it and pissed and have nowhere to put that anger.

Part of what has always frustrated them about the pandemic is that it has not played to the script that they set out over a year ago. It was supposed to just “go away” last fall as the vacation months came to a close because (they thought at the time) so much of the hysteria about rising infection numbers was an effort by Dems to cripple the economy ahead of the election. They were sure that by the holidays the infection rates would have cratered and thus the economy would surge back in time to boost Trump to a second term.

Then the vaccines came out and infection rates began to drop, leading to a premature declaration that the pandemic was “over” and we’d be back to “normal” by summer. That was largely when the media began helping push this narrative that Dems had a fetish for “lockdown culture,” that everybody just wanted to go back to “normal” but it was Dems who were holding that up. It was the same time when they also started demanding DeathSantis get an “apology” and writing gushing articles about how this red state or that one had “won” against the pandemic by suffering few casualties despite refusing to impose lockdowns or mandates.

tl;dr: The selfish assholes are pissed because they want to “move on” and COVID is refusing to oblige.

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teleskiguy  Sep 25, 2021 • 12:38:29pm

Aspen grove fall colors are peaking in Colorado.

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Sep 25, 2021 • 12:41:15pm

re: #34 JC1

Civ5 was my favorite of the bunch. Civ6 didn’t draw me in for some reason. I still remember beating civ 1 on deity (or whatever the highest difficulty was back then).

Civ 5 is also my favorite of the series, but I wont lie and say I didn’t think the same of 3 and 4 when they were the latest. Civ 6 on the other hand… I heard bad things about early on, and had several people claim that 5 was far superior so I put it off until just recently. I got it during a Steam sale, played it for about 20 minutes and said… “I’m not going to be an asshole and request a refund, but… I should have just kept listening to everyone.”

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JOE 🥓  Sep 25, 2021 • 12:41:22pm

re: #57 A Mom Anon

Yeah but you’d think selfish assholes would be a little more about self preservation, ya know?

I still can’t get over Tate Reeves saying people can’t wait to go to heaven

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2021 • 12:48:32pm
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JOE 🥓  Sep 25, 2021 • 12:51:46pm

re: #64 Backwoods_Sleuth

What hurts is that relatives are there worshiping that fat fuck!

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Targetpractice  Sep 25, 2021 • 12:52:37pm

Honestly, I’m thinking about giving Humankind a try, as it looks like an overall improvement on the Civ model rather than just a graphical upgrade like Civ 6 ultimately ended up being. So many of the changes to Civ 6 seemed less about improving the experience and more about tinkering with things that already worked well.

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A Mom Anon  Sep 25, 2021 • 12:52:55pm

re: #64 Backwoods_Sleuth

Kill me now. Sigh. If I can figure out how to gtfo of this stupid state, I will never look back. I’ll miss the home we created with our own work, love and time, but not another person or thing, with perhaps a couple of exceptions, people wise.

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Tahitinho  Sep 25, 2021 • 12:53:50pm

re: #28 gocart mozart

Thanks for posting the Zappa. Had to listen to it twice. Such amazing, non-stop, ever-shifting creativity.

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teleskiguy  Sep 25, 2021 • 12:56:10pm

re: #68 Tahitinho

Inca Roads (Live In Chicago, 10/31/1973, Show 2)

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Targetpractice  Sep 25, 2021 • 12:57:04pm

One of the small tidbits about Civ 6 that I only found out later: In keeping with cinematic tradition, the character played by Sean Bean (the narrator) in the game’s original intro did indeed die.

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JC1  Sep 25, 2021 • 12:58:06pm

re: #38 Decatur Deb

From reading, I think I’d miss the religion aspect—it fits well with my Anthro schooling. It looks like Civ6 variants let you dial it back in.

There’s religion available in 5. If you’re going to play 5, you need to get the game with alk the expansions; the initial release was incomplete.

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Sep 25, 2021 • 12:58:44pm

re: #66 Targetpractice

Honestly, I’m thinking about giving Humankind a try, as it looks like an overall improvement on the Civ model rather than just a graphical upgrade like Civ 6 ultimately ended up being. So many of the changes to Civ 6 seemed less about improving the experience and more about tinkering with things that already worked well.

I’m keeping an eye on that one too. Last I heard it still needs some tweaking for gameplay, balance, etc reasons and that it’s kind of buggy right now though.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Sep 25, 2021 • 12:59:00pm

re: #66 Targetpractice

Honestly, I’m thinking about giving Humankind a try, as it looks like an overall improvement on the Civ model rather than just a graphical upgrade like Civ 6 ultimately ended up being. So many of the changes to Civ 6 seemed less about improving the experience and more about tinkering with things that already worked well.

Reviews aren’t great. I wouldn’t buy a $60 game with reviews like this.
store.steampowered.com

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Targetpractice  Sep 25, 2021 • 1:00:24pm

re: #72 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David

I’m keeping an eye on that one too. Last I heard it still needs some tweaking for gameplay, balance, etc reasons and that it’s kind of buggy right now though.

Yeah, I’ve got it on my Steam wishlist and will probably get it whenever the next sale happens. But lately I’ve been busy trying out Surviving Mars since the folks over at Paradox were kind enough to make it free for two days to coincide with the newest DLC.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2021 • 1:02:49pm
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Charles Johnson  Sep 25, 2021 • 1:04:25pm
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PhillyPretzel  Sep 25, 2021 • 1:04:54pm

re: #75 Backwoods_Sleuth

That is one very pretty caterpillar.

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teleskiguy  Sep 25, 2021 • 1:06:58pm

The roof supports the snowmaking system, the lighting, and *gulp* the chairlifts.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2021 • 1:07:45pm

re: #77 PhillyPretzel

That is one very pretty caterpillar.

the moth it turns into is fabulous!
en.wikipedia.org

Dalceridae
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Charles Johnson  Sep 25, 2021 • 1:08:29pm
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Targetpractice  Sep 25, 2021 • 1:10:11pm

Actually, I’ve been doing my usual thing when the summer months begin to ebb into fall and started using my sudden abundance of free time at work to try out a lot of the games and DLC that came out since last winter that I’ve had no real time to play.

First was Surviving Mars, then I finally got around to trying out Tropico 6, and the last few days has seen me crawl back to the evil empire to play some Sims 4. Perhaps I’ll change it up a bit tonight and drag Civ: Beyond Earth back out for a few hours.

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Sep 25, 2021 • 1:10:16pm

re: #80 Charles Johnson

Wasn’t there one in the white house for four years?

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Sep 25, 2021 • 1:10:35pm

re: #69 teleskiguy

Fun fact: George Duke told Zappa, “I can’t sing”. Zappa started forcing him to sing a “Daaaa!” here and a “Dooo-aaaa” there, and next thing you know here we are.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2021 • 1:12:50pm
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teleskiguy  Sep 25, 2021 • 1:13:30pm

One more Zappa. When he raps.

Dumb All Over

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Targetpractice  Sep 25, 2021 • 1:16:13pm

re: #76 Charles Johnson

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I genuinely never thought I’d see the day when people actually promoted the idea of having hospital patients worked upon by people who are actively spreading a deadly illness. FFS, there’s a reason that the nickname “Typhoid Mary” remains part of our cultural lexicon long after the woman died of old age.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2021 • 1:21:13pm
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A Mom Anon  Sep 25, 2021 • 1:22:20pm

re: #86 Targetpractice

That’s been one thing that has just stunned me about all this, that hospital corporations, care facility companies and so on are actually allowing ANYONE who isn’t vaccinated to work there. Those are healthcare related occupations FFS, if they don’t mandate proper medical protocols ,what the fuck? I would slap the shit out of anyone who got near me or my loved ones in that setting without vaccines. And if that hospital or care facility doesn’t mandate this then how the hell can you possibly make an informed choice about your care? God we look stupid world wide, not to mention the stupid we’ve already exported.

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Targetpractice  Sep 25, 2021 • 1:24:11pm

To give you an idea that these anti-vaxxers are beginning to reach the point of driving even the “hesitant” out of their camp, I informed my dad about the morons nebulizing hydrogen peroxide as a “treatment” for COVID. And despite continuing to believe that it’s “no worse than the flu” and only reluctantly planning to comply with the federal vaccine mandate, even he gave me a “Are you shitting me?” look when I told him about that shit.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2021 • 1:28:45pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2021 • 1:30:08pm
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JOE 🥓  Sep 25, 2021 • 1:31:25pm

re: #90 Backwoods_Sleuth

Once again I ask why hasn’t Gosar been arrested?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 25, 2021 • 1:32:42pm

re: #40 Dr Lizardo

Hydrogen peroxide, when diluted with water, makes a great mouthwash. Helps if you’ve got a dental abscess, too.

I’ve never thought about inhaling it, though.

Just like Trump, he does not understand that what works well on pathogens outside the body does not necessarily on them once they’re on the inside.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2021 • 1:33:06pm
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A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!  Sep 25, 2021 • 1:34:55pm

re: #20 Decatur Deb

I’m still playing Civ 4 for the mental and physical exercise. (I only allow myself to feed my addiction if I play in front of a big screen while riding the hamster bike. It has saved my mind and my life.) I won’t move on to Civ5 or Civ6 until I have won one Civ4 game at Deity level.

I never played Civ5, but I took a look at Civ6. Erased it within 30 minute. I don’t play a lot of Civ4 these days (or anything), but I don’t think I’ll ever want to “upgrade.”

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Targetpractice  Sep 25, 2021 • 1:36:41pm

re: #90 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Well hell, while we’re demanding the impossible in order to assuage wounded egos, I demand that the NFL replay Super Bowl 49 because I refuse to accept a Seahawk loss when the Patriots so obviously cheated to win.

/

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Belafon  Sep 25, 2021 • 1:36:43pm

re: #58 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Texas 70, Texas Tech 35

I wonder if Abbott will authorize a recount?

Texas didn’t get to what the two high schools in my town got to in the rivalry game last night.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2021 • 1:36:55pm

way too cute

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 25, 2021 • 1:38:39pm

re: #90 Backwoods_Sleuth

New video coming soon… The Undercurrent team was in Phoenix yesterday and had an interesting chat with Rep. Paul Gosar, who told us he wants to hold a new presidential election for Biden and Trump before the end of year..

GOP: the “I’m gonna touch fishy” party

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Targetpractice  Sep 25, 2021 • 1:39:24pm

re: #91 Backwoods_Sleuth

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It’s about power for Yertle, it’s always about power. He doesn’t care how he attains that power, just so long as he has it and no one else.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2021 • 1:41:18pm
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Belafon  Sep 25, 2021 • 1:43:52pm

re: #20 Decatur Deb

What exactly is your hamster bike?

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Dread Pirate Ron  Sep 25, 2021 • 1:44:46pm
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Rightwingconspirator  Sep 25, 2021 • 2:07:45pm

re: #75 Backwoods_Sleuth

I just posted that on a bench jewelers / designer group on Facebook. A lot of members in Australia for this particular group.

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 25, 2021 • 2:10:56pm

re: #104 Rightwingconspirator

That would make an interesting pin.

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Rightwingconspirator  Sep 25, 2021 • 2:13:01pm

re: #105 PhillyPretzel

That would make an interesting pin.

I was thinking dinner ring. In high-end designs, a piece like that is sometimes made to switch from ring to pendant. LOL not pin of course that’s a little prickly.

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KingKenrod  Sep 25, 2021 • 2:14:18pm

re: #14 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

This is definitely something I needed to know.

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 25, 2021 • 2:14:18pm

re: #106 Rightwingconspirator

That sounds good.

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 25, 2021 • 2:15:34pm

re: #106 Rightwingconspirator

Or a pearl extender.

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A Mom Anon  Sep 25, 2021 • 2:16:13pm

re: #104 Rightwingconspirator

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teleskiguy  Sep 25, 2021 • 2:20:48pm
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 25, 2021 • 2:23:05pm

re: #111 teleskiguy

We hate us some elitists!

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teleskiguy  Sep 25, 2021 • 2:24:42pm
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Rightwingconspirator  Sep 25, 2021 • 2:24:53pm

re: #110 A Mom Anon

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Sep 25, 2021 • 2:27:40pm

re: #111 teleskiguy

They’re pretty open about their disdain for liberal democracy. Tucker’s trip and promotion of Orban’s government comes to mind.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 25, 2021 • 2:33:53pm

re: #111 teleskiguy

When you order Penn and Teller on wish:

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2021 • 2:38:12pm

re: #104 Rightwingconspirator

I just posted that on a bench jewelers / designer group on Facebook. A lot of members in Australia for this particular group.

the critter is found in the jungles of Ecuador

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sagehen  Sep 25, 2021 • 2:47:50pm

re: #75 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Looks like an exotic sushi…

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Barefoot Grin  Sep 25, 2021 • 2:50:34pm

This is fantastic. Even as a Cubs fan.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 25, 2021 • 2:52:05pm

re: #119 Barefoot Grin

Wow, that was wild.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2021 • 2:53:03pm

re: #119 Barefoot Grin

This is fantastic. Even as a Cubs fan.

concur

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 25, 2021 • 2:53:54pm

re: #118 sagehen

Looks like an exotic sushi…

DO NOT GIVE SUGGESTIONS!

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 25, 2021 • 2:54:55pm

re: #120 Eclectic Cyborg

re: #121 Backwoods_Sleuth

How to clean out the bases. The Phillies could take a few lessons from them.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Sep 25, 2021 • 2:55:37pm

re: #111 teleskiguy

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Speaking of elites, Don Huffines is a certified member of that rich gentry we were talking about this morning.
His grandfather founded the Huffines Motor Company, which has grown into a huge complex of dealerships throughout the Metroplex. Don’s brother, Ray, runs the company now.
Don himself founded Huffines Communities, which is one of the largest real estate developers in the region (ie, very big indeed).

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Jay C  Sep 25, 2021 • 2:55:55pm

re: #119 Barefoot Grin

This is fantastic. Even as a Cubs fan.

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Wild indeed. One rundown is usually more than you see in a game: a double one is something else…..

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Rightwingconspirator  Sep 25, 2021 • 2:57:19pm

re: #118 sagehen

Looks like an exotic sushi…

Bug sushi? Pass. I guess that would be bug sashimi.

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retired cynic  Sep 25, 2021 • 3:10:00pm

re: #119 Barefoot Grin

This is fantastic. Even as a Cubs fan.

Molina is the Boss!

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The Ghost of a Flea  Sep 25, 2021 • 3:10:55pm

re: #126 Rightwingconspirator

Bug sushi? Pass. I guess that would be bug sashimi.

shrimp de terre

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Belafon  Sep 25, 2021 • 3:16:05pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2021 • 3:25:00pm
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Decatur Deb  Sep 25, 2021 • 3:29:43pm

re: #102 Belafon

What exactly is your hamster bike?

Old Nordic Track we’ve had for a decade or two. The wheel generates power for the displays and fan. I’ve rebuilt it a couple times.

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Sep 25, 2021 • 3:34:25pm

re: #129 Belafon

I wish the media would get over their David Attenborough fascination with all-white tiny-village (pop. > 1000) hee-haws in diners.

Why are we expected to see things from their point of view? Why are they never expected to consider the perspective of a typical resident of Dallas or Columbus or whatever?

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Rightwingconspirator  Sep 25, 2021 • 3:37:46pm

re: #132 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

I wish the media would get over their David Attenborough fascination with all-white tiny-village (pop. > 1000) hee-haws in diners.

Why are we expected to see things from their point of view? Why are they never expected to consider the perspective of a typical resident of Dallas or Columbus or whatever?

Man bites dog is why. Media clickbait.

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sagehen  Sep 25, 2021 • 3:39:05pm

re: #132 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

I wish the media would get over their David Attenborough fascination with all-white tiny-village (pop. > 1000) hee-haws in diners.

Why are we expected to see things from their point of view? Why are they never expected to consider the perspective of a typical resident of Dallas or Columbus or whatever?

It’s easier to define what’s “typical” for a small town where they’re all each other’s cousins.

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Sep 25, 2021 • 3:40:44pm

re: #133 Rightwingconspirator

I don’t buy it. Rural people acting like rural people is played out and cliche at this point. There’s nothing unusual or intriguing about it. It’s flat-ass boring. But it’s all they want to do, or so it seems.

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Cheechako  Sep 25, 2021 • 3:43:03pm

Yesterday’s count was a “Catch Up” day so the numbers are larger:

Alaska reports nearly 1,800 new COVID-19 cases and 44 deaths, in part due to backlog

No new info over the weekend.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2021 • 3:43:43pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2021 • 3:47:37pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2021 • 3:48:28pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2021 • 3:50:13pm

Herschel Walker is nutz

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Sep 25, 2021 • 3:51:33pm

re: #139 Backwoods_Sleuth

Ah yes, corporations, the cornerstone of the Communist revolution.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Sep 25, 2021 • 3:53:32pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2021 • 3:53:34pm
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Jay C  Sep 25, 2021 • 3:55:21pm

re: #138 Backwoods_Sleuth

A couple of things to note:

1. This is the chyron of RSBN, which despite its well-crafted visuals, is a minor hack “network”,so Trump-humping BS is only to be expected, and

2. I wonder how many people are actually there? It looks like one of those tight-focus rallies where a couple of hundred goobers are made to look like Overflow Woodstock…..

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2021 • 3:57:31pm
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jaunte  Sep 25, 2021 • 3:58:58pm

re: #138 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2021 • 4:00:01pm

re: #146 jaunte

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The Ghost of a Flea  Sep 25, 2021 • 4:01:38pm

re: #132 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

I wish the media would get over their David Attenborough fascination with all-white tiny-village (pop. > 1000) hee-haws in diners.

Why are we expected to see things from their point of view? Why are they never expected to consider the perspective of a typical resident of Dallas or Columbus or whatever?

Because America is built on the myth of an authentic rural idyll in which men on the land are sensible and earnest. This mixes exceedingly badly with the parallel assumption that the perspective of white dudes isn’t a perspective, but the objective perspective. The media is largely lacking in self-awareness and thus goes along with these assumptions because they are the background radiation of the culture; but the media also has a bunch of material incentives

re: #135 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

I don’t buy it. Rural people acting like rural people is played out and cliche at this point. There’s nothing unusual or intriguing about it. It’s flat-ass boring. But it’s all they want to do, or so it seems.

Well, there’s a bunch of layers to this. Most of them just involve pandering for cash, a few more are about unjustified cultural assumptions…

…but at the marrow this is a problem of epistemology.

The media is no longer interested in what is True, only in what seems possible within the contest of rhetoric that underpins our society…and it’s incredibly unhealthy but it’s kind of unintentionally realistic: our lives are pinned to the assumptions of guys in diners in small towns because their votes are worth far more, and their cultural constraints—all the shit they will refuse—clearly control the direction of policy. So there’s a kind of realpolitik—those fuckers matter because the long-term power structure makes them matter and thus whatever drops from their mouths is important.

But that doesn’t really cover it, because lots of pundits and media figures do these safaris as a kind of performative ecumenicism…look at how enlightened and reasonable I am, clearly these people must have a point. Those on safari on often wealthy, white, and shallowly erudite while being thicker than pigshit—basically David Brooks—and they basically want to do a pastoralism…here are the common clay of the country, we should listen when they say shit I want to hear said.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2021 • 4:04:48pm
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jaunte  Sep 25, 2021 • 4:07:31pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2021 • 4:07:31pm
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jaunte  Sep 25, 2021 • 4:09:40pm
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The Ghost of a Flea  Sep 25, 2021 • 4:11:56pm

re: #139 Backwoods_Sleuth

It’s not stupid, it’s national socialism.

The specifics of the statement do not matter, defining that all problems are actually one problem that will be solved by hurting the designated targets is what matters.

This is “Jews are communists, but also Jews are capitalist boss pigs, hm how do we solve this crisis” but the designated People That Make All Things Bad is…all of us.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 25, 2021 • 4:32:34pm

re: #140 Backwoods_Sleuth

Herschel Walker is nutz

He was hit in the head many times in his former profession.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Sep 25, 2021 • 4:39:59pm

This is repurposed fundie shit, which is repurposed anti-hippie shit, which is repurposed Bircher shit, which is repurposed Nazi shit.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 25, 2021 • 4:40:57pm

re: #154 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

He was hit in the head many times in his former profession.

CTE likely I would imagine.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Sep 25, 2021 • 4:42:03pm

re: #145 Backwoods_Sleuth

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A decent man indeed, and very much a man of action. Silas Soule had been a militant abolitionist before the Civil War and was a personal friend of both John Brown and Walt Whitman.
During the “Bleeding Kansas” strife of the late 1850s, he was one of the Immortal Ten, who broke Dr. John Doy out of a Missouri jail after slave catchers had arrested Doy for trying to lead a group of fugitive slaves to freedom in Nebraska.
After Brown’s unsuccessful raid on Harper’s Ferry Viginia, Soule visited him in prison and offered to use his jailbreak skills to spring him. Brown turned him down, declaring that he had already decided to become a martyr for the cause.

Silas Soule’s letter to his former commanding officer, Major Edward Wynkoop, after Sand Creek. (Very hard reading, hence privacy settings).

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 25, 2021 • 4:44:12pm

So, it’s only 3 months till Christmas.

Christmas music is queueing up on Youtube like crazy.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 25, 2021 • 4:45:17pm

FWIW, I can’t recall an English word with more vowels in a row than “queueing”.

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A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!  Sep 25, 2021 • 4:46:14pm

Back from getting the Pfizer booster. No signs of worrisome mutations yet.

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ckkatz  Sep 25, 2021 • 4:51:02pm
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Eventual Carrion  Sep 25, 2021 • 4:51:15pm

re: #134 sagehen

It’s easier to define what’s “typical” for a small town where they’re all each other’s cousins.

Idiocracy - Family Style

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(((Archangel1)))  Sep 25, 2021 • 4:53:15pm

re: #160 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!

Back from getting the Pfizer booster. No signs of worrisome mutations yet.

My family’s Windows software was instantly registered for free, plus 5G reception range tripled within 48 hours and was ten times better within 7 days. /

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Semper Fi  Sep 25, 2021 • 4:53:32pm

re: #160 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!

Back from getting the Pfizer booster. No signs of worrisome mutations yet.

Deleted.

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ckkatz  Sep 25, 2021 • 4:57:20pm

Thinking of a recent lgf discussion. This was in the WashPost Food newsletter today:

Venison is the most eco-friendly food on the planet — if you hunt the deer yourself

Killing deer for venison helps prevent their damage to habitats, their danger to humans and the greenhouse gases they emit.

washingtonpost.com

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Dangerman  Sep 25, 2021 • 4:58:30pm
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Rightwingconspirator  Sep 25, 2021 • 4:59:52pm

So this used to be dumb inside the inside Hollywood stuff. A contract for the “tradesmen”. IATSE/Teamsters.

13 Hollywood locals including the Cinematographers Guild Local 600, Art Directors Guild Local 800 and Editors Guild Local 700. It counts a total of 366 locals in the U.S. and Canada, organized by geographic region and craft jurisdictions.

deadline.com

Briefly, a strike might be authorized. Streaming, I’m told by a couple of members is a big deal. The pay rate is lower because of the pioneering nature streaming had. Now, it’s not experimental we can all see it’s here to stay. So pay should go back to normal. Plus a long list of stuff to negotiate. Labor vs Corporate, BUT it’s creative artistic entertainment biz. Not like making cars or international vegetable trade.

If they strike it will hammer Los Angeles and (somewhat) the California economy. The COVID economic recovery suffered a huge speedbump with Delta and the mandate argument is another speedbump. Cross your fingers brinkmanship will meet cooler heads for the deal. Please no just no strike.

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Dangerman  Sep 25, 2021 • 4:59:53pm

re: #166 Dangerman

Or boebert
Or cawthorn
Or gosar
Cruz
…

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ckkatz  Sep 25, 2021 • 5:01:55pm

StoneKettle has been photographing hummingbirds recently. From this post, it appears that Australian wildlife reputations, from yowies to drop bears is safe:

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Dave In Austin  Sep 25, 2021 • 5:03:05pm
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Dangerman  Sep 25, 2021 • 5:04:03pm
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Rightwingconspirator  Sep 25, 2021 • 5:06:07pm

re: #169 ckkatz

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ckkatz  Sep 25, 2021 • 5:11:11pm

re: #172 Rightwingconspirator

Yes, hummingbirds can be real dicks. Fortunately an ounce of hyperactive fluff generally has a hard time being a major problem for humans.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2021 • 5:13:41pm

pathetic

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gwangung  Sep 25, 2021 • 5:18:38pm

re: #167 Rightwingconspirator

So this used to be dumb inside the inside Hollywood stuff. A contract for the “tradesmen”. IATSE/Teamsters.

deadline.com

Briefly, a strike might be authorized. Streaming, I’m told by a couple of members is a big deal. The pay rate is lower because of the pioneering nature streaming had. Now, it’s not experimental we can all see it’s here to stay. So pay should go back to normal. Plus a long list of stuff to negotiate. Labor vs Corporate, BUT it’s creative artistic entertainment biz. Not like making cars or international vegetable trade.

If they strike it will hammer Los Angeles and (somewhat) the California economy. The COVID economic recovery suffered a huge speedbump with Delta and the mandate argument is another speedbump. Cross your fingers brinkmanship will meet cooler heads for the deal. Please no just no strike.

Also a lot of stuff about working hours; a big problem is running shoots so long that stage hands were falling asleep at the wheel as they got off work, and weren’t given enough time between shifts to recover (they’re asking for 10 hours between shifts).

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2021 • 5:18:52pm
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Teukka  Sep 25, 2021 • 5:24:00pm

re: #176 Backwoods_Sleuth

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ckkatz  Sep 25, 2021 • 5:24:05pm

Japanese B&B (Book and Bed) concept:

bookandbedtokyo.com
telegraph.co.uk

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Rightwingconspirator  Sep 25, 2021 • 5:24:53pm

re: #175 gwangung

Also a lot of stuff about working hours; a big problem is running shoots so long that stage hands were falling asleep at the wheel as they got off work, and weren’t given enough time between shifts to recover (they’re asking for 10 hours between shifts).

Yes, lots going on there. Legit needs by labor. As a guy in a different biz that just happens to be a native? Do Not Shit On The Goose With The Gold Eggs. Streaming and (right this minute) looks like endless money and projects must not be screwed. You guys figure this out.

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nines09  Sep 25, 2021 • 5:27:23pm

i+BGDx857p/AMTpkVmHbCUWket/SW0Cn4h+403pA04xLwv5ejTJ6VWYUyaxkE5SLCFQ9efBScZXUoEB+fJEQrOBdh9NZw+w9zz1zIzWyHjH/wNtHPCspFxUQqk67R6q755LpqsNZNxxVHJ3T5WvaFJzG7ghaFdd9UY6m//houHEn+Dn41cev3zD1KkZZPrv5Ea91xKzKlUoiCJVc1XZxDe1opvB0N89p/ovg1FalxgpoT6egLDu4RNfuIorFg0pAb4wnX8HPd2WC3UqAn9ymtc4vCVgh9X1sOktD3lDJrHNa/eGHUc1wi1K2XrV1a61pf4h4xl+HjlrGzSO5Uwu5j0GIeFpq+5MG5u2z0Mk7LUeA7xeS55KmVoJuZ09/lSAFQ875pmS7oA6Xt/Hir5hHakWW+p5x/KhhjmBccUdOImodawp6kz4B+ASSfij8fGhI

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2021 • 5:31:05pm
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Michele: Recovering Social Media Addict  Sep 25, 2021 • 5:33:53pm

re: #169 ckkatz

StoneKettle has been photographing hummingbirds recently. From this post, it appears that Australian wildlife reputations, from yowies to drop bears is safe:

Posted that Earlier. Dr. Lizardo’s response is probably closer to the truth.

littlegreenfootballs.com

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2021 • 5:36:29pm
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Rightwingconspirator  Sep 25, 2021 • 5:36:37pm

Business in streaming production has been so good I’m told that the joke about Netflix is their voicemail will greenlight your series.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2021 • 5:37:37pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2021 • 5:41:03pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2021 • 5:44:16pm

re: #183 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Patricia Kayden  Sep 25, 2021 • 5:45:17pm
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Patricia Kayden  Sep 25, 2021 • 5:48:01pm

re: #183 Backwoods_Sleuth

Hope everyone is safe. I was on a train from DC to New York which derailed in the late 90s. Wasn’t hurt but it wasn’t fun.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Sep 25, 2021 • 5:51:52pm

re: #185 Backwoods_Sleuth

Trump and his fans bond over the shared fantasy of what they will force others to repeat back to them once they have power. They have no interest in what is objectively true, they just want a world where they can hurt people enough to force something to be true.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 25, 2021 • 5:55:06pm

re: #190 The Ghost of a Flea

Trump and his fans bond over the shared fantasy of what they will force others to repeat back to them once they have power. They have no interest in what is objectively true, they just want a world where they can hurt people enough to force something to be true.

All of this was played out in the distant past, in schoolyards.

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Belafon  Sep 25, 2021 • 5:57:20pm

re: #191 Decatur Deb

All of this was played out in the distant past, in schoolyards.

But the bullies didn’t end up in charge, the needs did.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 25, 2021 • 5:59:08pm

re: #192 Belafon

But the bullies didn’t end up in charge, the needs did.

We go looking about for grownups to make it right, but then we look at the veins on the backs of our hands. We see that we are the grownups.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Sep 25, 2021 • 6:01:23pm

Kids don’t act that way just because they’re kids, they haven’t been socialized enough to understand why you’re not supposed to enjoy other people’s suffering. Kids are sadistic until they learn better.

These aren’t childlike adults, these are sadistic adults.

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jaunte  Sep 25, 2021 • 6:01:54pm

They want a war.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 25, 2021 • 6:03:03pm

re: #194 The Ghost of a Flea

Kids don’t act that way just because they’re kids, they haven’t been socialized enough to understand why you’re not supposed to enjoy other people’s suffering. Kids are sadistic until they learn better.

These aren’t childlike adults, these are sadistic adults.

In roughly the same proportion. A few have died off.

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William Lewis  Sep 25, 2021 • 6:07:47pm

re: #183 Backwoods_Sleuth

Glad that wasn’t a month ago when my son was on it before labor day.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 25, 2021 • 6:10:48pm

We are conditioned to see this as bad news.

There Were More Deaths Than Births In Alabama Last Year, A Grim First For The State
npr.org

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Charles Johnson  Sep 25, 2021 • 6:10:50pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 25, 2021 • 6:11:13pm

re: #188 Patricia Kayden

The top FOURTEEN states are red states.

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jaunte  Sep 25, 2021 • 6:13:28pm
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nines09  Sep 25, 2021 • 6:14:39pm

re: #183 Backwoods_Sleuth

Wow. Tops out at 79 MPH and usually goes much slower.
Good thing it wasn’t going like, uh, fast, eh?

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Decatur Deb  Sep 25, 2021 • 6:18:16pm

re: #202 nines09

Wow. Tops out at 79 MPH and usually goes much slower.
Good thing it wasn’t going like, uh, fast, eh?

We can’t build 150 MPH trains because we don’t have 150 MPH track.

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nines09  Sep 25, 2021 • 6:21:04pm

re: #203 Decatur Deb

Of course. Why even do that between cities?

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Decatur Deb  Sep 25, 2021 • 6:22:55pm

re: #204 nines09

Of course. Why even do that between cities?

Most tonnage by far is freight, and it doesn’t care that much. Loved the trains in Europe.

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nines09  Sep 25, 2021 • 6:24:47pm

re: #205 Decatur Deb

I know.
It was a cheap shot at rail here.
“TRAIN DERAILS!”

Photos shows people taking photos and texting.

I hope nobody was hurt.

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darthstar  Sep 25, 2021 • 6:30:47pm

This is funny. Asshole Mike Lindell thought he could strong arm Fox into airing his election fraud symposium by pulling his advertising from Fox. Turns out that Fox ads were his best source of sales and he lost a million dollars every week he wasn’t on air. So he’s back buying ads on Fox

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Decatur Deb  Sep 25, 2021 • 6:31:48pm

re: #206 nines09

I know.
It was a cheap shot at rail here.
“TRAIN DERAILS!”

Photos shows people taking photos and texting.

I hope nobody was hurt.

An old Mythbusters showed that a 150 MPH train would beat the hell out of a 500 MPH plane on the LA—San Fran run.

news.ycombinator.com

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Rightwingconspirator  Sep 25, 2021 • 6:40:55pm

re: #208 Decatur Deb

An old Mythbusters showed that a 150 MPH train would beat the hell out of a 500 MPH plane on the LA—San Fran run.

I missed that but was the difference TSA?

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Decatur Deb  Sep 25, 2021 • 6:43:07pm

re: #209 Rightwingconspirator

I missed that but was the difference TSA?

Much of it (which would be far lighter on a train). I posted the reference in an edit. It was car vs plane, and essentially even. Train would be much faster Center-to-Center.

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sagehen  Sep 25, 2021 • 6:43:59pm

re: #209 Rightwingconspirator

I missed that but was the difference TSA?

Also, getting to the airport vs getting to the train station, then getting to your downtown meeting after you arrive. Even if you didn’t have to deal with baggage claim.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 25, 2021 • 6:44:29pm

Here, for the show:

mythresults.com

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Jay C  Sep 25, 2021 • 6:54:07pm

re: #201 jaunte

Not only a prime example of enlightened political discourse, but professionally printed, I noticed….

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jaunte  Sep 25, 2021 • 6:55:45pm
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jaunte  Sep 25, 2021 • 6:56:12pm

Some people don’t like their families much.

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jaunte  Sep 25, 2021 • 6:57:18pm

Bury My Family From Covid

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Patricia Kayden  Sep 25, 2021 • 6:59:51pm

re: #214 jaunte

That’s fine with me, tbh. I don’t care about her.

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A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!  Sep 25, 2021 • 7:04:15pm

re: #214 jaunte

[Embedded content]

Getting desperate, are they? Since the vaccine, I follow California mask discipline, show proof of vaccination where required, and don’t worry about covid. Except the rare breakthrough infection, of course.

Life around here is approaching normality. A new normal, but one I can live with forever, even if it means the hell of getting sunscreen off of a mask.

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jaunte  Sep 25, 2021 • 7:05:22pm

Didn’t get vaccinated.

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plansbandc  Sep 25, 2021 • 7:06:52pm

Some more trumpster love for family…

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Dread Pirate Ron  Sep 25, 2021 • 7:08:11pm
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jaunte  Sep 25, 2021 • 7:09:10pm

re: #220 plansbandc

Creepy.

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Patricia Kayden  Sep 25, 2021 • 7:12:19pm
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EPR-radar  Sep 25, 2021 • 7:22:40pm

re: #223 Patricia Kayden

FFS. Mandel is the kind of turd that called MLK a communist back in the day.

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A Mom Anon  Sep 25, 2021 • 7:25:44pm

re: #220 plansbandc

This is why we can’t have nice things. IF you could get them to sit down and stop panting for 5 minutes and ask them what needs to happen to make America great or wtf ever, they really can’t answer you beyond burn the liberals or whatever. Something is deeply missing in these people and they have power now, blatant and out in the open. I’m not sure how we fix this anymore, not that I am sure about much of anything right now. Fortunately they are a minority, but there are powerful people funding a lot of this division and hate and it’s having a seriously awful effect on all of us. It’s part of our government on every level now, the severity of that depends on where you are. It shouldn’t exist at all, but there’s a monster we have to deal with here and I am not sure if the good guys are gonna win anymore.

I know, I’m a fucking ray of sunshine. I just want to be around fairly sane humans, that seems impossible right now.

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Eventual Carrion  Sep 25, 2021 • 7:37:31pm

re: #223 Patricia Kayden

[Embedded content]

Theory of relativity:

If your parents didn’t have children
you probably won’t either


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