Lawrence: “Freckles” (Official Music Video)

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I think I’ve posted a couple of versions of this song already, but it’s only fair to include the official music video (which happens to be amazing).

Directed by: Kevin Conway
Production Company: Flightless Bird Creative
Written by: Gracie Lawrence
Story By: Gracie Lawrence & Clyde Lawrence
Produced by: Gracie Lawrence, Clyde Lawrence, AJ Roskam, Stephen Kipp
Edited by: Sam Powell
Shot at Brooke Manor House

Director of Photography: Ben Enke
1st AC: Tedd Piper
2nd AC: Tia Marie
Gimbal Operator: Michael Hoday
DIT/Assistant Editor: Cami Jordan
Gaffer: Nicklas Hendrickson
Grip: John Jadkowski
Grip: Ethan VerKuilen
First Assistant Director: AJ Roskam
Production Designers: Richard Keeley & David Geinosky
Production Assistants: Jonathan Paquette & Michael Frye
Tik Tok Footage Shot by: Jack Usher
VFX Artist: Jeremy Wanek

Stream “Freckles” Here: stem.ffm.to

Connect with #Lawrence​:
Facebook: facebook.com
Twitter: twitter.com
Instagram: instagram.com
Website: lawrencetheband.com​

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236 comments
1
Patricia Kayden  Sep 25, 2021 • 7:12:33pm
2
Dave In Austin  Sep 25, 2021 • 7:13:41pm
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jaunte  Sep 25, 2021 • 7:19:22pm

re: #2 Dave In Austin

He told her it was flawless, but she knew better.

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The Pie Overlord!  Sep 25, 2021 • 7:20:04pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Sep 25, 2021 • 7:26:12pm

“You obviously need an airway opened, immediately”

[Can’t find this tweet right now: twitter.com ]

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Rightwingconspirator  Sep 25, 2021 • 7:29:20pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Sep 25, 2021 • 7:30:44pm

re: #5 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

“You obviously need an airway opened, immediately”

[Can’t find this tweet right now: twitter.com ]

Damn it

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Sep 25, 2021 • 7:33:52pm
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Eventual Carrion  Sep 25, 2021 • 7:38:31pm

CL’d

re: #223 Patricia Kayden

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Theory of relativity:

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

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jaunte  Sep 25, 2021 • 7:42:37pm

re: #9 Eventual Carrion

My wife and I didn’t have any children, but we wound up with four of them.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Sep 25, 2021 • 7:42:47pm
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jaunte  Sep 25, 2021 • 7:43:53pm
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teleskiguy  Sep 25, 2021 • 7:49:32pm

Worst case scenario for the healthcare system in that part of Montana.

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Eventual Carrion  Sep 25, 2021 • 7:59:00pm

re: #13 teleskiguy

Worst case scenario for the healthcare system in that part of Montana.

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Full hospital bed allocation decision?

Unvaccinated, you’re out need bed. See a veterinarian.
Unvaccinated, you’re out need bed. Get help from Facebook.
Unvaccinated, you’re out need bed. Ask your friend.
Unvaccinated, you’re out need bed. Go to church and ask to be healed.

edited

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darthstar  Sep 25, 2021 • 8:03:29pm

From the previous thread:
re: #49 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

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

I really think antifreeze has a shot at being the next miracle cure for Covid. Nobody who ingested it is complaining about their inability to breathe…

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teleskiguy  Sep 25, 2021 • 8:06:59pm

attn: darthstar

Instagram

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Patricia Kayden  Sep 25, 2021 • 8:10:37pm

re: #11 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

And of course, no arrests were made. Let Black people try something like that and see what happens.
I’m not eating anywhere that allows idiots to flaunt mask rules.

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darthstar  Sep 25, 2021 • 8:12:58pm

re: #16 teleskiguy

attn: darthstar

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Stop trying to sell me shit…and yes, I’ll definitely buy one of those shirts with the SYF buttons…

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teleskiguy  Sep 25, 2021 • 8:16:14pm

re: #18 darthstar

Stop trying to sell me shit…and yes, I’ll definitely buy one of those shirts with the SYF buttons…

That one time my old suspended Twitter convinced the bass man for Umphrey’s McGee to buy an ugly Slayer sweater for X-mas…

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Sep 25, 2021 • 8:32:32pm

Jesus Christ on a fucking pony - what a mess things have been today when it comes to my own personal tech!
First, I upgraded from an iPhone 12 mini to a iPhone 13 Max at Best Buy - the dude behind the counter messed several things up trying to get my phone to me - in the process I was trying to back my old iPhone up via iCloud, but that turned into a massive fail - eventually did a factory reset of the Mini hand handed it back to the sales schmuck, who said that I needed a new SIM - WRONG! I pulled that SIM out of my Alcatel/TCL Firece XL Windows Phone 10 (!) that workes absoulutely fine, thankyouverymuch!

So, I’m slowly getting the Max setup, when I run straight into the massive hot mess that is the Apple ID two-factor authentication process, which as our esteemed host Tweeted to me, is a hot mess.

But wait - there’s more!

My Netgear CAX30 Wifi6 cable router all of a sudden went tits-up! WTF? So, trying to connect to Spectrum to get this mess straightened out - then my iPhone Max’s networking goes tits up, so I did a network reset to get my T-Mobile service back - it worked, but I live in a cellular toilet, so I hop into my car, drive a mile down the road and WHAM- full 5G Bars! Make my connection to Spectrum, drove back home, and called their Internet troubleshooting guy - he hit the modem to refresh the signal, and everything looked green on his end, but no joy in the Fruit Bat Cave - so now I have a trouble ticket opened with Spectrum!

Who says technology isn’t fun? It’s back to the porch to I can finish my Ashton Churchill and Short’s Huma Lupa Licious India Pale Ale, and maybe catch some Toonami…

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A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!  Sep 25, 2021 • 8:33:23pm

re: #17 Patricia Kayden

And of course, no arrests were made. Let Black people try something like that and see what happens.
I’m not eating anywhere that allows idiots to flaunt mask rules.

Flout mask rules. But I agree.

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darthstar  Sep 25, 2021 • 8:33:55pm

Sexy nun holding a violin bow protecting Kid frock from an angry flamingo with help from fuckin’ Bengi?

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Belafon  Sep 25, 2021 • 8:39:56pm

re: #15 darthstar

From the previous thread:

I really think antifreeze has a shot at being the next miracle cure for Covid. Nobody who ingested it is complaining about their inability to breathe…

It obviously should go in your nebulizer. /s

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Rightwingconspirator  Sep 25, 2021 • 8:43:03pm

re: #22 darthstar

Where is that from? Indiana Jones and speedo gunman are a tad weird too.

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darthstar  Sep 25, 2021 • 8:43:43pm

re: #24 Rightwingconspirator

Where is that from? Indiana Jones and speedo gunman are a tad weird too.

they’re just saving souls.

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darthstar  Sep 25, 2021 • 8:45:31pm

+points for the sexy ‘fuck me’ librarian glasses on the nun though…probably competes with ‘First Blood Trump’ for masturbation fodder.

Though she still won’t support revoking the filibuster.

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jaunte  Sep 25, 2021 • 8:47:44pm

re: #22 darthstar

And why was he wearing a flannel lumberjack shirt in the tropics?

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darthstar  Sep 25, 2021 • 8:48:24pm

re: #27 jaunte

And why was he wearing a flannel lumberjack shirt in the tropics?

He’s from Michigan.

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Dave In Austin  Sep 25, 2021 • 8:48:27pm

re: #22 darthstar

Sexy nun holding a violin bow protecting Kid frock from an angry flamingo with help from fuckin’ Bengi?

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I’ll see you and raise you one Okra in the Bumsack.

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JOE 🥓  Sep 25, 2021 • 8:49:12pm

re: #20 Eric The Fruit Bat

I fucking HATE Spectrum. At least once a week my Netgear router goes red from some kind of feedback and fucks up my teleworking. Have to call Spectrum to have them reboot the modem and it takes at least 30 minutes.

And I’m stuck with spectrum because my property management company made an exclusive deal with them. There is no option but these assholes.

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darthstar  Sep 25, 2021 • 8:49:34pm

re: #29 Dave In Austin

I’ll see you and raise you one Okra in the Bumsack.

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So that’s why it tastes so gooey.

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darthstar  Sep 25, 2021 • 8:50:18pm

re: #30 JOE 🥓

Spectrum rhymes with rectum. Just sayin’…

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darthstar  Sep 25, 2021 • 8:50:56pm

Two butt jokes in a row! I should have bought a lotto ticket!

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sagehen  Sep 25, 2021 • 8:53:43pm

re: #20 Eric The Fruit Bat

Jesus Christ on a fucking pony - what a mess things have been today when it comes to my own personal tech!

I know there’s people here who understood that, but I”m not one of them. All I got was

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jaunte  Sep 25, 2021 • 8:54:53pm

re: #34 sagehen

Woof.

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Belafon  Sep 25, 2021 • 8:56:03pm

re: #29 Dave In Austin

Looking up the painting, it was done in 2007. You can find someone’s research on it here as well as other works by the artist: justafatboi.com

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A Cranky One  Sep 25, 2021 • 9:23:46pm

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JOE 🥓  Sep 25, 2021 • 9:25:24pm

re: #33 darthstar

Two butt jokes in a row! I should have bought a lotto ticket!

I bought a Powerball ticket…and struck out again…

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Targetpractice  Sep 25, 2021 • 9:51:26pm

re: #1 Patricia Kayden

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There’s your daily peak whiteness: White guy born years after Dr. King’s death lecturing his family on who their father was based upon the caricature white people have built of the man to make themselves feel good.

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mmmirele  Sep 25, 2021 • 10:32:57pm

re: #39 Targetpractice

There’s your daily peak whiteness: White guy born years after Dr. King’s death lecturing his family on who their father was based upon the caricature white people have built of the man to make themselves feel good.

Some of us, even as kids, got to hear that MLK was a damned COM-U-NEST N-*clang* from our Oklahoma relatives. I keep wondering when Josh Mandel’s synagogue is going to give him the left foot of fellowship.

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A Cranky One  Sep 25, 2021 • 10:42:47pm

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JOE 🥓  Sep 25, 2021 • 11:18:35pm

re: #40 mmmirele

Some of us, even as kids, got to hear that MLK was a damned COM-U-NEST N-*clang* from our Oklahoma relatives. I keep wondering when Josh Mandel’s synagogue is going to give him the left foot of fellowship.

Oh we sure did hear about Dr.King being one of them COM-U-NESTS. And I remember that’s what the supporters of George Wallace were saying in 1968, 72 & 76. Forever grateful that Jimmy Carter knocked him out in 1976.

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retired cynic  Sep 25, 2021 • 11:32:58pm

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 26, 2021 • 12:50:45am

German Federal elections are today, as the era of Angela Merkel comes to a close. We should have a pretty good idea of who’s going to be running the show for the next few years by around 21:00 CET tonight.

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teleskiguy  Sep 26, 2021 • 1:11:06am

Instagram

My very first tattoo. @umphreysmcgee #umphreys

It’s a tattoo. Never goin’ away. Why? A fuckin’ rock band from Chicago.

Umphrey’s McGee - Uncle Wally 4/21/06

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Dread Pirate Ron  Sep 26, 2021 • 1:28:19am

I haven’t had a chance to ride for the past week so today’s 31 miles was a pleasure but exhausting. I didn’t have much oomph left to give by the time I got half way back. I don’t know if it was the smoke in the sky or what but the trails were less crowded than a weekday.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 26, 2021 • 1:39:27am

Meanwhile, the endless speculation regarding the identity of Jack the Ripper continues. It is one of criminology’s most enduring cases, with really the only modern equal being the Zodiac Killer.

They called him the ‘greatest criminal of the century’ - a murderer, swindler and bigamist who slashed the throats of two of his wives and savagely ended the lives of his four children.

Now new research suggests Frederick Deeming may also have been history’s most infamous serial killer - Jack the Ripper.

I began investigating Deeming’s extraordinary life and crimes intending to write a book about an eccentric plumber and former Lancashire seaman who briefly became the world’s most hated man in the late 19th century.

dailymail.co.uk

A former Scotland Yard detective, Robin Napper, and a team of fellow researchers came to the conclusion that most of the evidence points to Deeming being Jack the Ripper. Deeming was apparently in England at the time of the Whitechapel Murders in late 1888.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Sep 26, 2021 • 2:15:21am

Instead of following the paved path I take this shortcut up the hill. Images are terrible at showing the angles but that is at least a 20% slope.

even a “side shot” doesn’t look that steep.

Images from Google maps street view.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Sep 26, 2021 • 2:40:54am

All those boulders raining down day after day is just creating a massive debris field that is unstable. I’m assuming that’s what they mean by sector collapse, here.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Sep 26, 2021 • 3:14:35am

The molten lava side vent is rapidly building up it’s own cinder cone.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 26, 2021 • 3:19:07am

The Cumbre Vieja eruption is livestreaming here on the TV Canarias YouTube Channel:

🌎 LIVE: La Palma Volcano Eruption in the Canary Islands (Feed #1)

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 26, 2021 • 3:44:01am

Remember that C-17A that flew through Brisbane the other day?

Here’s the view from the cockpit.

Royal Australian Air Force C-17A Globemaster Sunsuper Riverfire rehearsal… in 360° 🌐

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 26, 2021 • 4:06:31am

Trailer for the live-action Cowboy Bebop adaptation dropped:

Cowboy Bebop | Opening Credits | Netflix

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 26, 2021 • 4:16:41am

re: #4 The Pie Overlord!

Rally numbers don’t equal votes. Why is this so difficult for MAGAs to understand?

The pundits know the difference but they know that their target audience doesn’t

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William Lewis  Sep 26, 2021 • 4:18:20am

re: #53 Dr Lizardo

Trailer for the live-action Cowboy Bebop adaptation dropped:

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Video

That looks better than I was afraid of. Too many interesting things on competing services though. I’m going to want Paramount+ for Star Trek Prodigy too and CBS for Picard season 2 and and and … Bleah. Right now I’d love to be able to pay per view of each of these shows.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 26, 2021 • 4:26:13am

.

Louis Prima - Felicia No Capicia [1959]



..

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 26, 2021 • 4:33:54am

In which mad scientist discovers that his octopus is intelligent, so he keeps it as a slave in a small cubicle:

Genius Octopus Can Open Jars | Octopus In My House | BBC Earth

..

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 26, 2021 • 4:34:42am

FREE THE OCTOPODS!

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Sep 26, 2021 • 4:48:00am

re: #15 darthstar

From the previous thread:

I really think antifreeze has a shot at being the next miracle cure for Covid. Nobody who ingested it is complaining about their inability to breathe…

Excellent. Please proceed. Get on with it already. Buh bye.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Sep 26, 2021 • 4:56:38am

re: #22 darthstar

Sexy nun holding a violin bow protecting Kid frock from an angry flamingo with help from fuckin’ Bengi?

[Embedded content]

You description is worse than that truly weird and creepy picture. Yikes.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 26, 2021 • 4:58:20am

re: #60 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

You description is worse than that truly weird and creepy picture. Yikes.

Less weird that what I dream nearly every night…

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William Lewis  Sep 26, 2021 • 5:36:32am

Sigh. Found a bunch of “The Epoch Times” laying out on one of our lobby tables this morning. Got them tossed in the trash before anyone got up and saw them. Bad enough one of our guests was reading that crap, but I’d hate for someone to think we’d put it out!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 26, 2021 • 5:38:06am

re: #62 William Lewis

Sigh. Found a bunch of “The Epoch Times” laying out on one of our lobby tables this morning. Got them tossed in the trash before anyone got up and saw them. Bad enough one of our guests was reading that crap, but I’d hate for someone to think we’d put it out!

Falun Gong had a bit of air of martyrdom about them for being repressed by the Chinese government in the 90’s.

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No Malarkey!  Sep 26, 2021 • 5:48:13am

Opened sorryantivaxxer.com this morning, and the three latest entries are two nurses and a paramedic. The wife of the paramedic still wasn’t sure if she would get vaccinated while her husband was on a ventilator dying! WTF!

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jeffreyw  Sep 26, 2021 • 5:51:34am

Good morning!

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 26, 2021 • 6:02:19am

Switzerland has approved same-sex marriage in a referendum.

Swiss voters appear to have decided by a clear margin to allow same-sex couples to marry, according to a projection after a national referendum on Sunday.

The projection, by the gfs.bern polling agency for Switzerland’s public broadcasters, showed the measure passing by 64% to 36%.

Switzerland’s parliament and the governing federal council supported the “Marriage for All” measure, and pre-referendum polls showed solid backing. Switzerland has authorised same-sex civil partnerships since 2007.

theguardian.com

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No Malarkey!  Sep 26, 2021 • 6:12:16am

More anti-vaxxer violence as a Canadian man attacked a woman he accused of vaccinating his wife without his permission. news.yahoo.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 26, 2021 • 6:16:17am

re: #67 No Malarkey!

More anti-vaxxer violence as a Canadian man attacked a woman he accused of vaccinating his wife without his permission. news.yahoo.com

Germany recently had an incident of some yahoo who was turned away from a gas station for not wearing a mask. He later came back and fatally shot the clerk.

I do not know the extent to which he was an active militant anti-masker or Querdenker and the extent to which he was just a violent sociopath (although there is certainly a great deal of overlap there)

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Sep 26, 2021 • 6:16:19am
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PhillyPretzel  Sep 26, 2021 • 6:21:21am

re: #67 No Malarkey!

Plus the nurse has the backing of the gov’t. I am assuming that the Canadians have a similar law that when the gov’t tells you to do something it should be done.

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Dangerman  Sep 26, 2021 • 6:28:34am

re: #64 No Malarkey!

Opened sorryantivaxxer.com this morning, and the three latest entries are two nurses and a paramedic. The wife of the paramedic still wasn’t sure if she would get vaccinated while her husband was on a ventilator dying! WTF!

too many people are degrading our species by infecting it with irrationality in place of science.

how would you classify the mental state of someone who said all of these things?
you’d have to classify them as clinically delusional.
they are pure conjurations of a mind that are irrational.

we are defending reason and rationality in the face of an overwhelming lack of them both.

When one considers the constitutional issues involved, a person’s beliefs, or lack thereof, should have no bearing on how they are treated before the law, but these anti’s are trying to influence policy in a way that would impose their transmissable health conditions disease on others.

We are defenders of reason against a surging tide of human nature irrationality combined with diminishing human intelligence.

After all, if they could just keep it to themselves, most of these problems would disappear.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 26, 2021 • 6:30:19am

re: #71 Dangerman

too many people are degrading our species by infecting it with irrationality in place of science.

how would you classify the mental state of someone who said all of these things?
you’d have to classify them as clinically delusional.
they are pure conjurations of a mind that are irrational.

we are defending reason and rationality in the face of an overwhelming lack of them both.

When one considers the constitutional issues involved, a person’s beliefs, or lack thereof, should have no bearing on how they are treated before the law, but these anti’s are trying to influence policy in a way that would impose their transmissable health conditions disease on others.

We are defenders of reason against a surging tide of human nature irrationality combined with diminishing human intelligence.

After all, if they could just keep it to themselves, most of these problems would disappear.

Depending on some definitions, “delusional” is pretty much the baseline for humans.

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Dangerman  Sep 26, 2021 • 6:34:11am

re: #71 Dangerman

Ps

Just cause there are a lot of them and they’re led by an ex prez doesn’t make it any less true

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 26, 2021 • 6:38:00am

re: #72 Decatur Deb

Depending on some definitions, “delusional” is pretty much the baseline for humans.

As my nephew (who is one of those rare conservatives who has a rational streak, i.e., he refused to vote for Trump in either of the past elections) pointed out that you don’t just fall down the rabbit hole, you are herded down it by the algorithms that direct you to news stories on your news feed.

I believe that is what happened to my (now ex-) GF who really started going off the deep end at the end of last year and wound up fully insistent that the election was stolen, that BLM is being funded by the Chinese, that Antifa was behind the Capitol riots, etc…

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The Pie Overlord!  Sep 26, 2021 • 6:51:36am

re: #40 mmmirele

Some of us, even as kids, got to hear that MLK was a damned COM-U-NEST N-*clang* from our Oklahoma relatives. I keep wondering when Josh Mandel’s synagogue is going to give him the left foot of fellowship.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 26, 2021 • 6:57:36am

My 19-year-old daughter is back from voting here in Germany.

She literally walked down the street to the community center, showed her photo ID (which everyone is required by law to carry) and her voter certification (which she gets automatically in the mail as she is registered at this address with the local authorities) and was in an out in a matter of minutes.

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Belafon  Sep 26, 2021 • 6:58:20am
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Belafon  Sep 26, 2021 • 6:59:35am
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darthstar  Sep 26, 2021 • 6:59:55am

re: #57 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

In which mad scientist discovers that his octopus is intelligent, so he keeps it as a slave in a small cubicle:

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..

Unlike many Americans, Octopi are smart enough not to smear horse paste on their assholes.

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Belafon  Sep 26, 2021 • 7:00:46am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 26, 2021 • 7:01:57am

re: #77 Belafonre: #77 Belafon

A daily pill to treat Covid could be just months away. The short-term antiviral regimen in clinical trials is designed to begin right after diagnosis & could prevent symptom development.

So you will still be contagious, just less likely to need hospitalization? And I hope that insurance companies will refuse to cover the cost for the voluntarily unvaccinated.

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Belafon  Sep 26, 2021 • 7:02:03am
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PhillyPretzel  Sep 26, 2021 • 7:02:07am

re: #76 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

And that is how it should be.

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A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!  Sep 26, 2021 • 7:19:21am

re: #55 William Lewis

That looks better than I was afraid of. Too many interesting things on competing services though. I’m going to want Paramount+ for Star Trek Prodigy too and CBS for Picard season 2 and and and … Bleah. Right now I’d love to be able to pay per view of each of these shows.

Paramount+ and CBS are the same thing — I don’t remember whether there was some sort of merger, or Paramount+ is the new name of the old CBS streaming service. And you get Lower Decks, too. Plus Discovery, if you care, and Strange New Worlds, when they get it filmed.

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jeffreyw  Sep 26, 2021 • 7:20:29am

Mrs J and I got our Pfizer boosters at the local Kroger store Friday. I also got the flu shot, Mrs J declined, saying that she had three separate vaccines in one day some years back, (pneumonia, flu, tetanus), and broke out in hives. She blames the hives on “too much going on in my body at once”. Not at all sure of her conclusions but she will get the flu shot in a few weeks so no harm.

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The Pie Overlord!  Sep 26, 2021 • 7:20:47am
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gwangung  Sep 26, 2021 • 7:23:18am

re: #84 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!

Paramount+ and CBS are the same thing — I don’t remember whether there was some sort of merger, or Paramount+ is the new name of the old CBS streaming service. And you get Lower Decks, too. Plus Discovery, if you care, and Strange New Worlds, when they get it filmed.

Yup. And production schedules mean there’s 1-2 new Trek shows being streamed now every month.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 26, 2021 • 7:25:01am

re: #86 The Pie Overlord!

Trump claims that the Arizona “audit,” which affirmed Biden’s victory in the state, actually concluded that he won. Shameless lying and his fans eat it up.

Declare victory and move on. He can keep doing this until the next election.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Sep 26, 2021 • 7:25:35am

re: #77 Belafon

But still dependent on someone admitting they might have caught Covid and got tested for it. A lot of people are, or have been now, turned against the medical establishment and proper professionalism of doctors, nurses, and hospitals since it has been found politically expedient and profitable by some to erode that confidence.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Sep 26, 2021 • 7:28:04am

re: #86 The Pie Overlord!

His fans don’t want honesty. They just want feel good proclamations by their God of Rudeness and Racism that they are winning and will continue to win. Which implies that acting like assholes is their right and proper way to show their superiority.

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A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!  Sep 26, 2021 • 7:28:04am

re: #65 jeffreyw

[Embedded content]

Good morning!

Western good morning!

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Dangerman  Sep 26, 2021 • 7:29:44am

re: #89 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

But still dependent on someone admitting they might have caught Covid and got tested for it. A lot of people are, or have been now, turned against the medical establishment and proper professionalism of doctors, nurses, and hospitals since it has been found politically expedient and profitable by some to erode that confidence.

Here we go again
I won’t take the vax
But I’ll take this pill even though i don’t know what’s in it
Plus its so new we have no idea the long term effects

But that’s different

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jeffreyw  Sep 26, 2021 • 7:30:48am

Anybody take in the first episodes of Foundation on the Apple stream? I was in high school when I read the book so I don’t remember much other than the broad sweep. I’m not a stickler for true to the book so that sort of thing wouldn’t matter to me anyway. The visuals were OK - I do grump up a bit when I see spacecraft flying through swarms of boulders. Too bad the eps only drop weekly, it would make a good binge watch.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Sep 26, 2021 • 7:31:11am

re: #92 Dangerman

Here we go again
I won’t take the vax
But I’ll take this pill even though i don’t know what’s in it
Plus its so new we have no idea the long term effects

But that’s different

Assuming their chosen authorities accept the pill as a viable solution. (I guess that might depend on who owns the stock in the companies making said pill.) Otherwise, I think it will continue skipping from odd grift “cure” to odd grift “cure”.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 26, 2021 • 7:31:24am

re: #90 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

His fans don’t want honesty. They just want feel good proclamations by their God of Rudeness and Racism that they are winning and will continue to win. Which implies that acting like assholes is their right and proper way to show their superiority.

He understands that we live in the New Media Reality.

That became clear to me when they declared that his 2017 inauguration crowd was bigger than Obama’s and he and his spokespersons were not laughed off the networks.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 26, 2021 • 7:32:57am

re: #96 Teukka

snipped from r/Qult_Headquarters:
I can’t stop laughing. Apparently WE are to blame for conservative stupidity, because we intentionally used “reverse psychology” to convince them not to get vaccinated…

This is you basic gaslighting abuser line of argument. Just applied to politics rather than to a domestic situation.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 26, 2021 • 7:33:22am

I wonder if she’ll feel the same once she starts getting bills from the Funeral Homes…

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Sep 26, 2021 • 7:35:34am

On the personal Covid front:

a) Friend’s wife still in hospital (4+ weeks now), but out of ICU and showing steady improvement. Down to 4L of oxygen per day to maintain saturation and slowing getting more mobile working with a PT person. Friend himself got the antibodies early on and bounced right back.

b) Other friend from college and wife tested positive and are now self-isolating. Minor symptoms and both are vaccinated.

I am still practicing pretty limited contact. Shop once a week wearing a mask and washing up afterwards. Eat out once a week, but sit outside. (Waiters wear masks, usually properly.) About the only other contact is talking to my neighbors on each side, and that is usually standing outside and maintaining a bit of distance.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 26, 2021 • 7:35:40am

re: #98 Eclectic Cyborg

equating a few measures to ensure the safety of others with “slavery” is quite a leap

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Dangerman  Sep 26, 2021 • 7:36:21am

re: #98 Eclectic Cyborg

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I wonder if she’ll feel the same once she starts getting bills from the Funeral Homes…

How a bout you get vaccinated AND dont feel enslaved to fear?
That’s what I did

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Sep 26, 2021 • 7:37:20am

re: #100 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

equating a few measures to ensure the safety of others with “slavery” is quite a leap

Picked purposefully to both evoke emotional reactions and as a justification for why minorities do not deserve special treatment or compensation for how they were previously treated. Ignores totally that the minorities don’t want special treatment - but want equal treatment, which they still don’t really get.

Edit: minor correction

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Teukka  Sep 26, 2021 • 7:38:18am

re: #97 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

This is you basic gaslighting abuser line of argument. Just applied to politics rather than to a domestic situation.

As well as a profound inability to take personal responsibility for your actions when they turn out to be mistakes, even when fatal ones… Almost pathological I’d say.

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gwangung  Sep 26, 2021 • 7:38:27am

re: #100 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

equating a few measures to ensure the safety of others with “slavery” is quite a leap

Insulting to black folks (the same level as comparisons to the Holocaust) and extremely privileged. Asshats.

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Dangerman  Sep 26, 2021 • 7:39:28am

re: #99 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

On the personal Covid front:

a) Friend’s wife still in hospital (4+ weeks now), but out of ICU and showing steady improvement. Down to 4L of oxygen per day to maintain saturation and slowing getting more mobile working with a PT person. .

Not dumping on your friends

Its just like the flu

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 26, 2021 • 7:40:35am

re: #99 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

I too am keeping my mask on most the time except when eating. I have not eaten out but I get some prepared food from Di Bruno’s. My next big thing will be going to the election lessons at a local training center.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Sep 26, 2021 • 7:41:21am

re: #105 Dangerman

Not dumping on your friends

Its just like the flu

Oh, from the limited discussions in Discord he (and presumably his wife) do have a *much* better understanding of how nasty a case of this virus can be without killing you. Whether this will have a long term effect on their opinions and decisions regarding vaccination and politics remains to be seen.

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Dangerman  Sep 26, 2021 • 7:42:11am

re: #100 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

equating a few measures to ensure the safety of others with “slavery” is quite a leap

Bad hyperbole

(I think I saw them in concert once)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 26, 2021 • 7:44:11am

re: #108 Dangerman

Bad hyperbole

(I think I saw them in concert once)

Marc Hyperbolan and T-Republex

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darthstar  Sep 26, 2021 • 7:44:48am

re: #107 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Oh, from the limited discussions in Discord he (and presumably his wife) do have a *much* better understanding of how nasty a case of this virus can be without killing you. Whether this will have a long term effect on their opinions and decisions regarding vaccination and politics remains to be seen.

Just popping in after reading this post at dKos about a guy who had Covid, survived it (natural immunity) then got it again and died. So what doesn’t kill you sometimes comes back and finishes the job.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 26, 2021 • 7:45:13am

re: #106 PhillyPretzel

I too am keeping my mask on most the time except when eating. I have not eaten out but I get some prepared food from Di Bruno’s. My next big thing will be going to the election lessons at a local training center.

I have avoided indoor socializing and only go indoors for necessary shopping.

Going to get more difficult as it grows colder.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Sep 26, 2021 • 7:45:27am

Must steal “wretched dregs of the defeated Confederacy”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 26, 2021 • 7:45:58am

re: #104 gwangung

Insulting to black folks (the same level as comparisons to the Holocaust) and extremely privileged. Asshats.

“Dishonor before discomfort!”

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Teukka  Sep 26, 2021 • 7:48:36am

re: #110 darthstar

Just popping in after reading this post at dKos about a guy who had Covid, survived it (natural immunity) then got it again and died. So what doesn’t kill you sometimes comes back and finishes the job.

Also, the “natural immunity” route tends strongly to be against the variant that you got infected by. I think the record holder that still is alive and kickin is up to something like 3 variants… And yeah, he got jabbed.

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Dangerman  Sep 26, 2021 • 7:50:32am

re: #110 darthstar

Just popping in after reading this post at dKos about a guy who had Covid, survived it (natural immunity) then got it again and died. So what doesn’t kill you sometimes comes back and finishes the job.

What doesn’t kill you comes back and kills you

Eta: especially in Australia

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 26, 2021 • 7:51:38am

re: #115 Dangerman

What doesn’t kill you comes back and kills you

What doesn’t topple democracy the first time comes back and does it the next time around.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Sep 26, 2021 • 7:52:30am

re: #110 darthstar

Just popping in after reading this post at dKos about a guy who had Covid, survived it (natural immunity) then got it again and died. So what doesn’t kill you sometimes comes back and finishes the job.

Well, there will eventually be a discussion whether or not they get vaccinations. And my guess is that a few of us will outright call them fools if they refuse at that time. (I suspect that he is following his wife’s lead, and I think she has swallowed the BS about testing lines based on aborted zygotes, etc. etc. Which will not be budged by pointing out the various lies, crap, etc. of that.)

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The Pie Overlord!  Sep 26, 2021 • 7:57:00am
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Sep 26, 2021 • 7:57:50am

re: #98 Eclectic Cyborg

I wonder if she’ll feel the same once she starts getting bills from the Funeral Homes…

That’s after the minimally high five digit (but a high as seven digit) hospital bills. Enjoy lady. Own us. OWN US! 👀

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Dangerman  Sep 26, 2021 • 8:00:24am

re: #117 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Well, there will eventually be a discussion whether or not they get vaccinations. And my guess is that a few of us will outright call them fools if they refuse at that time. (I suspect that he is following his wife’s lead, and I think she has swallowed the BS about testing lines based on aborted zygotes, etc. etc. Which will not be budged by pointing out the various lies, crap, etc. of that.)

Just like all those seeking ” religious exemptions”
They are convenient usable excuses to get what they want, not firmly held Long term convictions

Else they would never have used pepto, aspirin, ibuprofen, Tylenol and on and on

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Teukka  Sep 26, 2021 • 8:03:54am

re: #117 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Well, there will eventually be a discussion whether or not they get vaccinations. And my guess is that a few of us will outright call them fools if they refuse at that time. (I suspect that he is following his wife’s lead, and I think she has swallowed the BS about testing lines based on aborted zygotes, etc. etc. Which will not be budged by pointing out the various lies, crap, etc. of that.)

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 26, 2021 • 8:04:42am

Hey lizards — my Trumpster fanatic posted the following on her FB page:

Hey folks, pay attention to the big spending bill that Biden is pushing through Congress. Buried in the bill is money to double the amount of IRS agents. Why? Because they want to be able to investigate you if you withdraw more that $600
from you bank account.

Does anyone know what the $600 allegation is about? They want to increase the number of IRS agents — but is there anything about $600 or is that manufactured out of whole cloth?

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 26, 2021 • 8:07:16am

re: #122 Hecuba’s daughter

It sounds like some just pulled a monetary figure out of the air.

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Dangerman  Sep 26, 2021 • 8:08:24am

re: #121 Teukka

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Hoisted by your own unintended petard

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Dangerman  Sep 26, 2021 • 8:10:49am

re: #122 Hecuba’s daughter

Hey lizards — my Trumpster fanatic posted the following on her FB page:

Does anyone know what the $600 allegation is about? They want to increase the number of IRS agents — but is there anything about $600 or is that manufactured out of whole cloth?

Looks like its real

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Belafon  Sep 26, 2021 • 8:12:18am
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Teukka  Sep 26, 2021 • 8:16:30am

re: #124 Dangerman

Fucking EPICALLY Hoisted by your own unintended petard

FTFY.

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darthstar  Sep 26, 2021 • 8:16:39am

re: #125 Dangerman

Looks like its real

Has to have been a typo. That would flag millions of transactions.

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 26, 2021 • 8:18:22am

re: #128 darthstar

Every one of my paychecks is over $600. That is going to make a lot of work for some people.

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A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!  Sep 26, 2021 • 8:19:07am

re: #128 darthstar

Has to have been a typo. That would flag millions of transactions per day.

FTFY. Even if they’re only talking about money taken out in cash.

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Teukka  Sep 26, 2021 • 8:20:26am

re: #128 darthstar

Has to have been a typo. That would flag millions of transactions.

Or omitted information to make the news piece more inflammatory, like what kind of transactions over $600 would be subject to reporting to the IRS.

Also, 15 minutes for a number comparison and storage of copy of transaction to file which is sent off to the IRS at set intervals sounds kinda sorta bombastically exaggerated.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Sep 26, 2021 • 8:24:23am

re: #129 PhillyPretzel

Every one of my paychecks is over $600. That is going to make a lot of work for some people.

Likely it’s cash they’re looking for, not checks.

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 26, 2021 • 8:24:28am

re: #131 Teukka

You have a point. And I just remembered that my mortgage on my house is $800 a month. Would that too be flagged by the IRS?

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darthstar  Sep 26, 2021 • 8:24:50am

re: #131 Teukka

Or omitted information to make the news piece more inflammatory, like what kind of transactions over $600 would be subject to reporting to the IRS.

Also, 15 minutes for a number comparison and storage of copy of transaction to file which is sent off to the IRS at set intervals sounds kinda sorta bombastically exaggerated.

Well, you have to write down the routing number, the account number, the amount and the date. Then take the pink copy to the manager, the white copy goes into a file, and the goldenrod copy gets sent to the IRS.

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 26, 2021 • 8:25:26am

re: #132 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Hmm. You are probably correct. And there are a lot of people who still do an all cash business.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Sep 26, 2021 • 8:26:12am

re: #132 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Likely it’s cash they’re looking for, not checks.

And if it’s checks, computer algorithms will note that ones paycheck is deposited every X period.

I’d like to see the actual content of the bill before I get freaked out.

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Rightwingconspirator  Sep 26, 2021 • 8:26:20am

re: #125 Dangerman

IIRC that rule is also about cash deposits.

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Dangerman  Sep 26, 2021 • 8:26:56am

re: #128 darthstar

Has to have been a typo. That would flag millions of transactions.

It would
Annual aggregate reporting
they’re still negotiating it

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Teukka  Sep 26, 2021 • 8:27:26am

re: #133 PhillyPretzel

You have a point. And I just remembered that my mortgage on my house is $800 a month. Would that too be flagged by the IRS?

I think there might be some conditions which trigger the reporting.

re: #134 darthstar

Well, you have to write down the routing number, the account number, the amount and the date. Then take the pink copy to the manager, the white copy goes into a file, and the goldenrod copy gets sent to the IRS.

⸘Aren’t you guys doing this automagically all computerized these days‽

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Teukka  Sep 26, 2021 • 8:28:53am

re: #139 Teukka

I think there might be some conditions which trigger the reporting.
⸘Aren’t you guys doing this automagically all computerized these days‽

Nevetheless, I smell a spun story, sort of like the news of Delta fining antivaxx employees $200 a month, which turned out to be increased insurance premium costs for Delta due to the risk antivaxx employees pose…

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Dangerman  Sep 26, 2021 • 8:31:03am

re: #139 Teukka

I think there might be some conditions which trigger the reporting.

⸘Aren’t you guys doing this automagically all computerized these days‽

Only if you got the vax

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darthstar  Sep 26, 2021 • 8:32:36am

re: #139 Teukka

I think there might be some conditions which trigger the reporting.

⸘Aren’t you guys doing this automagically all computerized these days‽

Carbon paper helps reduce the time it takes, but you have to be careful not to put it in upside down or you wind up creating a mirror copy of the text on the back of the page instead of a duplicate.

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darthstar  Sep 26, 2021 • 8:33:10am

I’m aging myself with my office skills knowledge.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Sep 26, 2021 • 8:34:34am

re: #135 PhillyPretzel

Hmm. You are probably correct. And there are a lot of people who still do an all cash business.

Less these days due to COVID. But again, if there’s suspicious activity it would have been investigated and if there were problems, actions would have been taken or, if not, flagged as ok.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 26, 2021 • 8:45:39am

re: #125 Dangerman

Looks like its real

So the paychecks of almost everyone working full time would be constantly reported to the IRS by the banks?

EDIT: Saw discussion this may not be the case.

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 26, 2021 • 8:48:39am

re: #145 Eclectic Cyborg

That and it is still being negotiated. It may end up as something completely different.

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Rightwingconspirator  Sep 26, 2021 • 8:52:51am

If they want to crack down on bank SAR papers, expand that? Say hello to a bigger underground economy. Cash can fall back to precious metals or barter.

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 26, 2021 • 8:57:50am

re: #147 Rightwingconspirator

or the crypto currencies like bitcoin.

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Sep 26, 2021 • 8:58:43am

re: #128 darthstar

salon.com

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Rightwingconspirator  Sep 26, 2021 • 9:01:39am

re: #148 PhillyPretzel

or the crypto currencies like bitcoin.

Yeah I guess. The thing is so much is traceable, crackable, hackable online I’m a little surprised. Plus these guys that lost their key or their Bitcoin was stolen? Dunno but it’s big so they must have it figured.

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Michele: Recovering Social Media Addict  Sep 26, 2021 • 9:02:36am

Financial institutions already have to report transactions of a over a certain amount($10K iirc). If there is an excessive amount of cash transactions in a short period of time, THAT will trigger the filing of a Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) to the IRS. Frequent deposits/withdrawls of small amounts will also trigger a SARs as it could be a sign of money laundering or drug dealing. It could also be a clue that someone is trying to hide assets as well.

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Rightwingconspirator  Sep 26, 2021 • 9:04:26am

re: #151 Michele: Recovering Social Media Addict

Financial institutions already have to report transactions of a over a certain amount($10K iirc). If there is an excessive amount of cash transactions in a short period of time, THAT will trigger the filing of a Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) to the IRS. Frequent deposits/withdrawls of small amounts will also trigger a SARs as it could be a sign of money laundering or drug dealing. It could also be a clue that someone is trying to hide assets as well.

And bank employees can report suspicious activity of any size. Like these guys that think themselves clever to deposit somewhat under $10,000 cash at a time.

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The Pie Overlord!  Sep 26, 2021 • 9:05:41am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 26, 2021 • 9:06:58am

re: #153 The Pie Overlord!

Sounds great until Manchin torpedoes it.

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Rightwingconspirator  Sep 26, 2021 • 9:08:49am

Because of the 24kt supply line required to produce jewelry it has attracted its share of bad guys, money laundering activities. So much so that a whole slew of rules for gold dealers was passed. Plus we have immigrated many from cultures that cherish 24kt as the currency preferred. For example. Take a look at the San Fernando valley. The only 24k and pure silver dealers are set up with coins and or pawn stores. Take a look at Chinatown. Need to buy 24k? Toss a rock and find a dealer.

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The Pie Overlord!  Sep 26, 2021 • 9:11:29am

WTAFITS

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Rightwingconspirator  Sep 26, 2021 • 9:13:14am

re: #156 The Pie Overlord!

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GlutenFreeJesus  Sep 26, 2021 • 9:13:48am

re: #156 The Pie Overlord!

Colostomy bag included.

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Teukka  Sep 26, 2021 • 9:15:37am

re: #156 The Pie Overlord!

WTAFITS

*spraypaints monitor with coffee*

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Belafon  Sep 26, 2021 • 9:17:35am

re: #154 Eclectic Cyborg

Sounds great until Manchin torpedoes it.

He should have mentioned a West Virginia town.

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 26, 2021 • 9:18:32am

For what it is worth I just became a member of Snopes.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 26, 2021 • 9:19:35am

re: #121 Teukka

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Teukka  Sep 26, 2021 • 9:21:55am

re: #162 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 26, 2021 • 9:22:53am

Drone footage from this morning, of the perimeter of the lava flow in Las Palmas:

260921 Erupción La Palma - imágenes perímetro

..

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 26, 2021 • 9:25:04am

re: #163 Teukka

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Michele: Recovering Social Media Addict  Sep 26, 2021 • 9:26:21am

re: #152 Rightwingconspirator

And bank employees can report suspicious activity of any size. Like these guys that think themselves clever to deposit somewhat under $10,000 cash at a time.

Yep. When I was in the Casino game some of the things we were on constant look out for was people putting money on a game and then (without playing) cashing out the ticket to redeem at a kiosk. Same with someone breaking down a lot of $100.00s for $20.00s and never playing a game. Both would trigger a suspicious activity report and possible law enforcement intervention.

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Rightwingconspirator  Sep 26, 2021 • 9:28:28am

re: #166 Michele: Recovering Social Media Addict

Trump’s dad did something like that to illicitly put cash in his inept sons casino.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 26, 2021 • 9:30:54am

First exit polls out of Germany - if this holds up, looks like it’s going to be a “traffic light” coalition of SPD, FDP and the Green Party.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 26, 2021 • 9:34:43am

re: #168 Dr Lizardo

First exit polls out of Germany - if this holds up, looks like it’s going to be a “traffic light” coalition of SPD, FDP and the Green Party.

I am glad to see the Christian Democrats get a bloody nose. They have been governing too long and really turned into a cesspool.

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JOE 🥓  Sep 26, 2021 • 9:37:03am

re: #126 Belafon

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The GOP is a terrorist organization  Sep 26, 2021 • 9:39:38am

Now would be as good a time as any for that heart attack/stroke/new Covid infection to strike Trump.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 26, 2021 • 9:40:19am

Wife and I visited the Skynyrd Monument in Amite County, MS today. This is near the site of the 1977 crash.

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JOE 🥓  Sep 26, 2021 • 9:42:29am

Got a cheap HD antenna for the TV, set it up and the TV doesn’t want to tune in on NBC for Press The Meat.

Gee, I wonder why?

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 26, 2021 • 9:42:59am

re: #169 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I am glad to see the Christian Democrats get a bloody nose. They have been governing too long and really turned into a cesspool.

Yeah, that seems to be the general consensus I’m reading from Germans. Time for them to take a time-out and cool their heels in the opposition seats.

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JOE 🥓  Sep 26, 2021 • 9:44:49am

re: #174 Dr Lizardo

Yeah, that seems to be the general consensus I’m reading from Germans. Time for them to take a time-out and cool their heels in the opposition seats.

Interesting. Still remember how the Free Democrats stuck the shiv into Schmidt’s back in 1982 and sunk the Social Democrats.

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Rightwingconspirator  Sep 26, 2021 • 9:54:30am

re: #173 JOE 🥓

Got a cheap HD antenna for the TV, set it up and the TV doesn’t want to tune in on NBC for Press The Meat.

Gee, I wonder why?

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Sadly, even the smartest of the “smart” TV’s may have a porn/parental filter, but no accurate content filter yet.

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Belafon  Sep 26, 2021 • 9:57:42am

re: #176 Rightwingconspirator

Sadly, even the smartest of the “smart” TV’s may have a porn/parental filter, but no accurate content filter yet.

An actual content filter would work like Facebook’s and Twitter’s.

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 26, 2021 • 9:59:30am

re: #171 The GOP is a terrorist organization

Now would be as good a time as any for that heart attack/stroke/new Covid infection to strike Trump.

Unlike his followers, Trump is vaccinated and has publicly admitted to being so. So not Covid — because that would boost anti-vax sentiment. But heart attack or stroke are fine. A lethal bolt of lightning on a golf course would be even better!.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 26, 2021 • 9:59:58am

re: #175 JOE 🥓

Interesting. Still remember how the Free Democrats stuck the shiv into Schmidt’s back in 1982 and sunk the Social Democrats.

If nothing else, this particular German election confirms my suspicion that Merkel leaving the stage is creating a power vacuum with no one to fill it. The German electorate is split and scattered, with no clear indication as to which direction it wants to move in.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 26, 2021 • 10:01:58am

So, a quick and easy summary for those wanting to get up to speed on the German elections:

SPD 😁

CDU 😡

Greens 🙂

FDP 😐

Die Linke 😢

AfD 🤡

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jaunte  Sep 26, 2021 • 10:06:39am

It’s a cult.

182
jaunte  Sep 26, 2021 • 10:08:29am

Carbonite Trump

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JOE 🥓  Sep 26, 2021 • 10:15:15am

re: #181 jaunte

It’s a cult.

184
jaunte  Sep 26, 2021 • 10:16:03am

Patriot Farce Semi-Collectibles

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JOE 🥓  Sep 26, 2021 • 10:16:08am

re: #181 jaunte

Yes it is a cult especially when several relatives attended the Nuremberg Rally in Georgia worshipping Gawd’s Anointed King.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 26, 2021 • 10:18:00am

re: #181 jaunte

It’s a cult.

Does that figure come with Kung Fu Pussy Grab?

/

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jaunte  Sep 26, 2021 • 10:18:45am

re: #186 Eclectic Cyborg

Authentic Trouble With Ramps

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jaunte  Sep 26, 2021 • 10:19:36am

Patented Weird Standing Posture™

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JOE 🥓  Sep 26, 2021 • 10:24:55am

re: #181 jaunte

Gotta collect ‘em all…

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wrenchwench  Sep 26, 2021 • 10:26:03am

When G.I. Joes came out, the term ‘action figure’ was used so nobody would call it a ‘doll’. Now we have an Inaction Figure.

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jaunte  Sep 26, 2021 • 10:26:26am

re: #189 JOE 🥓

“Kills: 700,000+”

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 26, 2021 • 10:26:42am

It is odd. I just joined Snopes using my debit card and they say I am a member. I tried to create a password and for some reason it is not allowing me to sign in using said password. I even went in with a Google link and the same thing happened. I think the safest thing to do is to wait a day or so to see if they will finally catch up.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 26, 2021 • 10:27:21am

re: #188 jaunte

Patented Weird Standing Posture™

That and the scowl result from his heroic, but doomed, effort to overcome bone spurs.

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jaunte  Sep 26, 2021 • 10:31:50am

re: #189 JOE 🥓

Tagline: “They Get Dirty, So America Stays Clean.”
No, it doesn’t work that way, Colonel Jessup.

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mmmirele  Sep 26, 2021 • 10:33:25am

re: #53 Dr Lizardo

Trailer for the live-action Cowboy Bebop adaptation dropped:

[Embedded content]

Video

Speaking of iconic Japanese anime, I watched the entirety of Neon Genesis Evangelion (TV series) last week. (It’s on Netflix.) I watched about five minutes of it dubbed, then the rest subbed. Lotta, lotta thoughts about that. And given what I went through in one month when I was 14, I could see how all the kids would be just so fucked up.

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I thought if my dad had shown up and said, “Get in the robot, Deana,” I’m sure I would have reacted the same way Shinji did. Badly. So yeah, hitting me in all the feels.

I tried to get into Cowboy Bebop last year, but uhm, not yet?

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jaunte  Sep 26, 2021 • 10:34:26am

“They get dirty, and get elected to office as authentic representatives of American Values.”

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Sep 26, 2021 • 10:34:44am
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JOE 🥓  Sep 26, 2021 • 10:36:11am

re: #197 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

That’s why my Smart TV won’t tune into NBC so I don’t have to listen to the usual gang of G.O. Pinheads!

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 26, 2021 • 10:39:25am

re: #195 mmmirele

Q1qd0FvxaQsJelE03lh/kh7GEsWkdt4cEA+Dc21BR4LVkL9FCq/yCP+Tq0TMhFePUmBZFXJ7hreAUYxwHvLRs7NH2KisvjWypEkMHE2RsAnXRiE5OIZFO/1WVYxphacRgrSJLLfEBMKc0NvR/8EXHlt+IhBvyET2Vo8o6U+JIthh85wjTjyzJt9+GlLqHo2egM5n/Gw80wv8LBkiptrS1SRi6xo/fIHbbh4MiDOCXpI7Pqs5RVSZ1Mc8H2T9dcO9zd0YeoetSEBKdqUygWhtPvE4wxLq5qYB6AdmStQK28xYLgknUD7P6B0nhVEdFfzgzPKoHE5xhBiBC4XstvRck89yurmeQ3mHWNgIOB1SAsP8DyEslF4TCwL+rxhRoCVcgOE0is8B9paeUFHB27dlekI7JfoRkGo39nL5x5Y9sRbRT8j9DJmOG0T1i+vbmLjH8NPqfOBjMz77jE3He5sYg3F5oJw18ogXVsqMXdOVfh5k5uqH0t+e4sOXyTAgEg8W6u5dz9s7yMwDHIryKPPNKVTN6NRKwnCr

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Decatur Deb  Sep 26, 2021 • 10:41:42am

See Mobile and die.

What pandemic? Alabama’s booming beaches set new tourism records this summer
al.com

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Sep 26, 2021 • 10:44:26am

re: #164 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Drone footage from this morning, of the perimeter of the lava flow in Las Palmas:

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Video

..

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Dave In Austin  Sep 26, 2021 • 10:44:32am

Jess I’d really good at presenting the data

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jaunte  Sep 26, 2021 • 10:46:44am
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Sep 26, 2021 • 10:47:44am

re: #192 PhillyPretzel

It is odd. I just joined Snopes using my debit card and they say I am a member. I tried to create a password and for some reason it is not allowing me to sign in using said password. I even went in with a Google link and the same thing happened. I think the safest thing to do is to wait a day or so to see if they will finally catch up.

I’ve left a few apps/places in part due to the fact that they can’t keep their own access passwords updated in a timely manner.

LinkedIn at least once could not update a password after they requested that I update it.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 26, 2021 • 10:48:07am

re: #203 jaunte

To be fair, Czech Republic has elections on Friday and Saturday. Turnout is typically meh at best.

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JOE 🥓  Sep 26, 2021 • 10:50:16am

re: #203 jaunte

If we had elections on Sunday I fear all the right wing churches becoming polling places.

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BeachDem  Sep 26, 2021 • 10:52:19am

re: #200 Decatur Deb

See Mobile and die.

What pandemic? Alabama’s booming beaches set new tourism records this summer
al.com

And the rest of them came to befoul my air.

Myrtle Beach breaks summer occupancy records, data shows

wmbfnews.com

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Barefoot Grin  Sep 26, 2021 • 10:54:44am

I feel so strange and out of sorts: Arsenal won again.

209
The Pie Overlord!  Sep 26, 2021 • 10:55:37am

Anti-vaxxers release a Manifesto:

Strange but only one of these “3000 doctors & scientists” is even mentioned, and SURPRISE! IT IS AN ANTI-VAXXER! Yeah and, his claim to being the “inventor of mRNA” is questionable, but it’s fuel for the anti-vaxx disinfo machine.

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 26, 2021 • 10:56:22am

re: #209 The Pie Overlord!

I wonder if he’s related to Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai, inventor of EMAIL.

211
JOE 🥓  Sep 26, 2021 • 10:56:24am

Dolly can’t even persuade these assholes!

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Rightwingconspirator  Sep 26, 2021 • 10:59:46am

re: #177 Belafon

An actual content filter would work like Facebook’s and Twitter’s.

“Artificial Stupid”.

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mmmirele  Sep 26, 2021 • 10:59:47am

re: #122 Hecuba’s daughter

Hey lizards — my Trumpster fanatic posted the following on her FB page:

Does anyone know what the $600 allegation is about? They want to increase the number of IRS agents — but is there anything about $600 or is that manufactured out of whole cloth?

This is a number pulled out of thin air. I know that your bank has a limit on how much you can pull out of an ATM per day. I got a phone banker to lift the limit ($300) while I was standing at the ATM because I needed $500 cash right then (tips for a biiiiig party). And as the owner of the bank account and ATM card in question, I’m quite happy there’s a limit, because I’d be pissed if my account was emptied out….

Banks have all sorts of algorithms to suss out suspicious transactions. People have this idea that if they keep their withdrawals below $10K, it won’t awaken suspicions, and that would be wrong. The thing is, the IRS is generally dependent on the bank filing a Suspicious Activity Report, and in the era of Know Your Customer, banks are a bit more hairtrigger about filing SARs. Otherwise the IRS has to go in with a warrant or subpoena to get the information. This also does happen, because there are situations where the transactions looked regular and normal, but they’re having to build a case and need all the transactions. There’s a whole department full of people at the ops center whose only job is dealing with that.

ETA: I see it’s for real. Now I don’t know about small banks…but I know it wouldn’t take so much time to pull a daily report and send it to the government of over $600 transactions. But there is such a thing as TOO MUCH INFORMATION. They’re going to be overwhelmed, and it’s stupid. *rolls eyes*

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Eventual Carrion  Sep 26, 2021 • 11:11:10am

re: #118 The Pie Overlord!

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BAN CRT!!!!

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EstebanTornado1963  Sep 26, 2021 • 11:11:19am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 26, 2021 • 11:20:42am

re: #172 Eclectic Cyborg

Wife and I visited the Skynyrd Monument in Amite County, MS today. This is near the site of the 1977 crash.

I got to see them shortly before the bang-up, summer of 1976.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 26, 2021 • 11:22:12am

re: #175 JOE 🥓

Interesting. Still remember how the Free Democrats stuck the shiv into Schmidt’s back in 1982 and sunk the Social Democrats.

The Free Democrats are exactly what you would expect from a Capitalist-friendly party without the Christian trappings of the Christian Democrats.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 26, 2021 • 11:23:24am

re: #190 wrenchwench

When G.I. Joes came out, the term ‘action figure’ was used so nobody would call it a ‘doll’. Now we have an Inaction Figure.

Does it come with an ATV armored golf cart for those journeys of more than 30 paces?

219
Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 26, 2021 • 11:25:42am

re: #203 jaunte

Germany. Having an election on a Sunday, enabling a higher turnout. Imagine that.

Everybody has to register their primary residence. Doing so automatically registers you to vote.

Everyone is required to have a picture ID, so there is no issue with that. Just show up at the local polling place, and they cross your name off the list. My daughter says she was in an out within a few minutes.

220
Nojay UK  Sep 26, 2021 • 11:27:58am

re: #195 mmmirele

Speaking of iconic Japanese anime, I watched the entirety of Neon Genesis Evangelion (TV series) last week. (It’s on Netflix.) I watched about five minutes of it dubbed, then the rest subbed.

Sub vs. dub, the unending battle. If you managed to fight your way through End of Evangelion, I salute you and don’t worry, it wasn’t meant to make sense. Just money.

I tried to get into Cowboy Bebop last year, but uhm, not yet?

Ehhh. Fun once but overrated in my opinion. The whiny bitch-ass character who goes around moping and being uncommunicative while his partners are getting shot up because of his Daaark Hiiistory is a noir movie trope they could have done without. Great intro music, decent soundtrack and stylish animation drags it out of the pit of mediocrity, live-actioning this series is a big leap for the remakers.

If you want total bonkers brainfuck anime, Fooly Cooly aka FLCL, original series with music by The Pillows. There is a storyline in there, really. It’s just not the storyline you expect.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Sep 26, 2021 • 11:28:35am

re: #219 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Germany. Having an election on a Sunday, enabling a higher turnout. Imagine that.

Everybody has to register their primary residence. Doing so automatically registers you to vote.

Everyone is required to have a picture ID, so there is no issue with that. Just show up at the local polling place, and they cross your name off the list. My daughter says she was in an out within a few minutes.

Picture ID and registration is not the issue with US elections. It’s that they use those as tools in order to try to suppress voting by certain groups. Make getting the ID difficult. Make the registration process difficult. Or simply give those groups fewer polling places to actually vote at.

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Teukka  Sep 26, 2021 • 11:30:01am

re: #219 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Germany. Having an election on a Sunday, enabling a higher turnout. Imagine that.

Everybody has to register their primary residence. Doing so automatically registers you to vote.

Everyone is required to have a picture ID, so there is no issue with that. Just show up at the local polling place, and they cross your name off the list. My daughter says she was in an out within a few minutes.

Same deal here and when I vote in the Finnish elections at the embassy.

223
JOE 🥓  Sep 26, 2021 • 11:32:26am

Well look what comes out of the mouth of this asshole.

Hey Merrick Garland! Are you listening to this OR are you giving this traitor a pass?

Sidney Powell hints that Jan. 6 attack was designed give Supreme Court time to stop Biden’s win

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Dopamine Fish  Sep 26, 2021 • 11:33:16am

re: #223 JOE 🥓

Well look what comes out of the mouth of this asshole.

Hey Merrick Garland! Are you listening to this OR are you giving this traitor a pass?

[Embedded content]

On that topic:

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 26, 2021 • 11:33:54am

re: #221 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Picture ID and registration is not the issue with US elections. It’s that they use those as tools in order to try to suppress voting by certain groups. Make getting the ID difficult. Make the registration process difficult. Or simply give those groups fewer polling places to actually vote at.

I also point out to people that one needs a registered address in order to sign a lease, register a car, open a bank account, sign an employment contract, enroll children in schools, use local social services, etc.

All of that makes it rather difficult for illegal immigrants to establish themselves. But I cannot imagine America going for a solution like that, even though it would be cheaper and easier to maintain than a Wall.

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A Cranky One  Sep 26, 2021 • 11:34:39am

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 26, 2021 • 11:34:52am

re: #220 Nojay UK

If you want total bonkers brainfuck anime, Fooly Cooly aka FLCL, original series with music by The Pillows. There is a storyline in there, really. It’s just not the storyline you expect.

Indeed.

FLCL - Final Battle

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JOE 🥓  Sep 26, 2021 • 11:35:16am

Meanwhile in today’s edition of Where’s Waldo Larry Elder?

California GOP has a convention going on and their new leader ain’t there!

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Jay C  Sep 26, 2021 • 11:45:42am

re: #223 JOE 🥓

I understand that “stewpeters.tv” is likely the handle for one “Stew Peters” (DUH!!) - but I wonder if he quite realizes that it’s an unfortunate homonym for “stupiders”…..?

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The GOP is a terrorist organization  Sep 26, 2021 • 11:53:23am
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mmmirele  Sep 26, 2021 • 11:56:37am

re: #220 Nojay UK

Sub vs. dub, the unending battle. If you managed to fight your way through End of Evangelion, I salute you and don’t worry, it wasn’t meant to make sense. Just money.

I heard EoE was a complete Fuck You to the fan base, which wanted a different ending to TVEva. So Anno gave them a huge Fuck You and I’m not sure I want to watch it. I will say this, however, after watching TVEva, I see where a LOT of stuff (not just the music, it’s super-obvious) in Shin Godzilla came from.

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William Lewis  Sep 26, 2021 • 11:57:11am

re: #220 Nojay UK

I liked Bebop but I think I need to go home and binge Girls Und Panzers again. Love that silly hot mess.

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JOE 🥓  Sep 26, 2021 • 11:57:24am

Just a reminder about the killers at Fox News!

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sagehen  Sep 26, 2021 • 12:04:12pm

re: #215 EstebanTornado1963

[Embedded content]

If Nancy says there’s going to be a vote and it’ll pass… then there’s going to be a vote and it’ll pass.

David Simon reminds us who raised her:

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Belafon  Sep 26, 2021 • 12:45:05pm

re: #195 mmmirele

Speaking of iconic Japanese anime, I watched the entirety of Neon Genesis Evangelion (TV series) last week. (It’s on Netflix.) I watched about five minutes of it dubbed, then the rest subbed. Lotta, lotta thoughts about that. And given what I went through in one month when I was 14, I could see how all the kids would be just so fucked up.

[Embedded content]

I thought if my dad had shown up and said, “Get in the robot, Deana,” I’m sure I would have reacted the same way Shinji did. Badly. So yeah, hitting me in all the feels.

I tried to get into Cowboy Bebop last year, but uhm, not yet?

Make it through the episode that introduces Ed. They take a few episodes to set up the crew.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Sep 26, 2021 • 3:23:28pm

re: #231 mmmirele

I heard EoE was a complete Fuck You to the fan base, which wanted a different ending to TVEva. So Anno gave them a huge Fuck You and I’m not sure I want to watch it. I will say this, however, after watching TVEva, I see where a LOT of stuff (not just the music, it’s super-obvious) in Shin Godzilla came from.

Yep.

The end of the TV series was a budget compromise but also reflected that Anno simply couldn’t bring himself to “finish” the show in a way that met conventional understandings of how a shounen plot should resolve—victory through pluck and resolve, getting the girl—resulting in the highly abstract (and cheap create) resolution that also make the entire show into a psychodrama about Shinji learning self-love rather than a conventional “things happen, fight and win” plot structure.

People hated it.

EoE is alternately filled with fan service and very explicit, meta-aware moments in which the tawdriness and infantilism inherent in fan service are called out…and ends in a way that refutes that end of the TV series—Shinji learns nothing but technically “wins”—while also making the protagonist the embodiment of worse characteristics of otaku culture.

Folding Ideas - End of Evangelion and the Audience Author Membrane


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