Back from the Front (1943)
Set in WW II, the stooges are the only survivors of an American ship sunk by an enemy torpedo. Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard.
Proof that Greg Abbott is Sabotaging Democracy - Steve Hofstetter
re: #2 darthstar
Quasi-related. I had to run to the gas station a few miles up the road for some medicine about an hour or so ago…and there was a three car accident right out front. I counted at least 6 emergency vehicles on scene.
The gas station in question is right off a major interstate and so there are constantly cars turning every which way nearby.
It would not surprise me one bit if that whole mess was caused by someone not paying attention or not signaling a turn.
Other than the ending, my favorite moment of the Trump presidency.
Donald Trump, answering phone call from 7-year-old on Christmas Eve: “Are you still a believer in Santa? Because at seven it’s marginal, right?” pic.twitter.com/VHexvFSbQ1
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) December 25, 2018
Merry Christmas to everyone except this crying little beyotch pic.twitter.com/Yap6eiNAAk
— DevinNunesTHEDragQueen (@NunesDrag) December 26, 2021
🎶 may your days be merry and bright / and may all your puppy dreams come true 🎶 pic.twitter.com/uFVPoDdq0R
— shauna (@goldengateblond) December 25, 2021
Because Conway’s Game of Life is Turning complete, and because there exists a defined CPU architecture, and an assembly language for that architecture, and a compiler that will compile to that language, here is a link describing a project executes a lisp interpreter that runs on the GoL: github.com. Here’s it executing a multiplication problem: woodrush.github.io. It is slow, as you can imagine, but definitely interesting as a concept.
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Drinking bleach to own the libs. https://t.co/iPgK1PrCf5
— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) December 26, 2021
This 2018 Renwood Old Vine Zinfandel is is really nice. I have to fight the urge to have more and more. This would be to die for in another 3-4 years. I don’t know how people age their wine collection other than to be rich and buy by the case. I once saved a 6 year old Zinfandel for another 4 more years. It was the best wine I ever had. Never saved a wine more than 6 months since.
My daughter has this psychedelic light device in the dining room projecting laser stars and swirling colors on the ceiling. I’m listening to the Beatles and watching the light show. I’m glad they didn’t have these in my LSD youth. Wood paneling was bad enough back then.
They buy fridges designed for storing long term. I was that guy for several years. Lived 1hr from Napa, worked for winery folks. Wine is also produced to consume fast or age. Find wines made to be aged then hold them.
Drinking zinfandel and eating a chocolate Santa Claus.
Boxing Day tomorrow for all us Commonwealthers. I don’t recall my parents continuing the practice down here in the lower 48 of the future Canadian Empire.
/did I say that last part out loud?
re: #10 Ship Faced Ron
This 2018 Renwood Old Vine Zinfandel is is really nice. I have to fight the urge to have more and more. This would be to die for in another 3-4 years. I don’t know how people age their wine collection other than to be rich and buy by the case. I once saved a 6 year old Zinfandel for another 4 more years. It was the best wine I ever had. Never saved a wine more than 6 months since.
I once found a bottle of red that I’d overlooked for 20 years. It was excellemt.
A friend who saw Matrix Resurrections asked me to watch it because she wanted to discuss the film and I was the only friend she had who would be willing to view it. Given my adoration of Keanu Reeves and the fact that I did see the original in 1999, I decided to give it a go Friday night.
Charles, my take on the film definitely differs from yours. If I hadn’t made the promise to my friend, I probably would have turned it off in the middle. I am not a fan of the choreographed fight scenes nor of the plot as a whole, which was not particularly interesting to me. I don’t indulge in video games, but those who do are probably the target audience. There were only a few scenes that were mildly entertaining, but then I wasn’t a big fan of the original 1999 movie. In 1999, my husband and I also saw another film that dealt with a similar concept of world simulation — Thirteenth Floor — and I found that a much more enjoyable and thought provoking concept.
re: #16 Ship Faced Ron
Boxing Day tomorrow for all us Commonwealthers. I don’t recall my parents continuing the practice down here in the lower 48 of the future Canadian Empire.
/did I say that last part out loud?
Not just the Commonwealth: Boxing Day is also celebrated in the Nebraska Panhandle. (Long story why that is but involves a Canadian XIX Century Army captain who settled here, and his wife missed the holiday. They were also very rich, so they promoted Boxing Day throughout the area. We can be the behind-the-lines bridgehead for the push for empire.)
DALLAS (AP) — The wife of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was arrested Christmas Eve on a domestic violence charge that the right-wing provocateur said stems from a “medication imbalance.”
Sheriff’s deputies took Erika Wulff Jones into custody and booked her into an Austin jail around 8:45 p.m. Friday. Jail records show the 43-year-old faces misdemeanor charges of assault causing bodily injury to a family member and resisting arrest, search or transport. She had not received a bond Saturday afternoon.
Alex Jones, an Austin resident and founder of the right-wing media group Infowars, declined Saturday to say whether he’d been injured or elaborate on what happened beyond that he believes it was related to his wife’s recent change of medication.
It’s a private family matter that happened on Christmas Eve,” Jones told The Associated Press in a brief interview. “I love my wife and care about her and it appears to be some kind of medication imbalance.
The Travis County Sheriff’s Office did not immediately respond to a request Christmas Day for the report on Wulff Jones’ arrest and a spokeswoman said she could not provide more information. An attorney for Wulff Jones did not immediately respond to a request for comment.Jones sued this week seeking to block subpoenas he’d been issued by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Jones spoke at a rally in support of then-President Donald Trump that proceeded the riot and his Infowars colleague, Owen Shroyer, was charged with crimes related to it in August. Shroyer has said he’s “innocent of the charges.”
Jones said his wife’s arrest “doesn’t concern my politics” and that “it wasn’t some kind of personal hateful thing or anything.”
Anti-Vax Podcaster Reportedly On Ventilator For COVID After Attending Right-Wing Rally
Doug Kuzma, Frog News Network, posed with supplies of the dewormer medicine Ivermectin, which the FDA and CDC have warned against using to treat #COVID19.https://t.co/xPJ5dk01Uz pic.twitter.com/rNFtDiBxfj— Covid Doesn’t Care How You Vote - GET VACCINATED (@Unfreakin) December 26, 2021
OK, that was not a Christmas movie.
My sense is it’s going to be lambasted as it’s so tragically to close to home.
I can say I felt annoyed, angry and depressed watching it.
re: #24 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
Critics have already dissed Don’t Look Up, from their pre-release screenings.
re: #24 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
OK, that was not a Christmas movie.
My sense is it’s going to be lambasted as it’s so tragically to close to home.
I can say I felt annoyed, angry and depressed watching it.
I won’t be seeing it since no Netflix here.
That said, it’s being lambasted over at Reddit/r/atheism for the standard trope of “atheist has deathbed conversion and is really sorry he hates God and sinned.”
She’s been gone almost half a century now, but when she was around she was quite influential, and I suppose still is for anyone who wants to be in the genre she owned. Still my favorite of all gospel singers:
..
Each decade that goes by, the large library of early 20th century recording giants becomes all that more precious.
Talent and hard work are easily noticed. Yet music is part of being human and so the abundance of good musicians is to be seen as one of the better qualities of our species.
Still, some musicians stand out from all the others.
re: #22 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Only one basically unknown has gotten sick from the list of assholes who attended that shindig? Damn, COVID, do better.
re: #29 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Only one basically unknown has gotten sick from the list of assholes who attended that shindig? Damn, COVID, do better.
LOL
Give it time, it hasn’t been that long.
Plus these wingnuts are still in Dealey Plaza. Drinking from a common tub of chlorine dioxide.
re: #30 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
LOL
Give it time, it hasn’t been that long.
Plus these wingnuts are still in Dealey Plaza. Drinking from a common tub of chlorine dioxide.
I’d bet my life on this; every big name who attended (Flynn, the Trump spawn, etc.), are vaxxed to the max. Spewing lies for the masses (to die).
re: #31 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I’d bet my life on this; every big name who attended (Flynn, the Trump spawn, etc.), are vaxxed to the max. Spewing lies for the masses (to die).
I’m sure they are as well. They’re craven, not stupid (well, most of them aren’t stupid, not sure about Uday and Qusay).
Your tax dollars at work tearing down separation of church and state.
NASA is looking to the heavens for help with assessing how humans will react if alien life is found on other planets and how the discovery could impact our ideas of gods and creation.
The agency is hiring 24 theologians to take part in its program at the Center for Theological Inquiry (CTI) at Princeton University in New Jersey, which NASA gave a $1.1 million grant to in 2014.
(more, MSN, December 24, 2021)
NASA enlists theologians to assess how we would react to alien life
I get that would be an existential crisis for Christianity in the United States. (They aren’t hiring any other theologians, just Christians with your tax money). That is not the problem of either scientists or government.
I was perusing the Schmuck family business yelp page, and then clicked on this yelper.
Wow, so many one star ratings. LOL
About Stephanie M.
Rating Distribution
5 stars: 20
4 stars: 2
3 stars: 1
2 stars: 6
1 star: 88
Edit: apparently, giving one star reviews is a thing with some yelpers.
About Cynthia H.
Rating Distribution
5 stars: 18
4 stars: 2
3 stars: 1
2 stars: 1
1 star: 42
Utah’s wealthiest man just left the Mormon Church.
Utah billionaire leaves Mormon church with blistering accusation it is actively harming the world (LGBTQ Nation, December 21, 2021)
The state’s richest native will give $600,000 to an LGBTQ group to assist any queer students at the church’s Brigham Young University who might be forced to leave.
Jeff T. Green, Utah’s richest native, has announced he is leaving the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. In a blistering letter to LDS President Russell Nelson, Green accused the Mormon church of “actively and currently doing harm in the world.”
Fantastically wealthy, the church has funded some of the most vicious anti-LGBTQ initiatives, including California’s ballot initiative to overturn marriage equality, and has a racist history of banning people of color.
(more)
His donation is going to Equality Utah.
We are tremendously grateful to Jeff Green for believing in our work. We are firm believers that despite our political differences, we always must seek common ground. Thank you Jeff, for supporting our work. https://t.co/KU9Ci5nEpQ pic.twitter.com/0vMTk4chQZ
— Equality Utah (@EqualityUtah) December 21, 2021
re: #17 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!
I once found a bottle of red that I’d overlooked for 20 years. It was excellemt.
When we left Italy, our friend gave us a bottle of 12 year old grappa. Now the remaining half is 42 years old. We only drink it when they come to visit.
I’m having Internet troubles. A lot of Websites will not resolve.
re: #10 Ship Faced Ron
This 2018 Renwood Old Vine Zinfandel is is really nice. I have to fight the urge to have more and more. This would be to die for in another 3-4 years. I don’t know how people age their wine collection other than to be rich and buy by the case. I once saved a 6 year old Zinfandel for another 4 more years. It was the best wine I ever had. Never saved a wine more than 6 months since.
I have read somewhere, with some authority behind it as I recall, that there is virtually nothing one can buy off a grocery or wine store shelf that is worth aging. Even 50 or 70 dollar a bottle wine is pretty much bottled with the expectation that people will drink it shortly after purchase. I used to belong to Kendall Jackson’s wine club and I once had a bottle of their Stature label that I tried to cellar on top of a credenza, but I broke down within six months and drank it. Kendall makes some damned good wine in small enough quantities that it is never seen on a grocery or wine store shelf, at least not on the east coast.
— Teo 😷🧼↔️🌡🤬💉 (@Teukka1972) December 26, 2021
re: #26 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I won’t be seeing it since no Netflix here.
That said, it’s being lambasted over at Reddit/r/atheism for the standard trope of “atheist has deathbed conversion and is really sorry he hates God and sinned.”
No not really. It was more of a communal ritual by this small band who were brought together by the circumstances, and we don’t really have a secular alternative. I didn’t see it as a “deathbed conversion.”
re: #41 No Malarkey!
No not really. It was more of a communal ritual by this small band who were brought together by the circumstances, and we don’t really have a secular alternative. I didn’t see it as a “deathbed conversion.”
I’m just the messenger. I haven’t (nor can) seen the movie.
Just a reminder that there are still people in Dallas with Michael Protzman -48 group.
There are many families who had to celebrate Christmas without their loved ones due to -48.
My thoughts are with those families who are missing and worried about their loved ones. pic.twitter.com/JFlU9vvmQm— 2021 Karma (@2021_Karma) December 26, 2021
The antivaxxer husband of my unvaccinated coworker announced her death from Covid this morning on Facebook. If there is a funeral I won’t attend, since given their religious beliefs it will be a superspreader event.
re: #43 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I’m just the messenger. I haven’t (nor can) seen the movie.
I don’t understand that reference. What is -48?
Sovereign Citizen alert — City of Minneapolis accepted $46,868 in phony checks and phony $8k donation from man with conspiratorial banking and government views.
In return, the man got 13(!!) vehicles at city auto auctions earlier this year, according to a search warrant.— Lou Raguse (@LouRaguse) December 23, 2021
re: #22 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I’m guessing the “Frog News Network” is a reference to the white nationalist meme. If so, how delightful that the first I’ve heard of it is in relation to one of their antivaxxer podcasters getting intubated.
re: #46 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
He got greedy though.
The man is not charged yet but was arrested after winning another 8 vehicles at a recent auction. MN DVS registered one of the first 13 cars, got a valid plate and drove it to the auction where he was arrested.
— Lou Raguse (@LouRaguse) December 23, 2021
re: #49 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I wrote a check for my brand new car last year at a dealership. There’s not a lot of easy ways to handle large sums of money safely, and nobody wants to pay credit card fees on multi-thousand dollar purchases.
— Jack (@Carpboy823) December 23, 2021
I wrote a $22,000 cheque for my HVAC system. We wrote an out-of-state cheque for $18,000 to buy our house.
Bouncing cheques on purpose is a real fast way to the hoosegow.
re: #3 Eclectic Cyborg
Quasi-related. I had to run to the gas station a few miles up the road for some medicine about an hour or so ago…and there was a three car accident right out front. I counted at least 6 emergency vehicles on scene.
The gas station in question is right off a major interstate and so there are constantly cars turning every which way nearby.
It would not surprise me one bit if that whole mess was caused by someone not paying attention or not signaling a turn.
I saw this gaper in a Toyota on Xmas eve as I was going to drop off some stuff at my brother’s house. He was fine…standing up inside the vehicle. Guy in black had called 911 and given him a bottle of water. Always wonder what kind of stupid ‘looking at the phone’ shit someone does to flip their car on a straight incline. He obviously hit the side of the berm based on the ground scar, and the roof was un-damaged. Must have been less than a minute before I got there as there were only three cars ahead of me.
re: #50 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I wrote a $22,000 cheque for my HVAC system. We wrote an out-of-state cheque for $18,000 to buy our house.
Bouncing cheques on purpose is a real fast way to the hoosegow.
Sovereign Citizens are stupid like that. When he gets to his arraignment, he may spout a bunch of legal gibberish at the judge thinking he knows magic words to get out of jail. Then he’ll find out he doesn’t.
re: #50 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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I wrote a $22,000 cheque for my HVAC system. We wrote an out-of-state cheque for $18,000 to buy our house.
Bouncing cheques on purpose is a real fast way to the hoosegow.
I’ve got a $35k check to write for my solar once they get it signed off - still in county approval limbo because they changed the rules on battery placement just before it went in, but after it was permitted. Already sold the stock to cover it so the money’s there. I like checks.
About Don’t Look Up: So I checked it out, but fast forwarded through most of it after 10 minutes in…
Best imagery:
Most whimsical image (and spoiler because of nekkid):
It’s clearly supposed to be satire, about the current American society and politics.
But I think it failed.
And with a star studded cast, I think this movie will join such legendary star-studded flops such as Skidoo and Myra Breckinridge as an example of how bad a movie can be regardless of the talent involved.
re: #53 darthstar
I’ve got a $35k check to write for my solar once they get it signed off - still in county approval limbo because they changed the rules on battery placement just before it went in, but after it was permitted. Already sold the stock to cover it so the money’s there. I like checks.
When we were at the Polish festival last summer in Ashton, Nebr. (on the other side of the state), we stopped on the way out at a Polish butcher shop there and wrote a cheque for $400 or so to fill a cooler. The butcher was fine with a telephone number and looking at a driver’s license.
Same deal applies: Bounce a cheque on purpose and you’ll get a call from the police.
Merry Christmas
I would have posted a picture of my family posturing with a bunch of guns, but I’m not a goddamn psychopath. pic.twitter.com/kSxTDbAL0L— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) December 25, 2021
A reminder that the virus doesn’t take holidays off.
Incredible: Our US health system is so feeble there is no Covid reporting this weekend. Sometime around Tuesday morning they’ll turn the machines back on and look at the numbers? I predict further increases in hospitalization and HCW depletion, hope the system doesn’t collapse
— Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD (@PeterHotez) December 26, 2021
There will be regional staffing shortages based on Covid outbreaks, but I wish people would stop using the phrase ‘system collapse’
re: #53 darthstar
I’ve got a $35k check to write for my solar once they get it signed off - still in county approval limbo because they changed the rules on battery placement just before it went in, but after it was permitted. Already sold the stock to cover it so the money’s there. I like checks.
something something paper trail.
(also… if there’s ever a problem with the people you wrote the check to, all their routing info is right there on the cancelled check when you get it back).
re: #57 darthstar
There will be regional staffing shortages based on Covid outbreaks, but I wish people would stop using the phrase ‘system collapse’
That depends on what’s meant by system collapse.
As more healthcare workers get infected, that throws more work on those who remain. Never-ending long hours and abuse by conservative patients and families is also driving people to quit who cannot be replaced (add to that ambulance drivers or EMTs who area also experiencing the same thing). On top of that, the CDC has changed their criteria to allow infected healthcare workers to work in hospital settings. So when you go into the emergency department to have a broken arm set, you may leave with a side of Covid-19.
If a hospital system collapses (for example the only major hospital here in the Nebraska Panhandle), all those patients have to go somewhere else.
In other states there have already been cases where physicians call around to adjacent states for any sort of hospital space.
While this scenario doesn’t happen much, take a look at Darthstar’s photo up there at #51. If he was the first person on the scene, how sanguine would he be about giving CPR? I’m not sure about there, but the odds here are 60% the person is not vaccinated at all if they are local. Even though I am, that doesn’t guarantee if I had to give CPR that I wouldn’t need medical care.
re: #61 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
While this scenario doesn’t happen much, take a look at Darthstar’s photo up there at #51. If he was the first person on the scene, how sanguine would he be about giving CPR? I’m not sure about there, but the odds here are 60% the person is not vaccinated at all if they are local. Even though I am, that doesn’t guarantee if I had to give CPR that I wouldn’t need medical care.
I’m a trained first responder thanks to being on ski patrol for 12 years. If I was first on scene I would do what I’m trained to do. If I had my CPR mask with me I’d use it. If I didn’t, I’d still give CPR because 1) you can do compression only CPR to keep the heart flowing and enough air entering the system to keep a person alive until EMTs get there and 2) if I did feel the need to give breaths, I’d blow, not suck. Then I’d wait five days and test.
If there had been any indication of an injured person (I stopped, saw it was one man, uninjured, then drove on to not be a third vehicle blocking the road), I would have offered any first aid I could.
re: #62 darthstar
I’m a trained first responder thanks to being on ski patrol for 12 years. If I was first on scene I would do what I’m trained to do. If I had my CPR mask with me I’d use it. If I didn’t, I’d still give CPR because 1) you can do compression only CPR to keep the heart flowing and enough air entering the system to keep a person alive until EMTs get there and 2) if I did feel the need to give breaths, I’d blow, not suck. Then I’d wait five days and test.
If there had been any indication of an injured person (I stopped, saw it was one man, uninjured, then drove on to not be a third vehicle blocking the road), I would have offered any first aid I could.
I don’t live in a place where you can simply get a test. You have to already be sick and be suspected of Covid-19 before you can be tested here.
It’s been a long time since I took the Red Cross’s Standard First Aid course but I imagine I could marshal the ability to do chest compressions. I imagine you can pick up the virus from rescue breathing even without “sucking.” Exhalation from the person you’re helping still means viruses are being blown out.
That said, none of that “what if” would be going through my mind if I came across such a scene; I would just do what I could do.
What a Schmeck.
Ass-hat who said ‘Let’s go Brandon’ to President Biden after President Biden graciously provided some Xmas good will to his children now complaining about being attacked for his freedums.
And he says he’d do it again. Fucker.
re: #63 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I’d likely keep a mask on and do compression only CPR. Order of priority in any rescue:
1. Scene safety
2. BSI (body substance isolation - gloves, mask, etc)
3. Patient ABCs (Airway, Breathing, Circulation) - if you don’t have an airway, you don’t have a patient.
re: #63 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Also, order four or five of these to have around the house…probably take two weeks to get them due to demand, but Amazon can surprise you.
re: #64 darthstar
What a Schmeck.
Ass-hat who said ‘Let’s go Brandon’ to President Biden after President Biden graciously provided some Xmas good will to his children now complaining about being attacked for his freedums.
And he says he’d do it again. Fucker.
He’s also trying to pass it off as a joke like a common Schrödinger’s Douchebag.
And as a conservative, he must be the victim. Also claims he is not a Trumper (sure, Jan).
I wonder if he wants to return all those child payments from Covid relief or the $439,923 PPP that was forgiven on November 5, 2020.
re: #68 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
It became a joke when President Biden took it in stride and repeated the phrase back to the guy to show him how stupid he was behaving in front of his children.
The fact that he posted the video of himself to youtube means he self-doxxed…he can’t blame liberals for attacking him. He’s just receiving the scorn he deserves. In a few weeks it will all blow over and his father will hopefully rip him a new asshole thanks to all the yelp reviews they’re getting.
re: #11 Ship Faced Ron
My daughter has this psychedelic light device in the dining room projecting laser stars and swirling colors on the ceiling. I’m listening to the Beatles and watching the light show. I’m glad they didn’t have these in my LSD youth. Wood paneling was bad enough back then.
The faces that would appear. Did it once and never again.
re: #66 darthstar
Also, order four or five of these to have around the house…probably take two weeks to get them due to demand, but Amazon can surprise you.
Reading reviews only from verified purchasers, the critical reviews note that packages come without all the required components, components are frequently damaged inside the packages, or they come with only a few weeks usage before they expire.
I’ll be headed into the valley of the shadow of death in a few days (Wyoming), so I’ll see if I can get over-the-counter tests at a pharmacy in Cheyenne.
re: #69 darthstar
he can’t blame liberals for attacking him
Sure he can. He already is. He’s also making accusations of death threats.
The truth doesn’t matter to a conservative, only the narrative that he’s the real victim. The people who need his story to be true for their faith will believe it.
As for the negative reviews, I imagine his father won’t actually care much, plus sites like Yelp have methods for removing obvious brigaded bad reviews.
Like other conservatives, he’s this week’s victim du jour; the worst that will happen to him is the conservaliar media will move on from him when they get a new shiny object. He doesn’t get he’s being used.
re: #71 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Reading reviews only from verified purchasers, the critical reviews note that packages come without all the required components, components are frequently damaged inside the packages, or they come with only a few weeks usage before they expire.
I’ll be headed into the valley of the shadow of death in a few days (Wyoming), so I’ll see if I can get over-the-counter tests at a pharmacy in Cheyenne.
The kit I ordered ($24 at the time) is now listed for $39. Good luck with the pharmacy. Just checked CVS online and all their kits are showing as out of stock.
re: #64 darthstar
Reading through the comments on that at Daily Kos, there sure are a lot of tone troll comments about how people are reacting to this schmendrick.
re: #73 darthstar
The kit I ordered ($24 at the time) is now listed for $39. Good luck with the pharmacy. Just checked CVS online and all their kits are showing as out of stock.
No pharmacy here has ever had such kits. I’m holding out hope for the state capital of Wyoming, but that’s a pretty high bar.
On the other hand, reading news from there seems to indicate that almost everyone in the state thinks this is not real, so maybe they have kits.
If not in a pharmacy, perhaps at FE Warren AFB (have to pop in for a Vernor’s refill).
re: #75 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Reading through the comments on that at Daily Kos, there sure are a lot of tone troll comments about how people are reacting to this schmendrick.
Tone trolls and tone police are common on threads like that. Best not to read them as it’s mostly people ventilating anger or frustration using an outrage template…read closely and you’ll probably find a Merrick Garland complaint in there.
re: #76 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
No pharmacy here has ever had such kits.
I went into my local pharmacy a few days ago and asked for a box of seven rapid lateral-flow tests. The guy at the till handed one to me and asked if I wanted more but I told him I only needed one box. I can always go back and get more tests any time the pharmacy is open.
Of course I live in the UK where tests are free and readily available.
re: #78 Nojay UK
I went into my local pharmacy a few days ago and asked for a box of seven rapid lateral-flow tests. The guy at the till handed one to me and asked if I wanted more but I told him I only needed one box. I can always go back and get more tests any time the pharmacy is open.
Of course I live in the UK where tests are free and readily available.
Maybe I should just order them from a UK chemist shop and have them mailed here. It would probably be quicker.
re: #79 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Maybe I should just order them from a UK chemist shop and have them mailed here. It would probably be quicker.
I did see a comment in another blog where a family member living in England was flying back to the States for the holidays and she was bringing something like fifty test kits in her carry-on luggage.
re: #31 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I’d bet my life on this; every big name who attended (Flynn, the Trump spawn, etc.), are vaxxed to the max. Spewing lies for the masses (to die).
To paraphrase George Patton - The goal isn’t to die for your grift, the goal is to let the suckers and rubes die for your grift (after picking them up by the ankles and shaking them to get every last nickel out of their pockets).
re: #40 Teukka
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Have they had to tie the Tangerine Torquemada down and sedate him as a black, woman, “conservative” slowly sinks his reelection bid amongst the Q-nuts?
re: #84 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Have they had to tie the Tangerine Torquemada down and sedate him as a black, woman, “conservative” slowly sinks his reelection bid amongst the Q-nuts?
I suspect he’ll be raging via his twitter proxy by tomorrow. Right now he’s still upset because his children didn’t give him as much money for Xmas as they normally do.
Boxing day ping. Mourning. Heart as heavy as depleted uranium. Hanging in there.
re: #86 Teukka
Sending a hug. Wish there was more we could do from here.
re: #86 Teukka
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The douchecanoe from Frog News Doug Kuzma just made it to Sorry Antivaxxer.
re: #89 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
According to this story (Huffington Post) Doug is in the ICU on a ventilator with COVID. Doug is a broadcaster on the FROG News Network (F.R.O.G. stands for Fully Rely On God). This network seems to be at least partially a marketing scam to push Lifewave X39, which is a bogus patch that supposed to activate your stem cells through some kind of channeling of light. This network is also known to be Qanon Friendly and of course, anti-vaxx and anti-heatlthcare in general (which of course you would be if you have an “alternative medicine” you’re trying to sell).
Just saw that VP Harris is going to be on Face the Nation.
re: #50 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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I wrote a $22,000 cheque for my HVAC system. We wrote an out-of-state cheque for $18,000 to buy our house.
Bouncing cheques on purpose is a real fast way to the hoosegow.
One thing the pandemic has been helpful for is getting dealerships to stop screwing busy people around by forcing them on to the lot. My Mazda was site unseen until a couple of nice older fellas drove it over, one in the Mazda and the other in a chase car. Didn’t even have to write a check. I was able to just move the money from checking to the dealer account (and yes, there were safeguards!).
Some news this Christmas Eve: A coronavirus outbreak aboard the USS Milwaukee, whose entire crew was “100 percent immunized,” has forced the ship to remain in port after a scheduled stop in Cuba barely one week into its deployment, the Navy says. https://t.co/tQ680kyc3Q
— Andrew deGrandpré (@adegrandpre) December 25, 2021
The great state of Missouri:
In Cape Girardeau County, the coroner hasn’t pronounced a single person dead of COVID-19 in 2021.
Wavis Jordan, a Republican who was elected last year to serve as coroner of the 80,000-person county, says his office “doesn’t do COVID deaths.” https://t.co/bepdIjnmQq— maryb2004 (@maryb2004) December 23, 2021
This is ridiculous. Polio had a 99.9% survival rate. It was asymptomatic in 72% of cases and very mild in 24%. Why would we risk a vaccine over natural immunity??
(Sarcasm. But the numbers are true.)— Sam Lord (@samjlord) December 25, 2021
Unsurprisingly, the “let’s go Brandon” asshole is now screeching about his 1st Amendment rights being violated because people on Twitter are calling him human garbage.
Thing is, this is a perfect example of someone exercising their right to free speech. Dude said fuck you to the President of the United States, and the state did not toss his ass in jail.
For a party that claims to revere the Constitution, they don’t seem particularly interested in reading it.
re: #67 Backwoods_Sleuth
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awwww! looks like Jesse but Jesse does not care for boxes. She likes the cat bed, the hooman bed, and the hooman red leather easy chair, not in that order. She liked the top of the red easy chair, but then she forgot where she was and wound up rolling off into the seat, pretty ungracefully, and then I had to act like I’d witnessed nothing at all.
re: #95 Belafon
Oh, and check out this shit:
In an and around Jackson, Mississippi, deaths from heart attacks at home doubled in 2020 and are on pace to hit a similar level in 2021. The Rankin County coroner said he wrestles with family members who first argue against citing COVID-19 on death certificates, then reverse course when they learn that the federal government pays for burials of people who die from the coronavirus.
It’s tough for @DougJBalloon to keep up, isn’t it? https://t.co/E2CYwwumRq
— Jerry Newmark (@jerryn13) December 25, 2021
re: #101 Belafon
Yes, there will always be new variants as long as ALL YOU UNVACCINATED MORONS KEEP BEING STUPID.
This is so fucking maddening.
When you await your COVID test results in Italy the pharmacist himself pours you a glass of Prosecco. pic.twitter.com/301vib1hsf
— Marc Scheff (he/him) (@marcscheff) December 25, 2021
re: #98 Teddy’s Person
Unsurprisingly, the “let’s go Brandon” asshole is now screeching about his 1st Amendment rights being violated because people on Twitter are calling him human garbage.
Thing is, this is a perfect example of someone exercising their right to free speech. Dude said fuck you to the President of the United States, and the state did not toss his ass in jail.
For a party that claims to revere the Constitution, they don’t seem particularly interested in reading it.
Now, John Adams would have fucked dude’s shit up.
re: #102 Eclectic Cyborg
Yes, there will always be new variants as long as ALL YOU UNVACCINATED MORONS KEEP BEING STUPID.
This is so fucking maddening.
Profile some immunecompromised people about the shit life we’re living
— got the chronic (pain) (@sadpoastingusa) December 25, 2021
As Bubonic Plague Spreads and Cases Soar, the Flea-Ridden Remain Defiant
— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) December 26, 2021
Check out my hip Prince Valiant haircut and I’m rocking those stylish red pants (upper right). pic.twitter.com/22TCA7m6gW
— Edwin (@EdMix13) December 26, 2021
re: #98 Teddy’s Person
Unsurprisingly, the “let’s go Brandon” asshole is now screeching about his 1st Amendment rights being violated because people on Twitter are calling him human garbage.
Thing is, this is a perfect example of someone exercising their right to free speech. Dude said fuck you to the President of the United States, and the state did not toss his ass in jail.
For a party that claims to revere the Constitution, they don’t seem particularly interested in reading it.
I hope he’s enjoying his newfound celebrity.
re: #109 darthstar
I hope he’s enjoying his newfound celebrity.
The Brandon dad is from Medford, home of the gymnastics team that refused to wear masks at my meet and the only county in Oregon that currently has no ICU beds, this allllll tracks
— Rebecca Schuman (@pankisseskafka) December 26, 2021
I think we know that Chuck needs to be replaced:
At end of Hannah-Jones’s quote, that should be “So the ‘white’ is silent.” Sorry, I misheard.https://t.co/KRNZY5TQsr
— Jan Wolfe (@JanNWolfe) December 26, 2021
re: #98 Teddy’s Person
Unsurprisingly, the “let’s go Brandon” asshole is now screeching about his 1st Amendment rights being violated because people on Twitter are calling him human garbage.
Thing is, this is a perfect example of someone exercising their right to free speech. Dude said fuck you to the President of the United States, and the state did not toss his ass in jail.
For a party that claims to revere the Constitution, they don’t seem particularly interested in reading it.
And I seem to remember someone yelling “Go fuck yourself Mr. Cheney!” at the then VP, and then getting hauled in for questioning by police. Guess that just falls into the IOKIYAR.
re: #116 Eventual Carrion
And I seem to remember someone yelling “Go fuck yourself Mr. Cheney!” at the then VP, and then getting hauled in for questioning by police. Guess that just falls into the IOKIYAR.
And remember the biker who flipped off Trump lost her job.
re: #117 Belafon
And remember the biker who flipped off Trump lost her job.
But that is not a state response.
re: #101 Belafon
Just as we’ve seen lots of kids lose their parents and homes to this virus and it’s variants, it’s going to end up with hospital bills causing financial ruin and the loss of family homes. We don’t hear about this, because outlets like the NYT keeps focusing on the idiots among us who don’t give a fuck about their actions and how they effect others. This isn’t a new problem in America, but I would like to see how many families of the dead are now a mess financially, a mess that they likely won’t ever recover from. So many of us were already on the edge before this happened, how many more will find themselves there as each year of this passes? Insurance companies are in existence to turn a profit, no way are they covering every dime. Unless you have some seriously gold plated health insurance, which is only affordable to rich people or people with generous employers.
I saw something earlier about how there’s not a nursing shortage, we have lots of trained nurses, they just quit because of threats, their cars being vandalized at work, being physically assaulted, stalked, worked to exhaustion and so on. There is no extra protection for them because hospital companies don’t want to fork over money for extra security. How true this is, I have no idea.I’m sure it varies from place to place. I know many healthcare workers have died from Covid-19, but I wonder what the numbers are vs the actual numbers needed to keep hospitals and medical practices running.
As much as I would love to see hospitals and doctors refuse to treat these assholes when they end up sick, I know that kicks a door open that can be used for other diseases, accidents and other reasons humans end up in hospitals. It’s hard enough to navigate this system as it is. And having to sort through all this when you are sick and not able to advocate for yourself is just mean and cruel. The whole system is based more on money than care and it has to change or it will get worse.
re: #102 Eclectic Cyborg
Yes, there will always be new variants as long as ALL YOU UNVACCINATED MORONS KEEP BEING STUPID.
This is so fucking maddening.
There’s no evidence that any variant originated in the US. Until we manage to get the world vaccinated, anger at antivaxxers should be limited to the damage they’ve done to the health care system and by acting as disease vectors, and their spreading of pseudo-medical propaganda (which is plenty).
Vaccinate the world.
Kathy Griffin is trending. It’s like clockwork: some RWNJ says or does something deplorable and the “whatabout” stuff starts flying. Of course, none of them acknowledge that KG lost many gigs, spiraled into depression and drug addiction, and attempted suicide before getting on the road to recovery after a couple of years.
re: #117 Belafon
And remember the biker who flipped off Trump lost her job.
But then she won an election to a county board of supervisors.
“As it turns out, Briskman’s district includes a certain golf course owned by a certain president.
“Isn’t that sweet justice?” she asked, her cackle suggesting that she knew the answer to her own question.”
re: #118 Teddy’s Person
But that is not a state response.
Nope.
Conservatives: business owners should be empowered to make their own hiring and firing decisions. that’s free market capitalism!
Also conservatives: nobody should be fired for telling POTUS to F off on video! Are you nuts?— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 25, 2021
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re: #125 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
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re: #98 Teddy’s Person
Unsurprisingly, the “let’s go Brandon” asshole is now screeching about his 1st Amendment rights being violated because people on Twitter are calling him human garbage.
Thing is, this is a perfect example of someone exercising their right to free speech. Dude said fuck you to the President of the United States, and the state did not toss his ass in jail.
For a party that claims to revere the Constitution, they don’t seem particularly interested in reading it.
Unfortunately, he is raising his children to be as deplorable, uncivil, and bullying as he is. We will never be rid of these neo-Nazis as long as they pass on their autocratic, racist, anti-democratic values to the next generation.
re: #126 A Mom Anon
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re: #125 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
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re: #119 A Mom Anon
Just as we’ve seen lots of kids lose their parents and homes to this virus and it’s variants, it’s going to end up with hospital bills causing financial ruin and the loss of family homes. We don’t hear about this, because outlets like the NYT keeps focusing on the idiots among us who don’t give a fuck about their actions and how they effect others. This isn’t a new problem in America, but I would like to see how many families of the dead are now a mess financially, a mess that they likely won’t ever recover from. So many of us were already on the edge before this happened, how many more will find themselves there as each year of this passes? Insurance companies are in existence to turn a profit, no way are they covering every dime. Unless you have some seriously gold plated health insurance, which is only affordable to rich people or people with generous employers.
I saw something earlier about how there’s not a nursing shortage, we have lots of trained nurses, they just quit because of threats, their cars being vandalized at work, being physically assaulted, stalked, worked to exhaustion and so on. There is no extra protection for them because hospital companies don’t want to fork over money for extra security. How true this is, I have no idea.I’m sure it varies from place to place. I know many healthcare workers have died from Covid-19, but I wonder what the numbers are vs the actual numbers needed to keep hospitals and medical practices running.
As much as I would love to see hospitals and doctors refuse to treat these assholes when they end up sick, I know that kicks a door open that can be used for other diseases, accidents and other reasons humans end up in hospitals. It’s hard enough to navigate this system as it is. And having to sort through all this when you are sick and not able to advocate for yourself is just mean and cruel. The whole system is based more on money than care and it has to change or it will get worse.
It’s already happening. In some States it’s perfectly legal to refuse medical treatment to those in the LGBT+ Communities for “Religious” reasons. Same for abortion.
re: #117 Belafon
And remember the biker who flipped off Trump lost her job.
She was then elected to public office. Apparently there were a lot of people who agreed with her sentiment.
The Woman Who Flipped Off Trump Has Won an Election in Virginia (New York Times, November 6, 2019)
Juli Briskman gave the middle finger to President Trump’s motorcade and lost her job. Now she has won local office in a district that includes one of his golf courses. (more)
re: #119 A Mom Anon
I saw something earlier about how there’s not a nursing shortage, we have lots of trained nurses, they just quit because of threats, their cars being vandalized at work, being physically assaulted, stalked, worked to exhaustion and so on. There is no extra protection for them because hospital companies don’t want to fork over money for extra security.
Take a read through Reddit’s r/Nursing for first-person accounts of crappy patients, families, and corporate parasites.
re: #130 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
You’re right. I could see a place where doctors and nurses would tell the unvaccinated and obnoxious to fuck off over covid, but it’s also not ethical. And neither is denying care based on gender identity or wanting to decide when or if having a kid is right for you. I still have to remind myself it’s almost 2022 when I keep hearing the same shit about abortion, the LGBT community and the complete lack of knowledge about human biology that I heard in the 70s and 80s. We seem a lot less smart than we used to be, or maybe I just became an adult and understand things better.
re: #132 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
One example from r/Nursing:
I just LOVE when my patient is watching Fox News making fun of Covid while I wipe their ass… (845 comments railing against conservaliars, their marks in the hospital, &c)
re: #106 Eclectic Cyborg
Some unbuckled American adults said that car crash’s ability to injure buckled people only reaffirmed their decision to not use seatbelts. Others say cars’ changing nature has stiffened their resolve not use seatbelts.
— David Rothschild (@DavMicRot) December 25, 2021
Peter Green is a better guitarist than Carlos Santana but should have took a que from CS and had someone else sing, IMO.
re: #18 Hecuba’s daughter
One of my work buddies watched it Wednesday night and was frustrated by it. She’d watched the original three movies, but it’s been a while and there was a lot she says that she forgot. (Or, my opinion: maybe Lana Wachowski went digging deep into lore or her own headcanon.) Anyway, my work buddy was confused. She said, “I think I need to watch the first three again and then this one.”
On the other hand, she *really* liked Dune a lot.
As for me, the last movie I watched was “Evangelion 3.0+1.0”. In Japanese. With English subtitles. Not because I was practicing Japanese, but because the English voice actors annoyed me…it didn’t feel like the same movie with the English dub. /would rather watch subbed instead of dubbed.
Not sure this has been posted by another lizard:
Distributing Free, Rapid Tests to Americans: Today (12/21/21), the President is announcing his Administration will purchase a half-billion at-home, rapid tests this winter to be distributed for free to Americans who want them, with the initial delivery starting in January 2022. The Administration will stand up a website where Americans can go to get at-home tests delivered to their home—for free [and timely once we kick DeJoy to the curb]. White House Website
re: #139 mmmirele
Going to watch it soon, but I think most of it’s probably what you have in parentheses, and a reaction to politics, especially the stealing of right-wingers of the red pill/blue pill concept.
Everyone also needs to make sure they have watched the Animatrix. They are canon.
re: #134 A Mom Anon
You’re right. I could see a place where doctors and nurses would tell the unvaccinated and obnoxious to fuck off over covid, but it’s also not ethical. And neither is denying care based on gender identity or wanting to decide when or if having a kid is right for you. I still have to remind myself it’s almost 2022 when I keep hearing the same shit about abortion, the LGBT community and the complete lack of knowledge about human biology that I heard in the 70s and 80s. We seem a lot less smart than we used to be, or maybe I just became an adult and understand things better.
The fear and bigotry towards others who are different has always been a part of us. Sadly, there are times it is allowed to run unchecked with the associated damage it causes. It then takes a generation to drive it back under its rock were it will continue to fester until the next time it’s allowed to run free.
“Virus naturally get milder, knows not to kill the hosts”
My reply. Hows the AIDS fight going in the absence of meds? Milder virus now?
re: #33 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Your tax dollars at work tearing down separation of church and state.
(more, MSN, December 24, 2021)
NASA enlists theologians to assess how we would react to alien life
I get that would be an existential crisis for Christianity in the United States. (They aren’t hiring any other theologians, just Christians with your tax money). That is not the problem of either scientists or government.
My response? Some versions of Christianity would react VERY BADLY to intelligent life that was not part of the (mythical, nonexistent, never happened) fall of Adam and Eve. In fact, even if the life was just some single-celled life forms in the under-ice oceans of Europa or something, they’d want to blow it up as Satanic. Because only God can create life, and he only created life here, or something.
Oh, and I do strongly, virulently disagree with giving tax money to theologians, even if it was with the stipulation that they needed to come up with ways to talk their fanatical followers out of nuking non-earth life into nonexistence. Which it probably wasn’t. Just don’t give theologians tax money. Let the Templeton Foundation fund that kind of stuff.
Along those lines, here’s a video from the people at Kurzgesagt, which posits why we should not look for aliens. It’s a thought experiment, but yeah, if the aliens are like us, they’ll want to blow us up, probably.
re: #144 mmmirele
My response? Some versions of Christianity would react VERY BADLY to intelligent life that was not part of the (mythical, nonexistent, never happened) fall of Adam and Eve. In fact, even if the life was just some single-celled life forms in the under-ice oceans of Europa or something, they’d want to blow it up as Satanic. Because only God can create life, and he only created life here, or something.
Oh, and I do strongly, virulently disagree with giving tax money to theologians, even if it was with the stipulation that they needed to come up with ways to talk their fanatical followers out of nuking non-earth life into nonexistence. Which it probably wasn’t. Just don’t give theologians tax money. Let the Templeton Foundation fund that kind of stuff.
Along those lines, here’s a video from the people at Kurzgesagt, which posits why we should not look for aliens. It’s a thought experiment, but yeah, if the aliens are like us, they’ll want to blow us up, probably.
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Somebody should write a short story where they arrive talking up Jesus to the Christians, Zoroaster to those guys, and most importantly, tithe heavily. Watch how fast the aliens are embraced as part of “Gods Universe”.
re: #143 Rightwingconspirator
“Virus naturally get milder, knows not to kill the hosts”
My reply. Hows the AIDS fight going in the absence of meds? Milder virus now?
Yeah, I’ve never really liked that response. Viruses don’t know any such thing, any more than us humans seem to know that destroying everything won’t end well for us. Viruses just multiply rapidly, with genetic variation, and some make them last longer, but other than being programmed to replicate, they’re not making choices. And their optimal versions aren’t necessarily the ones that will survive.
re: #132 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Take a read through Reddit’s r/Nursing for first-person accounts of crappy patients, families, and corporate parasites.
My ‘son’s eldest works security at the major hospital in my area. The corporate system is working him to pieces, and he often has to do double shifts because someone quit or just didn’t show up. Health care being “corporate” is as bad as anything.
re: #147 retired cynic
My ‘son’s eldest works security at the major hospital in my area. The corporate system is working him to pieces, and he often has to do double shifts because someone quit or just didn’t show up. Health care being “corporate” is as bad as anything.
America, Fuck Yeah!!
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I will say it again: Karma is putting up an absolute Hall of Fame level performance this year.
Just overheard the guy from this thread sounding all depressed about being alone on Christmas… because all his friends have COVID. https://t.co/r9sY5nxS1v— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) December 26, 2021
re: #35 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Utah’s wealthiest man just left the Mormon Church.
Utah billionaire leaves Mormon church with blistering accusation it is actively harming the world (LGBTQ Nation, December 21, 2021)
The state’s richest native will give $600,000 to an LGBTQ group to assist any queer students at the church’s Brigham Young University who might be forced to leave.
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His donation is going to Equality Utah.
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I’ve seen this story a few times here on LGF, and I’m actually glad to see it every time, because it means the story is getting around. Again, I know the head of Equality Utah (he was a student of my ex’s back in the later ’00s), so there’s that. But seriously, I am hoping that the story, which still has legs, even though the Christmas season, alarms the handlers of the very elderly Russell M. Nelson (current church president) and very elderly Dallin H. Oaks (church president in waiting).
Especially Oaks, who went off and gave a speech on “religious liberty” at the University of Virginia law school in early November, along with a Q&A period afterwards. Dallin Oaks was president of BYU for pretty much the entirety of the 1970s, and during that time, BYU was experiencing with various forms of conversion therapy for gay men, including electroshock therapy. In questions after the speech, Oaks was asked about the “therapies,” including electroshock therapy, and he denied that it happened. The problem is, there are men still alive who can testify that it did happen and it was horrible. However, since the large church that dominates Utah politics and has an unseemly amount of influence here in Arizona is its own fact-free zone, Oaks can get away with it, and like Trump and his followers (up until the vaccine thing last week), he’s still honored.
So yeah, when something like this gets out into the wider world and keeps going around, it’s not good news for the church formerly known as Mormon. And maybe if that puts even a dent in the church’s political power in the Jell-O belt, I’ll be happy.
re: #137 gocart mozart
Peter Green is a better guitarist than Carlos Santana but should have took a que from CS and had someone else sing, IMO.
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Funnily enough, he was an excellent singer with Fleetwood Mac. Of course, 30 years probably didn’t do his kind of sweet tenor sound any favors.
re: #144 mmmirele
Desmond Tutu has a story about an alien encounter:
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said “Let us pray.” We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
Bishop Desmond Tutu (RIP)— Colonialism&Slavery Remembrance (@conslavery) December 26, 2021
re: #150 mmmirele
And maybe if that puts even a dent in the church’s political power in the Jell-O belt, I’ll be happy.
LOL new one on me.
This is my “Hanukkah Tree” pic.twitter.com/CPTCQTc6Tu
— Liddle Berry Pie 🌈🍓🥧 (@Pie_Overlord) December 26, 2021
re: #98 Teddy’s Person
Unsurprisingly, the “let’s go Brandon” asshole is now screeching about his 1st Amendment rights being violated because people on Twitter are calling him human garbage.
Thing is, this is a perfect example of someone exercising their right to free speech. Dude said fuck you to the President of the United States, and the state did not toss his ass in jail.
For a party that claims to revere the Constitution, they don’t seem particularly interested in reading it.
Why aren’t you Trump worshipers even honest? “Let’s Go Brandon” is just code for “F*** Joe Biden.” Oh, and the 1st Amendment gives you the right to say nasty stuff like that, but it’s not a shield for criticism. Merry Christmas!
— Dee Holmes (@mmmirele) December 26, 2021
A polite note for the NY Times on how to report on the Jewish community, using the same descriptives that minority communities use for themselves. (thread)
On the topic of name calling of Jews in the press:Now that the @nytimes has addressed “antisemitism” vs. “anti-Semitism” the Jewish community is calling for them to address the hyphenated troubling term still in use; “ultra-Orthodox” a prejudicial term. @ADL @JGreenblattADL
— Motti Seligson (@mottiseligson) December 23, 2021
re: #154 The Pie Overlord!
It has catz.
Very approved.
re: #155 mmmirele
Liberals aren’t mad you’re saying “Let’s Go Brandon.” Liberals are annoyed that your behavior is being used to justify killing women, minorities, children, LGBTQ+ and your response is to sound like a child and giggle at your own cleverness.
— Blue in Red Texas (@RockwallBlue) December 26, 2021
re: #158 Belafon
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Is that a whiteboard or a projector?
Because “angry and joyless” could handily describe the bulk of today’s online Right just as easily.
re: #160 Teddy’s Person
Never have been a snow fan, and Seattle is not particularly set up geographically to handle it (hills, hovering around freezing, etc.).
I am out in Arizona for a bit before I come back, but I dread trying to get around when I get back.
Dave Barry is back with his 2021 Year in Review. During Trump, he was somehow not funny. I think it was because reality was just to crazy. He is funnier this year, thank goodness. Not as funny as I remember him being, but perhaps I am just older and less amused.
But as winter turns to spring, the national mood begins to shift, and in …
April
… a new spirit of racial harmony spreads across the land, a spirit that is best described by the words “April Fools.”But seriously, the national mood remains racially tense. A major issue is Georgia’s new voting law, which critics say targets minorities, and which prompts Major League Baseball to move the All-Star Game out of Atlanta. There is no comparable effort to move the Masters golf tournament, which by long-standing tradition is held in 1958.
Bolding is mine. Now that is the Dave Barry I used to love!
re: #8 Belafon
Because Conway’s Game of Life is Turning complete, and because there exists a defined CPU architecture, and an assembly language for that architecture, and a compiler that will compile to that language, here is a link describing a project executes a lisp interpreter that runs on the GoL: github.com. Here’s it executing a multiplication problem: woodrush.github.io. It is slow, as you can imagine, but definitely interesting as a concept.
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I didn’t think to do this until I was showing it to my kids, but zoom in really close on second link and see that each “dot” is really a complex system running the executing Conway rules at a low level.
re: #125 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
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re: #162 gwangung
Best part of living in Phoenix? On December 26, we can ride our bikes 10 miles to the British pub in the wonderful weather, enjoy a Boxing day meal and drinks, and ride home on a different route. None of this snow crap.
re: #168 Egregious Philbin
Yeah, there’s that. Grew up here, and the winters are the best part (summers, though…). Moved out because the politics and general cultural values aren’t my bag, but the Xmas weather is definitely good (even with the rain on Xmas Eve).
re: #164 BigPapa
Tiramisu for breakfast because I’m street AF.
The bakery I work at makes little cups of Tiramisu. It was my biggest disappointment so far. Not enough coffee nor enough chocolate. They make their own lady fingers, so there’s some effort going into it.
Their Nanaimo bars are mint. I asked if they ever make non-mint ones; ‘Nope’. Non-traditional. I’m so picky for a person with semi-functional taste buds.
re: #144 mmmirele
My response? Some versions of Christianity would react VERY BADLY to intelligent life that was not part of the (mythical, nonexistent, never happened) fall of Adam and Eve. In fact, even if the life was just some single-celled life forms in the under-ice oceans of Europa or something, they’d want to blow it up as Satanic. Because only God can create life, and he only created life here, or something.
Oh, and I do strongly, virulently disagree with giving tax money to theologians, even if it was with the stipulation that they needed to come up with ways to talk their fanatical followers out of nuking non-earth life into nonexistence. Which it probably wasn’t. Just don’t give theologians tax money. Let the Templeton Foundation fund that kind of stuff.
Along those lines, here’s a video from the people at Kurzgesagt, which posits why we should not look for aliens. It’s a thought experiment, but yeah, if the aliens are like us, they’ll want to blow us up, probably.
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As 10 yr old boys, the religious consequence of BEMs was of great interest. The nuns in Catechism had a ready answer—the aliens would have no theological consequence for Christianity. Christ comes here as a result of Original Sin, transmitted through Adam’s descendants. Their planet would have their own origin story and would get any needed redemption through a separate economy of salvation.
re: #169 gwangung
Cultural has gotten better, but yeah, there are a lot of bug-eating right wing morons out here…
re: #160 Teddy’s Person
It’s snowing here in the Seattle area. The snow will continue throughout the day. Whatever we get is going to stick around because the forecast doesn’t show a high temp above freezing (32F) until Thursday.
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It looks a lot like that here (a couple hundred miles south), but the sun just came out and snow is falling off of the trees
re: #170 wrenchwench
This is a Costco tiramisu. Gotta give it to them: no muss no fuss just done right. Long flat square with layers.
Now I have to figure out what’s in these empanadas made by the Lil Old Filipino Lady Mafia. Some kind of meat product, carrot, but white raisin? Other goodness? I’ve had to eat 5 to gather evidence. Investigation is ongoing.
re: #172 Egregious Philbin
There’s also the unconstrained growth and development economy that I’m leery of…not that any government knows how to handle it well….
re: #175 gwangung
I own the house my parents bought in 1960. Solid, good neighborhood.
re: #174 BigPapa
This is a Costco tiramisu. Gotta give it to them: no muss no fuss just done right. Long flat square with layers.
Now I have to figure out what’s in these empanadas made by the Lil Old Filipino Lady Mafia. Some kind of meat product, carrot, but white raisin? Other goodness? I’ve had to eat 5 to gather evidence. Investigation is ongoing.
I can’t tell the Tiger Toe from the Bear Claw. One of them has Marionberry filling, but I forget which one. If you know the code, you can tell by the nuts on top. There are so many codes to learn.
re: #168 Egregious Philbin
Best part of living in Phoenix? On December 26, we can ride our bikes 10 miles to the British pub in the wonderful weather, enjoy a Boxing day meal and drinks, and ride home on a different route. None of this snow crap.
Yeah, but on December 24 it was pouring down rain (nearly 2 inches in my part of town). It would have been a very WET ride.
re: #174 BigPapa
This is a Costco tiramisu. Gotta give it to them: no muss no fuss just done right. Long flat square with layers.
Now I have to figure out what’s in these empanadas made by the Lil Old Filipino Lady Mafia. Some kind of meat product, carrot, but white raisin? Other goodness? I’ve had to eat 5 to gather evidence. Investigation is ongoing.
Always the most rewarding kind of investigation.
Been a while since I had a good Bear Claw. I loved the tangy stuff in the middle. Not sure if an extract or hint of liqueur.
Crab pots going in the water today…finally. These guys are going out with their second load of the day. Stopped to chat with them as there were flashing lights and an ambulance on the pier…there’s a small craft warning - and with good reason. On their way in from their first drop they pulled three guys out of the water whose 24 foot boat speared a wave next to the breakwater…guys got lucky…only lost their boat. The harbor in Half Moon Bay has one of the more dangerous entries as there’s a reef just along side it and boats that don’t follow the deeper water channel just right can get caught by breaking waves.
This boat is probably 32 feet - on a three axle trailer.
re: #171 Decatur Deb
As 10 yr old boys, the religious consequence of BEMs was of great interest. The nuns in Catechism had a ready answer—the aliens would have no theological consequence for Christianity. Christ comes here as a result of Original Sin, transmitted through Adam’s descendants. Their planet would have their own origin story and would get any needed redemption through a separate economy of salvation.
James Blish’s _A Case of Conscience_ (1958) has a take on the subject as well.
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