Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema is helping Republicans block voting rights ensuring we finally achieve our founding fathers’ dream of a democracy where no one votes. Naturally, everyone from her Democratic colleagues to grassroots activists are fed up.
When I start talking to you, you should start talking to a therapist. https://t.co/JgVZ35I7bc
— God (@TheTweetOfGod) January 29, 2022
Tsk, tsk.
Rookie move. High on his own supply.
📷 @colebutta pic.twitter.com/eEfqPtGMZP
— Bodega Cats (@Bodegacats_) January 27, 2022
BTW, here are the state rankings of all the areas and agencies for which the so-called “Governor” of WVA, #JimJustice, is responsible. Judging from these rankings, I’d say his dog’s ass would make a better Governor than him! pic.twitter.com/TJAB3oj5VV
— bettemidler (@BetteMidler) January 28, 2022
The police would never allow Indigenous people protesting for clean water to block emergency vehicles all night.#cdnpoli #FluTruxKlan https://t.co/FTpxRthtZ8
— Meanwhile in Canada (@MeanwhileinCana) January 29, 2022
🚨BREAKING: Wisconsin Supreme Court DENIES right-wing group’s effort to block use of drop boxes in February municipal primary elections. Sets briefing schedule on the merits.
Proud that @EliasLawGroup is helping represent the @DSCC in this important case. pic.twitter.com/8cX7iZTFIS— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) January 29, 2022
Story: Twitter tells me it is no longer taking any action against lies about the 2020 election…actually, that it ended enforcement against 2020 election lies 10 months ago: https://t.co/DC54ToRv8l
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 29, 2022
re: #7 Backwoods_Sleuth
Twitter still has a “civic integrity policy” against election lying — but Twitter tells me it long ago stopped enforcing the policy in relation to lies about the 2020 election, since it’s for lies “during” an election and that election is long over: https://t.co/DC54ToRv8l
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 29, 2022
I had to go hunting for the Amazon Fresh order that was supposed to be at my apartment door.
It was outside my building’s back door. The previous worst was leaving them in the lobby.
re: #9 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I had to go hunting for the Amazon Fresh order that was supposed to be at my apartment door.
Well, maybe you can think of it this way: our ancestors had to hunt for food too.
After the bridge collapse today, I don’t know why Democrats aren’t all over the media pointing out that the entire Republican Party votes against improving America’s infrastructure, at every turn.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 29, 2022
Today, @POTUS visited Pittsburgh, PA. His first stop was at a 50+ year-old bridge that collapsed this morning.
Frick Park Bridge is just one of thousands of bridges nationwide in need of repair, and a strong example of why @POTUS fought to pass the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. pic.twitter.com/kujnyVGj2C— The White House (@WhiteHouse) January 29, 2022
During his trip, President Biden also toured Carnegie Mellon University at Mill 19 where he delivered remarks on his efforts to create jobs that strengthen supply chains, revitalize American manufacturing, upgrade infrastructure – and build a better America. pic.twitter.com/yG9gg5uiFu
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) January 29, 2022
I remember when letters from the IRS used to be scary.
The one that arrived today says they owe me twelve bucks.
re: #11 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Well, maybe you can think of it this way: our ancestors had to hunt for food too.
This was a lot easier than that, but an easy life has made me soft.
#BREAKING: Romney tests positive for coronavirus https://t.co/50Wq3SM3Ky pic.twitter.com/oMJCtcsqvb
— The Hill (@thehill) January 29, 2022
re: #12 Charles Johnson
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There’s a good chance that even if there was a heavy push for a media blitz by the party, the media would simply yawn and put on the closest GOP suit the could to ask about it instead.
Romney Office: Senator Romney tested positive today for COVID-19. He is currently asymptomatic and will be isolating and working remotely for the recommended period of time. Mrs. Romney has tested negative.
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) January 29, 2022
Romney tested positive for covid. Per his office “He is currently asymptomatic and will be isolating and working remotely for the recommended period of time. Mrs. Romney has tested negative. Both Senator and Mrs. Romney have been fully vaccinated and boosted against the virus”
— Marianne LeVine (@marianne_levine) January 29, 2022
re: #16 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
They’re saying the Omicron offshoot is even more contagious than the original.
COVID has gotten hard to avoid.
re: #11 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Amazonian hunter-gatherers are sort of an ethnographic cliche.
More about that gorgeous blue glass bowl:
Archeologists Unearth a Roman Glass Bowl Dating Back 2,000 Years in Pristine Condition
thisiscolossal.com
Featuring diagonal ridges, the translucent vessel was made by pouring molten glass into a mold, sculpting the stripes while the material was liquid, and using metal oxide to produce the vibrant blue. Archeologists uncovered it without a single chip or crack.
… Archeologist Pepjin van de Geer, who led the excavation, told the De Stentor that while it’s possible the vessel was created in a German glass workshop in cities like Cologne or Xanten, it’s also likely that the Batavians traded cattle hides to procure it.
Terrible news. Has he been around any super-spreaders lately? pic.twitter.com/Peh1sBaHar
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 29, 2022
Please note that the effort to rehabilitate Mitt Romney’s image is well under way. And also, too, please don’t fall for it.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 29, 2022
re: #4 Backwoods_Sleuth
Gets funnier. Some “truckers” are using their employer’s vehicles. Because using company assets for side work, or protests, never has repercussions. //
This is actually true. https://t.co/BwXtpz4kDi
— Canteach Fully Vaxxed 💉💉💉 (@canteach) January 28, 2022
For anybody who thinks Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace was over the top in its parody of cheap 80s British horror, please enjoy this: the greatest scene in cinema history. pic.twitter.com/DcmN9LG3sZ
— Dan Whitehead (@DanWritehead) January 28, 2022
re: #19 Punish Domestic Terrorists
They’re saying the Omicron offshoot is even more contagious than the original.
COVID has gotten hard to avoid.
A new variant now popping up in at least 17 states and 49 countries is being closely watched by public health providers.
It’s being described by some as omicron in a different flavor. @lbonis1 explains: https://t.co/MUeiGsgRAq— Local 12/WKRC-TV (@Local12) January 29, 2022
re: #2 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
Tsk, tsk.
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It’s entirely possible he read that as “Free Cat Nap, 2:00pm”
Well damn. Just saw a tweet remembering the Challenger disaster, and realized today would be my dad’s birthday.
I’m pretty annoyed that there doesn’t seem to be much of a backlash against the book banning fetish than Republicans have recently expressed. If there is, I haven’t noticed it. What gives?
When I was in my teens, the Satanic Panic was all the rage. Every-damned-thing that a teenage kid was likely to enjoy was proclaimed by one asshole or another to be “Satanic”, either overtly or secretly if you squinted your brain just right (or played the record backwards). This assumption was the justification for keeping it away from kids, and/or for punishing kids who were into it. I can’t properly convey how profoundly Young Me was offended and angered by the Moral Panic Crusaders of the day. This was perpetrated by everyone from evangelical Christian fanatics to bleeding-heart liberal do-gooders. It was a full-on mass delusion.
Apparently we’re doing it again, because schools are back to banning books. It’s not just schools. Some asshole mayor in Mississippi (of course) is withholding $110k from the local public library because he’s mad that their collection includes books that deal in one way or another with sexual orientation issues.
One of the things that astonishes me is the realization that these crusades are in many cases being waged by people my age and younger. When I was a kid, I understood objections to “harmful matter” to be the domain of reactionary OLD PEOPLE. Well, now I am OLD PEOPLE but my attitudes about these things have not changed much from when I was the teenager having my reading material demonized by ghouls and idiots. I can’t imagine screaming at a school librarian because a book about a mass murder that really happened has “dirty words” in it.
Ugh! Never mind. I’m just ranting.
I signed a proclamation of disaster emergency for Allegheny County in response to the collapse of Fern Hollow Bridge.
This bridge is a major throughway for commuter traffic and the disaster declaration ensures quick response for reconstruction. https://t.co/iP5nO9ilFc— Governor Tom Wolf (@GovernorTomWolf) January 29, 2022
re: #27 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I dislike these mind fucking visual mind fucks…if I want to trip balls I’ll take a shit-ton of psilocybin, vomit a half hour afterward, then enjoy the next six hours feeling like I own the fuckin’ planet…so long as there’s good music playing.
re: #30 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
Well damn. Just saw a tweet remembering the Challenger disaster, and realized today would be my dad’s birthday.
36 years ago today…bummer. I loved the Shuttle program.
re: #33 darthstar
I dislike these mind fucking visual mind fucks…if I want to trip balls I’ll take a shit-ton of psilocybin, vomit a half hour afterward, then enjoy the next six hours feeling like I own the fuckin’ planet…so long as there’s good music playing.
It really is a mindfuck. Try it again when you’re high. I know I intend to.
re: #34 darthstar
I had moved from Ohio to Georgia three days before that happened. I was folding laundry in my parent’s living room while chasing my then 3 yr old daughter around when that happened. The tv was on and it was a big deal, in my family we were all into the space program and watched all the stuff that we could find on tv. It was heartbreaking.
How long before Tucker Carlson blames the new White House cat for the bridge collapse in Pittsburgh?
— 𝐁𝐞𝐤𝐬 (@antifaoperative) January 28, 2022
re: #27 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I am always a sucker for visual illusions! Love them.
— Paul Leigh (@Pleightx) January 28, 2022
re: #36 Punish Domestic Terrorists
It really is a mindfuck. Try it again when you’re high. I know I intend to.
The last thing I want when I’m high is a to do list.
re: #42 gocart mozart
Where should I send the bill for the therapy I’m going to need?
re: #42 gocart mozart
Looks like the turtle’s cumming out of its shell.
re: #43 darthstar
The last thing I want when I’m high is a to do list.
LOL. I’ll try to remember to hide anything like that I post moving forward.
Coach used to say: Fetterman, you have deceptive speed.
Me: Really??? 🤩
Coach: You’re slower than you look. https://t.co/qXpH5DVZp5— John Fetterman (@JohnFetterman) January 29, 2022
re: #48 Backwoods_Sleuth
LOL. Self-deprecating humor that’s actually funny. I really like your Lt. Gov.
re: #49 Dopamine Fish
Fetterman is PA’s Lt Governor.
re: #50 PhillyPretzel
Fetterman is PA’s Lt Governor.
I mixed up my people locales. ;) I’m well aware of who Fetterman is.
Who’s making those pizzas, and delivering those food orders? Blakeman has a strange definition of “all.” Not surprisingly, he’s a radical right-wing Republican. https://t.co/lpT7MXwD6I
— Tom Watson (@tomwatson) January 28, 2022
Sua dose de fofura da noite! Uma mariposinha zoiuda da família Erebidae pic.twitter.com/hVZ4PeoESc
— Mazinho das esfinges (Vacinado) (@SchwMatheus) January 29, 2022
re: #51 Dopamine Fish
Once you hear of him you usually know who he is. :)
They’re two days behind ME.
I said it right away.
The Hill wonders if President Biden’s “hot mic” moment this week when he was heard calling Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy a “stupid son of a bitch” was really an accident.
CNN’s Brian Stelter doesn’t think so: “I personally believe it wasn’t a hot mic. He knew what he was doing, he knew he was on.”
re: #28 Backwoods_Sleuth
Here’s the article suggesting that it’s more contagious.
New Mutant Omicron Feared to Be the Most Contagious Variant Yet (The Daily Beast)
re: #52 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Who’s making those pizzas, and delivering those food orders? Blakeman has a strange definition of “all.” Not surprisingly, he’s a radical right-wing Republican. https://t.co/lpT7MXwD6I
— Tom Watson (@tomwatson) January 28, 2022
Those people are invisible.
They assume this part of the market just functions.
re: #57 Dangerman
Those people are invisible.
They assume this part of the market just functions.
Gotta test the mettle of the boot-strap-puller-uppers.
LOL
That guy is some hopeless 2019 SOS candidate. In unrelated news, since this suspension my poll numbers have improved. https://t.co/YmM1UW7gYH pic.twitter.com/bZKhpGcE4v
— KY Secretary of State Michael Adams (@KYSecState) January 29, 2022
Btw @TwitterSupport, even though I’m a Republican, can we please get this fixed?
— KY Secretary of State Michael Adams (@KYSecState) January 29, 2022
re: #58 Barefoot Grin
Gotta test the mettle of the boot-strap-puller-uppers.
It’s their responsibility to be there to deliver my pizza
Have I mentioned how much I love seeing my long-time musical idols step up and be counted on this? Because i do. https://t.co/C11KXJv8jL
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 29, 2022
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Seen in New Jersey pic.twitter.com/vt2ippL4gD
— StrictlyChristo (@StrictlyChristo) January 28, 2022
“My wife! With a CAT!?” https://t.co/07w7EV0L5f
— Harry Turtledove (@HNTurtledove) January 29, 2022
I’m not surprised that MAGA are making fun of Biden for adopting a cat. Most of them have never known the joy of petting a pussy…
— Ty Ross (@cooltxchick) January 29, 2022
I have to laugh when people try to lecture me about how bad the media are, when that’s the subject of about 80% of my tweets.
I KNOW how bad the media are. Do it anyway.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 29, 2022
Steve sings a song. It’s about snow/being cold and stuff. He made it up all by himself. It’s awful, but Steve is trying his best. pic.twitter.com/iA8AzsY532
— In Otter News…. (@In_Otter_News2) January 28, 2022
LOL. A comment on Charlie Pierce’s blog was discussing all the fancy names there are now for “storms”. He is from Utah, and said his view of winter sports was Pocwaddler’s Rule of Winter Sports: Mass x Velocity + Cold = Pain.
I believe that sums up my point of view as well!
re: #56 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Here’s the article suggesting that it’s more contagious.
New Mutant Omicron Feared to Be the Most Contagious Variant Yet (The Daily Beast)
So the R-factor is aleph-1 instead of aleph-0 ?
I’m so proud of Joni, and any musician who takes a stand against anti-science right wing ignorance. It’s one of the defining issues of our time. https://t.co/YhTznmwIbx
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 29, 2022
Oh brother.
We don’t know the specifics of what caused the collapse yet. If indeed it is tied to decaying infrastructure, I think voters would be more persuaded by a white paper highlighting the collapse as a case study
— Jake Walton (@JakeWaltonSD) January 29, 2022
Because nothing sways voters like a white paper.
re: #75 Charles Johnson
Oh brother.
Jesus H. Fucking Christ. White papers are great for nerds. When you’re trying to sell a political agenda, it’s all about getting in all the cheap shots you can. I hate to say it, but it’s the truth.
Old Rockers bail, the rest will follow.
So ya say you want a Revolution….
Weeellll! 🎶🎶— Dan Bongino’s Forehead Tattoo (@DaveoutofAustin) January 29, 2022
re: #76 Charles Johnson
Because nothing sways voters like a white paper.
Maybe if you can fit it on a bumper sticker
You get up in the morning and the only thing you have to eat is cereal.
Pick two of these retro cereals pic.twitter.com/6solWt8VXt— Danny Deraney (@DannyDeraney) January 28, 2022
You get up in the morning and the only thing you have to eat is cereal.
Pick two of these retro cereals:
Sugar Smacks and Cap’n Crunch… https://t.co/P0LMIDYvwY— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) January 29, 2022
Cap’n Crunch (original) first and foremost. After that, Trix, Sugar Smax, or Sugar Pops. So much sugar I’m getting a buzz just thinking about it.
But Lucky Charms were fucking gross.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 29, 2022
re: #82 Charles Johnson
That pic makes my teeth hurt.
re: #82 Charles Johnson
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If you go back a little further… when I was a kid, it was Cheerios or Wheaties.
“…Pamela Low, a flavorist at Arthur D. Little developed the original Cap’n Crunch flavor in 1963—recalling a recipe of brown sugar and butter her grandmother Luella Low served over rice at her home in Derry, New Hampshire.Low created the flavor coating for Cap’n Crunch, describing it as giving the cereal a quality she called “want-more-ishness”
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When Cap’n Crunch first came out (1963) they mailed out a bunch of small sample bags to the neighborhood. After the first bag was gone my friends and I went on a spontaneous crime spree.
re: #84 wrenchwench
If you go back a little further… when I was a kid, it was Cheerios or Wheaties.
Oh, I gobbled my share of those, too. But you had to actually sprinkle sugar on them. Cap’n Crunch was basically ALL SUGAR. It cut right to the chase.
re: #86 Charles Johnson
Oh, I gobbled my share of those, too. But you had to actually sprinkle sugar on them. Cap’n Crunch was basically ALL SUGAR. It cut right to the chase.
Mom was an early health food nut. We put reconstituted nonfat dry milk on our cereal. Soon, it was ground soybeans in the spaghetti sauce. You know, now that I think of it, the divorce was around then…Not enough sugar?
re: #84 wrenchwench
We weren’t allowed to eat fancy sugary cereals. It was cheerios, corn flakes or Rice Krispies. Sometimes oatmeal with cinnamon and sugar. Once in awhile a box of Frosted Flakes would end up at the breakfast table. Because of that I don’t even like any of the cereals in that pic. Except maybe Cookie Crisp, I eat them without milk in a snack bowl.
re: #80 Dave In Austin
I’m nobody, but I’m not the only nobody who has dropped their Spotify subscription because they made this poor choice.
Congratulations on the new role at MSNBC!— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) January 29, 2022
re: #84 wrenchwench
If you go back a little further… when I was a kid, it was Cheerios or Wheaties.
There was nothing there I could bring myself to eat today. My decision would be to skip breakfast entirely.
re: #87 wrenchwench
I balanced out the sugary cereals by getting heavily into Grape Nuts.
Imagine a brand name like that getting accepted today.
re: #90 Hecuba’s daughter
There was nothing there I could bring myself to eat today. My decision would be to skip breakfast entirely.
That’s not a thing I can do anymore. If I skip breakfast, I am an absolute beast to deal with, as well as manifestly unproductive at work. It is the most important meal of the day, to me, at least.
re: #82 Charles Johnson
Now, I love me some Cap’n Crunch but I’m gonna want some Apple Jacks & Cocoa Krispies
re: #90 Hecuba’s daughter
There was nothing there I could bring myself to eat today. My decision would be to skip breakfast entirely.
We’d get our choice around Christmas. I’d get Cocoa Whatevers.
re: #93 Dopamine Fish
That’s not a thing I can do anymore. If I skip breakfast, I am an absolute beast to deal with, as well as manifestly unproductive at work. It is the most important meal of the day, to me, at least.
Me too. I had a breakfast date this morning. I almost had to eat to get there.
re: #61 darthstar
Seen DSO twice, loved it. Took an old friend who is gone now to a show, he knew some of the band members from the old days when he lived in Oakland. He loved every minute of the show, “I close my eyes, I hear the music, and I am back there….” RIP Jose, I sure do miss you…
re: #91 jaunte
I balanced out the sugary cereals by getting heavily into Grape Nuts.
PM news:
- STOCK IT TO ME: Spotify tummy aches 14% more than last week
- Gen X already using Pandora past 20 years anyway
- Sean Penn shares opinion about what clothes adults should wear
- WEST VIRGINIA: Jim Justice demonstrates how grown-ups should act using dog anus— Eric the editor 🇺🇸💙🇺🇸🍻⚽️ (@Editor_of_Eric) January 29, 2022
re: #82 Charles Johnson
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Cap’n Crunch & Crunch Berries. My favorites as a kid, still buy them occasionally :)
— William A Lewis (@WilliamALewis4) January 29, 2022
So is the new White House cat sleeping on Jill’s face or Joe’s?
re: #86 Charles Johnson
Oh, I gobbled my share of those, too. But you had to actually sprinkle sugar on them. Cap’n Crunch was basically ALL SUGAR. It cut right to the chase.
It reminds me of Calvin’s Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs.
nobody has been nominated yet (!), GOP signals 50 NO votes
and for months we’re going to hear from media, ‘why can’t Biden work across the aisle??’ https://t.co/u4N2istJjN— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) January 29, 2022
These fucking people…
Mayor tells library to ditch LGBTQ books — or lose funding
The director of a Mississippi library system says its funding is being threatened — and withheld — over the mayor’s personal issues with LGBTQ+ books on display at the city library. Tonja Johnson, who heads the Madison County Library System, said Ridgeland Mayor Gene McGee has refused to release $110,000 in funding unless library officials agree to purge the shelves of books featuring LGBTQ themes and characters, multiple news outlets report. “He explained his opposition to what he called ‘homosexual materials’ in the library that it went against his Christian beliefs, and that he would not release the money as long as the materials were there,” Johnson told the Mississippi Free Press.
Johnson argued that the library system serves “the entire community,” to which McGee reportedly replied, “… the library can serve whoever we wanted, but that he only serves the great Lord above,” she told the outlet. City officials received a handful of complaints from citizens about the books that were originally part of a display in the children’s section at a Ridgeland library in September, according to the Clarion Ledger.
One of the titles was “Toby Wears a Tutu” by Lori Starling, which details the first day of school for a child who enjoys wearing “basketball shorts and tutus” and “playing ninjas and dancing ballet.” McClatchy News reached out to the mayor’s office for comment on Friday, Jan. 28, and was awaiting a response.
Addressing the controversy, McGee didn’t cite LGBTQ literature as a reason for his decision to withhold the funds but said he felt some of the titles are “inappropriate” for kids, the Associated Press reported.
I love this game. It was invented for me.
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re: #57 Dangerman
Those people are invisible.
They assume this part of the market just functions.
As they refer to them on “Succession,” “NRPI”: “No Real Person Involved”
Do you like D&D?
Do you have Amazon Prime?
You WANT to watch “The Legend of Vox Machina”
Three episodes dropped today. I’ve watched two and am going to finish the third now. A very classic PC party of roughly 7th level in way over their heads :D
re: #106 Dread Pirate Ron
nobody has been nominated yet (!), GOP signals 50 NO votes
and for months we’re going to hear from media, ‘why can’t Biden work across the aisle??’ https://t.co/u4N2istJjN— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) January 29, 2022
If this comes to pass, our nation has no hope of survival; it will prove that the Republican Party is corrupt beyond repair and has damaged our democracy with no hope of recovery. My hope is that Wicker proves wrong and some Republicans do the right thing. Otherwise, it will confirm the worst that anyone has to say about the GOP — that it is now fully a criminal organization masquerading as a political party, working overtime to turn us into a white supremacist fascist state.
Future question of conscience for the steering committee of my church’s homeless ministry.
Should we refuse service to destitute yokel gentry who have been wiped out by antivaxx engendered medical bills and the global collapse of bitcoin?
Robert LaMay, the cop who signed off his last shift after refusing to get vaccinated by saying Gov Inslee could “kiss my ass” over the radio, has died.
— Beau of The Fifth Column (@BeauTFC) January 29, 2022
re: #112 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Future question of conscience for the steering committee of my church’s homeless ministry.
Should we refuse service to destitute yokel gentry who have been wiped out by antivaxx engendered medical bills and the global collapse of bitcoin?
Feed them, but turn around before you snicker and smirk. It would be unkind to let them see you reacting as I know you’ll feel.
re: #57 Dangerman
Those people are invisible.
They assume this part of the market just functions.
The only time a service industry drone gets acknowledgment is when things stop working. In this case, the only time that restaurant workers and delivery drivers get notice is when “nothing’s open” or “nobody’s delivering.”
re: #112 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Future question of conscience for the steering committee of my church’s homeless ministry.
Should we refuse service to destitute yokel gentry who have been wiped out by antivaxx engendered medical bills and the global collapse of bitcoin?
Seriously? If it is a church, then no. Just because they piss on the teachings doesn’t mean that anyone else should. Perhaps offer services in exchange for service - for the help they receive they must give back to others. Bread on the water, as it were. It is possible, not likely mind, just possible, that would help them grow up and move beyond what they have been. True religion is a Kobayashi Maru test I’d say. And with those scum it really is a no-win scenario…
re: #106 Dread Pirate Ron
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Yeah, saw an article from CNN earlier where they pretty much acknowledged up front that the GQP will be opposed to and campaign against whoever Biden ultimately nominates, but they might be willing to entertain a candidate if they meet certain criteria. IOW, the legacy media know that the GQP are acting out of bad faith and nothing Biden does will change that, but they also have to sell headlines so this idea that Joe could somehow win over Repubs if he just finds the “right” candidate will persist.
The funniest part of this to me is that she’s married to David Cross.
My husband @davidcrosss is out in LA cheating on me with @pattonoswalt tonight and I just wanted to put them both on blast. I hope it was worth it you assholes!
— Amber Tamblyn (@ambertamblyn) January 28, 2022
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Wedge issues like book bans appear when fascists have no plan to govern and just want to direct white rage at public institutions like schools to erode support for the public good.
— Dr. Lisa Corrigan (@DrLisaCorrigan) January 28, 2022
For over two hundred years, white men set up an affirmative action program where they were the only ones chosen, no matter how unqualified they were. They want you to think that’s how it should be, but until we get an adequate representation from all groups, we have work to do.
— Blue in Red Texas (@RockwallBlue) January 29, 2022
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re: #63 Charles Johnson
Over/under on Spotify’s owners getting the message before/after the brand has been torpedoed?
— Teo 😷🧼↔️🌡🤬💉 (@Teukka1972) January 29, 2022
Got woken up early by the new kitten so produced my dic pic early.
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I’m going to go back to bed soon. Pretty cold outside, about 6F. Wind not blowing very much so wind chill not bad.
for the sake of reference, here’s a Trump judicial nominee so repulsively unqualified that even Sen Kennedy (LA-R) couldn’t stomach him:
What’s concerning me right now is not the Repubs being so openly hypocritical that it’s sad or the media continuing to pretend that they can be taken seriously, it’s the assurances I’m hearing that the nominee will pass on a party-line vote because “Sinema and Manchin have voted for every judicial nominee so far.”
Why does it concern me? Because the same voices assured me for months that Joe Manchin has never voted against a major Dem bill where his was the deciding vote. A “rule” that he stomped all over and then took a dump on not once, but twice in the span of two months.
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To maintain fairness and balance, something from The Short-Tempered Clavier:
I’m wondering about the Spotify business model. To me, there’s no particular attachment to a specific streaming service, since most of the songs and podcasts I care about are on multiple ones, it’s not particularly cheap, and I don’t really care about losing whatever custom playlists I put together. There’s no big user community like Facebook or Twitter that you would have to pull out of. A lot of retention just seems like inertia.
For the exclusive podcasts, like America’s Favorite Stoner Meathead, do people really care about that particular talking head, or do people just listen to whatever talking head the streaming service is currently pushing that falls in the listener’s interest space? I’m sure some people want the former, but I’m not convinced a lot of people signed up for a specific service because of That Particular Person. But evidently people can be convinced to leave a service because of That Particular Person.
My thinking is that the management of most of these services assume their users are far more reluctant to change services then they actually are, mostly by smelling their own marketing farts for too long.
36 mph gusts here in south florida at 5am
56 feels like 45.
Wind chill advisory for tonight down to 25 degrees!
That’s…new for us
re: #133 ericblair
I’m wondering about the Spotify business model.
Aside from the “I don’t like things that are different” issue, the only other thing in my opinion that keeps people using one over another is whatever particular tech ecosystem they have setup for whatever. What apps they use for various things and what apps those apps easily interact with and what apps integrate with their car sound systems, etc. etc. etc.
I personally use several other applications, including custom developed ones that integrate Spotify into them in some way, so saying FU to them and just switching, isn’t just going to a website, clicking a “fuck off” button, filling in a form telling them about how much Joe Rogan is a threat to public health, and then going somewhere else. It’s going to be a process and more than just minor inconvenience.
Even if it wasn’t, I’m not a fan of the alternatives either. I refuse to give Apple another dime until they back off their horrendous sustained campaign to end ‘Right to Repair’ on top of massively overpricing everything. (The move away from Intel to proprietary architectures YET AGAIN, is not a step in the right direction.)
Pandora is (or at least was) garbage when I used to use it.
I’m not saying I wont eventually tell Spotify to fuck off, but I need to research an exit strategy and alternatives and hope they get their heads out of their asses in the meantime.
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RIP Robert Lamay.
Robert Lamay, 50, Naches, WA, Ex-State Trooper, Anti-vaxxer, dead from COVID
#FAFO
I hope he enjoyed his fleeting time as hero to Fauxian forces.
WTF was I thinking with my first word?
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re: #138 Ming5000
I think he was one of those clowns who claimed he was fired or forced to quit and in reality he retired and got a full government funded pension out of it.
re: #140 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion
I think he was one of those clowns who claimed he was fired or forced to quit and in reality he retired and got a full government funded pension out of it.
Well, he saved the taxpayers some money…101 days of pension?
MTG held her last ever AMA call…
Marjorie Taylor Greene was called an “embarrassment to the state of Georgia.” pic.twitter.com/wKdV3NLzsk
— Scott Dworkin (@funder) January 27, 2022
Well, he saved the taxpayers some money…101 days of pension?
From the comments, I am not sure he even got his pension. Maybe he had a special deal.
[edit: I just saw Jack’s post that he did get the pension]
Each of these antivax people still freaks me out. I am not used to seeing them voluntarily submitting to covid, with all the pain, cost, and potential death. There doesn’t seem to be a way to break through their stubborn position.
Want some more, Junior? pic.twitter.com/Py531Bs2gx
— Kimberly (@KiKiPosting) January 29, 2022
re: #143 Ming5000
From the comments, I am not sure he even got his pension. Maybe he had a special deal.
[edit: I just saw Jack’s post that he did get the pension]Each of these antivax people still freaks me out. I am not used to seeing them voluntarily submitting to covid, with all the pain, cost, and potential death. There doesn’t seem to be a way to break through their stubborn position.
He might not have, but it did say he retired rather than resigned or quit or was terminated. I see no reason why he wouldn’t get the pension, and that definitely funded by the government.
re: #142 darthstar
The Chyron on that and the “Please turn down your TV” line makes me want to ask: “Are you from the past?”
re: #136 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion
I recently started a trial run of Tidal.
It’s ok, but its catalog is limited compared to Youtube, for esoteric stuff I like such as Japanese music that is not current J-Pop.
Tidal does have high bit rate tracks, but for my purposes that is irrelevant.
Still, the idea of paying streaming services forever instead of buying a music (and heaven forbid, a physical copy such as a CD) is a model that I think is a loser in the long run for the music lover.
Sure, I can explore stuff on Tidal, though I find Youtube better for that.
Sunday 30 January, 1:11am - it’s been a looooong day.
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re: #148 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I own most of the music I want as well. It’s just not practical to put a terabyte or more of music on my phone so I supplement that with a streaming service. You can’t put that much on any Iphone, and in the Android world where I am, even if I made lower quality versions for smaller file sizes, most phones don’t like MicroSDs over 512 MB, and the FAT32 and exFAT file systems are really bad for music collections. A lot of space gets wasted in the block sizes.
This might not be correct, but I’ve read that Tidal is apparently playing some shady games with bitrates and file qualities, but I can’t remember the specifics.
re: #132 Decatur Deb
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re: #128 Targetpractice
What’s concerning me right now is not the Repubs being so openly hypocritical that it’s sad or the media continuing to pretend that they can be taken seriously, it’s the assurances I’m hearing that the nominee will pass on a party-line vote because “Sinema and Manchin have voted for every judicial nominee so far.”
Why does it concern me? Because the same voices assured me for months that Joe Manchin has never voted against a major Dem bill where his was the deciding vote. A “rule” that he stomped all over and then took a dump on not once, but twice in the span of two months.
I rate that with all the times I was told that McCain was a “good guy” due to one vote concerning the ACA repeal as compared to all the other votes where the “maverick” voted in lockstep with the rest of the GOP.
Morning!
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re: #113 Dave In Austin
Has died OF COVID.
I have not found a good source that discusses the medical costs associated with these long term covid patients.
SAV has a case that has been hospitalized since April 2021.
I did find one article, from Feb 2021, covering one situation.
Who pays the medical bills after COVID-19 treatment?Link
Aguirre didn’t even have a chance to grieve before the bills for his parents came in. The largest claim summary he has received is $1,438,446,66.
Aguirre’s father had Medicare, but he says he was responsible for 20% of his medical debt.
The son is not responsible for the father’s medical debt.
I shudder to think about the bills. I have an annual maximum I pay out with my plan, but I am sure there are a lot of things that are billed that are not covered under mu insurance plan. Who the hell knows?
re: #155 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Has died OF COVID.
Since he got featured on Fox News when he was fired for his bold stand for medical freedumb, Lamay is the 77th prominent antivaxxer dead from Covid that I know of. I still know of zero prominent vaccine advocates who have died of covid or vaccine side effects.
re: #156 Ming5000
I have not found a good source that discusses the medical costs associated with these long term covid patients.
SAV has a case that has been hospitalized since April 2021.I did find one article, from Feb 2021, covering one situation.
Who pays the medical bills after COVID-19 treatment?LinkThe son is not responsible for the father’s medical debt.
I shudder to think about the bills. I have an annual maximum I pay out with my plan, but I am sure there are a lot of things that are billed that are not covered under mu insurance plan. Who the hell knows?
The hospitals and insurance companies will have to eat a lot of the expenses for the care of antivaxxers, and those will be passed on to us in the form of higher medical bills and insurance premiums.
re: #158 No Malarkey!
True.
I forgot to post that the article noted Medicare covers all but 20%.
Bad assumption there, Massie. SARS and MERS both went extinct, and I suspect the same to happens to COVID.
— Captain Magic (@ericfruitbat) January 29, 2022
At SAV, it was pointed out to me that Colin Powell died of Covid despite being vaccinated. Of course, he was 84 and fighting cancer, and unless he made a public statement in favor of vaccination he doesn’t count as a “vaccine advocate.”
re: #160 Captain Magic
In Japan, people were regularly wearing face masks even before Covid. Its also possible covid will never go away, especially since tens of millions of Americans will never get vaccinated against it.
re: #160 Captain Magic
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re: #138 Ming5000
RIP Robert Lamay.
Robert Lamay, 50, Naches, WA, Ex-State Trooper, Anti-vaxxer, dead from COVID
#FAFO
I hope he enjoyed his fleeting* time as hero to Fauxian forces.
* short lived?
re: #65 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #165 Dangerman
I feel no pity for him. I worry for those he infected, or the health care workers who tried to save his life and are getting worn out from endless stream of people like him.
If only he followed instructions and did what the authorities told him to do.— lawhawk #vaxxedforfamilyandcommunity (@lawhawk) January 29, 2022
Russia has recorded almost 1 million excess deaths since the start of the pandemic, the world’s second highest tally behind Indiahttps://t.co/OuVlCpLTU5
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) January 29, 2022
re: #143 Ming5000
From the comments, I am not sure he even got his pension. Maybe he had a special deal.
[edit: I just saw Jack’s post that he did get the pension]Each of these antivax people still freaks me out. I am not used to seeing them voluntarily submitting to covid, with all the pain, cost, and potential death. There doesn’t seem to be a way to break through their stubborn position.
they don’t get that everyone’s “immune system” may not be up to the task
Where did Omicron come from? It’s so different from other variants—alpha & delta—that virologists estimate its closest genetic ancestor probably dates to more than a year ago, possibly mid-2020. It might have evolved in an animal host, maybe mice or rats https://t.co/FW72nPC3sa pic.twitter.com/ODo6o4BxEo
— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) January 28, 2022
An important point in the middle of the thread:
But he ignores the fact that the reason why Democrats want protections like distancing and masking is quite literally BECAUSE Republicans refuse to get vaxxed and boosted. Dem response and Republican response aren’t independent variables. 3/ https://t.co/878Y0jtXAK
— Jeff Yang (@originalspin) January 26, 2022
re: #168 Belafon
Russia’s making noise to invade Ukraine because Putin’s disastrous covid response has left more than 1 million dead - though he claims 1/3 of that number.
Russia’s economy is a wreck, and nukes, oil prices and weapons sales are their refuge from being a 3d world country. But especially the nukes. Inflation has further done damage to the Russian economy that the pandemic has already left in tatters.
re: #160 Captain Magic
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— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) January 29, 2022
re: #176 Belafon
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Then we should start to climb out of it
re: #178 Dangerman
So you will not get vaccinated? You sir are a spreader and you are the one who is the problem (actually it is DT who is the problem). The virus can only end when people like you stop spreading it.
Morning Lizards. Happy Caturday. And yes, Rush is STILL dead and burning in a hell of his own making.
— henchman24 (@henchman20four) January 29, 2022
re: #182 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
lol.
re: #117 William Lewis
Seriously? If it is a church, then no. Just because they piss on the teachings doesn’t mean that anyone else should. Perhaps offer services in exchange for service - for the help they receive they must give back to others. Bread on the water, as it were. It is possible, not likely mind, just possible, that would help them grow up and move beyond what they have been. True religion is a Kobayashi Maru test I’d say. And with those scum it really is a no-win scenario…
No, not seriously, not entirely anyway. It is a possibly failed attempt to riff on the gentry heretics’ constant, convoluted judgementalism and exclusion, which they compound by loudly denying that they do any such thing.
re: #137 2020 Blue Wisconsin
My starting word was a bust but #2 almost rang the cherries. From there, #3 was a cakewalk.
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Question for you: Tom Nelson, a candidate for Senate, keeps calling to solicit money for his campaign. I usually don’t contribute to out-of-state candidates unless they are the official Democratic nominee. A friend who is a former WI resident never heard of him but mentioned that Alex Lasry is running also and is working to buy the seat. What’s your opinion of the candidates?
Some 60s sitcom musical cheese for your Saturday morning.
The Flying Nun, March 1970, Boyce and Hart perform Sam & Dave’s “I Thank You” at Carlos Ramirez’s casino. pic.twitter.com/II3cNZy3d4
— New York Mammoths (@NYMammoths) January 26, 2022
I’m impressed by meself.
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re: #137 2020 Blue Wisconsin
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re: #192 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!
That is interesting.
re: #182 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
The top of that chain is probably true: the Foo Fighters pull out of Spotify and it would be big problems for the platform.
Being a med student when your parents don’t believe in medicine is difficult. Im vaccinated for COVID and my parents have never expressed more disappointment or disapproval over a decision. They believe Im uneducated on the topic of COVID and the vaccine.. AS A MEDICAL STUDENT..?
— Gabriella (@rasmussen_med) January 28, 2022
Holy shit:
Watch this: Video from inside shooter’s car captures road rage incident https://t.co/62LdHSTJjY
pic.twitter.com/dPL3ZaCDd4— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) January 29, 2022
re: #197 Belafon
How many times have we heard this story through the ages? The child knows more than the parents. And the parents refuse to listen until something tragic happens.
re: #194 Belafon
The top of that chain is probably true: the Foo Fighters pull out of Spotify and it would be big problems for the platform.
Yep. Seeing tweets stating Spotify has lost 4 Billion in value since they chose to go with Rogan instead of Neil Young. Joni Mitchel dumping them as well probably hasn’t helped the bottom line either.
re: #199 PhillyPretzel
How many times have we heard this story through the ages? The child knows more than the parents. And the parents refuse to listen until something tragic happens.
And wrt. CoViD, even after the tragic shit happens…
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re: #202 steve_davis
Tried to give her the gentle hint that it’s a little warm for group napping. No beans.
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re: #204 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
So much for his eardrums.
I’d have said that would have rattled his brain but it’s apparent he doesn’t have one.
re: #148 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I recently started a trial run of Tidal.
It’s ok, but its catalog is limited compared to Youtube, for esoteric stuff I like such as Japanese music that is not current J-Pop.
Tidal does have high bit rate tracks, but for my purposes that is irrelevant.
Still, the idea of paying streaming services forever instead of buying a music (and heaven forbid, a physical copy such as a CD) is a model that I think is a loser in the long run for the music lover.
Sure, I can explore stuff on Tidal, though I find Youtube better for that.
If you’ve got Prime, their normal music is now ultra hd for 7.99 a month. It’s where I’m hanging out Now.
re: #204 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Florida. He turned the video over because he thinks it helps his case. I’m not sure SYG will work on this.
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re: #209 darthstar
Florida. He turned the video over because he thinks it helps his case. I’m not sure SYG will work on this.
Well he is facing numerous felony charges according the article.
“He has since bonded out of the Miami-Dade County jail but still faces a number of charges that include aggravated assault with a firearm.”
re: #198 Belafon
No way he had any awareness of what was downrange when he fired those shots.
Incredibly lucky no one was hurt.
Never let that asshole have a firearm again.
re: #210 nines09
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re: #213 PhillyPretzel
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re: #197 Belafon
Stupid people are stupid partly because just have no sense of their limitations.
re: #206 Eclectic Cyborg
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I’m sure the first time was an accident. “Damn, I burnt my bread. Hey this is good!”
I can’t play wordle today, because a noob to the game posted the word on FB last night. I rebuked and chided her and explained why you NEVER reveal the word
re: #212 A Cranky One
No way he had any awareness of what was downrange when he fired those shots.
Incredibly lucky no one was hurt.
Never let that asshole have a firearm again.
No one was hurt so no biggie, right? //
Seriously
You have totally lost control of your weapon.
And it’s documented.
Lose your:
freedom
finances
future 2A rights.
re: #218 Egregious Philbin
I can’t play wordle today, because a noob to the game posted the word on FB last night. I rebuked and chided her and explained why you NEVER reveal the word
and then you tracked her down, doxxed her, took a flamethrower to her car and… too much?
re: #221 sagehen
and then you tracked her down, doxxed her, took a flamethrower to her car and… too much?
“And how many times did she… ‘fall out the window’?”
“I lost count.”
re: #221 sagehen
To her credit, she did apologize and take down the post.
re: #213 PhillyPretzel
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You’re a good man Charlie brown
“Little known facts”
Lucy: And way up there, the little stars and planets,
Make the rain, that falls in showers.
And when it’s cold and winter is upon us,
The snow comes up, just like the flowers.Charlie Brown: Now, Lucy, I know that’s wrong. Snow doesn’t come up, it comes down.
Lucy: After it comes up, the wind blows it around so it looks like it’s coming down but actually it comes up out of the ground- like grass. It comes up, Charlie Brown, snow comes up!
Charlie Brown: Oh, good grief!
Linus: Lucy, why is Charlie Brown banging his head against that tree?
re: #217 No Malarkey!
I’m sure the first time was an accident. “Damn, I burnt my bread. Hey this is good!”
That’s how I think the first boiled egg went.
Belief or non-belief in a diety has no ties to intelligence:
Wow, had to leave The Atheist Experience group on Facebook after antivax shit was posted there. And thus, my rocky relationship with that shit show is complete.
— 🇨🇦Courtney Heard (she/her) (@godless_mom) January 29, 2022
Per @DavidLat, Ninth Circuit Judge Andrew Hurwitz, who sits in Arizona, will go senior in June after the confirmation of a successor. This is the sixth Ninth Circuit seat Biden gets to fill.
— John P. Collins (@prof_jpc) January 29, 2022
re: #228 Dangerman
Crab
Lobster?
There probably used to be land critters like lobsters, but they went extinct because they tasted so good. No fossils, because no bones.
Florida tonight. ‘Pence’ crossed out. pic.twitter.com/isPVk4DtnO
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) January 29, 2022
Wordle 224 3/6
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Impressed with my (luck/skill, you pick’em) in getting to second guess, though the answer could just as easily have been a four-guesser (50/50 chance)
re: #229 Dangerman
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Most important reason to keep Sinema and Manchin in the tent — get judges confirmed. If any Democrat departs, there will be no further approval of judicial nominations of any kind.
re: #198 Belafon
Holy shit:
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Hmmm…
The UK has millions of cars and no shortage of nutters, yet we never see a video like this from there. It’s a cover-up by ‘merica-hating lib media, I tell you.
Something broke at work…luckily I am not on call this weekend. Apparently it got fixed, but I never got an ending page, so I don’t know when/how, but I do know we’re not on the front page first row of Downdetector anymore.
re: #162 No Malarkey!
In Japan, people were regularly wearing face masks even before Covid. Its also possible covid will never go away, especially since tens of millions of Americans will never get vaccinated against it.
Yeah, that’s my taunt against people who speak out against masks—don’t go to Japan, masks are well-nigh universal and they’d be having a freakout before getting clear of the airport terminal. As for me, when Covid first started and there were shortages of masks, I dreamed of being in a conbini (convenience store), standing in front of an endcap filled with masks, and then waking up…now there are more masks, so no more dreams.
re: #229 Dangerman
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Cue up Idaho politicians clutching their pearls and whining that Pres. Biden didn’t ask for their input (or ignores it completely).
Car in front of me has “Foxtrot Juliet Bravo” and a back-the-blue sticker.
re: #217 No Malarkey!
I’m sure the first time was an accident. “Damn, I burnt my bread. Hey this is good!”
Tea is said to have been invented when a traveler sat down to boil some water under a tea tree and some leaves fell into it.
re: #238 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Tea is said to have been invented when a traveler sat down to boil some water under a tea tree and some leaves fell into it.
If it had been me, tea wouldn’t have been a thing then.
Is there such a thing as a tea tree? I thought it grew on bushes.
re: #239 Belafon
If it had been me, tea wouldn’t have been a thing then.
I drink cold fruit tea and lately have been starting my day with peppermint tea rather than coffee. But as a rule, I do not drink black tea except for the occasional iced tea.
re: #227 Belafon
Belief or non-belief in a diety has no ties to intelligence:
It’s also not much to form a community around, and I would expect it to be about atheists who were raised by rigid religious people or are surrounded by rigid religious people offering support to each other. Many of those suffering people will have issues.
I don’t see any evidence for gods, but Facebook offers nothing of value to me in relation to that. I use 3D printer and VR groups.
A lot here.
Nashville officer in shooting loses police power amid review
Nashville’s police chief stripped an officer of policing authority Friday after he fired the final two shots to end a fatal interstate highway standoff in which nine officers opened fire on a man holding a box cutter.
Authorities had pleaded during the traffic-stopping encounter with Landon Eastep to surrender Thursday while they kept their guns drawn, but fatally shot him when he pulled another shiny object from his pocket and pointed it at police as if ready to shoot. That object turned out not to be a gun.
*snip*
NAACP of Nashville President Sheryl Guinn called the case “heartbreaking,” adding she wasn’t surprised after watching Black community members be ignored by other police shootings. Her organization was monitoring the case because even though Eastep was white, she said he was treated unfairly by law enforcement.
In September, Eastep’s landlord filed an eviction case against him, court documents show. The following month, his wife filled out a registration form for them to participate in Nashville’s judicially run diversion program that helps settle eviction cases during the COVID-19 pandemic using federal assistance.
Wordle 224 4/6
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re: #242 Punish Domestic Terrorists
It’s also not much to form a community around, and I would expect it to be about atheists who were raised by rigid religious people or are surrounded by rigid religious people offering support to each other. Many of those suffering people will have issues.
There are religious assholes, there are atheist assholes. And there are trolls.
The totally unreliable daily new case count throughout the world (per worldometer) was always less than 1,000,000 before omicron struck — now it’s never below 2 million and, for the past couple weeks, usually over 3 million. The daily death count is still 40% below its height, but it is creeping up. But it won’t be until some years in the future when we learn the true “butcher’s bill” (yes, I know that the phrase is traditionally tied to military conflict) of COVID, by comparing the excess deaths during the period this disease rages among us, especially if it mutates to something more lethal.
Paranoia Food:
How to Download Everything Amazon Knows About You (It’s a Lot)
lifehacker.com
re: #243 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
A lot here.
Nashville officer in shooting loses police power amid review
*snip*
As a Nashvillian, I’ll have to agree that all of the officers involved were extremely trigger-happy and that this should not have happened the way it did; I had literally just missed getting caught in the traffic jam caused by this, because I had just gotten to work a couple of exits away and had no idea this happened until the news alerts started to come down a while later.
I saw a video that shown up to right before the shooting started and, with as many officers were there, I see no reason why less-than-lethal means couldn’t have been used; they could have tased or maced him, then zerg-rushed him, but they all had their pistols drawn and used them to deadly effect.
I’m sorry, but every officer that discharged their weapons here needs to be decommissioned during the investigation, not just the officer that fired the last two rounds.
re: #76 Charles Johnson
Because nothing sways voters like a white paper.
I hope he was being sarcastic.
Ukrainian officials sharply criticized the Biden administration Friday for its ominous warnings of an imminent Russian attack, saying they had needlessly spread alarm, even as a new Pentagon assessment said Russia was now positioned to go beyond a limited incursion and invade all of Ukraine…“They keep supporting this theme, this topic,” President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said of the repeated warnings by American officials. “And they make it as acute and burning as possible. In my opinion, this is a mistake.”
re: #248 TedStriker
As a Nashvillian, …
I’m sorry, but every officer that discharged their weapons here needs to be decommissioned during the investigation, not just the officer that fired the last two rounds.
Police everywhere are under pressure to reduce the racial disparity in unjustified shootings.
re: #198 Belafon
This is why we can’t have nice things.
re: #251 Decatur Deb
Police everywhere are under pressure to reduce the racial disparity in unjustified shootings.
Was it Citizen K who said something about assessing the dryness of your comments? Some kind of meter with a rating might help.
re: #253 wrenchwench
Was it Citizen K who said something about assessing the dryness of your comments? Some kind of meter with a rating might help.
The Litella Scale.
re: #227 Belafon
Belief or non-belief in a diety has no ties to intelligence:
From what I know of The Atheist Experience, anti-vax material will not be tolerated for long. Don’t fire up the torches and pitchforks just yet.
re: #253 wrenchwench
Was it Citizen K who said something about assessing the dryness of your comments? Some kind of meter with a rating might help.
Mojave+
Bold move at your disbarment hearing.
Connecticut judge disbars divorce lawyer, saying her efforts to disrupt case with ‘empty and malicious claims’ threatens courts’ ability to hand down justice - Hartford Courant https://t.co/8cV5wSEwMj pic.twitter.com/rm0C8KoV63
— Steven Benke (@stevebenke) January 29, 2022
Moukawsher summoned Cunha back to court earlier this month to defend herself. He told her she faced disbarment and advised her to hire a lawyer. Cunha declined the advice and instead lashed out at Moukawsher.
She called his conclusions “clearly erroneous.”
“I find these proceedings to be intentionally harassing and intimidation and an attempt by Your Honor solely to shut me down for the corruption that I have raised before his Court,” she said, according to the record. “Your Honor has engaged in malfeasance, gross malfeasance, I will not be intimidated. I will remind this court that your so-called historical writing Memorandum of Decision where you touch upon the history that it is, it is a joke and it is pathetic, and you should be ashamed or yourself for subjecting myself to that type of rhetoric.
Frankly Judge, I am ashamed to even be sitting before you with the type of conduct that you have engaged in. You have engaged in material misrepresentation; you have lied to the public.”Cunha continued for a moment or two before Moukawsher asked her to stop speaking.
“Yes Judge,” Cunha replied.” Yes. I will obey, Your Honor, would you like me to bow, I’m sorry, I am below you. I will obey. l will be quiet, no problem. Thank you.”
In his written decision, Moukawsher said it is “monstrous” to make Cunha’s conspiracy claim “without thought, without evidence, without restraint, repeatedly, on the record, in court, with a specific claim about a list that proves not to exist.”/blockquote>
See also this crazy (maybe Qanon) antisemitic conspiracy website thefamilycourtcircus.com
re: #254 Decatur Deb
The Litella Scale.
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re: #227 Belafon
Belief or non-belief in a diety has no ties to intelligence:
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Doesn’t it? I thought that religiosity and IQ were negatively correlated.
re: #259 wrenchwench
You have no idea how often she is in my head…
Well, you’ve found a place to dwell.
Wife has been gone for a month, and I drive to Pensacola airport to pick her up in the morning. There is some amount of cleaning and redding-up to be done.
re: #258 gocart mozart
Bold move at your disbarment hearing.
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Wow—I learned that judges can summarily disbar attorneys in Connecticut. That’s…kind of amazing. Is there any other state out there where judges can just do this sua sponte (on their own motion)? That said, her actions were pretty heinous.
Since the Court’s decision, 10 million more Americans have become infected and 35,000 more have died.
If 99% survive, 100,000 of those infected since the decision will die. https://t.co/mANu24RId1— David Waldman-1, of Yorktown LLC™ (@KagroX) January 29, 2022
re: #261 JC1
Doesn’t it? I thought that religiosity and IQ were negatively correlated.
Einstein. Oppenheimer.
re: #253 wrenchwench
Was it Citizen K who said something about assessing the dryness of your comments? Some kind of meter with a rating might help.
A+ = Atacama
I just saw a bald eagle in Central Park catch and kill another bird (seagull?) and got it on film. Actual coolest thing ever. #birdcpp pic.twitter.com/ofBun2pBHx
— Emily (@emilybernay) January 23, 2022
re: #269 gocart mozart
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re: #243 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
There was no imminent threat
“That object turned out not to be a gun.”
therefore they were all wrong.
They should all be fired.
That’s besides all the other options
re: #271 ckkatz
I hope that our New Jersey, New York and New England Lizards are managing the storm. Down here in Northern Virginia we have managed to weather the 1/4 inch of snow (with drifts as high as 3-4 inches!).
Meanwhile my Bostonian sister forwarded this forecast to my Tampa, Florida brother:
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*snerk*
I’m going to forward that to my Bostonian sister (not that I’m in FL myself)
re: #271 ckkatz
I hope that our New Jersey, New York and New England Lizards are managing the storm. Down here in Northern Virginia we have managed to weather the 1/4 inch of snow (with drifts as high as 3-4 inches!).
Meanwhile my Bostonian sister forwarded this forecast to my Tampa, Florida brother:
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We seem to have partially dodged a bullet. Predictions as late as early this morning called for 9-12” with winds up to 40MPH. Now our totals for snow are more like 4-5”, but the wind speeds are the same. I think we’re about 30 miles from the coast where things are far worse. Anyway, it looks bad outside my window, but it’s most just wind blowing the fine powdery stuff around.
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