Absolutely Stunning: Antoine Boyer, “10 Contrepoints (Integral)”

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For the first anniversary of my 10 counterpoints, here is the integral!
Each one of them follows a specific idea over 2 (and sometimes 3) voices and travels freely among various keys. The main challenge is to find the right fingerings to be able to hold the different voices and make them stand out and respond to each other. I love counterpoint…

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1
Barefoot Grin  May 13, 2022 • 4:56:03pm

I have from the beginning of my time lurking here admired professional guitarist Charles Johnson’s genuine and gracious admiration for other talented musicians. Never any qualifications, just unadulterated praise for their skill and the beauty of what they achieve.

That’s not what I meant to post. On our community FB some parents are starting to express concern about access to formula. I’m not sure if it’s better moderation or the dirtbag losers who crowded every discussion of masks and vaccines last year dropping out, but only one of them has mentioned the GOP talking point about Biden “shipping all the formula to the Texas border.” My faith in the community is getting better. I still wish we could move, though.

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Charles Johnson  May 13, 2022 • 4:59:57pm

Youtube Video

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Barefoot Grin  May 13, 2022 • 5:00:09pm

What I love about this one is that I can actually feel the tones in my hands when I rest them on the Macbook.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 13, 2022 • 5:00:44pm

can’t stop laughing at the replies

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 13, 2022 • 5:03:23pm
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Charles Johnson  May 13, 2022 • 5:05:02pm
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nines09  May 13, 2022 • 5:06:22pm

re: #2 Charles Johnson

What? No slide?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 13, 2022 • 5:07:10pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 13, 2022 • 5:08:45pm
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Barefoot Grin  May 13, 2022 • 5:11:43pm

re: #7 nines09

What? No slide?

You could probably do a decent soundtrack for a movie with that thing.

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Barefoot Grin  May 13, 2022 • 5:12:57pm

“And on the third day….”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 13, 2022 • 5:16:40pm

lengthy thread begins with this:

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 13, 2022 • 5:25:35pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 13, 2022 • 5:29:15pm
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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  May 13, 2022 • 5:30:15pm

re: #9 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Asshole is our Lt. Gov. Godless above I need to leave this shithole State.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 13, 2022 • 5:30:17pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 13, 2022 • 5:34:33pm

another important thread:

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nines09  May 13, 2022 • 5:34:51pm

re: #10 Barefoot Grin

You could probably do a decent soundtrack for a movie with that thing.

Matt Bellamy of Muse. He used a Kaoss pad in his guitar decades ago.
They could do soundtracks. Yes they could.
And IMHO he moved the marker, but IMHO it’s not for all.
Old tune. But what a masterpiece.
This is digital mastery.
And a boatload of talent.

It will take you to YouTube.

Youtube Video

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Charles Johnson  May 13, 2022 • 5:39:54pm

I want to see a Martian face behind an opening Martian door, looking out at a Martian woman in the distance, as a Martian squirrel runs past holding a Martian spoon.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 13, 2022 • 5:40:54pm

electronics nerds thread

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 13, 2022 • 5:42:16pm

re: #17 Backwoods_Sleuth

another important thread:

related:

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Charles Johnson  May 13, 2022 • 5:46:45pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 13, 2022 • 5:47:23pm

re: #5 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  May 13, 2022 • 5:50:01pm

re: #21 Backwoods_Sleuth

related:

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My first wife was pregnant (with her new beau’s child) when our divorce was granted. That was California though.

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Charles Johnson  May 13, 2022 • 5:53:52pm

re: #24 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

My first wife was pregnant (with her new beau’s child) when our divorce was granted. That was California though.

ouch

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 13, 2022 • 5:58:42pm
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Barefoot Grin  May 13, 2022 • 6:02:43pm

re: #26 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Teacher: “You can’t say that word!”

Logan: “My dad put it on my cake!”

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Decatur Deb  May 13, 2022 • 6:08:54pm

re: #27 Barefoot Grin

Teacher: “You can’t say that word!”

Logan: “My dad put it on my cake!”

(Teacher double-checks state and federal policy on bringing her Glock to work.)

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Barefoot Grin  May 13, 2022 • 6:14:05pm

I chuckled at first but then when I thought more about it I just laughed and laughed.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 13, 2022 • 6:18:11pm

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nines09  May 13, 2022 • 6:18:26pm

I’m not commenting as much because choir/preaching and I’m nuts enough already.
Having said that, I’m trying to level off and not want to….
So today I had this short conversation via message on ebay.

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Decatur Deb  May 13, 2022 • 6:21:49pm

There are DIY infant formulas available from the pre-1960s. They weren’t perfect, but it wouldn’t take much to upgrade them, if the crunch lasts that long.

*This message brought to you by Carnation milk and the Ka-Ro Council.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 13, 2022 • 6:25:31pm
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mmmirele  May 13, 2022 • 6:25:44pm

re: #20 Backwoods_Sleuth

electronics nerds thread

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Not so much an electronics nerd, but I need to share this with my brother, and I wish my dad was alive to see this. And this allowed us to communicate from the Moon!

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 13, 2022 • 6:26:44pm

Checked Amazon Mexico - they seem to have plenty of formula product, delivery on 15 May.

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Decatur Deb  May 13, 2022 • 6:28:53pm

re: #35 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Checked Amazon Mexico - they seem to have plenty of formula product, delivery on 15 May.

Enfamil Mules.

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mmmirele  May 13, 2022 • 6:33:01pm

re: #32 Decatur Deb

There are DIY infant formulas available from the pre-1960s. They weren’t perfect, but it wouldn’t take much to upgrade them, if the crunch lasts that long.

*This message brought to you by Carnation milk and the Ka-Ro Council.

I should ask my mother what she fed me back in 1960. I was a bottle baby, not because her milk didn’t come in, but because she was in the ICU after I was born. My younger siblings were breastfed.

That said, some babies and children get very specialized formulas from these manufacturers due to particular health issues (allergic to milk products, soy products, can’t digest certain proteins unless they’re broken down, the list goes on). Thing is, apparently the market is so concentrated that 90 percent of infant formula in the USA is made by two companies.

ETA: there may be an issue with bringing infant formula from Mexico (or any other country for that matter). While the FDA doesn’t approve formulas, they have to meet federal nutritional requirements and manufacturers have to notify the FDA before marketing a new formula. I don’t know if there are import restrictions, but I could see it, because I suspect Mexican infant formula is probably cheaper than US formula.

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nines09  May 13, 2022 • 6:36:13pm

re: #37 mmmirele

All your eggs in one basket is just an old wives tale.
Redundancy is evil until the other line breaks down.
Then it’s someone else’s fault.
As it ever was.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 13, 2022 • 6:43:54pm

niterz, lizardz!

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Decatur Deb  May 13, 2022 • 6:53:24pm

re: #37 mmmirele

Breastfeeding was quite out of fashion in Northern urban areas of the 40s and 50s. When we had our kids in the 60s-70s, it was back in style, especially with Liberal Arts hippies. Wife got her breastfeeding education from an ancient RN nun.

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 13, 2022 • 6:58:10pm

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Egregious Philbin  May 13, 2022 • 6:59:23pm

re: #34 mmmirele

I went to a conference way back when there were only like 7 or 8 Space Shuttle missions, they had the two Apollo/Spacelab astronauts (Jack Lousma and Gordon Fullerton) there who crewed the third flight (the only one that landed at White Sands, NM). Anyway, all the engineers, including the legendary Maxime Faget were raving about how the Shuttle had improved versions of that. The flexible modulator/de-modulator, and how it saved the Shuttle from having more miles of cabling.

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William Lewis  May 13, 2022 • 7:01:43pm

re: #32 Decatur Deb

There are DIY infant formulas available from the pre-1960s. They weren’t perfect, but it wouldn’t take much to upgrade them, if the crunch lasts that long.

*This message brought to you by Carnation milk and the Ka-Ro Council.

Got curious and did some google rabbit hole diving. Mostly shrieks from officialdom that homemade formula is horrible, and your kid will starve to death on it at best.

Then the one place I found with an actual formula for formula (evaporated milk, water & blackstrap molasses) is rather full of woo though she turns around and says it’s based on WHO guidelines and says you need an infant multivitamin separately.

But the FDA is massively against any homemade formula.

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Decatur Deb  May 13, 2022 • 7:04:54pm

re: #43 William Lewis

Got curious and did some google rabbit hole diving. Mostly shrieks from officialdom that homemade formula is horrible, and your kid will starve to death on it at best.

Then the one place I found with an actual formula for formula (evaporated milk, water & blackstrap molasses) is rather full of woo though she turns around and says it’s based on WHO guidelines and says you need an infant multivitamin separately.

But the FDA is massively against any homemade formula.

Sanitation issues, most likely. A good pediatrician will get a mother through this semi-crisis. Once again, if you’re living in substandard housing and have no medical access, you’re fucked. But that’s the point of being poor, anyway.

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Florida Panhandler  May 13, 2022 • 7:10:02pm

re: #14 Backwoods_Sleuth

Welcome to our new Libertarian Utopia, where things like electric power just magically take care of themselves.

There will be much much more of this sort of thing happening with basic infrastructure as everything possible is privatized and parsed out to the lowest bidder with little to no regulation.

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Dangerman  May 13, 2022 • 7:11:14pm

re: #43 William Lewis

“and your kid will starve to death on it at best…”

As opposed to not having any at all

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EPR-radar  May 13, 2022 • 7:12:42pm

re: #43 William Lewis

Got curious and did some google rabbit hole diving. Mostly shrieks from officialdom that homemade formula is horrible, and your kid will starve to death on it at best.

Then the one place I found with an actual formula for formula (evaporated milk, water & blackstrap molasses) is rather full of woo though she turns around and says it’s based on WHO guidelines and says you need an infant multivitamin separately.

But the FDA is massively against any homemade formula.

I can see why. Expecting the general population to be able to make baby formula without fucking it up more often than not would be foolish, no matter how simple it might be.

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mmmirele  May 13, 2022 • 7:16:52pm

re: #47 EPR-radar

I can see why. Expecting the general population to be able to make baby formula without fucking it up more often than not would be foolish, no matter how simple it might be.

I’d be *terrified* to make baby formula from scratch. I mean, we’re talking an infant, whose body is learning all the shiz we throw at babies just from being born, and no baby needs me fucking around trying to figure out what to feed them and to cook it correctly.

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William Lewis  May 13, 2022 • 7:18:15pm

re: #46 Dangerman

As opposed to not having any at all

My feeling as well. I printed the recipe out as a pdf into my bug out/emergency folder (with such gems as a “D Ration” recipe ;) ) just in case I find myself needing the information someday.

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Decatur Deb  May 13, 2022 • 7:18:27pm

re: #47 EPR-radar

I can see why. Expecting the general population to be able to make baby formula without fucking it up more often than not would be foolish, no matter how simple it might be.

It’s about risk management. People who can’t master that tend to die at higher rates, and that’s not even allowing for bad politics. We either must get safe product back to demand levels, or teach people how to cope. Our maternal/child fatality rates are already a first-world disgrace.

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EPR-radar  May 13, 2022 • 7:18:45pm

re: #48 mmmirele

I’d be *terrified* to make baby formula from scratch. I mean, we’re talking an infant, whose body is learning all the shiz we throw at babies just from being born, and no baby needs me fucking around trying to figure out what to feed them and to cook it correctly.

That why I hedged my bets with ‘no matter how simple it might be’. I dimly recall reading a baby formula recipe long ago and IIRC it was not a simple thing.

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Decatur Deb  May 13, 2022 • 7:20:48pm

re: #51 EPR-radar

That why I hedged my bets with ‘no matter how simple it might be’. I dimly recall reading a baby formula recipe long ago and IIRC it was not a simple thing.

For most kids it’s canned milk, water, corn syrup and whatever your doctor says.

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William Lewis  May 13, 2022 • 7:21:00pm

re: #48 mmmirele

I’d be *terrified* to make baby formula from scratch. I mean, we’re talking an infant, whose body is learning all the shiz we throw at babies just from being born, and no baby needs me fucking around trying to figure out what to feed them and to cook it correctly.

Within an hour after the adoption ceremony at Phan Thiet City Hall, I’d been baptized by the rather startling amounts that a baby can produce from all ends. Feeding them is just another lesson at that point (never could get the smell out of that suit coat ;) )

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  May 13, 2022 • 7:21:43pm

This “formula” industry exists only because “American women refuse to be real women,” amirite? //s

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Decatur Deb  May 13, 2022 • 7:24:07pm

re: #54 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)

This “formula” industry exists only because “American women refuse to be real women,” amirite? //s

It exists only to make quarterly profit goals. That’s apparently easier if you don’t spend too much on plant sanitation.

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Rightwingconspirator  May 13, 2022 • 7:26:23pm

Oh FFS!

I get a little curious about how to make infant formula. And the search page is already full of admonishments, burying the answer I’m looking for. “UNSAFE” Then when I find a site that has a recipe, it’s all full of admonishments against commercial infant formulas.

With all that yelling, just getting some basic info ain’t as easy as it should be. Anyway it looks complicated to get right. Lots of ingredients, and that all have to be in great shape. Lots could go wrong.

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William Lewis  May 13, 2022 • 7:31:01pm

re: #56 Rightwingconspirator

Oh FFS!

I get a little curious about how to make infant formula. And the search page is already full of admonishments, burying the answer I’m looking for. “UNSAFE” Then when I find a site that has a recipe, it’s all full of admonishments against commercial infant formulas.

With all that yelling, just getting some basic info ain’t as easy as it should be. Anyway it looks complicated to get right. Lots of ingredients, and that all have to be in great shape. Lots could go wrong.

Sounds like the same pages I hit. The existence of multivitamins for infants makes a big difference though the one thing I do think may be missing is the iron fortification given the amount of blood needing to be added to a growing body. A glance at Amazon shows lots of multivitamins with iron so if it were needed, that’s how I’d go.

That said, glad the boy’s 20 now. Hard enough to get him to eat right as it is ;)

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EPR-radar  May 13, 2022 • 7:32:28pm

re: #57 William Lewis

Sounds like the same pages I hit. The existence of multivitamins for infants makes a big difference though the one thing I do think may be missing is the iron fortification given the amount of blood needing to be added to a growing body. A glance at Amazon shows lots of multivitamins with iron so if it were needed, that’s how I’d go.

That said, glad the boy’s 20 now. Hard enough to get him to eat right as it is ;)

Well, you probably don’t end up wearing what he doesn’t eat these days.

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William Lewis  May 13, 2022 • 7:36:25pm

What did Captain America say when he brought home his new IKEA furniture?

Avengers Assemble!

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Decatur Deb  May 13, 2022 • 7:38:09pm

Do not over-complicate childrearing. The little suckers are hard to kill.

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sagehen  May 13, 2022 • 7:41:58pm

Some of them.

Others are really difficult to keep alive.

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EPR-radar  May 13, 2022 • 7:49:44pm

re: #61 sagehen

Some of them.

Others are really difficult to keep alive.

Kind of like people in general. There was a girl in my high school class that just up and died of spinal meningitis. One week she was in school, and a few days later she was dead.

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Belafon  May 13, 2022 • 7:50:46pm

re: #26 Backwoods_Sleuth

This is the city I live in:

It was definitely strange seeing my town in the first reply I read.

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jaunte  May 13, 2022 • 7:52:00pm

re: #63 Belafon

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jaunte  May 13, 2022 • 7:52:43pm

Bedazzle it all you like, it’s still bullshit.

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jaunte  May 13, 2022 • 7:53:28pm
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Belafon  May 13, 2022 • 7:54:34pm

re: #29 Barefoot Grin

I chuckled at first but then when I thought more about it I just laughed and laughed.

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Disney invented time travel to make their movies more authentic.

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jaunte  May 13, 2022 • 8:15:47pm
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EPR-radar  May 13, 2022 • 8:18:54pm

re: #68 jaunte

Republican media outlets don’t care about the facts. They just see formulagate as a chance to attack Biden.

Just like it was for Clinton’s emails.

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Decatur Deb  May 13, 2022 • 8:20:49pm

re: #69 EPR-radar

Republican media outlets don’t care about the facts. They just see formulagate as a chance to attack Biden.

Just like it was for Clinton’s emails.

It’s important that we close the Formula Gap. Nationalize the plant.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 13, 2022 • 8:21:44pm

So Twitter decides to push this Business Insider headline:

Biden made it harder to get rid of student debt through bankruptcy

What the headline - and mostly people read only the headlines - does not say is that it was in 2005 that as a Senator then Biden voted for such a bill. It passed (which means others voted for it too) and GWB signed it.

Yet it is important to run as a headline today.

Go figure.

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ckkatz  May 13, 2022 • 8:22:44pm

There is healing:

-

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EPR-radar  May 13, 2022 • 8:22:48pm

re: #71 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Yep, that’s enemy action.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 13, 2022 • 8:28:24pm

re: #72 ckkatz

How much money did Trump make in the deal?

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  May 13, 2022 • 8:29:13pm

re: #40 Decatur Deb

Breastfeeding was quite out of fashion in Northern urban areas of the 40s and 50s. When we had our kids in the 60s-70s, it was back in style, especially with Liberal Arts hippies. Wife got her breastfeeding education from an ancient RN nun.

Except for my third brother Tommy, my siblings and I were all breastfed. For some reason, my mother was temporarily unable to feed Tommy and spent a lot of time mixing up her own formula. I didn’t pay much attention, being seven years old, but I remember that it did contain Carnation milk and Karo syrup along with some powdered stuff.
My older daughter was bottle fed because her mother, my first wife, could not produce milk without contracting a severe infection. My second wife had no trouble breastfeeding my younger daughter.
The older daughter has breastfed all four of the grandchildren. My grandmother could not travel easily (she was 94 at the time) so she did not see my grandson until he was five months old and the daughter and husband came to Lubbock. Grandma remarked that he was “the happiest and friendliest baby” she had ever been around, then added in a confidential tone, “I think that’s because your Jessica breast feeds him. Nature knows, Jimmy, she knows.”

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ckkatz  May 13, 2022 • 8:29:15pm

Looks like the next ‘crisis’ has already been queued up:

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garzooma  May 13, 2022 • 8:30:17pm

re: #69 EPR-radar

Republican media outlets don’t care about the facts. […]

I’ve been thinking about this in connection with Barr’s statement that Trump exhibited a “detachment from reality”, but that he still supported him. There was an awful lot to unpack there, but one thing that just struck me was that Barr said this on the record. It basically shows that he understands that Trump fans just don’t care that he’s detached from reality.

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Belafon  May 13, 2022 • 8:30:50pm

I got a phishing email pretending to be PayPal. There ought to be a mode on email where it displays the actual links on an email so you can see then without having to touch them..

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ckkatz  May 13, 2022 • 8:31:15pm

re: #74 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

How much money did Trump make in the deal?

Probably way too much.

I also wonder how much it cost us taxpayers to subsidize the entire goat rope.

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EPR-radar  May 13, 2022 • 8:38:16pm

re: #77 garzooma

I’ve been thinking about this in connection with Barr’s statement that Trump exhibited a “detachment from reality”, but that he still supported him. There was an awful lot to unpack there, but one thing that just struck me was that Barr said this on the record. It basically shows that he understands that Trump fans just don’t care that he’s detached from reality.

Being detached from reality is a Republican specialty. IMO it is ultimately an expression of fascist lust for power — “When we take over, we’ll be able to force our reality into being.”

The W Bush years were notable for this, with highlights being the GOP spokes bot with the “we’re an empire, we create our own reality” crap, and the Project for a New American Century shit.

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ckkatz  May 13, 2022 • 8:41:43pm

Dead letters of the English language and how to pronounce the ‘Ye’ in “Ye Olde Coffee Shoppe”:

*snip*
The “Ye” here is not the “ye” as in “Judge not, that ye (you) be not judged”, but is rather a remnant of the letter “thorn” or “þorn” (Þ, þ). The letter thorn was used in Old Norse, Old English-Middle English, Gothic, and Icelandic alphabets and is pronounced more or less like the digraph “th”. As such, this letter gradually died out in most areas (all but Iceland), being replaced by “th”.

Around the 14th century, the use of “th” started to gain in popularity. At the same time, the way the letter thorn was written gradually changed to look a lot like the letter “Y” instead of “Þ”. Because of this shift in written form of the letter, combined with the advent of the printing press in the 15th century many of which had no letter thorn, printers chose to use the letter “Y” as a substitute for the letter.

This is why you’ll occasionally see in manuscripts from that period things like “yat” or “Yt” for “that” and, of course, “the” abbreviated “Ye” or “ye”. Despite the use of the letter “y” here, it was still understood by readers to be pronounced like thorn or the digraph “th”.
*snip*

todayifoundout.com

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sagehen  May 13, 2022 • 8:43:21pm

re: #77 garzooma

I’ve been thinking about this in connection with Barr’s statement that Trump exhibited a “detachment from reality”, but that he still supported him. There was an awful lot to unpack there, but one thing that just struck me was that Barr said this on the record. It basically shows that he understands that Trump fans just don’t care that he’s detached from reality.

I can’t remember exactly who it was, maybe Paul Ryan or Kevin McCarthy, who in a previous presidential election said “all we need from a Republican president is he should have enough working fingers to sign whatever we put in front of him.” There’s a whole swathe of high-ranking Republicans who really feel that way, and that’s why they’ll support Trump. They don’t want anybody with ideas or logic of their very own.

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ckkatz  May 13, 2022 • 8:47:25pm

Guess who’s back:

-
In case that name sounds vaguely familiar:

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ckkatz  May 13, 2022 • 8:51:02pm

Tactical e-bikes…

Who’d a thunk

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retired cynic  May 13, 2022 • 8:57:49pm

re: #78 Belafon

I got a phishing email pretending to be PayPal. There ought to be a mode on email where it displays the actual links on an email so you can see then without having to touch them..

So far, I have been able to tell those by looking at the actual email address it is sent from. Are they doing them where if you select the email, it still reads a fake address? If so, I am going to have to up my game.

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ckkatz  May 13, 2022 • 9:07:52pm

re: #85 retired cynic

So far, I have been able to tell those by looking at the actual email address it is sent from. Are they doing them where if you select the email, it still reads a fake address? If so, I am going to have to up my game.

I have gotten so many fake Paypal emails that I now just assume that they all are phishing attempts. Of course, because of the emails, I rarely use paypal these days..

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ckkatz  May 13, 2022 • 9:12:00pm

And, on the EU embargo of Russian oil:

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Captain Ron  May 13, 2022 • 9:15:48pm

re: #84 ckkatz

Tactical e-bikes…

Who’d a thunk

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Me

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ckkatz  May 13, 2022 • 9:17:09pm

The next need after artillery, is to upgrade the Ukrainian anti-aircraft capability. I suspect that a lot of NATO experts are currently helping Ukraine evaluate their needs and capabilities:

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Belafon  May 13, 2022 • 9:20:20pm

re: #85 retired cynic

So far, I have been able to tell those by looking at the actual email address it is sent from. Are they doing them where if you select the email, it still reads a fake address? If so, I am going to have to up my game.

This particular one had paypal’s address. I just knew not to click on anything because PayPal doesn’t send out those kinds of emails. It was the “your account has been suspended, click here to log in.” According to yahoo, it was also sent to 99 other people, which was a giveaway.

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Belafon  May 13, 2022 • 9:21:48pm

re: #86 ckkatz

I have gotten so many fake Paypal emails that I now just assume that they all are phishing attempts. Of course, because of the emails, I rarely use paypal these days..

I still use the service. I also take the time to let them, and other places like Amazon, about any phishing. I even notify Chase, and I don’t have any services with them.

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ckkatz  May 13, 2022 • 9:21:56pm

Airmobile washing machines:

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ckkatz  May 13, 2022 • 9:30:55pm

re: #91 Belafon

I still use the service. I also take the time to let them, and other places like Amazon, about any phishing. I even notify Chase, and I don’t have any services with them.

I think that your notifying the service about malicious emails is a really civic minded action. (And I say that without intending any snark. Because it is very civic minded.)

I used to do that too.

These days, the number and variety of malicious emails is so large, I just am happy to identify and delete them. I just do not feel that notifying the services is really going to improve things.

I guess that I have a similar view to this as I do to all the investigation on tfg. That I feel these investigations are really great and all that. But I am not really interested in hearing anything more on the subject until it includes the phrase “indicted tfg”.

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jaunte  May 13, 2022 • 9:33:12pm
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Captain Ron  May 13, 2022 • 9:37:14pm

We’re going to look for a new dog tomorrow. We’re visiting a German Shepard, a Rottweiller, and a Mastiff- mix in rescue shelters around here. I like big dogs because I don’t have to bend over to give scritches, and it’s nice to nap next to an immovable object.

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ckkatz  May 13, 2022 • 9:38:29pm

You may have heard that in the pro-Russian break-away regions of the DonBas, authorities have been forcibly rounding up all males of military age (18-60 I believe). They have reportedly been giving the press-ganged soldiers minimal training, equipping them with obsolete equipment and sending them into combat against the Ukrainian Army.

The phrase I would use is cannon-fodder. I doubt that these guys stand much of a chance against regular units of the Ukrainian Army. And I suspect that they are well aware of this.

Here is a video of a small unit of these press-ganged soldiers. They are equipped with the old style helmet and WW2 bolt action rifles.

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jaunte  May 13, 2022 • 9:39:09pm

re: #95 Captain Ron

Go for the shorter-haired one; you’ll be glad you did.

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Hecuba's daughter  May 13, 2022 • 9:42:59pm

re: #69 EPR-radar

Republican media outlets don’t care about the facts. They just see formulagate as a chance to attack Biden.

Just like it was for Clinton’s emails.

From the brain dead Trumpster on FB:

Back in February the Biden administration knew about the coming baby formula and did nothing to stop it.
Now Biden is blaming moms and everything and everyone but themselves. The FDA shut down the all the facilities that make baby formula.
No gasoline and now no baby formula.
How can the Biden administration be so damn stupid!
This shortage could have been stopped. This administration is filled with incompetent idiots

So the message is getting out — it’s all Biden’s fault.

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Captain Ron  May 13, 2022 • 9:47:21pm

re: #97 jaunte

Go for the shorter-haired one; you’ll be glad you did.

ha ha, yeah. My beagle/shepherd dog got caught having sex with the neighbor’s keeshound so when it had pups I took one. turns out the other neighbor’s rottweiler got it pregnant. I had a 100 lb keeshound/rotweiller mix when it grew up with long thick matting hair. I could never brush enough, getting a shopping bag of fur each time.

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Belafon  May 13, 2022 • 9:53:58pm

re: #98 Hecuba’s daughter

From the brain dead Trumpster on FB:

So the message is getting out — it’s all Biden’s fault.

It was on nextdoor yesterday, along with this crap:

I told them that it was happening everywhere, not just here, but most of the replies were about various things being Biden’s fault. I’ve already posted about my hone town up thread, so it’s not unexpected.

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Captain Ron  May 13, 2022 • 9:59:33pm

Why is it Biden’s responsibility to control private enterprise? It’s a free market, if you don’t like that the single US manufacture’s failure caused a shortage, pick another private company. Don’t complain that the government won’t intervene. Fucking whiners.

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jaunte  May 13, 2022 • 10:04:09pm

re: #101 Captain Ron

When I see people complaining like that on twitter, I ask them if they want to go back to Nixon’s price controls, but so far, no response.

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garzooma  May 13, 2022 • 10:08:56pm

re: #87 ckkatz

And, on the EU embargo of Russian oil:

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Speaking of NATO autocrats showing their true loyalties, from NPR:

Turkey’s president opposes letting Finland, Sweden join NATO

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday that his country is “not favorable” toward Finland and Sweden joining NATO, indicating Turkey could use its membership in the Western military alliance to veto moves to admit the two countries.

“We are following developments concerning Sweden and Finland, but we are not of a favorable opinion,” Erdogan told reporters.
[…]

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jaunte  May 13, 2022 • 10:12:02pm

What a world.

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jaunte  May 13, 2022 • 10:12:54pm

Can just one of these billionaires quit fucking around and do something good.

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BigPapa  May 13, 2022 • 10:14:29pm

re: #105 jaunte

Can just one of these billionaires quit fucking around and do something good.

No. That’s socialism.

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William Lewis  May 13, 2022 • 10:17:03pm

re: #103 garzooma

Speaking of NATO autocrats showing their true loyalties, from NPR:

The real question is what bribe will be needed. He’ll say yes to his price tag.

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Captain Ron  May 13, 2022 • 10:17:54pm

If we kill and eat the billionaires we’ll never get our money’s worth. We need to tax the fuck out of them instead.

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BigPapa  May 13, 2022 • 10:19:38pm

Has anyone considered the billionaires may not be tasty? Offensively bland, dry, salty.

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Captain Ron  May 13, 2022 • 10:21:21pm

re: #109 BigPapa

Some have a good marbling of fat in their muscles.

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Hecuba's daughter  May 13, 2022 • 10:22:57pm

Wordle!

A 3 for me

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ckkatz  May 13, 2022 • 10:23:35pm

re: #109 BigPapa

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ckkatz  May 13, 2022 • 10:27:09pm

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BigPapa  May 13, 2022 • 10:31:11pm

re: #112 ckkatz

Eat your heart out!

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sagehen  May 13, 2022 • 10:40:04pm

re: #105 jaunte

Can just one of these billionaires quit fucking around and do something good.

Gates Foundation is doing family planning and contraception worldwide. Also, has drastically reduced (and hopes to eventually eliminate) malaria.

Mackenzie Scott Bezos doesn’t have a foundation, there’s no application process, she just writes checks. 8 billion a few years ago, another 4 billion last year.

Bloomberg doesn’t give as much as he could, but still — half a billion here, half a billion there, it adds up. Mostly public health stuff (paid to build a few hospitals) and environmental stuff, he’s also the largest donor to Stacy Abrams voter registration organization.

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A Three Hour Tour  May 13, 2022 • 10:57:41pm

Wife got her second booster this morning. A couple of hours ago, she started complaining of chills. Usually her complaint after a Civic vaccination dose has been pain in the arm near the injection site. This is her first time dealing with chills. I hope they pass relatively quickly.

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EPR-radar  May 13, 2022 • 10:58:15pm

re: #115 sagehen

Gates Foundation is doing family planning and contraception worldwide. Also, has drastically reduced (and hopes to eventually eliminate) malaria.

Mackenzie Scott Bezos doesn’t have a foundation, there’s no application process, she just writes checks. 8 billion a few years ago, another 4 billion last year.

Bloomberg doesn’t give as much as he could, but still — half a billion here, half a billion there, it adds up. Mostly public health stuff (paid to build a few hospitals) and environmental stuff, he’s also the largest donor to Stacy Abrams voter registration organization.

Interesting. I did not know that about Bloomberg, and it’s a significant thing to his credit.

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Captain Ron  May 13, 2022 • 11:01:25pm

re: #116 A Three Hour Tour

I make it 12 hours or so before the chills hit and they last 24 hours. I’ve had 3 shots of Moderna,my 4th isn’t until July 1st at the earliest. I like to stretch it out a bit.

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Hecuba's daughter  May 13, 2022 • 11:04:58pm

re: #116 A Three Hour Tour

Wife got her second booster this morning. A couple of hours ago, she started complaining of chills. Usually her complaint after a Civic vaccination dose has been pain in the arm near the injection site. This is her first time dealing with chills. I hope they pass relatively quickly.

Everyone reacts differently. I had chills after my second shot; they didn’t last much more than an hour. Had several days of mild pain at the injection site for the first booster; for the second booster, had an hour of so of vertigo about 9 hours after the injection but that lasted for only about an hour or so. A friend has blood pressure that skyrockets temporarily; another friend has fever that lasts a couple days.

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GlutenFreeJesus  May 13, 2022 • 11:05:00pm

Going through some of my TiVo shows, and shit. I just found out Pat Goss from Motorweek passed away in March. What a bummer. I enjoyed him for decades.

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EPR-radar  May 13, 2022 • 11:06:58pm

re: #116 A Three Hour Tour

Wife got her second booster this morning. A couple of hours ago, she started complaining of chills. Usually her complaint after a Civic vaccination dose has been pain in the arm near the injection site. This is her first time dealing with chills. I hope they pass relatively quickly.

She’s probably already doing this, but check for fever. There’s no reason to let that go nuts if it’s there. My second dose gave me a fever that got up to 103 F, and needless to say I should have gotten in there earlier with OTC fever reducers than I did.

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BigPapa  May 13, 2022 • 11:14:25pm

So my carbon steel pan arrived and I already warped it. But I did some roast cauliflower for mash and a small choice strip steak with garlic/rosemary/brown butter. Did some kale/arugula with lemon/olive oil and a touch of balsamic. Did not suck.

I think I might as well get a hard rubber mallet and learn to fix a warp since I have a glass top. Life skillz.

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BigPapa  May 13, 2022 • 11:19:47pm

I now have a 12” Lodge but I also am getting an 8” from another manufacturer for my tiny Wife Unit to do 1-2 eggs on.

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Captain Ron  May 13, 2022 • 11:20:30pm

re: #121 EPR-radar

Wasn’t there a warning about using Acetaminophen or Ibuprofen or some other thing after vaccination?

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A Three Hour Tour  May 13, 2022 • 11:24:20pm

re: #121 EPR-radar

She’s probably already doing this, but check for fever. There’s no reason to let that go nuts if it’s there. My second dose gave me a fever that got up to 103 F, and needless to say I should have gotten in there earlier with OTC fever reducers than I did.

Her temperature is still at 98.8.

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EPR-radar  May 13, 2022 • 11:26:06pm

re: #124 Captain Ron

Wasn’t there a warning about using Acetaminophen or Ibuprofen or some other thing after vaccination?

I thought the warning was against taking it preemptively before the shot. But that’s a pretty fuzzy memory.

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Hecuba's daughter  May 13, 2022 • 11:26:26pm

re: #124 Captain Ron

Wasn’t there a warning about using Acetaminophen or Ibuprofen or some other thing after vaccination?

From cdc website:

Talk to a doctor about taking over-the-counter medicine, such as ibuprofen, acetaminophen, aspirin (only for people ages 18 years or older), or antihistamines for any pain and discomfort experienced after getting vaccinated.

People can take these medications to relieve side effects after vaccination if they have no other medical reasons that prevent them from taking these medications normally.

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 13, 2022 • 11:27:35pm

re: #124 Captain Ron

Wasn’t there a warning about using Acetaminophen or Ibuprofen or some other thing after vaccination?

If you are fortunate enough to be getting a vaccine against the COVID-19 soon, you may want to ensure it is as effective as possible by not taking over-the-counter nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) before you get the injection, according to researchers at Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut. NSAIDs include well-known pain relievers and fever reducers such as aspirin, ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin), and naproxen (Aleve). They reduce inflammation—marked by swelling, redness, and warmth—that is controlled by the immune system.

Source

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EPR-radar  May 13, 2022 • 11:27:55pm

re: #127 Hecuba’s daughter

That’s less helpful than I’d like. The second paragraph basically contradicts the first one.

At least this part is to the point:

It is not recommended to take these medicines before vaccination for the purpose of trying to prevent side effects.

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Belafon  May 13, 2022 • 11:50:13pm

re: #129 EPR-radar

That’s less helpful than I’d like. The second paragraph basically contradicts the first one.

At least this part is to the point:

If you can’t take over the counter pain medications because of some condition before you got the vaccine, don’t take them now. Otherwise, it’s ok after you get the vaccine or booster.

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EPR-radar  May 13, 2022 • 11:54:11pm

re: #130 Belafon

If you can’t take over the counter pain medications because of some condition before you got the vaccine, don’t take them now. Otherwise, it’s ok after you get the vaccine or booster.

That’s clear, and doesn’t have the apparently pointless step of consulting a doctor that the official CDC language has.

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William Lewis  May 14, 2022 • 12:04:38am

re: #124 Captain Ron

Wasn’t there a warning about using Acetaminophen or Ibuprofen or some other thing after vaccination?

Don’t take it before but it’s ok afterwards.

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Captain Ron  May 14, 2022 • 12:10:02am

I got 24 hours of feeling bad after all 3 shots. I just smoked weed and slept through as much of it as I could.

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Dr Lizardo  May 14, 2022 • 12:17:45am

re: #87 ckkatz

The reason for that is quite simple; MOL, far and away the most successful company in Hungary, with close ties to Orbán.

I’ll give you three guesses where MOL gets their oil from. And the first two are wrong.

An oil embargo would essentially cripple MOL - and be a devastating blow to Orbán’s ability to grease the wheels of corruption that keep him in power.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 14, 2022 • 12:26:10am

A review of the extent of antisemitism among the very rich:

“Nazi Billionaires: German Big Business and Antisemitism”:

Youtube Video


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Captain Ron  May 14, 2022 • 12:33:22am

re: #135 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The Jews control my vast wealth!

Wut?

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  May 14, 2022 • 12:40:53am

I had to go to the grocery store earlier today, and just out of curiosity I strolled down the aisle that has all the baby products. The store does not generally carry mass quantities of formula, but seemed to have over 50% of it’s normal max stock. In fact it looked like there was 1 particular brand/type that was out of stock and everything else was fine.

So I’m filing this under more exaggerated bullshit or regional problems being blown up to national.

I also checked dog and cat food. That aisle was almost completely packed. I had trouble finding a couple specific types of cat food several months ago. There were dozens of them now. So this is either another non-problem that is being lied about, a regional issue rather than a national one, a problem with specific manufacturers only that’s being blown out of proportion, or a recycled talking point from a long time ago that is no longer valid but they know no one will call them on.

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DodgerFan1988  May 14, 2022 • 12:42:01am
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Captain Ron  May 14, 2022 • 1:00:12am

YouTube

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 14, 2022 • 1:00:34am

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Youtube Video


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Dr Lizardo  May 14, 2022 • 1:12:58am

So, was just talking with a friend here, and she’s complaining about the ever-increasing costs of food (which is understandable). But she’s doing her shopping at these little boutique grocery stores, where the prices are already considerably higher even under normal circumstances.

So I said, “Look, just go shopping at Kaufland - I can buy a week’s worth of groceries for about 750 Kč ($31.50), not the 1,720 Kč ($72.25) you’re paying.” To which she replied, “But Kaufland is for poor people and Gypsies and pensioners” with a look of disdain that made me burst into laughter.

I reminded her that she’s not exactly in the same financial territory as Bill Gates or Elon Musk (LOL, not even remotely close!) and that she needs to stop being snobbish and not be afraid to mingle with us hoi-polloi. So this afternoon, I’m going to introduce her to shopping at Kaufland.

This should prove to be quite a humorous experience, and I’m already looking forward to it 😄

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 14, 2022 • 1:32:30am

re: #17 Backwoods_Sleuth

Sorry: there is no longer any public discourse on abortion: Either you

Cherish All Unborn Life and Oppose All Abortions as a Violation of God’s Divine Will

or you

Worship Satan an an Altar Made of Aborted Baby Skulls.

Pick your side, there is no middle ground.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 14, 2022 • 1:37:13am

re: #54 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)

This “formula” industry exists only because “American women refuse to be real women,” amirite? //s

I recall when Nestlé was going around the Third World, handing out “free samples” of infant formula to new mothers, just enough to get their own milk to dry up and make them dependent on formula.

Especially heinous for people who lack access to clean water or proper means to sterilize the bottles.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 14, 2022 • 1:43:13am

re: #66 jaunte

A document of our times. The Philly Inquirer editorial board says it cannot endorse any candidates in the GOP primary because (this is my paraphrase) they do not live in a shared reality where there can be differences of opinion on a common set of facts.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 14, 2022 • 1:50:18am

You may now return to your regularly scheduled posting

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 14, 2022 • 1:53:41am

re: #141 Dr Lizardo

I shop only at the discounters (Lidl, Aldi) and the local Turkish supermarket. I only go into the big chain stores for the handful of items I cannot find elsewhere.

I try to support the local produce van when he comes on Saturdays, but I have been too short of spare funds.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 14, 2022 • 2:23:04am

Smitten, still, am I:

Youtube Video


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Dr Lizardo  May 14, 2022 • 2:31:14am
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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  May 14, 2022 • 2:54:40am

re: #137 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion

I had to go to the grocery store earlier today, and just out of curiosity I strolled down the aisle that has all the baby products. The store does not generally carry mass quantities of formula, but seemed to have over 50% of it’s normal max stock. In fact it looked like there was 1 particular brand/type that was out of stock and everything else was fine.

So I’m filing this under more exaggerated bullshit or regional problems being blown up to national.

I also checked dog and cat food. That aisle was almost completely packed. I had trouble finding a couple specific types of cat food several months ago. There were dozens of them now. So this is either another non-problem that is being lied about, a regional issue rather than a national one, a problem with specific manufacturers only that’s being blown out of proportion, or a recycled talking point from a long time ago that is no longer valid but they know no one will call them on.

Speaking of them just making shit up. I saw Fox anchors claim (as if any of these fuckers actually go into stores themselves) that milk is $11/gallon in New York.

I can’t speak for New York, but in Southern California, depending on brand it is between 2.79-4.99 per gallon. If you want overpriced organic bullshit it’s $7-8 per gallon.

No one calls them on this bullshit. It’s like last year when gas was…. let me check, $4.25/gallon in California, Clownstick was telling people at his rallies that it was $7.50. No one called him out on that bullshit.

Can one person in the media just once call these people out on their bullshit. It’s not hard.

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Shropshire Slasher  May 14, 2022 • 3:09:05am

re: #32 Decatur Deb

There are DIY infant formulas available from the pre-1960s. They weren’t perfect, but it wouldn’t take much to upgrade them, if the crunch lasts that long.

*This message brought to you by Carnation milk and the Ka-Ro Council.

Don’t forget the raw egg!

/

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Dr Lizardo  May 14, 2022 • 3:26:14am

Angry Russian noises incoming…..

Israel agreed to Estonia’s request to equip Ukraine with the Blue Spear (5G SSM) land-to-sea missile system, Ukrainian journalist Rostyslav Demchuk reported on Friday.

Estonia, which purchased an unspecified number of Blue Spear systems from its manufacturer Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) in October 2021, asked Israel for its authorization to transfer one of the systems to Ukraine’s Armed Forces, currently defending Ukraine against the Russian invasion.

Israel complied with the Baltic nation’s request, according to Demchuk.

jpost.com

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Decatur Deb  May 14, 2022 • 3:31:22am

re: #150 Shropshire Slasher

Don’t forget the raw egg!

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When I was on my own in a NY City SRO, a grilled cheese with a milkshake/raw egg was a special health food treat. Olympia Diner, 77th St, opposite the Natural History.

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Decatur Deb  May 14, 2022 • 3:32:53am

re: #151 Dr Lizardo

Angry Russian noises incoming…..

jpost.com

“Something…something…Jewish nazis.”

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Shropshire Slasher  May 14, 2022 • 3:34:38am

The lilacs are in bloom and it smells so good outside!

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ericblair  May 14, 2022 • 3:40:56am

I don’t know how long it will take to dawn on major Tesla shareholders that Tesla and SpaceX accomplish things despite Musk, not because of him.

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Dr Lizardo  May 14, 2022 • 3:44:20am

re: #155 ericblair

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I don’t know how long it will take to dawn on major Tesla shareholders that Tesla and SpaceX accomplish things despite Musk, not because of him.

So….he built a really slow subway? That uses cars instead of subway trains? And, for now at least, has only one tunnel? 🙄

Yeah - SpaceX is successful despite Elon Musk.

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William Lewis  May 14, 2022 • 3:47:17am

So my bestest and oldest friend wanted to go out and use his (LEGO) camera yesterday :)

I was given him when I was sick with Measles at 4. We’ve been around the world together.

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Decatur Deb  May 14, 2022 • 3:58:30am

re: #157 William Lewis

So my bestest and oldest friend wanted to go out and use his (LEGO) camera yesterday :)

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I was given him when I was sick with Measles at 4. We’ve been around the world together.

Spent the last 20 minutes on Google Streetview, looking for a 77th Street tree I photographed in 1965. Might have found it.

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Dangerman  May 14, 2022 • 4:23:15am

re: #100 Belafon

It was on nextdoor yesterday, along with this crap:

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I told them that it was happening everywhere, not just here, but most of the replies were about various things being Biden’s fault. I’ve already posted about my hone town up thread, so it’s not unexpected.

i dont believe stories like this

sure the assessed value could double in a year

the actual tax bill based you’re gonna pay on the millage?
rarely if ever.
most places have caps on annual increases

florida of all places, is 3%

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Dangerman  May 14, 2022 • 4:24:02am

re: #101 Captain Ron

Why is it Biden’s responsibility to control private enterprise? It’s a free market, if you don’t like that the single US manufacture’s failure caused a shortage, pick another private company. Don’t complain that the government won’t intervene. Fucking whiners.

thye never say *what* he should have done

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Decatur Deb  May 14, 2022 • 4:28:40am

re: #161 Dangerman

thye never say *what* he should have done

Maybe they want the government to seize the plant and turn control over to a workers’ soviet.

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Dangerman  May 14, 2022 • 4:34:11am

re: #141 Dr Lizardo

So, was just talking with a friend here, and she’s complaining about the ever-increasing costs of food (which is understandable). But she’s doing her shopping at these little boutique grocery stores, where the prices are already considerably higher even under normal circumstances.

So I said, “Look, just go shopping at Kaufland - I can buy a week’s worth of groceries for about 750 Kč ($31.50), not the 1,720 Kč ($72.25) you’re paying.” To which she replied, “But Kaufland is for poor people and Gypsies and pensioners” with a look of disdain that made me burst into laughter.

I reminded her that she’s not exactly in the same financial territory as Bill Gates or Elon Musk (LOL, not even remotely close!) and that she needs to stop being snobbish and not be afraid to mingle with us hoi-polloi. So this afternoon, I’m going to introduce her to shopping at Kaufland.

This should prove to be quite a humorous experience, and I’m already looking forward to it 😄

i see people buying the same branded / packaged food at Whole Foods they could get at Publix for a lot less.

maybe it’s convenience - one stop instead of 2, but it’s real easy to work out a schedule and save a great deal of money

and dont get me started on how much more ‘nutritious’ people think ‘organic’ is

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Dangerman  May 14, 2022 • 4:37:32am

re: #144 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

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Dangerman  May 14, 2022 • 4:40:48am

re: #149 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion

Speaking of them just making shit up. I saw Fox anchors claim (as if any of these fuckers actually go into stores themselves) that milk is $11/gallon in New York.

I can’t speak for New York, but in Southern California, depending on brand it is between 2.79-4.99 per gallon. If you want overpriced organic bullshit it’s $7-8 per gallon.

No one calls them on this bullshit. It’s like last year when gas was…. let me check, $4.25/gallon in California, Clownstick was telling people at his rallies that it was $7.50. No one called him out on that bullshit.

Can one person in the media just once call these people out on their bullshit. It’s not hard.

at this point i dont need to hear ‘no, that’s not true, this is what’s true’
i’d settle for “where, exactly where is this $11 milk”, or whatever

of course we’d never get an answer and if we did it would be one indie store…not “New York”

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Florida Panhandler  May 14, 2022 • 4:59:13am

re: #100 Belafon

It was on nextdoor yesterday, along with this crap:

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I told them that it was happening everywhere, not just here, but most of the replies were about various things being Biden’s fault. I’ve already posted about my hone town up thread, so it’s not unexpected.

The irony is that Texans will start demanding rent control and tax subsidies from the state to deal with the reality of the “free market”. And at every turn these Republicans should be reminded that this is the new reality of their Libertarian Utopia and the very Texas property tax user-fee model that they voted for in the first place.

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  May 14, 2022 • 5:03:26am

re: #165 Dangerman

at this point i dont need to hear ‘no, that’s not true, this is what’s true’
i’d settle for “where, exactly where is this $11 milk”, or whatever

of course we’d never get an answer and if we did it would be one indie store…not “New York”

That’s what I call the Right Wing California Gas scam. Under normal conditions, not during the Ukraine War, whenever the GOP wanted to piss and moan about California gas prices, they send a Fox affiliated news team to a Chevron or a Shell station near an airport. Chevron and Shell are always 30-50 cents per gallon higher than everyone else, and gas stations near airports… tack on another dollar per gallon. (They are trying to price gouge the shit out of people returning rental cars.) Then they will present that as if it’s the normal price “everywhere” in California. Even the wingnuts in California will believe it, despite evidence being in their face down the street within a day or two.

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  May 14, 2022 • 5:04:47am

re: #166 Florida Panhandler

The irony is that Texans will start demanding rent control and tax subsidies from the state to deal with the reality of the “free market”. And at every turn these Republicans should be reminded that this is the new reality of their Libertarian Utopia and the very Texas property tax user-fee model that they voted for in the first place.

No they will start bitching that there’s too many people moving to the state bringing “California values” and they will eventually pack up and move to Tennessee.

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Dangerman  May 14, 2022 • 5:04:49am

re: #167 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion

That’s what I call the Right Wing California Gas scam. Under normal conditions, not during the Ukraine War, whenever the GOP wanted to piss and moan about California gas prices, they send a Fox affiliated news team to a Chevron or a Shell station near an airport. Chevron and Shell are always 30-50 cents per gallon higher than everyone else, and gas stations near airports… tack on another dollar per gallon. (They are trying to price gouge the shit out of people returning rental cars.) Then they will present that as if it’s the normal price “everywhere” in California. Even the wingnuts in California will believe it, despite evidence being in their face down the street within a day or two.

this is where the real fight is
against this benign sort of gullibility

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Captain Magic  May 14, 2022 • 5:25:27am

India: Elderly couple sue son over lack of grandchildren
An Indian couple has sued their son and daughter-in-law, demanding a grandchild. They say they invested in their son’s education and wedding, and are therefore owed at least monetary compensation.

(reminds me of a scene from The Big Bang Theory when Raj’s father quipped: “I Hope you have a daughter”)

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Dangerman  May 14, 2022 • 5:37:25am
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) was recorded on a voice mail accusing a constituent, a lifelong Republican in her 70s, of spreading vicious lies, the Washington Examiner reports.

Said Greene, on the recording: “This is Marjorie Greene. It’s been brought to my attention that you are sharing some lies about me that are being spread by one of the head leaders of antifa, someone that you wouldn’t, huh, want to be involved with or know anything about.”

She added: “I’m going to suggest that you check yourself and your source because this is someone that you don’t want to be involved with and you don’t want people to know that you’re involved with.”

I’m not exactly sure what to do with this…

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Dangerman  May 14, 2022 • 5:37:57am

re: #171 Dangerman

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Dangerman  May 14, 2022 • 5:43:13am

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Captain Magic  May 14, 2022 • 5:44:33am

Michael Tracy drops a deuce:

If you happened to be alive during the years of 2016 to 2020, you can probably recall the routine issuance of frantic bulletins that “Nazis” were suddenly on the march in the US. Not just that some ludicrous, ragtag group of self-identified Nazis could be occasionally spotted in the wild — which had always been a somewhat regular, albeit freakish occurrence. Rather, the idea was that full-bore ideological “Nazism” had surged as a genuinely formidable political force, and everyone needed to be extremely terrified of this.

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Dangerman  May 14, 2022 • 5:44:52am

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jeffreyw  May 14, 2022 • 6:00:25am

Pastrami Reuben

Good morning!

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Shropshire Slasher  May 14, 2022 • 6:05:14am

re: #174 Captain Magic

Lots of nazi punching going on here at LGF!

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Belafon  May 14, 2022 • 6:06:31am

re: #177 Shropshire Slasher

Lots of not enough nazi punching going on here at LGF!

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Belafon  May 14, 2022 • 6:07:26am
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Belafon  May 14, 2022 • 6:11:14am
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  May 14, 2022 • 6:12:23am

re: #66 jaunte

re: #160 Dangerman

i dont believe stories like this

sure the assessed value could double in a year

the actual tax bill based you’re gonna pay on the millage?
rarely if ever.
most places have caps on annual increases

florida of all places, is 3%

Plus, it takes time to do assessments and none of them would turn around in a year. Or even two.

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Shropshire Slasher  May 14, 2022 • 6:21:25am

re: #181 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Plus, it takes time to do assessments and none of them would turn around in a year. Or even two.

and not everything assessed gets taxed on full market value.

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Dangerman  May 14, 2022 • 6:44:10am

re: #179 Belafon

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where’s all that rugged personal responsibility?

who forced you to invest in this nonsense?

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Dangerman  May 14, 2022 • 6:46:02am

re: #182 Shropshire Slasher

and not everything assessed gets taxed on full market value.

that’s what i was saying - most states have caps on annual tax increases, no matter how much the assessment might skyrocket

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HRH Stanley Sea  May 14, 2022 • 6:54:18am

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darthstar  May 14, 2022 • 7:00:14am

re: #179 Belafon

First tweet I saw when I looked at the cryptocrash tag…

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darthstar  May 14, 2022 • 7:01:19am

re: #186 darthstar

First tweet I saw when I looked at the cryptocrash tag…

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Second one is better.

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Crush White Nationalism  May 14, 2022 • 7:10:44am
MILWAUKEE —
Milwaukee Police say 17 people were shot in the area Water Street and Juneau Avenue Friday night.

Investigators say the victims range in age from 15-47. Police expect all to survive.

Police say they’ve arrested ten people in the case, recovering nine guns from the scene.

This happened nearly two hours after three people were shot near MLK & Highland.

17 wounded in mass shooting near Water & Juneau in downtown Milwaukee (WISN)

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Hecuba's daughter  May 14, 2022 • 7:12:11am

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Dangerman  May 14, 2022 • 7:24:57am

re: #186 darthstar

First tweet I saw when I looked at the cryptocrash tag…

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all you need to know:

“one of my friends advised me”

i think ‘advised’ is the wrong word here, but what do i know?
i didnt lose any money in this

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Dopamine Fish  May 14, 2022 • 7:28:18am

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Belafon  May 14, 2022 • 7:33:40am

We are one bad president away from our military turning into Russia’s:

Junior sailors stationed at Naval Air Station Key West, Florida, are struggling to find homes after the closure of two of the base’s barracks sent about 60 service members looking for alternative places to stay. It’s an incredibly expensive housing market, including nearly $4,000-a-month trailers the Navy had built to market for “leisure travel.”

In an email to military.com, base spokeswoman Danette Baso Silvers said that the base decided to shutter the housing for single, junior sailors “to conduct much needed repairs and renovations.” According to the base website, the pair of buildings could house about 100 sailors.

The Navy says that those sailors have a variety of options, but two who spoke with military.com echoed a spate of social media posts from troops at the base saying that the alternatives are prohibitively expensive or otherwise not workable.

military.com

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Dr. Matt  May 14, 2022 • 7:36:38am

“If we’re really being honest, never having a girlfriend, never having sex with a woman, really makes you more heterosexual, because honestly, dating women is gay. And if you want to know the truth, the only really straight, heterosexual position is to be an asexual incel.”
— Nickkk Fuentes at reddit.com

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Hecuba's daughter  May 14, 2022 • 7:38:47am

re: #193 Dr. Matt

“If we’re really being honest, never having a girlfriend, never having sex with a woman, really makes you more heterosexual, because honestly, dating women is gay. And if you want to know the truth, the only really straight, heterosexual position is to be an asexual incel.”
— Nickkk Fuentes at reddit.com

Doesn’t this seem more like someone trolling than expressing a real opinion?

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  May 14, 2022 • 7:41:00am

re: #192 Belafon

We are one bad president away from our military turning into Russia’s:

military.com

What’s happened to these?
Barracks ship

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sizzzzlerz  May 14, 2022 • 7:45:39am

Definition of “shocking”? See below.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  May 14, 2022 • 7:48:21am

re: #195 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

What’s happened to these?
Barracks ship

Aaarrgghh! Just realized: I may have found a use for those confiscated Russian yachts.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 14, 2022 • 8:00:08am

re: #193 Dr. Matt

“If we’re really being honest, never having a girlfriend, never having sex with a woman, really makes you more heterosexual, because honestly, dating women is gay. And if you want to know the truth, the only really straight, heterosexual position is to be an asexual incel.”
— Nickkk Fuentes at reddit.com

Japanese samurai only had sex with women to produce more sons, but overall, they thought that sex with women made you effeminate, only burly, rough man sex kept you tough and masculine.

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Dr. Matt  May 14, 2022 • 8:01:09am

re: #194 Hecuba’s daughter

Doesn’t this seem more like someone trolling than expressing a real opinion?

It’s hard to tell now days from the party that believes Biden is dead and the person that is potus is wearing a Biden mask.

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Belafon  May 14, 2022 • 8:02:53am

According to WFAA, the DFW area is going to hit record highs for the next six days.

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Hecuba's daughter  May 14, 2022 • 8:03:51am

re: #196 sizzzzlerz

Definition of “shocking”? See below.

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darthstar  May 14, 2022 • 8:09:18am

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Q: 4,5,7,8

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mmmirele  May 14, 2022 • 8:17:11am

re: #54 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)

This “formula” industry exists only because “American women refuse to be real women,” amirite? //s

*drily* I’d like to kick in the privates any person who says that. I was a bottle baby from birth because my mom was hustled off to the 1960 version of the ICU as soon as I was delivered. So, obviously, this was not by choice and my younger siblings were breastfed. But dammit, what would these nutbars do? Watch kids die because they can’t breastfeed (I knew someone whose baby had an issue with latching) or their mother isn’t producing enough milk or or or. To all those “breast is best” people, I say, “FED IS BEST.” Jeez!

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Belafon  May 14, 2022 • 8:19:43am

Sean Spicer agrees: //

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Belafon  May 14, 2022 • 8:24:07am

Jo’s going through a divorce, and the hubby doesn’t really give a shit about the kids:

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Teukka  May 14, 2022 • 8:25:10am
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Belafon  May 14, 2022 • 8:27:12am

re: #203 mmmirele

*drily* I’d like to kick in the privates any person who says that. I was a bottle baby from birth because my mom was hustled off to the 1960 version of the ICU as soon as I was delivered. So, obviously, this was not by choice and my younger siblings were breastfed. But dammit, what would these nutbars do? Watch kids die because they can’t breastfeed (I knew someone whose baby had an issue with latching) or their mother isn’t producing enough milk or or or. To all those “breast is best” people, I say, “FED IS BEST.” Jeez!

Neither me nor my siblings were breastfed, and neither were my kids.

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Crush White Nationalism  May 14, 2022 • 8:27:27am

Probably a fake, but these dummies have been creeping back onto Twitter recently.

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JC1  May 14, 2022 • 8:30:51am

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Belafon  May 14, 2022 • 8:31:54am

Such a dad joke only a mom could tell it:

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Dr Lizardo  May 14, 2022 • 8:36:45am

re: #179 Belafon

Lemme guess: “IT’S THE JOOOOOZ, MAN!!”

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Dr. Matt  May 14, 2022 • 8:37:23am

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JC1  May 14, 2022 • 8:41:04am

re: #212 Dr. Matt

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I swear that a week prior to the midterms, Biden should release a PSA begging people to not ingest arsenic.

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Crush White Nationalism  May 14, 2022 • 8:45:53am
A coup is underway to oust Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is “very sick” due to cancer, according to Ukraine’s head of military intelligence.

“It will eventually lead to the change of leadership of the Russian Federation. This process has already been launched and they are moving into that way,” Ukrainian Major Gen. Kyrylo Budanov told the UK’s Sky News in an exclusive interview.

An interviewer asked if a coup is underway, to which Budanov replied, “Yes. They are moving in this way and it is impossible to stop it.”

Putin has cancer and other ailments, he said, dismissing the suggestion that he was spreading propaganda.

Coup to remove cancer-stricken Putin underway in Russia, Ukrainian intelligence chief says (Fortune)

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Dr. Matt  May 14, 2022 • 8:47:35am

re: #213 JC1

I swear that a week prior to the midterms, Biden should release a PSA begging people to not ingest arsenic.

This campaign slogan should solve things too:

“We oppose Russian Roulette with completely loaded revolvers”
-Democrats 2022

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Hecuba's daughter  May 14, 2022 • 8:47:59am

re: #214 Punish Domestic Terrorists

Coup to remove cancer-stricken Putin underway in Russia, Ukrainian intelligence chief says (Fortune)

Won’t believe it until he is actually out of power, maybe through the customary defenestration.

ETA: or polonium

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I Would Prefer Not To  May 14, 2022 • 8:48:16am

re: #213 JC1

I swear that a week prior to the midterms, Biden should release a PSA begging people to not ingest arsenic.

why wait?

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Belafon  May 14, 2022 • 8:48:44am

Longer thread:

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Decatur Deb  May 14, 2022 • 8:54:26am

re: #212 Dr. Matt

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Correlation is no constipation.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  May 14, 2022 • 8:55:39am

re: #219 Decatur Deb

Correlation is no constipation.

Incompetence is no excuse for incontinence.

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dat_said  May 14, 2022 • 9:01:10am

re: #163 Dangerman

and dont get me started on how much more ‘nutritious’ people think ‘organic’ is

Arsenic is natural. Hemlock is organic. And, Warfarin is repurposed rat poison.

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sagehen  May 14, 2022 • 9:01:57am

re: #198 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Japanese samurai only had sex with women to produce more sons, but overall, they thought that sex with women made you effeminate, only burly, rough man sex kept you tough and masculine.

Like Spartans, then…

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Dr Lizardo  May 14, 2022 • 9:04:44am

So, the shopping trip to Kaufland went well enough. When I rolled up, she was already there, with a look on her face like I’d invited her to the nastiest nudie bar on Earth.

Anyway, aside from her being somewhat mildly appalled at the crowds of common rabble, other than that, she ended up saving a good deal of money, which made her happy. However, I failed to convince her that buying pricy toilet paper really isn’t as much a necessity as she might think it is. She insisted on buying some chamomile-scented TP because “it smells nice!” Even my eminently logical argument of, “It’s irrelevant that it smells nice, considering its purpose. Is anyone aside from your dog going to be sniffing around your butthole?” wasn’t enough to persuade her (though it did make her laugh until she started snorting, which of course, made her laugh even harder).

All in all, a fun trip to the supermarket.

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gocart mozart  May 14, 2022 • 9:07:17am
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gocart mozart  May 14, 2022 • 9:12:36am
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Decatur Deb  May 14, 2022 • 9:13:09am

Check cleared.

Exclusive: Turkey ‘not closing door’ to Sweden, Finland NATO entry, Erdogan advisor says
reuters.com

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 14, 2022 • 9:18:39am
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BeachDem  May 14, 2022 • 9:20:20am

re: #225 gocart mozart

Another apt one:

“she only questioned the teachings of the Party when they in some way touched upon her own life. Often she was ready to accept the official mythology, simply because the difference between truth and falsehood did not seem important to her.”

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Dr Lizardo  May 14, 2022 • 9:24:43am

re: #226 Decatur Deb

Check cleared.

Exclusive: Turkey ‘not closing door’ to Sweden, Finland NATO entry, Erdogan advisor says
reuters.com

Erdogan’s issue, especially in regard to Sweden, seems to be not just that whole PKK thing, but perhaps more importantly to Erdogan’s thinking, the presence of Fetullah Gülen’s Hizmet movement, which is classified as a terrorist group in Turkey.

I honestly don’t know what kind of presence the Hizmet movement has in Sweden, though I do recall it had quite a powerful presence in Berlin when I was there in 2010-2011.

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 14, 2022 • 9:34:05am
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darthstar  May 14, 2022 • 9:37:49am

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darthstar  May 14, 2022 • 9:38:19am

re: #226 Decatur Deb

Good.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 14, 2022 • 9:43:51am
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darthstar  May 14, 2022 • 9:44:03am

FB video of a woman calling her chickens.
facebook.com

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darthstar  May 14, 2022 • 9:45:07am

Youtube Video

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 14, 2022 • 9:46:21am
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Rightwingconspirator  May 14, 2022 • 9:46:44am

Not the Onion.

Indian couple sue son and his wife, demanding grandchildren
NEW DELHI — A retired Indian couple is suing their son and daughter-in-law, demanding that they produce a grandchild within a year or pay them 50 million rupees ($675,000)…

“We want a grandson or a granddaughter within a year or compensation because I have spent my life’s earnings on my son’s education,” Prasad told reporters on Thursday…

“We got him married in the hope we would have the pleasure of becoming grandparents. It has been six years since their marriage,” Prasad said. “It feels as if despite having everything we have nothing.”nbcnews.com

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 14, 2022 • 9:48:42am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 14, 2022 • 9:52:31am
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ericblair  May 14, 2022 • 10:04:33am

re: #228 BeachDem

Another apt one:

“she only questioned the teachings of the Party when they in some way touched upon her own life. Often she was ready to accept the official mythology, simply because the difference between truth and falsehood did not seem important to her.”

This is very relevant to Russia: in an authoritarian system, the truth is whatever the people with guns say it is, because life is much better that way. There’s no reason to distinguish objective truth and falsehood for anything that isn’t going to immediately hurt you. For stuff that does hurt you, you develop a truly stunning ability to compartmentalize, and can flip from one belief to another in an instant.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 14, 2022 • 10:06:06am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 14, 2022 • 10:06:41am

re: #241 Backwoods_Sleuth

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PhillyPretzel  May 14, 2022 • 10:09:44am

re: #241 Backwoods_Sleuth

Hmm. It is a good thing that I at home today. I am not 100% positive but I think that may be going on in NE Philly. I am also not sure of the exact location.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 14, 2022 • 10:15:10am

re: #243 PhillyPretzel

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  May 14, 2022 • 10:15:52am

re: #237 Rightwingconspirator

Not the Onion.

Having grandchildren, I can sympathize. It’s not all about you, though, Ma and Pa.

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Shropshire Slasher  May 14, 2022 • 10:16:04am

re: #231 darthstar

[Embedded content]

and Father Guido Sarducci.

Youtube Video

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Shropshire Slasher  May 14, 2022 • 10:17:24am

New thread, please exit in an orderly fashion.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 14, 2022 • 10:17:30am

re: #243 PhillyPretzel

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PhillyPretzel  May 14, 2022 • 10:19:01am

re: #244 Backwoods_Sleuth

Bucks County is where a MAGA/DT store opened up and had quite a few people buy stuff from there.

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Barefoot Grin  May 14, 2022 • 10:26:20am

re: #222 sagehen

Like Spartans, then…

A little, maybe. They policed intercourse also because of the caste system, family honor, and economic realities as much as anything. While it wasn’t unheard of for samurai to marry a merchant’s daughter, it was the exception that proved the rule that samurai were to marry within their social rank at the top of the social order. Most samurai by the 18th century and certainly the early 19th century struggled to get by on meager stipends, so they wanted to avoid having too many mouths to feed. Daughters could be a burden, but usually arrangements could be made that were mutually beneficial between families (daughters were not expected to have much say in the matter). Excess sons were a problem were ok if they could land a position, but many were barely employed and survived on those meager stipends and any side work that they could get, which was heavily frowned upon; or, they could be adopted into a family without male heir to take over as family head. Or they might be sent to a temple to become a monk.

In the countryside, peasants of course also had to balance the size of the family giving rise to the social problem of mabiki. Mabiki was a euphemism (it meant “weeding between the crops”) for infanticide. In some areas where there few options, families might only allow the eldest son to marry. Over time, wealthy farmers and merchants started to emulate the samurai.

Sex and sexual politics were complicated and fascinating. I wish I knew more. I do know that these issues were at the heart of literature, drama, and woodblock prints (there was a thriving sub-culture of erotic prints, too; the Kinsey Institute of Human Sexuality at Indiana University has a large collection, many of which were confiscated from GI’s personal belongings that were shipped from Japan during the occupation and found during searches in St. Louis).

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mmmirele  May 14, 2022 • 10:28:49am

re: #223 Dr Lizardo

So, the shopping trip to Kaufland went well enough. When I rolled up, she was already there, with a look on her face like I’d invited her to the nastiest nudie bar on Earth.

Anyway, aside from her being somewhat mildly appalled at the crowds of common rabble, other than that, she ended up saving a good deal of money, which made her happy. However, I failed to convince her that buying pricy toilet paper really isn’t as much a necessity as she might think it is. She insisted on buying some chamomile-scented TP because “it smells nice!” Even my eminently logical argument of, “It’s irrelevant that it smells nice, considering its purpose. Is anyone aside from your dog going to be sniffing around your butthole?” wasn’t enough to persuade her (though it did make her laugh until she started snorting, which of course, made her laugh even harder).

All in all, a fun trip to the supermarket.

I’m glad you had a great trip to the supermarket—maybe she learned something. As for chamomile scented toilet paper, I wouldn’t want that near my butthole, because extra chemicals near my tender private parts NO THANKS.

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Dr. Matt  May 14, 2022 • 10:38:29am

re: #219 Decatur Deb

Correlation is no constipation.

Well played. 😁

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Eventual Carrion  May 14, 2022 • 10:39:11am

re: #39 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

niterz, lizardz!

Marty Feldman’s of the sea.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  May 15, 2022 • 7:00:41am

re: #75 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

Modern Infant formula is serious science and serious compression among the three major companies that produce it . those companies are spending serious money to research and and get closer to human milk.

The current Recaro highlights yet another reason that the anti-FDA people are full of shit. Without the ability to clamp down on manufacturers that fuck up, we would be seeing many more dead babies.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  May 15, 2022 • 7:04:16am

re: #98 Hecuba’s daughter

The FDA shut down one manufacturer because of bacterial contamination. Infants are a vulnerable population and the speciations are extreme, for that reason. Dad babies is a bad look for Abbott, too .

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  May 15, 2022 • 7:06:59am

re: #101 Captain Ron

There are only three infant formula manufacturers in the US. So the options are limited.


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