Polls were still open in Pennsylvania when Stephen taped this show, so we’ll have to wait to find out which brand of crazy GOP primary voters prefer. Over in Russia, Vladimir Putin tried his best to shrug off news that two neighboring countries may soon join NATO. #Colbert #Comedy #Monologue
jfc this guy won’t shut up
Twitter’s putative owner-to-be having another normal day. pic.twitter.com/zmytmrNF3X
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 18, 2022
re: #1 Charles Johnson
jfc this guy won’t shut up
When you are as rich as Musk no-one in your circle is going to tell you no.
If you pretend to be nuts, do they let you out of a deal to buy a company?
What in the utter actual fuck is this assvomit fucking shit
Delusional. pic.twitter.com/B2CDlMQgB0
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) May 18, 2022
re: #4 The Pie Overlord!
What in the utter actual fuck is this assvomit fucking shit
It’s hard to tell if someone on the Left made that to mock maga nation or if maga nation made it because they believe it.
The Senate race in PA hasn’t been called yet but Trump on Truth Social is calling for Dr. Oz to go ahead and declare — pic.twitter.com/4WxuahprpA
— Meridith McGraw (@meridithmcgraw) May 18, 2022
How’d that work out when you tried it in 2020, Mr not-the-president?
Interested in why people see a statement such as this as a meltdown
— bulatwit (@bulatwit) May 18, 2022
If someone didn’t already know that Musk is nuts, talking like Tucker Carlson makes them think that he lost it today. We know he’s probably always been trash, but not everyone knows that.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 18, 2022
re: #6 Dangerman
How’d that work out when you tried it in 2020, Mr not-the-president?
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So he just admitted that republicans steal elections. What a 🤡🤡🤡🤡
Trump is now calling the Pennsylvania Republican primary results fraudulent pic.twitter.com/oAX4xw7iyV
— Right Wing Cope (@RightWingCope) May 18, 2022
Not unable
They made a law ffs
plus, Mail ins need to be verified, not just tallied
re: #9 Dangerman
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They made a law ffsplus, Mail ins need to be verified, not just tallied
Plus we are 5x the size and elections are administered by the states so 50+ systems
America was founded on Replacement Theory. Europeans literally “replaced” indigenous nations and took their land.
The attack is always a confession.— Cliff Albright (@cliff_notes) May 17, 2022
Interesting thread talking about his young radicalism and his church’s involvement in that:
I was a child extremist. 1968 radicalized me. The war, cultural upheaval, the new left, assassinations, the Dem Convention and the associated police riots politicized 8 yr old me, but not in a good way. My family were Skousenites (Mormon Birchers.) I devoured all the materials.
— Gen JC Christian, Patriot, Expertise Expert (@JC_Christian) May 18, 2022
You know what would be a ballsy move?@Twitter suspending @elonmusk for tweeting disparaging statements about the company which not only violate their agreement but also seem designed to drive the share price down. Even for a day. cc @paraga @edgett
— Richard Signorelli (@richsignorelli) May 18, 2022
GOHMERT!
After being told the Mayor was unavailable, Gohmert turns on the charm and tries to sweet-talk his way in by telling them he has proposed a bill to end federal taxes for DC residents. It didn’t work. pic.twitter.com/wI9GV49Oj5
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) May 18, 2022
Gohmert has a fetish for legislation no one asks for or supports.
Rep. Louie Gohmert, the outspoken and undauntable Texas conservative, has introduced another bill to return the District of Columbia to Maryland, the state that donated the land to the federal government two centuries ago.
Gohmert last introduced a retrocession proposal in 2007, when the idea was gaining support from conservative pundits like George Will. The newest bill has no co-sponsors so far.
huffpost.com
There’s always a catch:
“…Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.), through a spokesman, expressed appreciation for Gohmert’s idea, but warned that exempting D.C. residents from the federal income tax would cause the city to lose federal funding as if it were a state. She urged Gohmert and other lawmakers to support simply making D.C. a state.”
thehill.com
re: #18 jaunte
Because he knows damned well that DC should be a state, and they are currently without representation. But instead of making it a state, he’s going to try and roll it back into Maryland and diluting its presence.
DC has a larger population than Wyoming and Vermont.
re: #12 Belafon
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re: #22 lawhawk
Because he knows damned well that DC should be a state, and they are currently without representation. But instead of making it a state, he’s going to try and roll it back into Maryland and diluting its presence.
DC has a larger population than Wyoming and Vermont.
but they’ve always been there //
On this day:
(4) From March 15 through March 21, more than 100 temblors occurred within 22 miles of Mount St. Helens. https://t.co/zjt9voh9g2 pic.twitter.com/6jgSQjW735
— AccuWeather (@accuweather) May 18, 2022
Just more Republicans being disgusting authoritarian misogynist shit sacks. This party is thoroughly corrupt and debased. https://t.co/xnIomPuPIv
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 18, 2022
re: #27 Charles Johnson
Giving the GOP voters what they want.
It’s not just those elected - it’s a reflection of the voters who encourage these fuckers to be as bigoted and misogynistic as possible. The more outrageous, the more likely they win these primaries.
But he’s gonna bring true free speech to Twitter, right?
Yeah, right. https://t.co/62DqErKRdq— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 18, 2022
re: #29 Charles Johnson
Of course the Republicans are the party of division and hate, and the Democrats are the kind inclusive Americans. You’ve wound up in the inverted reality of a Fox News viewer, or are intentionally lying.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 18, 2022
re: #29 Charles Johnson
When people lose their minds, the only way they will know is if people tell them. Who’s going to tell a billionaire that they’ve lost their mind to propaganda?
Funny, Elon warms up to the Republican Party after they went full Nazi racist.
Bingo.
all the money in the world and you’re still this starved for attention
— Patrick Lindsey (@BullManUGA) May 18, 2022
I’m not sure what “ultra-MAGA” is supposed to mean. There’s nothing ultra about it. This twisted, cruel, demented ideology is completely mainstream in the GOP. Can we please stop pretending it isn’t?
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 18, 2022
re: #35 Charles Johnson
I think they’re mimicking something Biden said when he was afraid to say “fascist,” but I have been asking people with ultra-maga in their profile what the difference between a fascist and ultra fascist is to poke at them.
re: #1 Charles Johnson
jfc this guy won’t shut up
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‘Wokism’ is the mind virus. Elon will make twitter the vaccine. Never wake!
re: #34 A Cranky One
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It’s good advice. If that goes in, it’s not coming out easily.
About that women’s film festival: Last night’s event was a Zonta-sponsored showing of LunaFest 2022, an annual competition of short films by/about women. It’s funded by an energy protein bar company that seems more than casually linked to SJW movement. They make the program available to women’s groups.
lunafest.org
The janitor and I were the only males in the auditorium, and he was getting paid for it.
re: #37 wrenchwench
‘Wokism’ is the mind virus. Elon will make twitter the vaccine. Never wake!
We should probably grift Elon. He has a lot more money than the other people who want to be lied to by Republicans.
Whoa. No way! The Dow dropped? Like it has over and over and over again, all of my adult life? What a shock! 🙄 Rich people own the stock market. Poor them. They’ll just have to do more price gouging. https://t.co/YL5UMEpUyl
— Claudia Hall Christian (@ClaudiaC) May 18, 2022
18 May 1957 | An Austrian woman Maria Stromberger died in Bregenz.
From October 1942, she worked in #Auschwitz as a nurse supervisor in the SS hospital. She was in touch with the resistance movement and helped many prisoners of the camp.https://t.co/gMcWMnzNHs pic.twitter.com/o6CJr7tDAM— Auschwitz Memorial (@AuschwitzMuseum) May 18, 2022
This is absolutely outrageous and unacceptable. The soldiers were told they would be exchanged. They are NOT Nazi war criminals but Ukrainian soldiers fighting foreign invaders. World leaders must insure their safety and civilized treatment. @antonioguterres @POTUS @RTErdogan https://t.co/YSPqu3oBS8
— Kateryna Yushchenko 🌻 🇺🇦 (@KatyaYushchenko) May 18, 2022
What’s the latest on trump’s asshole in PA?
Busy day for me.
re: #39 Decatur Deb
About that women’s film festival: Last night’s event was a Zonta-sponsored showing of LunaFest 2022, an annual competition of short films by/about women. It’s funded by an energy protein bar company that seems more than casually linked to SWJ movement. They make the program available to women’s groups.
lunafest.orgThe janitor and I were the only males in the auditorium, and he was getting paid for it.
re: #41 Backwoods_Sleuth
Speaking as someone who is not rich, a single day 1000 point drop in the stock market definitely isn’t good for me either. Thankfully I am still a couple decades from retirement.
re: #46 danarchy
Speaking as someone who is not rich, a single day 1000 point drop in the stock market definitely isn’t good for me either. Thankfully I am still a couple decades from retirement.
I don’t pay much attention to single-day stuff like this.
But, then, I don’t play the market for huge profits, I’m invested in the boring yet steady non-volatile stuff.
re: #45 wrenchwench
Yeah—the film themes were very Movement. It wasn’t a good crowd for registering (too old and activist) but we put out some League of Women Voters materials.
re: #44 darthstar
What’s the latest on trump’s asshole in PA?
Busy day for me.
Oz has a tiny lead, which he may lose as mail-in ballots are counted, or as Trump calls it, “found.”
baby sloth reunites with its mom pic.twitter.com/T1qnkxPFla
— no context viral (@nocontextviral) May 17, 2022
Officer Edith calls it “dryer lint with toenails”.
Perfect fit.. 😂
🎥 TT: maggie_and_thor pic.twitter.com/3nWsXsALWY— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) May 18, 2022
Looks like both Russia and Ukraine have upgunned technicals. I can understand the Ukrainians needing to use whatever they can find. But for the Russians, that is quite a statement of their logistics.
I understand that 57mm gun to have been first fielded just after WW2, 70 years ago.
#Ukraine: Both sides now operate technicals with AZP S-60 57mm AA guns- two on the chassis of KrAZ-260 and Zil-133 trucks were spotted in the hands of the pro-Russian forces in the East. It is unclear if they were initially captured as technicals or as trucks which were modified. pic.twitter.com/H6th2oSolx
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) May 18, 2022
re: #50 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Mmmm, warm dryer lint cuddles. Lemme get a couple of sweatshirts on.
“If this is a onetime incident, that is one thing,” a sr defense source told Breaking Defense. “If this is a change in Russian policy, the Israeli government will have to decide: when a Russian battery launches, will Israeli attack it?” https://t.co/Ay9QoZibts (by @AEGOZI)
— Breaking Defense (@BreakingDefense) May 17, 2022
It’s not a coincidence that the same men who want to take away a woman’s bodily autonomy are the same ones who do not recognize their professional credentials and do not let them speak. https://t.co/x2iv4tf2hT
— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) May 18, 2022
Indigenous Women Make Up Nearly Half of Canada’s Incarcerated Population; New Legislation Seeks to Change That https://t.co/YmWKJZ1roA
— Native news (@nabresource) May 18, 2022
In war, a lot is usually unseen. There is, reportedly, a guerrilla war going on in the Kherson region. Here is a glimpse:
Occupied #Kherson has its own atmosphere
The inscription on the poster: “Get ready! We know all your patrol routes! Kherson is #Ukraine!” pic.twitter.com/86jkNOuf4t— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) May 18, 2022
re: #43 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #30 Crush White Nationalism
Note once again that Elon Musk’s “conversion” to being a Republican coincided with his company Tesla getting busted for racist discrimination and misogynist behavior towards employees which resulted in State of California lawsuits. This is why he moved to Texas.
Tech-bros gotta be tech-bros I guess, according to Elon. Money is his measure of prestige and recognition. “Kindness” my ass.
It sounds like the pro-West factions are winning in Germany. But, also that they are still working through their national response to Russia’s invasion. And that there are still major interests supporting Putin.
“Germany’s governing parties have decided to strip former chancellor Gerhard Schröder of his parliamentary privileges, as anger grows over his refusal to distance himself from the Kremlin despite the war in Ukraine.” https://t.co/1sGd0Ma8h2
— Bianna Golodryga (@biannagolodryga) May 18, 2022
He’s just a shitposter who happens to have a shitpile of money.
I’m not surprised at all. That was to inoculate the public. As a prominent vaccine advocate, you should understand that.
Yale is the epicenter of the woke mind virus attempting to destroy civilization.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 18, 2022
If Russians are going to start treating Ukrainian POWs as “Nazi war criminals” they have no reason to surrender, ever. Better to go down fighting to the last bullet.
re: #59 Barefoot Grin
I wonder how many of the abducted civilians put in the numerous camps will ever be heard from again.
Which is why I don’t see Ukraine accepting a truce as long as Putin is in power.
Always nice to retweet a birb.
In Moscow peace supporters figured a way to convert the Z symbol into a Dove. via Kirill Krivosheev pic.twitter.com/mc2fTNFpBT
— Maria Snegovaya (@MSnegovaya) May 18, 2022
The formula issue appears to be with special formulas for babies with health conditions. These babies are going to be fine, but the parents will have incurred a huge bill if they don’t have good insurance.
Both children required a special, amino acid-based formula because they have short bowel syndrome — a condition meaning they are unable to efficiently digest food because they have fewer intestines.
While one child was discharged Tuesday, the other remained at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital in stable condition after receiving care for dehydration and complications from a lack of nutrients they would normally receive through specialized formulas produced by Abbott Laboratories.
Two children hospitalized in Tennessee due to national baby formula shortage (USA Today via MSN)
re: #32 Captain Ron
Funny, Elon warms up to the Republican Party after they went full Nazi racist.
Plus 1 for Capt. Ron
A bit of local news.
“Support the Albany high girls track team as we protest the gender biased dress code,” the petition’s description reads. “The athletic administration staff is attempting to exclude us from our sport as a result of the misinterpretation of the dress code. We’re being punished for practicing in sports bras in the presence of male coaches, while the boys team was asked nicely to put shirts back on and was not punished.”
The petition has garnered more than 2,700 signatures as of Wednesday.
After the practice incident, the girls track team came back to the school to watch a lacrosse game. Three security guards and Chapple were waiting and told the girls’ track team they could not attend.
As a result, 13 members of the girls’ track and field team were suspended on Friday, which left just two members of the team to compete in the Shenendehowa Invitational later that night. Subsequently, Albany did not score a single point as a team at the event.
The next day, Chapple hand-delivered a letter to each suspended athlete, explaining the discipline. According to the Times Union, the letters stated the student athletes used vulgar language during their exchange with Chapple and security at the lacrosse game.
re: #69 Shropshire Slasher
A bit of local news.
glad to see the NY post is covering today’s most important news.
re: #69 Shropshire Slasher
A bit of local news.
Wednesday, she confronted us about wearing sports bras and saying we couldn’t [just] wear sports bras because we have male coaches,” Jordan Johnson, a standout sophomore sprinter for the Falcons, told the Times Union. “She said that before and she said us working out is a distraction. … We have to cover up because male coaches are around.”
Fucking hell. Why is it these girls fault that their male coaches apparently can’t control themselves?
Oh no here comes covid part deux! (kidding this is kewl)
A cave exploration team has discovered a giant karst sinkhole in Leye County, south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, bringing Leye’s number of such sinkholes to 30.
Zhang Yuanhai, a senior engineer with the Institute of Karst Geology of China Geological Survey, said the sinkhole, located near Ping’e village under Luoxi township, measures 306 m in length, 150 m in width and 192 m in depth, with its volume exceeding 5 million cubic meters, and can be categorized as a large sinkhole.
Zhang said that there are three big caves in the wall, which are presumed to be the remains of the early evolution of the sinkhole. The bottom of the sinkhole has a well-preserved primitive forest.
Chen Lixin, leader of the Guangxi 702 cave expedition team, said the ancient trees growing at the bottom are nearly 40 meters high, and the dense shade plants are up to one’s shoulders.
re: #70 I Would Prefer Not To
glad to see the NY post is covering today’s most important news.
Times Union limits articles.
timesunion.com
re: #43 Backwoods_Sleuth
Not sure why the Ukrainians agreed to this. But I suspect that the Ukrainians did this with eyes wide open. The 2014 experience in Ilovaisk is burned into their memories.
During the 2014 Russian supported insurrection in the DonBas, a Ukrainian battalion defeated and surrounded many of the insurrectionists. Suddenly they found themselves surrounded by units presumed to be from the Russian Army crossing the border.
The Ukrainians negotiated with the surrounding units and there was an agreement that the Ukrainians could retreat along an agreed upon corridor. As the Ukrainians retreated the Russians opened fire and massacred the retreating Ukrainians.
One thing to remember is that the Ukrainians negotiated with, and were betrayed by, Russians that they knew personally. And in several cases had served with in the Soviet Army.
Battle of Ilovaisk
Although Ukrainian forces were able to enter the city on 18 August, they were encircled between 24 and 26 August by overwhelming Russian military forces that crossed the border, joining the battle.After days of encirclement, Ukrainian commander Yuriy Bereza came to an agreement with Russian commanders in Ilovaisk to allow Ukrainian troops to withdraw from the city. This agreement was not honoured, and many soldiers died whilst trying to escape.
And the Ukrainians still remember it:
Confirmed: Colonel Sergey Sukharev, Russia’s 331st Airborne Regiment commander, has been eliminated in Ukraine.
He was directly responsible for the Ilovaisk massacre of 2014. pic.twitter.com/3nnY9p8Aup— Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 (@IAPonomarenko) March 18, 2022
Russia vs Ukraine is starting more and more to look like Serbia vs Croatia…
re: #71 Eclectic Cyborg
Wednesday, she confronted us about wearing sports bras and saying we couldn’t [just] wear sports bras because we have male coaches,” Jordan Johnson, a standout sophomore sprinter for the Falcons, told the Times Union. “She said that before and she said us working out is a distraction. … We have to cover up because male coaches are around.”
Fucking hell. Why is it these girls fault that their male coaches apparently can’t control themselves?
I guess that’s something that we can’t criticize Islamic theocracies for anymore. Conservatives ruin everything.
So, @elonmusk now that you’re voting Republican, here’s some questions:
- Do you agree with the RNC that the violent insurrection was a “legitimate” political discourse done by “ordinary citizens?”
- Do you believe Trump lost?
- Do you condemn the Replacement Theory? https://t.co/5KoFG8tN9m— Wajahat Ali (@WajahatAli) May 18, 2022
I have a tweet which says otherwise. pic.twitter.com/61Sy1WmBjs
— Rishabh Singh (@Rish8D) May 18, 2022
— Arch (Space Laser Vaccination Supervisor) (@Arch_LGF) May 18, 2022
re: #57 wrenchwench
…nearly half of Canada’s incarcerated FEMALE population. Women are maybe 10% of the prison population.
(Indigenous male people are also overrepresented in Canadian prisons, but not to the same extent.)
Did you know the Canary Islands don’t have any canaries?
Did you know the Virgin Islands don’t have any canaries either?
re: #81 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!
…nearly half of Canada’s incarcerated FEMALE population. Women are maybe 10% of the prison population.
(Indigenous male people are also overrepresented in Canadian prisons, but not to the same extent.)
I feel like we have more in common with Canada than I realized.
It’s the poorest and most abused people who wind up in our prisons too.
re: #81 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!
…nearly half of Canada’s incarcerated FEMALE population. Women are maybe 10% of the prison population.
(Indigenous male people are also overrepresented in Canadian prisons, but not to the same extent.)
Thanks for reading beyond the headline. And then posting.
re: #83 Crush White Nationalism
I feel like we have more in common with Canada than I realized.
It’s the poorest and most abused people who wind up in our prisons too.
We have a similar history when it comes to treating our native populations, yes.
re: #83 Crush White Nationalism
I feel like we have more in common with Canada than I realized.
It’s the poorest and most abused people who wind up in our prisons too.
It can be difficult to discern where the racism and sexism taper off and the classism picks up. Usually I think classism is the basis.
re: #85 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
We have a similar history when it comes to treating our native populations, yes.
That and the populations we imported against their will.
re: #87 Crush White Nationalism
That and the populations we imported against their will.
Who did the Canadians import?
re: #84 wrenchwench
Thanks for reading beyond the headline. And then posting.
Given what I know about prison populations in the US, that headline seemed impossible, so I had to look further. (E.g. last time I checked, men committed more than 90 % of violet crimes in the US. Surely Canadians aren’t that different.)
re: #83 Crush White Nationalism
I feel like we have more in common with Canada than I realized.
It’s the poorest and most abused people who wind up in our prisons too.
I would be surprised to find anywhere in the world where that’s not the case.
re: #89 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!
Given what I know about prison populations in the US, that headline seemed impossible, so I had to look further. (E.g. last time I checked, men committed more than 90 % of violet crimes in the US. Surely Canadians aren’t that different.)
I got stuck in jfc wtf mode. Too much twitter? Doomscrolling?
re: #86 wrenchwench
It can be difficult to discern where the racism and sexism taper off and the classism picks up. Usually I think classism is the basis.
The number of female First Nations billionaire prisoners is probably not exceptional.
re: #62 The Pie Overlord!
He’s just a shitposter who happens to have a shitpile of money.
I’m not surprised at all. That was to inoculate the public. As a prominent vaccine advocate, you should understand that.Yale is the epicenter of the woke mind virus attempting to destroy civilization.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 18, 2022
He’s just gibbering now.
Howard Hughes was never this far gone. It’s true that he isolated himself in his hotel suite, quit cutting his hair or nails, and went naked all the time but he still seemed perfectly rational the few times he spoke to people on the phone and actually did some of the work on Project Azorian.
Elon is still well groomed but other than that he has lost all semblance of sanity. The powers that be need to make damn sure he can’t fuck up SpaceX.
re: #88 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Who did the Canadians import?
Goldie Hawn, Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, Kate Hudson, and Drake all have cottages there.
/Sorry, I misread your post.
BREAKING: Elon Musk responds to #BuffaloMassacre by siding with Tucker Carlson https://t.co/kNcVmqdz7u
— Richard Hine (@richardhine) May 18, 2022
One of the shittiest people in the nation is now in a halfway house rather than prison.
Congratulations Elon musk on winning over the absolute dumbest member of congress pic.twitter.com/EDZwUl5qPT
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) May 18, 2022
It’s amazing that as long as you can find a way to file suit in Texas, you can get the Fifth Circuit to pretty much invalidate anything https://t.co/SAJULhLY0K
— spooky mental haunted house (but funny) (@jesseltaylor) May 18, 2022
re: #88 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Who did the Canadians import?
African slaves, European indentured servants, Chinese to work on the railroads…
After that “White Canada” policies lasted until 1976, although the beginning of the end was before that.
re: #95 Backwoods_Sleuth
Also after the coup attempt. Republicans had to be determined to wreck the nation before he could vote for them. He’s either a dedicated white nationalist and hid that to get rich, or he’s recently gone nuts from absurd Republican propaganda.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 18, 2022
Tomorrow’s Wordle. I call this one Shooting Star Over Mount Fuji.
Wordle 334 4/6
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Every host at Newsmax sweating holding onto their job now that Cawthorn is looking for work.
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) May 18, 2022
re: #98 Backwoods_Sleuth
That idiocy from the 5th circuit looks like something this Supreme Court will support. SOCTUS will probably just go ahead and rule the entire administrative state is unconstitutional.
*SPIT*
Rep. Thomas Massie describes people who decide to have an abortion as “those who would prematurely end the life of their baby.”
“The baby is not the body of the woman that it’s inside of,” he adds. pic.twitter.com/g4QyXqg1wW— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 18, 2022
“We have a choice. We can be the nation that rolls back the clocks, that rolls back the rights of women, and that strips them of their very liberty. Or we can by the nation of choice … freedom is our right to choose” — Rep. McBath pic.twitter.com/THNuzaGniJ
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 18, 2022
someone please, for the love of all that’s holy, explain to Rep. Dan Bishop what a woman is pic.twitter.com/c4ishaLd8w
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 18, 2022
I mentioned the other day that ~115,000 Cubans had left Cuba in the last several months with the intention of goingvto the USA. Mexico, which had previously allowed Cubans to enter without a visa, now requires one. Therefore, Cubans are going to Nicaragua because a visa is not required.
That is background for a story from El Pais today, where thousands of Nicaraguans have fled Nicaragua in the last several months because the Ortega dictatorship is, well, everything you would expect from a dictatorship.The story centers around a human rights lawyer, Pablo Cuevas, who picked up with his entire family and left, choosing to swim the Río Bravo (US Rio Grande) to get into the USA, and a guy in Nicaragua who teaches swim lessons to those who want to try and swim the US-Mexico border.
The warning is clear, though, the river is dangerous. Ten Nicaraguans died in March and April attempting to cross. The Cuevas family was successful and the attorney is now in Florida.
En español:
Acropolis of Athens, Greece.📸 @g_mitropoulos_ https://t.co/6d3miU9csF pic.twitter.com/uJpaw38jTM
— Saga (@KourCostas) May 16, 2022
When I was there in 1979, I spent some time with a local Athenian, and we snuck into the part in the lower right, at night. It wasn’t all lit up like that. Off season, and previous millennium.
I hope the statute of limitations covers me.
Ted Lieu: “Really, the question today is not when does life begin, it’s who makes that decision. Do you want MAGA politicians making that decision, or do you want the woman to make that decision in consultation with her faith and doctor and family?” pic.twitter.com/4dZQj494Kv
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 18, 2022
re: #103 Backwoods_Sleuth
He almost has the right look, but he’ll have to cut the sides a little shorter and narrow the top a little to get the proper fascist Newsmax look.
re: #105 Backwoods_Sleuth
*SPIT*
Doesn’t this authoritarian scumbag who would strip American women of their rights claim to be Libertarian?
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 18, 2022
Steve tells Brad another story that Brad knows didn’t happen like that…. pic.twitter.com/mTNAc34nuf
— In Otter News…. (@In_Otter_News2) May 18, 2022
That looks like the off-ramp: a guarantee from #Finland and #Sweden not to do something they are already not doing; they have no problems making that guarantee and Erdogan declares victory in #Turkey. https://t.co/1ZSahPolSd
— Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) May 18, 2022
re: #108 mmmirele
I mentioned the other day that ~115,000 Cubans had left Cuba in the last several months with the intention of goingvto the USA. Mexico, which had previously allowed Cubans to enter without a visa, now requires one. Therefore, Cubans are going to Nicaragua because a visa is not required.
That is background for a story from El Pais today, where thousands of Nicaraguans have fled Nicaragua in the last several months because the Ortega dictatorship is, well, everything you would expect from a dictatorship.The story centers around a human rights lawyer, Pablo Cuevas, who picked up with his entire family and left, choosing to swim the Río Bravo (US Rio Grande) to get into the USA, and a guy in Nicaragua who teaches swim lessons to those who want to try and swim the US-Mexico border.
The warning is clear, though, the river is dangerous. Ten Nicaraguans died in March and April attempting to cross. The Cuevas family was successful and the attorney is now in Florida.
En español:
I read somewhere (probably twitter, which is not a citation) that Ukrainians are now being directed (by whom???) to enter the US for asylum at airports, not through Mexico.
re: #96 Crush White Nationalism
One of the shittiest people in the nation is now in a halfway house rather than prison.
He’s a shitty person, but by corporate malfeasance standards, he’s a piker. Many people have done far worse than what he did.
re: #112 Crush White Nationalism
I have yet to meet any Libertarian that doesn’t have his eyes light up with glee at the thought of being a warlord or king.
re: #116 JC1
He’s a shitty person, but by corporate malfeasance standards, he’s a piker. Many people have done far worse than what he did.
Still not giving him the album.
This superb lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae),
the male’s tail consists of eight pairs of ornate feathers, which resemble a lyre when erect
it has the most sophisticated voice skills within the animal kingdom, have a listen to this 🔈pic.twitter.com/17o4xmqMT7— Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) May 15, 2022
re: #110 Backwoods_Sleuth
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the question isn’t really “when does life begin?”
There’s people in the hospital right now in need of kidneys, or bone marrow, or part of a liver. People who will die if nobody donates these parts for them.
That doesn’t entitle them to mine. They’re definitely people, their lives are at stake, but it’s still absolutely my call if I want to be selfish or generous with my body and its parts.
re: #120 sagehen
the question isn’t really “when does life begin?”
There’s people in the hospital right now in need of kidneys, or bone marrow, or part of a liver. People who will die if nobody donates these parts for them.
That doesn’t entitle them to mine. They’re definitely people, their lives are at stake, but it’s still absolutely my call if I want to be selfish or generous with my body and its parts.
Life began around 4 billion years ago. Life does not begin at conception, because a dead egg or a dead sperm will not make a living zygote.
re: #120 sagehen
the question isn’t really “when does life begin?”
There’s people in the hospital right now in need of kidneys, or bone marrow, or part of a liver. People who will die if nobody donates these parts for them.
That doesn’t entitle them to mine. They’re definitely people, their lives are at stake, but it’s still absolutely my call if I want to be selfish or generous with my body and its parts.
Bingo. The abortion question is best put as follows: “At what point in a woman’s pregnancy does she become a fetus dispenser with no more rights than any other medical appliance?”
re: #121 BlueSpotinAL
Life began around 4 billion years ago. Life does not begin at conception, because a dead egg or a dead sperm will not make a living zygote.
A unique genetic code is what is created at conception, but life, conception etc. are all red herrings in the abortion wars.
re: #119 Backwoods_Sleuth
Turn off your car alarm!
re: #122 EPR-radar
I do not have a uterus, vagina or two X chromosomes so I’m not the best person to comment on abortion.
But we need to acknowledge the fetus is quite literally connected to (and held within) a womans body. Each can affect the other in a variety of ways.
An abortion discussion predicated on the basis that mother and baby are entirely separate entities is missing the point.
re: #126 Eclectic Cyborg
I do not have a uterus, vagina or two X chromosomes so I’m not the best person to comment on abortion.
But we need to acknowledge the fetus is quite literally connected to (and held within) a womans body. Each can affect the other in a variety of ways.
An abortion discussion predicated on the basis that mother and baby are entirely separate entities is missing the point.
Fanatics want to ban IUDs because they prevent that connection.
re: #126 Eclectic Cyborg
Once it is a baby, it is no longer connected.
re: #128 wrenchwench
Once it is a baby, it is no longer connected.
Once it’s paid its student loans, it’s no longer connected.
For some time, I had toyed with the idea of buying a Tesla. I am glad to see that Elon himself has decisively resolved that conundrum: NO WAY IN HELL.
There are getting to be alot of EVs around, good ones.
re: #130 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
For some time, I had toyed with the idea of buying a Tesla. I am glad to see that Elon himself has decisively resolved that conundrum: NO WAY IN HELL.
There are getting to be alot of EVs around, good ones.
And it’s not like Cletus McSisterfuck is going to buy a Tesla because he likes Musk’s new MAGA makeover.
So Musk is in the process of materially hurting Tesla’s prospects as a company.
re: #132 EPR-radar
And it’s not like Cletus McSisterfuck is going to buy a Tesla because he likes Musk’s new MAGA makeover.
So Musk is in the process of materially hurting Tesla’s prospects as a company.
Tesla is probably fucked, but SpaceX is about big money and big money doesn’t give a damn about what liberals want. They just want more money.
re: #95 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I’m expecting him to either be found with child porn, secretly supplying Russia with technology, or to have killed a girlfriend when he tried to spike her drink with an abortion drug.
It just sounds like he knows something is coming and needs to make it into an attack on him.
re: #120 sagehen
the question isn’t really “when does life begin?”
The question isn’t even about life at all.
The question is when does a fetus become a person.
The rabid religious types wants a zygote to be a person.
It does not make sense unless you believe that some god implants a soul into a zygote.
re: #135 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The question isn’t even about life at all.
The question is when does a fetus become a person.
The rabid religious types wants a zygote to be a person.
It does not make sense unless you believe that some god implants a soul into a zygote.
That’s what the RC bishops say, most of them.
re: #135 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The question isn’t even about life at all.
The question is when does a fetus become a person.
The rabid religious types wants a zygote to be a person.
It does not make sense unless you believe that some god implants a soul into a zygote.
To take it one more step: the rabid religious types want the fetus zygote personhood to count for more than the woman personhood.
Fixt.
re: #135 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The question isn’t even about life at all.
The question is when does a fetus become a person.
The rabid religious types wants a zygote to be a person.
It does not make sense unless you believe that some god implants a soul into a zygote.
No functional forebrain, no hu-main.
re: #138 austin_blue
No functional forebrain, no hu-main.
It’s our definition of “death” because we don’t want to be vivisectionists. Why can’t it be our definition of “life”, too?
re: #139 austin_blue
It’s our definition of “death” because we don’t want to be vivisectionists. Why can’t it be our definition of “life”, too?
They found a ‘heart beat’, they’ll find a stem cell forebrain.
re: #134 Belafon
I’m expecting him to either be found with child porn, secretly supplying Russia with technology, or to have killed a girlfriend when he tried to spike her drink with an abortion drug.
It just sounds like he knows something is coming and needs to make it into an attack on him.
Yeah. A SEC investigation into this whole deal and his manipulation of both Tesla and twitter stocks.
re: #141 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Yeah. A SEC investigation into this whole deal and his manipulation of both Tesla and twitter stocks.
SCOTUS needs a test case to outlaw the SEC, and it would be just perfect for this shitty timeline for a Musk stock manipulation case to be the case used for that.
re: #124 Crush White Nationalism
Turn off your car alarm!
Interesting question!
There is some discussion on what and how lyrebirds do with sounds:.
I did not know the likely answer until I did some looking around. (Of course, with the information on the internet being what it is, I may still not know.)
Lyrebird legends abound, but not all the stories are true. Let’s sort fact from fiction
[There] is a very famous segment of a very famous series called Life of Birds. It stars David Attenborough and it is gorgeous. And it also leads you down the garden path a little, using the magic of television.
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According to analysis from Dr Hollis Taylor from the University of Sydney, the bird in this clip is actually at least two birds, both of whom were raised in captivity.The main one, who mimicked drills, hammers and construction sounds was Chook, who hatched at Healesville Sanctuary and lived out his days at the Adelaide Zoo.
He learnt some of those sounds while the panda enclosure was being built.
*snip*
The keepers at the Adelaide Zoo said everyone was very impressed with Chook’s singing … except for the female lyrebirds, who never once agreed to breed with him based on his anthropogenic mimicry.
*snip*
:(
abc.net.au
Also:
Lyrebirds mimicking chainsaws: fact or lie?
The lyrebird is considered one of Australia’s best-known birds — you might recognise them from our 10 cent coin — but do we really know them? Famed for their spectacular courtship display, you may have seen footage of lyrebirds mimicking human noises such as chainsaws and camera clicks.But do lyrebirds in the wild really mimic chainsaws? Yes, if you search the internet; no, if you read the literature.
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re: #111 Crush White Nationalism
He almost has the right look, but he’ll have to cut the sides a little shorter and narrow the top a little to get the proper fascist Newsmax look.
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I don’t know, his resemblance to Richard Spencer is quite on the nose.
notable they are not bristling about the tragic shooting itself https://t.co/YVosROxfeu
— darth™ (@darth) May 18, 2022
Governor Abbott pressures hospital to close trans clinic.
Doctor who founded the clinic sues, gets clinic reopened.
AG Paxton, fearful of a single trans child making it to adulthood, files to intervene https://t.co/cxVhWlxKpo— Gillian Branstetter (@GBBranstetter) May 18, 2022
A man who recently traveled to Canada was tested for the virus Tuesday, and the infection was confirmed by the CDC on Wednesday, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health said in a statement. https://t.co/KVPcFxapIT
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) May 18, 2022
The CDC is monitoring six Americans for potential monkeypox infection after they shared a flight with a British patient who tested positive for the virus, senior CDC official Jennifer McQuiston told STAT on Tuesday. https://t.co/KVPcFxapIT
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) May 18, 2022
oh…
re: #149 Backwoods_Sleuth
And yet another reason to keep wearing my mask and social distancing.
I am also going to start saying this:
Say that again, but slowly. pic.twitter.com/zg3HQcI8fP
— Jason Selvig (@jasonselvig) May 18, 2022
it isn’t a “choice” if it’s forced motherhood. And she isn’t pro-choice.
— Mark Steven Georgiou🇬🇧 #HumanistBecause (@mark_georgiou) May 18, 2022
Also like…that’s A choice, but it’s not THE choice. A woman can do whatever the fuck she wants, being a mother isn’t necessarily the greatest thing. She could cure cancer or overthrow tyranny. I don’t think it’s a given that being a mom is better than all alternatives.
— Poon Knight (@BeesDont_Tweet) May 18, 2022
What if the woman is supposed to cure cancer?
re: #115 wrenchwench
I read somewhere (probably twitter, which is not a citation) that Ukrainians are now being directed (by whom???) to enter the US for asylum at airports, not through Mexico.
That’s what I would recommend to Ukrainians at this point if they want to come to the US. Don’t go to the Mexican border, the chances are very high that you will be denied entry just because the border is being overwhelmed right now.
Theoretically asylum seekers are supposed to apply in the “first safe state they come to” but as we know from previous and current mass migrations, that’s not how it works out a lot of the time.
re: #123 EPR-radar
A unique genetic code is what is created at conception, but life, conception etc. are all red herrings in the abortion wars.
A unique genetic code is also created when somebody gets a tumor. And identical twins do not have a unique genetic code.
re: #154 jaunte
Stop molesting the monkeys, people.
Fine. I’ll make different plans for the weekend, but I’m not happy.
re: #150 Mike Lamb
We just making up diseases now?
Nope. It’s the real deal.
Monkeypox was first discovered in 1958 when two outbreaks of a pox-like disease occurred in colonies of monkeys kept for research, hence the name ‘monkeypox.’ The first human case of monkeypox was recorded in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of Congo during a period of intensified effort to eliminate smallpox. Since then monkeypox has been reported in humans in other central and western African countries.
re: #156 Crush White Nationalism
Fine. I’ll make different plans for the weekend, but I’m not happy.
Chimpr.
According to the CDC smallpox and monkeypox are sufficiently similar that some smallpox vaccines are effective against monkeypox.
But yes, not messing around with monkeys is also good advice.
Monkeypox and Smallpox Vaccine Guidance
When properly administered before exposure to monkeypox vaccines are effective at protecting people against monkeypox.
ACAM200 and JYNNEOSTM (also known as Imvamune or Imvanex) are the two currently licensed vaccines in the United States to prevent smallpox. JYNNEOS is also licensed specifically to prevent monkeypox.
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re: #133 Crush White Nationalism
Tesla is probably fucked, but SpaceX is about big money and big money doesn’t give a damn about what liberals want. They just want more money.
um…. perhaps we can find a plausible rationale it can be nationalized?
re: #143 EPR-radar
SCOTUS needs a test case to outlaw the SEC, and it would be just perfect for this shitty timeline for a Musk stock manipulation case to be the case used for that.
If this happens, our country is finished. The Federalist Society would have succeeded in its objective and we will devolve into 50 squabbling states. Putin never forgave the West for the disintegration of the Soviet Union and this would be his payback — the United States dying courtesy of the ascendancy of Trumpism and the Federalist Society. It is a nightmare world that faces us: we lived during the brief time that SCOTUS was a force for good and justice, but that time has ended. Our nation is now too divided for any legislative solution.
Or am I being too pessimistic about our resiliency? We are regressing at an accelerated pace and it’s not clear how we can reverse course.
The 5th Circuit just dismantled the SEC’s power to enforce securities law. This decision is beyond radical. It is nihilistic. https://t.co/6X46t2f4vY
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) May 18, 2022
I’m sure it’s fine.
Holy shit. Russian conscripts only get to shoot six rounds for their weapons training?
“During the conscription service, I have been to shooting practices four times, where each time I fired 6 rounds. “— Sean (@sean_s_mc) May 18, 2022
During the conscription service, I have been to shooting practices four times, where each time I fired 6 rounds. Since school, when in the 10th grade we went to military training camps for two weeks, I was amazed, perplexed and surprised - why is it so?! Why are we only allowed to fire 6 rounds? Indeed, in order to ‘feel’ the assault rifle you need at least 15 rounds in a magazine, so the person could shoot 2-4 single rounds and then try bursts of 4-5 rounds. Yet to do it properly, of course everyone needs a whole magazine - 30 rounds! My opinion is that the target shooting with 6 rounds which is en-masse used in Russians army and MIA - is just a mockery of military training!!!
FYI the guy who wrote this got laid off today during the Netflix layoffs if a) you need a stunning copywriter and b) you need proof being good at your job is a safety net https://t.co/13pN0THfLt
— Leila (rhymes with tequila) (@leilaclaire) May 18, 2022
Dinner is ready pic.twitter.com/gVp4NpWRAr
— Liddle Pizza Pie 🇺🇦🌻🌈🍕 (@Pie_Overlord) May 18, 2022
re: #165 The Pie Overlord!
That looks delicious.
re: #163 darthstar
That’s not even remotely adequate for a civilian who practices once a week.
Video from yesterday of the erupting Mt. Etna:
re: #121 BlueSpotinAL
Life began around 4 billion years ago. Life does not begin at conception, because a dead egg or a dead sperm will not make a living zygote.
Oh Jesus! I tried that on the guys at the church who want the state of Arizona to execute women who get abortions and they UTTERLY rejected it. Why? Because another of their beliefs is that God created the world 6,000 years ago, literal Adam & Eve, etc.
Their thinking is absolutely black and white. There are no justifiable killings in their mind. The example we discussed was that of a father who killed a man who he caught on his property sexually assaulting his young daughter. There was, in these guys’ minds, no affirmative defense for this murder (like that the perp was in the act of raping his child). They thought the father should be punished for killing, period. Not even a heat of passion defense was sufficient for these guys. In Texas, “sudden passion” is an affirmative defense. But you can’t sway these asshats.
re: #136 Decatur Deb
That’s what the RC bishops say, most of them.
If I need a religious answer, I prefer Genesis 2:7.
re: #162 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you got ‘til it’s gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot
Big Yellow Taxi
Joni Mitchell
Sorry if this was already posted. Also sorry if it wasn’t already posted.
I asked the AI art tool to create “Jordan Peterson, crying” pic.twitter.com/blDLeGQSGT
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) May 16, 2022
It’s tragicomic to see a man who failed in casting himself as the second Nicholas Tesla attempting now to be the second Donald Trump.
— 𝕄𝕖𝕪𝕖𝕣 𝕃𝕒𝕓𝕚𝕟 (@MeyerLabin) May 18, 2022
re: #135 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The question isn’t even about life at all.
The question is when does a fetus become a person.
The rabid religious types wants a zygote to be a person.
It does not make sense unless you believe that some god implants a soul into a zygote.
And even then it makes no sense, given the percentage of fertilzed ova that fail to implant (around 50 percent in nature). Even more ova implant but fail to send off the hormonal signals which stop menstruation, then there are miscarriages for all sorts of reasons (e.g., embryo or fetus too damaged genetically or otherwise incompatiblewith life). When I’m being heavily sarcastic. I ask why, if life starts at conception, why “God” appears to be the greatest abortionist, since so many conceptions fail.
My other concern is how women are going to be treated as murderers if miscarriage occurs, and everything a woman does is under the microscope. Because you know there’s some “expert” somewhere who thinks a woman eating crackers for morning sickness helped to cause her miscarriage. (Trying to be as weirdly crazy and outrageous as possible, but I know I haven’t got it.)
This will not do.
So… I’ve got COVID. Don’t worry, I’m fine - I’m vaxxed and double-boosted and the symptoms are very mild. But of course this means I unfortunately need to cancel the next couple dates on my tour (Saginaw & Detroit). I’m deeply sorry - we will reschedule those shows ASAP.
— Al Yankovic (@alyankovic) May 18, 2022
I read this over Shabbos pic.twitter.com/3FSorAXaBq
— Real Men of Gaonis 💡 (@GeniusYidden) May 18, 2022
How it began.
Voyager 1 glitch? NASA working to understand strange data from venerable probe
space.com
Among the many other crisis on this planet, apparently Sri Lanka is running out of gasoline:
Fuel stations in the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo dried up, leading to queues forming outside gas stations as the country reels under an unparalleled economic crisis since its independence in 1948 https://t.co/urPnqhvusa pic.twitter.com/IlTzE6KYbT
— Reuters (@Reuters) May 17, 2022
I’ve said it before. Keep an eye on what’s happening in Sri Lanka… https://t.co/3eK1B60BvGhttps://t.co/SXWPHEf18e
— Shawn Donnan (@sdonnan) May 18, 2022
‘RICK AND MORTY: THE ANIME’ is in the works at Adult Swim. pic.twitter.com/WEc5v6LXqs
— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) May 18, 2022
What timing… #DiamondHands Legend of Wall St Betts airs on @MSNBC friday at 11pm…It’s the story of thr GME short squeeze and now the fund that got squeezed is closing shop https://t.co/qg6ISl8kLA
— Stephanie Ruhle (@SRuhle) May 18, 2022
re: #58 ckkatz
In war, a lot is usually unseen. There is, reportedly, a guerrilla war going on in the Kherson region. Here is a glimpse:
Ukraine has no choice. Stop the Russians or Holodomor.
It’s very unlikely that any human involved in the development and launch of the Voyagers is still working.
Festival organizers announced, “While we’re saddened that Jane’s Addiction can no longer join us, we are beyond excited to have Porno For Pyros perform live for the first time in 26 years ON OUR STAGE THIS WEEKEND.”Farrell the offered more insight into why the switch was taking place, revealing that guitarist Dave Navarro’s “long bout with COVID” is keeping him out of action this weekend.
re: #117 Florida Panhandler
I have yet to meet any Libertarian that doesn’t have his eyes light up with glee at the thought of being a warlord or king.
Preferably warlord.
Even kings have some limits on their power.
I know some folks here have had good experiences with Teslas, but Elon’s head start is over. It might behoove him to shut up and get back to work.
Shares of Tesla have plunged again today, over 7% so far. Today’s drop is more about the cars than Musk. Two analysts were critical. One said Volkswagen and other EVs have surpassed Tesla on product quality, Lucid Group has better technology, and GM has a better battery.
— Duty To Warn 🔉 (@duty2warn) May 18, 2022
re: #190 Crush White Nationalism
Dave Navarro contracted COVID in July 2020, long before vaccines were available. Another victim of long COVID.
— miles reed (@milesjreed) May 18, 2022
.@elonmusk I think someone has taken over your tweeter account. Please report,we need to build longer tables, with democrats and republicans of good will coming together to keep building our democracy! But to finger point Democrats for hate…well,obviously you’ve been hacked!🥴 https://t.co/Ia8hOiXkaT
— José Andrés (@chefjoseandres) May 18, 2022
re: #195 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’m a fan of Chef Andres and his work, but there is no such thing as “Republicans of good will”.
re: #194 The Pie Overlord!
Oil prices are around $100 per barrel. That would correspond to prices of around $3 historically. Instead, there’s a premium of over $1 on that.
Why?
Because energy companies and refiners are raking in coin on the spread and the tight supply purposefully limited by them (there’s nothing stopping them from producing more except greed).
Anyone have any experience with dealing with what happens if Amazon delivers your stuff to the wrong address? They snapped the obligatory “we delivered your thing” photo and it’s not remotely my door. It might as well be on the moon for all I know. Apparently I have to wait 24 hours before they’ll deal with me but I’m not hopeful in any case.
Timeline Cleanse: Phoebe got a new bone and she is in heaven. pic.twitter.com/6AfM0I0OZc
— Ellie Hall (@ellievhall) May 18, 2022
So the Reawaken America shindig (goat rodeo) was here this past weekend. Sellout crowds at a 2,000 seat venue. The only article in the local paper is about where Roger Stone had dinner. Heh.
re: #177 sagehen
Not Nicholas, it’s Nikola.
And for all his early genius, he became a total loon later in life.
As Desantis travels around the state handing out millions for projects while criticizing Biden for excessive spending, he never mentions the funds came from Biden’s American Rescue Plan. https://t.co/escjtvnYhG
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) May 18, 2022
re: #201 JC1
I don’t have any particular opinions about Tesla, except that he’s in one of the coolest photographs of all time.
re: #198 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
Anyone have any experience with dealing with what happens if Amazon delivers your stuff to the wrong address? They snapped the obligatory “we delivered your thing” photo and it’s not remotely my door. It might as well be on the moon for all I know. Apparently I have to wait 24 hours before they’ll deal with me but I’m not hopeful in any case.
They always make you wait, and sometimes that neighbor will drop the package at your place. When it’s still missing, you get a replacement or a refund.
re: #204 Crush White Nationalism
They always make you wait, and sometimes that neighbor will drop the package at your place. When it’s still missing, you get a replacement or a refund.
Yup. I and a neighbor, who is one block away and 1 digit different than my street address, have been notifying each other of the receipt of misdirected packages and returning them for years now.
That has encompassed all but two of my missing packages.
One of those was accidentally delivered to my next door neighbor when I received their package by mistake. And the second mysteriously showed up at my door 4 days after it was supposedly delivered to me.
Speaking of the America First MAGA Crowd
Maybe not America First, but definitely America Top Five or Top Ten Max https://t.co/0Ng2ZooIHk
— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn) May 17, 2022
5 years ago today:
I see that Roger Ailes has died. I won’t speak ill of the dead but did they take the precaution of driving a stake through his heart when he kicked off?
re: #130 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
For some time, I had toyed with the idea of buying a Tesla. I am glad to see that Elon himself has decisively resolved that conundrum: NO WAY IN HELL.
There are getting to be a lot of EVs around, good ones.
All of the times I’ve said I wont buy a Tesla because Elon Musk is garbage, and the company has issues even without considering him… well I see people are starting to finally get it.
Tesla is going to eventually be the IPhone of Cars. EVs for tech bros and hipsters that don’t actually want a car, but a rolling app platform that they can show off to everyone. A device that can’t be repaired, costs a fortune, is designed to be replaced every couple of years, and is a few years behind on new tech while pretending they are cutting edge (They haven’t quite got here yet but when *everyone* is making EVs this will happen).
Don’t forget those who think that they can make more money by selling out the US:
Subtle distinctions between those who oppose Ukraine aid because they affirmatively admire and support Putin, those who oppose the aid because they hate the West and want it to lose, and those who oppose the aid for the crass partisan reason that Biden is doing it.
— David Frum (@davidfrum) May 13, 2022
Such as:
And another one this morning. https://t.co/jgwP9UyHkU
— David Frum (@davidfrum) May 17, 2022
re: #201 JC1
And for all his early genius, he became a total loon later in life.
Rather famously he had severe OCD and rarely slept.
After a while, it just fries your neurons.
He died almost broke in a cheap NYC Hotel. The room number, like everywhere he lived, was divisible by three.
re: #208 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion
Hey… my iPhone 8 has been working for years, with no problems at all, knock wood. Same with the ones before that. Never had one give me any trouble. I have upgraded from time to time to get better photos.
re: #204 Crush White Nationalism
If I’m to rely on the good will of the neighbor(?) in question, I’ll certainly never see the item. It’s a $20 elbow brace and I need the item more than I need the $20 I spent on it, so you’d think a mistaken recipient wouldn’t find it worth keeping. You’d be wrong. My neighbors are more likely to try to trade it for heroin than return it to me. So it goes.
re: #208 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion
All of the times I’ve said I wont buy a Tesla because Elon Musk is garbage, and the company has issues even without considering him… well I see people are starting to finally get it.
Tesla is going to eventually be the IPhone of Cars. EVs for tech bros and hipsters that don’t actually want a car, but a rolling app platform that they can show off to everyone. A device that can’t be repaired, costs a fortune, is designed to be replaced every couple of years, and is a few years behind on new tech while pretending they are cutting edge (They haven’t quite got here yet but when *everyone* is making EVs this will happen).
EVs have much higher reliability than ICE cars. Far fewer moving parts, etc. I’ll still probably get a cyber truck, despite Elon’s antics.
re: #210 austin_blue
Rather famously he had severe OCD and rarely slept.
After a while, it just fries your neurons.
He died almost broke in a cheap NYC Hotel. The room number, like everywhere he lived, was divisible by three.
It was actually a nice room in the Waldorf Astoria. Westinghouse kept paying for it.
re: #213 JC1
EVs have much higher reliability than ICE cars. Far fewer moving parts, etc. I’ll still probably get a cyber truck, despite Elon’s antics.
Let’s just say you get a cracked headlight or taillight in that, or the DIC/Infotainment system breaks or the touch screen gets cracked.
Let me know how it takes to get that fixed, because I’ve heard nothing but horror stories.
re: #213 JC1
EVs have much higher reliability than ICE cars. Far fewer moving parts, etc. I’ll still probably get a cyber truck, despite Elon’s antics.
That was a major selling point for electrics back in the horseless carriage days. An IC car had to be cranked to start, which could be downright dangerous if the engine backfired and twisted the crank back on an inattentive driver. They were also cantankerous, smelly, and prone to breakdowns. In the electric, you just turned a switch and drove away. The electric’s range, typically 25 miles, was as much as many IC cars were likely to manage before they broke down. For a while it looked like either one, IC or electric, could become dominant in the future. Then IC technology began to advance by leaps and bounds, while electric remained stagnant for the best part of a hundred years.
Martin Shkreli, the so-called “pharma bro” who was widely criticized for raising the price of a lifesaving AIDS drug, has been released from federal prison https://t.co/aAoAE1F7PO
— Anthony DeRosa (@Anthony) May 18, 2022
re: #213 JC1
If I had infinite money I might consider getting one, but I think ICE cars are far too mechanically and electronically complex as it is. I can’t even imagine what it would be like to find out that your car won’t run at all because the fucking fart temperature sensor in the passenger seat is burned out.
re: #145 BeachDem
I don’t know, his resemblance to Richard Spencer is quite on the nose.
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Not quite “on the nose” but hopefully soon.
Three days after the shooting that authorities have said was motivated by racist ideology, Cruz tweeted: “Over 2 million illegal aliens streamed across the border last year. This is an invasion we’re seeing because Joe Biden refuses to enforce the law!” ⬇️https://t.co/md59s0a2W6
— Houston Chronicle (@HoustonChron) May 18, 2022
The attacks have led to calls for public officials to cool it with that kind of talk.
In a speech in Buffalo on Tuesday, @POTUS called white supremacy a “poison … running through our body politic.” ⬇️https://t.co/md59s0a2W6— Houston Chronicle (@HoustonChron) May 18, 2022
Patrick’s argument is part of a conspiracy theory known as The Great Replacement.
The theory — embraced by white supremacists and far-right nationalists — holds that minority ethnic groups are engaged in a plot to take power from whites. ⬇️https://t.co/md59s0a2W6— Houston Chronicle (@HoustonChron) May 18, 2022
re: #217 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
That was a major selling point for electrics back in the horseless carriage days. An IC car had to be cranked to start, which could be downright dangerous if the engine backfired and twisted the crank back on an inattentive driver. They were also cantankerous, smelly, and prone to breakdowns. In the electric, you just turned a switch and drove away. The electric’s range, typically 25 miles, was as much as many IC cars were likely to manage before they broke down. For a while it looked like either one, IC or electric, could become dominant in the future. Then IC technology began to advance by leaps and bounds, while electric remained stagnant for the best part of a hundred years.
Too bad they didn’t have the batteries we have today. If IC hadn’t taken off, there would be a lot less lead in the bodies of Americans today.
re: #222 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Republicans keep gibbering about a migrant “invasion” like it was an Oklahoma Land Rush.
re: #224 The Pie Overlord!
Republicans keep gibbering about a migrant “invasion” like it was an Oklahoma Land Rush.
It’s more like the shape-up on the docks, where a hundred guys show up for 50 chances to unload coffee for a day.
re: #217 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
That was a major selling point for electrics back in the horseless carriage days. An IC car had to be cranked to start, which could be downright dangerous if the engine backfired and twisted the crank back on an inattentive driver. They were also cantankerous, smelly, and prone to breakdowns. In the electric, you just turned a switch and drove away. The electric’s range, typically 25 miles, was as much as many IC cars were likely to manage before they broke down. For a while it looked like either one, IC or electric, could become dominant in the future. Then IC technology began to advance by leaps and bounds, while electric remained stagnant for the best part of a hundred years.
My Grandfather, born in 1890 on a Missouri farm and who became an engineer for Massey Ferguson in the 1920’s and 1930’s, mentioned that issue to me at one point.
After living through two world wars, the Great Depression, and the Robber Barons, he did not have a lot of respect for the ruling corporate elite. And his view was that the migration to internal combustion engine rather than all electric was a fix by big oil.
DOGS CAN NOT READ
THIS PARK MUST BE FREED
CASE CLOSE https://t.co/nP3JpA3p4J— darth™ (@darth) May 18, 2022
CM PUNK making a statement tonight with an “Abortion Rights Are Human Rights!” t-shirt on #AEWDynamite. pic.twitter.com/d3mrkbGHMm
— Denise ‘Hollywood It Girl’ Salcedo (@_denisesalcedo) May 19, 2022
re: #220 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
If I had infinite money I might consider getting one, but I think ICE cars are far too mechanically and electronically complex as it is. I can’t even imagine what it would be like to find out that your car won’t run at all because the fucking fart temperature sensor in the passenger seat is burned out.
I prefer the level of computer control in a car to be such that “rebooting your car” or the “car having a blue screen of death” are not possible. Anecdotally, it seems that Tesla is crossing this line.
President Biden on Thursday will welcome the Prime Minister of Sweden and the President of Finland to the White House as both countries look to join NATO, according to @PressSec.
— Kate Sullivan (@KateSullivanDC) May 17, 2022
Teh Stupids Burns
Eric says Biden couldn’t have won the 2020 election because he has less twitter followers than his dad had while in office. pic.twitter.com/cxcNL61zyV
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) May 19, 2022
🤦♂️
Eric says Biden couldn’t have won the 2020 election because he has less twitter followers than his dad had while in office. pic.twitter.com/cxcNL61zyV
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) May 19, 2022
re: #226 ckkatz
My Grandfather, born in 1890 on a Missouri farm and who became an engineer for Massey Ferguson in the 1920’s and 1930’s, mentioned that issue to me at one point.
After living through two world wars, the Great Depression, and the Robber Barons, he did not have a lot of respect for the ruling corporate elite. And his view was that the migration to internal combustion engine rather than all electric was a fix by big oil.
For many years the only people pushing large, high capacity propulsion battery research were the navies of the world who needed them for submerged submarine operation. A 2001 lead acid battery is only incrementally more efficient that a 1901 example.
re: #231 The Pie Overlord!
Yes, Eric Trump is the stupidest of the Trump spawn. He tries to make a point online, and all he produces are clown honking noises.
re: #233 Crush White Nationalism
President Joe Biden invokes Defense Production Act to address infant formula shortage (UPI via MSN)
From yesterday:
Nestle confirms to me that it’s rushing formula into the US by air. Spokesperson says they’re sending Gerber Good Start Extensive HA from the Netherlands + Alfamino from Switzerland “bc they serve a critical medical purpose as they are for babies w/ cow’s milk protein allergies”
— Jo Ling Kent (@jolingkent) May 17, 2022
re: #231 The Pie Overlord!
Teh Stupids Burns
Our former President and his rotten kids keep lying their asses off to try to undermine our democracy, and a lot of foolish people want to believe them so much that they just go along with it. He’s right, this country is in serious trouble because of his awful family.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) May 19, 2022
re: #235 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
For many years the only people pushing large, high capacity propulsion battery research were the navies of the world who needed them for submerged submarine operation. A 2001 lead acid battery is only incrementally more efficient that a 1901 example.
I must admit that I am highly impressed at how quickly battery technology has improved over the past two decades.
I’m not expert in this area, so cannot say whether some of those advances could have come earlier. But I do wonder.
re: #237 ckkatz
From yesterday:
It’s good to have a competent executive branch. Imagine the grifting clusterfuck if the failed former President was still in office. Do you know how much mothers will pay to keep their babies alive? This is a goldmine!
re: #237 ckkatz
From yesterday:
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This is another one of those “Observe a right wing talking point die in front of your very eyes” situations.
The formula problem has about 3-4 weeks left in it and then they will be on to something else.
Clownstick will still bring it up in 6 months as if it’s current and will literally say
“I just read/heard” or his other favorite “They just said…” who are ‘they’… don’t know.
Wait, what?
GOP screamed about the baby formula shortage and is now voting against fixing it? https://t.co/kNKFzP3Tsw— Grace Lidia Suárez (@gracels) May 19, 2022
but, of course…
This may have been mentioned earlier on lgf:
It’s crazy how every single thread you pull related to these people’s finances leads you to evidence of corruption on an absolutely immense scale. https://t.co/O1wrglOkGK
— Gabe Lezra (@GabeLezra) May 17, 2022
re: #219 Backwoods_Sleuth
Such a punchable face.
re: #213 JC1
EVs have much higher reliability than ICE cars. Far fewer moving parts, etc. I’ll still probably get a cyber truck, despite Elon’s antics.
Why get a Cybertruck, which, in part because of Elon’s penchant for fucking with shit, I think will never be actually for sale as it is and may end up being nothing more than a concept/tech demo, when you have electric pickups available that are being produced now or in the fall?
Tesla’s no longer the only practical EV choice, because there are options aplenty, from mild to wild. Just in pickups available now/very soon, there’s Ford’s F-150 Lightning (the “mild”, being the one most like a “typical” mass-market ICE pickup, because it mostly is), GM’s revived Hummer EV pickup and SUV line (the “wild”), and Rivian’s R1T (kind of in-between, but leaning towards “wild”).
Fuck Elon Musk… if he were on fire, I wouldn’t piss on him to put it out.
re: #223 Crush White Nationalism
Too bad they didn’t have the batteries we have today. If IC hadn’t taken off, there would be a lot less lead in the bodies of Americans today.
I read a book by Edwin Black that implied that there was a conspiracy against electric cars by the oil interests (or interest, singular, since this was in Standard Oil’s time.)
The evidence was that Edison had developed a new kind of battery technology, likely a new chemical formulation. The factory burned mysteriously. To me, the reader, it seemed much like the trolley conspiracy that would happen 30 years later.
re: #244 Colère Tueur de Lapin
How are you guys doing?
I seem to remember that your area and that of Ms Kayden got badly hit in the last batch of thunderstorms that rolled through Maryland on Monday -
‘Teacup size’ hail pelted Maryland on Monday. Here’s how.
An intense thunderstorm tore across Northern Virginia and Southern Maryland on Monday, unleashing bursts of damaging winds and hail. Some of the hail was large — almost as big as we ever see in the Washington region.
re: #162 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
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Oh, so we’re not backsliding. We’re just at the gallows and Trumpist judges are pulling the lever. Literally all but declaring the federal government illegal.
For many years, the UK was by far the largest user of electric road vehicles, mostly milk floats.
When I was a very small boy in England in the early 50s, our milkman, and many others, had a horsedrawn cart. They had all switched to electrics within a few years and now the milk float is quickly going the way of the horse cart as home delivery disappears. COVID and the resugence of grocery delivery may have stopped or even reversed this process, though most operators use conventional vans or light trucks.
The sad, pathetic look on his face almost made me think about feeling bad for a second. pic.twitter.com/gEaZlw6Hv9
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) May 19, 2022
re: #248 Citizen K
Oh, so we’re not backsliding. We’re just at the gallows and Trumpist judges are pulling the lever. Literally all but declaring the federal government illegal.
If Republicans think this will only affect “liberal” regulations, they are kidding themselves. Something as fundamental as this is going to fuck up A LOT of shit!
So, how much shit can Hawthorne stir up between now and next January?
re: #241 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion
The formula problem has about 3-4 weeks left in it and then they will be on to something else.
The Buffalo massacre is pretty much already out of the commentary except for the usual “it’s the guns” and “it’s mental illness” point-missing.
re: #250 Backwoods_Sleuth
Also, take a look at the sign in the very top left of that photo.
I had this Cheryl Tiegs poster up for a few weeks before my mom tore it down, so I replaced it with the more wholesome one on the right. True story. pic.twitter.com/xHNHZ9YCD9
— Gocart Mozart (@EdMix13) May 19, 2022
So, a self-scrolling mouse? https://t.co/9j5iCMTexO
— Liddle Pizza Pie 🇺🇦🌻🌈🍕 (@Pie_Overlord) May 19, 2022
Ruh-roh…
9-yr-old son: It’s called WHERE THE RED FERN GROWS. It’s about this boy and his two red dogs. It’s a fun story! I have two chapters left. Don’t tell me how it ends!
— Daniel Bunn (@DanielBunnJr) May 18, 2022
What’s the difference between UFO sightings and sexual abuse?
…
If Jim Jordan saw a UFO he’d report it.— Matt Dionis (@MattDionis) May 17, 2022
re: #257 The Pie Overlord!
But, the charging port is on the bottom of the car…
*referencing major Linus Tech Tips gripe with the Apple rechargeable mice for years*
No windows? Most of us will get car sick. What are they thinking?
— Subway Redline (@SubwayRiderGuy) May 19, 2022
re: #257 The Pie Overlord!
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So, the VR will be sold separately, that way, when something goes wrong, you will be forced to by the next VR system that won’t be compatible with the old car, forcing you to buy a new one.
And in economic news today. Probably still too early to be certain. But the trend looks good:
Ruinous for Russia’s bid to maintain oil production at 10 million barrels per day.
● Output had already fallen to 9.16 million b/d since invasion and will inevitably stagnate due to a lack of investment and technology for hard-to-recover reserves. #OOTT https://t.co/rNExlHSKV1— Jason Corcoran (@jason_corcoran) May 18, 2022
re: #262 Belafon
So, the VR will be sold separately, that way, when something goes wrong, you will be forced to by the next VR system that won’t be compatible with the old car, forcing you to buy a new one.
I’m still wondering what the backup plan is when the VR goes out and you are in the middle of nowhere. (Or, when I described a current location as that, as one Brit in his clipped accent noted: “Oh no. That’s miles from here.”)
This is Hongseol. She just started blossoming. Not sure what’s going to happen next but she welcomes it. 13/10 pic.twitter.com/AzcMEeVOPD
— WeRateDogs® (@dog_rates) May 19, 2022
re: #261 Rightwingconspirator
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They aren’t. Apple designing cars is like Frito Lay designing rockets.
re: #245 TedStriker
Why get a Cybertruck, which, in part because of Elon’s penchant for fucking with shit, I think will never be actually for sale as it is and may end up being nothing more than a concept/tech demo, when you have electric pickups available that are being produced now or in the fall?
Tesla’s no longer the only practical EV choice, because there are options aplenty, from mild to wild. Just in pickups available now/very soon, there’s Ford’s F-150 Lightning (the “mild”, being the one most like a “typical” mass-market ICE pickup, because it mostly is), GM’s revived Hummer EV pickup and SUV line (the “wild”), and Rivian’s R1T (kind of in-between, but leaning towards “wild”).
Fuck Elon Musk… if he were on fire, I wouldn’t piss on him to put it out.
I’ll only get it if the body is actually made from stainless steel and if they actually make the windows bulletproof. Just think that it’d be neat to own a Blade Runner/Mad Max tank. Maybe just too many hours playing Cyberpunk 2077 lol.
Yeah, I don’t know what’s going on here with Madison now. pic.twitter.com/PfAF63lR8N
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) May 19, 2022
re: #266 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion
They aren’t. Apple designing cars is like Frito Lay designing rockets.
For example, VR technology to replace windows is just pants-on-head stupid.
Nothing could be worth introducing entirely new and catastrophic failure modes into the design.
re: #261 Rightwingconspirator
One of the most ridiculous product designs ever — no — never — forget it.
re: #264 ckkatz
I’m still wondering what the backup plan is when the VR goes out and you are in the middle of nowhere. (Or, when I described a current location as that, as one Brit in his clipped accent noted: “Oh no. That’s miles from here.”)
Or how about when the VR goes tits up while you’re driving on a freeway at 70+ MPH.
re: #271 EPR-radar
Yup, that could definitely put a big dent in your day that won’t buff out.
re: #269 EPR-radar
For example, VR technology to replace windows is just pants-on-head stupid.
Nothing could be worth introducing entirely new and catastrophic failure modes into the design.
You just need a can of spray paint. The cameras are going to be in specific places, probably two or three. Even losing one camera will cripple it.
This Is The Greatest Freudian Slip of All Time and Will Never be Topped.
Former President George W. Bush: “The decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq. I mean of Ukraine.” pic.twitter.com/UMwNMwMnmX
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) May 19, 2022
re: #272 ckkatz
Yup, that could definitely put a big dent in your day that won’t buff out.
To be fair, this looks like part of the self-driving car dream, and it is true that a 100% self driving car would have no need of windows.
But that’s a long way off, IMO.
re: #264 ckkatz
I’m still wondering what the backup plan is when the VR goes out and you are in the middle of nowhere. (Or, when I described a current location as that, as one Brit in his clipped accent noted: “Oh no. That’s miles from here.”)
I’m imagining the VR system going out on 635 here in Dallas during rush hour. At least you won’t see what killed you.
re: #257 The Pie Overlord!
Popular with The Undead.
Today’s perfectly sane post from Twitter’s billionaire would-be owner. Remember, kids: being awake is BAD. pic.twitter.com/DisEDqMuMl
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 19, 2022
re: #211 retired cynic
Hey… my iPhone 8 has been working for years, with no problems at all, knock wood. Same with the ones before that. Never had one give me any trouble. I have upgraded from time to time to get better photos.
I’m still using my iPhone 6 but it no longer can handle LGF over about 50 comments.
re: #275 EPR-radar
To be fair, this looks like part of the self-driving car dream, and it is true that a 100% self driving car would have no need of windows.
But that’s a long way off, IMO.
You wouldn’t need VR either.
Living in Weimar America is always… intense.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 19, 2022
Heh. American Idol is our version.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 19, 2022
re: #278 Charles Johnson
Musk is right. Yale University is the epicenter of the virus attempting to destroy civilization: that is where in 1982, right wing legal fanatics assembled to establish the Federalist Society. And our country has been on a downhill trajectory since then.
The original quote from the asshole
“In the past I voted Democrat, because they were (mostly) the kindness party. But they have become the party of division & hate, so I can no longer support them,” he wrote. “Now, watch their dirty tricks campaign against me unfold,” he added with a popcorn emoji.
He rages against the people right-wing assholes hate.
Musk’s Wednesday announcement followed a series of outraged tweets he had made earlier in the day, lashing out against “phony social justice warriors” and the “leftist agenda.”
Here he backpedals
The news made formal what Musk had implied during a conference on Monday, when he declared himself a moderate who had historically “voted overwhelmingly for Democrats” but said he would vote for at least some Republicans in the upcoming election.
This is what Musk lost his mind and alienated customers over. The man has no self-control.
The cause of his ire: Tesla was removed from a stock market index that includes companies dedicated to “ESG,” an acronym for the environment, social issues like diversity and inclusion, and corporate governance.
Fuck this guy.
re: #253 Cheechako
So, how much shit can Hawthorne stir up between now and next January?
Hawthhorne and the rest of the current hard right clownshoes represent the comedy portion of our right wing tantrum.
The next wave will be the more serious, more disciplined fascists. They mean to take the country over and they mean business. Our media and corporate culture is already adjusting to their rule. Americans must prepare for civil action like general strikes and civil disobedience.
It’s hard to imagine a worse person trying to buy Twitter. OK, maybe one, but he didn’t have the bucks.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 19, 2022
re: #233 Crush White Nationalism
President Joe Biden invokes Defense Production Act to address infant formula shortage (UPI via MSN)
Senator Josh Hawley (R-Kremlin) called for invoking the DPA last week. He wanted to use it to re-open the contaminated Abbott plant in defiance of the FDA’s protocols rather than ramp up imports.
Has Biden explored using the Defense Production Act to reopen the formula plant his FDA closed, or is he going to continue to just sit around
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) May 12, 2022
Interesting point.
The stimulus for the pandemic stricken economy may have a recession as it wears off. That might have some major political consequences.
The short and shallow recession of 1990-91 lasted only about 8 months. But unemployment kept rising for a year after the recession ended - and did not return to 1990 level until the mid-1990s. Despite the recovery that begin in summer 1991, the incumbent president lost in 1992
— David Frum (@davidfrum) May 18, 2022
Here is the moment Bill Clinton successfully utilized that to win the 1992 presidential election:
It sure looks like the back half of the retail bullwhip is here…
The big shift away from pandemic consumption is here, and it’s happening fast, leading to surging inventories, falling trucking rates and of course a huge plunge for $TGT, $WMT $COST etc. https://t.co/2DDFaIcx4Y pic.twitter.com/ZZHsTom2bW— Joe Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) May 18, 2022
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“.. a staggering 68% of CEOs surveyed by The Conference Board expect the Fed’s war on inflation will eventually trigger a recession.”
(via @MattEganCNN) https://t.co/xdGDZTA5D6— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla) May 18, 2022
re: #287 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Senator Josh Hawley (R-Kremlin) called for invoking the DPA last week. He wanted to use it to re-open the contaminated Abbott plant in defiance of the FDA’s protocols rather than ramp up imports.
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I’m curious as to how emergency production would help cleaning up a bacteriological nightmare?
Producing more bleach or some stupid shit like that?
Oh yeah right, Josh Hawley is a stupid fucktard and MAGAts don’t know how anything works. Right… sorry… carry on.
re: #290 Decatur Deb
Defense Production Act.
MRE Formula.
But wasn’t that already rejected by the Ethiopians?
re: #291 ckkatz
But wasn’t that already rejected by the Ethiopians?
How are they going to open the foil packets?—they got no teeth.
re: #292 Decatur Deb
How are they going to open the foil packets?—they got no teeth.
Are you saying that they were foiled?
re: #289 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion
I’m curious as to how emergency production would help cleaning up a bacteriological nightmare?
Producing more bleach or some stupid shit like that?
Oh yeah right, Josh Hawley is a stupid fucktard and MAGAts don’t know how anything works. Right… sorry… carry on.
Far as I can tell, Hawley honest-to-God wanted to re-open the plant and send out contaminated formula. After all, only a handful of babies had died. That’s nothing for a party that sacrificed tens of thousands for their right to keep eating at Applebee’s.
re: #249 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
For many years, the UK was by far the largest user of electric road vehicles, mostly milk floats.
When I was a very small boy in England in the early 50s, our milkman, and many others, had a horsedrawn cart. They had all switched to electrics within a few years and now the milk float is quickly going the way of the horse cart as home delivery disappears. COVID and the resugence of grocery delivery may have stopped or even reversed this process, though most operators use conventional vans or light trucks.[Embedded content]
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re: #291 ckkatz
But wasn’t that already rejected by the Ethiopians?
The humanitarian rations are really quite good if plain and vegetarian. They were designed because regular MREs are not going to be good for starving people and can be kosher easier.
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re: #235 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
For many years the only people pushing large, high capacity propulsion battery research were the navies of the world who needed them for submerged submarine operation. A 2001 lead acid battery is only incrementally more efficient that a 1901 example.
True. And when a submarine hull was breached, the saltwater hitting the battery battery (heh) just went bzzzt and everybody died.
re: #11 Dangerman
Plus we are 5x the size and elections are administered by the states so 50+ systems
Five times the size is just bullshit.
Five times the size means five times the resources to count.
The 50+ systems is the beginning of the understanding.
US elections are absurdly hard to count.
That’s a fact.
You can decide why that is. I have my opinion, but it is not my problem.
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