Seth takes a closer look at damning new documentary footage of key Trump ally Roger Stone discussing plans for a violent coup to overturn the 2020 election and the January 6 committee debating some of its biggest unanswered questions including whether to subpoena Mike Pence or Trump himself.
As if that isn’t inclusive enough, Javeno just set the world record for the most people with disabilities in an exercise class! pic.twitter.com/9L2TUgZx8m
— Goodable (@Goodable) September 28, 2022
Sad to hear this.
Coolio, the Grammy-winning rapper, producer and actor best known for his 1995 hit “Gangsta’s Paradise,” has died. He was 59.https://t.co/SvyUj9qX2d pic.twitter.com/Lbi80ablSO
— Variety (@Variety) September 29, 2022
Haha.
And Margarine Tater-Greens hubby has filed for divorce. Apparently he wasn’t as enamored of her Tantric Spirit Guides as she was.
Tough being a Yard Boy in Northwest Georgia, innit?
re: #4 A Cranky One
Haha.
Gee, it’s almost like the entire thing was a giant pyramid scam, and now they’ve run out of rubes to fleece.
BREAKING: Biden sending Ben Shapiro to Florida to dry up all the moisture.
— Brian Guest (@brguest20) September 28, 2022
Apparently the former guy’s lawyers have filed their airing of grievances “response” to the DOJ’s motion in which they informed Dearie that no vendor would contract with the former guy or his team, and needed to amend the schedule so they could select a vendor themselves.
Trump’s answer to the government’s latest discovery motion in his Mar-a-Lago special master case is a shrieking pile of garbage. Shocker!https://t.co/qiHSwzLGVA pic.twitter.com/5ik5S29FIm
— Liz Dye (@5DollarFeminist) September 29, 2022
re: #1 austin_blue
My fear is that he is like the proverbial cockroach after a nuclear war
Well damn. Naples, Florida took it in the neck. Kristen (principal bassoon) and Matt, (principal trumpet) are members of the Naples Symphony Orchestra. Old friends. We are ginning up the jungle telegraph to get ahold of them (and other members of that Orchestra we know) to offer aid and refuge.
This storm is horrific in scope, and this is just Day One. Their problem may be even getting here.
re: #8 Dopamine Fish
Apparently the former guy’s lawyers have filed their
airing of grievances“response” to the DOJ’s motion in which they informed Dearie that no vendor would contract with the former guy or his team, and needed to amend the schedule so they could select a vendor themselves.
“Shrieking pile of garbage” is a decent descriptor of the former guy himself.
— Darren Simmons (@mathman_85) September 29, 2022
re: #9 TarHellion
My fear is that he is like the proverbial cockroach after a nuclear war
Well his personality and social graces certainly lends credence to that fear, much like Stave Bannon, who keeps going out in public wearing that Rotting Corpse Fat Suit™.
re: #10 austin_blue
Just tell me that Biden has a FEMA director who does more than a helluva job
re: #8 Dopamine Fish
Apparently the former guy’s lawyers have filed their
airing of grievances“response” to the DOJ’s motion in which they informed Dearie that no vendor would contract with the former guy or his team, and needed to amend the schedule so they could select a vendor themselves.[Embedded content]
When will Dearie be ruling on this? Could he declare judgement against Trump and end this now?
re: #14 Hecuba’s daughter
Dearie should say, “Kiss my ass. The government will guarantee it, and you will pay them back.”
re: #14 Hecuba’s daughter
When will Dearie be ruling on this? Could he declare judgement against Trump and end this now?
I believe he set a deadline to finish the document review in October.
This is Igor Klymenko.
When Russia invaded Ukraine, he designed a drone system that could scan above and below the ground for Russian landmines. He just won the Global Student Prize worth $100,000 for his invention.
He’s 17.
🇺🇦 pic.twitter.com/2Uupc8dFxC— Goodable (@Goodable) September 28, 2022
Now that NFT’s have joined tulip bulbs in the history of market bubbles based on worthless (or near worthless) products, is it too much to hope that the same fate will befall crypto? Or does crypto have sufficient real value in facilitating criminal exchanges to allow its continued existence?
re: #16 No Malarkey!
I believe he set a deadline to finish the document review in October.
The executive privilege matter was supposed to have been resolved by this Friday; it sounds like the government is moving to push that back by a week due to the delay in getting a vendor to work with the former guy. TFG claims, by the way, that the reason a vendor won’t work with him is because there are 200,000 pages of documents across the 11,000 documents repossessed, which sounds like rather an undercount for government documents, but also just a flat-out excuse. Neither Dearie nor the government would suggest that they could set such an ambitious schedule if they didn’t already have a sense of the pace at which such a review could proceed.
re: #17 austin_blue
That’s more than a solid resume! And she has served all over the country.
Much better than being a horse trainer - which, of course, is an admirable position. Just not one to lead a crisis response to a Cat 5 hurricane in America’s most vulnerable city.
re: #19 Hecuba’s daughter
Now that NFT’s have joined tulip bulbs in the history of market bubbles based on worthless (or near worthless) products, is it too much to hope that the same fate will befall crypto? Or does crypto have sufficient real value in facilitating criminal exchanges to allow its continued existence?
Cyrpto is going to die a slow death. It is a solution for a problem that doesn’t exist.
Good news! Kristen, Matt, their bebe (who I think is like 16 now) have evacuated to her sister’s home to the SE, Miami way. And Kevin, the Principal bassist, is also well-away.
Thank Dog. One always worries about one’s one degree of separations.
re: #23 austin_blue
Good news! Kristen, Matt, their bebe (who I think is like 16 now) have evacuated to her sister’s home to the SE, Miami way. And Kevin, the Principal bassist, is also well-away.
Thank Dog. One always worries about one’s one degree of separations.
And isn’t it lovely that Facebook can serve a useful purpose?
Aaron Judge has hit home run number 61! pic.twitter.com/VLtIVIR7PG
— Talkin’ Yanks (@TalkinYanks) September 29, 2022
re: #21 TarHellion
That’s more than a solid resume! And she has served all over the country.
Much better than being a horse trainer - which, of course, is an admirable position. Just not one to lead a crisis response to a Cat 5 hurricane in America’s most vulnerable city.
I was an e-mail colleague of Deanne’s when a bunch of ER coordinators got together after Katrina and shared stories about what we had seen and experienced (I got sent to La because I lived there for ten years and knew the City of NO and the bird’s foot delta- West Bank- intimately). I never imagined I would see a shrimp boat sitting on top of a school building.
re: #18 Patricia Kayden
Glory to Ukraine. Not all heroes are made on the battlefield.
— Slava Ukrayini! (@aagcobb1) September 29, 2022
Ohio Republican J.R. Majewski, who’s based his congressional campaign around his military service, says the Air Force punished him for getting into a fight. Military documents obtained by AP give a different account, citing drunken driving on an air base. https://t.co/ivEePD6uXx
— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) September 28, 2022
re: #25 HRH Stanley Sea
Boom. Good for Mr. Judge.
— td1439 (@td1439) September 28, 2022
Confirmation of good journalism and I can’t believe that horrible small man was our president https://t.co/xGcZhaDEFS
— 🇺🇦Paula Chertok🗽🇺🇦 (@PaulaChertok) September 29, 2022
re: #34 jaunte
Such a petty, petty small man. And his daughter is doing all she can to further embarrass his legacy. I did not vote for McCain, but one can never doubt he served his country beyond parallel and deeply loved his homeland.
This fictional tech support log is amusing:
Tech support log: Bannon’s ankle monitor is causing mic feedback and speaker distortion. Persuaded Bannon to wear five pairs of pants to go with five shirts, in exchange for bottle of denatured alcohol. Interference averted .5 hourshttps://t.co/Yc61YpG3W1
— FullAndAccurateHat (@Popehat) September 28, 2022
He needed to complain about President Biden because, while Biden promised him all of the aid he needed, he didn’t give him the one thing he really wanted: an endorsement for his reelection.
— Sean (@sean_s_mc) September 29, 2022
re: #30 William Lewis
It is a true classic song that I hope will be long remembered.
It’s interesting that when he requested permission to use Stevie Wonder’s “Pastime Paradise” he had to remove the cuss words. In this case that really strengthened his lyrics.
Thinking of folks like Mr BWS:
It’s true. Linemen and other power company workers are among the most important first responders after a storm.
I’ve always said we’ve never given enough credit to our ironworkers, carpenters, and all tradesmen who were there alongside firefighters and police officers on 9/11. https://t.co/Iqt4qH6eiQ— John Cardillo (@johncardillo) September 29, 2022
Echoing Tucker Carlson almost verbatim, with the refinement of demanding proof of innocence from the accused. I wonder if they have the same GRU case officer? Oh, yeah, that’s a conspiracy theory hatched by an evil CIA/military/media cabal to stir up hatred of Putin and other enemies of the globalist deep state.
Calling the leaks in the Nord Stream pipelines “a potential midterm election operation,” Charlie Kirk says US intelligence agencies are “guilty until proven innocent in this situation. They’re going to have to prove to us it wasn’t them” pic.twitter.com/xLBJamldNp
— Jason Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) September 28, 2022
re: #40 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Note Charlie’s presumption of authority: “THEY will have to prove to US.” This is quite common among RW tools. Terrorist kingpin Stewart Rhodes once threatened to “withdraw our recongition and support” from law enforcement agencies that tried to enforce covid lockdowns, as though such agencies require his approval to operate. Believe these people when they tell you who they are.
I have no way of evaluating this. But false papers has always been a popular business among certain groups.
Just because there is a war on doesn’t mean Kleptocracies stop stealing.
For a government of thieves, war is just the latest opportunity for graft.
It’s about the money, always the money.
See this example👇 https://t.co/UigwZOJQ9H— Trent Telenko (@TrentTelenko) September 29, 2022
re: #31 ckkatz
Oof, I heard it was a drunken Barrack’s fight. Even when I was in the AF back in the late 70’s/early 80’s, a DWI was an indication that you were incapable of self-control, got you dumped back down to E-2, and meant that you couldn’t re-up even if you wanted to. You were persona non grata and you were going to get separated.
It was worse than punching your sergeant, which in many cases, depending on your sergeant, was later ruled justifiable. This was how you weeded out toxic non-coms.
Fortunately, I was an officer and a gentleman, and only had to save my Boom Operator, a Tech Sergeant, from any Courts Martial when he got horribly drunk one night in Spain (Zaragoza) and offered to kick everyone’s ass in the NCO club (I was told his come on was “Big ones one at a time, little ones in a bunch.”
Informed of the situation, I skedaddled over to the NCO Club, gained entry, grabbed a large pitcher of water, and threw it in Terry’s face. He roared and charged me, recognized me and said “Co, what are you doing here?” I said, “Keeping your ass in the Air Force, you stupid pollack. Follow me or you are going to the brig.”
So he followed me, and I took him to transient housing. He broke down in tears. We had been in the UK for over a month, supporting the Falklands war, and he was just lonely and missed his wife. And he got drunk. And he was a really bad drunk.
We got him back to the States. He was a really, really good boom operator. Never ever made a mistake.
What an asshole
Not Gov of New York, California or Illinois? Way to make everything political. 🖕
— EstebanTornadoPGA (@ETornado1963) September 29, 2022
re: #39 ckkatz
Thinking of folks like Mr BWS:
Amen, brother. Three cheers to all who work with high voltage. Balls like grapefruits, made of solid copper.
re: #43 austin_blue
Oof, I heard it was a drunken Barrack’s fight. Even when I was in the AF back in the late 70’s/early 80’s, a DWI was an indication that you were incapable of self-control, got you dumped back down to E-2, and meant that you couldn’t re-up even if you wanted to. You were persona non grata and you were going to get separated.
It was worse than punching your sergeant, which in many cases, depending on your sergeant, was later ruled justifiable. This was how you weeded out toxic non-coms.
Fortunately, I was an officer and a gentleman, and only had to save my Boom Operator, a Tech Sergeant, from any Courts Martial when he got horribly drunk one night in Spain (Zaragoza) and offered to kick everyone’s ass in the NCO club (I was told his come on was “Big ones one at a time, little ones in a bunch.”
Informed of the situation, I skedaddled over to the NCO Club, gained entry, grabbed a large pitcher of water, and threw it in Terry’s face. He roared and charged me, recognized me and said “Co, what are you doing here?” I said, “Keeping your ass in the Air Force, you stupid pollack. Follow me or you are going to the brig.”
So he followed me, and I took him to transient housing. He broke down in tears. We had been in the UK for over a month, supporting the Falklands war, and he was just lonely and missed his wife. And he got drunk. And he was a really bad drunk.
We got him back to the States. He was a really, really good boom operator. Never ever made a mistake.
Those are the moments we NCO’s need our officers to live up to what we expect of them.
Down the Youtube rabbit hole…
Democrats are outraged that human beings were trafficked as a political stunt. Republicans are outraged that a black woman played a flute. any questions
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) September 29, 2022
A great many stories of destruction coming out of south Florida tonight.
As was feared, Ft. Meyers and Cape Coral are hard hit.
It’s not the right time to be judgmental, yet I noticed this person picked up on a topic about which I ranted less than two days ago:
How sustainable is this kind of costal development in Cape Coral Florida from hurricanes? It seems quite foolish and irresponsible. Especially with 18 ft storm surges. Image: Google Maps. pic.twitter.com/nxeNrqGXjx
— SE Severs (@edge_nature) September 29, 2022
We as a society simply want to pretend that we can get away with whatever we wish. While years ago the developers may have argued that hurricanes were unlikely to destroy the city, we now know that rising sea levels will doom those kind of projects.
Floridians already pay very high premiums to cover their housing. And insurance will keep going up. And up and up.
re: #46 William Lewis
Those are the moments we NCO’s need our officers to live up to what we expect of them.
My da raised me up right.
More idiot RWNJ’s
A gun range attendant put the safety on when Lauren Boebert left her firearm on the table with the safety off to get safety goggles to use as a headband. pic.twitter.com/DcajtGmbRf
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) September 27, 2022
re: #31 ckkatz
Trumpian level of lying. Republicans must LOVE him.
Over 20 inches of rain estimated by radar have fallen between Fort Myers and Tampa Bay. Similar rainfall amounts are expected northeast across Florida, causing massive flooding problems. pic.twitter.com/xebJsWtuex
— Currently (@currently) September 29, 2022
re: #49 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Will be very interesting to see any images right after the storm surge.
re: #31 ckkatz
Drunk driving is kind of a fight.
re: #52 EstebanTornado1963
She clearly rarely actually FIRES any of the guns she uses as props.
The funny thing is, the “legend” behind this flute is that James Madison’s violent alcoholic step-son whose gambling and crimes put his mother in poverty left it to a doctor to pay off his medical debt. Such a pristine history, how dare Lizzo play it.
— David Weiner (@daweiner) September 28, 2022
I had, up until the past couple of days, been reading a lot about the Iranian supplied “suicide drones” and the significant damage they had been causing on the Ukrainians.
The recent silence had me wondering. Then I saw the below tweet.
(This is just one temporary solution. I also suspect that a number of nations are working with the Ukrainians about this. Remember that the Iranians were bombing Saudi oil storage tanks with drones recently.)
FYI, while Iranian Drone trucks can hide amongst other trucks.
Iranian electronic warfare awareness about Drone C3I radio emissions needs a lot of work.
Short Electronic Warfare 🧵
1/4 https://t.co/qN0WHhB1Xl— Trent Telenko (@TrentTelenko) September 27, 2022
I imagine Lemmy is laughing in pleasure somewhere…
If the GOP gets any power in Congress, they will shatter this country for sheer spite. If you’re thinking, “They wouldn’t do that,” then you are fucking delusional. https://t.co/fXma4w921H
— The Rude Pundit (@rudepundit) September 29, 2022
re: #49 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
A great many stories of destruction coming out of south Florida tonight.
As was feared, Ft. Meyers and Cape Coral are hard hit.
It’s not the right time to be judgmental, yet I noticed this person picked up on a topic about which I ranted less than two days ago:
We as a society simply want to pretend that we can get away with whatever we wish. While years ago the developers may have argued that hurricanes were unlikely to destroy the city, we now know that rising sea levels will doom those kind of projects.
Floridians already pay very high premiums to cover their housing. And insurance will keep going up. And up and up.
Well, yeah, but now do New Orleans. There is several billions of dollars of infrastructure in NO. Let’s just abandon it and rebuild up in Baton Rouge? And what about the housing stock in NO?
Do you know the history of the Morganza Spillway north Baton Rouge into the Atchafayalla Basin? It was built after the disastrous 1927 Mississippi River floods and has worked kinda sort ok, but everybody is scared to death these days because climate change resets the rules. If the Morganza Spillway fails, the Mississippi River will revert to its old channel (the Atchafalaya) and exit into the Gulf at Morgan City. The old channel from the Spillway south, from Baton Rouge, through NO to the extremities of the Birdsfoot Delta will start to silt up and become unusable.
All of the infrastructure from Baton Rouge, south, will be unusable. That’s 40% of the US refining capacity.
Oops.
There are people on their rooftops in Florida, trying to survive a monstrous hurricane.
Meanwhile their governor, Ron DeSantis, was on Tucker Carlson.— Saadia (@Saadia___M) September 29, 2022
re: #60 ckkatz
I had, up until the past couple of days, been reading a lot about the Iranian supplied “suicide drones” and the significant damage they had been causing on the Ukrainians.
The recent silence had me wondering. Then I saw the below tweet.
(This is just one temporary solution. I also suspect that a number of nations are working with the Ukrainians about this. Remember that the Iranians were bombing Saudi oil storage tanks with drones recently.)[Embedded content]
Just speculating here, but I do know a little something about this subject. The accuracy of Ukrainian targeting in general suggests to me that there is some capability at work that is not public knowledge, probably furnished by the US/NATO.
For example, it is not that HIMARS can hit Russian ammunition dumps (their accuracy is public knowledge), it is that the Ukrainians always know exactly where to aim them. It could be something as simple as a very highly placed mole in the Russian command structure, one who has reliable and secure communication with the west. It might also be some exotic technology or analytical system that was developed and produced in secret. It is not just business as usual, though. It will be interesting to find out.
re: #63 austin_blue
Without a doubt the problems of the lower Mississippi and the delta are time bombs for the US.
Not the only time bomb, of course. Whenever the next great earthquake hits the PNW the tragedies will be overwhelming, maybe even more so that a quake in the SF Bay area.
We can do little about earthquakes (other than safety codes.) And I think we are getting to the point where we need to accept that we’ve already ordered more climate change than we have the purse to cover.
It’s a good night for covers.
A night off, a new bottle of The Famous Grouse & fun music…
re: #51 ckkatz
This!
Good leaders protect their people, their mission, and their organization.
It has always been thus. When that stops, we will reap the whirlwind.
re: #30 William Lewis
Had no idea that it was based on a Stevie Wonder song.
re: #69 austin_blue
It has always been thus. When that stops, we will reap the whirlwind.
The Russians have, essentially no NCO corps and a handful of real officers.
Somewhere Zhukov is weeping.
re: #21 TarHellion
That’s more than a solid resume! And she has served all over the country.
Much better than being a horse trainer - which, of course, is an admirable position. Just not one to lead a crisis response to a Cat 5 hurricane in America’s most vulnerable city.
Believe me, “Brownie” was not a horse trainer. Probably didn’t know one end from another. He was hired as a “CEO” for the organization that ran Arabian horse shows in North America. He blew it. The organization failed, after decades of some sort of functioning. Not saying he killed it, but he sure didn’t help it.
re: #58 ckkatz
The flute was apparently carved out of a single piece of quartz crystal, hollowed out. I don’t know if it is valved, half valved, or open holed.
In any case, THAT’s a fucking museum piece.
Here’s your chance boys! I’ve heard the Russians are looking for men. Something about being “fodders”.. pic.twitter.com/IOFC37u3JU
— David W Pippy (@DWPippy) September 28, 2022
Republicans are running ads attacking Democratic senators for reducing Medicare spending. The ads don’t mention that these reductions are savings from lower drug prices, not cuts to seniors — who will actually get much-more-generous benefits: https://t.co/n0dlR0L5Dd
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 27, 2022
re: #71 William Lewis
The Russians have, essentially no NCO corps and a handful of real officers.
Somewhere Zhukov is weeping.
I have been preaching this mantra since February. If you don’t have a solid cadre of NCO’s, you are a hollow shell of a fighting force.
i got to interview coolio one time and you bet i asked him if he was over his beef with weird al. pic.twitter.com/bVPZ15Qtpg
— Dan Ozzi (@danozzi) September 29, 2022
re: #77 austin_blue
I have been preaching this mantra since February. If you don’t have a solid cadre of NCO’s, you are a hollow shell of a fighting force.
More than any other single reason - don’t get me wrong, there are many many many problems with the Russian army and don’t get me started on the deathtraps that are their tanks - their lack of an NCO corps is why they can’t win this war.
re: #52 EstebanTornado1963
More idiot RWNJ’s
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If it were up to me, and we were a rational people, this guy would have the authority to revoke her ability to have a gun until she went through safety courses.
re: #81 Belafon
If it were up to me, and we were a rational people, this guy would have the authority to revoke her ability to have a gun until she went through safety courses.
I am simply glad that there was someone there who didn’t give a fuck who she was and did his job to keep other people safe.
My mind keeps circling back to the kind of person who’d be capable of this. Imagine going out to recruit people, face to face, who are in desperate circumstances and hoping for a better life. Imagine seeing them react thinking, finally, someone cares enough to help them.
— Julian Sanchez (@normative) September 28, 2022
I literally feel ill just imagining it. How profoundly broken a human being would you have to be to actually carry out this grotesque plan and feel good about it?
— Julian Sanchez (@normative) September 28, 2022
This camera was placed 8 feet above the street before the hurricane:
It’s old, but the image is spot on:
— Kimberly🌻🌻🌻 ❄️😈🇺🇦 #ProChoice (@Kimberlyjws) May 10, 2022
— Zack Ruskin (@zackruskin) September 29, 2022
Leaving his borders completely open sorta negates Putin’s narrative that @NATO is aggressive now, doesn’t it? @biannagolodryga @JackDetsch https://t.co/9VSU7yzmKb
— Mark Hertling (@MarkHertling) September 29, 2022
— Tweets of Cats (@TweetsOfCats) September 28, 2022
Well, it’s official. As the stench of desperation rises, @dougmastriano has chosen to link up with neo-Nazi collaborator Jack Posobiec.
Not traditionally a recipe for success! Via @ehananoki: https://t.co/3PQ4FvHAEj— Michael Edison Hayden (@MichaelEHayden) September 28, 2022
Not a great movie but this sequence made the time spent watching the rest of it worth the time spent.
re: #67 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Without a doubt the problems of the lower Mississippi and the delta are time bombs for the US.
Not the only time bomb, of course. Whenever the next great earthquake hits the PNW the tragedies will be overwhelming, maybe even more so that a quake in the SF Bay area.
We can do little about earthquakes (other than safety codes.) And I think we are getting to the point where we need to accept that we’ve already ordered more climate change than we have the purse to cover.
Much worse. The 1906 quake was basically SF shooting it’s wad. That was pretty much, within a couple of tenths, all of the energy that the Strike/Slip San Andreas fault complex could possibly store before rupturing. Its 7.9 was probably maxing out the available storage capacity of the fault.
The Cascade Subduction Fault, on the other paw, can hold up to a Nine + amount level of energy, and we don’t know the upper level of that number
It could approach a 10 or so rupture, and keep in mind a subduction rupture doesn’t crack like a little dot with concentric circles around it. When one cuts loose, the kinetic energy stored in a length of subducting seafloor hundreds of miles long can snap upward almost instantaneously (well, it’s a rupture) at up to a significant portion of a mile, at least several hundred feet or yards, displacing non-compressible water into a wall that is heading in two directions: Japan, lots of time later, and the Pacific NW, 30 minutes away.
And it’ll bring a 100’ wall of water into Oregon, Washington, and the Puget Sound. Which would kind of suck.
“It’s 10pm, do you know where your brigade administrative officer is?”https://t.co/ZFKST166rT
— Critical Russ Theory (@RPG_volley) September 28, 2022
Which made me think of this. It’s a much better movie than some give it credit for. Real chemistry between those two.
re: #73 austin_blue
I also had no idea. So I had to look it up. Apparently made out of leaded crystal glass. Do not appear to have valves.
A glass flute or crystal flute is a glass instrument briefly popular in the early 19th century. These flutes preserved pitch and tone during temperature change better than the wood and ivory flutes available at the time of their manufacture. Most were made by Claude Laurent, a French craftsman and clockmaker who patented the leaded crystal glass flute in 1806. They became obsolete after metal flutes were produced.
Claude Laurent’s glass flutes were manufactured in Paris in the early 19th century. Some are lead crystal and some are potash glass. Today 185 of Laurent’s instruments are known to survive. The US Library of Congress holds 17 of these.
The most famous example is a particularly elegant crystal flute made in 1813 that Laurent sent to James Madison to commemorate his second inauguration as US President. The flute was rescued from the White House in April 1814 by Dolley Madison as the British entered Washington, DC during the War of 1812. In 2022 Musical artist Lizzo was invited by Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden to play the Madison crystal flute. While at the Library of Congress, Lizzo requested to play the flute in concert. She briefly played it onstage at Capital One Arena while twerking.
re: #96 austin_blue
Nobody puts Baby in a corner.
That’s why I searched out the longest version I could find so it would start with that line. The only other romance that hit me harder was the ending of An Officer and A Gentleman.
re: #97 ckkatz
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re: #97 ckkatz
I also had no idea. So I had to look it up. Apparently made out of leaded crystal glass. Do not appear to have valves.
Thanks!
re: #97 ckkatz
I also had no idea. So I had to look it up. Apparently made out of leaded crystal glass. Do not appear to have valves.
I hope we can see a video of her playing it at the library. My son and I were hoping to hear a little more, even just a scale.
re: #92 William Lewis
Not a great movie but this sequence made the time spent watching the rest of it worth the time spent.
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Watching that scene — the first time I’ve seen it in decades — is a reminder of how the world has changed. Today, no one on the panel of judges would be smoking — a definite improvement.
re: #96 austin_blue
And filmed in North Carolina! We had a great thing going here until the GQP took over the legislature and got rid of the tax breaks for movies and TV shows. We missed out on the MCU and virtually everything else that went to Georgia - and the tax breaks it offered. DOH!!!
re: #99 TarHellion
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re: #102 Hecuba’s daughter
Watching that scene — the first time I’ve seen it in decades — is a reminder of how the world has changed. Today, no one on the panel of judges would be smoking — a definite improvement.
Oh, yes. I loved the bit of the one woman judge who was about to light a cigarette and stopped, caught up by the dancing in front of her. Yet at that time, she wouldn’t have noticed - her dancing at the “gentleman’s club” would have been insanely full of smoke.
re: #103 TarHellion
And filmed in North Carolina! We had a great thing going here until the GQP took over the legislature and got rid of the tax breaks for movies and TV shows. We missed out on the MCU and virtually everything else that went to Georgia - and the tax breaks it offered. DOH!!!
Well this is what happens, innit? Art is Liberal, so anything supporting Art is destroyed, and Art in our state is destroyed.
Hoozah! We have destroyed Art and saved the State from Art!
What kind of stupid motherfucking mindset could possibly think that this was a successful move in teaching their children how to create, well, anything?
Oh, unless you don’t want your children to create… anything.
re: #94 jaunte
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And the axe falls:
“The Massachusetts National Guard considers the conduct of this soldier to be inappropriate and inconsistent with our military values,” Col. Mark Kalin, Commander, Massachusetts Army National Guard, said in a statement to the Times. “We are currently working to ensure our service member is evaluated and receives any services he may need, while also reviewing appropriate disciplinary actions. The incident is currently under investigation and no further information is available at this time.”
This is basically vigilante action, and nuts besides, since a National Guard officer has no authority to be enforcing the law or whatever the hell this weirdo was trying to do. He is a full time employee of the Mass Guard. Every large Guard unit has a number of full time cadre personnel who keep things running while everyone else is out doing their civilian stuff. These are critical personnel and there is no way this guy should be left in this assignment, or in the Guard at all.
Ah, I found that other scene that blows away even the ending of that movie…
A near perfect lesson in real leadership.
re: #92 William Lewis
Heh, much of the movie was filmed in Pittsburgh.
I actually got to watch part of the scene (starting around 4:09) get filmed. It was filmed at the rear of the Oakland branch of the Carnegie Library. I was a grad student at the time and would walk around to try and wake up after hours at the computer.
Iirc, that one scene took two days to film. The director had Beale do just about every combination of walk, run, hop, etc down the stairs and go to the car.
Amusing factoid…
The male actor was really uncomfortable with his supposed pet dog. So they had the dog handler hidden (folded up) in the back of the sports car. And they had to take a break every once in a while to let the handler get out of the back of the car and stretch.
re: #58 ckkatz
OK: here’s a poser: (Occasioned by info I garnered reading a NYT piece about Lizzo and James Madison’s glass flute)
How/why did the US Library of Congress end up in possession of what was described as “the world’s largest collection of flutes” (1700 of them, apparently)?
re: #107 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
And the axe falls:
This is basically vigilante action, and nuts besides, since a National Guard officer has no authority to be enforcing the law or whatever the hell this weirdo was trying to do. He is a full time employee of the Mass Guard. Every large Guard unit has a number of full time cadre personnel who keep things running while everyone else is out doing their civilian stuff. These are critical personnel and there is no way this guy should be left in this assignment, or in the Guard at all.
It is clear that continued support of Trump is a sign of serious mental impairment.
re: #109 ckkatz
Heh, much of the movie was filmed in Pittsburgh.
I actually got to watch part of the scene (starting around 4:09) get filmed. It was filmed at the rear of the Oakland branch of the Carnegie Library. I was a grad student at the time and would walk around to try and wake up after hours at the computer.
Iirc, that one scene took two days to film. The director had Beales do just about every combination of walk, run, hop, etc down the stairs and go to the car.
Amusing factoid…
The male actor was really uncomfortable with his supposed pet dog. So they had the dog handler hidden (folded up) in the back of the sports car. And they had to take a break every once in a while to let the handler get out of the back of the car and stretch.
Hah! As someone who’s not really a dog person, I sympathize with the actor. That said, the handler’s place would have sucked too. Still, that work was worth the effort even if so much of the movie was “eh”.
re: #93 austin_blue
I was thinking of all the built structure since the 1906 earthquake, making SF and its surrounds much more densely populated now than then.
The quake in 1989 collapsed the Bay Bridge, for example, and that quake was only a M6.9 .
Off to the rack, sweet scaly dreams, etc,
Please remember that George Washington Carver designed the Intercontinental Ballistic Peanut and the Self-dialing Telepeanut.
re: #52 EstebanTornado1963
Dang!
That rifle look to be almost as big as she is.
I am assuming that it is an M-1 Garand?
this is my favorite clip on the internet pic.twitter.com/r7qBEYDzkC
— anna melissa 🏀✨ (@annamelissa) September 28, 2022
I want an entire Netflix series that’s just the Librarian of Congress inviting famous people over to play with some of the cool shit at the Library of Congress.
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) September 29, 2022
re: #112 William Lewis
Hah! As someone who’s not really a dog person, I sympathize with the actor. That said, the handler’s place would have sucked too. Still, that work was worth the effort even if so much of the movie was “eh”.
I guess for me the attraction was it was locally made and high energy.
I didn’t get into dancing until I got to Washington, DC and needed a way to meet ladies in a non-threatening environment.
The Swedish Coast Guard has detected a fourth leak in the Nord Stream pipelines, though the article here doesn’t say whether it’s in NS1 or NS2. It is, however, in Sweden’s EEZ.
I’m thinking a bunch of women need to speak out and tell Greene that she should resign like a good Christian wife and work on her marriage.
re: #110 Jay C
OK: here’s a poser: (Occasioned by info I garnered reading a NYT piece about Lizzo and James Madison’s glass flute)
How/why did the US Library of Congress end up in possession of what was described as “the world’s largest collection of flutes” (1700 of them, apparently)?
The mothers of 3rd graders didn’t want to throw away something they’d spent so much on, but they wanted it out of the house ASAP.
Night all, give some thought to the folks in Florida. It will probably be pointless because God doesn’t give a shit, but you might feel better, so you’ve got that going for you.
So, an Agnostic good night from South Austin! I really hope for the best for everyone in Florida tonight and in the next three days, but the results are really just random chance, because God may have invented the Universe, giving us the weak force, the strong force, gravity, and the speed of light, but after that?
We were on our fucking own.
re: #121 Belafon
I’m thinking a bunch of women need to speak out and tell Greene that she should resign like a good Christian wife and work on her marriage.
Give she has never demonstrated an allegiance to Christian values in the past, why should she start now? She worships Republican Jesus.
OT: Took 4.
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Reportedly about her fear of sleeping in the dark. She apparently had to have a light on all night.
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G’Nite and sweet lizard dreams to all!
And for the evening Dad joke:
An armed man ran into a real estate agency and shouted:
“Nobody move!”
🚨BREAKING🚨 @CNN reports EU security officials observed Russian naval vessels in vicinity of #NordStream1 & #NordStream2 leak sites earlier this week, while Russian subs seen in the area last week, further increasing likelihood of Russia’s responsibilityhttps://t.co/VVIgK9GybG pic.twitter.com/k8tGWLZwGk
— Dr. Benjamin L. Schmitt🇺🇦 (@BLSchmitt) September 29, 2022
People ask, “Why would Russia destroy their own pipelines, when that’s a source of income?”
It’s to send a message: a once-and-for-all, definitive break with the Western world. Putin has decided to burn his bridges, most likely because he clearly recognizes there’s simply no going back.
Putin has decided that Russia will no longer have anything to do with the West.
re: #130 Dr Lizardo
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People ask, “Why would Russia destroy their own pipelines, when that’s a source of income?”
It’s to send a message: a once-and-for-all, definitive break with the Western world. Putin has decided to burn his bridges, most likely because he clearly recognizes there’s simply no going back.
Putin has decided that Russia will no longer have anything to do with the West.
He just wants to take some of it with him when he goes.
re: #130 Dr Lizardo
🚨BREAKING🚨
“Russian ships routinely operate in the area, according to one Danish military official, who emphasized that the presence of the ships doesn’t necessarily indicate that Russia caused the damage.
“We see them every week,” this person said. “”
re: #130 Dr Lizardo
Not convincing as a reason. It is not only an important source of income but also important leverage over Europe, come winter. So if there’s a good motivation for the sabotage - it’s getting rid of this leverage.
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re: #133 Nyet
Not convincing as a reason. It is not only an important source of income but also important leverage over Europe, come winter. So if there’s a good motivation for the sabotage - it’s getting rid of this leverage.
We shall see. We have to remember that Putin is not acting rationally at this point. If he was, he would realize that he will not prevail in Ukraine, yet he insists on throwing fresh cannon fodder into the fray. That’s not the action of a rational leader - the rational course of action would be to withdraw, negotiate some kind of truce, then reorganize his military and rearm and have another go at it in ten or fifteen years time.
And while I certainly agree that logically, it would be unbelievably stupid to bomb your pipeline and cut off a major source of income, people (ordinary people like us or sometimes leaders of nations) don’t always think or act logically - or it may well seem logical to that particular person, even if it seems completely insane to the rest of us (I’m thinking of the example of family annihilator-type killers such as John List or Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès).
re: #135 Dr Lizardo
What he does now with the “referenda” is actually “rational” in the “rat in panic” rational, villainous sort of way. And he probably thinks he can prolong the war long enough that Ukraine’s allies get tired, Ukrainians get tired (esp. in cold winter) and he either gets a good deal on what he has occupied so far or can even advance. Remember, he doesn’t do internet and gets his info from thin red folders, and his own generals probably wouldn’t tell him about all the problems with the mobilization etc. GIGO — the end effect of a sorta rational policy based on bad data may seem indistinguishable from the end effect of an irrational policy.
Anyway, if Putin is indeed into the endurance game, then NS2 must have been an important part of it, like a carrot before a donkey’s nose. And now he no longer has the carrot.
re: #136 Nyet
he doesn’t do internet and gets his info from thin red folders, and his own generals probably wouldn’t tell him about all the problems with the mobilization etc. GIGO — the end effect of a sorta rational policy based on bad data may seem indistinguishable from the end effect of an irrational policy.
That’s a good point; Garbage in, garbage out. And from an outsider’s POV, it would certainly look like irrational decisions.
I wonder what he’ll do regarding those sham referendums - will he go all-in and officially proclaim them to be Russia, or will he (as I’ve seen mentioned on the web) put that decision off for the time being and try to use that issue as a bargaining chip in some future negotiations?
This dude is an elder at that “church” near my house. Seeing this land in my timeline had me press the button on ordering foam board for protesting.
Seriously, James, all you’re saying here is that you’re lawless. You apparently think it’s quite ok for Mark Houck to assault a 72 YO man because you think it’s OK to assault clinic escorts. That’s disgusting but par for the course.
— Dee *I support transgender people* Holmes🇺🇦🌻 (@mmmirele) September 29, 2022
“James White is OK with assaulting a 72 YO man.” Or something. I’ll figure it out.
ETA: (1) Mark Houck apparently used his children as human shields when it came time for the FBI to arrest him.
(2) This is the “church” where the leadership (which James is a part of) believes that people who obtain abortions should be executed.
re: #137 Dr Lizardo
Note that what we see as Putin’s fatally irrational decision - invading Ukraine in Feb. - must have seemed rational to him at the time based on garbage data about his sorry excuse of an army. Taking Kiev in three days, had that been achievable, would have been pretty much a crushing blow. So had that been achievable, the invasion must have seemed rational (again, thoroughly evil too, but that’s another story).
As for the annexation, for now I expect it to proceed. But there have been some bumps on the road: meduza.io
re: #139 Nyet
That article in Meduza is the one I was thinking about.
OK, back later. Gotta go pay the bills (grumbles).
As I mentioned a few days ago, preserves/jam prices have shot up.
Sadly my favorite, boysenberry, is among those whose price is now pushing luxury territory.
Boysenberries are fascinating, being a hybrid of several species in the genus Rubus, species from both Europe and North America, with the European raspberry being the primary ancestor.
Boysenberries combine the strong flavor of said raspberries with the sweeter flavors of American blackberries/loganberries.
Anyway, however boysenberries are bought they usually are not cheap.
The hybrids were first identified on a farm in Orange County, California. That was a century ago when Orange County was still an important agricultural region, before it was turned into suburbamania/Disneyland.
re: #81 Belafon
If it were up to me, and we were a rational people, this guy would have the authority to revoke her ability to have a gun until she went through safety courses.
We have instead gone the opposite way, with many red states eliminating the need to get a permit before people can carry concealed weapons.
Ian is moving offshore now, though it is not expected to strengthen much before hitting SC.
This’ll prolly make the Germans start sweating nervously…..
Good morning from #Germany, where #inflation could rise by double digits. In the most populous state of North Rhine-Westphalia, CPI has risen by 10.1%, which is a record in the statistics. Compared to the previous month, #inflation increased 1.8%. pic.twitter.com/RMAK2iPKde
— Holger Zschaepitz (@Schuldensuehner) September 29, 2022
re: #15 TarHellion
Dearie should say, “Kiss my ass. The government will guarantee it, and you will pay them back.”
Escrow the funds and bill against them.
Just like they did with Kies
That tornado we had hit the news.
Passed 1/2 mile from dangermoms house.
Tore the doors off her Publix
re: #148 Dangerman
That tornado we had hit the news.
Passed 1/2 mile from dangermoms house.
Tore the doors off her Publix
Glad everyone is safe.
re: #13 TarHellion
Just tell me that Biden has a FEMA director who does more than a helluva job
Biden can demonstrate fiscal responsibility by personally handing out individual sheets of paper toweling instead of tossing out whole rolls indiscriminately.
re: #25 HRH Stanley Sea
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editing because I made a snarky comment about expanded games from the Maris era. Turns out there were 160 or so games when Maris did this, as well.
re: #129 ckkatz
G’Nite and sweet lizard dreams to all!
And for the evening Dad joke:
An armed man ran into a real estate agency and shouted:
“Nobody move!”
Even funnier: in German, Real Estate is “Immobilien”
ha ha ha
The Orlando area has received a lot of rain:
Holy cow. Major flooding in Kissimmee. @WFTV #Ian pic.twitter.com/nE6PMzvPoJ
— Nick Papantonis WFTV (@NPapantonisWFTV) September 29, 2022
And it is still raining.
re: #153 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
That’s not flooding. That’s just the ocean moving on in to the neighborhood and checking out the new digs.
I guess pretty soon, everyone in Florida is gonna be living like Tony Randall in Hello Down There.
Fatalities confirmed “in the hundreds” in the region, Lee County, Fla., sheriff says on @GMA
— Rick Klein (@rickklein) September 29, 2022
A lot of people in the Cape Coral/Ft. Myers area did not evacuate.
https://t.co/bdJuq6Z7E3 One of my favorites that I remember. Timeless and epic! #RIPCoolio
— Jeremy Horn (@Jeremy_Horn) September 29, 2022
re: #155 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
A lot of people in the Cape Coral/Ft. Myers area did not evacuate.
Seriously? Did they not know that a goddamn hurricane was coming?
It’s not like an earthquake (a common enough natural disaster for those of us who are from the Pacific Coast) which can strike without warning.
re: #155 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
A lot of people in the Cape Coral/Ft. Myers area did not evacuate.
“Evacuation is to Hurricanes what Vaccines are to Covid-19!!!”
re: #157 Dr Lizardo
Seriously? Did they not know that a goddamn hurricane was coming?
It’s not like an earthquake (a common enough natural disaster for those of us who are from the Pacific Coast) which can strike without warning.
My question was actually going to be, “‘Did not,’ or ‘could not?’” Evacuating a hurricane isn’t the easiest thing in the world to do, especially if you don’t have someone you can crash with that can help absorb some of the cost. With that said, undoubtedly there are a lot of proud people who are like, “Fuck that, gubmint ain’t tellin’ me what to do, if I die in this hurricane, then oh well! My body becomes their problem to clean up!”
re: #159 Dopamine Fish
And of course, the problematic part of my question here is that, in a state that is prone to hurricanes, you would THINK that the state would have funds set up for people who are materially unable to afford evacuation, so that citizens shouldn’t have to choose between “groceries for the next 2-3 months” and “getting out of the way of this goddamn hurricane”. But Governor DeathSentence would rather spend money on political stunts that fuck up people’s lives than protect his own citizens.
re: #157 Dr Lizardo
Seriously? Did they not know that a goddamn hurricane was coming?
The early evacuation orders did not cover as far south as the Ft. Myers area.
They had a hurricane watch on Monday but did not have a hurricane warning until Tuesday, about 24 hours before it hit.
The NHC warned that predicting Ian’s path was going to be tricky because it was being influenced by a large low pressure trough to the north, and those troughs are difficult to predict how far south they will dip.
Also - there were storm surge watches earlier, but as usual a lot of people don’t take head of those.
re: #159 Dopamine Fish
Evacuating a hurricane isn’t the easiest thing in the world to do, especially if you don’t have someone you can crash with that can help absorb some of the cost.
Fair enough, that’s understandable (ill-advised, but understandable). But like you, I suspect there’s more than a few of those AIN’T NO GUBMINT MAN GONNA TELL ME WHAT TO DO! USA! USA!! types who simply refuse to evacuate under any circumstances.
re: #148 Dangerman
My mom in law was telling me about that. I’m just glad you all are safe from the worst of it in that area.
re: #159 Dopamine Fish
And what if you don’t have a car or other means to leave? I’m afraid that happens a lot more than we’d like to think. Especially now with the cost of everything being what it is.
I read somewhere in the last few days that we don’t actually live in a society, we live in an economy. Until we figure out how to remedy that, the world is really destined to implode.
re: #157 Dr Lizardo
Seriously? Did they not know that a goddamn hurricane was coming?
It’s not like an earthquake (a common enough natural disaster for those of us who are from the Pacific Coast) which can strike without warning.
As it has been talked about, not everyone can afford to. It takes money, it takes having transportation, it takes having a place to go to, and the time to leave.
re: #157 Dr Lizardo
Seriously? Did they not know that a goddamn hurricane was coming?
It’s not like an earthquake (a common enough natural disaster for those of us who are from the Pacific Coast) which can strike without warning.
Hurricanes do have a level of uncertainty about them. I live in Tampa and was expecting to get slammed up until the last minute. Heck I was going to book a room in what was looking like a safe Fort Myers. All we got was some rain and wind. I lost a few screens on the lanai.
I am not in an evacuation zone but judging by the videos I have seen I am not sure how much it would have mattered.
re: #165 Belafon
As it has been talked about, not everyone can afford to. It takes money, it takes having transportation, it takes having a place to go to, and the time to leave.
Fair enough. Maybe if there were a person, a chief executive of the state of Florida, let’s say, whose job would be the see to it that those who needed to be evacuated (but couldn’t for the reasons you mentioned) would be taken to safety.
And maybe that person - let’s call them a “governor”, for lack of a better term - would make sure that they weren’t wasting their time pursuing fatuous nonsense, and be focused on the very real and oncoming danger to the public.
Alas….if only such a person existed in the state of Florida.
Time to go to work. Back later.
Things like the potential of hundreds dead in the wake of Hurricane Ian infuriate me, because there’s no need for it. Senseless deaths.
As Stephen Colbert suggested, just call up Gov. DeSantis and tell him you’re a Venezuelan refugee and he will pack you up and send you to Martha’s Vineyard
re: #164 A Mom Anon
I read somewhere in the last few days that we don’t actually live in a society, we live in an economy. Until we figure out how to remedy that, the world is really destined to implode.
One of the arguments about “getting back to work” during Covid was that “People die of Covid, but they also die of poverty!”
People don’t die of poverty. They die from lack of proper nutrition, shelter and health care because our Economy has decided that poor people should not have access to such things.
re: #170 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I truly believe that we must find some sense of community and apply that to government and how money gets spent. We are not fundamentally kind to those outside our “group”, whatever category we divide ourselves into. There are lots of kind humans out there, but the world as it stands now does not allow for that to be a guiding force. Our economic system is cruel by design, what we have is a system that encourages us to blame and hate on those without wealth and while we fight among ourselves and struggle financially, the rich are robbing us blind and laughing at how fucking stupid we are for blaming each other.
I am for capping personal wealth at 50 million dollars. If you can’t live on that then fuck you. Give your CEO job or whatever the fuck to someone who can. Pour the rest of that wealth into paying employees above livable wages,benefits and invest in safe workplaces. And tax these motherfuckers at 70 percent like we used to. And maybe burn KStreet to the ground while we’re at it, lots of evil comes from that place.
The Fifth Circuit will end DACA soon, subjecting hundreds of thousands of Dreamers to potential deportation. The Biden Administration will act to provide them some protection from deportation, but they will lose their right to work legally in the U.S. If the Democrats retain the House and expand their Senate majority, immigration reform could be passed next year. Sinema and John Cornyn are working on a bipartisan bill, but I doubt that there will be enough GOP Senators signing on to defeat the filibuster unless it includes funding for Sippy Cup Caligula’s Wall.
re: #172 A Mom Anon
I truly believe that we must find some sense of community and apply that to government and how money gets spent. We are not fundamentally kind to those outside our “group”, whatever category we divide ourselves into. There are lots of kind humans out there, but the world as it stands now does not allow for that to be a guiding force. Our economic system is cruel by design, what we have is a system that encourages us to blame and hate on those without wealth and while we fight among ourselves and struggle financially, the rich are robbing us blind and laughing at how fucking stupid we are for blaming each other.
I am for capping personal wealth at 50 million dollars. If you can’t live on that then fuck you. Give your CEO job or whatever the fuck to someone who can. Pour the rest of that wealth into paying employees above livable wages,benefits and invest in safe workplaces. And tax these motherfuckers at 70 percent like we used to. And maybe burn KStreet to the ground while we’re at it, lots of evil comes from that place.
I recently read that if you have an income of $8 million, that’s enough money to pay other people to do all the tedious chores we don’t like, live in a nice home, take dream vacations, and otherwise maximize your happiness. Every dollar above that is just running up the score.
re: #174 No Malarkey!
I recently read that if you have an income of $8 million, that’s enough money to pay other people to do all the tedious chores we don’t like, live in a nice home, take dream vacations, and otherwise maximize your happiness. Every dollar above that is just running up the score.
The difficulty is in enforcing that. What defines an “income” of $8M? CEOs are paid in the low 7 figures (looks like the median CEO is around $3.5M/yr in raw cash), but make far more than that in bonuses, options, and other benefits. The interplay here is just frustrating to work through. Yes, I want employees to have incentive to materially contribute to the company bottom line (bonuses). Yes, I want employees to be invested in the future of the company (stock options, ESPP). I don’t want the fabulously wealthy to be able to abuse these mechanisms to hide income and place themselves far above the ordinary man in the warehouse or data center.
Modern wealth is not about owning physical assets, it’s about owning patents and licenses and rights to use ideas, brands and names.
Heck, companies don’t even own their offices, they lease everything down to office equipment and simply commission factories to produce their goods under their guidelines.
And abstract concepts like licenses, patents and brand names are hard to quantify, which makes modern bookkeeping an arcane form of numerical alchemy.
I am so proud of dangermom
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Good second guess helped set up the birbie. My heart goes out to all of those in Florida. Happy Friday Eve, everyone!
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“Somewhere a woman is praying her toddler wins a beauty pageant. I say this because sometimes people wonder why God lets tornadoes happen.”
— Dana Gould
re: #175 Dopamine Fish
The difficulty is in enforcing that. What defines an “income” of $8M? CEOs are paid in the low 7 figures (looks like the median CEO is around $3.5M/yr in raw cash), but make far more than that in bonuses, options, and other benefits. The interplay here is just frustrating to work through. Yes, I want employees to have incentive to materially contribute to the company bottom line (bonuses). Yes, I want employees to be invested in the future of the company (stock options, ESPP). I don’t want the fabulously wealthy to be able to abuse these mechanisms to hide income and place themselves far above the ordinary man in the warehouse or data center.
That’s what taxes are for. I don’t think NM is implying that we cap income at $8M, just more reasons that taxing the rich isn’t going to hurt anything but their egos.
re: #180 Belafon
That’s what taxes are for. I don’t think NM is implying that we cap income at $8M, just more reasons that taxing the rich isn’t going to hurt anything but their egos.
“What’s the point of being perversely wealthy if you cannot rub people’s noses in it?”
-Newt Stinkingrich
How Secretary Haaland is removing “squaw” from everything, and how it should rank up there with n——-.
Opinion by Deb Haaland: How we expunged a racist, sexist slur from hundreds of public lands https://t.co/Sokdbm5kAj
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 29, 2022
I know it’s all speculative and no evidence, but this gent does indicate that there is precedent for Russia using energy as leverage/weapon.
reminder #Nordstream
1. January 2006 explosions in southern #Russia hit gas pipe & elect tower, halt energy supplies 2 Georgia.
2. April 2009 explosion at Central Asia Tsentr4 pipe suspends gas exports from #Turkmenistan 2 Russia.
What did Moscow say—>1/1— Stanislav Secrieru (@StasSecrieru) September 29, 2022
re: #182 Belafon
How Secretary Haaland is removing “squaw” from everything, and how it should rank up there with n——-.
Even Arizona, not known for being big on such things, renamed Squaw Peak to Piestwa Peak in honor of the first female Native American soldier killed in combat in Iraq.
Another completely pathetic showing. 5/6
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re: #185 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Another completely pathetic showing. 5/6
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re: #155 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
A lot of people in the Cape Coral/Ft. Myers area did not evacuate.
Just watched that sheriff walk that back all the way to I dunno how many, if any, based his earlier on 911 calls.
About those HIMARS:
The Pentagon announced a new $1.1 billion Ukraine aid package yesterday that included, “18 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) and associated ammunition.” While the news generated a great deal of initial excitement, it didn’t take long for people to notice the fine print. “Unlike Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA), which DoD has continued to leverage to deliver equipment to Ukraine from DoD stocks at a historic pace, USAI [Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative ] is an authority under which the United States procures capabilities from industry,” the Pentagon’s press release explained. “This announcement represents the beginning of a contracting process to provide additional priority capabilities to Ukraine in the mid- and long-term.”
In other words, the U.S. has given Ukraine money to go shopping, but such weapons deliveries arrive whenever the manufacturers can get that equipment to them. Items like Humvees are likely plentiful, and should arrive quickly. HIMARS, not so much, and might take as long as two years.
Yet that’s not the problem that many make it out to be. Ukraine’s bottleneck is the same it has always been—ammunition. The U.S. and allies simply don’t have enough HIMARS rockets to feed Ukraine’s insatiable hunger for more.
USA 🇺🇸 is reviewing whether to give Ukraine 🇺🇦 several Gray Eagle Combat Drones
It is likely that if USA will approve these drones for Ukraine it would occur after Ukraine has NASAMS defending the airports where the drones will be flown from. NASAMS are expected before December pic.twitter.com/rK07uIypbR— Ukraine Battle Map (@ukraine_map) September 29, 2022
re: #186 wrenchwench
That makes this one incompletely pathetic.
Heh!
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re: #189 Belafon
Dang, that drone is the size of a small airplane. Way bigger than I expected one to be.
re: #191 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Dang, that drone is the size of a small airplane. Way bigger than I expected one to be.
“drone” simply refers to the fact that it has no pilot.
Sometimes you’ve just got to be brave and face your fears
by u/evedayis pic.twitter.com/Qruof3YkMQ— Omar (@Omar_pets0) September 28, 2022
re: #192 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“drone” simply refers to the fact that it has no pilot.
I know. I just didn’t expect them to be as big as this one is.
re: #190 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Heh!
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re: #194 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I know. I just didn’t expect them to be as big as this one is.
It’s difficult to get a sense of scale when most of what we see of them is distant shots and on-board cams, but yes, they are rather large to accommodate the amount of electronics and fuel needed to operate the machine and keep it on station for multiple hours at a time.
re: #155 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
A lot of people in the Cape Coral/Ft. Myers area did not evacuate.
Damned gubmint not gonna tell me what to do!
re: #196 Dopamine Fish
It doesn’t help that Hellfire missiles are 5’ long and 100 lbs apiece, so there has to be a little bit of chonk to be able to airlift a couple of those and hang onto them.
I keep getting notifications that the Queen’s cause of death was revealed!
Note to these stupid reporters…Old Age is not a cause of death.
Just sayin’.
re: #197 sizzzzlerz
Damned gubmint not gonna tell me what to do!
If that is the case…ok, sure. Ciao!
It’s those who cannot evacuate; poor people, disabled people, those who have nowhere to go and no money to get there that I feel for. They may be in the above-mentioned group, and even for those schmoes, I feel for them because while they may not want the gubmint tellin’ ‘em what to do, they don’t have a way to do anything anyway.
Wow the rare 2!
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re: #64 jaunte
Speaking of DeSantis, look for all his bluster about mail-in balloting being some sort of issue to all of a sudden drop away as thousands of Republican voters may be unable to live in their houses or have lost their homes.
DeSantis, What a turd fraud.
re: #198 Dopamine Fish
It doesn’t help that Hellfire missiles are 5’ long and 100 lbs apiece, so there has to be a little bit of chonk to be able to airlift a couple of those and hang onto them.
How many missiles does a drone of this type carry?
re: #175 Dopamine Fish
The difficulty is in enforcing that. What defines an “income” of $8M? CEOs are paid in the low 7 figures (looks like the median CEO is around $3.5M/yr in raw cash), but make far more than that in bonuses, options, and other benefits. The interplay here is just frustrating to work through. Yes, I want employees to have incentive to materially contribute to the company bottom line (bonuses). Yes, I want employees to be invested in the future of the company (stock options, ESPP). I don’t want the fabulously wealthy to be able to abuse these mechanisms to hide income and place themselves far above the ordinary man in the warehouse or data center.
Many Wall Street firms essentially cap their salaries at around 250k. The rest is all bonuses, options, and other incentives structured specifically to minimize taxes.
re: #203 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
How many missiles does a drone of this type carry?
It can carry up to 800 lbs of ordnance and other payload, per Wiki. The wiki says it can carry up to 4 Hellfires or 4 2-pods of Stinger anti-aircraft missiles; it also says the base version can carry 2 Hellfires and a signals intelligence package for 14-15 hours, while the improved version can loiter with the same loadout for 35 hours.
re: #194 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I know. I just didn’t expect the [drones] to be as big as this one is.
think how many pizzas/Amazon parcels they can deliver
re: #205 Dopamine Fish
It can carry up to 800 lbs of ordnance and other payload, per Wiki. The wiki says it can carry up to 4 Hellfires or 4 2-pods of Stinger anti-aircraft missiles; it also says the base version can carry 2 Hellfires and a signals intelligence package for 14-15 hours, while the improved version can loiter with the same loadout for 35 hours.
HOLY SMOKES! That’s some amazing technology.
It’s Ginni day.
Breaking: Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, has arrived at the January 6 committee to discuss her crimes with them.
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) September 29, 2022
re: #207 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
HOLY SMOKES! That’s some amazing technology.
They use specialized high-efficiency diesel engines for these drones because they don’t have to fly fast or far, they just have to stay in the air. That, and the majority of their weight and size is fuel tanks.
re: #202 Florida Panhandler
Speaking of DeSantis, look for all his bluster about mail-in balloting being some sort of issue to all of a sudden drop away as thousands of Republican voters may be unable to live in their houses or have lost their homes.
DeSantis, What a turd fraud.
I thought hurricanes weren’t allowed to hit 60 days before an election. And if my house was under 18 feet of water, I don’t suspect my top priority would be ensuring the job security of my governor.
re: #205 Dopamine Fish
It can carry up to 800 lbs of ordnance and other payload, per Wiki.
That’s up to 3,200 quarter-pounders…
re: #201 The Pie Overlord!
Way to go! Always a great feeling to get the eagle! Congrats!
re: #212 Crush White Nationalism
I love Michael Harriot.
Looks like Sydney Powell gets to feed the legal Kraken…her motion to dismiss was denied.
That didn’t last long.
Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott is getting divorced from her second husband (BusinessInsider)
Is this a thing now, people on the Right? Do you agree with Claremont Goebbels here? Do institutions endorse the content of all books on their shelves? pic.twitter.com/2ehRQtVits
— FullAndAccurateHat (@Popehat) September 29, 2022
“It’s not a ban - they’re widely available elsewhere.” Except you’re ALSO demanding that book stores stop selling these books. Face it: You and your ilk want to ban books. It’s just not as easy for you as you would like.
re: #218 Dopamine Fish
Fucking Stupid. Mein Kampf belongs in a library so people can learn about history and context. Having it there does not constitute a de facto endorsement.
Books about transgenders nd same-sex marriage recognize the fact that such people and such marriages exist in our society and even among parents staff of our schools.
re: #218 Dopamine Fish
“It’s not a ban - they’re widely available elsewhere.” Except you’re ALSO demanding that book stores stop selling these books. Face it: You and your ilk want to ban books. It’s just not as easy for you as you would like.
Wait until a San Francisco library removes Hannity and Trump and see how they howl.
re: #219 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
These are the same people who wrote a children’s book about a literal conspiracy theory they dreamed up about the former guy. I just can’t even with these people.
re: #212 Crush White Nationalism
Weaponizing ‘Woke’: A Brief History of White Definitions (The Root)
CNN Senior Weeping Correspondent Van Jones
re: #221 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS
What type of birdie is that? A Jay?
re: #223 Belafon
The one thing I can say I am proud of is that I don’t use any of those words the article is referencing, except when I call other white people terrorists.
re: #224 prairiefire
Looks like a Jay to me.
re: #212 Crush White Nationalism
Weaponizing ‘Woke’: A Brief History of White Definitions (The Root)
They took CRT from an obscure postgraduate academic discipline and make it into the very embodiment of teaching racial history in America.
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I had a hard time. Should have been my 3rd guess.
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AOC’s opponent: “When I get to Congress, I’ll call it all out. I have no shame, I have no filter. Zero filter. I got popular because I said things people were afraid to say. I was banned from school property for 9 months, my granddaughter’s school, because I call everybody out.” pic.twitter.com/FoeTqjgWbV
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) September 28, 2022
“Vote for me because I’m an asshole.”
re: #208 darthstar
It’s Ginni day.
BFD. She’s going to lie for Jesus or whateverthefuck reason she had inside of her addled mind.
re: #231 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
BFD. She’s going to lie for Jesus or whateverthefuck reason she had inside of her addled mind.
Being completely nuts, she may say things that she should have kept to herself.
re: #232 Crush White Nationalism
Being completely nuts, she may say things that she should have kept to herself.
We’ll see. I’m not holding my breath.
re: #231 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
BFD. She’s going to lie for Jesus or whateverthefuck reason she had inside of her addled mind.
re: #232 Crush White Nationalism
Being completely nuts, she may say things that she should have kept to herself.
I suspect the team of lawyers with her won’t allow her to say anything doesn’t include the words ‘5th Amendment’
Wish President Carter a Happy #98thBirthday!
Send President Carter your birthday greeting on our special wall on https://t.co/Ox2Vi5BPP7. Celebrate his remarkable life of service & feel free to include a favorite photo/quote HERE: https://t.co/NyYxHZXhSh#jimmycarterbirthday pic.twitter.com/RYJzAjRD21— The Carter Center (@CarterCenter) September 28, 2022
Something else to worry about:
It’s all fun and games until someone shoots the world economy https://t.co/UjAMRhIOqG
— David Frum (@davidfrum) September 29, 2022
re: #187 jeffreyw
Just watched that sheriff walk that back all the way to I dunno how many, if any, based his earlier on 911 calls.
Initial reports of casualties are often wildly inaccurate; you have to wait a couple days to get a reliable count.
As others here have mentioned, evacuations are complicated. Often, it’s unclear where the hurricanes will hit until very late, not giving people sufficient time to leave affected areas. Doing it in advance, you end up with a much wider area of evacuation, leading to roads with gridlock and cars stuck for hours trying to flee, and perhaps heading to more dangerous sites.
Every Prince Harry interview is just him going “I would prefer my wife’s life not be ruined in the exact same way my mother’s was” and it makes thousands of the pinkest-faced human beings who have ever existed so mad they have to go to the hospital
— Zack Budryk (@BudrykZack) September 28, 2022
re: #153 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I’m impressed! Despite all that flooding, the stores still have power.
Ha!
I heard it was David Firth. https://t.co/uigmPJDWSA
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) September 29, 2022
Fort Myers Beach Times Square LEVELED following #HurricaneIan #Ian #HurricanIan pic.twitter.com/V3gHTs5Mx8
— Smurph (@swmurfl) September 29, 2022
Here are some pictures of that it looked like in the before times.
I would like to see Ben Shapiro play the flute while twerking.
Actually no. Eww.
This Lizzo-flute controversy is a perfect example of what I have termed Face Tattoo Phenomenon™: the phenomenon whereby someone does something deliberately controversial in an attempt to draw attention, and then acts offended when you notice.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) September 29, 2022
re: #245 The Pie Overlord!
I would like to see Ben Shapiro play the flute while twerking.
Actually no. Eww.
So, tell me, Ben, what was truly controversial about it? Was it playing the flute? If so, does it require any response more than “I don’t think the flute should have been removed from its case”?
Hopefully won’t take that long with Putin.
#Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge Tribunal concludes after 16 years, after it reaffirmed Khieu Samphan’s conviction and life sentence for #genocide, #crimesagainsthumanity and #warcrimes via @voaCambodia https://t.co/vfxIIgxFnd
— Right Truth Impunity (@RTTRimpunity) September 26, 2022
A point of no return. Largest forcible annexation of European territory since WW2. Commits him to defend it in perpetuity & capture the parts of it he doesn’t occupy (lots). Prevents him giving it back to Ukraine as part of a settlement. And increases risk of escalation. https://t.co/ks8EGOMyCx
— Shashank Joshi (@shashj) September 29, 2022
re: #124 Hecuba’s daughter
Give she has never demonstrated an allegiance to Christian values in the past, why should she start now? She worships Republican Jesus.
OT: Took 4.
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Yes, at what point does one recognize that the “desperation” was self created.
Thinking today of Quinlan’s comment that a nuclear state is one that no-one can afford to make desperate. True, but did he foresee circumstances in which the ruling regime of a nuclear state, by embarking on a mad adventure & setting out wild red lines, makes *itself* desperate? https://t.co/G1btv9D4jy
— Shashank Joshi (@shashj) September 29, 2022
Lt General Honore’ on CBS talking about FL. and lessons learned from Katrina. Says FL portable cell towers is going to be a big help. He thinks we need big military ships at sea so the rescue helicopters can refuel.
re: #148 Dangerman
That tornado we had hit the news.
Passed 1/2 mile from dangermoms house.
Tore the doors off her Publix
my sister in Volusia County lost her roof this morning.
One reason for the Western warning for their nationals to leave Russia asap:
SUPO: “The Russian security and intelligence services are increasingly targeting foreigners who reside in or visit Russia. Russians working in the West may also be a target of intelligence gathering when visiting their home country” https://t.co/pNnCQpDzDB
— Shashank Joshi (@shashj) September 29, 2022
re: #247 Belafon
So, tell me, Ben, what was truly controversial about it? Was it playing the flute? If so, does it require any response more than “I don’t think the flute should have been removed from its case”?
Um, aren’t musical instruments meant to be played? And part of maintenance is actually playing them?
🚨NEW: Text messages show former Mississippi Gov. & others helped Brett Favre secure at least $5 mil of the state’s welfare funds to build a new volleyball stadium at the Univ. of Southern Mississippi, where Favre’s daughter played.
Favre: Is there anyway the media can find out pic.twitter.com/eroobeIYzY— Anthony Antoine (@AnthonyNBC12) September 13, 2022
re: #177 Dangerman
I am so proud of dangermom
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JUST IN: — Survivors of the mass shooting at the Highland Park Fourth of July Parade have sued Smith & Wesson, online gun distributor Bud’s Gun Shop, Illinois gun retailer Red Dot Arms, the shooter, and the shooter’s father.
— Nick Penzenstadler (@npenzenstadler) September 28, 2022
re: #259 No Malarkey!
Given the current state of federal law, this will probably go nowhere. They might get the shooter and family, but the companies are all protected by GOFP laws.
re: #138 mmmirele
This dude is an elder at that “church” near my house. Seeing this land in my timeline had me press the button on ordering foam board for protesting.
“James White is OK with assaulting a 72 YO man.” Or something. I’ll figure it out.
ETA: (1) Mark Houck apparently used his children as human shields when it came time for the FBI to arrest him.
(2) This is the “church” where the leadership (which James is a part of) believes that people who obtain abortions should be executed.
Me being a non-passive person, if that scumbag had done that to my father he would not be sitting in jail. He would be attempting to recover in the ICU.
re: #255 gwangung
Um, aren’t musical instruments meant to be played? And part of maintenance is actually playing them?
Something, I dunno, can’t quite put my finger on it, tells me it wouldn’t be “controversial” in ol’ Ben’s parlance if it’d been Ian Anderson playing the thing.
re: #260 William Lewis
Given the current state of federal law, this will probably go nowhere. They might get the shooter and family, but the companies are all protected by GOFP laws.
The Sandy Hook families got a win against Remington, on the basis that the way they advertised the Bushmaster… (“Get your man card”, etc)
On the underground cyber war between Russia and Ukraine/West
1) Short thread
NCSC head: “We haven’t seen ‘cyber Armageddon’. But that’s not a surprise to cyber professionals, who never expected it. What we have seen is a very significant conflict in cyberspace - probably the most sustained and intensive cyber campaign on record” https://t.co/ACJbN6kjlA
— Shashank Joshi (@shashj) September 28, 2022
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2) More on the article
Notably, @Lindy_Cameron also alludes to the question of offence-defence balance in cyber domain: “if the Ukrainian cyber defence teaches us a wider lesson…it is that in cyber security, the defender has significant agency…you can choose how vulnerable you can be to attacks” pic.twitter.com/2daLYhIM7W
— Shashank Joshi (@shashj) September 28, 2022
re: #218 Dopamine Fish
“It’s not a ban - they’re widely available elsewhere.” Except you’re ALSO demanding that book stores stop selling these books. Face it: You and your ilk want to ban books. It’s just not as easy for you as you would like.
And are only those voters whose candidates won allowed to decide? Even though taxpayer monies come from those who voted for other candidates?
re: #255 gwangung
Um, aren’t musical instruments meant to be played? And part of maintenance is actually playing them?
and aren’t buttockses meant to be twerked (as part of routine maintenance)?
re: #262 Wile E. Wonka
Something, I dunno, can’t quite put my finger on it, tells me it wouldn’t be “controversial” in ol’ Ben’s parlance if it’d been Ian Anderson playing the thing.
Anderson is British, they tried to burn that flute…
re: #263 sagehen
The Sandy Hook families got a win against Remington, on the basis that the way they advertised the Bushmaster… (“Get your man card”, etc)
Yet to go through all appeals. It will go to the corrupt SCOTUS and be overturned.
re: #264 ckkatz
On the underground cyber war between Russia and Ukraine/West
I fully expected the Russians to simply shut down the Ukrainian power, transportation and communications grid, disrupting Ukraine’s ability to react long enough for them to come in and seize key points and pretty much end the war within 72 hours.
That is also probably the outcome they were promising Putin as well.
Alexa just notified me that an item on my wishlist is on sale for the next 15 minutes and can be delivered today.
That’s never happened before, but the cats are now getting a new toy this afternoon.
1. It highly likely that Norway is not alone in taking these actions.
2. Actions against energy infrastructure would not be an unexpected follow-on to the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines. And since the world energy infrastructure is globalized, the victim of such an action would not even have to be Western or Western aligned.
(Reuters) - Norway will deploy its military to protect its oil and gas installations against possible sabotage after several countries said two Russian pipelines to Europe spewing gas into the Baltic had been attacked, the prime minister said on Wednesday.
— Phil Stewart (@phildstewart) September 28, 2022
re: #261 Eventual Carrion
You could tell the investigating officer that his face just kept repeatedly attacking your fist.
re: #268 William Lewis
Yet to go through all appeals. It will go to the corrupt SCOTUS and be overturned.
I thought they settled out of court? Can you appeal a settlement you agreed to?
There has been a lot of ‘noise’ (but nothing that seems authoritative) on twitter that Russia has now shut down its pipeline into Hungary and Serbia.
Ukraine had shut it down for a few days in August because Gazprom had not paid the monthly rent. The EU also had decided to _not_ sanction it.
The closest that I have seen is this article from The Times.
Gas prices surged last night on fears that Russia may be preparing to halt flows through one of the two remaining pipeline routes that it is still using to send gas to Europe.
European gas prices were up about 19 per cent while UK gas prices jumped by 27 per cent to close at almost 305p per therm, according to analysts at Icis, the price reporting agency. That is about six times higher than the historical average, albeit still well below highs of more than 600p a therm seen last month.
Gas prices soar on fears Russia may shut pipeline
thetimes.co.uk
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Map of pipelines from last spring:
🇭🇺 Hungary & 🇷🇺 russian oil:
A thread 🧵:
Hungary’s only refinery is at Szazhalombatta (green arrow).
Szazhalombatta is connected via the Adria pipeline to the oil terminal at Omišalj.
Hungary’s MOL also owns refineries in Slovakia & Croatia - both also connected to the
1/4 pic.twitter.com/0aWuLXTwK6— Thomas C. Theiner (@noclador) April 26, 2022
re: #273 danarchy
I thought they settled out of court? Can you appeal a settlement you agreed to?
I hadn’t heard that, I thought it was a court decision. But I don’t think that lawyers chickening out is sets a precident.
re: #79 ckkatz
😢
RIP Coolio pic.twitter.com/Z53f3n6HDU
— Al Yankovic (@alyankovic) September 29, 2022
re: #271 ckkatz
1. It highly likely that Norway is not alone in taking these actions.
2. Actions against energy infrastructure would not be an unexpected follow-on to the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines. And since the world energy infrastructure is globalized, the victim of such an action would not even have to be Western or Western aligned.
Tangentially related — I’m a bit too young to remember most of the Cold War, except the last few years — however, I thought that even during the worst days of Soviet Union, they never actually tried to shut off oil supplies, just like we always sold them precision ball bearings, and sometimes even machines to make precision ball bearings.
It just seems to me that Putin, at least this past decade has lost his sense of rationality, which the old Soviets had at least since the Cuban Missile Crisis. Or at least rationally not wanting to blow up the entire world and destroy their own power.
re: #278 aatharuv
Putin is banking on Russia’s ability/willingness to suffer being greater than the West’s and that at some point the West will cave and allow him to declare Ukraine his sphere of Interest.
re: #269 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I fully expected the Russians to simply shut down the Ukrainian power, transportation and communications grid, disrupting Ukraine’s ability to react long enough for them to come in and seize key points and pretty much end the war within 72 hours.
That is also probably the outcome they were promising Putin as well.
That is also what I was waiting for.
But it seems that the Russian cyberattacks against Estonia in 2007 and later in Ukraine woke up a lot of folks in the security field. Russia.
Btw:
Russia is still screwing around with NATO ally Estonia -
VILNIUS, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Estonia has repelled “the most extensive cyber attacks since 2007”, it said on Thursday, shortly after removing Soviet monuments in a region with an ethnic Russian majority.
Russian hacker group Killnet claimed responsibility for the attack, stating on its Telegram account on Wednesday it had blocked access to more than 200 state and private Estonian institutions, such as an online citizen identification system.
Estonia says it repelled major cyber attack after removing Soviet monuments
reuters.com
re: #239 Hecuba’s daughter
Initial reports of casualties are often wildly inaccurate; you have to wait a couple days to get a reliable count.
As others here have mentioned, evacuations are complicated. Often, it’s unclear where the hurricanes will hit until very late, not giving people sufficient time to leave affected areas. Doing it in advance, you end up with a much wider area of evacuation, leading to roads with gridlock and cars stuck for hours trying to flee, and perhaps heading to more dangerous sites.
Case in point - I am from Tampa and I almost booked a hotel for me and my family is Fort Myers to ride out the storm here. I didn’t go through with it because this is not my first storm. They never seem to go precisely where they think it will go…until they do.
re: #268 William Lewis
Yet to go through all appeals. It will go to the corrupt SCOTUS and be overturned.
Stop. This leads to not doing anything, because failure is preordained. (And the courts aren’t wholly corrupt or DT would be in the middle of his second term.)
re: #230 Eclectic Cyborg
“Vote for me because I’m an asshole.”
Tina, I would figure her name to be Karen.
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