Yes, I know it’s six years old, but nobody told me about this hilarious British show until recently. Typical.
Philomena knows absolutely nothing about Shakespeare but that won’t stop her presenting a groundbreaking documentary about him.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2016/05/11/cunk-on-shakespeare-was-a-gloriously-funny-bored-schoolkids-view/More here
https://www.youtube.com/user/Rolotomasi136/videos
Some of the replies show that conservatives forget what it was like being a kid:
“Don’t erase me or my experience from any language or books.”
Listen to powerful testimony from an 11-year old against Gov. Reynolds book banning bill. #ialegis pic.twitter.com/erJMltNpfN— Iowa Senate Democrats (@IowaSenate) February 23, 2023
“Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic strip, went on a racist rant this week on his Coffee with Scott Adams online video show, and we will no longer carry his comic strip in The Plain Dealer,” writes Chris Quinn. “This is not a difficult decision.” https://t.co/tF7tN9SrXc
— clevelanddotcom (@clevelanddotcom) February 24, 2023
It’s always good to act crazy first, because later you can appear normal. pic.twitter.com/OjtCGsgixR
— Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (@GonzoVice) February 25, 2023
re: #144 Eclectic Cyborg
I have never messed around with ChatGPT. Does that make me weird?
We can be weird together.
Today was “Mexican Train” dominoes day at the public library. My wife brought a whole bunch of low-sugar chocolate chip cookies she made.
There were none left when we were done. I guess they went over okay.
So apparently a popular portrait “photographer” on Instagram has turned out to be an AI using fraud. A lot of work for nothing it seems to me. Check out the page for more.
Charles, we used to be able to link to Twitter to promote pages. Is it possible to add a similar feature for the extinct mammut?
America wants you to believe that all of these people just magically disappeared pic.twitter.com/G6GNp8mQqO
— Etan Thomas (@etanthomas36) February 24, 2023
TweetDeck still works. The API is still free and we can posts tweets to LGF to our hearts’ content. For now.
racing through my skull
to Vegas or not to Vegas #umphreys #Almost700MilesByCar
— Elon Musk Blows Goats (@ballfootski) February 25, 2023
9 hour drive. See a concert. Stay off the Strip one night, drive back through Page to get to Silverton on Sunday night, drop off goods for an athlete, go skiing on Monday…
Yikes. I might do it.
Road trip across the Colorado Plateau. Twice. With a choice of Glen Canyon Dam Bridge or Navajo Bridge to cross on the way back east.
re: #14 teleskiguy
Road trip across the Colorado Plateau. Twice. With a choice of Glen Canyon Dam Bridge or Navajo Bridge to cross on the way back east.
You don’t need our permission. :)
I empathize with Charles in that I am also called Charles and so is Charles and so is the King of England.
Joe Biden is ready to run for presidential reelection in 2024, U.S. first lady Jill Biden said in an exclusive interview with AP on Friday. https://t.co/iqlxDLdALK pic.twitter.com/MM2VVEgV6r
— The Associated Press (@AP) February 24, 2023
“He says he’s not done,” the first lady told me in Nairobi, Kenya, the second and final stop of her five-day trip to Africa. “How many times does he have to say it for you to believe it?”https://t.co/1AW8zX8Hoz
— darlene superville (@dsupervilleap) February 24, 2023
re: #17 teleskiguy
Everybody I know calls me Charlie, though…
I think the onions are fully drowned by now.
re: #21 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I think the onions are fully drowned by now.
They were showing on the weather channel this morning that California, since October, has nearly made up its severe drought. In just a few months.
re: #23 Belafon
As far as the reservoirs are concerned anyway. Groundwater is going to take years of extra rainfall.
The Central California town that keeps sinking
Corcoran is sinking.
Over the past 14 years, the town has sunk as much as 11.5 feet in some places — enough to swallow the entire first floor of a two-story house and at times making Corcoran one of the fastest-sinking areas in the country, according to experts with the United States Geological Survey.
Subsidence is the technical term for the phenomenon — the slow-motion deflation of land that occurs when large amounts of water are withdrawn from deep underground, causing underlying sediments to fall in on themselves.
Sorry Antivaxxer is back with a new entry, a pro-vax nurse who turned into an antivaxxer, then died of her tomfoolery (contains multiple Facebook screen shots).
re: #24 Captain Ron
As far as the reservoirs are concerned anyway. Groundwater is going to take years of extra rainfall.
You are never going to get that groundwater back. It’s like wishing the Ogallala Reservoir in West Texas will ever recharge after 75 years of intensive withdrawals to support cotton farming in a fucking desert.
Extraction industries, whether its oil and gas production, coal mining, or water extraction for irrigation, are finite. There’s only so much product to extract, and then you are dead as a business and the earth is ruined.
West Texas cities like Amarillo, Lubbock, and Midland/Odessa, dependent on the Ogallala and surface reservoirs devastated by climate change, will start depopulating in the next ten years because they will stop allowing more tapwater hook-ups to be installed. They simply don’t have the water to economically serve the people living there.
(Is it really that bad, austin_blue?)
Yes. There’s an old Texas axiom: “Whiskey’s for drinkin’, water’s for fightin’.”
I’m a hydrologist, and it is a slow-motion disaster that began just after WWII with a significant shift in agricultural practices and a complete lack of regulation at the State level.
West Texas is fucked.
re: #27 austin_blue
West Texas is fucked.
Well, most of Texas is by 2123, but I doubt you’ll make many friends saying that in your state.
West Texas - running out of water.
Coastal Texas - under water.
Central Texas - hot, hot, and hotter.
re: #27 austin_blue
California has a recharge program when we have extra water like this year.
re: #29 Captain Ron
California has a recharge program when we have extra water like this year.
Which is all well and good, but you can damage aquifers to the point where they cannot be recharged.
re: #27 austin_blue
Having grown up in west Texas, I can say it was already fucked long before now.
re: #26 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Sorry Antivaxxer is back with a new entry, a pro-vax nurse who turned into an antivaxxer, then died of her tomfoolery (contains multiple Facebook screen shots).
She would be classified as one of those who are fully vaccinated who died from the disease. There needs to be an additional breakdown based also on who received the latest booster. “Fully vaccinated” has become an increasingly less reliable metric as the disease evolves.
Flatter than a tabletop
Makes you wonder why they stopped here
Wagon must have lost a wheel or they lacked ambition one
genius.com
re: #33 jaunte
Good place for wind farms.
Which is why a huge one is out by Sweetwater and there’s a pretty good sized one south of Abilene, my home town.
Racist arrested after harassing a family for more than a year. The police refused to do anything about it for that year, until a daughter of the family was frustrated enough and posted video of the acts to social media. Only then did the St. Louis police department act. The woman now faces multiple felony charges. (3:25, “Good Morning America,” includes multiple Ring video clips)
re: #38 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Fixed YouTube link with correct video.
re: #28 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Well, most of Texas is by 2123, but I doubt you’ll make many friends saying that in your state.
West Texas - running out of water.
Coastal Texas - under water.
Central Texas - hot, hot, and hotter.
Well, if the West Antarctic Ice Sheet completely collapses, Texas will lose the cities of Beaumont, Orange, Port Arthur, Galveston, Texas City, Baytown, Deer Park, Pasadena, Houston, Freeport, Lake Jackson, Matagorda, Port Lavaca, Lockport, Aransas Pass, Corpus Christi, and Brownsville.
That would displace around 9 million people and remove about 1/3 of American refinery capacity and 1/4 of American petrochemical capacity. And that’s just Texas.
Don’t get me started on the rest of the coastal waters in the US. The entire Gulf Coast and eastern seaboard would be toast.
re: #40 austin_blue
1/4 of American petrochemical capacity
Add coastal Louisiana, New Jersey, and California, and it’s just about all of it.
re: #29 Captain Ron
California has a recharge program when we have extra water like this year.
It is totally insufficient.
Sorry. It just is.
re: #27 austin_blue
You are never going to get that groundwater back. It’s like wishing the Ogallala Reservoir in West Texas will ever recharge after 75 years of intensive withdrawals to support cotton farming in a fucking desert.
Extraction industries, whether its oil and gas production, coal mining, or water extraction for irrigation, are finite. There’s only so much product to extract, and then you are dead as a business and the earth is ruined.
West Texas cities like Amarillo, Lubbock, and Midland/Odessa, dependent on the Ogallala and surface reservoirs devastated by climate change, will start depopulating in the next ten years because they will stop allowing more tapwater hook-ups to be installed. They simply don’t have the water to economically serve the people living there.
(Is it really that bad, austin_blue?)
Yes. There’s an old Texas axiom: “Whiskey’s for drinkin’, water’s for fightin’.”
I’m a hydrologist, and it is a slow-motion disaster that began just after WWII with a significant shift in agricultural practices and a complete lack of regulation at the State level.
West Texas is fucked.
On top of that, Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas have drawn so much water from the Ogallala Aquifer that the land is suffering from subsidence. There is no place for water to go back to, even if they do get enough rain. The rain will turn into floods.
Texas’s libertarian style of business and property regulation for many years lead to this.
Nebraska, South Dakota, and far eastern Wyoming all have metered water from the Aquifer for many years, limiting how much you can withdraw. Our part of the aquifer is above-average at the moment.
Western Nebraska continues to receive Texas Longhorn cattle shipped north, since ranchers in Texas can no longer water or feed them properly. In the last couple years, there’s been explosion of ranchers here buying Longhorn cattle on the cheap.
re: #41 jaunte
Add coastal Louisiana, New Jersey, and California, and it’s just about all of it.
California is the bright spot as far as sea level rise and energy production are concerned. Cali has got significant coastal ranges and terrain that make near-shore facilities more durable. Ports like San Diego, Long Beach, and Oakland are vulnerable, but you only have to move a few thousand meters inland in most of Cali to be above a 16 meter rise in water levels.
In much of the Gulf Coast and eastern seaboard that level of water level rise means you must move anywhere from 10 to 50 *miles* from your former land access points to water.
The entire US Navy will be forced to move inland and rebuild all of their infrastructure in the eastern US. Expensive.
re: #35 Hecuba’s daughter
She would be classified as one of those who are fully vaccinated who died from the disease. There needs to be an additional breakdown based also on who received the latest booster. “Fully vaccinated” has become an increasingly less reliable metric as the disease evolves.
She got the first two shots, which she said she only got because her mother has cancer, then refused all boosters, even after getting Covid-19. The second round of Covid-19 killed her.
For a long time now researchers have been saying that immunity weakens over time and boosters are necessary, and the virus has mutated so far from the original it is hardly the same virus any more.
On top of that, her Facebork page was a Dumpster fire of hatred for all things Democratic.
By the timing of her posts, it would appear that when Mr. Trump was promoting (weakly) the vaccine, she went and got those first two doses. When Mr. Biden became President, she then flipped to oppose it.
Conservatism kills.
After two years, you can chalk her up as an anti-vaxxer.
re: #45 jaunte
Have I mentioned lately how much I love sight hounds?
(Actually more Salukis than Borzoi, but I do love them all.)
re: #46 austin_blue
From north of Sacramento to south of Stockton most of the western central valley is below 20’ elevation. I feel pretty safe at 145’ on this hill. The city below me is going to be under water.
Unlike the federal government, the filibuster is in the Nebraska Constitution.
NE State Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh (D-Omaha) prepares to filibuster every bill on the legislative agenda unless Republicans pull their anti-trans bill.
“If people are like, ‘Is she threatening us?,’ let me clear: Yes, I am. I am threatening you.” pic.twitter.com/ccOeCJoGGa— Heartland Signal (@HeartlandSignal) February 24, 2023
re: #47 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
It sounded like the first round of Covid made her diabetic, too.
re: #45 jaunte
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We had a Borzoi when I was in high school and then in college. Princess Tatiana! Gorgeous white and cream bitch.
She once ate an entire spice cake mom made and put on the top of the washer in the laundry room to cool. Mom came home and found her lying in the middle of the family room, whining about her discomfort.
That dog could run at 35 MPH for ten miles.
Russian genetic engineering.
See also: Black Russian Terriers.
Don’t buy low.
Rising sea levels are turning coastal homes across the U.S. into sticks of dynamite, passed onto less and less wealthy owners. At some point, they will blow, writes @jake_bittle: https://t.co/tRRrhImBPA
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) February 25, 2023
re: #48 retired cynic
Have I mentioned lately how much I love sight hounds?
(Actually more Salukis than Borzoi, but I do love them all.)
I had an AKC book when I was a kid. The Saluki was my favorite.
re: #47 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
She got the first two shots, which she said she only got because her mother has cancer, then refused all boosters, even after getting Covid-19. The second round of Covid-19 killed her.
For a long time now researchers have been saying that immunity weakens over time and boosters are necessary, and the virus has mutated so far from the original it is hardly the same virus any more.
On top of that, her Facebork page was a Dumpster fire of hatred for all things Democratic.
By the timing of her posts, it would appear that when Mr. Trump was promoting (weakly) the vaccine, she went and got those first two doses. When Mr. Biden became President, she then flipped to oppose it.
Conservatism kills.
After two years, you can chalk her up as an anti-vaxxer.
The vaccines weren’t available until after the 2020 election. I’m not sure if she would have been able to get the first before Biden took office. But you are right that she became very hostile to vaccinations.
The problem remains our terminology: they still call anyone who got the first 2 shots “full vaccinated”. We need to limit the term “fully vaccinated” to those who have received the latest vaccines. After all, we don’t call those who haven’t received this year’s flu shot as vaccinated against the flu because they received a different vaccine 2 years earlier.
re: #25 Captain Ron
They’ve been mining the ground water in the Valley for a century, especially on the west side where J.G. Boswell and Salyer have been sucking it dry to grow their cotton and paying a fraction of what smaller growers pay. For a history of water and the politics of it, read Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner. Your blood will boil.
re: #54 jaunte
Don’t buy low.
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For those of us who live in coastal cities, the images of beach houses disappearing every time the sea gets the least bit grumpy are a fact of life. Yet they keep getting built because there are plenty of suckers with more money than sense who will buy them thinking that they’ll still be there 40-50 years from now.
re: #40 austin_blue
Well, if the West Antarctic Ice Sheet completely collapses […]
That would displace around 9 million people and remove about 1/3 of American refinery capacity and 1/4 of American petrochemical capacity. And that’s just Texas.
Refinery capacity probably won’t be a big deal in 2123, as I expect the ICE to be but a minor player at that time.
The chemical industry is more important, though again I suspect by 2123 that the economy of the US is going to be rather different than it is today.
In 1923 many of the industries and businesses we are accustomed to seeing today either did not exist or existed in a nascent form.
I’m not even sure my grandfather had transitioned away from horses on the farm by then. He may have. But I seem to remember my dad mentioning they were using horses.
re: #57 sizzzzlerz
They’ve been mining the ground water in the Valley for a century, especially on the west side where J.G. Boswell and Salyer have been sucking it dry to grow their cotton and paying a fraction of what smaller growers pay. For a history of water and the politics of it, read Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner. Your blood will boil.
Extra credit for watching the movie Chinatown?
re: #58 Targetpractice
I just looked at the prices along Galveston island; $400k to $2 million, just about the same as 50 miles inland.
re: #58 Targetpractice
Many people buying beach houses are doing so in the back half of their lives. They probably only expect to make use of them for 20 years or so.
re: #52 Captain Ron
And diabetes dramatically increases the risk of severe outcomes, which she should have known.
re: #54 jaunte
Don’t buy low.
The Nebraska Sandhills seems like a property growth market. If water gets this high, everyone is fooked anyway.
The vaccines weren’t available until after the 2020 election. I’m not sure if she would have been able to get the first before Biden took office. But you are right that she became very hostile to vaccinations.The problem remains our terminology: they still call anyone who got the first 2 shots “full vaccinated”. We need to limit the term “fully vaccinated” to those who have received the latest vaccines. After all, we don’t call those who haven’t received this year’s flu shot as vaccinated against the flu because they received a different vaccine 2 years earlier.
This is exactly correct.
As I recall, the first mRNA vaccines were made available around December 15th. I am sure the first recipients were rich people and Politicians across the board.
I also recall that the vaccine was fantastically popular, to the point that people who hadn’t received it yet went to visit their families in droves, resulting in a huge spike in dead chucklekfucks.
Ah, yes, mid-January, 2021, when daily deaths peaked at over 3,000 per day! What a great day in the best country to live in in the entire world!
We were #1!
re: #66 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Hmmm, pinched one off…
LB77 (guns everywhere all the time and you have no right to stop them even in your private home) has been amended, causing the police union in Omaha to drop its opposition. The police chief and Mayor Jean Stothert (R) remain opposed to the bill.
As a result, the new amendment to LB 77 includes OPOA-suggested changes that would increase penalties for “prohibited persons” carrying concealed guns and failing to “immediately inform” a police officer that you are carrying a concealed weapon. It also would make some misdemeanor offenses, such as domestic violence and resisting arrest, qualify for enhanced penalties if a concealed gun was involved.
The new amendment would leave unchanged the aspect of LB 77 that removes the power of cities, counties and villages to regulate guns, including requiring gun registration, as is done in Omaha.
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In the last legislative session, Sen. Brewer (R-Gordon, the next district to my northeast) failed to get his so-called constitutional carry bill across the finish line by two votes. He is two votes short now, but is confident “this time for sure!”
That’s also complicated by Sen. Cavanaugh’s vow to filibuster every last bill in the legislature until the “we hate kids” anti-trans bill is pulled. That bill still has Sen. Hunt’s amendment attached to ban “grooming” children in religious camps and retreats. (Megan Hunt’s assertion is a child is in far more danger of sexual assault in a Christian church-run property than any drag show.)
Sen. Cavanaugh held the floor all day today. She still has the floor tomorrow.
My senator Steve Erdman tried to wedge in his so-called consumption tax/repeal all other taxes bill into the middle of Sen. Cavanaugh’s filibuster and was ruled out of order. He then tried a motion to close this session of the legislature and have the governor call it back in an emergency session, which was voted down.
re: #67 austin_blue
This is exactly correct.
As I recall, the first mRNA vaccines were made available around December 15th. I am sure the first recipients were rich people and Politicians across the board.
I also recall that the vaccine was fantastically popular, to the point that people who hadn’t received it yet went to visit their families in droves, resulting in a huge spike in dead chucklekfucks.
Ah, yes, mid-January, 2021, when daily deaths peaked at over 3,000 per day! What a great day in the best country to live in in the entire world!
We were #1!
I got my first vaccine on the first day it was available for elderly people and certain health conditions. I had both primary shots and two boosters now. (I am not yet eligible for the third.)
re: #67 austin_blue
This is exactly correct.
As I recall, the first mRNA vaccines were made available around December 15th. I am sure the first recipients were rich people and Politicians across the board.
I also recall that the vaccine was fantastically popular, to the point that people who hadn’t received it yet went to visit their families in droves, resulting in a huge spike in dead chucklekfucks.
Ah, yes, mid-January, 2021, when daily deaths peaked at over 3,000 per day! What a great day in the best country to live in in the entire world!
We were #1!
My father was one of the very first to get the vax. The doctors in the Pathology department that he’d worked with for over 50 years wanted him kept safe. He’s still very much with us as a result.
re: #71 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I got my first vaccine on the first day it was available for elderly people and certain health conditions. I had both primary shots and two boosters now. (I am not yet eligible for the third.)
We have both had all five, but we are going to the UK at the end of March and are closely watching the virus as it mutates.
It remains a damn scary time to be a human on this planet, between Russian dumbfuckery and viral evolution.
But in any case, it’s time to hit the rack.
Night all, sweet dreams, be nice to each other.
We are all we have to love.
My friend who got brain damage from covid before the vaccines had to put up with his sister flipping out over not being allowed near their 87-year-old father after his upcoming surgery because she’s unvaccinated.
She’s sure she’s being abused, rather than being a threat. She has never been a smart person.
Tax credits proposed for private Nebraska pregnancy center donations (Nebraska Examiner, today)
That would be tax credits for donations to crisis pregnancy centres.
LINCOLN — As Nebraska state senators prepare for debate regarding abortion, one lawmaker presented a proposal Friday that aims to provide tax credits to private pregnancy help centers.
Legislative Bill 606, proposed by State Sen. Joni Albrecht of Thurston, would establish the Nebraska Pregnancy Help Act and offer tax credits to incentivize private donations to “empower undersupported women to choose a different and better future for themselves and their children.”
“Whether you are pro-life or pro-choice, we can all agree that every woman and child deserves love and support,” Albrecht told the Revenue Committee on Friday.
Albrecht is also the introducer of LB 626, a proposal to ban abortions after cardiac activity is detected. This can be around six weeks, before many women may know they are pregnant.
The Health and Human Services Committee voted Wednesday to send LB 626 to the floor for debate, and Albrecht prioritized the bill Friday. This ensures it will be considered on the floor of the Legislature.
Under LB 606, donors could cut their state tax bills by up to 50%, depending on the size of their donation to qualifying organizations. The annual tax credit available would be capped at $10 million.
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The only people speaking in support of the bill were crisis pregnancy centre workers and owners. Opposition came from just about everyone who doesn’t work in a crisis pregnancy centre.
Statewide polling of all ninety-three counties shows a majority oppose the six-week abortion ban bill in every county. The GOP doesn’t listen to their own constituents though.
Today, the Speaker of the Legislature (a non-politician in Nebraska who is an employee of the Unicameral) asked for input from people around the state on what their priorities are. He was flooded with commentary saying their priorities are for legislators (Republicans) to actually vote on things they care about.
The state constitution calls the people of Nebraska the “second house of the legislature” and requires senators to hold hearings on all proposed bills (that doesn’t mean the senators have to listen to the people though).
re: #72 William Lewis
My father was one of the very first to get the vax. The doctors in the Pathology department that he’d worked with for over 50 years wanted him kept safe. He’s still very much with us as a result.
I noted here before the first two people in my town to get it was my elderly neighbour and me. We became brand ambassadors in the village for getting vaccinated. Three deaths in town before there was a vaccine punctuated the seriousness of Covid-19.
Since the GOP hadn’t yet gone dipshyte about the vaccine and very limited Internet service here precluded Faceborg and Twit from poisoning minds, everyone who could be vaccinated was. There have been no illnesses I am aware of since the vaccine rollout.
Weather Channel just sounded an alarm for a Severe Thunderstorm Alert with possible hail…
re: #77 Joe Bacon
Weather Channel just sounded an alarm for a Severe Thunderstorm Alert with possible hail…
Stay safe.
And people wonder why young people are fleeing the state (hint: it isn’t property taxes, most young people don’t own property).
— John Porter (@UrbanAgGuru) February 24, 2023
re: #55 wrenchwench
I had an AKC book when I was a kid. The Saluki was my favorite.
We had three of them over the years, and an Italian Greyhound, that was a darling, dirty little old man. Along with a bazillion dumped dogs, and five times that many cats. The cats are all I can handle now. Otherwise I would have a retired Saluki, but I couldn’t keep it exercised. And they need LOTS of exercise. Can run, up hill and down, for miles, and not take a deep breath. Bone, muscle, sinew.
Eartha wanted to play tonight. I ‘hid’ her feather toy on my guitar wall hanging across the top of a couple of guitars and I heard an out of tune chord and went to check. Got there just in time to keep her from pulling an acoustic off the wall.
Rewarded her by playing on the couch. Merle was kind enough to sit and watch the festivities and not get in the way.
re: #75 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Tax credits proposed for private Nebraska pregnancy center donations (Nebraska Examiner, today)
That would be tax credits for donations to crisis pregnancy centres.
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The only people speaking in support of the bill were crisis pregnancy centre workers and owners. Opposition came from just about everyone who doesn’t work in a crisis pregnancy centre.
Statewide polling of all ninety-three counties shows a majority oppose the six-week abortion ban bill in every county. The GOP doesn’t listen to their own constituents though.
Today, the Speaker of the Legislature (a non-politician in Nebraska who is an employee of the Unicameral) asked for input from people around the state on what their priorities are. He was flooded with commentary saying their priorities are for legislators (Republicans) to actually vote on things they care about.
The state constitution calls the people of Nebraska the “second house of the legislature” and requires senators to hold hearings on all proposed bills (that doesn’t mean the senators have to listen to the people though).
“WE ARE THE PARTY OF THE PEOPLE! THEY ELECTED US TO DO THEIR BIDDING! LISTEN!!”
“Yeah, we want to address shit that actually matters instead of yet another stab at passing an unpopular abortion ban…”
“WHAT’S THAT? YOU WANT AN ABORTION BAN?! NO PROBLEM, WE’LL GET THAT DONE LICKETY SPLIT!”
re: #78 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Stay safe.
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The young don’t own property because the young got fleeced less than a generation ago so that their parents and grandparents who did own property could avoid losing their “investments.”
Snow/Graupel on the Hollywood Sign…
The Douglas County (Omaha) Democratic Party soundly rejected conservadem state senator Mike McDonnell from joining the central committee for co-sponsoring the anti-abortion and anti-LGBTQ+ legislation in the Unicameral, 17-3, on Wednesday.
Speaking out against him joining the central committee were a broad array of citizens who are LGBTQ+ and their allies, along with supporters of abortion rights.
He is the sole Democrat in the Unicameral co-sponsoring those bills.
Karin Waggoner, who voted against McDonnell’s bid, said Democratic women are furious about his boosting the bill that would further restrict abortions, and she said people who care about LGBTQ teens are angry, too.
“This vote was about sending a strong message that we don’t support elected officials who support the legislation of law that directly hurts vulnerable humans,” Waggoner told the Nebraska Examiner.
Douglas County Democratic Party Chairman C.J. King, reached Thursday, said the Democrats who objected to McDonnell joining the central committee argued he is acting against some of the party’s core beliefs.
“For many of our members, sponsoring the ‘heartbeat bill’ and the trans legislation was a step too far,” said King, a longtime friend of McDonnell’s.
His votes matter more this session than in previous ones because while the Legislature remains divided on the most controversial legislation, it has tilted more conservative. McDonnell could cast the pivotal 33rd vote for cloture that would enable the abortion bill to pass.
Nebraska Democratic Party Chair Jane Kleeb said she has had conversations with McDonnell about where the party stands. She said she explained that the party fundamentally disagrees with his stances on those issues.
“We feel really strongly about these bills that they will do harm,” Kleeb said.
However, she said, he remains a Democrat, and there is room in the party for him.
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re: #85 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The reason this guy matters in the abortion fight in particular was a bit of ratfuquery by former Gov. Pete Ricketts.
In the last session, Sen. Megan Hunt led a successful filibuster of the same six-week abortion ban, the bill failing to get cloture by two votes. His support of the bill didn’t matter.
Between the last session and this one, a Democratic senator died.
The procedure for replacing a senator in the middle of a term is people apply to the governor to be appointed as the replacement. Numerous Democrats in the district applied, as did one high-rolling state Republican Party donor.
Since parties don’t officially exist in the Unicameral, there is no requirement to replace a senator with a new one from the same party. Thus, Pete Ricketts picked the Republican donor.
That changes the voting calculus this time. Ricketts specifically said that he hoped by picking the donor, the Republicans could get the anti-abortion bill over the line despite statewide opposition to the bill.
Thus, Sen. McDonnell’s vote becomes crucial. He’s sort of the Joe Manchin of the Nebraska Legislature.
re: #86 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The reason this guy matters in the abortion fight in particular was a bit of ratfuquery by former Gov. Pete Ricketts.
In the last session, Sen. Megan Hunt led a successful filibuster of the same six-week abortion ban, the bill failing to get cloture by two votes. His support of the bill didn’t matter.
Between the last session and this one, a Democratic senator died.
The procedure for replacing a senator in the middle of a term is people apply to the governor to be appointed as the replacement. Numerous Democrats in the district applied, as did on high-rolling state Republican Party donor.
Since parties don’t officially exist in the Unicameral, there is no requirement to replace a senator with a new one from the same party. Thus, Pete Ricketts picked the Republican donor.
That changes the voting calculus this time. Ricketts specifically said that he hoped by picking the donor, the Republicans could get the anti-abortion bill over the line despite statewide opposition to the bill.
Thus, Sen. McDonnell’s vote becomes crucial. He’s sort of the Joe Manchin of the Nebraska Legislature.
And much like Manchin, he no doubt believes he’s “saving” the NE Dems from themselves by supporting the bill.
More on the antivaxxer noted above: She may not have gotten the second shot. The vaccine card she shows misspelt “Moderna” and has the exact same serial number as the first shot.
Well, at least she went out praising Sarah Huckabee Sanders as her new governor, and her final post was about the stupid M&M crap from FOX on January 24. Like many antivaxxers, she was shitposting right up until she died (she died the next day, after coming down with round two on January 15).
If I was conspiratorial-minded, I would think oil companies are intentionally raising gasoline prices in red US House districts to try to cause voters to vote for Republicans.
The last time I bought fuel (premium, 91 octane, Gulf), the price was $4.85/gal. Regular (86 octane) was 4.15/gal.
re: #89 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
If I was conspiratorial-minded, I would think oil companies are intentionally raising gasoline prices in red US House districts to try to cause voters to vote for Republicans.
The last time I bought fuel (premium, 91 octane, Gulf), the price was $4.85/gal. Regular (86 octane) was 4.15/gal.
Prices around here have been hovering around $2.99/gal for the past two weeks, down from a high of $3.48/gal just before the midterms. I have doubts that that had any real effect on the local elections, since the only real reason we had a Dem (Loria) here for the past four years is because the previous scumbag was so blatant about cheating that even the local Repubs were shocked.
In a hundred years there won’t be anything left of Lubbock but sand dunes with a space cleared for the Buddy Holly statue.
(I will be there too, about 300 yards from Buddy on the bluff above the former Yellowhouse creek, but I will have nothing to say.)
Free article from the New York Times (February 2, 2023)
Why Are So Many Americans Dying Right Now?
About 1.1 million Americans have officially died from Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic, a number that may be familiar by now. But here’s a less familiar one: According to one tabulation by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 300,000 additional Americans have died over the past three years whom we would not have expected to in more normal times.
“Excess mortality” uses historical and demographic trends to estimate “expected” deaths in a population. Demographers and epidemiologists and all the rest of us can use that baseline to measure surprises: an especially bad flu season, for instance, or a novel coronavirus causing a pandemic.
Over the last three years, the country’s large excess mortality has been mostly attributed to Covid-19. But perhaps a quarter of the total, and at times a larger share than that, has been chalked up to other causes. I’ve come to think of this gap as our excess excess mortality — how much more extra and unexpected death the country has experienced during the pandemic than we have recognized as the direct result of infection.
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re: #93 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Free article from the New York Times (February 2, 2023)
Why Are So Many Americans Dying Right Now?
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I read the uncut, expanded version of Stephen King’s The Stand ages ago and remember an entire chapter being dedicated to talking about the knock-on effect of millions of Americans suddenly dropping dead from a superflu that had no vaccines or effective treatment, namely a lot of accidental deaths that either weren’t prevented or were due to people acting in new ways. One example was a young kid dying at the bottom of a well because they broke their leg in the fall and nobody was around to save them. Another was an elderly spinster who pulled her father’s old (unmaintained) revolver out of storage for self-protection, then getting killed by a chamber explosion when trying to use it to kill a biker approaching her. The ironic part? The biker and his buds were just thankful to find another living human being and wanted to help her.
He’s still trying to kill off Republicans: Perhaps the state can be flipped blue.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s state health commissioner has put out a demand that all doctors must warn all people before they receive a Covid-19 shot of a huge risk of a heart attack. They call this “protecting and improving the health of all Floridians.”
The source of their data for this claim? VAERS.
Florida Health’s leader Dr. Joseph Lapado has long been under fire from the medical and scientific community for spreading misinformation about Covid-19 and the vaccination, along with promoting vaccine hesitancy.
Health Alert on mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine Safety (Florida Health, February 15, 2023)
Lots of promotion of Ron DeSantis on Florida Health’s Twitter account.
.@FLSurgeonGen has notified the health care sector and the public of a substantial increase in VAERS reports from Florida, including for life-threatening conditions.https://t.co/wA4eQoAfA6
— Florida Dept. of Health (@HealthyFla) February 16, 2023
Let’s say he isn’t faring well in the replies.
Anti-lockdown Florida issues controversial new guidance to doctors telling them to warn patients they could suffer HEART ATTACK after Covid shot (Daily Mail, February 17, 2023)
A notice sent to the state’s medical professionals Wednesday warned that reports of adverse events following vaccination in Florida had increased 1,700 percent from 2020 to 2021 - the shot’s first year of availability.
Among them was a massive spike in life-threatening conditions linked to vaccines, including include heart attacks and other cardiovascular issues. This is despite only a 400 percent in the number of vaccines administered in Florida that year. This suggests the increase in shots administered is not the sole reason for this increase.
But, the system cited by Florida officials uses self-reported information and does not require verification. Some reports may not be true, and others could be caused by Covid itself - which is known to cause long-term heart symptoms in some sufferers.
While the Covid vaccines have serious side effects, they are so rare that health officials have decided the benefits outweigh risk.
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re: #95 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
He’s still trying to kill off Republicans: Perhaps the state can be flipped blue.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s state health commissioner has put out a demand that all doctors must warn all people before they receive a Covid-19 shot of a huge risk of a heart attack. They call this “protecting and improving the health of all Floridians.”
The source of their data for this claim? VAERS.
Florida Health’s leader Dr. Joseph Lapado has long been under fire from the medical and scientific community for spreading misinformation about Covid-19 and the vaccination, along with promoting vaccine hesitancy.
Health Alert on mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine Safety (Florida Health, February 15, 2023)
Lots of promotion of Ron DeSantis on Florida Health’s Twitter account.
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Let’s say he isn’t faring well in the replies.
Anti-lockdown Florida issues controversial new guidance to doctors telling them to warn patients they could suffer HEART ATTACK after Covid shot (Daily Mail, February 17, 2023)
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Florida these days is basically answering the question “What if Donald Trump had settled for being a governor?”
re: #96 Targetpractice
Florida these days is basically answering the question “What if Donald Trump had settled for being a governor?”
And the corollary: What will happen to the United States if Ron DeSantis becomes President?
Imagine Lapado as the Surgeon General.
It is important you find out the political leanings of your physician, as those will affect the sorts of recommendations and care you receive for vaccines or Covid-19.
A growing literature on political polarization has documented unexpected links between political ideology and beliefs that are unrelated to the principles of liberalism or conservatism (1, 2). During the COVID-19 pandemic, liberal and conservative Americans have disagreed sharply on matters such as the origins of the virus (3), the severity of the pandemic (4, 5), and the effectiveness of a range of interventions, including masking, distancing, vaccination, and drugs like hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin (3, 5-7). Such disagreements inhibit cooperation, fuel partisan antipathy, and threaten public health.
Prior work offers clues about the roots of this polarization: Partisans consume different information (4, 8, 9), evaluate the same information in different ways (10, 11), and often lack the tools (12) or motivation (13, 14) to discriminate between accurate and inaccurate claims. On these bases, we might expect beliefs about COVID-19 treatments to be dramatically less polarized among people who are particularly informed, trained, and motivated, such as physicians.
In the present work, we examine physicians’ beliefs about treatments for COVID-19, benchmark their polarization against that of lay adults, and provide evidence for two psychological mechanisms that give rise to polarized beliefs among both groups.
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Results
We find robust evidence of polarization on eight of ten physician outcomes and all six layperson outcomes (ps < .001; Fig. 1A). To illustrate the magnitude of these effects, conservative physicians were approximately five times more likely than their liberal and moderate colleagues to say that they would treat a hypothetical COVID-19 patient with hydroxychloroquine (Cohen’s h = .37).
(rest of study at the link, including charts)
re: #98 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
It is important you find out the political leanings of your physician, as those will affect the sorts of recommendations and care you receive for vaccines or Covid-19.
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(rest of study at the link, including charts)
So what I’m hearing is that conservative physicians are more likely to commit malpractice. Good to know.
re: #99 Targetpractice
So what I’m hearing is that conservative physicians are more likely to commit malpractice. Good to know.
And more likely to kill their patients.
The Rise of the Sleeper Idiot (Michael Campi at Medium, February 9, 2023)
For years I interacted with people who I thought of as extremely intelligent. It is only in the years since Trump was elected and covid became part of our lives that I realized that these people were only “apparently intelligent.”
Their ability to masquerade as aware and conscious was never tested and therefore they could maintain the charade.
In the years since Trump it has become painfully obvious that these people were never really aware and never really conscious.
They were, deep down inside, closet idiots. It only took a catalyst to activate them and then they came screaming out of their lairs and burned the world of civil behavior to the ground.
Reasonable people looked on in horror as a collective dirty bomb of idiocy exploded in every corner of this country.
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re: #101 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The Rise of the Sleeper Idiot (Michael Campi at Medium, February 9, 2023)
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What the Trump presidency really did was just rip the band-aid off the festering wounds that we’d tried to cover up. We all had the stereotypical racist relative, but we didn’t realize that half the family silently agreed with him but held their tongue for fear of being ostracized. Or that the asshole at work always banging on about “illegals stealing our jobs” had quiet support among your coworkers. And let’s not forget how even the friends we thought were cool and level-headed turned out to be racist bigots because Trump “makes a lot of sense” or “calls it like it is.”
WASHINGTON — Timothy J. Heaphy, the former U.S. attorney who served as the top staff investigator for the special House committee that scrutinized the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack, knew going in that the inquiry would be important.But it was not until he and his team, including about a dozen former federal prosecutors, began digging into the evidence that he realized the panel would break new ground, as it became clear to him that former President Donald Trump had directed a “multipart plan to prevent the transfer of power.”
During the panel’s 18-month investigation, Heaphy, 59, declined interview requests, but he is now ready to speak out about the panel’s work and its findings.
In a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times, Heaphy made the case for why the Justice Department should charge Trump and his allies with crimes and discussed intelligence failures in the lead-up to Jan. 6. He also said that leaks had hindered the panel’s investigation and spoke of how the committee explored measures to compel testimony from recalcitrant witnesses that might have included locking them up.
The interview has been edited for length and clarity.
(Interview follows in the article)
Timothy J. Heaphy Led the House Jan. 6 Investigation. Here’s What He Learned. (New York Times via Yahoo!)
re: #3 DodgerFan1988
“Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic strip, went on a racist rant this week on his Coffee with Scott Adams online video show, and we will no longer carry his comic strip in The Plain Dealer,” writes Chris Quinn. “This is not a difficult decision.”
He did a good job of keeping his politics out of his comic strip for a long time but then it started leaking out. I have not read a Dilbert strip in years.
re: #7 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Today was “Mexican Train” dominoes day at the public library. My wife brought a whole bunch of low-sugar chocolate chip cookies she made.
There were none left when we were done. I guess they went over okay.
This is America, bring Amtrak cookies!
Really, really wanted my third guess to be right but will accept the par. Took MrsTarH out for lunch on Friday. She enjoyed her pot roast, mashed potatoes and green beans. You can tell how getting lower teeth and being able to eat actual food have re-ignited her energy and brightened her mental outlook. Will take her to Belk (our region’s version of Kohl’s) to find some new clothes for her today. Have a great weekend everyone!
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re: #105 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic strip, went on a racist rant this week on his Coffee with Scott Adams online video show, and we will no longer carry his comic strip in The Plain Dealer,” writes Chris Quinn. “This is not a difficult decision.”
He did a good job of keeping his politics out of his comic strip for a long time but then it started leaking out. I have not read a Dilbert strip in years.
$20 says Adams screams he’s being “canceled” and the usual suspects whip up a pity party/angry mob to march around screaming he’s being “canceled” for being a white guy with an opinion.
re: #52 Captain Ron
It sounded like the first round of Covid made her diabetic, too.
my guess is that she had an ass-load of medical problems, one of which likely killed her outside of Covid. covid just tagged along for the ride.
re: #17 teleskiguy
I empathize with Charles in that I am also called Charles and so is Charles and so is the King of England.
He gets almost no attention from the BBC, I check in there nearly every day and have seen little or no mention of him.
re: #60 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Refinery capacity probably won’t be a big deal in 2123, as I expect the ICE to be but a minor player at that time.
The chemical industry is more important, though again I suspect by 2123 that the economy of the US is going to be rather different than it is today.
In 1923 many of the industries and businesses we are accustomed to seeing today either did not exist or existed in a nascent form.
I’m not even sure my grandfather had transitioned away from horses on the farm by then. He may have. But I seem to remember my dad mentioning they were using horses.
hell, 1923? My great-grandfather was still delivering mail in a horse and buggy when the dirt roads in Pennsylvania went through rasputitsa.
re: #25 Captain Ron
There are villages in the Southwest German Saarland that are doing that because of (now abandoned) coal minimg
re: #70 austin_blue
I don’t think that means what you think it means…
would it be more meteorologically sound to say it’s gonna rub one out, with Southern Cal taking the money shot? I would pay a meteorologist 50 American dollars to use that on air, by the way, just in case there are any meteorologists here who need the money.
re: #36 jaunte
Flatter than a tabletop
Makes you wonder why they stopped here
Wagon must have lost a wheel or they lacked ambition one
genius.com
I think the first settlers did hit the coast and Nebraska backfilled once the prime real estate was taken.
re: #40 austin_blue
Well, if the West Antarctic Ice Sheet completely collapses, Texas will lose the cities of Beaumont, Orange, Port Arthur, Galveston, Texas City, Baytown, Deer Park, Pasadena, Houston, Freeport, Lake Jackson, Matagorda, Port Lavaca, Lockport, Aransas Pass, Corpus Christi, and Brownsville.
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Don’t get me started on the rest of the coastal waters in the US. The entire Gulf Coast and eastern seaboard would be toast.
Ben Shapiro says they can just sell their property and move inland. Or rather liquidate their liquefied their assets.
so “cocaine bear” looks like it could be a trip. i’ll have to wait for redbox to spit out a copy.
re: #115 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Ben Shapiro says they can just sell their assets and move inland. Or rather liquefy their assets.
The only market would be Repug dupes who do not believe in climate change even with the evidence right in their faces. Hmmm……maybe he’s onto something.
re: #117 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
The rain has finally arrived… about 12 hours late (or 24 hours late compared to forecasts earlier in the week.)
Cities across the country are on alert today following police warnings of an uptick in “domestic violent extremist messaging” from emboldened neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups who are organizing a “National Day of Hate.”
Yunno, up to now, I was reserved/skeptical about hate crimes legislation because a lot of crime arises from mixed motives that cannot always be exclusively ascribed to hate or intimidation.
But I think we have a pretty clear-cut example here of what those laws target.
Temps have been quite comfortable overnight, 55F with RH above 75%. That’s about to change as our temps plummet once the cold front passes.
Wet year for California, and a cold winter.
See that boundary in the surface winds, where the southerly winds meet the westerly winds, right at the edge of San Diego County:
That edge is this line of rain (in yellow):
And yep… the temp here just plunged 5F. It was quite noticeable. I woke up just a little while ago and was comfortable, now I’m chilly…. so much do I not like the cold.
24 hour precip totals:
The blue-purple is above 6 inches. Though there is no reported total at that in the San Joaquin valley, the onions are good and soaked by now.
However, if you look in SoCal, in the hills above Oxnard there is a report of over 8”.
That’s a lot of rain for an arid climate.
Morning, my scaly friends. We had a smattering of snow overnight, so this morning’s labor was to once again shovel the sidewalk and the driveway and clear the car so I could get out and get Mrs. Fish her all-important coffee. (And also my Saturday breakfast, but that’s less relevant.) How go things among the lizardfolk on this frigid wintry Saturday?
Burbank is at over five and half inches over the past 24 hours. Joe should be well soaked by now.
Good morning
Good morning
Good morning
Good morning
Good morning, ah
Nothing to do to save his life call his wife in
Nothing to say but what a day how’s your boy been
Nothing to do it’s up to you
I’ve got nothing to say but it’s OK
Good morning all! How goes it on this last Saturday in February?
re: #127 Dopamine Fish
Morning, my scaly friends. We had a smattering of snow overnight, so this morning’s labor was to once again shovel the sidewalk and the driveway and clear the car so I could get out and get Mrs. Fish her all-important coffee. (And also my Saturday breakfast, but that’s less relevant.) How go things among the lizardfolk on this frigid wintry Saturday?
Had a bit more cold snow overnight, prob about an inch. Was light stuff I could just sweep off the steps and sidewalk. Is supposed to get up into the 40’s today. Will see if it does. Have to take the daughter back to Cleveland airport to fly back to Denver.
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re: #131 The Squire of Logos
Good morning
Good morning
Good morning
Good morning
Good morning, ahNothing to do to save his life call his wife in
Nothing to say but what a day how’s your boy beenNothing to do it’s up to you
I’ve got nothing to say but it’s OKGood morning all! How goes it on this last Saturday in February?
Will you still need me, will you still feed me when I’m 64? (which will be in around five weeks)
re: #94 Targetpractice
Some of that could also be due to climate and Republicans attempts to destroy government. The Snowpocalypse a couple of years ago when Texas lost power for all those days killed a man because the dialysis center he would go to wasn’t open and rather than going to the nearest hospital, he just went home.
re: #40 austin_blue
Well, if the West Antarctic Ice Sheet completely collapses, Texas will lose the cities of Beaumont, Orange, Port Arthur, Galveston, Texas City, Baytown, Deer Park, Pasadena, Houston, Freeport, Lake Jackson, Matagorda, Port Lavaca, Lockport, Aransas Pass, Corpus Christi, and Brownsville.
That would displace around 9 million people and remove about 1/3 of American refinery capacity and 1/4 of American petrochemical capacity. And that’s just Texas.
Don’t get me started on the rest of the coastal waters in the US. The entire Gulf Coast and eastern seaboard would be toast.
On the plus side, it has opened up a whole new literary genre: Salvage diving in sunken cities.
re: #133 Eventual Carrion
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re: #126 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
If my weather station is right, we got 7.33 inches.
re: #1 William Lewis
OMG, I understood pretty much all of this! What I didn’t realize that 寒い（さむい, samui）”cold” is used for some really incredible cold, not “I forgot to turn on the heater overnight and the house cooled down to ~65F” cold. (Ok, I live in Arizona, so sue me.)
For the record, I’ve been told most Japanese houses have scant insulation by American standards, and the vast majority don’t have central air, so rooms have individual heating/air conditioning.
re: #140 mmmirele
OMG, I understood pretty much all of this! What I didn’t realize that 寒い（さむい, samui）”cold” is used for some really incredible cold, not “I forgot to turn on the heater overnight and the house cooled down to ~65F” cold. (Ok, I live in Arizona, so sue me.)
For the record, I’ve been told most Japanese houses have scant insulation by American standards, and the vast majority don’t have central air, so rooms have individual heating/air conditioning.
There’s a cute anime that goes with the song, but I can’t remember the band’s name at the moment. When I lived in Iwate I wore a knit hat to bed at night in the winter and sometimes my contact lenses would freeze in the solution. Nowadays, heaters have timers to turn on automatically, but I had to stick my hand out from my futon to switch it on manually and then wait for the room to heat up. I’m told that the reason for scant insulation is because homes are built to deal with humidity so that they ever-so-slightly expand and contract.
re: #81 darthstar
Rewarded her by playing on the couch. Merle was kind enough to sit and watch the festivities and not get in the way.
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Annie (RIP) provides some comfort to Homer on our couch ten years ago this month.
Caturday!
re: #142 jeffreyw
With the snowstorm this week, the snow was light and fluffy. After all was said and done, I went to look for our cat, and found her struggling to climb out of her heated cat box I built for her on the deck. She looked so pathetic, so I took the snow shovel and dug some of the light snow away so she could climb out onto the firmly packed snow underneath and get her food. My friends were amused when I told them I had to dig the cat out after the snow.
re: #100 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
And more likely to kill their patients.
But unfortunately their patients will include Democrats as well, who may not realize that the political views of their doctors are affecting their treatment.
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Saying goodbye to an old car, sentimental dad-style.
2/https://t.co/iGBDP4jEF0— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) February 23, 2023
re: #147 Eventual Carrion
There is something really broken within these motherfuckers.
Their only purpose - the entire reason for their existence - is to provoke outrage. These people are what happens when Internet trolls leave their mothers’ basements and get careers in politics. They just want to make the people they hate suffer.
Has anyone here read the book Little, Big by John Crowley? I just saw something on mastadon about it and was wondering.
re: #149 Dopamine Fish
Their only purpose - the entire reason for their existence - is to provoke outrage. These people are what happens when Internet trolls leave their mothers’ basements and get careers in politics. They just want to make the people they hate suffer.
And some of this is they need our side to shoot back. They want a war to start, but we just won’t take the bait.
re: #133 Eventual Carrion
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re: #150 Belafon
Has anyone here read the book Little, Big by John Crowley? I just saw something on mastadon about it and was wondering.
Have not read it but I know it won a World Fantasy Award and is considered by quite a few critics and well known authors to be an absolute masterpiece of modern fantasy.
I probably saw the same posting and added it to my ‘to purchase’ list. One of those works where over the years I would say “yeah, I need to read that”. Now is probably the time!
Air fryer makes pretty good bacon. 1st time I tried it
re: #122 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Cities across the country are on alert today following police warnings of an uptick in “domestic violent extremist messaging” from emboldened neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups who are organizing a “National Day of Hate.”
Yunno, up to now, I was reserved/skeptical about hate crimes legislation because a lot of crime arises from mixed motives that cannot always or be exclusively ascribed to hate or intimidation.
But I think we have a pretty clear-cut example here of what those laws target.
We were having a discussion on the IRC channel I’ve been hanging out on since 1994, and this came up. I said, “I know we are all ACAB, but if you see the Nazis, just call 911 and let them handle it.” And yeah, I know the cops’ sympathies lie with the white supremacists, but I’m not prepared to deal with a bunch of guys who like to goosestep.
re: #154 Dave In Austin
Air fryer makes pretty good bacon. 1st time I tried it
Counter top convection oven. When we put new counters in, we bought one of those because we figured we wouldn’t be able to use our oven & stove for three months. We used it once to cook onion rings (did fine) and then I put it in the garage. Still need to find a place to donate it.
Maybe I’ll put it on Next Door and say it’s free to anyone who donates $100 to Abundant Grace.
Update on the leaky refrigerator line. The local rat guy came yesterday to assess the undercarriage of our house, and while he was down there he turned the valve off and the leak stopped. Yeah, it’s still rusty and needs to be repaired, and we need a new flex line from the refrigerator fed through the floor, and our automatic ice maker is off line until we get it fixed next week, but I’m not losing six gallons of water an hour. In four months of water bills, the repair will have paid for itself.
And yes, he’s going to suck the rat crap up so the plumbers have a clean path to the pipe. Local guy. Charged me $325 for the assessment and laying traps (his magic bait mix: chocolate sauce, a peanut and a cherry gummy bear). Said a cleaning service charges a couple of dollars per square foot to clean the whole of the footprint but we only need that one area cleaned where the rats are. I asked if he’d do it for $500 and he said yes. Gets cleaned and sanitized next week.
Also, he’s legit. Got a big black plastic rat mounted as a hood ornament on his yellow pickup.
re: #157 darthstar
This is a countertop model that we got to replace our old toaster oven that I now use to temper blades.
So far we we like it and it’s getting a workout. Toasted a bagel in no time flat.
re: #150 Belafon
Has anyone here read the book Little, Big by John Crowley? I just saw something on mastadon about it and was wondering.
Long ago. A bit of an odd duck.
re: #160 Dave In Austin
This is a countertop model that we got to replace our old toaster oven that I now use to temper blades.
So far we we like it and it’s getting a workout. Toasted a bagel in no time flat.
We had an older one that was alright, and saw a lot of use. It started falling apart and became a bit unsafe to use (the basket had a tendency to have parts come off, exposing the user to scalding hot surfaces, potentially falling on their feet), so we got a new one last year. It was a major upgrade, and has been one of our favorite appliances.
When I started college in 1973 Mom and Dad bought a GE Toaster Oven for my dorm room. Dad sent it to me when I moved to California. It lasted around 40 years until it finally died. Of course GE no longer makes them…
When I first moved into my house I got a Black & Decker Toaster oven. It lasted for a while. I replaced it with a Breville Smart oven which I still use.
re: #163 Joe Bacon
The microwave that came with my apartment is almost 30 years old. The plastic parts are cracked and falling off, but it still works.
re: #105 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic strip, went on a racist rant this week on his Coffee with Scott Adams online video show, and we will no longer carry his comic strip in The Plain Dealer,” writes Chris Quinn. “This is not a difficult decision.”
He did a good job of keeping his politics out of his comic strip for a long time but then it started leaking out. I have not read a Dilbert strip in years.
I finally got around to reading the story that was linked in the tweet as to what Adams was saying. His screed was a full-blown neo-Nazi catchphrase laden rant - he isn’t even trying to put a pseudo-neutral face on his white nationalism.
Good riddance to him from our country’s comic pages.
That being said, I predict he’ll be a guest on Tucjker Carlson’s show within the week crying about being censored.
re: #67 austin_blue
This is exactly correct.
As I recall, the first mRNA vaccines were made available around December 15th. I am sure the first recipients were rich people and Politicians across the board.
I also recall that the vaccine was fantastically popular, to the point that people who hadn’t received it yet went to visit their families in droves, resulting in a huge spike in dead chucklekfucks.
Ah, yes, mid-January, 2021, when daily deaths peaked at over 3,000 per day! What a great day in the best country to live in in the entire world!
When COVID started spiking (February 2020?), the owner of the small company I consult for - in spite of his political beliefs - set up a Vonage overlay to tie employee cellphones together, sent everyone to work out their home. And provided desk top or laptop computers for company home use.
So until February 2021, I was mask wearing in public, working at home, and non-vaccinated.
Today, after 5 shots, still mask wearing in public, & still don’t go to the office.
re: #169 Orange Impostor
I fully expect Nazi Scott Adams as Fox and FIENDS Special Guest Monday morning.
Down here in the DC ‘burbs, it was 80deg two days ago. Tomorrow is forecast to reach 60degs.
Right now it is snowing. Second time this year. Currently even the leaf litter is too warm and the snow isn’t sticking.
The “municipal requirement” to go to the grocery store and recite the snow mantra [“Bread, Milk, Toilet Paper”] is still listed at advisory. ///
However, I suspect that there are those who currently view the local weather situation on the Washington Beltway thusly:
Posted a page about this a couple minutes ago.
A Christian Health Nonprofit Saddled Thousands With Debt as It Built a Family Empire Including a Pot Farm, a Bank and an Airline
from ProPublica.
A family of Xtian Con Artists dutifully fleecing the flock refusing to cover health care bills and diverting the $$$$ into their own pockets.
re: #171 BeenHereAwhile
So until February 2021, I was mask wearing in public, working at home, and non-vaccinated.
Today, after 5 shots, still mask wearing in public, & still don’t go to the office.
Much the same story here, I only have four jabs in me, avoid crowded indoor venues and mask when I go shopping unless the place is near empty (I try to go on weekday mornings when the crowds are thinnest)
re: #165 PhillyPretzel
When I first moved into my house I got a Black & Decker Toaster oven. It lasted for a while. I replaced it with a Breville Smart oven which I still use.
Iirc, StoneKettle got one of those (Breville Smart Oven) to temporarily replace his stove during a kitchen remodel and really likes it.
eta - clarified ‘those’ to mean Breville Smart Oven…
re: #176 ckkatz
Iirc, StoneKettle got one of those to temporarily replace his stove during a kitchen remodel and really likes it.
I have a coffee grinder inherited from my in-laws that they bought in France in the 1960’s…
re: #173 ckkatz
This could go down as the first winter ever where we don’t get a single snowflake here in Western NC. We hit 82 on Thursday. Farther east, Raleigh set an all-time February record of 85. The warm weather hasn’t affected the Hurricanes, who keep on rolling. Now if someone could just slip some cocaine into those damn Bruins!
re: #178 TarHellion
This could go down as the first winter ever where we don’t get a single snowflake here in Western NC. We hit 82 on Thursday. Farther east, Raleigh set an all-time February record of 85. The warm weather hasn’t affected the Hurricanes, who keep on rolling. Now if someone could just slip some cocaine into those damn Bruins!
We had a dusting of snow on the Rhine the week before Christmas (that was all melted away by Christmas Day) and otherwise nothing other than a few odd snowflakes.
Putin is gnashing his teeth over the generally mild winter that most all of Europe experienced this year.
re: #175 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Much the same story here, I only have four jabs in me, avoid crowded indoor venues and mask when I go shopping unless the place is near empty (I try to go on weekday mornings when the crowds are thinnest)
Sunday mornings, 7am. No one is grocery shopping. I can get in and out in a hurry.
Oh my! Slimy Scott Perry got smacked down by the court?!
Late Friday, Chief Judge Beryl A. Howell of the U.S. District Court in D.C. swatted aside protestations from Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) who was trying to keep the Department of Justice from reviewing over 2,000 documents on his phone related to the Jan. 6 insurrection.
“Chief Judge Beryl A. Howell of the U.S. District Court in D.C. released a number of previously sealed opinions after finding that the ‘powerful public interest’ outweighed the need for secrecy in the constitutional battle over Perry’s claims and the historic investigation,” the Washington Post is reporting.
In the ruling, Howell wrote, “What is plain is that the Clause does not shield Rep. Perry’s random musings with private individuals touting an expertise in cybersecurity or political discussions with attorneys from a presidential campaign, or with state legislators concerning hearings before them about possible local election fraud or actions they could take to challenge election results in Pennsylvania.”
According to the Post’s Spencer Hsu, “Perry is a key figure who sought to help Trump replace the attorney general after the 2020 election with former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark and get the Justice Department to reverse its finding that Joe Biden had been elected fairly, according to the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack by Trump supporters on the U.S. Capitol.”
The report adds, “The Justice Department has separately prioritized and obtained access to 37 emails between Perry and Trump-connected lawyers John Eastman, who pushed false claims of mass electoral fraud in 2020, Clark and aide Ken Klukowski, as well as 331 documents from Clark about his Jan. 6 role, according to the filings. “
LOCK. HIM. UP.
Snow in California. Checkmate, global warming!
re: #156 mmmirele
We were having a discussion on the IRC channel I’ve been hanging out on since 1994, and this came up. I said, “I know we are all ACAB, but if you see the Nazis, just call 911 and let them handle it.” And yeah, I know the cops’ sympathies lie with the white supremacists, but I’m not prepared to deal with a bunch of guys who like to goosestep.
I think that you make an important point as this is also a test to see the state of our governance. Timothy Snyder put it this way:
“6. Be wary of paramilitaries. When the men with guns who have always claimed to be against the system start wearing uniforms and marching around with torches and pictures of a Leader, the end is nigh. When the pro-leader paramilitary and the official police and military intermingle, the end has come.”
Catching up:
On small appliances: I really like my suite of Ninja- toaster oven, coffee maker, and blender. Do not own a microwave so toaster oven gets lots of use
On weather: windy rain last night caused many small broken branches in the yard but only one big one, from a softwood tree in backyard —so far. Sun just came out 10 minutes ago
On animals: From 2015 Jack (RIP) and Luke make the scene near Mira Monte, California
Trying to use Javascript as a scripting language for our application via GraalVM. First impressions of the language: “I have an idea, let’s make closures the central part of the language.”
re: #180 The Squire of Logos
Sunday mornings, 7am. No one is grocery shopping. I can get in and out in a hurry.
Not an option in Germany, no grocery stores open on Sunday/holidays.
Weird weather apparently not confined to the Far West: went out for muffins this morning, and it was 27F and snowing! Not sticking, by any means, but definitely flakes.
OK, cold and snow aren’t (or shouldn’t be) that weird for February in NYC, but it’s been fairly rare this winter.
Why the Fox evening lineup - and their social media partners- so loathe Zelenskyy https://t.co/X6GX29XY2W
— David Frum (@davidfrum) February 25, 2023
Getting in a 30 mile bike ride in today before we get nailed with weather. Oh, and a beer and wings stop on the way…
re: #182 Ace Rothstein
Snow in California. Checkmate, global warming!
Well since the rain is heavy right now and I won’t go out at all today hooked up the Mephisto board and playing a game of chess on Lichess with this player from Austria.
/ Unlike several other 5 eyes countries Canada has no disclosure requirements for citizens doing political work in tandem with a foreign government.
Canada is, now, saying it’s looking at maybe creating one. https://t.co/eOj8IShqCN— Alexander Panetta (@Alex_Panetta) February 25, 2023
(Five Eyes - Wikipedia - The Five Eyes (FVEY) is an intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States.)
I don’t feel comfortable bragging to my friends but nobody knows me here so what the heck. My twins both got into university of florida yesterday and so happy for them. One of them has decided to go to fsu but it was still nice for him.
re: #197 Axolotl
I don’t feel comfortable bragging to my friends but nobody knows me here so what the heck. My twins both got into university of florida yesterday and so happy for them. One of them has decided to go to fsu but it was still nice for him.
It’s always ok to brag about your children. It’s not ok to brag about how much us parents were responsible for getting them there.
re: #196 jaunte
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re: #199 Hecuba’s daughter
I recently upgraded to a new computer, displays are fast, but now I find I have to make regular payments to Adobe if I want to read a pdf document.
re: #200 jaunte
I recently upgraded to a new computer, displays are fast, but now I find I have to make regular payments to Adobe if I want to read a pdf document.
I know there are other features they would like for me to pay for, such as built-in OCR and editing, but I don’t pay them to use their reader.
re: #199 Hecuba’s daughter
Using Chrome on my ancient PC, and your post appears as a solid green block. Took forever for it finally to display properly. OTOH Safari on my IPhone immediately has the correct display,
FWIW, I’m still getting the “green block” issue on my iPad - it refreshes away OK, but still blanks out displayed images if touched (hard to avoid on a tablet)…
re: #201 Belafon
When I try to open a document and use the reader, I get a sign-in prompt, can’t scroll or page through the open document.
re: #203 jaunte
When I try to open a document and use the reader, I get a sign-in prompt, can’t scroll or page through the open document.
I can only suggest uninstalling Adobe and using either a browser plug in or reinstalling a basic reader afterwards.
re: #204 Belafon
I think I discovered the problem; it’s between the chair and keyboard.
re: #208 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
“Why are IT people such jerks?” vol. 32767:
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There is an ept shortage.
Imagine the IT person is texting with a 70 year old cancer patient who’s trying to find out if she has an appointment scheduled.
re: #209 wrenchwench
I have received from people with advanced degrees more than one helpdesk ticket and/or email that simply said “It’s doing it again.”
I just got back from a small get-together sponsored by the local D’s. Even though I am an R I was greeted warmly as a neighbor. Now all I have to do is get my side of the aisle to follow what the D’s are doing.
re: #213 jaunte
Light snow in Philly.
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Yet another fat borb. The branch can’t hold many more.
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I’ve never dealt with 70 year-old cancer patients, but I have driven an hour across town to press the power button on a printer that a VIP who makes 5x the money I do assured me was dead as a doornail and they had of course already Tried Everything.
Now that we have great embeds (thanks Charles!) it’s time for a good “Share to Mastodon” button.
mastodon.social
re: #219 Thanos
Now that we have great embeds (thanks Charles!) it’s time for a good “Share to Mastodon” button.
mastodon.social
Ok I must be doing something wrong, my toot is not embedding?
re: #220 Thanos
Ok I must be doing something wrong, my toot is not embedding?
3 dot menu bottom right, ‘copy link to post’. Paste.
re: #132 Dave In Austin
This years 1st relocation. Baby WDR who will reside in the garage till
Monday when it’s supposed to be in the 80’s.
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Cute little buzzer!
re: #224 austin_blue
Cute little buzzer!
Wondering if there are a bunch more babies to be found in the same area from the same brood?
Locally, baby copperheads are reputed to be more dangerous than the adults. Supposedly because they have not yet learned to give “dry bites”. I have not tested this theory.
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