Mr. Dorsey Regrets: Says Elon Musk Shouldn’t Have Bought Twitter After All

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It’s a little late now, after what used to be a troubled but sometimes useful site has been turned into a chaotic right wing hellhole, but Jack Dorsey now says Elon Musk shouldn’t have bought Twitter after all.

Dorsey said he thought Musk, the Tesla CEO who serves in the same role at Twitter today, should have paid $1 billion to back out of the deal to acquire the social media platform. The comments are a stark reversal from Dorsey’s strong endorsement of Musk’s takeover, when he wrote a year ago that if Twitter had to be a company at all, “Elon is the singular solution I trust.”

“I trust his mission to extend the light of consciousness,” Dorsey tweeted at the time.

In his remarks on Bluesky on Friday, Dorsey struck a far different tone.

Dorsey said he didn’t think Musk “acted right” after pursuing the site and realizing his potential mistake, adding that he did not believe the company’s board should have forced the sale.

“It all went south,” Dorsey added.

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230 comments
1
Targetpractice  Apr 30, 2023 • 12:20:09am

Translation: Jack was cool with the payday, but he’s not cool with what happened after.

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Belafon  Apr 30, 2023 • 12:22:35am

re: #125 Targetpractice

Ah yes, the “Demon Core.” Proof that even men with understandings of nuclear physics that most of us could only guess at still think “Let’s poke at it with a stick” is a valid form of scientific research.

All of physics is “Let’s poke it with a stick.” The debate is over the proper length of stick.

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ckkatz  Apr 30, 2023 • 12:22:55am

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Belafon  Apr 30, 2023 • 12:24:29am

re: #127 ckkatz

Warning - Never awaken the volcano -

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In other words, throwing virgins in was a bad idea.

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A Cranky One  Apr 30, 2023 • 12:25:08am

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ckkatz  Apr 30, 2023 • 12:31:03am

re: #2 Belafon

There was a University of Pittsburgh Physics professor name Bernard Cohen who made a name for himself by offering to eat plutonium. Nobody who had access to plutonium took him up on that offer.

When Ralph Nader described plutonium as “the most toxic substance known to mankind”, Cohen, then a tenured professor, offered to consume on camera as much plutonium oxide as Nader could consume of caffeine,[ the stimulant found in coffee and other beverages, which in its pure form has an oral (LD50) of 192 milligrams per kilogram in rats. Nader did not accept the challenge.

Wiki - Bernard Cohen(physicist)

His son was this guy, btw -

Wiki - Fred Cohen

In the 1980s both father and son were mentioned in different articles in the same Time Magazine.

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Targetpractice  Apr 30, 2023 • 12:35:48am

I also like how Jack is trying to put all the blame for this shitshow on Musk by suggesting that he could have just paid $1b and walked away. Fucker, you SUED him to force the sale to go through. YOU could have just agreed to let him walk when he said he was no longer interested and been done with it. But you were drooling over the huge fucking check he would have to cut to buy your shares and you weren’t about to let that happen. Don’t sit there and act like you’d have been cool if he just paid $1b to back out because you put the legal gun to his head and ordered him to sign on the dotted line.

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ckkatz  Apr 30, 2023 • 12:42:38am

And the important question of the evening -

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ckkatz  Apr 30, 2023 • 12:45:24am

Dave Troy has a thread on Dorsey-Musk and Bluesky-Nostr. Not sure how authoritative it is, but it has a lot in it.

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teleskiguy  Apr 30, 2023 • 12:47:36am

Jack Dorsey is sad a website he sold for billions became even more horrible after he sold it.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 30, 2023 • 12:49:32am

re: #8 ckkatz

Clearly, the answer is atomic radiation, because if it was from eating too many ghost pepper tacos, that blast wouldn’t be coming out of Godzilla’s mouth.

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ckkatz  Apr 30, 2023 • 12:50:32am
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teleskiguy  Apr 30, 2023 • 12:52:39am

Twitter has *always* been low key garbage. But it was fun!

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ckkatz  Apr 30, 2023 • 12:53:26am

re: #11 Dr Lizardo

Clearly, the answer is atomic radiation, because if it was from eating too many ghost pepper tacos, that blast wouldn’t be coming out of Godzilla’s mouth.

True

In college I had a couple of friends that liked to push limits. And yes, they did complain about those kind of burns at one point. Personally, I’m not a fan of chemical burns on any part of my anatomy.

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Targetpractice  Apr 30, 2023 • 12:53:51am

re: #9 ckkatz

Dave Troy has a thread on Dorsey-Musk and Bluesky-Nostr. Not sure how authoritative it is, but it has a lot in it.

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Oh, I see, Jack thinks he’s gonna be the next Steve Jobs.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 30, 2023 • 12:55:03am

re: #14 ckkatz

True

In college I had a couple of friends that liked to push limits. And yes, they did complain about those kind of burns at one point. Personally, I’m not a fan of chemical burns on any part of my anatomy.

I do enjoy spicy foods, but I know my limits. Ghost pepper, Carolina Reaper, etc.? No thanks.

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BigPapa  Apr 30, 2023 • 1:07:30am

Habanero salsas are my limit. I just fermented some, should make a Sriracca plus hot sauce. I can put some on food and enjoy it with a warm face and runny nose.

Scorpion peppers, hellnaws. I had one that was very tasty but very hot. A teaspoon in a bowl of Ramen was good.

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ckkatz  Apr 30, 2023 • 1:07:38am

re: #16 Dr Lizardo

Pepper in the Pot

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BigPapa  Apr 30, 2023 • 1:09:03am

I did a Pacqui one chip challenge chip. I ate about a quarter of one. Quite the experience.

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ckkatz  Apr 30, 2023 • 1:12:40am

re: #17 BigPapa

My mother was Midwest German and grew up during the Great Depression. About the only spices we saw were salt and pepper.

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teleskiguy  Apr 30, 2023 • 1:17:44am

I have fun with Mom on Facebook.

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BigPapa  Apr 30, 2023 • 1:18:00am

I’ve been getting dried chilis and making red and birria sauces. I take out the seeds and some of the white membrane. Nice toasty heat but won’t be painful. Smoky. Sweet. Complex. I want to get some Hatch chilis soon. I remember some dude made chili with 3 types of New Mexico chilies and it was amazing.

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ckkatz  Apr 30, 2023 • 1:21:15am

Well, time to head to bed…

And for our carefully curated Dad joke -

I told a joke on a Zoom Meeting and no-one laughed.
It turns out I’m not remotely funny.

And remember -

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sagehen  Apr 30, 2023 • 1:30:17am

re: #10 teleskiguy

Jack Dorsey is sad a website he sold for billions became even more horrible after he sold it.

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ckkatz  Apr 30, 2023 • 1:31:19am

Sounds like Wordpress is dropping Twitter -

In early April, we experienced an unexpected suspension of our Twitter API access. This access is what powers Jetpack Social, which in turn helps you automatically share your blog posts to Twitter. Though the service was restored that same day, it turns out that there were bigger changes looming on the horizon.

Twitter recently notified Automattic that it was dramatically changing the terms and pricing of the Twitter API. The cost increase is prohibitive for us to absorb without passing a significant price increase along to you, and we don’t see that as an option. We have attempted to negotiate a path forward, but haven’t been able to reach an agreement in time for Twitter’s May 1 cutoff.

Given that, we have decided to discontinue using the Twitter API.

For wordpress.com and Jetpack users, Twitter will no longer be part of Jetpack Social. However, we’re adding Instagram and Mastodon very soon. In the meantime, auto-sharing to Tumblr, Facebook, and LinkedIn still works as expected, and you can continue sharing your blog post links on Twitter manually through their app or desktop site.
*snip*

Wordpress - Why Twitter Auto-Sharing Is Coming to an End

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 30, 2023 • 1:42:52am

re: #23 ckkatz

Spending a Sunday completely relaxing and not doing anything is far from a waste. It is basically my goal for Sundays.

Long weekend for most of Europe as Monday is May First, Labor Day for the Socialist Hellholes of the world.

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Grunthos the Flatulent  Apr 30, 2023 • 1:48:13am

re: #117 ckkatz

Whoa! You guys let in Australian Beer?

ETA -
Oops brewpub is in Melbourne, Australia.

Craft beers from over The Ditch aren’t that common here. The mass market stuff such as Victoria Bitter, Castlemaine XXXX and, tragically, even Fosters) is easier to find. Since our own brewing scene is first class, we don’t suffer too much. However… (personal life stuff follows)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 30, 2023 • 2:04:00am

hi

We’re now in the part of “Dark Shadows” where the characters have left Parallel Time and jumped into the future (1969). Collinwood lies in ruins, the Collins name is not spoken by the locals, and everyone wonders why the principal character look precisely the same as they did on the day they “disappeared.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 30, 2023 • 2:04:54am

Sunday irreverence:

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 30, 2023 • 2:06:01am

re: #28 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Used to watch that every afternoon as a kid when it came out.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 30, 2023 • 2:17:11am

re: #30 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Used to watch that every afternoon as a kid when it came out.

It terrified the crap out of my sister. My grandmother banned us from watching it.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 30, 2023 • 2:18:45am

re: #31 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

It terrified the crap out of my sister. My grandmother banned us from watching it.

Scared the heck out of me, too.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 30, 2023 • 2:23:18am

Calgary, Alberta is going after the ghouls who claim to be pro-lifers.

An amendment to a bylaw could see more rules placed on groups that mail out flyers containing images of fetuses to Calgary homes.

A meeting of the City of Calgary’s community development committee voted unanimously on Thursday to send the proposed bylaw to council next month.

The bylaw amendment - called Regulating the Unsolicited Distribution of Graphic Images Depicting a Fetus - would modify Calgary’s Community Standards Bylaw to regulate any organization that uses graphic images of fetuses on their flyers.

The amendment “would require that flyers showing graphic images of fetuses be concealed in an opaque envelope bearing a graphic content warning and the name and address of the sender with a $1,000 specified penalty for not meeting every requirement,” the city document reads.

The document went on to say that such flyers “have caused harm to some recipients and can be deeply traumatizing for young children and those who have experienced pregnancy loss, among others.”

The bylaw wouldn’t prevent the flyers being sent out, but instead “establish rules for their delivery.”

It would only apply to flyers being distributed to property owners, according to the city.

“A person handing out flyers on a public sidewalk or roadway will not be subject to the restrictions in the proposed bylaw amendments,” the bylaw reads.

(more)

Calgary council moves closer to adding restrictions on anti-abortion flyers sent to homes (CTV)

In the meantime, Alberta’s premier is still a moran.

Premier Danielle Smith’s comments at a central Alberta conference last week are raising eyebrows after she referenced thoughts she had about “freedoms” residents in Florida and South Dakota are enjoying.

According to an online report from Fort Saskatchewan, the premier was meeting with Morinville-St. Albert MLA Dale Nally and Albertans in the town of Gibbons on April 11.

During the question and answer period afterwards, Smith made comparisons between Canadian and American politics and suggested she wanted to see freedoms that some U.S. states enjoy applied here.

(more)

Danielle Smith comments suggest she wants ‘freedoms’ like DeSantis and Noem (CTV)

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Teukka  Apr 30, 2023 • 2:26:22am

re: #2 Belafon

All of physics is “Let’s poke it with a stick.” The debate is over the proper length of stick.

And what kind of stick.

Back then, criticality experiments were done by hand. Daghlian’s criticality accident happened because he accidentally dropped a tungsten brick on Rufus, causing it to go supercritical. Slotyn’s criticality accident is debated, there’s one narrative which goes that he dropped the Be sphere completely over Rufus causing it to go “crit”, another narrative which says the still had the screwdriver in between, but that he hadn’t factored in the added neutron reflectivity of his hand (more precisely, the water in it) holding the Be sphere.

Needless to say, they moved to mechanical contraptions for criticality tests in about the same moment Rufus got dubbed “The Demon Core”. And they began paying more attention to the possibility of accidental criticalities. But not enough. Criticality accidents have happened since.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 30, 2023 • 2:29:50am

re: #33 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Calgary, Alberta is going after the ghouls who claim to be pro-lifers.

(more)

Calgary council moves closer to adding restrictions on anti-abortion flyers sent to homes (CTV)

Danielle Smith comments suggest she wants ‘freedoms’ like DeSantis and Noem (CTV)

How about gun-control flyers featuring heaps of bleeding schoolchildren?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 30, 2023 • 2:36:33am

Last post two weeks ago.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 30, 2023 • 2:42:12am

Ugh.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 30, 2023 • 2:45:05am

re: #37 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Minnesota woman who admitted to leaving newborn to die sentenced to 27 years in prison

Was there no place available to drop it off safely?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 30, 2023 • 2:45:13am
A Quebec man has been sentenced to more than three years in prison for using artificial intelligence to produce synthetic videos of child pornography.

Steven Larouche, 61, of Sherbrooke, Que., pleaded guilty to creating at least seven videos with so-called deepfake technology, which is used to superimpose the face of an individual onto the body of another person. He also pleaded guilty to possessing hundreds of thousands of computer files of child pornography, for which he was sentenced an additional four and a half years.

Provincial court judge Benoit Gagnon wrote in his ruling, issued earlier this month, that he believes this was the first case in the country involving deepfakes of child porn. He said he worries what will happen as criminals use the technology to put the faces of children whose images they find on social media onto videos of other children being sexually assaulted.

(more)

Not a Drag Queen

Quebec man sentenced to prison for creating AI-generated, synthetic child pornography (Globe & Mail, April 26, 2023)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 30, 2023 • 2:46:53am

re: #39 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

(more)

Not a Drag Queen

Quebec man sentenced to prison for creating AI-generated, synthetic child pornography (Globe & Mail, April 26, 2023)

Serious gray area here.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 30, 2023 • 2:52:34am

re: #40 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Serious gray area here.

Nope, not grey at all.

Two people victimised: The body of one child, the face of another. The video goes up on the Internet, and the children are identifies as rape victims.

Chuds also use actual CSAM video to identify the victims, for the purpose of tracking them down for child rape.

In the case of this girl, the man in question had her name, address, school, parents’ names, and other information, which he put out when he distributed the videos.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 30, 2023 • 3:03:18am

In local news, business investment in a dying town in my county.

Angora (population 1, has a post office and the Cheyenne NWS transmitter), the ghost town buildings mostly levelled by the Department of Roads to widen US-385, has the school building intact.

That building is now undergoing renovation after the county authorised building permits. In the building will go a new rural medical clinic and a superette market.

Angora is about halfway between Alliance and Bridgeport. It is the largest town on the route. The county hopes that new development in Angora will attract new business and people.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 30, 2023 • 3:03:35am

re: #41 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Nope, not grey at all.

Two people victimised: The body of one child, the face of another. The video goes up on the Internet, and the children are identifies as rape victims.

Chuds also use actual CSAM video to identify the victims, for the purpose of tracking them down for child rape.

In the case of this girl, the man in question had her name, address, school, parents’ names, and other information, which he put out when he distributed the videos.

Okay, so there were real children involved in generating the images. That removes any gray area.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 30, 2023 • 3:05:05am

re: #43 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Okay, so there were real children involved in generating the images. That removes any gray area.

The issue brought before the Québec courts was the video was so-called deep fakes rather than so-called AI or drawings.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 30, 2023 • 3:07:08am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 30, 2023 • 3:08:04am

re: #44 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The issue brought before the Québec courts was the video was so-called deep fakes rather than so-called AI or drawings.

that is another matter entirely. Deep Fakes are not pure AI as they are still based on actual images of living people.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 30, 2023 • 3:11:15am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 30, 2023 • 3:18:08am

‘Headed off the charts’: world’s ocean surface temperature hits record high (The Guardian, April 7, 2023)

TL;DR, over a ten-day period in March, sea temperature rise was the highest ever recorded.

There are competing theories over why this is. One gaining traction is the very powerful La Nina which has come to an end, which masked deeper sea temperature rise from global warming (and created the massive snowfalls and rainfalls in California). With the coming El Nino, the “lid” is now removed from the deep ocean water, and the heat is coming to the surface.

That theory has a problem though, in that areas not normally part of the El Nino effect are also seeing temperature rise (the tropical Indian Ocean and off the coast of Spain).

In regards to the Indian Ocean, oceanographers are positing a powerful-enough El Nino could have the same effect.

In any case, the rise is almost entirely in tropical waters, which some worry could have an effect on the upcoming hurricane season (warmer water, more powerful hurricanes).

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 30, 2023 • 3:20:39am

re: #48 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Accidentally swapped my “little sister” and “little brother” up there. Fixed.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 30, 2023 • 3:25:08am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 30, 2023 • 3:28:41am

re: #49 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Accidentally swapped my “little sister” and “little brother” up there. Fixed.

I was about to say that I didn’t know you had a little sister.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 30, 2023 • 3:41:04am

Libertarians: Conservatives who like to smoke weed.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 30, 2023 • 3:44:36am

In the category “Not a drag queen”:

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 30, 2023 • 3:55:09am

(2:41, before the latest conservative moral panic)

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 30, 2023 • 3:55:18am

re: #53 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

LOL is he worried someone’s gonna steal his breakfast or something?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 30, 2023 • 3:56:48am

re: #56 Dr Lizardo

LOL is he worried someone’s gonna steal his breakfast or something?

Those eggs are treasured items…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 30, 2023 • 3:57:37am

re: #55 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

(2:41, before the latest conservative moral panic)

Don’t forget good old Start Trek DS9 with its transgender Trill symbiotes.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 30, 2023 • 4:07:12am

Too late for me: My wife just saw it. (with video 1:12, NewsCorp Australia)

Wild dating trend sees women write off men whose names begin with J (April 29, 2023)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 30, 2023 • 4:10:09am

re: #59 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Too late for me: My wife just saw it. (with video 1:12, NewsCorp Australia)

Wild dating trend sees women write off men whose names begin with J (April 29, 2023)

I categorically forbade considering any names for our son starting with J. All just way too hip sounding: Justin, Jacob, Jeremiah, Jubal, Jonas, Jeffrey.

One of our daughters got jean as a middle name after her aunt.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 30, 2023 • 4:10:10am

She has a helluva dystopian timeline.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 30, 2023 • 4:35:33am

Noting a horrific thread of ten tweets. In Tennessee, drag queens are the most pressing problem.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 30, 2023 • 4:42:52am

re: #62 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

There are currently 28 children reported missing from Tennessee since Jan 1. 2023.

obviously all kidnapped by LGBTQ alien groomers

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Dangerman  Apr 30, 2023 • 4:54:01am

re: #3 ckkatz

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analog text blast service

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Dangerman  Apr 30, 2023 • 4:59:40am

re: #26 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Spending a Sunday completely relaxing and not doing anything is far from a waste. It is basically my goal for Sundays.

Long weekend for most of Europe as Monday is May First, Labor Day for the Socialist Hellholes of the world.

rest, true rest, is not ‘doing nothing’. sometimes it’s necessary

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Dangerman  Apr 30, 2023 • 5:04:15am

re: #45 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

we had no idea what happend in palm beach yesterday
30 miles away and not a clue. it was clear and sunny all day, though a bit windy

today real south florida* has tornado warnings all day

*south florida is below orlando
real south florida is below palm beach

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Dangerman  Apr 30, 2023 • 5:06:49am

re: #60 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I categorically forbade considering any names for our son starting with J. All just way too hip sounding: Justin, Jacob, Jeremiah, Jubal, Jonas, Jeffrey.

One of our daughters got jean as a middle name after her aunt.

‘Jesus’ starts with an ‘H’

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Dangerman  Apr 30, 2023 • 5:09:52am

ima go make some coffee and come back later

right now i feel like

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 30, 2023 • 5:10:12am

re: #65 Dangerman

rest, true rest, is not ‘doing nothing’. sometimes it’s necessary

I mean I do things, potting about, tidying a bit, sorting laundry, going for a walk, but I do not undertake any projects.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 30, 2023 • 5:10:42am

re: #67 Dangerman

‘Jesus’ starts with an ‘H’

I thought that was his middle initial.

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Dangerman  Apr 30, 2023 • 5:14:20am

re: #70 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I thought that was his middle initial.

only in america // (1/2)

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Dangerman  Apr 30, 2023 • 5:15:25am

re: #71 Dangerman

only in america // (1/2)

i was just kidding but apparently it is

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 30, 2023 • 5:17:49am

Jeshua Ha Nostri = Jesus of Nazaeth

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 30, 2023 • 5:18:17am

re: #70 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I thought that was his middle initial.

It is. It stands for “Haploid.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 30, 2023 • 5:20:31am

Hierophant?

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Dangerman  Apr 30, 2023 • 5:23:35am
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Dangerman  Apr 30, 2023 • 5:25:45am

say trump will be the nominee and will destroy us without saying his name

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 30, 2023 • 5:26:32am

re: #76 Dangerman

Because “America is a Christian Nation”.

I have been hearing that ever since the 70’s when the Campus Crusade for Christ took that up as one of their major talking points to defend use of public funds and public property to present religious displays.

And rainbows are totally Gay.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 30, 2023 • 5:28:36am

re: #77 Dangerman

Charlie Kirk: “Joe Biden is going to be tough to beat in 2024. He will. He is the favorite. We will probably lose, because the RNC is completely incompetent and they are not doing their job.”

They will lose the popular vote again, it all hinges on their ability to manipulate the electoral system and get enough votes disqualified due to “voter fraud” or “irregularities” so they can then send the election to the House, where the GOP can seal the deal.

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Dangerman  Apr 30, 2023 • 5:30:09am
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Dr Lizardo  Apr 30, 2023 • 5:30:27am

re: #79 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They will lose the popular vote again, it all hinges on their ability to manipulate the electoral system and get enough votes disqualified due to “voter fraud” or “irregularities” so they can then send the election to the House, where the GOP can seal the deal.

There is one major flaw with that plan. What if the Democrats take back the House in the 2024 elections - after all, their first duty is to certify the election results.

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Dangerman  Apr 30, 2023 • 5:32:02am

re: #78 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Because “America is a Christian Nation”.

I have been hearing that ever since the 70’s when the Campus Crusade for Christ took that up as one of their major talking points to fight defend use of public funds and public property to present religious displays.

And rainbows are totally Gay.

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Jay C  Apr 30, 2023 • 5:39:03am

re: #1 Targetpractice

Translation: Jack was cool with the payday, but he’s not cool with what happened after.

And voicing his regrets all the way to the bank…..

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Apr 30, 2023 • 5:44:05am

The perv was busted after he gave the victim gonorrhea. She is “under 12.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 30, 2023 • 5:46:39am

re: #81 Dr Lizardo

There is one major flaw with that plan. What if the Democrats take back the House in the 2024 elections - after all, their first duty is to certify the election results.

That doesn’t apply. See the XII Amendment.

The current sitting House is what certifies the election, and each state gets one vote.

…and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President. But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice.

constitution.congress.gov

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GlutenFreeJesus  Apr 30, 2023 • 5:47:17am

re: #8 ckkatz

And the important question of the evening -

This was on Svengoolie last night when they aired Destroy All Monsters. :)

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Dangerman  Apr 30, 2023 • 5:48:35am

what’s happened/happening to the media in general is similar to whats happening with twitter

everyone thought, assumed the mainstream part of the media - print and broadcast, would always be as it *seemed* it was, warts and all the fourth estate.

more or less impartial, fair, honest, a searcher of truth, and a source of usable information to inform and educate the electorate.

and that it would always be valuable in the way each of us applied and used it.

that was a bad assumption and the world changed

media became business and bottom line first. driven by clicks and profits, not truth or democracy. partisanship sells, maintaining loyal readers is a must.

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Dangerman  Apr 30, 2023 • 5:50:52am

re: #8 ckkatz

And the important question of the evening -

skeptical inquirer 2017

Fire-Breathing Dinosaurs? Physics, Fossils, and Functional Morphology vs. Pseudoscience

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 30, 2023 • 5:53:23am

re: #86 GlutenFreeJesus

This was on Svengoolie last night when they aired Destroy All Monsters. :)

I went to see that as a kid with some Mexican kids on the block. It was playing at the Palace Theater in downtown Gary, Indiana. It was on a double bill with a blacksploitation detective movie. We got there at the end of the other movie, just as the hero was beating the shit out of some white bad guy as the crowd cheered and rooted him on.

I was probably the only white person in the cinema, so I just slid down in my seat between Howie and Ramon.

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Dr. Matt  Apr 30, 2023 • 5:55:38am

The rare situation where there was only one option for the 3-fer

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 30, 2023 • 5:58:33am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 30, 2023 • 6:02:31am

re: #85 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

“…if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President.”

and that, in a nutshell, is the GOP’s only plausible road to success in the 2024 Presidential election.

And if the GOP-majority delegation does elect DJT for a second term, you can well bet that any gatherings or protest marches against it will be declared “riots” and “seditious uprisings” and dealt with using extreme measures.

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Dr. Matt  Apr 30, 2023 • 6:10:06am

FFS. Ten years ago this would have been career ending. Today, he will be rewarded with fund raising and air time in the Nazi/GQP media.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 30, 2023 • 6:12:16am

Stay safe on the Atlantic Coast.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 30, 2023 • 6:12:20am

re: #93 Dr. Matt

Ohio GOP Senate candidate Bernie Moreno proposes reparations for white people: “You know, they talk about reparations. Where are the reparations for the people in the North who died to save the lives of Black people?”

I fully agree. These claims should be addressed directly to the Government of the Confederate States of America.

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 30, 2023 • 6:14:20am

re: #94 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

And Philly is already soaked from yesterday’s rainfall. Sigh.
weather.gov

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 30, 2023 • 6:17:21am

re: #95 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I fully agree. These claims should be addressed directly to the Government of the Confederate States of America.

Dude’s a Colombian immigrant. He knows the Racist Party needs their whataboutisms so the base doesn’t realise they are being robbed blind by the real constituents of the GOP (billionaires and corporations).

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Belafon  Apr 30, 2023 • 6:18:37am

re: #60 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I categorically forbade considering any names for our son starting with J. All just way too hip sounding: Justin, Jacob, Jeremiah, Jubal, Jonas, Jeffrey.

One of our daughters got jean as a middle name after her aunt.

My brother’s middle name is Jean after an uncle.

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TarHellion  Apr 30, 2023 • 6:26:36am

re: #96 PhillyPretzel

We will close out the month with at least 9 inches of rain - with around 4 falling in the last four days. My hostas are already huge!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 30, 2023 • 6:30:08am
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Belafon  Apr 30, 2023 • 6:30:08am

re: #76 Dangerman

That whole thread is so full of short-sighted perople:

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 30, 2023 • 6:30:56am

Enlightened centrist (tm) weighs in.

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 30, 2023 • 6:31:43am

re: #100 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

That is about as close as it will get. Fetterman likes “hoodies.”

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ipsos  Apr 30, 2023 • 6:34:49am

Watching Chuck interview Vivek Ramaswamy on Press the Meat and it’s painful. This guy is a slick-talking Gish Galloper pushing a culture war agenda that’s way to the right of where most of the GOP is right now, and he’s young and will be around for a long time if he’s not stopped. And Todd doesn’t understand what he’s up against or why it’s so dangerous to give this fringe guy a platform like this.

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TarHellion  Apr 30, 2023 • 6:35:17am

Nearly blanked the first two guesses. Recovered to make the par and run the streak to 75. As mentioned above, more rain - though it should clear out around lunch time. Happy Sunday everyone!

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 30, 2023 • 6:38:40am

re: #101 Belafon

The Ten Commandments were almost certainly modeled after Mesopotamian laws and regulations which preceded them by centuries. The similarity to the Code of Hammurabi has been noted for quite a long time.

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jeffreyw  Apr 30, 2023 • 6:44:39am

Good morning!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 30, 2023 • 6:48:46am

re: #107 jeffreyw

is that pineapple jam?

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 30, 2023 • 6:49:04am

re: #96 PhillyPretzel

And Philly is already soaked from yesterday’s rainfall. Sigh.
weather.gov

It’s still raining over here on the northwest side of the state. Has been pretty steady since yesterday morning.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 30, 2023 • 6:50:55am

re: #101 Belafon

The ten commandments have no religion.

So “I a the Lord thy God, thou shalt have no other gods before me” does not apply to any one religion?

Makes perfect sense to me.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 30, 2023 • 6:53:55am

re: #101 Belafon

That whole thread is so full of short-sighted perople:

…

The ten commandments have no religion.

LO fuqin’ L.

Honour thy mother and father, even the abusers and rapists.

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Dangerman  Apr 30, 2023 • 6:54:57am

re: #93 Dr. Matt

FFS. Ten years ago this would have been career ending. Today, he will be rewarded with fund raising and air time in the Nazi/GQP media.

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So white people should pay themselves?

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 30, 2023 • 6:55:03am

The thought process that got here was interesting.

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Apr 30, 2023 • 6:59:32am

Surfers and Pelicans in a near 1:1 ratio at Ventura Beach, California

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 30, 2023 • 7:00:18am

re: #112 Dangerman

So white people should pay themselves?

Just the former slaveowners

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Dr. Matt  Apr 30, 2023 • 7:01:42am

re: #112 Dangerman

So white people should pay themselves?

The GQP love their socialism.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 30, 2023 • 7:03:03am

re: #116 Dr. Matt

The GQP love their socialism.

As long as they’re the ones benefiting from it. Poor people, Blacks, browns, women, and Democrats aren’t allowed to have any.

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Apr 30, 2023 • 7:03:09am

re: #114 So Cal Greek Hippie

Gray sky in May at Ventura Beach means it’s really hot in the Coachella Valley right now

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 30, 2023 • 7:06:13am

re: #118 So Cal Greek Hippie

Gray sky in May at Ventura means it’s really hit in the Coachella Valley

The next few days here in NW PA are going to be pretty cool, low to mid 40’s and rain. Tuesday there is even a chance of snow. But projection is that things will start warming up after that. We’ll see.

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Apr 30, 2023 • 7:10:22am

re: #119 Eventual Carrion

We are supposedly expecting May rain -a rarity- on Tuesday
It’s been cooler than usual here in 2023

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Dr. Matt  Apr 30, 2023 • 7:14:03am

Their fee-fees are hurt. 😢😢😢

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 30, 2023 • 7:15:29am

Not a drag queen (Bishop Accountability Project, April 28, 2023)

Fired STM teacher arrested, facing charges of enticing a minor to produce porn

A fired St. Thomas More Catholic High School teacher has been arrested and is being held in St. Martin Parish after a video circulated online that appears to show him saying sexually suggestive things to someone he says he tutors.

Jacob de la Paz, 33, was arrested Thursday night and federally charged with enticing a minor to produce child pornography/child sexual assault material, according to media reports citing the Department of Homeland Security.

As of Friday night, de la Paz was still being held in the St. Martin Parish Jail, according to a St. Martin Parish Sheriff’s Office spokesperson.

(more)

He was previously stripped of his teaching license in Arkansas for grooming. His lawyer before the board faulted the student, saying she had a crush on him because he was a good-looking Millennial.

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darthstar  Apr 30, 2023 • 7:15:37am

re: #121 Dr. Matt

Their fee-fees are hurt. 😢😢😢

Didn’t Trump not go to the WHCD because he was afraid of being mocked?

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 30, 2023 • 7:15:56am

re: #121 Dr. Matt

Their fee-fees are hurt. 😢😢😢

It’s a lot harder to roast a President you actually respect, especially when he’s up there roasting himself.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Apr 30, 2023 • 7:16:27am

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 30, 2023 • 7:16:43am

re: #123 darthstar

Didn’t Trump not go to the WHCD because he was afraid of being mocked?

I thought he went the first year, and got so mad about it that he refused to go back. But I could be wrong; that was a long time ago.

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gocart mozart  Apr 30, 2023 • 7:17:12am
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darthstar  Apr 30, 2023 • 7:18:31am

re: #126 Nerdy Fish

I thought he went the first year, and got so mad about it that he refused to go back. But I could be wrong; that was a long time ago.

I think the last one he went to was the one in 2011 where President Obama humiliated him…caused him to run for president in 2016. Thanks, Obama.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 30, 2023 • 7:18:40am

re: #121 Dr. Matt

‘It’s Glaring’: Fox & Friends Bitterly Complains Over ‘Unequal Treatment’ of Biden and Trump at the WHCD

One of them regularly describes journalists as “liars” and “enemies of the people”, the other doesn’t. Which one receives better treatment?

UNFAIRNESS!!!

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gocart mozart  Apr 30, 2023 • 7:21:27am
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Dr. Matt  Apr 30, 2023 • 7:23:21am

re: #128 darthstar

I think the last one he went to was the one in 2011 where President Obama humiliated him…caused him to run for president in 2016. Thanks, Obama.

I think the last time Donnie attended was when Prez Obama humiliated him.

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jeffreyw  Apr 30, 2023 • 7:27:10am

re: #67 Dangerman

‘Jesus’ starts with an ‘H’

Heffrey sounds like a failed sneeze.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 30, 2023 • 7:27:40am
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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 30, 2023 • 7:28:37am

re: #60 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I categorically forbade considering any names for our son starting with J. All just way too hip sounding: Justin, Jacob, Jeremiah, Jubal, Jonas, Jeffrey.

One of our daughters got jean as a middle name after her aunt.

3 of my sons have J names.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 30, 2023 • 7:28:45am

Doubling down on the flop.

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Dr. Matt  Apr 30, 2023 • 7:29:04am

re: #127 gocart mozart

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What an embarrassing ignorant statement on so many levels. Many gay and lesbian persons identity as queer.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 30, 2023 • 7:29:08am

re: #134 The Pie Overlord!

3 of my sons have J names.

I have a sister-in-law who named all 11 of her kids with J names, save one.

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 30, 2023 • 7:29:45am

re: #137 Nerdy Fish

I have a sister-in-law who named all 11 of her kids with J names, save one.

You’re related to the Duggars???

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sizzzzlerz  Apr 30, 2023 • 7:30:38am

re: #63 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

obviously all kidnapped by LGBTQ alien groomers

That or they went to vacation bible camp and never came home

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 30, 2023 • 7:31:12am

WTAF

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 30, 2023 • 7:31:20am

re: #138 The Pie Overlord!

You’re related to the Duggars???

Not exactly. My sisters-in-law are (or were) quiver-full fundamentalist kooks, but they are not named Duggar, no. Also, I remembered that she had two daughters, not just one, that were not named with J names, so technically it was only 9 of her 11 kids. It’s still pretty confusing.

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 30, 2023 • 7:32:36am

Holy crap, this is exactly where my parents used to live.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 30, 2023 • 7:38:07am

re: #134 The Pie Overlord!

3 of my sons have J names.

I am the only J in my family. I am unique.

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Teddy's Person  Apr 30, 2023 • 7:39:05am

re: #93 Dr. Matt

“You know, they talk about reparations. Where are the reparations for the people in the North who died to save the lives of Black people?”

They did receive reparations, only it was called a pension.

Civil War Pensions

Irene Triplett (January 9, 1930 - May 31, 2020) was the last recipient of an American Civil War pension. Her father fought for both the Confederacy and later the Union in the war.
…
Since the death of her father in 1938 at the age of 92, Triplett collected $73.13 per month from the Department of Veterans Affairs. She was eligible to inherit her father’s pension due to cognitive impairments which she had, qualifying her as the helpless child of a veteran. The total amount of benefits she received was about $73,000, or $344,000 when adjusted for inflation. Wikipedia

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 30, 2023 • 7:41:38am

Time for bed.

Catch y’all later.

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jeffreyw  Apr 30, 2023 • 7:43:21am

re: #108 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

is that pineapple jam?

It is garlic butter, you rascal.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 30, 2023 • 7:44:53am

re: #7 Targetpractice

I also like how Jack is trying to put all the blame for this shitshow on Musk by suggesting that he could have just paid $1b and walked away. Fucker, you SUED him to force the sale to go through. YOU could have just agreed to let him walk when he said he was no longer interested and been done with it. But you were drooling over the huge fucking check he would have to cut to buy your shares and you weren’t about to let that happen. Don’t sit there and act like you’d have been cool if he just paid $1b to back out because you put the legal gun to his head and ordered him to sign on the dotted line.

They didn’t have much choice, really. The Twitter Board’s job was to maximize shareholder value, and since Musk offered vastly more than Twitter was worth and signed a contract written to make it almost impossible for him to back out, they basically would’ve violated their duty to their shareholders not to force Musk to cough up the dough.

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  Apr 30, 2023 • 7:44:57am

re: #137 Nerdy Fish

I have a sister-in-law who named all 11 of her kids with J names, save one.

Our Lamaze instructor’s husband and all six sons were named John. She had gross anti-abortion pictures printed on the back of the pamphlet. Talk about preaching to the choir.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 30, 2023 • 7:45:59am

My 20-year-old daughter says the thing with rejecting guys with J names has been around for months now.

Good thing I changed my name from Jendell Wurkozitz…

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Teukka  Apr 30, 2023 • 7:48:46am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 30, 2023 • 7:49:57am

re: #148 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)

Our Lamaze instructor’s husband and all six sons were named John. She had gross anti-abortion pictures printed on the back of the pamphlet. Talk about preaching to the choir.

I recall a joke about a Russian woman with seven sons, all named Ivan.

“How do you tell them apart?” she was asked.

“By their patronymic!” she replied.

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JC1  Apr 30, 2023 • 7:52:54am

re: #7 Targetpractice

I also like how Jack is trying to put all the blame for this shitshow on Musk by suggesting that he could have just paid $1b and walked away. Fucker, you SUED him to force the sale to go through. YOU could have just agreed to let him walk when he said he was no longer interested and been done with it. But you were drooling over the huge fucking check he would have to cut to buy your shares and you weren’t about to let that happen. Don’t sit there and act like you’d have been cool if he just paid $1b to back out because you put the legal gun to his head and ordered him to sign on the dotted line.

Jack had very little control of Twitter by then. The board sued.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Apr 30, 2023 • 7:55:59am

Looky here: A mass murderer who didn’t use an AR-15 (Chased them down and ran their car off the road. Three other occupants survived and testified against him.)

Riverside County man guilty of killing 3 teenagers after “ding dong ditch” prank in 2020

Chandra, who didn’t know the teens, testified at trial that one of the boys rang his doorbell and exposed his buttocks before running away, according to The Riverside Press-Enterprise. Chandra testified that he followed because he feared for his family’s safety and wanted to express his anger. He said he was “extremely, extremely mad” from the prank.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Apr 30, 2023 • 7:56:38am

I did not know this.

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darthstar  Apr 30, 2023 • 7:57:01am

re: #150 Teukka

An attack on NATO infrastructure would be an attack on NATO and elicit an immediate response.

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Teukka  Apr 30, 2023 • 7:57:08am

re: #150 Teukka

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 30, 2023 • 8:05:33am

JFC

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 30, 2023 • 8:06:21am

re: #157 The Pie Overlord!

JFC

This fucking guy.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 30, 2023 • 8:07:33am

re: #158 Nerdy Fish

This fucking guy.

NYT pitch bot: “Which one was more perfect? The Georgia call or the Ukraine call?”

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JC1  Apr 30, 2023 • 8:07:43am

re: #81 Dr Lizardo

There is one major flaw with that plan. What if the Democrats take back the House in the 2024 elections - after all, their first duty is to certify the election results.

Because according to the constitution, each house delegation gets 1 vote in such a case. The GOP controls more states, and that’s extremely unlikely to change.

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William Lewis  Apr 30, 2023 • 8:08:12am

It was 30 years ago to today, when Tim Berners-Lee taught the world to play… ;)

30 years ago, one decision altered the course of our connected world

30 years ago, listeners tuning into Morning Edition heard about a futuristic idea that could profoundly change their lives.

“Imagine being able to communicate at-will with 10 million people all over the world,” NPR’s Neal Conan said. “Imagine having direct access to catalogs of hundreds of libraries as well as the most up-to-date news, business and weather reports. Imagine being able to get medical advice or gardening advice immediately from any number of experts.

“This is not a dream,” he continued. “It’s internet.”

But even in the early 1990s, that space-age sales pitch was a long way from the lackluster experience of actually using the internet. It was almost entirely text-based, for one.

It was also difficult to use. To read a story from NPR, for example, you would need to know which network-equipped computer had the file you wanted, then coax your machine into communicating directly with the host. And good luck if the computers were made by different manufacturers.

But 30 years ago this week, that all changed. On April 30, 1993, something called the World Wide Web launched into the public domain.

The web made it simple for anyone to navigate the internet. All users had to do was launch a new program called a “browser,” type in a URL and hit return.

This began the internet’s transformation into the vibrant online canvas we use today. Anyone could build their own “web site” with pictures, video and sound. They could even send visitors to other sites using hyperlinked words or phrases underlined in blue. This became one of the web’s most game-changing features, putting different corners of our digital knowledge-base just a mouse click away.

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darthstar  Apr 30, 2023 • 8:10:16am

dre: #158 Nerdy Fish

This fucking guy.

Did a little bird tell him Fanni Willis would be making some kind of announcement tomorrow? He doesn’t randomly exclaim his Georgia call was ‘perfect’…only when it’s about to be news again.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Apr 30, 2023 • 8:11:01am

re: #162 darthstar

d

Did a little bird tell him Fanni Willis would be making some kind of announcement tomorrow? He doesn’t randomly exclaim his Georgia call was ‘perfect’…only when it’s about to be news again.

I thought she said this summer. I’m getting tired of waiting. Indict now.

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 30, 2023 • 8:11:51am
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Nerdy Fish  Apr 30, 2023 • 8:11:53am

re: #162 darthstar

d

Did a little bird tell him Fanni Willis would be making some kind of announcement tomorrow? He doesn’t randomly exclaim his Georgia call was ‘perfect’…only when it’s about to be news again.

The last I heard, Fani Willis sent a letter to the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office, saying that potential indictments would be coming down in the next court term (starts in June, I think?). So I don’t know if there’s anything there aside from the fact that he’s still steaming about the way people criticized him for it, two and a half years later.

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Dr. Matt  Apr 30, 2023 • 8:14:48am

re: #161 William Lewis

It was 30 years ago to today, when Tim Berners-Lee taught the world to play… ;)

30 years ago, one decision altered the course of our connected world

I got my first email address in 1994 in undergrad. We had two email/computer labs with only ANSI terminals. Our emails accounts did three things: send, read, and delete. Attachments were not a thing. No graphics. Just text. There wasn’t even an address book. I had write email addresses in actual “little black book” next to students names and phone number.

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darthstar  Apr 30, 2023 • 8:15:52am

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 30, 2023 • 8:16:12am

Axios is totally blaming the Democrats for a possible default.

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darthstar  Apr 30, 2023 • 8:16:41am

re: #165 Nerdy Fish

The last I heard, Fani Willis sent a letter to the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office, saying that potential indictments would be coming down in the next court term (starts in June, I think?). So I don’t know if there’s anything there aside from the fact that he’s still steaming about the way people criticized him for it, two and a half years later.

Maybe someone joked about it at the WHCD last night.

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sagehen  Apr 30, 2023 • 8:17:24am

re: #160 JC1

Because according to the constitution, each house delegation gets 1 vote in such a case. The GOP controls more states, and that’s extremely unlikely to change.

it’s the new Congress, which is sworn in days before the counting of electoral votes.

Remember? in 2021, the new Congress took office on Sunday January 3, the electoral counting was Wednesday January 6.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 30, 2023 • 8:17:36am

re: #85 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

That doesn’t apply. See the XII Amendment.

The current sitting House is what certifies the election, and each state gets one vote.

constitution.congress.gov

This is incorrect. After the November 2020 election, the new, 117th Congress convened on January 3, 2021 and voted on the certification of the electoral vote on January 6, 2021, with each newly elected House member having one vote. What is correct is that if no presidential candidate has 270 electoral votes, the presidential election will then go to the House, with each state having one vote. Even if the House has a Democratic majority, there is a good chance that the GOP will control at least 26 state delegations, enough to elect Trump President if GOP controlled states Biden won refuse to certify their electors to keep Biden from getting 270. Its an archaic system which desperately needs to be reformed, but won’t be because Republicans.

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darthstar  Apr 30, 2023 • 8:17:44am

re: #168 The Pie Overlord!

Axios is totally blaming the Democrats for a possible default.

Axios is like the NY Times pitchbot. They spit out a few bullet points with zero analysis. Ignore them.

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Teukka  Apr 30, 2023 • 8:17:55am

Fucking cringe tankie take…

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JC1  Apr 30, 2023 • 8:19:17am

re: #170 sagehen

it’s the new Congress, which is sworn in days before the counting of electoral votes.

Remember? in 2021, the new Congress took office on Sunday January 3, the electoral counting was Wednesday January 6.

But it’s 1 vote per state, not 1 vote per representative.

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William Lewis  Apr 30, 2023 • 8:19:30am

re: #173 Teukka

Fucking cringe tankie take…

He’s always been an idiot but that’s stupider than usual.

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 30, 2023 • 8:19:58am

re: #169 darthstar

Maybe someone joked about it at the WHCD last night.

His unhinged rants don’t always have an obvious root cause. I think it’s just his increasingly unstable mental state, his brain whipping back and forth over all his perceived grievances constantly, and at some point he lands on one that gets him angry enough to type it out.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Apr 30, 2023 • 8:20:39am

Scum:
Retired brigadier general sentenced to 12-month prison term

A federal court in Texas sentenced retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Scott Bethel to 12 months in prison for wire fraud and filing a false tax return. Bethel retired from active duty in 2012 and started working both as an adviser to the Air Force and for a government contractor. During that time, Betel falsified records for government reimbursements and recorded false charitable contributions to avoid paying taxes.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Apr 30, 2023 • 8:21:53am

re: #173 Teukka

Fucking cringe tankie take…

Putin is keeping his left flank covered.

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sagehen  Apr 30, 2023 • 8:28:28am

re: #174 JC1

But it’s 1 vote per state, not 1 vote per representative.

It’s possible in theory that the D’s will have more state delegations than they do now. Nobody expected them to have Alaska, who knows what else might happen if the embryo-worshippers piss off enough Republican women.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 30, 2023 • 8:31:51am

re: #172 darthstar

Axios is like the NY Times pitchbot. They spit out a few bullet points with zero analysis. Ignore them.

I hope the White House is preparing its case for ignoring Congress’ failure to lift the debt ceiling. It’s another archaic requirement which violates the Constitution and creates unnecessary and harmful effects on the economy.

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nines09  Apr 30, 2023 • 8:35:45am

instagram.com

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 30, 2023 • 8:47:21am

re: #105 TarHellion

Nearly blanked the first two guesses. Recovered to make the par and run the streak to 75. As mentioned above, more rain - though it should clear out around lunch time. Happy Sunday everyone!

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Discovered this morning that I claimed a birbie downstairs when, like you, it was a par!

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Belafon  Apr 30, 2023 • 8:59:30am

re: #173 Teukka

Fucking cringe tankie take…

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Belafon  Apr 30, 2023 • 9:00:11am

re: #172 darthstar

Axios is like the NY Times pitchbot. They spit out a few bullet points with zero analysis. Ignore them.

The Pitchbot puts in plenty of analysis to point out how little the NYT does.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 30, 2023 • 9:02:39am

re: #171 No Malarkey!

This is incorrect. After the November 2020 election, the new, 117th Congress convened on January 3, 2021 and voted on the certification of the electoral vote on January 6, 2021, with each newly elected House member having one vote. What is correct is that if no presidential candidate has 270 electoral votes, the presidential election will then go to the House, with each state having one vote. Even if the House has a Democratic majority, there is a good chance that the GOP will control at least 26 state delegations, enough to elect Trump President if GOP controlled states Biden won refuse to certify their electors to keep Biden from getting 270. Its an archaic system which desperately needs to be reformed, but won’t be because Republicans.

We desperately need a Constitutional amendment to eliminate the EC but that will never happen.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 30, 2023 • 9:05:23am

re: #185 Hecuba’s daughter

We desperately need a Constitutional amendment to eliminate the EC but that will never happen.

If the Electoral College were eliminated, the GOP would be lucky to get themselves elected municipal dog catcher, and they damn well know it. They’d end up as little more than a regional party in the Bible Belt and parts of the intermountain West.

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Belafon  Apr 30, 2023 • 9:07:30am

I love when people attempt to say “If you only understood statistics” when the problem isn’t statistics:

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jaunte  Apr 30, 2023 • 9:10:16am

re: #187 Belafon

She may not be here to argue much longer.

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gwangung  Apr 30, 2023 • 9:15:50am

re: #187 Belafon

I love when people attempt to say “If you only understood statistics” when the problem isn’t statistics:

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Yup. I spent four years in graduate school working in methodology and study design. Alternative hypotheses will bit you on the ass if you don’t account for them.

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wrenchwench  Apr 30, 2023 • 9:22:40am

Outraged parents protest outside Redlands school meeting after sexual abuse allegations

[…]

The CBS News documentary discovered 50 students have accused more than 25 teachers of sexual misconduct between 1999-2022. Of those cases, two of which happened in 2022, 11 were investigated by police which resulted in the arrest of nine teachers. According to the Department of Education, an estimated 12% of all public school students in the United States experience sexual misconduct by the time they graduate high school. This equates to over 5.7 million children being victimized by their teachers. Currently, the Department of Education is investigating 145 public school districts, including Redlands, for allegations of sexual violence.
[…]

The ‘Me Too’ movement is in the public schools. Kids grow up and find someone who will listen.

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darthstar  Apr 30, 2023 • 9:39:33am

The dickie berg is real

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darthstar  Apr 30, 2023 • 9:41:47am

Mastodon

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Nojay UK  Apr 30, 2023 • 9:43:43am

re: #188 jaunte

She may not be here to argue much longer.

Unpasteurised milk and cheese — “Tastes great, not many dead!”

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 30, 2023 • 9:45:17am

re: #186 Dr Lizardo

If the Electoral College were eliminated, the GOP would be lucky to get themselves elected municipal dog catcher, and they damn well know it. They’d end up as little more than a regional party in the Bible Belt and parts of the intermountain West.

The EC affects only presidential elections. The GOP will still be able to reign supreme on a state level, except to the extent that a D nominated SCOTUS would have justices that may object to gerrymandering and voter suppression. But the GOP excels at inciting culture wars for the benefit of the oligarchy that wants to remain in power in perpetuity.

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wrenchwench  Apr 30, 2023 • 9:50:05am

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DodgerFan1988  Apr 30, 2023 • 9:50:26am
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wrenchwench  Apr 30, 2023 • 10:10:47am

Mastodon

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Charles Johnson  Apr 30, 2023 • 10:20:07am

Mastodon

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Charles Johnson  Apr 30, 2023 • 10:23:24am

Mastodon

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darthstar  Apr 30, 2023 • 10:23:47am

re: #198 Charles Johnson

Nobody told Jack about Mastodon? Also, using a decentralized network to get around those pesky debates over moderation of content…yeah, he’s no different from Musk. He’s just a bit more cagey about it.

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darthstar  Apr 30, 2023 • 10:24:54am

re: #199 Charles Johnson

I always knew the bad noodles were the real enemy in that movie.

202
jaunte  Apr 30, 2023 • 10:25:09am

Bad milk blood robot I can’t deny
Bad milk blood robot, ‘til the day I die

203
Joe Bacon  Apr 30, 2023 • 10:26:03am

Hey Bernie Moreno!

My great great grandfather Union General Peter F Bacon commanded the DC Militia during the Civil War.

You have the audacity to say that it’s white people who should receive reparations.

From Great Great Grandpa’s Grave…

He would tell you to FUCK OFF!

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darthstar  Apr 30, 2023 • 10:26:34am

re: #201 darthstar

I always knew the bad noodles were the real enemy in that movie.

At least the cat gets credit for trying to help.

205
Charles Johnson  Apr 30, 2023 • 10:27:03am

WHO IS BAD MILK BLOOD ROBOT?

206
jaunte  Apr 30, 2023 • 10:27:39am

Son of Raw Milk Blood Robot

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 30, 2023 • 10:28:45am

re: #203 Joe Bacon

Hey Bernie Moreno!

My great great grandfather Union General Peter F Bacon commanded the DC Militia during the Civil War.

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He would tell you to FUCK OFF!

The argument goes that white people “paid in blood” to free the slaves, therefore, we deserve to be paid. I hate to tell this guy, but the men who fought in the Civil War were PAID PROFESSIONAL SOLDIERS. They already received their compensation for fighting in the war.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 30, 2023 • 10:29:00am

re: #201 darthstar

I always knew the bad noodles were the real enemy in that movie.

209
Charles Johnson  Apr 30, 2023 • 10:30:43am

Mastodon

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darthstar  Apr 30, 2023 • 10:32:00am

Mastodon

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I Would Prefer Not To  Apr 30, 2023 • 10:32:08am

re: #205 Charles Johnson

WHO IS BAD MILK BLOOD ROBOT?

Bishop. (I think that was his name). Was a robot. When he dead a lot of a milky substance leaked out of his body.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 30, 2023 • 10:33:37am

my sister in Ormond Beach just texted that wind is blowing so hard, a dead tree was knocked into the power lines, which proceeded to arc and set a palm tree on fire.

she says it’s been 20 minutes and still no sign of the fire department or FP&L

and the tree is still burning

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darthstar  Apr 30, 2023 • 10:33:39am

Charles, when do you implement an AI ban-hammer? I mean, what could go wrong?

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Nerdy Fish  Apr 30, 2023 • 10:35:14am

re: #210 darthstar

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I swear to fucking Christ, I must be prophetic. I said months ago, when the Bing AI assistant came out, that the techbros would be rushing to shoehorn AI into every conceivable misuse they could find, and call it Web 4.0. I’m still waiting on the latter part, but boy howdy, if I didn’t hit the nail on the head with the former!

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BigPapa  Apr 30, 2023 • 10:35:39am

re: #213 darthstar

Charles, when do you implement an AI ban-hammer? I mean, what could go wrong?

All your AI ban hammers are belong to us.

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sizzzzlerz  Apr 30, 2023 • 10:37:01am

re: #199 Charles Johnson

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I love Chinglish! Many minutes have been spent chuckling over the instructions you find in stuff you buy that required some assembly.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 30, 2023 • 10:37:34am

re: #211 I Would Prefer Not To

Bishop. (I think that was his name). Was a robot. When he dead a lot of a milky substance leaked out of his body.

It was Ash, played by Ian Holm. Bishop (Lance Henriksen) was from Aliens.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 30, 2023 • 10:45:21am
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darthstar  Apr 30, 2023 • 10:45:34am

re: #214 Nerdy Fish

I swear to fucking Christ, I must be prophetic. I said months ago, when the Bing AI assistant came out, that the techbros would be rushing to shoehorn AI into every conceivable misuse they could find, and call it Web 4.0. I’m still waiting on the latter part, but boy howdy, if I didn’t hit the nail on the head with the former!

I have colleagues at work who want to use AI to help write test scenarios…as if that’s going to help - it’ll just create thousands of edge cases that have to be filtered out. AI is basically going from overthinking to not thinking at all.

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sagehen  Apr 30, 2023 • 10:49:26am

re: #207 Nerdy Fish

The argument goes that white people “paid in blood” to free the slaves, therefore, we deserve to be paid. I hate to tell this guy, but the men who fought in the Civil War were PAID PROFESSIONAL SOLDIERS. They already received their compensation for fighting in the war.

“Fondly do we hope ~ fervently do we pray ~ that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword as was said three thousand years ago so still it must be said ‘the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.’

—Lincoln’s 2nd inaugural address

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Charles Johnson  Apr 30, 2023 • 10:53:42am

re: #213 darthstar

Charles, when do you implement an AI ban-hammer? I mean, what could go wrong?

It just amazes me how completely out of touch these overwhelmingly white tech libertarian billionaires are. Pig-headed insistence on automatic technical solutions to abuse and extremism, after years of seeing them fail in spectacular ways.

Now it’s AI that’s gonna save them from dealing directly with the unwashed masses.

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jaunte  Apr 30, 2023 • 10:54:04am

Mastodon

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Belafon  Apr 30, 2023 • 10:55:04am

re: #207 Nerdy Fish

The argument goes that white people “paid in blood” to free the slaves, therefore, we deserve to be paid. I hate to tell this guy, but the men who fought in the Civil War were PAID PROFESSIONAL SOLDIERS. They already received their compensation for fighting in the war.

You can’t hold white people accountable for what their ancestors did but you can reward them for it.

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Joe Bacon  Apr 30, 2023 • 10:57:39am

re: #223 Belafon

You can’t hold white people accountable for what their ancestors did but you can reward them for it.

But when it comes to people with darker colored skin…those rewards dry up…

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Moe Avattar  Apr 30, 2023 • 11:26:33am

re: #212 Backwoods_Sleuth

Firefighting is Woke.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 30, 2023 • 11:29:32am

re: #203 Joe Bacon

Ohio GOP Senate candidate Bernie Moreno proposes reparations for white people: “You know, they talk about reparations. Where are the reparations for the people in the North who died to save the lives of Black people?”!

as mentioned upthread: present the reparations claims directly to the Government of the Confederate States of America.

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Joe Bacon  Apr 30, 2023 • 11:50:40am

re: #190 wrenchwench

Outraged parents protest outside Redlands school meeting after sexual abuse allegations

The ‘Me Too’ movement is in the public schools. Kids grow up and find someone who will listen.

Not surprised about Redlands since it’s in the Red Jesus part of California!

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Mattand  Apr 30, 2023 • 12:11:05pm

re: #77 Dangerman

say trump will be the nominee and will destroy us without saying his name

Charlie Kirk: “Joe Biden is going to be tough to beat in 2024. He will. He is the favorite. We will probably lose, because the RNC is completely incompetent and they are not doing their job.”

Finally, something Charlie Kirk and I can agree on.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 30, 2023 • 12:32:14pm

re: #225 Moe Avattar

Firefighting is Woke.

still burning, lol

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sizzzzlerz  Apr 30, 2023 • 2:23:43pm

re: #228 Mattand

Finally, something Charlie Kirk and I can agree on.

Supporting Putin, Nazis, fascists, dead school children, book burners, forced birthers, and corrupt SCOTUS justices, but not, evidently, veterans, IS their job.

Or do I owe them an apology?


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