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re: #408 Eclectic Cyborg
It was a bit of both. The students were taught basic English and math, indoctrinated into Christianity and used as unpaid labor to do chores around the school.
They were also malnourished and were raped, abused or killed if they did not behave.
Plus the basic premise of these schools, genocide assimilation, could not possibly have worked on its face in segregated and racist America. Even if you did “assimilate” a Native child into white “culture,” the child would always have the skin colour to mark them out as different and deserving of discrimination. The Christians running the Ku Klux Klan weren’t going to suddenly be all open-armed about their new forcibly converted brethren and accept them into “polite” society. Jim Crow states weren’t suddenly accord them special rights.
I hope alcohol was involved.
Shocking video captured the moment a brawl broke out on a ferry trip from Ireland to Wales — as four men attacked a passenger amid screams from terrified onlookers.
The footage published by SWNS shows a man appear to use salad tongs to defend himself from the onslaught aboard the Irish Ferries vessel just 20 minutes into its voyage from Dublin to Holyhead on Saturday.
re: #2 Dr. Matt
*womp womp*
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Proverbial response to “Go woke, go broke” is “Go fash, no cash!”
Steam and smoke is coming out of the ground but no one has a camera in the right position yet:
re: #2 Dr. Matt
*womp womp*
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Not defending Twitter but I really hate graphs where they don’t show the zero on the y-axis so as to exaggerate the change (How to Lie with Statistics). Plus, in this graph the y-axis shows “rank” from 32 to 40 and, for all I know, the difference between being ranked 32nd vs 40th might be 153 users and a ham sandwich.
Linked article says -
CNBC reporter Ashley Capoot also cited data company Similarweb to declare, “web traffic to Twitter was down 5% for the first two full days Threads was generally available compared with the previous week. The company said Twitter’s web traffic is down 11% compared with the same days in 2022.”
- which is not good for Twitter but tanking seems like a strong word to describe this short-term change.
re: #9 dat_said
Not defending Twitter but I really hate graphs where they don’t show the zero on the y-axis so as to exaggerate the change (How to Lie with Statistics). Plus, in this graph the y-axis shows “rank” from 32 to 40 and, for all I know, the difference between being ranked 32nd vs 40th might be 153 users and a ham sandwich.
Linked article says -
- which is not good for Twitter but tanking seems like a strong word to describe this short-term change.
The graph is worse than that. It’s just showing the rank of DNS hits to the 1.1.1.1 DNS server. No idea how representative that is of overall internet traffic.
David Weiss, the U.S. attorney from Delaware overseeing the federal criminal investigation into Hunter Biden, is denying allegations from an IRS whistleblower that he sought special counsel status but was blocked by senior Justice Department officials,” Punchbowl News reports.“Weiss’ statement, made in a letter to Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), appears to undermine one of the major claims made by the whistleblower, Gary Shapley. Shapley told House Ways and Means Committee investigators that Weiss reportedly informed IRS and FBI agents during an Oct. 7, 2022, meeting that he sought special counsel status but was denied.”
Right wing ” whistleblower” lied
Who’da guessed? I mean except for everyone
GOP Gubernatorial nominee Daniel Cameron, who if elected would be Kentucky’s first black governor, had said he couldn’t wait to attend disbarred attorney Eric Deters’ Freedom Fest, which Trumps have attended in the past and are expected to attend this year. After being informed of Deters’ racist comments on social media, Cameron suddenly had other commitments.
Last month, Daniel Cameron told the Herald-Leader that he “can’t wait to go to” to Eric Deters’ Freedom Fest event.When asked about an array of racist remarks by Deters, the Cameron campaign now says the GOP #kygov nominee has a commitment elsewhere. https://t.co/WDloPkT0Qh
— Tessa Duvall 📰 (@TessaDuvall) July 10, 2023
re: #18 dat_said
I’m waiting for all you bikers on this site to start telling me about your camping adventures. I’d probably be a bit claustrophobic in this one:
I’d be fine; it’s as large as my house. /s
It seems it would be a bit heavy to tow with a bicycle though.
re: #12 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)
Right wing ” whistleblower” lied
Who’da guessed? I mean except for everyone
This Shapley dude was weirdly obsessed with Hunter’s sex life in ways that went beyond normal investigation of tax dodging.
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Trailer for Ridley Scott’s Napoleon has dropped.
He came from nothing. He conquered everything. From acclaimed director Ridley Scott, #Napoleon is exclusively in movie theaters this Thanksgiving. Watch the official trailer now. pic.twitter.com/Kx7FcQmBqo
— Napoleon (@NapoleonMovie) July 10, 2023
In These Times, July 4, 2023
Just before the Fourth of July weekend, postdoctoral scholar Jessica Ng, graduate student William Schneider, and another graduate student at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), were arrested by campus police on charges of felony vandalism over $400 and conspiracy to commit a crime. They were arrested at their homes (where their personal items were confiscated including keys, phones and at least one computer), taken to San Diego county jails, and held overnight on $20,000 bail each.
Their crime? Allegedly writing slogans like ”Living Wage Now” on a concrete campus building — in washable markers and chalk — during a peaceful protest almost a month earlier.
This is a dramatic escalation in the ongoing fight between thousands of academic workers and their employer, the University of California (UC). You are probably familiar with a related fight: our six week strike in 2022 that mobilized 48,000 workers across 10 campuses in the UC system. That action won contracts that provide raises of up to 80%, double the length of parental leave for most workers, and provide protections against abuse — but those protections only work if the employer actually abides by them.
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The University of California Is Escalating Its Crackdown on Dissent
Just in case they have any illusions about being normal kids like anyone else. The classes will be separate, but equal, of course.
This is why you don’t normalize Klan behavior. pic.twitter.com/FhlwIkmmSQ
— Bad Faith ✝️🐴🇺🇲🌻🇺🇦 (@Jeffdc5) July 10, 2023
Years ago I found what looked like a kitten frozen in an iced-over kiddie pool. I dug it out and let it defrost, it turned out to be a big squirrel.
I thought I thaw a pussycat.
re: #16 No Malarkey!
Wouldn’t attending a racist conference actually endear Cameron to Republican voters? He should not only attend but also wear a hood with eye holes to show just how down he is with the base.
re: #25 No Malarkey!
Moms For Liberty Hoot And Holler Over Hitler Quote
Moms for Liberty continues to stand with Adolf Hitler.
It’s co-founder saying she stands with the mom who quoted Hitler in recent newsletter followed by cheers.
Moms for Liberty isn’t for liberty. It’s for fascism and antisemitism. pic.twitter.com/DQOFBNlrCL— Daniel Uhlfelder (@DWUhlfelderLaw) July 8, 2023
In their summit last weekend, co-founder Tiffany Justice gave the quote a ringing endorsement: “There is always a reason why something happens,” Justice said on stage. “One of our moms in a newsletter quotes Hitler.” The audience began cheering before Justice had finished her thought. “I stand with that mom,” she added to loud cheers and applause.
When someone tells you who they are, believe them.
Serious, life-threatening flooding is occurring today across much of Vermont. Emergency crews have conducted rescues in multiple communities. About two dozen state roads are closed as of 10AM. Flash flood warnings are in effect from the Massachusetts line to the Canadian border. pic.twitter.com/09ryZ1N7bR
— Vermont State Police (@VTStatePolice) July 10, 2023
Just like the idiotic wall and how Trump touted it was foolproof to stop anyone from entering, Abbott is pursuing a similar water-based version using a buoy barrier.
Here’s a closer look at what they look like. Abbott’s plan is to have 1000-foot stretches put into the Rio Grande to prevent people from getting across. There is a webbing below the surface that prevents people from swimming underneath. pic.twitter.com/pAzmWT9Jau
— Jeremy Wallace (@JeremySWallace) July 10, 2023
What a waste of resources (everyone who isn’t a white nationalist fascist).
What a great use of resources (white nationalist fascists who want to deter nonwhites from coming to the US for a better life, and to do the jobs Americans wont do).
I’m hoping they take the Heaven’s Gate route myself, no murders of Congressmen or escapees. The Comet was at least real anyway.
— Lord Piltdown (@jimreynolds54) July 10, 2023
re: #32 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Trump’s from the DCEU, but not Batman.
He’s Scarecrow, without the smarts. He maximizes use of fear and loathing to get people to vote against their self interest and to cover up Trump’s never-ending crime spree.
re: #31 lawhawk
Just like the idiotic wall and how Trump touted it was foolproof to stop anyone from entering, Abbott is pursuing a similar water-based version using a buoy barrier.
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What a waste of resources (everyone who isn’t a white nationalist fascist).
What a great use of resources (white nationalist fascists who want to deter nonwhites from coming to the US for a better life, and to do the jobs Americans wont do).
Training video:
re: #33 lawhawk
Trump’s from the DCEU, but not Batman.
He’s Scarecrow, without the smarts. He maximizes use of fear and loathing to get people to vote against their self interest and to cover up Trump’s never-ending crime spree.
Good analogy. Also, they both wear baggy, ill-fitting clothes and use an orange-centric color theme.
The origin of the term “yacht rock?” https://t.co/T7shvPUCIg
— Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling (@RubenBolling) July 9, 2023
re: #32 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Okay, here are some things you need to know.
1. That looks absolutely ridiculous.
2. That’s not even the right Batman costume for the quote.
3. Harvey Dent said that not Batman.— Marvin Tran (@1966Zodiac) July 8, 2023
re: #31 lawhawk
Like the wall sections, it’s very effective for people who can’t figure out how to walk or wade around the ends.
re: #32 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Idiots. Batman is actually what Soros would be if Soros was 60 years younger and had a penchant for using violence.
Always knock first. pic.twitter.com/QXpcMjKrdz
— Jaks 💙💛🌻 (@CatWithSausages) July 10, 2023
re: #33 lawhawk
Trump’s from the DCEU, but not Batman.
He’s Scarecrow, without the smarts. He maximizes use of fear and loathing to get people to vote against their self interest and to cover up Trump’s never-ending crime spree.
Again, they are not voting against their self-interest.
Their self-interest is racism.
re: #14 Backwoods Sleuth
[Embedded content] “We never saw any of this ADHD or autism stuff when I was young!”
actually yes you did. quite a lot.
it had a different name. several in fact names.
re: #21 wrenchwench
Kind of off topic, but which do you prefer - handlebar mounted mirrors or helmet mounted?
thx
Meta in trouble in Europe.
Facebook PR had a masterpiece last week - thx to court decision on July 4th and PR mob to its new app launch (a ripoff of Twitter no matter what their friendlies say). Over weekend, I read arguably the most important court decision in Facebook’s history so you don’t have to. 1/9 pic.twitter.com/8lFVdBHbrA
— Jason Kint (@jason_kint) July 10, 2023
re: #44 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)
actually yes you did. quite a lot.
it had a different name. several in fact names.
For me it was “Disruptive Child”…..
re: #37 Joe Bacon ✅
Perhaps someone who understands computers can explain to me why many YouTubers’ t-shirts have reversed writing whilst others read normally?
re: #49 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Perhaps someone who understands computers can explain to me why many YouTubers’ t-shirts have reversed writing whilst others read normally?
The creator mirrored the image for some reason, most likely to avoid copyright claims against their videos.
re: #37 Joe Bacon ✅
Christian wingnuts are preparing for another crusade against heretics.
Democrats, Jews, LGBT+, and atheists will be first, but any other person including other Christians who try to stand in their way would be slaughtered right along with us.
The Southern Poverty Law Center sent in the mail today a colour print poster of their on-line Hatemap. It highlights the nearest hate group to me (Mission to Israel Christian Identity Church in Scottsbluff).
re: #32 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
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Stoney’s analogy isn’t really fair to the Jonestown victims though it is certainly valid as a cultural archetype. Jones manipulated the victims into taking the poison by holding a series of mass suicide “rehearsals.” The members were told to line up and drink what they were told was poisoned flavor-aid. Those who refused were beaten, denied privileges, and sometimes killed. After everyone else drank, Jones would reveal that there was no poison and it was just a test. After a few repetitions, nearly everyone went along.
On what turned out to be the final repetition, the members had to weigh the (seemingly very high) probability of another hoax against the certainty of barbaric consequences if they refused. A few people, the ones who knew about the murders at the airfield, realized it was different this time and refused anyway. Only a handful escaped into the jungle and survived.
re: #51 Backwoods Sleuth
“…Passengers may transport unloaded firearms in checked baggage if they are transported in a locked, hard-sided container and declared to the airline before traveling. Consistent with the new ATF definition of firearm, TSA now considers frames, receivers, and 3D printed guns to be firearms under its civil enforcement program. These items remain prohibited items and must be transported in accordance with TSA regulations in a passenger’s checked bag. In addition, TSA considers a firearm to be “loaded” when both the firearm and its ammunition are accessible to the passenger. For example, if an individual has a firearm in accessible baggage and ammunition in his/her pocket, or any combination where the individual has access to both, the firearm is considered “loaded” for purposes of assessing a civil penalty.”
“TSA may impose civil penalties of up to $14,950 per violation per person.”
tsa.gov
re: #43 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Again, they are not voting against their self-interest.
Their self-interest is racism.
from saturday’s electoral-vote.com
…Trump supporters are more like college football fans than traditional voters who vote for the candidates who most align with them.
College football fans are fanatic about their teams—they don’t care (too much) whether their team wins or loses. If they have a bad season, the fans just push harder the next year. They don’t care if the coach or star running back are caught up in a scandal. They don’t care who is starting or not. They are going to be fans of that team no matter what. Trying to convince a USC fan to switch their allegiance to UCLA, or a Michigan fan to become a Michigan State fan, or an Alabama fan to switch to… any other team is just impossible. Listen to how Trump supporters talk about his scandals or indictments—they just don’t care, or they see him as a victim (the referees in that game were terrible!). This is how college football fans talk about their teams.
Are they going to put a lien on his Seinfeld royalty checks?
Judge Orders Deadbeat Steve Bannon To Pay $500,000 In Legal Fees
A New York judge has ordered disgraced former Trump White House chief strategist Steve Bannon to pay his former attorneys nearly $500,000 in unpaid legal fees for work on various legal matters. Jinkies, it’s hard to believe that a man who described his subordinates as a “c-nt” while he was the head honcho at Breitbart would be a deadbeat.
He was a shitty husband, too. Bannon’s then-wife claimed he pulled at her neck and wrist during an altercation over their finances. A police officer reported witnessing red marks on her neck and wrist.
re: #46 dharmamark
Kind of off topic, but which do you prefer - handlebar mounted mirrors or helmet mounted?
thx
For me, it’s 100% bar end mirrors. Helmet mirrors don’t stay put well and your helmet moves as you ride. And the view is jerky over bumps. For my drop bars, I use something like this:
re: #50 Eclectic Cyborg
The creator mirrored the image for some reason, most likely to avoid copyright claims against their videos.
It’s only a mirror of Owen Morgan. For example, if you look at the digital clock in the background around nine minutes, the characters are displayed correctly.
re: #59 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
It’s only a mirror of Owen Morgan. For example, if you look at the digital clock in the background around nine minutes, the characters are displayed correctly.
He may have just mirrored himself for aesthetic purposes, who knows?
Someone got their drone there very quickly after the eruption started:
Drone footage of the ongoing eruption in Iceland. #Fagradalsfjall #Keilir Credit: https://t.co/KBbZxdV3j8) pic.twitter.com/kL7slfszro
— Nahel Belgherze (@WxNB_) July 10, 2023
re: #51 Backwoods Sleuth
And despite how many people hate TSA and invasive inspections, conservative and libertarian dipshytes are why we’re going to continue to have TSA.
re: #51 Backwoods Sleuth
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This is clearly unconstitutional, because there were no laws prohibiting the well regulated militia from bearing arms on airplanes in 1789./
Nebraska Examiner, yesterday.
Conservative PAC moves to dismiss defamation lawsuit filed by State Sen. Megan Hunt
TL;DR, the Nebraska Freedom Coalition (note: they are not interested in freedom, they are libertarian fascists) accused State Senator Megan Hunt (I-Omaha) in a public press release sent to media outlets of sexually abusing her child.
She is being defended by the Nebraska Legal Action Fund, founded by former State Senator Adam Morfeld (a lawyer) to protect people defamed by Christian fascists.
In its seven-page motion to dismiss Hunt’s lawsuit, the coalition said Hunt was a public figure “and the context was one of legislative debate.” It said her statements are “a matter of public concern which pertain to a political matter.”
The coalition, in a media statement, called Hunt’s lawsuit “an attempt to intimidate conservatives who refuse to accept the misinformation of liberal progressives and Cultural Marxism.”
re: #46 dharmamark
Kind of off topic, but which do you prefer - handlebar mounted mirrors or helmet mounted?
thx
I used to prefer a Mirrycle, but now I use an EVT Safe Zone, and I think it’s the greatest mirror ever made, but there are reasons to rethink it. Try each, or both (!) and see what works for you, your bike, and your eyes.
re: #52 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Christian wingnuts are preparing for another crusade against heretics.
Democrats, Jews, LGBT+, and atheists will be first, but any other person including other Christians who try to stand in their way would be slaughtered right along with us.
The Southern Poverty Law Center sent in the mail today a colour print poster of their on-line Hatemap. It highlights the nearest hate group to me (Mission to Israel Christian Identity Church in Scottsbluff).
They’re a small minority. I’m not worried.
re: #54 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Stoney’s analogy isn’t really fair to the Jonestown victims though it is certainly valid as a cultural archetype. Jones manipulated the victims into taking the poison by holding a series of mass suicide “rehearsals.” The members were told to line up and drink what they were told was poisoned flavor-aid. Those who refused were beaten, denied privileges, and sometimes killed. After everyone else drank, Jones would reveal that there was no poison and it was just a test. After a few repetitions, nearly everyone went along.
So, it’s a perfect analogy then to Trump’s supporters. He hasn’t manipulated them (yet) into taking poison, but he has manipulated them into giving up their families and friends to break the law and go to jail for him. Trump supporters who don’t follow Trump’s orders are denied friendship by the group (and yes, sometimes beaten or killed).
Some good news as I sign off…
Glad to announce that after the meeting I hosted with @RTErdogan & @SwedishPM, President Erdogan has agreed to forward #Sweden’s accession protocol to the Grand National Assembly ASAP & ensure ratification. This is an historic step which makes all #NATO Allies stronger & safer. pic.twitter.com/D7OeR5Vgba
— Jens Stoltenberg (@jensstoltenberg) July 10, 2023
Have a good one, Lizards and stay healthy.
re: #65 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
You think it will end up in front of a Conserva-judge who will grant the motion?
re: #67 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Pretty sure I would not want to be this close to a patch of ground that is hissing at me and throwing liquid rock at me:..
The guy in the foreground is safe; the wind is blowing away from him.
fuck trump or should I say FUCK TRUMP!!!
re: #58 Unabogie
For me, it’s 100% bar end mirrors. Helmet mirrors don’t stay put well and your helmet moves as you ride. And the view is jerky over bumps. For my drop bars, I use something like this:
Helmet mirrors do require a good place to put them. For instance, a well-fitting helmet with one of those straps around the inside that snug-up (most helmets have ‘em these days), so the only movement of the mirror is when you pan around behind you to see who is where. The EVT comes with 2 mounting kits: one velcro, one zip-tie. It can be snug. And the mirror is big. The only other person I’ve seen using it told me it was his second try. It seemed too big, at first.
Whatever works for you. That Sprintech is pretty nice. I had a customer who tried everything and succeeded with nothing.
re: #31 lawhawk
Just like the idiotic wall and how Trump touted it was foolproof to stop anyone from entering, Abbott is pursuing a similar water-based version using a buoy barrier.
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What a waste of resources (everyone who isn’t a white nationalist fascist).
What a great use of resources (white nationalist fascists who want to deter nonwhites from coming to the US for a better life, and to do the jobs Americans wont do).
That contraption seems designed to drown people. Probably drown animals too
re: #54 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
Stoney’s analogy isn’t really fair to the Jonestown victims though it is certainly valid as a cultural archetype. Jones manipulated the victims into taking the poison by holding a series of mass suicide “rehearsals.” The members were told to line up and drink what they were told was poisoned flavor-aid. Those who refused were beaten, denied privileges, and sometimes killed. After everyone else drank, Jones would reveal that there was no poison and it was just a test. After a few repetitions, nearly everyone went along.
On what turned out to be the final repetition, the members had to weigh the (seemingly very high) probability of another hoax against the certainty of barbaric consequences if they refused. A few people, the ones who knew about the murders at the airfield, realized it was different this time and refused anyway. Only a handful escaped into the jungle and survived.
The people that followed Jones to Guyana were also loyal to a man who had once actually helped them, at a time (in America) where they had no help. Once they were there, they were isolated, constantly told that they was no one to run to, and that eventually someone would come to kill them…hence the “White Nights” pretextually happening as rehearsal for the time when they actually would kill themselves ahead of an attack by American Marines, or the Guyanese Army, etc.
This is another “the trope is available, but the trope isn’t true just because it’s repeated” bit where everybody *knows* a story about Jonestown, and thinks that story exemplifies something that’s telling…but the story has a bunch of nuances that are excluded to make it punchy and trenchant, and the “lesson” is actually just cynicism that conveniently invents A Type of Person…that the storyteller is not like, of course…a kind of other that can be looked down on but not related to.
Kitty Genovese is a similar story: what actually happened (a woman was attacked once in a public area and the assault was stopped by witnesses; sadly, the attacker returned and killed her in a more secluded area of the same building without intervention) was transformed into a declaration about the indifference of city dwellers and the moral cowardice of the common man.
(Note: if you read Watchmen, consider that this story is told by Rorschach, a fascist and serial killer, as an explanation for his view of the world.)
The depressing thing about Trump supporters is that they’re not…NOT…some kind hothouse tulip of humanity. “In a cult” doesn’t explain their behavior by mere fact that…they’re not experiencing any of the other material or sociological conditions associated with the cultic milieu. They’re self-selecting into authoritarianism and sadism because they like it, because that’s how they view their class interests as being defended.
History is full of people who are fine, happy, with cruelty as long as they imagine they get to be the boot. The entire imperial history of Europe is premised on Europeans learned to not-see and not-care about the colonized, the modern American Empire is similarly built on an unwillingness to acknowledge how suffering and death have been offshored. Any “interpretation” of them that does not address how normal they are, that it’s wholly within bourgeois morals to find scapegoats and make bloody examples while denying there’s any system that creates problems, is horseshit.
When they’re two minutes late getting your dinner. pic.twitter.com/0lJKoaJAOV
— Paul Bronks (@SlenderSherbet) July 10, 2023
re: #74 Eclectic Cyborg
You think it will end up in front of a Conserva-judge who will grant the motion?
I don’t know. Sen. Hunt filed her defamation suit in Douglas County District Court. The motion to throw out the case is in the same court.
I mean if you want a simple, sexy punchline let’s talk about how Trump supporters just talk about Americans like Americans talked about Arabs and Afghans a decade and a half earlier.
Right down to the “fuck ‘em, we’ll put them in Guantanomo and then they’ll confess to all the things!”
Yes it is, I drink 40 million per day https://t.co/Nfc8aSvJcv
— Senator Megan Hunt (@NebraskaMegan) June 27, 2023
Your federal government on conservatism: Childhood death and disease.
CDC to reduce funding for states’ child vaccination programs (Nebraska Examiner, today)
TL;DR, the budget deal worked out when the Republican Party held the country hostage again included slashing vaccine and tracing funding for children to the CDC.
It also rescinds $400MM in funding to fight sexually-transmitted diseases.
Good job opportunity here
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re: #85 The Ghost of a Flea
I can keep doing this basically forever.
The War on Terror’s rhetorical contortions directly anticipate Trumpism, to the point that you could fairly argue that Trump simply followed through, vituperatively and crassly, on talking points established by a Bush Administration that happily accused citizens of treason for questioning a war (and an administration) absolutely full of misdeeds: not just the war crimes, but lies and graft and corner-cutting and territorial pissing that all had to be concealed with chest-pounding, shameless bald untruths, and constantly escalation of jingoism.
Where on earth could Trumpists arrive at their bloodthirst from, says the nation that crowed about drone strikes, that had public figures arguing about the “understandableness” of pissing on corpses and waterboarding?
re: #5 Shropshire Slasher
The footage published by SWNS shows a man appear to use salad tongs to defend himself from the onslaught aboard the Irish Ferries vessel just 20 minutes into its voyage from Dublin to Holyhead on Saturday.
I hope the outcome of the fight wasn’t mixed. Did he slawter them?
re: #93 sizzzzlerz
I hope the outcome of the fight wasn’t mixed. Did he slawter them?
Perhaps he tossed them.
re: #90 Thanos
Good job opportunity here
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I’m missing a couple of the qualifications. Otherwise, I’d be tempted.
McNaughton’s latest, hidden because McNaughton…
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LOL
Well done, Christian college. pic.twitter.com/bXoSVh3lRq
— Hemant Mehta (@hemantmehta) July 10, 2023
re: #93 sizzzzlerz
I hope the outcome of the fight wasn’t mixed. Did he slawter them?
The 24 hour rule applies.
Lettuce wait for more solid information.
Christian hate-preacher Duncan Urbanek says gay people should be murdered.
“Why do they even exist?… They should be arrested and tried and be executed by the government… You know why sodomites want to adopt children? So they can abuse them. That’s the only reason.” pic.twitter.com/6lT5w7mTAW— Hemant Mehta (@hemantmehta) July 7, 2023
Sunak didn’t want me upstaging him… https://t.co/hsEVSMMovN
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) July 10, 2023
“Nice to meet you Richie: where’s Larry?” pic.twitter.com/haBzS5JCOj
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) July 10, 2023
re: #13 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Here’s a screen cap from the RUV camera on “Little Ram” mountain. First time smoke appeared. Looking at the clock, it was a little over an hour ago. Looking north towards Mt. Keiler, the fissure is about a kilometer north-east of last year’s fissure (which was on the sw side of Little Ram:
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I love that icelandic is apparently just the old Mission Impossible pretend-language, decipherable to viewers—“Warnuk! Splosion go Big Bangen!!”
re: #98 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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Lesbianism is actually purity culture taken to it’s highest energy orbital.
re: #95 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Perhaps he tossed them.
He radished a young damsel, and engaged in cold slawter with the gents.
re: #64 No Malarkey!
This is clearly unconstitutional, because there were no laws prohibiting the well regulated militia from bearing arms on airplanes in 1789./
You never know when you’ll need to stand your ground against 15C who wants to recline their seat.
re: #14 Backwoods Sleuth
“We never saw any of this ADHD or autism stuff when I was young!”
You never saw any photos of the surface of Mars back then either, but I’m pretty sure it was still there the whole time
You never saw any left-handed people either because they had it beaten out of them
re: #31 lawhawk
Just like the idiotic wall and how Trump touted it was foolproof to stop anyone from entering, Abbott is pursuing a similar water-based version using a buoy barrier.
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What a waste of resources (everyone who isn’t a white nationalist fascist).
What a great use of resources (white nationalist fascists who want to deter nonwhites from coming to the US for a better life, and to do the jobs Americans wont do).
Good grief. I can’t even imagine how warped the people are who came up with this scheme.
re: #108 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
You never saw any left-handed people either because they had it beaten out of them
My father, a leftie, wasn’t beaten but he did have his left hand tied to the chair to force him to write with his right hand. This was in the 1930’s.
re: #29 Dr. Matt
This is a bit overblown. Noth that Moms for Liberty are not a highly reactionary group whose policies are in line with a lot of Nazi ideology.
But quoting Hitler in the sense of reminding us that whoever controls the youth controls the future can be interpreted in many ways.
My interpretation being, “don’t let people like Moms for Liberty have any control over our youth!”
re: #109 Charles Johnson
Good grief. I can’t even imagine how warped the people are who came up with this scheme.
They would lay mines if they could get away with it.
Trump’s base https://t.co/khUe2HtsHo
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) July 10, 2023
re: #101 Backwoods Sleuth
Cameron the Capitol Cat here was catnapped last year and dumped at the Lincoln Humane Society.
Cameron’s owner reported the cat missing shortly after it was taken. Security cameras showed two women packing Cameron in a carrier at the state capitol.
Cameron hangs out every day at the south entrance to the Capitol, where state workers and politicians regularly greet the cat with treats.
When the State Police found out what happened to Cameron, he was returned to his owner. (Cameron is chipped.) He’s back at his daily perch.
I got put on a time-out on faceplant again. All I said was
Kill them all, bury their corpses, and salt the earth in a five miles radius.
I’m going to take a nap before tonight’s village board meeting. Wish me luck (for my nap).
re: #100 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Christian hate-preacher Duncan Urbanek says gay people should be murdered.
and this is entirely consistent with Biblical teaching. Just read your Leviticus
re: #9 dat_said
Not defending Twitter but I really hate graphs where they don’t show the zero on the y-axis so as to exaggerate the change (How to Lie with Statistics). Plus, in this graph the y-axis shows “rank” from 32 to 40 and, for all I know, the difference between being ranked 32nd vs 40th might be 153 users and a ham sandwich.
Linked article says -
- which is not good for Twitter but tanking seems like a strong word to describe this short-term change.
Leave it to Elon to discover that deplorables will lose you some audience, but that Newsies love them some Nazis, and ain’t ever going to leave ‘em.
(hours later comes back and realizes that he never clicked the Post It button.)
re: #117 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
and this is entirely consistent with Biblical teaching
I wonder about his views on adultery.
Trump was asked in an interview today what was his plan to win Nevada in 2024 given that he lost the state to Hillary in 2016 and Biden in 2020?
He responded by simply claiming he won it “both times by a lot”
There is no plan other than to claim he won regardless of outcome. pic.twitter.com/0mGbvmynaZ— AG (@AGHamilton29) July 10, 2023
re: #119 Belafon
I wonder about his views on adultery.
Those whould be quite clear: Adulteresses should be stoned to death, adulterers forgiven.
re: #120 Vicious Babushka
Trump was asked in an interview today what was his plan to win Nevada in 2024 given that he lost the state to Hillary in 2016 and Biden in 2020?
He responded by simply claiming he won it “both times by a lot”
Massive voter fraud
Unless he wins
re: #122 Belafon
Updated | The Oklahoma head of education maintains that his remarks were taken out of context:
Then give us some context about why you think that the color of people’s skins played no role in the Tulsa Race Riots.
re: #127 Charles Johnson
Texas deploys barrier of buoys, nets in Rio Grande to deter border crossings
and wind up deterring a legal business
re: #72 Dr Lizardo
Some good news as I sign off…
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So I wonder what NATO promised Erdogan to get him to drop his objections to Sweden joining up?
My guess is something carrying the general classification of “hardware”, with some sort of “go BOOM!!!” attached….
Also: I thought I read that Hungary was also being pissy about letting the Swedes in: presumably Orban has some sort of grift in mind as well….
re: #120 Vicious Babushka
“I think I won.”
This is how you know his inner circle is terrified to tell him the truth.
re: #109 Charles Johnson
I’m expecting them to load the river with alligators next.
re: #130 Eclectic Cyborg
“I think I won.”
This is how you know his inner circle is terrified to tell him the truth.
I don’t know if I buy that. I think he just decided it was better if “we all just say we won. I like that better.”
And he sticks with it. It’s beyond a lie. He doesn’t care if it’s true. It’s just better for him, so he says it.
Today’s Wordle started so well (yes, considerable cursing was involved)… xD
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re: #132 Unabogie
I don’t know if I buy that. I think he just decided it was better if “we all just say we won. I like that better.”
And he sticks with it. It’s beyond a lie. He doesn’t care if it’s true. It’s just better for him, so he says it.
The scientific term is bullshit.
The fissure is really three different lines, here you can see the northern line which runs parallel to the middle line. The build up of the early cones are already pretty impressive after less than five hours:
You can see the hoomans starting to collect around the lava. By tomorrow there will be hundreds.
After close to 3 inches of rain yesterday….
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re: #110 sizzzzlerz
My father, a leftie, wasn’t beaten but he did have his left hand tied to the chair to force him to write with his right hand. This was in the 1930’s.
First grade. Catholic school. Late 60’s. I got a gentle slap on the back of the head and then the kind nun would take my pencil out of my left hand and place it in my right hand. She would sweetly say “try it this way”. Took me a week or two to figure it out but now I can write like a well-trained physician.
She didn’t have lunch duty, so I managed to maintain my European style of eating. None of this inefficient swapping the knife back and forth.
NATO Head: Turkey Has Reversed, Sweden Can Join
https://t.co/cP1IYUxWKY pic.twitter.com/dD9WjutbuO— JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) July 10, 2023
Doug Burgum is paying people to donate to his presidential campaign
Obligatory who?
Some may think spending $20 to get a $1 donation is not a great ROI, but it makes sense in Republican economics as you need 40,000 individual donors to get on the R debate stage.
Proud Boy Daniel “Milkshake” Scott created a challenge coin with a noose and guillotine on it to commemorate J6. The DOJ is seeking 5 years imprisonment. His attorney says Milkshake, who hosts a podcast, hasn’t expressed remorse because he has difficulty expressing himself in public. I don’t think that’s the reason.
Here’s a challenge coin that Proud Boy “Milkshake” made after Jan. 6, featuring a noose and a guillotine. pic.twitter.com/un0YCrvqMT
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) July 9, 2023
Milkshake Happy Hour podcast host Daniel Scott has “a keen intelligence” and “a droll sense of humor unlike anything counsel has seen in his experience,” his lawyer writes.
Hopes to make a career in music after all this. https://t.co/D2XmxTupZJ pic.twitter.com/D3xIC7hTxO— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) July 10, 2023
re: #138 Captain Ron
NATO Head: Turkey Has Reversed, Sweden Can Join
In exchange for EU reconsidering Turkey’s application to join the EU.
According to Turkish law, mentioning the Armenian Genocide is a crime
According to French law, denying the Armenian Genocide is a crime.
How the hell is that supposed to work?
re: #141 No Malarkey!
Throw the book at this motherfucker, please.
Apparently Jake is the QANON Shaman and he is on twitter and has a beef with Groyper Nazi Boy. No, not about the Hitler love but the marrying 16 year olds comment. The Young Republicans are like some old Germans.
You two should settle your differences with a legit dual. Don’t be a pussy.
— gocart mozart (@EdMix13) July 10, 2023
re: #145 gocart mozart
Apparently Jake is the QANON Shaman and he is on twitter and has a beef with Groyper Nazi Boy. No, not about the Hitler love but the marrying 16 year olds comment.
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The milk is not for you, Fuckhead.
Don’t discount us funny guys. We can be savage.https://t.co/wS0P4sbmTh
— gocart mozart (@EdMix13) July 10, 2023
re: #89 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Your federal government on conservatism: Childhood death and disease.
CDC to reduce funding for states’ child vaccination programs (Nebraska Examiner, today)
TL;DR, the budget deal worked out when the Republican Party held the country hostage again included slashing vaccine and tracing funding for children to the CDC.
It also rescinds $400MM in funding to fight sexually-transmitted diseases.
Terrible but if we want better policies, we need Democrats in charge of all branches of the federal government. Otherwise, there is no way to implement all the policies needed to offer everyone a healthy and successful future.
re: #89 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Republicans are so bad that when I finish a video game these days, I ask myself if the big, bad final boss is as evil as a generic Republican, with mixed results.
re: #152 EPR-radar
Republicans are so bad that when I finish a video game these days, I ask myself if the big, bad final boss is as evil as a generic Republican, with mixed results.
Well yeah, they’re planning to wipe out all of humanity, reduce us all into an organic slurry, and use it to build a giant robot that will join the cycle that has been wiping out sentient life again and again for eons…but at least they’re not stripping funding from child vaccination programs.
/
“Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s (R-AL) lengthy blockade of senior military promotions is becoming a major national story as the Marine Corps is now without a Senate-confirmed commandant for the first time in a century,” Punchbowl News reports.
…
“But Tuberville said he has no intention of backing down over Defense Department policy of covering service members’ travel expenses when seeking out-of-state abortions and other forms of reproductive care. Tuberville insists he’s not under any pressure from GOP colleagues to cave.”
therefore
NBC News reports the Biden administration wants to reverse the decision moving Space Command from Colorado Springs to Huntsville because of Alabama’s abortion laws.
I remind you it’s the same argument CO Senator Michael Bennet made on the Senate floor two months ago. #copolitics https://t.co/Ajh4m9Mbrf pic.twitter.com/R3uX8dog5T— Spencer Soicher KRDO (@spencersoicher) May 16, 2023
also, apparently
The “missing” Hunter Biden witness the GOP was promising for a while there was just charged by the DOJ with being a Chinese spy. https://t.co/lLiVEmfrU1
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) July 10, 2023
Greg Abbott is going to drown a bunch of families and then Mexico is going to pull his barrier out of the river and sue Texas for human rights violations…and win.
re: #157 darthstar
Greg Abbott is going to drown a bunch of families and then Mexico is going to pull his barrier out of the river and sue Texas for human rights violations…and win.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, someone needs to rendition Governor Hot Wheels to the Hague and put him on trial for crimes against humanity before he gets a death toll like his heroes.
Shouldn’t the fact that the AZ College Republicans are hosting Fuentes in the first place be the bigger issue?
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Looks like the local newspaper is going spiral down the capitalist-vulture route:
The San Diego Union-Tribune has been bought by a company owned by Alden Global Capital. We’ve seen this happen before.https://t.co/T6hfiSgOS8
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) July 10, 2023
re: #162 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I’ve not bought a SDUT issue in probably 35 years.
So yeah, the industry is not well, cuz me and everybody else find electronic news sources so much easier.
Papers like the SDUT really messed up, but that didn’t have to happen. Before Tribune bought it, the SDUT was owned by a local wingnut, who bought it from the old institution that owned it prior.
Once these papers start get handed around, I think the only thing we can expect is a funeral in the near future.
We’re two and a half hours into @RealPimaGOP figuring out how to say “nazis bad” without pissing off all the John Birchers in their leadership. pic.twitter.com/JH6Tqy42EA
— kenny jacobs 🌻 (@kennyjacobs) July 10, 2023
From downstairs:
re: #333 Dr. Matt
So, the question remains to be answered: Who is more mentally unstable?
A. Kanye
B. The Former Guy
C. Elmo
The Axis of Fuckwits.
re: #164 gocart mozart
I like that the Maricopa County GOP refers to the “Republican Party Platform”, which either doesn’t exist at all, or consists exclusively of the latest word-vomit from Trump, take your pick.
re: #160 A Cranky One
Believe me when I say that the death of Optimus Prime in 1985 was devastating.
And this is where high-minded tech-types have probably hurt something important.
Take Mastodon, for example.
The refusal to accept that commerce is the wheel that turns the news is keeping companies away.
The latter-day-puritans who run the various ActivityPub instances think that capitalism is evil, but they ignore the reality of life: what we need to live is accomplished by commerce.
In an alternate universe I can imagine that something like legacy newspapers (e.g. SDUT) could have their own ActivityPub instance, filtering in advertisements into the news stream.
And the problem with the legacy outlets like SDUT is that they never really understood why Craigslist became so important to locals.
In my opinion, if legacy newspapers had been on top of their game then Craigslist would never have been needed.
So in our world we now end up with a decimated sector of life - the news business - combined with a David-and-Goliath battle for online eyes (e.g. Meta vs. the little guys).
re: #167 TarHellion
Believe me when I say that the death of Optimus Prime in 1985 was devastating.
He’s died more than once…he really is the Christ in Transformerland.
re: #169 darthstar
He’s died more than once…he really is the Christ in Transformerland.
It’s a fucking Robot!
Rebuild it and input the remote data backup from the day before the Robot was destroyed, and Bob’s Your Uncle.
re: #169 darthstar
Indeed. Just the one that had the most impact. As opposed to the Robot Chicken episode where he “died” due to prostate cancer - then mentioned he doesn’t have a prostate.
re: #171 austin_blue
It’s a fucking Robot!
Rebuild it and input the remote data backup from the day before the Robot was destroyed, and Bob’s Your Uncle.
Robot is a crude term we used to describe a living metallic organism because we don’t have quite the right word for it.
re: #175 Belafon
Robot is a crude term we used to describe a living metallic organism because we don’t have quite the right word for it.
Cylon works for me.
re: #168 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Some media outlets do have their own instances. The problem is such instances are hard to search for on Mastodon (like everything there).
Someone on Reddit attempted to put together a list of outlets which have their own instances several months ago.
(More are in the comments.)
As for local papers, I’m not sure what my regional newspaper is doing correctly (probably not selling it to vulture capitalists). They’ve added more local reporters, added more reporters in Colorado and Wyoming, and run Lincoln and Washington DC news bureaus.
re: #80 Rightwingconspirator
That contraption seems designed to drown people. Probably drown animals too
I’ve no idea how active the Rio Grande is in that area in terms of water level fluctuation and storm debris. Since I expect the latter would play absolute havoc with an sort of extended buoy and net system.
(Western Nebraska Observer, Kimball, July 6, 2023)
A large crowd gathered in Kimball Monday morning to see a piece of history and a showpiece of the Union Pacific, the Big Boy No. 4014. The steam locomotive was returning to its home base in Cheyenne after a trip to the College World Series.
The Big Boy No. 4014 was built in 1941 and restored in 2013 to travel to special events. Onlookers included young and old, first-time viewers, Kimball residents, and train enthusiasts from across the nation.
One young man carried around a miniature model Big Boy train.
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re: #175 Belafon
Robot is a crude term we used to describe a living metallic organism because we don’t have quite the right word for it.
The word robot comes from the Russian word for “work”
re: #153 Targetpractice
Well yeah, they’re planning to wipe out all of humanity, reduce us all into an organic slurry, and use it to build a giant robot that will join the cycle that has been wiping out sentient life again and again for eons…but at least they’re not stripping funding from child vaccination programs.
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That’s why I said mixed results. On the other hand, more generic game villains that just want to rule the world with an iron fist and exterminate their enemies really are generic Republicans.
re: #181 Vicious Babushka
The word robot comes from the Russian word for “work”
It comes from the Czech term for “forced labor”, actually.
“slaves” when people are feeling frisky about their etymology.
re: #137 dat_said
First grade. Catholic school. Late 60’s. I got a gentle slap on the back of the head and then the kind nun would take my pencil out of my left hand and place it in my right hand. She would sweetly say “try it this way”. Took me a week or two to figure it out but now I can write like a well-trained physician.
She didn’t have lunch duty, so I managed to maintain my European style of eating. None of this inefficient swapping the knife back and forth.
I had a friend of mine’s father-in-law (who is 90-something) ask me about where I learned my table manners and family ancestry last Christmas because he noticed me using my fork with my left hand to eat while the knife in my right hand did the cutting. He wasn’t being insulting as he knew there were different cultural standards regarding using cutlery.
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re: #185 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
I had a friend of mine’s father-in-law (who is 90-something) ask me about where I learned my table manners and family ancestry last Christmas because he noticed me using my fork with my left hand to eat while the knife in my right hand did the cutting. He wasn’t being insulting as he knew there were different cultural standards regarding using cutlery.
My father had the same thing happen with hand writing in the public schools in the 40’s & 50’s. His writing is still makes my horrifically bad script look blue ribbon winning (though I have no such excuse). I took to a very careful printing rather than inflicting my cursive on anyone and was grateful to first learn typewriters and then computer keyboarding instead.
re: #185 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
I had a friend of mine’s father-in-law (who is 90-something) ask me about where I learned my table manners and family ancestry last Christmas because he noticed me using my fork with my left hand to eat while the knife in my right hand did the cutting. He wasn’t being insulting as he knew there were different cultural standards regarding using cutlery.
“Which hand do I hold the rammer in?”
re: #171 austin_blue
It’s a fucking Robot!
Rebuild it and input the remote data backup from the day before the Robot was destroyed, and Bob’s Your Uncle.
Optimus Prime is a fucking robot? Well pass the lubrication!
re: #181 Vicious Babushka
The word robot comes from the Russian word for “work”
Czech word IIRC. Karel Čapek coined the term in a play called “R. U. R.” which stood for Rossum’s Universal Robots.
For some reason a translation of the play was in one of my texts in school as I read it way back then. By current technology terms the “robots” were in fact androids since they were human-form and more organic than mechanical.
re: #187 William Lewis
Edit: supposed to have quoted 137 … Oops!
My father had the same thing happen with hand writing in the public schools in the 40’s & 50’s. His writing is still makes my horrifically bad script look blue ribbon winning (though I have no such excuse). I took to a very careful printing rather than inflicting my cursive on anyone and was grateful to first learn typewriters and then computer keyboarding instead.
Very good printing ran in my family. Father was a mechanical engineer by education and had done technical drawing. My brother and I both took technical drawing classes in high school and the very first thing they teach is how to draw consistent printing in a manner to not smudge what you’ve already written.*
That eventually got me tasked at work and in the fraternity as a person to play scribe in meetings where words and such where being tracked on a black or white board - my printing was relatively rapid, scaled, and very legible.
* - I recall still seeing people with T-squares and drawing boards up until my 3rd year at Pitt. That’s about when the PC revolution was catching hold and auto-cad software was starting to wipe out the old skill set. And enough PCs and printers were turning up in the labs that it was possible to do a paper using a text processor rather than counting on my manual typewriter.
re: #188 Nojay UK
“Which hand do I hold the rammer in?”
That starts getting into odd places since I am generally right-handed but left-eye dominant. So I do 3-4 tasks left-handed (shoot a rifle, dribble a basketball, move a computer mouse around) and everything else (shoot a pistol, shoot a basketball, write) right handed.
re: #190 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Czech word IIRC. Karel Čapek coined the term in a play called “R. U. R.” which stood for Rossum’s Universal Robots.
For some reason a translation of the play was in one of my texts in school as I read it way back then. By current technology terms the “robots” were in fact androids since they were human-form and more organic than mechanical.
I read that in high school.
re: #66 Belafon
I think it was already scheduled to be played at the Orange Pest’s dump.
re: #191 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Very good printing ran in my family. Father was a mechanical engineer by education and had done technical drawing. My brother and I both took technical drawing classes in high school and the very first thing they teach is how to draw consistent printing in a manner to not smudge what you’ve already written.*
That eventually got me tasked at work and in the fraternity as a person to play scribe in meetings where words and such where being tracked on a black or white board - my printing was relatively rapid, scaled, and very legible.
* - I recall still seeing people with T-squares and drawing boards up until my 3rd year at Pitt. That’s about when the PC revolution was catching hold and auto-cad software was starting to wipe out the old skill set. And enough PCs and printers were turning up in the labs that it was possible to do a paper using a text processor rather than counting on my manual typewriter.
Same. My dad was an engineer and learned that old handwriting used on blueprints (and his cursive was quite good). My mom mimicked her favorite teacher’s script and it was lovely. Mine is just basic at best. I forgot how to write cursive years ago.
re: #170 A Cranky One
re: #185 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
I had a friend of mine’s father-in-law (who is 90-something) ask me about where I learned my table manners and family ancestry last Christmas because he noticed me using my fork with my left hand to eat while the knife in my right hand did the cutting. He wasn’t being insulting as he knew there were different cultural standards regarding using cutlery.
as far as I know, I’ve always eaten with the fork in my left and the knife in my right, without changing anything around. are there honestly people who aren’t capable of operating a fork decently with the left hand? maybe it was the piano lessons, but I’ve just always found that not an issue.
The nets below Hot Wheels’ barriers are not designed to prevent people from swimming underneath them, they are designed to drown them.
re: #198 steve_davis
as far as I know, I’ve always eaten with the fork in my left and the knife in my right, without changing anything around. are there honestly people who aren’t capable of operating a fork decently with the left hand? maybe it was the piano lessons, but I’ve just always found that not an issue.
Same here. My cursive is neat because I took up calligraphy when I was thirteen.
I have to go to “my meeting.”
The bedframe was just delivered by a Target truck. We’ll assemble that later.
I’m Left hand dominant to write and eat. It was interesting when I went to India for several weeks as I forced myself not to use my left hand for anything.
Does the school also have a litter box in every classroom? pic.twitter.com/XRcJiWYB6s
— Hemant Mehta (@hemantmehta) July 10, 2023
re: #155 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)
also, apparently
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THE REPUBLICAN PARTY WAS WORKING WITH A CHINESE SPY TO TRY TO ATTACK THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND WANTED TO GIVE THE SPY IMMUNITY FOR HIS CRIMES!
THIS IS CRIMINAL!!!— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) July 10, 2023
Whoops. Gal Luft, the GOP’s new fake Hunter Biden “whistleblower,” was just indicted by the Justice Department for arms trafficking, violating U.S. sanctions against Iran, making false statements to federal agents, and being an unregistered foreign agent for China.
James Comer… pic.twitter.com/cgwcfPbDnE— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) July 10, 2023
re: #198 steve_davis
as far as I know, I’ve always eaten with the fork in my left and the knife in my right, without changing anything around. are there honestly people who aren’t capable of operating a fork decently with the left hand? maybe it was the piano lessons, but I’ve just always found that not an issue.
I think it’s people who were force taught that you always use the fork or spoon with your right hand. I guess if you are dexterous enough you can then knife with your left hand. Or you shift fork to left to hold meat/object while knife in right does a slice. Then you switch fork back to right to eat slice. Repeat. (And never never never cut multiple slices to save time since that’s bad.)
I forget where I have seen bits about old school table manners and the multiplicity of forks, spoons, glasses, etc. that go with an actual formal table setting.
One thing my fraternity did at a convention in the early 2000s was do a short 15-20 minute session on cocktail party etiquette right before there was a mixer and formal dinner at the convention. I thought that was a useful session for a lot of people.
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re: #195 Barefoot Grin
Same. My dad was an engineer and learned that old handwriting used on blueprints (and his cursive was quite good). My mom mimicked her favorite teacher’s script and it was lovely. Mine is just basic at best. I forgot how to write cursive years ago.
My dad was a doctor. His handwriting was every stereotype you’ve ever heard about doctors’ handwriting. It was hideous. The nurses’ desk used to call the house on a regular basis asking him to please tell them what it said.
re: #146 Charles Johnson
Hmmmmm!
I just installed the latest security update on my Macs and now when I go to Facebook this pops up with Safari.
re: #200 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Same here. My cursive is neat because I took up calligraphy when I was thirteen.
I have to go to “my meeting.”
The bedframe was just delivered by a Target truck. We’ll assemble that later.
We suspect your excellent wife will have it assembled by the time you return from the meeting.
re: #208 sagehen
We suspect your excellent wife will have it assembled by the time you return from the meeting.
No, for this I need to do it. The job requires lying down and assembling stuff she can’t do. I’m out now.
re: #207 Joe Bacon ✅
Hmmmmm!
I just installed the latest security update on my Macs and now when I go to Facebook this pops up with Safari.
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Yup, same here. Something happening to a lot of Meta products under the new security patch.
re: #210 gwangung
Yup, same here. Something happening to a lot of Meta products under the new security patch.
Instagram on Safari also pops up with the same “The browser is no longer supported” alert.
Ugly puke yellow-green sky as a thunderstorm rolls in. Doesn’t look too bad on radar.
Still…
re: #203 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)
Any word on who the “Trump advisor” is?
re: #25 No Malarkey!
Just in case they have any illusions about being normal kids like anyone else. The classes will be separate, but equal, of course.
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Ironically, it is my understanding that in disability education, there is a principle of getting children “mainstreamed” in regular classrooms. These asshats want to undo all that.
re: #213 jaunte
Any word on who the “Trump advisor” is?
GOP’s so-called whistleblower accused of being a pawn of a foreign government by the DOJ
Israeli Gal Luft claimed to have evidence against President Joe Biden and his son in a bribery scheme with China that Republicans have jumped on. But as it turns out, the Justice Department indicted him for being an unregistered foreign agent, trafficking in arms, violating U.S. sanctions against Iran, and making false statements to federal agents.
Luft disappeared for a time online, leading to conspiracy theories. When Luft resurfaced, it was to deny accusations against him and claim that the federal government was after him.
In a video published by the conservative New York Post, Luft issues new accusations saying that Biden got money from Chinese military intelligence and sounded the alarm about a conspiracy with the federal government trying to bring him down.
But as it turns out, Luft may have had a motive if the allegations by the DOJ prove to be true.
“He subverted foreign agent registration laws in the United States to seek to promote Chinese policies by acting through a former high-ranking U.S. Government official; he acted as a broker in deals for dangerous weapons and Iranian oil; and he told multiple lies about his crimes to law enforcement,” announced U.S. Attorney Damian Williams. “As the charges unsealed today reflect, our Office will continue to work vigorously with our law enforcement partners to detect and hold accountable those who surreptitiously attempt to perpetrate malign foreign influence campaigns here in the United States.”
And here’s another naughty preacher who got caught…
California Youth Pastor Accused of Revolting Sex Abuse
A California church deacon allegedly sexually abused numerous boys on religious mission trips under the guise of inspecting their genitals for “concerning” moles—helping protect the children, he told them, from the ravages of skin cancer.
The abuse dates back to at least 2009, according to a criminal complaint unsealed in Sacramento federal court upon his July 7 arrest and reported first by The Daily Beast.
Bradley Earl Reger, 67, “used his position of authority… to groom children and continually grope their naked genitals for his own sexual pleasure,” federal prosecutors said in a detention memo after Reger was taken into custody. Local police first received reports in 2003 of abuse by Reger, who “never seemed to run out of teenage boys whose genitals he could fondle under the guise of medical ‘exams,’” according to the memo.
re: #215 I Would Prefer Not To
Thanks Anymouse.
I don’t live in PA, but the video is enraging. Why we need to pay a CEO of a non profit 12 million a year will never make sense to me.
Ah, yes. UPMC. The group that does my healthcare and insurance.
re: #217 Joe Bacon ✅
“While the official is not identified in the indictment, Luft recently said that he paid former CIA director James Woolsey to write opinion articles for China Daily. Woolsey was a founder of Luft’s think tank and spoke at numerous events with Patrick Ho, the CEFC China Energy executive.”
freebeacon.com
Former CIA director. Not good, James.
en.wikipedia.org.
re: #220 Joe Bacon ✅
And here’s a picture of our “Yertle” The Turtle who lives in our building’s water fountain.
Yertle’s partner Bert was too shy and hid in some of the algae in the fountain.
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Smol fren.
re: #127 Charles Johnson
Just going to note that one of the first things our governor Katie Hobbs did after being sworn in was to put in a plan to remove all the shipping containers that Doug Ducey had sent down to the border to build a “wall.” They have apparently been removed and now are up for sale, currently to governmental entities and nonprofits. If there are any left in October, then those will be opened to everyone else to buy.
I can’t even think of a market for those damn buoys. Maybe there is one. Perhaps they could be put in the swimming pool at Greg Abbott’s house.
re: #225 mmmirele
Just going to note that one of the first things our governor Katie Hobbs did after being sworn in was to put in a plan to remove all the shipping containers that Doug Ducey had sent down to the border to build a “wall.” They have apparently been removed and now are up for sale, currently to governmental entities and nonprofits. If there are any left in October, then those will be opened to everyone else to buy.
I can’t even think of a market for those damn buoys. Maybe there is one. Perhaps they could be put in the swimming pool at Greg Abbott’s house.
Homes for upper middle class people are being built from them.
Wrong thing.
re: #225 mmmirele
Just going to note that one of the first things our governor Katie Hobbs did after being sworn in was to put in a plan to remove all the shipping containers that Doug Ducey had sent down to the border to build a “wall.” They have apparently been removed and now are up for sale, currently to governmental entities and nonprofits. If there are any left in October, then those will be opened to everyone else to buy.
I can’t even think of a market for those damn buoys. Maybe there is one. Perhaps they could be put in the swimming pool at Greg Abbott’s house.
Maybe Hot Wheels could use some exercise by wheeling away from a rolling buoy.
JFC
Tuberville: My opinion of a white nationalist.. it’s an American. If that white nationalist is a racist, I’m totally against them.
Collins: White nationalist is racist
Tuberville: That’s your opinion pic.twitter.com/hT5wTPkCO4— Acyn (@Acyn) July 11, 2023
re: #229 Vicious Babushka
The man made his living off the free labor of African-Americans
re: #230 TarHellion
The man made his living off the free labor of African-Americans
Auburn has not sent their brightest to the US Senate.
re: #229 Vicious Babushka
How long will the Senate allow a single senator to sabotage the Defense Department?
re: #232 jaunte
How long will the Senate allow a single senator to sabotage the Defense Department?
Forever.
re: #233 Ace Rothstein
I guess DoD could start moving assets out of Alabama.
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re: #234 jaunte
I guess DoD could start
moving assets out ofsawing Alabama off and let it drift into the Gulf of Mexico.
re: #238 Ace Rothstein
It’s such a complicated coastline when you try to saw off the White Nationalist part.
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