50 hostages held by Hamas and 150 Palestinian women and children held in Israeli prisons are set to be released after a deal was agreed to by the two sides. CBS News correspondent Lilia Luciano reports from Tel Aviv and chief foreign affairs correspondent and “Face the Nation” moderator Margaret Brennan gives analysis on the deal.
re: #182 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
I thought the “Rainbow Bridge” was a metaphor. This changes everything.
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I honestly had the same thought.
“Wait, so I hope all the animals are ok!”
Meanwhile, the area around the Rainbow Bridge is being cleared of cars and people. Police here are telling folks they can’t go down the road because this area is being “evacuated.” pic.twitter.com/FQHBf3WEEx
— Viktoria Hallikäär (@ViktoriaKrista) November 22, 2023
BTW: a couple of minutes perusing local media sites added a bit of clarification to the Niagara Falls explosion story (which doesn’t sound - to me, anyway - quite like the “car bomb/terrorist attack” some idiots seem to be trying to make it out to be) - I heard two eyewitness reports saying that the car was speeding up to the bridge crossing from the American side; swerved and flipped, and then went up in a fireball - reasons yet undetermined.
Still sounds like a weird incident, but not like the usual Middle-East-style “car-bombing” one would expect.
Which I’m sure won’t stop The Usual Crowd Of Morons from “speculating”….
“We interview expert John Bolton, willing to sacrifice the last hostage for someone else to fight Hamas.”
re: #3 goddamnedfrank
Looks very low order / low brisance, no shattered glass or significant structural damage. Vehicle exploded but the shockwave didn’t carry very far. Amateur hour.
Enough to apparently disassemble a motor vehicle
re: #3 goddamnedfrank
Looks very low order / low brisance, no shattered glass or significant structural damage. Vehicle exploded but the shockwave didn’t carry very far. Amateur hour.
Yep. But from the photo’s I’ve seen, clearly a VBIED.
re: #7 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
Enough to apparently disassemble a motor vehicle
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Big enough to rapidly disassemble vehicle, but not big enough to do more than that?
re: #9 Teukka
Big enough to rapidly disassemble vehicle, but not big enough to do more than that?
Sucks to be the people in the car.
re: #9 Teukka
Triggering a chain-reaction of speculation.
re: #9 Teukka
Big enough to rapidly disassemble vehicle, but not big enough to do more than that?
Likely the blast occurred out of frame, and the visible vehicle parts were thrown into the booth. As there is no visible blast damage/scorching to the visible pillars
re: #5 Jay C
BTW: a couple of minutes perusing local media sites added a bit of clarification to the Niagara Falls explosion story (which doesn’t sound - to me, anyway - quite like the “car bomb/terrorist attack” some idiots seem to be trying to make it out to be) - I heard two eyewitness reports saying that the car was speeding up to the bridge crossing from the American side; swerved and flipped, and then went up in a fireball - reasons yet undetermined.
Still sounds like a weird incident, but not like the usual Middle-East-style “car-bombing” one would expect.
Which I’m sure won’t stop The Usual Crowd Of Morons from “speculating”….
Wouldn’t be first time that a vehicle disassembled after hitting a toll barrier, and depending on the vehicle type (hybrid/full-electric/ICE), you could account for the damage.
re: #9 Teukka
Big enough to rapidly disassemble vehicle, but not big enough to do more than that?
If the explosion mostly went upward, but that booth may have glass that’s meant to take an explosion due to terrorism while looking less sturdy.
re: #16 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈
It wont take long for FBI and the JTTF have access to CCTV to see precisely what happened with this vehicle.
re: #5 Jay C
BTW: a couple of minutes perusing local media sites added a bit of clarification to the Niagara Falls explosion story (which doesn’t sound - to me, anyway - quite like the “car bomb/terrorist attack” some idiots seem to be trying to make it out to be) - I heard two eyewitness reports saying that the car was speeding up to the bridge crossing from the American side; swerved and flipped, and then went up in a fireball - reasons yet undetermined.
Still sounds like a weird incident, but not like the usual Middle-East-style “car-bombing” one would expect.
Which I’m sure won’t stop The Usual Crowd Of Morons from “speculating”….
Media is reporting the vehicle was traveling FROM Canada TO the US side
First line of traps was good. Averaged nine crabs per pot. Second line was hit by poachers. Six empty pots in a row so far.
Three pots to go then we circle back to the first set.
re: #13 Charles Johnson
I take it a reunion tour is out of the question.
#FBI Buffalo statement on investigation at the Rainbow Bridge: pic.twitter.com/jRaGLL8sU8
— FBI Buffalo (@FBIBuffalo) November 22, 2023
re: #27 Joe Bacon ✅
Upding for Red Skelton.
re: #29 Backwoods Sleuth
Guy who thinks he’s a successful businessman gets schooled by guy who actually IS a successful businessman.
Build the Ramaswamy Wall, and make Canada pay for it! Canadian “super pigs” threaten to invade the US!
One user, Avi Bueno, called out Twitter CEO Linda Yacarrino:
“It took me about 30 seconds to find X placing advertisements for @TheAthletic, @ShopTemu, @ActionNetworkHQ, and @Visit_NJ alongside a search for ‘killjews,’” he said. “This place is broken and advertisers should be worried.”
re: #30 Charmingly Persistent
End wokeness is racking up some blocks in less than a day:
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Saw that twit and reported/blocked instantly.
re: #33 jaunte
Advertisers should be reading Elon the riot act.
But but but but
Multiple law enforcement sources said that shortly before noon on Wednesday, a car coming from the Canadian side of the border with the US exploded after it was heading toward a secondary search area.
The car was on the Rainbow Bridge that connects Canada to New York and went through an initial checkpoint where identification documents are examined before the explosion occurred.
Authorities do not know what caused the explosion. The FBI, New York State Police and US Customs and Border Protection are on the scene investigating.
Federal authorities are trying to retrieve video from a number of different angles because the statements from witnesses vary, the sources said.
Sources said there were no serious injuries except to those who were in the car, reportedly two men.
Still more Elmo crap
Florida judge finds Tesla, Elon Musk knew of defective Autopilot systemk
There is “reasonable evidence” to conclude that Tesla and its officers, including CEO Elon Musk, knew its vehicles had defective Autopilot systems but still allowed the cars to be driven in areas “not safe for that technology,” a Florida judge found.
The ruling last week from Judge Reid Scott, in the Circuit Court for Palm Beach County, means the family of a man who died in a collision while his Tesla’s Autopilot was engaged can go to trial and seek punitive damages from Tesla for intentional misconduct and gross negligence. Reuters first reported the news.
re: #39 Vicious Babushka
Mmm. That looks great.
re: #39 Vicious Babushka
That pie looks slightly defective. Let me assist you in disposing of it.
re: #31 Eclectic Cyborg
Guy who thinks he’s a successful businessman gets schooled by guy who actually IS a successful businessman.
The successful businessman is literally telling the unsuccessful one that he could have gotten leeway with hate speech if his ad placements were a net-positive for the ad buyers.
JUST IN: Unbelievable photos from the Rainbow Bridge vehicle explosion. 📸: One Niagara Welcome Center pic.twitter.com/ghKfi1S0VN
— Stephen Marth (@StephenMarth) November 22, 2023
BREAKING: According to Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center, they are evaluating and treating one patient with non-life threatening injuries following the vehicle explosion on the Rainbow Bridge.
— Stephen Marth (@StephenMarth) November 22, 2023
re: #3 goddamnedfrank
Looks very low order / low brisance, no shattered glass or significant structural damage. Vehicle exploded but the shockwave didn’t carry very far. Amateur hour.
Except if that both was occupied by a border control agent that person is dead. And those checkpoints are close together so other burger agents could be injured.
From downstairs..
re: #161 HRH Stanley Sea
I swear the word today was used before.
Possible hint below
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🚨🚨🚨 #RainbowBridgeExplosion#WATCH : FBI investigating ‘vehicle explosion’ at Rainbow Bridge on US-Canadian border#Niagra #RainbowBridge #Canada #NiagaraFalls #Explosion #USA #Border #FBI #HappeningNow #JUSTIN #JUSTNOW pic.twitter.com/TqJDTyKOMH
— upuknews (@upuknews1) November 22, 2023
re: #46 Captain Ron
This is what yahoo has.
search.yahoo.com:
#WATCH : Photos of a damaged checkpoint have surfaced online amid reports of an explosion on Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls. The bridge is an international border crossing connecting the cities of Niagara Falls, USA and Niagara Falls, Canada.#Niagra #NiagraFalls #Explosion… pic.twitter.com/vANMb4hffX
— upuknews (@upuknews1) November 22, 2023
re: #45 Hecuba’s daughter
From downstairs..
Possible hint below
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A reminder that if you are going to be criming you should dress like an adult and pull your pants up
A robber’s colorful underwear got him busted after he stuck up a Queens smoke shop — his bright drawers above his pants led to his arrest.https://t.co/y7nUrDPAUg
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) November 22, 2023
This is the moment of explosion at the #Niagrafalls bridge https://t.co/Mljtobkmmb
— Full Throttle TV (@FTTVYT) November 22, 2023
.re: #48 Captain Ron
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So the vehicle was attempting to enter Canada. Both occupants are dead and apparently the vehicle was originally on a local road and then accelerated to 80 MPH to hit the bridge.
WaPo version of Rainbow Bridge incident:
washingtonpost.com
May be paywalled.
re: #50 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
A reminder that if you are going to be criming you should dress like an adult and pull your pants up
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re: #51 Captain Ron
This doesn’t look like a bomb. If it was a fertilizer bomb that guard building wouldn’t still be standing.
I’m overthinking this easy vegetarian dinner I’m making for tomorrow.
Anyone with baked ziti experience?
I have 2 recipes:
1. Fold cheese & pasta into cool sauce, put in pan
2. Layer with sauce, mix cheese & pasta for 2nd layer, repeat with sauce.
What would YOU do?
re: #52 Hecuba’s daughter
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So the vehicle was attempting to enter Canada. Both occupants are dead and apparently the vehicle was originally on a local road and then accelerated to 80 MPH to hit the bridge.
No. Coming into the US from Canada.
re: #56 HRH Stanley Sea
I’m overthinking this easy vegetarian dinner I’m making for tomorrow.
Anyone with baked ziti experience?
I have 2 recipes:1. Fold cheese & pasta into cool sauce, put in pan
2. Layer with sauce, mix cheese & pasta for 2nd layer, repeat with sauce.
What would YOU do?
1. I think if you do 2 the pasta will be too crunchy (in an unpleasant way).
re: #51 Captain Ron
Why would a terrorist suicide car bomb require 2 people in the car?
NBC Contradicts Fox News: No Explosives Found in Vehicle at US-Canada Border#Explosion #RainbowBridge #NiagraFalls #Canada https://t.co/pQCsO7oliN
— NewsAlerts Global (@NewsAlertsG) November 22, 2023
re: #56 HRH Stanley Sea
I’m overthinking this easy vegetarian dinner I’m making for tomorrow.
Anyone with baked ziti experience?
I have 2 recipes:1. Fold cheese & pasta into cool sauce, put in pan
2. Layer with sauce, mix cheese & pasta for 2nd layer, repeat with sauce.
What would YOU do?
I usually go the layered route… sauce, cheese, pasta, sauce, cheese, pasta… cheese on top.
re: #56 HRH Stanley Sea
Head over to Cooks Illustrated and look up baked ziti.
re: #56 HRH Stanley Sea
I’m overthinking this easy vegetarian dinner I’m making for tomorrow.
Anyone with baked ziti experience?
I have 2 recipes:1. Fold cheese & pasta into cool sauce, put in pan
2. Layer with sauce, mix cheese & pasta for 2nd layer, repeat with sauce.
What would YOU do?
I use #2 for lasagna. Just make sure that the top layer is cheese, not pasta!
re: #55 Charles Johnson
This doesn’t look like a bomb. If it was a fertilizer bomb that guard building wouldn’t still be standing.
No, I would say it looks like a post crash fireball. The very directional pressure wave is seen to move very slowly across the surface moisture along a typical vehicle traveling direction, but other off axis surface moisture shows no reaction.
The effects do not seem typical to even low grade slower order of explosives like ANFO (fertilizer & fuel))
How a bear reacts to a mirror in the forest pic.twitter.com/qcRVIaui60
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) November 22, 2023
re: #62 PhillyPretzel ✅
Head over to Cooks Illustrated and look up baked ziti.
As you know, that is sub only!
I’m wondering if maybe the boom was intended to be bigger.
re: #60 Captain Ron
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Fox News desperately wants it to be a terrorist attack, and that is what they are going to be blaring to their viewers all day long.
re: #66 HRH Stanley Sea
You can get 14 days free when you first sign up.
re: #68 No Malarkey!
Fox News desperately wants it to be a terrorist attack, and that is what they are going to be blaring to their viewers all day long.
I’m surprised they’re not ranting about “woke infrastructure” because it’s called the Rainbow Bridge.
Half /
Thanks for responding!
1. Cool sauce, fold in pasta, fold in cheeses.
I mean, it can be bad. 🙏
re: #70 Eclectic Cyborg
I’m surprised they’re not ranting about “woke infrastructure” because it’s called the Rainbow Bridge.
Half /
The bridge you take your older pet across to live and frolic at a farm in Canada.
MSNBC showing vehicle at high rate of speed hit vertical lane separator/median, go Duke’s of Hazzard
Stating no evidence of explosives, vehicle did not cross the bridge
For anyone wondering why the bridge is so named:
Rainbows are common at Niagara Falls due to the regular presence of mist in the air. The NRBC used the name Rainbow for the bridge as early as March 1939.
NBC News is reporting that no explosives were found.
re: #77 Charles Johnson
NBC News is reporting that no explosives were found.
Fox News, we just riled up your Thanksgiving table for fun.
Traveling down Niagara Street, the car sped onto the bridge plaza, went through a fence separating the inbound lanes from the outbound lanes, and toward the inspection lanes where it exploded, according to law enforcement sources at the scene.
Two occupants of the car were killed in the explosion.
A border protection agent was injured but not seriously. He’s being treated for non-life threatening injuries at Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center, sources said.
Niagara Street is in Niagara Falls, NY…the US side of the border
re: #74 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
MSNBC showing vehicle at high rate of speed hit vertical lane separator/median, go Duke’s of Hazzard
Stating no evidence of explosives, vehicle did not cross the bridge
That seems to correlate with the witness interview I saw (see re: #5 Jay C), though Fox - and the starboard nut-o-sphere - will likely backtrack from their sensationalism only reluctantly.
re: #74 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
MSNBC showing vehicle at high rate of speed hit vertical lane separator/median, go Duke’s of Hazzard
Stating no evidence of explosives, vehicle did not cross the bridge
Eighty miles per hour, loses control and hits a big, round bridge support, which cuts the vehicle in half and ruptures the gas tank, which goes BOOM!
No explosives per se, just 20 gallons of gas that can move a 3,000 lb vehicle 600 miles at 30 miles per gallon.
Gasoline has plenty of latent power. Enough that it can look like a bomb to the idiots at Faux News.
Look! It’s aTerror Attack™!
My personal favorite thought from FR:
To: fhayek
I’d be watching the other crossings….Wonder if terrorists got through one of them earlier?? And detonating at the Niagara Crossing was some kind of signal. Remember these terrorists think it’s a good thing thing to be a martyr.NYC….be very careful.
If only there was a cell phone on the seat…with the last gasps of stupidity.
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Because they don’t have any means of communicating that Now Is The Time other than a dramatic car crash?
Well, since there’s so much speculating going on in the media world, my guess is a mechanical failure: a stuck throttle, or what happened to me once on the interstate near Benton Harbor, MI: cruise control went psycho, van kept speeding up, brakes didn’t override the cruise control, I had to put the van in neutral to be able to brake and slow down before I could pull over to the shoulder and turn it off.
MrBWS’s speculation (because why not?): a medical emergency that turned into a dead stick, literally.
so many simpler explanations before going with terrorist explosions
re: #83 Backwoods Sleuth
But CAR EXPLODES CROSSING BORDER really gets you clicks.
re: #85 darthstar
Let’s hope this note really does the job.
The mysterious respiratory illness that may have sickened scores of dogs across the country could be caused by a new type of bacterial infection that may be very good at evading the canine immune system, researchers say. Some dogs have died from the illness, which starts with causes a cough that can last for weeks, runny eyes and sneezing.
In a development that might help shed light on the illness, which has affected a variety of dog breeds, researchers at the University of New Hampshire’s Veterinary Diagnosis Laboratory and the Hubbard Center for Genome Studies told NBC News they have identified a pathogen that might be what’s making pets sick.
Through a genetic sequencing of samples from an initial group of 30 dogs from New Hampshire who were infected last year and then an additional 40 from Rhode Island and Massachusetts who got sick this year, the researchers say they have discovered a previously unknown germ.
The pathogen is “a funky bacterium,” said Dr. David Needle, pathology section chief at the College of Life Sciences and Agriculture at the University of New Hampshire. “It’s smaller than a normal bacterium in its size and in the size of its genome. Long story short, it’s a weird bacterium that can be tough to find and sequence.”
Reminiscent of parvovirus. My collie was one of the first fatalities in Illinois when parvo was still the “mysterious disease”.
So fox still with possible terror attack with possible explosives
Stills from security camera show car crashing into checkpoint at the U.S.-Canadian border. Conflicting reports on what happened. pic.twitter.com/90LFrtTPSr
— BNO News (@BNONews) November 22, 2023
re: #93 PhillyPretzel ✅
MSNBC has the film and that car went airborne. So it was going pretty fast and that is what caused the crash. If anyone (fox) is saying otherwise they are wrong.
A missile, then. Like a terrorist might use.
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Anyone reporting on this that’s adding interpretation is doing so because they’re trying to shape impressions.
This is both a function of the attention economy—the bigger, more showy option is always the better one if you’re trying to get people to see ads—and of the way that rapid diffusion of unverified information rapidly leans toward spectacle because even good faith participants are going to attend to the scariest possible version.
It doesn’t help that speculating about terrorism is also politically-motivated, because with each round the implicit therefores set by the War on Terror are reinforced. It doesn’t have to be true to be useful.
re: #93 PhillyPretzel ✅
MSNBC has the film and that car went airborne. So it was going pretty fast and that is what caused the crash. If anyone (fox) is saying otherwise they are wrong.
Or, Fox is just lying and has no concern for the truth of anything they air.
re: #13 Charles Johnson
That is sad to hear, actually. Such a talented duo. Grew up with their music.
re: #93 PhillyPretzel ✅
MSNBC has the film and that car went airborne. So it was going pretty fast and that is what caused the crash. If anyone (fox) is saying otherwise they are wrong.
It is quite clear that this was the result of Joe Biden’s choice.
re: #106 BlueSpotinAL ✅
It is quite clear that this was the result of Joe Biden’s choice.
How long before Fox criticizes Biden for doing Thanksgiving dinner instead of flying to the bridge in person?
re: #106 BlueSpotinAL ✅
It is quite clear that this was the result of Joe Biden’s choice.
The evidence of the Biden crime family was in the car… that’s why it was so explosive!
/infinity
Ok we need a recipe.
Memories of Mama Bowan’s Cream Cheese Cookies…
Ingredients
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
4 ounces cream cheese, room temperature
1 cup granulated sugar
1 egg, room temperature
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
powdered sugar, for garnish
Step 1 -
Whisk together the flour, the salt, and the baking powder in a medium bowl.
Step 2 -
Using a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment or an electric hand mixer, cream the butter and the cream cheese together.
Step 3 -
Add the sugar to the creamed butter mixture and beat until light and fluffy.
Step 4 -
Add the egg and the vanilla to the butter mixture and mix until combined.
Step 5 -
Scrape down the sides of the bowl and mix one more time.
Step 6 -
Add the dry mixture to the wet mixture and mix on low speed until just combined.
Step 7 -
Using a spatula, give the mixture one last mix.
Step 8 -
Cover and chill the dough for at least 1 hour.
Step 9 -
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
Step 10 -
Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Step 11 -
Dampen your hands slightly, as the dough will be sticky.
Step 12 -
Portion the dough into 2-tablespoon-sized balls.
Step 13 -
Place the dough balls on the prepared baking sheet about 2 inches apart.
Step 14 -
Bake until the edges are set and just turn golden, about 10 minutes.
Step 15 -
Serve garnished with the powdered sugar.
If Biden hadn’t dismantled Trump’s perfect wall, this never could’ve happened!
re: #88 Backwoods Sleuth
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Reminiscent of parvovirus. My collie was one of the first fatalities in Illinois when parvo was still the “mysterious disease”.
What brand of dog food are they eating?
Any time there’s an explosion anywhere in the US the right wing goes nuts, obviously hoping like hell it was terrorism. Nothing else gets them all lathered up like this.
re: #113 Charles Johnson
Any time there’s an explosion anywhere in the US the right wing goes nuts, obviously hoping like hell it was terrorism. Nothing else gets them all lathered up like this.
Ah, so that’s why they added Explosives to the ATF.
What kind of car was it that blew up? Was it a Tesla? Just asking questions.//
And now this…
Buffalo Airport Stops All International Flights After Niagara Falls Car Explosion
The big tequila guys on the boat are out of tequila now and one of them doesn’t feel so good. Two bottles will do that to you.
I just got my job offer by email. $2/hr. more than when I left 2 years ago. In a much better part of the store. I think I’ll take it.
re: #119 wrenchwench
Congratulations. That is wonderful news.
Did I miss where Biden getting credit for the cease fire and hostage release as as much criticism he got for the war?
There you have it… after spending the past few hours claiming that the car was filled with explosives, Fox starts walking it back pic.twitter.com/fUSx1y6Ovn
— Acyn (@Acyn) November 22, 2023
Ruined Thanksgiving.
There is a casino just a few blocks from the bridgehttps://t.co/DOv3qxfyi7 pic.twitter.com/6rWLsNWljC
— Steve Lookner (@lookner) November 22, 2023
Thanksgiving eve is definitely one of those nights the cautious stay in.
re: #124 HRH Stanley Sea
Yes. That is true.
re: #116 Vicious Babushka
What kind of car was it that blew up? Was it a Tesla? Just asking questions.//
If it was a Tesla it would still be burning.
re: #126 Vicious Babushka
Wow. That is very creative.
re: #119 wrenchwench
Congratulations! So happy for you!
re: #123 HRH Stanley Sea
I’ve played at that casino before.
re: #116 Vicious Babushka
What kind of car was it that blew up? Was it a Tesla? Just asking questions.//
Concerning. Will look into it.///
Requesting asylum. pic.twitter.com/osoHcD9FNF
— Lorenzo The Cat (@LorenzoTheCat) November 22, 2023
Trying to identify the front grill off still frames of a blurry flying car like it’s the Zapruder film.
Meanwhile, in The Netherlands…it’s Geert Wilders!
‘Extremely venomous’ green mamba snake escapes into city, residents asked to stay inside
TILBURG, Netherland (WKRC) - An “extremely venomous” two-meter-long green mamba snake has escaped from its owner and is on the loose in the Netherlands.
Due to how dangerous the snake is, Dutch police warned all residents to stay indoors and to under no circumstances try to ensnare the snake.
Police in the city of Tilburg were called by the mamba’s owner on Monday to report that the snake had escaped.
To help people be aware about the snake, local officials posted a mugshot of a green mamba.
re: #127 Shropshire Slasher
If it was a Tesla it would still be burning.
The final scene in Shameless to bring it full circle. First episode, bonfire in car, last episode, a Tesla burning after exploring because that’s fun.
re: #138 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Sewing machines always bugged me. I knew they had to be different than using a hand needle, but I never bothered to really figure it out:
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I threaded a few bobbins in my day. Never took mom’s machine apart, but I looked at all the guts. And watched it go very slowly, by hand.
Gov. Hotchul giving presser. I swear, we’ve got a dui accident & she’s playing up how the cops handled the situation. Fear Inc.
re: #142 HRH Stanley Sea
Gov. Hotchul giving presser. I swear, we’ve got a dui accident & she’s playing up how the cops handled the situation. Fear Inc.
Gotta make sure the Boys in Blue look good. Can’t have anyone questioning the power of the police state.
re: #143 Joe Bacon ✅
So I go to Fu’s Palace for lunch today. Get home, open the fortune cookie and instead of 6 lotto numbers it has…this…
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Midas, except everything he touches turns into ads.
Make no mistake, there’s a big difference between the typical Corrupt Republican and a true Christian Nationalist.
A typical corrupt Republican will do/say anything to stay in power.
Christian Nationalists are dedicated Fascists!
Listen to James Carville. pic.twitter.com/SA5uHbAPb4— ⚓️ 🇺🇸 Proud Navy Veteran (@naretevduorp) November 18, 2023
re: #145 The Ghost of a Flea
Midas, except everything he touches turns into ads.
gee will it work with Tinder? 🤔
re: #143 Joe Bacon ✅
So I go to Fu’s Palace for lunch today. Get home, open the fortune cookie and instead of 6 lotto numbers it has…this…
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I guess they know the last set of lotto numbers made you lose your shorts.
re: #142 HRH Stanley Sea
Gov. Hotchul giving presser. I swear, we’ve got a dui accident & she’s playing up how the cops handled the situation. Fear Inc.
That shit works well enough to cover up all the perverse incentives involved in invading a whole other different country, of course they’re going to deploy it domestically.
Like, you can turn random people into marinara and it just becomes normal if you repeat often enough that the troops are doing their best to protect us.
It’s a still, but it’s not there still. Or not still there.
Like wlewisiii’s action shots of barns.
re: #145 The Ghost of a Flea
Midas, except everything he touches turns into ads.
Was going to reference the Rick and Morty episode where the whole planet was on a cob.
re: #136 Backwoods Sleuth
Meanwhile, in The Netherlands…it’s Geert Wilders!
Yeah, this will be a mess. His party looks like it has 35 out of 150 seats, and there are essentially four power blocs. The left two blocs won’t deal with this asshole or his party, while the current governing party was hemming and hawing about it but is now saying that they would not accept Wilders as prime minister. So I would assume some sort of fucked up anti-Wilders coalition will eventually emerge but it could take a while.
There are too many Americans who think that, because a lot of Western Europe has universal healthcare and high government spending and taxes, they are like lefty Americans. They aren’t: my theory is that most of Western Europe is like 1950s America, where there wasn’t a problem with taxing and spending because it was controlled by Our People and going to Our People and the Other People didn’t matter. Once the Other People start being heard, all the largesse goes out the fucking window.
re: #153 ericblair
Yeah, this will be a mess. His party looks like it has 35 out of 150 seats, and there are essentially four power blocs. The left two blocs won’t deal with this asshole or his party, while the current governing party was hemming and hawing about it but is now saying that they would not accept Wilders as prime minister. So I would assume some sort of fucked up anti-Wilders coalition will eventually emerge but it could take a while.
There are too many Americans who think that, because a lot of Western Europe has universal healthcare and high government spending and taxes, they are like lefty Americans. They aren’t: my theory is that most of Western Europe is like 1950s America, where there wasn’t a problem with taxing and spending because it was controlled by Our People and going to Our People and the Other People didn’t matter. Once the Other People start being heard, all the largesse goes out the fucking window.
Only thing that I can’t get out of my mind is: any modern day Anne Frank needs to be very aware and ready for anything.
re: #154 Backwoods Sleuth
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He took the last exit to the Rainbow bridge.
Uhhhh
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re: #155 Backwoods Sleuth
Only thing that I can’t get out of my mind is: any modern day Anne Frank needs to be very aware and ready for anything.
There are a lot of middle-of-the-road Europeans who are far too smug about their superiority to their Fox News model of the US. I’ve lived here in Europe for a decade blending in as a middle aged white guy, and people get along with Americans perfectly fine on a personal level. But you get into some political discussions where they buy in to every stupid right wing stereotype of the US and tell you, you know, it’s quite different over here in Europe. Yeah, okay.
There are right wing resugencies basically everywhere, and it seems that there’s a liberal backlash afterwards as a bunch of people who just rolled their eyes at Uncle Hans’s ranting about the Syrians and the gypsies as just harmless village crap start realizing the danger.
re: #152 goddamnedfrank
Was going to reference the Rick and Morty episode where the whole planet was on a cob.
First contact will just be a stream of ad copy for pornography we don’t have the sensory faculties to process let alone enjoy.
The Red State Brain Drain Isn’t Coming. It’s Happening Right Now.
As conservative states wage total culture war, college-educated workers—physicians, teachers, professors, and more—are packing their bags.
On Memorial Day weekend in 2022, Kate Arnold and her wife, Caroline Flint, flew from Oklahoma City to Cabo San Lucas for a little R&R. They had five kids, the youngest of them five-year-old twin girls, and demanding jobs as obstetrician-gynecologists. The stresses of all this were mounting. That they were a gay married couple living in a red, socially conservative state was the least of it. Caroline was born in Tulsa, spent much of her childhood in Oklahoma, and was educated at the University of Oklahoma. She cast her first presidential vote for George W. Bush. Kate, the more political of the two, was from Northern California and a lifelong Democrat. But her mother was born in Oklahoma City, and she felt at home there; she’d even given some thought to running for the state legislature.
Kate and Caroline flew down with the twins and their 16-year-old daughter. It says a lot about Kate Arnold that she adopted the three older children while she was attending medical school; the birth mother, whom Kate befriended while volunteering at a home for teenage mothers, was an addict who lost custody.
Arriving in Cabo, Kate and Caroline realized that it had been a very long time—too long— since their last date night. So one evening they ordered the kids room service and went off by themselves to a Taco Night theme dinner. “We sat outside with the little colored flags,” Kate recalled, “and they gave us blankets because it was cold and windy. We hadn’t been sitting for very long when I started saying I wasn’t happy.”
A little more than one week earlier, a disturbed high school student named Salvador Ramos had entered Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, with an AR-15 rifle and killed 19 children and two adults, injuring 17 more. It was the deadliest school shooting since the Sandy Hook massacre in 2012, and it happened just one state over as Kate and Caroline’s two youngest were about to start school. Two more mass shootings occurred in Oklahoma while they were in Cabo. A man named Michael Louis gunned down, with an AR-15, two doctors, a receptionist, and a patient at the Tulsa offices of his orthopedic surgeon because he was angry that his recent back surgery left him in pain. Then a man named Skyler Buckner killed one person and injured seven others at a Memorial Day festival in Taft, Oklahoma. States with permissive gun laws have a higher rate of mass shootings, and Oklahoma, with some of the most permissive gun laws in the country, has 45 percent more gun deaths per capita than the national average—higher even than in Texas.
Another reason was that the state legislature was trying to limit access to contraceptives. In March, the state Senate had voted to require parental consent before a minor could take contraceptives. Kate was chair of the Oklahoma chapter of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and she’d lobbied against this change. (The bill later died in the state House of Representatives.)
“You’re just gonna get my nine-year-old birth control without my knowledge?” one state legislator said to her.
“How does your nine-year-old need birth control?” Kate answered. “And yes, if she needs birth control … what’s worse than her coming home pregnant?”
Kate was director of women’s health at a large, federally funded nonprofit health center serving low-income patients. It was, she told me, “A job that I loved.” But five months before their Cabo dinner, Kate published an op-ed at a nonprofit Oklahoma news site criticizing state felony prosecutions of women who miscarried after taking drugs during pregnancy. “Anytime you criminalize drug use in pregnancy,” Kate explained to me, the addicts stop going to the hospital, “and you have worse and worse outcomes.”
After the op-ed appeared, somebody phoned Kate’s health center to complain. After that, Kate’s superiors effectively barred her from making public statements about anything. That irked Kate until her boss explained why: The FBI had contacted the health center to alert them to threats of violence “just for providing birth control.” Did I mention that Oklahoma allows anybody over the age of 21 to carry a loaded firearm in public, open or concealed, without a license?
So they left Oklahoma for good…
Turns out intergalactic civilization is just what happens when the pyramid scheme keeps going.
re: #158 ericblair
There are right wing resugencies basically everywhere, and it seems that there’s a liberal backlash afterwards as a bunch of people who just rolled their eyes at Uncle Hans’s ranting about the Syrians and the gypsies as just harmless village crap start realizing the danger.
Since my maternal grandfather was 100% Roma, I might have taken that personally…but then, considering the fact that my paternal grandmother was 100% Irish, I can see where (much like any ethnicity) there are trashy sides and the rest just trying to do their best.
re: #163 The Ghost of a Flea
The Fermi Paradox reflects that most planets have been transformed into Albania.
Gobble, gobble 🦃🦃🦃 pic.twitter.com/K1N9cmWvEO
— Sophie ZnS (@SophieZnS) November 22, 2023
re: #166 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
That is almost as good as all Election Day food has no calories.
The first Thanksgiving in space!
The Skylab 4 astronauts were the first to celebrate Thanksgiving in space 50 years ago today. #OTD in 1973, Ed Gibson and Bill Pogue completed a 6.5-hour spacewalk, missing lunch. The crew made up for it by having two meals for dinner. #Skylab50 pic.twitter.com/eF1RmAYU7V— NASA History Office (@NASAhistory) November 22, 2023
re: #65 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips
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That’s how I react to the mirror every morning.
250 bugs in the boat. Everyone goes home with 10… even the crew.
re: #143 Joe Bacon ✅
So I go to Fu’s Palace for lunch today. Get home, open the fortune cookie and instead of 6 lotto numbers it has…this…
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Well, Joe, sometimes you just want feel…pretty!
re: #157 HRH Stanley Sea
Quick rough estimate from the video:
I got about 1.2 s to travel from the launch spot to the peak of the flight, which is a horizontal distance of about 7 car lengths. More or less 5 m per car length. That’s a horizontal speed of distance/time = 35 m/1.2 s ≈ 29.2 m/s.
Vertically, a max height of about 1 car length, so (with g ≈ 10 m/s^2) initial vertical speed = sqrt (2*g*(5 m)) ≈10 m/s.
That’s a launch speed of sqrt (29.2^2 + 10^2) ≈ 31 m/s = 68 mph. Launch angle = arctan (10/29) ≈ 19°.
So, the car went into the air at nearly 70 mph at a launch angle of about 20°. It would have lost a quite a few mph in the collision that knocked it off the ground, so I’m gonna guestimate that it entered the scene going somewhere around 90 to 100 mph.
Now, why it was going that fast is a question beyond the physics.
re: #172 austin_blue
Well, Joe, sometimes you just want feel…pretty!
Just don’t go Buffalo Bill, that’s too far.
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Cool sciency stuff:
A surgical implant developed by Washington State University (WSU) researchers with the help of three-dimensional (3D) printing killed 87% of the bacteria that cause staph infections in laboratory tests, while retaining strength and compatibility with surrounding tissue. Bacterial colonization of implants is one of the leading causes of their failure post-surgery. Using 3D printing, researchers added 10% tantalum, a corrosion-resistant metal, and 3% copper to the titanium alloy typically used in implants. When bacteria come into contact with the copper, their cell walls rupture, while the tantalum encourages healthy cell growth with surrounding bone and tissue.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment successfully beamed data encoded within a near-infrared laser from nearly 10 million miles in deep space to the Hale Telescope of the California Institute of Technology’s Palomar Observatory. The test marks the farthest distance covered by the laser beams, as NASA seeks to fine tune its communication skills ahead of upcoming missions. The DSOC transceiver launched on board the Psyche spacecraft on October 13 as the first demonstration of laser, or optical, communications from as far away as Mars. After achieving initial success, the team will now work on refining the systems that control the pointing of the downlink laser aboard the transceiver.
Narrator: if JFK were alive, he’d be sleeping with DeSantis’ wife…
— actingliketommy (@actingliketommy) November 22, 2023
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“The Star Beast” is based on a comic strip by legendary comics writer Pat Mills and Watchmen artist Dave Gibbons originally published in Doctor Who Weekly more than 30 years ago. The story introduced the alien character of the Meep, voiced in the new episode by Miriam Margolyes.
“It’s from 1979, an absolute classic,” Davies says of the original strip. “Pat Mills and David Gibbons, they were kids back then, but they created this marvelous thing. It’s always been one of my favorite Doctor Who stories, and coming back I thought it would be such enormous fun to celebrate the 60th, and also to grab hold of a great idea, to adapt it, And for those who might know the comic strip of old, don’t worry, there’s a lot of new stuff woven into it.”
Tennant, a lifelong Whovian, admits to being confused when he was initially sent the script for the episode. The actor recalls that “it arrived, and says on the cover page that it’s an adaptation of ‘The Star Beast’ by Pat Mills and Dave Gibbons, which I remember reading as a child. I was thinking, that can’t be what I’m thinking of. But, of course, Russell is a longterm Doctor Who fan, too, so of course it is. Actually that makes perfect sense, because that kind of storytelling energy that is in that comic strip is very reminiscent of Russell’s storytelling energy. It sort of is a perfect fit.”
David Tennant and Russell T Davies talk ‘joyous’ Doctor Who return in 60th anniversary ‘mini-season’ (Entertainment Weekly)
re: #178 gocart mozart
she only dreams that she could be Jackie
re: #173 Tahitinho
More info. He was driving cray?
CNN is reporting that the driver of the vehicle that Fox claimed was full of explosives was a 56-year-old man who lived in a very upscale area that had intended to go to the kiss concert.. he was driving a $300k Bentley with his wife. CNN says it loos like a terrible accident pic.twitter.com/CPlLuRk2TQ
— Acyn (@Acyn) November 22, 2023
re: #183 HRH Stanley Sea
More info. He was driving cray?
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re: #183 HRH Stanley Sea
More info. He was driving cray?
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and the Kiss concert was cancelled because Paul Stanley has the flu
Toronto And Ottawa… I’ve done everything possible to get onstage and be a part of the incredible 2 1/2 hour celebration we planned but this flu has made it impossible. I along with Gene, Tommy and Eric couldn’t be more disappointed and send our deepest apologies. pic.twitter.com/6RmgbeiqoV
— Paul Stanley (@PaulStanleyLive) November 22, 2023
Judge Engoron’s principal law clerk is receiving 20-30 calls on her cell and 30-50 written messages every day filled with the most vile antisemitic, misogynist threats since Trump started posting about her, per a graphic new filing.
iapps.courts.state.ny.us(CW: IMAGES CONTAIN TRANSCRIBED THREATS
re: #186 jaunte
JAIL THIS MOTHERFUCKER ALREADY.
I’m starting to come around to an idea that our free speech protections need a bit of revisiting in the Internet age. It’s all well and good to say that a speech given to a limited audience isn’t incitement to violence, because the likelihood of anyone in that audience being a psychotic wannabe killer are low. But when you can broadcast your hateful words on the Internet, where any crazy person can see them and take them in the way you certainly meant, though in a plausibly deniable fashion, that seems like an entirely different situation.
re: #189 Nerdy Fish
I’m starting to come around to an idea that our free speech protections need a bit of revisiting in the Internet age. It’s all well and good to say that a speech given to a limited audience isn’t incitement to violence, because the likelihood of anyone in that audience being a psychotic wannabe killer are low. But when you can broadcast your hateful words on the Internet, where any crazy person can see them and take them in the way you certainly meant, though in a plausibly deniable fashion, that seems like an entirely different situation.
This. Used to be that unhinged diatribes like the shit Judge Engoron has been receiving would be scrawled in longhand on legal pads, and come in grubby hand-lettered envelopes through “snail mail”. Nowadays, though, any asshole can post these obscene rants online (with varying degrees of anonymity) and get publicized to the whole world.
Progress….
It does not look like a turkey.
re: #192 Vicious Babushka
Gorgeous. It looks too good to eat.
re: #192 Vicious Babushka
It does not look like a turkey.
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re: #193 PhillyPretzel ✅
Gorgeous. It looks too good to eat.
I think that is kind of the point. It’s a centerpiece. The dough looks very dense, like it didn’t have enough time to rise.
re: #161 Joe Bacon ✅
An armed populace is a polite populace, my ass.
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