Seth takes a closer look at House Democrats voting to admit Washington D.C. as the 51st state while Republicans freak out about everything from voting rights to the Green New Deal.
They really don’t like it when someone moves the cheese.
On #EarthDay let’s create a photo album for our miraculous and beautiful home. I’ll go first. Maybe we can “spruce up” Twitter a bit. pic.twitter.com/fUOqjwauSS
— Dan Rather (@DanRather) April 22, 2021
re: #2 Dread Pirate Ron
Dog did a Rosie Ruiz and jumped in for the last leg. Bitch should be disqualified. https://t.co/jwR6knOCT5
— Edwin (@EdMix13) April 23, 2021
This headline from a paper in Australia. pic.twitter.com/qbgcCvboQb
— Strictly (@StrictlyChristo) April 21, 2021
They’re circulating these instructions:Dress in white shirts & black pantsDon’t bring a phone”Careful” w/ your weapons when passing in the bus stationWear a mask even where it isn’t needed @SuleimanMas1 pic.twitter.com/vR3xvA6vaY
— Uri Agnon (@UriAgnon) April 22, 2021
“Reminder that Lehava has a political wing in the Knesset— Itamar Ben Gvir, who our prime minister ensured would be there.” Chaim Levinson. https://t.co/vqfr9dHp7m
— Noga Tarnopolsky (@NTarnopolsky) April 22, 2021
The Jewish far right on the march in Jerusalem this evening, chanting ‘Death to Arabs’ and ‘The people want Arabs to burn’. Proudly identifying as followers of uktra-racist Meir Kahane, they’re now represented in the Knesset by the ‘Jewish Power’ partyhttps://t.co/KDDGgWv4fO
— Esther Solomon (@EstherSolomon) April 22, 2021
Policing in Canada
❤️🇨🇦 pic.twitter.com/rqCuAaA5jc— TheSadTruth💙 (@ReportsDaNews) April 22, 2021
Think of all the porn poor Rod Dreher had to watch to research this piece. https://t.co/2oIeuTHY0M
— Lindsay Beyerstein (@beyerstein) April 22, 2021
The founders enslaved my ancestors.
So…there’s that. https://t.co/VrV2D5suhI— Be A King (@BerniceKing) April 22, 2021
re: #9 gocart mozart
Mind your own damned business. We Americans do not take advice from Québécois scum like you!! pic.twitter.com/dDSdRz9NC5
— Bill Corbett (@BillCorbett) April 23, 2021
Update on SIL:
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The Founders intended for slavery to come to a gradual end in America, which is why they banned the importation of new slaves.
Yet it’s an article of faith across the breadth of the South that the Founders were totally cool with slavery and would have approved of states leaving the Union to preserve the practice.
So I think it’s safe to say that Americans have a long, long history of shoving words in the mouths of the Founders to justify their own desires/beliefs.
This is sad. I’m minor supporting cartoon, comic book, or puppet characters and a Charles Dickens novel nobody remembers. There are no other fictional characters named Edwin. pic.twitter.com/5cWMfcduvz
— Edwin (@EdMix13) April 23, 2021
re: #13 Targetpractice
The Founders intended for slavery to come to a gradual end in America, which is why they banned the importation of new slaves.
Yet it’s an article of faith across the breadth of the South that the Founders were totally cool with slavery and would have approved of states leaving the Union to preserve the practice.
So I think it’s safe to say that Americans have a long, long history of shoving words in the mouths of the Founders to justify their own desires/beliefs.
It’s a part of the problem with the 2nd amendment as well. What Pennsylvania meant by it was drastically different than what South Carolina (with it’s terror of slave revolts where whites were the minority of the overall population) meant by it.
re: #13 Targetpractice
The Founders intended for slavery to come to a gradual end in America, which is why they banned the importation of new slaves.
Yet it’s an article of faith across the breadth of the South that the Founders were totally cool with slavery and would have approved of states leaving the Union to preserve the practice.
So I think it’s safe to say that Americans have a long, long history of shoving words in the mouths of the Founders to justify their own desires/beliefs.
Some of them, anyway. i think it’s safe to say that the slaveholders wanted to keep their slaves forever. The idea was that slavery would be found uneconomic and die out, also that people would become too good to hold slaves (I love the Enlightenment), but human nature and the cotton gin put paid to that.
re: #14 gocart mozart
The only fictional Lonnie I know is the ex-husband on Stranger Things.
re: #14 gocart mozart
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re: #17 Belafon
The only fictional Lonnie I know is the ex-husband on Stranger Things.
The Brandon de Wilde character in “Hud” was named Lonnie.
Well, Jeanne is a 1934 French drama and an 1844 novel by George Sand. So not much.
re: #14 gocart mozart
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Michael Knight
Michael Corleone
Mike Nelson…wait…
4 fictional characters you share your name with https://t.co/La7SBllGUa pic.twitter.com/ySwSHzci5s
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) April 23, 2021
re: #18 William Lewis
This the entire Wikipedia entry for fictional people named “Edwin”
Edwin Jarvis, Marvel Comics supporting character
Aun (known as Edwin the Old in English), mythical Swedish king
Edwin Drood, main character in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, final unfinished novel of Charles Dickens
Edwin, a puppet character who lives in Storybook Land in Pajanimals
Deputy Edwin Durland, a character in Gravity Falls
Only slightly better
Let’s go with “Eddie” this time. pic.twitter.com/ZBwC5tTlO7
— Edwin (@EdMix13) April 23, 2021
Wait. The same guy who posted pictures of the dog they got rid of for National Pet Day is tone deaf?
— Irene Adler (@IreneAdlerCal) April 22, 2021
Glenn Scary Glenn Tosser https://t.co/8EF7WwKHAO
— Edwin (@EdMix13) April 23, 2021
re: #26 gocart mozart
Beck looks like he just ate shit…
There is a supervillain in each of the Marvel (Tombstone) and DC (Anarky) comics named Lonnie.
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first insurrection. pic.twitter.com/cXPLqbzfgW
— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) April 23, 2021
Fun Fact: This Jordan Peale character was based on @mtracey.https://t.co/GvjvglbS0u
— Edwin (@EdMix13) April 23, 2021
re: #14 gocart mozart
Peter Pan’s co-dependent abused babysitter/pseudo-mom, the terrified and abused wife in The Shining, Jax Teller’s junkie ex-wife, a Good Little Witch, Springsteen wants to guard her dreams and visions.
23 April is the one year anniversary of Fuckface Von Clownstick recommending Lysol and ultraviolet light as a treatment for COVID-19.
re: #31 sagehen
Peter Pan’s co-dependent abused babysitter/pseudo-mom, the terrified and abused wife in The Shining, Jax Teller’s junkie ex-wife, a Good Little Witch, Springsteen wants to guard her dreams and visions.
Does everyone know it’s you?
re: #30 gocart mozart
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Speaking as someone who formerly worked in finance for hospitality, they really can’t afford that stuff right now. Profit margins are razor thin and you need 80+% occ to profit even in the less gaudy ones. So you won’t see that for a long time. I don’t blame them on it tho
— Aj Capone (@ajcapone1) April 22, 2021
The most visible symbol of the pandemic has been restaurants, but the hotel industry took a serious gut shot in the past year that it has not really recovered from. This time last year, the hotel I work for was lucky if it was at 30% capacity on any given night.
What changed? Governors bowing to lobbyists and reopening states was ahead of what the experts advised was wise, then promoting tourism and travel at the exact worst time in the pandemic to do so. Just speaking from local experience, Virginia Beach was actually one of the better spots in the state before Memorial Day last year because while we’re the largest city in the state we’re also sparsely populated.
And then Northam bowed to demands and reopened the beaches on Memorial Day…and we became Ground Zero for the state’s explosion in CV case numbers.
re: #36 Orange Impostor
boy, that snuck up on me! fingers crossed
re: #36 Orange Impostor
T-minus 4 minutes for manned Crew Dragon 2 launch for rendezvous with International Space Station.
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re: #37 retired cynic
boy, that snuck up on me! fingers crossed
Four hours, not four minutes…the launch window begins at 0549 EDT, SpaceX just turned on the feed early.
re: #38 TedStriker
Four hours, not four minutes…the launch window begins at 0549 EDT, SpaceX just turned on the feed early.
Yeah. It’s fixed now.
re: #36 Orange Impostor
4 hours… not 4 minutes
This is nuts:
High school rodeo club in South Dakota cancels annual ‘slave auction’ of students after backlash: report
On Thursday, The Washington Post reported that a high school in the tiny town of Faith, South Dakota has finally done away with an annual student fundraising tradition that it insensitively referred to as a “slave auction” — or at least, they will no longer call it that.
“For decades, Rodeo Club members offered a day of their labor to a rancher in exchange for a donation — and although there have long been calls for clubs across the state to stop labeling this slavery, the name in Faith has stuck,” reported Emily Wax-Thibodeaux. “But this year, as a poster circulated on Facebook, Legion Hall host Glenda McGinnis said she received dozens of calls from people around the country wanting to know ‘how such a racist and hurtful name could be used in 2021.’”
In the end, amid backlash from locals and state lawmakers, the students canceled the event, and pulled down all the posters around town advertising it. “McGinnis said she feels bad for the high school students because this is the main fundraiser for their club, which operates independently from the high school and provides scholarships and money for events,” said the report.
re: #41 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
This is nuts:
High school rodeo club in South Dakota cancels annual ‘slave auction’ of students after backlash: report
You know, you could just rename the event to something, you know, less fucking tone-deaf and still hold it, but I digress…
re: #41 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
This is nuts:
High school rodeo club in South Dakota cancels annual ‘slave auction’ of students after backlash: report
This kind of thing is way more common than you might think. I’ve been to at least 15 events/parties over the past 25 years that had these, called as such, for fundraising and charity.
re: #43 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David
That said the last time this happened was in 2011.
And yes, not offering free breakfast in the morning to douchecanoes like Mike Tracey is a cost-saving measure. But it’s also bigger than that because most dining rooms in hotels are disgusting. Hell, even before CV, I swore off ever touching a continental breakfast bar at a hotel for one important reason: Ya’ll muthafuckers are nasty.
Seriously, you can only watch construction workers dig around in a case of muffins with dirt-covered fingers or sweaty fitness freaks grope around in the pan of hard-boiled eggs so many times. And if I had a nickel for every time I got a dirty look when I stopped one of these fuckers from doing such and told them to use the tongs, I wouldn’t need to work at a hotel ever again. Also, don’t get me started on all the assholes who either show up early or slouch in late and whine because they can’t get their grub on on their own personal schedule.
So yeah, there’s probably a lot of hotel chains right now looking to bring an end to free continental breakfasts. Perhaps Mike can pony up a bit more and stay at a decent hotel that offers room service. Or just take his entitled ass over to the McD’s that’s likely within short walking distance and fork over some change for a McMuffin. Trust me, it’s better quality than the “just-above-prison-grade” chow a lot of hotels offer for free.
re: #45 Targetpractice
During the entirety of the COVID pandemic, I never got COVID, but I did get sick from other things *multiple* times. While being completely OCD about sanitizers and wipes, wearing a mask at all times I’m not at home, etc. During this time, from what I understand, influenza cases were reduced by 99.something ridiculous percent. I still got sick several times with something.
I’m probably never going to touch a continental breakfast or a buffet of any kind ever again.
I kind of never want to shake anyone’s hand ever again as well.
re: #42 TedStriker
You know, you could just rename the event to something, you know, less fucking tone-deaf and still hold it, but I digress…
My college used to have an annual costume party called Pimp & Whore Night.
It was the top-selling day of the year for hallucinogens. Even more than Halloween.
This logic. This is science. This is beautiful.
Bread will always land with the butter side down.
A cat always lands on its feet.
What if …
— No Context Humans (@HumansNoContext) April 22, 2021
UPDATE: Kingston police say approx. 80 pounds of Tannerite were used at that gender reveal party that caused a massive explosion that shook homes for miles. Man who detonated it has turned himself in to police and is cooperating. Police haven’t decided on charges. @UnionLeader
— Jason Schreiber (@Schreibernews) April 22, 2021
I dunno if anybody’s brought this one up yet, but, um, yeah, pink or blue car bombs?
The country is looking at a long-term unexploded ordnance problem as aging gun nuts squirrel away masses of ammunition and explosives, then keel over in their biscuits and gravy without telling anyone what’s there.
I don’t know which is more frustrating these days: Series dropping all their episodes at once which means bing-watching followed by months of waiting…or series still releasing one episode per week like it’s the 1980s followed by months of waiting.
re: #52 ericblair
80 freaking pounds?! Holy Terra on rollerskates….
re: #52 ericblair
I dunno if anybody’s brought this one up yet, but, um, yeah, pink or blue car bombs?
The country is looking at a long-term unexploded ordnance problem as aging gun nuts squirrel away masses of ammunition and explosives, then keel over in their biscuits and gravy without telling anyone what’s there.
I’ve long predicted that we would have whole suburbs and rural retreats go up in flames from all the hand sanitizer, booze, and ammunition these tools have hoarded. Tannerite adds a new dimension to that.
re: #56 IngisKahn
I admire Musk’s restraint — his minions may be dressed in dark grey bunny suits, but he *could* have had them in yellow with big goggles.
re: #1 Dread Pirate Ron
They really don’t like it when someone moves the cheese.
I am nearing the end of my career and that reminds me of near the beginning.
re: #57 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
I’ve long predicted that we would have whole suburbs and rural retreats go up in flames from all the hand sanitizer, booze, and ammunition these tools have hoarded. Tannerite adds a new dimension to that.
Unmixed tannerite should be OK. Even mixed it won’t go boom unless something else (an other explosive, a high velocity bullet) makes it go boom, it should be safe in a fire for example, where ammo would be going pew! pew! all over the place.
Not sure I’d want to ride a “refurbished” rocket.
Also, why is the NASA channel championing the deconstruction of NASA?
This anti-government mindset has been programmed into an entire generation.
re: #62 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Not sure I’d want to ride a “refurbished” rocket.
You mean “flight proven”
re: #63 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Also, why is the NASA channel championing the deconstruction of NASA?
This anti-government mindset has been programmed into an entire generation.
Deconstruction? It’s more a shift away from launch hardware and a focus on science, mission planning, and mission hardware.
Crew access arm retracted, launch abort system armed.
re: #65 IngisKahn
Deconstruction? It’s more a shift away from launch hardware and a focus on science, mission planning, and mission hardware.
The discussion included the decrease in employees.
Reagan in particular set up the process for gutting government agencies and labs. His ideologues despised the idea that the government had its own scientists and engineers.
I still have a bit of fear for astronauts. It’s just a risky proposition.
re: #70 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I still have a bit of fear for astronauts. It’s just a risky proposition.
Space will be dangerous until it becomes more routine.
Internal power, tower is tilting away.
4 astronauts are now safely coasting in orbit, the Falcon 9 rocket that got them there landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic.
re: #63 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Also, why is the NASA channel championing the deconstruction of NASA?
This anti-government mindset has been programmed into an entire generation.
Because NASA keeps promising a lot and then failing to achieve that. And to be fair, they do this largely because if they set only achievable goals then they’re less likely to sell Congress on the levels of funding needed to get there. Really, if you asked NASA, there’s as much or even greater support for just sending robot probes everywhere than there is sending men into LEO, let alone back to the Moon or onwards to Mars.
re: #71 IngisKahn
Space will be dangerous until it becomes more routine.
60 years on and the whole enterprise of getting off the surface of the earth is still lighting a firecracker under your ass.
It will always be dangerous.
re: #75 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
But only 6 years of not throwing out the rocket after each launch.
In lab studies, with psuedovirus, there is a four- to six-fold drop in effectiveness, just as with the B.1351 variant found in South Africa. That’s not surprising because both have the E484K mutation.
— Apoorva Mandavilli (@apoorva_nyc) April 23, 2021
There’s also emerging evidence that vaccine-induced immunity may be a better bet against variants because the antibodies seem to cover many more sites of the receptor binding domain in the spike protein. Meaning no single mutation will have too much of an effect.
— Apoorva Mandavilli (@apoorva_nyc) April 23, 2021
re: #76 IngisKahn
But only 6 years of not throwing out the rocket after each launch.
The Shuttle recovered all the expensive parts, only the External Tank was disposable. The cost of refurbishment for things like the SRBs was high and the Shuttle itself with its reusable RS-25 (later RS-25A) engines plus the OMS was basically torn down and rebuilt between flights, but the same bits went up again and again, some as many as 30 times.
re: #79 Nojay UK
The Shuttle recovered all the expensive parts, only the External Tank was disposable. The cost of refurbishment for things like the SRBs was high and the Shuttle itself with its reusable RS-25 (later RS-25A) engines plus the OMS was basically torn down and rebuilt between flights, but the same bits went up again and again, some as many as 30 times.
Yep. There were problems with the Shuttle program (see: Challenger, Columbia), but those were institutionalized problems within NASA itself. Treated right, the reusable hardware in the Space Shuttle had a long and proven track record.
re: #4 gocart mozart
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re: #52 ericblair
I dunno if anybody’s brought this one up yet, but, um, yeah, pink or blue car bombs?
The country is looking at a long-term unexploded ordnance problem as aging gun nuts squirrel away masses of ammunition and explosives, then keel over in their biscuits and gravy without telling anyone what’s there.
I wonder if it would be appropriate to begin calling these Tannerite afficianados “Creepers” (like in the Minecraft variety)? 🤔https://t.co/84xEPnsbAd
— 😷 Teo 😷 (@Teukka72) April 23, 2021
Horror stories coming out of India as the SARS-Cov-2 virus appears to be on its way to infecting a large share of the billion+ people.
But as always, not every thing reported will be true:
Pre-pandemic photo of elderly woman on roadside shared in posts about India coronavirus surge
re: #80 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
Treated right, the reusable hardware in the Space Shuttle had a long and proven track record.
The biggest problem with the shuttle was that, even being “reusable”, it was so damned expensive there wasn’t much pressure on the other launchers to reduce their costs.
Call me old fashioned, but I like space programs which aren’t dependent on the largesse of rich whackjobs https://t.co/xPlIOR5e8X
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) April 23, 2021
re: #84 John Hughes
The biggest problem with the shuttle was that, even being “reusable”, it was so damned expensive there wasn’t much pressure on the other launchers to reduce their costs.
There wasn’t anything in the launch catalogue with the Shuttle’s capabilities while it was operational and there still isn’t today since no-one wants to pay for it.
The Shuttle carried seven crewmembers for up to 14 days in orbit plus 20 tonnes of cargo in a flexible cargo bay plus enough manoeuvering fuel to reach the Hubble orbit, an airlock permitting multiple EVA operations each flight, the Canada Arm, a toilet, all gone now the Shuttle has retired. Dragon and Soyuz are spam-in-a-can systems only capable of going round and round in orbit and reaching the ISS (which was built mainly using the Shuttle to lift components and crew and support EVA construction operations).
re: #86 Nojay UK
There wasn’t anything in the launch catalogue with the Shuttle’s capabilities while it was operational and there still isn’t today since no-one wants to pay for it.
The Shuttle carried seven crewmembers for up to 14 days in orbit plus 20 tonnes of cargo in a flexible cargo bay plus enough manoeuvering fuel to reach the Hubble orbit, an airlock permitting multiple EVA operations each flight, the Canada Arm, a toilet, all gone now the Shuttle has retired. Dragon and Soyuz are spam-in-a-can systems only capable of going round and round in orbit and reaching the ISS (which was built mainly using the Shuttle to lift components and crew and support EVA construction operations).
I remember looking it up once; I think the only thing with the raw lifting capability of the Shuttle that’s currently in operation is the Delta IV Heavy (and the upcoming Falcon 9), and neither of those can do what the Shuttle did.
re: #86 Nojay UK
Good points.
Dragon exists so the world doesn’t have to rely on Russia to get people to and fro LEO.
And the only reason people are in LEO is because of the old (yes, it’s getting rather old) ISS, itself constructed not because of Dragon but by the older launch systems.
I am one of those skeptical that we ought to continue human spaceflight.
It’s very low return for the cost.
It feeds a fantasy about the future, that somehow our species future is in space.
We are land animals. Hell, we even gave up trees a few million years back. We’ve never settled underwater.
Ok, call me a curmudgeon or worse.
But I want a better life for our future. Satellites and space exploration are wonderful. That’s why we build robots.
Robots are good.
Let them conquer planets.
re: #87 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
I remember looking it up once; I think the only thing with the raw lifting capability of the Shuttle that’s currently in operation is the Delta IV Heavy (and the upcoming Falcon 9), and neither of those can do what the Shuttle did.
The D4H and Falcon Heavy are pure heavy lift vehicles with every launch a one-off carrying custom-built payloads for delivery to orbit, no return expected. The Shuttle was a “system”, the cargo hold could accommodate a number of different payloads like the Spacelab modules and return most of them back to the ground for refurbishment and reuse.
The nearest thing that’s still flying like the Shuttle is the US War Department’s X-37 unmanned spaceplane which has a tiny cargo capacity by comparison. Supply Dragon can return materials from the ISS to Earth but nothing really big.
re: #88 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Here’s my argument for continuing human space exploration: Humans need boundaries to push. We are an adventurous species, constantly curious, needing something to fascinate us and capture our attention. What happens if we don’t have that? We start killing each other because we’re bored. Space exploration is one of those things that captures the imagination, precisely because of that fantasy, and it gives us hope and delusions of grandeur that keep our species sane. The world stopped for one day in 1969 when an American stepped out of a flimsy aluminum-and-gold-leaf can and onto the surface of a heavenly object. More recently, the world mourned in unison when the Opportunity rover finally met a cruel, but long-awaited, end at the hands of the harsh Martian sandstorms. I am of the opinion that we have to keep exploring space, not to find ways to bring life to new worlds, but to give us something to keep striving toward.
re: #73 Targetpractice
Because NASA keeps promising a lot and then failing to achieve that. And to be fair, they do this largely because if they set only achievable goals then they’re less likely to sell Congress on the levels of funding needed to get there. Really, if you asked NASA, there’s as much or even greater support for just sending robot probes everywhere than there is sending men into LEO, let alone back to the Moon or onwards to Mars.
I suspect that if you asked, a lot of people would still like the idea of sending people out into space.
The problem is that we have an anti-science party that still has way too much control and has seriously cut any type of science spending. Businesses, on the other hand, don’t have to justify why the third rocket exploded and they know the fourth one will just work.
re: #88 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Good points.
Dragon exists so the world doesn’t have to rely on Russia to get people to and fro LEO.
And the only reason people are in LEO is because of the old (yes, it’s getting rather old) ISS, itself constructed not because of Dragon but by the older launch systems.
I am one of those skeptical that we ought to continue human spaceflight.
It’s very low return for the cost.
It feeds a fantasy about the future, that somehow our species future is in space.
We are land animals. Hell, we even gave up trees a few million years back. We’ve never settled underwater.
Ok, call me a curmudgeon or worse.
But I want a better life for our future. Satellites and space exploration are wonderful. That’s why we build robots.
Robots are good.
Let them conquer planets.
We’re not land animals, we’re tree animals. We once hung out in the trees. Then, some of us climbed down from the trees and went exploring. Then, some of us got in a boat and went sailing. So, we’re explorers. So the next place for us to go is space.
“Space is too dangerous!” I freaking marvel at the fact that people made it to Hawaii from Asia without knowing the islands were there in advance and think we should continue that urge to explore.
US President Joe Biden to ‘propose hiking tax on rich’ https://t.co/0LuCS6daRL
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) April 23, 2021
President Biden taps former environmental advocate and Democratic aide Tracy Stone-Manning to oversee government-owned lands in western states with huge oil, gas and coal reserves.https://t.co/2uDDbCU0hQ
— AP Health & Science (@APHealthScience) April 22, 2021
Biden has the highest favorability among 18- to 29-year-old Americans of any first-term president over the 21 years the @harvardiop youth poll has been conducted. https://t.co/RpGcrNEETY pic.twitter.com/qA9FvXB11K
— Michael Kruse (@michaelkruse) April 23, 2021
re: #93 Belafon
How often do the rich go hiking?
Here we go, the wealthiest getting wealthy directly from the misery of the poor Texas suckers:
Texas winter power outage hands $1Bill directly into the hands of wealthy Wall Street funds while get this- “Free market Republicans” plan to float massive bond sales and fees tacked on to electricity bills in order to add insult to injury.
Free market my ass. For these Republican assholes Socialism is just great when it serves as a tool for the wealthy to be rewarded at the direct expense of everyone else.
I also don’t buy the “people stopped paying attention so we stopped the lunar program” argument from back in the 70s. The government does lots of things that are boring. We wanted space flight to be boring. The reason the program stopped is it had achieved its objective: Show that the US could put a rocket anywhere, like in the middle of Moscow.
re: #71 IngisKahn
Space will be dangerous until it becomes more routine.
Even when it becomes routine, it will still be somewhat dangerous. Just like driving, or flying, or commuter rail. The fatality rate is calculated “per thousand passenger miles traveled”, but even the shortest spaceflight is a whole lot of thousands of passenger miles.
re: #92 Belafon
Happy Anniversary
How to medical pic.twitter.com/0EDqJcy38p
— Sarah Cooper (@sarahcpr) April 24, 2020
re: #101 HRH Stanley Sea
Happy Anniversary
Ugh, I actually had to get into the stupid part before the voice registered in my brain, that’s how long it’s been. Damn you. [Shakes tiny fist at screen.]
Why are we listening to the losers of the war of Southern Insurrection to protect the institution of slavery?
“We don’t give out participation trophies to losers” - right wingers everywhere except when talking Confederate statues erected purposefully to remind POC of their place— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) April 23, 2021
This is not suppose to be a thing……
Dave Grossman, who trains police departments across the nation, tells a group of cops, the best sex is after killing a person. He calls it a “perk of the job,” followed by laughter from the police in attendance.
This is policing in America. pic.twitter.com/QkaEVOQcUX— Travis Akers (@travisakers) April 22, 2021
re: #90 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
re: #91 Belafon
re: #92 Belafon
Earth’s gravity well is why we’re stuck here.
It’s too expensive (in energy) to throw people off the planet.
And the achievement has already been done. We’ve been to the closest non-Earth body (our moon.) We’ve had people live in space for over a year.
We’ve accomplished that.
There are some deep sociological issues at play here. And while I often prattle on… I need to get some sleep. Perhaps tomorrow I’ll go all wonky and write up a more cogent post for why I think we’re done in space (as far as human occupation off our planet surface.)
re: #52 ericblair
I dunno if anybody’s brought this one up yet, but, um, yeah, pink or blue car bombs?
The country is looking at a long-term unexploded ordnance problem as aging gun nuts squirrel away masses of ammunition and explosives, then keel over in their biscuits and gravy without telling anyone what’s there.
Here is an example of an idiot shooting a refrigerator containing 3 pounds of tannerite. Now multiply that by many times to imagine the result of using 80 pounds.
re: #107 A Cranky One
Here is an example of an idiot shooting a refrigerator containing 3 pounds of tannerite. Now multiply that by many times to imagine the result of using 80 pounds.
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I didn’t realize until I read about it this morning in the local paper that it happened not too far from here. We have four quarries in town, so I’m not sure we would have noticed.
Gettin’ my first shot tomorrow. Woohoo!
— SteelPH (@SteelPH) April 23, 2021
“One year ago today, President Donald Trump took to the White House briefing room and encouraged his top health officials to study the injection of bleach into the human body as a means of fighting Covid,” Politico reports.
“It was a watershed moment, soon to become iconic in the annals of presidential briefings. It arguably changed the course of political history
Eta:
ALERT🚨: We have received several calls regarding questions about disinfectant use and #COVID19.
This is a reminder that under no circumstances should any disinfectant product be administered into the body through injection, ingestion or any other route.— Maryland Emergency Management Agency (MDMEMA) (@MDMEMA) April 24, 2020
re: #110 Dangerman
People should be reminded of this as often as possible especially around election time.
re: #107 A Cranky One
Here is an example of an idiot shooting a refrigerator containing 3 pounds of tannerite. Now multiply that by many times to imagine the result of using 80 pounds.
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Clearly a member in good standing of a “well regulated militia”.
Oh, good morning everyone!
re: #4 gocart mozart
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And mostly managed to stay in lane
Dog did a Rosie Ruiz and jumped in for the last leg. Bitch should be disqualified. https://t.co/jwR6knOCT5
— Edwin (@EdMix13) April 23, 2021
re: #14 gocart mozart
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re: #106 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Earth’s gravity well is why we’re stuck here.
“If God had wanted us to fly, he would have given us wings.”
If we were truly meant to go under water, we would have gills, right?
Earth’s gravity well is a technical challenge, not a boundary. People used to believe you couldn’t break the sound barrier but we can.
“Son, I know you’re 18, but you can’t leave home. It’s too dangerous.”
re: #113 Dangerman
And mostly managed to stay in lane
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re: #9 gocart mozart
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Excellent, because DC isnt becoming a state.
The district would shrink and remain the Capital
And a new state is born
So everyone gets to say they’re right and everyone gets what they want
The founders enslaved my ancestors.
So…there’s that. https://t.co/VrV2D5suhI— Be A King (@BerniceKing) April 22, 2021
re: #106 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Earth’s gravity well is why we’re stuck here.
It’s too expensive (in energy) to throw people off the planet.
Not with changing technology. Once we have working space elevators, the energy cost to achieve LEO can be decreased, possibly to almost non-existant.
re: #13 Targetpractice
The Founders intended for slavery to come to a gradual end in America,
Before the invention of the cotton gin made slavery immensely profitable and turned it into the backbone of the Southern economy.
re: #117 Dangerman
Excellent, because DC isnt becoming a state.
The district would shrink and remain the Capital
And a new state is bornSo everyone gets to say they’re right and everyone gets what they want
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The House bill to create the new state is named HR 51, as in the 51st state.
Historically, India has done a poor job of identifying cause of death, since so many deaths occur at home.
Experts believe that the official tally is about 20-30% of the covid19 deaths nationwide.https://t.co/lrrDdJUVhn— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) April 23, 2021
marketing degrees https://t.co/xKEUoclm6i
— the women of kilgore trout’s office (@KT_So_It_Goes) April 23, 2021
I’m reupping this, because not only did these officers face no consequences for their actions, but the very act of shackling this woman (and others like her) is illegal under NY law - since 2015: https://t.co/WBSiAkZNyh https://t.co/YJPrqFIFfz
— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) April 23, 2021
📍3x KIDS DEATHS—An alarmingly high number of babies & children are dying of #COVID19 in Brazil 🇧🇷. While government data from Brazil suggest >800 children under age 9 have died of Covid—expert estimates that the death toll is nearly **3 times higher**. 🧵https://t.co/8EhRkP8GcI pic.twitter.com/EDL8pFtqVj
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) April 23, 2021
as an aside, the fact that flu disappeared but covid still killed hundreds of thousands should be enough to punt the “covid is just the same as the flu” argument straight into the sun https://t.co/bDYwAme4lJ
— Gerry Doyle (@mgerrydoyle) April 23, 2021
re: #125 Belafon
Those flu statistics are astonishing. I knew it was lower. I didn’t know it was completely fucking gone.
For those worried about vaccine effectiveness:
One Covid vaccine cuts infection risk in all age groups, UK study finds https://t.co/SUtwXxPKYn
— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) April 23, 2021
Vaccines are effective against the New York #coronavirus variant, studies find. The research adds to a growing number of findings suggesting the Pfizer and Moderna shots are protective against the variants identified so far https://t.co/zVd8kQFwd2
— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) April 23, 2021
The University of California and California State University, two of the nation’s largest university systems, say they plan to require COVID-19 vaccinations for all students, faculty and staff on campuses this fall once the FDA gives formal approval. https://t.co/BbBnIpOTv0
— The Associated Press (@AP) April 22, 2021
re: #121 Belafon
The House bill to create the new state is named HR 51, as in the 51st state.
And the Senate legislation is likewise tagged “S.51”
While it’s common knowledge that Republicans have been adamantly opposed to DC statehood forever, I wonder how much of their current “freakout” is based on the near-certainty that a new “State of DC” would send two Democrats to the Senate for the (?) next session, thus upsetting what leverage they have for obstructionism….?
PS: Interesting question to which I can’t find a convenient answer: when a new state is officially admitted, when do their Rep(s)/Senators take their place? Immediately upon formal “admission”??
Vive la France pic.twitter.com/DI4QKM6U9y
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) April 23, 2021
re: #118 Dangerman
Danger mouse
actually though (and it’s gotta be spelled correctly)
- a Little mouse
- a high powered tax attorney from LA Law
- ex - comic book store owner - The Big Bang Theory
- a kick ass stand up comic LGF lizard
4 fictional characters you share your name with https://t.co/JEY62sKxv1 pic.twitter.com/RKrq6bBYeu
— amy b (@arb) April 23, 2021
I can only come up with one:
Our son and his fellow Marines saw this last night. Not sure if comet or meteor, funny to hear the young men speculate. North Carolina
re: #134 SerialUpDinger
It seems not to be moving. It might be a comet.
re: #125 Belafon
It would be if the Republican party hadn’t abandoned reality. They signal that they’re part of their movement by lying to themselves and each other. Lots of “controversial” stuff isn’t really controversial. We’re just dealing with people who do not argue in good faith.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) April 23, 2021
re: #136 Punish Domestic Terrorists
We’re just dealing with people who do not argue in good faith.
They argue to win. They do not retreat, they reload.
This is different than an argument that arises from an attempt to solve a problem, establish a premise or ascertain a situation.
Which is why I have long since given up arguing with a lot of people, especially on social media.
There’s a chart at the top of the Abbreviated Pundit Roundup (I would copy it over but I can’t do that at work) that shows the breakdown of vaccine hesitancy among Republicans based on news habits. Fox is almost tied with mainstream news at 54% of viewers willing to get it. It’s those watching more extreme channels or not watching any at all that are really bad.
re: #130 Jay C
And the Senate legislation is likewise tagged “S.51”
While it’s common knowledge that Republicans have been adamantly opposed to DC statehood forever, I wonder how much of their current “freakout” is based on the near-certainty that a new “State of DC” would send two Democrats to the Senate for the (?) next session, thus upsetting what leverage they have for obstructionism….?
PS: Interesting question to which I can’t find a convenient answer: when a new state is officially admitted, when do their Rep(s)/Senators take their place? Immediately upon formal “admission”??
1. 100%
2. Itll take a couple of months
And then the Rs 2022 senate prayers are toast
re: #138 Belafon
There’s a chart at the top of the Abbreviated Pundit Roundup (I would copy it over but I can’t do that at work) that shows the breakdown of vaccine hesitancy among Republicans based on news habits. Fox is almost tied with mainstream news at 54% of viewers willing to get it. It’s those watching more extreme channels or not watching any at all that are really bad.
I was just looking at that as well. Was a little surprised. Maybe Tucker’s audience knows he’s an asshole.
The Senate just unanimously confirmed Deanne Criswell to be FEMA Administrator.
She’s led NYC’s emergency management office for years and will be instrumental in helping this country respond to COVID and tackle the climate crisis.
And she’s the first woman to lead the agency!— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) April 22, 2021
Biden is the first Democratic president since Jimmy Carter who didn’t put Larry Summers in charge of big economic policy decisions. A consequential move: If he’s running the show there’s probably no $1.9 trillion stimulus law and no $2.25 trillion infrastructure & jobs plan. https://t.co/MsOJs7WaXX
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) April 22, 2021
re: #137 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They argue to win. They do not retreat, they reload.
This is different than an argument that arises from an attempt to solve a problem, establish a premise or ascertain a situation.
Which is why I have long since given up arguing with a lot of people, especially on social media.
They want to be right without doing the work to understand things and come to a fact-based conclusion. Instead, they repeat propaganda.
re: #133 The Pie Overlord!
Only the fictional character that Ludwig Bemelmans knows well.
amazon.com
re: #143 Punish Domestic Terrorists
They want to be right without doing the work to understand things and come to a fact-based conclusion. Instead, they repeat propaganda.
They are always right because they say they are.
re: #138 Belafon
There’s a chart at the top of the Abbreviated Pundit Roundup (I would copy it over but I can’t do that at work) that shows the breakdown of vaccine hesitancy among Republicans based on news habits. Fox is almost tied with mainstream news at 54% of viewers willing to get it. It’s those watching more extreme channels or not watching any at all that are really bad.
Yeah, I’d suggest that those who get their news from Facebook are faring even worse on hesitancy and refusals. If all you’re fed are antivax bulkshit in your feed courtesy of a handful of shit posters who dominate the narrative, that’s what you’ll be led to believe, and not the actual public health experts.
re: #145 Dangerman
They are always right because they say they are.
A subculture with its head up its ass is a failed subculture.
A common thread among the 1/6 MAGAT Assholes.
They are a bunch of stupid motherfathers.
Capitol Rioter Arrested After Being Turned in by His Deeply Unimpressed Bumble Match
A New York man, Robert Chapman, has been charged with entering the Capitol on Jan 6. The FBI began investigating Chapman after they got a tip from one of his Bumble matches. The FBI included the Bumble screenshot in the charging documents. pic.twitter.com/ctHHYk44a5
— Daniel Barnes (@dnlbrns) April 22, 2021
re: #107 A Cranky One
Here is an example of an idiot shooting a refrigerator containing 3 pounds of tannerite. Now multiply that by many times to imagine the result of using 80 pounds.
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re: #141 Belafon
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Larry, Dear.
We are not all alcoholics.
Economic or otherwise
Larry Summers earlier today:
Fed doctrine had been “to take away the punch bowl before the party gets out of hand. What we’ve now said is — we’re not going to do anything until we see a bunch of drunk people staggering around.”
(12:58 ish)https://t.co/FMie7Ex9UC— Jeanna Smialek (@jeannasmialek) April 21, 2021
re: #143 Punish Domestic Terrorists
They want to be right without doing the work to understand things and come to a fact-based conclusion. Instead, they repeat propaganda.
And take delight in “owning a liberal” no matter what the cost.
re: #152 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And take delight in “owning a liberal” no matter what the cost.
I see that in my Jesusbot relatives who orgasm when they “take out a liberal”…
re: #151 Dangerman
Larry, Dear.
We are not all alcoholics.
Economic or otherwise
This is the basis of a lot of Fundamentalist thought: that deep down inside, we need a strict moral corset or we will all be out drinkin’, whorin’, gamblin’, fightin’ and layin’ about unless we are forced to act otherwise.
re: #149 Belafon
It might be General.
I only saw the first movie
Way back in 77 in a theater
College scifi course
Had Trump won this would be the narrative as millions die. https://t.co/ETigSMn2HT
— Todd Poirier (@todd_poirier) April 23, 2021
re: #156 Dangerman
I only saw the first movie
Way back in 77 in a theater
College scifi course
Watched the original when it came out, loved it, but my enthusiasm waned progressively with each sequel/prequel…
I still watch them with my kids but probably would not otherwise.
re: #158 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I saw it with my mom and sister and loved it. I still do.
re: #157 darthstar
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who is this bozo?
oh wait, hes’s a FUCKING UNITED STATES SENATOR!
Wow. Ron Johnson sees “no reason to be pushing vaccines on people,” arguing their distribution should be “limited” to the most vulnerable… and asking, “if you have a vaccine, quite honestly, what do you care if your neighbor has one or not?”https://t.co/ZoClgApM6d
— Sam Stein (@samstein) April 23, 2021
This guy scores selfies with Republicans and for some reason they never last more than ten seconds.
Ted Cruz wouldn’t tell me if he enjoyed Cancun 🏖 pic.twitter.com/7qRdWzuC7S
— Noah 🗳 (@noahmitchell0) April 22, 2021
We have receipts @CawthornforNC. “Bucket list,” really? pic.twitter.com/Yb2GjYvKen
— Noah 🗳 (@noahmitchell0) April 22, 2021
Here’s a response to Ron Johnson:
Someone told me it sounds like Keats is saying “You’re wrong” to my opinion that it’s not time for second breakfast and now I am convinced my dog can talk. pic.twitter.com/TzKuz7asen
— Stephanie Land (@stepville) April 21, 2021
Fork calligraphy
By yaziyolcusu pic.twitter.com/9cq0beEppA— Maria Hussain (@Mariahussain55) April 23, 2021
The daily beast
…”The Republican Party has suffered a total moral collapse and is now held together by a bunch of “nutcases” happy to endorse autocracy and neo-fascism, according to Howard Dean.” {…}
“There are some House Republicans who are basically a sentient YouTube comment section,” Dean said. “They have nothing to contribute, frankly, to American politics, except for incendiary and sometimes delusional public statements.”
“These people are crazy. They’re conspiracy theorists, they’re whack jobs. They’re embedding their own reality. I mean, if they ever really run the country, it’s going to be a disaster for us.”
“You have a Republican Party, which emotionally, essentially are neo-fascist. They fundamentally do not believe that another legitimate point of view exists other than theirs.”..
re: #163 darthstar
good enough to eat
re: #157 darthstar
So since he got his fucking vaccine, tough shit to everyone else. What a POS.
re: #166 A Mom Anon
So since he got his fucking vaccine, tough shit to everyone else. What a POS.
and neither does he understand the idea behind vaccination
re: #166 A Mom Anon
So since he got his fucking vaccine, tough shit to everyone else. What a POS.
fwiw, this was my attitude and to an extent still is
preservation of me and mine - i dont care what the anti’s or anyone else does
but that’s a micro, self centered view
he’s a national politician and his job is everybody’s national health
his responsibility is the macro view
re: #168 Dangerman
fwiw, this was my attitude and to an extent still is
preservation of me and mine - i dont care what the anti’s or anyone else does
but that’s a micro, self centered viewhe’s a national politician and his job is everybody’s national health
his responsibility is the macro view
A rational-self-interest view of getting everyone vaccinated would be that they couldn’t get me sick.
re: #9 gocart mozart
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At the beginning the capitol was in New York City, then moved to Philadelphia. So they weren’t even thinking about DC.
re: #169 Belafon
A rational-self-interest view of getting everyone vaccinated would be that they couldn’t get me sick.
Carry a pole arm, and keep Conservatives at a distance. Most of the rest of us are getting vaccinated. You might want to watch out for loopy-lefties substituting crystals for vaccine as well.
Hmmm with California losing one house seat I’m wondering who will lose their district—Nunes or McCarthy?
re: #167 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
and neither does he understand the idea behind vaccination
I am sure he understands 100%; he is a liar, a racist, and a Russian asset whose goal is to spread disinformation and harm this nation in order to preserve power for the Republican Party and keep himself in office, by disenfranchising people of color.
Has to have been a girl, because anyone close to that explosion would have been turned into a pink mist. https://t.co/9pWZS3YXW3
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) April 23, 2021
— 🇮🇪 𝕊𝕒𝕚𝕟𝕥 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕟𝕪 🇺🇲 (@CelticTock) April 23, 2021
How did Gender Reveal Parties become the Florida Man of celebrations?
re: #176 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Because a fair portion of baby showers are bragging about how fabulous the parents are. I’ve seen showers here that cost as much as a wedding reception. Seriously. It’s a stupid game.
re: #172 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Carry a pole arm, and keep Conservatives at a distance. Most of the rest of us are getting vaccinated. You might want to watch out for loopy-lefties substituting crystals for vaccine as well.
Anti-vax is where anti-Western Medicine, anti-Big Pharma woo-woos overlap with anti-Modern Science, anti-Big Government wingnuts.
and they have created a lethal critical mass of stupidity.
re: #157 darthstar
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re: #171 Eventual Carrion
At the beginning the capitol was in New York City, then moved to Philadelphia. So they weren’t even thinking about DC.
It was in the room where it happened - Madison, Jefferson, and Hamilton negotiated a deal where DC became the Capital city and Hamilton got the financial package he wanted.
Win-win.
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re: #176 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
How did Gender Reveal Parties become the Florida Man of celebrations?
Tell me about it. I remember the assholes who exploded a Gender Reveal cake here in Los Angeles that triggered a massive fire last year.
Gender Reveal parties have done more damage inside the United States since 2008 than left-wing terrorists and Muslim terrorists during the same time.
re: #177 A Mom Anon
Because a fair portion of baby showers are bragging about how fabulous the parents are. I’ve seen showers here that cost as much as a wedding reception. Seriously. It’s a stupid game.
Jesus H. Fucking Christ. Mrs. Fish didn’t even have gender reveal parties; and her baby showers were tame affairs with her mom, a couple of her sisters, and whatever female friends could be assed to attend. I can provide for my family just fine without having to set off explosives to prove that I have a bigger dick than my neighbor. Besides, big dick or not, I already proved it’s working, we’re having a baby, after all.
re: #183 Sufficient unto the day…
Gender Reveal parties have done more damage inside the United States since 2008 than left-wing terrorists and Muslim terrorists during the same time.
Can’t they just go back to the f’n cakes?
re: #183 Sufficient unto the day…
4 have died in gender reveal parties in 2021 alone. In 2020, a gender reveal party sparked a major wildfire in California. And another major wildfire in Arizona.
Overall, it seems that 7 have died in gender reveal parties, and countless fires started.
re: #177 A Mom Anon
Because a fair portion of baby showers are bragging about how fabulous the parents are. I’ve seen showers here that cost as much as a wedding reception. Seriously. It’s a stupid game.
Because one day, jewelry companies convinced people that a wedding ring should cost two paychecks, and it’s gone downhill ever since.
re: #187 Belafon
Because one day, jewelry companies convinced people that a wedding ring should cost two paychecks, and it’s gone downhill ever since.
Mrs. Fish castigated me the other day because she said an engagement ring is supposed to cost 2 months’ salary. I looked at her like she had horns growing out of her head. Honey, I love you, and you’re totally worth it, but 2 months’ salary, even at the time we got engaged, is a big enough ring for people to murder you over. I’m just protecting you, honest, I promise.///
re: #97 Florida Panhandler
Here we go, the wealthiest getting wealthy directly from the misery of the poor Texas suckers:
Texas winter power outage hands $1Bill directly into the hands of wealthy Wall Street funds while get this- “Free market Republicans” plan to float massive bond sales and fees tacked on to electricity bills in order to add insult to injury.
Free market my ass. For these Republican assholes Socialism is just great when it serves as a tool for the wealthy to be rewarded at the direct expense of everyone else.
This has been coming for a while.
The official motto of the State is “Texas Friendly”.
It should be “Privatize the Profit and Socialize the Cost”.
re: #188 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
Mrs. Fish castigated me the other day because she said an engagement ring is supposed to cost 2 months’ salary. I looked at her like she had horns growing out of her head. Honey, I love you, and you’re totally worth it, but 2 months’ salary, even at the time we got engaged, is a big enough ring for people to murder you over. I’m just protecting you, honest, I promise.///
Only 2????????????
I remember the DeBeers commercials that said it’s supposed to cost 4 months of salary…
re: #191 🌹UOJB!
Only 2????????????
I remember the DeBeers commercials that said it’s supposed to cost 4 months of salary…
Well, 2 months of my current salary would be a bit more than 4 months of my salary at the time, so that’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
re: #192 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
Well, 2 months of my current salary would be a bit more than 4 months of my salary at the time, so that’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
That’s still cheaper than the 216 child support payments I made.
re: #92 Belafon
We’re not land animals, we’re tree animals. We once hung out in the trees. Then, some of us climbed down from the trees and went exploring. Then, some of us got in a boat and went sailing. So, we’re explorers. So the next place for us to go is space.
“Space is too dangerous!” I freaking marvel at the fact that people made it to Hawaii from Asia without knowing the islands were there in advance and think we should continue that urge to explore.
Also fascinating that there’s some reasonable evidence that the Polynesians had navigators who could “sense” far distant islands by seemingly miniscule changes in natural phenomenon. In other words, they may well have had a good sense from their professional navigators that something very large was “out there” for them to find.
re: #195 steve_davis
Also fascinating that there’s some reasonable evidence that the Polynesians had navigators who could “sense” far distant islands by seemingly miniscule changes in natural phenomenon. In other words, they may well have had a good sense from their professional navigators that something very large was “out there” for them to find.
anyone getting within 100 miles of the mouth of the Amazon could not fail to notice the tree trunks, detritus and different color/salinity of the water.
re: #106 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Earth’s gravity well is why we’re stuck here.
It’s too expensive (in energy) to throw people off the planet.
And the achievement has already been done. We’ve been to the closest non-Earth body (our moon.) We’ve had people live in space for over a year.
We’ve accomplished that.
There are some deep sociological issues at play here. And while I often prattle on… I need to get some sleep. Perhaps tomorrow I’ll go all wonky and write up a more cogent post for why I think we’re done in space (as far as human occupation off our planet surface.)
You send people into space mainly because the technological processes needed to make it happen have far-reaching, beneficial effects for everyone on mother earth.
re: #197 steve_davis
You send people into space mainly because the technological processes needed to make it happen have far-reaching, beneficial effects for everyone on mother earth.
That oxygen generator they’re testing on Perseverance seems like it could be a real game-changer if we can apply it to other chemical processes, like, say, sequestering carbon.
But for that plexiglass, the cashier would have been obliterated.
— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) April 23, 2021
re: #198 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
That oxygen generator they’re testing on Perseverance seems like it could be a real game-changer if we can apply it to other chemical processes, like, say, sequestering carbon.
Wouldn’t you be sequestering it if you’re removing it from the air via a Metal-organic framework (MOF) or metal oxide cart?
re: #197 steve_davis
You send people into space mainly because the technological processes needed to make it happen have far-reaching, beneficial effects for everyone on mother earth.
because some day we will have to leave. Hopefully not anytime soon, but best to be prepared
re: #191 🌹UOJB!
Only 2????????????
I remember the DeBeers commercials that said it’s supposed to cost 4 months of salary…
I want to know WHO makes these purported “Rules”?
re: #203 Dave In Austin
I want to know WHO makes these purported “Rules”?
The cartel that knows that diamonds are not as rare as people think, and that scientists can make ones in a lab that are indistinguishable from the ones pulled from the ground.
re: #201 🌹UOJB!
Oh lord, Steve Shultz just nods and looks serious no matter what random bullshit any of his interviewees says…does he even talk? I mean, I heard him say like one word, but does he use complete sentences?
A comment on Charlie Pierce’s blog sent me to google and wikipedia, and son of a gun, NewsCorpse owns Harper Collins and just now Houghton Mifflin Harcourt publishers. Rupert Murdoch is eating the planet.
Also that Justice Barrett just signed a book contract for $2 mil.
re: #197 steve_davis
You send people into space mainly because the technological processes needed to make it happen have far-reaching, beneficial effects for everyone on mother earth.
You get benefits like shoes that make people think you have a mental-handicap.
I had a pair similar to these
re: #187 Belafon
Because one day, jewelry companies convinced people that a wedding ring should cost two paychecks, and it’s gone downhill ever since.
nah, that’s the engagement ring.
p.s. my mother never had an engagement ring (though she did get an impressive 25th anniversary ring). Neither of my grandmothers ever had an engagement ring. One sister-in-law got an engagement Volvo; the other got an engagement SUV.
re: #207 retired cynic
Also that Justice Barrett just signed a book contract for $2 mil.
It’s been suggested that she do her job rather than moonlighting to get rich.
re: #209 sagehen
nah, that’s the engagement ring.
p.s. my mother never had an engagement ring (though she did get an impressive 25th anniversary ring). Neither of my grandmothers ever had an engagement ring. One sister-in-law got an engagement Volvo; the other got an engagement SUV.
Dad told me that when he got Mom’s engagement ring he had to sell a years worth of War bonds he bought.
re: #202 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
because some day we will have to leave. Hopefully not anytime soon, but best to be prepared
If some of us leave, it will probably give the planet more of a chance.
re: #210 Punish Domestic Terrorists
It’s been suggested that she do her job rather than moonlighting to get rich.
The way she is ruling, I’d prefer she just stayed home.
re: #210 Punish Domestic Terrorists
She is there for the money.
re: #214 PhillyPretzel
She is there for the money.
Barrett is there for the bribes just like Alito, Gorsuch, Beer Brat and Slappy Thomas.
re: #208 Punish Domestic Terrorists
You get benefits like shoes that make people think you have a mental-handicap.
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I had a pair similar to these
I used to use those, now just wear generic crocs. I always had trouble reaching my feet; just didn’t know why until I was almost 70, and found out I had extreme scoliosis, and my back didn’t bend.
re: #216 retired cynic
My feet just keep getting bigger. Now they are size 15 EEE/ European size 52.
Pain in the ass to get new shoes since they have to be custom ordered.
re: #103 lawhawk
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Yeah, and this whole “They were Americans too!” bullshit. As soon as they signed the papers of secession, they became foreigners occupying American land.
re: #195 steve_davis
Also fascinating that there’s some reasonable evidence that the Polynesians had navigators who could “sense” far distant islands by seemingly miniscule changes in natural phenomenon. In other words, they may well have had a good sense from their professional navigators that something very large was “out there” for them to find.
I remember reading a poem in grade school in the 50’s, (I think the name was Song of Kon Tiki, but I’ve never been able to locate it). I was fascinated and excited by the descriptions of how those ancient navigators read the stars, the currents, the birds and fish. It triggered a wanderlust in me that lasted many, many years.
re: #212 Belafon
If some of us leave, it will probably give the planet more of a chance.
You can’t lift people with rockets faster than they reproduce. You need a Stargate to get enough people off planet to make a difference, and that doesn’t seem likely to come along.
re: #217 🌹UOJB!
My feet just keep getting bigger. Now they are size 15 EEE/ European size 52.
Pain in the ass to get new shoes since they have to be custom ordered.
You’re probably hard to knock over with a base like that.
I just got this in my TL. That dude was right. pic.twitter.com/SQOyTX70oa
— Blue Heron Farm (@BlueHeronFarmTX) April 23, 2021
re: #218 Eventual Carrion
Yeah, and this whole “They were Americans too!” bullshit. As soon as they signed the papers of secession, they became foreigners occupying American land.
I’ve wondered if, like they depicted at the end of Muana, that the “boats” they built really were small village sized. You wouldn’t want to wander the Pacific in canoes.
re: #122 lawhawk
I heard on Al Jazeera news yesterday, in their reporting about the COVID crisis in India, that only about 25% of Indians actually die in a hospital, where they can be properly diagnosed and where their deaths can be duly recorded.
I’d imagine the actual numbers in India must be truly horrific.
re: #210 Punish Domestic Terrorists
It’s been suggested that she do her job rather than moonlighting to get rich.
Did the people who suggested it do the same when Justice Sotomayor got a nearly 2 million dollar advance on her book? Or when Ginsburg published “My own words” a few years back?
re: #203 Dave In Austin
I want to know WHO makes these purported “Rules”?
Obviously the grifters creating an artificial scarcity to sell clear rocks for a fortune.
People would be so much better off putting that money toward a home.
re: #208 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I also have a pair of grandpa shoes like that
re: #126 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
Those flu statistics are astonishing. I knew it was lower. I didn’t know it was completely fucking gone.
Not a single case reported this flu season in Czech Republic.
re: #226 danarchy
Did the people who suggested it do the same when Justice Sotomayor got a nearly 2 million dollar advance on her book? Or when Ginsburg published “My own words” a few years back?
Probably different people. Were those two new hires when they did it?
re: #212 Belafon
If some of us leave, it will probably give the planet more of a chance.
at some point it will become completely uninhabitable
Let’s check in on Sweden, the example that Right-wingers use to claim that we can go without shutdowns:
The Social Democrat-led government of the prime minister, Stefan Löfven, postponed a planned easing of some restrictions in late March until at least 3 May, but has insisted tougher measures are not yet needed to bring the latest surge under control.
The Swedish public had “really changed its behaviour and daily life is, to a very great extent, already very restricted”, said the health minister, Lena Hallengren.
Sweden has highest new Covid cases per person in Europe
theguardian.com
re: #229 Dr Lizardo
Not a single case reported this flu season in Czech Republic.
We’re proving that people don’t have to die of the flu every year if we’d cover our mouths and keep some distance. We just don’t care.
re: #233 BlueSpotinAL
Let’s check in on Sweden, the example that Right-wingers use to claim that we can go without shutdowns:
Sweden has highest new Covid cases per person in Europe
theguardian.com
These same right wingers endlessly trashed Gawdless Socialist Sweeden until they could make political points with it.
re: #227 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Obviously the grifters creating an artificial scarcity to sell clear rocks for a fortune.
People would be so much better off putting that money toward a home.
They also don’t mention that one buys diamonds retail and sells them at wholesale prices, so not that great investment they try to tell you it is.
That’s speaking as someone who does not have/never wanted an engagement ring. Also, we were in grad school, so unless GI benefits are a “paycheck,” 2 (or 4, or 10) times $0 remains $0 to spend on that ring. Honestly, I prefer a plain gold band wedding ring.
When we did finally have an income, yeah, it went towards a house.
As far as fictional characters sharing my given name go, there’s a few examples but by far the most well-known would be…
ss84UEHcDJiGoUUvI8bl1sLMvmCgtnBBNUELAbkm0s4Y9SPPxr3VUBHG3p/tXV7hivN1YC/22W8qqRGkwFSaHUhX/Kmi1+Ic4i15/P1N0Gt+pV9mjnUNd0P/AfOvtPU7KNg9DkpFzmqx9Euo1Odg6QHEc9gBdiffnLG2nmIn/xYbPOhCQtQJXKExgQMS5rexLFdKdqOcZH9Qln0To+Ivebp/tZPB+wAsE/jxjnw9aFwnqTtHO78wBTqyy9R8GXKsDrUMAkbiZl3ZyVkdXvKoPaM3iovhNHNiFf31J81I+0Og+soeqDtJuwFGcDn+l0Aj1Egv5t4lHx9/dGx0ibo8tIzYC7geuWcybwZfMH1k0RdzwqgUAdjjDw==
re: #235 A Cranky One
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Someone posted a picture of VR foot trackers he’d attached to purple Crocs. Most questions were asking why he had those awful shoes. I didn’t know footwear could look that bad.
re: #226 danarchy
Did the people who suggested it do the same when Justice Sotomayor got a nearly 2 million dollar advance on her book? Or when Ginsburg published “My own words” a few years back?
point
But what has Barrett done to deserve the coverage, besides being chosen by Trump? Sotomayor has broken trails, and would have been worth a book without being chosen as a justice. And Ginsberg? Her accomplishments were legion.
re: #240 retired cynic
point
But what has Barrett done to deserve the coverage, besides being chosen by Trump? Sotomayor has broken trails, and would have been worth a book without being chosen as a justice. And Ginsberg? Her accomplishments were legion.
Wait till the Court kills Roe and she’s the deciding vote. You’ll see the Pulpit Pimps rejoice and Catholic Bishops elevate her to a living saint.
re: #241 🌹UOJB!
Wait till the Court kills Roe and she’s the deciding vote. You’ll see the Pulpit Pimps rejoice and Catholic Bishops elevate her to a living saint.
We’d also see the Republicans crushed in the following election, and laws to fix the problem. This and bigotry are all that hold their subculture together, but actually acting on the issues that motivate their rabid base doesn’t go so well for them.
re: #134 SerialUpDinger
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Our son and his fellow Marines saw this last night. Not sure if comet or meteor, funny to hear the young men speculate. North Carolina
Obvious launch, if you watch closely you can see the exhaust streaming back.
Undoubtedly the second stage burn of the Falcon 9 going to the ISS, that’s why the plume is so expanded. As an amateur astronomer, I’ve had a lot of fun over the years hearing the general public speculate about things in the sky.
I’ll keep saying it:
Fuck Joe Manchin. https://t.co/spkeQulviN— Sam Youngman (@samyoungman) April 23, 2021
re: #244 Backwoods_Sleuth
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And then he also says something along the lines that we will pass a $4T bill if we have to.
I do worry that he’s got the “Who was the last person to talk to me” thing going.
Question: can you show me one time when Jim Jordan DID know what he was talking about? https://t.co/pGSVN8WjH8
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) April 23, 2021
re: #207 retired cynic
Also that Justice Barrett just signed a book contract for $2 mil.
They are making sure that she will stay bought.
Pfizer-BioNTech aşılamamı yeni yaptırdım.
Şimdiye kadar hiçbir yan etkisi yok.
re: #250 John Hughes
Well, I guess the WiFi isn’t all that good on the Pfizer.
re: #250 John Hughes
I think the second word is salami (//), but I’m totally lost after that.
re: #250 John Hughes
Pfizer-BioNTech aşılamamı yeni yaptırdım.
Şimdiye kadar hiçbir yan etkisi yok.
Şimdi sonunda şu adama benzeyeceksin:
Lighten up Francis. pic.twitter.com/Ct5AxLJegL
— Edwin (@EdMix13) April 23, 2021
re: #119 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Not with changing technology. Once we have working space elevators, the energy cost to achieve LEO can be decreased, possibly to almost non-existant.
The energy will never be less than h*m*g, and if you use a space elevator to get to LEO you’re going to have to add some more or you’ll just fall out of orbit.
Well, I made it to another birthday. Going to have a drink or five at home and get some delicious Italian deli food.
re: #256 plansbandc
Well, I made it to another birthday. Going to have a drink or five at home and get some delicious Italian deli food.
Happy Birthday and congrats on another successful trip around the Sun.
re: #256 plansbandc
Well, I made it to another birthday. Going to have a drink or five at home and get some delicious Italian deli food.
Have a GREAT DAY!!!!
re: #254 gocart mozart
I one of my eyes always stared at my nose, I’d be more worried about that than the fear that treating people better made a slight change to the Disney experience.
re: #258 Dr Lizardo
Happy Birthday and congrats on another successful trip around the Sun.
The sun went around them.
re: #256 plansbandc
Well, I made it to another birthday. Going to have a drink or five at home and get some delicious Italian deli food.
You traveled 93 million miles since your last birthday, not counting the movement of our solar system or galaxy.
re: #131 darthstar
Indicative list of professions and activity sectors concerned:
Maintenance workers, Garbage collectors, Education and teaching staff, Truck drivers and delivery men, Security agents, Agricultural sector, Postmen, Food trade sector including cashier staff, Home help, Staff of funeral operators, Professionals in the screening sector, Agrifood sector, Maternal assistants, Health or care personnel, Child protection, Medical / paramedical industry sector, Self-employed workers meeting basic needs.
Lol 😂
Brad Parscale is behind Caitlyn Jenner’s run to try and oust Gavin Newsom as Governor of California.
Yep… Since that worked out so wonderfully for Brad last time 😂😭😂 pic.twitter.com/8nEQlgRgV9— Jake Lobin (@JakeLobin) April 23, 2021
re: #264 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
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We’re not going to elect an asshole who was involved in a hit & run.
re: #262 Punish Domestic Terrorists
You traveled 93 million miles since your last birthday, not counting the movement of our solar system or galaxy.
Actually they traveled ~2pi*93M. 93M is just the radius. So approximately 600M miles.
Memory refresher of Jenner’s Hit & Run that killed a person
re: #264 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
So the reality TV sellout hitched her wagon to the crazy MAGA guy who was taken down on camera by the police for being dangerous and nuts. Sounds about right.
Nope.
College Counselor: “Anything you want me to know to help you think of colleges that might be a fit?”
My daughter: “No open carry States!!”— Maya Wiley (@mayawiley) April 22, 2021
re: #198 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
That oxygen generator they’re testing on Perseverance seems like it could be a real game-changer if we can apply it to other chemical processes, like, say, sequestering carbon.
Not really, it’s just electrolysis. If you used it to take carbon out of the air you’d need at least as much energy as you got from burning the fossil fuel in the first place. (Obviously, because otherwise it would be a perpetual motion machine).
Chocolate Chip Cookies 🍪 😋 pic.twitter.com/1U1xU89pX3
— Liddle Rainbow Pie 🌈🥧 (@Pie_Overlord) April 23, 2021
Why diamonds for engagement rings:
In September of 1938, Harry Oppenheimer, son of the founder of De Beers and then twenty-nine, traveled from Johannesburg to New York City, to meet with Gerold M. Lauck, the president of N. W. Ayer, a leading advertising agency in the United States. Lauck and N. W. Ayer had been recommended to Oppenheimer by the Morgan Bank, which had helped his father consolidate the De Beers financial empire. His bankers were concerned about the price of diamonds, which had declined worldwide.
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Oppenheimer suggested to Lauck that his agency prepare a plan for creating a new image for diamonds among Americans. He assured Lauck that De Beers had not called on any other American advertising agency with this proposal, and that if the plan met with his father’s approval, N. W. Ayer would be the exclusive agents for the placement of newspaper and radio advertisements in the United States. Oppenheimer agreed to underwrite the costs of the research necessary for developing the campaign. Lauck instantly accepted the offer.
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Although it could do little about the state of the economy, N. W. Ayer suggested that through a well-orchestrated advertising and public-relations campaign it could have a significant impact on the “social attitudes of the public at large and thereby channel American spending toward larger and more expensive diamonds instead of “competitive luxuries.” Specifically, the Ayer study stressed the need to strengthen the association in the public’s mind of diamonds with romance. Since “young men buy over 90% of all engagement rings” it would be crucial to inculcate in them the idea that diamonds were a gift of love: the larger and finer the diamond, the greater the expression of love. Similarly, young women had to be encouraged to view diamonds as an integral part of any romantic courtship.
Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond?
An unruly market may undo the work of a giant cartel and of an inspired, decades-long ad campaign
Edward Jay Epstein
February 1982 Issue
re: #203 Dave In Austin
I want to know WHO makes these purported “Rules”?
From above
marketing degrees https://t.co/xKEUoclm6i
— the women of kilgore trout’s office (@KT_So_It_Goes) April 23, 2021
re: #263 John Hughes
I am not surprised. France has a long history of granting citizenship to immigrants who have performed a great service. A few years back they did so for a young man who Spider-Man climbed up a building to rescue a dangling toddler.
Regarding gender reveal ‘events’, why pink for girls:
The transition to pink as a sexually differentiating color for girls occurred gradually, through the selective process of the marketplace, in the 1930s and 40s. In the 1920s, some groups had been describing pink as a masculine color, an equivalent of the red that was considered to be for men, but lighter for boys. But stores nonetheless found that people were increasingly choosing to buy pink for girls, and blue for boys, until this became an accepted norm in the 1940s.
re: #271 John Hughes
Not really, it’s just electrolysis. If you used it to take carbon out of the air you’d need at least as much energy as you got from burning the fossil fuel in the first place. (Obviously, because otherwise it would be a perpetual motion machine).
For Sale: Perpetual motion starter
Only used once
re: #240 retired cynic
point
But what has Barrett done to deserve the coverage, besides being chosen by Trump? Sotomayor has broken trails, and would have been worth a book without being chosen as a justice. And Ginsberg? Her accomplishments were legion.
All barrett can talk about is what shes going to do
Or wants to do
Not really appropriate for a scotus
re: #256 plansbandc
Well, I made it to another birthday. Going to have a drink or five at home and get some delicious Italian deli food.
Plan a!
re: #281 Teukka
And thus began Armageddon…
:)
As the old saying goes…
So what if I can’t spell Armageddon, it’s not the end of the world.
re: #282 ckkatz
:)
As the old saying goes…
So what if I can’t spell Armageddon, it’s not the end of the world.
+1
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