President Biden calls Vladimir Putin a war criminal, a deepfake circulates of President Zelenskyy urging Ukrainians to surrender, and the Kremlin orders Russian state TV to play Tucker Carlson. #DailyShow
Bringing this up from downstairs as Putin’s insecurity is important to keep pushing.
re: #276 Eventual Carrion
I was born in ‘61 and also feel more X than boomer. My parents are close to your parents birth years, ‘37 and ‘41.
I have personally felt the definition for Boomer birth years is way too broad. Some marketing folks have felt so too, claiming that there are really two co-horts comprising the Boomers - the Early Boomers and Generation Jones.
The Generation Jones folks didn’t grow up with Howdy Dowdy, too young for Woodstock, heard MLK’s “I Have A Dream” years after spoken, and only a few barely old enough to understand what was going on with the JFK assassination.
From the previous thread:
re: #162 No Malarkey!
India, which has remained neutral toward the war, gets cheap oil, and Russia gets badly needed hard currency. Of course Europe is also still buying oil and gas from Russia.
Europe is buying more energy from Russia than India. To really put the screws on the Russian economy, Europe needs to cut back more than India.
However, this deal is still a win win for everyone except Russia.
India is not paying in hard currency. India is paying in Indian Rupees, which are (for the most part) only usable for buying imports from India.
The Rupee is internationalized to a very limited extent.; It is legal tender in Bhutan (which does 94% of its trade with India), commonly accepted in Nepal (which has an open border/open work policy with India.), and was reportedly usable in Zimbabwe (as one of several foreign currencies when it’s currency had become worthless.).
In the short and medium term, this is a win win for everyone except Russia, which admittedly loses less.
- India keeps its hard currency balances, and gets cheaper oil, and can export more to Russia.
- The west gets cheaper oil. Whether this benefits the oil majors or consumers depends on how much political pressure gets put on them.
- Russia gets Rupee balances rather than dollar balances, which admittedly it can use unlike its dollar balances, but only for buying goods from India.
In the long term
- Keeping the price of oil and gas and low is bad policy for _everyone_
- It makes the Indian rupee a little more internationalized and the US Dollar less internationalized. This has already been happening with the Renminbi. But the US Dollar being less internationalized was to be expected with using SWIFT removal as a punishment.
re: #3 William Lewis
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So we’re really going back to the moon, eh? That’s pretty exciting.
re: #2 dat_said
I have personally felt the definition for Boomer birth years is way too broad. Some marketing folks have felt so too, claiming that there are really two co-horts comprising the Boomers - the Early Boomers and Generation Jones.
The Generation Jones folks didn’t grow up with Howdy Dowdy, too young for Woodstock, heard MLK’s “I Have A Dream” years after spoken, and only a few barely old enough to understand what was going on with the JFK assassination.
Responded on last thread, but I’m tail end of ‘64, so the first big event I remember was the first moon landing.
CL’d.
re: #283 A Cranky One
We had duck and cover when I was kid. Of course, my dad was in the military and so we always lived near or in air force bases, which were potential targets.
I have this hanging in my man cave. These were ubiquitous when I was a kid.
Scariest memory of that time was when we were living in Germany at the edge of the 5K zone. We could see the fences at the border with East Germany in the distance and occasionally see it get lit up at night along with hearing explosions and gunfire when a crossing was attempted.
Kennedy was assassinated while we were there and we knew if a war started we were on the front line. A scary time.
re: #7 A Cranky One
CL’d.
The rec room in the youth building at our church had that. In a closet were large tins of crackers. They stayed there for years.
Everybody’s already taken shots at that incredibly terrible editorial in the New York Times, so I’ll just say that I have an absolute free speech right to mock and shame right wingers for the bullshit they spew, and the Times’ editors can bite me.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 18, 2022
Shocking, I know.
BREAKING: The largest trial of the drug ivermectin showed it did not reduce hospital admissions.
— Jon Cooper (@joncoopertweets) March 18, 2022
re: #285 CleverToad
I’m 1956, I agree with dividing the Boom into two cohorts — the description seems reasonable, and I’ve seen plenty of references to Early and Late Boomers. But ‘Generation Jones’? Where on earth did they come up with that weird designation, and wottheck is it supposed to mean? Has anyone else heard it before?
Not all marketing people are clever. It has something to do with “keeping up with the Jones’s”.
Apparently, Generation Jones are more insecure in their economic outlook (marketing people generalizing because marketing people like easy labels) than the more “idealistic early boomers”. Generation Jones were tweeners or teens during the energy crisis and went into a working world of high unemployment and inflation.
re: #10 No Malarkey!
Shocking, I know.
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This study will only make conservatives push ivermectin harder.
I’m, I guess, generation Jones.
I was in elementary school for the west coast oil spill, MLK and RFK assassinations, Chicago DNC, Mansons…
When I was in college, inflation and interest rates were double digits, Iran had an embassy full of American hostages…
Yeah. A generation with not a lot of optimists.
just left a college lecture where the guest speak was a conservative who said “hitler just wanted to make germany great again” — but bc of the anti-free speech brigade i had to self-censor my opinion that this person was dumb as dog shit. this is not my america
— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) March 18, 2022
Nope. “Cancel culture” is not a real thing. It’s a right wing propaganda meme that they whine and scream about so much that even some people who should know better start to believe it.
Right wing phony victimhood culture is very definitely a real thing, though.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 18, 2022
re: #14 jaunte
Doesn’t he usually write like an adult with capitalization and punctuation, rather than like a kid texting their friends?
re: #15 Charles Johnson
Trying to figure out why any decent person would think there should be no consequences for people spewing lies and bigotry.
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) March 18, 2022
re: #15 Charles Johnson
If they weren’t entirely gone, having Putin say Russia was being “cancelled” as they face consequences for a criminal war would have put an end to that shit.
re: #17 No Malarkey!
One more symptomatic freakout over the possibility of white conservatives becoming a minority population some time in the future.
130 rescued from the Theater in Mariupol; 1,300 are trapped in the rubble. news.yahoo.com
re: #19 darthstar
“A Women” - gah…meme makers need to get their shit together.
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Yeah. I don’t think that’s really considered a big buck. It’s a nice one though.
Oh, put a sock in it. Back when I was actively protesting Scientology, my home got protested and the neighborhood was plastered with flyers containing my face and the words “Religious Bigot.” There are consequences for speaking out; you’ve obviously never experienced them!
— Dee Holmes🇺🇦🌻 (@mmmirele) March 18, 2022
“Cancel culture critics don’t only want freedom from consequences. They are going farther than that. They want a mandatory celebration of whatever they say, by anyone they say it to or about.” - @andreagrimes in her fantastic column today https://t.co/8xQRQOeRR1
— DAME Magazine (@damemagazine) March 10, 2022
re: #20 jaunte
One more symptomatic freakout over the possibility of white conservatives becoming a minority population some time in the future.
Conservatives, god willing, might become a minority. But whites won’t. We just expand the boundaries of “whiteness” until voila!! majority again.
The problem with America is a third of it’s citizens are trying to murder another third of it’s citizens by whatever means necessary and the final third never heard about anything.
Andrea Grimes:
“These complaints are always about a lack of conservative intellectual diversity, as if it is an accident that conservatism, fundamentally rooted in the preservation of the status quo at best and perpetuation of oppression and marginalization at worst, is not exactly teeming with bright new ideas and fresh thinkers.”
More Soviet era weaponry headed to Belarus…if Putin wants to bring back the Soviet Union, dusting off the old equipment is probably his best bet for at least creating the image.
⚡️New batch of Tochka-U tactical ballistic missiles was brought to Belarus.
Today at 14:12 (Minsk time), Russian An-124 Ruslan heavy cargo aircraft landed at the airfield in Machulishchy (Minsk region).
1/3 ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/Uk1m3bHifL— MotolkoHelp (@MotolkoHelp) March 18, 2022
re: #26 sagehen
Conservatives, god willing, might become a minority. But whites won’t. We just expand the boundaries of “whiteness” until voila!! majority again.
Racist white people are already a minority, and I don’t expect that to change.
— Samuel Ramani (@SamRamani2) March 18, 2022
re: #2 dat_said
I have personally felt the definition for Boomer birth years is way too broad. Some marketing folks have felt so too, claiming that there are really two co-horts comprising the Boomers - the Early Boomers and Generation Jones.
The Generation Jones folks didn’t grow up with Howdy Dowdy, too young for Woodstock, heard MLK’s “I Have A Dream” years after spoken, and only a few barely old enough to understand what was going on with the JFK assassination.
I was born in 48, my parents in 21, my grandparents (with whom I spent much of my childhood) in 1891. So I go WAY back. Like Backyard Sleuth.
I think it fits
Generation Jones! (Sounds like an After-School special.) https://t.co/D6Vgcym57r
— Michael Goldstein (@drgoldstein) March 15, 2022
re: #14 jaunte
I had to hear someone on Twitter tell me that health was morality and Metformin was a lazy shortcut. I had to eat that. I had no right to respond.
re: #31 No Malarkey!
I would think that China is too dependent on international trade to become a pariah state just to help a madman kill Ukranians. If they do this, it could be good for manufacturing in America.
re: #31 No Malarkey!
That…could certainly escalate things.
re: #32 retired cynic
I was born in 48, my parents in 21, my grandparents (with whom I spent much of my childhood) in 1891. So I go WAY back. Like Backyard Sleuth.
48 also; parents 1919. I notice that my siblings and I have different recollections of childhood events, i.e. my sister (5 years older) swears she did plane spotting from a tower in a Catholic school—not in my memory bank. I remember my father bringing home a test car (he worked for one of the first car rental companies), waking us up and driving the car into the lake near us (it was an amphibious car.) I remember that vividly, yet my siblings have no memory of it and swear it never happened. Minds and memories are strange things…
*BOOM*
It’s why people get off on being shitty to servers and retail workers. It’s why right-wingers swooned over Trump’s “and they just let you.” It’s why men love the idea of being known as the guy who is an asshole until you get to know him.
— Robyn Pennacchia (@RobynElyse) March 18, 2022
re: #11 dat_said
Not all marketing people are clever. It has something to do with “keeping up with the Jones’s”.
Apparently, Generation Jones are more insecure in their economic outlook (marketing people generalizing because marketing people like easy labels) than the more “idealistic early boomers”. Generation Jones were tweeners or teens during the energy crisis and went into a working world of high unemployment and inflation.
re: #33 HRH Stanley Sea
I think it fits
Thanks for the clarification and the article. Useful to know the terms in use, though I still prefer ‘Late Boomer’ myself. I suppose ‘GenW’ didn’t sound clever enough in somebody’s head.
re: #39 Eclectic Cyborg
Gee, and all my life I’ve been trying to NOT be known as an asshole.
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Apparently, we’ve been doing it all wrong.
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re: #37 BeachDem
My brother was born in 1951, and my parents swore there was a complete generational shift in the time between 48 and 51. Either that, or I was just totally out of the then current scene: always a possibility!
OT: MY mother has this amazing habit of ordering Amazon Prime subscriptions of channels while she’s scrolling through accessing programming using a Fire Stik. Thank God Amazon notifies me of such activity….
Pres. Biden “described the implications and consequences if China provides material support to Russia as it conducts brutal attacks against Ukrainian cities and civilians” in call with Chinese Pres. Xi, White House says https://t.co/ChzK2y2zfh
— Laffy (@GottaLaff) March 18, 2022
According to Chinese medias Xi said that “state-to-state relations cannot go to the stage of military hostilities” and that “the Ukraine crisis is not something we want to see.” Xi Jinping also told Biden that China and the U.S. should “work for world peace and tranquility” 2/2
— Hromadske Int. (@Hromadske) March 18, 2022
Scientists Discover a New Psychedelic Fish Species with Brilliant Rainbow Scales
thisiscolossal.com
Anyway, the first chapter of my book, a book the NYT is trying to CANCEL by listing as #2 on the best seller list as opposed to #1 as ALL BOOKS MUST BE EQUALLY SOLD NOW, is basically a direct takedown of their trash argument.
Read it or you’re Woke Hitlerhttps://t.co/euSoc6nG0A— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) March 18, 2022
re: #47 retired cynic
And another:
Pink Peonies Burst with Life in Hyperrealistic Oil Paintings by Maria Marta Morelli
thisiscolossal.com
If you like PINK you will like these!
So, back to economic anxiety? No wait. Vaccines?
Wait… it all boils down to white nationalists/supremacists upset that persons of color are exercising the same rights that whites have taken for granted for centuries.
Got it.— lawhawk #vaxxedforfamilyandcommunity (@lawhawk) March 18, 2022
Yep, which makes it very easy to take their diffuse rage at not being allowed to get their way all day every day and use it toward power grabs. They’re a titushki rent-a-mob now, even if their currency is largely attention.
— Brooke Binkowski (@brooklynmarie) March 18, 2022
Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen has issued an apology to Aimee Mann after she was removed from the band’s upcoming tour, but squashed the singer’s speculation that she was taken off the bill because she’s a woman.
In response, Fagen, 74, denied Mann’s line of thinking, and said that her gender had nothing to do with the decision.“Well, first of all, the idea that I would make any decision based on the gender of a performer is ridiculous,” he said in a statement shared with PEOPLE. “That’s something that would never even occur to me.”
The “Dirty Work” singer went on to admit that there was “a communication problem on our end,” and said that he had been “misinformed as to how firm the commitment was to any particular opening act.”
“Although I have the greatest respect for Aimee as a writer and performer, I thought it might not be the best matchup in terms of musical style,” he said. “But I can’t pass the buck. I’ll take the blame for the screwup. I apologize for any distress this has caused Aimee and her fans.”
Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen Apologizes for ‘Screwup’ After Aimee Mann Said She Was Dropped from Tour (People via MSN)
re: #50 lawhawk
We see this shit again and again.
Let right-wing assholes talk, and they’ll often reveal hardcore racism. They don’t understand right and wrong, and just see things as racist tit for tat.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) March 18, 2022
re: #49 retired cynic
And another:
Pink Peonies Burst with Life in Hyperrealistic Oil Paintings by Maria Marta Morelli
thisiscolossal.comIf you like PINK you will like these!
I am assuming…
not…
Lunch.
Just a “small” bowl of beef pho for lunch. pic.twitter.com/vHSX8bSS0l
— Michele: Out of the closet. Into the fire (@michele_out) March 18, 2022
re: #47 retired cynic
Scientists Discover a New Psychedelic Fish Species with Brilliant Rainbow Scales
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That fish is SO gay.
NEW: Ketanji Brown Jackson gets a unanimous “well qualified” rating from the American Bar Association on her SCOTUS nomination.
This was somewhat expected because she received a unanimous WQ rating for the DC Circuit just last year. https://t.co/0Dby0rmqDG pic.twitter.com/6lU7f81vsD— Madison Alder (@madialder) March 18, 2022
For context: Amy Coney Barrett received a well qualified rating from a substantial majority of the ABA panel and a minority rated her qualified. https://t.co/51x3Y9W4VC
— Madison Alder (@madialder) March 18, 2022
re: #39 Eclectic Cyborg
Gee, and all my life I’ve been trying to NOT be known as an asshole.
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It’s the reason we have the expression ‘nice guys finish last’. Not just to mock the concept of ‘nice guys’, but to underline the idea that ‘real men’, successful men, take what they want and say what they want, and that the exercise of power and ‘alpha maleness’ is the sign of true success. It’s a sign that you are the top of the god heap, because it shows everyone else is too ‘nice’ to say no to you.
It’s what I’ve long referred to as ‘deification of the asshole’, this worship of people who are assholes just to be assholes, because it’s seen as the ultimate expression of power.
So someone remind me…why were we discussing Second Life the other day? I still have that up in a different tab on my phone and I can’t for the life of me remember why we were even discussing it to begin with (I didn’t even know it still existed, myself).
re: #38 Dopamine Fish
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The entirety of the modern service industry is built upon the idea that you can do anything you like short of committing a criminal act…and the wage slave has to smile and do your bidding because anything resembling non-compliance can get them reprimanded/fired.
re: #58 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
So someone remind me…why were we discussing Second Life the other day? I still have that up in a different tab on my phone and I can’t for the life of me remember why we were even discussing it to begin with (I didn’t even know it still existed, myself).
The discussion that I remember was around the Meta nonsense.
re: #58 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
So someone remind me…why were we discussing Second Life the other day? I still have that up in a different tab on my phone and I can’t for the life of me remember why we were even discussing it to begin with (I didn’t even know it still existed, myself).
The silliness of the Metaverse.
‘First Wives’ urge DeSantis to veto reform that lets wealthy ex-husbands undo alimony pledges https://t.co/WkJAE1ZjsE
— Raw Story (@RawStory) March 18, 2022
re: #49 retired cynic
And another:
Pink Peonies Burst with Life in Hyperrealistic Oil Paintings by Maria Marta Morelli
thisiscolossal.comIf you like PINK you will like these!
It’s a vision of ‘civil society’ that values the wrong definition of ‘civil’, that the idea of discussing abhorrent things in genteel tones makes those abhorrent things valid. It’s tone policing, and it’s one of the main tools that those with power silence those without.
— Citizen K Dissents (@Citizen_Kryptik) March 18, 2022
re: #61 austin_blue
The silliness of the Metaverse.
Yep. Specifically virtual land that people pay for.
re: #57 Citizen K
It’s the reason we have the expression ‘nice guys finish last’. Not just to mock the concept of ‘nice guys’, but to underline the idea that ‘real men’, successful men, take what they want and say what they want, and that the exercise of power and ‘alpha maleness’ is the sign of true success. It’s a sign that you are the top of the god heap, because it shows everyone else is too ‘nice’ to say no to you.
It’s what I’ve long referred to as ‘deification of the asshole’, this worship of people who are assholes just to be assholes, because it’s seen as the ultimate expression of power.
Trump and Trumpism is a perfect example of this. The Republican base loves Trump in large part precisely because Trump is such an asshole.
Get ready for the media to finally get interested.
“Millions of Americans are facing a growing problem of so-called food deserts. With America’s rural population shrinking, grocery stores in many of those areas are closing”
re: #66 EPR-radar
Trump and Trumpism is a perfect example of this. The Republican base loves Trump in large part precisely because Trump is such an asshole.
A stupid bigoted narcissistic asshole who lives in his own inner world. I think Conservatives could relate to that, and wish they could be as bigoted as he is while keeping their jobs. Of course he didn’t keep his job either, but they have not accepted that.
re: #67 lizardofid
NYT Pitchbot: The last rural diner in America is closing because no one lives there anymore. Here’s why this is bad news for Democrats.
Reading a “Vault of Horror” collection that I found on Hoopla, I thought the whole issue with EC comics was that they were viewed as way too explicit for kids to read, and that they inspired the comics code. But at least through this first story, there’s nothing that I would consider too much for an 8 year old. I know some of those comics exist, because I’ve seen the “hypodermic in the eyeball” frame from whatever that is from, but this is awfully tame stuff. Even Creepy and Eerie, which were mid 60’s fare, are equal to this.
re: #70 steve_davis
Reading a “Vault of Horror” collection that I found on Hoopla, I thought the whole issue with EC comics was that they were viewed as way too explicit for kids to read, and that they inspired the comics code. But at least through this first story, there’s nothing that I would consider too much for an 8 year old. I know some of those comics exist, because I’ve seen the “hypodermic in the eyeball” frame from whatever that is from, but this is awfully tame stuff. Even Creepy and Eerie, which were mid 60’s fare, are equal to this.
IIRC the comics code came about as a result of a hysterical public overreaction to largely or completely imaginary problems with comics. In other words, a satanic panic of earlier decades.
The industry severely self-censored itself, which likely saved it from destruction by Congress.
re: #67 lizardofid
Get ready for the media to finally get interested.
“Millions of Americans are facing a growing problem of so-called food deserts. With America’s rural population shrinking, grocery stores in many of those areas are closing”
They’ve never gone to find out what happens in rural America. //
What is “cancel culture”? It’s rebranded “political correctness,” the idea that assholes are in some way diminished if they cannot be assholes without consequence. Most of the arguments you hear against the former are warmed over repeats of those that were raised against the latter.
re: #67 lizardofid
Get ready for the media to finally get interested.
“Millions of Americans are facing a growing problem of so-called food deserts. With America’s rural population shrinking, grocery stores in many of those areas are closing”
Speaking of someone with a lot of first cousins in rural ND, nothing will cause existential panic until the bars in many of those areas close (only half /s)
For those of you doing machine learning:
Researchers at the U.K.’s University of Oxford have cut the two-stage back-propagation process used to train artificial intelligence (AI) models to one stage, saving time, energy, and computing power. Back-propagation involves passing data from one side of the neural network to the other through every link in the chain of artificial neurons, then working backwards to the beginning to calculate the gradient. The new method calculates an approximation of the gradient during the first pass that is close enough to be effective. Numerous tests comparing their approach with back-propagation showed the AI’s performance was comparable, and that the new approach potentially could halve the amount of time needed to train AI models.
Dear @nytopinion: I served on active duty to defend the right of any person to say stupid, racist shit. That doesn’t mean I have to respect or coddle people who say stupid, racist shit. I have the right to shame and shun people who say stupid, racist shit. Get it New York Times? https://t.co/vPEyp9jmxD
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) March 18, 2022
re: #65 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Yep. Specifically virtual land that people pay for.
And Neal Stephenson covered all this in Snow Crash back in 1992. It was cool, and bright, and shiny back then. Now it’s just banal.
re: #71 EPR-radar
IIRC the comics code came about as a result of a hysterical public overreaction to largely or completely imaginary problems with comics. In other words, a satanic panic of earlier decades.
The industry severely self-censored itself, which likely saved it from destruction by Congress.
If you want to imagine comics if the hysteria had never happened, learn French. The Francophone bandes-dessinées industry is the greatest center of visual arts that Americans have never heard of.
re: #67 lizardofid
Get ready for the media to finally get interested.
“Millions of Americans are facing a growing problem of so-called food deserts. With America’s rural population shrinking, grocery stores in many of those areas are closing”
Based upon anecdotal evidence (my mother’s home town), the story is likely true in most rural areas: Big box store came in, built up huge “all-in-one” store that sells groceries alongside household items, killed the local businesses in a price war, and now enjoy the ability to gouge the fuck out of the locals who’ve little choice because the next nearest town might be an hour or more away.
re: #58 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
So someone remind me…why were we discussing Second Life the other day? I still have that up in a different tab on my phone and I can’t for the life of me remember why we were even discussing it to begin with (I didn’t even know it still existed, myself).
The “metaverse” is just Second Life with a VR headset.
Flying penis attacks will be even more fun.
re: #76 Charles Johnson
FFS, the fear of being shamed or shunned for expressing unacceptable opinions is exactly how the “marketplace of ideas” is supposed to function.
Republicans: “Hunter Benghazi’s emails are coming for your guns.”
— Middle Age Riot (@middleageriot) March 18, 2022
Out there, lurking in the undergrowth, tomorrow’s Wordle lies poised to strike.
Wordle 273 3/6
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re: #81 EPR-radar
That and there’s a reason their shit is shamed and shunned. It’s repulsive, based on their own made up shit, and happy, well adjusted humans don’t act like assholes and like they’re superior for fun. Maybe having to think a bit before you run your sexist, racist, mean yap isn’t a bad thing. It’s really a lot of whining over not being able to inflict pain on others. I would say they are like children, but little kids are not hateful until they are taught to be and traumatized in the process.
Meanwhile in Miami..
🎥 TT: lsaunders6 pic.twitter.com/v5h3GGJYpi— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden_) March 18, 2022
[ disgruntled noises about the spelling ]
Wordle 272 5/6
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re: #67 lizardofid
Get ready for the media to finally get interested.
“Millions of Americans are facing a growing problem of so-called food deserts. With America’s rural population shrinking, grocery stores in many of those areas are closing”
I live 10 miles from Camden, NJ which is one of the state’s biggest food deserts.
There been a decided lack of interest about it from CBS 3 Philly and any other CBS news crews for years.
re: #62 Belafon
Literally sticking up for the “little guy”. 👀
SB 1796 also eliminates adultery as a factor in determining alimony.
It hurts women. It hurts children. DeSadist is going to sign it without a doubt.
Johnson said DeSantis is well positioned to enact the legislation rejected twice by another governor. He said the proponents are hopeful the governor’s “parental rights” initiatives of 2022 — supporting anti-mask, anti-vaccine, anti-Critical Race Theory and anti-LGBTQ interests among parents — will help them prevail.
re: #67 lizardofid
Get ready for the media to finally get interested.
“Millions of Americans are facing a growing problem of so-called food deserts. With America’s rural population shrinking, grocery stores in many of those areas are closing”
Saw that in a discussion during a Twitch stream. Someone living in rural Indiana who basically could not find a decent loaf of bread. Just had the convenience store/grocery mass-produced air-dough stuff.
Me!!
Who else will 100% be getting a 4th COIVD vaccine when it’s available?
— Jack Cocchiarella (@JDCocchiarella) March 18, 2022
Friday Smile
My 8yo daughter met a girl at summer camp last year named “Internet.” I said no way, that can’t be her name but my daughter has been adamant. For almost a year we’ve been having this discussion.
ANTOINETTE. I just found out her name is Antoinette.— Brianne M. Kohl (@BrianneKohl) March 18, 2022
re: #71 EPR-radar
IIRC the comics code came about as a result of a hysterical public overreaction to largely or completely imaginary problems with comics. In other words, a satanic panic of earlier decades.
The industry severely self-censored itself, which likely saved it from destruction by Congress.
And opened themselves up to get eaten alive eventually by anime since they spent a few decades being very vanilla and essentially boring*. I want to say that they started breaking out of it in the 80s with some of the independent comics getting much more widespread notice and thus DC/Marvel starting to broaden themselves as well.
* - Applied to the whole cartoons/comics being for “children” and thus pretty heavily dumbed down by the 1970s. The old Warner Bros stuff on “Bugs Bunny - Roadrunner Hour” stood out since it had adult content and remarks worked in much like Bullwinkle did. I thought Star Blazers (the American translated Space Battleship Yamato) when I first saw it in the late 70s rather remarkable in terms of having character development and villains that had motivations and more than two dimensions.
re: #90 Patricia Kayden
Me!!
I get a flu shot every year; I’ll get a covid shot everytime its recommended and approved.
re: #92 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
And opened themselves up to get eaten alive eventually by anime since they spent a few decades being very vanilla and essentially boring*. I want to say that they started breaking out of it in the 80s with some of the independent comics getting much more widespread notice and thus DC/Marvel starting to broaden themselves as well.
* - Applied to the whole cartoons/comics being for “children” and thus pretty heavily dumbed down by the 1970s. The old Warner Bros stuff on “Bugs Bunny - Roadrunner Hour” stood out since it had adult content and remarks worked in much like Bullwinkle did. I thought Star Blazers (the American translated Space Battleship Yamato) when I first saw it in the late 70s rather remarkable in terms of having character development and villains that had motivations and more than two dimensions.
I still have my copy of The Dark Knight Returns. I read Watchmen back in the eighties too.
re: #90 Patricia Kayden
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On Friday morning, the so-called “People’s Convoy” seemed to reveal a new goal for the right-wing trucker movement: Reclaim the two-block-long Black Lives Matter Plaza in downtown Washington, D.C. https://t.co/MmqLw73Wcq
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) March 18, 2022
re: #79 Targetpractice
Based upon anecdotal evidence (my mother’s home town), the story is likely true in most rural areas: Big box store came in, built up huge “all-in-one” store that sells groceries alongside household items, killed the local businesses in a price war, and now enjoy the ability to gouge the fuck out of the locals who’ve little choice because the next nearest town might be an hour or more away.
Pretty much Walmart wiping out “Main Street America”. It’s been going on for the past few decades. And an article pops up about it every so often. Just people being ground under the wheels of capitalism. They should just lie back and enjoy it, shouldn’t they?
(much /// in the last sentence.)
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But they are personally threatened by the new possibility that they might face the same sort of repercussions for unpopular/racist/just-plain-awful speech that apply to LITERALLY EVERYONE ELSE ON THE PLANET.
The Republic cannot survive if its members have no special privileges.— dave karpf (@davekarpf) March 18, 2022
There are two truths that The Gray Lady is basically setting aflame to stage their little “Asshole Lives Matter!” hissy fit: 1) there are no absolute rights in the Constitution, every right has had limits placed upon it through legislation or judicial precedent and 2) even if “FREEZE PEACH!!!!” were an absolute right, the Constitution makes clear that it is a limitation on governments rather than the average guy on the street or private businesses.
Anybody who’s actually held a job in the last 20+ years has had to sit through an harassment/discrimination class where the instructors go into painful detail the sort of shit that is not allowed on a job site because it can get your ass sued. Nowhere in any of the classes I’ve attended since I started my first job was the argument made that if my coworker felt bad about other coworkers calling him a racist asshole for using racial epitaphs and making racist jokes, that the racial minorities he was disparaging had to grin and bear it because “FREEZE PEACH!!!”
From the sociology journal Duh.
New research linking Christian nationalism with a desire to limit voting. People citing their faith as the reason they support trucker convoys that shut down the border over covid protections. And the fact that Jesus’ name appeared all over the place during the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol insurrection.
Concern about rising radicalism among a segment of White American Christians led this week to what some religious extremism experts call the biggest Congress-related event on the topic in years.
The Thursday evening briefing, called “God is On Our Side: White Christian Nationalism and the Capitol Insurrection,” was hosted by the Congressional Freethought Caucus, a group that includes Democratic House members Jamie Raskin of Maryland, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, Zoe Lofgren of California and Steve Cohen of Tennessee.
The Freethought Caucus was launched in 2018 to “protect the secular character of our government” and has 16 members.
The virtual briefing, which was not open to the public and included more than 50 members, staff and experts, focused on a new, 66-page report about the role of Christian nationalism in the Capitol attack, and on its “implications for the future of Democracy,” an announcement for the event read. Its goal was to bring awareness to Americans about what the caucus sees as the threats of Christian nationalism, organizers told The Washington Post.
Researchers warn that Christian nationalists are becoming more radical and are targeting voting (WaPo via MSN)
A rare bit of good news from the Kentucky General Assembly, as apparently one bad bill is shelved.
Forgot to flag this earlier but at least according to @TinaForKentucky the charter school funding bill HB 9 is “likely” dead. ^AH https://t.co/wmigYM9pyt
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) March 18, 2022
re: #87 Mattand
I live 10 miles from Camden, NJ which is one of the state’s biggest food deserts.
There been a decided lack of interest about it from CBS 3 Philly and any other CBS news crews for years.
I can think of a few reasons why that has happened. And it’s not based on income or political leanings.
re: #89 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Saw that in a discussion during a Twitch stream. Someone living in rural Indiana who basically could not find a decent loaf of bread. Just had the convenience store/grocery mass-produced air-dough stuff.
No doubt. We sold everybody out for cheap white sox. I just hope when they’re discussing it, they consider the parts of every major city, that’s faced the same situation for a couple of generations now. Two hours on a bus from fresh produce.
re: #73 Targetpractice
What is “cancel culture”? It’s rebranded “political correctness,” the idea that assholes are in some way diminished if they cannot be assholes without consequence. Most of the arguments you hear against the former are warmed over repeats of those that were raised against the latter.
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re: #86 Charles Johnson
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re: #81 EPR-radar
FFS, the fear of being shamed or shunned for expressing unacceptable opinions is exactly how the “marketplace of ideas” is supposed to function.
no different than why people not buying your shitty product or crappy service
The lie.
Things are not going well in Ukraine for Henry Hoeft, the Boogaloo Boy profiled by @DispatchAlerts who promised to fight until “the job was finished.”
pic.twitter.com/4Ci9UKesTa— The Rooster (@rooster_ohio) March 15, 2022
The debunking, which may have been posted here before. He looks familiar.
“They said our base was hit, we’ll I’m still here…”
Take what you want from this information. Just passing along the message. pic.twitter.com/K2jFtZxQUe— Kassy Dillon (@KassyDillon) March 15, 2022
re: #94 No Malarkey!
I still have my copy of The Dark Knight Returns. I read Watchmen back in the eighties too.
I was never a massive comics fan. Older siblings were not into it, and I was over into reading history and SF by the time I was 9 or 10 since it was available in the house to read. (I was steered away from some books.) So comics never took hold.
Some additional exposure here and there, plus knowing a few people in college who were much more interested in it. Comic book store near Pitt was also an interesting place to browse. (I had a very early issue of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles* that I eventually just gave to one of my collector friends.) One of my fraternity brothers gave me the bound collected Watchmen to read in the early 90s. Was impressed by it in a number of ways.
* - TMNT as an indie comic was very very different from the popular “kowabunga dude!” version that appeared later on TV.
re: #96 Patricia Kayden
I expect their occupation will be very temporary since they don’t have the staying power. They will vandalize it and get their thirty seconds of media exposure on Fox. And it will be back the way it was with a day or two of their departure.
re: #109 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
I was never a massive comics fan. Older siblings were not into it, and I was over into reading history and SF by the time I was 9 or 10 since it was available in the house to read. (I was steered away from some books.) So comics never took hold.
Some additional exposure here and there, plus knowing a few people in college who were much more interested in it. Comic book store near Pitt was also an interesting place to browse. (I had a very early issue of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles* that I eventually just gave to one of my collector friends.) One of my fraternity brothers gave me the bound collected Watchmen to read in the early 90s. Was impressed by it in a number of ways.
* - TMNT as an indie comic was very very different from the popular “kowabunga dude!” version that appeared later on TV.
I had a pile of traditional comics when I was a kid in the seventies. My mom gave them away.
Update on the trial of the Michigan terrorists who were planning to abduct the governor and kill cops.
The informant, known as “Dan” or “Big Dan,” is a major witness for prosecutors in the trial of four men charged with a kidnapping conspiracy in federal court in Grand Rapids, Michigan. https://t.co/2dDNban6OY
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) March 18, 2022
The stock market finished on a high note, gaining 6% over the last week. finance.yahoo.com
re: #92 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
And opened themselves up to get eaten alive eventually by anime since they spent a few decades being very vanilla and essentially boring*. I want to say that they started breaking out of it in the 80s with some of the independent comics getting much more widespread notice and thus DC/Marvel starting to broaden themselves as well.
* - Applied to the whole cartoons/comics being for “children” and thus pretty heavily dumbed down by the 1970s. The old Warner Bros stuff on “Bugs Bunny - Roadrunner Hour” stood out since it had adult content and remarks worked in much like Bullwinkle did. I thought Star Blazers (the American translated Space Battleship Yamato) when I first saw it in the late 70s rather remarkable in terms of having character development and villains that had motivations and more than two dimensions.
The big thing that changed in the 70s-80s period was that independent comic companies started cropping up and big labels started publishing works that otherwise would have run afoul of the Comics Code as “graphic novels.” On the one hand, this allowed a lot of ground-breaking works to get notice and begin to move the industry past the restrictions of the Comics Code, but like all things the industry over-compensated into what we know nowadays as the “Dark Age” of comics. An age which has since become a mark of shame on the industry because too many mistook “dark and gritty” for “adult and mature.”
the corned beef i snagged yesterday has been slow cooking with carrots, onions and spices for 6 hours
now in go the potatoes and the cabbage for 2 more hours
then it all goes over to dangermom’s for dinner.
re: #94 No Malarkey!
I still have my copy of The Dark Knight Returns. I read Watchmen back in the eighties too.
“There are seven working defense from this position…”
re: #112 No Malarkey!
I guess Little Dan is the Dan pictured that’s going to prison.
re: #99 Targetpractice
There are two truths that The Gray Lady is basically setting aflame to stage their little “Asshole Lives Matter!” hissy fit: 1) there are no absolute rights in the Constitution, every right has had limits placed upon it through legislation or judicial precedent and 2) even if “FREEZE PEACH!!!!” were an absolute right, the Constitution makes clear that it is a limitation on governments rather than the average guy on the street or private businesses.
Anybody who’s actually held a job in the last 20+ years has had to sit through an harassment/discrimination class where the instructors go into painful detail the sort of shit that is not allowed on a job site because it can get your ass sued. Nowhere in any of the classes I’ve attended since I started my first job was the argument made that if my coworker felt bad about other coworkers calling him a racist asshole for using racial epitaphs and making racist jokes, that the racial minorities he was disparaging had to grin and bear it because “FREEZE PEACH!!!”
I am 99.99% sure the New York Fucking Times has the same harassment policy and training that the rest of us working for The Man have to learn and take. It might be interesting for someone to leak this and inform everyone what the NYT really thinks about unfettered free speech.
Which Trump Lawyer Is The Biggest Disgrace: A Bracket https://t.co/byj7vMQksD
— Richard Signorelli (@richsignorelli) March 18, 2022
re: #120 No Malarkey!
Enough horrible lawyers for an entire tournament.
re: #120 No Malarkey!
IMHO, its Rudy.
I’d concur. Someone who has had responsibility and shown professionalism in the past reduced to acting like a clueless hack. As compared the the minor leaguer hangers-on who probably have not had a serious clue from Day 1.
re: #122 jaunte
It’s chilly and rainy here again in Chicagoland after a couple of days in the high 60s/low 70s. Sunday is supposed to be 60 and sunny, so I hope to spend some time outside.
re: #124 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
I’d concur. Someone who has had responsibility and shown professionalism in the past reduced to acting like a clueless hack. As compared the the minor leaguer hangers-on who probably have not had a serious clue from Day 1.
And his antics going overseas to actually make foreign policy decisions solely to help Trump personally borders on treason.
re: #124 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
I’d concur. Someone who has had responsibility and shown professionalism in the past reduced to acting like a clueless hack. As compared the the minor leaguer hangers-on who probably have not had a serious clue from Day 1.
He may have cleaned out the Italian mob as a favor to the Russians, and I think his “professionalism” may be more about being in the right time and place on 9/11.
He used to present himself a lot better than he does now that he’s entirely debased and possibly senile, but I don’t think he was ever a professional, but rather an opportunist, and his opportunities haven’t been so good lately.
The youth of today! Visiting the Temple of Confucius in Qufu, China, this lout just slouched around with his shirt hanging out. Not like in the good old days. Oh, hang on, this was taken 110 years ago. They *were* the old days! (an original colour photo from 1913, not colourised) pic.twitter.com/UtWJIfieXk
— BabelColour (@StuartHumphryes) March 18, 2022
Ladies night out got a little crazy.🐔👯♀️💤🌊😏😅 pic.twitter.com/bjg25WUyh7
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) March 18, 2022
re: #103 lizardofid
No doubt. We sold everybody out for cheap white sox. I just hope when they’re discussing it, they consider the parts of every major city, that’s faced the same situation for a couple of generations now. Two hours on a bus from fresh produce.
I’ve been hearing about Food deserts exclusively in an urban context for at least a decade, and heard conservatives claiming they don’t exist it for nearly that long. Have they just not been talking about that in the Mainstream Media?
re: #121 jaunte
Enough horrible lawyers for an entire tournament.
The Cheat sixteen?
The Elite Hate?
The Anginal Four?
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re: #128 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
He’s too young to have pants that high in the present, and his footwear may be another clue that it’s so old. Stuart’s cleaned photos are amazing.
Is World War Z popular in Russia?
80 000 ppl attended Z-rally in Moscow. Midwits compared its size with smaller anti-war protests and concluded it’s a proof of mass Z-enthusiasm. Midwits are unable to comprehend two factors that rule this world: leverage and incentives 🧵 pic.twitter.com/0Jdwzsf38P— Kamil Galeev (@kamilkazani) March 18, 2022
Galeev’s latest on Russian pro-war rallies. He thinks that the government doesn’t want enthusiastic people at the big rallies, because they might get enthusiastic in dangerous ways, so having unwilling people forced to be there is better for them. Plus, if you are looking at polls and vox pops, there is utterly no reason for anyone to report that they oppose the government whether they do or not.
re: #133 ericblair
Where does “Midwit” go on this scale? I may have Halfwit and Dimwit reversed.
Lackwit
Halfwit
Dimwit
Wit
An attorney for a Minneapolis apartment building has filed to evict a tenant for displaying Nazi symbols. https://t.co/QtC7sB4jaI
— FOX 9 (@FOX9) March 18, 2022
In practice, only one kind of person in the US has ever expected — would ever *dream* — that they could say whatever the fuck they want in public without fear of social consequences. That kind of person is feeling slightly constrained now. Thus the current moral panic.
— David Roberts (@drvolts) March 18, 2022
re: #136 ericblair
Sure, because less privileged people have to tiptoe around that sort of person all their lives, so they don’t get set off and cause trouble for everyone.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) March 18, 2022
re: #130 aatharuv
I’ve been hearing about Food deserts exclusively in an urban context for at least a decade, and heard conservatives claiming they don’t exist it for nearly that long. Have they just not been talking about that in the Mainstream Media?
When somebody on the city council suggests a tax waiver, you’ll see the issue addressed on the local news. Then it’ll drop out of site again for a few years. Oh, it get’s a mention as part of the occasional piece on urban farming.
re: #130 aatharuv
I’ve been hearing about Food deserts exclusively in an urban context for at least a decade, and heard conservatives claiming they don’t exist it for nearly that long. Have they just not been talking about that in the Mainstream Media?
that’s because it was something Michelle Obama cared about. Ergo…
Alexander Dumble died a little while back. By all accounts he was a magician with tube amps. There are a few close to his league, but none ever approached his notoriety.
He would build and tune amps to his star he built it for. Said one time that no amp he ever built has another that sounds the same. John Mayer, Joe Bonamassa to name 2 have one or more.
So I just wanted to post this for the sheer insanity of it.
Last Overdrive Special I saw at a guitar show was $75,000.
I was a bit short.
So marvel at something that approaches insane.
re: #119 jaunte
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Which Trump Lawyer Is The Biggest Disgrace: A Bracket https://t.co/byj7vMQksD
— Richard Signorelli (@richsignorelli) March 18, 2022
all of them, katie.
fin.
re: #130 aatharuv
I’ve been hearing about Food deserts exclusively in an urban context for at least a decade, and heard conservatives claiming they don’t exist it for nearly that long. Have they just not been talking about that in the Mainstream Media?
Yeah, well that’s it: that “urban” context - as in You-Know-Who-All-Those-“Urban”-People-Are - that *ahem* “inner-city” residents might find it hard/inconvenient/expensive to find decent food is considered by all too many folks to be “just one of those things”, and not an issue worth getting concerned over.
Now when Real Heartland Americans (the kind who go down to the local diners to meet NYT reporters) have trouble finding groceries- now THAT’S a problem…..
re: #91 Ming5000
Friday Smile
I saw this right below that tweet. Not related but it cracked me up.
I’ll never forgive my mother for sending us to school with her wigs on our head pic.twitter.com/wsRCg2T1AB
— TJ (@tnizzlewidaclip) March 17, 2022
re: #140 nines09
Alexander Dumble died a little while back. By all accounts he was a magician with tube amps. There are a few close to his league, but none ever approached his notoriety.
He would build and tune amps to his star he built it for. Said one time that no amp he ever built has another that sounds the same. John Mayer, Joe Bonamassa to name 2 have one or more.
So I just wanted to post this for the sheer insanity of it.
Last Overdrive Special I saw at a guitar show was $75,000.
I was a bit short.
So marvel at something that approaches insane.
I took advantage of the Lovepedal sale you posted to get a Zendrive Gold II. It’s got a bit of the Dumble thing going on. Works better with my P90s then the Tele pickups, but I saved about $499,850.
Superman violating my constitutional rights to be free from shaming pic.twitter.com/1jXDO1H7vN
— Andrew Fleischman (@ASFleischman) March 18, 2022
re: #145 Barefoot Grin
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well fu-🌫 pic.twitter.com/U3jhAAtR0G
— NIGHTMARE ON FILM STREET (@NOFSpodcast) March 18, 2022
re: #134 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Where does “Midwit” go on this scale? I may have Halfwit and Dimwit reversed.
Lackwit
Halfwit
Dimwit
Wit
Put Fuckwit at the top and we’ll talk.
re: #148 nines09
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re: #119 jaunte
That article brought tears to my eyes. Literally. I was laughing so hard I cried.
Deranged Moscow puppet upset over being called out as a Moscow puppet.
You spread Kremlin propaganda online, voted against suspending trade with Russia, and happily attended and spoke at a white nationalist conference headed by Neo-Nazis who collectively chanted “Hail Putin”.
Kindly can it, Rep. (R-PutinsHand) Greene.— Arch (Space Laser Vaccination Supervisor) (@Arch_LGF) March 18, 2022
re: #131 Eclectic Cyborg
The Cheat sixteen?
The Elite Hate?
The Anginal Four?/
The Four Seasonings.
re: #39 Eclectic Cyborg
Gee, and all my life I’ve been trying to NOT be known as an asshole.
/
Same. Although with a remarkable lack of success.
Mostly because I follow Harry Truman. “I never gave anybody hell. I just told them the truth and they thought it was hell.”
— caring 💙🇺🇸🌈✌🏻 (@caringguy1957) March 18, 2022
Ohio Republicans are discussing whether to impeach Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor after the Ohio Supreme Court rejected a third set of legislative maps, the Columbus Dispatch reports.“O’Connor, a Republican, is seen as an independent voice on the court and sided with Democrat justices to throw out multiple sets of maps, arguing they did not comply with constitutional rules for redistricting. That’s increasingly made her a target of fellow party members who contend she’s shirking her responsibilities.”
translation: she’s not doing what we want
re: #147 jaunte
Perhaps the opinions of a white millionaire might be more to your liking? pic.twitter.com/gdsWnc2CPQ
— Mike Astra (@CaptainAstra) March 18, 2022
re: #71 EPR-radar
I found out earlier today there was a ‘moral panic’ over crosswords.
re: #154 (((Archangel1)))
Deranged Moscow puppet upset over being called out as a Moscow puppet.
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“she only questioned the teachings of the Party when they in some way touched upon her own life. Often she was ready to accept the official mythology, simply because the difference between truth and falsehood did not seem important to her.”
― George Orwell, 1984
re: #97 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Pretty much Walmart wiping out “Main Street America”. It’s been going on for the past few decades. And an article pops up about it every so often. Just people being ground under the wheels of capitalism. They should just lie back and enjoy it, shouldn’t they?
(much /// in the last sentence.)
Close your eyes and think of Ayn Rand.
re: #94 No Malarkey!
Watchmen was the last time I went to the nearest comics store the 3rd Friday of every month.
Can you find the guy with the “Blacks 4 Putin” T-shirt? https://t.co/OYXUBaZbJm
— Edwin (@EdMix13) March 18, 2022
She’d lost her job as a science reporter because she talked about vaccines causing autism, so I think I know how she died, and it wasn’t from a tornado.
Beloved Boston meteorologist Mish Michaels has died at the age of 53, CBS Boston announced Wednesday.
Michaels was a part of the weather team for the last seven years and “chased tornadoes, flew into hurricanes, and brightened our lives - always sharing her enthusiasm for science and weather.”
Her cause of death was not disclosed and she leaves behind a husband, daughter, aunt and a host of friends.
She ‘chased tornadoes’: Boston meteorologist Mish Michaels dies at 53 (USA Today)
I have a little script that uses zip to archive some files, and yesterday I ran it in Mac OS Terminal. Everything seemed OK, but I suddenly got a “low disk space” warning I’ve never seen before, and my startup disk was missing about 300G and still dropping!
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 18, 2022
I quickly used Activity Monitor to shut down the rogue zip process, and it stopped losing space. Whew. But now that space is still missing and I can’t find any temp, log, or cache files that size. Disk Utility’s 1st Aid says the disk is fine.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 18, 2022
But somewhere there’s about 300 gigabytes of who knows what. I also ran the Super Duper backup program and it didn’t complain - did the backup as usual and it’s NOT missing that extra space. Anyone have any suggestions for where I might look?
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 18, 2022
re: #167 Charles Johnson
You can visual drivespace with this cheap program.
apps.apple.com
I use Treesize Free on PC, and this was listed as a Mac alternative to that tool.
I think the NYT and the pundit industry despise cancel culture because they’ve created an industry in which being shallow and counter-intuitive while not rustling the jimmies of the status quo has been lifted up as true erudition.
The pundit-sphere works in a consistent pattern of base assumptions and core assertions that are highly predictable and basically neoliberal (individualism, globalism, privatization…Thatcher stuff)
(1.0) …Great Men, personal responsibility, entrepreneurship, virtue, innovation and disruption, Teddy Roosevelt…there’s this tight grouping of terms and phrases that hinge off of Thatcher’s “there is no society”; punditry heavy overlaps with self-help in how it addresses it’s audience in a didactic fashion, modeling self-empowerment. Success is secular, but occult in the sense that the successful must be deferred to if they are to perform their miracles or instruct others: the prosperous are sadhus and yogis and rishis—and the pundits are pundits—and everyone else is supposed to shut up and receive wisdom. You are not supposed to ask why things work, only how you can better yourself relative to how things work. Pundits make heroes of individuals that force this structure onto other people through power—“free markets,” privatization, tax cuts, disruption, gig economies—because that’s the proper function of social structures, to elevate deserving individuals.
(1.1)…the pundit sphere despises or shows contempt for collective action, to an almost Randian degree. Mass movements are child-like and incoherent but also honed to the lethality of a Soviet purge. Indeed, the scent of gulags is ever around the pundit’s opinion of protests and public outcry. Questioning the good kinds of people is always a prelude to injustice and mob rule. They’re very afraid of mob rule…unless the mob agrees with them. Nationalism, as long as that nationalism is assembled around an aspirational figure, is a kind of mob that pundits can get behind.
(2.0)…the former elements are applied to the moral and correct functioning of government. Good government is heroic—central figures making the hard decisions—and bad government seeks collective uplift in way that can only lead to tyranny and gulags because most people do not deserve power. The true function of government is reification: identifying the deserving from the undeserving. In this view, tyrants are failures because they reify inefficiently. When they kill and pillage they use human capital poorly: the solution to the wounds of tyranny is more agile accountancy.
(2.1)…this vision of how the world should operate leads to an understanding of “freedom” where good hegemons the pundits like are just free to do whatever they want on the global stage, because real progress is not everyone doing better, but identifying the good kinds of people, the true individual achievers, and giving them disproportionate decision-making power. Globalization…the world is flat, as one unserious ghoul put it…is using the power of accumulated capital to identify and uplift the deserving, whose efforts will trickle down to the undeserving.
(2.2)…this all means the punditry is incapable of addressing of systemic problems, but also averse to the notion of systemic problems, but also specifically hostile to systemic problems arising from the action of capitalism on a global scale. Protests lead to gulags is an heuristic that exists in their worldview because it is morally suspect to question the flow of capital—after all, money flows to virtuous individuals. Problems created by the flow of capital are either the result of prodigies—Very Bad People mysteriously able to grasp power within a system where power finds the virtuous individual—or will eventually be resolved by a heroic act of capital diversion.
(2.3)…dangerous mobs versus virtuous individuals as the core conflict of society meas that pundits are generally okay with abuse of power as long as it can be assigned as necessary to the maintenance of the status quo and the right king of people having hegemony. Cops are thus mostly good barring bad apples, military interventions are downright joyous things because death of regular folks (that are probably part of the mob) means “freedom” for the right kind of people to prosper.
(3.0)…it’s important to note that pundits as neoliberals rely on the same tropes and narratives as neoliberal politicians, to the point that at any given moment they are less making arguments grounded in the material than in creating more lore for an expanded universe started by Thatcher and Reagan. All of the above elements are what they believe, but those beliefs are closer to just-so stories than to a philosophical construct. Meritocracy exists, it is known. And this is present in their language: the constant use of metonym as a source of validity, the assignment of good and bad actors to pulp-level character tropes because archetypality is also a source of validity, the shallow and cynical correlation of past and present events on the basis of superficial traits. These people are compensated to make superficial notions seem profound, but they enjoy their work too.
(3.1)…because of all the above pundits are blind to their own vices but also voluntarily rubes when viewing the far greater vices of the powerful. Mimic their cultural habits and they’ll praise you to the skies because they have no deeper criterion for quality of character: merit is a credit check. Once someone is deemed deserving-their vices and faults are overlooked. There is an entire subset of pundit moralizing that is simply declaring one’s own self-indulgence but declaring it a sign of a more profound and elusive virtue. If and when one of the elect is inexcusably awful, it is never a reflection on the criterion pundits use or the value system they advocate.
I realize I’m belaboring a point, but the high-compensated pundits have only ever existed as apologists for power and that explains their hammering on one form of “canceling”…little people punching up…while indifferent to the more harmful process of powerful people harnessing their social media to brigade people with no power. The current hierarchy has to be both moral and effective because the people that pay the pundits, and praise the pundits, and that the pundits live within the culture of, should not be challenged. The alternative—skepticism, participatory democracy—can only produce chaos and death.
This kind of discourse bends right, because conservatism and reaction preserve the status quo. A David Brooks “everything is fine, the people pointing out injustices are unserious and child-like” will always find the speech of reactionary to be acceptable, within norms, because it’s core premises reinforce their core premises. By contrast speech from any part of the left includes critique of existing use of power and wielders of power…the very people that the pundits depend on for clout and cash flow, and often the social stratum in which the pundits circulate socially. Critique…or just throwing shade…feels like an attack against the normalcy that pundits have convinced themselves is The Best The World Could Possibly Be.
It’s motivated reasoning all the way down.
The Kingdom of Conscience will be exactly as it is now. Moralists don’t really *have* beliefs. Sometimes they stumble on one, like on a child’s toy left on the carpet. The toy must be put away immediately. And the child reprimanded. Centrism isn’t change — not even incremental change. It is *control*. Over yourself and the world. Exercise it. Look up at the sky, at the dark shapes of Coalition airships hanging there. Ask yourself: is there something sinister in moralism? And then answer: no. God is in his heaven. Everything is normal on Earth.
Any advice on how to clean a discolored enamel cast iron dutch oven? #cooking #food pic.twitter.com/JHFXKjhiuN
— Liddle Lemon Pie 🇺🇦🌻🌈🥧 (@Pie_Overlord) March 18, 2022
🇺🇦 forces have killed the commander of the 🇷🇺8th Guards Combined Arms Army, Lt Gen Andrey Mordvichev, in an attack at Kherson airport. Highest ranking 🇷🇺 KIA in the war. 8th army commands the Russian forces in Donbass since 2017.
— Eerik-Niiles Kross (@EerikNKross) March 18, 2022
I have been a Browns fan since 1972.
That ends with this trade.
$230 million in GUARANTEED money for this guy?
NO.
EFFING.
WAY.
re: #166 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Enthusiasm for science but believed bullshit conspiracy theories about vaccines.
Okay, then.
/
re: #166 Punish Domestic Terrorists
She may have walked in front of a train, since her death was clearly not a hoax.
Mish Michaels Weather Channel Death Hoax, Natick Train Accident Update (Showbiz Corner)
re: #170 The Pie Overlord!
Cooks Illustrated to the rescue:
cooksillustrated.com
1 part bleach to 3 parts water. They recommend letting soak overnight.
re: #170 The Pie Overlord!
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re: #170 The Pie Overlord!
Elbow grease! Actually, I can sell you some elbow grease. I have a lot stored in the cellar of failed projects.
While half of #Browns fans are delirious over the Deshaun Watson news, there is an equal amount disgusted by the news. EVP/GM Andrew Berry & ownership will need to answer some candid, uncomfortable questions about why they are comfortable setting the accusations aside.
— Daryl Ruiter (@RuiterWrongFAN) March 18, 2022
re: #172 The GOP is a terrorist organization
I have been a Browns fan since 1972.
That ends with this trade.
I guess we can expect the Texans playing in the Super Bowl in a few years. Echoes of the Herschel Walker trade between Minnesota and Dallas .
Fake news. They were called by God.
1 in every 250 Mississippi residents died from Covid-19
— Dan Goldberg (@DanCGoldberg) March 11, 2022
Someone is way too into Friends, and did not take advice from their realtor.
zillow.com
This “Libs of Tik Tok” account is as aggressive in promoting LGBT hatred as any I’ve ever seen.
No 6 year old child knows if they are trans. Kids make stuff up and say weird things. This is a groomer parent. pic.twitter.com/VHKKfIOudU
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) March 18, 2022
re: #172 The GOP is a terrorist organization
I have been a Browns fan since 1972.
That ends with this trade.
$230 million in GUARANTEED money for this guy?
NO.
EFFING.
WAY.
don’t be so quick. clemson fan here. okay, he has a hard time keeping his wiener in his pants, but he’s probably one of the three or four best qbs in the league when he’s playing. he’ll win games for the browns that they would otherwise have no hope of winning.
re: #172 The GOP is a terrorist organization
I have been a Browns fan since 1972.
That ends with this trade.
$230 million in GUARANTEED money for this guy?
NO.
EFFING.
WAY.
And they’re apparently trading Mayfield away. Sad & stupid.
Dear Baker Mayfield,
Thank you for wanting Cleveland when no one else did.
Thank you for pulling Cleveland out of an abyss of losing.
Thank you for the best Browns season many have ever had.
Most importantly….. Thank YOU. pic.twitter.com/WysXI69dvW— Nick Karns (@karnsies817) March 18, 2022
With many uncertainties, here is where my head and heart is. pic.twitter.com/psipN96cmh
— Baker Mayfield (@bakermayfield) March 16, 2022
re: #185 William Lewis
And they’re apparently trading Mayfield away. Sad & stupid.
I love Baker, but maybe he wasn’t the answer. It happens.
But the way they’ve treated the guy who made this team relevant and for whom he played his heart out is just fucking shitty.
I’m upstairs posting because I’m cooking dinner.
As sometimes happens, the wife comes home and commandeers the kitchen. I know that I’m not doing well or moving fast enough—-in making burritos (sheesh). But I’m used to it having been a cook in a couple of restaurants. When we got slammed the kitchen manager took over for a bit to get everything back in order. We’re not getting slammed. It was all in order.
re: #183 The GOP is a terrorist organization
This “Libs of Tik Tok” account is as aggressive in promoting LGBT hatred as any I’ve ever seen.
Report them to twitter. I would but I got the boot.
Still don’t think many appreciate the number of accusers for Deshaun Watson. 22 civil cases, 10 criminal complaints https://t.co/Fare9u5YnS pic.twitter.com/FktBifpv0Y
— Kevin Cole (@KevinColePFF) March 11, 2022
re: #174 Punish Domestic Terrorists
She may have walked in front of a train, since her death was clearly not a hoax.
Mish Michaels Weather Channel Death Hoax, Natick Train Accident Update (Showbiz Corner)
Don’t know who it was, but can verify the train accident, as my sister and brother-in-law were on the train behind the one involved in it and their train sat in Natick for nearly an hour before it could proceed.
re: #192 William Lewis
Report them to twitter. I would but I got the boot.
I have. Any lizards on Twitter should consider doing it too.
re: #151 Barefoot Grin
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re: #170 The Pie Overlord!
Is it discoloration or actual residue?
I use a very dilute bleach solution and a moderately stiff bristle brush.
re: #65 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Yep. Specifically virtual land that people pay for.
Especially since in such a world, there’s no real scarcity unless it’s artificially created, and that can be arbitrarily removed as well at any time. If you are paying for something that there’s an infinite supply of, or potentially will be in the near future, you are an idiot who doesn’t understand the fundamental principle of economics.
re: #170 The Pie Overlord!
And just to add my contribution to the home-handy-hints: if there is attached crud on the pan, simmering a heavy concentration of salt in it for while can also help.
But if it’s just discolored, that may not work as well.
re: #183 The GOP is a terrorist organization
This “Libs of Tik Tok” account is as aggressive in promoting LGBT hatred as any I’ve ever seen.
Reported and blocked. Thanks.
re: #201 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Reported and blocked. Thanks.
My RetweetsLunatics account got banned just for retweeting lunatics without comment, so I think there’s a fair chance this one will be when reports roll in.
re: #170 The Pie Overlord!
The Google says boiling water and baking soda followed by a good scrubbing.
re: #199 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion
Especially since in such a world, there’s no real scarcity unless it’s artificially created, and that can be arbitrarily removed as well at any time. If you are paying for something that there’s an infinite supply of, or potentially will be in the near future, you are an idiot who doesn’t understand the fundamental principle of economics.
I took a “tour” (logged on and looked at the interface and the “rules”) of one of those land-grab “games” and what I saw was, you give the creator of the “game” real money by buying some blockchain coin (don’t recall which one), and they give you fake money to buy virtual land which will magically become more valuable because some other cool will buy it later in time for more money.
Maybe I’m just too stupid to see how or why this would be anything other than a scam. Let’s pretend in 10 years I can use my VR gogs to walk around the spiffy place I built on that land, I still don’t get it. Still not smart enough.
re: #203 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
The Google says boiling water and baking soda followed by a good scrubbing.
But be careful with that scrubbing: scratched enamel will only get worse.
(I only use plastic)
re: #205 Jay C
But be careful with that scrubbing: scratched enamel will only get worse.
(I only use plastic)
Trooth, hence my point about moderately stiff bristle.
re: #175 PhillyPretzel
Cooks Illustrated to the rescue:
cooksillustrated.com1 part bleach to 3 parts water. They recommend letting soak overnight.
I haven’t used my dutch oven in a while (it’s freaking HEAVY!) but I took it out to cook the brisket yesterday. It makes perfect brisket but the stains OMG.
re: #165 gocart mozart
There’s one shot of the stage he was on at the end there and no sign of him.
Oh I say something
But I’m a bitch https://t.co/erLF0psRVm— WeThePeople🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@PrincessBravato) March 18, 2022
According to @NYTimesOpinion, we’re not supposed to shun or shame idiots like this. Shun and Shame Away!!
— Kaydenpat (@kaydenpat) March 18, 2022
re: #204 Colère Tueur de Lapin
I took a “tour” (logged on and looked at the interface and the “rules”) of one of those land-grab “games” and what I saw was, you give the creator of the “game” real money by buying some blockchain coin (don’t recall which one), and they give you fake money to buy virtual land which will magically become more valuable because some other cool will buy it later in time for more money.
Maybe I’m just too stupid to see how or why this would be anything other than a scam. Let’s pretend in 10 years I can use my VR gogs to walk around the spiffy place I built on that land, I still don’t get it. Still not smart enough.
No one has really solved the “walking” problem in VR. Having a treadmill won’t do. Literally walking will run you into a wall eventually. Just using thumb sticks on the hand controllers is… not the experience advertised.
This is why I only do VR simulator games, where I’m sitting in a cockpit or behind the wheel of a car. I don’t have to worry about the walking problem.
the actual policy being advocated here is the suppression of the speech of their critics https://t.co/WEri08JFMk
— Law Boy, Esq. (@The_Law_Boy) March 18, 2022
re: #209 Patricia Kayden
There’s a house I have to drive by when I’m going out of town to the north from here on the way to the freeway that is covered with Clownstick signs and flags. All over the fence, Hanging in trees. On the roof. I don’t really get that. Imagine being that all in on someone. I wouldn’t do that for my S.O. I wouldn’t do that for a politician, even one that I agreed with 100%. I wouldn’t do that for a sports team, or a super hero. If I was a Christian I wouldn’t even do that for Jesus.
A lot of these people need help.
re: #197 nines09
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Twitter is recommending a product called “Bar Keeper’s Friend” which I have been hesitant to use because it doesn’t have a kosher certification. The BKF website insists that they USED TO HAVE a certification but it expired and they didn’t renew it & their product hasn’t changed and I’m like hmmmm. I do have “Bon Ami” which is a similar product but no joy as far as removing the stains.
It is a Crock Pot brand which cost $45 in 2012. Maybe I will just toss it and buy a Le Creuset which I have had my eyes on for years.
re: #216 The Pie Overlord!
Twitter is recommending a product called “Bar Keeper’s Friend” which I have been hesitant to use because it doesn’t have a kosher certification. The BKF website insists that they USED TO HAVE a certification but it expired and they didn’t renew it & their product hasn’t changed and I’m like hmmmm. I do have “Bon Ami” which is a similar product but no joy as far as removing the stains.
It is a Crock Pot brand which cost $45 in 2012. Maybe I will just toss it and buy a Le Creuset which I have had my eyes on for years.
Did I mention that this dutch oven is HEAVY AS SHIT?
re: #209 Patricia Kayden
It’s useless to talk to her. Talk to the manager about how his store welcomes children.
re: #216 The Pie Overlord!
Just remember that a Le Creuset is really quite heavy too. I let my ex keep them and kept the regular cast iron instead.
re: #210 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion
No one has really solved the “walking” problem in VR. Having a treadmill won’t do. Literally walking will run you into a wall eventually. Just using thumb sticks on the hand controllers is… not the experience advertised.
This is why I only do VR simulator games, where I’m sitting in a cockpit or behind the wheel of a car. I don’t have to worry about the walking problem.
The last time I used VR goggles was with my drone. I had one hell of a vertigo attack and fell out of my chair from the disorientation. Never used them again.
15 tweets long:
1/We are now seeing the term “Fifth Column” replace terms like “Russian asset” and “Russian agent.” This reflects a more correct understanding of the situation.
Many people correctly identified Kremlin-aligned messaging coming from US persons as anomalous and treasonous, but…— Dave Troy 🌻 (@davetroy) March 18, 2022
The money quote:
Many people correctly identified Kremlin-aligned messaging coming from US persons as anomalous and treasonous, but made the incorrect assumption that those people are all “getting paid” by the Kremlin or its proxies. With a few notable exceptions, this is not typically the case.
In fact, there exists a global network of aligned factions that share the same goals. This is the remnant of the White Russian (tsarist) network combined with 20th century anti-communist groups; also traditionalist wings of the Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant churches; and hard-money (gold/crypto) extremists.
This global “Fifth Column” is broadly aligned with Putin’s interests.
I’ve noticed that the historic “China Lobby” also seems to be aligned with this Fifth Column if not actually part of it. This includes paleocons, Birchers, evangelicals, and other established conservative entities. Note that it was the China Lobby, in the person of Anna Chennault, who sabotaged Vietnam peace talks on behalf of the Nixon campaign in 1968.
re: #216 The Pie Overlord!
Bar Keeper’s Friend really does work well for tough cleaning jobs. I keep some around.
re: #220 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
The last time I used VR goggles was with my drone. I had one hell of a vertigo attack and fell out of my chair from the disorientation. Never used them again.
I have a bottle of generic Dramamine pills sitting on my desk. I don’t do VR on a regular basis but when I do I try to take one of those 10-15 minutes before I start.
That said, before I got the pills, I only got motion sickness once in awhile and it usually was in Elite Dangerous doing combat inside of gas giant rings.
re: #225 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion
I have a bottle of generic Dramamine pills sitting on my desk. I don’t do VR on a regular basis but when I do I try to take one of those 10-15 minutes before I start.
That said, before I got the pills, I only got motion sickness once in awhile and it usually was in Elite Dangerous doing combat inside of gas giant rings.
I’m a natural. The only time I got VR sickness was when I turned the frame rate down to 62fps so I could max out game settings and supersample. 72hz or above, and I can handle anything.
Smash Park expects construction of two locations in the Twin Cities to start this year. https://t.co/VS5PMoTYJD
— DM Register Business (@DMRbiz) March 16, 2022
Apparently there’s a chance this may go up within easy walking distance from my house. Looking forward to the Nextdoor posts complaining about it attracting the wrong kind of people just like they did when a 120 unit apartment building was proposed for the same space that would have had 8 units with subsidized rent.
re: #216 The Pie Overlord!
I use bartenders friends on aluminum /stainless steel — which it is made for — never tried it on enamel. The active ingredient is oxalic acid.
re: #213 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion
There’s a house I have to drive by when I’m going out of town to the north from here on the way to the freeway that is covered with Clownstick signs and flags. All over the fence, Hanging in trees. On the roof. I don’t really get that. Imagine being that all in on someone. I wouldn’t do that for my S.O. I wouldn’t do that for a politician, even one that I agreed with 100%. I wouldn’t do that for a sports team, or a super hero. If I was a Christian I wouldn’t even do that for Jesus.
A lot of these people need help.
There’s nothing like advertising that you’re a colossal asshole. For me it’s PPC signs. If that’s your political party, you’re a colossal asshole. Full stop.
re: #213 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion
There’s a house I have to drive by when I’m going out of town to the north from here on the way to the freeway that is covered with Clownstick signs and flags. All over the fence, Hanging in trees. On the roof. I don’t really get that. Imagine being that all in on someone. I wouldn’t do that for my S.O. I wouldn’t do that for a politician, even one that I agreed with 100%. I wouldn’t do that for a sports team, or a super hero. If I was a Christian I wouldn’t even do that for Jesus.
A lot of these people need help.
I had pictures of Davy Jones all over my bedroom walls. But then, I was 12.
Several folks have asked me when Russia is going to deploy their “good troops,” so I feel like I need to offer a brief explainer.
I know it’s hard to believe, but these *are* their good troops.
After three weeks, we’re still seeing the narrative that they’re holding back. 1/3— Angry Staffer (@Angry_Staffer) March 18, 2022
Remember, the US had the unfortunate experience of over two decades at war to learn from our mistakes and refine tactics for the modern battlefield.
Russia is learning in blood that integrating air, sea, and ground forces in a single assault isn’t as easy as we make it look. 3/3— Angry Staffer (@Angry_Staffer) March 18, 2022
re: #230 Colère Tueur de Lapin
That acidic ingredient is the reason why I do not use it. All those warnings on the label is what scared me into not using it. And for polishing metals I use Simichrome.
re: #213 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion
There’s a house I have to drive by when I’m going out of town to the north from here on the way to the freeway that is covered with Clownstick signs and flags. All over the fence, Hanging in trees. On the roof. I don’t really get that. Imagine being that all in on someone. I wouldn’t do that for my S.O. I wouldn’t do that for a politician, even one that I agreed with 100%. I wouldn’t do that for a sports team, or a super hero. If I was a Christian I wouldn’t even do that for Jesus.
A lot of these people need help.
I see it as assholes clearly self-identifying as such. Much like stripes on a skunk.
And for the houses completely decked out with the stuff it is the same with I expect a degree of the person *wanting* to trigger a confrontation since that gives them thrills as well. (Might well have a neighbor they are trying to piss off in particular.)
re: #216 The Pie Overlord!
Twitter is recommending a product called “Bar Keeper’s Friend” which I have been hesitant to use because it doesn’t have a kosher certification. The BKF website insists that they USED TO HAVE a certification but it expired and they didn’t renew it & their product hasn’t changed and I’m like hmmmm. I do have “Bon Ami” which is a similar product but no joy as far as removing the stains.
It is a Crock Pot brand which cost $45 in 2012. Maybe I will just toss it and buy a Le Creuset which I have had my eyes on for years.
Hubby swears by that stuff.
From a post at balloon-juice.com:
The last programming that viewers of RT America saw, on the morning of March 1, was a half hour of BoomBu$t—the Russian-funded network’s business show. That day, cohost Rachel Blevins, a 27-year-old from Mineral Wells, an hour west of Fort Worth, had led with a roundup of economic fallout from Western sanctions against Russia over, as she put it, “its ongoing military operation in Ukraine,” using Vladimir Putin’s euphemism for his war.
Though that day’s coverage of the conflict on BoomBu$t was mellow compared to the previous RT America show, which had featured one guest averring that “not all Ukrainians are Nazis” and another complaining that Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky was being hailed as a “hero.” Blevins focused on the negative impacts from the sanctions: higher oil prices, a potential 2008-style global financial crisis, recession fears, and even tensions over the International Space Station. Next: a plug for The World According to Jesse—hosted by Jesse Ventura, the wrestler, conspiracy theorist, and former Minnesota governor—followed by a cheeky house ad that said, “RT is not alt-left or alt-right, but we are a solid alternative to the bullshit.” Then, abruptly, the screen went dark and a message appeared: “This channel is no longer available. DirecTV.”…
Blevins, along with most of the staff, was out of a job. She hadn’t been the most prominent host at RT America, but she was one of its most loyal. She started working at RT America in 2018, just over a year after graduating from Texas Tech University with a degree in journalism. Her last BoomBu$t show was her 196th. In the early days of Russia’s invasion, Blevins’s coverage had been highly diversionary; while the Russian military pressed into Ukraine on February 25, the second day of what RT called a “special operation,” Blevins led the program with a story about a Russian investigation into “genocide” in the breakaway Donbas region of Ukraine that had purportedly been carried out by Ukrainian “neofascists.” Analysts had warned just a week before that Putin would use exactly such a fabrication in order to justify invading Ukraine, as he had done in the lead-up to the annexation of Crimea in 2014…
On February 27, as Russian troops bore down on Ukraine, Blevins took to rokfin.com—an Austin-based subscription platform similar to Patreon that mostly features wrestling and conspiracy content—to address RT critics. “I’ve never been told by RT what I should or shouldn’t say. I’ve never been told I needed to follow any sort of narrative and that’s why I work for the network I work for,” she said. She went on to defend the way RT covered the war in Ukraine, referring to the “so-called invasion” and linking the conflict to U.S. policy. “For all the people sitting there saying, ‘Well, Ukraine is a sovereign country, they should be able to do what they want to do’—well, to a certain extent, sure, however, that’s not what’s happening now. Ukraine is not acting as a sovereign nation … it is acting under the influence of NATO.” …
Blevins’s family moved from Colorado to Mineral Wells, an economically struggling town of around 15,000, when she was eleven. She attended Community Christian School, a small, private religious institution, where she graduated as valedictorian in 2013. A scholarship landed her at Texas Tech, where she began taking journalism classes. After her professors warned that young journalists usually have to toil for years covering local crime and local elections, Blevins said she planned to switch majors—that is, until one of her professors assigned her and her classmates to conduct an official interview with a source. She chose the topic of government control of media. Her father, a regular listener of talk radio, suggested she interview Ben Swann, a TV journalist originally from El Paso who has alternated between stints as an award-winning major-market local TV anchor and an enthusiastic promulgator of conspiracy theories—sometimes at the same time. When they met, Swann had a short-lived radio show on the Republic Broadcasting Network, a fringe Texas-based outlet that has repeatedly featured hard-core white supremacists and Holocaust deniers…
In conversations I had with Blevins, she had no qualms about working for RT and seemed mostly mystified by the backlash toward the network’s coverage of the war in Ukraine.
“It frustrates me that taking the stance of providing context to a conflict is automatically seen as supporting that conflict or supporting what the Russian military is doing,” said Blevins, who calls herself “incredibly anti-war.” She added: “And I think that it’s frustrating to come from a standpoint of ‘everything has to be one way or the other. Everything has to be left or right, right or wrong, whatever.’ ”…
She admits to being “surprised” that Russia actually went through with an invasion, but can’t quite process the criticism over the network’s terminology. “It feels like I’m in a place where I can’t win,” she said. “Every single thing I say, every term I use is going to be blown up in one way or another. And at the time, RT as a whole had been using that phrasing, and that was what we continued to use for our show just because we were in a position of trying to find the best way to navigate it, and we may not have chosen the best way to navigate it.”…
With RT America off the air, perhaps forever, Blevins is trying to reboot as a freelancer. Her Twitter account, still bearing that “Russian-affiliated state media” label, looks scarcely different than it did when she was employed by RT. She’s making weekly videos for a tiny paying audience on Rokfin; the most recent had her explaining to fans that she had “struggled with my coverage” of the Ukraine “conflict” and conceding that she “may not personally agree with exactly the way [Russia] has gone about” invading Ukraine, while arguing again that Putin is taking on neo-Nazis.
But as for her time at RT, she says she has few regrets. “The opportunities that I was given there—going from being straight out of college into a reporter position, then going on to hosting an international business-finance show—those are opportunities I would not have gotten anywhere else,” she said. “I will always be so grateful for that.”
re: #237 Captain Magic
…And the horse she rode in on.
re: #237 Captain Magic
From a post at balloon-juice.com:
A Faustian bargain. She sold her soul for her career.
re: #239 No Malarkey!
A Faustian bargain. She sold her soul for her career.
If she ever had one in the first place.
re: #239 No Malarkey!
A Faustian bargain. She sold her soul for her career.
Fuck Mephisto the Poodle then, too.
re: #233 No Malarkey!
The thread also included this funny but obvious fake Activision comment —-
Attn gamers pic.twitter.com/P0xIsbwVeH
— (bli ayin hara) always love life, gd & the planet (@_Coralee_) March 18, 2022
Starting my Mac in Safe Mode fixed my weird missing space problem. Took over an hour to do whatever the frick it was doing.
If you have a Mac it’s probably a good idea to do this every once in a while just to clean out the tubes. I haven’t done it in way too long. Restart and immediately hold down the Shift key until you see the Apple logo and progress bar.
re: #233 No Malarkey!
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I wonder if the US will learn a lesson about corruption/regulatory capture from the quite obvious impact on Russian readiness or if we’ll keep pouring cash into contractors without learning anything…
— Geoff Smith (@HappyFunNorm) March 18, 2022
re: #244 sagehen
The US actually does have oversight and regular audits. That’s not to say we’re not paying $700 for a toilet seat, but there is a seat.
A video address by Hollywood actor Arnold Schwarzenegger to the Russian people was trending on Russian Twitter on Friday and has sparked reaction.In it, Schwarzenegger warns Russians they are being fed misinformation about their country’s assault on Ukraine.
Addressing Russian President Vladimir Putin directly, he says: “You started this war, and you can stop it”.
His intervention has been praised by Russians who oppose the war in Ukraine.
Writing on the Telegram app, opposition politician Lev Shlosberg said it had been filmed “with respect towards us, Russian people”.
“Arnold Schwarzenegger has a unique ability to talk to anyone with persuasion, respect and on equal terms. Wits, power and justice. Have a listen. Think about it. Understand,” Mr Shlosberg said.
Ukraine: Arnold Schwarzenegger’s anti-war video trends on Russian social media (BBC News)
re: #180 Barefoot Grin
Fake news. They were called by God.
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My cousins husband was one of them.
re: #244 sagehen
Ronald Reagan was a tool of various interest groups (e.g. the religious right.)
One of those groups were the defense contractors, who convinced (along with the libertarian anti-government loonies) the administration to gut the national labs (of the DoD and military branches) and maximize contracting out for any expertise.
This was sold on the idea that civil servants were too expensive.
Turns out the US has spent vastly much more on defense contractors than it ever did with in-house expertise.
re: #237 Captain Magic
She added: “And I think that it’s frustrating to come from a standpoint of ‘everything has to be one way or the other. Everything has to be left or right, right or wrong, whatever.’ ”…
Yeah. Reevaluate your life is you don’t give a shit about right or wrong.
re: #245 darthstar
The US actually does have oversight and regular audits. That’s not to say we’re not paying $700 for a toilet seat, but there is a seat.
That’s Schrodinger’s toilet seat—it simultaneously costs $700 and does not cost $700. To find out how, you have to go to Defense Acquisition University, a sort-of-real place.
For those who are interested Margaret Atwood is on Firing Line.
whyy.org
re: #214 Barefoot Grin
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