Zefrank’s True Facts: The Hummingbird Warrior

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CREDITS:

MUSIC:
SoundCloud
Dr. Anusha Shankar (anushashankar.weebly.com) for her guidance, enthusiasm and research on torpor.
Dr. Margaret Rubega (rubegalab.uconn.edu) and the University of Connecticut
for our conversation and her introductions.


Dr. Alejandro Rico-Guevara (alejorico.com) and the University of Washington
for the incredible media related to the tongue and all of his guidance.
Dr. Don Powers (dpowerslab.com) and the Powers Research Lab for their
footage on energy conservation.
Dr. Kristiina Hurme (kristiinahurme.com) for her amazing work on weaponized beaks
Dr. Chris Clark (biology.ucr.edu) and UC Riverside for our conversation and
all of the wonderful footage related to the dives and and displays.
Dr. Gregor Yanega (linkedin.com) for the footage of birds pilfering spider food.
FLIR Thermal Cameras (flir.com) for the psychedelic heat mapping footage
RuthLes Productions (youtube.com) for the wonderful footage of the
hummer in torpor, as well as the lovely phone chat.
Tracy Kerestesh (tracyportraits.com) for the footage of insect eating.
The Arizona Daily Star (tucson.com) for letting me use the footage of a hummer collecting
spider webs outside of their window
Tom Grey (tgreybirds.com) for his very special photo of hummingbirds mating…
which is not easy to capture

Additional footage used under license from:
pond5.com
videoblocks.com
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426 comments
1
Charles Johnson  Apr 17, 2022 • 5:43:28pm
2
Semper Fi  Apr 17, 2022 • 5:45:25pm

re: #1 Charles Johnson

Do you know how it happened or the culprit that did the dirty deed?

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A Mom Anon  Apr 17, 2022 • 5:47:09pm

re: #1 Charles Johnson

Oh god, I am so sorry. It’s the worst. My son has had it twice and I had a couple of rounds of it many years ago. Take care of yourself. ❤️

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Semper Fi  Apr 17, 2022 • 5:47:18pm

re: #2 Semper Fi

Do you know how it happened or the culprit that did the dirty deed?

Fish can go bad fast.

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 17, 2022 • 5:52:35pm

re: #1 Charles Johnson

I hope you feel better soon.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 17, 2022 • 5:59:44pm

re: #1 Charles Johnson

My hairdresser was ill for almost a week from a dinner at a local restaurant; she was the only one who order the chicken dish and the only one who had a reaction to their meal. Hope you recover quickly.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 17, 2022 • 6:00:19pm

re: #1 Charles Johnson

Yes. Yes, it does.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 17, 2022 • 6:01:32pm

The more things change, the more they remain the same.

9
Sherlock Hound  Apr 17, 2022 • 6:07:06pm

Statues are not only torn down in the Confederacy:

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Apr 17, 2022 • 6:29:02pm

And one of the 7 deadly sins is now served.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 17, 2022 • 6:37:11pm

re: #2 Semper Fi

Do you know how it happened or the culprit that did the dirty deed?

Pretty sure it was the lobster ravioli last night.

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 17, 2022 • 6:43:01pm

Out of practice.
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Sherlock Hound  Apr 17, 2022 • 6:43:25pm

re: #11 Charles Johnson

Pretty sure it was the lobster ravioli last night.

The late Anthony Bourdain described having some “bad oysters” one night. He called himself the worst atheist, but later that night, he was loudly—and violently—pleading for Him.

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Sherlock Hound  Apr 17, 2022 • 6:46:00pm

Rossiya-24 has been “off the air” for an hour. This needs clarification: I assume “off the air”, meaning not on the listed satellite feed.

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Sherlock Hound  Apr 17, 2022 • 7:05:08pm

re: #14 Sherlock Hound

The text on the color bars is not in Cyrillic. It might be from the satellite provider’s master control. This could happen if Rossiya-24’s uplink MC is down because of a problem like a power failure, or down for “other reasons”. There are many ways to disrupt a broadcast plant, especially if you work there at a high level…

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Apr 17, 2022 • 7:07:11pm

re: #1 Charles Johnson

The worst I ever experienced was from chicken I ate at a hotel in Oregon. (Not mentioning the name or city because it was like 14 years ago). I was up vomiting and the other end too every 45 minutes like clock work for 11 hours.

After the first few times all I could think was “where did all this come from? I just got off a plane and I had 1 meal all day and it wasn’t this much.”

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 17, 2022 • 7:13:20pm

re: #15 Sherlock Hound

The text on the color bars is not in Cyrillic. It might be from the satellite provider’s master control. This could happen if Rossiya-24’s uplink MC is down because of a problem like a power failure, or down for “other reasons”. There are many ways to disrupt a broadcast plant, especially if you work there at a high level…

Someone on twitter brought up the possibility of Anonymous or other hackers bringing it down. We do know that Anonymous supposedly joined the war against Putin. I guess it’s a matter of waiting to see whether this is just some minor blip. What would be best is if it signaled the overthrow of Putin and his replacement with someone who cares about the future and will work with us to stop this war in Ukraine and stop the killing, but probably no such luck.

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retired cynic  Apr 17, 2022 • 7:14:45pm

My worst was on a band trip, where we performed and were fed by a local mothers’ group. Bad news. I suspect potato salad.

We took a friend to a local restaurant, and split a pizza. The friend ordered a supreme side, and could not eat it all, so my husband ate a slice and she took a slice home to her Dalmatian. I just ate the sausage and mushroom half, and my husband ate most of that. Our friend ended up in the hospital for a week; my husband was pretty sick for several days, and the Dalmatian got sick. We figured it was black olives that had been hanging around too long. Boy, was I glad I stuck with old tried and true!

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Sherlock Hound  Apr 17, 2022 • 7:28:28pm

re: #17 Hecuba’s daughter

Someone on twitter brought up the possibility of Anonymous or other hackers bringing it down. We do know that Anonymous supposedly joined the war against Putin. I guess it’s a matter of waiting to see whether this is just some minor blip. What would be best is if it signaled the overthrow of Putin and his replacement with someone who cares about the future and will work with us to stop this war in Ukraine and stop the killing, but probably no such luck.

I take Anonymous with a grain of salt. I guess if we see “Swan Lake” again, we can take that more seriously! ///

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ckkatz  Apr 17, 2022 • 7:51:06pm
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jaunte  Apr 17, 2022 • 7:51:12pm

Off the leash for a Sunday with no delivery drivers to chase, Lucy celebrates Easter.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 17, 2022 • 7:56:07pm

re: #20 ckkatz

Given that the RW is aligned totally with Putin and Russia, it certainly seems logical to me that the burnings are deliberately timed.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Apr 17, 2022 • 7:56:34pm

9 years old, bad hips and arthritis. And a ChuckIt obsession that overrules it all.

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ckkatz  Apr 17, 2022 • 7:58:08pm

Ugh!

So sorry to hear about the food poisoning. That really sucks.

There was a period some years back when friends used to refer to coming down with the “stomach flu”. My first reaction was generally “Where did you eat recently? I will make sure to avoid that place.”

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ckkatz  Apr 17, 2022 • 7:59:38pm

re: #22 Hecuba’s daughter

Given that the RW is aligned totally with Putin and Russia, it certainly seems logical to me that the burnings are deliberately timed.

A lot of that does seem to be going around right now.

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ckkatz  Apr 17, 2022 • 8:15:37pm

That is also what I get when I google:
origin of sourdough bread

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 17, 2022 • 8:22:03pm

My tax returns got rejected because the IRS is confused about my AGI from last year. I know what it is, and Turbotax knows what it is, but the IRS doesn’t seem to.

I tried to see what they think it is, but after about an hour of struggling with getting their ID site to recognize me, it became obvious that it was never going to work.

My printer refuses to print in black and white because it’s out of black photo ink, despite having plenty of regular black ink, so I won’t be printing them to mail either.

My depression tells me to just go renegade and not worry about pain in the ass government bullshit, but that probably leads to wearing horns at the next attack on DC, so I’ll deal with this tomorrow.

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Belafon  Apr 17, 2022 • 8:22:22pm

Make sure you see Everything Everywhere All At Once and be prepared for it to blow all of the fuses in your brain.

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Semper Fi  Apr 17, 2022 • 8:22:36pm

re: #11 Charles Johnson

Pretty sure it was the lobster ravioli last night.

Just thinking out loud: The lobster is already room temp even before marrying it to the pasta. Once completed, how long before cooking? Yes, very possible.
Thanks. I think I’ll pass on lobster ravioli.

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Captain Ron  Apr 17, 2022 • 8:24:29pm

re: #29 Semper Fi

So, you’ll be having the salmon mousse?

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Semper Fi  Apr 17, 2022 • 8:26:26pm

re: #27 Punish Domestic Terrorists

My tax returns got rejected because the IRS is confused about my AGI from last year. I know what it is, and Turbotax knows what it is, but the IRS doesn’t seem to.

I tried to see what they think it is, but after about an hour of struggling with getting their ID site to recognize me, it became obvious that it was never going to work.

My printer refuses to print in black and white because it’s out of black photo ink, despite having plenty of regular black ink, so I won’t be printing them to mail either.

My depression tells me to just go renegade and not worry about pain in the ass government bullshit, but that probably leads to wearing horns at the next attack on DC, so I’ll deal with this tomorrow.

I would be thinking: Quick, file for extension but, would they even recognize then?

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 17, 2022 • 8:28:25pm

re: #28 Belafon

Make sure you see Everything Everywhere All At Once and be prepared for it to blow all of the fuses in your brain.

Going to see it Tuesday afternoon with a girl friend. 4th movie I’ve seen in the past 4 months!

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 17, 2022 • 8:29:56pm

re: #31 Semper Fi

I would be thinking: Quick, file for extension but, would they even recognize then?

I’ll put the returns on a thumb drive and print them at FedEx Office, then mail them in.

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A Cranky One  Apr 17, 2022 • 8:30:13pm

re: #1 Charles Johnson

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Yah. Their last album made me want to hurl.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 17, 2022 • 8:31:18pm

re: #27 Punish Domestic Terrorists

My tax returns got rejected because the IRS is confused about my AGI from last year. I know what it is, and Turbotax knows what it is, but the IRS doesn’t seem to.

I tried to see what they think it is, but after about an hour of struggling with getting their ID site to recognize me, it became obvious that it was never going to work.

My printer refuses to print in black and white because it’s out of black photo ink, despite having plenty of regular black ink, so I won’t be printing them to mail either.

My depression tells me to just go renegade and not worry about pain in the ass government bullshit, but that probably leads to wearing horns at the next attack on DC, so I’ll deal with this tomorrow.

Isn’t there another option besides AGI? I remember having a problem with that number years ago when I filed an amended return the previous year. I may be wrong about this but I think the IRS may have wanted the original AGI, rather than the number from the amended return. I don’t know if anything like that applies to your situation.

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ckkatz  Apr 17, 2022 • 8:34:24pm

re: #27 Punish Domestic Terrorists

Sorry to hear about the joys of filing with the IRS.

There was a WashPost article on a glitch where if the 2020 return was filed as paper and is one of the millions not yet processed, the electronic 2021 return will be rejected on the basis of 2020 AGI.

As of March 25, the IRS said it had 7.2 million unprocessed individual returns.

When you file electronically, one of the verification questions asks for your adjusted gross income, or AGI, from your most recent tax return.

If your return is in that backlog unprocessed, the IRS system doesn’t recognize your legit AGI. This can cause your e-file to be rejected.

*snip*

Here’s the fix: Enter $0 (zero dollars) for your prior-year AGI, the IRS says.

article:
The IRS is rejecting some e-file tax returns. Here’s a simple fix.
washingtonpost.com

IRS Tip:
The 2022 Tax Season Has Started — Tips to Help You File an Accurate Return
irs.gov

What to do if your tax return from 2020 is still being processed. People whose tax returns from 2020 have not yet been processed can still file their 2021 tax returns. For anyone in this group filing electronically, here’s a critical point: taxpayers need their Adjusted Gross Income, or AGI, from their most recent tax return when they file electronically. For those waiting on their 2020 tax return to be processed, make sure you enter $0 (zero dollars) for last year’s AGI on the 2021 tax return.

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 17, 2022 • 8:37:34pm

re: #36 ckkatz

Sorry to hear about the joys of filing with the IRS.

There was a WashPost article on a glitch where if the 2020 return was filed as paper and is one of the millions not yet processed, the electronic 2021 return will be rejected on the basis of 2020 AGI.

article:
The IRS is rejecting some e-file tax returns. Here’s a simple fix.
washingtonpost.com

IRS Tip:
The 2022 Tax Season Has Started — Tips to Help You File an Accurate Return
irs.gov

I’ll try $0. I did file paper last year.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 17, 2022 • 8:43:43pm

Checking Youtube… I have 101 notices waiting for me.

I discovered that if I make a comment pushing back against some wingnut comment on a popular channel that the horde come out.

Also, on popular channels reviewing contemporary entertainment, when the usual young-male-being-racist-misogynist or a dudebro goes on a rant and I throw some cold water their way… they can really ramble on.

The internet - what humans have always wanted.

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William Lewis  Apr 17, 2022 • 8:46:38pm

re: #38 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I have all my notifications except for subscriptions turned off on Youtube. Life’s too short to care what the fascists have to say back to me trolling them.

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gwangung  Apr 17, 2022 • 9:01:00pm

re: #28 Belafon

Make sure you see Everything Everywhere All At Once and be prepared for it to blow all of the fuses in your brain.

Yes.

And try not to get mad at Hollywood letting Ke Huy Quan go to waste after the Indiana Jones and Goonies movie.

And that it took DECADES for Michelle Yeoh to headline a movie.

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ckkatz  Apr 17, 2022 • 9:25:47pm

Probably a made for propaganda video moment. But still….

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Sherlock Hound  Apr 17, 2022 • 9:34:37pm

re: #41 ckkatz

Kadyrov’s troops are good only for Tik-Tok. I expect one of his dumbasses to fire their AK-47’s in both hands and shoot their comrades in the ass! You love to see it.

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ckkatz  Apr 17, 2022 • 9:43:07pm
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Belafon  Apr 17, 2022 • 9:44:57pm

re: #40 gwangung

Yes.

And try not to get mad at Hollywood letting Ke Huy Quan go to waste after the Indiana Jones and Goonies movie.

And that it took DECADES for Michelle Yeoh to headline a movie.

I thought it was also hilarious that the Russo Brothers were producers on it.

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Belafon  Apr 17, 2022 • 9:47:14pm
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Belafon  Apr 17, 2022 • 9:49:06pm
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ckkatz  Apr 17, 2022 • 9:56:47pm

The strategy outlined below may be Russia’s dream and plan. But I suspect that Ukraine, drawing on the West for arms, expertise and ideas, is going to find a number of very successful counter-strategies. Sadly, there will likely be a lot of damage and destruction in the process.

(By the way, I was not surprised to find out a couple of days ago that the British SAS was embedded with a Ukrainian battalion in the Kyiv area. Left unsaid, was that it was probably there during the very successful Ukrainian guerilla operations that defeated the Russian attacks on Kyiv.)

Certainly, the Russians are very unlikely to out-produce the West. And most likely will lose such a manufacturing competition.

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Belafon  Apr 17, 2022 • 10:11:40pm

re: #47 ckkatz

One word: Drones.

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Captain Ron  Apr 17, 2022 • 10:14:36pm
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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Apr 17, 2022 • 10:16:08pm

re: #47 ckkatz

“Какого цвета небо в вашем мире?”

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 17, 2022 • 10:16:43pm

wordle — a 3!

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jaunte  Apr 17, 2022 • 10:18:22pm

re: #47 ckkatz

the sheer numbers of Russian artillery pieces, tanks and attack helicopters

Yes, they have those things, but they seem to be parking them in line on long stretches of road.

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Kilroy was here  Apr 17, 2022 • 10:32:53pm

re: #52 jaunte

Yes, they have those things, but they seem to be parking them in line on long stretches of road.

That and they have to have the shells to fire. Oddly to date the weight of Russian artillery hasn’t been that heavy. The Russian army has been pretty lean as of late and I wonder is someone saved (stole) money by not building enough shells to replace the stocks they have fired over the last decade.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 17, 2022 • 10:36:32pm

re: #43 ckkatz

Fascinating @JaneMayerNYer story on new conservative dark-money group set up with explicit purpose of preventing the approval of all Biden Administration nominees.

It is infuriating that the MSM has been failing to report on this obstruction — this malicious effort to undermine the administration. But that is what McConnell was doing to Obama when he had control of the Senate — preventing any judicial nominees from being approved. The future of this nation is grim as long as the GOP survives and has any power in Washington.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Apr 17, 2022 • 10:47:16pm

One problem for Russian military
planners could be that they have no way of knowing whether stated inventories of ammunition, fuel, spare parts etc. actually exist. The stuff could easily have been diverted to export, or the civilian market in the case of rations, fuel and medical supplies, with the proceeds pocketed by oligarchs and their stooges. It might explain a lot.

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Captain Ron  Apr 17, 2022 • 11:16:25pm

YouTube

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Captain Ron  Apr 17, 2022 • 11:20:58pm

YouTube

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 17, 2022 • 11:55:22pm

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William Lewis  Apr 17, 2022 • 11:57:02pm

re: #55 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

One problem for Russian military
planners could be that they have no way of knowing whether stated inventories of ammunition, fuel, spare parts etc. actually exist. The stuff could easily have been diverted to export, or the civilian market in the case of rations, fuel and medical supplies, with the proceeds pocketed by oligarchs and their stooges. It might explain a lot.

Quite a few Russian MREs on Eprey these days…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2022 • 12:53:54am

re: #49 Dread Pirate Ron

Isn’t one of the NRA’s talking points that to stop a bad guy with a gun, &c?

There weren’t any good guys with a gun at a shooting range?

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 18, 2022 • 1:09:11am

re: #47 ckkatz

My belief all along is that Putin does not care how many Russians may die, how depleted his own military may become. He’s on a mission (perhaps he thinks from god?)

So Putin will simply keep firing whatever he has at Ukraine until the concept of Ukraine no longer exists. In his mind, anyway.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 18, 2022 • 1:14:27am

Child birth was a tough affair in old Japan:

Youtube Video

(note: there is a NordVPN embed but that passes quickly enough, just fast forward.)

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 18, 2022 • 1:32:47am

I’ve shared this before, but it is one of my favorite orchestral works. It’s both timely (Easter) and topical (Russian):

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A Mom Anon  Apr 18, 2022 • 2:48:21am

re: #60 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I might be wrong but
I think you might be confusing that with the GA case where 3 members of a family that owned a shooting range/gun store were robbed of 40 weapons and murdered a couple weeks ago. The suspect was caught I think. The SC shootings were in a mall and a nightclub. If I missed something I apologize.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Apr 18, 2022 • 3:10:03am

re: #27 Punish Domestic Terrorists

My tax returns got rejected because the IRS is confused about my AGI from last year. I know what it is, and Turbotax knows what it is, but the IRS doesn’t seem to.

I tried to see what they think it is, but after about an hour of struggling with getting their ID site to recognize me, it became obvious that it was never going to work.

My printer refuses to print in black and white because it’s out of black photo ink, despite having plenty of regular black ink, so I won’t be printing them to mail either.

My depression tells me to just go renegade and not worry about pain in the ass government bullshit, but that probably leads to wearing horns at the next attack on DC, so I’ll deal with this tomorrow.

There’s a lot of that going around. Try entering your last year’s AGI as zero before you give up.

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The Squire of Logos  Apr 18, 2022 • 3:10:19am

re: #1 Charles Johnson

Ugh. Feel better soon! I was hospitalized for that once. Horrific barely describes it.

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A Mom Anon  Apr 18, 2022 • 3:16:51am

re: #65 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!

I didn’t find out til after I mailed my forms that I could apply for an extension online via the IRS fast file thing. Of course. Son and I filled out the paper forms with all zeroes, I guess we’ll find out if we’re accepted somehow. My understanding is they only contact you if your application is denied. So that’s fun.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Apr 18, 2022 • 3:42:53am

re: #55 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

One problem for Russian military
planners could be that they have no way of knowing whether stated inventories of ammunition, fuel, spare parts etc. actually exist. The stuff could easily have been diverted to export, or the civilian market in the case of rations, fuel and medical supplies, with the proceeds pocketed by oligarchs and their stooges. It might explain a lot.

And not just oligarchs. Senior officers, procurement officers and the guy who signs the stuff in and guards it.

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TarHellion  Apr 18, 2022 • 3:49:18am

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Apr 18, 2022 • 3:56:35am

And since the unreliable internet is doing well again, here’s another western good morning from far east and much earlier than usual:

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 18, 2022 • 3:59:14am
Far-right website Infowars and two other companies owned by radio host Alex Jones have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in light of several defamation lawsuits. The filings were made in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas.

Chapter 11 bankruptcy procedures put a hold on pending civil litigation while letting a business keep running as it prepares a turnaround plan.

Court documents seen by CBS News show that the companies that filed were Infowars, IWHealth aka Infowars Health, and Prison Planet TV.

(note: autoplay vid embedded at link)

cbsnews.com

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RoJo Must Go!  Apr 18, 2022 • 4:12:33am

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Apr 18, 2022 • 4:13:27am

re: #72 RoJo Must Go!

A stylish 3/6 for me.

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That looks exactly like mine!

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No Malarkey!  Apr 18, 2022 • 4:20:45am

re: #53 Kilroy was here

That and they have to have the shells to fire. Oddly to date the weight of Russian artillery hasn’t been that heavy. The Russian army has been pretty lean as of late and I wonder is someone saved (stole) money by not building enough shells to replace the stocks they have fired over the last decade.

Likelihood: high.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Apr 18, 2022 • 4:29:27am

re: #70 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!

How’s the ship?? Trip so far?

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 18, 2022 • 4:34:07am

re: #74 No Malarkey!

If the Ukrainians could take Izyum, that could prove to be a turning point. Russia’s Donbas offensive would start to become increasingly tenuous.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Apr 18, 2022 • 4:38:28am

Early morning 3
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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Apr 18, 2022 • 4:50:12am

re: #75 HRH Stanley Sea

How’s the ship?? Trip so far?

(Today will be the second full day of the cruise.)

Ship is nice, seems to have a full passenger and crew complement (they have a wing of it held for possible covid cases). I’m not being quite as cautious as I was the last time, but I’m still masking most of the time, and I’m not eating in crowds.

For the most part, it’s like any other cruise. I go for the sea and the relaxation, not the entertainment.

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Dave In Austin  Apr 18, 2022 • 4:51:19am
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HRH Stanley Sea  Apr 18, 2022 • 4:54:16am

re: #78 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!

(Today will be the second full day of the cruise.)

Ship is nice, seems to have a full passenger and crew complement (they have a wing of it held for possible covid cases). I’m not being quite as cautious as I was the last time, but I’m still masking most of the time, and I’m not eating in crowds.

For the most part, it’s like any other cruise. I go for the sea and the relaxation, not the entertainment.

A long time at sea/repositioning? What you are doing is my dream. The ultimate relax.

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Dave In Austin  Apr 18, 2022 • 4:55:14am
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Mike Lamb  Apr 18, 2022 • 4:56:03am

re: #71 Dr Lizardo

(note: autoplay vid embedded at link)

cbsnews.com

The suit to object to the dischargeability of his debts will be filed within the week.

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 18, 2022 • 5:05:32am

Sometimes it do be like that. And while I’m on a roll, Happy Birthday to the junior fishspawn.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 18, 2022 • 5:10:54am

re: #82 Mike Lamb

The suit to object to the dischargeability of his debts will be filed within the week.

Good. Jones shouldn’t be able to use Chapter 11 to weasel out of his legal woes.

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Shropshire Slasher  Apr 18, 2022 • 5:13:33am

My skin starts crawling just thinking about this tick season.

Now there’s a new reason to fear tick bites. It’s a potentially deadly allergy that starts with the dreaded insects. Once people are exposed, they can be stuck with a horrific food allergy for years or life.

Disease-bearing ticks lurk in grasses and wooded areas across most of the US and tick-borne diseases are on the rise according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as spring warmth brings out the ticks.

“I looked like a monster when I went in there,” said Brenda Thomas of her first visit to the emergency room for the allergy. “The hives were on my scalp, they were in my ears, in between my fingers. It was the worst allergic reaction I’ve ever, ever had. But, we had no idea at the time what it was.”

Thomas suffered allergic reactions and endured ER visits for a year and a half before she finally found an allergy specialist who discovered she developed an allergy to meat from a lone star tick bite. A blood test confirmed Thomas suffered from Alpha-gal syndrome.

nypost.com

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Belafon  Apr 18, 2022 • 5:16:12am
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Decatur Deb  Apr 18, 2022 • 5:23:05am

re: #84 Dr Lizardo

Good. Jones shouldn’t be able to use Chapter 11 to weasel out of his legal woes.

Jones will never miss a meal.

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William Lewis  Apr 18, 2022 • 5:25:23am

re: #87 Decatur Deb

Jones will never miss a meal.

“People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt.”

Robert A. Heinlein

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Ming5000  Apr 18, 2022 • 5:30:11am

Rumors that Shoigu is dead.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Apr 18, 2022 • 5:34:48am

re: #89 Ming5000

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Apr 18, 2022 • 5:35:52am

re: #80 HRH Stanley Sea

A long time at sea/repositioning? What you are doing is my dream. The ultimate relax.

Yes, the transatlantics in spring and fall are (also) repositioning, although they’ve gotten popular enough that they include port calls (Azores and along the west coast of Europe on the way to Southampton in this case).

If you can spare the time, the transpacific is the ultimate relaxation, though. During part of it you are cut off from everything (satellite coverage in the empty parts of the Pacific is often nonexistent). Sydney is also a very pleasant place.

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Dangerman  Apr 18, 2022 • 5:42:31am

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Shropshire Slasher  Apr 18, 2022 • 5:43:47am

I have been following this sad story all weekend. They handcuffed her 13 year old son before releasing him. Sad sad stuff.

Surveillance footage taken near the home of a murdered Queens mother captured an unidentified person dragging a bloody hockey bag with what cops describe as the woman’s butchered remains inside.

Orsolya Gaal, 51, was found dead inside the bag at 8.11am on Saturday. The bag was found less than a mile away on the sidewalk next to a busy highway.

No one has been arrested for her death.

Police questioned her 13-year-old son but he was released without charge.

Her equities advisor husband, Howard Klein, and other son were out of town visiting colleges at the time of her murder.

Police believe Orsolya went out for the night on Saturday, possibly with a man, then returned home.

She was killed inside the basement of her home then was dragged out in the bag, they say. Unnamed sources told PIX11 News that she had told her son she was going out with friends but was in fact with another man.

dailymail.co.uk

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Decatur Deb  Apr 18, 2022 • 5:44:17am

re: #89 Ming5000

Rumors that Shoigu is dead.

Thank him for his service.

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jeffreyw  Apr 18, 2022 • 5:47:11am

Easter Dinner

Good morning!

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Shropshire Slasher  Apr 18, 2022 • 5:50:46am

re: #94 Decatur Deb

Thank him for his service.

I keep reading that as Shogun

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 18, 2022 • 5:52:03am

re: #89 Ming5000

There were rumors not long ago that he’d had a pretty serious heart attack and given the stress he must be under, that really wouldn’t be some big shocker or anything.

So it’s entirely possible he might’ve had another major cardiac incident, and this time, it finished him off.

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Shropshire Slasher  Apr 18, 2022 • 5:53:47am

Images of the Moskva burning.

dailymail.co.uk

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Decatur Deb  Apr 18, 2022 • 5:55:12am

DARPA and the US Army have flown complex missions using a UH-60 kitted for autonomous flight.
flightglobal.com

Helicopters are inherently more difficult to fly than a fixed-wing like, fer’instance, an A-10.

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 18, 2022 • 5:57:05am

re: #85 Shropshire Slasher

My skin starts crawling just thinking about this tick season.

nypost.com

Just great. I get 4 or 5 tick bites each summer just from walking the dog (our community is surrounded by woods). I need to really work on precautions.

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Dangerman  Apr 18, 2022 • 5:57:38am

re: #96 Shropshire Slasher

I keep reading that as Shogun

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Hai, Toranaga-sama

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Decatur Deb  Apr 18, 2022 • 6:03:08am

Off to pedal the hamster bike and lose another game of Civ4. I actually made it into the 20th Cent. last week.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 18, 2022 • 6:03:08am
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PhillyPretzel  Apr 18, 2022 • 6:06:08am

re: #103 Dr Lizardo

::: centering :::
::: on target :::
Bombs away. ::: huge evil grin :::

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darthstar  Apr 18, 2022 • 6:08:41am

Good morning everyone. This made me smile.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 18, 2022 • 6:12:47am

re: #102 Decatur Deb

Off to pedal the hamster bike and lose another game of Civ4. I actually made it into the 20th Cent. last week.

You playing at Deity level? I’ve been playing Civ 6 on my Nintendo Switch so I have it on my big screen TV.

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Dangerman  Apr 18, 2022 • 6:15:21am

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No Malarkey!  Apr 18, 2022 • 6:18:24am

re: #89 Ming5000

Rumors that Shoigu is dead.

I wonder how long its going to take for Putin’s inner circle to figure out that he will sacrifice every single one of them before accepting an ounce of blame for this fiasco, and that it’s either him or them.

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Dangerman  Apr 18, 2022 • 6:18:25am

Yeah tfg would make this argument
The rubes would buy it

Putin would too

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No Malarkey!  Apr 18, 2022 • 6:20:03am
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darthstar  Apr 18, 2022 • 6:21:33am

re: #110 No Malarkey!

Make him liquidate his assetsl

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 18, 2022 • 6:21:59am

re: #37 Punish Domestic Terrorists

I’ll try $0. I did file paper last year.

They did accept the $0 AGI. Next I see what kind of trouble that causes.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Apr 18, 2022 • 6:34:27am

re: #112 Punish Domestic Terrorists

They did accept the $0 AGI. Next I see what kind of trouble that causes.

Pretty sure the AGI in e-file is simply a checksum and not relevant to the actual analysis.

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Dangerman  Apr 18, 2022 • 7:00:08am

re: #113 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Pretty sure the AGI in e-file is simply a checksum and not relevant to the actual analysis.

Yes

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No Malarkey!  Apr 18, 2022 • 7:09:43am
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PhillyPretzel  Apr 18, 2022 • 7:11:59am

re: #115 No Malarkey!

That will make many people angry especially those kids whose parents are driving them to a “perfect” grade point average.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 18, 2022 • 7:14:07am

re: #116 PhillyPretzel

That will make many people angry especially those kids whose parents are driving them to a “perfect” grade point average.

I know I will be mad if the anti-CRT bill just passed in Kentucky results in my kid not being able to get AP credit over the next two years.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 18, 2022 • 7:20:08am
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Dopamine Fish  Apr 18, 2022 • 7:20:29am

re: #117 No Malarkey!

I know I will be mad if the anti-CRT bill just passed in Kentucky results in my kid not being able to get AP credit over the next two years.

The Republican solution to this is simple: You should be educating your kid at home, so that they get the good Christian education the government won’t pay for. Then you send them to Bible school, where AP credits don’t matter. Duh.//////

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 18, 2022 • 7:21:19am

re: #118 No Malarkey!

And some good proofreaders too. Oy.

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darthstar  Apr 18, 2022 • 7:21:19am

re: #115 No Malarkey!

You want your kids to take AP classes so they can go to college and have careers? Move to a blue state.

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JC1  Apr 18, 2022 • 7:24:16am

re: #116 PhillyPretzel

That will make many people angry especially those kids whose parents are driving them to a “perfect” grade point average.

It’s not even about the GPA. Most colleges will grant 6 credits (2 classes worth) for each AP exam passed with a sufficiently high grade. 3 AP classes could be worth a semester in college. That’s real dollar and time savings.

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 18, 2022 • 7:25:21am

re: #122 JC1

Yes it is.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 18, 2022 • 7:25:36am

re: #121 darthstar

You want your kids to take AP classes so they can go to college and have careers? Move to a blue state.

There is a good chance America will effectively be two countries in one: one a christo-fascist theocracy, and the other a 21st century multicultural democracy. We’ll see if a house divided against itself can stand.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 18, 2022 • 7:27:43am

re: #73 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!

That looks exactly like mine!

Me too!

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darthstar  Apr 18, 2022 • 7:33:23am

re: #125 Hecuba’s daughter

Me too!

I went for symmetry in five
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2022 • 7:34:06am

re:

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darthstar  Apr 18, 2022 • 7:35:49am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2022 • 7:36:38am

Well, I don’t know what happened to #127.

re: #64 A Mom Anon

I might be wrong but
I think you might be confusing that with the GA case where 3 members of a family that owned a shooting range/gun store were robbed of 40 weapons and murdered a couple weeks ago. The suspect was caught I think. The SC shootings were in a mall and a nightclub. If I missed something I apologize.

I did. I misread the article as a shooting club.

re: #124 No Malarkey!

There is a good chance America will effectively be two countries in one: one a christo-fascist theocracy, and the other a 21st century multicultural democracy. We’ll see if a house divided against itself can stand.

If the GOP gains control of the federal government, all of it will become a Christian theocracy.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2022 • 7:42:56am

Whaddya do when you’re too corrupt even for the Trump maladministration?

You run for the US Senate.

Scott Pruitt Running For​ Senate, Hopes You Forgot About His One Million Ethics Scandals (Wonkette)

Here’s your chance to replace Sen. James Lankford, Oklahoma.

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Citizen K  Apr 18, 2022 • 7:43:42am
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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 18, 2022 • 7:44:24am

re: #89 Ming5000

Rumors that Shoigu is dead.

It is not his death that the world needs.

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Belafon  Apr 18, 2022 • 7:45:11am
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No Malarkey!  Apr 18, 2022 • 7:46:12am

re: #129 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Well, I don’t know what happened to #127.

I did. I misread the article as a shooting club.

If the GOP gains control of the federal government, all of it will become a Christian theocracy.

Maybe, eventually. The “good” things about Trump, if he becomes president again, is that he is corrupt, ignorant and lazy, so he won’t effectively wield power to crush all opposition like an ideologically committed fascist would. We still have functioning courts which uphold the rule of law, as shown by the many victories Marc Elias has won defending democracy. And I still hold out hope that the American people won’t lay down and accept fascism. So we’ll see.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2022 • 7:48:30am

Paul here arguing for the “You shouldn’t help someone run so their opponent can win by default position” method of Democratic politics.

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JC1  Apr 18, 2022 • 7:50:43am

re: #135 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Paul here arguing for the “You shouldn’t help someone run so their opponent can win by default position” method of Democratic politics.

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It’s not like we had a democratic senator from Alabama in the past 10 years… Oh wait!!

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 18, 2022 • 7:51:20am

re: #129 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I wonder what would happen if a Republicans were elected Governor of New York, California or Illinois and tried to DeSantis the hell out of those states?

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 18, 2022 • 7:52:50am

re: #137 Eclectic Cyborg

That would be a nightmare. I hope it does not happen.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 18, 2022 • 7:53:50am

re: #130 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Whaddya do when you’re too corrupt even for the Trump maladministration?

You run for the US Senate.

Scott Pruitt Running For​ Senate, Hopes You Forgot About His One Million Ethics Scandals (Wonkette)

Here’s your chance to replace Sen. James Lankford, Oklahoma.

It’s Oklahoma. All you need is an “R” after your name to be victorious. True believers in office are even more dangerous to our Republic than those who are “merely” corrupt.

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dat_said  Apr 18, 2022 • 7:54:09am

I’ve been in the implanted medical devices field for decades and keep waiting till we progress beyond where everything looks like a nail simply because all we have in the toolbox are different varieties of hammers.

Anyway, articles like these just drive home to me how complex the human system really is with all sorts of complex biofeedback mechanisms including the microbiota in our guts.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 18, 2022 • 7:54:18am

re: #137 Eclectic Cyborg

I wonder what would happen if a Republicans were elected Governor of New York, California or Illinois and tried to DeSantis the hell out of those states?

Such Republicans would lose their reelection bids badly, because they would have run as moderates to get elected in the first place.

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 18, 2022 • 7:54:21am

re: #133 Belafon

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Truth hurts I guess

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2022 • 7:58:10am

Here in Nebraska, State Senator Julie Slama (R-District 1) filed a constitutional amendment bill to make statewide and Unicameral elections partisan (currently we are the only state with non-partisan elections).

The Republicans want to be able to put the magic (R) behind state senate, county, city or village, and district election candidates.

That has been tried several times before, and the voters have turned away every attempt.

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 18, 2022 • 7:59:57am

re: #137 Eclectic Cyborg

I wonder what would happen if a Republicans were elected Governor of New York, California or Illinois and tried to DeSantis the hell out of those states?

Illinois Republican Governors are crooks. They’re not the psychopaths that the South puts in office.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 18, 2022 • 8:00:02am

re: #136 JC1

It’s not like we had a democratic senator from Alabama in the past 10 years… Oh wait!!

The GOP literally had to nominate a pedophile for the Democrat to achieve a narrow victory, then he lost to a blithering idiot in the next election because the GOP managed to nominate someone who wasn’t a child molester. When giving, we should pick our candidates wisely in Red states. I’ll donate to the Democratic nominee challenging Rand Paul because I live in Kentucky, but I don’t have any illusions as to his chances, and I would encourage out-of-state Democrats to donate to candidates who have a better chance of victory.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2022 • 8:01:04am

Trump has endorsed JD Vance for Ohio. We’ll see if that turns around Vance’s polling amongst the Church of Conservatism there.

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danarchy  Apr 18, 2022 • 8:02:04am

re: #140 dat_said

I’ve been in the implanted medical devices field for decades and keep waiting till we progress beyond where everything looks like a nail simply because all we have in the toolbox are different varieties of hammers.

Anyway, articles like these just drive home to me how complex the human system really is with all sorts of complex biofeedback mechanisms including the microbiota in our guts.

We are living in interesting times and I think within the next 20 years or so CRISPR is going to completely change the game in medicine and give us all sorts of specialized tools.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 18, 2022 • 8:02:19am

re: #144 Punish Domestic Terrorists

Illinois Republican Governors are crooks. They’re not the psychopaths that the South puts in office.

Lesser of two evils, huh?

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 18, 2022 • 8:02:57am

re: #134 No Malarkey!

Maybe, eventually. The “good” things about Trump, if he becomes president again, is that he is corrupt, ignorant and lazy, so he won’t effectively wield power to crush all opposition like an ideologically committed fascist would. We still have functioning courts which uphold the rule of law, as shown by the many victories Marc Elias has won defending democracy. And I still hold out hope that the American people won’t lay down and accept fascism. So we’ll see.

He may be corrupt, ignorant, and lazy but his aides are evil and many are devoted fascists. There is no reason to believe that, under our Constitution, fascism cannot be imposed on an accepting American public. Everyone who continues to vote for the GOP has announced that fascism and white supremacy are fine with them. You don’t need support of a majority of the population — 1/3 of the population in the right states is more than enough to end the American experiment.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2022 • 8:03:43am
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CleverToad  Apr 18, 2022 • 8:04:14am

re: #216 A Mom Anon

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No Malarkey!  Apr 18, 2022 • 8:04:19am

re: #140 dat_said

I’ve been in the implanted medical devices field for decades and keep waiting till we progress beyond where everything looks like a nail simply because all we have in the toolbox are different varieties of hammers.

Anyway, articles like these just drive home to me how complex the human system really is with all sorts of complex biofeedback mechanisms including the microbiota in our guts.

And demonstrates why its unlikely that a self-conscious AI will be developed soon, because humans are a whole lot more complex than a brain in a vat.

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 18, 2022 • 8:05:02am

Got it in 2! That was a total surprise.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 18, 2022 • 8:05:37am

Also, about that whole Alex Jones bankruptcy thing…

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 18, 2022 • 8:07:13am

re: #144 Punish Domestic Terrorists

Illinois Republican Governors are crooks. They’re not the psychopaths that the South puts in office.

And even the crooks can do good things. It was our George Ryan who effectively ended capital punishment in Illinois, though the official end was implemented under a Democrat.

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 18, 2022 • 8:07:25am

re: #154 Eclectic Cyborg

Also, about that whole Alex Jones bankruptcy thing…

As soon as I saw he filed for bankruptcy, I immediately assumed that was why. After being forced to be deposed in that one case, he knew his ship was sinking, so he is trying to pre-empt the system. I wish there was a way to block this, but the bankruptcy court will undoubtedly let this play out in his favor.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 18, 2022 • 8:09:19am

re: #149 Hecuba’s daughter

He may be corrupt, ignorant, and lazy but his aides are evil and many are devoted fascists. There is no reason to believe that, under our Constitution, fascism cannot be imposed on an accepting American public. Everyone who continues to vote for the GOP has announced that fascism and white supremacy are fine with them. You don’t need support of a majority of the population — 1/3 of the population in the right states is more than enough to end the American experiment.

I’m not ready to give up on America yet, and neither are a lot of other people. If Ukrainians can fight fascism while their people are literally being raped and murdered, I would hope we can stand up to a bunch of sleazy politicians and lawyers.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 18, 2022 • 8:11:09am

re: #154 Eclectic Cyborg

Also, about that whole Alex Jones bankruptcy thing…

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It’s obvious to anyone - Jones is just trying to dodge having to pay out anything at all.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2022 • 8:11:51am

re: #157 No Malarkey!

I’m not ready to give up on America yet, and neither are a lot of other people. If Ukrainians can fight fascism while their people are literally being raped and murdered, I would hope we can stand up to a bunch of sleazy politicians and lawyers.

Ukraine was invaded. A revolt against a lawful election is a different thing.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2022 • 8:11:58am
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PhillyPretzel  Apr 18, 2022 • 8:16:44am

re: #216 A Mom Anon

You got something from me too.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 18, 2022 • 8:17:06am

re: #159 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Ukraine was invaded. A revolt against a lawful election is a different thing.

I’m not talking about revolting against a lawful election. I’m talking about revolting against an attempt to end lawful elections. If the GOP tries to reject the voters’ will and impose Trump on us, we cannot allow that to stand. If Trump somehow wins based on the actual votes cast, he wins, but we don’t give up on democracy, just like we didn’t give up after he won in 2016.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2022 • 8:19:45am

re: #162 No Malarkey!

I’m not talking about revolting against a lawful election. I’m talking about revolting against an attempt to end lawful elections. If the GOP tries to reject the voters’ will and impose Trump on us, we cannot allow that to stand. If Trump somehow wins based on the actual votes cast, he wins, but we don’t give up on democracy, just like we didn’t give up after he won in 2016.

If the voters elect people who wish to end democracy, then you are revolting against an election.

Democracies are pretty much the only political system where you can legally abolish the political system.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 18, 2022 • 8:20:15am

re: #157 No Malarkey!

I’m not ready to give up on America yet, and neither are a lot of other people. If Ukrainians can fight fascism while their people are literally being raped and murdered, I would hope we can stand up to a bunch of sleazy politicians and lawyers.

The Trump supporters I know would happily support fascism, especially if it meant keeping people of color in their place. Never forget that if the vote were restricted to whites, Trump would have won in a landslide. This country is still poisoned by the racism that infected us from the beginning.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2022 • 8:21:19am
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Belafon  Apr 18, 2022 • 8:22:24am

re: #152 No Malarkey!

And demonstrates why its unlikely that a self-conscious AI will be developed soon, because humans are a whole lot more complex than a brain in a vat.

Programming a connection between a neural network and its gut bacteria will be a challenge.

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sagehen  Apr 18, 2022 • 8:22:28am

re: #144 Punish Domestic Terrorists

Illinois Republican Governors are crooks. They’re not the psychopaths that the South puts in office.

to be fair, Illinois Democratic Governors are also crooks. It’s just a general rule of thumb, Illinois Governors are crooks.

(and not, mutter-under-your-breath-about-it crooks. They get convicted, and sentenced, like proper crooks.)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2022 • 8:25:27am

re: #165 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

My state senator Steve Erdman has endorsed three of their candidates for the Board of Education seat. Six of their members filed to run for the open seat.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2022 • 8:26:41am

re: #167 sagehen

to be fair, Illinois Democratic Governors are also crooks. It’s just a general rule of thumb, Illinois Governors are crooks.

(and not, mutter-under-your-breath-about-it crooks. They get convicted, and sentenced, like proper crooks.)

Then pardoned by Donald Trump (at least Rod Blagojevich)

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 18, 2022 • 8:27:11am

re: #162 No Malarkey!

I’m not talking about revolting against a lawful election. I’m talking about revolting against an attempt to end lawful elections. If the GOP tries to reject the voters’ will and impose Trump on us, we cannot allow that to stand. If Trump somehow wins based on the actual votes cast, he wins, but we don’t give up on democracy, just like we didn’t give up after he won in 2016.

But our Constitution permits the candidate who wins 65% of the vote to lose the election; just remember even though Biden won the popular vote by 7 million votes, the change of fewer than 80,000 votes would have resulted in a Trump victory. Gerrymandering and voter suppression, as well as the inherent design of the Senate and the Electoral College, can lead to a permanent small minority controlling everything forever.

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calochortus  Apr 18, 2022 • 8:27:37am

re: #216 A Mom Anon

I’ve been asked about something by a few people here so here’s some information:

[Embedded content]

Don’t feel bad, I think many of us appreciate the opportunity to help from a distance.

edit: which sounds like we want to maintain distance rather than we’re at a distance and this is the best we can do-but I haven’t finished my coffee and it’s the best I could manage.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 18, 2022 • 8:28:41am

re: #106 No Malarkey!

You playing at Deity level? I’ve been playing Civ 6 on my Nintendo Switch so I have it on my big screen TV.

Playing at Emperor. I won’t move up until I’ve won at this level. (It’s been years since I moved up.)

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 18, 2022 • 8:29:07am

Trailer just dropped for Thor: Love and Thunder. Directed and co-written by Taika Waititi. Looks good.

Youtube Video

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2022 • 8:30:04am
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No Malarkey!  Apr 18, 2022 • 8:34:13am

re: #170 Hecuba’s daughter

But our Constitution permits the candidate who wins 65% of the vote to lose the election; just remember even though Biden won the popular vote by 7 million votes, the change of fewer than 80,000 votes would have resulted in a Trump victory. Gerrymandering and voter suppression, as well as the inherent design of the Senate and the Electoral College, can lead to a permanent small minority controlling everything forever.

I would ask you to pay attention to the fact that we succeeded in stopping the GOP attempt to gerrymander itself into a permanent majority in this redistricting cycle and the maps are much more favorable to Democrats than anyone expected they would be. Now the GOP is favored to win control of Congress because that’s just how midterm elections go, but we are still far from the point that white nationalists have achieved permanent control of America, as illustrated by the fact that the Democrats won control of Congress and the White House less than two years ago. We still aren’t Russia, not by a long shot.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2022 • 8:37:06am

“Testicle tanning” is trending on Twitter.

twitter.com

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Belafon  Apr 18, 2022 • 8:40:28am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2022 • 8:41:30am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2022 • 8:45:05am

re: #177 Belafon

(3:03)

Youtube Video

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Belafon  Apr 18, 2022 • 8:47:46am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2022 • 8:50:50am
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 18, 2022 • 8:55:02am

re: #177 Belafon

They can’t since it is very important to their narrative that poverty = inferior and thus is a justification for the racism. Otherwise, they’d need to start looking for other factors like education, employment opportunities, etc. where it is much more obvious that what is happening is a class war and not a race war. (And that the white underclass should be just as pissed and activist for social change as the minorities.)

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No Malarkey!  Apr 18, 2022 • 8:57:12am

Rick Scott, Mitch McConnell and this should be featured in every Democratic candidates commercials this year.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2022 • 8:58:59am

re: #180 Belafon

My mother’s first car loan was under her name, for a used Nash. The loan came from our hometown bank.

She tells the story that when she came back from the bank, my father asked “don’t they need my signature” to which she replied “why, they don’t know you.”

He walked to the bank and asked if they needed his signature. They asked “why, we don’t know you.”

This is also the bank which gave me my first car loan, over the telephone from Tennessee.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2022 • 9:01:35am

re: #180 Belafon

My wife notes that when she worked for Digital, a bank turned down a corporate vice-president (a woman) because she didn’t have a man to co-sign her loan. That was in the Nineties.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 18, 2022 • 9:07:24am

re: #185 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

My wife notes that when she worked for Digital, a bank turned down a corporate vice-president (a woman) because she didn’t have a man to co-sign her loan. That was in the Nineties.

A student of mine related how she was unable to obtain a mortgage, despite having a very well-paying executive level job, because she was an unmarried woman.

That was in 2002, here in Czech Republic.

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 18, 2022 • 9:08:38am

re: #180 Belafon

re: #184 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

re: #186 Dr Lizardo

One of many reasons why I belong to a Credit Union.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 18, 2022 • 9:11:12am
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PhillyPretzel  Apr 18, 2022 • 9:12:52am

re: #187 PhillyPretzel

The Credit Union I belong to.
americanheritagecu.org

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BeenHereAwhile  Apr 18, 2022 • 9:13:08am

re: #152 No Malarkey!

And demonstrates why its unlikely that a self-conscious AI will be developed soon, because humans are a whole lot more complex than a brain in a vat.

Here’s one small step:

nature.com

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 18, 2022 • 9:14:59am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2022 • 9:15:47am

re: #186 Dr Lizardo

A student of mine related how she was unable to obtain a mortgage, despite having a very well-paying executive level job, because she was an unmarried woman.

That was in 2002, here in Czech Republic.

My wife was refused to have her tubes tied by several folks who could do that in Colorado Springs, because she was single. She was able to obtain that at Planned Parenthood.

The GOP now is doing everything they can to overturn that ability at PP, in the name of religion and power.

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 18, 2022 • 9:17:47am

Last night I watched Disney’s “Turning Red” with my 9-year-old twin granddaughters. They loved it!

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 18, 2022 • 9:23:18am

Illinois rejected my return due to the $0 AGI required to get the feds to accept their return.
I’ve now validated with my DL# rather than AGI.

My taxes are extremely simple, but have been a pain in the ass this year anyway.

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JC1  Apr 18, 2022 • 9:24:36am

re: #145 No Malarkey!

The GOP literally had to nominate a pedophile for the Democrat to achieve a narrow victory, then he lost to a blithering idiot in the next election because the GOP managed to nominate someone who wasn’t a child molester. When giving, we should pick our candidates wisely in Red states. I’ll donate to the Democratic nominee challenging Rand Paul because I live in Kentucky, but I don’t have any illusions as to his chances, and I would encourage out-of-state Democrats to donate to candidates who have a better chance of victory.

Yeah, but Greene may even be more toxic than ex-judge pedo. Plus, she’s a woman; that’ll prevent a certain number of GOPers from voting for her.

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Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)  Apr 18, 2022 • 9:25:23am

The incompetence of a toxic narcissistic strongman is starting to come into full view, now:

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Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)  Apr 18, 2022 • 9:27:26am

(Source: former colleague who had to flee Russia in the last 3 months because he was being targeted by the titushki thugs)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2022 • 9:29:39am

Far-right Nevada school board candidate claims the Constitution mandates people procreate — so gayness is unconstitutional

The school board wars continue as the far-right seeks to take over schools to restrict content involving people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals and others to whom they object.

Such was the case with Nevada candidate John Carlo, who was filmed speaking at a church saying that the U.S. Constitution demands Americans procreate. He explained that because homosexuals can’t give birth that they are unconstitutional. He did not address whether heterosexual couples who are unable to have children are also “unconstitutional” under his definition.

“I believe the Constitution. I believe in our — our — the way our founding fathers believed in this country: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” he said, mistaking the Constitution for the Declaration of Independence. “That means that homosexuals cannot procreate. This goes against our Constitution and this goes against what parents want in the school district, and this is only one book out of thousands.”

His complaint was about a book in a school library that he said made homosexuality acceptable.

(more, Raw Story)

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 18, 2022 • 9:31:15am

re: #178 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I recently picked up an IR light for my bathroom. Amazon may think I’m a lunatic who follows Tucker Carlson’s lead now due to the timing, when I just want to be warmer as I get out of the shower.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 18, 2022 • 9:34:54am

re: #190 BeenHereAwhile

Here’s one small step:

nature.com

Cool, exactly the kind of task AI is good for.

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Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)  Apr 18, 2022 • 9:35:56am

re: #199 Punish Domestic Terrorists

I recently picked up an IR light for my bathroom. Amazon may think I’m a lunatic who follows Tucker Carlson’s lead now due to the timing, when I just want to be warmer as I get out of the shower.

Side-effect of “warming light as you get out of the shower”

Uh-huh. Sure.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 18, 2022 • 9:37:41am

re: #195 JC1

Yeah, but Greene may even be more toxic than ex-judge pedo. Plus, she’s a woman; that’ll prevent a certain number of GOPers from voting for her.

I’m not sure that in the district crafted for her MTG is toxic at all.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 18, 2022 • 9:40:14am

re: #196 Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)

The incompetence of a toxic narcissistic strongman is starting to come into full view, now:

Kakistocracies are great for the dictator’s cronies until the cronies have to explain why nothing works because they stole everything.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2022 • 9:43:03am
Sadly, many Mormons throughout history have died without having known the joys of homosexuality. With your help, these poor souls can be saved.

Simply enter the name of your favorite dead Mormon* in the form below and click Convert! Presto, they’re gay for eternity. There is no undo.

Don’t know any dead Mormons? Click the “Choose-a-Mormon” button and we’ll find one for you. You’re welcome!

*Holocaust victims are not eligible for conversion.

alldeadmormonsarenowgay.com

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 18, 2022 • 9:43:12am

re: #198 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

“life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”

I’m sure this GOP asshole will be shocked to know people can be happy WITHOUT kids.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2022 • 9:43:53am

re: #205 Eclectic Cyborg

“life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”

I’m sure this GOP asshole will be shocked to know people can be happy WITHOUT kids.

I’m sure he’d force you to be happy with them.

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 18, 2022 • 9:45:10am

re: #198 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I guess he did not read the Amendments. First Amendment begins with; “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion …”

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No Malarkey!  Apr 18, 2022 • 9:45:32am

Christo-fascist library board that wants to engage in censorship behind closed doors.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Apr 18, 2022 • 9:47:05am

They fucking destroyed the World Central Kitchen location in Kharkiv.

cnn.com

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2022 • 9:47:58am

re: #207 PhillyPretzel

I guess he did not read the Amendments. First Amendment begins with; “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion …”

Many Christians argue that’s to keep government out of churches, but not churches out of law. It’s ahistorical claptrap, but Lying for Jesus has been a thing since Thomas Aquinas.

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 18, 2022 • 9:48:32am

re: #210 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Yes it has. :(

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 18, 2022 • 9:48:45am

re: #208 No Malarkey!

Fucking insanity.

I also love the part about how a Democrat with a degree in Library sciences was kept off the board.

As if it wasn’t clear enough what these jackasses were up to.

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 18, 2022 • 9:49:04am

re: #209 GlutenFreeJesus

Jose Andres and company will build a new one.

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 18, 2022 • 9:49:47am

re: #194 Punish Domestic Terrorists

Illinois rejected my return due to the $0 AGI required to get the feds to accept their return.
I’ve now validated with my DL# rather than AGI.

My taxes are extremely simple, but have been a pain in the ass this year anyway.

I just saw that I was rejected, too. I used the free turbo tax app. I wonder if they will “help me straighten it out” if I upgrade.

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 18, 2022 • 9:50:58am

Student Dies Reenacting Christ’s Crucifixion (National Review via MSN)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 18, 2022 • 9:51:58am

re: #208 No Malarkey!

Christo-fascist library board that wants to engage in censorship behind closed doors.

and, due to a recent legislative veto override, coming soon to Kentucky public libraries.

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 18, 2022 • 9:52:00am

re: #214 Barefoot Grin

I just saw that I was rejected, too. I used the free turbo tax app. I wonder if they will “help me straighten it out” if I upgrade.

I got mine sorted with the free version despite how aggravated I was by the process.

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Dangerman  Apr 18, 2022 • 9:52:30am

as you all may or may not know, I’ve been training for next month’s Keys100 50k ultramarathon.

And I wrote that the entire family has come down to visit us and dangermom/grandma for two weeks.

Brother and SIL and niece #2 from Philly.
Niece #1 from Israel.
Sister from North Carolina.
So we’re having an absolute ball (even the pineapple pizza incident.)

Nieces used to run with me in the past. Niece 1 ran a lot when she was in the Israeli army. Niece 2 ran track in school for a while but it really wasn’t for her.

Both now independent adults with jobs, they asked to run with me this last week. We’ve been having a great time on my shorter runs. They’ve both been able to jump in and manage 3 miles at a fair pace. They get honorable mentions for helping me train. But they don’t get hats. The race day crew gets hats:

Niece 1 wanted to know what was going on here at LGF. I think to keep an eye on my posts (of which there hasn’t been a pond post for months…)

Anyway, she registered this morning as Superspy, but probably isn’t on right now.

She is her own woman and is ready to explain her position on all things pizza.
And I told her to be prepared with snacks.

Dummy up if she asks where the beach is.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 18, 2022 • 9:53:59am

re: #215 Punish Domestic Terrorists

Student Dies Reenacting Christ’s Crucifixion (National Review via MSN)

To be clear, this wasn’t a student playing Jesus who died on a cross, it was one playing Saint Peter who collapsed during the performance.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 18, 2022 • 9:54:13am

re: #218 Dangerman

Niece 1 wanted to know what was going on here at LGF. I think to keep an eye on my posts (of which there hasn’t been a pond post for months…)

Anyway, she registered this morning as Superspy, but probably isn’t on right now.

She is her own woman and is ready to explain her position on all things pizza.
And I told her to be prepared with snacks.

Dummy up if she asks where the beach is.

Is she the proponent of pineapple/onion pizza?

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No Malarkey!  Apr 18, 2022 • 9:55:01am

re: #217 Punish Domestic Terrorists

I got mine sorted with the free version despite how aggravated I was by the process.

I have to paper file my state return because the process of calculating my state pension tax exemption isn’t included in free tax software.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 18, 2022 • 9:55:16am

re: #207 PhillyPretzel

I guess he did not read the Amendments. First Amendment begins with; “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion …”

They seem to think that the Constitution and all the other governing documents* are like the Bible and that they can cherry pick something to say what they want it to while ignoring everything else and any possible context. And, of course, if they cannot find an explicit quote to use they can make something up since the base never fact checks anyways.

* - Except for the Federalist Papers since that Hamilton guy is sus.

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 18, 2022 • 9:55:19am

re: #210 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Many Christians argue that’s to keep government out of churches, but not churches out of law.

It’s born out of the “America was founded as a Christian country” narrative that they’ve been building for several generations now. The whole idea is that the Founders wrote the Constitution with Christianity explicitly in mind as a favored class, because they were all Christians. We all know that isn’t true, but that’s the framework the Christian Nationalists have in mind when they talk about the First Amendment. Basically reads as, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, except for ours, because we’re right.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 18, 2022 • 9:55:36am
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PhillyPretzel  Apr 18, 2022 • 9:55:43am

re: #218 Dangerman

Sounds like a marathon and a family reunion to me. I hope you win the marathon and you and your family enjoy the time together.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2022 • 9:55:55am

re: #208 No Malarkey!

Christo-fascist library board that wants to engage in censorship behind closed doors.

Our public library board is appointed by the village board from lists of volunteers (the only requirement is they must live within one mile of the village corporate limits). At the moment, we don’t have this nonsense going on in my town.

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 18, 2022 • 9:56:53am

re: #217 Punish Domestic Terrorists

I got mine sorted with the free version despite how aggravated I was by the process.

Good and congrats. I have no idea what it could be. I’ll look it over this afternoon after work.

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 18, 2022 • 9:57:58am

re: #221 No Malarkey!

I have to paper file my state return because the process of calculating my state pension tax exemption isn’t included in free tax software.

No state income tax here.

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BeenHereAwhile  Apr 18, 2022 • 9:58:03am

re: #215 Punish Domestic Terrorists

Student Dies Reenacting Christ’s Crucifixion (National Review via MSN)

Entrance to evangelical church just North of Nashville

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 18, 2022 • 9:58:08am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 18, 2022 • 9:58:51am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 18, 2022 • 9:59:04am

re: #230 Backwoods_Sleuth

That’s one meeting I would not want to be late for.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Apr 18, 2022 • 10:01:29am

re: #213 PhillyPretzel

Jose Andres and company will build a new one.

Yup. They’ve already located I think. But wtf. Ugh.

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BeachDem  Apr 18, 2022 • 10:02:08am

re: #222 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

They seem to think that the Constitution and all the other governing documents* are like the Bible and that they can cherry pick something to say what they want it to while ignoring everything else and any possible context. And, of course, if they cannot find an explicit quote to use they can make something up since the base never fact checks anyways.

* - Except for the Federalist Papers since that Hamilton guy is sus.

Per Elie Mystal’s book:

The “free exercise thereof” did all of the constitutional work protecting the freedom of religion, at least until the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment. I would argue that America has been pretty lax when it comes to preventing the “establishment” of religion by the government. There are laws and customs throughout our system that are inextricably tied to Christian theology: in a fully secular nation the Monday after the Super Bowl would be a federal holiday, but December 25th would be just “a day.”

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 18, 2022 • 10:02:55am
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Apr 18, 2022 • 10:03:08am

re: #68 A hollow voice says Vaccinate the world!

And not just oligarchs. Senior officers, procurement officers and the guy who signs the stuff in and guards it.

What I’m thinking is that the various folk you mention would be the stooges in an oligarch run ring, since there is nothing to stop the operation from coalescing around the most powerful participants.

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 18, 2022 • 10:04:52am

Thanks to whomever put me at 66,000 Karma.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2022 • 10:09:44am

re: #234 BeachDem

That’s also why Easter Sunday is also in the US Flag Code as a day of observance.

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 18, 2022 • 10:13:19am

My new task chair has arrived. I will be back later.

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 18, 2022 • 10:16:59am

re: #235 Dopamine Fish

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John Hughes  Apr 18, 2022 • 10:17:02am

re: #219 Eclectic Cyborg

To be clear, this wasn’t a student playing Jesus who died on a cross, it was one playing Saint Peter who collapsed during the performance.

Ah, so resurrection isn’t on the cards. Sucks to be him.

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Jay C  Apr 18, 2022 • 10:21:03am

re: #237 PhillyPretzel

Thanks to whomever put me at 66,000 Karma.

You’re welcome.

And props to the ninth updinger here who will put me at the Meaningless Milestone of:
47,000!!!

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 18, 2022 • 10:21:12am

Weather thing on my computer says it’s raining.

Eyeball Mk 1 looking out window says “That’s snow”.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 18, 2022 • 10:22:21am

re: #229 BeenHereAwhile

FFS, that looks like something straight out of Children of the Corn.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 18, 2022 • 10:25:17am

re: #242 Jay C

You’re welcome.

And props to the ninth updinger here who will put me at the Meaningless Milestone of:
47,000!!!

I recently cleared 200K. Took me 15 years. I am working on a Lifetime Achievement Award of 250K

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 18, 2022 • 10:28:39am

re: #245 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I recently cleared 200K. Took me 15 years. I am working on a Lifetime Achievement Award of 250K

Looks like I cleared 80K in the past week or so. My general goal has been for the karma to be at least twice the number of comments made. Thus indicating that on average my remarks are thought of in a positive manner by the community.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 18, 2022 • 10:28:46am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2022 • 10:29:33am
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a challenge from New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Maryland to the 2017 tax law that capped federal tax deductions for state and local taxes.

The lawsuit had previously been dismissed by lower courts. It argued that the Republican-led tax law, signed by then-President Donald Trump, unfairly singled out high-tax states in which Democrats predominate.

The law caps a deduction for state and local taxes, known as SALT, at $10,000. The lawsuit claimed that lawmakers crafted the provision to target Democratic states, interfering with the states’ constitutionally granted taxing authority.

(more)

Justices reject states’ appeal over cap on tax deductibility (Yahoo!)

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 18, 2022 • 10:29:46am

re: #247 Backwoods_Sleuth

That’s the most fucked up part of this. They won’t even say WHY the books were banned. It’s just arbitrary, make-it-up-as-you-go-along bullshit.

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 18, 2022 • 10:30:25am

re: #243 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Weather thing on my computer says it’s raining.

Eyeball Mk 1 looking out window says “That’s snow”.

Same here in NW PA. Snow started about a half hour ago.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 18, 2022 • 10:30:52am

re: #247 Backwoods_Sleuth

I wonder if there is an underlying grift here where they are setting up the textbook contract to go to someone who is a relative, major contributor, or has otherwise properly brown-nosed DeSantis and company with $.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 18, 2022 • 10:31:52am

re: #249 Eclectic Cyborg

That’s the most fucked up part of this. They won’t even say WHY the books were banned. It’s just arbitrary, make-it-up-as-you-go-along bullshit.

“CRT” is a good bugaboo and an excuse to erase anything they oppose. I have to say that it was an (evil) genius move by the Right in the ongoing Culture Wars.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 18, 2022 • 10:32:10am

re: #251 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

I wonder if there is an underlying grift here where they are setting up the textbook contract to go to someone who is a relative, major contributor, or has otherwise properly brown-nosed DeSantis and company with $.

That is a big part of it, I am sure.

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 18, 2022 • 10:32:43am

re: #247 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Where the fuck would you find CRT in math books? I know a few people have said the “=” sign as a goof, but WTF.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2022 • 10:33:05am

The GOP plans to institute term limits on all committee memberships in the US House if they take it back in November.

The goal is to overthrow the seniority system, especially to kick senior Democrats off committees.

news.yahoo.com

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Apr 18, 2022 • 10:33:34am

re: #251 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

I wonder if there is an underlying grift here where they are setting up the textbook contract to go to someone who is a relative, major contributor, or has otherwise properly brown-nosed DeSantis and company with $.

BINGO!

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 18, 2022 • 10:34:36am

re: #250 Eventual Carrion

Same here in NW PA. Snow started about a half hour ago.

I was given a small “money tree” as a housewarming gift. It’s caught between being kept indoors due to the cold and being kept outdoors so that Floof Cat won’t chew on it.*

* - Goal for the balcony is becoming a set of planters in trays for the tree, a bit of catnip and/or rye grass for Floof cat, some herbs, and perhaps something vine-y to climb along the rail a bit during the summer.

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 18, 2022 • 10:35:23am

re: #242 Jay C

You’re welcome.

And props to the ninth updinger here who will put me at the Meaningless Milestone of:
47,000!!!

At 47,000 you can trade in your points for the novelty sunglasses.

Only 47,000 Points.
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2022 • 10:36:16am

re: #254 Eventual Carrion

Where the fuck would you find CRT in math books? I know a few people have said the “=” sign as a goof, but WTF.

Maryam has seven apples. If she gives three apples to Jamal, how many apples can she give to James?

Critical Race Theory!

“Correct, Suzy.”

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 18, 2022 • 10:36:26am

re: #258 Punish Domestic Terrorists

At 47,000 you can trade in your points for the novelty sunglasses.

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How do you properly fit those on a lizard?

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 18, 2022 • 10:36:32am

re: #254 Eventual Carrion

Where the fuck would you find CRT in math books? I know a few people have said the “=” sign as a goof, but WTF.

Based on the fact that the wingnuts keep passing around a worksheet with some weird questions, I think that’s as close as they can get to finding anything related to race in math.

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 18, 2022 • 10:37:22am

re: #260 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

How do you properly fit those on a lizard?

The adapters are another 10,000 points.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 18, 2022 • 10:37:38am

re: #261 Punish Domestic Terrorists

Based on the fact that the wingnuts keep passing around a worksheet with some weird questions, I think that’s as close as they can get to finding anything related to race in math.

Is the worksheet in Georgia still trying to find 16,000 additional votes for Trump?
///

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Decatur Deb  Apr 18, 2022 • 10:37:41am

re: #247 Backwoods_Sleuth

Loons.

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 18, 2022 • 10:38:15am

It’s snowing! Not common for the 3rd week of April but it still happens in Michigan. My grandkids (from Florida) are losing their minds!

I checked the weather report & it is supposed to pile up to 3 inches.

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Dangerman  Apr 18, 2022 • 10:38:37am

re: #205 Eclectic Cyborg

“life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”

I’m sure this GOP asshole will be shocked to know people can be happy WITHOUT kids.

Happier even

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 18, 2022 • 10:38:41am

re: #264 Decatur Deb

Loons.

How dare you defame those noble birds in such a fashion.

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 18, 2022 • 10:40:54am

re: #265 The Pie Overlord!

It’s snowing! Not common for the 3rd week of April but it still happens in Michigan. My grandkids (from Florida) are losing their minds!

I checked the weather report & it is supposed to pile up to 3 inches.

The only month where there has not been a measurable snowfall in the State of Minnesota is July.

In fact, on this day in history, 9 years ago, we got a massive snowstorm that left 4” of snow actually on the ground, but easily double that amount fell (due to the ground being warm and melting much of the early fall). That also happens to be the day my daughter was born. My dad was super frustrated trying to navigate the last 20 miles to the hospital, because the intense blizzard conditions had slowed traffic to a crawl.

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Dangerman  Apr 18, 2022 • 10:41:08am

re: #220 Backwoods_Sleuth

Is she the proponent of pineapple/onion pizza?

Not the instigator last week. That’s #2
She has her own ideas

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 18, 2022 • 10:41:28am

re: #254 Eventual Carrion

Where the fuck would you find CRT in math books? I know a few people have said the “=” sign as a goof, but WTF.

My guess would be it has to do with the phrasing of the example problems: “Johnny and his moms are shopping for apples. If Johnny grabs 8 Apples and one of his moms grabs 7, how many apples are they buying?”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2022 • 10:44:33am
Former Republican National Committee faith outreach director Chad Connelly announced Monday that using conservative pastors to mobilize Christian voter turnout was such a success in Virginia last year that his group is expanding its “American Restoration Tour” to 16 states for this year’s midterm elections.

Connelly runs an organization called Faith Wins, the purpose of which is “to maximize and activate the Christian vote and influence at every level in the public arena.” He made the announcement about this year’s project on the Truth & Liberty Coalition’s livestream program, which he also used to launch last year’s campaign.

Connelly bragged about the impact his work had on helping place Republican Glenn Youngkin in the Virginia governor’s office in 2021, saying that over the course of the year, his organization held “a couple hundred meetings” in the state and managed to get “312 churches [to] register 77,000 new voters.” On top of that, Connelly said they also trained and “recruited over 1,300 people to be poll watchers.”

“We trained pastors to get Sunday School classes to go to their county election commission,” Connelly said. “It was beautiful, y’all.”

(more)

David Barton and Chad Connelly Are Recruiting Pastors for GOTV in Midterms, Hoping to Duplicate 2021 Success in Virginia (Right Wing Watch)

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Charles Johnson  Apr 18, 2022 • 10:46:02am

Still recovering from that goddamned lobster ravioli, so new posts will be slow today.

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EPR-radar  Apr 18, 2022 • 10:47:59am

re: #210 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Many Christians argue that’s to keep government out of churches, but not churches out of law. It’s ahistorical claptrap, but Lying for Jesus has been a thing since Thomas Aquinas.

Since St. Peter, actually.

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 18, 2022 • 10:48:24am

I picked up one of these last week. It’s not bad as long as you’re OK with lifting a litterbox.

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 18, 2022 • 10:50:15am

re: #271 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

(more)

David Barton and Chad Connelly Are Recruiting Pastors for GOTV in Midterms, Hoping to Duplicate 2021 Success in Virginia (Right Wing Watch)

Pastors aren’t born. They have to be recruited into the lifestyle.

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 18, 2022 • 10:51:47am

re: #272 Charles Johnson

Still recovering from that goddamned lobster ravioli, so new posts will be slow today.

Well now we know one of the reasons that the Torah prohibits eating shellfish.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2022 • 10:55:34am

re: #272 Charles Johnson

Still recovering from that goddamned lobster ravioli, so new posts will be slow today.

I’m sorry to hear about your food poisoning yesterday. I hope you feel better soon.

I’m sitting down to leftover Easter dinner (Navy bean soup).

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dat_said  Apr 18, 2022 • 10:56:39am

re: #270 Eclectic Cyborg

My guess would be it has to do with the phrasing of the example problems: “Johnny and his moms are shopping for apples. If Johnny grabs 8 Apples and one of his moms grabs 7, how many apples are they buying?”

But that’s not CRT. That would be LGBTQ.

Perhaps it’s because they mention that the concept of a written zero came from outside Europe. Seriously, I have no idea what CRT in a math book would be. I doubt there’s a lot of word problems on the economic differences between the North and South just prior to the Civil War.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2022 • 10:58:29am

re: #278 dat_said

But that’s not CRT. That would be LGBTQ.

Perhaps it’s because they mention that the concept of a written zero came from outside Europe. Seriously, I have no idea what CRT in a math book would be. I doubt there’s a lot of word problems on the economic differences between the North and South just prior to the Civil War.

Pictures of not-white people.

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Semper Fi  Apr 18, 2022 • 10:58:35am

re: #272 Charles Johnson

Still recovering from that goddamned lobster ravioli, so new posts will be slow today.

Sorry I couldn’t offer helpful suggestion(s) toward feeling better. My all-time helper to clear up stomach ills is Pepto Bismol and I haven’t a clue if it would help you.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 18, 2022 • 10:59:54am

re: #242 Jay C

You’re welcome.

And props to the ninth updinger here who will put me at the Meaningless Milestone of:
47,000!!!

That would be me. You’re welcome!

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ckkatz  Apr 18, 2022 • 11:00:03am

Apropos of last night’s discussion…

I seem to remember a movie scene, maybe a Woodie Allen one, where everybody dies during a dinner. The protagonist then encounters ‘Death’ standing there and asks what happened. Death silently points to a dish on the table.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 18, 2022 • 11:00:17am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 18, 2022 • 11:02:14am
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dat_said  Apr 18, 2022 • 11:02:22am

re: #279 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Pictures of not-white people.

I just reread the quoted word of Desantis’ Lt. Gov Jeanette Nunez on FL’s rejection of 71% of math textbooks: “What we’ve seen is a systematic attempt by these publishers to infiltrate our children’s education by embedding topics such as CRT.”

The phrase “such as” is likely playing a big deceptive role here and they don’t want to openly talk about the whole list of ways those publishers are infiltrating children’s education.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 18, 2022 • 11:04:16am

re: #268 Dopamine Fish

The only month where there has not been a measurable snowfall in the State of Minnesota is July.

In fact, on this day in history, 9 years ago, we got a massive snowstorm that left 4” of snow actually on the ground, but easily double that amount fell (due to the ground being warm and melting much of the early fall). That also happens to be the day my daughter was born. My dad was super frustrated trying to navigate the last 20 miles to the hospital, because the intense blizzard conditions had slowed traffic to a crawl.

Though I spent a Fourth of July camping in Minnesota once that felt like it was cold enough to snow.

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ckkatz  Apr 18, 2022 • 11:04:55am

re: #112 Punish Domestic Terrorists

They did accept the $0 AGI. Next I see what kind of trouble that causes.

re: #194 Punish Domestic Terrorists

Sounds like you did everything right and the Feds messed up. Congratulations on overcoming other folk’s foul-ups. There’s that old saying “All’s well that ends”.

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 18, 2022 • 11:06:36am

I was so busy on Friday that I forgot to post pictures of our family’s seder table, so here it is now:

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No Malarkey!  Apr 18, 2022 • 11:06:41am

re: #282 ckkatz

Apropos of last night’s discussion…

I seem to remember a movie scene, maybe a Woodie Allen one, where everybody dies during a dinner. The protagonist then encounters ‘Death’ standing there and asks what happened. Death silently points to a dish on the table.

I think that’s from Monty Python and the Meaning of Life.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Apr 18, 2022 • 11:07:08am

Fed and State returns submitted and accepted.

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sizzzzlerz  Apr 18, 2022 • 11:08:03am

Solved my networking issue on my new Windows 11 laptop. When I used the browser, every now and again, it would freeze for seconds while loading pages. Sometimes, it would pick up, other times, I’d get one of those error windows saying the DNS was down. I started investigating how I setup my wireless (I use a static IP address and Google DNS) and things looked fine until I noticed that one of the DNS addresses didn’t look right. I checked my iPad settings and, sure enough, I got the second address wrong. Correcting it made pages load normally.

The moral of my story is to always write shit down, reference my notes, and don’t rely on my aging, creaky, brain to remember things.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 18, 2022 • 11:08:27am

re: #283 Backwoods_Sleuth

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ckkatz  Apr 18, 2022 • 11:08:36am

re: #105 darthstar

I understand is that a lot of Ukrainian Apple products stolen by the Russians are being located via the Apple locate feature.

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jaunte  Apr 18, 2022 • 11:11:01am

Youtube Video

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Semper Fi  Apr 18, 2022 • 11:11:18am

re: #293 ckkatz

I understand is that a lot of Ukrainian Apple products stolen by the Russians are being located via the Apple locate feature.

Send a rocket to that location….a big one.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 18, 2022 • 11:11:29am

re: #289 No Malarkey!

I think that’s from Monty Python and the Meaning of Life.

Yep.

Youtube Video

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 18, 2022 • 11:11:41am

re: #278 dat_said

But that’s not CRT. That would be LGBTQ.

Yeah, I know. That was just an example of a theoretical math problem the GOP might take issue with.

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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 18, 2022 • 11:11:51am

re: #288 The Pie Overlord!

I was so busy on Friday that I forgot to post pictures of our family’s seder table, so here it is now:

Zedushka looked at the table setting (click to embiggen) and he was like Four Forks? I know about the Four Wine Cups, but why do you need Four Forks? My granddaughter (who set the table) explained, “The big fork is for meat, the medium one is fish, the small one for dessert, and the li’l tiny one is for berries.”

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ckkatz  Apr 18, 2022 • 11:12:30am

re: #292 No Malarkey!
Wasn’t there a news report from a rwnj protest at the Michigan Capitol building a couple of years ago where there lines at the magnetic detectors. But people carrying firearms were permitted to go around the detectors?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2022 • 11:13:04am

Easter egg mix-up: Parent dressed as Easter bunny hands out condoms at Texas elementary school (Houston Chronicle)

According to a text thread amongst parents at the school, it appears to be a mistake. Cue wingnut outrage though.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 18, 2022 • 11:13:27am

The U.S. will train Ukrainians outside Ukraine on the use of Howitzers, then they will return home to train other Ukrainians.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 18, 2022 • 11:13:30am

re: #292 No Malarkey!

I can’t tell you how pissed off I’d be having to walk through a metal detector just to go to JC Penneys.

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jaunte  Apr 18, 2022 • 11:14:34am
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No Malarkey!  Apr 18, 2022 • 11:15:07am

re: #299 ckkatz

Wasn’t there a news report from a rwnj protest at the Michigan Capitol building a couple of years ago where there lines at the magnetic detectors. But people carrying firearms were permitted to go around the detectors?

It wouldn’t surprise. There are metal detectors at the entrances to the Kentucky Capitol, but its perfectly legal to bring your assault rifles into the building.

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A Cranky One  Apr 18, 2022 • 11:19:18am

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Semper Fi  Apr 18, 2022 • 11:19:33am

re: #302 Eclectic Cyborg

I can’t tell you how pissed off I’d be having to walk through a metal detector just to go to JC Penneys.

Unfortunately, the assholes of this world have caused much disappointment and even anger. I’ve been known to say similar to sad faced hitchhikers when I don’t pick them up.

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jaunte  Apr 18, 2022 • 11:19:59am

re: #305 A Cranky One

And some of their bridges are still standing.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2022 • 11:20:05am

re: #283 Backwoods_Sleuth

Radar detectors? To catch speeding motorised wheelchairs might be a good idea.

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 18, 2022 • 11:21:38am

I just finished my chair. So far not bad.

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A Cranky One  Apr 18, 2022 • 11:22:48am

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 18, 2022 • 11:23:05am

re: #303 jaunte

Also add in all the money he has wasted with his stupid border fiasco.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 18, 2022 • 11:23:45am

re: #307 jaunte

And some of their bridges are still standing.

The Appian Way is still in use to this day, over two millennia later. Here where I live, they’ve just started work on replacing a highway overpass.

A highway overpass that’s only six years old. 😑

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No Malarkey!  Apr 18, 2022 • 11:24:10am

A Trump judge, of course.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Apr 18, 2022 • 11:24:29am
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Jay C  Apr 18, 2022 • 11:24:30am

re: #245 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Oh, and a personal TY: you seem to have been # 9…..

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jaunte  Apr 18, 2022 • 11:25:19am

re: #314 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

Judicial sabotage.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 18, 2022 • 11:27:28am

re: #282 ckkatz

Apropos of last night’s discussion…

I seem to remember a movie scene, maybe a Woodie Allen one, where everybody dies during a dinner. The protagonist then encounters ‘Death’ standing there and asks what happened. Death silently points to a dish on the table.

Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life.

“There is a Mr Death here. Something about the reaping.”

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Apr 18, 2022 • 11:27:54am

CRT math problem (as imagined by Repugs):

Seven white business owners are arrested. One is excused for being gay, another is found to be an Iranian immigrant. Five are found guilty of failure to promote African American women and of disrespecting the Kwanzaa holiday. Three are summarily beheaded on the guillotine. How many does that leave for the firing squad?

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No Malarkey!  Apr 18, 2022 • 11:28:53am
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aatharuv  Apr 18, 2022 • 11:28:56am

re: #314 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

re: #313 No Malarkey!

A Trump judge, of course.

But for now this is _only_ the Middle District of Florida, right?
documentcloud.org

And now they’ll want to scream the “good news” in my face with their masks off.

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Jay C  Apr 18, 2022 • 11:29:04am

re: #281 No Malarkey!

That would be me. You’re welcome!

Oh, thanks, man.
I thought it was Wendell: I forgot the upding list isn’t strictly chronological.
Or maybe it is, grateful anyway 😁

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No Malarkey!  Apr 18, 2022 • 11:32:01am

re: #320 aatharuv

But for now this is _only_ the Middle District of Florida, right?
documentcloud.org

And now they’ll want to scream the “good news” in my face with their masks off.

I think she struck it down nationwide. We’ll see if her ruling gets stayed on appeal.

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Shropshire Slasher  Apr 18, 2022 • 11:34:33am

I only count two forks!

Vice President Kamala Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff have triggered a political backlash after serving wine produced in a West Bank settlement at their Passover Seder Friday.

A bottle at the veep’s residence appeared to bear a label from the Psagot Winery, which made headlines when it named one of its wines after then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the Times of Israel reported.

The winery tipped its glass to the former top US diplomat, who visited the West Bank after he declared that the Trump administration would no longer deem Israeli settlements there as violating international law.

“Tonight, @VP and I were honored to celebrate Passover with our hardworking staff by holding a Seder at the Vice President’s Residence,” Emhoff said in a tweet, which appeared to show the Psagot bottle.

“Whether you’re celebrating with your family, your work family, or the family you have chosen, we wish you all a Happy Passover!” he added.

During his stop, Pompeo wrote in the Psagot visitors’ book that “it is a blessing to be here in Judea and Samaria,” using the Hebrew names for the West Bank area.

nypost.com

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jaunte  Apr 18, 2022 • 11:37:00am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 18, 2022 • 11:40:54am

Hold up.

A single Federal judge in Florida can just void the mask guidelines for the whole fucking country?

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 18, 2022 • 11:42:14am

re: #325 Eclectic Cyborg

Hold up.

A single Federal judge in Florida can just void the mask guidelines for the whole fucking country?

Yep! This is why Republicans have been working so diligently to control the judiciary. Federal judges have federal jurisdiction, which means they can make rulings which impact federal policy.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 18, 2022 • 11:42:17am

re: #325 Eclectic Cyborg

Hold up.

A single Federal judge in Florida can just void the mask guidelines for the whole fucking country?

Yes. Though it might get stayed on appeal. Or not.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 18, 2022 • 11:42:50am

re: #325 Eclectic Cyborg

Hold up.

A single Federal judge in Florida can just void the mask guidelines for the whole fucking country?

I imagine it’ll be stayed pending appeal to SCOTUS.

Now how SCOTUS rules on it, that’s a different kettle of fish entirely.

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 18, 2022 • 11:43:16am

The People’s Convoy Can’t Stop Their Own Dogs From Peeing on Their Food (The Daily Beast)

Delusional people dealing with other delusional people who get upset if you tell them their dogs can’t destroy the food supplies meant for the stupid people who are protesting in favor of covid.

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Dopamine Fish  Apr 18, 2022 • 11:44:24am

re: #328 Dr Lizardo

I imagine it’ll be stayed pending appeal to SCOTUS.

Now how SCOTUS rules on it, that’s a different kettle of fish entirely.

The one thing I will say about SCOTUS is that they have been pretty good at slapping down the anti-vaxxers and other pro-COVID bullshit, with a few exceptions, because this Court does have to maintain a certain quota of evil.

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Jay C  Apr 18, 2022 • 11:44:51am

re: #323 Shropshire Slasher

I only count two forks!

nypost.com

I realize it’s the Murdoch Post, but SRSLY: “triggering a political backlash” over a fucking bottle of Passover wine?

Does whatever idiot who wrote this hackery seriously expect MVP & 2Gent to do a background check on every bottle of vino they serve?

I guess it’s better than if they knowingly uncorked (and selfied) a bottle of “Vino Pompeo” or whatever Psagot called their swill, but RLY…

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jaunte  Apr 18, 2022 • 11:49:04am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2022 • 11:49:38am

re: #316 jaunte

Judicial sabotage.

Bernie Bros: Don’t guilt trip me about the courts.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2022 • 11:49:49am
336
Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 18, 2022 • 11:53:00am

re: #333 jaunte

“Expand our appeal to working class black people.”

Good luck with that.

337
jaunte  Apr 18, 2022 • 11:54:49am

re: #336 Eclectic Cyborg

“And give up our Law ‘n Order hammer?”

338
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2022 • 11:55:39am
339
Crush White Nationalism  Apr 18, 2022 • 11:57:17am
340
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2022 • 12:01:29pm
341
KingKenrod  Apr 18, 2022 • 12:01:44pm

“American Hitler? But I meant it as a compliment!” - JD Vance //

342
Captain Ron  Apr 18, 2022 • 12:02:36pm
343
gocart mozart  Apr 18, 2022 • 12:06:09pm

Today in right wing idiocy, UK edition.

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No Malarkey!  Apr 18, 2022 • 12:06:35pm

re: #329 Punish Domestic Terrorists

The People’s Convoy Can’t Stop Their Own Dogs From Peeing on Their Food (The Daily Beast)

Delusional people dealing with other delusional people who get upset if you tell them their dogs can’t destroy the food supplies meant for the stupid people who are protesting in favor of covid.

Mind immediately jumped to National Lampoon’s Vacation.

345
Crush White Nationalism  Apr 18, 2022 • 12:07:48pm

They both look like they need anti-hoarding help.

346
Captain Ron  Apr 18, 2022 • 12:18:15pm
347
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2022 • 12:23:26pm

He Could’ve Taken Down the Trump Org. Now He’s Taking the Blame. (Daily Beast)

Jeffrey McConney had a front-row seat for the untaxed perks that he and other Trump Organization executives received. He took an immunity deal, and then tried to take the blame.

He is taking the blame for Trump Organisation CFO Alan Weiselberg, claiming as a decades-long accountant he “did not know” that things such as luxury apartments and tuition payments for private schools are tax-deductible.

A quirk in New York law says that if you admit to a crime in front of a grand jury, you cannot be charged for that crime. Thus, Mr. McConney (now known as the person named as “Individual-1”) can’t be charged for tax evasion. The point is to get Mr. Weiselberg off the hook by taking the blame himself. He was the principal witness against Mr. Weiselberg.

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danarchy  Apr 18, 2022 • 12:37:19pm

re: #325 Eclectic Cyborg

Hold up.

A single Federal judge in Florida can just void the mask guidelines for the whole fucking country?

Double edged sword. It also means a single federal judge was able to block a lot of Trumps most batshit EOs for the whole country.

349
Dangerman  Apr 18, 2022 • 12:39:47pm

re: #347 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

He Could’ve Taken Down the Trump Org. Now He’s Taking the Blame. (Daily Beast)

Jeffrey McConney had a front-row seat for the untaxed perks that he and other Trump Organization executives received. He took an immunity deal, and then tried to take the blame.

He is taking the blame for Trump Organisation CFO Alan Weiselberg, claiming as a decades-long accountant he “did not know” that things such as luxury apartments and tuition payments for private schools are tax-deductible.

A quirk in New York law says that if you admit to a crime in front of a grand jury, you cannot be charged for that crime. Thus, Mr. McConney (now known as the person named as “Individual-1”) can’t be charged for tax evasion. The point is to get Mr. Weiselberg off the hook by taking the blame himself. He was the principal witness against Mr. Weiselberg.

this sentence doesnt make sense

that things such as luxury apartments and tuition payments for private schools are tax-deductible.

they are includible in income to the recipient as compensation

what you cant do is deduct them at the corporate level and not include them in compensation

further, even if this absurdity (“i didnt know”) is true, his boss - the CFO, and the other guy who, you know, signed the tax returns BOTH certainly knew and should have caught it in any one of the dozens and dozens of years that passed

you can take the blame in front of a grand jury but you cant lie to do it

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 18, 2022 • 12:41:20pm

re: #348 danarchy

And in Philly we have an indoor mask mandate and the state is not happy about it. The only thing I want to add is that Philly has a home rule charter which means we can make our own rules and thumb our noses at the State.

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EPR-radar  Apr 18, 2022 • 12:43:27pm

re: #347 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

My patience with these Republican crooks is long gone. Lock them all up, sweep their homes and offices for evidence, and try and convict them for their crimes.

352
HRH Stanley Sea  Apr 18, 2022 • 12:50:31pm

re: #288 The Pie Overlord!

I was so busy on Friday that I forgot to post pictures of our family’s seder table, so here it is now:

[Embedded content]

I recognize your glorious china!

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EPR-radar  Apr 18, 2022 • 12:51:33pm

re: #350 PhillyPretzel

And in Philly we have an indoor mask mandate and the state is not happy about it. The only thing I want to add is that Philly has a home rule charter which means we can make our own rules and thumb our noses at the State.

Why does the state care one way or the other about a Philly mask mandate? Is it just state level Republicans being assholes?

354
Belafon  Apr 18, 2022 • 12:52:55pm

re: #322 No Malarkey!

I think she struck it down nationwide. We’ll see if her ruling gets stayed on appeal.

The same Republicans complaining about lower level judges issuing nation-wide rulings are going to applaud this one.

355
Crush White Nationalism  Apr 18, 2022 • 12:56:36pm

Here’s what happens when a flash gets reflected directly back into the camera on an S6.

356
PhillyPretzel  Apr 18, 2022 • 12:57:31pm

re: #353 EPR-radar

Here is an article from WHYY/Billy Penn regarding Philly’s mask mandate.
billypenn.com

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Decatur Deb  Apr 18, 2022 • 12:58:56pm

re: #278 dat_said

But that’s not CRT. That would be LGBTQ.

Perhaps it’s because they mention that the concept of a written zero came from outside Europe. Seriously, I have no idea what CRT in a math book would be. I doubt there’s a lot of word problems on the economic differences between the North and South just prior to the Civil War.

I think Florida’s problems involve fractions. Like 3/5ths.

358
JC1  Apr 18, 2022 • 12:59:59pm

Multiple sources reporting that Russia’s major offensive in East Ukraine has started.

359
Crush White Nationalism  Apr 18, 2022 • 1:05:50pm
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PhillyPretzel  Apr 18, 2022 • 1:08:25pm

re: #359 Punish Domestic Terrorists

Sounds like Vlad is busy cleaning up some of his messes.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 18, 2022 • 1:08:57pm

*SPIT*

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PhillyPretzel  Apr 18, 2022 • 1:10:52pm

re: #361 Backwoods_Sleuth

I am sorry to see that politics is more important than the public’s health.

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Mike Lamb  Apr 18, 2022 • 1:12:25pm

re: #247 Backwoods_Sleuth

I suspect it was a word problem with a photo of a person of color. Problem starts:

Mark boards the first car of a train leaving at….

“Flag it. The black kid was at the front of the train.”

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No Malarkey!  Apr 18, 2022 • 1:13:01pm

re: #361 Backwoods_Sleuth

*SPIT*

I would report his post, but Twitter never does anything about Massie’s lies about masking, so I don’t see the point.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 18, 2022 • 1:13:34pm

re: #358 JC1

Multiple sources reporting that Russia’s major offensive in East Ukraine has started.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 18, 2022 • 1:14:30pm
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darthstar  Apr 18, 2022 • 1:16:05pm

re: #360 PhillyPretzel

Sounds like Vlad is busy cleaning up some of his messes.

Killing the wife and kid sends a message to other executives with families.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 18, 2022 • 1:17:40pm
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BlueSpotinAL  Apr 18, 2022 • 1:19:17pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 18, 2022 • 1:20:37pm

cats would like a word…

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No Malarkey!  Apr 18, 2022 • 1:25:37pm
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The Pie Overlord!  Apr 18, 2022 • 1:26:53pm

re: #323 Shropshire Slasher

I only count two forks!

nypost.com

If you embiggen the photo at the NY Post you will see a 3rd fork at the top of the plate.

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Grunthos the Flatulent  Apr 18, 2022 • 1:27:20pm

Tomorrow sucks.

Click to Reveal

Wordle 304 X/6

⬛⬛🟨🟨🟨
⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩
⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩
⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩
⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛
⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩

Samples from 6 NZ players: 4,4,X,X,X,X

And for me it gets worse.

There goes my streak.


Be afraid.

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darthstar  Apr 18, 2022 • 1:30:04pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 18, 2022 • 1:31:18pm
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wrenchwench  Apr 18, 2022 • 1:32:23pm

re: #373 Grunthos the Flatulent

Tomorrow sucks.

[Embedded content]

Oh, man. So sorry.

I’m posting from yesterday, I just previewed this, then saw a new comment, yours. Sorry about the streak. Today’s yesterday:

Current streak, 3. Current wordle, 39th 3.

Click to Reveal

Wordle 303 3/6

⬜🟦⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟧🟦⬜⬜
🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧

I went to sleep after the frustrating 2. I tried to think about it, but couldn’t remember wtf puzzle I was on. Got up, did stuff, looked at the puzzle and what letters were left, and put in the first word I could make.

That’s a lot of 3s.

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darthstar  Apr 18, 2022 • 1:33:11pm

re: #373 Grunthos the Flatulent

Friend of mine just posted his 100/100 streak the other day. Sorry to see you get so close only to lose it.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 18, 2022 • 1:34:31pm
379
darthstar  Apr 18, 2022 • 1:34:41pm

re: #377 darthstar

Friend of mine just posted his 100/100 streak the other day. Sorry to see you get so close only to lose it.

My 100th is tomorrow. I missed on #12 and #14…

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BlueSpotinAL  Apr 18, 2022 • 1:37:26pm

re: #373 Grunthos the Flatulent

Tomorrow sucks.

[Embedded content]

Be afraid.

Is it this bad?

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 18, 2022 • 1:38:11pm

re: #374 darthstar

Neither do all these right-wing weirdos. This has taught me that most people do not know the difference between IR and UV light.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 18, 2022 • 1:38:11pm
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wrenchwench  Apr 18, 2022 • 1:38:52pm

2 snek

Click to Reveal
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 18, 2022 • 1:46:24pm
385
PhillyPretzel  Apr 18, 2022 • 1:49:00pm

re: #384 Backwoods_Sleuth

She laid down the law to DT and his cronies. She must have gotten some threats recently. All I have to say is, keep up the good work Letitia.

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Dangerman  Apr 18, 2022 • 1:51:01pm

re: #361 Backwoods_Sleuth

*SPIT*

[Embedded content]

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Dangerman  Apr 18, 2022 • 1:51:24pm

re: #386 Dangerman

[Embedded content]

ps - she did not come up with this on her own

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Captain Magic  Apr 18, 2022 • 1:54:19pm

re: #387 Dangerman

ps - she did not come up with this on her own

The airlines have been screeching about ending the mandate - guess they got their wish.

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gocart mozart  Apr 18, 2022 • 1:54:40pm
390
Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 18, 2022 • 1:54:56pm
391
Dangerman  Apr 18, 2022 • 1:55:19pm

re: #387 Dangerman

ps - she did not come up with this on her own

pps - she was approved by the senate late in november after tfg lost the election

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wrenchwench  Apr 18, 2022 • 1:57:06pm

re: #391 Dangerman

pps - she was approved by the senate late in november after tfg lost the election

Bad as he is, Trump is only a symptom.

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Sherlock Hound  Apr 18, 2022 • 1:58:17pm

I thought this was sweet. Lindt Chocolates had a cute bunny piloting a cardboard tractor!
This bunny wishes that he had bendable digits to express how he feels towards the Russians.
Meanwhile, he says “Slava Ukraini!” and hopes to join in the hunt soon!

Easter Bunny says “Slava Ukraini”!
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2022 • 2:02:27pm

The Herman Cain Award: the prize no one wants to get and creators want to destroy (“The Endless Thread” podcast from WBUR, Boston, 37:06)

In the podcast, one of the people featured was a person who was nominated for the award, but survived. It is quite illuminating how quickly he becomes angry at questions, then storms out of the programme.

He also starts his arguments with “As a Christian… .”

r/TheHermanCainAward [sic: it is r/HermanCainAward] is a subreddit which boasts more than 500,000 members. Its purpose? To “award” those who’ve died from coronavirus complications after publicly expressing COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy, misinformation, or pandemic-denying memes online.

Herman Cain, former businessman, politician and Republican candidate for president, is the inspiration behind the subreddit, who died in 2020 after contracting COVID-19. Before he died, Cain had made statements downplaying the pandemic and refused preventative measures such as mask-wearing.

Today’s episode is a deep dive into The Herman Cain Award subreddit. We meet a moderator and a Cain Award nominee. But we find these two people on opposite sides of the COVID vaccine debate may have more in common than they realize.

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 18, 2022 • 2:06:10pm

re: #390 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

kawaii, ne.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 18, 2022 • 2:06:22pm

re: #394 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I give that podcast a 9-9-9 out of 10.

/

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Crush White Nationalism  Apr 18, 2022 • 2:09:00pm
In the fall of 2021, members of the U.S. Congress and hundreds of Western journalists obtained access to a collection of internal Facebook documents. The trove of research reports, proposals, presentations, and employee conversations would form the foundation for dozens of news stories describing Facebook’s own awareness of the real-world harms that resulted from its relentless pursuit of its users’ attention.

Whistleblower Frances Haugen—a former member of the Civic Integrity team at the company now called Meta—shared the cache of more than 1,300 documents that would come to be known collectively as the Facebook Papers. She would go on to testify before Congress as to their implications. Lawmakers would grill Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri about them as well.

In November 2021, Gizmodo partnered with a group of independent experts to review, redact, and publish the Facebook Papers. This committee serves to advise and monitor our work and facilitate the responsible disclosure of the greatest number of documents in the public interest possible. We believe in the value of open access to these materials. Our collective goal is to minimize any potential harms that could result from the disclosure of certain methods by which Meta tackles sensitive issues like sex trafficking, disinformation, and voter manipulation. The documents, which have not previously been published, additionally contain both personal and private details about low-level Facebook employees and many of the users included in the company’s studies and internal discussions. The risks associated with publishing this information outweighs the value of disclosure.

Read the Facebook Papers for Yourself (Gizmodo)

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Decatur Deb  Apr 18, 2022 • 2:13:18pm

re: #397 Punish Domestic Terrorists

Last sentence seems to mean the opposite of the article.

399
Barefoot Grin  Apr 18, 2022 • 2:13:33pm

Great. My IRS e-file rejection was because one of my dependents’ SSN appears on another filing. One son says he indicated he’s my dependent on his return. If it’s not the other one, then it means someone used one of their SSNs to file fraudulently. What a mess. It all could have been avoided if I had filed early. Goddamnit. I get myself into so much trouble sometimes due to procrastination.

400
Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Apr 18, 2022 • 2:20:04pm

Hooray!
Now, can jailed terrorists sue him for lying to them about “crisis actors?” Nah, guess not.

401
Crush White Nationalism  Apr 18, 2022 • 2:21:13pm

re: #400 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

Hooray!
Now, can jailed terrorists sue him for lying to them about “crisis actors?” Nah, guess not.

It is not great news. This is Jones hiding from the judgement against him. He’s not broke.

402
darthstar  Apr 18, 2022 • 2:23:28pm

re: #400 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

Hooray!
Now, can jailed terrorists sue him for lying to them about “crisis actors?” Nah, guess not.

[Embedded content]

Bankruptcy protection…his personal assets should be impounded as well.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2022 • 2:28:04pm

re: #400 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

Hooray!
Now, can jailed terrorists sue him for lying to them about “crisis actors?” Nah, guess not.

He’s trying to hide his money. Never get between a libertarian and his money.

404
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2022 • 2:29:33pm

re: #399 Barefoot Grin

Great. My IRS e-file rejection was because one of my dependents’ SSN appears on another filing. One son says he indicated he’s my dependent on his return. If it’s not the other one, then it means someone used one of their SSNs to file fraudulently. What a mess. It all could have been avoided if I had filed early. Goddamnit. I get myself into so much trouble sometimes due to procrastination.

Do you have a thief in your family?

405
Crush White Nationalism  Apr 18, 2022 • 2:30:03pm
Every woman I know has had this conversation with men in their lives. Since March 2020, more and more men have traded stocks every day. They’ll buy one tech stock and sell the next based on advice from Reddit. Even worse, many are piling their future retirement money into bitcoin or the one thing more speculative than bitcoin: sketchy new cryptocurrencies pumped (and later dumped) by influencers, celebrities, and even porn stars. When women try to talk sense into men, we all hear the same reply: “Go do your research!”

I’ve done my research, and I’ve found that people who invest in speculative manias lose their shirts. Everyone from the Securities and Exchange Commission to researchers in Taiwan see that most day traders lose money. Most professional traders lose money, too. Between 2011 and 2021, the S&P 500 index fund outperformed “top” hedge funds. The average joe should put their investment funds in a Roth IRA or IRA invested in diversified index funds and ETFs. Under no circumstances should anyone invest their entire retirement in a new cryptocurrency promoted by an Instagram model or obnoxious tech CEO.

When I sent this actual research to my male friends, they were uninterested and told me I was behind the times. Men are basically pussy-blind to cryptocurrencies. So, I decided to teach them a lesson or two with my actual pussy.

The Porn Star Banging Men Into Not Buying Crypto and NFTs (The Daily Beast)

406
ckkatz  Apr 18, 2022 • 2:31:15pm

re: #282 ckkatz

Apropos of last night’s discussion…

I seem to remember a movie scene, maybe a Woodie Allen one, where everybody dies during a dinner. The protagonist then encounters ‘Death’ standing there and asks what happened. Death silently points to a dish on the table.

Aha! Which explains this post by the Esteemed “Dread Pirate Ron”

re: #30 Dread Pirate Ron

So, you’ll be having the salmon mousse?

Thanks and a hat tip to:

re: #317 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

re: #289 No Malarkey!

407
Barefoot Grin  Apr 18, 2022 • 2:32:35pm

re: #404 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Do you have a thief in your family?

No.

408
Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 18, 2022 • 2:34:45pm

re: #405 Punish Domestic Terrorists

Most Crypro is basically MLM with a more high-tech coat of paint and a greater environmental impact.

409
Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 18, 2022 • 2:37:04pm
410
Crush White Nationalism  Apr 18, 2022 • 2:39:06pm

re: #407 Barefoot Grin

No.

Are you sure? We could have Backwoods_Sleuth look into it.

411
Barefoot Grin  Apr 18, 2022 • 2:41:36pm

re: #410 Punish Domestic Terrorists

Are you sure? We could have Backwoods_Sleuth look into it.

If it were going to be someone in my family it would be me. Wait a minute…..

412
Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Apr 18, 2022 • 2:41:45pm

re: #401 Punish Domestic Terrorists

It is not great news. This is Jones hiding from the judgement against him. He’s not broke.

re: #402 darthstar

Bankruptcy protection…his personal assets should be impounded as well.

re: #403 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

He’s trying to hide his money. Never get between a libertarian and his money.

This is only a first step. I would be very surprised indeed if plaintiffs’ attorneys have not anticipated it and devised a counter move. Damages have not been decided but legal costs alone were enough to bankrupt Jones’s company and only personal assets will be available for his defense in the future.

413
Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 18, 2022 • 2:43:35pm

re: #410 Punish Domestic Terrorists

Are you sure? We could have Backwoods_Sleuth look into it.

LOL

414
Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 18, 2022 • 2:45:56pm
415
ckkatz  Apr 18, 2022 • 2:48:41pm

re: #319 No Malarkey!

Yes!

I had been meaning to mention that the last approved list of US aid to Ukraine had the exact equivalent of the equipment for one US Army battalion of towed howitzers. It had 18 howitzers, target acquisition radars , artillery ammunition, and humvees. Not mentioned, but I suspect supplied were all the additional equipment like radios, fire direction equipment, spare parts, etc.

While the howitzers were not specified and could have been either M109 paladin or m198 towed, the m109 as a mechanized vehicle, would have required a lot more maintenance training. And it was highly unlikely that the US would have supplied 155mm howitzer ammunition with 105mm howitzers.

It also seemed likely to me that supplying a single battalion was not the plan. That instead, the intent was to use it to train up the Ukrainians. Doing so out of the combat theater would also allow the US to perform any of the higher level maintenance on the howitzers or other equipment. The Ukrainians already have humvees and so probably can maintain those as long as they have the spare parts.

One additional thought… Pulling soldiers out of combat to train and reorganize them likely means that Ukraine has sufficient manpower available right now.

Slovakia was trying to interest the Ukrainians in the 152mm Dana or 155mm Zuzana howitzers. But I suspect that they did not have enough of them available to fill out Ukraine’s immediate needs.

As I have mentioned earlier, there is a lot of money for the defense industry here. And both Germany and France being late out the gate is going to peeve off some very big national corporations.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 18, 2022 • 2:53:41pm
417
darthstar  Apr 18, 2022 • 2:55:11pm

re: #415 ckkatz

This may be why Russia is starting their attack on Donbas - they want to try and gain the advantage before Ukraine has guns in place that out-range theirs.

418
darthstar  Apr 18, 2022 • 2:55:45pm

re: #417 darthstar

This may be why Russia is starting their attack on Donbas - they want to try and gain the advantage before Ukraine has guns in place that out-range theirs.

And the US Howitzers have a range of around 22 miles whereas the Russian ones only have about 15 miles.

419
The Pie Overlord!  Apr 18, 2022 • 3:02:25pm

re: #352 HRH Stanley Sea

I recognize your glorious china!

I know that someone here recommended this Lenox pattern. Was it you?

420
The Pie Overlord!  Apr 18, 2022 • 3:16:31pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Apr 18, 2022 • 3:17:47pm

re: #416 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 18, 2022 • 3:21:21pm

re: #254 Eventual Carrion

Where the fuck would you find CRT in math books? I know a few people have said the “=” sign as a goof, but WTF.

I wonder if the math texts were excluded due to Common Core concepts rather than CRT.

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Decatur Deb  Apr 18, 2022 • 3:23:20pm

The Alabama Secretary of State has used public money to produce and distribute posters and accompanying video of Trump calling for voter ID and registration.

al.com

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 18, 2022 • 3:24:15pm

e-filed our tax returns on April 1; very nice federal refund hit our bank account on April 8 (just in time to help pay for a new riding lawn mower, which is desperately needed); $8 owed to the Commonwealth of Kentucky was debited on April 9.

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A Cranky One  Apr 18, 2022 • 3:27:10pm

I’m in a mood. Only click if you’re brave. Apologies in advance.

Click to Reveal

So I decided to “tan” my testicles in order to become as manly as Tucker Carlson.

The results were amazing. After only 2 sessions, the spouse announced she wanted tacos.

Can’t wait to tell Tucker.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Apr 18, 2022 • 4:21:52pm

re: #419 The Pie Overlord!

I know that someone here recommended this Lenox pattern. Was it you?

Yep! My wedding China! I use it every special dinner.


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