Tucked in the lobby of Manhattan’s Trump Tower is a bar called 45 Wine and Whiskey. At this Hard Rock Cafe knockoff, visitors can enjoy walls plastered with Trump presidential memorabilia that was likely snuck out of the White House—including a folder marked “classified.”
Looks like the G-Men need to pay a little visit to Trump Tower.
And maybe take a peek at what’s actually buried in Ivana’s grave. Like that old saying goes….”Ex marks the spot”.
An email went out at work today that made me cringe a little. The company used to have what they called Project Christmas Spirit, a Christmas party for the employee and their families, especially for kids under 12. The company would buy some toys and you could bring your kids up and get one if you wish.
That ended due to covid, but they are going to try to do it this year. Here’s the cringe: the email said “the OriGinal Project Christmas Spirit.” Yes, they are trying to OG it.
This is how the Russians explain the situation to @IAEAorg
“As the shell falls, it makes a 180° turn”: the answer a representative of the IAEA received when asked why the shell stuck out as if it was launched from the occupied territory.
What do you think the report will say? pic.twitter.com/7DPtlsVd7o— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) September 2, 2022
B52:s overflying Stockholm at low altitude.
USAF is around to help bolster deterrence and morale. https://t.co/89IaskjW9H— Petri Mäkelä (@pmakela1) September 2, 2022
“Just act normal” 😂 pic.twitter.com/euby2f2kS6
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) September 2, 2022
Moose chases off grizzly bear in Montana. pic.twitter.com/HtF5J2O0TH
— Sebastián (@Sebas26_) September 2, 2022
re: #4 Belafon
I spent some time at Wight Patterson as a kid. B-52s overhead all the time. Those MF’ers are loud.
re: #7 A Cranky One
I spent some time at Wight Patterson as a kid. B-52s overhead all the time. Those MF’ers are loud.
So are C-5Ms.
re: #6 Captain Ron
I’d rather be faced with a bear than a moose anytime.
5/6. I think that this is the first time that I completely blanked on my first 2 words.
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re: #9 GlutenFreeJesus
I’d rather be faced with a bear than a moose anytime.
Especially if it’s accompanied by a flying squirrel.
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re: #9 GlutenFreeJesus
I’d rather be faced with a bear than a moose anytime.
I’d take either of those over a flock of angry geese. Those things are vicious 😂.
re: #13 Captain Ron
Expect temps around here are over 100F tomorrow. We will start a cooling trend on Monday fortunately.
Morning Lizards. Not looking forward to the next week. We WILL break a 100 the rest of this week and probably most of next.
A look at some 縄文 (Jomon, use Google translate to get the proper pronunciation as the video voices do not pronounce it right) pottery from thousands of years ago:
I believe the oldest decorated pottery is from Japan.
These inhabitants of Japan are ancestors of the current Japanese, but not the only ancestors. Migrations from the Korean peninsula brought the bronze-age culture that built the Kofun (the huge burial mounds.)
Classical guitar:
Here early for #NASASocial @NASASocial on the second #Artemis #Artemis1 #ArtemisI launch attempt. #GoArtemis!! Stay tuned for more coverage throughout the day from @NASAKennedy. pic.twitter.com/OQBIoptv10
— Anne Barela (@anne_engineer) September 3, 2022
And we ha e a Go for cryo load https://t.co/zV6JR0Qif0
— Capt’n Amy🌹💍Newlywed (@CaptnAmy) September 3, 2022
2:17 P.M. EST With a 2 hour launch window.
re: #18 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
These inhabitants of Japan are ancestors of the current Japanese, but not the only ancestors. Migrations from the Korean peninsula brought the bronze-age culture that built the Kofun (the huge burial mounds.)
According to my crossword puzzle dictionary, the ancestors of the current Japanese are the Ainu.
re: #24 sagehen
According to my crossword puzzle dictionary, the ancestors of the current Japanese are the Ainu.
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TPUSA ambassador says the devil is using Joe Biden and warns “conservatives are in a database” and the government will come for them. pic.twitter.com/Fve1jonp3b
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) September 3, 2022
Another “shocker” from this white trash hick family. ///
Quite interesting that this did not make its way into the main stream news cycle.
re: #28 Dr. Matt
Another “shocker” from this white trash hick family. ///
Quite interesting that this did not make its way into the main stream news cycle.
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Been slow on my updates. Hydrogen loading was halted due to a leak on a quick disconnect about 30 minutes ago. They let the fueling line warm back up and are rechilling it now to hopefully reseat the connector.
O2 loading still in progress at a reduced rate. Will be halted at 50% if H2 load is’nt resumed.
re: #24 sagehen
According to my crossword puzzle dictionary, the ancestors of the current Japanese are the Ainu.
There have always been arguments over where the Ainu fit into the rest of the ancestry of those we call Japanese.
But DNA studies have shown that the Japanese have a north-south gradient in ancestry. Those in the south, by which we mean the islands like Okinawa, are at one end of an axis, and those in the north in Hokkaido are the other end.
But since the Meiji era in-country migration has blurred out much of the difference.
The Jomon were almost certainly part of the northward migration from Taiwan. The other big migration from there (or close to there) going southeast, i.e. all the way to Polynesia.
But for sure the modern Japanese are descended from the integration of bronze-age culture (and people) from the Korean peninsual.
This leaves the Ainu as remnants of a mysterious group, possibly with Jomon ancestry but also with ancestry from elsewhere in far north-east Asia.
The Ainu were the “savages” to classical Japanese. The Japanese culture being transformed tremendously by the importation of Buddhism from China, which brought Chinese writing.
So the Ainu were the illiterate, the barbarians, to the educated Japanese. It’s a parallel with our own past.
Getting ready for the Artemis launch. pic.twitter.com/QTwrCjSQZ0
— the Rain King (@GenericJoe4) September 3, 2022
H2 load resumed at reduced pump pressure.
A couple of funny trans jokes that punch up.
“Trans people can’t take a joke” pic.twitter.com/LR2d7x8Ygb
— Gillian Branstetter (@GBBranstetter) September 2, 2022
Northern Irish transphobe pic.twitter.com/Md8H917KXK
— Marc Jennings (@MarcJennings90) July 12, 2022
O2 load has resumed at full speed.
Sorry cupcake but you fail even at an attempt tt be a Socialist Scumbag Troll
But then you are brainwashed!!— wayne knowles (@wayneknowles17) September 3, 2022
Wayne excels at being a Scumbag Troll. Dude is a natural. Pick up your game, Beth.
— gocart mozart (@EdMix13) September 3, 2022
Tricky one today. A stab in the dark helped salvage the par 4. Time for some thick-cut bacon, watch more of The Crown with MrsTarH, then take in some college football. Hope everyone has a happy Labor Day Weekend!
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The reason, at least the major reason, why I’ve become fixated on the Rings of Power hate of late is because it is no isolated phenomenon.
This hate is part of the MAGA swell that Trump rode to the White House and which still won’t abate.
A very great percentage, perhaps over 80%, of the twitter users who are raging against RoP are, when I inspect their twitter timeline, right wing religious or full-on MAGA-fascist types.
And the reason is very straightforward. The literal fascists and the fascist-adjacent have always loved Tolkien.
The reasons are not difficult to discern.
Tolkien was a racialist, and classist. His specialty being the languages of northern Europe and his avocation being creative writing exploiting many northern European mythological ideas, his stories often sound like they are indeed white-stories for white-people.
Although of course he was first and foremost a religious Catholic and his major work, LOTR, is a full on basket of religious ideas hiding shallowly below an adventure story.
So Tolkien himself was no fascist, his self declared identity vacillating between anarchist and monarchist.
But because his stories embodies such a great quantity of the ancestral mythos of northern and western Europe, the Nazis thought he was one of them. And the generic fascists really gravitate towards the classist nature, the belief that some people are just better than others and thus should rule over (not democratically) the society as a whole.
The anti-democratic nature of Tolkien is easy to identify, he didn’t hide it.
That he thought himself better than others was also not hidden.
That did not mean he believed in apartheid or segregation, as the famous quote I keep posting on Twitter makes clear.
So to Tolkien the difference between people are not the color of their skin, but their religiosity and education and their upbringing, etc.
It’s a distinction the racists miss (on purpose probably.)
So the bottom line is that (most of) the hatred toward RoP happens because the MAGA types want to believe that Tolkien intended LOTR to be inhabited by white people, and ruled by men. If a female is a leader, like Galadriel, she is to be some ethereal, non-realistic female.
And that is the culture war that is happening. The cries of reverse-racism over having some actors who have too-dark skin, who dare to take the place of a white actor, for either an elf or dwarf or Numenorean, is part of the same chorus on right-wing media outlets who decry BLM, etc.
I will not link it here, but an example can be found in a post at VDARE, whose title is:
Madea Goes To Mordor: Amazon’s LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER Celebrates The Great Replacement Coming To Middle-Earth
Make no mistake, the racist-right is stoking the RoP hate.
Sure, there are others who have problems with RoP being called “LOTR” when in fact Tolkien did not write anything in the screenplay.
Also, there is the young male gamer type who really, really have distorted views of women independent of any racist-right propaganda. So when a show has as the lead characters females who don’t act like they expect they don’t like it.
H2 loading stopped because of the leak. They’re going to try to fully pressurize the line and try to get that quick disconnect seal to seat. I’m seriously having doubts about today’s launch. :-(
re: #41 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
A hydrogen atom is really, really tiny. And the H2 molecule is a tiny molecule. It’s hard to stop those things from going anywhere they want.
re: #42 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
A hydrogen atom is really, really tiny. And the H2 molecule is a tiny molecule. It’s hard to stop those things from going anywhere they want.
True. But the leak is bad enough that escaped hydrogen is exceeding safety levels.
Annuity rates for Multi-State Lottery have gone up again. They now are getting quotes of 1.812.
The state lotteries love this because it means they can advertise higher jackpot values while doling out less cash.
The overall rise in interest rates now hints at me that there will be a squeeze on a lot of people living on fixed incomes or retirement.
I don’t know what interest rates will do between now and the election but I think we have a pretty good guess they will go up. How high now is the question.
Mortgage rates will continue to creep up. Unsecured loans (e.g. credit cards) certainly will continue with the interest rate increases.
A lot of people will be pressured.
How this will affect the election I do not know.
Americans have now gotten so used to cheap money that a return to interest rates similar to the prior century will be a shock.
re: #39 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Can people just enjoy things (or not) without creating whole IRL political manifestos about it? I got scolded and preached at on Twitter for liking “Idiocracy”, because apparently “Idiocracy” is fascist. Why? The premise of the movie is “the wrong people are reproducing” and thus it’s basically the Great Replacement.
I am so sick of humans.
OK I missed that. They’re bringing the H2 line up to full pressure using helium, not H2. Will hold at full pressure for 5 min to try and get that seal to properly seat.
H2 loading resumed.
O2 load at 70% H2 at 8%
OOPS! I jumped the gun. H2 loading has just restarted. Let’s hope that seal finally seated.
re: #49 jeffreyw
That looks both delicious, and like an entire day’s worth of heartburn for my suddenly delicate upper digestive system.
re: #51 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
That looks both delicious, and like an entire day’s worth of heartburn for my suddenly delicate upper digestive system.
I sometimes get heartburn, usually from highly acidic foods like tomato sauce. Oddly, not much with peppers.
A tablespoon of balsamic vinegar down the hatch neutralizes it almost immediately. A friend of mine here in town swears by almonds, but I haven’t tried that one yet.
Leak didn’t seal. H2 still exceeding 4%. Loading pressure reduced, but not yet stopped.
re: #45 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
Can people just enjoy things (or not) without creating whole IRL political manifestos about it? I got scolded and preached at on Twitter for liking “Idiocracy”, because apparently “Idiocracy” is fascist. Why? The premise of the movie is “the wrong people are reproducing” and thus it’s basically the Great Replacement.
I am so sick of humans.
I love mankind
It’s people I can’t stand
Nyt recovers…a little
New York Times: “The Republicans’ reaction to Mr. Biden’s speech was remarkable. For years, they stood quietly by as Mr. Trump vilified and demonized anyone who disagreed with him — encouraging supporters to beat up protesters; demanding that his rivals be arrested; accusing critics of treason and even murder; calling opponents ‘fascists’; and retweeting a supporter saying ‘the only good Democrat is a dead Democrat.’ But they rose up as one on Thursday night and Friday to complain that Mr. Biden was the one being divisive.”
re: #51 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
That looks both delicious, and like an entire day’s worth of heartburn for my suddenly delicate upper digestive system.
Heh. We keep little bowls full of antacid chewables around like Christmas candies during the holiday season.
re: #54 Dangerman
I love mankind
It’s people I can’t stand
I was thinking of that as a description of.the difference between Republicans and Democrats. Republicans like individuals, mainly themselves, but hate humanity. Democrats like humanity, but individual people not so much.
re: #52 Dr Lizardo
I’ll try these acid reducer tips.
I have had a spike in stomach acid in the past few years. Surprisingly, the biggest factor for me seems to have been caffeine. I have had to give up almost all caffeine.
re: #32 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
There have always been arguments over where the Ainu fit into the rest of the ancestry of those we call Japanese.
But DNA studies have shown that the Japanese have a north-south gradient in ancestry. Those in the south, by which we mean the islands like Okinawa, are at one end of an axis, and those in the north in Hokkaido are the other end.
But since the Meiji era in-country migration has blurred out much of the difference.
The Jomon were almost certainly part of the northward migration from Taiwan. The other big migration from there (or close to there) going southeast, i.e. all the way to Polynesia.
But for sure the modern Japanese are descended from the integration of bronze-age culture (and people) from the Korean peninsual.
This leaves the Ainu as remnants of a mysterious group, possibly with Jomon ancestry but also with ancestry from elsewhere in far north-east Asia.
The Ainu were the “savages” to classical Japanese. The Japanese culture being transformed tremendously by the importation of Buddhism from China, which brought Chinese writing.
So the Ainu were the illiterate, the barbarians, to the educated Japanese. It’s a parallel with our own past.
The area I lived in in northern Japan was the frontier in the early Heian period. It was a mix of Japanese and people called emishi. Even the origin of the emishi is disputed. A mix of Jōmon and Japanese? Ainu? Something different?
The stuff is funnier if you remember that every few years there’s a little boomlet in conservative writers explaining why the empire were the good guys https://t.co/HPnjHScveO
— Christopher Hooks (@cd_hooks) September 2, 2022
Without the context of watching the whole video, I can’t tell if he’s trying to help or hurt Trump:
Dershowitz: This is classified material and they’re putting it out and giving it to our enemies because they want to.. pic.twitter.com/hwpxcGVCX6
— Acyn (@Acyn) September 1, 2022
Going to retry letting the quick disconnect warm back and hitting it with H2 to rapidly cool it back down. We” see how that goes in about 15 min. H2 load is at 9%. O2 load is at 99%.
Perfect byline though. Unrivaled Beltway Take Factory streamlining. The Tango & Cash of good things are the same as bad things.
— zeddy (@Zeddary) September 3, 2022
i understand people don’t like this account and that’s fine but sometimes they nail it and this is that https://t.co/eyi9A6nGM0
— romney lost so now i terrorize my neighbors (@CalmSporting) September 3, 2022
re: #2 Belafon
An email went out at work today that made me cringe a little. The company used to have what they called Project Christmas Spirit, a Christmas party for the employee and their families, especially for kids under 12. The company would buy some toys and you could bring your kids up and get one if you wish.
That ended due to covid, but they are going to try to do it this year. Here’s the cringe: the email said “the OriGinal Project Christmas Spirit.” Yes, they are trying to OG it.
Love the new Nic Pic, by the way.
re: #64 Belafon
Who doesn’t love NYTPitchbot? Heathens.
re: #61 Belafon
This fixation about staging. Is this the line-in-the-sand they wish to die on?
O2 on the core stage in replenish mode. H2 manual flow starting. Upper stage lines being purged in preparation of for fueling.
Core stage H2 now at 10%
re: #57 Belafon
I was thinking of that as a description of.the difference between Republicans and Democrats. Republicans like individuals, mainly themselves, but hate humanity. Democrats like humanity, but individual people not so much.
I am sooooooo much a democrat! 😂
Still leaking H2 at the quick disconnect.
re: #58 Ming5000
I’ll try these acid reducer tips.
I have had a spike in stomach acid in the past few years. Surprisingly, the biggest factor for me seems to have been caffeine. I have had to give up almost all caffeine.
elevate the head of your bed about 3 inches by sticking a couple fairly thin books of the same width under the legs. Cured years of acid reflux for me in the space of about three weeks.
re: #72 steve_davis
elevate the head of your bed about 3 inches by sticking a couple fairly thin books of the same width under the legs. Cured years of acid reflux for me in the space of about three weeks.
A couple of pieces of 2x6 would work.
re: #71 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Still leaking H2 at the quick disconnect.
Damn. This thing is going to get scrubbed again, isn’t it?
re: #74 Eclectic Cyborg
Damn. This thing is going to get scrubbed again, isn’t it?
That’s what I’m thinking.
They are lined up early for some wholesome family fun at the Trump rally in PA today. pic.twitter.com/IKehL3OO2K
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) September 3, 2022
I wonder how many times Trump will incriminate himself while speaking?
re: #52 Dr Lizardo
It would definitely be the tomatoes that did me in.
re: #76 Eclectic Cyborg
I wonder how many times Trump will incriminate himself while speaking?
All of the times.
re: #73 Belafon
yes, if you want to get technical, rather than using whatever I happen to have laying around the house :-)
Frank Drake, the astronomer who came up with the Drake Equation has passed at his home in Santa Cruz. The equation, devised in 1951 is an attempt to estimate how many extra-terrestrial civilizations there might be throughout our galaxy. He was also the founder of SETI, the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, an organization whose mission is to utilize existing resources, usually radio telescopes, to search for non-natural signals which might have originated from distant worlds.
Drake was 92 years old.
It’s a scrub. Launch team has made a no go recommendation.
re: #81 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Darn. But I can understand why they are not going with the launch.
re: #80 sizzzzlerz
Frank Drake, the astronomer who came up with the Drake Equation has passed at his home in Santa Cruz. The equation, devised in 1951 is an attempt to estimate how many extra-terrestrial civilizations there might be throughout our galaxy. He was also the founder of SETI, the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, an organization whose mission is to utilized existing resources, usually radio telescopes, to search for non-natural signals which might have originated from distant worlds.
Drake was 92 years old.
May he continue the search, or be among the found.
/existentialist
re: #82 PhillyPretzel
Darn. But I can understand why they are not going with the launch.
Yep If you CAN’T safely fill the tank, stop trying. I think Monday is the next window now.
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OT: This is annoying. I have a good friend but he is always chronically late. He told me to meet him for breakfast at this restaurant I’m at.
That was FORTY minutes ago and he’s still not here. The guy is 44, you’d think at some point in his life he would work on being more punctual.
I’m giving him another 10 mins before I cancel and do other stuff today.
Launch Director hasn’t made the final call. She wants to see if there any other options they can try before she makes the call. So we are currently in a hold situation.
re: #88 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Just when you think they might have learned something from Challenger.
re: #86 Eclectic Cyborg
OT: This is annoying. I have a good friend but he is always chronically late. He told me to meet him for breakfast at this restaurant I’m at.
That was FORTY minutes ago and he’s still not here. The guy is 44, you’d think at some point in his life he would work on being more punctual.
I’m giving him another 10 mins before I cancel and do other stuff today.
It’s a passive/aggressive way of establishing Agency over other people. It shows you that HIS time is much more valuable than YOURS.
re: #86 Eclectic Cyborg
What if he’s secretly a superhero and had to thwart a bank robbery or something at the last minute?
re: #89 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
Just when you think they might have learned something from Challenger.
Well it’s a very big and very expensive call, but the only one she can realistically make. This is just a CYA move so she say, we tried everything we could think of short of sending a team out to the ML and replacing the seal and that wasn’t feasible either.
re: #84 wrenchwench
May he continue the search, or be among the found.
/existentialist
Read the Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy — The Three Body Problem is the first . Liu Cixin Explains why the universe is so quiet.
Don’t make a noise or you’ll be wiped.
ETA - I am collecting his signed novels.
re: #93 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Read the Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy — The Three Body Problem is the first . LiuCixin Explains why the universe is so quiet.
Don’t make a noise or you’ll be wiped.
Which is also a long, rather turgid allegory of Chinese History since the rise of Mao.
Popular Twitch streamer Clara “Keffals” Sorrenti is known to be the target of harassment from time to time, and a game developer has had their game removed from Steam after a transphobic rant pointing to the trans livestreamer. This rant was spotted in Domina’s patch notes by several fans that read the text that was mostly irrelevant to the changes made to the game before Steam promptly took action.Keffals is among a growing list of swatted Twitch streamers to publicly speak about their experiences, but the negativity towards the livestreamer continues despite such a risk being taken with her life already. The Twitch community quickly discovered that those targeting Keffals came from a group called Kiwi Farms, but the popular Twitch streamer may face a new threat in Nicholas Gorissen from Dolphin Barn Incorporated. Because of the statements made in Domina’s patch notes, Steam users can no longer purchase the simulation strategy game and Dolphin Barn Incorporated has been promptly removed as a developer on the storefront as well.
Steam Removes Game from Sale After Dev Includes Transphobic Rant in Patch Notes (GameRant)
The launch is now officially scrubbed.
re: #96 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Better safe than sorry. I would err on the side of caution.
Yes, a delay is better than a catastrophic setback.
re: #97 PhillyPretzel
Yep. O2 tank draining will be starting soon since it was at 100%
re: #96 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
And WaPo just pinged me with the news of the scrub.
re: #100 PhillyPretzel
And WaPo just pinged me with the news of the scrub.
Michele wins by 4 minutes.
Getting briefed by @Astro_Wheels on the @NASASocial bus pic.twitter.com/GBBYxUzcwf
— Anne Barela (@anne_engineer) September 3, 2022
re: #97 PhillyPretzel
Better safe than sorry. I would err on the side of caution.
Hell, yes. That’s a $93 billion investment sitting on the pad. Now wheel it back to the barn and fix it!
Oh bacon, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways. On sandwiches, in salads, or even crumbled on desserts, bacon is a wizard at making things taste better. Do you like yours tender, crispy or burnt? However you like it, be sure to celebrate Bacon Day! #baconday pic.twitter.com/u44Qq4iukQ
— Cortney Heykoop (@CortneyHeykoop) September 3, 2022
You’re familiar with our Triple Bacon Burger and Triple Bacon Poutine, right?
Well, what better day to reintroduce our #TripleBaconDog than on #InternationalBACONDay!
There’s never too much bacon! #nationalbaconday #baconday #bacondog #bacon #triplebacon #itsworththewait pic.twitter.com/0c3TtUxR8t— Cheese Curds® (@CheeseCurds) September 3, 2022
Guess I should fix me some breakfast. Corned beef hash and a over easy egg with a glass of veggie juice sounds about right.
I pulled my bacon out of the fire on this one.
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There’s a dude flying a small prop plane around in Mississippi threatening to crash it into a Walmart and then some neighborhoods. Don’t see this every day.
re: #108 Dr Lizardo
Looks like it’s gonna get pretty hot today in California’s Inland Empire:
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San BURNadino.
re: #107 GlutenFreeJesus
Ban assault planes.
re: #111 Dr Lizardo
Some retailers live for Christmas.
“Tolkien would have hated this.” Well yeah, he was a tweedy, pipe-smoking Oxford don born in 1892 and whose passion was translating Anglo-Saxon poetry. There is not one single thing happening in 2022 that wouldn’t leave him both baffled and horrified. Who cares?
— small robots (@smolrobots) September 2, 2022
If you had told me back in 2016 that Trump would sell top secret spy and nuclear intel to foreign adversaries, I’d be like “yeah I know, that’s what we keep saying”
— Zack Bornstein (@ZackBornstein) September 1, 2022
This game looks very basic, but this is a big step for augmented reality gaming.
The passthrough video is black and white because the Quest 2 has black and white cameras. It’s pretty impressive that it looks as good as it does considering that the image is coming from four tiny cameras in the corners of the headset that get merged and cleaned up to remove distortion.
re: #107 GlutenFreeJesus
There’s a dude flying a small prop plane around in Mississippi threatening to crash it into a Walmart and then some neighborhoods. Don’t see this every day.
The plane over North MS is down. Thankful the situation has been resolved and that no one was injured. Thank you most of all to local, state, and federal law enforcement who managed this situation with extreme professionalism.
— Governor Tate Reeves (@tatereeves) September 3, 2022
Plane that threatened to crash into Walmart in Tupelo, MS has landed. pic.twitter.com/eWlgx8hT46
— Saints Over Everyone ⚜️ (@BruceDeroy) September 3, 2022
re: #107 GlutenFreeJesus
There’s a dude flying a small prop plane around in Mississippi threatening to crash it into a Walmart and then some neighborhoods. Don’t see this every day.
Not just any plane he stole, either. That’s a Beech King Air, which serves as a regional airliner. Complex twin turbo-prop. And he dropped off the radar 42 minutes ago (CDT) over rural Tennessee.
re: #94 austin_blue
Which is also a long, rather turgid allegory of Chinese History since the rise of Mao.
Yeah, didn’t want to go there
If you had told me back in 2016 that Trump would sell top secret spy and nuclear intel to foreign adversaries, I’d be like “yeah I know, that’s what we keep saying”
— Zack Bornstein (@ZackBornstein) September 1, 2022
re: #120 gocart mozart
If you had told me back in 2016 that Trump would sell top secret spy and nuclear intel to foreign adversaries, I’d be like “yeah I know, that’s what we keep saying”
If you had told me in 2016 that he would bury his ex-wife on his gold course with copies of sensitive documents in her coffin I would’ve said “Yeah, I wouldn’t put that past him”
find the wee kitteh:
nah this is too much for me to handle https://t.co/q6ASdlagsi pic.twitter.com/BupmMhjHEr
— Illegally Smol Cats (@IllegallySmol) September 3, 2022
Sad to see the Rubberband Man is missing here. pic.twitter.com/L8UncirBgc
— Sean (@sean_s_mc) September 3, 2022
re: #9 GlutenFreeJesus
I’d rather be faced with a bear than a moose anytime.
A bear can be reasoned with. /
re: #121 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He would never bury anything that he could sell.
Me and @Astro_Wheels at the @NASAKennedy VAB after today’s #Artemis #Artemis1 #ArtemisI scrub. pic.twitter.com/84OPluFWpz
— Anne Barela (@anne_engineer) September 3, 2022
re: #124 darthstar
Couldn’t the females have been covered by Every Woman?
re: #117 Backwoods_Sleuth
Oh, so now the feds are the good guys, eh?
You Tube is playing the Foo Fighters tribute concert to Taylor Hawkins from Wembley. Lots of musicians from many genres. It’s a long show, all proceeds go to charities that get music to kids in schools and help struggling musicians with bills and medical care. So far it’s pretty cool.
So do we all, Mike. So do we all.
I see cocaine trending. And I immediately think, “what did Trump Junior do now?”
— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) September 3, 2022
re: #129 Barefoot Grin
Couldn’t the females have been covered by Every Woman?
At least they didn’t put Stevie Nicks’ Right Wing Dove up there. (one of my favorite misheard lyrics)
The lead singer of Dropkick Murphys spitting some 🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/gzfuvYFCOO
— 🥀_Imposter_🕸️ (@Imposter_Edits) September 2, 2022
re: #134 darthstar
At least they didn’t put Stevie Nicks’ Right Wing Dove up there. (one of my favorite misheard lyrics)
I remember someone requesting Carry a Laser by Mister Mister
Dinosaurs are real! And real cute!
Omg. Real dinosaurs pic.twitter.com/jAvAcQtx2C
— jonathan slater☮️ (@joslater37) September 3, 2022
re: #131 A Mom Anon
Josh Homme did a solid job covering Bowie.
re: #93 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Read the Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy — The Three Body Problem is the first . Liu Cixin Explains why the universe is so quiet.
Don’t make a noise or you’ll be wiped.
ETA - I am collecting his signed novels.
A MUCH better take on the topic is David Brin’s “Existence”. Lots of very interesting ideas about both sides of that “don’t make a noise” bit ;)
re: #133 Dopamine Fish
Meh.
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KC & The Sunshine Band or The Bay City Rollers…who wins?
Seriously, whoever runs this account doesn’t appreciate classic rock…they just google band names and post them for clicks. https://t.co/ipAaFnIYd9— Sean (@sean_s_mc) September 3, 2022
re: #135 Dave In Austin
“Thank you for listening”
He’s very polite, and used language entirely appropriate to the situation.
re: #143 darthstar
Those clicks just keep gettin’ harder to find…
I had a lot of hot sauce on my oats so I’m starting to sweat. I cannot turn on the fan because Mrs Wife Unit is slumbering peacefully with her legs on top of mine. But if I don’t do anything she’ll wake up to a sweaty BigPapa. This is serious.
Do I:
Turn on the fan before I soak
Do nothing, soak
Fuck Trump
re: #114 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I’m pretty sure I switched from “Investigate the Russia collusion and then try to impeach him” to “Fucking arrest him pronto!” as soon as I heard he was having “Classified” briefings at the fucking ballroom at Mar O Lago, around randos, and everyone had a phone in their hand.
Didn’t that happen like 2 weeks into his Clownshow?
re: #141 William Lewis
A MUCH better take on the topic is David Brin’s “Existence”. Lots of very interesting ideas about both sides of that “don’t make a noise” bit ;)
I’ll check it out.
re: #150 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion
I’m pretty sure I switched from “Investigate the Russia collusion and then try to impeach him” to “Fucking arrest him pronto!” as soon as I heard he was having “Classified” briefings at the fucking ballroom at Mar O Lago, around randos, and everyone had a phone in their hand.
Didn’t that happen like 2 weeks into his Clownshow?
The whole concept of a “Private White House” with paid access should have been a major red flag.
The “I can’t believe Biden would call me a fascist!” starter kit. pic.twitter.com/hc2nIWkQz3
— Three Rural White Guys Podcast (@RuralThree) September 3, 2022
Okay, good, so I was correct on this. Garland is well within his rights to tell McCarthy to go fuck himself with a rusty spork.
Does Kevin McCarthy believe that AG Merritt Garland is unaware that the House GOP does not have subpoena power? McCarthy’s statement that “they must provide all communications and documents relating to the raid” confuses his wishcasting with enforceable demands. https://t.co/seP7YN0UDl
— Mitchell Epner (@MitchellEpner) September 2, 2022
re: #154 Dopamine Fish
Okay, good, so I was correct on this. Garland is well within his rights to tell McCarthy to go fuck himself with a rusty spork.
The point is to make DOJ look like it’s “covering up” information that would unmask the perfidious partisan political nature of its Anti-Trump Witch Hunt
re: #155 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The point is to make DOJ look like it’s “covering up” information that would unmask the perfidious partisan political nature of its Anti-Trump Witch Hunt
I also thought this was his way of threatening that “when” they win back the house (good luck with that one after Roe and this), they were going to add to their pile of bogus investigations and time wasting a “August 8 Commission”.
Imagine the kind of world we’d live in if the US becomes a fascist theocratic state, ruled by corrupt demagogues pandering to religious fanatics.
A theocratic state with a world-killing nuclear arsenal.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) September 3, 2022
Certainly a congresswoman with her education and background would be careful not to expose herself to criminal liability. 🤣
— Sean (@sean_s_mc) September 3, 2022
re: #95 Crush White Nationalism
What was outstanding about this, to a degree, was that Steam *did* take action. They are notoriously lax about enforcing standards and generally allow most forums for various games to self-enforce. This particular developer has been ranting for a while, and it finally crossed a line that Steam decided to act on.
It hasn’t helped the guy that a lot of the reaction is of the “point and laugh” variety. He even drew the attention of Jim Sterling (The “Jimquisition” is his YT series generally pointing attention at bad games and bad behavior by game developers and companies.)
It’s in 5/4, man.
Wordle 441 4/6*
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Really enjoying all the love for Venus and Serena. I’m not a tennis fan but they inspired so many inside and outside of tennis. Big ups. Looking forward to their next chapters.
This sorta long but oh so awesome.
This is why I mind my business 😭 pic.twitter.com/gvVNOdlo14
— 🇲🇽🇺🇸 Michelle Mendoza (@Chicana74) September 2, 2022
re: #159 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
What was outstanding about this, to a degree, was that Steam *did* take action. They are notoriously lax about enforcing standards and generally allow most forums for various games to self-enforce. This particular developer has been ranting for a while, and it finally crossed a line that Steam decided to act on.
It hasn’t helped the guy that a lot of the reaction is of the “point and laugh” variety. He even drew the attention of Jim Sterling (The “Jimquisition” is his YT series generally pointing attention at bad games and bad behavior by game developers and companies.)
Isn’t the Jimquisition now out as NB and uses they/them pronouns? It looks kind of bad to misgender someone even unintentionally while talking specifically about other people being transphobes.
re: #160 Charles Johnson
Speed wordle is the only way to go - four tries in under 20 seconds.
Wordle 441 4/6
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re: #154 Dopamine Fish
I read something interesting about us procrastinators and people that don’t want to complete tasks. Yeah, on the level of modernity, we’re fuckups. However, I have a visceral far of no being correct.
Those fucktards have no filters.
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