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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 7, 2022 • 11:02:54am

My buddy tells me that deep-fried sea cucumbers are quite a delicacy in Japan.

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No Malarkey!  Oct 7, 2022 • 11:03:38am

I think it would help the Democrats’ prospects in the midterms if Musk could get the deal done so Sippy Cup Caligula can start tweeting this month.

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Nyet  Oct 7, 2022 • 11:04:18am

An interview with Jan Raczynski from the Memorial society that just won the Nobel Peace prize (proud to know him personally).

meduza.io

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 7, 2022 • 11:04:53am

According to a report by The Verge, Meta’s Horizon Worlds metaverse app is so dreadful, even the people making it don’t want to use it. So if you woke up this morning wondering, “I wonder if anyone’s figured out what the metaverse is for?” you can rest assured, it’s still nope.

Horizon Worlds is, according to these memos, “a synchronous social network where creators can build engaging worlds.” Which is to say, it’s Second Life, but in VR, and with Meta branding. The groundbreaking promises of a metaverse have always been as ambiguous and elusive as fairy dust, with no one ever able to concretely say what makes it special or different to online spaces that have been around for decades. And despite gambling everything on it in a world where anyone under 30 doesn’t know what a Facebook is, it seems Meta’s attempts to make sense of it are going so badly that the creators themselves don’t bother using it.

The Verge say they have seen an internal memos from within Meta (née Facebook) that discuss how their flagship VR app for the so-called “metaverse”—according to feedback from playtesters—is so riddled with bugs, “quality issues,” and “papercuts,” that it’s “too hard for our community to experience the magic of Horizon.”

“For many of us, we don’t spend that much time in Horizon and our dogfooding dashboards show this pretty clearly,” The Verge says the VP of Metaverse, Vishal Shah, wrote in a memo sent to staff last month. (Dogfooding is, I have learned, staff using a product before it’s released to the public.) “Why is that?” he continues. “Why don’t we love the product we’ve built so much that we use it all the time? The simple truth is, if we don’t love it, how can we expect our users to love it?”

J. Jonah Jameson Laughing

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 7, 2022 • 11:09:53am

Yeah. That’ll f***ing work.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 7, 2022 • 11:11:25am

re: #5 Blind Frog Belly White

Yeah. That’ll f***ing work.

Walker will deny any involvement: “I fire a lot of people, I can’t remember them all!”

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Nyet  Oct 7, 2022 • 11:12:52am

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No Malarkey!  Oct 7, 2022 • 11:13:22am

re: #5 Blind Frog Belly White

Yeah. That’ll f***ing work.

The silver lining to MAGA Republicans being crazy, degenerate criminals is that they get in the way of mainstream Republicans nominating electable candidates to strip mine the nation on behalf of billionaires.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 7, 2022 • 11:16:26am
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Nyet  Oct 7, 2022 • 11:17:57am

re: #9 Charles Johnson

At least it wasn’t a tan suit.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 7, 2022 • 11:17:58am

re: #8 No Malarkey!

The silver lining to MAGA Republicans being crazy, degenerate criminals is that they get in the way of mainstream Republicans nominating electable candidates to strip mine the nation on behalf of billionaires.

Between the crazy candidates and the Dobbs ruling, I’m hoping the GOP has snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.

Clearly, the Trump Justices weren’t in on the game, which was the perpetual promise to overturn Roe without actually doing it and opening the Pandora’s Box. And luckily (?) many GOP legislators, long salivating at the prospect of more effectively punishing women for having Unapproved Sex, were unable to contain themselves trying to pass the most draconian abortion bans they could think of.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 7, 2022 • 11:18:04am

re: #8 No Malarkey!

The silver lining to MAGA Republicans being crazy, degenerate criminals is that they get in the way of mainstream Republicans nominating electable candidates to strip mine the nation on behalf of billionaires.

yes, GOP primaries pretty much come down to contest to prove who can be the most trans/homophobic, gun-nut, unrestricted free-market, God-loving, no-exceptions anti-abortionist loyal Trumpist even if they they are dumber than a sack of jackhammers and bat-shit screaming crazy

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 7, 2022 • 11:18:12am

re: #9 Charles Johnson

Sources familiar with the matter suggest Bidens comment was: “You like me a lot better than that orange motherfucker, don’t you?”

/

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 7, 2022 • 11:19:51am

re: #11 Blind Frog Belly White

…And luckily (?) many GOP legislators, long salivating at the prospect of more effectively punishing women for having Unapproved Sex, were unable to contain themselves trying to pass the most draconian abortion bans they could think of.

Yes, they have been dreaming of this moment for so long that they could not be restrained from holding back at least until they had wrested back control of Congress.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 7, 2022 • 11:20:50am

Did Trump not beat Biden to dropping the F-Bomb and live on camera as well?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 7, 2022 • 11:21:43am

re: #15 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Did Trump not beat Biden to dropping the F-Bomb and live on camera as well?

I do remember TFG saying bullshit a number of times on a live mic and there are certainly recordings of him dropping plenty of F bombs out there too.

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No Malarkey!  Oct 7, 2022 • 11:22:02am

re: #15 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Did Trump not beat Biden to dropping the F-Bomb and live on camera as well?

IOKIYAR

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 7, 2022 • 11:22:50am

re: #15 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Did Trump not beat Biden to dropping the F-Bomb and live on camera as well?

Yes. At one of his Nuremberg rallies, IIRC.

But that’s different, because reasons.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 7, 2022 • 11:23:23am

re: #18 Blind Frog Belly White

Yes. At one of his Nuremberg rallies, IIRC.

But that’s different, because reasons.

He was doing it to help save America

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sizzzzlerz  Oct 7, 2022 • 11:23:54am

re: #10 Nyet

At least it wasn’t a tan suit.

But he was caught doing terrorist fist bumps! Just sayin”…

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lawhawk  Oct 7, 2022 • 11:24:06am

re: #9 Charles Johnson

Oh fuck that shit.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 7, 2022 • 11:27:09am

re: #19 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

He was doing it to help save America

“Saved”, like how you save leftovers to eat later.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 7, 2022 • 11:27:50am

Also worth noting the people hitting their fainting couches because Biden was caught swearing are probably wearing “Let’s Go Brandon!” shirts.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 7, 2022 • 11:29:10am

re: #13 Eclectic Cyborg

Sources familiar with the matter suggest Bidens comment was: “You like me a lot better than that orange motherfucker, don’t you?”

/

Technically not profanity then. Just obscenity.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n 😷 Trips  Oct 7, 2022 • 11:29:13am
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Dopamine Fish  Oct 7, 2022 • 11:29:56am

re: #23 Eclectic Cyborg

Also worth noting the people hitting their fainting couches because Biden was caught swearing are probably wearing “Let’s Go Brandon!” shirts.

They’re mad because - as I posted on Twitter this morning - it makes him relatable, human, and a little bit badass. I know, it’s supposedly “unprofessional” to use swear words in public, but maybe it shouldn’t be. Lord knows how many F-bombs my co-workers have dropped in conference calls in the 3 years I’ve been at this company.

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Dopamine Fish  Oct 7, 2022 • 11:32:38am

re: #26 Dopamine Fish

And while I can be quite vulgar in my day-to-day communications, there really is no substitute for a well-placed “fuck” when it comes to making an emphatic point.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 7, 2022 • 11:33:00am
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Charles Johnson  Oct 7, 2022 • 11:36:47am
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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 7, 2022 • 11:37:33am

re: #29 Charles Johnson

You and me both, brother.

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Dr. Matt  Oct 7, 2022 • 11:38:13am

re: #28 Charles Johnson

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Looks like GOP is concerned with the most pressing issues.

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Crush White Nationalism  Oct 7, 2022 • 11:38:57am

re: #28 Charles Johnson

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 7, 2022 • 11:41:04am

re: #1 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

My buddy tells me that deep-fried sea cucumbers are quite a delicacy in Japan.

I’ve never had sea cucumber, but I’ve had sea pineapple in Japan and it is the most vile thing I’ve ever eaten.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Oct 7, 2022 • 11:41:10am

re: #28 Charles Johnson

They’re really just one guy.

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Teukka  Oct 7, 2022 • 11:41:28am

From downstairs:

re: #270 Nyet

So you’re saying that a chat with Putin in 2021 so influenced Musk that although he began supporting the Ukrainians with Starlink long after this chat, its effect comes to fruition now? A delayed Jedi mindtrick? /

Nah. More like circurmstances conspiring to make Elon look even worse. Like, SpaceX might’ve, just might’ve, had credibility if Simonyan hadn’t asked Elon openly about shutting down StarLink for the Ukrainians, and if Elon hadn’t pulled that pro-Z stunt by proposing a ludicrous armistice/peace deal… Like, the only idea I’ve seen that is more ludicrous is to reduce Russia to its 1471 borders as any starting point for a peace deal… So, likely Russian Federation jamming, misguided attempt to limit StarLink access for to the Russian Federation government, or the company simply selling more accounts than they have satellites for (the latter three are the most likely reasons).

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 7, 2022 • 11:41:45am

re: #32 Crush White Nationalism

I was about to post a similar joke lol.

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 7, 2022 • 11:42:55am

re: #25 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n 😷 Trips

I like that. I’m going to start using it etm..

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jaunte  Oct 7, 2022 • 11:43:30am
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lawhawk  Oct 7, 2022 • 11:44:24am

I did nazi this coming… oh wait… we all did.

These people are incompetent and/or winking and nodding to the goddamned fascists and Nazis in their own ranks.

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A Mom Anon  Oct 7, 2022 • 11:44:44am

re: #9 Charles Johnson

I think we need to let them know we don’t give a fuck what he says, it’s what he actually, truthfully DOES that fucking matter. Because that last part is a BIG FUCKING DEAL. Also I apologize for not saying Fuck nearly enough in the above statement. Fuck.

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Dopamine Fish  Oct 7, 2022 • 11:46:23am

Charles, I figured you’d find this relatable, with the trials and travails around the Great LGF Migration of 2022.

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Nyet  Oct 7, 2022 • 11:49:48am

re: #35 Teukka

I don’t think that Russian interference is unlikely in this case (I’m agnostic), but the year old chat with Huylo is not “it”.

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Dave In Austin  Oct 7, 2022 • 11:54:42am

Jack hates Bass!!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 7, 2022 • 11:56:21am

re: #15 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Did Trump not beat Biden to dropping the F-Bomb and live on camera as well?

Pretty sure Biden already did that back in 2010 with the Obamacare BFD hot mic comment.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 7, 2022 • 12:03:53pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 7, 2022 • 12:05:15pm
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prairiefire  Oct 7, 2022 • 12:06:26pm

Went to Kiawa island after a storm and these poor things were all over the beach. I’d say they look like pickled cucumbers.

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prairiefire  Oct 7, 2022 • 12:07:19pm

re: #46 Backwoods_Sleuth

Hiiii! I did a recent search and I saw you mentioned Allegro. Have you heard anything about her?

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 7, 2022 • 12:08:10pm

re: #39 lawhawk

I did nazi this coming… oh wait… we all did.

These people are incompetent and/or winking and nodding to the goddamned fascists and Nazis in their own ranks.

And apparently had Jordan Peterson call in, so a guy from New Jersey who promises to give up his Turkish citizenship if he’s elected a Senator went to California to raise money with parents of a Congressman from Florida and had a Canadian call in to help?

Seems to have left out one rather important state commonwealth.

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gocart mozart  Oct 7, 2022 • 12:09:17pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 7, 2022 • 12:12:22pm

re: #48 prairiefire

Hiiii! I did a recent search and I saw you mentioned Allegro. Have you heard anything about her?

She’s on twitter regularly.

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A Three Hour Tour  Oct 7, 2022 • 12:14:47pm

Trump at rally: Drops f-bomb.
Mainstream media: *crickets chirping*
Biden in one-on-one convo: Drops f-bomb.
Mainstream media: Gaffe-prone Joe Biden is demeaning his Office.
Me: Whoop-de-shit. NOW it’s the End of the Republic???

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 7, 2022 • 12:24:52pm
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Crush White Nationalism  Oct 7, 2022 • 12:25:06pm

Depending on 3rd party services sucks.

Parameters that I pass to Microsoft’s Power BI service stopped working as of this morning, disabling every data export my team uses. Power BI is going to be a pain in my ass for the rest of my career.

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steve_davis  Oct 7, 2022 • 12:26:14pm

re: #26 Dopamine Fish

They’re mad because - as I posted on Twitter this morning - it makes him relatable, human, and a little bit badass. I know, it’s supposedly “unprofessional” to use swear words in public, but maybe it shouldn’t be. Lord knows how many F-bombs my co-workers have dropped in conference calls in the 3 years I’ve been at this company.

he didn’t use it in public. he used it with a guy he was speaking to privately, and was caught on a hot-mic. “Oh my god!” as Charles said.

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retired cynic  Oct 7, 2022 • 12:27:39pm

TIL that modern vampires should have reflections in mirrors. The reason they didn’t in the past is that mirrors were backed with silver. Now, they don’t.

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Crush White Nationalism  Oct 7, 2022 • 12:28:58pm

re: #45 Charles Johnson

My cats do that with the bottom bar of my projector screen. Messing with the screen is the only thing they get yelled at for, since they could get hurt if they manage to pull the screen down from the ceiling, but that does not discourage them.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 7, 2022 • 12:32:13pm

re: #56 retired cynic

TIL that modern vampires should have reflections in mirrors. The reason they didn’t in the past is that mirrors were backed with silver. Now, they don’t.

That would also explain black and white film, but not color.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Oct 7, 2022 • 12:32:32pm

re: #56 retired cynic

TIL that modern vampires should have reflections in mirrors. The reason they didn’t in the past is that mirrors were backed with silver. Now, they don’t.

That’s a cool idea.

Wouldn’t that apply to old photos, too?

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 7, 2022 • 12:32:34pm

re: #40 A Mom Anon

I think we need to let them know we don’t give a fuck what he says, it’s what he actually, truthfully DOES that fucking matter. Because that last part is a BIG FUCKING DEAL. Also I apologize for not saying Fuck nearly enough in the above statement. Fuck.

And that’s what he said to Obama when the ACA passed! Anyone who has vapors over this language doesn’t belong in politics.

OT: This afternoon listening to the podcast of the Thursday Chris Hayes program, I was struck by the comments that the GOP which had pushed for an abortion ban for years didn’t know how to deal with it when suddenly their Court overturned Roe — that they had not prepared for this eventuality and were totally blindsided. But isn’t this the GOP standard strategy, to raze an institution without being able to raise an alternative that is acceptable to the population? Think of their repeated efforts to dismantle ACA without having anything to replace it. They want a world where only the wealthy have choices and the rest of us are serfs at the beck and call of the oligarchs.

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 7, 2022 • 12:33:22pm

re: #54 Crush White Nationalism

Depending on 3rd party services sucks.

Parameters that I pass to Microsoft’s Power BI service stopped working as of this morning, disabling every data export my team uses. Power BI is going to be a pain in my ass for the rest of my career.

Tell me about it. I am wrestling with WinSCP for secure SSH file transfer transactions. All is working fine with vendors that are using the default port 22 for the communications. But we have a new vendor that is wanting to use port 43022 for the transactions and I cannot get the 3rd party software to connect, even using the WinSCP suggested methods from their documentation.

I am coding in C# and it doesn’t support SSH/SFTP natively, so I have to use a 3rd party library.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 7, 2022 • 12:33:43pm

re: #58 Blind Frog Belly White

That would also explain black and white film, but not color.

re: #59 The Ghost of a Flea

That’s a cool idea.

Wouldn’t that apply to old photos, too?

GMTA

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Crush White Nationalism  Oct 7, 2022 • 12:33:48pm

re: #56 retired cynic

TIL that modern vampires should have reflections in mirrors. The reason they didn’t in the past is that mirrors were backed with silver. Now, they don’t.

But they don’t, and they don’t show up on video either. No one told them the reason they weren’t supposed to be visible.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 7, 2022 • 12:34:38pm
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Nyet  Oct 7, 2022 • 12:38:23pm

re: #7 Nyet

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A Cranky One  Oct 7, 2022 • 12:39:07pm

re: #61 Eventual Carrion

Check the firewalls.

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Dave In Austin  Oct 7, 2022 • 12:41:21pm
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Charles Johnson  Oct 7, 2022 • 12:42:39pm
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Eventual Carrion  Oct 7, 2022 • 12:43:31pm

re: #66 A Cranky One

Check the firewalls.

I can get to the SFTP server from the sending server using CoreFTP and Filezilla, but not when the program tries to open the connection from the WinSCP script the program creates and runs . So other applications can get to it, just not the WinSCP library. And I updated the libraries to the newest version just to be sure.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 7, 2022 • 12:44:06pm

re: #68 Charles Johnson

Is this a trick question?

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Crush White Nationalism  Oct 7, 2022 • 12:46:39pm

re: #67 Dave In Austin

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It’s too late to complain when they’re one of the people who make insane concert prices possible by buying the tickets.

The cheap seats are $77, but it goes up fast from there.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Oct 7, 2022 • 12:46:53pm

re: #68 Charles Johnson

…it would own the libs….

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lawhawk  Oct 7, 2022 • 12:47:04pm

re: #68 Charles Johnson

No. The leading candidates from Trump to DeSantis have the blood of thousands on their hands from their disastrous covid responses. Their true-believer base thinks that’s a feature, not a bug.

/death cult 2024

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A Mom Anon  Oct 7, 2022 • 12:47:13pm

re: #68 Charles Johnson

Depends on if they’re anti abortion and hate liberals.

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Nyet  Oct 7, 2022 • 12:48:37pm

re: #68 Charles Johnson

“He repented, this cleanses him of all sins. Also, ok, he killed, raped and ate 50 kids, but you Demoncrats murder millions of babies, the calculus is clear.”

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 7, 2022 • 12:50:48pm

re: #68 Charles Johnson

I think it would depend on who they killed.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 7, 2022 • 12:51:18pm

re: #76 Blind Frog Belly White

I think it would depend on who they killed.

Also, whether there was time enough to replace them on the ballot.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 7, 2022 • 12:52:25pm

A pink diamond was sold for $49.9 million in Hong Kong on Friday, setting a world record for the highest price per carat for a diamond sold at auction.

The 11.15-carat Williamson Pink Star diamond, auctioned by Sotheby’s Hong Kong, sold for $392 million Hong Kong dollars ($49.9 million). It was originally estimated at $21 million.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 7, 2022 • 12:53:22pm
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Dave In Austin  Oct 7, 2022 • 12:53:37pm
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A Cranky One  Oct 7, 2022 • 12:53:47pm

re: #69 Eventual Carrion

You may need to add an exception for winscp.exe to use that port through the firewall.

That would be consistent with other apps not being blocked.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 7, 2022 • 12:56:02pm
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sizzzzlerz  Oct 7, 2022 • 1:00:38pm

re: #33 Barefoot Grin

I’ve never had sea cucumber, but I’ve had sea pineapple in Japan and it is the most vile thing I’ve ever eaten.

I see your sea pineapple and raise you Icelandic hákarl (fermented shark).

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nines09  Oct 7, 2022 • 1:15:43pm

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 7, 2022 • 1:23:09pm

If his stare won’t make you surrender…his aviators will.

Those who want to “own the Libs” could never afford his price.

He doesn’t just hold press conferences, he crushes them like a tin can.

He is the Most Interesting President in the World.

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Belafon  Oct 7, 2022 • 1:23:51pm

re: #79 Charles Johnson

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I went skimming through the replies to Jon’s tweet, and it’s full of people who think gender care is torture. Someone is mentioned that detransitioned as somehow a model - they testified against a bill in CA allowing parents to come in from other states if they need care for their child - and all I can think of is “They got to choose. What about others?”

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No Malarkey!  Oct 7, 2022 • 1:25:39pm

re: #68 Charles Johnson

You kidding? Hannibal Lecter is on Trump’s short list for VP.

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Dopamine Fish  Oct 7, 2022 • 1:26:37pm

re: #85 Eclectic Cyborg

If his stare won’t make you surrender…his aviators will.

Those who want to “own the Libs” could never afford his price.

He doesn’t just hold press conferences, he crushes them like a tin can.

He is the Most Interesting President in the World.

This is not what I expected when we elected an elderly statesman as our President. I anticipated a tedious bureaucrat with a penchant for strictly business and getting stuff done. Instead, we get a memelord who laughs, loves life, kicks ass, and takes no prisoners.

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 7, 2022 • 1:27:13pm

re: #83 sizzzzlerz

I see your sea pineapple and raise you Icelandic hákarl (fermented shark).

I’ve heard about that. No thanks.

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jaunte  Oct 7, 2022 • 1:30:04pm

re: #79 Charles Johnson

Had me cursing at the screen when she said she was “not prepared to have a Supreme Court argument;” i.e. completely unable to state which doctors or medical organizations supported her claims.

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Crush White Nationalism  Oct 7, 2022 • 1:30:13pm

re: #88 Dopamine Fish

This is not what I expected when we elected an elderly statesman as our President. I anticipated a tedious bureaucrat with a penchant for strictly business and getting stuff done. Instead, we get a memelord who laughs, loves life, kicks ass, and takes no prisoners.

I was just looking for an end to the Turnip drama. I didn’t expect progress, but am happily surprised.

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jaunte  Oct 7, 2022 • 1:32:50pm

Republicans:
“Gender dysphoria suicides are acceptable losses in our fear campaigns to take and hold power.”

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jaunte  Oct 7, 2022 • 1:35:56pm

Republicans:
“Trans women are just men who went through extreme chemical and medical procedures so they could peep at women in the restroom. Because that’s exactly what me and my youth pastor would do.”

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Nyet  Oct 7, 2022 • 1:36:40pm

Sea pineapple on a pizza.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Oct 7, 2022 • 1:40:45pm

re: #93 jaunte

Republicans:
“Trans women are just men who went through extreme chemical and medical procedures so they could peep at women in the restroom. Because that’s exactly what me and my youth pastor would do.”

Republicans: “sure there’s actual data on who’s likely to harm/abuse children, but it’s not good optics because it’s almost all about power and authority—and we’re very pro-power and -authority around here, especially our donors”—so instead we’re going to target people that are unusual in readily-identifiable ways.

It works for the Catholic Church, why wouldn’t it work for us?”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 7, 2022 • 1:42:25pm
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Crush White Nationalism  Oct 7, 2022 • 1:42:37pm
NEW YORK, Oct. 7 (UPI) — A Nightmare on Elm Street icon Heather Langenkamp said she connected on a deeply personal level to her role as Dr. Georgina Stanton, founder of a hospice home for terminally ill teens, on Netflix’s new young adult horror drama series, The Midnight Club.

“It was really exciting to me. You might know I lost my own son to brain cancer four years ago, and when I read the sides for the audition, I literally burst into tears because I really felt like it was a ghost story of my very own - like something very supernatural was happening that I was being asked to play this role,” Langenkamp told UPI at New York Comic Con on Thursday.

“I felt very equipped,” the 58-year-old actress emphasized, recalling how she told show creator Mike Flanagan, “I’ll probably cry the first few times I run through this, but just stick with me, and I’ll be able to deliver it straight-faced like a doctor would.”

‘Elm Street’ icon Heather Langenkamp returns to horror with ‘Midnight Club’ (UPI)

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Crush White Nationalism  Oct 7, 2022 • 1:44:28pm

re: #92 jaunte

Republicans:
“Gender dysphoria suicides are acceptable losses in our fear campaigns to take and hold power.”

They’ve been harassing gay kids to the point of suicide for a very long time. This is just a variation on their standard theme.

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Dangerman  Oct 7, 2022 • 1:45:52pm

re: #2 No Malarkey!

I think it would help the Democrats’ prospects in the midterms if Musk could get the deal done so Sippy Cup Caligula can start tweeting this month.

as usual, i have not read down the thread yet….
so if any / all of you have already observed this, apologies in advance

- if musk does this, truth social is toast.

- trump will have to decide what’s more important (twitter) ‘fame’ or the (truth social) grift/money, cause he will not be able to have both

- further, i expect the brain drain out of twitter (by musk’s axe and by choice) will be a crippling blow to the bird

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jaunte  Oct 7, 2022 • 1:46:24pm

re: #98 Crush White Nationalism

Targeting a vulnerable minority to redirect the hostility they agitate.

About 5% of young adults in the U.S. say their gender is different from their sex assigned at birth
pewresearch.org

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Dangerman  Oct 7, 2022 • 1:50:02pm

re: #38 jaunte

‘i didnt know there were so many socialist republicans’

brilliant

(eta typo - socialist, not socials)

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jaunte  Oct 7, 2022 • 1:51:35pm
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 7, 2022 • 1:53:27pm

re: #33 Barefoot Grin

I’ve never had sea cucumber, but I’ve had sea pineapple in Japan and it is the most vile thing I’ve ever eaten.

Buddy said the same thing about the sea cucumber

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Dangerman  Oct 7, 2022 • 1:53:35pm

re: #68 Charles Johnson

asked and answered: not before an election if the seat was in play

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Crush White Nationalism  Oct 7, 2022 • 1:55:58pm
Oct. 7 (UPI) — A Virginia NAACP leader was shot to death while on vacation in Turks and Caicos Islands, according to the Arlington County NAACP.

Kent Carter, vice president of the Arlington County NAACP branch, was killed in a string of possibly gang-related shootings that took three lives, according to the New York Times. Bullets were fired into a vehicle transporting tourists, according to the local police commissioner in the Turks and Caicos.

Carter was celebrating his 40th birthday with the vacation. Carter and his girlfriend were on a hotel shuttle back from a beach when the vehicle was suddenly hit by gunfire.

The NAACP branch said in a statement that Carter was an activist and philanthropist well known “for his dedication to, and uplifting of, our community.”

NAACP official Kent Carter shot to death in Turks and Caicos (UPI)

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Crush White Nationalism  Oct 7, 2022 • 1:57:04pm

re: #94 Nyet

Sea pineapple on a pizza.

If you’re trying to make regular pineapple on pizza sound better by contrast to something much worse, it’s working.

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Dangerman  Oct 7, 2022 • 1:57:11pm

re: #87 No Malarkey!

You kidding? Hannibal Lecter is on Trump’s short list for VP.

tim scott is for sure for reals

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Charles Johnson  Oct 7, 2022 • 2:00:09pm

This new server supports the DKIM and SPF protocols that should make email delivery work better, and not end up in spam folders as much.

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steve_davis  Oct 7, 2022 • 2:18:44pm

Trying hard to be irresistible.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Oct 7, 2022 • 2:21:13pm

re: #109 steve_davis

Trying hard to be irresistible.

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I don’t imagine she has to try very hard.

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Dangerman  Oct 7, 2022 • 2:22:11pm

Elie Mystal

“Herschel Walker, the football star turned Georgia Senate candidate, is an animated caricature of a Black person drawn by white conservatives. Walker is what they think of us, and they think we’re big, ignorant, and easily manipulated.”

“They think we’re shady or criminal. They think we’re tools to be used. The Walker campaign exists as a political minstrel show: a splashy rendition of what white Republicans think Black people look and sound like.”

Republicans think the only way to beat a Black candidate is with skin color, not ideas.

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darthstar  Oct 7, 2022 • 2:24:30pm

re: #111 Dangerman

Elie Mystal

Republicans think the only way to beat a Black candidate is with skin color, not ideas.

He’s got to shift from “I never heard of her” to “I don’t have DNA you can test.” Good luck with that.

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Nyet  Oct 7, 2022 • 2:29:23pm

re: #106 Crush White Nationalism

If you’re trying to make regular pineapple on pizza sound better by contrast to something much worse, it’s working.

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jaunte  Oct 7, 2022 • 2:31:52pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 7, 2022 • 2:32:46pm

re: #114 jaunte

Maybe he was “predeemed”.

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Dangerman  Oct 7, 2022 • 2:33:00pm

YouTube

melting the speakers over here

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 7, 2022 • 2:38:25pm

re: #114 jaunte

In Herschel’s “redemption” ad he says he even wrote a book about how he was redeemed. The book came out in 2008. He pressured his side piece to abort their kids in 2009 and 2011.

Then he re-redeemed himself in 2010 and again in 2012.

So I can see his argument: “I have redeemed myself for so many sins, I forget which ones I was redeeming myself for!”

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Nyet  Oct 7, 2022 • 2:39:23pm

The sins were among the coupons.

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Dangerman  Oct 7, 2022 • 2:40:13pm

re: #118 Nyet

The sins were among the coupons.

+1

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 7, 2022 • 2:40:58pm

re: #118 Nyet

The sins were among the coupons.

Coupons always save you some when paying the wages of sin

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Nyet  Oct 7, 2022 • 2:54:15pm

re: #120 Eventual Carrion

Coupons always save you some when paying the wages of sin

For the wages of sin is meth.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 7, 2022 • 2:55:45pm

re: #121 Nyet

For the wages of sin is meth.

The wages of gin are breath.

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sizzzzlerz  Oct 7, 2022 • 2:56:35pm

re: #109 steve_davis

Trying hard to be irresistible.

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Would give ear scratches

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jaunte  Oct 7, 2022 • 2:57:31pm

FBI Investigating Woman Who Allegedly Faked Wealthy Heiress Persona, Mingled with Trump at Mar-a-Lago

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sizzzzlerz  Oct 7, 2022 • 2:58:28pm

re: #120 Eventual Carrion

Coupons always save you some when paying the wages of sin

3 months off eternal damnation with this coupon

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 7, 2022 • 2:58:52pm

re: #124 jaunte

Montreal runs deep with mob connections. JS.

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jaunte  Oct 7, 2022 • 2:58:55pm

Shot in the Laurentians, just above the Isle of Langerhans.

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 7, 2022 • 2:59:41pm

re: #109 steve_davis

Trying hard to be irresistible.

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My dog is trying to be resistible. She smelled something in the tall grass on our walk this afternoon and immediately dropped and rolled. Maybe some kind of scat, but the smell is god-awful. I had to drive her home from where we walked with the windows open then carry her unwilling 65# of self upstairs to the hated bathtub. Got most of it out, but there’s still an odor wafting around. Damnit.

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sizzzzlerz  Oct 7, 2022 • 3:04:38pm

re: #126 Eclectic Cyborg

Montreal runs deep with mob connections. JS.

Nice mafioso? Do they excuse themselves whilst whacking someone?

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 7, 2022 • 3:06:48pm

Wife got a new elder-care client today. She came home and said she had to hear Fox News for four straight hours. Then the client’s daughter dropped by and started talking about her gun collection. I think she should get some kind of extra comp for this shit.

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Nyet  Oct 7, 2022 • 3:08:30pm

The most prominent Russian rapper Oxxxymiron has been declared a “foreign agent” today.

His reaction:

His last album (from last year) actually has a whole song predicting this.

OXXXYMIRON — Красота и Уродство (Альбом 2021)

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 7, 2022 • 3:08:46pm

re: #128 Barefoot Grin

My dog is trying to be resistible. She smelled something in the tall grass on our walk this afternoon and immediately dropped and rolled. Maybe some kind of scat, but the smell is god-awful. I had to drive her home from where we walked with the windows open then carry her unwilling 65# of self upstairs to the hated bathtub. Got most of it out, but there’s still an odor wafting around. Damnit.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Oct 7, 2022 • 3:08:55pm

re: #92 jaunte

Republicans:
“Gender dysphoria suicides are acceptable losses in our fear campaigns to take and hold power.”

THEY. WANT. US. DEAD.

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Dangerman  Oct 7, 2022 • 3:09:55pm

re: #130 Barefoot Grin

Wife got a new elder-care client today. She came home and said she had to hear Fox News for four straight hours. Then the client’s daughter dropped by and started talking about her gun collection. I think she should get some kind of extra comp for this shit.

Dangermom

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 7, 2022 • 3:11:00pm

re: #130 Barefoot Grin

Wife got a new elder-care client today. She came home and said she had to hear Fox News for four straight hours. Then the client’s daughter dropped by and started talking about her gun collection. I think she should get some kind of extra comp for this shit.

Sounds like the kind of people that would have this on the Thanksgiving table…

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Dangerman  Oct 7, 2022 • 3:11:06pm

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 7, 2022 • 3:14:09pm

re: #132 Eventual Carrion

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LOL

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 7, 2022 • 3:14:35pm

re: #136 Dangerman

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I like the Viking one

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 7, 2022 • 3:15:10pm

re: #136 Dangerman

I can’t help thinking of Cousin Itt.

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 7, 2022 • 3:15:42pm

re: #135 Eclectic Cyborg

Sounds like the kind of people that would have this on the Thanksgiving table…

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Yep. Whole conversation about teaching her kids about guns. Actually, probably not uncommon here in NH. It’s just jarring to my wife who is from a place where guns are highly restricted and never a part of most peoples lives.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 7, 2022 • 3:16:47pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 7, 2022 • 3:17:05pm

re: #140 Barefoot Grin

Yep. Whole conversation about teaching her kids about guns. Actually, probably not uncommon here in NH. It’s just jarring to my wife who is from a place where guns are highly restricted and never a part of most peoples lives.

My wife got so frustrated with me when I first moved to the South because I was so uncomfortable around guns. Took me a while to make her understand how different guns are perceived in Canada.

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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 7, 2022 • 3:17:25pm
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Captain Ron  Oct 7, 2022 • 3:17:59pm
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Barefoot Grin  Oct 7, 2022 • 3:18:22pm

re: #134 Dangerman

Dangermom

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Shropshire Slasher  Oct 7, 2022 • 3:21:42pm

re: #143 The Pie Overlord!

Things I didn’t appreciate enough in my youth, and stuffed cabbage was one of them. I miss my mom. Stuffed peppers was another, with rice mixed in with the ground beef.

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Grunthos the Flatulent  Oct 7, 2022 • 3:22:25pm

Tomorrows Wordle wonders what grass seed tastes like.

Click to Reveal

One sister had a complaint about the word, but it would be a spoiler.

Wordle 476 4/6

🟨⬛🟨⬛⬛
⬛⬛🟨🟨🟩
⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

SibData: 4,4,4,5,6

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 7, 2022 • 3:23:15pm

re: #142 Eclectic Cyborg

My wife got so frustrated with me when I first moved to the South because I was so uncomfortable around guns. Took me a while to make her understand how different guns are perceived in Canada.

My dad had a .22 rifle that he used in marksmanship classes at his high school in the 1940s. He disabled it, but kept it in our basement for sentimental reasons. My Georgia grandfather had guns everywhere. I was told that once my older brother when he was about 4 was found on my grandparents’ bed playing with a pistol my granddad kept in his headboard (it had compartments). My mom yelled at him and he said he would be safer. I remember climbing into his Chevy pickup when I was 7 or 8 and finding a pistol in the glovebox. I never told my mom. It’s amazing none of us shot someone or ourselves (shotguns just leaning against the wall of the hallway closet).

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 7, 2022 • 3:29:00pm

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Jay C  Oct 7, 2022 • 3:32:32pm

re: #136 Dangerman

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Do sea urchins really have “heads”?

The hats are cute, though: wherever they’re placed…

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 7, 2022 • 3:34:38pm

re: #150 Jay C

Do sea urchins really have “heads”?

The hats are cute, though: wherever they’re placed…

Their gonads are delicious. I can’t believe I said that.

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Crush White Nationalism  Oct 7, 2022 • 3:36:44pm

The creators of the site think that hiring the enemies of America is “patriotic.”

The investigation into the Capitol insurrection on January 6, 2021, is one of the biggest in the history of the United States. Roughly 600 people have been charged for taking part in an attack that left 130 officers injured and seven people dead. Over 100 of those rioters have been specifically charged with assaulting law enforcement. They’re accused of domestic terrorism and conspiracy to “concoct a plan for an armed rebellion to shatter a bedrock of American democracy.”

Now, a former Trump campaign aide has launched a website to find these people jobs.

If you’re an employer with a job opening and you want to fill it with someone who’s been convicted of storming the Capitol, then the “Jobs for J6” website is for you.

The site has been created by Look Ahead America, a right-wing group and one of the leading voices advocating for the rights of those imprisoned for taking part in the Capitol riot, including organizing vigils and protests as well as launching the Political Prisoner podcast series.

“We decided to create a ‘Jobs for J6’ program to help connect these people to patriotic employers who are gonna give them a chance,” Matt Braynard, executive director of Look Ahead America, told VICE News.

Want to Hire a January 6 Rioter? Now There’s a Website for That. (Vice)

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William Lewis  Oct 7, 2022 • 3:39:31pm

re: #148 Barefoot Grin

My dad had a .22 rifle that he used in marksmanship classes at his high school in the 1940s. He disabled it, but kept it in our basement for sentimental reasons. My Georgia grandfather had guns everywhere. I was told that once my older brother when he was about 4 was found on my grandparents’ bed playing with a pistol my granddad kept in his headboard (it had compartments). My mom yelled at him and he said he would be safer. I remember climbing into his Chevy pickup when I was 7 or 8 and finding a pistol in the glovebox. I never told my mom. It’s amazing none of us shot someone or ourselves (shotguns just leaning against the wall of the hallway closet).

Growing up we had a .22 that I used to learn to shoot with and a 12-gauge used to deal with the critters that wanted to eat our chickens. Dad had a revolver but sold it when the kids came along. He had no problem with my bolt actions, lever action, 20-gauge or even my CZ-75 clone but the AK concerned him. I had to explain that it was a civilian version and could not do full auto. I found that discussion interesting in a way…

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 7, 2022 • 3:40:26pm

re: #152 Crush White Nationalism

The creators of the site think that hiring the enemies of America is “patriotic.”

Want to Hire a January 6 Rioter? Now There’s a Website for That. (Vice)

Hmmm. If only I had a job for them mucking out a stable, or emptying bedpans.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 7, 2022 • 3:40:45pm

re: #152 Crush White Nationalism

“Patriotic employers”

Sure, Klan.

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 7, 2022 • 3:44:20pm

re: #153 William Lewis

Growing up we had a .22 that I used to learn to shoot with and a 12-gauge used to deal with the critters that wanted to eat our chickens. Dad had a revolver but sold it when the kids came along. He had no problem with my bolt actions, lever action, 20-gauge or even my CZ-75 clone but the AK concerned him. I had to explain that it was a civilian version and could not do full auto. I found that discussion interesting in a way…

I always need to be careful what I say, because there are several LGF lizards who model responsible gun ownership and it’s not my role to admonish. I shot a .22 several times at my grandfather’s place under the supervision of an older cousin who went through NRA training—very careful. I also shot each summer at Boy Scouts summer camp: “fire at will” was a running joke for us 12 year olds. It’s just the life I have lived has never required me or interested me enough to pursue shooting and the necessary training.

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 7, 2022 • 3:53:02pm

I’m three beers in and feeling loquacious. William’s post and my response suddenly triggered a memory: I was an Eagle Scout and got tapped for Order of the Arrow in BSA. I was suddenly thrust into the memory of spending a night alone in the wilderness of northern Wisconsin with tender, flint, a tin can, a quarter pound of ground beef and an order to make a lean-to for myself and my own fire, instructions on how to use green branches to make a contraption to cook the beef and how to gather fiddleheads and lake water for soup. We were allowed to bring insect repellent.

Someone snuck me a lighter and I used the repellent to ignite a fire. I lost most of the meat in the flames, but the fiddlehead soup was delicious.

In another life at home, this 9th grader was also pretty good at separating seeds and stems.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 7, 2022 • 3:55:11pm

re: #156 Barefoot Grin

I always need to be careful what I say, because there are several LGF lizards who model responsible gun ownership and it’s not my role to admonish. I shot a .22 several times at my grandfather’s place under the supervision of an older cousin who went through NRA training—very careful. I also shot each summer at Boy Scouts summer camp: “fire at will” was a running joke for us 12 year olds. It’s just the life I have lived has never required me or interested me enough to pursue shooting and the necessary training.

Where I grew up, WHEN I grew up, everyone had guns, but nobody defined themselves by them. They’d have a shotgun for birds and small game and a rifle for deer. And that’s about it. I didn’t hunt, so I had little interest either way. Dad hunted, unsuccessfully, so we had two old shotguns and a “sporterized” M1903 Springfield.

When my maternal grandfather died and my grandmother moved in with her mother and sister, Dad took the small revolver my grandfather had. He asked Nana, who wanted to keep it, how she’d use it. She said if somebody broke in, she’d fire it to scare them.

“Okay,” Dad said, “Where are you going to point it?” Nana said the ceiling (she lived on the second floor). “So you’ll blow a hole in your roof?” So she said the floor. “And shoot your sister?” who lived below Nana’s room. So, without further objection, he took it.

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Crush White Nationalism  Oct 7, 2022 • 4:00:10pm

re: #156 Barefoot Grin

I always need to be careful what I say, because there are several LGF lizards who model responsible gun ownership and it’s not my role to admonish. I shot a .22 several times at my grandfather’s place under the supervision of an older cousin who went through NRA training—very careful. I also shot each summer at Boy Scouts summer camp: “fire at will” was a running joke for us 12 year olds. It’s just the life I have lived has never required me or interested me enough to pursue shooting and the necessary training.

I could have been shot at Boy Scout summer camp. The slow kid in our troop had a misfire at the rifle range and pointed his rifle at my head while asking the instructor for help.

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 7, 2022 • 4:01:17pm

re: #158 Blind Frog Belly White

Where I grew up, WHEN I grew up, everyone had guns, but nobody defined themselves by them. They’d have a shotgun for birds and small game and a rifle for deer. And that’s about it. I didn’t hunt, so I had little interest either way. Dad hunted, unsuccessfully, so we had two old shotguns and a “sporterized” M1903 Springfield.

When my maternal grandfather died and my grandmother moved in with her mother and sister, Dad took the small revolver my grandfather had. He asked Nana, who wanted to keep it, how she’d use it. She said if somebody broke in, she’d fire it to scare them.

“Okay,” Dad said, “Where are you going to point it?” Nana said the ceiling (she lived on the second floor). “So you’ll blow a hole in your roof?” So she said the floor. “And shoot your sister?” who lived below Nana’s room. So, without further objection, he took it.

That paints an amazing picture. My first thought, though, was of the Christopher Lloyd character in last year’s movie Nobody where a seemingly zoned out Lloyd gets attacked by Russian mafia in his retirement home and he pulls a sawed-off out from under his blanket in his darkened room where he had been sleeping in front of the TV.

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 7, 2022 • 4:01:50pm

re: #159 Crush White Nationalism

I could have been shot at Boy Scout summer camp. The slow kid in our troop had a misfire at the rifle range and pointed his rifle at my head while asking the instructor for help.

Jesus

ETA: was the kid’s name Boebert by chance?

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 7, 2022 • 4:06:59pm

re: #160 Barefoot Grin

That paints an amazing picture. My first thought, though, was of the Christopher Lloyd character in last year’s movie Nobody where a seemingly zoned out Lloyd gets attacked by Russian mafia in his retirement home and he pulls a sawed-off out from under his blanket in his darkened room where he had been sleeping in front of the TV.

Years ago, I was invited to Boseman MT by a friend from the Bowsite, to hunt. I stayed at his place, where he and his wife each had a loaded gun on their nightstand, as well as a loaded shotgun behind the door. I made sure I didn’t have to get up in the night to pee.

I had not yet seen “Snatch”, so the line didn’t occur to me, but now when I remember that, I think of Turkish asking Tommy what he needed a gun for.

“Protection!”

“Protection? From what? Zee Germans?”

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Crush White Nationalism  Oct 7, 2022 • 4:09:06pm

re: #161 Barefoot Grin

Jesus

He caught hell from the instructor. They don’t screw around.

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 7, 2022 • 4:11:13pm

re: #163 Crush White Nationalism

He caught hell from the instructor. They don’t screw around.

No they did not!

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 7, 2022 • 4:12:06pm

re: #162 Blind Frog Belly White

Years ago, I was invited to Boseman MT by a friend from the Bowsite, to hunt. I stayed at his place, where he and his wife each had a loaded gun on their nightstand, as well as a loaded shotgun behind the door. I made sure I didn’t have to get up in the night to pee.

I had not yet seen “Snatch”, so the line didn’t occur to me, but now when I remember that, I think of Turkish asking Tommy what he needed a gun for.

“Protection!”

“Protection? From what? Zee Germans?”

Biting pillow at 4am….

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sagehen  Oct 7, 2022 • 4:12:11pm

re: #157 Barefoot Grin

In another life at home, this 9th grader was also pretty good at separating seeds and stems.

I didn’t pick up that skill until college.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 7, 2022 • 4:13:53pm

re: #165 Barefoot Grin

Biting pillow at 4am….

Hey, I’d have peed out the window if I had to, but it was early November in Bozeman so it was really damn cold! I might have died of indecent exposure!

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 7, 2022 • 4:15:38pm

re: #166 sagehen

I didn’t pick up that skill until college.

That’s when it was no longer useful (and I quit). Suddenly weed got a lot like what you can get from a dispensary now (around ‘83). It was far too strong for me. I have dabbled in MA dispensary flower now several decades later, but I’ve also given that up. I still get edibles from time to time, though. I can manage that slow buzz.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 7, 2022 • 4:16:58pm

re: #136 Dangerman

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all the Cousin Itts!!!

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 7, 2022 • 4:23:41pm

Really OT, but I haven’t had any down-dings since teleski guy was here and he couple of times took issue with something I said. It’s odd, but I think of him pretty regularly when I’m here because he was such a force when I joined. I hope he’s doing well, especially as we head into ski season.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 7, 2022 • 4:24:50pm

re: #161 Barefoot Grin

Jesus

ETA: was the kid’s name Boebert by chance?

Rhodes…

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 7, 2022 • 4:25:11pm

re: #171 Backwoods_Sleuth

Rhodes…

Sick burn.

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 7, 2022 • 4:26:12pm

Gonna close the computer and turn on the amp. See you in the next thread.


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