A Stunning Cover of Pat Metheny’s Classic “Third Wind” With Michele Fischietti Playing All Instruments (Feat. Aubrey Johnson)

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Aubrey Johnson is the late Lyle Mays’ niece, for added context to this incredible piece.

MICHELE FISCHIETTI : Electric & Synth Guitar, Piano & Keyboards, Electric double bass, Electric bass, Voice, Marimba, Timbales, Percussions;

Feat. AUBREY JOHNSON - Voice

(Fiore Garcea : El. drums)

All instruments recorded, mixed and mastered at WeSING studio, Milano, except for Aubrey Johnson’s voice recorded in New York, USA and Fiore’s el drums recorded in Catanzaro, Italy. Share if you like it !

Thanks to :

- Aubrey, what can I say…THANK YOU for having shared your talent, wonderful voice and musical feel with me. I enjoyed our short time in Times Square so much (thou it was freaking cold !);
- Danilo Donzella and everyone at Yamaha Music Italy for having supported the project with the beautiful Avant Grand N3X. As you can see, mother nature appreciated it as well !
- Lara Pasquali, her nephew and my student Greg for helping out carrying all that gear all around Venice !
- Giovanni Andreetta, Federico Correale and the Regione Veneto;
- Vittorio Marzioli : your el. double bass sounds always amazing !
- Marco Maestri : Thanks for the 5 strings bass ! Eventually I cold find the 4 strings bass in Istanbul and shoot with that one.
- Max Lazzi and Federico Graziati for the directions !
- Rob Eaton and Mario Calandrelli for your advices on timbales !

For GREECE : I couldn’t have a better guide and friend than the wonderful Grace Vlachou. Thank you for your hospitality, guidance and “personal security assistent” for the Partenone shooting !
For NORWAY : thanks to Anda Arko and her info for hiking Preikenstolen !
For TURKEY : Mina !! That was a very funny afternoon looking for a place that seemed lost somewhere. I could never have found it without you !
For EGYPT : Hussein … I’ve never seen anyone in my life doing what you did for me so many times in Cairo for helping me shooting (you know what I mean :D)
For the “SECRET SPOTS” (Messico and Thailand) : Barbara B, one word : GRAZIE !
For all the love, support and patience : Silvia !

For music production & singing lessons contact info@wesingstudio.com.

Reach me out at

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Linkedin : Michele Fischietti
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(I don’t own the right of this material)
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266 comments
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 11, 2022 • 6:10:10pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 11, 2022 • 6:14:29pm

niterz, lizardz!

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ckkatz  Nov 11, 2022 • 6:30:15pm
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Dangerman  Nov 11, 2022 • 6:33:05pm
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Dangerman  Nov 11, 2022 • 6:34:09pm

re: #4 Dangerman

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Dangerman  Nov 11, 2022 • 6:35:56pm

He’s only fighting fascism at home and abroad simultaneously while trying to rebuild the middle class and avoid the return of the plague, but you do you girl.

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EPR-radar  Nov 11, 2022 • 6:37:41pm

re: #5 Dangerman

Being underestimated by the enemy isn’t a bad thing. The problem is when that starts seeping into the thinking of good people who should know better.

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ckkatz  Nov 11, 2022 • 6:37:51pm
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Dangerman  Nov 11, 2022 • 6:38:22pm

Said one adviser: “I have never seen him more irresponsible and chaotic then he is today. He seems to be in self-destruct mode.”

Taking cues from the Elon school of …whatever the Elon school is

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EPR-radar  Nov 11, 2022 • 6:39:53pm

re: #8 ckkatz

Trump’s inner circle is a wretched hive of scum and villainy, less evil than Trump only because (at the moment) they choose to serve Trump rather than themselves.

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Dangerman  Nov 11, 2022 • 6:40:18pm

re: #8 ckkatz

re: #9 Dangerman

Under a minute

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ckkatz  Nov 11, 2022 • 6:40:42pm

Reminds me of Orwell’s poem from ‘1984’:

“Under the spreading chestnut tree
I sold you and you sold me…”

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ckkatz  Nov 11, 2022 • 6:41:59pm

re: #11 Dangerman

Under a minute

gmta!

And you are clearly a gentleman of refined beliefs!

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EstebanTornado1963  Nov 11, 2022 • 6:43:16pm

Nevada Update
Sisolak lost re-election bid for gov to piece of 💩 Sheriff Lombardo.
All 3 Dems defended their house seats.
MAGAT election denier Marchant lost.
DUNT Michele Fiore will probably lose as well.
I can live with Sisolak losing, he had impossible job during COVID. I don’t think Lombardo can mess things up too bad with Dems controlling state government.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Nov 11, 2022 • 6:46:33pm

re: #9 Dangerman

Poor Tiffany.

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ckkatz  Nov 11, 2022 • 6:53:29pm
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Dangerman  Nov 11, 2022 • 6:57:34pm

re: #13 ckkatz

gmta!

And you are clearly a gentleman of refined beliefs!

Yeah but you’re getting all the votes )-;

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nines09  Nov 11, 2022 • 6:58:49pm

Absolutely gorgeous. The guitarist is Chris Buck, and the band is great. Cardinal Black.

Cardinal Black - Tied Up in Blue (Abbey Road Live Session)

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ckkatz  Nov 11, 2022 • 7:00:43pm

re: #17 Dangerman

Yeah but you’re getting all the votes )-;

You’ve got mine. And I didn’t even vote for myself…

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ckkatz  Nov 11, 2022 • 7:04:30pm

*snork*
(Thread)

Followed by:

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Eventual Carrion  Nov 11, 2022 • 7:11:24pm

My wife yelled from the bedroom asking, “Do you ever get a shooting pain across your body like someone’s got a voodoo doll of you and they’re stabbing it?”

I replied, “No.”

She yelled back a few seconds later, “How about now?

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Interesting Times  Nov 11, 2022 • 7:12:07pm

Actually verified:

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Eventual Carrion  Nov 11, 2022 • 7:14:10pm

re: #8 ckkatz

We could have a Hitler ending after all.

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ckkatz  Nov 11, 2022 • 7:16:18pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 11, 2022 • 7:18:27pm

Hung up this shadow box earlier commemorating my grandfathers naval service in WWII. Seemed a good day for it. 💕

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

Gramps would have turned 100 this month. I still miss him all the damn time.

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austin_blue  Nov 11, 2022 • 7:32:54pm

re: #9 Dangerman

Said one adviser: “I have never seen him more irresponsible and chaotic then he is today. He seems to be in self-destruct mode.”

Taking cues from the Elon school of …whatever the Elon school is

Chaos.

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ckkatz  Nov 11, 2022 • 7:34:21pm

re: #25 Eclectic Cyborg

I am so sorry about the loss of your grandfather. And glad that he added so much to your life.

You reminded me of the Philosophy discussion:

One participant asks “What is the meaning of life”.

Another points out that the important question is “How do I add meaning to my life?”.

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ckkatz  Nov 11, 2022 • 7:40:20pm

Sounds like Elon made more friends today:

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austin_blue  Nov 11, 2022 • 7:40:23pm

re: #15 HRH Stanley Sea

Poor Tiffany.

She and Marla are drinking mimosas and clinking glasses right now. They have already been cashed out from the Trumpf Org for over a decade when Marla’s Prenup was called in by TFG.

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ckkatz  Nov 11, 2022 • 7:51:01pm

The videos from the Ukrainian Army liberation of Kherson really tug at the heart.

In this one, the poster finds an aunt whom she has not seen since the Russians overran Kherson:

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Nov 11, 2022 • 7:51:07pm

re: #28 ckkatz

Sounds like Elon made more friends today:

What does he care? If he’s blowing 44 billion, might as well disrupt as much as possible. If he’s hurting so should everyone.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 11, 2022 • 7:51:11pm

re: #8 ckkatz

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William Lewis  Nov 11, 2022 • 7:51:55pm

How many syllables does the word “Gloria” have?

Episcopalians: 18

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Nov 11, 2022 • 7:53:28pm

re: #33 William Lewis

How many syllables does the word “Gloria” have?

Episcopalians: 18

Only in excelsis deo.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 11, 2022 • 7:54:53pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 11, 2022 • 7:56:41pm

In Mississippi:

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 11, 2022 • 7:59:54pm

The Onion, today:

Raphael Warnock Loses All Faith In God After Being Forced Into Runoff Against Herschel Walker

ATLANTA—Struggling to cope with his shock at the outcome of the midterm elections, Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) reportedly lost all faith in God this week after being forced into a runoff against Herschel Walker. “What loving creator would create a world where I’m required to compete in not one, but two elections against a man like Herschel Walker?” said the visibly shaken Warnock, who removed his glasses in disbelief as he wrestled with the grave theological implications of being a mere percentage point away from losing to a former football player who allegedly threatened to murder his own family members. “Is this some sort of divine test? No, it is much, much worse. I have been a person of faith for 52 years on this planet and every moment was a rotten lie. There’s no meaning in this twisted universe. There is no God watching over us, and, surely, if there is any sort of deity, he is a wicked being who tortures us for His pleasure. Don’t call me reverend. I am not God’s emissary. I am His nemesis.” At press time, Warnock’s approval rating had edged upward several points after he was spotted tearing his clothes asunder and running naked into a river to curse the sky.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 11, 2022 • 8:02:57pm
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austin_blue  Nov 11, 2022 • 8:05:35pm

re: #31 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

What does he care? If he’s blowing 44 billion, might as well disrupt as much as possible. If he’s hurting so should everyone.

Well, the joke’s on him. Like most people on the planet, I don’t have a twitter account and he can’t hurt me. I might be a little inconvenienced, but not hurt. Stonekettle and Stansaid Airport will find another home and I will follow them there.

He, on the other hand, might burn through over $20 billion of his wealth, and get sued for another $24 billion.

It’s a slow motion financial suicide and I have a huge stock of popcorn packets for just these situations. Bring it.

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ckkatz  Nov 11, 2022 • 8:06:24pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 11, 2022 • 8:08:49pm

Thread, twenty tweets.

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ckkatz  Nov 11, 2022 • 8:09:05pm
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austin_blue  Nov 11, 2022 • 8:12:17pm

re: #40 ckkatz

Golly! What could that possibly mean?!?!

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EPR-radar  Nov 11, 2022 • 8:15:17pm

re: #42 ckkatz

That sounds like a productive thing for the world’s richest man to do — decompensate in public as he inflicts his paranoid fantasies on Twitter.

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ckkatz  Nov 11, 2022 • 8:20:21pm
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ckkatz  Nov 11, 2022 • 8:22:01pm

re: #41 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

It sounds like she is implying that there is also a second missing person.

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ckkatz  Nov 11, 2022 • 8:28:53pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 11, 2022 • 8:38:42pm

Montana voters rejected Referendum 131, the so-called Require Medical Care for Infants Born Alive referendum.

The referendum would have required doctors to attempt all medical intervention to save a dying infant, taking the child from its parents. It was pushed as one of the bullshyte “aborted but born alive” acts, that doctors are killing “born-alive” aborted “babies.”

Opponents of the referendum noted the stunning cruelty of taking an actual born-alive but dying infant from the arms of parents to impose doomed medical interventions that physicians would deem futile.

Infanticide is already illegal.

No: 223,013
Yes: 204,781

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ckkatz  Nov 11, 2022 • 8:39:01pm

I somehow doubt that there will be much GOP self-reflection over the midterm results.

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ckkatz  Nov 11, 2022 • 8:40:03pm

re: #48 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

And, I assume, charging that back to the parents as well.

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austin_blue  Nov 11, 2022 • 8:47:39pm

Well. I’m off for the rack. Sweet scaly dreams.

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ckkatz  Nov 11, 2022 • 8:49:08pm

ETA: re: #22 Interesting Times
Ooops! You pointed out the call for Mark Kelly first.

I double checked the apnews(dot)com site and found articles calling the races for Mark Kelly(D) and Adrian Fontes(D))

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EPR-radar  Nov 11, 2022 • 8:51:27pm

re: #49 ckkatz

The only difference between Trump and a generic Republican is minor details of their respective depravity/criminality.

Trump is the GOP and the GOP is Trump. Everything that the GOP has been doing since the civil rights realignment led directly to Trump.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 11, 2022 • 8:52:20pm

re: #50 ckkatz

And, I assume, charging that back to the parents as well.

Of course.

In LOL:

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 11, 2022 • 9:02:02pm

re: #50 ckkatz

And, I assume, charging that back to the parents as well.

The referendum also included a $50,000 fine and up to ten years imprisonment for any physician or nurse who failed to comply with the proposed law.

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retired cynic  Nov 11, 2022 • 9:02:44pm

re: #55 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

It came too close.

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ckkatz  Nov 11, 2022 • 9:02:57pm

I suspect that this was not a surprise to anybody here at lgf:

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EPR-radar  Nov 11, 2022 • 9:07:30pm

re: #57 ckkatz

I would have liked to write this memo. My opening line would have been something like this.

“Hey advertisers, do you want to flush the values of your multi-billion dollar brands straight down the toilet? If so then keep advertising on Twitter. Just imagine your brand ads running right next to the latest Nazi drivel from the scum of the internet.”

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ckkatz  Nov 11, 2022 • 9:08:09pm

Perhaps “moo poo”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 11, 2022 • 9:08:15pm

re: #57 ckkatz

I suspect that this was not a surprise to anybody here at lgf:

LOL

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The Ghost of a Flea  Nov 11, 2022 • 9:10:47pm

re: #47 ckkatz

GuywhosupportedtheinvasionofIraqsayswhat?

I mean, fuck Blake Masters but David Frum is a ghoul and that cannot go observed when he sticks his head out of his crypt.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 11, 2022 • 9:12:09pm

Some of those being impersonated are also having a laugh.

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EPR-radar  Nov 11, 2022 • 9:14:18pm

re: #61 The Ghost of a Flea

GuywhosupportedtheinvasionofIraqsayswhat?

I mean, fuck Blake Masters but David Frum is a fucking ghoul.

Frum is the guy who told people that if conservatives stop winning elections, they will abandon democracy instead of reform. Naturally the media treated this admission as some kind of ‘first’, despite the fact that liberals have been saying this for decades.

But indeed, fuck Frum as the W Bushie that he was.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 11, 2022 • 9:14:40pm

So I finally got my Twitter archive… and that led me to look at my first tweet:

In which I pimped one of my pages here, way back in 2011, the ancient days.

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mmmirele  Nov 11, 2022 • 9:17:31pm

There’s a new front in the War on Christmas and it’s here in Japan. I took these in the shopping area at Ueno station.

That said, the Ameyoko shopping street was free of such nonsense. But it was very crowded. Lots of hole in the wall food joints, way too many places selling athletic gear and oh so very crowded. Also this:

I think this shop is directly under the tracks south of Ueno Station proper.

I did find some KitKats for my mother at a yakkyoku (pharmacy).

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 11, 2022 • 9:18:13pm

And my third ever tweet was to a LGF page (not mine) which highlighted the ghoul Rick Scott, who 11 years later is still at it:

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 11, 2022 • 9:19:58pm

re: #65 mmmirele

My experience of Christmas in Japan led me to believe that the Japanese have an accurate handle on the holiday: shop.

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 11, 2022 • 9:22:04pm

re: #49 ckkatz

I somehow doubt that there will be much GOP self-reflection over the midterm results.

[Embedded content]

The 2013 GOP did prepare a report on their losing the popular vote in 5 of the 6 past elections and their autopsy concluded they needed to improve their messaging to avoid irrelevance on the national stage. Then Trump came along and demonstrated that victory was possible by appealing to the worst of America’s instincts and you don’t need to win the popular vote nationwide anyway, courtesy of the EC. And the Independent State Legislature case pending before the Supreme Court could allow states to dispense with the popular vote entirely.

The Nazis never required self reflection, only the proper tools to control the levers of power. Tom Michels revealed the true GOP objective in his losing campaign for governor of Wisconsin: “Republicans will never lose another election after I’m elected governor.” Ron DeathSantis has provided a model for dictatorship within a state: gerrymandering and vote suppression. This is the approach coming to a GOP-run state near you. The question is whether our nation can overcome this poison and restore health to our national body politic, while the GOP is headed in the opposite direction.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 11, 2022 • 9:29:40pm

So today’s contest on NightCafe was “desert landscape”, and I thought I was able to coax something decent out of Stable Diffusion:

The desert is a harsh mistress

Not doing so well in the voting, alas. The cactus is a bit wonky, but only a bit.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 11, 2022 • 9:32:02pm

These AI tools are fun but the only way to really get the most out of them is to discover with which artists they have been trained.

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ckkatz  Nov 11, 2022 • 9:34:23pm

re: #61 The Ghost of a Flea

re: #63 EPR-radar

I hear what you are saying.

There is a lot I disagree with Frum about.

I think that most of his policy preferences are very wrong (to put it mildly).
I certainly do not think highly of his decision to act as a speech writer for the shrub.
He was part of the GOP cheerleading to attack Iraq. And to paint over the completely mismanaged occupation.

There are things, though, that I think that he did correctly.

He seems to me to not be an operative, but rather an intellectual. (I view Turley as the opposite.)
He was a Never-Trumper very early on. And has been in the GOP wilderness since then.
He seems to be very pro-democracy.
I took his comment about the Trumpers being committed to power not democracy and willing to use violence to seize it, as a prescient warning. Remember that this was when a lot of centrists were playing down the threat from Trump.

There are things that I find him useful for:

He is highly knowledgeable and a keen observer on many things, particularly on the rightwing.
He is willing to say what he sees in an articulate and generally honest way.
He is thoughtful and seems to occasionally have interesting ideas. Even when I disagree with him (which is often), I am often stimulated to work through the why.

I do think that if the US is going to stay a democracy, we are stuck convincing folks like him to remain on our side.

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mmmirele  Nov 11, 2022 • 9:37:43pm

re: #41 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Thread, twenty tweets.

This warms the cockles of my cold, cold heart. 150K likes! All that work we did in the ’90s and ’00s, it laid the groundwork for this. I can imagine that Miscavige is in a rage right now.

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EPR-radar  Nov 11, 2022 • 9:39:59pm

re: #71 ckkatz

I hear what you are saying.

There is a lot I disagree with Frum about.

I think that most of his policy preferences are very wrong (to put it mildly).
I certainly do not think highly of his decision to act as a speech writer for the shrub.
He was part of the GOP cheerleading to attack Iraq. And to paint over the completely mismanaged occupation.

There are things, though, that I think that he did correctly.

He seems to me to not be an operative, but rather an intellectual. (I view Turley as the opposite.)
He was a Never-Trumper very early on. And has been in the GOP wilderness since then.
He seems to be very pro-democracy.
I took his comment about the Trumpers being committed to power not democracy and willing to use violence to seize it, as a prescient warning. Remember that this was when a lot of centrists were playing down the threat from Trump.

There are things that I find him useful for:

He is highly knowledgeable and a keen observer on many things, particularly on the rightwing.
He is willing to say what he sees in an articulate and generally honest way.
He is thoughtful and seems to occasionally have interesting ideas. Even when I disagree with him (which is often), I am often stimulated to work through the why.

I do think that if the US is going to stay a democracy, we are stuck convincing folks like him to remain on our side.

Good points, but I’ll never pass up a chance to note that everything “centrists” say about US politics is categorically wrong, since they are Republicans and/or brain-dead.

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EPR-radar  Nov 11, 2022 • 9:40:54pm

re: #72 mmmirele

This warms the cockles of my cold, cold heart. 150K likes! All that work we did in the ’90s and ’00s, it laid the groundwork for this. I can imagine that Miscavige is in a rage right now.

Good work. Scientology is a festering carbuncle of corruption, long overdue for a lancing.

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mmmirele  Nov 11, 2022 • 9:42:25pm

re: #55 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The referendum also included a $50,000 fine and up to ten years imprisonment for any physician or nurse who failed to comply with the proposed law.

Yeah.

I don’t see James stepping up to pay for treatment that will not work because he’s gone completely off the deep end.

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EPR-radar  Nov 11, 2022 • 9:44:06pm

re: #75 mmmirele

That disgusting ballot proposition reminds me of the Terri Schiavo case. Right wing death cultists are at their very worst when they are performatively pretending to value life.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 11, 2022 • 9:45:20pm

Example: the Stable Diffusion very simple prompt “Santa Clause standing outside a house” will give a basic image.

But using three different artists (using the same “seed” in all examples as that is the variable that initiates the original random canvas):

Charles Schultz
William Hogarth
Bastien Lecouffe-Deharme

Trying to any image to look like the above just using descriptive words is quite difficult, but simply invoking an artist’s name gets you mostly there.

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EPR-radar  Nov 11, 2022 • 9:47:45pm

re: #77 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Dare I ask what “Santa Claus standing outside a house” + Hieronymous Bosch gives?

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ckkatz  Nov 11, 2022 • 9:50:29pm

re: #73 EPR-radar

Good points, but I’ll never pass up a chance to note that everything “centrists” say about US politics is categorically wrong, since they are Republicans and/or brain-dead.

Hard to argue with you.

Particularly with what passes for “Political Analyists” these days. It seems to me that a lot of them have simply stapled themselves to what they think is the Overton Window and float mindlessly on it trying to offend no one.

Of course, then elections like this past mid-term happen.

And suddenly is a game of musical chairs where everybody suddenly realizes that the Overton Window has moved and they haven’t. So they try move to where they think it is and restaple themselves.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 11, 2022 • 9:51:39pm

re: #78 EPR-radar

Dare I ask what “Santa Claus standing outside a house” + Hieronymous Bosch gives?

Hieronymus Bosch
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TedStriker  Nov 11, 2022 • 9:52:37pm

re: #78 EPR-radar

Dare I ask what “Santa Claus standing outside a house” + Hieronymous Bosch gives?

Or worse: “Santa Claus standing outside a house” + H.R. Giger…

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retired cynic  Nov 11, 2022 • 9:52:44pm

re: #80 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Now that one is really cool!

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 11, 2022 • 9:55:00pm

re: #80 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

re: #82 retired cynic

This one may be more like what you were expecting from Hieronymus (using a random seed):

Hieronymus Bosch 2
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EPR-radar  Nov 11, 2022 • 9:58:11pm

re: #83 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

MC Escher?

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 11, 2022 • 10:03:07pm

Making it look like a photo is risky because often human body parts don’t come out quite right, but this one is ok. Original seed (compare to original images):

Dorothea Lange
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 11, 2022 • 10:06:16pm

re: #84 EPR-radar

MC Escher?

Those usually don’t do well, but here is such w/ the original seed:

Escher
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Belafon  Nov 11, 2022 • 10:11:45pm

When you hear people say the Lincoln Project is cozying up to DeSantis:

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EPR-radar  Nov 11, 2022 • 10:13:52pm

re: #87 Belafon

When you hear people say the Lincoln Project is cozying up to DeSantis:

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My assumption is that the Lincoln project wants the GOP to return to the glory days of either W Bush or Reagan, which is just fucking eww in both cases.

But is there any real info out there on what the LP is (allegedly) for?

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Belafon  Nov 11, 2022 • 10:17:50pm

re: #88 EPR-radar

My assumption is that the Lincoln project wants the GOP to return to the glory days of either W Bush or Reagan, which is just fucking eww in both cases.

But is there any real info out there on what the LP is (allegedly) for?

They recognize Trump and DeSantis as fascists and they don’t want fascism.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 11, 2022 • 10:19:02pm

The reason AI images told to be “Escher” fail is the same reason why these AI images are not “art”, no matter what the purveyors of these tools claim.

Escher worked from the basic idea that humans have mental models of the real world. Then he subverted these models.

When you were a baby you had to learn to invert the images on your retinas, you learned what was up and down, what was left and right, that you fell down and not up, etc.

These AI tools have no such models of reality. They have no models at all. They are just complex networks trained to make images from noise. The training is done by associating some text with a final image, then the AI runs over and over to change the randomness of dots into that image. They store this training.

So when you present them with a new field of randomness, they simply repeat their training.

But humans do art, and art is communication. Escher knew he could fool the human eye because he subverted the learned reality of the human mind.

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 11, 2022 • 10:20:39pm

re: #72 mmmirele

This warms the cockles of my cold, cold heart. 150K likes! All that work we did in the ’90s and ’00s, it laid the groundwork for this. I can imagine that Miscavige is in a rage right now.

A persistent rumor regarding Shelly Miscavige is that David (who, by all accounts, is quite the hothead) killed her in a fit of rage - and it’s been covered up with the connivance of law enforcement.

Leah’s Twitter thread certainly adds some credibility to that rumor.

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retired cynic  Nov 11, 2022 • 10:20:58pm

re: #90 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

good explanation

I’m not commenting on these tonight, but I am watching and enjoying.

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 11, 2022 • 10:21:23pm

Hard fought par today

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 11, 2022 • 10:21:37pm

re: #89 Belafon

They recognize Trump and DeSantis as fascists and they don’t want fascism.

They originally formed as a PAC to oppose Donald Trump’s reëlection and endorsed Joe Biden for President.

In the summer before the election, they said they would also go after prominent Republican Trump supporters.

Unlike most superpacs, they were originally funded by donations of $200 or less. More prominent and wealthy people have now moved in to donate to Lincoln Project.

en.wikipedia.org

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ckkatz  Nov 11, 2022 • 10:28:05pm

Speaking of art…
Not created by an AI, though.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 11, 2022 • 10:29:44pm
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EPR-radar  Nov 11, 2022 • 10:29:49pm

re: #94 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

They originally formed as a PAC to oppose Donald Trump’s reëlection and endorsed Joe Biden for President.

In the summer before the election, they said they would also go after prominent Republican Trump supporters.

Unlike most superpacs, they were originally funded by donations of $200 or less. More prominent and wealthy people have now moved in to donate to Lincoln Project.

en.wikipedia.org

I’m curious about the inherent contradiction. If they really are Reagan/W Bush Republicans, then that’s the foundation of Trumpism from which it would eventually come again, even if the LP were to entirely take over the GOP.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 11, 2022 • 10:33:49pm

The AI tools are fun but I am finding a great many tutorials on Youtube wanting.

Like with any other kind of art, the beauty is in the discipline of it.

You’ll find an endless supply of examples using overly elaborate prompts, people just willy-nilly changing this or that word.

Instead of doing that, I’ve been doing the old fashioned thing: pick a subject and do a “study” of it.

Among other things, I’ve been seen how a “cat” can be had in Stable Diffusion.

The thing to do is pick a prompt, and a seed, and stick with it, changing only a single thing in the prompt (for me it has been the associated artistic method of making the original, e.g. “charcoal” or “pencil”).

That is how one can really learn the tool.

Here is a painting of a cat. It looks like it really could have been a painting of a real cat:

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 11, 2022 • 10:34:45pm

re: #97 EPR-radar

I’m curious about the inherent contradiction. If they really are Reagan/W Bush Republicans, then that’s the foundation of Trumpism from which it would eventually come again, even if the LP were to entirely take over the GOP.

They want their dogwhistles back. Too many Republicans are saying the quiet parts out loud now that Trump gave them permission (eliminate public education, starve granny by taking away SocSec, open racism and anti-Semitism, &c).

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 11, 2022 • 10:35:20pm
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ckkatz  Nov 11, 2022 • 10:36:08pm

re: #88 EPR-radar

My understanding is that the Lincoln Project consists of former Republican operatives who left or got pushed out when Trump put his own people in.

I get the sense that they realize that it is highly unlikely that they will ever be able to return to the Republican Party. Or ever be welcomed there by Trump and his minions.

My assumption is that they are trying to develop a ‘Conservative’ pro-democracy alternative to it.

In the end, as long as we want to have a democracy here, we are going to have to find a workable arrangement with folks like them. They do seem to be eager to work with us. At least right now.

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Eventual Carrion  Nov 11, 2022 • 10:36:08pm

re: #93 Hecuba’s daughter

Hard fought par today

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 11, 2022 • 10:37:12pm

If you check out #stablediffusion on twitter you’ll discover that most of the posters are young people trying to make erotic images. Usually by guys wanting females to have enormous breasts.

Most of the rest of the images are people looking to make fantasy scenery as if they are doing it for a video game.

Most of those images look alike because they all keep copying prompts with a few key words they all share.

Only a small minority of tweeters appear to be people wanting to see what the AI can really do.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 11, 2022 • 10:37:27pm
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retired cynic  Nov 11, 2022 • 10:40:19pm
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GlutenFreeJesus  Nov 11, 2022 • 10:44:18pm

re: #42 ckkatz

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 11, 2022 • 10:45:41pm

Thread, eight tweets.

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Sherlock Hound  Nov 11, 2022 • 10:50:54pm

re: #98 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

It looks like a GAN image, something like thiscatdoesnotexist, if that website actually existed.

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ckkatz  Nov 11, 2022 • 10:56:31pm

re: #107 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Interesting!

The whole idea that Musk might have spent 44 giga-bucks on a whim, simply to destroy it for some theoretical ideology, for nihlism, or even just without any sort of plan is difficult for me to wrap my brain around.

Incompetence and thrashing as proposed by that thread seem much more likely.

I guess that we will find out at some point years from now.

To paraphrase Robert Frost

“[Someone] shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence”

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ckkatz  Nov 11, 2022 • 11:01:21pm

Well, time for me to head to bed. To wish all an excellent coming Caturday. And to again steal Austin_Blue’s wish of sweet scaly dreams.

And, amidst the very heavy competition for best Dad Joke of the evening, I can only muster this one:

You really should try archery while blindfolded.
You don’t know what you’re missing.

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 11, 2022 • 11:11:09pm

re: #107 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Thread, eight tweets.

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Terrific thread. And Twitter seems to have gone past the point of no return, becoming 8kun before our eyes and potentially poisoning our discourse for years to come. Unless there is someone out there who can provide a home for all those millions of users/advertisers who will be fleeing the hellhole twitter is becoming.

I do have to say there was a thread from above that included the following though it seems too late for the tinfoil theory to be successful.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 11, 2022 • 11:13:44pm

re: #108 Sherlock Hound

Stable Diffusion and DALL-E are diffusion probabilistic models. They are trained by undoing a blurred real image.

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Targetpractice  Nov 11, 2022 • 11:37:00pm

re: #87 Belafon

When you hear people say the Lincoln Project is cozying up to DeSantis:

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I keep looking at DeSantis and the same four words keep coming to mind: “Big fish, small pond.” His appeal to MAGAts is the same as Christie’s was or Abbot’s is: The state GQP have such a death grip on politics at all levels of the state that he can do whatever he wants and suffer little blowback. But like Christie in 2016, the moment he starts trying to appeal to voters outside his safe haven of FL, he’s gonna lose that appeal as it will become apparent that words like “compromise” and “bipartisan” exist if you actually want to be president.

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retired cynic  Nov 11, 2022 • 11:37:23pm

At the end of this video clip (which makes Youngkin look like the kiss of death), there are a group of candidates who beat his endorsed candidates with their eyes like those red glowing ones on “dark Brandon”. They flash by rather quickly, and might bother someone who is affected by such things. Just a note of warning.

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John Hughes  Nov 11, 2022 • 11:53:03pm

re: #65 mmmirele

Ormesson, val de Marne, 11/11/2022
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 11, 2022 • 11:53:39pm

Associated Press:

Trump files lawsuit to avoid Jan. 6 committee subpoena (today)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is suing the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol to avoid cooperating with a subpoena requiring him to testify.

The suit filed Friday evening contends that, while former presidents have voluntarily agreed to provide testimony or documents in response to congressional subpoenas in the past, “no president or former president has ever been compelled to do so.”

“Long-held precedent and practice maintain that separation of powers prohibits Congress from compelling a President to testify before it,” Trump attorney David A. Warrington said in a statement announcing Trump’s intentions.

Warrington said Trump had engaged with the committee “in a good faith effort to resolve these concerns consistent with Executive Branch prerogatives and separation of powers,” but said the panel “insists on pursuing a political path, leaving President Trump with no choice but to involve the third branch, the judicial branch, in this dispute between the executive and legislative branches.”

(more)

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retired cynic  Nov 11, 2022 • 11:54:47pm

re: #117 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Where’s Judge Cannon? Needed on Stage Eight.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 12, 2022 • 12:02:50am

re: #114 Targetpractice

Did you know that “DeSantis” is an anagram for “Sad Nites”?

True story.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Nov 12, 2022 • 2:12:00am

re: #39 austin_blue

Well, the joke’s on him. Like most people on the planet, I don’t have a twitter account and he can’t hurt me. I might be a little inconvenienced, but not hurt. Stonekettle and Stansaid Airport will find another home and I will follow them there.

He, on the other hand, might burn through over $20 billion of his wealth, and get sued for another $24 billion.

It’s a slow motion financial suicide and I have a huge stock of popcorn packets for just these situations. Bring it.

I’m sorry I wasn’t clear. Wren I say Elmo wanted to hurt everyone, I meant everyone he cares about: people and companies with money. He doesn’t give the first or last fuck about you or me.

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Belafon  Nov 12, 2022 • 2:13:08am

re: #97 EPR-radar

I’m curious about the inherent contradiction. If they really are Reagan/W Bush Republicans, then that’s the foundation of Trumpism from which it would eventually come again, even if the LP were to entirely take over the GOP.

We do this every few months here. Yes, they are Republicans, and most of them are hawkish types. And they tend to be the low taxes types. But, almost all of them have admitted that they helped lay the groundwork for what led to Trump, and have publicly apologized, and state that they are in no position to tell Democrats what their positions should be. They focus on taking down Republicans.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 12, 2022 • 2:13:20am
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Belafon  Nov 12, 2022 • 2:16:47am

re: #100 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I understand the sentiment, but the Amazon one is a silly measure since it’s driven by the market, not Amazon’s actual performance. The optimist coukd word it “the first company to have that much capital”. And as for Facebook, it’s trying something radical. Sometimes companies try something big and fail.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Nov 12, 2022 • 2:22:39am

re: #101 ckkatz

My understanding is that the Lincoln Project consists of former Republican operatives who left or got pushed out when Trump put his own people in.

I get the sense that they realize that it is highly unlikely that they will ever be able to return to the Republican Party. Or ever be welcomed there by Trump and his minions.

My assumption is that they are trying to develop a ‘Conservative’ pro-democracy alternative to it.

In the end, as long as we want to have a democracy here, we are going to have to find a workable arrangement with folks like them. They do seem to be eager to work with us. At least right now.

The problem is that people like Rick Wilson, or David Frum, are the people who accelerated the breakdown of this country by further heightening conservative rhetoric. They’re horrified because their plan worked; their language is now being used in good faith. And when you give them a moment to express themselves in a nice, safe conservative environment, they open their mouths and demonstrate that they’re upset because their side has embarrassed them, failed to keep their gratification needs carefully concealed behind ostrich feathers. They don’t regret establishing that liberals are inherently unserious and invalid, that all skepticism of US militarism is treason, that the price of “freedom” is simply ignoring an every growing stack of civilian casualties overseas for no particular strategic end.

They’re necrophages, baffled and infuriated by necrophiles.

They may be -unavoidable- because they’ve permanently fucked US political culture, but nobody is under any obligation to not observe that the poisoners who just wanted to keep a steady rate of sickness that makes the victim compliant. are not reliable allies against the poisoners that want a fresh corpse to hump.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 12, 2022 • 2:26:10am

re: #23 Eventual Carrion

We could have a Hitler ending after all.

Have we had a Hitler-in-the-Bunker mashup of his reaction to the Midterms yet?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 12, 2022 • 2:28:09am

re: #33 William Lewis

How many syllables does the word “Gloria” have?

Episcopalians: 18

Van Morrison: Five (G-L-O-R-I-A)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 12, 2022 • 2:29:16am

re: #37 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The Onion, today:

Raphael Warnock Loses All Faith In God After Being Forced Into Runoff Against Herschel Walker

I can already seen this being retweeted and reposted by a Walker supporter taking it seriously

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 12, 2022 • 2:33:01am

re: #48 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Montana voters rejected Referendum 131, the so-called Require Medical Care for Infants Born Alive referendum.

“The baby is born, the mother meets w/the doctor. They take care of the baby. They wrap the baby beautifully. Then the doctor and mother determine whether or not they will execute the baby.”

Sound familiar?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 12, 2022 • 2:38:52am

re: #88 EPR-radar

My assumption is that the Lincoln project wants the GOP to return to the glory days of either W Bush or Reagan, which is just fucking eww in both cases.

But is there any real info out there on what the LP is (allegedly) for?

Still an improvement over what they have become since then…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 12, 2022 • 2:40:10am

re: #100 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Bezos: Amazon 1st corp to lose $1T in market cap

Bankman-Fried: Crypto empire fell, $16B fortune gone

Musk: Burned $44B in bumbling attempt to invalidate journos

Zuck: $800B wasted on unwanted product

These guys just need bigger tax cuts in order to create more jerbz

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 12, 2022 • 2:44:57am

re: #119 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Did you know that “DeSantis” is an anagram for “Sad Nites”?

True story.

and

“Ass Ident”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 12, 2022 • 2:46:27am

We now return you to your regularly scheduled posting

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Nov 12, 2022 • 2:46:52am

I went to eBay to buy a couple of accent pillows and this came up as a recommendation. I have to admit… They’re really cute. I mean who couldn’t love a penis with feet?
😂😂

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Nyet  Nov 12, 2022 • 2:46:52am

“Bankman-Fried has stated he is a supporter of effective altruism and says that he is pursuing earning to give as an altruistic career.[35][36] He is a member of Giving What We Can and has said that he plans to donate the great majority of his wealth to effective charities over the course of his life.”

Elon Musk: that will be $8.

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Nyet  Nov 12, 2022 • 2:47:36am

re: #133 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Is buying this a dick move?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 12, 2022 • 2:48:48am

re: #135 Nyet

Is buying this a dick move?

They were all the same size until she started stroking them…

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TarHellion  Nov 12, 2022 • 3:00:16am

After a week of beagles and birbies, back to salvaging a par. We got 3.2 inches of rain from the tropical remnants - pushing us to more the 56 inches for the year. Glad to see Kelly win and the election-denier SOS candidate lose in AZ. Concerned that KKKari LaKKKe will wind up winning AZ governorship, though she does still trail.

OK, off to the stores - then thick-cut bacon, more Outlander, and some college football. Have a great one fellow Lizardz!

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steve_davis  Nov 12, 2022 • 3:17:07am

re: #37 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The Onion, today:

Raphael Warnock Loses All Faith In God After Being Forced Into Runoff Against Herschel Walker

this, by the way, is why Job is still in the canon.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 12, 2022 • 3:23:14am

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 12, 2022 • 3:44:43am

LOL Emperor Fullofshiticus is ranting again…..

All it took was for Democrat Mark Kelly to be named the winner of Arizona’s Senate race on Friday for Donald Trump to demand a new election because of his baseless claims of “tainted” votes.

“Idiot, possibly corrupt” officials have “lost control of the tainted Election in Arizona,” Trump wrote on Truth Social after Kelly was declared the winner in a tight race against against controversial GOP MAGA candidate Blake Masters.

“A NEW ELECTION MUST BE CALLED FOR IMMEDIATELY!” Trump demanded.

huffpost.com

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Axolotl  Nov 12, 2022 • 3:48:50am

re: #69 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

That building, and ones like it sitting abandoned and dilapidated seemingly in the middle of nowhere, always pull me in. Who built it and lived in it? Why did they abandon it? When and how did it reshape into art?

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Dangerman  Nov 12, 2022 • 4:12:01am

re: #39 austin_blue

Well, the joke’s on him. Like most people on the planet, I don’t have a twitter account and he can’t hurt me. I might be a little inconvenienced, but not hurt. Stonekettle and Stansaid Airport will find another home and I will follow them there.

He, on the other hand, might burn through over $20 billion of his wealth, and get sued for another $24 billion.

It’s a slow motion financial suicide and I have a huge stock of popcorn packets for just these situations. Bring it.

we’re good as long as inflation doesn’t hit the price of popcorn

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Dangerman  Nov 12, 2022 • 4:17:49am

re: #42 ckkatz

who cares as long as they pay their taxes?
amirite?
that’s all the R’s harp on with ‘illegals’
that and being rapists and murderers. impossible if you’re not real

so what’s the biggie?

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Axolotl  Nov 12, 2022 • 4:18:44am

Guys, I have always suspected that Florida did not make a hard right turn. I try to keep my conspiracy theories in check and I never voiced it but that is how I feel.

I think we might be the model the GOP was planning for the rest of the country. They cheated to win here so it makes them very confident in their own twisted way the the other side is cheating as well. Elections are determined by the best cheaters.

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Belafon  Nov 12, 2022 • 4:33:19am

re: #145 Axolotl

Guys, I have always suspected that Florida did not make a hard right turn. I try to keep my conspiracy theories in check and I never voiced it but that is how I feel.

I think we might be the model the GOP was planning for the rest of the country. They cheated to win here so it makes them very confident in their own twisted way the the other side is cheating as well. Elections are determined by the best cheaters.

If you wondered what it felt like after Reconstruction, welcome to Florida and Texas.

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 12, 2022 • 4:55:25am

re: #147 Alephnaught

A server room overheating isn’t unheard of, but is generally a symptom of blind cost cutting with no regard for what’s actually being cut. A naive directive such as, “The thermostat shall be kept at 71 degrees in all rooms during normal business hours, and 75 degrees after work hours,” could easily end in overheating equipment.

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Barefoot Grin  Nov 12, 2022 • 5:04:28am

It seems knives are out for Mitch McConnell.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 12, 2022 • 5:04:44am

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Youtube Video


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The Squire of Logos  Nov 12, 2022 • 5:12:09am

Good Morning Lizardom!
Like Charles, I decided to download my Twitter data. The image below is a screenshot of what I received.
Yup. A blank pdf page. One page… blank. Twitter has moved from a trash fire to an intergalactic tire fire. Unreal.

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danarchy  Nov 12, 2022 • 5:26:42am

re: #149 Dopamine Fish

A server room overheating isn’t unheard of, but is generally a symptom of blind cost cutting with no regard for what’s actually being cut. A naive directive such as, “The thermostat shall be kept at 71 degrees in all rooms during normal business hours, and 75 degrees after work hours,” could easily end in overheating equipment.

Google keeps their data centers at 80 degrees. Most server rooms are much cooler than they need to be. Chances are the hvac system had some sort of failure, it happens. I doubt anything that was done in the past 2 weeks was the cause, but what I could see happening is they let go of the guy who receives the alerts from the monitoring system so it wasn’t caught until something failed.

Also I am guessing they are being generous with the term “server room” This was probably some IDF closet with a rack, and couple switches if all that got knocked out was wifi.

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Belafon  Nov 12, 2022 • 5:30:34am
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Belafon  Nov 12, 2022 • 5:32:16am
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Belafon  Nov 12, 2022 • 5:34:16am

So, in the sliding scale of authoritarianism, she’s left of Abbott and DeSantis:

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Nov 12, 2022 • 5:37:51am

re: #97 EPR-radar

I’m curious about the inherent contradiction. If they really are Reagan/W Bush Republicans, then that’s the foundation of Trumpism from which it would eventually come again, even if the LP were to entirely take over the GOP.

They want the oligarchy of power (white, male, wealthy) without the monarchy/cult of personality of a Trump or DeSantis where the whim of a single man can remove any of them. And I think at least the veneer of a republic with the appearance of democratic elections are important to them to some degree.

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Dr. Matt  Nov 12, 2022 • 5:43:42am

Elmo the snowflake.

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No Malarkey!  Nov 12, 2022 • 5:44:17am
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No Malarkey!  Nov 12, 2022 • 5:47:07am

re: #155 Belafon

Another bill that could be titled “Full employment for ACLU Lawyers”

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Dr. Matt  Nov 12, 2022 • 5:49:41am

re: #159 No Malarkey!

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BigPapa  Nov 12, 2022 • 5:53:55am
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No Malarkey!  Nov 12, 2022 • 5:59:15am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 12, 2022 • 6:05:35am

re: #141 Dr Lizardo

LOL Emperor Fullofshiticus is ranting again…..

huffpost.com

I was waiting for this to happen, and now we have the de facto leader of the GOP calling for new elections…I thought there would be a lot more of it.

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jeffreyw  Nov 12, 2022 • 6:08:36am

Got Stock?

Good morning!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 12, 2022 • 6:09:16am

re: #154 Belafon

MAGA wants to raise the voter age to 21—but shouldnt the voting age be 16?

Hear me out
19 states allow the death penalty for 16/17 yr olds
50 states allow taxation of the 2.5M 16/17 yr old workers

So if theyre old enough to be taxed & executed—why arent they old enough to vote?

Because they voted for the wrong party, hence proving that it was a mistake to let them vote in the first place.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 12, 2022 • 6:11:55am

re: #157 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

They want the oligarchy of power (white, male, wealthy) without the monarchy/cult of personality of a Trump or DeSantis where the whim of a single man can remove any of them. And I think at least the veneer of a republic with the appearance of democratic elections are important to them to some degree.

They forget that true red-blooded, red-hatted MAGAts hate all politicians, they just hate GOP politicians slightly less than Democrats.

They vote for Trump because he has sold himself to them successfully as the anti-politician, which has allowed him to get away with things that would have derailed the campaign (or career) of any professtional politician.

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BlueSpotinAL  Nov 12, 2022 • 6:12:23am

re: #165 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

That is not what I meant when I said people should start owning stock, but I will allow it is also a good idea.

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No Malarkey!  Nov 12, 2022 • 6:13:41am

re: #164 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I was waiting for this to happen, and now we have the de facto leader of the GOP calling for new elections…I thought there would be a lot more of it.

One thing I have been pleased with is that other than the armed yahoos in Arizona staking out some drop boxes, this election went fairly smoothly, and it looks like there aren’t going to be any election deniers as SoS or Governor in swing states to refuse to certify the 2024 election, except possibly in Az if Hobbs can’t hold her lead.

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BigPapa  Nov 12, 2022 • 6:26:10am

re: #168 BlueSpotinAL

That is not what I meant when I said people should start owning stock, but I will allow it is also a good idea.

that kind of stock doesn’t lose value

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 12, 2022 • 6:26:18am

re: #169 No Malarkey!

One thing I have been pleased with is that other than the armed yahoos in Arizona staking out some drop boxes, this election went fairly smoothly, and it looks like there aren’t going to be any election deniers as SoS or Governor in swing states to refuse to certify the 2024 election, except possibly in Az if Hobbs can’t hold her lead.

I was more than a bit concerned that there might be violent altercations at polling places. Glad to see that did not happen.

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Dr. Matt  Nov 12, 2022 • 6:27:26am

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Dangerman  Nov 12, 2022 • 6:32:25am

Man’s a real mensch

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Dangerman  Nov 12, 2022 • 6:36:22am

re: #158 Dr. Matt

Elmo the snowflake.

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They should stop writing “Twitter” in cases where it obviously means Musk personally

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Dangerman  Nov 12, 2022 • 6:44:20am

re: #172 Dr. Matt

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Do not buy the company. Do not buy the stock. Even for $44.00.
Too many unrecorded , unknown liabilities.

Buy the assets through a new, clean corporate shell.

Leave the empty husk for…Musk

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 12, 2022 • 6:44:38am

At least this particular cryptoscam seems to have an interesting denouement:

Several wallets allegedly belonging to FTX were drained of hundreds of millions of dollars in coins late on Friday night, with much of the funds transferred from Tether (USDT) into stablecoin DAI, and from staked Ethereum (stETH) into Ethereum (ETH).

It was the same day that FTX filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and it looked too soon, too late at night, and too sophisticated for the actions to be attributed to liquidators.

The exodus, all visible on blockchain tracker Etherscan, totaled around $650 million according to pseudonymous blockchain sleuth ZachXBT, widely trusted by the DeFi community.

It took until after 2 am EST for FTX US general counsel Ryne Miller to call the transfers “unauthorized” and add that FTX had begun moving assets to cold wallets to “mitigate the damage.”

yahoo.com

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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Nov 12, 2022 • 6:46:54am

Good morning lizards. This beautiful prime brisket has been smoking since around 3:30 yesterday afternoon. Currently sitting at 175 degrees with another 20 degrees to go!

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Nov 12, 2022 • 6:51:57am

The whole crypto craze had always strick me as 1. A cult (reminds me a little too much of techies in Heaven’s Gate), and 2. A full on Ponzi scheme and 3. A way for crooks and terrorists to fund criminal activity.

I watched a PBS show on crypto last night and it only reinforced my beliefs.

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Teukka  Nov 12, 2022 • 6:55:27am

Here it is, the new Twitter logo:

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Dr. Matt  Nov 12, 2022 • 6:57:23am

Because of the crack pot idea of twitter blue, can Elmo be held personally liable for destroying millions, and possible billions, in value in Eli Lilly and Lockheed Martin ?

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Belafon  Nov 12, 2022 • 7:01:18am

re: #180 Dr. Matt

Because of the crack pot idea of twitter blue, can Elmo be held personally liable for destroying millions, and possible billions, in value in Eli Lilly and Lockheed Martin ?

It would definitely be an interesting challenge. Most sites are currently protected from what users do, but someone might try to argue that Musk’s tampering went beyond normal, expected operations of the site.

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Jay C  Nov 12, 2022 • 7:01:40am

re: #126 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Van Morrison: Five (G-L-O-R-I-A)

I’d demand a recount…. 😉

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 12, 2022 • 7:01:56am

re: #178 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Until a single major use case is successfully demonstrated, Crypto will be a shitty investment.

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Axolotl  Nov 12, 2022 • 7:03:14am

The crash of crypto, Kanye, Trump, the red wave, russia and musk is almost too much to absorb.

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 12, 2022 • 7:04:16am

An entertaining, but moderately long, thread on the origins of laws regarding self-defense in your home, and how they stemmed from abysmally inaccurate reporting:

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 12, 2022 • 7:05:27am

re: #181 Belafon

It would definitely be an interesting challenge. Most sites are currently protected from what users do, but someone might try to argue that Musk’s tampering went beyond normal, expected operations of the site.

There are a couple of different ideas around that. The general #lawtwitter consensus seems to be, “Nobody knows for sure, somebody should sue his ass and find out.”

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Dr. Matt  Nov 12, 2022 • 7:06:26am

Speaking of scams, are NFTs still a thing or has that tree rotted and died as well?

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 12, 2022 • 7:08:12am

re: #187 Dr. Matt

Speaking of scams, are NFTs still a thing or as that tree rotted and died as well?

They’re still around, and people are still making more of them, but they’re not the new hotness anymore. The funny thing is, video games have been trying to integrate NFTs (some as part of user-defined content, i.e. inject your own NFT into the game, some as a way of validating in-game purchases that you could potentially re-sell), but gamers adamantly want nothing to do with that.

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No Malarkey!  Nov 12, 2022 • 7:09:08am

re: #186 Dopamine Fish

There are a couple of different ideas around that. The general #lawtwitter consensus seems to be, “Nobody knows for sure, somebody should sue his ass and find out.”

You can be sure Eli Lilly has top lawyers looking into it, but off the top of my head it seems unlikely.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Nov 12, 2022 • 7:09:35am

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Jay C  Nov 12, 2022 • 7:10:52am

re: #141 Dr Lizardo

LOL Emperor Fullofshiticus is ranting again…..

huffpost.com

Wonder why HuffPost described Kelly’s Senate race as “tight”? Yeah, it *should* have been more of a blowout, given his loony-tunes opponent, but Mark’s margin in no’s. and % (assuming trends hold) is about what he pulled again Martha McSally in 2020. And this IS Arizona: the National Nut Ranch for the GOP….

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Dr. Matt  Nov 12, 2022 • 7:12:13am

re: #186 Dopamine Fish

There are a couple of different ideas around that. The general #lawtwitter consensus seems to be, “Nobody knows for sure, somebody should sue his ass and find out.”

Time to deploy a gaggle of those high priced corporate lawyers to test the meme:

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Nov 12, 2022 • 7:14:29am

re: #181 Belafon

It would definitely be an interesting challenge. Most sites are currently protected from what users do, but someone might try to argue that Musk’s tampering went beyond normal, expected operations of the site.

It’ll increase pressure for Section 230 to be modified or eliminated I am sure. Which will open up a huge can-o-worms for all the social media platforms.

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 12, 2022 • 7:15:09am

re: #189 No Malarkey!

You can be sure Eli Lilly has top lawyers looking into it, but off the top of my head it seems unlikely.

Yeah. Everything I’ve been reading on it has been all theories, as in, “You could make this argument,” but it’s not like some other cases where they’ve said, “Definitely sue for this.” I originally was in the camp of thinking there was probably something actionable there, but that’s why I am not a lawyer.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Nov 12, 2022 • 7:19:21am

re: #165 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Western good morning!

After decades of pruning
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No Malarkey!  Nov 12, 2022 • 7:20:30am

Went to see Wakanda Forever last night. One of the best entries in the MCU, highly recommend.

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 12, 2022 • 7:21:10am

re: #196 No Malarkey!

Went to see Wakanda Forever last night. One of the best entries in the MCU, highly recommend.

We’re going this afternoon.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Nov 12, 2022 • 7:22:08am

re: #188 Dopamine Fish

They’re still around, and people are still making more of them, but they’re not the new hotness anymore. The funny thing is, video games have been trying to integrate NFTs (some as part of user-defined content, i.e. inject your own NFT into the game, some as a way of validating in-game purchases that you could potentially re-sell), but gamers adamantly want nothing to do with that.

A lot of games get quickly scrutinized now to see how they are trying to monetize themselves. Micro-transactions, loot boxes, and pay-to-win strategies are detected and quickly pointed out. And some of the strategies are illegal in some countries or regions as being akin to paid gambling.

Game production pressures results in a lot of games being released prematurely and often incomplete in both terms of development and testing. (Steam “early access” is often criticized as allowing the distributors/developers to get others to do their beta testing for them.) And crowdfunding methods like Kickstarter that are supposed to help the small independent developers get a chance was pretty quickly adopted by the large developers as well.

And the criticism of the various monetization, marketing and production strategies comes from both outside and within the industry.

All in all, it boils down to there being a lot of garbage out there in the industry.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Nov 12, 2022 • 7:23:50am

re: #190 HRH Stanley Sea

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 12, 2022 • 7:26:04am

re: #198 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

And the criticism of the various monetization, marketing and production strategies comes from both outside and within the industry.

All in all, it boils down to there being a lot of garbage out there in the industry.

For sure. Game companies are just throwing monetization strategies at the wall to see what sticks. Most games seem to have settled on a “seasonal battle pass” model, but even within that genre, there is tremendous variability. Halo Infinite - a game with a strong legacy from one of the most iconic franchises in modern gaming - is frequently and severely criticized for how bad its battle pass system is.

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Dr. Matt  Nov 12, 2022 • 7:26:24am

ZZ Top’s Elwood Francis Performs “Got Me Under Pressure” with 17-String Bass

Can’t imagine the size of the case AND having to lug that thing around.

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jeffreyw  Nov 12, 2022 • 7:27:00am

re: #168 BlueSpotinAL

That is not what I meant when I said people should start owning stock, but I will allow it is also a good idea.

I bag and freeze kitchen scraps until I get enough for a batch and then spend a day simmering them like so. That pot yielded 3 pints, thereabouts.

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Dr. Matt  Nov 12, 2022 • 7:38:26am

FFS. District 3 had their chances. They deserve their white trash, batshit crazy representation.

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A Cranky One  Nov 12, 2022 • 7:44:04am

re: #165 jeffreyw

Stock photo eh?

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DodgerFan1988  Nov 12, 2022 • 7:45:06am
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A Cranky One  Nov 12, 2022 • 7:46:04am

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nines09  Nov 12, 2022 • 7:46:41am

re: #201 Dr. Matt

ZZ Top’s Elwood Francis Performs “Got Me Under Pressure” with 17-String Bass

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Can’t imagine the size of the case AND having to lug that thing around.

They lug nothing around. They have people to do that.
Watch the video, only uses the bottom 3 strings.

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Dr. Matt  Nov 12, 2022 • 7:50:03am

re: #207 nines09

They lug nothing around. They have people to do that.
Watch the video, only uses the bottom 3 strings.

His guitar tech has to lug it around.

At the beginning it looks like he was playing open strings at the top (15th to 17th strings).

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A Cranky One  Nov 12, 2022 • 7:51:32am

re: #207

How about a 69 string bass?

69 STRINGS BASS SOLO (World Record)

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Captain Magic  Nov 12, 2022 • 7:52:50am

re: #178 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Crypto are prosecution futures.

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Barefoot Grin  Nov 12, 2022 • 7:53:07am

re: #208 Dr. Matt

His guitar tech has to lug it around.

At the beginning it looks like he was playing open strings at the top (15th to 17th strings).

It’s probably a pain in the ass to lug around Rick Neilson’s guitars.

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jeffreyw  Nov 12, 2022 • 7:53:08am

re: #204 A Cranky One

Stock photo eh?

Yep, CC license, free to distribute, I’m not liable for ptomaine or puns

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Dr. Matt  Nov 12, 2022 • 7:53:27am

re: #209 A Cranky One

How about a 69 string bass?

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Wow. Unreal.

Takes a weekend to restring and get in tune!

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nines09  Nov 12, 2022 • 7:57:08am

re: #208 Dr. Matt

Song is in E and A so that plays out. Elwood Francis (him) was the tech Hill wanted to take over. Been seamless so far. When they get to a smaller venue the prices skyrocket. Thus I never saw them live.

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No Malarkey!  Nov 12, 2022 • 7:57:15am

re: #210 Captain Magic

Crypto are prosecution futures.

Good interview with a guy who took up investigating crypto as a hobby because its fraud you can watch unfold as they commit it!

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nines09  Nov 12, 2022 • 7:57:57am

re: #209 A Cranky One

How about a 69 string bass?

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Break a string and your whole world changes….

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A Cranky One  Nov 12, 2022 • 8:01:11am

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 12, 2022 • 8:07:31am

re: #154 Belafon

“Taxation without representation is literally unconstitutional. But the right has proven over and over again that they hate everything America was founded on, so it tracks.”

Taxation without representation may have led to the Revolution, but where in the Constitution is that illegal? Non-citizens pay taxes. Ex-felons who are denied voting rights pay taxes. It’s an absurd argument.

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Eventual Carrion  Nov 12, 2022 • 8:08:21am

re: #214 nines09

Song is in E and A so that plays out. Elwood Francis (him) was the tech Hill wanted to take over. Been seamless so far. When they get to a smaller venue the prices skyrocket. Thus I never saw them live.

I saw them open for The Stones at the Astrodome in Houston in around ‘83. They do put on a good show.

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 12, 2022 • 8:11:30am

re: #156 Belafon

So, in the sliding scale of authoritarianism, she’s left of Abbott and DeSantis:

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She reflects the demographics of the voting public in her state. If she were in Texas or Florida, her positions may be very different. Think of her as a liar who has no personal positions on issues except for what will gain her power (or money).

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Dr. Matt  Nov 12, 2022 • 8:12:16am

re: #216 nines09

Break a string and your whole world changes….

I don’t think BB King could even restring that one the fly.

BB King breaks a guitar string mid-song and handles it like a pro.

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 12, 2022 • 8:14:18am

re: #157 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

They want the oligarchy of power (white, male, wealthy) without the monarchy/cult of personality of a Trump or DeSantis where the whim of a single man can remove any of them. And I think at least the veneer of a republic with the appearance of democratic elections are important to them to some degree.

They are also not racists. Think of W who had African-Americans whom he actually knew in important positions in his government.

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nines09  Nov 12, 2022 • 8:16:09am

re: #219 Eventual Carrion

I saw them open for The Stones at the Astrodome in Houston in around ‘83. They do put on a good show.

In 1983 they were absolutely cooking. BFG is a vastly talented guitarist. He’s one of those who can literally pull rabbits out of a hat. I always admired how as a three piece act, they translated the studio work to live performance and lost nothing.

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Eventual Carrion  Nov 12, 2022 • 8:16:58am

re: #217 A Cranky One

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That’s almost how we got our youngest cat. A person who rescues cats got a call from someone that heard kittens calling from behind her house. The rescuer went back there searching and found a litter of kittens. The mother might have been killed on the road or something. Of the 6 in the litter 3 had died already from the cold and/or malnutrition. She picked up the other 3 and took them to her house to nurse them back to life. One didn’t make it as it was too far gone. The other 2 made it and we acquired one, Freddie.

Fred
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gwangung  Nov 12, 2022 • 8:17:05am

re: #222 Hecuba’s daughter

They are also not racists. Think of W who had African-Americans whom he actually knew in important positions in his government.

Not overt racists. Holding some racist attitudes? More than the usual liberal? I’d bet on that…

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Dr. Matt  Nov 12, 2022 • 8:21:22am

re: #190 HRH Stanley Sea

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Captain Ron  Nov 12, 2022 • 8:24:45am
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Nov 12, 2022 • 8:27:57am

re: #227 Captain Ron

Ah. The greatest hits making a comeback. 👀

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 12, 2022 • 8:31:07am

re: #180 Dr. Matt

Because of the crack pot idea of twitter blue, can Elmo be held personally liable for destroying millions, and possible billions, in value in Eli Lilly and Lockheed Martin ?

Let’s see if the damage lasts longer than a couple days. May just be a brief blip.

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nines09  Nov 12, 2022 • 8:34:05am

Younger BFG tearing it up.
And that is a Billy Bo guitar. I was never able to try one out until I was in Louisville Colorado at Wildwood Guitars. They brought one out to me, I went back into a sound room and plugged into a Friedman and…
It wasn’t for me. Huge letdown. Ah, well.

ZZ Top La Grange live 1982

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HRH Stanley Sea  Nov 12, 2022 • 8:34:34am

re: #226 Dr. Matt

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HRH Stanley Sea  Nov 12, 2022 • 8:35:43am

…

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danarchy  Nov 12, 2022 • 8:39:21am

re: #207 nines09

They lug nothing around. They have people to do that.
Watch the video, only uses the bottom 3 strings.

He occasionally flips around and uses the top strings, but the whole middle section is basically no man’s land. It is all just very gimmicky.

As for lugging it around, probably still easier than an upright bass.

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 12, 2022 • 8:39:26am

re: #198 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

….

Game production pressures results in a lot of games being released prematurely and often incomplete in both terms of development and testing. (Steam “early access” is often criticized as allowing the distributors/developers to get others to do their beta testing for them.) And crowdfunding methods like Kickstarter that are supposed to help the small independent developers get a chance was pretty quickly adopted by the large developers as well.

And the criticism of the various monetization, marketing and production strategies comes from both outside and within the industry.

All in all, it boils down to there being a lot of garbage out there in the industry.

Having clients do beta testing for you is a well-established and common practice. They are the ones who best understand how features should work for them. Let’s not forget the ancient aphorism from prehistoric times: Software is debugged in the field. There is no way for any software company to test every combination of hardware and user environment before releasing a product.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Nov 12, 2022 • 8:40:11am

re: #229 Hecuba’s daughter

Let’s see if the damage lasts longer than a couple days. May just be a brief blip.

Which would still make further stunts like that an obvious path to facilitate market manipulation for personal gain by shorting a stock right before dumping a fake tweet of that sort.

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 12, 2022 • 8:41:26am

re: #203 Dr. Matt

FFS. District 3 had their chances. They deserve their white trash, batshit crazy representation.

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They may. But the sane population of this nation doesn’t and we are saddled with her too and her vote for Speaker.

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William Lewis  Nov 12, 2022 • 8:42:38am

re: #231 HRH Stanley Sea

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No Malarkey!  Nov 12, 2022 • 8:45:23am
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Nov 12, 2022 • 8:45:40am

re: #234 Hecuba’s daughter

Having clients do beta testing for you is a well-established and common practice. They are the ones who best understand how features should work for them. Let’s not forget the ancient aphorism from prehistoric times: Software is debugged in the field. There is no way for any software company to test every combination of hardware and user environment before releasing a product.

Yes. But client beta testing is done with it clearly specified that it is being done that way.

Early access is charging people for the game in an unfinished form.* Often cheaper than the expected full release price. And it is not that people go into it fully uninformed. However, it does also lead to the pressures for games to be released sooner than they otherwise ought to in my opinion. With there also being the risk that the game is never fully fixed and ends up in abandonware hell.

* - And yes I do own a number of Early Access titles. But I am also very aware of what I am getting myself into in regards to what I play initially might change appreciably by the time of full release. And I’m also pretty wary before I step into that pool in the first place. I generally play a lot trailing edge games (like Arma 3) than I am playing cutting edge games.

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nines09  Nov 12, 2022 • 8:46:23am

re: #233 danarchy
It’s a prop. Stage piece. Got to keep it fresh.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Nov 12, 2022 • 8:48:12am

Friend on Discord is about to be traveling with his wife. They leave Sunday and he posted about setting his luggage lock combinations. The clip below appeared within minutes.

Spaceballs Luggage Password

His response was “I don’t even have to watch the clip to know what the gag is.”

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Eventual Carrion  Nov 12, 2022 • 8:54:02am

re: #234 Hecuba’s daughter

Having clients do beta testing for you is a well-established and common practice. They are the ones who best understand how features should work for them. Let’s not forget the ancient aphorism from prehistoric times: Software is debugged in the field. There is no way for any software company to test every combination of hardware and user environment before releasing a product.

A programmers job is to make idiot proof software
Mother Natures job is to make better idiots
So far Mother Nature is winning

(I know, I know, blame it on the user)

What do programmers and drug dealers have in common?
They both refer to their customers as USERS.

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 12, 2022 • 8:57:20am

Speaking of games and gaming, several months ago, publishing giant Bungie sued some people who were making and selling cheat software (aim hacks) for their blockbuster flagship product, Destiny 2. These cretins had the audacity to counter-sue, claiming that Bungie illegally accessed files on their computers and bypassed security measures. The judge in the case said, “You clowns, you didn’t allege a single fact that actually supports any of these claims. Geddouddaheah.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 12, 2022 • 8:59:38am

re: #180 Dr. Matt

Because of the crack pot idea of twitter blue, can Elmo be held personally liable for destroying millions, and possible billions, in value in Eli Lilly and Lockheed Martin ?

in the end, it is all on the idiots who make investment decisions based on information gleaned from an unverifiable website.

the damage done to twitter’s reputation will far, far exceed any temporary stock setbacks that those other blue-chip companies undergo

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 12, 2022 • 9:03:41am

re: #218 Hecuba’s daughter

Taxation without representation may have led to the Revolution, but where in the Constitution is that illegal? Non-citizens pay taxes. Ex-felons who are denied voting rights pay taxes. It’s an absurd argument.

It’s another one of those great Constitutional Fallacies.

Residents of Washington DC, Puerto Rico, Guam, etc., all pay federal taxes.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Nov 12, 2022 • 9:08:42am

re: #237 William Lewis

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jaunte  Nov 12, 2022 • 9:10:29am
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William Lewis  Nov 12, 2022 • 9:12:40am

re: #246 HRH Stanley Sea

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JC1  Nov 12, 2022 • 9:14:18am

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

It’s another one of those great Constitutional Fallacies.

Residents of Washington DC, Puerto Rico, Guam, etc., all pay federal taxes.

Sort of. Residents of Puerto Rico only pay federal taxes on income earned outside of Puerto Rico. They don’t pay taxes to the IRS on Puerto Rico earned income. This includes capital gains taxes from stocks and bonds since the domecile is considered the location, not the location of the exchange.

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Captain Ron  Nov 12, 2022 • 9:36:06am
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danarchy  Nov 12, 2022 • 9:36:55am

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

It’s another one of those great Constitutional Fallacies.

Residents of Washington DC, Puerto Rico, Guam, etc., all pay federal taxes.

I thought one of the arguments in puerto rico against becoming a state is that they don’t currently pay federal income tax but would have to if they gained statehood, although I think they pay social security and medicare taxes.

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Captain Ron  Nov 12, 2022 • 9:36:56am
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BigPapa  Nov 12, 2022 • 9:43:28am

And so it is written, and so it is done.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Nov 12, 2022 • 9:51:40am

It’s been a long time.

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nines09  Nov 12, 2022 • 10:04:38am

Happy Birthday Neil Young.

Neil Young - Needle and the Damage Done

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 12, 2022 • 10:06:43am
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Captain Ron  Nov 12, 2022 • 10:15:24am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 12, 2022 • 10:17:30am

re: #250 Captain Ron

Russia’s defense ministry says “not a single piece of military equipment or weapons have been left on the right bank” of Kherson post-withdrawal

The tankies and Putinverstehers over at moonofalabama are praising this as a military feat worthy of Xenophon’s anabasis.

Hmm. Withdrawing an army intact in the face of a superior force is a military feat. Withdrawing an army that is superior in numbers is an admission of abject failure at all levels.

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BigPapa  Nov 12, 2022 • 10:18:02am

OK I admit it.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 12, 2022 • 10:18:52am

re: #257 Captain Ron

Newtron Gingrich

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Captain Ron  Nov 12, 2022 • 10:20:49am
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Dave In Austin  Nov 12, 2022 • 10:22:01am

re: #260 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Newtron Gingrich

“And the Hastert Rule”

Wingnut Band Names

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 12, 2022 • 10:22:39am

re: #262 Dave In Austin

“And the Hastert Rule”

Wingnut Band Names

The Hastert Stance

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TarHellion  Nov 12, 2022 • 10:23:36am

re: #254 HRH Stanley Sea

re: #254 HRH Stanley Sea

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wrenchwench  Nov 12, 2022 • 10:24:13am

re: #254 HRH Stanley Sea

It’s been a long time.

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Gonna get longer.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Nov 12, 2022 • 10:47:26am

re: #265 wrenchwench

Gonna get longer.

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