Snarky Puppy Feat. KNOWER & Jeff Coffin - “I Remember”

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I posted this cracking video a while back, but who says I can’t post it again because it’s so amazing? Nobody, that’s who!

“I Remember”
featuring Knower & Jeff Coffin
from Snarky Puppy’s live DVD/CD - “Family Dinner - Volume Two”
©GroundUP Music 2016

Buy It Here:
http://store.snarkypuppy.com/pages/music
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written by Louis Cole & Genevieve Artadi
produced by Michael League
arranged by Michael League & Snarky Puppy
recorded and filmed at Esplanade Studios in New Orleans, LA, February 12-14, 2015.

FEATURED GUESTS
Genevieve Artadi - vocals (KNOWER)
Louis Cole - drums (KNOWER)
Jeff Coffin - tenor sax

SNARKY PUPPY
Michael League - electric bass
Bill Laurance - keyboards
Cory Henry - Moog bass
Shaun Martin - keyboards
Justin Stanton - keyboards
Bob Lanzetti - guitar
Mark Lettieri - guitar
Chris McQueen - guitar
Jay Jennings - trumpet
Mike “Maz” Maher - trumpet
Chris Bullock - tenor sax
Robert “Sput” Searight - drums
Larnell Lewis - percussion
Nate Werth - percussion
with…
Candy West - vocals
Peaches West - vocals
Rachella Searight - vocals

engineered by Eric Hartman
assisted by Matt Recchia, Andrés Daza, & Camilo Salazar
mixed by Eric Hartman, Michael League, & Nathan Forsbach
mastered by Scott Hull
directed by Andy LaViolette & Michael League

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361 comments
1
Belafon  Nov 13, 2022 • 6:04:54pm

Another take on the AZ results so far:

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piratedan  Nov 13, 2022 • 6:12:24pm

re: #1 Belafon

my understanding is that we still have about 40k worth of votes left in Pima County which has been running about 65-35 in favor of Hobbs, if that holds true and there are any coattails for AZ01 and AZ06, it could tip the balance in all three races. The last dump involved Maricopa precincts that are in Biggs Congressional district, which shaved the lead by 8K and flipped AZ01 back to the GOP by less than 1K votes. So, we’re not done yet, although it looks more promising for Hobbs with what votes are left and there’s still hope for the house races as well.

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Belafon  Nov 13, 2022 • 6:12:45pm

pbfcomics.com

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BigPapa  Nov 13, 2022 • 6:13:06pm

I’ve been bantering with some seemingly rational folks in AZ. Tonight was good but not good enough for Lake: this may be the reddest biased drops from here on out. Pima has 35k votes out and has been +20 for Hobbs. Lake needs more than 60% of everything remaining to have a shot.

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Charles Johnson  Nov 13, 2022 • 6:13:33pm

The synth bass lines in this. Goddamn.

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Charles Johnson  Nov 13, 2022 • 6:14:19pm

I’m working on a replacement for Twitter, by the way.

Way better than Mastodon.

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Charles Johnson  Nov 13, 2022 • 6:16:05pm
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Belafon  Nov 13, 2022 • 6:19:45pm

re: #7 Charles Johnson

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HRH Stanley Sea  Nov 13, 2022 • 6:19:52pm

I have a Twitter update on my report (the anti Semitic one we all saw earlier I’m sure)

But if I click it does not expand. ????

Tried several times, reloaded. Weird fail

User error that I cannot decipher?

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jaunte  Nov 13, 2022 • 6:20:09pm

“Great Caesar’s Ghost! We’ll have to remake the front page! Get me a quote and some art on the mother.”

@JerryLenhart1
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Belafon  Nov 13, 2022 • 6:27:00pm

From a friend on Facebook:

God promised Man that good and obedient wives would be found in all corners of the world. Then He made the Earth round…and laughed, and laughed, and laughed…

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A Cranky One  Nov 13, 2022 • 6:33:48pm

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Charles Johnson  Nov 13, 2022 • 6:37:37pm
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The Pie Overlord!  Nov 13, 2022 • 6:38:18pm
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William Lewis  Nov 13, 2022 • 6:38:32pm

re: #11 Belafon

From a friend on Facebook:

Should have said She made the world round … ;)

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jaunte  Nov 13, 2022 • 6:39:49pm

It was the biggest, strongest click driver, with tears in its eyes.

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Belafon  Nov 13, 2022 • 6:44:05pm

re: #13 Charles Johnson

If you out the c and l in click really close together, it looks like a d.

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Belafon  Nov 13, 2022 • 6:44:36pm

re: #15 William Lewis

Should have said She made the world round … ;)

I will suggest that.

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BigPapa  Nov 13, 2022 • 6:48:42pm

re: #6 Charles Johnson

I’m working on a replacement for Twitter, by the way.

Way better than Mastodon.

Will you name it Pied Piper?

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Belafon  Nov 13, 2022 • 6:59:52pm

re: #19 BigPapa

Will you name it Pied Piper?

More importantly, what will the verb be?

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Belafon  Nov 13, 2022 • 7:03:10pm

Twitter suggesting people i should follow:

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wrenchwench  Nov 13, 2022 • 7:05:21pm
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Belafon  Nov 13, 2022 • 7:10:11pm
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BigPapa  Nov 13, 2022 • 7:10:23pm

re: #20 Belafon

More importantly, what will the verbal be?

Definitely a SWOT analysis.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 13, 2022 • 7:11:05pm

re: #6 Charles Johnson

I’m working on a replacement for Twitter, by the way.

Way better than Mastodon.

Instead of “tweets” perhaps you can call the posts on your service “chirps”.

Which means the service should have a bird name…

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William Lewis  Nov 13, 2022 • 7:14:05pm

Keep with the football metaphor.

tweet = points
retweet = point after
followers = lizards (just to keep them guessing… LOL )

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jaunte  Nov 13, 2022 • 7:14:19pm

re: #25 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Or just call them ‘posts’ and the service could be Bollards.

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wrenchwench  Nov 13, 2022 • 7:15:46pm
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BigPapa  Nov 13, 2022 • 7:18:33pm

Big Head: By wearing this standard Hooli ear-bud headphone, modified with a small piezoelectric sensor, the user can control their Hooli phone solely with their neural impulses. Point, click, drag, even type all using only brainwaves. Think it and it happens.
Gavin: Holy shit! Seriously? Seriously. This is great. Fuck, yes, team! So, uh, what’s our, um, timeline here? I mean, when do we start testing this? How long before we can integrate this into Nucleus?
Big Head: Not long. It’ll probably happen in our lifetime. We just have to figure out how to make it work.

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jaunte  Nov 13, 2022 • 7:20:35pm
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Belafon  Nov 13, 2022 • 7:24:52pm

I caught an Easter egg at the end of Wakanda Forever. It’s not a spoiler, but I will hide it for those that want to try to catch them:

Click to Reveal

The license plate said CB112976. Too many symbols for a plate. It’s Chadwick Boseman’s burthday.

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Dangerman  Nov 13, 2022 • 7:25:18pm

re: #2 piratedan

my understanding is that we still have about 40k worth of votes left in Pima County which has been running about 65-35 in favor of Hobbs, if that holds true and there are any coattails for AZ01 and AZ06, it could tip the balance in all three races. The last dump involved Maricopa precincts that are in Biggs Congressional district, which shaved the lead by 8K and flipped AZ01 back to the GOP by less than 1K votes. So, we’re not done yet, although it looks more promising for Hobbs with what votes are left and there’s still hope for the house races as well.

electoral-vote.com this morning

…of course, everyone is also waiting for resolution of the Arizona gubernatorial race. As of 11:00 p.m. PT Saturday, Katie Hobbs (D) has 50.7% of the vote (1,156,448 votes) and Kari Lake (R) has 49.3% (1,122,319) with 88% reporting. That means that to win, Lake would need about 55.5% of the roughly 310,000 votes remaining. When we did this exercise on Friday, that number was 53%. When we did it on Saturday, it was 54%. You don’t need us to tell you where this is headed. (Z)

53%, 54%, 55.5%. yup, headed in the wrong direction

they think she’s been toast for a while

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 13, 2022 • 7:28:38pm

re: #30 jaunte

Andor is supremely well-written. I hope it’s recognized with some awards for writing.

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jaunte  Nov 13, 2022 • 7:30:27pm

re: #33 Dr Lizardo

I’ve been pleasantly surprised. I think it’s really opened the Star Wars IP up for more good work.

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wrenchwench  Nov 13, 2022 • 7:33:37pm

Erdlow.

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BigPapa  Nov 13, 2022 • 7:33:56pm

re: #32 Dangerman

I think the remaining number is bigger. This type of math isn’t my strong suit but I came up with this:
26011 Hobbs lead
160021 Remaining votes
17% differential
27204 Makeup for Lake

I see Lake needing to beat Hobbs by 17% from here on out on every drop.

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ckkatz  Nov 13, 2022 • 7:45:05pm

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BigPapa  Nov 13, 2022 • 7:47:30pm

re: #36 BigPapa

So that means Lake needs 58.5% of every drop from here till it’s done if the estimated remaining votes are accurate.

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Acemarilllion (yes, three 'l's)  Nov 13, 2022 • 7:52:13pm

Sausage Dog Chariot

Shiawase

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Belafon  Nov 13, 2022 • 7:54:00pm

re: #37 ckkatz

A bulltzu?

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 13, 2022 • 7:55:04pm

re: #38 BigPapa

So that means Lake needs 58.5% of every drop from here till it’s done if the estimated remaining votes are accurate.

And so far as I’ve seen, the drops she has been ahead on have only come in at around 54% for her, which is why she’s falling behind. With every drop where she fails to make that margin, the margin she needs to hit gets bigger.

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BigPapa  Nov 13, 2022 • 7:58:06pm

re: #41 Dopamine Fish

Exactly. If Pima drops at 60/40 Hobbs which is totally within reason Lake’s remaining ratio needs to hit 70.5% vs 29.5% against Hobbs. There’s just not enough Red areas leaning that Red left.

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piratedan  Nov 13, 2022 • 8:01:35pm

re: #42 BigPapa

Hoping that the Pima vote helps Engel in AZ06 defeat Ciscomani, it’s within reach, but it may be just out of reach. Better Maricopa numbers may help Hodge defeat Schweikert as their race is even closer.

While those two will likely not turn the House blue, it would certainly not hurt.

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 13, 2022 • 8:02:03pm

re: #42 BigPapa

Exactly. If Pima drops at 60/40 Hobbs which is totally withing reason Lake’s remaining ratio needs to hit 70.5% vs 29.5% vs Hobbs. There’s just not enough Red areas leaning that Red left.

It feels like funny math to say, “Yes, she’s gaining votes, but not as fast as she needs to gain votes in order to win the election.” It’s like measuring the acceleration of a car. You only have so much room to get to 88 mph, and if your foot isn’t all the way in the gas, you’re not going to make it.

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SerialUpDinger  Nov 13, 2022 • 8:02:34pm

You Do Not Always Get to Pick Your Neighbors

Santa Monica Mountains. These boulders are about 15 feet tall and dog knows how deep underground. This volcanic debris is a collection of dust, rocks, mud and whatever was nearby. One boulder retains the individual rocks - they appear like barnacles on a pier. The other - tidier boulder - appears to had shed the smaller rocks in favor of the next size up.

Off the Beaten Path Lies Unexpected Beauty

Rainwater from last week seeps out through the cracks of this volcanic landscape.

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jaunte  Nov 13, 2022 • 8:07:57pm

re: #45 SerialUpDinger

That place looks like it has everything!
angeleschapterfoundation.org

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GlutenFreeJesus  Nov 13, 2022 • 8:10:11pm

re: #33 Dr Lizardo

Andor is supremely well-written. I hope it’s recognized with some awards for writing.

I’m hoping more characters get their own origin stories. Would love to see the life of Porkins.

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SerialUpDinger  Nov 13, 2022 • 8:12:04pm

re: #46 jaunte

thank you for the link! One of these days, I have aspirations of understanding this……

49
Crush White Nationalism  Nov 13, 2022 • 8:13:13pm
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Sherlock Hound  Nov 13, 2022 • 8:13:22pm

I can’t stop making this point. A Twitter replacement M*U*S*T accommodate disabled users!

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jaunte  Nov 13, 2022 • 8:15:53pm

re: #48 SerialUpDinger

John McPhee’s Assembling California is a good read on all the various rocks mashed up into the state.

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Crush White Nationalism  Nov 13, 2022 • 8:29:47pm

We got better at talking to each other thanks to the Internet and people let us know they were being hurt. Decent people cleaned up their act, but some people can’t do that and would rather pretend to be victims.

Actor and comedian Andy Richter’s take on cancel culture can be summed up in three words: Bring it on.

“It’s about time. It’s about time we stop saying lots of the things that we say and it’s about time that we stopped not caring about things that we say that we don’t have to say, like words that we don’t have to use,” Conan O’Brien’s sidekick tells host Andy Levy on this bonus episode of The New Abnormal podcast. “For the most part, people that have gotten in trouble deserve to get in trouble. And the whole point of it is, five years ago they wouldn’t have gotten in trouble. So this is good.”

Conan Sidekick Andy Richter Is Totally Team Cancel Culture (Daily Beast article and podcast)

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Captain Ron  Nov 13, 2022 • 8:33:36pm
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wrenchwench  Nov 13, 2022 • 8:45:13pm

re: #51 jaunte

John McPhee’s Assembling California is a good read on all the various rocks mashed up into the state.

And anything else John McPhee wants to write about, also a good read.

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Jay C  Nov 13, 2022 • 8:48:46pm

re: #53 Captain Ron

I dunno about that: much as I’d like to believe it, I think that Biden’s “approval” ratings are going to be skewed by the hardcore 35-40% of wingnut haters who won’t ever approve of any Democrat, plus the portside fringe - Berniebros and the like - who won’t ever be satisfied with anyone except maybe another Lenin. Personally, I think Joe has been doing a bang-up job, given what he has to work with (no wide Congressional margins, for one thing, and a reflexively hostile Media for another): but that may just be me.

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ipsos  Nov 13, 2022 • 8:48:53pm

re: #53 Captain Ron

“Approval ratings” have always struck me as being bullshit, in part because you don’t know WHY people who say they “disapprove” are saying so. General frustration at the state of the world? Unhappy that the president is doing too much - or too little? And they completely miss the nuance that an intelligent voter might “disapprove” of one aspect of a politician’s performance but would absolutely still vote for them. (I thought Obama was way too wishy-washy about getting judges nominated, but still gladly voted for him.)

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 13, 2022 • 8:53:51pm

re: #34 jaunte

I’ve been pleasantly surprised. I think it’s really opened the Star Wars IP up for more good work.

Unfortunately, it has not been doing great in terms of viewership. The show has lagged behind The Book of Boba Fett and Obi-Wan Kenobi and is barely doing higher numbers than The Mandalorian despite that show not having released a new episode in almost two years.

All of this means Disney is less likely to make more SW shows like Andor.

If I had to guess, I would say part of the problem is that Cassian Andor is not a major name in the franchise. Mandalorians/Boba Fett and Darth Vader/Obi-Wan Kenobi are among the oldest and most iconic characters in all of Star Wars. It stands to reason shows featuring them would draw more eyeballs than a show about a character from a six year old prequel movie.

Also, Andy Serkis has been fucking awesome in Andor.

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Nov 13, 2022 • 8:57:23pm

re: #33 Dr Lizardo

Andor is supremely well-written. I hope it’s recognized with some awards for writing.

Andor makes most television writing, especially sci-fi dramas, clown shoes in comparison.

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jaunte  Nov 13, 2022 • 8:59:57pm

And another.

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retired cynic  Nov 13, 2022 • 9:01:41pm

re: #59 jaunte

aura of creepiness

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BigPapa  Nov 13, 2022 • 9:05:17pm
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Belafon  Nov 13, 2022 • 9:05:49pm

re: #59 jaunte

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jaunte  Nov 13, 2022 • 9:07:35pm

re: #62 Belafon

He’s part of the leadership, not an outlier.

Haby, 51, is listed as Cowboy Way Church of Alvarado’s lead elder and pastor on the church’s website and has been with the church since its inception in 2005.

Haby also served as a member of the board of directors of the Texas Fellowship of Cowboy Churches

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Belafon  Nov 13, 2022 • 9:13:55pm

re: #61 BigPapa

Because there are more songs than words in my head, what is the name of that song? I have heard the song, but it has been a while, and I wouldn’t know how to look it up.

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Captain Ron  Nov 13, 2022 • 9:18:27pm

re: #61 BigPapa

YouTube

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austin_blue  Nov 13, 2022 • 9:18:32pm

re: #1 Belafon

Another take on the AZ results so far:

Lake is dead meat. Dead news reader? Whatever, not elected. Good.

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BigPapa  Nov 13, 2022 • 9:19:06pm

re: #64 Belafon

Paranoid, Black Sabbath

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jaunte  Nov 13, 2022 • 9:20:59pm

re: #66 austin_blue

Now she can spend more time with her diffusion filter.

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Belafon  Nov 13, 2022 • 9:22:24pm

I want…to build:

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DodgerFan1988  Nov 13, 2022 • 9:26:03pm
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Interesting Times  Nov 13, 2022 • 9:26:57pm
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sagehen  Nov 13, 2022 • 9:29:21pm

re: #65 Captain Ron

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Video

the caption at the bottom of the screen says “flashmob”, but that’s not a flashmob. Flashmob materialize out of the crowd and start the performance pretending to be a bunch of spontaneous strangers.

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jaunte  Nov 13, 2022 • 9:29:43pm

They’ll do it again, of course.

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Belafon  Nov 13, 2022 • 9:32:00pm

re: #70 DodgerFan1988

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Targetpractice  Nov 13, 2022 • 9:40:17pm

re: #73 jaunte

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They’ll do it again, of course.

Meanwhile, GQP candidates in other states did run on inflation/crime/immigration/etc…and they still lost.

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Captain Ron  Nov 13, 2022 • 9:50:12pm
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danarchy  Nov 13, 2022 • 9:52:06pm

re: #53 Captain Ron

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Weren’t the polls mostly within the margin of error minus a couple spectacular failures like Florida?

It was the pundits who were super wrong, not the polls.

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Captain Ron  Nov 13, 2022 • 9:56:29pm

Sylvester Stallone’s new series Tulsa King is interesting.

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Targetpractice  Nov 13, 2022 • 9:58:47pm

re: #77 danarchy

Weren’t the polls mostly within the margin of error minus a couple spectacular failures like Florida?

It was the pundits who were super wrong, not the polls.

Just saw someone point out over at Fark that the folks at 538 published an article the day before the election where they stated the polls showed a 50/50 shot of the Dems prevailing…but then they threw the whole thing over to their experts, who just repeated the “red wave” talking points.

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Belafon  Nov 13, 2022 • 10:01:43pm

re: #77 danarchy

Weren’t the polls mostly within the margin of error minus a couple spectacular failures like Florida?

It was the pundits who were super wrong, not the polls.

One of the Democrats won even though the odds were two to one against her. When you start talking about being within the margin of error in those cases, it really does point out how little polling helps understand what people will do.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 13, 2022 • 10:11:22pm
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Nyet  Nov 13, 2022 • 10:31:19pm

re: #77 danarchy

Weren’t the polls mostly within the margin of error minus a couple spectacular failures like Florida?

It was the pundits who were super wrong, not the polls.

Right. Is there any evidence that “polls were wrong”? I haven’t seen it.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 13, 2022 • 10:33:39pm

Reset the school shooting clock to zero.

(see next comment)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 13, 2022 • 10:35:11pm

re: #83 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Reset the school shooting clock to zero.

That was wrong up there, let me try again.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 13, 2022 • 10:42:58pm

The University of Virginia Police Department radio feed.

broadcastify.com

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 13, 2022 • 10:43:29pm

Par for Monday.

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Targetpractice  Nov 13, 2022 • 10:43:53pm

re: #82 Nyet

Right. Is there any evidence that “polls were wrong”? I haven’t seen it.

It’s really telling that a lot of the voices insisting the polls were “wrong” are pundits who were all but wedded to the “red wave” narrative since last fall. That even when the polling improved for Dems after Dobbs dropped, they insisted on salting every article with “This doesn’t mean anything because the party in power always loses seats in the midterms.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 13, 2022 • 10:46:01pm

re: #87 Targetpractice

It’s really telling that a lot of the voices insisting the polls were “wrong” are pundits who were all but wedded to the “red wave” narrative since last fall. That even when the polling improved for Dems after Dobbs dropped, they insisted on salting every article with “This doesn’t mean anything because the party in power always loses seats in the midterms.”

It turns out younger women and their supporters really like having their rights.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 13, 2022 • 10:47:04pm

According to Virginia Sports, Chris Jones was on the UVa football team in 2018, but did not appear in any games.

virginiasports.com

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 13, 2022 • 10:52:13pm
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sagehen  Nov 13, 2022 • 10:54:22pm

re: #88 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

It turns out younger women and their supporters really like having their rights.

to quote from the above-referenced Scalzi post…

Here’s the problem for the GOP: Half the US population has (or had) a uterus, and the rest of the population knows and loves someone who has one. A lot of the US population knows and loves someone who is gay or may be trans or non-binary. More than half the US population, I expect, wants a reasonable expectation that their vote won’t be ignored if a state governor or secretary of state or legislature finds it somehow inconvenient.

All of which is to say, a platform of actively stripping people of their rights is (thankfully) not the way to generate a “wave” election. Even if the economy is not great and the president isn’t particularly popular. Strangely, if you make people choose, they will value their own rights, and the rights of those they care for, more than the price of a loaf of bread. Yes, you have to work at it to get the average US voter to that point! But, apparently, here we are.

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Nyet  Nov 13, 2022 • 10:59:05pm

re: #79 Targetpractice

Just saw someone point out over at Fark that the folks at 538 published an article the day before the election where they stated the polls showed a 50/50 shot of the Dems prevailing…but then they threw the whole thing over to their experts, who just repeated the “red wave” talking points.

Iiuc, 538 has two models - the polls-only one and the “deluxe” (cringe) one, the latter takes the so-called experts into account.

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sagehen  Nov 13, 2022 • 11:01:52pm

A band I never heard of before, but they were just on a PBS show (Caverns sessions) — Gangstagrass calls themselves “bluegrass hip-hop”, and they apparently did the theme song for Justified

Gangstagrass | Barnburning.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 13, 2022 • 11:17:03pm

Lori Alexander has braindead thoughts today. To be fair, she has braindead thoughts every day.

Lori Alexander (Fundamentalist Wiki)

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Captain Ron  Nov 13, 2022 • 11:27:04pm

I went for a bike ride today. It warmed up early and I put on thermals and set off when it was 58 degrees. I only got about a quarter mile before the cold wind made my eyes water so I pulled my goggles down for their first test. They worked great and they cut down on a runny nose by about 80%. Normally I have to stop every 3 miles and let my nose stop running like a faucet. I went the full ride with no drips. If you ride in cold weather get some goggles.

My party spot at the half way point.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 13, 2022 • 11:28:13pm

BBC Monitoring set out to find how Russians get information about the war in Ukraine.

Ukraine war: Russians kept in the dark by internet search (three days ago)

Shortly after 20 people were killed in a Russian missile attack on the Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk in June, Lev Gershenzon - a former manager at Russian tech company Yandex - typed the city’s name into its search engine to find out more.

The results he got back shocked him.

“The sources that ranked at the top of the page were strange and obscure,” he told the BBC. “There was one blog by an unknown author claiming that the information about casualties was fake.”

The Kremlin keeps a tight grip on the country’s media, especially TV, which glorifies Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a mission of liberation and dismisses reports of atrocities as fake.

The internet in Russia was for a long time the main space for alternative sources of information, but after starting the war in February the Kremlin launched a crackdown on independent online media.

Digital rights watchdog Roskomsvoboda estimates that - in the first six months of the conflict - nearly 7,000 websites were blocked in Russia, including those of major independent media and human rights groups.

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The article goes on to describe the BBC’s experiment, by using a VPN to emulate a Russian IP address. Some of their resulting searches are shown on the Web page.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 13, 2022 • 11:35:10pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 13, 2022 • 11:39:51pm

Like most Christian apologists on YouTube and Twitter, Lori Alexander locks her accounts so only people she follows can respond to her. She cannot have her religious talking points upset by inconvenient facts.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 13, 2022 • 11:43:53pm

Hey Michael, murdering babies is already illegal. I doubt Sen. Hunt gives a diddly damn about your passive-aggressive “May God have mercy on your soul,” though, since she’s an atheist.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 13, 2022 • 11:45:31pm

This is what atheists do with babies. /s

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 13, 2022 • 11:47:55pm
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Captain Ron  Nov 13, 2022 • 11:50:02pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 13, 2022 • 11:50:32pm

Elon is getting desperate. He’s putting money from another business into the flaming wagon of weasels which is careening off a cliff known as Twitter.

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Captain Ron  Nov 13, 2022 • 11:55:13pm

There’s ads on Twitter? Adblock+ FTW.

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ckkatz  Nov 14, 2022 • 12:02:55am
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mmmirele  Nov 14, 2022 • 12:12:47am

Another earthquake here in Japan, halfway between Shinagawa and Haneda.

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Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion  Nov 14, 2022 • 12:15:40am

re: #104 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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Elon is getting desperate. He’s putting money from another business into the flaming wagon of weasels which is careening off a cliff known as Twitter.

WTF is SpaceX going to advertise on Twitter? Some rando is going to see an ad in their feed and say “Yeah I think I’ll buy a Falcon Heavy.”

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Nov 14, 2022 • 12:17:24am

re: #104 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Elon is getting desperate. He’s putting money from another business into the flaming wagon of weasels which is careening off a cliff known as Twitter.

That should encourage Tesla stock holders. /

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 14, 2022 • 12:17:48am

re: #108 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion

WTF is SpaceX going to advertise on Twitter? Some rando is going to see an ad in their feed and say “Yeah I think I’ll buy a Falcon Heavy.”

I presume they would advertise Starlink (a SpaceX product).

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 14, 2022 • 12:18:13am
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Nov 14, 2022 • 12:19:17am

re: #109 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

That should encourage Tesla stock holders. /

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ckkatz  Nov 14, 2022 • 12:20:26am

Rather Be (feat. Jess Glynne)

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Nov 14, 2022 • 12:25:35am

re: #111 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I went to Twitter to read the responses and under the More Tweets, the very first one is Elon and literally every one after that is a right wing nut. Ever single one.

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ckkatz  Nov 14, 2022 • 12:26:29am
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Nov 14, 2022 • 12:26:43am

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ckkatz  Nov 14, 2022 • 12:27:26am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 14, 2022 • 12:38:58am

Listening to the UVA campus police radio. The university is still locked down.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 14, 2022 • 12:40:20am

re: #112 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Wow. More than fifty percent in six months. [corrected]

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 14, 2022 • 12:41:06am

re: #119 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Corrected: six months.

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ckkatz  Nov 14, 2022 • 12:41:06am

If this is true, it’s embarrassing. The Russians placed anti-tank obstacles called “Dragon’s Teeth” along the frontlines. They made a big show of it. But a lot of observers noted that these Dragon’s Teeth were very ‘downsized’ compared to normal ones.

(During the Cold War, the Germans used to call Dragon’s Teeth ‘Toublerone’. Referring to the similar shape of the candy.)

Dragon’s Teeth - Wiki

I suspect that the contract officers (and their chain of command) and the contracted company may have made a good side profit on this contract though.

Here is a supposed video of a Ukrainian armored vehicle going right over the teeth.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 14, 2022 • 12:42:47am
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ckkatz  Nov 14, 2022 • 12:46:11am

Well, time to head to bed.

TGIM to all!

As well as Happy National Pickle Day _and_ Happy National Guacamole Day!

Party! Party!

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ckkatz  Nov 14, 2022 • 12:50:48am

re: #121 ckkatz

Oh yes, at the same time, Russia also emplaced a lot of pre-fabbed concrete “bunkers”.

Most experienced analysts I follow were highly unimpressed.

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Patricia Kayden  Nov 14, 2022 • 12:55:05am
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Patricia Kayden  Nov 14, 2022 • 12:56:57am

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 14, 2022 • 1:00:56am

The UVA campus police moved all their comms over to their “tactical” channel.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 14, 2022 • 1:02:50am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 14, 2022 • 1:19:02am

re: #95 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Women’s physical & emotional (hormones) makeup prove that they weren’t created for the workforce, no, not even single women. This is why God commands they marry and bear children. They were created for home life & have husbands provide for them. This used to be normal & expected.

Wife beating used to be normal and expected.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 14, 2022 • 1:20:23am

re: #126 Patricia Kayden

Same people who reject Evolution but embrace Social Darwinism.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 14, 2022 • 1:22:30am

re: #119 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

YTD.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 14, 2022 • 1:22:56am

re: #124 ckkatz

That’s some WWI thinking on the part of Russia.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 14, 2022 • 1:28:09am

re: #129 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Wife beating used to be normal and expected.

Christian Domestic Discipline still does.
Christian Domestic Discipline Promotes Spanking Wives To Maintain Biblical Marriage (Huffington Post, June 21, 2013)

Christianity and domestic violence (Wikipedia)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 14, 2022 • 2:03:21am

Ugh.

In the Board of Education District 7 race here in Nebraska (officially non-partisan but unofficially not), Elizabeth Tegtmeier (R) has been elected to the Board over Robin Stevens (D), 70.6% to 29.4%.

Tegtmeier home-schooled her son, and believes public education should be abolished, to be replaced with church schools, commercial schools, or homeschooling. She believes there should be no sex education at any level of schooling.

Her son stood accused this summer of sexually assaulting two women at Chadron State College. When they sought a restraining order, he argued that it is not assault unless the woman tells you “no” and you continue. The judge in Dawes County didn’t take well to that redefinition of sexual assault and granted the restraining order.

Judge grants protection to women accusing former Chadron State student Trustee of sexual assault (Flatwater Free Press, July 6, 2022)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 14, 2022 • 2:06:49am

re: #132 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

That’s some WWI thinking on the part of Russia.

British built those to contain the Boers as well.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 14, 2022 • 2:08:05am

re: #133 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Christian Domestic Discipline still does.
Christian Domestic Discipline Promotes Spanking Wives To Maintain Biblical Marriage (Huffington Post, June 21, 2013)

Christianity and domestic violence (Wikipedia)

Russian peasant saying: “If your husband doesn’t beat you, it means he doesn’t really love you!”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 14, 2022 • 2:12:42am
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Aaron Appelhans is among a rare few in Wyoming: A Democrat who won in Tuesday’s midterm election in this ever-redder state.

After being appointed as Wyoming’s first Black sheriff almost a year ago, he is now the state’s first elected Black sheriff. He beat a 20-year Republican police veteran with 52% of the vote.

“Albany County’s kind of purple politically, so I was able to run on my record, the things that I’ve done,” Appelhans said Thursday.

Yet across Wyoming, Democrats suffered another dismal election even as their party defied expectations and did reasonably well nationwide.

Democrats didn’t even field candidates for three of Wyoming’s six statewide races, those for secretary of state, state treasurer and state auditor. They got just 25%, 17% and 23% in the other three, the contests for U.S. House, governor and superintendent of public instruction, respectively.

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Wyoming Democrats get drubbed - again - but not giving up (KSID-AM, Sidney, Nebr.)

Democrats in Wyoming have suffered another dismal election despite their party’s respectable performance in the midterms nationwide.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 14, 2022 • 2:15:29am

Also at KSID, for train lovers here.

LODGEPOLE - A portion of the Union Pacific Railroad’s heritage fleet cruised through the southern Nebraska Panhandle this weekend.

The Challenger No. 3985, TTT-6 No. 5511, Centennial No. 6936, and several passenger rail cars left steam shop in Cheyenne, Wyo. on Friday. They were donated to the non-profit Railroading Heritage of Midwest America this month.

The train is traveling across Nebraska and Iowa, and will conclude its journey in Silvis, Ill. on Nov. 19. There’s no public access during the tour.

The locomotives are not under power and are being pulled by diesel locomotives.

The Union Pacific heritage fleet also includes the world’s largest steam locomotive, the Big Boy No. 4014, and the fastest steam locomotive, the Living Legend No. 844.

(with photograph)

panhandle.newschannelnebraska.com

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 14, 2022 • 2:16:31am

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 14, 2022 • 2:36:56am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 14, 2022 • 2:40:39am

LOL

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Moe Avattar  Nov 14, 2022 • 2:55:25am

re: #141 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 14, 2022 • 2:58:34am

I set my land speed and distance running trying to keep in sight of Roxanne, my jogging partner in her tight blue Spandex. Have never run as far or as fast since.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 14, 2022 • 3:01:19am

Tesla has faced claims of brake failure before. (Reuters)

Tesla says it will assist police probe into fatal crash in China

BEIJING, Nov 13 (Reuters) - U.S. automaker Tesla (TSLA.O) said on Sunday it will assist Chinese police investigating a crash involving one of its Model Y cars after local media reports said two people had died and three were injured when the driver lost control of the vehicle.

The incident on Nov. 5 in the southern province of Guangdong killed a motorcyclist and a high school girl, Jimu News reported, posting a video of a car driving at high speed crashing into other vehicles and a cyclist.

“Police are currently seeking a third party appraisal agency to identify the truth behind this accident and we will actively provide any necessary assistance,” Elon Musk’s electric vehicle maker told Reuters in a message on Sunday, cautioning against believing “rumours”.

China is Tesla’s second-largest market, and the crash was among the top trending topics on the Weibo social media platform on Sunday.

Jimu News quoted traffic police as saying the cause of the incident in Chaozhou city had not been identified and an unnamed family member of the driver who said the 55-year-old had issues with the brake pedal when he was about to pull over in front of his family store.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 14, 2022 • 3:03:03am

re: #144 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Tesla has faced claims of brake failure before. (Reuters)

Tesla says it will assist police probe into fatal crash in China

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Musk has problems braking when he needs to slow down/stop…

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TarHellion  Nov 14, 2022 • 3:04:24am

In 25-degree weather, took advantage of the frozen ground to run one up on the green and sink the birbie. Glad to see KKKari’s chances dwindling - though not totally gone. BTW, an SNL skit this weekend featured Cecily Strong doing an uncanny (and unnerving) impression of her. Back into the salt mines today - though the next week and half should be more focused on routine paper pushing, as opposed to scrambling to get multiple grant applications prepared. Have a great week, folks!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 14, 2022 • 3:07:30am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 14, 2022 • 3:22:13am

Newsweek positioned political activist Josh Hammer to run their opinion pages during the runup to the 2020 presidential election, and since that time, the publication has taken a marked radical right turn by buoying extremists and promoting authoritarian leaders. (Southern Poverty Law Center Hatewatch)

Although opinion pages in ostensibly nonpartisan, mainstream publications promote political opinions, sometimes controversial ones, Newsweek stands alone among such brands in its willingness to elevate such figures as Jack Posobiec, known for promoting the Pizzagate disinformation campaign, and Dinesh D’Souza, whose film 2000 Mules researchers roundly debunked for spreading conspiracies about the 2020 election. Under Hammer’s leadership, Newsweek has also aired bigoted views, like appearing to call for the state to deny adults access to trans-affirming medical care and supporting a ban on all legal immigration into the U.S. They have also spread baseless conspiracies about COVID-19, with one of Hammer’s collaborators describing vaccines designed to fight the virus as a “bioweapon.”

Newsweek has also failed to disclose potential conflicts of interest emerging in the content published through Hammer’s opinion section and his Newsweek-branded podcast, “The Josh Hammer Show.” Hammer donated to the campaign of Arizona U.S. Senate candidate Blake Masters and at least four times published the work of a man who ran one of Masters’ fundraisers. On his podcast, Hammer told Newsweek’s audience to “go ahead and vote for Blake Masters.” Hammer also promoted hard-right Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán in a Newsweek dispatch authored from Hungary, without disclosing that he arrived there in collaboration with a group directly affiliated with the Hungarian government. Hammer also claims membership in a number of reactionary activist groups, and regularly publishes people who are also affiliated with them. He will appear on behalf of the New York Young Republican Club alongside Posobiec and QAnon influencer-turned-congressperson Marjorie Taylor Greene in December.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 14, 2022 • 3:27:58am

3 killed, 2 wounded in shooting at University of Virginia; shooter remains at large (Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald, thirty minutes ago)

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Three people have been killed and two others were wounded in a shooting late Sunday at the University of Virginia, according to the school’s president. Police are searching for a suspect, who remains at large.

UVA policed identified the suspect as Christopher Darnell Jones.

The shooting at around 10:30 p.m. Sunday “resulted in three fatalities; two additional victims were injured and are receiving medical care,” President Jim Ryan said in a letter to the university community posted on social media.

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 14, 2022 • 3:48:55am

re: #147 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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It is a growing majority - of Christians, which they still believe is the overall majority in this country (and maybe it is, at least in name). The problem I face is the steady radicalization of those who, pre-Trump, would never have considered themselves Christian Nationalists - and indeed, would have even shuddered at the term - but now, they’re like, “Well, if those godless libruls hate Christian Nationalism, then I must be a Christian Nationalist.” And to be clear, I’m not blaming the liberals here; it’s that Christian leaders have decided that their need to hate sinners (with the veiled racism and sexism that implies) outweighs their obligation to choose justice, to love mercy, to walk humbly.

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 14, 2022 • 3:51:59am

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 14, 2022 • 3:53:54am

Letter to the Editor I submitted to the Scottsbluff Star-Herald. They might actually print this one in the newspaper.

I want to thank everyone who voted to return me to the Village Board of Trustees of Broadwater. I also want to thank those who voted for other candidates: It is imperative that everyone’s voice be heard.

I want to work for everyone in Broadwater, not just those who voted for me. I encourage everyone in the village to contact me at my home, at my telephone number, or at village board meetings with their concerns. I want our village to have honest and transparent government, Please come to village board meetings and address the village board with your concerns: I encourage every person in town to make their voice heard,

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 14, 2022 • 4:04:11am

re: #152 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

You’re fighting the good fight.

Let’s hope others in your area notice.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 14, 2022 • 4:11:56am

re: #153 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

You’re fighting the good fight.

Let’s hope others in your area notice.

Somebody’s gotta do it. /s

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Nyet  Nov 14, 2022 • 4:14:01am

re: #136 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Russian peasant saying: “If your husband doesn’t beat you, it means he doesn’t really love you!”

The other way around - if he beats you, he loves you.

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Barefoot Grin  Nov 14, 2022 • 4:17:52am
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Nov 14, 2022 • 4:21:30am

re: #75 Targetpractice

Meanwhile, GQP candidates in other states did run on inflation/crime/immigration/etc…and they still lost.

That sounds like the voters might not have been issue-bound and were actually looking at the character (or lack thereof) of the candidates.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 14, 2022 • 4:23:33am

Who needs Michelangelo when you have AI?

Venice Sunrise
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Nov 14, 2022 • 4:26:43am

re: #80 Belafon

One of the Democrats won even though the odds were two to one against her. When you start talking about being within the margin of error in those cases, it really does point out how little polling helps understand what people will do.

I wouldn’t trust polling for US rep districts anyways. I bet there was a very small sample of polls to draw from and the race was probably not polled often either.

Saying this based on the fact that the district I voted in had *one* poll listed in 538. From mid-September. It had the Democrat ahead by 6 (53-47). Interestingly enough, that is the margin the Democratic candidate won by. However, I wouldn’t hold that as 538 being right since a single poll from September done by one of the candidate’s campaigns is not something to hang an entire race projection on.

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 14, 2022 • 4:31:45am

re: #159 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

I wouldn’t trust polling for US rep districts anyways. I bet there was a very small sample of polls to draw from and the race was probably not polled often either.

Saying this based on the fact that the district I voted in had *one* poll listed in 538. From mid-September. It had the Democrat ahead by 6 (53-47). Interestingly enough, that is the margin the Democratic candidate won by. However, I wouldn’t hold that as 538 being right since a single poll from September done by one of the candidate’s campaigns is not something to hang an entire race projection on.

I seem to recall that most predictions for House seats are done based on the “generic Republican / generic Democrat” polls that are done nationwide, which seems like an extremely dangerous practice given that House districts, specifically, are 1) extremely gerrymandered, and 2) extremely local (meaning that there may be specific local issues that outweigh whatever national narratives are unfolding in the overall election).

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Dangerman  Nov 14, 2022 • 4:33:53am

re: #72 sagehen

the caption at the bottom of the screen says “flashmob”, but that’s not a flashmob. Flashmob materialize out of the crowd and start the performance pretending to be a bunch of spontaneous strangers.

Aw heck, they screwed up “meme” so badly it’s never coming back

Throwing a caption on a jpg and posting it is not a meme

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Dangerman  Nov 14, 2022 • 4:35:38am

re: #82 Nyet

Right. Is there any evidence that “polls were wrong”? I haven’t seen it.

Most of the obviously-not-a-biased-house poll were close.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Nov 14, 2022 • 4:37:12am

re: #135 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

British built those to contain the Boers as well.

Kind of stuff you put up to try to control and limit the move of (usually) poorly armed partisans. Or as part of a border post. Not the kind of fortification that will stop anyone with any sort of serious firepower on hand.

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Eventual Carrion  Nov 14, 2022 • 4:44:17am

re: #31 Belafon

I caught an Easter egg at the end of Wakanda Forever. It’s not a spoiler, but I will hide it for those that want to try to catch them:

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A bunch of people started leaving when the credits started rolling yesterday when the wife and I went to see it. If you go to see it, don’t leave until the actual end.

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 14, 2022 • 4:45:46am

re: #164 Eventual Carrion

A bunch of people started leaving when the credits started rolling yesterday when the wife and I went to see it. If you go to see it, don’t leave until the actual end.

It’s basically standard for any MCU movie to wait until at least the main credits have rolled. I didn’t stay until the very end of the credits; we were hungry, and had to get back to the kids to get them fed, but we at least stayed for that part.

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Eventual Carrion  Nov 14, 2022 • 4:58:05am

re: #86 Hecuba’s daughter

Par for Monday.

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Dangerman  Nov 14, 2022 • 5:00:36am

dangermom is doing well:

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 14, 2022 • 5:02:15am

re: #150 Dopamine Fish

“Well, if those godless libruls hate Christian Nationalism, then I must be a Christian Nationalist.”.

see also:

“Well, if those godless libruls call my views racist/fascist, then I must be a racist/fascist.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 14, 2022 • 5:04:57am

re: #155 Nyet

The other way around - if he beats you, he loves you.

Бить её - определяет знание!

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jeffreyw  Nov 14, 2022 • 5:11:21am

Family Portrait

Good morning!

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 14, 2022 • 5:14:14am

SMOTI has finally weighed in on the fraudulent election in Arizona, and I just can’t even.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 14, 2022 • 5:18:17am

re: #171 Dopamine Fish

SMOTI has finally weighed in on the fraudulent election in Arizona, and I just can’t even.

ORBITAL ELECTORAL BLOWOUT!!!

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Dangerman  Nov 14, 2022 • 5:18:58am

re: #104 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Elon is getting desperate. He’s putting money from another business into the flaming wagon of weasels which is careening off a cliff known as Twitter.

because SpaceX advertising on twitter does what?

and i dont mean inject cash flow

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Dangerman  Nov 14, 2022 • 5:20:06am

re: #32 Dangerman

electoral-vote.com this morning

53%, 54%, 55.5%. yup, headed in the wrong direction

they think she’s been toast for a while

and now today’s update:

That doesn’t mean Lake’s in good shape, though. With 93% of the vote reporting, Democrat Katie Hobbs has 50.5% of the vote (1,211,595 votes) and Lake has 49.5% (1,185,584). That’s a gap of just over 26,000 votes. Of the estimated 89,000 or so votes outstanding, Lake would need 57,500 of them. That’s more than 64%. At the end of the day Thursday, she needed 53%, at the end of the day Friday she needed 54%, and at the end of the day Saturday she needed 55.5%. In other words, although Lake had an unexpectedly good day on Sunday, she actually took a step back, as she’s simply running out of votes with which she might make up the gap. We imagine this one will be called sometime today.

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 14, 2022 • 5:20:30am

re: #172 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

ORBITAL ELECTORAL BLOWOUT!!!

In the comments on Akiva’s tweet, people are like, “It’s almost like most Democrats vote by mail.” Yes, that’s true, but also, I don’t trust his “17% turnout” figure. Of course, I wouldn’t trust SMOTI if he said the sky was blue, but YMMV.

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lawhawk  Nov 14, 2022 • 5:24:16am

re: #121 ckkatz

It’s also possible that the video was shot after mine clearers and engineers went through and pushed them off to the side; there’s a few areas where you see them bunched up along the side of the road.

You’re right though that they are too small to be a true deterrent to a determined opponent. They were laid down in haste, and likely more for show than for anything else.

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Dangerman  Nov 14, 2022 • 5:25:24am

re: #174 Dangerman

as to state legislatures:

…changes occurred in a number of states, none of them favorable to the Republicans. As a general rule, the president’s party usually loses a few state legislative chambers. That didn’t happen last week. The Democrats didn’t lose any of the 99 state legislative chambers (Nebraska has a unicameral legislature). If everything goes as it now appears to be going, this will be the first time since 1934 when the president’s party held onto all of its legislature chambers That in itself is unusual.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 14, 2022 • 5:28:13am

re: #175 Dopamine Fish

In the comments on Akiva’s tweet, people are like, “It’s almost like most Democrats vote by mail.”

In their parlance “vote by mail” = Perpetrate election fraud

2,000 acres and 50 mules!!!

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Nov 14, 2022 • 5:28:46am

re: #176 lawhawk

It’s also possible that the video was shot after mine clearers and engineers went through and pushed them off to the side; there’s a few areas where you see them bunched up along the side of the road.

You’re right though that they are too small to be a true deterrent to a determined opponent. They were laid down in haste, and likely more for show than for anything else.

Might also be sufficient for deterring civilian cars and trucks; e.g. really designed for civil/border control stuff and not dealing with tracked military vehicles. And the clustering in the video looks like purposeful placement to form a chicane and make a passing vehicle slow heavily and maneuver to pass down the road.

Having available and then deploying a bunch of cheaper “civil level” obstacles and bunkers would seem to fit the initial Russian expectations for the “special operation”. A quick occupation followed by a heavy investiture by paramilitary civil guard to enforce said occupation against some limited partisan activity.

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lawhawk  Nov 14, 2022 • 5:33:42am

re: #179 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Also, logistically, it’s easier to get and deliver lighter and smaller obstacles, than the heavier and larger ones necessary to thwart an armored advance. As we have repeatedly seen, Russian logistics is awful (and that’s being charitable) even before we get into Ukrainian artillery fire against staging areas and rally points. Russia simply can’t deliver enough of anything to the front, and it’s been showing for quite some time.

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Teukka  Nov 14, 2022 • 5:35:00am

File under “OOOOF!”

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Dangerman  Nov 14, 2022 • 5:37:00am

re: #162 Dangerman

Most of the obviously-not-a-biased-house poll were close.

further

A question of great interest to us is: “How did the pollsters do?” Let’s take a look. …

Can you spot the differences? We got Nevada wrong. A late InsiderAdvantage poll had Adam Laxalt (R) up by 6 points, but in the end he lost. In a couple of states the margin was slightly different from what we predicted, but no other states were called wrong. On the whole, the polls were pretty good. One of the differences we had with other aggregators is that we were not fooled but the large number of Republican consultants shoveling out fake polls at the last minute. We didn’t use any of them.

nb: 538 does include them

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lawhawk  Nov 14, 2022 • 5:37:05am

GOP has been yanking everyone’s chain about inflation. It didn’t stop the Democrats from gaining a seat in the Senate and possibly holding the House - a midterm outcome that most every pundit saw as nearly impossible.

In fact, Biden and Democrats have defied nearly all the predictions about what would happen. Guess the GOP messaging sucked and Democrats’ messaging was better. Democrats’ candidates were better and people rejected straight up conspiracy nuts and goddamned Nazis. GOP is still pandering to the know nothing set who think that inflation is only Biden’s fault, or that food prices are all Biden’s fault when there are clear outside factors influencing like avian flu causing massive culling of flocks and covid causing supply chain issues and egg production has fallen off, causing a repeated cycle of costs that get pushed out to consumers.

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Teukka  Nov 14, 2022 • 5:39:59am

re: #181 Teukka

File under “OOOOF!”

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Dangerman  Nov 14, 2022 • 5:47:25am

re: #183 lawhawk

did any of you offer any actual, real solutions to inflation other than banning books and drag shows?

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 14, 2022 • 5:49:26am

re: #185 Dangerman

did any of you offer any actual, real solutions to inflation other than banning books and drag shows?

You clearly don’t understand. If the Republicans had defeated the ebil librul left, then the world would magically acknowledge that America Is Great Again, and prices would automatically come down, because who would dare risk the wrath of someone who hates so deeply and passionately?

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GlutenFreeJesus  Nov 14, 2022 • 5:50:29am

Just doing my part.

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steve_davis  Nov 14, 2022 • 5:51:34am

re: #158 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Who needs Michelangelo when you have AI?

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I mean, that’s nice, but I was thinking where is the ribbon that lets me change building colors and insert the juggler. Just looks like an age of empires city screen.

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lawhawk  Nov 14, 2022 • 5:52:40am
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lawhawk  Nov 14, 2022 • 6:03:49am

At least three dead in active shooter situation at UVA, suspect still at large.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 14, 2022 • 6:09:17am

re: #190 lawhawk

At least three dead in active shooter situation at UVA, suspect still at large.

I see that our Tree of Liberty grows thirsty…

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Nyet  Nov 14, 2022 • 6:10:32am

re: #189 lawhawk

Not always. Cf. Prigozhin vs. Nuzhin.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 14, 2022 • 6:17:33am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 14, 2022 • 6:18:48am

And of course they won’t acknowledge that their big business supporters and donors are raking in RECORD PROFITS because of these higher prices.

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Dangerman  Nov 14, 2022 • 6:18:58am
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Dangerman  Nov 14, 2022 • 6:21:36am

re: #186 Dopamine Fish

You clearly don’t understand. If the Republicans had defeated the ebil librul left, then the world would magically acknowledge that America Is Great Again, and prices would automatically come down, because who would dare risk the wrath of someone who hates so deeply and passionately?

My bad. ;-)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 14, 2022 • 6:24:34am

re: #69 Belafon

I want…to build:

I have one of those…my father-in-law built it.

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Dangerman  Nov 14, 2022 • 6:24:37am

re: #190 lawhawk

At least three dead in active shooter situation at UVA, suspect still at large.

[Embedded content]

How far we’ve come

Everyone knows exactly what this means now:

“Refer to UVA email and social media for more information. Shelter in place.”

what to do and where to find instant comm updates

I am sad

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 14, 2022 • 6:25:09am

re: #195 Dangerman

I saw that yesterday, and I genuinely struggle to understand what Elon is thinking. Does he believe that Twitter just kept all these people on for the hell of it? I find it far easier to believe that he has no idea what the fuck he’s doing; that he refuses to listen to anyone who DOES know what they’re doing, because of his ego; and that if, at some level, he does realize the deleterious effects his actions are having, it doesn’t matter to him, because he’s perfectly fine with burning the whole thing down, even if it costs him his $44B. I’m still not prepared to say he set out to intentionally burn Twitter down, but I absolutely agree with the sentiment that he just. Does. Not. Care. if his reckless actions end up destroying it. He’ll just claim it was already dead and he tried to give it life support, to support his fragile ego and his alternate reality.

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Rightwingconspirator  Nov 14, 2022 • 6:27:22am

LOL. Imagine spending 100 million dollars and losing the election for mayor.
Bass widens her lead over Caruso in L.A. mayor’s race

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Dangerman  Nov 14, 2022 • 6:27:49am

re: #199 Dopamine Fish

I saw that yesterday, and I genuinely struggle to understand what Elon is thinking. Does he believe that Twitter just kept all these people on for the hell of it? I find it far easier to believe that he has no idea what the fuck he’s doing; that he refuses to listen to anyone who DOES know what they’re doing, because of his ego; and that if, at some level, he does realize the deleterious effects his actions are having, it doesn’t matter to him, because he’s perfectly fine with burning the whole thing down, even if it costs him his $44B. I’m still not prepared to say he set out to intentionally burn Twitter down, but I absolutely agree with the sentiment that he just. Does. Not. Care. if his reckless actions end up destroying it. He’ll just claim it was already dead and he tried to give it life support, to support his fragile ego and his alternate reality.

Spot on.

And your last sentence. It’ll be like spy45 and 2020 claiming forever that he really “won”

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 14, 2022 • 6:28:32am

re: #201 Dangerman

Spot on.

And your last sentence. It’ll be like spy45 and 2020 claiming forever that he really “won”

Birds of a feather, etc., etc.

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 14, 2022 • 6:31:51am

I mean, software contractors are stupendously expensive. I’m talking triple figures per hour expensive, for the top tier talents. You don’t keep 5,500 contractors around unless they’re providing significant value somewhere in your software’s ecosystem.

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Shropshire Slasher  Nov 14, 2022 • 6:35:16am

Some drive time music.

Hot Chip - Freakout/Release (Official Audio)

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lawhawk  Nov 14, 2022 • 6:37:27am

re: #200 Rightwingconspirator

LOL. Imagine spending 100 million dollars and losing the election for mayor.
Bass widens her lead over Caruso in L.A. mayor’s race

See also Mike Bloomberg’s $1 billion gambit to win Democratic party nomination and then dropping out after whiffing on Super Tuesday.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 14, 2022 • 6:42:13am

re: #194 Eclectic Cyborg

And of course they won’t acknowledge that their big business supporters and donors are raking in RECORD PROFITS because of these higher prices.

Because they DESERVE tax cuts and record profits.

Jerb cree-aters and all, y’all

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 14, 2022 • 6:43:06am

re: #206 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Because they DESERVE tax cuts and record profits.

Jerb cree-aters and all, y’all

TRICKLE DOWN ECONOMICS!!!

Note that they never say what it is that’s actually trickling… hint: It’s not money.

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 14, 2022 • 6:50:15am
Donald Trump has hit out at Virginia Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin and Lieutenant Governor Winsome Sears as the former president defends himself amid backlash over the midterm results.

While sharing a Newsweek article on Truth Social about how a number of MAGA Republicans criticized Sears after she publicly denounced Trump following the GOP’s poor midterm performance, Trump attacked her as a “phony,” while renewing his attacks on Youngkin.

newsweek.com

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Belafon  Nov 14, 2022 • 6:51:46am
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(((Archangel1)))  Nov 14, 2022 • 6:51:51am

Wordle argh.
Geometrically appealing Wordle argh, but argh all the same.

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Belafon  Nov 14, 2022 • 6:52:27am
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Belafon  Nov 14, 2022 • 6:53:50am

re: #187 GlutenFreeJesus

Just doing my part.

I’m still trying to figure out why elected officials are unconstitutional even if they are CIA.

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 14, 2022 • 6:53:52am

re: #211 Belafon

That is the RIGHT ANSWER, Chuck. Especially since we see in Texas and West Palm Beach the consequences of the criminal President appointing judges to lifetime positions and asking them to rule on his crimes.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Nov 14, 2022 • 6:54:25am

re: #170 jeffreyw

[Embedded content]

Good morning!

Western good morning!

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Belafon  Nov 14, 2022 • 6:58:55am
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lawhawk  Nov 14, 2022 • 6:59:35am
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Belafon  Nov 14, 2022 • 7:01:06am

Slightly different take, but it will still be fun to watch:

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 14, 2022 • 7:01:27am

Magic (tm)

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 14, 2022 • 7:03:48am

re: #218 Dopamine Fish

I think this is also the origin of the “standing declassification” order. I imagine that going something like this:

TRUMP: I wanna work on some of this stuff in the residence.
STAFFER: I’m sorry, sir. Those are highly classified documents. You can’t.
TRUMP: I can declassify anything I want, right? I’m the President.
STAFFER: W-well, yes, but —
TRUMP: Then anything I take home with me is declassified. There. Done.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 14, 2022 • 7:06:23am
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lawhawk  Nov 14, 2022 • 7:06:30am

re: #215 Belafon

Speaker Pelosi will go down as one of the most powerful speakers in history, and her ability to whip and count votes before they happen is unparalleled.

She knows that things aren’t yet decided, and yet McCarthy is already measuring drapes despite not having: 1) the GOP winning the nominal control of the House; or 2) being the preferred leader of the GOP caucus.

Freedumb caucus is going to push for someone else.
With all the infighting and chaos on the GOP side, they may not have a consensus pick. Whoever it is may end up spending more time trying to hold caucus together than doing any actual work. And fixating on “investigations” is going to mean that they aren’t going to be legislating - their actual fucking jobs.

They’ll be more interested in score settling than doing their job. They’ll be pushing for impeaching Biden on unspecified charges, despite zero actual impeachable conduct.

Not liking successes by Biden isn’t a reason to impeach. There’s nothing he did that even rises to impeachable conduct. Policy differences aren’t impeachable.

They want to equate what Biden did to somehow distract/diminish the crimes actually committed by Trump.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 14, 2022 • 7:07:12am
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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Nov 14, 2022 • 7:07:33am

re: #218 Dopamine Fish

Wow. Just wow. That is not the way government record keeping works. Period. Even the preznit can’t do that.

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 14, 2022 • 7:09:39am

re: #223 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Wow. Just wow. That is not the way government record keeping works. Period. Even the preznit can’t do that.

It’s all they’ve got. Even his idiot lawyers know the DOJ has him dead to rights here, absent some bizarre and far-fetched defense around executive privilege or the Presidential Records Act. They have to win on this at some level above Judge Loose Cannon, or the former guy is going to jail. Not if, but when. (Mostly reliant on when the DOJ finally decides enough is enough and files the damn charges.)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 14, 2022 • 7:11:05am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 14, 2022 • 7:13:50am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 14, 2022 • 7:14:07am

re: #223 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Wow. Just wow. That is not the way government record keeping works. Period. Even the preznit can’t do that.

Trump can because he’s special.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 14, 2022 • 7:15:48am

re: #226 Backwoods_Sleuth

Mastriano knows he lost, but conceding would be seen as a sign of weakness. After all, Orange Julius Rosenberg never conceded.

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JC1  Nov 14, 2022 • 7:16:51am

re: #108 Jack Burton in Mactified Forshion

WTF is SpaceX going to advertise on Twitter? Some rando is going to see an ad in their feed and say “Yeah I think I’ll buy a Falcon Heavy.”

Starlink?

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 14, 2022 • 7:20:09am

re: #229 JC1

Starlink?

“Sure, let’s buy an Internet service package that a multi-billionaire playboy with the world’s second most fragile ego can turn off on a whim just because he decides he, personally, doesn’t like something we said on Twitter.”

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lawhawk  Nov 14, 2022 • 7:21:53am

re: #229 JC1

It’s about directing revenue from one business to prop up Twitter’s bottom line, despite having zero influence on anyone who uses Twitter.

No one is going to go out there and buy a payload based on Space X advertising on Twitter.

If anything, it raises questions as to whether Space X is being run with fiduciary eye towards its own bottom line.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 14, 2022 • 7:23:12am

re: #231 lawhawk

It’s about directing revenue from one business to prop up Twitter’s bottom line, despite having zero influence on anyone who uses Twitter.

No one is going to go out there and buy a payload based on Space X advertising on Twitter.

If anything, it raises questions as to whether Space X is being run with fiduciary eye towards its own bottom line.

Does Space X not also do US government contracting?

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DodgerFan1988  Nov 14, 2022 • 7:23:21am
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lawhawk  Nov 14, 2022 • 7:23:39am

re: #232 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

That’s where the bulk of SpaceX revenue comes from.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 14, 2022 • 7:24:45am

re: #234 lawhawk

That’s where the bulk of SpaceX revenue comes from.

So Twitter is being propped up by the US government.

God Bless Free Enterprise

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(((Archangel1)))  Nov 14, 2022 • 7:26:01am

I’d:
1. Start recording from a safe distance.
2. Find a safe way to get it off the boat.
3. Charge it for the ride.

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 14, 2022 • 7:26:13am

America’s Front-Line Doctors, a hardcore COVID denialist/anti-vaxxer group, is tearing itself apart over (former?) leader Simone Gold’s fraudulent spending:

$50k/month in expenses? Holy fucking shit, how extravagant do you have to live to spend $50k in a single month, let alone on a routine basis?

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lawhawk  Nov 14, 2022 • 7:27:02am

Fucker is among those who sought a pardon from Trump. He peddled the lies and agitprop. But now, he’s trying to rehab his image? Fuck him.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 14, 2022 • 7:29:07am

Not sure how many of you are familiar with the site, but DeviantArt is currently facing a massive backlash from its users after creating an AI art tool based upon images uploaded to its platform and automatically opting all users IN to giving permission for their art to be used to train the AI.

While it is possible to opt out, DA has apparently made it confusing difficult to do so.

They’re getting absolutely shredded on this tweet announcing their new project and there are serious questions about the legality of the situation.

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lawhawk  Nov 14, 2022 • 7:29:36am

re: #237 Dopamine Fish

The whole thing was one big grift, and she was grifting the other grifters.

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JC1  Nov 14, 2022 • 7:31:58am

re: #230 Dopamine Fish

“Sure, let’s buy an Internet service package that a multi-billionaire playboy with the world’s second most fragile ego can turn off on a whim just because he decides he, personally, doesn’t like something we said on Twitter.”

If I lived in a remote enough spot where my options were starlink or some other satellite service, I’d go with starlink. Far better performance.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 14, 2022 • 7:32:09am

re: #240 lawhawk

The whole thing was one big grift, and she was grifting the other grifters.

at some point, the pyramid scheme topples, and she was the next one in line to be targeted.

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lawhawk  Nov 14, 2022 • 7:32:45am

re: #236 (((Archangel1)))

1. Get a bigger boat.
2. tell everyone about that time I caught a 10 foot shark with my bare hands. They were holding the steering wheel at time the shark jumped aboard.
3. Have a pic of me and buddies holding up the shark at the dock.

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lawhawk  Nov 14, 2022 • 7:33:36am

re: #242 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

at some point, the pyramid scheme topples, and she was the next one in line to be targeted.

Seems to be a whole lot of that going around these days, what with the FTX collapse and hundreds of millions of dollars going missing (stolen/absconded).

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 14, 2022 • 7:33:44am

re: #239 Eclectic Cyborg

When the AI artwork controversy first started up, I wondered how long it was going to be before some art platform did this. (I admit, I did not see DeviantArt being the first, but I didn’t think about it too closely.) The best part is, the dubious legality of this is reinforced by how murky American copyright laws are, thanks to decades of conflicting court rulings, leading to an absolute Wild West state of, “the biggest legal guns make the rules.”

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 14, 2022 • 7:36:02am

re: #241 JC1

If I lived in a remote enough spot where my options were starlink or some other satellite service, I’d go with starlink. Far better performance.

I would have also, before the whole Musk shenanigannery started. To be perfectly blunt, I have been sticking to my guns with far inferior Internet compared to my area for years, because I steadfastly refuse to overpay for the cable/fiber Internet from Mediacom thanks to the bandwidth caps they have in place. I will never give them business, if that’s how they’re going to run it - I can deal with the lower speeds I have on hand until someone provides a more viable alternative. At the current moment, that’s the same decision I would make with Starlink.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 14, 2022 • 7:36:51am

re: #244 lawhawk

Seems to be a whole lot of that going around these days, what with the FTX collapse and hundreds of millions of dollars going missing (stolen/absconded).

We haven’t had a big pyramid scheme collapse since 2008, so we’re about due

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 14, 2022 • 7:40:45am

re: #244 lawhawk

Seems to be a whole lot of that going around these days, what with the FTX collapse and hundreds of millions of dollars going missing (stolen/absconded).

Definitely not a new thing. Giving unethical con men money will inevitably result in only one outcome. Andy Fastow famously skimmed $45 million off the top when he was Enrons CFO and that was about 25 years ago.

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dat_said  Nov 14, 2022 • 7:41:48am

re: #158 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Who needs Michelangelo when you have AI?

[Embedded content]

Who needs Rafael when you have AI?

Mary Magdalene

Pretty certain the day’s contest winner will be a picture of a steampunk dystopian landscape of Tatooine through the filter of da Vinci (for those not following along - the theme for the daily contest on Nightcafe is “Renaissance” and Nightcafe creations tend to be dominated by dystopia, steampunk, and highly stylized images of imagined perfect women).

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Jay C  Nov 14, 2022 • 7:42:04am

re: #223 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Wow. Just wow. That is not the way government record keeping works. Period. Even the preznit can’t do that.

So what are the “explanations” here?

1) That Trump really does believe that top-secret government documents are automatically “declassified” just because he took them? (explanation: Trump is an idiot)
or
2) Trump knows that this argument is specious bullshit, but is going to present it to a court anyway, just to buy time and run out the clock (?) (explanation: Trump is a crook)

Since we know Donald Trump is both an idiot and a crook, maybe both 1) and 2)??

In any event, it will give him more material for his gibbering outraged posts on TS, so there we are….

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KerFuFFler  Nov 14, 2022 • 7:44:34am

re: #25 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Instead of “tweets” perhaps you can call the posts on your service “chirps”.

Which means the service should have a bird name…

Freebyrd?

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Dangerman  Nov 14, 2022 • 7:45:49am

re: #250 Jay C

So what are the “explanations” here?

1) That Trump really does believe that top-secret government documents are automatically “declassified” just because he took them? (explanation: Trump is an idiot)
or
2) Trump knows that this argument is specious bullshit, but is going to present it to a court anyway, just to buy time and run out the clock (?) (explanation: Trump is a crook)

Since we know Donald Trump is both an idiot and a crook, maybe both 1) and 2)??

In any event, it will give him more material for his gibbering outraged posts on TS, so there we are….

3) Winning!

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Belafon  Nov 14, 2022 • 7:47:15am

re: #251 KerFuFFler

Freebyrd?

And use a lighter with flame for the default avatar.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 14, 2022 • 7:50:31am

re: #236 (((Archangel1)))

I’d:
1. Start recording from a safe distance.
2. Find a safe way to get it off the boat.
3. Charge it for the ride.

love the roll of toilet paper for that “oh shit” moment…

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 14, 2022 • 7:52:46am

re: #168 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

see also:

“Well, if those godless libruls call my views racist/fascist, then I must be a racist/fascist.”

The non-Christian Trumpsters I know accuse me of being the racist — an anti-white racist. They also adore Meloni and mock me for treating her as a fascist. After all, how can anyone who is pro-family, pro-nation, and pro-church be a fascist?

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KerFuFFler  Nov 14, 2022 • 7:53:26am

re: #253 Belafon

I also liked Jaunte’s idea for calling it Bollards where posts would be, well, posts. And Bollards could pride itself on effective blocking of trolls and other deplorables,

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 14, 2022 • 7:56:33am

re: #255 Hecuba’s daughter

The non-Christian Trumpsters I know accuse me of being the racist — an anti-white racist. They also adore Meloni and mock me for treating her as a fascist. After all, how can anyone who is pro-family, pro-nation, and pro-church be a fascist?

I am very hesitant to even use the term “racist” these days. I generally reserve it for people who actively want to deny others their property, personal safety or legal rights because of their race.

When they talk about “anti-white racism” they mean that you are threatening to deny them their perceived privileges.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Nov 14, 2022 • 7:58:43am

re: #226 Backwoods_Sleuth

I thought I saw that Mastriano did wind up conceding. Gracefully no less… Unless that was a fake announcement.

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KerFuFFler  Nov 14, 2022 • 8:00:43am

re: #258 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I thought I saw that Mastriano did wind up conceding. Gracefully no less… Unless that was a fake announcement.

Was it on Twitter?

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 14, 2022 • 8:01:11am

re: #258 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I thought I saw that Mastriano did wind up conceding. Gracefully no less… Unless that was a fake announcement.

From what I understand, it’s genuine. AFAIK, except for KKKrazy Kari Lake, the losers have all conceded their elections; so for all the fiery rhetoric about “stolen elections” and “election fraud”, in the event, all these GOP hypocrites have admitted that they lost fair and square. They’re probably tacitly admitting that trying to push the “I don’t concede” narrative might result in another violent outburst a la 1/6, for which Hair Furor is under criminal investigation.

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 14, 2022 • 8:02:02am

re: #178 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

In their parlance “vote by mail” = Perpetrate election fraud

2,000 acres and 50 mules!!!

We know that Republicans commit voter fraud that way on a routine basis. There was the infamous North Carolina race back in 2016; there were voter fraud cases in 2020 in red areas where people voted in the name of their deceased spouse or parent. And then there is the case in my own family over 15 years ago, where a first cousin voted for his mother who had severe dementia; she was a Democrat but he made sure that the Republicans got her vote.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Nov 14, 2022 • 8:03:55am

re: #259 KerFuFFler

Was it on Twitter?

I don’t recall. Probably. It was on his letterhead.

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lawhawk  Nov 14, 2022 • 8:03:58am

RIP John Aniston.

Dad of Jennifer. Star of Days of Our Lives.

I had pleasure of meeting him on several occasions and he was a lovely man.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 14, 2022 • 8:09:44am
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Varek Raith  Nov 14, 2022 • 8:11:37am

re: #61 BigPapa

OH NOES.

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wrenchwench  Nov 14, 2022 • 8:12:02am

Le Word.

Click to Reveal

Wordle 513 4/6*

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🟨⬛⬛🟩🟩
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Today is the day the 4s exceeded the 3s

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The Pie Overlord!  Nov 14, 2022 • 8:13:08am

MY GD

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Varek Raith  Nov 14, 2022 • 8:13:16am

re: #265 Varek Raith

OH NOES.

Haha, that account is fun.

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William Lewis  Nov 14, 2022 • 8:15:24am

re: #239 Eclectic Cyborg

Hasn’t been worth going there in a couple of years but this prompted me to go and deactivate my account. Thanks for the post.

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lawhawk  Nov 14, 2022 • 8:20:10am

Get your flu shots!

Current dominant strains circulating are those that were included in this year’s flu shot. Flu is getting active earlier and more severely than in recent years (a covid effect of people resuming normal activities and ignoring things like social distancing or washing hands).

The spread of flu this early may also ripple through the economy as well as causing lower worker productivity and supply chain disruptions. It’ll also add to the ongoing strain to hospitals and health care delivery as some areas are already struggling with RSV and other respiratory ailments circulating, especially among kids and elderly.

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 14, 2022 • 8:20:46am

re: #199 Dopamine Fish

I saw that yesterday, and I genuinely struggle to understand what Elon is thinking. Does he believe that Twitter just kept all these people on for the hell of it? I find it far easier to believe that he has no idea what the fuck he’s doing; that he refuses to listen to anyone who DOES know what they’re doing, because of his ego; and that if, at some level, he does realize the deleterious effects his actions are having, it doesn’t matter to him, because he’s perfectly fine with burning the whole thing down, even if it costs him his $44B. I’m still not prepared to say he set out to intentionally burn Twitter down, but I absolutely agree with the sentiment that he just. Does. Not. Care. if his reckless actions end up destroying it. He’ll just claim it was already dead and he tried to give it life support, to support his fragile ego and his alternate reality.

If you are a dudebro who truly believes that all speech should be permitted, then there is no need for content moderation. Of course, Elon also believes that no speech critical of him should be permitted but that is a more narrow objective that doesn’t require as much moderation.

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Varek Raith  Nov 14, 2022 • 8:20:59am

re: #239 Eclectic Cyborg

Not sure how many of you are familiar with the site, but DeviantArt is currently facing a massive backlash from its users after creating an AI art tool based upon images uploaded to its platform and automatically opting all users IN to giving permission for their art to be used to train the AI.

While it is possible to opt out, DA has apparently made it confusing difficult to do so.

They’re getting absolutely shredded on this tweet announcing their new project and there are serious questions about the legality of the situation.

That’s a legit wtf from me.
Yikes.

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William Lewis  Nov 14, 2022 • 8:22:06am

re: #270 lawhawk

Got mine when I got my 3rd booster a couple of weeks back. Working a hotel front desk makes it really necessary to be fully vaxxed.

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 14, 2022 • 8:22:34am

Fucked around. Finding out.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 14, 2022 • 8:22:55am

re: #273 William Lewis

Got mine when I got my 3rd booster a couple of weeks back. Working a hotel front desk makes it really necessary to be fully vaxxed.

Outdoor party season is over. I am going back to Hermit Mode.

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wrenchwench  Nov 14, 2022 • 8:24:11am

re: #272 Varek Raith

That’s a legit wtf from me.
Yikes.

Our friend Steel PH was a participant there, IIRC.

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Varek Raith  Nov 14, 2022 • 8:25:11am

re: #276 wrenchwench

Our friend Steel PH was a participant there, IIRC.

Yep.

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Varek Raith  Nov 14, 2022 • 8:26:54am

re: #272 Varek Raith

That’s a legit wtf from me.
Yikes.

What makes it confusing, on purpose it seems, is that the check box to opt out a deviation only effects third party AI generators, not DA’s. To do that, you have to fill out a form.
Unless I’ve misread that, it is confusing after all. ;)

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lawhawk  Nov 14, 2022 • 8:28:07am

re: #274 Dopamine Fish

Fucked around. Finding out.

Losing that revenue stream may be the least of Twitter’s concerns. Lily’s lawyers may and should consider lawsuits against the company for sheer dumbassery in handling official accounts and allowing anyone paying $8 to create a bogus account that can engage in stock price manipulation and misinformation.

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Jay C  Nov 14, 2022 • 8:28:59am

birdied today, for a change:

Click to Reveal

Wordle 513 3/6

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🟨⬜🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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lawhawk  Nov 14, 2022 • 8:29:13am

re: #273 William Lewis

Got mine when I got my 3rd booster a couple of weeks back. Working a hotel front desk makes it really necessary to be fully vaxxed.

Got my booster a few weeks ago. Got covid booster last Friday… I’m still waiting for all the usual superpowers to kick in, but I’m starting to see the world in 6G, so maybe?

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 14, 2022 • 8:29:29am

re: #279 lawhawk

Losing that revenue stream may be the least of Twitter’s concerns. Lily’s lawyers may and should consider lawsuits against the company for sheer dumbassery in handling official accounts and allowing anyone paying $8 to create a bogus account that can engage in stock price manipulation and misinformation.

#lawtwitter seems to be kind of torn on this issue; you’re more of an expert than I am, on this point. The general consensus seems to be, “I don’t know if it’ll work, but Lilly’s lawyers at least have a reason to try it.”

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The Squire of Logos  Nov 14, 2022 • 8:31:20am

re: #282 Dopamine Fish

#lawtwitter seems to be kind of torn on this issue; you’re more of an expert than I am, on this point. The general consensus seems to be, “I don’t know if it’ll work, but Lilly’s lawyers at least have a reason to try it.”

Not just a reason, but also the money to try it.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 14, 2022 • 8:33:43am

re: #279 lawhawk

Losing that revenue stream may be the least of Twitter’s concerns. Lily’s lawyers may and should consider lawsuits against the company for sheer dumbassery in handling official accounts and allowing anyone paying $8 to create a bogus account that can engage in stock price manipulation and misinformation.

On the other hand, it really ought to be investors’ own fault for relying on an unverified source of information, which is Twitter in a nutshell these days.

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Dangerman  Nov 14, 2022 • 8:34:34am

re: #271 Hecuba’s daughter

If you are a dudebro who truly believes that all speech should be permitted, then there is no need for content moderation. Of course, Elon also believes that no speech critical of him should be permitted but that is a more narrow objective that doesn’t require as much moderation.

while that may be true, if he burns his platform / brand no one will be ‘speeching’ on it

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Dangerman  Nov 14, 2022 • 8:35:34am

re: #274 Dopamine Fish

Fucked around. Finding out.

moar “winning”

watch how he spins it into ‘i meant to do that’ like a cat and sliding glass door

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 14, 2022 • 8:37:19am

re: #285 Dangerman

while that may be true, if he burns his platform / brand no one will be ‘speeching’ on it

It’s all about the platform.
You can Free Speech all you want on your own personal blogsite manboyinceldudebro.com, but if you want to reach more than your immediate circle of friend, then you have to abide by the rules of the platform you choose.

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 14, 2022 • 8:38:10am

re: #284 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

On the other hand, it really ought to be investors’ own fault for relying on an unverified source of information, which is Twitter in a nutshell these days.

This is why the lawyers are split on the issue. Most Twitter lawyers who think Lilly has a case are looking at trademark dilution and damages to reputation, and they’re not even sure there’s a case to be made against Musk/Twitter itself.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Nov 14, 2022 • 8:38:52am

re: #200 Rightwingconspirator

LOL. Imagine spending 100 million dollars and losing the election for mayor.
Bass widens her lead over Caruso in L.A. mayor’s race

I spent $87.65 on my campaign when I ran for mayor. I won. This was in California but, needless to say, not in Los Angeles.

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 14, 2022 • 8:40:56am

Treasonweasels on SCOTUS still intent on blocking J6C’s attempts to identify and prosecute fellow treasonweasels.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 14, 2022 • 8:46:47am
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Dangerman  Nov 14, 2022 • 8:49:46am

re: #287 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It’s all about the platform.
You can Free Speech all you want on your own personal blogsite manboyinceldudebro.com, but if you want to reach more than your immediate circle of friend, then you have to abide by the rules of the platform you choose.

i meant more like what good is your freeze peach zone if no one’s gonna want to play in your sandbox

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 14, 2022 • 8:50:17am

re: #291 Backwoods_Sleuth

Damn. That photo…

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wrenchwench  Nov 14, 2022 • 8:51:29am

re: #289 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

I spent $87.65 on my campaign when I ran for mayor. I won. This was in California but, needless to say, not in Los Angeles.

That was back when $87.65 meant something!

/

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Crush White Nationalism  Nov 14, 2022 • 8:52:16am

re: #293 Eclectic Cyborg

Damn. That photo…

It’s probably a frame from a 4K video. That would have been very hard to capture in a photograph.

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 14, 2022 • 8:52:57am

What, and I cannot stress this enough, the actual bejesusing fuck.

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 14, 2022 • 8:53:01am

re: #295 Crush White Nationalism

It’s probably a frame from a 4K video. That would have been very hard to capture in a photograph.

I think it is. There were several videos taken of the crash, from multiple angles.

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 14, 2022 • 8:57:26am

re: #296 Dopamine Fish

FYI, I’m in favor of the original developer poster in those screenshots. If my boss took to public Twitter to denigrate the work my team and I did, I would absolutely shoot back on public Twitter. Because what the fuck, dude. If you have an issue with what my team is doing - come address it with us directly. We’ll make it right, or tell you why we shouldn’t.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 14, 2022 • 8:57:42am

re: #296 Dopamine Fish

What, and I cannot stress this enough, the actual bejesusing fuck.

[Embedded content]

Dude apparently really knew his shit too.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 14, 2022 • 9:00:09am
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Dopamine Fish  Nov 14, 2022 • 9:01:17am

re: #299 Eclectic Cyborg

Dude apparently really knew his shit too.

Senior-level dev there. Just the sort of guy Twitter should want to hang onto. Absolutely the kind of guy Musk will be regretting firing in about 3 days, and will try to call back.

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 14, 2022 • 9:04:58am

re: #301 Dopamine Fish

Senior-level dev there. Just the sort of guy Twitter should want to hang onto. Absolutely the kind of guy Musk will be regretting firing in about 3 days, and will try to call back.

“$1 million a day. And absolute control. That’s my price.”

Exactly what I’d say.

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BigPapa  Nov 14, 2022 • 9:05:26am

It’s a giant dumpsterfire. But the flames are beautiful.

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lawhawk  Nov 14, 2022 • 9:09:52am

re: #301 Dopamine Fish

10 years of accumulated tech debt. Unused and underused features that cause bloat.

But yeah, let’s keep pushing out new code without sufficient testing/vetting, and try to roll back on Mush’s whims…

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The Pie Overlord!  Nov 14, 2022 • 9:15:58am

Of course they did.

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 14, 2022 • 9:17:44am

re: #304 lawhawk

10 years of accumulated tech debt. Unused and underused features that cause bloat.

But yeah, let’s keep pushing out new code without sufficient testing/vetting, and try to roll back on Mush’s whims…

With my dev manager hat on, my first thought on reading that was, “Metrics. Give me metrics on all the features and how often/how they’re used. Ax the ones used by less than 5% (or to be safe, 1%) of users immediately. How much performance does that give us? Alright, now immediately prioritize any story that projects to give us X amount of app responsiveness.”

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jaunte  Nov 14, 2022 • 9:17:57am
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lawhawk  Nov 14, 2022 • 9:18:51am
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Dangerman  Nov 14, 2022 • 9:22:31am

re: #302 Dr Lizardo

“$1 million a day. And absolute control. That’s my price.”

Exactly what I’d say.

nope not a chance

no terms would be agreeable to now voluntarily climb back on board.

you know who and what he is and what he’ll do.

you can’t, (yes can’t) work for someone like this

you wouldn’t get the $ up front, so that’s a meaningless ask. contract? hell…

then he’d agree to absolute control that:
- you’d never actually have
and
- he’d reneg when he felt like it

nope.
you left well
be satisfied with that
else he’d ruin you.

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Dangerman  Nov 14, 2022 • 9:23:46am

re: #307 jaunte

matt is correct.

votes are being accurately counted
just like they were in 2020

funny he would admit that…

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BeenHereAwhile  Nov 14, 2022 • 9:25:07am

re: #181 Teukka

File under “OOOOF!”

Linton Kwesi Johnson - LKJ In Dub - 06 - Bitch Dub

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sagehen  Nov 14, 2022 • 9:26:37am

re: #302 Dr Lizardo

“$1 million a day. And absolute control. That’s my price.”

Exactly what I’d say.

A month’s pay in advance.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 14, 2022 • 9:27:42am

re: #312 sagehen

A month’s pay in advance.

Six months. Minimum. And I don’t lift a finger for you until I have the money in hand.

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A Cranky One  Nov 14, 2022 • 9:27:49am

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Dopamine Fish  Nov 14, 2022 • 9:28:20am

re: #309 Dangerman

I had a former boss call me back once. As it turned out, he himself was going somewhere new, and he wanted me to be a part of his new team. I told him, in essence, “I appreciate the flattery, but respectfully, hahahahaha, no.” I left for a reason, and you are naïve to assume you weren’t part of it.

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BigPapa  Nov 14, 2022 • 9:30:00am

re: #315 Dopamine Fish

Your ex-boss didn’t realize you were leaving him? What a loser. Good for you.

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Belafon  Nov 14, 2022 • 9:30:05am

re: #301 Dopamine Fish

Senior-level dev there. Just the sort of guy Twitter should want to hang onto. Absolutely the kind of guy Musk will be regretting firing in about 3 days, and will try to call back.

Charles should hire him.

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ckkatz  Nov 14, 2022 • 9:30:26am

What a surprise -

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Dave In Austin  Nov 14, 2022 • 9:30:58am

re: #243 lawhawk

That’s a big Mako. I bet it was a challenge getting it back in the water.

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sagehen  Nov 14, 2022 • 9:33:32am

re: #319 Dave In Austin

That’s a big Mako. I bet it was a challenge getting it back in the water.

How long would it take to just wait for it to suffocate from being out of the water?

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A Three Hour Tour  Nov 14, 2022 • 9:34:45am

re: #302 Dr Lizardo

“$1 million a day. And absolute control. That’s my price.”

Exactly what I’d say.

“I’ll only come back $44 billion paid in advance, Elon, and if you step down and deactivate your Twitter account.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 14, 2022 • 9:34:46am

Brocken spectre

A Brocken spectre (German: Brockengespenst), also called Brocken bow, mountain spectre, or spectre of the Brocken is the magnified (and apparently enormous) shadow of an observer cast in mid air upon any type of cloud opposite to a strong light source. Additionally if the cloud consists of water droplets backscattered a bright area called Heiligenschein and halo-like rings of rainbow coloured light called a glory can be seen around the head or apperature silhouette of the spectre. Typically the spectre appears in sunlight opposite to the Sun’s direction at the antisolar point.

The phenomenon can appear on any misty mountainside, cloud bank, or from an aeroplane, but the frequent fogs and low-altitude accessibility of the Brocken, a peak in the Harz Mountains in Germany, have created a local legend from which the phenomenon draws its name. The Brocken spectre was observed and described by Johann Silberschlag in 1780, and has since been recorded often in literature about the region.

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Belafon  Nov 14, 2022 • 9:34:52am

If you have free time and want to help retain the House:

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ckkatz  Nov 14, 2022 • 9:37:03am

re: #291 Backwoods_Sleuth

Gruesome and very sad. It reminds me of the photos of B-17’s as they were shotdown over Europe during WW2.

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The Pie Overlord!  Nov 14, 2022 • 9:37:58am

re: #307 jaunte

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Dangerman  Nov 14, 2022 • 9:39:56am

re: #321 A Three Hour Tour

“I’ll only come back $44 billion paid in advance, Elon, and if you step down and deactivate your Twitter account.”

*that* i’d agree to

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TorgoJohnson  Nov 14, 2022 • 9:40:33am

re: #318 ckkatz

I can think of a pretty good reason why John Mccain did not help any of the insurrectionist candidates.

328
lawhawk  Nov 14, 2022 • 9:42:42am

Suspect is now in custody in the UVA shooting.

329
ckkatz  Nov 14, 2022 • 9:43:46am

re: #152 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Congratulations on your election! So you are now an “Elected Official”.

Also, that is a very nice letter. And a good policy decision.

330
Interesting Times  Nov 14, 2022 • 9:43:56am

Yikes, don’t give him ideas for Tesla now…

331
Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Nov 14, 2022 • 9:44:34am

re: #313 Eclectic Cyborg

Six months. Minimum. And I don’t lift a finger for you until I have the money in hand.

I was thinking a year. $1m bucks. All upfront. If I’m going to suffer for a year I want to know that money is in my hands first. That will cushion the asshole effect.

332
coin operated  Nov 14, 2022 • 9:44:52am

re: #309 Dangerman

nope not a chance
no terms would be agreeable to now voluntarily climb back on board.
you know who and what he is and what he’ll do.
you can’t, (yes can’t) work for someone like this
you wouldn’t get the $ up front, so that’s a meaningless ask. contract? hell…
then he’d agree to absolute control that:
- you’d never actually have
and
- he’d reneg when he felt like it

nope.
you left well
be satisfied with that
else he’d ruin you.

All of this….

333
Dopamine Fish  Nov 14, 2022 • 9:45:16am

re: #330 Interesting Times

Yikes, don’t give him ideas for Tesla now…

His statement tells me he has zero fucking clue what a microservice is or why it’s important to keep them running. Twitter’s about to have a very bad day.

334
Varek Raith  Nov 14, 2022 • 9:47:54am

re: #333 Dopamine Fish

His statement tells me he has zero fucking clue what a microservice is or why it’s important to keep them running. Twitter’s about to have a very bad day.

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha

335
Captain Ron  Nov 14, 2022 • 9:47:59am

um

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Barefoot Grin  Nov 14, 2022 • 9:49:14am

re: #327 TorgoJohnson

[Embedded content]

I can think of a pretty good reason why John Mccain did not help any of the insurrectionist candidates.

Molderin’

337
Dopamine Fish  Nov 14, 2022 • 9:50:11am

re: #334 Varek Raith

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha

I propose we get as many Twitter users as we can to be as active as they can be for, oh, about 6 hours ought to do it. Reserve capacity, disaster recovery failover - we don’t need any of that, right?

338
ckkatz  Nov 14, 2022 • 9:50:27am

Interesting thread on Musk’s twitter floundering -

339
Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 14, 2022 • 9:53:43am

re: #338 ckkatz

Twitter use will drop like a stone if Musk makes it subscription only.

340
TedStriker  Nov 14, 2022 • 9:55:49am

re: #335 Captain Ron

um

341
Varek Raith  Nov 14, 2022 • 9:58:08am

re: #339 Eclectic Cyborg

Twitter use will drop like a stone if Musk makes it subscription only.

Hehe, DO EET!

342
Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 14, 2022 • 9:59:55am
343
Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 14, 2022 • 10:00:33am
344
Dr Lizardo  Nov 14, 2022 • 10:01:00am

re: #333 Dopamine Fish

His statement tells me he has zero fucking clue what a microservice is or why it’s important to keep them running. Twitter’s about to have a very bad day.

From tomorrow’s headlines: Twitter offline worldwide - Musk “doesn’t know” when it’ll be back.

345
Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 14, 2022 • 10:01:51am
346
Belafon  Nov 14, 2022 • 10:03:45am

re: #325 The Pie Overlord!

I’m assuming it’s because his numbers are off, because I don’t see how the Democrats only got 47% of total votes for the House across the US and somehow are doing this good.

347
Dopamine Fish  Nov 14, 2022 • 10:03:47am

re: #344 Dr Lizardo

From tomorrow’s headlines: Twitter offline worldwide - Musk “doesn’t know” when it’ll be back.

The funny part is, microservices are a pretty standard part of modern infrastructure for any Web application that’s been built or rebuilt in the last about 6-8 years. Someone who is single-handedly making detailed design decisions about how to build a widely distributed social media site should absolutely know what microservices are and how they interact before he goes just pulling the plug on random stuff for giggles.

348
Dopamine Fish  Nov 14, 2022 • 10:05:06am
349
sagehen  Nov 14, 2022 • 10:06:43am

re: #327 TorgoJohnson

[Embedded content]

I can think of a pretty good reason why John Mccain did not help any of the insurrectionist candidates.

You’d think “my father was John McCain” might have chipped in.

But didn’t I read somewhere that her brothers appeared at Mark Kelly rallies?

350
Interesting Times  Nov 14, 2022 • 10:08:03am

re: #346 Belafon

I’m assuming it’s because his numbers are off, because I don’t see how the Democrats only got 47% of total votes for the House across the US and somehow are doing this good.

From what I recall, there were several House seats in ketchup-red districts where the Dems didn’t bother to field a candidate. Those votes would increase the total GOP percentage without affecting the final who-controls-the-House outcome.

351
Belafon  Nov 14, 2022 • 10:09:14am

re: #345 Backwoods_Sleuth

Yeah, that would be called Google, Elon.

352
Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 14, 2022 • 10:09:19am

LOLOLOLOL

353
Crush White Nationalism  Nov 14, 2022 • 10:10:54am
The Simpsons’s Mr. Burns and Elon Musk share an eerie number of similarities. Each is the richest person in his respective universe—Springfield for the former, planet Earth for the latter. They boast about their green energy initiatives of electric cars and nuclear power plants, but use their power to advance right-wing politics and fuel their petty personal grievances. Test yourself below to see how well you can separate our cartoonish reality from the world of The Simpsons.

Who Said It: Elon Musk or Mr. Burns? (TNR)

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piratedan  Nov 14, 2022 • 10:14:10am

re: #350 Interesting Times

I can confirm that there were two House seats in AZ where there was no Dem candidate fielded, vs Lesko and Biggs I believe. With AZ gradually turning purple, I don’t expect that to be the case for long, but in fairness, those are blood red districts and its a lot to ask to even put yourself as a token candidate for slaughter.

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sagehen  Nov 14, 2022 • 10:14:15am

re: #346 Belafon

I’m assuming it’s because his numbers are off, because I don’t see how the Democrats only got 47% of total votes for the House across the US and somehow are doing this good.

Because there’s a bunch of deep red states and/or districts where the R’s got 80%.

356
ckkatz  Nov 14, 2022 • 10:16:05am

re: #349 sagehen

You’d think “my father was John McCain” might have chipped in.

But didn’t I read somewhere that her brothers appeared at Mark Kelly rallies?

I understand that McCain had built a fairly powerful political machine in Arizona.

I wonder if Trump’s attacks on McCain, driving his supporters out of the GOP, and trying to destroy that organization may be a factor in why Arizona is trending much more blue.

And I am absolutely fine with those results.

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ckkatz  Nov 14, 2022 • 10:20:59am

re: #176 lawhawk

It’s also possible that the video was shot after mine clearers and engineers went through and pushed them off to the side; there’s a few areas where you see them bunched up along the side of the road.

You’re right though that they are too small to be a true deterrent to a determined opponent. They were laid down in haste, and likely more for show than for anything else.

I see the same thing that you do, that the obstacles were pushed off to the side of the road.

But it looks to me that the vehicle moves to the side of the road and it’s left track goes right over the obstacles at 8 and 11 seconds.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 14, 2022 • 10:23:50am

re: #353 Crush White Nationalism

Who Said It: Elon Musk or Mr. Burns? (TNR)

I got 83%

359
carey94tt  Nov 14, 2022 • 10:26:13am

re: #358 Eclectic Cyborg

Same.

360
steve_davis  Nov 14, 2022 • 11:05:31am

re: #309 Dangerman

nope not a chance

no terms would be agreeable to now voluntarily climb back on board.

you know who and what he is and what he’ll do.

you can’t, (yes can’t) work for someone like this

you wouldn’t get the $ up front, so that’s a meaningless ask. contract? hell…

then he’d agree to absolute control that:
- you’d never actually have
and
- he’d reneg when he felt like it

nope.
you left well
be satisfied with that
else he’d ruin you.

I would initiate my Dark Star worm that would look like some piece of perfectly innocent code update but would actually be a kind of system cancer, good for locking all of Twitter up into a blue screen of death.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Nov 14, 2022 • 3:34:30pm

re: #305 The Pie Overlord!

Of course they did.

If I were a dictator or the leader of a transnational crime syndicate I would severely punish any minister or major operative who failed to take advantage of such an opportunity.
Who knows? Maybe there are oligarch ex-flunkies rotting in the gulag because they chose to stay elsewhere.


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